Women Protest to
President Wilson
Federated Clubs of Savannah, Active
in Red Cross Work, Send Pathetic
Appeal to Chief Executive to Sup
press Mob Murder.
THE PETITION ELICITS REP1 Y
SAVANNAH, GA., Juno 14.—Tho
Colored women of this city, in re
sponse to the call issued by Miss Lucy
Laney and others to the women of the
itate of Georgia, to unite in a acrrice
S, of humiliation and prayer as a protest
against tho awful lynchings now dis
gracing our state, especially that of
Mary Turner, the women of the Touia
sant I/Oveteur Branch of the Ameri
can Red Cross met last week. After
p. prayer service the following resolu
tions were adopted and sent to Presi
dent Wilson and Governor Dorsey:
“Whereas, The Negro womanhood
of Georgia has been shocked by the
lynching of Mary Turner at Valdosta
Sunday, May 19,1918, for an alleged
unwise remark in reference to the
lynching of her husband; anil
“Whereas, We the Negro women of
the state are aroused by this unwar
ranted lawlessness and are discour
aged and crushed by a spirit of hu
miliation and dread; and
“Whereas, We deplore the migra
tory movement of the Negro from the
South, yet we cannot counsel them
to remain in the light of these con
ditions under which we live; and
“Whereas, Our labor is in these cot
ton and cornfields and rice swamps,
and in this frightful hour of the great
world war, our sons and husbands are
giving their lives in defense of the
country we all love so dearly; and
“Whereas, In every forward move
ment in our national life the Negro
has come to the front and shared in
the advance and crimsoned every field
of strife from Boston to ‘no man’s
land,’ for the principles held fiacre 1
by every true American; and
“Whereas, We feel that our lives
are unsafe as long as this iniquitous
institution exists;
“We therefore are asking that you
use all the power of your great office
to prevent similar occurrences and
punish the perpetrators of this foul
deed and urge that sure and swift
justice be meted out to them.”
(Signed.)
“Colored Federated Clubs.”
The following reply was received
'* from tho president:
“The White House,
Washington,
May 81. 1918.
“My Dear Madam:
“The President directs me to ac
knowledge the receipt of your tele
gram of recent date, and to say that
he is bringing it to the attention of
(he Attorney General.”
"J. P. Tumulty,
“Secretary to the President.”
“Mrs. Rebecca Stiles Taylor,
Savannah Ga.”
WOMEN LABORERS
IN STEEL MILLS
Indiana Harbor, Ind., June 21.—The
Indiana Steel Co., has taken into its
service 75 Colored women as labor
ers. The company has been unab'c
for some time to secure sufficient la
borers and recently ofered high wages
to women to handle light steel cast
ings and to perform ordinary work
of laborers.
Many are giving their lives; you
; re a . <od only to loan your money.
LODGE DIRECTORY
G. M. F. and A. M., St. Luke’s lodge.
No. 14, will meet the first and third
Monday nights in Knights of Pythias
hall, Twenty-fourth and Charles
streets. All members take notice.
J. E. JOHNSON, Secretary;
H. C. WATTS, Treasurer.
Gate City Lodge, No. 6674, G. U. O.
of O. F., meets the first and third
Monday of each month at Petersen’s
hall, 24th and Burdette sts. W. H.
Payne, N. G.; R. L. Woodard, P.'S.,
4912 South 26th st. Soutfi 4459.
Omaha Lodge No. 146. A. P. and
A. M., Omaha, Neb. Meetings first
and third Thursdays of every month.
Lodge room, 2201 Cuming street. P.
H. Jenkins, W. M.; W. H. Robinson,
Secretary.
Keystone Lodge No. 4, K. of P.,
Omaha, Nebr. Meetings first and
third Thursdays of each month. H.
A. Hazzard, C. C., J. H. Glover, K. of
R. and S.
Weeping Willow Lodge No. 9596,
G. U. O. of O. F., meets second and
fourth Thursdays of each month at
L. B. F. Hall, 24th and Charles. R.
S. Gaskins, N. G.; T. H. Gaskins, P. S.
International Order No. 631 Col
ored Engineers and Portable Hoisting
Enginemen meets at 22254/4 Lake
street first and third Wednesday in
each month. W. H. T. Ransom, pres
ident; J. H. Headly, Cor. Sec.; J. H.
Moss, Rec. Sec.; S. L. Bush, Treas.
Faithful lodge, No. 250, U. B. F.,
meets second and fourth Fridays in
each month at Rescue hall. Visiting
brethren welcome. Earl Jones, W. M.;
James Tubbs, W. S.
MUST CUT IN WHEAT
"
Need for Limitation in Consump*
tion Very Great.
Food Administration Corrects False
Impression Given by Recent
News Dispatches.
Washington.—Itecent press dispatch
es widely circulated through the coun
try have given the wholly false Impres
sion that there is no longer need for
rigorous conservation of wheat and
flour. The food administration de
clares that every aspect of the wheat
situation, both present nnd prospec
tive, intensifies the need for the great
est possible limitation In the American
consumption of wheat and wheat prod
ucts. if present restrictions should he
in the slightest degree relaxed it would
result in serious want for the people
of Europe before the new crop can
reach the market.
