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The Raymer enterprise., 1918-09-12

long claws across the bars of their
cages, like giant ukulele players.
When the keeper comes. with his
wheelbarrow Of bread. the fun begins.
The keepers aim is to give an equal
number Of loaves to each bear, but the
pig In the bear sometimes upsets this
calculation.
When one big hog-I mean bear
grabs twice as many loaves us is his
due, 1t Is up to the keeper to make
him give up the extra loaves. This
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-09-12

Hun Illus IulIIstII Win MS DICK 10
the last wall In Berlin.
Everybody. by this time, realizes
how well women are doing their bit
in the ranks OF the home army--the
army that makes the very necessary
work Of our boys "over there" pos
slble. II would be well II everybody
could be brought to realize also that
America has few women Fo.hes and
Haigs and Pershings.
The most important of all 60 ,ern-
r1nnf ninnoinfinnntc nnnnn,AnnI lnt nl q,
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-09-12
Salvage Section Of Red Cross Doing Good Work

oUR dogs four
bedroom furniture and Of
the District
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-09-12
"Weaker Sex" Doing Its Part to Help Win the War

BIS the day Of the rmeee conduoe eerkete
muntion worker The winthewa
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-09-12
All Because Small Boy Followed Jack-o' Lantern

HIS about koanen journey night
you have lived In the country where Jack fckers his
over the marsh will know exactly happened
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-09-12

If people Were credited with their
good Intentions the recording angel
would need a few more assistants.
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-09-12
The Flavor Lasts
Looks That Way.

rs marriage really lottery7"
Il don't maintain that. Still. you
gotta take u chance"
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-09-12

In this city Of appointments than dappntments
Miss Mary Van Keeck rubbed
that she had become chief industry
States department Of labor
Being all that which equivalent being generassmo
who have their for Uncle Sam General Van Kee
that she the with od the War
board
Miss W. webonAiajo Billy" wcllborn provost
marshal generals ofcedspenes information regarding
Of the draft than individual the No
draft board city many where they're tc
smajor."
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-09-12
Loads Of Fun at the Zoo During Feeding Time

fortunate
o'clock feeding will
manifest of hunger sug back and forth their setting
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-09-12

Don't be misled. Ask for Red Cross
Bag Blue. Makes beautiful white clothes.
At all good grocers. Adv.
The Raymer enterprise., 1918-09-12

Prime Conservation.
what melting eyes that girl has !"
"Good gracious, Don't let her go
near the iceboN."
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Competition in Food

-. If we make an inconclusive peace-a
tired" peace-in the nea~ future we
shall be faced with the alte rnatives of
shafing with our present enemies, on
an agreed basis, the worlds food sun
plies or Of entering into bitter compe
tition for them.
What would such competition really
mean to Great Britain? First of ali +
is necessary to consider what would be
the effect of 3 "tired" peace in the
United States. will undertake to saw
that Mr.. Hoover's magnificent conser-
walton campaign would come to an
abrupt end. If the Allies in Europe
were wiling to make an inconclusive
peace with Germany they could not ex-
pect the people in the United States
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

