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MINNEAPOLIS DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST.PAUL VOL. 3 Single Copies 5 Cents MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., MAY 16, 1913. No. 37 In co-operation with field secretaries Dr. I. L. Thomas of the home missions board, Drs. C. C. Jacobs and E. M. Jones of the Sunday school board. Dr. J. P. Wragg of the American Bible society, Dr. W. W. Lucas of the Epworth league, with other representatives of the board of foreign missions, church temperance society and board of education, he is working up conventions and institutes to present the joint benevolent appeal of Methodism under the commission on finance. Great Ambition of Secretary I. Garland Penn. Author of "Afro-American Press" Making Fine Record as Corresponding Secretary In Charge of Special Work For Methodist Episcopal Church—Man of Broad Vision. Dr. I. Garland Penn of Cincinnati, corresponding secretary Freedman's Aid society. Methodist Episcopal church, is having great success in that office to which he was elected at the last general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in Minneapolis, Minn. No one who knows Dr. Penn should have expected anything else. He has held but four positions in twenty-eight years of public service, the one he now holds being the fourth. He was ten years a public school principal in Lynchburg, Va., for one year national commissioner of Negro exhibits of the Atlanta (Ga.) exposition, sixteen years assistant general secretary of the Epworth league in the Methodist Episcopal church, and last June begun his present work as one of the corresponding secretaries of the Freedmen's Aid society. He was an author at twenty-two, as all will remember the "Afro-American Press," which had a sale of 20,000 copies. Many of our men now in public life making good, who were young men when Dr. Penn's first book was issued, made their way through school selling his book. He has written other books and now has a manuscript in preparation, entitled "Solving the Problem, or Methodism and the Negro." He holds the most distinguished position in church circles of any Negro layman in America and has won his way by succeeding in everything he has been given to do. Dr. Penn, while living in Cincinnati, holds his church relations within the bounds of the Washington conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. The entire life of Secretary Penn in church relation has been within that conference, having been born and reared in it. For six quadrenniums he has represented, along with others, the conference laity in the general conference of the church, which covers twenty-four years of service in the highest legislative body of the church. This is the jubilee year of the society, the general conference having authorized the raising of $500,000 as a jubilee thank offering. This jubilee offering is to commemorate the fifthteen year of emancipation and is to be used in endowment, repairs and new buildings for the twenty-two institutions of the Freedmen's Aid society. Dr. Penn has special charge of raising the $100,000 in the colored conferences, while not exempt from raising as much as his time and energy will allow in the white conferences. He is organizing the conferences, schools, etc., and one institution. Wiley university, at Marshall, Tex., raised $1,100 in forty-five days. Our preachers have given $4,000 in cash as personal gifts at conferences. The churches have reported in two months quite $2,000, and many other thousands have come in. It should be remembered that this is extra from the regular Freedman's Aid collection coming through regular channels, all of which are on the increase. The time fixed for the first general report on jubilee is at the commencements in May for the churches and schools. Each institution will have a jubilee day, when reports will be received from student bodies, churches and individuals. VALUABLE AWARD FOR MARKED ACHIEVEMENT. Gold Medal Offered by Professor Spingarn, Ardent Champion of the Race. A white man interested in the welfare of the colored race has offered a gold medal to be awarded annually to the man or woman of African descent and of American citizenship who shall have made the most distinguished achievement during the year in any field of honorable human endeavor. This announcement was made at the fourth annual conference of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, an organization composed of members of both races, which met the other day at Philadelphia to discuss the race problem and the progress of the American Negro. The association has some 3,000 members, has branches in fifteen cities throughout the country and publishes a monthly magazine, the Crisis, which has 30,000 subscribers. The donor of the medal is the president of the association's New York branch, Professor J. E. Spingarn, for twelve years a professor in Columbia university and one of the most ardent champions of the civil rights of colored people. He has offered to give $100 every year for the gold medal. In making the offer Professor Spingarn said: "My idea is not only to encourage and reward the black man, but even more to educate the white man. At least once a year, when this medal is awarded, the white people of the nation will realize that they have obtained a wrong impression of the American Negro from the American newspapers. They will understand that the Negro is not a criminal, but a man with high ambitions and aspirations, doing effective and honorable work for the welfare of the American people." The award of the medal will be in charge of a committee of five, to be appointed by the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, and the first award will be made at the next annual conference of the association in the spring of 1914. The association will welcome suggestions in regard to the medal from all persons, and any one who desires to make any such suggestion or to propose any man or woman as worthy of the prize should write to Miss May Childs Nerney, secretary. 