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DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST.PAUL MINNESOTA HISTORICAL fective Page LABORS IN MANY GOOD MOVEMENTS MAN OF LIBERAL EDUCATION Minister of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church In Thrifty Virginia Town Evinces a Deep Interest in Municipal Affaire—Member of Odd Fellows, Masons and Organization Society. Roanoke, Va.—One of the important factors in racial development in this section of the country is the Rev. Dr. L. L. Downing, pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church, probation officer and vice president of the Virginia Negro Organization society. He is making his contribution to the race along practical lines. The Rev. Mr. Downing claims as his birthplace Lexington, Va., where he was born just a few years before the surrender of Lee, so that after the emancipation of the slaves and the emancipation was thrown open to the little boys and girls of our race he was just old enough to be among the first to get into the public schools of Lexington. He was a diligent student and made good use of his time. Being anx- ANV. L. L. DOWNING, D. D. locus to further prepare himself for his life's work, he entered Lincoln university. It was while in the preparatory department of Lincoln that the ability of young Downing was manifested. For four years he stood at the head of his class, and his general average was so high during the four years that he was given a scholarship in the college department. He made good in his work and in 1889 graduated from the college department with honors. He felt that he was called to the work of the gospel ministry and at the same time felt a call to prepare for that work and entered the Theological seminary, determined to make ample preparation for his calling. He graduated from the theological department of Lincoln in 1894. While he was a student in the theological department he taught Latin for two years in the preparatory department of the same institution. He was considered a good instructor and was offered a permanent place in the schoolroom, but preferred to follow his calling. He received from Lincoln the degree of bachelor of arts, bachelor of sacred theology, and in 1906 the institution conferred on him the degree of doctor of divinity. Dr. Dowling was not without class honors, for in 1887 he won the sophomore gold medal for the delivery of an original oration. Finishing his school work, he found his way to Roonoke, Va., where he took charge of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church in 1894 and has remained its minister ever since. In July of 1894, when he took charge of the church, it was a small mission with seven members, but prospects were bright for a larger membership. The services were then held in a ball on Sixth avenue, but now the congregation owns a beautiful church building on Fifth avenue, entirely free of debt. Speaking of racial development, Dr. Downing has figured in the affairs of state and has been for the past nineteen years a member of the Republican city committee, being the only member of his race in that body; hence when it comes to the affairs of the city he ably represents our people. It is not surprising that he should be appointed the first probation officer, and he is doing his work so well that it has caused the city officials to take special notice of his work. In the fraternal organizations he is an Odd Fellow and was for a long time district grand master, and now he is the grand master of Masons for Virginia, to which position he was elected at the last session, held in Fredericksburg. He is being heard from in the fraternity, rendering great service to the craft. Dr. Downing has the distinction of being a commissioner to the general assembly of the Presbyterian church three times in succession and has been for a number of times moderator of the presbytery. [Image of a man with a mustache and a suit] Duluth, Minn.—Past Grand Master Jose Sherwood, who is Grand Lecturer during the term of office of Grand Master H. J. Shelton, paid an official visit to Doric Lodge of this city Monday evening. He came up from St. Paul Sunday afternoon and spent most of the day Monday visiting old friends in Superior. He appeared to be well pleased with the progress of Doric Lodge, realizing the severe handicap under which the Lodge has been laboring recently because of the lack of a proper meeting place. They are now comfortably situated in their new quarters and bid fair to rival any Lodge in the jurisdiction. At the Head of the Lakes, they are very much interested in this young man; as he is the product of a Superior Lodge, and received most of his Maconic honors in Duluth, and it was in this city he was elected Grand Secretary, and then later here he became Grand Master. He was the guest of Grand Master Shelton. MISS MARIENNE JEFFREY Wins Musical Honors. One of whom the people of the Twin Cities are justly proud, is Miss Marienne Jeffrey, the popular young pianist of our city. Going from the Bryant school where for two years she had been head of the orchestra, she was almost immediately made pianist of the largest classes of Central High; and at the presentation of the oratorio "Creation" last spring, Mr. Morris, the director, said of her, that, "its success was largely due to her." At the beginning of last term she was elected pianist of the Glee Club and at the presentation of the opera, "Pirate of Penzuca" on the evenings of Jan. 13th and 14th, 1916, was the director as well as pianist, Mr. Morris took one of the leading parts in the cast. At the end of the 1st act on Friday night she was presented with a beautiful bouquet of American Beauty roses from the stage by the Glee Club. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Jeffrey, and has a promising future in the musical world. HOPKINS IS CONVICTED. Negro Who Killed Head of Galesburg Police Gets Life Term. Galesburg, Ill., Jan. 19.—Henry Hopkins, was found guilty of the murder of Galesburg's chief of police, T. L. Mathews. The jury, after 19 hours' deliberation, fixed the penalty at life imprisonment. Hopkins, who was known as "Lottie," was suspected of operating a gambling house, and of selling liquor illegally. Chief Mathews with three policemen raided the place the night of Oct. 17 and Mathews was shot through the heart while leading the men into the house. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. JAN. 22, 1916. THE IMPORTANCE OF ORGANIZATION United Action For Welfare of Race Is Urged. MUST FIGHT OWN BATTLES Account Taken of Past Struggles With a View of Doing More Effective Work-National Segregation Based on Color Reaches Limit-Lynching on the Increase In the South. By N. BARNETT DODSON. Judging from the efforts and achievements of the colored people during 1915 who are connected with the various organized bodies for business, education, philanthropy, legal rights under the laws of the country, religious adherence, home ownership and peaceful relationship with the other races, greater progress should be made by them in 1916. If up through difficulties is the way to success the leaders in the many movements for uplift should be well qualified by past experience to avoid former mistakes and inspire their co-workers. However dark the way, however difficult the task, let the race press on. Half heartedness never wins battles, nor does cowardice force an enemy to retreat. Courage, endurance, patience—these are the tests by which we have already maintained our equilibrium up from slavery to our present status as citizens of a republic the like of which in its benefits to mankind the light of civilization has not yet revealed. With the lynching of colored citizens on the increase in the south, Clarence Poe of North Carolina advocating race segregation on the farm and in cities and with the head of the nation refusing to appoint a competent colored man to the office of recorder of deeds in the District of Columbia solely because of color, is it not high time that the race should organize more thoroughly for self preservation? Surely this is not the time for indifference nor a weak and halting attitude on questions of citizenship rights. The right of petition, lawful agitation and self defense are still extant. Let us use them for our own and the good of humanity in general. The honorable Albert E. Pillsbury of Boston was right when he said in an address at Faneuil hall: "The fate of the colored race is in its own hands. You will get your rights when you are fit to have them, for when you are fit to have them you will take them, and until you take them you are not fit to have them. "There is a fatal lack of what may be called the faculty of organization, the get together and stand together. Do you suppose that two millions of Irishmen or Hebrews could be treated in this country as the Negro is treated? When you have learned that union is indispensable and division is fatal your cause is won." Speaking through its stalwart corresponding secretary the National Equal Rights league takes up the same line of thought as Mr. Pillsbury has enunciated and says: "The history of man in civil society has been to a considerable extent the history of such prejudice and maltreatment by the stronger against the weaker. The progress of what, for a better name, we call civilization has been largely the struggle of races and classes against