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The Washington times., 1919-12-21
CHRISTIAN ENDEAV0R NOTES

Nineteen new members were given
a reception and banquet Friday eve
ming by the Christian Endeavor So
ciety Of the First Presbyterian
Church. DR.. Henry Allen Tupper. pas
tor of the First Baptist Church, was
the principal speaker. a musical
program was rendered. DR.. John
Britton Clark, pastor of First Presby-
terian Church, was toastmaster. The
society voted to make the banquet
an annual affair.
The Junior Christian Endeavorers
are busy this winter. Societies have
been reorganized at Vermont Avenue
Christian Church, United Brethren,
and Ninth Street Christian churches.
New societies are reported at Hyatts-
willie Baptist and Metropolitan Pres
byterian churches.
The Washington times., 1919-12-21
TUNNEL QD0 HoM
CHANNEL NOW HKnY
Dream II Years q Cptinsntsl -
Eineers My SssR
b Reality.

LONDON. Dec. si.--The EnxiisA
channel tunnel q dream Of ccatises-
tai engineers for years. but eHec-
tuaily blocked IN the past by pe4su-
cal opposition in England and France.
may soon become a reality.
For the nrst time since the project
was conceived. governmental oppe-
sition in both countries has nov b>~s
virtually removed Many Brftish
Statesmen and MILITARY strategists
before the kreat war unalterably op-
posed to the venture are nov arden;
Advocates
The channel tunnel. oppceitson ar
gued. would furnish an inlet for the
enemy and might some time-oe Tn.
cause OF the Invasion Of the Island
empire. Fallacious as the argument
may have been. a. nevertheless served
its purpose The popular tmaesnstsos
was appealed TO. An ~cppceition
cabinet" was never discredited fer
its stand
Engineers estimate Il win take
forx-nve minutes to make the chan
mel passage via the tunnel
SepA yO1s na3e so1 she U00Sss ~
ehssAren zee wuns - heop - CAsAue-
The Washington times., 1919-12-21
ONE KILLED By BLAST.

NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 21.-One man
was burned to death and another ~
dying as the result OF an explos ION
and fire at. the Calico Chemical Com
psny plant. The charred body OF "
Lott, a Jersey City negro, was found
by iremen. John Elliott. a worker
Is dying. Static slectricity 10 said 10
have caufed the e. plosion
The Washington times., 1919-12-21

ehss4ren zee wunt - heep - CAs1re-
- ~ - q C0od UooeOW.
The Washington times., 1919-12-21

WHITE BNAMELED FU1-
NITURE-We have IN stood
the following pieces which WIN
enable you to make up q com
plete 81 China closet, ehh-
fonier ressing table, bureAu.
table and chairs.
The Washington times., 1919-12-21
OPPORTUNITY NO. 1.

The father gone blind. bravely re-edu-
eating himself. Father and mother AMI
two children. 1850 needed for the year.
Previously Acknowledged, slI5: Mrs J. H
NJ, u; N. T.. 81; w. W. F.. 81; total, Slls.
OPPORTUNITY NO. 9.
Influenza took away the breadwinner:
The Washington times., 1919-12-21

ODER CARS-Ws
carry these in two sizes, prics,
$6.45 and $7.l5.
The Washington times., 1919-12-21

White bassiBett pinh and
blue upholstery win please any
girl, price, $s.sA
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14
MANUFACTURING

