Denver Star

DETROIT FIGHTS BIRTH OF A NATION. Negro Citizens Aroused and United, Battle for Passage of City Ordinance that will Forever Prohibit such Race-Hate Breeding Plays. Now Pending Before City Council. Detroit, intelligent, progressive and brave, has responded to the call of the local chapter of the Society of Advancement of Colored People and has joined the nationwide fight against Dixon's vile "Birth of a Nation." And what an inspiring sight and lesson it is to our children to see the various Negro and white organizations line up and clear for action, and take their places on the firing line. The local chapter is working among the prominent white citizens of the Civic League, the Ministers' Alliance, the wealthy Ladies 20th Century Club, and the City and State official. The united Negro Pastors' Association, of which Rev. Robt. L. Bradby of Baptist Church is President, Rev. James M. Henderson of Ebeneezer A. M.E. Church, Vice President, Father R. W. Bagnall of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Treasurer, and Rev. Joseph M. Evans of Bethel A. M. E. Church, Secretary, held an enthusiastic men's mass meeting last Sunday, and an overflow audience of determined voters pledged themselves to stand shoulder to shoulder with their leaders. As a result all week every City Councilman has been bombarded with personal letters, telephone talks, and face to face conversations urging him to vote for the passage of this ordinance which will forever bar the exhibition of the "Birth of a Nation" in Detroit and all other vicious plays which implant seeds of race hatred and misunderstanding. One thousand men stood with bared heads and uplifted hands, and pledged themselves to attend the session of City Council, Tuesday evening, and bring another man along, when this prohibitive ordinance comes up for passage at the City Hall. Eureka Commandery of Masonic circles is busy working with "the square, on the level, by the plumb." The Knights of Pythias with the brotherhood of Damon and Pythias as their guide are searching out into the right places. The Wolverine Lodge of Elks is getting effective and encouraging support from responsible and powerful people. Detroit is in earnest, and will go to the limit to keep that insult to Negro manhood and womanhood, that libel on our nation and flag, the Birth of a Nation from disgracing the intelligence and the fair name of this community, and The Denv ESTABLISHED 1888 sowing seeds of distrust, suspicion and racial hate in the hearts of former brothers, community partners and constructive upbuilders. Several weeks ago this nasty exhibition of Negro hatred was barred from the theatres of our neighbor Windsor, also all Canada, and ye humble scribe now predicts a similar outcome and defeat when this hydra-headed snake attempts to spew its deadly poison into our city, at the Detroit Opera, House where, it is booked to appear the week of January 2nd 1916. Protest Film's Presentation. A resolution protesting against the presentation in Detroit of the film. The Birth of a Nation, based on Rev. Thomas Dixon's novel, The Clansman, was adopted at a meeting of the Federation Woman's Christian Temperance union. The federation will urge Police Commissioner Gillespie to forbid the showing of the film, on the plea that it creates race strife. The film is scheduled for presentation at the Dettoit opera house January 2nd 1916. BY ALFRED F. ROSS. SOUTHERN JIMCROW LAWS. Hew the Grandfather Clause Failed in Maryland and Oklahoma. In answer to a correspondent who asks the following questions: "Have any changes been made recently in the laws by which Negroes were disenfranchised in the southern states? What are or were these laws, and when did they begin to go into effect?" the New York Times says: "The chief method used in disenfranchising the Negro I the southern states has been and is a high educational test as a qualification for voting, which includes the ability to interpret any part of a state constitution. The so called 'grandfather clause,' by which any person who voted in or before 1867 or 1868 (the details of the law differed in different states) was entitled to a vote, was nullified by the United States supreme court for the states of Maryland and Oklahoma on June 21, 1915. "The first constitutional convention disenfranchising the Negro was that held in Mississippi in 1800, when the educational qualification mentioned above was made part of the constitution of the state. Previous to that time the imposition of a poll tax was for some years effective in the southern states. "The other constitutional means of disenfranchising the Negro, to quote Professor Charles A. Beard's 'Contemporary American History,' are 'a small property qualification' and 'the wide extension of disenfranchisement for crimes by including such offenses as obtaining money under false pretenses, adultery, wife beating, petit larceny, fraudulent breach of trust among those which work deprivation of the suffrage.'" Mrs. Susan Gillies Dies In 115th Year. Mrs. Susan Gillies, whose death occurred at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Julia Thomas in Brooklyn, Dec. 12, was reputed to have been 115 years of age. According to Mrs. Thomas' statement, who is herself over eighty-four years of age, Mrs. Gillies was born on a plantation in Virginia in 1800. The deceased was a member of the Concord Baptist church, with which she had been connected for the past half century. Attainments of Miss Gladys Caution. In the municipal civil service exami- nation for playground work in New York Miss Gladys Caution stood second on the list of 1,500 applicants. She was assigned to duty at the play ground in the downtown section of Brooklyn near the Brooklyn bridge. Miss Caution is one of our best qualifi- fed young women for social service work. DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, DEC. 26, 1916 1. Revocation of Theater License The charter of the city of Minneapolis gives to the mayor the power to revoke any license issued by authority of the city council. The licensee of a theater arranged to exhibit the photoplay "The Birth of a Nation," and the mayor notified him that if he did so his license would be revoked. 2. Theaters and Shows—License—Power to Revoke. The power of the mayor to revoke a license is not an absolute power. It cannot be used capriciously, or arbitrarily, or oppressively, but only in the exercise of an honest and reasonable discretion. 3. Theaters and Shows—Revocation of License—Discretion of Mayor—Judicial Control. The exercise of the discretion of the mayor with respect to the revocation of licenses cannot be subject to judicial control. The court will merely inquire whether a fair legal discretion was exercised. 4. Theaters and Shows—Revocation of License—Injunction. The facts in this case fairly called for the exercise of the discretion of the mayor, and the courts should not direct or enjoin his action. Appeal from District Court, Hennepin County; John H. Steel, Judge. Injunction by A. G. Bainbridge, Jr., against the City of Minneapolis and others. Temporary injunction denied, and plaintiff appeals. Affirmed. HALLAM J. Plaintiff is the lessee of the Shubert Theater in Minneapolis and he has a license to operate the same as a theater. In October of this year he made an arrangement with the owners of the films of the photoplay entitled "The Birth of a Nation," to exhibit the same at the Shubert Theater. Thereupon W. G. Nye, mayor of Minneapolis, after a conference, advised plaintiff that he would not permit the photoplay to be exhibited, and that he would revoke the license of the Shubert Theater should plaintiff exhibit the play there. Plaintiff brought this action to enjoin the mayor from revoking plaintiff's license and asked for a temporary injunction during the pendency of the action. The trial court denied the motion for a temporary injunction, and plaintiff appeals. 2. The charter of the city of Minneapolis contains this provision: "Any license issued by authority of the city council may be revoked by the mayor or city council at any time." City Charter. The question is whether the court can enjoin the mayor from exercising this power which the law expressly gives him. The case was heard in the trial court upon affidavits. The affidavits contain but fragmentary showing of facts as to what the films display. A synopsis attached to one of the affidavits, however, contains much that is descriptive of the play. In general the play purports to be historic, though it does not claim entire historic accuracy. The first portion presents scenes of the Civil War: the later portions scenes from the South in the days of "reconstruction." Directing attention to the objectionable portions, the play shows the following: Austin Stoneman, leader of Congress, proposed to establish the complete political and social equality of the Negroes. He induces a mulatto, Silas Lynch, to go to South Carolina os the "leader of his people." Stoneman also goes to South Carolina to supervise his "equality program." The Negroes and carpet baggers carry the state election and Lynch is chosen Lieutenant Governor. The Legislature, made up mostly of Negroes and carpet baggers, loots the state. Lawlessness runs riot. Whites are elbowed off the street, overawed at the polls, and often despoiled of their possession. Then arises the organization of the Ku Klux, Klan, which the conditions are represented as justifying. One film shows a young girl at Piedmont, S. C., pursued by a renegade Negro family servant who had become a state militiaman. She desperately runs, evading and dodging her pursuer until, almost cornered, she leaps from a bluff to her death. Other films show the daughter of Stoneman calling on Lynch, at a mansion in Piedmont which he has taken as his own, on some errand of mercy. Lynch declares his intention to marry her and "make her queen of his empire." She protests and he orders a Negro chaplain sent for to perform a forced marriage. Stoneman arrives and protests, but his protests are of no avail. There is no hope but in the Ku Klux Klan. Other films show a Southern gentleman, above reproach, arrested at his home in Fiedmont for having harbored the clansmen. He is restuad from the public authorities by his family and friends, and fleeing to together, they take refuge in the cabin of two Union veterans who protect them. There they are besieged by the Negro militiamen. Ku Klux from the adjoining country have in the meantime been summoned to help "overawe the carpet-baggers and Negroes." They rush to the rescue "armed to the teeth and pledged to victory or death." Their guns mow down the state militia in the streets, capture the Lynch mansion, rescue the Stonemans, and then go to the rescue of the cabin where they arrive just in time to save the occupants. 2. The law applicable to the case is simple and well settled in the state. As stated above, the statute gives the mayor power to revoke licenses. This power of the mayor is not an absolute power to revoke. It cannot be used capriciously, or arbitrarily, or oppressively, but only in the exercise of an honest and reasonable discretion. But we must not forget that the discretion to be exercised is the discretion of the mayor. The power to revoke licenses is delegated to him, and not to the courts. The exercise of the discretion of the mayor with respect to the revocation of licenses cannot be subject to judicial control. We cannot substitute the discretion of the court for that of the mayor, to whom the Legislature has specially confided its exercise. If it were otherwise, the city would be governed by the courts, and not by the city officers in whom the law vests the governmental power. The court will in such cases merely inquire whether a fair legal discretion was exercised. 38 Cyc 26; State ex rel. v. Redington, 119 Minn. 402, 138 N. W. 430; In re Hunstiger, 153 N. W. 869; People ex rel. v. Grant, 126 N. Y. 473, 27 N. E. 964. It is true there must be some facts which invoke the exercise of official discretion and furnish reasonable justification for the course followed, and unless the facts sustain the officer without equivocation then the situation must at least be such that honest and reasonable men may draw different conclusions from the facts. If the question be doubtful and there is room for honest difference of opinion, and the determination of the question requires judgment and discretion, the action of the officer will be conclusive upon the courts. In re Hunstiger, 153 N. W. 869 Harmison v. City of Lewistown, 153 Ill. 313, 38'N. E. 628, 46 Am. St Rep. 839. (Continued on Page 6.) A MASTERPIECE OF ORATORY Geo. W. Gross Delivers Eloquent Address at Booker T. Washington's Memorial. "As the Moses of the Rees" It has been said that God invariably brings forth a leader for every crisis, to combat every cause and to meet every perplexing problem and that the larger the crisis, or cause, or problem, the larger are the powers with which he adorns his chosen. Some time in the early part of the 16th century, prior to the birth of Christ, there was born in Egypt one destined to be a great leader as well as to be a mighty prophet. He was born at a time when his people, the Israelites, were the oppressed and the enslaved of the nation. By every rule and law of the land an enunciated by Pharaoh he should have been destroyed by being cast in the river. But it was a part of God's plan that he should be spared and reared for the problems he desired should be solved. History records no more humble birth than that of Moses, leader, prophet and legislator of the Hebrew people; who from early life carried secure in his throbbing bloom the burning promise of God that his people should become a great nation, and whom God eventually applauded GEO. W. GROSS. as their chosen deliverer from bondage in Egypt. We are told that he possessed nothing of gifted eloquence or fluency of speech, but was imbued with the higher element of forceful energy and firmness of purpose. His inherent love for his race and faithful