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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-06-26
Fresh beef at Bakers. Adv.H.

Wanted-2O boys eleven years old
or younger to ride bicycles July 4th.
See Mason
Mrs Hazel So1berg, nee Hazel Nor
gan, has been here this week from
Little River, Kansas, visiting with
home folks and to attend the wedding
of her friend, Miss Mary Ufford to
Howard Gordon.
Rye harvest is reported to have
commenced but there are not many
large fields of it. Some barley and
wheat will be cut with binder next
week and probably number of bind
ers will started in the wheat by the
last of next week.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-06-26

Judge and Mrs. /. L. Purcell are at
Hays today.
The Delco-Light dealer for this
territory is Ray G. Hall, Ellis, Ks. II
See Hoch at Hays for monuments
Quality first consideration. Adv 16.
There will be real music furnished
by a real band at the Fourth of July
celebration which is to be held in Wa
Keeney this year. The services of this
band has been secured and it will
come from Hays. It VIII be worth
while to hear it.
Voda Local Union No. 742. at the
next regular meeting, June 27, will
give an ice cream social and program
in honor of the new members taken
in. All members and families cordially
invited. The business meeting is call
ed for 8 O'Clock. This is the last meet
ing before harvest.
John Mutton, President.
The many friends of the Rev. c.. o.
Baker and family in this vicinity re-
greet very much the fact that ne has
resigned as pastor of the Baptist
church here and that he intends going
elsewhere. He was up into southeast
ern Nebraska over last Sunday look
ing over a field. Wherever he goes
The World wishes himself and fam
lily success and good health.
The Wa-Keeney and Trego county
friends of Henry Po1kowsky, of Coll
yer, T. c.. HI. S. graduate, will be
pleased to learn that he finished his
course in Mining engineering at the
University of Kansas this year and
has accepted a position with the EN-
pire Oil & Fuel Co., and is located at
Bartlesville, Oklahoma. ttHank" is
Jnf tiff
county friends wish him success.
c. E. Cummings, banker, and G. D.
Smith, attorney, of Blue Rapids, Kan
sas, were transacting business in Pro-
bate Court here last Monday repre-
senting some of the heirs at law in
the matter of the final settlement of
the Francis Baird estate. It was the
first visit of these gentlemen to Trego
county and they carried home with
them an enlarged view of the agricu1-
tural prospects of this part of Kan
sas which they acquired through the
courtesy Of C. c.. Baird and ride
about the country in his new car.
They were not all there but there
was about two hundred of the Presby-
terians and those that leaned that
way, at the congregational picnic
which was held in the court house
park Monday evening. There was
plenty to eat and no one went aw-
empty unless it was his own or ~
own fault Long tables were
and all sat down together. exr.,,,+;,,,
those who acted as w2arers. Ice cream
and ice tea .eas served TO all and tn
occasion was a very delightful one
The court house park is certainly
! beauty spot and fine place for pub
lie gatherings
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-06-26
TIE WA-kfENEY HARDWARE CO

Mrs. w. F. Murphy, of Broomfield,
Colo, is visiting at the home of her
friend, Mrs. F. W. Stats in this
city.
Miss Louise Ramers, of Cawker
City, arrived here last evening and is
spending a few days at the home of
her friend, Miss Grace Hancock, north
of town.
Mrs Jessie Simpson, of Tribune,
Kansas, is visiting at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Kellogg south
west of town. She is niece of Mr..
Kellogg
A surprise miscellaneous shower
was given Tuesday afternoon in the
court house park for Mrs. Gordon, nee
Mary Ufford. The surprise was COM
plete but the guests of honor receiv-
ed several very useful and ornament
tab presents.
If you have not already contributed
to the Salvation Army drive for $500
in Trego county, please hand your
contribution to your local banker, or
to J. H. Niesley, or A. S. Peacock, or
any other authorized solicitor, who
will be pleased to give you formal
receipt. It is not .toos1ate to help this
worthy organization.
In the centenary drive in the Meth
odist church the following charges
were assigned to Rev. Wade; Ogallah,
Wa-Keeney, Quinter, including Coll
yer, ~Grainfie1d, Banner and Cove.
These charges were assessed SIS, OS0.
The drive is now finished and more
than $2O, 900 was subscribed. The re-
port from the national committee
shows more than 100 million dollars
pledged and many churches yet to be
heard from.
The r11mor seems to have gotten
started that the elevators in Wa
Keeney will not be allowed more than
three cars each week for wheat this
fall. An investigation shows that at
present nothing is known regarding
the car situation nor how many OF
them will be available for this point.
There is one thing that must be re-
membered by those who will market
wheat, and that is, that they should
not get impatient if they are not able
to rush all of their wheat to market
in short time It is likely that there
will be car shortage and that there
will be many days next fail when from
fifty to one ..undred wagons will be
standing -,ear the elevators walnn 1le
for a nance to be unloaded- IL every
car the railroad company possesses
were available for wheat
i take good long tinoe o 49,.
NOUS wheat crop of western Kansa
to the market end it cannot be don
IN short time The wise farmer vii
prepare himself with granary room i
winch he can store his wheat unit
such time as he can get it to market
| Building material and grain tank
can be secured from Wa-Keenev. AN.
other Trego county merchants.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-29

