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The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08
Till Ford IL Heard From

The Mare Island navy yard has
built and launched a destroyer in
sixteen days, which probably will re-
main a record until Mr.. Ford's new
boat plant is heard from.--St. Louis
Times.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08
This Docs Not Mean You

A Maryville man has told the same
lie Of often that he is noN convinced
himself that 1t is true. No, you're
not the man referred to.-Nodaway
Democ t-Forum.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08
And VIII Not BE the Democ1uts

One thing is quite certain-a GER
tain political party will have a new
slogan in the next presidential cam
paign, the old one not being exactly
suitable for present condltions.-4op-
kins Journal.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08
That Editor should Ub.ie

Miss Jones is by far the Oldest
school teacher in the county" says a
Western Kansas editor who doesn't
seem to care whether he stays in
Kansas or not-Kansas City Post.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08
This Ia tho RR1sOn

The Iowa drafted man who was
shot in trying to escape from the
army probably didn't want to go to
war for fear OF being shot.-Kansas
City Times.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08

Young business men of the caliber
and standing Of John ]. Stuppy, who
was called away this week.. are lily
spared. He was a man who was Of
great benefit to his family his home
city and the community at large.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08
And Shack VIII Do IL.

To the present writing there are
four candidates In the fled for Con-
gress in the Eighth district. Shack
has not announced how many more
will enter the field but thinks ne can
beat six as easily as he can one
Henry County Democrat.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08

A better lot of Democrats never yet
faced the starter than those who are
now offering themselves for the vot-
ers Of Buchanan county to make their
choice from.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08
This Hclps Some

Well, anyway, the life Of the farm
er boy of the future will be easier.
He will not have to bed down the
tractor at 10 p. IN. or feed II at 4 a.
m.-'Nodaway Democrat-Forum.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08

mans greatest enjoyment of the
vacation his wife is going to take
without him comes during the two
weeks before she starts and the first
two days after she is gone. After
that he wishes she would come home
and stay where she belongs.-Noda-
way Democrat Forum.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08
Illinois Is Only Stacker

Illinois is the only state In the
Union that did not fill its Red Cross
quota. A little less tar and feathers
and little more patriotlsm-,St.
Louis Republic.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08

Speater Champ Clark will have no
opposition either for denomination or
reelection. The people of his district
recognize his worth and they will not
embarrass the administration with a
senseless political contest among
themselves-as is shown In some
places where personal desire governs.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08

When a physician-we were going
to say reputable-gets up before an
audience Of intelligent people and says
that there are only three classes OF
medical men. and that the third class
are damned slaokers." as did a Kan
sas City doctor addressing the physic-
ians Of this city Tuesday, 1t is about
time to remind such noisy ones that
the language Of the true physician
does not include vulgarity or profan-
ity.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08

Miss Florence IAggett, who has
been employed at Mt. Gomery Wards
at Kansas City for the past two years.
has resigned her position and will
take a much needed rest during the
simmer. She went to visit relatives
near Hoover last Saturday --Edgerton
hJournal
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08
But should Have Worse Treatment

The fellow who comes out OF this
war. and brags he has cleaned up so
many hundred thousands or millions,
will be in contempt in the hearts and
minds of all Americans for the ball
ance Of his life.-Boonville Adver-
tiser.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08
This Is Good Logic

The fine rains and sunshine which
continue to brighten crop prospects
would indicate that the Lord is with
us and against the kaiser.-Llnneus
Bulletin.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08

President Wilson says that there is
no need or call for further prohibi-
tion legislation or agitation at the
present-and he should know. Win
the war first.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08
JUST WHAT WAS EXPECTED

II Is definitely stated at Washing
ton that Major General Wood Il going
10 stay in America because General
Pershins refuses to have him in
France.
That Is the light in which the fol-
lowing to-be-exDected statement from
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08

we want to say right here that unless
very radical change takes place In
our minds and general makeup. our
vote will be cast for the Hon. x. p.
Wilfley.-Clarksdale Journal.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08
This TR At kansas CITY,

Don't imagine that police are not
doing anything about the crime drive
They are at least announcing a daily
casualty llst.-Kansas City Times.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08
And They Are Not

