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, 1921-12-02
THE PROMOTED LANpLApY.

Let him who has never tasted prunes cast the first
aspersion upon the movement to abolish landladies,"
proclaims the New York Tribune. "The 'hostesses'
who are to reign in their places are pictured by the
Association to Promote Proper Housing for Girls as
creatures of the noblest impulses, who would pur-
scold a ledger for making coffee in her room and
would not press her for the rent when she is jobless.
She has come into being, it is saids because of the ac-
cursed spirit of independence that is abroid. If the
iandlady treats a girl rough today off she goes to a
girls club or she takes to herself a trio of pals, and
together they hire an-apartment, of course. So the
landlady has passed out, like the cab horse and the
dodo, a victim of evolution.
ut is possible, however, that a hostess and an old
fashioned landlady are sisters under their skins
Americans are prone to dress up their spades as
agricultural implements. In a land where each man
is as good as his ~neighbor. il not better, words left
differences in worldly estate quickly get out of date.
Master and man are unknown terms in this country.
Even hired man puts the emphasis on the financial
arrangement, serving notice to all the world that the
worker is a free-will agent. So the servant soon
learns to call herself the maid, and recently she has
been glorifed as household engineer and mothers as
sistant- The hired hand becomes the worker and then
the employe. We take positions instead Of getting
jobs.
THE same subtle ~snobbery attacked the boarding
house world once before when the decayed gentle
woman, unable to endure the thought Of dodgers, be-
thought her of the happy device of paying guests
understanding, of course, that the party of the second
part becomes a guest
And so everybody is happy. It only remains 10
DC added that even the prune is not what it used to
be. Let us respectfully speak Of it, please. as the
California plum" =
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gram must include systematic training in the sounded
speech In correct pronunciation and clear articulation
in the use Of standard English to secure ciearnez both
In oral expression and writing. In reading aloud with
feeling and expression, and In the use Of literature as
= possession and q source Of delight
"But the underlying aim Of the committee ia 20
bridge the gulf which has SO long kept industry and
culture apart. Hitherto educational thought and ex-
pertinent In their higher fights have either despised or
ignored the Industrial and commercial facts of the
modern world; hitherto the promoters Of technical
education, in England at least, have given scant at
tention to cultural subjects. In now proposing to
make. education 'hunanisHc,' n common possession,
through adequate knowledge Of the mother tongue and
its literature, the British board Of education enters
upon an experiment which win be well worth watch
ing. Observe that no change Is proposed from liberal
to liberal culture-only a recognition Of the primary
claims Of good English as the pre-condition Of all cui-
ture.
'Thus DR.. Eliots championship Of the language IS
good doctrine for the English themselves, and the
manifesto Of the British board strikes a note which
viii be heard also on this side OF the water. Both ap-
peals should be the beginning OF a new enthusiasm
for the mother tongue"
, 1921-12-02
DEFINES ~AMERIcANIsM.

We have for a time heard much about American
Ism. What is It? A few years ago you never heard
the word at all. Now it fills the newspapers and is
upon everybody's tongue. What does it meanT
The president has given US the definition:
eAmericanism means loyal, cooperative life in this
nation, under this nations constitution. It Is not
merely faith and a state of mind, but a program pres
emit and pressing. : 49,
81 am sorry to say that in the days that have
passed since war was declared four springs ago,z the
word has been a little dependent It has been used
too much by empty men who had nothing really worth
while to say and therefore shouted for Americanism
to conceal their paucity of real ideas. In our own re-
cent times We have seen it challenged. Therefore we
ne giving our Americanism moro thought because
here and there men have arisen to question its val
idity and value
t"Every American who Lets slip aehance to hold out
tie friendly hand is responsible for unassimilated i'm.
migrants who have been the easy prey for every agi-
tator and who had an axe to grind. Therein has been
the real un-Americanism, therein the greatest treason
Although we were, a little while ago. tardy in oul
response to a just call for help, the part we finally
played can be told with pride forever. Now it seem,
our part Is to set our house in order with a becom.
ing respect for the opinions Of mankind to the enc
that all men may see that it is good. We must live
such a life here that it will be its own answer to the
madness in the world"
, 1921-12-02

