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MINNEAPOLIS DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST.PAUL MINN HISTORICAL SOCIETY effective Page VOL. 2 Single Copies 5 Cents Growing Demand For Services of Rev W. S. Smith as Lecturer. W. S. Smith as Lecturer. Jersey City, N. J.-That our people are more and more beginning to appreciate the educational value of lectures on literary, business and other subjects from which they gain general information is one of the encouraging signs of the progress which they are making toward the better and more important things in the body politic. Lectures given in the various Young Men's Christian associations, churches and in the public schools the past winter have had an unusually large hearing. Among the clergy the Rev. W. S. Smith, pastor of the Monumental Baptist church, in this city, has gained wide fame as a lecturer. His favorite subject is "Up the Ladder of Freedom," being a rapid glance at the struggles of the race in this country from 1619 to the present time. Rev. Mr. Smith's work as a lecturer is highly indorsed by prominent ministers and educators. The lecture is illustrated with pictures showing the condition of the race in slavery days and the progress which it has made during forty-seven years of freedom. The services of the lecturer are in great demand by both white and colored people. It gives the former a better idea of what the race has accomplished as free citizens as well as the hardships which the race underwent as slaves. It wins friends for the cause of justice and equality before the law for which the colored people must continue to contend for as long as their rights and privileges are jeopardized by a race discriminating public upon the unreasonable ground of color. Rev. Mr. Smith is a Virginian by birth and is well educated. As a pastor he has done a good work of uplift among his parishioners. Some of his friends have endeavored to induce him to give up lecturing and devote his whole time to the ministry, but he says that he feels called of God to do both. He is a man of great ambition and is as thoughtful as he is ambitious. He is a preacher of known ability and the author of several pamphlets on various subjects. Annual Meeting of Alumni Association. The Rev. Dr. William Maurice Moss, corresponding secretary for the Alumni Association of the Virginia Union university, Richmond, Va., has issued a call for the annual meeting of the association, which will be held at the university on Tuesday, May 14. An effort is being made to reach every alumnus, as the coming meeting of the organization will be one of great importance to every graduate of the schools merged into the present institution. Those who expect to be present are requested to communicate with the corresponding secretary, whose address is 383 Cumberland street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Lynchings Illustrated on Post Cards. Postal cards bearing foreign print which reproduce in horrible detail lynchings in the south are said to be circulating in the United States. According to the description given, one card shows a group of seventy white men and boys standing in a semicircle with the dead body of a colored man in the center of the picture. District Republican Clubs Unite. The colored Republican clubs of the Seventeenth assembly district in Kings county, New York, have united their forces for the purpose of doing effective campaign work in the coming national election. Mr. John H. Smith, long time prominent in Republican politics in the county, was elected executive member. He will represent the wishes of the voters in the councils of the general county committee, of which Mr. Lewis M. Swasey is chief. Higher and Industrial Education. Leaders of thought and action in educational affairs are pretty much agreed that for the successful uplift of the masses of the race both higher and industrial education should be given. The race needs above all else trained leaders in order to reach all classes and conditions. No one line of education should be lauded to the disadvantage of the other. EVENT OF NATION WIDE INTEREST MANY NOTABLES ON PROGRAM Organization Composed of Preminent Men and Women of Both Races Takes Firm Stand Against Lynching—Believes In Equal Justice and Opportunity For Afro-Americans. Chicago.—The fourth annual meeting of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People will be held in this city for two days, beginning on Sunday afternoon, April 28, at which time the exercises will be held in the new Sinai temple. Miss Jane Addams will preside. The speakers for this session of the conference will be Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard of New York and Professor William Pickens. This will be the first time the association has arranged for an annual meeting in the middle west, and as Chicago is easily reached from all sections the management expects a large representation of members, visitors and other persons directly concerned in human welfare. The sessions on Monday and Tuesday will be held in Handel hall. At the afternoon meeting on Monday Mr. Sherman C. Kingly will preside. The speakers will be Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, the eminent scholar, author, editor and lecturer, and Judge E. O. Brown of the appellate court. At the evening sessions Bishop B. T. Lee of Ohio will preside and will speak on "The Rule of the Strong." Miss Julia Lathrop of Hull House will open the discussion following Bishop Lee's speech. I. M. Rubnow of New York, Charles Edward Russell, magazine writer, and Professor Kelly Miller of Washington will be among the speakers. On Tuesday morning reports will be received from the different sections of the country. A reception will be held at Hull House Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Emmons Blaine will preside at the final meeting, which will be devoted to a discussion of "The Negro in the City." Among those on the program are Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, superintendent of schools; Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett, John H. Walker, president of the United Mine Workers of Illinois, and Rev. Ninck Lloyd Jones. In the list of topics for discussion are: "The Negro's Progress During the Year," "Help for the Negro From the Silent South," "The Year's Record of Lynching and Other Manifestations of Mob Law," "Problems of Urban Life," "Segregation of the Negro." "Disfranchisement," "The Kansas City Dynamite Outrage," "The Psychology of Race Prejudice," "Denial of the Negro's Civil Rights in the North." The call for the convention declares its purpose in the following statement: "The purpose of the association, according to the call sent out by its officers, is to 'uplift the colored men and women of this country by securing to them the full enjoyment of their rights as citizens, justice in all the courts, and equality of opportunity everywhere.' The association upholds the doctrine of 'all men up and no man down.' It abhors Negro crime, but still more the conditions which breed crime and most of all the crimes committed by mobs in the mockery of the law or by individuals in the name of the law. It believes that the scientific truths of the Negro problem must be available to uplift the colored man and aid the white man to peace and social content. "Lynchings in the United States during 1911 were many and terrible. The number recorded is seventy-one. eight white and sixty-three colored, but unquestionably not all are reported. Many entirely innocent persons are among the victims. Thus in the lynching at Lake City, Fla., six Negroes were strung up as targets to be riddled with bullets in revenge for the killing of one white man. In Oklahoma, Georgia and Kentucky innocent men have died deaths of torture at the hands of the mobs. Women, too, have been among the victims. As the terrible happenings have occurred the association has written to the governors of the various states demanding the punishment of the criminals. They sent courteous replies, but the end of the year 1911 saw no lyncher punished." Race Wants No Color Line Officials. Just as the colored people protested against the appointment of a man to the supreme court who was known to harbor prejudice against them in the matter of legal and civil rights, in like manner will the voting citizens of the race conduct themselves in the coming national election. EVIDENCES OF PROGRESS. M. B. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., APRIL 27, 1912. UNREST AMONG RACE LEADERS VALUE OF WAR AMENDMENTS Possibility of Endangering the Citizenship of Colored Americans Gives Rise to Nation Wide Inquiry—Note of Warning Against Any Unnecessary Changes in the Organic Law. Washington—The often repeated statements by prominent colored men, as well as by prominent white men, that the Negro should evince more interest in and concern for the many economic questions that are up for discussion and solution instead of sticking so close to the race problem appears to be harkened to if the hundreds of letters pouring in to prominent men of Washington from colored men in every section of the country can be accepted as an interest and concern. These letters bear on the so called initiative, referendum and recall of decisions now widely discussed and agitated from coast to coast. It appears that the colored people of the country, and especially those in the south and close northern states, have suddenly awakened to the fact that such a change might contain a "sieper" that would completely nullify the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the federal constitution as any repeal of them by congress. There is not a single question under discussion today the finality of which does not affect in some measure the colored people. A small question bearing harmless aspects may embody large issues, the adoption of which may mean weal or woe for the race. The referendum is a high sounding word, and because of this fact many of our people may be deceived into the belief that they are beyond its reach. As citizens we sometimes feel that we do not always get the same justice in courts of law and from juries that is meted out to others. But this fact should not argue against the stability of our institutions, which are the product of laws that are permanent and organic. Sentiment Rules Rather Than Law. If the Negro does not always get what is due to him in the courts when the issue is a denial of his civil rights it is not because of the nonexistence of the statute in his favor, but rather because of the existence of a local sentiment which is often substituted for a verdict in his favor. Regardless of these iniquities, the law remains fixed in the statutes, and his psychological moment may eventually come when he and those rights to which he is entitled will be on a par with any other man's rights and justice will be awarded him. But not so if the fixed laws are to be changed by those who have not the interest of the whole people at heart. Suppose in any community a question of denial to the Negro of certain rights was proposed under the recall of decisions. What would happen? A majority of the people, being white and more or less infected with race prejudice, would vote these rights away from him, and all the Negro votes in the country would not be able to stem the tide. Under the Australian ballot system of voting, where secrecy is jealously observed and preserved, this could be done by white men, regardless of party affiliations, who publicly profess friendship for the colored people. Again, suppose a southern state should