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The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-22
Al WORD TO VOTERS.

The municipal election is drawing
near, and at this time, when the col
ored voter is good fellow to every
aspirant to its benefits, when as a
representative citizen of the fair
commonwealth of Iowa he deserves
just recognition and when each man,
if elected thereto, vows to give a
considerable portion of his time in
seeing this end accomplished, together
with many more fair promises, it is
well for the sensible Negro, who is
intelligent enough to look beneath the
surface, to consider carefully and i'm
partially the attitude and works Of
one who has been tried and who has
proven true. Two years ago, when
superintendent of Public Safety Ben
B Woolgar, who seeks reelection at the
hands Of the voters of Des Moines,
and who is unhesitatingly asking the
support of the Negro, was campaign
ing for the Office he now holds, he
/ made no voluble promises to us, but
said it would be his policy to recog-
nizc merit, fitness and ability in the
I though have been in Des Moines for
thirty FIVE years, it is the first time
SO many colored people have been en-
ployed in a department of the city
government streets excepted, Of
course. Two years ago there were
two colored men among the employees
of the public safety department, one
under civil service, one custodian;
today there are three under civil ser,
vice and an Office filled by member
OF our race that had not previously
obtained among us, colored police
woman. while the custodian was re-
atined. To sensible Negroes this
makes encouraging reading, for this
man stands squarely upon the same
issues, but with keener appreciation
,f our worth and faithful perform-
lnce Of duty and hence is doubly in
crested In seeing us obtain fair play.
Negro voters Of Des Moines, do not
ct us continue to make up tn horde
vho are led like lambs to the slaugh-
er, cajOled thereto by fair but false
promises, but as loyal, patriotic and
citizens, within our
lights and knowing our rights, de-
nand a strict accounting from every
and as an evidence Of our
appreciation Of one who has consid-
red US, and who, if given the power,
viii further our interests, let every
Negro voter Of Des Moines rally to
he forces Of Councilman Woolgar on
darch IS and help put him "over the
op.
John H. McClain.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-22

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The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-22

arrival"
No Light on Quarrel.

Police were unable to obtain any
explanation of what Erickson and
his wife were quarreling about.
Erickson had been employed by the
city as alaborer for ten years and had
borne good reputation.
He and his wife were about SO
years old.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-22
EDITORIALS
NEW UNDERTAKEN HERE

Our city has been fortunate to Sc
cure another Negro business enter
prise. that Of another undertaken, IN
the person Of Roy Bundy, formerly
OF Keokuk. Mr.. Bundy is a young
man and comes highly recommended.
He has opened fine parlor at 600
w. Eighth street, where he solicits
your patronage.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-22

Mrs. Mitchell, Miss Donegan and
Mrs. Mack were the guests Of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. w. Norris at dinner Thurs
day.
Mrs Mack entertained Thursday
evening in honor of Mrs. Mitchell ana
Miss Donegan, twenty-eight guests
being present. Cards and dancing
were the chief features of the even
ing, after which refreshments were
served.
Mrs. Mitchell and Miss Donegan
left our city Friday morning Tor
Yankton, S. D., where sis will spend
few days with Mrs. Stokes and her
place of business before going home
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-22
SIOUX CITY, IOWA.
Especial to Bystander.)

Mrs. Harry Mitchell of Sioux Falls,
s. D., and Miss Blanche Donegan of
Yankton, S. D., were the guests OF
Mrs. VIM. Mack last week. Mrs.
Mitchell has large hair dressing es-
Establishment in Siuox Falls and Yank-
ton and is planning in the near future
to open one in our city.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-22

BILLY SUNDAY AND HIS jim
CROWISM.
Washington Eagle Says.
Miss Burroughs Speaks Our Senti-
ment."
Jan. 81, 1918.
Rev. Billy Sunday,
Woahin0fon n e.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-22