devotion to its every interest, his patience and ready submission to the will of God, serve as one of the most pathetic as well as one of the most sublime lessons to be found in all history. Not until he had reached 80 years of age, the period when most men seek ease from responsibility and from the great cares of life, did he take up the mission for which he was destined from birth. Like every great leader who starts out with a fixed purpose in life, he encountered from the very first innumerable obstacles. His leadership was questioned, his authority assailed, and his life was even endangered. Though he often gave miraculous manifestation of the gift of Divine favor, still he was surrounded with untold jealousies and discontent among his own people. Perhaps the sudden release from bondage and the casting off the chains of slavery had caused false hopes to arise in the hearts of the Hebrews. No doubt they expected their leader to take them at once to a land of ease and of plenty. In all probability they expected to climb upwards by leaps and bounds. They remembered God's promise that the Jewish race should become a great nation, but they did not stop to reckon that God's plan must first be served. They conceived that the magic of Moses should bring to them immediate success and prosperity, not being willing to fight the battles and face the obstacles that must always come to a people who would succeed. The great Jewish leader was forced to stand like a giant pillar between the oppressed and the oppressor. On the one hand was the distress and crying discontent of his people, on the other hand was the merciless despotism of Pharaoh. Even after they had crossed in triumph the Red sea, there were threatening clouds that not the revealed power and presence of God through the handing down of the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinia could dispel. So through forty years of toilseason wandering, Moses continued to lead his people with unfailing courage and hope that some day he might bring them to a better and more prosperous life in a land of promise. To a great extent his prophecy and his (Continued on page 4.) Church News BETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH. 3148 Lafayette. Phone Y 7647. REV. A. E. REYNOLDS, PASTOR. Sunday School, 9:45—Review, "Jehovah's Gracious Promise to Israel." Read Moses 14. 11:00 a. m.—Preaching. 6:30—B. Y. P. U. Topic, "America for the World's Sake." Isiah 54: 2-3 and Acts 1:6-8. Leader Mr. George Brooks. 7:45 p. m.—Preaching. This being the last Sunday in the old year every member should make an effort to attend one of the services. Rev. Bell, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. and Rev. West addressed the B. Y. P. U., and Rev. Bell preached for us at the evening service last Sunday night, and delivered a good, practical sermon which was well received by all present. Next Friday night is watch meeting night; services will begin at 10:30. Let every member try and attend and bring some sinner friend with them. Election of officers of the church and auxillaries, Wednesday night, January 5th. Our literary closed for the holidays last Friday night. Next meeting January 7th. Mrs. Georgia Harrison, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. Reynolds, arrived in the city last Sunday to spend the holidays with her parents. Mrs. Harrison was the matron of the Kansas building at the Panama Exposition and spent ten months out in California. She was the only woman of our race that held such a responsible position, having been appointed by the legislature of the State of Kansas last winter. Mrs. Harrison lives in Leavenworth, Kansas, and when at home she is actively engaged in Church work and also the social side of life. CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH, Corner Twenty-fourth and California Streets. Rev. P. J. Price, Pastor, 3012 Marion Street. Sunday school lesson, Jehovah's Gracious Promises to Israel (review). Hosea 14. W. A. Moore, Supt. W. A. Fugett, Asst. Supt. Come out to the B. Y. P. U. at 6:30 p. m. Jas. Austin, Jr., Pres. Services were good Sunday. The sick of our church are convalescent. Sister Katie Hill, Mother Austin, Sister Richardson, Marie Lyles, Sister Vernon, Sister Featherstone, Sister O. Carr, Sister Jamison, and Mother Dickerson. Xmas exercises at Central Friday night and Xmas tree. Memorial program Dec. 31st, beginning at 8 p. m., under the auspices of the Sunday School and Mission Circle. The choir sang well Sunday. Watch meeting Dec. 31st, beginning at 11 p. m. All are welcome. Free will offering first Sunday in January, 1916. Each member is expected to contribute freely. Installation of new officers in the near future. Watch for next week's issue. The B. Y. P. U. rally was very good Sunday night. Little Irma Jackson and Master Welvin Phillips were ably assisted by Sisters Maggie Rose and Lucy Brown, $7.80 being the net receipts. SCOTT METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 803 26TH AVE. Preaching promptly at 11 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. Epworth League, 6:45 p. m. Junior League, 3:00 p. m. Sunday School, 9:45 a. m. Every church goes in Denver should see the beautiful decorations of Scott M. E. church. The formal opening, in which a number of the various congregations will have a representative part, will take place soon. The church will be in fine condition for our next new pastor. The Ladies' Aid and Willing Workers met Thursday and requested that all the officers be present Sunday. Business of importance. Sunday School and Epworth League are still interesting adjuncts of the church. Owing to the condition of the church, the Xmas exercises will be had on Sunday following Xmas. All pledges on the rally are urgently asked to be paid Sunday, as money is needed to pay for the repairs. Rev. Rader made a proposition to the ladies, that if they would furnish coal until Dec. 31, 1915, he had a friend who would furnish coal free the rest of the year. The ladies have kept their part of the agreement. Rev. Rader will be called upon to fulfill his part. Church of The HOLY REDEEMER (Eniscopal) 22nd Ave. and Humboldt Sts. Rev. Henry B. Brown, Vicar. Christmas Eve— 11:15 p. e.—Choral Solemn Eucharist with Sermon. Subject: "The Christmas Message." Christmas Day— 11:15 a. m.—Choral Solemn Eucharist with Sermon subject, "The Christmas Spirit." 4 p. m.—The Children's Festival. Christmas Sunday— 7:30 a. m.—Celebration of the Holy Eucharist. 9:45 a. m.—Sunday school. 11:15 a. m.—Choral Solemn Eucharist with Sermon, Subject, "The Christ Mass." 7:45 p. m.—Choral Solemn Evensong with Sermon, Subject, "The Christmas Song." Special music with Monk's Mass will be rendered at these services. THE PEOPLE'S PRESBYTERIAN. East 23d Ave and Washington St. Pastor, J. A. Thos. Hazell, S. T. 6. Sermon Topics, Sunday, Dec. 26th. The following activities will be observed at this Church during the season: Friday night, Xmas Tree with a musical program under the auspices of the Sabbath School. Christmas morning the usual Christmas Services with Communion and special music. Appropriate music will be the feature at both services on the Sabbath. Especially will there be an unusually strong musical feature in connection with the evening services. Watch Night services will be held as usual on Old Year's Night, beginning at 10:30 o'clock and continuing until 12:15, New Year's Day. Everybody is cordially invited to all the exerices of the Season. Topics for the Week of Prayer, January 29, 1916. General Theme, "Peace and Unity." Sunday, January 2, Sermon on "Reconciliation." Monday, January 3—International and National. Tuesday, January 4—"Peace Thru Xtian Service for Jews and Gentiles, Abroad and at Home." Wednesday, January 5—"Unity in the Church Throughout the World." Thursday, January 6—"Peace and Education in Schools, Colleges and Universities." Friday, January 7—"The Family and the Youth." Spiritual Training. Saturday, January 5 "Peace Thru Brotherhood; Reform and Social Service; To promote health, Labor Conditions, Purity and Temperance." Sunday, January 9 "Sermon, "The Prince of Peace in Victory and Glory." Sunday Evening "Fellowship Service followed by Fellowship Supper (complimentary) by the Pastor to members and friends of the Church. Speakers of great repute will lead in the discussion of the respective subjects. Open to all interested persons. SHILOH BAPTIST MISSION Corner 31st and Walnut Sts. Rev. T. E. Henderson, Pastor. Preaching Sunday at 11 a. m. and at 8 p. m. Sunday school at 2:30 p. m. Regular prayer meeting Thursday at 7:30 p. m. PLEASANT GREEN HOME BAP- TIST CHURCH. Prayer service Wednesday night. All are welcome. Prayer and praise service at Zion Baptist church Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Prayer for National prohibition. Thanksgiving for victory in Colorado. Everyone invited. Thurman, Leonard and Smith-Cassell unions. MISSION WORK AND SUNDAY SCHOOL AT THIRTY-FIRST AND BLAKE STREETS Bible Training Class, 7:30 each Friday evening. Colorado Annual Conference Directory. Rocky Mountain District—Rev. A. M. Ward, Presiding Elder. Shorter Chapel, Denver, Rev. Robert L. Pope, B. D. Payne Chapel, Colorado Springs. Rev. J. L. Williams. Campbell Chapel, Denver, Rev. Jas. Washington. St. John, Pueblo, Rev. W. T. Biggers, LL. B. St. Paul, Pueblo, Rev. John Adams, D. D. Salt Lake City, Utah, Rev. D. R. Jones. Grace Chapel, Cheyenne, Wyo. Rev. F. L. Donohoo. Boulder, Rev. A. Wayman Ward, B. D. Grand Junction and Glenwood, Rev. W. E. Washington. Sheridan, Wyo., Rev. S. R. Maginez. Ogden, Utah, Rev. B. H. Moore. Cripple Creek, Rev. T. H. Pool. Alliance and Crawford, Neb., Rev. Grant Kirby. Rock Springs and Laramie, to be supplied. Leadville and Salida to be supplied. Dearfield Mission under supervision of Shorter Chapel. Albuquerque District—Rev. J. P. Howard, Presiding Elder. Albuquerque, N. M., Rev. J. M. Endcott. Clifton, Ariz., Rev. T. S. Johnson. Raton and Rouse, Rev. W. T. Thornton. Las Vegas, N. M., Rev. B. F. McCully. Globe and Miami, Ariz., Rev. F. O. Graves. Douglas and Lisbee, Rev. T. M Reeves Durango and Silverton, to be sup- P. W. COLEMAN, Sec'z. B. J. CATLETT, Supt. Well Known Physician Talks on Probable Outcome of European War. BY JOHN E. BRUCE "GRIT." New York.-The versatile and scholarly Dr. York Russell, the eminent New York physician, is a close and accurate student of history and of world politics, but he is so extremely modest and retiring that it is difficult to get him to talk for publication. He does not like notoriety nor the limelight. Since the circumstance I am about to relate has become a part of the contemporaneous history now in the making, I think I violate no confidence in repeating part of a conversation in which I was a silent participant to show the clearness of the doctor's vision and the accuracy of his judgment. Exactly one month and fourteen days from the date of this writing (Oct. 22) three gentlemen who delight to hear the brilliant Barbadian, now a full fledged American citizen, discourse sat in his cozy parlor in West One Hundred and Thirty-first street one afternoon, and one of them, who is also a disciple of Aesculapius, drew him out by asking questions as to the probable success of the allies in their much heralded drive on the Dardanelles. The young physician insisted that the allies would surely overpower the Turks, capture the Dardanelles and thus open a pathway to Constantinople. He couldn't see how it could be otherwise, for it is so written in the book of fate, etc. Dr. Russell smiled one of his fetching smiles and said: "My dear friend, the kaiser in this war has shown himself a better strategist than the military leaders and advisers of the allies. While most of us hope that the allies will win, we cannot ignore the fact that they have not appeared to play the game according to rule. There is no dissension, no disagreement in either the general staff of the German army or in the ranks of the kaiser's personal advisers. They are working as a unit, and working to win, and if Germany does not win in this war she certainly will not lose—she cannot lose—for she has planned her work and is working her plans most successfully. "If Britain and the allies do not rise to the seriousness and importance of the present grave situation in the Balkans and watch it, gentlemen, Germany will block their game, there will be breaks in the cabinets of France and England resulting from differences of opinion as to the conduct of the war, and some resignations may follow. This will not help the cause of the allies; it will raise a doubt anomie the people as to the fitness of the men they have chosen to bring this war to a successful issue. This policy of 'watchful waiting' has been fatal to the allies, and it has given the kaiser the opportunity to checkmate their plans. While they have been whining he has been working. The die is cast, and I fear that the doom of England is about to be sealed." Now, after the lapse of one month and fourteen days, the news dispatches from Europe tell us that German strategists have really blocked the allies in the Balkans, that the English are fighting among themselves, that England is on the verge of dissolution, that Carson has resigned from the coalition cabinet, that Delcasse, one of the ablest of French diplomats, has withdrawn from the French cabinet and that Premier Asquith is ill and in bed. All this seems to indicate that Germany will soon be in position to make peace on her own terms and is important if true. Dr. Russell has followed these events with keen interest and fine discrimination, and his diagnosis of their probable results show him to be a man of the clearest vision. National Association Branch Work. The Cincinnati branch of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People has elected the following named persons as officials for the year beginning November, 1915: William Stevenson, president; C. R. Davis, vice president; Mrs. Andrew Lee, secretary; Mr. Andrew Lee, assistant secretary; John Taylor, treasurer; Thomas Triplett, Thomas J. Monroe, Mrs. Edith Miller, Mrs. Phoebe Allen, Robert Greer, members of the executive committee. AN INFLUENTIAL CITIZEN. Hon. Harry C. Smith's Good Work In Behalf of the Race. Cleveland, O.