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MINNEAPOLIS DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST.PAUL MINNESOTA HISTORICAL fective Page VOL. 5 Single Copies 5 Cents STORY OF PHILLIS WHEATLEY POEMS Learned Critics Discuss Slave Girl's Literary Work. Well Known New York Book Dealer Publishes Three New Volumes Dealing With Writings of First Post of the Colored Race in America—Schomburg Wrote Introduction. Charles Fred Heartmann, an antiquarian and bookseller of New York city, has brought out three volumes de luxe dealing with Philis Wheatley, which collectors and book lovers will appreciate because of their rarity. Mr. Heartmann is a German scholar and a former journalist who has traveled much in Europe and, like a good journalist, has made excellent use of his eyes and ears. He has long had the idea in mind of doing justice to the little African poetess who in her day was lionized by the best class of Americans and the nobility of England, where she made an indelible impression by her talents and genius as a writer of poetry, says John E. Bruce "Grit." There have been several editions of Miss Wheatley's poems published in the United States and in England, but there has been no such attempt made as this of the altruistic German gentleman to give this Negro girl her true place in American literature—that of the first American poetess, for no white woman in this country, so far as we have been able to discover, had achieved any distinction as a writer of either prose or poetry, at that period, so that Phillis Wheatley was easily first among American literary women of that day. Mr. Arthur A. Schomburg, secretary of the Negro Society For Historical Research, who collaborated with Mr. Heartmann in the compilation of these books, in his introduction to the poems and letters of Phillis Wheatley cites Dr. Samuel Stanhope Smith (1810) in his essay on the variety of complexion and figure in the human species, who said, answering Jefferson's criticisms, that religion had produced a "Phillis Wheatley, but it could not produce a poet" and added that her poems were "below the dignity of criticism." To this Dr. Smith made answer as follows: "The poems of Phillis Wheatley, a poor African slave taught to read by the indulgent plety of her master, are spoken of with infinite contempt. But I will demand of Mr. Jefferson or any other man who is acquainted with American planters how many of those could have written poems equal to those of Phillis Wheatley" (page 269). Mr. Schomburg further along in his introduction states that many of the poems of this girl were quoted by Thomas Clarkson, the great English abolitionist, in his celebrated Latin essay, which won the first prize at Cambridge, 1785, on "The Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species." He quotes also Lydia Maria Child, who said of her poems: "Jefferson denies that these poems have any merit, but I think he would have judged differently had he been perfectly unprejudiced." It would be indeed absurd to put Philis Wheatley in competition with Mrs. Hemang, Mary Hewitt, Mrs. Sigourney, Miss Gould and other modern writers, but her productions certainly appear very respectable in comparison with most of the poetry of that day, and a later critic, J. B. Earnest, Jr., M. A., who says: "An excellent little volume of poems by a Negro girl who was a slave in Massachusetts. The work cannot approach the excellence of the poetry written by Paul L. Dunbar, yet it is wonderful poetry for a Negro slave of the eighteenth century." Mr. Jefferson, it appears, did not accept Dr. Smith's challenge. The reasons are obvious. The lord mayor of London, Mr. Brooke Watson, was so well pleased with Philis' poems on her visit to England, where she was the guest of the Countess of Huntingdon, to whom she dedicated her book of poems, which was published in 1773, that he presented to her as a mark of his appreciation of her talents a Fouls edition in folio of Milton's "Paradise Lost," which is now the property of the Harvard library. Mr. Schumburg has done well in his introduction and has given us many important facts about Philis which have not hitherto been put in such compact form. Mr. Heartmann has done even better in making possible these three books about Philis Wheatley. READ THE STAR-IT'S NEWSY. STATISTICS SHOW RACE PROGRESS How Our People Are Forging Ahead In Pennsylvania. FIRST IN CHURCH PROPERTY Report of the