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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-07-05
Highest French Order Awarded to
CoIored Soldier.

Special to The Appeal.
Boston, July 2.-The act of Clar-
ence R. Van Allen, corporal of L
company, Three Hundred Seventy
second infantry regiment, in putting
out of action single handed Ger
man machine gun, killing four Of
it's crew and capturing three others,
was recognized today when he was
decorated with the medaille militaire,
the highest honor for heroism that
France confers on an enlisted man.
Officers of the Northeastern de-
partment, who turned out in a body
to do honor to the man who Was for
merly waiter at a restaurant here,
said they believed he was the first
American soldier to receive the dec
grafton.
Van Allen was already the possess
sor of the distinguished service cross
and the Croix de Guerre.
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AN INFAMOUS STATEMENT

DR. Clarence True Wilson, general
secretary of the board of temperance,
prohibition and public MORALS" of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, ought to
be very careful in the stuff he hands
out to the public for he has just made
a statement which is not wholly true
and which is an insult to one group
of American fighters.
On the authority of Deets Pickett,
research secretary of the board who
has just returned from Europe, the as
sertion is made that drunkenness, dis
honesty, immortality and the associa-
ton of French women with colored
men, are some of the causes for their
dissatisfaction" with France
In another column of this issue Of
THE APPEAL will be found a letter
from St Paul man who is now a
soldier in France thousands of such
letters have been received from col.
ored soldiers), which shows that the
Association" drew the color line, and
colored soldiers were continually in
suited by signs reading, For White
Troops Only" =.
There is no color line in France
or any other European country, not
even in Germany. The French people
treated the colored Americans as if
they were human beings. There was
no patronizing. They were treated
like men because that is the custom
in France. On the contrary the white
American soldiers continually insulted
and mistreated their colored brothers
IN arms. To infer that the relations
between respectable French women
and colored men were immoral is an
Infamous slur on the French women
and an insult to the colored defenders
of democracy. -
1t is said that the French demi-
mondaines preferred the colored men.
and this piqued the white Americans.
They did not object to the sin, but
the fact that the female sinner was
a French woman and the male sinner
an American colored man.
The averave white American accus-
omed to the infamous, abnormal, I'M
Christian, and really un-American
color line, can not grasp the psychology
OF the French people who not onlyS
have no color line but cannot com .
Drehend its meaning
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-07-05
IN THE GHETTO

There have been several race riots
in Chicago, but the latest one is some
thing of novelty. Recently colored
people, not being able to find houses
in other parts of the city, began NOV
ing into the ghetto. The Jews forgot
all about their prosecutions in Europe
and ordered their colored brethren
out. When they refused to go, two
Jewish girls said they had been in
suited by negroes" Then the riot
started. Result: One colored man
dead, five white men wounded.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-07-05
The Urban League.
ON the Boston Guardian.

The Guardian has noticed the sneak
thief method that the Urban League
has taken to get foot hold in Bos.
ton. We set a trap and all the mice
walked in. AS long as the Boston
Urban League maintains the standard
OF New England and fights for liberty
and justice in all things and sees to
IL that when our young girls are given
jobs they are to be real jobs and not
to become the playthings of a certain
type OF white men we will say moth
ing.
1t seems that many people are of
the opinion that because Trotter is in
France trying to give them a mans
chance instead of dogs chance that
anything can be put over. The young
fellows left in charge are just as well
educated and have had the necessary
experience to write and fight as ef-
fectively as he. We wish to be broad.
minded hence We may appear easy,
don't fool yOurselves-we understand
the Urban League and it's sinister.
curry favor, dog like attitude We
also understand these white philan-
thropists that pet black people as
they would French poodle. If these
same white people would see to it
that in the many corporations in
which they hold shares that colored
men (and I mean as Trotter said,
those of discernible African extrac-
tom be given a decent job instead
of a porter's job they would indeed
be real Americans
We want to warn young co1ored
girls of ambition that before leaping
at a job in a sweat shop please see
first that the shop is clean, airy and
a decent place to work in. Better to
maintain your womanhood and health,
working at an inferior job rather than
risk it in sweat shop.
Do not forget that the white la
borer is after the capitalist. To dodge
the issue these capitalists are anxious
to use you. =
Good jobs for colored Americans will
come just as soon as Americans get
sense enough to do.reaI. farming, real
business and real thinking. Running
restaurant is not business, running
a shoe shop is. If our ambitious girls
and boys would go to the library and
read Loughs Corporation Finance and
books Of like character you will come
to very different conclusions about
jobs. It is nerve and push that our
race needs not Urban Leagues.
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"SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY"

