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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-06
CENSUS PLUM CAKE.

The 1920 Census Bill provides for
a staff Of $4,000 employees to take
the census. Conforming to the
policy of the administration with re-
spect to partisan appointments they
will all be Democrats. This Is added
evidence that the army will be re-
cruited from the ranks of the Repub-
llcans. The party out of power and
spurned' by the President is the party
which has made possible this draft
law and which is furnishing by fa1
the greater percentage of the fight.
ing force. Milton has a verse ION
His Blindness" which may be aptl,
applied to both parties:
To the Republicans
thousands at his bidding speed,
And post DER land and ocean with.
out rest.''
And as to Democrats
'They also serve who only stand and
wait"
Except that the Republicans wait
for the ships, whilst the famished
Democrats wait at the political pie
counter. Safe for Democrats!
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-06

The National Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Colored People was
founded on Lincoln's birthday, 1909,
with headquarters in New York.
There are now ninety branches in as
many of the cities of the country, and
all are to join in a drive for $4,000
members from April II to ~ as
testimonial to Hon. Moorefeld Storey,
OF Boston, the Associations president
IN recognition of his services to the
nation in the Louisville segregation
case which was declared unconstitu-
tional by the Supreme Court of the
United States last November. This de-
cision is considered the greatest VIC
tory since the enactment of the Fiji
teenth Amendment.
The Association appeals to all fair
minded citizens, white and colored, to
join with it in the effort to secure
simple justice under the law for
colored citizens who represent over
one-tenth of our citizenship This ma
tion-wide appeal for membership is not
on narrow grounds of race or class
privilege, but on the broad ground of
justice, of equal protection of all citi-
zens under the law without distinc-
ton of race or creed or class. The
maintenance of these just principles is
OF equal interest to all classes of citi-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-06

zens and an essential element of ma
tlonal strength and all are asked to
join the Association for this common
principle of justice and civil liberty.
The Association admits members upon
payment Of any amount from one dol
lar per year upwards.
The Association feels that the
American people have a right to be
proud of the one hundred thousand
colored soldiers now serving in the
regular army and the national army.
AS a result of an active campaign on
the part of this Association an officers
training camp for colored men was in
augurated at Des Moines, a., as a con-
sequence of which nearly seven hun
dred colored officers were commits
stoned.
The Association, through an anti
lynch1ng fund contributed by believers
in law and order, investigates as many
cases as possible of lynching and mob
violence, gives publicity to the facts
regarding them, and endeavors to
arouse public opinion against the mob
spirit. Annually, through the gift of
the Chairman of the Board of Direct
ors Of the Association, the Spingarn
Medal is awarded for the highest or
noblest achievement by colored
American during the preceding year."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-06

No patriotic colored American wishes
a jimcrow representative. It would be
all right to appoint a colored man as
an assistant secretary of labor but to
appoint a negro" adviser and conflne
him to jimcrow duties would be segre.
cation In its worst form.
Negroes" who are asking for segre-
gated places in the department of the
government are doing the colored peo-
pie a great wrong. Any man who
would accept such an appointment,
would necessarily be a jimcrow man
and he would do his country great
harm in bolstering up the color line.
Give colored men representation in
the government as Americans, not as
"negroes."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-06
SHOULD ABANDON SEGREGA.
TON,

DR.. Gulick, secretary of the commits
sion on relations with the orient Of the
Federal Council of Churches said in
Boston recently:
America should abandon it's humil-
iating and discriminating treatment of
Japanese and Chinese in this country"
he said, "and adopt an oriental policy
fitted to hold those people permanently
to friendly relations with the demo-
cratic nations of the west"
Dear Doctor G. would it not be we'll
for America to begin right here at
home and abandon it's humiliating
and discriminatory treatment" Of it's
own colored citizens? How about it
dear doctor.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-06
WHAT DOES 1T MEAN?

