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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-10
INCOME TAX FACTS NO.

Revenue officers are visiting every
county in the United States to aid
taxpayers in the preparation of their
income tax returns for the year 1922.
Information concerning the date of
their arrival and the location Of their
offices may be obtained by writing
to the collector of internal revenue
for the district in which the taxpayer
lives. 80 2
Forms for filing returns Of indi-
viduals net, income for the year 1922
are being sent to taxpayers who filed
returns for the year 1921. Failure
to receive q form, however, does not
relieve the taxpayer of his obligation
to file a, return and pay the tax on
time, on or before March Is, 1928.
The forms, .1040A for. filing returns
of net income $4,000 and less and
1910 for filing returns of net income
in excess Of $1,000, may be obtained
from collectors of internal revenue
and deputy collectors.
Returns are required of every
single person whose net income for
1922 was $1,000 or more or whose
gross income was $4,000 or more
and of every married person whose
net income was $1,000 or more or
whose gross income was $4,000 or
more. Careful study of the instruc-
tons on the forms will greatly aid in
making a correct return. J
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-10
EFFICIENCY AS A LEAvEN

Since the appointment of the
colored stenographer to serve the
state Legislature in the present ses-
sion, nothing but the highest COM
mendation on her work has come
from the halls of Minnesota's capitol.
One in high authority who has seen
stenographers and minor clerks come
and go has been quoted as saying
hat the colored appointee is as
good, If not better than any who have
served in her capacity.
This is just one more instance
which proves that in the majority of
cases 1--WE know that there is a fair
ly large minority efficiency counts
more than color. Not very many
years ago a young colored woman
left the general offices Of a large
railroad company in the city after
having been employed as a stenog-
rapher for seven years. Efficiency
counted. A short while ago colored
lawyer in Minneapolis induced one of
his white brethren in the profession
to try a co,ored office girl. She
lasted one week. The publisher of
an influential eastern weekly tried
to run his shop with colored compos-
itors, but they wouldn't make time,
and quit as soon as they made one
or two. pay days. Ninety percent of
the reason for the colored mans wall
that "they' won't give him job is
his lack of efficiency.
More workers Of the stamp of the
stenographer in the capitol and
others of her kind over the country
will go far toward easing friction and
will create more openings than all
the clustering and demands" that
the race can muster.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-10
VETERANS BUREAU MAKES
NOTEWORTHY RECORD

The U. S. Veterans Bureau has
just completed survey of the en-
ployment situation among the re-
habilitated vocational students. a.
600 have been retrained by the
government since the enactment by
Congress in June 1918 of the Voca-
tional Rehabilitation Act. In district
10, which includes the states of Min
nesota, North and South Dakota and
Montana, 1896 veterans, physically
incapacitated to resume their former
occupations by reason of their war
experiences, have been trained into a
new line which they can follow eff
GENTLY despite their war handicap.
According to Mr.. C. D. Hibbard,
district manager Of the Veterans
Bureau with headquarters at Mime
apolis, virtually all these 1896 Gre
habilitated" men have found employ
ment at wages better than were able
to earn in pre-war days. The men
are not now regarded as disabled
men" but skilled veterans" by en-
ployers who have reported their SER
vices as satisfactory from an eff
cheney standpoint. .-
Despite all the criticism of the
treatment accorded disabled veterans
of the world war by the Federal
government, there is very good rea-
son to belieue tilat the government,
after all, has a splendid record of ac-
complishment as far as the war dis
abled are concerned "The govern
ment,"' Mr.. Hubbard stated, "has made
vigorous efforts to contact all dis
abled men. Instead of an attitude
of Indifference, the Veterans Bureau
has persistently sought out men with
possible claims and through all forms
Of publicity has urged that they take
advantage of benefits provided by re-
cent legislation.
"The number of vocational gradu-
ates in district 10, 1896, reflects but
a small part of the work done.
Thousands more are now in the course
of training along hundreds of lines,
ranging from shoe repairer up to
professional course as law, engineer
ing, and other college courses. IT.
responsible criticism cannot stand in
the face of the achievements of the
government, in behalf of it's war dis
abled charges"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-10
PARIS CHEFS ARE STIRRED UP
DepIore "LaeI Of Taste" In Eating and
Plan to Do Something
About It. "

