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MINNEAPOLIS DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST.PAUL Defective Page VOL. 4 Single Copies 5 Cents suits, in which $45,000 and $30,000 were involved. Aside from the Elks, Mr. Nutter is active in many varied spheres, being useful and energetic in all of them. For six years he has been a member of the Third district congressional committee and has had charge of campaigns in Kanawha county for eight years. He has been urged to stand for the legislature and for prosecuting attorney by white and colored friends. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, is a Mason and a religious worker, organizing the first Y. M. C. A. in Charleston. Public spirited to the last degree, he is always at the disposal of the churches and in constant demand to deliver addresses before various bodies in different sections of his state. Wilbeforce, O., Aug. 6.—The bi-ennial meeting of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs opened at Wilberforce, Tuesday evening, August 4. Galloway Hall, a large and magnificent auditorium, was packed with men and women from every section of the United States and engaged in every walk of life. Among the prominent women present at this time is Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Mrs. J. C. Napier, Washington; Mrs. Mary Talbert, Buffalo; Mrs. W. T. Francis, St. Paul; Mrs. C. S. Smith, Detroit; Miss Gaines, Atlanta; Mrs. Lillian Brown, Indianapolis; Mrs. M. J. Dunbar, mother of the late Paul Lawrence Dunbar; Elizabeth Ross Haynes, Nashville; Miss Zona Gale, Chairman of Civics, Wisconsin State Federation of Women's Clubs (white), and Vice President of Wisconsin Suffrage Association, author of "Friendship Village", and Mrs. Jesse E. Shears, member of Abraham Lincoln Political Equality League, Chicago. Among the prominent men here are J. C. Napier, Ex-Register of the Treasury; Prof. W. E. B. DuBois, Editor of the Crisis; Henry Allen Boyd, of the Nashville Publishing Board; Dr. J. Gardner Ross, Lima, Ohio; Prof. W. E. Grubbs, Principal Public School, Indianapolis, and Prof. Scarborough, President of Wilberforce College, an intellectual giant and a veritable Lord Chesterfield. The buildings for the accommodation of guests are greatly overtaxed and visitors are still arriving by every train. Emergency tents have been pressed into service and this bids fair to be the largest and best meeting in the history of the Association. The grounds and private residences are beautifully decorated with flags, flowers and bunting and automobiles are flying to and fro about the grounds carrying guests and adding pleasure to the occasion. In the absence of Prof. Work. Prof. R. Nathaniel Dett, a composer and director of music at Hampton Institute, conducted the musical program at the opening session. The address of the President, Mrs. Booker T. Washington, was thoughtful, forceful and well delivered, demonstrating the wisdom of the Association in its selection of such an able executive. Mrs. Mary Talbert, Chairman of the Executive Board, made a magnificent report covering the work of the Board. Mrs. W. T. Francis, Honorary President of the Minnesota State Federation, who is the guest of President and Mrs. Scarborough, at Wilberforce Cottage, addressed the Convention Thursday evening on "Woman's Worth in Home and Civic Life." The contribution of five dollars to the Educational Dept. by the Twin City Charity Club, Mrs. Hester Keeys, President, will be acknowledged by Mrs. J. C. Napier, Chairman of that Department. The handpainted sandwich plate, valued at fifteen dollars, painted and presented to the Educational Department by Mrs. Jennie White, of Minneapolis, through Mrs. W. T. Francis, was purchased by the guests at the President's Cottage and presented to Mrs. Scarborough. 4) he beautiful hand painted plate presented by Mrs. Sharp, of St. Paul, through Mrs. Francis, for the benefit of the Educational Dept., was pur- ELKS'GRANDLODGE TO MEET AUG.25 FORECAST OF FUTURE PLANS Large and Influential Secret Order Well Pleased With Progress Made Under Grand Exalted Ruler T. G. Nutter — Optimistic Outlook For Adjustment of Legal Matters. By R. W. THOMPSON. Charleston, W. Va.—The fifteenth annual session of the grand lodge of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, which opens Aug. 25 at Norfolk, Va., bids fair to mark a distinct epoch in the history of that very helpful fraternity. The host of the occasion will be Eureka lodge No. 5 of Norfolk, one of the strongest subordinate bodies in the order, and the local committees are sparing neither palms nor expense to make the visit of the grand lodge to tidewater Virginia one that will long be remembered. The storm center of interest lies in the contest for the office of grand exalted ruler. The policies that must govern the fraternity for the next two years will be determined almost wholly by the personality of the man named for the premiership at Norfolk. Last year, at Atlantic City, the body elected as grand exalted ruler T. Gillis Nutter of West Virginia, who has made a record that, in the opinion of the influential men of the order, justifies the action of the members at the last annual meeting. In the year that Mr. Nutter has held the reins he has made and reinstalled more lodges than any of his predecessors since the reunion of the Howard and Atkins factions in 1910. With "increase your membership and establish new lodges" as the shibboleth of his administration and by constant communication with his brethren there has been a general strengthening of the membership all along the line, some of the lodges gaining 100 per cent. Proclamations have been issued frequently analyzing conditions and suggesting valuable reforms, and business letters have received prompt attention. For the first time a uniform memorial day was observed this year, and lodges heretofore without literature have been supplied. The rules and regulations governing district deputies have been circulated broadcast. For the first time in the order's history the grand treasurer and grand secretary have been bonded in the sum of $5,000. Mr. Nutter, a skilled lawyer, honor graduate of Howard university, has labored earnestly himself to correct the mistakes of legal advisers in the Dayton and other important cases involving the integrity of the order. He was not satisfied with the report at Atlantic City that the Dayton matter had been ably defended, but found upon investigation that not one question had been raised that would give the order a standing in any court, leaving practically no defense. Discharging incompetent counsel, Mr. Nutter associated himself with two law firms and had the case reopened and at the rehearing gave the order a chance to defend the same on its merits, with excellent prospect of final success. He secured from the white Elks immunity from interference until the case is finally disposed of. That a cordial understanding now exists between the white and colored Elks was demonstrated at the famous harmony banquet at St. Paul, Minn., last March. When called to a second term, as Mr. Nutter's friends are confident he will be, the grand exalted ruler has a definite program of reforms that he expects to work out for the uplift of the order. Mr. Nutter's career of splendid achievement is its own answer to the every as to how he has gained such a firm footing with the wideawake element of Elkdom. Locating at Charleston, W. Va., after finishing at Howard in 1890, Mr. Nutter was later admitted to the supreme court of appeals and soon built up a practice unexcelled by any lawyer of the race anywhere and won the entire respect and confidence of the bar and courts. He has appeared in every case of importance in his state in the past ten years in which colored persons were concerned. His practice has been almost wholly civil, with comparatively few murder and assault cases where public duty called him to lend a hand. Unassisted, he won two notable civil NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN'S CLUBS. Special to the Star. Cont. to page 2. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. AUGUST 14, 1914. PATCHING UP THE LAW IN ALABAMA NEED OF LAW ENFORCEMENT Discrimination In the Administration of the State Law on Account of Condition and Color Gives Rise to Unusual Action on the Part of Southern Jurists. While the Bar association at Birmingham, Ala., is working hard on ways and means to revise the court procedure whereby standards for practicing attorneys will be raised and technicalities and financial, political and social influence as an obstruction to law enforcement reduced to a minimum, two cases are causing widespread comment and an increased sentiment for judicial reform, says the New York Evening Post in a recent issue. One is the case of an obscure Negro, who was sentenced to fifty years in the penitentiary for robbing a fellow workman of 50 cents and was paroled by the governor because of ill health after serving twenty years. In striking contrast is the case of a highly educated and widely connected aristocrat who, in the capacity of a trusted official, robbed the state of $100,000, was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary, took an appeal and, after six months, has not yet been committed to state prison. This contrast in its effect upon the public thought and demand for more equitable law enforcement is strengthened by the case of another Negro, who, upon purely circumstantial evidence, has been sentenced by a county jury five times to the gallows during a legal fight covering a period of four years, had his verdicts reversed and remanded three times by the supreme court and is awaiting execution under a fourth ruling of the higher tribunal. Twenty years ago Frank Williams, an illiterate and poverty stricken Negro working on the road, robbed a fellow workman of 50 cents. A Hale county jury sentenced Williams to fifty years in the penitentiary. He made an excellent prisoner, having been a trusty for eighteen years. His health gave way, and one of the judges of the supreme court recommended that he be paroled. This was recently ordered by the governor after twenty years of the half a century sentence was served. Williams is now sixty-five years old and very feeble. Theodore Lacy, formerly chief clerk of the state convict bureau, who handled $2,000,000 a year of the state's revenue derived from the system of leasing convicts to coal mines and turpentine camps, was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary for stealing $100,000 of the state's funds. Lacy is a grandson of the late United States Senator Edmund W. Pettus of Alabama, of Confederate fame as a general and a political idol in Alabama. For a while Lacy lived high. Every body like him. His convival temperament caused him to run short in his accounts. Then he collected $100,000 in cash from the Montgomery banks on checks signed by the president of the convict board, packed the money in suitcases and fled. For six months the state tried in vain to apprehend him and spent $10,000 in the work. Suddenly one night Lacy rolled into Montgomery in a high power motor surrendered to the sheriff and an nounced that he had returned to "face the music." When arranged he pleaded that he had been promised a light sentence, possibly a pardon, if he would return and make a deal for restoration of the money. No part of it has ever been recovered. Lacy was visited in jail by a stream of prominent people and loaded down with floral tributes and table delicacies. After a sensational trial he was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary, but an appeal to the supreme court has been pending for months, and so far he has not served a day. The case of Ervin Pope, a Negro who was convicted of murdering a white man on the testimony of a blacksmith who declared the peculiar marks in the mud from the shoe of a mule coincided exactly with unusual dents he made in shooing Pope's animal, is widely cited in contrast with Lacy's trial. Pope has been sentenced to death five times by the county court. Three times the supreme court reversed the verdicts, and once its own ruling, finally confirming the death sentence. Appeal proceedings are again pending. and the case is going over into its fifth year. Contrasts between these cases representing obscurity and poverty as well as race on the one side and affluence and aristocratic family connections on the other have largely increased the force of public sentiment in its demands for revision of the court procedure of the state and more equitable and uniform systems of law enforcement. Some of the legal profession and politically active elements undertake to explain the marked difference between the case of Willard and that of Lacy on the ground that one former was given the fifty year sentence not because of the larceny of a paltry sum, but because the money was obtained through highway robbery, which is a banging offense in Alabama. NEW DORMITORY FOR BOYS. James Hall Most Recent Addition to Student Quarters at Hampton. Dr. Hollis B. Frissell, principal of the Hampton (Va.) institute, delivered the chief address at the recent laying of the cornerstone of James hall, the new dormitory for boys. The money for the dormitory was given by Mrs. D. Willis James of New York city, widow of the late D. Willis James, a well known philanthropic merchant prince. Mr. James himself was a devoted friend of Hampton institute. Arthur Curtiss James, the son of Mr. D. Willis James, is a trustee of Hampton. Dr. Frissell called attention to the love for Hampton which had been handed from father to son and which was now to find new expression in a modern four story brick, fireproof dormitory, which will accommodate about 175 boys. "James hall will be," to quote Dr. Frissell, "a school for Christian civilization." Here Hampton students will live lives of cleanliness and order. They will be taught the laws of health and will be helped in many other ways. The ceremonies included the singing of General Armstrong's favorite hymn, "How Firm a Foundation," which was led by Major R. R. Moton, Hampton's commandant; prayer by Rev. Lawrence Fenninger, associate chaplain at the school; address by William M. Reid, 77, president of the Alumni association, and by Sarah C. Fernandis, who has been of great help to her people, and benediction by Rev A. A Graham of Zion church, Phoebus, Va. William M. Reid, the well known lawyer of Norfolk, Va., was invited by Dr. Frissell to speak on behalf of the graduates of Hampton, who had assembled to celebrate "alumni day." Mr. Reid said that Hampton illustrated the idea of a continuous growth and referred to its leadership in some important movements. He declared that the Hampton alumni have begun to realize that they are of value to their alma mater and that Hampton's friends will continue their loyal support in proportion to the good work that the graduates do. Mrs. Fernandis of Baltimore referred to the evolution of Hampton from the days when some of the boys had to sleep in tents. She said that the laying of the cornerstone of James Hall opens a new vista of hope for Hampton and the colored race. Minneapolis, St. Paul, Des Moines, Omaha, Topeka, St. Joe, Atchison, Leavenworth and all adjacent cities, towns and villages of the Southwest seize this grand opportunity to take a memorable trip, make a great outing for social elevation, a great movement for recreation and a Nationwide business gathering for great business inspiration. Any one of the above causes should appeal to all Negro business people and others to take this treat as a choice selection for rich benefits. For the round trip, we have been given a fare of $10.0. For other inside information as accommodations and reservations, address Mr. F. J. Weaver, President of the Negro Business League of greater Kansas City, 911 McGee Street, who will cheerfully comply with the wishes of all inquiring delegates and friends desiring to go. Special train will make several stops on the way to Muskogee. Write your wishes for tickets and so forth today. Yours for Negro enterprise, E. A. Robinson, Secretary, Negro Business League, Greater Kansas City. SMOKE THE RELIABLE SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR THE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD HEALTH Emphasized In Work of Dr. A. M. Brown. MAN OF LIBERAL EDUCATION How the President of the National Medical Association Has Increased Its Influence and Usefulness Through Campaigns For Health Conservation. Surgeon In Spanish-American War. Birmingham, Ala.