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New-York tribune., 1918-06-30
Community Service
To Raise $4,000. 900

All this cannot fail to havr its leav-
ening power on the negro problem. Il
is largely matter of education. and.
like the rest Of Us, the negro viii
emerge better educated. The War
Camp Community Service has seized 81
the war as the pretext for doing WORK
Of education that is necessary at III
times. The cornerstone is laid for ans
work.
The work Of the War Camp Com
munity Service as a whole has had TO
little recognition by the general puD-
lie. 1t Isl second to none in importsnee.
1t is doing creative work among sofs
diers, white and black, that viii seana
in times Of peace. Next October the
War Camp Community Service plans =
drive to raise S12 2,o00, 900 for the nstice-
al work. Along with the dollar tnas
you are putting away for the Red Crosa
and the Y. NJ. c. A. put away anefhek
for the war Camp Community -
vice, for it belongs to that noblA eele
pany.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-30
Negro selected men on Syay to Camp
Upton

former war times, when training camp
was likely to be a scourge to a COM
munity. The Law Enforcement Divis-
ion has done its work we'll. Where
whiskey is exiled the greatest force for
evil is eliminated. But this is q mega
tive element. The positive work of sur
rounding the negro with conditions
favorable to his development, of study
ing his needs and thereby helping him
to help himself, has never been at
tempted seriously before.
The War Camp Community Service,
as its first act after the gift by the
Rockefeller Foundation, organized the
following committee, which is making a
special study of the negro situation:
Joseph Lee, chairman War Camp Com
munity Service; John L. Einstein. Vir-
ginia secretary, who is to be in charge
of the work at Newport News; James
H. billiard, Wallace Buttrick, Thomas
Jesse Jones, Frank W. Darling, James
E. Gregg, L. Hollingsworth, Wood
Jackson Davis, George Foster Peabody
and Julian Rosenwald.
To gain sympathetic comprehen-
sion of the workings of his mind and
his racial aspirations this committee
on negro work. at its first meet
ing added to it's membership five
negroes of recognized achievement
Major Robert r. Motion, president of
Tuskegee; Emmet Scott, aid to the
Secretary Of War; j. M. Candy, presi-
dent of the Virginia Normal and In
dustrial Institute; George E. Haynes,
assistant to the Secretary of Labor,
and Mrs. Harris Barrett, director Of
the Virginia State School for Colorcd
Girls. Most negro educators believe
that salvation must come to the ne
gro by his own effort. Others can
help little or hinderfa great deal.
The committee first sent out T, S.
Settle to make survey of the con-
ditions surrounding camps where there
are negroes. Mr.. Settle is young, dy-
manic and Southerner. He under
stands the Southern negro and the
Southern white.
His survey was chiefly in the South,
where the Jim Crow laws bar the negro
from every first class entertainment.
He found that the negro on leave must
satisfy his play instincts in question
able dance halls, inferior moving pict-
ure houses and in what resorts he could
find. Negro Y. M. C. AIS, where they
existed, were feeble. The whites of a
community were Indifferent. Curiouslv
enough, Mr.. Settle encountered oppo-
sition on the part of negro preachers.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-30
Negro soldiers at Camp Meade Maryland developing
Camp Community Service Eliminating Social
Snares in Path of Colored Soldier and Organ
izing Positive Influences That Send Him Abroad
Fit and Self-Respecting
By Rebecca Drucker
and, developing into first class fighters

in to see them every time he gets to
town. And, don't smile-just for the
joke he's Joined the community
chorus-sings bass. That dance the
Odd Fellows gave the boys last satur-
day night was hummer. There's to
be another next Saturday night, given
by the Kings Daughters. Well. be-
hind all these activities stands the
War Camp Community Service, work
ing through all the agencies in a COM
munity, letting them have all the
credit, merely lining them up, raising
the funds locally and supplementine
shortages from its national treasury
setting all the wheels in motion and
seeing that there is no duplication of
effort. To many people with sons and
brothers and husbands in the armv the
War Camp Community Service is not
even a name, so unobtrusively does it
work.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-30


Offices. Club rooms already opened will
be turned over to girls clubs and Red
cross, ETC., when the new clubhouse
is ready.
The activities of the women will
certre here. For the problem of what
to do for the soldier is twofold. On
It's reverse side it automatically pre-
sents the question: "What is tn he
done for the women of camp town ~
Without direction they form more than
half the problem. In fact, they pro-
vide whole problem of their own. So
IN the plan for a model communitv
centre is included community house,
"nere the women may spend their i'm
pulses in war work. In this second
building there will be rooms for Red
gross work, Y. W. C. A. canteen.
classes In conservation. all for women
New-York tribune., 1918-06-30