Those who are engaged in producing raw materials seldom
give thought to the potential power of manufacturing as a
of wealth is created. Manufacturing means manipulating the
raw material and converting it into higher grades or into the
finished product, ready for the consumer, and each manipulation
enhances the value of the raw material, and sometimes enor-
mously. Thus the producer of pig iron sells it for a few cents
the pound, and thinks himself we'll paid. The purchaser, by his
machinery, skill and labor, converts the pig iron into steel, and
for one pound of high-grade steel receives S.. One pound OF
h~igh-grade steel, when properly manipulated and converted into
watch springs, is increased in value to $4,000. The manu-
facturer receives for his time, labor and skill 2~595-qute a
neat profit-and this $4,000 at one time potentially belonged
TO the producer of the pound OF pig iron, if he had perfected his
raw material into the finished product. He was content to let
others do this and reap the reward.
The planter who receives from IS to 40 cents for a pound
of cotton is satisfied, The purchaser freights it across the con-
tinent, where his skill and machinery manipuates it into the
finished product, and if this finished product happens to be
labeled genuine imported French lace it sells to the con-
sumner, who may be the man who produced the original pound
of cotton, at $5 the pound. The manufacturer enhances the
value of one pound OF cotton $500, and the increase is his,
These are extreme cases, but they illustrate the principle
involved.
The snake hunters of the mountains are usually Sang
diggers," and they sell their ginseng roots for a few dollars the
pound, and fancy themselves we'll paid. Converted into certain
medicines, this pound Of ginseng sells for 500 or more. The
manufacturer has multiplied its value MANIFOLD, and he pockets
the increase. Other commodities in a greater or lesser degree
Manufacture or manipulation enhances the value of all raw
material.
Memphis is striving for a great packing house, and when
this is ready it will prevent great economic waste, and make
for enormous savings. The cost per pound of a hog or a beef
steer on the hoof and on the butchers table will aggregate quite
a sum in a years time in a city the size of Memphis, and the
freight charges in shipping to and from the great packing CEN
ters are worth considering. These are the direct and immediate
economics, The indirect and mediate economies are a home
market, money kept at home, the employment of labor and the
increased values resulting from manufacture or manipulation
remaining as a constant and growing accretion to local capital.
There are many things that we cannot manufacture here.
We have neither the machinery, the capital nor the skill, but
as we are blessed with an abundance of raw material we should
and thus make it reach its ultimate value while in our own
hands.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14
OKt@5PQT
ftk@N9Mort
n Ru KNouLton.
MODERN EPITAPHs.

MODERN EPITAPHs.
What's left Of Oswald Perkins Bland
Is resting In this space.
He puffed a Flor de Onion and
Blew smoke into my face.
Luke McLuke.
Here rests what was Ambrosia Jones
In what were her best clothes.
She starched my hanky, dern her bones,
And It cut off my nose,
.s Anon.
Here lie Lucille and Henry Brown;
Their work on earth is done.
They wed to prove that two could live
As cheapy now as one.
STATE RIGHT TO CONSCIENCE STILL OPEN.
Conscience
In Three Reels.
Write for State Rights.
Movie AID.
II costs ten billion dollars a year to run this government. The gov.
eminent must be operating three or four secondhand automobiles.
Jason writes in that M. T. Cam runs a saloon in Pawtucket
IN. IT, will soon be right
BUM VOYAGE, ED.
Said the man at the bar with the beer,
July LIST is fast drawing near.
When the country goes dry
will get my supply
BY a trip to old London each year"
-Edw. L. Klein.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14
wiceToldT
10 Years Ago Today In Memphis.
MARCH II, 1909.

Mrs, w, l., Clapp and Miss May Nc
Crosby returned from New York, where
hey had been for a months visit,
The Newlyweds and their baby, the
funny cartoons of George MCManus,
who is now tickling The News Scimi-
tar readers with Bringing Up Father
was running in this paper,
1t was announced that Mayor Malone
would urR the passage Of the anneNn-
to bring BinghRmton n other thriving
suburbs into Memphis proper.
There were many applicants for the
three election commissionerships OF
shelby county, according to state poll
ticians, More than for any other coun-
ty in the state,
BY a decision by Justice s. +, Wilson,
members Of the Improved Benevolent
Order Of Elks OF the world, a local or
ganization, composed Of negroes, were
prohibited from wearing the Elk head
as their emblem.
For the first time In the history OF
Memphis not a policeman was In uni
form-it was SundaS-so that they
would be more able to catch side doors
OF saloons that might he open,
High water had covered all OF West
Memphis and many men were working
strengthening lcvees, as another flood
was on the day down the river,
win Washington. negro murderer,
wanted at C~larksdale, Miss, was caught
by f.. h, Dye, Of the rockpile squad OF
Memphis who was to receive the re-
ward Of $50.
Henry Htppcl carried off all honors
Of local howlers who represented Mem
| phis at the American Bowling congress
held at Pittsburgh. He ran up 1875
pins in the nine games he bowled.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14
PUBLIC DISCUSSION
1000
: PLEA FOR NEGRO TEACHERS. Z
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Editor The News Scimitar:
In behalf of the colored people OF
Memphis l write to ask that the colored
school teachers be included in the $40
per month raise of salary soon to be
granted to teachers by the board of
education.
The teacher among us is a leader
and must live accordingly, not ostenta-
tiously, but in a manner to hold the
respect of the community. Some fami-
lies are charging Sc per week to board
teachers, Some Of u teachers get only
$6.25 a week as salaries. The highest
salary permitted to a colored teacher
in the graded schools Is $50 per month.
The average laborer among us Is paid
better wages than the salaries given
more than twice as much as the best
paid teacher. The meagerness of the
pay of colored teachers is driving some
of the best workers into other fields.
Owing to the danger Of having a race
feeling injected into matters that are
people in the South on the whole do
not attempt to employ, to better their
condition, methods resorted to by the
white people of the South and by work
ers in other parts or the, world. Lead
ers do not attempt to lead in that direc-
ton. 1t would be a happy idea to re-
ward rather than penalize that spirit.
II would be most unfortunate to imbed
in the minds of the colored people that
the colored teachers lost by their quiet
attitude during the upheaval in the
schools that preceded the agreement to
| grant the expected raise,
At the present time, when the ques-
ton OF a future home for the negro
race in America has been raised by the
negro masses, it is not good to fill the
heart of the colored teacher with the
| conviction that he Is being wronged.
The influence from such a spirit will
unconsciously poison the mind of the
| coming generation and give to it a bit
ter outlook. One OF the greatest steady
ing influences in the life of the colored
people of the South has been the colored
teachers, and there is no better invest
ment for our section than that giving
them lust compensation. Though they
bear in silence what they feel is wrong,
| II will not help us for them to be forced
to wear on their faces and in their
hearts the thought that they are the
victims of injustice.
During the recent war, out of their
meager salaries the colored teachers
bought Liberty bonds, thrift stamps
and contributed to all the activities pre-
scented to them, They constituted the
largest single force that worked to slim
ulate patriotism among our people.
Without them our record as a race
would have been far under what 1t was.
1t will be a source of deep and wide
spread regret II for any cause the col
ored teachers are not given the raise OF
SUTTON E. GRIGGs.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14
RIGHT ON JOB.

