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The Colorado statesman., 1918-04-27
CHEYENNE, WYo., NEWS.
OTIS of snow in CHEYENNE.

Lots of snow in Cheyenne.
Cheyenne has certainly received dou-
BILE pay in bad weather for the splen'
did good weather she enjoyed in
March. The first week in April II
showed nearly every day; the second
week it rained nearly every day; the
third week it rained and showed, and
this week at this writing it is showing
to beat the band.
Mrs. Belle Brown, who died at st.
Johns hospital Saturday, April 20, was
buried from the Second Baptist Church
Monday at 2:30 D. M. Pastor DR..
Smith officiated. Mrs. Brown was a
member of the above named church.
The carnival that was given at the
A. o. U. w. hall the 18th, by the
Young Peoples Improvement Club OF
the A. NJ E. Church, met with grand
success. Good music and good sing
ing. There were several tents in the
hall One had sign over the door
for men only, cents ;another read a
perfect day, another read fortune tell
ing. Plenty refreshments and all had
jolly good time.
Mrs. Ollie Redd, who went to Oak
land Cal, few weeks ago to attend
the funeral of her sister-in-law has re-
turned.
Mr.. w. Summerfield was visiting in
Eaton Sunday.
Mrs. H. Asberry has three fine mich
COWS and is doing a successful dairy
business.
Behold the Man Prayeth.
FLOYD Sutton, a bad actor, went to his
death with a prayer on his lips. This
fact was brought out the morning dur
ing the inquest over the body OF the
man, who fell victim to his own work
Saturday night, April goth, in a battle
with the police. At the close of his
testimony Mr.. j. A. Baker, former po'
liceman, and the officers in the fight
was asked if Sutton made any state
ment after he was wounded. Yes, re-
piled Mr.. Baker, as he lay there on the
ground he seemed to realize that II
was all over with him. He turned his
face to my wife and said let us pray
Then he started "Our Father, Whlcn
art in heaven" he began to sink, 80
Lord have mercy" The coroner's jury
returned a verdict that Sutton had
come to his death from hemorrhage
produced by four gun shot wounds, In
flicted by the Cheyenne police while
he was attempting to commit murder
The jury completely exonerated the OF
ficers from any criminal liability IN
connection with his death.
Whisky Is Responsible for the Act.
Mr.. Sutton had been drinking with
another colored man at saloon where
. Jordon Davis, porter who served
him with the drinks, asked him to pay
for them. Sutton replied that he would
pay the bartender, but would not pay
him. The trouble started; several
shots were fired, and Davis ran out ol
the saloon and around the corner Of
the street and into Mr.. Bakers cafe
The bad man followed Davis in the
cafe and there Mr.. Baker and the OF
ficers got into the big battle. Sutton
was killed and one policeman shot IL
the leg.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-04-27
DENVER TO HAVE
A CIVIC CENTER
NINE ACRES IN HEART OF
THE CITY IMPROVED
AND BEAUTIFIED

Denver, Col.-The assured
early completion of existing con-
tracts virtually guarantees to
Denver the use of its new civic
center this year. Nine acres of
some of the most valuable prop
erty in the heart of the city and
facing the handsome granite cap
ital building were acquired
through condemnation proceed
ings seven or eight years ago.
Succeeding municipal admins
trations have held different opin-
ions as to the identification of
the tract, consequently it has
been of little use to the people.
Work begun last year under the
direction of Mayor R. w. Speer,
it is believed, will be completed
early this year,
The dominant feature of the
civic center will be an open-air
Greek theater, comprising a sun
ken space and cement tiers cap
able of seating 5000 people.
Flanking the great platform
where concert performances and
pageants will be given will be, on
either side. a series of ornamen-
tai columns rooted with heavy
marble and granite slabs. Gar
dens, lagoons, bits of statuary,
balustrades and other attractive
features will be noted among the
improvements of the outlaying
grounds, where the populac and
Denver'S visitors may gather for
evenings or afternoons of enjoy
ment. When completed, the
Denver civic center will cost over
50, 900, 600.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-04-27
AN APPEAL IN The
NAME OF DEMOCRACY
TO THE PRESIDENT, THE CABINET THE CONGRESS OF THE
UNITED STATES THE GOVERNORS AND THE LEG
IsLATUREs OF THE SEVERAL STATES OF
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

