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The Colorado statesman., 1918-07-06

more determined than ever in spite
of all opposition, discouragement and
failure. This idea of freedom, which
was God-given to man, was not appre-
ciated until His Son came to set up
His kingdom in the hearts of men.
Man has been trying ever since to
have the kingdom come on earth, as
It is in his soul.
From one country to another, from
the East to the West, the idea of free
dom marched until it reached the
shores of America; and today. after
thousands of years of suffering and
sacrifice, man has set up in these
United States government of the
people, by the people, and for the peo-
pie.
Our President Wilson calls on all
birth of freedom and liberty for the
entire world. He says:
"As July 4th, 1776, was the dawn of
democracy for this nation, let us on
July 4, 1918, celebrate the birth of a
pew and greater spirit of democracy,
by whose influence we hope and be-
ficYe that what the signers of the Dec
laration of Independence dreamed of
for themselves and their fellow coun-
trymen shall be fulfilled for all man
kind"
The appeal of President Wilson
that the world be made safe for free
men is the worlds Declaration of In
dependence.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-07-06
BoLEY is MAKING GREAT PROG
RESS.

Boley, Okla.-Boley. Okla, an ex-
elusive Negro town. is ninety-five
miles southwest of Muskogee. 1t is
city of the third class, duly incorpor-
ated. Boley boasts of bank with
deposits amounting to 100000; twen-
ty-five grocery stores. three hotels,
three restaurants, water works costing
$4,000, electric plant costing 100000,
four cotton gins. one bottling works,
one newspaper, two drug stores. three
ice cream parlors, two hardware
stores, one jewelry store, four depart.
ment stores, one ice plant, one tele-
phone exchange and a Masonic Tenn
pie costing $4,000.
The town maintains one college,
one high school and one. graded
school. The assessed value of per
sonal property is one million dollars.
The city officers are: Mayor, d. ].
Turner; city clerk. H. C. Taylor, Jr.;
city treasurer. William Hazel; city
justice. William S. Peters. Board of
Aldermen, w. C. Love, F. B. Jones, C.
P. Young and E. C. Cozine.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-07-06
The TASK SET OUR CORPS
OF PATRIOTIC SPEAKERS

for thousands are our friends, we
were patriots in the darker days,
well be patriots to the end.
But ere the cause of right is won,
ere the world has answered to the
call of human brotherhood, the walls
of hatred must be levelled to the dust
and as charity begins at home, so
must the foul, unreasoning curse OF
racial hate be banished from our
midst and in the land of newborn
hope, Democracy must not be myth.
We ask no special favors, we seek
no special rights but while we raise
our voices for the cause of worldwide
freedom we must see the dawn oil
hope across our own dark night.
Can we speak in clarion tones or
sound the harp of praise with the
memory of the jim-crow car still be-
fore our gaze?
can we call our brothers to the
strire to fight for others rights 10
make the world safe place to i've IN,
while on our memories is pictured a
tree limb and rope; can we paint
scene of freedom with beauty all Sc
rene when within our mental vision
is dark forbidding scene? scene
OF dancing, gleeful devils, fiends from
the pit of he'll dancing around stake
chained victim, crazed by their mur-
derous yells. Tortured by hot irons
and the flames worse than our pic
lures of hell.
These are the major wrongs we
would have righted, these are some
of our just complaints, we have lesser
ones in the Northland as unjust, we
know all black men are not perfect
but we know there are no white
saints. We ask but measure of JUS
tice, that measure that is every mans
! due, we ask but fair trial, we ask 1t,
our country, from you. Until 1t is
granted we'll raise our voices on high
We'll fight for the cause of America
and thousands of the black boys will
die, but Wen never cease to demand
justice till the maker of justice is
dead and we live in the hope that He
still lives and no matter how long it
may be, we know that the giver OF
Justice has ordained that all men
shall be free. That means the black
men of America as well as the serfs
beyond the sea.-Philadelphia Trib-
une.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-07-06
POWDER coMPANY'S WATERS
GET A RAISE.