pass a law disfranchising the Negro, or any northern state, for the matter of that. That disfranchising law would immediately get into the courts, and, on appeal to the supreme court, would be held unconstitutional. Then if the right to recall decisions existed the decision of the court would be taken before the people and by them reversed and the constitutionality of the law confirmed, and the Negro would be out of politics and out of every right vouchsafed by the constitution. There is hardly a state in the south where the entire white vote would not be cast for the disfranchisement of the Negro. To say that the race is much alarmed over the possibility of such a law being enacted is putting it mildly. Brockton's Successful Business Man. One of the most successful dealers in real estate in Brockton, Mass., is Mr. Watt Terry, who owns a long string of houses and store buildings valued at $400,000. When he became a resident of Brockton in 1900 he went to work as a coachman. Smoke the Reliable 5c SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR 5c ETHIOPIANS IN ANCIENT TIMES Book by the Late Edward Wilmot Blyden Gives Many Interesting Facts About the Achievements of the Ancestors of the Colored Race In the United States. In his book entitled "Islam Christianity and the Negro Race" the late Dr Edward Wilmot Blyden delved deeply into both sacred and profane history, showing that Africans were not unknown to the writers of the Bible. Their peculiarities of complexion and hair were as well known to the ancient Greeks and Hebrews as they are to the American people today. And when they spoke of the Ethiopians they meant the ancestors of the people of black skin who for 250 years have been known as laborers on the plantations of the south. It is to these people and to their country that the psalmist refers when he says, "Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hand unto God." Of the hospitality and kindness of Africans he writes: "And this peculiarity of Africans is not a thing known only in modern times. The ancients recognized these qualities and loved to descent upon them. They seemed to regard the fear and love of God as the peculiar gifts of the darker races. In the version of the Chaldean Genesis as given by George Smith the following passage occurs: "The word of the Lord will never fall in the mouth of the dark races whom he has made." Homer and Herodotus have written immoral eulogies of the race. Homer speaks of them as "the blameless Ethiopians" and tells us that it was the Ethiopians alone among mortals whom the gods selected as people fit to be lifted to the social level of the Olympian divinities. "Every year," the poet says, "the whole celestial circle left the summits of Olympus and betook themselves for their holidays to Ethiopia, where in the enjoyment of Ethiopian hospitality they sojourned twelve days. Lucian represents a skeptic, a freethinker, of his day, as saying in his irreverence toward the gods that on certain occasions they do not hear the prayers of mortals in Europe, because they are away across the ocean, perhaps among the Ethiopians, with whom they dine frequently, on their own invitation." It shows the estimate in which the ancients held the Africans, that they selected them as the only fit associates for their gods. The country itself has been called the cradle of civilization, and so it is. The germs of all the sciences and of the two great religions now professed by the most enlightened races were fostered in Africa. Science, in its latest wonders, has nothing to show equal to some of the wonderful things even now to be seen in Africa. On African soil stands that marvelous architectural pile, the great pyramid, which has been the admiration and despair of the world for a hundred generations. Scientific men of the present day, mathematicians, astronomers and divines, regard it as a sort of key to the universe—a symbol of the profoundest truths of science, of religion and of all the past and future history of man. Boydton Institute Alumni Meeting. The twentieth annual meeting of the Boydton (Va.) Institute Alumni association will be held in the chapel of that institution on Tuesday afternoon, April 80, at 2 o'clock. Mr. J. Graham Scott and Mrs. Bessie M. Morton, president and secretary respectively of the association, have sent out invitations to every alumnus whose address they have, urging attendance on this occasion. About 100 students are enrolled at the school this term, and the institution is in good working condition. Independent Political League Busy. The National Independent Political league is busily engaged with important matters pertaining to its next annual meeting, which will perhaps be held earlier this year than usual on account of this being the year for the nomination and election of a president of the United States. President John B. Clifford of Martinsburg, W. Va., will be heard from in no uncertain way as to the men and measures brought before the country for the consideration of voters. The Walters' Union will give a Grand Ball at South Side Auditorium on April 29th and it will be some ball. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWS. 7. 1920 HERBERT P. KELLER REPUBLICAN MAYOR OF ST. PAUL Candidate for Re-Election ELECTION DAY MAY 7th MAYOR HERBERT P. KELLER, WHEN A TWO YEARS AGO, PROMISED THAT IF E WOULD GIVE THE CITY AN ECONOMICA NESS-LIKE ADMINISTRATION; THAT HE DEAVOR TO SEE THAT FOR EACH DOLL ED THE CITY WOULD RECEIVE A DOLL AND THAT IF POSSIBLE HE WOULD REDU RATE OF THE CITY. HE KEPT HIS PROMI THE CITY TAX RATE FOR 1911 IS $20.32 C LLER, WHEN A CANDIDATE ED THAT IF ELECTED HE IN ECONOMICAL AND BUSI- ON; THAT HE WOULD EN- EACH DOLLAR EXPENDE- IVE A DOLLAR IN VALUE, WOULD REDUCE THE TAX EPT HIS PROMISE. R 1911 IS $20.32 ON THE $1,000. MAYOR HERBERT P. KELLER, WHEN A CANDIDATE TWO YEARS AGO, PROMISED THAT IF ELECTED HE WOULD GIVE THE CITY AN ECONOMICAL AND BUSINESS-LIKE ADMINISTRATION; THAT HE WOULD ENDEAVOR TO SEE THAT FOR EACH DOLLAR EXPENDED THE CITY WOULD RECEIVE A DOLLAR IN VALUE, AND THAT IF POSSIBLE HE WOULD REDUCE THE TAX RATE OF THE CITY. HE KEPT HIS PROMISE. THE CITY TAX RATE FOR 1911 IS $20.32 ON THE $1,000. IT WAS $21.06 TO THE $1,000 IN 1910. IT WAS $23.10 TO THE $1,000 IN 1909. IT WAS $22.47 TO THE $1,000 IN 1908. MAYOR KELLER HAS SAVED YOU, THE ER, FROM $1.06 TO $3.10 IN TAXES ON E PROPERTY. DOES THIS INTEREST YOU, MR. TAXPA MAYOR KELLER HAS SUCCEED IN THE TAX RATE FURTHER THIS YEAR. I VALUATION DOES NOT TAKE A SLU M SHOULD INCREASE INSTEAD, THE RATE W ABOVE $19.70 TO THE $1,000, THE LOWEST MANY YEARS. IF YOU WILL GO BACK TO 1909, WHI CHINE WAS IN FULL BLAST BEFORE THE SENTIMENT WHICH SECURED MAYOR ELECTION HAD MADE ITSELF FELT, YOU A CITY TAX RATE OF $23.10 TO THE $1,000. TAX RATE, CITY, STATE AND COUNTY, $32.70 O THE $1,000, AS AGAINST $29.30 FOR STATE TAXES ARE HIGH THIS YEAR, AND HAS NOT BEEN CUT AS FAR AS IT WO BEEN HAD THE STATE BEEN RETRENCH HIS RECORD IS HIS PLATFORM 1,000 IN 1908. AVED YOU, THE TAXPAY-TAXES ON EVERY $1,000 OU, MR. TAXPAYER? UCCEEDED IN CUTTING THIS YEAR. IF ASSESSED KE A SLUMP, AND IT D, THE RATE WILL NOT BE THE LOWEST RATE IN TO 1909, WHEN THE MAT BEFORE THE WAVE OF ED MAYOR KELLER'S ELF FELT, YOU WILL FIND TO THE $1,000. THE TOTAL AND COUNTY, WAS THEN NST $29.30 FOR THIS YEAR. HIS YEAR, AND THE RATE AS IT WOULD HAVE EN RETRENCHING, TOO. HIS PLATFORM IT WAS $22.47 TO THE $1,000 IN 1908. MAYOR KELLER HAS SAVED YOU, THE TAXPAYER, FROM $1.06 TO $3.10 IN TAXES ON EVERY $1,000 PROPERTY. DOES THIS INTEREST YOU, MR. TAXPAYER? MAYOR KELLER HAS SUCCEED IN CUTTING THE TAX RATE FURTHER THIS YEAR. IF ASSESSED VALUATION DOES NOT TAKE A SLUMP, AND IT SHOULD INCREASE INSTEAD, THE RATE WILL NOT BE ABOVE $19.70 TO THE $1,000, THE LOWEST RATE IN MANY YEARS. IF YOU WILL GO BACK TO 1909, WHEN THE MACHINE WAS IN FULL BLAST BEFORE THE WAVE OF SENTIMENT WHICH SECURED MAYOR KELLER'S ELECTION HAD MADE ITSELF FELT, YOU WILL FIND A CITY TAX RATE OF $23.10 TO THE $1,000. THE TOTAL TAX RATE, CITY, STATE AND COUNTY, WAS THEN $32.70 O THE $1,000, AS AGAINST $29.30 FOR THIS YEAR. STATE TAXES ARE HIGH THIS YEAR, AND THE RATE HAS NOT BEEN CUT AS FAR AS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN HAD THE STATE BEEN RETRENCHING, TOO. HIS RECORD IS HIS PLATFORM their tracks both with water and with calcium chloride when the temperature is below freezing. Mayor Keller has insisted on business methods in public office and that a dollar expended should bring a dollar in value to the taxpayer. Mayor Keller has stood for clean city government as opposed to machine politics of every description. Mayor Keller belongs to practically every organization devoted to the upbuilding of the city and has interested himself actively in every work tending to its industrial growth from the river and harbor and union depot project down to the splendid proposition for a new library. On these and other important public matters, Mr. Keller has devoted many hours of time and intelligent labor. Mayor Keller has proven himself a friend of the Negro citizens of St. Paul. HIS PROMISES. KELLER KEEPS HIS PROMISES Mayor Keller has reduced the cost of running the city government from $24.78 per capita in 1910 to $21.91 per capita in 1911. Mayor Keller has furnished the city with the new flaming arc electric lights which give five times as much illumination at no additional cost to the taxpayer. Mayor Keller has stood between the taxpayers and any increase of the bonded debt of the city not vitally and immediately necessary. Mayor Keller has caused reports of outages on street lights to be increased from 20 to as high as 2000 a month and the city gas bills have been reduced accordingly. Mayor Keller has started an investigation of gas and electric rates which promises reductions to every consumer in the city. Mayor Keller has forced the street car company to pay for sprinkling No. 36. MINNEAPOLIS MINNEAPOLIS BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH. 1120 8th St. So. Rev. T. J. Carter, Pastor. St. THOMAS SUNDAY SCHOOL. The Sunday School of St. Thomas Episcopal Church will be held every Sunday at 11 A., M. All are invited to attend. Mrs. R. A. Van Hook, the superintendent, wishes to enroll with this class many of the children who have never attended a Sunday School. Parents should interest their children in this work. ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH. ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH. Rev. Edwards will preach a special sermon at St. James A. M. E. church on April 28th at 8 P. M. Subj. "Spiritualism and Hoodoolism." All are cordially invited to attend. Special music by the Choir. Miss Lina Smith has been refused admission as a student at two Business Colleges in our city. She made a public statement to this effect at the Sunday Forum. The pastors of several churches are arranging to entertain the Negro delegates to the Methodist Conference, which meets next month. CONFIRMATION AT ST. THOMAS. Bishop Edsall will confirm a class at St. Thomas Episcopal church on May 1st, at 8 P. M. All are invited to attend. The Negro Independent Progressive Club of Hennepin County is a purely political organization. Prof. Emery J. Caln was in town soliciting funds for the Caln Industrial Home at Indianapolis, Ind. He says that he had met no encouragement along his line. FORUM MEETING The Minneapolis Sunday Forum met last Sunday at Bethesda Baptist church. The following program was rendered. Opening Hymn, Prayer by Chaplain, Quotations, Report of Committees. The Current Events by Jasper Gibbs, Jr., were very instructive, Reading from Dunbar, Pres. B. F. Bullock, Piano solo, Miss Ida Grey, Reading.