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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-02
GIRLS FREED FROM THE
TURKISH II AREMS TELL
STORIES OF ATROCITIES
Many of Them Turned Into Streets With Babies Are Found
Crazed by Starvation and Exposure

New York, June 2.-Stories told
by Christian women and girls of
Armenia who were deported from
their homes. led to virtual captivity
or slavery in the camps of the Turks,
Circassians and Arabs or held CAP
tives in Turkish harems in Asia
Minor have been received by the
American Committee for Armenian
and Syrian Relief. The statement
issued by the Committee says that
the women whose narratives are
made public were released by their
masters or rescued by Allied troops.
After the signing of the armis-
tice,' says the Committees state
ment, many of the Turks, believing
that by so doing they could escape
punishment. turned the women
many OF them with babies-into the
street. Cablegrams to the Commit
tee nave reported that numbers of
these women were wandering about
the country crazed by starvation and
exposure. AS fast as possible they
are being gathered up by the Com
mittee's relief workers and placed
in homes esta blished for their care.
A late telegram said that fifteen such
homes have been established in Asia
Minor"
Take Affidavits
Stories OF these Armenian victims
of Turkish atrocity were obtained by
DR.. Loyal L. Writ, member of an
expedition sent to Turkey by the
Committee. They are taken down
as related by DIR. w. A. Kennedy,
Field Director of the Lord Mayors
Relief Fund of London. After TAX
ing them down. DR.. Kennedy as
sured DR.. Writ, he personally re-read
the afidavits to the narrators and
they signed them in his presence.
Together these tales constitute one
of the tragic chapters of the war.
They were not isolated cases but i'm
some instances the experiences of
as many as 5000 refugees who had
been driven from their homes and
forced on journeys of hundreds of
miles from fertile Armenia into the
borders of the Syrian desert. On the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-02
CROSSINGS ARE
TO GO RAPIDLY
Large Appropriation TO Be
Asked of Legislature
For States Share

More gra d e
crossings will be
ordered abolished
in Pennsylvania
this year { h a n
ever known be-
fore in a twelve
month. according
to officials of the
p u b lie Service
Commission. who
have been engag-
cd in study of the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-02
United Presbyterians
Hit Wilson's Rum Plea

Monmouth, ILL.,. June 2.-The
United Presbyterian general assem-
bly, convention expressed deepest
regret and sorrow" that President
Wilson had advised the repeal OF
wartime prohibition. and a message
will be sent to Congress urging pas
sage of legislation enforcing the
prohibition constitutional amend
ment.
Delegates approved the plan to
raise S10,000.00O fund to be used
to endow missionary and educational
work. No action was taken on pro-
posed union with the Presbyterian
Church
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-02
N. Y. Girl, Home From War,
to Wed Albanian Prince

New York, June Miss Ruth
Todd, of Tarrytown- on the Hudson,
who recently returned from Europe,
where she served several months
with the Red Cross Albanian relief
commission. announced her engage
ment to Prince Selim Mihil Wassa,
of Albania.
The prince is 80 years old, five
years the senior of his fiancee. He
was educated in Constantinople and
England and speaks seven languages.
He is the author of a historical book
on Albania. He won the rank of
captain in the late war.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-02

pains and pains
in my back. l
could not get
around to do my
work and had to
sit down and rest
often during the
day. l saw Lydia
Z. P in k h a ms
Vegetable Com
pound advertised
in the papers and
read the testi-
m o n ! a Is, SO I
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-02
MRS. MAY
COULD NOT
WORK
Made Well and Strong by
Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound.

Columbia, Pa.-"I was very weak
and run down and had dragging-down
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-09-18
A SERIOUS SITUATION.