Kervil, n. 1.-THE colored walters
employed by the Hercules Powder
company demanded an increase in sal
airy on Wednesday, June 10. Under
the leadership of one of their number,
they sent their demands to the gem
eral manager, who was at first reluct-
ant to grant them. The men stuck to-
gether, and when he saw they We're
ready to leave in body. no one back
ing out, he readily granted the de-
mand. The men are mostly young men
and they agreed as one to abide by
any agreement reached through their
chairman.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-07-06

OMf OIL Oul 49,
have been worried over the
~ great task facing our corps of
speakers designated by the
~ War Department to arouse
higher tide of patriotism
among the twelve million of colored
citizens of our land.
There is no doubt of the patriotism
of the dark skinned subjects OF Uncle
Sam.
Love of country is as deep-seated
and as immovable in the hearts OF
Americas sable sons as in the hearts
of her citizens OF boasted Caucasian
lineage.
Even down in the prejudice-cursed
confines OF the Southland the brother
in.black loves the land of his birth.
The nightingale singing in notes di-
vine sets atune responsive chord IN
his sad heart that leaps and longs Ior
freedom as dearly beloved as human
being has ever felt since the sweet
ness and peace of Eden faded in the
distant days OF yore.
The sun rises from the blue tinted
waters of old Dixie's lakes or soil
dyed streams and sets beyond us
green-clad hills or rugged brows OF
rock-ribbed mountains with rainbow
tints and red-gold CLEANS and calls
for the same God-planted admiration
from the depths of the soul OF the
black son as from him of whittier hue.
The drowsy hum of the thrifty pee
midst the Towering buds of field ana
dell, the sweet laden air charged with
the odor. OF jessamine or magnolia
lifts the eyes of the black to the blue
vault of the same heaven that covers
his brother-in-white and he breathes
the free ozone that God gave and for
gives at least for the time being, the
injustice of his oppressors. He loves
the wife, the child, the fields of gold
en- grain, the thatch-roofed cottage or
the grander home wherein he dwells,
. he loves the woods, the plains, the
mountains, the river and the dells,
yea. he loves the land of his birth, he
loves it well.
Does the proud oppressor love 1t
more or can his spirit rise to higher
heights than black men may attain?
The patriotism of the sable sons OF
America is as deep-rooted as its rock
ribbed hills, as undying as the pale
moon beams soft lights that play upon
the sands of her ocean-kissed shores.
He has never betrayed the trust OF
the land that called him slave, nor
has the assassin's mark upon MS
brow eer shown him a graceless
knave.
But while he loves the land that
gave him birth and served him well,
the men who lured his ancestors to
these shores have spoiled the beauty
of his dream with scenes borrowed
from the depths of hell.
He does not love the brutes in hu-
man form that rape, lynch, murder
and defame, nor can he ever love
those fiends that consign his loved
ones to the flame.
He loves his friends, be they black
or white, their rights he will defend,
he'll die their honor to maintain, MS
country's call he will obey, but he too
must be free.
'Tis hard to sing song of peace
when bitterness assails the heart. us
hard to smile a CLEAN of joy when in
Justice bids you frown.
We love the land, we love our
homes, we love the friends that bid us
hope.
We love the noble band of whites
The Colorado statesman., 1918-07-06

- - People, VIII be In attend
ance at the Convention of
the National Association of Colored
Women to be held in Denver July 8
to July 10, inclusive. Mis- Ovington
will speak during the session on
July IL.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People has
just completed a drive for members
as a tribute to the national president
of the association, Mr. Moorfield
Storey, the distinguished Boston
lawyer. The tribute given Mr.. Storey
in the unique form of a drive for
members for the association was oc-
casioned by the winning last Noyem-
ber by the unanimous decision of the
United States Supreme Court of the
so-called Louisville segregation case,
the Supreme Court in that case decid-
ing that all ordinances for the pur-
pose of segregating Negroes in sepa-
rate residential sections in cities OF
the country are unconstitutional.
The association announces that on
April 15 it mad approximately 10000
members in the country as whole,
At the present time, as a result OF
the drives the associations member
ship has increased to approximately
35 900, distributed among III active
branches located in all the principal
cities of the country, from Boston on
the east to San Francisco and Los
Angeles on the west, from st. Paul
and Minneapolis in the north to
Louisiana and Texas cities in the
southern states, and with one branch
in the Panama Canal zone. aYss
Miss Ovington was one of the three
founders of the Association which
dates from 1909 Her interest in the
uplift of colored people has been con-
tinuous from that time onward. AT
the time of the Associations origin
Miss Ovington had been for four years
The Colorado statesman., 1918-07-06
WAR Department WILL BROOK
NO lMINATlON.
All Gases of Alleged Unfairness Re-
ported viii Be Fully investigated
Secretary Baker Says ANY Wrong
Done VIII Be Riqhted."


