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The mirror., 1923-02-22
Minute Sermon

Cor. 1871 Though / speak aOiM
the tongues of men and of angels, and
haze not charity, am become as sound
ing brass or a tinkling cymbal
m HE word charity as used in our
~ text is an imperfect translation of
the original Greek. We have no word
which will do justice to the Greek
thought contained therein. If one will
read the third verse of this chapter it
will be clearly seen that charity is not
the thought which the Spirit is trying
to impress. Love is nearer the original
and if we add the word applied max
ing the phrase-love applied, or ap-
piled love we have an equivalent for
the Greek word.
Love is perhaps the most vital word
in our language. 1t gains its immor-
tally from the part that, "God is Love-"
Its power is the genesis of all progress.
In tenderness it is exemplifed the world
over by a mothers sacrifice and care.
Its crown is the redemption of erring
men through the Christ. This surely
is real love, love applied to its object
and not distant abstract emotion.
The word is so often misused that it
has lost much of its original beauty.
1t is quite common to hear of some one
loving oysters, candy, prize fights or
pretty clothes, but real love is apart
from all such triviality. "God so loved
the World that He gave His only be-
gotten Son." 'Greater love hath no
man than that he lay down his life for
a friend"
1t was love that caused Jesus to die
the terrible death of the cross. True
love is willing to suffer, to give till it
hurts and counts no burden too heavy.
Without this love no man is a follower
of the Father. He is simply a noise
maker, false alarm, sounding brass
or a tinkling cymbal. Love applied
transforms the common to beauty. 1t
covers the blacklist sin. 1t will do
away with war and bloodshed. Love
is the answer of God to the challenge
of life. 1M
The mirror., 1923-02-22
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QUERIES
NOTICE TO INMATES

For the benefit of any inmates who appre-
ciate and the opportunity that their spare
hours give toward means of self education
through correspondence school courses, study of
good literature acquiring education in
Night Schools, or, who need helpful informa-
ton in connection with their work in our var
ious departments, will herewith be privileged
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tion of Miss Miriam E. Cary, Supervisor of
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NOTICE-In order to regulate the conduct
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submitted for publication. Inmates names, of
of each querist being used.-Editor.
ON reading about the Americas l
notice that the Monroe Doctrine is men,
toned frequently. AS l do not under
stand what is meant by the Monroe Doc
trine wish you would explain the mean
ing of it. H. H.
A:-The Monroe Doctrine dates from
a declaration of December 2, 1928, by
James Monroe, President of the United
States, in his seventh annual message to
Congress. Brazil had declared it indie,
pendence of Portugal the year before.
Troubles in the latter country had caused
a modification of the Constitution. In
The mirror., 1923-02-22

in other countries the workers are not so
we'll paid. In some countries, as in China,
the habitual condition is one of poverty.
AT first apparatus is likely to be used by
one nation or by peoples speaking one
language for their purposes alone. Their
own eminent speakers and entertainers
will be called upon to supply the pro-
grams.
Undoubtedly each nation wants to know
what other peoples are thinking and do
ing, and this will be an incentive for ex-
tending the use of wireless.
How will the backward nations, whose
methods of thinking and working are
many years behind ours, receive the new
machinery and ideas which we send
them?
For time ideas are likely to be mix
ture of past and present, ancient and
modern. Their methods of living, doing
business and thinking will change, and
during the change there may be unrest
and unsoundness. Yet they will find their
way onward, as other nations have done,
and wireless communication is likely to
play large part in setting them right.
Man began communication in his prim
tive condition with the human voice.
Then for centuries large part of his
communication was by the written and
printed word.
Man began his primitive communica
ton with the spoken word, which reached
from the speaker to only few persons.
Again he is making use of the spoken
word, this time in a way to reach at last
the millions. He is able to present opin
ions, scientific advances, literature of
fine quality music-all this by voice, ap
pealing powerfully to those who listen.
Is there not the possibility of an ap-
proach to unity of thought? Will not a
people temper their ideas to those of other
people? Will they not be brought closer
together in their thinking and will not
tnlS lcdu tO ClUScT -SOCldl,
commercial and political? In fact will
not the whole world be brought into
greater harmony through this remarkable
invention for speaking?
AT the Genoa Conference for the ad
justing of commercial relations between
the nations of Europe, Lloyd George, ex
British premier, said:
"All the world is one unit; it is not
even two hemispheres, it is one round,
unbroken sphere"
He sees far ahead, but not further than
they who enyision the possibilities of wire
less speaking.
In habits, customs and opinions people
are still far apart. By means of the
spoken word which shall be heard around
the world they are likely to be brought
closer together.-Selected.
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tributor. Should contributor fail to comply
with this request he will be dropped from THE
MIRRORS contributing staff
Approved by Warden. Editor.
The mirror., 1923-02-22

