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Zig. 81 sticks upon the end Of the
toothpick neck, and the toothpick legs
have beads glued upon their ends.
The duck Gig. 81 is one Of the
many floating toys which can be made.
Fig. 10 shows the head and neck, Fig.
IL the tail, and Fig IL the keel fas-
tened to the under side Of the body
to prevent upsetting. The keel should
be of cardboard coated with paraffin.
Tapering corks make splendid pots
for toy plants for a doll house Gig.
15), and plants can be made of paper
or pieces of artificial ferns.
II you have never made cork jave-
lin to toss at target, you have missed
lots of fun. Fig. 16 shows how to
The Clio messenger., 1918-03-29

We are printing, this week, an ex-
cerpt from Tennyson's splendid poem,
"Locksley Hail." May the gracious
God grant that the day shall soon be at
hand. as forseen by the great Eng
lish poet, when ''the war drum throbbed
no longer, and the battle flags were
furled, in the parliament of man, the
federation of the world" But in the
meantime, paradoxical as it may seem,
if we are to save civilization, at least
what little we have of it, we must fight
to do it. The intelligence of the Amer
ican people, their sense of justice, their
humanity, have made them traditiOnally
averse to war. But it has been mat
ter beyond their power to bring the
world up to their standards in these re-
CARDS, and now they are confronted
with the problem of saving their ideals,
ideals which alone, to them, make life
worth living, from the attacks of twen-
tieth century barbarians. Our dreams
that justice and humanity were dOmi-
nant forces in the world have been rude
ly shaken. Unbelievable as it SEEM
ed, at first, we now know that the
huns of Attila live again and that they
would pillage our fair land and supplant
the rule of reason and parliament by
that of the sword. Our lack of ability
realize that such situation could arise,
our unbelief that such people did exist,
have made US unprepared to face the
great emergency in the most effectual
way. The result is going to he costly,
so costly that it must never occur again.
From this on. until the dawn of the glad
day foreseen by Tennyson. we must
be prepared to fend off the attacks of
those who would rob us of our liber-
ties. Every male child should be train
ed for the bearing of arms, every fe-
male child should be a potential nurse
or skilled in some of the arts essential
to the common defense. Every element
should be mobilized for the preservation
of national life, and the time for action
is now. We want cannon forged, as
mighty as there are in this world. and
ships of war. and rifles and bayonets.
so that we may safeguard the gifts of
our fathers until the time when ad-
vancing intelligence shall have taught
the rest of the world to agree with us
to lay down their arms and to engage
in international relationships based up
on morality and justice and civil author.
ity rather than upon conscienceless and
barbarous force.
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the cork body. The tail is made OF
several strands of worsted tied to
pin Gig. -, which is stuck into the
body.
The funny little porcupine Gig. A
has tapered cork body Gig. 81,
toothpick legs, a cardboard head
Zig. g.. and toothpick quills.
Because cork birds and animals are
funny creatures at best, it is proper to
devise varieties other than those
found in zoos. Fig. Z shows a Pc
culiar specimen. Isn't he dandy
with his ornamental neck? Five
glass beads strung upon toothpick
form the neck, the cardboard head
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Observation-Disclosures"
!: HANDICRAF S
!: FOR GIRLS S
: By DOROTHY PERKINS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Copyright. by A. Nicely Hall.)
CORK TOYS.

II you will save the cork from every
empty bottle before it is thrown out
or disposed of to the ragman, you
will soon have enough shapes and
sizes to provide an afternoons FUN
of toymaking. IL you do not want
to wait until enough corks have accu-
mulated by this means, you can get
what you will need at drug store.
In addition to corks. you must have
some cardboard, some worsted. beads,
toothpicks, burnt matches, pins and
glue. For cutting the corks use
very sharp knife.
The horse Gig. y has body made
of two tapered corks, with the small
ends glued together. Use the pat
tern in Fig. for the head, and glue
this in a slot cut across the end OF
the body. The legs may be toothpicks
or matches; glue them into holes in
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THE CLIO MESSENGER
Entered at the Post Office Clio. Mich. as secone
class matter.


