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MINNEAPOLIS Minn Historical Society DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST. PAUL effective Page VOL. 5 Single Copies 5 Cents St. Paul.—A banquet was tendered Mr. Fred. D. McCracken on Monday evening at the Busy Bee Cafe—as an expression of regard for the valuable services rendered his race during the fourteen years in the employ of Congressman F. C. Stevens. Mr. Fred. D. Parker introduced the speakers. Rev B. N. Murrell asked the Divine Blessing.—Letters were read from Messrs T. H. Lyles and C. H. Miller. The following toasts were responded to: "A Friend of the Postal Employees"—Jose H. Sherwood. "Political Associations"—R. M. Johnson. "Possibilities of a Young Man"—Rev B. N. Murrell. "Young Men, the hope of the Race"—Orri C. Hall. "The Negroes' Hope of Salvation lies in the Peace and Harmony within the Race." Poem: "A Race Man" by A. V. Hill. 'Business Co-operation'—Owen Howell. Remarks by J. H. Loomis, J. Q. Adams and Chas Sumner Smith. A silver loving cup (which bore this inscription: "Presented to F. D. McCracken by the Colored Citizens of St. Paul in appreciation of services rendered the community and race, March 22, '915,) was presented by Geo. W. Wills. Mr. McCracken responded with appropriate remarks, reviewing some of the work done by the friends of the Negro during the last session, paying a high compliment to the entire Minnesota delegation. Others present were, J. H. Coquire, Harry Robinson, Wm. Godette, H. F. McIntyre, J. Edgar Murphy, F. B. Simpson, Augusts Banks, E. W. Wrancum, J. B. Johnson, J. W. Milton, Clarence L. Smith, Dr. V. D. Turner, John Cloak, W. A. Green, Edw. Hall, Sam'l Ransom, Cleat Oliver, Geo Sleet, M. L. Barksdale, Hower Goins, Thos. N. Morgan, C. H. Miller. Many expressed a belief that Hon. F. C. Stevens would again return to Washington as a Minnesota representative and that the Negro race would again have a representative in Mr. Stevens, who had the courage to employ a Negro as his private secretary. In the raindress interior of Australia there is a "silence of the grave." This deathlike silence has a peculiarly depressing effect. If two men are camped and one of them goes to a distant township to get provisions while the other remains behind to look after the camp, the man who is to remain says to his friend in forcible, gold fields language: "Now, Bill, don't be long away. You know what kind of a place this is to live in by yourself," or words to that effect. If his mate is away for two or three days the silence gets on the man's nerves and in the end he shouts to make a noise. And often he is afraid of the sound of his own voice.—Exchange. "Temporary insanity, and I expect to prove it by the love letters I wrote."—Exchange. The Intricacies of It. "Why don't you study the time table, and then you wouldn't have missed your train?" "That was the trouble. While I was trying to translate the time table the train pulled out."—New York Herald. Not Seen Dead. Mrs. Styles—This paper says eagles and parrots are among the longest lived of the birds. Mr. Styles—Come to think of it. I guess that's correct. I never see 'em on women's hats."—Yonkers Statesman. LAURENCE JONES FOUNDS SCHOOL HIS CAREER AS A STUDENT. Brief Account of How the Principal of Piney Woods Country Life School Rose From Hotel Porter to Leading Educator—Graduated With Honors at State University, Iowa City. Braxton, Miss.—The history of this state would be incomplete without the record of the work being done in the piney woods of Mississippi by one of the most remarkable young men of the race, Professor Laurence Jones, president and founder of the Piney Woods Country Life school, which is indeed all that the name implies. This school is reaching a class of young people that no other school in this section is reaching and is preparing them for service in any useful field, whether as physician, lawyer, teacher, preacher, farmer, blacksmith, laundress or cook. Unlike most men, Professor Jones claims three states, as he puts it in his own language: "I am a Missouriian by birth, an Iowa by education and inclination and by matrimonial affiliation, and a Mississippiian by force of circumstances." He is not an outlaw, yet he was born near the old house of Jesse James, in St. Joseph, Mo. His father was a porter in the Pacific Hotel during the flourishing days of its early establishment. The elder Jones was born a slave; yet, like many fathers, determined to give his son an edu LAURENCE JONES. cation. When young Jones first entered school he was very timid. Everything was new to him and seemingly of little interest. As time passed and he grew older and better acquainted the school began to attract his attention above all things else. His high school days were spent in Marshalltown, Ia. He worked in a hotel there for his room and board. He helped in the dining room morning, noon and evening, and at night sought extra work to earn a little money to keep up books and clothes. He was a general utility boy around the hotel, bellhop, porter, yardman, bootblack and dishwasher. Any man wanting a place or time off had only to call on Laurence, and his place was filled. He was one of the few boys of the race who had the pleasure of editing the High school journal, the Quill, and also wrote the class song. He was the only member of the race in the class and the first one to graduate from the Marshalltown high school. So when he walked across the floor to receive his diploma he was given an ovation. Thus in his heart he declared that he must make good because everybody was watching him. He was active in the Y. M. C. A. and Sunday school. With some of his earnings he became a member of the "Y." Step by step he made progress. In the fall he secured a letter of introduction and recommendation from the principal of the high school, Mr. M. Graff to Mr. McChesney, president of the State university of Iowa, and with other necessary papers signed by County Superintendent Miss Hostettler, and with encouragement from Mrs. Richard Lane, he entered State university, Iowa City. He was received as a freshman, and remained through the entire course, graduating with honors. In his work he is assisted by his wife, who is an expert stenographer and who takes charge of the work when he is away getting up money to run the school and to make the necessary improvements. The Farmers' conference is one of the features for good. Clubs and literary societies are formed around the school and good work is being accomplished. The white people of Mississippi find pleasure in assisting the Piney Woods Country Life school, because Laurence Jones is a man of common sense, well educated and a recognized leader among the best educators in his line. THE McCRACKEN BANQUET. St. Paul Friends Present Ex-Cong Stevens' Secretary With a Silver Loving Cup. Life Amid Deathlike Stillness Strong Proof. "Sued for breach of promise. eh?" "Yep." "Any defense?" Not Seen Dead. Send Your Subscription MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. MARCH 27, 1915. BRUCE "GRIT" AT ISSUE WITH TYLER PURE BLACKS HERE FIRST. The Negro Race is Genuine and Recognized by Ethnologists Throughout the World—Occupies Place in Natural History—Term Afro-American or Colored Mere Makeshift. John E. Bruce of Yonkers, N. Y., known to the newspaper profession among us throughout the United States as Bruce "Grit," takes issue with the Hon. Ralph W. Tyler as to the proper title by which the Negro race in America should be known and called. After asking the question, Shall it be Negro, Afro-American or colored? Bruce "Grit" says: "The first cargo of black slaves that were brought to the United States of America arrived in 1619 and were settled at Jamestown, in the state of Virginia. They were unmistakably Negroes, captured on the Gulnea coast and sold to the slave traders (when not stolen outright by these gentry) by other tribesmen than their own. From these twenty Negroes and the accretions to their number up to the period when the slave trade was abolished (1808) their descendants numbered in 1863 a fraction over 3,000,000 souls. "The census of 1800 showed that there were 7,470,040 people classed as Negroes, of which number 6,337,980 were pure blacks or of African descent; of mulattoes, one-half Negro, 966,989; of quadroons, one-quarter Negro, 105,135; octoons, one-eighth Negro, 69,936, or a total of Afro-Americans, Negroids and "neethers," 1,132,060. "The proposition to saddle either of these names upon the black is not a fair one, since there are now more than 6,000,000 blacks against a mere handful of variously mixed people who are afraid or ashamed of that robust and meaningful term Negro, which is the name of a genuine race which is recognized by ethnologists the wide world over—a race which occupies a place in natural history. "The hybrids—offshoots—the result of alliances between black men and white women, or vice versa, ask for too much when they ask that we discard the only proper and scientifically recognized name, Negro, and adopt a hybrid, meaningless racial cognomen representing a type of which white men and black men are the creators. It is a case of the tall wagging the dog. "The terms Afro-American and colored are makeshift. They are apologetic. There is no such race as the Afro-American race. There never was such a race. The term 'colored' is misleading and indefinite when applied to people of African descent. It can apply equally to the Indian, Japanese, Chinese, Turk, Carib and white man, only he is colorless and by courtesy is called white. As a designation of that branch of the Negro race which is neither white nor black, it doesn't fit, and it cannot be made to fit by amateur ethnologists and scientists, white or black. The Negro race, being in the majority in this country, as the statistics show, has the right to oppose this mischievous attempt of the minority party to change the family name. "A Negro can no more be an Afro-American than an Afro-American can be a Caucasian except by a decree of a court. We can neither escape history nor the Negro race, no matter how we squirm, because our grand parents were simon pure blacks, some of them, and some of us have straight hair, fair complexions and regular white folks' features. The die is cast, and we cannot change the existing order by academic argument and questionable logic. The thing created is not greater than its creator. "Some of these critics of the word Negro object to its use because it is a reminder of slavery and also that it is corrupted into the vulgar term 'Niger.' By the same process of reasoning white men, both in Europe and America, who were once slaves, some of them of black masters, might object to being called white. The term 'Niger' has only recently—i. e., within a hundred years or—been regarded as a term of reproach. "The white man has outlived his recollection of the days of his bondage and risen superior to his past condition. Thousands of whites were slaves of black planters in Santo Domingo. and thousands of them were slaves here in the United States, purchased for a few hundred of pounds of tobacco. Today France is a mighty nation and America is a great republic, with a little over 1,132,000 people of mixed blood and different kinds of hair, who because of these physical differences are shocked when referred to as Negroes and wish to abolish its use. Never!" _____ Indianapolis' Clubwomen Are Active. The Elizabeth Carter Council of Federated Clubs Among Colored Women, Indianapolis, Ind., has begun preparations for representation at the annual meeting of the state federation which will be held in Marion, Ind., the last week in May. Mrs. Carrie Crump is president of the council. BENEFACTOR OF HIS RACE. How a Washington Church Prospers Under Dr. W. H. Jernagin. Washington.