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MINNEAPOLIS Minn. Historical Society DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST.PAUL Defective Page VOL. 5 Single Copies 5 Cents DILIGENT WORKER FOR METHODISM Fine Record of Dr. J. C. Caldwell as a Minister. POPULAR WITH THE MASSES How the Secretary of the Allen Christian Endeavor League Has Increased the Membership of This Department of the A. M. E. Church—May Be Elevated to the Episcopacy. Nashville, Tenn.—No department of the African Methodist Episcopal church will receive more attention at the general conference, which meets in Philadelphia in May, 1916, than the Allen Christian Endeavor league, of which the Rev. J. C. Caldwell, D. D., is the corresponding secretary. This department of the A. M. E. church is devoted to the religious training of the young people of the denomination. Dr. Caldwell was born in Chapel Hill, N. C., but in his youth his parents moved to Philadelphia, where he got his foundation for an education. He attended the public schools of Philadelphia, graduating from the manual training school. He felt that he was called to the work of the gospel ministry, and with that end in view he made ample preparation. He was licensed as a local preacher by the Rev. J. M. Palmer, presiding elder in the Philadelphia annual conference. He took up the study of oratory and elocution in the National School of elocution and Oratory in Philadelphia under Professor J. W. Shoemaker. In this line his ability asserted itself, and many were the predictions made concerning his future which he have true. Later he entered Wilberforce university with the determination to further REV. DR. J. G. CALDWELL. prepare himself for his life's work. He studied diligently and made his classes year after year, graduating in 1896. Coming out of school, Dr. Caldwell reported to the Missouri conference, then being held at Springfield, Mo. Bishop B. T. Tanner, recognizing in the young minister rare ability, sent him to Jefferson City, Mo. It was his first real charge, but he took hold of it like one who had been in the ministry for a quarter of a century. He made many friends in his new field, serving two years, and was afterward sent to Springfield, the place where he had entered the conference. Two years were spent in Springfield, and then he was assigned to the church at Lexington, Mo. Each year the young minister made more friends, and his reputation as a minister spread throughout the state. He found the people of Independence, Mo., asking for him, so the presiding bishop assigned him to that charge, only to remain one year. Dr. Caldwell was then assigned to the largest charge in the north Missouri conference, Ebenezer A. M. E. church, St. Joseph. Mo. He went there to stay until removed by the limitation or by elevation to some other charge, and it was the latter that took him away. During the five years in St. Joseph he paid off the mortgage debt, which had been standing, for some time, and then installed a pipe organ at a cost of $2,000. Many members were added to the church, and improvements were made in the church edifice. In May, 1908, Dr. Caldwell went to the general conference held in Norfolk, Va., and was elected to his present position. He has brought it into recognition among the organizations of Christian young people throughout the denomination. He is a life trustee of the United Society of Christian Endeavor, being one of the six representatives of our race. At each session of the league he is given the highest consideration and recognition. When he was placed at the head of the Allen Endeavor league eight years ago he found 600 societies throughout the entire connection. This number has increased until now there are 4,215 societies with an approximate membership of 150,000. It is this work and the real worth of Dr. Caldwell which commend him to the next general conference to be held in May, 1916, at Philadelphia. It is expected that in recognition of his worth and work he will be elevated to the episcopacy, which will be a well earned reward. AMBITION OF SARAH MAYS. Young Disciple of Woman Suffrage Aspires to Legal Profession. New York.-The following story of the activities of Miss Sarah Mays as a student of political science, woman suffrage leader and representative-young woman of our race is given in the New York Evening Post. A recent issue of the Post says: A colored woman who can go into the Italian districts of the east side as well as non-Italian districts of Fifth and Madison avenues and convert the people there to woman suffrage on the strength of the arguments that woman suffrage will mean for the people of New York city better conditions for working people is showing real ability. A colored woman who does this very thing is Sarah Mays, twenty-three years old, of Washington square south. And her summer's work is preparing her for the law course which she is to begin this fall at the New York university as well as showing that she has the sort of ability which she needs to begin such a course. She has no idea of taking the full three years for it either. She got through her college courses at Oberlin and the University of Wilberforce before she was twenty and with the elementary law lessons which she has had now hopes to be through law school in a year or two and at her serious job of looking after the interests of any and all women, black or white or whatever color, who may need her help. "I want to be a lawyer because every person has a vocation which belongs to him," she says, "and mine is to argue points with people and convince them and to try to help better the conditions of working men and women and to do everything I possibly can for unfortunate women. When I first got out of college I thought I would be a teacher, for I love children. But that is not my vocation. My vocation is to argue points. "There are 8,775,772 women and children," she says, "who are drudging in this country from 8 in the morning until 6 at night. Of these, 2,860,940 are little girls between the ages of nine and twelve and 350,140 from twelve to fifteen. They are the women of tomorrow. They will be uneducated, unskilled laborers, unfit to be mothers, and will bear the sort of children for whom the state will have to care. If women had the vote such conditions of woman and child labor would not exist. Men cannot pass laws for women. No man can pass a law for me. I will pass my own law. "There are 1,288,117 women from forty-five to seventy-five years old who are working every day and supporting others. Shouldn't they have a vote? They should." As Miss Mays pounds out her statistics into her open left hand with the closed fist of her right hand, as her voice rings clear and convincing, no one can longer wonder how it is that the Italian districts of the east side have become so completely convinced by her arguments. Also she is against the money of the country going toward what she calls militarism, the keeping of a large navy or army. "The money should go toward educating the people and making them skilled laborers," she says. "Peace would come if women had the vote, for they would not allow so much money to go toward armaments, I do not want absolute disarmament, but I want no more army and navy than we have now. If we are ready for war we shall have war. The money is needed for educating the people to do their work well. Our own people must be skilled, and we must stop drawing our skilled laborers from the other countries entirely." Fast and Slew. The Father—I learn with sorrow, my son, that you are getting to be what they term quite fast. The Son—You shouldn't believe all you hear, dad, I'll introduce you to a man who will tell you another story. The Father—And who is he? The Son—My tailor. He says I'm the slowest chap he's got on his books. READ THE STAR-IT'S NEWS! the Races." It is her purpose to secure babies representing every race and nationality on earth and rear them as brothers and sisters in a huge establishment which will be equipped with every comfort and convenience her immense wealth can provide. It will be an object lesson to the world of "the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man." Fisher Writes Moving Picture Drama. Mr. Isaac Fisher, the well known essayist of the Tuskegee (Ala.) institute, has recently written a moving picture drama entitled "When True Love Wins." All persons who are to take part in the production of the play are members of our race. Presbyterians to Meet in Pittsburgh. Much interest is being manifested in religious circles at Pittsburgh over the annual meeting of the Council of Presbyterian Ministers, to be held at the Grace Memorial Presbyterian church, Pittsburgh, the early part of October. The Rev. Charles H. Trusty, minister of the above named church, and his parishioners are making ample preparation for the entertainment of delegates and visitors, who are expected to attend in large numbers. SEGREGATION IN EDUCATION FOSTERS RACE PREJUDICE, Philadelphia Tribune Sees Danger In Stressing Vocational Training. The Philadelphia Tribune sees danger in the putting of too much stress on vocational training for colored youth as against the opportunities offered for academic or higher education. The Tribune says: At the Thomas Durham public school, Sixteenth and Lombard streets, the largest segregated school in this city, it has been definitely settled that the introduction of vocational training for at least 400 of the 1,200 pupils that attend that school will begin next January. If the experiment succeeds a similar course will in all probability follow in each of the fourteen separate schools throughout the city. While the gradual return of the distinctive segregated schools in this city seems inevitable, there seems to be a growing sentiment, nevertheless, on the part of a large majority of colored citizens in opposition to the continual growth. They view it with alarm, and many regard the proposed innovation of vocational training as a direct blow at the aspiration for higher education and a more general acceptance by them in the north of Dr. Booker T. Washington's idea that industrial education is best for at least the next century. The intelligent people of color know that separate schools are breeders of race prejudice; that such schools serve to create a spirit of disrespect in the mind of one class for the other. The question is asked and even now awaits an answer. How may one foster the spirit of genuine good will between classes educated in separate schools? The division of classes, or races, if you please, in so called public schools is