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DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST.PAUL ective Page VOL. 4 Single Copies 5 Cents man, but a fight to live by himself. "We have been asked why the Negro objects to segregation. We do not object to segregation as voluntarily practiced by both races because of the natural law of selection which leads members of separate races to group together, which is a good and desirable thing in our situation, but we do object to segregation by legislation, because it stigmatizes us as legal undestraints; consigns us to undestrable localities; denies us participation in public improvements; subjects us to unsanitary conditions; increases our inconveniences; diminishes our accommodations; deprives us of police protection; restricts property values; exposes us to crushing business competition, and intensifies race prejudice." Western Tour of John H. Murphy, John H. Murphy of Baltimore, imperial potentate of the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, will start Thursday, April 23, for a four weeks visitation to temples in the west. He will visit temples in Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Terre Haute, St Louis, Kansas City, Lincoln, Neb. Omaha, Minneapolis and Chicago. A royal welcome awaits him. He will also visit Wilberforce university. Mr. Murphy is president of the National Negro Press association and is editor of the Baltimore Afro-American Ledger. FEZZAH John H. Murphy of Baltimore, Imperial Potentate of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, will officially visit Fezzan Temple, May 14th. This is the first time the presiding officer of the Order has visited this part of the country, and the Shriners are looking forward to this as the red letter day of Shrinedom. It has not been announced who will have the honor of playing host to Mr. Murphy; there are many who have offered the hospitality of their home. One of our Minnesota is, and has been for the past three years, the second officer of the Imperial Council of the Shriners; J. H. Sherwood of St. Paul, is Deputy Imperial Potentate. He was elected to this position at Atlantic City in 1911, reelected at Washington the following year, and again last year at Indianapolis. NEW ORDINANCE BREEDS STRIFE Measure Passed In Norfolk, Va., Called Unjust. DENIES MANHOOD RIGHTS. What an Influential Weekly Paper Says of Renewed Attempt to Stultify Ambition and Check the Progress of the Colored Citizens—Race Must Contend For Justice. The recent adoption of a new segregation ordinance in Norfolk, Va., is causing no little unrest among the colored citizens against whose interest the measure is aimed. The first segregation law adopted by the city was declared invalid, unreasonable and unjust by Police Justice James S. Barron and ruled out by Judge McLemore of the city circuit court. The Journal and Guide, an influential weekly edited by P. B. Young in Norfolk, Va., commenting at length on the new ordinance in an able editorial, in part says: "The new ordinance as adopted by both bodies of the city council with only one dissenting vote differs from the old ordinance in one or two essential parts. It establishes the right of the city to appeal by eliminating the jail sentence from the penalty for its violation and under its provisions whether intended so to be or not—operative in only such city blocks as are already 'white' or 'black' as defined by the ordinance. "The old ordinance defined a block as 'white' or 'black' in proportion to the number of white or colored residents in the block. Strange to say, the new law takes no cognizance of blocks occupied by both races. From a layman's point of view the ordinance merely anticipates a condition that may never exist. Still in its final analysis it is as objectionable as the old ordinance inasmuch as in its legal aspects it abrogates the right of one citizen to contract with another and is a serious menace to the economic advancement and even existence of the Negro. "In order to conform to a legislative statute it is framed to 'prevent conflict and ill feeling between the white and colored races in the city of Norfolk and to preserve the public peace and promote the general welfare by making reasonable provision requiring the use of separate blocks for residents for white and colored people respectively." "In this particular it is a misnomer. No arbitrary law, no manner of class legislation can prevent ill feeling between the races. On the other hand, it can only serve to accentuate race prejudice and is of itself a practical demonstration of ill feeling between the races. As Dr. James B. Dudley has wisely said, "That government is best that governs least—that places no unnecessary restrictions and handicaps upon the activities of the people.' "The vote in the common council was almost unanimous, only one member, John J. Pitt of Washington ward voting against it. Mr. Pitt made a statement before casting his vote to the effect that he 'did not think the measure was just to the colored residents of the city. I cannot get the consent of my conscience to vote for it, and for that reason make this statement before voting.' Mr. Pitt also said that he 'did not subscribe to the doctrine that "might makes right" and that he regarded human rights above property rights.' "Those were lofty sentiments. It requires great courage for a young southern white man to take that stand. He stood alone, which was not a rare thing. But it gives him more honorable distinction because of having stood alone. The colored citizens of Norfolk, who have long suffered as the result of unjust restrictions, have written the name of John J. Pitt upon a roll of honor, which is headed by the names of those princely Virginia gentlemen. Tazewell Taylor and James S. Barron. "We fail to recognize the necessity of a segregation ordinance in Norfolk. The Negro does not want to encroach upon the precincts which the white man has set aside for himself. He does not want to invade the white man's exclusive reservations. The Negro does want room for expansion, however. He cannot be restricted to an area inadequate to meet the demands of natural growth and survive the pressure of economic competition. The Negro's fight against segregation is not a fight to live with the white PRESIDENT JOHN H. MURPHY. J. HENRY SHERWOOD. SMOKE. THE RELIABLE Sight Draft Cigar—5c. Subscribe for the Star. RURAL EDUCATION SOUTH. New Miss Emma J. Wilson Built Up the Murwillhill J. O. School the Maysville (S. C). School. Perhaps none among the younger industrial schools in the south is doing a greater work for the education of the masses than the Maysville (S. C.) Industrial institute. The school was started about ten years ago in an old abandoned cotton gin building, with little financial aid and no equipment. The district in which the institution is located is thickly settled, and the country public schools are few and situated at a great distance apart. Therefore the people were glad to rally to the support of this new enterprise among them. Miss Emma J. Wilson, principal of the school, worked almost single handed as teacher, missionary and superintendent for three years after the school was organized. She made the blackboards out of old pine planks, painted them and nailed them to the side of the classrooms, constructed benches out of castoff lumber and built tables and desks for classroom use. After a short while she bought ten acres of land on which to cultivate corn, peas, cabbages, beans and potatoes. The institution has at the present time 143 acres of farm land, 150 boarding students, forty-three orphan children under its care and a total enrollment of 500 students. Miss Wilson is making a brief tour of several northern cities in the financial interest of the school. She delivered a most instructive address at the Concord Baptist church in Brooklyn, where she made many friends. Among those who heard Miss Wilson's story were several South Carolinians who are living north. They became so much interested in the school that they are going to form a South Carolina club through which to raise funds for the Maysville school. Miss Wilson will return to the school in time for the annual commencement the latter part of May. WORK OF NATIONAL LEAGUE. Society on Urban Conditions Among Afro-Americans Broadens Sphere. The National League on Urban Conditions Among Afro-Americans, with headquarters at 110 West Fortieth street, New York, is fostered by the philanthropy and guided by the intelligence of a committee of representative white and colored citizens. Professor George E. Haynes and Eugene Kincle Jones are director and assistant director respectively. The league's work in New York city is meeting the approval of the public at large. Its rapid and extensive growth is shown by the three offices and corps of fifteen workers, which would have been impossible but for the sanction and co-operation of members of the race in New York city. This confidence, however, could only be developed when the service rendered is efficient. The workers are all trained and peculiarly adapted to their special lines of service. Every Afro-American should become personally acquainted with the league and its work. Perhaps the friendly contact might help to correct a defective physical or