At one time during his heroic career,
when the issue of battle seemed to be
going against the British, Horatio Mel
son was ordered by his admiral to haul
down his flag. Nelson signalled in re-
ply: Mail mine to the mast; that's
what say to all such orders as that "
Nelson's slogan and his determination
won the fight. A courageous faith like
that of the great English admiral should
inspire every one of us until victory
crowns our battle for freedom and CIV
iliZation.
The Clio messenger., 1918-03-29

The time for paltering with disloyal-
ty is past. Every man is now for us
or against us in the fight for human
rights and should be recognized accord
ipgly. the German spy, propaganda
or abbettor, proven guilty, should be
stood against convenient wall and
shot without unnecessary delay, and
those among us who are lukewarm and
backbiting in their support of their
country in this great crisis, if such
there be, should be cut off from the as
sociation with their fellow countrymen
and publicly branded for what they are
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The next regular meeting of James
Bradley w. r. C.. No. 236, will be
held in the q. A. r. Hall, April 9th.
The members are requested to be pres
ent.
Mrs. Harriet Anderson.
Sec.
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Christian Church

Christian Church services will be held in the
Pine Run Church. Easter Sunday at 1000 o'clock.
The subject will be The First Easter Morn"
F. L. Leland will deliver the address. assisted by
c. Eal, of Flint
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&
NATIONAL INSURANCE.

When you buy Liberty Bond you
are taking out national insurance on
the rest of your property.
Where the kaiser's army sets it's
foot, private property ceases to exist.
The apostles of kultur steal or destroy
everything. In their retreat from the
Somme year ago, they even turned
the wells into latrines and sowed salt
trees. In Belgium, in northern France,
in Poland, Italy and Russia, they have
restored the ancient system of war
slavery, and drafted the civilian in
habitants to labor under the lash of
their TeutOnic conquerors.
These things are done systematic
ally and by order. They would be done
here if the kaiser's armies could cross
the Atlantic they would get
across quickly were it not for the
fleets and armies of our allies. Those
allies require our financial and mill
tary support and to give that support
the government must have money.
1t is expensive to win a war against
Prussianism, but it is utterly ruinous
to lose one.
A year ago the junkers laughed when
America entered the war, and said it
was a good thing, because this was
the only country where a huge indem-
nifty of cash and supplies could be col
lected without delay. They are not
laughing any longer, but their need
of indemnity has grown greater than
ever.
We can loan for victory or pay for
defeat.
We can buy insurance for our homes,
our property, or right to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness; or we
can sacrifice these things to the royal
family of butchers that rules central
Europe.
Liberty Bonds are national insur-
ance.
Buy, and buy early.
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John w. BOerner
MUNICIPAL JUDGE
Candidate for Reelection

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~
licans. 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 far
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
S'Fhey also serve who only stand and
watt
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??, 1918-04-20
THE DRIVE FOR LIBERTY.

The movement for the Liberty Con-
gress was inaugurated in Boston,
June 10 Of last year at session held
In Faneuil Hall, the cradle of liberty,
at national conference called by the
New England League. A Liberty Con-
ference was started as a national COM
mittee to arrange for a National
Colored Liberty Congress. Rev. A. C.
Powell of New York is president; Prof.
A. w. Whalley OF Boston is national
organizer; w. M. Trotter, executive
secretary. A board of managers was
begun with Robert H. Harrison of
New York as chairman. This board
is to be augmented.
The purpose Of the Congress is to
press the just claim Of Colored Ameri-
cans to share in the world democracy
for which they are all subject to fight
under the flag and to take positive
measures to secure from the govern
ment guarantees of the abolition of dis
reimbursement and of all caste dis
ordinations. | IL ~. -s:
The proposal to hold meeting early
this year has been enthusiastically re-
ceived by the thinking men of the
country and the executive officers have
decided to hold the congress at Wash
ington, p. G., and to cover Memorial
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Segregation in Porto Rico.
(By F. 3. Pardon Returned War Cor
respondent From Euronel

respondent from Europe.)
(From the Boston Guardian.)
San Juan, P. R.-A fame 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 introduced in the house OF
representatives by Mr.. Manuel F.
Rossy, one of the white members, set.
ting forth in detail and eloquence the
injustice and inhumanity of forcine
discrimination on 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.
Petition ignored.
The resolution was presented ia
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
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LOYALTY OF OUR FRIENDS.

Complying with requests of the gov
eminent for advertising space for the
Third Liberty Loan THE APPEAL
contributed full front page advertise
ment on April 6; this was followed
by another full front page ADVERTISE
ment last Saturday, that was paid for
and contributed by a number of the
loyal, mutual we'll wishers of the gov
eminent and THE APPEAL. Again,
today we publish full front page
which has been donated by the loyal
friends of the government and our
friends whose names are thereunto ap-
pended. We are very thankful to each
and all who contributed and made it
possible for THE APPEAL to do it's
bit toward Helping to Halt the Hun.
Continue to buy Liberty Bonds.
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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 hav-
ing under his Jurisdiction the me-
tropolis of Porto Rico, San Juan, is q
colored man. The commissioner of
trades and labor is colored man.
The mayors Of numerous towns Of
Porto Rico are colored men.
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from the days of the Civil war to San
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 so help
win the war;
EMILE BIGELOW HAPGOOD.
It 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?
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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. It 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 friend) is
at 480 Fifth avenue, New York. We
need funds at once. Every penny will
go to actual relief work. Our colored
troops have been brave, loyal fighters
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-20