The following appeal is appearing
in the daily press:
To the Editor:
May be permitted to appeal in this
personal way to your readers for a
war need very pressing and very de-
serving Of patriotic attention, and yet
easily overlooked. The newly-organ-
lied Circle for Negro War Relief is
trying to- provide for enlisted and
drafted men the same comfort and
cheer that numerous societies are CIV
Ing the white troops; also to care for
the many cases of distress in, Negro
families where the wage Garner is
serving the country.
One-tenth Of our troops are colored
men. Surely a movement to organize
them and work toward a great COM
mon end will make the Negroes bet
ter citizens Gust as all other war work
is making better citizens) and will
have results reaching far beyond the
present crisis
The Circle for Negro War Relief is
approved by, and is working with the
National Red Cross. 1t aims to do a
needed work that might have to be
left partially undone in the present
enormous demands on our national
Red Cross.
Our Office donated by a frtend) is
at 4Ss Fifth avenue, New York. We
need funds at once. Every penny will
90 to actual relief work. Our colored
troops have been brave, loyal fighters
from the days of the Civil war to San
Juan hill. Whatever ones view of
race problems. there can be no two
opinions of helping thousands of COL
ored men and women to be more eff
cient soldiers and citizens and 80 help
win the war.
EMILE B1GELOW HAPGOoD.
1t is possible that the American
Red Cross has become SO UNAMERI-
CAN that it has drawn the color line
and made the formation Of a separate
organization for colored soldiers nee.
essary?
What does the RED CROSS stand
for?
Thousands Of colored Americans
are members of the National Red
Cross having donated their dollars
during the drive for membership last
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-06
SOLDIERS OUGHT TO INSURE,

SOLDIERS OUGHT TO INSURE.
Congress has enacted what is know
as the War Insurance Law which pro-
vides, for a small sum, war risk up
to limit of $4,000 and every soldier
and sailor should carry this insurance.
The cost is 50 small that it never
would be missed from the monthly
pay.
Under this law, every soldier now
in the services, commissioned, enlisted
or" drafted, no matter what his age,
has the right between now and April
II, 1918, to take out life and total
disability insurance up to $4,000 at
low cost. and, what is very important,
without medical examination. Those
hereafter enlisted or drafted may
take out War Risk Insurance within
120 days after enlistment.
In case of the soldiers death, each
$1,000 of War Risk Insurance will pay
his beneficiary $5.75 per month for
twenty years. War RISK Insurance
holds good after the war.
This is a great opportunity and all
friends and relatives of colored SOL
diers should write and urge them to
insure now before it is too late.
Application blanks and full infor-
nation about War Risk Insurance may
be procured by any soldier from the
Bureau OF War Risk Insurance, Wash
ington, D. c.; from his commanding
officer, or from the insurance officer
at the camp or contonment where he
is stationed. All other persons desir.
ing information should address the
Director Of the Bureau OF War Risk
Insurance, Washington, D. c.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-06
"HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL IN THE
HUMAN BREAST"

Every once in a while something is
said by somebody, somewhere, that
gives US fresh hope for the future.
One cannot talk intelligently on any
subject, unless he has given that SUBJ
ject intelligent thought. Everything
that man has ever done good, bad or
Indifferent was the result of thought.
Thought created the universe: thought
has maintained it, and will forever do
so. When people think right and ex-
press their thoughts, right must event
ually prevail.
So many white people in the United
States think wrong, speak wrong, act
wrong, in regard to their colored fel-
low citizens, that it is very, very re-
freshing when we hear expressions of
right thoughts from them.
The above thoughts were en-
gendered by expressions made by
Bishop Woodcock and DR.. r. w. Pat
ton. executive secretary of the Home
and Foreign Missionary Board OF the
Episcopal church at largely attended
meeting in Maculey's Theatre, Louis
vile, KY, Sunday. March "a. Bishop
Woodcock who presided said, after re-
counting the progress the colored peo-
pie had made: you would better get
right on the Negro Question: or, God
helping you time will come when you
will wish you had, and you ought to
feel it."
DR.. Patton said among other things:
"The Negroes have given to the
world the highest of all virtues, the
Law of Love. They, more than any
other people, demonstrate the ideals of
patience and loyalty. They are loyal
when they have some reason to be dis
loyal. When the war is over, the
Negroes having given their sons to die
on the battlefields of Europe, will have
an awakening, and will never again be
satisfied with past conditions. WE
CANNOT WIN THIS WAR WITHOUT
THEM. We had better get ready to
meet them in a fair, just and econ
omical manner"
DR.. Frank Crane, the, great thinker
and writer in a recent article on,
What We All Can Do" said: Think
humanity instead Of race hate. Think
3 - ( = ~ - gS \
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-06
Segregation in Porto Rico.
(By F. B. Pardon Returned War Cor.
respondent From Europe.)


