Show A FRONTIER SHAME Germany has lyls a great colon colony in east Africa but the Women's Alliance of the German colonial society so- so o- o is worried over its future It claims that while the tie colony is under the German flag under present conditions it will never get to be it a at German colony for or all the emigrants that have gone there have hav mostly been men In that off far country restraint restraints is s taken away and they t take native wives rather than tian to send back to Germany with the result that the he children can not speak a word of German and that hat when the household has company the wife is is i kept out of sight an and as far as possible the chil- chil I dren ren This Women's Alliance is trying to raise the he means necessary to send women to that tha colony olony A few were sent a year ago but they are arc almost al ost every one of them married and write home hopefully and contentedly of their present ridi tion ion We suspect that that is not different frim the situation found in all new countries that are re faraway fur far away from the parent land It has always been possible pos- pos possible sible ible on the west coast to have at least monthly communication communication communication com com- with the east and yet there are a great many squaw men inen men to be found in Cal California ornia and Oregon in in Washington and especially in Alaska It I means a hearty race of people but they are not exactly Americans They are mostly half breeds and fighters and a good deal of concern to the country coun coun- try ry in which they live That seems to us all wrong especially as in in the New England states there is a surplus of women of the he very highest type and it is a matter so serious that hat we think the government should be interested in n it and the railroads ought to give special ial rates to 6 women who wish to go west and and grow grow up with the country This old world is full of wrongs but ut about the meanest wrong of all is when a white whiteman whiteman whiteman man debases himself by taking an off colored w wife e. e |