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The Coconino sun., 1921-09-30
IN DAYS OF TORE
} (From the Coconino Sun Files of January 22, 1887.

The exterior of Eb. Greenlaw's new house on Gold avenue is nearly com pleted. It will be one of the incest residences in town.
 In the legislature, MT. Goodrich, of Maricopa, gave notice that he would introduce bill to locate the capitol at ' Phoenix. J. H. Breed introduced a memorial to congress asking for some action to keep the Navajo Indians in side the limits of their reservation.
 C., K. & w., which means Chicago, Kansas & Western, is the new name for the A., T. & S. Fe R. R.
 During a fight between George and N. Berry's saloon, the latter was shot while attempting to take the gun away from Hawks. He died that night. That same night about 20 masked men rushed the jail, where J. Y. Brothers and Wm. West were on guard. The latter were ordered to put up their hands. They did so and were disarmed. The mob then entered the jail, where desperate fight occurred. After the mob had scattered, the guards found both the Hawks brothers dead. George had been shot three times and William twice. The coron- CTS jury verdict was "death by pistol shots from unknown persons"
 ". H. Anderson shipped two lawns to Belleville, Kans., few days since. They were caught near here and will be reared as domestic pets.
 The A. T. & s. Fe has made con tracts for the extension of its line from Kansas City via Ft. Madison to Chicago.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-30

recommended the sweeping reductions in personnel.
 Milady's fashionable corsage bou- quet may have started life as hand ful of ragweed, for disabled soldiers in Kansas City hospitals are doing a thriving business in making artificial and lifelike posies out of ordinary weeds. War Mothers of the city are teaching the wounded men to color the weeds with dyes and the Legion is helping them place the flowers with florists and gift shops.
 For the return of a tattered old army rain-cape, almost worth it's weight in gold because of sentiment attached to it, liberal rewards have been posted by the Legion service men of Toledo, Ohio. The cape, property of Rev. H. F. MacLane, chaplain of an infantry reigment in France, was used by him to cover the faces of dead sol- diers lying in the Flanders mud and rain while their graves were being dug. 1t had been torn in many en- counters with barbed wire while the chaplain followed his troops, but an undiscriminating thief stole it from the minister's automobile.
 The body of the unknown American soldier to be brought home from France by General Pershing probably will be selected from the Argonne cemetery at Romagne, where most of the unidentified dead were inferred following the fighting in the forest tangles, according to information to the Legion shortly before the general sailed. But two per cent of the wars dead yet remain in France.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-30

Staggering over to the officer he said; "Shay, did you shee me fall?"
 "Yes, sir, l sure did!" answered the officer.
 "Well, did you ever shee me be- fore2"
 "No, sir; can't say that 1 ever did v
 "Then how in the hell did you know it was me? ?"
 o. H. Truman, of the Lowell Ob- servatory staff, feels that he is now fully equipped to listen to the music of the spheres.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-30

Sixteen world war veterans from one post of the Legion in Tulsa, Okla, have settled upon government home stead land in Scott county, Southern Arkansas. By cold weather 1t is esti- mated that 100 ex-service men will have taken claims on the land.
 The territory which will become a settlement of world war service men, the first in America, stretches over 2,500 acres, composed of adjoining in- dividual tracts of 160 acres each. The men have to live on the land but seven months before it becomes their prop erty as Arkansas, gives residence credit to soldiers up to two years of army or navy service.
 Part of the men will spend the winter on their land, clearing timber, building, hunting and trapping, for the tracts abound in deer, fox and lynx. The sixteen who have already settled are preparing to establish a central trading post and town which they will name Legionnaire." Four of the pioneers are married and all have had farming experience. Homesteading is now possible in the following other states: Washington, Michigan, Mon- tana, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, Louisiana, Alabama, Colorado, Idaho and Oregon.
 A family which in itself is thriv- ing war veterans society has come to the notice of the Legion in lndepend.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-30

Brudder Miller says he knows as how de sun do move, "kase did'n' Lijah ob de Bible times tell de sun to stan still, an eff de sun don move well godamighty what's de use ob talkin'?"
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-30

A family which in itself is a thriv-
 ing war veterans society has come to the notice of the Legion in Independ.
 ence, Kans. Thirty-three able-bodied
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-30

Carter Joy says that whether mar ried couple are happy or not depends altogether on how they enjoy them selves.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-30

"Rimmy" Jim Giddings told MlIt Powers that there's no use disputipg that men don't make such fools of themselves over women as women do over men. "If women look at the moon, Milt, they see man in it. If they hear a mouse nibblin', it's man; and they look under the bed the last thing at night to find man. Why, l never look under my bed at night to find a woman, do you, Milt?"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-10-15
A SHAFT. OF JEFF DAVIS.