Washington, d. c., July 1.-The
War Department has made it clear
that it will tolerate no discrimination
against colored draftees by the local
draft boards in any section OF the
country and that cases of alleged un-
fairness will be fully investigated and
corrected by the departmental author
tiles.
Secretary of War Newton D. Baker,
in a recent interview, speaking with
reference to alleged discrimination
against colored draftees, said. in part
Il have heard that draft boards in
adjoining counties take a different
view of practically identical facts with
regard to colored men: but the ans
wer In all these cases is that review
is provided directly by the President
and all that is necessary for anybody
TO do who thinks there is grievance,
is to point it out to the War Depart
ment, and it will be investigated. II
the draft boards act unfairly. we VIII
correct their action.
THE War Department will brook no
discrimination. and any cases OF al
legged or suspected discrimination
brought to our attention will be in
vestigated. and any wrong done VIII
be righted"
The Colorado statesman., 1918-07-06

studying the status of the Negro in
New York and was living in model
tenement in the Negro section of the
city, the only white person in the
block. She was the first headworker
of the Greenpoint. N. Y, Settlement,
is now the President of the Lincoln
Settlement for Colored People, Brook
lyn. N. Y, and is author of two vol
umes dealing with the Negro, Half
a Man" and Hazel" In her study OF
Race problems Miss Ovington has
spent many months in out of the way
places in the rural South and in the
West Indies. She is the direct de-
scendant of a New England Abolition
family.
The Association is engaged in an ac-
tive campaign against lynching and
mob violence, against discrimination
of all kinds on account of color and
against disfranchisement in the South
ern states. The association is deeply
interested in the welfare of the col
ored soldiers, is promoting the war
Savings Stamp campaign among col
ored people. AMI expects soon to en-
gage in some specific form OF War
Camp Community Service throughout
the country.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-07-06
~WoRLD" oIscoNTINUEs USE OF
"DA-RkIES."

The New York World, which has the
largest circulation of any morning pa
per in New York. has promised to dis
continue the use of the term dark
les In letter to Lester A. Walton,
managining editor of The Age. who in
formed the editors of the daily that
colored Americans did not take kindly
to the terms in print, C. M. Lincoln,
managing editor of the World, re-
piled in part:
You are quite right in your sugges-
tion that the word 'darkies' was
wrong | am sorry it appeared and |
have given order that the word shall
not be used again"
The Colorado statesman., 1918-07-06
RACE NEWS S.t;.ss S.t;sss' s..',.. sss"
++4+++44+44A4A44+4444+4-
COLONEL YOUNG VISITS WAR DE-
PARTMENT.

Washington. d. c., July 1.-Colonel
Charles Young, OF the United States
Army, who has been stationed at mis-
home in Wilberforce. Ohio, since his
retirement from active military serv-
ice, was a caller at the War Depart
ment this week. He was presented to
Secretary of War Newton d. Baker by
Emmett ]. Scott, special assistant.
The Colorado statesman., 1918-07-06
Miss Mary White 0vington
Speaks at WOmen'S
Convention Ju|y11

- ~ISS MARY WHITE OWING
TON, acting chairman of the
I" National Association for the
Advancement of Colored
l. - People. will be in attend
The Colorado statesman., 1918-07-06

the Declaration of Independence. To
day we Americans are reminded of
the truths of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence and we consider why our
country and its laws were established.
The Declaration of Independence is
as dear to the hearts of all true Amer
leans as the Sermon on the Mount is
to all Christians.
One hundred and fifty years ago the
people of America were governed by
a king who treated the Americans as
though they had no rights which he
was bound to respect. After years of
unjust treatment these Americans
The Colorado statesman., 1918-07-06
WHY WE CELE-
BRATE JULY 4