26 Vesey street, New York. Richmond to Hear Well Known Singer. Mme. Sivilla E. Briggs, the well known soprano singer of Louisville, Ky., will be the guest of the Fifth Street Baptist church choir in Richmond, Va., on Wednesday evening, May 21. She will take part in the program by special request and will render some of her best selections. Atlantic Advocate In New Quarters. The Atlantic Advocate, edited by James A. Lightfoot, Atlantic City, N.J., has changed its editorial office from the Union Bank building to 23-5 Riddle building. The Advocate covers a large territory along the Atlantic coast and wields a potent influence in racial movements. WILL BUILD MODEL CITY Steel Trust Official Announces Plans at Duluth. The United States Steel corporation's plant at West Duluth will be surrounded by a parked townsite of 800 lots, on which the corporation will build 350 apartment houses and homes. These facts were announced by George L. Reis, vice president of the Minnesota Steel company. Work will be begun this summer on the buildings and at least one hundred will be erected this year. The total cost will be $1,300,000. AVIATOR IS ALMOST FROZEN Cover Fifty Miles at Height of Over Ten Thousand Feet. Berne, May 14—Oscar Blder, Swiss aviator, in a monoplane, flew over the Alps at an altitude of 10,560 feet. He left Berne in a high wind, and in 2 hours and 19 minutes alighted at Sion, having covered fifty miles at an average height of two miles. The aviator was almost frozen and had to be lifted from his machine, the whole flight having been over glaciers. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., MAY 16, 1913. News of Especial Interest to Minnesota Readers. Minneapolis Man Shotts Wife and Child and Then Ends His Own Life. Discouraged over his inability to work and a victim of the white plague, Henry Beck of Minneapolis, twenty-two years old, shot and seriously wounded his wife and seven-months-old son, then shot himself. He died almost instantly. The baby died a few hours later. Beck was discharged a week ago from the Minneapolis workhouse, where he had been sent for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. When he was found by the police he had only 10 cents and a doctor's certificate in his pocket. The certificate stated that he was unable to work. Police blame drink and despondency for the crime. Neighbors heard the shots at the Beck home and notified the police. Detectives were sent to the district to watch for Beck, the police being unaware that he had ended his own life. When they arrived at the home they were confronted by a ghastly sight. Before the broken door of Mrs. Beck's room was the body of the husband. The bullet from his own revolver had passed through his heart. On the bed in the room was Mrs. Beck, blood flowing from a wound in her right arm. In her left she clasped Robert, the seven-months-old boy, shot through the left thigh. PRAISES STATE REGULATION Minnesota Governor Studies Conditions in New York. Governor Eberhart of Minnesota spent a few days in New York examining the work of the city public service commission. Before leaving for Cambridge to address the Minnesota club of Harvard university the governor expressed admiration for what has been accomplished in New York by the state regulation of public utilities and announced that he would call a special session of the Minnesota legislature to enact a law similar to that which is in force in New York. "After studying the working of your public utilities law here I am absolutely confident that state control of public utilities is right and that it is the only effective control," said the governor. SCHOOL THE ENTIRE YEAR Minnesota "U" Planning Continuous Session. Study at the University of Minnesota, at Minneapolis, will continue all the year round and quarters of three months each will take place of the present half year or semester system, if plans of President Vincent are made possible by the budget for the biennium 1913-1915. The deans of the various colleges will meet shortly to discuss finances and the distribution of the budget and the new course of study probably will be considered. President Vincent believes that the university as an all-year school and the quarterly periods will increase the pay roll 20 per cent. It is possible that the idea may be adopted next fall in one or two departments. CAT IS GOOD ALARM CLOCK When Six o'Clock Whistle Blows Animal Awakens Master. Sharon, Pa.-Mark Moeller, a steel worker of near Farrell, would not trade his pet Maltese cat for the best alarm clock ever invented. He vouches for the story that within the last year he has not once arrived late at his work, while before Tom came into the family circle he was frequently tardy. Moeller's cat wakens him every morning at 6 o'clock, and if he turnover for just a few more winks the feline begins clawing at the covers until Moeller arises. Moeller used to have an alarm clock. Sometimes he would forget to wind it. He would oversleep and arrive late at work. There is a whistle at a factory close by, and this always blows at 0 o'clock. The cat knows when the whistle blows it is time for Moeller to arise, and it jumps on the bed and stays there until the sleeper is aroused. The cat has been more reliable than the clock and has not missed awakening Moeller except Sundays for several months. READ THE STAR-IT'S NEWS. READ OUR ADVERTISEMENTS. STUBBORN FIGHT ON NOMINATIONS Republican Senators Opposing Confirmation. CONTEST BEGINS ON HARRIS Appointment of Georgia Man as Director of the Census Precipitates Conflict. Washington, May 14.—Sonate Republicans began their first big fight on President Wilson's nominations when the appointment of W. J. Harris of Georgia as director of the census, succeeding E. Dana Durand, was taken up in executive session. The Republicanans forced roll call after roll call on a question of procedure and in support of tactics which the Democrats termed dilatory. Motions to put the nomination over until Friday and until next week were defeated and when the membership on both sides had dwindled to almost nothing adjournment was taken with the Harris nomination where it was when the doors were closed. Republican leaders have served notice that they expect to keep up the fight against the confirmation of Harris until July 1 at least, when Mr. Durand has announced his intention to quit. Under senate rules there is no question of their ability to filibuster to their heart's content. The Republican fight centers largely on the contention that offices requiring technical knowledge or scientific attainments should not be given as political rewards, but that qualification and experience should be the only vard stick. Mr. Harris was chairman of the Democratic state executive committee of Georgia in the last campaign and is known as an original Wilson man. DR. NEILL QUITS HIS OFFICE Labor Commissioner Goes With Guggenhelms as Expert. Washington, May 14.—Dr. Charles P. Neill, United States commissioner of labor since 1905 and recently made commissioner of labor statistics in the new department of labor, resigned to take up a position outside the government service. He was prominently identified with the arbitration of many noted wage disputes under the Erdman act. Dr. Neill has taken a position with the American Smelting and Refining company to organize and conduct its labor department. In a statement Dr. Neill said the offer came to him from President Daniel Guggenheim through William Loeb, Jr., managing director of the Guggenheim corporations. JOHNSON GUILTY OF VIOLATING MANN ACT Jury Convicts Colored Fighter on Seven Counts. Chicago, May 14.