THE MIRROR is a weekly paper published in
the Minnesota State Prison. 1t was founded
in 1887 by the prisoners and is edited and
managed by them. 1t aims to be home news
paper; to encourage moral and intellectual i'm
provement among the prisoners; to acquaint
the public with the true status Of the prisoner,
to disseminate penologcal information and to
aid in dispelling that prejudice which has ever
been the bar sinister to fallen mans self
redemption.
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LETTERS TO BOARD OF CONTROL

All inmates desiring to write to the State
Board Of Control will notify their officer, who
in turn is requested to send your notification
to tho Duputy Wardens Office Friday noon in
be furnished you. Letters written on regula-
tion size paper will not be permitted to 60.
J. J. SULLIVAN,
Warden.
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CHURCH NOTICE

Services in the Prison Chapel at nine o'clock
every Sunday morning, Protestant and Catho-
lie service every alternate Sunday. Rev. c. E.
Benson and Rev. FIR. Corcoran, Chaplains
The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-22
CHRISTMAS GREETINGS
CHRISTMAS GREETINGS


this Of having another opportunity to
journal Denver and really of the West deem this peaur
ab
grateful Provdena guidance for
unmindful will
which
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of
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enacng laws whereby the is not curbed in giving full noma
legal clerical Dis
with prejudice Surely
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The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-22
POSSE SEEKS YOUTH AS SLAYER
OF TWO

NARROW, Okla, Dec. 1S.-Stephens
county authorities tonight are combing
the surrounding country in search for
Marvin Kincannon, 20, member of
prominent local family, who is wanted
in connection with the Staying last
night of A. L.. Berch, proprietor of
Marlow's largest hotel, and the fatal
wounding of Robert Journegan, Ne
gro porter
Young Kincanpon is accused by Mrs.
Berch as the leader of the party of fif
teen or more unmasked men who went
to the hotel in an attempt to hang the
Negro whom Berch had brought here
less than n week ago in violation of a
long-standing custom which prohibits
the presence of Negroes in the city aft
er nightfall.
The youth, who is said to have been
the only member of the mob who dis
played a gun during the affray, is
charged by Mrs. Berch with having
fired the shots which killed her hus
band and wounded the Negro.
Authorities say he left NARROW with
his alleged companions in an automo-
bile shortly after the shooting and that
so far no trace of the machine or its
occupants has been found. Belief was
expressed that the band was composed
of boys about the age of Kincannon.
County Attorney Paul Sullivan de-
clared murder charge would be filed
against Kincannon as soon as he is
found on the strength of Mrs. Berch's
statements. She was the only witness
to the shooting besides members of the
mob.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-22
NEGROES JOIN TEXAN
IN ASKING REPUBLICAN PARTY
TOREPUDIATE KHAN

James Weldon Johnson, secretary of
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of ColOred People, 60 Fifth
avenue, New York, today issued u
statement in comment on the request
of r. b. Creager, national committee
man from Texas, that the Republican
party openly repudiate the Ku KluX
Klan.
"The only issue in the North is not
the khan vote" said Mr. Johnson. The
colored vote is involved. Colored vot-
ers in the states where the klan is
strongest are watching with keen in
terest to see what stand the Republic
an party takes. Already Theodore
Roosevelt has repudiated klan support
Offered him, and his reputation was
in no uncertain terms. Is the Repub-
lican party going to live up to Mr..
R0osevelt's courage? Is it going to
maintain the freedom from shameful
secrecy and race hatred and religious
intolerance, that all true American cit
izens have right to expect?
"The colored vote in the northern
states, immensely augmented by the
migration of Negroes from the South,
will be affected by the Republican par
tvs answer to these questions. The
last thing colored voters will be salts
fled with is pussy-footing The khan
issue is definite. There can be no COM
promise. People who want votes of
colored people, and parties who want
Negro support in the presidential elec-
tion of 1924, will do well to make them
selves clearly understood in this mat
ter"
The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-22
NATIONAL PRESIDENT FEDERA-
TION OF COLORED WOMEN'S
CLUBS SPEAKS IN DENVER
Miss Halle @. Brown Delivers Force
full Address at Peoples Pres
byterian Church

