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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
VET HOSPITAL AT
TUSKECEE TAKING
ON DARKER HUE
Six COlOred Doctors and Black
Guard Now on Duty at
Institution
COLONEL STANLEY GONE
Two Rehabilitation Officers
From DIR. CrOssland's Of
flee Arrive for Work

Montgomery, Ala, Sept. 1S.-The
Tuskegee Veterans hospital is gra-
dually assuming a darker hue. The
return of John Calhoun, the disburs-
ing ojcer, who defed the Klan, was
the first indentation in the solid white
ing officer, who defed the Klan, was
have witnessed additional changes
with ,rapidity which has thrown con-
sternation into the ranks of three
hundred white employees who see the
black specter of a colored personnel
riding hard upon them with the con-
sequent relinquishing of their jobs for
it is said that self-respecting white
clerks and supers cannot tolerate
working next to or under black men.
This week witnessed the arrival of
several celored rehabilitation Off
GERS, Messrs. P. H. Rooney and Wal
ter S. Burke, who had been employed
in the office headed by DR.. Grassland
in the Veterans bureau at Washing
ton. DR.. Grassland is said to be
hanging by the proverbial thread and
his office has been depopulated.
Next came the appointment of a
black chief guard. Some thirty
armed guards with rifles and ammu-
milton have been stationed about the
grounds, a rather formidable array
of force calculated to impress the
casual observer with the majesty of
the government. These guards were
of little avail when the Klan marched.
They lowered rifles, it is said, salut-
ed them as brothers and let the hood
ed parade pass on. But black chief
guard brought the designations of all
the white guardians of cracker per-
suasion instanter. The result is that
black guardians of the peace are now
parading with guns swung smartly
across their shoulders and halting
every. suspicious looking visitor.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
Mayor Disregards
Limit ofAuthority

Johnstown, sPa., Sept. lahore
than 1000 colored people have left
Johnstown since Mayor Joseph Cauf-
fiel declared a week ago that only
colored people resident of the city for
seven years would be allowed to re-
main, said the mayor today.
Johnstown, Pa, Sept. 15.-"1 don't
care what authority I have. For
their own safety and for the safety
of the Johnstown public, the colored
people are gong out of this city.
Most of them are out now and the
rest of them are going fast"
Mayor Joseph Cauffed made that
announcement today when he was
asked to answer protests of the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People and other
organizations which attacked his
right to order all colored people out
of Johnstown except those who have
lived here more than seven years.
The mayor pulled open drawer
of his desk and displayed scattered
array of kilograms.
"See these" he said. "They are
protests from all over the country
calling me a second Gear of Russia,
a Kaiser and every other thing
They tell me Pm going to get into
trouble.
81 don't care what they say"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
Ma. A. C.P. ACTS
ON DEPORTATION
IN NJ0HNST0WN,PA.
Wire Sent Governor PinchOt
Calling His Attention to
Mayors Order
INVESTIGATOR ON SCENE
Telegram Tells Mayor His Duty
Is to Seek Out and Punish
Guilty Ones

New York, Sept. 1S.-Announce-
ment was made today by the Nation
al Association for the Advancement
of Colored People of prompt action
that had been taken to protect the
lives, property and civil rights of
colored residents of Johnstown, Penn.
who are beng driven from the city
following an order issued week ago
by Mayor Joseph Cauffiel because of
the killing of two policemen, the
crimes alleged to have been commit
ted by colored men. The Advance
ment Association has rushed a special
investigator to Johnstown and has
wired Governor Milford M. Pinchot
and Mayor Caufiel characterizing the
action taken by the latter as gross
exceeding of authority vested in him,
pointing out that the only duty in
cumbent upon him was the appre-
hension and punishment of the guilty.
The telegram to Governor Pinchot
read in part:
"Today's New York newspapers re-
port that because of the killing of
two policemen and the wounding of
four others crimes alleged to have
been committed by colored people of
Johnstown, Pa, more than two thou
sand colored people have left Johns
town because of order issued by May
or Joseph Cauffiel that only Negroes
residet in city for seven years would
be allowed remain. 1t is so obvious
as to make it a superf1uous state
ment that the only action which
should have been taken by the mayor
and other authorities. of Johnstowr
would have been to seek out ano
punish those guilty. This Association
respectfully requests you to use al
authority vested your high office tc
correct this grievous injustice il
the facts stated above are found tc
be true.
JAMES WELDON Johnson
The telegram to Mayor Cauffie
read in part:
"The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People pro-
tests against tbs high-handed injus.
tice in such wholesale deportation il
appears to us that you have total!
exceeded authority vested in you. L
is the duty of the mayor and the
other authorities of Johnstown to seel
out and punish the guilty instead o1
Furnishing men whose only offense i:
that their skins are black.
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
HORROR" ON
RHINE DECLARED MYTH
Troops Well-Behaved, No At
tacks on Women Reported,
Correspondent Finds

