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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-01-17
One of the great writer's of the present
day insists that every man should have
some hobby. Well say that Stoyall
had his.
CODE OF HONORABLE NAMES

SODE VI 7ONOhA6IE NAMES.
Recently a valued exchange con:
tanned the following:
My name for every true man in
these United States will be the hon
orable name Of "American."
My reference to all new Ameri-
cans born in other lands shall never
be dishonored by slurs, nicknames or
hyphens.
My purpose shall be to discourage
in the native born the love for titles,
to help every immigrant to forget his
hyphen and be proud of the name
American and to stamp out the use of
such nicknames as words of derision
Of the foreign-born.
We pledge our service never to use,
and to discourage everywhere, the use
OF such words as Dago, Dutchy,
Froggy, Ginny, Greaser, Heiny, Hor-
wat, Hunky, Hike, Mick, Paddy,
sheny, Spaghetti, Wop, as applied to
any foreign-born resident of the
United States of America.
With all of which we heartily agree,
but we would have been much better
pleased if the list had included some
of the nicknames that are so FREQUENT
ly applied to class of native born
100 per cent Americans, viz: Negro,
niger, darkey, coon, shine, moke,
dingy, pickaninny, etc., and as alb
noxious as those named are to the
class to which they are applied.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-01-17
SINISTER SAY JAMAlcANS.

Public opinion in Jamaica is grow
ing stronger against the suggestion
that Jamaica should be annexed for
commercial and political purposes to
Canada. The author Of the -sugges-
tion, John Grove, q Newfoundland
millionaire, is referred to in an ar
ticle in the Kingston Cleaner. as fol-
lows: -. ~: 49, - - = .s.~ - =. Z
"Mr. Groves object is not the i'm
provement Of local conditions and the
STRENGTHENING Of our producers, a
most important matter, but some per-
'nicious political change, to be brought
about for purpose inimical to the
true welfare of the island" :
OF the 100000 inhabitants of ia
maica, only $4,000 or 10000 are whites.
The $4,000 colored Jamaicans would
do we'll to keep their weather eye
open-there may be some jimcrow
scheme in the Canada wood pile. =
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-01-17
1--WE ARE ALL ALIKE"

In the midst of the base, unjust, I'M
American talk about race segregation,
which Southern whites have started
in Chicago, the statement of mem
Der of an oppressed race, sounds like
a voice of fairness in the. wilderness
Of race prejudice. =: 49,.
"A great hullabaloo. was raised over
the sale by Rabbi Hirsch of his for
mer residence at 1912 Grand Boule-
ward, to a colored man. It was con-
sidered 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: 49,,
"What are your views on rice seq
regation?" ~. -..s.s :....,' &c. . ,f~:
Rabbi Hirsch replied: 8 RI
"From my point Of view we are all
alike. Colored people are just as good
as whites would ..ather have good
black neighbor th9A a poor white one"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-01-17
FORMER SLAVE HAS EXPENSIVE
HOBBIES,

That, lit takes many different sorts
of people to make up this old world .
was brought to our mind by the death
in Winona, Mimi, this week, of James
Wesley Stovall, former slave.
Stovall was cook in the Union army
during the Civil war after which he
lived in Chicago. Later he moved to
Winona and made small fortune in
the restaurant business. In his palmy
days he bought a lot in Woodlawn
cemetery and erected a monument
over his grave site costing $1,000.
Stovall, like some others, had another
hobby, which was attending presiden-
tial inaugurations. He first attended
the Inauguration of President Grant
and has been present at every inaugu-
ration since, until, perhaps, Wilson's
he having been blind for several years.
He was 80 years old and unmarried.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-01-17
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
been conceived, much less enacted, as
it is absolutely WRONG and, caters to
a 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 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 majority of members in
the present Congress who are mem
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. 1881 -.
They did not get it. and cannot for
get that fact ''~
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-01-17
REVIvING WAR 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. - . =: ~@~-.. - r.
Many of these po1icyholders have
dropped their insurance because they
are young and without dependents.
But beyond question most of them
will 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 a measure Of thrift.
These boys Of the army and navy
can never again get insurance as
scheaply as it is offered by the govern
ment, 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
It least partly paid for while they are
unburd ened, financially, by family.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-01-17
FEDERAL ACT URGED.