—The officials and members of the National Medical association express themselves as being highly pleased with the arrangements for the annual meeting of the association, which will be held in Raleigh, N. C., beginning on Tuesday, Aug. 25. Dr. A. M. Brown of this city, president of the organization, is one of the most prominent men in the profession. He is widely known and has a rich and varied experience. He was born in Raleigh, where the session is to be held. Unlike many men of the race who have made good, Dr. Brown had the advantage of having a good start in life. His parents are numbered among the early leaders of affairs along racial lines. His grandmother was one of the first colored women to teach school in Raleigh. Both of his parents are liv- PRESIDENT A. M. BROWN. ing and celebrated their fiftieth marriage anniversary recently at Dr. A. M. Brown's palatial residence in this city, the celebration taking the form of a great family reunion. As a student at Shaw university Dr. Brown had the double advantage of a private teacher. He is an alumnus of Lincoln university and prepared for the medical profession at the University of Michigan. Always abreast of the times in matters pertaining to his profession, painstaking and energetic, he has had a most successful career. With the exception of a few years when he practiced in Cleveland, O., and the time he served the United States government as army surgeon with the famous Tenth cavalry he has worked away in the heart of the south, serving his people, building up a reputation and altogether becoming one of the foremost practitioners and surgeons of the race. It is largely through the activities of Dr. Brown and a few other eminent men of the profession in Birmingham that the colored people are able to maintain a hospital of their own, and to his energy and public spirit much of the growth of the State Medical association is due. Because of his well earned reputation and the whole hearted manner in which he has stood by the National Medical association for many years, at the last meeting of the association in Nashville, Tenn., he was elected president of the association. During his administration he has done much through his public lectures and his writings for the conservation of Negro health and the prevention of disease. He participated in a conference on the conservation of health of national proportions at Tuskegee institute, occupying the same platform with Dr. Oscar R. Dowling, president of the Louisiana state board of health; Dr. W. H. Saunders, president of the Alabama state board of health, and Dr. E. T. Bell, president of the Alabama State Medical association, attracting particular attention by the distribution of unique and serviceable health cards which were afterward used by Dr. Dowling and Dr. Meserve, president of Shaw university. In pursuing his campion for the conservation of health Dr. Brown more than any other president has placed the National Medical association before the people in a favorable light. He has appeared at the Georgia State college, Savannah. Ga., the feature of the annual farmers' conference; at the annual meeting of the Palmetto Medical association, Florence, S. C.; at the Alabama Medical association, Decatur, Ala., and the Georgia State Medical association, the tri-State Medical association, including the states of Alabama, Florida and Georgia, at which latter meeting he was elected state president. He also spoke at the Pan-Medical association meeting held in St. Louis. ALL READY FOR NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION Program For the Muskogee (Okla.) Meeting Includes Many Topics. The program for the annual meeting of the National Press association to be held at Muskogee, Okla., Aug. 17, 18, the speakers and their subjects will be in part as follows: Monday, Aug. 17, 8:30 a.m. meeting of the executive committee. At 10 o'clock President John H. Murphy will call the association to order and Corresponding Secretary Henry Allen Boyd will read the call for the annual meeting. Addresses of welcome will be delivered on behalf of the press of Oklahoma by L. A. Bell, editor of the Wagoner (Okla.) American; for the press of Muskogee, E. A. Wilson, editor of the Visitor; on behalf of the legal profession, Editor H. W. Twine of the Muskogee Climeter; for the religious denominations, Rev. R. W. Perrin, and on behalf of the business men of the city, T. J. Ellott. Responses to the addresses of welcome will be made by E. K. King, editor of the Dallas (Tex.) Express; B. J. Davis, editor, Atlanta (Ga.) Independent, and John L. Thompson, editor of the Iowa State Bystander. Subjects and speakers for the afternoon session are "Rechprocal News Service." This subject will be discussed by Joseph A. Booker, editor of the Vanguard, Little Rock, Ark., and Harrison M. Gilliane of the Chisholm News service, Denison, Tex. "Telegraphic News Service," P. B. Young, editor Journal and Guide, Norfolk, Va., and R. L. Smith, editor Helping Hand, Waco, Tex. "Needed Improvement For Our Newspapers." David T. Shetton, editor New Ideen, Galveston, Tex.; Dr. R. A. Williams, editor the Royal Messenger, Helena, Ark. "The Newspaper As a Sentiment Molder." J. E. Mitchell, editor the Argus, St. Louis, Mo., and H. W. Twine, editor of the Muskogee Scimitar. "Operating a Newspaper in the West." Charles Sumner Smith, editor Twin City Star, Minneapolis, Minn., and T. P. Mahammitt, editor the Enterprise, Omaha, Neb. At the evening session Dr. R. E. Jones, editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate, will deliver a special address on what constitutes a newspaper. Tuesday's program will open with a discussion of newspaper circulation as a stimulant to advertisers, Editors B. J. Davis, George L. Knox and H. A. Clark will be the speakers. "The Newspaper Business Twenty-five Years Ago and Now." William H. Steward of the American Baptist, Louisville, Ky.; C. J. Perry, Philadelphia Tribune. "The Outlook of the National Negro Press Association." R. W. Thompson, Washington. The report of the committees on revision of the constitution and code system will close the morning program. Afternoon Session. - "Obstacles That Confront the Negro In the Newspaper Business" will be discussed by S. P. Debow, editor of the Searchlight, Seattle. Wash.; George C. Noble, City Times, Galveston, Tex., and William Haynes, editor of the Herald, Austin, Tex. "How Can We Induce Colored People to Read Journals Published by the Race In Larger Numbers." Theodore Baughman, editor of the Plaindealer, Palestine, Tex.; D. A. Hart, editor of the Nashville (Tenn.) Globe, and W. E. King, editor of the Central Afro-American, St. Louis. "The Ups and Downs of a Newspaper Correspondent." Charles Stewart, Chicago Miss Ellizabeth Jones, Pittsburgh. "Making the Newspaper Attractive." M. J. Chisum, editor of the Colored Man, Baltimore. In the evening W. E. King of Dallas, Tex., and A. E. Manning of Indianapolis, Ind., will discuss objectionable reading matter in our papers. 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. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR. GRAND SUMMER NIGHT'S ENTERTAINMENT WILL BE GIVEN AT DREAMLAND FIFTH ST. and FOURTH AVE. SO., Opp. Court House BY THE MINNEAPOLIS Tuesday Evening, August 18th, 1914 This is the First Time Negroes Have Secured this Famous Dance Resort McCULLOUGH'S BIG ORCHESTRA ADMISSION, 50 CENTS. DREAMLAND FEATURES: Finest Floor in the Northwest. Dancing Arena accommodating 10 persons. Spacious Promenade Concourse outside Arena. Lan Spectator's Gallery. Dainty Rest Room for Ladies. Commodio Smoking Room for Men. Perfect Ventilation and numerous Eld COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS G. E. Southall, C. C., Wm. Critic, Jas. A. Roberts, F. G. Thomas, Her Thompson, Z. Hawkins, Robert Glenn, Earl Daniels, Chas. Bradley, BlAsh, Glover Shull, Silas West, Geo. Housley, Edw. F. Mitchell, Fred Canners, Cooper Lewis, Samuel King, Sandy Ellison, John Weston, Jas. ElJ. Gibson. Finest Floor in the Northwest. Dancing Arena accomodating 1000 persons. Spacious Promenade Concourse outside Arena. Large Spectator's Gallery. Dainty Rest Room for Ladies. Commodious Smoking Room for Men. Perfect Ventilation and numerous Elec- COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS G. E. Southall, C. C., Wm. Critic, Jas. A. Roberts, F. G. Thomas, Henry Thompson, Z. Hawkins, Robert Glenn, Earl Daniels, Chas. Bradley, Blair Ash, Glover Shull, Silas West, Geo. Housley, Edw. F. Mitchell, Fred Conners, Cooper Lewis, Samuel King, Sandy Ellison, John Weston, Jas. Ellis, I. Gibson. ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE Frank Terry, John Washington, S. H. Shannon, Dr. R. S. Brown, C. Colen- vester Oliver, J. Hicks, J. B. Glover, ington. FLOOR CO James Burk, Wm. Clack, Wm. Southall, M. Scott ST. PAUL AND OUT OF THE INVITE THE LAST BOAT GENERAL Of Saints ON THE ELEVEN RED WING WEDNESDAY EVENING Music by Im COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEM man, Kenneth Hamilton, A. Combs, Dr. J. R. Ticket A GRAND OLD LABOR DAY, SEP WILL BE THE SE CASON BROS' APPROPRIATE MUSIC FOR MASONIC TEMPL FIFTH AVE. SOUTH AND A GOOD TIME AND A T. E. Cason, Mgr. Earl C. Cason Frank Terry, John Washington, S. Beasley, W. Lattimore, Edw. Boyd, E. Shannon, Dr. R. S. Brown, C. Coleman, Steve Mason, Prince Pruett, Sylvester Oliver, J. Hicks, J. B. Glover, J. M. Mask, C. H. Dwyer, John Washington. FLOOR COMMITTEE: James Burk, Wm. Clack, Wm. Moden. For St. Paul: P. H. Southall, M. Scott, Wm. Pipkin. ST. PAUL AND OUT OF TOWN FRIENDS CORDIALLY INVITED. THE LAST BOAT EXCURSION. GENERAL VILLA CLUB Of Saint Paul, Minn. ON THE ELEGANT STEAMER RED WING AND BARGE WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, AT 9 O'CLOCK Music by Imperial Orchestra COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS: Chester W. Patterson, Chairman, Kenneth Hamiltin, A. V. Hall, Edward McHunt, James Combs, Dr. J. R. French, R. S. Stokes