Club or rest rooms; good toilet facili-
ties; writing facilities; typewriter, Vic
trola, piano; sleeping quarters; oppor-
tunity to attend church; opportunity
to spend several hours and take
meal in respectable homes; special
gatherings in the club with opportuni-
ties to meet women; pool tables. The
| last was too much for a tall negro
preacher who was present at the meet
ing. "Pool!" he shouted. eve need
Jesus, and here comes a nigger talkin'
pool" No kissing greeted this re-
buke; on the contrary, there was pro-
longed applause.
The articles they asked for could be
furnished to them easily enough. But
to meet the greater social need of the
soldier required the creating of negro
community life that should express
itself through native channels. To ex-
press his spiritual and emotional life
it would have to be motivated largely
by religion and music. In these two
are the greatest allies for his educa-
tion.
The War Camp Community Service
ranged up its churches. Once con-
WINGED, they worked with will-they
gave church suppers and dances, picnics
and prayer meetings.; they urged the
| hospitality of members toward the SOL
diers. Then the Community Service
organized the great community sings
that start with cover There" and
"star-spangled Banner" and finish up
with grooming, poignant "spirituals," !"
men, women and children taking part.
No one who does not know the negro
understands the degree of spiritual
and emotional satisfaction the negro
gets out Of music. 1t intensides and
purges his every mood.
But the chul ches might welcome him
and his fellow negroes fall to the
work of entertaining him with will
he still had no place where he might
60 at will and where certain prac-
tical provisions, like a decent place to
eat and sleep, would await him at any
time. This necessitated establishing
central quarters for him, which has
gradually developed into the larger
idea of community centre.
The Rockefeller Foundations gift of
$4,000 is to be spent in erecting such
a model community centre for negroes
in Newport News. 1t has stipulated
that the money shall be spent in
one model community centre to serve
as demonstration to other cities Of
what can be done. Newport News was
chosen because its need is perhaps the
greatest. There are five camps in close
proximity to the town. A plot of
ground is to be bought and laid out
as playground, with a baseball and
athletic field as its main features. On
it is to be erected a large building
that will have on it's first floor re-
ception room with writing facilities,
books, magazines and comfortable
chairs, and an auditorium in which will
be given motion picture shows, con-
certs, etc. On it's second floor will be
dormitories, showers, lavatories and
New-York tribune., 1918-06-30

who are continually coming into camn.
Where at first they came fearfullv. ana
sometimes sullenly, they come nov
cheerfully, knowing they will be fairly
treated. Consequently, it takes half n.
time to make a good soldier az hin,
AL this has penetrated to their fam;-
lies at home. 1t has enlisted them. toc
conservation, the Red Cross, Thrift
Stamps, Liberty Bonds-thev b.v.
ADOPTED the whole programme Of war
work. The service flag is, perhsns
even trifie more overworked th.-.
than it is in white quarters. Jobn.o,
tne husky negro who captured seven
oocnes at an outpost and marched them
INTO camp at the point of his bavop.t
was asked how he managed the seven.
ne is reported to have replied: &r iuat
nao TO get seven They've got me- ON
seven service flags back in the States y
Inc seven, it was figured out. WERE ~.
church. his Sunday school, his lob ri,
lodge his mother, his wife and ~,
ex-wifa.
The War Camp Community ss-v,..
".ee"pss 60 raise as much money for
negro work among negroes as IL can
out' OF course, it must be satisfied !.
get small proportion of the recui,sS
funds from this source. Il ia a s;.r;e
cant testimony to the rousing Of soc;.,
consciousness that the money which I.
raised locally comes largely from Whit
people. In Petersburg, Va, where
SIo,ooo was raised, $4,000 was cheer
1ully given by white men for n.vro
work. Here at last is the placing ~
social responsibility. Race prelude.
iaid aside for the duration of the war
cannot return with quite so much fore.
Segregation may be as complete as be-
tore, but it is not fraught with so much
bitterness.
In utilizing the negro's patriotism in
.nis war we are at last beginning dimIy
70 realize how much we have overlooked
heretofore IN taking stock of our M
tional resources. The spirit of tn. ne-
gro that, almost unaided, Is beatinc amt
Its way to civilization and culture
that Incredible, indomitahle snfrit a.
Booker 7. Washington-is something
we cannot afford to waste in our "a
ticnai life. There is a special rcss-
surance for those who beIieve ID the
nope OF negro citizenship n what
MAJOR Robert R. Motion said to the pec-
pie OF his race in a recent address
at Hampton Institute: s0The most i'm
portant and vital business that faees
America is that of preparing pecpls
to fight We are fighting not simply
to kill men--that is an incident-but
fighting to kill autocracy. In iustice
and fairness, it is not necessary for
colored people as q rule to emphasize
the Importance of loyalty and patriot
ism. They have always had it. It is
right, however, to rcemphasize their
Importance. Passive indifference IS
dangerous among any people, whits Of
black. Every American should give his
country everything that he has, every
ounce OF loyalty, sympathy and back
ing. We are going to do all we can TO-
perfect ourselves in our attitude, con-
duct and spirit toward our country.
That will make the morale which ought
to be back Of our government and
back of our men in the trenches. We
must stand by our President and his
advisers"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-30
Organizing Outside
Influences for Good