Hon. John L. Rockey Glives Full Credit to the Achievements of the Colored People in Keystone State—Farm Valuation Amounts to $2,468,100. The final chapter on the colored population of the United States, with special reference to the race in Pennsylvania, is given in the recent report of the Hon. John L. Rockey, chief of the bureau of industrial statistics, made to the Hon. Henry Houck, secretary of internal affairs, at Harrisburg, Pa. The report in part says: The center of the Negro population, which in 1790 was in the southern part of Virginia, has been shifting to the southwest constantly and for a number of decades has been in the northern part of Alabama. As to the shades of color of the people, a division into two classes, black and mulatto, gave a proportion of 79.1 per cent of the former and 20.9 per cent of the latter, but the mulatto class increase since the 1900 census was 5.5 per cent. The Negroes of the United States, considered by sex, were about equally divided, there being 98.9 females for every 100 males. In point of residence about one-third lived in towns, the remaining two-thirds being classed as rural population. The school attendance of all ages of Negroes was 53.2 per cent as against 78.1 per cent of whites of like ages. The Negro population of Pennsylvania in 1910 numbered 193,919, an increase of 37,034, or 23.6 per cent, over the 1900 census returns. Thus the state ranked fourteenth in the Union in point of such population. For the past twenty years the Negro population of the state has constituted 2.5 per cent of the entire inhabitants. By far the greater number, 156,333, or 80.6 per cent, lived in towns, only 37,866, or 19.4 per cent, being classed as rural population. The Negroes of Pennsylvania born in this state numbered 84,960, or much less than one-half of the entire number. Large numbers born in other states were 5,798 in Delaware, 9,755 in North Carolina, 20,030 in Maryland, 49,956 in Virginia and 2,937 in the District of Columbia. No other state equaled the latter in number, the remaining nativity being from many other points. A division of the population as to sex indicated that there were 2,259 more females than males, or, stated in another form, there were but 97.7 Negro males for every 100 Negro females. In 1900 a reverse condition prevailed, there being 102.4 males for every 100 females. Three of the male Negroes in the state and sixteen females were reported to be more than 100 years old. The Negroes of the state engaged in agriculture numbered 585. The farms were 543, with an area of 80,007 acres, two-thirds of which were improved. These farms had a value of $2,468,100 and were located in forty-nine counties of the state. Eighteen counties had no Negro farms. Counties having more than ten such farms were Allegheny, 18; Beaver, 12; Bucks, 20; Chester, 112; Delaware, 21; Fayette, 29; Franklin, 18; Greene, 11; Junata, 16; Lawrence, 16; Lancaster, 49; Montgomery, 22; Washington, 49, and York. 88. The Negro farms of the state decreased 7.2 per cent in number, but the value of those in 1910 was 32 per cent greater than those in 1900. The male Negroes of the state, fifteen or more years old, 72,613 in number, had marital relations as follows: 83.4 per cent were single; 54.3 per cent were married and 14.3 per cent were widowed. Two hundred and forty-eight were divorced. Of the 73,673 females of like ages there were 386 divorces; 30.1 per cent were single. 54.5 per cent were married, and 14.4 per cent were widows. The religious life of the Negro population of the state found expression through 428 church organizations, having 20,613 communicant male and 34,661 female members. The 387 houses of worship, capable of seating 120,988 persons, had a value of $3,494,205, and there were ninety-eight parsonages, valued at $248,700. No other northern state even approximated Pennsylvania in any of the above features. A creditable showing was also made in the school life of the Negroes of the state; 82.9 per cent of children under fourteen years of age, 22,475, were school attendants. The white children of native birth exceed that by but 6 per cent, and foreign born white children had an attendance of 3 per cent less. The entire Negro school attendance was 27,797, of whom 449 were more than twenty-one years of age. The white man professes it, not honest. He does not prove by works or acts. He is a hypocrite and is so narrow the eyes on this question