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DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST.PAUL fective Page VOL. 4 Single Copies 5 Cents RACE PROGRESS IN NEW JERSEY CHANGES FOR ADVANCEMENT Recent Campaign Through Rich Northern Commonwealth Reveals Constructive Work of Its Colored Citizens — How Messrs. Vandervall and Burrell Organized the People. By N. BARNETT DODSON. New York.—The recent four days' tour of Dr. Booker T. Washington through New Jersey has been the means of calling public attention to many historical facts concerning the activities of the colored citizens of the state in the past and of showing what those of the present are doing. It has also centered attention on the great possibilities open to the race to become large landowners, thrifty farmers and leaders in education, business and civic movements. The group of small but thrifty communities in the southwestern part of Essex county, known as the Oranges, has a population of 100,000, of whom 10,000 are colored. These communities are rich in their association of early colonial and antebellum history. The Negro was not an inactive or silent spectator during those stirring times. He participated in every struggle and bravely bore his part in the long contest for liberty of the American colonist. The battles of Springfield and Orange mountain colony and other Revolutionary struggles have indelibly recorded his bravery and valor. During the civil war New Jersey sent more than a regiment of brave black boys and several battalions in the late Spanish-American war. These undeniable facts prove the loyalty, devotion and patriotism of the Negroes of New Jersey in every crisis concerning the safety of the American flag. In the civic affairs of the state he has played well his part. Contesting against every unfair advantage and race proscription, he has maintained himself and gathered the small crumbs of opportunity together and still continues to rise and retain a place among the struggling and progressive masses. In the Oranges he has accumulated nearly $500,000 in real estate, none of which he inherited or received in bequest, but has acquired by sacrifice and labor. Negroes own many large and beautiful church buildings, an Old Folks' home and several fraternal and business buildings. In the charitable work they have contributed, very largely in proportion to their means. Shortly after the war an old colored woman gave her earnings of many years to the work of the temperance cause, and the imposing structure at Main and Commerce streets, Orange, valued at more than $50,000, stands on the site bought by the savings of this old pioneer woman, who bequeathed her estate for that work. There remains much yet to be done in this fair commonwealth that these people may have a fair chance in the battle of life. Those that have located in the agricultural districts have done well. Many own large, productive farms and each year, by their push and industry, add to their possessions. The men who organized themselves into a state committee for the purpose of making the trip of Dr. Washington and his party a tremendous success were imbued with race pride. They were eager for their guests to see the achievements of the race in the state and for the people of the state to see and hear Dr. Washington, who was introduced at one of the meetings by a wealthy and influential white man as one of the truly great men of America. The leading spirit in organizing the various cities and towns for the trip was W. P. Burrell, head of the social settlement work for colored children in East Orange. Mr. Burrell was the executive secretary of the state committee, and upon him devolved the task of arranging for dates and places for all the meetings. In this he was ably assisted by Mr. James N. Vandervall, chairman of the tour committee, together with the local committees in the various towns. There was work enough to have kept several stenographers busy for many weeks, yet this progressive man of great energy and mental strength did practically the whole job. In speaking of how the state organization was perfected Mr. Burrell very wiltly says: "There was a convention held, and M. only two persons were present. I made Mr. Vaundervall chairman, and Mr. Vaundervall nominated me for secretary, and the meeting adjourned." Mr. Burrell is a born organizer and knows how to handle large crowds. He was the soul of wit throughout the tour and made a good impression upon everybody. He is doing a splendid work in East Orange in the conduct of the social settlement work. He has had many years' experience in handling the records of large business and fraternal concerns and is thoroughly competent as an investigator of conditions among our people in the work to which he and Mrs. Burrell are giving their best energy, brain and skill. Mr. Burrell by a master hand linked the eleven cities and towns visited by Dr. Washington and his party into a chain of perfect correspondence, so that the schedule from the start was kept in the minutest detail. The local committee in each town was on hand to receive the visitors, entertain them and then deliver them to their associates in the next place to be visited. In many instances the conveyances used were owned by the members of the committee representing the colored people, and, on the other hand, the white people furnished their autos and other rigs for the use of Dr. Washington and his guests Credit is due every man who co-operated in the work, but everybody agrees that the lion's share belongs to Messrs. Vandervall and Burrell, chairmän and secretary respectively. CAPABLE YOUNG MUSICIAN. Miss Georgiaiana H. Sherman Makes Good on Concert Tour West. Philadelphia, Pa.—There are many young women in this city who are making good and at the same time inspiring others to go forward along all lines of useful endeavor and in this way are helping to work out some of the many hard problems which confront our people. In this number is to be found Miss Georgiaiana H. Sherman, who is considered a musical wonder. Miss Sherman, though young in years, has had quite a wide experience. By her ability and singleness of purpose she has advanced to the front. She was born in Williamsport, Pa., and received her early training in the public schools of her native town. After finishing the common school course she attended the Dickinson seminary, where she took a thorough course in music. In 1909 her parents moved to this city, and Miss Sherman entered the Royal Conservatory of Music, where she took a course in artistic piano playing. She made good use of her time while studying music, being one of the collectors for the National Benefit association of Washington. As in music, she was a success as a collector. Miss Sherman has accompanied some of the leading singers in this section of the country. In the fall of 1913 she accepted a position with the Southland sextet. America's premier jubilee company. With this company she toured Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, making great hits for herself and company. While on the tour Miss Sherman received many press comments, as well as popular applause. She is a lover of sacred music, in which she specializes. She possesses a rich mezzo soprano voice and aspires to become an oratorio singer. She is a member of the Union Baptist church here. Since her return from the west she has been active in church work. She is the director of the choir of the Zion Baptist church, Ardmore, Pa., which is one of the leading musical organizations of a religious character in the state. SMOKE THE RELIABLE SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. OCTOBER 16, 1914. OKLAHOMA PAYS HIGH TRIBUTE In Optimistic Address Well Known White Man Says Race Occupies Unique Place In Country's History. Preaches Doctrine of Character as True Measure of Manhood. By WILLIAM H. DAVIS. Okmulgée, Okla.—The high esteem in which Dr. Booker T. Washington is held by the people of both races in Okmulgée and vicinity was never more generously shown than it was on his recent visit to this town. At the meeting held on this occasion Dr. Washington was made welcome in a most timely address delivered by Dr. O. A. Lambert, who in part said: I come today as a representative of the Anglo-Saxon race to bid your people a godspeed in every undertaking that will lift them to a better, a higher, a nobler, condition of life. Whether we will it or not, you are a part of our national existence, and in the years gone by the hand of fate has linked your destiny with ours, and future years can only reveal its fullest manifestation. A people of this history is unique. Torn from a dark continent of ignorance and superstition by the ruthless hand of greed, enslaved for 400 years by a superior race, redeemed from that bondage by treasures of money and sacrifice of the best blood of a nation and suddenly given all the rights and privileges of citizenship of that nation, you a place of humanity unparalleled and as a race stand alone. Believing in the doctrine that character is the true measure of a man, that merit is the determining factor in the character of a man, that found under a black skin as well as the white, that no race of people has a monopoly on all the good or all the bad, but that the virtues and the vices flourish alike in all the races under the same conditions of life and environment—with these virtues and with these vices can speak the message of cheer and hope to the Afro-American race. Fifty years ago, 4,000,000 of your people were wearing the galling chains of slavery, without property. But today you present yourselves with more than 8,000,000 of people, paying taxes on $700,000,000 worth of property, sustaining more than sixty Afro-American banks, having your own schools, churches and colleges, with representatives of your race permeating all branches of industrial, commercial and intellectual life and colleges. All of them alone there are over 30,000 Afro-American schoolteachers, where half a century ago it was a crime to teach a Negro to read and write. There are today more than 1,200 instructors in 169 academies, schools and colleges than there are more than 40,000 Sunday school teachers, 5,000 men in the ministry, who are graduates from theological schools. There are 1,200 lawyers, 1,300 doctors and scores of editors of magazines and newspapers who are engaged in lifting the once benighted and superstitious mind of men into the sunlight of knowledge and truth. To the question "Is the Negro capable of intellectual attainment?" you have given the affirmative by such Afro-American colleges as Wilberforce, Allen, Livingston and others. To the question "Is the Negro capable of intellectual minds as Bishop Payne, Mitchel Price and Booker T. Washington. To those who think that the Negro lacks enterprise and business accustom you can point with pride to J. H. Lewis, the second largest merchant tailor in the state of Massachusetts and fourth in the United States, or to M. Atwood or E. Burgess, Mileage of one of the best dealers of the northwest, born an Alabama slave, or to W. Walter P. Hall, the largest wholesale produce merchant on Market街, Philadelphia. But why take time to specify by name? For they are legion who have entered the industrial and commercial field and have shown great ability and thrift in the management of railroad engines, or Lewis H. Latimer, the expert electrician of the New York Electric Light company, who personally superintended the installation of light plants in the great cities of England, or the railroad companies, or the orator. Some of the finest art glass in our churches today are his designs. To those who think you are devoid of culture and love of the esthetic, point them to W. E. Bannister, whose painting "Under the Oaks" won the medal at the Philadelphia exposition in 1876, or Professor Henry O Tanner, who recently sold to the Luxemburg mining company the souvenir Lazarus." The second American artist to sell his work to that institution. To those who charge that the Negro lacks physical courage and fortitude let the annals of history answer how at Fort willow and old collar in the harbor to the Union the blond troop stood the merciless fire of the enemy in such a manner as to call forth the admiration of the whole country, or, in the Spanish American war, with the well disciplined and fortified Spanish troops pouring a deadly fire from the hill into the faces of the enemy, and the clips, "My Country, 'Tis of Thea, Sweet Land of Liberty," went charging up the hill and saved to the rough riders the victory of San Juan Hill You, sir, have already proved to the world that you have the essential elements, though crude some may be, to become a self supporting, self governing race of people. Give you 400 years of American freedom, American opportunity and possibility and such will be your goal. If it is possible for Lincoln, your great deliverer, to look down from the portals of heaven he would little suspect you were the descendants from those from whose limbs he unclosed the shackles. Napoleon once said, "I and time can accomplish all things." This was not true, but we have the faith that you can accomplish not own good time the race problem will be satisfactorily settled, not by violence, not by transportation or segregation, not by social equality or distinction or race mixture, but along the lines of intellectual and industrial attainments by the individual growth of character into true womanhood and manhood. By this proof to me, I am confident that integrity, wealth and brains prejudices will pass away like the mists before a noonday sun. EDITOR HARRISON'S. PLUCK. Issued His Paper Daily During Recent Odd Fellows Convention. The National Negro Press association extends congratulations to J. Thomas Harrison, editor of the Cambridge (Mass.) Advocate, on his success in issuing the Advocate daily during the recent convention of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows held in Boston. Mr. Harrison has long been considered one of our most