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Monroe City Democrat., 1919-07-04
Patriotism.

To some people an anniversary
like July Fourth meals little. They
feel that their advanced mentality
has passed on to a higher ideal than
patriotism. They are information
alists. They owe alleeiance merely
to the brotherhood of man, not to
the mere artificial lines that divide
states and countries.
This is tendency that rarely
produces practical usefulness The
man who cares nothing for the ad-
vancement of his home community,
is rarely one who ever does any
thing for any wider relation. And
the man who works hardest for his
home town, can be best depended
upon for patriotic loyalty. The
man who is disloyal and indifferent
to his family is rarely loyal to the
interests of humanity in any broad
er sense And so the man who is
indifferent to the country that has
nutured and protected him and Civ
en- him his chance in life, is rarely
loyal to any other useful ideal.
The man who is too broad to
work for his country, allows his
sentiment to fade away in a mush
of sentimentalism.' One must con.
centrate his attachments and his
efforts and energies to some definite
cause, in order to have it amount to
anything.
The man who denies any feeling
of loyalty to his country shows a
yellow ingratitude. His country has
given him the institutions of liberty
the chance to create his career free
from the dictatiOn of autocratic
power. 1t has given him the free
education that in other lands may
be inaccessible, 1t has offered him
rewards to his ambition if he will
avail himself of opportunities.
Yet the Internationalist recog-
nizes that these benefits confer no
reciprocal obligation. He is like the
man who disregards all the loving
devotion of a tender mother, and
wanders away into the wide world
Indifferent to her yearning affec-
tion.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-07-04
What America Celebrates.

On July Fourth the American
people do not celebrate merely the
victory they gained over q mother
country which was then in the
power of court of German ances-
try and feeling. Nor do the people
celebrate merely the anniversary of
the time when they attained the
right of self control and individual
expression.
They also celebrate the final
triumph of certain distinctively
American ideas. On July 4, 1776.
the representatives of the American
colonies, then only obsure little set.
Elements on the fringe of the untam.
ed wilderness, met to discuss Ger
tain principles of liberty very dear
to these hardy pioneers. They end
ed by agreeing upon a Declaration
in which they set up certain stan
dards of liberty and democratic
government which sounded very
strange, revolutionary, and visionary
in the then monarchical world.
This declaration could hardly be
said to have fallen like a bombshell
The sages of the old world laughed
at it, as the outburst of a rustic
people far removed from the centers
of experience and wisdom.
Yet the principles announced by
this obscure band of patriots have
overturned the whole world. The
inspiration of liberty was conveyed
first to the peoples of Western
Europe. several of whom before
many years either threw off the
yoke of kings altogether, or curbed
their power.
But the great empires of Central
and Eastern Europe maintained
their scorn of American liberty up
to the recent war. But liberty has
proved too strong for them. 1t has
put down the mighty from their
seats and exalted them of low de.
gree.
This principle. which had to wait
fro m July a, l776, to November II
1918, for full vindication, is what
America really celebrates on its ma.
tional anniversary.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-07-04
News From State Capitol

100000; Putnam. $750,000; Marion,
| 81. 100000; Adair, $750000. Bonds
aggregating several millions have
been voted heretofore in the state.
Some of the counties having done
so are: St. Louis, $3,0O0000;
Buchanan. $2,0OO,OOO; Scott, ST ,OOO,-
600; New Madrid. $5OO,OOO; Wayne.
$S0O,O00; Cole, $3OO,OOO Special
road districts all over the state
have voted an amount which it is
thought will aggregate more than
the county issues.
Mayor Kiel. of St. Louis, is having
a lot of trouble these days. The
kiddies of the city are after him be.
cause extravangance of his admins.
tration has closed some of the play
grounds and 10000 negro voters
are claiming he should name a
member of their race as a member
of the School Board. Since the
Republican negroes hold the balance
of power in the city his action is
watched with great interest. in the
event of vacancy.
Republican candidates for Cover.
nor are green with envy of E. E. E,
McJimsey, of Springfield. He seems
to have the drag with the organiza.
ton in St. Louis as it was stated
there this week that all members
of that well creased machine favor
him.
Whether questions other than
suffrage are to be taken up at the
extra session is quite doubtful. Stuff
rage leaders tell Governor Gardner
no revision of the election laws will
be necessary for them to vote. A
question has been raised to the ef-
feet that suffrage will increase the
salaries of all prosecuting attorneys,
county and circuit clerks Of the
state as their salaries are based on
the vote cast.
The Equal Suffrage League of the
state held an interesting meeting
here Monday. At banquet given
during the evening number of ex
cellent talks were made. Ben NJ
Neale, chairman of the Democratic
State Committee, and other political
leaders. were here for the meeting
The women were strong in their de-
sire for a League of Nations and
many were the expressions favor
ing this method of world peace.
They maintain the mother knows
what war means.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-07-04
Blanket Saves Ice.

