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The Colorado statesman., 1919-10-11
ShamOf Amer
ican DemOCra-
cy Exposed

charter of American rights and liber-
right to limit or define Americanism
by either race, creed or color.
The leading exponents of Bolshevsm,
the most rabid opponents of democracy
in the United States to-day, are not the
foreign radicals, but Americans of
Southern birth or sympathies, of the
Dixon, Tillman, Vardman type, who
spew forth their contempt for the Con
stitution of their country, and shrek
their defiance of it from the rostrum,
the pulpit, and even the floors of the
national halls of Government itself, to
which position the lawlessness, fraud.
violence and unconstitutional legisla-
ton of their rebellious section has
elevated them.
Does America desire that any part of
our country should fall heir to the
caste mantle of "the beast of Berlin?'
The colOred American is still pro-
crossing despite all the obstacles hell
ISM nate can luterpose, his idce - sc,
toward the sunlight and the morning
and either to this, his native land, of
under alien skies if needs must be, he
is going to work out his salvation and
achieve his destiny. If American bru-
tality forces him to expatriate himself,
then America will have surrendered all
right TO her sounding proclamation of
liberty and democracy and the day of
her destiny will be over.
That must not, cannot be, and this
black race which has fought for and
died for this land is going to live and
strive to put its principles and laws
into practice, to redeem it from the
forces of reaction and lawlessness.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-10-11
AMERICAN
LEGION NOTES

A
AMERICAN LEGION, has been
formed among the returned soldiers
and sailors and meets every Wednes-
day night at the Soldiers and Sail
ors' Club, 2404 Clarkson street. The
state convention was held at Pueblo,
September 23rd to cath, inclusive.
We were well represented by our
three delegates, Messrs. Perkins,
Lippan and Won Dickerson. The
convention went on record as want
ing a cash bonus of at least $3.50 for
war. There were 157 delegates at
convention, six were colored. Mr..
Perkins was nominated against two
whites for a director on the state
executive board and was defeated by
one vote. 1t behooves every colored
soldier and sailor in Denver to join
the American Legion, for it stands
fc4. many things that beneficial
to him. Do you know that every
returned soldier or sailor by virtue
of his having been drafted entities
him to enter the School of Mines,
Denver University, Colorado Univer-
sity, and that the Methodist Cen
tenary Movement will give to any
soldier of that faith $3.50 to help
him while in school? Do you know
that the state of Colorado has $14,-
600 left from an appropriation of
S25, 900, for the entertainment of re-
turning soldiers, and if our post had
the majority of returned soldiers as
members we could feel positive of
getting some favorable consideration
from the governor of this state in a
contemplative interview as to the
purchasing of the present club build
ing now being run by the War Camp
Community Service (who, by the
way, will close all their clubs Oc-
tober 31stl out of that remaining
$4,000? You can readily see
where numbers will be deciding
factor in this interview. There are
many other things pending of vital
importance to the returned soldier
and he can learn of them by coming
to the meetings of the American Le-
gion every Wednesday night.
The white soldier is extremely in
terested in this organization because
he readily has seen the benefits that
will be derived from being mem
Der. While we are allowed the same
privileges and benefits, let every ex-
service man of this war become
member 1t. Col. Roosevelt is the
organizer and have membership OF
one million and a half eX-service
men. The national convention will
be held at Minneapolis November
10th to 18th, inclusive. From the
First Congressional District there are
two delegates allowed to go. We
or at least represent the colored sol
dier 1t is hoped that every public
spirited citizen will feel themselves
a committee of one to tell every re-
SOiuiei VI shNS AiN''
come in contact with, to make his
way to the Soldiers and Sailors Club
and learn of the many opportunities
open for him and the personal ben
efits this organization will bring him
by virtue of his being a member.
FREDERICK. w. PERKINS,
Vice Commander Wallace Simpson
Post No. 20.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-10-11
DIR. R r. MOTIONS LET
TER TOPRESIDENT
WILSON, AND REPLY

