Denver Star

The Denver Star ESTABLISHED 1888 State History & Newural History Society TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR Number 121 Interesting News Concerning the Race. DEMOCRATS APPOINT NEGROES New York-True to their past performances Tammany took care of its colored members when it went into power in this county on Saturday Jan.1. The new district attorney, Judge Edward M. Swann, appointed the eloquent promising young colored attorney. Ferdinand Q. Morton, as one of his deputy assistants at a salary not less than $2,500 a year. This is a small but distinct step in advance of what the local Republicans have done in this direction for colored citizens. The first colored deputy district attorney was the present colored Democratic assistant corporation counsel appointed by Asa Bird Gardner, at a salary of $2,000 per year. Governor Whitman, formerly district attorney, appointed Cornelius N. McDougall at a salary of $2,000 per year. Despite his five years' service he was unable to get a raise in his salary above that figure and finally resigned. Mr. Morton goes into office at a salary of $2,500 yearly. He was recently recognized by Leader Chas. F. Murphy as chief of Murphy as chief of the United Colored Democracy. Sheriff Al. F. Smith also appointed a colored deputy in the person of William Lee, at a salary of $1,500 per year. Mr. Morton was born September 9, 1881, at Lincoln, Mississippi, reared in Washington, D.C., where his parents still reside. He completed his education at Philip's Exeter Academy, Harvard College and Boston University Law School. In all these institutions he gained a remarkakable reputation as a brilliant and forceful debater, having made the teams of his institution. He came to New York in 1908. Admitted to the bar October, 1910. He is now practicing law in his office, 80 Wall street. He has always been a member of the Democratic party and an active member of the local Democratic organization. He has been actively engaged in every campaign in this city since 1908. As the mentor and secretary of the organization he has been a great factor in making the showing in those campaigns that have been made by colored voters. ROBERT CRAWFORD HAS HAS WIRELESS STATION. Robert Crawford, of Chicago, 3829 Vincennes avenue, a seventeen year old youth is astounding the world with his knowledge of wireless telegraphy. Robert has, while a student at the Wendell Phillips high school, built for himself the entire wireless station which he has at his home. All the wiring, coil work, transmitter, receiver, telegraph keys and all other parts of this wonderful working apparatus was the work of his own hands. He formerly controlled six wires, but the government restriction owing to the war, had reduced them to three. Young Crawford has talked to Key West, Fla., and most of the Atlantic coast towns. He is a member of the Wireless Club, which are all white except himself. He is a student of the Wendell Phillips high school and has made a record that every boy should be proud of. All high schools in the country should take this case for an example and strive to point out the good this young man has accomplished. The young man has a wonderful future before him. He is also an artist of rare ability. St. Paul Gives Medal to Colored Heroine. St. Paul, Minn.—L. C. Hodgson, secretary to Mayor Powers, represented the city and the Woman's Civic League recently in presenting a gold medal to Gertrude Hubbard, 9 year old colored girl who rescued her brother and baby sister from their burning home several weeks ago. The Civic League, of which Mrs. E. G. McConnell is the head, purchased the medal for the girl, who was brought to the City Hall from her home south of the city to receive the gift. Negro White Caps Instead of White Men. Ogden, Utah.—For the first time in history, Ogden Union Station is now manned with colored Red Caps. The change was made recently when the four white men who had been employed were dismissed and four Negroes employed in their stead. L. Clarence Jones, of Chicago, is in charge, with Felix Paskett as his assistant. The men are paid a salary of $60 per month. Their service has been so satisfactory, that already the railroad management has commended them for their impartial and obliging manner to the traveling public. Birth of a Nation Revived, Organized, Incorporated. Birth of a Nation Leaves Denver Today. The love repine and Reason chafe, there came a voice without reply, 'tis man's perdiction to be safe, when, for the truth he ought to die! "—DuBois". No Negro within the confines of Colorado nor white man, for that matter can truly and correctly estimate the invidious and silent-harm done to the Negro and the American principles of government, as has been done by the production of the "Birth of a Nation" in Denver and Colorado. Why should our fair Denver be forced to swallow the cast offs of other cities? For the sake of the more credulous Denver people and our friends we will request your careful thoughtful perusal of the advertisement appearing in the Atlanta Constitution, commented upon by New York Age. We never under estimated the evils that "The Birth of a Nation" would do the race. We knew that the picture would fan the fires of hell wherever it was exhibited, and have feared that in some localites these fires would burst into a conflagration but, even so, we find that we did not realize how far its baleful power would extend. A watchful correspondeut has sent us an advertisement clipped from the Atlanta Constitution. At the top of the advertisement is the picture of a hooded horseman bearing a torch in hand, and underneath the picture is the following reading matter: "Knights of the Klu Klux Klan, For Home, Country and Each Other. A high class order for men of intelligence and character. The World's Greatest Secret Social, Patriotic, Fraternal, Beneficial Order." Chartered by the State of Georgia, December 6, 1915. Col. W. J. Simmons, Founder and Imperial Wizard, 85 Peachtree Place, Atlanta, Ga." Here we have "The Birth of a Nation," not merely set forth in a moving picture show, But Perpetuated in an active organization; an organization which will grow and spread, and whose virulent power compared with that of "The Birth of a Nation" will be as a cancer compared to a cat boil. There can be no mistaking the character and objects of this society. The name, "Knights of the Kluklux Klan," coupled with the legend, "For Home, Country and Each other," fully reveal them. A few months ago the press of the entire country denounced some of the citizens of Georgia, and the state indirectly, for the lynching of Leo Frank. The lynching of Frank marks a day in the history of Georgia; but her we the state itself authorizing and sanctioning a reversions to a whole epoch of blackness. We appeal to the press, both north and south, to take notice of the "Knights of the Kluklux Klan." The above editorial from the New York Age is respectively commended to the attention of these who have been inclined to minimize the effect of Dixon's photoplay propaganda: The Lynching Record for 1915. With the statement of Tuskegee Institute, published broadcast throughout the world relative to the lynching record for 1916, this nation should indeed hang its head in shame. There were six more colored and eleven more white men lynched in 1915 than 1914. Eighteen, or one-quarter, occured in Georgia. Of the sixty-nine lynched Tuskegee's eminent statistician speaks as follows. These facts and figures are far more eloquent than words: Only 11, 10 Negroes and 1 white, of those put to death, or 15 per cent of the total, were charged with rape. Other offences and number lynched for were: Murder, 17 (5 whites and 12 Negroes); wounding officers of the law, 3; killing officers of the law, 9 (3 whites and 6 Negroes) clubbing officer of the law, a family of 4 (father, son and 2 daughter); poisoning mules, 3; stealing hogs, 2 (white): disregarding warning of ntght riders, 2 (white); insulting women, 3; entering women's rooms, 2; wounding a man, 2; stealing meat, 1: burglary, 2; robbery, 1; looting, 1; stealing cotton, 1; charged with stealing a cow, 1; furnishing ammunition to man resisting arsest, 2; beating wife and child, 1 (white); charged with being accessory to the burning of a barn, 1. "Lynchings occurred in the following States: Alabama, 9; Arkansas, 5; Florida, 5; Georgia, 18; Illinois, 1; Kentucky, 5; Louisiana, 2; Mississippi, 0; Missouri, 2; Ohio, 1; Oklahoma, 3; South Carolina; Tennessee, 2; Texas, 5; Virginia, 1" The question arises: What is America going to do with the barbaric, disgraceful South. How can she, without the usual Wilson hypocrisy, talk about humanity to Europe? How can America pick the mote out of her brothers' eyes with the beam in her own eyes? Under no circumstances, whether of pain or grief or disappointment, or irreparable mistake, can it be true that there is not something to be done, as well as something to be suffered." "What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infiniie in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirate! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a God! Think of 69 Humans being slaughtered without a trial or jury! —Du-Bois. Samuel Lucas Dead: New York,—Samuel Lucas, author of the song "Grandfather's Clock," and known as one of the most original entertainers on the American stage for nearly half a century died at his home here today at the age of 75. He continued in vaudeville until a month ago. Mr. Lucas was one of the first members of Elks lodge, having been acharter member of lodge No. 1. He was a friend of H. J.M, Brown o hcity. Mme. E. Azalia Hackley celebrated her fiftieth anniversary as a singer with a Xmas tree party for the students of the Normal Vocal Institute December 29. Mme. Hackley wore her first concert gown, a pink brocaded satin, which had been remodeled three years ago by the Senior Sewing class of the Manassas (Va.) Industrial School. Among the telegrams of congratulation was one from Mme. Annie Skiilern, of Denver, who originally designed the costume. A purse of gold pieces was given by the free classes. A representative from each class presented a gold piece with a speech. The matron, Mrs. Clara M. Lewis, was also remembered with a purse of money. Each student was given a photo calendar from their teacher. REV. WASHINGTON, PASTOR OF CAMPBELL CHAPEL, RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT. With the record of having saved the life of an unfortunate Negro to his credit and with the additional merit of having more closely cemented and knitted together the ministers of this city, Rev. James Washington, pastor of Campbell A. M. E. Church, was re-elected President of the Ministerial Alliance of this city. Rev. Washington worked hard in the Billy Sunday Campaign and has effectively looked after the Negro's interest when touched religiously by politics. The Star wishes him a continued measure of success and harmony during his ad ministration. FIVE CENTS A COPY. WHITE PALLBEARERS AT NEGRO'S FUNERAL. East Las Vegas, New Mexico,—At the funeral of Montgomery Bell, one of the wealthiest men in the state, the pall bearers were all white some of the most prominent business and professional men of the community. This is the first time in the history of New Mexico that white pall bearers officiated at a Negro's funeral. Mr. Bell came to New Mexico in 1866 from Missouri, working as a waiter and cook. Later he became a messenger in the First National Bank of Santa Fe. Accumulating some capital he went into the sheep business with Mexican partners, with headquarters at Las Vegas. He became very wealthy, and possessing plenty of ready cash, he increased his holding by making loans. He was called Bell the money lender. Four years ago he became interested in the banking business with John W. Harris, a white man, and financed the People's Trust Co., but remained as silent partner. He was reputed to be worth in the neighborhood of $350,000 when he died. Harrisburg, Pa.,—A recent event that has attracted much attention was the unveiling by the city of Harrisburg of a memorial to Dr. William H. Jones, a Negro, who died ten years ago. Dr. Jones has served several terms on the school board and was a man of wide popularity among all race. This is the first time in Harrisburg history that the city has so honored a Negro. The memorial is in the shape of a fountain at the entrance of a fountain at the 12th street playgrounds and the committee in charge of the dedication included both white and colored men. Georgia Judge Gives White Man 99 Years. Waycross, Ga.,—Judge Sommerall, of the Superior Court, sentenced Ben Higgs, a well known white man of Millwood to ninety-nine years in the State Penitentiary for the murder of Martha Anderson, a Negro woman. The crime was committed last July. The jury, composed of white men, gave a verdict within thirty minuted after the case was given to them, at the same time recommending the murdered to the mercy of the court. Mrs. Anderson was 59 years old and had never been involved in any quarrel with Higgs. The testimony developed the fact that Higgs tried to hire her to pick cotton for him and when she refused to leave home he fired his Winchester rifle at her, killing her instantly. Higgs had been drinking "moonshine" liquor, according to his companion. Church News CAMPBELL CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH, CORNER 23RD AND LAWRENCE STS. REV. JAMES WASHINGTON, PASTOR. 