BILLY SUNDAY AND HIS jim
CROWISM.
Washington Eagle Says.
Miss Burroughs Speaks Our Senti'
! ment."
| Jan. 81, 1918.
Rev. Billy Sunday,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
The Washington Star of Wednesday
announced that you are arranging to
have "Jinl Grow" night at your Tab
ernacle.
You must be under the impression
that the colored people of this city
would like to hear you. This is not
true. However, if it is your personal
desire to have them hear you and see
you, they might be willing to arrange
for performance" at one of their
own churches.
An announcement to the effect that
you want them to see you, all by your
self, might bring out fair sized
crowd, if the weather is favorable;
but, we cannot promise, even under
favorable weather conditions to have
any intelligent Negroes to see and
hear you. Those who might attend
would be just about as ignorant as
the Negroes Of Atlanta who accommo-
dated you by allowing you to give
them sample performance.
1 Atlanta, Georgia, has alarge num-
Der Of well educated Negroes and the
state of Georgia has ahost of we'll
prepared Negro preachers, among
them that prince of Georgia preach
ers," whose church John D. Rockefel-
Ter attends regularly when he is in
Augusta.
Your statement of the fact that
Washington Negroes are intelligent
(they are the most intelligent large
group in the world) is true-too true
for them to do other than treat your
invitation with the contempt it de-
serves. We are sick and tired of "Jim
Crowism" and will not accept another
dose of it in our country's capital in
which democracy is preached.
Then, too, Negroes have heard SO
much of the kind of preaching that
you do, with performances such as
you give, that they have long since
relegated that type of men and de-
manded the type Of preachers whose
style and language approach the
Bible type of preachers and therefore
not so full of slang and slush
speak for every sensible Negro in
Washington when say that they con-
slider your invitation tn "r;-, Cow"
meeting an insult,
thought that they want TO near yop
presumptuous ego
We would suggest that you shut up
the Tabernacle on "Jim Grow Gospel"
night and accept the saving in fuel as
our contribution to the government in
its effort to conserve coal.
We are quite satisfied that the way
to Heaven is not via a ''Jim Grow
Saw-Dust Trail"
Intelligent Negroes have selected
The route that takes them by way Of
he Cross.
Yours truly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-08-06
WILLIAMS DAY IN COURT
For Once His Sharp Tongued Wife
Had to Be Silent, While He Held
Forth at Length.

On one of the Melaneslln islands in
pastor. a native, by the name of Will
liam. With one exception all of VIII
liam's little flock bowed before his
word. The one exception was the pas
tors wife, Lydia, lady possessed OF
steling qualities, but also, unfor-
tunately, of very long and very sharp
tongue. Miss Florence Coombe in
Islands of Enchantment' tells how
the pastors day of triumph over his
lady finally arrived.
Poor William often had a hard time,
but one day bright idea broke upon
him. Lydia had been on the warpath,
and had refused to allow him to have
his say. He longed to speak his mind,
but the Gathering tongue never ceased.
Presently the church bell rang, and
William hurried to his vestry to robe,
Lydia to her place among the women.
When prayers were ended. William
came forward in his surplice to say
few words.
W nat must Lyuld hcciihSS h"'
been when she found that she herself
was the text of her husbands dis
course! AS she sat there meekly and
tearfully below him, for once William
had his hearts desire and could say
what he really thought. He had the
first word and the last word, and all
the words between! Lydia was great
ly edited by that sermon, and the rest
of the island hugely enjoyed it.
Youths Companion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-08-06
SHOWN TO CROWDS
How Germans Turn Their Cap
tiveS to Account.
Idea Is to Delude the People Into
Thinking That Military Victories
Are Constantly Being Won ~
the kaisel's Soldiers.