The trouble with most pretty girls
Is that they seem to think they do not
need to be attractive in any other
way.-Nodaway Democrat-Forum.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08

In the death OF Charles Warren
Fairbanks the country at large loses
good man-One who had made a
high mark with the American people.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08

The registration OF Wednesday
showed that this county had a most
generous crop OF young men ready TO
enter military service.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08
What the Missouri
Editors Are Saying
Which VIII BE Done

II we should be again forced TO
enter Mexico we hope It will be TO
make Of it American territory.-Glas-
gov Mlssourian.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08
This Is Not Possible

1t is hard to credit the reports of
a German-Irish plot. A German and
an Irishman could not agree together
long enough to formulate a plot
Worth County Times.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08

The government has announced that
there will be no leniency shown the
idlers-and we hope our Edmond
street gang Is included.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08

1t Is far better a you must Joy ride
with some other mans wife. or with
some single woman II you are mar
ried man-to get outside Of ST. Joseph
for such proceedings. A ST. Joseph
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08

Now that you have responded to the
Red Cross and Liberty Loan calls, get
ready for the war savings drive June
2sth and do your full duty.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08

Missouri's great climate is doing
more to beat the Kaiser Just now than
anything else-for 1t is providing for
a bumper crop.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08

wife pumped four bullets into the
frame of a damsel that she found Joy
riding with her husband this week.
and never missed a shot.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08

That U boat raid In New York wa
ters will give the Gothomites a chance
to go to church tomorrow for the first
time.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08

Our boys over in France are disclos-
Ing the fact that as fighters they have
all OF the other nations bested.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08

Uncle Sam has now taken over our
express companies-and has not re-
duced the rates either.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08
SOCIALISTS "BLEssING" RUSSIA

Those Socialists whom we have in
this country should stop talking long
enough to take notice Of the fact that
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08

so far st. Joseph has been spared
war victim in France-but who
knows how soon 1t may have many
which God grant will never happen.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08

Get ready for a safe and sane cele-
bration Of July 4th in ST. Joseph.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08

or course you have heard it-and
more than once the past week-"is II
hot enough for your"
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08

Teddy and the eclipse will both hold
forth in Omaha today-pity the poor
eclipse.
The St. Joseph observer., 1918-06-08

Every ST. Joseph loafer should be
sent to the harvest field or to jail.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-11
THE NEGRO IN ST.PAuL
EXTRACTS FROM AN ADDRESS,
1.-THE NEGRO IN ST. PAuL"-1Y
ATTORNEY W. r. FRANCIS.
Before the st. Paul Social Service
Club Wednesday Evening, May 8, at
the Y. N. c. A. Building.

When I received the invitation to
address this organization I was beset
by two powerful emotions, and, para
doxical as it may seem, one was of
fear and the other was of JOY.
Fear born of the knowledge that I
could not measure up to the standard
set by the character and ability of the
other speakers who have appeared
upon your programs from time to
time, and JOY in the opportunity that
l might have to present to this body
of intelligent, thinking men and
women a message from my people
that you might the better understand
the hopes, the aims and the ambi-
tions of a people who have been err
roneously looked upon for the past
fifty years as the greatest problem
/ with which the American people have
had to contend.
The reason the Negro problem as
sumes such large proportions in this
| country is because the white people
! as whole know-but don't know
| they knOw-so little about the Negro
Very few have an adequate compre
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-11
for A SHARE IN THE new WORLD DEMOCRACY
NATIONAL ORGANIZER APPEALS TO RACE TO PREPARE
DELEGATES TO LIBERTY CONGRESS At WASHINGTON, c.,

Our Paramount Duty.

War Europe
Allies
and League June 49, 1917 called national
formed the National Colored Liberty
Whaey Grand Organizer
While President Wilson A.
creating
cations
claim denied Coored
will abolished
DEMA TT FROM
MENT. - ~ ~ ~
We hence
CIVIC aern and organization
MUN1TY LIBERTY COMMITTED
ana organizations
OF delegates at some of Coored churches
The Grand
A. g. POWELL Rev j.
Rev M F. syde r. H. M. D.
k"gh Conn., Treas Mrs Sarah Allen H.
Chairman T.
| 3rd Vice; Miss Va. ASST Sec
the
all other
ganzer should be Prof
FUNDS for the Congress- making
| 49, ' ~ : ~ WV
| o 0' O 0NAN O1e"A1-oA' " eAo"'
| tive Secretary. $1,000 OO 1NO'~~'' LAWN
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-11
NOW FOR LIBERTY.

