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tive Page VOL. 3 Single Copies 5 Cents great work. He married during the year 1890 Miss Rosetta Hampton of Hobson, Va., a resident of the same county in which the doctor was born. She has been and is still a great factor in the doctor's activities and is admired by the citizens for her loving disposition and faithful service in helping those who need encouragement. "Dr. Laycock inspired me," says George F. King, "when I was but a youth, and I therefore owe much of the success which I have had in my profession to the fatherly advice of Dr. Laycock, who was a fellow student and graduated in the same class with Mr. N. B. Dodson, one of the race's best writers." WHITMAN ON THE PROBLEM. Emanolpation Was Righteous Act Says New York District Attorney. Two thousand people, of whom at least 80 per cent were colored, attended the meeting at Young's casino, in New York, Sunday afternoon, Jan. 12, held under the auspices of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People. Pressing public duties prevented Charles S. Whitman, district attorney for New York, from being present. The speech which he had prepared was read by the Rev. A. Clayton Powell, D. D., pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist church. Other speakers were Dr. W. E. B. Du Bols, editor of the Crisis Magazine and director of publicity and research of the National association; Mrs. A. W. Hunton, special worker for the Y. M. C. A.; Joel E. Spingarn, formerly professor of comparative languages at Columbia university and now chairman of the vigilance committee which is the New York branch of the National association, and Professor William Pickens of Talladega college. Bishop Alexander Walters presided. In the address of District Attorney Charles S. Whitman, read by Dr. A. Clayton Powell, that official said that the oppressor, sometimes in ignorance, exercising the power which is his as a result of circumstances, for which he may not always have been held responsible, often as much the victim of conditions, environment and tradition as the oppressed, in time, by the very nature of things, has become a creature, in mind and body, lower and weaker than the object of his oppression. Negro slavery was a menace to the white man. That its continued existence must have caused a deterioration of the fiber, mental, moral and even physical, of a great people is, he believes, now apparent to all. Irrespective of the events immediately following the war and the federal legislation of the reconstruction days, all familiar with American history must agree that the emancipation of the slave was an even greater boon to the white man than it was to the black. It was the white man who made the Negro a slave. It was the white man that was responsible for the being which 250 years of unrequited toll had made him. It was the white man who, by the very act of emancipation, deprived him of whatever help, comfort or protection the old system had offered him. It was the white man who declared him to be a citizen and an equal, having given him no opportunity to prepare himself for equality or for citizenship. Of course the emancipation was a righteous act, and of course its benefits, moral and in the end material, to the white race are so oblivious that they admit of no discussion, but the immediate gain or advantage to vast numbers of the colored race is not so oblivious. The statistics of crime in this country fail to show that the members of our colored population are predisposed to crime. The percentage of law violators is not larger among the native black men than among the native white men, notwithstanding the fact that the average opportunity to better their condition is greater in the case of the white men born in New York than it is in the case of the black men born in New York. Bruce on Heroism of Colored Soldiers President John Edward Bruce of the Negro Society For Historical Research, Yonkers, N. N., very aptly calls attention to the fact that in the Massachusetts Historical society several years ago there was exhibited a silk flag bearing the device of a pine tree and a "buck," with the initials "J. H." and "G. W." over a scroll, on which appear the words "The Bucks of America." This relic had been carefully preserved as the flag presented by Governor Hancock to a company of Negro soldiers bearing that name which served with distinction in the Revolutionary war. Influence of the Tuskegee Institute. The number of students enrolled at the Tuskegee (Ala.) institute for the school year of 1912-13 has reached the high water mark of 1,650. Forty separate trades and industries are taught, and the influence which the school exerts upon the community is of the most helpful kind. MEETS NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE Sucoinot Account of the Rise of a Former Country Boy From Obscurity to Prominence — Graduate of Wayland Seminary and Howard University. Medical School Makes Good. By GEORGE F. KING. Norfolk, Va.—This city with its heterogeneous mass of humanity, because of its peculiar commercial advantages affords a number of interesting characters that are rendering untold good for the health, happiness and the tangible progress of the Afro-American folk in this section. There is particularly one individual whose nerve treasure has afforded him the opportunity to endure hardships in preparing himself for a life of service for the good of humanity. Dr. James Z. Laycock came to Norfolk when there were only two Afro-American physicians here. With a deep passion to make his profession help achieve for his people the things that would make them vital factors in all the affairs that make for a happy, healthy and progressive community, he has been eminently successful. Seemingly from utter seclusion Dr. Laycock has loomed up largely as a "native ideal" for the ambitious youth of the race. He was born in Nansemond county, Va., where he attended the district school until 1888, when he went to Washington to attend Wayland seminary, an institution that has hundreds of successful graduates in every section of the country. In his quiet and unassuming manner he studied zealously and won the admiration of the faculty and student body. He spent his vacations at Atlantic City, N. J., working at the Children's Seashore House, an institution for the care of invalid children. Being so attentive to the slightest detail of his work and making himself quite an indispensable factor in his department, he soon became the cynosure DR. JAMES Z. LAYCOOK. of the eyes of eminent doctors of Atlantic City and Philadelphia, and their association inspired him to the extent that after his graduation from Wayland in the class of 1891 he entered Howard University Medical school, from which he graduated in 1895. An inspiring feature of the career of Dr. Laycock is that as soon as he graduated from the Medical school he was offered a position on the staff of the same institution from which he had received his inspiration, the Children's Seashore House, Atlantic City, N. J. Here he distinguished himself, but decided to return south and work among his own people. He began his practice in this city Nov. 14, 1895, and today he is regarded by the medical profession as one of the most skillful physicians in this section of the country. His exceptional work proves his ability. He has established a precedent among the physicians of his race in this section and met a peculiar need of the people here by erecting a thoroughly modern and convenient structure for the practice of his profession. His residence is combined with his office. He has helped a number of young men and women in their efforts to better their condition, and there is not a man in Norfolk who will do more than Dr. Laycock to help an ambitious youth. The doctor is not alone in this MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., JANUARY 25, 1913. TRUE MEANING OF GARRISON'S WORK REFORMER AND BENEFACTOR. Plea For Supreme Recognition of Services Rendered by William Lloyd Garrison In Great Fight to Overthrow Moral Sin of Slavery—Fred Douglass Also Played Fine Part. By ANTHONY R. MAYO. Jan. 1, 1918, was the fiftieth anniversary of the proclamation of emancipation. The event was celebrated throughout the nation, largely by the colored people. It was celebrated as a boon conferred upon the Negro by Abraham Lincoln and, if we are to judge by similar celebrations in the past, with little or no reference to the real factors which wrought the overthrow of slavery. This the writer believes to be an unfortunate defect in all such celebrations. It shows a sad lack of historical perspective, a fatal ignorance of the essential factors in the making of history. For that reason, and in a measure to cause the race to atone for its neglect of its real liberators, this article is written. Few pause to reflect on the herculean labors necessary to pave the way for and to render effective a proclamation of emancipation. Our Hercules, however, was not Abraham Lincoln, great and good that he was, but William Lloyd Garrison. When Garrison began his moral agitation against slavery, denouncing the nation for having made "a covenant with death and an agreement with hell," it was intrenched in every section of the nation. Not that the northern states were slaveholding states, but public sentiment at the north approved slavery and strongly disapproved the agitation of Mr. Garrison and others to bring about its abolition. Mr. Lincoln, sad to relate, was among the millions of northern men who bowed in submission to it and saw in this new Lernaean hydra a beast too formidable to conquer. It was to be endured, to be coddled, never aroused, for fear of the evils which would befall the union of the states. Fortunate for the Negro and most fortunate indeed for civilization and freedom in the new world, the opinion of Abraham Lincoln, the statesman, was not the opinion of William Lloyd Garrison, the reformer. He saw in the situation the duty to call a nation to repentance, to arouse its slumbering conscience, deedened by the poisons of a perfidious wrong. For more than thirty years his voice and pen thundered his Jovean denunciations of the moral sin of slavery. He raised the banner of immediate and unconditional emancipation, upon which was inscribed the motto, "My country is the world, my countrymen all mankind," and a host of kindred spirits came to his support, slowly at first, but in great numbers later, as the cause became more popular. No single force of public life did so much for human freedom. No human being has placed the Negro upon such obligations to him and to that great host which followed his lead, many of whose names are household