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The Colorado statesman., 1918-02-02

hot water bottle in my bed so that 1t
would not be cold at bedtime.
"Our troops are growing to like the
hospitable billeting system and l ra-
ther imagine they will object to sleep
ing under canvas on the march again.
"Just now most of the regiments are
deprived of their commanders. AL
most all the regular officers are doing
staff duty as l am. The biggest prob
lens now are problems of organization
and until these are solved we will not
return to our regiments. The machine
is beginning to run smoothly now,
though, and some of the officers are
rejoining their toops ready for action
when you consider the lack of real
military experience in our country in
the handling of large units it is aston
shing and gratifying to see the pro-
gress we already have made in organ
izing this new army of ours. The
American genius for organization is
standing us in good stead, but, my
Lord, we have lot to learn YETI
Denver Post.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-02-02
WHITE MAN SPEAKS
ON RACE" PROBLEM

work in his behalf At any rate it can
be said here, too, that the Colored man
is bound to come to the front. If it is
found that he can deliver the good"
why should l not patronize him in his
store, in his shop, etc? Yes, and well
meaning people will discriminate ra-
ther for than against him. And when
he steps out of this more than crude
state of his present day occupations to
compete with his white brother in the
different trades, professions, ETC., and
can hold his own, the race question, /
think, is partly solved.
Far away is beautiful land, thither
we are struggling. The only road that
leads to there is called the road of
righteousness. In that far off domain
is only one law: The brotherhood of
men, written in divine script in the
hearts of the people. But before long
the shores of this promised land are
reached the ugly specter of race dis
tinction has vanished from among us.
T. FRIEDRICHSEN,
1887 Federal st.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-02-02
NOTED JEW GIVES
ANOTHER $25, 900

st. Louis. Mr.. Julius Rosen-
wald, the Chicago philanthropist
and president of the Sears-Roe-
buck company, played Santa
Claus to the St. Louis citizens by
sending his check for $25, 600
to help out in the erection of the
new Pine street department, Y.
M. C. A.
Mr.. Rosenwald's offer of S25, =
900 was conditioned upon St.
Louis raising S75, 600 for Young
Mems Christian association for
Colored men. St. Louis went be-
yond the condition and is erecting
a building costing $3.50, 600 for
Y. M. C. A. purposes.
Twenty-six thousand dollars
of this amount has already been
paid in by Colored people on their
pledge of $50, 900. This includes
The Colorado statesman., 1918-02-02
CANON CITY, COLO.
(By C. M. b.

The Friendship Club met at Mrs
Holidays residence Friday afternoon
They report very interesting and de-
lightful meeting. Knitting for the Sam
mics are their chief ambitions. We
hope them much success.
Rev. Prowell is able to be out again
after an illness of a weeks duration
with a very severe attack of grip. The
writer wishes a speedy recovery.
Miss Madge Fox of Colorado Springs
is employed in our city as a stenogra-
pher for our Mr.. Captain Gates. She
is a delightful and entertaining little
lady and we all wish her much success
in her new field of work.
The Colored unit OF guards is sta
toned near our city. They are in the
emkIdyment of the d. G r. G. guard
ing their interests. We can truthfully
say Canon City never had nicer set
of colored boys than these that are in
our midst now.
Captain Gates of the Colorado unit
, is confined in the house with a very
bad cold. We hope him a speedy re-
covery.
The Willing Workers, a Canon City
society composed of Canon's younger
set, meets Monday night at Mrs. Hol-
liday's residence. Every one looks for
ward to some very interesting business
at this gathering.
Mrs. Carrie Harris has been very i'll
for the last two weeks. She is much
better at this writing. We also hope
very speedy recovery for our Mrs.
Harris
Miss Hattie Boyer and mother are
visiting our city. Mrs. Boyer has been
ill but Canon City's sunshine brings
sweet tiding of a very great improve
ment. They will stay in our midst un-
til spring. Welcome to our city.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-02-02
Y. M. C. A. NOTES.