ent segregation of any element of our
country's population into a separate
and distinct group on the sole basis OF
color is creating condition under
which this nation cannot long endure.
When we reflect upon these brutali-
ties and indignities we remember they
are due to the fact that in almost ev-
cry Southern State we have systemat-
ically, by law-or chicanery, been de-
prived of the right of that very man
hood suffrage which genuine democ-
racy would guarantee to every citizen
in the Republic. This propaganda OF
filching from colored Americans the
ballot is but a supreme effort to re-
enslave us and to force our assent to,
and our impotence against, any legis-
lation of our opponents. To this pol
icy the black man does not, cannot
and will not agree. OF it, our intoler-
ance is cumulative. Against it, we
shall exert our righteous efforts until
not only every eligible black man but
every eligible black woman shall be
welding the ballot proudly in defense
of our liberties and our homes.
We are appealing to you neither as
vassals nor as Interiors. Bull Run
and Appomattox fixed our status in
this nation. We are free men. we
are sovereign American citizens-free-
men who purchased with our own
blood on every battlefield from Bunk
er Hill to Carrizal full rights and I'M
munities such as are freely granted to
others but systematically refused us.
We are writing to you, gentlemen,
that you may give us the assurance
and guarantee which every American
citizen ought to have without refer
ence to color. We are loyal and will
remain so, but we are not blind. We
cannot help seeing that white soldiers
who massacred our black brothers and
sisters in East st. Louis have gone
Scott free. We cannot help seeing that
our black brothers who massacred
white citizens in Houston have paid
the most ignominious penalty that can
come in this country to man in uni
FORM Do not these undemocratic con-
ditions, these inhumanities, these bru-
talities and savageries provoke the
rulers of the nation to speak out OF
their sphinx-like silence and utter a
voice of hope, a. word of promise for
the black man? Do the rulers of the
nation also hate us, and will they, Pi-
late-like, forever give their assent to
the crucifixion of the bodies, minds
and souls of those in whom there has
been found nothing worthy of the
death we are dying, save that we are
black? May not your-silence be con-
strued as tacit approval or active toll
erance of these things? The effect on
the morale of black men in the
trenches, when they reflect that they
are fighting on foreign fields in behalf
of their nation for those very rights
and privileges which are denied at
home, might be discouraging.
We appeal to you in the name OF
Democracy
We appeal to you in the name of our
American citizenship
We appeal to you in the name OF
God, and,
We would be heard!
(The above article was signed by
more than 100 prominent business and
professional men of Atlanta, Ga.)
The Colorado statesman., 1918-04-27

Lexington, Tenn, April %. =
Berry Noyes, the Negro who
shot and killed Sheriff W. E. Nc
Bride near here last Saturday,
was hanged in the courthouse
yard today by a mob. The sher-
iff sought to arrest Noyes for vie-
lating the state prohibition law.
Little Rock, Ark, April "a
Capt. Eugene C. Rowan of Can
ton, Miss, was placed on trial by
a court-martial at Camp Pike
yesterday. Several witnesses
testified today that Captain Ro-
wan refused to order his company
all of whom are white, to drill
with Negroes. The order for
drill was given by Col Frederick
B, Shaw.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-04-27

Atlanta. Georgia, March 5, 1918.
~ URING the past three decades
- nearly three thousand American
colored men, women and children
have suffered butchery and death in
almost every conceivable form at the
hands of the lynchers of America. Last
year alone the number thus murdered
was TWO HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE.
The reported causes for such appail-
ing brutality run the gamut from al
legged violation of the honor of white
women to disputing the word of white
men. The fact, however, that only
about five per cent of these murders
are reputed to have been inflicted up
on accused violators of womanhood
argues almost conclusively that the de-
sire to protect womanhood is almost
negligible among the so-called causes
of lynchings.
We accordingly regard lynching as
worse than Prussianism, which we are
at war to destroy. Lynching is not a
cure for crime, either imaginary or
real 1t decreases faith in the boasted
justice of our so-called democratic in
stitutions. 1t widens the frightful
chasm of unfriendly and suspicious
feeling between the races and posi-
lively foments the spirit of antipathy
and resentment We are accused of
concealing criminals. Who has con-
cealed the many criminals that have
mercilessly murdered these three
thousand defenseless men, women and
children of our race? That these muir
derers frequently ply their trade in
broad daylight and in plain view of the
entire citizenry even, does not facili-
tate their punishment or detection.
Within less than one year one state
alone has tortured and burned at the
stake three colored men without even
the semblance of a trial or an effort
to apprehend and punish the murder
ers. In the last instance an entire
helpless colored population was
marched around the fire amid fumes
of a burning human being and put on
notice that as that black man was suf-
fering they too should fear to suffer.
Thus the defiant lynching giant
strides on apace. While we are sacri-
ficing the best blood of our sons upon
our Nations altar to help destroy
Prussianism beyond the seas, we call
upon you to use your high offices to
destroy the lynching institution at our
doors.
We are the one group of American
people, than whom there is none more
loyal, which is marked out for discrim-
ination, humiliation and abuse. In the
great patriotic and humanitarian
movements, in public carriers, in fed
eral service, the treatment accorded
us is humiliating, dehumanizing 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 the races but to
impress us with the idea of supposed
natural inferiority Such demoralizing
discrimination is not only violation
of the fundamental rights of citizens
of the United States, but the persist
The Colorado statesman., 1918-04-27