words in the literature of our country. It was he who first discovered the poetic talent of John Greenleaf Whittier, the "poet of freedom," whose songs awakened sympathy in the hearts of millions for the outraged slave; it was he who took the untutored Douglass from the shipyards of New Bedford and focused the eyes of the world upon him as one in whom mankind might behold the infamies of slavery and the latent possibilities of the slave. Garrison began the publication of the Liberator, the organ of the Abolitionists, Jan. 1, 1831. He stopped its publication Jan. 1, 1860, just thirty-five years later, after he had accomplished his purpose, the overthrow of chattel slavery. He founded the American Anti-slavery society Jan. 1, 1832. Jan. 1 is, therefore, a day of more than ordinary significance to the Negro. We shall not, however, demonstrate our appreciation of the significance of the events we celebrate on these recurring anniversaries until as a race we become deeply conscious of the moral courage, steadfastness of purpose and sacrifices of our real liberators, white and black, who gave to the cause their devotion, their means, their talents and in many instances their lives. Their examples should be an inspiration to the Negro everywhere to battle on bravely and hopefully against every circumstance which blocks his path to the attainment of that fuller, free life which is our alm. Let the past inspire us to perform well the duties which the present age and need imposes upon us. National Baptist Executive Board. The executive board of the national Baptist convention, of which the Rev. Dr. E. C. Morris of Helena, Ark., is president, will hold its midwinter meeting at the Tuskegee (Ala.) institute on Wednesday, Jan. 29. Among the matters to be decided upon is the place for holding the next meeting of the convention, in connection with which will be held special exercises commemorative of the fiftieth anniversary of freedom. BROWN OLDEST EMPLOYEE. Served Post Thirty-five Years—Feels Good and Still Hange On. Anthony Brown, eighty-five years old and in point of service the oldest employee of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, recently celebrated the thirty-fifth anniversary of his connection with that newspaper. According to the Post-Dispatch, Mr. Brown, who is one of the most prominent colored Masons in the United States, went to work as a porter for the St. Louis Evening Post in 1878, a year before Joseph Pulitzer consolidated it with the Dispatch. When asked how he was celebrating his anniversary the venerable Uncle Anthony replied, "By working and feeling pretty good." He recalled that no one who was in any way connected with the Post-Dispatch when he began his service is now with the paper. "Even the boys that sold the papers then are gone," said Mr. Brown, with an air of just pride, "but this old man is hanging on." EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TO MEET IN PHILADELPHIA National Negro Press Association Officials to Hold Session Feb. 1. The midwinter meeting of the executive committee of the National Negro Press association will be held at the headquarters of the Emancipation Proclamation association, 1352 Lombard street, Philadelphia, Saturday afternoon, Feb. 1, at 2 o'clock. The indications are that the meeting will be largely attended by members of the committee from the various states. Besides Editor R. R. Wright of the Christian Recorder, who is a member of the committee, Messrs. Chris Perry and G. Grant Williams of the Philadelphia Tribune, John Clinton, Jr., of the Solid Rock Herald, G. L. P. Tallafero of the Christian Banner and A. P. Caldwell of the Philadelphia Courant have been invited to attend the meeting and participate in the proceedings. Editor James Lightfoot of the Atlantic Advocate, Atlantic City, N. J., will represent that state, and W. H. Craighead of the Advocate-Verdict, Harrisburg, Pa., and W. N. Page of the Courier, Pittsburgh, will represent their respective cities as members of the association. Publishers from the state of Maryland include Messrs. Harry T. Pratt and John H. Murphy, Baltimore, and Melvin Chisum. The editor of the Dorchester Courier has also been invited. New York will be represented by James H. Anderson, managing editor of the Amsterdam News. The following general officers of the association will be present: R. W. Thompson, president, Washington; Henry Allen Boyd, corresponding secretary, Nashville, Tenn., and N. Barnett Dodson, chairman of the executive committee, New York. Buffalo Citizens Honor James A. Ross. The testimonial banquet given in honor of Mr. James A. Ross, candidate for the position of recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia at the Little Savoy hotel in Buffalo recently, was a splendid affair. The banquet was given under the auspices of the colored citizens of Buffalo and the Erie County Democratic league, of which Mr. Walter Derror is president and Mr. Allen Smith is secretary. Mr. Ross is the publisher of the Detroit (Mich.) Informer and well known for his loyalty to the best interests of the race along all lines. Cause of the Existence of Prejudice John Stuart Mill said on one occasion that it appeared to him that when prejudices persist obstinately it is the fault of nobody so much as those who make a point of proclaiming them insuperable as an excuse for never joining in an attempt to remove them. Any prejudice whatever will be insurmountable if those who do not share in it themselves truckle to it and fattest it and accept it as a law of nature. The items from the classes, make the news of the masses. Read the Twin City Star. SMOKE THE RELIABLE 5c SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR 5c THRIFTY CENTER OF EDUCATION School Founded Twenty-five Years Ago by Dr. C. S. Brown Has Made Remarkable Progress — First Donation For Its Work Came From the Late Dr. Tupper of Shaw University. Winton, N. C.—Never before in the history of Afro-Americans in this section of the state has there been such an awakening along educational and economic lines as at the present time. Hundreds of them are successful farmers, and their homes are model homes, which reveal culture and substantial recognition of everything that makes for representative citizenship. Every movement, whether for the advancement of higher education or for reaching those not so much inclined to thrift, is given substantial encouragement. The prime factor in bringing about such excellent conditions among our people in this section is Waters institute, which was founded twenty-five years ago by one of the most prominent educators, pulpiteers and leaders REV. DR. C. S. BROWN. of the race, Dr. C. S. Brown, president of the Lott Carey foreign mission convention. He launched out here with $10, donated by the late Dr. Tupper, founder of Shaw university. Today this institution is regarded by both races in this section as a prime factor in the present friendly relations which exist between the white and colored people of this section. This institution held its quarto centennial celebration in 1912, and hundreds of successful farmers were present and gave their approval of the institution's influence and what it has caused them to accomplish. Interesting statistics were given, showing the remarkable progress of the farmer, caused by the dissemination of ideas that are now seen in a concrete manner. Dr. Brown keeps in touch with the farmers in this section of North Carolina. The students and graduates of the institute are doing effective work in many parts of the country and especially so in this state and in Virginia. The present facilities of the institute are taxed by the large number of boys and girls from rural districts. There are also many students from Virginia and other states. Because of this same and progressive institution being a vital factor in the activities of hundreds of our people Dr. Brown is now the cynosure of the better element of both races in every section. Special efforts are being put forth to make it possible for Dr. Brown to carry into effect his plans for the further advancement of the masses in the rural districts. Having started with only $10, the present movement is remarkable, and many of the leading white people in North Carolina acclaim that this is a real evidence of the Negro's ability to manage large affairs judiciously, comprehensively and successfully. It is stated authoritatively that the institution has made this a model community. Drunkenness and other evils that affect community life is not in evidence here. The young people take pride in making rural life really attractive and helpful. It can be seen that Dr. Brown is doing a great work of uplift. One must travel in a number of counties to get a clear conception of the scope of the effective leadership of Dr. Brown. Yet he is unassuming, modest and truly interested in the welfare of the race. The strong faculty that Dr. Brown has is imbued with the kind of spirit that will make any institution a success. From present indications this school year will be unprecedented in the annals of the institution. Coatesville Taken to Task by Tener. "Murder will out" is an old saying, but it has its place and meaning in the body politic of America as is seen in the action of Governor Tener of Pennsylvania in moving to revoke the charter of the town of Coatesville, where Zack Walker was lynched nearly two years ago and for which no one has been punished. ANN ARBOR SENIORS HONOR MISS PHILLIS W. WATERS West Virginia Girl Elected Captain of Basketball Team. Ann Arbor, Mich. — Miss Phillis Wheatley Waters, a senior in the Ann Arbor high school, was recently elected captain of the basketball team of that noted institution. She is a diligent student in the classroom and also very fond of athletic sports. This is the first instance in the eventful history of the school that such an honor has been conferred upon a colored girl. Miss Waters is the daughter of Colonel Phil Waters, chief deputy clerk of the supreme court of appeals of West Virginia. He resides at Charleston, W. Va., and is a well known politician of considerable influence. Miss Waters accepted her new honors with modesty. Although aware of the fact that she has received a high mark of distinction, she is determined to measure up to the fullest requirements of the position. She has received congratulations galore from friends and schoolmates. Editor J. H. Murphy on Southern Trips John E. Murphy, editor of the Baltimore Afro-American Ledger, is in the south on a six weeks' trip. His itinerary includes Charlotte, N. C.; Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Ala.; the Tuskegee conference, the meeting of the Florida grand lodge of Masons at Jacksonville and visits to a number of Masonic bodies in various cities of Florida. Leaving Florida, he will visit Mobile, New Orleans, Vicksburg, Memphis, Louisville and Cincinnati. Mr. Murphy is imperial recorder of the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and Shriners have arranged functions in his honor at a number of the places that he will visit. Publishers Hold Meeting in Dayton. The Sunday school council of evangelical publishers held its first meeting for the new year in Dayton, O., from Jan. 21 to 25. Much important business was transacted looking toward enlarging the scope of the council's work in order to meet the pressing needs of its patrons. International Committee, Y. M. C. A. The thirty-fifth annual dinner of the international committee of the Young Men's Christian association was held at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York recently and was largely attended. Chairman Alfred E. Marling presided. Among the speakers were J. E. Moorland, Charles R. Towson, Dr. George J. Fisher, Frederick B. Smith, John F. Moore, E. T. Colton, E. M. Robinson, Charles D. Hurrey and A. E. Roberts. NEW ALBANY HAPPENINGS. Religious Workers Organize to Check Trend Toward Worldiness. New Albany, Ind.