moral tendency in some child. Perhaps some unpleasant condition in the house where you live needs correction. There are many ways in which we can help. If not, we can put you in touch with agencies that can give you the desired assistance, says the management. What a Scotsman Wears A Scottish correspondent, signam himself "Haggis," writes to us as follows: "Dear Sir—Please state in your column that a Scotsman wears a kilt, not kiltis. Thus Harry Lauder went to amuse the king clad in a kilt, not in kiltis." We regret to say that we find ourselves unable to accede to our correspondent's request. Respect for truth compels us to state that a Scotsman almost invariably wears neither a kilt nor kiltis, but trousers—London Mall. The First Mourning Paper The oldest known letter written on black edged note paper as a sign of mourning appears to be one dated Jan. 5, 1883. In Addison's comedy of "The Drummer," 1715, reference is made to the fashion in the words, "My lady mourning paper that is blacked at the edges." A few years later Allan Ram say, who died in 1758, speaks in one of his poems of "the sable bordered sheet" as a messenger of sorrow Mann, writing from Italy to Horace Walpole in 1745, says it was universally used in Florence at that time. Not His Funeral. Wife (studying vocalism)—I wish dear, you'd have double windows put on. I'm afraid my practicing will disturb the neighbors. Hub-Well, if it does it's up to them to put on double windows.—Boston Transcript. IT PAVS TO ADVERTISE. ORIGIN OF LAND GRANT COLLEGES Result of Measure Passed by Congress In 1862. KNOWN AS THE MORRILL ACT Growth of Educational Institutions Organized Under Name of Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. Senator Merrill's Good Work. By N. BARNETT DODSON. The Negro Land Grant college is the outgrowth of the congressional land grant act of 1862. This measure was introduced into the United States Congress by the late Senator Justin Smith Morrill of Vermont in 1857 and finally passed in 1862. The bill granted public lands for the founding of state colleges to teach agriculture and the mechanic arts and allied subjects and is known as the Morrill act. An additional grant was made by an act introduced by Senator Morrill in 1890, which provided that in each state and territory in which separate schools were maintained for white and colored youth an equitable distribution of the fund be made between the two races. The act carried with it an appropriation of $25,000 a year from the federally government. In 1907 a similar act was passed by the national congress, appropriating an additional $25,000 yearly to each state and territory. The act requires that the states receiving the benefit of this appropriation provide ground and buildings and keep up the repairs of the institutions. The money appropriated by the federal government may be used to pay teachers of mathematics, science, English, agriculture, the various mechanic arts, commercial subjects and domestic science and arts, but no part of the appropriation may be used to keep up repairs. The spirit of the act is to require the states to do their part in the interest of agricultural education. Potent Factor In Work of Education. It has done more than any other agency to awaken a general interest in agricultural education throughout the United States and to stimulate the southern states to provide scientific education for the Negro youth. According to the report of the commissioner of education for 1912, these schools received from the federal government $245,518 and from their states $270,650, a total of $516,168. They had a total enrollment of 8,000. The land grant colleges are organized under the name of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. This organization meets annually in various portions of the country. The membership is open to all the land grant schools of the country. In the last few years representatives of the Negro schools have attended in goodly numbers. In 1911 these Negro representatives organized a special conference among themselves at the meeting held in Columbus, O., at which time they were addressed by Hon. P. P. Claxton, United States commissioner of education, and Hon. W. O. Thompson, chairman of the executive committee of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. The meeting of this special conference was held on the campus of the Ohio State university. In 1912 the Afro-American representatives met with the association in the Piedmont hotel, Atlanta, Ga. They held a special conference at the Atlanta university, where they were addressed by such distinguished educators as J. E. Stockbridge, editor of the Southern Ruralist, and President Kenyon L. Butterfield of the Massachusetts Agricultural college. In 1913 the Association of American Agricultural Colleges met in the New Willard hotel, in Washington. There were present representatives from nine states. Co-operation of Distinguished Men. The special conference of the Negro representatives was held in the Young Men's Christian association building. Among the distinguished speakers at this special conference were Hon. P. Claxton, United States commissioner of education; President W. O. Thompson, chairman of the executive committee of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations; Dr. James H. Dillard, director of the Jeunes fund board; Cont. to page 3, Col. 2. Looking For It. Some men are eagerly seeking trouble that will drive them to drink—New York Times. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION GRAND PYTHIAN RECEPTION. Maj. R. R. Jackson of Chicago Visits Minnesota — Attends Reception held at National Guard Armory — Delivers a Patriotic Address as Honored Guest of the Knights of Pythias. There was a large crowd present at the National Guard Armory on Tuesday night, where the Minnesota Knights of Pythias held their Sixth Annual Reception. The honored guest was Maj. Gen. R. R. Jackson of Chicago, who delivered a stirring address. Maj. Jackson's Address. The exercises were opened by a vocal solo (Isle D'Amor) by Miss Mildred Shull. Brig. Gen. W. R. Morris introduced Maj. Jackson, who spoke on "Opportunity, Organization and Duty, one of the strongest combinations in the life of men." He outlined the history of the race from its earliest periods, showing the processes of evolution, which brought about present day conditions. He also gave a creditable statistical showing of the rise and progress of the Pythian order and preached the doctrine of the survival of the fittest. Among the things said were that "He or she who has no worthy mission in life is a wanderer among the hills of opportunity. We have not learned how to to die, if so, we would not tolerate the injustices heaped on us, and there would not be any Mason and Dixon's line today. We will not have our rights in this country until we make up our minds to die. We must fight. Not against each other as individuals, but as an organization for our advancement. We cannot get into West Point or Annapolis, the government military and naval schools, but we have in the Uniform Rank of the Pythian order, the best military talents among Negroes in the world. I am not anxious for war with Mexico, but I am in a position to present to the President 20,000 trained men and 10,000 officers. We have been represented with honor in all the wars of this country, and the Pythians have carried the flag with gallantry. Now, we must fight against segregation in government service and race discrimination. We must get the fighting spirit. We must recognize the parties who protect our rights. It is the intention of one party to take from the Negro every vestige of his rights. While you have the opportunity of the ballot, you should be organized to protect it, and it is your duty to use it for what it is worth. Fight for your liberty, that you may have equal opportunity, that your children may enjoy the privileges of this world and when you have done so you will have ceased to be a wanderer among the hills of the earth. Then, you can consider your life's work well done." Maj. Jackson was applauded often. He made many Biblical references to prove his statements. He closed with the following appropriate lines from Madeline Bridges: There are loyal hearts. There are souls that are pure and true. Give to the world the best you have And the best shall come back to you. A Military Spectacle. There was a brilliant array of military dress, the staff of Gen. Morris was seated on the platform. The grand march was led by Mr. Jas. Burkes and Mrs. Bessie Wright, followed by Maj. Jackson and Miss Mildred Shull. Gen. Morris and Miss Zelma La Force, Col. and Mrs. Jas. A. Roberts, Col. and Mrs. Edw. F. mitchell, Col. P. H. Southall and Mrs. Taylor, Maj. and Mrs. W. M. Scott, Col. and Mrs. Glover Shull, Sergt. and Mrs. John Washington and many other Ladies and Sir Knights. A Social Event. There was a number of stylish gowned ladies present. The latest creations were shown to a great advantage, among them were the red, green and brown wigs. The music for the occasion was furnished by McCullough's Orchestra which was the special attraction for the dancers. Mr. Jas. Burkes and Col. Shull directed the floor. The tango was greatly enjoyed. During the evening Maj. Jackson met many of his old No. 31 friends from