That serious situation confronts America in
with the whole world must be evident to every thoughtful
observer The relations between capital and labor are
strained Racial feeling and prejudice instead OF having
been aayed by the great to have become
acute This is particularly in the United States
Despite the fact that people fought for the right
fight to make democracy safe for the world and
at home and abroad behaved most noby in the face
Of gevous provocaon to do otherwise there to be
well-organized and perncious propaganda to bring
esrangement between and fellow Americans 1t is
emily well organized plan to dscredt the Negro in we'll
disposed communities. Somebody, something is back of
sensational headlines popular in American newspapers
of emphasizing and calling attention to alleged crimes of
Negroes
What is back of it? Is organized labor getting its
from the south which losing labor the north
and back of il? Possibly This, believe, has
entered into the plan, if indeed it not primarily
sponsibe for it, Or is it continuation of the campaign
of SANDER which naugurated by southern officers, like
Colonel Greer chief of staff of the Ninety DIVISION
discredt black American soldiers in France brought
back to America? Is it continuation of the persistent
campaign which have preached to soldiers abroad
the effect that they must not let the treatment accorded
them by the democratic French people lead them
similar fair treatment in their country This is not
impossible; indeed believe it highly probable
Whatever be the the motive there is apparently
well organized plan dscredt the in America and
to bring estrangemeEt between fellow Americans. A
sighted if subsidized and malicious press, is
tbutng to this estrangement by playing upon the pas
sons of the undscrminatng and thoughtess by its gar
ing and sensational headlines, emphasizing of al
legged crimes by Negroes
The situation is serious To our people we counsel re-
strant and self-conro We urge upon all to be most
careful of their conduct TO do nothing percpate
bic. To do everything in their power to avoid giving
ofense.
To the press we appeal to cease magnifyng alleged
crimes of Negroes by glarng headlines and thus appeal
ing to the unruly passions of the populace.
In these serious times all need to keep heads in
every community, refuse to be swayed by prejudice
passion and work together for the common good-The
Monitor Omaha, Neb)
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-09-18
AS TO THE NEGRO.

Moved by know not what the Milwaukee Sentinel
in its Of Aug 2Sth ruShes the support of Repre-
sentative Byrne of South Carolina his recent TRADE
against the Negro.
Says MASON Street Contemporary: with the
Negroes remaining mostly in the south where their labor
is desirable and for which labor they have special Qua
cations of and training and with the pro-
teced from the i'll advised and niSchevous efforts the
socaled leaders who preaching discomfort and
volt the incentives antagonism the part of the white
people will largely be eliminated and the time the
discomfort and hard feelings which found expression
Negro uprsings will be greatly reduced.
Southern propaganda to have had its effect. No
who knows anything of the Negroes condition the
South and at the time desires to be fair could pos
siby pen those lines. He know that the discomfort
the part of the Colored people of Georgia Mississippi
Alabama South Carolina and OTHER southern states is due
less to socaed leaders than the njusces and bru-
taes Of the white people Of those If the law
abiding Colored people completely protected from
aggresslons of whites it Is proposed protect them
from the ll advised and miscellaneous efforts of the So
called leaders there would be little incentive for them to
leave the land where their labor is desirable"
There is question that the Negro naturally prefers
the south That he has remained there in such numbers
in spite of the i'll treatment he has received is proof
positive Of that Ask almost any of the recent
migrants the for his leaving the south and he will
tell you that, which, in its final analysis, denial
opportunities accorded all other peoples. 's thing
to know the Negro and ote another ,nng to be
Negro and feel the sting in being such.
That the Colored people of the south actually max
ing progress accommodating money, buying property and
educating their children is their credit that of
their locus 1t is in spite of the handcaps, because
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-09-18
EDITOR TAFT VS.. PRESIDENT TAFT.

