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Defective Page VOL. 3 Single Copies 5 Cents How It Is Defined by the Statutes of Various States. Various states define the term "Negro" in various ways. This fact is gleaned from the Negro Year Book, published at Tuskegee Institute under the direction of Monroe N. Work, in charge of research and records into and of his rave. The statutes of Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas assert that "a person of color" is one who is descended from a Negro to the third generation, inclusive, though one ancestor in each generation may have been white. According to the law of Alabama one is "a person of color" who has had any Negro blood in his ancestry for five generations. Evidences of the Ability of Colored Composers. Encouraging Signs of Promise For the Future of the Race In the World of Music — Over Threescore Compositions Written by a Colored Bandmaster. By JOHN E. BRUCE (GRIT). Everybody who has taken the trouble to investigate the matter knows that one of the most beautiful songs ever written, "Listen to the Mocking Bird," was composed by a wandering Negro street minstrel, George Milburn of Philadelphia, over fifty years ago. It was set to music by a white man, Septimus Winner, who got all the credit for it and whatever financial profit there was in it. Milburn got something like a dozen copies of the song after it was published, and many people told him he was a genius. But Milburn was not the only Negro in Philadelphia who could compose sweet tunes. He was, perhaps, the only one among his brethren in the musical firmament who could not write a musical score. Of those who could give full expression to their ideas as composers of music may be mentioned James Hemmenway, who wrote a sentimental song entitled, "That Rest So Sweet Like Bliss Above," which attained wide popularity in Philadelphia and elsewhere. It was published in Atkinson's Casket, a musical journal, to which he was a contributor in October, 1829. Mr. Hemmenway wrote also "The Philadelphia Grand Entree March," "Washington Gray's Grand March," "Washington Gray's Bugle Call" and "Hunter and Hop Waltzes," which were published by Willig, and the "Philadelphia Hop Waltz," published by Lee & Walker. Another Philadelphia, A. J. Conner, wrote and dedicated to Miss Matilda Cornish, a popular and prominent young lady of color, a song entitled "My Cherished Hopes, My Fondest Dreams," which was published in the Anglo-African Magazine in January, 1857. He also wrote the "Evergreen Polka," published by Oliver Ditson in Boston, 1859; "American Polka Quadrilles," 1846; "New York Polka Waltz," published by A. Flot in Philadelphia, 1846; "General Taylor's Galop," published by J. G. Osborn, 1846; "Philadelphia Polka Waltz;" "I. O. of O. F. Quadrille," published by Lee & Walker, 1846; "Chestnut Street Promenade Quadrille," published by S. T. Gordon, New York, 1850. Robert Murray of Baltimore wrote the "Furious Galop," published by Boswell & Barlett, and the "Tedesco Polka," published by George Willig. I have not been able to fix the dates of these publications, however. J. W. Postlewatte of St. Louis in 1852 wrote and published the "St. Louis Grays" Quickstep" and the "Dewdrop Schottish" in 1851. They were published by Balmer & Weber, St. Louis. The famous Negro bandmaster of Philadelphia and leader of Frank Johnson's band, the only organization of its kind (of which we have any knowledge) to tour Europe in a series of band concerts and which was commanded to play before Queen Victoria, was the author of more than treasorese musical compositions dirges, marches, quadrilles, cotillons, polaks, patriotic songs, quicksteps, etc. "The Victoria Galop," in honor of the queen of England, and "General Cadwallader's March," gained considerable popularity in their day. Both were published by Willig at Philadelphia, as were most of his other productions. The Society For Historical Research has quite an extensive list of these early Negro musical composers. That the Negro is highly musical is attested by the many creditable evidences of his genius as a composer which have been handed down to us by a past generation. These are hopeful signs of promise for the future of the Negro in music and should furnish inspiration to the rising generation. Florida Teachers to Meet in Ocala. President N. B. Young of the Florida Teachers' association has issued a call for the winter meeting of the organization to be held in Ocala. Fla., from Dec. 31 to Jan. 2, 1913. Ocala is one of the most thrifty towns in the state, and those who attend the sessions of the association will be charmed by the hospitality of the committee, which already has plans under way for entertaining the large number of delegates and visitors to the meeting. Subscribe for the Star. THE TERM "NEGRO." In Michigan, Nebraska and Oregon one is not legally a Negro who has less than one-fourth Negro blood in his veins. In Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri and South Carolina "a person of color" is one who has as much as one-eighth Negro blood. In Virginia a Negro is one who has one-sixteenth or more Negro blood. The constitution of Oklahoma reads "Whenever in this constitution or in the laws of the state the word or words 'colored race' or 'Negro' or 'Negro race' are used, the same shall be construed to mean or to apply to all persons of African descent. The term 'white' shall include all other persons." In Arkansas "persons of color" include all who have a visible and distinct admixture of African blood. The other states of the Union have no statutes defining the term "Negro." Thus it would seem that a Negro in one state is not always a Negro in any other. These and many other facts regarding the progress and development, present and past status, of the Negro race, are found collected in the Negro Year Book. PRESBYTERIANS IN UPLIFT WORK FOR AFRO-AMERICA St. Louis. The experiment of the Presbyterian church's freedmen's board in establishing colored persons on individual farms in Georgia was described as part of the board's work by Miss Roberta Barr of Pittsburgh at the recent annual meeting of the Missouri Symodial society in the West Presbyterian church. this city, Miss Barr, who is assistant secretary of the board, said the first aim of the board is to give the Negro race a good moral foundation. They must therefore first be trained in the Bible and Christian living. "The board is criticized sometimes," she said, "because it does not make industrial education the first feature. It believes thoroughly in industrial education and equips schools for the work as fully as possible." She describe the farm of 1,000 acres at Keysville Ga., near Augusta, from which the board is parceling off to the Negro farms of twenty or thirty acres each giving to each a mule and a plow and building a small cottage. The tenant is allowed to pay for this equipment and the land by rental fees, so that in time the property becomes his own. "The colored people of the United States now own farms," said Miss Barr, "of such extent as would include all the New England states." By this statement she referred to Negro ownership generally, not alone to that fostered by the Presbyterian board. This board operates 131 schools, all of them being taught entirely by Negroes except six. The board emphasizes the need, of an educated Negro ministry and supports in part 280 Negro ministers. There are 15,000 children in the board's schools, and in each one the Bible is a daily textbook. Mrs. M. J. Glidersleeve of New York city, secretary of the woman's board of home missions, at a study class during the meeting pointed out the wide culture which may accrue from mission study. "It is a university education," she said. At another time she pointed out the common tie between all the varied peoples of the United States—Alaskans, mountainers, Negroes, Mexicans and Indians—speaking also of the Cubans and Porto Ricans, to whom the board ministers. She said the building of railroads and the development of resources are greatly increasing the missionary's opportunity. Mrs. S. L. McAfee of Parkville said that among the 200 or more delegates two interesting personages were the Misses Clingan, who started a mission in a remote region in the Ozarks, and have continued it with much hardship, although now better established than at first. Their station is Gladstone. Mo. The statistics of the home mission work of the society, presented by Mrs. G. H. Van Dyke of Clinton, Mo., stated all the ten presbyterial societies of the synod were represented. In this aggregation there are 5,000 members, whose work is subdivided into work for women, young women and children. The contributions for the year have been $13,212. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., NOVEMBER 23, 1912. Remarkable Record of Men Who Achieved Greatness Nearly Two Centuries Ago Almost Single Handed. Won Success by Dogged Persistence. Was Possessor of Strong Memory. The biography of Benjamin Banneker as given by John H. B. Latrobe and published by the American Negro Monographs company, in Washington, is worthy of the most careful reading. Professor John W. Cromwell is the editor of series No. 3, which contains a full account of Banneker's achievements. Benjamin Banneker was born in Baltimore county, Md., near the village of Illicott's Mills, in the year 1782. His father was a native African and his mother the child of natives of Africa, so that to no admixture of the blood of the white man was he indebted for his peculiar and extraordinary abilities. His father was a slave when he married, but his wife, who was a free woman and possessed of great energy and industry, very soon afterward purchased his freedom. Banneker's mother was named Morton before her marriage and belonged to a family remarkable for its intelligence. When upward of seventy she was still very active, and it is remembered of her that this advanced age she made nothing of running and skipping like a child. Property Qualification For Voters. A nephew of hers, Greenbury Morton, was a person of some note notwithstanding his completeness. Prior to 1809 free people of color possessed of a certain property qualification voted in Maryland. In this year a law was passed restricting the right of voting to free white males. Morton was ignorant of the law till he offered to vote at the polls in Baltimore county, and it is said that when his vote was refused he addressed the crowd in a strain of pure impassioned eloquence which kept the audience that the election had assembled in breathless attention while he spoke. When Benjamin was old enough he was employed to assist his parents in their labor. This was at an early age when his destiny seemed nothing better than that of a child of poor and ignorant free Negroes, occupying a few acres of land in a remote and thinly peopled neighborhood, a destiny which certainly at this day is not of very brilliant promise and which at the time in question must have been gloomy enough. In the intervals of toil and when he was approaching or had attained manhood he was sent to an obscure and distant country school, which he attended until he had acquired a knowledge of reading and writing and had advanced in arithmetic as far as double position. In all matters beyond these rudiments of learning he was his own instructor. On leaving school Ben, as his friends were wont to call him, was obliged to labor for years, almost uninterrupted, for his support. But, his memory being retentive, he lost nothing of the little education he had acquired. On the contrary, although utterly destitute of books, he amplified and improved his stock of arithmetical knowledge by the operation of his mind alone. He was an observer of everything that he saw or which took place around him in the natural world. He sought with advidity information from all sources of what was going forward in society, so that he became gradually possessed of a fund of general knowledge which it was difficult to find among those even who were far more favored by opportunity and circumstances than he was. At first his information was a subject of wonder among his illiterate neighbors only, but by degrees his reputation spread through a wider circle. Benjamin Banneker, still a young man, came to be thought of as one who could not only perform all the operations of mental arithmetic with extraordinary facility, but exercise a sound and discriminating judgment upon men and things. Invents Clock at Thirty Years of Age. It was at this time, when he was about thirty years of age, that he contrived and made a clock which proved an excellent timepiece. He had seen a watch, but not a clock, such an artile not yet having found its way into the quiet and secluded valley in which he lived. The watch was therefore his model. It took him a good white to accomplish this feat, his great difficulty, as he often used to say, being to make the hour, minute and second hands correspond in their motions. But the clock was finished at last and raised still higher the credit of Banneker in his neighborhood as an ingenious man, as well as a good arithmetician. As already stated, the basis of Banneker's arithmetical knowledge was obtained from the schoolbook into which he had advanced as far as double position, but in 1787 Mr. George Elliott lent him "Mayer's Tablets," "Ferguson's Astronomy" and "Leadbeater's Lunar Tables." Along with these books were some astronomical instruments. CONDITIONS IN THE SOUTH. Optimistic View of the Situation by Dr. W. D. Weatherford. Dr. W. D. Weatherford knows men and conditions in the south. He is a southerner through and through and is spending his life in and for the south. In all of his writing and speaking he has been discriminating, sane and fearless. Through patient study, wide observation and sympathetic touch with men of all classes and races in the southland he has worked out in theory and in practice a plan of action which appeals to men who are vitally interested in the advancement of humanity. About two years ago Dr. Weatherford wrote "Negro Life in the South" for southern white college men who wanted to have before them the facts of modern Negro life. The little volume has been used in two years by over 10,000 southern college men who belong to Y. M. C. A. study groups. The call came for a new book on race relationships, and Dr. Weatherford again showed his mastery of a difficult problem by giving the public "Present Forces in Negro Progress," which is dedicated to that group of sympathetic men in the north whose united interest in the Negro race is a prophecy of a better day." In the preface of "Present Forces" the author expresses his appreciation of the help that he has received from students and professors in white and trained schools and from farm demonstrators and educators. Thus he shows that he is a man who can co-operate successfully with other men. He asserts very emphatically, "The supreme need of the hour is that men shall face facts rather than spin theories." The various chapters discuss traits of Negro character, race leadership and the growth of race pride. Negro population and race movement. The relation of the white churches to the Negro, and the work of the Y. M. C. A. With rare keenness of mind and frankness of expression, Dr. Weatherford has analyzed the race problem as it affects the Negro himself and his white neighbor, both of whom are economically and socially interdependent, and, therefore, have a common interest which should not be lost sight of either through ignorance or wilful neglect. The solvent of the race problem must include co-operation in the broadest sense, race pride and race consciousness. Christian leadership, reduction of the infant and adult death rate, revival of interest in rural life, conquering the enemies of southern farm life—the tenant system, the one crop system, improvement of the public rural schools, the local churches, the average small farm and the adoption of a sound public health policy. OBERLIN MUSIC TEACHER TAKES PART IN RECITAL. Brilliant Interpretation of Classical Compositions by Mrs. Doolittle. Mrs. Maude T. Doolittle, one of the best known concert pianists on the teaching force of the Oberlin (O.) Conservatory of Music, showed her qualities as a true artist in her interpretation of an interesting program, made up of compositions by the modern classic composers, recently at Fisk university, Nashville, Tenn. Her program also included compositions by Debussy and Faure of the modern French school. In the rendition of these selections the artist's well grounded technique drew from the large and enthusiastic audience of students, teachers and city visitors prolonged applause. Her program included: Bach-Lisset, fanade in G minor; Brahms, ballade in G minor; Schmann, fantasieduck op. 124, romance op. 32, No. 3 (Firefly); Taubert, suite op. 58, No. 2; Chopin, etudes op. 10, No. 1, op. 25, Nos. 5, 6, 12, scherzo B flat minor; Debussy, prelude A minor; Faure, impromptu op 31, No. 2; Wagner-Lisset, spinning song; Lisset, rhapsodie No. 12. A bequest of $1,900 left by Mrs. Caroline S. Martin of Dover, N. H., was recently received by the treasurer of the university. This bequest will become a part of the endowment. The institution has done a great work of uplift in the past by sending out trained teachers among the people in various sections. They easily become leaders of thought and industry. MAN OF PRINCELY VIRTUES Events In the Life of the Great Antislavery Orator Which Fired His Ambition and Made His Teachings Effective—Pleaded Cause of Self and Race