not only unfair to the taxpayer, white and colored alike, because it is bound in due season to increase their burdens, but it also gives an impetus to race prejudices. The intelligent colored citizen travels and observes that in every city where the separate school system is in vogue race hatred has grown apace. Doubtless intelligent white citizens know this to be true and are anxious to do everything in their power to encourage the growth of race hatred, hence are desirous of adding any feature in the public school curriculum that tends toward that end. Whether or not the system begun in this city in 1881, when the law enforcing the creation of mixed schools was passed, has been a success or failure after an experiment of a quarter of a century seems not to be the question, but rather it seems to be the thought of the school authorities to fit the colored boy and girl for work, as they realize how exceedingly difficult it is for the colored youth after graduation to obtain, in the open competition of trade, such occupational relation society as will give him a chance to earn a livelihood. But even after graduation the colored youth who has been given the chance to work alongside of the white boy at his trade has a better opportunity to demonstrate his ability and build up a strong line of friendship with members of the dominant race than he could possibly have in a segregated school. Marries Five Hundred Couples. Home, 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. MRS. CAREY PLANS GREAT MEETING OBJECT OF THE GATHERING Representatives of Over Twenty Nationalities Hear Noted Educators and Social Workers Discuss Topics of Much Human Interest—Mrs. Blahp to Start "Garden of the Races." Chicago.—A great international interracial woman's meeting, conceived by Mrs. Elizabeth D. Carey, wife of Rev. Archibald J. Carey, was held in Chicago recently. Mrs. Carey presided with grace and dignity. The following acted as honorary vice presidents: Mrs. Edward F. Dunne, wife of the governor of Illinois; Mrs. William Hale Thompson, wife of the mayor of Chicago; Mrs. Samuel Fallows, wife of Bishop Fallows; Mrs. M. F. B. Waring, M. D. M.; Mrs. Susan Joergen-Dahl Gehrman, Mrs. George W. Ford, Mrs. L. Brackett Bishop, Mrs. James A. Pugh and Mrs. Robert R. Jackson. The stage was artistically draped with the flags of all nations, and grouped on the stage were representatives of more than twenty nationalities. The Eighth Regiment band started the exercises by playing "America," and then Mrs. Carey made the opening address, which was delivered in her hapest vein. She paid an eloquent tribute to the progressive colored women who are leading in the fight against segregation and other injustices. She called attention to the fact that the colored people of the United States, though sometimes erroneously called Negroes, are really a much mixed people and have the commingled bloods of many races and nationalities flowing in their veins and have all the promptings for freedom and justice which animate the Jew, the German, the Pole, the Bohemian, the Irishman, the Swede, the Italian, the Japanese and the various other groups with whom they are allied by ties of blood. The United States is the melting pot, and, willy nilly, the various nationalities are being fused into one harmonious whole. They are learning to live together and respect each other. In the coming years, when the dress has been eliminated from the pure metal, there will step forth superhumans, and, no matter what the color may be, they will be Americans. The subjects and those who discussed them were: "Ethical Teaching in the Public Schools," Miss Gertrude E. English, district superintendent Chicago public schools; "The Woman's Club Movement," Miss Harriet E. Vittum, Chicago Woman's club; "The Social Settlement," Miss Mary McDowell, University of Chicago Social settlement; "Religion," Mrs. Hannah G. Solomon, National Council Jewish Women; "Christian Organizations," Mrs. Daniel H. Williams; "Peace Conferences," Miss Emily Napalerski, Polish Women's alliance, delegate to The Hague; "Woman's Civic Evolution," Miss Hallie Q. Brown, Wilberforce university, National Federation Colored Women; "The Press, the Stage," Mrs. Ann A. Schaedler, national bureau advancement patroltism; "Personal Intention," Miss Kate Meade, Illinois chairman Irish History; "Unity of Language," Mrs. Lester D. Lockwood, department of W. F. W. H. S., "The Protection of Immigrants," Mrs. Vittoria Licel, Italian Immigrants' Protective league; "Protection From Mob Violence," Dr. Mary Fitzbatter Waring. Remarks were made by Miss Somsuni of South Africa, Mrs. Shilmaw of Japan, Miss Flora Nihagian of Armenia, Dr. Marie Schwartz of Bohemia and others. Miss Hallie Q. Brown made a stirring speech, denouncing the petty prejudices of the United States, and aroused her hearers to the highest enthusiasm when she exclaimed, "I am an American, not a problem." Beautiful soles were rendered by Mine. Anita Patti Brown and Mrs. Martha Broadus Anderson. At the conclusion of the exercises the people present joined in a social reception. It was an unusual sight even in cosmopolitan Chicago to see the representatives of so many races, nation alities and creeds meeting together and enjoying pleasant social converse in amity. An event not on the program was the presentation of a beautiful fan with a string of amethysts to Mrs. Carey, who presided, by the ladies who participated in the program. This affair was managed by Mrs. L. Brackett Bishop, a woman of great wealth, who is about to start a unique establishment to be known as the "Garden of RURAL CAMPAIGN FOR EDUCATION ACCOMPLISHES MUCH GOOD Major Robert R. Moton and Party of Distinguished Citizens Receive Warm Welcome at Every Point on Tour of Northern Neck—Interest in the Movement Increases. Hampton, Va.—The Negro Organization Society of Virginia recently concluded a successful campaign through the Northern neck in the interest of "better health, better schools, better farms, better homes." This was the third Virginia campaign. It showed clearly that white and colored people alike are waking up to the importance of public health, education, economic prosperity and wholesome home life. President Robert R. Moton and his party of race leaders were everywhere received most cordially. In the region between the Rappahannock and Potomac rivers, embracing Northumberland, Lancaster, Richmond, Westmoreland and Essex counties, there are many colored people living in attractive and well kept homes, which they own, and worshiping in MAJOB ROBERT R. MOTON. large modern churches which are in charge of well prepared and respected preachers. The Negro Organization society during its five day campaign was welcomed by more than 5,000 colored people and by the best white people who realize the importance of maintaining friendly race relations. The largest meeting was held in a white camp meeting ground that had been loaned by the white people. Several meetings were held in courthouses and theaters. Among the white men who delivered addresses were Judge Chinn and Superintendent Blake T. Newton of Richmond county, Hon. C. C. Baker, commonwealth attorney of Westmoreland county, and the mayors of Rappahannock and Fredericksburg. President Moton, who is also commandant of cadets at Hampton institute, brought home to the audiences of white and colored people the great advantages that come to the colored people from living in this country, especially in Virginia. He pointed out the many opportunities for acquiring property and securing employment. President John Hope of Morehouse college, Atlanta, Ga., was pleased with conditions he observed as he traveled from county to county and declared that he could use some of the Virginia methods in his work among the colored people of Georgia. President Hope made a strong plea for the home training of Negro youth. T. C. Erwin, the field agent of the Negro Organization society, through whose efforts the arrangements for the trip had been perfected, summarized the year's work, which included aiding and improving all schools, starting teachers' institutes, the co-operation of the Virginia state board of health with colored leaders, the signing of thousands of health pledge cards, the conducting of a successful cleanup week campaign and the raising of money for the Industrial Home School For Wayward Girls. W. T. B. Williams, a graduate of Hampton and of Harvard, who is now serving as a field agent of the Jeanes and the Slater boards, outlined the progress of Negro conditions during the last decade and pointed out the need of training boys and girls to take care of the property which their mothers and fathers had already acquired. Rev. A. A. Graham, pastor of Zion church, W. eebus, Va., pointed out the gains that have come to the colored people of Virginia through working with the officers and members of the Negro Organization society. The party included Major R. R. Moton, Captain Allen Washington, and W. T. B. Williams of Hampton institute, F. D. Wheelock of Hampton, Rev. A. A. Graham of Phoebus, Thomas C. Walker of Giocester Court House, W. E. Robinson of Essex county, W. H. Crocker, Suffolk; T. C. Erwin, Petersburg; Rev. L. L. Downing, Roanoke; Dr. Norman Lasister, Newport News, and President John Hope, Morehouse college, Georgia. SWANN TO MAKE STATEMENT. Secretary of Chicago Expedition WILL Give Ruble. Full Information. The Illinois Half Century and Lincoln Jubilee exposition held recently in Chicago scored a new record in the line of national celebrations marking the first fifty years of the freedom of the colored race in America. It is a rare thing for an undertaking of this kind, which costs many thousands of dollars to operate, to end successfully without having a deficit, as is true of the Illinois exposition, according to the latest report of the commissioners. There were some unfortunate disagreements between the managers and their employees, but not sufficiently strong enough to make any feature of the celebration a failure. The charge said to have been made against the secretary of the commission by one of the members in regard to a money matter was afterward denied by one who made it, and the commission proceeded with its work in an orderly manner. The governor of the state was president ex-officio of the commission, which was headed by the well known Bishop Samuel Fulloys, who has expressed great satisfaction over the outcome of the celebration in its relation to the public on account of the character of the exhibits shown and the large attendance each day during the three weeks in which the exposition was in progress. Secretary Thomas Wallace Swann says that at the proper time and in the proper way the whole truth regarding his actions as secretary of the commission will be made known. The commission had about $50,000 to its credit when the exposition opened, Sept. 22. The expense was necessarily heavy, but by using good business methods it will pay all bills and have a small balance left to its credit. IMPROVING RURAL SCHOOLS. Report of the Jeanes Fund Board Shows Great Achievements. The report of the Jeanes fund board for the past school year shows that it co-operated during the year with public school superintendents in 183 counties in fourteen states. The supervising industrial teachers, paid partly by the counties and partly by the Jeanes fund, visited regularly in these counties 3,463 country schools, making in all 17,312 visits and raising for purposes of school improvement $73,438. The business of these traveling teachers, working under the direction of the county superintendents, is to introduce into the small country school simple home industries, to give talks and lessons on sanitation and personal cleanliness, to encourage the improvement of schoolhouse and school grounds and to conduct gardening clubs and other kinds of clubs for the betterment of the school and the neighborhood. Mayor Thompson's Reply to His Critics. Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago in answer to those who criticise him for appointing colored citizens to office gives the following as his reasons: "Because the persons appointed were essentially fitted and qualified for the positions they were selected to fill. "Because, in the name of humanity, it is my duty to do what I can to elevate rather than degrade any class of American citizens. "Because during the pre-election campaign I gave you my word that if elected I would give you a square deal, and Bill Thompson keeps his word." Knights of Pythias Report Big Gains. The supreme lodge of Knights of Pythias, which held its recent meeting and encampment at Columbus, O., reported an enrolled membership of 250,000 and 87,000 members of the Court of Calanthe. The receipts since the last meeting amounted to over $500,000. 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 gel—Judge. SMOKE THE RELIABLE 5c SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR 5c sen, > "9? HOTADI ene ud HISTORI a 9. cee a AVY gon ee em i _— "7 oie ee pee ete ea 5 ne , gti ta.” ee aa] | Seats: Oe | A etter pax eR ¢ a % See ih, -<oe hee ; Bt Teo ee LD GAs ALIN SSG Retires vp, oe ees RT ne 3 ANS a i ty ae — 4 «VINER RODLS lg oe ~ 25 eer a 8 SOE NEN: oR Ty Sa, SY BES BI EA Gs PEVALROLL Oy) mM ETS rs) BYE Ph Tega” Nie - et OS PS vi RSE cg —— AT NY © Steg tee ri ee oh : eS Dr 3 ; . i REST. DULUTH 1 YG. Gf PAUL sure GRE LOE: Y O12" Za Go ; VOL. 5 Sirgle Copies 5 Cents MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. OCT. 9, 1915. No, 43 — TT | i tive Page | | | _| _ - | a | a Pecan sense ee! cestasesn if ae — DILIGENT WORKER FOR METHODISM Fine Record of Dr, u, 6. Cald- well as a Minister. POPULAR WITH THE MASSES How the Secretary of the Allen Chrie- tian Endeavor League Has Increased the Membership of This Department of the A. M. E. Church—May Be Elevated to the Episcopacy. Nashville, Tenn.—No department of the African Methodist Episcopal chureh will recelve more attention at the general conference, which meets in Philadelphia in May, 1916, than the Allen Christian Endeavor league, of which the Rev, J. 0. Caldwell, D. D., te the corresponding secretary. ‘This Gepertment of the A. M. B. church is devoted to the- religious training of the young people of the denomination. - Dr. Caldwell was born in Chapel Hill, N. ©., but.in his youth. bis par ents moved to Philadelphia, where. he got. his foundation for an education. ‘He attended the public schools of Phil- edeiphia, graduating from the manual training school. He felt that he was ealled to the work of the gospel min- tatry, and with that end in view he made ample preparation. He was Yicensed as. local preacher by the Bev. J. M. Palmer, presiding elder in the Philadelphia annual conference, He took up the study of oratory and location in the National School ot Biocution and Oratory in Philadelphis under Professor J. W. Shoemaker. In smany.-were. the predictions made con cerning his future which havecome true Later be entered Wilberforce univers! ty with the determination to further Vea 3 Se er prepare himself for bis life’s work. He stodied diligently and made bis classes year after year, graduating in 1896. Coming out of school, Dr. Caldwell Teported to the Missouri conference, then being held at Springfield, Mo. Bishop B. T. Tanner, recognizing in the young minister -rare ability, sent him to Jefferson City, Mo. It was bis first real charge, but he took hold of ft like one who had been in the minis- try for a quarter of a century. He made many friends in’his new field, serving two years, and was afterward sent to Springfield, the place where he had en- tered. theconference. Two years were ‘spent in Springfeld, and then he was on to the chureh at Lexington, ‘Bach year the young minister mgde more friends, and bis reputation as a miinister spread througtiout ‘the state. He found the people of Independence, Mo,, asking for, him, so the presiding Dishop ‘assigned him to that charge, only to remain oye year. Dr. Caldwell was then assigned to the largest charge fm the north Missouri conference. Bbeneser A. M: E. chureh, St. Joseph. ‘Mo, He went there to stay until re moved by the limitation or by eleva- thom. to some other charge, and it was the latter that took him.away. Dur- ing the five years in 8t. Joseph he paid off the:mortgage debt; which tied been standing. for some. time,-an@ then: in: stalled © pipe organ at a cost of $2,000. Many members. were’ added to the church, and improvements were made tn the church edifice, Tm May, 1908, Dr. Caldwell went to the general conference held in Nor tolls, Va., and was-elected to bis pres ent position. He has brought it inte recognition: among the organizations of. Christian young people throughout ‘the @enomination. He tea life trustee of the United Society of Christian Hn- eavor, being one of the six repre- sentatives of our race. At each ses- sion of the league he ts given the highest consideration and recognition. ‘When he was placed at the head of the Allen Endeavor league eight years ‘ago he found 600 societies throughout the entire connection. This number has increased until now there are 4,215 socteties with an approximate mem- Dership of 150,000. It ts this work and the real worth of Dr. Caldwell which commend him ‘to the next general conference to be held’ tn May, 1916, at Philadelphia. It ‘8 expected that in recognition of his ‘worth and work he will be elevated to the episcopacy, which will be a well earned reward. AMBITION OF SARAH MAYS. Young Disciple of Woman Suffrage ‘Aspires to Legal Profession. the activities of Miss Sarah Mays as a student of political science, woman suffrage leader and representative young woman of our race is given in the New York Evening Post. A recent issue of the Post says: A colored woman who can go into the Italian districts of the east side as well ‘@s non-Italian districts of Fifth and Madison avenues and convert the peo- ple there to woman suffrage on the strength of the arguments that woman suffrage will mean for the people of New York city better conditions for working people is showing real abil- tty. A colored woman who does this very ‘thing is Sarah Mays, twenty-three years old, of Washington square south. And her summer's work is preparing her for the law course which she 1s to begin this fall at the New York unt- versity as well as showing that she has the sort of ability which she needs to degin such a course. She has no idea of taking the. full three years for it either. She got through her college courses at Oberlin and. the. University. of. Wilberforce be fore she Was twenty and with the ele mentary law lessons which she has bad now hopes to be through law school in a year or two and at her serious job of looking. after the interests of any anc all women, black or white or whatso ever color, who may need her help. “1 want to be a lawyer because every person has a vocation which belongs t« him,” she says, “and mine ts to argue Doints. with people and convince then and to try to help better the condition of working men and women and to dc everything I possibly can for unfortu nate women. When | first got ont of college I thought I would be a teacher for Love children. But that is not m; vocation. My vocation Ix to argu points, “There are 8,775,772 women and chil Gren,” she says, “who are drudging {t this ‘country from 8 in: the morning antil 6 at night. Of these, 2,860,94¢ are little girls between the ages o! | mine and twelve and 350,140 fron | twelve to fifteen. They are the wo | man of tomorrow. ‘They will be un educated, unskilled laborers, unfit t be mothers, and will bear the sort o children for whom the state will hav tovcare. If women had the vote suc! ‘comditions of woman and child labo would not exist. Men cannot pass law: for women. No man can pass a lay forme. 1 will pass my own law. “There are 1,288,117 women from forty-five to seventy-five years old whi ‘are working every day and supportin others. Shouldn't they have a vote ‘They should.” As: Miss Mays pounds out her sts tistics into her open left hand with th closed fist’ of her right hand, as he yoice rings clear and convincing, one can longer wonder how it is tha the Italian districts of the east sid have become so completely convince by ber arguments. Also she ts agains the money of the country going tc ward what sho calls militarism, th keeping of'a large navy or army: “The money should go toward edt } eating the people and making ther ‘skilled: laborers,” she says. “Peac ould come if women bad’ the vot for they would not allow so mue money to go toward armaments. I d not want absolute disarmament, but ‘want no more army and navy than w | have now. It we are ready for wa we shall have war. ‘The money | needed for educating the people to d thetr work well. Our own people mu be skilled, and we must stop drawin | our skilled laborers. from the othe countries entirely.” Fast and Slow. * ‘The Father—I learn with sorror | my son, thet you are getting to t | what they term quite fast. | ‘The Son—You shouldn't believe « you hear, dad. I'll introduce you to '| man who will tell you another story. || ‘The Father—And who ia he? || ‘The Son—My tailor, He saya I’m tt | slowest chap he's got on bis books ‘ eke eheeeeneaee: READ THE 8STAR—ITS NEW? MRS. CAREY PLANS GREAT MEETING Wife of Rew. Dr. Lk J. Garey Shows Fine Leadership, OBJECT OF THE GATHERING Seolal Workers Discuss Topics of | Much’ Human Interest—Mrs. Bishop te Start “Garden of the Races.” Chicago.