progressive newspaper men of the younger set, and his recent venture confirms the high estimate of his ability to do things worth while. The great number of delegates and visitors to the convention were greatly surprised when they found the news of the convention in the Advocate every day. They at once became interested in the man who had the courage to make such an undertaking, and many sought the office of the sprightly little weekly which had the spunk to make its appearance every day. But this was in Cambridge, the historic New England college town, and the man behind the gun a persistent advocate of the possibilities and manhood rights of his race. What Mr. Harrison has done along this line others may do when the occasion presents itself. One by one our business men are beginning to launch out further into the arena of constructive effort. They are learning that up through difficulties is the way to success, and it is fitting that the race press should lead. The Advocate files the national colors at its head and the name of the press association in a box at the head of its editorial page. EQUAL RIGHTS LEAGUE. Independent Political Organization Battles For Square Desl. The Independent Equal Rights League of Colored Men is sending the following letter to candidates for congress in the various sections of the country: At the seventh annual meeting of the National Independent Equal Rights league, held in New York recently, in the address to the country this paragraph and the questions below appeared: "We advise colored voters to look into the record of every congressman up for re-election. to make an issue of the color segregation practiced by certain cabinet officers and encouched in bills already introduced into congress. Find out where each candidate stands on these anti-Negro bills and the anti-intermarriage bill and act accordingly." In pursuance of the foregoing the league hereby publicly asks what the attitude of congressional candidates will be, if elected, on the matters above referred to. Will you, if elected, seek to prevail upon the secretary of the treasury and the postmaster general to abolish such segregation of colored government employees as has been instituted under them as to rest room, eating, working and toilet facilities? Will you use your influence, voice and vote against bills to segregate colored clerks and to establish Jimcrow cars in the District of Columbia? Will you use your influence, voice and vote against bills making it a crime for colored and noncolored persons to marry in the District of Columbia? Will you favor the enforcement of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, now notoriously nullified in certain states? An early answer will be appreciated. To each of these questions the league requests an answer. New Court of Calanthe Organized. The most recent number of the female branch of the Knights of Pythias in Pittsburgh was organized the latter part of September by Mrs. Mattie V. Wilson and is known as Harmony Court of Calanthe, No. 354. The new court starts off with a membership of thirty and is officered by some of Pittsburgh's most experienced secret society women. Advertise,—It Pays. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR. FROM CLASSROOM TO THE PULPIT Interesting Account of the Early Struggles and Subsequent Rise of Zealous Young Baptist Leader Who is Winning His Laurels at First Church in Clifton Forge, Va. Clifton Forge, Va.—Virginia is giving to the race and country a number of able young men who are making good and who are contributing much to the uplift of the race along all lines. These men are coming fresh from the schools and colleges of the state, well trained and prepared to take hold of any line of business, trade or profession. Among the active men today is to be found the Rev. Thomas H. White, B. D., corresponding secretary of the Baptist state convention and pastor of the Baptist church in Clifton Forge. He was born in King and Queen county, Va.. in October, 1869, and was reared in Richmond, where he spent his boyhood days. His church memborship dates back to 1887, when he was received into the First Baptist church, Richmond, Va., by baptism. He became a trained Sunday school teacher, graduating under Professor J. Hugo Johnston and the late Dr. D. Webster Davis. His Sunday school class graduated in 1888 and was declared by Dr. Griffith of the American Baptist Publication society to be the first class to graduate from a regular Sunday school course in Richmond. He believed in the young men going to the front; hence he was one of the founders of the Y. M. C. A. in Richmond, Va. He was determined to get an education and declared that the world should know that he was in it, and to that THOMAS H. WHITE, B. D. end he worked zealously as a student. He served as assistant pastor to the late Rev. James H. Holmes at the First Baptist church in Richmond. It was while serving in this position that he entered the Virginia Theological seminary and college at Lynchburg, Va., which was then known as the Virginia seminary. He made good as a student, finished his course, and after a short time his alma mater called him back to teach higher mathematics. While connected with the school he also taught church polity and pastored the Mount Carmel Baptist church. While thus employed Dr. White took unto himself a bride, Miss Martha A. Harper of Richmond, and soon afterward accepted a call from the Baptist church in Harrisonburg, Va., where he remained a little over a year. His reputation as a preacher and pastor became widely known, and he resigned from the Harrisonburg church to accept the call of the First Baptist church at Clifton Forge in 1902, of which he has since been the pastor, rendering good service to his church, to his race and the community at large. In this church are to be found some of the wealthiest people of our race in the state. Rev. Dr. White is an able temperance lecturer. Dr. White is a public spirited man as well as a recognized leader of his people. He has made a number of public addresses before large audiences and every time he has won laurels for himself and his people. The Salem (Va.) Times in speaking of an address which he delivered in that town had the following to say: "The orator of the day, Rev. Thomas H. White, is quite a young man, but the flow of eloquence, fine rhetoric and No. 52 wonderful comparisons contained in his speech put him alongside of Langston, Douglass and Price. He gained the attention of his audience from the start, and for two hours, without manuscript, he held his hearers, while at times the applause was deafening. At times his words were cutting, but the end was consoling. This wonderful boy orator closed with 'My Country, "Tis of Thee."" Dr. White is a busy preacher, and when he is not looking after his flock he is working in his garden. He supplies many of the stores with lettuce, potatoes and other vegetables. He is the finest lettuce grower around Clifton Forge. He has made lettuce growing a special study and supplies the community with products raised on his little garden farm. DR. WALDRON'S PEACE TALK. Washington Pastor Lauds President Washington Foster Laude President Wilson's Proclamation in Sermon. Washington.-The Rev. Dr. J. Milton Waldron in his "peace sermon" at Stilbah Baptist church in this city on Sunday, Oct. 4. In part said: "President Wilson is a good Bible student as well as a good politician. His proclamation calling upon the American nation to pray for the cessation of the European war proves that he has studied patiently and faithfully the holy Scriptures as well as the history of mankind or he would not have seen the necessity of coupling contrition and confession of sins by this nation with its petitions for mercy upon other nations. The president's call to prayer is not only a great state paper; it is a wonderful treatise on prayer and is worthy of a permanent place in the religious literature of the country." Dr. Waldron used as his text the following passages of Scripture: "Pray one for another" (James v. 16). "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you" (John xiv, 27). "Acquaint now myself with God and be at peace, thereby good shall come to thee" (Job v. 16). He said: "This is the first time in the history of America and no doubt the first time in the history of the world that the head of a great nation has called upon that entire people to pray that war may cease among other and distant nations with whom it was not in conflict. Surely a new day and a new hope are dawning for our own country and the other nations of the earth. The doctrine of brotherhood of all men is beginning to assert itself, and nations as well as individuals are realizing that they are their brothers' keepers." The speaker said: "The kaiser has been urging the people to 'pray God to give victory to our side.' Abraham Lincoln during the civil war urged the people of his country to 'pray God that we may be sure to be on his side.' This latter prayer is the one which we and the belligerent nations need to pray now, and it is the only petition which is sure of an answer. 'Calamities drive individuals and nations to the heart of God.' It is said that there are three times as many people attending church now as there were before the European war started. While the conflict across the waters is awful and must be deprecated by every one, yet it is not an unmixed evil. It is teaching men that only God can give an abiding peace. "The terrible war raging in Europe is bringing to the minds of 'men, as nothing else can, the awful consequences of national sins. Each one of the European nations now at war has been guilty of great crimes against God and humanity, and they are atoning for these sins in the blood of the best of their sons. God makes the wrath of men to praise him and the remainder he restrains. We do well to pray for our brethren across the ocean, and as we pray let us confess our own sins and the sins of our nation and turn from them and make amends for the numberless crimes this country has committed upon the weak of our own land, or God will soon begin to make an inquisition for blood in this country." Large Parochial School in New York. The opening of a large parochial school for colored children in New York the latter part of September by the mother superior of the Sisterhood of the Blessed Sacrament created unusual interest among our people in the city. The enrollment is 380 boys and girls. Other schools for colored children fostered by Miss Catherine Drexel, which were opened on the same date, are one each in Boston, Cincinnati and St. Louis. The total number of schools directly under Miss Drexel's financial supervision is sixteen in various parts of the country. The four schools opened in September, including a home for the sisters in connection with the school in New York, cost over $300,000. Indian children are also admitted to these schools on the same basis as the colored children are. ADVERTICE IN THE STAR DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST.PAUL ective Page VOL. 4 Single Copies 5 Cents RACE PROGRESS IN NEW JERSEY CHANCES FOR ADVANCEMENT Recent Campaign Through Rich Northern Commonwealth Reveals Constructive Work of Its Colored Citizens—How Messrs. Vandervall and Burrell Organized the People. By N. BARNETT DODSON. New York.-The recent four days' tour of Dr. Booker T. Washington through New Jersey has been the means of calling public attention to many historical facts concerning the activities of the colored citizens of the state in the past and of showing what those of the present are doing. It has also centered attention on the great possibilities open to the race to become large landowners, thrifty farmers and leaders in education, business and civic movements. The group of small but thrifty communities in the southwestern part of Essex county, known as the Oranges, has a population of 100,000, of whom 10,000 are colored. These communities are rich in their association of early colonial and antebellum history. The Negro was not an inactive or silent spectator during those stirring times. He participated in every struggle and bravely bore his part in the long contest for liberty of the American colonist. The battles of Springfield and Orange mountain colony and other Revolutionary struggles have indelibly recorded his bravery and valor. During the civil war New Jersey sent more than a regiment of brave black boys and several battalions in the late Spanish-American war. These undeniable facts prove the loyalty, devotion and patriotism of the Negroes of New Jersey in every crisis concerning the safety of the American flag. In the civic affairs of the state he has played well his part. Contesting against every unfair advantage and race proscription, he has maintained himself and gathered the small crumbs of opportunity together and still continues to rise and retain a place among the struggling and progressive masses. In the Oranges he has accumulated nearly $500,000 in real estate, none of which he inherited or received in bequest, but has acquired by sacrifice and labor. Negroes own many large and beautiful church buildings, an Old Folks' home and several fraternal and business buildings. In the charitable work they have contributed, very largely in proportion to their means. Shortly after the war an old colored woman gave her earnings of many years to the work of the temperance cause, and the imposing structure at Main and Commerce streets, Orange valued at more than $50,000, stands on the site bought by the savings of this old pioneer woman, who bequeathed her estate for that work. There remains much yet to be done in this fair commonwealth that these people may have a fair chance in the battle of life. Those that have located in the agricultural districts have done well. Many own large, productive farms and each year, by their push and industry, add to their possessions. The men who organized themselves into a state committee for the purpose of making the trip of Dr. Washington and