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The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-19

the Tribune is under caption, "Women
Released BY Examination
In more recent issue of the Trib-
une, November T.. under CAPTION,
s'Woman Found Nearly Frozen In
Barrel" is the story that the koss
Construction company removed pile
of barrels and boxes from near the
Union station that morning to yard
in East Des Moines. In the job lot
was sugar barrel. When the work
men were half way to their destina-
ton they heard a groan. 1t came
from the sugar barrel. Investigation
revealed Negress probably 35 years
old. She was half frozen and ill from
exposure. She managed to tell the
workmen that some time that night
before she had crawled into that bar
rel to sleep. City physicians removed
her to the Methodist hospital" Here
are but two cases Of the many that
can be produced to show the woeful
need of some recognized authentic
agency for the protection of strange
colored women before leaving their
former homes, to get them in touch
with Thompson's Hotel. The Home
Makers League, The Protection Home
and the organization of Soldiers
Wives, in charge of Mrs. S. Joe
Brown, are all recent agencies among
our people in Des Moines to look after
the well being Of strangers and all
doing commendable work, yet none of
them of adequate equipment to en-
tirely take care of the masses now
needing assistance along that line.
A very active part of THE YOUNG
WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN INDUS
TRIAL MISSIONS work, as planned,
will be to try to find suitable private
homes for worthy strange women of
the race to stay in, and perhaps to
furnish competent help to reliable
families. In interest of this Mission
have for the past few months been
over the state on a self-appointed
commission to endeavor to. promote
the cause.
AS result, am gratifed to report
hearty cooperation in a number OF
cities and towns in the state on part
of white and colored friends who will
act as advisory board members and
lookout committees, for the work IN
their respective communities. I feel
myself honored at the personnel Of
those who have so readily consented
to assist by engaging with me on a
State Board for the work.
The next issue of our journal, "The
Baptist Missionary" which we are at
the present time using as an organ in
the development of the work of the
Mission, will contain list Of the
names of the friends whom by their
manifest genuine interest we shall
ask to be our advisers and counselors
| in the conduct of the work.
Beginning the Mission in the little
store front building at % North
Fourth street, Keokuk, that person.
ally rent for the Offices of Baptist
Missionary headquarters, my original
| intention was to make the institution
a private work, wherein we would in
connection with our publication do
our bit during the war by opening a
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-19

me to know life at both ends Of the
| road North and South of the Mason
and Dixon line, not by reading about
it, or being told about it, but by ply
sical sight and experience on the
scene. s s
Among the number Of women who
| have come and are coming are many
true and noble, who love and follow
what is good and as strangers in a
strange part of the country desire
that trend.
To mediate in helping them to
! reach the particular group of our peo-
pie in each city and town where they
| may locate, who stand for the Cup
ward way will be the paramount OBJ
| ject of the Mission herein set forth.
All who have been South can appre-
ciate and should be prepared to SYM
| pathize with the differences, geo.
graphical, climatic, social, economic
and almost everywise that will be ex-
perienced in the new surroundings
when Southerners arrive in this Sec
| ton of the cuontry to live. In many
Instances the conditions will have to
be met with by training" purely.
While some of our colored women of
the South are coming from comfort
able and well appointed homes, many
having the advantages Of University,
| College and Boarding School training
! Others are coming from the rural
| South, from one and two room cabins,
whose employment has been in the
cotton felds-and they are wholly in
efficient for service as maids in mod
ern Northern homes. SPECIAL
TRAINING CLASSES for any OF
these who may desire to learn is one
of the purposes of THE YOUNG WO-
MEMS CHRISTIAN INDUSTRIAL
MISSION.
THE MORAL PROTECTION AND
GUIDANCE of the unattached woman
and girl having to work for her living
as stranger in Iowa is another pur-
pose of THE YOUNG WOMEN'S
CHRISTIAN INDUSTRIAL MIS-
SION.
In looking over the State of Iowa
during the past winter, have found
\ lOE@ WILLIE WOIucu WIZ d1C dHSCIS
like that, portentious buildings and
vigorous organizations Of The Young
Women's Christian Association
(taking them alphabetically at
Boone, Burlington, Cedar Rapids,
Clinton, Council Bluffs, Davenport,
Des Moines, Dubuque, Fort Dodge,
Keolsuk, Marshalltown, Mason City,
Ottun1wa, Sioux City and Waterloo
while for the colored woman, alone,
and stranger, there has seemingly
up to this good day been no thought
Of provision.
In Waterloo, Sunday afternoon. Jan
uary 6, as speaker of the afternoon at
the vesper of the Young Women's
Christian Association, was asked to
address the meeting on the subject,
1.-THE Colored Girl and Her Problems"
/ told them the problems of the col
.ored girl are simply the problems Of
"the girl" plus RACE PREJUDICE"
The only difference between the in
telligent, respectable white woman
and the intelligent, respectable col
ored woman travelling alone on busi-
ness who may get off the train with
suit case in hand at any hour Of the
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-19