—A great international inter: racial woman's meeting, conceived by Mrs, Elizabeth D. Carey, wife of Rev. Archibald J. Carey, was beld in Chi cago recently. Mra. Carey presided with grace and dignity. ‘The following acted as honorary vice presidents: Mrs, Edward F. Dunne, wife of the governor of Illinois; Mrs. William Hale ‘Thompson, wife of the mayor of Chi- cago; Mrs, Samuel Fallows, wife of Bishop Fallows; Mrs. M. F. B. War ing, M. D.; Mra. Susan Joergen-Dahl- Gehrman, Mrs. George W. Ford, Mrs. L, Brackett Bishop, Mra. James A. Pugh and Mrs. Robert R. Jackson. ‘The stage was artistically draped with the flags of all nations, and group- ed on the stage were representatives of more than twenty nationalities. ‘The Eighth Regiment band started the exercises by playing “America,” and then Mrs. Carey made the opening ad- dress, which was delivered in her hap- Diest vein. She paid an eloquent trib- ute to the progressive colored women who are leading in the fight against segregation and other injustices. She called attention to the fact that the colored people-of-the United. States, though sometimes erroneously called Negroes, are.really a much mixed peo- ple and have the commingled bloods of many races and nationalities fowing im their veins and have all the prompt- ngs for freedom and justice which antmate the Jew, the German, the Pole, the Bohemian, the Irishman, the Swede, the Italian, the Japanese and the vari- ous other groups with whom they are allied by ties of blood. ‘The United States ts the melting pot, and, willy nfliy, the various na- tionalities are being fused into one harmonious whole, They are learn Ing to live together and respect each other. In the coming years, when the dross has been eliminated from the pure metal, there will step forth super. humans, and, no matter what the color may be, they will be Americans. ‘The subjects and those who discuss. ed them were: “Ethical Teaching In the Public Schools,” Miss Gertrude B. English, district superintendent Chica. go public schools; “The Woman's Club Movement,” Miss Harriet EB. Vittum. Chicago. Woman's club; “The Social Settlement,” Miss Mary McDowell University of Chicago Social settle ment; “Religion,” Mrs. Hannah G. Bol omon, National Council Jewish Wom en; “Christian Orguntizations,” Mrs. Daniel H. Williams: “Peace Confer ences,” Miss Emily Napleralskt, Polist Women’s altiance, delegate to The Hague; “Woman's Civic Evolution,’ Miss Hallie Q. Brown, Wilberforce unt | versity, National Federation Colore¢ Women; “The Press, the Stage,” Mrs Anna M. Schaedler, nationat bureat | advancement patriotism; “Personal Ini tative,” Miss ‘Kate Meade, Iilinol: ‘|chairman Irish History; “Unity 01 Language,” Mrs. Lester D. Lockwood | department of French, W. P. H.'8. || “The Protection of Immigrants," Mrs | Vittoria Licct, Italan Immigrants’ Pro tective league; “Protection From Mol | Violence,” Dr. Mary Fitzbutler- Waring Remarks were made by Miss Som sunst of South Africa, Mrs. Shimavt ,|of Japan, Miss Flora Nthagian of Ar | menta, Dr. Marie Schwartz of Boheml: ,| and others. Miss Haille Q. Brow: || made a stirring speech, denouncing th ) pet prejudices of the United States ; ‘aroused her hearers to the highes ,| enthusiasm when she exclaimed, “I an -| an American, not a problem.” Beautt ;| ful solos were rendered by Mme. Ault || Patt Brown and Mrs, Martba Broadu | Anderson. 2 | At the conclusion of the exercises th +] people present joined in a social recep tion, It was an unusual sight even I cosmopolitan Chicago to see the rep Tesentatives of so many races, natior *| alities and creeds meeting together an ’| enjoying pleasant social converse 1 amity. 1} Am event not on the program wa , | the presentation of a beautiful fa: with a string of amethysts t> Mr Carey, who presided, by the ladies wh , participated in the program. This af fair was managed by Mrs. L. Bracket Bishop, a woman of great wealth, wb fs about to start a unique estabiiet 1 ment to be known as the “Garden « ae SO It is her purpose to secure babies fepresenting every race and national ity on earth and rear them as brothers and sisters in a huge establishment which will be equipped with every fomfort and convenience her immense ‘wealth can provide. It will be an ob- ect lesson to the world of ‘‘the father. hood of God and the brotherhood of man.” Fisher Writes Moving Ploture Drama. Mr. Isaac Fisher, the well known es- sayist of the Tuskegee (Ala.) institute, has recently written a moving picture Grama entitled “When ‘True Love “Wins.” All persons who are to take pert in the production of the play are members of our race. Presbyterians to Mest In Pitteburgh. Much interest is being manifested in religious tircles at Pittsburgh over the annual meeting of the Council of Pres byterian Ministers, to’ be held at the Grace Memorial Presbyterian church. Pittsburgh, the early part of October ‘The Rey, Charles H. Trusty, minister of the above named church, and his Parishioners are making ample preps- ration for the entertainment of dele ‘gates and visitors, who are expected to attend in large numbers, ————— SEGREGATION IN EDUCATION | FOSTERS RACE PREJUDICE, Philadelphia Tribune Sees Danger In ‘Strensing Vocational Training. ‘The Philadelphia Tribune sees danger in the putting of too much stress on yoeational training for colored south de against the opportunities offered for academic or higher education. The ‘Tribune says: ‘At the Thomas Durham public school, Bixteenth and Lombard streets, the argest segregated school in this city, It has been definitely settled that the Introduction of vocational traning for, ‘tt least 400 of the 1,200 pupils that attend that schoo! will begin next Jan- uary. “If the expertment succeeds a similar course will in all probability follow In each of the fourteen separate schools throughout the city. ‘While the gtadual return of the dis- Unctive segregated schools In this city seems Inevitable, there seems to be a growing sentiment, nevertheless, on the part of a large majority of colored citizens in opposition to the continua! growth. They view it with alarm, and many regurd the proposed Innovation of vocational training as a direct blow at the aspiration for higher education and a more general acceptance by them In the north of Dr. Booker T. Wash ington’s Iden that Industrial education Is best for nt least the next century, ‘The intelligent people of color know | unat separate schools are breeders of race prejudice; that such schools serve to create a spirit of disrespect in the | mung of one class: for the other. ‘The question fs asked und even now awalts an answer, How may one foster the | spirit of genuine good will between classes educated in separate schools? ‘The diviston of classes, or races, if you please, in so called public schools ts not only unfair to the taxpayer, white and colored alike, because it is bound in | @ae season to increase thelr burdens, but it also gives an impetus to race prejudices. ‘The intelligent colored citizen travels | and observes that tn every city where | the separate school system 1a in vogue | race hatred has grown apace. Doubt leas intelligent white citizens know this to be true and are anxious to do every: thing tn their power to encourage the growth of race hatred, hence are de atrous) of adding any feature in the public school curriculum that tends to- ‘ward that end. ‘Whether or not the system begun in this city in 1881, when the law enfore {ng-the creation of mixed schools was passed, has been a success or failure ‘after an-experiment of a quarter of 0 century seems not to be the question, but rather it seems to be the thought Of the school authorities to fit the col- ored boy and girl for work, an they realize how exceedingly difficult tt ts for the colored youth after graduation to obtain, in the open competition of trade, such cecupational relation to so cloty as *will give tim a chance to earn livelihood, But even after graduation the cotor ed. youth who has been given the chance to work alongside of the white boy at his trade has a better opporta nity to demonstrate his ability anc build up a strong line of friendshty with members of the dominant race than he could possibly have In a sex ‘heated acheol.. ? Marries Five Hundred Couples. Rome, Ga.—Rev. T. R. Hanson. who resides five miles from Cave Spring, in this county, hax reported to Ordinary Jobneon that he had Just solemnized the five hundredth marriage during his residence here. RURAL CAMPAIGN FOR EDUCATION Organization Society Visits Many Counties of Virginta, = 6000 Molednpulhed Givens Recsive Warm Hampton, Va.—The Negro Organtza- tion Soctety of Virzinla recently con- cluded a successtnl campaign through the Northern neck in the Interest of “petter health, better schools, better farms, better homes.” ‘This was the third ‘Virginia campaign. It showed clearly that white and colored people alike are waking up to the importance of public health, education, economic prosperity and wholesome home life. President Robert R. Moton and his party of race leaders were every where recelved most cordially. In the region between the Rappa: hannock and Potomac rivers, embrac Ing Northumberland, Lancaster, Rich mond, Westmoreland and Essex coun thes, there are many colored people liv. ing in attractive and well kept homes, Ee they own, and worshiping In oe ! Jarge modern churches which are in charge of well prepared and respected preachers. ‘The Negro Organtzation society dur. Ing Its five day campaign was. wel- comed by more than 5,000 colored people and by the best white people, who realize the {importance of main taining friendly race relations. The largest meeting was held in a white camp meeting ground that had been loaned by the white people. Several meetings were held in courthouses and theaters. Among the white men who delivered addresses were Judge Chinn and Superintendent Blake ‘T. Newton of Richmond county, Hon. ©. C. Baker, commonwealth attorney of Westmore- land county, and the mayors of Rappa- hannock and Fredericksburg. Prestdent Moton, who is also com mandant of cadets at Hampton instl- tute, brought home to the audiences ‘of white and colored people the great advantages that come to the colored people from living in this country, especially in Virginia. He pointed out the many opportunities for acquiring property and securing employment. President