his party a tremendous success were lmbued with race pride. They were eager for their guests to see the achievements of the race in the state and for the people of the state to see and hear Dr. Washington, who was introduced at one of the meetings by a wealthy and influential white man as one of the truly great men of America. The leading spirit in organizing the various cities and towns for the trip was W. P. Burrell, head of the social settlement work for colored children in East Orange. Mr. Burrell was the executive secretary of the state committee, and upon him devolved the task of arranging for dates and places for all the meetings. In this he was ably assisted by Mr. James N. Vandervall, chairman of the tour committee, together with the local committees in the various towns. There was work enough to have kept several stenographers busy for many weeks, yet this progressive man of great energy and mental strength did practically the whole job. In speaking of how the state organization was perfected Mr. Burrell very wittily says: "There was a convention held, and P. B. W. P. BURBELL. only two persons were present. I made Mr. Vandervall chairman, and Mr. Vandervall nominated me for secretary, and the meeting adjourned." Mr. Burrell is a born organizer and knows how to handle large crowds. He was the soul of wit throughout the tour and made a good impression upon everybody. He is doing a splendid work in East Orange in the conduct of the social settlement work. He has had many years' experience in handling the records of large business and fraternal concerns and is thoroughly competent as an investigator of conditions among our people in the work to which he and Mrs. Burrell are giving their best energy, brain and skill. Mr. Burrell by a master hand linked the eleven cities and towns visited by Dr. Washington and his party into a chain of perfect correspondence, so that the schedule from the start was kept in the minutest detail. The local committee in each town was on hand to receive the visitors, entertain them and then deliver them to their associates in the next place to be visited. In many instances the conveyances used were owned by the members of the committee representing the colored people, and, on the other hand, the white people furnished their autos and other rigs for the use of Dr. Washington and his guests Credit is due every man who co-operated in the work, but everybody agrees that the lion's share belongs to Messrs. Vandervall and Burrell, chairm and secretary respectively. CAPABLE YOUNG MUSICIAN. Miss Georgiana H. Sherman Makes Good on Concert Tour West. Philadelphia, Pa.—There are many young women in this city who are making good and at the same time inspiring others to go forward along all lines of useful endeavor and in this way are helping to work out some of the many hard problems which confront our people. In this number is to be found Miss Georgiana H. Sherman, who is considered a musical wonder. Miss Sherman, though young in years, has had quite a wide experience. By her ability and singleness of purpose she has advanced to the front. She was born in Williamsport, Pa., and received her early training in the public schools of her native town. After finishing the common school course she attended the Dickinson seminary, where she took a thorough course in music. In 1909 her parents moved to this city, and Miss Sherman entered the Royal Conservatory of Music, where she took a course in artistic piano playing. She made good use of her time while studying music, being one of the collectors for the National Benefit association of Washington. As in music, she was a success as a collector. Miss Sherman has accompanied some of the leading singers in this section of the country. In the fall of 1913 she accepted a position with the Southland sextet, America's premier jubilee company. With this company she toured Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, making great hits for herself and company. While on the tour Miss Sherman received many press comments, as well as popular applause. She is a lover of sacred music, in which she specializes. She possesses a rich mezzo soprano voice and aspiries to become an oratorio singer. She is a member of the Union Baptist church here. Since her return from the west she has been active in church work. She is the director of the choir of the Zion Baptist church, Ardmore, Pa., which is one of the leading musical organizations of a religious character in the state. SMOKE THE RELIABLE SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. OCTOBER 16, 1914. OKLAHOMA PAYS HIGH TRIBUTE In Optimistic Address Well Known White Man Says Race Occupies Unique Place In Country's History. Preaches Doctrine of Character as True Measure of Manhood. By WILLIAM H. DAVIS. by WILLIAM D. HAVIS. Okmulgee, Okla.-The high esteem in which Dr. Booker T. Washington is held by the people of both races in Okmulgee and vicinity was never more generously shown than it was on his recent visit to this town. At the meeting held on this occasion Dr. Washington was made welcome in a most timely address delivered by Dr. O. A. Lambert, who in part said; I come today as a representative of the Anglo-Saxon race to bid your people a godspice in every undertaking that will lift them to a better, a higher, a nobler, condition of life. Whether we will it or not, you are a part of our national existence, and in the years gone by the hand of fate has linked your destiny with ours, and you are a part of our meaning. As a people your place in history is unique. Torn from a dark continent of ignorance and superstition by the ruthless hand of greed, enslaved for 400 years by a superior race, redeemed from that bondage by treasures of money and sacrifice of the best blood of a nation and suddenly given all the rights and privileges of citizenship of that nation, you are a nation that unparalleled and as a race stand alone. Believing in the doctrine that character is the true measure of a man that merit is the determining factor in the scale of life and that true worth may be found under a black skin as well as the white skin. The virtues of the nopoly on all the good or all the bad, but that the virtues and the vices flourish alike in all the races under the same conditions of life and environment—with these truths uppermost in our hearts today we can speak the message of cheer and hope to the Afro-American race. Fifty years ago 400,000 of your people were wearing chains of slavery, without property. But today you present yourselves with more than 9,000,000 of people, paying taxes on $700,000,000 worth of property, sustaining more than 40,000 of your own schools, churches and colleges, with representatives of your race permeating all branches of industrial, commercial and intellectual life and activity of the nation. In the south alone there are over 80,000 half a century, it was a crime to teach a Negro to read and write. There are today more than 1,100 instructors in 169 academies, schools and colleges who are graduates of colleges; more than 40,000 Sunday school teachers; more than 1,000 graduate are graduates from theological schools. There are 1,200 lawyers, 1,300 doctors and scores of editors of magazines and newspapers who are engaged in lifting the once benighted and superstitious mind of men into the sunlight of knowledge and truth. To the question "Is the Negro capable of intellectual attainment?" you have given the affirmative by such Afro-American colleges as Wilberforce, Allen, Livingston and Tukegeseb, schools with such intellectual abilities, such as Mitchell, Price and Booker T. Washington. To those who think that the Negro lacks enterprise and business accumen you can point with pride to J. H. Lewis, the second largest merchant tailor in the state of Massachusetts and four in the United States, or to East St. Louis, Mich. one of the largest merchant dealers of the northwest, born an Alabama slave, or to Walter P. Hall, the largest wholesale produce merchant on Market street, Philadelphia. But why take time to specify by name? For they are legion who have entered the industrial world, and for their great ability and thrift in the management of business enterprise. To those who thought the Negro lacking in ingenuity and mechanical skill you can tell, then, of McCoy, who invented the lubricator now in use on nearly all railroad engines, or Lewis H. Latimer, the expert electrician of the New York Electric Light company, who personally invented the construction of light plants in the great cities of England, or W. A. Hezel, the noted designer and decorator. Some of the finest art glass in our churches today are his designs. To those who think you are devoid of culture and love of the esthetic, point them to W. E. Bannister, whose painting "Under the Oaks" won the medal at the Philadelphia exposition in 1874, or Professor Henry O Tanner, who recently sold to the Luxembourg Museum, whose painting "Raising of Lazarus" the second American artist to sell his work to that institution. To those who charge that the Negro lacks physical courage and fortitude let the annals of history answer how at Fort Pillow and Cold Harbor in the war to capture the enemy, and in mercless fire of the enemy in such a manner as to call forth the admiration of the whole country, or, in the Spanish American war, with the well disciplined and fortified Spanish troops pouring a deadly fire from the hill into the faces of the enemy, and in the slips, "My Country, 'Ta of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty," went charging up the hill and saved to the rough riders the victory of San Juan Hill You, sir, have already proved to the world that you have the essential elements, though crude some may be, to become a self supporting, self governing race of people. Give you 400 years of American freedom, American opportunity and possibility and such will be your greatest goal if it be possible for Lincoln, your great deliverer, to look down from the portals of heaven he would little suspect you were the descendants from those from whose limbs he unclosed the shackles. Napoleon once said, "I and time can accomplish all things." This was not true, but we have the faith that God own good time the race problem will be satisfactorily settled, not by violence, not by transportation or segregation, not by social equality or distinction or race mixture, but along the lines of intellectual and industrial attainments by the individual growth of character into true womankind and manhood. By this proof you will be able to you yourself to integrity, wealth and brains prejudices will pass away like the mists before a noonday sun. EDITOR HARRISON'S. PLUCK. Issued His Paper Daily During Recent Odd Fellows' Convention. The National Negro Press association extends congratulations to J. Thomas Harrison, editor of the Cambridge (Mass.) Advocate, on his success in issuing the Advocate daily during the recent convention of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows held in Boston. Mr. Harrison has long been considered one of our most progressive newspaper men of the younger set, and his recent venture confirms the high estimate of his ability to do things worth while. The great number of delegates and visitors to the convention were greatly surprised when they found the news of the convention in the Advocate every day. They at once became interested in the man who had the courage to make such an undertaking, and many sought the office of the sprightly little weekly which had the spunk to make its appearance every day. But this was in Cambridge, the historic New England college town, and the man behind the gun a persistent advocate of the possibilities and manhood rights of his race. What Mr. Harrison has done along this time others may do when the occasion presents itself. One by one our business men are beginning to launch out further into the arena of constructive effort. They are learning that up through difficulties is the way to success, and it is fitting that the race press should lead. The Advocate files the national colors at its head and the name of the press association in a box at the head of its editorial paper. EQUAL RIGHTS LEAGUE Independent Political Organization Battles For Square Doel. The Independent Equal Rights League of Colored Men is sending the following letter to candidates for congress in the various sections of the country: At the seventh annual meeting of the National Independent Equal Rights league, held in New York recently, in the address to the country this paragraph and the questions below appeared: "We advise colored voters to look into the record of every congressman up for re-election, to make an issue of the color segregation practiced by certain cabinet officers and encouaged in bills already introduced into congress. Find out where each candidate stands on these anti-Negro bills and the anti- intermarriage bill and act accordingly." In pursuance of the foregoing the league hereby publicly asks what the attitude of congressional candidates will be, if elected, on the matters above referred to. Will you, if elected, seek to prevail upon the secretary of the treasury and the postmaster general to abolish such segregation of colored government employees as has been instituted under them as to rest room, eating, working and toilet facilities? Will you use your influence, voice and vote against bills to segregate colored clerks and to establish jimcrow cars in the District of Columbia? Will you use your influence, voice and vote against bills making it a crime for colored and noncolored persons to marry in the District of Columbia? Will you favor the enforcement of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, now notoriously nullified in certain states? An early answer will be appreciated. To each of these questions the league requests an answer. New Court of Calanthe Organized. The most recent number of the female branch of the Knights of Pythias in Pittsburgh was organized the latter part of September by Mrs. Mattle V. Wilson and is known as Harmony Court of Calanthe, No. 354. The new court starts off with a membership of thirty and is officered by some of Pittsburgh's most experienced secret society women. Advertise,—It Pays. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR. FROM CLASSROOM TO THE PULPIT Success of Rev. Thomas H. White as Minister NOT AFRAID OF HARD WORK Interesting Account of the Early Struggles and Subsequent Rise of Zealeous Young Baptist Leader Who Is Winning His Laurels at First Church in Clifton Forge, Va. Clifton Forge, Va.-Virginia is giving to the race and country a number of able young men who are making good and who are contributing much to the uplift of the race along all lines. These men are coming fresh from the schools and colleges of the state, well trained and prepared to take hold of any line of business, trade or profession. Among the active men today is to be found the Rev. Thomas H. White, B. D., corresponding secretary of the Baptist state convention and pastor of the Baptist church in Clifton Forge. He was born in King and Queen county, Va.. in October, 1869, and was reared in Richmond, where he spent his boyhood days. His church memborship dates back to 1887, when he was received into the First Baptist church, Richmond, Va., by baptism He became a trained Sunday school teacher, graduating under Professor J. Hugo Johnston and the late Dr. D Webster Davis. His Sunday school class graduated in 1888 and was declared by Dr. Griffith of the American Baptist Publication society to be the first class to graduate from a regular Sunday school course in Richmond He believed in the young men going to the front; hence he was one of the founders of the Y. M. C. A. in Richmond, Va. He was determined to get an education and declared that the world should know that he was in it, and to that THOMAS H. WHITE, B. D. and he worked zealously as a student. He served as assistant pastor to the late Rev. James H. Holmes at the First Baptist church in Richmond. It was while serving in this position that he entered the Virginia Theological seminary and college at Lynchburg, Va., which was then known as the Virginia seminary. He made good as a student, finished his course, and after a short time his alma mater called him back to teach higher mathematics. While connected with the school he also taught church polity and pastored the Mount Carmel Baptist church. While thus employed Dr. White took unto himself a bride, Miss Martha A. Harper of Richmond, and soon afterward accepted a call from the Baptist church in Harrisonburg, Va., where he remained a little over a year. His reputation as a preacher and pastor became widely known, and he resigned from the Harrisonburg church to accept the call of the First Baptist church at Clifton Forge in 1902, of which he has since been the pastor, rendering good service to his church, to his race and the community at large. In this church are to be found some of the wealthiest people of our race in the state. Rev. Dr. White is an able temperance lecturer. Dr. White is a public spirited man as well as a recognized leader of his people. He has made a number of public addresses before large audiences and every time he has won laurels for himself and his people. The Salem (Va.) Times in speaking of an address which he delivered in that town had the following to say: "The orator of the day, Rev. Thomas H. White, is quite a young man, but the flow of eloquence, fine rhetoric and wonderful comparisons contained in his speech put him alongside of Langston, Douglass and Price. He gained the attention of his audience from the start, and for two hours, without manuscript, he held his hearers, while at times the applause was defening. At times his words were cutting, but the end was consoling. This wonderful boy orator closed with 'My Country, "Tis of Thee."" Dr. White is a busy preacher, and when he is not looking after his flock he is working in his garden. He supplies many of the stores with lettuce, potatoes and other vegetables. He is the finest lettuce grower around Clifton Forge. He has made lettuce growing a special study and supplies the community with products raised on his little garden farm. DR. WALDRON'S PEACE TALK. Washington Pastor Lauda President Wilson's Proclamation in Sermon. Washington. The Rev. Dr. J. Milton Waldron in his "peace sermon" at Stilob Baptist church in this city on Sunday, Oct. 4. in part said: "President Wilson is a good Bible student as well as a good politician. His proclamation calling upon the American nation to pray for the cessation of the European war proves that he has studied patiently and faithfully the holy Scriptures as well as the history of mankind or he would not have seen the necessity of coupling contrition and confession of sins by this nation with its petitions for mercy upon other nations. The president's call to prayer is not only a great state paper; it is a wonderful treatise on prayer and is worthy of a permanent place in the religious literature of the country." Dr. Waldron used as his text the following passages of Scripture: "Pray one for another" (James v. 16). "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you" (John xiv, 27). "Acquaint now thyself with God and be at peace, thereby good shall come to thee" (Job v. 16). He said: "This is the first time in the history of America and no doubt the first time in the history of the world that the head of a great nation has called upon that entire people to pray that war may cease among other and distant nations with whom it was not in conflict. Surely a new day and a new hope are dawning for our own country and the other nations of the earth. The doctrine of brotherhood of all men is beginning to assert itself, and nations as well as individuals are realizing that they are their brothers' keepers." The speaker said: "The kaiser has been urging the people to 'pray God to give victory to our side.' Abraham Lincoln during the civil war urged the people of his country to 'pray God that we may be sure to be on his side.' This latter prayer is the one which we and the belligerent needs need to pray now, and it is the only petition which is sure of an answer. "Calamities drive individuals and nations to the heart of God." It is said that there are three times as many people attending church now as there were before the European war started. While the conflict across the waters is awful and must be deprecated by every one, yet it is not an unmixed evil. It is teaching men that only God can give an abiding peace. "The terrible war raging in Europe is bringing to the minds of 'men, as nothing else can, the awful consequences of national sins. Each one of the European nations now at war has been guilty of great crimes against God and humanity, and they are atoning for these sins in the blood of the best of their sons. God makes the wrath of men to praise him and the remainder he restrains. We do well to pray for our brethren across the ocean, and as we pray let us confess our own sins and the sins of our nation and turn from them and make amends for the numberless crimes this country has committed upon the weak of our own land, or God will soon begin to make an inquisition for blood in this country." Large Parochial School in New York. The opening of a large parochial school for colored children in New York the latter part of September by the mother superior of the Sisterhood of the Blessed Sacrament created unusual interest among our people in the city. The enrollment is 300 boys and girls. Other schools for colored children fostered by Miss Catherine Drexel, which were opened on the same date, are one each in Boston, Cincinnati and St. Louis. The total number of schools directly under Miss Drexel's financial supervision is sixteen in various parts of the country. The four schools opened in September, including a home for the sisters in connection with the school in New York, cost over $300,000. Indian children are also admitted to these schools on the same basis as the colored children are. ADVERTICE IN THE STAR — | |, ‘ eee Oe | Lied iss | | es | “ ee von ‘ 5 vf f id E if SE). Cea | y & ‘ se i od A a ] ¢ ajie, | 5 rh —— aan k . i 4 a A 3 o HH . ‘ a l SPS PTL i Ss THE CASON BROS. ORCHESTRA ate They will furnish Music for all Enter-tainments. Reasonable rates. Satis-faction a Certainty. REGISTER! OCTOBER 24. EME Sg Remember! October agth is the last|| al ~~ and only day for Registration. If| | 74 oe you did not vote at the Primary Elec-| | ‘ tion you have @ chance to Register| || OCTOBER 24th and vote at the Gen-| | 7] eral Election on Nov. 3rd, 1914. Reese. . The Knights of Pythias drew a good crowd to Dreamland on Monday night. In spite of the inclement weather there was a large attendance of fashionably gowned women and well dressed men—which presented a fairy land scene, when they glided to the strains of McCullough's Orchestra ANOTHER HARVEST BALL. Next Thursday evening, Oct. 22 1914, Judge Johnson will give another Harvest Ball at Union Temple, 28 Washington Ave. Minneapolis. Re- member that I am desirous of giving all my friends an evening of pleasure. Don't fail to attend! and enjoy your- self.—Resp’y. Judge Johnson.—Adver- Giemect: i | | | = | er i J‘ iat; | OP. oe | i MR. FRANK PEOPLES. F. Peoples Real Estate Compan) Now is the time to make hay while the sun shines. On account of the war which is raging in Europe it has caused the white people of this city to open wide their hearts toward the Colored People. I have for sale the greatest bargains ever offered ir Minneapolis to the Colored man for such small payments down, as low as $25, or $100 up to $500 first payment for 5, 6, 7 and 8 room, all moderr houses, on the best streets in South Minneapolis, such as: — Lyndale Aldrich, Fifth Ave, Fourth Ave. Clinton Ave., 1st, 2nd and 3rd Ave. nues, Stevens, Bryant, Pillsbury, Col umbus, Oakland, Chicago, Nicéllet Park, 1th, roth, Elliott, r2th, 13th 1gth, Ave, and all over the: North Side and Minnehaha Districts. The prices range from $2,000 up, with payments the same as rent. Remember, when you buy from F Peoples Real Estate Firm, it mean: that you are dealing with an hones! and reliable man, and that you ge just what you pay your earnest mone) down for or your money back. W¢ also see that your titles are clear and will explain to yor thoroughl just what your monthly payments wil be including interest. Anyone interested in these bar. gains, please call at the office, 2g¢ Boston Block, as we give no informa tion over the phone concerning thes locations, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Settliz, daughte and son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. W Wheeldin of 418 Rondo St, left Wed nesday morning for Texas to make their home. - Mr. and Mrs.“B. Archer of Wester Ave, have installed a new heating plant in their cozy home, Mr. and Mrs. Cleat Oliver will en- tertain the “Whist Club” on Oct. roth the 4th anniversary of their marriage Leave your Subscriptions and Printing at TWIN CITY STAR PRINTERS, 1402 Washington Ave. So Choice workmanship, Regular Prices. @ENB YOUR SUBSCRIPTION atest ase Te eae) ee ~ | a a. | a be” ‘ a - —_™ y Dr, Valdo Turner of St. Paul. Dr. Turner has arranged a Health Program for Sunday, Oct. 25, The Physicians of the Twin Cities will speak at Pilgrim Baptist Church at 8 P.M. HEALTH SUNDAY, OCT. 25, At Pilarin Bantiet Church The National Medical Association at its last Convention, set aside Octo- ber 25 to be observed by Colored Physicians as a Health Day. It was suggested that the colored ministers be asked to say something in. their services at sometime during that day concerning the health of the colored people and the-edléted nfen if tite profession. President F. S. Hargrave has just issued a proclamation to-that effect. In accordance with this Dr. Val Do Turner has arranged a pro- gram at Pilgrim Baptist Church for Sunday evening, Oct. 25, 1914, at which all the Physicians and Dentists of the Twin Cities will have some- thing to say—Dr. Valdo Turner. REP, E, J. WESTLAKE TO . "SPEAK at St. James A. M .E, Church. Representative E. J. Westlake, can- didate for Senator will speak at St. James Church on Sunday evening, Oct. asth. He is a consistent friend of the Negroes. He is always interest- ing as a speaker and has been very active, wherever their interests were involved. Rev. Edwards invites every- body to attend his services on Sun- day evening. Come and hear Mr. Westlake, who is a recognized friend to the Negro citizens, and one of our leading business: men of the com- munity. Madame M. Hart, the milliner of St. Paul, has decided to move her business to Minneapolis. Success to Madam Hart, Miss Dorothy Morris has moved to 516 12th Ave. So. Mr. James Branch is confined to his home with rheumatism. MARRIAGE NOTICE. Mr. Walter Evans and Miss Cecil Ferstone were quietly married by Rev. T. J. Carter on Oct. 14, at their residence, 6or sth St. No., in the pres- ence of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Gibson. After the ceremony a delicious supper was served. A political candidate's record cov- ers a multitude of promises. Attorney O. M. Peabody is our choice for Judge of Probate ‘Court. Wm. E, Lee for Governor. Register Oct. 24. Don't forget to attend Prof. Ellis Dancing Class on Thursday night. Reserve your space for Excursions, Picnics and Dances. Take the ad- vantage of our advertising columns Buy the Star+ Send your personals Place your advertisements Pay your subscriptions Mrs. H. 1, Williams 8 Union Block, St, Paul, TWIN CITY STAR Sa BETHESDA BAPTIST. CHURCH ; xath Ave. So. and 8th St. Rev, T. J. Carter, Pastor. Residence 611 E. 16 St, Minneapolis Sunday Services ) 11 A. M... Dr. C. H. Duvall of Cal- ‘fornia will preach. |. 12:30 P, M. Sunday School. 6:30 P.M. B.Y. P. U. 8 P, M. Inauguration of B. Y. P, U. officers, Evangelistic: Services, All are welcome. The People's Christian Mission, REV. G. W. MITCHELL, PASTOR. 1204 Washington Ave: Se, ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH, 318 8th Ave. So, Minneapolis, : Rev. E, R. Edwards, Pastor. ST. PETER'S A. M. E. CHURCH. 