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MINNEAPOLIS Minn Historical Society DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST.PAUL ective Page VOL. 4 Single Copies 5 Cents in the one large auditorium. Domestic science will be taught and other features for the development of our young people in this city will be added. Dr. Wilson besides being an able preacher is a man with a master mind, which reaches out for the masses and develops thousands of them spiritually, mentally, morally and physically. Since this class of uplift work has not been instituted here, this phase of church work will become a potent element in the character building of our people. Dr. Wilson in his unassuming manner has become a factor in educational circles in this state. The educational congress of the conferences of the A. M. E. Church of this state is an idea of his. Empire State Body of Women Holde Big Meeting In Brooklyn. By N. BARNETT DODSON. Brooklyn—The sixth annual meeting of the Empire State Federation of Women's clubs held at the Concord Baptist church in this city from Wednesday, July 1, to Friday, July 3, inclusive, was a fine success. The federation was the guest of the Dorcas Home Mission society and the allied clubs of Brooklyn, which gave the delegates and visitors a most hospitable entertainment. The attendance was large and the program had many brilliant features. Mrs. Mary B. Talbert of Buffalo, president of the organization, proved herself to be a highly capable presiding officer. By her fairness and impartial ruling at critical points in debate she has endured herself to the members of the organization from all sections of the state. Under her administration the federation has grown from a weak, halting position into a strong and progressive body of women who are devoting their best energies to the various needs of the people in their respective communities. From the standpoint of work accomplished during the year the reports showed an increase in the number of institutions and individuals helped in a financial way and a large increase in the membership of the individual clubs. This fact was brought out very forcibly in the report of Mrs. M. C. Lawton, state organizer, who reported that she had organized fifteen new clubs during the year, with a total membership of 624. The work of the executive committee under Mrs. Charlotte A. Bell was also highly commended. The committee on resolutions, with Miss Minnie Brown as chairman, expressed its appreciation of the cordial way in which the federation had been treated by the entertaining club. The officials of the church, the Young Men's League of Concord, which tendered the reception to the delegates on the opening night of the convention, indorsed the work of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, condemned the use of the word Negress so commonly seen in the daily papers when referring to a female member of our race, and called upon the editors of papers published by the colored race to use their influence in having the practice abandoned by white persons. Mrs. Alice W. Seay, president of the Dorcas society, received the personal thanks of the officials of the organization for the effective work done by the Brooklyn clubs. The receipts were the largest in the history of the federation. By a unanimous vote the seventh annual meeting of the organization will be held in Elmira, N. Y., the first week in July. 1915. Mrs. Mary B. Talbert, Mrs. M. C. Lawton and Mrs. Alice W. Seay were among the officials elected as delegates to the annual convention of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs which will be held at Wilberforce university, Ohio, beginning Tuesday, Aug. 4. The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows: Mrs. Mary B. Talbert, president, Buffalo, N. Y.; Mrs. Alice W. Seay, vice president, Brooklyn; Miss Elizabeth Mickens, secretary, Yonkers, N. Y.; Mrs. M. C. Lawton, organizer, Brooklyn: Mrs. Daisy Tapley, treasurer, New York, and Mrs. C. A. Bell, chairman of the executive committee, Governors Island, New York. Georgia Educators to Meet July 28. President Richard R. Wright of the Georgia State college in Savannah, Ga., has again shown his interest in the cause of education by agreeing to entertain the members of the Georgia Association of Teachers in colored schools at the annual meeting of the association, to be held in Savannah, beginning Tuesday morning, July 28, for two days free of charge. Professor M. W. Reddick, president of the association, says that the program for the coming session will be one of unusual interest. He, therefore, urges a large attendance. MEETING NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE BEGINNING OF A NEW ERA. Plan and Scope of the Institutional African Methodist Episcopal Church In Course of Erection at Wilmington, N. C.—Hundreds Added to St. Stephen's Church In Short Time. By GEORGE F. KING. Wilmington, N. C.—Among the leading ministers of the Afro-American people in this city is the Rev. Dr. A. J. Wilson of the African Methodist Episcopal church. What has made Dr. Wilson a factor in the development of the race wherever he has pastured is his splendid way of exhibiting his fitness for the great work that he is accomplishing. He built a brick church in Charlotte, N. C., which gave his church large influence in that community. He also built the beautiful St. Paul church in Raleigh and distinguished himself by reaching all REV. DR. A. J. WILSON. classes of our people in the latter city and made another unprecedented record in this state by raising $4,000 in one rally. The colored people in Wilmington have not the advantages that the race has in many other cities of the south for young men and women through Young Men's Christian association and Young Women's Christian association work, so that in Wilmington will be found quite a sociological problem which requires a man of the caliber of Dr. Wilson to assist in solving. He has been pastor of St. Stephen's A. M. E. church, this city, for one year and six months, and during that time he has made quite an exhaustive study of the peculiar conditions of our people. His influence is very effective, and he has made a record by adding 450 members to this church during this short period. Not satisfied with having the leading church in the A. M. E. conference, with a membership of 1,600. Dr Wilson is now engaged in erecting a handsome brick annex to the St. Stephen church at a cost of $15,000. This will be the first movement for an institutional church in this section of the state. The new edifice is to be four stories high and is being erected to meet the pressing need for more room for the large Sunday school and other organizations of the church. In the basement there will be a swimming pool, rest rooms for old people and a doctor's office. It is expected that later a physician will be stationed at the church to minister to the physical ills of the church members and others who may need such services. There will also be public baths in the new edifice. On the second floor will be the pastor's study and several class rooms. On the third floor there will be class rooms for the Sunday school and a public library. The library feature will also be a very essential convenience for this community since the colored people are denied the use of books by the city library. The rooms are so arranged that they can readily be thrown together, making a large auditorium seating 800 people. There will be in all eighteen class rooms for the Sunday school, so that each class can have a separate room, thus insuring more thorough teaching than is possible by having the whole school FEDERATION OF CLUBS. SMOKE THE RELIABLE Sight Draft Cigar—5c. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. JULY. 17, 1914. "SELF HELP" PLEA OF RACE LEADER Calls on His People to Support Own Schools. HEADS COMING CONVENTION Rev. Dr. Johnson Will Preside Over Meeting of Mississippi Baptists—He Has Worked Hard For Church and Education For Thirty Years. Pleads Cause of Natchez College. Natchez, Miss.