2542 ARAPAHOE ST. SABBATH SERVICES. Sunday School, 9:45 a. m. Preaching, 10:45 a. m. and 7:20 p. m. Class Meeting, 12 m. Allen's Christian Endeavor League, 6:30 p. m. Prayer Meeting, Wednesday, 8:00 p. m. The entertainment given by the W. M. M. s. last Thursday night, was a decided success, both socially and finan- cially. The pastor has appointed a commi- teNe to raise funds to repair and bea- tify the chapel, viz., Mrs. B. F. Givens, chairman of committee, Mrs. Mary, Miss E. Fitcheu, Mrs. Lulu Page, Mrs. Fanny Johnson. There will be a mid-winter musicale given by the best talent in the city, February 22nd, 1916. The pastor is very much elated over the spiritual and financial condition of the church. The attendance is good, prayer meetings well attended, and every department of the church is inspired. The Minister's Alliance held their meeting at the Y. M. C. A. building, Monday, January 10th. We wish to congratulate our ministers for their renewed interests and attendance. 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. The mass meeting last Sunday at the church was well attended and new resolutions of faith and confidence were pledged by all present. After a prayerful silence the different members expressed themselves as being satisfied with the progress of the church and desired the good work to continue. The cold weather has delayed the decorating and renovation of the church. Strong hopes are entertained that as soon as practicable, and the cold weather will permit, the work will be pushed to completion. Regular services are being continuously held at the church. You are invited to come and take part. The first of February will close the rally for the church repairs. Have you given anything toward beautifying Scott? If not, would you give some thing? Get your friend to help, Ladies' Aid met at their regular weekly meeting, Thursday at 3 p. m. Sick list—Sisters Anna Cox and Nina Simpson. THE ZION BAPTIST CHURCH, 24th Avenue, Oden. 24th Avenue and Ogden. David E. Over, D. D., Minister. Telephones, York 6007, York 9377. A great crowd was in attendance at the morning service in Zion last Sunday. The pastor spoke from the subject, "The Ministering Power of Hardship." That the message was helpful was attested by many expressions from them who heard. At the close of the service Sister M. R. Bray, Brother Charles Seawright and Brother Geo. W. Davis came forward for union with the church; the latter for baptism. The evening service was also well attended, at the close of which the rite of baptism was administered to Brother and Sister Remaiah, and to Brother Davis. The Pulpit Aid Society is planning a Leap Year party, the details of which will be announced shortly. The Ladies' Bible Class, which meets Thursdays at 2:30, is making progress in both interest and attendance. Every woman is welcome. The Men's Bible Class is called for Tuesday night. It is the hope of the paorat that every man who can avail himself of the opportunity will be present. A new series of lessons will be given. CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH. Corner Twenty-fourth and California Streets. Rev. P. J. Price, Pastor, 3012 Marion Street. Sunday School Lesson, Jan. 16th, 1916, "Peter's Sermon at Pentecost," Acts. 2:21. W. A. Moore, Supt.; M. People, Asst. Supt. B. Y. P. U. Topic beginning at 6:30 p.m. James Austin, Pres. The installation of the different officers of Central Baptist was very ably carried out last Friday night. Dr. E. McClane made a stirring address on the behalf of the Auxillaries of the church. We commend Brother C. Rose and Brother W. A. Moore for their timely efforts in preparing the program. Mrs. Ada Green of Little Rock, Ark., attended our services last Sunday. The pastor has known Mrs. Green practically all her life. Mrs. Green comes highly recommended from the First Baptist Church of Little Rock, Ark. She is here for her health. Xmas exercises this season was the best in the history of the Sunday School and B. Y. P. U. The Ministerial Alliance has taken on fresh courage. The following persons were elected for the ensuing year. Rev. Jas, Washington, Pres.; Rev. A. E. Revnolds, Vice-Pres.; Rev. P. J. Price, Sec. and Treas.; Rev. D. E. Over, L. B. West and Rev. Wayman Ward, Program Committee. The Ministerial Alliance meets at the Colored Y. M. C. A., 28th and Glenair Street, 2nd and 4th Mondays in each month. Mr. Rector and Attorney Ross were present last Monday. Brother Hatwood, Mrs. Buchanan, Blakley, Mrs. Mary Berry, Carriss are improving at this writing. Brother Mike Thomas has been somewhat indisposed but better at this writing. THE PEOPLE'S PRESBYTERIAN East 23d Ave and Washington St. Pastor, J. A. Thos. Hazell, S. T. B. Sermon Topics, Sunday, Jan. 16th. 11:00 a. m.—"What is Christianity?" 4:30 p. m.—Christian Endeavor. 5:00 p. m.—"The Church of the Living God." The week of prayer so spiritually uplifted our people last week that it was deemed advisable to engage in a week of special evangelistic preaching services this week, conducted by the following brethren: Rev. Reynolds, Rev. Washington, Rev. Over, Rev. Pope and Rev. A. C. Jackson, respectively from Monday to Friday night. Rev. L. B. West will occupy the pulpit at both services tomorrow delivering two special sermons on evangelism. The services are being conducted in the Chapel with much success. Sister churches with their pastors are cordially invited to participate in this evangelistic campaign. The probability is that the campaign will go on for another week. The first week of prayer was brought to a close with a fellowship service and a fellowship supper last Sabbath evening when more than 100 persons sat around the festive board. Among the audience were a number of the clergymen of the city. The Presbytery of Denver held its mid-winter session with the Corona Presbyterian Church last Tuesday. Rev. Thos-Hazell, the Moderator, who is also chairman of the Freedmen's work of the Presbytery reported thru his assistant, the Rev. L. B. West, S. T. B., he Presbytery was very pleased with the outlook of the field. A horse with a $45 harness was presented to the Curate by the Rev. J. Hirner of Alliance, Neb., for the pastoral use for Dearfield as the result of a strong plea by the Moderator for pastoral conveyance for Brother West. Another Brother from Fort Collins will in part supply the buggy. SHILOH BAPTIST MISSION. CORNER 29th and LARIMER STS Rev. T. E. Henderson, Pastor Sunday School at 2:30 p. m. and Preaching at 8 p. m. Regular Prayer Meeting, Thursday at 7:30 p. m. The pastor will fill the pulpit Sunday night. Subject, "Who Is on the Lord's Side." The Railroad Co., owners of the church building formerly occupied by the Mission, informed the Mission that the Mission would have to assume responsibility for any accident that might occur by people going to and from the church. The members felt that this was more responsibility than they were able to assume, therefore in a regular meeting voted to vacate the Mission. Services hereafter will be held at the above address. All are invited to attend and help Shiloh. Church of The HOLY REDEEMER. (Episcopal) 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 Christian's Attitude Towards Evil and Good." 7:45 p. m.—Choral Solemn Even-song with Sermon. Subject, "The Hour of God." Wednesday, 2:30 p. m.—Meeting of the Guild of St. Perpetua. Friday, 2 p. m.—The Sunday School Teachers will meet. 3 p. m., the Women's Bible Study Class will be held, 4 p. m., Junior Choir rehearsal. 8 p. m., Litany and general Choir rehearsal. Saturday, 7 p. m.—The Altar Guild of St. Mary the Virgin will be held. PLEASANT GREEN BAPTIST CHURCH. 3131 Walnut St. Phone Champa 3493 REV. C. A. MILLER, PASTOR. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 1 p. m. Prayer service Wednesday night. All are welcome. Prayer and praise service at Zion Baptist church Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Prayer for National prohibi- tion. Thanksgiving for victory in Colorado. Everyone invited. Thur- man, Leonard and Smith-Cassell uni- fons. MISSION WORK AND SUNDAY SCHOOL AT THIRTY-FIRST AND BLAKE STREETS. Sunday School at 1:30 p. m. Preaching at 3 o'clock. Bible Training Class, 7:30 each Frida- day evening. Elder E. J. Clark, teacher. You are cordially invited to each of these services. Better a day of strife Than a century of sleep; Give me instead of a long stream of life The tempests and tears of the deep. YOU WILL BE ABLE TO WEAR DIAMONDS IF YOU SUV YOUR COAL FROM W. O. SILONDS. P. W. COLEMAN, Sec'y. B. J. CATLETT, Supt. Colorado Annual Conference Directory. Rocky Mountain District—Rev. A. M. Ward, Presiding Elder. Shorter Chapel, Denver. Rev. Robert L. Pope, B. D. 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 Howard, Preleading Eider. Albquereque, N. M., Rev. J. M. Endicott. Las Vegas, N. M., Rev. B. F. Mc Cully. Santa Fe, N. M., Rev. J. E. Williams. Globe and Miami, Ariz., Rev. F. O. Graves. Walsenburg, Rev. T. L. Cate. Prescott, Gallup and Flagstaff, Rev. W. L. N. Baker. Douglas and Bisbee, Rev. T. M. Reeves. Y. W. C. A. NOTES. At the annual meeting of the Young Women's Christian Association in the Baldwin Building, the Phyllis Wheatley Club was represented by nine members. Reports of the various committees were given in pantomime instead of dry statistics as is generally done. This one feature made the meeting unusual. After the reports there was a grand march in which all the clubs participated. Each had a leader who carried a large banner bearing significant facts of that particular club. Our banner bore the words, "Phyllis Wheatley Club, Organized Oct. 28, 1915, 82 members, Club Room 318 25th Street." The regular meeting was held Monday evening in the Club Room. The Social Service Committee reported that it had helped five children to enjoy a Merry Christmas. Many donations were received by the committee. Donations are very acceptable, especially in the line of chairs. Bible Class meets every Thursday evening from 7 to 8. Instructress, Miss Scott. Sewing class from 8 to 9. Instructress, Miss Bensen. This is a good opportunity to learn something about the Bible. A class in First Aid is being organized and will meet Monday evenings from 9 to 10. Dr. Crump will instruct. The Recreation Committee under management of Myrtle Travers, announces an indoor track meet in the club room, Wednesday evening, January 19, at S o'clock. Don't fail to see the girls in the Marathon Race. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. A special meeting of the Committee of Management of the Young Men's Christian Association was held on Monday evening last, at which plans were discussed and methods proposed for the enlarging of the activities of the Branch and increasing its effectiveness. The secretary pointed out that one of the greatest needs just now was willing, efficient workers, who are able to lead boy's clubs and men's groups. He said that he could use half a dozen good workers right now, and would need more a little later, as other clubs and groups were perfected. The work, he pointed out, could not be properly developed unless such workers could be found very soon. There are at present four groups of boys studying the Bible. Others may be formed later. The social work of the boys is now being organized, and will soon be completed. The educational work will then be taken up, consisting of light talks, simple lectures, educational "hikes," and the like. Attention is now being given, also, to the men's work. A "Get-together" social of the men will be held next Tuesday evening, the 18th, when all the senior members will meet to get better acquainted and for a general pleasant evening. Light refreshments will be served free, with a continuous musical program. The men's meeting last Sunday afternoon at four o'clock was quite well attended. Rev. Thos. S. Young, pastor of the Broadway Baptist Church, was the speaker, his subject being, "The Man Who Made Good." He spoke on the life of Moses, and his address was very impressive and inspiring. "Willingness to obey God," he said, "and hard work continued in, is bound to bring success in the end." Next Sunday afternoon Rev. F. T. Bayley, pastor of the Plymouth Congregational church, is expected to be the speaker. The boy's meeting, which took place at 2:30, was well attended, thirty-five being present. William Grundy and Frank Eperson were ushers. Mr. W. A. Clarke of the Western Union Telegraph Company, was the speaker His subject was, "Making the Team The boys sang well, and their department was good. Next Sunday of September Mr. George Watless, assistant director of the Boys' Work Department of the Central Y. M. C. A. will speak to the boys on the subject "The Four-Square Boy." All boys are expected to be there. 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 48 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 the gripp tendencies. Money back if it fails. 50c and $1.00. CHURCH of the HOLY REDEEMER Cor. 22nd Ave. and Humboldt. Ibane York 5700. 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 Aves. and Ogden St. York 9377 CAMPBELL A. M. E. CHURCH Cor. 23rd and Lawrence Sts. Phone Main 7965. CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH 24th St. between California and 8stout Sts. Phone York 8193. 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, 88th and Blake streets. L. J. JONES, PASTOR, PHONE CHAMPA 169. SHILOH BAPTIST MISSION. Corner Thirty-first and Walnut Sts. MISSION WORK AND SUNDAY SCHOOL AT THIRTY-FIRST AND BLAKE STREETS. THIRD SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, 2917 GLENARM PLACE. Lodge Directory. F. & A. M. AND ITS AUXILIARIES, Titus S. Rector, G. M., 2716 Welton St. Wm. Sprague, G. Sect., 2434 Gilpin St. Rocky Mt. Lodge No. 1, 1st and 3rd Mondays of each month 2630 Welton St. Hiram Commandery, -2nd Tuesday of each month. only) 1834 Arapahoe St. Masonic Consistory, (1st and 3rd Tuosdays at 32 Goode Bidg.) Queen of Sheba Court, 2nd and 4th Friday of each month. (Afternoon) 2630 Welton St. Evergreen Chapter No. 36, O. E. S. 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month. (Afternoon) 2630 Welton St. Lone Star Chapter O. E. S. 1st and 3rd Thursday of each month. (Afternoon) 2630 Welton St. Centennial Lodge No. 4. 2nd and 4th Monday of each month. 1834 Arapahoe St. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAIS AND ITS AUXILIARIES. W. H. Bess, Grand Chancellor, Colorado Springs, Dolo. Chas. S. Muse, G. K. of R. & S. 1221 Gaylord. Aetna Company, 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month. 1834 Arapahoe St. Pythias Lodge No. 11, 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month. 1834 Arapahoe St. Damon Lodge No. 5, 1st and 3rd Fridays of each month 2630 Welton St. Columbine Calanthe (K. of P.) 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month 2630 Welton St. Rocky Mt. Court Calanthe, 2nd and 4th Friday of each month 1834 Arapahoe Street. G. U. O. OF O. F. AND ITS AUXILIARIES. GRAND OFFICERS. Dr. Paul E. Spratlin, D. G. M. 32 Goode Bldr. Geo. S. Contee, D. G. Sect. 2612 Welton R. Rocky Mt. Lodge 2820. 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month 2630 Welton R. Arapahoe Lodge No 2836 1st and 3rd Monday of each month 1834 Arapahoe R. Denver Lodge No 2846 Phone orders receive strictest attention Phone Main 2737 Welton St. 7732 Denver, Colo. We Will Exchange An Old Trunk For A New Our goods are hand Made, of the best material a guaranteed for durable wear. All kinds of repair, done on Suit Cases, Bags and Traveling Necessities IF IT IS A Suit Case, Trunk, Bag or a Traveling Necessity SEE US. Emmett Cammel, G. M., 2807 Welton St. Naomi Temple No. 12 2nd and 4th Fridays of each month 2630 Welton St. Columbine Temple (S. M. T.). 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month 2630 Welton St. Mountain Lodge Elks No. 29. 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of each month. Spanish War Veterans. 2nd and 4th Friday of each month. St. James Temple No. 457 meets 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month. De Molay Consistory meets first and third Thursday nights at Nippon Hall 2049 Champa St. O. W. C Groceries and VEGETABLES Phone orders receive Phone Main - 7732 20 YR O CITY WORLD Kortz Jewelry Co. We Will Exchange A Our goods are hand Mad guaranteed for durable w done on Suit Cases, Bags IF IT IS A Suit Case, month. ton St. each ton St month. ton St. each ton St. Mystic Shrine meets second and fourth Thursday nights at Nippon Hall, 2049 Champa St. POINTS OF INTEREST. State Capitol, Colfax and Lincoln. Union Depot, 17th and Wynkoop St. City Hall, 14th and Larimer St. Auditorium, 14th and Curtis St. Public Bathhouse, 20th and Curtis St. Public Library, 14th and Bannock. Fire Dep't., 25th and Glenarm Place. Inspiration Point. Federal Building, 18th and Champa. THE STAR IS THE ONLY NEGRO REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER IN COLORADO. IT HAS MORE READERS THAN ALL OTHER NEGRO NEWSPAPERS COMBINED. NEW RACE ORGANIZATION. National Fraternal Congress Be Formed at Cincinnati. The generous response to the citation of the committee of the National Negro Press association for the organization of a national congress of Negro fraternities has assured the committee that the time is ripe for such an organization. The need of it is so obvious to all thinking fraternal men and women that argument here would be an adverse reflection upon their intelligence. The fraternal congress will meet at Cincinnati on Feb. 7 and 8. This meeting is called on these dates because the National Negro Press association will meet at Nashville, Tenn. the same week (Feb. 10-12), and this will give opportunity for delegates interested in both meetings to attend them conveniently. Each grand lodge organization in every state, of whatever society, is requested to send one delegate. Many of these organizations have already elected delegates. Dr. E. E. Underwood, Frankfort, Ky.; Hon. R. B. McRary, Lexington, N. C.; and Professor E. H. McKlissack, Holly Springs, Miss. have been designated as a committee to draw up a tentative constitution and bylaws for consideration. All delegates and visitors who expect to attend the meeting should write Dr. E. A. Williams, P. O. box 753, Cincinnati, for assignment to homes. A national congress of pro traitemities will and ought to be the most potential organization of the race for self help and notice to the country that the race has learned the lesson of the strength of union and is now constantly in the watchtower scanning the horizon for opportunities to further the progress of the race. The call for the congress is signed by Joseph L. Jones and Dr. E. A. Williams, Cincinnati, and W. E. King, Dallas, Tex. MANY PEOPLE DON'T KNOW. A sluggish liver can cause a person an awful lot of misery. Spells of dizziness, headaches, constipation and billiousness are sure signs that your liver needs help. 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Bush, national grand secretary of the Mosaic Templars of America, says Dr. Washington was a great and good man, a friend of all the people, regardless of race or color. He was one of the greatest men of this country. Speaking of Mr. Bush, the Bulletin says: "John E. Bush is a leader of the colored men in Little Rock and the state of Arkansas, and when in Little Rock the late Booker T. Washington and John E. Bush were inseparable. Mr. Bush was a former collector of public money at Little Rock and is one of the leaders in the work of the National Negro Business league." Well Known Inventors of Our Race. Granville T. Woods and Elijah McCoy are among the best known inventors of the colored race. There have been issued to Mr. McCoy twenty-eight patents from the United States patent office for his inventions of various kinds, and Mr. Woods is widely known for his success in inventing telephone and telegraph appliances, for which there is a large demand. Persistence of Miss Lydia B. Conley. Miss Lydia B. Conley, an Indian woman of Kansas City, Mo., was recently admitted to practice before the United States supreme court. Miss Conley is a member of the Wyandotte tribe. PROSPEROUS YEAR FOR VIRGINIANS Society In Brooklyn Advances Along All Lines. DODSON CHOSEN PRESIDENT Annual Installation of Officials Affords Opportunity For Renewing of Old Friendships—Treasurer Graham H. Carter Makes Encouraging Report. Fine Record of Dr. C. H. Richardson. Brooklyn.—Notable among the many public functions of various benevolent and secret societies held in this city the week ending Jan. 8 was the annual meeting and social gathering of the Society of the Sons of Virginia, held on Thursday evening, Jan. 6. Aside from the social intermingling of the members and guests the two features of the evening were the installation of the officers for 1916 and the reading of the yearly financial report by the treasurer, Graham H. Carter. The officers were installed by the Rev. Dr. Kimball Warren, minister of the Bethany Baptist church of this city. Dr. Warren gave to each official such advice as should be helpful in the office he fills. He also spoke in terms of admiration of the purpose of the society and the good work which P. C. M. RICHARDSON, M. D. It is doing. Dr. Warren expressed himself as being particularly pleased with the business conduct of the organization as gleaned from the treasurer's report. The officers installed are the following named men: N. Barnett Dodson, president; Elenzer T. Jackson, vice president; Alfred R. Nash, recording secretary; James F. Flippin, corresponding secretary; Peter H. Fisher, financial secretary; Graham H. Carter, treasurer; James S. Watkins, sergeant at arms, and G. L. Royster, chaplain. The new members of the board of directors are Charles R. Carter and James W. Patterson. Former President Charles H. Turner is the new chairman of the board of directors and Dr. Clarence H. Richardson examining physician. Treasurer G. H. Carter's report showed receipts for the year, with bank interest, amounting to $011.16; present worth of the society, $4.340.23. The increase in finances over the past year was $282.67. The membership is 153; new members received during 1915.11; members sick during the year. 12; members deceased during the year. 1. Of Dr. Clarence Hudson Richardson, the examining physician for the society, it is fit to say: To the merry muse's peon song there burst forth on this planet, in the hamlet of Culpepper, Va., Oct. 27, 1882, a babe--afterward called Clarence Hudson Richardson. At the age of five years his parents took him to Philadelphia. There he attended the public schools, leading his class. After this he attended Lincoln university, graduating from there in 1901. Later he entered the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, and did special work in chemistry, physics, biology and bacteriology courses leading to medicine. He entered the Harvard Medical school at Boston, from which he graduated in 1912. Soon after his graduation he was called to Memphis, Tenn., as professor of aomy, eye, ear, nose and throat at Western university. Dr. Richardson spent one year at West university as professor. While thus engaged he took the Tennessee state board examination, which he passed with honors, making nearly a perfect examination. During his short stay in Memphis he had already gained a reputation as a diagnostician. Dr. Richardson left Memphis, for he felt the field in the east to be richer in research advantages. He took the New Jersey state board examination and felt the pulse of the people of Long Branch, N. J., for one year. He became a resident of this city in May, 1915. His success in Brooklyn for the short time he has been a resident has been very good. Besides his own work Dr. Richardson is associated with Dr. Owen M. Waller, the dean of Brooklyn physicians among our people, in a movement in which they may render greater service to the public. 