-The last week of the six months' fight made by our people of Ohio and a few of their white friends, led by Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of the Gazette of this city, former Secretary of State Daniel J. Ryan, Robert B. Barcus and the local branch of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People of Columbus, O., who got into the fight against a certain photo play, ended successfully. How much justice there is in the manifestly unfair claim of a persistent Columbus writer that Messrs. Ryan, Barcus and others are entitled to all credit for influencing the governor of this state and the state board of censors against permitting the play to show in Ohio can be seen at a glance, says the Hon. Harry C. Smith. Especially is this true when it is remembered that months ago Governor Frank B. Willis promised the editor of the Cleveland Gazette in personal interviews at Columbus and in numerous letters, some of which have been published, that the play in question would not be allowed to show in the state. This was months before Messrs. Ryan, Barcus and the Columbus branch of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People made a move in the matter. COUGHS THAT ARE STOPPED! Careful people see that they are stopped. Dr. King's New Discovery is a remedy of tried merit. It has held its own on the market for 40 years. Youth and old age testify to its soothing and healing qualities. Pneumonia and lung troubles are often caused by delay of treatment. Dr. King's New Discovery stops those hacking coughs and relieves in the grippe tendencies. Money back if it fails. 50c and $1.00. CHURCH of the HOLY REDEEMER Cor. 22rd Ave. and Humboldt. Phone York 5700. PEOPLES' PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Cor. Washington and 23rd Aves. Phone York 2194. SHORTER A. M. E. CHURCH Cor. 23rd St. and Washington Ave. Phone Main 7058. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH Cor. 24th Ave. and Ogden St. York 9377 CAMPBELL A. M. E. CHURCH Cor. 23rd and Lawrence St. Phone Main 7965. CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH 24th St., between California and Stout St. Phone York 8198. SCOTT M. E. CHURCH 26th Ave. and Clarkson St. Phone BETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH Cor. 32nd Ave. and Lafayette St. Phone York 7647. MT. OLIVE BAPTIST MISSION, 38th and Blake streets. L. J. JONES, PASTOR, PHONE CHAMPA 169. MISSION WORK AND SUNDAY SCHOOL AT THIRTY-FIRST AND BLAKE STREETS. 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FINE PROGRAM IS RENDERED Statement of Existing Conditions Ameng the Prisoners at Sing Sing Listened to by Theusande—League Seeks Information For the Future Good of Its Work. New York.—Nearly 4,000 colored people packed Palace Casino in this city Sunday, Dec. 12, to hear Thomas Mott Osborne, warden of Sing Sing prison, describe the methods he has been using to improve the conditions of the prisoners of Sing Sing. The meeting was held under the auspices of the National League on Urban Conditions Among Colored People for the joint purpose of giving to the colored citizens of New York an intimate acquaintance with the work that Mr. Osborne has been doing and a knowledge of the achievements of the league during the past year. In addition to Mr. Osborne's address the program consisted of musical numbers by Europe's Orchestra, by Freeman's Negro Choral society and by H. L. A. Jeter, cellist, and a report on the work of the league during 1915 in ten cities, given by E. K. Jones, associate director. L. Hollingsworth Wood introduced Mr. Osborne, and Dr. E. P. Roberts presided. A collection of $105.57 was taken up following an appeal by Charles W. Anderson, chief investigator of the department of agriculture. The warden described the new system at Sing Sing. He pointed out that serious disorders had been reduced 64 per cent as a result of his methods and that the average number of escapes per year had been reduced from 93-7 to 3. In fact, in one year before he became warden nineteen prisoners had escaped. The number of men becoming insane as a result of solitary confinement was in one year reduced 50 per cent. In telling about his recent difficulties he in part said: "The most dangerous man is not the criminal who comes up from the crowd. It is the educated criminal, who, because of his education and his craft and the misuse of his opportunities for good, is the real menace to society. The most monstrous and most contemptible man that I have ever met, either in prison or out, was a college graduate. When you read about the attacks on the warden of Sing Sing you want to know that the attacks were started and formulated by this clever type of criminal—the criminal with the superior intellect. These are not the men who steal $5. They are the men who steal $5,000,000. It is not the man who attempts to steal a pocketbook. It is the man who attempted to steal a judgeship from the people. "In prison they want everything in sight. They are not satisfied unless they have the opportunity to buy up privileges. They don't like the present system and the present warden because under it and under him the old system of graft has been done away with. These men. I am proud to say. I have offended. Then there are other men who have profited by graft in the past and hape to profit by it in the future. These, also, I have offended. "The time is near when we must have a new prison. These clever crooks know that with the present warden in office it will be more difficult for them to get over the graft than it would be with me out. They are determined to get me out now. Whether they do or not is up to the people. The new system can stand my removal by death, by voluntary resignation or in other legitimate ways, but there is one thing the new system cannot stand, the prisons department cannot stand and the state cannot stand, and that is to have any honest public servant thrown out of office in the way they will have to throw me out in order to get me out." One of the officials of the National League on Urban Conditions devotes the greater part of his time to juvenile court work. In cases where colored boys or girls are held for minor offenses the league's official looks, after the care and sees to it that justice is given the accused. The league has been especially fortunate in preventing young offenders from being associated with hardened criminals. It was mainly to find out from Warden Osborne all the particulars in work of this kind that the officials of the league invited him to speak on the above occasion and also in order that they might confer with Mr. Osborne on other matters pertaining to the future work of the organization. At the close of the meeting Rev. William P. Haynes, D. D., pastor of the Mount Olivet Baptist church, proposed the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted: Resolved. That the colored citizens of New York city, in mass meeting assembled, under the auspices of the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, do hereby indorse the efforts of the Hon. Thomas Mott Osborne in the direction of humanising the administration at Sing Sing prison and do hereby extend to him their vote of confidence. The league donated to the Mutual Welfare league one-half of the collection after the expenses of the meeting were deducted. IF IT IS IN THE HAIR LINE, SEE ME MRS. WM. G. 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Shawkey, state superintendent of free schools for West Virginia, on "Some New Problems For the Old School." Both speakers were well received by the audience and presented their subjects in such a clear manner that all the teachers present must have been helped by the discussions. President Henry T. McDonald acted as guide to a party of teachers who visited the old civil war battlefield at Antietam. The officers of the association for the ensuing year are: Professor J. W. Moss of Kimball, president; Mr. Fred R. Raymer of Martinsburg, first vice president; Mr. C. T. Wilkerson of Bluefield, second vice president; Miss R. Hall of Montgomery, recording secretary; Miss Mary Williams of Elkhorn, corresponding secretary; Mr. Nathaniel Wiley of Kimball, treasurer. The next BYED PRILLERMAN. meeting of the association will be held at Institute, W. Va., the last week in November, 1916. There were thirty-six teachers who went over from the counties of Cabell Kanawha, Fayette and McDowell President Byrd Prillermin of the West Virginia Collegiate Institute was made transportation manager by the board of directors. He arranged with the railroad companies to take the teachers over in special day coaches. This gave them a spendid opportunity to enjoy the beautiful scenery down the Shenandoah valley to Harpers Ferry. A large number of the teachers visited Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia. By previous agreement between Professor Prillermin and Super intendent Thurston of the city school of Washington the teachers met at the Franklin school in Washington, where they were introduced to Assistant Superintendent Roscoe Conkling Bruce He took charge of the party and per sonally conducted it from the Frank lin school to the Lucretta Mott school the Normal school. Howard university the Armstrong Manual Training school one of the vocational schools and the M Street high school. Mr. Bruce had the Normal school assemble in the beautiful auditorium where the visiting teachers were introduced and brief remarks made by Mr. J. W. Moss, president of the West Virginia Teachers' association; Mrs. Fannie Cobb Carter, training teacher in the West Virginia Collegiate institute; Mr. J. W. Scott, principal of the Douglass high school, Huntington, W. Va. and Mr. Byrd Prillerman, president of the West Virginia Collegiate institute. The party attended the chapel exercises at Howard university, where Mr. Prillerman delivered an address. Professor Prillerman visited the State Normal school at Bowle, Md., by invitation of Principal Goodkoe and delivered an address to the students Later the whole party of West Virginia teachers went to the National Training School For Women and Girls at Lincoln Heights, Washington. This institution is presided over by Miss Nannie H. 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Remittances should be made by Express Money Order, Postoffice Money Order, Registered Letter or Bank Draft. Postage stamps will be received the same as cash for the fractional part of a dollar. Only 1-cent and 2-cent stamps taken. Send all remittances to THE DENVER STAR. Communications to receive attention must be newsy, upon important subjects, plainly written only upon one side of the paper. No manuscript returned unless stamps are sent for postage. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice in the city of Denver, Colorado. A Masterpiece of Oratory. (Continued from page 1.) wishes for his people were realized. The bitterest disappointments remained for him alone. He was not permitted to see the Israelites settled in their new country, but on the contrary surrendered his leadership to Joshua and going high upon a mountain his earthly career was ended: "a mighty somnambulist of a vanished dream." His was a large responsibility, but God had given him large powers of endurance and faith, just as He later gave humility and meekness and leadership to His only begotten son, Jesus of Nazareth, in his generous plan for the world's redemption, and as he still later gave fervor and magnetism to that powerful leader and religious liberator of the Italian people, Girome Savanrola. During the year of 1858 there was born near Hale's Ford, Franklin County, Virginia, another destined leader and educational statesman, this time of the despised Negro race. His was also a most humble birth, a squallid, one-room log cabin of plantation model without so much as a single window to adorn it, and without a floor of any character to add to its comfort. The period when he came into the world was the most perilous in the history of the Negro as well as the most momentous in the life of the nation. It was the period when the entire country was within the vortex of a mighty struggle over the question of human rights and human liberty. It was in 1858 that Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglass grappled like enraged giants and rocked to and fro over the question of slavery. The very fabric of our national government was quivering like an aspen leaf before the approach of an awful storm. Sumner and Garrison were thundering against the iniquities of existing slavery no less fervently than against its further extension. Jno Brown of Ossawatomie was blazing a pioneer path across the country and was nearing the final scene of his martyrdom. That grand old patriarch, "The noblest Roman of them all," as it were, Frederick Douglass, whose name and memory is dear to every American heart and to every American fire-side, was thrilling thousands on each side of the Atlantic in his impassioned pleas for his people. The surging seas of human passions were at the highest tide. The giant armies of the contending foes were in their primitive forming. The country was resting upon a smoldering volcano, soon to burst forth in a raging furnace or mighty crucible into which men's souls were to be tried. Mid such conditions and at such a time Booker T. Washington, for it of him I would now speak as the Modern Moses, first saw the light of the day. He was but a tootting infant when Ft. Sumter was fired upon and but a strip of a youth when her surrender to Grant at Appomattox. But his brain and quick wit readily caught something of the significance of freedom's spirit and enthusiasm. The early life story of this remarkable child and destined leader stands to day as one of the most entrancing and inspiring records to be found in all the history of this nation. It is the one