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MINNEAPOLIS Minn Historical Society DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST.PAUL MINNESOTA HISTORICAL Defective Page NOTABLE WORK OF AUGUSTUS G. DILL MAN OF BROAD EXPERIENCE Step In the Career of a Native Ohioan Who Has Made Good in Many Fields. How the Crisis Magazine Has Increased In Circulation Under His Wise Management. By N. BARNETT DODSON. New York. — The progress which many members of our race are making as publishers of weekly papers, monthly magazines, church and Sunday school periodicals is indicative in the first place of two things—namely, intelligence and good business management. Without applying these two primary and highly essential elements to every detail of business of whatever sort, one need not expect to win success in any large degree. During the brief existence of the National Negro Press association our weekly and monthly publications and the men who are responsible for their AUGUSTUS G. DILL, A. M. appearance have been brought more prominently before the reading public than ever before. The patrons of these papers and magazines have become better acquainted with the editors and managers. Their interests have been quickened and their confidence in the management strengthened until hundreds of publishers are personally known to the readers of their periodicals throughout the country. On the other hand, this success, such as was outlined by Henry Allen Boyd, corresponding secretary of the organization, in his address before the recent meeting of the National Negro Business league, held in Boston, shows that the race is giving larger and more hearty support to the literature produced by its own members. The demand now is for more and better reading matter of the kind which interests and helps to educate the youth of the race in the home. This shows an intellectual growth which a decade ago it would have been considered almost folly to hint at in connection with many of our papers. Aside from the foregoing, however, we wish especially in this brief mention to speak of one of the ablest and certainly one of the most modest men connected with any of our publications in the capacity of business manager. That man is Augustus Granville Dill of the Crisis Magazine, at 70 Fifth avenue, this city. After a most successful career as a student, educator, musician and publicist, Mr. Dill was finally prevailed upon to become the business manager of the Crisis. He is a native of Ohio, having been born at Portsmouth about thirty-four years ago. Before he completed his college course Mr. Dill taught school in his native town, meeting with much success. In 1902 he decided to resume his studies and entered Atlanta university, where after four years of diligent study he was graduated with the degree of bachelor of arts. Mr. Dill after his graduation from Atlanta university entered Harvard college, where in 1908 he received the bachelor's degree. While at Harvard he taught in the evening schools of Cambridge. From 1908 to 1910 he acted in the capacity of northern secretary and agent for Atlanta university. In the latter year Mr. Dill returned to Atlanta university, where he held the no sition of associate professor of sociology and was also organist of the school and editor of the Atlanta University Studies. In 1809 Atlanta university honored Mr. Dill with the master's degree. Mr. Dill took up his duties as manager of the Crisis in the early fall of 1913. He has proved himself to be a most experienced, capable and painstaking business manager. During the two years in which he has directed the affairs of this particular department of the best magazine from every point of view the race has to its credit in America it has increased in circulation from 24,000 per month in 1913 to its present circulation of 34,000. The Crisis is edited by Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois and is the organ of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People. ELKS' GRAND LODGE MEETS. Annual Session Held in Chicago—Nutter Re-elected Grand Exalted Ruler. Chicago.—The Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World closed its sixteenth annual session recently in this city at Odd Fellows' hall after being royally received and highly entertained by Chicagoans, who understood how to treat "the best people on earth." The reports of the grand lodge showed a remarkable increase in the lodges and temples and a decided advancement in finances. The order is to be credited for standing as a unit for all Elks. There is no division in the ranks, and its era of prosperity under the administration of T. Gillis Nutter, G. E. R., and George E. Bates, G. S., is a revelation. The parade, ball and reception brought the convention to a brilliant close, much to the credit of Great Lakes lodge and its local committee. Officers elected for the ensuing year are: T. Gillis Nutter, G. E. R., Charleston, W. Va.; George E. Bates, G. S., Jersey City, N. J.; James T. Carter, G. T., Richmond, Va.; C. W. F. F. McMechan, G. E. L. K., Baltimore; George W. Holbert, G. E. L. K., Minneapolis, Minn.; H. Adolph Howell, G. E. L. K., New York; W. Hopkins Johnson, G. L. G. St. Paul, Minn.; Dr. Stevens, G. G. G., Norfolk, Va.; Henry Chisman, G. Esq., Hampton, Va.; J. J. Jones, G. T., Chicago. Cleveland and Philadelphia entered the race for the next convention. Philadelphia won, and the slogan is now, "On to Philadelphia." Carney Post Wine Prize at Detroit. The William H. Carney Post, No. 46, Pittsburgh Veterans of Foreign Wars, won the silver loving cup at the recent encampment of the order held at Detroit. The Carney post made the finest appearance in the annual parade of the veterans at Detroit. KISTLER STILL TO THE FORE. Cumberland County (N. C.) Farmer First to Sell 1915 Cotton. Some of the most enterprising farmers in the state are colored men, and it is characteristic of them that when they once establish a record they hold to it, says the Charlotte (N. C.) Observer. Such is the case with G. W. Kistler, a farmer of Cumberland county. For a number of years he has been the seller of the first bale of new cotton on the Fayetteville market, and he has just repeated the performance for the present season of 1915. Should Kistler ever lose the record the Observer would confess to a disappointment. The Negro who holds a record in any line of good endeavor deserves the encouragement of his white neighbors and friends and generally has it—at least, that is the sentiment in this section of the state. Advocates Brotherhood of All Races. In an address before the new thought congress, recently held at San Francisco, Miss Florence MacFarlane, a delegate from London, is said to have announced her intention of living among the colored people of this country in the future. Miss MacFarlane says: "If I can live happily among the blacks; if I can love them as I love the people of my own race, then I will know that our dream of brotherhood for all races may come true." 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 280 wedding presents."—Brooklyn Citizen. MRS. HALEY TO VISIT TWIN CITIES. Mrs. Victoria Clay Haley, the noted Suffragist, will visit friends in the Twin Cities in October. Mrs. Haley is the Royal Grand Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star, and one of the prominent women of America. READ THE STAR-ITS NEWS MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. SEPT. 25, 1915. THE WIZARD OF CONCORD. Professor Frank Sanborn Values Freedom More Highly Than Wealth. Boston. — Professor Frank Sanborn of Concord, Mass., noted abolitionist and possibly the last of the men who became famous on account of the part they took against the slave trade in America, made a most timely speech to the delegates present at the recent session of the National Negro Business league held in this city. Mr. Sanborn received a most wonderful ovation when he arose to speak, for he is honored and revered by the colored citizens of Boston in a very marked degree. Mr. Sanborn said: "It has given me the greatest pleasure to hear these reports of the progress your people have made in the past fifteen years. But the feeling came over me as I sat on this platform as your guest that this is the time when perchance you may have use for advice from a very old man like me. "It has occurred to me that, as I heard to how great an extent some of you have progressed in getting material possessions, you should be warned that an accumulation of capital is as likely to be a vehicle for unrighteousness as it is for righteousness. I have in mind the coming to our city of Boston some months ago a moving picture exhibition whose exhibit was offensive and indecent in the eyes of all good people. I suppose more than $1,000,000 was behind its being made and exploited before the public. It was just such an accumulation of capital for unrighteousness as I before warned you of. So much money was represented, and of course that much power, that of the free press of Boston, which should have stood on the side of correcting such an offense against citizenship. There were but two papers outspokenly to protest against its continued exhibition. "I have been interested to hear what some of your men said who had profitably and shrewdly made money in real estate and chiefly in the rise of real estate values. Real estate does many times increase in value, but invariably it is because the city in which it is located has grown. And, as you come to think of it, you must