body. hope it may be true. We all
hope to go to that "somewhere in
France" that sounds so alluring, but
for most of us the destination probably
will be no further away than Paris.
And Paris-with it's beautiful streets,
its avenues of trees, its arcades-how
we all thrilled to them! The enemy
has not succeeded in damaging these
as yet, though he is doing his best, and
most Of the statues are covered with
sandbags, with little tent-like night
caps over the top. 1t looks. too, as
though they are going to cover up the
Arc de Triomphe-rather large order,
but necessary in these days Of raids.
The streets are much the same as ever,
crowded, but the crowds are different.
great number Of French women-a
tragic number in widows garb-many
British troops, imperial and colonial,
including some splendid looking Ind
ians in khaki, with khaki headdresses.
and many Americans, in their stand-up
collars and nice looking boots, and, of
course, many war workers of both
sexes, Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., ambu-
lance, etc, all dressed in uniforms
many and various. 1t is almost dis
grace to be out Of uniform, and we were
very self-conscious until we got ours.
sinking through the back streets; but
now, clad in our trim suits, marching
up the Champs Elysees on Sunday
morning with the greatest possible
amount of swagger.
We miss our corn bread, our pie and
our ice cream, but our French friends
give us instead such salads as can
never be surpassed and such fried
potatoes as keep US continually hungry.
Even the war bread, dark brown, is
good in this land of hard work and
consequent good appetites.
Our work (Y. M. c. A. takes us out
among our ooys-how l wish we did
not call them boys!-the Canadian lines
in the national anthem are so much
better: "God bless our splendid men,
Bring them safe home again, God bless
our men," The word "boy" sounds so
immature, and this is mans job they
are doing, no job that could be done
by boy. But, to go back. We went
to camp where some of the very first
men to come over were stationed, boys
from almost every state, little home
sick, but working away and looking so
fit that no mother need have a mo-
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

to go on saving food for export. At
the present moment we are getting %
per cent of our essential foodstuffs
from the United States and Canada and
large proportion OF that 65 per cent
represents the voluntary self sacrifice
Of Americans Even If after n "tired"
peace were signed the United States
declined to give the nation that sunk
the Lusitania the right 20 compete on
equal terms with the Allies, the col
lapse of the conservation campaign
the exportable food surplus Of the
United States.
"Yesl" I hear the optimist say, "but
what about the food supplies in Aus
tralia and New Zealand which we can
not now import on account of cconom-
ical concentration of our shipping on
the shorter haul to America? ?" The
optimist forgets that the moment peace
is declared there will be even greater
demand than at present upon Allied
tonnage for the repatriation Of Amer
ican and Dominion troops, and that you
cannot bring frozen meat in unrefrig-
Grated troop ships. or wheat in liners.
The Central Powers will have no strain
of repatriating troops upon their fner-
camille marine which will be at their
disposal-if it be left at their disposal
by a 'tired" peace--for competing with
,s in the food markets of the world.
Sharing With the Enemy
The figures which / nave had before
me prove that even if shipping were i'm
mediately available on The declaration
of peace to lift all the worlds exporta-
Bile surplus of foodstuffs it would still
be impossible to raise the daily ration
of the 100000 people of the Con
tinent Of Europe to anything like
it's normal level without further reduc--
ing the now restricted food supplies of
the United Kingdom. In ether words,
IL in the near future we share the
worlds already reduced suTrly of food
with the enemy nations we shall have
to reduce our own rations. If we have
to meet them in free competition in
the markets of the world we shall be
even still worse off. for our daily food.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Negroes Memorialize President
And Governors on Lynching
Last ear LII OF their Race Were Executed Outside the
Law-Regard Crimes Worse Than
Prussianism, They Say

influential negroes from most Of the
cities in the United States at q meet
ing in Atlanta addressed the following
memorial on the subject Of lynching
to the President, Cabinet, Congress
and governors Of the states:
During the last three decades nearly
5000 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 222. The reported
causes for such appalling brutality run
the gamut from alleged violation of
the honor Of white women to disputing
the word Of white men. The fact,
however, that only about per cent of
these murders are reputed to have been
inflicted upon accused violators Of
womanhood argues almost conclusively
that the desire to protect womanhood
is almost negligible among the So
called causes of lynchings.
eve accordingly regard lynching as
worse than Prussiansm, which we are
at war to destroy. Lynching is not
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 positive
ly foments the spirit of antipathy and
resentment. We are accused of con-
cealing criminals. Who has concealed
the many criminals that have merci-
lessly murdered these 5000 defenceless
men, women and children of our race?
their trade in broad daylight and in
plain view of the entire citizenry even
does not facilitate 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 trial
or an effort to apprehend and punish
the murdercrs. In the last instance an
entire helpless colored population was
marched around the fire amid fumes of
burning human being and put on no.
tice that as that black man was suffer-
ing they, too, should fear to suffer.
Thus the defiant lynching giant strides
on apace. While we are sacrificing the
best blood of our sons upon our ma
tlon's 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.
None More Loyal
1--WE are the one group of American
people, than whom there is none more
loyal, which is marked out for dis
elimination, 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 thrust at the colored mans self
respect, the object being not merely to
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