2835 STOUT ST. PRICES REASONABLE Office Phone Main 8298 PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 1025 21st Street 2643 Welton St. Phone Champa 2078. C. W. BRIDGES { Prep. } Packing and and Crating. Open Van for Moving 75c per hour. Pianos Carefully Moved. It will pay you to deal with us. Headquarters for Rock Island and Chicago Trainmen Combined or Separate. The Homelike Place for Railroad Boys. Give us a Call Phone Main 7945 2424 CURTIS ST., DENVER, COLQ. FOR TUSKEGEE'S FUTURE. Trustees of Alabama School Plan to Reine Bin Endowment Fund. A dispatch from Tuskegee, Ala., on Tuesday, Dec. 14, states that after an all day session the trustees of the Tuskegee institute failed to elect a successor to the late Dr. Booker T. Washington and referred the matter to a special committee, composed of Chairman Seth Low, Vice Chairman W. W. Campbell of Tuskegee, Ala.; Victor H. Tulane of Montgomery, Ala.; Frank Trumbull of New York and Edgar A. Bancroft of Chicago. The creation of a $2,000,000 Booker T. Washington memorial endowment for the Tuskegee institute was authorized by the institute's trustees, who announced that $450,000 had already been pledged, some of it contingent upon raising the remainder. Colonel Roosevelt had a full and busy day at Tuskegee, spending the larger part of the morning in the trustees' session. Under Warren Logan, the treasurer, and Emmett J. Scott, the secretary, the institute work can be carried on without interruption until the committee names a new principal, the dispatch says. The only names mentioned by the trustees as a possible successor to the great Negro educator were Emmett J. Scott, secretary of the Tuskegee institute, and Major R. R. Moton, commandant of cadets at Hampton institute. Scott for eighteen years was Dr. Washington's secretary and intimate coworker in building up the work of the school. The following statement regarding the Booker T. Washington memorial fund was issued: "Tuskegee institute is Booker T. Washington's monument, and his most fitting memorial is the perpetuation of its great work for the benefit of the colored people and for the promotion of helpful relations between the races. The gap at present existing between the ordinary income of the institute and its annual outgo is approximately $150,000. It is not desired to close this gap so completely as to make the institute independent of the interest and support of the living, but it is desired to reduce this gap to manageable proportions. "The trustees therefore propose to invite subscriptions to the Booker T. Washington memorial fund of $2,000.000 for the continuance of the institute and of the work for the Negro race which centers there." "It is hoped and expected that $250,900 of this sum will be given by Negroes, out of which fund a suitable memorial for Booker T. Washington shall be erected on the grounds of the institute. The trustees have already received subscriptions of more than $450,000, some of which, but not all, are conditional upon larger sums being raised. "The colored people may therefore feel that every dollar they give will be met more than dollar for dollar by gifts from white people. The fund to be invited from the Negro people will be managed from Tuskegee institute and will be under the charge of Emmett J. Scott, secretary. Other subscriptions to the memorial fund should be sent to William G. Willcox, treasurer of the investment committee, 2 South William street, New York city, or to the treasurer of the institute, Warren Logan. Tuskegee institute, Alabama." AGITATING FOR JUSTICE. Hon. H. C. Smith Continues Fight on Race Segregation in Ohio. RACE SEGregation IN Ohio. Cleveland, O.—The editor of the Gazette of this city, Hon. Harry C. Smith, has been "stirring up the animals" again—those holdover state officials under Governor Willis' administration who seem determined not only to continue discrimination against Afro-Americans in certain state institutions, but also continue insults along the line started many months ago and temporarily discontinued for a short time at the request of the governor on suggestion of Editor Smith. Recently the latter received several letters from the governor, which he has published in his paper, showing his most recent fight (the third one to compel the secretary of the state medical board to discontinue his demand that applicants to practice a limited branch of medicine or surgery in Ohio should send to the board their photographs. he was compelled several months ago to discontinue asking that said applicants state their color in answering questions propounded on the board's application blanks, which it furnished on request. Photograph requests were to supply what the elimination of the "color of the skin" request from the application blank made it impossible for the secretary of the board to get. Mr. Smith wrote the governor, when objecting to the color and photograph requests of the Ohio medical board through its secretary, that such a course "savors so much of the most reprehensible one being followed at Washington in the case of applicants for positions under the civil service, the purpose of which is so obvious," that it should not be tolerated in Ohio of all the states in the Union. Governor Frank B. Willis agreed with him and promptly put an end to the discrimination along that line recently. The governor has, too, replaced T. P. Riddle, director of the "Ohio corn boys' special" party, for insisting upon the latter seeing a certain photo play while visiting in Philadelphia a few weeks ago, contrary to his urgent request that this be not done. The governor even threatened to withdraw his promise to deliver an address in Philadelphia to the "Ohio corn boys" and their excursionist guests on that day if the trip to view the photo play was not stricken from the official program prepared by Mr. Riddle. It was taken from the program, all right, but after the governor left Columbus on the S. p. m. train Director Riddle saw to it, as he wrote Hon Harry C. Smith under date of Dec. 4, 1915, that all who wished to do so saw the photo play. The editor of the Cleveland (O.) Gazette has renewed his fight on the segregation started in two state institutions a couple of years ago—the Girls' Industrial home at Delaware and the Soldiers and Sailors' Orphans home at Xenia—and has called upon the aggressive and brilliant governor of Ohio to put an end to this insulting disgraceful and unnecessary discrimination, with splendid prospects of favorable results. Sure Thing. "You silly boy! Of course I won't marry you. 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In case you do not receive any number when due, inform us by postal card and we will cheerfully forward a duplicate of the missing number. 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. HOWARD UNIVERSITY SHINES AGAIN. Howard Night at Bethel Literary, Wash., D.C. It did our hearts good to read with the exalted pleasure of our old Alma Mater taking on new aggressiveness by taking Bethel Literary, that historic society of the Metropolitan A.M. E. church by storm last week. They made the welkin ring and Dean Kelly Miller completely took care of our higher educational necessities. We wonder why our Washington Alumni do not have these annually? It fills every Howard student and graduate with the greatest of pride and encouragement in knowing that the illuminating light of civilization is still burning bright "on the hill" for all of humanity. Dear old Howard, may God bless and prosper her continually. The Detroit Leader came out in her new holiday attire. The publican was very commendable and showed rare taste and ability. 10 NEGROES OF DENVER AND COLORADO. The Star has tried to stand by the Negroes, their best interest and their welfare. We have urged that the Negroes organize and speak through their organizations. They have done that. They have appealed, petitioned, yea, begged for consideration by and from the State officials. The Star's advice to all Negroes is to not join any kind of a club or an organization. Beware of any and all politicians. Just stop, wait and think for yourself. Welgh all matters carefully before you act. There is dirty work in the wind. Watch and Wait. BIG EVENT AT CHARLESTON. Citizens of West Virginia Metropolis Observe Thirteenth Amendment Day. The recent celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the enactment into law of the thirteenth amendment to the United States constitution by our people at Charleston. W. Va., was a most interesting event. The occasion was made very helpful as well as instructive, as the speakers referred to the struggles and achievements of the race since 1865 and showed what can be done through organization and individual effort to further our progress. As to individual success, Professor Byrd Prillerman, principal of the West Virginia Collegiate institute at Institute, W. Va., was referred to as a good example. Professor Prillerman was born a slave in Franklin county, Va., Oct. 19, 1859. He walked over the Allegheny and Blue Ridge mountains with his parents to Kanawha county, W. Va., in the month of March, 1868, and settled on a farm near Sissonville. As the Prillerman family were the only colored persons living in Poca district at that time, it was not until Byrd was thirteen years old that he had the opportunity of attending even a rural school. He says that the state of West Virginia has expended upon him for his education about $14 and that he will more than repay this four times in taxes this year. By diligent study and close application Mr. Prillerman secured his first certificate to teach school in July, 1879, and began to teach his home school in the fall of the same year. He has taught each year since, notwithstanding he spent several years since that time in college. He has received degrees from Knoxville college, Knoxville, Tenn., and Westminster college, New Wilmington, Pa. After Professor Prillerman's graduation from college he taught in the city schools of Charleston until the West Virginia Collegiate institute was opened in May, 1892. So well did he perform his duties as teacher in this institution, that he was promoted to the presidency Sept. 23, 1909, upon the death of the late President J. McHenry Jones. Under Mr. Prillerman's administration the attendance of the school has increased from 235 to 371 the present year. Thirteen acres of land have been secured and a new dining hall erected at a cost of $42,000. The industrial department has been strengthened, and special emphasis has been placed on the teaching of agriculture. Such a stimulus has been given to thorough preparation that fifteen graduates of the school are now pursuing college courses in various institutions $2.00 1.00 .50 on rate, all subscriptions must be paid as sent to subscribers are lost or stolen. or when due, inform us by postal card date of the missing number. Express Money Order, Postoffice Money at. Postage stamps will be received the a dollar. Only 1-cent and 2-cent stamps DENVER STAR. on must be newsy, upon important sub- side of the paper. No manuscript re- age. at the postoffice in the city of Denver, of this country. Most of these are taking vocational college courses. At the last session of the legislature the school was authorized to do college work. Seventeen young men and women have been enrolled in this department. THRIFTY BUSINESS CONCERN How the National Benefit Association Has Grown in Usefulness. Washington.