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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-13

friction between the races. Jamaica
Is q British colony and the govern.
ment Is just. Colored men enjoy ev.
cry civil and political right which
white men have and there is no color
line. E.
Among other things Sir Sidney said:
my study and comparison of con.
ditions In the United States and the
West indies" he said. has brought
mo to that conclusion. American and
colonial politicians and public men
are not Exeter Hall abolitionists nor
evangelical Christian missionaries. I
do not expect them to adopt the meth
DDS OF missionaries. nor do l sympa.
thize with all their programmes. But
1t cannot be ignored t.sat it happened
that the faiths of the 1uoa Who laid
the foundations for the peaceful de-
velopment of the mixed community in
Jamaica were democratic and human.
itarian and. above all, uncompromis-
ingly Christian.
Were race differentiation held to it
must increase civil discord. When tho
balance of numbers is as It ia in the
South in America it must tend to
foster obscure preparations for civil
war and rebellion. II statesmen and
citizens face in the contrary direction
do not say that they will attain i'm
mediately civil peace, but I am conf.
dent that they will be travelling the
only road toward it.
Il do not suggest that race does not
greatly affect facilities for combina,
ton between humans in healthy
national life. but race difference is
only one Of many schismatic agencies.
The solution of the difficulty involves
discipline for the white man as well
as the black"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-13
WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES.

The new war savings certificates
will bear per cent interest, will run
for term Of five years and will be is
sued in denominations as low as S.
They are to be just what their names
Indicate, Savings" certificates, q
means Of investment for small savings,
so that the money will be safe and
profitable and at the same time afford.
ing the government the use of it. It
is planned to sell the certificates to
the public on the installment plan by
using stamps that may be purchased
and pasted in book for that purpose.
When there are sufficient stamps to
cover the cost OF a certificate the book
will be placed on sale in every town
can be exchanged for one. The stamps
and city in the country.
The individual who has money laid
by for rainy day need have no hest
tation in converting it into war saw
ings certificates, since the government
will redeem them at any time upon
the request of the holder, allowing in
terest at per cent. Under this ar
rangement the investor in these GER
tif1cates will have the satisfaction of
knowing that If any emergency should
arise In his family, such as sickness
or death, he could Immediately realize
upon his certificates.
1t is safe prediction that the war
savings certificates will go like "hot
cakes" Their small denomination, the
good interest rate, the terms upon
which they may be purchased, the
TACT that they are not subject to taxa
ton when held by persons of small
means-au will make them an at
tractive investment. Working people
whose margin of income above expen-
ses is narrow at best will find in them
an excellent incentive for beginning
the prudent habit of saving. They
will be popular for Christmas presents.
School children will be able to invest
part of their little weekly allowances
IN certificates. AS a result many mill
lions will be transferred to the Fed
eral Treasury and through it will flow
into the channels of trade, while the
people of small means will be made
to feel that they, too, are doing their
share toward helping their country
win the war;
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-13
SATURDAY, APRIL -, 1918
THE DRIVE FOR LIBERTY.

The movement for the Liberty Con-
gress was inaugurated in Boston,
June 10 of last year at session held
in Faneuil Hall, the cradle of liberty,
at a national conference called by the
New England League. A Liberty Con-
ference was started as a national COM
mittee to arrange for a National
Colored Liberty Congress. Rev. A. c.
Powell of New York is president; Prof.
A. w. Whalley of Boston is national
organizer; w. M. Trotter, executive
secretary. A board of managers was
begun with Robert H. Harrison of
New York as chairman. This board
is to be augmented.
The purpose of the Congress is to
press the just claim of Colored Ameri-
cans to share in the world democracy
for which they are all subject to fight
under the flag and to take positive
measures to secure from the govern
ment guarantees of the abolition of dis
reimbursement and of all caste dis
ordinations.
The proposal to hold meeting early
this year has been enthusiastically re-
ceived by the thinking men of the
country and the executive officers have
decided to hold the congress at Wash
ington the National Capital, Memorial
Day, May 80, which is in honor of the
veterans who saved the Republic and
brought liberty, with 100000 colored
men among them
This congress of Colored America to
present to the Government it's claim
for share in the world democracy is
a great opportunity for the Colored
people. Every community ought to
send a big delegation.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-13

all right to appoint colored man as
an assistant secretary of labor but to
appoint negro" adviser and confine
him to jimcrow duties would be segre-
cation in it's worst form.
Negroes" who are asking for segre-
gated places in the department of the
government are doing the colored peo-
pie great wrong. Any man who
would accept such an appointment,
would necessarily be jimcrow man
and he would do his country great
harm in bolstering up the color line.
Give colored men representation in
the government as Americans, not as
negroes"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-13
"HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL IN THE
HUMAN BREAST"

