CHILDREN OF ENGLAND
IN WAGE SLAVERY
National News Mates Startling Ac
cusution That Thousands of Chil
dren of Tender Age Are Being Ex
ploited by British Industries.
London. Dec. 3.-The appalling
scandal of child slavery in Grea
Britain, as unearthed by the National
News, which has continued its investi
gation reveals that 1,500.000 British
children under 16 years old are em
ployed in and exploited by industry.
Thousands of these child victims
who are stunted in body and mind and
whose future is hopelessly handi
capped, are but 7 or 8 years old and
work 50 hours a week for less than $1.
in Birmingham, for instance, there
are 9 000 child wage victims; in Kent,
where the beer hops grows, there are
several thousands. During 1917 there
were 14,000 children employed at
night in munition shops.
The National News maintains that
the children's work is unnecessary,
that the monetary gain is far more
than offset by the evil effects of child
labor, and that the practice of employ
ing child labor in dangerous and un
necessary tasks is widely prevalent
and a national disgrace.
WOl LD COLONIZE \MEHH AN
NEGROES IN GERM ANT’S
AFRICAN POSSESSIONS
(By The Associated Negro Press)
Washington. D. C., Dec. 3—Volun
tary emigration of the Negroes of this
country to the former German col
onies in Africa, where they would
have a greater opportunity than in
this country but would still remain
under the American flag, is believed
by Senator Joseph I. France of Mary
land. to be not only a possibility but
a probability, if the United States will
take these colonies.
Mr. France prepared a reservation
to the peace treaty, under which the
United States would take over the
colonies as her one-fifth of the Ger
man overseas possessions which, he
says, is granted this country by the
teraty. He would have the former
German colonies developed under the
tutelage of the United States and
opened up as lands of opportunity for
the educated Negroes of this country.
CHICAGO OPENS SPLENDID HOTEL
(By The Associated Negro Press)
Chicago, Dec. 3.—The Hotel V in
cennes, the most elaborate and mod
ern hotel in the country for colored
patronage, has been opened to the
public, and is now one of the show
places of Chicago. The building has.
more than 200 rooms, with telephone
in each room; beautiful parlors and
dining rooms, fine lobby and every
thing necessary to make the traveling
public comfortable and happy.
PROTEST JIM CROWING IN
CONGRESSIONAL LIBKARY
New York, Dec. 3.—The National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New
York, have made public an emphatic
protest sent to President Wilson
against race segregation in the Con
gressional Library in Washington.
The protest asserts that colored
people have been excluded from the
public restaurant of the library and
that colored employes have been seg
regated in the lunch room.
“We deBire most emphatically to
protest,” says the letter to President
Wilson, “against the'policy adopted by
those in charge of the Congressional
Library of denying to colored era
ployes facilities which should be
maintained for the use of all, and to
the colored people of Washington and
of the country in general the use of
the restaurant maintained by federal
taxes for the general public.”
The letter is Signed by James Wel
don Johnson, field secretary of the as
sociation.
CENTRAL CITY COLLEGE
RECEIVES LARGE
CASH DONATIONS
Macon. Ga„ Dec. 3.—Fifteen hundred
of our group attending the Georgia
Baptist Missionary convention gave
$123,912.30 cash to the Central City
college, a colored institution here.
The college had a debt of $18,000, and
this amount was wiped out, and the
: other money raised for improvements.
WEAVER ON TRIAL FOR ARSON
FIRST RIOT CASE IN COCRT
(Continued From Page One.)
of law and order in this community.
He said that everyone who participat
ed in the riot and the burning of the
court house was a hoodlum and law
breaker whose act or acts were abso
lutely unjustifiable and without a ves
tige of excuse.
NICKELS TO FLIVVERS
(Dr. Burris Jenkins in Kansas City
Post.)