Chicago. The last waltz was played at 1:30 to the regret of many present, and the sixth annual reception of the Minnesota Knights passed into history as one of the pleasant social affairs, which was conducted in every way creditable to their fraternity whose military head, had honored them by his visit. The good attendance was a popular expression of their appreciation. MAJOR R. R. JACKSON. THE PYTHIAN BANQUET. The Pythians gave a banquet on Wednesday night at their Castle Hall in Labor Temple in honor of Maj. Gen. Jackson in recognition of his official visit to Minnesota. It was one of the most inspiring occasions, this being his first visit to this city. The menu composed roast turkey, cold ham and tongue, celery, pickles, potato salad, ice cream, cake, coffee, cigars, was prepared by the well known chef, Jas. Oglesby. Brig. Gen. Morris introduced Gen. Jackson and he responded with one of the most forceful appeals for the military and commercial advancement of the Negro. He deplored the contending forces against us, also the failure of Negroes to take every opportunity in commercialism, proving that we complain of being the oppressed race, when we could represent capital and become a real part of the people. He spoke at a real part of honorable endeavor and education. "Any man who neglects the proper education of his children commits a crime," Gen. Jackson told of the faternal the military branches of the faternal the military training in schools, also the lack of knowledge of the history of our race. After reviewing the great progress of the Pythian order and expressing his delight to be present, he hoped to meet his hearers again at the Encampment in Columbus in 1915. Rev. E. G. Jackson and Rev. E. R. Edwards were the other speakers who made excellent addresses. Those present were Cols. J. A. Roberts, F. G. Thomas, H. G. Thompson, P. H. Southall, Edw. F. Mitchell, Glover Shull, J. H. Hayes, Maj. W. M. Scott, Capt. S. G. West, Lieuts. Wm. Cratie, Edw. Southall, Sergt. John Washington C. C., Frank Terry, Wm. Moden, W. Littimore, R. C. Marshall, S. Ellison, Jas. Stansberry, Dan'l Williams, Isaac Newton, Edw. Pipkin, Fuller Thompson, Ralph Watson, J. J. Carter, Chas. Brody, J. W. Collins, W. S. Malone, N. Moss, G. W. Stewart, Shannon, Cooper Lewis, Editors Adams and Smith. Music furnished by Billy Black's Serenaders. Maj. Jackson left for Chicago Thursday eve. During his stay he was the house guest of Atty. W. R. Morris, and was shown about the Twin Cities by Col. Edw. F. Mitchell, who is adjutant on his staff. Maj. Jackson was to be the invited guest at some socials in his honor, but he declined as he came on his official visit and his time was given to business of the order. He expressed to the Star his hopes to return in the near future. Isn't This Rough? I am this Rough? Ella—A poet wrote a sonnet on my face the other day. Stella—Did he write it on the lines? MINNEAPOLIS In this great city of ours, we need more consecrated men and women to throw out the life line to rescue the perishing souls. Rev. T. J. Carter, Pastor Bethesda Baptist Church. The People's Christian Mission, REV. G. W. MITCHELL, PASTOR. 1294 Washington Ave. Se. BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH The public is always welcome to Bethesda Church. 11 A. M. "The Good Shepherd." 12:30. Sunday School. 8 P. M. "Our Needs Supplied." Rev. T. J. Carter, Pastor. FORUM MEETING The last meeting of the Sunday Forum was very well attended. A large crowd came from St. Paul to hear a joint debate on "Woman Suffrage" between members of the So. Lit. Club of St. Paul and Sunday Forum. The debate was deferred because of a misunderstanding. During the afternoon remarks on this subject were made by Atty. Francis, A. J. Kelso, S. L. Ranson, Homer Goins, J. H. Fredricks, G. P. Hilyer and others. Several musical numbers were rendered. The debate will be held at a later date. The Forum meets the first Sunday in each month at St. Peter's A. M. E. Church, and on the third Sunday each month at Bethea Baptist Church. DON'T FORGET to come out and hear Mrs. Julia J. Cisney's production of the fascinating three-act Comedy, "JUST FOR FUN" Tuesday Evening, April 21, 1914, at Bethesda Baptist Church Admission ONLY 15c The Easter Sermon of the St. James Commandery Knights Templar was preached by Rev. Lewis at St. James Church last Sunday. Mr. Clarence W. King has returned from a trip to Charleston, S. C. Miss Clementina Perkins has returned from Western Canada and is en route Chicago. Editor Smith has been serving on the Jury of the District Court during past two weeks. He was one of the jurors in the Gorman case. Mr. Gorman was accused of shooting a foreman of the Levin Bros. factory. He was one of the officers of the National Federation of Labor, who was sent here to settle the strike. The trial lasted a part of two weeks and resulted in an acquittal. ODD FELLOWS' SERMON All arrangement have been completed gor the joint observance of the annual sermon of St. Paul and Minneapolis Odd Fellows at St. James A. M. E. church on Sunday, May 10, at 2:30 p. m. Madam E. L. Bruce, the Oklahoma Songbird, has returned to this city, where she will make her headquarters for a while. Try Miss M. E. Prewitt for Scalp Treatment. She uses the Poro-Scalp Preparation. See her adv. Mr. Fred Conners is the business manager for the Unique Transfer, 242 4th Ave. So. Mr. Will (Bud) Green is the director and treasurer. FOR RENT. Three furnished rooms, modern, private entrance, good kitchen, gas stove, ice box, reasonable rent, best locality. See Mrs. McHie, 2945 Harriet Ave.—(Advertisement.) LOOK! LOOK! LOOK! Now is the time to take advantage of buying a new home. We have a few lots in the south part of the city. which is the best location in Minneapolis, on which we can build you a new house and sell the house and lot to you for $100 down and the balance on monthly payments. Plans furnished free. Call us up or come in and talk it over because this offer will not last very long. F. PEOPLES, 236 BOSTON BLOCK, Nic. 2188. The Southern Theatre has opened, after being closed on account of fire. It is renovated and the management are presenting the high class movies. We are glad to mention that no discrimination is tolerated by Mr. Hedlund, who appreciates the Negro patronage. All matter must reach us by Wed needday for Insertion. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR. DR. DEINARD TO SPEAK. Rabbi S. N. Deinard, Pastor of the Jewish Reform Temple, will address a meeting to be held under the Auspices of the Minneapolis Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at Bethesda Baptist Church on Sunday afternoon, April 26th, at 3:30 P. M. Dr. Deinard is a forceful and eloquent speaker and is well known for his warm friendship for our race. Other speakers will explain the work and purpose of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. You are cordially invited to attend.—Gale P. Hilyer, Sec'y. When you have given others your printing, why is it you want a little "ad" in the Star? Crying poverty, etc., because it is for the church or charity. If you do not patronize the Twin City Star Print, then it will cost you full rates for advertising. Many promoters do not help anybody but want cheap notoriety. The newspaper is a public convenience, but also a business proposition. Yet some are always yelling for "Help," when they do not subscribe. We find in our former years' experience that you cannot expect reciprocity from an ignorant consituency, and since all our churches are houses of merchandise, we demand full payment for services rendered, excepting religious notices, which are free. We do not plead race pride, but simply business consideration and co-operation. The subscriber gets news for his money, and advertisers always get good results for cash. Subscribe for the Star. THE FRANCE CAFE Prof. Rufus Wilson, former pianist for the "Neighbors Saxaphone Trio" of Marion, Indiana, is "Cabareting" at the France Café, 255 Marquette Ave. He is an able musician, also a possessor of a marvelous voice and the patrons of "The France" are very much pleased indeed. The important event of the year in Scottish Rite Masonry was the Maunday Thursday Feast which occurred in St. Paul Holy Thursday, and was the occasion of many good speeches, and the display of much desire for hte cementing of the strong bonds of Fellowship. Mr. and Mrs. Simon Harris of Birmingham, Ala., will reside with their son Mr. Thos. Carroll on his farm at Plaza, N. D. Mrs. Carroll left Thursday to join her husband for the summer. Mr. Carroll will return to his work on the Soo Ry. after he has located his parents. While in the city they resided with Mrs. Julia Huison. The "Social Six," Messrs. Richard Stokes, J. Homer Goins, L. P. Moore, A. V. Hall, J. R. White and S. L. Ransom, have issued their invitations for their dancing party at Bowley Hall on Friday evening, April 24. A swell, grand time is expected. Nothing formal, just a good time, doncher know! U. S. W. V. TO PARADE The Negro Veterans, who served in the Spanish-American War, are arranging to parade on Memorial Day. There are many of the veterans in this city, and efforts will be made to get them together. All honorably discharged soldiers or sailors of the Spanish-American War will send their names and addresses to The Twin City Star immediately, and they will be notified when a meeting will be held. An Interesting Book. A French marquise whose country house is crowded with guests during the hunting season hit upon the original idea of placing a register at the disposal of her visitors in which to record their desires and criticisms. The pages of the richly bound book soon began to be covered with notes such as: "Count de R. still owes 25 louis. He knows to whom." "The green peas yesterday were burned." "Baroness M. flirts—unfortunately not with me." The marquise has withdrawn the register. The Naked Truth: An old fable says that Truth and Falsehood went in bathing together. Falsehood came first out of the water and dressed herself in Truth's garments. Truth, unwilling to put on Falsehood's clothes, went naked. Kings Classified. "A king hasn't as much real power as some of the officials in a great republic." "Of course," replied Senator Sorghum, "you are talking about one of those hereditary monarchs they have abroad. You don't mean a regular oil king or a king of finance."