-Save the other man, Miss L. O. Smith. Vocal solo, Mr. Wilbur Nevens. Remarks Mr. E. J. Cain. Attorney W. R. Morris stated that the visiting Justices of the Supreme Court had left the city, and expressed their regrets. Next meeting at St. Peter's A. M. E. church first Sunday in May. Mrs. Richard Newton, 700 Oak Lake Ave., who suffered a paralytic stroke last October, will leave on April 30th for her home, Topeka, Kan. Her sister, Mrs. Della Hubbard, who has been attending her, will accompany her. Mrs. Newton is rapidly improving under electrical treatment. Her recovery of the use of her limbs was a surprise. She will reside with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. H. Grever have moved to 2819 Columbus Ave. Mrs. Alleen Martin returned last week from Palm Beach, Fla., where she spent the winter. WAITERS BALL, APRIL 29TH SOUTH SIDE AUDITORIUM. Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Martin are home after an extended stay at the Head of the Lakes. READ THE STAR-IT'S NEWS. The funeral of Mrs. Mary L. Bell who died at her residence, 1319¹⁴ 4th St. So on Tuesday was held at Lawnces' Chapel on Thursday. Rev. T. J. Carter officiated. One of the infant children of Mrs. Catherine Cannon Copes died this week. Funeral was held at her residence. Mr. and Mrs. Thos Donaldson are residing at 1907 4th Ave. So. DON'T FORGET THE DANCING PARTY AT SOUTH SIDE AUDIORIUM BY THE HOTEL WAITERS. IT IS THEIR INTRODUCTION TO THE PUBLIC, AND ABOUT 400 ARE EXPECTED TO ATTEND. McCULLough'S FULL ORCHESTRA WILL PLAY. ADMISSION 35 CENTS. REMEMBER THE DATE, APRIL 29TH, UNTIL 4 A.M. All copy not inserted will be returned upon receipt of sender's address and postage. Don't forget that we want all news sent to 1419 Wash. Ave. So., Minneapolis. We BEG that those who send notes will Write Facts Plainly—on One Side of the Paper—Leave a Space between each Item, and Use Common Sense. This is very important. Mr. J. E. Carter, formerly of Des Moines, and recently of Tyler Bros. Shop in Minneapolis, has taken charge of Fullers Barber Shop at 126 E. 8th St. St. Paul, Minn. WEDDING NOTICES, CARDS OF THANKS, FUNERAL NOTICES, are inserted only at 50c per inch, when paid for in advance. LABOR FORWARD MOVEMENT. UNION SPEAKERS APPRECIATED. A meeting was held at Bethesda Baptist church last Sunday evening under the auspices of the Labor Forward Movement. Mr. Geo W. Holbert of the Colored Culinary Warkers Local No. 634 introduced the speakers. The Choir, under the direction of Mrs. Ella Wheaton, rendered splendid music. Mrs. Kate M. Smith sang a solo, Mr. W. M. Smith spoke on "Organization. Mr. J. D. Chubbuck, Northwestern Organizer, made an excellent address on "Unionism," and Mr. Thos. B. Jones favored his hearers with a baritone solo. Rev. Carter said he was pleased to have heard such an excellent program, and all who attended felt that they were enlightened as to the aims and objects of Unionism and its results. Similar meetings were held in many of the white churches in the Twin Cities. Mr. W. W. Ulmer was Chairman of the Committee on Arrangements. Mr. Chubbuch expressed himself as being pleased to have met such an appreciative audience. Mr. Ives, organizer of the Laundry Workers was present. The attendance was small, on account of many waiters being employed where they could not be dispensed with. LARGEST SHIP AFLOAT. The Imperator, being built at Hamburg, will be three city blocks in length, and will be completed in 1913. There are nine decks above the water line. She is to have ancient roman plunge baths, in gold and ivory, a tennis court, roof garden, squash court, gymnasium, rathskeller, theater, moving picture show, and buffet service in the style of four countries. In her offerings she will miss the best, if she does not serve golden grain belt beers, which are liked by Americans because of their taste, which is shared by no other brew. Mr. F. Peoples, the contractor, is completing work for Miss L. O. Smith and Mr. Chas. H. Robinson at theor residences. Special Sunday Dinner 35c. St. Louis Kitchen, St. Paul. Rev. W. S. Malone has no official connection with the committee, who will locate the Negro Delegates to the Methodist Conference here in May 18. We publish this by authority of Mr. F. O. Gold, 217 Palace Bldg., Minneapolis, who has charge of these accommodations. Atty. McGhee informed on Rev. Malone, and offered to locate the delegates in St. Paul. Dr. Brown answered the letter, and Mr. McGhee will hereafter consult leading citizens before condemning conditions. POLITICAL MEETING. Negro Independent Progressive Club. K. P. Hall, 211 Hennepin Ave., Sunday afternoon, 3 P. M. All voters are invited. Special business. The funeral of Leslie Moore, 703 Girard Ave. No., was held at St. Peters church on Monday afternoon. Rev. Lewis officiated. His widow, Mrs. Mary Moore, 2 brothers and a sister are left to mourn his loss. MRS. POPE AND MRS. PLUMMER IN CONNECTION WITH THE FORAKER RESTAURANT WILL FURNISH YOU WITH A FULL LINE OF STRICTLY HOME BAKERY AND DELICATESEEN GOODS AT 511 4TH AVENUE SOUTH. Dickerson has announced that he has put on his "Special Spring Service." Cholest American and Chinese Dishes. Wait for this Grand MAY DAY PROMENADE, AT DEARBORN HALL, MAY 1ST. Under the auspices of the Executive Board of the Federated Women's Clubs, Mrs. Ire Sellars, Chairman. MCCULIA GUICHOR, ORCHESTRA McCULLOUGH'S ORCHESTRA. MUSIC EVERY EVENING. DICKERSON'S 208 HENNEPIN AVE. Now is the time, Dickersons, the Place and you have the Girl. Everything delightful, service, culine, and appointments. Music every evening. If news is not sent to us, we are unable to get it. We do not call to get news. We call to collect your indebtedness to us. The Royal Club Dancing Class will hold its weekly Class every Thursday night at Arcade Hall, 1311 Washington Ave. So. Many notes were received this week too late for insertion. You must pay for use of these columns, if you send your news later than Wednesday. Subscribe to the Star. Everybody's News—Everybody's Paper. We cannot give space gratis for weddings etc. Personal advertisements are paid for in advance when they appear in these columns. TWIN CITY STAR ST. PAUL We beg that those who are indebted to us, send us their 'subscription by P. O. Order. The Zion African Presbyterian church, Rev. E. W. Gilles, Pastor, has moved to 458 West Ave. St. Paul. MISS CATHERINE D. LEALTAD. ST. PAUL GIRL WINS SCHOLARSHIP. Hamline University has presented Miss Catherine Lealtad with a scholarship for one year. Miss Lealtad receives this honor for having attained the first rank among young women in the class of 1912 at Mechanics Arts High School. MR. AND MRS. F. D. PARKERS MUSICALE. Communicated to the Star. The musical given by Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Parker at their residence, 639 West Central Ave., for the visiting strangers in the Twin Cities, was a very fine affair, the "creme de la creme" of the Twin Cities was present, the ladies were beautifully gowned, and the gentlemen in full dress, the refreshments bountious and grand. The programe was artistically arranged. Mr. S. Edward Hall acted as master of ceremonies, the various numbers were finely rendered. Prof. Weir, Miss Mae Williams, and Miss Ida Grey, Minneapolis Plano solos; Madames B. C. Archer, W. T. Francis, Mamie Anderson, Gertrude Barbour, Hattie Lounge, Oliver and J. Edgar Murphy, soloists; Mr. and Mrs. Lyles. Duett. Miss Lena O, Smith, Minneapolis, covered herself with glory in How will the Negro be represented should Bremer win? Most Negroes are wise to the situation, and that's why they will vote for Keller, the decitations she rendered. Although Judges Huston and Davis are compelled to leave the city that evening they graced the occasion before leaving. Mr. and Mrs. Parker was most happy in introducing Dr. and Mrs. Redd, Miss Redd and Miss Moore, Mrs. Redd's sister, of Greenboro, N. C., also Mr. and Mrs. Tandy of Chicago to their many friends. Mrs. Parker was assisted in receiving her friends by Madames B. S. Smith, Jenne Watson of Minneapolis, Mrs. W. T. Francis, Lula Chapman, T. H. Lyles, J. E. Johnson, C. E. Booker, J. H. Dillingham and others. The spacious parlers were tastefully and beautifully decorated. Miss Clara Howard with the able assistance of Miss Pettis and Miss Gillard won the plaudits of all by the bountious manner with which they filled the longing taste. The frappe was grand. All departed at a late hour voting the evening pleasantly spent. The Missionary Society of Zion Presbyterian Church will meet Sunday at 8 P. M. Good program. Mr. Frank Wright died Sunday. April 21st at 6 P. M. at the City hospital. Funeral Thursday, April 25, service at the house on Thomas St. 1:45 P. M., at St. Phillips church on Aurora Ave., 2:45 P. M. Miss Florence Drake of Stillwater spent Sunday in the city. Mrs. Jessie Lucas will soon be off the sick list. Mr. Chas. Lazzenbury is quite ill at his residence. Mrs. O. D.-Howard, who sprained her hlp, is improving. GO TO A FIRST CLASS BARBER in a first class Shop and get first class work. See J. E. Carter at 126 E. 8th St. St. Paul. How do you like the star? Reliable, live, honest, hustling agents for the Twin City Star. You can make a good living with this work as a side line. Agents wanted in Milwaukee, Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City, Portland, Ore., Seattle, Denver, Des Moines and Sloux City. Write for terms to The Twin City Star, Minneapolis, Minn. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWS. --- WANTED. There will be a "Home Coming" at St. Phillips Episcopal church, St. Paul, on May 6th. All members and friends are expected to attend this special event. Excellent programme. Mr. Jas. Edwards was buried last Monday. He was 90 years old and had been employed 40 years at the Post Office. Funeral arrangements were made by postal employees. He died at the City hospital. Services from St. Joseph's Catholic church. We failed to mention that Mrs. Jno. H. Dillingham was one of the Committee of Arrangements at the Odd Fellows Reception, which was held last week. Mrs. Dillingham is a member of the Household of Ruth and was one of the most active members of that committee. She was in a great measure responsible for the success of that affair. The Star regrets this failure on its part to give mention to one justly entitled to such honor. The Union Waiters of the Twin Cities will give a dance at South Side Auditorium, Minneapolis on April 29th. A large crowd from St. Paul will attend. Mrs. John Dillingham entertained the One More Effort Club on last Tuesday evening. The Excelsior Club of St. James church tendered a farewell testimonial to its late president, Mrs. S. E. Anderson, who is to take up her new residence in Indianapolis. Mr. M. A. Bolling, who has been very ill, is rapidly improving. St. James A. M. E. church will give a May Feast in the Lecture Room of the church. MAYOR HERBERT P. KELLER, Candidate for Re-Election. A Record of Accomplishment. Quarterly meeting last Sunday at St. James. Pres. Elder E. G. Jackson was in attendance. Mr. Henry Shaw, the popular mixer at Reid and Hirshfield's has nearly recovered his former health. This is gratifying news to his many friends. Mr. Alex. Tucker has been confined to his hame under medical attention for bronchitis, since his return from Hot Springs, where he spent a month. Mr. Geo. Todd arranged a political meeting at the Culture Club, which was a grand success. Mayor Keller made an address. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWS. The Guide, Editor Morgan, is after the weekly papers, The Star and The Appeal, and he offers to furnish news at a nominal sum. Well, The Star accepts. We would have "Hustling Tommy" any day as a reporter. He had the chance to scoop for the Star Could have done better than ... give his columns to political schemes,—boost everybody for nothing, and publish "who came to the office"—who likes the Guide". The Editor of the Star has always complimented the Appeal and the Guide, and his relations with Mr. Adams are very pleasant Mr. Morgan has been exceptionally kind to both. He has a nice paper from which we gather some brief—very brief items. It is small and yellow, but a convenience. We sometimes clip it when we are short on copy, as we would any other newspaper and when—when those scattered editorials appear in the Star, we give due credit. Hustle on, Tom, but cut your copy yourself. Watch those contributing Editors. The Twin City Star Cost less than any other local Negro paper. Then, spend your money as you like. Each issue speaks for its self. PROFESSOR INMAN E. PAGE AS EDUCATOR. Professor Inman E. Page, whose official connection with the University For Colored Youths at Langston, Okla., extends over thirteen years, is one of the best known educators of the race. Mr. Page is a graduate of Brown university, Providence, R. I. He was for many years president of Lincoln institute, Jefferson City, Mo. The school at Langston owned no property when Professor Page took charge, but under his able management it now has a property valuation of hundreds of thousands and a government endowment plot worth over $100,000. The enrollment of students for the year 1910-11 was 673. We claim to be the best advertising medium of the Twin Cities, and when you're not advertised in the Twin City Star, you need not show--that's all. Because the people read the Star for the news, especially in Minnesota. The day of the Town Crier is past. Be up-to-date, Advertise and Pay for it. A newspaper is the best medium. It reaches the homes and firesides of people who attend public entertainments. These people never go out and loiter around and read hand-bills and hang-up notices. They read the Twin City Star. A SPECIAL PUBLIC MEETING. of all Negro voters of Hennepin County will be held at Knights of Pythias Hall on April 28, at 2:30 P. M. under the auspices of the Negro Independent Progressive Club. All are invited to attend. By order of S. C. PHILLIPS, PRES., W. H. H. FRANKLIN, SEC'Y. MEMBERSHIP INCREASING Membership cards are being daily received by Atty. W. H. H. Franklin, Secretary of the Negro Independents. Active interest is being taken in the organization by many prospective candidates. Pres. Schuyler Phillips says that they realize that the Negro votes is a great factor, and the voters expect to support men, who are disposed to deal with the Negro as a man and a citizen. Many of the supposed sulwart Republicans have declared that the Negro Independent Progressive Club recently formed is for the purpose of graft. It is needless to give much comment but necessary to say that those party bound leaders have always been Dependent, and have made no Progress, and not having fairly divided the spoils, we may say have lived on Graft. The object of the members of the Negro Independent Progressive Club is directly opposite, hence it derived its name. They expect to deal fairly with all candidates in Local and National issues. They propose to eliminate present conditions, and have broken party lines to do so. The prospective candidates who know the value of the Negro vote are willing to consider this organization. The time is near when a Negro with an endorsement of a club of voters, can demand a position in Hennepin County or the State. Heretofore recommendations from our Republican leaders have been a monetary consideration, and so many applicants have been named for a single position that the result was that the party received every man's individual effort and no one secured the position. This new organization has received among its members many, who believe in a new order of things, we may say a Revolution, and to bring about these changes we have declared our Independence. When these Negro voters of HENNEPIN CO., are given recognition in State and National positions, by either individual or party then they as a unit will declare their allegiance to that individual or party, which serves them best. Independence first and allegiance afterwards. In the onward march of science men have learned that the dewdrop is a tiny ocean, that solidity of matter is obtained by moving particles so closely knit that the human eye seeks space in vain. These silent forces speak wonders of the glowing possibilities of man in ORGANIZED function. A FREE FIELD AND NO FAVOR. They have had a political meeting in the rooms of the Culture. Club in the interest of Mayor Keller. We were surprised to know that this Club was politically destined. Probably the Democratic, Socialist, and Prohibition candidates will be accorded this privilege, or we fear the hand of "Nemesis." Editor Julius F. Taylor of the Chicago Broadax, has been appointed by Gov. Dineen as a Delegate to the National Negro Congress, at St. Paul. THE GRAND MAY PROMENADE, Wednesday Eve., May First. DEARBORN HALL, 45 SO. 4TH ST. McCullough's Music, Admission 35c. INFORMATION. It costs no more to send your subscription by P. O. order. Get an order for the amount (less cost of order and postage) and send it to the Twin City Star. You will have a receipt, and time will be saved. Negroes lose more time than any other race on account of their failure to take ad- When we receive your postoffice order, we will send your paper. Our terms are cash in advance. All subscriptions are invariably due in advance. No subscription taken for a less period than three months. Will Attend Coming Congress WIN AKEA CALLING Congress. Rev. J. R. White has received from many prominent Negroes of national reputation their acceptance of an invitation to attend the Negro Congress this summer. R. L. MCCHERN 207 Nicelet TWIN CITY RAZORS full hollow ground, guaranteed, $1.85 each. A full line of Table Cutter, Cutlery, Manlure Sinks and Tools Cutlery grinding. SYLVESTER W. OLIVER. Working Men's Social Club OLIVER BROS., Managers PHONE: Nicollet 9506 206 So. Second St. Minneapolis, Minn. YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THE ROYAL DANCING CLUB ARCade HALL 1311 Washington Ave. So. EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT. TYLER'S ORCHESTRA. Miss Brightle Lowe, Piano; Chas. Minor, Cornet; Jas. Collins, Cello; John W. Tyler, Traps and Drums. Refreshments. Admission 25c. Newest Dances Will be Featured. DANCING 9 P. M. TO 2:30 A. M. Shirley Reddixx, President, Jno. W. Tyler, Secretary. A GOOD HAIR-CUT AND SHAVE. WHERE CAN I GET IT? GO TO THE TYLER BROS. N. W. Phone, Main 9341. Barber Shop and Pool Room JOHN W. TYLER, Manager. 725 WASHINGTON AVE. SOUTH. POOL 2½c PER CUE. BILLIARDS 15c. The best pool-room in the city. Thos. H. Lyles 322 Wabasha St., St. Paul. Undertaker and Embalmer Lady Assistant When Desired. Free Service of Chapel and Organ Residence, 673 St. Anthony Ave. Tel.: Dale 2947. Calls answered Day or Night IN MINNEPOLIS OR ST. PAUL Both Phones 508. PAEGEL 802 NICOLLET AVE. WILL MAKE YOUR WATCH KEEP TIME. We do the best WATCH, CLOCK and JEWELRY REPAIRING in the city at lowest prices. SPECIAL AGENTS for the HAM- ILTON, ELGIN, WALTHAM and ROCKFORD RAILROAD WATCHES. SMOKE THE BEST Sight Draft 5C CIGAR W. S CONRAD CO., Distributors 8 NORTH SIXTH STREET Peterson, The Druggist 1501 Washington Ave. So. TOILET ARTICLES, DRUGS, PRESCRIPTIONS. He Solicits Your Patronage. Southern Theatre SevenCorners 15th and Washington Avenues So. Refined Vaudeville Moving Picture Shows Continuous Performance Admission 10 Cents Children 5 Cents POPULAR PRICED SHOE REPAIRING WE FIX 'EM WHILE YOU WANT Men's Sewed Soils, .....75e Ladles " " " .....65e Men's Nailed " " .....50 and 60e Rubber Heels, " " .....40e Ladies and Boys' nailed soils .....40e SEVEN CORNERS SHOE REPAIR SHOP 1424 WASHINGTON AVENUE SOUTH Defective Page Defective Page On Account of a Recent Decision of the Supreme Court. SEVERAL BILLS INTRODUCED. National Board of Trade Is Opposed to Congress Action — Roddenbery of Georgia Is Against Granting Pensions to Spanish War Soldiers—Fish Stations Project. By ARTHUR W. DUNN. Washington. April 26.—[Special.] Patent legislation is quite likely to pass this congress on account of the supreme court decision which gave a patentee not only the rights in his patent, but authority to compel users of his machine to use only such materials in connection with it as he approved. This decision caused a storm of protest at the time, and the result has been the introduction of several bills on the subject of patents. The national board of trade has protested against changing the law on this subject, saying that changes in the patent laws may work great loss. There is a possibility that patent law changes may be encouraged by developments during the consideration of the postoffice appropriation bill, when it was shown that patentees of canceling machinery literally held up the government by compelling it to pay a yearly rental on the machines almost equal to the value of the machines. It would not be surprising to see an amendment pass which will compel patentees to sell machines rather than continue ownership and exact exorbitant royalties and rentals. Fish Stations Favored. Not long ago a lot of bills were passed in the senate providing for fish cultural stations in different states. The vigilant Luke Lea of Tennessee and his side partner, Kenyon of Iowa, who created such a disturbance when they held up public buildings not long ago, did not seem to be on hand to stop this fish cultural station expenditure which amaches of "pork." although it relates to fish. A fish cultural station—in fact, more than one—is a particular perquisite of senators. Comparing the Colonels. Congressman Roddenbery of Georgia, opposing pensions for Spanish war soldiers, said it was not much of a war. "It was no war," he declared. "It was barely a skirmish. Why, even the president enjoyed the holiday as did the great ex-president, the would be president, the thrice time candidate for president. The rough riders rushed up San Juan hill and then to the White House." "Do you include William Jennings Bryan in that?" asked Murdock of Kansas. "William Jennings Bryan was just as patriotic, but not quite as persevering," parried Roddenbery. "Nor quite so successful," interjected Young of Kansas. "Not quite so successful," admitted the Georgia man. "The ex-president not only beat Bryan to the war, but he grabbed up all of Bryan's political paraphernalia, all of his progressive accouterments, his ammunition, his doctrines, his bombshells and explosives, and marched up before the American people, leaving Bryan standing on Gibraltar alone, and with the acclaim of thousands was inducted into the position of commander in chief of all the armies of the United States, and we hailed him president." "Worse Than Cannon." These Democrats are going to make Uncle Joe Cannon quite a shining light if they don't look out. Whenever the caucus screws are pressed down hard or the "gag" rule, is applied ruthlessly there are a lot of Democrats who scream that the methods are worse than any used by Uncle Joe in his palestinied days of "czarism." Cannon may be vindicated before this congress adjourn. The Cameron Control. Political students pointed out after the Pennsylvania primaries that for the first time in sixty years the old Cameron control of the Republican party in Pennsylvania has been broken. Always has