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The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1921-01-29

ern institution, to come back to sec
ton where he must pay first-class fare
to ride in II second or third-class coach
and frequently stand ut the ticket win
dows and wait until every white per-
son is served before he can purchase
a ticket. If democracy means any
thing, it means equal opportunities,
and l am glad that there is large
and rapidly increasing group of the
best white people of the South who
are determined that law-abiding, in
telligent Negroes may live in peace
and security and may thereby be en-
abled to contribute their fullest share
towards the highest development of
the South"
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1921-01-29

lessly champion things which tend to
make the race. A respected life and Il
respected race is the best bet after all
"That purest treasure mortal times af-
ford, is spotless reputation that away.
men are but gilded loan, or painted
socially.
The BOX Social given by the ladies'
of the Baptist Church on Jan. 81 was
Il pronounced success, financially and
ocially.
\ friend to the race will counsel
obedience to the laws of city. state and
nation. A friend to the race will al
ways condemn unjust insult to the
weakest member of our race.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1921-01-29

w statistics show that in twenty
five states, including the District of
Columbia, the number of farms de-
creased nearly 100000 during the ten
year census period. To what extent
the farmers of our racial group CON
trbuted to this decrease will be inter-
esting information when considered in
connection with the fact that ten years
ago and in these same states they Op-
Grated about 295,00o farms, valued at
nearly 354,OOO,OOO dollars, one-fourth
of which were owned.
Taking the country as whole, our
farmers constitute the only class in
our racial group doing business on as
sets aggregating a billion dollars or
more. They operate in every state,
and ten years ago reports were re-
ceived from 2,1S0 of the 1858 counties
showing S93,3S0 farms comprising
more than 42,O00,000 acres and valued
at one billion, one hundred forty-two
million dollars. Whether there has
been an increase or decrease in the
number is yet to be determined, but
it is believed that while a considerable
decrease may be shown in the number
of farms operated, the general rise in
the value of farm land will offset any
decrease in the total value of farm
property occasioned by the loss in the
number operated.
Within recent years there has been
a noticeable drift of our farmers to
the Western states, and we find that
they operated, as long ago as 1910. in
33 counties in California, 23 in Colo
RADIO, in Idaho A in Iowa, 81 in Kan
sas. 5S in Michigan, II in Minnesota,
- in Montana, 35 in Nebraska, 13 in
North Dakota, 10 in Oregon, ~ in
South Dakota, % in Washington and
20 in Wisconsin. 1t is hoped that the
settlements that are located in Vernon
County, Wisconsin; Sully County,
South Dakota; Weld County. Colora-
do; Cascade County, Montana; Yak
ina County, Washington, and Tulare
County, California, will show such
progress as will influence goodly
number of those who know how to
farm to settle in the West and North
west. In these sections of the coun-
try where conditions are favorable to
agriculture, where there are no humil-
iating "Jim Grow" laws, where the
children can attend school eight or
nine months during the year instead
of eight or ten weeks, and where all
of the rights and privileges of Amer
lean citizenship are enjoyed, there Is
every reason to believe that colored
farmers would prosper.
The state eland commissioners and
the railroad companies are anxious to
have people settle in these states, and
they will send upon application, free
of charge, booklets and other printed
matter showing the advantages and
possibilities open to those who are
seeking new homes, but they are not
running free excursion trains nor con-
ducting any charitable institutions.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1921-01-29
CULTIVATE VIRTUE AND MANLl-
NESS; 1T is ESSENTIAL TO
YOUR INDIVIDUAL
WELFARE.
(By Lewis A. Kennedy