—The National Benefit association in this city has had published in one color and then by hand and placed on a de luxe mount, with card hanger, a handsome jumbo calendar for office use (1916) of the Shaw monument, in Boston. The memorial commemorates the valiant deeds of the officers and men of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts, the first Negro regiment sent from the free states during the civil war. The title leaf hanging over the top of the jumbo tells the story. There is also a fitting inscription, "Our Forgotten Heroes." under the picture. The calendar for home use is produced from a living model. It is a most beautiful and original effect, as well as a marvelously beautiful background design. The picture is of a young lady seated at a window. The subject appeals to one's aesthetic taste. The graceful pose, etc., need only to be seen to be instantly appreciated. The sentiment expressed is pure, sweet and wholesome. It is appropriately entitled "Sweet Memories." This subject was reproduced direct on the mount by the offset process, newest process in lithography, which gives it a softer appearance. There is a special gray border, gray calendar pad, with motto on top leaf and punched hole at the top. The picture is that of Miss Vivian Thompson, a member of the clerical force of the association. The third calendar is got out for the use of the members of the concern. It is of a de luxe mount, buff top, with a genuine hand colored photograph, which is a very expensive process. The color scheme is both dainty and satisfactory, and the design is exquisite. The mounting is rich and tasteful. It is a very fine reproduction of the subject. Miss A. L. Coston of the record department. Miss B. E. Bustill of the bookkeeping department has named it "Day Dreams." In the preparation of these designs the company has been guided by a careful and comprehensive study of the popular taste. They merit the crowning achievement of calendar career. They all exactly suit the purpose for which they have been designed and will grace any wall. The whole constitutes a magnificent collection and contribution for the race. Their exclusiveness, combined with their perfection of quality, gives them an added value. The National Benefit association was founded by S. W. Rutherford about sixteen years ago with little money to begin with. It is now one of the largest concerns of its kind among our people in the world. Its employees number over 700 young men and women of the race. Sad Plight of the Voteless Citizen. The ballot is the medium through which the sovereign American citizen expresses his voice in government. When deprived of the ballot the citizen ceases to be a sovereign citizen and is reduced to the abject and repugnant attitude of a subject citizen, impotent and helpless to correct abuse heaped upon him unlawfully. THE DENVER STAR HAS MORE READERS THAN ANY OTHER NEGRO JOURNAL IN COLCRADO. 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. BENEFICENT WORK OF URBAN LEAGUE Committee on Better Homes Makes Able Report. PLAN TO REDUCE HIGH RENTS Investigation by National Organization and Local Affiliated Bodies In New York City Reveals Conditions Which Call For Immediate Remedy-Overcrowded Homes a Moral Issue. New York. The recent report on the investigation of housing conditions among the colored people of Harlem which was made by the National League on Urban Conditions is beginning to bear tangible results. The question of providing proper housing conditions in this section has been made the subject of a series of conferences between representatives of the Advisory Council of Real Estate Interests, the City and Suburban Homes company, the National League on Urban Conditions and the Property Owners' Improvement corporation. These meetings were attended by prominent citizens who have become interested in the welfare of the colored people of the city of New York. A number of model apartment houses are to be erected in Harlem as a memorial to the late E. R. L. Gould, president of the City and Suburban Homes company, who was so largely interested in the Phipps houses and the Tuskegee and Hampton apartment houses in the West Sixtieth street district. The houses in Harlem are to be constructed with the idea in mind of correcting some of the conditions which were exposed by the Urban league in its report. Some of the facts as outlined in the report are as follows: Only 25 per cent of colored families of Harlem live in three and four room apartments, while 71 per cent live in five and six room and 4 per cent in seven and eight room apartments. These families have an average income of $791 yearly and pay $281, or 36 per cent of their income, for rent. Of 133 apartments in the same character of houses occupied by German Jews, in neighboring districts, 69 per cent are three and four room apartments, and these tenants pay only $207 yearly for rent from an average income much larger than that received by colored people. In 62 per cent of the apartments occupied by the colored families lodgers constitute 32 per cent of the total population. These lodgers are taken into homes because of the necessity to pay high rents. There is a lodging population in Harlem alone of 16,000 persons, while the increase in Negro population in New York city is about 3,000 persons a year. In an investigation by the National League on Urban Conditions among Negroes in an area of about twenty-three blocks, between One Hundred and Forty-second and One Hundred and Thirty-first streets, there were 726 apartments and 443 private houses occupied by Negroes, with but 2 per cent of the total number of residents in the district of white extraction. When these houses were opened to colored people the rents increased per month from $1 to $5 per apartment. It is estimated that the total number of Negroes in Harlem is about 50,000. As has been cited above, they are already paying rents which are exorbitant, compared with their limited incomes, and they cannot pay still higher rents that would be expected if better services were given in these houses. The fact that the houses occupied by colored people return good revenues is shown by the return on the average assessed valuation in that district of 7 per cent net. The following example is cited by the National Urban league as indicating that the increase in rent occurs when white people are succeeded by colored people. Twin houses in Harlem were owned by a single landlord and absolutely filled with white people. They were rented at from $16 to $19 per month. A library was built next to the one house and so darkened its apartments that it was difficult to keep them filled with tenants, even after reducing rents from $14 to $17 monthly. The owner decided to rent to colored tenants, and the house is now filled with colored families paying $20 to $24, and there is a long waiting list. Lodgers themselves in this district are required to pay as high as $86 weekly for rooms. It is this question of lodgers which seriously endangers the morals of family life in this district. Combined with this feature is that of congestion of population. Although there is no such overcrowding in Harlem as is found on the lower east side, where laborers seek the cheapest lodging without regard for comfort, nevertheless there are some bad cases of congestion in Negro tenements. One case of overcrowding was found where eighteen West Indians were living in six rooms—three married couples, nine children, a grandmother, one lodger and a relative. The committee which is now working out the final plans for the improvement of housing in Harlem is composed of Cyrus C. Miller, chairman of the executive committee of the Advisory council; Allan Robinson, president of City and Suburban Homes companies; L. Hollingsworth Wood, chairman of National Urban league, and Frank A Shaw, vice president of the Property Owners' Improvement corporation. AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP. Views of the Late J. C. Price on Race Question in the South. The late Dr. Joseph C. Price, who was for many years prior to his death president of Livingstone college at Salisbury, N. C., was one of the foremost men of our race. He was not only an educator of note, but a good preacher, great lecturer, and fearless advocate of legal justice to the colored race in the United States and especially in respect to the full protection of the law as citizens and the right to exercise the elective franchise without being molested. He was both conservative and optimistic with regard to the future of the colored people of the south and throughout the country.' The following from an address delivered in New York by Dr. Price in 1893 on "The Race Question In the South" may furnish food for thought and sober reflection for those who are engaged in the great task of human uplift and freedom for our people from unjust laws, race segregation and such like. Dr. Price spoke under the auspices of the Nineteenth Century club and in part said: "It is admitted that ignorance is the great cause of objection to the exercise of the elective franchise by the Negro. "If this admission be sincere, and we do not doubt it for a moment, then intelligence is the remedy for the evil. It is my opinion, therefore, that education is to be the great means in removing the evils which center in the southern situation, for in education we find a fitting response to all the leading objections raised against the Negro as a citizen. "If the colored man is unprepared to exercise a right the high prerogatives of American manhood it is imperative that he be prepared for the same. And this is equally true of ignorant white men, for the safety of our republic, the perpetuity of its glory and the stability of its institutions are commensurate and only commensurate with the intelligence and morality of its citizens. "I am not forgetful of the thought that it may be said that even when it is admitted that it is possible for 'ignorance to struggle up to intelligence,' and out of the corruptible to come the incorruptible," even then the Negro may be objected to as a political factor. "I am willing to trust the future as to this result, and I have no fear in so doing. I have too much faith in Christian civilization and the progress of human rights to believe in the coming of such a day. The time will never come in the history of this country when intelligence and character will not be passports to all the rights and privileges which are the constitutional heritage of American manhood. "May a gracious Providence deny America such a realization. The rising sun of such a day may we nor our children ever behold, in whose light we shall discover in the advance of our civilization that intelligence and character are not universally recognized as constituent elements in American citizenship, whether that citizenship represents our tanned brethren at the equator or the sons of men bleached at the poles. "The nations of civilized Christendom have ever recognized intelligence as a prime force in citizenship. Any country or section, therefore, denying to men of intelligence and character their rights on the ground of race identity puts itself in a position to invite and entitle itself to the ridicule and condemnation of the civilized world." Hampton Institute's Big Celebration. Hampton Institute's Big Celebration. The fifty-third anniversary of the emancipation proclamation was fittingly celebrated at the Hampton (Va.) institute on Saturday, Jan. 1. Over 1,500 colored men, women and children were in attendance. The following program was rendered with good effect: Prayer, tev, J. T. Johnson Introductory remarks by the president of the day, Mr. A. W. E. Bassette, Sr. Welcome