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DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST. PAUL effective Page New Deputy Sheriff of Westchester County, N. Y. RESULTS OF ORGANIZATION. Well Known Oasisling Citizen Appointed to Important Position Through Influence of the Westchester County League—Leader In Many Good Movements For Advancement By N. BARNETT DODSON. The benefit in influence, due recognition and gainful livelihood derived from well-conducted civic organizations among our people is emphasized very strongly in the achievements of the Westchester County league, composed of colored men and women, with headquarters at Yonkers, N. Y. The league was started about six years age at the instance of Paul H. Bray of Yonkers. The jurisdiction of the league extends over the county, but its influence is more than state wide, for it numbers among its friends men of prominence in many sections of the country who share in its efforts along all lines of its notable work. The most recent constructive work of the league resulted in the appointment of Professor John W. Hoffman of Osming to the position of deputy sheriff of Westchester county. The announcement of Mr. Hoffman's appointment was formally made at the recent annual dinner of the organization held at Phillipsburg hall, Yonkers, in the presence of hundreds of persons from all sections of the county, including many of the county and city officials. Mr. Hoffman was born at Ossining forty years ago. He received his early education in the public schools and later graduated from the Palmer College and Business institute in his home town. He has been an active member of the league since its inception and is one of the best known men of the race in Westchester county on account of his work in several educational, business and civic institutions in the county, where he has been a permanent resident. In military circles the new deputy sheriff is a leader, being the past commander of Camp'No. 144, Sons of Veterans. His activities and worth were recognized by the Colored Men's Business league, which made him its president, a position which he holds with dignity and an eagerness to advance the interest of the public as well as that of the members of the organization. Perhaps Mr. Hoffman's most brilliant efforts have been in the musical line. He has taught music in the following institutions in Ossining successfully for a number of years: St. John's school, Ossining School For Young Ladies, Irving institute, the Dr. Holbrook school and the Mount Pleasant academy, where he was employed for a period of twelve years. He was recently elected president of Local No. 888, American Federation of Musicians, with headquarters at Ossining. The members of the league are greatly encouraged by the recognition which the organization has received from the county officials in the selection of Mr Hoffman as deputy county sheriff and also for other substantial recognition of a body of intelligent citizens working for the good of their respective community in particular and the people of the county in general. President Paul H. Bray puts the thing in a nutshell with reference to race prog- ress, individually and collectively, when he says: "We are organized to promote the interest of our home towns throughout the county. We realize that the highest service any man can perform is service for others. This is the secret of the success of the Westchester County league." Tennessee Baptists to Meet April 8. The Rev. A. L. Bartlett, president of the Tennessee state Baptist convention, has called an extra session of that body to be held at the Salem Baptist church, Jackson, Tenn., for three days, beginning Thursday, April 8. Urgent needs of the work in the state are given as reason for holding an extra session of the convention so early in the year. HAMPTON'S SUCCESS NOTED. Constructive Work of General Arm- strong Themes of Dr. Sheppard. Strong Titles of Dr. Sheppard. Hampton, Va.—General Armstrong's constructive work at Hampton institute, in this town, and the excellent results of training Negro and Indian youth for service were able presented by the Rev. Dr. William H. Sheppard of Louisville, Ky., in a most helpful address, which be recently delivered in the Memorial church here. "Under the leadership of General Armstrong," said Dr. Sheppard. "Negroes and Indians became active men. Picking up the ada, they began to hew; taking up the brush, they began to paint; hitching up the horse, they began to plow; opening the book, they began to read; assembling in chapel, they confessed Christ." Dr. Sheppard raised the question, What have been the results of Hampton's work? "Homea have been established, and homes are the foundation of good citizenship," said Dr. Sheppard. "The marriage vow has been introduced and made sacred; the family altar has been set up; Scripture reading and family prayer have become a delight, and Sabbath schools have been everywhere established. "The Negroes, who owned only a few acres of ground, inspired by their leaders from Hampton, now own and cultivate 20,000,000 acres, worth nearly $1,000,000,000, and in the near future they will have doubled and trebled these numbers. Those leaders had heard General Armstrong say: 'Stick to the soil. Sacrifice everything but life and honor, but get land.' "The timid group that went down in the valley to pray has come into the open and built spires which point toward heaven to the amount of $70,000,000. Schoolhouses have been built everywhere, in which are gathered 1,700,000 children. Not only did these leaders build the ordinary schoolhouses, but their inspiration has led them to large and beautiful normal, industrial and agricultural institutions. The old slab houses and cabins have been torn down and neat-yea, beautiful—structures have taken their places." Dr. Sheppard, a former student, paid a warm tribute to General Armstrong as a man of rare faith and vision. He said that through the influence of Hampton's founder thousands have gone into hard places filled with inspiration and life giving power. He said that General Armstrong inspired boys to be men who would look up, look out and face the world bravely Armstrong's vision was to make men and to dignify labor. Negroes who were found degraded, ignorant and superstitious by Armstrong were helped to higher and more profitable lives. Dr. Sheppard referred to his long years of missionary work in the Belgian Kongo and to the results which had come to Africa through the inspiration of Armstrong and Hampton. Today there are thousands of Kongo natives who are living Christian lives and are being helped by well trained evangelists. No Explanations Needed. No explanation needed. The lady jury was out longer than the importance of the case warranted. The judge grew impatient. "What's the trouble in there?" he said to the bailiff. "I'll see," replied the bailiff. "Hold on," cried the judge. "Tell em if there's any knotty points about the case that bother them they should appeal to me." "They ain't got to the case yet, your honor. They're still discussin' the plaintiff's clothes."—Baltimore Ameri can. Distinction of Terms. "I suppose you regard that picture you've painted as a masterpiece." "No," replied the practical artist. "I'd rather take a small cash price and call it a pot boiler." — Washington Star. Smoke the Reliable SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR 5c. HEALTH MEETING HELD AT HAMPTON Prominent Speakers of Both Races Emphasize Need of Better Housing Conditions as a Protection Against Disease—Major Moten Pays Tribute to Our Secret Societies. Hampton, Va.—Nearly 800 colored people of the lower Virginia peninsula, exclusive of the 900 Hampton students, attended the mass meeting called by the Negro Organization Society of Virginia and held in the Hampton institute gymnasium on Sunday afternoon, March 21, in observance of health weak. Health and education in relation to the welfare of white and colored people were frankly discussed by leaders in the colored organizations of Elizabeth City county (religious, fraternal, musical, literary, business, school improvement) and by other men and women who believe in co-operation for better homes, better schools, better farms and better health. President R. R. Moton said that, although secret societies among colored people are commonly ridiculed, they nevertheless express a groping of the Negro race toward real co-operation. The secret societies, aside from helping their own members, make liberal contributions to enterprises outside their immediate interests. The white and colored people of Virginia have already rendered the Negro Organisation society marvelous support. Common sympathy, said President Moton, has come with better understanding of the common interests of the race, and working for the co-operation of mankind has been taking the place of racial antagonism. Miss Agnes D. Randolph, a southern white woman of Richmond, Va., who is the executive secretary of the Antituberculosis association of Virginia, referred to the hard fight which the state board of health is making to eradicate communicable diseases. Virginia is very active in fighting typhoid, malaria, hookworm and other diseases which cause needless illness and premature death. Miss Randolph declared that there are today in Virginia 28,000 consumptives. Of this number 16,000 are colored. While inadequate provision is made by the state for white consumptives, no provision outside of the penitentiary and insane asylum has as yet been made for colored victims of the white plague. "Ignorance and poverty go hand in glove with tuberculosis," said Miss Randolph. "While the white race in Virginia has more opportunities of fighting consumption, there