oppression, injustice, proscription, and then overcoming race and class discrimination. Especially have races and classes of individuals been deprived of freedom, self government and equality of rights. "Human progress has been written in terms of the struggles, the rights, which oppressed races and classes have made with ultimate success to secure to the individuals thereof freedom and the individuals of the dominating races or classes. Human beings have been shown to possess an instinct for liberty and a passion for free and equal government. The people with these attributes are rated the highest and are the most respected. "Search the history of these struggles of races and classes, whether for a national existence or for relief from race and class proscription and for possession of full freedom equal citizenship, industrial rights, and you will history records in nearly every case where the race or class has overcome oppression and held its ground one great fact. That fact is that these members of a race or class have had to win by organization to that end. "They have united on the ground of common unfavorable treatment and, organized among themselves, have extended the organization throughout the whole proscribed element, have chosen officers, leaders of their own, held organization meetings, attacked and fought in an organized way. The race or class has not secured independence or abolition of prescription and disabilities through individual work or rights or through financial or material success by individuals. History proves that of opposed races or classes since before Greece down through modern European and American history. "History also proves that with this fact goes another great fact—namely, that these races and classes have won not only by organization, but by organized effort for themselves by the individuals suffering the same race or class disadvantage. "So nearly universal has this been the case that accepted principle of success for oppressed classes has come out of the world's struggles. 'Who would be free themselves must strike the blow.' This means that the chief necessary factor of enduring success is organization by, for and under those whose rights are denied. "If ever there has been an oppressed and proscribed race and class our colored Americans in the United States of America are such a race or class today. In the south they are, because of an admixture of African blood, disfranchised, in some cases held in peonage; in the border states and southern states denied equal rights, segregated by law, frequently lynched. Even in the north they are in practice denied service in places of public accommodation and resort; by law degraded and proscribed in the south, by custom proscribed civily in most of the north and by the federal government itself segregated at work in the national capital in some government buildings. "More significant is it that caste discrimination is growing in degree and territory. This is the situation of ten or twelve million citizens entitled to equality by law, enslavement of whom was abolished over fifty years ago, followed by enjoyment of full rights. Surely these colored Americans come under the proved principle, "Who would be free themselves must strike the blow." They are in the category of classes struggling against oppression and unequality. As we have stated, such races and classes as have overcome oppression have had organizations of their own. According to history, we cannot succeed unless we have such on a national scale. There is no historical precedent whereby without it colored Americans can protect their equal citizenship." BUSINESS LEAGUE TO MEET AT KANSAS CITY, MO., AUG. 16 Executive Committee of National Body Accepts Local League's Invitation. After a most careful consideration of the several invitations received from different sections of the country for the next meeting of the National Negro Business league we are authorized by the members of the executive committee to announce that the league has decided to accept the invitation extended by the Local Negro Business league of Greater Kansas City, Mo. The meeting will be held Aug. 16, 17 and 18. It appears that the Business league has selected a most opportune time to hold its meeting in Kansas City, for, as Mr. Fortune J. Weaver, president of the Kansas City Local league, says, these dates fit in just right, as the Masons will hold their grand lodge in Kansas City during the second week of August, and the National Medical association comes during the fourth week. These two meetings, in addition to the Business league session, will offer the best possible inducements to railroads to make special reduced fares and will afford delegates to the grand lodge and the Medical association an opportunity to attend some of the sessions of the Business league. The executive committee has also decided that it will be most appropriate and fitting that the first night's session (Aug. 16) be devoted to memorial exercises in honor of Dr. Booker T. Washington, founder and first president of the National Negro Business league. Further announcements regarding the forthcoming meeting of the National Negro Business league will be made from time to time through the press and by the officials of the league. Among Those Present. "Did Blinks exhibit at the horse show?" "Well, he made an ass of himself."—Philadelphia Ledger. New Post For Twiggs at Evanston. The mayor of Evanston, III., has appointed William H. Twiggs to be head of the bureau of the municipal department of Evanston. Mr. Twiggs is well qualified for the position and will no doubt make good. He is the first man of our race ever appointed to the position. SMOKE THE RELIABLE SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR THE MUSICIAN ATTORNEY WILLIAM T. FRANCIS RACE PROBLEM IN AMERICA. EXTRACTS FROM ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE BROTHERHOOD CLUB OF THE GERMAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, ST. PAUL, WEDNESDAY NIGHT, JAN. 19, 1916. number in the profess as shown by the U. S. ce Actors 1279; Architects and Sculptors 329; Autists 123; Civil and engineers 217; Clergmen 1 Presidents and Professists 478; Lawyers 856 The error most commonly made by those, who consider the Negro at all is, that "they are all alike". No thought is given by the majority of the people that the Negro race is differentiating and should be considered by classes, as any other race, and not as a whole. When freedom came the Negroes were of a homogeneous mass, but the evolution of fifty years has produced, social, moral, intellectual and economic classes. Yet many people think, speak and write of the Negro as if the problem had not undergone this evolution. There are some who recognize intelligent and well-to-do Negroes, honest and hardworking Negroes, lazy and vicious Negroes. But it is doubtful if any considerable number of those who recognize the existence of some differentiation, realize to what distinct and widely separate classes it has developed. The better elements have risen higher than people appreciate generally. This evolution progresses faster and faster as the years go by. It was slow at first. It is rapid now. The cleavage is encouraged by a determination to grasp the opportunities of the new conditions as shown right here in our own city of St. Paul where we have a population of about five thousand Negroes who are buying or own and pay taxes on $51,500.00 worth of church property; on $26,000.00 worth of property owned by fraternal organizations, and $750,-000.00 in homesteads. In 1910 there were 2,227,731 illiterate colored people in the United States and the percentage of the illiterates was 30.4. The percentage of the illiterates in colored population in the North in 1910 was 18.2; South 48, and West 13.1. The highest percentage of illiterates in any state is 48.4 in Lousiana, and the lowest is 3.4 in our own state of Minnesota. When we remember that the Negro people of the U. S. started out empty-handed, without property, without education, with no schools and with great efforts to prevent the establishment of schools for their benefit; and when we know that even now the public schools of the South for the Negroes are purposely poorly officered and managed and that the school year for the Negroes in many parts of the South is from five weeks to five months; and, further, that in many of the Southern states like Lousiana, Negroes are not permitted to receive instruction beyond the fifth grade, and that in Florida and Georgia white people are prohibited by the state laws from teaching colored people in any institution of learning. It is wonderful indeed that today the Negroes of the U. S. have so far progressed that they have among their SOCIETY, No. 49 1930 number in the professional service, as shown by the U. S. census for 1910. Actors 1279; Architects 59, Artists and Sculptors 329; Authors 27; Chemists 123; Civil and Mining Engineers 217; Clergmen 17,495; College Presidents and Professors 242; Dentists 478; Lawyers 850; Musicians and Teachers of Music 5,606; Physicians and Surgeons 3,077; Teachers 29,485; Trained nurses 2,433; Vetinary Surgeons 122. That we own 860,899 homes and operate farms in the southern states of a value of $1,083,658-351. We are called a criminal class and yet the same U. S. census shows that among the ten million of Negroes in the U. S. 3,685,097 more