Every once in a. while something is
said by somebody, somewhere, that
gives us fresh hope for the future
One cannot talk intelligently on any
subject, unless he has given that sub.
ject intelligent thought. Everything
that man has ever done good, bad or
Indifferent was the result of thought
Thought created the universe; thought
has maintained it, and will forever do
so. When people think right and ex-
press their thoughts, right must event
ually prevail.
SO many white people in the United
States think wrong, speak wrong, act
wrong, in regard to their colored fel-
low citizens, that it is very, very re-
freshing when we hear expressions of
right thoughts from them.
The above thoughts were en-
gendered by expressions made by
Bishop Woodcock and DR.. r. w. Pat.
ton, executive secretary of the Home
and. Foreign Missionary Board of the
Episcopal church at a largely attended
meeting in Maculey's Theatre, Louis
vile, KY, Sunday, March "a. Bishop
Woodcock who presided said, after re-
counting the progress the colored peo-
pie had made: you would better get
right on the Negro Question: or, God
helping you a time will come when you
will wish you had, and you ought to
feel it."
DR.. Patton said among other things:
1.-THE Negroes have given to the
world the highest of all virtues, the
Law of Love. They, more than any
other people, demonstrate the ideals of
patience and loyalty. They are loyal
when they have some reason to be dis
loyal. When the war is over, the
Negroes having given their sons to die
on the battlefelds of Europe, will have
an awakening, and will never again be
satisfied with past conditions. WE
WIN THIS WAR WITHOUT
THEM. We had better get ready to
meet them in fair, just and econ
omical manner"
DR.. Frank Crane, the great thinker
and writer in recent article on,
What We All Can Do" said: think
humanity instead of race hate. Think
fellowship and not egotism. Thoughts
are soldiers. Drill them, feed them,
and make them fight in humanity's
cause
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-13
Segregation in Porto Rico.
(sy F. 3. Pardon Returned War Cor
respondent From Europe.)


(From the Boston Guardian.)
San Juan, P. R.-A flame of indipna.
ton swept through the length and
breadth of the Island of Porto Rico on
being told that the United States time.
odlous custom of racial separation in
the army would be put in practice upon
them. O'
A petition in the form of q resolu.
ton was introduced in the house of
representatives by Mr. Manuel F..
Rossy, one of the white members. set.
ting forth in detail and eloquence the
injustice and inhumanity of forcing
discrimination on a country Wherein
1t was hitherto unknown. The resolu-
ton was not only adopted unani-
mously by the lower house but passed
the senate without single dissenting
vote.
Petition Ignored.
The resolution was presented to
PRESIDENT Wilson and it was ignored
The Porto Rican Regiment that was
formerly mixed was cut to pieces and
men of color put in separate divisions
all the draftees have been separated
and showed into quarters according to
color. Porto Rico has no higher ap-
peal; tits bitter, indignant, but help
less.
Introduced by Native Leader.
Representative Mr.. Manuel Rossy,
who introduced the resolution is the
leader of the republican minority in
the lower house. In studied and tel
ling language Mr. Rosy presented the
reasons why Porto Rico objected to
divisions in the army, based on color
lines.
Porto Rico has long been celebrat-
ed for the unity of the races there.
Members of the darker race are in
every branch Of industrial and civil
life. The largest department store
in San Juan, the capitol, is owned by
colored man. The senior member of
the Senate, who has held his seat by
four consecutive appointments by the
United States and by an open election,
as a cOlOred man. The judge CORE
spending to our circuit-judge and hav-
ing under his jurisdiction the me-
tropolis of Porto Rico, San Juan, is
colOred man. The commissioner Of
trades and labor is a colored man.
The mayors of numerous towns of
Porto Rico are colored men.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-13
IN CROSSING THE BUSY STREET

II pedestrians would follow a simple
rule they could always avoid being
struck by vehicles, Magistrate House
declared in the traffic court recently
IN issuing his seventeenth safety bull
letin he said:
Pedestrians should bear in mind
that when they start to cross street,
no matter from which side, the traf-
nc always approaches them from the
left.
when they reach the middle of the
street it approaches them from the
right.
Before stepping from the sidewalk
always look to the left.
when reaching the middle of the
street always look to the right."-New
York Mail.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-13
YOUR FIFTY DOLLAR LIBERTY
BOND.