One afternoon a woman was walking
through a suburban village, when she
noticed a small boy leaning on a gate
In front OF one, Of the residences. The
amount of ambition.
Il an surprised to see you standing
here, my little man. said the woman
kindly. Why do you idle away your
time on such a beautiful afternoon"
Il am not idling," defiantly declared
stamp"
Working for a thrift stamp" won
deringly responded the woman, who
couldn't see n signs of labor.
Yes, ma'am," returned the boy. Mr..
Smith Is sitting on the veranda with
sister, and he told me that he would
give me the price of a thrift stamp II
would watch for father."
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14
MAKING GOOD.

1t was, so tradition says, the Denver
Rocky Mountain Cyclone which intro
duced itself to it's readers in this man
ner;
We begin the publication ov the
Rocy Mountain cyclone with some phew
diphiculttes in the way, The type
%phounder phrom whom we bought our
output phor this printing ophice
phailed to supply us with any eph's
or Gays, and II will be phour or phive
week hephore we can get any, We
have ordered the missing letters and
will have to get along without them
TIL they come, We don't lique the look
ov this variety ov spelling any better
than our readers; but mistaix viii hap
pen in the best ov regulated phamilies
and iph the ph's and the c's and KS
and as hold cut, we shall ceep
tsound the G hardl the Cyclone whirl-
ing aphter a phasion till the sorts ar
rive, II Is no joque TO us; it's a serious
aphair,"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14
DIX'S TALK
DON'T BE A CRITIC.
BY DOROTHY DIX,
III Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer

Have you a knocker in the family?
If you have, God pity you, for you are
one of the martyred. There is nothing
else on earth that so completely takes
the flavor out of living, that so para
lyzes energy and initiative and Stays
hope as to have some one forever at
your elbow who is a perpetual motion
Pathfinder.
You know the kind Of people l mean
the poor, ~disgruntled creatures who
never accomplish anything themselves,
but whose sole talent consists in pick
ing flaws in what everybody else does,
and telling how it should have been
done, after 1t is done, They are great
prophets-after the event.
Such people are the wet blankets
on existence. You propose a plan for
some pleasure that would be great fun
If carried out In a spirit of enthusiasm,
BY the time the knocker has gotten
through raising objections to the place
YOU are going, the sort of food you
would get, the kind OF music you would
hear n the difficulties of getting
there, III scheme has fallen flat as a
founder and there is no more joy left
In it,
Some opportunity in business or your
piolSSolph 10 ollGlSu W yOu' II is d
chance to realize our dearest ambi-
ton and o are ready to put into it
every bit of ability that Is in you and
you have the assurance of success in
your very bones. Until the family
knocker begins his or her deadly work.
He or she croaks to you that you
are not very strong. That you have
nerves. That you have tried two or
three things and never set the world
on fire. That a great many other peo-
pie have tried that particular thing,
and failed at it. so why should you
think that you would succeed?
And so on and on, with objections
n criticisms and ~forebodings piled
on top of each other until you grow
fearful and distrustfuI of yourself and
do bungle your chance through sheer
lack of self-confidence.
Sometimes the family knocker is a
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14
COMMON SENSE

