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Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-11-22
WAR VETERANS AND
w. R. C. TO MEET

The Veterans of the Ciyil War are
requested to assemble in the parish
house at 10;1j o'clock Sunday morn
ing TO join in memorial service in
honor of the late COmrade Karl Gregg.
The Womens Relief Corps Will also
ioiR in the services.
l.. NJ. Chamberlin, Adiutant
Mrs. Elizabeth FarnSwOrth,
Corps President.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-11-22

Regular $500 and $4,000 sample winter
coats at $500. Only one Of a kinds and each
coat hand tailored Fur trimmed and plain
models with fancy silk lining, at $45oo
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-11-22
Do Il.

Aristotle said that the way to learn
to do a thing is by doing It. If the
saying be applied to the things Of the
mind rs well rs to the things done by
the hand, great good will come of 1t.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-11-22

Choose any Of our finest coats at $500
values to $500. silk pushes silk yelours,
silyertones, boivias, broadcoths--the very
finest coats of all Your choice $500.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-11-22
SENATE CLOSES IN.
ROW ON TELEGRAPH.
AND CABLE CONTROL.
SENATORS FEEL NEW FEDERAL
CONTROL WILL MEAN LOSS OF
NEWS OF PEACE CONFERENCE
FOR UNITED STATES.

Washington, Nov. 22.-Amid blaze
OF Republican oratory in the Senate
assailing the policies of President vii
son as autocratic, socialistic and de-
fiant of the intent Of war legislation.
the second session of the sixtyiifth
Congress adjourned sine die yesterday
afternoon.
Senator Sherman of Illinois and SEN
ator Watson of Indiana condemned in
unsparing terms the action OF the
President In taking possession of the
express companies and the cable-tele-
graph lines after the cessation Of hos
tilities, and charged that he had con
travened the spirit, If not the letter,
OF his war powers. Senator Watson
charged the President with breach o.
good faith.
See Wilson Control of News.
Both senators attached a sinister
significance TO the seizure of the cable
lines by the government on the eve
Of the Presidents departure for the
peace conference, pointing out that
possession Of the means of trans-At-
1antic communication will enable the
administration to control the news re
ports of the great conClave for Amerl
can consumption and the news reports
OF American public sentiment for dis
semination abroad
Lewis for Federal Ownership.
Senator Sherman attributed to the
President the purpose Of framing
up government ownership issue fol
the presidential campaign of 1920, and
In this connection Senator Watson
called attention to a resolution intro
duced by Senator Lewis proposing {
Senate Endorsement of government
ownership Of railroads, telegraphs
telephones, coal mines and oil wells.
The session of Congress closed will
Senator Reed of Missouri Democrat
asSailing the Presidents proposal OF ;
league OF nations to enforce peace
which he said would place the Unitet
States at the mercy of the bolshevl
of Europe and which 1t would b.
tratorous for any American to IN
pose upon his country.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-10-12
EFFICIENCY PLUS SPIRIT OF
SERVICE.
CoIored Woman in Bureau of Ensrav-
ing Makes a Record in Cur
rency Rush.

Mrs. Anna R. Grant, a Negro expert
currency examiner. did three persons
work for more than a week during the
recent currency rush. More than once
she went on duty at a. M, worked
all day and all night, until IL the next
day, stayed off that afternoon for rest
and went on again that night. From
July to September she was of greatest
assistance othose in charge by re-
lieving other girls. She is to all in
the bureau. regardless of race, an ex-
ample of rare efficiency and fine spir-
it,, one of her associates said
Mrs. Grants husband is in France.
The Negro girls as a whole in the bu-
reau are satisfactory and are said to
complain less than the other girls.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-10-12