—The annual meeting of the Mississippi Baptist state convention will be held in this city beginning on Tuesday morning, July 21. It will be attended by some of the most noted ministers and laymen in the state who are struggling to make the race better. At the head of the convention is one of the leading pastors and preachers in America, Rev. A. M. Johnson, D. D., pastor of the Jackson Street Baptist church, Vicksburg, Miss., who is foremost in the educational work. The Baptists of Mississippi are doing some splendid educational work. Dr. Johnson started from the ground, so to speak, and worked his way to the top. For the past ten years the convention has honored him with the position of president because of his ability as a presiding officer, a worker and a preacher. He lives in the hearts of his people. During his administration many improvements have been made at Natchez college, the leading school operated by the members of the race in the state. This school was started by the Baptists, was erected by the Baptists and is now supported by the Mississippi Baptists. A dormitory for girls has been erected during the administration of Dr. Johnson at a cost of $23,500 It is of interest to know that he has been in the pastorate for the past thirty years, and during this time has erected three churches, the first at a cost of $3,000, the second for $5,000 and the last one for $20,000. He has served as general missionary of the state for four years, and educational secretary for six years. Not only has he been at the head of the convention, but Dr. Johnson has served as trustee of Natchez college for the past eighteen years; trustee of Jackson college four years, and for the past five years has been one of the trustees of the National Training school, Washington, D. C. When it comes to racial matters, you can always count on Dr. Johnson. He has been always found in the front rank of anything that meant the development of his race. He is now looking forward and planning to do great things in the convention and in the state. There is an indebtedness on Natchez college which he hopes to pay off during this year and will present plans at the convention this year. "We have it in our power to do great work," said Dr. Johnson in discussing the plans for the coming session of the state convention, "and to accomplish anything we must not sit down and complain, but use that time, energy and strength in doing something that will count. Why depend on members of other races to do for us what we can do for ourselves? We are not the pauper race of the country. We are earning money and throw away enough in a 'good time' every year to build a dozen colleges. "Our future in this country depends more on what we do for ourselves than on what others may do for us. If we class ourselves as the baby race in civilization we may expect to be treated as babies. We have passed the period of babyhood, because we have passed the fifteenth anniversary of our freedom, and now comes the time when we must do a little more work and less talk "We have been building churches since our emancipation and we have looked to the white people largely to educate our children. The people of the north have opened schools and sent white men and women to teach them, and they are doing this today. Here and there you will find a school supported by the white people of the north with some of our men and women in charge, but these cases are rare yet. It is up to us to make places for our own children. The Baptist state convention of Mississippi stands for the highest possible manhood and womanhood for our people." Minds the Wife. Heck-What do you do when your wife asks you to mind the baby? Peck-Mind my wife.-Exchange. Mexican Houses. In some Mexican cities it is no long allowed to build bamboo houses with dirt floors and thatched roofs. MEETING OF PUBLISHERS. Muskogee, Okla., to Entertain Press Association in August. Muskogee, Okla.—Newspaper men from all parts of the United States will gather in the Oil City of the West during the month of August to consider plans for the betterment of the craft. This is not the first meeting of the National Negro Press association to be held west of the Mississippi, but it will be the beginning of a better organization and will, no doubt, create more interest among the newspaper men in this section. Muskogee's preparations continue with clocklike precision. Committees of every description are working out well laid plans that have been outlined for the entertainment of the visiting newspaper men. Since their meeting in Nashville, Tenn., last February, when the executive committee held its midwinter session, all of the hundred or more members of the association have been looking toward Muskogee, and now the entering wedge has been made so that when the official call is sent out from Baltimore the pilgrimage of newspaper men, correspondents, publishers and editors will be turned toward the west. The corresponding secretary's office in Nashville has kept everything moving. The Reciprocal News service that was inaugurated immediately after the midwinter session has proven a wonderful success. Other items looked forward to for accomplishment in August are the final disposition of the standardization of advertising and some recommendations for the inauguration of the plate service, together with the report of the committee appointed as a permanent boosting organization for the association and the report of the committee on the cipher code to be used exclusively by newspaper men belonging to the association by which they will be able to transmit messages among themselves. GUNNER ISSUES APPEAL. Independent Political League's President Says Race Should Get Together. The Rev. Byron Gunner, president of the National Independent Political league, has issued Hillburn, N. Y., an appeal to the league and the colored race to rally and prepare to hold a national convention on the maltreatment of colored Americans. The appeal says: "The time for the seventh annual meeting of the league is fast approaching, and we should now begin arrangements for it. Serious indeed were the conditions relating to our race and country that made necessary the birth and mission of our league, but existing conditions and the racial and national affairs are incomparably more serious than at any time during the past fifty years. And never has it been more imperative that Negro-American thinkers and voters should get together than today. The Rev. Byron Gunner is an independent Political league, though as an organization only six years in the conflict, occupies a place in the front ranks of those who are contending for the full manhood rights and for the political emancipation of our people. Our league's unswerving identity to the race is its unstoppable argument for refusing to lay down our arms and to retire from the battlefield. "The south is in the saddle," and the most vital interests of our people are more seriously imperiled than ever before. The outlook is threatening, and our enemies never seemed more emboldened to accomplish our rule than now. Should the present national administration and the white south and the acquiescing north continue to persist in their work of segregation and other forms of wicked racism, the United States must force the "Negro question" to the very front and to make it the gravest and the greatest political and social issue of our day and generation. Present conditions demand a race organization among us through which our people themselves can best content for their involved interests. We must make sure that the men of men and women of the race who are brave and courageous enough to think and act for themselves and to cast their ballot with perfect freedom and independence. Such an organization is the National Independent Political league. Having entered the political field in defense of our oppressed people, we shall not hesitate when necessary to attack and fight any man or set of men or any party or measures whose principles and efforts may tend to endanger the "war amendments" of our Negro-American brethren. We shall, as in the past, continue to reserve the freedom to work with whatever party which will give our people the fairest deal and to withdraw from and oppose any party that may prove recurrent in its day-to-day activities. It need never be expected that our league can ever be made the property of any political party. We shall continue to educate and elevate among the masses of our people the spirit of political independence. BRIAN RONNON GUNNER, President, Hillburn, N.Y. W. MONROE TROTTER, 21 Cornhill, Boston, Corresponding Secretary. OPPORTUNITY To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life.