Tickets, 50 Cents T. E. Cason, Mgr. Earl C. Cason, Ass't Mgr. J. F. Stevens, Leader MINNEAPOLIS NEWS. Editor Chas. Sumner Smith will leave last of week for Muskogee, Okla. Mr. and Mrs. Justin M. Brown, 2018 5th St. So., entertained at dinner last week Mrs. and Miss Shuck of Topeka, Kan., who spent a day's visit with Mr. B. F. Cabbell left Tuesday for Chicago to visit his brother, Dr. Herbert Cabbell. them. Mrs. Samuel Shuck and her daughter, Miss Ruth of Topeka, Kansas were in the city last week visiting Mr. Fred Shuck. They left for Duluth to visit Mr. Hugh Shuck for a short while. Don't forget The Cason Orchestra Ball, on Sept. 7. There will be a good time in store for the attendance. Miss Eva Williams of Dayton, Ohio is visiting with her sister, Mrs. Susie Mitchell and her uncle, Mr. J. J. Duncan and wife. They will remain here until about Sept. 12th. GRAND RALLY AT BETHESDA GRAND RALLY AT BETHESDA. Grand Rally at Bethesda Baptist Church next Sunday, Aug. 16. Rev. Jackson, Withers, Edwards, and their congregations are invited at 3:30 P. M. Rev. E. R. Jackson will preach. SIGNED EDITORIALS. During our Southern trip, there will be no editorials inserted unless over the writer's signature. We wish to have any brief expressions submitted for approval, accompanied by postage for return of unused manuscript. Personal notices must reach us by Wednesday evening. The Star will shine, as usual during our absence. Thanking all, for our much needed vacation, we hope to return, inspired to give our readers a "better than ever" publication of which we shall be proud. Mrs. Scorborough, the wife of the learned president of Wilberforce University is a Caucasian lady. She is admired by all who know her. Wilberforce is the only Negro school with a U. S. Military Department. Is one of the schools of the A. M. E. Church, the largest religious denomination among Negroes. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR. Dancing Arena accommodating 1000 Concourse outside Arena. Large Room for Ladies. Commodious t Ventilation and numerous Elec- CARRANGEMENTS Jas. A. Roberts, F. G. Thomas, Henry n, Earl Daniels, Chas. Bradley, Blair Housley, Edw. F. Mitchell, Fred Con- andy Ellison, John Weston, Jas. Ellis, Beasley, W. Lattimore, Edw. Boyd, E. Bian, Steve Mason, Prince Pruett, Syl- J. M. Mask, C. H. Dwyer, John Wash- MITTEE: Moden. For St. Paul: P. H. ott, Wm. Pipkin. DOWN FRIENDS CORDIALLY LITED. AT EXCURSION. VILLA CLUB Paul, Minn. GANT STEAMER AND BARGE A AUGUST 26, AT 9 O'CLOCK Imperial Orchestra ENTS: Chester W. Patterson, Chair- V. Hall, Edward McHunt, James French, R. S. Stokes 45, 50 Cents OPENING BALL OCTEMBER 7, 1914 SPECIAL FEATURE OF ORCHESTRA FOR THE LATEST DANCES E, MINNEAPOLIS AT TWENTY-FOURTH STREET A PLEASANT EVENING m, Ass't Mgr. J. F. Stevens, Leader SHULL GETS 30 DAYS. SHAW SUIT SETTLED. James Shaw who has a suit pending against Glover Shull has settled out of court, to the satisfaction of Shull's attorney, A. H. Hall. Upon Shaw's case for assault was predicated the attack on Shull which caused him to receive a 30 days sentence to the workhouse. He conducted the Porters' and Waiters' Club, 311 Hennepin Ave., where no women were allowed. Atty. Franklin represented Shaw, Lewis and Mercer in their different suits. Shaw solicited a settlement before the trial because he was dissatisfied with treatment received from his attorney, but there were many other stool pigeons and made—testimony against Shull he did not consider Shaw's offer, it being a civil suit. Since Shull has been at the Industrial Farm of Supt. Frank McDonald for his summer vacation, he has not asked Ed. Stewart or any of the gang to intercede for him. He was guilty, as he stated of conducting a club, and not a gambler, and accepted the sentence without asking for a stay. The Shaw settlement was the suit against Shull. Detective James Hardin was interested in the other two and there is nothing to them. SOUL-LESS LAWYERS Two hungry Negro lawyers, neither having an assurance of their next meal were conspiring to put a man in prison if he did not give up $400. This is a sad commentary on our legal counsellors, but a practice general among poor and unprincipled lawyers. However, they are still starving without that $400 meal ticket. Mr. John Morris, who has been visiting his relatives at Maple Plain, has returned to work at Porters' and Waiters' Club. He suffered from rheumatism but is improving. The licence of Col. Edward F. Mitchell's saloon expires Aug. 27, 1914. If the "Kid" wants the clubs closed, he should come out and protest against them. Any direction against one is unfair, especially if done in secret. FURNISHED ROOMS You can get a good clean and comfortable room with a private family, all conveniences, on car line. Apply Johnson, 2433 4th Ave. So.—Advertisement. TWIN CITY STAR FEDERATED CLUB NOTES. chased by Mrs. Booker T. Washington. Both of these plates were displayed in the Arts & Crafts Exhibit. Mrs. Francis also called the attention of the Convention to and placed upon exhibition with the Arts & Crafts Work, the excellent drawings and art cover designs the work of Virginia Kemp, of Minneapolis, the young daughter of Mrs. Jennie Kemp, founder of the Minnesota State Federation, and who died soon after her good work was put in operation. The Suffrage Movement is apparent. The reports of the officers contain strong suffrage sentiments, and "Votes for Women" banners are flying everywhere. The reception and banquet on Tuesday night was an elaborate affair. The hall was beautifully decorated and the women handsomely gowned. Wilberforce is a delightful place for a convention of this character and the women appear to be inspired to new and greater efforts in the uplift work. MS. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT OF WOMEN'S FEDERATED CLUBS. Mrs. Booker T. Washington was unanimously re-elected president of the National Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. Mrs. Mary Talbert of Buffalo, First Vice President; Mrs Hallie Q. Brown, Wilberforce, Chairman of the Executive Board; Miss Georgia Nugent, Louisville, Corresponding Secretary; Miss Ida Cummings, Baltimore, Recording Secretary; Mrs. J. C. Napier, Nashville, Auditor; Mrs. E. Alphyn, Texas, Chaplain, and Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsay Davis, Chicago, National Organizer. Many of the delegates remained at Wilberforce to spend Saturday and Sunday after the close of the convention. ST. PAUL NOTES Mrs. W. T. Francis, of St. Paul, spent Saturday in Springfield, and then went to Cincinnati, as the guest of Mrs. Joseph L. Jones, together with Mrs. Warren Logan, of Tuskegee, and Mrs. John Hope, of Atlanta. Mrs. Booker T. Washington will join the party there and together they will go to Chicago for the week-end, after which they will spend a few days resting at Waukesha, Wis. Miss Cora E. Anderson is attending the Spirella Training School, which hold its session at the Dyckman Hotel, Minneapolis, Minn., from Aug. 11 to 14. Those who owe a publication are the ones who burden the publisher with trifling personalis, which find their way to the waste basket. Among the new arrivals is a son to Mr. and Mrs. Toliver of 224 Granit St. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Todd are the happy parents of a son. Miss Albreta Bell entertains in honor of her guest, Miss Clark of Chicago, Wednesday evening, Aug. 12th. The B. L. C. have issued invitations for a Ball Thursday evening, Aug. 13th, at Tschida Hall, in honor of their guests. Miss Geo. W. Camp has returned home. Mrs. Marie McElroy is visiting in Chicago. Mrs. Dora Waters of Charles St., is visiting in Chicago. Mis Ardina Adams of St. Anthony Ave., entertained Saturday, Aug. 8th. WILL ANSWER TOOMBS. Rev. R. M. Toombs, "ravings" at the Forum will be answered in public by Mr. Solomon Saunders, who called the Negro Morals Commission last November, which exposed Ed. Stewart's place and other clubs. It stands today for the same principles as then. Pres. Jas. Eddings, whose reputation is unquestionable, resigned because of conditions, that have recently shown a conspiracy for vengeance, graft and political prestige. EDWARD STEWART, GAMBLER. They say "there is honor among thieves" but Ed. Stewart is the exception. He was a framer in the game to get Glover Shull, because he wanted to run a big and profitable "crap game." Since Shull's closing Stewart has had a good business, notwithstanding that he arranged the "squeeze" he has the "cold nerve to go to the Mayor or authorities to seek "mercy for Glover." Stewart is without question the most cold-blooded gambling promoter about these parts. He appears gentlemanly, but is a squeeler for special privileges and immunity. He has today at THE TWIN CITY STAG CLUB the biggest and lowest dive in the city, where everything goes, as everybody knows, and there will soon be a time, when Ed. Stewart will reap what he has sown. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWS. PROMINENT OFFICERS OF THE NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION. [Name] PRESIDENT JOHN H. MURPHY. Editor Baltimore Afro-American Ledger Pres. Nat'l Negro Press Association. JOHN H. HARRIS WENRY ALLEN BOYD. Corresponding Secretary of the National Negro Press Association. The Spirit of the Organization. A. E. The well-known Editor of the New York Age. 1930 THE DEAN OF Negro Journalists. Member Negro Press Assn. Wanted—Agents to solicit advertising and news. Salary or commission. Good profits. Write the Twin City Star, Minneapolis, Minn. Reserve your space for Excursions, Picnics and Dances. Take the advantage of our advertising columns. OFFICIALS OF THE NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE, THE GREATEST GATHERING OF NEGROES IN THE WORLD. THE BOSTON EDITOR DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Pres. Nat'l Negro Business League. P. A. EMBERT J. SCOOT. Sec'y Nat'l Negro Business League Sec'y Tuskegee Institute. M. B. HON. J. C. NAPIER, Ex-Register of U. S. Treasury, Chairman of Executive Committee of the Natl! Negro Business League. [Image of a black man in a suit and tie]. Editor "Atlanta Independent." The official organ of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows of Georgia. A RACE PROBLEM. 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? ADVERTISE IN THE STAR WHY NOT HAVE AN EXPERI- ENCED HAIR CULTURIST, Poro-Scalp Treatment—Shampooing MISS M. E. PREWITT. 2743 11th Ave. South N. W. South 9342 Minneapolis Treatment at Residence by Appoint- ment. MODERN HOUSES FOR RENT. Modern 8 room house, $30.00 per month. 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Having decided to remain in this city during the winter, I will be prepared to take classes of pupils in violin and piano. Have several years of teaching experience and use the most up-to-date methods; the pupil besides becoming technically familiar with the instrument, learns transposition, solfeggio and harmony. Studio will be located at the present at 91 13th St. So. Terms upon application. Grazia S. Corneal. BOTANICAL DOCTOR. The reliable DR. FREDERIC HARPER, has on hand a full line of prepared medicines, fresh from the barks, roots, herbs, and gums. Handles all kinds of chronic cases by his treatment; gives instant relief to pains in from one to five nights, Asthma, Catarr, Tuberculosis, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Liver, Kidney, Stomach and Bowel trouble; Erysipelus, Blood poison, Piles, Female weakness, Tumors, Cancers etc Residence and office 1015 5 St. So. Appointment by phone Nic. 951. Concultation free in person. —Advertisement. M. PHILIP F. HALE, A Modern Judas. "Phil" Hale has nothing to do with this paper. All are warned from giving him advertisements or personals for THE TWIN CITY STAR. He was with us in our first issue, but tried to steal out an issue without our knowledge. We have the proof of the proposed publication. We made a mistake in associating with Hale. He is a damn rascal, always has a "bread and butter proposition" which is a scheme to highway some one. He is petty and of low morals. He was forced to resign from the former Morals commission. He is a social bungler. If you want it fumbled—"Let Phil do it." He is the man, who made more attempts than any other in Minnesota to nothing and succeeded. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION ```markdown ``` Defective Page effective Page DO YOU WANT TO BE WELL DRESSED? THEN I AM YOU TAILOR. SUITS $25.00 OVERCOAT $25.00 Cleaning Pressing Repairing CLIFFORD A. SMITH. 109 E. 8th ST., ST. PAUL, MINN. THE CARVER HOTEL 212 ELEVENTH 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. T. S. Phone 3073 N. W. Main 9597 The Porters and Waiters Club Incorporated GLOVER SHULL, President Waiters for Parties Furnished Also Porters 311 Hennepin Ave. Mpls SMOKE THE BEST 50 CIGAR Sight Draft W. S CONR.D CO., Distributors NO. 140. E. 6th ST., ST. PAUL. NO. 1. WESTERN AVE., MINN. Southern Theatre Seven Corners 15th and Washing on Avenues So Refined Vaudeville Moving Picture Shows Continous Performance Admission 10 Cents Children 5 Cents Peterson, The Druggist 1501 Washington Ave. So. TOILET ARTICLES, DRUGS PRESCRIPTIONS. He Solicits You" Patronage. Office, Nlc. 1963 Res. Colfax 1638. DR. J. H. REDD, Physician and Surgeon. 111 SO. 6TH ST. Minneapolis, Minn. WM. T. FRANCIS Attorney and Counsellor at Law, 89-90 Union Bleck, St. Paul. Dr. John R. French DENTIST 304 Kendrick Bleck (27 E. 7th St. Tel. Cedar 9804 ST. PAUL, MINN DR. W. H. WRIGHT. DENTIST. 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TRAINED NEWSPAPER MAN Business League Promoter and Former Naval Auditor Enlightens Country on Material Advancement of the Races. Baptized With the Grace of Modesty. Virile and Well Informed. By N. BARNETT DODSON. New York.—Probably no series of newspaper articles have attracted so much attention and have been more generally and closely read than those written by the Hon. Ralph W. Tyler describing the material advancement of the race in the numerous cities throughout the country which he has visited in the interest of the National Negro Business league. These articles are full of information not generally known. Indeed, they convey facts and figures about the advancement of the race which many of our people in the cities written about were ignorant of themselves. The articles have also served to inspire many members of the race to engage in business and have inspired others to patronize properly those engaged in business. Mr. Tyler is a trained newspaper writer, with ability to write upon various topics with A. MON. RALPH W. TYLER. equal facility. In the last year especially he has introduced to the reading public a large number of men and women who are really doing things of great benefit to the race. He has told more about the development and possibilities which lie within the race's grasp than perhaps any other individual writer. Ralph W. Tyler was born in Columbus, O., and until he was appointed by President Roosevelt to the position of auditor for the navy, which he filled with great credit to the government and to his race, his life and work were spent in his native city, where no man of the race stood higher in the estimation and affections of the people of both races. Too busy boosting others, too intent upon telling what others of his race have done and are doing and too modest to boast of his own labors and achievements, beyond seeing his name at the head of articles he has written in commendation of others, only a limited number know of his own work, and he has never taken the time to inform the public of his labors and achievements. As auditor for the navy Mr. Tyler enjoyed the confidence of the White House during both the Roosevelt and Taft administrations, and the number of men and women of the race whom he secured appointment or promotions for, it is claimed by his friends, exceeds the number any previous Negro federal official can point to. He, it is said by both white and colored at Washington who know, was always untiring in his efforts to help those of his race, and his activities were not confined alone to securing appointments and promotions. It is very probable that many of the race in Washington and in other cities employed by the government miss Mr. Tyler's influence at the White House. I have frequently met Mr. Tyler and can say truthfully that his simple, unostentatious manner always impressed me with the fact that he preferred to stand aside and permit others to enjoy prominence while he simply lent his assistance. His letters, which have given him the title of the Frank Carpenter of the race, have become one of the great features for our newspapers. Possibly one of the most illuminating articles written by Mr. Tyler was one on Boley. Okla., describing that wonderful town, which is owned entirely by colored people. This article especially has attracted the attention of the white press and has been the subject of kindly reference to and praise of the race. The articles on Boley, masterly and complete in their corroborative facts, focused the attention of thousands upon that progressive town of Oklahoma. It is such articles as these which Mr. Tyler is writing that the race most needs to detract its attention from handicaps to its opportunities. TWIN CITY STAR CHAS. SUMNER SMITH Editor Smith will attend the National Negro Press Ass'n, at Muskogee, Okla., on Aug. 17, 18, and remain about 10 days in the Southland. He was present at the last meetings held in Chicago and Philadelphia, and was at one time recording secretary of this association which is one of the affiliated bodies of the National Negro Business League. Leading St. Paul Physician Will Attend