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PALESTINE, TEXAS We are having some fine weather in this part of the w'orld. All the churches had good services Sunday, as it was a fine day for them. Rev. S. M. Bolden w’as at his post at St. Paul’s Methodist Episcopal church. Rev. I. H. Hubbard filled his place at Pilgrim’s Rest Baptist church. Rev. H. McKenna occupied his pul pit at Grant chapel, A. M. E., church. The West Union Baptist church had a grand time Sunday at the installing cf their new pastor. The rally at St. Paul’s Methodist church went over the top. We asked X’ for $300 and got $375. We can deliver the goods when we want to. Miss Gussie Porter died on the 21st and was huried on Sunday. Rev. R. Deal died on the 23d and was buried on the 24th. Rev. G. W. Hill was in the city last week visiting his daughter, Mrs. Le berter Massey. Mrs. M. I . Pierson of Oakwood was in the office last week. Mrs. Virginia Gibson visited here last week. Rev. P. R. Pierson was in the city last week. A large crowd of whites left for Camp Travis and we expect the Col ored men will leave in a few days. I. H. Bland is being kept busy these j days, because he has a reputation of being a fine funeral director. He had three funerals last week. Miss Joanna Wright and Miss Wilona Wright are on the sick list. Mrs. Ella Colman is improving from her operation. >-« Mr. A. Hall has joined the list of readers of The Monitor. Mrs. Willie Lancaster Simpson was in the city last week, the guest of her mother, Mrs. Ellen Lancaster. Mr. A. Gilmore went to Jacksonville last week on insurance business. Omaha, Neb., March 23, 1918. Western Indemnity Co., Omaha, Nebr. Gentlemen: I take pleasure in thanking you for the prompt and sat isfactory way in which you paid the claim on my husband (the late New ton Jones), who carried policy No. 13527 in your company. I appreciate the manner of your treatment to policy holders. Respectfully, 3863 Blondo MRS. MARIE JONES. ii ‘ ^ J .v . ..^ THE JUNE CRISIS The June Crisis is soldiers’ number. The cover is a reproduction in colors from the poster painted by Robert Ed mund Jones for the Circle for Negro War Relief. There is a letter from the secretary of war, Newton D. Baker, on the Colored soldiers in France. General Ballou has also writ ten a letter, and there is a word from Colonel Young. There are the follow ing striking articles: “A Lost Dia logue of Plato,” by John D. Swain; “War Profiles,” by Fenton Johnson, and “A Sonnet to Negro Soldiers,” by Joseph Seaman Cotter. William Stan ley Braithwaite is featured as the fourth Spingam medalist; there are i also Judge Terrell and the late Major Walker. There are pictures of Color ed officers and soldiers. Dr. Du Bois writes on “The Black Soldiers,” “Civil Rights” and “The Department of ' Labor.” The king of England has conferret I the Order of the British Empire upo: ! the Hon. H. A. L. Simpson, a Colorei j member in the Jamaica legislatur. ; from Kingston.—The Crisis. Classified Advertising RATES—1V4 c«nu » word tor alafU Insertions, 1 cent s word tor two or more insertions. No advertisement tor leas than 15c. Cash should ao company advertisement. — WANTED—Middle-aged woman for cooking and general housework. Tel. Webster 2636. WANTED—Girl or woman to take complete charge of two children in small home. Harney 6355. ~ WANTED—Bellboys, Omaha club; $35 and board. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms, all modern. 2706 Parker st. Web. 1250. Furnished rooms in strictly modem house. Men preferred. 814 North 23r street. Red 8156. Mrs. Ida Cary. Nicely furnished rooms. Phone Webster 2941. FOR RENT — Neatly furnished rooms. Phone South 1981. Residence 4814 South 25th st. Mrs. Sadie Mo berly. FOR RENT—Right at 24th st. car, one large room for couple, also one •small room. Webster 4745. First class rooming house, steam heat, bath, electric light. On Dodge and 24th st. car line. Mrs. Ann' Banks, 924 North 20th st. Doug. 437.,. Constructive Thrift Is Sane Spending as Well as Sane Saving By S. W. STRAUS President of American Society for Thrift We are in the midst of a period when great care must be exercised by all of us lest we bring harm to the business interests of the country through the practices of misguided thrift. We must bear in mind that there are two kinds of thrift: destructive and constructive. Neither indis criminate tightfistedness nor wanton waste is constructive thrift. Con structive thrift is sane spending as well as sane saving. If every citizen of America quit spending money, it would not he long before we found ourselves in the midst of industrial chaos. Whether in times of peace or war, waste is reprehensible, and at the present time waste of food is unpatriotic. But the legitimate currents of money that turn the nation’s wheels of industry must flow on. The declaration of war was a business shock from which we still have not entirely recovered. In the midst of this crisis the nation sought refuge in thrift to conserve our resources and keep up the food supply for ourselves and our allies. Naturally there was considerable hysteria. Happily, however, we are now getting around to normal conditions—we are beginning to find ourselves. Secretary McAdoo recently stated to the hankers of Chicago that the United States and her allies will' spend $0,000,000,000 for supplies in America in the next year, if the war continues that long. At the same time he offered this excellent advice: “Have you ever reflected what it would mean if every man and womun in the country should save during the next year what is ordinarily wasted by each in the way of food and general supplies? If 100,000,000 people reduce their demand upon the general supply of food and materials through the stoppage of