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Milford chronicle., 1918-12-20
TOLD IN A FEW LINES

Rev. Thomas v Wingate of Whining
ton will hold service at Christ Church
Sunday morning, December -. at 1890
a m. All are invited.
AT the Baptist Church next Sunday
morning Pastor Davis will preach a
Christmas Sermon. The Bible school
is preparing to hold its Christmas
program in the evening OF Sunday.
the 18th.
William T. Abbott, formerly OF Mil
ton, Del. who has been working for
the Government at Marsh Run. near
Harrisburg. Pa, the past year. has ac-
cepted position in St. Augustine,
Fla, for which place he viii san by
the first OF the year accompanied by
his wife
Avenue Church is preparing special
Christmas music for next Sunday
morning, with other features appro-
pirate for the occasion The Sunday
school lesson at . O'Clock. The Sunday
school and Epworth League have their
Christmas program at 7.30 Ii will be
worth while TO attend these services.
ST. johns Church. Sunday. Decem-
her p: Mass at "a. mi evening SER
ber -: Mass at a. m.; evening SER
a. m. Christmas Day MASSES at z. ..
and 1870; high mass at g. Eyrie.
Weigand; Gloria, Wegand. Credo.
Nelgand, Ave Maria. Mozart; Sancus.
Weigand; Beuedicus. Weigaud; Aguus
Del Meigand
Milford chronicle., 1918-12-20
4 GOOD SHOWING

W. E. Tucker, the very efficient su-
perintendent of the State Board OF Ag-
riculture, and who has in charge the
agricultural activities along the du-
Pont Road, by request handed to us
this week for publication a statement
Of what he grew and sold this year
between Georgetown and Selbyville.
Much Of the land in cultivation he
cleared and broke up last spring.
The statement follows.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14

Bishop Charles D. Williams of Mich.
gan warned against a Pan-American.
ism as a substitute for Pan-German-
ism. Among other things Bishop Will.
liams said:
There are people in this country
who would have us annex Mexico and
substitute an American kaiser for Will
liam Hohenzollern," he said. "This is
a thing we must fight against. We
are a long way behind England as a
democracy.
"The king does not figure in politics
at all in England, and the powerful
political party there is the Labor
party, which is different from our or.
ganized labor in the United States.
The British Labor party is made up
not only of workers but the keenest.
thinking men in the literary world as
well. We have no such organization
here, but it must come in time, or we
shall see a social revolution in this
country"
Bishop Williams went to France on
behalf of the Red Cross and made a
zig-zag journey through the country
devastated by the Hun.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14

These men were regularly appointed
by Republican Presidents and con-
firmed by the Senate Their duties
were the same as those performed by
their respective predecessors and we're
in no way segregated or confined
wholly to the colored people.
Many colored clerks and employees
have lost their places since 1913 and
according to the Washington papers
and persons who live in the city and
are well informed, scores of colored
persons who have passed the required
examinations and have been certified
by the Civil Service Commission, have
been refused appointments.
A colored Judge Of the municipal
court of the District of Columbia has
been allowed to retain his Office,
which is a local one.
A few new places have been given
out, but nothing to compare with the
places lost and in the majority of
cases are strictly along segregated
That is what the Democrats have
done.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14
ISN'T 1T AMUSING?

The Alabama Methodist Conference
at Mobile, Alabama, has called on
President Wilson to summon an inter.
national conference to investigate the
condition of the Jews in the nations
OF Europe and to take steps to stop
age long persecution.
Right there at home in Alabama
pogroms are in evidence at almost
any time. Hundreds of innocent
colored men have been tortured,
burned at the stake or mob murdered
in some other way, but the hypo-
critical Methodists have not been able
to see those atrocities, or having seen
them, history does not record that
they have ever made protests.
Raising their eyes high above the
outrages committed by alleged Chris.
tlans on real Christians in Alabama
the psalm singers have the nerve to
look 1000 miles across the sea and
protest against prosecutions in other
lands.
D. The Southern Caucasian Christian
is queer bird.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14
END AUTOCRACY OF COLOR
Asks Editor of THE APPEAL in an Appeal Wired to
President Wilson the Eve of His
Departure for Peace Table.
Calls Color Line Greater Menace to Permanent World
Peace Than Hun Mlitarism Just Overthrown
Asks President to Aid the Oppressed of All Nations
Races, Colors, Creeds and Sex in Realizing
Liberty, Fraternity and Equality
Saint Paul, MIMI, Dec. 2, 1918

