Denver Star
Saturday, July 7, 1917
Denver, Colorado
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The Denver Star ESTABLISHED 1888
The papers formerly known as The Statesman and The independent, have been merged into The Denver Star
Number 1
It would certainly be grand if you could run up here for a day and see your boys drilling in their uniforms and see the envoirments here. I am sure we would be glad to see you. I am, yours,
DR.J. FRANKLIN WILSON
Company 14. Barracks 7
—Topeka Plaindealer.
SURGEONS NEEDED FOR ARMY
Artillery, Aviation Corps and Other Arms of Service Will Eventually Admit Negroes.
The opening of the camp for the training of Colored officers at Fort Des Moines, I., appears to be the first step in utilizing Colored men for the war. The registration of all citizens of whatever race for conscription is an indication that a proportionate number of men from 21 to 31 will comprise the Army sent to France During the past week, a third step growing out of the former two, was inaugurated by the Medical Society. (white) of the District of Columbia.
At a meeting held at the Central High School under the auspices of this society, to which Colored members are not eligible, Colored physicians were invited. Speakers included Vice-President Marshal, Representative Kahn, of California, author of the draft bill, and Col. T. J. Godwin, of the English Royal Medical Corps. Application cards for commission in the Medical Reserve Corps of the United States were handed out and both white and Colored urged to sign them and return them to the War Department. Those accepted will be commissioned first lieutenants in the service with a salary of $2,000 a year. An official word from the War Department states that two hundred Colored physicians will be needed to accompany the colored troops.
Until this year there have been no Colored surgeons commissioned in the United States Army. The reason therefore has been purely social Some statistics of the British physicians activity in the war as given by Colonel Godwin at the meeting referred to above are enlightening as to the present anxiety to push the social bar aside and accept Colored doctors.
According to the Colonel, 60,000 medical officers have been lost by Great Britian since the war began. Twelve per cent of those who left England have been killed. There is now in England only one doctor for every 5,000 of population. Both England and France are seriously embarrassed in their case of the sick and wounded, and would be in an even more critical situation were it not for the surgical units that the American Red Cross has been sending the Allies since the beginning of the war. The Allies are looking to America to turnish her quota of medical men as well as soldiers for cannon fodder.
So it goes. The artillery corps and the aeroplane corps are yet closed to Colored applicants. As the war goes on and losses begin to increase, these branches will fall into line and start recruiting in the Colored sections.—Baltimore Afro American
TWENTY-NINTH YEAR
THE TRAINING CAMP AT FORT DES MOINES.
Fort Des Moines, Ia.—At the beautiful site of Fort Des Moines is located the "cream" of the Negro race. Men of all professions and occupations are here being trained as officers for the twenty-five Negro regiments to be formed. Seemingly it is a college reunion, as we all are meeting faces which we have not seen since our college days. Meharry Medical College and Howard University graduates are in the majority at present.
We are all doing fine and enjoy our training which is very strenuous. We are up every morning at 5 o'clock; 5:30, reveille; 5:45, assemble; 6:00, mess, first call at 7:20 and from then on until noon we are drilling, with the exception of one hour for conference. After noon, until 5 o'clock, we are drilling and learning to use arms. After supper at 6 p.m. we study until 9 p.m. when our lights in our quarters are turned out and we are forced to bed.
Everyone here is delighted with the high class meals which are served us—much better than we expected.
There are 1250 candidates here for commissions in the reserve corps, of which 250 are regulars from the Tenth calvary, Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth infantry, who served as instructors Twenty five candidates are now on their way here from the Philippine islands and are due here in about two weeks.
The candidates here are divided into fourteen companies. Kansas and Missouri candidates form the Fourteenth company, and it is our aim to finish in front of the other companies. Among the men in our company we find Attorney J. Guy Booker, Attorney Howard Beam, Attorney I. F. Bradley, Jr., and Dr. Wm. Hayden from Kansas City; Prof, Geo. Hamilton, Jr., and Mr. Fred Stonestreet of Topeka, Kan.; Olin Smith, Johnson C. Whitaker, Dr. Leonard Freeman, Dr. Lee, Arthur Hardy, J. L. Chase, B. H. Brown, Prof. I. H. Hornton, from Kansas City, Mo.; Virgil Schick of Columbia, Mo., and Dr. Liminy of Columbia.
We have an army Y. M. C. A. here under the guidance of Mr. Robt. De Frantz and it is proving quite a help to us. It was dedicated Saturday night the program being furnished by the candidates here. We are all hopeful that a medical reserve corps will be established here within the next two months. The boys are complaining of sore arms, where we were inocolated with typhoid serum. Yesterday your humble servant was assisting in the examination of candidates and with the inoculatoin.
Mob Ridden, Riot Seething, Brutal St. Louis Bursts Into Anarchy
1930
William Bolden Townsend, was born in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1857, and left the South when 6 years of age, and came to Kansas, where he was later educated, graduating from the High School in Leavenworth. After which he filled the positions of Assistant City Attorney and Weighmaster, and Letter Carrier for 12 years. (Continued on page 7)
DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1917
Enjoying A Southern Pastime.
The Stigma. Shame Illinois
Galveston, Tex., — Henry Sawyer who said that he came from Brooklyn, N. Y., last year and who since has been in the employ of a John Carlton, a dairyman living in the suburbs of Galveston, was tak en from the county jail here yesterday by a hundred armed and masked men and hung to a sign board just beyond the city limits. His body was riddled with bullets. Sawyer was charged with attacking Mrs. Carlton after she had assaulted him for his alleged impertinence.
Thou who hast killed and murdered thy friends and mobbed thine helpers wouldst stone a fighting army. America stands today for either anarchy or law? The time came when men and women selling had to be stopped and now the time is here when men and women killing must stop. The Negro is now being offered up in the testing crucible of blist ering suffering and disarmed men. innocent women of all ages and defenseless children and infants in their mothers arms are the blood spatterd victims in East St. Louis. Riot has run amuck, anarchy and ghoulish friendishness such as was practiced by the Belgians in the Congo was on every corner and thru out the streets of East St. Louis, with her many Christian churches, schools and colleges of education and Courts of Justice. The good and law abiding people are too powerless to protect the innocent and defenseless law abiding citizens whose homes had been previously searched and all protecting weapons had been seized by the police and guardsmen just prior to the time the mob was turned in upon them. The police mob and state militia watched the butchery with gleeful eyes and smiling faces and sarcastic grins to their satisfaction. It was only the riot scenes of the Birth of a Nation which played in that city carried out with the bloody and horrible embellishments. We could tell of the actions of the incendiary mob, who were supplied openly and publicly with 32 and 38 calibre cartridges from automobiles in the streets. The officials cannot ascertain where these come from, who gave them, nor even the identity of the murderers, yet statements of these murders are printed in the papers. "Not by might nor by power but by My Spirit sayeth the Lord God of Hosts." "Vengeance is Mine, and I will repay." Thank God that in nate contagious spirit of hate, anarchy and lawlessness be hind all these acts whether inspired by the Germans, I. W. W. or who are not Negroid, but purely Causasian. It will be him who shall pay in tears, blood, death, destruction of life and property just like proud England, haughty Germany, musical Italy, barbarous Belgium and mistaken but cruel French, who have had to pay and are now paying toll with interest for the robbers in North, East, South and West Africa, as well as in the Madagascar. The Americans cannot escape; they did not during the Civil War and cannot now. No Supreme Court, nor America can thwart God's plans. Germany is trying to do it and God is turning the world upside down. Let America cease trying to practice the lessons she has been taught by Southern burnings, segregation and lynchings and the manifested apathy and cold indifference of the United States governmnt to crimes against Negroes. Of course, it may be somewhat embarrassing for America to have East St. Louis follow out the teachings and direct re
Houston, Tex.—Ben Harper, charged with being the driver of an automobile which ran down and killed Ollie May Goodrum, 12-year-old girl of Navasota, Thursday, was hanged by a mob at the scene of the girl's death, near Courtney, Texas, early Friday. Seven other colored men are being held by officers in connection with the girl's death Courtney is a remote section and details are scant. The men, who are said to be from Houston, were celebrating emancipation day.
Emigration of Negroes
Chicago, July 1. The state council of defense today recommended that of emigration of Negroes from the South to the North be discouraged. This action was taken as a result of an investigation of the recent race riots in East St. Louis, Ill. It was found that the Negroes were lured north by anonymous advertisements. Managers of East St. Louis industrial plants denied that they were responsible. Greater co-operation between capital and labor dur ing the war was recommended.
Lost Both Arms, Court Awards Heavy Damages
After three trials, in one of which the jury disagreed, the other awarded $75,000, which was set aside by Justice Mors chauser because of the commission of perjury by witnesses, Oscar Fried, of Yonkers, has been successful in his suit against the New York, New Haven and Hartford R. R. for the loss of both arms. Presiding Judge Young on a motion from counsel that the final award of $86,000 was excessive, reserved decision. Fried lost his arms on December 8, 1913, while ascending a ladder near Mt. Vernon. In the climb he came in contact with a live wire and was burned so severely that it was necessary to amputate both arms.
Dr. Charles H. Garvin, graduate of Howard University, and local practitioner, has accepted a commission as lieutenant with the surgical Unit raised by Dr. Crile, white, for immediate service in France.
FIVE CENTS $A COPY.
MAY RETIRE YOUNG FROM ACTIVE SERVICE.
San Francisco. Cal.,—The rumor is in circulation here that an army board of physicians is about to recommend the retirement of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Young, the ranking Negro officer in the United States Army on the grounds of alleged "high blood pressure." Friends of Lieutenant-Colonel Young assert that he is in the best of physical condition. He says he never felt better in his life and was well able to continue in the active service in the United States Army.
Negroes throughout the country regard the retirement of Lieutenant-Colonel Young as a racial calamity, and look upon such a move as ill-advised at this time. If retained in active service and promoted to the rank of Colonel he would stand sixth in line of Colonels for promotion to a Brigadier-Generalship. — N. Y. Age. Do you get it?
Rights and Privileges as Citizens.
When the people of this country realize and understand that the educated, well-to-do colored people of good character insist upon all of their rights and privileges as citizens without wishing any of the association in a social way with the white folks in their neighborhood, they will have gone a long way in solving that vexing problem of race about which we are constantly talking. — Richmond, Va. Planet.