than one out of every three, are members of some religious organization. That of that number 2,211,172 are Baptist with church property valued at $24,813,089. And that 889,710 are Methodist with church property valued at $19,580,232. These figures prove that the race is advancing rapidly, despite the fact that we are commonly said to be an ignorant and criminal race. The main reason why the white man disregards, in his estimates of Negro life, the extraordinary progress of a large and growing section of the race, and for the fixing of his attention almost entirely upon its less desirable members; is that the latter are the Negroes most prominent in your daily lives and the display headlines in the newspapers. The Associated Press of the country features in bold type the Negro criminal, and passes unnoticed many of the commendable achievements of that class of Negroes who, bearing the burden of their disadvantages, are struggling onward and upward in the march of civilization and accomplishing those things which make better men and women and consequently better citizens of them. As the Negro gains in culture, in efficiency, in his struggle for a competence, he withdraws into a world of his own, a world which lies all about the white man, yet whose existence you rarely expect. The inefficiencies of the race, the handicapped, the unambitious, the physically and morally degenerate—all these remain in that economic morass which you regard as purely racial; and from that class is drawn the notorious Negro and the jail-bird. This kind of Negro attracts your attention, but as fast as a Negro rises our of that class he disappears from your field of vision. for as the Negro rises higher to intellectual and industrial levels in most of the sections of this country he is by segregation pushed out of your lives and denied the right to complete with the white man. The situation of the American Negro is oltiful in the extreme. He is much like an orphan. So different from all other races of people in America for they have powerful goverments back of them, save the Jew, and the Jew, being of God's chosen people, is able to take care of Continued to Page 4. ST. PAUL REPRESENTATIVE. Fred. D. McCracken, 410 Court Block, St. Paul. SOCIAL NEWS EDITOR, Miss Clara Lucas, 506 Boston Block, Minneapolis. RAILROAD MEN'S NEWS, Stephen Springer, Milwaukee Depot, Minneapolis. 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. 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? If you want to own a home in 1916 See McDew NOW! He has some good bargains. Now is the time to start. Those who are indebted to us will please forward a part of their subscriptions. "Times are hard" is the cry—but we expect you to pay for this newspaper, as you do for others. They do not send you the daily white papers, unless you pay. Mr. James Charleston is the proud father of a big baby boy, born recently in Chicago. Mother and babe are well. Mrs. Washington who has been away for some time has returned to the city and is at the home of her son Mr. Harry Donaldson of 2806 Elliot Ave. Mr. Matthew Johnson continues very ill. The Omaha Ry. boys are much interested in his welfare and are doing what can be done for him. John Jones, who killed Roy Jeffries in Tyler's pool room in September, 1910 was denied clemency by the Pardon Board. Mr. Harry Roberts of Davenport Ia. nephew of late Col. Jas. A. Roberts, will remain here at the residence of Mrs. Roberts. Mrs. C. H. Lucas of 109 E. 25th St. entertained Mrs. Eunice Harris of Omaha at dinner on Tuesday. Mr. Wm. Garret, the well known tailor, has returned from Canada, and will open business. Mr. and Mrs. Garret have begun housekeeping at 3721 Oakland Ave. Mrs. Mary Louise Rollins died at her home 447 University Ave. St. Paul on Jan. 17th. Mr. Wm. M. Smith suffered from an attack of heart failure on Monday, but is much imposed. An Act of Charity Hearing of the serious condition of a suffering family in North Minneapolis, Mr. John Scott, head waiter at the West Hotel, went to their immediate releif. He ordered a half ton of coal of J. A. Withers and $3.00 worth of groceries of P. J. Buford, which, he sent for the joy and comfort of the needy family. Mr. Scott is well known for his many acts of charity. Prof. Billy D. Black's Southlander's entertained at the West Hotel during the Implement Dealers Convention last week. They were seated on a platform in the lobby. The quintet, composed of Rufus Wilson, oranist, Jos. Collins, cello, Wm. Wade, violin, Ike Glover, mandolin and Billy D. Black, banjo, made a hit with the visitors with their musical and vocal selections. FIRST CLASS BARBER WANTED. I need a competent barber — only a reliable man need apply — John L. Gibson, 627 No. 5th St., Minneapolis. ELLIS—THE BARBER Ellis Houston, known as "Ellis the barber" has opened a shop at 252 4th Ave. So. Mr. Henry Vinigar, the veteran tonsorialist is associated with him. They wish their many friends a Happy Year and invite their patronage.—Advertisement. TWIN CITY ENTERTAINERS Union Temple Hall, Minneapolis, JANUARY 27 — JANUARY 27 WORTH ONE DOLLAR. Any Advertisement in Any Newspaper of Any Affair at Any Place where Any Admission fee is Accepted is worth One Dollar, the price we charge. THE ROSE OF EDEN ? Witness the TWIN CITY STAR. FUNERAL OF MRS. GRAY. Mrs. E. O. Gray mother of Mrs. Mary Gray, long a resident of Minneapolis, passed away at home on Sunday at the age of 82 years. Services from the Sweedonborg Church on Wednesday afternoon 2 P. M. The funeral was directed by Undertaker Lawrence. Internment at Lakewood. STEWART'S HOTEL Mr. Ed. Stewart has arranged for the accommodation of ladies at Stewart's Hotel formerly the Twin City Stag Hotel, 244 3rd Ave So. The special feature will be the dining room service, where ladies will be allowed. Music will be furnished. A popular priced lunch and a regular dinner will be served. Dining room closes promptly at 12.30 A. M. Lunch from 12 to 3 P. M. Dinner from 5 to 8 Dont miss this desirable 35c dinner of five courses, prepared by Chas. Robinson, the well known chef. Mr. Chas. Harden, now at San Antonio for his health is getting along nicely, according to reports from Mrs. Harden. Mrs. L. Sensebaugh, the pianist is located at 710 6th Ave. No. She contemplates giving a musical during the Easter season. Mr. Walter Dodson is home from the Hospital and is improving rapidly. Mr. Justin M. Brown, 2526—So.8th St. is sick at his home. Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Smith were entertained by Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Van Hook on Wednesday night. LEWIS—BARBEE. Mr. Charles Lewis and Miss Kathrine Barbee were united in holy bonds of matrimony on Jan. 14, by Rev Geo. W. Mitchell. Mr. Wm. Landry left for his home on Jan. 14, after a visit to attend the burial of his mother, Mrs. Mary Davis. Mr. Geo. W. Holbert was among the many sufferers from colds last week. He is able to be out. The Y. G. B. C. met on Wednesday at the residence of Miss Beulah Van Hook. Business was discussed and a musical program rendered. Luncheon was served. Mrs. John Allison is visiting in Atlantic City. The Rose of Eden Watch This Space Atty B. S. Smith appeared before the Pardon Board on Thursday in behalf of Janie Freeman, of Oklahoma, who is serving a sentence for forgery. "The Minneapolis Social Club was entertained by Miss Jessie Glen of 2624 12th Ave. All members were present, and it being visitor's night, quite a number of friends were out. Refreshments were served and dancing was the feature of the evening." The Minneapolis Dramatic club met with Mrs. J. A. Cisney 853 8th Ave. N. After business was finished, whist was played and luncheon was served. Those present were Mrs. Rutledge, Mrs. Davis, St. Paul, Mrs. Barnett, Messrs. R. Skinner, L. Alexander, R. Abbey and Miss Rieva Washington". Mrs. M. W. Withers is on the sick list. She has been indisposed since her return from Durham. N. C. where she gave up a teacher's position on account of bad health. "The Y. G. B. C. have a new member in the person of Miss Rieva M. Washington." The spelling contest at Bethesda Church was very interesting. The winners were Editor Smith, Mr. Cain and Mrs. Mary Pope. After the exercises, refreshments were served. The reading by Mr. Arthur Wynne and Solos by Mrs. Vance and Miss Dare were well rendered. Lawyer J. P. Anderson of St Anthony Ave. is convalescent. Mrs. Marie Taylor has moved to 555 Charles St. TWIN CITY CHARITY CLUB. Officers for 1916. Pres. Mrs. Jennie Wilkerson, Vice Pres. Mrs. Alice Smith, Sec'y. Mrs. Hester Keeys, Asst. Sec'y. Mrs. Matie Renix, Treas. Mrs. Minnie Burrell, Honorary Pres. Mrs. Mayme Donovan. TWIN CITY STAR SUNDAY FORUM MEETING. The regular meeting of Minneapolis Sunday Forum was held last Sunday at Bethesda, Pres. W. M. Smith in the chair. Reports of last meeting read by Miss Waters and adopted. The President paid a high compliment to his predecessor, ex. pres. R. Skinner, who is still an active member. A new feature, "Talks on the Lives of Great Negroes" was inaugurated, beginning with "Life of Dunbar" and a reading by Miss Eva B. Walker. This will be a prominent part of the program each meeting. Mr. W. C. Jeffrey was chosen to select appropriate music and as chorister he always makes good. Mrs. Victoria Graham was recalled to her former position as journalist. She is very efficient in this office and her "Current