life in which it is not possible to record a single failure. From the day as a penniless bare-foot boy, he left home in response to a feeling and a vague unrest of soul, he could neither fathom nor explain, and started for Hampton Institute in October, 1872, until he entered upon his chosen field and profession at Tuskegee in June, 1881, there were struggles a plenty, hard-ships undreamed of and heartaches beyond number, but never a feature. He evaded no condition and never once wavered in his high purposes. Life to him was an ever opening vista, constantly unfolding and revealing some new and glorious destiny beyond, that always called for increased power and courage, but he always measured up to them with splendid precision. Perhaps when the frustr history of Dr. Washington's life has been written it will be found that no one factor contributed more to the moulding of his character than the fact that early in his career he came under the influence of Gen'l Samuel C. Armstrong, one of the greatest educators America has produced. From this splendid man he gained the inspiration, the theory and working method of a system of education, unique in the history of this government but the one best suited for the millions of Negroes in the Southland. American history is beauteous with iminent characters and giant figures who have surmounted all obstacles and approached great heights of fame and usefulness from the most humble and lowly beginnings. There is a remarkable similitude in the life chapters of Franklin, Lincoln and Garfield, and that of Brooker T. Washington in their viciousitudes of hopes and fears, their joys and sufferings, their struggles and triumphs, their achievements and ideals. Nor does our hero suffer in comparison with even the greatest of these. Dr. Washington was essentially a leader in the highest significance of the term as well as an orator and educator. His racial identity carried with it no stamp of inferiority and instead of being a serious menace it was at times a valuable asset. Like the Moses of old he was an intense lover of his race. He never failed to glory in the picturesque grandeur of its achievements and to the very last held faith in its continued progress and success. One of the loveliest traits of his character is the fact that he never sought to get away from his race. The plaudits of the multitudes only served to strengthen his face loyalty. Whether in this southland or in the north, whether in the councils of Presidents of the United States or in conference with hundreds of his own race of less ability and less opportunity, whether in England or Denmark or France, royally received and royally entertained. Dr. Washington was ever proud of his Negro ancestry. He built upon sure ground and the height of fame never blinded him to the fact that he had once been a slave, a cabin boy and a penniless pilgrim. He never for one moment closed the windows of his soul to the precious legacy of honesty and integrity impressed upon him by his noble mother. These principles were the key note of most of his public utterances. He believed in helping men to arise but dwelt upon the security of character building. He urged with incessant voice and power that we as a race should always strive to gain the upward goal, but insisted there was a greater element of common sense in beginning at the bottom and going up than in starting at the top and falling to the bottom. He believed that the corner stone near the ground of a building was just as essential to its beauty and durability as the cap-stone near the heights. His able leadership extended to all lines, his valuable counsels sought on every hand. Perhaps next to Tuskegee, with its humble birth, its marvelous growth and unquestioned greatness today, the most notable instance of Dr. Washington's foresight and executive genius is to be noted in the National Negro Business League which he founded some years ago. Nothing has so strikingly brought before the eyes of the nation the Negro's business ability, his commercial activity, his property holdings and his general value to the community in which he lived as has this wonderful organization. Its growth and inspirational value has been truly phenomenal. The magic of Dr. Washington's touch, likened unto that of Moses was never more clearly emphasized than in the history of this Business League. Its commanding influence is as wide as the confines of the nation itself and the Negro is better understood and better respected today as a business man than ever before. Dr. Washington has been effectionately designated, and, by almost universal consent, the Moses of his race and no truer comparison could be made of two great leaders of two great races. Both were instruments in the hands of God, and both served their day and generation well. Both saw their people in bondage and both witnessed their glorious liberation. The leadership of Moses was beset, with monumental difficulties, repeated conflicts with hostile races, jealousy among the elders and murmurings of discontent among his own people. The leadership of Washington had its detractors and fault finders as well as encountering at first the skepticism of the north and the rabid prejudice of the south. Moses exhorted his people to lift their minds upward to God and his creation of the world. Washington advised his people to lift their minds upward to God but to make the most of their opportunities in this world. Moses taught that man was the most excellent creature on earth and urged the Jewish race to be ever courageous and thrifty. Washington gloried in the physical excellence of Negro manhood and womanhood and also urged industry, the dignity of labor and eminent preparedness in commerce, agriculture, domestic science and the professions. Both Moses and Washington were ardent lovers of liberty and were willing to suffer and sacrifice for its attainment. It is said Moses spent 40 years of his life in devoted leadership of his people. It was in October, 1875, or just 40 years ago to be exact that Dr. Washington entered upon his first work as a teacher in the little town of Malden, Virginia. That time may indeed be recorded the genesis of his leadership. But here the analogy between the two great leaders must end. Looking back through the vista of years we see Moses on the mountain summit pleading and yearning that he may go over Jordan and set his feet upon hallowed ground. We see him dying in the agony of bitter disappointments with the cherished objects of his life unattained, within sight and almost within his grasp, but sternly denied him. We see him in the anguish of despair in the crushing of his heart's desires and the shattering of all his hopes. On the other hand, Dr. Washington lived to see the splendour of his achievements and the glorified consumption of his life's struggles. He lived to know the blessings of freedom and the pleasures of victory. He was essentially a builder and he not only lived to see the completion of building after building at Tuskegee, but he also saw the better upbuilding of splendid young men and women fitted for life's battles. He enjoyed honors and flowers in this life. He worked for the respect of all classes of people and succeeded in gaining it. He lived to see the sunlight of happiness brought into many Negro homes through a betterment of conditions brought about by his influence and teachings. He lived to see himself within the halo of popular esteem. He found himself honored by colleges, by statesmen and high executives. When death came to him he also was upon a lofty mountain. But it was not the mountain of despair, of bitter disappointment and shattered hopes. Rather he stood upon the high mountain of superior Americanism, of greedness in achievement and powerful in triumph. Just as he shared the hardships and burdens of his race in early life, so was he permitted to enjoy their prosperity and happiness in the improved conditions of today. It would be presumptions beyond the point of prudence to say here that his work is finished. The highest state of perfection has not been reached. But he has left splendid foundation and other hands must now take up the work and be guided by his genius and service. There must be no less faith, no less enthusiasm and willingness to sacrifice if he who takes up Dr. Washington's fallen mantle, would succeed. He must be imbued with the spirit and sustained by the knowledge that the world itself is not finished, that the truth is not all in and that God has not spoken His last word. "There can be neither halt nor compromise Between the way all life has trod. 'Tis down-ward with the beast that dies Or upward with the Sons of God." The immortal Goethe once said: "If I work incessantly till my death, nature is bound to give me another existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit." What is the lesson we learn here today? Just this, that Dr. Washington forever dwelt in the kingdom of light, and the kingdom of light like the kingdom of heaven is within you. It is that beautiful realm of which a quaint old poet once sang these quaint old lines: "My mind to me a kingdom is such perfect joy therein I find." He was for the most part an extreme optimist. He saw success in every endeavor and triumph in every trial. He saw beams here and rays yonder, growing brighter and brighter through every degree, expanding into new beauty at each sight, attracting him still more and more, and luring him on and onward, showing worlds of light he never dreamed of by day. He has left a monument to his name which few warriors have ever won. The world of good, the untold benefits which his life has brought to all people, white and black, will endure long after the buried gems of Gray's elegy will have faded out in blank obscurity. His memory should serve as a living fount to inspire us with courage and cheer and to furnish us with hints and visions. The just deeds of man are alone immortal. Baby's high towers the stream beside which the exiled Hebrew sang of Zion the palaces and temples of Pharaoh and Pharaoh's priests have crumbled by the holy tide, but Moses is living in vigorous today. To a like extent may we not fondly predict that the golden grain that has been sown by the loving hand of Dr. Washington, reared and nurtured by his sympathetic heart will continue to grow, flourish and bear fruit of a like nature until the shoreless ocean of eternity. I take it as timely and fitting to suggest today that we should keep his memory alive and the lessons of his life fresh in the minds of succeeding generations by holding appropriate memorial services each year. Just as we pay right homage annually to the blessed memory of our emancipator, Abraham Lincoln, should we also honor and revise the noble life of our illustrious leader. It is recorded in the pages of holy writ that the ancients used to go upon the mountain sides and upon high places and there with prayers, songs and sacrifices they commemorated the triumph of their fathers at the Red Sea, at the ford of the Jordan and upon the field of Barah's victory. Can it be said that they had a greater hero or cherished a richer legacy than we who survive the memory of Dr. Washington? It was said of Bethlehem of old, "And thou, Oh Bethlehem, land of Judea, never shall it be said of thee that thou art the least among all the princes of Judea for of thee shall come forth the ruler." So let every people of every tongue who read history aright and who would be fair to themselves and just to their God, join with us in one voice today in saying, 'And thou, Negro race of America, never again may it be said of those that thou art the least and most despised of the races of this land, for from thy ranks one has issued forth possessing the full vigor and bloom of intellectual manhood, ennobled in the radiant nimbus of the gods, the gentleman and scholar, the master mind, the educator and typical American, Booker T. Washington." THE REPRESSED SOUTH. Hon. Joseph C. Manning of Alabama Discussion Constitutional Rights Discusses Constitutional Rights. The Hon. Joseph C. Manning, a former member of the Alabama legislature, in discussing the question, "The Repressed South," says that public sentiment is the most potent agency known to civilization. It is the strongest power to which human welfare may make its appeal. Every impulse and every effort for the betterment of mankind have sought to employ this agency as the means to attain whatever the beneficent purpose in view. Our government owes its existence to public sentiment. The origin of the Declaration of Independence and the constitution of the United States may be readily traced to the making of public sentiment on the part of the early settlers, who discussed among themselves the increased and increasing taxation. This burden of taxation accentuated their desire for voice in representation. Imposition of excessive taxation, together with denial of any voice in representation, constituted the issue from which arose the power of public sentiment strong enough to found this great American republic. This nation has never been more strongly confronted with the necessity of taking up the question of equal rights for all of its citizens than at the present time. It is a question which requires immediate solution. Political requirements are forcing it upon the American people as a discussion of paramount importance. To cause national public sentiment to be tolerant of this outlawing of the American constitution it has all been put forward as a so called Negro problem and a plan whereby the rule of the alleged best people of the south may be maintained. It is under this guise and pretext that tyranny has ever paraded. It has been so all through the history of the world. It was the best people who were responsible for and who upheld slavery. It was the people of the south who in slavery held the colored people in human bondage and the white masses in repression. It was the best people who organized the Kuklux, that the oligarchy might return to its power and