Ivan S. Rossiter, a Canadian soldier,
has just been in to see me. For a
year he was a German prisoner. When
the Germans caught him he was badly
wounded in the right hand. They
took him to hospital, where, without
the use of an anesthetic, they cut off
one of his fingers and removed five
pieces of bone from his mangled wrist.
They said that they had no anesthet-
les to spare for use on a "schwein-
hund," and added that they were say.
ing their anesthetics for their own
wounded soldiers. Rossiter showed
me what is left of his hand. 1t isn't
much, and what is left is of no use,
except as a reminder of that German
surgeon who operated without giving
an anesthetic.
While Rossiter was in Germat he
was moved about from one prison
camp to another until he and other
prisoners were exchanged for German
prisoners held by the allies. This
moving-about process was the most
interesting thing he described. He
was never allowed to stay in one place
more than a few weeks. In the year
that he was there he was in nine diff
ferent prison camps, located in vari-
Gus parts of Germany. On each trip
the train that was transferring these
wandering prisoners stopped at every
station. German officers got out ev-
limo Tho trofn ctnnnp6 and told
people that the prisoners were all new
Ones-just taken Rossiter says that
one excursion of this kind began at
four o'clock in the morning and lasted
until late at night. And always at ev-
cry station were crowd of people to
jeer at these new" prisoners, many of
whom were French and Belgians who
had been in captivity for two years.
1t got to be like a theatrical troupe
playing one-night stands-only far
more boreSome, for the prisoners were
never allowed to leave the trains or to
came to see them. ROssiter says that
one company of British artillery
takes the palm" for touring Germany
in the guise of new" prisoners. They
were captured in the fall of 1914 and
they are still playing to packed
houses.
In other words-to fool the people
is Germany's policy. Bismarck be-
lieved in that idea. He once said that
it Is impossible to overestimate the
stupidity of the human race. No
/ doubt the kaiser feels just as con-
temptuous about US. In his mind, men
are nothing but so many tons of flesh
and bone to be used to push back
boundary lines.
This war is for the purpose of pre-
venting human beings from becoming
as bOneheaded as the German emper-
or would like them to be- 1t is war
against the thick skull. On one side
are those great nations whose policy
is to teach the people to think for
themselves On the other is the Ger
man autocracy, which says: believe
what l tell you" Imagine trying in
this country to palm off a trainload of
veteran prisoners as new ones.-John
NJ. Siddall, editor of the American
Magazine
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-08-06
1t Isn't FooIproof.

Crowds who had gathered to wit
ness an intercollegiate boat race on
the Housatonic river in Connecticut
recently also saw a young man and
woman drowned by the overturning
of a canoe which had ventured into
the wash of a fast motorbOat.
The canoe is an invention of our
first families-the American Indians.
1t is absolutely unrivaled for trav-
ersing inland waterways, where shall
low water may be met or portages
required. For lack of such a native
contrivance many large rivers in
South America remain unexplored to
this day. Portaging a waterlogged
"dugout" weighing 1000 pounds or
more is apt to discourage any party
not having a Roosevelt at its head.
Yes, the canoe is the first great
American invention. But it can never
be made foolproof.- Rochester Times
Union.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-08-06
Atmospheric Pressure.

when a high altitude. say 1900
feet, has been reached" says L. J..
Wilson, airplane expert, writing in
a Southern newspaper, there is an
atmospheric pressure equal to about
one-nalf that at sea level. The effect
of this lessening of pressure is no.
ticeable to one who for the first time
experiences 1t. At about 1000 feet
there were physical sensations at
once experienced by the writer, that
of increased blood pressure and the
eXertien following exercise being the
most appal ent. The altitude. whether
attained in mountain climbing or by
afrplane, to a certain extent produces
the same effect upon the organism,
the amount differing with various in
dividuals."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-08-06
ASK YOUR WIFE ABOUT THIS
She Is Very Likely to Tell You That
Little Sammy Squiffins Was
Pretty Nearly Correct.

Now, children" said the teacher of
the class in mental arithmetic, work
this problem: A man enters q grocery
store and purchases, at the prices
which / have marked here on the
blackboard, one peck of potatoes. three
and half pounds of butter, one and
three-quarters pounds Of sugar, AS
eggs, pound and a quarter of cheese.
three quarts of strawberries. five
pounds of beans and two dozen or
anges. He orders them delivered to
his home and tenders the clerk q
twenty-dollar bill. What has he left?'
pause of one-eighth of a second IN
til Sammy Squiffins, the brightest lit
tie lightning calculator Of the class,
can raise his handy
swell, Sammy, you may answer.
What does the man have left?"
Gar fare" says Sammy, who has
heard father discuss the high cost of
living.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-08-06
WHY WOMEN DREAD
OLD AGE

