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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-02-23
INDIANS AS SOLDIERS.

History gives the Indians a place
as warriors. Therefore one is not
surprised to learn that present day
Indians are becoming good soldiers
in the army of Uncle Sam.
Cato Sells, commissioner of Indian
affairs, recently made a survey of the
national cantonments in Texas, CIV
ing particular attention to the con-
dition of the 1900 Indians who are
learning the art of war in these
camps.
81 addressed the Indians collec-
lively at each cantOnment and con-
ferred with them individually, max
ing definite inquiry concerning their
treatment" Commissioner Sells said
"Everywhere 1 found them we'll con-
tented. and nowhere either dlspo-
sition to complain or cause for COM
planning.
They are a splendid body OF
men physically, with wonderful
spirit of patriotism.
THE officers in command unlver-
SALLY complimented the Indians Tor
. their good behavior and highly COM
mended them as soldiers. l was es-
pecially pleased that the Indians are
not segregated, but that they are 10
Gated without regard to the fact that
thew are Indians. I am strongly OPP
posed to Independent Indian units
large or small, and am firm In the
opinion that they should enter the
army upon the same basis as other
citizens: that they should be mixed
Unfortunately among the Whites
elbow to elbow, so they may absorb
the English language, habits and CIV
ilization of their white brothers. In
this way only can they advance. I
want no discrimination either for or
against them, but believe that they
should be promoted on their merits
and always advanced when they are
deserving.
II visited the hospitals, made in
quiry as to their management, called
upon each sick Indian, inquired into
matters of sanitation, water supply
and health conditions generally.
With the exception of the epidemic
prevailing in Camp Bowie, the hos
pital enrolment was so small as to
be very gratifying. This was not
ably true Of the Indians. The diff
ference is accounted for because the
Indians come from colder climate
than most of the white soldiers. Only
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-02-23

When there are sufficient stamps to
cover the cost of certificate the book
can be exchanged for one. The stamps
will be placed on sale in every town
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.
tificates will have the satisfaction OF
knowing that II 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 wal
savings certificates will 60 like "hot
cakes Their small denomination, the
good interest rate, the terms upor
which they may be purchased, the
! fact that they are not subject to taxa
ton when held by persons of small
means-all 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 result many mil
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??, 1918-02-23
Reforms Needed at Home.

(From The Christian Register.)
Race bitterness makes argument, or
discussion, or any effort to come to
common understanding quite useless.
Where much racefeeling is engaged.
reason is neutralized. With some peo.
pie, questions Of the rights of colored
people under the Constitution, of the
people Of California have become i'm
possible: They simply can not discuss
the subject. While this is the case
In this country, we have enough to
90 IN cleansing our own blood OF
germs of conflict without thinking It
our main business to reach across
the water in restraint of war. War ia
lnc1p1ent among us in these matters.
and cruel barbarities frequent enough
TO Keep US busy reforming ourselves.
Billy Sunday speaks out emphati.
cally, alphabetically and ungramnaatic-
ally against almost every wrong in the
tcountry-except race prejudice. II
ne wants to show that he is a real
nrave man, not afraid to tacke any,
thlng, and do some good where It il
most needed, let him speak out aginst
race prejudice.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-02-23
The Cause Of Migration
(Atlanta (Ga.) Independent

(Atlanta (Ga.) independently
When meat was 15c a pound and
flour $500 barrel, the colored laborer
received from $4.0O to $500 a week.
Now meat is SOC pound and flour
$500 barrel, he is receiving the
same wages. He cannot live at this
and the white man cannot expect him
to remain in the South and live on the
starvation wages he is paying him
when the fields and the factories in
the North and West are Offering him
living wages. If the white man will
suppress lynching and lawlessness in
the rural districts, pay the colored
man living wages, give him a square
deal on the farms, better schools. open
the doors of the shops and factories
to his prowess, and let him in the
labor unions, municipal ordinances
Ito keep colored men from leaving the
South) will be unnecessary.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-02-23
CONVERTING THE ESKIMO.