A recent decision by Mr.. Justice Holmes, of the supreme
court, on the right of free speech is so clear and concise that
we print an extract from it for the benefit of those who regard
so-called free speech" very much as others regard the right to
drive an automobile as the right to run over any pedestrian who
gets in the way. In the course Of his opinion the learned JUS
tce said:
when a nation is at war many things that might be said
in time OF peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their
utterance will not be endured so long as men fight, and no court
would regard them as protected by any constitutional right.
I'VE admit that in many places and in ordinary times the
defendants in saying all that was said in the circular would
have been within their constitutional rights. But the character
of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
THE most stringent protection of free speech would not
protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatcr and causing
a panic"
In other words, it there can be another word, the man who
cries fire" and causes a panic is a criminal if there is no fire,
and he may be a knave if there is one. 1t may be ~unpardon-
able in any circumstance.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14
Misunderstood.

A noted humorous lecturer, who was
invited to deliver an address to an
audience of convicts in a Western PEN
laughed heartily, but did not applaud.
After the lecture the warden OF the
institution Ventured an apology.
They didn't seem very appreciative.
did they?" he asked.
II thought they seemed to enjoy II
very much" the lecturer replied.
But they might have clapped a lit
tie" the warden remarked, 'instead OF
Just sitting there with their hands
folded
~ ell, WE'LL the lecturer laughed,
II noticed that they sat with their
hands folded. but l thought they were
all manacled."
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14

HERE ! am.
AWAY OUT in California.
AND MILES from home.
AND I get a telegram.
AND THE editor says.
WON'T YOU please write something.
TO GET US some canes.
FOR WOUNDED soldiers.
AND ALL the time.
WHEN I'M reading his telegram.
MY OWN cane.
is HANGING on my arm.
AND IN perfectly healthy.
WITH TWO good legs.
AND NO bullets or anything.
AND I'M ashamed of myself.
AND TRY to hide my cane.
AND I can't.
AND IT stares up at me.
AND THE little knob.
AT THE end of the handle,
TURNS INTO a face.
. AND 1T hasa mouth.
AND I listen to it.
AND I hear it saying.
YOU POOR fish.
WALKING AROUND here.
land HANGING onto me.
"AND YOU'RE perfectly healthy.
"AND I'M a rood cane.
AND I'M strong.
AND I'M just the thing.
FOR A wounded soldier"
AND I try to shut it up.
AND I can't.
AND RIGHT away.
WHEN I'VE written this.
I'M GOING to get the porter.
TO WRAP it up
IN A strong package
AND I'M going to express it,
STRAIGHT BACK to New York.
AND YOU can have it.
AND GIVE i! to a soldier
BECAUSE THE way I feel.
DON'T want it any more.
AND WHEN I get home.
THERE'S ANOTHER cane
PUT AWAY in a closet
AND IT'S a weak cane.
AND I won it somewhere.
THROWING RINGS.
AND I'LL carry that.
IT WOULDN'T be any good.
FOR A wounded soldier.
1T WOULD double up.
IT'S JUST a mind cane.
FOR A weak mind.
AND IF the telegraph operator.
DOESN'T MIX this up.
BETWEEN HERE and New York.
AND YOU can understand it.
l WISH you'd say.
TO ALL of my friends.
THAT MY cane
WOULD LIKE to see their cane
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14
ANANIAS CLUB

There are some men who apparently do not recognize The
difference between having greatness thrust upon them and
thrusting themselves upon greatness. Mayor Monteverde and
Commissioners Miller, Mason and Quinn seem to be in that
class, From reading Bob ChurchS campaign literature thev
have decided that President Wilson was elected by deceving
the people, and achieved greatness by ~repudiating a pledge.
They say the president was elected on an antiwar platform, and
then repudlated the pledge by going into war. They were
elected on a platform pedging them to the city manager plan
Of government, and ~rcpndiatcd the pledge, and therefore are
truly great men. That President Wilson was elected upon no
such platform, and that he violated no pledge. may lessen his
standing with them, but if broken pledges and violated plat
forms are regarded as the measure Of greatness. they are entitled
to the head OF the class, with poor old Ananias a poor fifth.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14