realize that it is you yourselves, in your own town, who produce the very thing that increases your real estate values, for the nicer your town and the more upright it is the more people will want to come to that town and make it their home. "I desire to bring to your attention a report of a conversation which took place between Abraham Lincoln and a friend of his named Gillespie, from Kentucky, which I believe has never appeared in print. The two friends met some sixty years ago, and the talk naturally fell upon the subject of slavery. Mr. Lincoln said to his friend, 'I am terribly afraid this slavery will spread to my state of Illinois and from there all through the north. I will tell you what I think causes the spread of slavery more than anything else. If a man of means has his property in the form of securities and bank deposits perhaps nothing much of his fortune will be known. If, on the other hand, a man has two or three slaves to follow him about the young men are apt to be impressed by the evidence of his wealth and by the fact that what he wants he gets. It may be only his slaves who are doing the work, and it is from their ownership and their labors that he has come to have means.' "Your race, you remember, was treated merely as representing only property. Your race was indebted to the immortal Lincoln and in some part to those persons with whom I was associated all my life. It was due to these things that the time came when you were no longer considered to be property, but as a race whose men were just as much men and should be just as free as any other race of men." A. Test at friendship Just before Artemus Ward's death Robertson poured out some medicine and offered it to the sick man, who said, "My dear Tom. I won't take any more of that horrible stuff." Robertson urged him to swallow the mixture, saying, "Do, now—there's a dear fellow—for my sake. You know I would do anything for you." "Would you?" said Ward feebly, grasping his friend's hand for the last time. "I would indeed," said Robertson. "Then you take it." Ward passed away a few hours afterward. "Recollections of the Bancrofts." At His Best. Blobbs — The doctor told Guzzler drinking was the very worst thing he could do. Slobbe — I guess that doctor didn't know Guzzler or he would have realised that drinking is the best thing he does — Philadelphia Record. SMOKE THE RELIABLE 5c SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR 5a SUGGESTS CHANGE IN SCHOOL SYSTEM BACKS OPINION WITH FACTS Taking the Economic Condition Among Our People in Philadelphia as an Example, Professor Thomas Makes Strong Plea For the Kind of Education Which Supplies Individual Needs. Charles M. Thomas, LL. B., in an able article which appeared in a recent issue of the Philadelphia Ledger discusses at length the need of vocational training for colored people. Professor Thomas' article in part reads thus: "The time has come when the colored citizens of Philadelphia and every citizen should talk, discuss, investigate, agitate and enthusiastically support all forms of education which seek to improve industrial efficiency. Having passed the period of exploitation of extensive natural resources, this country, and especially in its urban centers, is facing an era of conservation and higher efficiency through elimination of waste and increased skill in its operatives preparatory to securing the perpetuity of the republic through unborn generations. An examination of the occupation statistics for the last census of the city of Philadelphia shows 510,871 males and 200,298 females engaged in the fundamental activities of agriculture, trade transportation, domestic and personal service and clerical work. Of these persons about 58 in every 1,000 are colored males, and 106 in every 1,000 are colored females. How are these people employed and in what ways can public education aid them and consequently the community in which they live? For, unlike many of the foreign born elements of the city, the colored people spend their earnings where they make them. "Suffice it to say that these people have physical wants to be satisfied by foods, houses, woods, metals, textiles and clays and drugs, such as all men have, and they have spiritual aspirations to be satisfied by culture from social contact, travel, amusements, literature, music and art, but they have aimed to satisfy the more pressing wants and aspirations by the methods at hand, by imitation and, to a large extent, by accepting any and every opportunity offered by those to whom they could be of any service. "A few, through keener insight, better guidance or more friendly contact and the equality of opportunity, have blazed ways for their peculiar capacities to supply the wants and aspirations of those more able to secure what their capital would command. In fact, Philadelphia has been renowned among colored people for the number and fairness of its opportunities to secure diversified employment, and there are not a few families among its colored population who are beyond immediate want, if not able to aid others both by charity and employment. Using the method of trial and error, many have sought to increase their capacity to satisfy their greater wants by following the traditional curriculum of the free school system, only to find in many instances that such procedure made them aware of even larger wants and higher aspirations without proportionately increasing their power to satisfy them. "What is needed today is such a method of educating each and every child in this and each other American community so that he may not only know how to secure permanent and positive good in this life, but that he may know what constitutes such permanent and positive good in an economic age such as this now is and bids fair to remain. Education today must aim to inculcate character as just and equitable relations to one's fellows in all activities, to give training in the skillful and economic production of useful things and in rendering efficient service by maximum output with minimum expenditure of time and energy and to induce loyalty to the state and activity for its betterment. Such an aim can be realized at a cost not much greater than that now borne for a training largely literary and clerical, a training which neglects to a large extent the necessity for motor activity in the formation of the very ideas the schools claim to establish. "In the vocational schools the various activities may be subdivided, and the special fitness of students may be emphasized and provided for. An examination of the figures for colored males engaged in activities connected with transportation and the manufacturing and mechanical industries show an additional need for vocational training for them. Of the 43,554 total males engaged in transportation activities there are 5,676 colored males so engaged. This number is 20 per cent of all colored males reported occupied, but a quarter of that number are engaged as longshoremen and stevedores and one-third as draymen and teamsters and expressmen, thus constituting the colored males as one-twelfth of all the teamsters and expressmen and one-third of all the longshoremen and stevedores in Philadelphia. "To what extent is the traditional school system preparing the children and relatives of these men to meet the newer conditions of motor transportation, which must replace the teamster and expressman, and the endless belts and almost human cranes and conveyers which increase with the progress of industry. As now conducted, such occupations are but slightly differentiated forms of labor. Consolidating all laborers as reported, there are 5,118 out of 5,676, or 88 per cent of all colored males engaged in transportation activities occupied as laborers of various kinds. "In the manufacturing and mechanical industries 5,115 colored males are reported as laborers, in agriculture 247, in quarry operations 80, thus making a total of 11,118 colored males reported as laborers out of 20,561 reported as occupied. Add to that condition the fact that but 20 apprentices are reported with such a differentiation of industry as 31 colored bakers, 48 colored blacksmiths, 148 brick and stone masons, 54 builders and contractors, 9 cabinet makers, 177 carpenters, 67 compositors and typesetters, 17 cooper, 30 electricians, 12 dyers, 2 engravers, 167 stationary engineers, 111 manists, 94 painters and glaziers, 18 paperhangers, 96 plasterers, 24 plumbers, 21 roofers and slaters, 39 shoemakers, 31 stonecutters, 71 tailors, 89 upholsterers, and it becomes evident that were the colored youth not being trained away from trade activities by the traditional system of schooling there would be 500 apprentices among their journeymen rather than 20. "It is at this very point in industrial supply and demand that the vocational school is of prime importance, for it is well known that the older apprentice system is not favored by employer or youth in this day of sharply differentiated labor divisions and high speed. The vocational system helps the youth to select the activity for which he has both interest and capacity, and it not only trains him to a point of relatively high efficiency, but it gives him such a survey of collateral activities as to make him a more valuable assistant than is possible in a modern shop with its standardized output. "Let it be understood that the direction of colored youth into trade activities demands the enthusiastic support and the hearty co-operation of all classes through the respect to be granted. the credit to be given and the employment to be possible to those who leave such schools as fit to serve the community, the race and themselves. It does not take an economist to see that under present conditions in this country the men who handle the symbols of things, rather than those who produce them and actually transport them, are the men who take the larger share of the profits, but it does take an economist to point out to the youth who would make a short cut to wealth the fact that the men who take the profit must invest capital, foresight and courageously intelligent knowledge of market conditions in order to handle the symbols so as to make the profit. It is for the state to provide for the teaching of those facts. "All men may not be created equal, but they are created to struggle for equality, and a great industrial center like Philadelphia can increase its output and income while materily reducing its expense account from charities and corrections by investing in such modern educational machinery as continuation schools, part time schools and vocational centers for colored children and for all children." Marries Five Hundred Couples. MARRIES FIVE Hundreds Couple Rome, Ga.