A wellknown colored resident of
st. Paul who is serving in the United
States army now in France sends a
letter which gives an idea of the pres
ent conditions which surround the
colored soldiers who fought ITO make
the world safe for democracy" AS
the censorship has not yet been lifted,
we withhold the name and address
of the writer for fear that he may
be punished for sending the letter,
which follows:
Somewhere in France, June 4, 1919.
To the Editor Of THE APPEAL:
l am writing to let you know what
our boys are doing in France and
what is being done to us. We landed
at Sainte Nazaire, a city of 100000
people, and trained a while under
great odds. We were then ordered
to the front and were getting ready
to go when the armistice was signed.
We all wanted to go, as there was
not man in the whole division who
had streak of yellow down his back.
We are now located at -, France,
that is two companies, and the Med
ical Corps and the other companies
are at different places. The two
companies are in charge Of two large
mess halls and can feed about 5000
men in about Is minutes. The men
in the Medical Department look after
the sick in the camp and examine
the troops that are embarking for
home.
What we are doing here is not ap-
preciated, and there is a great deal of
segregation over here. In some
places you can see in large letters
signs reading FOR WHITE TROOPS
ONLY. At the white young Mems
Christian Association" in camp a COL
ored soldier cannot buy anything and
when you attend a movie show you
are roped off. And why? Just to
satisfy the Southern white man. The
colored soldier has caused less trou-
BILE than any other soldier in this
country. Something ought to be DONE
We have done our bit toward world
democracy and we must enjoy little
of it. We are going to demand it
when we return. No doubt you have
heard of the faults of the Y. M. G. A.
and they are true in the respects that
I state. I hope you will take this
matter up with some men who have
political influence and make an in
vestigation of the things which exist
over here before it is too late.
There is another thing we should
like to know. Why are colored troops
being held in France and then not al
lowed to enlist in the Army of Occu-
patton? You see, these are the
things which confront us daily. Al
ways something to hold US down.
Our only friend in need is the Red
Cross. 1t is the best organization
in France and is everywhere the SOL
diers are. The. service is good and
the prices for their canteen are cheap.
and every man who wears the O. D.
uniform is the same to them. This
is also true of the Salvation Army and
the knights of Columbus, and when
these organizations appeal for money
they need it and hope that every
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-07-05

one who is able to subscribe will
do so. Yours very truly,
= It is outrageous that the conditions
described should exist and appeals
should be made to the powers that
be to right these wrongs. So far as
the Y. M. c. A. is concerned, THE
APPEAL has never had any faith in
it. 1t is one of the greatest fakes
the world has ever known and has
probably done more to cultivate race
hatred than any organization with the
word "Christian" as part of it's title.
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ADDRESS PRESENTED TO PEACE CONFERENCE
ADOPTED ~ TIE NATIONAL cooRED CONGRESS- Foa WORLD DE-
MOCRACY UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE NATIONAL EQUAL
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N. A. A. c. p.

The National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People is in ses-
sion this week at Cleveland, Ohio.
THE APPEAL sent the following
telegram of greeting:
Saint Paul, Mimi, June %, 1919.
To National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People in
Tenth Annual Session, Cleveland,
Ohio:
Greeting.-Stand firm for the total
abolition of the color line in every de-
partment of the government-Army
Navy, Civil establishment. Do not
compromise. Hew to the line no mat
ter how many co1ored jimcrowists are
hit by the chips.
JOHN @. ADAMS,
Editor The Appeal.
The Fifth Spingarn Medal was
awarded to Archibald H. Grimke of
Washington, D. c., for distinguished
service as author and scholar, and as
President of the Washington Branch
of the N. A. A. c. P.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-07-05

army and powerful navy is continually
fighting determinations, while GER
tain groups of negroes" are doing
their best. to segregate themselves in
the United States and deprive them
selves of the advantages of full Ameri-
can citizenship. 49,.
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the SIN OF 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, the in
QUESTION yet would serve the law, and
euiIlotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrong. Of
many.-EII. Wheeler Wilcox.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-07-05

France which gave to the world
the Dumas, pere ct fills, judges men
by merit not by color. France is true
to it's motto,
"Liberte, Egalite, F'raternite"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-07-05
CORRESPONDENCE TEACHING,
Is Now Developed at the University Of
Minnesota.