—Jack Johnson, champion heavyweight prize fighter, was found guilty of violating the Mann law in transporting Belle Schreiber from Pittsburg to Chicago in 1910. He was convicted on all seven counts in the indictment. The jury returned its verdict after an hour's consideration. The maximum penalty under the finding is five years' imprisonment or $10,000 fine, or both. A motion of Assistant District Attorney Harry Parkin that Johnson be ordered confined in the county jail was overruled by Judge Carpenter and the negro was released on a bond of $10,000. A motion for a new trial was filed at once by counsel for Johnson and arguments on the motion were set for May 19. NEGROES WILL HONOR HENDER- SON. 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. PLANS COMPLETE FOR EXPOSITION Race to Celebrate Fifty Years ot Freedom. Several Prizes Are Offered In Connection With the Event—Athletic Meet and Grand Musical Carnival to Be Held—Series of Important Conferences Announced. By WHITTIER H. WRIGHT. BY WHITTER H. WRIGHT. The Pennsylvania emancipation proclamation commission, which will hold an exposition celebrating the fifty years of freedom of the Negro race in America in Philadelphia in September, is making elaborate preparations for the consummation of that event. Hon. Harry W. Bass, the only Negro who is now or has ever been a member of the Pennsylvania legislature, is the prime mover in the celebration, for it was through his efforts that Pennsylvania led off with an appropriation of $20,000 for this purpose. The executive committee of the emancipation celebration has just announced a number of prizes for the fifthth anniversary celebration. There will be a prize of $50 in gold for the best emancipation ode, a prize of $50 in gold for the best emancipation song set to music and $50 in gold for the best paper of from 5,000 to 8,000 words on the subject of the progress of the Negro since the emancipation, depicting fifty years of Negro progress. All the contestants are to send in their products not later than Aug. 1 to the emancipation proclamation commission, 1352 Lombard street, Philadelphia. In connection with the celebration there will be also an athletic meet, under the auspices of the Amateur Athletic Union of America, at which something like $1,000 worth of prizes will be awarded athletes, among which will be a memorial cup to the honor of Dr. John B Taylor of the University of Pennsylvania, the late champion quarter mile runner of America. Dr. William M. Slowe, Messrs. Harry Du Plessiss, George Smiley, Drs. J. T. Howard, C. A. Lewis, J. Max Barber and others compose the local athletic committee which proposes to bring to Philadel- HON. HARRY W. BASS. phila the most notable gathering of Negro athletes which has ever met in the history of the country. This is already attracting wide attention. Exhibits of Industrial Progress. The chief feature of the exposition, however, will be the exhibits illustrating the industrial progress of the Negro race. More than seventy schools have made application to exhibit their industrial and literary work. Negro manufacturers and inventors will have a large part in the exposition, while the women's domestic science department is expected to make one of the most attractive features. An organization of 500 local Philadelphia women, aided by a similar organization in nearly every city in the state, is working night and day to the success of the women's department in the exposition. In this connection will be held a woman's congress, at which time will appear many of the leading women of both races. Next to the industrial exhibit the most attractive feature will be the musical carnival. Among those interested in this are Mme. E. Azalal Hackley, F. A. Clark, Edwin F. Hill and many other local musical people. A chorus of 5,000 voices, which will render the old plantation melodies, is being trained under the leadership of the eminent composer and musical director, Professor F. A. Clark of Philadelphia. A similar chorus of school children of Philadelphia is being trained under the leadership of Professor J. R. Paul Brock, principal of the Thomas Durham school, one of the largest schools in Philadelphia. During this carnival the musical committee proposes to have in Philadelphia the very best musical talent of the race in the world. There will be concentrated during the latter half of August and the month of September the greatest array of Negro talent that has ever been brought together at any time in any one place. Important Conferences to Be Held. In connection with the exposition there will be a series of conferences, a sociological conference under the leadership of Rev. Matthew Anderson, founder and principal of the Berean manual training school. There will be a conference of the medical men, under the leadership of a very competent committee, of which Dr. R. Wellesley Bailey is chairman; an interdenominational religious conference, which will bring together all the religious denominations to which the Negro belongs, under the leadership of an interdenominational religious committee, of which Bishop L. J. Coppin is chairman. Last August a special representative of the commission, Dr. A. B. Jackson, who is president of the Negro business league of Philadelphia, went to the Chicago meeting of the National Negro Business Men's league and secured the acceptance of the invitation to hold the 1913 session in the City of Brotherly Love in connection with the enamulation exposition celebration. This will be a great feature. A short time ago the Hon. Richard A. Cooper, member of the common council of the city of Philadelphia and also chief clerk of the emancipation proclamation commission, introduced and had passed by the Philadelphia councils an appropriation of $5,000 for the interest of the National Negro Business Men's league, which will meet during the exposition in the Exposition building. The governor of each state has been asked to appoint a commission of men, who will take a special part on the program in the great race conference which will be held at this time. President Woodrow Wilson while governor of New Jersey appointed a commission, and the New Jersey legislature appropriated $20,000 to aid us in making the Philadelphia exposition a success, and measures are now being taken by which we hope to have every other state make a similar appropriation. Great Enthusiasm Shown. The commission is composed of members of the Pennsylvania legislature as follows: Senator William E. Crow, Unontown, Pa., chairman; Hon. Henry A. Clark, Erie, Pa.; Hon. George E. Alter, Springdale, Pa.; Hon. Clarence Wolf, Philadelphia; Hon. William W. Ulerich, Latrobe, Pa.; Hon. Milton W. Shreve, Erie, Pa., and Hon. Harry W. Bass, Philadelphia, secretary. The management of the exposition is in charge of the local executive committee, composed of some of the best representative men of the race. They are as follows: Harry W. Bass, chairman; Bishops J. S. Caldwell, L. J. Coppin, George L. Blackwell, Evans Tyree, Rev. H. H. Cooper, J. C. Beckett, C. C. Scott, F. T. M. Webster, Matthew Anderson, E. W. Johnson, C. A. Tindley, W. A. Credit, C. C. Dunlap, G. W. Goff, J. W. Lee, R. R. Wright, Jr., H Y Arnett, A R. Robinson, G. H. Dwelle, Hon. R. A. Cooper, Hon. J. C. Asbury, Drs. William M. Slowe, H. M. Minton, Hon. Maurice Randolph, Messrs. N. T. Venlor, P. L. Blackwell and W. H. Marshall. Great enthusiasm exists all over the city of Philadelphia and state of Pennsylvania for the success of this great movement. The management is now turning its attention to the outside forces in other states. ISLAND AMERICANS ESCAPE Most Damage From Philippine Typhoon Done in North. Washington. May 14.