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Busi ness letters of all kinds must be written on separate sheets from letters containing news or matter for publication "Any prejudice whatever will be insurmountable If those who do not shsre in it themselves truckle to It and flatter It and accept it ae a law of nature." John Stuart Mill. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1919. WISE SPENDING. Are you a wise spender? Wise spending is regarded as a highly im portant preliminary to thrift by the U. S. Treasury. As part of its cam paign for promoting popular savings through Thrift and War Savings Stamps during 1919, it has issued through its Savings Division the fol lowing definition of wise spending, which merits the thoughtful attention of every family and every individual who would get ahead in life: Wise spending implies the balanc ing of all needs and of all means of meeting *these needs and, after bal ancing needs against means, spending in such a way as to meet the most urgent needs, even if lesser ones have to be left unsatisfied in essence it means a sort of budget-making. When a family, city or state makes a budget, what it does essentially is to take a comprehensive view of both needs and income. It is important that not all the income be spent on the first needs that may occur lest other more urgent needs appear and no funds be left to meet them that is, thought must be taken so that available income can be applied intelligently and wisely to cover most important needs and to satisfy them somewhat in proportion to their relative importance. 'Perhaps the most important and difficult problem in connection with wise spending (or saving) is to real ize the relative importance of future as compared with present needs. The temptation of all of us is to satisfy present needs at the neglect of future needs. It is very foolish to neglect the urgent necessities of today for the petty wants of the morrow, but few need very much persuasion to induce them to take care of the present. Where most of us are foolish or un wise is in satisfying petty wants of the present rather than saving in or der that urgent needs of the future can be met." GEORGE WASHINGTON THRIFTO- GRAMS. The 187th anniversary of George Washington's birthday is being cele brated today. Washington, the suc cessful builder of a nation, gave voice to rules for personal and national sue- w^.*~ ovau&s&fa* cess which are as applicable in this 1919 year of necessary thrift as in his day. Here are some of his words on the use of money and resources that might have been written for the pres ent situation in America: I cannot enjoin too strongly upon you for a due observance of economy andyfrugality. There is no proverb in the whole catalogue of them more true than a penny saved is a penny got. Keep an account book and enter therein every farthing of your receipts and expenditures. Nothing but harmony, honesty, in dustry, and frugality are necessary to make us a great and happy nation. These statements by George Wash ington as to wise personal economy might be paraphrased today in the in junction of the National Thrift Cam paignspend wisely, save intelligent ly, avoid wasteand invest safely buy War Savings Stamps and Thrift Stamps. GETTING AFTER BOLSHEVIKI. National interest surrounds the so called bolshevik meetings, which have been held in Washington, D. C, and which many Senate and House lead ers feel are spreading throughout the country. In order to combat this so called lawless propaganda, the Senate adopted a resolution which extends the powers of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, which is now investi gating German propaganda, to investi gate other activities, which it is charged, are attempting to incite the overthrow of the Government. In di rect connection with this resolution, Senator Miles Poindexter, introduced a resolution in which the Attorney General is called upon to report wheth er an investigation is being made con cerning these meetings in Washington and what steps were taken to enforce the law in the District of Columbia. CABLE SPLICING. GEORGE WASHINGTON Did Newt Baker take into consider ation the workings of the Burlesonized postal service when he ordered that soldiers abroad might marry, by mail? That old song, "Waiting at the Church," will no doubt be revived with a meaning all its own. Imagine the sweet, young bride writing to her Romeo, "I do," and after waiting five months, getting the letter back marked, "Return to Writer." That's enough to take the romance out of anything. No doubt the "best execu tive I have ever known" will see fit to ride into the limelight with some more publicity by making another or der permitting divorces by mail. The idea certainly won't be complete with out it. BILL BRYAN BOBS UP. According to William Jennings Bry an, federal control of "the railroads doesn't work because there are still some railroad men connected with it. We suppose that the theater will at- Eft &&-XT 'The Father of His Country," Whose Birthday Anniversary Will be Celebrated To-day. tain its highest state of efficiency