Saint Paul, Mimi, Dec. 2, 1918.
To the President,
White House,
Washington, D. c..
Sir:
Now that the world war is over and
military autocracy has been doomed,
I appeal to you as the representative
Of the United States at the Peace
Table, to demand the abolition of that
greater menace to the peace of the
world, THE AUTOCRACY OF COLOR.
Through the centuries the colored
races of the globe have been subjected
to the most unjust and inhuman treat
ment by the so-called white peoples.
Every atrocity which the Huns have
inflicted on the helpless white peoples
of the world during the four years of
war now ending, has been suffered by
the colored peoples of the world for
more than four hundred years.
In the recent war the cOlOred races
have furnished as many men as the
white races have supplied, if the labor
and fighting units are both counted,
and now that victory has been won,
it is but just that the color line which
has hampered the progress of the col
| ored peoples, should be abolished at
once. Not only that, but the op-
pressed of the white race should be
delivered from oppression
Mr.. President, I shall endeavor to
outline a program which should meet
the approval of every believer in world
democracy:
1. Home rule for Ireland.
2. Home rule for India.
3. Home rule for all colonies which
desire it,
4. Self-determination for the people
Of all countries, in which the people
are practically all of one race or ma
| tionality and yet dominated and op-
| pressed by a few of different race or
| nationality.
! 5. The former German colonies to
| become republics under the protection
| of the League of Nations. These peo-
pie are as capable of self-government
| as the people of Russia, Germany, Tur-
| key, or the Balkan States.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14
THE WAR IS ENDED-BUT-

The war is over; peace reigns on
earth. But in Europe today there
are more than 100000 American
soldiers, who took an important part
in bringing the war to a victorious
end, and these men must be fed and
clothed for a long while to come. It
is estimated by the War Department
that the cost of equipping and main.
tanning an American soldier in Europe
is $423.27 a year.
The American army was transported
to France at the rate of ESQ, 900 men
a month by giving them first call on
the shipping facilities of the United
States. If they could be brought back
to their homes thus speedily-and it
is doubtful that they could-it would
require at least eight months. It is
obvious, therefore, that we must con-
tfnue to raise money with which to
maintain our army abroad.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14
SATURDAY, DECEMBER IA, 1918.
ETERNAL VIGILANCE.

The meeting of the Colored Liberty
Congress at Washington, D. c., next
week brings to mind the old adage,
Eternal Vigilance is the Price of
Liberty" Many people seem to have
forgotten this old and trite saying.
The colored people who are not only
surrounded by enemies who are try
ing to undo them and fitch from them
their rights as Americans, should re-
member that there is far more SIM
ster and unprincipled foe within.
1t is the foe within which is more
dangerous than the foe without, whose
moves are usually open and above
board. On the contrary the foe within
is rank coward, Hckspittle and a
sneak, and often spreads his poison
when no one of the race is near.
A large number of the negroes"
as they almost invariably call them
selves, who solicit money for segre-
gated schools and other institutions
are traitors of the deepest dye. Ad-
mitted, grinning, to the private office
of some white philanthropist, in order
to reach his pocket-book, they belittle
the colored people and tell him that
the race favors segregation. For
every dollar they collect a thousand
dollars worth of harm is done.
1t is we'll for colored men and
women to meet publicly often and pro-
test against the many wrongs they
are forced to endure, and give the lie
to the vermin who do so much to in
jure the race.
And while watching the enemy with
out and protesting against discrimi-
nations, keep an eye on the enemy
within and denounce his nefarious
work.
Remember, Eternal Vigilance is the
Price of Liberty"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14
AND THE WAR is OVER!

Now that fighting has ceased and
war is practically at an end, the report
comes that r. w. Tyler, colored war
correspondent has arrived at the
front. And again, Col. Charles Young
has been assigned to Camp Grant, near
Rockford, ILL.,, and is due there in a
few days to take command of a
"colored development battalion" 1t
seems that the gentlemen of the mini
mum" got what they asked for.
Relative to Col. Young, the follow
ing order OF the War Department is in
teresting reading:
The first move to demobilize the
army will be the discharge Of devel-
opment battalions in all camps in this
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14
PORTO RIcANs WANT sELF-RULE

A memorial to President Wilson ask
ing complete self-government fol-
Porto Rico is up in the Porto Rican
House of Representative and is being
discussed. It says in part:
porto Rican soldiers cheerfully
and brave1y left their homes to fight
for democracy. Our culture, our civil
ization and the pride of our glorious
race oblige us to decline to accept as
legitimate government that does not
spring from our own will
The great trouble seems to be the
color!ine which has been forced on
the Porto Ricans by the q. S. Govern.
ment. When Porto Rico was a Span.
ish colony there was no line based on
color. With American domination
came the Southern officials who did
not fail to bring along their hobby of
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14
ARE MEN PURER MINDED THAN
WOMEN?