Paris.-To prevent the decline Of
the French cuisine and to bring about
return to the great traditions which
made it pre-eminent and world-fa-
nous, touring associations Of France
decided to arrange for special dis
play of cooking, week Of French
cuisine''-not alone a cooking compe-
tition, but an exhibition Of foodstuffs,
showing the supplies which are the
specialties of each province Of France
(Perigord for truffles, LIE Mans for
poultry, Normandy for butter, etc.,
and which will also advertise the best
French vintages. It should have been
held already, but some details Of the
elaborate organization not being COM
plete, the date has been postponed.
The chefs Of the leading Paris res
taurants approve OF the scheme and
hope it will revive interest in the for
gotten traditions of sound French
cuisine.
Nowadays people don't eat one
complains; "they feed. We have been
literally swamped by the bad taste-or
lack Of taste-of our customers. Con-
noisseurs are rare. We seldom meet
a customer capable Of making his
menu without committing the most
fragrant heresies."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-10
KHAN KLEAGLE GUILTY
OF HAVING BLACKJACK

New York, Feb. 9. CRUSADER Ser
vice) Friedrich Storm, of Ut Elm
Street, Yonkers. exalted cyclops of
the Ku Klux Khan in Yonkers and
Kleagle of Westchester County, was
found guilty in the police court there
yesterday of carrying q blackjack
and was placed on probation. He is
70 report every Sunday to Probation
Officer Matthew Lesnick for three
months.
Storms admitted having the black
lack, but said he had special pol
iceman's badge and license to carry
a revolver because he did detective
work in the plant Of an elevator COM
many in Yonkers. City Judge Chas.
w. Boote told Storm he had no right
to carry a blackjack, and should not
carry the revolver except while on
the company's property on duty.
Storm astonished the residents of
Yonkers last Saturday by saying that
there had been q branch Of the Khan
there for years, and that it had 200
members. He claims Is, 900 mem-
bers in the county. -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-10

The way of the small newspaper
editors is hard and the way Of the
colored newspaper editor is harder
still, but there can be no excuse for
reprinting material without giving
credit to the exchange, It is possi-
BILE to see how an occasional news
story is clipped without credit but
how small, insignificant colored
weekly can print the editorials of
another as though they were It's own
is beyond our comprehension. We
had clipped, credited and pasted an
editorial from one of our Southeast
eri contemporaries preparatory to
sending it to the press room when
we chanced to read D press release
quoting the identical editorial from
the New York World! This is pla-
garism of the worst and most mex
cusable sort. A credit line costs
nothing and raises the user in the
estimation of his fellows.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-10
HITS ExcUsE-ME-Boss CLUB
New York City Puts Beggars on Card
Index Systes. and Provides
for Work. :.

New York. The thousands Of men,
beers Of what Ii known on Broadway
as the Excuse Mister club" must
either go to work or leave the city,
under decree made public mere.
One hundred organizations have
united with the city administration to
rid the metropolis OF thousands Of beg
CARS who have drifted here for the
winter to lure the easy dime from
naive New Workers..
A card index system Is planned, re-
ording the biography Of pre-eminent
''panhandlers."
Homemakers Learn to Conserve Time.
Man -homemakers over the state CO.
operated with home demonstration
agents and university extension spe-
cialists last year in carrying on DEM
constructions and keeping records. In
81 communities. adopting projects, I'll
home demonstrations were established.
About 220 women made and are using
freless cookers, and 83 installed COM
mercial cookers Women carrying on
home demonstrations in time saving
by using a fireless cooker over q per-
iod Of FIVE months, reported saving
of 351 hours Of time. A good home
made freless cooker which win last
for several years can be made, all
complete, for $3.50.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-10

At various time organizations and
periodicals have nominated individ-
uals to the Hall of Meanest Men and
recently the Messenger magazine
brought forth it's list of the smallest
colored men. We wish to move fol
revision Of that list to include the
so-called editor of colored weekly
in Albany, Ga, who has used his col
.umns to defend the Ku Klux Khan
From Georgia, the king of the lynch.
ing states, and from black man
whose race is the most sinned against
comes defense of organized law.
lessness! No one would object to
this person following Garvey back tc
Africa.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-10
WHAT IS HIS IS ALSO HERS
WIfehss Right to '"Frisk" Her Hus-
bands Pockets ls Upheld by
New York Court.

New York.-If a wife slips her hand
in hubby's pocket and extracts some
coin therefrom without his knowledge
or consent the act does not constitute
a breach of law, although it may, Of
peace. So ruled Judge ROsenwasser
Of Yonkers in the case Of Mrs. Nellie
Deruban, who had her husband, Wal
ter, hailed into court on the charge that
he struck her because she took SO
from $40 roll without consulting him.
"There is general understanding
that a wife has an inalienable right to
take her husbands money IL she needs
it." Judge Rosenwasser ruled.
He told Mrs. Deruban she would
have to make formal complaint
against her husband If she wished to
press the assault charge.
The couple left the court arm in arm
and Deruban was repeating softly to
himself like lesson well earned:
"with all my worldly goods I thee en-
down. - n
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-10

