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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1918-04-25
3ur gcf. SeadInng.

9Sir habsn itsts cine eeniiie Nn,abl
9sisr. nslhs fur bas WohenbIatt" i'm
Riiditanoe iinb. Inter ssmGhnlihsn
3uitdnsen D1rs Dies uiht 10 ihlimm
ab.r wie bsut3utase bic Saden itsbeu.
nit alltm i'm Prsiis ssitie9su uno nit
beoeuteno bsifrdnften @innabmtqusl
len, mad,t iit) Der 8Gloman9sl of lebr
unanssnshm bsmsribar.
IS mare uns baher isbr ansenebm
wenu bic riifitdnbissn Gbonnenten %
iih CUR Yfliht MAIDEN miiroen. 10 psit
pie m6slid, uns oas fdlItse 9elo jufom
men ,u laiien. bsnn mir miilisn uni,rsn
Verbtnolihfeitsn prompt nahfommer,
uno ba,u lit flinssnos Uiiin,e notbis.
9Sollen sic, falls Sic i'm Ridltanb
iine, unisrem ssrst,tsn 2SunIts nad,
tommen. ober nihf ?
9Ofisntlid n 3a- uno rsht balo.
Ahtunasuou,
Der 6srausssbsr.
3. S.-Sine gut ausseriiitets Aeci.
oen,' Drudsrsi isst uns in ben Stano.
Orudiahsn In Der alsrbsltsu 2Ssiis
aus,uiiibren. Wtan merle iih oisles
fur ben n1hitsn Seoarf.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1918-04-25
Stabtrafb.

RtGiioeut 2homns Snpils unS feline
aolleasn pom Staotratb limb Der Yin.
.liht. onb iGmmtllhe 3anpibaten fir
ole Ssslslutrr unO Senat ihrsn Stano.
punt bssualif Der 3shsrusi itirbun.
acn erfdrsn lollten. unb iie oridten fih
5reifaS 9sls8entlih Der Slaotralblisun0
oiesbe;ii9lidl aus.
Sn betrefi Der sahlreitsn @niihaS.
iauneeflaaen ss9,n Die Stapt if BrGii.
bent Saullle Der aniiat. buB Gin 5ats
mann pou Der Staoi anseitsut perpe.
UNI ale SlassH 3u unterluhsn uno Be,
peiis su iammsln. @r Ieste oabsr cine
Srbinani Dor. welde Die Srnennun9
elmer iabiasn FsriOn ~ $3.50 monatll6
nit ausaaben besmsdt.
Die fiirdih bsitatists Rsiolntion iiir
einsn @aiollnbshsbdIter i'm $40 BlOd
an NpOmiug apsnue murbe DON Dem
Utapor NIT isinsm YetO bslsst 3nriid.
ssianpt. uno bas Ysto bann bsitdtist.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1918-04-25