been conceived, much less enacted, as
it is absolutely WRONG and caters to
prejudice as wrong as ITSELF.
Once, some years ago, it will be
remembered; there were several col
ored members of Congress elected by
the majority vote in thir several dis
tricts, just as the members of the
present Congress were but if those
men were living now, they would not
be allowed to travel in the South
without being Inundated and out
ragged by being forced into Jim crow
cars just because they had a visible
admixture Of African blood in their
composition. The present Congress
had an opportunity to correct this
great wrong but refused to do so, be.
cause the southern members did not
want it.
There is a 'majoritywof members In
the present Congress who are men,
bers of the Republican party, the
party of Lincoln, Sumner, Phillips,
Roosevelt, etc., presumably, advocates
Of justice to all men, and the most
faithful allies of that party had good
reason to expect justice at their
hands.
They did not get it and cannot for
get that fact.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-29
Should Open the Doors to Opportunity
(From the Christian Reeister)


(From the Christian Register)
A circular sent out to employers in
large city, calling attention to the
number and quality of young colored
men trained in the schools of the city.
and asking cooperation and counsel
IN making their services available,
brought one reply which though anony-
nous is significant of an opinion still
widely influential Kindly send them
to Africa, instead of mixing them
with U.s." AS the expression of an in
dlvldual desire these two points are of
course admissible, but as practicable
measures it Is curious that any intelli.
gent person should seriously entertain
them. Does any one suppose that the
colored population OF the United
states could be sent to Africa, or that
II they were sent they would go? So
long as they are here, and have al.
ready been mixing for more than a
century, and have the rights of citi
zenship, including the right to die with
white men for their country, is it any
reckonable menace to responsibility
and Intrinsic leadership to open a few
more industrial doors to their proved
abilities and usefulness? While we
write, moving-van is unloaded b,
two white men and one colored man
The colored man is the boss. the
white men take his orders. There il
not the least trouble about it. There
would never be trouble If It were not
made by people OF the temper of the
anonymous objector.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-29
An ApoIooist.
(FrOm the Washinxton Zoo

'rrom the washington Bee.)
The Bee, at the time Major Motion
was named by a committee of apolo-
gists, said then that he was a Hand
Picked Leader"
The condition of the colored race
IN this country il due to these "hand-
picked leaders," Now, in the first
place. Major Notion represents a class
OF white men and not the Colored
Americans.
He lis not only a "hand-picked
leader" but an apologist who fails to
resent an insult. Would any Ameri.
can white man of any nationality at
tempt to make excuses for an Insult
to his wife by common carrier.
Has this not been the policy of all
hand picked leaders? This hand
picked representative Apologies for
the insult offered his wife while en-
route to her home. Will Major Mo-
ton, the newly installed principal of
Tuskegee, enter suit for DAMAGES {?
NO, he would offer An apology to those
who had insulted his good wife. The
Bee has always been an admirer of
Major Notion, and thought that he
possessed manly traits, that would
commend him to the thoughtful. con-
stderation Of the American black
race, but The Bee must confess that
he is hand-picked leader and an
spologist.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-29
1--WE ARE ALL ALIKE"