(From the Boston Guardian.)
San Juan, P. RIA flame of indigna.
ton swept through the length and
breadth Of the Island of Porto Rico on
being told that the United States time.
odious custom OF racial separation in
the army would be put in practice upon
them.
A petition in the form of a resolu.
ton was~tntroduced in the house OF
representatives by Mr.. Manuel F..
Rosy, one of the white members, set.
ting forth in detail and eloquence the
injustice and inhumanity of forcing
discrimination on a country wherein
1t was hitherto unknown. The resolu.
ton was not only adopted unani.
mously by the lower house but passed
the senate without single dissenting
vote. So !" '.'
Petition Ignored.
The resolution was presented to
President Wilson and it was ignored
The Porto Rican Regiment that was
formerly mixed was cut to pieces and
men of color put in separate divisions
all the draftees have been separated
and showed into quarters according to
color. Porto Rico has no higher ap-
peal; 1t is bitter, indignant, but help.
less.
introduced by Native Leader.
Representative Mr. Manuel Rossy,
who introduced the resolution is the
leader of the republican minority in
the lower. house. In studied and tel:
ling language Mr.. Rosy presented the
reasons why Porto Rico objected to
divisions in the army, based on color
lines.
Porto Rico has long been celebrat-
ed for the unity of the races there.
Members of the darker race are in
every branch of Industrial and civil
life. The largest department store
in San Juan, the capitol, is owned by a
colored man. The senior member of
the Senate, who has held his seat by
four consecutive appointments. by the
United States and by an open election,
as a colored man. The Judge CORE
spending to our circuit-judge and hay
ing under his jurisdiction the me-
tropolis of Porto Rico, San Juan, is a
cOlored man. The commissioner of
trades and labor is colored man.
The mayors of numerous towns of
Porto Rico are colored men.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-06
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 novoice 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.-EIla Wheeler Wilcox.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-06
THANK GODl

The commission on union Of the
Presbyterian Church North and the
Presbyterian Church South failed to
agree on a plan for the proposed
merger of the two great church
bodies at the final session of this joint
conference at Atlantic City. Thank
God that the North would not agree
to the color line proposals of the in
Janus Southern branch which would
have dragged Christianity in the mire.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-06

What constitutes a non.essential is
largely question for each person to
decide for himself. Anything you can
do without and still maintain your ef-
flciency, is non-essential at time
when the government needs the money
you could thereby invest in Thrift
Stamps.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-06

year. They asked no questions about
the way the money was to be used but
supposed it was for the benefit of
ALL AMERICAN SOLDIERS.
A strange condition seems to have
arisen.
What does it mean?
Let us have light.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-06
NEGRO" ADVISER NOT WANTED.

NEGRO" ADVISER NOT WANTED.
Pressure has been brought by me
groes" so the wires tell US, to have a
negro" adviser appointed to tell the
Department of Labor what ought to
be done along negro" labor lines. Sec.
rotary Wilson has announced that a
negro" will not be selected as a
permanent representative but .promi-
nent colored men will be consulted.
Secretary Wilson has the right idea.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-06

A commission appointed by the
Bishops Council Of the A. NJ. E..
Church to make representation against
discrimination against the colored peo-
pie in this country was received by
President Wilson. The delegation
left written document. The
response of the President was
guarded.
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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-03-29