is still a vast need of educating the public and thus preventing the spread of this disease, which claims throughout the world a victim every minute of the day and night. Housing." she added, "influences the spread of consumption. Children must be taught the deadliness of the germ and the value of cleanliness, good food and plenty of pure air. There is a plan on foot for the raising of money to buy a farm on which the state will build a sanitarium for colored consumptives." Colonel W. S. Copeland, an influential white editor of Newport News, Va., declared that all decent people stand on the common platform of one standard — namely, personal purity. Hence the best white people are favorably disposed to any movement on the part of colored people which aims to secure cleanliness of body, mind and soul. Colonel Copeland said in part: "Health is contagious. Sound public opinion is the most contagious thing in the world. Let there be a clean sweep. Sweep up and sweep out the cesspools and the contagion of unrighteousness." Rev. Dr. Charles S. Morris, pastor of the Bank Street Baptist church, Norfolk, Va., delivered a powerful address on "The Meaning of the Negro Organization Society." The black man in Africa had a genius for dividing, he said. Through ceaseless war he was weakened and finally enslaved. Now in America the Negroes are learning how to work together to secure race progress. The Negro, as shown in the appalling figures for the Negro death rate offered by Dr. W. E. Atkins of Hampton, has a genius for dying. Dr. Morris urged the colored people to spend their energy in learning how to live. He declared that a people having so much native physical stamina need not die. The race, said Dr. Morris, needs to have information concerning diseases and the proper care of the body. We need to know more about the dangers of intemperance, excesses, impure air, irregular habits of eating and resting. Dr. Morris made a strong plea for better homes and for better mothers, who will build and protect homes. He showed that Negroes in the cities die in large numbers. They are destroyed for lack of knowledge. He referred to Senator Martin's recent successful effort in saving for Howard university in Washington an appropriation of $101,000 which will be used to help train colored leaders for service to their race and the white people. METHODIST CHURCH SOUTH. Broadens its Financial Policy Toward Our Educational Institutions. Nashville, Tenn.—As a result of a conference held in this city recently the M. E. Church South will in the future maintain a broader policy of aid and co-operation with the C. M. E. church. This decision was reached in a conference of the secretaries of the various boards of the M. E. Church South with respect to the relations between the two churches and embraces particularly increased aid to the educational, church extension and Sunday school work of the C. M. E. church. By order of the recent general conference of the M. E. Church South the secretaries were to confer upon this matter and report their decision to their respective boards. Whether authentic or not, the opinion generally prevailed among the leaders of the C. M. E. church that in the future the work which the Southern Methodist church would do for Negro education would be confined to Paine college, Augusta, Ga., alone. For more than a quarter of a century the M. E. Church South had maintained this school and has also contributed to the maintenance of Lane college, Jackson, Tenn. Dr. John M. Moore, secretary of the home mission department, was especially active in pushing forward a broader policy of larger support to the C. M. E. church. Rather than continue its policy of confining its efforts to aid Negro education to the support of Paine college alone the decision finally was made to contribute to the support of five colleges maintained by the C. M. E. church. According to this decision, the M. E. Church South will continue to care for the entire budget of expenses of Paine college and, in addition, will make annual appropriations to Miles Memorial college, Birmingham, Ala.; Lane college, Jackson, Tenn.; Mississippi Industrial college, Holly Springs; Texas college, Tyler, Tex., and Homer college, Homer La. When the matter was up for discussion the secretaries of the Methodist Episcopal Church South asked Dr. James A. Bray, general secretary of education for the C. M. E. church, for an expression of opinion, and he stated to them that a broader sphere of activity on the part of the white church toward the uplift of the Negroes in the C. M. E. church would not at all detract from Paine college. but would rather tend to help that institution, making it the central school for theology and for the higher training of teachers, deaconesses and other social workers, maintaining that the disposition to divide its interests in various sections would make possible better facilities and better work in schools that would reach a larger number of people than could be expected to attend the central school. This idea prevailed, and the several secretaries unanimously and enthusiastically made the broad recommendation that henceforth it is to be the policy of the southern Methodist church. Attending the conference were Drs. Stonewall Anderson, secretary of education; John M. Moore, secretary of home missions; W. W. Pinson, secretary of foreign missions; F. H. Parker, secretary Epworth League; W. M. McMurray, secretary church extension; J. A. Lamar, secretary or manager book concern; E. D. Chappelle, secretary Sunday school department. Representing the colored Methodist Episcopal church were Drs. James A. Bray and Rufus S. Stout, secretary of church extension. Dr. J. D. Hammond, president of Palne college, also attended the conference. New Management "This hotel is under new management." "Why, I still see the old proprietor about." "Yes; but he got married last week." —Exchange. Explained. He—I wonder how they came to call a wife's personal allowance her pin money. She—I guess it's because her husband generally sticks her on it—Exchange. WELL QUALIFIED FOR LEADERSHIP Notable Achievements of the President of Leading Educational Institution In Oklahoma—Worked His Way From Private School Through College—Active In Many Good Movements. Langston, Okla.—Thirty-eight years in the schoolroom training boys and girls, with hundreds of graduates from his school all over the United States, some filling positions of honor and trust, others ranking high in the professions and trades, is the record of Professor Inman E. Page, president of Langston university. Professor Page is one of the best trained men of the race, as well as one of the best known educators in the United States. He was born in Warrenton, Fauquier county, Va., Dec. 29, 1853. His early education was begun in a private school in Washington, taught by George F. T. Cook, the son of the most noted educator in his day and the man who really started the first INMAN E. PAGE school for the race in Washington, which was destroyed and the teacher forced to flee to Pennsylvania for safety, but returned after a year and started his school on a larger scale. It was in this school, although private, that young Page got his first taste of education. In the fall of 1868 he entered Howard university, where he soon began to realize the importance of his undertaking. He had learned that in order to become educated he would have to study diligently. He did not have wealthy parents to meet all his bills when due, so he had to do some hard work to earn enough money to pay his school bills. He had heard of Yale and Harvard and of Brown university, at Providence, R. L., and decided to continue his education at Brown, which he entered in the fall of 1873. He had decided before going to Providence that he was going to remain there until he had finished his work. He carried out his resolution to the letter, graduating in 1877. Now, with his diploma—and not only the diploma, but a well trained mind—he decided to enter the busy world, with a view of serving humanity. Graduating from a college in Rhode Island, he felt that his duty was to go where he was most needed, so he accepted a position in the Natches seminary, Natchez, Miss., in the fall of 1877. As a teacher he made a good record, and it is not surprising that he was elected vice president of Lincoln institute, Jefferson City, Mo., the following fall. It was in this position that his ability as a leader, as a school president, as a leader of men, manifested itself, and it was at the close of the second year as vice president that he was elected president of Lincoln institute. It was then that Lincoln took on new life. It was then that the growth of the institution started. It was then that it became known outside of Missouri. In this position of president he served until 1898, when he resigned to accept the presidency of the Colored Agricultural and Normal university, called Langston university. The school was then young and needed such a man as President Page to build it up, and this he has done. Of course the school had been voted into life by the legislature of Oklahoma, and in the fall of 1898 it was opened by the new president with his faculty No.18 and forty students. It now has an enrollment of 628, with good buildings and a well trained faculty. It has required the work of a master mind to build the school up to where it is. Brown university conferred on him the degree of master of arts because of the literary work he had done, and several years ago the faculty and trustees of Howard university recognized his worth and ability and learning by conferring on him the degree of LL. D., and the same honor was conferred upon him by Wilberforce university. He is