managers could only see the outside.
| have had to live among them while
the managers lived above them.
They have been my associates, they
have been your servants. l have seen
their home life; you have seen their
public life.
The old saying that all colored men
are about the same in principle is an
error that should be reconsidered.
There are any amount of high class
colored walters today that are follow
ing other occupations in order to
avoid the contamination of the indis-
Greet anu worthless colored men who
have found favor with the so-called
headwaiter and are using the walters
profession to avoid honest labor.
The best and only way for the hotel
men of the United States is to encour-
age a school for the training of col
ored men for first class American
hotel service. Our hotels in the Unit
ed States have supplanted their own
well trained colored servants in many
places with foreigners of doubtful
loyalty and patriotism, who are not
only disloyal to our hotel men, but TO
America and Americas institutions.
The great crisis of today is furnishing
us with evidence of pro-German sym
pathy everywhere, and in all avenues
of labor. That the colored man is the
product of America cannot be denied,
even though there arc many un-
trained and worthless men among
them in common with other races.
Let the Hotel Managers Associa-
ton of America encourage similar as
sociations among those of the coloreu
walters who are not suitable for mill
tary service and with a school OF
training where those wishing to make
themselves proficient in the walters
profession may by faithful application
to study, obtain diplomas which VIII
be recognized by the hotel managers
throughout the United States. Then
will the service be put on a sclentlilc
basis. where men of honesty and char
acter can prove their real value.
Let all true Americans rise or iai'
together. The colored waiter when
seen at his best is an American prou
net and knows the American Ideals
and should not be substituted by inc
rifraff of the race who style them
selves colored first-class headwaiters
The Hotel World
The Colorado statesman., 1918-10-12
NEW CREW IN CHARGE
AT ST. CHARLES HOTEL

New Orleans, LA crew of sixty
colored walters under Headwaiter r.
n. Smith took charge of the dining
department of the st. Charles Hotel
on October l. The st. Charles Hotel
is regarded as the finest hostelry in
the South and is conducted on the
European plan. Dan Boone of Chica-
go is second waiter and II. w. Jen-
kins of Philadelphia, secretary. Most
of the crew was taken from New
York
R. N Smith is one of the best
known hotel men in the countdy. Last
winter he had charge of the dining
department of the Breakers, Palm
Beach, and this summer he was at the
Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-10-12
RACE NEWS S.tis's1 S,tisas s."'s.. res"

worlds record in driving piles on ship
way No. AS. at Hog Island.
'If ut first you don't succeed, try.
try again." reads the placard on the
pile-driving machine to which he
pointed, smiling, when he was asked
how he and his men had happened to
break the record.
THAT sign filled our crew with en-
thusiasm," he said. I'VE decided one
night that a new worlds record would
be made on the morrow, and it was.
OF course, we had some mechanical
troubles, but the men instead of fret
ting and fuming just looked up at the
sign and started in with renewed Wig
or The result was that the record
was smashed
Il am glad that the record was made
at Hog Island Here, If a man can de-
liver the goods in getting the ships
out on schedule time, he gets the
same credit and appreciation whether
he is white or black. It's a wonder
full illustration of the spirit with which
we are all working hand in hand to
defeat the land-grabbing, cruel Huns"
The Colorado statesman., 1918-10-12
PREACHER WHO PROVED
TRAITOR SLAIN BY WIFE

st. Louis, Mo-, Oct. 4.-Luther Pope,
age 50, a Baptist minister, and who
was branded as traitor because of
the part he played in the aiding of the
police to indict DR.. Leroy N. Bundy in
connection with the East st. Louis
riots a year ago, was shot and killed
by his wife, Mrs. Minnie Pope, at their
home in Centerville station, five miles
east of East St. Louis. Mrs. Pope de-
clared her husband had become no
torious drunkard and on several occa-
sions abused her. She shot him
through the right breast with shot
gun and death was instantaneous.
She is % years of age.
Mrs. Pope is held in the East st.
Louis Jail without bail. Pope is said
to have manufactured evidence
against members of his own race in
order to have them indicted in con-
nection with the race riots. For his
improper conduct he was forced to re-
sign his pastorate.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-10-12
GEORGIA COURT HOLDS SHRlNER
ORDER is ILLEGAL.

