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MINNEAPOLIS DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST.PAUL VOL. 3 Single Copies 5 Cents MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., APRIL 25, 1913. No. 34 OHIO SUSTAINS HUMAN RIGHTS State Legislature Defeats Bill For Separate Marriage. Measure Known as House Bill No. 26 Intended to Prevent Intermarriage Between Races Failed of its Purpose by a Vote of More Than One-half. Big Victory For the People. Columbus.-The second week in April records the defeat of Ohio's separate marriage measure known as house bill No.27. The fight against the pernicious proposition was won after a severe contest which lasted for several weeks. Ohio Afro-Americans, male and female, with the aid of their influential white friends, protested vigorously against the measure, which was intended to humiliate the race in the state in particular and in the nation in general. The Cleveland delegation, known as the "militant warriors," led by the HON. HARRY C. SMITH. brave and experienced Harry C. Smith, was composed of Dr. H. C. Bailey, Theodore B. Green, Madams Blanche Gillmore, Bessie Kitzmiller and Mollie C. Green, gave their leader the most loyal support throughout the tedious struggle which culminated in a sweeping victory for human rights regardless of race or color. The vote stood thirty-two for and sixty-six against the passage of the separate marriage bill. Thus Ohio registers her protest against discrimination on account of race in no uncertain terms. This makes the sixth state to vote down measures of this kind. The other states are Iowa, Kansas, New Jersey, Michigan and Pennsylvania. The Hon. Mr. Smith has been three times elected to the state legislature. Although now in private life, so to speak, the loyal support which members of the race gave him in this recent brilliant fight has greatly encouraged him to continue in the work for racial uplift. On Nov. 7, 1895, when Mr. Smith was a candidate for re-election, he received 3,000 votes more than the Republican candidate who was running for common pleas judge. In September, 1899, Mr. Smith was renominated for the second time and was elected by a large vote. There were thirty candidates, and Mr. Smith's plurality on election day, Nov. 7, 1899, was over 10,000. His work, personal and newspaper, in the interest of the race and the Republican party for a period of more than twenty-eight years is well known. His most conspicuous work as a legislator in the interest of the race during his first term (in 1894) was the passage of the Ohio civil rights law. His "mob violence or anti-lynching law," which is now on the statute books of the grand old state, overshadows all his work in the general assembly of Ohio. For four years, during the time Senator Foraker was governor of Ohio and as a result of his favor, Mr. Smith was a deputy state oil inspector. His bond of $5,000 was signed by three of Cleveland's oldest and most highly respected colored citizens. Though born in West Virginia (in 1863), he has lived since 1865 in Ohio at Cleveland, where he attended the public schools, graduating from the Central high school. No other Negro legislator the state has ever had has such a splendid record for work done, the kind that is of practical benefit to the race. No other is more highly respected in Ohio than Mr. Smith. Indeed, he is the only Negro legislator who has ever accomplished such work for the race. Mr. Smith has always wielded a fearless and able pen for right and truth. He has fought squarely in behalf of his race, demanding for it recognition wherever denied. Though at times he has been severely criticised, he has never varied from what he considered his duty Unique Business Concern Prospers. The Farmers and Consumers' league, located in the heart of the wholesale district in Philadelphia, is designed to reduce the high cost of living by a new system by which the farmer deals directly with the consumer through the league. The project is succeeding. Messrs. C. K. Brown and Charles A. Hopkins are the promoters of the unique concern. THE PRAYER OF GELASIUS. How the Great Heart of the Ancient Wept For Mankind. The prayer of Gelasius I., Gregorian sacramentary A. D. 590, whom the encyclopedia suggests may have been an African by birth, might well be the prayer of every Christian Afro-American in the United States or the colored races throughout the world, for that matter. To those who feel that the coming of the morning of hope and equal human justice will be coincident with the coming of the Divine glory, which shall ultimately fill the world and mankind with justice and fair play for every human soul, the prayer of Gelasius means much. Here it is: "Almighty and everlasting God, the brightness of faithful souls, fill the world with thy glory, we pray thee, and show thyself, by the radiance of thy light, to all the nations of the world through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen." GRAND MASTER OF TEXAS ODD FELLOWS PASSES AWAY Fraternity In the State Mourns Death of Hon. H. C. Bell. Dallas, Tex.-When the Hon. H. C. Bell died at his late home in Denton the early part of April, the colored people of this state lost one of their truly great leaders. The reports sent out by the Chisolm News service at Denison is evidence of the high esteem in which the deceased was held by the people generally throughout the southwest. Since the death of Mr. Bell, former grand master of the Odd Fellows for this state, there has been some speculation as to the future editorship of the Odd Fellow Budget, the official paper, which was established and owned by Professor Bell. At present Hon. W. E. King, editor and publisher of the Dallas Express, will edit the paper, and it is entirely likely that the paper at the coming session of the grand lodge may pass into the possession of the grand lodge and that Mr. King will be elected as its permanent editor. The Texas Odd Fellows still mourning the loss of their grand master have not as yet given much consideration as to who will succeed Professor Bell. Professor H. G. Goree of Texarkana by reason of his office will fill the unexpired term, but it is hardly likely that he will be a candidate to succeed himself. For the position of grand master at present their friends claim that the most formidable candidates are Dr. David Abner, for a quarter of a century one of the leaders in Texas Odd Fellowship and at present the head of the household of Ruth; Professor G. W. Jackson of Corsicana, at present the district grand secretary; Professor P. W. Tucker of San Antonio, and Professor J. P. Starkes of Dallas, at present secretary of the burial department and who for many years was in the inner circles of Odd Fellowship. For the secretaryship of the endowment department, it is not now thought that there will be any serious opposition to Hon. J. H. Riddle of Denison, the present incumbent, although there may be since there is much talk of combining with that position the position of district grand secretary and the burial department. In fact it seems to be only a question of time before that is done to save expense of operation and the annoyance of writing three secretaries and the keeping of three sets of records. Banquet For Ex-Congressman White. Under the auspices of a committee headed by the well known David B. Fulton a complimentary reception and banquet was tendered ex-Congressman George H. White of North Carolina at Young's casino, New York on Thursday evening, April 24. The citizens of Greater New York and vicinity showed their appreciation for the guest of honor by turning out in large numbers. The Rev. Dr. William R. Lawton was master of ceremonies, and music was furnished by the New Amsterdam orchestra. The Hon. Mr. White made an able address, which was listened to with close attention by the large audience. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., APRIL 25 1913. PROGRESS MADE IN GREAT CAUSE SERIES OF LIVELY MEETINGS Fifth Annual Conference of Notable Organization For the Advancement of Colored Americans Attended by Hundreds — Mayor Blankenburg's Warm Greeting. By N. BARNETT DODSON. Philadelphia. - This gracious City of Brotherly Love has just concluded playing host to more than 200 delegates who attended the fifth annual conference of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, which met here from Wednesday, April 23, until Friday, April 25. Seldom if ever in the history of this city, where the seed of every humanitarian movement has found fertile soil and its tender sprout been nurtured and fostered into a full grown and healthy tree, has such a representative body of faithful workers been gathered at one and the same time in so worthy a cause. Millionaire and laborer, clergyman and laymen, jurists, editors, legislators, white men and women as well as black, foregathered to debate and deliberate upon the condition of a fallen and downtrodden minority. The keynote of the conference from its opening session to the parting word was "equality of opportunity, equality at the ballot box and in the courts of the land." Possibilities of the Race Outlined. Able spokesmen of their own appeared to lay before the assembled delegates the possibilities of the colored race. Noble examples themselves of the possibilities of a people if given the long withheld and looked for opportunities, they came to plead the cause of their brethren who were still kept down. And their appeal found an answering note, not only in the words of encouragement, in the aplause and hand clapping that greeted their efforts on the part of their Caucasian brethren, but in the generous offers of moral and financial asistance. Mayor Blankenburg, carried into office two years ago on the crest of a great reform wave that swept the country and washed Philadelphia in its course, ever a champion of right against wrong and sturdy friend of the downrodden and oppressed, welcomed the assembled delegates at the opening session in Kenseth Israel temple. Moorefield Storey of Boston, national president of the association, presided at the opening session of the conference, which was called to order in the Jewish temple on Wednesday evening. Rabbi Joseph Kraukopf of Keneesh Israel followed Mayor Blankenburg and delivered an inspiring address, in which he addressed himself particularly to those men and women who in other fields and in different denominations had ever championed broadness and fair play. Oswald Garrison Villard to the Fore. Oswald Garrison Villard of New York, chairman of the executive board of the national association, also spoke. In the course of his remarks Mr. Villard quoted from a recent address by Charles Edward Russell of New York, recently candidate for governor on the Socialist ticket. "The nation cannot endure half with rights and half with none," he quoted, "any more than it could endure half slave and half free. It is not merely the black disgrace before the world of an enlightened people that plays these sorry tricks upon a defenseless minority. There is also the other fact that whenever the rights of one man are destroyed the rights of all men are impaired. "Every time justice has been perverted to wreak popular prejudice upon a colored man the whole system of justice has been weakened for everybody. Organized society will not stand such strains. You cannot deliberately foster ignorance and lawlessness without paying the price." "This is practically the crux of the situation which the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is trying to obviate." continued Mr. Villard. "It does not even ask a special indulgence for any of their shortcomings or beg for them unusual economic and educational opportunities because of their disadvantages and the frightful inheritance of vice and ignorance which was the chief bequest of slavery. It merely asks equality of opportunity, equality at the ballot box and in the courts of the land." The Struggle For Land and Property. An afternoon and evening session occupied the attention of the delegates on Thursday, April 24. Both sessions were held in the Friends' meeting house. Fifteenth and Race streets, members of which society showed a keen interest in the progress of the conference, not only while it was in session, but for weeks before, while preparations were being made and as members of the honorary committee. At the afternoon session the subject of discussion was the "Struggle For Land and Property." Henry Wilbur, millionaire manufacturer and philanthropist and a member of the Society of Friends, opened the discussion with a personal narrative of land conditions in the south. He was followed by John Mitchell, the colored president of the Mechanics' bank of Richmond, Va., the strongest financial institution in that city; John Hope, president of the Atlanta Baptist college, who talked of the recent crisis in Georgia, and W. Ashbie Hawkins, an attorney of Baltimore. The last three speakers made a profound impression on the conference, not only by their clear and careful positions of problems among the southern Negroes, but by their suggestions for improved conditions, which they proved were the result of deep and mature study of a subject which had been brought home to them by actual experience throughout their lives and in spite of their more elevated positions over the bulk of those who are the sufferers from oppression by southern whites and to aid whom the national association was primarily founded. Du Bois and Haynes on Wages. "The Problem of Work and Wages" was the subject of the evening session. Bishop L. J. Coppin presided. Dr. W. E. Du Bois, the able editor of the Crisis, a publication devoted to the advancement of the colored race, and Dr. Haynes of Fisk university were the speakers. Dr. Du Bois spoke of the aims of the organization and of the beneficial effects of its work up to the present time. He made an earnest plea for a change in those social and economic conditions which have made criminals of many members of his race, asserting that just as soon as these conditions were improved there would be a general improvement throughout the land. The final day of the conference was taken up with three sessions. The morning session was taken up with hearing reports of the various branches of the organization and with planning work for the ensuing year. At the afternoon session, over which Moorefield Storey presided, the "New Southern Attitude" was the topic of discussion. The speakers were Mrs Beverly Munford, Dr. James H Dillard, F. D. Weatherford, Joseph C Manning and Dr. M. C. B. Mason. Closing Session in Witherspoon Hall. The closing session of the conference and by far the most enthusiastic was held in Witherspoon hall, Juniper and Chestnut streets. More than 1,200 people attended to hear addresses by United States Senator Moses E Clapp of Minnesota and Justice Wendell Phillips Stafford of the supreme court of the District of Columbia. The honorary committee in charge of arrangements for the conference was composed of the following: Mayor Rudolph Blankenburg, Miss Lida Stokes Adams, Miss Frances Bartholomew, Rev. Samuel Z. Batten, Rabbl Henry Berkowitz, Mrs. Edward W. Biddle, Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Yeates Brinton, George Burnham, Jr. Henry L. Davis, Paschall Goggins, Esq.; Rev. Sydney Herbert Cox, Dr. Edwin Ehl Delk, Rev. K. E. Evans, Judge James Gay Gordon, Dr. Howard F. Hansell, Rev. T. W. Illman, Miss Mary H. Ingham, Alba B. Johnson, Dr. W. W. Keen, Rabbl Joseph Krauskopf, Rabbl Isaac Landman, Right Rev. Joseph May, Rabbl Ell Mayer, E. B. Morris May, Rev. George Chalmers Richmond, J. G. Rosengarten, Miss Florence L. Sanville, Representative and Mrs. Samuel B. Scott, Judge Mayer Sulzberger, Right Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins, Dr. James Tyson, Samuel S. Fels, W. B. Patterson, Roy Wallace Smith, Herbert Welsh, S. Burns Weston, Henry Wilbur and Rev. Leon Kurtz Willman. THE TAFT MEMORIAL HALL. Plane Drawn For Industrial School Building in Sierra Leone. Preliminary sketches have been drawn by Edgar H. Bentzel, instructor in drafting at the Hampton (Va.) institute, for the proposed Taft Memorial hall, Freetown, Sierra Leone, which Rev. E. G. Granville-Sutton of the Liberal Christian church is planning to build. The Taft memorial will be 168 feet wide by 56 feet deep, exclusive of offices and entry. The first floor plan provides for a printing department and shops for shoemaking, painting, tinsmithing and carpentry. The second floor will contain an auditorium, six classrooms and a vestry room. The third story will be used as a dormitory and study hall. SOCIAL SERVICE PLUS RELIGION Graphic Story of the Achievements of a New York Pastor Who by Diligence Has Wrought a Wonderful Change For Good Among the People of His Immediate Community. By CLEVELAND G. ALLEN. New York.