separate the races, but to impress us
with the idea Of supposed natural in
feriority. Such demoralizing discrimi-
nation is not only q violation of the
FUNDAMENTAL rights of citizens of the
United States, but the persistent seq
regatlon OF any element of our coun-
trys population into a separate and
distinct group on the sole basis OF color
is creating a condition under which this
nation cannot long endure.
when we reflect upon these brutal
ltles and lnd1gnities we remember thew
are due to the fact that in almost every
Southern state we have systematically.
by law or chicanery, been deprived of
the right of that very manhood suf-
frage which genuine democracy would
guarantee to every citizen in the Re-
public. This propaganda of filching
from colored Americans the ballot is
but supreme effort to reenslave us
and to force our assent to, and our
impotence against, any legislation of
our opponents. To this policy the
black man does not, cannot and will
not agree. Of it, our intolerance 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 defence 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-freemen
who purchased with our own blood on
every battlefield from Bunker Hill to
Carrizal full rights and immunities
such as are freely granted to others
but systematically refused us.
A Contrast in Murder
I'VE are. writing to you, gentlemen,
that you may give US the assurance
and guarantee which every American
citizen ought to have without reference
to color. We are loyal and will re-
main 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
scot free. We cannot help seeing that
our black brothers who massacred
white citizens in Houston have paid the
most lgnominious penalty that can
come in this country to a man in uni
form. Do not these undemocratic CON
dltlons, 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, word of promise for
the black man?
"Do the rulers of the nation also
hate US? And will they, PLATE ike.
forever give their assent to the cruci
flxion 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? Nav
not your silence be construed as tacit
approval or active tolerance 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 discour
aging"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
By Sir William Goode

Speech Before American Luncheon
Club, London
You have been kind enough to allow
me to choose the topic of "Peacc With
out Plenty" I made that choice be-
cause there seems to be a widespread
idea that with peace the scarcity Of
1000 in this country will automatically
disappear. / describe it as a "tired
peace" because, except for some unan-
tlclpated collapse of the enemy, 1 can
imagine no "clean" peace being at
tanned until the enemy has felt and has
appreciated the full force of Americas
military, naval and economic power.
which can hardly be within the next
few months. 1 will not perplex YOU
with the calories and the calculations
but l should like to emphasize the
point chat the deductions l purpose to
submit to you are made by those, in
Guiding myself, who have access to all
the necessarily secret data that bear
upon the food supplies now available
or likely to be available to the Allies.
2oo,oo0,0o0 People Hungry
Take look at the European food
situation as it is to-day. We have the
Central Emprics-Germany, Austria
Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey-with
q population of, roughly speaking, 130,-
100000. The majority of these people
are and have been subssting upon ra-
tions SO attenuated as to rob life Of
comfort and make continued existence
OF doubtful value. Under the tempo
rary domination of these Central EN-
pires there are, approximately, another
45,000,00O Of allied or friendly peo-
pies, the gallant Belgians in occupied
Belgium, the French in occupied
France, the Serbs in occupied Serbia,
the Italians in occupied Italy, the
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Corporation Income Tax
Nets $4,000, coo to Date