The war of words over and about
the N. A. A. c.. P. continues I'M
abated. The Atlanta Independent
has come back at Wilton Pickens in
double column broadside. We pre-
fer to watch the battle from up here
in our corner of the northwest with
cut getting into the heat Of the con-
flict, but we cannot refrain from a
word now and then. The writer OF
the article in the Independent claims
that Pickens does not argue, but re-
sorts to calling names. We read the
Independents article very carefully
and little could we find except per.
sonal abuse and reflection. Giving
the history of William Pickens' activ.
tiles, limiting at why he might have
left certain positions, and mistaking
his alma mater is not answering
whatever charges he may have made
in his article. Arguments of this
caliber serve only to befuddle the
public and plant prejudices. If there
is something wrong with the N. A. A
C.. P. then all of us want to know
about it, but we don't care to know
what some individual thinks of ar
officer of the N. A. A. C. P. -.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-10
LOSE FORTY MILLIONS
Americans Easy Marks for the
SHADY" Stock Dealers.
United States Lambs Fall Hard
When SwindIers Describe Golden s
Schemes to Make Fortunes,
Expert Asserts.

New York.-"America sqnandered
SIC, 100000 in fake stocks last year!
Americans with little money laid by
are the biggest suckers in the world.
They get skinned-then they holier,
and when it's too late they listen to
advice" "
That is the estimate Of Charles M.
Minton, the shepherd Of Wall street"
He is the head of the Minton Brokers
Investigating bureau of New York
city, and his job Is to keep tab on
crooked stock statesmen and brokers for
the big exchanges. Stock swindles are
being operated in every big city and
In some smaller ones, he says. He
declares he can name at least $50
shady" houses in New York city
alone. .... .. s.z--.s ,-,.--
Men are bigger suckers than wom-
en-" said Minton. "More of them fall,
I mean. Women are more conserva-
tive-but wheI they fall, they fall
harder. I know one woman who re-
Gently lost $4,000 in fake stock
deal.
"Oil stocks used to be the favorite
medium for 'gyp artists Next came
mining stock. These are pretty well
played out now. New schemes are be-
ing Matched all the time. Radio Is
now being used to trap suckers.
Many Of the artists have long sucker
lists, and boast that they trap one
out of every five persons they scheme
against. Americans are becoming
more gullible every day."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-10

The East Tennessee News takes
exception to the refusal of the
colored pastors of Nashville to close
their churches and attend a separate
Sunday evangelical service Of the
Rev. Billy Sunday. More power to
the pastors and may their tribe in
crease! Here is one case at least,
where the colored pulpit has been
wiser and more independent than the
colored press. If Billy Sunday has
a special kind of gospel for colored
felix he is a warped preacher Of the
Word. The Nazarene preached to
all, regardless Of color. The refusal
need not disturb the race relations
in the city as the News fears. The
colored pastors merely signified that
they wished to hold services in their
own churches rather, than worship
with Mr.. Sunday-which was their
right. Segregated Christianity never
got anybody to heaven, and never
will. ~ 1s-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-10
EMANCIPATION TIME

The spirit and soul of the great
Lincoln must writhe with anguish
as they view the Union which he
saved.
The Emancipation looks down on a
Union in which there is strife be-
tween the north and south, the east
and west, between rich and poor,
black and white, Jew and Gentle,
capital and labor, Protestant and
Charlottesville and hate and murder
which has sprung from the loins of
hideous, naked greed, religious his
tory, blind race and color prejudice.
Before the open hearths of belch-
ing steel mills thousands of slaves
bend and toll to the lash of enthroned
Capital; in the blackened pits of
Virginia, Tennessee and Alabama,
minors slave under the prodding of
The company; in Georgia and Ark
ansas poor, ignorant black men work
the fields in slavery as complete and
vicious as any in Lincoln's day under
threat of death. or legal execution;
ntobs- of slaves to Passion, Bigotry,
and Prejudice ruthlessly murder in
the name of their masters.
Someone is needed today who will
say again that government of, BY
and for the people shall not perish
from the earth, who will maintain
that beside the preservation of the
Union with her laws, traditions and
ideals, all else is as nothing, who
will honestly and fearlessly enforce
the law-who will save the country
from itself.
America needs another rail-splitter
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-10

Last year there were 50 lynchings
in the United States, most Of them Of
colored individuals. A paragraph OF
two sufficed to describe the Incl
dents to newspaper readers. But in
Louisiana two white men Of question
able character met death at the hands
Of q mob, and for months thousands
of columns of news space have been
devoted to minute description Of
every phase of the horrifying murder.
The contrast serves to white and
colored persons. To murder sus-
pected colored man is only q matter
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-10
FEATHERINe ONES NEST.

