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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29
UNCLE SAM NEEDS MORE CLERKS

Although the civilian workers in the
national capital have increased from
10000 to nearly $4,000 in the first year
of the war, the government still needs
specialized clerks. The United States
civil service commission announces
that there is an urgent call for appli-
cants for the positions of stenogra-
pher, typewriter, bookkeeper-typewrit-
er, clerk ookkeeper, cost accountant,
accounting and statistical clerk, sta
tistician, clerk qualified in accounting,
clerk qualified in business administra-
ton, index and catalogue clerk, sched-
ule clerk, passenger rate clerk, blue
print file clerk and assistant to bust
ness manager. These positions are
'open to both men and women.
Representatives of the civil service
commission at the postof1ces in all
cities are prepared to furnish definite
information and application blanks.
According to the civil service COM
mission, the full extent to which the
specialized clerk is needed is perhaps
not generally understood, and it is in
this class of work that women have
the best opportunity to be of real serv-
Ice to the government at this time.
Eighteen thousand stenographers and
typists are at work constantly in the
government Offices at Washington, D.
c., on the tons of correspondence and
records made necessary by war prep
aratiOns on scale such as the world
has never known before.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29

Made in Germany, It was a fine
joke on the Democratic officials Of
Ohio, whose party stands for free
trade. They are ''too patriotic to
use pencils made in Germany but
in 1918 their party was SO unpatri-
otto as to make bid for German
competition in lead pencils, against
those made in America" by reduc-
ing the tariff duty to ridiculous
rate, thereby enabling Germany to
stock our market so full that our i'm
porters are carrying those stocks four
years later. Do you Democrats and
free traders now see the point? If
the war lasts long enough perhaps you
will learn something in regard to
this matter. No amount Of argu-
ment has ever been able to convince
you. 49,. 80 .--. .
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29
coLoRED TROOPS ALWAYS FIRST

Governor Whitman Of New York
was not to blame because he aided
In the dedication of jimcrow branch
OF that travesty on Christianity, the
Y. M. G. Abe was invited by the
egregationists who are engaged in
the nefarious work of belittling Christ.
The governor, however, called at.
tention to the fact that the New York
colored regiment was the first to
carry the stars and stripes to the
firing line in France.
That is not strange. It was a col
ored mana mulatto, Crispus Attacks,
whose blood was first spilled in the
Revolutionary war. In the battle of
Lake Erie in the war of 1872, :Commo-
dore Perry's colored marines were
first in the fight.
In the Shareholders Rebellion the
colored troops weSe not first because
they were not allowed to enlist, but
when they did get in and 2o0, 200
were finally enlisted they got to: the
front in hurry. T. -
At San Juan hill in Cuba Id 1898
colored troops were at the forefront
and at Carrizal in Mexico in 1915 they
were among the first to die for their
country. 49,
In every American war, the "col-
ored troops have fought nobly!''
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29
NO sEcTIoNALlsM7

A bill to provide pensions at a mini.
mum OF $26 a month for veterans OF
the Civil War passed the House OF
Representatives by the impressive
vote Of 241 to As. 49,.
Yet this is not the most impressive
thing in the incident. The forty-six
representatives: who cast the negative
votes were all Democrats and all but
one Of them came from the solid
South or IT'S immediate environs. 70
them should be added two others, one
from Tennessee and one from Texas,
who answered present" when their
names were called.
The sole negative vote cast by a
Northerner was provided by Mr.. Cor.
don of Ohio. whose motives may best
be determined by his constituents,
who will have opportunity to pass
upon the question next November.
The other forty-fve members who op.
posed the bill are probably beyond
reach of any political or other chas-
tisement They hail from states
where the loyal soldiers Of the Civil
War are held in execration; and the
only method Of dealing effectively
with them is by placing their party
in the minority in Congress. They
constitute a majority of their party
and when the Democrats are in power
they dominate their party colleagues;
and It is only on rare occasions that
they can be overridden. This hap.
pened to be one Of those occasions.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29
CUTTING A FREE MARKET.

It is rather painful to note, in view
OF the insistent demands of the U. S,
Food Administration that we eat more
old potatoes, that our imports of
potatoes for the calendar year 1917 in
creased 100 per cent over the cal
endar year 1913, nine months of
which was under Republican protec-
tive tariff law, which carried duty
OF rs cents bushel on potatoes,
while, under the present law they are
free. With our home market glutted
with spuds, Canada and Bermuda
still found it profitable to sell in our
markets, under free trade, below the
prices required to compensate our
farmers for their efforts.
Now that Taft and Roosevelt have
had half hour of intimate conversa-
ton, who can say that some day we
may not see President Wilson AMI
Senator Chamberlain talking together
once more?
There is little doubt that If the hat
room boys in the city hotels were sent
out on the farms to shear sheep, they
would get all the wool the sheep
would give up. The suggestion of the
New York Sun is a good one.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29
ON THE RIGHTS OF MAN.