—The growth in activity, membership and the ability to handle successfully large financial problems are some of the many excellent features of progress noted at the Mount Carmel Baptist church under its capable minister, the Rev. Dr. W. H. Jernagin. Within six months after Dr. Jernagin became the minister of this congregation it was found that the church edifice was too small to comfortably accommodate the membership. The matter of securing a larger meeting house was taken up by Dr. Jernagin and the officials and members of the church, and within a short time, to the great surprise of both religious and business circles, Dr. Jernagin negotiated for and finally purchased the church building in which President Wilson was at the time a pewholder. Many persons who are not members of Mount Carmel when visiting the church often request the privilege of being seated in the chair formerly occupied by President Wilson. The increase in new members the past year was quite large, and during the REV. DR. W. H. JERNAGIN. past months of 1915 the additions to the membership have been quite frequent. This is Dr. Jernagin's third year at Mount Carmel. His leadership is recognized not only by his own congregation but by the Baptist denomination in and out of the District of Columbia. He is a thorough race man and never lets an opportunity pass by which he may benefit the race. In the case of the people against the Oklahoma separate car law argued before the United States supreme court by Attorney William Harrison of Oklahoma City, Okla., in October, 1914, he was Lawyer Harrison's right hand man in financing and creating favorable sentiment among high legal authorities. He encourages business enterprises conducted by our people and urges the race to patronize such as are endeavoring to do a legitimate business. It is through his efforts that Washington society has been honored with four of the greatest musicals of the season; hence the eyes of Washington are turned toward Mount Carmel Baptist church as never before. This is due to Dr. Jernagin's wise and honest leadership. He has the confidence of the community, and the people know that he is a man of his word and fully capable of handling matters of great moment with skill. Progress at Wilberforce University. With Lieutenant Benjamin O. Davis as military instructor at the Wilberforce (O.) university, the new equipment in the commercial department, the institution is doing a most praiseworthy work among the large number of students in attendance. Galloway hall, the finely equipped trades building, has at its entrance the following as a motto: "A sound body, a trained hand, a trained mind and a true heart." President W. S. Scarborough is proud of the success of the school and labors unceasingly in its interest. Smoke the Reliable SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR 5c. ALL RACES EQUAL, SAYS RABBI DEINARD "Some Favored, but All Can Advance With the Best if Give the Opportunity." Sermon by Bsw. S. N. DeNairn, pastor JW Reform church. Text: "This is the book of the generations of Adam. On the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him." Gen. v1. The prophets and sages of ancient Israel were neither scientists nor philosophers. Yet sublime religious and moral truth-flashed upon their minds, which neither philosophy nor science have been able to improve upon. Such a sublime moral truth is that which is found in the very opening chapters of the Bible. It is the old oriental legends of the creation. Adam is the ancestor of the entire human race, and he is made in the likeness of God. All races and groups of humanity are alike, so far as they are all descended from one progenitor, are all equally endowed with divine capacities and powers. The old writer of the creation story is familiar with the fact of racial divisions. He distinguishes three racial groups: the descendants of Shiloh, the Japheth, and the Hanim, and he enumerates their various branches, according to the best knowledge of his day. He knew that certain groups of human beings occupied separate territories, were aware of their characteristics, and differed in speech, manner and habit from one another. Yet, in spite of it all, he claimed a common descent for them, an essential equality beneath which being equally enforced with the same divine powers of soul, heart and mind. Well do the old rabbis declare, in commenting on our text, that it contains a fundamental doctrine of Israel's Law equal to that other basic record, and shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Essential Unity and Equality. Man is essentially the same, no matter in what racial, national, or religious group we may find him. His soul, his innate powers of heart and mind, are the same; his capacity for progress, for intellectual unfoldment, for the attainment that he seeks. True, there have always been, and there are at the present time, advanced races and backward races, races that stand in the forefront of modern civilization, and races that are still found in the stages of barbarism. But these differences to cope with and to understand the conditions and circumstances. The location and environment of a human group undoubtedly have their marked influence upon it. The conditions of the soil and the climate, the facilities or difficulties of communication and intercourse with other groups, and the life and development of a human group. But the power of development, the capacity for progress is possessed by all. Change the outward conditions, and the so-called inferior, or backward, race step to the front, and the activities and achievements, at least the achievements of its best elements, of its most capable and best endowed individual members. For within each group the differences and variations, physical, mental, and moral of the individual, and the abilities of a race or group should not be judged by its weakness, but by its strongest members. What rapid progress a so-called inferior race may make when the opportunity offers itself is best shown by the rise and success of the Japanese, and the achievements of the black race in America after fifty years of emancipation. Pseudo-Scientific Ideas. There is a great deal of pseudoscientific thought that has gained currency in modern times, which runs counter to this fundamental religious doctrine of the essential unity of the human race. A good deal of staid scientific nonsense is being sold and written about the peculiar mental and moral characteristics of different and groups of human beings. Their moral or soul differences and divergences are pointed out. We are told that a certain race, or even branch of a race, is endowed by nature with certain gifts, or deprived by nature of certain other endowments; that nature herself has selected certain races to rule and to lead, and certain others to follow and to serve; that the superiority or inferiority of any human law. Race distinctions are made where none really exist. Thus the prejudices and antagisms that exist between different human groups are scientifically explained. And the domineering, the arrogant, the evil-minded and the prejudiced, eager to find some excuse for their offensive and malevolent attitude, have pounced on a valuable godsend. Now they can scientifically explain why they are prejudiced against, and hostile to, their fellow men, why they oppress and persecute them. Is the Jew of a Different Race? The fiscalish persecution of the Jew during 1,700 years, and the present-day social prejudice against him that still exists even in the most enlightened and humane nations, are explained on such grounds. The Jew is a Semite. All other white people among whom he lives are the Aryans. They have two races, the race of race, the certain mental and moral traits; are, therefore, mutually antagonistic and repellant. These two branches are generally spoken of as two distinct races. No.17 Their incompatibility, therefore, is racial, fixed by natural law. The Jew's shrewdness, the Jew's business methods, the Jew's aggressiveness and forwardness, the Jew's capacity for commerce and finance, are all racial characteristics. It is the French savant Renan who is supposed to have been the first to gold the phrase, "anti-semitism" in characterization and explanation of the prejudice against, and hostility to, the Jew. He, too, based it all on racial grounds. The antagonism of the gentile world to the Jew is the racial antisemitism between the Semites. Is it the Jew's Semite? Who knows. What does the word "Semite" connote, anwavw? The distinction between Aryan and Semite is purely linguistic. Because certain nations are found speaking kindred languages, they are grouped together as constituting a distinct branch of the human Assyrian Arabic Permanian, etc., being akin, those who spoke them are supposed to have been ethnically related, constituting a group of Semite peoples, corresponding to the group of Semite languages. The same principle of grouping is applied to the Aryans. The Hebrew language is in the Bible itself spoken of as the language of Canaan, the country which the Israelites subsequently occupied. In other words, having settled in that country, they adopted its language, even as all nations that come to America adorn the English language as their own. What language the Israelites originally spoke we do not know. What country their first ancestors migrated from not know. The traditions on this point, recorded in the Bible itself, vary. A national group may speak a dialect akin to that of another national group, may live in the same or in contiguous territory, and shall not be relied upon as a source of information from the same stock. The component elements of modern nations amply illustrate that. Were the Hebrews the kindred of the Arabs, Assyrians, Phoenicians, etc., and therefore, unrelated to the Arabs, would they be the so-called Aryan group? Who knows? The Modern Jew. Take the Jew as he is at the present time. What is there that characterizes him as belonging to a separate race, to a separate branch of the human family tree? Is it his physique, his physiognomy, his mind, his character, his appearance, the creature of his environment. The Jew of one country differs in all these respects from the Jew of every other country, provided they are all native to their respective soils, or, still better, have lived there for several generations. That which commonly passes the Jew of all lands will occupy the people occupying the rim of the Mediterranean basin, where the Jews lived, flourished or suffered for many centuries. The Jew who has lived in Russia for many generations is completely assimilated to the Slav type, with the Jews being the same number of generations back of him, is cast in the Teutonic mold. A great deal of rubbish is being said and written about the Jew's peculiar mentality and character. The Jew is this or other thing; he possesses or lacks this or that or the other traits, good and evil, that have been predicated of the Jew were actually imprinted by nature upon some living being, there would be produced a monstrosity the like of which the world has never seen. The Jew, as a Jew acres nothing, nor does far abuse in any way. He is neither superior nor inferior. The fiction that the Jew is the world's foremost figure in commerce and finance has long been exploded. How many of America's multi-millionaires, captains of industry and heads of big business, have been so exploited that hold the world's purse-strings, thus having the power of dictating war or peace, the declarations of a certain peregrinating scientist to the contrary notwithstanding. That the Jew has until now been so largely and conspicuously represented in his direly due to his peculiar antecedents, his unfortunate history. When all avenues of useful activity but those of petty trading and moneylending were closed to him by his oppressors, what could he do but take to petty trading and moneylending, and acquire a cunning therein that has attracted him so quickly he is abandoning them now in favor of the learned and skilled professions, useful trades and even agriculture. Has not the Jew really achieved greater results in the domains of letters, science and philosophy than the spheres of commerce but even he is not peculiarly gifted. Others have done equally well. The Antagonism Religious. No, there is nothing about the Jew to mark him off as belonging to a separate race. The bond that has united the Jews the world over is a national religious bond. They have a shared name, the names boses and aspirations. Once they were a nation. When the national bond broken, and they were scattered over the world, their faith united them, and they continued to cherish their national memories and nature with other nations and all other groups of the human family, and, allowed to do so, became in all respects, except that of religion, like them integral parts of them. It is in this sphere, the sphere of religion, that the Jew, as a Jew, has really distinguished himself. He has produced the longest line of prophets, preachers of righteousness, tribunes of the people, propagandists of justice and peace, beginning with Moses down to the time of Jesus. Being the most oppressed of all people, his soul became the most sensitive to the world's wrongs, and, when gifted with the necessary power, he rang a clarion note for justice and Cont. to page 3, col. 2. THE HAPPIEST. In happiness there are far more regions unknown than there are in misfortune. The voice of misfortune is ever the same; happiness becomes more silent as it penetrates deeper. He is happiest who best understands his happiness, for he is of all men most fully aware that it is only the lofty idea, the uniting, courageous human idea, that serena es gladness from sorrow.