of the measures adopted for
the moral and physical well-being of
the soldier while in process of train
ing.
The stupendous undertaking of as
sembling a narmy of huge proportions
around an established nucleus of neg
ligible size, has been accomplished in
less than a year, and already the
hereditary valor and pluck of the
American soldier is stiffening the arm
and nerving the heart of the allied
forces on the battlefields of France.
Obviously the preliminary training
of hundreds OF thousands of volunteer
and draft recruits, under officers,
many of whom received their first and
only training in the few months at
the training camps for officers, was 4
very serious problem, as well for the
government as for the men.
The selection, establishment and
building of the camps in the various
sections of the country. involving
many conflicting efforts and interests
have set very high mark as to the
resourceful genius and energy of the
American mind and must long since
have brought to the knowledge of the
Kaiser and his people the conviction
that America had gone in for a fight
that would know no ending until the
monster scourge of brutality and in
justice shall no longer terrify and
threaten the peace of the world.
Many avenues of danger as well as
of welfare leading to, from and sur
rounding the training camps to be
guarded against and assured, being
elements that insistently demanded
constant civil and social oversight
which could not be effectively supplied
through the regular channels of gov
ernment. had to be considered and
provided.
To meet this exigency the War
Camp Community Service and Com
missions ON Training Camp Activities
were brought into being.
The personnel of this service, which
has the Hon. Henry White, the former
ambassador to France, as president,
and Mr.. Harold Keats as executive of
ficer, is made up of distinguished civil
ians and the wives of such, who exer-
else a supervisory influence and di-
rection over the affairs of the organ
ization. In each of the cities nearest
the various established camps similar
subcommittees have been provided
talities, religious ministrations, educa-
tional service, women's organizations,
library service, public recreation, pa
geantry and plays. home hospitality,
legal and police service, etc.
The initial fund for the expenses in
cident to these community activities
has been provided by popular subscrip-
ton to the amount of about $4,000,
which will doubtless be increased from
time to time as needed and is appor-
toned according to the scope of the
work done in each community.
An auxiliary body composed of Ne
gro citizens selected from church,
civic, fraternal and patriotic organiza-
tions has been commissioned to look
after the work among our soldiers at
Camp Meade, which is located about
twenty miles from Washington. Spe-
The Colorado statesman., 1918-04-27

Monroe. La, April %. Clyde
Williams, Negro, indicted by the
Oucahita parish grand jury Sat-
urday, on charge with shooting
with intent to murder, C. L.
Thomas, Missouri Pacific station
agent at Fawndale, La, several
weeks ago, was taken from de-
putty sheriff at McClain planta-
ton, ten miles south of Monroe,
early today by a dozen masked
men and hanged to a tree. Will
liams was being brought here
from Fawndale for trial.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-04-27

Chicago. Lew Canter, indie.
pendent builder and manager of
the Grand theatre is the leading
mover in a project to put out a
big all-colored road show along
the lines of the early Williams
and Walker shows. Associated
with him are King Lee Kraus
and Sam Kramer. The show is
to be called "The Whirl of Dix
ie," will have 40 in the cast,
and feature John Rucker, the
Alabama Blossom. and Harry
Fiddler. The book and lyrics
were written by Rucker. Re-
hearsals start in August, About
SIS, 600 will be expended on the
production, it was said by Cantor.
Raleigh, N. C.-Raleigh's de-
mocracy was given a practical
test on April 9. when the city
welcomed Mr.. McAdoo and the
mayor proclaimed a general holi-
day, A general patriotic mass
meeting was held at the city au-
ditorium to boost the third Lib=
erty Loan. Schools, Colleges
and citizens in every walk of life,
irrespective of color were urged
to be present. The colored at
tendance promised to be large
and it was announced by the COM
mittee and through the press
that the east side of the auditor
ium would be reserved for color
ed people. When the yonng la
dies of Shaw University arrived
they were forced to wait severa
The Colorado statesman., 1918-04-27
OUR SOLDIER BOYS
Their Pleasure and Comfort
in City and Camp
6By JONATHAN CovER.) }