Eloquently. Great men are always a part of a great movement. They are called into the world to play an important part in the arena of thought and action. Few of them, however, are blessed with the span of life which enables them to witness the triumphant consummation of their cause, as was the case of Frederick Douglass. But for the birth of Frederick Douglass in Tuckahoe Md., in 1817, that obscure village in Talbot county would hardly be known. His early surroundings were such as characterized every slave boy who witnessed the inhuman treatment of fellow slaves and heard stories of the capture of their foreparents in Africa. The events in the life of Douglass, his transference to Baltimore, to St. Michael's; his experience with the "slave breaker" Edward Covey and his escape from slavery in 1838, when he assumed the name of "Douglass," partly to hide his identity and partly as a "milestone" in his new life of freedom, are well known. His lectures under the Anti-slavery society at conventions and private gatherings, both in America and Europe; his publication of his newspapers; his "life narrative," "My Bondage and My Freedom;" his "Life and Times," place Frederick Douglass before the American public, and indeed before the world, as one of its effective teachers. Some will deny him the title, saying that he was not a product of the schools; that he kept no school and could not in any sense be called an educator. If by an educator is meant one whose activities are confined to the narrow regimen of the schoolroom Douglass was not an educator, but if we mean by the term one who carries within himself the princely virtues of the great teachers of mankind, who is an inspiration to all men by his words and work, who had knowledge and sympathy, interest, enthusiasm and aptitude for viciousness, then Frederick Douglass was in every way an educator. He believed in the potentiality of every child born into the world, whether white or black. He believed that God had not bestowed his best endowments upon any single race or nation, and so he wrought for himself and his race to make actual what was potential. Mr. Douglass, like a true educator, was a man of large vision. Where there is no vision the people perish. Brutalized himself by American slavery, he sought to aid in the overthrow of the inquitous system. When, therefore, the opportunity presented itself he threw himself with enthusiasm into the anti-slavery struggle and lost no opportunity to teach men its horrors and to rouse them to its hatred by his burning words. In England and America he pleaded his own and the cause of his people with weeping words and eloquent tears and became perhaps the mightiest single force in teaching the inquities of slavery because he had been a part of it. Douglass believed in his selfhood and in his own possibilities, and out of the horrors of slavery he tried to rehabilitate the divine image stamped upon him. He made his good instincts self conscious. He taught lofty notions of personal, social and political life. He was discontented with whatever was on a low plane. He reached the mountain heights because he soared like an eagle that bathes its wings in the noonday sun. No one could see Frederick Douglass, with his head rising "like a snow capped peak" above those about him, without feeling the influence of his presence. Frederick Douglass was never ashamed of his color. He believed in his black mother, his dark hued wife and attributed much of his success to his contact with them. He believed that he was part of a great race whose development had been retarded by untoward conditions, but who when their chains were once broken and their complete emancipation insured would rise up and demonstrate the divinity with which they were clothed. Douglass, like every true educator, was an honest patriot. He loved his country. When the civil war broke out he offered his two sons to his country's cause, while he himself served it with his eloquence. For these services he was honored. For years he was the most famous character in the District of Columbia, serving as United States marshal, later as recorder of deeds and afterward as minister plenipotentiary to Haiti. While in Haiti differences arose between himself and the state department about the methods of acquiring the Mole St. Nicholas, and rather than sacrifice his manhood Doughnuts called his commission to the president and returned in glory to the banks of the Potomac. He may have failed in diplomacy, but he had retained his self respect. AFTER ELECTION ECHOES. Editorial and Personal Opinion From Various Sources. We give below extracts from race papers and individuals on the results of the recent presidential election as viewed by editors of Afro-American journals and the supporters of the different candidates for the presidency: The Progressive party is not dead by any means, and if any one thinks so he is very much mistaken. The Progressive party made a splendid fight, and if it can do so much in three months what will it do when it is three years old? Keep your eye skinned, for it is going to make somebody stand around.—Baltimore Afro-American Ledger. The Progressives have made good. They annihilated the Republican party. Roosevelt said that he would "break up the gang," and it was no idle boast, because he knew that the people were with him.—Minneapolis (Minn.) Twin City Star. The overwhelming defeat of the Republican party, both national and state, in Tuesday's election is accompanied by the walling and grashing of teeth on one hand and great rejoicing on the other. The utter rout of both the Republican and Progressive forces by the Democratic majorities is the culmination of one of the longest and most bitterly fought campaigns in the history of this country, starting in the past spring, when Colonel Roosevelt made the announcement that his hat was in the ring.—Central Afro-American, St. Louis. Most Negroes will look upon the election as a calamity so far as we, as a people, are concerned. Many there are who will look for a reversal of sentiment. If a reversal be possible, against the Negro and a wholesale butchery of the black man and his rights. The few Negroes who deserted the Republican party and cast lots with the Democrats will be looking for a change of patronage in and around Washington.—Pittsburgh Courier. I am especially pleased at the clear, concise and accurate grasp of the issues by young men of our race. They demonstrated on the stump and in the public press a familiarity with all the issues of the campaign, equal to the ablest white exponents of Democracy. This feature of the campaign was favorably commented on continuously during the campaign at the national Democratic headquarters. The election of Woodrow Wilson means the dawn of a new era to the Negroes of this country. Henceforth he may accelerate his footsteps in the army of progress more judiciously, steadily and confidently, conscious of the feeling that at the head of this great nation we have a man of honor and integrity. He has given his promise that the door of opportunity shall be open to him to make a living and that he will be secure in the protection of his person and property. I believe it will be his aim to give Negroes political status commensurate with their worth, ability and manhood.—Bishop Alexander Walters. President Elect Woodrow Wilson has promised that there will be nothing during his administration for the honest and enlightened business man of the country to fear. He has also promised, according to some of the Negro journals and men who espoused his cause for election, that the Negroes need not fear any bighead legislation and that he was a friend to the race and favored its progress. — Advocate-Verdict, Harrisburg, Pa. Tuskegee Graduates Making Good. In order to ascertain to what extent young men and women of the colored race use their education in the trades and professions for which they have qualified themselves, an investigation has been recently made and statistics compiled concerning the students and graduates of the Tuskegee (Ala.) institute. The result of the investigation showed that 60 per cent of the students and graduates of this school were following their chosen profession as teachers and industrial workers among their own people. They are making good and doing a work of primary importance among the masses. READ THE STAR-IT'S NEWS. | | | | | | | | | | La i MINNEAPOLIS MEN'S EPISCOPAL CLUB Thanksgiving “Promenace THURSDAY EVENING, NOV. 26th at MASONIC WALL ‘24th Street and Sth Avenue South Zi = ADMISSION 35 tel; Herein is love, not that we love: God, but that He loved us and sen His Son to be the propititation fc our sins. 1 John 4:10. Be not de ceived, God is not mocked, for wha. soever a man soweth, that shall be also reap. Galations 6:7—Selecte