2and St. near roth Ave. So. REV. J. §, S1 Rev. Thos. B. Stovall, Pastor. Will Establish 2 Morning Topic:—“Faith in God the| Rev, Strong has rec Road to Sussess.” from Bishop Lee to ¢ Evening Topic:—“The Business Side| sion in St. Paul, and of the Church.” with the work. He is —_—_. business man, and we BIBLE AND MISSIONARY | mand for this institut CLASSES. aS to Conducted by Rev. E. W. Gillis, All are invited. Monday Evenings Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Lewis, 3131 Findley Pt. Tuesday Evenings Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Raynor, 413 11 Ave. No. Wednesday Evenings Mrs. Belle Walker, 3629 4 Ave. So. ‘Thursday Evenings Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Briggs, 524 7th Ave. No. Friday Evenings Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Edwards, ‘4601 Zenith Ave. So. Mrs. W. R. Donovan, 2017 Jame: Ave. No. entertained’ at dinner or Saturday evening in honor of Mrs Victoria Clay-Haley of St. Louis, Mo- Those present were Mesdames A. G Gould, T. J. Carter, Luther Abbey an¢ Mr. Chas. Sumner Smith. Mrs, Haley spent the evening with Mrs. Donovan. Owing to illness she was unable to appear at St. Peter's A. M. E. Church on Sunday to speak on the work of the Allen Christian Endeavor League Mrs. Val Do Turner is ‘taking the regular Classical Course at the State University, specializing in Sociology. The Adelphi Club met this weck with Mrs. D. E. Beasley. The “ar- rangements for the series. of winter meetings were made. 4 Mrs. Nellie Francis left Tuesday morning for Mankato, Minn, to at- tend the Minnesota State Baptist As- sociation. She is a delegate from Pilgrim Baptist Church. Mrs. Francis accompanied Mrs. Haley as far as Mankato, | 7a ¢ Dr Valdo Turner was confined home this week with quincy sore throat. The Executive Committee of the Society for the Advancement of Col- ored People met Thursday evening i Plymouth Congregational Church. Twin City Dancing Club. The Twin City Dancing Club gave their first ball on Wednesday even- ing at Kistler’s Hall, which was very well attended. Cason Bros. furnished splendid music to the enjoyment of all present. A delicious punch was served. Dancing continued till 12:30. The committee Messrs. L. Anderson, B. M. McDew, Nathan Hawkins and C.F, Stevens spared no pains to make the affair a success. New St. Paul Agent. Mrs. H. D. Williams of St. Paul, ig the new agent of the Twin City Star, Mrs. William may be found in Atty. Francis’ office, where she is employed as stenographer. We request that all persons in St. Paul, having business with the Star, will consult Mrs. Wil liams as she is authorized to manage the St. Paul agency of the Twin City Star—Editor. MRS. H. I. WILLIAMS. TYPEWRITER, STENOGRAPHER Atty. Francis’ office. 8 Union Block, St. Paul, Minn, A Grand Pageant Parade of Negro Women in History will be given at St. James Chuch, St. Paul, on Tues- day evening, Oct. 20. Proceeds for Attuck’s Home. Admission 15 cents: FURNISHED ROOM—Cheap rent, near car line, comfortable and com: venient. Call at 1522 sth St. So, Minneapolis, Mrs. A. G. Charleston. Mr. Lewis Ewing is the new matt Ager of the Porters’ and’ Waiters Club and Hotel, 311 Hennepin Ave, Cason Bros.’ Orchestra is making good. DAN'S RESTAURANT 306 So. grd St, Minneapolis © HOME COOKING My Specialty N. W. Main 2767 i Deniel Williams, Prop. 3 | I REV. J. §. STRONG, ‘Will Establish a Mission, Rev, Strong has received authority from Bishop Lee to establish a mis- sion in St. Paul, and is going ahead with the work. He is ‘a well known business man, and we realize the de- mand for this institution. PAID ADVERTISEMENT Arranged and prepared by Wm. R. Morris, 1020 Metropolitan Life Build- ing, Minneapolis, Minn., on behalf of Hon. John A. Dahl, for which $1.00 is to be paid. = <a ee ce . oe a JOHN A DAHL, Judge of Probate Court, Candidate for Re-Election. ‘The present highly efficient, able and capable Judge of the Probate Court of Hennepin County, Hon, John A. Dahl, is a candidate for re-election. The careful, competent, satisfactory and prompt manner in which he has for the past twenty-one minths dis- patched and disposed of the large, ever increasing and important busi- ness ofQis Court ought to insure his re-election by an overwhelming ma- jority. POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT Prepared by C. S. Smith on behalf of Thomas Kneeland, for which $1.00 per inch is to be paid. HON. THOS, KNEELAND, Candidate for Re-election for Representative of gist District. Hon. Thos. Kneeland is again a can: didate for re-election to the Legis lature from the 31st District. He is well known to the voters of Henne pin County, having sérved severa terms in the House. Mr. Kneelanc is an able lawyer, with offices a $54 Security Bank’Building, He ha: always stood for the rights of Ne groes against the passage of discrim inatory legislation, and deserves thei support. Friends and members of St. Phil- lips Episcopal Church had cause on last Sunday to feel proud of its choir, which under the direction of Miss Mae Williams, marched in the proces- sional with many other vested choirs from all over the state to the Audi- torium, where they sang on a special program «with six hundred other sing- ers at the United Missionary Meeting. Something over six hundred dollars were collected for foreign missions. Clifford A. Smith, ‘the tailor, has moved to 421 University Ave, St. Paul. Clifford is a successful business man. He moves with the crowd and keeps up with the times. ‘If you wish to help this publication. Send your subscription by Post office order. Rev. Jackson in Des Moines, Rev. E. G. Jackson, the newly ap- pointed pastor of St. Paul’s 4. M. E. church, accompanied by his family, arrived in the city last Sunday morn- ing and is now located in the parson- age at 1045 West Thirteenth street. Rey. Jackson's delay in arriving was caused in part by the serious illness of his aged mother, who makes her home with him, and-who at this writ- ing is lying very low with a severe attack of heart trouble, and the pray- ers of the entire congregation are be- ing sent up for her recovery. Rev. Jackson comes highly recommended as an eloquent pulpit minister, in the prime of life, and_it is hoped that that high type of Christian minister will be maintained in our city. We all cordially welcome Rev. Jackson to our city and state. —The Iowa Bystander. Rev. Jackson was an active social worker and a Christian leader in this city. He was highly respected as a clergyman of ability. We hope for the recovery of his aged mother, and wish him success in his new field. th io FP ea Es on eo as Fe a x oe ee bv acter ie Eng nape Pres. Woman's Suffrage Club. SUFFRAGE CLUB ORGANIZED On Monday evening Oct. 12th, 25 ladies met at Zion Presbyterian Church to hear Mrs. Victoria Clay Haley, Mrs. Lewis M. Benepe, Mrs Lenora Austin Hamlin and Miss Nicholas of »Red Wing, Minn, on Woman's Suffrage. A suffrage club was organized for the purpose of studying the question of the equal balot. The following officers were elected: Mrs, W. T. Francis, Presi- dent; Mrs. J. E. Johnson, Vice Presi- dent; Mrs. S. L. Maxwell, Secretary; Mrs. Samuel Hatcher, Treasurer. The public will be notified of the next meeting. FEDERATION ENTERTAINS MRS HALEY. The Ladies of the Twin City Fed- eration of Afro-American Woman's Club held a reception at the residence of Mrs. Bertie High, 674 St. Anthony Ave. on Oct. 9, in honor of their visiting guest, Mrs. Victoria Clay- Haley, the Asst. Sec’y of the National Federation. The evening was pleas- antly spent. Mrs. Haley gave a read- ing which proved her ability as an artist. Mrs. Brightie Mead Lowe, pianist, rendered the latest musical selections. which were much enjoyed. Ice cream and cake was served and a delicious fruit punch. Those pres- ent were Mesdames Geo. W. Wills, Carrie Lindsay, Cora Grissom, Lillian Turner, Lulu Chapman, Jennie Laz- enbury, M. Hart, Francis Bromley; Mrs. H. I. Williams, James Vass, Geo. W. James, Nat. Goins, John Wilson, W. H. Parker, Carrie Anderson, An- na Belle Harris, Gibson Owens, Es- tella Lee, J. W. Cloak, Mrs. Henry High; Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Hood, ‘Mr..and Mrs. W. T. Francis, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hanley, Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson, Jr.; Misses Myrtle Mae Wil- liams, Mamie Goins, Lulu Howard, Messrs. Andrew Jackson, Geo. B. Lowe, Edw. J. Williams, W. F. T. Chandler and Chas. Sumner Smith. Misses Bertha Morgan — Kidd, Martha Goins and Nellie Cloak served at the punch bowl. Mrs. Haley was the recipient of many compli- ments and was extneded a hearty in- vitation to return again to the Twin Cities, where she had made such < creditable showing for her race. Mrs. Haley was the guest of Editor Smith on Monday afternoon. They visited the T. B. Walker Art Gallery, The New Palace Theatre, and city officials, the City Hall, the Mayor and Matron Shaeffer, who was especi- ally interested in Mrs. Haley's work An hour was spent in the Matron’s parlors. Mrs. Haley was shown the Women’s departments which is under the direct supervision of the Matron Tha welfare of Negro girls was dis- cussed and Mrs. Haley’s visit was most profitable. The Memorial Hall of the G. A. R. was also visited. Few states have such complete quarters for the men and women of the G. A. R as we have in Minnesota. A trip was made to the tower of Metropolitan Building-and through Boutell’s Store, and Mrs. Haley declared she had spent a very profitable afternoon. Paid Advertisement. Ordered by Geo. C. Merrill, 900 Phoenix Bldg. for which $1.00 per inch has been paid. i OTRAS, i I oe | - | . | ie id GEO. C. MERRILL. Candidate for CITY TREASURER Geo. C. Merrill received the non- partisan nomination for city treasurer and is a candidate for election to that office in the coming election of Ne- vember 3rd. Mr, Merrill has recided in Minne- apolis for thirty-two years, He is president of Merrill Abstract ‘Company. | Was one of the organizers and first president of the Metropolitan Bank. ‘Was Register of Deeds 1901-1906. Was graduated ‘from the Law De- vartment of the U. of M., and admit- ted to the Bar of Minnesota in 1895. LEARN SHORTHAND. Owing to difficulty experienced by our young Colored men and women in securing instruction in the Busi- ness Colleges in St. Paul, Mrs. W. T. Francis has been asked to give reg- ular evening instruction in Shorthand, and those desiring to join an organ- ‘ized class in shorthand may do so by applying to Mrs. Francis, 606 St. Anthony Avenue, Regular class-work begins October {%—(Advertisement.) N. W. Main 2936. -T. S. Center 1270. REAL, ESTATE. . RENT Do you want to BUY SELL See ROBERT HAYWARD tsor Washington Ave. So., Minn. ae eee ee A “Kid” Martin, Prop. N. W. Nic. 1250 MARTIN’S ROOMS Newly Furnished — Steam Heated Electric Lighted—Near Car Line 205 11th AVE. SO. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. J Judge Johnson's Dances Judge Johnson will hold his dances every 2nd and 4th Thursday evening —at Union Temple Hall, 28 Washing- ton Ave. So. Admission asc, Special nights 35c. You can get a good meal, clean service, and courteous attention at the St. Louis Kitchen. 138 E. Third ‘St. St. Paul. Mrs. Hinson is univer- sally Known for her xeod cooking. ST. LOUIS KITCHEN, 188 E. 3rd St. ‘St. Paul, Minn.—Advertisement. .. PAID ADVERTISEMENT. Prepared and Inserted by George F, Womrath, Secretary, fur which $6.00 are to be paid. -_=" | fo ee ——-— = oe ee li. | eS LI ’ CANDIDATE FOR Fifth Congressional District Comprising, 1st, 2nd, sth, 6th, 7th, 8th, oth, 11th, 12th and 13th Wards of CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS and TOWN OF ST. ANTHONY. ‘Headquarters, 7o1-703 West Hotel, Defective Page ective Page DO YOU WANT TO BE WELL DRESSED? THEN I AM YOUR TAILOR. SUITS $25.00 OVERCOATS $25.00 Cleaning Pressing Repairing CLIFFORD A. SMITH. 421 UNIVERSITY AVE., ST. PAUL 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 9592 The Porters and Waiters Club Incorporated Waiters for Parties Furnished Also Porters 311 Hennepin Ave. Mpls LEWIS EWING, MANAGER. SMOKE THE BEST 5C CIGAR Sight Draft W. S CONRAD 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, 89-99 Union Block, St. Paul. Dr. John R. French DENTIST 304 Kendrick Bleeck (27 E. 7th St.) Tel. Cedar 9P04 ST. PAUL, MINN. DR. W. H. WRIGHT. DENTIST. Phone Nic. 1963 111 So. 6th St Minneapolis, Minn. OVER 65 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a letter to MUNN & Co. may receive our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. Communication is probably not patentable. Patents sent free. Great agency for securing patents. Patents taken through MUNN & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handcomputer illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Terns, $3 a year, four months. $4. Sold by all intermediaries. MUNN & Co. 384 Broadway, New York Branch Office, 635 F. St., Washington, D.C. Electric Player Plans Regulated. HENRY R. MORGAN. Piano Tuning 244 13th AVE. So. MINNEAPOLIS PHONE NIC. 1354. --- F. C. L. Hon. Thos. D. Schall is again a candidate for Congress. He is well known to the people of Minnesota and the voters of Hennepin Co. Mr. Schall made a remarkable record as the Progressive Candidate for Congress last election. He is a believer in the progressive principles and despite his affliction, is qualified to fill his position. Mr. Schall is blind, the result of an accident received from an electrical flash while lighting a cigar, after winning one of the greatest battles of his legal career. He has since that time practiced law in this city, maintaining a large number of clients. His success, in spite of affliction, is a guarantee of extraordinary ability. His wife, is a faithful business partner, and is constantly associated with his legal affairs. Mr. Schall is a recognized orator. The following testimonials speak for themselves. "Schall will be for Minnesota what the blind Senator Gore is for Oklahoma. He is a self-made man, of sterling character. His remarkable success as a practicing lawyer has made him a professional qualities. He is a man of exceptional agility and an able and brilliant speaker. As a congressman he will be a credit to our State. He has my unquestionable respect. Dr. Richard Burton, Chair of English Literature, University of Minnesota. "He is one of the best, perhaps the best speaker we have ever graduated from the University of Minnesota."