Frenchmen Praises
Bravery of the Negro
New York.—News of how Marcell Knech, a representative of France, in a recent address to local physicians at the Hotel Plaza, praised the bravery of colored soldiers fighting for France, has just become generally known. While talking on the European War, the speaker showed a number of stereopticon views one in which colored and white soldiers were in the same regiment.
At this point Mr. Knech proceeded to laud the bravery of the colored soldiers, stating that they had proved to be the most courageous and many had been awarded medals by Joffre.
This information was received in silence.—Eagle.
First Colored Elevator Girl.
Rochester, N. Y.—Mrs. Loretta Bond, a member of the race has the distinction of being Rochester's first elevator girl. She is employed by the Walter E. Bedell Company Store. Her uniform is khaki with brass buttons. She took charge of the elevator after a former operator had enlisted in the army
Church News
CAMPBELL CHAPEL AFRICAN M.
E. CHURCH, 23rd & LAWRENCE.
A. M. WARD, Minister.
Phone Main 5474. Res. 1218 23rd St.
Sunday School, 9:45 a. m. V. N.
Wolfskill, Supt.
Preaching, 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.
Class Meeting, 12:30 on Sunday.
Allen C. E. League, 7 p. m. Charles
Hegwood, Pres.
Prayer Meeting, Wednesday 8 p. m.
Class Meeting, Friday, 8 p. m.
The public is invited to all services.
SHORTER CHAPEL
Rev. C. A. Williams, Pastor,
Washington and Twenty-third Sts.
Main 4877.
Sunday School, 9:45 a. m.—G. C.
King, Supt.
A. C. E. League, 6:30 p. m.—E. Nor-
A. C. E. League, 6:30 p. m.—E. Norris, Pres.
Prayer Meeting, Wednesday, 8 p.
m.
Preaching by the pastor at both the
morning and evening services.
m.
COTT METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH, 803 26TH AVE.
REV. G. S. 8AWYER, Paster.
803 E. 26th Ave. Phone Champa 4180.
Sunday school, 9:45 a. m.
Preaching, 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.
Epworth League, 6:45 p. m.
Midweek services, 8 p. m. Wednesday.
WARD MISSION
Thirty-first and Larimer Sts.,
Rev. B. F. McCully, Pastor.
Preaching by the pastor morning
and evening.
Sunday School at 3 p. m.
Everybody cordially invited to at-
tend all the services.
THE CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD
Assembly will meet at Temple 119,
No. 31-32, Larimer St., Sunday, June
3rd, 10:30 a. m., for hearing "Belleving Livings," by every word of God.
The words of God, reply to all questions.
All are welcome. Elder J. S.
Christian, Overseer.
THE ZION BAPTIST CHURCH,
24th Avenue and Ogden.
David E. Ovér, D. D., Minister.
Telephones, York 6007, York 9877.
Dr. James Kelly, field secretary of the Foreign Mission Board, was a visitor with Zion last Sunday and gave to the congregation a powerful sermon at each of the day's services. Through his messages the missionary spirit has been quickened and the congregation lifted to a higher appreciation of its obligation to the unsaved world. Dr. Kelly was also a visitor to the association at Pueblo and spoke daily on the subject of missions. After the meeting a missionary tour was made of the state ending at Zion Sunday night. In the afternoon a missionary mass meeting was held at the Central Church, where a wonderful message was given to the people, stirring the congregation to the highest enthusiasm. Generous offerings were taken for the work. Dr. Kelly left last Sunday night for his home in Waco, Tex.
Zion's annual picnic will journey to Dome Rock on the 19th of the month. The same large crowd to the same place for the same fare, one dollar for the round trip. Those who have gone always remember that it is worth while.
Next Monday night the most remarkable concert company in the country will be presented at Zion. The Invincible Concert Company is composed of two blind men and their families. This company is rated at the first class and come to us with testimonials of their wonderful ability. The two leading members, both of whom were born blind, are masters of almost every musical instrument which their fingers touch. It will be a novel treat to hear them. Admission, 35 cents.
The Williams Singers will be with us on August 6th, and will be presented at the Auditorium.
BETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH
3148 Lafayette street. Phone York
7647. A. E. Reynolds, pastor.
Sunday School, 9:45 a. m.
Preaching, 11 a. m.
B. Y. P. U., 7 p. m. Topic, "The
Bible and the People." Ps. 119. Miss
D. Gatewood, leader.
Preaching, 8 p. m.
CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH
Phone Champa 1059
Rev. P. J. Price, pastor.
Sunday School Lesson: "Ahaz, the
Fatherless King." 2 Chron. 28:1:5.
20-27. M. Peopleus, Supt.; Rev. I. N.
Whitten, Asst. Supt.
B. P. P. 6, 30 p. m.
Excellent services last Sabbath.
Rev. Kelly of Waco, Texas, Field Secretary of the National Baptist Convention, preached an able sermon at Central Sunday evening. The evening services were well attended. The ordination service was well attended, and in fact, services were good thruout the entire day.
We are looking forward to Sept. 16, 1917, which will be financial offering for Central Church.
The sick of our church are improving.
Outing for Central Sunday School, July 12th, 1917. Place, Rocky Mountain Lake.
The Choral Club sang well Sunday.
Attend the Women's Home Mission Society, 1st Sunday in August, 3 p. m.
All Christian workers and sinners are welcome.
MISSION WORK AND SUNDAY SCHOOL AT THIRTY-FIRST AND BLAKE STREETS.
Sunday School at 1:20 p. m.
Preaching at 3 o'clock.
Bible Training Class, 7:30 each Friday evening.
Elder B. J. Clark, teacher.
You are cordially invited to each of these services.
THE THIRD SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
Meetings Held Sabbath (Saturday):
Sabbath School at 10 a.m. to 11
a.m.
Preaching service 11:15 a.m. to
2:15.
Special Sunday evening service
(until further notice) at 8 p. m.
All are welcome.
CHAS. S. LIGHTNER.
3917 Glenarm Place.
MOUNT OLIVE BAPTIST CHURCH.
Regular preaching services Sundays
at 3 and 8 p. m. Prayer meeting Fri
day night. L. J. Jones, leader.
PEOPLE'S PRESBYTERIAN.
E. 23rd Ave. and Washington 8t.
Pastor, J. A. Thos-Hazell, S. T. B.
Sermon Topics, Sunday, July 8th.
11 a. m.—"The Cessation of Special Dispensations."
5:30 p. m.—"A Soldier's Behavior Before His Captain."
The communion of the Lord's Supper was observed last Sabbath by a respectable number of communicants. The musical selections rendered by Mrs. Tumlin and Miss Galena Andrews were very appropriate.
Rev. Thos-Hazell performed the marriage ceremony in the vestry of the church last Wednesday and Wednesday week, respectively, in the presence of close friends. Contracting parties being Mrs. Susie Rose and Mr. James Estelle, Mrs. Goldie West and Mr. Americus Hughes. Mr. Hughes is chairman of the Trustees' and Deacons' Board. His wife, as a member of the Guild and President of the decorating committee of the Church, has repeatedly demonstrated her taste in the church decoration, especially at Easter and Xmas. Mr. Estelle is also a member of the deaconate Board, whilst Mrs. Rose is chairman of the Deaconness' Board and a most ardent worker of the Woman's Missionary Society. The Pastor, congregation and friends wish these contracting parties every blessing of life in their marital relationship.
The "Helping Hand Club" announces their Handkerchief Bazaar, from Tuesday Night, 24th, to Thursday Night, 26th inst., at the People's Church. Proceeds to be applied to the purchase of a new furnace and fuel for next winter. Committee: Mesdames Laura Hill, Chairman; Mattie Wilson, Sec.; Lula J. Brown, Evelyn Cowan, Mamie Hobson, Mary Tumlin, Jeanette Thomas, Goldie Hughes, Bessie Hughes.
Y. W. C. A. NOTES.
The Vesper services will be led by Mrs. I. McGuire. All girls and women are invited. An exceptionally good program has been arranged for Monday night by the program committee. Members and friends are invited to attend.
A committee of ladies and gentlemen from the Grand Lodge Session of the Knights of Tabor and Daughters of Tabernacle visited our club room Wednesday afternoon. We were pleased to have them know of our work. They will carry encouraging reports to the various cities in Iowa and Colorado.
All girls and women are asked to register for the bible classes that open in September.
The doll-dressing contest has been post poned to the week of the 17th. The girls are preparing an excellent program. The admission is 10 cents. Every senior member is asked to encourage our girls in this, their first entertainment.
Many are renewing their memberships. The committee on membership is planning a membership campaign. The recreation department reports that the Tennis court is about complete and they are forming the rules governing it.
Last Thursday evening at the home of Miss Bessie Simpson, occurred the wedding of Miss Amanda Anderson and Mr. Thornton Lippon. The house was beautifully decorated in palms. The color scheme was white and green. An isle was roped off in the parlor and the young couple were married under a large circle of tiny white wedding bells, interspersed with orange blossoms. Presiding Elder R. L. Pope performed the ceremony. The groom was attended by Mr. Joe Lewis as best man. Mrs. Marie O'Neal, sister of the bride, was Matron of Honor, Miss Bessie Simpson, maid of honor, and Miss Marie Starks was the bidesmaid. Little Lillian Ector and Pauline Von Dickersohn were flower girls. The bride was very sweet in a gown of handsome lace and crepe de chine with her bridal veil caught by orange blossoms. She carried a shower bou-
2. W. COLEMAN, Secy.
B. J. CATLETT, Supt.
quiet of roses and lilies of the valley and was given away by her brother-in-law, Mr. Fred O'Neal. The happy couple will spend their honeymoon visiting the bride's parents in Akron, Colorado. Many beautiful and useful presents were received.
Y. M. C. A. NOTES.
The Choral Society, now rehearsing "The Messiah," under the direction of Mrs. De Frantz, is making splendid progress. Rehearsals are held twice each week—Tuesday evenings at the Y. W. C. A. rooms on Washington street, and Thursday evenings at the Y. M. C. A.
Miss Nelsine Howard spoke interestingly at the meeting last Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock on the work of the colored women of the state. Mrs. Lulu Madison, with Miss Vera Ward as accompanist, rendered two vocal selections with great feeling and power.