& !; !: 6:
Americans gave to the world
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On the refectory table, which was
drawn up against the deep couch in
the south wall, stood lantern whose
flame colored light was mantled by
the wings of iron birds. On a little
cloth of damask there was a great
bowl of black cherries and another of
peaches. The fragrance of coffee rose
from an electric percolator.
1t was Deautiful-and homelike.
Tom Mason beamed like happy boy
at our praise.
Now I'll run to the corner for
some sandwiches. and then we'll have
a house warming supper party" he
announced.
At that my heart sank. How could
take my first meal in the new home
with any one but my husband? But
minute later l realized how much
owed these good friends-a cold
supper, after all their work, was so
little to offer! 1 determined to atone
for my moment of ingratitude.
This is my party-the first in my
new home-a little thank offering to
the good friends who have helped
me make the home. I'm going to the
corner for the eats, l cried with
gay determination, from which L re-
fused to bulge.
clock in the village was Ginning
eight when l returned with my pug
chases. l noticed it idly. I wonder
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across it with hangers all ready to
welcome coats and suits and dresses
the shelves on the right for jim S
hats and shoes and boxes; those op-
posite for my belongings. When l
had arranged them, the precious in
timacy of that cupboard shared
gave me my first feeling. of home.
There were bits of shouted con-
versation now and then, but for the
most part we worked in silence. like
old friends who understand each
other.
At last Mr.. Mason called that it
was half past seven and that he
would like little feminine COM
ment on his masculine home making
ability and an hour off for supper.
So Evelyn and l hurried to the door
of the living room and there splen-
did picture greeted US.
Tall, slim black iron lanterns of
ancient Venice were sending out
flame color lights from their hooks
between the windows, where curtains
of apricot silk shut out the daylight.
Thick white candles burned on either
side of the white stone fireplace in
the north wall. Cool and gray were
the rugs on the floor-soft and brood
ing was the high, gray ceiling.
Candle light flickered over the april
cot and dull green damask of the
chairs.
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" When a Girl Marries"
By
A New. Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing
Problems of Girl Wife

| clever to me-she ;,urred like con .
tented kitten! Her trIoaty little.
v"'ct, its quick catch with the tiny
s'1Etch of malice back of it, were
very amusing, bus Il decided l was
very e,aL that EvelyI. liked me.
Under her direction the trunks
we're hidden away in curtained cor.
rer of the large. square bathroom.
The Eags were slowed in the d sep
window seats of the bedroom. Pres
ently ail signs of Just moving in ,
were smoothed away.
The little ice chest in the kitchen
cite was threaded by st-covered
pipes-Evelyn explained the refrig-
Grafton plant-and the dumbwaiter
system of removing refuse. She pro-
PEELED me through a few simple ar
rangements with the janitor, the fruit
vender and the man who left rolls
| and milk and then l found myself at
the SantVoort.
After lunch Mr.. Mason TAXED US
about on shopping tour for linens
and household utensils. No one ex-
pected me to think for myself felt
like very large baby suddenly come
into possession of a most efficient Mr..
and Mrs. Fairy Godmother. l might
have chosen blue striped bath towels.
Evelyn selected lavender.
When we returned to the apart
ment my arduous and brain taxing
share of the work was unpacking
trunks. Evelyn insisted upon tack
ing up shelf paper, washing china
and putting my linen and enamel
saucepans in place. Tom Mason took
for his LOB" the arrangement of the
living room. They promised that the
| rooms would be in applepie order by
highland 1 felt vaguely disappoint-
ed
1t would have been such fun to
have done little of the nest-build-
ing with jim but Jim was in Wash
ington with-his friends. l was
lucky to have such kind friends here
in our little home-to-be.
There was one deep closet in the
bedroom. 1t had wide shelves built
in and two clothes poles stretched
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Chapter XVIII