Events" have been missed. Mr. L. C. Valle was appointed chairman of the publicity committee, and has planned a campaign of advertising the Forum. Mrs. Sensabaugh faired with a piano selection from "Carmen". Atty Hillyer told of his trip "Through the Cotton Belt" which was an interesting travelogue to Nashville, Augusta, Tuskegee and Atlanta. Eulogies wer delivered as follows: Calvin G. Goodrich, late Pres. Twin City Lines, a true friend of the Negro, by Mrs. Mary A. Pope;—Winfield Scott Hammond, late Gov. of Minnesota, by Chas. Sumner Smith;—Col. James A. Roberts, late member Knights of Pythias, patrolman Minneapolis police department, charter member of Minneapolis Sunday Forum, by Atty. W. R. Morris. Each eulogy was a fitting tribute to the departed. The following is an extract from a talk by the president: PARLIAMENTARY USAGES. "In explaining their absence from the Forum, many people have said they had grown tired of its parliamentary discussion. What they really meant was that they were tired of hearing discussions not governed by parliamentary procedure. As a matter of fact, we have had far too few of parliamentary discussions and an altogether too great a number of the other kind. Because of his own lack of knowledge the chair is pleased to realize that the business of the Forum does not require either from its members or its presiding officer any extensive knowledge of parliamentary law. But no organization can make its meetings interesting or conduct its business expeditiously that does not follow the rules provided by parliamentary procedure. With this special end in view, therefore, the chair would ask your careful consideration of a few facts. The Forum has but a brief two hours in which to conclude all the things it undertakes in any one meeting. Do not waste the time. Suggestions only lead to discussions which are inconclusive. Make your suggestions in the form of a motion: these may be discussed, voted upon and lead to concrete action. In discussing the merits of a motion, talk to the point, then quit. Many good arguments are spoiled by being too long drawn out. It is the province of the chair to rule upon disputed points. This will be done quickly and impartially. If the decision is against you, and you feel it is unjust, don't argue the point: appeal from the chair's decision; the Forum itself will then and at once by its vote decide who is right. Above all let us be fair, each toward the other and I am certain there will be no complaint of lack of interest nor of failure to properly conduct the business of our society." THE FORUM RECEPTION The Minneapolis Sunday Forum will have a Welcome Reception, which will be the means of extending a welcome to all friends and strangers to attend their meetings. STEWARTS FORMAL OPENING. Wednesday, Jan. 26, 1916. Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1950. Stewarts Hotel, formerly Twin City Stag Clug will be formally opened next Wednesday night. Special dinner service and music. Ladies invited. Dining room closes at 12:30 A. M. sharp. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to express our sincere thanks to all friends for their kind sympathy shown us during the illness and at the bereavement of our beloved mother. Mrs. S. E. Hall. Geo. K. Grissom. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thanks our many friends for the beautiful flowers, the expressions of sympathy and the assistance rendered during the bereavement in the loss of our mother and sister, Mrs. Mary Davis, who died Jan. 9, 1916. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Giles. Mr. Wm. Landry. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Johnson. Mrs. Cora Patterson. FIRST BALL OF THE NEWYEAR Will be given by the TWIN CITY ENTERTAINERS UNION TEMPLE HALL 28 Washington Ave. So., Minn. THURSDAY, FEB'Y. 27TH JOHN L. GIBSON, PRES. H. B. ROWE, SEC'Y. Joseph Bright, Caterer. ADMISSION 35 CENTS. COLOR DISCRIMINATION AT ITS HEIGHT IN THE SOUTH Northern Paper Calls Attention to Injustice on Public Conveyances. Under the caption "Breaking the Jimcrow Law" the New York Times says editorially: There has been a good deal of complaint in Tennessee lately about the way in which the jimcrow car rule is evaded. Persons who have found themselves affronted and inconvenienced by the intrusion of members of the other race have written letters to the newspapers about it and expressed their discontent in other ways. Despite the law which ordains that members of the white race shall ride in one part of the car and members of the colored race in the other, there are bumptious and aggressive persons who insist on invading the territory set apart for the race to which they do not belong. Naturally the feeling aroused is one of just irritation, and there is a demand that the rule be enforced. The curious thing about it is that it is the white race against which the complaint is leveled. Negroes resent the intrusion of inconsiderate white men into the space reserved for them, and demand that the intruders be forced to stay where they belong. The Chattanooga Times justly and severely remarks that these white men seem to hold the doctrine, erroneously ascribed to Chief Justice Taney, that the black man has no rights the white man is bound to respect. Certainly one of the black man's rights is the right to keep the whites out of his section of a jimcrow car, and Tennessee is singularly lax in according this right to him. In many parts of Virginia, for instance, all a negro has to do if he finds a white man sitting in the "colored section" is to step up and order him to surrender his seat, and the white man either stands up or is put out. It makes no difference that there are no seats in the "white section," and that he will have to stand; he stands. We hope that little five foot Irish conductor is still working on the Falls Church trolley who once, when two six-foot white men insisted on sitting in the "colored section," tackled them single handed with both fists and threw them out on the road in a wood four miles from the nearest village and made them tramp home with bruised noses at midnight. He was little and scrawny and would never have been accepted for military service, but resisting his edicts did not come under the head of "amusements." Chattanooga should send to Fairfax county, Va., or to Newport News and import a few of these impartial and indomitable conductors. The protest of the Tennessee negroes is just. They have some rights that the white man is bound to respect, and one of them is the right to choose their company, and we would add among all races and individuals with whom they may conserve their best interest in every line of industry. SEND NOTES EARLY. HOMESTEAD OF DOUGLASS NEW LIGHT ON THE SUBJECT Will of the Great Anti-slavery-Agilator Was Not Properly Drawn—Death Defeated the Good Intentions of Mrs. Douglas—Time For Race Loyalty to Assert Itself. Washington.—There have been a number of inquiries, says Ralph W. Tyler of this city, as to the existing mortgage on the old home here of the late Frederick Douglass. Many cannot understand why the home should rest under a mortgage when Mr. Douglass was supposed to have been quite well off at his death. The estate of Mr. Douglass did mount up to quite a sum at his death. A defective will, made defective by an insufficient number of witnesses, caused the property to be distributed according to law rather than according to the will of the restorator. The widow of Mr. Douglas desired that the old house, containing a museum of anti-slavery and Douglas relics, the furniture, books, manuscripts and curios of the great orator, publicist and anti-slavery leader, should be bequeathed to the race as a memorial to her husband. To do this it was necessary for her to buy in the home from the other heirs that she might have a clear title to it. This she did, giving $15,000 for the old homestead on Cedar hill. In order to make the purchase, however, it was necessary for her to borrow money with which to purchase the equity of the other heirs. She died before she could pay off that mortgage. In her last will and testament she bequeathed the home, with all its rich and priceless possessions, to the race Mr. Douglas had fearlessly championed and served. She might have bequeathed it to her own relatives, but she choose to will it to the THE DOUGLASS HOMESTEAD. race with which her husband was identified. This tells how that mortgage happened to be placed on the old home of the great leader. By act of congress a board of trustees was created to have charge of the home, but it came to these congressionally provided administrators with a mortgage and without funds to even keep up repairs, the result being that the once hausome home, the once fine old estate, is rapidly passing to decay and the mortgage is pressing for payment. Several attempts have been made to arouse sufficient interest on the part of the race to pay off this mortgage and put the home in proper repair in order first to save the home to the race and to preserve the historical relics, etc., it contains, but not sufficient has been contributed to even keep up the interest on the debt. It is figured that if $15,000 is raised by the race it will be sufficient to pay off the mortgage and restore the building and estate to its former beauty and make of the home a historical and memorial site to be visited by thousands each year, just as the old home of George Washington at Mount Vernon is maintained as a historical retreat. There are fifteen acres in the Douglas estate, and it occupies the most beautiful point in all Washington, overlooking the Potomac, as if does, and being within ten minutes' ride of the White House or the halls of congress. But unless the race responds to the last appeal, and responds quickly, the old home may be lost. By the terms of the will it can be no other than a memorial to Mr. Douglas, free to the public, and consequently has no earning power. When it ceases to be that—in case the mortgage should be foreclosed—the old Douglas homestead will pass from the race. Roman Catholic Church Aids Our Race. The good work which the Roman Catholic church is doing among the colored people of that faith in some sections of the country is causing Protestant denominations which are engaged in a similar work to look well to their laurels. Attention has been especially called to the large and increasing number of colored people in New Orleans who are of the Roman Catholic persuasion. Peoples Christian Assembly. 