1t will be recalled that Louisville,
Kentucky never yielded allegiance to
the illegal Confederate government
and yet the Daughters of the Confed-
eracy have selected that city as the
site for a monument 351 feet high to
the memory of jefferson Davis.
Davis was in no sense a great
statesman, simply clever politician,
but as an ardent advocate of the Con-
federacy whose capstone was slavery,
he typifes a doctrine which cost our
country million lives and billion
in gold.
The monument will serve no useful
purpose as the cause it glorifes is
dead. The Daughters Of the Confed-
eracy ought to devote the money they
will spend on the Davis shaft to aid
ing the veterans who fought to pre-
serve our liberties rather than waste
it on memorial to the man whose
life was given to the destruction of
his native land.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-10-15

" all of the UNLAWFUL mixing
goes on as it is promoted by the
difference in the social status Of the
white and colored people. The surest
way to maintain racial purity" would
be to repeal all Of the Southern jim
crow laws. So long as the colored
people are a voteless people and on a
lower social and civil plane, the IL
legal racial mixing will continue.
That is history.
In his enuemration of what the
colored people desire, Rev. Alexander
omitted two Of the most important
things the right to vote and the
abolition Of public segregation. There
is absolutely no hope of a settlement
Of the race question on just Amer
lean lines if the South is to have the
leadership, especially if that leader
ship is to eb vested in the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, which has
ever been the foe of the colored peo-
pie from the time of the split over
slavery in the forties up to the pres
ent time when the church refuses to
merge with the Methodist Episcopal
Church, North, because the latter
church elected colored bishops.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-10-15
TROUBLE WITH THE SOUTH.

In an article in the Smart Set Mr..
H. L. Mencken, Southern man, says,
that the South is still suffering from
the debacle Of fifty-six years ago. He
says: ..... 4@....
sThat debacle almost obliterated
civilization in the whole region, and
so the surviving Confederates took to
sentimentalizing the civilization that
had collapsed and departed. That
Standardization, in the end, became
sort of sacred duty, a benevolent
mania, furious and unintelligible
cult, and the Southerner himself a
walking sarcophagus of dead ideas.
: . The result was that human
thought in the whole region was re-
duced to a mere poll-parroting of for
mulae. The Southerner became the
most indiotic patriot ever heard Of in
terrestrial history. Everything South
ern took on sacrosanctity in his eyes,
from the swinish politics Of the job
seekers who herded the cracker and
Confederate veteran vote to the bar
barrie theology Of the Methodist and
Baptist dervishes, and from the pious
nonsense of the rowing Prohibitionists,
free-silver fanatics and generalized
cencies of the Southern cotton-mill
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-10-15
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lH7 r.
IS T
A MISGUIDED MOVEMENT!

THE APPEAL has noticed IN sew
eral papers the organization OF the
Federal Employees League composed
Of colored federal employees, which we
believe is a great mistake and will
only serve to increase the segregation
now practiced in Washington.
There is already a Federal En-
ployes' Union in which no color line
is drawn and to which federal en-
ployes of all races, creeds and colors
are admitted, so the formation of a
segregated organization is not only
not necessary but positively danger
Gus.
It is not surprising that Perry W
Howard is the president Of the or,
ganization. The article refers to hin
as a Special Assistant Attorney Gen
eral, which he is not. Mr.. Howard is
Special Assistant TO the Attorney
General which is quite differen'
thing. It is a segregated place. T.,
How the men who have gone int
this organization can hope to eradi
cate segregation by, segregating them
selves is not clear. The colored fed
eral employees should become mem
bers of the union which is open tt
all and work in harmony with thei
brother employees of various races
creeds and colors.
Men and women, do not segregat
yourselves. 'r.,l.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-10-15
we're THE CARDS STACKED?

Twenty-three years ago the United
States occupied the Philippine Islands,
promising independence for, the Fill
pinos in about twenty years or as
soon as the natives were "qualifed for
freedom
Shortly after coming into power the
present Republican administration
sent a mission consisting Of Gen,
Leonard Wood and w. Cameron
Forbes to investigate present condi,
lions and the report just made, which
will not reach Washington for five OF
six weeks, recommends that the Unit.
ed States must keep the islands.
Two months ago, long before the
investigation had been completed, Gen
Wood was nominated for governor.
Did Uncle Sam stack the cards OF
the liberty-loving Filipinos?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-10-15