—Cyrus Northrop, President Emeritus. "His character as a man and a citizen is preponderant."—Jas. C. Haynes, Ex-Mayor, Minneapolis. "He is logical, polished and forceful."—Jas. Gray, Ex-Mayor, Minneapolis. "He is an ideal orator."—John Greer, Principal Central High, Minneapolis. Principal Central High, Minneapolis, As a speaker he has but few equals." Pa- rish. "He is remarkably gifted as a public speaker."—G. H. Bridgeman, D. D., former President Hamline University. "Mr. Schall has unusual oratorical powers. He will delight and any audience."—Rev. Charles Bayard Mitchell, D. D. "I heartily endorse Thos. D. Schall for Congress."—Judge Milton D. Purdy. "He is the most brilliant speaker we have ever had at the University."—E. E. McDermott, Chair of Oratory, University of Minnesota. I know of no young man who is so knowledgeable to discharge the duties of a legislator as Thomas D. Schall. My association with him, as a class-mate in the College of Law, gave me an opportunity to know him intimately and to mentor him as orator and believes in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man—W. T. Francis. "State Forests Day" Proclamation. Whereas the last legislature passed a measure known as "No. 9, the State Forests Amendment," providing that such lands lands as are better fit ted for growing forests than for farming be set aside and be managed by the state as State Forests; and. Whereas Amendment No. 9 is to be submitted to popular vote November 3rd, it is worthy of careful consideration by everyone interested in the public welfare; and. Whereas this measure will affect particularly the public school fund, it is deemed fitting and proper that the subject of "State Forests" receive particular consideration in our public schools. Therefore, Wednesday, October 28, 1914, is designated as "State Forests Day", to be observed in every public school with appropriate exercises and discussions upon the subject of State Forests in their relation to the public well-being. A. O. Eberhart, Governor. C. G. Schulz Supt. of Education. PAYING THE COST. The Ione E. Gibbs Club of the Federated Woman's Clubs secured a loan of $15.00 from one of the club owners. It has not been paid, and may not be. This is why the club men can get so much protection from the "society ladies." It seems that this clubman did not intend to give this sum, but he has been a victim of social highway-women. It costs to be in S-o-c-i-e-t-y of this kind. WRITE THE NEWS. Many items of interest about town we would be glad to print if the people would write us. Don't phone. That makes us write. Get a postal and plainly write your matter, attaching name and address. Please send nothing scandalous. We get enougli of that in the air. TWIN CITY STAR RURAL VOTE TO ELECT WM. E. LEE Responsibility of Republican Success in Minnesota Rests on Shoulders of Country Voter. Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 13.—It is the country vote of Minnesota that decides state elections, but if the country vote does not turn out, the cities exercise more than their proper share of influence. The democrats and their allies, the state brewery machine, are centering tremendous efforts in the three large cities of the state. The vote is sure to come out in the cities, and if the cities should control the coming election, William E. Lee might be defeated. If the farmers and the dwellers in small cities and villages in Minnesota in November 3, there will be "nothing to it." With the republican state committees making every effort bend now toward getting the vote out. They have nothing to fear from a full and free expression of the choice of Minnesota voters. William E. Lee is strong with the farmers and rural dwellers of Minnesota. In the primaries he carried the state outside of Hennepin, Ramsey and St. Louis counties by 20,000. He lost those three counties by nearly 4,000. He carried Hennepin by 2,530 votes, but lost St. Louis by 2,440, which nearly offset Hennepin, and he lost Ramsey by 3,991 votes. Outside the three counties the vote stood: Eberhart, 55,794; Lee, 76,172. The three large counties in the general election of 1912 cast 31 per cent of the total vote. Democrats are stronger in the cities than they are in the country. In the primary of June 16 there were 195,222 republican cast for governor, and of these 58,643, 10,000 were three large counties. These counties cast 15,272 of the total democratic vote of 42,775, or 36 per cent. It is also worth noting that of the 2,874 progressive party votes cast in the primary, 1,223 or 46 per cent were cast in the three large counties. It is evident that Lee's greatest strength, and the republican party strength in general, lies in the country, and it behooves Mr. Lee's friends in the country districts of the state to get their neighbors out to vote. Lee is pretty sure to carry Hennepin county again, but the democrats are fighting hard for it, and Ramsey is likely to go for Hammond by a good margin. Mr. Lee has developed splendidly in the qualities of an aggressive campaigner. He is inspired by the justice of his cause and has warmed to his task splendidly. He came back with a stunner of a reply to Mr. Hammond's Red Wing speech. Mr. Lee's speech at Buffalo put Mr. Hammond right where he belongs, in the limelight as the brewers' apologist and as there can be the chance will be the limit. The issue is very clearly presented now to the voters. Nobody will have any excuse for misunderstanding it. Mr. Lee, at Buffalo, showed clearly that democrats were the political backbone of the brewery political machine, but he did not deny that republicans have had a hand in it, too. Some of the brewery-retained men in the republican party are known to be working their heads off now to elect Mr. Hammond. They are doing it secretly, of course, but they are lining up strikers and hangers-on, distributing brewery money to them and teaching them stories to be repeated by word of mouth, stirring up prejudice against Lee in every conceivable way. Fred B. Lynch, democratic patronage boss of Minnesota, and the man who made Mr. Hammond a candidate for governor, knows that his prestige in Minnesota and at Washington will suffer by Hammond's defeat. He has been in Washington calling for help, and sent back word that he had induced President Wilson to write a letter urging the election of Hammond and of democratic candidates for congress. Mr. Lynch also announced that William J. Bryan will come to the Twin Cities to speak on Oct. 27. Now there is a lot of speculation as to what Mr. Bryan will say about Hammond, if anything at all. In the first place, Mr. Bryan's strong views on county option are well known. Because Mayor Jim Dahman, of Omaha, who was nominated for governor by the democrats of Nebraska, me out against county option, Mr. Bryan openly bolted in 1910. Now that Mr. Hammond has taken the same position as Dahman, how can Bryan advocate his election, is the query. Minnesota democrats also remember the terrific scoring Wm. J. Bryan gave Hammond on the program of the big democratic dinner in St. Paul on June 1, 1911. Mr. Bryan had been denouncing the democratic leaders in the house for not putting raw wool on the free list. On arrival in St. Paul he gave out an interview terming Oscar Underwood and the other members of the ways and means committee protectionists. Mr. Hammond also arrived and gave out an interview defending his committee's action. When called on at the dinner Mr. Hammond avoided the subject carefully. With an appeal for harmony he adroitly passed the tip to Bryan to keep off the troublesome topic. This only aroused the Commoner, and he waded right in, denouncing the democratic leaders for perpetuating "the backbone of the protective system." "Talk about harmony," shouted Bryan, with fashing eyes, fixing Hammond with his gaze. "You can't have harmony under that kind of leadership unless you betray party principles." Bryan is not a man to compromise or recent his views. If he comes to Minnesota, it is pretty certain that his speeches will deal in generalities and in exxtolting the Wilson administration. If Fred B. Lynch loses out on Hammond and fails to send any democrats to congress from Minnesota, he may lose his grip on federal patronage. "We should worry," say the anti-Lynch democrats.-Republican. ENERGETIC BUSINESS MAN. Value of a Fixed Aim Exemplified in Success of W. L. Todd. Boston, Mass.—In almost every walk of life there are members of the race engaged in some line of gainful occupation. There are young men all about us who are making good that the world scarcely knows anything about, but they are going on just the same doing their work well and their examples are worthy of emulation. In this number is to be found William L. Todd of this city. Mr. Todd was born in Windsor, N. C., where he got his early school training, and took on his finishing touch at the St. Paul school, Lawrenceville, Va., which is one of the leading schools of its class in the country. For a long time it was thought that Mr. Todd would enter the ministry, but his lot was thrown in another direction, and he soon found his place. Like men who want to succeed, he found it necessary to further prepare himself for his chosen work, so he entered the James Coyne State Steam Engineering school. He was an exceptional student and received much encouragement from the members of the faculty. It was a case where merit alone won. After finishing at the school he soon found work as a stationary A. S. S. engineer and was so authorized under the laws of Massachusetts and the ordinance of the city of Boston. Mr. Todd is one of the busiest men in Boston, and he is making his way up. He has many friends among all the people, and his success has been through industry, honesty, reliability and thrift. His word has had much to do with his standing, and he said that in Boston, when he says a thing, the people all believe him, because he has been careful in his calculations. Not only is he up on engineering, but he knows the automobile to the extent that he can all but make one. He is prepared to build one from the bottom up. When it comes to repalring an automobile he is considered among the experts, Mr. Todd married Miss Marie Matthews of British Gulana, a talented young woman, a few years ago. They are now working together for the moral, intellectual and spiritual uplift of the young people of the race in this city. RECORD OF OCCUPATIONS. Statistics Showing How Afro-Americans Are Employed North and South. The latest statistics showing the percentage of colored persons engaged in professional work in the south and north indicate growth. In the south 2.5 per cent are engaged in the professions, such as physicians, lawyers, dentists, schoolteachers and the like In the various trades, 6.5 per cent; in manufacturing and mechanical work, 7 per cent; domestic service, 30 per cent, and in agricultural pursuits, 53 per cent. Members of the race in the north who are similarly engaged show the following percentage: In the professions, 8 per cent; in agriculture, 5 per cent; in the trades, 14 per cent; business and transportation, 17 per cent, and in domestic service, 60 per cent, against 30 per cent of those engaged in the same occupation in the southern states. Autumn Exposition Held in New York. An autumn exposition, showing the progress of the colored people in Greater New York, was held at the Manhattan Casino in New York city from Sept. 28 to Oct. 3, inclusive. The exhibits were numerous and gave evidence of much skill and fine workmanship on the part of the exhibitors. The affair was promoted by Messrs. Alex Rogers, Fred R. Moore, Lester A. Walton, Romeo L. Dougherty, Jesse A. Shipp, Edward Warren and Leigh R. Whipper. After paying the expenses of the exposition the balance of the proceeds will be divided among charitable institutions conducted by our people in Greater New York and vicinity. S. B. Turner Nominated For Assembly. At the recent primary election held in Chicago S. B. Turner was nominated by the Republicans for the general assembly. Turner received 1,532 votes, defeating his opponent. A. H. Robinson, by 227. Mr. Turner is editor of the Illinois Idea, an eight page neway and reliable weekly. The members of the National Negro Press association congratulate Editor Turner upon his nomination and hope for his election. Isn't This Reough? Ella—A poet wrote a sonnet on my face the other day. Stella—Did he write it on the lines? WILLIAM L. 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SUITS $25.00 OVERCOATS $25.00 Cleaning Pressing Repairing CLIFFORD A. SMITH. 421 UNIVERSITY AVE., ST. PAUL 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 9592 The Porters and Waiters Club Incorporated Waiters for Parties Furnished Also Porters 311 Hennepin Ave. Mpls LEWIS EWING, MANAGER. SMOKE THE BEST 5C CIGAR Sight Draft W. S CONRAD 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, Nic. 1963 Res. Celfax 1638. DR. J. H. REDD, Physician and Surgeon. 