just as soon as all the actors are removed hausted some of the first loans made and that the churches will reach the pinnacle of success in removing evil from the world when the preachers have all been taken away. Better stick to grape juice and woman suf frage, William! PIGEON-HOLED The country will long suffer the evil consequences of the obstructive policy pursued by the Democrats in Congress in preventing the prompt adoption of the Weeks resolution for the creation of a joint, bi-partisan Congressional Committee on Recon struction. The Weeks plan was the most comprehensive ever proposed. Formulated at a time when Republi cans' return to power was assured, it bore the stamp of broad states manship, for it proposed an equal di vision of membership on the commit tee. It has been pigeon-holed and the Democrats have offered nothing in its stead. IF NOT, WHY NOT? The foreign affairs committee of the U. S. House of Representatives has ordered favorably reported a resolu tion expressing the hope that the peace conference would "favorably consider the claims of Ireland to the right of self-determination." Four of the seventeen members of the committee attending the meeting were understood to have voted against the resolution. The text follows: "Resolved, by the house of represent atives (the senate concurring) that it is the earnest hope of the congress of the United States of America that the peace conference now sitting in Paris in passing upon the rights of various peoples will favorably consider the claims of Ireland to the right of self determination." This action leaves the shortsighted colored men who have opposed the sending of colored representatives to the Peace Congress to appeal for jus tice to the colored people of America, without a leg upon which to stand. If the U. S. Congress can ask the Peace Congress to interfere in the in ternal affairs of Great Britain, why cannot the colored people of the United States appeal to the world assembled at Paris to intervene in the internal affairs of this country and stop lynching and the oppression of one of its groups of citizens? BLOW IT ALL IN When Congress authorized the Presi dent to take over the railroads it fixed the time of government operation to be for the period of the war and for 21 months thereafter. To provide a means of financing such operation a revolving fund of $500,000.00 was set aside for the use of the Director Gen eral in supplying funds to needy roads for maintenance and equipment. It was supposed by the legislators that that huge sum would be ample to meet all requirements in fact it was antici pated! tnat| long before it was ex- "HUMAN NATURE'S FOULEST BLOT." My ear is pained My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage, with which earth is filled. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart. It does not feel for man: the natural bond Of brotherhood is severed as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of lire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colored like his own: and having power To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys: 'Tis human nature's broadest foulest blot. Cowper. J^it No, An (Prom the Cincinnati Union.) There are more ways of killing a dog than hanging him." Our Demo cratic administration, so anxious to make the world safe for democracy, THE REPRESENTATIVES IN FRANCE. There has been some misconcep tion as to the functions of the repre sentatives elected by the National Colored Congress which met int Washington in December, to go to France and present the case of the colored American to the world, dur ing the sessions of the Peace Con gress. These people have no official status whatever, and no one connected with the congress has, so far as we know, made any such claim, certainly the convention at its meeting did not. They are not in any sense "dele gates" and have no such standing. They can not attend the meetings of the Peace Conference. That ought to clear to everyone who is at all well informed about the questions of the day. As"*THE APPEAL, understands the matter, the representatives are to go to France and use their moral in fluence to aid in the abolition of the color line in all the world. Neces sarily they must work through the delegates of the United States and other nations which have regularly accredited delegates. That is all that they can do. The congress un derstood that and the representatives understand their limitations. However, the representatives may possibly be able to do some very ef fective work. They may tell the world of the utterly undemocratic treatment of the colored people in the U. S. A., and they may add their voice, even if it is a feeble one, to the general demand of the Colored World for the abolition of all dis criminations based on color, creed or sex, and may really aid in the realiza tion of liberty, fraternity and equal ity for all men. Just what the proposed "League of Nations" will be no man knows no one knows just how far it will in terfere with the internal questions of the various nations, but with Ja pan, one of the great powers, and