by E. W. Gilles. THE FORUM MEETS SUNDAY. St. Peter's A. M. E. Church, We BEG that those who send not: will Write Facts Plainly—on Or Side of the Paper—Leave & Spac between each Item, and Use Cor mon Sense. This Is very Important We are not responsible for the views of our contributors, and all signed articles of any length are paid for by the writer. Mrs, Walter Blackburn left last week for Montgomery, Ala., to spend a few weeks with Mrs. Rebecce Pinkney. She will visit friends in Lexington and Georgetown, Ky,, Cin- cinnat!, Inidanapolis and Chicago, or her return trip. ‘The People’s Christian mrssio™ ‘“The People’s Christian Missionar: Rev. G. W. Mitchell has moved t 1204 Washington Ave. So., where the have secured large quarters. Re Mitchell 1s meeting with great su: cess and his meetings are largely a tended by all classes, who are bein benefitted by the services. THANKSGIVING NIGHT. ‘The Men’s Episcopal Club of Mir neapolis will give s Grand Thank giving Promenade on Nov. 28 5 Masonic Hall, 6th Ave. and 24th § Come early. Dancing begins at 9 T M., closing at 12:30 A. M. McCu’ Jough’s Orchestra. CARD OF THANKS. ‘We wish to express to our man} friends our gratitude and apprecia tion of the beautiful flowers given help rendered and all kindnes shown at the time of the death o our beloved daughter and sister Gladys B. Morgan. ‘Walter Smith and Family. Mr. Robert 8. Britton, 2939 Harrie: Ave., is sick at his residence. Dr. J. H. Redd has moved his rer fdence to 3624 Stevens Ave. Several friends of Mr. Geo. W. Hal’ shipping clerk at Lowney's and ¢ highly respected young man, were ir terested in reading the arrest of Ge Hall, 8 Negro burglar. Mr. Geo. Ha! fs still on his job and the burglar | in Stillwater, FIRST CLASS DRESSMAKING PLAIN AND FANCY SEWING. Mra. R. A. Vanhook, Phone Colfa: 3598, 3612 Chicago Ave. Minneapolis. Mr, Walter Blackburn of Lake St called at the Star office last Sunda: to pay his usual respects, his year!: subscription. Mr. Blackburn way one of the first subscribers to the Twin City Star, and his brother, Mr Chas Blackburn, » conductor on the D, 8. 8 and A. Ry. sent the firs mailed communication to this publica tion. ha Mgr. Glover Shull has renovated the Porters’ and Walters’ Club Room: at 311 Hennepin Ave. The entire suite has been newly painted, and walls are decorated with rich paper ‘nd heavy burlap coverings. Mr. Shull invites the inspection of mem ders and friends. © Mesers, E. H, Pau! and 8. W. Wil- Mams have opened the Star Pautorlum at 110 Wash. Ave. No, They will call flor and deliver work, and guarantee ' t. i Lived eens a. -THE RELIABLE DRAFT CIGAR Be Brlet Bits ot History Connacted * With tts Progress, STARTED MANY YEARS AGO. Inetitution New Knewn as Lincoln Hospital Was Originally Established Under Title of Seciety For the Sup- port of the Colored Heme—Purpose ef the Founders Explained. ee ee erate rae hae ee of the Founders Explained. By N. BARNETT DODSON. ‘The colored home in New York city now known as the Lincoin hospital was originally established or incorporated by the legislature under the title of “the Soclety For the Support of the Eolored Home.” A petition presented to the legislature for the repeal of cer- tain acts passed March 11, 1839, and May 26, 1841, whieb appropriated $10, 000 for a state hospital in the city of New York, asking a transfer of the money therein named to the colored home. These acts were repealed and a new act framed. ‘The money was transferred to the managers of the colored home to be ap- piled to the erection of a permanent batlding on the real estate belonging to the sald home in the city of New York for the relief and support of disabled colored sailors and other infirm and destitute colored people, In 1848 the society purchased forty-four lots of ground lying ou Sizty-Ofth street be- tween Avenue A and First avenue, upon which the managers erected a faitable building. It cousisted of two Ustinet divisions or wings for the ac- commodation of males and females, each 100 by 26 feet, separated by a ground plot of 100 feet, the whole forming an open square. At the first meeting in 1889 after the adoption of the constitution twelve in- Gividuals were proposed and received as objects worthy of rellef. During 1847 the statistics show that the instl- tution had cared for nearly 1.000 per- sons, a large proportion of whom were from the almsbouse. The colored home originated in the liberality of one Chris- tian lady, a Miss Jay by name, who was the daughter of the distinguished and venerable John Jay, who sub- serlbed the rst $1,000 to the home, which was turned over to a committee of ladles who met at the residence of her sister, Mrs, Maria Banyer, during the autumn of 1839, ‘The sum appropriated was especially designed for the relief of the slck and respectable colored aged. It is sald, de spite the fact that this colored home, ‘now the Lincoln hospital, was original ly set apart for the use and benefit of the colored people. that, while there are colored trained nurses on its staff, not @ single colored physician out of the dozens or more competent medical men fn Greater New York is a member of the medical staff of the hospital. Sure ly the original promoters of the bos pita} could not have Intended that thie condition sbould exist. ‘They must have foreseen that at some time In the future the race would have tts own physicians when they gave the colored race the nucleus for a great hospital in which to train its own men for the care of the people of thelr own race. Colored medical students have ttle if any opportunity to study and observe the progress of diseases In the great hospitals of New York city. ‘Would It not be a good thing for Lin- coln hospital to Invite some of the tead- tng colored physicians in New York clty to co-operate with Its present med- feal staff in the treatment of colored patients and to open ite doors to col- ored medical students who are study- ing im the various medica! colleges? ‘The Press and Business Enterprises. ‘That the best of feeling should exist between the press, business concerns, secret and social society is self evi- dent. Each should be a promoter of the other’s interest, for therein lies mutual benefit. The National Negro ‘Press association at ite recent annua) ‘meeting voiced its sentiments in thw Girection by adopting strong resolo tlons calling for closer union betwee: tommercial enterprises and newspaper as essentia! to greater industrial Progress. ‘Two Necessary Elements te Success. ‘In 1894 R. L. Houston of Fort Worth, Tex., was working as x porter on @ salary of $3 per week. A few years ‘ago Mr. Houston went Into the under taking business and now owns a block of houses in the business section of the town. He is highly respected by both colored and white citizens. He ascribes his success to economy and strict at- tention to business ‘Afro-Americans Who Are Making Good In Beaufort. & C.. the postmaster, clerks, carriera and other employees fare all Afro-Americans. ‘They are hon- est and capable and render the govern- ment efficient service. Seven Afro- Americans are employed at the Green- ville (Mlss.) postottice, with an aggre- ate annual salary of $6,800, Reece Wante Ma Galar Linc QfMelate, Just as the colored people protested against the appointment of a man te the supreme court who was known to harbor prejudice against them tn the matter of legal and civic rights, In ‘ke manner will the voting citizens of she race conduct themselves tp the coming national election. TWIN CITY STAR a e oo —_ST. PAUL __| Settin, The Social and Literary Society. The Social and Literary Society met at the home of Mrs. J. Billups % on last Monday Evening. A good supper was served, also a good pro- gram was rendered. Mrs. Mattie campbell rendered a beautiful solo, ; and the Earl Hart Band played dur- ing the evening. ‘The Social and Literary Soclety ae will meet at the home of Deacon and oom Mrs. Geo. Wills on Monday evening, ae Nov. 25th. Dinner will be served yes at 6:30, Also the Social and Lit. will : church, Cedar St. and Summit ave, y from 11 a. m. to 6 p. m. Price 250, ae Everybody is specially urged to come n and get a toothsome meal. , Mrs, James R. Charleston, of Port- | “i land, Ore., accompanied her husband eee i to St. Paul to spend the winter with Mr. and Mrs. John H. Charleston, i - 646 University Ave, St. Paul. They] ff arrived Nov. 19th. % ee aes vei EGGS $4 A DOZEN. i * i Mr. William Murray, who wasar rested by Greek proprietor of a restaurant on 3rd St. in St. Paul last week on the charge of disorderly conduct was tried on Monday and acquitted. Attorney W. T. Francis representing him. The trouble arose over an attempt upon the part of the Greeks to overcharge Murray be- cause of his color. Murray declined to be robbed. He was charged $1.00 for 3 eggs. Mr. Carl D. Pickett passed through from Winnipeg enroute Shelbina, Mo. where he is visiting his relatives. He is looking ver well. Mr. Thos. O. Rogers of 554 Aurore Ave. will prove the claim he won ip North Dakota next April. Tom wa: always lucky, and his many fellow emplayees will be glad to know it He {s a well liked railroad man of much experience. Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Hough have moved to 228 Charles St. Mrs. M. J. Leavitt, 65 Mississipp! St. entertained this week in honot of Mrs, Lizzie Jackson of Chicago, who Is visiting her, enroute to the coast, i ‘The funeral of Mr. Chas. Wiley, son of Mrs, Jackson Houser was held at Lyles Chapel on Nov. 8th. He died Friday, Nov. 8th, in Wisconsin. + Mrs, Estella Green, 201 Cayuga “St. fs much improved after a months ines. Mrs, Irene Banks Hunter has re turned from visiting her mother, Mra, J. L. Slaughter, of Milwaukee, THE BROMLEY CASE DISMISSED. ‘The case of George E. Bromley, charged with burglarizing a room in the Central Hotel, Calumet, Mich., was Friday, Nov. 8, nolle prossed in Cireuit Court. The evidence against Bromley was insufficient and the case was dismissed upon recom- mendation of the prosecuting attor- ney. lots Mrs. McCullough announces that THE AUTUMN LEAF DANCING CLASS. Will hold at MASONIC HALL. 5th Ave. So. and 24th St. Minne- apolis, on MONDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 25, 1912. INDICTED FOR MURDER. Emmet Morgan, who killed his wife, Mrs. Gladys Smith Morgan, was indicted by the Grand Jury of Ramsey County for murder in the first degree. ATTY. FRANCIS OPENS LAW. OFFICE. Mr. Francis has been Asst. Counsel and Chief Clerk in the offices of the Northern Pacific Railway for several years, and has also been admtted to practice before the U. 8. Supreme Court. His offices are at 88-89 Union Block, St. Paul, which were oc- cupted by late Atty. Fred. L. McGhee. INTERNATIONAL RAILROAD MEN'S ASSN. The opening of the Headquarters of the Railroad Men's Assn., was a grand success. They have everything san- itary and homelike—and it appears that it will be a success, but it must have the patronage of those, who ak ways say “We need such things.” Will the people of St. Paul support it? Talk can’t run this institution. THE. ST. LOUIS KITCHEN. You can get a good meal, clean service, and courteous attention at ‘he St. Louis Kitchen, 138 E. Third St., St. Paul. Mrs. Hinson is untver- sally known for her good cooking. DON’T FORGET THE BIG TIME The Big Three Thanksgiving Night Dancing till 4 @. m. Setting Back the Clock ET ia | f ay ( | } a 3 s) a0 a : ma an a ny AM icsy ae err eh por MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY FORUM. ‘The Sunday Forum is a much needed organization, and has done great things for the general better- ment of this community. Yet its de- cline was rapid during past months, and we are sorry that factional dif- ferences caused the lack of interest of so many of its members. Those who have attempted to run things under gang rule are wholly respon- sible. This “soclety” set does not regard the wishes of others, and they have been left alone to rule and ruln, Their conception of the or ganization was an “inter se” affair, with the public as the gallery. There have been instances where younger members disrespected the aged, and the man of ordinary intellect was the scorn of the college boys and coeds. Eevrything went “entre nous,” and the older heads surrendered. Under present conditions the Forum bids fair to become a memory. Think of the instructive programs, the _ bril- Mant speeches, and the enthusiastic members of a recent past, when the Forum was the meeting place of the respectable Negroes of the Twin Citles, Why this change? Because there has been no Unity or con certed effort. This ts a public or ganization and 1s for the public good. Its purpose 1s grand and the work must go on. We feel that the ex-presidents of this society should take special interests in this matter, although they have not been sought for advice, they should begin a re- vival of this good work, make the Forum what {t was before the pres- ent regime. The Star wishes no of- fence to those in office, and we re- gret this statement, which 1s pub- Ushed for the benefit of many who ‘fare interested in the organization. Mr. Lawrence says: “In starting the Weekly Visitor AGAIN, we do not begin with the idea of entering into competition with the Twin City Star, ete. We are sorry for you. We invite competition, but want a fair competitor, The Star is a real newspaper, a legitimate advertising medium, and not a free directory. Free boosting ts not our business. Therefore Mr. Visitor make no excuse for your appearance, either in the size of your sheet or contents of its columns, though it 1s local. You ‘are Welcome, Remember that this ts the age of the survival of the fittest, and with reasonable restraint we will try to hold our position. Ours is a business proposition for revenue only—not a fraternal sideline or dis- tress sign. We serve no certain class. This 1s a publication for the people regardlens of color, for the better: ment of the Negro and humanity and upon these principles we have exist- ed, undaunted by censure and un- changed by praise—O. 8. Smith. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWS. A NEW UNDERTAKER. Mr. D. W. Raynor, a graduate em: balmer, wishes to announce that he has connected himself with one of the best undertaking establishments in the city, and is prepared to render the best possible service to his pa trons. Mr. Raynor has had several years experience in Chicago, and on coming to the Twin Cities, he met Undertaker Thos. H. Lyles of St. Paul, who encouraged his profes | y D. W. RAYNOR. sional ambitions, and induced him to complete a course at the University of Minnesota Mr’ Raynor is a young man, who has worked as a waiter, and made many sacrifices ta attain his profession, He has alec made many friends, and hopes to es tablish at an early date a business that will be a credit to himself and race—which in our opinion fs much needed in Minneapolis. Mr. Raynor is located at 317 Plymouth Ave. No, Office phone Hyland 664. Residence Hyland 1012, Calls answered prompt- ly day or night. qt D ae AEE. BS As aaae lef = SAN Ma." (ame = RS ae We x Weipa “The Best of All is Charity.” CHARITY ENTERTAINMENT. To Be Givéh By GOPHER LODGE OF ELKS NO, 105 AT HIAWATHA TEMPLE, 6TH AND WABASHA 8T. THURSDAY EVENING, DEC. 5, 1912. GOOD MUSIC—REFRESHMENTS, The entire net proceeds to be used to furnish Christmas Dinners in Baskets to the Worthy Poor of the City. . Committee of Arrangements, J. Q. Adams, Thos. Williams, R. M. Johnson, James Taylor, W. G. Root, W. H. Johnson, W. R. Crayton. | ld SYLVESTER W. OLIVER. Working Men’s Social Club 206 So. sis tadalle Mina, PAEGEL WILL MAKE YOUR WATCH KcEP TIME. We do the best WATCH, CLOCK and JEWELRY REPAIRING in the SPECIAL AGENTS for the HAM. ROCKFORD RAILROAD WATCHES. RH HEGENER 07 nieoue ‘TWIN CITY RAZORS, fe ea ee fist stn Ssea “Sinloe Sa“ Thos. H. Lyles 322 Wabasha St. St. Paul, Undertaker a Embalmer Lady Assistant When Desired. Free Service of Chapel and Organ Residence, 673 St. Anthony Ave. Tel.: Date 2947, Calls answered Day or Night IN MINNEAPOLIS OR 8T. PAUL. Both Phones 508, Ba SMOKE THE BEST Sight Draft SC CIGAR W. S CONR D CO., Distributors 8 NORTH SIXTH STREET Peterson, The Druggist 1501 Washington Ave. So. TOILET ARTICLES, DRUGS PRESCRIPTIONS, He Solicits Your Patronage. ——EEE Southern Theatre SevenCorners 15th and Wash:ngton Avenues So. Refined Vaudeville Moving Picture Shows Continous Performance Admission 10 Cents : Children 5 Cents. 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The appolutwent of Mr. Victoria Clay-Haley to the position of chief of the St. Louls division of the Grind Fountain of the United Order of True Reformers nas been announced from the headquarters of the order In Itich mond, Va, Mrs, Hales succeeds (rand Master Flord Rost, who was for many years chief of the St, Loulx divixfon. Mrs. Haley ix a untive of St. Lats and was educated In the public sehoots. i which she served for several years nx a teacher. She tx an aggressive leader in the social, fraternal and re Higious circles of her race in Missouri. being president of the City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs: grand se etary of the Order of Eustern Star of Minourl, and tx vice president of the speclal atate board of commbstion- ‘ert appointed by Governor Hadley: for the Industrial Hoine For Negro Girls. During ber recent trip throngh the east, from which she bax returned, Mrs. Haley uddresed many tnrse av Alenees in Richmond, Va, Waxbingion and otber eltlex. Unjust Laws Tend to Bresd Strife. |The city counell at Portsmouth. Va. fs puzzling its brains in an attempt to ‘form a sexregation ordinance whict “will conform to the state law. The ‘ordinance committee his dually refer red the whole matter to Acting City “Attorney R. Clifford Barclay and City Engineer Cassell. Such unjust Inws oniy tend to breed strife between the “white and colored people, which bene “ta neither. - Loendi Club Holds Big Celebration. The well known Loend! club of Pitts burgh observed Ite fifteenth anniver ary with wn elaborate iterary and mu: steal program, followed by a big ban ‘quet. on Friday evening, Nov. 15, at the ‘clubrooms of the organlaation. Mr. George W. Elliott wax the chair man of the committee in charge of the arrangements for the celebration. TWIN CITY STAR so. The infant fn it HUMAN NATURE [secs mistakable fear upor ; Strange faces into th GIVES ANSWER "=ss2.c= Property, welfare a been conserved «imp ot Pecan oe Phenomena Incldsnt t0 Raclal] raise scasiree i Relations Covcr tha World, | "or shyaces fn ee @ bud or meso qual = However, it is an MANY THEORIES ADVANCED, kzomictement chat 1 Practical and Philosophio Analysis of the Vexed Question of Racial Malad- Justment by Horace J. Rollins, Whe Believes In According to Every Man Fair Treatment, Troy, O.