Evangelist Saunders, of Pueblo, was
the speaker at the mems meeting last
Sunday afternoon. He spoke on the
opportunity presented to the associa-
tion everywhere to ministers to the
needs of men, and trusted that this
service.
A junior Bible class, composed of
boys from IL to IA years of age, was
formed last week. Eight boys are at
present in the class, which meets
every Monday evening at 1880 o'clock.
The course they will study is well
adapted for them, and is entitled Men
Who Dared"
The new Glee club recently organ
lied is doing well under the present
leadership of Professor Watson. Thir-
teen members were present at the
rehearsal Wednesday evening. Their
new books have come, and the men
enjoy the work A photograph will be
taken of the club.
The membership of the branch made
a splendid increase during the month
just closed, there being AZ new mem
bers and IL renewals, with 60 pledges
for February Secretary Bell and the
committee of management are conf
dent that the $50 goal will easily be
reached by April /.
A Thrift servie will be held Sun
day afternoon at 4 o'clock All men
will be welcome. The program will
begin at four and close promptly at
five.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-02-02

Time after time. together with the
rest of the city of Moscow, the Krem-
lin has been burned, the last occasion
being in 1872 when it was occupied
by Napoleon and the inhabitants Of
the city themselves started the con-
tlagrations in all parts of the city. 1t
was indeed these fires which forced
the little corporal to commence his
disastrous retreat across the snow
bound steppes of Russia. Napoleon
had his headquarters in the Kremlin,
and while the flames were not so de-
structive there as in other parts of the
city, yet they forced evacuation.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-02-02
MAI. H. R. LEWIS
LANDS AFRICAN
TROOPS IN WAR

TXCELLING Marco Polo as tale
r.. tellers, setting the cobblestones of
French village streets to ringing
with the wild music of the desert, sung
to the exciting, insistent notes of their
native reed-pipes, the African troops
fighting under the tri-color have
laughed, sung, and talked their way in
to the hearts of their French hosts in
the villages in which they are billeted
by night as they march to and from
the front, according to a letter re-
ceived by Major G. N. Barney from his
brother-in-law, Major Robert H. Lewis,
serving on general staff in France.
81 have just got back to headquar-
ters from a weeks march with divi-
sion of full-blooded Arabs which was
being relieved from the front after
very meritorious service. 1t is one of
the crack divisions of the French army
which has made the Boche smell hell
more than once in the vicinity of Yer
dun. I never saw finer bunch of
troops in my life anywhere. The men
sing and crack jokes on the road and
when they arrive in a village they
make the eyes of the peasants stick
out with the tales they tell. The ma
tive pipes play streets of Caro- music
whenever the regiment passes through
even the smallest village and the
whole world turns out to give them a
smile.
"The peasants are very fond of their
Arabian brothers-at-arms. They give
them the best rooms in their houses.
In fact, the whole system of billeting
is entirely new and interesting to an
American. Imagine the howl that
would go up in one of our small towns
in the middle west if $4,000 men were
dumped on them in the afternoon with
orders that each family should provide
lodgings for so many soldiers.
Here in France many times my
landlady has got up before dawn to
light the fire and bring me my coffee
before the march and has even put a
The Colorado statesman., 1918-02-02
RACE NEWS S,tisa, S.t;s's' s,'rsss res"

a S., 900 subscription by Mr.. and
Mrs. A. E. Malone and a 81, 900
subscription by F. L. Williams,
principal of the Sumner High
school, both of which have been
paid in full. Two other SUBJ
scriptions of $1,000 were made
by w. C. Gordon, the undertaken
and laundryman and DR.. w. L.
Perry, pastor of Antioch Baptist
church, both of whom have made
substantial payments on their
subscriptions. Over 1,400 per-
sons have paid in full thoir pied
ges to this fund for the new Y.
M. c. A. since the new move
ment began in 1915.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-02-02
ATLANTIC CITY GETS
NEXT SESSION OF
BUSINESS LEAGUE.

Tuskegee, Alabama, Jan. 26.-
Emmett j. Scott, Secretary of
the National Negro Business
League, has been authorized by
the Hon. J. C. Napier, President
ane DIR. Robert R. Motion, Chair
man of the Executive Committee,
to announce that it has been de-
cided to hold the next meeting of
the National Negro Business
League at Atlantic City, New
Jersey, August 21-22-23, 1918.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-02-02
Eaton. Colo. News.