Medical Association. Dr. Valdo Turner will attend the National Medical Association of Negro Physicians, Surgeons and Dentists, which meets in Raleigh, N. C. from Aug. 20 to 27 inclusive. He will visit Chicago, Wash. D. C., Phila, Baltimore, Atlantic City, and New York, also take a coast trip to Norfolk, Va., visiting Hampton Institute and Newport News. Dr. Turner will join a party at Petersburg, Va., enroute Raligh, returning home via Cincinnati and Columbus. Dr. Turner will invite the Association to St. Paul, Minn., where the Hospitals of the State and Twin Cities will be open to them. They may also get the advantage of the trip to the Famous Mayo Bros. Sanitarium at Rochester, Minn. The people of the Twin Cities will be pleased to have in their midst the National Medical Assn. The hospitality of Minnesota and her beautiful scenery are universally known. Welcome tothe Medicos and may Dr. Turner return to prepare for their coming next year. MEETING OF INDEPENDENT POLITICAL LEAGUE SEPT. 7. National Organization of Race Leaders Will Meet In New York. Plans for the seventh annual meeting of the National Independent Political league. Rev. Byron Gunner of Hillborn, N. Y., president, are maturing. New York city, the home of the league's present national organizer, Rev. R. C. Ransom, has been selected as the place of meeting for this national convention. The league will hold it as a national conference of colored Americans to confer upon and devise ways and means upon the question of denial of citizenship rights and equal opportunity because of race and color. The fine new Bethel church will be the meeting place and the second week in September the time, probably the 7th and 8th, just prior to the national Baptist convention in Philadelphia, as many of the clergy are expected to attend. The appeal is to every citizen of color, to churches and literary, civic or equal rights societies. Its sentiment is thus expressed: "Out of the world's history of the struggle of races, nationalities and classes of mankind for freedom and equality have come the classic epigrams. 'Who would be free themselves first must strike the blow' and 'Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.' Who in all the world need heed these slogans more than colored Americans, with disfranchisement, Jim Crowism and lynching in the south and denial of civil rights to a greater or less degree even in the north on the increase? "Surely organization of colored Americans for self defense and protection of their lives, liberties and rights is needed, and for this the National Independent Political league, formed in 1908, stands. Come one, come all, to the national conference at Bethel church, New York city, Sept. 7 and 8, and let churches, literary, civic and equal rights societies send delegates. For particulars address William Monroe Trotter, corresponding secretary. 49 Cornhill, Boston." Generosity of Mme. C. J. Walker. Although she was away in the West Indies, Mme. C. J. Walker did not forget to make aple provision for the happiness and comfort of the inmates of the Old Folks' home and the Orphans' home in Indianapolis, Ind. during the recent holidays. Mme. Walker also remembered the less fortunate in her former home. St. Louis, through the organized charitable work among her friends in St. Louis. Her example is worthy of emulation. Subscribe for the Star Leave your Subscriptions and Printing at TWIN CITY STAR PRINTERS, 1402 Washington Ave. So, Choice workmanship. Regular Prices. We approve of the police regulation of vice in our city, and endorse the action of Mayor Nye and Chief Martinson of the city police department also Sheriff Langum and County Atty. Robertson of Hennepin County. Vice among Negroes is segregated and we do not believe that these officials accept any income from present conditions. If there is graft it stops with the primary grafters. The Mayor has placed the entire inspection of Negro clubs under Detectives Welborn and Hardin, both Negroes. White detectives never enter Negro clubs. We know that this discrimination is sharply drawn, and should be because these are incorporated Negro clubs, and it is better to have gambling controlled by honest and efficient officers, than have it scattered in alleys and private dwellings. The Twin Cities can boast of being free of private crap-games. This statement is true because of the existence of clubs. It is regretted, however, that some proprietors of clubs where women go, continue to hold to "craps," as their main support. Women do not see these games but they are conducted in the building. Few clubs, high or low, exist where men do not gamble. One man, if he is a gambler, has as much right to do so as an other, whether in dress suits or overalls, the game is the same. We hold no brief for gamblers, prostitutes or drunkards. We believe in the suppression of vice, which will never be eliminated. Neither do we tolerate those who hazard and holler when they lose. We stand for fairness. Men of every walk in life visit these clubs, which are patronized according to classification. We shall take a different stand when Negroes, who do not patronize clubs, will attempt to secure a social center for their race. Not a Jim Crow Y. M. C. A., promoted by reformers with itching palms, but settlement houses, where all respectable persons may enjoy its conveniences. Some have been recently started and the support given them was "nothing but talk." Now that the Vice and Graft question is prominently before the people something should be done. We pay no heed to those, who elect themselves as divine and consecrated, or those who have so instantly reformed, but we believe that there are liberal-minded, honest men, who tolerate the faults of the weaker under present circumstances, and who would assist a clean movement to make better environment for them. During our newspaper life in this city, we have never attempted such movement, because every suggestion has brought forth an eager approval with an application of the solicitor's job. Everywhere we go among business men they tell us that they meet few Negroes who are not soliciting for charitable institutions. But this game is being blocked. We should have race pride enough to finance our affairs. The Negroes of Boston recently gave a sum of many to the Boosting Fund, that is why they are a factor. We need honest men do "do things." Enough money has been collected here to build a battleship and we have nothing to show. We should ask nothing of the Civic and Commerce Assn., but better housing conditions, and the health and building laws will soon give us these. The home-training of children and the protection of the rising generation should be the slogan of the race. Let the parents be always true examples for their children. Train your daughters to be wives and your sons to be husbands. We will then and always have clubs and gamblers, buffet flats and prostitutes, but also a greater percentage of well regulated homes and respectable young men and women. We stand for these things and will not tolerate any persecution of any club-men, by those who have selfish interests. It is more honorable to speculate on the roll of the dice or the turn of a card than to propagate a reform movement under the guise of "moral uplift" when the principle motive is to handle somebody money and to steal the greater portion of it. NEWSPAPER LAW. The Times at Neosho, Mo., says "Judge James Ellison, of the Kansa-City Court of Appeals, handed down the following decision in the case of O. D. Austin, of Bates County Record, vs. Burge, other members concurring, and published in 137 S. W Report, p. 618: 'The preparation and publication of a newspaper involves much mental and physical labor, as well as an outlay of money. One who accepts the paper by continuously taking it from the postoffice receives a benefit and pleasure arising from such labor and expenditures as fully as if he had appropriated any other product of another's labor, and by such act he must be held liable for subscription price.'" We are often asked "How can I send my subscription." We get all Post Office Orders sent us my mail GOOD FURNITURE Furnish Your New Home at BOUTELL'S NOW is the best time for you to start your home, to pick out GOOD MERCHANDISE AT ABSOLUTELY FAIR PRICES WE OFFER SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS TO NOW is the best time for you to start your home, to pick out GOOD MERCHANDISE AT ABSOLUTELY FAIR PRICES WE OFFER SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS TO YOUNG FOLKS GOING HOUSEKEEPING and TAKE SPECIAL PAINS TO PLEASE THEM YOUNG FOLKS GOING HOUSEKEEPING and TAKE SPECIAL PAINS TO PLEASE THEM MY YEARS of making HOME for the people neapolis and the North- the REASON why we you to let us START you RIGHT. This HOME- ING is no EXPERI- T with us. We take as INTEREST