got no relief and ffnary reached u,
point where / could not even res. az
night.
II also lost IN weight and was "a
ing down hin rapidly when I resa
about Garren's Tonic and decided !,
give It a trlal.I am giGd to say that
my appetite IS airrady Improved ~
that I enjoy every mouthfnl 1 eat win.
out any bad after effects. I am no
longer constipated. never have those
awful headaches anymore. and ny
blood seems TO be in perfect condition.
SO that / feel good all tho time low.
IT wouldn't take anything for The
benefit Garren's Tonic has done ma.
l have gained five pounds and VIII
praise It highly to all OF my friends.
Garrcn's Tonic Is sold in Casper b
the Casper Pharmacy and the leading
dealers in every city.-Adv.
, 1921-12-02
DEMAND FOR ENGLISH.

~Dr. Charles W. Eliot's recent plea for English as
a subject which should take first rank in education"
says the Boston Transcript, finds an echo in the an
nouncement that English still leads at Harvard as a
favorite study for specialization. It gains its larger
Justification from the fact that the conference on
limitation of ornaments has revealed a distinct trend
towards greater use of the language among diplomats
and government officials, along with increasing resort
to it for. commercial and general purposes throughout
Europe, in Asia, especially in the countries bordering
on the Pacific. If foreigner thus easily turn to
English as the variety of human speech which is to
be 1.-THE prevailing language all over the world"-Dr.
Eliot does not hesitate to predict that rank for it
how much more eager should we not be in following
his admonition to .1earn how magnificent the English
language is when accurately used, and take every
pains to learn to speak and write pure English?
"Nor is the interest thus voiced by Harvard's for
naer president felt only in our own land. British ped
agogues, after long controversies over the meaning of
liberal education" coupled with endless discussion as
TO the proper place of the classics and of science in
the curriculum, have just issued an appeal for great
er attention to English which will reverberate through
all the AnglolSaxon countries. 1t comes in the report
of q committee appointed by the British board of edu.
cation to inquire into the position now occupied by
the language in the English schools and advise how
its str1y may be best promoted. Sitting for several
months, the committee received oral testimony from
102 witnesses, and was at especial pains to ascertain
how present methods of teaching English affect indus
try and commerce To most Of the experts who lis
TIMED the evidence given came as n revelation. It was
shown that at present practically no young people 60
ing into business enter it trained to express them
selves in spoken and written English with facility and
correctness or possessed of that broad outlook which
wide reading and the study of literature may be ex-
pected to provide An the business men examined
complained, often bitterly Of defects in spelling,
punctuation, vocabulary and sentence structure. SPELL
ing in particular received adverse comment; on the
ether hand many firms insisted that the most serious
defect was the total inability of their employees to ex-
press themselves readily and correctly on simple mat
tiers.
Keeping in mind the needs of business, but re-
pudiating the 'delusion' that elementary education
should have exclusively in view the making of miners
OF Factory girls, engineers or cooks the committee
Recommends a new attitude towards the training of
youth, with insistence on English as the basic factor.
There is no suggestion that more time should be given
70 1t; what Is insisted on is that its intrinsic impor-
lance must be recognized in the curriculum. The
teschsrs are to be the best obtainable, and the pro-
, 1921-12-02
BANDITS GET
$4,000 LOOT

NIAGARA Falls. n. r. Dec. a.
Armed robbers secured loot valued a,
$40. 900 in a holdup OF three express
company employees here last night,
The robbers loaded two strong boxes
into an automobile and drove away
while many persohs watched them
and thought it was all a joke
Three Of the bandits covered tho er'
rressmen while the fourth robber put
he strong boxes. which contained
bout $4,000 In currency and -valu.
ibles. into the automobile.
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moned before the state trnnsit com
mission which sought to determine
whether they had impaired the capt.
tai Of the company by authorizing
, 1921-12-02
Directors of
Rapid Transit
Facing Probe

NEW YORK, Dec. 2.-August Bel
mont. Cornelius Vanderbilt and -four
other directors OF the I~nterborough
Rapid Transit company refused to.
waive immunity yesterday when sum.
, 1921-12-02

Jewellery and watch repairing hv
pert workmtn- All work E-uarau.ss-
Casper Jsweir5 Mfg. Co. o.-s H.
-.
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large dividend payments from 1917 ,
i19.
They were then dismisssd,
The commission maintained that
, 1921-12-02
CASPER SCHOOL DISTRICT. q