= Weesn Der unsiiniti9sn @itteruna
lssfe Wrhe. III he it16tiihe llnrutb,
aufrdumuug nod auf olsis Wohe aus'
gsosbnt mcroen.
- Wtan usrssiis nidt bas Soupsr
Der Snmenitftion bts Scranton Vie.
osrfran3, nslhsS hsute pon 5 bis 8
llhr absnos i'll Der 8srsinsbals ltatt,
finbsn Diro.
- @barlss Spatbelf pon aoams
au.nue nuros DOnnsrftas ytaht unier
$500 Siirsifaft fir elm serihtlides
@rihsinen aeitsllt. inoem @liiabstb Ntph
uou aoams ausnue ibn bsi6uloist, Der
Sater bee 3inbeS 3u isin, osm iie am
6, Utdr3 bas 9sbsn idsnfts.
- Der 9udupanua 3ueis bdlt MOI
Gen (6reitas) 9iaht isins rssslm16iss
Misunderstanding ab. Snoem ofr
National Suno iid lssts Nohs frsi.
Dillis aufssl6it bat, neroeu in Der Ser.
lammluns Dabri4sinlid 5raasn aufae.
poiEn Deroen. Die pon 0ihtiaieit
iino. oabsr iit Gin lublrsid,s @rih.insn
erDiiniht.
- Srau Ssrmina Ssil. 9ailirerin
in Der Stuotidasmsiiters Office, bot
ltslsn Oonncritds cine Slass wsaen
Vsrleumouns sessn ben /. Serantonian4
anssitren9t uno uerlangt s25. 900 Snt
itabisuns. Die Sat,s ereiansts iif,
in Tsrbinouns nit ibrsr @Insnnuna,
uabosm Wiapor Council srnablt NOR
Den mar.
- Sstrsffs Der @rbOhuns Der Stra.
6snbabn 6ahrprsiie binterIslte Utontaa
Der Staotanpalt bel osm @eriht cine
Slase. in mflhsr g usrlanst, oa6 aue
Soutrafte ,Diiten Der Staot uno Der
SCRANTON Ruilpap @ompanis fir null
uno nibttg srtldrt worbsn iollsn. Die
Slaae 1T 10 oruiiiid. oab Die @ompanis
lhr Seitnft auf9ebsn mus. i'm 5aue iie
srlaubt piro.
- als ssitsru Wiittns Der Strid
ierriB, nit welhem 3arrsn Die aniahrl
in Der sldapanna 3sds ,u Beduius
blnaut ssioSsn Durosn. iin6 pisr Wtau.
ner psrltst Doroen. IS iino Senrp
Strsin uon 2aplor. Wtar gDilliams
uon Dunmors, 8iIliam Susbss uno
9ohn 9auln Don yiorb Scranton. Sm
Utlo. Sallep 9oipitul bsfiir6tste man,
oaB Strsin on sinsm S6dosrbru1 lei,
bet.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1918-04-25
9iieienuerfcbr in Berlin.

Bon bsm @ertsbr, Der in Der eils
pefternadt in Berlin berrfdte, sibt
cie 5requen3 auf Der So9s unO
untergrunbbabn 3eusnis. NGbrenb
in Der ilueIternndt bes Snbres
1916-17 uuf Der oo9babn 231, 900
Perfpnen bef0roert puroen, baben in
Der leBten Si!oeiternadt 431, 900
Perfonen, iomit 100000 gerionen
mebr, bic Sp9= uno llntergrunbs
habn benust. Gie slettrii6en Stras
Benbnbnen pisien gleidfalIs sinen
bsoeutenoen 9ertebr auf.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1918-04-25
Nprb Scrantpn.

= Weil ibnsn cine Vobnsrb0buua
usrwsisert wutbe. itrelttsn ssitsrn 150
3aselObner In otu Serantou giut une
Bolt Wetfsn.
- Die 8srlobuns uon Sr1ulein au.
9uita .. Hobsmaun uon Columbia
ausuus mit SObn 6. @oaus pou
@lart's Summii, 1T uussfiiuoist NOR.
Den.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1918-04-25
Nns Dem Dberen Sbale
(Hrhbalo @orrelponoeu,.l

= Sobn @arambO uon 2broop, Der
anssblih Dor Sahrssfriit OILS Wiistbsr
oss Sobu taussmSa bas @sbduoe on.
,iinbsls ODER burh itmanb anosrs on
'hnosn lis6, If lsstsn Sonnsritas Obns
3ulahuns uOn Ynrsihait. aui Die I'm.
tla8s Der Vruncitiituu9 Dem Ssldnsuis
iibermieien!norn ben. k3eEy%
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1918-04-25
SitfStpn.

- Der 10 Sabre alte Soiepb Ga.
bools uOn 9usbsstoDn Duros Oisnifls
in Der Butler 3ehs uon ouThbrsnncn,
Den Sarrsu gstootst. Seiue Arme pur.
Den ubasidnittsn unO elm BEN itllmm
,sroridt.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1918-04-25
Staot nno Gonntb.