Nov that William Howard Taft has become writer Of
editorial articles for fell that within strict
y professional limits, at liberty to deal with him
though a former President, might with any
other brother.
Editor Taft strenuousy opposed to the National
Prohibition Amendment Is any of But find
that learned journalistic confrere accepts the situation
and because the amendment gives Congress full power
deal with the drink question, eXhortS his feow-czens to
fall in line with the ProhibonstS and do every
thing in their power to make the crusade
although bygones should be bygoneS, cannot help
recalling the fact that from March f. 1902 to March 4,
1918, esteemed contemporary President of the
United States As such he bound by oath the
best Of his ability TO preserve, protect and defend the
Constitution of the United States If he spoke
word performed official during his of office
that calculated any way to enforce the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments to the rights of Negroes,
where to look for the record?
Prohibition in the Constitution is sefenforc-
ing than citizenship for black When Editor Taft
asks everybody do for Prohibition what President Taft
failed to do for millions of oppressed citizens he will
pardon us if thus refer to the les-New ork World.
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-09-18
LIFTS CURTAIN ON IRON CIRCLE
New Book by Ludendorff Full Of Rev
aIations About Germany.

| Milwaukee, Wis.-Laying the blame
kfor the downfall of the German nation
as world power squarely at the door
of the former kaiser, William ii, Gen.
Won Dudendorff in a remarkable book
which he has just written lifts the
veil for the first time on the mtrigues
and colossal blunders that were made
within the iron circle" from the time
the world war began to the day the
armistice was signed and Germany
acknowledged final defeat.
Ludendorff perhaps is able to speak
with authority more fully than any
other German. He was the right-hand
man of Field Marshal Won linden
burg through all the latter's cam
paigns on the eastern front in the
early part of the war, and when Hin
denburg was rendered the post of
chief of the general staff he would
not accept unless he could bring Lu-
dendOrff to great headquarters with
him When the weight of responsible
tiles became too great for linden
burg, upon Ludendorff fell practically
llC WhOlC ICGPOnSIOIllly VI TIC 1O1c
campaign. He played with fate and
lost-lost because he had not counted
on the thousands of American boys
from Wisconsin and other States who
We're thrown in to stem the tide of
German invasion and who in the Ar
gonne finally broke the hitherto in
vincible German line and placed Lu-
dendorff in a position where he had
to surrender or face the supreme mill
tary defeat of history.
After the kaiser's downfall Luden-
dorff took his records to Stockholm,
where he set about writing his book,
not as a personal vindication, he says.
but that the world should know the
truth about the overthrow of Ger
many. The manuscript of the book
Was approved by the present German
government.
The book is regarded of such inn
portance that the Milwaukee Journal
obtained the rights to serialize it and
will begin publication early in Sep
tember 1t tells completely and fully
the story of German warfare on land
and explains how this was affected by
the failure of Germany at sea. 1t is
said to contain many a revelation. Lu-
dendorff goes back even to the period
before a single blow was struck in
the world war to make plain his story.
Ludendorff says that Austria was
burden rather than help to Ger
many; that the imperial chancellor,
Bethmann- Hollweg did not back up the
army chiefs; that the situation of
Germany was serious from the first,
that Germany had no inkling of the
Russian revolution. These are but
some of his points" selected at ran
dom.
In order to round out the story of
Germany in the war, The Journal has
also arranged to publish book on the
sea warfare of the kaiser. now being
written by Admiral Won TirpitZ. who
conceived the idea of the U-boat cam
paigns His Book, also, is full of rev
Citations as to what went on in Ger
many. The two together will present
to the allied world for the first time
the complete account of the working
of German militarism.
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-09-18

them But what good is money and property when its
value than that of other people who have ess when
is unable to protect one from Insult for the
consideration of the poorest white citizen? Down in
Houston Tex Mrs Lbbe Bautte teacher in the Colored
schools, had safety deposit box in the Union National
Bank of that city notice that the rent of $500
would due May 14th addressed to Lbbe Bautte
Mig the envelope containing the notice addressed the
analysis He needs but to the columns of his own
paper to find the of the discomfort No black
absolutely safe in the south He knows that if
day. it may be tomorrow he will be called upon pay
the supreme sacrifice for daring dispute the word of
white man. We know whereof speak because have
lived there In the breast of the average souheer is
deepseated resentment against all Coored people because
the Emancipation Proclamation. Even if there
no so-caed eaders the accorded the Colored
people enough breed discomfort among angels. 1t is
being noticed they have the manhood to
ia healthy change.
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-09-18
THE BIGGER DAY.