Next Sunday afternoon Mr. C. M. White of the American Woodmen, will speak at the 4 o'clock meeting on observations he has made of the movements and progress of our people during his extensive travels in the south and in other sections of the country. Piano selections by Mrs. Minnie Elliott. All will be welcome.
CRIPPLE CREEK, COLO.
We would like very much to see more of our members attend church and especially Sunday mornings, now the weather is fine.
Mrs. D. Z. Hill has for her house guest Mrs. Wm. Jones of Denver, formerly of Cripple Creek.
Father Scott is still without a house keeper, so sisters don't forget the old man.
Mrs. Choteau is now employed at Vindicator mine where Mr. McDonald was for last 12 months.
Mrs. E. Lane and son, Burney, came up Sunday to visit with her sister, Mrs. J. C. Cantey, of 120 West Warren St.
Mrs. J. C. Cantey had a Dinner party Sunday for her guest from Denver, Mrs. Wm. Jones and Mrs. Lane and Master Burney Lane. Those invited from Victor were Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Cotwell and son, Lawrence, and Mrs. Stewart of Pueblo.
Mrs. D. Z. Hill is having a dinner party Wednesday eve, for her house guests, Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Lane of Denver.
Mrs. G. W. Cotwell of Victor has invited quite a few friends in for Thursday afternoon luncheon to meet her guests, Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Lane of Denver. Party at 7, after which will be music and cards.
A party of ladies, taking Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Lane, made the early-morning trip over the High Line, having breakfast in Victor at Mrs. Cotwell's.
Mrs. Cantey has been under the weather, but is some better at this writing.
WORMS MAKE CHILDREN FRET
FUL.
Chilren suffering from worms are dull and irritable, puny and weak, often grind their teeth and cry out in sleep, being a constant source of worry to their parents. Kickapoo Worm Killer is a mild laxative remedy in candy tablet form that children like to take. Promptly effective, it kills and removes the worm from the system. Irregular appetite and bowel movement, lack of interest in play are sure signs of worms. Relieve your child of this burden. At all druggists, 25c.
Everybody can be seen on Zion's Big Sunday School Picnic at Dome Rock.
HELP MERCY'S RED CROSS. YOUR DOLLAR MAY SAVE A SOLDIER'S LIFE.
Inasmuch as our thoughts as a nation are now turned in united purpose towards the performance to the utmost of the services and duties which have assumed in the cause of justice and liberty and inasmuch as but a small proportion of our people can have the opportunity to serve upon the actual battlefield, but all men, women and children may serve effectively by making it possible for those who serve under arms at home and abroad, therefore, let every Negro give one dollar toward saving and keep saved some poor mother's son or some sister's brother, or some girl's father. This is as vitally necessary to the army as is food to the soldiers. Let every Negro boy, girl, man and woman give something, if only the widow's mite. Don't you know you are helping the black soldier now fighting at the fronts in France, Belgium, Serbia, Italy and in Egypt? What Negro would dare rob his own or any human being from the necessities of treating a wounded soldier? This war is full of testing, not only of the white men but men of all colors and races. Negro, inasmuch as God has made you stewards over a certain amount, divide it now and let God pay you the dividend. Who would rob a wounded soldier of medicine when on the battlefield? Let every Negro in Colorado give something.
MUSCLE SORENESS RELIEVED
Unusual work, benigning and lifting or strenuous exercise is a strain on the muscles, they become sore and stiff, you are crippled and in pain. Sloan's Liniment brings you quick relief, easy to apply, it penetrates without rubbing and drives out the soreness. A clear liquid, cleaner than musy plasters or intuments, it does not stain the skin or clog the pores. Always have a bottle handy for the pains, aches of rheumatism, gout, lumbago, grippe, bruises, stiffness, bockache and all external pain. At your drugrist 25a.
Trunks hauled, 25c up. 2425 WASHINGTON STREET
Phone Main 4239
Joe T. Hirahara } Props.
Joe Y. Tani
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Watchmaker and Jeweler
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry,
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Fine Repairing of all Kinds
611 27th St., Near Welton
Denver, Colo.
GRINDING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION
MUG DECORATING
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SUPPLY COMPANY
LOTZ & KARRHOFF
1827 GLENARM ST. DENVER
PHONE MAIN ,221
Cutlery, Toilet Preparations, Manicure Articles,
Perfumes, HAIR POMADE
BARBER FURNITURE and BARBER SUPPLIES
Five Points Hardware Co. and Tinshop
Everything in Hardware, Paints Oils, and Glass at right prices Also Furnace work, Gutting and all kinds of Tin and Sheet Metal work at Reasonable prices 2643 Welton St Phone Champs 2079
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SHORTER A. M. E. CHURCH
Cor. 23rd St. and Washington Ave.
Phone Main 4877.
ZION BAPTIST CHURCH
Cor. 24th Ave. and Ogden St.
York 9377
CAMPBELL A. M. E. CHURCH
Cor. 23rd and Lawrence St.
Phone Main 5474.
CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH
29th St., between California and
Stout St.
Phone Champa 1059.
SCOTT M. E. CHURCH
28th Ave. and Clarkson St.
Phone Champa 4180.
BETHLEHEM BAPTIST CHURCH
Cor. 23rd Ave. and Lafayette St.
Phone York 7641.
MT. OLIVE BAPTIST MISSION
80th and Blake streets. L. J. JONES.
PASTOR, PHONE CHAMPA 108.
MISSION WORK AND SUNDAY
SCHOOL AT THIRTY-FIRST
AND BLAKE STREETS.
THIRD SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
CHURCH,
2917 GLENARM PLACE.
Y W C A BRANCH
318 25th St.
Schedule for Week.
Sunday afternoon, 2:30, Vespers...
Monday evening, 8 p. m., members'
meeting.
Thursday evening, 8 p. m., Bible
class.
Saturday evening, 8 p. m., Gym.
class.
Day Nursery and Club Home, 2357
Clarkson St.
Y M C A BRANCH
2800 Glenarm Place
Phone 5639, Y. M. C. A.
Lodge Directory.
F. & A. M. AND ITS AUXILIARIES.
Titus S. Rector, G. m.,
2716 Welton St.
Wm. Sprague, G. Sect.,
1 94 Gilpin St.
Rocky Lt. Lodge No. 1,
1st and 3rd Weddays of each month
26. J Welton St.
Hiram Commandery,
2nd Tuesday of each month.
only) 1834 Arapahoe St.
Masonic Consistory, (1st and 3rd
Tuesdays at 22 Goode Bldg.)
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 (1) E. S.
First and Third Fridays in each week.
(month.
(Afternoon) 2630 Welton St.
Centennial Lodge No. 4.
2nd and 4th Monday of each month.
1834 Arapahoe St.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS AND ITS
AUXILIARIES.
Grand Officers.
W. H. Bess, Grand Chancellor,
Colorado Springs, Xolo.
Chas. S. Muse, G. K. of R. & S.
Smith Lodge No. 15, K. of P., meets
the second and fourth Thursday
nights of each month, at Elk Hall,
26th and Washington.
FLOYD T. SMITH, C. C.
W. R. RHODES, K. of R. S.
Pythias Lodge No. 11,
1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month.
1834 Arapahoe St.
Damon Lodge No. 5,
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National Body Begins Campaign of Enlightenment.
Leaders of Mammoth Religious Organization Outline Plan to Settle Controversy Over Business Enterprises To Hold Convention at Muskogee, Okla., in September.
As a result of the meeting of the executive committee of the National Baptist convention, held the early part of June in Atlanta, Ga., a vigorous campaign of enlightenment has been launched among the Negro Baptists of the country. A national campaign committee, with Dr. L. K. Williams of Chicago as chairman, is to have one member from each state, a local executive committee, with headquarters in Chicago, and an advisory committee of a hundred or more Baptist laymen, and a general representative of the National Baptist convention for each state has also been designated.
The object of the campaign is to make the coming session of the National Baptist convention to be held in Muskogee, Okla., during the second week of September next the largest and most successful session ever held by that body. Efforts will be made to get before the people the real issues that have arisen between the National Baptist convention and one of its former secretaries, the Rev. R. H. Boyd. It is the claim of the National Baptist convention that it founded the National Baptist Publishing Board, located at Nashville, Tenn., and intrusted it to the management of the Rev. R. H. Boyd and eight associates, who acknowledged this fact for nineteen years. They base their claim on the wording of the chapter, which reads:
"Be it known that we, R. H. Boyd, E. C. Morris, C. H. Clark, J. P. Robinson, G. M. Moore, E. J. Fisher, J. E. Knox, G. W. D. Gaines and their successors, chosen under the rules and regulations of the National Baptist convention of the United States and holding office under the rules, usages and regulations of said convention, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name and style of the National Baptist Publishing Board of said convention of the Baptist church or denomination."
The Rev. R. H. Boyd claims that the National Baptist Publishing Board is independent of all conventions and is in the sole charge of himself and nine other men, subject only to the laws of the state of Tennessee, which granted the charter, as it is alleged. He makes the claim of personal and individual creation of the National Baptist Publishing Board, while admitting the authorship of articles describing the launching and growth of the enterprise, in which he says:
"To my great surprise and much to my regret, the convention said to me in unmistakable tones, 'Thou art the man.' For twenty-five years I had been attempting to answer every call made by the Baptists, endeavoring to obey every command given by them, and now that it said to me and four others associated with me, 'Go from this convention and publish for the Sunday schools periodicals by Jan. 1, 1917,' my only answer was that the Baptists that have called the National convention had commanded the die cast, and the Rubicon is crossed."
The issue has been joined in court. Rev. R. H. Boyd has organized his following to help him maintain his convention. The National Baptist convention desires to maintain the unity of the Negro Baptist family and is seeking to put facts before the people that will cause them to abide in full force by the parent organization founded by the late distinguished William J. Simmons, LL. D., of Kentucky and presided over by Dr. E. C. Morris, Helena, Ark., for the past twenty years or more. Many side issues have been injected into the controversy, but the National Baptist convention will endeavor to focus the attention of its constituency on what it regards as the real issue—namely, whether it or an independent group of nine men shall control the publishing interests of its following of more than 2,500,000 people.