II was once thought. that to gain
knowledge in any systematic manner
one must put himself under the direct,
personal supervision of teacher.
Many still think this, and when it is
impossible to do this give up all ef-
fort at self Improvement. This is to
call attention to the fact that instruc-
ton by correspondence has been de-
veloped to meet just such needs as
theirs at the State University at Min
neapolis and the work is conducted
by the Correspondence Study Depart
ment of the General Extension Divi-
sion.
The work as at present organized
includes preparatory and college grade
courses and vocational courses in
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-07-05

It cost considerable money to send
our army to France, and it will cost
just as much to bring It home make
good your w. 8. S. pledge.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1919-07-05

GOD GIVE US MEN,
God give us men time like this demands
Strong minds great hearts, true faith and ready hands,
Men whom the lust Of Office does not kill;
Men whom the spoils of Office cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and will
Men who have honor-men who will not lie;
Men who can stand before demagogue
And damn his reacherous batteries without winlzng!
Tall men, sun crowned, who live above the fog
In public duty and in private thinking.
u. G. Holland.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-22
ALLOTTINC TEUTON LINERS
Negotiations for Their Use as
Transports Nearly Completed

Washington. Jan. 22.-(By A. PD--
Negotiations for the allotment of idle
German and Austrian liners to the
United States to aid in the movement
homeward of the American forces in
France are nearing completion. Secre-
tary Daniels received today a cable
gram from Admiral Benson, represent
ing the Navy Department in the nego-
tiations at Treves, saying he would be
able to inform the department within a
day or two as to the number of officers
and men required to put the German
and Austrian ships in service.
The Secretary said that orders had
been issued further delaying mobiliza-
ton of the navy until it was learned
how many men must be supplied fol-
this new transport service. 1t has beer
estimated that the twenty or more Ger
man and Austrian liners. including the
Imperator, sister ship of the Leviathan
will have transport capacity for TO-.
900 men a month.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-22

British will use the smaller vessels
to take the Australians home by
way of the Suez Canal. The total
of passenger shipping is seven hun
dred thousand tons, to be divided
equally between the Americans and
Britain.
This means the movement of sew
cnty thousand more American SOL
diers home per month. The armistice
incident is significant because it af-
forded the first contract between
business men Of Germany with busi-
ness ,men of the Allied world.
The most important thing settled
at Treves passed out of purely mill.
tary into civilian hands. A purely
economic relation has been estab'
lished between Germany and ths
Allies and upon a basis which is
necessarily temporary, but which
must develop and extend.
I Successive negotiations will be
come more and more matters fol
civilians.
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Must Pay in Gold
for American Food
Continued from Page One

Continued from Page One
would allow in which to negotiate
this great contract. The German
representatives, who were among
the biggest business men of Ger
many, including Melcher, a partner
of the Warburgs, and the presi-
dents of the Hamburg American and
North German Lloyd, could do little
but throw up their hands.
The Americans and British want
ed passenger ships as well as freight
ships to transport troops. General
Foch was cold to this demand.
The German representatives want
ed to obtain the employment of
German crews to afford occupation
for their men and thus check the
spread of Bolshevism. Hurley and
Beale refused this, and Marshal Foch
ultimately gruffiy extended the time
for settling the contract till noon
of the next day.
The Americans and British finally
got the passenger ships they
wanted.
Ships Divided Equally
n The Americans will use the larg.
est for transatlantic service. The
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-22
AMERICAN TROOPS NAY
REINFORCE POLISH ARMY
Special Gable TO Erening Public Ledger

toDD'H0"f' 1872 OV t"' ~ l. '"''S IT,
landau, Ian oo.-The Daily ChrOni-
,, .,,,l,.,, ai,,,,,s,-
cIes dlpIoHla''c 'or'eSPo''"'".'
ing the Russian problem now before the
peare conference. SAYS that the tele-
-, ,,..I,,,,,,.,, bo,uoe, rreot Rrit-
grams 'Nc"a's'" "''"'"
ain and America alone on TINS pottcn-
tous subject would ill n volume.
..,r,,o ,,,,,;o, oh.,irs bcro" no emf,
i"e oi''''i' '.' ~
that II any Intervention is sanctioned
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-22
Russian Intervention
Is Dropped by France
FHtitity of Acting Alone Is Seen, and Italy
Cannot Spare Troops-LlOyd George
Plan Mdy Win
By CHARLES 4. SELDEN