tremendously stabiliZng effect, as l
have said on the members of my race.
You very probably saw the account
of the lynching in Georgia, of an old
colored man seventy years of age, who
shot one of two intoxicated white
men in his attempt to protect two
cOlored girls who had been commanded
to come out of their home in the night
by these two men. The colored man
killed the white man after he had been
shot by one of the white men because
he had simply protested.
Il am enclosing the lynching record
for the past six months and an edi-
torial from the Atlanta Constitution,
which strongly denounces mob vio-
lence.
with all kind wishes. and assuring
you of no desire to add TO your bur-
dens, but simply to call attention to
what seems to me vital not only for
the interest of the twelve millions of
black people, but equally as important
for the welfare of the millions of
WHITES NHolu tiieS loutii, l. am,
''Very sincerely and gratefully,
''R. r. NOTION
In reply to this letter President
Wilson wrote DIR. Motion as follows:
MY dear DIR. Motion:
THANK you sincerely for your letter
of August eighth. 1t conveys informa-
ton and suggestions, the Importance
of which l fully realize and for which
l am sincerely obliged. l will take the
suggestions you make under very SER
ious consideration, becauee | realize
how critical the situation has become
and how important it is to steady af-
fairs in every possible way.
again thanking you for your public
spirited cooperation,
Cordially and sincerely yours.
"WOODROW WILSON"
The Colorado statesman., 1919-10-11
To Replace What
Mob Destroyed

CORDELE, Ga.-A remarkable pro-
ceeding on the part of the white citi-
zens of this place took place short
while ago, when a mass-meetinS was
held to consider the restoring OF the
Negro church buildings, which We're
DESTROYED by the mob several weeks
ago. A committee was appointed to
investigate the damage done, and to
report this amount needed to be raised
to make good this destruction. This
committee reported as follows:
Pursuant to and in connection with
IL mass meeting held at the Court
House some weeks ago concerning the
burning of Negro churches in the
county, a number of white and colored
citizens met at the site of one of these
churches Thursday and made an in
veStigation of the number of churches
destroyed and the cost of rebuilding
them. 1t developed at this meeting
that there were three churches des-
trayed. A careful estimate of the
amount necessary for material only
was placed at 50, 800 for the three. 1t
being thought that if the white people
provided the material that the Negroes
would do all the building Those pres
ent, both white and colored, agreed
that this would be Il just and agreeable
division of the burden.
"To the end of raising this fund it
was arranged to put on one-day cam
paign both in the communities of these
churches and in the city of Cordele.
This campaign is to be waged on
Thursday September % To this end
committees We're appointed to work,
both in the county and city, and it is
confidently thought that these commit
tees will meet with the same degree of
success that has always characterized
our splendid citizenship.
"There is no more worthy or meritor-
ious cause that we could engage in
than assisting to restore the colored
church buildings so wantOmly deS-
troyed. In no section of our country
is the colored race more peaceable,
law-abiding and INDUSTRIOUS tnan III
Crisp County, and we should recognize
in this attitude some degree of consid-
Grafton for their welfare
another thing which we should
recognize and appreciate is the fact
that Notwithstanding the great labor
unrest over the country and the agita-
ton to excite labor, our cOlored race in
this county has remained free from
these influences-at the same time the
colored race constitutes practically all
our labor. 1t is felt that no trouble
will be had in raising the money on
next Thursday to serve every purpose
in rebuilding the burned churches. So
far no one has been found guilty of
burning these churches, although n
large reward was and is still offered
The Colorado statesman., 1919-10-11

But one sovereign remedy lies in the
hands of the people of America them
selveS-Thrift.
No profiteer can flourish if his Gus
toners decline to pay his prices. The
prices of necessities of life must come
down if the people of the United
States curb extravaganza and waste,
buy only what they need and buy it
wisely with due inquiry and regard to
price Saving instead of spending is
sure to turn the tide of production to
useful and essential things and by fill
ing the demand for those things, to
reduce their prices.
The easiest method both to save
and to check waste and extravaganza
is to put part of each weeks income
into War Savings Stamps and Treas
ury Savings Certificates. These Sc
curities are safe and profitable and
when real need for the money arises,
that money is available.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-10-11
Flea in Amber,