—Samuel Johnson. President W. Bishop Johnson In Masterly Annual Address Says Great Missionary Organization Is In the Midst of Educative Processes—Predicts Great Future. The annual address of the Rev. Dr. W. Bishop Johnson, president of the New England Baptist missionary convention recently held in Bridgeport, Conn., was in part as follows: "For thirty-nine years the churches of New England and the north have sent their delegates to the annual meeting of this convention to report the progress of the denomination and to get new inspiration to do and dare for the Master. We come now to the fortieth session. The mighty achievements of the past, the hosts of the faithful warriors who crowd celestial seats and from their high and exalted stations look down upon those of us with whom they once held sweet converse and stood in the smoke of conflict wave their glorified hands across the stretches of thirty-nine years, now rolled into the deathless past, and beckon us to higher and nobler efforts, while this old world, torn and bleeding with sin, shall be healed of all its diseases and presented to God without spot or blemish, clothed in the ineffable splendors of New Jerusalem glory. "The year just closed has been largely constructive. Two years ago we enlarged our methods and widened our vision for future efforts along all lines. We are now in the midst of educative processes in order that the churches shall really see and understand the heavy responsibilities and the mighty fruiture the future holds for them. "The New England missionary convention is no longer an annual gathering where the representatives of churches assemble to felicitate one another upon good health, fine appearance and general prosperity. It is a mighty assemblage of the churches of the north, the religious forces that must meet control and discipline, the great infux of Baptists from the south that sweep in upon northern Baptists like a mighty army and add their weight to the responsibility of the race and denomination in America. "Are we still adding the polished shafts to the giver of an educated ministry and the racial growth in morals and religion to an intelligent pew? Are we all with united voice—churches, Sunday schools, B. Y. P. U.'s and other auxiliaries—contending for the faith once delivered to the saints and hurling into the teeth of our enemies the defiant declaration, 'In the name of our God, we will set up our banners?' We come to report progress, not retrogression; advancement, not stagnation; conquest, not defeat, for we sing with the poet— "Hammer away, ye hostile bands; The hammer breaks, God's anvil stands. "The progress of our churches, the improvement in our ministry, the unmistakable signs of the times so far as they point to this convention, spell in large golden letters one word, 'Opportunity.' "Opportunity has no schedule time; you must be waiting at the station when it arrives. The hour, full of meaning and heavy with responsibility, has arrived for the New England missionary convention to awake. Arise or be forever fallen! "Ten thousand blessings are held in the jeweled hand of the present and offered to the Negro Baptist family of the north. Shall we be ready at the station for the train with the priceless burden when it arrives? Let us see. Under the enlargement plan adopted by this convention in 1912 ten boards were created, the home mission, located in New Haven; the educational, at New York; the foreign mission, at Montclair, N. J.; the Sunday school, at Philadelphia; the B. Y. P. U., at Providence, R. I.; the church edifice, at Boston; the ministers' relief, at Brooklyn; the wildows' relief, at Jersey City, N. J.; the publication, at Philadelphia, and the historical, at Washington. "A word about our constitutional rights: Eternal vigilance must be the watchword of the Negro in securing his constitutional rights. He will have to make large sacrifices of time, talent and money before he can wipe out discriminating laws and twentieth century barbarism, which are a blot upon the escutcheon of American institu- tions and which sustains and supports a system of slavery more wicked and destructive than ever existed among the nations of the earth. "The solution of our problems lies in the Negro's hands alone; the panacea for our racial ills must be applied not once, but often, until every evidence of disease has disappeared and every scar has been healed. The race must prepare itself for a long, vigorous and determined battle. We must transmit to our sons the fighting spirit, not with swords, but with brains and ballots, supplemented by work and worth. We congratulate the committee on the state of the country upon the campaign it has made against race hatred and prejudice and predict for it a long line of victories in the future." PERILS OF SEGREGATION. Pointed Out by Dr. J. E. Spingarn In Fearless Address. Louisville.—Sunday afternoon, July 5, in Quinn chapel, over 1,500 colored people attended a mass meeting arranged by the Loulsville branch of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People to protest against the segregation ordinance recently passed in this city. Dr. J. E. Spingarn, chairman of the board of directors of the national association, spoke as follows: "We believe that the segregation of property according to race distinctions offends both against political morals and against economic expediency. It offends against economic expediency because the artificial restrictions it set-up will entail ultimate economic burdens out of all proportion to the apparent, and only apparent, depression that is at this moment the ground for legal segregation. "It offends against political morality because it places a struggling race, emerging from slavery and economic dependence, in a permanent position of disadvantage in respect to other races which already hold the most advantageous positions. It is mere sophistry to say that there is no real discrimination because white men may not move into black neighborhoods just as black men may not move into white neighborhoods. "I imagine the justice of a law which denied the right of poor men to borrow from rich men, and then, to make the matter wholly equitable, denied the right of rich men to borrow from poor ones! We white men hold all the colons of vantage, and this legislation is merely an effort to prevent others from ever disputing our rights to hold them. The result of such an arrangement can be only one—to develop a permanently inferior civilization in our midst, which must serve forever as a corrupting force in the movement of the larger civilization of which it must continue to remain a part. "Lock up a humble and disadvantaged minority in a ghetto and destroy its power to see that conditions in that ghetto are made tolerable, and crime and vice and disease are the least of the results." ALUMNI FORM CHAPTER. Wayland Seminary and Richmond Institute Graduates Get Together attitute Graduates Get Together. At the call of the Rev. Dr. W. P. Hayes of New York a number of the graduates of the old Wayland seminary and the Richmond (Va.) institute, which now form the Virginia Union university, Richmond, met in the Messiah Baptist church in Bridgeport, Conn., the latter part of June and organized a northern chapter of the alumni association of the Virginia Union university. Over twenty-one responded to the call. The election of officers resulted as follow: Dr. W. P. Hayes, president; N. B. Dodson, secretary; Dr. W. M. Moss, treasurer, and Rev. I. W. Reed, corresponding secretary. The next meeting of the chapter will be held in Philadelphia during the meeting of the national Baptist convention, which will be held from Sept. 9 to 14, inclusive. Every graduate of these schools residing in the north is urged to attend this meeting. Census Reports on City Population. Nearly one-third of the population of Washington is colored, according to the compilation of the census bureau, recently issued. Philadelphia stands third of cities in its percentage of colored population. The total estimated population of Washington this year is 853,378, of which 101,339 are colored. In Philadelphia it is estimated that the population this year will be 1,057,810, of which 91,652 are reported as colored. In 1910 the number was 85,687. Camera In a Bank. It is said that the Bank of France has an invisible studio in a gallery be hind the cashiers, so that at a given signal from one of them any suspected customer can instantly have his photograph taken without his knowledge. Subscribe for the Star. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION ODD FELLOWS PICNIC PARKER'S LAKE, JULY 28th Adults 40c ..... Children 20c St. Anthony Lodge No. 2877, G. U. O. of O. F. will hold their Twenty-third ANNUAL PICNIC at PARKER'S LAKE on the Luce Electric ShortLine, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1914 Good fishing, Boating, Dancing. Trains leave terminal station at 7th St. and 2nd Ave. No., Minneapolis, at 6:15, 8:15, 10:15 a.m., and 1:15, 4:15, 5:20, 6:20 and 7:45 p. m. Returning leaves Parker's Lake at 8:05, and 9:55 a.m. and 1:06, 4:05, 5:40, 7:03, 9:23 and 10:53 P. M. Tickets for round trip 40 cents, children, 20 cents. REMEMBER THE DATE! EVERYBODY INVITED You Will be Lonesome if You Don't Go Come go with us to Parker's Lake. Don't miss this treat, for goodness sake! And if you ask us, What's the reason? 