that be impossible to insert a piece in paper turned edgewise them. The Japanese attitude to darker races is fully set forth JAPANESE VIEW OF HUMAN RIGHTS What Leading Asiatics Say About Oneness of Races. Well Known Newspaper Correspondent Receives Interesting Volume From E. W. Cole of Melbourne In Which the Opinions of Forty Eminent Japanese Are Given on Race Question. By JOHN B. BRUCE "GRIT." I have recently received from my friend, E. W. Cole, Esq., proprietor of the Coles Book Arcade, Melbourne, Australia, the largest and best equipped book store in Australia, several pamphlets written by Mr. Cole, bound in one volume. One of them, "Humanity," is the story of the human race at a glance and proves its oneness, the other "What Forty Eminent Japanese Say of the 'White Australia Act.'" The white Australia act is very like the California anti-immigration laws and is aimed specifically at Japanese and other Asiatic races. I quote some of the opinions on this legislation of a few of these eminent Japanese. The mayor of Tokyo, asked whether the Japanese were annoyed at being excluded from Australia by this act, answered most emphatically with one word, "Naturally." The acting governor of Hokaldo, Mr. Otsuka, said: "Our first father was one, so we are all brothers, and it is bad to hate each other or make distinction on account of the color of the skin, which is caused by climate. This will gradually become apparent to all mankind, for truth must win." The commander of the Japanese standing squadron, Admiral Hidaka: "God made all mankind, and they are everywhere similar in mind and habits. Their color differs according to the land in which they live, so it is wrong to draw distinctions on account of color." The governor general of Formosa, Baron Kodama, says: "The white people do not seem to understand the colored people. If the Americans don't like the Filipinos they should give the Philippines back to them, and the Dutch should give Java back to the Javanese." "I asked him," says Mr. Cole, "would you like to have the Philippines annexed to your government of Formosa?" and he gave a knowing kind of smile, as if that idea had occurred to him before. Some of the Japanese have an idea that they would like to annex the whole of the Indian archipelago to their country and to form an immense island empire with its hundred millions of colored and kindred inhabitants. Mr. Inouye, vice president Tokyo Chamber of Commerce: "White or yellow, the difference of color in the human race does not imply wisdom or lack of wisdom, is a proverb in Japan. I always keep in mind the Chinese proverb, 'He is a man, and so am I.'" Baron Isiguro, member of the house of peers: "We should not make distinctions on account of the color of skin or of the difference of nationality. Those fellows who are excluding colored persons from their land are mistaken and wrong. I hope God be with you and wake them up as soon as possible from that blind policy called 'White Australia.'" Hon. K. Takaki, member house of peers: "I studied medicine for many years in England and carefully examined human bodies, but I came to the conclusion that there is no material difference between man and man. If persons were brought up in the same conditions and surroundings they would be the same in every way. Therefore it is wrong to draw distinctions on account of color and shut out people from that vast continent of Australia." These are only a few of the forty opinions, but they show by their broadness of view on this race question that the Japanese are superior to the race which seeks to shut them out of Australia and California on account of color. They show also that they believe in the doctrine of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man The white man professes it, but he is not honest. He does not prove his faith by works or acts. He is a cowardly hypocrite and is so narrow between the eyes on this question that it would be impossible to insert a piece of writing paper turned edgewise between them. The Japanese attitude toward the darker races is fully set forth in this series of interviews. Its men of light and leading have expressed with directness and clarity Japanese contempt for that relic of barbarism and child of ignorance, race prejudice. Wins Success After Hard Struggle. Gilbert Critenden, who owns a beauiful home and a splendid farm not far from Ozark, Ala., is reputed to be one of the wealthiest