—Washington Star. ADVERTISE IN THE STAR TWIN CITY STAR Miss Nannie Burroughs will speak Sunday, April 19th, at the meeting of the Minneapolis Sunday Forum, which will be held at Bethesda Baptist Church. DON'T FORGE and hear Mrs. J production of three-act Comedy M. E. B. Miss Nannie H. Burroughs of the National Training Schools for Women and Girls at Washington, D. C., will visit the Twin Cities Miss Burroughs is one of the ablest women of her race, and she will impress on the people of the Northwest the plan of campaign set forth in the recent Sociological Congress held in Atuanta, Ga. She will interpret practically the spirit of the Congress and its views on the social problem. Meeting in St. Paul. She will also speak in the Senate Chamber of the Old Capitol on Monday afternoon, at 2:30. She will be heard at Pilgrim Baptist Church also on Sunday. PILGRIM COMMANDERY. K. T. Fifteen uniformed Knights of Pilgrim Commandery attended Divine services at St. James A. M. E. Church, St. Paul, Easter Sunday afternoon, and were rewarded by a most eloquent sermon from Rev. H. P. Jones. A very large number of other people were present, and they were loud in their prase of the excellent appearance of this Commandery. Although it has been in existence for the past 28 years, the uniforms and other equipment always look new. It was stated by Eminent Commander Sherwood that two of the original Charter members were still in the Commandery—Eminent Sir, Wm. H. Stevens, who was the first Commander, and Eminent Sir John F. Coquire, the first Prelate. RALPH W. TYLER'S AMBITION. Census Bureau Will Tabulate Holdings of Northern Africa-Americas Washington. - In the fall of 1913 Ralph W. Tyler took up with the director of the United States census and urged the matter of giving the home ownership by Negroes in the northern states as is done in the southern states. At that time the director replied he could not do it. Mr. Tyler's contention at that time attracted considerable notice from white dailies because of his insistence that without this data the wonderful progress of the race in the north could not be shown. Recently Mr. Tyler received the following letter from the director of census, which indicates that home ownership by Negroes in the northern states is soon to be collated and made public: Mr. Ralph W. Tyler, National Negro Business League, Washington: Business League, Washington: Dear Sir-You will perhaps remember the last fall with reference to the ownership of homes in the United States by Negroes. At that time I informed you that the plans of my predecessor had been carried out to such an extent prior to my connection with the bureau that it was impossible for me to make any change in the presentation of the ownership of homes by Negroes, which included the southern states only. I am inclaming a "Circular of Information Concerning Tentative Program of the Bureau of Census" on page 6 of which is described the special report on "Negroes on Negroes in the United States" soon as I can get to it. This report will be similar to the "Twelfth Census Bulletin on Negroes in the United States." I have decided to have information relating to the ownership of homes tabulated by color in the remaining sections of the country, and this special report will show the ownership of homes by Negroes in all states. Your interest in the work of the census bureau is greatly appreciated. Very truly yours, WILLIAM J. HARRIS, He (vainly)—See that sweet little girl in pink? I was engaged to he the whole of last summer. Stranger (eagerly)—Very glad to hear it. I am the lawyer she's commissioned to sue you for breach of promise. Considerate. "That young Gadsby is an amiable fellow." "Yes; he has to be amiable to counter the irritating effect of the clothes he wears."—Birmingham Age-Herald. Subscribe for the Star. Posted Him. DON'T FORGET to come out and hear Mrs. Julia J. Cisney's production of the fascinating three-act Comedy, "JUST FOR FUN" Tuesday Evening, April 21, 1914, at Bethesda Baptist Church Admission ONLY 15c A RACE PROBLEM: Why is it that many persons, who represent themselves as race workers, never subscribe to and pay for race papers? How many do you know? Who are they? Judge Finehout has proven a fair and able judge. He always dealt justly with the Negroes. They will see that he is re-elected to the Municipal Bench. When writing for the press, don't abbreviate your words. Spell each one out correctly and distinctly. If you don't it means that all of your manuscript will have to be rewritten if there is time. Write on one side of the paper only. You must send your subscriptions if you want me Twin City Star, or order it discontinued. Should Use Capital "N." Please use the capital "N" in Negro Our exchanges are careful to give distinction to the Indian, Chinaman, and all other races, but mention the Negro with a small "n." PRINTING THAT SATISFIES Bring your printing to THE TWIN CITY STAR PRINT, 1402 Washington Ave. So. The work will suit you. Estimates cheerfully given. T. S. 2520. THE ST. LOUIS KITCHEN. You can get a good meal, clean service, and courteous attention at the St. Louis Kitchen, 138 E. Third St. St. Paul. Mrs. Hilson is universally known for her good cooking. ST. LOUIS KITCHEN, 138 E. 3rd St. St. Paul, Minn. - Advertisement. Any person who has paid for this paper, without receiving it, will be given a year's subscription on proof of their assertion. The Star is on sale at— The Star is on sale at Jones & Bell, 244 3rd Ave. So. Franks, 1427 Wash. Ave. So. Nygren's, 1402 Washington Ave. So. BUFFALO GIRL ON PROGRAM. Miss Sarah M. Talbert of No. 521 Michigan street, who is taking the pianoforte course at the New England Consevatory of Music, Boston, had a prominent place last Saturday afternoon on the program of a recital given by some of the more advanced pupils of that well-known eastern institution. She presented Chaminade's Etude romantique in G flat major and made an excellent impression on a large audience. These recitals, such as the one at which Miss Talbert appeared, are given at frequent intervals during the school year at America's oldest and largest conservatory, and the opportunity to be heard is prized among the 3,000 students.—Buffalo Courier. Miss Talbert is a niece of Mrs. W. R. Hardy of St. Paul. She will visit with her aunt this summer and the music lovers of the Twin Cities may have a chance to hear her in recital. WHAT I AM TRYING TO DO Cy Dr. Booker T. Washington, in the "Worlds Work Magazine, New York City, November, 1913— "I am trying to get the white people to realize that since no color line is drawn in the punishment of crime, no color line should be drawn in the preparation for life, in the kind of education, in other words, that makes for useful, clean living. I am trying to get the white people to see that in hundreds of counties in the South it is costing more to punish colored people for crime than it would cost to educate them. I am trying to get all to see that ignorance, poverty, and weakness invite and encourage the stronger race to act unjustly toward the weak, and that so long as this condition remains, the young white men of the South will have a fearful handicap in the battle of life." A SQUARE DEAL. For every kith, kin or tribe let us have a square deal. It matters not whether the accused is a Jew, Greek or Gentile, let justice be done though the heavens fall. And the only way to administer justice absolutely and impartially is by the measure of the Golden Rule. Just shift places. Place yourself in the other fellow's position and then treat the other fellow just as you would have the other fellow treat you, or as you would be treated under similar circumstances.—Atlanta independent. CHURCH MEETS PEOPLE'S NEEDS MODERN IN APPOINTMENT. Description and Work of the First Institutional Meeting House Erected by Afro-Americans In the South—Qualifications of the Rev. John E. Ford, D. D., as Pastor. Jacksonville, Fla.