ERHAPS in no more forcible
Il II way is the earnest solicitude OF
~ the government to build up an
4 efficient fighting machine
shown than in the wide scope
The Colorado statesman., 1918-04-27

Atlanta, Georgia, March 8, 1918.
URING the past three decades
nearly three thousand American
colored men, women and children
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-04-28
MADISON SCHOOL
ALICE RuDel and robert EfbeI. Jr.
FajitoPp.

ONE-B.
Miss Erma Dale of the kinder
garten training school is cadeting in
the first grade.
THREE-A.
The Mesdames Ash and Lippmann
visited the third grade Tuesday.
FOUR-B AND FOUR-A.
Howard Miller Of the four-B class
died Friday April 10.
FTVE-A.
We bought SIS worth OF Thrift
stamps.
We made 90 hospital bags during
the past week.
SIX-B.
Hubert Ramey, a former pupil of
the Laurel school. has entered our
room.
We have IS children in our room
who own War Savings stamps.
SKA.
We had a test in arithmetic Tues
day.
Our room bought s11.25 worth of
Thrift stamps last Wednesday.
SEVEN-B.
Ine girl maze Oaked apples ana
scram bled eggs on toast in domes-
tic science.
We had an arithmetic test Tues
day
The boys made bill-fles in manual
training
We are studying the works OF
Guido REM in art work.
SENEN-A.
We have taken up Africa in
geography.
In literature we are studying the
works of James Russell Lowell.
We have been making joke books
for the soldiers in drawing.
Lewis and Fannie Roberts OF
Brooklyn, y. Y, have entered our
grade.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-04-28
OLIVER SCHOOL
Carl j. Kish. Editor.
ONE-A.

ONE-A.
Julia Keresztesi has gone to Ger
man school.
Tony Tonk has moved to the
country.
We now have 10 pupils on our
clean teeth honor roll. Each one
has tooth brush and uses it twice
day.
Miss Meyer has been helping reg
lister. It has been a pleasure 70 her
to meet the mothers
A robin is building a nest outside
OF our school window We all have
brought crumbs and string to aid
his work.
ONE-B.
Morney Larrocca is Withdrawn on
account OF illness.
We enjoyed making needle cases
for the soldiers.
Tuesday afternoon we had a
pleasant time in the kindergarten.
We played games and told stories.
Our quotation for this week IS:
II is we'll 70 be wise and great,
II is better 20 be good.
INO-B.
Carl Cupinsh has gone 20 ore
gon.
We are learning The Duel" in
language.
TWO-A.
About 35 OF US took part in the
school entertainment last week. We
gave two songs. one. Sweet Peas.
IN which eight OF the girls were
sweet pea bOnnets. The other,
Whip poor-will;" Frank Horvath
whistled as the whippOOrwill and
Rose Tomasc said the part in the
second verse. We collected s2.l5
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-04-28
BINGHAM SCHOOL
Alberta Ditsch and Edward Hunt.
GENERAL NEWS.

Since last Friday women have been
enrolling for service at this school
II is interesting 10 note that the
willing workers are from all walks
OF life The mothers and busy
housekeepers are responding nobly.
They are among the first to express
a willingness to serve the nation. All
honor TO our noble American wOm-
EN-
Miss Long and Miss Buchheit were
again absent on Monday. but are
back at their duties now. We are
pleased 10 rep6rt
Our pupils are returning TO school
duties daily The attendance has be-
come about normal.
Our sales OF War Saving stamps
for the 18th week brings the amount
TO s1.OO191 This. to us, seems a
good report for a building of II
rooms.
Monday brought US several new
pupils. two transfers and one with
drawal
our Tuesdays fire drill was an
improvement on the two preceding
ones
Miss Lockhart was with the low
eF grades on Tuesday morning The
work. Some very good drawings
were hung in all rooms.
Miss Gernhart brought more Ju-
nior Red Cross work on Tuesday.
There are SO many girls to help that
the work is soon finished.
The girls in the cooking class had
a bread lesson
Friday brought us 20 the end OF
the eighth school month.
SEVEN-A.
Thursday for manual training the
BOYS talked on defective sidewalks.
For English we wrote the poem.
The Fox in the Well" in prose
form.
Last Thursday Miss Terry gave US
a listening lesson in music which we
enjoyed very much.
IN reading we are studying "A
Ru Of the Town Pump"
Wednesday we haG a test Oh Aus
tralia. which finished our work on
that continent
our Thrift club has over $500 in
vested in Thrift stamps. War Savings
stamps and third Liberty loan bonds.
The domestic science class had
their first bread baking lesson
Thursday Most OF the bread came
ont Of the ovens looking fine.
Last Wednesday morning Fred
erick Donath and Harold wrasse
chose teams for a basket bah shoot
{ ing game Each team won a game.
SENEN-B.
The girls OF the seven-B made
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-04-28