the dynasty of Cameron, Quay and Penrose controlled the party and more particularly the delegations to the national conventions. Always have they named the United States senators and most of the members of congress. Don Cameron Still Lives. The second Cameron, J. Donald, who for eightteen years was one of the Pennsylvania senators, retiring voluntarily, has lived to see his successor become a senate leader. He still takes a keen though not active interest in politics. In his later years in politics Cameron left everything to Quay, and gradually Quay gave up power to Penrose. Far West Adjectives. On a bill of small importance Congressman Warburton of Washington indulged in western extravagance of words. Speaking of a small tract of land involved in the legislation, he said in a dozen lines that it would become for the school fund of his state a "great asset," a "spendlid asset" and an "enormous asset," and finally that at some time it would be sold for a "great big sum." NEW ENTERPRISE ON FIRM BASIS Operation of Cotton Mill In Texas Proves Successful. READY MARKETS FOR PRODUCTS The Manufacture of Cotton Fabrics by the Promoters of the Mill City Concern Is Evidence of the Steady Advance Which the Race Is Making In the Business World. By N. BARNETT DODSON Mill City, Tex. - Education unused and unemployed is an economic waste. Natural advantages neglected or left undeveloped either in business or other commercial pursuits are charged up by the thinking world against people so overlooking and neglecting them. It is necessary that we plan for and conduct our daily business affairs with these stubborn facts in mind. The American Negro is the largest producer of cotton in the world. Good business methods impel him to so provide for its manufacture and sale as to obtain the best values for himself and those directly or indirectly concerned. Cotton manufacture is one of the standard industries of the world. In England, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan and China, as well as in Mexico, Canada and the United States, several millions of people are employed in its production. The American Negro is the producer of fully 90 per cent of all their supply of cotton. He sells it at a few cents a pound in the bale and buys back his needs of manufactured cotton supplies at dollars per pound. While one half the colored population of the south are producing cotton on the farms the other half are only partially employed about the towns and cities. Sound economic policy requires that cotton manufacture move forward side by side with the growth and production of the farm on the farm. In the fall of 1908 twenty-five acres of land situated in the suburbs of Dallas were purchased and allotted into what is known as Mill City addition to Dallas, Tex., at a cost of $10,000. One-third of THE WAREHOUSE SPINNING BOOM TIEER. the tract was set apart as the factory reservation, wherein the erection of factories was to be encouraged and by their operation give employment to the people. Twenty-five homes have been built, valued at more than $30,000. Capacity of Mop and Twine Factory. The first manufacturing plant to be erected was the Mill City mop and twine factory, a complete spinning mill of 2,000 spindles, with a full equipment of twisting and winding machinery, valued at $35,000, with a first mortgage bond issue of $15,000. This plant was operated successfully during the past year, giving employment to forty operatives and finding a ready market for all its product in twine and mops, having more than sixty wholesale and jobbing houses in its list of customers. The erection of all buildings, including both the homes and the mill, was done by the citizens of Mill City. They are the complete masters of every detail of the construction of the building and the operation of the machinery. The cotton mill of today is a business organization capable of employing many hundred persons, creating innumerable positions of responsibility and trust, also permitting the development of a high degree of scientific knowledge and skill on the part of the progressive operative. There is among the colored people ample talent, suited and educated fully up to all these requirements. The lines along which this development has progressed provide not only for the factory itself, but also for creating a model social settlement around the plant in which the operatives can purchase their own homes. All the houses are being planned and built in good, neat style with large and well ventilated rooms. These homes are neatly finished after the best standards. The town lies about half a mile east of Dallas within switching distance of two railroads, the Texas and Pacific railroad being north of it and the Texas and New Orleans on the south. Scope and Worth of the Main Factory. The main factory, known as the Mill City cotton mill, is now being erected and the machinery installed. The building will contain 35,000 square feet of floor space, and the equipment, all of which has been purchased, consists of 5,000 spinning spindles, 200 looms, complete bleachery and dye works, also complete equipment for a machine and repair shop. This plant will give NEW POST REG No Sunday Open Delivery After MANN BROUGHT Question of Sunday Small Towns Enter 1930 WINDING ROOM SECTION. employment to more than 400 operatives when run at full productive capacity. Estimated value when completed. $100,000. Household necessities, such as cotton rugs of many varie ties and sizes, including art squares up to nine feet in width, also counter panes, bedspreads, table covers, towel ing, etc. will be manufactured. The central idea running through and directing all actions in Mill City is the making and distributing by colored persons of such useful and artistic products of splendle and loom as will bring out the maximum productive ability of the race. This will develop a strong pride in the ability, thrift and efficiency of the workers and give encouragement to the promoters. It is the pioneer effort in the development of a standard industry that will point the way for broader usefulness. The plan of financing the development of Mill City and its factories is simple. It rests on the holdings and personal worth of the management as its basis, with their personal guarantee and endorsement behind each of the securities issued. By careful purchasing methods and using extreme economy in the management of its affairs the first mortgage interest paying obligations have been held within 50 percent of the values behind them. Miss Jones an Honor Pupil at Ithaca At the third public recital of the advanced students of the ithaca (N. Y.) Conservatory of Music recently held Miss Clarice Jones, daughter of Attorney Thomas L. Jones of Washington, was given the honors of the evening by her finished knowledge of the critical works of the old masters, which were used on this occasion. How the Recall of Decisions Works. Disrespect for law and order breeds crime of the most violent nature. Think of a person pronounced by a civil court as being innocent of the crime charged against him being lynched by a mob because it did not agree with the decision of the court. If this is the way the recall of decisions is to be operated American jurisprudence is far on the way to chaos and ruin. An instance of this kind recently happened in a southern city. Miss Carrie H. Bundick's Stage Work. Miss Carrie H. Bundick of Indianapolis, Ind., a dramatic performer of note, is filling engagements in St. Petersburg in a vaudeville show as Mme. Jadaha in the "Dancing Girl." Miss Bundick received her education for the stage in Chicago. She went to Europe about eight years ago. The Benefit of Summer Schools The custom of holding summer normals at the various institutions for higher learning is becoming more general. It gives teachers an opportunity to perfect themselves in those branches which they desire to know more about and also brings them in direct contact with the more advance methods of imparting instruction. It is well to hold such summer schools, and even a larger number of them would no doubt receive full patronage. Plans For Sunday School Convention. The New England Baptist Sunday school convention will hold its next annual meeting in the Sunday school of the Monumental Baptist church in West Philadelphia, Pa., for two days, beginning on Tuesday, June 11. Each school or Young People's union is entitled to two delegates. The general officers of the convention are busily engaged with important matters pertaining to the program and other features for the entertainment and instruction of delegates. One of the extra features will be a visit to the Downingtown Agricultural and industrial school at Downingtown, Pa. --- No Sunday Openings For Mail Delivery After July 1. MANN BROUGHT CHANGE ABOUT Question of Sunday Newspapers For Small Towns Entered Into the Discussion—Senator Dixon Gets the "Cold Shoulder" No Longer—A Few Words as to "Dark-Horses." By ARTHUR W. DUNN. Washington, April 25.—[Special.]—No more Sunday postoffice openings for the delivery of mail will be the rule after July 1 according to an amendment which Congressman Mann had inserted in the postoffice appropriation bill. This was not accomplished until there had been some discussion of the question, which hinged mainly on the proposition of delivering Sunday newspapers to towns and small places in the rural districts through the postoffice. But the proposition was agreed to with such little opposition that it will no doubt stay in the bill. Mann accomplished the result in rather an ingenious manner. He made his amendment reduce an appropriation of more than $37,000,000 by $250, thus coming within the Holman rule, which the Democrats have adopted as a means of reducing expenditures, and incorporating the important Sunday legislation. Sunday and the Papers. Congressman Fowler of Illinois, who lives in a rural district, tried to provide for opening the postoffices on Sunday for one hour, but failed. He argued that the city people received their papers Sunday by carrier, but the country people could get them only through the mails. Congressman Mondell of Wyoming wanted more liberal conditions regarding the delivery of Sunday papers. "Why don't you force them to publish a Sunday paper in your town?" asked Mann. "I wish somebody would deprive me from ever seeing a Sunday newspaper," declared the Illinois leader with great fervor. "We'll put in an amendment to that effect." Interjected Butler of Pennsylvania Recognized Him. It is the fashion in the senate to "cold shoulder" any member of that body whose course is not approved. That was the method adopted toward Senator Joe Dixon when he took up the management of the Roosevelt campaign. The treatment continued until after the results in Illinois and Pennsylvania. Then there was a decided change. Dixon was quite warmly welcomed in the senate. Of course the progressives had been friendly all the time, but after Dixon seemed to have the best of things he was treated better. The old regulars seemed to think the young man was worth notice, and he was recognized as somebody worth while. Was there a lurking suspicion in the minds of those senators that the time might come when that man Dixon would be mighty handy as a go-between for those wanting favors at the White House? Agreed With Heyburn. Senator Bristow was trying to get consideration for a bill for presidential primaries in the District of Columbia. Senator Heyburn objected, saying: "I object to carrying further the wreckage, disorder and disturbance that have been caused by direct primary elections in the United States." "I