A document covering the main issue and all of the known side issues raised has been prepared by Rev. Sutton E. Griggs, and it is the plan of this committee to issue and distribute 100,000 copies of the document. The officials of the National Baptist convention feel that they can rest their cause fully upon their statement of the case. Persons desiring copies of the statement, which is entitled "Stubborn Facts," can secure copies free of charge by enclosing postage for mailing the same to Rev. L. K. Williams, Twenty-seventh and Dearborn streets, Chicago.
If there are churches that feel that they need light on this subject or if there are those that think that certain churches need information they are asked to communicate with Dr. Williams. If there are associations or conventions to meet in any state within the next three months where National Baptist convention issues are likely to arise or where the question should be raised for the goal of the convention it is requested that the name of the organization, time and place of meeting and the name of the moderator or president be sent to Dr. Williams.
New Light on Conditions in Many Southern States.
Facts Presented In Report of Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones Show Lack of Proper Facilities For Doing Effective Work—Short School Terms and Poor Attendance Constitute Big Problem.
In his recent report on educational facilities for the colored people, which he recently completed for the federal bureau of education and the Phelps-Stokes fund, Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones says:
"Since an efficient school system not only enrolls the pupils but also holds them in school with a large degree of regularity until they have finished the elementary grades, it is evident that the low attendance in colored schools is the first great problem to be solved. The improvement of attendance requires not only a better school plant, trained teachers and more effective work, but also a stronger interest in the school among the masses of the colored people that they may place more emphasis on regularity and punctuality in attendance.
"The multiplication of small, one room schools, which has led to the movement for consolidation in the case of white children, has not extended to the colored schools. Colored schools have never multiplied fast enough to be too close together, and it is not uncommon to find pupils who have walked six or seven miles to attend school." And when the children get to school, the report continues, they are apt to find it not only overcrowded, but also taught in a building not owned by the public authorities. In Alabama over 60 per cent of the schools are taught in such buildings, and in Georgia the condition is even worse.
"So long as the school is housed in such a temporary manner," says Dr. Jones, "it is exceedingly difficult to arouse the interest of teachers, pupils or patrons sufficiently to improve the plant or add to the value of the property." As for overcrowding, the report mentions a careful survey made by state supervisors in three typical counties of Alabama, where the seating capacity of the eighty colored schools was 3,794, their enrollment was 6,391 and their attendance was 5,832. Dr. Jones also emphasizes the danger of the large average group of pupils in the schools and points out that the average school term in the south is less than six months, in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and the Carolinas the term being less than five months.
As for the teachers, Dr. Jones says in part: "The teachers of colored public schools occupy a peculiarly important position. They are not only the chief agents in stimulating the interest of the colored people in the public schools, but they are also in a position to present the needs of the colored schools effectively to the school officials. Their work, well done, will not only produce better trained men and women, but will also develop friendly and helpful relations between the white and colored people of the south.
"Such a responsibility should be placed only on well trained teachers. Observation, however, shows that the large majority of the teachers now in the schools are utterly incapable of any responsibility. The chapter on 'Teacher Training' in this report makes plain the fact that the public provision for training colored teachers is negligible. Even the private schools supply only a small proportion of the number needed. The question of teachers' salaries, white and colored, has received considerable attention, and some improvement in the salaries of white teachers has been made. The wage scale of colored teachers is still very low, however."
The report points out that where the system is in force of paying the jailer so much per capita for boarding the prisoners the minimum amount fixed is generally $150. With this figure in mind the comparative table for the salaries of white and colored teachers in eight southern states is illuminating. Some of the figures are: Alabama, white, $355; colored, $159; Georgia, white, $319; colored, $119; Kentucky, white, $323; colored, $310; North Carolina, white, $197; colored, $119; South Carolina, white, $333; colored, $110.
"The inadequate compensation is ample explanation of the poor teaching found in most of the rural public schools for colored people. It is little wonder that 70 per cent of the teachers in the 'black belt' states have less than six grades of elementary education." Discussing in another part of his report the relative interest taken by the south in its white and colored public school, Dr. Jones says that the rapid increase of the appropriations for white schools during the past few years and especially the multiplication of white high schools in the southern states have given rise to the belief that the appropriations for Negro schools have actually decreased. While this is probably true in some counties, the school records show an increase in the state appropriations for both the white and colored schools.
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We, as American citizens, respectfully state to the Government of the United States that Ireland is a distinct nation, deprived of her liberty by force and held in subjection by England by military power alone. As America has entered the war for the preservation of democracy and the freedom of small nationalities, this Government will supply principle impartially in all cases of peoples held in subjection where the protection of Germany, like Belgium, or of England, like Ireland. As America cannot be a party to any scheme of world-peace which withholds from any nation the God-given right of freedom, the only final settlement must be the complete independence of Ireland.
America has the right, by her entry into the war, to demand it from England, not in the Peace Conference at the close of the war, but now.
We therefore respectfully urge upon the President and the Congress the necessity and good policy of giving a great example to the world by insisting that England shall grant Ireland complete national independence. We earnestly hope that, like Cuba, Ireland will be made free by the action of America.
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"BIRTH OF NATION"
AGAIN TRIUMPHS METH-
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The U. S. army in France must be fed. East St. Louis packing houses meat to care for the army. The whites called a strike, and refused to work. Southern Negroes—not all ignorant by any means as reported by the daily press of prejudice—filled their places. Did German agents take this means by paying thousands of dollars to certain union men to seize this chance to stir up trouble, making it appear to the fanatical union dupes that a calamity was about to occur? Who supplied I. W. W's and the mob with money, ammunition and guns? Recall every scene in the "Birth of a Nation" and see if it is not re-enacted in East St. Louis. Only different in East St. Louis the police in a Ford shot-up the Negro town, attacking the church first and later returning; one member of the police was killed. Arming of the blacks, search and seizure of all arms by white officers; turning loose of the white mob on disarmed men and innocent and defenseless women and children; brutality, fiendishness and savagery on part of whites on fleeing Negroes, acquiesced and assisted. Women and girls share honors in the barbary on other women and girls, displaying a veneered Christianity and civilization; every hero and heroine runs to get publicity in the daily newspaper, who print one side only. Mobs run its length, then came charges and counter-charges by and men, and vice versa. Various reasons are given for the trouble, among some were selling whiskey, gambling, criminal assault upon white girls, killing of a detective and the "impertinence—whatever that means—of Negroes—some of the white people of Providen-tial divinity." Street scenes and house burning by whites and when they get tired they quit. Then comes excuses, explanations, and some even justify by bringing in politics. It is and was the "Birth of the Nation" scene re-enacted in reality. Such things always happen where seeds of race hate and segregation are allowed to be planted and grow without interference.
RAGE ARTICLE BY RACE MAN
RAGE ARTICLE BY RACE MAN
Leading Negroes and Negroes' Wives Responsible for the Massacreing and the Killing of Negroes in this Country.
I am sorry to say that the teachings the Negroes receive from the majority of the so-called Negro leaders are nothing more than cowardice. It pains me deeply to see and know that instead of our preachers and leaders in every capacity teaching Negro men and women to be men and women and prepare to protect their, homes and families from being burned and lynched and treated worse than dogs, they are taught everything else it seems but the thing that is most essential in the race of people to know.
for a race of people in the Negro is taught too much religion and not enough of the right kind. He should be taught that religion to be God-fearing does not mean to be a coward but to trust God and fear no man unde heaven nor on earth; for God has no use for a coward. I have known a number of Negro men whose wives absolutely objected to their husbands having a gun in his home for his and her protection. In my opinion a Negro of this kind should be looked upon just as the country looked upon those twelve senators who objected to the arming of the American ships for their own protection. These men were branded throut the country as traitors and German sympathizers, so should every Negro woman or man who objects to getting a gun for his other home.
or her home. It is time for this race of ours to wake up and be men and women and not run from our homes and leave
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our families to be burned, hacked and slaughtered by a savage, uncivilized race of people. We will never be respected by the world until we stand and fall like men. God helps those who help themselves.
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BEREAN BAPTIST CHURCH.
Brooklyn Congregation Installs the Rev. A. C. Matthews as Pastor.
The Berean Baptist church in Brooklyn recently held a series of meetings dedicating the enlargement of its church edifice located on Bergen street, near Rochester avenue. The Rev. A. C. Matthews, B.D., who has been serving the congregation as temporary pastor, was installed as the permanent pastor. The Rev. Mr. Matthews has done a praiseworthy work as leader of the congregation and has thus been made permanent pastor on his merit.
The celebration was held for ten days and was participated in by pastors, laymen and professional men of Brooklyn and New York city. The Rev. Mr. Matthews represents the younger men of the ministry and is a zealous worker in civic and religious movements in Greater New York. A bright future is predicted for the Berean Baptist church under his leadership.
OUR HONOR GRADUATES.
Names of Those Who Finished Course at Yale and Harvard.
The number of young men and women of our race who have graduated from colleges and universities during the commencement season of 1917 is nearly 500. The names of the three young men from Yale are John Francis Williams, Ph. B., New Haven, Conn.; James Austin Norris, LL. B., Pittsburgh, and Aaron Theophilus Peters, B. D.
The nine from Harvard are: Lorenzo D. Turner, A. M., Rockville, Ind.; those receiving the bachelor of arts degree are L. V. Aleris, who finished the course in three years; H. P. Payne, Harrisburg, Pa.; U. W. Holly, Roxbury, Mass.; Gbe Wolo of Liberia, West Africa; Butler R. Wilson, Boston; H. W. Porter, Terre Haute, Ind.; E. L. C. Davidson, District of Columbia, and Bertle W. H. Davis, Antigua, British West Indies.
Race Loyalty In Red Cross Work.
News comes from various sections of the country to the effect that the colored people are contributing liberally to the Red Cross fund. Thus it is in every movement for national uplift—the race endeavors to do its duty.
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NORTH CAROLINA MEDICOS MEET
Annual Session at Greensboro Was Largely Attended.
FEATURES OF THE SESSION
State Medical Association Celebrates Its Twenty-eighth Anniversary With Pleasing Literary and Social Program—Dr. F. F. W. Avant Commends Race For Effort to Advance.
By GEORGE F. KING.