John Hope of Morehouse college, Atlanta, Ga., was pleased with conditions he obsetved as he traveled from county to county and declared that he could use some of the, Vir ginia methods in his work among the colored people of Georgia. President Hope made a strong plea for the home training of Negro youth. ‘T. ©. Erwin, the fleld agent of the Negro Organization ‘society, througt whose efforts the arrangements for the trip had been perfected, summarized the year's work, which included aiding and improving all schools, starting teachers’ institutes, the co-operation of the Virginia state board of health with colored leaders, the signing of thou sands of health pledge cards, the con ueting of a successful cleanup weel campaign and the raising of money fo the Industrial Home School For Way ward Girls, W. T. B, Williams, a graduate of Hampton and of Harvard. who is nov ‘serving as a field agent of the Jeane ‘and the Slater boards, outlined thé progress. of Negro conditions during the last decade and potnted out thé need of training boys and girls to take care of the property which their moth- ers and fathers had already acquired. Rev. A. A. Graham. pastor of Zion ebureh, Phoebus. Va., pointed out the gains that have come to the colored People of Virginia through working with the officers and members of the Negro Organization society. ‘The party included Major R, BR. Mo- ton, Captain Allen Washington, and W. T. B. Williams of Hampton tn- stitute, F. D. Wheelock of Hampton, Rev. A. A. Grabam of Phoebus, Thom- as ©. Walker of Gioucester Court House, W. E. Robinson of Essex coun- ty, W. H. Crocker, Suffolk; T. ©. Br win, Petersburg: Rev. L. L. Downing, Roanoke; Dr. Norman Lassiter, New- port News, and President John Hope, ‘Morehouse college, Georgia. SWANN TO MAKE STATEMENT. Seoretary of Chicago Exposition Will Give Public Full Information. ‘The Illinols Half Century and Lin- coln Jubilee exposition held recently tn Chicago scored a new record in the line of national celebrations marking the first fifty years of the freedom of the colored race in America. It is a rare thing for an undertaking of this kind, which costs many thousands of dollars to operate, to end successfully without having a deficit, as is true of the Tilt nols exposition, according to the latest report of the cominissioners. ‘There were some unfortunate disa- greements between the managers and their employees, but not sufficiently strong enough to make any feature of the celebration a failure. ‘The charge said to have been made against secretary of the commission by one of the members in regard to a money mat- ter was afterward denied by one who made it, and the commission proceed- ed with its work In an orderly man- ner, ‘The governor of the state was presi- dent ex-officio of the commission, which was headed by the well known Bishop Samuel Fallows, who has expressed great satisfaction over the outcome of the celebration tn its relation to the public on account of the character of the ‘exhibits shown and the large at tendance each day during the three weeks in which the exposition was in progress. Secretary Thomas Wallace Swann says that at the proper time and in the proper way the whole truth regarding his actions as secretary of the commission will be made known. ‘The commission had about $50,000 to its credit when the exposition opened, Sept. 22. The expense was necessarily heavy, but by using good business methods it will pay all bills and have ‘a small balance left to its credit. IMPROVING RURAL SCHOOLS. Report of the Jeanes Fund Beard Shows Great Achievements. ‘The report of the Jeanes fund board for the past school year shows that it co-operated during the year with pub- Ue school superintendents in 188 coun- tles in fourteen states. ‘The supervis- ing industrial teachers, paid partly by the counties and partly by the Jeanes fund, visited regularly in these coun: tes 8468 country schools, making in all 17,812 visits and raising for par- poses of school improvement $78,498. ‘The business of these traveling teach- ers, working under the direction of the county superintendents, is to introduce into the small country schoo! simple home industries, to give talks and lee- sons on sanitation and personal clean- Yness, to encourage the !mprovement of schoolhouse and school grounds and to conduct gardening clubs and other kinds of clubs for the betterment of the school and the neighborhood. Mayor Thompson's Reply to His Critics. Mayor William Hale Thompson: of Chicago in answer to those who erits else him for appolnting colored citisens to office gives the following as his rea- sons: “Because the persons appointed were essentially fitted and qualified for the positions they were selected to fill. “Because, in the-name of humanity, ‘it 1s my duty to do what I can to ele- ‘vate rather than degrade any class of American cttisens, “Because during the pre-election cam- paign I gave you my word that if elected I would give you a square deal, and Bill Thompson keeps his word.” Knights of Pythias Report Big Gains. The supreme lodge of Knights of Pythias, which beld its recent. meeting and encampment at Columbus, O., re- ported an enrolled membership of 250,- 000 and 87,000 members of the Court of Calanthe, The receipts since the Jast meeting amounted to over $500,000. Opposite Views. Nell—Papa says that it's “Come easy, 60 easy” with money. Do.you find tt 80, Jack? Jack—Not on your life! I ab ways found that it came bard—and certainly seems bard to see it gol Judge. SMOKE THE RELIABLE Sc SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR | Sc MINNEAPOLIS NEWS. 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 Print, 305 So. 5th St. Patronize those business houses, who request your patronage through your paper. 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! "ELECTION STOLEN?" "Election Stolen?" is G. L. Morrill's subject at the People's Church, New Garden Theatre Sunday 10:30 A.M. Hawaiian songs by Prince Lei Lani, travel movies and pipe organ recital. 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. REV. CARTER IN COLUMBUS. Rev. T. J. Carter, former pastor of Bethesda Baptist Church of this city has been appointed as temporary pastor of the Second Baptist Church at Columbus, O. He resides at 389 Galloway Ave. The Ohio Baptist State Convention, composing the Minister's Woman's and B. Y. P. U. Conventions will meet there this week. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Mack, 3505 Bryant Ave., gave a dinner in honor of her father, Mr. Ennis Mack, of St. Louis, Mo., this week. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Trevan, Mrs. Sexton and daughter, Mrs. Nora West, Mr. and Mrs. Stevens of St. Paul and Mr. Pink Stradford. Rev. Henry Allen Boyd passed through the Twin Cities, Wednesday night, but did not stop over, he was called to Nashville on business. Mr. Arthur E. Wynne, formerly of Springfield, O., is conducting the undertaking business of Mr. O. A. Lawrence during his absence. Mr. J. Edgar Murphy, a clerk in the St. Paul post office, was granted an absolute divorce from Mrs. Lucretia Zenobia Murphy on Oct. 5, 1915. Atty. W. T. Francis, represented Mr. Murphy. Mr. B. M. McDew has temporary closed his barber shop in the Boston Block on account of failure to secure another year lease. He had a gaad location and his shop was one of the best in the city. 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. Mr. Robt. Canty will open a restaurant in connection with his hotel at 1205 Washington Ave. So., on Tuesday. He is a well known chef and those who wish good restaurant service will do. well to give him their patronage. Mr. and Mrs. John Monroe of 3633 Snelling Ave., gave a dinner at their home Monday evening. Sept. 27th in honor of Miss Amy Smith of La-Crosse, Wis. Mr. St. Elmo Vinizar, the barber, is now at Jones & Bell's Barber Shop, where he will be glad to serve his former patrons. Mrs. Leona Mason Giles of Pillsbury Ave., is one of the leading dressmakers and ladies tailors of her race in the city. Her workmanship is perfect. JUDGE JOHNSTON'S DANCES. 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. We must have authority to publish private affairs. Kindly sign all articles and enclose a stamp for reply. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION A MRS. VICTORIA CLAY-HALEY ```markdown ``` DON'T FAIL TO HEAR . Mrs. Victoria OF ST. LOUIS THE TALENTED IN In R ASSISTED BY SELLER St. Peter A. 9TH AVE. SO. AND 22 Friday Eve. Oct. 8 Refreshments will be served Mrs. Victoria Clay Haley OF ST. LOUIS, MO. THE TALENTED DRAMATIC READER ASSISTED BY SELECT LOCAL TALENT St. Peter A. M. E. Church 9TH AVE. SO. AND 22ND St., MINNEAPOLIS. Friday Eve. Oct. 8 Admission 25 cents Refreshments will be served by the Ladies of the Church. NOW FOR A LOVELY TIME at the GRAND AUTUMN PARTY Given by the Y. G. B. C.'s on THURSDAY EVE. OCT. 14TH at MASONIC HALL, 24th St. and 5th Ave. Music by Prof. Clarence Johnson. Clara Lucas, Pres., Rosella Sample, Sec., Eunice Sm COMMITTEE ON ARRANGEMENTS Leola Colman, Mattie Lucas, Ellen Lillian Thomas, Maydrew Cunningh COME AND HAVE A LOVELY TIME. WE PROM YOU. Refreshments Served Checking free Admissi DON'T FORGET THE DATE. THURSDAY EVE. OCT. 14TH at MASONIC HALL, 24th St. and 5th Ave. Music by Prof. Clarence Johnson. Clara Lucas, Pres., Rosella Sample, Sec., Eunice Smith, Treas. COMMITTEE ON ARRANGEMENTS Leola Colman, Mattie Lucas, Ellen Lucas, ..... Lillian Thomas, Maydrew Cunningham. COME AND HAVE A LOVELY TIME. WE PROMISE IT TO YOU. Refreshments Served Checking free Admission 35 Cents DON'T FORGET THE DATE. 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. Mr. J. H. Donaldson returned last week from a trip to Chicago and St. Louis. He has been in poor health and was greatly benefitted by his trip. 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? 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, and Publisher, Chas. Sumner Smith, Business Manager, Hamlet B. Rowe, Owners Chas. Sumner Smith and Catherine J. Smith, Minneapolis, Minn. Known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders, holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities: None. (Signed) Chas. Sumner Smith. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st day of October, 1915. Brown S. Smith, Notary Public, Hennepin County, Minn. My commission expires Sept. 16, 1922. (Notarial Seal.) FOR RENT—Two-room flat, 3509 Chicago Ave. $7.00, Modern. F. Peoples Realty Co., Nic. 2188. ADVERTISE HERE, IT PAYS. --- --- Clay Haley LOUIS, MO. DRAMATIC READER Recital ECT LOCAL TALENT M. E. Church ND St., MINNEAPOLIS. Admission 25 cents by the Ladies of the Church. VE. OCT. 14TH at 24th St. and 5th Ave. Clarence Johnson. Sample, Sec., Eunice Smith, Treas. ARRANGEMENTS e Lucas, Ellen Lucas, ... Maydrew Cunningham. Y TIME. WE PROMISE IT TO DU. ing free Admission 35 Cents ET THE DATE. You Are Invited to JUDGE JOHNSON'S Grand Fashion Ball UNION TEMPLE HALL at 28 Washington Ave. So. Thursday Night, Oct 14 THIRD 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. REVIVAL SERVICES AT PIL GRIM. Rev. B. N. Murrell, pastor of Pilgrim Baptist Church, has arranged for a two weeks' series of revival meetings, commencing Sunday, Oct. 3, which will be held afternoon and evening. Rev. Harper of Youngstown, O., who, as an able conductor of evangelistic services, will conduct the meetings. The city has been divided into districts, and efforts are being made by earnest workers to advertise the revival and by personal interviews interest the public. THE HOUSING PROBLEM "Where can I get an apartment? is a serious question among us today. There are many restrictions against Negroes as tenants in desirable places and many places undesirable for respectable Negro tenants. There are many strangers coming to our city, and they are unable to get decent locations. Something must be done. TWIN CITY STAR DULUTH CELEBRATES SIGNING OF EMANCIPATION PROC- LAMATION. Duluth, Minn., Oct. 1.—The fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation was celebrated last Wednesday evening at Owls' Hall, 413 West Superior street. Several hundred persons attended the meeting, and the exercises were patriotic and enthusiastic. Rev. L. M. Good, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, opened the exercises with an invocation, which was followed by singing "America." Mr. W. B. Richardson sang several solos. Mrs. Stephens Coles read a paper on the life of Phyllis Wheatley, Negro poet. Mr. Charles K. Scratchins, attorney of Bemidji, Minn., told of the uplift work which is now being done for the race, and Mr. George B. Kelly spoke on the sacrifices made by the population of the United States at various times. The program was concluded by the singing of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," and the "Star Spangled Banner." The hall was decorated with flags, bunting and picture of Abraham Lincoln. REV. HENRY ALLEN BOYD. Rev. Henry Allen Boyd and wife and their daughter, Miss Katie Albertine Boyd and Mrs. A. W. Pegues, wife of Rev. A. W. Pegues, Principal of the Deaf and Blind State School at Raleigh, N. C., passed through the Twin Cities Wednesday night. Rev Boyd and party have visited Omaha, Denver, Salt Lake, Los Angeles, San Diego, Fijiana, Mex., Oakland, Portland, Victoria, Vancouver, Spokane, Helena and spent a while in Fargo with Mrs. Boyd's relatives. Mrs. B. F. Cabbell, 2908 2nd Ave. S. is much improved after a severe illness. Mrs. Victoria Clay-Haley was the week end visitor of Mrs. W. R. Donovan, 2018 James Ave. No. She was the dinner guest of Mrs. Chas. Sumner Smith on Wednesday evening. Miss Essie Mason is on the sick list. The Majestic Club, one of the new clubs of the State Federation of Afro Woman's Clubs, met Thursday afternoon with Mrs. W. R. Donovan. Rev. T. F. Jones of Quindaro, Kan., will visit his kife, Mrs. Charlotte Jones and children next week. Rev. Jones is a brother of Mrs. W. S. Simmons, 1831 Clinton Ave. His family has been visiting her several weeks. Mrs. Clinton Borders, 1011 6th Ave. No., will return home next week from Chicago where she visited rel- atives. Mrs. Lottie Sensabough will return home next week from Chicago. Her husband will visit her this week. Mrs. J. A. Williams, 2808 10th Ave. So., will spend several days visiting Mrs. Markus Harris at Anoka. Mr. J. W. Merriday is improving after several weeks serious illness. He is under the care of Dr. Brown and resides with Mr. Andrew Hurt, 1311 6th Ave. No. His friends hope his speedy recovery. Miss Maydrew Cunningham is very ill at her home, 2819 Chicago Ave. Messrs. Dan'l W. Raynor, vocalist and Leon Abbey, violinist will render select solos at Mrs. Haley's Recital on Friday night. The Young Girl's Club will give another dance at Masonic Hall on Oct. 14. Remember their last big success. Now, get ready for their Grand Autumn Ball. The dance given Election Night at Union Temple Hall by those "Three Jolly Fellows"—Eddie Boyd, Ewing Shannon and Lee Wheeler, was well attended and a big success. What have you done to aid this publication? We are often called on to insert notices of those who "never subscribe to Negro papers." Are you guilty? 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." Subscribe to your local weekly paper—The Twin City Star is the only legal Negro newspaper in Minneapolis and it has received the support of the general public. We need more subscribers—to make a better paper. When your name appears as being one of these "worthy of mention," try and have it appear on our books as a paid-up subscriber. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWS SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION PRIEST Pastor of St. Peter A. M. E. Church, Returns from Chicago Annual Conference. Rev. T. B. Stovall has returned to his former charge after a visit to the Conference held at Milwaukee last week. He reports a successful meeting and is well pleased with the showing made by his church. Mrs Minnie Neal represented the Woman's Mite Missionary Society and made a very creditable report. Mrs. Victoria Clay-Haley is the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jose H. Sherwood of 971 St. Anthony Ave. She will leave for her home in St. Lous next week. Mr. Osa A. Lawrence, left Monday for Oxford, Ohio, to attend the funeral of his father. Mrs. Robert A. Anderson of 718 Bryant Ave. North has returned from Louisville, Ky., and Chicago having visited the National Baptist Convention and the Exposition. Mrs. Anderson reports that in her estimation the Exposition was one of the greatest events of the age. Mrs. B. S. Smith of Oakland Ave., returned Tuesdafay from Anoka, where she spent a week with Mrs. C. C. Jackson. Mrs. James A. Yancy of Maple Plain, was the guest of Mrs. Ada Englehardt, 525 No. Bryant Ave., where a birthday dinner was given by Miss Yancy in honor of her borer, Mr. John Morris on Oct. 3, which was a very enjoyable affair. Mrs. Lloyd Walker, 2609 4th Ave. So., is improving at her home after a severe illness. She was formerly Miss Virginia Lee of this city. Bro. Dan. Williams filled the pulpit very creditably at St. James A. M. E. Church during the pastor's absence. Rev. D. C. Beasley has accepted the call of Bethesda Baptist Church as temporary pastor. J. B. Coleman is the owner and proprietor of a successful steam laundry n Columbia, Missouri. He is said to employ fifteen persons regularly. Anderson & Company, Bankers, of Jacksonville, Florida, recently conducted a "Tag?Day" to increase the number of deposits at their bank. The plan was a success and nearly one thousand accounts were opened. Mr. Charles H. Anderson, the Cashier, is also Treasurer of the National Negro Business League. James R. Lowe who is engaged in the general hauling business at Pasadena, California, was recently given a contract by the city for removing all the rubbish from the streets. Plans are said to be perfected for the building of a $100,000 hotel in Indianapolis to be owned and operated by Negroes. Isaac Fisher, the noted Tuskegee writer and essayist, has recently written a maving picture drama entitled, "When True Love Wins." The production will be made by Negro actors. The Hamilton-Brown Shoe factory at Columbia, Mo., is said to employ a number of Negroes in responsible, well-paying positions. J. Turner Wall, Esq., who is well known here, where he conducted a real estate office, attended the Business League Meeting in Boston. He is now manager of the Coast Service System at Asbury Park, and is making as usual a success. Mrs. Wm. Helm had the only Minnesota Exhibit at the Chicago Exposition. Miss Joyce Dorsey has accepted a position as music teacher at San Antonio, Tex. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION. ADVERTISE HERE, IT PAYS. 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. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH. 7th Ave. North and Hoag St. Rev. M. W. Withers, 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; Vice Pres., Miss Eva Walker; Secretary, Webster Stovall; Ass't 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 DAVN, MINNESOTA 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. 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South between 40-46th Sts. South. Prices from 350 to 500 dollars each, that I will sell from 10 to 25 dollars down and 5 and 10 dollars per month. F. People, 325 5th*St. South.-Advertisement. When You Change When you change 'your address, notify your postman, or drop a slip containing your name, new and old addresses, in the mail (without postage) and you will get your newspaper and other mail forwarded to you. WHEN IN THE TWIN CITIES Be Sure and Visit WOODSEY JEMISON'S PLAGE COSMOPOLITAN CAFE AND GRILL 40 E. THIRD ST., ST. PAUL Railroad Men's Headquarters Night and Day Phone Cedar 9128 Defective Page REVIEW OF WORK AMONG WOMEN Possibilities For Their Rise Were Never Brighter. FACTOR IN NATION'S LIFE. Interesting Story of What the Women of Our Race Are Doing Through Organization For the Elevation of the Masses—Foundation Must Rest Upon Character. Brooklyn—Now that the various state federations of colored women's clubs have held their annual sessions and another year's work is to be planned it behooves the women to be up and doing. At no time in the world's history have there been greater possibilities of facilities for women's activities. The progress of races is determined more by the development of the women than by any other advancement. Women everywhere realize this and are spending and being spent for the uplift of the masses as never before. Colored women are keenly alive to their potentiality and are making heroic efforts in the development of a stronger and more substantial womanhood. Instead of persecutions of the colored women discouraging them, they have strengthened them, so that those of culture and ability have constituted themselves into moral, mental and intellectual derricks for the purpose of pulling up the women farthest down. They feel it their imperative duty to stimulate the woman who lacks an incentive to give impetus to latent or slumbering talent. They no longer sit on the summit of fame overlooking the ruins of neglected womanhood, but realize as they ascend they must