pAnht tHApNSa tiit UNI thcbff Ho@itttttA'
at many points and drove back the
British and French into territory
which had remsfned untouched By war
since 1914, says Inc statement.
The British are holding their posi-
tions north Of the Somme. their line in
that area standing virtually the same
as Wednesday night. Several German
attacks in this region We're repulsed.
Attack in Arras Sector.
The Germans threw at least seven
divisions into an attack on the British
front on both sides of the Scarpe riy-
er after heavy bonbardment. The
British forward zone was penetrated
and fierce engagement took place in
the battle zone.
THIS attack was delivered opposite
Arras. In the region affected the
British line now runs from Arleux to
Fampoux. NeuIlle-Le-yitass and
Boisleux.
In the Montdidier region the entente
line now runs through ArvilIers. Dav-
enscourf. Gratibus and Mesnil-St.
Georges to Hainvillers. (This line in
closes ATontdidier within a sharp sa-
lent. the apex of which Is at Mesnil-
st. Georges, about two and one-half
miles southwest Of Montdidier.)
British Take Prisoners.
The war Offices day report states
that prisoners and machine guns have
been captured by the British. Repeat
ed attacks We're made by the enemy
along the valley of the Somme ir the
neighborhood of Eeaumont- Hamel.
Puisieux and SIoyenheville. says the
statement They were repuIsed.
Dunkirk Under Fire.
Paris, March % Reports reached
Paris that the channel port of Dun
kirk, which has been bombarded inter-
mittentIy by the Germans with long
range cannon, has been under fire again
for several days
The number of victims is PLACED as
high as twenty. and the material dam
age is said to have been severe.
Yankees Fight Like Veterans.
Paris, March - Entirely new in
this warfare. the Americans worked
like The best veterans in the hattie of
the Sanme" says wounded French
captain who has been brought back
from the battlefield. He is quoted in
La Liberte
Two American officers who were
wounded in the fighting in the Somme
region were brought to this city with
the French captain. member of the
dragons. Each American wore
French war cross conferred on the bat
tlefield. The French captain refused
to receive attention until The Ameri-
cans had been nursed.
"They are the ones who should be
congratulated he said. calling upon
the women of the Red Cross to look
after the Americans.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-03-29
sELEcTlvE MEN ON MOVE
Plans Completed for Consignment of
$4,000 New Troops to Various
Camps.

Washington, March 29.-Plans were
completed for the movement today of
$1,000 selective men to various camps.
The movement win continue for FIVE
days and every state will furnish quo
tas with the exception of Iowa and
Minnesota. Provost Marshal General
Crowder declined to give the names
Of the camps where these men will be
trained, but it is known that Camp
Meade, Camp Dix. Camp Upton, to-
gether with some of the western and
southern camps, viii receive men in
this new call TO the colors. Several
thousand colered men figure in this
call but no information il forthcom-
ing as to where they will receive their
training. This movement of men TO
camp completes the first draft OF 6S7.-
GOO men and brings out $4,000 that
will be credited ON the so-called sec
ond draft.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-03-29

Too dutiful to refuse to obey the
commands of her father, too loving to
be untrue to her own heart, she knew
not what to do, so going out unto the
mountains she prayed 10 heaven for
deliverance, and the gods, who hear
the prayers of those who trust, chang
ed her into tall lily, with petals
white as her fair skin and golden pis-
til that shone as had her flowing
tresses.
Years passed and Plini wandered
the whole world through, seeking for
his lost love. From every passerby he
asked, "Have you seen Tamara, the
fairest of maidens? To the wild
winds as they blew he prayed. "Oh.
find for me my love-" But no an
swer came until home once more in his
own country he found and knew the
lily. Falling on his knees beside it he
cried, rs it indeed thee, oh. Tamara %
and, like the sigh of the soft south
wind he heard the flower whisper, ut
is I, my beloved"
Then, all his years of fruitless search
past, he clasped the blossom to his
heart and wept, and the flower feel
ing the warm tears Of love, blushed
rosy with joy. But what YVES life TO
him when she who made the sunshine
of his heart was gomez So the merci-
full gods changed him TO shower,
which ever and anon falls in refresh
ing rain on the lilies of the Caucasus,
and when there is drouth in the land
the maidens gather the flowers of Ta-
mara and strew them over the fields
singing as they go the song of Pint,
invoking his love that cace more he
may bring the blush of joy to the pet.
ais of his beloved.
Records LiIy's Shame.
Among the Christian legends of the
lily we find the origin of the tiger. or
turncap. All lilies were in the begin
ming white, and all held their fair
heads proudly erect, but on the night
in which Christ suffered in the garden
of Gethsemane some fell from grace.
When the other flowers became aware
of his agony, they withered away with
sorrow and pity. Only one lily was in
different. and when those three bitter
hours had passed, still Haunted her
spotless beauty in the light of the
moon. The soldiers came and Jesus
was led out from the Garden of Olives.
He paused for a moment beside the
tall stem covered with the white flow
ers; for a moment he gazed on them
in plying reproach for their blindness
and their hardness OF heart, and ton h
ed by the love and mercy in his eyes
they hung their heads and blushed; so.
to this hour, the descendants of this
proud. hard hearted plant look down
and shame dyes their petals.