Women of America are Stacking on
the job of motherhood, in the opinion
of Prof Roswell H. Johnson of the
University Of Pittsburgh, who spoke
Oh the subject Of adequate Produc-
ton" at the ninth annual conference
of the American Association for Study
and Prevention of Infant Mortality,
at Chicago.
The married woman who does not
have more than three children is, ex-
cept in a few cases, pulling back on
the wheels of progress. We have
talked much of the nobility of women
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14

3. The abrOgation of the "White
Australia" legislation and the &C.
acknowledgement of the right of all PEG.
pies to acquire citizenship.
Z. The repeal by the United States
of all anti-oriental immigration laws
and the acknowledgment of the right
of Japanese and Chinese and Malays
to become citizens.
8. The repeal of all United States
laws CHASING certain Indians as non
citizens, all people of American Indian
blood to be Immediately recognized as
American citizens:
8. The repeal of all laws of the
United States, or of any state, in which
the words colored, African, Afro-Amer.
lean, Negro, Mulatto, Indian, Japanese
or Chinese are used for the purpose to
making determinations against the
people of any race, nationality, class
or creed, and the immediate abroga.
ton of any color line restrictions en-.
forced without warrant of law.
10. The nations comprising the
League of Nations to be forbidden to
enact any legislation which in any way
discriminates against the people of the
caucasian, monaghan, African, Indian
and Malay races, or against any ma
tionality, religious creed or sex.
IL. The free immigration of the PEG
pie Of any one country to any other
country having membership in the
League to be neither denied nor
abridged on account of race, national
ity, class, color, creed, or sex.
The adoption of the foregoing rules
in the Constitution Of the League Of
Nations would not only mean freedom
equality and democracy for all man
kind but would be an actual earthly
realization of the Fatherhood of Coo
and the Brotherhood of Man.
Trusting Mr.. President, that you viii
as the representative of our great re
public, advocate the principles I have
enumerated, I am,
Very truly yours,
JOHN @. ADAMS,
Editor The Appeal
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14
EXTINCTION OF THE HYPHEN.

A suggestion has been made in the
Mail Bag which the Dispatch and
Pioneer Press wish to extend to it's
limit and then unqualifiedly approve.
It applies to the absolute abolish
ment of the hyphen, in it's racial
sense, henceforward and forever. If
the war has done anything, it has
made us all Americans, 100 per cent
test. It has left the hyphen extinct.
Hereafter there is, in our American
ism, no room for dilution or limita-
ton. The new order of things in
cludes all possible combinations of
hyphenism and is not limited to- the
nationalities over which we have
scored a victory in the name of lib
erty. 1t takes in friend and foe alike.
A man can be no more an Anglo
American or Franco-American than
a German-American. In our patriotic
lexicon there is no hyphen. When a
man is born an American or becomes
one Of his free will through the pro-
cess of law he is at the end and the
summit. We amplify this suggestion
by our Mail Bag friends and give it
our cordial Endorsement.
The foregoing excerpt from the st.
Paul Pioneer-Press has our hearty ap-
prevail and we beg to add that the
Afro ought to be taken out of the
Afro-American and the Negro out of
the Negro-American. The war for de-
mocracy has been fought and won, let
us all now be st-AMERICANS.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14
WHAT THE DEMOCRATS HAVE
DONE.

When the Democrats came into
power in 1913, several colored men
were holding high Offices at Washing
ton, including an Assistant Attorney
General, a Register of the Treasury
and an Auditor for the Navy, all ap-
pointed by a Republican president.
The Assistant Attorney General was
asked to resign a few days after
March 4; the Register of the Treas
ury remained in Office for about two
months before he was called on to
walk the plank and the Auditor for the
Navy was permitted to draw his salary
about three months before he was
separated from the pay roll.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14

or massacre of the Jews when they
captured Lembery.
The Associated Press correspondent
sent the following in reference to the
brutal massacre:
Immediately upon entering the
city the Poles proceeded to sack and
burn the Ghetto district, whose vic.
Tins numbered several thousand. The
streets were filled with the charred
bodies of murdered Jews, many OF
whom, in the frenzy of despair, had
leaped from the burning buildings,
which were surrounded by Polish
troops"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14

country. The development units are
composed of drafted men who did not
meet physical requirements or who
needed special drill or discipline to
bring them into full military value.
There are about $4,000 of these
troops, and their honorable discharge
will come as soon as they receive the
physical examination required before
man is discharged.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14
QUEER WORLD THIS.