—No Americans were killed or injured in the latest typhoon to sweep over the Philippine islands, although there were a number of casualties among the natives and great damage was done to property. Governor General Forbes reports that the principal damage was in the north. $5,000 WHEN HE EARNS $1,000 Unole Leaves Legacy Under This Condition to Nephew. Minneapolis, Minn.—After he earns $1,000 "by his own efforts" S. E. Davis of Los Angeles will receive $5,000 under the will of his uncle, the late Spencer E. Davis of Minneapolis, just filed. "S. E. Davis is not a bad young man, but good and too freehearted," commented the uncle in the will. Mr. Davis died April 7 on a train returning from Pasadena, Cal. His estate is estimated at $110,000. He was the founder of the Monitor Drill works at St. Louis Park. 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For information call South 4021. --- --- ive Page PETER H. Geo. Watkins PIANO INSTRUCTION. Classes for Beginners. BOLD STAND OF BETTER ELEMENT OF SOUTHERN WHITES STARTLES PRESS. DR. S. C. MITCHELL OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND DR. C. V. ROMAN OF NASHVILLE DELIVER SPEECHES. National Health and Righteousness Aim of Congress—Many Negroes Attend. Southern newspapers refused to report the utterances of delegates to the Southern Sociological Congress which met at Atlanta, Ga., from April 25 to 29. So advanced was the stand taken by southern white women and men at the head of universities and schools in the south in favor of fair treatment of the Negro that none of the newspapers of that section or the representatives of the Associat ed Press would report the meetings. Although the meeting was one of the most important ever held in the south, no word of it was sent to the northern press, and the world knows little of what was said and done. The recent Southern Sociological Congress, held in Atlanta, Ga., from Friday, April 25, to Tuesday, April 29, 1913, was one of the greatest meetings held in the South during the present decade. At it were gathered bishops, preachers and the leading men and women of the great universities, colleges and churches of the South. The meeting seemed to be charged with the spirit of Christianity and the utterances of the speakers were most surprising to the colored listeners because of the bold stand which they took on the race question. Those men and women had previously met in the city of Nashville, Tenn., in 1912, under the invitation sent out by and fostered by a noble Southern white woman, Mrs. Anna Russell-Cole, who is described as the founder. At that session the organization was perfected under the title of the Southern Sociological Congress. Gov. Ben W. Hooper of Tennessee was elected president; Mrs. Anna Russell-Cole, founder, vice-president; Mr. M. E. Holderness, treasurer; Mr. J. E. McCullock, general secretary. At the session held in Atlanta, Gr., it was necessary to divide the congress into seven departmental conferences, each holding two sessions daily. These conferences were held in the largest and finest white churches of Atlanta and the Atlanta Auditorium. At the Nashville congress there were no Negroes present. The executive committee, in arranging for the Atlanta meeting, sent out invitations to the leading Negro business men, educators and ministers of the South to attend and become members upon payment of $2 membership fee. One hundred or more accepted the invitation, paid their fees and were most agreeably surprised, upon reaching Atlanta, to find that they were cordially received and given to understand that they were not there as visitors, but full-fledged members. An entire section of the first floor, where white delegates sat in all places, where the meetings were held, was assigned them, and for the first time in the history of Atlanta, or the South, Negroes were received in these places. Many approached them with misgivings, and, even though they had been told through the local committee that the arrangements was bona fide, the Negro hesitated to walk boldly to the front of this section, and only after the first session did they realize what was the real meaning of the congress. Notable Negro business men and educators were present from Tuskegee, Fisk and all the leading universities and colleges of the South, who for the most part sat and listened with amazement at the utterances of their white brothers. The third number on the program was a masterly and unvarnished announcement by the chairman, Dr. John E. White of Atlanta, Ga., of the objects of the university and aim of the congress. Dr. S. C. Mitchell, president of the University of South Carolina, delivered an address, "The South's Challenge for a Better Nation," in which was brought out the following epigram: "This congress stands for the uplift of all the people, stands firm upon the moral, educational and uniform laws and justice to all; and that the South does not seek to profit by its virtues, but by correcting its vices. Heretofore the South has stood the criticism of the outside world; today the South has made up its mind to criticise itself and that that criticism shall be in fairness and justice. Its fundamental principles are love and justice and the great principles as laid down by the Master Himself." Statistics were given to show the advancement of the Negro and he was extolled for his great grit and manhood in succeeding in spite of terrible opposition. He was commended for his patience and long suffering, and Dr. Mitchell of South Carolina frankly said: "There are instances in which he has defended and struck back, and I glory in this." What to our mind was most significant, the men and women were in the most part young, the men heads of colleges and universities of the South. Their utterances were bold and uncompromising and each wound up with a fervent advocacy