A translation of the U. S. Treasury
Departments Bureau of Publicity plate
service appearing in this paper has been
filed where it was issued, at Cleveland,
o., as required by the Act of October 6,
1917.
A copy of these translations has been
filed by the Scranton Wochenblatt April
%, 1918, for the information of the post
master at Scranton, Pa.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1918-04-25

= @r' Prdiiosnt ROOisuslt pirS am
Z. Uiai cine Sampasne ssgeu bic per.
aussabs BON osuti4sn 5situHssn croft.
men.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1918-04-25

E9s iteint cine ,ismlihs JiOpitdt fhr
monht Ssute. ibrtu Stanbpunft iiber
Die 5thsnusridisbunselase gu srfldrsn.
ateI iie bOrie idon In 1918 auf, nit
mir cine yiouitGt ,u isin. aIs i'd sin.
rsitte uno burhfiibrte Die Dauis iSeh.
snpsrihisbunss Sorlase. go
SD nor Disosr on htm Nneriff Der
alsltsn ultsn ,5raae auf elmer brsitsren
@runolnse bsidoftist. als ih ole Wit,
slieo bss SeaisIatiuen &omittss Der
Seranton Sbetfldheihus @sislliHait
uisle Wtuls harrisburg bsiudIs i'm Sn.
tsrsHe Der Scarlet YorIase.
uno Isst III es oulislbe alte @sfsdt
wisosr ubsr. Sd mar Gin Plonisr in
TEN Slrsit fir Sber erflGhsihus. So
bin iset bafiir. Oarum nar ih itsts
iibsrslniiimmsno. SD babe mid ME.
mals aus psrlOnliben opsr politiiten
9Iiinoen stDsuoet Wisine 3lpei Ger.
mine in Der ysslslutur habsn mir &c.
nhssno @lfabruns sssebsn uno 1baten
IplCden lauteT nie YSorte.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1918-04-25

Gmpheblt cine Samorrboibrn Srs
banbluns. s5hr Nsute. bic nit Sa
morrboiben (9olbensr aoer) bsbaftst
fino, pirb Der nahiolgsnoe Bri,f, osn
mir iiir3lih pon Dtrrn Grid Srouid
uon @afmitsl, Sasi.. erhieIten. pon
Suters1t iein. Serr Br6mid lhrsibt !:
Ssit or,i Sabren NOR ih NIT ,wsl
usridisosnen artsn uon Sdmorrboiosn
bsbaftet. SD foniultierte mebrsre
Aer3te, uub periuhte ale Arten pon
bdmorrboioaliiheu 3uren unb Salben.
bic it In ben Apothefen trbalten fonn
te, iano inoes teins @rlsidteruns. SD
usriuhte bann 6ornts Alpsnfrduter.
uno nahrsm id Spu Slaih,u oauon
sebrautt bate, mar if uolliidnois 9s'
bellt. SD m0hte alen. bic abullh lei
Den pie ih s.litten babe. bies Seiln,It
tel smpisblsn. SD bin iibsr,eust, &c
piro ibnen Dilfe brinsen.A
2auienoe oanfbarer Dtdnnsr unb
Srauen habsn Die Voriiise pom 5ornIs
NIpsnfrdutsr als ein St1rfunsSmlttsl
fir oas Spitsm uno Blut be3sust. Sc
bot asrste. pie aud, 3aisu. iibsrraidt.
oaB Gin Ssilmitlel, aus 10 harmloitn
Ssitanotsilen 3uiammsnssisst nno oon
10 milber sDirtuns, iOlde sriinolihe
9eilerfolge si3islt Wtun fra9e niht
Oarnab in ben apotbsfsn. IS wiro
Dem Yublitum oiIstt sslieiert aus osm
2aburatorlum pon Or. Yttsr isnbrnsD
& Cons 60. 25O1 gBaibinstou BLOB.
eblcaso. 81. Wtun ihrsibe on oisiel
ben nm nabsrt Austunft.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1918-04-25
Ger muiifaliid . asi,lIidoftlits