methods. It was the best people who enacted laws which have permitted peonage to be perpetrated upon a helpless race. It is the best people in whose communities defenseless colored people are now lynched, murdered, swindled, jimcrowed, segregated, abused and vilified, while they are but mere helpless subject citizens. It is beyond dispute that the southern states have enacted laws which have denied citizens their rights in government, and it is beyond controversy that were these citizens residents in the several states other than those of the south which are outlawing the constitution they would be permitted the full exercise of the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States in accordance with the guarantees of the federal constitution. That lofty conception of human justice held by the fathers, those who founded this republic, that citizens who shared taxation and expense of government should have voice in government, is deeply implanted in the provisions of the American constitution. It may be seen that the founders of our government did not desire the rights of the American citizen to be trampled underfoot, for article 4, section 2, says, "The citizens of each state shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizens of the several states." AMERICAN NEGRO ACADEMY. Nineteenth Annual Meeting to Be Held In Washington Dec. 28. The nineteenth annual meeting of the American Negro academy will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 28 and 29, in the Twelfth street branch of the Young Men's Christian association, in Washington. On Tuesday, the 28th, the election of officers will be followed by the annual address of the president, Hon. A. H. Grimke, "The Sex Question and Race Segregation," 7:30 p. m., "The Message of the Santo Domingo Negro to the Negro Race," Mr. Theophilus G. Steward, Wilberforce university, Ohio; "Negro Citizenship Prior to the Civil War, Historically," Mr. Lafayette M. Hershaw; "American Negro Bibliography of the Year," John W. Cromwell, Esq.; Wednesday, Dec. 29, 7:30 p. m., "The Economic Contribution Rendered by the Negro to America," Arthur A. Schomburg, secretary Negro Society For Historical Research, Yonkers, N. Y.; "The Constitutional Status of the Negro From 1800 to 1870," William Pickens, dean of Morgan college, Baltimore. Mrs. Washington to Cheer Young Lives. Mrs. Booker T. Washington continues the custom followed by her late husband for many years in sending out an appeal to the public for Christmas gifts to be distributed among the poor children of the rural districts in the vicinity of the Tuskegee institute. Gifts for this purpose may be sent to Mrs. Washington at the Tuskegee (Ala.) institute for Christmas or New Year's. Acknowledgment of all gifts received will be made by Mrs. Washington What Shall I Do to Have Long, Fluffy Hair? Use Mrs. Jessie Carter's HAIR POMADE AND SHAMPOO 2761 GLENARM PL. Phone Champa 865 Fresh Fish, Oysters, Salt Smoked, Dried and Canned Fish. Poultry and Game of all Kinds 1506 ARAPAHOE ST. EMMETT WILLIAMS, Prop. The Star Bash First Class in every GIVE US A 2230 Larimer St. ```markdown ``` SOME MAY GO MAY COM The Demand Goes On Forever Servi JOB PRINT YOU WILL FIND Letter Heads Envelopes Bill Heads Business and C Dodgers Placards Invitations Programs Pamphlets Prompt Deliver THE DENW 1626 Nineteenth St. PHONE CH MAY GO AND MAY COME, BUY Denver S forever Serving the P OB PRINTING Letter Heads Envelopes All Heads Business and Calling Cards Adgers Acards Invitations Programs Amphlets Prompt Delivery THE DENVER STATE Ninth St. De PHONE CHAMPA 2962 SOME MAY GO AND SOME MAY COME, BUT The Denver Star Goes On Forever Serving the Public With JOB PRINTING BEWARE Of Persons:- Claiming to Selling prepa Selling prepa as "POR Selling prepa anything Selling unse "PORO" Claiming to make "PORO Selling preparations with Selling preparations said as "PORO" Selling preparations with anything like "PORO Selling unsealed goods with "PORO" ons are swindling people These persons are swindling people out of their money the country over. Do not give them your money, but write us. A Pain is a visitor to every home and usually it comes quite unexpectedly. But you are prepared for every emergency if you keep a small bottle of Sloan's Liniment handy. It is the greatest pain killer ever discovered. Simply laid on the skin—no rubbing required—it drives the pain away. It is really wonderful. Mervin H. Soister, Berkeley, Cal., writes: "Last Saturday, after tramping around the Panama Exposition with wet feet, I came home with my neck so stiff that I couldn't turn. I applied Sloan's Liniment freely and went to bed. To my surprise, next morning the stiffness had almost disappeared; four hours after the second AMS, Prop. Star Barber Shop Class in every Particular GIVE US A TRIAL JOSEPH CARTER Coal and Wood Express Coal delivered, per ton.....$3.95 up 6 sacks, cash only.....$1.00 1 sack, cash only, each.....20 1 sack kindling, cash only.....10 Trunka hauled, 25c up. 2425 WASHINGTON STREET Phone Main 6544 Prompt Delivery O AND SOME ME, BUT iver Star ving the Public With NTING VER STAR Denver, Colo. AMPA 2962 make "PORO" marations with broken seals marations said to be as good RO" marations with name sounding like "PORO" called goods without labels as handling people out of their WAR UPON PAIN! Denver, Colo A THE TELEPHONE She Is Talking About Coming Events. TO AVOID CONFLICTS, CONSULT THIS COLUMN AND SEE WHAT IS TO BE GIVEN. Dec. 25th—Xmas Dance, Fern Hall. Dec. 31st—New Year's Dance, Fern Hall. Dec. 27—Masn's Annual Entertainment. Dec. 25—Old Colony hall with the Xmas boys. Out of high rent district. Not in the high-price clique. If you want our coal delivered quick, then save your money for diamonds by buying coal from W. O. Simonds. 2029 Champa. Phone Main 5964. FERN HALL. Social dances each Monday and Thursday evening when hall is not rented. Ladies free; gentlemen 35c. Whose business? Try Rice-Rice for good ice Cream and Ices, home made bread, ples and cakes. Your orders are solicited for parties and church entertainments. Mexican chili served daily. Phone Champa 243. The Annex and Grand Theatres patronize the Star. "Nuf ced." That's all. Lawyer W. B. Townsend makes a specialty in collecting endowment money, life insurance, also makes contracts and examines titles to property. Suite 313 Kittredge Bldg. Call Main 2797. tf adv. The Crisis and all colored magazines now handled at Twenty-first and Arapahoe streets, will also be in stock at the new location. Washington and Twenty-third avenues. POSTPONED The XX Century Dancing Academy has been postponed for next Tuesday night. Watch papers for announcement. THE STAR MODESTLY THANKS PUBLIC BUT HINTS IT NEEDS MONEY. We are very grateful to our friends who have showered flattering compliments upon us for our fight which is only just begun—as we are a long ways from victory yet. We are glad to know that they, too, like ourselves, know that it takes real hard money to run a strong race paper. We are neither embarrassed nor ashamed to let you know we need money NOW, because we have spent our credit heavily in the Negroes' defense, and we again urge you, all of you, to pay up; put something, as the fight has only begun. We appreciate your thanks, but we need money now. Masons' Grand Fraternal Prize Entertainment, Monday, Dec. 27, at Convention Hall, 1731 Arapahoe St. Three grand prizes. First prize, one ton of coal. Second prize, $5.00 in groceries from John Thompson's. Third prize, one large fat turkey. Come and spend an enjoyable evening with us. MANY CHILDREN HAVE WORMS. Worms are a common childhood alliment. They make children irritable, nervous and restless, besides robbing the body and mind of proper nourishment. Watch your child. Examine the stools and at first signs of worms give your child a treatment of Kickapoo Worm Killer. They kill the worms, act as a laxative and expel the worms and poisonous waste, tone the system and help restore your child's health and happy disposition. Only 25c at your druggist. THE POND LILY ART CLUB. Dec. 30—Mrs. Campbell, 1398 South Clarkson. XX Century Dancing Academy at Old Colony Hall every Tuesday night. Mrs. L. W. McKinley of Clarkson St. left Wednesday to spend the holidays with her aged sick father, Abe Foreman, of 603 N. 10th St., Waco, Texas. THE DENVER STAR HAS MORE READERS THAN ANY OTHER NEGRO JOURNAL IN COLORADO. City News EVERGREEN CHAPTER NO. 36, O. E. S., ELECTION. Mrs. Lizzie Richardson, Honored Matron. The annual election of the Eastern Star resulted in the election of Mrs. A. E. Hamilton, W. M.; Efile Waldon, A. M.; Lillian Bledsoe, Secy.; Alice D. Webb, Asst. Secy.; Florence D. Cooper, Treas.; Dora Derry, Conductress; Nancy Sloan, Asst. Cond.; Beatrice Lewis, Marshall; Hattie Brown, Chaplain; Mae Byrd, Warder; Geraldine Lightner, Sentinel; Nannie Welch Adah; Willa Morris, Ridhe; Ida Holley, Esther; Hattie Williams, Martha; Lida Burt, Electa. At the close of the election, in a few well chosen remarks, thanking the society for the confidence, loyalty and progressiveness during her administration, Worthy Matron Lizzie Richardson turned over the gavel to her successor. A beautiful silver berry ladle, together with six glistening cut dinner glasses, were presented to her in token of the high esteem and appreciation by her fellow workers. This pleasant, unexpected and well appreciated surprise caused Mrs. Richardson to thank all her donors and the Chapter closed with the Worthy Matron still thank ing her dearest friends. A FRIEND IN NEED. J. P. Perkins, who was confined to his bed last week, is able to be out again and he desires to thank all persons who called up and inquired concerning his welfare, and especially those persons—one from Zion Baptist church, one from Shorter and two from Scott M. E. church—whose interest greatly affected me. I appreciate everything said and done in my behalf. J. P. PERKINS. Dr. Justina Ford, whose recent trip East has done her a world of good physically, gave a partial sick list this week. Mrs. Jeannette Little of Champa St. improving; Mrs. L. Manley of California St. and Mr. Slayton, in the same house, show gradual gain in health; Mrs. Anna Hicks of Columbine St. a little better, and Samuel Howard of Glenarm place remains about the same. The doctor was compelled to get busy after returning to the city. MARGARET WASHINGTON CLUB. Dec. 16th, with Miss M. Krutchars, 2426 Lafayette St. Dec. 23rd, with Mrs. Jos. Peach, 2605 Lafayette St. Dec. 30th, with Mrs. B. F. Givin, 2515 Curtis St. Dec. 30th, literary program. THE XX CENTURY ART CLUB MEETINGS. Mrs. White, 2420 Emerson St. Dec. 10. Mrs. Winters, 2539 Glenarm Pl. Dec. 17. Miss Harris, 2515 Clarkson St. Jan. 7. Mrs. Carter, 2425 Hum boldt. Jan. 14. TO OUR DEAR FRIENDS: The Star welcomes the opportunity to extend our greetings and sincere good wishes to our readers, friends, white, black, red and yellow. We wish you one and all, together and individually, a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year, which will likewise bring to each of you respectively an increased prosperity and happiness. We stop long enough in our fight with the "Birth of a Nation" to show you our appreciation. Mrs. Queenie McGriff, wife of Mr. G. W. McGriff, after an illness of two weeks of pneumonia, passed away Sabbath morning at 5 o'clock, at the age of 36 years. Mrs. McGriff formerly lived in Chattanooga, Tenn., where her brother and sister still live. She had been a resident of Denver a little less than a year but had made many friends, who mourn with the husband. The funeral services were held from Campbell chapel Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Jas. Washington officiating. MEETINGS OF THE TAKA ART AND LITERARY CLUB. Nov. 24—Mrs. Nola Porter, 3216 High St. Dec. 1—Mrs. Richardson, 1410 E. 24th Ave. Dec. 8—Mrs. Stell. 2421 Humboldt. Dec. 15—Miss Von Dickersohn, 2218 Lafayette. Dec. 22—Mrs. Waldron, 1418 E. 24th Ave. Use Wolf Bros.' Giant Hair Straightner and Dry Comb, only 60c. See Fella M. Stewart, agent, 1028 19th St. Denver. See display ad, elsewhere. FERN HALL Xmas Ball Saturday, Dec. 25, and New Year's Eve Ball Friday, Dec. 31. Admission 25c. The Pulpit Aid of Zion Baptist church will be headquarters for Negre dolls for Xmas. Call York 2585. Mrs. C. S. Muse, Press. The Atlas Drug Company are sole agents for Matt Johnson's "6088" Rheumatic Remedies. XX Century Dancing Academy at Old Colony Hall every Tuesday night. FORMER DENVER NIGHTINGALE RETURNS. Mrs. Jessie Nickens Reese arrived in the city Tuesday from Canada to visit her mother, Mrs. Hamilton, and sisters, Mesdames Teenie Hudson and Margaret Wilson. Mrs. Reese was born and reared in Denver, but has traveled through the East and Canada the past seven years in vaudeville with her husband, Mr. Arthur Reese, who with his brother are managers of the act. Mrs. Reese will be remembered by many by her sweet singing. She will be in the city three weeks. Mrs. Teenie Nickens Hudson and little daughters, Thelma and Audre, who have spent the past eight months in Denver, will leave Sunday for Mexico City, Mexico, where the latter two will enter boarding school. Mr. Fred Hudson will join his family in Queretaro and proceed with them to Mexico City, after which he and Mrs. Hudson will return to their home in Guanajuato, where he has held the position as head accountant and private secretary to the manager of the Guanajuato Reduction & Mines Co. for eight years. Masons' Grand Fraternal Prize Entertainment, Monday, Dec. 27, at Convention Hall, 1731 Arapahoe St. Three grand prizes. First prize, one ton of coal. Second prize, $5.00 in groceries from John Thompson's. Third prize, one large fat turkey. Come and spend an enjoyable evening with us. NOTICE TO DELINQUENT SUBSCRIBERS. After many notices sent you of your overdue account of subscription, to which you have failed to respond, we have decided to discontinue your paper without further notice. The Postal laws will not allow us to carry your account any longer. At any time you desire to pay up, we will gladly furnish you the paper