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The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-02
DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY. MARCH 2 191

lean republic, in so far as 1t
touches the affairs of foreign peo-
pies is admirable in all respects
and shows indeed a noble cham
pionship. Always has she spoken
in thunder tones and even seas
and mountains have formed no
barrier to her efforts to strength
en- and encourage the weak; to
nourish and protect the helpless
and to stay the threatening arm
of despotic cruelty and unjust ag-
gression.
Conceding all praise for this
worldwide benevolence, is it not
possible that still graver duty
a more serious obligation has
been persistently neglected here
at home?
Would not a correction of the
wrongs and injustices from which
ten million Americans suffer, af-
ford. "a safer and surer founda-
ton upon which to build the larg
er effort for the peace and happi-
ness of the rest of mankind?
Is it possible to see clearly the
beam in our brothers eye across
the water, while the mote of dis
elimination and prejudice so com
pletely fills our own over here?
The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-02
PROCLAMATION.
REWARD.

wv HEREAs, the county and prose
w cutting attorney in and for the
county of Sweetwater, State of
Wyoming, did, on the 9th day of Feb
ruary, 1918, make application to the
acting governor of the state of Wyo-
ming for the offering of reward for
the arrest and conviction of each per
son who committed the crime of
lynching one Wade Hamilton, Ne
gro, in the town of Rock Springs, Still
water county, Wyoming, on December
11th, 1917.
Now, therefore, l Frank l.. Houx
acting governor of the state of Wyo-
ming, by virtue of authority vested in
me by Chapter All, Compiled Statutes
of Wyoming, 1910, do hereby offer a
reward of FIVE HUNDRED DOL
LARS, ($50O.00) for the arrest and con-
ton of each of the unknown persons
referred to above.
1t is believed that there were three
persons connected with this crime,
that they were males, and that their
ages are unknown. Their general ap-
pearances are unknown except that
they were whites. These persons re-
leased from Jail and lynched one Wade
Hamilton, and at the present time are
fugitives from justice and are un-
known. The crime with which they
are charged is that of murder.
In witness whereof, l have hereun-
to set my hand and caused the great
seal of the state of Wyoming to be af-
fixed.
Done at Cheyenne this 18th day of
February, A. d. 1918.
FRANK l.. HOUX,
(Seal) Acting Governor.
By the Acting Governor.
FRANK L. HOUX,
(Seal) Secretary of State.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-02

Terre Haute, Ind, Feb. %. -
The Indiana State Normal school
has officially announced that the
wireless telegraphy classes, un-
der the supervision of Prof Lou.
bach, will enroll students regard
less of race. Heretofore color
has played an important part in
the enrolment of students, and
Prof. Loubach is accredited with
having said that he would only
instruct white students. Miss
Evangelin H. Harris, teacher in
the Booker Washington Graded
School, and Mrs Fred H. Evans,
superintendent of the Day Nurs-
cry, wrote the War Department
concerning the discrimination,
and the institution was notified
by that source that they would
either have to remove the color
line or dismiss plans to carry on
the wireless instructions. Prof.
Loubach announced that he was
willing to accept all races after
being warned by the War De-
partment.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-02
THEMOTEIN
OUR OWN
EYE
(By Jonathan Govern

THE Nation is girding up its
loins, marshaling its forces
l. and mobilizing men and ma
terial for a supreme effort to
bring the Kaiser to his knees; win
the war for the allies and make
secure for all time the rights and
privileges of mankind throughout
the world.
No nation has ever assumed a
more noble task and it is difficult
to imagine an equipment more po-
tential or more admirably fitted
for this tremendous undertaking.
The widest latitude has been
delegated the executive to build,
out of the world of material at
hand, an industrial and financial
organization that is designed to
furnish the power for an allied
war-machine, the like of which
even the great Napoleon never
dreamed and to whose colossal
force, the combined energies OF all
American wars can but indiffer-
emily approach.
knowing our America, as we do,
ifs reso1Irces and achievements :;
its possibilities and probable des-
tiny, it is not difficult to visual
ize it as some o 'er topping giant
some mighty Goliath among the
nations of the earth, about whose
feet the world contented plays,
careful always to conciliate Its
friendship and jealous of the
right to share its privileges, its
prosperity and its responsible
ties.
Thus, when this unequalled war
burst in all its hideous power.
When this America, struggling to
steer course away from the
maelstrom of seething strife, but
powerless to resist its suction, ac
cepted the gauge of battle for
right and justice-at that mo-
ment the dial of time pointed its
imperious finger to the dethrone-
ment of caste and prescription; /;
the establishment and enforce
ment of equity among nations and
equality of privilege for the men
of every color, race and creed.
The record of the great Amer
The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-02
RACE NEWS Tatisn, S,tisrs' s,srsss pssn
NO