Atlanta, Ca, Oct 4.-After several
years of legal battle in the various
courts in this section, the State Su-
preme Court of Georgia handed down
decision restraining for an unlimited
period the order of Shriners of our
Race from using the name Shriner or
in anyway Identifying itself with the
white Shriners by the use of insignia
or regalia. The decision was against
an organization formed Immediately
after the white Shriners' convention
which was held in this city during the
year 1914.
Other Orders Fought.
This is the third attempt on the
part of Southern whites to stamp out
secret organizations among our people.
The Knights OF Pythias and Order of
Elks were targets for the white orders
of similar names, and only by unre-
stricted protest and legal appeal in
the highest courts did the Pythians
succeed in winning out against the
strong arm of prejudice and conceit.
The Elks are said to have allowed
their battle against disorganization to
drift in an Indifferent channel, and
suffered the results of being subjected
has not defeated the purpose of the
organization.
Fight Goes to Higher Court.
The supreme forces in the Shriners
have made known their intentions to
carry the case to the highest tribunal
of justice with the idea of protecting
the rights of the order, and to smother
the embarrassment OF having to make
a complete change in the use of insig-
mia and regalia. In the event that the
present decision is regarded as perma-
nent it will mean the loss of several
thousands of dollars to the Shriners
throughout the state, as the material
so far distributed to the various ladges
would total vast amount of expendi-
ture. The best legal talent in the
state has been obtained to appeal the
case in the United States Supreme
Court for the purpose of having the
present decision reviewed.
The same legal procedure that char
acterized the successful termination of
the Pythian suit against the white or
der in Georgia, Mississippi and Ten
nessee will apply TO the Shriners. The
manner in which the Pythians were
fought by the whites is so similar IN
nature to the fight now being waged
against the Shriners that the present
decision which seeks to annihilate the
order in this section is viewed with
little concern. But the fact that the
Shriners have been fired on by their
white brothers will test the sincerity
and benevolent affiliation of the order
throughout the country
The Colorado statesman., 1918-10-12
EDUCATION IN THE
PRESENT CRISIS.

HAMPTON. Va, Oct S.-"The Repup-
liz the world. and the Kingdom or
Cod need not only brave soldiers, but
intelligent, skillful, self-respecting, re-
liable. unselfish workers. we cannot
have too many of them. From them'
as well as from the more intellectual
ly educated, will come the aristocracy
of the future-an aristocracy not Oh
birth hut of worth-an aristocracy OF
the true leaders that every successful
democracy demands and sooner OF
later discovers"
DR.. James E. Gregg, principal OF
Hampton Institute, thus summed up
his survey of Industrial Education III
the Present Crisis" in recent ad-
dress delivered in Raleigh, N. e., be-
fore the National Convention of Con-
gregational Workers among Colored
People. DR.. Gregg also said:
."The United States Government is
discovering the need of saldier-me-
discovering the need of soldier-me-
ically in our technical schools all over
the land. 1t is estimated that at
least 22O, 900 soldier-mechanics VIII be
trained by next June.
MANY of these men will come BACK
from the war with a new self-respect,
not only because of their record ana
experience as soldiers, but also be-
cause they will return to their homes
better fitted to do their work in the
world"
The Colorado statesman., 1918-10-12

their shoes, others with dirty shirts
on. Still others chewing tobacco and
smelling of tobacco smoke and whis-
key.
Many times when complaints are
made by the guest of incivility on in
vestigation it will be found that the
waiter has stayed up late at night
gambling and has probably lost what
money he had and is cross because
the guests do not tip him.
In the meantime the manager sees
his mistake and decides to make a
change in the service by changing the
whole crew from colored to white or
from Americans to foreigners. Some
times he will take the headwaiter to
task for having deceived him in max
ing promises that were not fulfilled.
The ham headwaiter," for that is the
name given to such men, begins to ex-
plain the shortcomings of his crew
by putting the glame upon everybody
by putting the blame upon everybody
responsible.
With such men as the above men
toned it is no uncommon thing to see
the headwaiter carrying on conver-
sation with some of his men during
meal hours, keeping up a constant
buzzing in the room, which is very
annoying to the guests.
Another error which is very COM
mon among such walters is, talking
to the guest about baseball and craps
and other games, which is altogether
out of order in the dining room. And
| might mention some of the other
discreditable things regarding their
conduct in the kitchen, where white
help is employed-a great deal of non
sensical talk is indulged in there and
in many instances fussing among
themselves, and with the cooks steal
ing food and hiding it, causing a
shortage of articles that annoy the
guests and embarrass both the man
ager and the steward.
There was a time when this condi-
ton of things did not exist. l refer
to the days when the colored walters
were first trained as housemen, but
lers, and Wallets, etc, before entering
into life as public servants, men and
boys who could furnish references
from business and professional men
as well as from the families of good
society. Our headwaiters also were
tried men-men of intellect-men OF
patience, without the thought of graft,
either from the guest or from the
walters. They were men above re-
proach, yet they were courteous, po-
lite and obliging. They did not think
they were kaisers because they could
employ and discharge a waiter with
out consulting the manager; lndeed
it was rare thing for a waiter to be
discharged from first class hotel, in
many parts of the country.
The question is oftimes asked, why
have things been changed? And
where are all of the first-class, COM
petent and proficient colored walters?
What has become of the highly re-
spected headwaiter? You say you
have tried all kinds of colored men
and have finally abandoned the idea
of ever bothering with them again.
To these objections let me say l
feel very much in sympathy with the
hotel managers, because being col
ored man and retired waiter l have
been able to see the inside, while the
The Colorado statesman., 1918-10-12
CBy Henry ]. D. Sample.)