Ott mutltauiW 9tIeutWnTtttme
absno. ben Der Sernutou Yieosifran,
ON DisuitaS Hadht in Der Yereinsbale
abhislt, seitultete lid, su timer rett &C.
miithIitsu slffaire uno oas poraetra
gene Yrosramm erniss lit ols elm es.
nu6reitss. @s muroe mt osm Sier.
nenbanner" er0ifnet rno nit slmsrita"
geihlolsu. s:msiniam pom Diannsr'
DIOR uno Dem 9ublltum ssiun9en. IS
sab mchrsrt Sortrdse bee Ufdnnsrhor,
Die unr ,iielih Sssebeu unb nit arOBem
Vsifnll bsarlibt woroen. ein Ssuor
iolo bee Artbur Slolln9mnptr erntsie
audi srosen Bsiiull oenu ss bsiist sirs
ilansuole. frditise Stimne. Sraulsru
Utdrg SOpls. Sopran. srwiss lih ais
Der SlsbIins bes Abencs uno ibrs Dots
tr19e Durpen entbuiiaitilh bs9riiBf.
gu elnsm reht ,sslalllgsn Vortra9 &c
ltaltete iit ous 2enors uuo BARTON
oustt uon Oapio NaB uub 5sro @bl.
moni, oenn beioe oslisen CUTE Stln'
men. Die ollen Gnauen bee Wfanner
DIOR. Z. 8. Sisbsder, Charles Waansr,
i. s. Nibmager uno Souis @Onrao.
pslte Elm. ourhibnitIllt)e OisniiSrit
uon 40 Sobrsn i'm Tsrcin binlsr iit
baben. lino noh lanse nlht ~auSae
iptslt.A osnn bas bon lbusn 9elunasns
Ouartett srtlans fraitts uno bulmO'
nlh ouTh osn Saal unb erre9te taulh'
suoen Seiall. nYOu cant beat the olO
Bcgs.4 Diit stner traftuollsu uuo &C
lhultsn 2enoritimme trns Oauio Wele
elm btilliantes Colo DOR. Oas folssu
be BaritOiOlo oes 6ero. @bamonl NOR
aub cine sslunsene Neiituns. oeun sr
bat ebeufalls cine flansuolle uno fIaf
tise Stimme. Sine an9ensbms Nb
wstielunS bot oos uon S sD. Sunss
uno 2ohtsr 9esebene SopIan uno V. 8
ruonOustt. 9Sir alle mlien. baB SEQ
6slton ous SdlOiisrssihdft aus BEN
vfA ueritsbt. absr nur peni9e lparsn
senabr. oaB sr aud cine 10 uorsii9lihe
BaBiiimms bsiist. mis iit bel leinsm
VortraSe bsrausltellie IS mar mirfllh
Elm Versniissn. ieiner fraitpollen uno
flansuollen Stimme 3u,ub0ren. Den
StlnB oes programmes biloeteu per
ihisosne BOrtrdge Der iiiugeren Wtit
Slisosr, WeIhs uussmeins 0slterfsit sr
rssttH. Damn fOlste Der 2nn3 upo bic
@emiithlihfat, welhs bis CUR iriiben
Ufor9tnliunoe anbielten.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1918-04-25

Or 's'"srsr o~vus<aresrssn In ser slas,
Sisfsrf Ole onos aes ~Noanenhaaf4-a
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1918-04-25
STiot iitr TEN 3unant Ter
GGbicitc SGnf. .