win and Bender readers and in their
Child Classics readers. Now they
are using Story Hour readers
A War Savings society meeting
was held Wednesday afternoon.
Ruth Wysor and Dorothy Rich
ardson can say the answer 10 the
IS number com binations quicker
than anyone else in the grade.
ROOM -FOUR.
We made house posters in art
work this week
Room four entertained the fourth
grade with a short program We'd
nesday afternoon.
We have IA members in the
Thrift army
Beatrice Roberts is a new pupil
from the Laurel school
ROOM FIVE.
The three-B's and AS have
bought $40 Thrift stamps The
navy had S1s and the army has PSI.
The boys have bought 6S more
than the girls and Harold Dodds is
general.
We made plans OF front yards
and entrances. Each child used his
own color scheme.
Mrs. Frank ]. Anderson visited
out room Wednesday afternoon.
Olive Jena and Margaret Burke
are tied for fiag-bearer honor. each
girl having eight merits.
ROOM SIX.
Miss Robson was absent Wednes-
~
taught our room.
ROOM SEVEN.
Hilda ROby was the only one who
received 100 in a history test Wed
nesday in seven-A.
The girls in seven-A and B made
potato loaf in domestic science.
We are putting our jokes in the
scrapbooks for the soldiers
Our room had a contest between
the boys and girls that bought the
most Thrift stamps Wednesday. The
girls won.
We held our Thrift club meeting
Wednesday noon. our secretary
read a few letters from Washington
and some from the War Savings So
ciety of South Bend. Our Thrift
club is increasing in membership
rapidly.
ROOM NINE.
Thursday morning in sewing class
we made stockings for the soldiers
at Camp Sherman.
We have a new member in our
Thrift army. William Kruggle. We
have 90 members in our Thrift club
and one row in our room is a unit
in the Thrift army
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-04-28
second Prize-Gizella Horwath,
Haley school.

South Bend started the War
Chest about two weeks ago. Every
nan and woman should put money
rto The War Chest 20 help win the
WsS and kill the kaiser.
Uncle sam needs this money that
s going 10 the War Chest TO feed
he soldiers in Europe and 90 feed
he children IN France and Belgium
who arc starving from hunger and
20 keep our dear old Glory flying
In the ar. Every person in South
Bend should DC glad TO give money
20 Uncle sam, and when this war is
srded bow glad every one will be
hat they gave money 90 the Wa
chest and Won the war. and saved
dear old Glory.
II we have any brothers or faith
ars or relatives that were in the war
how glad We viii be TO see them
marching home again and they will
be telling Us the woHderf-l things
they have seen and done for their
dear old country.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-04-28
LAFAYETTE SCHOOL
Joe Calvert. Edisss.
FIRST GRADE.

lRol Nh1DE.
Miss Fredrickson, who has been
in one-B cadeting, has ben transfer
red TO Colfax school
Miss Lindborg is cadeting in one
B now.
The one-A dramatized "Cinderel-
la" at the Parent Teachers club
Thursday Miss Greening played the
piano.
Sarah Catherine Caffel entered
our one-A from the Madison school.
SECOND GRADE.
Fred Butt has entered two-B class
after an absence.
Room four has bought Thrift
stamps to the amount of 500.
FOURTH GRADE.
The fourth grade had a meeting
of the War Savings society and a
victrola concert Friday afternoon.
Herbert Swinehart returned to
four-B this week.
FIFTH GRADE.
Edith Coons is absent this week
because of the death of her aunt.
The boys have had perfect attend
ence for a week.
The manual training class started
writing portfolios for the soldiers.
Miriam Plaisted's Humane story
was sent in as the best from this
grade.
SIXTH GRADE.
We have bought Thrift stamps TO
the amount of S136.25.
Dorothy Butz returned to Ska
after an absence.
Clemance Swinehart returned to
Ska this week.