Greensboro, N. C.-The twenty-eighth annual session of the North Carolina Medical, Pharmaceutical and Dental association, which recently convened in this city, was filled with interesting events which evidenced the fact that the wonderful change of economic affairs, in the south especially, is vitally affecting many of the professions in which Afro-Americans are engaged. The program was intensely interesting, and the scientific side, combined with the many social features, made the sessions among the best ever held by the association. The sessions
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were held in the main auditorium of the A. and T. college and were attended by doctors from various sections of this and other states.
Dr. D. W. Byrd of Norfolk, Va., president of the National Medical association, a gifted orator and one of the leading physicians, of the race, made an eloquent and scientific address, which elicited an ovation for him from his large audience. Dr. A. M. Moore of Durham, Dr. F. S. Hargraves of Wilson, Dr. S. B. Jones, Dr. W. L. McNair of Greensboro, Dr. A. M. Curtis of Washington, an authority on surgical clinics, and Dr. James B. Dudley, president of the A. and T. college, were among the prominent factors at this meeting.
Dr. F. W. Avant of Wilmington, who was elected president of the association at Wilson, N. C., in 1916, presided. His annual address was a masterpiece. Dr. Avant is president of the Afro-American Food Conservation Commission of his county, which is associated with a similar body of representative white men. He is prominent in the economic and civic movements of his race and also in the fraternal world.
In his address he in part said: "One of the most telling and effective changes that we must adjust ourselves to is that brought about by the migration of our people from these parts. The very unnaturalness of the affair is the striking feature about it, because our people are not naturally a migratory people, for we are usually the fixed landmarks of whatever place we might hall from, for not even could the vain pump and glory of the gold field craze lure many of us to pillow our heads upon her golden breast. We feel that our people, like all other American citizens, should climb the ladder by the way of least resistance. We believe this is a personal question to be settled by each individual."
"But those who are satisfied with long hours, small pay, inferior foods and wearing apparel for high prices, poor educational advantages— their children, with unsightly and unsanitary streets and homes to dwal in at
1 tervation, without ve. much
consideration as to their live, liberty and happiness, may remain where such conditions obtain, and you will not have to legislate to keep them there. But the individual who loves to reflect and cogitate upon the beautiful thought that he was made in the image of the great Creator and who loves to do things like the best of his fellow citizens, whose home and love ones are as dear to him as his own life, and who loves to step out firmly upon God's free earth and throw out his chest and feel the tender, sensitive vibrations of his intellect telling him that he is a man, must and will find those parts of the world that appeal to him whenever the opportunity is offered.
"God has so wonderfully blessed our race, it matters not whether it is in the cotton fields of Georgia, the factories of the north, east or west, or on the battlefields of the sun scorched sands of Mexico or planting the American flag on the snow covered mountains of Alaska, the race will, by prop living, work out its own good if given a fair and equal chance."
SAMUEL W. RUTHERFORD.
Founder, General Manager and Secretary of the National Benefit Association at Washington. His Achievements as Organizer and Business Man.
A. B.
Progress in every department and detail of work is noted in the annual report of the National Benefit association, with headquarters in Washington. The organization had its inception in the thrift and industry of Samuel W. Rutherford, who is regarded as one of the most successful business men of our race. The association, which gives employment to more than 100 men and women of the race, was organized eighteen years ago, with a few dollars and only desk room for an office.
By wise business management and persistent effort on the part of Mr. Rutherford and his associates, the organization has steadily grown from year to year, until its members number up into the thousands and its resources into the hundreds of thousands. The concern does business in seven states and the District of Columbia. Its achievements have been phenomenal, and its benefits to the race are manifold.
Eighteen years ago Mr. Rutherford, general manager and secretary of the association, was working for a secret society on a small salary and commission. He is now receiving from his own business a living salary, is comfortably fixed and is his own boss. He has the confidence of the public and is widely known for his fairness to his patrons and those in his employ. The National Benefit association has put out of commission the traditional theory that colored people will not, when employed by their own race, give a good service as they will when employed by other races under similar circumstances.
The report further shows that the total assets of the association amount to $273,217.87. In order to put new energy into the work and increase its resources the concern has adopted a broader policy for carrying into effect additional lines of service and entering into new territory. Every colored man or woman who makes a success in business raises the standard of race pride and race integrity and worth higher, gives inspiration to our youth and increases the respect and good will / r our people among the other races.
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Aug. 13-18—Fourth Quadrennial
Convention Order of American Woodmen.
Opening exercises, City Auditorium,
Thursday evening, Aug. 14.
August 15—Handel's Messiah auspices Y. M. C. A.
July 12—Church of Redeemer Annual Picnic.
July 19—Zion Baptist Church Annual Picnic.
August 4—Emancipation Celebration at Colorado Springs by Denver Excursion.
July 24, 25, 26—Grand Handkerchief Bazaar and Drill at Presbyterian church.
July 12—Mme. Jarley's Wax Dolls at Bethlehem Baptist Church.
August 16, American Woodmen National Convention Outing at Glacier Lake.
THE GREATEST OUTING OF THE SEASON
During its National Convention, the American Woodmen will entertain on the 16th of August at beautiful Glacier Lake, its delegates, visitors and friends. Dinner will be served at noon. Our course, we will have music—the affair would be incomplete without music.
The trip will be $1.50 for adults and 75 cents for children. Tickets will be on sale August 1st. Inamuch as the capacity of the company is limited, and there will be not less than five hundred delegates, and probably many more, our Denver friends who contemplate taking advantage of this outing will do well to purchase tickets early. We have arranged with the managing agent for increased services and car accommodations, and hope to be able to take all who wish to enjoy a full day of wholesome pleasure.
Lawyer W. B. Townsend obtained the final papers confirming the decree in the divorce proceedings of J. H. P. Westbrook versus Laura Westbrook on the 22nd inst.
Lawyer Geo. G. Ross has removed his law office to 929 17th st., room 23, 1st door above the stairs. Phone Main 6782.
Try Rice-Rice for good ice Cream and ice, home made bread, pies and cakes. Your orders are solicited for parties and church entertainments. Mexican chili served daily.
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Are you THOUGHTFUL? Prepare for the future. DELAYS ARE DANGEROUS. Insure today with the UNION HEALTH AND ACCIDENT CO., Denver, Colo. Greatest protection at the lowest cost. We invite your fullest investigation.
WANTED—First-class man or woman to solicit health and accident insurance in the largest company in the world that pays its claims within 24 hours. Enquire of the Star.
Joint Endowment policies for husband and wife. Protection, savings, safety and investment combined. See Harry McClaim.
Dr. Westbrook is a member of the Physicians' and Surgeone's telephone exchange and when you want him and cannot get him over his phone, Main 5595, call up Main 1624. They will find him for you night or day.
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DO YOU WISH TO LEARN TO DANCE PRIVATEY?
All of those persons desiring to learn how to dance thru private instruction, call Fred Onsill, 1807 Emerson, or phone. For particulars, see him.
THE GRAND THEATRE CON- TUNIER TO PLEASE.
Everybody who visits Larimer St. knows that their visit is not complete until they have stopped in and been entertained by the high class pictures of the Grand theatre. They just try to satisfy and please everybody. Yay.
Lawyer Geo. G. Ross has removed his law office to 929 17th st., room 23, 1st door above the staircase. Phone Main 6782.
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sion 10 cents for the three nights.
After making a careful examination concerning the vicious rumor set afloat by those who intended to harm the practice of Dr. C. D. DeFrantz. The Star informs the public that Dr. DeFrantz is in Kansas City where he daily walks to and from the hospital where the world's greatest specialist gives him treatments. His wife hears from him and his brothers daily. The Doctor, who is an Odd Fellow, will return soon to again take up his practice. The Odd Fellows and Household of Ruth have gotten busy after these gossipers who would damage their brother.
During the absence of Father Bruce from the Capitol, T. O. Mason will fill the position in the office of the Treasurer as file clerk.
Denver, May 2nd, 1917.
Mr. W. T. Boyd, Gen. Agent.
This is to acknowledge receipt of your Company's draft for forty (40) dollars in full payment for indemnity due me for my accident, and to express my thanks for the prompt and courteous manner of this settlement. I did not expect to receive my money the same day that I filed my claim but your paying the same within twenty minutes of notice surprised me and I certainly will recommend the National Life Insurance Company for fair, prompt and satisfactory treatment of their claimants. Very truly yours, ISAAC C. MUMFORD.
HUGHES-WEST MARRIAGE.
The many friends of American Hughes and Mrs. Goldie West were surprised by their marriage last Wednesday night by Rev. Hazell. Both parties are very prominent and efficient church workers in the People's Presbyterian Church. The Star congratulates the young couple.
LIPPINS-ANDERSON NUPTIALS.
At the home of Miss Bessie Simpson, 1760 Clarkson, Miss Amanda Anderson became the wife of Mr. Thornton Lippins of South Clarkson St., last Thursday night, Rev. R. L. Pope tying the matrimonial knot. The house was beautifully decorated most suitably becoming the fashionably dressed lady attendants of the bride, Misses Elsie Von Dickerzohn, Marie Starks and Bessie Simpson, while Mrs. Marie Oneal was matron of honor and her husband, Fred, most charmingly gave the bride away. The young couple received nearly a room full of presents, valuable, useful and ornamental. They left Thursday night after the reception to spend their honeymoon at Aikron, Colo., with the bride's parents.
Say, where are you going, Annie? I am on my way to Dome Rock to meet Zion Baptist Church Sunday School Picnic, Thursday, July 19th.
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LOOK! LOOK! LOOK!
WHO COMES THERE?
Zion Baptist Sunday School
OFF?
On their Annual Picnic
and Outing
WHERE?
Dome Rock, Colo.
WHEN?
Thursday, July 19, 1917
Come and join us, everybody invited, all are welcome. Games of Sport a specialty. Many new features with a Balloon Ascension, etc. Round Trip, Adults $1.00, Children 50c A. A. Waller, Supt., D. E. Over, D. D., Minister
W. B. Townsend, Attorney and Counselor at Law, practice in all courts, in any State, makes a specialty of damage actions, collecting insurance and endowment money; make contracts to buy property and examines, abstract of title. Free advice on new law about divorce. 927 17th St. Rooms 3 and 4. Phone Main 2797.