farmers in the state. Besides his regular farm products, he raised hogs and cattle in large numbers. He is highly respected by both races in the community and is a familiar figure at the annual meetings of the National Negro Business league. Gilbert Critenden has won success by hard struggles. FIRST BISHOP OF OUR RACE. How Francisco Jovier de Luna Victoria Rose to the Episcopate. The first bishop of Negro blood on the American continent to wear the miter was Right Rev. Francisco Jovier de Luna Victoria, who was the son of a freed slave who pursued the vocation of a charcoal burner, near Boca de la Rio Grande, and peddled it on his back in the streets of Panama, as one there may see many Negroes still doing. This old man lived for no other purpose than to rear and educate his son and offer him for the sacred ministry, and he saw his purpose accomplished. Luna Victoria was not only a man of virtue and learning, but a successful man of affairs as well. When the see of Panama became vacant by the promotion of Bishop Juan de Casterida to the see of Cuzco, Peru, it having been offered to and refused by several members of religious orders, the miter fell upon the head of the priest Francisco Jovier de Luna Victoria, a native of the country, who had ascended in the degrees of the ecclesiastical hierarchy by his merits and virtues. He was well received and accepted by the people of Panama in those days, when it was known as a "proud and wealthy city." He took possession of the diocese on the 15th of August, 1751. The new prelate, it is recorded, furnished at his own expense the cathedral and enriched it with jewelry and precious vestments, placed the bells on the towers and was transferred to the see of Trujillo, Peru, in 1750. He continued to furnish the money until the building was completed on the 8d of December, 1760. He was the first man of Negro blood on the American continent to wear the miter and the flowing robes of a bishop of the Roman Catholic church. MEN AVAILABLE FOR WAR. Two and One-half Millions Ready In New York State. Albany. N. Y.-There are 2,500,000 men in New York state between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, therefore, available for war duty, Secretary of State Hugo announced in one of his census bulletins. The June enumeration shows, he says, that there were approximately 250 officers and 6,800 enlisted men at the army posts of the state, 60 officers and 1,300 men in New York's naval militia and 1,000 officers and 16,080 men in the national guard. Thousands of men besides these have had some military training, either in the regular army, national guard or in college or military academies. Figures obtained from the adjutant general's office show little change in the strength of the national guard in fifty years. At present it stands: Officers, 1,000; enlisted men, 16,080; total, 17,080. In 1857 it was: Officers, 1,827; enlisted men, 14,088; total, 16,485. The possible strength of the division under the present federal regulations is: Officers, 748; enlisted men, 21,930 total, 22,673. To give more men at least the rudiments of a military training Lieutenant Colonel E. V. Howard of the adjutant general's office favors what he terms a "mild conscription." Every young man on reaching the age of eighteen years would be called to serve under the colors for three years, during which time he would give thirty days of active service each year. A call to arms would find, then, thousands of men better fitted to serve their country. Impertinent. Gibbs—I tell you no man can fool my wife. Dibbs—Then how did you get her? ADVERTISE IN THE STAR THE IMPORTANCE OF ORGANIZATION United Action For Welfare of Race is Urged. 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 NationalEqual 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 equal rights with 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 find 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 proscription 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 civilly 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. 