black soldiers are the same as those
Of the white and Dr., Grassland has ;
really accepted a Jim Grow job.
Perry Howard, another prominent
Uncle Tom" politician, also accepted
a Jim Crow job. AS long as we take
these political handouts, as long as
our "leaders" are too hungry to re-
fuse them, Of course they will be ten
dered our race.
(APPEAL Editorial Sept. 8, 1929
THE APPEAL is sorry to note that
the color line has been drawn in the
new Veterans Bureau by the organ
ization of a "Colored Division" and
the appointment Of DR.. J. R. A. Cross
land as it's head.
Grassland lost son who fell fight
ing for democracy in France, and it
is poor reward for the father to
be given a segregated bureau. It is
also said that he was an effective
speaker in the last campaign, in
which it was given out that the Re-
publican party would abolish segre-
cation in the departments at Wash
lington. If these things are true
Grassland deserves better treatment
at the hands of the victors, and he
also should have refused the appoint.
ment as undemocratic and demanded
the same eatments lis given &c
other groups of American citizens.
! One Lasker,, a Jew, was made head
of the U. S. Shipping Board. Repre-.
sentatives Of other racial groups have
been given places, but not in segre
gated bureaus No President of thu
United States would dare offer a Jew
a place as the head of segregated
Jewish bureau. There is no such
place and never will be. Only color
ed people are segregated by this, al
. legged democracy. :-..l ~
Some people may think that tn
special appointments which hav,
been handed out by the present Re
publican administration are forwar,
; movements. but they are really nail
in. the coffin of democracy and ar
dangerous to the social and politica
; status of the colored people.
Il The Administration ought to Gu
, out these Special jobs, eliminat
segregation which was promised i
the campaign, and if colored men ar
to have appointments let them b
. on level with those given to othe
2 groups of American citizens.
i Better no places at all than thos
e which lower the status of the rae
t and automatically make their holder
defenders of segregation.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-10-15
PLEASE GIVE ONE. DOLLAR /!

Fourteen hundred claims have been
filed against the city and county for
property burned during the riot
value of property burned nearly
$5,000,O00. : l.,
Fifty colored men have been in
dicted. The city will not permit the
people to rebuild their property un-
less they build bricks; therefore thou
sands are living in tents with winter
fast approaching. About $4,000 has
been raised by the Colored Citizens
Relief Committee and N. A. A. C. P.
If 5000 colored men will give dol
lar the cause will be saved.
WON'T YOU GIVE A DOLLAR
TO HELP THESE PEOPLE? Send
THE Tulsa Relief COMMITTEE:
-. S. D. Hooker, Chair,
J. Tyler Smith, Treas.
a.. Tulsa, Okla, Gen. Del.
Or to EASTERN HEADQUARTERS,
1916 18th st. N. w.,
Washington, D. c.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-10-15
"PEARL GOOD" A MlSNOMER.

That, "there is nothing in name,"
has been decidedly verified in. Port
land, Ore. Pretty, blue-eyed Pearl
Good, aged seventeen years, has con-
fessed to having committed forty-six
burglaries. Her plumber consists of
money, jewelry, clothing, toilet arti-
cles, etc. She is one of family of
eight children, is average in dress,
manner and speech, and is not at all
'hard boiled" though evidently a bad
egg. In nearly every one Of her rob-
berries entry was made by means of a
] latchkey, and the fair "lady Raf1es'
says the average housewife leaves
her doorkey "hidden" in places most
easily discovered by the housebreaker
This rare Pearl evidently saw some
of, the film pictures of that great
artist, Pearl White; and emulated he1
example,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-10-15
ESPECIAL EXPERT"

The following from the Richmond
Planet upholds THE APPEALS cons
tention and says truly that the policy
will serve to "fan the flames of race
prejudice:" ~. .>5..'. ~- T..
Hon. Charles R.. Forbes of Seattle,
Washington, who was recently ap
pointed Director of the United States
Veterans Bureau, has seen fit to ap-
point DR.. J. R. A. Grassland of St.
Joseph, Mo-, Especial Expert" in this
department to look after the inter-
ests of colored ex-service men. This
is a fitting recognition Of one of our
ablest leaders. Nevertheless, it en-
phasizes the drawing of the color line
against which the far-seeing leaders
Of the colored people in this country
have protested without seeming effect.
Under this ruling, it may soon be
expected that Irish-American citizens
will be appointed only with the under
standing that they shall look after
the Irishman's interests. Hebrews
will look after those affairs, which
affect the Jews. Indians will be ap-
pointed to look after the interests of
the Indians, the Germans to look after
the Germans. Italians to look after
the interests of the Italians, and so
on. --..
DR.. Grassland gave an only son to
the cause in Europe and as result,
he is confined in his operations to the
race with which his son was identi-
fled. We understand now, that col
lored men will hold offices all right,
but these Offices will be confined to
work amongst the colored people ex-
clusively. This will fan the flames OF
race prejudice rather than stamp out
the browning infamy of this age
Financially, we may be benefited, but
as matter of fundamental princi
pie, we are needlessly Inundated ane
our progress in the direction Of full
! American citizenship and it's attend
ant privileges checked for many year!
to come. .ss-..
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-10-15
NOT A LEADER in THOUGHT.