—ae crences. BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH 12th Ave. So. and 8th St. All are welcome. Rev. T. J. Carter, Pastor. Residence 611 E. 16 St., Minneapolis. Peoples Christian Assembly. Rev. G. W. Mitchell, Pastor, 1204 Washington Ave. So. Comel Serve the Lord. ST. PETER'S A. M. E. CHURCH. 22nd St. near 10th Ave. So. Rev. Thos. B. Stovall, Pastor. ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH, 318 8th Ave. So., Minneapolis. Rev. E. R. Edwards, Pastor. We would appreciate what you owe us, or a part of it, Mr. Delinquent Subscriber. MANY NEGRO DOLLS BEING SENT OUT. Nashville, Tenn.—An announcement was made by the National Negro Doll Company that their rush season, which it usually has during the Christmas, is just now on. This is occasioned, declares the manager of the company, on account of the delay in the importation of material from which these dolls are made. The ship was caught and held as a prize of war and was only recently released, hence, the material did not reach Nashville until Christmas day. But the people, says the manager, were so determined to have the size doll they wanted that they all replied "We will wait to get the big dolls." While hundreds of small dolls were sent out, the manager declares that it was surprising to note that the people wanted the dolls ranging in sizes from SEVENTEEN to THIRTY-SIX inches. The orders are being sent out rapidly. Many of the churches have sent in orders for dolls that they might conduct their bazaars. Dolls will be shipped throughout the year, declares the manager of the Doll Company, as we are ready to fill orders as they come. Undertaker Lawrence is suffering from a broken ankle. See Mrs. Johnson's Laundry Adv and give her your patronage. Her prices equal all competitors and her work is satisfactory. The Twin City Dancing Club has issued invitations announcing their 10th Dance of the Season, Wednesday Eve., April 14, '15, at Kistler's Hall, 6th Ave. N. and Lyndale. Dancing from 9 P. M. to 1:30. Refreshments served. Committee. L. Anderson, N. Hawkins, —Advertisement. REGULAR DINNER EVERY DAY. Regular Dinner will be served daily at The France Cafe, 300 Fifth Ave. So. Minneapolis. SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNER. THE FRANCE CAFE AMANDA SMITH MEMORIAL Memorial service in honor of Amanda C. Smith the noted Christian worker, will be held under the auspices o f the W. C. T. U., at Bethesda Baptist Church on Sunday eve. March 28 at 8 P. M. Addresses by Rev. Carter and Mr. B. S. Smith. A large attendance is expected. POOL CONTEST. Kid Goodin of St. Louis and Peanuts of New York City will play a match game of pool, 300 points at the Elite Pool Room, on April 2 and 3rd, for the championship of Minnesota and a purse of $25. They will play 150 points each night. Mrs. Mary Troutman is improving after an operation at the City Hospital. Mr. Sandy Ellison is sick. The attention of our readers is called to the advertisement of THE METROPOLITAN MUSIC CO. This is the first and only piano concern which has considered the Negro trade of this city worthy of solicitation through its only publication, The Twin City Star. Don't forget to meet me At my Easter Ball! When? On Easter Monday Evening Where? At Union Temple Hall. I am the pleasure-maker Judge Johnson—That's all. GO TO CHURCH The Church Is the Gateway to Real Happiness There is a hell. No doubt about that. Like heaven, it BEGINS HERE AND NOW. Recently the newspapers carried a story relating the suicide of a well known man. Ten years before he murdered his young wife and allowed another to be executed for it. He wrote: "I can endure it no longer. Each day the awful secret plunges me into the torment of the damned." For ten years he had lived in hell and then, like Judas, went out into the darkness and hanged himself. No writer, even with an inexhaustible vocabulary, can paint a literal fire equal to the one that exists in many a human soul. If there is no hell, why plan churches, missions, slum settlements? THE MOMENT A MAN ENTERS A CHURCH HE FEELS BETTER. THE CHURCH IS THE GATEWAY TO HEAVEN. WHY DON'T YOU JOIN THE GO TO CHURCH THRONG? YOU'LL FIND THE BEST PEOPLE IN YOUR COMMUNITY IN CHURCH. IF YOU HAVE BEEN A BACKSLIDER GET BUSY NOW. IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND. YOU'LL FIND THAT IF YOU GO TO CHURCH NEXT SUNDAY YOU'LL WANT TO GO TO CHURCH THE FOLLOWING SUNDAY. There are thousands who would not dream of staying away from church on Christmas day or Easter, but who Sunday after Sunday will miss GOING TO CHURCH. It is to these people that this appeal is particularly addressed. If it is wrong to miss GOING TO CHURCH on Christmas and Easter, why is it not wrong to do so on Sunday? WHEN THE GO TO CHURCH MOVEMENT GOT INTO FULL SWING A YEAR AGO THERE WAS A SPLENDID RESPONSE. THE CHURCHES WERE FILLED. DON'T LET THIS SPLENDID MOVEMENT DIE OUT. IT IS ONE OF THE BEST—IF NOT THE BEST—AGITATIONS THAT EVER WAS STARTED. DO YOUR PART. GO TO CHURCH. Death of Mrs. Langston. Mrs. John M. Langston, widow of the late Congressman, died at her home in Washington, D.C., last week. She was one of the cultured women of her race and one of America's highest types of womanhood. EASTER CONCERT The Sunday School of Bethesda Baptist Church will give an Easter Concert on Sunday eve. April 4 at Bethesda Church. Exercises begin at 8 P. M. A literary program has been arranged. A five piece string Orchestra under the direction of Mrs. Maud Canty and Mrs. Geo. Lilliart, will furnish the music. The Waiters of the Commercial Club expect to be transferred to the New Athletic Club next month. Mr. Beasley, the headwaiter, has been keeping the service up to a high standard and the outlook is very promising. Mr. U. G. Hopkins of Springfield, O., is visiting St. Paul. He resides at 674 St. Anthony Ave. The Young Men's Progressive Club held their annual banquet on Thursday evening at Stewart's Cafe. Mr. Harry Harper is able to be out after a severe illness. Mr. Sam'l Whittaker is confined home with rheumatism. Mr. Ralph Watson is on the sick list, but able to attend to his duties with the Consolidated Milling Co. Mrs. John L. Gibson is improving under the care of Dr. Redd. Rev. T. J. Carter has moved to 2423 4th Ave. So. Mr. Chas. Johnson of Johnson and Deen, after playing two weeks in the Twin Cities left for Billings, Mont. He enjoyed his stay in his old home and his health is good. Their act is highly commendable. The annual servon of St. James Commandery, Knights Templar will be preached by Rev. Stovall at St. Peter Church on Easter Sunday afternoon. Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc. of The Twin City Star, published weekly at Minneapolis, Minn., required by the Act of August 24, 1912. Editor, Managing Editor, Business Manager, Owner and Publisher, Chas. Sumner Smith, Minneapolis, Minn. Known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders, holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bods, mortgagees, or other securities: None. (Signed) Chas. Sumner Smith. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24 day of March, 1915. W. T. Francis, Notary Public, Ramsey County, Minn. My commission expires Nov. 1, 1919. (Notarial Seal.) The Big Three. Every First and Third Tuesday. Arcade Hall, 1311 Washington Ave. So., Minneapolis. Good Music. Refreshments and Good Order. --- TWIN CITY STAR The Church Is the Gateway to Real Happiness hush to be saved. doubt about that. Like heaven, it NOW. Recently the newspapers side of a well known man. Ten young wife and allowed another to I can endure it no longer. Each into the torment of the damned." well and then, like Judas, went out himself. No writer, even with an ant a literal fire equal to the one hell. If there is no hell, why plan events? ERS A CHURCH HE FEELS BETWEENY TO HEAVEN. WHY DON'T I THRONG? YOU'LL FIND THE MUNITY IN CHURCH. IF YOU IT BUSY NOW. IT IS NEVER TOO THAT IF YOU GO TO CHURCH GO TO CHURCH THE FOLLOW- should not dream of staying away for Easter, but who Sunday after CHURCH. It is to these people addressed. If it is wrong to miss Christmas and Easter, why is it not IN MOVEMENT GOT INTO FULL IS A SPLENDID RESPONSE. THE NIT LET THIS SPLENDID MOVE- THE BEST—IF NOT THE BEST—STARTED. ATTY. FRANCIS NEW LOCATION. Atty. William T. Francis has moved to Suite 329 in the American National Bank Building, Cedar and Fifth Sts., St. Paul. We sent out several notices to delinquents last week and received few responses. We hope that those who owe us will arrange to pay us NOW. We pay our bills, and need money to keep up this paper. ROOMS FOR RENT.—Two Front Rooms, will furnish for light house-keeping, near West Hotel. Bath and gas. Call 119 Western Ave., Minneapolis. Furnished Rooms, suitable for a married couple. All conveniences. Use of kitchen and house privileges to desirable people only. Call at Mrs: A. D. Price, 820 E. 36th St., Minneapolis. BARGAINS IN REAL ESTATE $100 down and $25 per month will buy a 7-room, all modern house on 35th St. and Chicago Ave. $19 down and $19 per month is all you have to put into it to buy a new 10-room duplex, near South Central High School. $10 down and $10 per month will buy a 5-room Cottage, all modern but heat, in the South Central district. For Rent. I have on hand a list of desirable modern houses and flats, on both North and South side. F. PEOPLES. 236 Boston Block. Mr. John G. Yancy of Des Moines and Mr. John L. Gibson of this city have established a First Class pool and billiard parlor at 627 5th St. No. They are meeting a demand in that locality and the financial outlook is very good. The Knights of Pythias will give the Easter Ball, on April 5th, at the National Guard Armory. Wanted—Agents to solicit advertising and news. Salary or commission. Good profits. Write the Twin City Star, Minneapolis, Minn. If you wish to help this publication Send your subscription by Post office order. If you don't intend to pay for your paper, be honest enough to discontinue it. Leave your Subscriptions and Printing at TWIN CITY STAR PRINTERS, 1402 Washington Ave. So. A Legal Query. Tired of the long winded oratory of the attorney for the defense, the judge interrupted him. "Language," said the judge. "we are told, is given to conceal thought or words to that effect. Inasmuch as you don't seem to have any thought to conceal, I would like to know why you are talking?" Send Your Subscription steinway THE TWIN CITY KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Will be SEVENTH ANN and GRAND E MONDAY EVENING NATIONAL GUARD A To reach Armory transfer to any Western and Bryn Mawr, get off at one block west. From Lake St. line. Parkway will be brilliantly illum THE IMPERIA Under Mr. Chas. H. Miller, M. Misses Shull—instrumentalists, M. Cafe Entertainers in song and dance. McCullough's Grand Ore Doors open at 7:30. Curtain REFRESHMENTS SERVED. TAX SEVENTH ANNUAL CONCERT and GRAND EASTER BALL MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 5th, 1915 NATIONAL GUARD ARMORY MINNEAPOLIS To reach Armory transfer to any car going west on Hennepin—except Western and Bryn Mawr, get off at Kenwood Parkway, Plaza Hotel, walk one block west. From Lake St. lines take Hennepin cars going East. Parkway will be brilliantly illuminated for this occasion. THE IMPERIAL QUARTETTE. Under Mr. Chas. H. Miller, Mrs. Sansabaugh, Accompanist. The Misses Shull—instrumentalists, Miss Ada Lewis Pianist—also Leading Cafe Entertainers in song and dance specials. McCullough's Grand Orchestra with Latest Music. Doors open at 7:30. Curtain at 8:30. Grand March at 10. REFRESHMENTS SERVED. TAXIS AT 2:00 A. M. ADMISSION 50c. Judge Johnson's BIG EASTER BALL GOOD MUSIC AND A GOOD TIME The Password is "Good Order." April 5th, 1915 UNION TEMPLE HALL 28 WASHINGTON AVE. SO. ADMISSION 35c Man in Chair—Long? I was born that way. Subsequently I enjoyed a period of hirsute efforescence, but it did not endure. -Boston Transcript The Course of Action. "It has been bound over to keep the piece."