Mrs. Emma Harris of 718 E. 25th Avve., will spend several weeks in Colorado Springs taking her vacation of rest and health restoration.
A. L. Norris and his brother, Reginald, left last week for Wyoming where they will remain indefinitely.
Thos. Dickerson, G. A. R. veteran, had a bullet, received 47 years ago in the Civil War, removed from his leg Thursday.
On last Sunday afternoon a large number of club women and their friends gathered at the Negro Woman's Club Home to witness the dedication of the Drinking Fountain in the Day Nursery. The fountain was the gift of Mr. Charles Burton, in memory of his deceased wife, Mrs. Clara Burton who was a friend of charitable institutions. Household of Ruth No. 4130 assisted in the exercises. The dedicatory address was delivered by Rev. C. A. Williams. Rev. John. Adams of Pueblo, also spoke. The service was made more impressive by the presence of a large number of the smaller children who attend the nursery. The response was made by Mrs. Amelia Reeves, president of the Organization, who also presided over the meeting.
On Monday eve, June 25, a linen shower was given by Mrs. N. L. Douglas and Mrs. G. Patterson, at the former's beautiful and spacious home at 1035 Mead St., in honor of Miss Amanda B. Anderson, the bride to be. The house was beautiful decorated in pink and white, which extended thru the refreshments, which were bountiful. The evening was spent in games and plays, all had a jolly good time. Many, many beautiful and useful articles were received by the charming maid who returned home loaded down and happy.
Mr. Henry Fort has moved from 721 28th St., to 818 29th St.
Mrs. W. A. Jones is visiting in Chap elton, Colo., for two months.
DR. DE FRANTZ IS
Dr. C. D. De Frantz arrives Saturday to resume his large and lucrative practice. His presence will refute all malicious stories to damage his practice and starve his family. Odd Fellows, get busy; Ruthites, do your duty; a friend in need is a friend indeed.
MADE THEMSELVES USEFUL.
VISITORS HELP CHURCH
Mesdames Beatrice Jackson and A. J. Lyles, who have been visiting Mrs. E. A. Danforth of Chapelton, Colo., for the past two weeks, were very useful visitors at the Colony Church. Mrs. Lyles sang and Mrs. Jackson recited and both took an active part in the Sunday School. The Colony greatly enjoyed the ladies' talents and appreciated their help. They invited them to come back again and help the Dearfield Church.
Annual Picnic, Church of Redeemer and Sunday School, Tullieries Park, Englewood, Thursday afternoon and evening, July 12, 1917. Morrison's full orchestra, 25 cents.
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DURING THE CRISIS, GET WHAT YOU CAN AND CAN WHAT YOU GET. A HINT TO THE WISE.
Basis Hill, formerly manager of the Stockman Club, has opened the Dunbar Cafe at 1829 Arapahoe street. We make a specialty of private dinners on short notice. Best of service.
Mrs. A. J. Lyles and Mrs. B. Jackson spent the past two weeks visiting Mrs. E. A. Danforth in Dearfield, during which time she entertained them at their beautiful "Sunflower Ranch." The house was artistically decorated in rainbow colors. Refreshments were served at 12 o'clock. All declared Mrs. Danforth an ideal hostess. Mr. E. A. Danforth is also spending a few days on his ranch.
THE SICK THIS WEEK.
Father Bruce, Mr. Connell and Dr. De Frantz in Kansas City, Mo.
The wedding of Mrs. Marguerite Gray of New Orleans and Mr. Charles Turner was celebrated Sunday, July 1, at 2 p.m. at the residence of Mme. M. A. Holly, 2618 Downing, Rev. Ward officiating. The bride was the guest of honor at a number of social functions previous to her arrival here and was the recipient of many beautiful presents. Mr. and Mrs. Turner will be at home to their friends at the residence of Mme. Holly, 2617 Downing street.
Mme. Jarley's Wax Works will be given at Bethlehem Baptist Church, 32nd and Lafayette, Thursday, July 12, for benefit of Mrs. Sarah Crump.
COMING—WOODMEN—COMING.
The American Woodmen, the largest and strongest insurance society among the Negroes, whose offices are located here, will be here in August, and The Star sincerely trusts all of our business places will go to some expense and decorate for their coming. No better demonstration could be made than for the Negroes themselves to lead off in boosting, honoring and welcoming our many guests in such a gala manner. These men and women, and this occasion, will be just as big and representative as we ourselves make it. The fraternal insurance society will have its hands full working out details. There is a duty devolved upon each and every citizen, and each ought to play his or her part. After they have been invited here they are our guests and we should thus honor them. Not only them, but the coming Eastern Star and the National Federation of Women's Clubs. Get busy and left each home prepare to put out flags — American — while our business places will properly display bunting and the like.
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Houses and Rooms
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The Best List in the City to Choose From.
OR RENT—Furnished rooms at 2146 Welton street, on carline. Phone mornings only, Olive 344. Mrs. Della Evans, 4t-1-17-pd.
DR. THOMAS E. McCLAIN, DENTIST
Office phone, Main 7416. Pyrrhea specialist. Residence, 822 Thirty-second street, phone Main 8397. Sundays and nights by appointment. Office hours, 9 a. m. to 12 m., 2 p. m. to 6 p. m. Suite 4 and 5, 929 17th st., near Curtis st., Denver, Colo.
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Nice, clean, airy rooms, strictly modern house, close in; rooms from $1.50 up. 2152 Arapahoe. Phone Main 7007. Mrs. Lillian Horn. Prop.
FOR RENT—Two nicely furnished rooms at 2808 Wolton St. On car line. Rates reasonable.
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Furnished apartments of two and three rooms; hot and cold water, gas and electric lights; modern conveniences. Rates reasonable to desirable tenants. Mrs. R. M. Blakey, 2352-2358 Ogden St., Phone York 6707W.
FOR RENT—Furnished rooms in modern house; rates reasonable, on 2 car lines. 2209 Welton St. Main 1951. Mrs. Clara Maya. 11-13-15
FOR RENT—Furnished rooms in modern house, with kitchen privilges on car line, at reasonable rates. Mrs. Addie Craig, 2537 Curtis street. Main 7872.
For Rent—Five-room modern house at 2227 Cleveland Place. Call Agent. 2t-6-17
FOR RENT—Iront room with alcove; strictly modern, at 2223 Ogden St. York 7629R. Mrs. Matilda Jacobs.
FOR RENT—Two nicely furnished front rooms for lady or gentleman at 2837 Stout. Mrs. M. A. Cole, Olive 30, R1. 4t-4-7-17c
FOR RENT — Furnished rooms, modern house, all conveniences. Call Mrs. Eleanor H. Epperson, 520 24th St. Phone M-4945.
FO1. RENT — Furnished rooms, modern, prices reasonable. Call at 2443 Tremont place. Mrs. Z. Hooper.
FOR RENT—In a nicely furnished home, rooms with board. First-class home cooking, at 2609 Lafayette. Mrs. J. C. Steele, York 7764 W.
For Rent—One nice furnished room on car line. Modern conveniences rates reasonable. 2230 Curtis Street Mrs. J. M. Atkinson, Phone Main 3861
For Rent—Furnished rooms; good car service; reasonable rates. Phone Main 1879. 6-9-4t
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Four-room house, 1905 E. 30th Ave.
Owner, 1621 E. 33rd Ave.
Room for rent in private family.
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Old Paper Money.
England, unlike Scotland and Ireland, is not quite reconciled to the general use of "paper money." A writer, appealing to the conservative instincts of the race, reminds them that the Chinese 2,300 years before the Christian era had "flying money." These were printed in blue on rather thick paper made from the fiber of the mulberry tree, and one of these issued 1839 B. C. is to be found in the Asiatic museum in Petrograd, and in the British museum there is one dating from the Ming dynasty of the fourteenth century, fifty years before the first European bank was established at Barcelona.
An Old Love Secret.
A youth or maiden pulls a primrose from its stalk, and, after cutting off the tops of the stamens with a pair of scissors, puts it in some secret place where no human eye can see it. All through that day the loved one must be thought of, and dreamed of through the night. Next day the flower is to be taken from its hiding-place. If the stamens are found to have shot out to their former height, success in love will attend the experimenter; if not, disappointment will be his or her lot.
High Brow Study.
"What are you giving your cows now in the way of galactagogues?" asked the professor of the milkman. "Oh," said the milkman who had just graduated from the agricultural college and was not to be stumped, "their sustenance is wholly of vegetable origin, rich in chorphyll and opulent in butyraceous qualities." "A pint if you please," said the professor.
"Git up." said the milkman.
Accidental Discovery
Bottled ale, rendered mellow by long keeping, was an accidental discovery. It was made by Alexander Newell, dean of St Paul's in the reign of Queen Mary. Newell was obnoxious to Bonner, and the latter had sent soldiers to apprehend him; but it happened on that day Newell was out fishing, and in order to keep his beer cool had buried it in the bank. Getting intimation of his danger, he fled, forgetting all about the beer, and escaped to the continent; whence, returning some years later, he remembered his beer. dug it up, and found it wonderfully improved with age.
Fiscal Years.
Fiscal year means the treasury year or period for which government appropriations and reports are made, and accounts are rendered. The government fiscal year in Great Britain and in Germany ends March 31; in the United States on June 30, and in France on December 30. As it always relates to government finances, it might be called the financial year. The word fiscal is derived from the Latin fiscus, a basket, and may relate to some remote period of primitive simplicity when a money basket served as a government treasury. Since the organization of the United States government, the term fiscal year has meant from June 30 of one year to July 1 of the next year.
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"The expectant heir to his uncle's millions, anxiously asked the doctor when his uncle was taken ill, if there was no hope."
"What did the doctor say?"
"He told him there was no hope whatever. The chances were his uncle would get well enough to marry his housekeeper."
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One good thing about compensations is that they are always ready to change to suit circumstances. That is, of of course, what compensations are for. We have, therefore, no sooner made up our minds that we shall have to stay at home with our back-yard gardens this summer than we are confronted by the suggestion that our clocks may be set ahead in order to give us an extra hour in the garden every evening, says a writer in the Indianapolis News.
