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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-18
DAN CUPID HARD HIT.
Prohibition, Perhaps, Causes Mar
riape License Cost to Double.

BALTIMORE. Md. April Il fspeciaD.
Dan Cupid. through the June bride
groom, has been dealt hard blow in
the state of Maryland. and whether it is
lust old H. c. L. getting in its work
or can be blamed on prohibition Is
still an unsettled question. Begin
ming June /. young man must lay
down two dollars instead of one on
the desk of the license clerk or there
will be no wedding bells for him in
this neck of the woods. Maybe pro-
hibition did it, Anyhow. some of the
married men who are snickering at
the husbands-to-b are blaming it
on prohibition. They say the state
has been cut off to the tune of
81. 400, 900 year because there are no
more real saloons, and the legislature
raised the rates on marriages.
Others will be compelled to pay a
much higher rate. There's the"movie"
man. His license has almost been
doubled. And the cigarette man
must pay twenty-six dollars instead
Of sixteen. SO with persons in many
other lines of business. Each has to
do his part toward making up the deficit
deficit,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-18
FIUME IN FEAR OF REDS
IGNORES D'ANNUNZIO
Council Appoints Delegates, Who
Will Garry on Direct Negotia-
lions With Premier Nitti.

FIUME. April Is (by the Associated
Press) Capt. Ga briele D'Annunzio has
been completely ignored by the Flu
man council in the formulation OF
demands for a settlement of the
future status of this city. Delegates
appointed by the council Will meet
Premier Nitti and carry on direct ne
gotiations with the Italian govern
ment. Three of these delegates are
already in Rome.
Hungarian bolsheviki have been
gathering here recently. some OF them
being brought into the city IN capt.
D'AnnanZio's motor cars.
Charges were made in the national
council that the will of the majority
had been thwarted and that or a
minority carried out. One member DE :
clared that the problem OF the CITY
future must be settled Immediately.
I'VE are in the midst of terrible un-
rest" he said THE city Is in danger
of being swept by bolshevism, the or
panizers of which are already pre-
barring their plans for the seizure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-18
FOSTER MAKES DENIAL.
He Knows Nothing About Railway
Strike and Ridicules Mr.. Palmer.

PITTSBURGH. Pa, April Nv. L.
Foster, former head Of the steel strike.
and mentioned in Washington as the
prime mover behind the outlaw railroad
strike, declares that he knows nothing
whatever about the railroad situation.
and charges that Attorney General
Palmer was making bid for the sup
port of big business in his campaign
for President"
although not intimately posted on
what is behind the charges made that
the strike is an attempted revolution.
viii hazard guess that they are moth
ing but another of Mr.. Palmer's brain
storms, and entitled to about as much
consideration as his efforts to reduce
the cost of living"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-18
COMPUTES DEATH SENTENCE.
Governor Changes Mans Penalty
to Thirty Years.

RALEIGH. y. G. April 1.-THE
death sentence of Aaron Wiseman, con-
vlcted Of the murder of Dr Il. A. Hem
nessee at Glen Alpine, Burke county.
has been committed to thirty years
in the state prison by Gov. Beckett
In granting Communication the governor
stated he could not allow man 10
be eIeCtrocuteG where the evidence. 10
50 contradictory. and where two jus
tees or the supreme court hold that
the prisoner was improperly con-
yicted." WI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-18
Rome Limits PILGRIMS to rs, 900.

ROME, April 16.-Only 2b,Uo0 PIT
grims will be permitted to come to
Rome to attend the ceremonies incl
dent to the canonization Of joan o:
Arc. which will be held next month.
Recent reports have stated that 100.-
600 wished to come here. but ar
engagements for housing and feeding
them could not be made. and limit
was placed on the number allowed
to make the trip.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-18
Pastors Evidence Indicts Two.

NEW YORK. April 1.-THE federal
grand jury has returned indictments.
bas ed on evidence presented by the
Rev John Roach Straton. charg ing
Thomas Healy and Peter Galotti. res
taurant proprietors. with violations
of the Eolstead act.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-18
Mystic, Disabled, Reaches Boston.