Give me your sentiment on the prin-
ciple of virtue and l will tell the de-
gree you register on the progressive
therpaneter of the community.
Show me man who has for any
length of time honestly practiced self
chastity who is not a healthy, cheerful
and enterprising individual and | will
introduce to you an illiterate, degen-
crate mendicant who is not capable of
assuming the responsibility of the
American republic.
A man is not n man, to my esttma-
tion, until he is convinced by personal
experience and self-observation that
the cultivation of virtue and manliness
are just as necessary to the welfare
of his being as the essentially of the
suns ray to the earth.
"Virtue consists in avoiding vice and
is the highest wisdom"
Define virtue as you please, call It
the invention of seers and priests, an
alyze its ingredients into the labora-
tory of intellect, and you Will return
to the original conclusion that virtue
is essential to a progressive life, while
sensuality and Righteousness are i'm
pediments to individual progress.
| have tried the vicious mile-a-mln-
ute life, with its nights of dissipation;
have trod the delusive pathway
which terminates into the gutter of in
fanny and Woe; l have tried, unhesl-
tatingly, to crafty every unworthy de-
sire that my sinister temperament de-
mands, and with such experience | am
convinced that virtue and manliness
are the only rational principles cap
able of fortifying our personality
against those unpleasant influences
which so often throw us off our course,
leaving us to drift in state of wretch
edness and despair
Thoughtfulness.
Be thoughtful observer, my friend,
and you will be convinced that law,
not confusion, is the dominating prn-
cipie of the universe Righteousness,
not corruption, is the moulding and
moving force in the spiritual govern
ment of the world. Ignore this prin-
ciple and you suffer the pangs of an
earthly hell; approve and apply its
moral, and you find this world par
adise.
1t seems to me that women, dice and
booze is the current topic for discus
sion among our Twentieth century
young men, but, to the individual who
has felt the sting of ambition urging
him on to higher life; to those who
are anticipating the splendor of bril-
liant future, it is imperative such
filthy and contemptuous atmosphere
must be avoided.
A young man without any honest-to-
God principle about him, without any
aim in life, is like a ship at sea with
out rudder and compass, and no port
in sight-only drifting to some un-
known destination. 1t is manliness
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1921-01-29
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES IN WEST FOR
COLORED FARMERS CHANCE FOR
SOME CONSTRUCTIVE WORK BY U.
S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUL TURE
and INTERIOR

I They are looking for settlers who Will
! become permanent, who will help to
build up the country by developing its
resources, and to this type they are
offering attractive easy payment plans
that assure early ownership. No spe-
cial inducements are being offered to
any nationality, race or creed.
AS the type of foreigners now COM
ing to this country are not greatly in
terested in agricultural pursuits and
! will not contribute much, If anything.
( to the production of fOodstuffs. it is
believed that if several thousand col
ored farmers were properly directed to
different localities in some of the
states mentioned, where land is rea-
sonably cheap, payment easy, timber
plentiful and market facilities good,
that they would not only benefit them
selves, but would constitute an asset
to the agricultural interests of the
state or states in which they settle.
Many of those who have recently
moved north have always farmed and
the living conditions peculiar to our
large and highly organized industrial
communities, and if properly informed
would no doubt gladly resume the pro-
duction of foodstuffs.
There are vast acreages of undevel-
oped and cheap agricultural land in
North Michigan and Wisconsin, near
the heart of the nations industry, and
in both of these states splendid school
systems obtain, the markets are near,
plentiful. Our farmers in these states,
although few in number as compared
with states farther south, are happy
and prosperous, and are looking for
ward to the day when others will join
them.
In the year 1910 about one-fourth of
our farmers were owners, while slight
ly more than twO-thirds of the farms
operated by whites were owned, but
the percentage of ownership by our
group increased more than twice that
of the whites during the ten-year pc
riod, 1900 to 1910, and the value of
property operated by our farmers in
creased nearly $642, 100000, or at
rate in excess of five million dollars
every thirty days during the ten years.
If few thousand of these men who
know how to farm could be advan-
tageously placed in the grain produc-
ing states and taught through county
agents the best methods of farming,
it is highly probable that there would
be a considerable increase in the pro-
duction of foodstuffs
Every colored farm operator of av
erage intelligence nurses the hope of
becoming an owner, but if the acreage
value is prohibitive, as is true in most
of the north-central states, and if the
tenant system is discouraging, as it is
in certain southern states, where n
system of robbery obtains at the COM
missary and at the cotton gins, it is
quite natural for them to seek indus
trial centers where there is at least a
chance to become hOme-owner. Such
conditions kill all interest in farming,
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1921-01-29
(By Charles e. Hall.)

" WASHINGTON, d. C.-Recently
w complied United States census
w statistics show that in twenty
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-03-25
"L.ady Albatross."