—That God has chosen men for certain work and endowed them with peculiar gifts for such work is strikingly seen in the efforts of the Rev. G. H. I. Sims, pastor of the Union Baptist church in this city. Dr. Sims' church is located in a section which less than ten years ago was known as one of the worst sections of the city. It was a district in which lived the most criminal element of both races, where crime predominated. It was known as "Hell's Kitchen" and had such a bad reputation that the police department was taxed to its utmost as to the most effective method of dealing with the situation in the neighborhood. Before Dr. Sims took up work in the neighborhood the influence of the church had not been felt, and it was a district that was shunned and untouched by the religious and social workers. The invasion of Dr. Sims into this neighborhood required the utmost confidence and strength of purpose. He began his work in West Sixty-third street in 1901, and during his twelve years of labor in this section he has completely changed the tone of the neighborhood. The Union Baptist church has been so influential in its religious work that it has been felt throughout the neighborhood. The social and moral life of the community has been completely revolutionized. The earnestness of Dr. Sims soon manifested itself, and the once disorderly element soon began to take notice. From a thriftless and careless community, where the worst social and moral conditions existed, Dr. Sims has changed the community into one of REV. DR. G. H. SIMS. thrift. People of refinement now seek residence in this section as in any other well regulated part of the city. The district since 1808 has been known as San Juan hill, and Dr Sims is frequently referred to as the bishop of San Juan hill. His work has been one of effort, which required patience and persistency. When Dr. Sims began his work the church was worshiping in West Sixty-eighth street in a little hall. The new church in West Sixty-third street was dedicated in 1901. It is valued at $52,000 and is modern throughout. It has a seating capacity of 1,000 and is well organized. The membership of the church is rated at 2,000, but the influence of the church is felt throughout the district. Dr. Sims is one of the strongest and most conscientious men of the race and has brought about this miraculous change in this city through the sheer force of his character. He was born in Cumberland county, Va., and was educated in its public schools. He was converted at the age of eleven and was baptized by the Rev. J. H. White of his native home. He was licensed to preach in New York in 1805, and his first charge was at Nyack, N. Y., where he did much pioneer religious work. As a recognition of his service in June, 1905, Gundalau college of Segeln, Tex., conferred upon him the degree of doctor of divinity. Dr. Sims is one of the foremost men in Christian work here and is a strong No.34 figure among the Baptists of this city. Dr Sims is known as the friend of the unfortunates, and he is constantly doing something to aid those in need. He takes an active part in all race movements. He is ably assisted in his work by his wife, Mrs Louise D Sims, who was formally a school teacher Mothers' Congress Plans Uplift Work. For the purpose of doing more effective work among the girls and young women of the city there was recently organized at the Macedonia Baptist church in Philadelphia a mothers' congress. The women at the head of the movement will direct their attention first to conditions in West Philadelphia. RURAL SCHOOL SUPERVISOR. Qualifications of James L. Sibley For Cooperative Educational Work. Cooperative Educational Work. James L. Sibley, who was graduated from the University of Georgia in 1902, has been appointed supervisor of colored rural schools by Henry J. Willingham, state superintendent of education in Alabama. Mr. Sibley is a southern white man who is anxious to do for the colored people of Alabama a kind of service which is now being successfully rendered in the rural districts of Virginia, Kentucky and Arkansas by Messrs. Davis, Button and Favrot. After his graduation in 1902 Mr. Sibley spent three years in the Philippines, some 200 miles below Manila, teaching the natives manual training and school gardening. Then he spent three years at Livingstone State Normal school, Livingstone, Ala., as a teacher of manual arts. His next work was at Jacksonville State Normal school, Jackson, Ala., where he taught manual arts for two years. Alabama is the fourth southern state to introduce an organized supervision of colored rural schools with the object of emphasizing instruction in agriculture, domestic science and manual training. Governor Sulzer Signs the Levy Bill The Levy bill making discrimination on account of race, color or creed became a law on April 12, when Governor William Sulzer of New York attached his official signature to the measure. The bill prevents discrimination for the above causes in places of public accommodations in New York state such as a place of resort, amusement, any inn, tavern or hotel, whether conducted for the entertainment of transient guests or for the accommodation of those seeking health, recreation or rest, and any restaurant, eating house, public conveyance, inland or water, bathhouse, barber shop, theater or music hall. Praise For the Bartlett High School. The manual training department and the department of domestic science of the Bartlett high school in St. Joseph. Mo., are attracting considerable attention in educational circles on account of the excellent work which the students of these two sections of the school are doing. The enrollment of students is 320. The faculty is rated as being highly proficient in its work. Professor Sims directs the affairs of the school with skill and splendid business methods in all departments. INFLUENCE OF THE PRESS. How Papers Published by Afro-Americans Are Reaching the Masses In reference to the good results obtained by those who advertise in periodicals published by Afro-Americans it is worthy of note that the papers and magazines published by members of the race have maintained their integrity in spite of the wild clamor of race prejudice. They are developing a unique field of exclusiveness in that they are reaching the homes of our people in business and in the professions and uplifting the masses in the rural districts all over the country. It is estimated that fully 320,000 of our people are engaged in the various professions and trades which require training and skill. Over 97,000 are conducting commercial enterprises requiring large capital, and upward of a million farmers live in prosperous rural districts. The weekly race publications reach all of these people, who, during their leisure moments, read thoroughly the doings of the race in every walk of life; hence advertising in papers published by the race is profitable. NEGROES WILL HONOR HENDERSON. Washington.—Memorial services for the late former Senator John P. Henderson, author of the thirteenth amendment to the constitution abolishing slavery, will be held May 23 under the direction of the Henderson National Memorial League of America, a Negro organization. SMOKE THE RELIABLE 6e SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR 6e MINNEAPOLIS 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 B. W. Gilles. 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. HEAR YE! HEAR YE!! HEAR YE!!! We do Beseeche O Ye Goode People To Attend YE OLDE TYME CONCERTE Given on Ye Night of the Second Day of May, 1913, Bye Ye Members of Ye Social Committee of Ye Sunday Forum, YE PLACE, St. Peter's A. M. E. Quartette—Eddie Davis, Eldridge Williams, Clarence McCullough, Earl Stewart. Dramatic Sketch—Miss Eva Walker and Geo. W. Hall. Instrumental Trio—Sam'l Brasfield, Ralph Watson, Frank Terry. Reading—Miss Mildred Plummer. Vocal Solo—Miss Mildred Shull. Duett—Miss Eva Walker, Chas. Brown. Solo—William Navels, assisted by Quartette. Eldridge Williams, Comedian assisted by Jas. Coombs, Winthrop Wilson. Accompaniment—Miss Kud Lewis. Mrs. Ella Wheaton will present a select chorus of 15 voices. She has arranged the musical program, and the mention of her name in connection with this affair means Success. The proceeds are for Charity. Mrs. Mayme Jackson, 308 So. 11th St. has been sick, but is rapidly improving. Mr. W. R. Jones, who has been railroading in Canada has returned to the city. Mr. D. E. Buckner is employed at Penn. R. R. Ticket office. Mr. and Mrs. Glover Shull, have moved in their new residence, 3512 Clinton Ave. Miss Adina Adams of St. Paul and Mrs. Nettle Scott Brown rendered the musical selections at the Forum on Sunday. Mr. Chas. H. Brown read Rev. Jones speech on "Inter-marriage." Mr. Cornelius Turner of Eau Claire