—Rev. T. R. Hanson, who resides five miles from Cave Spring, in this county, has reported to Ordinary Johnson that he had just solemnized the five hundredth marriage during his residence here. Impertinent. Gibbs—I tell you no man can feel my wife. Dibbs—Then how did you get her? His Clincher. At a town meeting a large taxpayer rose up to protest against building a new schoolhouse in a certain part of the town. "What's the good of it? They are an ignorant set down there anyway."—Argonaut. STAR "ADS"—BRING RESULTS DR. BOYD'S ANNUAL REPORT. Secretary of Baptist Publishing House Gives Results of Year's Work. Millions of dollars in money and many more millions in religious tracts handled by the Baptist Publishing House, located at Nashville, Tenn., are shown in the nineteenth annual report of Rev. R. H. Boyd, the secretary and founder of the National Baptist Publishing House. One can hardly realize the vastness of the facts shown by the report and the staggering figures brought up by the compilation of the year's work. Long since this ex-slave, whose brains and business sagacity have been pronounced by all as responsible for the sum total of the success, has been looked upon as the leading business man in the ranks of Negro baptists. Every year hundreds of delegates to the national Baptist convention await the coming of this report that they may take it to the various points of the United States from where they come to read and ponder over it. In suite of financial depression and the REV. B. H. BOYD, D. D. business changes and in spite of the fact that the home mission work was operated from another state and city this past year, the report shows an increase of many thousands of dollars. This was the result of an increase in the circulation of the Sunday school literature in many states where the literature had not been used heretofore. Some of the facts contained in the report show that from 1897 to 1915 $2,306,105.68 has been collected and expended in the operation of the plant and that 150,794,339 periodicals have been written, printed and sent out to the members of the denomination throughout the civilized world, while letters to the number of 3,684,149 have been written and sent out signed by the secretary of the publishing board. The secretary further shows in his report work done by the quarter—that is, for every three months of the past fiscal year, and that the operations of the plant this year reached the sum total of $160,798,83, which is the largest report from the publishing board alone since the establishment of the institution. Heretofore the home mission and publishing boards' reports were made together, giving one sum total. Secretary Boyd further shows in this report the extension work during the past year, giving special mention to the facts concerning the location of the plant, the reports on buildings, the machinery, the office of the assistant secretary, the periodical department, the book, Bible and tract department and winding up with the extensive view of the editorial work and the extension department, which includes the Sunday School congress. The report further contains the story of the congress, with the enrollment of the Birmingham (Ala.) meeting of this year. Dr. C. H. Clark is the chairman of the board and has served in that capacity since its organization as has the secretary. They employ over 150 members of the race and have a mammoth plant operating regularly. Lincoln Jubilee Celebration Notes. By actual count of exhibits thirty-two states are represented at the Lincoln jubilee celebration and exposition, which was formally opened at the Colosseum in Chicago on Monday, Aug. 23. There are also exhibits from the governments of Haiti and Liberia, the Roman Catholic church, the board of freedmen of the Presbyterian church, the Methodist Episcopal church, the national Baptist convention, the Episcopal church, the African Methodist Episcopal church and other religious, political and industrial bodies. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION Send your notes to us by Wednesday A. M. Send your subscription now. Leave your subscription at our office Third floor, 305 Fifth St. So. Bring your printing to the Twin City Star Prinh, 305 So. 3th St. Patronize those business houses, who request your patronage through your paper. Bro. Dan. Williams, the restaurant keeper will fill the pulpit at St. James A. M. E. Church on Sept. 26, during Rev. Edward's absence at Conference. Rev and Mrs. M. W. Withers have returned from a pleasant trip to Chicago, where they were delegates to the Baptist Convention. Rev. E. H. Hall of Pittsburg, Pa. preached a very instructive and inspiring sermon last Sunday night at Bethesda Baptist Church. The deportment of the young people at the Forum is becoming intolerable. Parents are responsible for their children in public places as well as at home. Remember! Mrs. A. Massey of Riverside Ave., who has been very ill is gradually improving. Dr. R. S. Brown spoke last week at Pilgrim Baptist Church, St. Paul, on "The Home Training of Our Boys and Girls." THE DAYTON HOTEL. Mr. Robt. Canty, the experienced railroad Chef, has opened the Dayton Hotel, at 1205 So. Washington Ave., where he has prepared every accommodation for the comforts of the traveling public. He solicits the patronage of respectable persons desirous of first class hotel service. TABLE BOARD. Best Home Cooked Food for Weekly Boarders. Reasonable Price. Call Mrs. Darby, 102 Bryant Ave. No. Phone Main 3191. Rev. T. B. Stovalf left Sunday evening for the Annual Conference at Milwaukee. It is rumored that Rev. E. R. Edwards will seek a new pastorate. Mrs. W. R. Donovan received a painful injury on last Saturday. She cut her hand on a jar while canning fruit. Dr. Brown attended her. Mr. A. J. Kelso has moved to 3428 Oakland Ave. Mr. and Mrs. K. C. Coleman have moved to their new residence at 9736 Cedar Ave., Mr. Coleman is a janitor in the public schools. We received some notes from Thursday Whist Club which were unsigned. We must have authority to publish private affairs. Kindly sign all articles and enclose a stamp for reply. MRS. VICTORIA C. HALEY IN RECITAL. Mrs. Victoria Clay-Haley, of St. Louis, Mo., assisted by local talent will appear at St. Peter's A. M. E. Church on Oct. 8th, on one of the most interesting programs recently presented to admirers of the eloquionary art. Mrs. Haley has a national reputation as a reader of exceptional ability. She is also a prominent public speaker and one of the leading women of her race. The ladies of the Church will serve refreshments. It will be the treat of the coming season. Don't fail to attend. Admission 25 cents. Miss Carelene Kelly of Des Moines, Ia., who has been the guest of Miss Irene Mullins, 627 5th St. N., returned to school last Saturday after a delightful visit in the city. Mrs. Minnie Bludsoe and Miss Julia True have returned home from a pleasant stay in Chicago. Agent for Negro Dolls. Mrs. I. S. Bogie, 616 Tyler St., has accepted the agency for the Negro Dolls, and is solociting orders. She will be assisted by Miss Lady Walker. Mrs. Bogie represents the National Negro Doll Co. of Nashville, Tenn. Place your order now. Judge Johnston wishes to announce that he will hold his dances every 2nd and 4th Tuesday in each month at Union Temple Hall, 28 Washington Ave. So., Minneapolis, to which the public is invited. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION ADVERTISE HERE, IT PAYS. Mrs. Victoria Clay Haley THE TALENTED DRAMATIC READER ASSISTED BY SELECT LOCAL TALENT Refreshments will be served by the Ladies of the Church. In Lovelock of Future Bliss. Miss Anna Abernathy of Detroit, Mich., and Mr. Willis L. Ward of Martin, Fla., were united in marriage on Sept. 20, 1915 at the residence of Mrs. L. D. Martin, 3013 Garfield Ave. Rev. T. B. Stowall performed the ceremony. Maids of honor wred Mrs. Eva C. C. La Rhue and Mrs. Elma Jones. Mr. O. Barrett of Montreal, Can., was best man, assisted by Mr. Teddy Garnett of Louisville, Ky. The event was followed by a musical program. A delicious lunch was served ususanomoj o3 ususanomoj equ. QQ Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Patterson of St. Paul, Mr. and Mrs. Brooks of Chicago, Miss Viola Bradford of Winnipeg, Can., Mrs. John Elliott and Mr. and Mrs. Elma Jones of Minneapolis. Mrs. Emma Jackson of Anoka chaperoned the bride. Messrs. Teddy Garnett and Emmett Aitkins were toastmasters. The happy couple are at home at 3013 Garfield Ave. Mrs. J. A. Walker, 731 E. 27th St. left Wednesday evening, Sept. 22, for an extended trip to the East. She will stop with friends in Boston, Mass., and visit her sister in Providence, R. I. SPEAKS WELL OF OKLAHOMA. Atty. J. B. Stradford, president of the Oklahoma Realty Co. of Tulsa, spent Saturday and Sunday in Minneapolis visiting his son, Pink Stradford. He enjoyed the hospitality shown him and expects to return during the summer season. Another son, Mr. C. F. Stradford, a recent graduate of the Law Department of Columbia University, has joined the firm—Atty. Stradford belives that Oklahoma is the garden spot of the U. S. for the Negro. Mrs. L. Kimbrough of Oscaloosa, Ia., is visiting her daughter,' Mrs. Bernice Lee and Miss Naomi Kimbrough of 417 McKubin St., St. Paul. Judge Johnston's Dance on Tuesday evening was very well attended. Judge commenced his winter season with his usual attendance and opularity. There are persons who do things worth mentioning and never give newspapers any copy. How can we get news, if it is not sent to us? LEAVE IT HERE. Leave your Money for your Subscription with Miss Essie R. Mason, 325 So. 5th St., at People's Realty, Co's office. She will collect and credit the same for Twin City Star. Mrs. Jas. Darby, 102 No. Bryant Ave., will serve home cooked food beginning this week. A chance to secure family service at reasonable rates. Uptided States dollars command a bigger premium abroad than ever before, but no one relishes the job of going ever to collect it. If the weather is to keep up such pranks we can establish all the year round resorts and maybe lasso summer, coming or going. Paradoxical though it seems, nobody can deny but she. Russian army has stood well in the running. EVERYBODY VOTE You don't have to be registered, or have voted at a previous Election. If you are 21 years of age or over, every man who has lived in the state six months, and in his voting precinct 30 days, is entitled to a vote. Just go to Your Polling Place IF YOU MOVE IF YOU MOVE During the last 30 days before election, go to your former polling place and ask for a transfer, on election day, and take it to your district where you live (where you have moved to) and hand it to the clerks, and you can vote. TWIN CITY STAR TO HEAR A Clay Haley DRAMATIC READER SOCIAL CT LOCAL TALENT M. E. Church ND St., MINNEAPOLIS. Admission 25 cents by the Ladies of the Church. You Are Invited to JUDGE JOHNSON'S Grand Fashion Ball UNION TEMPLE HALL at 28 Washington Ave. So. Thursday Night, Sept. 8 Second Dance of the Season McCULLOUGH'S ORCHESTRA TRUSSES, TRUSSES. Special Klugs Elastic Truss 89c. Full line leather covered, hard rubber elastic trusses for Men, Women and Children. HUGHES CUT RATE DRUG CO. 32 Wash. Ave. So. SUCCESSFUL SECRET ORDER. United Brothers of Friendship Hold Meeting at Princeton, ind. The annual meeting of the grand lodge, United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of the Mysterious Ten, recently held at Princeton, Ind., was largely attended. Reports from local lodges submitted by delegates showed a decided increase in most all departments of the order during the year. The order has a large membership in the United States and is among the oldest and most progressive secret societies operated by our people. The next annual meeting of the grand lodge will be held at Evansville, Ind. The election of officers resulted as follows: Grand master, E. B. Alexander, New Albany; deputy grand master, Noah Bell, Evansville; grand secretary, Dr. W. E. Brown, Indianapolis; grand treasurer, John Coleman, Indianapolis; grand recorder, L. E. Johnson, Newburg; chairman trustee board, James Smith, Jeffersonville; trustees, C. M. C. Willis, William J. Bryant, Indianapolis; state organizer, Burt Alexander, New Albany; deputy state organizer, J. H. Fry, Evansville. Sisters of the Mystic Ten: Grand princess, Mrs. Cora B. Jackson, Indianapolis; vice grand princess, Mrs. Anna Biggs, Evansville; financial secretary, Mrs. Hattie Holloway, Evansville; recording secretary, Mrs. Laura Emhree, New Albany; treasurer, Mrs. Mary Manson, New Albany; chairman trustee board, Mrs. Bell Street, Indianapolis. Indianapolis Y. M. C. A.'s Good Work. The employment department of the Young Men's Christian association, at Indianapolis, Ind., secured positions of various kinds of employment for fifty men from Aug. 28 to Sept. 4. The membership of the association is increasing, and the work in all departments goes forward with briskness as the members return from their vacations. Bankers Conduct. Successful. Tag. Day. Anderson & Co., bankers & Jacksonville, Fla., recently conducted a "tag day" to increase the number of deposits at their bank. The plan was a success, and nearly 1,000 new accounts were opened. Charles H. Anderson, the cashier, is also treasurer of the National Negro Business league. Society of Progressive Virginians. The ladies' auxiliary of the Society of the Sons of Virginia. In Brooklyn will begin the fall and winter work of the organization with an entertainment and reception on Thursday evening, Sept. 30. The function will be held at Lincoln hall. Waterland and Atlantic avenues. Lincoln hall is located by Alpha lodge No. 183. United Grand Order of Odd Fellows. Mrs. Roger Hardless is president of the auxiliary, which has a membership of nearly 900. The society has a good bank account and is free from any financial indebtedness. Her management redeem credit upon the officials, who are supported by a membership of loyal women. Pittsburgh's Mayor Bara Film Play. The fight on moving picture plays which have features calculated to arouse ill-feeling between white and colored people is still on. At Pittsburgh the last week in August, leading white and colored people, with the Colored Civic league co-operating, made a strong protest to the city authorities against a certain photo play of the kind here mentioned. The result was that Mayor Armstrong issued an order to the chief of police for bidding the exhibition of any film calculed 2 to interfere with the harmonics stations of the races in Pittsburgh --- POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT (For Sept. 18/22 and Oct. 2, 1915) AN APPEAL TO COMMON SENSE. On October 4, voters in Minneapolis and Hennepin County will be called upon to vote on prohibition. The issue is clearly defined, and it is this: "Shall Hennepin County adopt prohibition?" Before arriving at a hasty conclusion, voters are earnestly requested to consider the following facts: If Hennepin County goes prohibition, 486 store buildings will be vacated and a "For Rent" sign will be placed on all of them. Three hundred and ninety-nine of these buildings are in the business district of Minneapolis, and they alone pay an annual rental of more than $659,000 in addition to about $210,000 for lights and water, a total of $869,000. The buildings that will be vacated in Minneapolis alone represent a property value of more than $11,000,000. There can be only one result from such a condition. Property values will decrease. This is inevitable, and with such a large number of store buildings idle, the effect on other property will be immediate. Property generally will depreciate in value, and taxes will increase. This is only one of many destructive features contained in the county prohibition measure. If prohibition carries, more than 7,000 persons in Minneapolis will be thrown out of employment, and 25,000 women and children depending upon them will be affected. A careful investigation shows that the average family that will be directly affected expends at least $800 a year for house rent and housekeeping expenses; thus every line of retail business will feel the evil results of prohibition in the way of greatly decreased sales. What are you going to do with this army of 7,000 unemployed? Who will provide for their families and those dependent upon them? Will the prohibitionists assume this burden? Will they make good a deficit in license revenue amounting to nearly a half-million annually in Minneapolis alone? Will they fill the empty store buildings with tenants, and guarantee them prosperity under the prohibition banner? These are plain facts, and no amount of appeal to passion can change them. Minneapolis and Hennepin County confront a serious danger. Voters are asked to vote for prohibition and bring about a condition which spells disaster for the greatest city in the Northwest. If you are a booster for Minneapolis, and if you want to see the city and county continue to prosper, declare yourself now and vote NO at the election on October 4. THE TRUE MEANING COUNTY OPTION. County Option means county prohibition, and destroys "home rule," i.e., the control of the liquor business by the municipalities, which system has been in successful operation since 1858. Ever since 1849 the regulation of the liquor business in Minnesota has been built upon the foundation of LICENSE, and regulation is only possible through LICENSED dispensaries. County option destroys the very foundation of regulation through license and offers no substitute for it. In fact, county option suspends every law and every municipal charter so far as they refer to the sale and regulation of liquor. --- Not even the most sincere prohibitionist will claim that prohibition ever stopped the