A FTER twenty years of retirement
~ as a hotel waiter and having
studied from cause to effect,
why the colored walters have lost
their prestige with the public, and
consequently have become extremely
unpopular with hotel managements,
propose to state some of the unde-
niable facts concerning their inef-
ficiency. and indeed the errors which
are so common and conspicuous wher-
ever colored walters are employed
think it is wise and timely also to
recommend the proper remedies as
an antidote for some of the principal
errors which have done more to de-
moralize the colored youth of the race
and drive them from the profession
than anything else.
First, the unchaste, uneducated and
upscrupulous Negroes have forced
themselves ahead of the most conser-
vative, well trained men of the Negro
race and have styled themselves rep
resentatives with a large following,
most of them and their followers be-
ing OF the lowest moral type of the
race.
This class of men have the effront-
cry to write letters to hotel managers
throughout the United States, making
propositions to furnish them with first
class dining room help at an extreme
" low cost to the hotel management,
whose names they secure from the
various hotel magazines. AS a result
the managers of some of the hotels
who have had trouble with unions
and shortage of help turn their at
tention towards these self-styled head
walters, who are nothing more than
confidence men and "Iinhorn gam
blers." And in answer to their prop
osition make a request of the appli-
cant for former reference, which will
of course be forthcoming.
In a large city there is no trouble
at all to secure any kind of reference
if one is willing to pay the price. And
the INSCRIPTIONS Negro will stop at
nothing to gain his point when once
he has gained an audience with the
manager.
Now let us see how he proceeds af-
ter he is employed, to furnish crew
and take charge of the dining room
at a set time. First, he has some of
his cohorts to frequent the pool
rooms. gambling clubs and other such
resorts in search of men, with the un-
derstanding that-they will be reward
ed by promotion to second waiter,
captain, or given the privilege OF run
ning the games. When the time
comes all is cut and dried. Mr. So
and-So is installed as headwaiter ana
the news is spread far and near tnat
Mr.. So-and-So has been made head-
waiter of such and such hotel.
In a short time the men begin TO
find out that not only their wages
are too small to pay their expenses
but also they are being robbed Oh
their daily tips by "pikers' who are
working in the crew for that purpose.
The headwaiter having fixed every
thing in advance is very innocent
when told of existing conditions.
consequently men begin to get dis
couraged and lay off sick or find other
work. Meanwhile the service is 60
ing from bad to worse. Some of the
men are untidy, unshaved, some with
ragged shoes, some with no heels on
The Colorado statesman., 1918-10-12
HOW PILE DRIVING RECORD WAS
BROKEN.
Capt. Edward Burwell of Crew of 4
Negroes Describes Remarkable
Feat of Hog Island Workmen.

king" Burwell-otherwise Capt.
Edward Burwell, Negro leader of a
Robert Bruce with the inspiration
which led his crew to break the
The Colorado statesman., 1918-10-12
What Ais the Colored Waiter?

Retired Col
oedHe of
Character and Diposion?Sug
TIan
Stanley Park Colo the Past Season. and
buton On the
The Colorado statesman., 1918-10-12
LETTER FROM LIBERIA, AFRICA.