day or night when the train comes in,
is, that one feels the assurance that
any select Hotel, Boarding House,
Cafe, Restaurant or Lunch Counter
that she has the.money to pay for the
ssryice, is open to, her the other,
well, she may find that regardless Of
her ability to pay for it, no desirable
lodging house is open to her in the
whole town on account of her color
Of face.
When the Young Women's Chris
tian Associations for white women
were being organized, had the same
provision been made for colored there
would not now be such problem. 1t
may be that in former times so few
of our women were coming to the
State, it was not difficult matter for
them to find location suitable. But
with the influx now begun and not
likely to cease, provision of some
definite sort for the moral preserva-
ton Of the respectable and worthy
among the masses of strange colored
women coming to Iowa-such as, their
location in acceptable homes to stay
in; assistance to find work; the prop
er and best extending of their social
acquaintance and the finding of their
Church preferences must be made.
7 The agency l have planned, by the.
help of God and with the assistance
of friends to open in Keokuk the last
week Of next month May is intend
ed to be of statewide scope in its use
fulness as Mission for the protection
of lone colored women and girls com
ing to Iowa as strangers to work or
visit. In that connection the Mission
will feature a BUREAU OF INF'OR-
NATION, with perhaps an INTELLI-
GENCE OFFICE. If women and girls
wishing to locate in nay part Of Iowa
will correspond with the Mission be-
fore leaving the South or any other
sections Of the country, the Mission
will endeavor to get them in touch
with right surroundings in this state,
even before they leave their respective
homes.
The citation of many true incidents
III DfOOI5 OIL CtlS Hceu Ol SUCH tlN SlSclICy
can be given-take it in Des Moines,
for instance, in face of the congested
conditions brought about by the in
creased number having arrived during
the past few months, some nearly un-
thinkable and outrageous occurrences
to the embarrassment of strange col
ored women, and those who are ma
tives Of the place as well, have trans
pired. The writer has been on the
scene, observing the situation.
The Des Moines Evening Tribune
of Saturday, August 4, last, tells of
eight respectable colored women VINO
have been employed as maids in some
of the best white families of the city
for considerable time, and who were
found upon investigation by law, to be
all of good character, who were made
to leave their home at midnight and
stay at the police station until morn
ing to be investigated in Mayor Mac
Wears court, simply because they all
occupied one house, and that house,
the paper stated, had once upon a
time been occupied by person (not
of their race) who had been notorious
in red light districts. The article in
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-19
A Healing Salve For Burns. Chapped
Hands and Sore Nipples.