East African Protectorate. The
anti-slavery and Aborigines Pro-
lection Society Of England has
issued an appeal to the British
Secretary of State for the colon
les to proclaim freedom. The
appeal states that a resolution
was submitted to the German
Reichstag on March 19, 1914,
asking for the emancipation of
these slaves on January l, 1920.
The system of enforced labor was
admitted, but the resolution for
their freedom was resisted on ac-
count Of the compensating own
ers. 1t is time that all system of
contract labor, enforced and 9TH
er forms of compulsory service,
which involves practical slavery
should be abolished throughout
the earth.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-02

On December 3rd, it was re-
ported that the British had driv-
en- the last of the German forces
out of German East Africa into
the Portuguese territory. Thus
Germany has lost its last colonial
possessions. The Sudan Times
reports that one hundred eighty
five thousand slaves were found
by the British on the German
The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-02
DELEGATION OF N. Y.
BRANCH OF N. A. A. c.
P.WA|T ON PRESIDENT

people of the country, SAVIOR of ven
geance rather than justice.
at is neither our purpose nor is
this the occasion to argue whether this
attitude of mind on the part of colored
people is justified or not. AS repre-
sentatives of the race we desire only
to testify that it does not exist. This
state of mind has been intensified by
the significant fact that although
white persons were involved in the
Houston affair and the regiment to
which the colored men belong was of
ficered entirely by white men, none
but colored men, so far as we have
been able to learn, have been prose
cuted or condemned.
1--WE desire also respectfully to call
to your attention the fact that there
were mitigating circumstances for the
action of these men of the Twenty
fourth Infantry. Not by any premedi-
tated design and without cause did
these men do what they did at Hous-
ton, but by long series of humiliating
and harrassing incidents, eliminating
in the brutal assault on Corporal Bal
timore, they were goaded to sudden
and frenzied action. This is borne out
by the long record for orderly and
soldierly conduct on the part of the
regiment throughout its whole history
up to that time.
"And to the end that you extend the
clemency which we ask, we lay be-
fore you this petition signed by white
as well as colored citizens of New
York; one of the signers being a white
man, president of New York bank,
70 years of age and a native of Lex
ington, Ky.
"And now, Mr.. President, we would
not let this opportunity pass without
mentioning the terrible outrages
against our people that have taken
place in the last three-quarters of a
year; outrages that are not only un-
speakable wrongs against them, but
blots upon the fair name of our COM
mon country. We mention the riots
of East ST. Louis, in which the colored
people bore the brunt of both the
cruelty of the mob and the processes
of law. And we especially mention the
savage burnings that have taken place
in the single state of Tennessee with
in nine months; the burnings at Mem
phis, Tenn, at Dyersburg, Tenn, and
only last week at Estill Springs, Tenn,
where a Negro charged with the kill
ing of two men was tortured with red
hot irons, then saturated with oil and
burned to death before a crowd of
American men, women and children.
And we ask that you, who have spoken
so nobly to the whole world for the
cause of humanity, speak against these
specific wrongs We realize that your
high position and the tremendous
moral influence which you WELD in
the world will give a word from you
greater force than could come from
any other source Our people are in
tently listening and praying that you
may find it in your heart to speak that
word"
The President received the delega-
tion very cordially and granted them
The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-02

Dallas, Texas, Feb. 8. Oscar
B. Polk has successfully passed
the acquired examination and has
been assigned to the U. S. Naval
Station at Key West, Fla. as an
aviation machinist. He took his
trial flight under the tutorship of
Pilot G. l. White, the son of
Stanford White of the famous
Thaw-White case.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-02