active in the State Teachers' association, as well as the National Association of Teachers of Colored Youth. His wife, Mrs. Inman E. Page, takes great interest in his work and has been of much assistance to him. She is a graduate of Wilberforce university. MAY ESTABLISH INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL AT FORT LEE, VA New Educational Movement Encouraged by Northern Philanthropists. Unless the present plans of the promoters miscarry the people of Richmond, Va., and vicinity will have a great industrial school at Fort Lee, Va., just out from the city limits of Richmond in the near future. It is understood that northern philanthropists have promised to contribute the sum of $25,000 for the creation of the first building, and a like sum will be contributed annually for the maintenance of the school. The Hon. Giles B. Jackson, president of the commission having charge of the arrangements for the big exposition to be held in Richmond in July and Mr. William Miller, secretary of the Negro Historical association while in New York recently visited several philanthropists. The proposed school was heartily indorsed as a splendid plan for the industrial education of colored boys and for the domestic training of girls. It is planned to operate an experimental farm in connection with the school, where farmers of the south will be taught scientific farming. While in New York President Jackson and Secretary Miller conferred with heads of the American Tobacco company and secured their promise to aid in installing a big tobacco exhibit at the exposition in order to encourage the cultivation of tobacco. Other tobacco companies will be invited to aid in putting on this exhibit. They also had an interview with the authorities of the Cotton Exchange of New York and asked them to put on a cotton exhibit. President Jackson stated that he received much encouragement. Edward K. Cone, president of the exchange, promised to take the matter up with members of the exchange to see what could be done. Mr. Cone said he thoroughly indorsed Mr. Jackson's plans for both the school and the exposition. Mr. Jackson says it was found necessary to secure the state fair grounds because doubt was expressed as to whether the trolley line would be extended to Fort Lee before the opening date for the exposition, July 4. The association owns 100 acres of land at Fort Lee, which is well adapted for use as an exposition ground, but on account of inadequate railway facilities and other hindrances it was thought best to make other arrangements. Business Thrift at Mound Bayou, Miss. The Tailors' and Consumers' Co-operative company has been organized at Mound Bayou, Miss. The company proposes to conduct a garment manufacturing business. Iceberg Lake. the lakes in Glacier National park that are fed by glacial water are milk white, but others are clear and pure and reflect all the varying aspects of the sky and clouds above. On a clear day the water is beautifully blue, but when storm clouds gather it assumes darker shades, which make it appear dangerous and forbidding. One of the most attractive lakes in the park is Iceberg lake, so called because the glacier at its edge discharges bergs into its waters at intervals, after the manner of the glaciers found in the arctic region. The crest of the wall around this lake is as high above the water as four buildings like New York's skyscrapers atop one another. Opposite Views. Nell—Papa says that it's "Come easy, go easy" with money. Do you find it so, Jack? Jack—Not on your life! I always found that it came hard—and it certainly seems hard to see it go!—Judge. A Conundrum. What is that which has a mouth but never speaks and a bed but never sleeps in it? A river. Soul Mates. Knicker—What are soul mates? Becker—Generally two lefts—New York Sun. DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST. PAUL Defective Page New Deputy Sheriff of Westchester County, N. Y. RESULTS OF ORGANIZATION. Well Known Ossining Citizen Appointed to Important Position Through Influence of the Westchester County League—Leader in Many Good Movements For Advancement. By N. BARNETT DODSON. The benefit in influence, due recognition and gainful livelihood derived from well conducted civic organizations among our people is emphasized very strongly in the achievements of the Westchester County league, composed of colored men and women, with headquarters at Yonkers, N. Y. The league was started about six years age at the instance of Paul H. Bray of Yonkers. The jurisdiction of the league extends over the county, but its influence is more than state wide, for it numbers among its friends men of prominence in many sections of the country who share in its efforts along all lines of its notable work. The most recent constructive work of the league resulted in the appointment of Professor John W. Hoffman of Ossining to the position of deputy sheriff of Westchester county. The announcement of Mr. Hoffman's appointment was formally made at the recent annual dinner of the organization held at Philipsburg hall, Tonkers, in the presence of hundreds of persons from all sections of the county, including many of the county and city officials. Mr. Hoffman was born at Ossining forty years ago. He received his early education in the public schools and later graduated from the Palmer College and Business institute in his home town. He has been an active member of the league since its inception and is one of the best known men of the race in Westchester county on account of his work in several M. A. B. JOHN W. HOFFMAN. educational, business and civic institutions in the county, where he has been a permanent resident. In military circles the new deputy sheriff is a leader, being the past commander of Camp No. 144, Sons of Veterans. His activities and worth were recognized by the Colored Men's Business league, which made him its president, a position which he holds with dignity and an eagerness to advance the interest of the public as well as that of the members of the organization. Perhaps Mr. Hoffman's most brilliant efforts have been in the musical line. He has taught music in the following institutions in Ossining successfully for a number of years: St. John's school, Ossining School For Young Ladies, Irving institute, the Dr. Holbrook school and the Mount Pleasant academy, where he was employed for a period of twelve years. He was recently elected president of Local No. 808, American Federation of Musicians, with headquarters at Ossining. The members of the league are greatly encouraged by the recognition which the organization has received from the county officials in the selection of Mr. Hoffman as deputy county sheriff and also for other substantial recognition of a body of intelligent citizens working for the good of their respective community in particular and the people of the county in general. President Paul H. Bray puts the thing in a nutshell with reference to race prog- ress, individually and collectively, when he says: "We are organized to promote the interest of our home towns throughout the county. We realize that the highest service any man can perform is service for others. This is the secret of the success of the Westchester County league." Tennessee Baptists to Meet April 8. The Rev. A. L. Bartlett, president of the Tennessee state Baptist convention, has called an extra session of that body to be held at the Salem Baptist church, Jackson, Tenn., for three days, beginning Thursday, April 8. Urgent needs of the work in the state are given as reason for holding an extra session of the convention so early in the year. Constructive Work of General Arm- strong Theory of the Shear曼 strong Theme of Dr. Sheppard. Hampton, Va.-General Armstrong's constructive work at Hampton institute, in this town, and the excellent results of training Negro and Indian youth for service were able presented by the Rev. Dr. William H. Sheppard of Louisville, Ky., in a most helpful address, which be recently delivered in the Memorial church here. "Under the leadership of General Armstrong," said Dr. Sheppard. "Negroes and Indians became active men. Picking up the ada, they began to hew; taking up the brush, they began to paint; hitching up the horse, they began to plow; opening the book, they began to read; assembling in chapel, they confessed Christ." Dr. Sheppard raised the question, What have been the results of Hampton's work? "Homes have been established, and homes are the foundation of good citizenship," said Dr. Sheppard. "The marriage vow has been introduced and made sacred; the family altar has been set up; Scripture reading and family prayer have become a delight, and Sabbath schools have been everywhere established. "The Negroes, who owned only a few acres of ground, inspired by their leaders from Hampton, now own and cultivate 20,000,000 acres, worth nearly $1,000,000,000, and in the near future they will have doubled and trebled these numbers. Those leaders had heard General Armstrong say: "Stick to the soil. Sacrifice everything but life and honor, but get land." "The timid group that went down in the valley to pray has come into the open and built spires which point toward heaven to the amount of $70,000,000. Schoolhouses have been built everywhere, in which are gathered 1,700,000 children. Not only did these leaders build the ordinary schoolhouses, but their inspiration has led them to large and beautiful normal, industrial and agricultural institutions. The old slab houses and cabins have been torn down and neat-yea, beautiful—structures have taken their places." Dr. Sheppard, a former student, paid a warm tribute to General Armstrong as a man of rare faith and vision. He said that through the influence of Hampton's founder thousands have gone into hard places filled with inspiration and life giving power. He said that General Armstrong inspired boys to be men who would look up, look out and face the world bravely Armstrong's vision was to make men and to dignify labor. Negroes who were found degraded, ignorant and superstitious by Armstrong were helped to higher and more profitable lives. Dr. Sheppard referred to his long years of missionary work in the Belgian Kongo and to the results which had come to Africa through the inspiration of Armstrong and Hampton. Today there are thousands of Kongo natives who are living Christian lives and are being helped by well trained native evangelists. No Explanations Needed. The lady jury was out longer than the importance of the case warranted. The judge grew impatient. "What's the trouble in there?" he said to the bailiff. "I'll see." replied the bailiff. "Hold on." cried the judge. "Tell em if any of the knotty points about the case that bother them they should appeal to me." "Yes, your honor." The bailiff goes to the door of the jury room and returns. "Well?" "They ain't got to the case yet, your honor. They're still discussin' the plaintiff's clothes."