China, Haiti, and (Liberia, all colored nations, and with Brazil and other countries with large colored popula tions, and India and South Africa represented, certain broad principles against color autocracy may be laid down. Who knows? The American colored representa tives can not hope to get seats at the peace table, or even enter the con ference, but they can stay outside and LOBBY FOR LIBERTY. JOBS IN U. 3. SERVICE OPEN. Permanent employment in the gov ernment service and immediate rein statement in the federal civil service of men who served in the army and navy is announced in a bulletin issued by the federal civil service commis sion at Washington. In expectation of the mustering out of thousands of foe? mer government employes from the military and naval service who will be seeking reinstatement in the govern ment service the federal civil service commission obtained an executive or der by the president providing for the reinstatement at any time within five years of discharge of any person leav ing the classified civil service to en gage in the military or naval service of the country. Under the president's ruling it will not be necessary for the applicant to be reinstated in his former position, but anywhere In the civil service, pro vided that at the time of reinstate ment he has the required fitness to perform the duties of the position to which reinstatement is sought. A long list of occupational opportu nities for employment in federal pub lic works is contained in the bulletin. Application should be filed directly AN ABSOLUTE MONARCHY? pant of theo "Jim Crow" coaches dur in has shown a sublime disregard for the the ,Cii!^ rights and safety of colored American citizens at- home. It now seems to feel that, by- refusing passports to representatives of those who complain of intolerable conditions here, that Europe will not know of the foul canker that gnaws the very vitals of our government! 'Tis another case of the ostrich sticking it head in the sand and feeling that its body is hid. Europe knows that there is a skel eton in America's closet and that that skeleton is the black citizen of **j&,*gr S timest of peace. pi But v. Absolute Democracy! Wilson Reigns! Th the 'U. S., occupant of the front-line done to death by the mob the tree trenches during times of war occu- the torch? would be coming back into the Treas ury, and the fund would in truth re volve. But instead of carrying the roads through a period of years, as contem plated by the framers of the legisla tion, ttfer'revolving" fund is practically exhausted in the very first year of Federal administration. The Director General in his annual report admits that over $453,000,000 of that amount has been expended already. Not only that but $25,000,000 has been taken from surplus receipts of railroad and express companies and loaned back to the roads in addition to the millions from the revolving fund. Of course payments to the Government for its loans from the revolving fund, if they are ever made, must come from sur plus earnings, but when those earn ings are diverted from that purpose and turned into further loans the re sult is only to sink the roads deeper into the financial mire. business is that our country is not great enough to live up to its own constitution, not noble enough to fol low the precepts of its own Christian ity! It_ Here is an epitome of the history of the Three Hundred and Seventieth United States infantry, formerly the old Eighth Illinois national guard, colored regiment, in France: Suffered 50 per cent casualties lost ninety-five men and one officer killed outright. Lost only one prisoner to the Ger mans in all the months they fought. Captured many German cannon and many German machine guns. Participated in the final drive against the Germans on the French sector, advancing in the final stages of the war as far as thirty-live kilo meters in one day. Took no German prisoners. Were the first allied troops to enter the French fortress of Laon when it was wrested from the Ger mans after four years of war. Won twenty-two American distin guished service crosses and sixty eight French war crosses. Fought the last battle of the war, capturing a German wagon train of fifty wagons and crews a half hour after the armistice went into Effect. Refused to fraternize with the Ger mans even after the armistice was signed. COL. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Do You Know Any Good Story About the Great American? The Roosevelt Permanent Memorial National Committee is collecting and publishing characteristic stories of Theodore Roosevelt's personality and career. If you know any interesting and authentic stories, the Committee will be grateful if you would send them to the National Headquarters, One Madison Avenue, New York City. Contributions to the Memorial Fund may be sent to the same address. Checks may be made payable either to the Committee or to Albert H. Wig gin, of the Chase National Bank. Every penny given for a memorial will be spent for a memorial. Expenses of collection and administration will be covered by special gifts of personal friends of Colonel Roosevelt. PAN AFRICAN CONGRESS. Special to The Appeal. Paris, Feb. ^20The Pan-African Congress, which will prepare meas ures regarding land, capital, industry and education for the colored people scattered throughout the world for presentation to the peace conference, opened today with forty delegates in attendance. They include ten Ameri can colored people. TAKE NOTICE.Ail matter intend, ed for publication in THE APPEAL must reach the office Thursdays, to In sure its insertion. Communications must bear the name of the sender to receive any attention. ^*~?FSft^*iy&T?'i'j!s#-^-t "JTsvJ?!