again. You could not conscientiously ask more of us. DENVER STAR PUB. CO. The membership campaign of the Young Men's Christian Association came to a close on the evening of the 16th. On account of the nearness of the holidays, the efforts of the workers were not as successful as they otherwise might have been. There were five senior and two junior teams, each team consisting of ten men or boys. The teams took their names after the different warring nations of Europe, and fought it out along those lines. Sickness greatly interfered with the work of some of the teams, as two or three captains were taken ill just before the campaign opened, and were thus prevented from properly filling out their teams. One of the surprises of the campaign was the close race which the two junior teams gave the five seniors. The total number brought in was 89, there being 52 men and 37 boys. A movement is on foot to raise the number to 100 by the close of the year. The record of the teams was as follows: SENIORS—Austria, A. A. Waller FERN HALL 2711 Welton Street Can be rented for Private or Public Parties. Dances or Gatherings of any nature, with latest first class accommodation PHONE MAIN 2860 Hall can be rented Monday and Thursday Nights, when not rented on Monday or Thursday, R. L. Phynix Social Dances. Morrison's Orchestra. Ladies Free. Gents 35c AT THE ANNEX TO-MORROW Vaudeville In Addition to the Musical Comedy Admission 5c Y. M. C. A. NOTES captain, 4; France, L. H. Walton, captain, 6; Italy, J. H. Kigh, captain, 7; Germany, T. S. Rector, captain, 9; Servia, S. A. Bondurant, captain, 26: JUNIORS—Turkey, Robert L. Davis, captain, 16; England, William Parks, captain, 21. Mr. Bondurant's team won the pennant for the seniors and Mr. Parks' team for the juniors. The highest number brought in by any individual was: Bondurant (senior), 11; Robert Smith (junior), 8. The committee of management is extremely grateful to the ladies of Campbell, People's, Redeemer, Shorter and Zion churches for the excellent dinners they served during the campaign. It was a splendid favor, and by their kindness the expenses of the campaign were greatly reduced. Scores of men gave their pledge to join after the holidays. Dr. R. L. Pope will deliver the Christmas address at the Y. M. C. A. rooms next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. All men are invited. Masons' Grand Fraternal Prize Entertainment, Monday, Dec. 27, at Convention Hall, 1731 Arapahoe St. Three grand prizes. First prize, one ton of coal. Second prize, $5.00 in groceries from John Thompson's. Third prize, one large fat turkey. Come and spend an enjoyable evening with us. FOR SALE—All kinds of hair goods, switches, transformations and front pieces made to order. Mrs. E. Anderson, phone Main 8698. 2240 Glenarm place. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION TO HOLD MEETING JAN. 3 Annual Session Will Be Held at Ethical Culture Hall, New York. New York.—The annual meeting of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People will be held in the assembly room of the Society For Ethical Culture, Central Park West and Sixty-fourth street New York city, on the afternoon of Monday, Jan. 3, 1916, at 2:30 o'clock. The session will be open only to members who have paid their dues. There will be reports from officers and branches of the association, and the following nominations for directors for terms expiring in 1919 will be voted upon: George W. Crawford, New Haven; Bishop John Hurst, Baltimore; Paul Kennaday, New York; Joseph Prince Loud, Boston; Dr. William A. Sinclair Philadelphia; Arthur B. Spingarn, New York; Charles H. Studin, New York; Miss Lillian D. Wald, New York; They G. R. Waller, Springfield, Mass., and Butter R. Wilson, Boston. On Feb. 11 and 12 there will be a conference held in New York city, ending in a mass meeting at Carnegie ball, when the Spingarn medal will be awarded and the prize scholarship for which branches recently competed announced. Speakers of national reputation will be heard at this conference which will take the place of the conference generally held in the spring. Urban League Holds Lively Meeting. The Savannah (Ga.) branch of the National League on Urban Conditions Among Colored People held a largely attended mass meeting at the Peking theater, Savannah, on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 12. The principal speakers were Rabbi Solomon and Judge Feidelson. Music was furnished by the boys' club of the league. HELP YOUR LIVER—IT PAYS. When your liver gets torpid and your stomach acts queer, take Dr. King's New Life Pills and you will find yourself feeling better. They purify the blood, give you freedom from constipation, billiousness, dizziness and indigestion. You feel fine—just like you want to feel. Clear the complexion too. 25c at druggists. You Do Want the Best Then why not carry your Health, Accident and Burial Policy in the WESTERN LIFE and ACCIDENT COMPANY Some of the claims paid in Denver during the past few days: Genevieve Posey, sickness ..... $10.00 Wm. H. Moore, sickness ..... 11.40 Alex. Dukes, sickness ..... 5.05 Lucy Milburn, sickness ..... 7.00 Carro Fisher, sickness ..... 8.00 Charlicy Barnes, sickness ..... 15.50 John Cunningham, sickness ..... 10.00 Alfred Rollins, death ..... 100.00 Mildred Baldwin, sickness ..... 5.70 Stella Crockett, sickness ..... 6.45 Harry E. Barnett, sickness ..... 7.00 Mary E. Scott, sickness ..... 13.70 Cornelia Stone, sickness ..... 6.00 Katie Hill, sickness ..... 8.00 Lula A. Rogers, sickness ..... 20.00 B. Nuckles, accident ..... 31.00 S. B. McBeth, sickness ..... 7.10 Harrison Coleman, accident ..... 18.00 Lucy Coleman, sickness ..... 6.00 (WATCH THIS OFFICES 941-2-3-4-5-6 Gas and DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THEATRE LU 28TH STR MRS. JOHN Home Cooking We understand WHAT you want, WHEN you PHONE CHAMPA 2163 (WATCH THIS AD EACH WEEK) 41-2-3-4-5-6 Gas and Electric Bldg. Phone Main 238 KNOW ABOUT THE SPECIAL AFTER THEATRE LUNCH AT THE 8TH STREET CAFE MRS. JOHN NELSON, Prop. King Tables Reserved by Phone WHAT: you want, WHEN you want it and HOW to serve it. Leave it to us AMPA 2163 711 28th STREET OFFICES 941-2-3-4-5-6 Gas and Electric Bldg. Phone Main 238 DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE SPECIAL AFTER THEATRE LUNCH AT THE Home Cooking Tables Reserved by Phone We understand WHAT: you want. WHEN you want it and HOW to serve it. Leave it to us PHONE CHAMPA 2163 711 28th STREET W. O. SIMONDS Hard Coal, Soft Coal, Gas Coke Horse Feed Cow Feed, Chicken Feed Coal $3.75 per ton 2029 Champa St. Main 5964 All Kinds of Poultry at less than'down town prices M. Snyder Staple and Fancy GROCERIES AND MEAT MARKET [2551 Welton Street] 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 WATCH thin model, 20 year Gold Filled Case, on Sale at $15.00 THE KORTZ JEWELRY COMPANY 812 Fifteenth Street Japanese Tailor Cleaning, Pressing Everything for Ladies Care of. A graduate of Cleaning and Dyeing of C Goods Called For and Delivered ing, Pressing, Dyeing, Repairing Everything for Ladies and Gents Nicely Taken A graduate of the American School of Dyeing and Dyeing of Chicago, IH. Ed For and Delivered 1223 Twentieth St. Everything for Ladies and Gents Nicely Taken Care of. A graduate of the American School of Cleaning and Dyeing of Chicago, IH. Hair Root Hair Grower Use Hair Root Hair Grower. Will positively grow hair on bald heads, no matter what other preparations have failed to grow your hair. Don't be discouraged. Give us a trial and let us prove to you what Hair Root Hair Grower will do for you. Will grow hair from one to two inches a month is used according to directions. Mrs. Gora Robinson Mrs. Eliza Rose Phone York 8849 2306 Ogden St. Use Hair Root Hair Grower. Will positively grow hair on bald heads, no matter what other preparations have failed to grow your hair. Don't be discouraged. Give us a trial and let us prove to you what Hair Root Hair Grower will do for you. Will grow hair from one to two inches a month is used according to directions. --- Phone Champa 2058 A WM. VOIGT'S Watchmaker and Jeweler Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware, Etc: Fine Repairing of all Kinds 611 27th St., Near Welton Denver, Colo. Free Thermometer to each Customer. THE NEW WAV WHILE YOU WAIT SEWED SOLES 50€ 65€ 1855 CHAMPA PHONE MAIN 3737 IF YOU GET COLD OR IF YOU CATCH COLD, ORDER 1 TON OF COAL FROM W. O. SIMMONDS, 2029 CHAMPA, MAIN 5964. This $18.00 Elgin or ' Waltham, 15 Jewel You take the Watch with you by paying $1.00 and the balance 50 CENTS A WEEK a dR alouses ani ooms “iad, appearing in these columns are at the rate of 5c eer line if run by the issue, or s0c monthly, to be paid in advance, as we have no collector for this depart ment. No “ads” taken over the phone. eee The Best List In the City to Choose From. ee ~ Lez US PASS IT ON. FOR RENT—Front bed room fo! Many young men and women would|man and wife or two men; on cai gladly pay a fair price for a room likefline, at 2515 Curtis St. Call before | gours in a home like yours. Let usja. m. or after 4 p. m. Phone Oliv ‘ell the people through the columns}ii55, the Star. THE DE LUXE FOR RENT—Furnished rooms i Fucnished) Apatemens®: modern house, with kitchen privil Modern throughout, Two and three) egos, on car line, at reasonable rates gooms with hot and’ cold water, 688|vr, Addie Craig, 2037 Curtis street auc electric lights. Rates very re\|yain 7372 wumavie, 2352-58 Ogden St. corner ja jatu Ave, Phone York 6707. | Mre,{=——$$_$_$ a& M. Bh a . MeSBlaE SY: Residence 2344 Tremont PI. WANTED—T, Ernest McClain, A, i B.D. b. S—Sundays and nights by LOlive 1579 before 8 A. M appointment, Office hours, 8 a. m. to 12 1m, 1 p. m; to 6 p.m. Office, 313% Aituedge Bidg. Phone Main 7416. Riucdxe ‘ids. Phone Main 7416.1 GG RORGE G. ROSS The Jewel Barbur Shop, 1022 19th &\. First-class tonsorial artists. @ ® Richardson 1 will sell you the pest massage dibrator, the White Cross, for $10.00 as good as any $25.00 machine made Call or write to Vibrator Vo., 338 14tt wet. HOTEL HOLMES. * Yurnished rooms, modern conven! ences, nicely furnished. Main 3924 2120 Arapalioe, Mrs. L. P. Holmes proprietor. HOTEL HILDRETH. Nice, clean, airy rooms, strictly nodern house, close in; rooms from $1.50 up. 2152 Arapahoe. Phone Main 7007, Mrs. Lillian Horn, Prop FOR RENT—Two nicely furnished rooms at 2809 Welton St. On ear line, Rates reasonable. FOR RENT—Two nice rooms fo! sentlemen, chp, with bath; home tke place, betteen three car lines 1662 Lafayette St. York 3067. Mrs &. a. Duncan. ¥OR RENT—Furnished house; wil make reasonable rates to man ant wife. Inquire at this office. t FOR RENT—Furnished rooms, 2064 Arapahoe. Strictly modern conven- iences, Phone Olive 113. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms in modern house; rates reasonable, on 3 car lines, 2209 Welton St. Main 5951. Mrs, Clara Mays. 11-13-16 FOR RENT—Furnished rooms with steam heat, modern conveniences, be- tween car lines, 2462 Glenarm Place. Mrs. B. L. Btone, 11-116 FOR RENT—Five-room modern fur- united house at 1746 Humboldt St. : 2t-12-11-15 FOR RENT+Foor nice sunny airy rooms, between two car lines, on Mar- fon St. Rent reasonable. Call Main 5768. 12-11-16-tf FOR RENT—Furnished rooms in modern house. ROOM AND BOARD ALSO. On car line in heart of Five Points. Home cooking. Mrs. J. C. Steele, 2761 Welton St. FOR RENT—Furnished room in a modern house, near car line. Call Main §124. 2707 Downing Ave. Rates reasonable. 11-27-16-tf FOR RENT—Furnished rooms, gen- tlemen preferred, at 924 BE. 24th Ave. Phone Blue 180 W. Near car line. Mrs. Nellie M. Rice. 10-31-15-tf FOR RENT—Furnished room in & modern home, reasonable. 1910 Wash- ington Ave. Phone York 7663. Mrs. Ollie Simpson. 11-27-16-4t FOR RENT—Alcove with front room, modern except heat. for two jadies in service or at home. Nice home for right party. Reasonable rent, 12-18-15-tf FOR RENT—Modern house, fur- nished or unfurnished. 1750 Hum- boldt. Phone Blue 1260. ~ FOR RENT—Front bed room for man and wife or two men; on car line, at 2515 Curtis St. Call before 9 a, m. or after 4 p. m. Phone Olive 1155. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms ~ in modern house, with kitchen _privil- ge8, on car line, at reasonable rates. Mrs. Addie Craig, 2037 Curtis street. Main 7872. eS Residence 2344 Tremont PI. {Olive 1579 before 8 A. M. Attorney and Counsellor At Law (209 Kittredge Building Main 6782 Denver, Colo. Decker Light & Fixture Company : 1432 CURTIS ST. We Rent and Sell Gas Arc Lights Mantles, Gas Plates and {Glass Ware PHONE CHAMPA 944 MRS. L. C. BARNES, Prop. The Dearfield Lunch Room Strictly Home Cooking Open @ a.m. to 12 p. m’ 1023-21st St. Denver, Colo. Phone Main 8625, DR. JUSTINA L. FORI) OFFICE HOURS: 10 to 12 a. m, 2 to 4p. m.,7 to 8 p. m. OFFICE AND RESIDENCE, 2335 Arapahoe Street, Denver. é Tell the story of the care g you give them. : Don't take chances; those head- aches, that nervousness, é@ and many other com: @ plaints, all come from eye strain. : A scientific 6 examination aad good 9 glasses will bring ¢elief. ———=STry Us —— é 1 te Fre soo REACTS OF oe 8 6 ee oe ran 9 1550 CAUFORNA ST. AK SXTEDIT ST ——————— Phone York 2970 aaa Miss Gelen Minnis TEACHER OF PIANO Graduate of the Conservatory of Music Western University. A special rate of soc. per less- on to the first class of 20. STUDIO, 619 PEARL ST. es Western Seller Geo. P. Sargent New York Wheel Chairs For Sale or Rent © WM. JONES Maker of all kinds of Ortho- pedic Appliances, ‘Trusses Abdominal Support, Elastic | Hosiery, Crutches, etc. 908 14th]St.: (Denver, Colo. Phone Main 7702 Birth of a Nation Must Leave ‘Denver. ee AED nero creme eee & Joo! set out in an apparently hon- est effort to determine the fit- ness of this play. He request- ed unprejudiced peuple of di- verse callings to view the play and to give him their opinion uponit. Some of the opinions so elicted were fav- orable to the play; many were ‘not. One or another of them denounced it, as historicly false, as characterizing the Southern Negro’ as lustful, brutal, inhuman, and treach- ergus, as ‘a humiliating cari- cature of the colored race’’ as calculated to engender race hatred and animosity, as‘‘can- onizing” the lawlessness of the Ku Klux Klan, as reviv- ing sectional prejudices and dead animosities and heart burnings that had better be forgotten. There is also some evidence that the production of the play in Minneapolis has resulted in disparaging re- marks regarding Negroes and in subiecting them to indigni- ties in public places. It is useless to spend time arguing the question whether reasonable people might dif- fer as to the advisability of permitting the exhibition ot this play. The showing is conclusive that they do differ on this point. The play has been prohibited in the state of Ohio by an order of the Governor, on recommenda- tion of the state board of cen- sors, It has been prohibited in Denver by the city sougcil and provisionally in Boston and St. Paul. In Minneapolis letters and protests in large numbers have come from men and women of all occupations. There is no reason to, doubt thatthe mayor, in proposing to revoke plaintiff's license if he persistsin presenting this play, is acting in’the honest beliet that such course isin the interest ot public welfare and the peace and-good order of the city. Vhe question is one that calls for the exercise of official discretion, and the cuurts should not direct or en- join his action. Our attention has been call- ed to three nisi prius decisions one in Chicago. one in St. Louis, and one in Pittsburgh, in which interference with the production of this play” was enjoined. We have no quar rel with these decisions. The facts appear to have been dif- ferent trom the case at bar. No question of revocation of alicenseunderauthority, given by statute was consider edin any of them. Order affirmed. This case is found in the Northwestern Re p o rter of Dec. 17th, 1915. No. 154 Vol. 9, or 154 N. W. Reports Page 964. Every law library receives these advance sheets. This case is directly in ‘point for procedure and action. Get busy, don't let the grass grow under your feet. Get your mayor to revoke the theater's license if they show. Look up your ordinances con- cerning indecency and im- morality and get a race play ordinance passed by your council. Force them into court and let them bring the fight to you. All you can do isto closethe theater, then your. city attorneys office step in and backs up the Mayor. Get busy. Let everv Negro in Colorado help drive this play out, Colorado’ssoil is too sacred for such a vicious ‘monstrosity. Grand Junction, Colorado Springs and Pueblo, if you dont know what to do send for Townsend. You ought to havea lawyer to get you into court. RIGHT. Pre- pare to spend some’ money fighting to live in peace and happiness. Get busy. Stay onthe job until this hellish play is driven out of the State Everybody give something and‘dosomething. Get busy. Influence of tha Church in World Progress. LIBERAL GIVING APPROVED. Dr. C. V. Roman Makes Able Negative Answer to the Question, “Is Church Money Wasted?”—Race Needs More Thrift and Religion, Says Noted Phy- sician. Dr. C. V. Roman, the eminent physl- clan of Nasbville, Tenn., is not only a leader in his chosen profession, but 1s also one of the most widely read and cultured men of our race. He 1s a de- yout churchman and an active worker in many ways for racial advancement. He ts gifted as an author and writer and 1s an orator of charming person- ality. In discussing the question “Is Church Money Wasted?” in bis book on racial solidarity Dr. Roman says: ‘This {5 a question often asked fip- pantly and is hastily answered in the affirmative. It is a common thing to hear some one compute the number of dollars that colored people have put into the churches and then proceed to speculate on how much more good it would do if it were in factories, stocks ae wy and bonds or commercial enterprises. ‘Those who speak thus do so without a careful consideration of all the facts. The church is a very powerful influ- ence in the progress of civilization and the evolution of the race. It may be possible for civilization to exist with- out religion, but there is no his. toric evidence that it ever las done so and there 1s nothing in the present status of things to indicate that it ever will do so. Then it follows that had we no churches we wolld have no re- ligion, and without religion we would have no civilization, and without ctrl ization what would stocks and bonds or factories or commercial enterprises be worth? So, then, money” invested in churches ts not wasted: ‘There 1s something elovating and in- spiring about fine buildings. Their ed- ucative value is almost beyond compu- tation. A community of worshipers that builds a fine church is usually « well behaved and reflued community. Hence money put in fine churches is 4 good investment, Putting money in churches does not prevent the accumulation of money and prosperity by thrift and bonest energy, but encourages tt. Communi ties (hat contribute liberally to church es ave usually prosperous in other dl- rections. ‘The same 4s true of individ. uals. ‘Those who pay thelr church obligations promptly and faithfully arc usually thoxe Mint are successful oth erwise. Faithful church membership hever hinders an individual's business sticcess, and building good churches never Impoveriahes a race. What the Nero race needs today {- tore thrift and more religion. Leave off excursions und barrooms and put your money in churches and homes and property will come. Every kin of honorable business will thrive, ‘The Negro's cup of gnil will turn to nectar In fact. we will realize the beautiful dream of the prophet: “The wilderners and the solitary plince xball be sind. and the desert shall rejoice and bio« som as tha roan” The Bankers International Life ; Assurance Company DENVER, COLORADO ‘apital Stock $100,000.00 Surplus 179,679.65 Pa eee a ee |. RAC Ras oll) et ed Partial list of Claims Paid: Name Amount Jaura J. Givens ..............$575.00 Walter F. Anderson .......... 33.00 Liggie Mills .....-.--+-20---. 7.00 Margaret Lee ....-.--sseeeess 6.65 So AL Weare oo. cece ec ceeeeees — 8.30 3 Henry Charleston .............$ 7.00 Verge Rich .....-..--.+2000005 7.00 William H. Johnson......-.... 10,60 Nancy Nelson ......-.--.++++- 10.60 Nathan W. Clemons........... 6.75 {Issues the Latest and Best Forms of Life, Accident and Health Policies. SUITE 414 GAs & ELECTRIC BLDG., DENVER, COLO. BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS In the Choicest Lots Gut Flowers For all occasions. FUNERAL DESIGNS on short notice. Your business is appreciated SULLIVAN’S BIRD STORE D. J. Sullivan and Mrs. D. J. Sullivau, Prope. Phone MAIN 2488 “534 FIFTEENTH STREE1 Hair Grower, a food for dry, scaly and ichy scalp, will stop the hair from fall ing out, promote its growth and render it soft and glossy Mrs. Ida Cox Holley, Denver Agent, 2226 Clarkson Ss., Phone York 2225. * Mrs. Ollie H. Reed, Cheyenne, Wyo. Agent, 913 W. 20th’St. ———$_—_—_ eS For Signs, Show Cards, All Kinds of Lettering and Scenery Painting, See The Only Colored Sign and /Scenic Artist in the State. Gold Leaf Lettering and Wall Jobs a Specialty 2362 Walnut Street Denver, Colorado The Cosy Corner In Five Points Hamilton Chili Parlor HAMILTON & HAMILTON, Props. Cold Meats and Sandwiches Served 2752 Welton St. Denver, Colo. Everybody Goes to the ee CHAMPA PHARMACY 2oth and Champa Sts. For the Best Drugs, Chemicals, Patent Medicires, Etc, COLD DRINKS SERVED Prescriptions Our Specialty = Phone Main 2425 JAS. E. THRALL, Prop. es GOODS DELIVERED TO ALL PARTS OF THE CITY. THE HAM BROWN * COAL AND WOOD COMPANY AND EXPRESS Wishes to mention to you once more §that we will sell you 6 big sacks of Coal for $1.00. I E will sell you all kinds of Lump Coal 25c. cheaper than anyone else. PHONE MAIN 3348 (2057 1-2 LARIMER ST, ‘ —— Phone Main 3661 “Stetson Hats Our Specialty’ BROWN, THE HATTER ‘ Hats Cleaned and Blocked So Cents - Satisfaction Guaranteed A Trial Will Convince You. 718 Eighteenth Strest? ee ee eee Re oS ates ar, “ a ig pe a re uf £ Sr ae fe ce ae Pas ee eee eS COM re. ee me eee : ae te Va Be The Sealp Specialist Madam DeNeal’s a SCHOOL OF BEAUTY * AND HAIR CULTURE 1319 EAST PINE STREET SEATTLE, WASH. “WHY BE BALD” Famous DeNeal Scalp Treatment which is giving such wonderful results. The Agent’s success is assured with either race with the DeNeal Diploma, DeNeal’s Invigorator and DeNeal’s Hair Grower grows tbe most stubborn hair. The invigorator is a germicide, cleanses the diseased scalp, invigorating and strengthening the young hair. DeNeal’s Business Directory AUTO SERVICE. Oliver Hardwick, 2701 Welton St. BARBER SHOPS. The Jewell—1022 19th St. The Star—2232 Larimer. G. C. Craig, 2559 Washington Ave. CARPENTER. Earnest Howard, 1021 21st St. CLOTHES CLEANERS AND PRESSERS. Sanitary Clothes Cleaners & Press- ers, 2622 Welton St. COAL, FEED AND EXPRESS. R. E. Norris and Wm. Hill, 1024 23rd St. C. W. Bridges—610 27th St. Carter—2415 Washington. CORSET SPECIALIST. Miss Beatrice Lewis, 2339 Gilpin St. TOILET ARTICLES. Mrs. Lillie B. Moore, 2925 Glenarm. CUT FLOWERS. Sullivan's Bird Store, 534 15th St. DENTIST. Dr. T. E. McClain, 313½ Kittredge Bld. DRUG STORES. Champa Pharmacy—20th & Champa. Atlas Drug Co......2701 Welton EYE SPECIALISTS. Swigert Bros.—1550 California. HALLS. Fern Hall, 2711 Welton St. HARDWARE. Five Points H. Co.—2643 Welton. HAIR SPECIALISTS. Mesdames Gora Robinson and Eliza Rose, 2451 Ogden St. Mrs. E. Williams, 1910 Penn, Denver. Mrs. Jessie Carter, 2759 Glenarm Pl. Pope-Turnbo—8100 Pine St., St. Louis Madam DeNeal, 1319 East Pine St., Seattle, Wash. Wolf Bros., 1214 N. Senate Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. HATS CLEANED AND BLOCKED. Brown, the Hatter, 718 18th St. INSURANCE. Western Life & Accident Co.—Gas & Electric Bldg. The Bankers International Insurance Co. LOANS AND REAL ESTATE. Patrick-Oliver Realty Co., 2735 Wel- ton St. Colored American—913 21st St. A. J. Arfsten—2945 Larimer. LAWYERS. W. B. Townsend and T. O. Mason, 2850 Welton St. George G. Ross—209 Kiltredge Bldg. LIGHT AND FIXTURES. Decker & Co.—1432 Curtis St. MEAT MARKET. Fay Brothers, 1229-31 15th St. Welton Fruit & Vegetable Market, 2621 Welton St. ORCHESTRA. Gee. Morrison Phone Hickory 1418 ORTHOPEDIC APPLIANCES. Wm. Jones—808 14th St. MUSIC INSTRUCTION. George Morrison, Violin—4242 Tajon St. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. Justina Ford-Allen, 2335 Arapahoe. J. H. P. Westbrook, Good Block, 16th and Larimer. Paul E. Spratlin, M. D.—32 Good Block. Dr. Crump, 1025 21st St. SHOE REPAIRING. New Way—1857 Champs. THEATERS Grand .....2017 Larimer St Crescent .....2715 Welton St TAILOR. Southern.....2144 Stout St The Giant Cleaners and Tailors, 2549 Washington Ave. UNDERTAKERS. Douglas Co.—1859 Arapahoe. Cammel & Co., 2807 Welton St. Oriental Restaurant, 1848 Arapahoe. Dearfield Lunch Room, 1023 21st St. Twenty-eighth St. Cafe, 711 28th St. HARDWICKAUTO SERVICE COMPANY OLIVER A. HARDWICK, Mgr. Service by Trip or Hour Stands—Atlas Drug Co.; 2701 Welton St., Main 875. Reo Club., 2712 Welton St., Main 2759. SANTA The Star Wishes You A Merry Xmas and A Happy New Year. Weary Willie—What's an optimist, Pete? Plodder Pete—An optimist is a man that sees good in everything, but never forgets to carry a club.—New York Globe. To Avoid Publicity. Young Author (who thinks himself famous)—I believe I should enjoy my trip better if I could go incognito. Friend—Good idea. Travel under your nom de plume. — Philadelphia Press. Pa Is Out. Angry Dad—Now see what that whip ping has cost you. Little Eddie—See what it's cost you; those were my Sunday pants—New York Globe. NEGRO FAIR WELL ATTENDED Exhibits Numerous and College Displa play Excellent at Jackson. Jackson, Miss.—Jackson was thronged recently by one of the biggest crowds that was ever in the town, and the parade organized by the Negro state fair was one of the longest and most interesting that ever passed over the streets of the capital city, taking one hour and a half to pass a given point. The procession formed at Poindexter park, half a mile west of the Union station, and marched to the fair grounds in the following order: Cordon of police, brass band, officers of the fair, Knights of Pythias, Jackson school children by the thousands, Smith Robertson school, 1,214; float representing the Household of Ruth, fifty cowboys, mounted; carpenters, fifty graduate nurses, float loaded with small babies, representing "better babies;" float representing Mary Proctor hospital, Bakers' club float, float representing Uncle Sam, with a great stick of striped candy for cannon; stenographers' float, baggage haulers' float, Piney Woods school from Braxton, 200 strong and headed by a band; Brandon boosters in decorated buggies, vegetable truckers and raisers' float, float of possum hunters, with dogs and several possums in trees; missionary float, float representing North Jackson cooks, float of girls' pig club and boys' corn club, wagons loaded with corn, baled hay, sweet potatoes, moss covered wagons showing products of truck growers' farms, steam callope and innumerable automobiles gayly decorated, in which robe gayly caparisoned colored men and women. There were flags and banners denoting the several sections of the parade, three bands of music, player pianos, clowns and other features. The exhibits were numerous and attractively arranged. The Tougaloo and Alcorn college exhibits, occupying much space, have never been surpassed on these grounds. The products of the farms, the woodwork, blacksmithing, needlework, etc., shown by these institutions were excellent. Negroes Form a Golf Club. Atlantic City, N. J.-A number of prominent colored men of this district interested in the uplift of their race have formed a company which plans to construct a nine hole golf course, exclusively for colored players, at Dougals City, very near the fashionable Northfield Country club grounds. The founders of the club say promises have been received from about 100 colored men to join the club. Mourn J. Milton Turner's Death. Ardmore, Okla.