'Twill be THE PICNIC of the season. Take one day off from city life. Bring all the children and your wife; Take all your games, also croquet; Come well prepared to enjoy the day. JULY THE a2TH is the date. You can go out early or come out late. We never drink so on the ground No wines nor liquors will be found— Now, if you are rough, be good that day! We don't go out to fight, but play. Did you say fun? There'll be no end — So come on out and meet your Friends. MINNEAPOLIS Leave your Subscriptions and Printing at TWIN CITY STAR PRINTERS, 1402 Washington Ave. So, Choice workmanship, Regular Prices. 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? 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. The People's Christian Mission, REV. G. W. MITCHELL, PASTOR. 1284 Washington Ave. So. ANNOUNCEMENT. On July 19th The Publicity Committee under auspices of the Minneapolis Sunday Forum invites all to be present to the Open-Air Reception in honor of the Afro-American residents of Minneapolis for a period of twenty-five years and over, to be held on upper grounds at Minneaha Park, July 19th, 1914, at 3 P. M. Address by ministers present and Prof. B. F. Bullock of Lincoln Institute. Responses to special invitations will be read to those present at the next Forum meeting at Bethesda Baptist Church, July 5th, 1914. Publicity Committee: Ed. Hammond Publicity Committee: Ed. Hammond Chas. Sumner Smith, Dr. Robert S Brown, Chas. W. Brown, Philip F Hale, Hcm, 931 St. St. N. E. THE K. P. PICNIC Remember The Knights of Pythias will give their Annual Picnic at Carver, Minn., on August 4th. Mr. and Mrs. Edw. Hammond left Thursday for Rochester, Minn., where Mrs. Hammond will consult the Mayo Bros., the famous surgeons. The Mu-So-Lit. Club entertained with a surprise party at the home of Mrs. A. White, Saturday afternoon, July 4th, in honor of their president, Mrs. Geo. Barnett, the 4th being her birthday. The house was decorated with red, white and blue. The souvenirs and favors carrying out the color scheme. The ladies presented Mrs. Barnett with a beautiful token to show their appreciation and esteem. Wear your Forum Button at the Pioneer Citizens Meeting at Minnehaha Park on Sunday, July 19th. Mr. John Tyler, a 30-year resident is very ill at 615 14th Ave. So. Mr. Tyler is well known and respected. We hope for his speedy recovery. Mrs. Abbie McRae of Grand Forks and her daughters Willa and Evelyn spent two weeks with Mrs. Banham, 3046 21st Ave. So. They left for New York to visit relatives. The funeral of Mr. Watkins Hall was held last Monday. Miss Odette Johnson is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Robinson, and Missa Anderson of Aurora Ave., St. Paul. STAG CLUB'S CARNATION NIGHT. The Twin City Stag Club will feature a "Select Cabaret," on Every Other Thursday Night" at 246-250 Fourth Ave. So. This will be known as "The Carnation Night." The management invites the public to participate in an evening of refined amusement, afforded by selected talent, excellent cuisine and comfortable surroundings.—SUNDAY, SPECIAL DINNER, 50c. THE ODFELLOWS, O. A. Lawrence, Chairman of Committee THE EPISCOPAL CLUBS of Minneapolis, Minn. Will Give Their THIRD ANNUAL PICNIC at ANTLER'S PARK on DAN PATCH LINE Thursday, August 6, 1914 Good Fishing, Boating and Plenty Amusements for the Children A SPLENDID ORCHESTRA IN ATTENDANCE DANCING FROM 3 to 8:30 p. m. Trains Leave Minneapolis at 54th St. and Nicollet Ave., 8:30 and 11 a. m., 2:00 and 5:00 p. m. Take 54th St. and Columbia Heights Car on Marquette Ave. and at Nicollet and Lake St. to Dan Patch Station. Committee of Arrangements Dr. R. S. Brown, Chm., Wm. Doston, Frank Terry, Alton C. Boone, Walter L. Smith, Irving Smith, Calvin Lewis, Thos. Henderson, Ephraim Bludsoe. FARE FOR ROUND TRIP Adults, 75c; Children, 35c. During the summer dinner will be served from 5 to 8 p. m. at the Twin City Stag Café. (Advertisement.) Mrs. C. Lewis of Detroit, Mich., was most pleasantly surprised on Saturday evening. The ladies of the Lee Sewing Society visited her at the residence of her sister Mrs. J. B. Elliott, 3410 Grand Ave., and spent a most joyful evening. Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Elliott left Sunday evening for Detroit, Mich. Dr. and Mrs. Chapman of Kansas City are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Wills at Camp Hope. Mrs. C. P. Hunt of Chicago is visiting her sister, Mrs. Edwards, 224 W. Central Ave. The Twin City Charity Club met on Thursday at the residence of Mrs. Hester Keeys. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Perkins were the dinner guests of Rev. and Mrs. W. R. Donovan, 616 James Ave. No., on Thursday of last week. Mr. Wm. Jenkins, 609 Dupont Ave., one of our prominent church workers is home again after a long illness at the city hospital. Mr. Jenkins has a host of friends who are glad to hear of his recovery. Miss Belle Loving of Chicago who has been confined in Asbury Hospital has returned to the home of Mrs. L. D. Martin, 3013 Garfield Ave., where she is improving. It is general that people without character are always protecting a reputation. We do not publish personals, unless paid for, about those who owe us. If you are mean enough to beat a newspaper publisher, you should not get the benefit of his columns. Mr. Scott Aikins, pianist, and Miss Ada Smith assisted by Mr. Earle Stewart are entertaining at Twin City Stag Club. Mrs. Julia Hinson has renovated the St. Louis Kitchen and continues to serve the best home cooked meals at popular prices. She gives clean pure food, prepared like mother served. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION --- TWIN CITY STAR Judge Lewis, of the District Court at St. Paul, denied last Friday the alternative motion on behalf of the Pullman Company for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial in the suit by George T. Williams vs. The Pullman Company for damages on account of malicious prosecution while employed as a porter. In denying the motion, however, the Court reduced the verdict of $2,999.99 rendered by the jury in favor of Williams to $2,000. Lawyer W. T. Francis says Mr. Williams will not appeal, but that the verdict as reduced will be accepted. EUREKA DRUG STORE TO BE P. O. STATION. Location and Environment Make the Selection of the Postal Authorities an Excellent Choice. The many friends of Dr. Roberts, the genial proprietor of the Eureka drug store, will be pleased to learn that the postmaster, Robert E. Springsteen, has appointed Dr. Roberts to operate a sub-station at his drug store. This is the first appointment of the kind that has ever come to the colored people of the city of Indianapolis, and Mr. Springsteen will enjoy the distinction of establishing the precedent. The drug store of Dr. Roberts is ideally situated for just such purpose and the appointment is sure to meet the hearty approbation of the entire colored citizenship of the city. The selection of this store as a subpostal station will serve as an accommodation for the entire community. Letters may be registered, postal money orders issued and cashed and a general postoffice business conducted there, eliminating the necessity of the people of the neighborhood going to the downtown postoffice. The Ledger congratulates Doctor Roberts on his appointment.-Indianapolis Ledger. The Eureka Drug Store is owned by Dr. Henry Roberts, formerly of Minneapolis, a brother of Officer James Roberts of the Police force in this city. 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." Young Couples will profit by seeing Boutelle before going housekeeping—Read his ad in another column. Advertisement. Several cases of diphtheria have developed in the Attucks Home, Mrs. Charleston, the matron, being one of the victims. Rev. B. N. Murrell of Peoria, Ill., will occupy the pulpit at Pilgrim Baptist Church on Sunday. Mrs. M. B. McGhee and her daughter Miss Ruth, have returned to live at the McGhee residence at 665 University Ave. "Special Education for Negroes" was the subject for discussion at the meeting of the National Educational Association last week. Dr. Grossman presided, Mrs. Clement Pierce of Paris, Tex., and Mrs. Nellie Francis of St. Paul, were among the speakers. They opposed any special education for Negroes and were heartily applauded. Other speakers took a decided stand for mixed schools and equal opportunities for Negro pupils. Notes must reach our office on Wednesday before noon. All communications by mail only. If you wish to help this publication. Send your subscription by Post office order. Reserve your space for Excursions, Picnics and Dances. Take the advantage of our advertising columns. The Grand Lodge of Elks (white) at Denver condemned Elks' clubs, which were simply blind pigs, etc., used to evade the liquor laws. Geo. W. Holbert, Exalted Ruler of Ames Lodge of Elks of Minneapolis, was elected as a delegate to the Grand Lodge which sits at Norfolk, Va. It is rumored that Ames Lodge of Elks will secure Mr. Chas. Brody's club as an Elks' Rest. A meeting will be held Sunday afternoon to decide this matter. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION You must have forgotten about that subscription. READ OUR ADVERTISEMENTS. List of Organizations In Which Afro-Americans Hold Membership Shows That an Attitude of Fairness Prevails—Colored Tradesmen Are Honorable, Says One Official. Chicago—Comments on the speech of Judge Marcus A. Kavanaugh, delivered before the Irish Fellowship club in this city not long ago, are still being made both in the newspapers and by individuals. The full text of the speech has been carried by a large number of papers belonging to the National Negro Press association more than once, and the race press generally has given liberal space to the various phases of the learned judge's great deliverance. The Daily News of this city, through one of its correspondents, who is a member of our race, comments at length on this statement in the judge's speech—namely: "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." This correspondent declares that in his own experience the contrary has proved to be the case. He is sustained in some measure at least by a study of the "Negro American Artisan," made by Atlanta university, which treats rather exhaustively of the relations of Negroes with trade unions. According to this report, some unions admit Negroes in considerable numbers. The Tunnel and Subway Contractors' International union of New York city, for example, reported about 200 Negro members and added, "In our trade they are as good as there are in the business." The tobacco workers reported 400 or 500 members, a decrease, however, from the 1,500 they had in 1900. The United Mine Workers of America reported 25,000 colored members, while Negro members predominated in the largest local organization of the union. The secretary of the organization described them as "intelligent, honorable, progressive and good workmen." Fifty Negro members were enrolled in the Brotherhood of Railroad Freight Handlers, while the Hod Carriers and Building Laborers' union included about 1,000 Negro members. Several hundred were reported as members of the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers' union, the constitution of which provides for a fine for discrimination against workers on account of their color. From the secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Johners came this reply to the request for information: "Our constitution does not discriminate against Negro membership, although to the best of my knowledge, so far as the United States is concerned, they are a very rare exception, probably owing to the fact that we have but very few locals established in the south. I have never heard any uncomplimentary remarks made against any Negro that has been admitted into our organization." The secretary of the International Typographical union has this to say: "Competent persons of both races have always been eligible to membership in our organization. In some of our southern unions there are objections to the admission of Negroes. This is a natural condition which time will probably eliminate." An enlightened position was taken by the Molders' union. The editor of the International Molders' Journal wrote, "The International Molders' Union of North America, now in its fifty-third year of existence, has never in its laws discriminated against the Negro molders." He explained that some difficulty had been experienced in local unions in the south, though "here and there, in the east, north, central west and Pacific coast. Negroes have been taken into membership and placed on an equality with the other members." In the summary of the report relating to conditions in Illinois the Chicago Federation of Labor is recorded as replying that "we have one local union comprising all Negro members—the Asphalt Pavers and Helpers' union. No. 25—who are regularly affiliated with the International, which is affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. We have Negro delegates from several organizations. I know of no union affiliated with the federation that prevents Negroes from joining—at least, this office has never received any complaint from that direction. We often try to organize the Negro, but find it difficult for one reason or another; principally the employer is always getting some Negro to tell others that organized labor is not their best friend, etc. The employer always has in mind it is to his best interest to keep the negroes unorganized." The trade and labor council of Danville, Ill., had about 700 Negro members in the Miners' union and forty in the Brick, Tile and Terra Cotta Workers' alliance. The Springfield Federation of Labor included Negro members in local unions of miners, barbers, bodearners and cement workers. PRAISE FOR DR. H. B. MARBLE Work of a Zealous Female Member, National Medical Association. National Medical Association. The wonderful success of the pharmaceutical section of the National Medical association is largely due to the enthusiasm and unflagging interest of Dr. H. B. Marble, who for several years has been secretary of this section. Dr. Marble is a graduate of Meharry Pharmaceutical college of the class of 1906. She is a registered pharmacist by examination in several southern states. For a number of years she held the position of hospital pharmacist at the Tuskegee (Ala.) institute. It was therefore with a great deal of regret A. H. DR. H. B. MARBLE. that the authorities of the Tuskegee institution parted with her efficient services. While Dr. Marble has always worked for the advancement of the pharmaceutical section of the National Medical association, as well as the association as a whole, her work has always been performed with becoming modesty, and she always sought the advancement of the association rather than of herself. The names of many rising young women have been more heralded than Dr. Marble's, yet there are perhaps few who are more deserving of worthy mention. At the present time she is at work on a very interesting program for her section of the National Medical association, and if her plans mature the session to be held in Raleigh, N. C., beginning on Tuesday, Aug. 25, will be one of the greatest in the history of the organization. JOHN DANIELS AS AUTHOR. Boston Man Tells of Our Early Achievements "In Freedom's Birthplace." "In Freedom's Birthplace" is the title of an interesting book by John Daniels of Boston. The author says, among other things, that in no part of the United States is the local history of the Negro race more interesting and instructive than in Massachusetts and particularly in the city of Boston and its immediate environs. The colony of Massachusetts bay was one of the first in America to practice Negro slavery in 1638. Massachusetts was also the first to abolish slavery in the decade between 1780 and 1790. In Boston a Negro was the first martyr in the cause of American independence. Despite Washington's order against it, free Negroes were enrolled and served in the continental army at Cambridge, and excellent services were rendered in the Revolutionary war by a Negro regiment from Rhode Island and a Negro company from Massachusetts. It was a Negro soldier who shot Pitcairn at Bunker Hill, and he and some of his colored comrades are conspicuous in Trumbull's painting of that battle. With these antecedents it was natural that the abolition movement should have its origin in Boston. At that time, it must be confessed, the Negro was looked upon there and throughout New England with a certain degree of disfavor. The attitude of Miss Ophela in "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was typical, and it was against this coldness of the nominal opponents of actual slavery that the movement for enfranchisement had to contend as much as against positive proslavery resistance. In these circumstances Boston was the scene of some of the most celebrated fugitive slave cases, such as that of Latimer, which literally convulsed the whole commonwealth and made tremendously toward the development of the anti-slavery sentiment which in time possessed the state. The history of the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts regiment and its chivalrous commander, Robert Gould Shaw, forms a brilliant chapter in the story of the civil war, and the burial of Shaw by the side of his Negro comrades beneath the blood drenched sands of Wagner formed a fitting sequel to the burial of Attucks in the same grave with his white fellow victims of the Boston massacre. The follies and excesses of the reconstruction era at the south reacted upon the north and caused a widespread revulsion of feeling against the sympathetic enthusiasm which had been aroused before and during the war, and the Negro race generally throughout the country suffered underserved discredit. Thereafter the Negro was forced back upon his own resources and was compelled to vindicate himself and to establish his own place in the nation. How he is doing this, particularly in Boston, is described in interesting and instructive detail. TWIN CITY STAG CLUB 246-250 FOURTH AVE. 80. J. E. STEWART, Manager FINEST ESTABLISHMENT OF ITS KIND IN THE UNITED STATES. Twenty Elegant, Steam Heated, Electric Lighted Rooms for Gentlemen Only. Free Bath. FIRST CLASS BARBER SHOP. Rates Reasonable. Lobby, Reading and Lounging Room, Buffet and Grill Room, Billiard Room, Dining Room, Barber Shop and Bath, Private Dining and Reception Room for Ladies. CARNATION SOUVENIR NIGHTS. JULY 30th-AUG. 13th. 