The blanketed Ice is retrigera-
tor is a Stacker at its post of duty,
and the person who placed the
blanket there is the cause of it,
specialists in the Department of Ag-
riculture declare. A refrigerator is
kept cold by the ice melting and
taking up the heat within the insu.
lated walls. When the ice is kept
from melting ice is saved but not
food.
At times when it is necessary to
wrap the the ice to make it last un-
I'll the new supply comes. any per-
ishable food which is to be used
without cooking should be moved
up as close to the ice as possible.
Ordinarily, however. it is better to
keep food in other compartments in
order that the air may circulate
freely.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-07-04
The Peace Terms.

Germany expressly states that.
she signs the peace treaty merely
because compelled to do so by force
But if it is essentially just, Germany
will find that laments and protesta--
tions will be useless.
A certain element of people in
this country, not all of whom have
been regarded in the past as pro-
German. are denouncing these peace
terms, as lacking in coDciliatOry
spirit. They are declared to be
based on the old principles of inn
perialism and conquest.
1t will be found that the people
who take this attitude. are usually
inclined toward Socialistic ideas.
Germany has now Overthrown au-
tocracy, nominally at least, and is
apparently committed to socialistic
principles. Hence a certain ele-
ment of people of that stripe feel
much more sympathetic to-day with
Germany than they do with England,
France, or Italy, which are merely
democratic.
According to these near-Socialists.
the evil deeds of Germany were due
to a wicked government. Now that
government has been overthrown.
the people have manifested their
good faith, and should be accepted
as good and sincere friends and
treated with an equality.
The trouble with this point of
view is that it utterly ignores a
mountainous array of facts and
evidence, showing that the German
people thoroughly participated in.
the evil deeds of their government.
They applauded to the skies its
barbarous acts and wicked policy
so long as it was successful Now
that it did not conquer, they at
tempt to make it the goat.
Furthermore, even if the German
people were honest but were de-
ceived by their government, a peo-
pie that can be so led around by
wicked men would be just as danger
Gus as if they were evil themselves.
However they are to be regarded,
they need very severe lesson. The
peace terms as exacted do not be-
gin to atone for the crimes they
have committed
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-07-04
Sunday Baseball.

Inere are a number of perfectly
reputable and high minded people
to whom Sunday baseball is
anathema. But the same reason
does not operate in each case Some
of them proceed from the spirit
that animates the professional
abolitionist They want to abolish
something, and the most prominent
objects on the landscape attract
their attention first. Baseball is
one of them.
Others take, in all sincerity, the
viewpoint of the Sabbatarian. They
hold that the Day of Rest is pro-
famed.
1t is we'll to avoid a confusion of
definitions. A day of rest is not
necessarily a day of supine inactiv-
ity. Nothing is so demoralizine as
lnaction of mind and body, and to
m axe Sunday a day of demoraliza-
tion would be worse than profana-
ton
We'll" say the ultra devout, why
not spend the entire day in pious
meditation. in prayer, hymn singing
and homilies?"
Because-and this is said in all
+ reverance-interminably protracted
ritual is not devotion; it is savaeery
East Indian devoteeS practice it
c cntral African aboriginals main-
tain it-because it is uncomfortable.
1t is a compliment to their God. If
they exhaust themselves in cere-
monies and supplications through a
dreary stretch of hours, their eccen-
trio deity will feel fiattered. The
priests of Baal had the same motive
when they lanced their flesh with
knives. They suffered in his honor.
But such a horrible conception of
the Almighty is out of date. 1t is
to be classed with witch burning
and Moloch worship,
But" we may be told, "specta-
tors at Sunday baseball games of
ten indulge in blasphemous lam
euage, do they not?"
Frequently. some of them. And
not only on Sunday. And when
they do it on Sunday it isn't only
at the ball park.
No, the deplorable backsIidings of
the age cannot be attributed entire.
ly TO Sunday baseball.
Eliminate the Almighty Dollar
and you will have removed the
great obstacle to the worship of the
Almighty God.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-07-04