Miss Harriet Reid. the first woman to be
appointed an arbitration agent on the Illinois
Industrial commission, has handled eight wom-
ems eases in the first three months of her
work. A IN argument against her appoint
y1ent 1t was suggested that there are not
enough women injured in industry to warrant
. woman arbitrator. An idea Of the work she
performs can be secured from the fact that
thus far she has arbitrated cases like such as
the following:
A Swedish laundry worker caught her right
hand in a mangle. Another woman had the
ends Of her fingers cut OF by machine. Still
another. hurt in the shoulder, had neuritis.
Lithuanian woman. the mother Of three small
children. had bit Of steel removed from her
eye. Not all Of her cases have been men. In
her report she hands !. to q negro for real
optimism.
Have you tried 70. nnd work since your
recovery! this negro was asked.
"Suttinly not" hs answered.
why not!"
why hunt for what aintr', he PARTED.
"How are you living. then!"
with friends" he replied. II guttinly has
some hne friends. friend that keeps you
Twin. he suttinly is some friend. amt her
= Tho question whether TO call Miss Reid,
'arbitratress" OF "arbitfatrix" vas solved when
an Italian at q hearing in. Joliet vas asked II
he understood the meaning Of an oath, re-
piled. Eyes. It means am to tell the truth to
the Lady Albafross." And LADY Albatross"
she has been since that day.
She has discovered, and brought to Light
some very pttiful cases Of injuries sustained
~ upnen q foreign birth. Ono case in par
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-03-25
Not Money Alone.

The allies are demanding other things be-
sides money from the Germans For instance,
bees. Belgian hares and sheepdogs. The en-
tcnte has demanded 1000 rabbits, 10000 dogs
and $4,000 hives Of bees, They also demand 1e5
hs-goats and $4,000 she-goats. 100000 cocks
and hens France Belgium. Italy, Serbia and
England are the countries which are asking
Tor animals. but England is asking for only
-&eken horses. Within three years Germany
must deliver 919,550 head of cattle to her for
mer enemies. II Germany assemblies thesA do
restic pets on a ship. the craft will be well
nigh as famous as Noah's ark.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-03-25

HAVING printed the foregoing the question
arises; shall, We 60 home tonight or go to 4
hotel! II We 60 home the queen probably will
give us the deuce. :. Still. she's fond OF flow
orr and nae . wee bit O. siller did these cost us
We Print This BecauF-Oh, Just Because.
II. p. A. in the Nav York Tribune).
The lasdatory obituary editorials on
B. L. T. are deserved; NOR can they ha
too strong. But some Of the papers that
are printing them wouldn't have dreamed
Of giving him that editorial freedom
without which he couldn't have became
great The Perfect Boss Is he who al
lows his slave the leeway to be dull.
sad. silly-anything. Otherwise the sum-
NIT ID never even visible
THERE appears to be 'communist con
Migration" in Germany.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-03-25
MEMORY
BY ALFRED ARNOL.n

~~.>AS
have heard soft voices calling.
In the daytime or the night,
With their gentle sound enthrallinr
All my spirit; sveetly falling
Where familiar things were palinr:
:. Like song Of old delight.
have seen bright visions streaming.
- In my chamber or the street
Clear. oh clear; above all seeming:
Much to real to pass for dreaming:
Dimming all else with their cleaning:
Time. and place. and all, complete.
Bringing back and nev-creating
Treasures Of tho faf-off past:
Like . perfume inundating
Withered gardens. that lie waiting
And with faith all unahating
Dream OF June returned at last
Bringing childhood. or The glory
In youths heart, once brave and strour:
Kindly deeds; loves pssiionate story.
Garnered knowledge staid and hosry;
Raptures; wisdom moaitopy: ~,
Days when Joys came in tkrong,
And these shadowed things discerning,
have clasped thesn., classped, them nes
whiie- my heart has felt the burning
OF homesick longing, ysarning.
For the lost the unfoturniae
Dearer than Ill -else. mnek deee.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-03-25
Sweet Emotions.