—Baltimore American. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWS Regarding Do not be misled by seems a small price to piano. The so-called any piano is all the in Comparative values in misleading and sh accordingly. The Metropolitan M one-price store, and, asked, that price is the l be purchased for and r measure of value. You can buy as safely here as We have one of the best $300 pi about it. One price to all. Metropolitan 41-43 South Sixth St minway, Ivers & Pond, Ludwig, Dyer Bros. Regarding Prices Do not be misled by what apparently seems a small price for a regular-price piano. The so-called "bargain" price of any piano is all the instrument is worth. Comparative values in such cases are misleading and should be treated accordingly. The Metropolitan Music Co. is a strictly one-price store, and, whatever the price asked, that price is the lowest the article can be purchased for and represents the fullest measure of value. Your youngest child can buy as safely here as you can. We have one of the best $300 pianos that can be bought. Ask about it. One price to all. Metropolitan Music Co. THE UNIFORM RANK OF THE GRAND AFFAIR OF THE SEASON Will be Their SEVENTH ANNUAL CONCERT IN GRAND EASTER BAY SUNDAY EVENING, APRIL 5th, 1 NATIONAL GUARD ARMORY MINUTE Armory transfer to any car going west on He Bryn Mawr, get off at Kenwood Parkway, Plat t. From Lake St. lines take Hennepin cars will be brilliantly illuminated for this occasion THE IMPERIAL QUARTETTE. T. Chas. H. Miller, Mrs. Sansabaugh, Acco —instrumentalists, Miss Ada Lewis Pianist ners in song and dance specials. Cullough's Grand Orchestra with Latest Mus open at 7:30. Curtain at 8:30. Grand March NTS SERVED. TAXIS AT 2:00 A. M. AD --- Metropolitan Music Stained Glass Price A Big Baby d, $1150. Steinway Baby Grand, Mahogany, $1150. Regarding Price not be misled by what appa- nals a small price for a regu- lar. The so-called "bargain" piano is all the instrument in creative values in such cus- ting and should be be- ingly. Metropolitan Music Co. is a free store, and, whatever the that price is the lowest the ar- chased for and represents the of value. Your youngest as safely here as you can. one of the best $300 pianos that can be one price to all. Metropolitan Music South Sixth Street, Minne- Ludwig, Dyer Bros. Pianos, Player 41-43 South Sixth Street, Minneapolis. THEIR DUAL CONCERT MASTER BALL APRIL 5th, 1915 ARMORY MINNEAPOLIS car going west on Hennepin—except Kenwood Parkway, Plaza Hotel, walk is take Hennepin cars going East. nated for this occasion. QUARTETTE. Cars. Sansabaugh, Accompanist. The Ada Lewis Pianist—also Leading specials. Guestra with Latest Music. at 8.30. Grand March at 10. IS AT 2:00 A. M. ADMISSION 50c. E. E. Atkinson & Co. NICOLLET AT SEVENTH ST. MINNEAPOLIS In Our Annex Smart, stylish suits, coats, dresses, skirts and waists are offered at prices astonishly low. FOR SALE-$5 down and $5 per month for two improved lots on 34th and Girard Ave. N. One block from carline, two blocks from school. Nic. 621. McDew, 802 Sykes Blk. Records. Victor Records Music and Race Prejudice. The concerts and recitals of the New York Music School Settlement, which have usually brought together almost as many white people as black, have served as a channel of communication between the white race and the black race. Thousands of white people have, by means of these concerts, come to recognize, as they never have before, that the Negro race has capacities and talents which need only proper development and direction to enable that race to take its rightful position in the family of races. Mr. David Bispham, the famous American baritone, in a concert which he gave a year or two ago at the Harvard Club to an audience of several hundred college men, said, when he reached the last number on his program, "I have been singing this afternoon the songs of many foreign composers. I shall close with two songs of an American composer. I regret to say that I did not discover this composer myself, but learned of him only through the writings of German musicians. He is not as well known in his own country as he should be. I suppose the reason for this is that he is a Negro, but I want to say to you gentlemen that there is no color line in art. When I find a composition of merit it makes no difference to me whether it be written by a white man or a black man or a red man." He then proceeded to sing Will Marion Cook's "Exhortation," to the immense enjoyment of his audience. It cannot be doubted that through music, the universal language, there is bound to come in time a better understanding between the two races. Southern Workman. ATY. FRANCIS NEW LOCA TION. Atty. William T. Francis has moved to Suite 329 in the American National Bank Building, Cedar and Fifth Sts., St, Paul. Mrs. Cisney, clerk of the Withers Express Co., 504 6th Ave. No., has accepted the agency of The Twin City Star. She will solicit ads. and subscriptions, and mention the personals. There is much activity on the North Side and her news will be of great interest to our readers. Defective Page effective Page TRUE REFORMERS' NEW PRESIDENT Thrifty Virginia Order Elects Rev. S. S. Morris. MAN OF WIDE EXPERIENCE Interesting Career of Brilliant Young Clergyman Who Has Done Creditable Work In Many Fields of Labor. Well Known In Secret Societies as a Zealous and Safe Leader. Richmond, Va.—The recent turn in the affairs of the grand fountain, United Order of True Reformers, resulting in Grand Worthy Master Floyd Ross' disappearance and suspension from his office by the board of directors of the organization, has brought before the country a young man eminently fitted to guide this fraternity on to unprecedented success. The matters that have made the organization the cynosure of the eyes of those interested in its remarkable PETER J. HARRIS REV. S. S. MORRIS, B. D. effort to rehabilitate itself are quite vital, but not of such import as to hinder it in its work for the future. Such capable and trustworthy men as Grand Worthy Treasurer Dr. William Smith and Grand Worthy Secretary Maurice Rousselle, who have proved their ability, have the confidence of every Afro-American who believes in "native ideals," and the other prominent people composing the present board of directors will certainly gain the approbation of the fraternity and the friends of some in every section of the country in electing Rev. S. S. Morris, A. B., B. D., of this city as the chief executive of the order. The new grand worthy master was born in Portsmouth, Va., and is well known throughout this section of the Old Dominion. His mother, Mrs. Lucinda Morris, was a Sunday school teacher for nearly fifty years in the Emanuel A. M. E. church at Portsmouth, Va., and the Christian environment of Dr. Morris was such that he was converted at the age of fourteen years and became an energetic worker as a Sunday school teacher and president of Allen C. E. league. He received his elementary education in the public schools of Norfolk county, Va.; Providence, R. I., and Washington. He was licensed as a local preacher in 1899 and joined the Virginia conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church in April, 1901. He was later transferred to the Atlanta (Ga.) conference in December, 1901, and received his first appointment as pastor of West End A. M. E. church, Atlanta. He exhibited such fine ability at the West End church that he was appointed to the Thomasville church, in Fulton county, in 1903, and the following year he was made superintendent of the industrial department of Morris Brown college, Atlanta. In June, 1905, Rev. Mr. Morris returned to Virginia as pastor of Tanner's Creek circuit, Norfolk county. Dr. Morris is now serving his fourth year as pastor of the historic Third Street A. M. E. church, this city. He has remodeled this church at a cost of $15,000 and during his administration has added 150 to the membership. He is recognized in this city as a born leader and is foremost in any movement making for the betterment of conditions among our people. He has done a remarkable work as president of the Civic league here. In fraternal circles his advice on important matters is most always sought. He is a member of the grand lodge of Masons of Virginia and chaplain of the Second regiment uniform rank of Knights of Pythias. He was formerly a member of the board of directors of the fraternity of which he is now the head. Wherever he pastors he encourages and stimulates literary endeavors among the people. He is now secretary of the Social Study club of Richmond, which is a credit to the Afro-Americans of Richmond interested in the advancement of the race. It is the consensus of opinion among the betterment of both races in this section of Virginia that he will put the True Reformers back on the right track. His knowledge of conducting large organizations was evidenced at the general conference of his church when it met at Kansas City, Mo., and again as one of the trustees of Kettrell college. North Carolina. Cont. from page 1, col. 6. ALL RACES EQUAL (Dr. S. N. Demarau.) peace. But who would claim this as a peculiar racial trait? Equally, the antagonism to the Jew, at least during the last seventeen centuries, has sprung from a religious source. When the Jew was stamped before the world as the crucifer of a God or Savior, and the religion embodying this idea became the dominant faith of the world, the persecutions of the Jew began; and, fed from the source, they have continued to this day. Racial Difference a Pretense. Of course, the Christian world will not acknowledge that a religion that preaches love and charity for all has at the same time engendered and fostered an implacable hate for an entire human group, even though it has done it indirectly. Hence the pseudoscientific explanation that anti-Jewish prejudice is the result of a natural race antagonism. I do not mean to say that everyone who at the present time manifests any prejudice against the Jew, especially in social relations and intercourse has the religious stigma that has been fixed upon the Jew in mind. But the word Jew, having once been made a Jew by the ancient world, is sufficient. The world is full of arrogant snobs, pretenders, people who give themselves airs, would be aristocrats, who are always on the lookout for some one against whom they may draw the social line, upon whom they may look down as an inferior. And the name Jew fills the bill. But snobbery is not a racial characteristic. It is a thoroughly human trait. We all have our snobs and arrogant fools. We all have our snobs and arrogant snobs, believe, is to be found every rank of this mortal life," says Thackery, who is quite an authority on the subject." The Crime Against the Negro. It is this immoral desire to have some one who may be looked down upon as an inferior, and may be kept in an inferior position, in a condition of servitude, that is largely responsible for the attitude and conduct of the majority of this nation toward the colored race. Here, indeed, we may speak of a discontented man, he, too, is marked off from all others. But what of that? The colored man, too, so our religion teaches, is of Adam's offspring; and being of such descent, he, too, is created in the image of God. His soul, too, is endowed with the same capacities for progress, growth and enlightenment, as