February 20, 1918.
@RESIDENT Wilson on Iuesuay az
- ternoon received delegation oi
l four members of the New YORK
branch of the National Association for
tho Advancement of Colored People by
special appointment. The deleeatloh
nlaced before the President petition
signed by twelve thousand citizens OF
Now York in which the President was
asked to extend executive clemency 10
the five Negro soldiers of the Iwehty-
fourth Infantry, now under sentence
of death by verdict of the court mar
tia1 which tried the Houston rlot
cases. and requesting the president u
cause to be laid before him review
of the cases of the forty-one soloiers
of the same regiment who were SEN
+enced TO life imprisonment by the
first court martial. The delegatioh
consisted of James Weldon Johnson
field secretary of the National Assocla-
tion for the Advancement of Colored
People: Rev. George Frazier Miller
rector of st. Augustines church'
Brooklyn: Rev. Frank M. Hyder' pas
for of st. James Presbyterian church
New York City, and Rev. F. A. Cullen
nresident of the New York branch.
Mr.. Johnson, who acted as spokes-
man of the delegation, said:
1--WE came as a delegation from the
New York branch of the National AS
sociation for the Advancement of Col
ored People, representing the l'zoe
signers to this petition which we nave
the honor to lay before you Ana we
come not only as the representatives
of those who signed this petition, but
we come representing the sentiments
and aspirations and sorrows, too, OF
the great mass of the Negro popula-
tion of the United States.
I'VE respectfully and earnestly re
ouest and urge that your extend execu-
tive clemency to the five Negro sol
diers of the Twenty-fourth Infantry
now under sentence of death by court
martial. And, understanding that the
cases of the men of the same regi-
ment who were sentenced to life i'm
prisonment by the first court martial
are to be reviewed, we also request
and urge that you cause this review
to be laid before you and that eXecu-
tive clemency be shown also to them.
I'VE feel that the history OF this par
ticular regiment and the splendid rec
ord for bravery and loyalty of our Ne
gro soldiery in every crisis of the ma
ton give us the right to make thls
request. And we make it not only IN
the name of their loyalty, but also In
the name of the unquestioned loyalty
to The nation of twelve million Ne
groes-a loyalty which today places
them side by side with the original
American stocks that landed at Ply
mouth and jamestown.
"The hanging of thirteen men With
out the opportunity of appeal to the
secretary of war or to their COM
mander-in-chief, the President of the
United States, was punishment SO,
drastic and so unusual in the history
of the nation that the execution OF
additional members of the Twenty
fourth Infantry would, to the colored
The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-02
Rural Residents Decrease.

Every time in the last half century
that census has been taken 1t has
shown an increase in the percentage
OF urban dwellers in England ana
Wales and decrease in the proper
ton of rural residents.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-02

Washington, Feb. 26. .-Sepa-
ton of Negro Labor problems
from the other activities of the
department of labor was asked
today by Assistant Secretary
Post by a delegation including
Emmett Scott, the Negro special
assistant to the secretary of war;
Eugene Jones, secretary of the
Negro Urban league; James H.
billiard, president of Hampton
institute, and John j. Shillady,
secretary of the National Asso-
iation for the Advancement of
Colored People. A new bureau,
headed by Negro and someone
else conversant with Negro prob
lens, was suggested.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-02

Dayton, O.-Bryon Alexander,
II Colored, of 107 Gard avenue,
has been named by Congressman
Warren Gard as the appointee to
West Point Military academy.
Young Alexander, who gradu-
ated last year from Stivers, pass
ed the preliminary test held in
Dayton with the highest honor.
He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Forster Alexander.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-02

st. Louis, Mo-, Feb. 10. May
or Mollman was dismissed from
the last charge growing out of
the East ST. Louis riots of last
summer, a few days ago, though
it is charged he was largely re-
sponsible for the riot as he failed
utterly to do his part in uphold
Ing the law. Three police Off
GERS, Con" Mechan, Cornelius
Hickey and Albert L. Wilson,
after pleading guilty of rioting
were fined $50 and costs by
Judge Bernreuter at Belleville,
ILL.,, and it is reported will be re-
instated on the force. Justice
is still a bowling farce in South
ern Illinois.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-02

New Orleans, La. "A campaign
to form an organization of young
Negro women similar to the
Young Women's Christian Assoc
iation, and to open a home here
for Negro working girls who are
travelling alone has been started.
Frances Joseph Gaudet, head of
the Colored Industrial Home and
School, is leading the movement.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-02

Boston, Mass, Feb. o.
Richard Johnson, inmate of the
Lynn City Home, died Monday
at the age of 100. He was born
a slave on a plantation at New
Orleans, La, Jan. 10, 1918, and
when 9 years old was rold for
$40 at the slave block in the mart
in that city. He was also traded
for a mule during the civil war
in order that he might serve as a
waiter in a southern camp. He
was captured by the Union troops
at FIT. Jackson, La, and in 1862
enlisted with other slaves in the
Second Louisiana regiment, was
wounded and sent to a federal
hospital, and upon discharge he
re-enlisted in the Tbirty-ninth
Massachusetts regiment and
served until the close of the war.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-02

WI HEREAS, the county and prose
w cutting attorney in and for the
county of SWeetWater, State of
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-12-03
MANl NIIEnI MEMBERS
FlR TIE ERIl CLUBS
Miss Price and Farm Agent
McComas Are Busy
This Week.