in doing it t, as you do in wanting e. We sell nothing but FURNITURE, GOOD PETS, GOOD CUR- S, and DRAPERIES. STOVES, RANGES FORTY YEARS of making COZY HOMES for the people of Minneapolis and the Northwest is the REASON why we ask you to let us START you out RIGHT. This HOME-MAKING is no EXPERIMENT with us. We take as much INTEREST in doing it RIGHT, as you do in wanting it done. We sell nothing but GOOD FURNITURE, GOOD CARPETS, GOOD CURTAINS, and DRAPERIES, GOOD STOVES, RANGES and REFRIGERATORS, GOOD CROCKERY and GLASSWARE and GOOD COOKING UTENSILS, and when we START you out we build the foundation RIGHT. NOW is the best time for you tostart your home, to pick out your goods—For we have never shown such a magnificent Selection to choose from. THE DICKERSON CAFE 208 HENNEPIN AVENUE and REFRIGERATORS, GOOD CROCKERY and GLASSWARE and GOOD COOKING UTENSILS, and when we START you out we build the foundation RIGHT. NOW the best time to build the foundation RIGHT. OW is the best time for you to toast your home, to pick out your goods—For we have never shown such a magnificent Selection to choose from. JOHN A. DICKERSON, Prop. THE FRANCE CAFE CHOP-SUEY -- VOCAL ENTERTAINER REGULAR DINNER AND A LA CARTE SERVICE THE COOLEST PLACE TO DINE Best Accommodations for Private Parties EXCELLENT COOKING COURTEOUS ATTENTION 255 Marquette Ave.. Minneapolis (UPSTAIRS) MRS. J. M. MASK, PROP. Phone N. W. Nic. 9560 FERNANDO ANDERSON, Merchant Tailor CALL AND SEE MY ADVANCED STYLES FOR FALL AND WINTER. WORK DESIGNED FOR LADIES AND GENTLE-MEN. CUT AND MADE IN MY WORKSHOP. 248 1st Ave. No., Next to Dr. Judy's Office Residence 413 11th Ave. No. Residence Phone N. W. Hyland 1666 Office phones, N. W. Hyland 664, T. S. North 304. DANL W. RAYNOR Embalmer and Undertaker THE FRANCE CAFE CHOP-SUEY -- VOCAL ENTERTAINFR REGULAR DINNER AND A LA CARTE SERVICE THE COOLEST PLACE TO DINE Best Accommodations for Private Parties EXCELLENT COOKING COURTEOUS ATTENTION 255 Marquette Ave.. Minneapolis (UPSTAIRS) MRS. J. M. MASK, PROP. Phone N. W. Nic. 9560 FERNANDO ANDERSON, Merchant Tailor CALL AND SEE MY ADVANCED STYLES FOR FALL AND WINTER. WORK DESIGNED FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. CUT AND MADE IN MY WORKSHOP. 248 1st Ave. No., Next to Dr. Judy's Office JOHN H. Private Chapel. Calls answered promptly Day or Night. Livery furnished for Weddings, Parties, etc. WHY DON'T YOU USE THE EUREKA COMB? It will produce for you a heavy growth of straight, silky hair, no doubt about it. Just comb your hair with it. No harmful effects guaranteed by Eureka Comb Company. The best on the market for its purposes. Agent—MRS. R. Z. TAYLOR 1718 Bryant Ave. No., Minneapolis N. W. Telephone Hyland 305 Spirella CORSETS (NOT SOLD IN STORES) 317 Plymouth Ave. No., Minneapolis, Minn. DAN'L W. RAYNOR. WHY DON'T YOU USE THE EUREKA COMB? It will produce for you a heavy growth of straight, silky hair, no doubt about it. Just comb your hair with it. No harmful effects. Guaranteed by Eureka Comb Company. (NOT SOLD IN STORES) 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. Spirella Corset Shop CORA E. ANDERSON 365 Aurora Ave. St. Paul, Minn. --- THE TWIN CITY STAR Vol. 4, Friday, Aug. 14, 1914. No. 43. 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., Minne- apolis, Minn. Subsciption by Mall, Postpaid ONE YEAR ..... $2.00 SIX MONTHS ..... 1.20 THREE MONTHS ..... .65 CANADIAN SUBSCRIPTIONS .. $2.50 ANNOTATIONS DATES ADVERTISING RATES. Wedding Announcements, Fifty Cents Card of Thanks .....One Dollar In Memoriam .....One Dollar Business Announcements, One Dollar Birth, Bethrothal, Marriage, and Death Notices .....One Dollar Complimentary and Obituary Resolutions, Two Dollars One inch, one 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., Minneapolis, Minn. St. Paul Office, by Union Bld. No advertisement inserted without cash in advance. The struggle for today, is not altogether for today; it is for a vast future.—Abraham Lincoln. Hon. John M. Langston, a Negro, made a fight in Congress for the maintenance of a credible merchant marine service. It was not worth consideration then, but now the value of government control of merchant ships is unquestionably proven in present international war. THE NEGRO'S POSITION. Both the Republican and the Progressive parties are showing in certain sections of the country, that they are not bidding for the Negro vote, because where they have met they have repudiated the Negro's support. They are not averse to receiving the Negro's vote, but they seem bent on eliminating him from any participation in the parties' councils and conventions. Just here it appears to us that the Negro should get busy, in every place and organize, so that whatever of protest they may make will have some weight. We certainly can't hope to make any decided impression anywhere unless we can clearly show that we can deliver the goods. There is not any class of people, in the country, who seem to be so little concerned about their political interests the Negro. The great bulk of the leaders, as well as the followers, seem to regard politics more as a selfish consideration than as a general good, and where they might accomplish some sort of results they are almost entirely indifferent to qualifying themselves to be able to vote in any of the elections. Here in Newport News where there is as little opposition to allowing the Negro to qualify himself, there are but a handful of Negroes, who have shown enough interest to take advantage of the situation. It matters not what might be done to show the average Negro, the importance of making himself a citizen indeed and in truth, it does not seem possible to arouse him from his self imposed indifference. —Newport News, (Va.) Star. RECOGNITION We have made strenuous attempts to secure political recognition for Negroes. It has been that we were told that those menial jobs, such as assistant jitens, etc., covered the political dispensation to the race. As often before stated we made a fight for recognition in the high up councils of every party. The members of the Republican State Central Committee, who remembered the work of the Star and its Editor, took up this matter. We were asked to name a man, and we offered the name of Hon. W. T. Francis of St. Paul, who is known to every Negro of the State and respected by both races. Att'y Francis had not given the idea any thought, and he was placed on the State Central Committee as a member-at-large. We feel that this is worth mentioning, because it is one of our greatest services to our race and our friends. We thank the members of the committee for this recognition of the Negro as a political factor. M. B. EDITOR J. QUINCY ADAMS The veteran journalist of the race. Editor of "The Appeal" of St. Paul, Minn. Brother of Hon. Cyrus Field Adams. Editor Adams of the Appeal is one of the founders of the First Negroated with the Louisville Bulletin for some years prior to his coming to St. Paul, where he began the Western Appeal in 1887. He is universally known for his exposure and condemnation of discriminations against Negroes. He has made a host of friends in the Northwest where he is admired for his gentlemanly bearing and even disposition. He has a good printing business in connection with his publication. His family—a wife, two daughters and a son, is among the best in the community. It is pleasing to note that Brother Adams has been very friendly to The Star, whose relationship has been that of a fair competitor. We can say that the Twin City Negro Press Assn., The Appeal and Star, meets very often, and everything is harmonious, because J. Q. is a gentleman to the manner born and the Star is fortunate to have located adjacent to such an admirable contemporary. Which is to us white freedom's emphasis. Ahl one must love when truth and justice lag, To be a Negro in a day like this- Still shines the gate, all gold and amethyst, But I pass by, the glorious goal un- won. Merely a Negro"—in a day like this —James D. Corrothers in The Century. TOPSY TURVY One of our exchanges, The Gem City Bulletin, of Palaska, Fla., is responsible for the following: Clarksville, Tenn., July 27—Lee Varner, seventeen, white, son of a prominent farmer, was shot and killed this morning by a mob of Negroes after an alleged criminal assault on a 12-year-old Negro girl. The uncle of the girl admitted that she fired the shot that killed the boy. A coroner's jury returned a verdict of "justifiable homicide." Great Caesar's ghost! To think of it! A Negro mob lynching a white man and a white jury returning a verdict of justifiable homicide. The next we expect to hear is that the Jews are murdering and pillaging Russians or that Emmeline Pankhurst is teaching domestic science. The world is surely out of joint. —The Petersburg Virginian. 