In the midst OF the base, unjust, un-
American talk about race segregation,
which Southern whites have started
in Chicago, the statement of a mem.
Der Of an oppressed race, sounds like
a voice OF fairness in the wilderness
of race prejudice.
A great hullabaloo was raised over
the sale by Rabbi Hirsch of his for.
mer residence at 1912 Grand Boule.
ward, to colored man. It was con.
sidered a matter of sufficient impor.
lance to warrant the sending of a re.
porter of the Chicago Tribune to in.
terview the seller.
Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, the famous
Jewish leader, was asked by the re.
porter:
What are your views on r.ce seq.
regation?"
Rabbi Hirsch replied: T..
From my point of v'sw we are all
alike. Colored people are just as good
as whites. would father have a good
black neighbor thaA poor white one. -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-29
REvivlNe WAN INSURANCE.


Soldiers and sailors who have al
lowed their war insurance to lapse
should take note of the new treasury
decision whereby men out of service
eighteen months or more may rein
state their policies up to Dec 81, 1919,
on payment Of two months premiums,
provided they are still insurable ply
sically. 80.
Many OF these policyholders have
dropped their insurance because they
are young and without dependents.
But beyond question most Of them
VIII some day be" married and have
dependents and, will need insurance.
Life insurance is regarded today by
our most substantial citizens as the
necessary equipment Of every man of
family, and many banks are publicly
advocating it as measure of thrift.
These boys Of the army and navy
can never again get insurance as
cheaply3 as it Is offered by the govern.
mont, and the terms for reinstatement
are exceedingly liberal. It would be
the part Of wisdom for these boys to
get their policies launched now and
ct least partly paid for while they are
unburdened, financially, by a family.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-29
DECLINED BECAUSE 'UNAMERI-
CAN.

The Department of Publicity of. the
Westinghouse Electric and Manufac-
turing Company Of Lester, Pennsyl-
vania, gave, a segregated picnic for
its colored employees. A long account
Of the event was sent to THE AP-
PEAL but we declined to publish be.
cause we felt that the segregation
was un-American. We reprint here
with the body of the letter sent to the
Westinghouse Company, which gives
the opinion Of THE APPEAL as to
the Importance Of cultivating the feel
ing Of Americanism among all Amer.
lean citizens.
"Your matter is respectfully declin-
ed because THE APPEAL, which is
AN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER does
not care to give publicity to a story
which on it's face appears to be un-
American: We 80 regard it as it is
the exploitation of the fact that a
segregated picnic was given for the
"colored7 employees. That is drawing
the color line. n'@ .
SO far as we know the Westing-
house Company has not given a sep
arate picnic for each of the following
groups: German, Irish, French, Brit
ish, Polish, Russian, Lithuanian, Aus
trian, Lettish, Finnish, Bulgarian; Ser
bian and the one hundred and one
other nationa1ities which are employ
ed and there is no reason why picnic
should be given exclusively for "color-
ed" employees. -
Possibly some of the colored EN-.
ployees desire such picnic, but that
is because many have come from the
South and know. nothing but segrega- !
ton. Instead of encouraging such a
desire, it should be the aim Of an
corporation to encourage
the mingling of all of it's employees
Of the various racial groups in order
that they may learn more of each
other. Ninety per cent of radical pre-
JUDGE is due to the fact that one
group has no real knowledge of the
other groups. ~. "
The meeting Of the various racial
groups at public picnic does not
carry with it the obligation to con-
tinue and enlarge relationships. Each !
person must determine for himself to |
what extent he wishes to go in his
social dealings with his fellows.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-29

LIDO not doubt the rectitude Of your
intentions, but after my exposition Of
the case, you may be able to see that
there Is an un-American trend which
you yourself had not previously real.
lied. = -. - .~ -s>~>>~, :~~.af:,-.. *sz
trust that next year you will have
an ALL AMERICAN PICNIC, to which
ALL Of your employees will be in
vited, in order that racial hatreds
may be curbed and every man, no mat
ter what his nationality may regard
his fellow workman as an AMERI-
CAN-nothing mere--nothing less"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-29
INDIANS AeAI jlI # sEcREeATlloN.,