desire for, or the use of liquor, or its sale and consumption. What happens, then, when a county goes dry? Liquor will continue to be used surreptitiously and will be sold unlawfully, but there will be no regulation. The inevitable result of such a condition is a continuous violation of the law,—for when regulation steps out, lawlessness steps in. County option is more than a saloon question. The experience of other states teaches that legislation of this kind is followed by laws attempting to prohibit the shipment and limiting the quantity and kind of liquor that may be shipped into a county, even for personal use. Besides being un-American it is the most impertinent and pernicious interference with your personal affairs ever attempted in the history of the country. It means, in short, Personal Prohibition with all the attendant evils that accompany this vicious principle. Do you want to force prohibition on your neighbors? Do you want your neighbors to force prohibition on you? This is what county option means. Do you want such conditions to exist in Minnesota? WHAT PROHIBITION MEANS It abolishes a thing that many enjoy because a few persons abuse their right to the use of it. It attempts to abolish the legitimate sale of liquor and opens the way for blind pigs and lawlessness. It abolishes license revenue and forces the people to pay higher taxes to make good the deficit. It preaches that righteousness and temperance can come by law. It claims a monopoly on all honor, integrity, temperance and Christian virtue. It uses a "Reform" flag, and through false claims and deceitful doctrines, wins a following by playing on the sympathies of the unthinking. It creates unrest, and provides a field of labor for paid agitators who thrive on the turmoil they create. WHAT LICENSE MEANS It provides a lawful means of obtaining something that people have a right to buy. It is the foe of intemperance. It regulates the sale of liquor and puts the lawless blind pigs out of business. It provides a revenue which helps to keep taxes down. It permits the poor man to obtain something which prohibition permits only the more fortunate to enjoy. It is an aid to progress because it provides something which man demands. A dry town never yet made a large city. It helps business and provides a large part of the money necessary to run the towns and county. It stands for equal rights and opposes being governed by the intolerant few. It provides something that strangers in a community have been accustomed to find in their own town. Issued by The Business Men's Educational League, for which $50.00 will be paid. LOTS FOR SALE ON EASY TERMS. I have a few lots on Chicago Ave. Columbus, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 10th, 11th, 12th and Elliott Aves. South between 40-46th St. South. Price from 350 to 500 dollars each, that I will sell from 10 to 25 dollars down and 5 and 10 dollars per month. F. Peoples, 325 5th St. South. Advertisement. ADVERTISE HERE, IT PAYS. Peoples Christian Assembly. Rev. G. W. Mitchell, Pastor, 1804 Washington Ave. So. Coral and Servs the Lord. ST. PETER'S A. M. E. CHURCH and St. marmot 10th Ave. So. Rev. Thos. R. Stewall Pastor. ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH, 318 St. Ave. So. Minneapolis. Rev. E. R. Edwards, Pastor. REV. G. L. MORRILL. Rev. G. L. Morrill conducts his Sunday services at the Jitney (formerly Bijou) Theatre. He invites all his former friends to worship with him every Sunday morning at 10:30 o'clock. Rev. Morrill is always ready to render his best service to our people, and they are always welcome to attend his services. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH. 7th Ave. North and Hong St. Rev. M. W. Witers, Pastor, Res. 2406 17 Ave. S. Phone Drexel 600 Regular Services. Preaching: 11 A. M., 8 P. M. Sunday School 12:30 P. M. B. Y. P. U. Society 6:45 P. M. Prayer Meeting Wed. 8 P. M. A WELCOME TO ALL MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY FORUM During summer months, meetings will be held on 1st Sunday in August at Bethesda Church; 1st Sunday in September at St. Peter A. M. E. Church. Sunday Forum Officers President, R. Skinner; Vicé Pres. Miss Eva Walker; Secretary, Webster Stovall; Asst' Secy; Miss Lady Walker; Treas. Mrs. I. S. Bogie; Critic, P. F. Hale; Journalist, Louis Marshall; Organist, Mrs. L. Sensabaugh; Chaplains, Rev. T. B. Stovall, Rev. T. J. Carter; Sergt at Arms, L. T. Jones. PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH. Cedar Street and Summit Avenue, ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA. Rev. Benjamin N. Murrell, Pastor. SUNDAY SERVICES 11:00 A. M. Preaching. 12:50 P. M. The Bible School. G. W. Willis, Supt. 6:45 P. M. B. Y. P. U. Mrs. Frances M. Murrell, Pres. 8:00 P. M. Preaching. WEDNESDAY NIGHTS. 8:00 P. M. Mid-Week Prayer Services FRIDAY NIGHTS. 7:00 P. M. Junior Choir Rehearsals. 8:30 P. M. Senior Choir Rehearsals. CHOICE CITY AND SUBURBAN PROPERTY FOR SALE ON SMALL MONTHLY PAYMENTS. Houses and Plats for Rent. B. M. McDEW, 802 Sykes Block. N. W. Nic. 621 Minneapolis DAN'S RESTAURANT 305 So., 3rd St., Minneapolis HOME COOKING My Spoalthy N. W. Main 2767 Daniel Williams, Prop. Those who are indebted to us will please forward a part of their subscriptions. "Times are hard" is the cry but we expect you to pay for this newspaper, as you do for others. They do not send you the daily white papers, unless you pay. CHOICE FURNISHED ROOMS. Two choice furnished rooms, suitable for a nice couple, and and wife, or two gentlemen. Apply to Mrs. E. A. Mitchell, 2020 5th Ave. So. Call So. 117. Two desirable front rooms in private family, comfortably furnished. Modern conveniences, bath, good location, near car line. Apply to 119 West. 39th St., Minneapolis. We solicit short opinions on general topics. It is peculiar that our people have no public opinions, everything is strictly confidential. Remember, we said, "Short opinions." When You Change. When you change, your address, notify your postman, or drop a slip Defective effective Page MODERN RIP VAN WINKLE RETURNS PRISONER TWENTY YEARS. Electronic Care, Autos and Women's Styles Amaze Pardoned Wife Slayer. Remembers Seeing Henry Clay Playing Game of Poker—Praise Warden Geborne's Mutual Welfare League. New York—George W. Cram, a modern Rip Van Winkle, awoke here after hibernating over twenty years near the foothills of the Catskills. But unlike his legendary predecessor, Cram's axle was involuntary. He has been a prisoner in Sing Sing and was the patrilarch of the grim prison's convicts. At eighty-five he was freed by a pardon from Governor Whitman after escaping death in the electric chair, to which he had been sentenced for killing his wife. On his return here the aged man, who despite his years, was known in prison as "Kid" Cram, rode for the first time in an automobile and an electric train. A long drawn "A-h-i!" was the only exclamation he uttered as he emerged from the Grand Central station and gazed with bewilderment at the busy scenes. "Gosh, how it's grown!" he said as soon as he got his breath. "That's one of the electric street cars, eh? They are big things, all right. Gee, when I went away they had just got cable cars, and we thought them wonderful." Cram had left the prison after bidding goodbye to all his old cronies and the officers at Sing Sing. On the train the old man became reminiscent. "The old rum is no good for any one," he said, "and my advice to a boy is don't take your first drink. I remember my first drink, all right. It was way back in 1848, on a Mississippi river steamboat. "I was a young lad then, and I saw Henry Clay playing a game of poker with some other men. He took me between his knees and gave me his 'hand' to play. After it was over he gave me his glass of wine to drink. I don't remember whether I won the game or not, but I know I've played many games since then. "Say, boys," he began suddenly, veering his conversation to Sing Sing. "Warden Osborne's Mutual Welfare league is the greatest thing that was ever instituted in a prison. When I first went into the prison it was a hell on earth. Now it is a paradise." Reverting to his own case, he said: "When I was fighting in the Indian campaign near the California line in 1846 I was hit in the nose with an Indian musket. I think that old wound was the direct cause of my trouble. You know, I served in three wars—the Mexican Indian and civil wars." "I had been out of work for some time and I began to worry. After that I don't remember a thing, until I woke up to find I had been in the death house at Sing Sing for over a week and was under sentence of death for killing my wife. I never quarreled with my wife." Cram took a walk along Fifth avenue before going to the home of his granddaughter. "Gee," he whispered, "how the women dress nowadays! In my time they would have been locked up if they went about with as little clothes on as that. "I don't think I'll go down to Coney Island yet. It's thirty-five years since I was there. I'm going to California after a few days here. I haven't been there since the days of '49." Cram was given $10 when he left Sing Sing. He had earned one and a half cents per day. "I sent that to my family." he said. "Altogether I earned $138 while I was there. I think they ought to pay convicts a dollar a day. They earn it." ALLIGATORS' BILL Worries the Town Council of Anderson, Ind. Anderson, Ind.