*f BRUCE GRIT FILES STRONG DEMURRER ill i i] nil" whole despicable tn basely bows to the caprice capric or prejudice and condemns its owno citizens to scorn, contempt anda humili ation. The burden of this petty pass^ ce n0 tne snoulders of France, for that glor ious country hasand ever with the labor board ment plants. beenitsgreat enough to hono protect citi zens, regardless of race, regardless of color. The lint of the skin, the curl of the hair, has never been the badge of humiliation in La Belle, France and so in her time of need] gloriously did her sable sons rally to her support. The day will come when America on bended knee will cry for help. Will there still remain forgiv ing black sons to come to her aid or will they all have been brutally at all govern- DR. R. R. MOTON'S MISSION ABROAD WHAT THREE WELL KNOWN COLORED WRITERS THINK OF IT. What He Went for Made Clear af Last The South Fears Our Re turning Overseas Soldiers Will Not Meekly Submit to It Out rageous Insults, Humilia tion, Segregation, Etc. (From the New York Globe.) Editor N. Y. Globe: I wish to enter a protest against the action of Dr. Moton, who is now in France at the instance of the adiministration to ad vise the colored troops over there to behave themselves like gentlemen and thus leave a good impression upon the people of France. Dr. Moton will find that this part of his mission to France is unnecessary. The colored men in the army in France have given their commander no cause for com plaint on this score. The French peo ple and French newspapers have spoken in high praise of their conduct. I is a gratuitous msult to the char acter of these men to send Dr. Moton or any other man to France to teach them good morals. Dr. Moton is quoted as saying that the Africans are incapable of self-gov ernment. If he means the Africans in Africa, along the gold coast, the west coast, Basutoland, Barotse land, etc., I can tell him that he is grossly mis taken, and that he is libelling the char acter of these intelligent people who have for years demonstrated their ability for self-government along native lines. Dr. Moton is hardly the man to pass judgment on the capacity of the Africans for self-government. He does not know any more about Africa and the Africans, nor as much, as the American delegates who are relying on him to advise them on this subject. JOHN E. BRUOE. New York. Record of Old 8th: 22 American Crosses 68 French Crosses y^j ^"^^i% AsTo,sftioti Advic ISolaiers W,?,r i a 1 2 ci 5S!Blotion de P" fSnrht^mi^ re warT^l S tta TO nSruSLS^r^r^'Tt racy^nor^Tn^w 'SSTJ gigantfc war Iv^m^LU^^^1 r^?^^^'?^*S AV i?-** Oversea StartsfeStorm TUSKEGEE'S NEW PRINCIPAL TELLS BRAVE WARRIORS NOT TO RESIST OLD CONDITIONS ON RETURN Sourthern Newspapers In Paris Praise Unwanted Suggestions To Black: Troopers as to Their Conduct on Returning Home Moton's Special Mission Explained (From the New York News.) that he "emphasized" the fact that the Paris, Jan.Dr. Robert R. Moton, colored soldiers should return "mod- who came here to France on a "spe- est and unassuming." This advice cial" mission, made a trip, via automo- given by Dr. Moton appeared to in- bile, to two or three points where terest these two American newspa- have been mobilized colored soldiers, pers published in Paris, and it is ac- He made an address to them, at each cepted that his "special" mission to point visited, and especially urged France, at this time, and just at the upon them when returning to the time when colored soldiers who have United States, to be "modest and un- been for months fighting in France assuming." The Stars and Stripes are about to return to the United published in Paris, and in the interest States, is to impress upon them that of the A. E. F., and which heretofore they should be "modest and unassum- has given very little space to mention ing" on their return, and to accept of the colored soldiers, except pub- quietly, and uncomplainingly what- lishing something assumed to be hu- ever discrimination and segregation morous, and always using the alleged may be imposed on them in the States Southern dialect, gave Mr* iMoton's on their return, after having fought address considerable space, emphasiz- for months for world democracy, ing the point he made that the colored Moton was accompanied on his trip soldiers should return "modest and to the camps by Thomas Jesse Jones, unassuming" The Paris edition of of the Bureau of Education at Wash- The New York Herald, which like- ington, and who, at