was in the city last Saturday on business. All Spanish War Veterans are requested to meet at the office of the Twin City Star April 27, at 3 P. M., to formulate plans for Memorial Day. We owe this respect to departed comrades. Dr. R. S. Brown, Treasurer of St. Thomas Episcopal Mission made his financial report this month for the past year. Total Collections $334.09 Total Disbursements $312.09 Bal . . . $ 22.00 Over $100.00 was collected by the Ladies' and Men's Clubs. The Twin City Charity Club held its Annual Reception to its donors on Thursday evening, April 24, at the residence of Mrs. Jas. H. Burke, 2720 Second Ave. So. Accounts next week. The Womens Clubs will render a program on the 4th Sunday evening in April at St. James Church, and on the 4th Sunday in May at Zions Baptist Church. We give no free advertisements in these columns, if you have a business and want it advertised, pay us and get results. Do not think that you are entitled to personal notice—because you are in business. Ames Lodge of Elks at a recent meeting initiated 3 candidates; Wm. Stirman, Barney Clark, Herbert Brock, also reinstated Geo. W. Holbert and Frank Jacobs, after which a ceremonial session was held. Judge Johnson officiating. Exalted Ruler, Fred Thomas, presided. It was a very interesting and profitable meeting. FOR RENT—NEW DUPLEX. 4 Rooms and Bath, 3602 Clinton Ave. See Peoples, 236 Boston Block. Nic. 2188. SERIBABLE ROOM, all conveniences, on car line, steam heated, A. L. Montean, 538 Lyndale Ave. No. Tel. N. W. Hyland 2007. HARD WOOD FO R SALE. If you wish good boxes, all kinds see Wm. Jenkins. 620% Nicollet Ave., SMITH-THOMPSON. A Brilliant Wedding. At the home of the bride's adopted parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Thompson, Miss Hazel D. Smith was married to Mr. Isaac J. Thompson, in the presence of many friends at 3:00 P.M., Sunday afternoon, April 20. Rev. M. H. Withers of the Zion Baptist Church officiating. The parlor was artistically decorated with ferns, palms and the spacious diningroom also bore daintly testimony to the season. The principal scheme being pink and white, which was carried out through the service. Carnations and ferns were in evidence in the room decorations. The bride wore a beautiful white draped dress of Brocade Crepe De Chine, with a shadow and val. lace bodice, and studded with pearls, with a half train with gloves and slippers to correspond. A long silk net veil with a wreath of lilies of the valley and white roses, and carried a lovely arm bouquet of white roses and lilies of the valley. Mendelssohn's wedding march was beautifully played by Mrs. Ed. Williams. They received many beautiful and valuable presents. Will be at home after May 4th, at 418 Sixth Ave. No., Minneapolis, Minn. CITIZEN BUSINESS MEETING. Twin City Residents Discuss Economic Conditions. A business meeting was called last Tuesday evening at the home of Mr. Frank Peoples, 3732 Portland Ave. Minneapolis, to discuss economic conditions affecting the interests of the Negroes of this section, with especial reference to the qualifications and possibilities of Mr. Peoples as a factor in the "Real Estate department, and its associate lines." After a substantial luncheon served by Mrs. Peoples, the meeting proceeded to business, with Elder Edward G. Jackson presiding. Mr. Wm. M. Smith explained at length the reason for the call, reviewing the present conditions and the grave needs which make imperative the co-operation of intelligent and earnest citizens in the development of business knowledge and opportunity. The many advantages which a larger investment in Real Estate would show, and the especial fitness of Mr. Peoples as a Contractor, to handle this line was clearly evidenced. An earnest discussion of an hours length followed, in which all present had an interested part. After a rigid examination of the record of Mr. Peoples, formulated from the written testimony of those for whom he has completed contracts, and from his credit and responsibility shown in recommendations from reputable business houses in the trade, with whom he has largely dealt, it was decided to give him the united and unqualified endorsement of those present. There were present from St. Paul, Messrs. W. T. Francis, J. Q. Adams, of the "Appeal," and the Rev. Father Lealtad, and the Presiding Elder Edward G. Jackson. From Minneapolis: The Reverends M. W. Withers, T. W. Lewis, E. R. Edwards, and the Messrs. Wm. M. Smith, W. C. Jeffrey and the Twin City Star. GIBB'S PHILANTHROPIC CLUB. The first of a series of entertainments was given by the Gibb's Philanthropic Club, at the residence of Mrs. J. N. Sellers, 2420 Riverside Ave. So., Friday evening, April 11, for the purpose of demonstrating the work mapped out by the literary department of the Club. The essay on the subject, "What Constitutes a Lady?" was won by Mrs. J. N. Sellers, whose ideas on the subject were expressed in a clear, forceful manner, accompanied by a well-nigh faultless delivery. The prize was a small volume of quotations called, "Daily Resolves" by Dr. Booker T. Washington. Mrs. Katie Smith rendered several selections in a charming manner, Mrs. Helen Jackson gave a deading, Mrs. Nettie Scott Brown of Duluth, delighted her hearers with a vocal solo. An instructive and highly appreciated talk along the lines of club enthusiasm and the necessity of the same was given by Mrs. I. E. Gibbs, the honorary president of the State Federation. Rev. Carter spoke of, "Women as a recognized power in Civil and Private life in America," and his discourse along those lines was extremely encouraging to the clum workers. Mr. J. N. Sellers discussion on "Unity, Harmony and Peace," in woman's club work, was of practical value to the club women and showed a deep study of Woman's Club work. The hostess served a dainty and wholesome repast after the completion of the program. The club will give a concert at Zion Baptist Church in the course of a few weeks, for the purpose of aiding the relief work and to assist in the literary enterprise. Mrs. Ida Sellers, Pres.; Mrs. Helen Jackson, Sec.; Mrs. Lulu Maxwell, Journal. TELEPHONE BECK FOR GROCERIES. Read Prices In His Adv. TWIN CITY STAR ALLEN CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR OF ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH. Splendid meetings are being held each Sunday evening at 6:45 o'clock by the Allen Christian Endeavor League. Aside from the general discussion of the topics, good programs are rendered. B. Y. P. U. MEETING. The B. Y. P. U. of the Pilgrim Baptist church, will hold a Missionary meeting, Sunday, April 27, at 6:45 P. M. Miss Barkesdale will render a solo. The Junior's are holding interesting meetings under the supervision of Mrs. W. B. Tandy. All are cordially invited. Mrs. R. B. Chapman is visiting in St. Louis with Mrs. Rachel King, and Mrs. Ida Langston. She will return home shortly, after having spent the winter in Paris, Tex., where she went to regain her health. Miss Charlott Gilard gave a parcel shower in honor of Miss Eunice Glass on April 17th, at the home of Miss Clara Howard on St. Anthony Ave. Miss Eunice Glass invited several of her friends to see her trousseau on April 18th. All were hospitably entertained. Tea served from 3 to 5. The Ladies' Aid of Zion Presbyterian Church gave a poverty social on Thursday evening. Very pleasant aggair and well attended. Mr. Earl Walker and Miss Mayme Morgan were quietly married Thursday evening at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. James Billups. Mrs. Jennie Kelley of St. Anthny Ave., is on the sick list, her daughter, little Miss Evelin Kelley is convalescent. Miss Lucile Elliott is improving. Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Johnson of Minneapolis were in the city calling Tuesday. DEATH OF MRS. FORT. Mrs. Mark Fort died at her residence, 771 Aurora Ave., on April 21st. She was born in Hastings, Minn. Funeral services were held from her residence on Wednesday. Her son William Fort survives her. Mrs. William Fort is confined to hospital from the effect of an operation for appendicitis. Get your Spring Corset from Miss Anderson, The Spirella Corsetier, 365 Aurora Ave., St. Paul, and be stylish and comfortable. Dale 1345. 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. WEBB'S SENTENCE COMMUTED. Walter Webb has received a commutation of sentence, and is elegible for parole. He may be released shortly, as soon as he can secure proper employment. We beg that those who are indebted to us, send us their subscription by P. O. Order. The items from the classes, make the news of the masses. Read the Twin City Star. THE AUTUMN LEAF DANCING CLASS. PRIZE WALTZ CONTEST. The Autumn Leaf Dancing Class will hold a prize waltz contest on Monday, April 28, at the Auditorium Annex, Minneapolis. Mrs. McCullough will present $5.00 in gold to the winner.