Bearing Tuskegee date line, an
excerpt from the London (Fngiand)
Times is going the rounds of the
press, lauding the head of Tuskegee
Institute; and it says among other
things: "Dr. Motion is the leader of
Negro thought in the U. 81 This
statement needs some qualification.
Motion was put in as head of the
school because the interests which
support it wished him there as a
mouthpiece through which they could
express THEIR thoughts. Emmett J.
Scott was the logical candidate for
the place, but it is said that at the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-10-15

meeting at which the election took
place, some one suggested that Scott
would not be so easy to control as
Motion. That decided the matter.
THE APPEAL does not under
estimate the strength Of DR.. Motion:
He has powerful interests behind him
and he has a large following, but he
is in no sense a great thinker or a
leader in thought. There are thou
sands of colored men who are in
every way superior intellectually and
yet are not hampered by some of the
traits he has shown. Specifically, in
the matter of his alleged refusal to
protest against the election of his
wife from Pullman sleeper several
years ago, his alleged speeches to the
colored soldiers in France, and his
continual laudation of the South in
his public utterances.
DR.. Motion has recently written a
book called, "Finding Way Out,
but as a reviewer said, he seemed tc
be "getting in Deepen Although
written in grammatical English, there
are no ''high lights" and certainly M
evidences of great thought or literar,
ability. .... ..
To the most casual observer, s'Ma
jor" Motion is not leader in thought
but a follower, who not only thinks
but says that which pleases tn
South, and as reward the Soutl
gives him not justice for the peopl
he is picked to represent, but pa
on the back as a ''good negro"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1921-10-15
SOUTHERN "FoRWARDv BUNK

Recently there was laymen's con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, held at Lake Juna-
laska, N. c., and one Rev. W. w.
Alexander Of Atlanta, Ca, took the
stage and said:
The next big forward step in the
inter-racial readjustment is to come
from the South, and the reason for it
is perfectly apparent. The South can
afford to do it. Then too the South
has the social prestige to do this.
The social question figures largely in
the race question. So the South can,
when it will take the leadership in
inter-racial cooperation. I believe
that the South will assume the leader
ship with the same sort of pride and
determination as it led the nation.
1t has been the universal opinion of
those who ehave come in close touch
with the question that Negro leaders
do not desire or seek social equality.
They have asked for police protec-
ton, better housing and living con-
ditions and chance to- develop into
useful American citizens with every
determination to maintain their own
social life and the purity of the two
racial stocks"
1t is true that some of the jim
crow leaders" of the; South have said
that they do not want anything but
police protection and do not care to
vote, etc, ad nauseam, but the color
ed people of the North will fight to
the last ditch against any scheme Of
the South to impose it's plan of set
Element upon the country. "
They know that the South has, in
all it's forward movements pro.
ceeded like the crab-backward. They
know that the colored citizens of the
South have been disfranchised, dis
| eliminated against, segregated, de-
graded in every way, denied educa
] ton, lynched, burned at the stake
There have been riots and lynching.
in the North, but never burning
and tor every lynching in the NORTH
there have been SO in the South.
| Nowhere in the South have thu
[colored people any part in the loca
government, and first Of all they wisl
! the right to vote and participate i,
the governments under which the!
live. The colored people know tina
the so-called Christian church has re
manned dumb for so years in spite O
growing anarchy, and now when i
speaks it comes with a jimcrow plan
And as usual the South, talks O
social equality" The real intelligen
colored people all over the countr,
do not wish to be segregated iron
other American citizens in the enjoy
ment Of CIVIL RIGHTS. They d
not wish to be designated as pariahs
This has nothing to do with inter
marriage, and it is the veriest rot t
say that it means mtermarriage TO
white and colored people to ride i
the same car or to go to the sam
library. In the North, where ther
are no jimcrow laws, co1ored an
white people go together in publ
places without intermarriage. MAJ
riages between white and colore
people are, so rare that when the
occur, and that is seldom there is
long story in The papers about tn
event. In the South, where there ar
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THE SIN OF SILENCE

TO sin by silence when we should
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The human race has climbed on pro-
test. Had no voice been raised against
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QUESTION yet would serve the law, and
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