— From the inception of the aboution movement through the great civil war, up from slavery, on through the reconstruction period, the colored race in America bus bad severe struggies and mighty diviculties to hinder Its progress, yet there Is eucour- agement in the fact tia: history re- cords the rise of no race or individual achievements which bave come with: out strong effort, ambition and per: sistevce in the face of oppression. We give below the first of two ar- ticles from the pen of a white man who bas been a firm friend of the col: ored people for more than balf a cen- tury. Horace J. Rollins of Troy, 0. 4s one of the old guard. who knows the ordeal through which our people have passed. their present environment and the attitude of those who would binder rather than help the cause of justice and equal rights for all American citt. eens. ‘Of nature's answer to man's race question Mr, Rollins writes the fol. lowing: The whole world continues to be disturbed by certain phenomena in: cident to racial relations. Countless people—many of them classed as Philosophers—speak and write of the “problem;” there is no end of utter ances that are misleading and harm. ful, yet now and then an observe notes facts that are impressive, an¢ ‘good suggestions are sometimes of fered. However, almost invariably these are fragmentary and as discon. F = re foe eee GO Ge Fe ee oi ee me Rected as stray segments of a circle. They fail to indicate a symmetrical system. ~ Recently a professor of the Tondon university declared that, as the Cau ‘casian cannot thrive in the hot coun tries and as the natives of them do flourish In the north. the white type. being Jess prolific, will be pushed to Aisappearance. This {s interesting and Af it were true would be quite startling. Nature (waiving ber arrogant egotism and destructive selfishness) apprectutes the white man and will use him rightly. The gloomy groping bas various as: pects, an Instance of which shows won derful contrast to the above, especially as to complexion. It 18 the promulga- tion that pictures the advent of a big. strong. unscrupulous blond. who, as @ ‘superman (or a superbog, for appar: ently there 1s small difference), 1s to destroy all other citizens, the good, the true, the beautiful. not caring even for the lovable and useful brunctte, ‘whone milk ts sald to be exceptionally rich. His prognosticated portrait not pleasant, and we will not have him. Some time ago a writer of inter: national fame 1p earnestly denouncing race prejudice declared of it. with: out offering radical explanation, “It 1 a monster begotten of natural instincts and Intellectual confusion.” In the varied forms of it there certainly ts such confusion, It is obvious in the presence of the strange and multiform manifestations and persecutions, ever destroying life as an tmngined duty, which mark the new century, in Europe and the United States. dis tricts where education, legal questions and Christianity are much discussed | and where the inference would pata rally be that Justice and kindness are ‘what each one owes to all others, Buch obscurity must be clenrd an¢ also the foggy conclusion that this Prejudice is from “providence.” But fn order to classify this {intellectual contusion truth so that {t becomes avaliable we must consider the dis quieting fact that the monster ts “be gotten of natural instincts.” Let a see bow ft came about that a fore 80 ugly sprang from a normal impulse | Primitive man, like other promising animals, developed n necessary caution “an to contact with people queerly and mysteriously unlike himself, / This was protective, and riebtfulls ee ee tate Seer eee Naan oe oe typical of the cbild-man and shows un mistakable fear upon the intrusion of ‘strange faces into the nursery and in its feeble way attempts to avold them. Property, welfare and life itself have been conserved xlmply by the “otfish” fnstinct. It hax also bad temporarily ‘& wonderful use, pertaining to certain Yalucs acquired in the condiuon of raclul Integrity, which we will con- Bider presently. Therefore we do not think of shyness in general as being @ bud or mean quality. However, it is an involuntary ac- Knowiedgment that intelligence Is lack- ing requisite to right conduct ‘of Ife. It burs the reciprocal relations neces- sary to growth of civiliztion. So primitive shyness or avoldince cannnt always remain commendable. With general development it elther takes on advanced form—as, for instance. Just circumspection—or. with cuungiug re- latious, it readily becomes pernicious. ‘The biologist knows that when nor- mal conditions are exaggerated or strained they must become abnormal, In a similar way a racial distrust, once ‘temporarily useful, drifts Into unwarranted obstruction or ruinous antipathy. ‘The egoistic tendency, en- courayed by sickly intelligence. invites prejadice to come in and expel recip- Focal justice. While this may be due to mistake on the part of some, it real- ly is a phase of selfishness, There 1s, of course, monstrous self- tsbness not identified with prejudice and not involved with racial relations. It distresses humanity today in the forms of official betrayal of trust, child labor schemes and monopolistic greed. Like race maladjustment, such munt- festations begin in unreasonable ex- tension of natural impulse and result in degradation. ‘This particular perversion, we be Here, as are those. is now in the climax of Its ugliness, Such phenomena con: stitute the moral interregnum which now shamefully and fatally afficts this country. ‘True civilization seeks the balance between egoixm and altra ism. In view of certain facts, some of which we briefly indicate, and of sig nificant typal manifestations universal ly evident, “intellectual confusion” is no longer pardonable. ‘The popular movement for education fs on a surer footing than ever before oubtless because of increasing tnter ‘est in the philosophy of evolution. In its Uebt, racial phenomena must be observed. ‘As for genetal safety—walving the idea of non-natural assistance an¢ that of human reason—there is reme @ial action in Nature herself. Ar Instance of this trath 1s the spontane ous movement of racial convergence which proceeds as surely and about a quietly and safely as does the work ing of the law of gravitation. ‘The result 18 puoiicly commented upon by some who do not understand {t. magnzine writer has noted the increas tng number of people of mixed type declaring that it 1s not much matter { scholarship can offer no explanation o this, as it will presently explain itself ‘Long ago the writer entered this field, and in 1898 a monozraph ap | peared. “Nyetta Segal” (Dillingham), At least a few called {t rndieal cné adequate as a pioneer sketch. Thess | claimed for tt priority as to identifica tion of the phenomenon with evolu | tional laws, for there was dearth o | the pertinent in textbook and cyclo | pedis. SHREWD BUSINESS MAN, Success of J. Jamison, the Los Angeles Iron Merchant. One of the most gratifying signs of the progress which the race is making is seen in the thrift and industry of many ambitious individuals who in the far west are engaged in lines of bus! ness other than the ordinary. The manufacture of cotton fabrics, soap. statuary and the like has been under: thken. Quite out of the ordinary in- deed we find Mr. J. Jamison of Los Angeles, Cal., engaged in the iron bus! ness with marked success, He bas a large yard on Santa Fe ave- nue, in Los Angeles, with improved fa- cilities for hendling the commodity and employs a large number of per- sons in his establishment. By buying several tons of fron at a time be is able to secure more reasonable terms. ‘This