Sunday, June %, will be Liberty Day
in the colored churches of the District
of Columbia. The National Colored
Liberty Congress proper will open
Tuesday morning, June 25, Monday
the Oath, to be given over to regis.
tration and meeting of the Board of
Managers.
''The Aim and Object of this Con-
gress of delegates from Colored
churches and organizations is to press
e2e just claim of the Colored Ameri
Fan citizens of the U. S. A. tc
share in the world democracy fol
which they are subject to fight under
the flag of the Republic and to take
positive measures to secure from the
Government guarantee of the abolition
of Acknowledgement and of all caste
determinations, civil and political"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-11
ORDER OF MAJ. GEN. RALLou
Against Which Protests Have Beer
Made by Many coIored organiza-
tons.
Headquarters Ninety-second Division,
Camp Funston, Kansas
March %, 1918.

Headquarters Ninety-second Division,
Camp Funston, Kansas
March %, 1918.
BULLETIN NO. IS. =
l. It should be we'll known to all
colored officers and men that no useful
purpose is served by such acts as will
cause the "color question" to be raised
1t is not question of legal rights, but
question of policy, and any policy
=! that tends to bring about a conflict
of races, with it's resulting animosi-
j ties, is prejudicial to the military in
terests of the 92nd Division, and there
fore prejudicial to an important inter-
i est of the colored race
2. To avoid such conflicts the Di-
vision Commander has repeatedly
urged that all colored members of his
command, and especially the officers
and noncommissioned officers, should
refrain from going where their pres
ence will be resented. In spite of this
injunction, one of the Sergeants Of
the Medical Department has recently
precipitated the precise trouble that
should be avoided, and then called on
the Division Commander to take sides
in row that should never have &C.
CURED, and would not have occurred
had the Sergeant placed the general
good above his personal pleasure and
i convenience. This Sergeant entered
a theater, as he undoubtedly had a
legal right to do, and precipitated
trouble by making it possible to al
lege race discrimination in the seat he
was given. He is strictly within his
legal rights in this matter, and the
theater manager is legally wrong.
Nevertheless, the Sergeant is guilty
of the greater wrong in doing anything,
no matter how legally correct, that
will provoke race animosity.
| 8. The Division Commander repeats
that the success of the Division, with
all that that success implies, is de-
pendent upon the good will of the
public. % That public is nine-tenths
white. White men made the Division,
and they can break it just as easily
if 1t becomes trouble maker.
4. All concerned are again enjoined
to place. the general interest of the
Division above personal pride and
qualification. Avoid every situation
that can give rise to racial ill-will
Attend quietly and faithfully to your
duties, and don't go where your pres
ence is not desired.
| S. This will be read to all organiza.
tions of the 92nd Division. BY com.
mand of Major General Ballou;
| - ALLEN J. GREER,
| Lieutenant Colonel, General Staff,
! Chief of Staff,
OFFICIAL:
| Edw. J. Turgeon,
Captain, Assisting Adjutant,
| Acting Adjutant.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-11
THE ELITE CAFE
Cor. Kent Street and St. Anthony Ave
nue., Under New Management.

Cor. Kent Street and St. Anthony Ave-
nue., Under New Management.
Owing to a desire for change, Mrs.
Anna Wilson, former proprietor of the
ELITE CAFE, cornor of Kent street
and st. Anthony avenue, closed the
doors and sold out to Mr.. G. A. Niles,
and, after being closed for several days
the cafe has again been opened with
Miss Carrie Webb as manager. Mr..
Niles, the new proprietor, realizes the
troubles which now confront any res
taurant or eating house, but believ-
ing that the Elite is a necessity IT.
that part of the city, he is willing TO
use his means in conducting it in a
proper and up-to-date manner. He
only asks the people to show their
appreciation by putting themselves to
the trouble to give the Elite their
patronage. He purposes to properly
and attractively fit up the place and
cater to the public in a way they can
not fail to appreciate.
Open from $3.50 a. m. to midnight.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-11