—Baltimore Ameri can. Distinction of Terms "I suppose you regard that picture you've painted as a masterpiece." "No," replied the practical artist. "I'd rather take a small cash price and call it a pot boiler." - Washington Star. Smoke the Reliable SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR 5c. HEALTH MEETING HELD AT HAMPTON Prominent Speakers of Both Races Emphasize Need of Better Housing Conditions as a Protection Against Disease—Major Moton Pays Tribute to Our Secret Societies. Hampton, Va.—Nearly 900 colored people of the lower Virginia peninsula, exclusive of the 900 Hampton students, attended the mass meeting called by the Negro Organization Society of Virginia and held in the Hampton institute gymnasium on Sunday afternoon, March 21, in observance of health week. Health and education in relation to the welfare of white and colored people were frankly discussed by leaders in the colored organizations of Elizabeth City county (religious, fraternal, musical, literary, business, school improvement) and by other men and women who believe in co-operation for better homes, better schools, better farms and better health. President R. R. Moton said that, although secret societies among colored people are commonly ridiculed, they nevertheless express a groping of the Negro race toward real co-operation. The secret societies, aside from helping their own members, make liberal contributions to enterprises outside their immediate interests. The white and colored people of Virginia have already rendered the Negro Organization society marvelous support. Common sympathy, said President Moton, has come with better understanding of the common interests of the race, and working for the co-operation of mankind has been taking the place of racial antagonism. Miss Agnes D. Randolph, a southern white woman of Richmond, Va., who is the executive secretary of the Antituberculosis association of Virginia, referred to the hard fight which the state board of health is making to eradicate communicable diseases. Virginia is very active in fighting typhoid, malaria, hookworm and other diseases which cause needless illness and premature death. Miss Randolph declared that there are today in Virginia 25,000 consumptives. Of this number 16,000 are colored. While inadequate provision is made by the state for white consumptives, no provision outside of the penitentiary and insane asylum has as yet been made for colored victims of the white plague. "Ignorance and poverty go hand in glove with tuberculosis," said Miss Randolph. "While the white race in Virginia has more opportunities of fighting consumption, there is still a vast need of educating the public and thus preventing the spread of this disease, which claims throughout the world a victim every minute of the day and night. Housing." she added, "influences the spread of consumption. Children must be taught the deadliness of the germ and the value of cleanliness, good food and plenty of pure air. There is a plan on foot for the raising of money to buy a farm on which the state will build a sanitarium for colored consumptives." Colonel W. S. Copeland, an influential white editor of Newport News, Va., declared that all decent people stand on the common platform of one standard — namely, personal purity. Hence the best white people are favorably disposed to any movement on the part of colored people which aims to secure cleanliness of body, mind and soul. Colonel Copeland said in part: "Health is contagious. Sound public opinion is the most contagious thing in the world. Let there be a clean sweep. Sweep up and sweep out the creepspool and the contagion of unrighteous." Rev. Dr. Charles S. Morris, pastor of the Bank Street Baptist church, Norfolk, Va., delivered a powerful address on "The Meaning of the Negro Organization Society." The black man in Africa had a genius for dividing, he said. Through ceaseless war he was weakened and finally enslaved. Now in America the Negroes are learning how to work together to secure race progress. The Negro, as shown in the appalling figures for the Negro death rate offered by Dr. W. E. Atkins of Hampton, has a genius for dying. Dr. Morris urged the colored people to spend their energy in learning how to live. He declared that a people having so much native physical stamina need not die. The race, said Dr. Morris, needs to have information concerning diseases and the proper care of the body. We need to know more about the dangers of intemperance, excesses, impure air, irregular habits of eating and resting. Dr. Morris made a strong plea for better homes and for better mothers, who will build and protect homes. He showed that Negroes in the cities die in large numbers. They are destroyed for lack of knowledge. He referred to Senator Martin's recent successful effort in saving for Howard university in Washington an appropriation of $101,000 which will be used to help train colored leaders for service to their race and the white people. METHODIST CHURCH SOUTH. Broadene its Financial Policy To- ward Our Educational Institutions. Nashville, Tenn.-As a result of a conference held in this city recently the M. E. Church South will in the future maintain a broader policy of aid to and co-operation with the C. M. E. church. This decision was reached in a conference of the secretaries of the various boards of the M. E. Church South with respect to the relations between the two churches and embraces particularly increased aid to the educational, church extension and Sunday school work of the M. E. church. By order of the recent general conference of the M. E. Church South the secretaries were to confer upon this matter and report their decision to their respective boards. Whether authentic or not, the opinion generally prevailed among the leaders of the C. M. E. church that in the future the work which the Southern Methodist church would do for Negro education would be confined to Paine college, Augusta, Ga., alone. For more than a quarter of a century the M. E. Church South had maintained this school and has also contributed to the maintenance of Lane college Jackson Tenn Dr. John M. Moore, secretary of the home mission department, was especially active in pushing forward a broader policy of larger support to the C. M. E. church. Rather than continue its policy of confining its efforts to aid Negro education to the support of Paine college alone the decision finally was made to contribute to the support of five colleges maintained by the C. M. E. church. According to this decision, the M. E. Church South will continue to care for the entire budget of expenses of Paine college and, in addition, will make annual appropriations to Miles Memorial college, Birmingham, Ala.; Lane college, Jackson, Tenn.; Mississippi Industrial college, Holly Springs; Texas college, Tyler, Tex., and Homer college, Homer, La. When the matter was up for discussion the secretaries of the Methodist Episcopal Church South asked Dr. James A. Bray, general secretary of education for the C. M. E. church, for an expression of opinion, and he stated to them that a broader sphere of activity on the part of the white church toward the uplift of the Negroes in the C. M. E. church would not at all detract from Paine college, but would rather tend to help that institution, making it the central school for theology and for the higher training of teachers, deaconesses and other social workers, maintaining that the disposition to divide its interests in various sections would make possible better facilities and better work in schools that would reach a larger number of people than could be expected to attend the central school. This idea prevailed, and the several secretaries unanimously and enthusiastically made the broad recommendation that henceforth it is to be the policy of the southern Methodist church. Attending the conference were Drs. Stonewall Anderson, secretary of education; John M. Moore, secretary of home missions; W. W. Pinson, secretary of foreign missions; F. H. Parker, secretary Epworth League; W. M. McMurray, secretary church extension; J. A. Lamar, secretary or manager book concern; E. D. Chappelle, secretary Sunday school department. Representing the colored Methodist Episcopal church were Drs. James A. Bray and Rufus S. Stout, secretary of church extension. Dr. J. D. Hammond, president of Paine college, also attended the conference. New Management. "This hotel is under new management." "Why. I still see the old proprietor about." "Yes; but he got married last week." - Exchange. Explained. He-I wonder how they came to call a wife's personal allowance her pin money. She-I guess it's because her husband generally sticks her on it.