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First Colored Bandmaster Appointed to Position In United States Army Has Proved His Worth as an Instructor—Commanding Officers and Men Proud of Him. Fort Russell, Wyo.—The Ninth cavalry military band, now stationed here, is a first class organization which owes its success to the careful training of Wade H. Hammond, the first colored bandmaster appointed to instruct colored musicians in the United States army. Heretofore military bands, like colored troops, have been trained by white men. Mr. Hammond is an experiment, and he appears to have put all doubts to rest as to his ability to "deliver the goods." His success has been marvelous. The men under him have responded to his methods of teaching in a way which has excited the admiration of the commanding officers of the post. Their skill and proficiency as performers have caused unstinted praise US DIRECTOR W. H. HAMMOND. to be showered upon Director Hammond for his painstaking and intelligent instruction of the men committed to him for training. So entirely satisfactory is Director Hammond's work, not alone to his immediate commanding officer, but to the men who compose the Ninth cavalry band, that they have decided to make up a large fund to enable him to spend his furlough in Europe, where he will have an opportunity to study the methods of army bands and concert orchestra of the old world. This is indeed a high compliment to the professional ability of this colored musical director. Hitherto this field has been monopolized almost entirely by white bandmasters, and they have not always been in thorough sympathy with the men under them. The success of this band disproves the oft repeated statement that colored men will not be led by colored officers in the army and that they are better led by white men. Director Hammond's men seem to have responded more readily to his methods of instruction than the white officers commanding the post had expected, and the experiment of a colored bandmaster for a colored band has been shown to be such a howling success that other worthy and competent men ambitious to win honors and distinction in this branch of the military service of the United States will now have little difficulty in finding a market for their wares. Colored bandmasters have flourished in Europe for years. Some of the best musicians in the world are black men. They are scattered all over Europe, South America, Brazil, Spain, the West Indies and France. Some of the best bands in the West Indies are led by black men, and the bands in Brazil, Porto Rico, old Spain and Cuba are some of them not only led by black men, but are largely composed of black men. The first colored band in America to make a concert tour of Europe and the continent was the celebrated Frank Johnson's band of Philadelphia, which some sixty or seventy years ago went to England and by special command of Queen Victoria played before her majesty in Buckingham palace, winning great aplause from its distinguished auditors. It subsequently toured continental Europe in concert, returning to this country flushed with honors and considerable cash. The Ninth cavalry band is a comer- fide, it has already arrived. The inate pride of its members will impel them now that the ice has been broken to strive to attain to the highest degree of excellence under the leadership of Mr. Hammond, who is so splendidly proving his worth to his race and breaking down the barriers of caste by his acknowledged ability as a first class instructor. TWIN CITY STAR On fetching skirts, do not frown, But have a care, Clarice. And don't wear such a fetching gown That you'll fetch the police. Cincinnati Enquirer. Upon all skirts I never frown— In fact, I like them, Nettie. But I don't believe that I'd wear one If I had your spaghetti— -Birmingham Age-Herald. Don't let them kid you so about Your scanty skirts, Leoni. If you were hustler, no doubt They'd talk of macaroni. -Indianaapolis Star. On slender folks like you, Marie, Each fresh and clever youth picks, But were I you he'd never see My pipstems or eyes. -Detroit, Free Press. Was Hard to Convince Was Hard to Convince I "I don't care much for moving picture shows," said the grouch. "The films they show are too improbable." "Whaddy ya mean improbable?" asked the boo. "Why, I saw one last night that showed a daughter helping her mother to wash the dishes," replied the grouch. —Cincinnati Enquirer. When Enoch Arden, after years Upon the desert isle, To find his wife and home again Trumped many a weary mile Along the road, through twilight shadows gray, Before the cottage window stood He started in dismay. "I recognize the room," he said, "The carpet worse for wear, The cuckoo clock that never went, The same old rocking chair, The worsted motto on the wall— But that is not my wife, because That woman's hair is green." Only Complaints. "I *spose* John is still taking life easy" said the woman in the train. "Yes," answered the woman who was carrying a bundle of clothes. "John has only got two regrets in life. One is that he has to wake up and eat, and the other is that he has to give up eatin' to sleep"—Pearson's Weekly. The Easy Mark. Bill Crook again is in disgrace, And off to jail he trotted. Poor Bill has got a freckled face. That's why he's always spotted. —Cincinnati Enquirer. Some brains is what Bill seems to lack Or else they couldn't jail him. Bill has a head just like a tack. That's why they just nail him. —New York Mail. Poor Bill's a nut they like to crack. The cops are apt to joke him. Unfortunately he's a sponge. And they see him. —Spokane Spokesman-Review. More Cruel Than Hubby. Mrs. Bryde—I told my husband I was going to give him something of my own cooking and he said I'd better try it on the dog first. Wasn't that a cruel suggestion? Her Friend—Very! And I thought your husband was so fond of dogs—Boston Transcript. Wonderful Woman. With hat tipped over, no eye free, 'Tis very plain she cannot see. With hair combed over the ears 'tis clear That she, of course, can hardly hear. With gown so tight it causes talk 'Tis plain that she can scarcely walk. And yet she dodges autos, teams. And gets along quite well, it seems. Man never could survive, poor chap, Beneath one-half that handicap. —Louisville Courier Journal. A Crafty Politician. "So you think you have your opponent defeated before the campaign starts?" "I'm sure of it. He is going to depend on the old fashioned handshake methods to make himself agree able. I'm learning to dance."—Wash ington Star. Ahojly "A sailor bold I'd like to be," I heard the farmer roar. "For I would like to plow the sea And then raise a calm on shore." —Clinnatti Enquirer. "I'd like to sail the ocean far," Said Pugilist McGue. "For I could touch the mast to spar And box the compass too." —Detroit Free Press. Always Proper. "Now, girlie, shall I cut your name and my name in the bark of this tree?" "I suppose there will be nothing to criticise in that," said the dear girl "provided you also cut the name of my chaperon."-Kansas City Journal. Cause For Surprise. A fool and his money are parted quite boon Is as true as a shoe's made of leather. But the thing that surprises us most is the fact How the two get so often together. -Yonkers Statesman. His Precautions. "How can such a good man as he is take a fee when he knows it is tainted money?" "Oh, he always uses an antiseptic solution before handling the fee."