1204 Washington Ave. So. Services Sunday—11 A. M. Sunday School—1.30 P. M. Praise Meeting—3 P. M. Preaching—8 P. M. ELDER G. W. MITCHELL, Pastor. Assisted by Mrs. G. W. Mitchell. 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. FRANCIS J. PETERSON, PASTOR. 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. Bethesda Baptist Church. OFFICERS: Rev. J. M. Moss, President. ——. Thornton, Vice President. Hezekiah Allen, Secretary. Miss Eva Walker, Treasurer and Instructor. W. H. Jenkins, Chaplain. Meets on 1st and 3rd Friday nights * * * The new officers of the Minneapolis Forum, are Wm. H. Smith, president; O. A. Lawrence, vice president; Miss Gladys Waters, secretary; P. F. Hale, critic; Miss M. Chandler, organist * * * PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH. Cedar Street and Summit Avenue, ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA. Rev. Benjamin N. Murrell, Pastor. SUNDAY SERVICES 11:00 A. M. Preaching. 12:50 P. M. The Bible School. G. W. Willis, Supt. 6:45 P. M. B.Y. P. U. Mrs. Frances M. Murrell, Pres. 8:00 P. M. Preaching. WEDNESDAY NIGHTS. 8:00 P. M. Mid-Week Prayer Services FRIDAY NIGHTS. 7:00 P. M. Junior Choir Rehearsals. 8:30 P. M. Senior Choir Rehearsals. CHOICE CITY AND SUBURBAN PROPERTY FOR SALE ON SMALL MONTHLY PAYMENTS. B. M. McDEW, 802 Sykes Block. N. W. 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ROOMS FOR GENTLEMEN. ective Page NOTABLE WORK OF DR. ROBERT L. POPE BORN IN CLARKE COUNTY, GA. Career of Zealous Clergyman Who Has Gained Wide Distinction as Organizer and Church. Financier—Places in Which He Has Served and Some of His Achievements. Denver.—Shorter chapel, A. M. E. church, has the distinction of having as its minister one of the most active and energetic men in the whole A. M. E. denomination in the person of the Rev. R. L. Pope, D. D., who, like a large number of the aggressive men of the race, was born in the south. He is a native of Clarke county, Ga., and is forty-five years of age. His parents were members of the A. M. E. church. His father gave the land and almost erected the church edifice in the town where young Pope was born. It was in the county of his birth that the Rev. Mr. Pope received his elementary training in the public school and from there went to Knox institute, Athens, Ga., where he took a higher course of study. He was con- PRIEST REV. DR. ROBERT L. POPE. sideder a bright student and advanced rapidly. After completing the academic course at Knox institute he entered Allen university, Columbia, S. C., with a fixed determination of getting a college education. Dr. Pope also studied at Morris Brown university in Atlanta. During his course of training he entered the ministry, and in order to fit himself for his life's work took a theological course at Gammon Theological seminary in Atlanta, graduating at the head of a class of seventeen. Like most aggressive ministers, he has not stopped feeding his mind. While in Denver he has done postgraduate work at Denver university. It was while attending school in Athens that he connected himself with the active work of the church and Sunday school. He was a member of Pierce chapel, A. M. E. church. In February, 1895, he was licensed to preach by Bishop J. S. Flipper, who was then presiding elder of the Athens district. In the fall of 1895 he was admitted to membership on trial in the Atlanta (Ga.) conference by Bishop A. Grant. His progress in the church was rapid, for within two years he was admitted into full membership, ordained deacon and the next year advanced to the elderhood. During his active ministry Dr. Pope has filled the following charges: Kirkwood mission, West End mission, Trinity station, Atlanta; St. Paul, Troy, Ala.; St Luke, Eufaula, Ala.; St John, Montgomery, Ala.; Campbell chapel, Denver, and at Shorter chapel, Denver, his present charge, where he is doing a great work for the moral, spiritual and intellectual uplift of his people. Two splendid churches now stand as a monument to his work and life. One cost $3,000 and the other $25,000; also a beautiful parsonage was built under his ministry. He has been designated as a debt payer as well as a revivalist. He has taken into the church during his ministry over 2,000. While in Montgomery he raised the membership from 700 to 1,014. Dr. Pope has had the pleasure of being a member of two general conferences—Norfolk, Va., and Kansas City, Mo—and has been elected a delegate to the centennial general conference, which meets next May in Philadelphia. In church affairs he has been a zealous worker, and at the same time he has been honored by the people whom he serves. He heads the Colorado delegates to the general conference and has the endorsement of his conference for the position of secretary of education. He was a delegate to the world's conference of Methodism, held in Toronto, Canada, and was one of the secretaries of the last general conference held in Kansas City, Mo. In his ministerial work he has been assisted by a well educated, cultured companion, who was in her maiden days Miss Janie M. Crane, a teacher in Morris Brown university. PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. Keep the Abdomen Warm. Chilling of the abdomen is a cause of diarrhea. Unwholesome foods and defectively cooked food cause acute gastric indigestion in those who eat them, and diarrhea can hardly fall to occur, especially if the bowels become chilled. It will be found of great comfort and service to wind a warm woolen band around the abdomen to keep up the warmth in digestive areas. A thin-white wool gauge strip of fannel about nine inches wide will make nice fitting, sung bandages, which will never prove to be too warm, even during the hottest day in summer. Persons who say they are "subject to summer diarrhea" will be free from future attacks if they wear a woolen bandage day and night throughout the summer season. INFLUENCE OF HAMPTON Miss Bertha Conde Delivers Instructive Address at Noted Virginia School. The name Hampton when applied to the Hampton (Va.) Normal and Agricultural institute is a name to be conjured with. From this school went possibly the first, and certainly the best, prepared group of colored teachers who served faithfully in the country schools not many years after the close of the civil war. The influence of the Hampton institute has been and is a blessing to humanity. One of the most recent and helpful additions to the institute is a branch of the Young Women's Christian association. It has brought some interesting speakers to the school. Recently Miss Bertha Conde, senior student secretary of the National Y. M. C. A. board, spoke to the school at the chapel service. She told the students a little about the World's Student Christian federation, which is composed of students in all parts of the world, and urged them to give in their lives the answer to the question which people everywhere are asking today, "What is there in Jesus Christ?" Miss Conde said that Christ is on trial today, as he was in Pilate's time. As Pilate had the power to release him or to crucify him, so have we, and we must decide which we are going to do. Pilate heard voices saying things against Christ, "and their voices prevailed." Ambition, pride and selfishness are the voices that drown the call of Christ today, and we must not let them prevail, but must come out clearly and allow him to be the greatest power in our lives. Home Grown. Hampton—Where have you been? Rhodes—I had to go south for my lumbago. Hampton—I got mine right at home -Kansas City Star. Too True. "The early birdlet gets the worm," So reads the proverb book. As for the worm, we must affirm, He merely gets the hook. —Wisconsin State Journal. Used to Be Successful. Church—You say he is a successful inventor? Gotham - He used to be. "Used to be?" "Yes, he can't invent any excuses now that his wife will believe."-Yonkers Statesman. The New Baggage Rule. Mary has a little trunk. She likes it not a bit. For everywhere that Mary goes She has to value it. "Why do you use rouge and powder?" he asked. "To make myself beautiful," she explained. "That puts a new complexion on the matter," he admitted. — Philadelphia Ledger. Often the Case. When a wife ambles off to her club And is prone to be scorpiony It is safe to assume that her hub Isn't making home happy. —Pittsburgh Post. Uninformed. "What were the seven wonders of the world?" "I dunnn," answered Mr. Rufnek. "I never could remember much about what I saw in a dime museum or a sideshow."