It is easy enough to understand that an hour in the garden every evening is worth many a day at a summer resort. There is, to be sure, the difficulty of getting up an hour earlier every morning, but it would not really seem an hour earlier. Most of us do not like getting up in the morning, no matter what time it is, and an hour or so makes no noticeable difference at that time of day. As far as all that is concerned there may be some difference of opinion as to whether the clocks should be set ahead in order to give us that hour in the evening or whether the alarms on our clocks should be set ahead in order to give us the extra hour in the morning. It looks on the face of it as though it might be possible to get two extra hours out of our days.
Sure Source of Happiness
The secret of all strength and happiness is conscious union with our Divine Source. This establishes in us a sense of security, an assurance that we are not playthings of chance, puppets of accident or fate. When we come to a full realization of our atonement with the great creative, sustaining principle of the universe, life will take on a new meaning. There will be no room for worry, no cause for fear. We shall be serene, polished, happy.—Orison Swett Marden, in Pictorial Review.
VIRGINIA'S YOUNG BAPTIST LEADER
Rev. J. C. Diamond's Success at Fredericksburg, Va. EDUCATED AND THRIFTY
Brief Account of What the Pastor of the Historic Shiloh Baptist Church Has Accomplished During Six Years of Diligent Labor—Congregation Gives Him Hearty Co-operation.
Fredericksburg, Va.—One of the most historic church edifices in use by the colored people of this section of the state is the Shiloh Baptist church (on the old site), in this city. For nearly a century there has been a Baptist church on the old site where the present beautiful structure stands. It is a credit to the race and an honor to the city. The old church edifice for the first thirty years of its existence was used by a congregation composed of both white and colored people, the latter being in the majority.
In 1854 the congregation, having outgrown the building on Water street, moved into a new building which had been erected on Princess street, and the old building on Water street was turned over to the colored Baptists, with the Rev. Armstead Walker, one of the first ordained ministers of the race in Virginia, as pastor. During the war, when the Union soldiers occupied the town, the church
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REV. J. C. DIAMOND, B. D.
was used as a hospital. The benches were torn out and the property otherwise damaged. The church now has a claim in the omnibus claim bill which is before congress, and there is a chance that it will receive a goodly sum of money from the government in adjustment of its claim.
At the close of the war this congregation organized under the name of Shiloh and had for its first pastor the Rev. George Dixon. Nearly all the older members of the church were baptized by the Rev Mr. Dixon. Out of the twelve men who banded them selves together after the war and organized this church only one is left. Jim Coleman, as he is wont to be called. In 1887 the old building fell, and the congregation split on the question of a site for the new building.
The cornerstone of the present building was laid by the white Masons of Fredericksburg, an unusual thing, but it showed the pleasant relations which exist between the races.
The present pastor, the Rev. J. C Diamond, B. D., is a young man. He was born July 22, 1887, and the first seventeen years of his life were spent on the farm. He spent some of the time in the public school, thereby laying the foundation for an education. He entered Hampton institute in 1895 and graduated from the trade school in 1898, and in 1900 he graduated from the academic department at Hampton. The Rev. Mr. Diamond taught physics and electricity at Hampton institute for a time and then accepted a position as professor of manual training in Walden university, Nashville, Tenn. He also taught manual training at Calhoun, Ala.
Giving up the profession of teaching, he engaged in the contracting business at Alexandria, Va. Having a new vision of life's possibilities, Dr. Diamond entered the theological department of Howard university, from which he was graduated in 1910. He was installed into the pastorate of the Shiloh Baptist church in January, 1911.
Some of the pastor's achievements during his ministry at Shiloh are the renovation of the Sunday school room in March, 1911, at a cost of $1,937, the erection of a new parsonage building in 1912 at a cost of $2,000, designed and built by the pastor; new piano for the Sunday school in 1913, costing $250; purchased 300 hymn books for the pews at a cost of $55.30 and a new communion set in 1914. The membership grows steadily, and the people are generous in their support of the church and pastor. The officers of the church are: Deacons, Elmo Washington, Cato Frazier, George Walker, Austin Johnson, Spencer Lewis and John Harris; trustees, J. T. Lucas, S. G. Willis, Moses Scott and George Walker. Miss E. M. Gray is the organist.
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The Star knows in no better way for lodges to do their "bit" in this war than for them now to arrange themselves into a kind of a co-operative body that the less fortunate brothers and sisters can and will be taken proper care of when the real famine comes this winter. Our oaths and obligations compel us to look after the widows, orphans and unfortunate members. What better aid, help, support or succor can we give them than by us now looking out for these then or probably ourselves? The churches could likewise form some co-operative union whereby the poor and distressed members who had liberally contributed once to the church, but, for some reasons were either too poor, too sick or were unable to do so now, could be given proper foods by a little forethought, wise business dealings and expert management. The Star offers this plan to the lodges and their auxiliaries: First, appoint two men from each male and two women from the female lodges to form themselves into a large committee of the whole; which committee will lay plans and devise
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What lodge will lead off by appointing two good men, honest, with experience, and level heads? The wolf is knocking at our door now, only you can keep him away, but when things are different, who will take the place of a loved one gone to rest? Lodges, there is a tremendous responsibility resting on your shoulders. Will you face and solve it or be indifferent and dodge it? The little weekly newspaper men have gotten together and are buying newsprint by the carload. Why not Negroes buy food that way?
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How many of us realize how much the other follow can help us achieve what we are working for?
How many of us realize how much we will help ourselves by boosting our competitor instead of knocking him?
To those of us who do not, the above picture, from Armour, will carry its own message. No amount of reasoning or logic could show any more clearly and definitely just what cooperation means.
Let's all apply it to our own business this year and wait for results.
NEGROES, STUDY THIS PICTURE. THEN ACT.
The Star prints the above lesson in order to convince some of the most skeptical Negroes of Denver and Colorado, as well as elsewhere, what it will mean for ten millions of Negroes whose minds, hearts, objects, purposes, ambitions and work are doggedly set up on one certain thing—elimination of all caste, prejudice and inequality for every one—or certain things of uplift to humanity, and what a unified action can do. This lesson applies to Negroes who patronize others than their own in business, even if you or they don't like the man or men running in business. Patronize him or his competitor of color. Every nickel taken from the business and professional man of color only weakens him and strengthens the chains of prejudice and unfair competition upon your necks, besides helping the race who least need your
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Since Advertising is the Life of trade, it behooves you to co-operate with us. We realize that we must first make money for you before we can make any for ourselves, therefore let is help you by doing your advertising to help ourselves. Advertise in The Star that's all. It pays you and pays us. Advertise and let us have a pay
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help. We are our own masters, if we would rightly and intelligently use what means which are ours. Think of 100 Negroes putting $1 aside a month in a colored company or in a bank and buying pigs, horses, cattle, chickens, turkeys and Belgian hares and putting those animals on the ranches of our Negro farmers, what would it mean in two years to the farmer, yourself and our Denver community? A Negro auto transportation service, a Negro commission merchant and produce dealer, Negro distributor of eggs and poultry to Capitol Hill customers and a Negro general store in the farmers' settlement all because Denver and Colorado Negroes are working together. Study this picture and wisely develop your money and brains.
Again, let us suppose every female who needed such an article would patronize the only corset maker in Denver and in Colorado, Miss Beatrice Lewis, in one week she would be compelled to hire extra help. Suppose that in July, when the Prince Hall chapter of the O. E. S. meets in Colorado Springs, that the women have exhibits and displays for their inspection, thoroughly showing that co-operative spirit. When the calves decided to get together for their own benefit first all opposition failed, Unity leads to conference which will ultimately result into co-operation, so stick together if you have to hang together in parts. Success crowns all co-operative efforts.
I'M GOING TO FIGHT FOR DIXIE LAND AND DEAR OLD UNCLE SAM.
LAND AND DEAR OLD UNCLE
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I've done closed up my barber shop
And packed up all my tools.
I've closed my old log cabin up, loaned
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My Uncle Sam has called on me to
Come and do my stunt.
I'm going to don a soldier's suit and
Rush right to the front.
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Old Uncle Sam
You bet I am that's no flim flam
And when the drums are beating, you
Won't find me retreating
Nor trembling like a lamb.
I'm going in like a lion, don't care how
They're firin'
This battle ain't no sham.
You'll find me most defying, you'll
Hear me loudly crying
I'm going to fight for Dixie Land
And dear old Uncle Sam.
I'm going to take my razors long,
I'll use them in a clinch
When I get through slashing round
They'll find I ain't no cinch.
The musket is a grand old thing.
It shoots most fast and loud
But a razor is the only thing
To fight with in a crowd.
"Irving Jones."
Lawyer Townsend Succumbs Tuesday Morning After a Brief Illness.
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Mr. Townsend graduated from the law school of Kansas State University in 1891, as Valedictorian of his class and the degree of L. L. B. was conferred by the faculty. He practiced in Leavenworth, Kans., ten years with great success when he removed to Pueblo, Colo., in 1901, where he, after being admitted to the U. S. Circuit and District Courts, won great distinction and being the only Colored lawyer who was ever admitted to practice in that county, also won much distinction as a criminal lawyer. He tried and won many complicated murder cases in Pueblo and appeared before the Board of Pardons in the famous Heck double murder case, also Trusty case. It was in the latter case where he had shown the failure of the "corpus delicti," but the judge would not grant his motion for acquittal which the Pardon Board later did. Lawyer Townsend located in Denver in October, 1809, and since that time he has won much praise for his successful efforts in conducting many difficult criminal and civil cases. The Smith, Robert Harris and Jett murder cases, as well as the McClain and Gertie Ross Civil Rights cases, getting $50 damages and costs in the one and $500 damages and costs in the other. Leading the Birth of the Nation fight he finally secured a dissolution of the temporary injunction forbidding the city to further restrain such plays.