agree with Heyburn perfectly," remarked a Taft press agent in the gallery who has a keen sense of humor. Speaking of Dark Horses Speaking or Dark Horse. If the Iowa delegation was united behind Senator Cummins he would be in a very good position as a dark horse possibility in the present Republican situation. There are many regulars who would prefer Cummins to either La Follette or Rooseveit, and the progressives could not complain about such a candidate. However, the whole idea of the Rooseveit campaign seems to be that he is the one Republican who can win. For years Iowa always went to national conventions with a candidate. Allison was the man. "Let us sweep this Allison dead wood out of the way," was the brisk remark of Steve Elkins, who was always on hand for Blaine. And that was easy, for "Ret" Clarkson was there in charge of the Iowa Allison boom—and always for Blaine. Underwood If— Oscar Underwood will be speaker if Champ Clark is made president. "If" Underwood should become speaker would he still take up questions devolving upon the floor leader? He can't resist doing so when he is speaker pro tem., a place Clark gives him quite frequently. When something is up affecting the procedure and business of the house Underwood speaks up and takes a hand just as if he was on the floor as leader. Uncle Joe Not "Father." Although having the longest record of any man as a member of the house, Umpire Joe Cannon will not be "father of the house" even after John Dalzell retires a year hence. Having failed to be elected to the Fifty-second cogress, the Illinois man lacks continuous service, and the "father" business will fall to Sereno E. Payne. LADIES LOOK! Every lady can have a beautiful and luxurious head of hair if she uses a MAGIC. After a shampoo or bath the ladies lift the hair, removing the dandruff; and it will straighten the hair, because the comb is never heated. The Magic will not burn or injure the hair, because the comb is never heated. The steel heating pad of the Shampoo Hair is, alone, put into the flame of the alcohol or gas heater. The Alcohol Hair is heated, after the bar is heated the comb goes back into place and is held by a turn of the handle. The Magic Heater is also suitable for curling irons, has a cover and can be carried in a hand. Magic Alcohol Hair $10.00. Magic Alcohol Hair $5.50. Liberal terms to agents. Write for Literature today. ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL SCHURCH 5th Ave. So. and 27th St. Minn. Rev A. H. Leatad, Rector. Service at 8 o'clock P. M. All are invited. Come. ST. PETERS A. M. E. CHURCH, 22d St. between 8th and 10th Ave. and services every Sunday 10:30 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Sunday school at 12:30. Rev F. M. Lewis, Pastor. ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH, 115 Eighth Ave. So. Sunday services at 11 a.m. Sunday school at 1 p.m. Rev. E. R. Edwards, Pastor. BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH, 1120 Eighth Ave. So. Preschool every Sunday morning and evening. Rev T. Carter, Pastor. BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH, 1120 Eighth Ave. So. Preschool every Sunday morning and evening. Rev T. Carter, Pastor. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH, 6th Avenue N. and S. Services morning and evening each Sunday. Rev M. W. Withers, Pastor. ST. PAUL. St. James A. M. E. Church, Rev H. P. Jones, Pastor, Cor. Jay and Fuller. Sts. All are welcome. ZION PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 458 WESTERN AVE. ST. PAUL. Rev. E. W. Gilles, Temporary Pastor IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE. WESTERN UNIVERSITY SUMMER SCHOOL Instruction in Special Branches. Western University, Quindaro, Kansas, is to operate a Summer School, this summer beginning June 10th, just after Comencement, and running six weeks, or until July 19th. The Industries, Manual Training, Pedagogy, Psychology and a Special Course in Instrumental and Public School Music will be given by a selected Faculty. Special lecturers like Dr. L. B. Moore, of Howard University and Prof. G. N. Grisham, of Kansas City, will be heard from time to time. The indications are that the attendance will be large from Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Nebraska, Iowa and adjoining states. The location of Western University is one surpassing beauty, and President Kealing proposes to look after the Social as well as the Scholastic features of the Session. POLITICS IN ARKANSAS. State and County Leagues Organized to Flight "Grandfather Clause." The fight for political freedom from the proposed disfranchising amendment No. 11 to the constitution of Arkansas which is to be submitted to the voters of the state next fall, is on in full in so far as the colored citizens are concerned. The amendment in question embodies the "grandfather clause," having for its aim the disfranchisement of the colored men of voting age. The fight is being vigorously carried on by Lawyer Sculp A. Jones of Little Rock and other able leaders of the race throughout the state. among whom are George H. Moore, Dr. J. P. Robinson and T. W. Daniels. State and county leagues are being formed in order that proper instructions may be given to all the people. Women are eligible to membership in these organizations, and they are giving the men genuine support. Contributions are voluntarily given to meet the necessary expenses. The following declaration in the form of resolutions has been adopted and is being used for the instruction of the leaders and members of the state and county leaders—viz: Whereas, Our government, the greatest government on earth, was established upon the theory that taxation without representation is unjust; and, Whereas, It is declared in the organic law that all men are created free and equal; and, Whereas, The proposed constitutional amedment, No. 11, proposes to strike down their underlying and fundamental principles; and, Whereas, The adoption of said proposed amendment means the taking away from our people all the power to take part in voice their sentiment in any way in connection with government affairs, notwithstanding the fact our people pay a large per cent of the taxes, that their labor has been largely instrumental in converting the forests of the state into fertile fields, that their labor has produced and is still producing a large per cent of the state's wealth that we own a large per cent of the assessable property of the state; and. Whereas, The defeat of this proposed constitutional amendment means more than anything that has transpired since the Constitution, the declaration was issued; therefore, be it Resolved, That no stone be left unturned to defeat the said proposed constitutional amendment and that organization shall be effected in every county and township where the Constitution is enacted by our people of the importance of defeating said proposed amendment and of appealing to the fair minded people of the state, whether Democrats or members of any party, to convince them of the unjust nature of the Constitution. The constitution of the league further declares that its object is to defeat the ratification of the proposed amendment. The sole aim of which is the complete disaffection of the Negro voters of the state, to build up an association which shall subserve the best interests of the people." WHERE TO TRADE. The honest merchant is a Successful merchant; the Successful merchant Knows the Advantage of Advertising what he has for sale. Stores and business places advertising in THE TWIN CITY STAR are the best places at which to spend your money and get your money's worth. We therefore recommend to the trading public those business places carrying an Ad. in THE TWIN CITY STAR. ADVERTISEMENTS. SUITS OR OVERCOATS MADE TO ORDER. LADIES' AND GENTS' CLOTHES CLEANED, PRESSED AND REPAIRED. Called for and Delivered. GOLDEN RULE TAILORS. S. W. Stock, Mgr. 1311 WASHINGTON AVENUE SO. N. W. Phone, Nlc. 3350. DO YOU WANT TO BE WELL DRESSED? THEN I AM YOUR TAILOR. Let me make your Spring Suit or Overcoat from from my Choicest Stock of Latest Patterns. Perfect Fit. Quality and Work m a n ship Guaranteed. Reasonable Prices. Special attention given to repairing, cleaning. your Spring Suit or Overcoat from from my Choice of Lates Patterns. Perfect Fit. Quality and Work man shi Guaranteed. Reasonable Prices. Special attention given to repairing, cleaning and pressing. Tel. N. W. Cedar 3488. CLIFFORD A. SMITH. 109 E. 8th ST. ST. PAUL MINN. RAILROAD MEN'S REST CLUB. 505 W. Madison St., Chicago, Ill. Opp. New Northwestern Depot. Library, Barber Shop, Dining Room. Check Room and Sleeping apartment. Chas. Lytle Pres. B. T. Bibb, Mgr. Rich'd Drew Sec. Tel. Franklin 2839 To subscribe is to pay. Subscribe now. Two Dollars a Year. DO YOU WANT TO BUY? From 10, 15, 20, 30 and 40 acres and upwards, Ten Blocks from N. P. R. R. Station. 10 acre plots $10 down and $5.00 per month. 40 acres—$25 down and $8 per month. I can give you a safe investment. Call or write for information to, REV. JOS. S. STRONG. R. 27-28 UNION BLOCK, ST. PAUL, MINN. AGENTS WANTED:—Male .or. Female, to handle our specialties, $3.00 to $4.00 a day can be easily made. If you are not satisfied working for others, why not become our agent? Try it before giving up your present position and see how easy you can earn money selling our articles. No experience necessary, they sell on sight. Splendid opportunity for active members of societies. Send stamped self addressed envelopes for particulars. S. J. Davis Manufacturing Co., P. O. Box 201, New Rochelle, N. Y. MONKEY TO LOAN—The J. & M Loan Co., will loan you money on any thing of value, or on your plain note, at rates you can afford to pay. All transactions strictly confidential. Hours: 11 a. m. to 1 and 5 to 7 p. m. Room 28 Union Block. Tel. Cedar 5552. Res. phone Dale 872. J. H. Dillingham, manager. OVER 65 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a skeletal and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an inventor has taken any patent. Copyrights thus strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on Patents suit free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Maui & K. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsome illustrated weekly. Largest cir- cumstance year, four months, $L. Sold by all newdealers. MUNN & Co. 361 broadway. New York Branch Office, 6 F St., Washington, D.C. THE TWIN CITY STAR Independent Republican. No. 36 Saturday, April 22, 1912 Entered in the Post office at Minneapolis, June 23, as second class matter. Published Every Saturday by CHARLES SUMNER SMITH, 1419 Washington Ave. So., Minneapolis, Minn. Subscription by Mall, Postpaid. ONE YEAR ..... $2.00 SIX MONTHS ..... 