Here is a news dispatch sent to
The Post by J. W. Pattee, who serves
The Post as correspondent at Smith
Center, Kas.—that is, Mr. Pattee Bent
k as a news dispatch, but concealed
between its lines there is such a won
derful text for a sermon on thrift that
the contribution is being borrowed
from the news department. But—
You're beginning to wonder what
Ibis is all about, anyway, so go ‘ahead
and read:
“Smith Center, Kas , Oct. 17.—When
the government first began making
nickels with buffalo beads on one
side, Mrs. G. P. Khly of Mankato,
Kas . started saving every buffalo
nickel that came into her possession.
She made a practice Of dropping such
nickels into a chute that ran from
her kitchen to a wooden box in the
cellar. A few days ago she took an
Invoice and found that she had 14,00(1
coins, aggregating $700. Her husband
had long pined for a “flivver.” Now
he’s got the "flivver."
Isn't that an impressive demonstm
tion of the value of saving small
things?
Doesn't it prove how easy it is for
u to save money if we try?
Just figure, for a minute, what the
result would have been if dimes had
been used instead of nickels, or quar
ters instead of dimes! Moreover,
while v e are about it. let’s estimate
how nsany, many nickels, dimes and
quarters we turn loose without get
j ting anything tangible to show where
| the money went.
Remember now, it hasn't been so
very many years since the first buf
falo nickel was coined, and further
more, hear in mind that the Kansas
woman who amassed $700 worth of
nickels did not handle mv large ag
; gregate of money from which to ex
j tract her small coin savings.
It all goes to show that we fritter
| away more money each year than we
j are aware of. unless we stop and
j take invoice of ourselves and our re
i sources, and it further impresses up
on uh the truth of the old saying that
it isn't so much what we make, as
what we save that counts.
We were taught thrift during the
j war. Now that the war is over, sup
pose we practice what we learned
I about thrift, and let's extract a lesson
from the example set us by the Kan
sas woman.
Use
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Furniture
Polish
\t Your Car is shabby, cloudy or dull you are even figuring the
cost of refinisbing the body—get a bottle of IVORY POLISH and
use it according to the directions that go with every bottle.
You Will Marvel when you see the
cloudiness disappear and the true ebony
or color of the finish come again, all
fresh and bright, with even the
scratches gone, or less noticeable.
—Ivory Polish is easy to use.
—It cleans and polishes at the same
time.
—It cannot Injure the finest surface.
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—It is especially recommended for
Pianos.
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At 25c, 50c the bottle.
%-Gal. and Gal. Jug at 11.75 and »3.00.
ASK YOUR DEALER
Drug Store, Household Store, Furniture Store, Dept. Store, Etc.
or get it direct from
Orchard & Wilhelm Co.
Omaha, Nebraska
PRACTICE ECONOMY NOW.
Attorney General Palmer Says It's
Every Patriotic American’s
First Duty.
“It is as much the duty of the pa
triotic American citizens to econot
mize as it was when our boys were
over there." says A. Mitchell Palmer.
Attorney General of the United States
in charge of the Government’s inves
tigation of profiteering. "All public
men. as well as the press and the pul
pit, should preach saving. They I
should plead with the people to do !
these things—produce more, consume
less; work and save.”
The Savings Division of the Treas !
ury Department, and the 600,000 War 1
Savings Societies of the country have
been co-operating with Mr. Palmer j
and his department in the effort to j
reduce the cost of living, check the
profiteer, eliminate waste and reduce j
extravagance by means of sale and
distribution of War Savings Stamps
and Treasury Savings Certificates.
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The man who is long on words is
apt to he short on deeds.
Some people do odd things for the
purpose of getting even.
Our idea of a wise girl is one who
can't sing and knows it.
The first and last years of a man's
life are not very strenuous.
Persons not vaccinated are not per
mitted to vote in Norway.
Begin to educate your grandchil
dren by educating yourself.
But the mother always has an ex
cuse for the juvenile terror.
In Iceland whistling is forbidden
as a breach of divine law.
Love realizes its blindness shortly
after the marriage ceremony.
When in need of a good line of talk,
patronize a telephone company.
The Holidays
Are Coming.
Give the
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