The Colorado statesman., 1919-08-30

Albany, n. Y, Aug. 30.-The Albany
Police Protective Association has en-
dOrsed the movement inaugurated by
the savings division of the Treasury
Department to encourage national
thrift through purchase of government
savings securities and has entered on
an active campaign for the sale of
Savings Stamps and Savings securities.
The banks of Albany have provided
fund from which awards will be
made to policemen, firemen and letter
carriers who prove most active in pro-
noting saving and thrift.
Birmingham, Ala.-No more Negroes
will be accepted f6r service in the
navy, according to instructions re-
ceived at the local navy recruiting sta
ton yesterday. Experienced Negro
cooks will continue to be enlisted to
handle the cooking, but even Negro
mess attendants will not be accepted
after this date.
The campaign for recruits being
waged by the recruiting officers in
Alabama is meeting with much sue
cess, according to Lieut. Commander
J. T.. Meredith and large number of
applications are being received daily.
New York, Aug. 21.-The only Col
ored Womens Motor Corps in the
world is that of the Hayward Unit,
branch of the National League for
Women's Service in New York City. If
you can imagine the feeling of man
in the desert coming unexpectedly up
on an oasis you will appreciate the
surprise and joy of colored soldiers
lying wounded in New York hospitals
at the sight of women of their own
race TO comfort and cheer them as
they had so often seen their white
comrades visited by other members of
the league.
While the work of the Hayward unit
NAV not be as extensive or as far
reaching as that of other departments
in point of personal service and results
accomplished it is eXcelled by none.
Washington, Aug. 13.-Mrs. Nina Z.
Van Winkle. chief of the woman's bu-
reau of the police department an
nounces that she is about to appoint
colored women as police to act direct
ly under her instructions in supervis-
ing the moral conduct of the city.
These women will be clothed with
full police authority, she said. They
will be assigned TO operate among the
members of theirow ra Z. but II IN
fractions of the law should come un-
der their personal observation, they
must fulfil their sworn duty and make
the arrests, and in every other way
exercise the police power that Is given
into their hands by the fact that they
are sworn officers of the law saiu
Mrs. Van Wrinkle.
A MEXICAN Negro business men In
~ their convention at st. Louis, JUST
concluded, adopted strong resolu-
tions urging men and women of their
race to practice the utmost thrift ana
systematic saving. Following is the
text of the resolution adopted by the
organization:
s'It is the sense of the National Ne
gro BUSINESS League that inasmuch as
thrift and systematic saving are ele-
11entS IflHI contribute hllt'tiS W h''r
increase of prosperity, and since the
great promise of Americas industrial
and commercial power lies in the abil-
ity of the people to save, which saw
ings may be safely and profitably in
vested in War Savings Stamps and
Treasury Savings Certificates, all the
citizens of the United States should
lend their heartiest cooperation and
support to the movement to the end
that systematic saving and safe in
vestment may become permanent ma
tional habit"