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
will be placed on sale in every town
can be exchanged for one. The stamps
and city in the country.
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.
~ 40 q OcAAO ~ CO4NIAOA tAdI tu0 Wal
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-all will make them an at
tractive investment. Working people
whose margin of income above expen
ses is narrow at best will find in then
an excellent incentive for beginning
the prudent habit of saving. The,
will be popular for Christmas presents
School children will be able to inves
| part of their little weekly allowance.
j in certificates. AS result many mil
lions will be transferred to the Fed
eral Treasury and through it will flow
into the channels of trade, while thu
people of small means will be made
to feel that they, too, are doing theil
share toward helping their country
win the war.
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be done along negro" labor lines. Sec.
rotary Wilson has announced that q
negro" will not be selected as a
permanent representative but promi.
nent colored men will be consulted.
Secretary Wilson has the right idea.
No patriotic colored American wishes
a jimcrow representative. It would be
all right to appoint colored man as
an assistant secretary of labor but to
appoint a negro" adviser and confine
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-20

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-
ditions in the United States and the
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. I
do not expect them to adopt tho meth.
DDS Of missionaries, nor do l sympa-
thize with all their programmes. But
1t cannot be ignored t.>t it happened
that the faiths of the moS 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 it 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 / 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 combine
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 well
as the black" <.
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YOUR FIFTY DOLLAR LIBERTY
BOND.

1t will protect 1000 soldiers from
smallpox and 666 from typhoid. 1t
will assure the safety of 139 wounded
soldiers from lockjaw, the germs Of
which swarm in Belgian soil.
1t will render painless 400 opera
ions, supply miles of bandages-
enough to bandage 555 wounds.
1t will care for 100 injuries in the
way of "frst-aid packets"
1t will furnish adhesive plaster and
surgical gauze enough to benefit thou
sands of wounded soldiers.
Every purchaser of a Liberty Loan
Bond performs a distinct individual
service to his country and to our boys
fighting in France.
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Thousands OF colored Americans
are members of the National Red
Cross having donated their dollars
during the drive for membership last
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??, 1918-04-20
IN CROSSING THE BUSY STREET

II pedestrians would follow simple
rule they could always avoid being
struck by vehicles, Magistrate House
declared in the traffic court recently.
IN issuing his seventeenth safety bull
letin he said:
Pedestrians should bear in mind
that when they start to cross a street,
no matter from which side, the traf-
nc always approaches them from the
left.
When they reach the middle of the
street 1t approaches them from the
right.
Before stepping from the sidewalk
always look to the left.
when reaching the middle Of the
street always look to the right
York Mail.
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

=. The following appeal is appearing
in the daily press: -
To the Editor:
May I 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
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, This Space Donated by :
FIRST NATIONAL BANK

Day, May 80, which is in honor Of the
veterans who saved the Republic and
brought liberty, with 100000 colored
men among them.
This congress of 'Colored America to
present to the Government its claim
for a share in the world democracy is
a great opportunity for the Colored
people. Every community ought to
send big delegation.
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WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES.

The new war savings certificates
will bear 4 per cent interest, will run
for a term of five years and will be is
sued in denominations as low as So.
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
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-20

The portraits here shown appeared
prize winners in a written spelling
contest held at Mechanic Arts High
school last Saturday.
There were 70 in the contest from
rural and city schools in Ramsey coun.
ty and the test was twenty-five words
from a book none had seen.
Through an error in the first cor
rection of the papers Earl was tied
with Marie M. Cherry of North St.
Paul. Both rated SO per cent.
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with SO per cent. Ruby M. Lindbeck,
pupil at rural school district No. %.
ranked third with 80.
SIS From Garden Club.
Earl, besides being the champion
speller of the county, received IS from
the Ramsey County Mems Garden
club, and will represent the county
with Isabel Hadley at the State Fair in
September.
Rural schools were more largely
represented than the schools of the
city, but the highest honors remained
in the St. Paul schools.
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TUU FER Cent m est.
A second test brought Earl to bat
with 100 per cent, while Marie drop
ped to 80. Further inspection then
showed that she only ranked SO per
cent in the first test, which made
Earl first in both contests
Earl Wilkins winner of the first
prize is a nephew of Mr. and Mrs
S. S. Williams, 9O6 Gaultier street, and
is pupil in the A seventh grade under
Miss Verne Enright, Whittier school.
Isabel Hadley, 1913 Orchard street,
and a pupil at the Mcclellan school,
took second honors on the second test
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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