Christian missionaries seem to have
made little Roadway in converting the
Eskimo in the far north, according to
Donald B. Macmillan, head of the
Crockerland expedition, who. has re-
gently returned to New York, after
four years in the Arctic.
Mr.. Mcmillan was in daily contact
with the Eskimos. He finds them
lovable and easily managed. The
members of the expedition trusted, i'm
plicitly the little colony of six fam
lilies at Eta, base Of the expedition,
on the northeast shore of Greenland,
and never suffered a loss by theft. Yet
the same understanding of the Eski-
mo character has made Mr.. Mcmillan
skeptical as to the power of mission
ary work to better their social stand
ards.
II don't believe the missionaries will
be able to change the social customs
of the Eskimos very greatly. They
are a happy, care-free, jovial people.
They are continually laughing. If they
see a. man in serious thought for more
than few minutes at a time they
think something is wrong with him.
And, really, they have all the neces-
sary virtues right now. They love
each other, they care for each others
welfare, and they protect each other
If one is hungry all are hungry. They
have perfect socialism.
And they are absolutely honest
!Our supplies at Eta lay on the ground
IN plain view of every one in the set
Element for four years, and no one
ever touched them without permits
sion. In New York after dark they
wouldn't remain four minutes before
being stolen.
"Piblockto" is the word that ex
presses what the Eskimos think Of thu
world at war, Mr.. Macmillan said. Il
means run amuck; gone clean crazy
The Eskimos believe that all the white
man nations have gone "piblockto."
Il tried to explain Mr.. Macmillan
said, that the war started because
but they wouldn't believe it; they
only shook their heads and said
mo; that's impossible. There is plenty
of land for everybody When we were
getting ready to leave Eta they begged
us to remain with them. Why e
back there?'-meaning civilization
happy"
THE APPEAL believes that the mis-
sionaries who are trying to convert
the Eskimos are "piblockto," espe
cially those from the United States
who are trying to impose the Amer
lean brand of jimcrow Christianity or
them. If they have all of the neces
sary virtues right now, why waste time
and money teaching them the murder
GUS Christianity of America?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-02-23

one Indian is numbered among the
dead"
Commissioner Sells is respectfully
pleased that the Indians are not seq
regated and he gives good reasons for
his opposition to Independent Indian
units in the army. His arguments are
logical and ought to apply to all other
classes of Americans in the United
States Army. There should be no seq
regated units of colored men who are
willing to die for their country.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-02-23

long as they are here, and have al
ready been mixing for more than a
century, and have the rights of citi-
zenship, including the right to die with
white men for their country, is it any
reckonable menace to responsibility
and intrinsic leadership to open few
more industrial doors to their proved
abilities and usefulness? While we
write, moving-van is unloaded by
two white men and one colored man
The colored man is the boss, the
white men take his orders There is
not the least trouble about it.. There
would never be trouble if it were not
made by people of the temper of the
anonymous objector.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-02-23
WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES.

The new war savings certificates
will bear 4 per cent interest, will run
for term of five years and will be is
sued in denominations as low as SIS.
They are to be just what their names
Indicate, savings" certificates, a
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 a book for that purpose.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-02-23
Hates the Term "Nearo."

II hate the term Negro because it
is being used in terms Of hatred. 1t
is the cause of the segregation Of the
Negro; it is being used in contempt
in public places; it is an excuse for
DISTINGUISHING him; and it is an ex.
cuse for lynching him. Only one
tenth of one per cent of the colored
people In America can trace their
descent to Africa, and there is no
more right to call all colored people
Negroes than to call all white people
Turks or Armenians. "-Ex-Assistant
United States Attorney General VIM.
H. Lewis, Boston, Mass.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-02-23
Should Open the Doors to Opportunity
(FrOm the Christian Register.)