—(Advertisement.) LOOK! LOOK!! LOOK!!! WHY PAY RENT WHEN F. PEOPLES, THE COLORED CARPENTER, BUILDER AND REAL ESTATE DEALER, WILL BUILD YOU NEW HOUSES FOR A SMALL PAYMENT DOWN AND BALANCE LIKE RENT? YOUR ATTENTION! PLEASE. Don't send The Star to your friends out of town before you pay for it. Several instances have occurred where we are informed that Mrs.... sends the paper to.... When you buy it, send it broadcast, but when you have failed to remit your subscription, (probably an oversight), you are doing us a great injury. 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. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWS. DO IT NOW. ATTY. ERVIN CHANGES LOCATION Has Opened Offices at 303 Court Block, St. Paul, Minn. During past week Atty. J. Louis Ervin, formerly of Duluth, Minn., opened his office in the Court Block, where he will enter into legal practice. Attorney Ervin graduated from the College of Law, University of Minnesota, with the class of 1907, and opened an office at Duluth, where he has been very successful. While Attorney Ervin has handled nearly all of the legal business of the Afro. Americans of Duluth during his six years' practice there, his practice has by no means been confined to the J. B. H. J. LOUIS ERVIN. Afro-Americans. Mr. Ervin has been retained in nearly every phase of criminal law, as well as many very important civil matters. He has been particularly successful in criminal law, contracts, real estate, mortgages, insurance, probate matters and corporation laws. Attorney Ervin has had six years of actual practice, so he comes to St. Paul as a seasoned lawyer. He has practiced in all of the State Courts, also in the United States Circuit and United States District Courts, since locating in Duluth. He is well known in the Twin Cities, and his future prospects are very encouraging, both on account of his ability and the rapid growth of our race in the community. Mr. Harry L. Davis, is an authorized agent of the Twin City Star, and has added many names to our subscription ist. Mr. Davis is running to Winnipeg, and is always "hustling" for the Star—wherever he goes. Mr. William I. Lewis, 948 Gaultier St. is giving employment to all Negroes desiring work at the Swift Packing Co. Mr. Lewis is seeking engineers and firemen as well as laborers. He expects a number of men from Davenport, Ia. The new manager of this company will give employment to over 1000 Negroes. When you have a social, or any gathering worthy of mention, select some member as press agent, and get the names, especially the initials of persons present, and forward it to your newspaper. Do not wait to depend on your time or memory. It is necessary that we get the full names of those present W. Dale 1345 - 365 Aurora Ave. St. Paul. CURSE OF RACE PREJUDICE. Ugly Situation Confronts Afro-American Chauffeurs in Dallas, Tex. Shall Afro-Americans run automobiles in Dallas, Tex.? This is the grave question which is agitating the public temper in Dallas at this time, when budding spring is opening wide its doors. The white auto drivers say that if brickbats and other assorted missiles have any power colored men shall not operate such cars, so it is alleged. The whites have formed a union to prevent the colored men from running autos and have given the latter much annoyance recently. Not many weeks ago the tactics of the whites became so noticeable that a number of rich auto owners in person called upon the city commissioners and informed them that if police protection were not afforded their drivers they themselves would see that the colored chauffeurs would resent the annoyances. This temporarily had its effect, but within the last few days the white drivers seem to have reached a definite understanding that it was advisable to renew their attacks. Virginia Baptist State Convention. The forty-sixth annual meeting of the Virginia Baptist state convention will be held at Hampton, Va., in the Queen Street Baptist church, Rev. Dr. Thomas H. Short, pastor, beginning on Wednesday, May 14. The Rev. Dr. R. H. Bowling, president of the convention, is rapidly recovering from a severe illness of several months. Dr. Bowling is urging the members of the convention to work zealously to raise the amount needed for missions and education by the time the convention meets. 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INSPIRATION TO THE YOUNG Step 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 that of hair culture. Right into Den- MADAM C. J. WALKER. 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 tonds 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. O. 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. Associated with Madam Walker are Miss Lucy Flint, who was for a number of years connected with the foreign mission board of the national Baptist convention, and Miss Alice P. Kelly, a graduate of the State university under the late William J. Simmons and who taught for a number of years in Exstein-Norton university. Cane Springs, Ky. TWIN CITY STAR Publishers Should Protect Readers Through Ad Columns. The Negro Advertising Agencies are placing a class of advertising with Negro newspapers, which is in every way objectionable to their readers and should be discontinued by their publishers. Such ads. viz, fortune-tellers, fake hair preparations, (cartooned for display,) are only placed in Negro papers, and accepted at a rate to cover space. The Twin City Star has never accepted such, and we platy refused hundreds of dollars worth from several agencies. It is a fact that publications using the American plate service should be looked out for by the advertising department of that association as well as the white weeklies. Those firms, who pay for space in the Western Newspaper Union patent sheet, would recognize those publications using the Press service, and would place their advertising through that agency. This is of vital importance to Negro publishers. They should contend for their share of clean advertising, without padding their circulation, and be willing to accept the same rate as the white newspaper of equal circulation. Yet, we talk about standardization of advertising, etc., when it is known that our newspapers are the cess pools of publicity, a receptacle for everybody's advertising. The publisher of The Twin City Star has always reserved the right to select the matter for its columns. It is fast becoming a rule among Negro agents to buy space "with all rights reserved." We do not need money, to the extent, that we fill in with fake ads., and trust to the honesty of an agency for the payment of space. We had hopes that the National Negro Press Association would give this matter greater attention, but they were almost completely blasted when we found that there were many correspondents and press agents, who had no investment at stake; (owners who had passed the poverty period) also publishers like Hon. Fred R. Moore of N. Y. Age (watch its advertising columns) who could not see the Press Association at Chicago when the Business League was in session, but who later on at Philadelphia became a member for whose benefit several special resolutions were passed. It is to be regretted that the Press Assn., may soon be likened unto the National Negro Business Men's League, where the big fellow goes to show his achievements and gets his personal advertisement without offering much assistance, through co-operation to the little fellow who needs help. There are many big publishers among Negres who have forgotten their pioneer days, never knew what newspapers were worth as a commercial advertising medium—who have ridden into political prominence on a patent back vehicle, who are now associated to meet each year, elect officers and talk, 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 Sioux City. Write for terms to The Twin City Star, Minneapolis, Minn. Press Association's Annual Meeting. Plans thus far outlined by the executive committee of the National Negro Press association contemplate holding the first session of the annual meeting at the Hotel Dale, Cape May, N. J., on Monday afternoon, Aug. 18. Two sessions will be held in Philadelphia on the 19th, the day before the convening of the fourteenth annual gathering of the National Negro Business league. The Press association has increased its membership to eighty-one. Editors are joining the organization from all sections of the country, and the outlook is bright for increasing the membership to at least 100 within a very short time. 