the soul of every other human being. But setting all religious ones aside, what does the nature of this human being bring here from their original habitat the inhospitable regions of Africa, where, owing to various causes, the native children of the soil never emerged from a state of barbarism, or else specially relapsed into it; and being held in bondage and servitude here for many generations, the colored people have et in the fifty years since the arrival of this nation, must bitter prejudice and hostility, shown us at they, too, have the same capacity for development as any other race. A race cannot be spoken of as inferior of which the National Business league in a recent session could say: "Starting half a century ago, without experience, without education and without property, we today own and pay taxes on 20,000,000 acres of land and South Carolina; we own and control 100 insurance companies, 300 drugs stores, 64 banks, 450 newspapers and more than 20,000 other businesses of various kinds, and the total wealth of American negroes in land, homes, schools, churches and other forms of property, amounts to more than $700,000; fifty years ago more than 90 percent of the population was illiterate. Today more than 70 per cent can both read and write." A race that has produced distinguished writers and orators, whose members are qualified to enter, and to serve honorably in, the learned professions, cannot be spoken of as an inferior race. There are no inferior or superior races. There are backward races, oppressed races, misleaved races, and fortuitously situated races, races that have had favorable conditions and opportunities for development, arrogant races, domineering races; but no inferior or superior races. New Form of Persecution. The dominant white race wishes the colored race to occupy a position of inferiority and servitude, and to stagnate in it. That is the gist of the matter. But consider the injustice, the crying wrong of it all. The race did not come here of its own accord. It was brought here in involuntary exile, and human impulses for generations it was kept in bondage. For generations it was kept in bondage. For generations it was kept in bondage. An article of trade and barter. At length man's better nature rebelled against the wickedness of it all, his more humane impulses asserted themselves, and the colored people were amancipated. But a new form of oppression and persecution took the place of the old. The majority of the race was chiseled and the entire race is ostracised. Practically all of honorable employment among white people are closed to them. Even our government, which is supposed to have one and the same law for all alike, is now seeking to segregate them, humiliate them, and drive them out of its employment even in the lowest ranks of officialdom. The entire race is condemned for the shortcomings, misdeeds, and wrongdoings, if the lowest elements of every other race are not guilty of equally heinous misdeeds and crimes. Cannot a white clerk work alongside of a colored clerk in a government office? Oh, the hypocrisy of it all! A colored man is good enough to cook the white man's food, to wait on him at his table, to serve as his valet; a colored woman is good enough to be his wife's maid, and his children's nurse. But they are not good enough to stand beside him at a government desk. Is it not evident that the real reason of it is? The white man's humble ranks of life, must have some one on whom he may look down as an inferior. Verily, we are yet far from having mastered the fundamental religious truth of the creation story, the essential unity of the human race. We have reason to talk glibly of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man; but our hearts are not in our talk. Would it were otherwise! OPPORTUNITY. To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life.—Samuel Johnson. STAR "ADS"—BRING RESULTS TWIN CITY STAR WHAT CENSUS FIGURES SHOW Decrease in Death Rate and Increase in Home Ownership. Washington.—The bulletin on Negroes in the United States issued March 20, by William J. Harris, director of the census, department of commerce, contains for the first time a statement regarding mortality among Negroes. All previous census publications have given statistics for the total colored population, in which were included the Chinese, Japanese, Indians and other non-white. The data are shown for the registration area of the United States, the registration states and certain selected cities—fifty-seven in all. The Negro population of the area was 19.7 per cent of the total number of Negroes in the United States in 1910, and the deaths numbered 49,490, with a death rate of 25.5 per 1,000 population, a decrease as compared with the rate in 1900, which was 29.4. The selected cities shown are the fifty-seven registration cities which had, in 1910, a Negro population of 2,500 or more, for which comparable data are available in 1900. In the fifty-seven cities included in the table the death rate among Negroes in 1910 was 27.8 and that among whites 15.9 per 1,000, the rate among the Negroes being nearly twice as great as that for the whites. In the thirty-three northern cities the death rate among Negroes was 25.1 and that among whites 15.7 per 1,000, while in twenty-four southern cities the rate for Negroes was 20.6 and that for whites 16.9. Thus the death rates for each race were higher in the southern than in the northern cities, the difference between the races in respect to death rate also being greater in the south. Both Negroes and whites show decreases in death rate in 1910 as compared with 1900, when the fifty-seven cities are cofisheried in the aggregate, the decline for the Negroes being 3.4 and for whites 2.5 per 1,000 population. Every city in the south, except Key West, Fla., and Memphis, Tenn., showed a lower death rate for Negroes in 1910 than in 1900. The increase in Key West was only 0.2, while in Memphis it was 3.9 per 1,000. The general tendency appears to be in the direction of a declining death rate for Negroes in registration cities, the decrease being somewhat greater for Negroes than for whites. As a result the difference between the death rate for Negroes and for whites in these cities was not as great in 1910 as a decade earlier. The table presents the distribution of the Negro and white deaths for 1910 by cause of death for the registration area and also for sixty-nine of the seventy selected cities in the area, the data for Springfield, Ill., not being available. The table shows that deaths among Negroes, as compared with the whites, are relatively more numerous for malaria, tuberculosis of the lungs, other forms of tuberculosis, pneumonia and whooping cough, while for measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, cancer, appendicitis, diarrhea and violent deaths (including suicide) the distribution is noticeably higher among whites. In other causes the differences in the percentages are slight. The question as to whether the decrease in mortality among Negroes in 1910 as compared with 1900 was due to permanent causes, such as improved housing conditions, better medical attention and in improved sanitary conditions and not to the absence of epidemics, is an important and interesting one. Undoubtedly one of the factors which has caused the decrease in the death rate, which decrease is almost universal in the cities of the south, is the increase in home ownership among the Negro population. The ownership of homes data for the northern states and cities is not available, and what is presented relates only to the south. In the decade from 1900 to 1910 the number of homes owned by Negroes in the southern states increased by 102,912, or 31.4 per cent, this increase covering increase in farm homes of 30,449, or 16.7 per cent, and in other homes of 72,463, or 49.8 per cent. The table presents the number of owned homes in 1910, the increase during the decade, 1900 to 1910, and also the number of Negro inhabitants to one owned home for each of the southern states. How a Brooklyn Policeman Blundered. Magistrate Voorhees of the Gates avenue court in Brooklyn in discharging Samuel Woodyard, whom a policeman had arrested because he was carrying a bundle in the street after midnight recently, said in reply to the statement of the policeman who arrested Woodyard that it was a rule in the police department to arrest any person on suspicion who carried large packages in the streets at late hours in the night: "It may be a police department restriction, but there is no law to uphold it. The prisoner is discharged." Mr. Woodyard had his carpenter tools, it is said, in a bag, and the policeman arrested him because Woodyard would not tell what the bag contained. Mr. Woodyard is said to be a hardworking, respectable colored citizen and lives in the downtown section in Brooklyn. Thus even in Greater New York if a person is colored he does not have to commit a crime to be arrested. Fine Chance to Get Out on the Land. The stockholders of the Kaw Valley Truck Farm company at its annual meeting, which was recently held, showed many good results. The company owns 105 acres of land near Kansas City, Kan., and, according to H. P. Ewing, the promoter and manager, its object is to furnish productive employment to the Negroes who wish to leave the congested city conditions. DRESSED? THEN I AM YOUR TAILOR. SUITS $25.00 OVERCOATS $25.00 Cleaning Pressing Repairing CLIFFORD A. SMITH. 421 UNIVERSITY AVE., ST. PAUL N. W. PHONE DALE 3823. SMOKE THE BEST 5C CIGAR Sight Draft W. S CONRAD CO., Distributors NO. 140. E. 6th ST., ST. PAUL. NO. 1. WESTERN AVE., MINN. Judge Johnson's Dances Judge Johnson will hold his dances every 2nd and 4th Thursday evening UNION TEMPLE HALL 28 Washington Ave. So. ADMISSION 35c. THE CARVER HOTEL 200 ELEVENTH AVE. SO. By Day, Week or Month. Special Rates to Theatrical People. Mrs. Alice (Mother) Carver, Prep. N. W. Phone Main 863 Peterson, The Druggist 1501 Washington Ave. So. TOILET ARTICLES, DRUGS PRESCRIPTIONS. He Solicits You Pairenage. SPECIAL SAMPLE SHOES. POPULAR PRICED SHOE RE- PAIRING. WE FIX 'EM WHILE YOU WAIT. Men's Sewed Soles .....75c Ladies Sewed Soles .....65c Men's Nailed Soles .....50 and 60c Rubber Heels, .....40c Ladies' and Boys' nailed soles .....40c SEVEN CORNERS SHOE REPAIR SHOP 1424 Washington Avenue South. DO IT NOW!!! DON'T WAIT!!! Come in, and have your teeth fixed and pay in Weekly or Monthly installments. We have Dr. H. Pierce, "the famous extractor" with us every Monday and Friday and by special appointment. RED CROSS DENTAL PARLORS DR. M. W. JUDY, MGR. 248 First Ave. No. Minneapolis N. W. PHONE NIC. 4057 MRS. H. I. WILLIAMS. TYPEWRITER, STENOGRAPHER Atty. Francis' office. 329 AM. BANK BLDG. St. Paul, Minn. Office, Nic. 1963 Res. Celfax 1638. DR. J. H. REDD, Physician and Surgeon. 111 80, 6TH ST. Minneapolis, Minn. DR. W. H. WRIGHT. DENTIST. Phone Nic. 1963 111 So. 6th St Minneapolis, Minn. ALL WORK GUARANTEED Work Called For and Delivered THE NORTH SIDE HAND LAUNDRY Phone Main 3474. THE BEST WORK IN THE CITY Supervised Personally by MRS. SUSIE JOHNSON, Prep. Formerly of St. Paul 604 No. 5th St., Minneapolis PRICES REASONABLE Cleaning Pressing Repairing THE FRANCE CAFE CHOP-SUEY - - VOCAL ENTERTAINER REGULAR DINNER AND A LA CARTE SERVICE THE PLACE TO DINE Best Accommodations for Private Parties EXCELLENT COOKING COURTEOUS ATTENTION 300 - 5th Ave. So.. Minneapolis MRS. J. M. MASK, PROP. N. W. Phone Main 2560. NEW TABLES. FAST CUSHIONS Pool and Billiards GIBSON AND YANCY PROPRIETORS. A COMPLETE LINE OF CIGARS AND TOBACCO. 