bas been one of the features of his success fm the busines» which be has given careful study. Mr. Jamison ts well known among the large fron manufacturers of the state; who recognize in him those nec essary elements which cbaracterize the successful man of affairs. Mr. Jamison started bis business in # small ‘way. Te proceeded cautiously, keep- tng @ close watch on receipts and ex- penses. By this method be bas kept on the safe side in a line of business ‘not hitherto undertaken by our people. Splendid Work of the Rev. D. J. Jenkins Rev. D. J. Jenkins, fouader and pres- Ment of the orphanage which bears his name in Charleston, 8. C.. Is doing a splendid work of uplift among the peo- ple. He not only keeps the institution up to a hich standard of efficiency in its work and care for the orphans, but takes a leading part in all good move- ments for the benefit of the race in the community. The Rev. Mr. Jenkins ts also the successful pastor of the New ‘Tabernacle Fourth Baptiat church. pe ee ey eee | Savings: Neate cones 07 ee Americans by states nre distributed as follows: Four in Tennessee. seven in Alabama, four in Georgin, eleven tn | Mississippi, ten in Virginia: Texan and North Carolina, six each; Florida, South Carolina and Maryinnd. one each; Okinhoma, two; Penneyivanis anf Massachusetts, one each, and two ‘fj Mlnols. SUCCESS OF AN ABLE LAWYER Case In sien | Frank Wheaton Proved His Ab, WELL KNOWN AS STATESMAN FOPREP BEMEGr GF THneee Leger ture and Private Secretary to Con- greseman McComas Rated as One of New York's Foremost Attorneys. Won Victory in Recent Murder Trial, By CLEVELAND G ALLEN. New York.-Among the foremost colored lawyers of thin city tx J, Frank Wheuton, who baw made an excellent record for vitelency I handling many ditticult caxen, His recent victory to clearing Willkim D, Simms of a mar der charge In. Schenectady, N. ¥.. bas won for Mr..Whenton new laurels Simms shot and killed one George Brudt In Schenectady In self defense. The murder of Brodt caused wide spreud alarm, as both Simms and Brout were well known men in the community. Fear fell upon the tittle town ax ihe news of the tragedy be came known, Realizing that the keenest legal ability hud to be exerciwd tn the de feuxe, Simmx sent for bie old friend Whenton to tuke up the came tn bis defense Mr, Wheaton, on taking charge of the caxe, nude a complete and thorotzh Investigtion of the cave and secured xome of the most promt nent white citizens, Including the chief of police, un witness, who tes titled to the good character of Simms Mr Wheaton discovered from reliable persons that Sin abot Brudt we the luxt rexort In xelf defense, With thie evidence to work upon Attoruey Wheaton wet ubout with enerky ta clear bis elent. ‘The trint insted for three day, ‘The Little courtroom wax crowded during the three days’ session of the. trl and the minds of the xpectatone cen tered upon the briliiint Negro iawye who defended Siums, When Mr Y : ae A oe SM) gS Enates oe, Ce i ~ ML ye vasvoumaria) wasst\@wastou: ‘Wheaton made bin nddren to the Jory be wax listened to with marked atten thon ax be unde a xtriking review of the cane, When Judze Muson, betore whom the came wus tried. ninde nis churge tu the Jury euger ears waited the verdict. ‘The Jury retired and after a delther ation of xeveu and one-balt pours re turned with a verdict of pot xuity Mr Wheuton came in for a large xbure Of pruixe for hix victory. ‘The winning Of thix cane by Mr Wheaton nddx uo- other wtur to the long und brilliuat ree- ord of bin legal career He bux long Sxured tn the national iife of the coun. try. and few iuwyern of the rice cap boaxt of a nimilar iegat career He is Well educated and thoroughly prepared for bin life» work. It wax tp the went, before tuking up bia practice in New York, that be made bis start as a law. yer. In Minnesota be wan one of the mont votuble and interesting Gxures to the stare. He won bis «pure when a atu: dent in the State University of Minne- sota, of which school be is a graduate fn inw, clam of IMM, He war clans orator and the Hrat colored graduate of the mhoo!. His rise in the prominence Of the wtate wan rapid. He wax ap- polnted rending clerk in the state leg- fainture in M05. He wan elected a member of the xtate legislature in Min- bexota from the wealthiest dixtrict tn the state and where but few colored Voterw resided. ‘Thin textitied to the wide influence of Mr Whenton among the white voters of the xtate. He Ix a prominent lodge man, being expecially prominent as an Elk. of whieh he ix grand exalted ruler. tn the conrts of New York Mr. Whenton fa conxidered one of the mont brilliant Inwyers nt the bar, and bix record tn criminal canes ix enpectnily One. Mr. Wheaton inn man of plensing addrews and bax a forceful personality. Ae ennlly maken friende and nin a wide clrele of friends among the bnxdness And professional china, {Te present activity in New York ineiudex tne Presidenes of the eqnity cameron Felvit orgnnvention that ix stole an fond for the cick: betterment of U race. os ee ae es eee 3T. TROMAS FPISCOPAL SCURCH Din Ave. So, ang 27th St. Minn. Rev A. H, Lealtad, Rector. . Service at 8 o'ciock P.M. All are Invited. Come, ‘ST. PETERS A. M. E. CHURCH, 23d Bt. Vetween bh and) rua aves wari every Sunday 0:90 tnd 8:00pm Sunday enol at 12:30," Rev. FM Lewis’ Panter, ST, JAMES A.M, &. CHURCH, mb Wightns Ave. So, “iunduy°aervncen at i am. 8pm. Sunday School wit pe a Rev. E. R. Edwards, Pastor. 3ETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH, 1190 Telgnth Street Go.” pressing evesy Sunday morning nd evering, Skew wearer rants AION BAPTIgT CHURCH, ein avenue Sian Ach bt. Saran erm age Svening “ewe ounuaye weve ae We wanes, Pastor ST. PAUL. St. James A. M. E. 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We beg that those who are Indebt- ed to us, send us their subscription py P. O. Order. THE TWIN CITY STAR NEGRO PROGRESSIVE. Entered in the Post once at Minneapolis, June 23, as second class matter. Published Every Saturday by CHARLES SUMNER SMITH, 1419 Washington Ave. So., Minneapolis, Minn. Geo. B. Kelley Duluth, Minn. "Head of the Lakes" Representative. Subscription by Mail, Postpaid. ONE YEAR ..... $2.00 SIX-MONTHS ..... 1.25 3 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 to 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 Wednesdy for insertion. THE RULE OF THE PEOPLE. The national Progressive party, committed to the principle of government by a self-controlled democracy expressing its will through representatives of the people pledges itself to secure such alterations in the fundamental law of the several states and of the United States as shall insure the representative character of the government. In particular this party declares for direct primaries for the nomination of state and national officers, for nation-wide preferential primaries for candidates for the presidency, for the direct election of United States senators by the people; and we urge on the states the policy of the short ballot with responsibility to the people secured by the initiative, referendum and recall. This is the plank in the platform condemning States' Rights, and the revival of the Civil Rights Bill, which the Republicans never passed. Roosevelt carried Minnesota. The Progressive fight has just begun. The Republican Party was a ship—but she is a wreck now. The publisher of Jim Jam Jems has been arrested and the Federal Grand Jury is investigating. Negroes were much worked up when the Jack Johnson article appeared, and they had forgotten if they knew that County Attorney Robertson brought this matter before the grand jury last spring. There was no need of comment on any article reflecting on the Negro woman from such a source, and we did not intend to give free advertisement for its sale. They will always investigate in Minnesota, while Senator Clapp and Congressman Stevens are on the Inter-State Committees, and it is known that they are friends of the Negro. Mayor-elect Nye will shake up the Police Dept. and Detective Weir will not specialize on brutal treatment of Negro prisoners. Detective Sergt. Hamilton as a man should protect the rights of the members of his race, and not allow his subordinates to suffer inhumane treatment. Would they allow him to beat a white man? It is a certainty that Mr Nye will give the Negroes every chance. There are too many stools, who fveling they have protection, commit crimes. A stool pigeon often expects a job on the police force, but usually gets a prison sentence. The Jack Johnson case gave publicity to the Jim Crow section in the Chicago jail. Negro gambling houses are closed at Atlantic City. Two gamblers were fined $1,000.00 and sentenced to a year in prison. Plumbs or Crumbs? that is the question for the Wilson Black Cabinet. Where are all the Negro Editors who were for Taft and the Republican Party? Last reported were attending Taft obsequies Singing, Massa's in de cold, cold ground." Yes—it's awful dolest. 