What appears to be real effort, is
being made for the enactment of Fed
eral legislation to check lynching and
race rioting, and a hearing was had
before a Senate judiciary subcommit-
tee recently that is hoped will bear
fruit.
Senator Curtis, of Kansas, is the au-
thor Of the resolution bearing on these
foul blots on American civilization.
This country has taken great inter-
est in the woes of people outside Of it,
while shutting their eyes to worse con-
ditions right here at home
Strong efforts were made to have
the United States intervene in Mexico
because half a dozen Americans
were killed there, while right here at
home during about the same period
three dozen 100 per cent Americans
were lynched just because their skins
were not white. : &
1t is beyond our comprehension how
the government of this country can
allow the state of affairs within: its
borders to continue as it is. It GER
tainly is time that the thinking, fair.
minded people awake from their
lethargy and put a stop to such in
human unAmerican actions. There is
no sense in beating about the bush,
nothing is ended that is not ended
right and the sooner we have the be-
ginning of the end the better it will
be for us ALL
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-01-17
An Apotogist.
(From the Washinston Bee

=. (From the Washington Bee.)
r. The Bee, at the time Major Motion
was named by committee of apollo
gists, said then that he was Hand
Picked Leader
The condition Of the colored race
in this country is due to these "hand-
picked leaders," Now, in the first
place, Major Motion represents class
OF white men and not the Colored
Americans. .'- .a.
He is 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 a 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 Motion, and thought that he
possessed manly traits, that would
commend him to the thoughtful con-
sideration of the American black
race, but The Bee must confess that
he is a hand-picked leader and an
apologist.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-01-17
RAT MENACES HEALTH
Costs the United States $780,
= 100000 a Year for Support.
Public Health Service Uraes That
Measures Be Taken to De-
stroy Them.

Washington.-You pay one-half of
one cent every day for the support
and sustenance of a brown rat, &C.
cording to figures compiled by the
United States public health service.
There is one rat, at least, for every
person in the United States. This es-
innate is considered conservative, but
comedies with that for Great Britain
and Ireland, and also with authorita-
tive figures for Denmark, France and
Germany. The annual upkeep per ro-
dent was computed by the same au-
thorities as $3.50 in Great Britain,
$l.2O in Denmark, and 81 in France.
The depredations in this country will
very probably exceed the estimate for
Great Britain. One-half a cent a day
is considered conservative, but even
on this computation, it costs the Unit
ed States $180,000,OOO a year to sup
port it's rat population.
1t is because of this terrific economic
loss and the additional fact that rats
are constant menace to the public
health that the public health service
has issued warning to the country to
take the. necessary measures to de-
stroy them.
There are three kinds Of rats includ-
Ell In the survey in this Countrywide
Norway or brown rat, the black rat,
and Alexandrian rat The Norway rat,
larger and more ferocious than the
others, has pretty generally killed
them off, and today the black rat
and the Alexandrian rat are seldom
found except in seaports.
The brown or Norway rat, since he
discovered America, has literally
blazed a trail across the continent.
Today it is conservatively estimated
that there are at least one rat for ev-
cry dweller in the cities, and on the
farm there are at least three rats for
every person. None of these rats is
native to the United States.
Of many measures suggested for de-
stroy1ng the rat, the public health serv-
Ice advocates one as most effective. It
is rat-proofing the buildings so that
rats cannot get in for food, thereby
starving them to death.
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THE NEW YEAR, 1920.

With this issue, THE APPEAL
starts its Thirty-sixth Volume with
high hopes for q brighter, better, more
satisfactory year for the world in gen.
eral and the people in whose welfare
and interest it is published in par.
ticular.
Many very discouraging. things have
transpired in the year just closed,
many from which far. more fair, just
and humane results were conflden-
TALLY expected It was hoped that the
splendid part played in the great world
war for democracy by 100000
colored men would receive greater
recognition and reward; but, on all
sides, there seems to have been care
fully mapped out and concerted plan
to discredit and discourage these 100
per cent Americans. Even in the mat
ter of lynching, that great blot on this
nation, it is safe to assume that the in
crease of 18 in the number .lynched
over that of 1913, after deducting the
seven. whites lynched, was brought
about mainly as result of the en-
viable war record they had made.
The attitude Of the majority of the
American Legion toward their colored
brothers in arms was very unfair and
deplorable. <, ~, :: -. 49,.
The. outrageous race riots of Wash
ington, Chicago, and Omaha were
causes for great depression.
The failure of a Republican Con-
gress to do the right thing with Jim
crow cars was also deplorable. But
despite these and many other things
born Of color prejudice too numerous
to mention we are hoping for many
good things to come to us during 1920.
THE mills of the gods grind slowly
but they grind exceedingly fine"
There is much for US to. do, let us
buckle on our armor and go forward
with the determination to win.
There are many riffs of sunshine
that have forced themselves through
the dark clouds that lower upon US
that give us great hopes for bright
and prosperous season in the year
of our Lord 1920. -~'
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-01-17
WILL NOT WAIVE RIGHTS.