address to the celebrators, Dr. H. B. Prissel, principal of Hampton institute Addresses by students of the Hampton institute, Miss Grace B. Stewart, Phoebe Va., and Mr. Elir Bird (Cherokee Indian). Oration, Mr. William M. Reid of Portsmouth, Hampton 77. Benediction by the Rev. J. T. Johnson Tyler to Handle Life of Washington. The publishers of the memorial edition of the late Dr. Booker T. Washington's life have appointed Ralph W. Tyler of Columbus, former auditor for the navy, general agent for the book. This work is the only authentic story of the life of Dr. Washington. It was written by Dr. Washington himself and contains a sixty-four page supplement by Albon L. Holsey. This is the only story of the life of the late Dr. Washington that has the approval of Mrs. Washington and of Emmett J. Scott, who for eighteen years was the doctor's secretary. New Post For Dr. William H. Pickett. The recent appointment of Dr. William H. Pickett to the staff of the City hospital in Louisville, Ky., is another evidence of the friendly relations which exist between the races in portions of the south. Dr. Pickett is the first colored physician ever appointed on the staff of the Louisville City hospitals. Increase In Farm Acreage In the West. The latest farming statistics credit the colored people in six states of the southwest with owning and efficiently cultivating 6,000,000 acres in farm products. They are increasing their farm equipment from year to year, and in some states cattle and stock raising form a large part of their industry. What Shall I Do to Have Long, Fluffy Hair? Use Mrs. Jessie Carter's HAIR POMADE AND SHAMPOO 2761 GLENARM PL. Phone Champa 2211 THE: Chesapeake Fish and Oystsr House THE: Chesapeake Fish and Oystsr House Fresh Fish, Oysters, Salt Smoked, Dried and Canned Fish. Poultry and Game of all Kinds 1506 ARAPAHOE ST. EMMETT, WILLIAMS The Sta First Clu 2230 Larimer St. SOME MAY GO MAY CO AY GO Y COM SOME MAY GO AND SOME MAY COME, BUT The Denver Star Goes On Forever Serving the Public With JOB PRINTING "PORO" SOLD ALL OVER THE HAVE YOU HAD A "PORO" TREATMENT? FORMULATED 1900 PORO HAIR GROWER MADE ONLY BY Mrs Amelia Farubo Mallory ST. LOUIS MISSOURI FOR DANDRUFF, FALLING HAIR, ITCHING SCALP, GIVING LIFE, BEAUTY, COLOR AND ABUNDANT GROWTH THIS STYLE OF DRY ADOPTED JUNE 12, 1904 PRICE 50 CENTS COUNTRY 3100 Pine St., Dept. D., St. Louis, Mo. SCIENTIFICALLY TRAINED AGENTS EVERYWHERE JOHN H. BURKE 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. WILMS, Prop. Star Barber Shop [Class in every Particular GIVE US A TRIAL] JOSEPH CARTER 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 2425 WASHINGTON STREET Phone Main 6544 Prompt Delivery WAR UPON PAIN! 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 Denver, Colo Coal and Wood Express stouses and Rooms all“ad,’ appearing in these columns are at the rate of 5¢ sar line if run by the issue, or 50c monthly, to be paid in advance, as we have no collector for this depart ment. No “ads” taken over the phone. 3) ee ee The Best List in the City to Choose From. eee .&7T US PASS IT ON. | FOR RENT—Front bed room for Many young men and women would giadly pay a tair price for a room like yours in a home like yours. Let us ‘ell the people through the columns the Star. WANTED—T. Ernest McClain, A. 8. D. L. 8.—Sundays and nights by appointment. Office hours, 8 a. m. to 2 m., 1p. m. t6 6p. th. Office, 318% wittredge Bldg. Phone Main 7416. ties, 922 32nd Bt, phone Main 8397. fhe Jewel Barbur Shop, 1022 19th Bi. First-class tonsorial artists. G. 4. Richardson 4 will sell you the oest massage ribrator, the White Cross, for $10.00, as good as any $25.00 machine made. Call or write to Vibrator Uo., 338 14th suet. HOTEL HOLMES. Furnished rooms, modern convent- ences, nicely furnished. Main 3924. 2130 Arapahoe. Mrs. L. P. Holmes, proprictur. MOTEL HILDRETH. Nice, clean, airy rooms, strictly modern house, close in; rooms from $1.50 ap. 2152 Arapahoe. Phone Main 7007. Mre. Lillian Horn, Prop. FOR RENT—Two nicely furnished rooms at 2809 Welton St. On cur line. Rates reasonable. FOR RENT—Two nice rooms for wentlemen, chp, with bath; home ‘tke place, betteen three car lines 1663 Lafayette St. York 3067. Mrs ®. A. Duncan. FOR RENT—Furnished house; will make reasonable rates to man and wife. Inquire at this office. tt FOR RENT—In a nice neighbor: hood, near car line, rooms with mod ern conveniences, at 2917 Marion St York 8758. Mrs, Nancy Nelson. Calls promptly answered. 12-4-16-tf FOR RENT—tTwo nicely furnished houses to man and wife. No children. Call The Colored American RealtyCo. PhoneChampa 455. FOR RENT—Unturnished rooms for light housekeeping, or furnished Near car line, modern conveniences Mrs. CG. H. Clark, 2228 Downing Phone Blue 274. FOR RENT—A suite of rooms or outer rooms for gentlemen, or maz and wife; modern house, one-hal block from car line. Phone Blue 274 2228 Downing St. FOR RENT—Five unturnished rong, allsunny and airy, modern, between two car Ines, close in. Call Main 5768. FOR RENT—Three housekeeping rooms in the rear at $12.00 and a suite of front rooms at $12.00, and a big front room down stairs, $12.00. Call either at 8 a. m. or 4 p. m. Main 1658. Lilly Burwell, 2244 Welton St. 10-23-15-tf FOR RENT—Furnished rooms, 2054 Arapahoe. Strictly modern conven- fences. Phone Olive 113. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms in _modern house; rates reasonable, on 3 car lines. 2209 Welton St. Main 59p1. pire. Clara Mays. 11-18-15 FOR RENT—Furnished rooms with steam heat, modern conveniences, be- tween car lines. 2462 Glenarm Place. Mrs. BL. Stone. 11-1-15 FOR RENT—Four nice sunny airy rooms, between two car lines, on Mar- fon St. Rent reasonable. Call Main 5768. 12-11-15-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 rooms, gen- tlemen preferred, at ‘924 B. 24th: Ave. Phone Blue 180 W. Near car line. Mrs, Nellie M. Rice. 10-31-15-tt FOR RENT—Alcove with front room, modern except heat, for two ladies in service or at home. Nice home for right party. Reasonable rent. 12-18-15+tf FOR RENT—Modern house, fur- nished or unfurnished. 1760 Hum- boldt. Phone Blue 1260. FOR RENT—One large barn at 2415 Court Place. Reasonable rent. Call Main 3915. J.T. Brooks. 4tpd1-15-16 One furnished room, 2331 Ogden. 36.00 per month; modern; gentleman preferred. Mrs. Young, York 2079. 4t-1-15-16-pd. COUGHS AND COLDS ARE DAN: ‘ever, statistics tell us every third per son dies of a lung ailment. Danger. ous bronchial and lung diseases fol low a neglected cold. As your body strugeles against cold germs, no bet ter: nid canbe: had than Dr. King’s New Discovery. Its merit has been tested by old and young. In use over 45 yenrn, Get a bottle totay. Avoid the risk of serfous lung ailments. At druggists. 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--Furnisiied rooms in modern house, with kitchen _privil- eges, on car line, at reasonable rates. Mrs. Addie Craig, 4037 Curtis street. Main 7872, FOR RENT—Beautiful 2 room mod- ern apartments at the De Luxe, 2352. 58 Ogden St. Rates, $10.00 to $14.00 per month to desirable tenants. The only one of its kind in Denver for colored. Apply to Colored American Loan and Realty Co., Phone Champa 155 or Main 1924, FOR RENT—Nice warm room in a modern house, for men. 2504 Clark- son, Phone Bl re 465. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms on car line with modern conventences; also rooms for light housekeeping. Rates reasonable at 2856 Welton St. Mrs. R. Haywood, Phone Champa 3517. Residence 2344 Tremont Pl. §Olive 1570 before 8 A. M GEORGEG. ROSS Attorney and Counsellor At Law t209 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 6 a. m. to 12 p. m} 1023-218t St. Denver, Colo. ee Phone Main 8625. DR. JUSTINA L. FOR) OFFICE HOURS: 10 to 12 a. m., 2 to 4p. m.,7 to 8 p.m. OFFICE AND RESIDENCE, 2335 Arapahoe Street. Denver. @ Tell the story of the care @ you give them. : Don't take chances; those head- aches, that nervousness, 6. [= 6 plaints, all come from eye strain. : A scientific é examination aad good 9 glasses will bring relief. é SST ry Us @ xvortexcieuvet 791 EumsATOK oF Tet sted rn sno MupurACTNDe OF Cetas The Swigert Bros. Optical Co. Devens ALUN orncsANs 6-22" 9 —_ Western Seller Geo. P. Sargent New York Wheel Chairs For Sale or Rent 5 WM. JONES Maker of all kinds of Ortho- pedic Appliances, Trusses Abdominal! Support, Elastic Hosiery, Crutches, etc. 808 14th st. Denver, Cole. (Phene Mo 7702 LEADER AMONG BUSINESS MEN Success of Cornlius G. Cook of Shreveport, La, KNOWS HOWTO GET RESULTS Shreveport, La.—Far to the south is the state of Louisiana, in the midst of the section where human slavery wrought its most deadly work of in- justice and cruelty to a race of people long held by slaveholders as so much merchandise. Yet after many centu- rles of bondage a four year war, fought primarily to preserve the un- fon of states, resulted in the freedom of the slaves. During the fifty years of freedom the colored people of this state have made considerable progress in reducing their illiteracy, buying homes, building churches and by degrees going into business. ‘True, there have been fall ures in their business efforts alonz many lines, but these failures in most instances have served to nerve them to renewed effort, and the result is that throughout the state there are scores of successful business enterprises to their credit. Cornelius C. Cook of this elty ts one of the many successful business men of this atate who has by persistence Po 8 i ee awe Pi iP, GRRE NNR A Cea risen to prominence tn business, reli- xious and fraternal organizations. He was born of slave parents in Bosier parish, this state. His boyhool days were spent in the country and in at- tending the parish graded school at his native home. He made rapid prog- ress in school and was thorough in his work. ‘The knowledge gained in school was put to good use in his early life, although he worked as a farm hand for many years. Like most aspiring and ambitious country boys young Cook desired to better hfs condition financially, and to this end he secured a position in a bo- tel in the city, serving in various ca- pneities, He saved bis money and lnter went to Memphis, Tenn., where he took a special course of study. re- turned to his home and began business for himself. He has made wonderful progress in his business in this elty and is now oue of the foremost men of his race ‘in this section of the country. He bas contributed to almost every movement ‘that mean racial uplift and progress. He Js a Christian and an active mem- her of the C. M. E. church, known as the “Temple.” in Shreveport. Mr. Cook is not only a member, but he Is ‘an officer, being president of the trus- ‘tee board. In this position he superin- ‘tended the erection of the new church edifice, which ts one of the finest, n the state. He also fills a place on the board of stewards of the church. Mr. Cook knows something about the fraternal organizations of Louisiana. He Is a member of the Masons, Odd Fellows. Mosaic ‘Templars. United Brothers of Friendship, Royal Knights. Knights of Good Shepherds and Knights of Pythias. In all these he 1s active and holds membership in a num- ber of benevolent societies. In the Shreveport Business league. ag well as in the Loulslana State Bust- ness league. he 1% one of the leading members. In the Business and Pro- fessional Men's association Mr. Cook is an active worker. and when Its meetings are held he contributes bix part to thelr success. He {x 1 benefit to this section of the country and con: tributes to the support of the city of Shreveport. La.. by paying taxes on real estate and personal property. He declares that he has never fuiled to Pay his poll taxes, Be {t sald to his credit that he has the largest business of its kind in Shreveport and ix kept busy all the time, He owns a large up to date au- tomobile. Mrs. Cook contributes mach to the success of his buslners, Sbe ts a graduate from the summer thigh school in St. Louis. Mrs. Cook has made many friends in this city, Mr. and Mra, Cook have three children. The family ts well known throughout the communfty and is highly respected. PRAISE FOR MAJOR MOTON. | ington’s Successor to Be Safe Leader. George Gordon Battle. the welt known New York lawyer, in speaking of the capability of Major Robert Rt. Moton. the successor of the Inte Dr. bovker T. Washington ay principal of the Tuskegee institute, pays a high tribute to the major. He also speaks with courage and optimism concerning the future of our race. Mr. Battle says: As a man of southern birth who Is deeply interested in the future of the Negro in the south I am much gratt- Ged at the selection of Major Robert R. Moton to take charge of the Tuske- gee institute as the successor of the lamented Booker T. Washington. 