AS healing salve for burns, sores,
sore nipples and chapped hands Cham
berlain's Salvc is most excellent. 1t
allays the pain of burn almost IN
stantly, and unless the injury is very
severe, heals the parts without leav-
ing scar. Price, 25 cents.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-19

A PlONEEk CITIZEN GONE-DN.
DULAN.
AS was announced last week in our
paper Of the death Of Rev. DR.. T. j..
Dulin Of 1919 Walnut street, who died
after only few days illness, April
8, 1918. He was born in Littleton,
Va, August A, 1884; married to Miss
Mary j. Braxton of Hannibal, Mo-,
in 1858; his wife preceding only few
months ago. She died November 80,
1897. They came to this city in 1873,
where they have lived ever since.
There were no children to this union,
although they adopted and raised and
educated three girls and two boys, Of
whom three are still living, DR.. Dulin
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-19

Howard P. Drew, the worlds cham
pion sprinter IF Drake university, will
run Saturday in Drake relay annual
meet at the Drake Stadium. He will
also speak Sunday at a o'clock at the
Army y. M. G. "A.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-19
- Worthwhile Habit.

ut is worth a thousand pounds .
ye:.r to have the habit Of looking on
III bright side of things. Samuel
j hnson.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-26

days for taking their families into the
country.
The farmer, it develops, is the big
gest buyer of light cars, and is a
heavy user Of Crow Efkhart models.
In life on the farm the car has proved
to be positively vital in time saving
and has been a tremendous feature in
removing the isolation of the farmer
from the life around him. 1t develops
that farmers, because of the utility of
the motor car uses it all the year
arund. The farmers wife more often
than the city woman is able to drive
a car, and does her shopping in town
in very short time because she has
this method of conveyance.
| In the fall and winter, before the
motor car came, farmers positively
hibernated. They could not get to
town and did not try it.
Today one of the biggest assets of
the live, modern farmer in marketing
his products at the right time and at
the right price is the ability to go
to town often and get a line on con-
ditions.
The investigation produced a sur1
prise in the way that automobiles
had been constituted a business fac
tor and their owners could scarcely
get along without them as means
of quick transportation at any time.
Some farmers have made the state
ment that the automobile has entire
ly altered the life on the farm be-
cause it affords a means of social
contact and eliminates the old condi-
ton of Information through four to
six months of the year. 1t has
brought the city to the farmers door,
and in the Middle West, instead of
being 10 or IS miles away from town,
the farmer is now 30 or 40 minutes
from town Roads have so wonder
fully improved that the automobile
has woven itself into the farm and
city life in such a way that both
would be paralyzed without it.
Nearly 100 per cent. of light cars,
it develops, Ike the -Elkhart
Multi Powdered car, are used part of
the time for business.
The consensus seems to be that a
large per cent. of certain moderate
Iprfced cars are bought for business
purposes wholly or partly. Only as
you get up among the high priced
cars selling in excess of $1,000 or 50,
900 do you find purchases made sole1
ly for family use.
The opinion vouchsafed by a Crow
Elkhart man seems to sum up the
situation fully and covers expressions
coming from dealers in other cars in
the same plice class with Crow-Elk-
hart.
He said, TN checking up Crow-E1k-
hart sales for the past year and a
half or two, it can be truthfu1ly said
that the majority of the Crow-Elk-
hart sales were made for business
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-26

and family use combined.
"a great number of Crow-Elkhart
cars are sold to physicians who use
them in daily practice. Corpora
lions have bought numbers of Crow
EIkbart roadsters for their sales
mems use, and great many sales
have been made to farmers who pur-
chased the C1ow-Elkhart for the sole
reason that it enables them to get to
and from town quickly. Many haul
small quantities of foodstutfs 90 mar
ket and do their shopTing with their
cars. Real estate operators have
come to rely upon the motor car as
| the only adequate means of showing
prospects around and also building
agents depend upon motor cars to get
prospective tenants to and from their
different buildings. This class of peo-
pie could not possibly maintain their
present business efficiency without
the use of their automobile.
s'Then the other class of buyers
who use car for both their families
and for business have come to look
upon them as actually indispensable.
They use their automobiles many
times a day other than for family
purposes, and look upon them as alb
Solute necessities
ITO my mind the light weight, low
priced car has made possible the hlgn
speed of business that makes COM
mercial America an example for the
world. We know other dealers ex-
press the same views and no DOUBT
Iconditions are similar in other Sec
ltions"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-26
Why BUSINESS
SPEED DEPENDS
ON.MOTOR CARS
Grow Elkart statistician
Makes Public Results of
His Investigation.