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 Twina 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? The Twina City Star has the exclusive use in this city of the Afro American news service of the American Press Assn., edited by Mr. N. B Dodson of N. Y., which is a feature of our publication, much appreciated by our readers. EDUCATOR APPEALS TO HELP NEGRO GIRL. Asserts She Receives Less Protection And Respect Than any Being. Chicago.—A plea for the Negro girl was made in an address by Prof. William Pickens of Talladega college, Alabama, at the graduating exercises of the Provident Hospital Training School for Nurses. "An institution like Provident hospital is manifesting this noble modern Christian spirit in two ways," said Prof. Pickens. "First, in caring for the needy of its own neighborhood, and second in pointing a way of life to the most neglected member of a rather neglected group of American citizens—the Negro girl. "I say without envy and without grudge that the white girl of America is the best cared for creature that has ever appeared on the face of the earth. "On the other hand, the Negro girl is almost without employment except of the most menial sorts, and receives less protection from public opinion than from the law. For the unprotected, unsupported girl housework, personal low wage service, is full of death. What must the Negro girl do? Stay at home in idleness? Idleness is full of weakness and temptation. So there she is, between vultures on the right and tempters on the left—on the one hand death and on the other sin. "The most virtuous creature in the United States of America is a virtuous Negro woman. Her resisting and enduring powers are of the highest order. In this she is a prototype and prophecy of what her race is to be, if it will overcome. Her character is often assailed in fact, and her reputation more often assailed in slander. "But those of us who know the Negro race kniw that the virtuous colored woman's name is legion and that her ranks are increasing. It seems almost absurd to feel the necessity of proving so, but the boldness of the slander elicits the defense. This woman has honored her sex by proving the virtue of womanhood as few groups of women in the history of the owrid have ever had the privilege of proving it. She has run the gauntlet of a double fire and delivered the destinies of a race." ENVIRONMENT And while we can hope to offer nothing now to the discussion of the color line problem, I am glad to report in advance that my observations have tended to fix in my mind the conviction which I have long since entertained, that there is essentially no difference in the various races of men. Rich and poor, high and low, we are all simply men. Culture and civilization are not handed down from family to family, from generation to generation. There is no royal road to refinement. Each generation must acquire culture for itself. If the Negro race has not reached the high stage of civilization attained by other races, suffer not the delusion that it is because of inherent inferiority, for it is not. It is on account of the fact that the majority of the race has not yet found its way into the proper environment, and has not yet struck the fountain of knowledge accumulated by countless generations. The facilities for reaching this fountain are not yet well developed; but the tendency is toward the goal—Chas. Alexander, in Southern Life Magazine. RFAD THE STAR-IT'S NEWS. TWIN CITY STAR TRUE MEANING OF EDUCATION Necessity For Capable, Intellectual Leaders Shown by Results and Capacity For Higher Learning—Two Classes of Thinkers Represented in Great Field of Effort and Duty. By GEORGE E. HAYNLS, Ph. D. In the preface of this article on the function of higher education a clear definition of "higher education" is necessary, because the confusion of many discussions comes through a double meaning of the term. In its best sense education means the development of the powers of the individual which enable him to meet the duties and opportunities of work, leisure and friendship. Now, in coupling the word "higher" with the word "education" one of two meanings must be implied, either that there are certain systems of development which are "higher" than others, that are lower, or that the character of the education received is higher than the other. The confusion usually arises in forgetting that the criterion of education is the relation of the result of education to the capacity for reception and power for use of those receiving it. If, then, we take our point of departure from those who are educated we shall very probably come to the sound conclusion that education is "higher education," so called, both in system and character, which develops or tends to develop to the full extent of his capacity to receive and power for use of the one educated. Results and Systems of Education. The results should be farreaching. Any system of education, whether called higher or lower, that does not so develop is not education. We should measure any system by this criterion of results. Whether the education is given with tools, in stops, in laboratories or in library and literary halls, if it does not develop the powers of the student so that he may meet the duties and opportunities of life better prepared it is not education at all, higher or lower. The capacity for the many for development is far below the capacity of the few. The opportunities of life for the capacity of the many can best be met by a system of education which will prepare them for the most intelligent labor, for the masses of mankind must be lifted higher than they are. And for this purpose the capacity of the few must be developed and brought to the service of the many. Progress must keep up full speed, and head and heart are the double cylinders that must furnish the power. In a word, intelligence and emotion move the world. And the function of higher education is to develop the intelligence and give control of the emotions. Two Principal Classes of Students. Let us apply this to our college and university systems. By general agreement, students may be divided into men and women of thought and men and women of action, accordingly as the dominant capacity of their minds is intellectual or emotional, or in more academic language, as they belong to the visual type or motor type of mind. The duties, opportunities and privileges of life which will confront these persons are those of leadership in thought and action. The thought leaders become the scientists, the great physicians, urists, inventors, the writers, the men and women who think the great Creator's thoughts after him. The leaders of emotion are the statesmen, the preachers, the prophets, the artists, the idealists in many fields the men and women who dream the dreams and see the visions no mortal ever dared to dream or see before. This class furnishes the militant leaders who sally forth like Joan of Arc and Saul of Tarsus to execute the call of their captain. The University as a Place of Nurture. Our colleges and universities, our institutions for "higher education," must be places of nurture for such men and women. If they are not such places, they betray their trust and their plants had best be turned to the use of so called common schools and industrial schools and their faculties sent to other occupations than that of the exalted station of the teachers and inspirers of our talented youths. While I am an optimist, candor leads me to say that our American colleges have sinned grievously in this matter. In the case of the Negro college, four factors have emphasized these influences—viz. first, the belief that the only Negroes who could profit by a liberal education were a few freaks; second, the presumption that the Negro people can advance without such leaders of action and thought; third, the conceited idea that such systems of development were not designed for black men. The fourth and last is the deliberate and selfish conclusion that such instruments of upift should be kept out of our hands lest we rise from the depths of savagery and slavery. These and other notions have been the crosses upon which many of the endowment aspirations of Negro colleges have been built. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION. Invites Your Personal Inspection of their Great Department Store to take advantage of the many conveniences including POST OFFICE REST ROOMS TELEPHONE'S CHECKING ROOM BUREAU OF INFORMATION ETC. ETC. ETC. THE CARVER HOTEL On All Car Lines 1308-10 WASHINGTON AVE. SO. 28 Newly Furnished Rooms. 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