IL Is extremely doubtful If there is another senooi
d,s.yict In the United States, or the world for that
natter. that can point to a record Of growth in ten
wears equaling school district No. 2 which is the Gas
ner CITY district. The comparison is 1911 with 1871
The daily times., 1921-11-09

he has never used an oath but once
in his life, has never taken a drink,
has never had a fight and never has
seen but one fight, has never been in
trouble, nevtr been arrested for
anything-in fact has never been in
the court room except as a juror on
three occasions between 1871 and
1890, and has never had a cross word
with any of his neighbors.
He is a member of the Missionary
Baptist Church on East Nash Street,
and he and his wife attend regularly.
They are both useful citizens and it
is due to influences like these two
that Wilson has one of the finest
colored citizenship in the State
Never had a doctor but once in
my life and then could have done
without him. The Lord has been good
to meR' so says Uncle Nathan
The daily times., 1921-11-09
NOTICE-SALE OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE

Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in that certain
mortgage deed given by J. T. Jor-
dan to L. E. Blackman, which said
mortgage deed is dated October 3,
1919, and duly recorded in Book
1922, page 244 Wilson County Regis
try; and because of default made
in the payment of the notes therein
secured, the undersigned will
On Monday, the eth Day IF December
1921, Between the Hours of
1900 NJ. and 4 :O0 p. M.
Offer for sale to the highest bidder
for cash, those certain lots of land
lying and being in Wilson County
Wilson Township, on the road being
the extension OF Goldsborc street, ad'
The daily times., 1921-11-09

joining the lands of w. r High. c.
Culpepper and others, described as
fellows:
Beginning at an iron axle on the
North side of the road, w. r. High S
corner and running North Is de-
gress, 80 minutes West 1910 feet
from the center of the road to an
iron axle, in Miss Clee Winstead's s
line, runs thence North "a degrees,
Is minutes West 566 feet to ditch,
1uns thence with the ditch South 81
degrees 25 minutes West 4O3 feet
to a scythe blade driven in the side
of ditch. c. Culpepper's line, therce
with his line South Is degrees 80
minutes East 1894 feet along wire
fence to stake in the center OF she
road, thence with and along the
center of the road North Is degrees
| East s99 feet to the beginning, con
The daily times., 1921-11-09
NOTICE.

To the public: The undersigned
will on Tuesday, November %, 1921.
offer for sale at 11:o0 o'clock, A. M.
at the residence of the deceased to
the highest bidder for cash all per
sonal property belonging to the estate
of A. B. Williams, deceased consisting
The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05
NEGROES ARM AGAINST NORTH
CAROLINA MOB.

Warrenton, \. C.-While a mob of
alleged to have been ringleaders in Il
riot at Norlina is surrounding the
county Jail here today, threatening to
lynch eleven more Negroes confined in
the building, the Negro population of
this town is said to be arming.
Raleigh county officials have learned
that Gov Morrison has instructed the
adjutant general to have company of
militia ready to proceed here to quell
any riot which may be started by the
intense excitement which has pre-
vailed all night.
The nearest troops are at Henderson,
sixteen miles away. GOV. Morrison, adj
vised after midnight that groups of
men, masked and armed, We're assem-
bling here and that repetition on Il
larger scale of the violence of yester-
day was in prospect, ordered that adj
ditional officers be sworn in and that
the prisoners in Jail be protected at all
costs.
Yesterdays riot in which four white
men and two Negroes were wounded,
several of them quite seriously. cul-
minated early today when a mob of
white men caught Alfred Williams and
Plummer Bullock, Negroes, said to
have been leaders in the riot. and shot
them to death. Eleven other Negroes
were saved from the mob by county
officials who hurried them into cells
before any one realized what was hap
pening.
The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05

Sunday jug the wife for cooking your
meals on Sunday; jug the furnace for
delivering heat on Sunday; jug the wa
ter faucet for spouting water on Sun
day in fact, jug everybody and every
thing That's the only kind of blue
Sunday to have. If You are going to
make it blue, make it dark deep
navy blue in color that won't run.
Them's our sentiments. We don't he
lieve in doing anything half way. If
you are going to do it, do it right. May
be you might think this blue haze to
things is joke, but if you do you have
another think coming. There are some
wild pumpkins in this country crazy
enough to do anything and the only
way to handle 'em is to dose em heavy
on their own dope. Make 'em so blue
that the ocean will become ashamed OF
itself and blush pink.-The Monitor
Omaha.
The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05
NEGRO TENOR
TAKES LONDON
BY STORM M