We done with little thinking and we're done with little
deeds,
We done with petty conduct, and we're done with
creeds;
We have grown to and women and we've noble work
to do
And today people with larger point of view.
In a big way must labor if flag shall always fly,
In a big way we suffer a big way must die.
There be little dreaming in the visions that
There be selfish planning the joys that to be-
We have faces eastward to the rising of the
That shall light better nation and there's big work to
be done
And the pety-sous and seeking only selfish gain
Shall be vanquished by the toers big enough to suffer
pain.
It's big task have taken It's for others must fight
We must duty clearly in a white and shining light,
We quit little circles where we've moved in little
ways,
And work and women, for the bigger better days
We must quit selfish thinking and our narrow views
and creeds,
And as people, big and splendid must do the bigger
deeds. Anonymous.
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-09-18

Montreal - A race riot, in which
whites and colored people battled in
the streets, firing freely, occurred
here early today and was quen,.. only
after police reserves were rushed 10
the scene, where the disturbances
took place, The disorder followed an
assault upon a colored man. His
friends came to the rescue and a free
for all fight ensued.
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-09-18

upon him in Austin. Tex, when he
went there TO advance the interests OF
his organization.
Four steps have been decided upon.
he said They are:
Demands for congressional AMI
presidential investigation; an appeal
to Gov. Smith to protect the interests
of citizens Of New York, and legal &C
ton against the persons who attacked
Mr.. Shillady.
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-09-18
SCISSORED THOUGHTS.

Fargo IN. d. Forum)
1t is for just such injusces these that de-
mandng end of Turkish rule and the establishment of
mandatory for Armenia protect her from Turkey and
have the League of Nations place under the control of
European nation in order protect coored c
zcns? The comparison sounds fantastic yet the principle
is the same. The conditions differ only in degree.
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-09-18
Pittsburgh Courier.l

1t that the American white has decided that
the Negro is entitled to his need of praise and reward
his share in the war but along with that concession
there evident determination to prevent the Colored
soldier from entering fully into anything new larger
better LIBERAL than obtained when the Colored
boy when to Everywhere there signs of Oppos-
ton, and Encouragement.
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-09-18
(Richmond (Va.l Journal

does the Evening Journal stand? asks the Square
Deal published under the auspices of the Richmond Cen
trial Trades and Labor Council The question PROFOUND
ed in relation the admtance of Coored to labor
organizations composed of white Our reply is that
stand four square with the attitude of the American
Federation of Labor which, in recent annual convention at
Atlantic City, unanimously admit 100000 negro
workers of the country to equal membership of all inter
national unions.
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-09-18

New York-John K. Shillady, secre-
tary National Association, for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People. issued
a statement Wednesday in which he
declared action would be taken to OBJ
tain satisfaction for the attacks made
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-09-18

AS long American citizens dsfranchsed segre-
gated m-crowed lynched browteaten intmidated, held
in contumey and contempt, victims of lawessness and
msreated generally because of their COLOR the riot spirit
will be rampant.
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-09-18

L. ]. OUSLEY, Beloit, Wis District
Grand Director, Illinois and Wiscon-
sin Jurisdiction. G. U. o. of o. f.
No. 8, who is doing much to foster
the principles of the Order in Wis
consin. He was leader in the set
ting up of Racine Imp. Lodge No.
10034.
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-09-18
MINNEAPOLIS Tribune.l

There is not least should be, law for whites
and another for blacks Unfortunately many distinctions
that kind have been made in this country the detr
ment of its good name and fame
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-09-18