BOSTON. April flowed by the
| coast guard cutter Dssiree. the steamer
Mystic. disabled AZ sea by the splitting
boiler condenssrs. has arrived here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-18

Let Guide Estimate
on the floral decorations for that So
cial function. 1914 F n.w--Advertlse-
ment.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08

Republicans who endeavored to read
Thompson out of the party, charging
him with being pro-German during the
war, have been licked to q frazzle.
1t is very gratifying to THE AP.
PEAL to note that Thompson has been
able to win in spite of the opposition
of the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago
Daily News and other hypocritical
newspapers, which for political rea-
sons questioned his loyalty.
Mayor Thompson is a great Ameri-
can, absolutely devoid Of racial preju-
dice. the representative of all classes
of Americans. He is headed for the
White House.
THE APPEAL dominates William
Hale Thompson of Illinois for Presi-
dent of the United States.
The conditions may be such as to
prevent his nomination by the conven-
ton of 1920, but he may be elected
Governor of Illinois, and then U. S
Senator and then in 1928, THE
APPEAL predicts he will be the can
didate of the united Republican part,
for President and will be triumphant,
elected. -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
THE REASON,

The Boston Guardian edited by viii.
liam Monroe Tratter, is the paper
which stands first and foremost in
the battle against jimcrowism. The
following editorial from recent issue
is timely:
The reason that a preparatory Y.
M. c. A. or civic centre is a step
backward is that in the North it
means nothing less than an invita-.
ton to white men conducting places
for public patronage or recreation,
to refuse, deny or segregate all COL
ored patronage and point to such an
institution as just reason for so
doing, and soon the idea as we'll as
the practice of setting colored Ameri-
cans off by themselves in all places
for public accommodation will spread
until, as in many cities throughout
the North will be found segregating
or denial in theatres. restaurants
and such places, until it reaches the
pubic SCHOOLS.
Every attempt to help in any way
the singing out of colored Americans
as race, in this country, for whom
must be maintained separate places
of public accommodation, must be
defiantly fought, not even lending ear
to the argument so common in cities
Of the middle West that such sep-
arate institutions furnishes "jobs"
for our men and women.
The colored people can not sell their
citizenship rights in education and
with the proceeds, pay the salaries
OF few persons who may get en-
ployment in such jim crow insti-
tutions.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
"NEGRESS" IS NAUSEATlNG.

"NEGRESS" IS NAUSEATlNG.
The following from the Chicago
Tribune is a manly protest against tho
use of% word which is particularly Of
'ensive to co1ored women. -
OBJECTS TO "NEGRESS."
characterization of the Tribune
In two recent issues you published
'ery fine and highly commendatory
editorials on Race Progress and Com
mon Sense" yet, Notwithstanding that,
yesterday you state in glaring head
lines the Death of Nine. Walker,
Wealthiest Negress.' That word
"Negress" is*nauseating in the eye
sight of all colored women and should
be eliminated from the vocabulary, in
which 1t has no rightful place. Above
MI, your paper should be the leader
a this regard, If you really have the
'elfare of the colored race at heart.
SAMUEL 2. G. WESTERFELD.
The colored men who persist i'm u.s.
ing negro" as a race designation are
Rrgely to blame for the common use
Of word which should be- avoided.
The colored people. of the United
States are Americans-that's all. The
use of negro" and "negress" is the
cause of many determinations against
the colored people.
The word "negress" is nauseating.
and so is the word negro when
used as racial designation for the
colored people of the United States.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
THOMAS ON TERRELL.
(FrOm the Boston Guardian.