1 am sure from the antecedents and rec- ord of Major Moton that he will pre- serve the traditions of his predecessor and will continue his great work of developing his own race, while main- taining the friendly relations which now exist and should always exist be- tween the white and the colored men of the south. I remember very clearly the appre- hension with which the work of Book- er T. Washington was, at its inception, viewed by the white people of that sec- tion. They greatly feared that the re- sult of his efforts would be to send out from Tuskegee young colored men and women hostile to their white neighbors and unfitted for success in their native land. This would have been, of course, a consummation devoutly to be dread- ed by both races. As the work at Tuskegee proceeded and as both the white and colored peo- ple of the south yrew to learn and to appreciate the wisdom, the moderation and the true Christianity of the re- markable man who was at its head these apprehensions were dispelled. Booker T. Washington was nowhere more highly esteemed and respected than among the white people of bis community. Indeed, his funeral was notable for the grief displayed at bis loss and the tribute to his memory by the white men and women of Alabama and of other southern states. Undoubtedly he has done more thin any man of either race to inspire hope of an ultimate and happy solution of this great problem. For this achieve ment he deserves and has received the ‘gratitude and the respect of all the people of this country. Major Moton will find it difficult to reach the standard of his predecessor He was, indeed, the bow of Ulysses. As I have said, however, Major Mo ton's views are formed along the lines of his great preceptor, and I hope and believe that he will be equal to the task of carrying forward the work which has been so nobly begun. I also hope that Tuskegee institute. Hampton institute, Manassas Industri al school and other Mke institutes throughout the south will continue to be not only centers of education and improvement for the colored race, but growing and continuing sources of that mutual good will and respect which will enable the two races to pursue thelr friendly and honorable destinies. PREPARING FOR SERVICE. Hampton Students Show Pluck at Plumbing and Steamfitting Trade. From city and town there go to Hampton intelligent Negro and Indian boys, who, after careful choosing and planning, enter the plumbing and steamfitting department, there to work inconspicnously and faithfully, early and late, whether in damp trenches or ‘on hot roofs, in underground passages or at dizzy heights. Some of these boys have already dabbled with machinery or puttered around some plumber's shop. All are “green”, so far as scientific plumbing and steamiitting are concerned. All need systematic and hard training. All are put through the mill of regular work under careful supervision. Boys who attend the Hampton trade school have a purpose. At plumbing and steamfitting, for exam- ple, the new boys go with an earnest desire to learn how to lay pipes and do the thousand and one thought com: pelling tasks which find thelr way to a Practical mechanic. ‘The aim of the Hampton institute trade school in training a Umited nui. ber of carefully selected, ambitious Ne gro and Indian boys as plumbers and steamfitters (or mechanics who can do both good plumbing and good steam: fitting work) 1s to turn out at the end of a four year course reliable and effi cient men—students whose characters have been developed, strengthened, re fined; men who can tackle hard prob: lems and work them out successfully to a finish; men who love their work, even though so much of it is out of human sight and {s not subject to the immediate criticism of every passerby Hampton, in short, makes men as well as mechanics whom the public respects rather than ridicules. Zoar M. E. Church Over a Century Old. ‘The big event at the Zoar Methodist "plscopal church in Philadelphia foi December was the observance of the one hundred and twentieth annt- versary of its incorporation. The Rev Dr. F. H. Butler, minister of the church, with the hearty co-operation of the members, arranged an appro priate program for the celebration. which included many notable speakers and singers. . ‘Hundredth Anniversary of Methodism | Throughout America. in parts of Af ‘rica, Bermuda and the Wert Indies the ‘churches of the African Methodini Epixcopal denomination nre begtinins Preparations for the general: confer ence to he held in Phi'adé'phin in May Thin catherin‘: will mark the one hun dreath anniversaire of the founding o! ‘the A. M. E. church by Richard Allen The Bankers International Life . . Assurance Company DENVER, COLORADO Capital Stock $100,000.00 Surplus 179,679.68 Partial list of Claims Paid: Name Amount 4 Jaura J, Givens ..............$575.00 Walter F. Anderson .......... 32.00 Lizzie Mille .....--+seeeeeees 7.00 Margaret Lee ........eeeeeeee 6.65 Te A, Weare 22.2... cseeeeeee 8.30 Henry Charleston ...........-.$ 7.00 Verge Rich ...........2...02+ 7.00 William H. Johnson........... 10.50 Nancy Nelson ........--.+-+-- 10.60 7 Nathan W. Clemons........... 6.75 Issues the Latest and Best Forms of Life, Accident and Health Policies. SUITE 414 GAs & ELECTRIC BLDG., DENVER, COLO. SPECIAL Good Eating and Cooking Apples 85c per Box Grape Fruit, - - 3 for 10c Everything Else at Lowest Prices FOLLOW THE CROWDS TO OUR STORE 2621 Welton Street } 2 Ss Pig Ee. pak < ox Co i Sete oul rae aie hae i @ Ge nt ‘ es Ome at ; ae ese WR x ame Se Ma Pee ie Pa oe Baercs rc MADAM DeNEAL The Sealp Specialist 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 Specialt; 2362 WalnutfStreet Denver, Colorado ES THE GRAND THEATRE CON- IF ANY OF OUR SUBSCRIBERS TINUES TO PLEASE. [sts TO GET THEIR PAPERS, — PLEASE PHONE THIS OFFICE, Everybody who visits Larimer St.|CHAMPA 2962, OR SEND POSTAL knows that their visit is not complete ;CARD. until they have stopped in and been[ ONLY THE MINT CAN MAKE citertained by the high class pictures| MONEY WITHOUT ADVERTISING. of the Grand theatre. They just try| THEREFORE ADVERTISE IN THE to satisfy and please everybody. You ss WHICH ALWAYS BRINGS are always welcome. RESULTS. Everybody ‘Goes to the CHAMPA PHARMACY 2oth and Champa Sts. For the Best Drugs, Chemicals, Patent Medicircs, Etc, COLD DRINKS SERVED 4 Prescriptions Our Specialty Phone Main 2425 JAS. E. THRALL, Prop. al @0ODS DELIVERED TO ALL PARTS OF THE CITY ee OMT eB 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 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 50 Cents Satisfaction Guaranteed ‘ [A Trial Will Convince You. 718 Eighteenth Street Madam DeNeal’s SCHOOL OF BEAUTY AND HAIR CULTURE 1319 EAST PINE STREET SEATTLE, WASH. “WHY BE BALD” Famous DeNeal Scalp Treatment IF ANY OF OUR SUBSCRIBERS FAIL TO GET THEIR PAPERS, PLEASE PHONE THIS OFFICE, 3t.| CHAMPA 2962, OR SEND POSTAL te ,CARD. en ONLY THE MINT CAN MAKE es|MONEY WITHOUT ADVERTISING. ry| THEREFORE ADVERTISE IN THE ou; STAR, WHICH ALWAYS BRINGS RESULTS. Se y Goes to the Champa Sts. micals, Patent Medicircs, Etc. INKS SERVED 2 Our Specialty 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 & Pressers, 2622 Welton St. COAL, FEED AND EXPRESS. R. E. Norris and Wm. Hill, 1024 23rd St. C. W. Bridges—619 27th St. Carter—2415 Washington. CONFECTIONERS. Rice & Rice—1632 Welton. 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. CENTIST. Dr. T. E. McClaim, 313½ Kittredge Bld. DRUG STORES. Champa Pharmacy—60th & Champa Atlas Drug Co......2701 Welton EYE SPECIALISTS. Swigert Bros.—1550 California. Fern Hall, 2711 Welton St. HARDWARE. Five Points H. Co.—2643 Welton. HAIR SPECIALISTS Mensham Rose, 2451 Ogden St. Mrs. E. Williams, 1910 Penn, Denver. Mrs. Jessie Carter, 2759 Glenarm Pl. Pope Turnbo-100 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. Electric Blvd. The Bankers International Insurance Co. LOANS AND REAL ESTATE. Patrick-Oliver Realty Co., 2735 Welton St. Colored American—913 21st St. A. J. Arfsten—2945 Jartimer. LAWYERS. W. B. Townsend and T. O. Mason, 2850 Welton St. George G. Ross—209 Kittredge 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 BURGEONS. Justina Ford-Allen, 2335 Arapahoe. J. H. P. Westbrook, Good Block, 16th and Larimer. Paul E. Spraillin, M. D.—32 Good Block. Dr. Crump, 1025 21st St. THEATER'S Grand .....2017 Larimer St. Crescent .....2715 Welton St. TAILOR. Southern .....2144 Stout St. The Giant Cleaners and Tailors, 2548 Washington Ave. UNDERTAKERS. Douglas Co.—183/ Arapahoe. Cammel & Co., 2807 Welton St. WATCH REPAIRING. Wm. Voights—611 27th St. Oriental Restaurant, 1848 Arapahoe. Dearfield Lunch Room, 1023 21st St. Twenty-eighth St. Cafe, 711 28th St. HARDWICK AUTO SERVICE Service by Trip or Hour Stands -Atlas Drug Co.; 2701 Welton St., Main 875. Reo Club, 2712 Welton St., Main 2759. INDICATIONS OF RACE SOLIDARITY Progress Made the Past Year Through United Effort. GOOD RESULTS OBTAINED. Brief Review of Leading Events Among Afro-Americans Shows Remarkable Work Along Many Lines of Activity—Great Work of Dr. J. E. Spingarn. By N. BARNETT DODSON. New York—Civilization is the altruistic fruition of the ages and rests upon man's unselfish service to man, says Dr. C. V. Roman of Nashville, Tenn. He also says that faith in man is as important as faith in God and that faith in God unaccompanied by faith in man is an injury, not a benefit, to human society. This is a broad statement, with a truth as broad as its meaning from whatever point of view we may discuss it. In relation to the efforts and achievements of the colored race in America Dr. Roman's ipse dixit is applicable to the letter. Efficiency, preparedness and service are leading elements and essentials in the progress of nations, races and individuals toward the higher and better things of this life. The past year (1915) was one of great effort and struggle in many directions among our people and along many lines for racial betterment. Without the qualities of manhood and spiritual attitude such as we find in Dr. Roman's declaration our race could never have recorded to its credit the marvelous progress which we see and read of within the short period of fifty years as free Americans. Spingarn Makes Plea For Square Deal. In the effort for equal legal rights and the enforcement of the law alike to all, without regard to race or color, the first gunshot of the year was fired by Dr. Joel E. Spingarn, chairman of the board of directors of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People. Dr. Spingarn made a tour of several of the western states, which lasted through the month of January. In Chicago, Columbus, Dayton and Cleveland, O., and at Indianapolis, Ind., he spoke before the chambers of commerce and other organized business groups of prominent and influential white men on the necessity of using their influence on the side of justice for our people and in the matter of giving them an equal chance and equal pay for the same kind of labor as other groups of Americans receive. Dr. Spingarn created much favorable sentiment in our behalf. From Jan. 1 to the end of April Editor William Monroe Trotter of the Boston Guardian toured many of the northern and western states, speaking in the large cities against race segregation. On this tour Mr. Trotter told how a committee appointed by the Equal Rights league, of which he was chairman, made a visit in November, 1914, to Washington and there laid the matter of race