111 SO. 6TH ST. Minneapolis, Minn. WM. T. FRANCIS Attorney and Counsellor at Law, 89-00 Union Block, St. Paul. Dr. John R. French DENTIST 804 Kendrick Bleeck (27 E. 7th St.) Tel. Cedar 9804 ST. PAUL, MINN. DR. W. H. WRIGHT. DENTIST. Phone Nic. 1963 111 So. 6th St Minneapolis, Minn. OVER 65 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch or description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable. HANDBOOK on community and family records of the Co. receive sent free. Oldest agency for securing patients. Patent taken to the Co. to receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Your four month subscription. By all new additions. MUNN & Co. 284 Broadway, New York Branch Office, Co. St. Washington, D.C. Electric Player Planos Regulated. HENRY R. MORGAN. Plano Tuning 244 13th AVE. So. MINNEAPOLIS PHONE NIC. 1354. --- F. L. Hon. Thos. D. Schall is again a candidate for Congress. He is well known to the people of Minnesota and the voters of Hennepin Co. Mr. Schall made a remarkable record as the Progressive Candidate for Congress last election. He is a believer in the progressive principles and despite his affliction, is qualified to fill his position. Mr. Schall is blind, the result of an accident received from an electrical flash while lighting a cigar, after winning one of the greatest battles of his legal career. He has since that time practiced law in this city, maintaining a large number of clients. His success, in spite of affliction, is a guarantee of extraordinary ability. His wife, is a faithful business partner, and is constantly associated with his legal affairs. Mr. Schall is a recognized orator. The following testimonials speak for themselves. "Schall will be for Minnesota what the blind Senator Gore is for Oklahoma. He is a self-made man, of sterling character. His remarkable success as a practicing business and professional qualities. He is a man of exceptional agility and an able and brilliant speaker. As a congressman he will be qualified to serve as a member of qualified endorsement." Dr. Richard Burton, Chair of English Literature, University of Minnesota. "He is one of the best, perhaps the best speaker we have ever graduated from the University of Minnesota."—Cyrus Northrop, President of the University. "His character as a man and a citizen is beyond reproach."—Jas. C. Haynes, Ex-Mayor, Minneapolis. "He is logical, polished and forceful."-Jas. Gray, Ex-May, Minneapolis. Jas. Gray, Ex-Mayor, Minneapolis. "He is an ideal orator."—John Greer, Principal Central High, Minneapolis "He equals it equals." —Rev. J. S. Montgomery, D. D. "He has attained the highest distinction as a campaign debater."—W. S. Pattee, late Dean of the College of Law of the University of Mississippi. "He is highly gifted as a public speaker."—G. H. Bridgeman, D. D., former President Hamline University. "Mr. Schall has unusual oratorical powers. He will delight and move any audience he addresses."—Rev. Charles Bayard Mitchell, D. D. "I heartily endorse Thos. D. Schall for Congress."—Judge Milton D. Purdy. "He is the most brilliant speaker we have ever had at the University."—E. E. McDermott, Chair of Oratory, University of Minnesota. He is not a young man who is so thoroughly qualified, to discharge the duties of a legislator as Thomas D. Schall. My association with him, as a member of the College of Law, means an opportunity to know him intimately. He is without prejudice, a gifted orator and believes in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man—W. T. Francis. "State Forests Day" Proclamation. Whereas the last legislature passed a measure known as "No. 9, the State Forests Amendment," providing that such state lands as are better fit ted for growing forests than for farming be set aside and be managed by the state as State Forests; and, Whereas Amendment No. 9 is to be submitted to popular vote November 3rd, it is worthy of careful consideration by everyone interested in the public welfare; and, Whereas this measure will affect particularly the public school fund, it is deemed fitting and proper that the subject of "State Forests" receive particular consideration in our public schools. Therefore, Wednesday, October 28, 1914, is designated as "State Forests Day", to be observed in every public school with appropriate exercises and discussions upon the subject of State Forests in their relation to the public well-being. A. O. Eberhart, Governor. C. G. Schulz, Supt. of Education. PAYING THE COST. The Ione E. Gibbs Club of the Federated Woman's Clubs secured a loan of $15.00 from one of the club owners. It has not been paid, and may not be. This is why the club men can get so much protection from the "society ladies." It seems that this clubman did not intend to give this sum, but he has been a victim of social highway-women. It costs to be in S-o-c-i-e-t-y of this kind. WRITE THE NEWS. Many items of interest about town we would be glad to print if the people would write us. Don't phone. That makes us write. Get a postal and plainly write your matter, attaching name and address. Please send nothing scandalous. We get enougli of that in the air. TWIN CITY STAR RURAL VOTE TO ELECT WM. E. LEE Responsibility of Republican Success in Minnesota Rests on Shoulders of Country Voter. Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 12.—It is the country vote of Minnesota that decides state elections, but if the country vote does not turn out, the cities exercise more than their proper share of influence. The democrats and their allies, the state brewery machine, are centering tremendous efforts in the three large cities of the state. The vote is sure to come out in the cities, and if the cities should control the coming election, William E. Lee might be defeated. If the farmers and the dwellers in small cities and villages out well on Nov. 5, there will "nothing but victory" in the republican state committee is making every effort bend now toward getting the vote out. They have nothing to fear from a full and free expression of the choice of Minnesota voters. William E. Lee is strong with the farmers and rural dwellers of Minnesota. In the primaries he carried the state outside of Hennepin, Ramsey and St. Louis counties by 20,000. He lost those three counties by nearly 4,000. He carried Hennepin by 2,580 votes, but lost St. Louis by 2,440, which nearly offset Hennepin, and he lost Ramsey by 3,991 votes. Outside the three counties the vote stood: Eberhart, 55,794; Lee, 76,172. The three large counties in the general election of 1912 cast 31 per cent of the total vote. Democrats are stronger in the cities than they are in the country. In the primary of June 16 there were 196,223 republican casts for governor, and of the 88,433 for governor, there were three large counties. These counties cast 15,272 of the total democratic vote of 42,775, or 36 per cent. It is also worth noting that of the 2,874 progressive party votes cast in the primary, 1,223 or 46 per cent were cast in the three large counties. It is evident that Lee's greatest strength, and the republican party strength in general, lies in the country, and it behooves Mr. Lee's friends in the country districts of the state to get their neighbors out to vote. Lee is pretty sure to carry Hennepin county again, but the democrats are fighting hard for it, and Ramsey is likely to go for Hammond by a good margin. Mr. Lee has developed splendidly in the qualities of an aggressive campaign. He is well known the justice of his cause and has warmed to his task splendidly. He came back with a stunner of a reply to Mr. Hammond's Red Wing speech. Mr. Lee's speech at Buffalo put Mr. Hammond right where he belongs, in the limelight as the brewers' apologist and as their candidate. He will be kept right there till the close of the campaign. The issue is very clearly presented now to the voters. Nobody will have any excuse for misunderstanding it. Mr. Lee, at Buffalo, showed clearly that democrats were the political backbone of the brewery political machine, but he did not deny that republicans have had a hand in it, too. Some of the brewery-retained men in the republican party are known to be working their heads off now to elect Mr. Hammond. They are doing it secretly, of course, but they are lining up strikers and hangers-on, distributing brewery money to them and teaching their stories to be repeated by word of mouth, stirring up prejudice against Lee in every conceivable way. Fred B. Lynch, democratic patronage boss of Minnesota, and the man who made Mr. Hammond a candidate for governor, knows that his prestige in Minnesota and at Washington will suffer by Hammond's defeat. He has been in Washington calling for help, and sent back word that he had induced President Wilson to write a letter urging the election of Hammond and of democratic candidates for congress. Mr. Lynch also announced that William J. Bryan will come to the Twin Cities to speak on Oct. 27. Now there is a lot of speculation as to what Mr. Bryan will say about Hammond, if anything at all. In the first place, Mr. Bryan's strong views on county option are well known. Because Mayor Jim Dahlman, of Omaha, who was nominated for governor by the democrats of Nebraska, came out against county option, Mr. Bryan openly bolted in 1910. Now that Mr. Hammond has taken the same position as Dahlman, how can Bryan advocate his election, is the query. Minnesota democrats also remember the terrific scoring Wm. J. Bryan gave Hammond when he followed Hammond on the program of the big democratic dinner in St. Paul on June 1, 1911. Mr. Bryan had been denouncing the democratic leaders in the house for not putting raw wool on the free list. On arrival in St. Paul he gave out an interview terming Oscar Underwood and the other members of the ways and means committee protectionists. Mr. Hammond also arrived and gave out an interview defending his committee's action. When called on at the dinner Mr. Hammond avoided the subject carefully. With an appeal for harmony he adroitly passed the tip to Bryan to keep off the troublesome topic. This only aroused the Commoner, and he waded right in, denouncing the democratic leaders for perpetuating "the backbone of the protective system." "Talk about harmony," shouted Bryan, with fashions eyes, fixing Hammond with his gaze. "You can't have harmony under that kind of leadership uncles you betray party principles." Bryan is not a man to compromise or recount his views. If he comes to Minnesota, it is pretty certain that his speeches will deal in generalities and in extolling the Wilson administration. If Fred B. Lynch loses out on Hammond and fails to send any democrats to congress from Minnesota, he may lose his grip on federal patronage. "We should worry," say the anti-Lynch democrats.—Republican. ENERGETIC BUSINESS MAN. Value of a Fixed Aim Exemplified in Success of W. L. Todd. Boston, Mass.—In almost every walk of life there are members of the race engaged in some line of gainful occupation. There are young men all about us who are making good that the world scarcely knows anything about, but they are going on just the same doing their work well and their examples are worthy of emulation. In this number is to be found William L. Todd of this city. Mr. Todd was born in Windsor, N. C., where he got his early school training, and took on his finishing touch at the St. Paul school, Lawrenceville, Va., which is one of the leading schools of its class in the country. For a long time it was thought that Mr. Todd would enter the ministry, but his lot was thrown in another direction, and he soon found his place. Like men who want to succeed, he found it necessary to further prepare himself for his chosen work, so he entered the James Coyne State Steam Engineering school. He was an exceptional student and received much encouragement from the members of the faculty. It was a case where merit alone won. After finishing at the school he soon found work as a stationary A. B. engineer and was so authorized under the laws of Massachusetts and the ordinance of the city of Boston. Mr. Todd is one of the busiest men in Boston, and he is making his way up. He has many friends among all the people, and his success has been through industry, honesty, reliability and thrift. His word has had much to do with his steady progress. It is said that in Boston, when he says a thing, the people all believe him, because he has been careful in his calculations. Not only is he up on engineering, but he knows the automobile to the extent that he can all but make one. He is prepared to build one from the bottom up. When it comes to repairing an automobile he is considered among the experts. Mr. Todd married Miss Marie Matthews of British Guiana, a talented young woman, a few years ago. They are now working together for the moral, intellectual and spiritual uplift of the young people of the race in this city. RECORD OF OCCUPATIONS. Statistics Showing How Afro-Americans Are Employed North and South. The latest statistics showing the percentage of colored persons engaged in professional work in the south and north indicate growth. In the south 2.5 per cent are engaged in the professions, such as physicians, lawyers, dentists, schoolteachers and the like. In the various trades, 6.5 per cent; in manufacturing and mechanical work, 7 per cent; domestic service, 30 per cent, and in agricultural pursuits, 53 per cent. Members of the race in the north who are similarly engaged show the following percentage: In the professions, 3 per cent; in agriculture, 5 per cent; in the trades, 14 per cent; business and transportation, 17 per cent, and in domestic service, 60 per cent, against 30 per cent of those engaged in the same occupation in the southern states. Autumn Exposition Held in New York. An autumn exposition, showing the progress of the colored people in Greater New York, was held at the Manhattan Casino in New York city from Sept. 28 to Oct. 3, inclusive. The exhibits were numerous and gave evidence of much skill and fine workmanship on the part of the exhibitors. The affair was promoted by Messrs. Alex Rogers, Fred R. Moore, Lester A. Walton, Romeo L. Dougherty, Jesse A. Shipp, Edward Warren and Leigh R. Whipper. After paying the expenses of the exposition the balance of the proceeds will be divided among charitable institutions conducted by our people in Greater New York and vicinity. S. B. Turner Nominated For Assembly. At the recent primary election held in Chicago S. B. Turner was nominated by the Republicans for the general assembly. Turner received 1,532 votes, defeating his opponent, A. H. Robinson, by 227. Mr. Turner is editor of the Illinois Idea, an eight page neway and reliable weekly. The members of the National Negro Press association congratulate Editor Turner upon his nomination and hope for his election. Isn't This Reough? Billa—A poet wrote a sonnet on my face the other day. Stella—Did he write it on the lines? WILLIAM L. 