—Bethel Institutional Baptist church is the largest and most aggressive church of its kind in the United States operated by the race. Indeed, it is all that is implied in the words "institutional church." It is the first institutional church in the south erected by our people. The first church was built of red pressed brick, trimmed with Georgia marble. The building contained a main auditorium, with a seating capacity of 1,150, and nine classrooms. It cost $26,000. The workmanship was that of colored mechanics and under the direction of colored contractors. During the big fire in Jacksonville a few years ago the building was destroyed, and for a long time the congregation worshiped in the "shack," and the then pastor, Dr. J. Milton Waldron, was busy looking for a still better location on which to rebuild. It was in 1903 that the Rivers square site was purchased. It contained a whole block and is one of the most desirable blocks in the city. The congregation, under the direction of Pastor Waldron, proceeded at once to erect a new modern and commodious church building. The present pastor, the Rev. John E. Ford, D. D., is one of the most aggressive Baptist ministers in the country. He spent much time in preparing for his work before entering the active ministry. He was born in Owensboro, Ky., and at an early age his parents moved to Chicago, where he had the M. B. REV. JOHN E. FORD, D. D. benefit of the Chicago public and high schools, graduating from the latter with high honors. Dr. Ford took a course in shorthand and afterward entered Beloit college, and from Beloit he took a course at Fisk university, in Nashville, Teen. From Fisk university Dr. Ford found his way to the University of Chicago, where he pursued his theological studies. He remained at the Chicago university until he had finished his course and graduated with honors. During his school days in Chicago he was pastor of one of the leading churches in the city—Bethesda Baptist church. In this work he gained considerable experience and was successful in adding many to the church. From Bethesda he was called to a large congregation in Los Angeles. Cal., where he accomplished great work and made a reputation as an aggressive pastor. He accepted a call to Denver, where he remained several years, putting the church work there on a high standard. It was while in Los Angeles that he toured the old world, being one of the delegates to the world's Sunday school convention. His travels through Europe and the Holy Land better prepared him for his ministerial work. On his return to America he found that the Rev. J. Milton Waldron had decided to go to Washington. Being anxious that the congregation should have an able man as pastor, Dr. Waldron recommended Dr. Ford. He accepted the call and at once entered upon his duties. Many have been added to the church during the past three years. Dr. Ford is active in everything that means the advancement of the race. The motto of the church is, "Not Institutional In Name Only. But In Fact." "Our object is to save the whole man," body, mind, soul and spirit," says the pastor. The educational work consists of night school, business college and an auxiliary to Florida Baptist college. There are also a Women's Christian Temperance union, Men's Temperance union, Mothers' union. Health and Improvement association and kindergarten, all of which are under the direction of a company of able men and women. Members of the Order Preparing For Great Generation in Boston. Great Convention in Boston Odd Fellows in all sections of the country are getting ready for the session of the biennial movable committee of the order, which will be held in Boston next September. Delegates will be present from all parts of the country in large numbers. Interest centers chiefly in the selection of a grand master. Edward H. Morris of Chicago, who is completing his second four years in that office, is a candidate for re-election. Henry Lincoln Johnson, recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia and present deputy grand master of the order, is a candidate for the position. Mr. Johnson, it is said, has received assurances of support from many influential sources, especially from those who are opposed to long tenure in one office. A number of changes in other important offices are expected. Alabama State Business League. The sixth annual meeting of the Alabama State Negro Business league, of which E. T. Atwell of the Tuskegee institute is president, will be held in Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday, April 21. The Hon. W. A. Gunter, mayor of Montgomery, will deliver the address of welcome, and Emmett J. Scott, secretary of the Tuskegee institute, will be the chief speaker. THE ORDER OF MOSES HOLDS ANNUAL PUBLIC WORSHIP. THE ORDER OF MOSES HOLDS ANNUAL PUBLIC WORSHIP. Was Founded by Peter Paul Brown Forty-seven Years Ago. Brooklyn.—One of the most interesting events among the secret societies in Brooklyn recently was the annual thanksgiving sermon to the Order of Moses held in the Bridge Street A. M. E. church. The sermon was delivered by the pastor of the church, the Rev. Dr. C. P. Cole. The members of the various departments of the order were out in large numbers and in full regalia which added charm and beauty to their appearance as they filed into the aisles of the spacious edifice. The exercises of the order were conducted by Joseph E. Matthews, who was master of ceremonies. The program was highly interesting especially to those persons who had never seen such a program carried out by a large secret organization in a public place of religious worship. The statement giving the purpose of the order was read by Arthur Q. Martin, one of Brooklyn's successful business men. Mr. Martin said that the order of Moses was founded forty-seven years ago by Peter Paul Brown in Morristown, Pa. He also gave the figures showing the benefits derived from the organization by a financial member. The sermon by Dr. Cole dealt largely with the history of Moses and revealed much helpful information to the members of the order and also to the public. Dr. Cole said that the order occupied a different position from that of many of the secret societies because it was founded by a colored American and had been successfully conducted by members of the colored race in America for forty-seven years. The Student Volunteer Movement. The various educational institutions among Afro-Americans generally and those in Atlanta. Ga., in particular are showing much interest in the coming convention of the student volunteer movement, to be held on the campus of Clark university in Atlanta, beginning Monday. May 18. The program will be conducted by Dr. John L. Mott. A TENDER HEART. A tender hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and to feel the misfortunes of others and which is even for its own sake incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery, is of all tempers of mind the most amiable and, though it seldom receives much, honor, is worthy of the highest. Big Event For Odd Fellows and Elks. Pittsburgh Patriarchie No. 39. Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, and Iron City lodge No. 17. Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, will give a joint reception at Labor temple, Pittsburgh. Pa., on Monday evening, April 27. Each of these organizations has a large membership, and the coming turnout is expected to excel in numbers that of any previous joint assemblage of secret societies in Pittsburg. Sadly Handicapped. "Yes, my wife has one of these threat colds. She can't speak an audible word." "All she could do was to wave her arms and make faces." — Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Genius. Mark Twain on one occasion said of genius: "A genius, as an old lady in Hauntail once explained to me, is a man what knows more'n he can find out and spills vittels on his clothes." Siberian Rivers. Some of the rivers of Siberia flow over ice many years old and almost as solid as rock. READ OUR ADVERTISEMENTS. Defective Page ective Page THE CARVER HOTEL On All Car Lines 1308-10 WASHINGTON AVE. SO. 28 Newly Furnished Rooms. By Day, Week or Month. Special Rates to Theatrical People. Mrs. Alice (Mother) Carver, Prop. N. W. Phone Main 863 BARBER SHOP AND BATHS. Res. 1210 6 Ave. N. Phone Hy. 3770 CASON BROS.' ORCHESTRA Write or Call For Rates. Music Furnished For All Occasions We carry a large library of the latest and most Popular Standard Music. EARL C. CASON—T. E. CASON Leader Manager WHY NOT HAVE AN EXPERIENCED HAIR CULTURIST, Poro-Scalp Treatment—Shampooing MISS M. E. PREWITT. 2743 11th Ave. South N. W. South 9342 Minneapolis Treatment at Residence by Appointment. DO IT NOW!!! 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And none but the Master shall praise us, And none but the Master shall blame, And no one shall work for money, And no one shall work for fame. But all for the joy of working. And each, in his separate star, Shall paint the thing as he sees it, For the God of things as they are. —Budyard Kipling. 