one time, was one wise has given but little space to the of the white instructors at Hampton colored soldier, also gave Dr. Moton's Institute, with which Dr. Moton was address to the colored soldiers a prom- connected before being chosen princi- inent space, and particularly noted pal of Tuskegee. ADDRESS TO THE COUNTRY AND THE WORLD ADOPTED BY THE NATIONAL COLORED CONGRESS FOR WORLD DE- MOCRACY UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE NATIONAL EQUAL RIGHTS LEAGUE AT WASHINGTON, D. C. DEC. 18, 1918. Colored America, through delegates assembled from 37 of the United States of America, sore and bleeding with persecution because of race and color, hails with hope peace with victory, for the motto on the banners of the armies of the victors was "Away with tyranny and its injustice every- where Speaking for 12,000,000 Colored Americans, the National Colored Representative Assembly for World Democracy under the auspices of the National Equal Rights League congratulate their fellow Countrymen and their government on being the instrument by which the God of righteousness turned the tide of battle for the forces of liberty. War Put On World Basis As To The Results. Two hemispheres and the islands of two oceans furnished without regard to race or color the armies of this bloody and terrible war. Shameful it would be if its close did not mark anew humane era. To the President of our Republic, Commander-in-Chief of our army and navy it was given to name the principles on which the winners fought this war. and its purpose. By his declaration, accepted by France, Britain and the rest openly before the human race, the principles and the aim of this war were put upon a world basis. Secondly these principles and aims were for the wiping out of autoc- racy, inhumanity and injustice, and for the establishment of world justice, world humanity and world democracy. Wrongs To Individual On World Basis For Redress. With the ushering in of the new year, 1919, the nations of the world are assembled to settle the terms of peace for the world, for the establishment everywhere of the principles for which thiB world war wa wageds th momewe:first rracei ,n i 8 loyal citizens without a traitors appeal to the forces of democracy. Therefore everry denia violation of justice, humanity and democracy has become a matter FOR CORRECTION AND ABROGATION ON A WORLD BASIS BkYdAb WORLD COURT. Hence Colored America, whichStates furnishedAmerica, 400,000 brave soldiers 12000'l00or 0 ove Unite of the famous allied World forl and Democracy in the peace settlement. Utterlyb Undemocratiucs Treatment Of Colored People of U. S. A. ajustice ca AuCitren tn of the West, appeal to the civilised world for the discontinuance of all or class discrimination in the world peace settlement. At this should be banished, we must call world attention to the utterly undemo- craticconditions under which every person of color is forced to live in this country. Because of race autocracy, our color in the Nation's Capital de- prives us of every civil right except in public carriers and subjects us to rejection or to the restriction of the Ghetto as employees of the federal government. Otherwise, our color in.many Chri8te*domjudicialparts v?tions i el f^XEFT*' lyncnm 2l! to JST W, darke^nations "SSSt William M. Trotter, Mass., Chairman Rev. P, a injustices, cruelties atrocities,e wors in degre than essentially Self-determination For Darker Nations. 0U ?S tor *ol rfght8 w appeal to the The Appeal Sent By Race Petitioners For Universal Abolition Of Color Proscription. ?JZ"VJl*!j}}?}ljit!*dJ?0 C(i SsfcffSSSSJ Ss'BFSWSS o/88 mB wort tn Else There Is Nto dawnta O0 THE COMMITTED ON ADDRESS C. James, N. J. Dr. W. T. Coleman, Md. Rev. M. L. Johnson, Ark. G. W. Goode, Va. Rev. W. L. Gibbons, Miss. Atty. L. A. H. Caldwell, Ind. Rev. J. U. King, Del. MTB. Ida Wells Barnett, 111. Dr. F. A. Walker, La. Dr. A. Porter Davis, Kan. Rev. W. D. Carter, Wash. State. Dr. C. S. Long, Fla. R. W. Westberry, S. C. J. W. Ross, Minn. THE MAN WHO DARES I honor the man who in the consci entious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone the world, with ignorant, intolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends.Charles Sumner. **&&5^- & by the Republicsthirfo of universal humanity, when wrongs to man of th country Y political social and right subjectsecudl tdemocracusys,eodenrive oWoquy Segregatio in publi carriers rl tha vIolftt!on io which the war was fought. .w mate,1?ai aPP*lMng human losses of this world peacealconclavethfolot discrimination withou Petitioner to the assembly of the repre theTbouU^nof auSyVra remade truly on the basis of day democ-ane twrof l "New Day."t a mOB deat ate a peac SSS2 S SM. T^oo^ T^^J^:nw to Biehop G. C. Clements, Ky. Atty. J. D. ElHs, W. Va. Rev. C. V. Page, Mo. Rev. Thomas W. Davis, Tenn. Prof. L. B. Cash, Texas. W. C. Brown, D. C. Dr. R. H. Singleton, Ga. Rev. R. A. Whitaker, Okla. Hon. Isaac B. AMen, N. Y. R. B. James, Mich. G. W. Boyer, Ohio. Bishop J. S. Caldwell, Penn., Sec. Rev. J. C. McDanlels, N. Y. Rev. H. H. Jackson, N. C. Rev. John V. Goodgame, Ala.