High speed business owes it's exist
ence largely to fast trains, telephones,
telegraph and passenger automobiles
Statistics back up this statement
strongly.
A Crow-Elkhart statistician recently
made census of motor car owners to
Wnom he had access, and he found
that ordinarily 80 and 100 per cent. of
all light cars, particularly those SELL
ing for under $1,000, are used at least
part of the time in business pursuits.
Speculation has been rife at Wash
dngton and locally for some time as
TO what per cent. of motor cars are
purchased purely for business-what
are bought for family use and bust
ness combined-and what are bought
Dor family use only.
Thls was a question that evoked
much interest in motoring circles and
inspired the investigation set down
above. The investigation. incidental
ly, was made among owners of Crow
Elkhart cars, and it was found that
cars are bought for three purposes, as
follows
l. Business use only.
2 Combination of family and bust
ness use.
8. Family transportation only.
But the big majority, as the result
of the test, belong to class No. g.
In the big cities owners of Crow
BEkhart cars drive their vehicles to
and from their places of business and
IN a large per cent. of the instances
make business calls with them during
the day. Oftentimes the woman of
the family, after it has conveyed the
head of the family to his place of bus
mess, utilities the car in shopping and
social duties during the day. 1t was
also found that large numbers of
statesmen making calls at different
parts of large cities utilize their cars
all day hong.
Where the cars are purchased by
business institutions for the use OF
statesmen, their only use is business
use. Where they were purchased by
the statesmen themselves they are
used on Saturday afternoons and Sun
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-26
Also photographs q

road work. Also photographs and
explanations of working methods, to
show the general scheme of improve
ment.
The Motor Vehicle Department will
show number of photographs dem
onstrating the more common types of
motor vehicle accidents, and will try,
by means of these,to bring before the
public its recommendations to drivers
It will also have it's various publica-
tons for distribution and of especial
interest, will show it's plan for the
publication of a motor vehicle regis
ter and take subscriptions for the
same.
The Public Utilities Commission
will supply photographs showing its
recommendations, and will show a
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-26
THE CHEVROLET
MODELS FOR 1918

The Chevrolet Motor Co. line con-
sists of the following models: -Four
Ninety five passenger touring car;
''Four-N Ninety two passenger road
ster; Model -Four Ninety''; Model
tFour-Ninety Coupe; E'Baby Grand
touring car or Royal Mail roadster;
Eight cylinder, five passenger touring
car; Four passenger, eight cylinder
roadster; Fla Sedan, body mounted on
Baby Grand chassis. The Chevrolet
Co. announce to the public that its
forthcoming product would be driven
by the first V-type eight cylinder en-
CINE developed and built in this coun-
trv
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-26

full set of the new railroad crossing
signals which are soon to be installed
under its orders throughout Con-
necticut.
The exhibit as whole will be I'M
der the direct charge of some member
of the departments, who will be able
to explain the various exhibits and to
tell in a general way what the objects
to be attained are. In the case of the
Motor Vehicle Department, some ex-
pert in the motor vehicle law will
answer questions as to it's policy and
application.
For the Highway Department, Mr..
.Hamlin- will have charge of the ex-
hibit; for the Motor Vehicle Depart
ment. Mr.. Wetstine; for the Public
Utilities Commission. Mr.. Rudd an
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-26
STRENUOUS TEST.

W. F. Smith, a Cleveland man, rode
his motorcycle from sun to sun for
twenty days, his mileage being ap-
proximately 6645 miles. He made one
stretch of constant riding for % hours
stopping only for food and fuel. He
carried SO pounds of luggage. His
machine twas a stock model, equipped
with Firestone tires.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-26
PACHYDERM PUBLICITY.