Don't worry about old age. Don't worry
about being in other peoples way when
you are getting on in years. Keep your
body in good condition and you can be as
hale and hearty in your old days as you
were when kid, and every one will be
glad to see you.
The kidneys and bladder are the causes
of senile Affections. Keep them clean and
In proper working condition. Drive the
poisonous wastes from the system and
avoid uric acid accumulations, Take GOLD
MEDAL HARLEM Oil Capsules periodical
ly and you will find that the system will
always be in perfect working order. Your
spirits will be enlivened, your muscles
made strong and your face have once
more the look of youth and health.
New life. fresh strength and health will
come as you continue this treatment. When
your first vigor has been restored continue
for awhile taking a capsule or two each
day. They viii keep you in condition and
prevent return of your troubles.
There is only one guaranteed brand of
HARLEM Oil Capsules, GOLD MEDAL.
There are many fakes on the market Be
sure you get the Original GOLD MEDAL
Imported HARLEM Oil Capsules They are
the only reliable. For sale by all frst-class
druggists.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-08-06
Not a Comic Sheet Boy.

A Cleveland young woman has a
ten-year-old brother who is wise be-
yond his years and is likely to crop
out in new places at the most unex-
pected times. The other night the
anxious sutton called on his manor
alta, arriving at her domicile a little
before he was expected. She was not
ready 10 make her appearance, and the
duty of entertaining the caller de-
volved upon the little brother.
well, Bobby" began the young man
in an effort TO make conversation and
at the same time to put his invoiun-
tary host at his ease, docs your sis
ter think that am calling at the house
oftener than l am welcomed"
The child looked keenly at the call
er. Nothing doing" he said. DO
you think I'm one of these fresh kids
you read about in the funny papers
There amt going to be no embarrass-
ing answer this time"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-08-06
Watch Your Stomach
In the Summer Time

Hot summer days upset the
strong stomachs as well as weak
ones.
Your vital forces reach their
lowest level when the weather is
the hottest. Then the danger is
the greatest.
You can't guard your stomach
and bowels too carefully through
the long, hot season. Don't take
any chance. Indigestion, sour
stomach, that wretched, blosted
feeling, belching, food repeating,
pains that claw at stomach and
bowels and an endless train of
stomach ills that make life mis-
cradle are greatly aggravated in
the hot weather.
This year of all others-it is
vital that we keep our strength
and full power at work. The ex-
ira war work, change of detail
must be looked after because they
hit us in the stomach. And now
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-08-06

it is good Lcws to tell you that
tens of thousas is are now using
EATONIC--for all stomach and
bowel ailments caused by too
much acidity with such truly won
derful results that every one
should always have it in tba house.
EATONIC Tablets stop the cause OF
indigestive and dyspeptic ailnoeatsiSy
neutralizing the poisonous fluids, acids
and gases largely the result of super
acidity. This makes the storiech
pain-free and ready to perform its
proper wori1.
You can have q good appetite in hot
weather to eat the things you like
when you want them if you take one
or two EATONIC Tablets after each
meal. Such quick, wonderful relief
would seem unbelievable but for the
fact that thousands of sufferers every-
where have received marvellous results
from EATONIC. O.tain large box
of EATONIC Tablets from your own
druggist who you know and can trust.
Ii they fail, go back to him and be will
gladly refund your money. Do this
today. You viii then know what real
stomach comfort meansin hotweather.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-08-06

comes up to be voted on and it is as-
certained by the speakers count that
there is not quorum present, the roll
is called and members vote for or
against the pending measure. A call
OF the house is little different. Then
members answer present" and the
speaker decided that there should be
call of the house instead of vote
Oh the adjournment resolution.
Debate was denied on the resolution,
but during the roll call to get quo
rum, an opportunity was afforded for
private discussion, and this discussion
developed the position of the pres.-
dent against recess, and Leader
hltchin withdrew the adjournment res
olutlon from the house. Had the roll
call been directly upon the question of
adjournment, it is altogether likely
that majority would have voted to
adjourn.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-08-06
Advice.

Ignatz was standing at the corner
of Euclid avenue and Mount Union,
East Cleveland, the other day, and he
saw a soldier boy waiting for a city
bound car. After he had waited for
a reasonable length of time, then for
an unreasonable ditto, policeman
passed. The soldier addressed the
miniOn of the law:
How long will l have to wait" he
asked, ITO get car DOWNTOWN
The cop looked with interest at the
rookie.
How long a furlough have you
got?" he asked, with apparent irrele-
vance.
''Ten days"
We'll" said the, patrolman, you'd
better walk."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-08-06
Army Makes Record Meat Purchase.