Rapid increase in consumption Of sugar is
endangering American health. says DR.. J. S.
Landlord Of San Antonio, Texas, writing in
the New York Medical, Journals.
DR.. Landlord says that the average >Ameri-
can consumes IS pounds of sugar q year. an
increase Of g. pounds in 40 years.
He believes that an unchecked use of sugar,
in addition to undermining various organs Of
the body. ultimately will affect our emotions
and tend to make us unstable as a people.
The emotionalism Of the Latin races and
tropical peoples is due to their excessive in
diligence in sugar, either in the refined state
or by chewing raw ribbon cane, according to
Dr. Landlord
Two Thousand years ago the Romans had
no sugar and were strong, 1stoieal and un-
shakable people. Sugar was not introduced
into the Mediterranean Basin until the Sara
Gems brought it in the eighth century. It never
became abundant until it was transplanted to
the West Indies and later to the American
southern states.
Sugar." continues DR.. Landlord, has been
pouring In stream down the threats Of the
Mediterranean people for hundreds of years,
not only from the tables. but in candy and
drinks. It has made them increasingly emo
tional. History will show that the French
have undergone similar change and, per-
haps, the Spanish.
Perhaps increased emotionalism has en-
riched tho world Of romance, poetry, art and
music. 1t were better that the human race
suffer some decoration than to have been
without the rich romance Of French literature.
the enhancing stories CT Ibanez, the passion
ate, truth In the art Of Italy, France and Spain.
and the matchless melody Of Mexican music.
But 1t is wise to moderate our excuses in
the use Of this valuable food and safeguard
the health and stability Of our people"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-03-25
The Daily Short Story

, door! And did you come to bring
me- flovers--on such a night"
But, yes. From a lovely young
, lady"
The singer took the box, smiled
at the enclosed card, then fixed his
keen eyes on the little messenger,
you are the boy who plays in
the street., yes? l asked you ques-
tons once and you would not an
swer. You remember? Your violin
told me it had not always sung for
bit Of silver. / wanted to help my
countryman. Now, my boy, tell me
about yourself
Eugene stood with downcast
eyes, silent. The appeal of this
mans sympathy fought hard
against his zealously fostered pride
and at length it won. Surely his
mother would forgive.
"Oh! Monsieur, / will tell you
ALL"
| His long silence broken, in vol
ubie French, Eugene told his sad
little story.
! $50! Your father came over
here to play in the orchestra and
your mother sang in the chorus
And now he is dead and there is
no money. Why does she not come
back to her placer"
| There is no one. to take care oil
Felicite. She is only six months
old"
"Your mother is perhaps toe
proud to ask her people for help:'
! the man ventured.
The boy flashed a grateful look
at him. "Ah! you understand. And
besides" he hesitated, my moth.
er ran away to get married. She
was always happy, but my father
was poor and she was never for
given"
"And you are trying to earn
] enough money to take care of your
mother and your little sister,"
| Il have to-" Eugene answered
proudly.
Suddenly, with the quick deci.
sion which often marked his move
ments, the singer bent toward the
boy. would you and your mother
like to go home to France?'
Eugene threw back his head
Love of fatherland cleaned in his
eyes. He almost laughed aloud. He
tried to speak. but no words would
! come save only, "Oh. monsieur"
well. you shall GO. Tomorrov
you shall bring your mother to my
hotel and all can be arranged
and take this to Felicite"
Many in the opera house thai
night marveled at the beauty Of
the tenor's singing. They spoke Of
a tenderness and vigor never be.
fore revealed in his voice. But
by what chain of events the tender.
ness and strength Of the mans ma
ture-had been stirred to this su.
preme effort was known only To
a woman and little boy who sal
long into the night, hand in hand
and told each other stories Of the
good days to come.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-03-25
Cardinal Gibbons.

The nation lost one Of its most forceful per-
leonalities in the death Of Cardinal Gibbons
Intensely patriotic. he employed the great
prestige he enjoyed as dignitary Of the Ro-
man Catholic church in furtherance OF such
movements he believed were helpful to the vel
fare Of the masses of the people. On vital
questions he never hesitated In expressing an
opinion, and invariably his judgment proved
correct. The toiler found in him loyal friend.
and in the past half century he had been called
upon more than once to aid in the adjustment
OF labor disputes. He stood close to several
of the American presidents. and in his rela-
tonships with them proved wise counselor.
He was among the hrst to publicly condemn
Germany in the late war, and he played an
! important part in aronsing the United States
+ to its duty in the conAict.
tt Cardinal Gibbons was q man Of generous
heart. He was q man of peace. He was an
advocate Of an international court that would
: prevent further warfare. and continued to urge
4 such an arrangement up to the time Of his last
illness. Cardinal Gibbons arose to the highest
post in the Roman Catholic church in Amerfca
from modest home His first Job in America
after the arrival Of his family from Ireland
where he was born, was as grocers clerk ii
New Orleans. He would have been great mar
no matter what calling he had elected to hav'
followed His passing is distinct loss boil
to his country and to the church he repre-
scented.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-03-25
Ilet,