prn S,rnntor, Ta., Rp SEA Gttar apfnut.
eadouanpa gruu,p. FsnrislSanta, ON SHluf
ers @itGfts um IS. gpIil 1878.
8tlemtttel.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-13

ment departments, and to other in
dicatiOns of brOadened public Opin-
ion; nevertheless we believe today
that justi6able grievances of the
colored, people are producing not dis
loyalty, but an amount of unrest and
bitterness which even the best ef-
forts of their leaders may not be able
always to guide unless they can have
the active and sympathetic cO-opera-
ton of the National and State gov
ernments. German propaganda
amOung us is powerless, but the ap-
parent Indifference of our own Gov
eminent may be dangerous. Il
DiscreditabIe utterance-seek to Put
Race Loyal on Defensive, to Eek
aggerate Difficulty Of Redress ana
Then cringe and Leave all Indefi-
mite.
The American Negro does not ex-
pect to have the whole Negro prob
lem settled Immediately; he is not
seeking to hold up a. striving coun-
try and a distracted world by push
ing irrelevant personal grievances as
a price of loyalty; he is not disposed
to catalogue in this tremendous
crisis all his complaints and disabili
ties; he is more than willing to do
his full share in helping to win the
war democracy and he expects his
full share of the fruits thereof.
Gentlemen Of the Minimum.
But he is today compelled to ask
for that minimum of consideration
which will enable him to be an effici-
ent fighter for victory.-From the
Boston Guardian.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-13
UNCLE SAM NEEDS MORE CLERKS

Although the civilian workers in the
national capital have increased from
10000 to nearly $4,000 in the first year
of the war, the government still needs
specialized clerks. The United States
civil service commission announces
that there is an urgent call for appli-
cants for the positions of stenogra-
pher, typewriter, bookkeeper-typewrit-
er, clerk-bookkeeper, cost accountant,
accounting and statistical clerk, sta
tlstlcian, clerk qualified in accounting,
clerk qualified in business administra-
ton, index and catalogue clerk, sched-
ule clerk, passenger rate clerk, blue
print file clerk and assistant to bust
ness manager. These positions are
open to both men and women.
Representatives of the civil service
commission at the postoffices in all
cities are prepared to furnish definite
information and application blanks
According to the civil service CON-
mission, the full extent to which the
specialized clerk is needed is perhaps
not generally understood, and it is in
this class of work that women have
the best opportunity to be of real serv-
ice to the government at this time.
Eighteen thousand stenographers and
typlsts are at work constantly in the
government offices at Washington, D.
g., on. the tons of correspondence and
records made necessary by war prep
aratlons on scale such as the world
mas never known before
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-13

This coincidence has moved the
New York World to inquire: with
tens of thousands of American colored
men fighting for civilization in France
under the American flag, how much
longer are the American people to
tolerate lynching of colored men and
women?
The answer is easy. Lynchings of
colored people will be tolerated in the
South-where they occur almost ex-
clusively-so long as the political
party to which the New York World
adheres is permitted to deprive COL
ored citizens of their right to vote
and thus, through the exercise of their
civil rights, to protect their rights to
property and to life.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-13
HISTORIC COL 0RED LIBERTY CONGRESS

in seeking to wipe out the inconsist-
ency of their country at home and
were race loyal In Selling this world
opportunity to seek for their race re-
lief from senseless and undemocratic
prescription, they notified the Chief
Executive by sending written re-
quest to him to convene both houses
of Congress to hear them and send
ing a delegation to get his answer
Then they notified the heads of both.
houses of Congress by sending dele
cations to the Speaker of one and the
President of the other to ask for a
joint session. And in Speaker Clark
they found a. responsive nearer
though the extraordinary opportunity
could not-be- secured. They further
sought the advisement of the govern
ment by inviting two members of
Congress to address this Liberty Con-
greSs.
Congressman Martin B. Madden of
Illinois and L. G. Dyer, of Missouri,
author of the anti-lynching bill, who
declared all true Americans at home
should be bringing about democracy
in the u. S. A. while the soldiers are
fighting in Europe for world democ-
racy.
Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania,
presented the petition to the U. S.
Senate.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-13
cOLoRED TROOPS ALWAYS FIRST