-Two small alligators, each about three feet long, but nearly twenty-five years old, are causing the city water department some concern because of their meat bill, although the cost has averaged not more than $20 a year. The last bill just presented for meat was $15, and because that bill was for only one feed City Clerk-Collins and City Comptroller Richter were astonished. It was explained, however, that the alligators had fasted since October last. It is regarded doubtful whether the alligators will again manifest hunger until next spring, but the records show that perfectly good meat for the two alligators has cost the city about $400. Marion, Ind.-John Dinkle, arrested for vagrancy, told the police he had not taken a bath for seventeen years. When he was turned over to O. P. Wright, shefft, it was directed a bath he given the man. Trusties of the jail applied soap and brushes, with the result that Dinkle received a scouring he will remember for some days. FIFTEEN YEAR HUNT TO END. MAN OF GREAT INFLUENCE. Captain G. E. Farrand's Widow to Be Declared Legally Dead. Denver.—Mrs. May Spencer Farrand, second wife of the late Captain Charles E. Farrand, U. S. A., retired, who mysteriously disappeared fifteen years ago, may soon be declared legally dead in order that the captain's estate may be settled. The only heir the attorneys for the estate have been able to find is Mrs. Louise A. Ryder of New York city, daughter of Captain Farrand by his first marriage. A nation wide but futile search has been made for Mrs. Farrand for fifteen years by war department officials, federal secret service men and attorneys, since she left Avada, a Denver suburb, shortly after her husband's death. Neither relatives nor friends have since heard from her. Success of the Rev. Richard Carroll of Columbia, S. C. By GEORGE F. KING. Columbia, S. C.—Thousands of people of both races throughout Texas and Arkansas taxed the large auditorium of churches in those states to hear what hundreds of the most representive people of these states said were the ablest and most instructive lectures to men and women that have been delivered in Texas and Arkansas for many years during the recent tour of that great South Carolinian, the Rev. Richard Carroll. He gave lectures of vital importance to the race in his characteristic manner, brimful of practical advice and inspiration, which have made him a man of national import. For twenty years he has been known as a gifted lecturer and preacher. "Unless Mrs. Farrand is found in a few weeks, Public Administrator Woodward said, "she will have to be declared legally dead, and the captain's fortune will go to the only help we have been able to locate, but if she is found half of the fortune will go to her." MAY LOSE CITIZENSHIP. Status of Baltimoreans Fighting in Europe is In Doubt. Baltimore—A question of law may arise if the young Baltimoreans now fighting in Europe, John Poe, John Sydney Howell, Alexander Godby and Martin D. Monaghan, attempt to return to their native land. It is held by the department of labor that by taking up arms they have expatriated themselves. This was the finding in the case of Frank Caswell of Harrison Me, a trooper of the Canadian contingent, who attempted to come home, but was held up by the authorities on the ground that he had ceased to be a citizen of the United States. Local officials declare that a different light may be thrown on the subject when it becomes known under just what conditions these young Balti moreans enlisted. If they awe ablegiance to the flag under which they aspired to fight the course ceased to be citizens of the United States, but there appears to be doubt as to just what the foreign powers exact of their recruits. Forest, Cal.—The spectacle of an old man, eighty-five years of age, fitting himself out as a prospector and taking his blankets into the hills after sixty years' vacation from the same sort of work proved interesting to the residents of this old mining camp. What made the incident more interesting was the fact that the prospector is a wealthy man and has no need for any more of this world's goods. The stranger is James C. Chase, who mined in the head waters of Jim Crow canyon in the early fifties and who took out enough to enable him to live in comfort among his relatives ever since. He took his "pile" and later invested in the rich apple district in Washington and recently came to California to visit the fair. The call of his early life rang in his ears, and he could not resist the temptation to cover the ground where he made his fortune in his younger years. Chase was not so successful in his first day's panning as he was in the fifties, but was delighted when he found color in his pan. "I think I could show some of you old miners a trick in this business yet," said Chase to some of the men who have been mining here with indifferent success for years. The old man does not look more than sixty and says he can stand camping as well as any man of any age. There are few in this old mining town who really remember the old man as a youngster of twenty-five who made a good "cleanup" and left here in 1855. BLIND BASEBALL FAN. John Moore of Decatur, Ill., Has That Distinction. Decatur, Ill.-John Moore of this city has entered the competition for the distinction of being the most confirmed baseball fan of the country. Moore is blind, but is not depending upon that infirmity to bring him any advantage over his rivals. The prize to go with the distinction is a ticket admitting the holder to any ball game between professional teams in this country or Canada. Moore has a strong claim to the title and is prepared to submit evidence, as conclusive as practicable, that he has not missed a game at Decatur, which is a member of the Three I league, in eight years. Say Dan Cupid is Losing Columbus, O. - Cupid's business in Ohio was all shot full of holes last year. Little Dan trapped only 47,000 Ohio pairs in the year ending April 1, 1915, according to figures given out by Secretary of State Hildebrand. And that's 2,561 pairs fewer than were wedded in Ohio in the previous year and 300 fewer than 1912, when the population was much smaller. TWIN CITY STAR Success of the Rev. Richard Carroll of Columbia, S. C. By GEORGE F. KING. Columbia, S. C.—Thousands of people of both races throughout Texas and Arkansas taxed the large auditoriums of churches in those states to hear what hundreds of the most representative people of these states said were the ablest and most instructive lectures to men and women that have been delivered in Texas and Arkansas for many years during the recent tour of that great South Carolinian, the Rev. Richard Carroll. He gave lectures of vital importance to the race in his characteristic manner, brimful of practical advice and inspiration, which have made him a man of national import. For twenty years he has been known as a gifted lecturer and preacher and has by his remarkable ability and style reached thousands of his race and turned their activities into channels of higher usefulness. During his recent tour, which closed with unprecedented success, it was proved, as it has been wherever he labored, that he is a born leader. This fact looms up largely in South Carolina, where even Ben Tillman is in the saddle and says: "No colored man in the state has the influence with all classes of white people that Carroll has. He has the influence and co-operation of the best people in the state." United States: Minister W. E. Gonzales, in Cuba, is among the many white men who pay tribute to his character. In his common sense way he takes a stand for right and does not once compromise with the enemies of his race. There are very few Afro-Americans in any part of the country who can register their opinion in no uncertain tones before an audience in the south as this remarkable character, who is often invited to address audiences of the most influential southern white people. His experiences in trying to bring about an amicable relationship between the races, especially in this state, are strikingly interesting. His peculiar frankness in dealing with this all important race subject and dynamic force of personality and sincerity have placed him high in the estimation of the best people of both races, and there is no man in South Carolina who can command the co-operation on the part of every element of Afro-Americans as can the Rev. Mr. Carroll. His life has been devoted to philanthropic movements, and his charitable endeavors are signally evidenced by giving his life for destitute children and contributing his finances for the education of a large number of them. Another phase of his activities is the finding of homes for the homeless. The colored farmers of South Carolina have found in him every quality of a leader, and as an attestation of this fact is the most excellent support given him in every movement he has launched, especially the South Carolina state fair, of which he was the organizer and first president, and the Batesburg fair, Batesburg, S. C. These fairs are remarkable evidences of the Negro's achievements and aspirations and have elicited nation wide comment. The Rev. Mr. Carroll was educated at Benedict college, and spent one year in study at Shaw university. He was highly successful in the pastorate in Greenville, Alken and other rural charges in this state. For eleven years he labored assiduously as Sunday school missionary in South Carolina and Florida for the American Baptist Publication society, and the Baptist denomination work was made more effective in these states by him. When the Hispano-American war was declared Senator Tilliman made Mr. Carroll chaplain of the Tenth United States volunteers, and since that time the public demanded that he should labor among them in various sections of the south. The Rev. Mr. Carroll married Miss Mary Simma, the first graduate of Benedict college. By this marriage he has four children—Dr. Ruth Carroll, Professor Barnabas R. Carroll, Seymour and Mary Crozer Carroll, Mrs. Carroll labored with him until her death. In 1914 Mr. Carroll married Miss Cordie J. McDaniel of Laurens, S. C., who is also a graduate of Benedict college. LOVE OF MANKIND. The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing farthest, has the deepest love for mankind. He who sees without loving is only showing his eyes in the dark—Maurice Maeterlack. In thy crusse of comfort falling Scanty fare for one will often make a royal feast for two—Eliza Charles. In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty—Froude. 