In his correspondence for the Old
reliable Cleveland Gazette, a paper
which we greatly admire as we ad-
mlre also its great editor, Hon. Harry
Z. Smith, especially for his stand
against the race drawing off together
in separate philanthropic institutions,
Prof. Neval H. Thomas, of Washing
ton, D. c., f1ays Judge Cor Justice as
he calls HIM Robt. H. Terrell as a
compromisor..
Prof. Thomas made splendid fight
against separate lunch room in the
District Supreme Court Building. He
says Judge Terrell was quoted by the
judges against him. He charges that
he opposed colored people coming
North, opposed race petitioners to
Peace Conference and then scores him
for rushing to be the first to greet
President Wilson upon his return from
the Conference We, ourselves, are
surprised to see the way in which Mr.
Terrell had this sent out over the
country and the way the press dis.
played it. He says the Judge presided
at meeting for Sen. Borah to oppose
the 18th amendment. Then he speaks
as follows: ~
HE even sanctioned separate rec
reational centers for colored and
white troops, with those of the col
ored immensely inferior, in spite OF
the fact that the blood of white and
black alike was flowing in one Grim.
son stream in distant France. Only
agreeable colored people are allowed
to speak to the colored soldiers at the
center of which he is head None of
us radicals who are constantly telling
the colOred man that he has done his
share of the dying and that it is high
time he was getting some of the liv.
ing, are ever invited to this center to
talk democracy" j x-..~
We took our stand on this in Bos
ton much farther North than Wash
ingtOn.
Verify the Judge needs make reply
or the race will see how it is that this
Southern administration retains a
cOlOred man as Justice.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
HOLD YOUR LIBERTY BONDS.

Some get-rich-quick concerns are
endeavoring to persuade patriotic
Liberty bond holders, whom they
know will not sell outright their Lib
erty bonds, to turn over their Liberty
bonds to these companies as security
for loan and with the money thus
borrowed purchase stock In their
companies.
A Liberty loan bond is the safest
investment in the world, and a pru-
dent man will very carefully investi-
gate any effort to induce him to ex-
change it for less safe investment.
This lending one money on Liberty
bonds as security to purchase stock
in the lenders company is in many
cases only a thinly disguised method
of exchanging stock of doubtful value
for Liberty bonds of unquestioned
value. Er-a' >. go = I 's'-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
Must Judge A Group BY lts Best
(From the Christian Register. Boston

(From the Christian Register, Boston.
~ Nass.) -
No one can be said to know any
class Of people xho has not been In
intimate and sympathetic relation with
the best a. well - tho worst of the
class. .We compare many persons
who live in the South, and think they
know the colored race, with Others
who have had no such contact, but
who have come into intimate and sym.
pathetic relations with large numbers
OF that race whom their Southern
tnsnds have never known; and Of the
two sets of psopIs ~ should Gay that
tho second knew the colored people
better than the drst. They know aspi-
rations among them that the others
DO not know. or, knowing, do not
enter into and appreciate; they know
capabilities by direct contact with the
best Of the race which others are obli.
v1ous OF; they know qualities which
only respect and sympathy can brins
out; they know, possibilities to which
others BY their very Acquaintance are
blinded. II those who know the eol-
ored race through the mass and by
observatfon merely could know what
Individual possibilities are Demon
stratsd in growing numbers OF the
elect. and would be couraxeously can.
old With Themselves. they would re-.
wise their judgments and possibly sof.
ton their prejudices. At any rate.
they ought to credit to those on whom
they charge ignorance Of tho colorst
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
Is It Fair?.
(From the Monitor, Omaha.

(From the Monitor, Omaha.)
To stand before the God of heaven
and earth with trumpets and loud
voice and proclaim: THANK God we
Gu. s. are not as other people are.
We write upon our books laws grant
ing to all our people equality" Then
write other laws abrogating the pre-
vious regulations? And when you do
not think it feasible to put them in
print, simply make it an unwritten
rule that serves your purpose as we'll ?
To covet your neighbor's goods
(rights) and if he should demonstrate
with you, to STAY him?:
For a so-called democracy to have
two or more interpretations of the
same word, each contrary to the
other?
To assert that a man is incapable
of accomplishing a. meritorious deed,
without giving him an, honest chance
for a try. ~ IL
To call man whose distant parents
or parent had Negro blood Negro
and white man whose, parents were
Indian, Malay or Monaghan a white
man still? '.'.>:y ..:.s
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
; THE MOST INFAMous~1N
HISTORY.