1.25 8 MONTHS ..... $.75 CANADIAN SUBSCRIPTION $2.50. Advertising rate per inch 50c. Special rates furnished on application Subscribers are earnestly requested to report to the office any irregularities in the delivery of their paper; also any change of address. Subscribers wishing the 'Twin City Star' discontinued at the expiration of their subscriptions should notify us to that effect; otherwise we shall consider it their wish to have it continued. Order for discontinuance must be accompanied by payment of all arrears. All personal advertisements in the local columns must be paid for in advance. All public comment inserted only over the author's signature Foreign subscriptions solicited. Unsigned notices will not be inserted in these columns. All matter must reach us by Wednesday for insertion. PAID UP SUBSCRIBERS are our best "Boosters" Are you one? "And he will judge between the nations and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall lift their learn war MEMORIAL DAY. "Lest We Forget." Memorial Exercises in honor of the "Fallen Heros of the Negro Race" should be observed. The Star suggests that services be held on June 1, in our churches. This is a matter of vital importance. We have many relatives and friends among the departed, whose memory is dear to us, but there is one whose services to his country won for our race its highest honors. Shall we forget the American Negro Soldiers? Rev. Toombs has tried to place the lid on the clubs. His agitation was premature, and his efforts useless. Suffer things to be so now, if you can't remedy conditions. "Dr. Booker T. Washington, talking in Chicago about Tuskgee, illustrated the spirit of the institution by describing its Commencement exercises. The graduates no longer read essays headed, "Beyond the Alps Lies Italy." At a recent Commencement a young man stood on the platform and talked about turnips—not about the history of turnips, or the philosophy of turnips, or the psychology of turnips, but how he had grown an acre of turnips and what each operation had cost and what the results were. When he finished he held up two of the largest and finest of his turnips, which he took from a two-bushel basket on the table beside him, and showed them to his audience. And the audience of farmers cheered. Perhaps Harvard's Commencement essays may be equally practical some day." RUSSIA AND THE SOUTH. (St. Paul Pioneer Press.) It is entirely proper that the President of the United States and the Congress should make formal protest, even to the abrogation of a treaty, against Russia's failure to recognize passports granted to American citizens of Jewish birth, but there is a little lesson at home that should be learned by some of the Southern Congressmen who have been most bitter in their denunciation of Russia for "discriminating against American citizens on account of their religion or race." Many of the states of the South openly discriminate against a class of American citizens "on account of their race." Most of the Southern States have constitutional amendments or election laws which disfranchise the Negro voters for no other reason, whatever the various excuses offered, than their race. It will be at least interesting to watch these Southern Congressmen who have been so bitter in their denunciation of Russia and see if they will demand that the Legislatures of their own states cease their discriminations against any American citizens on account of their race. RECORD OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. Colored Americans having been permitted to be disfranchised in the Southern States under Republican rule. The appointment of ex-Confederates and Southern Democrats upon the Supreme Court of the United States. The appointment of ex-Confederates and Southern Democrats in the Cabinet by President Taft. The declaration of President Taft that he would appoint no colored man to office who may be objectionable to the white people. Race discrimination permitted upon the railroads South, and the enactment of "Jim Crow" car laws. The removal of Southern colored office holders in the South from office and the appointment of Democrats and ex-Confederates in their stead. With such a record for the Republican party to go to the country on in 1912 to capture the colored vote will be bound to be effective. The colored voters throughout the country have opened their eyes, and between now and 1912 they will keep them open.—The Bee, Wash. D. C. The Editor of the Bee, W. Calvin Chase is a delegate to the Republican Convention. The record remains the same. What are you going to do about it? Attorney McGhee has contributed an excellent article "Sound of the Dollars" to "The New Era" the official publication of the National Democratic Negro League. He is one of them—McGhee met "Pitchfork Ben" at Kansas City, and Tillman refused to receive a "nigger."—Mac is either forgetful or forgiving, probably both. But the "Sound of the Dollar" will obliterate the past and cause such as he "to lick the foot that kicked him." "Col. Bryan isn't building any political platform this year, but the other fellows are all using his material." PAST AND PRESENT. It is not many years since the Railroads Porters and Hotel Waiters were social outcasts. Recently they have taken the lead. Why. They represent the bone and sinew of the accumulated wealth of the Negro, and have paved the way to better economic conditions, and left a legacy to posterity. Our greatest men have held these positions, and today their offspring is proud of their inheritance. "Honor and Shame from no condition rise. Act well your part. There all the honor lies." In the fierce struggle impending be tween the ever-increasing multitudes of mankind, survival is only assured to him who can hold his own in men tal, moral and mechanical conquest The advance of universal education is irrisistable; and under the reign of universal education, vocational fitness is indispensable. Unless our brightest and best prepared young men and women turn their talents to the aplide sciences we shall find the race at no distant day the fag end of every class of society. Now if it is true that social efficiency has come to be regarded as the highest alm of education then there can be no difference of opinion as to the fast that "expression is as important to proper education as impression." This is a maxim that no modern educator will dispute and social efficiency requires one to be able to act as well as to think; to execute as well as to plan; to do as well as to dream; to demonstrate as well as to theorize; to actualize as to contrive. In both phases of this double development brains constitute an essential factor.—Prof. W. A. Joiner, in the Sodallan. Race prejudice in America, while contrary to reason and equity, has accomplished one great and necessary good for the Negro. It has served as a stimulus to more determined effort and is now on the verge of accomplishing race solidarity to a greater extent than has ever before been existent. God moves in a mysterious way. His wonders to perform, and what we consider hardships are often blessings in disguise. It is sometimes wise to punish a man in order to awaken his latent energies and the same is true of races. Those who suffer most become the strongest because they have triumphed over hardships. The rosy path in life is not conducive to the development of latent power and the thorny path of prejudice has done more to stimulate Negro effort than anything else. There will come a time when this prejudice must fall and go the way of all other discarded implements of civilization and that time is not far away. The Negro is making good—Yonkers (N. Y.) Standard. Justice W. R. Morris has lunched a boom for Justice Benj. J. Davis of Georgia as the next Grand Master of the G. U. O. of O. F. ADVERTISE—IT HELPS. TWIR CITY STAR UNLIMITED LAWLESSNESS. The sentiment of the American public knows no bounds. They chose any time or place to perform any ceremonies which may appeal to their fads or fancies. — The lynching of Negroes by white men is prevalent, yet the lynching of white men by white men has proven that this lawlessness is not born of prejudice alone, but out of a custom practiced by these public executioners, who disregard the written laws of the land and hold justice as a mockery. A REAL NEWSPAPER. A newspaper isn't simply a bare chronicler of events. It is a personality. It comes into your house almost as a member of your family. What sort of a person do you like to have visit you? He ought to be honest, courageous, no hypocrite, and a gentleman, with a real interest in you, ready to lend a hand if you need help. Cheerfulness and good humor are excellent qualities, and a wide range of interests. What do you find in The Star? It has opinions, of course, and it speaks them out freely. They are its own and they are not influenced by outside interests. The square deal is its platform. In handling news it observes the decencies and amenities of life. It never wantonly brings shame or sorrow to any home. Its advertisements are clean. If the Twin City Star does not bring you something of interest in any particular issue, it has failed by so much that week. It takes of its hat and apologizes for having bored you as a visitor. But it trusts this doesn't often happen. Not often, does it? "What the Negro must do is to contend for his rights in the best spirit without losing his head and he will find the genuine white people the world over respecting them. First, let him respect himself and others will respect him."—(Charleston, S. C. Messenger.) Furnished Rooms, Good Meals SOUTHERN KITCHEN, Mrs. Virginia Taylor, Prop., Home cooking a speciality. 204 Plymouth Avenue No. Phone Nc. 858, Minneapolis, Minn. ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR. Deputy, Installs and organizes Chapters of The O. E. Star. Please to consult any one Interested. Residence Mrs. Anna B. Harris, Grand District 285 Rondo St., St. Paul, Minn. THE SPIRELLA CORSET. Miss Cora E. Anderson, 365 Aurora Ave., St. Paul, is the local agent for the Spirella Corset, worn by the best gowned women. GOLDEN GRAIN BELT BEERS EMPLOYMENT BUREAU. Walters' and Porters' Free Information Bureau. Help of all kinds furnished. We make a specialty of furnishing waiters for Banquets and Parties. Hotel in connection. Lee Johnson & Ben O. 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FIFTH STR. OPP. LUMBER EXCHANGE MINNEAPLIS MINN. L BALL TORIUM il 29th, 1912 REFRESHMENTS ullough's Orchestra --- ```markdown ``` EXPRESS PREPAID to all points in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North and South Dakotas and Montana. Out-of-town mail orders shipped the day received. Defective Pag THE TWIN CITY STAR Independent Republican. No. 36 Saturday, April 22, 1912 Entered in the Post office at Minneapolis, June 22, as second class matter. Published Every Saturday by CHARLES SUMNER SMITH, 1419 Washington Ave. So., Minneapolis, Minn. Subscription by Mall, Postpaid. ONE YEAR ..... $2.00 SIX MONTHS ..... 