—Washington Star. Must Be. Mary had a little lamb At lunch. A matter which We wish to state would indicate That Mary's folks are rich. —Buffalo News. Gas Not Needed. Dentist—What! You don't want gas? You insisted on having gas the last time. Victim—You haven't been eating onions this time—New York Weekly. TWIN CITY STAR RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Important Work of an Organization Which Opposes Race Prejudice. The National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, with headquarters at 70 Fifth avenue, New York, has a membership of 10,000, with sixty-three local branches. The association has, among other objects, equality of opportunity for the colored people, with exact legal justice for the race in common with all other groups of citizens of the United States. The official organ of the organization is the Crisis Magazine, edited by Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, which has a circulation of over 84,000. The association is composed of members of both races, but the colored people constitute 80 per cent of the membership and circulation of the Crisis. The society employs nearly 800 members of our race among its workers and maintains a legal bureau for the consideration of cases involving discrimination on account of color. The association recently successfully opposed the flood of legislation hostile to colored people introduced into the Sixty-third congress; defeated the attempt made to segregate colored people in the civil service of the United States; appeared through counsel in the "grandfather cases" recently ruled upon by the supreme court in one of the most important decisions in its history; opposed segregation ordinances in Baltimore, Louisville and St. Louis, carrying the Louisville ordinance up to the supreme court, where it is to be argued by counsel representing this association. It also gave publicity to the dangers of proposed farm segregation in North Carolina which would prevent colored people from buying farm land; made an investigation of jimcrow cars and has nearly perfected a legal case to test the Oklahoma law in order to present the question to the interstate commerce commission with the object of securing equal accommodations for white and black. It kept a film play to which objection was made out of two states and several cities and in many other places has succeeded in having the worst scences eliminated. THE BORDENTOWN SCHOOL. New Jersey Institution May Receive Big Sum For Equipment. Should the New Jersey state legislature grant the sum of $123,000 which the state board of education has decided is necessary for the further equipment of the state industrial school at Bordentown, N. J., it will be about the best institution of its kind in the state for the education of the colored youth. Every beneficial trade will be taught under the plans which have been drawn. Colonel D. Stewart Craven, chairman of the committee in charge of the institution, has asked the board to make the request for the money. Colonel Craven said that the school has been just drifting along for years and now that new blood has been infused into the management an attempt should be made to build up the school. The board has also decided to sanction the purchase of the Newark Normal school. President Frelinghuysen is to be informed of the price the Newark board of education asks for the building, and if an agreement can be made with the legislature the money for the building will be paid in yearly installments. BIG VICTORY FOR THE RACE. Commission Votes Down Clarence Back-Race Scenarios Plan Poe's Hace Segregation Plan. The university commission on the southern race question, which held its meeting at Durham, N. C., recently, voted down Clarence Poe's proposition for race segregation with a decided emphasis. Mr. Poe's proposition included three parties to the race problem, as follows: First, the Negro; second, the wealthy or professional white man unaffected by Negro competition; third, the poor laboring white man who does and must face such competition. "I would not have less sympathy or thought for the Negro, but more for the disadvantaged white man," says Mr. Poe in his pleas to keep alive the flames of race prejudice. "I hope your commission will study this third factor and also inquire if separate grouping does not encourage better Negro leadership and community life. Also make a study of mulatto traits and achievements as distinguished from pure Negro and inquire to what extent mulattoes are increasing." Meeting of Pittsburgh Women's Clubs. The City Federation of Women's Clubs in Pittsburgh is showing timely interest in public movements as well as in the special work for which it is organized. This fact was emphasized at its regular meeting held on Friday evening, Jan. 14. The organization has given liberal aid to many needy families and individuals and rendered fines co-operation in the larger work for racial advancement. Mrs. Sarah McClanahan is president and Mrs. R. R. Payne secretary. Sons of Virginia Are Pushing Ahead. A gain of eleven new members, $282.67, receipts of $911.16, a bank balance of $4,340.23 and one death out of a membership of 153 are the salient features noted in the annual report of the Society of the Sons of Virginia in Brooklyn for 1915. The organization is incorporated under the laws of the state of New York and has among its members some of the most thrifty business and professional men of the city. Tucker High Grade Trusses, Surgical Appliances, Elastic Hosiery. Abdominal Supporters, Etc. The very best in Quality and Intelligent Service. The place wher you always gets a Square Deal. 415-17 Masonic Temple SMOKE THE BEST 5C CIGAR Sight Draft W. S CONRAD CO., Distributors NO. 140. E. 6th ST., ST. PAUL. NO. 1. WESTERN AVE., MINN. Peterson, The Druggist 1501 Washington Ave. So. TOILET ARTICLES, DRUGS PRESCRIPTIONS. He Sollicits Your Patronage. SPECIAL SAMPLE SHOES. POPULAR PRICED SHOE RE- PAIRING. Office, Nic. 1963 Res. Celfax 1638. DR. J. H. REDD, Physician and Surgeon. 111 SO. 6TH ST. Minneapolis, Minn. DR. W. H. WRIGHT. DENTIST. Phone Nic. 1963 111 So. 6th St Minneapolis, Minn. SIX GOOD REASONS Why You Should Join The National Association for the Advance- ment 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. It is composed of members of both races and sexes on terms of complete equality and as brothers and sisters in this holy cause of freedom. An Appeal for Funds. The Association needs money and new members. It costs just one dollar to join. If you believe in fair play, in fighting for your rights, if you believe in organization and cooperation, Join this Association and do your bit toward advancing the race and therby helping to make human brotherhood a reality and not a fiction Send One Dollar to the undersigned and join in this great work. Gale P. Hilver Secretary 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" ROOT & HAGEMAN 403-5-7 NICOLLET AVENUE Women's Fashionable Apparel at Popular Prices COATS, SUITS, DRESSES, WAISTS, SKIRTS, MILLINERY, GLOVES, HOSIERY and UNDERWEAR First Class Conveniences. Reasonable Rates, by Day, Week or Month. OPEN THE First C ROBT. CANTY, PROP. T. S. Center 4639. WALFRID WESTMAN Photographer 1425 Washington Ave. So. Minn. 128 ALBERT B. CUMMINGS, U. S. Senator from Iowa Candidate for Republican Nomination for President Primaries, Tuesday, March14 Born on farm in Pennsylvania. Learned carpenter's trade and paid for his own education. Was railroad express agent run- ning from Iowa to Minneapolis. Has been governor of Iowa and is at present United States Sen- ator from that State. Is a Republican, and has taken advanced stand upon tariff and other issues that have interested the people in recent years. Voted against Canadian Reci- procity. Voted against Wilson's Democratic tariff bill, because it discriminates against the interests of the Northwest. Supported bills in the interests of agriculture, dairying and labor. Favored bills for reasonable railroad regulation. (Issued by Cummins Campaign Committee, Merchants Hotel, St. Paul, I. A. Caswell, Chairman.) Office Phone N. W. Main 625 GALE P. HILYER ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW With Hall and Tantges 722 New York Life Bldg. Minneapolis, Minn. Res. N. W. South 3347 THE SPIRELLA CORSET Mrs. Cora Anderson Carr 365 Aurora Ave. N. W. Dale 1345 St. Paul, Minn WHEN IN THE TWIN CITIES Be Sure and Visit WOODSEY JEMISON'S PLACE COSMOPOLITAN CAFE AND GRILL 40 E. THIRD ST., ST. PAUL Railroad Men's Headquarters Night and Day Phone Cedar 9128 THE SOUTHERN THEATRE 1422 Washington Ave. So. MOVING PICTURES—VAUDE- VILLE. Best Film—Thoroughly Proofed. RAILROAD MEN PREFERRED. 