segregation in the government departments before the president. The result of the conference created a national sensation from the fact that for the first time since this unjust practice had been put in force it was admitted that such a practice existed. Mr. Trotter received much praise and some criticism for the part which he took in this interview with the president. Public sentiment finally decided that it was an act in behalf of human rights and American citizenship which were above the selfish motives of any individual and that it was performed in a legal, orderly manner and was therefore justifiable. Dr. Just Wins Spingarn Medal. Dr. Just Wins Spingarn Medal. The big event for the month of February was the annual meeting of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, held at Ethical Culture hall, New York. At this meeting Governor Charles S. Whitman of New York awarded to Dr. Ernest Everett Just, head of the department of physiology at Howard university, the first Spingarn gold medal. This trophy, which costs $100, is offered annually by Dr. Joel E. Spingarn, chairman of the board of directors of the above named association, to the man or woman of African descent and American citizenship who shall have made the highest achievement during the preceding year in any field of elevated or honorable human endeavor. Responding to the call of the late Dr. Booker T. Washington for a national health campaign the third week in March, over two-thirds of the large organizations of various objects and aims conducted public meetings where instructive talks and addresses were made and literature on health topics was distributed. This movement was the first of its kind on so large a scale ever undertaken and in which the public evinced unusual interest. The rural communities were greatly benefited, and in several large cities the death rate among our people for the eight months following was much lower. Nine Local Business Leagues Formed. Some of the important events of April were the meeting of the fifty first annual Delaware conference of the Methodist Episcopal church at Atlantic City. N. J. Representative from 100 churches were present, and much good was accomplished. At Boston Rouge, La., the State Colored of initiation into an entirely new life, new people and new duties. "When I entered Hampton," says Major Moton, "I had no particular plan as to what I should do when I should have completed the course. As time went on I was more and more inclined to the legal profession. Most of my teachers advised against it, however—that is, they raised the question whether I thought I could render my people the greatest service as a lawyer and whether legal advice was the greatest need of struggling people. General Armstrong thought I could be of more use to my people by remaining at Hampton and helping to prepare teachers. The result was that at the close of the school in June, 1890, I accepted the position of drillmaster and assistant to the commandant of cadets." Before his graduation from Hampton Major Moton spent one year as a schoolteacher in Cumberland county, Va., where he taught the boys to drill and the girls to take gymnastics, where he taught his people to love and appreciate the plantation songs and where he taught the older children and parents how to make life more worth while. Promptness, alertness, self control, endurance, respect for authority, initiative, good will—these were Hampton's gifts to this useful and safe race leader. In recent years Major Moton has toured a number of the southern states with Dr. Booker T. Washington and has addressed thousands of white and colored people on the value of working together in the spirit of mutual helpfulness for the improvement of community and race conditions. Major Moton's philosophy is founded on common sense and experience. He has constantly urged his people to cultivate race pride, to stand together on all questions of race uplift, to lead clean lives, to be progressive in business, to give an honest day's work for a day's pay, to build better houses, homes and schools, and, above all, to work with their white friends. Major Moton has wisely and skillfully interpreted for white men and women the fundamental problems which relate to the masses of colored people who live side by side with them. Dr. W. D. Weatherford describes clearly the attitude of the most thoughtful southerners toward Major Moton and his constructive policies. "I have heard more than one southerner say that Major Moton was the sanest and strongest representative of the Negro race that they had ever met. Others have said to me that he is the best speaker, white or black, that they have ever heard, and yet he does not claim to be a speaker at all. He has a clear head, a noble heart and a manly bearing, which at once convince you that he has a message worth while and is not afraid to give it. "Major Moton has held a most delicate position at Hampton. In the school community there are pure Negroes, mulattoes, Indians, northern white people, southern white people, all working for the same cause—the elevation of the race. It is no easy matter to harmonize all these types, and yet so rare is his tact and so true is his judgment that each group gives him enthusiastic support. Dr. Booker T. Washington has said of him: "It has been through contact with men like Major Moton that I have received a kind of education no books could impart. It would be worth a trip to Hampton just to know Major Moton. If more of our southern white people could see him, so calm, so unostentations, so unpresuming and yet so efficient and thorough, they would never say again that the Negro race could not produce a pure blood leader." Dr. Washington in his book called "My Larger Education" said of Major Moton: "Major Moton is one of the best read men and one of the most interesting men to talk with that I have ever met. Education has not spoiled him. It has not embittered or narrowed him in his affections. He has not learned to hate or distrust any class of people, and he is just as ready to assist and show a kindness to a white man as to a black man, to a southerner as to a northerner. "Major Moton knows by intuition northern white people and southern white people. At the Hampton institute they have white teachers and colored teachers. They have southern white people and northern white people; besides, they have colored students and Indian students. Major Moton knows how to keep his hands on all these different elements, to see to it that friction is kept down and that each works in harmony with the other. It is a difficult job, but Major Moton knows how to negotiate it." MOURN FOR WASHINGTON. The Late Tuskegee Principal Had Matchless Career, Says "Life." "Life" speaks of Dr. Booker T. Washington in the following glowing terms: "Very little is necessary to be said about Booker Washington. He is the most lasting American who has died in a long time. He never held a political office, never influenced an election that is known of, never yielded to the delusion that salvation comes by votes, but where shall one match in a contemporary career the sum of his accomplishment in thirty-five years for this country? "Mourn for Booker Washington! It is to lament that his years were not more, but they sufficed for a prodigious work." North Carolina Society's Reception. The Society of the Sons of North Carolina, a large mutual benefit organization in Brooklyn, will hold its twenty-first annual reception Friday evening. Jan. 7. The society is composed of resident North Carolinians and is doing much good. BAPTISTS TO MEET IN WASHINGTON Committee on State of Country For Large and Influential Religious Organization Plans For a Determined Fight on Race Disfranchisement. Fine Program Arranged. By N. BARNETT DODSON. Washington. — The New England Baptist convention, Rev. W. Bishop Johnson, L.L. D., president, will hold a mammoth mass meeting at the Florida Avenue Baptist church in this city on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 1916, at 2 o'clock p. m. The meeting will be conducted by members of the committee on state of country, which was appointed at the annual session of the convention held at the Mount Olivet Baptist church in New York last June. Copies of the printed report of the committee will be delivered to every member of congress the day on which the convention is held. The object of the meeting is to make an unqualified fight against the disfranchisement of the colored men of the country as practiced in many states of the Union. The afternoon session will be called to order by the Rev. W. H. Jernagin, minister of the Mount Carmel Baptist church of this city. The presiding officer will be the Rev. Dr. W. B. Reed of Newport, R. L., chairman of the committee. The Rev. W. J. Lucas of Flushing, N. Y., will be the first speaker. His subject is "Disfranchisement Makes a Man a Subject Citizen." The Rev. W. J. Winston of Baltimore will open the discussion on the subject. [Image of a man in a suit with a serious expression]. REV. W. H. JERNAGIN, D. D. "Disfranchisement Makes Subject Citizens Targets of the Mob and Disarms Them In the Courts." The Rev. James E. Churchman of New Jersey will discuss the evil effects of disfranchisement and how it tends to spread in every line of human activity. Federal supervision over federal elections and why the ballot gives citizens the right of protest and protection will be outlined by the Rev. J. C. Austin of Pittsburgh. Rev. William A. Havrod, Ph. D., of Hartford, Conn., corresponding secretary of the convention, will speak on the ballot as the basis of political ascendancy, and Professor R. C. Woods, president of the Virginia seminary and college at Lynchburg, Va., will open the discussion on the things in which we are industrially, economically and divinely concerned and which we have a right to speak on by reason of the ballot. The evening session will be called to order by Dr. W. Bishop Johnson, president of the convention. The committee is composed of the following named persons: W. B. Reed, Rhode Island, chairman; G. W. Krygar, New Jersey, recording secretary; J. W. Henderson, New Jersey, treasurer; W. F. Graham, Pennsylvania; J. R. Bennett, Pennsylvania; F. Hedgeman, Pennsylvania; C. A. Ward, Massachusetts; D. S. Klingh, Connecticut; H. Powell, District of Columbia; G. Hunt, New York; E. W. Moore, Pennsylvania; W. T. Watkins, New Jersey; K. Warren, New York; W. B. Johnson, District of Columbia; A. D. Jones, New Jersey; J. C. Austin, Pennsylvania; J. C. Jackson, Pennsylvania; W. J. Winston, Maryland; W. J. Lucas, New York; A. C. Powell, New York; W. H. Jernigan, District of Columbia; J. R. Robinson, Pennsylvania; G. E. Morriss, New Jersey; G. H. Slms, New York; A. A. Galvin, Virginia; M. W. Vaughan, New Jersey; N. B. Dodson, New York; W. H. Taylor, District of Columbia, and J. E. Churchman, New Jersey. Plans of the Farm Promotion Society. H. P. Ewing, president of the Farm Promotion society in Kansas, recently made a trip through Oklahoma in the interest of the organization. The society contemplates buying 4,000 acres of rich bottom land in the near future, which it will divide into districts for farming purposes and stock raising. Mr. Ewing is widely known in the southwest and is often referred to as the "potato king" of the Kaw valley. Stuck Fast. "Come off!" we shouted to the man again and again, but to no avail. We afterward discovered that he was stuck on himself.—Boston Journal. Good Work. "Do you do anything for your flesh? " "I should say so. I keep getting fatter and fatter."—Wisconsin State Journal. Bigger, igger, Better ORDER meet the demands of our patr leased to announce that this o tally installed one of the large job presses in the city. So and small press, we are n on to do work of all kinds. TYPE by new faces of the latest a -date type have been added has been selected after caref addition now makes the off ped to handle work from a to a large placard, includin , booklets, dodgers, weddin announcements, and in fact y description. 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