Chicago.-The largest single order
for bacon and canned meats In the
history of the wOrld-99. 100000
pounds of bacon and 1874, 0OO,0O0 pounds
of canned meat-has just been placed
by the Quartermaster's Department.
q. S. A. for the American Army over
seas.
Louis F. Swift, in commenting on
this today, said the order will take
the bacon from approximately 1.900,-
600 hogs, and If other work were
dropped to produce it, would be equiv
alent to the total bacon production of
the five. largest Chicago packers for
nearly five weeks. However, six months
will elapse before delivery is to be COM
pieted. Mr.. Swift said:
"At the current prices on the day,
last week, when the purchase was
made, the packers would pay the live
stock producers about $S0,000,000 for
the necessary hogs and over $50.000,000
for about 100000 cattle required. The
cattle will cost us twice as much, and
the hogs two and one-half times as
much as in the pre-war period.
The whole order will be made up be-
fore the first of the year, despite the
fact that, even before this purchase,
one-fourth of the packers facilities
have been devoted TO filling military
demands. In order to get out the
canned goods the packers will find it
necessary to employ night and day
shifts of Gamers. Notwithstanding
the fact that the products are being
rushed forward thus hurriedly, net a
single complaint has been received on
meats delivered to the armies abroad.
The five packers are now killing
about 100000 hogs weekly to keep
abreast of martial and domestic needs. y
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Suited Him All Riuht.

Robert has lately acquired a step
mother. Hoping to win his affection,
this new parent has been very lenient
with him, while his father, feeling his
responsibility, has been unusually
strict. The boys of the neighborhood,
who had taken pains to warn Robert
of the terrible character of stepmoth-
ers in general, recently waited on him
in a body, and the following converse
ton was overheard:
How do you like your stepmother,
BOb?"
Like herl Why, fellers, just love
her. All l wish IS had a stepfather,
too"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-08-06
His Little World.

A certain young Indianapolis Mother
adopted the policy this summer of tax
ing her little son with her on visits to
the homes of friends. Several weeks
ago, while passing the James Whitcomb
Riley homestead, the young mother,
who had read a number of Riley's
poems to the boy, pointed out the
house and told him who once lived
there. A few days later she had oc-
casion to pass the home of Kin Hub
bard, writer of the Abe Martin philoso-
ply in the News.
There is the home of Abe Martin"
said she, pointing at the house.
The boy gazed Mt it intently for a
few minutes, and then, turning to his
mother, said:
"Show me where the kaiser lives.
| want to make faces at his house. y
Indianapolis News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-08-06
HUSBAND
SAVES Wife
From Suffering by Getting
Her Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
Pittsburgh, Pa" For many months
] was not able to do my work owing to

q weakness winch
caused backache
and headaches. A
friend called my
attention to one of
your newspaper
advertisements and
i'm m ediately my
husband bough t
three bottles of
Lydia E. Pinkham's
V e G e t "a BILE Com
pound for m e.
After taking two
~
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-08-06
Quality That Counts for Much.

Try, to be agreeable. 1t not only
well pays one to act this part, but it
assuredly makes happier those with
whom we come In contact. Life at
best is none too fiower-strewn. Then
why magnify its unpleasant realities
by giving way to disagreeable or selfish
whims2
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-08-06
aes. 70 Face Facts in life

There are very few of us who find
life all that we pictured it in our youth.
often it proves very hard for US, be-
cause we insist upon idealizing it i'm
stead of taking it as it is. We must
not refuse to face facts. 1t would be
very satisfying and beautiful. perhaps,
if life could be what we want it. But
the truth is that we cannot take it and
make it over TO our own ends. How
ever. We can take ourselves in hand
and fit ourselves TO life. if we will
Exchange.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-08-06

and my troubles caused by that weak
ness are thing of the past. Allwomen
who suffer as ! did should try Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. -
Mrs. JAS. RoHRBERG, 620 Knapp St.,
N. S., Pittsburgh, Pa
Women who suffer from any form of
weakness, as indicated by displacements,
Inflammation, liberation, irregularities,
backache, headaches, nervousness or
"the blues" should accept Mrs. Rohr-
berg's suggestion and give Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound a
thorough trial.
For over forty years it has been
correcting such ailments. If you have
mysterious complications write for
advice to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine
Co, LYNN, Mass.