-Many are mourning the death of J. Milton Turner of St. Louis, formerly United States minister to Liberia. Mr. Turner died from injuries received in the oil tank explosion recently. He was seventy-six years old and was the first Negro to enter the diplomatic corps of the United States, being appointed to the Liberian post in 1870. When appointed minister he had the rank of brigadier general in the Liberian army and commodore in the navy. Special Holiday Announcement BY THE Welton Fruit and VegetableMarket 2621 Welton St. Main 5943 Free and Prompt Delivery Turkeys, lb. 20c SWEET POTATOES 10 Lbs. 25c. All Nuts, New Crop, Best Quality, lb. 20c Black Walnuts, 6 lbs 25c Sweet Navel Oranges, per doz 25, 30, 35 and 40c Large Lemons, per doz 20c Bananas, per doz. 15 and 20c The best, largest Florida Grape Fruit, each 5c Imported Grapes, lb 15c Pop Corn, lb 5c We have the finest assortment of Apples come and see for yourself, $1.00 box up XMAS WREATHS, each 20c Strictly Fresh Eggs, doz.25c All brands of Butter, lb 30 and 35c LILLIE B. MOORE Sole Agent for Negro Firm - These articles are manufactured from the best material by experienced people and are free from objectionable properties found in such articles. High Brown Powders....25c and 50¢ Rozzol Face Bleach ..........,..25¢ White Powders ..............-+.50¢|High Brown Bleach .............50¢ Pink Powders ..........25¢ and 50c|High Brown Talcum Powder.....25¢ Lincoln Brunette Powders.......-25¢]High Brown Soap, per bar.......25¢ Hygienic Hair Pomade, per box..50c|Hygienic Shampoo, per bottle ...25¢ All Day Saturday or Mornings Before 10 a. m. PHONE MAIN 7635. 2925 GLENARM PLACE. You Have tried the Rest Our Piices Neasonable New Try the Best Satisfaction Guaranteed mE .~f. CLEANERS o> OK gs TAILORS - McCAIN & RICHARDS, Props. Cleaning, Pressing, Dyeing, Repairing, Relining and Remodeling WORK CALLED FOR AND DELIVDRED Phone Main 7376 2549 Washington Avenue PEE Day < Nicht x ieee er au oa E>» Hoss rt falls : : f Answered {> 33] a tn re Seer % pea . aa bs eee | | rb" ~ ae BS PHONE 3 | en CHAMPA > Be al CURTIS M. HARRIS. | | 2077 Ausiatant Manager and Funeral Director i 1 Auto for Hire - | © GAMMEL & CO. V. CAMMEL, President and Manager se Progressive Funeral Directors We take great pride in the fact that we are the Leading Progressive Funeral Directors, We can furnish elegant rolling stock, autos if preferred. You will be delighted with our service, as we lok after the little things that eount. Lady attendant. Embalming at the home if preferred. Private am- pulance. OFFICE AND PARLORS 2807 WELTON ST. eg e 4 e Southern Tailoring, Cleaning & Pressing Works H. GREENBERG, Proprietor Work Called for and Delivered to any part of the City. 2144 STOUT ST. PHONE MAIN 2091 FALL SEASON'S HERE.—Before buying or ordering your clothes see me.” You will vositively save from 25 to 50 per cent on your clothes bill, and we guarantee you the fit. trimmings and workmanship that the best can produce. Your work is done right in our shoo without the middleman’s profit. For 22 years in the tailoring line, and for several years with the largest concerns in this city. Have had the best experience in that line, and| yon can surely trusi your canfidence and be pleased. Dont throw your old clothes away, we willimake them look like new for a reasonable price. NOTE OUR CUT RATE PRICES for thorough cleaning. We usefnofchemicals or pressing machine. Hand work only. : WE FRENCH DRY OR STEAM CLEAN Ladies Long Coats of For Men’s Suits every Description “ Overcoats Drecces : S Cc “ Raincoats Skirts, - : 4oc Pants, = 4oc Suits Sponged and Pressed, 35c. Pants Pressed, 1oc : We also clean Portieres, ats, Gloves, Feathers, etc. ELINING - : Enovaring OUR SPECIALTY EPAIRING . . EFITTING at very low prices : ¥ ‘Yo Out of Town Patrons—We don't charge yon extra, only for transportation, Send your work direct to us with pruper instructions, we will dothe rest right and please you, We have pleased other outside customers. Estimates free of charge. - 4 YOUR COUGH CAN BE STOPPED Using care to avoid draughts, ex posure, sudden changes, and taking 5 treatment of Lr. King’s New Discov ery, will positively relieve, and in time will surely rid you of your Cough. The first dose soothes the trritation, checks your Cough, which stops in a short time. Dr. King’s New Discovery has been used successfully for 45 years and is guaranteed to cure you. Money bak if it fails. Get a bottle from your iruggist; it costs only a litf}e and y'tll help you so miuch. ADVERTISE IN THE STAR AND LOOK PROSPEROUS. Even though you may not be pros- perous, adopt as far as posfible the appearance of prosperity. It is sound capital and will bring good interest in the long run, Shabby-looking people, you may have noticed, always appear apologetic and can easily be turned down when they are most in need of a helping hand. Keep a brace front. Dame Fortune likes to throw her magic cloak about the shoulders of the man or woman who looks capable of, making the best of it, mee FOR SALW — $20,000 for $6,000; (THE GRAND THEATRE’S WE only $200 down, then $10 a month, PROGRAM. balance 5 per cent. An opportunity] Cut Out and Paste on Walt is knocking. 2401 Emerson, fine resi- 1 i: + dence, 40 rooms, barn, 4 tote, see|DOR't Miss the Big S Arfsten at Queen City bank, 2945 Lar- this Week. imer. There from 10 a, m.to 3 p.m.|_SXTRA_ GOOD MUSIC AT GRAND THEATER. THE RAGTIME PLAYER IN THE CARNATION ART CLUB MEETINGS|WILL TICKLE THE KEYS. aos AND HEAR HIM, Miss Lena Barnes, Dec. 3. Mrs. —_—— Mollie Barnes, Dec. 16. Mrs. J. Berry,, ANNOUNCEMENT. Dec, 17. Mrs. Davis, Dec. 24 Mr.) Do you want your halr iong Fletcher, Dec, 31. and aliky? ae See Mrs. Edith Bray Settle, Dr. W. A. Jones has returned to his| Welton street, agent and demons office, 1027 21st St., where he is ready} of Mme. C. J. Walker’s Hair G to serve. Office hours, 10 a. m. to 2/and all her remedies. A specia p. m. and 7 to 8 p. m. Sunday by|of 50 cents for shampooing and appointment. Phone Champa 455.|treatments. Stops hair from f Evening and night phone the same. |out and breaking off. Phone Ch 12-4-4t [[SeSB rss el. Ft oe 2 ee eae XX Century Dancing Academy at Old Colony Hall every Tuesday night. |x. OF P'S HOLD ANNUAL ELEC. TION. PYTHIAS LODGE NO. 11. The following officers were elected: Harry Jones. C. C.; Thos. Wells, V. ©.; D. D. Howard, M of Ex.: Chas. Green, M. of F.; A. R. Butter, K. of R. and S.: Joe Damon, M. of W.: Ed Johnson, Prelate: J. P. Blackwell. M. of A; N. J. Skillerin, 1. G: Jas. Clark, O. G.; Grand Representative, T. ©, McClain and Ed Johnson. Mrs. Q. A. Phillips of Pueblo ar- rived in this clty yesterday to spend the Yule-tide with her daughter, Mrs. Marry Eaton. Mrs. L.. M. Stamps who was recently reported with double pneumonia and pleurisy is slowly convalescing at her home at 2435 Lawrence St. Her many friends’ are very pleased te note her improvement after such a serious ‘spell. She is a member of the House- hold of Ruth and Eastern Star Chap- ter. | as PLEASE PAY UP, WE NEED 7 MONEY. . Because of our strequoue fight against. the Curse of the Nation, which has caused us to use extra help, increased matter and virtually double our expense, we are asking and appealing to all of our delinquent subscribers to pay us and help us to make and continue the fight for our civil and legal rights. I f you belteve in the Star and want the Star to con tinue to represent you manfully, please pay us. Let the other fellow wait; we have waited lon enough. Remember, it takes real money to ‘run a newspaper. THE GRAND THEATRE'S WEEKLY PROGRAM. Cut Out and Paste on Wall Don’t Miss the Big Show this Week. EXTRA GOOD MUSIC AT THE GRAND THEATER. THE BEST RAGTIME PLAYER IN THE CITY WILL TICKLE THE KEYS. COME AND HEAR HIM. z ANNOUNCEMENT. Do you want your hair long, soft E ‘liky? See Mrs. Edith Bray Settle, 2938 Welton street, agent and demonstrator of Mme. C. J. Walker’s Hair Grower and all her remedies. A special rate of 50 cents for shampooing and scalp treatments. Stops hair from falling Bis ‘and breaking off. Phone Champa SBI Tassos asec see sess cen a tele Owing to the holi- days, we are compelled to go to press one day earlier next week. Mrs. J. P. Shelburne who had been to Casper, Wyo., has returned. Mrs. ‘Clara Mays of Welton has been at Mrs. Shelburne’s residence. She is able to be up at this writing. IN MEMORIAM. In remembrance of Jng. E. Oglesby, who died Dec. 28, 1914: “We know not what it is dear, this sleep so deep and still; ‘The folded hands, the awful calm, the __ cheek so pale and chill; The lids that will not fift again though » we may call and call; The strange white solitude of peace that settles over all. Nothing is known; bur nearing God, what has the soul to dread; And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead.” Mother. A CARD OF THANKS. “T wish to thank the many friends who contributed so kindly to me dur- ing my mother’s death and funeral, Mrs. Jeasfe Pierson. = Respectfully, Mrs, James Wims. Mrs. E. Williams, the hair culturist, who has made an extensive trip south and east, returned Wednesday night to spend) the holidays with her fami- ly. Supreme Commander, C. M. White, of the American Woodmen, will spend Xmas holidays with his family, Died in Oakfand on Dec. 8th, fol- lowing and operation for appendicitis, Mrs. Cora Wright (nee Turmlin) daughter of Mrs. Dora Shackelford of Los Angeles, wife of 8. J. Wright, and cousin of Gecil Griffin of’ Klamath Falls, Ore. Deceased was a native of Kansas and lived for many years in Leadville and Denver, Colo, Geo. Morrison's Orchestra will fur- nish music for the Xmas Ball, Dec. 25th, and the New Year's Eve Ball, Dec. 31st. Go to Fern Hall, 2711 Wel- ton St. Mr.-Frank Whitsell, who was killed in Walsenburg, Colo., Tuesday eve, was shipped here for burial and funeral was held Monday p. m. from Campbell Church. Rey. James Wash- ington officiated; Assisted by Rey. A. FE. Reynolds and R. 1. Pope. _ Inter- ment Fairmount, Remember the Xmas Boys at Old Colony Hall Xmas night; Morrison's orchestra. Mrs. Queen McGriff departed this lfe Dec. 19th. Her funeral was held from Campbell Church, Wednesday, Dec. 22 at 2 p.m. Rey. James Wash. ington offictated. Interment Rlver- side, DOUGLASS UNDERTAKING co. HAS OPEN DOORS. New Year's Day will be celebrated as never before in Denver, when the Douglass Undertaking Co. will invite the public to inspect their new bust. ness place in Five Points. This {m: Provemerit’ made by our own men, with our own men hired on the job, bespeaks the highest praise and con- sideration for the Douglass Undertak: ing Co. This shows progression fn spite of thd fact that many of our people who can pay and who do pay, still have @white undertakers. We congratulate the company and while we hate to lose so good a neighbor, we wish them God speed. COUGH8 AND COLDS ARE DAN. GEROUS. avers, statistics tell us every third per- son dies of a Iung allment. Danger- ous bronchial and lung diseases fol- low a neglected cold. As your body struggles against cold germs, no bet- ter ald can be had than Dr. King’s ‘New Discovery. Its merit has been tested by old and young. In use over 45 years. Get a bottle today. Avold the rink of serious lung aflments, At druggists. XX Century Dancing Academy at ‘Old Colony Hall every Tuesday night. a PHONE MAIN G123 = be , DAY OR NIGHT Ga ae ~=—sCThe Douglass _ WEP 9 Undertaking Co. sit Slew Incorporated and Bonded tothe City R29 Das Polite Serviie FRANKS. REED go _¢ peasant oars an meee Ce Te Au and Director OT ISOS Aen Parlors 1830 : Ae Let Me Grow Your Hair! HAYE A PLERTIFUL SUPPLY OF BEAUTIFUL HAIR Use Real Hair Grower, Real Hair Grower Tonic and Shampoo. It is positively known that this treatment will grow the shortest hair, stop falling and splitting hair, eradi- cate dandruff and prevent grayness. Once thoroughly tried no further inducement is needed. Scalp scientifically treated, electric massage and hair dressing. I guarantee to cure the worst case of scalp disease. Six week treatment $1.50. Home treatment given. E. WILLIAMS, 1910 Pennsylvania, Denver. Ser ae Sten tes. 4 Everything about a Hog except the squeal WALTER EAST ; 2300 Larimer St. Denver, Colo. Home-Made Sausage a Specialty ——— DR. SPRATLIN DR. WESTBROOK Residence 2230 Clarkson St Residence Room 22 Good Residence Phone York 123 Block. 8 p.m.to8 a.m, Res, Phone Main 5595 * DRS. SPRATLIN & WESTBROOK PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS 7 Chronic Diseases a Specialty Office, Suite 25 Good Block, 16th @ Larimer Office Hours:'9 to 11a. m., 2 to § and 7.to 8 p. m. ESundays by appointment Office Phone Main 5595 We invite you to see our new and up-— to-date line of Furs, Coats, Gloves and Robes — Furs Remodeled, Relined, Repaired and made like * at new reasonable rates. Youman Fur Co. Phone Main 8045 422-24 Fifteenth St., Denver WOLF BROTHERS Hair Straightening Guifit Romar beating otlaup chsigaye_ Wh ono ot gar Tuere Ase Rovasyos oe TST trtetening Cos ot Castor Te qushty Suatey ease ees Ge FATT | Wea ees ceca te pie ee a f a rs Sa 4 4 :- — 1 Em [ALcouoL HEATER ee ee qi eo Fe }$ 1 Geant |f pds Hes Coetcar Beatereh i ‘Mail Orders includeTen Cents for postage Thewseads are using these outfits and fecommending them to sriends: Agents Wanted WOLF BROS. 1214 W. Senate Ave., Indianapolis, ind., USS. A Lena M, stewart, Agent, 1026 igth St., Denver, Colo. a Very Reasonable Prices Our Specialty The Finest of Work The Sanitary Clothes Cleaners and Pressers | }We Please the Best Dressers Phone Majn 1800 2622 Welton Street Calls and Deliveries Made a oi Iedies' and Gents’ Butte Bt Waists cleaned and preased...... “or French Gleated ss. eng ro] Years nane’, an, Poreseed... 400 Ladies’ and Gents’ Conia cleaned | |Buits aponged and Dressed” abe, and Pressed acces Pants sponged and pressed, 100. Dresses Cleaned and Pressed... je ranteed te Rvery Skirts cleaned and pressed....-..400} ‘nee nem Waiets cleaned and preased......400 Jackets cleaned and preseed.....400 Suits sponged and pressed, 380. ate syonged and pressed, oe Gatictaction Guaranteed te very Custemer