The stage is all set and when the
quadrennial conference of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church meets in Des
Moines, Iowa, this month, it is likely
that that most Infamous action ever
attempted in the history of Christian.
ity will become an accomplished fact
The great event Of the meeting is
to be the unifcation of the North and
South branches of the church, which
separated over the slavery question
many years before the Shareholders
rebellion.
When the separation took place the
Northern branch took stand for
Christianity, humanity; and freedom,
while the Southern branch stood for
slavery.
Now after 70 years they are to re.
unite by casting aside every vestige
of Christianity, and segregating the
colored members of the church.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1920.
INSISTS UPON SEGREGATION,

1t seems that the War Department
is determined to continue It's jim-crow
policy. For sometime the people of
Massachusetts have been endeavoring
to have colored men admitted to- all
branches of the army, but the admins
tration at Washington insists that
Americans of different complexion
must not fight together in defense OF
Old Glory and that it is the patriotic
duty" Of colored Americans to be satis-
fed with jim-crowism.
In a recent letter to Governor Cal.
vim Coolidge of Massachusetts,, Secre-
tary Baker of the War Department
regretted" that nothing could be done
las departure would have to be
made from the War Departments
policy of maintaining separate divi-
sions for white and colored troops"
The letter ends with this paragraph:
1T is believed that the colored citi-
zens of Massachusetts should be re-
minded that 1t is the better part OF
patriotism to volunteer for such serv-
ices as may be required rather than
to attempt to lay down conditions
which the War Department must meet
before services can be expected Of
them"
When the world war was on colored
American soldiers fought and died for
the native land, although subjected
to the most infamous determinations
and humiliations, and they would fight
again if their country was menaced,
but we do not believe that they ought
to enlist at all in time of peace un-
less there is a radical change in the
jim-crow policy which ruled during the
world war.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
WALLER AGAINST
kotsd Brooklyn Doctor 8ays It Causes
Mental and Physical 0sSresatlon.
Trom Amsterdam Nsv..)

Qrom Amsterdam Nsws.)
Editor Amsterdam News:
Sir: I cannot too heartily congratu-
Late you on . recent editorial discour-
aging the use OF tho word NEGRO"
There 10 no creator delight enjoyed by
tho white people Of The United States
today than the spreading use Of this
unfortunate term. Why! They real
he that it II tho most potential fac
tor At work at tho present to bring
about both = physical and mental
segregation of tho people Of color. Its
uso 10 on tho increase only because
our speakers and writer's. especially
Do Bots and Washington feel that its
repetition, id nauseam. 10 nscessary to
retain the 5000 will Of the masses. The
term NEGRO" 10 not only absurdly in
accurate ~ applied to millions Of COL
ored people. but it IL also alarminxly
injurious. for the following reasons:
.. Il has nsver stood historically or
in the present, anywhere In tho world,
for anything noble or uplifting. Most
high-srade Africans rspudiate It.
b. In Africa and out OF Africa It was
never applied to the higher types. but
to 0uinsas. Sudansss and Ssasgan-
bans only.
{. it, derivatives, "Nssroism," "Ns-
grofy." and it, compounds. Negro
head, NoEro-1y, NeEro-monksy, are all
clearly in their associations. dexrad-
Ing.
d. It's feminine form, "Nesrsss," is
justly and correctly used to define
your wife and daughter and swest-
heart, ii you favor the use of the mas
euline term.
.. 1t has been the word used by tho
Southern whites for two centuries.
when formally speaking or writing
about IN unworthy or criminal man
or woman of the race. For whom he
speaks Of tho worthy he invariably
says 'colored."
I. It is not differentiated in the mind
and thought of the whites from their
favorite and generally used (amonk
thsmsslvss) forms, NEGRO" and Mig
GER"
&. Al stated by an eminent japanese
diplomat it has An unquestioned = IN
Auenos In cutting W OF from the
thought. sympathy and cooperation
Of the millions OF colorsd Africans.
Asiatios and Islanders Of the Yondsr
world.
Very truly yours,
OWEN N. WALLER, N. d.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
WHAT A LIE!

The amount of bunk just now being
offered to the public in advertisements
in which quotations from the Bible
and the sayings of Christ, are made
a conspicuous part, is almost beyond
belief.
One of the most recent buncolsts is
the Order Of Moose, which has flaring
headlines in the papers like these:
MOOSE EXEMPLIF1ES SERMON
ON MOUNT"
"MOOSEHEART IS THE GOLDEN
RULE IN ACTION"
Down near the end of the advertise.
ments one finds a notice that ANY
WHITE MAN MAY BECOME A
MEMBER"
Such advertising is a proclamation of
the Sermon on the Mount"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
DUMB CANDIDATES.