He arranged and was constantly active in perpetuating our old abolition celebrations, honoring Lovejoy, Garrison, Lincoln and Douglass. He caught Lawyer Joseph Stuart's spirit in his civil rights bill and at every opportunity he tried to force its executions. Lawyer Townsend was our ablest lawyer and strongest race man in Colorado and his place will be hard to fill. The mighty oak has fallen. Likened to the unwinding of a ball of usefulness and achievement, his life unwound to the end and then came the finishing of his earthly toils and responsibilities. Lawyer Townsend stood against all kinds of segregation: he fought incessantly and with undying vigor. He seemed to have heard the cries of his people beneath the vindictive lash and their bewailing moans amid lynchers' volces surrounded by the crackling flames. It was this beating and ever present irresistible impulse which caused him to ever be on the firing line for the race. Did he fall? No honest effort in a good cause can fail. His life, misunderstood, criticised and abused, may not be crowned with the applause of men; while replete with honors, sunshine, shadows and painful sorrows, it may not seem to touch the goal of worldly success, but it is not lost. His life helps to strengthen with new virtue and resisting vigor; to animate all with devotion to duty; which in the end conquer all. Fall! Did the Martyrs fall, when, with precious blood, they sowed the seed of the church? Did Sumner, Lovejoy, Wendell Phillips, Lincoln, Douglas and Paul Lawrence Dunbar fail when they gave freely their heartstrings to the cause of liberty and justice? Did the discomfitted champions of freedom and equality of all mankind fail, who have left their names in history that can never die? The the paths may look dark assurances appear tangible that the great cause of liberty, justice and equality to which Townsend, with the galaxy of others have dedicated themselves will soon sweep the heartstrings of the people in a worldwide movement. Then the principles for which Lawyer Townsend fought will still live and be perpetuated by us. Having gained the confidence and respect of the community, bench and bar, he was regarded as a good lawyer. Lawyer Townsend leaves a wife surviving and two sisters and one cousin, Mrs. Lillie Moore. His funeral will be at Shorter Church at 2:30 p.m., with the Knights of Pythias in charge and Douglas Undertaking Co. will have charge of the body. He being a Grand Officer, all branches of the order will turn out with the Queen City aBnd.
TRAINING FOR SERVICE.
Major Peal Is Pleased With Outlook at Camp Des Moines.
Cleveland, O.—Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of the Cleveland Gazette, has received the following letter from a former native of this city, Major Allen S. Peal, former commandant and member of the faculty of Western university, Quindarid, Kan., and for several years, to date, principal of our schools at Bluefield, W. Va. Major Peal is at the military training camp at Fort Des Moines, In., and under date of June 18 writes as follows:
Friend Smith—If I can pass the eye test I will pass the three months' training at this school under super conditions and with a full set of other applicants. The best spirit exists here, and the United States officers are of a high type. The race will gain much from this movement. Best wishes.
Major Peal lived many years at Columbus, O., holding some important clerical positions in Franklin county offices before going to Quindaro.
Elizabeth Fleming's Patriotic Work.
Little Miss Elizabeth Fleming of East Sixty-fifth street. New York, conceived the idea of starting a fund to assist in equipping a regiment of colored soldiers for the war from the proceeds received from hand work sold for that purpose. It is said that the returns have already, amounted to over $100. By July 16 it is estimated that the above amount will be increased many times. Elizabeth is a young patriot of rare distinction and shows great interest in the colored people.
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sult of segregation and "Birth of the Nation" lessons, when she is in a righteous war to help secure liberty, freedom and justice for all other nations on the earth outside of America except Negroes within and without America, but such a little thing is a mere bagatelle. The hand of injustice weighs heavily upon the Negroes now but regardless of the insults forced upon us; regardless of the fact that we are denied enlistment on equal terms with all other races in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps: yes, regardless of mobs, ghoulish and unspeakable black fiendishness, we are loyal American citizens, human beings paying an awful color and race toll and we feel very keenly that we are mistreated without protest from influential people. The Star suggests that 100 Negroes, armed to die could have put to flight the mob and there would have been no burning of the Negroes' property. Stop one thousand armed Negroes who were going to assist the East St. Louis officials, but these officials and guards men turn loose and join in the mob. Negroes, stay in St. Louis: don't be scared out nor run away from your homes. Come back and take up life again, if you have to live in a tent. Stay and see the thing thru. no matter what the daily papers print to scare you away. Don't be cowards: if you die, die for a just cause, which will live after you to empha size your death. Read the Editorial of Wednesday's News:
THE STIGMA OF EAST ST. LOUIS
What has taken place in the past week at E. St. Louis, Ill., U. S. A., indicates that much of the common world talk about "no nationalism" or internationalism and the immediate abolition of race prejudices, all leading, of course, to a world confederacy, is foolish talk and fails to take into account present day and world old history and the mob psc chology.
Before we go too far along the will o' the wisp road we ought to remove the beam from our own eye, and not say overmuch about the mote in other nations' eyes.
The reign of terror, the mob outbreak, the brutalities committed on women and children as well as men in the American city cannot be condoned. It is a blot upon the nation. There was very little, if any, excuse for the orgy of blood shed and incendiarism. It could not be alleged, as had of ten been done further south, that the Negro population was dangerously in the majority. Neither was it a matter of a moment's thought over an assault that made the blood boil. The attack upon the Negro quarter of the town was premeditated and inspired by selfishness. For days and nights there had been threats and minor outbreaks tending to terrorize the Negroes and compel them to go away. When these failed, the mob spirit gained control and things were done by white people that cannot be excused.
Unquestionably the blood lust that is upon the world to day was responsible for the severity of the outbreak against the colored race in a city where they cut no figure. We are creatures of environment and we are at present surrounded by millions who see red and who have no other thought but to kill and be killed. It would be impossible for this section of the globe, so intimately wired with the European abbat toir, to escape the contagion. The blood thirstiness, exhibited for so long a period, against the colored population must be traced back to what has been taking place in three years in a large part of the earth. Even then the excuse is a thin whitewash.
The outbreak against the colored race was economic, when it was not due to rank race hatred, dislike of a colored skin. Ne. roes were brought into the town by corporations to work. The whites took umbrage. White labor was supposed to be in jeopardy. The Negro must be taught a terrible lesson!
We hope it may be possible for the federal authorities to take a part in the punishment of the ringleaders. Otherwise nothing of consequence is likely to be done.
Much will be heard from foreign quarters regarding this race outbreak. It came at a most inopportune moment. Let the nation bow its head in sorrow for a moment today for the crimes committed by the relative few.
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NOTED SONGSTERS HEARD.
Glee Club Presents Fine Program at a Brooklyn Concert. Brooklyn.-The annual June concert given by the Glee club of the Lexington avenue branch of the Young Women's Christian association in this city was held at Memorial hall Thursday, June 21. The public always looks forward with pleasure to any function given by the club and on the above occasion gave the young women fine support. The concert was directed by Mrs. Daisy Tapley, the noted contralto, piano and voice teacher.
After the club's own rendition of Nevin's "Venezie" it presented Lisa Lehman's "In a Persian Garden," a song cycle for four solo voices. The quartet consisted of Miss Minnie Brown, soprano; Mrs. Daisy Tapley, contralto; Roland W. Hayes, tenor, and Henry T. Burleigh, bass. This is a splendid work in itself, built on the "Rubalyat" of Omar Khayyam, a Persian poem. The getting together of these voices in a work of this kind marks an epoch in the development of Negro musical history as heard on the concert stage. Mr. Hayes is the greatest Negro tenor and is possessed of a wonderfully beautiful natural voice, augmented with six years' constant study under one of the greatest teachers in Boston. Mr. Burleigh, as every one knows, is our greatest baritone soloist and musician. Miss Minnie Brown is well known, especially in New York city, as perhaps the best trained singer in our midst.
It was an inspiration to all music lovers and students to listen to these four soloists who sang together as one voice, an unusual feature for solo singers.
At the close of the program the stage was thronged with admiring friends, who congratulated the quartet and thanked Mrs. Tapley for having been instrumental in giving to Greater New York the finest concert that has been heard among colored people anywhere.
JULY CRISIS MAGAZINE.
Education Number of Great National Monthly Bristles With Merit. The education number of the Crisis for July, with its military cover drawn by Lorenzo Harris, now being circulated, is a remarkable number. First of all, the story of the colored graduates this year is astonishing. Four hundred and fifty-nine colored men and women have received the degree of bachelor of arts this spring, including four Phi Beta Kappa students in the largest northern institutions, one doctor of philosophy and six masters of arts.
The leading colored colleges have sent out 222 bachelors of arts, with Howard, Biddle, Fisk and Lincoln in the lead. From the high schools nearly 2,000 colored children have been graduated, of whom the Crisis has record, and probably several hundred others. To this the Crisis adds an important article by his honor John Purry Mitchel, mayor of New York city, on the relation of colored people to the schools of New York.
The Memphis horror is given a separate supplement of four pages, where the story of the barbarity is told in the words of Memphis' own white papers. It is a blood curdling tale.
One of the best stories ever published by the Crisis is "Gray Eyes." by a young student of the Baltimore Colored high school. There is an article on debating and athletics in colored schools, and prizes are offered for essays on "The Best Summer 1 Ever Spent." These are to be sent in on or before July 8.
The Crisis has reached the 30,000 mark of net paid circulation. This month's number, July, carries pictures of 100 of the colored college graduates.
Ethical Culture Scholarship Fund.
The Society For Ethical Culture at Indianapolis, Ind., at a recent meeting decided to increase its fund for scholarships to worthy students by a 5 cent monthly contribution from each member. This organization is doing splendid work and should be encouraged by the public, especially in the matter of raising funds for education and social service movements.
New Carlton Avenue Y. M. C. A Home.
The Carlton avenue branch, Y. M. C. A., has closed the contract for the erection of its new building at a cost of $200,000, including cost of plot and furnishings. The branch will have its headquarters at 907 Fulton street, Brooklyn, during building operations, which were begun on Thursday, May 24.
Fifteenth Regiment First on War Basis
Of the thirteen commands which have reached war basis in New York state the Fifteenth regiment of colored men in the national guard of New York was the first to reach the required standard. Thus again the colored man has shown his loyalty to the country. We congratulate Colonel William Hayward and his men upon their ability to get on the mark first.
Men make circumstances; circum-
stances make duties, and duty is de-
tiny.
"God give us men! A time like this
demands
Strong minds, great hearts, true
faith, and ready hands.
Men whom the lust of office does not
kill;
Men whom the spoils of office can-
not buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will;
Men who have honor, and who will
not lie;
Men who can stand before a demog
ogue
And scorn his treacherous flatteries
without winking.
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live
above the fog
In public duty and in private think-
ing!