627-5th St. No., Minneapolis IN THE FUTURE. And none but the Master shall praise us, And none but the Master shall blame, And no one shall work for money, And no one shall work for fame. But all for the joy of working, And each, in his separate star, Shall paint the thing as he sees it, For the God of things as they are. —Rudyard Kipling. To make French knots, knot the thread and bring it up through the material; then take an ordinary short backstitch and before bringing the needle entirely out of the material wind the thread two or three times around the needle (according to size of knot desired), and, holding the colls down with the left thumb, draw the needle through. Then insert the needle over the edge of colls in the same hole, making the knot secure. Carry the thread on the wrong side of the material on the next knot without cutting Foreign Objects In the Lungs. Foreign Objects in the Lungs. Sir William Milligan exhibited at a recent meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine a damson stone, a carpet tack and a coin, all of which had been inhaled into the lungs and been removed with forceps after several days of suffering on the part of the persons who had been foolish enough to put them into their mouths. Poor Stuff. "I see that Jones has failed. Has he any assets?" "Nothing of any value; the inventory which he filed with his petition in bankruptcy shows he had 230 wedding presents."—Brooklyn Citizen. "Yes, I know. But it would be so unpleasant. We—we used to have a dog named Jim, and every time I hear his name I cry." — Cleveland Plain Dealer. Her Way. "That woman across the way treats her husband like a dog." "Poor man!" "Oh, he likes it. She's always feeding and petting him." — Baltimore American. Defined. Gerald—Say, pa, what's a bungalow? Pa—Well, a bungalow is a parody on a house—New York Times. THE NEGROES' CHANCE. A Rebuke to Discrimination. Now that there may be an election to decide the liquor traffic in Minneapolis, the Negro voter is confronted with a condition whereby he may resent the many discriminations against his race. His vote is wanted by the liquor dealers who have in many instances led the fight in the "A Dollar a Drink" agitation against Negroes. Will he, as a voter, exercise his ballot as a weapon of defense; is the important topic? We feel that every Negro is especially justified in voting "Dry" on this particular issue. Such places as Weil's, A. M. Smith's and many others, who do not want the Negro should be made to suffer. The liquor dealers have sanctioned every form of segregation. They begin with the sale of rot-gut whiskey to Negroes with bare walls and a sawdust floor and end with "bottled in bond" amid plate glass and ornamental tile with "Negro trade not wanted." "Tis true we have some jobs etc., but what are they to be purchased at the price of race inferiority and humiliation? The battle is drawn between two factions of the whites. The Negro is now a factor. The stone that the builders rejected will become the head stone of the corner—if good judgment and honesty preprevails. Jno. L. Gibson French Knots. Poor Stuff. Her Way. OVER 65 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an institution or private institution, HANDBOOK on Patents sent free, Outset agency for securing patents, Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest citation of pre-eminent authors. Commencement year: four months. $1. Sold by all new dealers. MUNN & Co. 364 Broadway. New York Branch Office, 625 F St., Washington, D.C. THE BIG THREE invite you The same courteous treatment will be shown our many friends of the Twin Cities as has been shown in the seasons past. Dances on the first and third Tuesdays in each month at ARCADE HALL 1311 Wash. Ave. S., Minneapolis ADMISSION, 25c Respectfully Yours, Edw. Pipkin, P. H. Southall and Robert Glenn. M. He can save you from $1 to $5 on moving household goods—also on storage. He will move your Pianos, Baggage, called for and Delivered. Rubbish Removed. Call on him for your Coal and Wood. LET WITHERS DO IT! Give him a Trial and be Satisfied. He solicits your patronage, and is entitled to it. He must have it. CALL UP MAIN 3474. J. A. WITHERS, 504 6th Ave. No., Minneapolis THE SPIRELLA CORSET Mrs. Cora Anderson Carr 365 Aurora Ave. N. W. Dale 1345 St. Paul, Minn. PRINTING THAT SATISFIES. Bring your printing to THE TWIN CITY STAR PRINT, 1402 Washington Ave. So. The work will suit you. Estimates cheerfully given. T. S. 2520. Negro Business Men's League. A Business Men's League has been organized in the Northern district. Mr. J. A. Withers is one of the leading factors. 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Consumption is a disease that is acquired and with proper care can be cured. Many things are necessary to overcome this monster, for consumption is a disease of poverty and is spread by bad houses, insanitary methods of life, carelessness and excesses. But of all things that help to overcome consumption nothing is so important as abundant fresh air. Do you sleep in a room where you keep the windows tightly closed in cold weather? Do you keep out fresh air because it may "chill" you? Do you work in a room or a shop where the air cannot enter? If so you are hazarding your life and inviting death. Open your windows and keep them open at all times, especially during the hours of sleep! If you have not cover enough to keep you warm in cold weather, save money and buy it, for sample cover, permitting you to sleep with your windows open, will do more for your good health than all the medicine you buy. If you want to live and to keep from having consumption live with your windows open! Evils of Enforced Segregation The Negroes of the South are possessed of two most excellent qualities—a desire for education which fills every Negro school as soon as it is opened, and a hunger for land which makes them eager to secure their own homes and farms. The South needs laborers. Its resources have only just begun to be developed. There is wealth in the soil and under the ground that has scarcely been touched. The Negro and white people of the South have come up under the same traditions, and except as they have been disturbed by politicians and demagogues they have lived side by side in the greatest harmony. The right sort of education which emphasizes Christian service, makes white men and black men better and more helpful neighbors. In some parts of the South the Negroes of their own accord have settled in certain sections by themselves. In Mound Bayou in Mississippi and in other places they have their towns governed by Negroes. It is well that they should have the opportunity which these Negro settlements afford of developing and demonstating their powers of self-government; but any enforced segregation will result, as Dr. Weatherford shows, only in harm to both whites and blacks. It would end in the Negro moving in large numbers to the cities, which do not afford him as good opportunities as the country for the development of integrity , thrift, and character. It would thus deprive the Southern white man of the labor he needs. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR NEW ABOLITION AND THE CRISIS Features of Program Named For Racial Advance. DEMAND FOR CIVIL RIGHTS. Head of Publicity Department of National Association Says We Must Have Political and Industrial Freedom—A Revival of Art and Literature, Education and Organization. New York.—The fifth annual meeting of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, recently held in this city, brought its growth and mission widely before the nation. This association sprang into being on account of the Springfield riots of 1908. A meeting was held early in 1909 and a call issued. The first conference met in New York city in May, 1909, and the second in May, 1910. Permanent headquarters were opened, and the Crisis began publication in November of that year. The growth of the organization has been phenomenal. Today it has fifty THE MAILBOX DR. W. B. B. DU BOIS AND A SECTION OF THE EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT OF THE CRISIS. branches throughout the country and 7,000 members, while the Crisis has reached a circulation of over 35,000. The platform of the association is broad, but uncompromising. Its official statement says: "The National Association For the Advancement of Colored People seeks to uplift the colored men and women of this country by securing to them the full enjoyment of their rights as citizens, Justice in all courts and equality of opportunity everywhere. It favors and aims to ald every kind of education among them save that which teaches special privilege or prerogative, class or caste. It recognizes the national character of the Negro problem and no sectionalism. It believes in the upholding of the constitution of the United States and its amendments, in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln. It upholds the doctrine of 'all men up and no man down.' It abhors Negro crime, but still more the conditions which breed crime and, most of all, the crimes committed by mobs in the mockery of the law or by individuals in the name of the law. "It believes that the scientific truths of the Negro problem must be available before the country can see its way wholly clear to right existing wrongs. It has no other belief than that the best way to uplift the colored man is the best way to aid the white man to peace and social content. It has no other desire than exact justice and no other motive than humanity." Telling Points at Annual Meeting. At the recent annual meeting two happenings may be emphasized: First, the awarding of the first Springgarn medal, worth $100, to Ernest Everett Just of Howard university for distinguished research in biology; second, the proposed program for radical Negro advance laid down by Dr. W. E. B. Du Bols. Dr. Du Bols said, in part: "We need not waste time by seeking to deceive our enemies into thinking that we are going to be content with a half loaf or by being willing to lull our friends into a false sense of our indifference and present satisfaction. The American Negro demands equality—political equality, industrial equality and social equality—and he is never going to rest satisfied with anything less. He demands this in no spirit of braggadoclo and with no obsequious envy of others, but as an absolute measure of self defense and the only one that will assure to the darker races their ultimate survival on earth "Only in a demand and a persistent demand for essential equality in the modern realms of human culture can any people show a real pride of race and a decent self respect. For any group, nation or race to admit for a moment the present monstrous demand of the white race to be the inheritors of the earth, the arbiters of mankind and the sole owners of a heritage of culture which they did not create nor even improve to any greater extent than the other great divisions of men—to admit such pretense for a moment is to write oneself down immediately as indisputably inferior in judgment, knowledge and common sense. THE MORAL PHILLIE Home Training Negro Must Have Political Freedom. "The Negro must have political freedom—taxation without representation is tyranny. American Negroes of 10 day are ruled by tyrants who take what they please in taxes and give what they please in law and administration, in justice and in injustice and the great mass of black people must stand helpless and volceless before a condition which has time and time again caused other peoples to fight and die. The Negro must have industrial freedom. Between the peonage of the rural south, the oppression of shrewd capitalists and the jealousy of certain trade unions the Negro laborer is the most exploited class in the country, giving more hard toll for less money than any other American and with less voice in the conditions of his labor. "In social intercourse every effort is being made today from the president of the United States and the so called Church of Christ down to saloons and bootblacks to segregate, strangle and spiritually starve the Negro so as to give him the least possible chance to know and share civilization. "The Negro must have power—the power of men, the right to do, to know, to feel and to express that knowledge, action and spiritual gift. He must not simply be free from the political tyranny of white folk; he must have the right to vote and to rule over all the citizens to the extent of his proved foresight and ability. He must have a voice in the new industrial democracy which is building and the power to see to it that his children are not in the next generation trained to be the mud sills of society. He must have the right to social intercourse with his fellows. "There was a time in the atomic individualistic group when "social intercourse" meant merely calls