-Exchange. WELL QUALIFIED FOR LEADERSHIP Notable Achievements of the President of Leading Educational Institution In Oklahoma—Worked His Way From Private School Through College—Active In Many Good Movements. Langston, Okla.—Thirty-eight years in the schoolroom training boys and girls, with hundreds of graduates from his school all over the United States, some filling positions of honor and trust, others ranking high in the professions and trades, is the record of Professor Inman E. Page, president of Langston university. Professor Page is one of the best trained men of the race, as well as one of the best known educators in the United States. He was born in Warrenton, Fauquier county, Va., Dec. 29, 1853. His early education was begun in a private school in Washington, taught by George F. T. Cook, the son of the most noted educator in his day and the man who really started the first INMAN E. PAGE school for the race in Washington, which was destroyed and the teacher forced to flee to Pennsylvania for safety, but returned after a year and started his school on a larger scale. It was in this school, although private, that young Page got his first taste of education. In the fall of 1868 he entered Howard university, where he soon began to realize the importance of his undertaking. He had learned that in order to become educated he would have to study diligently. He did not have wealthy parents to meet all his bills when due, so he had to do some hard work to earn enough money to pay his school bills. He had heard of Yale and Harvard and of Brown university, at Providence, R. I., and decided to continue his education at Brown, which he entered in the fall of 1873. He had decided before going to Providence that he was going to remain there until he had finished his work. He carried out his resolution to the letter, graduating in 1877. Now, with his diploma—and not only the diploma, but a well trained mind—he decided to enter the busy world, with a view of serving humanity. Graduating from a college in Rhode Island, he felt that his duty was to go where he was most needed, so he accepted a position in the Natchez seminary, Natchez, Miss., in the fall of 1877. As a teacher he made a good record, and it is not surprising that he was elected vice president of Lincoln institute, Jefferson City, Mo., the following fall. It was in this position that his ability as a leader, as a school president, as a leader of men, manifested itself, and it was at the close of the second year as vice president that he was elected president of Lincoln institute. It was then that Lincoln took on new life. It was then that the growth of the institution started. It was then that it became known outside of Missouri. In this position of president he served until 1898, when he resigned to accept the presidency of the Colored Agricultural and Normal university, called Langston university. The school was then young and needed such a man as President Page to build it up, and this he has done. Of course the school had been voted into life by the legislature of Oklahoma, and in the fall of 1898 it was opened by the new president with his faculty and forty students. It now has an enrollment of 628, with good buildings and a well trained faculty. It has required the work of a master mind to build the school up to where it is. Brown university conferred on him the degree of master of arts because of the literary work he had done, and several years ago the faculty and trustees of Howard university recognized his worth and ability and learning by conferring on him the degree of LL. D., and the same honor was conferred upon him by Wilberforce university. He is active in the State Teachers' association, as well as the National Association of Teachers of Colored Youth. His wife, Mrs. Inman E. Page, takes great interest in his work and has been of much assistance to him. She is a graduate of Wilberforce university. MAY ESTABLISH INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL AT FORT LEE, VA. New Educational Movement Encouraged by Northern Philanthropists. Unless the present plans of the promoters miscarry the people of Richmond, Va., and vicinity will have a great industrial school at Fort Lee, Va., Just out from the city limits of Richmond in the near future. It is understood that northern philanthropists have promised to contribute the sum of $25,000 for the erection of the first building, and a like sum will be contributed annually for the maintenance of the school. The Hon. Gilles B. Jackson, president of the commission having charge of the arrangements for the big exposition to be held in Richmond in July and Mr. William Miller, secretary of the Negro Historical association white in New York recently visited several philanthropists. The proposed school was heartily indorsed as a splendid plan for the industrial education of colored boys and for the domestic training of girls. It is planned to operate an experimental farm in connection with the school, where farmers of the south will be taught scientific farming. While in New York President Jackson and Secretary Miller conferred with heads of the American Tobacco company and secured their promise to aid in installing a big tobacco exhibit at the exposition in order to encourage the cultivation of tobacco. Other tobacco companies will be invited to aid in putting on this exhibit. They also had an interview with the authorities of the Cotton Exchange of New York and asked them to put on a cotton exhibit. President Jackson stated that he received much encouragement. Edward K. Cone, president of the exchange, promised to take the matter up with members of the exchange to see what could be done. Mr. Cone said he thoroughly indorsed Mr. Jackson's plans for both the school and the exposition. Mr. Jackson says it was found necessary to secure the state fair grounds because doubt was expressed as to whether the trolley line would be extended to Fort Lee before the opening date for the exposition, July 4. The association owns 100 acres of land at Fort Lee, which is well adapted for use as an exposition ground, but on account of inadequate railway facilities and other hindrances it was thought best to make other arrangements. Business Thrift at Mound Bayou, Miss. The Tallors' and Consumers' Co-operative company has been organized at Mound Bayou, Miss. The company proposes to conduct a garment manufacturing business. Iceberg Lake. the lakes in Glacier National park that are fed by glacial water are milk white, but others are clear and pure and reflect all the varying aspects of the sky and clouds above. On a clear day the water is beautifully blue, but when storm clouds gather it assumes darker shades, which make it appear dangerous and forbidding. One of the most attractive lakes in the park is Iceberg lake, so called because the glacier at its edge discharges bergs into its waters at intervals, after the manner of the glaciers found in the arctic region. The crest of the wall around this lake is as high above the water as four buildings like New York's skyscrapers atop one another. Opposite Views. Nell—Papa says that it's "Come easy, go easy" with money. Do you find it so, Jack? Jack—Not on your life! I always found that it came hard—and it certainly seems hard to see it go!—Judge. A Conundrum. What is that which has a mouth but never speaks and a bed but never sleeps in it? A river. Soul Mates. Knicker—What are soul mates? Becker—Generally two lefts.—New York Sum. 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 uniring, courageous human idea, that separates gadness from sorrow. — aertinger. Rev. T. J. Carter, Pastor. Rev. T. J. Carter has moved to 2423 4th Ave. So. Peoples Christian Assembly. Rev. G. W. Mitchell, Pastor, 1204 Washington Ave. So. Comel and 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. The Knights of Pythias will give the Easter Ball, on April 5th, at the National Guard Armory. [Picture of a woman with short hair and a dark top]. MRS. G. W. MITCHELL. Organizer of the People's Christian Assembly Sunday School. AFTERNOON EASTER SERVICES The People's Christian Assembly Sunday School will hold their Easter Exercises on Sunday, April 4, at 1:30 P. M. at 1204 Washington Ave. So. Mrs. L. Thomas will conduct the program, assisted by Mesdames H. Johnson and B. Williams. Solos by Master Freddie Mitchell of this city and Mrs. E. Louis of Indianapolis. All are welcome. Rev. G. W. Mitchell, Pastor. AMANDA SMITH MEMORIAL. Memorial services were held last Sunday at Bethesda Church in memory of late Amanda Smith, a noted temperance worker, under the auspices of the W. C. T. U. Mrs. Fannie Pierre presided. The program included addresses by Atty. B. S. Smith and Rev. T. J. Carter. Papers on life and work of Mrs. Smith by Mrs. F. Pierre and Mrs. W. B. Donovan. The choir furnished choice selections. A solo was sung by Mrs. Robert Glenn. Mrs. Maud Canty, accompanist. The attendance was good. Mr. Solomon Saunders, the riding-master left Sunday eve. for Mexico, Mo., where he visited Mr. Tom. Bass the noted horseman. Mr. Saunders will purchase some high class saddlers for his academy and also secure some thoroughbred horses for several wealthy residents. He will visit St. Louis and probably several towns in Kentucky. The St. James Mission of St. Paul. Rev. J. S. Strong, pastor has moved to 817 Mississippi St., Cor. Granite St. St. Paul. 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. See Mrs. Johnson's Laundry Adv. and give her your patronage. Her prices equal all competitors and her work is satisfactory. 