Influential colored men In various
parts OF the country have signed a
strong memorial to the President.
Cabinet, Congress and the Governors
Of the states. We quote a portion of
It.
We are one group of American
people than whom there is none more
loyal, which is marked out for dis
elimination, humiliation and abuse.
In the great patriotic and humani-
tartan movements, in public carriers,
in Federal service the treatment &C.
corded US is humiliating, dehumaniz-
ing and reprehensible in the extreme.
This persistent and unreasonable
practice is but a thrust at the colored
mans self respect, the object being
not merely to separate races, but to
impress us with the idea Of supposed
natural inferiority.. Such demoraliz-
ing discrimination is not only a viola
ton Of fundamental rights of citizens
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29
General Pershine Denies Rumor In y.
S. That Colored Men Get Most
Dangerous Posts.

Observation-Disclosures denial of re-
ports circulated in this country that
| colored soldiers with the expeditionary
| force were placed in more dangerous
positions than the white troops has
been cab1ed by General Pershing.
! Pershing's cabiegram.
The generals cablegram, which was
in reply to one Of inquiry sent by Sec.
rotary Baker, said:
"The stories, probably invented by
German agents, that co1ored soldiers
in France are always placed in most
dangerous positions and sacrificed to
| save white soldiers, and that when
| wounded they are left on the ground
to die, without medical attention, ETC..
are absolutely false
1.-THE following are the losses as re.
ported up to June 10 in the four col.
ored combat regiments now in France
Three hundred and sixty-ninth in
fantry, died of wounds, 5; died of dis.
ease, 8; severely wounded, 2; 370th
infantry, died of wounds, none; died
of disease, 8; severely wounded, none;
371st infantry, died Of wounds, none :;
died of disease, g.; severely wounded,
none; 372d infantry, died OF wounds,
none;- died of disease, 3; severely
wounded, none.
Are Highly Efficient.
"A tour of inspection just completed
among the co1ored troops by officers of
the training section Of these headquar-
tiers show the comparatively high de.
gree of training and efficiency among
these troops.
"Colored troops in trenches have
been particularly fortunate. as one
regiment was there q month before
any losses were suffered. This was
almost unheard Of heretofore on the
western front.
THE exploits of two colored infan-
trymen some weeks ago in repelling a
much larger German patrol. killing
and wounding several Germans and
winning Croix de Guerre by their gal
lantry has aroused a fine spirit Of en-
ulation throughout the colored troops,
all of whom are looking forward to
more active service.
only regret expressed by colored
troops is that they are not given more
dangerous work to do.
Il cannot commend too highly the
spirit shown among the colored COM
bat troops, who exhibit fine capacity
for quick training and eagerness for
the most dangerous work"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29


alfens. although they are more than
ninety-n1ne per cent OF American
birth: and there ID = growing ton
dency among the oolored people to
regard themselves @ aliens. This 10
being encouraged BY 4 class OF lead
ers who cali themselves Negroes"
and yell about Negro Kultur" al
though they have not more than half
ana often less than one-eighth Of
Negro blood. Such men ought to
stop the Negro propaganda and be
Americans ana demand Justice be-
cause they are Americans and not by
tho false assertion that they are
Negroes" -
They should not have any. rights q
Negroes but every right Of IN
American citisSn should 30 ana win
be accorded them. II they night for
their rights % American citizens By
right Of birth.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1918.
is IT FAIR?

We are sending millions of our
young men, the hope of our nation,
abroad to fight for democracy. Mean
while evidences are plentiful of a
transmutation of our government, with
a decided trend toward socialism. Is
it fair to these youong men who are
about to shed their blood that democ-
racy may live that we repudiate that
democracy in their absence? Are they
to return to form of government for
which they did not offer the supreme
sacrifice. which they fail to recognize,
and which they could not approve?
If they are, then it may be that the
peace which they helped to force on
autocracy in Europe may have to be
supplemented by a peace similarly i'm
posed here.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29

On a recent evening she and we sat
down at table in a pharmacy and
gave an order for three ice creams
Behind the counter two impudent peo-
pie to whom nature had accorded
white skins-if not an understanding
of Christianity-shook their heads In
superior" refusal.
OF course the believer in real de-
mocracy or the brotherhood of man
knows that the only inferior people
are those who have to adopt snobbery
in order to appear superior. And one
does not expect snobbery to be able to
interpret democracy.
The incident has, it seems to US,
a deep significance at this time when
we are warning for democracy Some
people evidently see no irony In ask
ing the brothers of our colored friend
to give their lives for the democracy
which these pseudo democrats inter
fpret as synonymous with discrimina-
ton.
What delight such incidents must
give to German sympathizers!
MARGARET HATFIELD CHASE.
STUART CHASE.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29
ASS IN ELEPHANT SKIN.