|coLoRED TROOPS ALWAYS FIRST
Governor Whitman of New York
was not to blame because he aided
in the dedication of jimcrow branch
of that travesty on Christianity, the
Y. M. G. Abe was invited by the
segregationists who are engaged in
the nefarious work of belittling Christ.
The governor, however, called at
tention to the fact that the New York
colored regiment was the first to
carry the stars and stripes to the
firing line in France
That is not strange. It was a col.
ored mana mulatto, Crispus Attacks,
whose blood was first spilled in the
Revolutionary war. In the battle of
Lake Erie in the war of 1872, Commo.
dore Perry's colored marines were
first in the fight
In the Shareholders Rebellion the
colored troops were not first because
they were not allowed to enlist, but
when they did get in and 100000
were finally enlisted, they got to the
front in a hurry.
| At San Juan hill in Cuba in 1895
colored troops were at the forefront
and at Carrizal in Mexico in 1915 they
were among the first to die for their
country.
In every American war, the "col
ored troops have fought nobly."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-13
ON THE RIGHTS OF MAN.

Influential colored men in various
parts of the country have signed a
strong memorial to the President,
Cabinet, Congress and the Governors
of the states. We quote a portion of
it.
We are 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 humani-
tartan movements, in public carriers,
in Federal service the Treatment &C.
corded us is humiliating, dehumaniz-
ing 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 separate races, but to
impress us with the idea of supposed
natural inferiority. Such demoraliz-
ing discrimination is not only viola
ton of fundamental rights of citizens
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-13
NATIONAL CoLoRED LIBERTY CONGRESS
HOLDS THE MOST WIDELY REPRESENTATIVE CONVENTION
WHICH HAS met IN The LAST Is YEARS
-. AT WASHINGTON .. ~.- IT,
WRONGS OF coLoRED AMERICANS PRESENTED TO PREsI
DENT AND PLEA MADE TO CONGRESS AND AN APPEAL
THE CONSCIENCE NATION

Washington, D. c., July, 1918-The
most widely representative convention
of Colored Americans assembled in
the last Is years has for over two
days been holding a National ColOred
Liberty Convention in the John Wes-
ley A. ME-. Zion Church, 14th and
Corcoran streets. One hundred and
fifteen delegates, with fees paid, from
from Massachusetts to Alabama, New
York to Oklahoma. H. H. Harrison of
New York City was elected chairman,
w. H. Urine, Oklahoma; w. E. Hester,
Tennessee; A. w. Whaley, Massachu-
sets; vice-chairman, J. w. Bell, Ken
lucky; secretary, Mrs. M. Carruth
Simpson assistant, Rev. w. c. Brown,
treasurer. - 49,
Three mammoth mass meetings
have been held Monday, Tuesday and
tonight. Editor Trotter of the Guar
dian is chairman of the Committee to
draft the race petition to Congress
and he and his committee are work
ing with determination to get it re.
ceived by Congress. The speech OF
Maurice w. Spencer, chairman of the
local committee, on Monday night
was considered a masterpiece, as was
that of DR.. S. w. Harrison Of Fort
Smith, Ark. The address of Chair
man H. H. Harrison and of VIM. Nun.
roe Trotter were applauded to the
echo. A feature of Tuesday nights
meeting was the address of Rev. M
F. Sydes of R. I. and the splendid
singing of Miss Virginia Williams
who studied in Germany.
Delegation at White House.
Monday morning delegation from
| the Liberty Congress called at the
White House to see whether the Presi
| dent cared to discuss the request OF
| to answer M. W. Spencer was
spokesman. The other members were
Prof A. w. Whaley, J. w. Bell, I. B
Allen and w. E. Hester. Mr.. Tumulty
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-13
(From the Boston Guardian.