A circular sent out to employers in
large city, calling attention to the
number and quality of young colored
men trained in the schools of the city,
and asking cooperation and counsel
in making their services available,
brought one reply which though anony-
nous is significant of an opinion still
widely influential. kindly send them
to Africa, instead of mixing them
with u.s." AS the expression of an in
dividual desire these two points are of
course admissible, but as practicable
measures it is curious that any intelli-
gent person should seriously entertain
them. Does any one suppose that the
colored population of the United
States could be sent to Africa, or that
If they were sent they would go? So
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-02-23
Why Did They Prefer "Coiored?"
(FrOm the New York News

ivy ''S'C' SOiOFeQ!
(From the New York News.)
we trust that all of the advocates
learned and otherwise, white and
black, North and South-of the use
OF the word Negro" as a race term
nave caught the full meaning of it's
use at Houston, Texas. At the re-
quest OF the Twenty-fourth Infantry
men themselves, the authorities de-
clded to refer to them henceforth as
'colored' soldiers. They had been de-
rlded and nagged and goaded by the
corrupted use of the word until for.
bearance ceased to be one of their
virtues. They had become contemptu-
ously and constantly referred to in
the daily press not as American SOL
dlers, or Americans, nor as Uncle
Sans Boys or in any other respectful
terms. They had been designated and
debased in the public mind there
these brave, manly defenders of the
American flag-as Negroes" Per-
celving this evil practice and influence
the while officers of the Twenty-fourth
appealed to the authorities to- use the
word "col0red" instead. With the
word "colored," troopers or soldiers
would have to be used. A kindlier
feeling between the soldiers and the
townspeople they were sure would in
evitably result. They were profoundly
right, but they were too late. Had
the practice obtained prior to their
coming in Houston, a different state
OF affairs might have ensued. We ask
all promiscuous, wilful and Indifferent
users of the word Negro" to ponder
this situation slowly. The request of
the troopers and their officers for the
change should be a striking example
to all Doubling Thomases as to lust
how the practice works out today in
hard, everyday life. Whatever the ar.
gument about making it respectable in
the future, it decreases respect for the
race today. It does no good today.
1t does much harm. What reason.
then, for it's use? Are you willing to
be called 'Nigger?" Are you pleased
to have your wife or mother called
a "Negress?" Then discontinue using
Negro" If you think it worth while
for you to be referred to as a man and
your folk as people, insist on the use
of the word "colored."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-02-23

parts of the country. Then this is the
month in which the darned ground
hog determines whether or not we are
to have six weeks more of the miser.
able weather that the weather man
has been furnishing lately. Tomor.
row is Sunday but. we hope that de-
splcable little varmint will not leave
MS hole until a friendly cloud OBJ
structs old Soils rays and prevents him
from seeing his shadow. .-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-02-23

What day that will be when the
t1d1ngs are flashed over the sea and
land that peace has been declared
From ten thousand times ten thousand
steeples bells will ring out, as if they
were human things, their wild delight
at the long.hoped-for event. Never. in
the history of the world will there
nave been such a day of universal
Joy.-Our Dumb Animals.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-02-23

called tie most just and humane pro-
vision ever made by any nation for it's
soldiers and sailors.
That it's value and advantages are
appreciated by. the Army and Navy is
evidenced by the extent which it has
been availed of. Secretary Of the
Treasury McAdoo officially announced
on December IA that 23S,924 applica-
tions had already been received, repre-
senting $2,O73, 728,5OO of insurance.
The average amount for applicants
is $3.50, which is very little less than
the maximum of $4,000. The Ameri-
can forces in France we're prompt in
availing themselves of the insurance,
Gen. Pershing himself subscribing to-
the maximum of $4,000.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-02-23
"Negroes and Dogs Not Allowed"
From the Nashville ClariOn)

(From the Nashville Clarion)
Down in Houston, Texas are some
elevators in public buildings labeled
NEGROES AND DOGS NOT ALLOW.
Ed" Generous Classification! Such
signs as these account in such meas
ure, for the exceedingly rapid manner
in which the Colored men are depopu
lating the South. They can be neither
blamed nor censured for leaving a
town like this. They have hearts and
souls and human pride, just like the
people of other races.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-02-23
A Chinese Puzzle,

(From the Cleveland Gazette.)
The governor of Massachusetts and
mayor of Boston are trying to find out
why Jews are refused enlistment in
that states field artillery and in the
first coast artillery. Also, why Afro
Americans from that state (and
others) are refused at the Plattsburg,
N. Y, officers military training camp
where DR.. J. E. Spingarn is major
in-training.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-02-23
The SIN OF SILENCE

To sin by silence when we shou,d
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
quisitio" yet would serve the law, and
eui'lotines decide our least DISPUTES.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right tho wronox If
many.-EIla Wheeler Wilcox.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-02-23
Campaign Against LynchIna.