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. We do not find many of the members of the Federated Clubs paying for the Star. Your news is worth nothing to us unless you pay for insertion or subscribe for this paper—and we give no life subscriptions upon payment of $2.00. Everybody pays the same tariff and there will be no downward revision. We intend to impress upon you that we need money, we do not intend to send bills each month like the telephone and gas people—but want you to "come up" for what you get or start a society paper. We find our white exchanges are publishing similar requests, and do not feel that Negroes are not supporting race enterprises in general, but our high social class want special privileges just because they are big Negroes. WANTED. "RELIGIOUS TRAMPS." Sermon preached by Rev. M. W. Withers, Pastor Zion Baptist Church, Minneapolis. Text: Jeremiah 2nd Chap., 36 Verse. The Lord speaking to his church in the days of Jeremiah, makes this very pertinent inquiry, "Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? Thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria." That is they would take up with a new thing for a while, and have all the enthusiasm of a new convert, but having no settled and fixed purpose of devotion, they would stray off again after the next new sensation that came along. The result of all this was that they had no permanent place of comfort and found no rest unto REV. M. W. WITHERS. their souls. The tribe of religious tramps are not without multitudes of representatives in our time. In this our day, these tramps go about hearing the last new preacher or the last experiment in church choirs or to something new in architecture, until they know the rounds of the churches better than any body else in town. These tramps can taste more sermons and get less good out of them than any one in the city. They get to be practically religious vagrants, who go tramping about getting lodging for a sermon or a services here and there, but neither receiving nor doing good. The Psalmist says, I was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the Lord, our feet shall stand within thy gates, o Jerusalem. Notice, he says stand not gad about. Again the Psalmist says that it is those who are planted in the house of the Lord who are flourishing and fruitful. If you were to plant out a young apple-tree in the spring, and then take it up and plant it in some place else every week, it wouldn't be long until it would be to dead to sprout any where. A great many people are that way in their religious life. Many of them have their names on the church record at some one church, and are seen there on great occasions, but for the most of the time they go gadding about after every new sensation that comes along. Such people are not really planted in God's house, and they are always shrunken and shriveled and dried up at the roots spiritually. I never knew one single man of that sort who had any real spiritual influence anywhere. In the book or Revelation the Savior declares that it is his purpose to make those who are conquerors in his name pillars in the house of the Lord. A pillar is a very stable sort of a thing; it does not gad or tramp about the church or to different churches. The idea then is for a person to establish him or her self in the church and in the work of the church, so that he or she is always on hand Sunday morning and Sunday night, and at prayer meeting, and at any revival service that may be held who can always be counted upon to do his or her part—and the pastor can always count on such one. Religious tramps are never of any services to a church. They do not stay long enough in one place. Church life is a growth. A church it like the human body: It has head, and heart, and digestive apparatus and muscles, and hands, and feet. It is all the time taking in people, and if it can, digesting them into the strength of its working force. But a great many people remain on its hands undigested. They are not digestible; they do not give themselves up reverently and earnestly to the work of the Lord. Therefore they get no real good they give no real part of their personality to the church, and because of that the church has no opportunity to be of any great comfort or blessing to them. "Why gaddest thou about so much, to change thy way?" says the Lord in our text. Here in Minneapolis you may not have the privilege of going to Assyria or Egypt. But these tramps go to the following cities (a) The city of "Huffity and Muffity." (b) "The city of Laziness." (c) "The city of temper or tempersville." (d) "The city of Gossip." (e) "The city of Irreverence to God" and (g) "The city of neglect." I have not space to describe each of these places where the religious tramp often go. There is an old phrase belonging to the church, which means a great deal if used in its full sense. To give one's self up to the church so that a spiritual home is found there, a spiritual garden in which to grow and blossom for God and humanity, is a great thing. Life is very short at best and we should gadd about as little as possible. To do our best work we must run our religious roots down into some definite church home and put the full force of our strength into the work in that place. In that way we count for something. Somebody relies on us, we are able to carry some burdens for others, and THAT CONSCIOUSNESS is a constant source of comfort. As the years pass over us in our church home our branches of influence spread, and we become a source of comfort and strength to many who are never in the church work than ourselves. It is only in this way that the Psalmist's promise shall come true, that the right eous shall be fat and flourishing even to the last, and bear fruit in old age. If you want to come to be an old man or an old woman not as a withered and dying bough thrown out into the streets as useless, but as a great wide spreading tree about whom the loving interest of younger men and women cluster, then you must stop gadding about and establish yourself as one of the reliable factors of church life. WHY AFRO-AMERICANS ARE LEAVING THE SOUTHLAND. Economic Conditions and Presence of Certain Perils Principal Causes. In an article recently published in the Philadelphia Public Ledger Mr. Henry W. Wilbur gives the following as some of the reasons why the colored people are leaving the rural districts of the south in such large numbers. Mr. Wilbur says: Whatever may be thought about some of the special pleading at the Lenten meeting in Holy Trinity church the other day the opinion expressed that the Negroes should remain in the south and mainly on the soil is sound. But the matter needs some explanation and will have to be more carefully studied than it has been before the point of real elucidation is reached. At the present time there is an exodus of Negroes from the rural districts along two lines of outlet—first, from the agricultural districts of Dixie to the southern cities, and, second, from corresponding sections to the already congested commercial centers in the north. The natural question is, Why should there be any exodus at all? It must be remembered, however, that the Negro emigrates in obedience to the same motives which took the Israelites out of Egypt and brought the Puritans and Quakers to America. That motive was and is a very living desire for an improved condition. It may be taken for granted that this exodus cannot be stopped by mere preachments. The Negro will not be kept on the soil unless the causes which lead to his leaving are removed. In the absence of proper economic inducements and in the presence of certain perils and persecutions the most energetic Negroes will leave many of the agricultural regions of the south on the first opportunity. The whole case is not covered when we talk about educating the Negro. The whites also need educating. In using this word we mean vastly more than the removal of illiteracy, but rather an education so practical and so human that the representatives of both races shall see things as they are and in their perspective. CHRISTIANITY. Christianity certainly enjoins love for rother man. The great apostle whose fiery soul set the ancient Roman empire aglow with a new light held that under the new dispensation distinctions inherent in blood or tongue were consumed and fused into a new and consecrated unity. Certainly Christ never could lend His sanction to such outrages as are perpetrated upon human beings in the name and by the authority of men professing to rejoice in the redemption from bondage to sin brought about in his glorious resurrection. Christianity, true Christianity, is on trial, not the Jew.