The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People an.
nounces that fifteen of the seventeen
presidential candidates failed to reply
to a questionable sent them by the
Association on February 10, and re-
peated on March IL, asking their
views on seven main issues which
colored people regard as fundamental.
The QUESTIONABLE asked whether they
were in favor Of the enactment of fed
eral laws against lynching; whether
they would advocate Congressional en-
forcement of the Fourteenth Amend
ment by reduction Of representation
of states which disfranchise their citi-
zens, or whether they would advocate
as an alternative the appointment of
United States Commissioners to en-
force the Fifteenth Amendment
whether they would endeavor to bring
about the abolition of Jim crow cars
in interstate traffic; whether they
would urge National aid to elementary
education without discrimination
against colored children: whether they
would favor the apportionment of COL
ored soldiers and officers in the army
in proportion to their numbers in the
population; whether they would abol-
ish radical segregation in the civil
service of the United States; whether
they would withdraw armed or other
interference with the independence of
Haiti.
The two candidates who replied to
the Associations QUESTIONABLE were
Senator's Harding and Poindexter, the
former stating that it was not consist
ent with his views to take up the cate.
gorical questions asked by the Associ-
alton, that conventions are called
upon to enunciate platforms and poll
cies and that the candidate selected
must be expected to stand on the plat
form thus made. Senator Poindexter
stated that he was lin favor of main
tanning legal rights and opportunities
of all our citizens, regardless of color
or condition"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
present, there we're no unpleasant in
cidents and the Hotel Margaret is still
standing.
McADOO NOT THE MAN.

- William, G. McAdoo, former secre-
tary of the treasury in a recent letter
In reply to a notice that he had been
Endorsed for the presidency by trade
council replied with lot of bunk that
America needs it's greatest man" and
that he doubted that he possessed the
qualifications necessary.
Well, Mr.. McAdoo certainly took an
accurate measure of himself. He is
not in any sense a man fit to be presi-
dent of republic. He is a sectional.
list who believes wholly in the South
and has been one of the main props
to keep the South in the saddle in the
past seven years., He has no concep-
ton of a government, "of, by and for
the people,
And we must not forget that he is
the man who originated segregation
in the treasury department at Wash.
ington.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-05-08
COWARDLY BISHOP REBUkED.

We reprint from the Cleveland Ga
zette, edited by Hon. Harry C. Smith
stalwart and outspoken champion
OF the colored people, the following
rebuke to cowardly colored bishops:
BISHOP PHILLIPS WRONG
While there is much in Bishop c.
H. Phillips ,pacifist interview of last
Sunday, in the Cleveland News-Lea.
der, to interest the average reader
there is one statement to which about
all of the intelligent members of our
race will take issue apd that is his
statement that "the Afro-American
does not desire social, political or in
dustrial equality" That is not true,
bishop! In this section of the coun.
try we want: and, in a limited degree,
enjoy all three. In the South, our
people are asking the last two. $50.
cial equality is a myth. 1t does not
exist among any class (race) of
Americans. 1T is a matter for the
individual to settle and he alone set
ties it in all. cases. And many white
and colored individuals (families) in
this section of the country have long
ago settled it to their entire satisfac.
ton and are enjoying the so-called
social equality" and will continue to
do so until ''the end of the CHAPTER
regardless Of the ranting of southern.
ter if not both and the laws of the
political equality, the fundamental
law of the land guarantees the lat.
ter if not both and the laws of the
states are in most cases explicit when
1t comes to the former. Not only
does this race Of ours desire them but
it demands them and will never rest
until they are conceded in every nook
and corner of this country of ours.
The Afro-American wants and must
have everything good every other
class (race) enjoys in this country if
he is to keepaabreast of the times and
oe aDle TO cope with them in the
great struggle of life. In this Sec
ton of the country, at least, we can
stand up and say so-tell the plain
unvarnished truth and should do so.
That sf. it is ss9A9a4Yissaab1ess for: the good
bishop to DO !so because of his resi-
dence in the South and because of the
large church interests there he rep.
resents, we can understand. However,
good bishop, please refrain from CIV
ing out such interviews here in the
North where they do no good but on
the contrary have an effect that re-
tards the progress of those of the
race in this section of the country.