(From the Christian Recorder.)
There is no better time than NOW
to begin a National Crusade Against
Lynching in the United States. For
the rapidity with which this national
crime has spread, the barbarity with
which it Is committed and the utter
disgraceful complacency with which it
is regarded. should arouse the con-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-02-23
Should Protest Terrorism
(From the Amsterdam News)

We are all sympathizers with the
fight to make democracy safe for
the world But before we help to
make democracy safe for Europe WE
MUST MAKE 1T SAFE TO LIVE IN
AMERICA, therefore, until this latest
crime Is punished, until guarantees
are given against the repetition of
such crimes and against any kind of
organized prejudice or unpublished ter
ueWoM 'uem peIoIoo 6I9A9 4eJ 'ms11o1
and child go on national protest.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-02-23

February, although the shortest
month in the year, has included in it
some notable events, namely, the
birthdays of Abraham Lincoln, Fred
erick Douglass and George Washing
ton, the anniversaries of which will be
more or less celebrated in different
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-02-23

IN Middletown, Conn.,, Congrega-
tlonal.s Baptist, and a Methodist
church have voted to unite and wor-
ship for three months to save coal.
The example set by these churches
could be followed by the churches in
| many large cities.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-02-23

| New President for Hampton institute.
New York, Dec. 23.-The Rev. James
E. Gregg, a Congregational minister
of Pittsield, Mass, has been appointed
| president of Hampton Institute to sue
| coed the late DR.. H. B. Frizzel.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-02-23

only one OF many schismatic agencies.
The solution Of the difficulty involves
discipline for the white man 10 well
as the black" -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-02-23

Heaven grant that 1918 may forever
De memorable as the last year of this
unspeakable war-Our Dumb Animals
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-02-23

SOLDIER AND SAILOR INSURANCE,
The insurance offered by the United
States Government to members of it's
military and naval forces has been
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-02-23
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Evening star., 1918-08-25
PREFACE.

10 the Germans the United States
is the biggest "blurer" IN the world.
A German author has written : book
entitled president Bluff" Reports
that the United States was In the war
to Q "nnish" were considered more
bluff" Statements that We had more
Than q million men in France were
''stlll more bluff."
Last December. when the American
Red Cross began Its preparat tions for
the care OF Americans who might be
made prisoners Of war by the hoche;
when this great organization made Its
first invasion of Germany to care for
ten thousand men. the German said
this was more than blur; that 1t
was foolish. wasteful and extraya-
But as every day passes this Amer
lean blur" 10 making good. We are
In the war to win. We have a great
army in France whose military abil-
ity has astonished every nation, In
eluding Germany, and the first inva-
sion Of Germany. by the Red Cross
through Switzerland, has been sv sue
cessful that the enemy !s becoming
convinced that american blum" ~
simply American thoroughness on 4
larger scale than Won Hindepburg ever
thought possible.
The Following article is the complete
story Of our first invasion o. Ger
Of the American Red Cress Society to
feed and clothe every. American who
falls into the hands Of the Hun.
Evening star., 1918-08-25

his laconic report we looked at the
remnants OF Mr.. Denz and sized him
up In silence until we noticed his
shoes.
Fort the love Of Mike. where did
you get those thingsT roared tho
consul as all of us laughed. including
Denz.
"That is what they gave me in Ger
many. They took my good shoes
the style in Germany now. They
have no leather. SO they make shoes
with fiber top and wooden soles. No
one bothers about the At. These shoes
are only made In one size, SO every
one can walk In them.
" X
Denz had been in Germany more
than three years-in the army by
compulsion, in prison and In hos
pitals. but he still had sense of
humor. He was drawn into Germany
from Switzerland by fraud, forced into
the army and refused permission to
establish his claims of American
citizenship. After four months trial
he had escaped and there he was in
Lausanne on the threshold Of a new
career
The Swiss soldier presented a receipt
for Denz, which the consular agent
signed. Once more Denz was free
man. After the few official formalities
were over, which included the noti-
fication Of the military attache Of the
United States legation in Bern and
the American Red Cross, i had an op-
portunity Of questioning the ex- soldier