Miss Blanche Price. county home
demonstration agent, yesterday visit
ed Hickman Run and Springer
schools on Route No. and obtaineo
Is new members Tor the boys and
girls club. Miss Price intends visit,
ing all county schools and expects 70
obtain many new members for club
work The work consists In working
up enthusiasm for better Farms. Boys
and girls who become interested IN
this work usually remain on the farms
instead Of moving TO cities 20 go into
factories OF other work The govern
work for the good OF the country and
made throughout the county TO stun.
ulate activity in productive work. It
has been felt that now war Is over,
farmers and producers would reiax.
not understanding that the need for
food Is greater now than before.
County Agent McComas IS canvass
ing the entire county this week, repre-
senting the value Of greater and bet
ter farms and endeaYoring to gain
still more members for the Farm Blu
reau OF this county. Advantages OF
joining are brought forcfbly to bear
and reasons for planning bigger, NOR
carefully tended gardens In the spring
are brought out. The work this week
is an advance drive, taking the place
Of the one which usually starts the
middle Of February. There viii be no
February drive Last year there were
16S members Of the Fam Bureau be
sides the city garden owners.
Men throughout the different com,
munities are aiding W. E. McComas in
this drive and by the end OF the week,
It is hoped that enthusiasm and en-
ergy will have reached such a stage
that by spring every bit OF land avail
able viii be worked into gardens.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-12-03
Baker Explains as
To Casualty Lists
Bv Assocfated Press)

WASHINGTON; Dec. 8. -Secretary
Baker appearing before the Senate
Military committee today to explain
the delay in completing the publica-
ton Of American casualties overseas,
said he thought most OF the unreDort-
ed names were those of men slightly
, wounded and would come by mail
Senators were unable to understand
why only something over 100000
names have been published when it
has been officially announced that the
casualties number 262.693. The secre-
tary said every effort consistent with
accuracy was made to prevent delay
and that General Pershing had been
urged repeatedly to expedite his list
sending the names Of the dead first.
1.-THE department from the beginning"
Mr.. Baker said, "has never held up
withheld or delayed giving out cas-
ualty lists. Our policy has been to
give a complete statement as soon as
possible.
General March discussing demobi1I-
cation said General Pershing was Sc
lecting units for the occupattonal
force Of about 1,25o,Oo0 men and that
all the other American soldiers In
France would be brought home as rap
idly as shipping could provide.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-12-03

All Have the FIu-Mrs- Lee Holt and
daughters, the Misses Hazel and
Madge, and granddaughter, Miss Flor
ence Virginia Malone, are all III with
Influenza at their home In Maple ave
nue. A message was received today
from Mrs Eng1e Malone, daughter
OF Mrs. Holt, stating that her SON,
George. was taken II on the train
route 70 MassnIon. Ohio, from here
where they had spent Thanksgiving
and was very III. Mrs. Malone ano
two sons and sister, Miss Dorothy
Holt, left here Sunday for their home
and left little Miss Florence Virginia
here for longer visit
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-12-03
eRARGES AGAINST
ROGERS AgL ElII
Fairmonter Proves He Did
Not Indorse Co. Watson
in Last Election.