Under the auspices of the City
Federation of Colored Women's Clubs
and with the state president, Mrs. Oh
lie Redd of Cheyenne honoring the
occasion, Miss Halle Q. Brown, presi-
dent of the National Federation of
Colored Womens Clubs, spoke in Den
yer Monday night to a good crowd at
the Peoples Presbyterian Church on
Women of the Past, Present and Fu-
ture."
A highly interesting program was
rendered in conjunction with Miss
Browns address and the evening
made one worthy of such a dis
tinguished guest. Miss Brown is on a
tour of the west and will make her
next stop at Salt Lake and then on to
Pacific Coast points.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-22
Ex-Governor Henry
J. Allen DenOunces
Kansas Release of
Birth of Nation"

Former Governor Henry ]. Allen of
Kansas, in a statement published in the
Wichita Protest, Dec. Z, has denounced
the action of Kansas authorities in re-
leasing THE Birth of a Nation" film
which had been barred from the state
under previous administrations.
Governor Davis action in letting
the picture back in Kansas is sordid
and inconsiderate," said Mr.. Allen.
There isn't Il single good purpose in
the picture. The unfortunate passions
of the period which it attempts to de-
pict are not all dead. The picture
breaches no remedy; it merely rein
flames the subject. The only effect
follows its reproduction in any
community is to reproduce strained re-
lations between the white people and
colored people"
The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-22
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA NEWS

Rev. ]. T. Muse, pastor of the Mt.
Pleasant Church rendered his resigna-
tion on the second Sunday of this
month to take effect the first of the
year. The resignation was not ac-
cepted but motion was made by one
of the deacons and seconded by an
other that Il special church meeting be
called Immediately to take up the mat
ter with Rev. Muse and to see if he
would reconsider his resignation. Rev.
Muse said that on the 3rd of Novem-
Der, last, the Second Church of Wood
land extended him Il recall and that
he had now decided to return to them,
and in fact had already accepted the
call.
Rev. j. p. Hubbard of the Beth
Eden Baptist Church, Oakland,
preached at the Mt. Pleasant Church
Sunday, and his choir rendered the
music And Rev. c. Williams at the
evening with music by the U. n. 1. \.
choir.
1t is reported that Mr., George Ran
dali of Oakland. formerly of Cheyenne,
WyO., is very ill and requires some
oua to sit up with him day and night.
Mrs. +. W. Mallory and Mrs. Holden
Of Oakland were in our city one day
last week on business.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-22

spending of
found
knowledge become
with
paid
all all dignied
all
influential body Of
The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-22
White Texas Editor
Ridicules ''NOrdic"
Supremacy and 100
Percentism

An editorial published in the Ell Paso
! tions of those who call themselves 100
per cent Americans" and who claim
that the "Nordic" races, composed of
light-compleXioned people are super
ior" and ought to rule other races.
The editorial quotes from Professor
Herbert A. Miller, professor of sOciol-
ogy in Oberlin College, who declared
100 per centism and belief in the inher-
ent superiority of the Nordic stock
We're dangerous to civilization.
individual egotism is disapprOved
quoted as saying, "too much Dragging
about ones family is offensive; boost
ing inordinately ones community is
humorous and tolerated; but group
egotism as it expresses itself in pa
triotiSm and race consciousness is laud-
ed as the highest virtue and cultivated
with great intensity. Unrestrained re-
ligious zeal is bigotry, and excessive
patriotism may be called chauvinism,
but we have not yet adopted a word
for the vice of over-much race asser-
tion because it is such a new phenom
enOn."
Speaking of American culture, Pro
fessor Miller says: "If we We're re-
duced to 100 per cent American art
the showing would be absurdly mea-
ger Most Americans are little
ashamed because for a time we de-
barred German music"
And then finally, of race egOtism, he
says: Race egotism is strangely un-
discriminating and therefore unrelia-
BILE. All races have the same illusions
about their superiority. The danger
comes when, having become conscious
of its superiority, the race gets the no.
ton that it has been determined by
cosmic process that it has the moral
responsibility to govern all whom it
considers inferior"
The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-22
KENTUCKY WOMEN SEEK GOOD WILL.
Join InterraciaI Commission and Ask JUS
tice for All
STRONG STATEMENT ISSUED
Group Includes Many Religious and Civic
Leaders