Pastor Rev. ]. T. Muse and wife
were here Sunday at their post. The
Baptist Mission had good services,
both morning and afternoon. There
were two added to the church men,
bership
The Sunday school had very in
teresting lesson and was well at
tended Mrs Muse interested, and re-
ceived the attention of the young peo-
pie while teaching and reviewing the
lesson as we had never seen before.
We were glad to see Mr. William
Buckner and Mr.. Fred Harper at
church Sunday. They haven't been
able to attend church for over three
months on account of their work.
Mrs. James Smith has been quite
sick the past few days, but is better
at this writing
Mrs. Fred Jones has postponed her
trip to New York indefinitely on ac-
count of the storms and cold weather
they are having in the east.
Rev. and Mrs. Muse stopped with
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Harper Sunday,
their old headquarters, where they en-
joyed a delicious dinner.
They are invited to stop with Mrs.
NJ. C. johnson on their next trip
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Reed have moved
to so Main street.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-02-02

Albany, N. Y Assemblyman
w. C. Amos of New York, au-
thor of the bill to make Emanci-
patton Day, September 21, a legal
holiday. has received a letter
from Benjamin Fowler of Glen
cove, L. l., a Negro, who re-
Gently gained some publicity by
the fact that six sons had enlist
ed, announcing that his seventh
son has joined the army. Our
last one joined today, making
seven," says the letter from the
father.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-02-02
Cheyenne, Wyo., News.

Mr.. Hesekiah Christian, of Peublo,
Colo, spent few Jays in the city
visiting last week.
Mr.. Elmer Norman, who has been
working in Colorado for several
months, was here visiting his family
last week. Mr.. Norman was looking
well.
Rev. c. o. Smith, d. D., pastor of
the Second Baptist church, who has
been visiting his family in Hutchin-
son, Kansas, for the past five weeks,
has returned to his charge. Rev.
Smith says he had one of the most
pleasant visits with his family and
friends that he has ever had.
Mrs. Frank McCombs, last week, on
her return from a three weeks visit
in Denver, to her surprise, found her
husband, Deacon Frank McCombs,
sick in bed with la grippe, though he
is able to be out again.
Mrs. Henry Ashberry has been quite
ill with tonsilitis the past week, but
is improved.
Rev. Nance, of Boulder, Colo, and
former pastor of the A. NJ. E. church
at Grand Junction, Colo, is here, EN-
ployed at the Union Pacific shops.
Rev. ]. T. Muse and wife went to
their charge at Eaton, Colo, Sunday.
Mrs. E. w. Wright, Pip Snyder
street, underwent an operation Tues
day at the st. Johns hospital, for ap-
pendicitis, and is reported to be get
ting along just fine.
Several persons that were con-
verted in the recent revival meet
ings were sprinkled. Others will be
immersed at a more convenient time.
The Evangelist Pastor Rev. N. H.
Jeltz left wednesday for Casper,
Wyo., where he will conduct 10-days'
evaneglistic meeting for Rev. j. o..
Minor, pastor of the Grace A. NJ. E
church of that city.
Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. E. Blair,
both of Grand Island, Neb., are here
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. A. Palmer. Mrs.
Palmer is the daughter of Mrs. John
son and sister to Mrs. Blair.
Mr.. John Keyes, VINO was found
dead several days ago in the rear of
917 w. 10th street, was shipped to
Kansas City, Mo-, by request of his
wife, Mrs. Mary Keyes. Mr.. Keyes
was 26 years of age.
Rev. G. S. Stacker, who kept up the
fire and ministered unto the sick man
until one o'clock on the morning of
his death, received letter from Mrs.
May Keyes, 561 Hawson street, Kan
sas City, Mo-, thanking him for his
kindness to her husband.
Sunday, at the Second Baptist
church, Pastor Rev. C. o. Smith oc-
supied the pulpit both morning and
evening. Services were well attended
The Colorado statesman., 1918-02-02
Chicago Defender.)