The forces within the camp that arc
bending him to habits Of discipline,
understanding of fair play and respect
for himself would be so much wasted
effort if the old conditions of boot
logging and vice, license and brawling
which surrounded camp lasted as in
New-York tribune., 1918-06-30
Negro Neglected
Outside of Camp

But its work among the negro troops
has had to be of more intensive
character. His need was so much
greater and the field so much less ex-
plored. The negro was usually sent
70 train in the same camp with white
soldiers-but wholly separated from
them. He had his quarters in another
part OF the camp, his own Y. M. C. A..
MS own place for religious services
but there was not the same solicitude
on the part of townspeople to enter
tain him outside the camp. His davs
on leave might be spent in an aimless
or dangerous wandering about the
town, or he might gravitate to what
dives had not yet been closed in the
camp town. In either case someth;no
would be sure to happen that would
justify the worst suspicious Of the not
too kindly disposed townspeople. To
avert serious disturbance needed work
OF insight and foresight. Because this
work seemed SO important the Rookie
teller Foundation has made specia1
gl1t OF $25,0O0 to have the whole nro.
gramme worked out at once in a tvn;ca1
camp community.
This money is to be spent under the
auspices Of the War Camp Community
Service in conducting single, special
experiment. 1t is to go toward form
ing a model community centre for
negroes, men and women, that will
prove to other camp cities what can be
done in making the negro a positive
factor in the winning of the war. r. 10
something over and above the regular
work of the War Camp Community
Service that the gift of the Rockefeller
Foundation enables it to do.
10 go back a little. There was an
element in the South at the outbreak
OF tho war that hoped for the exemp-
ton OF the negro from military service.
Ihls element resented his loss indus
trlally. 1t looked for the rising of
violent antipathies in the sight of a
"cocky nigger in uniform" 1t marked
apprehensively the arming of force
that might even prove a hostile ele-
ment. The cheering for colored troops
marching into encampment was faint.
7 On the part of the negro, he was
drafted into service for war whose
aims, in the nature of things, were,
with rare exceptions, incomprehensible
to him. He had his apprehensions too
being herded and Disseminated
againstwere only few of them, The
burden Of responsibility of being
obliged to fill one of the cardinal
duties of citizenship bewildered him.
He had little heart for the thing at
| first.
We now accept the fusion of the
negro into our National Army as so
much matter Of course that we scarce
wonder what were the forces at work
with him. So quiet and intensive were
they that unless we know something Of
them there is great danger that with
the passing of the war we will dis
continue them-and so lose something
New-York tribune., 1918-06-30
Breaking Down
Religious Prejudice

10 break down these prejudices Set
tie called meetings of leading colored
people,, especially teachers and preach
ers, and explained that where they re-
fused the colored soldier decent en-
tertainment they drove him to the other
sort. He reused their pride and their
patriotism. He formed committee
among them and went on to the promi-
nent white people. To them he ex-
planned the advantages of directing the
energies of the colored soldier in an
orderly way-and reused them to their
responsibility. The usual procedure
then was to levy upon each camp town
certain amount to be raised locally
to be supplemented by certain amount
from the national treasury.
Where there was colored Y. M. C.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-30

Their rncompromisirg orthodoxy made
them look with suspicion on the sug-
gestion that they open their churches
to entertainments for the soldiers. 1t
would establish, they feared, prece-
dent of frivolity and laxity in the
Church. In so many cases, too, preach
ers had warned their congregations
against the immortality of the soldier
that he was looked on suspiciously.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-22

Eugene Call, for three years teacher
of the seventh grade of the Morrisville
high school, has resigned and Miss Eta
Smith of Craftsbury succeeds him.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-22
BURLINGTON STORES DAMAGED
Loss Was About $4,000 in Candy and
Dress Goods Places.