and tea parties; today social intercourse means theaters, lectures, organizations, clubs, churches, excursions, travel, hotels—it means, in short, life. To bar a group from methods of thinking, living and doing is to bar them from the world and bid them create a new world—it is to crucify them and taunt them with not being able to live." Five Practical Constructive Steps. Five Practical Constructive Steps. Dr. Du Bois suggests five practical steps for action—first, economic co-operation; second, a revival of art and literature; third, political action; fourth, education; fifth, organization. "For the accomplishment of all these ends we must organize. Organization among us already has gone far, but it must go much further and higher. Organization is sacrifice. It is sacrifice of opinions, of time, of work and of money, but it is, after all, the cheapest way of buying the most priceless of gifts—freedom and efficiency. I thank God that most of the money that supports this association comes from black hands. A still larger proportion must come, and we must not only support, but control, this and similar organizations and hold them unwaveringly to our objects, our aims and our ideals. "With such organizations and with all the progress that they can point to let us never be satisfied with mere progress so long as we fall so far short of a reasonable accomplishment of our desires. Remember that we are despised today by millions of people not because we suffer, but because we suffer like dumb, driven cattle, with even a smile on our faces. To what other race could it happen on God's green earth that one of its greatest leaders here in New York before assembled thousands could congratulate his people because only fifty-two black men and women have in one short year been hanged and shot and burned by mobs? If that can give 10,000,000 people satisfaction, in God's name what will it take to make them fight? Du Bois' Ipsa Dixit and the Crisis. "As for me and those that think with me, so long as one black man in the United States is illegally punished or unjustly treated or has the door of opportunity closed in his face we will protest and complain and protest again whether the world wants to hear us or not. We may not gain our ends. We may not in our day realize our ideals. But the program I lay before you is not only reasonable and just, but it is a program of peace and patience, and in laying it down I face the awful fact that in this as in all great causes, if peace and patience cannot win, then war and struggle must. In any case there can be no despair, there can be no surrender, there can be no defeat as long as a black man draws a breath in America." It is interesting to know that the Easter edition of the Crisis, which Dr. Du Bols edits, will have a total of 48,000 copies, a record breaking number for a colored journal. The magazine will be a double number. It will have a story by Charles W. Chesnutt, the well known novelist; two poems by William Stanley Brathwaite, the critic; a beautiful transcription of an Easter folk song by J. Rosamond Johnson and a cartoon by John Henry Adams. The cover in colors by Richard Brown is said to be the most beautiful the Crisis has published. Pittsburgh True Reformers Are Active The Pittsburgh division of the Grand Fountain, United Order of True Reformers, is one of the most active subordinate branches of the order in the north. At the annual installation of the officers of the division and of the various subordinate fountains held recently the division perfected plans for holding its annual solemn service in memory of deceased members of the division on Sunday evening. March 28. THE MORAL PHASE OF NEGRO LIFE. Home Training Most Important. Says Miss Nannie H. Burroughs. The moral phase of the Negro problem is the most serious part of the whole aggravating question. To improve the standard of the life of the masses is the only solution. As with other races, the standards in the homes are set up by the women who preside over them. Therefore to bring about a reform the womanhood of the race must be taught how to instruct their children in those virtues, that have made the most advanced races what they are. We are prone to think that the Negro is by nature religious and therefore moral. He is both; but he is not enough of either when it comes to living up to fundamental principles every day life. Because of his crude conception of what the Christian religion really is he too often practices one thing and preaches another. Often the foremost woman in the church is so far from a model for her less ambitious sisters that they look with contempt upon her and discredit religion. This misrepresentation of the genuine article takes many forms and sometimes the one woman is a combination of all. She allows beer drinking, card playing, and rag time music in her home. She is loose in her conversation. Her language is often smutty. Her demeanor becomes a woman of the street. Her home is a hangout for "sliding elders" and loafing, hungry preachers. Her house is poorly kept. Her children are too young to be men and women and too old to be children. They are theregore the freshest things in the neighborhood. They run the church. They sit in the front heat, chew gum, talk and keep their "gang" giggling. To speak to them is to throw a match into a magazine of powder. These wise and talented youngsters of the leading sisters, get into the choir and start trouble for the choristers. They get religion and start trouble for the deacons. These children of too many of those who aspire to leadership in our local churches presume too much on the standing and influence of their mothers and give our churches all kinds of trouble. What we need is a new type of women in our homes as mothers, and a new type of women in our churches as leaders and examples for the young. The wig wearing, gum chewing, beer smelling, mouth running, street trotting, home neglecting, convention fever type of women are out of style, and from them may we soon be delivered. The struggle for today, is not altogether for today; it is for a vast future.—Abraham Lincoln. BE KIND TODAY. Less spent on the dead and more spent on the living would bring about many happy results. Hearts are breaking, loved ones wait, and tears flow all because of the withholding of kind words unspoken and letters never sent. Behold the sad mistakes of others, their remorse, and profit by the same before it is too late. Today, now, speak the loving word, send the tender message, write the letter you put off day by day, and don't wait until you forget it or until bitter memories haunt you. An ignorant negro had been persuaded to buy a thermometer by a glib tongued salesman, and a few days later he came back with it, complaining that it didn't give satisfaction. "What's the matter with it?" asked the clerk. "Ah dunno, but it ain't made no diff'rence round mah place. Some days de house am too cold an' odder days it's too hot."—Exchange. Old Peppermint Remedies. Old Peppermint Remedies. Peppermint drops have long been the unfalling comfortor of old ladies—and others—but in recent times we seem to have got past needing some of the medicinal qualities for which peppermint oil was held in high esteem in bygone centuries. Gerarde in his Herbale (1633) advises the use of it either "poured into the eares with honeyed water" or "taken inwardly" as a certain specific "against scolopdres, beare-worms, sea-serpents, scorpions and the bitings of mad dogs"—London Chronicle. Whistler's Comment. One of Whistler's proofs, sold by Sotheby's in 1888—that of an early etching—brought a good price, not on its merits, but for this line by the artist, written on the margin: "Legs not by me, but a fatuous addition by a general practitioner." 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Twenty-five Cents Reading Notices, per line, Five Cents Wedding Announcements, Fifty Cents Card of Thanks .......-One Dollars In Memoriam .. ........One Dollar Business Announcements, One Dollar Death Notices .......--.Fifty Cents When writing for the press, don't abbreviate your words, Spell each fone out correctly and distinctly. If you don't it means that all of your manuscript will have to be rewritten if there is time. Write on one side of the paper only. Address all mail to Twin City Star 1419 Washington Ave. So., Minneapolis, Minnesota. HOW TO KEEP GOOD HEALTH. National Negro Health Week Pro- moters Issue Some Timely Advice. One of the things that the national Negro health week, March 21 to 27, 1s intended to do is to spread information concerning how It is possible to keep from having consumption, also what to do to cure consumption, says the Na. tlonal Negro Business league through Its president, Dr. Booker 'T. Washiug- ton. For a long time tt was supposed that consumption was inberited and incurable. It is now found that this ts not true. Consumption is a disease that fs acquired and with proper care can be cured. Many things are necessary to over- come this monster, for consumption Is a disease of poverty and Is spread by bad houses, insanitary methods of life, carelessness and excesses. But of all things that help to overcome consump- ton nothing 1s so important as abun- dant fresh air. Do you sleep in a room where you keep the windows tightly closed in cold weather? Do you keep out fresh air because it may “chill” you? Do you work in a room or a ‘shop where the alr cannot enter? If 80 you are hazarding your life and in- viting death. Open your windows and keep them open at all times, especially during the hours of sleep! If you have not cover enough to keep you warm In cold weather, save money and buy it, for ample cover, permitting you to sleep with your windows open, will do more for your good health than all the medl- eine you buy. If you want to live and to keep from having consumption live with your windows open! Evils of Enforced Segregation. The Negroes of the South are pos- sessed of two most excellent qual- ities—a desire for education which fills every Negro school as soon as it is opened, and a hunger for land which makes them eager to secure their own homes and farms. The South needs laborers. Its resources have only just begun to be developed There is wealth in the soil and under the ground that has scarcely been touched, The Negro and white peo- ple of the South have come up under the same traditions, and except as they have been disturbed by politic- ians and demagogues they have lived side by side in the greatest harmony. The right sort of education which emphasizes Christian service, makes white men and black men better and more helpful neighbors. In some parts of the South the Ne- groes of their own accord have settled in certain sections by themselves, In Mound Bayou in Mississippi and in other places they have their towns governed by Negroes. It is well that they should have the opportunity which these Negro settlements afford of developing and demonstating their powers of self-government; but any enforced segregation will result, as Dr. Weatherford shows, only in harm to both whites and blacks. It would end in the Negro moving in large numbers to the cities, which do not afford him as good opportunities as the country for the development of integrity thrift, and character. It would thus deprive the Southern white man of the labor he needs. XH. B, Frissell, + in the Southern Workman,” SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR NEW ABOLITION AND THE CRISIS Features of Program Named For Racial Advance, DEMAND FOR GIVIL RIGHTS, Head of Publicity Department of Na- tional Association Says We Must Have Political and industrial Free- dom—A Revival of Art and Litera- ture, Education and Organization. New York.