(From Africa and Oriental Review.)
Mr.. Roland Hayes rewarded the pa
tience of his growing public by sec
ond recital, which he gave at Wigmore
hall on the evening of Oct. 2S. A large
and enthusiastic audience was present
to record its appreciation of varied
program, and if some of the applause
wns probably intended as tribute to
Mr.. Hayes the man, more must have
come from the large number of dis
crimiinating music lovers who have al
ready gained true appreciation of n
singer whose greatness we now ven
ture with no undue timidity to pro-
claim.
Before the close of the concert Mr.
Hayes was presented with large
laurel wreath and IL floral tribute was
offered to Mr. Lawrence Brown, his
very able accompanist, byapprecia-
tive friends in the audience.
When the concert was over "A few
of the most prominent and representa-
tive people of African origin in Lon
don, headed by Mr.. Archer (Anglo-Af-
rican), ex-mayor of Battersea, present
ed Mr.. Hayes with an address. The
subscribers to the floral tribute were
Duse Mohamed Ali (EgypD, who or
and FL. O'Dwyer (Calabar), w. f. Dove
(Accra), r. Broadhurst (Sierra Leone),
Claud Ennis (NNinnibah), Chief OLIVIA
Uagos), the Hon. Senator Fredericks
CWest Indies), DR.. o. Sapar and Mr.. L.
III. Doherty of Lagos.
SO great was the success of Mr.
Hayes concert that he was induced TO
give third recital on the afternoon of
Nov. 20 before a large and demOnstra-
tive audience. With this third appear
ance he has so fimly established him
self that he was selected out of the
many American singers now in London
to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" ut
the Thanksgiving dinner arranged by
the Anglo-American Society. Among
the guest were the American Ambas-
sador and Mr.. Davis
Mrs. H. Gordon Selfridge. Lady
Rhondda and a number of other per-
sonages prominent on both sides of the
Atlantic. In the words of the Times re-
port: The American national hymn
was sung by Mr.. Roland Hayes, Ne
gro. Time brings it's strange revenges.
The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05
WALTER M. MOORE TAKES SEAT.

jefferson City, Mo-, Jan. 26-Walter
NJ. Moore of st. Louis, the first Negro
in the history Of Missouri to be elect
ed member of the lower House of
the Legislature, has been assigned a
prominent seat in the hall of the House
of Representatives by Commissioner of
the Permanent Seat of Government,
Judge Louis Ratliff.
The seat assigned TO the st. Louis
Representative for the session is No.
75 and in the first row ON the main
aisle and directly facing the Speaker
1t is II position in the House that is
always much sought after, particular
ly by old members, who expect to take
active part in legislation and may fire.
quently desire recognition of the
Speaker.
Representative Moore's desk was
buried in flowers when he was inau-
gurated.
The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05
DOWN IN GEORGIA

Either Mr.. Hooper Alexander. United
States District Attorney in Atlanta, is
wrought up to the point of "seeing
things" that are not there. or conditions
i'm one of the finest old Common
wealths of the South are in pretty
bad way.
In fact, they could hardly he in n
much worse way. so far as the rela-
tions between Whites and Negroes are
concerned, If the charges made by Mr.
Alexander are substantiated. In con-
nection with a recent peonage indict
ment. Mr.. Alexander made himself re-
sponsible for the statement that wrongs
against Negroes in Georgia run all
the gamut from the meanest of petty
cheating to deliberate and plotted muir
der He AYERS further that compara-
lively little effort is being made by the
conditions. He even goes so far as to
say that sin a large proportion of the
@asSs. iudicia processes are issued by
magistrates that are used in the most
shameless manner in the aid of crimes
and the attendant circumstances are
such as should call for Indictment for
malpractice"
Mr. Alexander is certainly right
when he says that ninety per cent. of
the people of Georgia "would utterly
deplore and condemn what he does not
hesitate to affirm Is going on i'm that
state. Ninety per cent. of the people
of Georgia are law-abiding. honorable
citizens of the Republic. They are
proud of their state But Mr.. AleXan-
der says also that Something more is
demanded of n civilized people than
mere sentiment"
Unquestionably. And if Mr.. Alex
ander succeeds in bringing indlsputable
proof of even one-half of the sweeping
assertions he makes as TO conditions
in Georgia, we have not shadow OF
doubt that ninety per cent. of the Geor-
gia people will give much more EN-
phatic expression to their loathing of
such conditions than is implied in the
epithet sentimental" - Harvey's
Weekly.
The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05
MRS. HARDING GREETS THE COL
ORED WOMEN OF THE
NATION.