Whenever a circus comes to TT.
Smith, Arkansas, the Yantis-Harper
Co., dealers of Firestone tires, have
opportunity to do some unusual ,ad-
vertising. They take the biggest
elephant in the parade and on each
side they have big banners boosting
Firestone Tires. This novel adver-
tisement attracts state wide atten-
kxe~S
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-26
COMMISSIONS TO
EXHIBIT AT The
SHOW This WEEK

The State Highway Department,
the Department of Motor vehicles
and the Public Utilities Commission
will exhibit jointly at the Bridgeport
Automobile Chow.
The exhibit of the Highway De-
apartment will include maps showing
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-26

gineer. It is expected that the com
missioners and deputy commissioners
will be personally present on the
opening evening, and probably at
other times during the show.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-03-26

8. Maxwell Truck service is obtainab1e
from any Maxwell dealer and the Maxwell deal
ers' organization blankets the United States and
Canada.
4. One Maxwell Truck will do the work of
three horse teams at an operating cost less than
the cost Of maintaining one team. ,...-.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-04-10
THEATRE ATTRACTIONS.
At The Colonial Tonight.

Mitchell Lewis. the Giant Of The
Barrier" in a fighting, loving daring
role in a mighty drama Of the North
land called The Sign Invisible" will
be the splendid attraction at the Colo
NAL this evening Dr. Robert Winston.
q deply religious man. loses his faith
in God following his mothers death.
caused by an operation he had perfom-
ed. He goes to the Wilds OF Canana To
forget his loss falls in with bad com
pauy. drinks, reyiles religion and be-
comes dnspised by all decent folks ex-
. cept jeanette, daughter of Rev Rene
MERCER. jeanette is sought in mar
riaEe by Lon Baribeau. factor of a big
trading company lie robs his gus
toners and is hated by all Baribeau
lays violent hands on jeanette and is
badly beaten by Lone Deer, a giant
half breed, whose eyesight and life
are threatened as result of the fight
Knowing Winston to be a surgeon,
Rev. MERCER tries to get him to oper-
ate to save Lone Deer's life and eye
sight. The doctor, just recovering
from a spree, fears TO take another
life in his hands because he has re-
nounced the Almighty During his
spree he has stood of a band of ruff
fans who wanted to burn the church
Rev. MERCER tells him of this act and
partly convinces him that it was
Gods hand guiding him at a time
he knew not what he did He per
forms the operation on Lone Deer,
Lone Deer's life is saved, and Winona,
his sweetheart, takes him away with
her. Gods grace in granting his pray
or for Lone Decr's life brings a
change of heart to the doctor who
ends happiness in the hoped for love
OF Jeanette Rev MERCER succeeds in
having Lou Baribeau imprisoned for
mis- past misdeeds Monihan, the tough
river boss, who leads the ruGians in
their attack on the church, is also
gathered in by the Sheriff The Sign
Invisible is a six tense and powerful
parts. and is uuquestionably one of
the best screen plays of the year.
Btay's Photograph also. Tomorrow
carlyle Blackwell in THE Burglar"
also Holmes Treyelogue.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-04-10
CARLYLE BLACKWELL AT
COLONIAL TOMORROW

Carlyle Blackwell in q tense and ap-
pealing perturbation OF the stage play
The Burglar" viii be the excellent
attraction at the Colonial Theatre to-
morrow evening
IN The Burglar" Carlyle Blackwell
is seen in an entirely different sort OF
role from the kind ne is accustomed
to playing; it is a superb persona
ton. He enacJs the role of a man who
is the unfortunate creature OF circum-
stances. He is first seen as a fun-loy-
ing impetuOus young college student
who through his love of q prank gets
into a very serious scrape Later.
when in another city he is making
good and is happily married the
wrong that he did before rises TO
plague him. Ia this unusually plea
ing and interesting production Cary
vie Blackwell is supported by an eN-
celent cast. including Madge Evans.
the clever little Juvenile star who is
great IN the role of Edithe a very
interesting Holmes Travelogue also
will be shown.