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. The club men must "hang together. or hang separately." Latest War Bulletin.—The French are taking Zumalweiss. --- TWIN CITY STAR HIGH AIM OF W. P. TERRELL College Career and Educational Work of a Native East-West (Tex.) Boy of a Native Fort Worth (Tex.) Boy. Prairie View, Tex.-The State Normal and Industrial college located here and bearing the name of this town, numbers among the members of its able faculty a young man who has gained distinction in his special line of work. W. P. Terrell is the professor of mechanics and superintendent of the mechanical department at the Prairie View college, and is well fitted for the position. He was born at Fort Worth, in this state, thirty years ago. His father has been principal of the Fort Worth high school for colored people for the past thirty-two years. Professor Terrell's grandfather was the late Alex- [Name] W. P. TERRELL. ander Terrell, a prominent deacon in the Baptist church at Anderson, Tex., and widely known for his many excellent traits of character. His maternal grandfather was Dr. Pierre Landry of New Orleans, La., and was one time mayor of Donaldsonville, La., and a state senator. Young Mr. Terrell set his aim high. After completing the high school course in 1901, young Mr. Terrell entered the Kansas State Agricultural college at Manhattan, Kan., where he took the course in mechanical engineering and graduated in 1904 as the salutatorian of his class, and also received the degree of bachelor of science. He was very popular as a student and a member of the Webster Literary society of the college, and was captain of the school battalion. In the fall of 1904 Professor Terrell entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he graduated two years later in mechanical engineering. Before coming here Mr. Terrell was a machinist helper for the Texas and Pacific company in Fort Worth, timekeeper for the Holbrook, Cabot and Rollin's corporation in Boston, and also served the Hydroelectric Installation company at Sewell Falls, Concord, N. H. This latter company built the Charles river dam at Boston. At Lynn, Mass., he was draftsman for the General Electric company. Mr. Terrell spent a year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying structural engineering. In addition to Professor Terrell's regular departmental work at the Prairie View college, he is responsible for all architectural and engineering repair work. The number of instructors in Professor Terrell's department has been doubled since he took charge and the work put upon a firm basis with the most approved modern methods. He is an associate member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and a member of the National Geographic society. NATIONAL LEAGUE SOCIAL SCIENCE PRIZE WINNERS Miss Madre Penn and Maynard H. Jones Win Awards. New York.—The National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes announces the award of the prizes offered in the social science scholarship contest recently held by the league. There were two prizes of $50 and $25 to be awarded to the students of three of the Negro colleges who made the best standing in examination in elementary economics, elementary sociology and who presented the best book review of Devine's "Misery and Its Causes." The contestants answered ten questions in economics, five questions in sociology and presented a written review of the book. Students from the following colleges were in the contest: Virginia Union university. Howard university and Morehouse college. The contest was open to students also from Talladega college. Talladega, Ala., and Paline college. Augusta, Ga., but no students from these two institutions entered the contest. All of these colleges are affiliated with the National league and are co-operating in the effort to develop social service training for Negro youth. The first prize of $50 was awarded to Miss Madre Penn of Howard university, Washington, and the second prize of $25 to Maynard H. Jackson of Morehouse college, Atlanta, Ga. The following named persons were the judges who awarded the prizes: Professor Jeremiah W. Jenka, New York university; Mrs. M. G. Worthington, New York School of Philanthropy, and Dr. George E. Hayns. "Gisk university, director of the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes. Large interest has been manifested in the contest, and the friends of the two students who have been awarded the prizes are rejoicing in their success. A FRATERNAL TRAVESTY. G. U. O. of F. O. Treasury Depleted. We are appalled at the statement of facts covering the present condition of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows contained in the editorial in last week's Atlanta Independent under the caption "THE TRUTH IS THE LIGHT." Can it be possible that the greatest fraternal organization among our people in the world must be sacrificed to satisfy the lust for power and office by one individual, Edward H. Morris, of Chicago, the present Grand Master; a man who has had his nose in the trough of the organization for more than a quarter of a century; who has had all the honors and their accompanying emulations that it was possible to get by means that were fair and some that were foul, and who now appears to be determined to hold his present office for life, or ruin the greatest opportunity that the Negro has for good in organized effort. We are surprised to learn the condition to which Morris has reduced the Odd Fellows during his past four years administration as shown by the following paragraph from the Atlanta Independent's editorial: "Our information is that the Treasury of the Sub-Committee is practically depleted. The administration is not able to meet the legitimate expenses of the order. It has not only wiped out the $40,000.00 surplus received from the Houston administration, but it has spent the entire receipts for the four years, and is not able now to meet its obligations. Now this is the truth. We know about the annual receipts of the order, and either Morris' people have collected this money and spent it, or it is owed by the subordinate branches. It is up to the administration to show who is indebted by itemized statement to the order for legal obligations. But the public cannot expect an administration that holds its life by force to economically or wisely spend their money, so it is evident, and obviously so, that it is not the cost of the Supreme Court that wiped out the Houston surplus and depleted the treasury." We read from subsequent paragraph in the Independent that the Supreme Court has been a rather small item considering its worth, as compared with the expenditure of over $150,000 to run the Odd Fellows Journal to secure delegates to the B. M. C., at Boston. We met the Supreme Court when in St. Paul to codify its laws. The principle of government of the Odd Fellows is the same as that of our National Government. Those who are affected by decisions from all Supreme bodies are always for their overthroat. Hence the Court should have many enemies. We have heard Hon. W. R. Morris, and Hon. W. T. Francis of our city praise the Supreme Court, and tell of its accomplishments, and to our recollection the Court was instituted by Grand Master Morris, with Ben. J. Davis of Atlanta as Chief Justice, it was believed that Davis and Morris would exchange positions at the last B. M. C., at Georgia, but the slate was broken. Morris refused to step out and he adjourned the convention without an election, holding his position by powers invested. His brother did not approve his action. The affair was a disgrace to the order and the white newspapers gave it wide publicity. But whether the Court is necessary or not, where is that money? If Boss Ed. could go to Georgia and hold his own, we fear he can go to Boston and re-elect himself even if by confusion, and abolish the Supreme Court. Edward Morris is King of the G. U. O. of O. F." and the King can do no wrong; but the divine right of kings has caused some trouble in Europe recently as well as in olden days. We hope not to have razors drawn at this B. M. C., if so instead of G. U. O. for Grand United Order, we suggest D. D. D. for Damn Divided Disturbance, if these tactics prevail in the future. Let the principles remain Grand; its members United, and the Order of Odd Fellows the most constructive organization of Negroes in the world. Editors Ben Davis can do effective work with those X-ray editorials, and his "good old Georgia" delegation will keep the Atlanta Independent as their official organ. Two Points of View. "American women spend more money on clothes today than they ever spent—and very much more than they should spend in many cases," said a Fifth avenue modiste. "A $200 dress worn by the wife of a man whose income is, say, $100 a week, looks unbecoming and extravagant. 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