and belief that the good men and women and the church of Jesus Christ and His teachings have at last awakened the souls of men and women of the South to the firm belief that there is THE ELEMENT OF SOUTHERN CARTLES PRESS. CAROLINA AND DR. C. V. ROMAN OF IVER SPEECHES. Business Aim of Congress—Many Attend. To report the utterances of delegated Congress which met at Atlanta, advanced was the stand taken by a at the head of universities and treatment of the Negro that none on or the representatives of the meetings. Although the meeting never held in the south, no word of and the world knows little of what CERTIFICATE OF INFORMATION OF NYGREN TYPESETTING. KNOW ALL MEMBERS. That is signed, do hereby assay for the purpose of formation under and pursuits of Chapter (58) Laws of the State of the year 1905, and all thereof, and to that adopt and subscribe Certificate of Incorporation ARTICLE. The name of this Clerk be "NYGREN TYPEPANY." The general business shall be to operate and generally Machines and other chines and to carry do a general printing but one God, one religion, one brotherhood, and that the day of the false doctrine or race hate and race prejudice must cease. No ma nor race that elevates itself at the sacrifice and wrong perpetrated upon another or weaker race can survive, and they hope that through the Southern Sociological Congress, and the things it represents, to educate the masses to nobler and better things and to effect an adjustment of all problems in fairness to both races. The Negroes largely attended the meetings where the race problems were discussed. The congress pledges itself to fight unceasingly to eradicate race prejudice and all other attendant evils, and stands for better schools, better homes, better opportunities, the abolition of discriminatory laws, better accommodation in all public service, the suppression of vice and a better South and nation. In fact, it has given to the Negro, not only of the South but throughout the country, hope; for no set of men or women can stand up and speak out with such broadness and not be sincere. One of the best papers of the congress was read by Dr. C. V. Roman, the noted Negro eye specialist of Nashville, Tenn., under the caption "Radical Self-Respect and Racial Antagonism." Dr. Roman not only spoke out pointedly on this subject, but presented in bold and unvarnished terms what he considers the best remedies. In addition to the above, the following subjects were discussed: "For the abolition of convict lease and contract systems and for the adoption of modern principles of prison reform." "For the extension and improvement of juvenile courts and juvenile reformatories." "For the proper care and treatment of defectives, the blind, the deaf, the insane, the epileptic and the feebleminded." "For the recognition of the relation of alcoholism to disease, to crime, to pauperism and to vice, and for the adoption of appropriate preventive measures." "For the adoption of uniform laws of the highest standards concerning marriage an ad divorce." "For the adoption of uniform laws on vital statistics." "For the abolition of child labor by the enactment of a uniform child-labor law." "For the enactment of school attendance laws, that the reproach of the greatest degree of illiteracy may be removed from our section." "For the suppression of prostitution." "Far the solving of the race question in a spirit of helpfulness to the Negro and of equal justice to both races." "For the closest co-operation between the church and all social agencies for the securing of these results." "And, finally, above all, the congress stands for humanity above races." The fact was also brought out that in many communities of the South the best men and women of both races were already co-operating to bring about these results. The entire proceedings will be printed in book form and a copy sent to every member of the congress, which will contain these papers verbatim as read before the congress. Messrs. W. C. Gordon and C. K. Robinson were delegates fr 'omMissouri. Mr. C. K. Robinson is the Supreme Keeper of Records and Seals of the Knights of Pythias, also president of the Argus Publishing Co. To him we are indebted for this valuable information about Southland conditions, which should cause Negroes to support race papers, proving that the white papers of the South, by their unfairness to the Negro, had greatly hindered his progress. The press of the South is the Negro's greatest enemy. The Negro is a factor in the Battle of life and in this grand march of progress must carry his own burdens and fight his own battles, and the day is near when he will win the great victory of world wide recognition and human happiness. This should be the quest of the rising generation. Subscribe for the Star. CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF NYGREN TYPESETTING COMPANY. KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That we, the undersigned, do hereby associate ourselves for the purpose of forming a Corporation under and pursuant to the Provisions of Chapter (58) of the Revised Laws of the State of Minnesota, for the year 1905, and all acts amendatory thereof, and to that end do hereby adopt and subscribe the following Certificate of Incorporation. ARTICLE I. The name of this Corporation shall be "NYGREN TYPESETTING COMPANY." The general nature of its business shall be to buy, sell, lease, operate and generally deal in Linotype Machines and other Typesetting Machines and to carry on, conduct and do a general printing and publishing business and to acquire, equip and maintain such machinery, machines, type and other property as shall be deemed expedient, convenient or necessary for carrying on any one of the lines of business above mentioned, and to build, construct, equip or otherwise acquire, maintain, all such buildings and to acquire by purchase or otherwise all such real and personal property as shall be deemed, expedient, convenient or necessary for carrying on any of the lines of business stated above. The general office and principal place of business of this Corporation, shall be in the City of Minneapolis, Hennepin County, State of Minnesota. ARTICLE II. The time of the commencement of this Corporation shall be the 28th day of February, A.D. 1913, and the period of its continuance shall be thirty (30) years. ARTICLE III The amount of the capital stock of this Corporation shall be Twenty-five thousand ($25,000.00) Dollars, divided into Two thousand five hundred (2,500) shares of the par value of Ten ($10.00) Dollars each, which shall be subscribed for and paid in at such times and in such amounts and in such manner as shall be determined and prescribed by the Board of Directors. ARTICLE IV. The highest amount of indebtedness to which this Corporation shall at