| loaf.
Drug habitues such q alcohol
and tobacco users will confidently
sxpect< me to say that meat ID bad
for the kidneys. livers and lights.
Whatever ! may say about meat,
understand this clearly: I eat It
once Q day when can get It.
A young LADY, get = lot of let
tiers from her-asks me whether
light meats. such IS veal chops, calf
meat or frying size chicken. every
day, would cause kidney trouble.
She goes on:
=. 81 have been informed that
these meats would give on kidney
trouble, SO ! have started eating
frying size chicken every day"
Now wouldn't that tickle butch
er?
Beefsteak is no more meat than
is frying or any other size chicken |;
and chicken is no less meat than is
the freshest egg ever born. And
there was never an egg born out
side Of China that is more or less
meat than fish is. These several
kinds of meat vary in taste, and
vary in nutritive value from eggs
down through steak and chicken to
oysters, which are mighty poor nu-
triment for the money.
For all physiological, nutritive' OF
health purposes, beefsteak, oysters,
eggH fowls \and little red herrings
are just meat, no matter what ar
bitrary distinctions some people
make between them. It is amusing
to hear people calling themselves
vegetarians while cracking and eat
ing eggs that are fuller Of meat
than any COW that ever roamed the
pasture. 1t is funny to hear others
telling how they have been told
TO eat no meat as they sail into q
helping of planked trout or some.
thing equally nutritious.
There is popular notion thai
cOw-meat is bad for the kidneys OF
some other inwards, whereas sheep.
meat, hen-meat, fish-meat and wild
meat is all right to eat. 1t seems
that many years ago some sincere
but misguided theorist >conceivei
the fancy that the dark or ret
meats were laden with. uric acid
whereas white meats were not. AL
q huge mistake. The color of your
meat is immaterial: about the onl,
heterogeneous foods which do not Civ,
rise to any considerable amount o
uric acid are cheese, bread. oat
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-03-25

meal rice, nuts. milk, cream, but-
ter eggs (Of course buttes con-
tains little nitfogenous materially /.
peas, beans. Caviar and bananas.
We should thank fortune that
there II plenty Of purin (nitrogepou.
material from which uric acid may
be- derived) in such wholesome and
nutritious articles as liver, sar-
dimes, chicken, oysters. veal, NUT
ton. pork and beef.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Foods Rich IN Limo.
Since there is reason TO suppose
that many household dietaries in
America supply the. body insufi-
Gent calcium, will you be good
enough to mention foods which
contain . liberal amount Of cal
cium or lime salts?
MRS. R. W. B.
+ Answer - Oranges, pineapples,
figs, pears, olives, cherries. prunes,
peanuts, cabbage, turnips, milk,
cheese beans, carrots, oatmeal,
cornmeal, onions, lettuce, toma-
toes, cucumbers, pork.
Blue Baby.
What is meant by blue baby p
MRS. X. S.
Answer-The baby looks blush
(cyanotic), especially the lips, fin
ger nails and extremities. In some
cases it is due to failure Of the
lungs to fill with air, in a weakly
newborn child. and this may clear
up in a few days. In other cases
it is due to a congenital defect Of
development of the heart, and such
a child is likely to remain feeble,
If he survives childhood. Other
conditions may account for the blue
or cyanotic appearance always an
indication of impaired oxygenation
of the blood).
SUltpeter.
What i'll effects, if any. would the
frequent eating of meat cured with
| too much salttpeter have ON a man
l..
Answer-Saltpeter is used in pre-
serving meat, not because 1t is a
preservative, but because it makes
meat look red, and sometimes stale
meat is cOrned or cured with az
excess of saltpeter to make it re-
semble fresh meat. Too much Of il
impairs digestion. Saltpeter is ir,
ritating to mucous membranes. bu'
has no very definite effect wheI
taken with preserved meat or as {
| medicine.