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 meeting to pre-
pare plans to- segregate the colored
people or at least to drive them out
Of the Hyde Park section The color
ed people were characterized as 'un-
desirables," .'coons," .'darkies,' etc.,
by speakers who were appealing to
the prejudices Of the Southerners who
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-01-17
MOI subject to identical conditions be-
fore the law. then American democ-
tracy is fake.
WALLER AoAlNsT ''NEoRo."
Noted Brooklyn Doctor says Il Causes
Mental and Physicist eenrehatlon.

Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says Il Causes
Mental and Physical eesresatIon.
tFrom Amsterdam News.)
Editor Amsterdam News: : +.
Sir: cannot too heartily congratu-
iate you on q recent editorial discour-.
aging the use Of the word Negro"
There is no greater delight enjoyed by
the white people OF the United States
today than the spreading use Of this
unfortunate term. Why? They real
lie that 1t Is the most potential fac
tor at work at the present to bring
about both = physical and mental
segregation Of the people of color. It's
use IL on the increase only because
our speakers and writer's, especially
DO Bots and Washington feel that it's
repetition, ad nauseam, is necessary to
retain the good will Of the masses. The
term NEGRO" is not only absurdly in
accurate as applied to millions of COL
ored people, but it is also alarmingly
injurious, for the following reasons:
a. It has never stood historically or
IN the present, anywhere In the world,
for anything noble or uplifting. Most
high grade Africans repudiate it.
b. In Africa and out of Africa it was
never applied to the higher types, but
to Guineas, Sudanese and senegam-
bans only. E--~.--Ez: :. :. -
c. It's derivatives, "Nesroism," mo
grofy," and it's compounds, Nagre
head, Negro-hy, Negro-monksy, are all
clearly in their associations, degrad-
ing: .. -, 49,. .~-- : -
d. It's feminine form, "Nsgrsss," IL
justly and correctly used to define
your wife and daughter and sweet
heart, If you favor the use OF the mas
culine term. = =.
e. It has been the word used by the
Southern whites for two centuries.
when formally speaking or writing
about an unworthy or criminal man
or woman of the race. For when he
speaks of the worthy he invariably
says "colored."
t. It is not differentiated In the mind
and thought of the whites from their
favorite and generally used (among
themselves) terms, Negro" and mig
ger"
6. As stated by an eminent Japanese
diplomat 1t has an unquestioaed in
huence in cutting Us OF from the
thought, sympathy and cooperation
OF the millions OF colored Africans,
Asiatics and Islanders Of the Yonder
world. - ."H''-. '.'
Very truly yours,
OWEN M. WALLER, M. D. r..
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composed about nine-tenths OF tn,

composed about nine-tenths OF the
Then another meeting was called
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 a lot of money out of the
scheme, but the community made it so
hot for the wou1d-be traitors that they
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 as jimcrowists.
An attempt was made to buy out
Rev. John F. Thomas, pastor Of Eben-
ezer Baptist Church, whose congrega-
ton has purchased Jewish Temple
in the Hyde Park district, but he re-
fused to be party to the scheme and
ne says mat 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 all 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??, 1920-01-17
UMBRELLA AS BERRY PICKER
BY Its Aid Long Island Woman Gath
ers Ninety Quarts In
Day.

Sayville, L. Mrs. Margaret Cross
OF Sayville, L. l., went huckleberrying.
She carried an umbrella. Neighbors
asked her If she feared rain, but she
only smiled
Reaching a spot where the berries
grew thick, she opened 1t, inverted it
under bush and shook the bush Wig
orously. The berries fell into the UNI
brella and were easily transferred from
tito Mrs. Cross berry pail.
By this means she gathered 80
quarts during the day, thereby estab-
fishing record for one days picking,
Il is said. :- .--s:.---e-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-01-17
THE BOYS CLUB FEDERATION.
ITO West Fortieth; Street, New York
City.