1.25 $ MONTHS ..... $.75 CANADIAN SUBSCRIPTION $2.50. Advertising rate per inch 60c. Special rates furnished on application Subscribers are earnestly request ed to report to the office any irregularities in the delivery of their paper; also any change of address. Subscribers wishing the "Twin City Star" discontinued at the expiration of their subscriptions should notify us to that effect; otherwise we shall consider it their wish to have it continued. Order for discontinuance must be accompanied by payment of all arrears. All personal advertisements in the local columns must be paid for in advance. All public comment inserted only over the author's signature Foreign subscriptions solicited. Unsigned notices will not be inserted in these columns. All matter must reach us by Wednesday for insertion. PAID UP SUBSCRIBERS are our best "Boosters" Are you one? "And he will judge between the nations and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war MEMORIAL DAY. "Lest We Forget." Memorial Exercises in honor of the "Fallen Heros of the Negro Race" should be observed. The Star suggests that services be held on June 1, in our churches. This is a matter of vital importance. We have many relatives and friends among the departed, whose memory is dear to us, but there is one whose services to his country won for our race its highest honors. Shall we forget the American Negro Soldiers? Rev. Toombs has tried to place the lid on the clubs. His agitation was premature, and his efforts useless. Suffer things to be so now, if you can't remedy conditions. "Dr. Booker T. Washington, talking in Chicago about Tuskgee, illustrated the spirit of the institution by describing its Commencement exercises. The graduates no longer read essays headed, "Beyond the Alps Lies Italy." At a recent Commencement a young man stood on the platform and talked about turnips—not about the history of turnips, or the philosophy of turnips, or the psychology of turnips, but how he had grown an acre of turnips and what each operation had cost and what the results were. When he finished he held up two of the largest and finest of his turnips, which he took from a two-bushel basket on the table beside him, and showed them to his audience. And the audience of farmers cheered. Perhaps Harvard's Commencement essays may be equally practical some day." RUSSIA AND THE SOUTH. (St. Paul Pioneer Press.) It is entirely proper that the President of the United States and the Congress should make formal protest, even to the abrogation of a treaty, against Russia's failure to recognize passports granted to American citizens of Jewish birth, but there is a little lesson at home that should be learned by some of the Southern Congressmen who have been most bitter in their denunciation of Russia for "discriminating against American citizens on account of their religion or race." Many of the states of the South openly discriminate against a class of American citizens "on account of their race." Most of the Southern States have constitutional amendments or election laws which disfranchise the Negro voters for no other reason, whatever the various excuses offered, than their race. It will be at least interesting to watch these Southern Congressmen who have been so bitter in their denunciation of Russia and see if they will demand that the Legislatures of their own states cease their discriminations against any American citizens on account of their race. RECORD OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. Colored Americans having been permitted to be disfranchised in the Southern States under Republican rule. The appointment of ex-Confederates and Southern Democrats upon the Supreme Court of the United States. The appointment of ex-Confederates and Southern Democrats in the Cabinet by President Taft. The declaration of President Taft that he would appoint no colored man to office who may be objectionable to the white people. Race discrimination permitted upon the railroads South, and the enactment of "Jim Crow" car laws. The removal of Southern colored office holders in the South from office and the appointment of Democrats and ex-Confederates in their stead. With such a record for the Republican party to go to the country on in 1912 to capture the colored vote will be bound to be effective. The colored voters throughout the country have opened their eyes, and between now and 1912 they will keep them open.—The Bee, Wash. D. C. The Editor of the Bee, W. Calvin Chase is a delegate to the Republican Convention. The record remains the same. What are you going to do about it? Attorney McGhee has contributed an excellent article "Sound of the Dollars" to "The New Era" the official publication of the National Democratic Negro League. He is one of them—McGhee met "Pitchfork Ben" at Kansas City, and Tillman refused to receive a "nigger." Mac is either forgetful or forgiving, probably both. But the "Sound of the Dollar" will obliterate the past and cause such as he "to lick the foot that kicked him." "Col. Bryan isn't building any political platform this year, but the other fellows are all using his material." PAST AND PRESENT. It is not many years since the Railroads Porters and Hotel Waiters were social outcasts. Recently they have taken the lead. Why. They represent the bone and sinew of the accumulated wealth of the Negro, and have paved the way to better economic conditions, and left a legacy to posterity. Our greatest men have held these positions, and today their offspring is proud of their inheritance. "Honor and Shame from no condition rise. Act well your part. There all the honor lies." In the fierce struggle impending be tween the ever-increasing multitudes of mankind, survival is only assured to him who can hold his own in men, moral and mechanical conquest The advance of universal education is irrisistable; and under the reign of universal education, vocational fitness is indispensable. Unless our brightest and best prepared young men and women turn their talents to the aplide sciences we shall find the race at no distant day the fag end of every class of society. Now if it is true that social efficiency has come to be regarded as the highest aim of education then there can be no difference of opinion as to the fast that "expression is as important to proper education as impression." This is a maxim that no modern educator will dispute and social efficiency requires one to be able to act as well as to think; to execute as well as to plan; to do as well as to dream; to demonstrate as well as to theorize; to actualize as well as to contrive. In both phases of this double development brains constitute an essential factor.—Prof. W. A. Joiner, in the Sodalan. Race prejudice in America, while contrary to reason and equity, has accomplished one great and necessary good for the Negro. It has served as a stimulus to more determined effort and is now on the verge of accomplishing race solidarity to a greater extent than has ever before been existent. God moves in a mysterious way. His wonders to perform, and what we consider hardships are often blessings in disguise. It is sometimes wise to punish a man in order to awaken his latent energies and the same is true of races. Those who suffer most become the strongest because they have triumphed over hardships. The rosy path in life is not conducive to the development of latent power and the thorny path of prejudice has done more to stimulate Negro effort than anything else. There will come a time when this prejudice must fall and go the way of all other discarded implements of civilization and that time is not far away. The Negro is making good—Yonkers (N. Y.) Standard. Justice W. R. Morris has lunched a boom for Justice Benj. J. Davis of Georgia as the next Grand Master of the G. U. O. of O. F. TWIR CITY STAR UNLIMITED LAWLESSNESS. The sentiment of the American public knows no bounds. They choose any time or place to perform any ceremonies which may appeal to their fads or fancies. — The lynching of Negroes by white men is prevalent, yet the lynching of white men by white men has proven that this lawlessness is not born of prejudice alone, but out of a custom practiced by these public executioners, who disregard the written laws of the land and hold justice as a mockery. A REAL NEWSPAPER. A newspaper isn't simply a bare chronicler of events. It is a personality. It comes into your house almost as a member of your family. What sort of a person do you like to have visit you? He ought to be honest, courageous, no hypocrite, and a gentleman, with a real interest in you, ready to lend a hand if you need help. Cheerfulness and good humor are excellent qualities, and a wide range of interests. What do you find in The Star? It has opinions, of course, and it speaks them out freely. They are its own and they are not influenced by outside interests. The square deal is its platform. In handling news it observes the decencies and amenities of life. It never wantonly brings shame or sorrow to any home. Its advertisements are clean. If the Twin City Star does not bring you something of interest in any particular issue, it has failed by so much that week. It takes of its hat and apologizes for having bored you as a visitor. But it trusts this doesn't often happen. Not often, does it? "What the Negro must do is to contend for his rights in the best spirit without losing his head and he will find the genuine white people the world over respecting them. First, let him respect himself and others will respect him."—(Charleston, S. C. Messenger.) Furnished Rooms, Good Meals SOUTHERN KITCHEN, Mrs. Virginia Taylor, Prop., Home cooking a speciality. 204 Plymouth Avenue No. Phone Nc. 858, Minneapolis, Minn. ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR. Deputy, Installs and organizes Chapters of The O. E. Star. Please to consult any one interested. Residence Mrs. Anna B. Harris, Grand District 285 Rondo St, St. Paul, Minn. Miss Cora E. Anderson, 365 Aurora Ave., St. Paul, is the local agent for the Spirella Corset, worn by the best gowned women. EMPLOYMENT BUREAU. Walters' and Porters' Free Information Bureau. Help of all kinds furnished. We make a specialty of furnishing waiters for Banquets and Parties. Hotel in connection. Lee Johnson & Ben O. McRay, props. 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The little things which add so much to the appearance specially planned for Easter week. Two years of satisfaction has been our gift to our patrons. This satisfaction rests upon the quality of our merchandise and our service. Quality considered, prices are lower here than elsewhere. Investigation will prove that our culinary arrangements are such as will enable us to give you exceptional service, that make a direct appeal to critical and discriminating diners, with all the conveniences and privileges of a modern Cafe. THE ONE PLACE IN THE NORTHWEST WHERE CATERING IS AN ART. TEL. NORTH WEST MAIN 537 OPEN FROM 6 A.M. to 9 P.M. M. G. RUTLEDGE, PROP "Senator Foraker's Political Life is an Open book" THE FORAKER CAFE ELECTRIC LIGHTED (ESTABLISHED 1908) BEST SERVICE 511 FOURTH AVE. 80. Special Sunday Dinner 25c Business Men's Lunch 15c FROM 12 TO 3 P.M. FROM 11 TO 2 P.M. B. FINK MERCANTILE CO. SPECIAL SALE OF WINES AND LIQUORS $3.20- Four full quarts Old Style Bottled in Bond Montrose Whiskey—5 years old. $3.00- per gallon Pure California Brandy—Aged in Bond. $2.50- Four full quarts Old Hickory Grove Whiskey. $1.50- per gallon Old Port, Sherry, Tokay or Catawaba. $2.50- Four large bottles Virginia Dare Wine—Garrett & Co. $3.25- per gallon Pure Grain Alcohol, full strength. $3.00- per gallon Golden Gate Apricot Brandy. Money refunded if not satisfied. Send postal for price list. FLORSHEIM SHOES represent perfection in fine shoemaking Get acquainted with COMFORT and become one of our SATISFIED CUSTOMERS. STANLEY SHOE COMPANY 422 NICOLLET AVENUE SPRING HATS Sanborn & Alden FIRST AN Will be ST ANNUAL BA Will be given by the FIRST ANNUAL BALL UNION WAITERS SOUTH SIDE Monday Evening SOUTH SIDE AUDITORIUM ay Evening, April 29th, SOUTH SIDE AUDITORIUM Monday Evening, April 29th, 1912 DANCING TILL 4 A.M. REFRESHMENTS ADMISSON 35 CENT Adve DRUPTH THE TWIN SON 35 CENTS McCullough's C Advertise in THE TWIN CITY STAR ADMISSON 35 CENTS McCullough's Orchestra and Get Results --- $2.00 LATEST STYLE RATED FOR ITS attend the Dickerson Spring Season. less Includes Chinese high to the appearance our gift to our pa- the quality of our over here than else- our culinary ar- t to give you excep- peal to critical and conveniences and NORTHWEST ART. MINNEAPOLIS P. M. M. G. RUTLEDGE, PROP an Open book" CAFE BEST SERVICE GO. Press Men's Lunch 15c FROM 11 TO 2 P. M. UTILE CO. road Men ST. PAUL SHOES the shoemaking become one of our RS. COMPANY AVENUE Summer Hats $2.50 BEST QUALITY 7 SO. FIFTH STR., OPP. LUMBER EXCHANGE MINNEAPLIS MINN. TORIUM il 29th, 1912 REFRESHMENTS ullough's Orchestra --- A EXPRESS PREPAID to all points in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North and South Dakotas and Montana. Out-of-town mail orders shipped the day received. Defective Page