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, 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 Worker. NO COLOR LINE BUSINESS. Promoters of Proposed Summer Resort In Michigan Should Be Broadminded. The movement recently started by a group of prominent colored men to clear up the ground and erect suitable buildings for a summer resort on the shores of Crooked lake, near White Cloud, Mich., to be ready for the season of 1916, has many good features. But if the promoters should decide finally to confine the benefits to be derived from the resort to our race only, without regard to the business enterprises usually carried on at such resorts, it may binder rather than help the project. The sentiment of the race generally, says N. B. Dodson, is against drawing the color line. The race is fully capable of maintaining ownership of its business enterprises, educational and religious institutions without drawing the line. If white people desire to patronize our institutions of whatever kind under our management they should be permitted to do so. Co-operation is the watchword of the times. The proposed summer resort should be a purely business movement. PUBLSHED EVERY FRIDAY BY CHARLES SUMNER SMITH, 305—So. Fifth Street. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Entered in the Post Office at Minneapolis as second class matter. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION Subscription by Mall, Postpaid. ONE YEAR ..... $2.00 SIX MONTHS ..... 1.00 THREE MONTHS ..... .65 Hamlet B. Rowe, Asst. Manager. ADVERTISING RATES. Months, or 1 year contracts. Want Ads .....Twenty-five Cents Reading Notices, per line, Five Cents Wedding Announcements, Fifty Cents Card of Thanks .....One Dollars In Memoriam .....One Dollar Business Announcements, One Dollar Death Notices .....Fifty Cents When writing for the press, don't abbreviate your words. Spell each one out correctly and distinctly. If you don't it means that all of your manuscript will have to be rewritten if there is time. Write on one side of the paper only. Address all mail to Twin City Star 305 8, 5th St. It appears from the opinions of the press of Minnesota that, Hon. Frank B. Kellogg of St. Paul is the peoples' choice for U. S. Senator. He may accept the nomination. He is a man of much legal ability and integrity, and stands for progressive and Republic principles. THE TUSKEGEE CONFERENCE. Program For Annual Meeting of Farmers Had Many New Features. In order to put new life into the Tuskegee Negro conference, Dr. Booker T. Washington's last suggestion to the conference committee was that there should be a variation of the usual program for the conference in 1916. Accordingly, the exercises which began at the institute on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 1916, were very much different from former programs. It has been the custom to have the visitors to the conference go to the chapel at 10 o'clock in the morning on conference day and listen to the reports made by delegates from various communities. Instead of this, visitors were taken to the agricultural department and to Dorothy hall from 9 to 12 o'clock, a. m., to witness special demonstrations and exhibits. While the exhibits and demonstrations in the agricultural department were intended for all, the exposition at Dorothy hall was specially intended for women. A real school for the older people and other visitors to the conference proved to be a real personal benefit. The agricultural department gave demonstrations in farming, trucking, canning and fruit growing, and in animal groups there were illustrations in the case of dairy cattle and the manufacture of dairy products, selecting and feeding farm animals, diseases of farm animals and their treatment. In the handicraft division there were demonstrations of making doormats out of cornhucks, reseating chairs, mattress making, horse collars, table mats and various pieces of household furniture. The following is the program for the workers' conference on Thursday, Jan. 20, in the academic assembly room, from 10:30 a. m. to 1:30 p. m.: "The Better Housing of Negroes," the topic being divided into two parts, "Urban or City Housing Conditions" and "Rural Housing Conditions." Under the first were discussed (a) "Housing Conditions and the Urban Death Rate For Negroes." (b) "Some Examples of What Is Being Done to Improve Urban Housing Conditions" and (c) "Agencies Which Can Assist In Improving Urban Housing Conditions." Under "Rural Housing Conditions" the discussion was (a) "Housing Conditions and the Rural Death Rate For Negroes." (b) "Housing Conditions and the Rural Labor Supply" and (e) "Agencies Which Can Assist In Improving Rural Housing Conditions." The health demonstrations were held by Tuskegee institute health department. A MAN'S WORK To get good is animal, to do good is human, to be good is divine. The true use of a man's possessions is to help his work, and the best end of all his work is to show us what he is. The noblest workers of our world bequeath us nothing so great as the image of themselves—James Martineau. National Organization Holds Eighth Annual Meeting In Philadelphia. The eighth annual meeting of the National Equal Rights league, held for three days in Philadelphia, closed on Wednesday evening, Dec. 15, with an exercise commemorative of the adoption of the thirteenth amendment to the United States constitution. There were many men and women of national prominence in attendance, and much public interest was manifested in the work of the organization. The address to the country is in part as follows: It is on the fifteenth anniversary of the final and constitutional abolition of chattel slavery in the United States of America that we, American citizens of color, assemble in Philadelphia, the state of the great reconstruction statesman, Thaddeus Stevens, who carried the thirteenth amendment through our national house of representatives. After a half century of freedom, during which the colored American has achieved remarkable educational, religious and business progress and demonstrated the highest human possibilities, the National Equal Rights league in eighth annual meeting assembled finds that Americans of African descent are still denied in many sections of the land their legal rights: By law the right to vote on the same terms as others, native and naturalized; by practice the right to enter places of public accommodation and resort; by law the right to use public facilities without the indignity of racial discrimination; by law the right to reside, even in their own property, adjacent to their fellow citizens; by action of the federal government the right to work beside and to use the necessary health accessories with other employees of the federal government in some government buildings at the national capital; by practice the right of trial by court and jury when accused of crime. Therefore we issue this call to action to the proscribed and oppressed and, to all others who believe in liberty, equality of rights and human brotherhood. Colored Americans, begin the second half century of legal freedom by combining to organize, agitate and vote, where permitted, for the preservation of that freedom, that enjoyment of identical civil and political rights with others, that exemption from galling discriminations in the public life, which were bought at the price of billions of treasure and of the health and lives of millions of white and colored patriots. Let us here resolve that under God we shall use our voices, our pens, our patronage, our votes, our money and every resource that God has put in our power for the abolition of segregation, distranchisement and lynching on the color line, undismayed that a president rules in the White House unwilling, despite his pre-election pledge, to rise above the narrow provincial color prejudice of section. Let us face the forces of prejudice and, spurring the bride ever offered for voluntary segregation, honor the deeds of the abolitionists and refuse to sell our birthright for a mess of pottage. To our fellow Americans of every race we appeal for an equal chance and fair play. Friends of the republic, save free institutions, save the fruits of the civil war, save the fair name of our common country now besmirched by worse proscription than in any civilized land. Demand incessantly that race and color discrimination shall cause and there shall not in the beasted land of the free be a reversion to a taste of color, now reaching even into the national government. The officers of the league for 1916 are the following named persons: President, Rev. Byron Gunner, New York; recording secretary, Dr. J. L. Johnson, Ohio; assistant recording secretary, Maurice W. Spencer, Delaware; corresponding secretary, William Monroe Trotter, Massachusetts; treasurer, Thomas Walker, District of Columbia; financial secretary, Dr. William A. Sinclair, Pennsylvania; national organizer, Rev. B. C. Bansom, New York; assistant organizer, Rev. J. E. Churchman, New Jersey; chaplain, Rev. E. George Biddle, Connecticut; vice presidents, Rev. M. W. Thornton, Massachusetts; William D. Brigham, Massachusetts; Francis Warren, Michigan; W. Ashby Hawkins, Maryland; Rev. E. W. Moore, Pennsylvania; George W. Ellis, Illinois; Rev. W. F. Graham, Pennsylvania, and Rev. W. Spencer Carpenter, Pennsylvania. "This book, which had a page loose in it, has undergone a sort of legal action." "What was that?" "It has been bound over to keep the piece."—Baltimore American. LIBERAL SUBSCRIPTION OFFER Special $3.00 Combination. We offer a Combination Subscription to our readers for 1916. We will give you your choice of any Negro NEWSPAPER or MAGAZINE, and THE TWIN CITY STAR, mailed to your address anywhere in the U. S. for THREE DOLLARS. Cash in advance. Get your home paper sent direct to you. Forward all orders to THE TWIN CITY STAR, ... 