-Describing the movement to increase the attendance in the churches and Sunday schools of this vicinity as "the great need of the community," Mrs. Lillie R. Johnson read a thoughtful and inspiring paper before the called meeting of the united religious denominations of the city recently in Jones' chapel A. M. E. Zion church. The object of the convention was to discuss the situation relative to the unsatisfactory attendance of our people in the churches and Sunday schools and to levy a plan of action to remedy the same. Mrs. Mary E. Washington, following Mrs. Johnson, explained the conditions as she saw them and urged the formation of a permanent organization of church and school officials to wage an aggressive campaign among the elements from which they must look for support. As at outcome of many expressions of sympathy with such a movement the International Religious Betterment association was formed, with the following officers: Mrs. Mary E. Washington, preside it; Mrs. E. B. Yanthis, vice preside it; Miss Tillie Stubbins, secretary; Eugene Keller, treasurer. Mrs. L. R. Johnson, Miss Mamle Richardson, Mrs. Washington, J. E. Harper and T. K. Webb were named as a committee to map out a definite program for maling the objects of the association effective. READ THE STAR—IT'S THE NEWS. MINNEAPOLIS DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST. PAUL MINNESOTA HISTORICAL Defective Page Sucoinot Account of the Rise of a Former Country Boy From Obscurity to Prominence—Graduate of Wayland Seminary and Howard University. Medical School Makes Good. By GEORGE F. KING. Norfolk, Va.—This city with its heterogeneous mass of humanity, because of its peculiar commercial advantages affords a number of interesting characters that are rendering untold good for the health, happiness and the tangible progress of the Afro-American folk in this section. There is particularly one individual whose nerve treasure has afforded him the opportunity to endure hardships in preparing himself for a life of service for the good of humanity. Dr. James Z. Laycock came to Norfolk when there were only two Afro-American physicians here. With a deep passion to make his profession help achieve for his people the things that would make them vital factors in all the affairs that make for a happy, healthy and progressive community, he has been eminently successful. Seemingly from utter seclusion Dr. Laycock has loomed up largely as a "native ideal" for the ambitious youth of the race. He was born in Nansemond county, Va., where he attended the district school until 1888, when he went to Washington to attend Wayland seminary, an institution that has hundreds of successful graduates in every section of the country. In his quiet and unassuming manner he studied zealously and won the admiration of the faculty and student body. He spent his vacations at Atlantic City, N. J., working at the Children's Seashore House, an institution for the care of invalid children. Being so attentive to the slightest detail of his work and making himself quite an indispensable factor in his department, he soon became the cynosure THE HOUSE OF THE FAMILY DR. JAMES E. LATCOCK. of the eyes of eminent doctors of Atlantic City and Philadelphia, and their association inspired him to the extent that after his graduation from Wayland in the class of 1891 he entered Howard University Medical school, from which he graduated in 1895. An inspiring feature of the career of Dr. Laycock is that as soon as he graduated from the Medical school he was offered a position on the staff of the same institution from which he had received his inspiration, the Children's Seashore House, Atlantic City, N. J. Here he distinguished himself, but decided to return south and work among his own people. He began his practice in this city Nov. 14, 1895, and today he is regarded by the medical profession as one of the most skillful physicians in this section of the country. His exceptional work proves his ability. He has established a precedent among the physicians of his race in this section and met a peculiar need of the people here by erecting a thoroughly modern and convenient structure for the practice of his profession. His residence is combined with his office. He has helped a number of young men and women in their efforts to better their condition, and there is not a man in Norfolk who will do more than Dr. Laycock to help an ambitious youth. The doctor is not alone in this great work. He married during the year 1899 Miss Rosetta Hampton of Hobson, Va., a resident of the same county in which the doctor was born. She has been and is still a great factor in the doctor's activities and is admired by the citizens for her loving disposition and faithful service in helping those who need encouragement. "Dr. Laycock inspired me," says George F. King, "when I was but a youth, and I therefore owe much of the success which I have bad in my profession to the fatherly advice of Dr. Laycock, who was a fellow student and graduated in the same class with Mr. N. B. Dodson, one of the race's best writers." WHITMAN ON THE PROBLEM. Emanolpation Wae Righteous Act, Says New York District Attorney. Two thousand people, of whom at least 80 per cent were colored, attended the meeting at Young's casino, in New York, Sunday afternoon, Jan. 12, held under the auspices of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People. Pressing public duties prevented Charles S. Whitman, district attorney for New York, from being present. The speech which he had prepared was read by the Rev. A. Clayton Powell, D. D., pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist church. Other speakers were Dr. W. E. B. Du Bols, editor of the Crisis Magazine and director of publicity and research of the National association; Mrs. A. W. Hunton, special worker for the Y. M. C. A.; Joel E. Spingarn, formerly professor of comparative languages at Columbia university and now chairman of the vigilance committee which is the New York branch of the National association, and Professor William Pickens of Talladega college Bishop Alexander Walters presided. In the address of District Attorney Charles S. Whitman, read by Dr. A. Clayton Powell, that official said that the oppressor, sometimes in ignorance, exercising the power which is his as a result of circumstances, for which he may not always have been held responsible, often as much the victim of conditions, environment and tradition as the oppressed, in time, by the very nature of things, has become a creature, in mind and body, lower and weaker than the object of his oppression. Negro slavery was a menace to the white man. That its continued existence must have caused a deterioration of the fiber, mental, moral and even physical, of a great people is, he believes, now apparent to all. Irrespective of the events immediately following the war and the federal legislation of the reconstruction days, all familiar with American history must agree that the emancipation of the slave was an even greater boon to the white man than it was to the black. It was the white man who made the Negro a slave. It was the white man that was responsible for the being which 250 years of unrequited toll had made him. It was the white man who, by the very act of emancipation, deprived him of whatever he'd comfort or protection the old system had offered him. It was the white man who declared him to be a citizen and an equal, having given him no opportunity to prepare himself for equality or for citizenship. Of course the emancipation was a righteous act, and of course its benefits, moral and in the end material, to the white race are so obvious that they admit of no discussion, but the immediate gain or advantage to vast numbers of the colored race is not so obvious. The statistics of crime in this country fail to show that the members of our colored population are predisposed to crime. The percentage of law violators is not larger among the native black men than among the native white men, notwithstanding the fact that the average opportunity to better their condition is greater in the case of the white men born in New York than it is in the case of the black men born in New York. Bruce on Heroism of Colored Soldiers President John Edward Bruce of the Negro Society For Historical Research, Yonkers, N. X., very aptly calls attention to the fact that in the Massachusetts Historical society several years ago there was exhibited a silk flag bearing the device of a pine tree and a "buck," with the initials "J. H." and "G. W." over a scroll, on which appear the words "The Bucks of America." This relic had been carefully preserved as the flag presented by Governor Hancock to a company of Negro soldiers bearing that name which served with distinction in the Revolutionary war. Influence of the Tuskegee institute. The number of students enrolled at the Tuskegee (Ala.) institute for the school year of 1912-13 has reached the high water mark of 1,650. Forty separate trades and industries are taught, and the influence which the school exerts upon the community is of the most helpful kind. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., JANUARY 25, 1913. TRUE MEANING OF GARRISON'S WORK REFORMER AND BENEFACTOR. Plea For Supreme Recognition of Services Rendered by William Lloyd Garrison In Great Fight to Overthrow Moral Sin of Slavery—Fred Douglass Also Played Fine Part. By ANTHONY R. MAYO. Jan. 1, 1918, was the fiftieth anniversary of the proclamation of emancipation. The event was celebrated throughout the nation, largely by the colored people. It was celebrated as a boon conferred upon the Negro by Abraham Lincoln and, if we are to judge by similar celebrations in the past, with little or no reference to the real factors which wrought the overthrow of slavery. This the writer believes to be an unfortunate defect in all such celebrations. It shows a sad lack of historical perspective, a fatal ignorance of the essential factors in the making of history. For that reason, and in a measure to cause the race to atone for its neglect of its real liberators, this article is written. Few pause to reflect on the herculean labores necessary to pave the way for and to render effective a proclamation of emancipation. Our Hercules, however, was not Abraham Lincoln, great and good that he was, but William Lloyd Garrison. When Garrison began his moral agitation against slavery, denouncing the nation for having made "a covenant with death and an agreement with hell," it was intrenched in every section of the nation. Not that the northern states were slaveholding states, but public sentiment at the north approved slavery and strongly disapproved the agitation of Mr. Garrison and others to bring about its abolition. Mr. Lincoln, sad to relate, was among the millions of northern men who bowed in submission to it and saw in this new Lernaean hydra a beast too formidable to conquer. It was to be endured, to be coddled, never aroused, for fear of the evils which would befall the union of the states. Fortune for the Negro and most fortunate indeed for civilization and freedom in the new world, the opinion of Abraham Lincoln, the statesman, was not the opinion of William Lloyd Garrison, the reformer. He saw in the situation the duty to call a nation to repentance, to arouse its slumbering conscience, deadened by the poisons of a perfidious wrong. For more than thirty years his voice and pen thundered his Jovean denunciations of the moral sin of slavery. He raised the banner of immediate and unconditional emancipation, upon which was inscribed the motto, "My country is the world, my countrymen all mankind," and a host of kindred spirits came to his support, slowly at first, but in great numbers later, as the cause became more popular. No single force of public life did so much for human freedom. No human being has placed the Negro upon such obligations to him and to that great host which followed his lead, many of whose names are household words in the literature of our country. It was he who first discovered the poetic talent of John Greenleaf Whittier, the "poet of freedom," whose songs awakened sympathy in the hearts of millions for the outraged slave; it was he who took the untutured Douglass from the shipyards of New Bedford and focused the eyes of the world upon him as one in whom mankind might behold the infamies of slavery and the latent possibilities of the slave. Garrison began the publication of the Liberator, the organ of the Abolitionists, Jan. 1, 1831. He stopped its publication Jan. 1, 1831, just thirty-five years later, after he had accomplished his purpose, the overthrow of chattel slavery. He founded the American Anti-slavery society Jan. 1, 1832. Jan. 1 is, therefore, a day of more than ordinary significance to the Negro. We shall not, however, demonstrate our appreciation of the significance of the events we celebrate on these recurring anniversaries until as a race we become deeply conscious of the moral courage, steadfastness of purpose and sacrifices of our real liberators, white and black, who gave to the cause their devotion, their means, their talents and in many instances their lives. Their examples should be an inspiration to the Negro everywhere to battle on bravely and hopefully against every circumstance which blocks his path to the attainment of that fuller, freer life which is our aim. Let the past inspire us to perform well the duties which the present age and need imposes upon us. National Baptist Executive Board. The executive board of the national Baptist convention, of which the Rev. Dr. E. C. Morris of Helena, Ark., is president, will hold the midwinter meeting at the Tuskegee (Ala.) institute on Wednesday, Jan. 29. Among the matters to be decided upon is the place for holding the next meeting of the convention, in connection with which will be held special exercises commemorative of the fiftieth anniversary of freedom. BROWN OLDEST EMPLOYEE. Served Post Thirty-five Years—Peols Good and Still Hange On. Anthony Brown, eighty-five years old and in point of service the oldest employee of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, recently celebrated the thirty-fifth anniversary of his connection with newspaper. According to the Post-Dispatch, Mr. Brown, who is one of the most prominent colored Masons in the United States, went to work as a porter for the St. Louis Evening Post in 1878, a year before Joseph Pulitzer consolidated it with the Dispatch. When asked how he was celebrating his anniversary the venerable Uncle Anthony replied, "By working and feeling pretty good." He recalled that no one who was in any way connected with the Post-Dispatch when he began his service is now with the paper. "Even the boys that sold the papers then are gone," said Mr. Brown, with an air of just pride, "but this old man is hanging on." EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TO MEET IN PHILADELPHIA National Negro Press Association Officials to Hold Session Feb. 1. The midwinter meeting of the executive committee of the National Negro Press association will be held at the headquarters of the Emancipation Proclamation association, 1832 Lombard street, Philadelphia, Saturday afternoon, Feb. 1, at 2 o'clock. The indications are that the meeting will be largely attended by members of the committee from the various states. Besides Editor R. R. Wright of the Christian Recorder, who is a member of the committee, Messrs. Chris Perry and G. Grant Williams of the Philadelphia Tribune, John Clinton, Jr., of the Solid Rock Herald, G. L. P. Tallafero of the Christian Banner and A. P. Caldwell of the Philadelphia Courant have been invited to attend the meeting and participate in the proceedings. Editor James Lightfoot of the Atlantic Advocate, Atlantic City, N. J., will represent that state, and W. H. Craighead of the Advocate-Verdict, Harrisburg, Pa., and W. N. Page of the Courler, Pittsburgh, will represent their respective cities as members of the association. Publishers from the state of Maryland include Messrs. Harry T. Pratt and John H. Murphy, Baltimore, and Melvin Chisum. The editor of the Dorchester Courier has also been invited. New York will be represented by James H. Anderson, managing editor of the Amsterdam News. The following general officers of the association will be present: R. W. Thompson, president. Washington; Henry Allen Boyd, corresponding secretary, Nashville, Tenn., and N. Barnett Dodson, chairman of the executive committee, New York. Buffalo Citizens Honor James A. Ross. The testimonial banquet given in honor of Mr. James A. Ross, candidate for the position of recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia at the Little Savoy hotel in Buffalo recently, was a splendid affair. The banquet was given under the auspices of the colored citizens of Buffalo and the Erie County Democratic league, of which Mr. Walter Derror is president and Mr. Allen Smith is secretary. Mr. Ross is the publisher of the Detroit (Mich.) Informer and well known for his loyalty to the best interests of the race along all lines. Cause of the Existence of Prejudice John Stuart Mill said on one occasion that it appeared to him that when prejudices persist obstinately it is the fault of nobody so much as those who make a point of proclaiming them insuperable as an excuse for never joining in an attempt to remove them. Any prejudice whatever will be insurmountable if those who do not share in it themselves truckle to it and fatter it and accept it as a law of nature. The items from the classes, make the news of the masses. Read the Twin City Star. SMOKE THE RELIABLE 5c SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR 5c THRIFTY CENTER OF EDUCATION School Founded Twenty-five Years Ago by Dr. C. S. Brown Has Made Remarkable Progress — First Donation For Its Work Came From the Late Dr. Tupper of Shaw University. Winton, N. C.—Never before in the history of Afro-Americans in this section of the state has there been such an awakening along educational and economic lines as at the present time. Hundreds of them are successful farmers, and their homes are model homes, which reveal culture and substantial recognition of everything that makes for representative citizenship. Every movement, whether for the advancement of higher education or for reaching those not so much inclined to thrift, is given substantial encouragement. The prime factor in bringing about such excellent conditions among our people in this section is Waters institute, which was founded twenty-five years ago by one of the most prominent educators, pulpiteers and leaders P. REV. DR. C. S. BROWN. of the race, Dr. C. S. Brown, president of the Lott Carey foreign mission convention. He launched out here with $10, donated by the late Dr. Tupper, founder of Shaw university. Today this institution is regarded by both races in this section as a prime factor in the present friendly relations which exist between the white and colored people of this section. This institution held its quarto centennial celebration in 1912, and hundreds of successful farmers were present and gave their approval of the institution's influence and what it has caused them to accomplish. Interesting statistics were given, showing the remarkable progress of the farmer, caused by the dissemination of ideas that are now seen in a concrete manner. Dr. Brown keeps in touch with the farmers in this section of North Carolina. The students and graduates of the institute are doing effective work in many parts of the country and especially so in this state and in Virginia. The present facilities of the institute are taxed by the large number of boys and girls from rural districts. There are also many students from Virginia and other states. Because of this same and progressive institution being a vital factor in the activities of hundreds of our people Dr. Brown is now the cynosure of the better element of both races in every section. Special efforts are being put forth to make it possible for Dr. Brown to carry into effect his plans for the further advancement of the masses in the rural districts. Having started with only $10, the present movement is remarkable, and