Gov. Allen, Of Kansas, butcd into the Red Cross and visited
france coming back to say that 100000 Young Americans were
slaughtered IN the Argonne woods by the organized inciiciencv
q our war department, Gov. Allen wants a seat in the United
States senate, and to win it he is willing to scandalizc his coun-
try IN the eyes OF the world. His charges have been denied
by those who know, but the harm is done. Bolshevism must
pc extirpated in all of its manifestations, else the insidious
cantllena of these foreign agitators may become the swan song
of this republic,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14

I turn to Thee, 0 merciful God! To
whom else could l go? My sins are
many, but Thy mercy Is great; my sins
are swift, but Thine anger Is slow;
my tears are bitter. but Thy tenderness
is sweet and sure. Let THY gentleness
make me great.-E. B, Meyer.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14

Life is a very commonplace and prac-
tical thing, and 1t is a good deal better
to look at things as they are than TO
imagine that they are just as w would
like to have them.-The Mossback Cor
~respondence,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14

Coxey is organizing a new army. 1t will ride to Washing
ton in automobiles as a protest against prohibition.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14

1t is predicted that wheat will go to So 50 the busheI Thu
ultimate consumer is not joining in the farmers hilaritv
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14
The Public Be SerUed

AT THE American office.
THEY'LL KNOW my cane.
FROM THE silver band.
THAT HAS my name on It,
l THANK you.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-03-14

Tennessee legislators this year did not indulge in the Gus
tomary recess orgies, One more for Gov. Roberts.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-22
QUADRANGLE TO.
Be DEVELOPED
AT COOK SCHOOL
MISS ETHEL SUTER, PRiNC'rAL'
now HAS STAFF OF TEN
TEACHERS TO CARRY ON HEh
WORK.

The N. B. Cook school (formeriy
No. 4O) was opened the fall OF 1893.
n consisted then of only four rooms.
having q faculty of four teachers ana
.an enrolment OF 100 pupils MISS
Ethel Suter has been principal OF TINS
school four years.
Az tho population in that district
Increased 1t was found necessary 70
ada two more rooms and later two
more were added TO the original
building.
The last few years the enrolment
has increased so steadily that the
school space was totally Inadequate
w the growth of the school. which
now numbers $50 pupils. Thus from
the four-room school OF 1893, THIS
wear the N b.. Cook school will con-
sist or twelve rooms with faculty
of eleven teachers.
The new brick addition will be en-
tirely separate from the old building
and j. 10 be the beginning OF series
Of brick buildings of four units each
surrounding a court yard. plan .
school buildings which has been foun'
very satisfactory in other cities
Much of the growth and progress
Of the NJ b. Cook school is due
the aid given the school by we'll or
ranized and most efficient Parents
Teachers Association. this associa
ton having one Of the largest enroll
ments in the city.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-22
SCHOOLS HERE
HAVESENT OUT
MANY fine MEN
ESCAMBiA COUNTY HAS REASON
TO BE PROUD OF RECORD MADE
IN THE STATE BY HER BOYS
AND GIRLS.

The schools in Escambia county and
the personnel of those who make them
would make an Illuminating and in
teresting chapter in state history.
Florida has several of the best col
leges in the south, the student body
of which is largely recruited from the
state. and Pensa cola and the rural
communities of the county have con-
tributed largely to the up building of
Florida institutions of learning.
Pensacola is proud of this fact, be-
cause it speaks well for both teachers
and its pupils of the schools here, for
it is ir the public schools of the coun-
ty that the foundation is laid for the
educatio that comes later at uni
versity or college.
1t is sometimes pointed out thot
Escambia county is behind other
counties of the state, along educa-
tional lines. But it is to be doubted
if the facts will bear out this accu-
sation.
One of the best refutations of such
a charge is the splendid schools which
are laying the corner stone on which
the future of the children of this coun-
ty will rest.
IL Is true tnat pensacola has not
an adequate high school at this time
But this is due to the war, which put
an end to plans which have since
borne fruit and which will find con-
crete form in a high school building
which will represent the best in arch |
lecture, equipment and convenience |
For number of years the Escambia /
county teachers association was a fac /
tor in educational affairs, but more
the county institute has
taken its place.
The largest number of students ever
graduated from the high school re- |
.eived their diplomas last June, and /
became members of the
?. III. S. Alumni Association.
The Pensacola high school represents |
lot only the best in class work but l