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, Minn. ORIGIN OF LAND GRANT COLLEGES Known as the Morrill Act. BYRD PRILLERMAN. Bradford Knapp of the United States department of agriculture; President J. S. Wilkinson of South Carolina, President N. B. Young of Florida and President G. P. Russell of Kentucky. President Byrd Prillerman of the West Virginia Colored institute presided at this meeting. Professor Prillerman has shown great interest in the work of the land grant schools, and his fellow educators have shown their appreciation of his ability and worth by electing him to preside over their deliberations. He is doing a fine work at his school in West Virginia, which has a large enrolment of students in every department of the institution. The name of Justin Smith Morrill should be honored and revered by all members of the Negro race in this country. Few other men have done so much to benefit the race as he. He was born at Strafford, Vt., April 14, 1810, and died in Washington in 1898. His birthday should be celebrated by every school among our people in the United States. ORGANIZER OF BUSINESS LEAGUES ON TRIP SOUTH. Ralph W. Tyler's Fine Work In Florida and Texas. Tampa, Fla.—A business league with seventy-nine charter members was organized here the first week in April by Ralph W. Tyler, national organizer for the National Negro Business league. Mr. Tyler also organized large local leagues at Ocala, Orlando and St. Augustine, Fla. Following the large meeting which he addressed here Mr. Tyler was tendered a typical Spanish supper at which 100 of the town's business and professional men were present. While in Tampa Mr. Tyler was also entertained by the Dunbar club and at breakfast at the Clara Frye hospital. He was kept continually on the go while in Tampa and greatly honored. Mr. Tyler made a tour of Florida, starting in at Jacksonville and closing at St. Augustine. Everywhere he was greeted by large audiences and tendered fine banquets. The white press of the state was especially kind to him, giving him extended notices and praising the work of the National Negro Business league. After finishing his tour of Florida the national organizer left for Texas, which state he will tour until about May 4 in the interest of the National league. Mr. Tyler's principal speaking dates for the rest of April in Texas includes Dallas, April 16 and 17; Palestine, April 18 and 19; Tyler, April 20; Marshall, April 21 and 22, and Texarkana, April 23 and 24. Must Be Wrong. "Jenny, go and Johnny, see what he is doing and tell him to stop it right away"—Jife. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWS. TWIN CITY STAR ROOT 403-5-7 Coat Dress Waists, Milline Petti ROOT & HAGEMAN 403-5-7 NICOLLET AVENUE Coats Suits Dresses Skirts Waists, Millinery, Gloves, Hosiery, Corsets, Silk Petticoats Underwear, Etc. FOR AFRICA'S REDEMPTION. What a New York Society Does For Foreign Missions. New York.—One of the most potent movements in this city for the uplift of the race and which also has for its object the evangelization of Africa is the African Redemption society, of which Mrs. Lela Walters is president. The organization is ten years old, and during its decade of existence it has done much to carry light and inspiration to the dark continent of Africa. The organization hopes to awaken a new interest in Africa and to bring about a nationalism on the part of the natives. Some of the most prominent women of the race are identified with the movement and are enthusiastic over the new awakening that is being manifested in the affairs of Africa. The tenth anniversary of the organization was celebrated with a public meeting, which was held at Rush Memorial A. M. E. Zion church. A historical review of the organization was made, and various phases of the organization's work were discussed by well known men and women of the race. Among the prominent speakers were Hon. J. Edmestone Barnes of London, who was secretary of the legislation at Liberia under Dr. Ernest Lyons. Mr. Barnes spoke on "The Economic Value of the Native Races in African Redemption." Mrs. Lella Walters presided, and there was an opening chorus by the church choir. Rev. Dr. A. A. Crooke, Mary Louise At the conclusion of the program the annual reception to the members and friends, which is an interesting feature of the annual meetings, was held. The officers of the organization are: President, Mrs. Lelia Walters; first vice president, Mrs. E. A. Johnson; second vice president, Mrs. J. W. Johnson; secretary, Mrs. Anna Harper, and treasurer, Mrs. A. Jackson. Among the patronesses of the organization are Mrs. W. D. Crum of Charleston, S. C.; Mrs. Mary Church Terrell of Washington; Mrs. J. S. Jackson of Birmingham, Ala.; Mrs. Lelia Walker of Indianapolis; Mrs. A. W. Blackwell and Mrs. G. W. Clinton of N.C.; Mrs. Charles Young of Liberia, Africa, and Mrs. P. A. Payton, Mrs. Charles Roberts, Mrs. C. W. Anderson and Mrs. J. C. Thomas of New York. One of the greatest curses of American civilization today is the fact that it is unfashionable to save and that the people are ashamed to save, while extravagance, waste and carelessness are looked upon as smart and signs of prosperity.—Roger W. Babson. MRS. LELIA WALTERS ECONOMY & HAG NICOLLET A s S es S ry, Gloves, Hosiery, coats Underwear, E Spirella CORSETS ```markdown ``` Told in the Words of the Bible. A very published. Should be in the hands of evi- day School scholar. Recommended by M. is 50c, but the Northwestern Extension will send you a copy postpaid, while the REV. R. M. TOOMBS. NORTHW 608 First Ave. No., Told in the Words of the Bible. A very remarkable Book. Nothing else like it published. Should be in the hands of every minister, Gospel worker, and Sunday School scholar. Recommended by Ministers everywhere. The regular price is 50c, but the Northwestern Extension University has a limited number and will send you a copy postpaid, while they last for only 35c. REV. R. M. TOOMBS. NORTHWESTERN EXTENSION UNIVERSITY 608 First Ave. No., Minneapolis, Minnesota Excuses. Before venturing to give an excuse consider whether you would take it.—Albany Journal. Bearded Russians. A larger proportion of Russian wear beards than of any other nation in the world. What Oswald Garrison Villard Says About Race Segregation. The news from Washington that the effort to segregate the colored and white clerks in the federal departments is checked if not ended must cause to rejoice every one who believes in fair play and the square deal, says Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of the New York Evening Post, in a lengthy article in the Philadelphia Press Jan. 2. He says: Particularly to supporters of the Woodrow Wilson administration, like myself, is the news welcome, for this attempt to draw caste lines in the very heart of the government of the greatest of democracies, founded upon the principle that all are born free and equal, constituted a grave blot upon Mr. Wilson's record, besides laying him open to the charge of preaching a "new freedom," but practicing a "new slavery" for those upon whom divine Providence in its wisdom has bestowed dark skins. But, if we can rejoice over this reversal of a bad federal policy, to our shame be it said that segregation goes on apace elsewhere. Nine southern cities have voted to establish the ghetto on American soil, though Augusta, to its credit, has just voted down this cruel and un-American proposition. It is a policy dictated by the most selfish of considerations, for it would make the progress of a race in an urban community depend upon land values. For once the commonest excuse for holding the Negro down—the false cry of race purity and of social equality—is put aside in favor of this new proposition that the Negroes must be confined to a given quarter lest by going elsewhere they depreciate the property of whites. Thus it is laid down that if a colored man would rise and secure for his children better light, better air, a better home in less crowded and more sanitary quarters, he is thereby committing a social crime; that we must prevent his carrying out an ambition which we applaud in every other American, be he Jew or gentle. Armenian or Russian or Pole or German or pure American. We reprobate it in the Negro as if mere contact with him were lepros We can all sympathize with those whose property suffers in value by reason of color prejudice, but the whole history of our cities tells of the ration of aristocratic quarters by the infux of trade or of masses of immigrants. Sudden changes in value are what every one faces who buys urban property. Losing money ought surely never to be an excuse for putting extra burdens on a race already heavily disadvagted. --- will give you lithe, uncorseted grace and constant comfort, yet mould your figure to the present fashion. They are fitted to your measure in your own home by a trained corsetiere—the Spirella way. A telephone call or post-card will bring an expert to your home to explain the Spirella service and boning in detail. THE LIFE OF CHRIST (NOV SOLD IN STORES) Spirella Corset Shop CORA E. ANDERSON 385 Aurora Ave. St. Paul, Minn. Bearded Russians. A larger proportion of Russians wear beards than of any other nation in the world. THE GUARDIAN'S PLATFORM. tation Against Race Segregation. The Boston Guardian's anti-segregation platform for 1914 reads as follows: With separate schools, railroad cars, waiting rooms, street cars in the south with exclusion of colored people from public parks and libraries in the south; with exclusion of colored people from inns, restaurants and places of public amusement in the south; with laws for bidding the coeducation of white and colored in private schools; with laws for bidding the coeducation with a Florida law for bidding white persons from teaching colored children in private schools, laws as far north as