1t will protect 1000 soldiers from
smallpox and 666 from typhoid. 1t
VIII assure the safety of 1879 wounded
s01olers from lockjaw, the germs of
"1lcn swarm IN Belgian soil.
IL Will render painless 400 opera
IONS supply miles of bandages-
enough to bandage 555 wounds.
IL Will care for 100 injuries in the
way of "first-aid packets"
IL will furnish adhesive plaster and
surgical gauze enough to benefit thou
SANDS OF wounded soldiers.
Every purchaser of Liberty Loan
Bona performs a distinct Individual
service to his country and to our boys
fighting in France.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-13
NATIONAL INSURANCE.

When you buy a Liberty Bond you
are taking out national insurance ON
the rest of your property.
Where the kaiser's army sets it's
foot, private property ceases to exist.
The apostles of kultur steal or destroy
everything. In their retreat from the
Somme year ago, they even turned
the wells into latrines and sowed salt
at the roots Of the vines and fruit
trees. In Belgium, in northern France,
in Poland, Italy and Russia, they have
restored the ancient system of war
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-13
THE ONLY SOLUTION.

Recently at the Church of England
Congress at Southampton, Sir Sidney
Olivier, who was governor of Jamaica
from 1907 to the end Of 1912, put for.
ward the claim that no solution of the
American color question was possible
except by a resolute disclaimer Of the
color line and the race differention
theory. -5.-- ~, -. -
Sir Sidney Olivier certainly knows
what he is talking about. In the
Island of Jamaica, where he was gov.
ernor for five years, there are about
100000 colored people and only 10000
whites and yet there Is absolutely no
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-13

tary of the U. S. Civil Service Board
Of Examiners at Boston, Mass; New
York, N. Y; Philadelphia, Pa; Allan
ia, Ga; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago,
ILL.,; st. Paul, Mimi; st. Louis. Mo-;
New Orleans, La.;> Seattle, Wash;
San Francisco, CAL: Honolulu, Ha-
wall; or San Juan, Porto Rico.
JOHN A. McILHENNY,
President, U. S. Civil Service Commits
sion, Washington, D. c..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-13
THEODORE DRURY, OPERA
iMPRESSARiO, ON TRANS
CONTINENTAL RECITAL
TOUR.

Our city may look forward to an
appearance here in Song-Recital of
Theodore Drury, formerly of New
York, but now of Boston, Mass. Mr..
Drury has produced, with all Colored
talent, such operas as "Aida," Faust"
Carmen" "Cavaleria" and "Pagliacci."
This will be his first trip West since
he returned from Europe. The Re-
citals will be unconventional, as
scenes from operas will be sung in
costume
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-13
the SIN Of SILENCE

To sin by silence when we should
protest makes towards out Of men.
The human race has climbed on pro-
test. Had no voice been raised against
injustice, ignorance and lust, the in
QUESTION yet would serve the law, and
eutllotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right tho wrongs Of
many.-EIla Wheeler Wilcox.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-13
THANK GOD!

The commission on union of the
Presbyterian Church North and the
Presbyterian Church South failed to
agree on a plan for the proposed
merger of the two great church
bodies at the final session of this joint
conference at Atlantic City. Thank
God that the North would not agree
to the color line proposals of the in
Janus Southern branch which would
have dragged Christianity in the mire.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-13
NEGRO" ADVISER NOT WANTED.

Pressure has been brought by me
groes" so the wires tell us, to have a
negro" adviser appointed to tell the
Department of Labor what ought to
be done along negro" labor lines. sec-
rotary Wilson has announced that a.
negro" will not be selected as a
permanent representative but >promi-
nent colored men will be consulted.
Secretary Wilson has the right idea.
No patriotic colored American wishes
a Jlmcrow representative. It would be
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-13
Liberty Bonds as Good as Gold

is AZ per cent Understanding
United States Government bond
burden? 1t is backed up by the best
security in the world-the entire re-
sources of this great nation, and If
IL isn't good, nothing is good, not even
the dollars in your pocket. So why
call 1t a. burden? 1t may make you
scratch some to get together the
money to buy them, but Wen never be
sorry that we got them"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-13

What constitutes a non-essential is
largely a question for each person to
decide for himself Anything you can
40 without and still maintain your ef
nc1ency, is a non-essential at a. time
when the government needs the money
you could thereby invest in Thrift
Stamps,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-13
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-13

A commission appointed by the
Bishops Council of the A. M. E,
Church to make representation against
discrimination against the colored peo-
pie in this country was received bv
President Wilson. The delegation
left a written document. The
response of the President was
guarded.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-13

TO WHOM THIS MAY CONCERN.
Will the gentleman who left a new
hat at Pilgram Baptist last Sunday
morning, March 81, kindly return the
old one in exchange for his new hat
to the pastors study at the church.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-04-13

next time, he will have given convinc-
ing evidence of his real desire for non
partisanship in the elections during
the war.
The Washington times., 1918-03-20
An Authoritative Tone.