any time be subject, is the sum of Ten thousand ($10,000.00) Dollars. ARTICLE V. The names and places of residence of the persons forming this Association for incorporation, are as follows: John Nygren, Florence A. Newton, and Robert Larson, all of whom reside in the City of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The government of this Corporation and the management of its affairs shall be vested in a Board of three Directors who shall be elected each year by and from the stockholders at their annual meeting, to be held hereafter provided. Said Board of Directors shall elect each year a President and a Vice-President from among their number, and shall also elect a Secretary and Treasurer. The offices of President or Vice-President, and Treasurer or of Secretary and Treasurer may be held by the same persons. The annual meeting of the stockholders of this Corporation for the election of the Board of Directors and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before it shall be held at the office of the Corporation in the City of Minneapolis, State of Minnesota, on the second Tuesday in February in each year at ten o'clock in the forenoon. All officers shall be elected each year at the first meeting of the Board of Directors after the annual stockholders meeting. Directors and officers shall hold their offices for one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified. If there shall be a failure by the stockholders to elect Directors at the annual meeting, such election may be had at a special meeting of the stockholders called for that purpose and if the Directors shall fail to elect officers at the time specified herein, such officers may be elected at any subsequent regular meeting of the Directors or any special meeting thereof called for that purpose. The following named persons are constituted the first Board of Directors of this corporation, to-wit: John Nygren, of Minneapolis, Robert Larson, of Minneapolis, Florence A. Newton, of Minneapolis, who shall hold their offices until the annual meeting of stockholders on the second Tuesday of February, 1914, and until their successors are elected and qualified and John Nygren, shall be President, and Robert Larson, shall be Vice-President, and Florence A. Newton, shall be Secretary, and Treasurer, of this Corporation until the first annual meeting of the stockholders of this Corporation on the second Tuesday of February, 1914, as herein provided. JOHN NYGREN (Seal) ROBERT LARSON (Seal) FLORENCE A. NEWTON (Seal) In the presence of W. B. HENDERSON W. B. PATTIN. COUNTY OF HENNEPIN.) Be it known that on this 22nd day of April, A. D. 1913, before me, a Notary Public, within and for sake, County and State, personally appeared, John Nygren, Robert Larson, and Florence A. Newton, known to me to be the same persons described in and who executed the foregoing Certificate of incorporation and severally acknowledged that they executed the same as their free act and deed. WM. B. HENDERSON, Notary Public, Hennepin County, Minnesota. My Commission Expires Feb'y 14, 1919. I hereby certify that the within instrument was filed for record in this office on the 8th day of May A. D. 1913 at 11 o'clock A. M. and was duly recorded in Book W-3 of Incorporations on page 787. 18062. OFFICE OF REGISTER OF DEEDS, STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Hennepin. I hereby certify that the within instrument was filed for record in this office on the 13 Day of May A. D. 1913 at 12 o'clock P. M., and was duly recorded in Book — of — Page —. By D. G. GORHAM, Deputy Register of Deeds. WM. B. HENDERSON, Atty., 406-10 Plymouth Bldg. ORDER FOR HEARING FINAL ACCOUNT AND PETITION FOR DISTRIBUTION. STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Hennepin. IN PROBATE COURT. In the Matter of the Estate of Rosy Lontuikl. Decedent On receiving and filing the final account of the administrator of the estate of said decedent, and his petition praying for the allowance of said account and for a decree assigning the residue of said estate to the persons by law entitled to the same It Is Ordered, That all persons interested in said estate appear before the said Probate Court on Monday, the 2nd day of June, 1913, at the 0'clock in the foreoon, at the Probate Court in the Court House at Minneapolis, in said County, and then there to show cause, if any there be, why said account should not be allowed and said estate should not be distributed as prayed for in said petition. And it is Further Ordered, That notice of such hearing be given by publishing this order once in each week for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing, in the Twin City Star, a newspaper printed and published in said County, and by mailing a true and correct copy of this order to each of the persons interested in said estate at least fourteen days before the day of hearing. Dated at Minneapolis, this 8th day of May, 1913. By the Court: JOHN A. DAHL, Judge of the Probate Court. GEO. H. JACKSON, Atty. Adv. May 9-16-23. ORDER FOR HEARING PETITION FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION. STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Hennepin. IN PROBATE COURT. In the Matter of the Estate of Charley Dahlman, Decedent. On receiving and filing the petition of Mary Dahlman of Hennepin County, Minnesota, praying that Letters of Administration on said estate issue to her. IT IS ORDERED, That said petition be heard and that all persons interested in said matter appear before this Court on Monday the 9th day of June 1913 at 10 a. m., at the Probate Court in the Court House at Minneapolis, in said county, and then, or as soon thereafter as said petition can be heard, show cause, if any there be, why said petition should not be granted. And it Is Further Ordered, That notice of such hearing be given by publishing this order once in each week for three successive weeks, prior to said day of hearing, in the Twin City Star, a newspaper printed and published in said County. Dated at Minneapolis, this 14th day of May, 1913. By the Court: JOHN A. DAHL, Judge of the Probate Court. There are a lot of men in Winnipeg looking for railroad work. The supply is greater than the demand. Always is it faith in someone or something that inspires us to lift our work above the commonplace. Greek Catholics in Philadelphia have started a Mission for Negroes in charge of a Negro Priest. COPY MUST REACH US BY WEDNESDAY. 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 Sioux City. Write for terms to The Twin City Star, Minneapolis, Miam. DO IT NOW. We beg that those who are indebted to us, send us their subscription by P. O. Order. Mrs. Ida Sellars, former Vice President of the Afro-American Federated Clubs of Minnesota, has succeeded Mrs. Nellie Francis as president of that organization. At a meeting of the Executive Board held at the residence of Mrs. Tillie Brigham, 3616 Elliot Ave. So., held on May 2, it was expected that Mrs. Francis would reconsider her resignation. In spite of the many requests to remain, Mrs. Francis decided to resign. Mrs. Sellars will serve as president until June 1914. 