AS 1 whirled through a morning
of packing and making arrangements
to leave the WalgraVe, l kept remem-
bering that Beatty Bryce was in
Washington.
l wanLed to fOreet-but there was
so much to forget
Little ghosts started from every
corner of the room to haunt me-
tender words, cGresses. My hands
insisted on lingering over Jim's s
clothes as ! folded them and packed
them; and while my hands did their
service. bitter memories made me
treble to my very finger-tips l
tried to forget the cold businesslike e
tone o. r!y husbands first letter.
once l found myself laughing hyster-
ically as l thought of that first love
letter"-but in a moment 1 swung
back again to my packing. That kept
me mercifully busy.
At the apartment l found Evelyn
Mason waiting for me. On the black
Italian lacquer console table between
the front windows stood a jar of dull
pottery filled with deep red peonies.
They breathed a fragrant welcome.
And Evelyn pouncing upon me with
fiutter of kisses, put the welcome
into words:
Greetings, Anne, dear! I'm so glad
to share m the making of your first
home. The posies are Toms repre-
sentatives-or perhaps Mrs. Nc
Cusick. the cleaning woman, is! This
room is washed and combed all ready
and she's working her way back to
the bedroom via the kitchenette.
Well give her few extra jobs and
then run ever to the Santvoort 20
have lunch with Thomas, and he's
| coming back this afternoon to give
us the benefit o. his masculine advice
and strength"
Evelyn darted etout eagerly and
helpfully. doing little odd jobs and
giving directions between sentences.
Won't Jimmy be dee-lighted to
c5me home to this cosy little nest
air feathered for hi-h"' she cried
He- way of talking seemed very
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(COntinued.)
| Law down on a couch in my room
and my eyes rested on most fascl-
mating painting on one of the walls.
1t showed a rowboat with four men
in it going over a waterfall. Ap-
parently the fate of the occupants
of that boat was sealed. Nothing
could keep the boat from gong
over the edge and being dashed to
pieces at the foot of the cataract.
The look of agony and despair on
the faces of the three men in the
bow of the boat showed how clearly
they realized the helplessness OF
their position. The man in the stern
of the boat was standing up with one
foot over the side. He had grasped
a frail twig which overhung the
bank, but it was hardly enough to
stand the strain. Nevertheless, the
expression on his face disclosed that'
combined with the sense of impend-
ing danger which possessed hlm,
there was just a ray of hope that
this little twig might be the means
of averting the catastrophe.
The thought came to me that the
Kaiser and his supporters were in
identically the same position as the
man in the stern of that ill-fated
boat and that in their U-boat cam
paign, upon which they relied so
much, they were clutching desper-
ately at frail twig which might for
a moment delay but could not pos
sibly avert their doom.
After the Kaiser had had his
sleep, l was summoned to his dress
ingroom. 1 got there before he did
and on the table l noticed a long
envelope addressed to His Majesty
the King and Kaiser" 1t looked
very official and imposing, but just
what it contained of course l don
know.
The Kaiser entered the room at
tired in a red flannel undershirt!
:: WIS the first time I had ever seen
him in such a state of plebian negn-
gee, and I received more or less of a
shock. l had been so accustomed
to seeing him in uniform, both IN
pictures and in person, that 1t mad
never occurred to me that unoer-
meath that symbol of pomp the
Kaiser probably dressed the same
as us lesser mortals. 1 noticed in
ycidentally that when he put on his
military coat he put it on right over
his undershirt.
Homburg was much nearer the
firing-line than Pless, although, OF
course, at a very safe distance. l
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IT<HE first aim of most parents in
Child Training is Control.
The instinct for running away
is hopeful one, it shows real initia-
tion, a desire to discover and ex-
plore, but it must be kept within
| bounds.
If you cannot control your five-
year-old runaway now, you will prob
ably not be able to control him ten
years later. 1t is no wonder, then,
that the runaway child causes so
much concern.
"A father writes to me:
Our little boy is about three years
of age. What can we do to prevent
| him from running into the street?
He has plenty of ground on our prop
erty to play in, but the minute we
turn our back he runs away. If you
run after him, he runs so much
| faster"
With a child of this. age. 1t is really
better to have a fence for the boun-
dary line because 1t is almost too
much to expect child so young to
remember not to cross an invisible
line.
You might, however, have a place
in your backyard, perhaps twenty
five feet square, for him to play in
most OIL Un6 LlIIlS. III lllS plOIt nave a
sandbox, little tools for him to work
| with and other playthings. Make this
spot really attractive to the child and
have it marked off clearly so that he
can easily see the boundary lines.
Do not try to get the child to
promise that he will not run away.
Children so young promise things
very often when they scarcely know
what they are saying and the prac-
| tice of making them promise tends
| to cause untruthfulness. This method
also has tendency to weaken obedi-
ence.
Simply tell the child where he is to
play. Go out to the yard with him.
walk around the boundary line inside
of which you are willing he should
play, saying: You can play clear
over as far as the rope this way
and clear over as far as the rope
| on the other side. Won't that be a
| fine Playground" Then say in low
confidential tone, Maybe Ill give
| you a bigger place to play in to-
morrow. l shall expect you to play
right in here to-day. Don't go out
side the ropes without asking father,
You'll hAsa - Scz>--s.~ y -Eg.s;esrs yo"