Baltimore separating colored and white persons as to the streets they live on, with such laws applying even to places of worship, is it not time for the over ten million black people to just legal treatment, the same as is accorded to other American citizens? With laws denying persons the right to live on their own property unless the majority of people in the vicinity are of their race and color, with such a law just passable to the general public, the government employees enforced and not yet undone at the national capital, with white citizens associations there publicly declaiming for separate cars, with bills introduced in congress for such separations under a national law, with the administration high time that they colored. Americans of the north set their faces against nonlegal segregation? Is it not high time that they adopted a policy of opposing separate secular institutions for colored people? Is it not their places and institutions open for the public on the same terms as others? Is it not time that they woke up and started in to abolish every colored public school in the north? Is it not time that when an institution is a vital necessity colored people Is it high time that all the colored people of the north got together and decided that, except for their churches, a proper number of which are now a necessary provision carried out, to oppose any separate provision unless it is a positive and absolute necessity, and then to have only such a place of their own and not one set up by white people as a department of the colored people, so that it not time we all cried shame on colored people supporting the Shaw house for colored? For Boston is it not high time that the colored people increased the present opposition to the Shaw Settlement house, avowedly started and run "espes- tacular colored people," and put it out of business? Is it not time, too, for the Crisis to realize the harm of helping on every separate jimrow Y. M. C. A. and settlement house in the north and for the National Association of People to realize the harm now of manning its committees and branches with supporters of separation in philanthropy in the north and to perceive that their fight against legal and federal segregation is weakened very materially by compulsory north and failure to contend radically for the mixing of the races in all institutions for public benefit? This is the Guardian's question for all individuals and organizations as at the threshold of 1914 we stand in the shadow of remaining tidal wave of extreme color segregation in these United States of America. SUITS $25.00 OVERCOAT $25.00 Cleaning Pressing Repairing CLIFFORD A. SMITH. 109 E. 8th ST., ST. PAUL, MINN. Will (Bud) Green N. W. Nicollet 6552 Fred. Conners T. S. Center 3723 UNIQUE TRANSFER UNIQUE TRANSFER "Quick Service" Our Motto BAGGAGE TRANSFER AND GENERAL DRAYING Taxi Cab, Touring Car and Messenger Service 242 FOURTH AVE. SO. MINN. N. W. Nic. 1634. T. S. 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Unaligned notices will not be inserted in these columns. HOPE PERSISTS. When I consider life, 'tis all a chest. Yet fool'd with hope, men favor the deceit. Trust on and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow's falser than the former day. Lies wore, and, while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possess. Strange cozenagen! None would live past years again. Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain. And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. —John Dryden. I have seen beneath the yellow and black skins some of the whitest souls that inhabit the flesh—A. H. Hall. We were fortunate to receive a valuable present from Maj. W. D. Hale, our postmaster. It is "Glimpses of the Nation's Struggle," the fifth series of papers, read before the Minnesota Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, and is one of the few copies left of that publication. Among its contents is an address "Colored Troops in the War of the Rebellion" by Capt. and Brevet Major Henry Allyn Norton, 92nd Ill. U. S. Vols. and 12th U. S. C. T. We are thankful to Maj. Hale and shall present this address to our readers in serial form. Maj. Hale commanded Negro troops during a part of his service in the Civil War and he speaks in highest terms of their services as soldiers. Negro citizens, born under the Stars and Stripes are being threatened with the passage of such damnable legislation. The doctrine of States Rights has caused the Japanese to demand their rights and they will loose their "dogs at war" to protect them—while the Negro worships the "dove of peace" a traitor to himself and the God that made him free and equal to all men—From Twin City Star, May 2, 1913. The Twin City Star has the exclusive use of the Afro-American page of the American Press Assn. edited by Mr. N. B. Dodson, a Negro, which gives the best news of the race from everywhere. This is a feature much appreciated by our readers. NOTES ON NEGRO PROGRESS Furnished by the National Negro Business League. The statement of business transacted by The Farmers' Co-operative Negro Company of Mound Bayou, Miss., a company that operates a general department store in that town, to the close of November last; showed resources amount to $24,420.26. E. P. Booze is the manager. The Standard Life Insurance Co., of Alanta, Ga., has added Missouri to the lost of states in which they can do business, and like its entrance into Kentucky and Tennessee, Missouri Negroes have accorded a gratifying welcome by taking out many policies, both of the old line and industrial class The Central Regalia Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, of which Joseph L. Jones is president and manager, has recently been making some extensive improvements in its plant, adding new machinery, etc. This company makes and furnishes everything in the regalia line, rituals, record books, seals, and other stationery used by any and all Negro fraternities. All the employees of the company, from the president down to the janitor, are Negroes. The last report shows the company to be in a splendid condition, and doing a large business with Negro lodges of every fraternity. Columbus, Ohio, has a new, and its only Negro newspaper, The Columbus Independent, edited by Floyd J. Snelson. A new newspaper and the only one in the city, has also been started at St. Joseph, Mo., Mrs. Ida Walker being the editor and proprietor. Both of these recent comers in the Negro newspaper field are bright, newsy papers, and greatly needed in the cities where established. The stockholders of the Johnson Manufacturing Co., Boston, Mass., met in annual session recently and listened to a very interesting and encouraging report by the President, W. Alexander Johnson, of a successful business year. A dividend of 6 per cent was paid to stockholders of record and a good balance placed to the sinking fund. This company manufactures a line of remedies for the hair, scalp and face which are sold in every part of this country. The receipts of the Post Office at Mound Bayou, Miss., over which a colored woman presides as postmistress, and which town is an exclusive Negro town, indicates the progress of the town. From March, 1912, to March, 1913, the receipts were as follows: Money orders issued, $6,776.22; Fees $539.40; On Postal Account, $3,607.44; Sale of Stamps, $3,337.15; From Newspapers, $41.88; Box Rents, $227.50. In the Postal Savings Department certificates to that amount of $343 were issued. The Postoffice receipts of the city or town indicates how live it is. This being accepted as a criterion, the Negro town of Mound Bayou is very much alive. As indicating that the Negroes of Washington, D. C., are awaking to the necessity of establishing business enterprises, and patronizing race establishments, it is estimated that in the last two years $20,000 have been invested in business establishments in U Street alone, from 9th to 14th Street. Printing shops, cafés, tailor shops, drug stores, barber shops, cleaning and dyeing, haberdashery, picture framing, shoe store, jewelry store, millinery store, cigar stand and photographic establishments are some of the Negro enterprises which now line U Street. The Industrial Savings Bank, the new banking institution recently established in Washington, was lately examined by the Government Bank Examiner, and complimented by him on its excellent condition. HONORS FRED DOUGLASS. High Esteem In Which Theodore Tilten Held the Great Agitator. Among the sonnets written by Theodore Tilton to the memory of Fred Douglas appears the following fine lines: I knew the proudest giants of my day, And he was of them—strong amid the strong. But gentle too, for, though he suffered wrong. Yet the wrong doer never heard him say, Theo also do I hate. * * * A lovers'耳—no dirge, no doleful requiem long. In what I love him, for I loved him long. As dearly as a younger brother may. Proud is the happy grief with which I sing. For, O my country, in the paths of men There never walked a grander man them he! No one a poor of princess—yes, a king, Crowned in the shambles and the prison pen. The noblest slave that ever God set free! Cured the Drowsness. Mother—How did papa's new book get in this condition? Bobby—Why, mamma, I heard papa say last night that the book was too dry for him. So I put it in the bathtub and let the water run. You've Met Him. "How do you like your new neighbor?" "Oh, he's the kind of man that saves his longest story to tell while we are holding the front door open for him to go." Gave Him Up. "The doctors have given Johnson up." "Dear me, is he as ill as that?" "No; he's quite well. That is why they have given him up."