—Rabbl E. G. Hirsch. THE TRUTH WELL TOLD. Don't be afraid to speak ill of the dead. No man that has lived should be saved from deserved criticism by the commonplace fact of ceasing to be alive. "I should wish," said the Cardinal de Bernis, "that every regard of politeness be preserved for the living, but that it might be permitted to speak freely one's mind of the dead." Filled as our lives are with daily shams, there is no more absurd and abominable sham about us than the mask of sorrow that we wear to the funeral of a rogue. As a matter of fact, the dead, being safe from physical punishment, should be the more open to such reprobation as their acts may have courted. In a true sense, "the evil that men do lives after them." To condone the faults of the dead is to corrupt the morality of the living.—Reginald W. Kauffman, in The Cosmopolitan. ADVERTISEMENTS. CHURCHES. 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, 22d St. between 9th and 10th Aves. Services every Sunday at 4:30 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Sunday school at 12:30. Rev. F. M. Lewis, Pastor. ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH, 215 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, 1120 Eighth Street So. Preaching every Sunday morning and evening. Rev. T. J. Carter, Pastor. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH, 6th Avenue N. and 4th St. Services morning and evening each Sunday. Rev. M. W. Witners, pastor. The People's Christian Mission, REV. G. W. MITCHELL, PASTOR. 1204 Washington Ave. So. ST. PAUL. St. James A. M. E. Church, Rev. m. P. Jones, Pastor, Cor. Jay and Fuller Sts. All are welcome. ZION PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Services 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Rev. G. W. Camp, Pastor. All are welcome. Ames Lodge of Elks meet at Union Temple Hall, 28 Washington Ave. So. every 2nd and 4th Thursday evening. DR. W. H. WRIGHT. DENTIST. 111 South 6th St Minneapolis. N. W. Nic. 1534. T. S. Center 719. WILLIAM H. H. FRANKLIN. Attorney and Counsellor at Law. 1020 Metropolitan Life Bldg. Notary Public. Minneapolis, Minn. Office, Nic. 1963 Res. Colfax 1638. DR. J. H. REDD, Physician and Surgeon. 111 SO. 6TH ST. Minneapolis, Minn. WM. T. FRANCIS Attorney and Counsellor at Law, 89-90 Union Block, St. Paul. J- LOUIS ERVIN Attorney and Counsellor at Law 303 Court Block, St. Paul, Minn. McDew Rents Houses. McDew Rents Flats. McDew Sells Houses. McDew Sells Lots. B. MAXEY McDEW 612 SYKES BLOCK. NIC. 621, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. STAR PANTORIUM E. H. PAUL, Prop. Dry Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing SHOE SHINING PARLOR T. S. Phone 3073 N. W. Main 9592 The Porters and Waiters Club Incorporated GLOVER SHULL, President Waiters for Parties Furnished Also Porters 311 Hennepin Ave. Mols. TRAINMEN'S POOL-ROOM AND TAILOR SHOP. Always Ready to serve the Trainmen. Tel. Cedar 5718. WILL CRAYTON, MGR. 743 MISSISSIPPI ST., ST. PAUL. FIRST CLASS DRESSMAKING PLAIN AND FANCY SEWING. Mrs. R. A. Vanhook. 3612 ELLIOT AVE. 80. Minneapolis. Phone Colfax 3596. Golden Rule Tailors 8. BLUMMER, PROP. 1311 WASHINGTON AVENUE 80. SUITS OR OVERCOATS MADE TO ORDER. SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO CLEANING, PRESSING, REPAIRING. CLOTHES CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED. HENNEPIN COUNTY SAVINGS BANK 41 YEARS OLD MINNEAPOLIS THE TWIN CITY STAR NEGRO PROGRESSIVE. Vol. 3 Friday, April 25, 1913 No. 34 Entered in the Post office at Minneapolis, June 23, as second class matter. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY CHARLES SUMNER SMITH, MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION 1419 Washington Ave. So., Minneapolis, Minn. Phone: N. W. Nic. 2824 Geo. B. 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We are not responsible for the views of our contributors, and all signed articles of any length are paid for by the writer. Sunday, April 27, is the anniversary of Gen. U. S. Grant, the "Hero of the of the Appomatox." "Let us have peace." "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. The Inter-marriage Bill, presented by Hon. Frank Nimocks (put a cross mark on him) never had its second reading. The Star said it would not get out of the Committee. Thanks to those who killed it in its infancy, and saved the State of Minensota from disgrace. HONEST TOIL VS. VAGRANCY. There are several crews of Negro asphalt workers on our streets. This is creditable to those thus employed. There are other avenues recently opened for Negro laborers, The Swift Packing Co., in St. Paul are employing many Negroes. This being a fact, there is no excuse for the plims, lefess, and gamblers, who are fast increasing in our midst. They live or exist mostly on what they can beg, borrow, or steal from women, violating vagrancy and white slave laws, anl preying on the morals of young girls like vultures on carrion. We intend to inform the Federal authorities of any case where Negro or white girls are used for immoral purposes. It is a disgrace among our race that the virtues of a Negro girl is not worth protection from dope-fiends, and slave traders who induce girls to leave home and live in buffet flats, and in houses of prostitution. It is a fact that a long workhouse sentence, would break them of several "habits" and the young girls of this city would be benefited. It is highly commendable that several local characters have the monhood to get out and make an honest living. A step toward true manhood. --- We are glad to announce the advent of Atty. Ervin in St. Paul to practice law. He has our best wishes. It is a good field. Atty, Francis is enjoying a very large practice. And we have no doubts that Mr. Ervin will soon make good. They are men who make opportunities, not wait for them, and at the same time maintain the high standard of professional ethics. Negroes of today need the protection of good Counsel from real lawyers against the shysters and tricksters as of other years. "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 phrenology 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. Pickema. LAWMAKERS PUT IN LIVELY WEEK Spectacular Features as Closing Day Draws Near. EXTRA SESSION THREATENED Governor Eberhart Sends In His First Veto, Accompanied by Ultimat- matum to Solons. (Special Correspondence.) St. Paul, April 21.—The close of the legislative session, which is almost here—this week is the finish—is due to add several interesting pages to Minnesota history as far as a review of its lawmaking bodies is concerned. Not in a decade has so many spectacular things been crowded into one brief week of five legislative days as in the week just passed. After weeks of jockeying the house put over the new primary law, which wipes out party lines in the matter of legislative and county offices. The same day both house and senate received a slap on the wrist from Governor Eberhart in the shape of a veto of the Nolan bill permitting home rule in the handling of public utilities and the very next day the governor was handed a return slap in the announcement that his veto was not worth the paper it was written upon. He had slipped a day and held the bill too long, the leaders charged. Now he threatens to call a special session of the legislature and it is no idle threat, either. The threat has been written on good white paper, with his signature attached, and it holds unless the two bodies pass a public utilities bill. This might be called excitement enough for one week, but when one adds the fact that while all this was on the senate passed the Minnette telephone control bill and the house concurred in the conference report covering the workmen's compensation act, two of the biggest things of the session, it can be readily seen that the solons have sure been earning their money. * * * The veto by Governor Eberhart of the Nolan bill, which gives municipalities control of all public utilities within their confines with the exception of telephones, was the first of the session. The bill was principally designed for Minneapolis, where local control of the electric light and