Coblenz, Sept. 2.-The "black hor-
ror" of the Rhine is a lot different
from what many Americans have
been led to believe.
The French sent Senegalese and
Moroccans, as we'll as white troops,
into the Coblenz district when the
Amarocs left for home in January.
and the German police don't know of
single serious case of an attack on
women by Senegalese or Moroccan
troops in that time.
The Senegalese, but particularly
the Moroccans, undoubtedly have an
noyed women in the streets and pub
lie roads occasionally, and in the
whole Rhineland there possibly have
been some attacks on women, but in
this important district there have
been no serious attacks.
On. the other hand, one can see
lower class German girls walking into
the country with Senegalese soldiers
almost any afternoon. Many lower
class German girls openly admire and
fiirt with the black soldiers.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
Charles E. James, Pioneer In
St. Paul, Is Claimed By Death
Deceased Was Born Here in
1866; Prominent in Labor Cir
cIes as Executive of Shoe
Workers Union; Funeral Held
Monday.

Charles E. James, pioneer citizen
of st. Paul, died at his home, 632
w. Central avenue, Thursday, Sept.
13.
Mr.. James was 81 years old having
been born in St. Paul, July II, 1855.
He had been i'll three months. Mr..
James was prominent in labor circles
as a member of the executive board of
the boot and shoe workers union. At
one time he was president of the St.
Paul Trades and Labor Assembly and
a member of the charter commission
of the city of St. Paul. He was a
charter member of St. Philips Epis-
copal church and also member of
the Sterling club.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Cel:I James, a daughter, Loucelia,
two brothers and a sister, George w.
and E. o. James and Mrs. Addie How
ard, in St. Paul; and two sisters, Mrs.
Rob>rt Taylor and Miss Gertrude
James, of Chicago.
The funeral was held Monday
Sept. II from the residence, with Fa-
ther A. H. Lealtad, officiating. The
pail bearers were DR.. ]. H. Redd
S. E. Hall, w. T. Francis, o. D.. How
ard, and w. A. Hilyard. Interment
was at Forest cemetery under the di-
rection of Mrs. Lyles.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
TO
MAKE DIR, CARVER
PRODUCTS FORMED
White Capitalists of Atlanta
Back Company to Manufac-
ture Products
CAPITAL OF $125,OOO
Foods, Dyes, Stains and Paints
Formula to be Bought
and Sold
CAPITAL OF $125,O0O

Atlanta, Ca, Sept. 17.-George
Washington Carver, F. R. S., colored
wizard" Of Tuskegee, Ala, whose
researches and achievement sin plant
chemistry have won him recognition
throughout the scientific world is to
have a company to manufacture and
market some of the products he has
discovered and developed.
This company, to be known as the
Carver Products company, has just
been Incorporated here with $125,00O
capital.
The company will be for the pur-
pose of "buying, selling and dealing
in formulae and patented processes
for the development of various and
sundry products, such as food, dyes,
stains, paints and the like from the
sweet potato, the peanut, the pecan,
the okra, the dandelion, the black oak,
the sweet gum, the willow and the
swamp maple"
Connected with the organization
are Charles w. Wickersham, presi-
dent of the Atlanta and West Point
Railroad, who will be president and
general manager of the company;
Scott w. Allen, vice president and
general manager of the L. w. Rogers
chain of grocery stores, who will be
vice-president; Ernest w. Thompson
formerly of Tuskegee, and large land
owner and planter there, who will be
secretary and treasurer, and former
Governor Dorsey of Georgia.
Thomas A. Edison once offered
Carver large salary to enter his
laboratories, but he preferred to re-
main at Tuskegee.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
Uncle Issac, 85
Takes Fourth Wife