From the BOSCOu GudTulan.)
June 21st to 10th, 1918, are now
historic dates in colored American
history. They mark the approach OF
colored Americans to their federal
government in behalf of justice and
liberty for their racial group.
These eight days with Sabbath day
thrown in, witnessed the gathering
together in the nations capital of
delegates from all sections of the
country in the midst of a worlds war
to formulate and present to the fed
eral Congress a statement OF the
grievous wrongs visited upon their
race and a demand for redress.
Meeting under purposeful ques-
tionings of loyalty, and in spite of a
Jewish-American majors attempt
through the War Department to
thwart this race convention, yet
there was no wavering among these
delegates They came for share
for their race of the world democracy
which their country's president pro-
claimed as the flower of their race,
was sent into battle in another hem
isphere, and they never faltered. Day
after day the delegates met in two
executive sessions without a dissent
from the announced purpose of the
call. Firm in the conviction that
they were true to the real patriotism
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-13
BILLY THE BUNCO BOY,

When on May 10 Billy Sunday clos
ed ten weeks campaign for souls
in the big tabernacle in Chicago, the
final record was: Number of trail
hitters, 1885,; expenses of the cam.
paign, $4,000; number of co-operat.
ing churches, 424. The results of the
campaign in additions to Chicago
churches, it is estimated by the vari-
GUS pastors, will not exceed 1000. One
of the pastors said that nine-tenths
were already church members and the
other tenth yielded no results. Bill
cannot succeed because he misrepre-
SCENTS Christ by drawing the color line
il places where he ought to take a
stand for right. AS a bunco boy Billy
is bouncer.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-13
General Pershine Denies Rumor in U
S. That CoIored Men Get Most
Dangerous Posts.

Washington.-Form denial of re-
ports circulated in this country that
colored soldiers with the expeditionary
force were placed in more dangerous
positions than the white troops has
been cabled by General Pershing.
Pershing's CabIegram.
The generals cablegram, which was
in reply to one of inquiry sent by Sec
Rotary Baker, said:
"The stories, probably invented by
German agents, that colored soldiers
in France are always placed in most
dangerous positions and sacrificed to
save white soldiers, and that when
wounded they are left on the ground
to die, without medical attention, etc.,
are absolutely false.
1.-THE following are the losses as re-
ported up to June 18 in the four col
ored combat regiments now in France:
'Three hundred and sixty-ninth in
fantry, died of wounds, 8; died of dis
ease, 8; severely wounded, 2; 370th
Infantry, died of wounds, none; died
Of disease, 3; severely wounded, none !;
T1st Infantry, died of wounds, none !;
died Of disease, 8; severely wounded,
none; 372d infantry, died of wounds,
none; died of disease, 3; severely
wounded, none.
Are Highly Efficient.
"A tour of inspection just completed
among the colored troops by officers of
the training section of these headquar-
tiers show the comparatively high de-
gree of training and efficiency among
these troops.
"Colored troops in trenches have
been particularly Fortunate. as one
regiment was there a month before
any losses were suffered. This was
almost unheard of heretofore on the
western front.
1.-THE exploits of two colored infan-
trymen some weeks ago in repelling a
much larger German patrol, killing
and wounding several Germans and
winning Croix de Guerre by their gal
lantry has aroused a fine spirit of en-
ulation throughout the colored troops,
all of whom are looking forward to
more active service.
"Only regret expressed by colored
troops is that they are not given more
dangerous work to do.
II cannot commend too highly the
spirit shown among the colored CON-
bat troops, who exhibit fine capacity
for quick training and eagerness for
the most dangerous work"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1918-07-13
Is 1T FAIR?

We are sending millions of our
young men, the hope of our nation,
abroad to fight for democracy. Mean
while evidences are plentiful of a
transmutation Of our government, with
a decided trend toward socialism. Is
it fair to these youong men who are
about to shed their blood that democ-
racy may live that we repudiate that
democracy in their absence? Are they
to return to a form Of government for
which they did not offer the supreme
sacrifice, which they fail to recognize,
and which they could not approve?
If they are, then it may be that the
peace which they helped to force on
autocracy in Europe may have to be
supplemented by a peace similarly i'm
posed here.