—The fifth annual meeting of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, recent- ly held In this city. brought Its growth and mission widely before the nation. ‘This association sprang into being on account of the Springfield riots of 1908. A meeting was held early in 1909 and a call tssted. ‘The tirst conference met in New York clty in May, 1909, and the second In May, 1910. Permanent head quarters were opened, and the Crisis began publication in November of that year. ‘The growth of the organization has been phenomenal. Today it bas fifty iP My a i uk ls W. BB. DU BOIS AND A SECTION OF THE BDITORIAL DEPARTMENT OF THE nists. “branches throughout the country and 7,000 members, while the Crisis has reached a circulation of over 35,000. The platform of the association Is broad, but uncompromising, Its oft clal statement says: “The National Association For the Advancement of Colored People seeks to uplift the colored men and women of this country by securing to them the full enjoyment of their rights as citizens, Justice in all courts and equal ity of opportunity everywhere. It fa: vors and alms to aid every kind of education among them save that which teaches special privilege or preroga: tive, class or caste. It recognizes the national character of the Negro Problem and no sectionaltsm, It he- Heves in the upholding of the constitu tlon of the United States and its amendments, In the spirit of Abraham Lincoln. It upholds the doctrine of ‘all men up and no man down. It abhors Negro crime, but still more the conditions which breed crime and, most of all, the crimes committed by mobs in the mockery of the Inw or by Individuals in the name of the law “It believes that the scientific truths of the Negro problem must be availa ble before the country can see its way wholly clear to right existing wrongs, It has no other bellef than that the best way to uplift the colored man {s the best way to ald the white man to Peace and social content, It has no other desire than exact Justice and no other motive than humanity.” Telling Points at Annual Meeting. At the recent annual mecting two happenings may be emphasized: First. the awarding of the frst Spingarn medal, worth $100, to Ernest Everett Just of Howard university for distin- guished research in biology: second, the proposed program for radical Ne 'gro_advance laid down by Dr. W. E. B, Du Bols, Dr. Du Bols said, In part: “We need not waste time by seeking to decetve our enemies Into thinking that we are going to be content with 8 half loaf or by being willing to lull our friends Into a false sense of our in @ifference and present satisfaction The American Negro demands equatt ty—political equality, industrial equall- ty and social cquality—and he Is never going to rest satisfled with anything less. He demands this tn no spirit of braggadocto and with no obsequlous envy of others, but as an absolute measure of self defense and the only fone that will assure to the darker races their ultimate survival on earth “Only in a demand and a persistent demand for essential equality In the modern realms of human culture can Any people show a real pride of race and a decent self respect. For any group, nation or race to admit for a moment the present monstrous de- mand of the white race to be the In- herttors of the earth, the arbiters of mankind and the sole owners of a her. {tage of culture which they did not create nor even improve to any great. er extent than the other great divisions TWIN CITY STAR sense. Negro Must Have Political Freedom. “The Negro niust have political free dlom—taxation without representation fs tyranny. Ambrican Negroes of to day are ruled by tyrants who take what they please in taxes and give what they please In law and adminis. tration, in justice and in injustice and the great mass of black people must stand helpless and volceless before a condition which has time and time again caused other peoples to fight and die, The Negro must have industrial freedom. Between the peonage of the rural south, the oppression of shrewd capitalists and the Jealousy of certain trade unions the Negro laborer is the most exploited class in the country, giving more hard toll for less money than any other American and with less voice in the conditions of his labor. “In social intercourse every effort is being made today from the president of the United States and the so called Church of Christ down to saloons and bootblacks to segregate, strangle and spiritually starve the Negro so as to give him the least possible chance to know and share civilization. “The Negro must have power—the power of men, the right to do, to know, to feel and to express that knowledge, action and spiritual gift. He must not simply be free from the political tyran- ny of white folk; he must have the right to vote and to rule over all the citizens to the extent of his proved foresight and ability. He must have a voce in the new industrial democ racy which fs building and the power to see to it that his children are not in the next generation trained to be the mud sills of society. He must have the right to social intercourse with his fellows. “There was a time in the atomic In. dividualistic group when “social inter- course” meant merely calls and tea parties; today soclal intercourse means theaters, lectures, organizations, clubs, churehes, excursions, travel, hotels—it means, in short, life. To bar a group from methods of thinking, living and doing Is to bar them from the world ‘and bid them create a new world—it ts to erueify them and taunt them with not being able to live.” Five Practical Constructive Steps. Dr. Du Bols suggests flve practical steps Yor action—first, economle co-op- eration; second, a revival of art and Mterature; third, political action; fourth, education; fifth, organization, “For the accomplishment of all these ends we must organize. Organization among us already has gone far, but it must go much further and higher. Organiza. thon fs sacrifice. It ts sacrifice of opin fons, of time, of work and of money. but it is, after all, the cheapest way of buying the most priceless of gifts— freedom and efficiency. 1 thank God that most of the money that supports this association comes from black bands. A still larger proportion must come, and we must not only support, but control, this and similar organiza- tions and hold them unwaveringly to our objects, our aims and our ideals, “With such organizations and with all the progress that they can point to let us never be satisfied with mere prog- ress 80 long as we fall go far short of @ reasonable accomplishment of our desires. Remember that we are de- spised today by millions of people not because we suffer, but because we suf- fer like dumb, driven cattle, with even a smile on our faces. To what other race could it happen on God's green earth that one of its greatest leaders hers in New York before asombled thousands could congratulate his peo- ple because only fifty-two black men and women have In one short year been hanged and shot and burned by mobs? If that can give 10,000,000 peo- ple satisfaction, in God's name what will it take to make them fight? Du Bois’ Ipse Dixit and the Crisis. “As for me and those that think with me, so long as one black man in the United States is illegally punished or unguatly treated or fs the door of op portunity closed InShis face we will protest and complain and protest again. whether the world wants to hear us or not. We may not gain our ends. We may not in our day reallze our deals, But the program I lay before you 1s not only reasonable and Just, but ft 1 a program of peace and pa- tlence, and In laying {t down I face the awful fact that In this as in all great causes, {f peace and patience cannot win, then war and struggle must. In any case there can be no despair, there can be no surrender, there can be no defeat as long as a black man draws a breath in America.” It ts interesting to know that the Easter edition of the Crisis, which Dr. Du Bols edits, will have a total of 43,000 copies, a record breaking number for a colored Journal. The magazine will be a double number. It will have a story by Charles W. Ches- nutt, the well known novelist; two poems by William Stanley Braithwaite, the critic: a benutiful transcription of an Easter folk song by J. Rosamond Johnson and a cartoon by Jobn Henry. Pittsburgh True Reformers Are Active. The Pittsburgh division of the Grand Fountain, United Order of ‘True Re- formers, Is one of the most active sub- ordinate branches of the order in the north, At the annual installation of the officers of the division and of the varlous subordinate fountains held recently the diviston perfected plans for holding its annual solemn service In memory of deceased members of the division on Sunday evening. \aresanren THE MORAL PHASE OF NEGRO LIFE. ae ee ea Le eae ee eee Says Miss Nannie H. Burroughs. The moral phase of the Negrc problem is the most serious part of the whole aggravating question. Tc improve the standard of the life of the masses is the only solution. As with other races, the standard: in the homes are set up by the women who preside over them. Therefore to bring about a reform the woman. hood of the race must be taught how to instruct their children in those virtues, that have made the most advanced races what they are. We are prone to think that the Negro. is by nature religious and therefore moral. He is both; but he is not enough of either when it comes to living up to fundamental principles every day life. Because of his crude conception of what the Christian re- ligion really is he too often practices jone thing and preaches another. Often the foremost woman in the church is so far from a model for her less ambitious sisters that they look with contempt upon her and dis- credit religion. This _misrepresenta- tion of the genuine article takes many forms and sometimes the one woman is a combination of all. She allows heer drinking, card playing, and rag time music in her home. She is loose in her conversation. Her language is often smutty. Her demeanor be- comes a woman of the street. Her home is a hangout for “sliding elders” and loafing, hungry preachers. Her house is poorly kept. Her children are too young to be men and wom- en and too old to be children. They are theregore the freshest things in the neighborhood. They run the church. They sit in the front heat, chew gum, talk and keep their “gang” giggling. To speak to them is to throw a match into a magazine of powder. These wise and talented youngsters of the leading sisters, get into the choir and start trouble for the chor- isters. They get religion and start trouble for the deacons. These chil- dren of too many of those who aspire to leadership in our local churches presume too much on the standing and influence of their mothers and ive our churches all kinds of trouble. What we need is a new type of women in our homes as mothers, and a new type of women in our churches as leaders and examples for the young. The wig wearing, gum chewing, beer smelling, mouth running, street trotting, home neglecting, convention fever type of women are out of style, and from them may we soon be de- livered. —The Worker, ‘The struggle for today, fs not al together for today; it 1s for a vast future —Abraham Lincoln. BE KIND TODAY. Less spent on the dead and more spent on the living would bring about many happy results. Hearts are breaking, loved ones wait, and tears flow all because of the with- holding of kind words unspoken and letters never sent. Behold the sad mistakes of others, their remorse, and profit by the same before it is too late. Today, now, speak the loving word, send the tender mes- sage, write the letter you put off day by day, and don’t wait until you forget it or until bitter memo- ries haunt you. An ignorant negro had been persuad- ed to buy a thermometer by a glib tongued salesman, and a few days later he came back with {t, complaining that it didn’t give satisfaction. “What's the matter with It?” asked the clerk. “Ah dunno, but it ain't made no diff rence round mah place. Some days de house am too cold an’ odder days It's too hot." Exchange. Old Peppermint Remedies. Peppermint drops have long been the unfailing comforter of old ludies- and others—but tn recent times we seem to have got past needing some of the medicinal qualities for which pep permint off was held In high esteem in bygone centuries. Gerarde In his Herbale (1633) advises the use of it either “poured Into the eares with honeyed water" or “taken inwardly” ag a certain specific “against scolopen dres, beare-worms, sea-serpents. scor- plons and the bitings of mad dogs!"— London Chronicle. Whistler's Comment. 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