Kinston, Sept. 18.-"Uncle" Isaac
Mathews, IS, made arrangements for
his fourth wedding last week. The
first of them happened away back
about the time when the ''white folks
marched behind starry-barry flags in
uniforms of gray, and flies and drums
extemporized the professional and
occasional for the bridal encourage
"Uncle" Isaac was asked for his
examination certificate" He had
never heard of such a requirement
Once, he said, he underwent an ex-
ANIMATION by doctor men, but that was
some time between 1861 and 1865
He trotted off to get the certificate
and returned for the license, gay
old man satisfied of many years OF
life before him.
The nominee for bride was no i'm
personation of May herself, but she
was young enough to be old 1ke's
granddaughter. Her age was given
as 40 years.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
HOSPITAL GETTING COL L0RED STAFF
Giant, 6Ft. 6h., Fights
off 40 Policemen, But
FZees From 5-Foot Wife

Chicago, Sept. 17.-In mar
riage, at least Marquis of
Queensberry rules do not apply.
Size, age, manner of hitting
have nothing to do with who
gains the .ascendency in the
marital arena.
There's Morrow Harding.
Morrow is a Negro. He weighs
275. He's 6 feet 6 inches tall.
A week ago he fought off forty
policemen.
Morrow's wife, Mrs. Blossom,
is 5 feet inches tall. She
weighs 140. She looks like. a
pigmy beside Morrow. But just
what kind of a punch she car
ries is still a mystery.
She was in the rear of the
Englewood court Monday when
they led Morrow to the bench.
Morrow cast one look at the
women. He let out yell,
"Lordly, save me, jedgew
He tried to bolt the court
room. 1t took four policemen
to handle the giant Negro as
they led him away for a mental
examination. But Blossom just
sneered. shrugged her shoulders
and walked out.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
Pinchot Asks Mayor
For Explanation

New York, Sept. 1S.-Gov. Pinchot
of Pennsylvania today sent telegram
to the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People here
announcing that "the whole power of
this commonwealth will be used, if
necessary, to MAINTAIN constitutional
rights" at Johnstown, Pa, where
wholesale deportation of Negroes is
alleged to have been ordered by May
or Joseph Cauffiel. The governors
telegram also said he had wired May
or Cauffel, "asking him for full
statement of facts and reasons for
action taken"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
ROMANCE OF WORDS
"JEWELRY"

T IKE confectionery. ''pas-
IL try" and. "crockery", the
wort "jewelry" has come to
mean something quite different
than it originally did-to be un-
derstood as the thing itself, the
Jewels, rather than the place
where these are kept.
Properly speaking, jewels are
"jewelry" no more than beggars
are "beggary" or slaves, are
slavery. But the word was
perverted by careless speakers
who were unmindful of the fact
that Jewels were kept in "jew-
elry", just as confections were
kept in confectionery, paste
in a pastry" and crooks, made
J by a crocker, in a "crockery".
The proper use Of the word
apart from the license permitted
by custom-is well illustrated
by Howell, who tells US in one
Of his letters that FELTON,, the
murderer Of the duke of Buck
ingham, in his attempt to escape,
twas so amaz'd that he miss'd
his way and so struck into the
pastry where he was captured"
, Reading this today one is imme-
diately struck by picture OF the
| assassin being caught in a huge
pie or possibly stopped by the
impact of one Of those custards
to which a certain movie"
comedian is so partial. But
pastry, so used originally,
meant the place where the paste
or desserts were made-not the
pies and cakes themselves.
! The change in meaning Is
Z doubtless due to the fact that
! merchants placed signs over
their stores announcing that
theirs was q "jewelry". and the
public gradually commenced to
: apply the term to the jewels
! themselves.
: 90 by Wheeler Syndicate. Ins.1
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
"Jes' Aigs" Proves To
Be Basket Loaded With
Good Whiskey and Gin

New Orleans, La, Sept. Is.
AT three o'clock Wednesday
morning, Officer Haney espied
a colored man slipping around
f, a corner at IberEille and Viii,
lere streets.
'Waddye got in the, basket"
asks PatrOlman Haney.
"Aigs, boss, jes' aigs," replied
the party addressed.
Haney removed the cover
from the basket, revealing five
quarts OF Canadian club, one
quart of gin, and one quart of
Johnny Walker.
The man said his name was
James Clark and that he just
got off a boat from some qlace.
He couldn't remember the name
of the boat or where it came
from. He's in Jail now.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
THIRD PAN-AFRICAN
CONGRESS NEXT MONTH
Meetings to be Held in England
and Lisbon; Dubois is
Executive Chairman