The history of the flea would seem
to go back many centuries. but the
only fossil remains of a flea that have
90 far been found is single insect in
bit of Baltic amber. The flea Is
admirably preserved by its semi-trans-
parent surroundings. and is in the col
ection of Professor 'Clebs.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-10-11

lew BEDFORD, NASSAU a
MI public meeting of the New Bed
IN ford Branch of the Colored civic
L Y League of Massachusetts, Edwin
b. Jourdain made a strong ad-
dress in which he defined the unadul-
terated Americanism, for which the
League stands. The address, which was
printed in the New Bedford mercury"
read in part as follows:
Why all this unrest, turmoil and vio-
Hence in democratic America, vaunted
1'land of the free and home of the
brave?"
Why this open and contemptous defi-
ance of the laws of the land?
Because we are not sincere. Because
American democracy is not real. Be-
cause we are satisfied with preten-
sions with appearing to be what we
are not; with proclaiming lofty plati-
tudes and great principles, rather than
practising them.
Because our vainglorious Boosting
has degenerated into rank hypocrisy,
and our national honor besmirched.
Our country has wonderful visions,
she is dreaming of shedding the glOr-
ious light of democracy through all the
world. But the salvation of American
ideals and institutions, the security OIL
her very form of government, even OF
her existence, demands that she cease
blowing iiridescent bubbles, and turn
the searchlight of truthful investiga-
tion within That she N-ray her own
political and social system and locate
and eradicate the cancerous growth be-
fore it destroys her.
The nation must needs recognize the
vital fact, that the so-called Negro
question" is the most fateful question
before the nation to-day. 1t concerns
both races: it embraces humanity.
If is not a question of race or color,
it is solely and entirely question OF
the supremacy of the American Con
stitution and the laws of the land over
the forces of mobocracy and lawless-
ness.
Upon the correct solution of the
"Negro question" depends the future
success or failure of American democ-
racy with all that implies III woria
influence and welfare.
II is an axiom that Nothing is
settled until settled right" The NEGRO
question has been sidetracked, pigeon
hOled. kicked out of national counciis,
compromised by national government
but it still persists, and very evasion
and compromise has brought shame
and disaster to the nation
1t is the only controversy which ever
developed treason in an entire sectioh
of the nation, disruted the federation
of States. drenched the land IN the
blood of its choicest youth. And IL
lines the unrepentant South soildly up
still in rebellion 'gainst right, its conn
try's laws and humanity. When sa!
"South' / mean that section which mas
unconsttutionally legislated against
the manhood and the citizenship Oh
every colored American within its Dor
ders. All of which is diametrically op
posed to every principle of true Ameri
canism and of democracy.
There is no color line in Americans
ism. none in the Constitution, tht
The Colorado statesman., 1919-10-11

SCOTT'S OFFICIAL HISTORY OF
THE AMERICAN NEGRO IN THE
WORLD WAR. THE COLORADO
STATESMAN, EXCLUSIVE AGENTS,
Room %, 1924 Curtis ST., Denver, Colo.
z. o. Box 116.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-10-11
rakea Millions of EGGS.

According to the statisticians o. che
ood administration, 1t takes 2S.OOO,OOO
ggs year to clarity this country's
CUP.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-06-06
EUROPE STARTS IT'S
BASEBALL SCHEDULE
University of Paris Team to Make
Trip to England.
American Aggregations Are Playing
Exhibition Games in, Southeastern
France-Immense Crowds Wit
ness Various Contests.

The European baseball season has
opened, the University of Paris having
scheduled games with the University
Of Lyons, Nice, Dion, Nancy and Tou-
louise, with trip to England in June
TO play Oxford, Cambridge and Edin-
burgh
The University of Toulouse has four
baseball teams and American aggre-
cations are playing exhibition games
in southeastern France. Ten thou
sand persons witnessed game at
Toulouse recently, while at Pau there
were 5000 present. At Tarbes there
was an attendance of 1000, or quar-.
ter of the population of the city.
John T. Powers, now a Y. NJ. c. A.
worker at Toulouse, said:
81 think the French are the coming
people in baseball. They have the
best baseball eye of any people, next
to the Americans, so far as my OBJ
servation goes. Leaders feel the game
is suited to the French temperament,
although time will be necessary to
introduce the game. The scientific at
titude of baseball appeals to the
French, but other features are inter-
esting to them, for instance, the speed
necessary in playing the game and the
necessity of making quick judgment.
French youngsters are very keen In
picking up the niceties of baseball.
Several hundred boys at Toulouse are
now playing scrub games just like
American youngsters.
In a track meet held by men en-
gagged in the service of supply depart
pent of the American army, held at
LIE Mans, Pat Ryan, the Olympic cham
plon, threw the hammer 160 feet 8
inches. Lieut.. F. D. Maker, Of the
University of California, made high
jump of 6 feet. These athletes will
represent America in the intercOlle-
gate track meet which has been
planned.
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Jameson was pitching in the Metro
politan league when signed by Clark
Griffith three years ago. The recruit,
however, failed to impress the mana
ger Of the Senators with his line Of
goods, and Griffith converted him into
an outfielder.
Speaker as a Pitcher.
The redoubtable Speaker has
pitched game in the American
league. Near the flag end of the 1915
season, and with the pennant won,
Bill Carrigan nominated the great out
fielder to pitch against the Washing
ton team. Elmer Smith was never a
pitcher in the American league, but he
did a lot of hurting, both at the Huns
and for his company's baseball team
in France. ... .. $751;.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-06-06