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 Mrs. J. M. Mask, Prop. READ THE STAR-IT'S NEWS GO TO CHURCH Now Is the Time. Don't Procrastinate "NOW" IS THE GREAT WORD OF GOD. "NOW" IS THE ONLY TREASURE WE HAVE, YET WE SQUANDER IT AS IF IT WERE OF NO VALUE. WHEN A PERSON SAYS HE HAS BEEN KILLING TIME HE HAS BEEN KILLING LIFE, FOR LIFE IS TIME. YOU CAN DO MORE WITH FIVE MINUTES NOW THAN YOU CAN WITH A THOUSAND YEARS AFTER YOU ARE DEAD. WHAT YOU DID YESTERDAY AND WHAT YOU WILL DO TOMORROW SINK INTO INSIGNIFICANCE COMPARED WITH WHAT YOU MAY DO TODAY. TWO FORCES STRIVE WITHIN US—ONE IS ACTION, THE OTHER IS DELAY. ACTION IS A SEVERE TASKMASTER, BUT IS RICH IN REWARD, WHILE DELAY IS AN EASY BOSS, BUT A POOR PAYMASTER. "NOW" IS THE GREAT WORLD TREASURE WE HAVE, YET WE OF NO VALUE. WHEN A PERSON TIME HE HAS BEEN KILLING CAN DO MORE WITH FIVE MEN A THOUSAND YEARS AFTER YE YESTERDAY AND WHAT YOU W INSIGNIFICANCE COMPARED W TWO FORCES STRIVE WITHIN U IS DELAY. ACTION IS A SEVERE REWARD, WHILE DELAY IS AN MASTER. Shakespeare declares in his fist is a tide in the affairs of men who fortune." And Lowell ringingly and nation comes the moment to tous secret in the psychological the emotions aroused. Now is a old hymn rightly conceived the Shakespeare declares in his familiar but ever true lines, "There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune." And Lowell ringingly proclaims, "Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide." There is some momentous secret in the psychological moment when the heart is hot and the emotions aroused. Now is always the day of salvation. The old hymn rightly conceived the truth: There is a time, we know not when; A place, we know not where, That marks the destiny of men To glory or despair. THEREFORE, DO NOT PROCRASTINATE. GO TO CHURCH NOW. YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO GO TO CHURCH TOMORROW. WHO CAN SAY WHERE HE WILL BE TOMORROW? THERE ARE YOUNG MEN WHO LAUGHINGLY DECLARE THAT THEY WILL GO TO CHURCH WHEN THEY ARE OLD. THEY MAY NEVER GET THAT CHANCE. THEY MAY BE CUT DOWN IN THEIR PRIME. DON'T DELAY. DELAYS ALWAYS ARE DANGEROUS, BUT NEVER MORE SO THAN WHEN YOU DELAY MAKING YOUR PEACE WITH GOD. THEREFORE, DO NOT PROCRASTINATE. GO TO CHURCH NOW. YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO GO TO CHURCH TOMORROW. WHO CAN SAY WHERE HE WILL BE TOMORROW? THERE ARE YOUNG MEN WHO LAUGHINGLY DECLARE THAT THEY WILL GO TO CHURCH WHEN THEY ARE OLD. THEY MAY NEVER GET THAT CHANCE. THEY MAY BE CUT DOWN IN THEIR PRIME. DON'T DELAY. DELAYS ALWAYS ARE DANGEROUS, BUT NEVER MORE SO THAN WHEN YOU DELAY MAKING YOUR PEACE WITH GOD. GO TO CHURCH NOW. EASTER CONCERT The Sunday School of Bethesda Baptist Church will give an Eastern 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. COMMANDERY BALL PILGRIM COMMANDERY, NO 22, will give their Big Easter Soiree at Bowlby Hall, 6th and Robert Sts. St. Paul, on WEDNESDAY Evening April 7th. This is the Grand Post- Lenten Event of the Twin Cities Tickets 50c. EASTER SERVICES The Annual Easter Services of Pilgrim Commandery will be held at St. James A. M. E. Church on Easter Sunday, at 8 P. M. Rev. H. P. Jones will deliver the sermon. The annual sermon of St. James Commandery, Knights Templar will be preached by Rev. Stovall at St. Peter Church on Easter Sunday afternoon. The Rose Croix Chapter celebrated their Maundy Feast on Thursday eve. at Masonic Hall will good attendance and appropriate services. Miss Clara Lucas is employed as office clerk for Mr. J. M. Morris in the Boston Block. Your legal business is solicited by Atty. Louis Winthrop, 308-9 Northwestern Bank Bldg., Minneapolis. He will give you a square deal. See his adv. Mr. Clifford C. Mitchell, the broker, has purchased a new auto. The Elks have announced a contest. The most popular lady will get a trip to Chicago, all expenses paid. Several ladies have entered. Votes are a nickel apiece. We regret that we failed to mention the name of Atty. Francis, one of the principal speakers at the banquet last week in honor of Mr. F. D. McCracken. HATS! HATS!! HATS!!! Special Easter Bargains. I am selling out a Select Stock of Latest Style Hats. Every one a Bargain. Each a different Style. A Special Line of Hair Braids and Transmissions. Madam Hart, Milliner, 1210 Washington Ave. S., Minneapolis Mr. Wm. Lisbon, the expressman, has nearly recovered from a severe attack of stomach trouble. Mr. S. J. Whittaker, the chauffeur, after a long illness, has resumed his duties with the Pence Auto. Co. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Evans left Thursday night for Chicago. Greeks hire Negro attorney Greeks hire Negro attorney. The Demos brothers, two Greeks charged with murder in St. Paul have secured Atty. Francis as their attorney. He has among his clientage a large number of Greeks, who have utmost confidence in his ability. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR GO TO CHURCH. Do it now. TWIN CITY STAR Time. Procrastinate "IS THE ONLY AS IF IT WERE BEEN KILLING IS TIME. YOU YOU CAN WITH WHAT YOU DID ROW SINK INTO MAY DO TODAY. ON, THE OTHER BUT IS RICH IN A POOR PAY. true lines, "There flood leads on to to every man is some momen- heart is hot and salvation. The TO CHURCH TOMORROW. ? THERE ARE AT THEY WILL AY NEVER GET THEIR PRIME. US, BUT NEVER PEACE WITH 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. Rooms for Rent, convenient location. Call 1210 So. Washington Ave. Uniform for Sale. Great Northern Ry. Good as new. Apply 532 Aldrich Ave. No. 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. 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. FIRST CLASS DRESSMAKING. We do Strictly First Class Dressmaking and Ladies' Tailoring. Our Prices are Reasonable, Satisfaction Guaranteed. Apply 415 E. 27th St. Minneapolis. For information, Phone So. 7996—Advertisement. 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. The Town of Bushire Residents of a miserable seaport on the Persian Gulf called their town Bushire (Boosehern). It has narrow, dirty, ill paved streets. The city is visited by earthquakes and simoons and stinks its children of wholesome air and fresh water. It appears, however, to have enjoyed high repute among the ancient Elamites, who have left buried about under moldering heaps bricks with cuneiform inscriptions. In summer the citizens of Bushire live in a heat that is almost unbearable. WE HAVE DISCONTINUED THE NORTHWESTERN PHONE SERVICE. Call at our office or write us. Send Your Subscription --- L. Anderson, The A the THOUGH With d And With Eden' The heaven The THE UNIFO THE TWIN CITY K WOULD RESPECTFUL THE GRAND AFFA Will b 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. lin Parkway will be brilliantly illum THE IMPERIA Under Mr. Chas. H. Miller, M Misses Shull—instrumentalists, M Cafe Entertainers in song and danc McCullough's Grand Or Doors open at 7:30. Curtain REFRESHMENTS SERVED. TAX Judge Johnson's BIG EASTER BALL GOOD MUSIC AND A GOOD TIME The Password is "Good Order." April 5th, 1915 UNION TEMPLE HALL The Meaning of the Lilies THOUGHT of love immortal blends With dear remembrances of friends, And in these earth born flowers, With Eden's lingering fragrance sweet, The heavenly and the human meet, The heart of Christ and ours. THE TWIN CITY KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS WOULD RESPECTFULLY ANNOUNCE THAT THE GRAND AFFAIR OF THE SEASON Will be Their 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. REFRESHMENTS SERVED. TAXIS AT 2:00 A. M. ADMISSION 50c. 28 WASHINGTON AVE. SO. ADMISSION 35c Made It Quite Clear. Barber-Hair pretty thin, sir. Been that way long? Man In Chair-Long? I was born that way. Subsequently I enjoyed a period of hirsute efflorescence, but it did not endure. Boston Transcript The Course of Action. "This book, which had a page loose in it, has undergone a sort of legal action." "What was that?" "It has been bound over to keep the piece."—Baltimore American. STAR "ADS"—BRING RESULTS --- If you wish to help this publication Send your subscription by Post office order. 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, mortgages, 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.) 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. - Whittier. 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 personales. There is much activity on the North Side and her news will be of great interest to our readers. Defective Page Defective Page THERE'S MY EASTER BUNNY A A QUEER EASTER CUSTOM. In Warwickshire, England, Shake speare's home county, there was observed from ancient times a queer Easter custom known as "clipping the churches." It is described by an old time writer as follows: "When I was a child, as sure as Easter Monday came, I was taken to see the children 'clip the churches.' This ceremony was performed amid crowds of people and shouts of joy by the children of the different charity schools, who at a certain hour flocked together for the purpose. The first comers placed themselves hand in hand with their backs against the church and were joined by their companions, who gradually increased in number till at last the chain was of sufficient length completely to surround the sacred edifice. As soon as the hand of the last of the train had grasped that of the first—the party broke up and walked in procession to the other church (for in those days Birmingham boasted of but two), where the ceremony was repeated." Easter formerly witnessed many quaint customs in England, but most of them have died out in recent years HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF PENNSYLVANIA MASONS. Celebration to Be Held In Philadelphia Beginning Thursday, Sept. 23. Philadelphia.