The food administration’s estimate
of tin- position on the first of June in
dicates a total available supply until
the new harvest, including the grain
which will be available from the farms,
in country and terminal elevators, ami
mill elevators, of about 50,000.000 bush
els. Of this HO,000,000 bushels must
he exported before new wheat Is avail
able for export If we are to maintain
i the absolutely ueeessary shipments to
our army and the allies. That leaves
about 20.000,000 bushels for doinestle
consumption for the next two months.
Normal American consumption is
something over 40,00,000 bushels a
month, so that the most liberal con
sumption at home would be only one
third of normal.
The harvest will not he generally
available in Hour until the middle of
August or early September, although
In the extreme South it will hi- some
what earlier. So long as the war lasts,
with Its Increasing drafts for soldiers
and munition workers, the world will
steadily produce less food. If we are
wise, a great harvest will mean the
willing building up of great national
reserves.
“SONG WILL WIN WAR”
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So declares Emma Roberts, the con
tralto, who was el> >sen to represent
America's best type In the music fes
tival at Ann Arbor and the great Bach
festival at Bethlehem, Pu.
“A nation Is represented by its songs.
The national anthems of America
France and England are spiritual, up
lifting, and Inspiring; the national
anthem of Germany Is aggressive and
acquisitive—and breathes bondage.
“Don’t you see thnt the songs of the
allies express a people bound to con
quer?
"So important Is this subject," con
clnues Miss Roberts, “that colleges are
establishing bureaus to study the gov
ernment singing classes in camps to
inspire soldiers through song.
TOWN IS SHOT TO PIECES
Minnesota Village Loses Band and
Baseball Team to the Ma
rine Corps.
St. Paul, Minn.—Isle, Minn., was a
village of 75 population, situated on
the Soo line near Mille Lacs Lake,
Minnesota.
Not a small part of Its population
wus of young men, so it had a baseball
team and a brass bund, just as any
other really ambitious village should
have.
The past tense is used advisedly.
Isle, Minn., still Is a village, situ
ated Just where It always has been.
But In no other way can the past and
pres* nt be compared. It is without Its
baseball team, Its brass bund—and It;
young men.
For the baseball team and the brass
band—20 of ’em, hnve enlisted In the
Marine corps.
“The town’s simply shot t’ pieces 1”
declared an elderly resident, one of
the few left.
U-Boat Victim to Get Even.
Pittsburgh, Pu.—Frank Wilson, four
times a victim of German submarines
while employed In the British mer
chant mnrine, left here for Canada to
enlist in the English navy to "gel
even” with the enemy.
NEWEST OF SLACKERS
Is Person Who Encourages Buy
ing of Platinum Jewelry.
Government Must Have Metal If War
Machine Is to Be Kept
Going.
Washington, D. C.—The newest type
of slacker nnd one who Is doing his
country a great amount of harm. Is
the man or woman who buys or even
encourages the purchase of platinum
Jewefry, according to the bureau of
mines, department of the interior. For
the country Is and for many years will
be desperately In need of the scarce
;and precious platinum in its industrial
work and must hnve It If the war ma
chine Is to go full speed ahead.
A plan proposed by the federal offi
cials would stop the use of platinum
in jewelry, not only for the war but for ;
all time. Officials of the government i
who are in close touch with the situa- |
tlon are tilled with apprehension as '
to the future supply of platinum.
In nn effort to fill the immediate
pressing needs of the government In
Its war program, the war Industries
board has ordered that 75 per cent of
the stock of platinum In the hands of
manufacturing jewelers be comman- •
deered nnd also the complete stock
held by refiners, Importers nnd deal- I
ers, hut this. It is said, will only fill
a small gap nnd that temporarily.
It has been hoped by federal officials !
and chemists throughout the country '
who understand the seriousness of the
situation that the whims of fashion
might yield to national needs nnd that
purchasers of jewelry would demand
gold nnd silver or a white alloy and sc
release platinum for Its highest use,
but the results have been disappoint
ing.
The American Chemical society, an
organization composed of the leading
12,000 chemists of the country, which
is also back of this movement, lias Is
sued an appeal to the people not under
any circumstances either during the
war or after the war to use platinum
Jewelry, but to conserve this unique
nnd fast dwindling metal now priced
at five times the cost of gold for the
exclusive use of (lie chemical and
other necessary industries.
i SOLDIER INDIAN NAMES |
WORRY THE SERGEANT T
i — !
t Camp Lewis, Amerlcnn Lake, •
• Wash.—Sioux from the Dakotas |
^ and Chlppewas from Minnesota I
| are worrying the first sergeant 7
^ of the Twenty-fifth company •
• One Hundred and Sixty-sixth .
^ Depot brigade here. The In- I
I dlans. Inducted Into the nn- *
• tlonal army, Insist on keeping •
• their tribal names and nre so •
^ entered upon tin- roster. The re- I
I suit Is that roll call every morn- |
• Ing sounds like this: ?