The third Pan-African Congress
will meet in London, England and
Lisbon, Portugal, next November
This announcement was made today
by DR.. Du Bois, Acting Chairman OF
the Executive Committee of the Pan
African association. The Pan-Afri-
can association is the permanent body
formed in Paris in 1921 for the pur-
pose of promoting a Pan-African Con.
gress every two years and for other
objects. The President is M. Gratier
Candace, the colored deputy in the
French Parliament representing the
Island of Guadeloupe.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
Urbar, League Opens
Office For Work

Monday, September II, the st. Paul
Urban league hung the sign, "Open
for Business" outside it's Office at 308
Mcclure building, 81 E Sixth street.
Office furniture and supplies were
moved in Saturday, a telephone was
connected, and Monday morning,
Elmer A. Carter, the new executive
secretary, began keeping regular Of
flee hours in his own office.
All inquiries regarding the Urban
league and all business pertaining to
it should be directed to Mr.. Carter
at 308 Mcclure building, 81 E. Sixth
street, Telephone Garfield 6667.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
Something to
Think kAb0ut
Discomfort
By F. n. WALKER

THERE are those who are cont1n-
L ually complaining about some mys-
terious power which is holding them
back. They begin to grumble at the
breakfast table and keep airing their
discomfort until night, when their
mood changes and they don their best
clothes and hurry away for their Gus
tOmary frOlic.
These are the individuals who pile
upon the backs of humanity its heavi-
est burdens of unhappiness. They are
always out of step, tagging behind,
contentious gruff-voiced and ill-hu+
mored.
q They would like to sit in the high
places, give orders, read the law Of
department to subordinates, but they
lack the spirit to make themselves
capable, so they keep scuffiing along
tleir gloomy way and acquiring bear.
ish dispositions.
It involves too much work, too many
deprivations of things which they con-
slider essential to their body-comfort,
so they loiter along through the best
years of their life, envious, unruly and
wretched.
When the awakening comes, as 1t
eventually does, they find themselves
SO enslaved to pernicious habits that
they are powerless to break away.
Their customary diversions have lost
their lure. Old associates with whom
they idled their precious years have
disappeared. There Is nothing ahead
but blankness and emptiness.
Study and books are bore. Any
thing that calls for thought or fixed
attention of the mind cannot be en-
dured. They never mediate, never
reach out for the great, glorious ideals
which have been lowering around them
all their life, begging recognition and
acceptance.
IF you would not be among these
hapless souls when the shadows be-
gin to lengthen, seek while you are
yet in the flower of youth to improve
yourself. Make the start today.
You cannot hope to achieve and at
tain except by hard work, long solitary
hours Of study and constructive re-
Elections. -." Il
At the top there is boundless room
for the faithful. The air is large and
free and inspiring. The world is CALI
ing for creative thinkers, offering them
her richest treasures and highest hon
ors. Heed the call while youth fushes
your cheek. Press forward, keep going
and help yourself.
GO. 1873. by Mcclure Newspaper syndicats.,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
Next Dance GiUer By
Metropolitan Club
Thursday, October 4

Announcement was made Thursday
that the next dance to be given by
the Metropolitan Club will be on
Thursday evening, October 4, at the
Coliseum. Quite a large crowd at
tended the first dance given by the
club Thursday evening.
Everyone present spoke very highly
of "Little Bennies Argentine Red
Caps"
Mr.. C. L. Ray is president of the
club and DR.. j. R. French is secre-
tary.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
Acorn Alcohol.

Up to the present time no Industrial
use has been made Of acorns, but re-
cent experiments show that alcohol
can be made from them. Shelled
acorns contain about 40 per cent OF
starch, which can be readily sacchari-
fed and then converted into alcohol.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
Scotland Gets EIlisland.

The farm of Ellisland, near Dunn
fries, where Burns wrote "Scots VIVA
Haze" and "Tam O. Shanter," and many
other poems, has been given to the
Scottish nation by the terms of the
will of the recent owner, a gentleman
of Edinburgh. The buildings as far as
possible are to remain as they were
in the time when they were occupied
nv Robert Burns.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
The Pesslmistie sIeuth,

The Ananias Club: NO." admitted
the detective, who had been assigned
to the latest murder case, 1--WE haven't
a single clew, and there isn't chance
in the world Of our getting the MUIR
derer within the next day or two."-
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
Made His Word Good.