According to the Information re-
cefTed here william II Rogers, prest-
dent OF the state Federation Of Labor,
OF Fairmout, was acquitted Of the
charges OF having endorsed a ca1dE-
date for oR1ce 1T the election IN No
Vember at a meeting OF the board OF
directors OF the Ohio Valley Trades
Union at Wheeling on Saturday. Il
was alleged that Rogers had endorsed
Colonel Watson, but rom an accounts
nothing Of the sort could be proved.
C. F. Keener, PRESIDENT OF District
IT, United Nine Workers, and Fred
Mooney, secretary Of the same body,
Charleston. were attorneys for Rogers,
and the miners almost to the man
stood behind, Rogers from an &C
counts.
It IS understood that the charges
were based on typewriter signature
OF Rogers Apparently the charges
fen nat
Mr.. Rogers did not desire to make a
statement, but referred the interview
er to Keeney, one of his counsel, who
left for Charleston last evening
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-12-03
Bavarians Tired of
Their Red Premier

LONDON. Dec. 3.-Kurt Eisner, the
Bavarian premier, is losing prestige,
according TO Munich advice received
here by the way of Amsterdam, Co
penhagen and Berne. a Copenhagen
dispatch says that Eisner was Kissed
by his own partisan at Munich during
Celebration In honor of returning
soldiers. Later supporter OF Eisner
was not allowed to make a speech
and was obliged to fee from an an
cry crowd which removed the red
flags along the street, stormed the
ministry of the interior, shouting,
Down with Eisner." Guards fired
over the heads OF the crowd, which
dispersed.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-12-03
Congressman Lunn
Talked of Democracy

Congressman George E. Lunn, OF
Schnectady, N. z, delivered an exceI,
lent address at Presbyterian church
on the subject Democracy on Trial.
as the initial number of the 191S-S19
Normal school lecture course last
night. The audience which heard Con-
gresham Lunn was small but very ap-
precfative and he was frequently CIV
en- spontaneous applause. Mr.. Lunn
discussed the subject from various
angles and drew many forceful les
sons He dwelt at length on the world
war and its effects on civilization.
The Congressman was introduced by
President Joseph Roster, OF the Far
mont Normal school.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-12-03
Mrs. Mary DOYLE.

Mrs. Mary Doyle, aged II years
home of her daughter, Mrs. E. A
Adams, at Grant Town, after an Ill
ness from acute indigestion and heart
trouble She is survived by her
daughter, Mrs. Adams. and a son,
Michael Doyle, of Morgantown-
Funeral services are announced to
be held on Thursday morning at
O'Clock from the church at Grant
Town. conducted by Father Egan.
The body Will be brought to this city
and inferred in Holy Cross cemetery
by Undertaken R. c. Jones'
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-12-03

Miss Jennie Campbell OF Morgan
town came here yesterday to attend
the funeral OF her great nephew, Je-
rome Menear, which was held today
Mrs Jack Schnapp OF Annabelle, was
visitor in the city today.
Mrs. Lloyd Wright who had been
the guest OF her daughter, Mrs. Dor
sey> Kinsey, In this city, returned to
her homa At Clarksburg today, haE-
ing been called there by the illness Of
q relative
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-12-03
May Have to Give
Germany More Time
fRy AsaocIafea Prerl

PAIRS. Dec. ST appears that the
Germans VIII be unable TO hand over
all the 5000 locomotives stipulated IN
the armistice agreement by December
"a, according to The Matin, and & %
possible that the allies viii grant more
time to the enemy.
This will have the effect Of delaying
peace negotiations, since they can not
begin until the armistice conditions
have been fulfilled.
Discussion between the Allied dele.
cations to the peace conference wiu
probably begin on December 30 With
President Wilson taking part per
sonRlly.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-12-03
House Republicans
Will Support Wilson
az Associated Pressl

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-ln Z
statement today declaring factional
strife should not be permitted to In
terfere with President Wilson's mis-
sion abroad, Representative Mann, of
Il1fonis, Republican leader In the
House, said there would be no con-
-cetred effort on the part of House Re
lean people would tolerate any med
ding in that which so vitality con-
Germs them"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-12-03
May Leave Germany
IF They Travel Light
cny Associated Pressl

LONDON, Dec. 3.-The German
government has consented to permit
a number Of the HohenzoIfern prfn-
cesses to leave Germany on condition
that they leave their fortunes, behind
them, according to an E1change Tele-
graph dispatch from Amsterdam.
They have accepted the conditions, e
Is stated, and expect to proceed ITO
Switzerland, Denmark or Holland.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-12-03
WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-Plans
under which an wounded men, re-
turning from Frances, viii go to hos
pftals within 500 miles OF the homes
Of their nearest relatives were au-
nounced today by the War Depart
ment To this end base hospitals at
training camps have been turned over
to the surgeon genera1 supplies pro-
Vidtng Is hospitals with facilities to
care for 104,231 men.
Fifty thousand men are expected to
be sent to the institutions within the
next four months.