NO. IN CIcF6ANt SKIN.
This is no time for partisan politics,
declare the administration propagan-
dists, but the Democratic national COM
mittee is out with a long statement
showing the development of the Amer
lean dye industry, the indirect purport
of which is that the industry was built
up without protective tariff. AS =
matter Of fact, the war has served as
a greater protection to American in
dustry than the highest tariff law ever
enacted. Republicans believe. that dis
cussion Of the past, present and future
of American industry is timely, and the
more the Democratic national commit
tee has to say on the subject the bet
ter we shall like it. But we would also
like to have the pretense of non-par-
tisanship in administration circles
abandoned
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29

OF the United States, but the persis.
tent segregation Of any element Of
our country's population into a sepa.
rate and distinct group on the sole
basis Of color is creating a condition
under which this nation can not lone
endure.
When we reflect upon their bru.
talities and indignities, we remember
they are due to the fact that in all al.
most every Southern state we have
systematically by law or chicanery
been deprived of the right that very
manhood suffrage which genuine
democracy would guarantee to every
citizen in the Republic. The propa
ganda Of filching from colored Ameri
cans the ballot is but a supreme eff.
fort to ~reenslave>, us and to force our
assent thereto. To this policy the
colored man does not, can not and
will not agree. OF it our intolerance
Is cumulative. Against it, We shall
exert our righteous efforts until not
only every eligible colored man, but
every eligible colored woman shall be
welding the ballot proudly in defense
Of our homes.
We are appealing to you neither az
vassals or interiors. Bull Run and
Appomattox fixed our status in this
nation We are free men. We are
sovereign American citizens - free
men who purchased our freedom with
our own blood on every battle field
from Bunker Hill to Carrizal. full
rights and immunities such as are
freely granted to others but syste
matica1ly refused to us.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29
DESPICARlE /. w. w.

AT : the trial OF Private, Frank
Wormkee, alias Frank Woods, one of
liz I. w. WIS being tried in Chicago.
1t developed that he was requested
to teach sabotage in the Army. Two
forms of this sabotage were placing
a substance in food to cause illness
and the cutting up of clothing. An
other form OF sabotage which was
practised by the organization was to
put spikes in logs, concealed in the
Lark, to wreck mill machinery, and
creating fires in the Montana lumber
district was still another. Any one
of these tricks is despicable enough
In time of peace. In time of war it
is rank treason and should be pun
ished as SUCH =.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29
INSULTS coLoRED WORLD.
Boston Transcript Commits Treason
In Preferring Ruin Of France
Rather Than Mixture of Blood
Of Colored Races Fighting
Boston Transcript.)


for Her.
Boston Transcript.)
However, Tommy Atkins may to q
considerable extent be inclined to SET
tie in France. So, very likely, would
be the whole body of the Portuguese
troops who are fighting there, and the
Italians. Thousands at the Chinese
laborers may stay, and so may the
black soldiers from Senegambia and
other African French colonies. I'm
fortunately the incorporation of most
of these elements into the future
French population would represent
mongrelization and degeneration.
France would do better, in the long
ruin, to send them home, for the i'm
mediate economic or industrial ad-
vantage of their immigration would
be more than counterbalanced by the
disadvantage of the mixture. France
amalgamates all racial elements that
enter her gates. Her best hope for
her Topographic future rests on such
strengthening of her economic, So
cial and moral bases as would result
In normal increase of the native
population, and a steady immigration
Of enterprising young people from
Northern Europe, or Of sturdy Span
fsh or Ligurian peasants. II the blood
OF the French nation should be
Africantzed or Asiaticized az the re-
suit OF the war the country's eventual
calamities from that source would be
greater than those resulting from the
destruction Of her cities and the raw.
age Of her fields.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29
BILLY THE BUNco BOY.

When on May 10 Billy Sunday clos.
ed a ten weeks campaign for souls
in the big tabernacle In Chicago, the
final record was: Number of trail
hitters, 49,165; expenses Of the cam.
paign, $135,0o0; number of co-operat-
ing churches, 424. The results of the
campaign in additions to Chicago
churches, it is estimated by the vari-
GUS pastors, will not exceed 1000. One
OF the pastors said that nine-tenths
were already church members and the
other tenth yielded no results. 6 Bill
cannot succeed because he misrepre-
sents Christ by drawing the color line
in places where he ought to take a
stand for right. AS a bunco boy Billy
is a bouncer.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29
NOISE Is NOT PATRIOTISM.