The time to feather ones nest, is
when one has something to feather it
with.
The rainy day. as we call It, is sure
to come.
It may came in the form Of sick
ness, or something else, at any time;
and, it will surely come in the form
of old age, If one lives long enough.
H you are simply earning money
and spending it, that is an awful
thing.
Mr.. Blank earned from 800 to $500
per month for q dozen years, and then
lost his job In the midst Of finan-
cial depression. In the meantime the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-10
CONGRATULATIONS

To its contemporary, The North
western Bulletin, which celebrates
this week it's first birthday, THE
APPEAL offers congratulations. In
THE APPEALS lifetime not few
have essayed the task Of publishing
a weekly newspaper in the twin
cities, but for one reason or another
they passed the way. We extend
The Bulletin cordial good wishes or
this anniversary occasion.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-10

money had gone to the bow vows;
and, now, with wife and two babies
on his hands, and no job, and no
tenth Of your income in a savings
bank as permanent reserve fund.
! hope to encourage you to get q
home Of your own, on the installment
plan, if necessary, but get home of
your own.
Thus, with your own home and
with your savings bank account in-.
creasing from week to week, you win
have something to 60 on in case Of
reverses, and something to live on
when old age overtalfes you.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-10
VICE IN SCHOOLS

Cleveland and the colored press in
general is much perturbed over the
reported conditions of immortality in
the schools of the Central Ave. dis
trict. They should be; but the
Cleveland dailies should not treat the
situation as though it were peculiar
to colored schools and districts alone.
Scarcely ten days before the Cleve-
land conditions were brought to light
the press of the country carried a
story of debauchery INDUCED in by
the fair youths and maidens of a
high school in a fashionable suburb
of Chicago. Had it not been for the
jealousy of one boy who was not in
vited to a wild petting party, the
thing might still have been undis-
covered. So its case of the pot
calling the kettle black.
However, the fact that children of
both races are guilty of these prac-
tees is no excuse for their existence.
The astonishing part of it all is that
neither the school authorities or the
parents knew about the rotteness
that was pulling down the boys and
girls. The revelations care first a
damning indictment of the parents
involved. The father or mother, of a
boy or girl of high school age who
cannot account for the great part of
his child's "a hours is not worthy of
the name of parent. The father who
cannot set his boy an example at
least through his teens, and the
mother who cannot teach and exem-
plify chastity to her daughter
through her teens are unfit for par
enthood. The revelations are further
a reflection on the school authorities.
Men allowed to meet girls at the
schools! There have been whispers
about school authorities in number
of cities. Conditions in the. schools
Of large middle western center are
said to be shocking, but no one does
or says anything because-well, just
because. If the teachers of our
schools cannot protect our boys and
girls while they are under their sup
ervision, why. throw them out! Lei
there be no mincing and hesitating
about it. Let there be no thought OF
shielding colored teachers for the
"good of the race" Let's have an
end to this thing now.
Cleveland and Oak Park point les
sons to the rest of the country. Peo-
pie are prone to laugh at and con-
denim attempts to regulate marriage
They grow indignant at the sugges-
tion of medical inspection, mental
tests, and sterilization; they hedge al
laws which insist that children shall
be given certain safeguards. But In
cidents such as these strengthen the
belief that a dangerous minority Of
present day parents are unfit, and
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-10
THIEF SENTENCED TO CHURCH
Given Probation on Condition He BE-
come Attendant on Services Cor
Three Years.

Los Angeles.-John Kozma was
granted probation on charge OF
stealing an automobile on condition
that he become q regular attendant at
church for three years. - ~.
This condition was imposed by Su-
perior Judge Avery after it had been
brought out at the hearing that Koz-
ma became wild" after he ceased to
attend his church regularly and finally
landed In Jail charged with stealing
the automobile. gsr-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-10
Robbers Solve Safe Mystery
but Fail to Get Any Money

Beloit. Wis.-Four Beloit rob-
bers got to the Bottom" Of a
safe mystery here when they
found that the good-looking safe
in the Beloit Salvoline COM
pany,s once had plaster of
paris bottom. The quartette la
bored several hours taking the
heavy safe into nearby woods,
clipped out the bottom, and
found not even a postage stamp
Salyoline officials say the safe
was used for looks" y
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-10

serve also to bolster up the argu-
ments Of the proponents Of strin-
gent regulation of marriage. It's up
to the parents to prevent situate Is
like that in Cleveland. In the end
they are the responsible ones.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1923-02-10
Liberty Bond In LAUNDRY.

Franklin, Pa.-Finding $50 Liberty
bond In q basket Of soiled clothes, the
Franklin Steam Laundry company
doesn't know what to do with 1t. All
sorts of articles, from cards to key
rings, have been found In baskets Of
dirty buds, but this is the first time on
record that Liberty bond has been
found. All that Is known Is that the
basket came from Stoneboro. An adj
vertisement in a local newspaper has
gone, unanswered for three days