The Cleveland club has what one
might call a pitching outfit" The
fly chasers for the Indians this season
will be Tristan Speaker, Joe Wood, J.
Gladstone Graney, Elmer Smith and
Charles Jameson.
Ended Graney's Career.
AS every baseball fan knows, Wood
was for several years the premier
pitcher of the Red Sox. Both Graney
and Jameson broke into the American
league as pitchers. Graney became a
member Of the Indians In 1908. On
the Cleveland teams first visit to New
York that season J. Gladstone stuck
his hurting hand in front of liner
batted by Neal Ball, the former men,
Der Of the Yankees. That ended
Graney's pitching career. ...
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-06-06

The crew of the American airplane
NC-4, which made the first transat-
lantic aerial passage. landing at Lis
bon from the Azores, has been deco
rated with the grand cross of the Or
der Of the Tower and Sword. says q
London dispatch.
A Geneva dispatch says airplane
mail service has been established be-
tween Paris and Geneva.
Drabek, a Chicago boxer. was killed
at lie Mans, France. in match with
Cridwele, Frenchman, the result Of
G blow over the heart.
A Picking dispatch says an agree
ment has been signed between the
Marconi Telegraph company and the
Chinese government for the formation
of q Chinese national wireless tele-
graph company.
A Casablanca dispatch says the
French troops have inflicted serious
defeat on Sheriff Gef Rauman in the
region of Tamelett, southern Moroc-
co. The Moroccan chief retreated.
Premier Lloyd George of Great
Britain, 1t is understood at Paris, is
considering favorably proposal from
the American peace delegation that he
visit America this year.
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regment-"No
Sedan 1914 of Thirteenth
engineers arrived January Is, 1919.
Enbarkaton home-No 13.
in
Thirteenth" a
with traditions and ambitions
military operation the soldiers of the Thirteenth
the only tools
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-06-06
HIGH PRAISE FOR BASEBALL
Admiral PIunkett Says Players
Brought Splendid Fighting Spirit
and Helped Athletics.

Baseball players in the navy made
a hit with Rear Admiral @. P. PUNK.
EFT, according to a letter which he
sent to Colonel Rupert Of the Yam
KEGS. The admiral says: aside
from being an ardent fan and for
mer player myself we were blessed in
this war with some of your fraternity.
They brought US splendid fighting
spirit, and I believe imbibed some of
the navy spirit. They helped US in
every possible way, especially with
our athletics, which. as you know, is
a very essential part in fitting man
physically to exert his utmost at all
times. I hope that the future holds
much in store for our great national
sport and that you and your club will
have the success which you so richly
deserve"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-06-06
BALL PLAYERS FOR ENGLAND
ArIie Latham, Old st. Louis Fa-
vorite, Comes to This Country
for Talent.

Arlie Latham, formerly of the St.
Louis Browns, and for several years
member of the Cincinnati Reds, now
master of all English baseball fields,
is coming to America to get talent.
Latham is very optimistic over the
games progress in the British king
dom. He predicts that before many
years have elapsed merry old England
will be engaged in an international
tournament with clubs of America for
the championship Of the world. s
And he goes further and says that
when those games are played the
crowds in England will be bigger than
the crowds in America.
Latham, almost unaided, has estab-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-06-06
WICK IS CLEVER 0UTFIELDER
Fly Chaser for New York Yankees
Putting Up Good Game In Field
lis Weak at Bat.