305 Fifth St. So. TWIN CITY STAR RACE PROBLEM IN AMERICA. Cont from Page 1. is not because there himself and most of the American dollars. But we have no place to turn for help. The white boy sets out upon his career with many voices to hail and urge him on. His race is with him, bearing him up in its sympathies and in its achievements as the ocean lifts the ship on its bosom. The Negro boy begins the ascent with his race a drag upon him. The weight of the whole mass he must lift. If he finds some voices to encourage him, there are more voices to sneer and bid him keep his place. All the way up there are those who contest his right to rise; and he knows that if at last he shall succeed in standing upon the higher range of attainment he will be in an atmosphere that is chilly indeed. But if there be dignity in bearing the cross; if it is true that the better rewards of life are designed for those who overcome, then surely great credit is due such Negroes as Booker T. Washington. Fred Douglass and hundreds of other sturdy ones who against unparalleled odds have pushed their way; who have climbed often with bleeding fingers and bruised feet, and who have attested in their victories against severest competitions those lines of Kipling which I have somewhere seen quoted in their behalf: "But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor breed, nor birth. When two strong men stood free to When two strong men stand face to face, Though they come from the ends of the earth." All that we as Negroes want is a fair chance. We do not ask favors now. We just want the liberty to be ourselves, to be permitted to stand upon our own legs. If we can manage the farm, dig the mines and run the engine; if we can plead the case and treat the sick; if we can mould our thoughts in exquisite beauty and real power in verse or on canvas; if we can be the statesman and the leader of men—let there be no hindrance placed to the exercise of these talents. We do not ask that social equality which brings me into your home or you into mine, without regard for your feelings or mine, for we realize as does every sensible man that; social equality is an individual right. But we do want industrial equality—the opportunity to work on fair terms and to enjoy to the fullest extent the harvest of our labor; also educational equality—the privilege to learn and to appropriate the truth, which belongs, like the air to all. The white people of the North, engrossed in their business and every day life have no conception of the persistency displayed by the white people of the South, led by Vardaman, Tillman, John Sharp Williams, Hefflin, Thomas Dixon and others, in persecuting the Negro and curtailing his rights. It was Senator Tillman who said, "we've cheated the niggers, we've threatened them, we've murdered them, and now we are going to disfranchise them". And through the passage, by the various southern states, of the laws known as the Educational Test with the "Understanding" clause, and the "Grandfather" clause, the Negroes of the South have been disfranchised for the past 10 to 20 years. But, thank God, through the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court these laws have been declared unconstitutional and if southern ingenuity and prejudice cannot find another way to rob my people of their franchise they will soon enjoy the right to vote as well as to pay taxes. Josiah Royce, of Harvard one of the leading psychologists of our time, made an elaborate study of this matter of prejudice a few years ago, and pronounced it a pure "illusion"; that it is not an actual but an artificial thing and has no existence except where efforts are made to interfere with the natural order of things and to change God's plans with respect to humanity. The city of St. Paul has no natural problem arising out of the Mississippi River. When allowed to flow in its natural cause the "Father of Waters" passes peacefully on its winding way until its identity is lost in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. It adds beauty to the scenery surrounding the cities, towns and villages it kisses, and upon its broad bosom, swift-winged vessels of commerce cary their burdens from one end of the country to another. But when the city of St. Paul attempts to alter the natural order of things and to interfere with the privileges of the Mississippi's natural course, to restrict its right of passage and change its channel for the selfish purpose of erecting a new union depot, it then creates artificially and of its own motion, a Mississippi river problem. We have no race problem in this country with the German, the English, the Irish, the Scotch, the French, the Swede, the Norwegian and many other races of people, and why? It is not because there are not among them paupers, for there are. It is true that among those people in this country there are drunkards, and an idle, indolent worthless class; that they have their criminal class and that they have committed every crime known to the criminal calendar, for their is no crime known to human kind that has not been committed by the white man;—but it is because there is no organized interference with the rights and privileges of those people; no studied restriction of their liberties; no Vardaman, no Tillman, no Thomas Dixon et al, whose great aim in life is to prevent the enjoyment of their equal rights under the laws of this land. No attempt to alter the natural order of things with which they are concerned. No attempt to interfere with the privileges of their natural course. No attempt to restrict their right of passage or to change their channel for selfish purposes. It is the utter disregard of the law of God and man, and the desire to change things where the Negroes' rights are involved in this country that creates the Negro Race Problem. The solution of the whole problem involving the white man and the black man is simple justice, a recognition of the fact that the rights of the humblest citizen are as worthy of protection as the highest. Apply this method and the problem will be solved. But whatever may be in store for this nation in the future; whether prosperity or adversity; whether there be foes within or foes without, whether there shall be peace or war, the Negro always will be a loyal and faithful American citizen, and we sincerely hope the day will soon come when he will be treated as such. Atty Francis spoke at length on the remarkable rise and progress of Chas. W. Scrutchin, of Bemidji, Minn., and Turner Bell of Leavenworth, Kans., the noted Negro attorneys, as examples of the possibilities of the highest development of Negro brain and character under the most adverse circumstances. Bishop Greer Presides at Session of American Church Institute. The work that is being done toward the industrial education of the colored race in a dozen schools scattered throughout the south by the American Church Institute For Negroes was described at the recent meeting of the society by the Rev. Robert W. Patton before 400 women interested in social betterment work. Dr. David H. Greer, Episcopal bishop of New York and president of the institute, presided at the meeting, which was held in the assembly hall of the Colony club in New York, and introduced the speaker. The Rev. Mr. Patton in part said: "It cost the nation $10,000 per capita and a million lives besides to emancipate the slaves. But emancipation is not freedom. And after the bitterness of the reconstruction period in the south, which should be called the redestruction period, a group of men in the north and south decided that this was so. "The Church institute is freeing the slaves at $100 each by giving the Negro the freedom of mind and body which he deserves." The reports of the past year's work showed that much good had been accomplished. The institute conducts a divinity school, two academic schools, five industrial schools, two hospitals and a training school for nurses. Sam M. Lucas Dies in New York. In the death of Samuel M. Lucas in New York on Monday, Jan. 10, the race loses its oldest actor and song composer both in age and point of service. Mr. Lucas was born in 1841 and was the first colored artist to play the part of Uncle Tom in that famous play "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which shows the injustice and horrors of human slavery. He also had the distinction of being the first actor of our race to play before Queen Victoria. Like Will Marion Cook, Bob Cole, the Johnsons and Walkers, Sam Lucas, as he was known, had a long and successful career on the stage. He began his theatrical career at twenty and was active almost to the day of his death. Concord Church Losses Aged Member. Funeral services over the remains of Mrs. Isabella Brown of Jersey City were conducted by the Rev. William M. Moss at the Concord Baptist church in Brooklyn on Sunday, Jan. 9. The deceased was born in New York city in 1843 and had been a member of the above named church fifty-one years. She was thrifty and, it is said, was quite wealthy. School in Honor of Dr. Washington. The movement started by friends of the late Dr. Booker T. Washington in Chicago to honor the memory of the noted educator by founding and maintaining an industrial school for children is a worthy one. Qute a large sum of money for this purpose has already been collected, and the project has every indication of being successfully established. 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