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 RENTS ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL SCURCH 5th Ave. Se. and 27th St. Minn. Rev A. H. Leatad, Rector. Service at 8 o'clock P. M. All are Invited. Come. ST. PETERS A. M. E. CHURCH, 23d St. between 3th and 2nd Ave. Services every Sunday 10:20 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Sunday school at 12:30. Rev. F. M. St. Lewis, Pastor. ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH, 315 Eighth Ave. So. Sunday School at 11 a.m. 8 p.m. Sunday School at 1 p.m. Rev. E. R. Edwards, Pastor. SETHESDA BAPISTI CHURCH, 1120 kings Street West. Preaching every sunday morning and evening. Rev. T. J. Carter, Pastor. ZION BAPISTI CHURCH, 6th Avenue N. and 4th St. Services morning and evening each Sunday. Rev. M. W. Winters, Pastor. The People's Christian Mission, REV. G. W. MITCHELL, PASTOR. St. James A. M. E. Church, Rev. n. P. Jones, Pastor, Cor. Jay and Fuller sts. All are welcome. It is a rule at the St. James A. M. E. Church that persons attending funerals will not be permitted to view the remains in the Church. All persons will call to the undertakers or the residence to take the last look at the departed. 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. LUDGES. ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR. Deputy, installs and organizes Chapters of The O. E. Star. Pleased to consult any one interested. Residence Mrs. Anna B. Harris, Grand District 285 Rende St., St. Paul, Minn. 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 8T. Minneapolis, Minn. WM. T. FRANCIS Attorney and Counsellor at Law, 89-90 Union Block, St. Paul. N. W. Cedar 5552 4th & Cedar Sts. R. O. LEE ATTORNEY AT LAW. Practice in all Courts. 25 Union Block, St. Paul, Minn. J- LOUIS ERVIN Attorney and Counselor at Law 303 Court Block, St. Paul, Minn. FIRST CLASS DRESSMAKING PLAIN AND FANCY SEWING. Mrs. R. A. Vanhook. 3612 ELLIOT AVE. 80. Minneapolis. Phone Colfax 3596. McDew Rents Houses. McDew Rents Flats. McDew Sells Houses. McDew Sells Lots. NIC. 621, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. STAR PANTORIUM E. H. PAUL, Prop. Dry Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing SHOE SHINING PARLOR 110 Wash. Ave. N. MINNEAPOLIS Goods Called for and Delivered Promptly T. S. Phone 3073 N. W. Main 9502 The Porters and Waiters Club Incorporated GLOVER SHULL, President Waiters for Parties Furnished Also Porters 311 Hennepin Ave. Mpls. Golden Rule Tailors S. BLUMMER, PROP. 1311 WASHINGTON AVENUE 80. SUITS OR OVERCOATS MADE TO ORDER. SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO CLEANING, PRESSING, REPAIRING. CLOTHES CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED. : : : : : --- THE TWIN CITY STAR NEGRO PROGRESSIVE. Vol. 3 Friday, May 16, 1913 No. 36 Mattered in the post office at Minneapolis, June 23, as second class matter. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY CHARLES SUMNER SMITH, MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION Phone: N. W. Nic. 2824 Geo. B. Kelley Duluth, Mina. "Head of the Lakes" Representative. Subscription by Mail, Postpaid. ONE YEAR ..... $2.00 MIX MONTHS ..... 1.35 8 MONTHS ..... $ .75 CANADIAN SUBSCRIPTION $2.50. ADVERTISING RATES. 1 column inch—1 insertion ..... $ .50 1 col. inch—4 insertions (1 mo.) $150 1 col. inch—13 insertions (3 mos.) $5.00 Special rates furnished on application Reading notices ..... 10 cents aline. 6 words constitute a line. The above rates apply to all classifi- cations as follows, except Births, Cards of Thanks, Obituaries, Meeting Notices, Barter and Exchange and all ads, preceding Male Help. 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Lose this day lottering, 'twil be the same story Tomorrow, and the next more dilatory; For indecision brings its own delays. And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do or think you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed. —Goethe "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 phrophecy 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. Kolensk JUSTICE TO ALL Equal and exact justice to all citizens of whatever nationality, race, color, or persuasion. A free ballot and a fair count. Grever Cleveland. Let us have more harmony among our social workers and in our organizations in general. It is disrespect and gross insubordination to ignore our officers and fellow-workers. We should not feel that others have no rights that we respect. Harmony is essential to unity. Let us try to do something to please others and to disagree from principle and not personal motives. In the words of the immortal Lincoln, "Though much provoked, let us do nothing in malice or ill temper." 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. "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. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWS. 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 Twink 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? COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES AT TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE. Beginning May 25th, at 2:00 o'clock in the afternoon, Dr. John E. White of Atlanta, Georgia, pastor of the Second Baptist Church (white), will deliver the Commencement Sermon. On Monday evening of the same week, the closing exercises of the Phelps Hall Bible Training School will be held. On Tuesday evening, May 29th, the Boston Trinity Church Prize contest will be held. The Trinity Church prizes consist of a first prize of twenty-five dollars and a second prize of fifteen dollars, which are offered to the two students of the Senior and A Middle Classes who deliver the best papers on subjects assigned for the competition. Thursday, May 29th, is Commencement Day. The Commencement Address this year is to be delivered by Dr. Robert E. Jones, D. D., Editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate, New Orleans, Louisiana. Friends of the Institute are cordially invited to attend any or all of these exercises. TO SEGREGATE NEGRO MAIL CLERK8. Washington, D. C.