LLOYD Gsotge proposal. which. when re.
Walled to the world the other day by
Plchon's vehement rejection of II,
caused such sensation in International
politics, may after all be adopted by
the Peace Conference, before which tn"
Bolshcvilii would thus have an oppor-
tunity 20 state their case and promise
TO cease their atrocities till the confer
encc could finally pass on their case.
II Should be remembered that the pro-
posal which Lloyd George passed on to
the Foreign Offices of other countries
came originally from the Bolsheviki
themselves in the shape Of a request
rof Litvinoff. who assured Lloyd George
that Bolshcvist terrorism would cease
If he and his associates would get a
chance to appear before the Peace Con-
ference.
The adoption of this last OF the three
possible courses would involve the ces-
sation of the present hostilties against
, The BolsheNist government which the
Allies are now carrying on in northern
1 and southern Russia and Siberia. and
the withdrawal Of the comparatively
small military forces now engaged IN
those campaigns, after satisfactory as
: surance had been obtained from the
Bolsheviki that they also would cease
NIL fighting.
This would not mean forMa! recoGh!-
ton By the Powers OF the BolsheNist
government. on the contrary, the Lloyd
George plan would provide for the Peace
Conference listening to representatives
of the other governments of Russia
which are now struggling TO maintain
themselves against BolsheNism and
eventually TO unite themselves into one
democratic government of all Russia,
As cabled you last week. the whole
Lloyd George plan is strongly opposed
by the Russian convention in Paris. or
the ground that Bolsaevlsts, who repro
sent the destruction Of nations. should
have no place in Il conference based on
the idea of Democratic states and tha
the representatives OF the otEcr govern
ments of Russia should not I've received
as representing separate states. for I'M
purpose Of all these states is 10 b'
united, and the truesr representation o
the real Russia which they are al
striving for is in the personnel OF Inn
Paris committee. consisting o: Sazonotl
f.voff. Ba;hmetieff, Malilakoff AM
Tchaiiovslly. These men will be hcar'
before the decision is reached.
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FVINOFF BACKS
ned PROPAGANDA
Bolshevik Leader Declares
1t Is Confined to Troops
in Germany
NONE IN ALLIED LANDS
Sure That Wilson Would
Have Given SOviets Place
at Congress
NONE IN ALLIED LANDS

M Stockholm, Jan. 22.--Maxim Litvnoff.
Former Bolshevist Ambassador in Lon
don, in n statement to the Associated
Press today admitted that Bolshevist
propaganda had been carried on in GER
many. but denied such activity IN neutral
or Entente countries.
This talk of propaganda is rather
Fantastic and does not conform to facts
he said. while | represented the Rus
sian Government in England. neither l
nor any of my staff engaged in any
illegal propagada. The same applies TO
tBolshevist diplomats in Scandinavia.
n Now, when the Entente nations are
twaging war on Russia and in Russian
territory. we feel justified in ENGAGING
H. propaganda work among the Alleu
troops. Any government in our place
would do the same.
n with the end of hostilities and the
/ Withdrawal of these troops. there Will
be neither opportunity nor desire on
kour part to make foreign troops OF
citizens the objects of our propaganda
A Propaganda Not Denied
III "In regard TO Germany. we do not
deny propaganda work. but, prior tc
Ethe revolution. Germany. despite the
Normal peace, continued 10 be the great.
est danger 10 tne ituSSldH TeNoiutioii CIV
v our propaganda was an act or self
,tlef,nse Even now. the Allies are at
lftempting TO make Germany jumping
Noff ground for attacking Russia and are
|glising for this purpose even German
e{troops. with the connivance of Schcid
xmann's government. This is instancet
:. In the Baltic provinces, Lithuania ant
y Ukraine.
"Of course, we shall continue TO eX'
1 press our views through our press ant
literature. but this will not take th'
form Of a direct appea, TO the citizen.
Of other countries and will be conduct
ed by political parties-not the govern
ment."
NJ. Litvinoff assured the correspondent
that the Bolshevists are great friends
Of the freedom of the press and politica
liberty and that the present suppression
Of all opposition in Russia is due onl!
to the fact that other parties. in
treacherous way, invited foreign troop
to invade the country to fight the Bol
shevists.
In concluding he said he was sorr.
that Paris had been chosen for tn
Peace Congress, because it was the ,eas
suitable place for Soviet representative
to 60 He was sure. he said, that
was not President Wilson's fauh tina
the Russian Government which nov
has been in power fifteen months. is no
represented at the Congress-