—London Telegraph. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR. --- TWIN CITY STAR SIMPLE JUSTICE FOR OUR RACE RACE HAS PROVED ITS WORTH Judge Marcus A. Kavanaugh In Discussing the Negro Problem Suggests Three Methods For Its Solution, Which He Believes Is Not Impossible to Accomplish. Chicago.—The speech of Judge Marcus A. Kavanaugh of the superior court in this city not long ago, in which he gave his views concerning the so called race problem, has attracted wide comment. It has been suggested by some of our people that the speech be printed in pamphlet form and distributed broadcast. That would be a wise thing to do, but for the benefit of the readers of this paper especially and the race generally the full text of Judge Kavanaugh's speech is here given. It was delivered before the Irish Fellowship club and is as follows: b fellowship club and is as follows: "Among the many grave problems pressing upon this people there is, it seems to me, one neglected question of crying importance: How much have we freed the Negro? The other day a semiprofessional concern advertised for a Negro girl cashier. There were sixty-four applications for that one position. The majority of the girls who applied had high school educations, because the Negro will make the most pittable sacrifices to give his children learning. These were neatly dressed, modest appearing and intelligent. The one who succeeded had made fifty-two other fruitless efforts to get a position. I do not like to let my mind follow the sixty-three unsuccessful young girls in the weary, heartbreaking search they are still pursuing, and yet it will be demanded of these young women behind their dark, humiliated cheeks they keep humiliated burning. To their infinite credit most of them will. This instance illustrates the attitude of the American public toward the Negro. Let a black man get work of equal rank among white brick masons, electricians, clerks, bookkeepers, and what happens? Every white employee will quit the job as though the place had been covered by a pestilence. There is not a great store in Chicago that dare put a Negro clerk behind its counters, no matter how competent he may be. There is not a street railway that dares to put a Negro to work on one of its cars. The everyday story of a Negro hunting a house in which to live is filled with burning humiliation and injustice. And yet the Negro of pure African blood is rare; many of them are almost white—oppressed with white men's brains, cursed with white men's hearts, hopelessly consumed with white men's ideals and aspirations. "I ask you this afternoon to put yourselves and your families in the place of an honest, respectable Negro, with his own wife and little children. To do that you will have to crush out all the strongest yearnings and highest longings of your hearts. Then see what a dismal place you have made of it. Think for a minute that your little children, no matter how wise they may become or how good they shall remain, must never hope for public esteem or general honor. What incentive remains behind your darkened lives? "When we complain of the Negro we should remember that one cannot measure the capabilities of a race by its lowest members, but by the attainments of its very highest. We have pushed the Negro out into freedom. Free to do what? To become a porter in a saloon or a waiter in a dining car. Which was better, the drugged contentment of the slave or the hopeless, endless humiliation and burning subjection of the freedman? If the Negro may not use his education it is a cruelty to educate him. If he may not use his freedom it was a crime to set him free. "Still he has progressed wonderfully. The general social and intellectual condition of the American Negro in the north today is vastly superior to that of the white inhabitant of any civilized country in the seventeenth century. Yet three generations ago he was a slave, a chattel, a thing. Notwithstanding this, it was essential to slavery that the slave should feel himself physically and mentally a slave. Generation after generation this idea was ground into his soul. Let the general community today unite in its estimate as to any of us, and imperceptibly we will sink or rise to the limits of that estimate. If we brutalize a man we have no right to complain when he acts like a brute. To begin making a man respectable we must commence respecting him. To keep him honorable it is often necessary to honor him. "Do you realize that in spite of this handicap there are Negro homes in Chicago, and not a few of them, the equals in actual refinement to almost any white man's? Have you considered that there are working in this republic black men, and not a few, in the various professions that are the equals intellectually and in many cases the superiors of their competitors? One of the best lawyers in Chicago is a Negro, and a rich man besides. The polite learning of the ages is familiar to him. He loves the best pictures and knows the finest music, but he may not take one meal in any decent restaurant. Suppose that man were to come in here today and sit at the table with us. Do you care to analyze your feelings toward him? And yet the bishop on his silken chair, the splendid old pope on his ancient throne is not nearer to God's great care and affections than this world exiled Negro. So embittered has this man grown against his country and even against his own race that there is no light left in the world for him. All this through no fault of his own, mind you, not because of anything he has done to us, but because of what God did to him. The only right way for you to judge a man is for you to put yourself in his place. Put yourself in that man's place. The problem is not dying out. Every year it increases in intensity. "In 1700 there were less than 800,000 Negroes in this country; in 1860 more than 4,000,000; today every tenth person in this republic is a Negro, and his ratio of increase during the last decade was 11 per cent. They will tell you in the south they have settled the Negro problem. They have not yet begun to realize its awful importance to them. Terrorism never yet settled anything permanently. Only cold, hard justice can do that. The Negro's intelligence is growing in the south and hastening there to an awful moment when the two races shall stand fronting each other in open conflict—the one contemptuous, confident of being in the right and determined; the other race determined, desperate and revengeful. But that moment must never arrive. "It is absurd to blame the south for slavery. Slavery came to this country when it was recognized everywhere as proper and was salutary to both slave and master. It grew-imperceptibly into an institution. Through an accident it became a necessity to the welfare of the cotton raiser. Before that the sentiment of the south was against it. In 1861, with one blow, the property and prosperity of the southern states were crushed. Put yourself in the southerner's place. His attitude today would be your attitude under like circumstances. It is our attitude in the north, only differing in degree, not in kind. But the time has come for big, brave men and women, north and south, to do something. I hold no brief for the Negro. I recognize his many faults. The traits inbred and inbred again through generations cannot be gotten out of the blood in a day. All I ask for him is justice—simple justice. Nobody is seeking for freedom of social intercourse with the Negro. But I believe that unreasoning prejudice should not prevent any woman or man in this country from filling any position he is able to fill—that every citizen may have freedom to freely use every gift with which God has endowed him. There is only one cure for this evil and that is the fine, eternal, heaven sent panacea for every social ill—pure, even handed justice. The solution of the problem is not impossible. Some one has said that, looking history through, evil is only good in the making. As Emerson says, "Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams." "The south had the question settled once, and the north unsettled it. I think the highest minded, finest matured people in the world today live in this country below the Mason and Dixon line. I sometimes think that the oak of American manhood and the rose of American womanhood grow best there. Their point of view is at present almost the irresistible attitude of their history and situation. Still, it is terribly unjust and therefore temporary. "I propose three things: First, that we try to rid ourselves of unjust prejudices against the Negro; that heavy task accomplished, second, that we strive to influence our fellow citizens in the same direction, and, third, that we shall endeavor to obtain a national commission, composed mostly of white men, north and south, to take evidence and devise remedies for this impossible situation." 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