An old woman in a country town
was recommending her doctor to a
new neighbor, and after eulogizing his
skill and success, added: "Yes. he's
the best in the town. When my old
man was sick he came to see him, and
he said he'd die-and die he did"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
Baby Shoe as. Token of
Luck Fails Youthful
Burglar; Held on Bail

New York, Sept. 2O.-(K. N.
F. Service.) For the first time
in the course of several rob-
bies and burglaries, according
to Richard BroughtOn, age 19,
of ZIG West 63rd street, a
baby's shoe he carried as a luck
token failed him, with the re-
suit that he was held for the
Grand Jury in $1,000 bail on a
charge of burglary by a city
magistrate.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
NATURES Kindly Hand.

From sources separated from 1t by
several miles of water, nature has now
reclothed the small island Of Krakatau,
between Java and Sumatra, on which
all animal and vegetable life was COM
pletely destroyed by tremendous vol
canic activity in 1883. .~-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
NEW WORKERS GIVE
$1,000 TO JAP FUND

New York, Sept. 19.-CK. N. F.
Service.) The japanese Earthquake
fund has been swelled by about $1,000
from churches, organizations and in
dividuals, of the colored race in the
last few days.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
Must Jump In.

The fact is that to do anything In
this world worth doing, we must not
stand back shivering and thinking OF
the cold and danger, but jump and
scramble through as well as we CAM
Sydney Smith. .-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
As to. Choice.

= "Some day." said Uncle Eben, Il may
feel dat it's up to me to go on one O.
desc here hunger strikes. If it ever
happens it'll have to be at de time OF
year when it's too late for spring
chickens an too early foh water
melon"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
Efficiency.

Don't you think these automobile
Jokes are in bad taste?" "No," replied
Miss Cayenne, "my observation is that
any piece Of machinery which can
make a man laugh instead of using pro-
family should be classed as a bless
Star.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
To Remove Corks.

Corks placed In bottles containing
gum, glue, shoe polish and other
sticky substances are often difficult to
remove. They will not stick If little
glycerine is rubbed over them.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
Palm Always Busy,

Coconut palms are busy trees, says
Nature Magazine, and so useful they
can brook no delay, so flowers and fruit
In all stages of growth may be seen
up6n the trees at the same time.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
Two and Two Make Four, But

TWO and TWO make Four, out-
We are constantly reminded OF
George Eliot's naughty formulation of
Lecky's attitude: That two and two
certainly make four, but that a. gentle
man will not press the matter too far.
Joseph McCabe.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
MEN YOU MAY MARRY
BY e. r. PEYSER

Has a gaIoot like this proposed
to you?
Symptoms: "Mincing": that's
what the nOvelists call his gait.
His dainty hands, flowers in his
buttonhole-all is mincing. Some
times q mOnOcle flashes forth to
enlarge his vision. Oh, he may
seem dashing, but-YOu should
see him fuss over his boiled egg
mornings! In fact, the only thing
that he doesn't fuss over, his
family says, is ocean bathing,
and some one heard him say
once that the ocean wasn't "the
same" enough.
IN FACT -
Sameness is his middle name.
Prescription to his bride:
~ Buy an egg timer and
~ Always boil his egg the
same wayi
Demand much from him In
work and play.
Absorb This:
Responsibility nnelts business as
sun the snow.
GO by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.)
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-09-22
APPEARS AT LIBERTY
HALL FOR SPEECH

New York, Sept. 2O.-(K. N. F.
Service.) Marcus Garvey, president
of the Universal Negro Improvement
association, made dramatic ap-
pearance at Liberty Hall, Wednes-
day evening, following his release
from the Tombs Prison in $4,000
bail. 1t was his first appearance
since his release.
"Whatever happens" he told his
listeners, "the world may know that
Jail or penitentary has no terrors for
me. 1 was convicted not because any
one was defrauded in the temporary
failure of the Black Star Line
brought about by others, but because
l talked about Africa and about its
redemption for Negroes. l was con-
victed because jealous members OF
my race misFepresented me to those in
authority for the purpose of discredit-
ng me and destroying me-"
There were nearly 5000 of his fol-
lowers in the hall.