+ OUISVILLE, KY, Dec. II. (Spe-
ciaD Thirty Kentucky women,
leaders in their respective re-
ligious and civic groups, met here last
week in connection with the State In
terracial Conference, organized as the
wOmans section of the Interracial
Commission, and issued a vigorous
statement in the interest of justice and
good will between the white and col
ored races. The organization meetings
were presided over by Mrs. Helm
Bruce of Louisville, and the permanent
officers chosen were Mrs. Charles
Semple, chairman, Mrs. r. X. Massie,
vice chairman; Miss Mamie Hite Win
Ston, secretary.
The statement issued congratulates
Kentucky on its recent freedom from
lynchings, condemns the injection of
race prejudice into political cam
paigns, demands a single standard of
morals that will protect the integrity
of both races, and declares for the
protection of the life and property of
all alike, and for fair division of school
advantages and other public facilities
1t was recommended that in every
community an interracial group of
women be formed for mutual under
standing and cooperation, particularly
in matters affecting the welfare of
women and children. Following are
some of the more striking paragraphs
I'VE declare our belief in the right
eousness of a single standard of So
cial morality for both sexes and both
races. We plead for the protection of
all womanhOod and urge that the in
tegrity of the Negro home shall be
held inviolate by the men of both
races.
1--WE hold that no circumstances can
justify the disregard of civil law and
human rights involved in lynchings
and other forms of mob violence. We
deplore the fact that such deeds have
so stigmatized our people that in non
Christian countries our Christian civil
ization is discredited. Truly thankful
for our Kentucky law against lynch
ings and the fact that it has been up
held, we pledge ourselves to support
our officials in every effort to en-
force this law.
1--WE believe it to be our imperative
duty to cultivate in both races, espe
cially among the young people at home
and in school, such attitudes of good
will and mutual helpfulness that bit
terness, resentment and strife shall
yield to a wholesome faith in our
common humanity"
Similar groups of women have been
The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-22

Proprietor Manager of 'The Colorado Statesman
public
of the
you and public sentiment or public opinion the
in
all business heads and agencies 1t the great
nd deciso execute
fail bring that which permanent in its
The Colorado statesman., 1923-12-22

organized in nearly all the southern
states for cooperation with state in
tel racial committees and with the
various denominational and civic
bodies in the interest of better race
adjustments.
The Washington times., 1923-10-12
Porto Santo Sans Vanity.

LONDON, Oct. 12.-vanity is ap-
parently unknown at Porto Santo
Island, near Mareira, for, according
to a statement by Dr.. Grabbam at
the British Medical Association
there is not single toothbrush or
looking glass there, and the women
are entirely without vanity.
The Washington times., 1923-10-12
ELECTRICIANS TO HONOR
EDISON At EXPOSITION

NEW YORK, Oct. 12.-Thomas
A. Edison will receive the homage
of the electrical men Of New York
next Wednesday when he attends,
as guest of, honor, the luncheon to
be held on the opening day Of the
annual Electrical and Industrial
Exposition.
It will be a busy day for the
inventor. After the luncheon at
the Biltmore Hotel he will go to
the Forty-eighth Street Theater
where he will watch the first show
ing of a film prepared for the New
York Edison Company showing the
electrical resources of. the city
After that he will visit the Grand
Central Palace and throw the
switch lighting the thousands OF
lamps on the three floors OF the
Electrical Exposition and starting
the motors Of the industrial ex
hibits.
The luncheon at the Biltmore
will bring together officials of the
local electric lighting companies.
manufacturers and dealers who are
exhibiting at the exposition, and
officers of the newly formed Elec-
trical Board of Trade. Arthur Will
liams, general commercial manager
of the New York Edison Company.
will preside.
The Washington times., 1923-10-12