-The colored postal clerks of the South are much stirred up over a petition that is being circulated among the white railway mail clerks, requesting Post Master General Burleson to put all the Negro clerks on lines to themselves and not allow any Negro mail clerk to be in the same car with a white clerk. The petition was started by Robert Prather, a white mail clerk running out of little Rock, Ark. Prather was flattered recently by having had his name called to the attention of the post office department because he prevented a hold up on his line. He figures that since he is temporarily popular that he will win fame with this Jim-crow proposition. A few years ago the same scheme was proposed and several white clerks were dismissed on account of their activity in thus trying to cripple the mail service. The Negro mail clerks have fought their way up in the postal service, especially in the South, by superior work, even against the rank prejudice of most of the white clerks who hesitate to, in most cases, do nothing that is against the colored clerks and in many instances their efforts seem to have been sanctioned by the chief clerks who have the direct supervision of the mail lines. In last days of Post Master General Hitchcock's administration laws went into effect providing for annual promotions to all clerks with satisfactory records and those laws when fairly applied will permit the Negro clerks on big lines to attain large salaries. The envious white clerks want the colored clergs for these reasons put on small and insignificant lines. Assurances have been given by the present administration that the civil service regulations will be closely adhered to and this is taken to mean, that this jim-crow proposal, like its author, will amount to nothing. 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. 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. Dedson of N. Y., which is a feature of our publication, much appreciated by our readers. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS. TWIN CITY STAR NEW FRATERNAL ORDER FORMED NOT LIMITED TO AMERICA Society Headed by Attorney L. Melleendez King as Grand Supreme Governor Undertakes Great Work of Uplift at Home and Abroad-Large Membership In Foreign Lodges. Great Department Store Washington.—The Knights and Ladies of Malachites of the World is the name of a new fraternal order that is making a distinct impression upon the people everywhere it is being introduced. It has just invaded Panama and the West India islands, and the itinerary of the leaders has been a march of triumph. The grand supreme governor, L. Melendez King, and the grand supreme lieutenant governor, Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis of the Knights and Ladies of Malachites of the World, sailed the latter part of April from New York on the palatial steamship Tivives, their objective being Bocas del Toro, Panama, one of the most thrifty communities in the new republic. Before leaving the national metropolis they made ma and the West itinerary of the arch of trumph. governor, L. Me- grand supreme Miss Henrietta Knights and La- the World, sailed from New York alp Tivives, their del Toro, Pana- hrifty communi- ic. Before leav- pools they made POST OFFICE REST ROOMS TELEPHONES CHECKING ROOM BUREAU OF INFORMATION ETC. ETC. ETC. an official visit to Elizabeth bodge No. 4 of Malachites, a prosperous lodge organized some time ago by Brother Holmes. En route to Panama Governor King and Lieutenant Governor Davis were the guests of Venus lodge No. 1 of Kingston, Jamala, of which Brother Walcott is governor, and Mrs. Milbourne is secretary. This lodge they found to be in a flourishing condition and exerts a potent influence in the fraternal and social life of the people of the island. The visitors called in person upon Kingston's mayor, the Hon. H. L. Simpson, who is an enterprising colored man and an active force in the Order of Malachites. and Mrs. Mil- This lodge they fishing condition influence in the life of the people visitors called in n's mayor, the pairing, cleaning, and pressing. Tel. N. W. Cedar 3488. CLIFFORD A. 8SMITH. 109 E. 8th ST., ST. PAUL, MINN. PHONE: N. W. NIC. 2724 Pausing for two days at Colon, Panama, the tourists set up a lodge there and then went on to their final destination, Bocas del Toro, the beautiful—indeed, a garden spot, radiant with flowers and productive vegetation at this season of the year. Awaiting the arrival of the supreme officers at this place were two clubs of Malachites, the Rising Star and Minerva, comprising about 300 members, ready to be initiated into the secrets of this great order. Their reception was enthusiastic to the last degree, as the news of their coming had been heralded far and wide for weeks among the industrious, intelligent and hospitable denizens of the isthmus. As both Mr. King and Miss Davis are of pleasing address and attractive personality, they found no difficulty in making a most favorable impression upon their entertainers, who are naturally fond of distinguished Americans. The Knights and Ladies of Malachites of the World are "out for a record," and the outlook for success is exceedingly bright. The order is growing rapidly, and at its present pace it is destined to become one of the strongest, if not actually the strongest, Negro organizations known to fraternalism. Its object is not only benevolent—that is, paying slick, accident and death benefits—but goes beyond that. It purposes to combine respectable Negroes in every village, hamlet and town for their benefit and protection along all lines—civic, moral, educational and business. It has all of the merits of the older secret orders which have made good. by the strongest, known to frater- not only benevo- ck, accident and beyond that. pine respectable age, hamlet and and protection noral, education- all of the mer- t orders which his lieutenant, M. W. JUDY, MGR. Labor Temple 720 South 4th St. Minn. Phone T. S. Center 4085. WALFRID WESTMAN Photographer (Successor to H. Larson) 313 Washington Ave. Se. Governor King and his lieutenant, Miss Davis, will return from Panama about the latter part of May, and they expect to find many applications for charters for new lodges awaiting them at the headquarters, where all requests and queries will be compiled with. Governor King is a lawyer of high standing at the bar of the District of Columbia, and Miss Davis is known the nation over as an exlocationist of exceptional gifts. Both are race leaders of the unselfish type and enjoy the confidence of the masses everywhere. N. W. Cedar 4525. Open Day and Night. The Busy Bee Cafe W. F. T. CHANDLER, PROP. First Class A La Carte Meals at all Hours and Right Prices, Quick and Satisfactory Service, Private Dining Room for Ladies and Special Parties. REGULAR DINNER 25 CENTS. FROM 11:30 TO 8. 317 WABASHA ST. UP STAIRS. ST. PAUL, MINN. 328-13. Good Year at Kentucky State College. The Kentucky State college at Frankfort will close the first week in June. The school has had a very successful year. The commencement address will be delivered by the Rev. Dr. J. W. E. Bowen on Wednesday, June 4. By R. W. THOMPSON. MISS HENRIETTA V. DAVIS. L. S. 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