A reply to j. n. Walkers letter ad-
dressed to The Africans in America -
asking the question, Are we citizens,
or are we not?" Liberia offers many
inducements for Africans in America
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-10-03
ENTRARON A SAN QULNTN LAS
TROPAS DEL Oral. DEBENEY
Los ngleses rornpieron Ia Inca Hnndenburgg
entire Ia citada plaza y Ia de Cambria

biGn en- Ell macizo de St. Goba!n.
En- vista de Ia perdida por los ale
names de San Quintin y de las Il
meas a! rorte de esta cildad. pare
&c probable que ell enemigo empren-
dcra una retirada en- una mayor es-
GAIA. Dado Ell magnifico tempo que
crevalece. ~cSperase que Sc efectue"
Tuy importantcs camoios en- e. fren-
te occidental. anteS del invievno.
Las fuerzaS del MariscaI Haig han
meCido fuertes cuHaS en- Ia Inca ale
mana entire San Qu;ntin Y lie Cate
let Y u comandantc inglas informo
hoy que Sus tropas habian roto IA
Inca aicmana en- Ell frente compreE-
dido entire F'onSommeS : B~eaarevoIr.
Este ultimo punto Sc haila a dos '
media m,llaS a! orientc d" lie "a
telet y FouSommes como = cinco MI
las al noreSte De San Quintin.
La villa de S~eQuchart, cue csta
a cuatro Y media millaS al sIre;te
de Bellicourt. ha SjGo ]capturada por
los britanicoS, los miSmo que el ran
cho dc P~resSelleS. que Sc hal.a eXac-
tamente al nortc.
Al sur de Cambria, los ingle>es
Y las tropas ~escoSeSaS. iuntamente
con- las de Nueva Ze.andia. han ocu-
pado Crevecoeur y Rum:!?y.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-10-03
DAMASC0 CAYO
EN- P0DER DE- Los
BRITANICOS
Dei Scrricio Especial de LII PRENSA."

D.i Scrricio Especial de Lii PRENSA."
lONDRES. Octubre 2.-Damasco.
Ia capita! de Siria. fue ocupada por
las tropas del general. Allenby aver
en- la manana. scgun dice un despa-
cho oficia! recibido hog en- esta ca
pita!.
Damasco era la base de o~peracio-
nes de los turcoS en- Siria Y IA Pa
lestina Y su caida s.gnifica probable
mente. ell fin de la re~sistencia oto-
mana a las fuerzas de- general
.Allenby.
Dicha capital es un importante
centric ferrocarrilero, pues de ella
parten Was f6rreas para Beirut Y
Alerpo. ciudad csta Ultima que Sc ha-
La a $50 millas de Damasco, Y que
es Ia mas im%portante base turca en-
II region del Asia Menor. pues c5
81 punto de union de los fer%rocarrilcs
que van a Palestine Y Ia MesoCota-
mia.
Damasco es la capital del Bajalato
de Siria Y cuenta con IN poblacion
de 10000 habitantes. Es una de
as ciUdades santas para los Maho-
metanos V los arahcs la c~onsideran
como Ell cuarto ~para::o de Ia terra.
La captura de DamaSco marca un a.
vance de $50 millas por las rropas del
general Allenby, iesde el 20 de sep
tiembre proximo pasado en- que inicio
su avance ~victorioso al norte de Je-
rusalem.
En- csc lapse de tempo los ingle-
ses han capturado ma; de $4,000 tur-
COS Y deStruido cuando menos tres
ejercitos 7tomanos V echado 4 los
turcos de Palestine Y una gran parte
de Siria.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-10-03
EVACUAN SERBIA
LAS TROPAS
BULCARAS
Dc! Scrricio Especial pare Ia PRENSA.

Dc! Scrricio Especial pare La PRENSA.
LONDRES, Octubre 2.-Serbia es-
ia siendo evacuada por las tropas bull
garas, que cstan regrasando a terri
torio de Bulgaria, segun dice el CO.
municado Official serbio trasmitido el
martes en- la noche Y recibido en- es-
ia capital hoy.
Cuando Sc puso fin a las hostilida-
des en- ell frente de la Macedonia de
acuerdo con ell armisticio firma-
do por los bulgaros Y los aliados, los
s@rbios ocupaban una Inca en- csc
frente, desde Uskub al oriente a ira
YES de una serie de importantes mon
tanas, hasta la frontera bulgaria GER
CT de Charevo. kumanovo. cinco mi
Has al noreste de Uskub fuG ocupado
cor los serbios el lunes en- la noche.