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This announcement was made recently after an inspection by Mr. Williams from the office of the state superintendent of instruction. This result is one which the C. K. and I. department, under Superintendent William A. Joiner, has been working for a number of years. The course was formerly too short to place the school on the accredited list, but it was finally brought up to the required standard. Graduates of the normal department are new entitled to four years' provisional certificate without examination, and after twenty-four months of successful teaching they are entitled to a life certificate good in thirty-five states. Now that the state department of public instruction has given this department full recognition as one of the state's authorised institutions for training teachers, the legislature of Ohio has determined to properly equip the normal and industrial department for its work. The legislature, which recently adjourned its session, made liberal appropriations for this department of work at Wilberforce. There will be erected shops, a building, a gymnasium, water system, hospital and a radiation building. These additional buildings will make Wilberforce one of the best equipped plants among the institutions for Negro youths. In the past five years the normal and vocational work at Wil伯力弗 university has been greatly strengthened under an increased faculty, and the work will be kept up to the standard. This institution also has the distinction of being the only Negro institution with a military department under direct charge of the United States government. Leutenant Benjamin O. Davis of the famous Tenth United States cavalry is military instructor. The normal and industrial department is under Superintendent William A. Joiner, formerly director of the teachers' training school of Howard university. Washington Professor Joiner is doing a splendid work at Wil伯力弗 university. He is a man well qualified for the position which he holds. Enough is Plenty. Most of us should be well satisfied if we haven't enough troubles to keep us awake—Albany Journal. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWSY missing it badly if you in your home a R BROS' ER PIANO TO THE BETAN MUSIC CO. SIXTH SIXTH STREET e today. Easy pay- may be arranged & HAGEMAN 77 NICOLLET AVENUE Fashionable Apparel at popular Prices RESSES, WAISTS, SKIRTS, GLOVES, HOSIERY and UNDERWEAR OPENED UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT THE DAYTON HOTEL Phone N. W. Nlc. 1505 1205 SO. WASHINGTON AVE. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. First Class Conveniences. Reasonable Rates, by Day, Week or Month.' RAILROAD MEN PREFERRED GOOD WORK OF THE LINCOLN SETTLEMENT FOR CHILDREN. Worthy Brooklyn Institution Buccada, Though in Need of Funds. The management of the Lincoln settlement on Fleet place, Brooklyn, is very much encouraged over the playground facilities for the children of the neighborhood. The grounds were inspected recently at a public function held at the settlement and were pronounced by expert social workers to be up to the mark in both management and equipment. The institution has had a hard struggle for the past five years. The immediate friends of the settlement have been loyal to it and have given liberally of their time and money for its maintenance. About eighteen months ago an appeal to the public was made for funds with which to carry on the work. The response was quite generous. Through the efforts and influence of the officials a sufficient sum was raised to put the building in first class condition, making more room and better facilities for taking care of the large number of children. The building is under the direct supervision of Dr. V. Morton-Jones, a well known and capable physician and social worker. Mrs. Jones has created great interest in the work and won many friends to its support. She is assisted by other competent women in looking after the various details in connection with the day nursery, games, etc. Funds, however, are needed, and the public of Brooklyn and any other cities is asked to aid in this worthy work for the little ones of our race. The white people have been very generous toward the institution from its inception. The building is located at 105 Fleet place. The officers of the Lincoln settlement are: Miss Mary White Ovington, president; Dr. Henry Neumann, first vice president; Dr. William M. Brundage, second vice president; Mr. W. D. C. Field, treasurer, 224 Henry street; Mrs. Francis A. Wilson, secretary, 45 Sidney place. Georgia's Educational Color Line Law. In discussing the matter of white teachers in schools for colored people at the south the New York Evening Post wisely says: "Both races will profit by the close relationship, and no one will profit more than the white people of the south, for to them the Negro question is much more important than it is to the northerner. At the same time it is a national problem, and if Georgia writes this law on her statute books she will offend not only herself, but the whole country, by taking a step toward the complication and not toward the solution of the problem." EWSY. THE TWIN CITY STAR PUBLSHED EVERY FRIDAY BY CHARLES SUMNER SMITH, 305—So. Fifth Street. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Entered in the Post Office at Minneapolis as second class matter. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION Subscription by Mall, Postpaid. ONE YEAR ..... $2.00 SIX MONTHS ..... 1.00 THREE MONTHS ..... .65 Hamlet B. Rowe, Asst. Manager. ADVERTISING RATES. 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The cost of building the breakwater and of protecting the entrance channel to the harbor may reach $3,526,000. The records show that during the past ten years 131 lives have been lost and $2,500,000 worth of shipping has been destroyed off the Hatteras section of the Atlantic coast. With the opening of the Panama route and the consequent increase of shipping that will move across Hatteras the providing of a refuge for shipping below the region of the notorious marine graveyard has become imperative. In recent years football went through a reform period and in the refining process eliminated almost entirely the brutalities which twenty years ago were supposedly absolutely essential to the development of the sport. Practically all unnecessary roughness has been taken out, and manners and methods on the field have been revolutionized. Coaches have discovered that the club which coaches its men to harry the opposing team and resort to roughness not contemplated in the rules loses both time and efficiency as compared with a club that sticks closely to business. Wise trainers tell their men to ignore all attempts of opponents to provoke them to anger and even advise players to take abuse and blows without retaliation, because no team can play football and carry on a fight at the same time. Some clearsighted business men are saying that local business depressions reported to exist are not fairly traceable to direct results of the European war. Eating and getting clothed, buying and selling, go on here just the same. But the war condition, especially in view of uncertainty as to when and where it will stop, makes the merchant investor cautious and conservative. Sharp changes of value are to be expected. Whether by a slump or a boom is a wild gamble. City tourists through the fruit growing regions have had an object lesson in seeing stuff rotting in the orchards for which they would pay fancy prices at home. Nothing can be done about it now except bear the fact in mind until the time comes to co-operate in banishing the evil. The president of China says that none but a fool wants to be emperor. But, Mr. Kai, republicansim should teach the subject that it is his duty to be at the call of his country for any role where he can serve best and under whatever commission is handed him. More and more the idea is expressed that this country will be rich and prosperous when war impoverished Europe is out for loot, gun in hand. Then why put temptation in Europe's way by parading our wealth? If one-half that Carranza and Villa say of each other is the truth our watchful waiting policy will require an injecting of ginger in it before Mexico can pacify itself. An authority on the cotton trade, the Cotton Gazette of Liverpool, points out that the exports of American cotton to a certain group of north Europe neutral countries increased the last cotton year over the preceding 1,253,520 bales. The