many of the leading white people in North Carolina acclaim that this is a real evidence of the Negro's ability to manage large affairs judiciously, comprehensively and successfully. It is stated authoritatively that the institution has made this a model community. Drunkenness and other evils that affect community life is not in evidence here. The young people take pride in making rural life really attractive and helpful. It can be seen that Dr. Brown is doing a great work of uplift. One must travel in a number of counties to get a clear conception of the scope of the effective leadership of Dr. Brown. Yet he is unassuming, modest and truly interested in the welfare No. 21. of the race. The strong faculty that Dr. Brown has is imbued with the kind of spirit that will make any institution a success. From present indications this school year will be unprecedented in the annals of the institution. Coatesville Taken to Task by Tener. "Murder will out" is an old saying, but it has its place and meaning in the body politic of America as is seen in the action of Governor Tener of Pennsylvania in moving to revoke the charter of the town of Coatesville, where Zack Walker was lynched nearly two years ago and for which no one has been punished. ANN ARBOR SENIORS HONOR MISS PHILLIS W. WATERS West Virginia Girl Elected Captain of Basketball Team. Ann Arbor, Mich. - Miss Phillis Wheatley Waters, a senior in the Ann Arbor high school, was recently elected captain of the basketball team of that noted institution. She is a diligent student in the classroom and also very fond of athletic sports. This is the first instance in the eventful history of the school that such an honor has been conferred upon a colored girl. Miss Waters is the daughter of Colonel Phil Waters, chief deputy clerk of the supreme court of appeals of West Virginia. He resides at Charleston, W. Va., and is a well known politician of considerable influence. Miss Waters accepted her new honors with modesty. Although aware of the fact that she has received a high mark of distinction, she is determined to measure up to the fullest requirements of the position. She has received congratulations galore from friends and schoolmates. Editor J. H. Murphy on Southern Trip John H. Murphy, editor of the Baltimore Afro-American Ledger, is in the south on a six weeks' trip. His itinerary includes Charlotte, N. C.; Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Ala.; the Tuskegee conference, the meeting of the Florida grand lodge of Masons at Jacksonville and visits to a number of Masonic bodies in various cities of Florida. Leaving Florida, he will visit Mobile, New Orleans, Vicksburg, Memphis, Louisville and Cincinnati. Mr. Murphy is imperial recorder of the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and Shriners have arranged functions in his honor at a number of the places that he will visit. Publisher's Hold Meeting in Dayton. The Sunday school council of evangelical publishers held its first meeting for the new year in Dayton, O., from Jan. 21 to 25. Much important business was transacted looking toward enlarging the scope of the council's work in order to meet the pressing needs of its patrons. International Committee, V. M. C. A. The thirty-fifth annual dinner of the international committee of the Young Men's Christian association was held at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York recently and was largely attended. Chairman Alfred E. Marling presided. Among the speakers were J. E. Moorland, Charles R. Towson, Dr. George J. Fisher, Frederick B. Smith, John F. Moore, E. T. Colton, E. M. Robinson, Charles D. Hurrey and A. E. Roberts. NEW ALBANY HAPPENINGS. Religious Workers Organize to Check Trend Toward Worldliness. New Albany, Ind.-Describing the movement to increase the attendance in the churches and Sunday schools of this vicinity as "the great need of the community," Mrs. Lillie R. Johnson read a thoughtful and inspiring paper before the called meeting of the united religious denominations of the city recently in Jones' chapel A. M. E. Zion church. The object of the convention was to discuss the situation relative to the unsatisfactory attendance of our people in the churches and Sunday schools and to devise a plan of action to remedy the same. Mrs. Mary E. Washington, following Mrs. Johnson, explained the conditions as she saw them and urged the formation of a permanent organization of church and school officials to wage an aggressive campaign among the elements from which they must look for support. As an outcome of many expressions of sympathy with such a movement the International Religious Betterment association was formed, with the following officers: Mrs. Mary E. Washington, president; Mrs. E. B. Yanthis, vice president; Miss Tillie Stubbins, secretary; Eugene Keller, treasurer. Mrs. L. R. Johnson, Miss Mamie Richardson, Mrs. Washington, J. E. Harper and T. K. Webb were named as a committee to map out a definite program for making the objects of the association effective. READ THE STAR-IT'S NEWS. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 1 John 4:10. Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Galations 6:7.—Selected But God commendeth His Love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.—Romans 5:8. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.—Romans 6:23.—Selected by E. W. Gilles. We beg that the public will not send notes over the phone. We must have your copy to avoid mistakes. If your matter is not worth writing, it is not worth insertion. Rev. E. W. Gilles conducted a Bible and MissionaryTraining school at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Johnson 526 7th Ave. No., each Friday at 8 P. M. All are welcome. Our enemies advertise us, Our friends support us, Everybody helps us. SUNDAY FORUM The Forum meets the first Sunday in the month at St. Peter's A. M. E. church and on the third Sunday at Bethesda Baptist church. A SERIOUS ACCIDENT. Mrs. Mabel Jeffrey, 3311 25th Ave. fell last Monday morning on the sidewalk near her residence and broke her leg. She is resting comfortably under the care of Dr. Redd. Mrs. May Taylor, for many years employed in the Register of Deeds Office in this city, has again become a member of the clerical force of that department. Mr. A. W. Skog, the Registrar has appointed her temporarily. Miss Sadie Marshall is also employed in this office. Mr. Geo. W. Holbert was accidently shot at his residence, 513 Wash. Ave. No. on Tuesday. He is at the Swedish Hospital, and his condition is not very serious, which is good news to his many friends. THE AUTUMN LEAF DANCING CLASS. will give a Prize Masquerade on Feb. 3rd at the Auditorium Annex. Mrs. McCullough Invites all patrons. Cards have been issued. $1 VERDICT FOR PLAINTIFF. A district court jury late yesterday returned a verdict of $1 in favor of Rev. Roderick Toombs. He had sued Saxe Brothers, owners of the Elgin lunch rooms, for $500, alleging that because he is a Negro a waiter in one of the lunch rooms refused to serve him food June 4, 1911. The case was tried before District Judge W. C. Leary. He was represented by Attorneys Morris and Franklin. Mr. Chas. Brody, 2116 Oakland Ave., entertained a few friends last week at his residence. The affair was a Dutch Lunch and Smoker. The invited were Messrs. Chas. Robinson, Jas. M. Graham, Dr. Milton W. Judy, C. T. Mason, Zack Johnson, "Andy" Horton, Chas. Sumner Smith, Fitzroy Celestine. Mr. Frank Sanford entertained with piano selections. Messrs. Benj. Jones and Clarence W. Bell, both well known residents, have purchased H. D. Parker's Barber Shop located at 244 3rd Ave. So., and will continue the business under new management. The place will be renovated, remodeled and decorated throughout and when completed will be one of the most up-to-date places if its kind for our people in the Twin Cities. Under one roof will be combined a Sanitary Barber Shop, Pool and Billard Parlors, Bath rooms and Shining Parlors, and they will with the latest equipment be prepared to render the best services to the public. The barbers are thoroughly competent and experienced. The patronage of the public is kindly solicited. Satisfaction guaranteed.—Advertise ment. Don't forget the Full Dress Drill at Hisawatha Temple on Jan. 30th. McCullough's Orchestra. Mr. P. F. Hale attended the Progressive Club dinner at the West Tuesday evening. The most perfect and economical method of operating things is of course with Electrical Energy, the person is unwise who continues to put off having Electrical Apparatus or devices installed. I can save you money on Bell work, Installations, Fixtures, Instruments, etc. Chas. W. Brown, Electrician, 725 So. Washington Ave. Nlc. 1404.—Adv. ATTY. MORRIS AGAIN HONORED. Atty. W. R. Morris returned Monday from Philadelphia, where he attended the Supreme Court of the G. U. O. of O. F., of which he is an Associate Justice. He was re-elected to the same position. Atty. Morris immediately upon arrival home took up the fight against the Nimmock Bill. He had been very active before his departure, and will visit the Hennepin Co., members of the Legislature and protest vigorously against its passage. Atty. Morris is the oldest and the best known Negro attorney in the state, and is highly respected by the Minnesota Bar. He will appear before the Committee to protest against the unconstitutionality of the bill. Many received the Star, and make no effort to pay for it—and often LIE to evade payment. Newspapers are worth paying for—and it is better to refuse to accept one than to rob its publisher. A NEW ENTERPRISE. The Negroes of Minneapolis are to be credited with another business enterprise, a first class drug store, Dr. Geo. W. Nelson, who conducted a drug store for 9 years at 941 Central Ave., has opened another at 121 So. 6th St., Minneapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Robinson of Duluth, are visiting in Minneapolis, enroute Indanapolis, for a lengthy visit. Mr. F. Peoples, the contractor, recently frosted his ear during the cold spell. He has three buildings under erection. Mrs. J. H. Gullibert, 534 Aldrich Ave. No., is very ill at her residence. A COMMITTEE OF LADIES Will Feature a Novel Entertainment AT HIAWATHA TEMPLE, 6TH AND WABASH STS., ST. PAUL, ON JAN. 30th. McCULLLOUGH'8 ORCHESTRA. Proceeds for the benefit of The Culture Club of St. Paul. ADMISSION.....50c. AMES LODGE NOTES. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Fred. Thomas, E. R.; Arthur Reese, E. L. K.; John Spaulding, E. L. K.; Walter Dodson, E. L. K. The installation of elective and appointive officers was held Jan. 24. The Elks Ball was a grand success. Secretary J. Ed. Stewart thanks the public for their patronage, and his worthy Committee, (James Branch, Zack Johnson, Arthur Reese, Edw. Southall, Wm. McIntosh, Earl Hudson, Archer Watkins, and Fred. Thomas), who greatly contributed to the success of the affair. Ames Lodge always makes good. Mrs. Eugene Shuck left Saturday for Superior, Wis., after spending 3 weeks in the city. Her husband, "Gene"—the trap drummer, is doing very well, and they have paid for the Star to get all the news. GOOD ROOMS—Elegantly located, railroad men preferred, or married couple, near Selby Lake Car Line, all newly purnished. McHle, 2919 Hennepin Ave. FOR RENT—Desirable room, steam heat, gas, bath. For gentlemen. Tel. Hyland 519. Call 532 Aldrich Ave. N. WILL ORGANIZE JUNIOR CLUB. The children which attend the Mother's Club meetings will organize a Junior Club, it is hoped that all mothers will bring their children to these meetings. Masquerade and Fancy Dress Party Autumn Leaf Dancing Class, Auditorium Annex, Feb. 3. COPY MUST REACH US BY WEDNESDAY. The Twin 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. 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. NEW CHOP-SUEY RESTAURANT. Special Chinese Service at Foraker's Cafe. Private Rooms. The management of Foraker's Cafe, 308 So. 4th St., has added to their service a choice line of Chinese dishes. They have fitted up private roms over the Cafe, where they invite the patronage of the public. Don't forget that the Foraker Cafe specializes on the best 25-cent meal in the city, and the popular priced Chinese dishes will appeal to everyone. Prejudice. Like some dread plague, that in the night time o Upon a city, clutching heart and throat; Cruel and destructive, poisoning all it meets, Wishing no joy save o'er its crimes to gloat; So did you creep into the hearts of men Ages ago, when Babel's foolish spire Pierced the white clouds, intended to reach heav But found instead God's curse and felt his ire. Prejudice. Like some dread plague, that in the night time creeps Upon a city, clutching heart and throat; Cruel and destructive, poisoning all it meets, Wishing no joy save o'er its crimes to gloat; So did you creep into the hearts of men Ages ago, when Babel's foolish spire Pierced the white clouds, intended to reach heaven, But found instead God's curse and felt his ire. Whence had you come? or why did you not tell? Yet every black man knows your parentage— Sired by Hate and bred and nursed of Hell; Oppression, lust and scorn, your heritage. "Love ye your neighbor as ye love yourself!" This, God's first law to man, ye have made last, Greed and deceit and corruption for self— Brotherhood is a dead lie of the past. Hear the hosts marching at Look! See the victim conv. Pile on the wood! "Till the "Was the brute guilty, friend Hear the hosts marching at mid-nights' still hour. Look! See the victim convulsed in death's throes. Pile on the wood! 'Til the sparks fall a shower. "Was the brute guilty, friend?" "Only God knows." Such your career—soon may its course be run; Ruled by no laws of earth or heaven above. So must it be 'till all mankind are one— One in God's Likeness and One in His Love. ST. PAUL Fr. Stephen J. Theobald was unable to attend services at St. Charles Church last Sunday, because of La Grippe. Mrs. Chas. Walker, 696 Carroll, will entertain in honor of Mr. Homer Goins and his fliancee, Miss Eunice Glass, next Sunday. Mr. Claude Goodman has moved to 406 Edmund St. The So. Lit. Club met Thursday with Miss Glass. About a dozen young people left 7th and Wabasha and enjoyed a hay-rack ride to Inver Grove and St. Paul Park. Mr. William Turner, of the N. P. ticket office, is able to be out after a short and severe attack of La Grippe. The D. W. Y. K., gave a Sock Social at the Culture Club on Thursday for the Attucks Home. A neat sum was rtalized. Mrs. Caroline Vaughn, wife of Peter Vaughn, died Saturday at her residence, 175 Acker St. She was one of the old citizens. Her funeral was held at St. James Church last Wednesday. Mrs. Gilespie Plummer and son were guests of Mrs. Stephen Lloyd Maxwell last Sunday. The Self Culture Club met Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Jerome Covington, 445 University Ave. Miss Florence Cunningham of Minneapolis was the guest of Mrs. Inez Moss for the week end. Mrs. Moss entertained in her honor last Saturday. Subscribe for the Star. The Fezzan Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine held their Installation on Jan. 17th. Past Imperial Deputy Jose. H. Sherwood, installed the officers. Jordan M. Morris, Illustrious Potentate, re-elected. Chas. H. Robinson, Chief Rabban. O. D. Howard, Assistant Rabban. James Eddings, High Priest and Prophet. James M. Graham, Oriental Guide. Rich'd M. Johnson, Treasurer, re-elected. Geo. L. Hoage, Recorder, re-elected. John Sayles, First Ceremonial Master. Geo. Johnson, Second Ceremonial Master. Henry G. Johnson, Captain of the Guard. W. Floyd McKensle, Outer Guard. Atty. Francis spent two days in Chicago this week on legal business. Mrs. E. Parker, 448 Thomas St. has been sick, but is much improved. Mars Lodge of Odd Fellows cleared over $75 on their entertainment which will increase the New Building Fund. There will be a Tag Day in charge of the Household of Ruth in interest of Odd Fellows Building. Date announced later. THE ST. LOUIS KITCHEN. You can get a good meal, clean service, and courteous attention at the St. Louis Kitchen, 138 E. Third St., St. Paul. Mrs. Hinson is universally known for her good cooking. Send to the Star your News. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWS. Subscribe for the Star. judice. it in the night time creeps and throat; being all it meets, crimes to gloat; hearts of men lish spire attended to reach heaven, be and felt his ire. mild-nights' still hour. ruled in death's throes. sparks fall a shower. d?" "Only God knows." Mrs. N. P. Jones has moved from 221 St. Anthony to 408 Cathedral Pl. Mrs. Harriet Loomis-Oliver entertained the Book Lovers Club on Tuesday afternoon, also entertained in honor of Miss Clara Howard on Jan. 16th, her 28th birthday. Those present were Mesdames Elizabeth Smith, Odessa Richie, Nora McCracken, — Bonaparte, Misses Ruth McGhee, Charlott Gillard, Eunice Glass, Lucille James, Ida Loomis. Mrs. Emma Archer, Mrs. Maude Price, Mrs. H. Loomis were guests of Mrs. Odessa Richie on Jan. 22. Rev. H. P. Jones, the eloquent pastor of St. James A. M. E. Church will protest against the Nimock Bill. Rev. Jones is in every way equal to the occasion. Atty. Wm. T. Francis returned home Saturday from Philadelphia and Eastern Cities. He attended the Supreme Court of Odd Fellows. Atty. Francis is Chief Clerk of that Grand body. He attended banquets in Phila. and Atlantic City, and visited Hon. W. L. Houston in Washington, D. C., also had conferences with Senator Clapp and Cong. Stevens. During his absence several meetings were held in his office opposing the intermarriage bill. He believes that quick work will be most effective, but it must be earnest and constant, and upon arrival he began to get busy. Subscribe for the Star. Rev. J. R. White, presided at the Citizens meeting in St. Paul on Tuesday night. Rev. H. P. Jones was selected as spokesman of the Committee to visit the Capitol. Atty. B. S. Smith, Chas. Robinson, Dr. Judy, Dr. Redd, John M. Allison were present from Minneapolis. Chief Justice Ben. J. Davis of the Supreme Court of Odd Fellows was unable to attend the recent session. He is in Cuba for his health. UTLEY'S NEW LOCATION. Have you visited Utley's New Barber Shop in St. Paul? It is worth your while. Real Barbers, Clean Baths, and New Pool Ttbles, also the latest Negro periodicals. —Advertisement. N. W. Nic. 1534. T. S. Center 719. WILLIAM H. H. FRANKLIN. Attorney and Counsellor at Law. 1020 Metropolitan Life Bidg. Notary Public. Minneapolis, Minn. THE SPIRELLA CORSET. Cora E. Anderson, Corsetier. W. Dale 1345—365 Aurora Avs. St. Paul. THE HOTEL CHASE. 1322 WASHINGTON AVE. SO. Conveniently Located. Sanitary, Mod ern. Chas. S. Chase, Prop. Telephone Nic. 9854. A SPECIAL OFFER. We find that many are buying the Crisis, and we have made a Special Combination Offer, for $2.00, giving this great Negro Magazine with a year's subscription. 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New York Branch Office, 635 F St., Washington, D. C. LEFT AN ORPHAN BUT MADE GOOD POPULAR WITH THE MASSES. Story of an Ambitious Woman Who Trod Difficult Path From Obscurity to Important Place in Professional Life—Thrown Upon Own Resources. Helped by Sympathetic Friend. Memphis, Tenn.—For genuine, sterling success of the variety that is attained only by hard work and thoroughness in every detail is in every way applicable to Dr. Sadie F. Porter of this city. She is a native of St. Louis, Mo., and was left an orphan at an early age. Through the kind bevelence of a white woman who adopted her she was reared to womanhood. Dr. Porter is in many respects what the world is pleased to call a self made woman. Deprived of parental care and advice in early life, she learned the lesson of self help and individual effort up through many hard struggles. The friend by whom she was adopted was a physician, so that it W. E. H. DR, SADIB F. PORTER was quite natural that Dr. Porter's trend of mind would lean toward the medical profession. The success which Dr. Porter is having now is nothing like as interesting to those who are familiar with her even tenor of life as the fact of how, almost single handed, she made her way up from obscurity to prominence in a profession in which not so many women of the race are represented. Within ten years she has built up a large clientele. There are few cities or towns in Tennessee of any considerable size in which Dr. Porter is not known. For a time she was located in Nashville, but as her practice grew she found that Memphis would be a more convenient center from which to reach the larger number of those who desired her services. In religious circles she is well known and bears the reputation of a woman of strong integrity and devotion to racial advancement. Always generous, sympathetic and kind, she has a host of friends, who lavish upon her their confidence and esteem. Perhaps no other factor is more necessary in the struggles of a race than individual effort. On this no doubt depend in a large measure the solidarity and hope of the masses. The achievements of the race thus far have been remarkable. The interest which the women have taken has been a potent factor in every movement for betterment. Their clubs, mutual benefit societies and religious organizations have been the leaven in the lump by which our home life has been kept active and secure. Unfairness of Public Segregation. All attempts at segregation in our public school system should be met with the strongest possible opposition. The same must be done in regard to public conveyances, such as railroads, steamboats, street cars and the like. The false notion of some people that separation of the races breeds friendship and promotes peace is as illogical as damming a river to keep it from overflowing its banks. No class of citizens in a republic like ours should be humiliated by selfish and unjust legislation. OLD THINGS. I love everything that's old- old friends, old times, old man- ners, old books, old wine.