INDIANS AGAINsT SEGREGATION.
Three hundred members .of the
American Society Of Indians, in an
nual convention ct Minneapolis, voted
for the abolition OF the y. s. govern
ment Indian Bureau :. i
The reasons given by speakers are
that Indians should be regarded the
same as other American citizens and
do not need supervision. >s..
A remarkable thing in connection
with this procurement is the fact
that the editor OF THE APPEAL, in
wire to the President just before he
left for the Peace Conference at Paris,
in December, 1918, suggested the
same idea in reference to the Ameri-
can Indian.
DR.. C.. E. Eastman, Amherst, Mass,
president of the organization, in an
address said the Indians were not IN
derstood; and would not be in the
United States, until an Indian is presi-
dent
Even the American Indian, who was
robbed OF his country by the eau
casian, sees the menace of segrega-
ton, to which so many colored men
are Indifferent; and, some, actually
claim DESIRE:
Through the influence of certain
prominent colored men a negro
bureau was established in the Depart.
ment Of Labor, as a war measure.
The war is over and it should be
abolished. Cut out the word negro
in the government service. If all citi
Gems, regardless of race or color, are
net subject 20 identjcal conditions be-
fore the law, then American democ
racy Is a. fake.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-29

and few venal jimcrow Negroes
were on hand who tried to sell out
their race. The whole plan was an
Infamous one. The colored men who
were in the plot were the hirelings
OF the Hyde Park whites and hoped
to make lot of money out of the
scheme. but the community made it so
hot for the would-be traitors that thek
did not attend the second meeting
with the whites. There were only
SIX colored men who agreed to segre-
gate Themselves and they have long
been known ~ 1imerowists.
An attempt was made to buy out
Rev. John F. Thomas, pastor of Eben-
ezer Baptist Church, whose congrega.
ton has purchased a Jewish TEMPLE
IN the Hyde Park district, but he re-
fused to be party to the scheme and
he says that his congregation will
move into the Temple when the pay
ments have been completed:
Ex-Alderman De Priest, head of the
Peoples Movement, is raising a fund
to take care of the mortgages Of those
threatened with foreclosure and will
see to it that insurance policies are
taken out for ell who are not protected
against fire.
Leading colored citizens, pastors of
all the churches and heads Of organ.
izations are advising their members to
stand pat and be not afraid. It is
very evident that the colored people
Of Chicago will not waive any OF their
constitutional rights.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-29
THE ONLY SOLUTION.

Recently at the Church OF Ensland
Congress at Southampton. Sir Sidney
Olivier. who was governor Of Jamaica
from 1907 TO- the end OF 1917, put for.
ward the claim that no solution OF tho
American color question was possible
except BY . resolute disclaimer of the
color line and the race ditferention'
theory, :..-.~. ..ri~. ~. :.
Sir Sidney Olivier certainly knows
what he IL talking about. In the
Island Of Jamaica. where hs wa gov
ernor for i've years. there are about
100000 colored people and only 10000
whites and yet there 10 absolutely no
friction between the races. jamaica
10 q British colony and tho govern
ment Is Just. Colored men enjoy ev.
cry civil and political right which
white men have and there IL no color
line.
Among other things Sir Sidney said:
my study and comparison OF con.
ditions in the United States and the
West indies" he said. has brought
mo to that conclusion. American and
colonial politicians and public men
are not Exeter Hall abolitionists nor
evangelical Christian missionaries. l.
do not expect them to adopt tho meth.
DDS Of missionaries. nor do sympa-
thise with all their programmes. But
1t cannot be ignored AaAt It happened
that tho faiths Of the ,n,a Who laid
the foundations for the peaceful de-
velopment Of the mixed community In
jamaica were democratic and human.
itarian and. above al. uncompromis.
ingly Christian. >: -"
Were race differentiation held to Il
must increase civil discord. When the
balance Of numbers is % II Ii In tho
South In America It must tend 20
foster Obscure preparations for civil
war and rebellion II statesmen aad
citizens face in the contrary direction
do not cay that they will attain i'm.
civil peace, but am COM.
dent that they will be travelling tho
only road toward 1t.
Il do not suggest that race does not
greatly Affect facilities for combinar
ton between humans In healthy
life, but race difference u
only one Of many schismatic agencies.
The solution Of the difficulty Involves
discipline for the white man 20 we'll
be the black"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-29
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1919.
A THANKSGIVING HoM,Lv.