THE race question in our country
has to be solved by both races.
While it concerns vitally the
black man, yet the white man is al
most as much interested in its final
solution. For the white man has to
change his front more than the black
fellow, because his position of exclu-
siveness and disdain won't be strong
enough in the end to halt the march of
civilization.
The race question began almost with
the importation of the first Negroes
to our country, and agitated the minds
of the best and most enlightened men
ever since. The attempt to justify the
conduct of the white man toward his
Colored brother during the interim of
about $50 years would be as foolhardy
as it is impossible. Slavery was from
its incipiency to 1865 curse to this
country as it would have been to any
other country. Since the liberation of
the Colored man from bondage the
race problem took, of course, a much
more acute form, and it is as alive to-
day as it ever was, as occurrences of
recent date have shown. The question
naturally arises then: What does the
Negro want? Broadly answering that
question, would say: He wants rec
ognition of that what he is. The Ne
gro has acquired education in common
+ Ii, @1,, oil
as his white brother While his fore
fathers were graduates of the great
university of life, he now wants the
ideals and improvements that spring
recognized in other words, he wants
to be respected. He asks no odds nor
favors, but his rights. To the close
observer the situation by comparison
between the two races is many times
this: An educated Negro, say for in
stance a doctor, lawyer, ETC., meets
a white man, who has perhaps less in
telligence and development. Can it be
possible that you would demand
superior honors for the white man
simply because his skin is white? Is
that Colored man preordained to less
respect because his skin is black or
brown? Right here is the point of
contention. The black man knows
that some of his Race have as much or
more talent than many of the whites,
he knows not few of his Race have
as much or more education and are
better read than some of the whites;
he knows that their manners are more
polished at times and their character
b as good or often better than the white
mans. Why should he then be de-
spised? The Colored fellow asserts he
does not clamor for social equality, but
in the light of common sense this is
not so. He claims appreciation of his
development and progress just as well
as the white man. The man of super
ior attainments never looks up to the
man who is less fortunate in such
things.
The improper valuation by the white
man of the progress of the Colored
people is the first great point of fric-
tion between the two races. The sec
ond one concerns the purse or the di-
vision of the purse. The Negro is ad-
mitted in number of occupations of
everyday life, in others he is barred
Such times as the present and the pro-
1ongation of these times are apt to
The Colorado statesman., 1918-02-02

..,. Hist. & Nat Hist s'''
state House
The Colorado statesman., 1918-02-02

Albany, N. Y.-Assemblyman
E. A. johnson, New York first
Negro member of the State Leg
islature, has presented bills
making it a misdemeanor to
exclude Negroes from any hos
pitals supported by public funds,
and permitting soldiers and sail
ors to ride free on all transit lines.
Speaker Sweet has put Assem-
blyman johnson on the Codes,
Canals, Penal Institutions and
Revision Committees.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-02-02

and enjoyed by all. The Allen A. M. E.
church enjoyed a glorious Sunday.
If you want to know what is going
on in the country, subscribe for the
COLORADO STATESMAN.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-02-02

Rochester, N. Y.-At a meet
ing of colored citizens held at A.
M. E. Zion Church Monday ev-
ening, resolutions were adopted
and a petition signed, which will
be forwarded to President Will
son, asking leniency in the cases
of the colored troopers under
sentence of death and imprison-
ment for taking part in the riot
at Houston, Texas, last August.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-02-02

st. Louis, Mo. Suits agg1 egat-
ing more than $500, 900 have been
filed against the city of East ST.
Louis, ILL.,, for damages caused
by the recent race riots. The
treasury of the city is now empty
and it is facing bankruptcy.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-27
BREAK A CHILD'S
| COLD BY GIVING
| syrup OF figs
Cleanse the Little Liver and Bowels
and They Get Well Quick.

When your child suffers from a cold
don't wait; give the little stomach, Hv-
er and bowels 4 gentle, thorough
cleansing at once. When cross, peev-
ish. listless. pale, doesn't sleep, eat or
act naturally; II breath Is bad, stom-
ach sour. give teaspoonful Of Cali
fornia Syrup Of Figs" and in a few
hours all the clogged-up, constipated
waste. sour bile and undigested food
will. gently move out Of the bowels.
and you have a well, playful chilli
again.
II your child coughs, sniffles and
has caught cold or is feverish or has
sore throat, give a good dose of
California Syrup of Figs" to evacu-
ate the bowels, no matter what other
treatment is given.
Sick children needn't be coaxed to
take this harmless ~fruit laxative. !"
Millions Of mothers keep 1t handy. be-
cause they know its action on the
stomach, liver and bowels is prompt
and sure. They also know a little
given today saves a sick child tomor.
row.
Ask your druggist for 4 5e-cent bot
tie of California Syrup of Figs"
which contains directions for babies.
children of all ages and for grown
ups plainly on the bottle, Beware Of
counterfefts sold here. Get the gen.
uine, made by California Fig syrup
Company."-Ad -
The Washington herald., 1918-03-27
MAKES APPEAL
TO WISCONSIN
REPUBLICANS
Vice President Marshall
Makes Speech Supporting
Davies for Senator.