pany at Denver, and 1t was with
copper in mind that the assayer
made his tests.
Platinum, according to local min.
ing men, is practically unknown
outside of the Trial Mountains IN
Russia, if the old Rambler mine
near Encampment be excepted. 50
the Denver assayer was surprised
when the first test showed q native
platinum content Of $12 to the ton.
$422 Per Ton.
He Immediately realized that much
platinum must have been lost in the
fire platinum occurring In
combination with arsenIc-and a
second test. by water, bore him
out in this conclusion. The water
test showed that the platinum con-
tent of small sample would run
$422 to the ton.
It is this that the mining men
are buzzing about.
Its the greatest find since gold
was discovered in California. Be
sides platinum, the ore shows
borenite, covelite and calcopyIite,
adj rich in copper. but the platinum
is the big thing" say mining men
here.
The Washington times., 1923-10-12
WHAT'S DOING
Today and TOMORROW
Today.

Meeting--Northeast washington Citi-
zens Association, Northeast Masonic
Meeting~New York State Society.
Women's City Club, $3.50 p. m.
Meeting-Elm Camp, Woodmen of the
World. clubhouse, evening.
Meeting-General Nelson A. Miles
street northwest, evening.
Meeting-Admiral George Dewey Naval
Camp, Masonic Temple, Eighth and +
streets northeast.
Masonic meetings--st. Johns. No. IL;
Capitol, No. IL. R. A. c.; Mt. Pleasant,
No. IS. r. A. c.; Takoma, No. IL, o.
E. s., and Unity, No. %. evening.
Fr Mssdtpg socetg S. Go1ne G
Epiphany parish, 1880 p. m.
Entertainment Pupils of Monroe
School, schooIhouse. 8 p. m.
Lecture-E. o. Armstrong, Central
Play-Spanish Club OF Dunbar High
School. schoolhouse, evening.
. acknowledgements committee of
women. Pan-American Union Building,
all day.
:. Meeting-Washington Chapter, Ameri-
can Association of Engineers, 1917 New
York avenue northwest, evening.
Play-"The Old Country School,
Christian Church, Sixth and II streets
southwest. p. m.
acknowledgements window. honor
of the men who served in the world war,
Takoma Park Presbyterian Church, eve
ming.
characterization and Youth" Rev.
J. T. Loeb, Ohev Sholom Synagogue
Sixth and streets northwest. evening.
Tomorrow.
.Meeting-Mt. Pleasant Citizens Asao-
citation, ,Johnson-Powel1 school, D. m.
. Luncheon-Women' City Club. club
house, / p. m.
The Washington times., 1923-10-12
REPORTSBUY|NG
POWER WELL
SUSTAINED
Dun's Weekly Review Takes
Optimistic Attitude on
Nearly All Industries.

NEW YORK, Oct. 12.-Dun's
Weekly Review OF Business said
today:
Good points in the business Sit
uatlon are plainly discernible, but
the lrregularity. of conditions is
still marked.
While confidence is the prevail
ing sentiment, caution in placing
forward contracts is sharply de-
fined.
Doubts about the future of some
prices and wide fluctuations in GER
tain commodities have a restricted
influence on operations.
"A natural stimulus to demand
mas come with the advancing sea-
son, but expected gains in autumn
business have not developed fully
and price easing has occurred in
some markets that recently showed
strength.
'The effects of the record FRO
duction of the first half of t!.is
year are seen now in .cattered ac.
Nrunnnlat:ons Of goods, and increased
competition for orders results in
concessions from prices previously
named by some sellers.
REIMBURSEMENT of output to meet
The Washington times., 1923-10-12
RICH PLATINUM
FOUND NEAR
LARAMIE
Assay Of Cooper" Specimens
Reveals Content Of $422
Per Ton of Ore.
international News Service.

LARAMIE, Wyo., Oct. 12.-Min-
ing men here are agog over the
recent discovery of platinum ore
near Centennial in an ancient cop
per prospect at which Jacob
Schnitzler. veteran prospector, has
been scratching away for many
years.
AS platinum is worth SIG an
ounce, the search for gold has well
nigh been forgotten by the lean
and patient mountain men who
have been searching for that metal
since Laramie was a tent city on
bison-dotted plains.
Was Seeking Copper.
There is much OF romance In the
reported discovery by SchnitzIer,
For more than thirty years he has
been prospecting in the mountains
behind Centennial and had great
hopes of finding rich copper veins
in prospect overlooking the mid
die fork Of the Little Laramie. It
was with this hope that he sent a
sample of ore to an assaying COM