A peculiar chance brought to our
notice this week copy Of The {New
York; Independent issued on Thanks
giving Day, Thursday, November rs,
1874. And, under the above caption,
the editor, Henry c. Bowen, wrote
words that are as appropriate today
as they were when written forty-fve
years ago, and express our sentiments
better than we can, so we reproduce
portion and say, "Them's our senti-
ments:"
1T Is a good thing to give thanks
unto the. Lord" sung the minstrel
king, and his song seems to imply
that the occasion of thanksgiving is
never wanting. This is a lesson we
do not readily learn"
Any man who this day has honest
work and reasonable wages may we'll
eat his turkey with thankfulness and
drink his tirosh with merry heart.
And not least among the causes Of our
gratitude is the opportunity afforded
us of dividing our portion with those
who are in need. The poor we have
with us always; and this is not the
greatest of our hardships, but the
choicest of our blessings. If there
Is anything that Christian man feels
thankful for it is the privilege of lift
ing Of the load of some of his heavily
burdened neighbors; of filing homes
that were desolate with the light of
cheerfulness and the warmth of love;
of giving to some sad soul beauty for
ashes and garments of praise for the
spirit of heaviness. The daintiese
Wand in the most tempting feast will
not be half so delicious today as the
remembrance that there are other
habitations where the feast has been
made cheerier and the day brighter by
a thoughtful charity. We envy no
man his Thanksgiving dinner from
whose table is absent that sweetest of
all condiments, the gratitude of the
poor. ..' + ~
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-29
WILL NOT WAIVE RlcHTs.

Venal colored men in Chicago at
tempted to sell out the colored people
but they were promptly rebuked by
the decent self-respecting people. -
An organization known as the Ken
wood and Hyde Park Property Own
ers Association held a meeting to pre-
pare plans to segregate the colored
people or at least toedrive them out
OF the Hyde Park section. The color
cd people were characterized as "un-
desirables,'' "coons,'' "darkies," etc.,
BY speakers who were appealing to
the prejudices of the Southerners who
composed about nine-tenths of the
audience.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-29
REFUSED TO STAY SENTENCES,

REFUSED TO STAY SENTENCES.
Declaring that he would not be
swayed by outside influences in regard
to the death sentences passed on the
eleven colored men found, by preju-
diced jury, guilty of participation in
the recent Philips county race
troubles, Gov. Brough, of Arkansas, de-
cided to ignore the kilograms from
w. M. Trotter, secretary Of the Ma
tional Equal Rights League, and Maj.
j. E. Spingarn, of the N. A. A. c. P,
requesting executive clemency in the
case. He had the power to save these
mems lives whose condemning crime
was being black but chose to take
the responsibility upon himself of al
lowing them to be electrocuted with
what measure ye mete 1T shall be
measured unto YOU"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-29
REes TO HONOR X. K. K.

Headed by the Robert E. Lee camp,
whose membership includes Gen. K.
M. Vanzandt, commander in chief of
the United Confederate Veterans, q
movement has been launched by local
veterans in Austin, Texas, for the
erection of a monument to the Ku
Klux Khan, which fourished in the
south in reconstruction days, for the
purpose of intimidating and murder
ing colored people to prevent them
from voting or exercising any rights
of citizenship. 1t will be recalled that
Texas is the state in which Secretary
Shillady~ OF the N. A. A. c." P. was
brutally assaulted about two months
ago because he was endeavoring to
aid the colored people.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-29
the SIN or SILENCE

To sin BY silence when we should
protest makes towards out Of men.
The human race has climbed on pro-
test. Had no voice been raised against
Injustice, Ignorance and lust, tho in
QUESTION yet would serve the law, and
eui''otines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs Of
many.-ElIa Wheeler Wilcox.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-11-29
SOUTH STILL IN SADDLE.

It is with considerable regret and
chagrin that we note the defeat of
the amendment to the Esch railroad
bill offered by Congressman Madden
of Illinois, designed to do away with
the Jim crow accommodations now
supplied to colored people on rail
roads in the south.
The Jim crow law never should have