Manager Miller Higgins of the New
York Americans appears to have
picked up a very good outf1elder in
Wick, who is playing right field. He
covers lot Of ground and shows good
Judgment ON fly balls. He has not,
however, shown much strength at bat.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-06-06
BASCBALL
STORIES

The Browns have released Catcher
Fallentine to Portland.
Dode Paskert is not displaying any
spring form in hitting.
Josh Devore has hooked up with
Jack Hendricks at Indianapolis.
George Whiteman, star of the 1918
worlds series, is killing the ball for
the Toronto Leafs.
To1edo's team is called the Mud
Hens, and maybe that's one reason it
rains every day in Toledo
Earl Moseley, who fought in Italy
with an Ohio regiment, wants another
trial with the Reds pitching corps.
The return of Pfeffer, Galore and
Mamaux to the Brooklyn club has
made a big difference In that teams
success. 81
Bill Carrigan, former Red Sox lead
er, has returned to baseball. He will
back the club in his home town, Lew
iston, Me.
The fans will miss Silk O'Loughlin,
the most picturesque of all the UNI
pires who have worked in recent years
in the major leagues.
Stewart, the new hurler obtained by
the Louisville club from the Chicago
White Sox, is a Highlander and is
considered find.
Tommy Connolly, dean of the Amer
lean league umpires, has been ofici-
ating &c years, of which 10 have been
in the junior major organization.
John McGraw released Bill Rariden
to the Reds. In doing so he gave Pat
Moran just what he needed-an ex-
perienced heavy hitting backstop. Pat
now has two first-class receivers in
Rariden and Wingo.
Dave Robertson Unassigned his con-
tract with the New York Giants, de-
spite the reports earlier In the year
that he would play for no other club
but Washington.
Samuel Crews, Birmingham pitcher,
twirled the first no-hit game of the
season In the Southern league, pitch
Ing against Mobile. Birmingham won.
IA to 0.
Dutch Ruether, who formerly south.
paved for the Pirates, has taken on a
new lease Of life this season. Pat
Moran rates him as one Of his best
hurlers.
Gardner looks like a splendid addi-
ton to the Cleveland club. Besides
fielding his position faultlessly, his
work with the bat has been both hard
and timely.
Your Uncle Robbie is singing the
praises Of Hi Myers, Tom Griffith and
Lee Magee these days. All are hit
ting and fielding great games. Lew
Malone's timely batting and third
baseing also come In for a nice nat
from the robust person.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-06-06

collected annually the
Dumps specialists cities the business carried on by JUNK
milk bottle
restricting such traffic
33 milk bottles
provided he
member exchange.
Nineteen have regulations governing the Of milk bottles the
centea
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-06-06

''If the administration at Washing
ton lets Carranza troops pass through
the United States to Juarez, neither
nor anybody else will be able to hold
my men," said General Villa, an Ell
Paso dispatch says.
Highly favorable conditions and an
outlook for excellent business were
reported at Washington by Director
General Hines of the railroad admin
istration after an extensive trip
through the West.
Refusal of the house rules committee
at Washington to act Immediately on
a request that privileged status be
given the proposed repeal of the day
light saving law delayed consideration
of the proposal in the house.
Rapid completion of the navy's 1916
building program was urged by the
general board in a communication pre-
scented to the house naval committee
at Washington by Secretary Daniels.
Plans of the Republican leaders of
the house at Washington for investi-
cations of war expenditures of the
war department took definite form
when Representative Graham of Illi-
nois prepared a resolution providing
for the appointment by the speaker of
a special committee of Is members to
conduct such an inquiry.
Authorization of construction Of
more capital ships than were included
in the navy's 1916 building program
was declared by Secretary Daniels to
be "inadvisable," while testifying be-
fore the house naval affairs committee
at Washington. The secretary said
since the United States had initiated
the league Of nations it should show
its confidence in that covenant" by
not authorizing at this time the ten
battleships and ten scout cruisers pro-
posed several months ago by the navy
department.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-06-06
SCOTT PERRY SHY AS HITTER
In Recent Game With Yankees Ath.
IetTc Pitcher Struck Out Fsve
Times-Good as HurIer.

Scott Perry may be great pitcher,
but as a batter, oh myl In the game
Of April 2S he struck out five times.
Jack Quinn famed him in the second,
fifth and seventh innings and Bob
Shawkey made him cut the air In the
ninth and twelfth, though his effort in
the final inning did nip the ball, re-
sulting in a foul tip that was caught
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-06-06


family budgets in cities
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that the total