figures show increase from 80,800 bales to 1,333,300 bales. The question at issue is whether this increase directly or indirectly benefited one group of belligerents to the detriment of the other group. Sweden, Holland, Norway and Denmark were the countries benefited, in this order. Sweden importing 710,800 bales aga'nst 29,000 the year before and Holland 486,820 against 84,130 the year before. The big increase may be due to shrewd speculation, for it is conceivable that the commodity might be cheap in the United States, yet be scarce and very dear when wanted over there. Again, these countries may now manufacture for home consumption goods formerly bought abroad and may even be selling in markets formerly absorbed by countries now at war. The problem seems too big to be solved justly through ex parte proceedings by one interest involved. The majority of the people of this country have long stood for a firm peace policy and for small armament. When the present crisis is passed opinion may revert with greater force than ever to old ideals. The lesson of the world war serves to emphasize war's horrors and the blessings of peace. Theoretically the civilized world stood for peace up to 1914. Now England, France and Russia are preparing to fight to the bitter end, and Italy frankly avows that she fights for territory. It is not likely that the Teutons will inaugurate and head a peace movement, so the world is practically committed to the policy of strife. In recasting our thought as to armament it is well to take into account the world's reactionary trend today and whether our geographical isolation is a guaranty of immunity. The drift from country to town continues, and that alarmingly in some of the older states. The call of the shop and factory with work and a pay envelope for father, mother and boys and girls has much to do with the hegiras, although country dullness must be taken into account. The telephone, auto and machine music have done much to atone, but there is yet room for improvement in making country life more attractive. A few widely separated railroads and good wagon roads show what communications will do for the inland regions. Good roads will people the solitudes, but no roads will leave even garden lands uninhabited. Boadbuilding philanthropy would not be a waste of money. Very often people wonder where our slang phrases or expressions originate. In many instances they may be traced to the classics. For example, "Nobody home," a passing favorite, is a mangled extract from the lines of Alexander Pope, one of the greatest of English purists: You beat your pate and fancy wit will come; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. What might have been had the big war found Russia and England prepared is a favorite theme for speculation and preachment. But it should not be overlooked that one or both might have used up their preparedness in fruitless preliminary wars and perhaps be worse off than at present. It speaks well for the agricultural industry of this country that 60 per cent of the farms are worked by their owners, that 80 per cent of the farms owned are free from encumbrance and that of those owned as investments 40 per cent are unencumbered. Business men and others training at the Plattsburg and Fort Sheridan camps should brace themselves to the fact that these affairs are not holiday outings for real soldiers, but the routine thing, year in and year out. Carranza has been talking about a peace "absolutely undesirable" to his party. Perhaps one absolutely desirable to the rest of the world will be established, leaving the Carranzaists to "grin and bear it." Military training is going on in this country at the pace held abroad a few years ago and for the purpose alleged over there-national defense. Do you get that, Europe? Many a worrying along golfer realizes after the tournament trophies have been handed out that at least he has acquired some clubs and flannel trousers. The appropriation for airships of three of the belligerents in $150,000,000. That's surely going some for the mere toy of the faddists a few years back. All the governors and many ex-governors are ready to help defend the country. "Fall in, governors' company!" After war is reformed what next for the good people, to keep them busy? TWIN CITY STAR ABLE STUDENT IN RESEARCH WORK Instructor at Livingstone College Spends Profitable Time In Studies at Famous New York University—Makes Good Impression on Both Faculty and Students at Summer School. BY JOHN B. BRUCE "GRIT." Professor J. E. K. Aggrey of Livingstone college, Salisbury, N. C., who during the vacation season was a summer student at Columbia university, has been giving the faculty and his fellow students in this great university some tangible evidences of the truth of Dr. Arthur MacArthur's statement—vis. "The Negro is born to scholarship." Professor Aggrey's industry as a student, his splendid optimism, his large faith in God and in himself and his dogged determination to excel in whatever he undertakes to do have won for him the respect and admiration of his professors and his fellow students, many of the latter being southern white men and women who gladly acclaim the force of his genius and scholarship. In appreciation of his ability as a clear thinker and of his intimate knowledge of the habits and customs of the people of the west coast of Africa, of whom he himself is a native son, having been born on the Gold Coast, which has produced many able and capable men, such as J. Men sah Savbah and Caseley Hayford, lawyers of the first rank in the colony, his instructor in sociology, Professor F. H. Giddings, selected him during the recent session of the classes to submit a thesis for the seminar course in sociology. He selected as his theme "Liberia-A Brief Sociological Study," which was a comprehensive and illuminating discussion of the social, religious, industrial and commercial customs of the Liberians. Professor Aggrey cited many instances to show the great humanity of the native African, his high moral character, his respect and reverence for native law, his keen sense of justice, his respect for womanhood, detestation of strong drink and his devotion to his marital vows. Rape, divorce and lynching are unheard of on the west coast save as the news of these things is brought into Africa by the American or English papers. Another thesis submitted by Professor Aggrey before his class in psychology, of which Professor Bisch is instructor, was, "Course In Educational Psychology and Advanced Course For Supervisors, Principals and Physicians;" also an intensive study in the diagnosis and treatment of exceptional children and men. On the study in eugenics the professor showed, quite to the satisfaction of his hearers, that the Africans have the larger knowledge of eugenics—a science as old as their civilisation. He alluded to the work of the Poro and Bunda societies, which is scientifically exact to the smallest detail. For a thousand years or more the African people have known and appreciated the value of eugenics and have practiced it in the development of men and women who are as physically perfect as it is humanly possible for them to be. There are no insane or inebriate asylums, no homes for the feeble minded children or adults on the west coast of Africa because they are not needed. Miss Mary Kingsley, who lived among the Africans and in whose honor the African society of London was organized, it is said, was so favorably impressed with the splendid work which the black women of the Bunda society were doing that she sought to become identified with it. But this had to be denied her because she was white. No white man or woman possesses any first hand knowledge of the methods employed by either of these societies to give sound and healthy bodies to human beings. John C. Calhoun, who at his birth was attended by a black midwife and nursed at the breast of a black mammy, had more brain and more personal magnetism than a dozen Tom Dixons or ex-Governor Bleases. There's a reason, but we won't tell. It is gratifying to know that a member of the race has made such an enviable record in one of the greatest universities in this country that not only his classmates, but his professors, look upon him as an exceptional man, a painstaking and industrious student, a modest and refined gentleman, whose quiet and unassuming manners are indications of greatness and mental powers of a rare order. Professor Giddings in a letter to the writer of this article, speaking of Mr. Aggrrey, says: "He is a man of ability and ideas. His record at Columbia has been excellent. He should do important work for his race. I shall be much disappointed if he does not." I think I can safely tell this distinguished author and educator that he will not be disappointed in this particular young African if his life be spared, for he has mapped out his work, and nothing save the grim reaper will prevent him from doing it, and doing it well. 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 altogether for today; it is for a vast future.—Abraham Lincoln. SIX GOOD REASONS Why You Should Join The National Association, for the Advancement of Colored People. 1. It teaches that race prejudice is the most evil thing in the world today and that "Jim Crow" cars, race segregation, anti-intermarriage laws and all other manifestations of it are unchristian and cruel efforts of the stronger to oppress the weaker. 2. 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