—One of the notable events to take place among the Masonic fraternity in this city and state this year will be the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania. The celebration will be held for two days beginning on Thursday, Sept. 23. The committee of arrangements for this big function has established headquarters at 409 South Eleventh street. The members in charge are busy sending out announcements and answering all inquiries concerning the plans and details for the celebration. Representatives of the fraternity from every state in the union are expected to attend this celebration, which will mark a distinct epoch in the history of the most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. The program for the two days' celebration will be as follows: First Day, Thursday, Sept. 23, 1915, 10 a.m. The grand lodge of Pennsylvania, subordinate lodges and visiting brethren assemble in Musical Fund hall to listen to the performance. Rudolph Blankenburg, mayor of Philadelphia. Response by P. G. M. William H. Miller, R. W. grand secretary. Oration by John P. Scott, Esq., M. W. grand secretary remarks by distinguished visiting brethren. Adjournment at 12 o'clock noon. At 2 o'clock p. m.—Exemplification of symbolic Masonry under the direction of Brothers Thomas W. Collins and Charles Reynolds, grand lecturers of the grand lodge of Pennsylvania in Musical Fund Hall, at 12 o'clock p. m.—A grand same hall at 2 o'clock p. m.—Grand reception to the visiting ladies of the Adoptive Rite tendered by the courts of H. of J. and chapters of the O. of E. S. of the city of Philadelphia, Musical Fund hall. Close at 6 o'clock p. m. $300 p. clock p. m.—Grand banquet in honor of the 15th anniversary in Musical Fund hall. Locust street, below 9th. Second Day, Friday, Sept. 24, 11 o'clock a. m.—The grand and subordinate lodges, visiting grand and subordinate lodges and brothen will assemble for street parade, the line to move at 13 o'clock noon sharp. The grand and subordinate commanderies will assemble for street parade, the grand and subordinate bodies in full uniform acting as escort to the M. W. grand lodge and visitors, after which a competitive drill will be held and the following prices awarded: To best drilled commandery, $300; to second best drilled commandery, $60; to third best drilled commandery, $50. Open to all competitors. Chief marshal, P. G. M. Phillip H. Edwards. Each commandery to consist of eighten Sir Knights and three officers. 8:30 p. m. to 8 a. m.—Grand reception at Musical Fund hall. The officials are: John P. Scott, M. w. grand master; William H. Miller, R. w. grand secretary; Peter A. Robinson, chairman; Andrew S. Coles, secretary. J. A. Lightfoot to Publish Magazine. James A. Lightfoot, formerly editor of the Advocate at Atlantic City, N. J. will soon begin the publication of a high class thirty-two page monthly magazine, with a staff of experienced writers. The first issue of the magazine is announced to appear in April. The Resurrection and the Life A Poem For Easter By JAMES A. EDGERTON [Copyright, 1955, by Associated Literary Press.] "I AM the resurrection and the life." So says the Living Christ who is within. "I free the heart from discord and from strife. I free the mind from error and from sin. I bring the nations health. I give the spirit wealth. Upon the battlefield of self I teach the soul to win. "RONGW." cries Nature when the year is young. And when the Morn leads up her rosy Dours. The same goes by the Sun to Geirio The same song by the Sun to Garth is sung. "Renew," he chants, "your colors and your bowers. Drink from your springs of dew. Clothe fields and groves anew. Reweave your robes and fill your lap with garlands and with flowers." "REBUILD," says Life, "all things in which you dwell. Repair Time's ravages from day to day. Your house, dress, body and each outward shell. Reclaim them from destruction and decay; Your grounds and works reclaim. Your calling and your fame. Rebuild, replace, renew them all—Life knows no other way." TIS only God the Perfect alters not. And Man, the innermost, His image true. These changelees dwell in their immortal thought; "Us but their semblances grow old and new. AND this is Resurrection, happy word! The inner Christ, the Son, the Image True. Be is the Builder On Dtm is con- ferred The gift divine to render "all things new." In Dis white spirit fire Is burned each base desire Until within some human vell the amile of God shines through. Religious Festival at Florence Reminde American of Fourth of July. Many strange Easter customs are found in Latin countries. In Florence it is the custom to extinguish the lights in all the churches on Good Friday as a symbol of the death of Jesus, the extinction of life. That this custom goes back to some Roman festival connected with the guard virgins who kept careful guard over the sacred flames at the altars of their divinity is now believed by some historical authorities. The lights having been extinguished, all is darkness and gloom until Easter Sunday. On that day the task of rekling the flames is intrusted to one ancient family, the Pazzi, members of which carry flints brought from the holy land with which they strike the new spark. Lanterns are lighted and in this way the lamps are relied in all the churches of Florence. This, however, is not spectacular enough for the multitude. Therefore an enormous car is loaded with harmless explosives and hauled through the principal streets of the city. It is drawn by two milk white oxen especially bred for this purpose and reserved for it from year to year. Finally the great car, looking like an enormous pagoda, is stopped in the square in front of the Cathedral of Florence. The car has been followed, of course, by an enormous crowd, which stands around it in the great square waiting impatiently for the "Scoppio del Carro" (Explosion of the Car). Arrived on the square, a wire is led from the car up to the chief altar of the cathedral, and when the lamp is lighted on the altar a "dove," a traveling pyrotechnical device shaped like the bird of peace, is released, its tuse aflame. Swiftly it speeds down the wire, and as it strikes the car the dove explodes, setting all the fireworks in the car afire. Then comes the grand explosion amid the huzzas of the multitude, and Easter Sunday is ushered in to all Florence. There is little doubt that in this ceremony is a reminder of the ancient celebrations of the return of the sun to power, the real spring festival of the Romans. Easter Day and Life. It is characteristic of human life that its greatest day should be its saddest, full of suffering and sorrow. It showed how life in its essential nature was sad, but it was a day of hope, its sorrow full of promise, and this, too, is characteristic of human life—Phillips Brooks. Bandying Secrets... Alice-When I told you of my engagement I said it was a secret, and you told Kitty about it. Ella-Why, no, I didn't. I merely asked her if she knew about it.-Boston Transcript. Energetic. "Why don't you sit down, Weary?" "Aw, shucks; look at their trouble gettin' up again!"—Boston Transcript. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWS TW IN CITY STAR 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 49,499, 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 29.6 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 considered in the aggregate, the decline for the Negroes being 8.4 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 72,468, 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. Magnistrate 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. 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. Peterson, The Druggist 1501 Washington Ave. So. TOILET ARTICLES, DRUGS PRESCRIPTIONS. He Solicits You Patronage. SPECIAL SAMPLE SHOES. POPULAR PRICED SHOE RE- PAIRING. WE FIX 'EM WHILE YOU WAIT. 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A COMPLETE LINE OF CIGARS AND TOBACCO. 627-5th St. No., Minneapolis CHARACTER Character is moral order embodied in the individual. Men of character are not only the conscience of society, but in every well governed state they are its best motive power, for it is moral qualities in the main which rule the world.—Samuel Smiles. French Knots. 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. Sentimental Compunctions. "Can't you learn to call me Jim?" "I'm afraid I can't." "Why not? That's what all my best friends call me." "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 ing and petting him." - Baltimore Amer. lean. HOW TO KEEP GOOD HEALTH. National Negro Health Week Promoters Issue Some Timely Advice. One of the things that the national Negro health week, March 21 to 27, is 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 National Negro Business league through its president, Dr. Booker T. Washington. For a long time it was supposed that consumption was inherited and incurable. It is now found that this is not true. 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, insatiant 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 ample 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! "Temporary insanity, and I expect to prove it by the love letters I wrote."—Exchange. Send Your Subscription Ino. L. Gibson Poor Stuff. Her Way. Strong Proof. OVER 65 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may justly accuse us of patent infringement. The invention is probably patentable. Communication strictly contested. Without Patent sent from the sent agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without comment. THE BIG THREE invite you for the Season 1914-15 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. MR. JOHN A. WITHERS. 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. 