• ‘‘Johnny Chnse-the-Weasel, •
l Look-ns-You-SIt, Sleep-ns-Thls- I
I Is-the-Water, Mist-Over-the-Wn- |
• ter, Charlie See-the-Elk, Ante- 7
• lope, Middle Rapids and Blue •
i Bird.
I T
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BARBERS BEMOAN TRADE LOSS
Women Who Are Taking Men’s Places
in Industries Are Not Helping
Tonsorial Artist.
Memphis, Tenn.—AVomen taking the
place of men In the Industrial world
may lie filling the Jobs all right, but
they are not helping the barber.
Visit any tonsorial establishment
and ask the man who wields the gleam
ing blade. lie will tell you some of
his best customers have gone—gone to
fight the Germans. And he will tell
you that nil the women who took their
places are strangers to him.
While the burlier complains the
“beauty doctor" bus n different story
to tell. She soys her patrons nre
more numerous than ever before, and
they nre more liberal. They spend
money lavishly. A few dollars to re
move a wrinkle that has appeared ns
a result of business worries Is handed ,
over without a murmur. Powder and
paint and toilet water are used lav
ishly.
GRAND DUKE WORKS AS CLERK
“London Michael” and Countess En
dure Reverses Uncomplainingly
In London.
London.—One of the Russian grand
dukes, known as the "London Michael"
to distinguish him from the othei
Grand Duke Michael, has fallen from
great wealth to comparative penury as
a result of the Russian revolution.
Before the war lie lived In one of
the finest residential estates In the
neighborhood of London. When lib
Income from Russia was cut off In
subleased this property and Is now a
clerk at $2,000 a year In an office near
Westminster abbey. Ills wife, the
Countess Torhy, conducts their small
home with zest and without grumbling.
"Probably no family In Great Brit
ain lias endured greater reverses than
this one, or borne Its misfortune more
cheerfully," comments the Evening
News.
8. A. R. Die* at Omaha.
Omaha, Neb.—Nelson Moore, i;aid to
be the last real “son” of the Amer
ican Revolution, died at his home here.
Mr. Moore was born In Vernon, Oneida
county. New York.
CATTLE INDUSTRY IS
FLOURISHING ON CANAL
Large Areas of Forest Cleared
and 100,000 Head Soon Will
Be Grazing.
The policy of raising cattle for the
nse of the employees of the Panama
canal and the military and naval
forces there has transformed the ap
pearance of the canal zone.
Large areas of forest and jungle
along the railway and the canal have
been cleared off anil planted In guinea
grass, and the big herds of cattle may
be seen browsing In the valleys or on
the slopes of the many hills. Many
thousands of acres have been cleared
already, and the work Is still going on.
A big dairy is also operated, and in
time all the beef, milk anil cheese
needed on the Isthmus may be pro
duced there.
The guinea grass originally was an
African plant, but has been establish
ed in the West Indies and parts of the
continent for a long time. It Is a
heavy, rank grass, often reaching a
height of ten feet, stoollng freely and
rooting deeply. It Is particularly val
uable, as it destroys almost any other
vegetation, a quality of great utility
In the tropics. It propagates both from
seed and roots and spreads quite rap
idly.
The para grass is grown In a limited
extent also In low and wet soils. It Is
not as desirable as guinea grass, but is J
eaten by both cattle and horses. Para
grass is the great prevailing plant of
the lower Amazon valley, as It is not
Injured by the periodic inundations.
The cattle industry in the canal zone
is especially favored by the fact that
tiatun lake supplies plenty of water
during the dry senson, its branches
ramifying through the many hills anil
mountains and making fresh water
avilable in all the pastures. The zone
may support a herd of lOO.tXX) head of
cattle without trenching upon the
areas used for agricultural and horti
cultural purposes.
BROWN CREEPER j
(Certtiia familiar la americana)
Length, five and one-half inches.
Range: Breeds from Nebraska, In- j
dlana. North Carolina (mountains),
and Massachusetts north to southern
Canada, also in the mountains of the
western United States, north to
Alaska, south to Nicaragua; winters
over most of its range.
Habits and economic status: Rare
ly indeed is the creeper seen at rest
It appears to spend its life in an in
cessant scramble over the trunks and
branches of trees, from which it gets
all its food. It is protectively colored
so as to be practically invisible to its
enemies and, though delicately built,
possesses amazingly strong claws and
feet. Its tiny eyes are sharp enough
to detect insects so small that most
other species pass them by, and alto
gether the creeper fills a unique place
in the ranks of our Insect destroyers.
The food consists of minute insects
and insects’ eggs, also cocoons of
tineld moths, small wasps, ants, and
bugs, especially scales and plant lice,
with some small caterpillars. As the
creeper remains in the United States
throughout the year, it naturally se
cures hibernating insects and insects’
eggs, as well as spiders and spiders'
eggs ihissed by the summer birds. On
Its bill of fare we find no product of
husbandry nor any useful insects.
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