Madison. Wis, March 26.-Vice Presi-
dent Marshall in an address here to-
night. made a strong appeal for the
elimination OF partisanship In the
forthcoming Sensational election. He
said In part:
more than 100000 men counted life
a cheap loss to save Verdun to France.
1 come to find out whether 10000 Re-
publicans will not count the loss of
partisanship cheap II thereby Wiscon-
sin may be saved to the union. Your
State is under suspicion. The law
of politics is that, SO far as useful
ness Ii concerned. you may as well
have bad character as a bad repu-
tation. You Republicans have made
the issue here in Wisconsin. II the
primary vote Is based upon the
charges and counter charges you have
made against each other, you are
about half for America, half for the
Kaiser and all against Wilson. Your
self-appointed leaders are now trying
to convince the loyal half that the
really important thing is not loyalty
or disloyalty but party success. Hav-
ing purified the stream in the pri-
mary you welcome the sewage to help
you over the election. 1 think there
are large numbers of you who will not
want to rest under such suspicion
Wisconsin Is not only on trial before
America: The Republicans, of Wis
consin. are on trial before the world.
Are you a patriot? Answer truth
fully, by the memory of the dead; by
the hope of the unborn, to your coun-
try in her hour of travail Can you.
dare you. will you be a partisan in
such an awful hour?'
The Washington herald., 1918-03-27
PURELY PERSONAL.

Miss Grace Bradshaw. of Charlottes-
vile, Va. is being entertained by
friends in town.
Mrs. Henry II. Rogers left Sunday
evening for New York City.
Dean w. woodman. of Evanston.
Ill. is in Washington for ten days oil
two weeks.
Miss Mary NJ. Lorner, of Washing
ton, Ia. is the gues: Of friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Thomas left
yesterday for Hot Springs. Va.
James 4. Robertson, of Montclair,
y. j., arrived in town yesterday.
Martin n. Jones. of the General
Land Office. has returned from a
short stay in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Paul L. Hatton. of st. Louis. Mo-,
is visiting in the city.
John Frey, of the navy yard, is on
sick leave.
Harry Edelin, of the Patent ONCE.
has resigned.
George +. Paris, of the Government
Printing Office. has received a pro-
motion.
Cleveland Thompson has received a
probationary appointment as steno-
grapher in the War Department.
The Washington herald., 1918-03-27
US. EXAMSFOR CODER
in war DEPARTMENT
Competition April 24-SeveraI
Other Vacancies Announced.

Competitive examinations to I'LL a
vacancy for coder in the War Depart
ment at salary Of from $500 to 81 200
a year will be held throughout the
United States on April "a. the Civil
Service Commission announced yes
terday. Examinations will be open to
both men and women.
Applications for the following posi-
tions, for which no competitive ex-
.aminations will be held, will be re-
ceived until all vacancies are filled:
Assistant i'm fermentation mycology
Cfemale), 81 200 year.
Inspector of cresoting work (male),
$5.0i per day.
Junior mechanical engineer (male).
s, 500 to 1850 a year
Clerk qualified in statistics or ac-
counting (male and female), 1900 to
81 800 year.
Statistician (male and female), 81. 800
a year.
Gauge inspectors helper (male), ST.
600 to 81. 200 a year.
Welfare executive (male and fe-
male.)
Steel plant, machining plan, NUM-
tion loading plant and powder plant
clerks (male and female.)
The Washington herald., 1918-03-27
LIBERTY BOND
SALES GIVEN
RIGHT OF WAY
McAdoo Requests W. S. S
Workers to Advance Sue
cess of Loan.

War savings stamps workers will
relax their campaign to cooperate
on the third liberty loan, Secretary
McAdoo announced last night. This
was his answer to reports that the
fifty and hundred dollar bonds are
to be eliminated in favor of war
savings stamps.
The war savings organization. by
direction of Secretary McAdoo, will
continue its general educational
program. endeavoring to spread the
thrift spirit as widely as possible.
1t will not urge the sales of the
stamps during April, however, ex-
cept in cases where buyers are
unable to purchase bonds.
In a statement directed to execu-
tives of the war savings and liberty
loan organization, Secretary Nc
Adoo said:
In the coming liberty loan drive
the war savings organization should
continue their efforts in the forma-
tion of war savings societies, edu-
cational work in the schools and
general thrift propaganda work.
Their actual selling, however,
should be- combined and co-ordi-
mated with that of the liberty loan
organizations to the end that dur
ing this period sales of government
securities. both liberty bonds and
war savings stamps should be
made in the largest amounts possi-
BILE to each individual buyer, but
the purchase of liberty bonds rather
than war savings stamps should be
the main object"
Bankers asking for the elimina-
tiOn of small denomination bonds
were met with the statement that
these bonds form too large a part
of the program 20 be dropped. In
the second loan the fifties and hun
dreds formed over one-fourth of the
total. the fifty dollar sizes selling
over $500. 900. 900 and the one hun
dred over 5000. 100000.