Burlington, March ga fire which
started in the basement of the Vermont
Candy Kitchen at 80 Church street
worked through "A partition into the
Mcconnell Dress Goods store early yes
terday morning, causing a loss which is
estimated at $4,000.
Smoke and water contributed 10 the
loss TO a great degree. Seven streams
were necessary before the blaze was un-
der control, and the fire was very diff.
cult TO fight.
Three iremen were overcome by smoke
and had to be dragged out of the build
ing William Snow, Frank Breen and
Joseph Gonyeau were the mon affected.
They soon revived, however, upon being
brought out into the air and returned to
their duties Allies Niles, call man.
was also badly choked up by smoke.
The damage was greater because Of
the fact that both stores had just stocked
up with spring goods
Mr. McConnell's will be larger through
smoke and water. Although the fire did
come into his store on the main floor the
tons and tons of water and the dense
smoke badly damaged the handsome new
spring garments and other goods with
which the store was filed.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-22

WANTED -- rurI rw-ss - ths Teu-toa
stafs HaEuitals alec stts-e1rts- r-.e ard 81
-zis. ~ rartir1la-- sa5ress D.. Ar-hur v
Cess. saperlrten8era e - Taurtua Stsss
E1zrtsL Talntoa. Mas lax
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-22
CONFESSED FORGERY.
Ira Youth Admitted Wrongdoing Before
Rutland Judge. -

Rutland, March 22.-Frank Foulosk
of Ira, aged 10 years pleaded guilty in
Rutland county court yesterday to the
charge of forgery in uttering a false
check and on request of his counsel B. II.
Stickney, that he be placed on probation
Judge Zed 5. Stanton ordered the case
referred to Probation Officer John J.
Hickey for fun investigation, the county
officer to report to the court in the near
future.
About two months ago Fouloski went
into the store of Frank y. Nobert in
West Rutland, ostensibly to use the tele-
phone. While in the Office alone he took
blank check from Mr. Noberts check
book and filed il in for S45 payable TO
william Boutey.' signing Mr. Nobert' 5
name. Fouloski rendered the check.
which was q crude instrument, in pay
ment for merchandise bought AZ the vii
son Clothing company store in this city
II was discovered that the check was
false before any money had been ad-
vanced on il but Fouloski made his
escape Temporarily. being arrested a few
DAYS later. He has been in jail since the
occurrence.
Attorney Stickney. in asking for pro-
baton. commented on the fact that the
respondent had been = steady workman
and q Young ulan Of good character be-
fore ~ got into the present scrape. He
& needed az home 10 help hi mother
support FIVE fatherless children. states
Attorney a. v puulin. who appeared for
the state. opposed The probation hsrsusc
~ thouEhf d would not have the moral
sHect on the community that sentence
-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-22
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE
ESTATE OF FRANK GIUDICI.

The undersigned. having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the, District
of Washington. commissioners. 10 receive ex.
anime. and adjust the claims and demands OF
all persons against the estate Of Frank Giu-
diei, late Of City Of Barre in said district
deceased, and all claims exhibited In offset
thereto. hereby give notice that will meet
for the purpose aforesaid. at the office of
Smith, Whitcomb & Cook Co, in the city Of
Barre. in said district, on the S0th day Of
March and gath day of August next, from
o'clock a. M, until o'clock D. M, on
each of said days and that six months from
the 25th day Of February A. ID. 1918,
Is the time limited by said court for said cred
itors to present their claims TO Us for examina-
tion and allowance
Dated at City OF Barre this 9Th day OF
March. A. D. 1918.
FRANK L. SMALL.
JOHN b. MAGNAGHL
Conamission
Marche-I5-2o
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-22
CRANITEVILLE

Public dance in Lassassos hall Satur.
day night, March 23, three-piece orches'
ira; admission 75c; ladies free, Every
body come.-adv.
Germany and her allies are fighting Ia
destroy and her allies to save
democracy. Armenia and Syria are
the democracies OF the far East Saving
the people of these two countries is a
war measure and has the approval of
President Wilson and the national and
state public safety committees. The Ar
menian and Syrian relief fund drive is
one more opportunity for you TO help win
the war-March "A TO 81 inclusive.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-22
Better Than
Worm Tablets