wait for their trains in separate.
dingy and dirty waiting rooms, and to
ride in jim-crow cars through the
States Of Mississippi, Alabama,
Georgia, Louisiana and Tennessee,
states made Infamous by the lynching
and burning at the stake of helpless
black men, women and children, we
are glad to fight our country's battles
and we bear no malice for the wrongs
we have suffered.
Through our faith in divine prom
Uses we believe we see the dawning
of a new day. upon earth. We are look
ing beyond this wild engulfing world
war; across the setting muck of muir
dering American mobs, through the
thick maze of social and Industrial
propaganda into the very purposes of
God for a Christian world made safe
democracy, democracy made safe for
the world and the United States of
America made safe for the Negro
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-11
SATURDAY, MAY II, 1918
THE CITY ELECTION.

The Battle of the Ballots on last
Tuesday resulted very much as was
hoped and expected.
There really never was any good
reason to feel that Hodgson would
fail to win out, other than that en-
gendered by over-conidence, and
failure on the part of many to vote
This, however, did not occur, fol
which we are thankful, as seldom be.
fore, if ever, has there been a can
didate for mayor, who had made SO
many public utterances expressing a
belief in the unqualified brotherhood
of man, as Mayor-elect Hodgson
These utterances were made before
the mayorality bee had gotten into
his bonnet, and there was nothing
to be gained from political stand
point by giving expression to the
sentiments he held unless they were
genuine and heartfelt. Believing
that this was the case with Mr.. Hodg-
son, we feel that we voice the SEN
timents of a very large majority of
his colored constituents in rendering
heartiest congratulations upon his
victory which we helped to bring to
him; and, we now feel that hence
forward we will have friend at
court. Long live Larry Ho!
With the rest of the winning ticket
we are very we'll satisfied and only
in the case of two or three would
we care for a change.
There were very few surprises
and that the will of the people was
expressed very decisively in every
case is very evident.
There have been only a few
changes in the Offices filled and as
we are we'll acquainted with the pres:
ent encumbents and are satisfied
they will continue to give as good &C.
count of their stewardships as before
we see no reason why the city gov.
eminent may not roll right along in
it's usual groove as though CREASED
for the occasion.
All hail the new administration!
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-11

their presence is resented because of
color. His dictum that asking public
service is putting pleasure above the
general good is not applied to white
soldiers, destroys all civil rights,
causes fresh discrimination, fosters
race prejudice, humiliates our race,
degrades the army uniform.
No order so vicious or umdemocratic
has been issued in any armies fight
ing Germany. Protect American SOL
diers in democracy at home before
sending them abroad in Democracy's
War.
Rev. Byron Gunner, N. Y. President
Rev. NJ. F. Sydes, r. I. Exec. Com
William Monroe Trotter, Mass. Cor
Sec'y.
The members of the National Equal
Rights League and the colored people
generally are urged to send letters
and kilograms of protest to President
Wilson and Secretary of War Baker.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-11
PATRIOTIC SACRED CONCERT.
At Memorial Baptist Church, Rice and
Fuller Streets, Sunday After
n>@n M. <


Fuller Streets, Sunday After
noon, May 5.
The Patriotic Sacred Concert given
under the management of Miss Hattie
Hobbs at Memoria, Baptist church last
Sunday afternoon, was a veritable ar
tistic treat. There was quite large
audience, but the house should have
been packed and doubtless would have
been had the people known what
delightful musical feast was in store
for them. The performers were very
generous with extra number and all
were perfectly delightful.
The personnel of the performers
was as follows:
Mrs. F. E. Ward, contralto.
Mrs. J. e. Seabury, soprano.
Mrs. w. D. Mitchell, contralto.
Mrs Harry Lee Munday, violinist
Miss Helen Bum, contralto.
Miss Mildred Hobe, soprano.
Miss Enora Cellar, soprano.
Mr.. w. Crowther, tenor.
Mr.. A. E. Greaza, baritone.
A collection of $3.50 was raised
A unanimous rising vote of thanks
was rendered to the ladies and gentle
men who filled numbers on the pro-
gram.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-11
PRESIDENT WILSON
Asked to 'Countermand Ma jor-Genera
BalIou's Jim-Crow Order.