This is one of the numerous lam
guages of America, but is employ
ed chiefly by lawmakers, courts and
lawyers. BY some it is confused
with English, but the following ex-
amples will show the fundamental
difference: All persons are hereby
warned, cautioned. admonished and
advised not to sit, stand, lie, crouch
or kneel, or to assume another pos,
ture or attitude whatever, or to be;
or to attempt to appear to sit, stand,
lie, crouch or kneel, or to assume or
adopt any other posture or attitude
whatsoever, or to be on this plat
form while the train is in motion"
The English for it is: Keep off
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-07-04

Interest in road building in Mis-.
souri, is far greater than ever in the
history of the state and every in
diction points to the construction of
several thousand miles of the best
roads in the country during the
coming year. Bond issues have
been voted or plans are being made
to vote them in counties which
bring the total amount to $33,599.. %.
us. to this will be added like
amount from the state and Federal
government which will make the
improvements during the next year,
from bonds alone, reach a total of
approximately $67, 100000. In ad-
dition to this will be added the re.
gular road levy and poll tax of the
state and special taxes which are
being levied in the state. Money
and work donated during the year
is estimated at 100000 by the
State Highway Commission, which
gave out the figures on which this
article is based. A. W. Graham,
chief engineer of the Commission,
is more than enthused with the in
terest that is being shown by the
people of the state and expresses
the belief that more than double
the amount now proposed by the
people of the state will be provided
by bond issues in addition to the
$60.000000 issue submitted by the
legislature on recommendation of
Governor Gardner. The following
are the counties which have select
ed dates for bond issues or are cir
culating petitions calling for sub
mission of the question: Green, ST.
100000; Laclede, $250.0O0; Texas,
$225,000; Howell, S500.000; Jasper,
$250000; St. Francois, $1,000,000;
Franklin, $1.OOOOOO; Phelps, $4OO,
900; Warren 100000; Dunklin, $3.50.
900; Butler, $500,000; Oregon,
100000; Stoddard, 100000; Ripley,
$4,000; Scott, $261. .465; Gentry,
100000; Clay, $10O,250; Harrison,
$4,000; Livingston, ST, ,2500OO, At
Gibson. $1,OOOOO0; Andrew, 81 1885,
coo; DeKalb. $1.25O,O0O; Clinton.
Isl ,25O,00O; Ray, $1,250000; Noda-
way, $2,000,000; Davies, $1,000,O00;
Carroll, 81, 100000; Macon, $500.000;
Shelby, ST 100000; Monroe, $1,000.
600; Linn. $1,000.000; Sullivan, ST.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-07-04

Plans are being prepared for the
Scottish Rite Cathedral to be erect
ed on Lindell boulevard, just east of
the St. Louis Club, costing $1,000
600.
Monroe City Democrat., 1919-07-04

The world was not made in a day.
Neither is a fortune-by honest
methods. Keep right on grubbing,
and smiling.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-08-16

TIME Surety Garage and Motor
= Company, Inc, will be oper-
ated under the personal supervision
of c. E. Green, whose active man
agement in the past has won for
the SURETY a standing with auto
mobils owners and operators who
have dealt with this concern, that
is second to none.
Now that we are in our new
home at 18th and v Streets N. W.,
with 10000 square feet, to be
used as storage, we will be ina,
position to give our friends the
service, and that at pre-war rates.
We avail ourselves of this oppor-
tunity in asking you to call in per-
son and inspect our fireproof and
spacious building, which we have
spared neither money nor talent to
produce.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-09-06
LA NUOVA LEGGE PER LIE AUTO.
MOBILI

La nuova legge di State per rego-
!are il trafico la vendita dele au-
t0mobili, andra in vigore il Is Set
TEN bre.
Questa nuova Iegge provvede mi
sure speciali per il rilascio dele Ii
cenze a tutti veico'i motore
A cure dellO State, verranno sea-
glionati agenti speciali su lutte lie
strade maestro dello State per os-
servare Sc la nuova legge sara ri
spettata.
Questi ispettori di State terranno
d'occhio lutte lie vendite di automo-
bill usate ed indagheranno alIo SEQ
po di assicurarsi che il proprietario
originario delPautomoble Sc ne
sbarazzato con il suo consenso.
La nuova legge colpira perci6 gil
specialist in furti di automobile.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-09-06
/ CANTORI DELLA CAPPELlLA 81
STINA ARRTVERANNO FRA
GIORNI

Come gia abbiamo annunziato, or
sono due settimane, il prossimo II
Ottobre arrivera nella baia di Phila-
delphia, Pa, il quartetto composite
di cantori della Cappella Sistina.
II coro gia partito daIl'Italia al
la volta delIAmerica ed intrapren-
dera un giro per lie citta principal
degli Stati Until d'America II coro
e sotto la direzione del Rev. Padre
Angelo De Santi, che. il Presidente
della "Schola Cantorum."
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-09-06
La IaInpada di AIadin0
3 BOZZETTO