After more than a hundred years OF
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, during which time
the Poles have been subjected to op'
preston in its varied forms by Ger
many, Austria and Russia, the people
are to be reunited as a free Polish ma.
ton and their independence has been
recognized by the allies.
After all they have suffered for more
than century is it not strange to
note that they celebrated their new
found freedom with q great pogrom
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14
THE THRONE TOPPLES.

1t is fairly safe guess that for a
while oficialdom at the National Cap
tai will not be SO self-assertive. This
thing Of directing the activities of the
people in every little detail, and CIV
ing peremptory orders in matters of
small consequence, with belated dis
coveries that mistakes had been made
became intolerable. The people re-
sented it at the polls, and they will
resent it again when they get chance
in 1920. Autocracy in America has
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14

who gave sons to the risk of death.
Have we no word of appeal to superior
women to give life to sons?"
Then came Mrs. William Lowell
Putnam of Boston, who startled her
audience by declaring that the fault in
most of the social ills was with the
women rather than the men, as
women are not so pure minded as
men,"
MEN have demanded purity of their
women she said, "but women have
never demanded it of men,"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14
EMERGENCIES OVER.

The various Departments and Bu-
reaus at Washington demanded and
received immense appropriations to
meet "war emergencies Will they
be just as prompt and as earnest in
recommending that the appropriations
be cut off when the Emergency"
ceases to exist?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14
CIVILIZATION NEEDED IN u. & A
Editorial by Arthur Brisbane in
Haarct paDorc

Hearst Papers.)
The arrival of troops in an enlight-
ened American city two days ago
stopped the mob murder of a colored
man who had not been convicted, and
indiscriminate killing.
One girl was killed leaning out of
the window, a fireman was murdered
while playing a stream of water on
the mob. A construction foreman was
fatally wounded, the fourth dead was
an Unidentified negro" mentioned
out of politeness.
This incident, showing that we still
require little civilizing on this side
OF the ocean, may help to take the
edge off our national conceit. It is
becoming sharp edge.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14
not been entirely overthrow but it is
topping to it's fall
TOO MUCH "VERBOTEN."

If the Democratic administration
had not been so jealous in prescrib-
ing rules which required the people of
the country to get permit every time
they turned around, perhaps they
might have been permitted another
two years of full control. The people
want public servants, not masters.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14

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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14
NO SOCIALISM WANTED.

The Democratic party has been re-
buked at the polls but it will not re-
verse it's socialistic tendencies as long
as it has an opportunity to strengthen
it's power over industry. The people
must tell their public servants what
they think Of government ownership.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14

1t cost considerable money to send
our army to France, and it will cost
just as much to bring it homemade
good your w. S. S. pledge.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14
CONGRESS DEC. 10
PLAN ORGANIZING coLoRED AMERICANA WORLD
Rights Representative Washington
for Ame n Adjustment


Petitioner. nscsde
CoIored Americans in the World Peace Adjustment
Meeting National Rights Chicago
1918 Offered to the Coored American People
through Of world
become policy Allied Nations
right itself imperative cali has
the of the undmoc condition which
military Of
this body the
Americans presented the world negotiations
sentatyes the chosen cored shall
only group
0en 6 eegessey tbi in fns 1 s. a. c shall he ,td IN tho ~
Rights Every
this representative assembly and additional delegate
ton of the
become ocia1y affiliated member delegates assembly
national
and on y to send two each such delegate
The
National Executive COMMITTEES shall the call
ments for this representative assembly
The registration fee for delegates shall be dollar
the
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14

1--WE are going to have to finance
peace for a while," said Secretary of
the Treasury McAdoo, "just as we
have had to finance war;"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14
The SIN Of SILENCE

To sin by silence when we should
protest makes towards out of men
The human race has climbed on nro.
test. Had no voice been raised .eains+
Injustice, ignorance and lust, the in.
QUESTION yet would serve the law and
euIllotines decide our least disnu+ee
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs Of
many.-Elia Wheeler Wilcox.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14

Keep your nine-tenths. lend Irncle
Sam one-tenth of your December in
come. Buy w. S. S.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14

color discrimination and they have
been working over time on it ever
since. .,@~-.-. -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-12-14
. A R n | n 6 !

TIGHTING has ceased but our war work is not done
II until peace is permanently established, the war
bills have been paid, army is brought back home
ditons. Hungry nations must be fed and sheorn cities
rebuilt and the United States must lend the money to do
it.