Some people who are troubled with worms
whose children sometimes suffer that way
try to get rid of the trouble by using worm
tablets. worm lozenges or worm candy. They
fail TO get the quick results that can be OBJ
tanned with Dr. Trues Elixir the family lax
alive and worm expeller.
In fact DR.. Trues Elixir, liquid medicine,
is positively better than any worm tablets,
worm ozenges or worm candy. There is no
remedy that can compare with DIR. True .
Elixir for quickly expeipg worms, whether
they are stomach worms or pin worms.
Besides that, your stomach is toned up and
normal action of the bowels Is restored when
you take DR.. Trues Elixir. II is doctor
preparation. originated by DIR. True and on the
market more than so years,
DR.. True's Elixir. the Family Laxative and
Worm Expeller, pleasantly. easily and quickly
expels worms and makes you feel much better
Remember this when you your chden are
troubled with worms. Don't take those worm
lozenges tablets or candy that may upset you,
but use DR.. True's Elixir that tones and soothes
stomach and bowels and expes worms.
Lots of people have worms and don't know
it. Children have them very frequently. White
us for symptoms.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-22
JUST WALKED AWAY.
Rutland County Jail Prisoner Was I'm
loading Coal

Rutland, March 22.--William Demsick
formerly a slate worker at Poultney
who was serving short sentence at
the Rutland county jail for breach of the
peace, escaped yesterday morning about
$50 o'clock while unloading coal from
freight cars at the Temple siding on
West street. He had worked about an
hour, in company with another prisoner,
transferring the fuel from cars to the
prison wagon, when he tired of his job
and walked away. He was clad in the
garb of a prisoner when he eloped.
Demsick was sentenced from West
Rutland on March s to serve 66 days for
breach of the peace and thus he had only
43 days left. The fugitive is a native
of Hungary. He is Al years old and
about five feet and seven inches tall,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-22
9 Good All-Around Livery or
Family Horses

These horses are safe and kind, viii
work single or double, hard and ready
! for business, and desirable lot.
! SIX SH0ATS; will weigh about 100
I TBS. each. the Others about 40 TBS each.
Also IL single drive harnesses, set OF
double work harnesses, ] set of BRASS
trimmed hack harnesses, | set of nickel
trimmed hack harnesses, ! set of brass
trimmed 3-seater harnesses, | set of 2
scatter harnesses and express harnesses,
! rubber-tired hack, | steel-tired hack,
both good ones, one cost 81, 100 to buy; l
Ford touring car, 1916 model, | Ford
touring car. 1917 model, both in good
shape: remember that Ford cars cost
500 more than last year; steel-tired
top buggies, | rubber-tired top buggy, 2
open rubber-ti tired buggies, 5 steel tired
open buggies, ] 3-seat canopy-top wagon,
a good one: | open 3-seat wagon with
pole and shafts, | natural wood Court
landt cart 2-seat wagon. other 2-seat
wagons, good 2-horse lumber wagons,
2 express wagons. 10 single driving
sleighs, , express sleighs. pung sleigh,
nice 3-sest sleigh, l2-seat sleigh,
heavy sleigh with barge body. 4 extra
wagon and sleigh poles, 10 square street
blankets. fall lap robes, 10 summer lap
robes, y heavy winter robes, 3 sleigh
heaters, | clipping machine, fur coat,
bells. whips. hitch ropes, chains, whiffe.
trees. etc Also ! office roll-top desk. l
good iron safe. ! Glenwood heater with
some other articles not mentioned. You
will find this to be a good lot of livery
property. Liverymen, farmers and ey-
eryone. attend this sale and make some
money. as all Of this property comes
high now to purchase new. This sale viii
take place regardless Of the weather, as
the sale will be held inside II stormy.
Nothing 10 be bid in or reserved, every
thing goes. as NC are going out Of bust
ness. Terms at time Of sale.
JOHNSTON & GAMBLE. Owners.
c. T. SMITH. Auctioneer, Barre, VT.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-22

wANTED-Oia fake teeth don't rnnttcr =
t-1tan rzy a. 10 SIS uer SEA seud ~ rar-
Ter, tGs y Wolfe street Batiuors Ma
e-stEHs
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-03-22

At the village meeting in Bennington
March 10, the voters decided to purchase
a motor truck for the street and wat
err department, at cost not to exceed
$1,000.