—Baltimore American. In a Bathing Suit. Debutately slouching on the beach She stood, a rare vacation peach, And smiled, but presently she stormed When some one said, "Aln't she deformed?" Its Strong Appeal Ita Strong Appeal. "There's one thing 'bout jail," said the ex-convict, "that makes a mighty strong appeal to most of us." "What's that?" "You don't get no music with your meals." Modern. WILBERFORCE HEADS LIST. Some Facts About the Origin of a Noted School in Ohio One of the leading magazines of the country, printed in Boston, speaking of Wilberforce university says: "The auditor of the state of Ohio announces that a monthly article will be issued describing the activities of the various departments and institutions of Ohio. The one for July is devoted to Wilberforce university and deals with the progress that has been made in Ohio in the education of the colored race. "The first move to furnish a seminary of learning for the colored race in Ohio originated with Daniel A. Payne, a self educated Negro of Charleston, S. C. As a result of his efforts Union seminary, near Columbus, was organized in 1844. That Payne was one of the great benefactors of his race and had rare foresight is shown by the fact that the school was started on the manual training plan. "Union seminary by reason of location and other circumstances made slow growth, but it was the pioneer and contributed largely to the founding of Wilberforce university and was finally, in 1863, consolidated with the latter institution. While there are numerous small colleges, there are only about a half dozen great universities in America for the higher education of the Negro race—Atlanta university; Fisk, at Nashville; Howard, at Washington; Shaw, at Raleigh; Leland, at New Orleans, and Wilberforce, at Xenia—and Wilberforce stands at the head of the list." INFLUENCE OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION WIDELY FELT. Militant Organization Continues Campaign Against Unjust Legislation. Louisville, Ky.—The colored people of this city are aroused over the segregation ordinance recently passed and are taking steps to protect their interests. Mr. Chapin Brinsmade, the attorney for the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, has been here giving the matter the closest study. On July 5 the local branch of the national association held a great meeting of protest, at which Dr. J. E. Spingarn, chairman of the board of directors of the National association, and Professor William Pickens of Talladega college were the chief speakers. This is the association which investigated segregation in government departments at Washington, and largely through its efforts that undemocratic movement was checked. In Baltimore, through its local branch, it has twice won segregation cases, the last time before the supreme court of the state. It is now preparing to carry a case brought under the new ordinance in Baltimore to the supreme court of the United States. In Kansas City, where the homes of the colored people were dynamited in order to make them move from a desirable neighborhood, which they owned and had developed and improved, they were unable to obtain redress from city or state authorities until the National association intervened. The association stands for equality of opportunity, equality in the courts, the civil and political rights of the colored man. Its membership includes white and colored. It is not sectional, having branches as far south as Alabama and Texas and numbering among its members representative southern white people. Its board of directors includes some of the most representative people of both races—Miss Jane Addams, Mr. Oswald Garron Villard, Mr. Archibald H. Grimke, Miss Mary White Ovtington, Miss Florence Kelley, Dr. John Haynes Holmes, Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, Dr. J. E. Spingarn and many others. Dr. Spingarn was for ten years professor of comparative literature in Columbia university. He is internationally known as a scholar, author and critic. His book of verse, "The New Hesperides," has received high praise, numbering among its admirers the late John Hay, who wrote of it in terms of fattering appreciation. Professor William Pickens is known as a teacher and lecturer. He is an orator of remarkable eloquence. He graduated from Yale with high honors, having been elected commencement speaker. FOR NATIONAL PROTECTION Independent Political League Prepares For Seventh Annual Convention. The seventh annual meeting of the National Independent Political league, to be held in August, will be in the nature of a national gathering of those colored Americans who believe that, in view of the great discrimination, prescription and persecution of colored persons as such, they should have a national organization of self defense and self protection, as every other racial class suffering from prejudice haa. All colored citizens who believe that in every state there should be such a self protection organization and that these should be connected into a national whole are urged to attend and also to communicate their views on the subject at once to the corresponding secretary, William Monroe Trotter, at 49 Cornhill, Boston The league hopes for a large attendance from all parts of the country, every church and every society being empowered to send delegates on the basis of a many agitation and use of the ballot. The place of meeting will be announced later. 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SP --- Furnish Your New Home at ```markdown ``` PICNIC Spirella Corset Shop CORA E. ANDERSON 366 Aurora Ave. St. Paul, Minn. THE TWIN CITY STAR Vol. 4. Friday, July 17, 1914. No. 39. Entered in the Post Office at Minneapolis as second class matter. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION MINNESOTA EDITORIAL ASSN. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY CHARLES SUMNER SMITH, 1419 Washington Ave. So., Minneapolis, Minn. Subscription by Mail, Postpaid. One inch, insertion, Fifty Cents Liberal discount given on 3, 6, 9, 1 year contracts Want Ads Twenty-five Cents Reading Notices, per line, Five Cents Adress all mail to Twin City Star 1419 Washington Ave. So., Minne- apolis, Minn. 1402 WASHINGTON AVE. SO. ST. PAUL OFFICE, 89 UNOIN BLK. No advertisement inserted without cash in advance. He who goes on a lark is apt to wind up in a cage. Forgiving and forgetting rarely go hand in hand. What has become of the old fashioned man higher up? Small things are not small if great results come to them. It's folly to try deaf mutes as servants; they won't answer. System is not everything. You can go to the bad systemically. Occasional depression no one can avoid, but ill temper everybody. Some people prune their genealogical trees by cutting their poor relations. Satan doesn't expect to be invited into the parlor the first time he calls. Campaigning by aeroplane would seemingly be getting above the voters. Mexicans were called Greasers long before oil was discovered in their country. It may be true that every man has his price, but most of us hate to be sold. If a man has heirs they do not regard it as a disgrace for him to die rich. Just a flyer in the stock market has proved to many a man that riches have wings. The aged Francis Joseph has had more than his share of troubles, even for a monarch. Man is more apt to get into trouble when his mouth is open than when his eyes are distended. Even a worm will turn, and, if it takes a sharp turn, of course it becomes an angleworm. Militant attacks on famous paintings may be attributed to an innate antipathy to any old master. Don't worry over things that can't be helped. It is a loss of time that might be much better expended. More than 34,000 young women are studying professional nursing. This ought to be a great help to matrimony. It is the misfortune of Washington, Lincoln and other early statesmen that they lived before the moving picture era. Bermuda has strong claims on the United States. It shipped here last year nearly 100,000 pounds of onion seeds. It is a question which causes a mother the more worry—a boy so sick that he is good or so thoroughly well that he is bad. Hope it's true, as reported, that radium will cure blindness. Price of it is enough to make persons open their eyes. Almost any man is proud of his love letters until he sees them printed in the newspapers. Then they do not seem the same. An ounce of contentment may be better than a ton of gold, but most people who have the contentment would gladly exchange it for the gold. --- [Name] 1922 by American Press Association COLONEL ROOSEVELT. The Redeemer of the Principles of the Republican Party. The struggle for today, is not altogether for today; it is for a vast future.—Abraham Lincoln. The Honor of Life. The honor of our life derives from this: to have a certain aim before us always, which our will must seek amid the peril of uncertain ways. Then, though we miss the goal, our search is crowned with courage, and along the path we find a rich reward of unexpected things—Henry van Dyke. Our Life Purpose The formation of purposes in life is a serious thing. We ought to form purposes now that will satisfy us throughout all eternity. Purposes that reach no farther than the little span of our own life are insignificant and dwarf the soul. But purposes that extend beyond the fleeting period appointed to us in this life and that open out into a glorious unending existence will enable and entrance the soul—Selected. 