waste and extravagance, it would release an enormous amount, which in turn could he used for the purpose of supporting and maintaining the 1,000,000 soldiers in the field. “Moreover, it will have a helpful influence in keeping down the prices of food and preventing the hardships which are imposed upon all the jieople whenever t lie general price level of the necessaries of life is raised.” I jet each citizen study his individual case. Let him eliminate waste, do his bit toward the production and preservation of the nation’s food supply and exercise care lest he indulge in the baneful practices of mis guided thrift and thus keep from circulation money that rightfully belongs there. HIS LAST SALUTE Gen. Grant's Pathetic Farewell to the Brave Men Who Saved the Union. TUP' magnanimity of General Grant’s soul will live forever. Recently the question was put to His Kmi nonce Cardinal Gibbons, "What Is civilized warfare?” Immedi ately cattle the reply: "The war be tween the States." And then the aged prelate added "Suppose General Grant had compelled General I.ee and the captive Southerners to have gone to Washington arid built the Union a triumphal arch, what would the world have thought? And yet. that was exactly what happened to the Jews at the fall of Jerusalem which Titus' arch commemorates.” When In the spring of 1.HS-I the vet erans of the Grand Army of the Re public knew their beloved ehieftain was mortally III. the soldiers, one and all, felt It would be a great privilege If once again they might see Grant’s face. They wished to pay him some homage of sympathy, since, “A rose to the living Is more than countless wreaths to the dead.” Tills expression of love materialized in a plan to march by his home, on Memorial day. as General Grant was then Irt New York city. Knrly on the morning of May .’HI these old soldiers were awake, burnishing accoutre ments and medals of honor; unfurling old battle flags. The quick ear of Grant heard com motion In the street. Ills voice that 'mil cheered on the Hoys in Blue at Statue of General Grant, in Lincoln Park, Chicago. •Vicksburg and Corinth, was now, due to Ills malady, unable to even ask for a cup of cold water, yet there are cer tain sounds which to n soldier need no Interpretation; and quick us lightning Grant recognized the heavy moving step of columns fulling In. He arose feebly and tottered toward the window. Votes of martial nuiflc floated out on Hie spring itir—“Yankee Doodle," “America," “The Star-Spangled Han tier." “Marching Through Georgia." The present fades from view—the dying general sees again the smoke of Shiloh, the charge at Chattanooga, the white Hag of Lee at Appomattox! Tears come coursing down his cheeks :is with upturned faces and uncovered heads he watches his edd veterans fl e by. Grant slowly lifts his hand in salute. It Is Ids farewell forever to the arm;, that had saved the Union. All present realized that ere nnothei Memorial day dawned Grant would he ti'.mihered aiming the nation’s immor tal dead. The Toll France Has Paid. Four-fifths of the women in France wear mourning, say the correspond ents, and we believe them, but we are not among those who credit reports of n France "exhausted” and “bled white,” observes u war writer. French women go Into mourning on the small est provocation. Kye shops abound. Kvery little way In a French city one encounters the sign, "Mourning In 24 hours.” When mudnme puts on black, no one straightway Infers the demise of monsieur. Much more likely an ancle by marriage had dropped ofT, ir perhaps some eighth cousin thrice removed. It Is always possible that, for one wooden cross on a battlefield, there will he six dozen gowns at the lye shop. No one denies that the French nrmy has suffered terrible casualties. No one feels Inclined to understate them, the French least of all. Hut only Americans who have never lived In France w’lll Imagine that the swarms of black-clad women indi cate a proportionate number of dead Pollus. The truth Is, Poilus were never so plueky as today, never so efficient, and, despite heartbreaking losses, never so numerous. ONWARD FOR HUMANITY. 8now-white and rosy-fingered morn Speeding tin* hosts of nlglit. Heralds a new Memorial Day, Its cohorts armed for right! Out of the dawning’s mists come wraiths Of those who our standards made. And find a nation, grim and set. Ready and unafraid. Sham*' that the morns must come blood red Shame that men still must die. But the fight for peace is a world-old fight. And the price of freedom, high. Then onward! No time now for slacking or tears. Till the cause of humanity’s won. Till oppression is sunk in the bottomless sea, And tlie need of all warfare Is done. Death's Terrible Toll. At n moderate calculation there were sent into eternity during the Civil war more than a million of men who left home In the prime of life and in health and in strength. Millions of Men Involved. When peace was declared the num her of troops engaged had mounted to 2,772,408, of which the North furnished something over two million. I... AUGUST ANDERSON GROCERIES AND FRUITS Good Goods—Fair Prices Webster 2274 24th and Clark. i .... . . .. . ........ .... . . .... Res. Colfax 3831 Douglas 3181 AMOS P. SCRUGGS Attorney-at- Law 3807 Camden Avenue. ... Repairing and Storing Orders Promptly Filled NOBIH SIDE SECOND-HAND STORE Auction Every Saturday R. B. Rhodes Dealer in New and Second Hand Furniture and Stoves. Household Goods Bought and Sold Rental and Real Estate 2522 Lake St. Webster 908 ...... Annie Banka Cecil B Wilkes ; BANKS-WILKES Funeral Directors and Embalmers Lady Assistant Satisfaction Guaranteed 1914 Cuming Street Rea Dous 4379, Office Lioue 3718 Graduate of N. E. 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