ALBANY, May 3.-Over s13,ooo,ooo
has been received so far from the new
corporation income tax, Controller
Travis announced to-day. This amount
exactly $13,110,935 - the Controller
shows, represents per cent tax
on the net incomes of all mercantile
and manufacturing companies doing
business in the state since January /
last.
Under the law the Controller returns
to the localities where the corporations
are situated one-third of the amount
collected. During the first quarter s12,-
263,458 was received, sS,175,639 going
to the state and $4,0S7,S19 to the sew
eral counties. The amount collected
last month to be distributed totalled
ss47,476. Of the third RENTED, ST.
339,010 represents New York City's
share
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05

mment's anxiety about any one of them.
They had had passes to 60 to town. but
nearing, that some girls were coming
they all stayed at home. We arrived
ilWle early, and as we came to the
door up went the window, out went the
cigarettes and down went the books.
and they gave us a welcome such as
we had never had before anywhere.
There were only paltry dozen of
US. none of us beautiful, none of US
gifted, and our only recommendation
was that we were war workers, and the
boys knew we understood things. And
they were the most delightful hosts.
They divested US Of our coats. put
wood on the stove, and then gathered
round. Being cold mortal, l stood
by the stove, and was soon surrounded
by an eager bunch asking news of
home-whether the coal had really been
scarce, whether the weather had really
been so very cold, whether there were
actually meatless days, etc, and I try
ing to answer all the questions 1T once.
They told me their adventures, both on
the journey and over here, and gave
me their own personal news.
One of them was wearing a very
we'll made sweater, which l admired,
and the owner said with much pride:
les, my girl MADE that, and, believe
me. she is some knitter. She did the
whole thing in two weeks, and there
isn't another one to touch it in the
whole company"
Aren't you mothers glad there are
the right kind Of women over here to
talk to your boys? Do you know that
we women hear the most beautiful
things about you from your men I?
How they love and admire you! How
grieved they are when you do not
write! We do all we can, we who are
not dear even if we are near to them,
but they want to hear from you, to
be sure you remember them, and to be
able to boast about you to us. Mind
you give them something to boast
about.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Ne.Us From Our
Crusaders II, the
Land Of France
By Emilv Bax

GO WE are landed in Francel The
~ name has more magic these days
than had Mecca of old to the pill
gr1ms. l shall not tell you where we
landed, but we passed many soldiers as
ene ship came to anchor, who called
out to know where we were from and
where we were going. "F'rom New
tork, going to Berlin" was an easy
reply which seemed to please every
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Connoisseurship of the Huns

A German paper speaks Of the "pas-
sionate interest manifested from the
horu of their armies invasion of
enemy territory" in the preservation
Of objets dart. Boche connoisseur-
ship, as exemplified by Little Willie
commends itself to the civilized world.
London Globe.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Bowman May Buy Belmont
and Murray Hill Hotels

Negotiations are under way for the
sale of the Hotel Belmont and the
Murray Hill Hotel to John Nee. Bow
man. Possession of those two hotels
would give Mr. Bowman virtual control
OF the most advantageous sites in the
vicinity of the Grand Central terminal.
He is proprietor of the Biltmore,. the
Manhattan and the Commodore, which
is in course of construction at Forty
third Street and Lexington Avenue, as
we'll as of the Ansonia and other hotels.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
A Sight Worth Seeing

When one is fortunate enough to see
a line Of swans etched upon the sky
near sunset, mile or more high, as
has been my luck but twice in my life,
one has seen something he will not
soon f!orget.-John Burroughs, in the
Atlantic \
New-York tribune., 1918-05-05
Food Treaty Among Allies Urged
10 Prevent Famine After War
'nconcusve Peace Would Bring Competition for Needed
supplies Among All Entente Peoples and Leave
Germans and Austrians Better or