City,. -
The Boys Club Federation of New
York is planning for a wide extension
of its work during the coming year,
IN the interest of the 100000 under
privileged boys Of America, whose
need, following the war, is said to be
a vital one. Immediate attention is
believed to be necessary if these lads
are to be reclaimed and moulded into
men of character and useful citizens.
The Federation is a national organi-
cation with large membership, op-
Grating without profit to itself, sup
ported by voluntary contribution, it's
purpose being to give practical direc.
tlonal training to the boy of limited
opportunities, to build him up physi.
cally and to carry him over the danger
period OF his youth. AS result of
such training, it has been shown by
statistics, Juvenile delinquency has
been materially reduced, a real in
terest aroused in the wholesome things
Of life, and that the boys of this class
under the influence of the club are
soon weaned from the street and pre-
pared for future citizenship.
< The Boys Club Federation ordi-
narlly is housed in a building with
gymnasium, library, game rooms and
meeting rooms for which the boys pay
nominal dues of 5 or 10 cents month.
The Federation club is non-sectarian
and co-operates with all church de-
nomipations and welfare organiza-
lions, being the only body of it's kind
that takes the boy under IL years-a
critical age for the lad of unlimited
opportunities-as we'll as of all other
ages, and moulds him with reference
to his special needs. His spiritual
needs are cared for by the co-operat-
ing churches, and many boys without
religious home influences or training
are thus brought into the fold-boys
that, in the majority of cases, could
be reached through no other existing
channel. One of these federated clubs
alone, located in New York City, has
an active membership of 5000 boys,
most of whom otherwise would have
hearkened to the call of the street
with all it's evil influences and conse-
quences.. IL. :. = .,ss:.' -. .
It is estimated that $3.50 of the boys
Of America belong to this class, vast
army for. good or evil, and to bring
these 100000 and more under-priv-
ileged boys into club formation on a
community basis-as broad and com.
prehensive as the public playground,
though more intensive-is the task
that the Boys Federation has set for
itself. ":--..e'1.I. = T :, E. = .@5'>
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No sooAe. III the gun he blew,
Than off this morta. sphere he few,
And met the giri N yonder scene,
Y. no lit the fire with kerosene
And there he saw in vengeance dire
The one who called man liar.
He was budding close as if for life,
Beside the man who whipped his wife
Take warning each, take warning all
For retribution sure will fall T.
On him who does a careless deed,
Or wrongs another without heed.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-01-17
THE ONLY SOLUTION.

Recently at the Church of England
Congress at Southampton, Sir Sidney
Olivier, who was governor of Jamaica
from 1907 to the end of 1912. put for
ward the claim that no solution of the
American color question was possible
except by a resolute disclaimer of the
color line and the race differention
theory. u
Sir Sidney Olivier certainly knows
what he Is talking about. In the
Island OF Jamaica, where he. Was gov.
ernor for five years, there are about
100000 colored people and only 10000
whites and yet there is absolutely no
friction between the races. Jamaica
is British colony and the govern
ment is just. Colored men enjoy ev-
cry civil and political right which
white men have and there is 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
me to that conclusion. American and
colonial politicians and; public men
are not Exeter Hall abolitionists nor
evangelical Christian missionaries. I
do not expect them to adopt the meth
DDS Of missionaries, nor do sympa-
thize with all their programmes. But
1t cannot be ignored ...ot it happened
that the faiths 3ef the 1uss Who laid
the foundations for the peaceful de-.
velopment Of the mixed community in
Jamaica were democratic and human.
itarian and. above all, uncompromis.
ingly Christian.
Were race differentiation held to it
must Increase civil discord. When the
balance OF numbers is as it is in the
South in America It must tend to
foster obscure preparations for civil
war and rebellion. II statesmen and
citizens face In the contrary direction
do not say that they will attain i'm.
medtately civil peace. but I am conf
dent that they will be travelling the
only road toward It,. 49,. <
VI do not suggest that race does not
greatly affect facilities for combine
ton between humans in healthy
national life, but race difference 10
only one of many schismatic agencies.
The solution Of the difficulty involves
discipline for the white man as we'll
~ the black" Z. - r rs ssssi .-l:.<
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1920-01-17
Burn Home When Trying =
to Exterminate Squirrel.

Chico, Cal.-Fully prepared to
write a testimonial to the de-
stroying qualities of a squirrel
exterminator, Mr.. and Mrs. D.
Hurspeth here mourn the loss
of their home today.
Here's how it happened:
A squirrel had tunneled under
their home and the exterminator
was purchased. 1t was poured
into the hole, but it was an in
f1ammable liquid. An Oil tank
and smudge pots caught fire
and the house burned to the
ground. =
It is not known what happened
to the squirrel. i ~ - ,>,sfy .