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. We are often asked "How can I send my subscription." We get all Post Office Orders sent us my mail. BE SATISFIED. We gape, we grasp, we grab, add store to store; Enough requires too much; too much craves more. —Quarles. Want of desire is the greatest riches—Seneca. The noblest mind the best contentment hath.—Edmund Spenser. From labor health, from health contentment springs; Content with poverty, my soul I arm, And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. No Wonder! The tired business man was found in a state of collapse on the sixth floor of a downtown office building. Restoratives were applied, and he sat up feebly. "I'm all right now." he explained. "You see. I wanted to go up to our other office on the tenth floor—and—here he gasped for breath). I found the elevator—going—up!"—New York Post. A Dog's Life. Some men would be perfectly content to lead a dog's life if they could pick the dog.-Albany Journal. Followed Copy. Father (to little son returning from horseback ride)—Got a fall, did you! Well, I hope you didn't cry like a baby. Son—No, dad. I didn't cry. I just said one word—the same as you'd have said. —London Punch. 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." Wanted—Agents to solicit advertising and news. Salary or commission. Good profits. Write the Twin City Star, Minneapolis, Minn. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR. --- TWIN CITY STAR VALUE OF CO-OPERATION. Dr. A. M. Brown Shows Qualities of Successful Leadership. The following poem is from the pen of Dr. A. M. Brown, president of the National Medical association. The poem shows the attitude of a leader who is deeply interested in the organization which he represents and one who knows the value of co-operation. The National Medical association meets in Raleigh, N. C., Tuesday, Aug. 25: MANY of us cry, "Waste of time!" Some knock, some jeer, some pantomime. EVERY medical congress wrought Broadens ideas, scope and thought. ENJOY contact, ye thoughtful men THE idle sports cost us much more In days and dollars than such lore. UNIVERY is our motor power. WHILE feeds the power of the hour. STRENGTH in numbers can't be told Of conservator-warriors blown. ATTEND the August meeting, boys. The nation heartbands science's noise. THE lonesome trail at times seems slow. But progress marks the speed we go. TELL all your patients why and when We meet each other now and then. HAVE them see you are up to date, Keeping pace with the science late. ENTITLED will you be the more, For public eye always keeps score. NATIONAL meets of faithful members Fan to flame the dying embers. MEDICAL men teach what's needed. Masses profit when it's heeded. ASSOCIATION spreads the news. Come help us spread. Don't refuse. AN HONOR TO THE RACE. Steady Advance of Dr. Roscoe C. Brown of Richmond, Va. Richmond, Va.—The timely interest which many of the busiest professional men of our race take in movements for the advancement of the race along various lines of work is one of the most encouraging signs of progress among us. The above statement is true in letter and spirit of Dr. Roscoe C. Brown of this city. He was born in Washington thirty years ago. He is a graduate of the M Street High school and the dental department of Howard university in his native city. Dr. Brown holds a certificate from the medical examining boards of the District of Columbia and the state of Virginia. He received the degree of doctor of dental surgery upon his graduation from the latter school and has been practicing his profession in this [Name] ROGCOE C. BROWN, D. D. S. city since 1907. He is a former visiting dentist to the St. Francis de Sales institute at Rockcastle, Va. He is identified in an capacity with many public interests in this city. Besides his profession, he is a notary public, secretary of the George Mason School Improvement league and a valued member of the faculty of the Richmond hospital training school. Dr. Brown has served as section secretary and chairman and state vice president of the National Medical association, of which he is a member. The other organizations with which he is a member are the Robert T. Freeman Dental association of the District of Columbia, Old Dominion State Dental association, Tri-State Dental association of Washington, Maryland and Virginia and the Richmond Medical society and associate editor of the Journal of the National Medical Association. RACE THRIFT IN BALTIMORE. Noted Artists Appear in Vaudeville Given In Aid of Provident Hospital. Work on the remodeling of the Provident hospital, Baltimore, has been nearly completed. The improvements include a handsome new front. The work is being done by a colored contractor, Charles H. Johnson. A big vaudeville benefit was given for the hospital recently. S. H. Dudley, Ford T. Dahney and other artists appearing. The hospital was founded by Dr. J. Marcus Cargill, one of the oldest physicians in Baltimore. It is the only place where Baltimore's numerous colored physicians may receive hospital practice. Good Work of Dr. George E. Haynes. As a lecturer on social conditions among Afro-Americans. Dr. George Edmund Haynes of Fisk university is doing great good. Dr. Haynes delivered an illustrated lecture at the Central Baptist church in St. Louis the latter part of June before an immense audience under the auspices of the St. Louis Lyceum bureau. He is professor of social science at Fisk university in Nashville, Tenn. DAMES AND DAUGHTERS: Mme. Alexandre Ribot, wife of a leading French statesman, was former Miss Minnie Burch of Chicago Mrs. Mary Minora, aged fourteen, of New York, has been a wife for more than a year. She still has the appearance and manner of a child. Miss Bessie Beatty, a San Francisco newspaper reporter, has fallen beir to $20,000, to be used in behalf of poor children as Miss Beatty sees fit. The Ottoman government has conferred upon Dr. Mary Mills Patrick, president of Constantinople college, the order of the Shefakat in recognition of her splendid services in the cause of higher education for women. Flippant Flings. Water, water everywhere—and plenty on board to drink—Boston Herald. Dr. Anna Shaw favors cheaper divorces. Pity the poor who have to get along happily together.—Detroit Free Press. Most of our motion picture films come from Italy, France and the United States. You seldom see a Scottish reel in the picture palace.—London Globe. "Make room for your boy's energies," advises Edwin Markham. He will find the room if you will supply him with a bat, a catcher's mask, a ball and a glove. He simply doesn't want a lawn mower or a whitewash brush.—Houston Post. Dress Hints. White shoes can be dyed brown with ten drops of saffron mixed with three teaspoonfuls of olive oil, two coats being applied with fannel. In making children's dresses it is a good idea to make a large hem at the bottom, making a tuck underneath in the hem, to be let out as needed. To freshen black kid gloves mix a teaspoonful of salad oil with a few drops of black ink. Apply with a feather and then dry the gloves in the sun. To keep a placket from tearing down sew a hook and eye at the very bottom of the placket on the wrong side. Hook together, pinching the hook down tightly, and it will never come unfastened. Town Topics. One trouble with Philadelphia is that she pays more attention to individual drinking cups for horses than to better tenements for the people.—Washington Herald. With 110 bomb outrages in eight months, New York may well be silent as to happenings of a similar character in Europe, even where an archduke is concerned.—New York World. Here's a vote to put St. Paul in the unique city class. City street crews here work so fast that the contracting company can not keep them supplied with creosote paving blocks.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. Fashion Frills. Paris is now viewing with interest a fashionable shoe with no toe. Can it be possible that the human foot is to be released from its ancient bondage?—Chicago News. Florists are somewhat concerned about the new fashions because some of the new blouses do not contain enough material to pin a rose on—Youngstown Telegram. Slim women are going out of fashion, says a household page. That will be good news to most women. It's so much easier to build out than to squeeze in—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Sporting Notes. Uncle Sam might do well to fill that yachting cup with lead before Sir Thomas tries to lift it again.—Chicago News. Juvenal declares that nature never says one thing and wisdom another, but nature often says "the ball park" when wisdom says "the job." — Louisville Courier-Journal. 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