Lars Swenson of South Dakota visits Milwaukee, is
enamored of certain grass widow" and commits fraud
for which he is arrested Now he says ut the
who caused it," A story old the human family
itself.
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-09-18

We do not regret the close of the with the
Quent of peace, but if the had continued
year two longer Americans of African descent would
have for themselves place that rebel of
rebel could take away.
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-09-18

There is disgrace in losing fight for the right. In
a cowardly surrender is the greatest humiliation.
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-09-18

In society seldom hampered by unsavory
reputation. With women it is different Why? Ask
George he knows.
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-09-18

The National Association of Dancing Masters in session
in New York declares that the Skinny" and other
called vulgar dances the product of Negro dance halls
of Chicago and must go. Funny, isn't it, how naturally
fashionable society adopts the vices of the Negro.
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-09-18
BLADELETS.

We must do the bigger deeds
BE not content with your present conditions Progress
lies in discomfort.
The Wisconsin weekly blade. [volume] (Madison, Wis.) 1916-1925, 1919-09-18

Gustave kernd, former Milwaukee police officer and
a major in the U. S. Army during the war; is held for
trial on charges of auto stealing while parolman Very
properly blame attaches to his brother officers for his
acts. If he Negro his entire would be blamed
and his act cited proof positive of the Negroes untness
to be policeman The difference lies in the color of the
offender,
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-05-03
NEW LUXUR|ES TAX
IS NOW OPERATIVE
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
hot clam bisque, hot tomato bisque,
and hot tomato bouillon.
mo tax applies to the sale of bev-
erages or drinks such as ginger ale,
root beer. moxie, mineral water, etc.,
when served directly from a contain
er, in which case the manufacturers
tax on such drinks has already been
levied under Section 62S. However,
if any of the drinks or beverages here
in mentioned are compounded or
mixed with ~carbonated water or ex-
tracts or other ingredients at the
fountain, they are taxable beverages.
There are certain medicines, such
as bromo settler, citrate of magnesia,
rochelle salts, seidlitz powders, bicar-
Donate of soda, castor oil, EPSON salts
and essence of pepsin, which are Of
ten sold at soda fountains, ice cream
parlors and similar places of business
which are not soft drinks or ice
cream products or similar articles of
food or drink, and hence are no tax
able"
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-05-03
OF EQUIPMENT
FOR HIGHWAY WORK

More equipment for the State high
way department from the War De-
partment has been accepted by c. C.
Cottrell, State highway engineer, who
sent the following telegram to p. st.
John Wilson. acting director OF the
bureau Of public roads:
Referring to your letter, we ask
that the following equipment be re-
served for Nevada, and that II be
shipped to Reno Immediately: Three
15-ton Holt caterpillars, 800 Amy
blankets, 10 heavy double sets of har-
ness. three calculating machines. two
Universal drafting machines, five
planimeters. two adding machines.
eight typewriters. five Office desks.
four typewriter desks, SO units of fl
ing cases, 80 engineers transits, 10
engineers dumpy levels, 10 Abney
levels, 10 level. rods, 30 steel tapes,
seven 25-horsepower tractors. five
Western railroad plows, 100 short
handled shovels, 500 mattocks, 235
galvanized buckets, 300 Dietz Ian
terms. 20 logchains. and five concrete
mixers of varying sizes.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-05-03
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the Sixth Judicial District Court
OF the State of Nevada, in and for
the County of Humboldt.
In the Matter of the Estate OF Lille
Patton. Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that Jennie
Williams. on the 14th day of April.
AID. 1919. was duly appointed and
qualified by the above named Court
as Administrative of the estate Of
Lille Patton, deceased.
All creditors having claims, due or
to become due. against said estate
are required to file the same. with the
proper vouchers attached, with the
Clerk of said Court. within three
months after the first publication OF
this notice.
Dated, April 18th. 1919.
JENNIE WILLIAMS,
Administrative of the Estate of
Lille Patton. Deceased.
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