Cost narr6 Joe Burns, il cacciatore
di pelli:
Povero Wilkie. Era il piG bravo
cacciatore della Royal East Compa-
ny, il WHO. del bere non 10 aveva
peranco rovinato, quando, quella
mattina a Calcutta, Samuele Muller
gil vendette la Iampada del malaugu-
rio. Una comune lampada di Du-
masco, in bronco dorato, con la mez-
zaluna, ma il venditore mormorava
misteriosamente.
e quella di AIOdino! Cinque
sterline appena!
Sci pences - propose Wilkie
ma il vecchio URIC.
-Jeova ii protegga, non ridere!
Cinque sterIine.
-Sette pences, cane!
-Quattro sterline, perchG ii amo,
sahib,
Otto pences, Iadro!
Tire sterline! Memo di cost non
posse!
E Wilkie pag6 tre sterline il suo
capriccio, dicendo:
-Ho la mia idea! Questa Tampa
da il mio destino! La strega di Da-
kar ha parlato!-E siccome 10 RI
devo scetticamente, aggiunse: Cost
e! Scommetto con t6 Tom, che, a
mezzanotte, usciro con questa lam
pada la prima ragazza incontrata
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-09-06

sara mia moglie! Parola di Wilkie,
La sua tesla ricciuto 81 ergeva su-
perba, suoi occhi ci fssavano, un
pO' folli. In quello istante 10 vidi
60 mi parve...) la tenda che copriva
il retrobottega agitarsi... E accettam-
mo la sfida.
L'orologio a polso di Wlkfe Sc
gnava mezzanotte, Quando egIi, ira
cannato Iultimo bicchiere di whis-
key, prese la lampada. usci con
Tom. 10 rimasi. Seguivo col pensie-
TO lie loro figure un po' barcolIanti,
bizzarramente illuminate. per le
viuzze della vecchia Calcutta. Che
cOsa troyeranno?... Anime rivedo
una ffgura deforme, due occhi spa
Ventati in un viso pallido. Che
brutta donna! E sara la moglie di
Quel Wilkie, COST possente. beIlo e
ricciuto?
Come ii chiami?
Sara Muller.
Muller? la figlia di Samuele?-
LIE fui sopra:-Ma allora, eri dietro
ALA tenda? Hal semitic?
ST.
-Sf.-Col viso sconvolto dall'ira,
Wilkie Pafferro', la getto a terra,
percotendola. Gridammo ed egli con
torva calma:-Silenzio. -disse -
BattO mia moglie!
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1919-09-06

ST vendono buonissimi Piano
forti, cOlOro che desiderano com
prarne possono rivolgersi al Prof.
G.. Fico, Is Carpenter Ave-, India
ma, Pa.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-05-24
PROF WEB DU BOE ADDRESSED A VAST CROWD OF
PEOPLE AT THE WENDELL. PHIL lips HIGH SCHOOL.
Almost Thousand People Unable to Enter the Build
ing to Greet Him and To Hear Him Speak.

from beginning to the end he spoke
right along in a plain, frank matter
of fact manner.
Here are some of the striking state
ments Prof. Du Bots flung out during
his talk.
"All that the Negro saw and suf-
fered and achieved during the war, "
said DR.. Du Bots, proved not only
that the Negro can organize but that he
can organize under his own officers,
and the lesson of that is that what
he can do in war he can do in peace.
"Those men will never be the same
again.
"You need not ask them not to go
back to what they were before.
"They cannot, for they are not the
same men any more.
s'When / was in conference with
Frenchmen in Paris, l tried to explain
as simply and temporarily as / could
the attitude of the whites in America
toward the Negro, and when I had
finished those Frenchmen said: 1T is
a kind of insanity, isn't it?'
"And when white American offic-
ers in France had decided is was ne
cessary that the French should be
told, lovingly and kindly, just how
America treats Negroes in America,
then the French war ministry collect
ed every copy it could find of this
circular and burned it
"Can you wonder that, so long as
the memory of that circular lasts,
France, and the rest of Europe, are
going to smile at the professions of
American democracy"
There is a great need for such speak
ers as Prof. Du Bots and Rev. W. s.
Braddan to travel all over this coun-
try and wake the Colored people up
for they have been dead a sleep for
10 these many years pertaining to
their civil and their political rights
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-05-24