Asked to 'Countermand Major-GeneraI
BalIou's Jim-Crow Order.
Boston, Mass, May 1.-Regarding it
as the most non-democratic action
since the world war began, the Ma:
tional Equal Rights League, which has
branches in % states and will hold it's
18th annual meeting in Chicago in
August, protested to President Wilson
by telegraph against the order of
Major General Ballou, former com
mander of the separate officers train
ing school for colored men, which
order is so insulting that it was torn
down three times when posted up at
Camp Upton, and which order colored
soldiers to surrender civil rights at
the behest of white race prejudice.
Telegram Wants Order Counter
manded.
The telegram read as follows:
Boston, Mass-To the President,
Woodrow Wilson, White House, Wash
ington, d. c..
The National Equal Rights League
calls upon you to countermand Gen.
Ballou's Bulletin No. 35 for 92nd Di-
vision, Camp Funston, Kansas, en-
joining officers and soldiers to refrain
from going into public places where
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-11

hension of Negro characteristics
most all having accepted the unfav-
orable impression created by news
paper reports of the criminal class,
and from the public and private ut
terances of those who are filled with
blind and unreasOning race preju-
dice. l know that few have any
actual knowledge of Negro life and
real living in their homes, churches
and social intercourse; especially of
their individual hopes and fears, of
opportunities denied them, of temp
tations besetting them, of prejudices
they encounter, of victories they
achieve. 1t is, therefore, obvious
that the American white people have
no intelligent insight into Negro
Sociology, and it is reasonable to as
sumo that apart from the annual visit
of the Educational Mendicant-by
! that 1 mean the few Negroes who
represent the fake or sham institu-
lions of learning-and the Clerical
Begger and fortunately we have but
few of them in this community, as we
| are fast learning to support ou1
ministers by our personal contribu-
tions) the essential facts of Negro
life are as little known to the great
mass of White people as they were
fifty years ago. Few demands are ever
made, in any quarter, and few Oppor-
tun1ties are sought, as you seek this
one today, to know the Negro as a
freeman and as a citizen of our re.
publican commonwealth. He has
| rights which are denied, as we'll as
wrongs which have gone unredressed
and though he possesses many unde:
slrable. traits that environment has
| accentuated, nevertheless, his &C.
knowledged examplars have not all
been saints, nor are the white peo-
pie of this country altogether blame.
less for existing racial conditions.
The error most commonly made by
those who consider the Negroes al
all is that they are all alike. Nc
thought is given by the majority OF
the people to the fact that the Negro
| race is 'differentiating and should be
considered by classes, as any other
| race, and not as whole.
There are some who recognize that
there are Intelligent and well be-
haved Negroes, honest and hardwork
| ing Negroes, as we'll as lazy and vici
GUS Negroes. But it is doubtful if any
considerable number of those who
recognize the existence of some dit
ferentiation realize to what distinc
and widely separate classes it has
developed. The better elements have
risen higher than people appreciate
generally. This evolution progresses
faster as the years go by. It wa!
slow at first 1t is rapid now. The
cleavage is encouraged by deter
| minatiOn to grasp the opportunities
of the new conditions as shown RICH
here in our own City of St., Paul.
The Negro population of St. Pau
is conservatively estimated at 5000
| and its personnel physically, morally
and mentally, when measured by the
Negroes opportunity here, squares
| splendidly with that of any Other
race of people forming part of this
great and progressive common
| wealth.
That you may the better under.
stand and know the Negro of St. Pau
I have prepared some data showing
his religious, civic and economic con.
dition.
AS previously stated a conservative
estimate shows 5000 Negroes in st
Paul.
They are divided into five religious
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-05-11
A SIGH OF RELIEF.

The last heard of Francis j. Heney,
who came to Washington to "bust the
trusts" the Supreme Court had re.
fused to grant him the right to paw
over all the papers of the meat com.
pan1es. Heney has subsidized. It is re.
marked in Washington that Heney
came in like a lion and went out like
one of Bo-peep's Misunderstanding his
tail behind him. The country is too
full OF illuminate to have such fire
brind at large.