gas companies and the street car monopoly has long been a bone of contention. It was not his veto of the bill, however, that brought the two houses up standing, but a little postscript declaring that if the legislature did not pass a public utilities commission act providing for statewide control instead of local control as named in the Nolan act he would call a special session of the legislature for this particular purpose. All this implied that there was another veto coming, the object of the gubernatorial wrath being the Minneapolis bill, which passed the senate the next day. This measure was promptly vetoed by the governor and on Saturday afternoon the Minette and Nolan bills were passed in the house over the governor's veto. ♦ ♦ ♦ Without entering into any discussion regarding the merits or deremits of the governor's stand in the matter of the Nolan bill—some nasty charges are being indulged in—fairness compels the statement that the message accompanying the veto was a masterpiece. It had plenty of "punch" and there was no mistaking the governor's views. He set them down tersely and every paragraph rang true. Though his enemies might cry street car and General Electric company, anything but statewide control of such utilities, he contended, was a step backward and if he could bring it about only such control would be permitted. Twice has the governor threatened to call a special session, reapportionment being the basis of the last offense, but this time it was better than a threat. "I will," he wrote and it was penned without qualifications or side stepping. * * * Whether the veto of the Nolan bill will stand though is a question, as Nolan and his supporters are making the point that the governor overlooked a day and held it beyond the required time of three days. A receipt book in the possession of the house enrolling clerk is the basis of the Nolan contention and it looks pretty much as if the whole thing would have to be threshed out in the courts. Governor Eberhart says he did not get the bill until the day after the date named in the clerk's record, for the reason that he made special note of the whole thing as he had made up his mind to veto the act long ago if it ever came to him. The controversy resolves itself into a question of fact, with veracity the principal issue. The bill was receipted for by a colored messenger in the governor's office. His excellency insists that this does not constitute delivery. Perhaps it is all for the better, but many will view with regret the passing of party in the selection of candidates for all county and state officers below that of those named in the constitution as executive officers. Reluo TWIN CITY STAR tantly the house gave its sanction to the bill providing for a nonpartisan primary and now all that remains is the signature of Governor Eberhart to make it a law. How it will work out is the interesting thing. It was not the progressive element in the two bodies that put the bill over. W. I. Nolan and Speaker Rines in the house were suspiclous from the start and advised caution, but the deed had been done and they were powerless to stop its completion. The bill prevailed in the house by a bare majority. Democrats are jubilant. They say it will increase their standing in the next legislature and the reactionary element declares that it will do away with new party ideas. If Minnesota is to be represented at either the Panama exposition or the Put-In-Bay Perry centennial celebration it will have to be by private subscriptions. Both house and senate committees lopped off appropriations for each. And this was not all the lopping off it did. There were cuts all down the line, including the university and the state immigration bureau. The latter wanted $50,000. Yet this same committee found time to add about $50,000 to the salaries of various state officials. The excuse was that it was necessary to equalize salaries and put them all on a permanent basis. It comes on good authority that Professor Merica, the new head of the Red Wing boys' training school, is pretty much disgusted with his job and is contemplating retirement. Nearly seventy escapes in less than six months and ten of them in one day is the record, not to speak of a line of insubordination that has compelled a return to corporal punishment. The honor scheme has proven a failure. Frank Whittier, the former superintendent, who was removed, or rather resigned under compulsion after being hounded to death by manufactured evidence tending to show that he was unfit, is now having his inning. With the big cities caring for their erring boys the school is becoming the home of incorrigibles and young criminals and prison discipline is necessary for their control. Minnesota is facing the highest tax rate in years, 2.4 mills, with a possible increase to 3 mills, and the question now being asked is, "Who is responsible?" The last levy made was 1.7 last October. State Auditor Iverson, who announced the levy then, spoke of the low levy in glowing terms, said it was only the forerunner of a still further cut and the Republican state campaign committee was so impressed that it heralded the fact broadcast. It is this campaign jockeying with the levy for revenue purposes that is raising hob with the legislative finance committees now. They simply cannot help putting the levy back where it should be and do justice to legitimate demands. For the last six years every campaign has seen some tampering with the levy for political purposes and the state has been living from band to mouth in consequence. If you or I could have had the interest alone paid for borrowed money during that time we could retire comfortably. Some day the people will tumble. For a week now one St. Paul daily paper has been giving top of column, next to pure reading matter position to a daily exposure of what it claims are startling things in connection with the purchase some years ago of several million dollars' worth of Virginia state bonds. They were bought much below par and are paying the state 3 per cent. The inference was that the story covered an investigation being made by the house committee on accounts and expenditures, but a majority of the committee denies that it is interested and the question that now prompts itself is "What is behind the whole thing?" Some say that certain insurance companies want the bonds, with consequent profit to themselves; others that the powers that be are after the scalps of R. C. Dunn and State Auditor Iverson, who are credited with gubernatorial ambitions. Both were concerned in the original purchase of the bonds. Be as it may there is more than an attempt to put before the public what the paper in question thinks was an unwise expenditure of the people's money and the truth will yet come out. The house committee which has been putting in the past three months investigating the inspection of grain in the state has completed its labors. Its findings are now in the hands of the legislature. In brief it recommends: That original inspection of grain be more liberal; that the several chambers of commerce and trading organizations divest their proceedings of the present system of secrecy; that the railroad and warehouse commission and the state grain board of appeals be divorced and that a free switching service be provided for those who ship grain to Minneapolis. The Dunn goods roads law has been issued in phamplet form and Secretary of State Schmahl is being flooded with inquiries for copies of the same. The constitutional provision providing for the appointment of the supreme court clerk by the court has passed both houses and will be voted on at the next general election. The office at the present time is elective. THE COUNTY CHAIRMAN. + + + + + + ```markdown ``` * * * + + + CINEMAS COMPANY Invites Your Personal Inspection of their Great Department Store FLORSHEIM SHOES Take advantage of the many conveniences including represent perfection in fine shoemaking Get acquainted with COMFORT and become one of our SATISFIED CUSTOMERS. REST ROOMS TELEPHONES CHECKING ROOM BUREAU OF INFORMATION ETC. ETC. ETC. STANLEY SHOE COMPANY 422 NICOLLET AVENUE BENJ. JONES (Successors to H. D. Parker) CLARENCE W. BELL Barber Shop and Pool Room 244 THIRD AVENUE SOUTH (Near Milwaukee Depot) N. W. Nic. 9834 Baths, Shoe Shining and Billiards ARTISTS'— JACOB REDMOND, J. WRIGHT, H. M. KENNEDY THE CARVER HOTEL On All Car Lines 1308-10 WASHINGTON AVE. SO. 28 Newly Furnished Rooms. By Day, Week or Month. 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