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To the Editor of the Pioneer Press: One of your recent contributors to the Mail Bag makes "pithecanthropos erectus" the Adam of the human family. But according to such well-known authorities as Prof. Augustus H. Kean of the London university, in his "Ethnology" and "Man, Past and Present," Prof. Giuseppi Sergi, professor of anthropology at the University of Rome, Italy, in his work on "The Mediterranean Races," and our own Prof. William Z Ripley, in his work on "Races of Europe;" Dr. Brinton, in his "Races and Peoples," as well as other scholars versed in this department of knowledge, repudiate the hypotheses postulated by the other scientists, and advocate the following pronouncements as most worthy of the consideration of the scholars learned in the science of anthropology: First—The present races of Europe are more offshoots of a primitive race now extinct. This extinct race was an offshoot of an African or Negro race, who migrated from Africa into Europe during the glacial and preglacial period. "Homo sapiens," "homo heidelbergensis," "neanderthalensis," "anthropos" and all other early European troglodytes had an African, therefore Negro origin. Chancellor David Starr Jordan of Leland Stanford university virtually says ditto to the conclusions of Ripley, Kean, Sergi and others. And as regards the "Aryan race" of the high schoolroom, why, the science of ethnology can find no trace of its existence. The word "Aryan" means light, learning, culture, education in the arts, science and industries. It is a "linguistic" and not an ethnological term. Theosophical writers and theosophical literature claim that the Anglo-Saxon, Celt, Dane, Teuton and the inhabitants of the United States are mere "subraces" of the great "root race" which was negro in character and color, so that the Negro is the "true ancestor of man," and man's primitive home was somewhere in Africa. From the St. Paul Pioneer Press' Mail Bag. A RECOGNITION OF MERIT. Atty. Albert H. Hall, one of the leading lawyers of this city, appeared in an important case in Judge Steele's courtroom this week. Seated behind him was Atty. Gale P. Hilyer, a young Negro lawyer, as associate counsel. This means much to our race. It is a recognition of merit, and proves the ability of the Negro along professional lines. Atty. Hall is a true friend of our race, and he is loved by every Negro who knows him. Mr. Hilyer is very fortunate. Should there be another opportunity, is there another Negro able to accept it? "Efficiency first" should be the ideal. Opportunities must follow. We get lots of kicks from non-paying subscribers, (those people who take papers) but our paying subscribers appear to be satisfied. Send Your Subscription BALTIMORE MAN HONORED. Maryland Academy of Science Electa John W. Widgen Life Member. John W. Widgeon Lifelong Member. The achievements in mutual history and correlated branches of John W. Widgeon, for many years curator at the Maryland Academy of Sciences at Baltimore, were rewarded by his being elected to life membership in the academy recently. No other colored man in the country is known to have been so honored by a similar society. Mr. Widgeon first became connected with the academy as a janitor in 1875. His scientific knowledge soon became apparent, and he was sent on expeditions in many lands to collect flora and fauna for the academy. He has made several trips to Jamaica, British West Indies, and one each to Central and South America in quest of specimens. 1910 JOHN W. WIDGEON. He has mounted all of his findings for the academy. Part of the early geological collection at the Johns Hopkins university was gathered by him. It is a familiar sight to see students in local schools and colleges seeking information in geology, archeology and natural history from this gifted man of science. Mr. Widgeon has a working knowledge of chemistry, photography and taxidermy. Though kept busy with his investigations in science, Mr. Widgeon finds time to pastor a Baptist church near Baltimore. For several years he was a lecturer at Clayton-Williams university. He was born in Virginia in 1850, but has lived in Baltimore for over forty years. Unfitting Medium. "Can't you play that round any better?" "Not on a square piano."—Exchange. HOW LYNCHING ENDANGERS SAFETY OF UNITED STATES Illegal Taking of Human Life Only Practiced by Un civilized Persons. By BRUCE "GRIT." Lynching is defined by the lexicog raphers as that form of lawlessness which defies the regularly constituted authorities and nullifies their powers to act by depriving them of the opportunity to do so whenever and when ever a person has violated a written or unwritten law of those states in which Judge Lynch is supreme. It does not apply to all crimes, nor is it now operative in all the states of the Union. In a majority of the southern states and in eleven northern states since the war of the rebelion it has assumed dangerous proportions and become a menace rather than a protection to society. Its methods are too drastic and brutal and savior too much of the alleged customs and practices of uncivilized and barbary peoples to command the favor of those who love justice and right eousness and who necessarily hate all forms of lawlessness, of which this form is the most reprehensible and most dangerous, in that it affects the character and the moral standing of those who tolerate or encourage it. There never was and there never can be, while there are courts and judges to administer the law, a valid excuse for the lynching of any human being. No nation, no community that excuses, condones or encourages this detestable method of punishing real or imaginary violations of the criminal and moral law can justly lay claim to being civilized. A people are great only when they are willing and ready to yield respect. obedience and homage to the laws by which they have consented to be governed. When irresponsible men in the heat of passion defy these laws and become a law unto themselves, as in some recent lynchings by mobs, the danger to the safety of the republic is not past. Oldest Business Enterprises Unite. The Union Mutual association, with home office at Atlanta, Ga., has been combined with and absorbed by the Atlanta Mutual Insurance association, of which A. F. Herndon is president and T. K. Gibson secretary. These two companies are among the oldest and largest in the state, and the combined organization represents one of the strongest enterprises conducted by the race. TWIN CITY STAR BRUCE "GRIT" AT ISSUE WITH TYLER On Proper Title For Our Race In America. 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 Guinea Negroes, captured on the Guinea 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 (1806) their descendants numbered in 1863 a fraction over 3,000,000 souls. "The census of 1890 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, 99,936; or a total of Afro-Americans, Negroids and "neithers," 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. "These 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 grandparents 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 'Nigger.' 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 'Nigger' has only recently—i. e., within a hundred years or so—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. THE MORAL PHASE OF NEGRO LIFE. 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 ragtime 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 al together for today; it is for a vast future.—Abraham Lincoln. IMPORTANT COMING EVENT. Commencement Week at Wilberforce University—Become June 10 From present indications in the line of class work, large attendance and general public interest in Wilberforce university the commencement exercises at the university this year will be the largest in every way of any in the history of the school. The speakers for the special exercises thus far chosen outside of the students are Dr. H. H. Hart of the Russell Sage foundation, New York, commencement orator; Professor A. S. Jackson, commissioner of education for the African Methodist Episcopal church, orator for the literary societies. Commencement week begins Thursday, June 10, and ends on Thursday, June 17, with the observance of what is known as commencement day. The baccalaureate sermon this year will be delivered by Chaplain T. G. Stewart. D. D., vice president of the university. The faithful work of the president and faculty, the manly bearing of the students and the great interest shown in the welfare of the institution by its many friends of both races warrant the belief that Wilberforce university is able filling the great mission for which it came into being. Stalwart Friends of the Negro Race. The Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of the Cleveland (O.) Gazette, in speaking of the great work in behalf of justice for the colored people, as shown by Congressman Martin B. Madden and Dr. Joel E. Sphargin, says: "Acadia we doff our cap to the Hon. Martin B. Midden of Chicago and Dr Joel E Spingarn of New York city. They are fighting friends—the very kind we so greatly need. May their kind increase rapidly, and more power to them." History Story Telling Association. To preserve the history of the Negro race and present it in a national and systematic manner is the purpose of the Afro-American History Story Telling association, organized quite recently in Washington. The Worker. ROOT & HAGEMAN 403-5-7 NICOLLET AVENUE Women's Fashionable Apparel at Popular Prices COATS, SUITS, DRESSES, WAISTS, SKIRTS, MILLINERY, GLOVES, HOSIERY and UNDERWEAR ZUMALWEISS THE BETTER BEER You are sure of appreciation from anyone to whom you recommend it. BENJ. JONES (Near Milwaukee Depot) CLARENCE W. 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