took a rail out of the street car
tracks and broke open the Jail, took
the young fellow out and dragged
him to the vicinity of the house in
which it was charged the assault had
been attempted and strung him up,
built fire under him and while his
hands were folded in the shape of
a prayer riddled him with bullets
and after answering that it had fun
enough the charred trunk was rolled
into the gutter, while the mob fought
for pieces of the rope which had been
part of the instrument Of torture.
The man who is supposed to have
been the guilty one was afterward
caught and had to be spirited away to
Jackson, the state Capitol, and the
Jackson people offered to lynch him
for their neighbors, who appear to
have had enough of the unenviable
notoriety.
We get this from no Negroes lips.
This comes from clippings from many
southern papers, and not one of the
facts mentioned are hearsay.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-05-24
LEADER OF WAR JAZZ BAND
LEAVES ESTATE OF 81 900.

New York.-Lieut- Jim Reese Eur.
ope, who was killed in Boston the
other week, left an estate of about
$1,000. His widow, Mrs. w. A. Eur
ope, applied for letters of admins
tration in the Surrogate's Court.
Europe was the leader Of ~jazz"
band, which played in France during
the war, and since then on q concert
tour in this country.
Many people were under the i'm
preston that Mr.. Europe was q very
wealthy man, but like most of Us
mortals he was q poor man.
It was too bad that he was so sud-
denly snatched out Of this life in the
horrible manner in which he was, but
the late war for q worldwide democ-
racy has transformed the vast major
ity of the people residing throughout
the civilized world into half devils
and half savages.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-05-24
REV. AND MRS. w. s. BRADDAN
AND THE OTHER MEMBERS OF
THEIR FAMILY MOVE INTO
THEIR ELEGANT NEW HOME

The first part Of this week, Rev.
and Mrs. W. s. Braddan and the
smaller Braddans moved into their
lovely new home at $40 s. Wabash
avenue. Their new home is a stone
front, consisting Of nine rooms. -Four
rooms on the main floor, double par
lors, dining room and kitchen. Five
bed rooms on the second floor and
large clothes closet for each room.
Tile-fnished bath room.
The wood work throughout the
house is highly polished oak and the
house is strictly modern and up-to-
date in every respect.
Rev. and Mrs. Braddan are to be
highly congratulated on being able
to purchase such pleasant and com
modious home, for it is plenty good
enough for New York alderman or
q Philadelphia lawyer.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-05-24

Sunday evening Prof. William E.
B. Du Bots, the loyal and brilliant
editor of the Crisis of New York City,
addressed a great meeting at the
Wendell Phillips High School under
the direction of the Chicago branch
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, so
anxious were the people TO hear Prof.
Du Bots who had recently returned
home from Paris, France, where he
attended the Peace Conference and
was elected Sec'y. of the Pan-African
Conference, that more then one thou
sand people were unable to enter the
building to hear him and more than
three thousand were crowded into it.
The following program was render
ed:
Opening Song, America, Audi
ence led by Mr.. E. Grundy.
Introductory Remarks. President
of Chicago Branch, Judge Edward
Osgood Brown.
Soprano Solo. Mrs. Antoinette Gar
mes.
Introduction of the speaker, DR.. w.
E. B. Du Bots.
Tenor Solo, Lieut.. George Proctor.
Appeal for Membership. DR.. Chas.
E. Bentley.
Collection of Memberships. A. C.
MacNeal.
Tenor Solo, Mr.. A. Dorsey.
Community. Singing, led by Mr.. E.
Grundy.
Announcements.
When Prof. Du Bots, entered the
hall the vast audience rose to its
feet to honor and greet him. Judge
Edward 0sgood Brown in a few well
chosen words presented Prof. Du
Bots to the great gathering and every
one under the sound Of his voice
seemed well pleased with his talk for
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-05-24

Amateur Minstrel Night and Dance
Saturday evening, May S1st, $50 .
10 p. N. Amateur Minstrel Show N
members of Amateur Minstrel Cln'
and others. 10 P. M. to 1890 A. y
dancing. Friends and guests.
Mr.. David Hawley, Vice-Presids1I
in Cargo of the minstrel show.
Mr.. Jos. A. Brent, Chairman Id
tertainment Committee, in charge u
dancing.
Members are earnestly reques'"
to attend all functions Of the ei0N
No announcements are made e1eer
by this calendar. Keep it and /"
member.
Luncheon every Saturday eVenlns
Cards, pool, billiars, checkers aO'
soft drinks.
Every evening a social one.
s. A. T. WATKINS, Pres
F. s. STEPHENS, Sec.