He Is so sure OF Dora. and She
Is so sure Of him. that they defy
conventionalitieS. Neither her faith
er nor myself intends to allow It
any longer"
There was an authoritative ring
IN tho last sentence that made the
listener appreciate that here was a
pasterful woman who would have
her own way In spite OF heartAches
or heartbreaks.
And was she not right cynthia
argued IF Dora was unhappy be-
cause of thouEhtleSs action on the
part OF her betrothed. should not
the parent resent such action
Cynthia had to admit that Dora's
behavior last night tended to Justify
her mothers theory that the girl
was made uncomfortable by NIL
toms apparent neglect. The fault
was as much Cynthia's as MHton's.
Hereafter she must not permit him
TO show her even the smallest at
tention.
Her heart contracted with pain as
she made this resolve. The pain IT.
self warned her that she must be
on her guard.
Then she remembered Gerald
Stewart and yhst h~r aunt had said
OF him. Mrs livingston" must he
mistaken. TIL" man was lonely. but
not In love with Ei7l whom he
scarcely knew
ITs Be CsntInued-B T,
The Washington times., 1918-03-20
P'uss i'm Boots Jr.
A PLEASING GOODNIGHT SERIES

And as they sped through the
water. a hideous black serpent
came toward them. The head was
raised up high and its two eyes
were red as Goals of fire and as big
as saucers- And way. way yonder.
far away. you could just see the tip
of it's tail above the water. Oh.
dear me. but it was a dreadful long
snake.
by love-" exclaimed Captain Nsp.
mean King Neptune. there goes
that dreadful Sea Serpent I sup
pose nobody will dare baths this
Summer" But no sooner had he
spoken than they heard a cry. and
Fuss saw chained to a rock lovely
maiden. And the reason she had
given that cry of despair was be-
cause that dreadful serpent was
swimming toward her as fast as he
could.
Quick" cried Puss to King Nep-
tune. let US save herr And Puss
N'N' me- oN NOA0 Aho ran 70 Ino 'front.'
of the sea-shell chariot. Well, Sir
Neptune made his sea horses 20 so
fast that they reached the rock
before the terrible sea serpent did.
and then Puss waited for It with
his sword in his paw.
And when II was close enough.
and. goodness me. its breath was
so hot that IT turned the spray into
steam and scorched the side Of the
seashell chariot. Puss plunged his
sword into his neck. and that great
horrible sea serpent rolled over a.
dead as a doornail.
And then Captain Neptune broke
the chains that bound the lovely
maiden and took her in his sea
chariot to live with his mermaid
daughters And after Pus- reached
land again. he set on once more
upon his journey through the Coun-
try OF the Gods.
Copyright. 1918. By Star COupaaz
Ce he CaatInnaA
The Washington times., 1918-03-20
By David Cory.

TN the last story left OF Just as
Puss Junior in the Sun Kings
chariot was going down the
steep skyroad to the western hills.
Well. just before they came to the
end OF the road, a great storm arose.
and big black clouds swept over the
sky. and the first thing Puss knew
he couldn't SEQ the road at all. and
neither could the Sun King. and as
for the horses. they began to snort
and balk. and then they became so
frightened that they turned on the
road altogether. and. all of sud
den. down they went right into the
sea
Wasn't that dreadful We'll. Just
guess it was. for there was littls
Puss Junior in the sun Kings char
lot falling headlong into the sea.
and all the way from the great high
sky.
Well, Just as they struck the
water with a tremendous big splash.
Neptune. who is King of the Sea.
you know. came Il pin his wonder
full seashell chariot drawn by His
beautiful sea horses. and picked up
Puss. And I guess he would have
taken the. sun King aboard. too.
only he was so angry at having
fallen out of the sky that he made
his golden horses swim to the land
You had a pretty good fall" said
King Neptune. with a smile. but
you are not hart, hope"
Not a bit. thank you" replied
Puss. and then he Erinned at the
good natured sea king and .curled
his whiskers, which were all spat-
tered with salt water.
sky driving ~ pretty danger
GUS" said King Neptune. its much
snfer on the water" and then he
SAID gid-ap to his steeds and away
they went leaving = long trail OF
foam behind them.