lift MISS ELIZABETH G. CARTER. as they climb. They believe that women are to be the lever with which the world must be lifted. Kingdoms will rise or fall in proportion as woman uses her influence. Nations will ascend or descend in the scale of civilization in proportion as woman deports herself. The most hopeful sign of racial development is that which begins within the race. Less than twenty years ago the colored women caught the vision, and it is leading them on to the perfect day. The National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, of which Mrs. Booker T. Washington is president, with an approximate membership of 50,000; the Northeastern Federation of Women's clubs, of which Miss Elizabeth Carter of New Bedford, Mass., is president, with its thousands of members, and our own Empire State federation, 5,000 strong, Mrs. M. C. Lawton of this city president, are all united in heart, concentrated in purpose and marching in a solid phalanx to the tune of advanced womanhood. The one thing which characterizes the women's organizations throughout the country and distinguishes them perhaps from some others is that they are more directly concerned about character building than any other feature. They feel that a woman of moral worth will experience no difficulty in becoming a financial factor. Besides, they feel that the morality of the women of any race must be its cornerstone if succeeding generations are to build successfully on the foundation as laid. Unless the pedestal upon which the statue of the race must rest is properly constructed it will crumble and fall. The colored women all over this country have opened the drafts of their hearts that the fire of love may burn more brightly and that its rays may be a lamp to the feet and a light to the pathway of unfortunate womanhood. That their consciences have been quickened and their convictions deepened is evidenced in our great city by the establishment of the Empire Friendly Shelter for unfortunate girls in Manhattan and the proposed establishment in October of a home for delinquent colored girls. The constant infux to this great city from south and the immigration from foreign countries are placing before the women of New York a problem which must be reckoned with—one which, if not carefully studied, will become so intricate and complicated as to render it insoluble. Our social problems are engaging the attention of the best minds in the country, and certainly must appeal to us if we are to be reckoned with as an integral part of this great and advanced civilisation. 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 80,300 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 719,080 bales again 29,050 the year before and Holland 486,820 against 34,130 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. Roadbuilding 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 STORY OF HAITI AND ITS PEOPLE PARADISE OF THE ANTILLES inhabitants of Country Made Famous by the Heroic Deeds of Toussaint L'Ouverture Indicate Desire to Establish More Friendly Relations With the Race In America. By THEODORE STEPHENS. Cape Haitien, Haiti—Situated between the two Americas, at the entrance of the gulf of Mexico, stands the well known island of Quisqueya, which was discovered by Columbus on Dee. 6, 1492. It is a land of rivers and high mountains, a land of plenty, a land where nature is lavish in her generosity, a land that accommodates itself to all classes—from the peasant to the bourgeois—where the beggar in his hovel could be made quite as contented with his lot as a Caesar on his throne. It is a land which the Creator has in mercy given to the race of Ham for a patrimony, to have and to hold from the year A. D. 1804 and henceforward, as was Canaan of old to the twelve tribes of Israel; a land where all sons of Ethiopia are monarchs of all they survey and their rights to self government there is none to dispute. This small but independent republic, whose sons on certain occasions have shown themselves the worthy descendants of that satute statesman, that irreproachable knight, that Napoleonic warrior, Toussaint l'Ouverture, of whom his biographer said, "Cet homme fait une ouverture partout ou il passe" ("This man makes an opening wherever he passes").—Vle de Toussaint l'Ouverture). These scions of a worthy ancestor, who it should be remembered to their THE GARDEN OF THE TEMPLE TEMPLE EMBROIDER BY THE BLACKES OF HAITI TO COMMEMORATE THEIR INDEPENDENCE. credit, notwithstanding the debit side of the ledger of their national life, have given proof of their valor in helping to liberate Venezuela from the yoke of Castilian bondage, have a parcel of ground allotted them, which from its geographical position, its temperate climate, its well watered plains and its natural resources could be converted into a veritable "Paradise of the Antilles." It can be made to yield proportionately to its owners and masters all that the state of California yields to the United States of America—gold in abundance—by the establishment of various industries all over her domains. Like Lazon, Haiti is capable of yielding large crops of sugar, which would find a ready export market. Like certain tributary dependencies, this land of the "blacks" is well qualified to produce immense quantities of fax and hemp, and to all the world Haiti could contribute substantially from her mercury and other mines, from her dyewoods, from her forests of building timbers, for architectural purposes as well as for railroad ties, ship building and cabinet work. In this way or along these and other lines Haiti could be worked up into a country of usefulness and abundance. where the sons of toil would under their own vine and fig tree find a veritable refugium peccatorum from the odium of the "all white" peril. But Haiti has not yet arrived at this point. She will, however, develop along the same human lines as did Albion before she could become the England of the twentieth century. Her civil wars will end just as surely as terminated those of the old Picts and Scots, and her development will in time grow and progress, as have those of the sturdy Anglo-Saxon of today compared with his heathen ancestor, the druid of yore. Haiti is a land with which the Negro-Americans should in the interest of the race, in the interest of their history, become acquainted. They should become acquainted with its people, the Haitians, their brethren; with their customs and habits, with the salubrious climate of this fruitful land and above all with its exports of coffee, cocoa, sisal, mahogany, cedar, dye woods, etc. This can easily be done by communicating with the writer, who is a member of the race and has lived on the island for twenty-two years. Tucker Truss and Appliance Co. High Grade Trusses, Surgical Appliances, Elastic Hosiery. Abdominal Supporters, Etc. The very best in Quality and Intelligent Service. 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Graduates of the normal department are now 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 authorized 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 recitation 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 Wilberforce 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. Lieutenant Benjamin O. Davis of the famous Tenth United States cavalry is military instructor. The normal and industrial department is under Super intendent William A. Joiner, formerly director of the teachers' training school of Howard university. Washington Professor Joiner is doing a splendid work at Wilberforce 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 NICOLLET AVENUE Fashionable Apparel at regular Prices DRESSES, 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 Successed. 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." ```markdown ``` PUBLSHED EVERY FRIDAY BY CHARLES SUMNER SMITH, 305—So. Fifth Street. Minneapolis, Minnesota. 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But I pass by, the glorious goal un- "Merely a Negro"—in a day like this! won, —James D. Corrothers in The Century. ATTY. SMITH PROTESTS AGAINST SEGREGATION. Atty. Brown S. Smith appeared before the Committee on the State of the Church at the Northern Minnesota Conference of the M. E. Church in session at Wesley M. E. Church last week in this city and presented the complaints of certain Negro members of the Methodist Church at Aitkin, Minn. This is the case which was caused by the segregation of these Negro members of the church and Sunday School. Much publicity was given relative to it in newspapers and also The Crisis. Atty. Smith says that "at this writing he has not received a report of the result of the deliberations of this Committee. MANY NEW SUBSCRIBERS. We are getting several new subscribers, thanks to the assistance of Mr. Hamlet B. Rowe, our new assistant. The Star has been published for over 5 years and it was awful hard to get even micorecre agents. Now that we are fortunate in having the valuable services of Mr. Rowe, we shall hope to give our readers a better paper each week. Lincoln Jubilee Celebration Closure. The Lincoln jubilee celebration, which closed at the Colleum in Chicago Thursday, Sept. 16, was a great success in almost every particular. That it was attended daily by throngs of people may be seen from the amount received for admission during the four weeks in which it was held. The receipts as given by those in authority amount to $13,000. On Wednesday, Sept. 15, the day Mayor Thompson visited the exposition and delivered an address. 5,480 persons attended, paying the sum of 25 cents admission. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION OUR SUCCESS IN MUSIC. James Reese Europe Gives Secret of High Standard Attained. New York—In reply to a correspondent of the New York Evening Sun who asked the question, "Why does society prefer the Negro musician?" Mr. James Reese Europe, the well known composer and orchestra leader, says: This is a question recently asked by one of your correspondents whose letter on the subject was the subject of editorial comment in a recent issue of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. If the Negro musician enjoys any preference at all he does not enjoy it solely because of his color. In this occupation, as in all other desirable ones here in America, the Negro's color is a handicap, and wherever he achieves success he does so in the face of doubly severe competition. In certain branches of his occupation the Negro musician has been successful—in furnishing entertainment at dinner parties, receptions and other social functions similar in character, and in furnishing dance music. For work of the former kind his services have always been in demand because of his unfalling good nature, his genial, kindly humor and his versatility. Until recently those who engaged in this work were for the most part untrained musicians who relied solely on their natural talents for success. In the last few years, however, a new type of Negro musician has appeared. His appearance is due to the widespread popularity of the so called modern dances and the consequent demand for dance music of which the distinguishing characteristic is an eccentric tempo. Such music usually takes the form of a highly syncopated melody, which in the early period of its development was known as "ragtime" music. Since the dance is born of music it is quite apparent that the modern dance is a creature of the syncopated melody. Thus a new field has been opened to musicians in which this new type of Negro musician has succeeded. His success has been due to his efficiency, and his efficiency is due to several facts. He is a natural musician and throws himself into the spirit of his work with spontaneous enthusiasm, so that the music rendered by a Negro orchestra rarely has the mechanical quality which is fatal to dancing. The Negro has a superior sense of rhythm, peculiarly adapting him for dance music. The art of playing the modern syncopated music is to him a natural gift. He excels in the use of the guitar, banjo and mandolin, instruments which now being generally adopted by orchestras playing dance music to obtain the "thrum-thrum" effect and the eccentric, accentuated beat so desirable in dance music, and he was the first to discover the availability of these instruments for such purpose. In addition to his natural talent in the above respects the modern Negro musician is well trained in his art. He reads readily, memorizes marvelously well, interprets naturally and not only understands the principles of technique in the use of his instrument, but is remarkably skillful in execution, as is to be expected when one considers that the Negro possesses a rare faculty for arts requiring physical skill. Perhaps it is fair to say that the Negro has contributed to American music whatever distinctive quality it possesses. Certainly he is the originator of the highly syncopated melody so much in favor today. It is therefore only natural that the Negro musician should interpret this music best. Some years ago in Cole J. Johnson's show, of which the writer was musical director, there was a number containing a peculiarly syncopated passage which not a single white orchestra ever succeeded in playing correctly, while colored orchestras played it without effort, unconscious of its intricacies. Such preference as the Negro musician may enjoy is therefore due to efficiency which is the result of a natural inheritance. It is also true that he is applying himself to the serious study of his music. Many of the members of orchestras are arrangers and composers. There are ten or fifteen such men in this city who have attained a high place in their profession. LOCAL BUSINESS LEAGUE. Organization at St. Joseph, Mo., Outlines Plans For Active Service. A report from the Local Negro Business league of St. Joseph, Mo., says in part: "The local league here has increased its membership threefold and is endeavoring to fill the place in the community for which it is ordained. The outlook to that end is very encouraging. The basic plan of action as adopted is 'one thing at the time.' For the present the task before us is that of getting our institution of charity, a colored hospital and orphanage for northwestern Missouri, organized and endowed. Of course there are many minor activities engaging our attention from time to time, as our league is becoming the clearing house for all ideas, projects and efforts of a social and economic nature." New Post For Professor J. R. E. Lee. The Kansas City (Mo.) high school has been fortunate in securing the services of Professor J. R. E. Lee as principal. He is a man of wide experience as an educator, as has been demonstrated in his work as head of the academic department of the Tuskegee (Ala.) institute. Professor Lee enters upon the duties of his office in his new field without handicap and with the full co-operation of the school authorities at Kansas City and the very good wishes of the principal and faculty of the Tuskegee institute. TWIN CITY STAR DRYS MAY TRY TO ANNUL ELECTION Charge Wholesale Frands in Minneapolis Balloting. RECORD VOTE IS CAST Wets-Carry Hennepin County by 9,000 Majority, Over 68,000 Participating in Contest—Fight for Statewide Prohibition Now Preposed by Drys. Minneapolis, Oct. 6.—Hennepin and Nicollet counties went wet at county option elections. The Hennepin wets rolled up a majority of over 9,000, while in Nicollet the wets were on the safe side by more than 800 votes. Over 68,000 votes were polled in Hennepin, about 8,000 more than ever cast at any election in the history of the county. Of this number the drys received 29,200. Charges of wholesale fraud are being made on the part of the drys and a committee of their organization will meet to decide on whether to take steps to ask the courts to throw out the vote in many precincts. The wets also charged the drys with irregularities, but do not make nearly as many nor as specific accusations. "Fraud beyond any conceivable degree defeated our cause," said Rev. G. B. Safford, superintendent of the Minnesota Anti-Saloon league. "Never before in the history of Minnesota has fraudulent voting, illegal practices and utter disregard for law and order been as great as in this election. We are not ready to say whether we will contest the election." Voted Dead Men. Is Charge. "Wet workers brought voters to the polls by the hundred in automobiles," said Rev. Safford. "Judges in wet wards swore in voters without asking them questions. They simply lined them up in rows and let them qualify in the Third, Fifth and Sixth wards the wets voted dead men and men who had registered for the last election and have since moved away." The result of the election means that the 399 saloons in Minneapolis and a number in other parts of Hennepin county may keep in business for three years before another attempt can be made to abolish them at a county option election. Dry leaders in Ramsey county said that the result in Hennepin has convinced them it would be futile to attempt to hold a county option election there. "We will at once inaugurate a campaign, though, for statewide prohibition" said F. J. Clemans, "and make this the fight before the next legislature." The opening gun will be fired in St. Paul Nov. 8 when Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson will lecture at the Auditorium. CONTEST OF WILL IS BEGUN Son of A. G. Spalding Alleges "Undue influence." San Diego, Cal., Oct. 6.—Contest of the will of the late A. G. Spalding, baseball pioneer and millionaire sporting goods merchant, was entered immediately after the filing of the will for probate by Spalding's son Kelth, who charges that the will was procured through the "undue influence of his wife, Elizabeth Churchill Spalding, and Mrs. Katherine Tingley," head of the Universal Brotherhood and Theosophical society at Point Loma, Cal. Spalding died at his residence in Point Loma Sept. 9 last. The contest alleges that for several years before his death Spalding was not in his right mind; that his mental and physical strength was impaired by advancing age, by stifness and by business worries. TO ENFORCE SUNDAY LAWS Mayor Thompson Orders Saloons to Close on Sabbath. Chicago, Oct. 6.—Mayor Thompson of Chicago has ordered the city collector to notify all saloon keepers that they must comply with the state law requiring saloons to remain closed Sunday. For many years the saloons have defied the Sunday closing law. The mayor's announcement is the windup of a campaign for Sunday closing. Temperance civic organizations had planned to present resolutions to the council to show that the general sentiment demands law enforcement. CASHIER CONFESSES. GUILT Admits Taking Cash and Locking Himself in Vault. Fort Worth, Tex.. Oct. 6.—Found locked in a bank vault and telling a story of an attack by two bank robbers which netted them $8,342, J. T. Adams, cashier of the State Bank of Keller, confessed, according to County Attorney Spoontz and Chief of Detectives Montgomery, that he himself had appropriated the cash missing from the vault, $4,764 of which was recovered. Adams, on a charge of embezzlement, is held in jail under bond of $2,000. THE MORAL PHASE OF NEGRO LIFE. Home Training Most Important. Says Miss Nannie H. Burroughs. The moral phase of the Negro problem is the most serious part of the whole aggravating question. To improve the standard of the life of the masses is the only solution. As with other races, the standards in the homes are set up by the women who preside over them. Therefore to bring about a reform the womanhood of the race must be taught how to instruct their children in those virtues, that have made the most advanced races what they are. We are prone to think that the Negro is by nature religious and therefore moral. He is both; but he is not enough of either when it comes to living up to fundamental principles every day life. Because of his crude conception of what the Christian religion really is he too often practices one thing and preaches another. Often the foremost woman in the church is so far from a model for her less ambitious sisters that they look with contempt upon her and discredit religion. This misrepresentation of the genuine article takes many forms and sometimes the one woman is a combination of all. She allows beer drinking, card playing, and 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—Abrham 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. It combats in the courts, state legislatures, the Halls of Congress, the government departments and everywhere the spirit of persecution against the Colored People which grows out of race prejudice. 3. It aims to bring about such a healthy public sentiment in this land that Colored People will be accorded all their social, civil and political rights and will receive exact justice in all the relations of life. 4. It believes in and teaches the doctrine of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, and the equality of all races in our American civilization. 5. It aims to uphold the honor of our women by opposing the passage of anti-race inter-marriage laws. 6. 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