This year OF all others is the time
for a safe and sane Fourth of July
celebration. Independence Day with
the nation at war should be thor
oughly patriotic observance. The
oldtime riot OF noise, death, fire and
destruction, which was supposed to
show patriotism, would be very much
out Of place under present conditions
The country needs the powder, and
1t needs to protect the life and limb
which were sacrificed in the former
observance, and the millions of
property which regularly went up in
smoke and fame.
Let next Thursday be safe and sane
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29
Hates the Term "Neoro."

hate the term Negro because it
Is being used in terms Of hatred. It
Is the cause Of the segregation Of the
Negro; It 10 being used in contempt
In public places; It is an excuse for
DISTINGUISHING him; and 1t is an OK
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-Assista
United States Attorney General VIM.
II. Lewis, Boston. Mass.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29
The National Food Administration

The National Food Administration
is doing it's utmost in every way pos
sible to educate the people up to the
fact that there is not enough food
stuffs to supply our needs without the
practice OF rigid economy by every
one, especially the housewives. The
forecast of available supply indicates
grave danger of serious shortage, un-
less conservation is vigorously and
nationally practiced. The slogan is:
In the Name of Liberty-SAVE
FOOD.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29

There are few honest and sincere
colored men who use the term negro
in describing themselves, but the ma.
jority who use the term 3rs jimcrow.
lists pure and simple. Tie time has
come to eliminate such words as Ger.
man, Negro, freshman. Lithuanian, etc.
People III the United States ought to
be satisfied to be known as Americans.
That one word ts big enough to in.
clude all persons born in this country.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29
EXCLUDED FROM sANIToRIum

Colored people have been excluded
from the Wisconsin State Tubercu-
1osis Sanitorium. The superintendent,
DIR. R. L. Williams, gave as reason
for excluding colored people that they
have an offensive body odor which
made their treatment with white pa
tients inadvisable. The N Al. A. G. p.
has protested to Governor Philip Of
Wisconsin and directed the governors
attention to the fact that colored peo-
pie are citizens and taxpayers Of Wis
consin and are equally entitled to the
benefits Of public institutions provided
by public funds. The Association In
sists that Dr. Williams objections are
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29
IS THIS DEMocRAcY7
from Chicago Daily News.)

tFrom Chicago Daily News.)
Editor Daily News:
We have in our household a young
woman who is both our friend and our
domestic assistant. Her ancestors
happened to live in Africa through
many centuries of southern sun and
her skin Is black, but she is a more
interesting human being than at least
70 per cent of the people who would,
| suppose, designate themselves our
social equals" whatever that NAV
mean. y.-1 =
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29

The Boston Guardian asks: Is Spin
garn playing double? Well, it Ger
tainly looks that way from this neck
O. the woods. He is a Jew but has
sought for himself all rights and priv
ileges Of American citizenship, while
at the same time proposing and adyis-
ing segregation and separation and
segregation for colored Americans. Is
there one who dares to deny it?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29
RACE PREJUDICE.

am convinced myself that there is no
more evil thing in this present world than
Race Prejudice; none at all. 1 write DELHI
erately-it is the worst single thing in life
now. 1t justifes and holds together more
baseness, cruelty and determination than anv
other sort of error in the world. Through
It's body runs the black blood Of coarse lust.
suspicion, jealousy and persecution and all
the darkest poisons Of the human soul.
-H. G. Wells III n. r Independent,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29

That was good advice Cardinal Glib
bons gave to 5000 Catholic soldiers
at Camp Meade, Nd. Among other
things he said:
: First, last, and always, be as a
band of brothers. No matter what
state or nation you come from, no
matter what race or religion, be as
band Of brothers to defend your
country against her enemies.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29
THE SIN OF SILENCE

TO sin by silence whom We should
protest makes towards cut 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 sorvo tho law, and
gutIlottnss deeIds our Isast djsputos.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs Of
many.-Elis Wheeler N11leox. -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29

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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29
MISS GRACE EDWARDS.

. Since its last issue THE APPEAL
mas been informed that Miss Grace
Edwards has won another honor in
being awarded one of the 1918 scholar
ships OF her school and as a result
she will 60 to Wilberforce (Ohio) Uni
versity and take Bachelor of Science
course.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-06-29

The estimated revenue Of the gov
eminent for the fiscal year ending
June June 80, 1918, is $4,095,699,-
900 over receipts Of 1917. This
speaks well for the Loyalty Of the
people Of this country.