Mrs. Harding, wife of President-elect
Harding was interviewed by repre-
sentative of this bureau. She was ex-
tremely busy packing and preparing TO
move from her Wyoming Avenue home
but was willing to spare the time to
extend greeting of cheer to the col
ored people of the nation.
She said, II thank the colored press
for the support which they gave to
Senator Harding"
When introduced to Mrs. NJ. l.. Gray,
president of the Negro Women's Ma
tional Republican League, she extend
ed her hand with smile that one
could see came from the heart, stated:
1.-The wonderful support that was Civ
en- to Senator Harding by the cOlored
women of our great nation shall ever
he green in my memory. and l know
Senator Harding will give to the col
ored citizens of our nation square
deal"
The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05
coLoRED ATTORNEY is APPOINT.
ED CIcUIT JUDGE.

Richmond, Ind. Jan. 27.-Corneliys
X. Richardson, prominent Colored at
torDey of this city, was appointed by
Judge w. A. Bond of the Wayne Cir
cult Court as special judge to hear
three cases of alleged liquor law vio-
lations in the Circuit Court.
Mr.. Richardson has been acting
judge of the Municipal Court during
the past week due to the illness of
Mayor w. W. Zimmerman. In this po-
sitiOn he has rendered efficient ser
vice. His appointment to the bench of
Circuit Court was the first time in the
history of the county that a Colored
man has been so honored.
The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05
BY THE coLoRED SYNDICATE
PRESS BUREAU.

Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, ana
Senator Ellison ID. Smith of South car
olina, oppose the Johnson compensa-
tion bill because it will benefit thous-
ands or more colored employees of the
nation. Senator Johnson of California
is pushing his bill with all the vigor
Mt his command and states that every
man in the employment of the govern
ment. regardless of color, will be ben
Gifted by this bill. Color does not in
terest me, the senator stated; 1t is FOR
the masses of the people that l am
pushing this bill.
do not propose to enter into an aca-
demic discussion of the necessity for
this sort of IA measure nor do l pro-
pose, except as addenda to my re-
marks in explanation of the bill to
take the statistical reports of the vari-
Gus organizations concerning the nee
essary cost of living today. / wish,
however, to impress upon the Senate
one paramount fact, and that is, that
any man who gives n decent days
work is entitled to decent days pay,
and So is scarcely that After all, ii is
ordinary people who determine the nee
essary cost of living. 1t is the Ordin-
airy mans life which determines final
ly what is Il living wage, what is, in
deed. sum under which, as an Amer
lean citizen, he may be permitted to
pursue his vocation and may be per-
mitted to live as an American and to
enjoy those things which Americans
ought to enjoy.
The Colorado statesman., 1921-02-05
HANDICAPPED BY RACIAL PREJU.
DICE.

Mr.. A. l.. jackson, himself Il Negro,
takes up the cudgels for his race in the
February Forum. He says:
'As with the Indian, so it has been
with the Negro. In most every field
of endeavor his demonstrations of abil-
ity and fitness have had to be on a
racial basis. He has had no other
choice. Therefore, many achievements
by Negro men and women have been
to him not so much accomplishments
of talented individuals, but racial ac-
complishments, refuting the constantly
repeated assertion of pre-ordained in
feriority.
For generations the Negro has been
looked upon as n predistined tiller OF
the soil Any effort to break down this
notion was frowned upon. SO he titled
the soil in an effort to satisfy ignorant
and unscientific overseers and planta-
ton owners, until the day came when,
following the advice of wiser men, he
began acquiring his own land. To-
day more than 100000 Negroes are
owners of their own farms; 672,964 are
renters or share troopers looking for
ward to the day when they will be own
ers: S492, So, ,21S worth of farm-build-
ing stock and equipment are owned by
these tillers of the soil"