-Gold- smith. Order of Eastern Star Prosperous. The Masonic fraternity was well represented in connection with Esther chapter No. 7, Order of the Eastern Star, as the entertaining body at the fourth annual convocation of the grand chapter of the order for Pennsylvania, held in Pittsburgh on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 21 and 22. The reports show that the order was in a prosperous condition. Mrs. Agnes Goldston is the royal matron of Esther chapter. TWIN CITY STAR FIFTY YEARS The Fiftieth Anniversary of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The writer of these resonant stanzas, in which he voices the sentiments and the aspirations of his own race, is a graduate of Atlanta University and pursued his post-graduate studies at Columbia University. He is a member of the Florida Bar, and he has been for seven years in the United States Consular Service, having held the important post of Consul at Corinto during the recent revolutionary emovement in Nicaragua. Mr. Johnson is a brother of Mr. Rosemond Johnson the noted Negro pianist and composer. O brother mine, today we stand Where half a century sweeps our ken, Since God, through Lincoln's ready hand, Struck off our bonds and made us men. How distant seems our starting- place! Look father back! Three centuries! To where a naked, shivering score, Snatched from their haunts across the seas, Stood, wild-eyed, on Virginia's shore. Far, far the way that we have trod, From heathen kraals and jungle dens, To freedmen, freemen, sons of God, Americans and Citizens. A part of His unknown design, We've lived within a mighty age; And we have helped to write a line On history's most wondrous page. A few black bondmen strewn along The borders of our eastern coast, Now grown a race, ten millions strong, An upward, onward, marching host. Then let us here erect a stone, To mark the place, to mark the time: A witness to God's mercies shown, A pledge to hold this day sublime. And let that stone an altar be Whereon thanksgiving we may lay— Where we, in deep humility, For faith and strength renewed may pray, With open hearts ask from above New zeal, new courage and new pow'ers. That we may grow more worthy of This country and this land of ours. For never let the thoughts arise That we are here on sufferance bare; Outcasts, asylumed 'neath these skies, And aliens without part or share. This land is ours by right of birth, This land is ours by right of toll; We helped to turn its virgin earth, Our sweat is in its fruitful soil. Where once the tangled forest stood, Where flourished once rank weed and thorn. Behold the path-traced, peaceful wood, The cotton white, the yellow corn. To gain these fruits that have been earned, To hold these fields that have been won, Our arms have strained, our backs have burned, Bent bare beneath a ruthless sun. That Banner, which is now the type Of victory on field and flood—Remember, its first crimson stripe Was dyed by Attucks' willing blood. And never yet has come the cry—When that fair flag has been as-sailed— For men to do, for men to die, That we have faltered or have failed. We've helped to bear it, rent and torn, Through many a hot-breath'd battle breeze; Held in our hands, it has been borne And planted far across the seas. And, never yet, O haughty Land— Let us, at least, for this be praised— Has one black, treason-guided hand Ever against that flag been raised. Then should we speak but servile words. Or shall we hang our heads in shame? Stand back of new-come foreign hordes, And fear our heritage to claim? No! Stand erect and without fear, And for our foes let this suffice— We've bought a rightful sonship here, And we have more than paid the price. And yet, my brothers, well I know The tethered feet, the pinioned wings, The heart grown faint from wounds The spirit bowed beneath the blow, and stings;; The staggering force of brutish might, That strikes and leaves us stunned and dazed; Full well I know the hour when hope Sinks dead, and 'round us every-where Courage! Look out, beyond, and see The far horison's beckoning span! Faith in your God-known destiny! We are a part of some great plan. Because the tongues of Garrison And Phillips are now cold in death, Think you their work can be undone? Or quenched the fires lit by their breath? Think you that John Brown's spirit stop? That Lovejoy was but idly slain? Or do you think those precious drops From Lincoln's heart were shed in vain? That for which millions prayed and sighed, That for which tens of thousands fought, For which so many freely died, God cannot let it come to naught. -JAMES W. JOHNSON. A poem like this might well date a new emancipation of the race—an emancipation from any timid doubts of ultimate justice, or servile fears to assert their right of manhood. Such a literary inspiration may do as much for the spiritual elevation of the colored people as Lincoln's proclamation did for their political elevation....Minneapolis Tribune, Jan. 12, 1913. CELEBRATION AT HAMPTON. Dean Moore Delivers Optimistic Address on Race Progress. Interesting public exercises commemorating the fifteenth anniversary of the emancipation proclamation were recently held in the Hampton (Va.) institute gymnasium. Nearly a thousand colored citizens of Hampton and the neighboring communities, led by their ministers, assembled with the Hampton student body to review the fifty years of Negro progress. Dr. Lewis B. Moore, dean of the Teachers' college of Howard university, Washington, delivered the chief address. His able address dealt with the important factors in the Negro's marked success during the past fifty years—work, faith, honesty, patriotism, education, optimism and opportunity. Dr. Moore declared that America, in spite of any of its shortcomings, is the best country on the face of the earth, for it has the best opportunities for all classes. A land abounding in great opportunities has its serious problems—temperance, divorce, immigration, sanitation, education and the commingling of races. The speaker also declared that emancipation had injected a new problem into American life and had brought the south the problem for which men of that generation were not responsible. He showed that when men failed to solve the Negro problem by ordinary methods then came Christianity and education to help the Negro to assimilate American civilization. He said, however, that the best measure of Negro progress lies in what the race has done for itself. Then he pointed out that the Negro has lived when many predicted he must die. At present the Negro birth rate is equal to that of representative European countries. "The Negro race is the only race on earth," he said, "that has ever looked the white man in the eye and lived." Then he showed clearly that everywhere white and colored people have important interests in common. During fifty years of progress the Negro has reduced his illiteracy from about 97 per cent to less than 35 per cent. One and a half million Negro pupils are now enrolled in the common schools. It is estimated there are 30,000 Negro teachers, 15,000 ministers, 2,000 doctors, 800 or 900 lawyers, as well as a very large company of farmers and business men. "We cannot have a law abiding country by breaking the law." This was the summary of Dr. Moore's advice to the colored people. He urged his fellow workers to work together, to be courageous, but not hot headed; to pull together with the white man and to realise more fully that the world is growing better every day. We beg that those who are indebted to us, send us their subscription by P. O. Order. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION. 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? "Wherever any race or group of people learn to do a common thing in an uncommon way, by putting brain, skill and conscience into labor, that race or group of people is likely to solve all the problems that surround them."—Dr. Washington. WHAT CONSTITUTES A SUB- SCRIBER? A court decision has lately been rendered in Massachusetts on what constitutes a subscriber. The judge firmly believed that a man who received the paper, although he never subscribed for it, is entitled to pay. James Thompson moved, and William Robinson took immediate possession, and received and accepted a weekly newspaper that was delivered to him through the malis every week. The goodnatured editor sent accounts frequently, but no attention was paid to them by Mr. Robinson. Finally there was a day of reckoning. Robinson had received the paper for some time, he informed the collector, but he said that he never subscribed and declined to pay for it. The judge personally questioned the defendant, who said that he read and made use of it and was receiving the accounts, which were frequently enclosed in the paper. Judgment was rendered in favor of the newspaper. The judge was severe in his criticism of people who are receiving papers and do not think it worth while to pay for what they receive and make use of it as an act of dishonesty, he said one should acquaint the publisher and pay for what numbers he receives.—X. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE. 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 Minneapolis. 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. The Catholic Church has done more for the American Negro than any other of the religious denominations or political porties. It's leaders have drawn around black men the "magic circle of the church" and held at bay the riot-ruffians of the North as well as the hell-hounds of the South. Verily—"More sharper than a serpents' tooth is an ungrateful child. "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 phrephecy 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. Prof. Pickens THE DIGNITY OF LABOR. The Negro, who is ashamed to labor with pick and shovel is generally indentified with the loafing and criminal class—the destructive element of the race. JUSTICE TO ALL Equal and exact justice to all citizens of whatever nationality, race, color, or persuasion. A free ballot and a fair count. Grover Cleveland. Always is it faith in someone or something that inspires us to lift our work above the commonplace. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS. Subscribe to the Star. ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL SCURCH 5th Ave. So. and 27th St. Minn. Rev A. H. Leatland, Rector. Service at 8 o'clock P .M. All are invited. Come. ST. PETERS A. M. E. CHURCH, 23d St. between 9th and 10th Aves. 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, 315 Eighth Ave. So. Sunday services at 11 a. m., 8 p. m. Sunday School at 1 p. m. Rev. E. R. Edwards, Pastor. BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH, 1290 Eighth Street So. 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Vol. 3 Saturday, Jan. 25, 1913 No. 21 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. Phone: N. W. Nic' 2824 Geo. B. Kelley Duluth, Minn. "Head of the Lakes" Representative. 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. We are not responsible for the views of our contributors, and all signed articles of any length are paid for by the writer. NEVER A FOE, BUT A FRIEND- NEVER AN ATTACK BUT A CHAMPION. Those who believe that Providence exercises an especial rule over the destinies of the race, may find new encouragement in this observation and facts which bear it out in the history of the country. There arises no foe, however bitter or influential but there comes forth a stronger friend. The race suffers no attack but there is made a better defense. Whatever the challenge, a worthy champion enters the lists to vindicate the cause. Is it not so, you whom reading or experience have informed? The one unanswerable argument to employ against the pessimist who has lost hope for his race in America is to confront him with the declaration that we have Caucasian friends, that able leaders of the dominant race, will stand for Justice to their swarthy brothers.—The Los Angeles Age. The colored man must move forward in 1913, conscious of the fact that he is the architect of his own fortune. He must look fate and disappointment in the face and remember that he is not less than a man. He must come to know that the high way which leads to lasting success is not strenwn with thornless roses and soft-scanted flowers. If others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas, we must not whine for flowery beds of ease. And that reminds us, lest we forget, that he who would be free himself must strike the blow. Man your own enterprises, support your own business. Buy the land if you expect to inhabit or inherit the earth. These are the things which mark the man.—Dallas Express. GEORGIA ARISTOCRATS ENTER. TAIN NEGRO SERVANTS. Rich Macon Family Create Big Sensation By Acting Hosts To Negroes In The "Big House." Macon, Ga., Jan. 5.—Callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, in Georgia avenue, a few nights ago were amazed to find the host and hostess engaged in entertaining twenty-four Negroes, men and women. They were told that Mr. and Mrs. Johnson were giving a party to their servants and the servants' friends. This is the first time that an affair of this kind has ever been given in Macon—or in Georgia, for that matter. The incident has caused a sensation over the State. Mr. Johnston is Macon's wealthiest citizen, and his wife is one of the leaders of Middle Georgia societies. The Johnstons formerly lived in New York. Mr. Johnston is a nephew of the late Richard Wilson of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Johnston received their guests in a large reception hall, which had been beautifully decorated throughout. Many records on a phonograph were enjoyed. As the old fashioned songs came from the instrument the voices of the Negroes joined in the chorus. During the evening egg-nog and other refreshments were served.—Norfolk (Va.) Journal & Guide. Subscribe for the Star. A RABBI WOULD WED A NEGROI Marriages Between Race Are Sun Marriages Between Races Are Supported by a Boston Hebrew ported by a Boston Hebrew. Boston, Jan. 10.—Even in Boston, "where the color line" is noted for its distinctness, was stirred today by the announcement of Dr. Charles Fleischer, formerly rabbi of Boston's largest congregation, that he would not hesitate to give a daughter in marriage to a Negro merely for racial reasons. "Mixed marriages are daily becoming more common," said Doctor Fleischer, "and I will say that the people of the earth are tending to an improved type by the assimilation of different races. I can see no reason for prejudice against Negroes. I would marry a Negro woman if she appealed to me deeply. I see no reason why a daughter should not be given to a Negro in marriage if they loved each other."—Topeka Plain-dealer. MIXED MARRIAGES FORBIDDEN. F. E. Nimocks Would Make Wedding Black and White a Miademeanor. A bill prohibiting intermarriage of the white and Negro races was introduced in the house Jan. 15, by representative Frank E. Nimocks, Minneapolis. The issuance of marriage licenses to persons of different races or the performance of such a marriage ceremony by clergymen or civil officers is made punishable as a misdemeanor. Residents of Minnesota who go to other states to evade the law are not to be recognized in Minnesota as man and wife. Under the Nimocks bill a Negro is a person having one-eighth or more African blood. The author states that similar laws have been adopted by twenty-seven states, among those in the north being Maine, Nebraska, Indiana, North Dakota, California and Colorado. If some of us would give a little more of time in self improvement along educational and literary lines, instead of frittering so much time away in selfish pleasure, it certainly would be a great blessing to the race and make us much more respected by the opposite race.—The Weekly Visitor. It is the opinion of many that "we plead with the Legislators" against the Nimmocks' Bill, prohibiting intermarriage, because of our weakness, etc. We disagree. We know that this bill is the opening wedge to subsequent legislation and that other discriminating measures will follow, but Negroes should meet this issue squarely on its merits, and demand their rights as men and citizens. The passage of this bill will make the Negro legally inferior to other races, and for that alone they should have the manhood to oppose it, without fear or compromise. One of our racial characteristics is, that we fight for privileges, and beg for rights, which is regrettable. We are thankful for any effort to kill this bill and hope that our leaders may attempt to "do good by stealth and blush to find it famer." The word Negro should always be spelled with a Capital N.—It is worthy of this distinction, exchanges please remember. RACIAL PURITY There is no racial purity in America, and the white race is responsible for every source of amalgamation, which is the problem of the prejudiced American, and not of the races. LOVE OF MANKIND The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing farthest, has the deepest love for mankind. He who sees without loving is only showing his eyes in the dark.—Maurice Maeterlinck. Is thy cruse of comfort falling? Scanty fare for one will often make a royal feast for two.-Elliza Charles. In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.-Froude. He works with God who works for men.-Heber Newton. WANTED. 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 PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS 1 WIN CITY STAR WOMAN OF RARE BUSINESS TACT INSPIRATION TO THE YOUNG Steps In the Useful Life of a Louisiana Girl Who Has Accomplished Great Things For Herself and Race by Persistent Effort—Made Every Opportunity Count. Indianapolis.—From the cotton fields and canebrakes of Louisiana to the cook kitchen and washtub and from there to sole owner of a great manufacturing plant is the remarkable career of Madam C. J. Walker of this city. It was around Christmas time back in 1867 that she was born in Delta, La.; hence her parents looked upon her as a Christmas token, and it has since proved that she was a token to her race. As has been intimated, her early life was spent on the plantation, where she learned to chop cotton, pick cotton and do anything else necessary to the growth of the staple. At an early age she was thrown on her own resources, and, with a heart full of inspiration to accomplish something in life, she sought the schoolhouse, books, Sunday school, church and everything that had in any way around it an elevating influence. With a desire for education she found her way to St. Louis, where she secured employment doing cooking, washing and ironing and going to night school, thus proving to the world that a mind, once made up, can accomplish wonderful things. Step by step she has advanced in education, influence and wealth, taking her place among other women of the race who are doing something and who stand for unity and co-operation for mutual uplift. Having secured a fair education, the next thing was to recognize the fact that there was a place for her in the world and something for her to do. To find it was the next thing. Many avenues opened to her, but none seemed to dwell on her mind more than of hair culture. Right into Den- A. ver she went and there established a business which she afterward extended through Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Madam Walker gives employment to over a thousand persons of her race in various parts of the United States, which shows to the young women of the race that instead of sitting around and complaining they should get up and do something—put their best efforts into something and make it go. Madam Walker advocates preparation first. Be sure you are able to deliver the goods, she says, and then launch out. By push and industry, honesty and reliability she has not only established a business, but she owns one of the finest homes in Indianapolis, erected after her own design, located at 640 North West street. She has the latest model automobile and a runabout. But with all of these comforts she has not lost sight of her people, her struggling race, and is into everything that tends to advance their elevation in life. She contributes largely to the missionary cause at home and in Africa. She supports a missionary in Africa out of her own funds. In order to help out the Y. M. C. A. in Indianapolis she was the first subscriber to a fund for the erection of a new Y. M. C. A. building for the colored youth. She gave $1,000, which is, perhaps, the largest amount ever given by any woman of the race to this cause. These things are done without much fuss, but with a desire to help, to be useful and to show the young woman who will work hard that she can accomplish much. 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