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A FEW REASONS, why Mayor Nye should be re-elected. He has recognized the right of the majority of the people to rule. He has kept his pre-election promi- ses. He has always given ear to the complaints of the Negroes whenever they desired an audience. He has acted on all matters pertaining to their civic and moral interests, upon the advice of the majority of the leading representatives of the race. He has advocated equal privileges to all persons regardless of creed or color. He has accorded to Negroes the same privileges of amusement and recreation as granted to other nationalities. PIGS AND EDUCATION AND PIGS AND DEBTS. Athaidh GgeGOjc M cFplyea. v To the Editor: The Twin Cyea. v Tuskegee Institute, Alabama—Our race is in constant search of means with which to provide better homes, schools, colleges, and churches, and with which to pay debts. This is especially true during the hard financial conditions obtaining on account of the European war. All of this cannot be done at once, but great progress can be made by a good strong pull together, in a simple direct manner; How? There are 1,400,000 colored families who live on farms or in villages, or small towns. Of this number, at the present time, 700,000 have no pigs. I want to ask that each family raise at least one pig this fall. Where one or more pigs are already owned, I want to ask that each family raise one additional pig this fall. As soon as possible, I want to ask that this plan be followed by the Organization of a Pig Club in every community where one does not already exist. I want to ask that the matter be taken up at once through families, schools, churches, and societies, Farmer's Institutes, Business Leagues, etc. The average pig is valued at about $5.00. If each family adds only one pig, in a few months at the present prices for hogs, $10.00 would be added to the wealth of the owner, and $14.000,000 to the wealth of the colored people. If each family adds two pigs, it would have in a few months $20.00 more wealth, and $28,000,000 would be added with which to promote the welfare of the race during the money stringency created by the European war. Let us not put it off, but organize Pig Clubs everywhere. Give each boy and girl an opportunity to own and grow at least one pig. Tuskegee Institute, Ala., October 3, 1914. Wanted—Ageuts to solicit advertising and news. Salary or commission. Good profits. Write the Twin City Star, Minneapolis, Minn. "AS TO 'JIMCROW' Y. M. C. A'S." Those who are disposed to deny the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man and help along race prejudice, by advocating the establishment of separate Young Men's Christian Associations, should read and ponder over the following letter from a white minister to Editor Harry S. Smith of Cleveland, Ohio, and published in his paper, the Cleveland Gazette: Madison, N. J., Sept. 24, 1914. Editor Gazette. Dear Sir:—You voice the sentiments of my soul and spirit—why should Christian America deify the "color-line" and rank it higher than the fundamentals or orthodox religion? The common fatherland of God (acknewledged by "The Church in America") implies to all believers, the common brotherhood of "all men in Jesus Christ."—2 Cor. 5:7; Col. 3:9-11; Eph. 2:10-19. I have fought in Virginia (Norfolk), Maryland (Baltimore), and New Jersey the pernicious practice of the Young Men's Christian Association in "drawing the color-line" and using it as an asset. I do not exactly understand Mr. Julius Rosenwald's motive in donating $25,000 to encourage the building of Colored Y. M. C. A.'s in America—do you? Every one built (and successfully maintained) only accentuates and makes more bitter the "color prejudice!" For it is not the filthy, foul-mouthed, evil-smelling, whisky-drinking Negro corner-loafer or bar-boom bummer they hate and depreciate so much as the honest, intelligent, self-respecting and capable Afro-American whose domination and social equality proclivities they fear, because they recognize in him not only a civic equal in embryo, but actually a moral superior on mentality!!! Why should the National Y. M. C. A. recognize, legalize and perpetuate the "color-line?" There is none in sin there is none in sickness, nor poverty, neither in hell nor heaven!! When, in so doing, they cater to popular prejudice, they dishonor Christ (see Matt. 23:1-4, 8-11), they degrade religion and condemn their own National organization as a huge hypocritical conspiracy forged to bolster up an inhuman lie—the sublime equality of all men. I wish you every blessing with success. They say that The Star is the only knocker against the Negro Y. M. C. A. Assn. Brother Adams of the Appeal has been on the job for 30 years fighting against decimation, never compromised or surrendered—and never will. A Result of Voluntary Segregation. The Negro Branch, Young Womens Christian Assn., of St. Paul, has been closed by the white parent body Membership cards have been withdrawn, dues paid have been refunded, and furniture stored in Central Branch Y. W. C. A., where Negro women are NOT WANTED. Miss Charlotte Gillard is the only member of her race. She refused to withdraw to join the Western Branch—and is receiving the benefits of the parent body. She deserves credit for her good judgment, and they can find no fault in her, except color. Now that they begged for the Jim Crow Y. W. C. A. and could not support it, and are denied former privileges at the Central branch—We ask: Who is to blame? Had we more like Miss Gillard, we would have less discrimination, but we can always find some Negro man or woman who will sacrifice the rights and privileges of others on the altar of personal prominence—just to be head of any damnable institution. Thank God, the prophecy of the late Fred L. McGhee has been fulfilled that "It cant last in Minnesota," the he "suffered it to be so" because he had become weary from fighting these contending forces and his last days were in peace. TO POLITICAL CANDIDATES. Our columns are open to all for political advertisements. We express our views editorially and are not responsible for paid advertisements. We have and always will maintain a clean policy and do not use the Twin City Star as a personal publication, but as a legal newspaper published for the best interest of all. We guarantee no votes, but attempt to present the issues of the campaign and the record of every candidate, to our readers fairly and impartially. Advertise in the Twin City Star the only legal Negro paper in the city and you will reach the mass of Negro voters and many of the white ones. 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? TWIN CITY STAR A BLUSH TO CHRISTIANITY Rev. Carey strongly Protests against Race Discrimination in Religious Institutions. 'Noted Pastor writes an Open Letter to Secretary of Young Men's Christian Assn. Chicago, Ill., October 6, 1914. Mr. Charles Sumner Smith, Editor Twin Sity Star, Minneapolis, Minn. My Dear Sir: I am pleased to learn that you are opposed to the movement to start a separate Y. M. C. A. for colored people in Minneapolis and I trust that you will continue to stand against it. You have good colored churches in your city and it seems to me that each church could do some social settlement work and look after the young folks and that would be better than the dangerous experiment of starting segregation which may end disastrously in the end. The Federal Government has started segregation among the government employees at Washington and many Southern cities are establishing ghettos, so it is well to look askance at every suggestion of segregation even if it comes in the guise of "spiritual uplift." I enclose a copy of a letter I recently addressed to Mr. L. Wilbur Messer, Secretary of the Central Y. M. C. A. of Chicago asking for truth and light in relation to the treatment of the segregated members of the organization. You are at liberty to print the letter or to use any of the arguments advanced as your own in fighting segregation in Minneapolis. I know that God will bless you for the work you are doing against seg- OPEN LETTER TO THE SECRETARY OF THE CENTRAL Y. M. C. A., CHICAGO. Chicago, October 1914. Mr. L. Wilbur Messer, Secretary, Central, Y. M. C. A., Chicago, Illinois. My dear Sir: I have been greatly interested in the controversy about the Y. M. C. A. ban on smoking and my interest was intension when I read in your signed explanation of the ban on cigarettes published in the Chicago Tribune, the statement that the 'test' of membership in the 'Young Men's Christian Association' grant of color is a rising statement in view of what I have heard concerning the Y. M. C. A. I have been told by young men of unimpeachable character that they have been refused membership in the Y. M. C. A. ban. I also know of the establishment in various parts of the country, including our own city of Chicago, of branch Y. M. C. A's for the purpose of providing for the needs of the members, them from their fellow human beings as if they were lepers and indians to mingle with Caucasians, Indians, Mongolians and Jews, who are gladly received into the Central Y. M. C. A. and its many branches. I have also heard that any human being who is the member of any branch Y. of the Central organization, daily received at the Central organization, unless he happens to have more or less Negro blood in his veins. If I have been misinformed regarding course to be set right and also trust you will kindly answer the questions I shall ask: If a German, I mean an alien, who has not been naturalized, desired to become a German, he would be permitted to do so, or would he be compelled to connect himself with the German branch, regardless of his wishes in the matter. The broad man, employed by the Grand Trunk railroad, lived on the North side, be compelled to pass by the North Side branch, the Central branch, be compelled to go and go to Eladen to become a member of the Grand Trunk branch association, or could he use his own judgment in the matter. Colored man living in the downtown district desired to become a member of the Central Y. M. C. A. could he do so, or would the authorities compel to release an hour to go four miles to the colored branch on Wabash avenue and 38th street? Are the rights of the colored men who are members of the colored branch Y. M. C. A. identical with those of members of the white community? I received at the Central Building on La Salle street, and treated with the same consideration as other nationalities? Are there branches of the Central Y. M. C. A. organized for Indian, Mongolian and Malay men? Are not branches organized for the various European nationalities chiefly on account of difference in languages? If so why was it necessary to provide a separate branch for each of the other 99 percent are American born and who speak the English language? Was not the colored men's branch really organized to cater to an unjust un-American and un-Christian prejudices against the class of people on account of color? PETER H. HARRIS REV. A. J. CAREY. institution" in India and one which the Y. M. C. A. is trying to break up, why does the Y. M. C. A. uphold and perpetuate a system of caste in the United States? In spite of the fact that many colored people favor separate Y. M. C. A.'s and contribute to their support, does not such separation eventually work to the injury of the Afro-American people? Is the Afro-American people semi-public institution and is not the existence of a separate branch for a class of people who were born in America and speak the language of the country, a discredit to democracy or a nightmare is not the case the bishop chose those of Christian Christianity? Is not the fact of the existence of a color-line Y. M. C. A. often used as a justification for segregation in public places and public institutions? Does not the separate Y. M. C. A. increase race hatred and intolerance and makes it more difficult to segregate, to distranchise and the denial of every civil right? The A. M. E. Church of which I am a member was organized as a protest organization of Caucasian American Christians (?) of a hundred years ago discriminated against their colored coreligionists, our church came into being, but we do no discriminate the people of any race or nationality. The white man, the black man, the red man, the yellow man and the brown man are members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church when I state that thousands of Caucausians, both men and women are members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the connection which does not count one or more American Caucausians among its membership. They have come into possession of the church, A. M. E. Church a more perfect exemplification of the doctrine of the "Fatherhood of God and the Church of God," than they could find in their churches. I am seeking the light and the truth. Please answer my questions carefully and if I have error, any statement, I desire to be corrected. Yours sincerely, A. J. Carey, Foster Institutional M. M. E. Church, Residence: 2423 Vernon Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. AT THE CLOSED GATE OF JUSTICE. To be a Negro in a day like this Demands forgiveness. Bruised with blow on blow, Betrayed, like him whose woe-dim- med eyes gave bliss, Still must one succor those who brought one low, To be a Negro in a day like this. To be a Negro in a day like this Demands rare patience—patience that can wait In utter darkness. "Tis the path to miss, And knock, unheeded, at an iron gate, To be a Negro in a day like this. To be a Negro in a day like this Demands strange loyalty. We serve a flag Which is to us white freedom's emphasis. 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