Poles, the Armenians, and now. prob
ably, the Rumanians There is no ne
cesslty for me to remind an audience
composed of Americans that many of
these 45,0oo,oooo people would have
literally starved to death except for
the interposition Of the United States
IN its neutral days, and but for the low
atty Of the Allies. Then We have the
nations still neutral, Switzerland
Holland. Denmark, Sweden and Nor,
way. with a combined population Of an
proximately 25,00O,00O, all of them on
very short commons; some Of them
ratloned far below the present scale
in this country
Leaving Russia out of the question
we have, roughly, 200,ooo,000 of people
en- the Continent Of Europe. most of
whom are getting far less food dav
tnan we get under the existing scheme
~ compulsory rations. In response to
the lmperious demand of their under
led populations, the governments of
the enemy countries, the moment peace
is declared, will naturally rush to buy
food wherever they can get it. What
effect this inevitable impulse on the
part Of the hungry hordes Of the Cen
tral Empires will have upon the peo-
pie in this country entirely depends
upon the character of the peace terms.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-02-26

were OF the highest type and rs" moro
variety in their funuIakln% than moSi
We have seen. The TWO biz laugh Tea
lures provided az" Al Your Service
and in Bamboo Land. and moth are
received with TN" most unusual DC
light.
Funny Rjlly Giiberr proved to be me
biz scream oil IN" rrrnln" and carried
the house. by his clever and most nat
ural form nf amusement. He had soy
eral able idc-parin"Ts in Jack Ut
ford and Shorty" Long. and IN" tac-
tics used were something out Of Inc
ordinary.
Special numbers were rendered ~
which III" one sung by Gilbert en-
titled no. George" was a Slde-Spllt'
ting Bit of jest som" OF IN" up-to'ihr
minute SONGS with catch! tunes maae
the show a success.
Taking the show AZ a Who'll" !; was
an aIl'rnund good attraction. lull ct
"pep prcrt; dancing girls. ever
amusing comedians. good danCin" and
CLASSY features which mark thc SUI
cess al any pl"a$ln" show.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-02-26
HAVE A HEART
At COURT SOON
Great Musical Attraction for Two Days,
Friday and Saturday-Howe's
Pictures This Week.

There is II pleasant anticipation IN the
announcement that Have 4 Heart" the
latest musical Offering Of Henry w. saw
nrc, whose successful productions num-
h"r half q hundred, will he seen ;t the
court Friday and Saturday. March l
and >. with matinee on Saturday.
HAY" a Heart" was one q: the tune
full hits mt tn" Liberty theatre. New
York. last winter. where is was pro-
nuunccd IL th$ce-hOur string Of laughter
and melody" ~ humdinGcr" and an
l6thcr Savage success" Book and lyrics
arc by Guy Bolton and r G. Wodehouse.
the widely read ma gain" proridrr Of
humorous fiction TIL" music is by Jcr-
ono Lcrn whose lingling toX-trots. one
stops and ballads Of sentiment are SO
universally popular. The scenes are
laid in the lingerie section OF Il biz de
partmcnt store. alive with fascinating
shop girls and fashion hunters. and at
an ocean view summer hotel ut Blue
port, RAJ. There is very sane. sensi-
hi. story If infinite humor with flashes
of dainty sentiment. that CONCERNS Il
Young couple clipping for Il second non
Icymonn upon the eve OF divorce IN
spirc1l by fascinating sales girl who
graduates into fame as SEDUCTIVE
queen Of the movies. Seals 80 on sale
tomorrow morning nj 2 o'clock.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-02-26
State Strongly Opposes
Second Trial for Bracey

At a session OF criminal court y'.Stc--
lay morning: argument by IN" state vas
presented as opposing thC motion for Il
ncw trial of Smith II. Erar"y under CON
vI,tinn uf determining David M"'iary out
of q sum at money in III" sale Of mining
stock alleged Ia br wurih HESS.
Attorney David \. M"l\"" mad" the
n1"uinr argument and urged that the
rour, had not erred in admitting state
mcuis as To tn" iinanri;Ll standing OF
Rrac"v and declared that all evidence"
admitted Was material IN IN" case. He
also said that the jury had III" right 10
determine whether or not Hra"'y had n
standing offer of two million dollars for
h. nina.
Attorney ! r. SNnm"rvllic also nadc
a shor, talk /" III" court based upon tn"
defense exhibits involving tho sale or
stock 10y Tracey - David M"'iarH.
Inc argument is attracting unusual
attention and will possibly II, continued
through = part Of today.