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. SMOKE THE RELIABLE SIGHT DRAFT CIGAR ST. PAUL REPRESENTATIVE. | Fred. D. McCracken, "410 Court Block, St. Paul. 2 SOCIAL NEWS EDITOR, ‘Miss Clara Lucas, 506 Boston Block, Minneapolis. RAILROAD MEN’S NEWS, Stephen Springer, Milwaukee Depot, Minneapolis. Send your(nétes gtijtm\by Wedens- Seat sb chips ‘Send yar subscription now. Leave your, subscription at our of- fice Third floor, 305 Fifth St. So. Bring your printing to the Twin City Star Print, 305 So. Sth 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? “The Hammer” a pamphlet by Mr. W. H. Gaston, true to its name, is knocking the Negro leaders and the Society for the Advancement of Col- ored People. Will Mr. Gaston pub- lish the records of the Federated Club ‘Women? He has fairly stated, it was his purpose “to knock to boost.” He will find, that there is little difference which way you go with a Negro pub- lication—as John Mitchell says: “You are on the road to the alms house or fanatic asylum"—if he depends on them for his support. ‘Those who are indebted to us will please forward a part of their sub- scriptions. “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. THE FORUM “BOOSTERS.” A movement is on foot to “Boost” the Sunday Forum. Get in fine! Committees will be named from the Fraternal organizations, Churches and Business Men will be represented. A Get Acquainted and Get Together meeting will be held in Febriary—in honor of Fred. Douglass to Keep alive the Douglass spirit! Everybody will be expected to co-operate to make ‘The Forum the greatest Civic body among the Negroes of this city and state, a constructive force in the com- munity—the cradle of ambition and inspiration, and an organizaton worthy of its name. Mrs. Frankie Minnis, wife of James Minnis was buried Wednesday. Serv- ices from Lawrence’s Chapel. MeDew is asking YOU a question. Have you read it? It is in our col- umns. / SPECIAL NOTICE. Read the article from the pen of Henry D. Estabrook in this issue. Any man, who can make stich abold stand man, who can make such a bold stand of much consideration. Send all Social Correspondence to Miss Clara Lucas, 506 Boston Block Phone Nic. 1873. Mr. Wm. Doston, who has been in the Hospital for some time is getting along nicely and will be able to return ‘home in a short while. Miss Eunice Smith, and Mr. Cyrus ‘Lewis, were guests at dinner on Sun- day afternoon of Miss Clarist Lucas. ‘We want YOU to came to the Re- ception of the Sunday Forum, to be held Wednesday evening, Feb. 16th Enjoy a nice program. Refresh: ments free. Mr. James Cunningham, of Chicago Ave., has been suffering for the past two weeks with the La Grippe. Mr. Robert Sayles is building 2 duplex cottage at 1018 Emerson Ave. No. He has bought some valuable teal estate in this city. He buys de- sirable property and holds it. Specula tion does not appeal to him. Mrs. McCullough’s Prize Masquer- ade Ball given on Monday evening was a grand affair being largely at- tended by the Twin Cities’ folks. There ware many beautiful and com- fecal costumes. The prizes were awarded as follows, First ladies’ prize to Mrs. C. McWatt, of St. Paul; sec- ‘ond to Miss Francis Mask. First Men’s prize to Mr. Phil. Burke, sec- ond to Mr. Del Ware. The Music excellent. All had a perfectly jovely time. "The Twin City Entertainers, Messrs. Gibson and Rowe are arranging for ‘another ball at Union Temple. Watch the date. © Mr. William Chew, dining car chef, acquited of a charge of assault, in he district court this week. Mr. Justin Brown has been at As- Hospital this week, undergoing an operation for an abscess. AD THE STAR—ITS NEW! Now for a Lovely Time at the GRAND MASQUERADE PARTY Given by the Y. G. B. C’s FRIDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 18TH at MASONIC HALL, 24TH St. AND 5TH AVE. SO. MINN. Music by Prof, Clarence Johnson. COMMITTEE ON ARRANGEMENTS. Clara Lucas, Pres., Rosella Sample, Sec., Eunice Smith, Treas. Mildred Plummer, Leola Coleran, Mattie Lucas, Ellen Lucas Beulah Van Hook, Florence Cunningham, _ Lillian Thomas, Maydrew Cunningham, Reiva Washington, Odette Johnson. COME AND HAVE A LOVELY TIME. WE PROMISE IT TO YOU. REFRESHMENTS SERVED, CHECKING FREE. ADMISSION 35 CENTS. DON'T FORGET THE DATE REV. MURRELL TO SPEAK. iT Rev. B. N. Murrett of Pizrim Bar| QOTEWART’S HOTEL tist Church, St. Paul, will-address The] pINEST ESTABLISHMENT OF Sunday Forum on February 20, at) tT KIND IN THE UNITED Bethesda Baptist Csurch. Rev. Mur- STATES. rell is one of the most interesting and enaaiiatet ig logical speakers of the Twin Cities,| Twenty Elegant Steam Heated, Elec and will be greeted, as usual, by a tric Lighted Rooms, Free large audience. =~ Bath. Rates Reasonable. ZION CHURCH REVIVAL MEET. | rosy, Reading nd Loungng Room INGS. i ee ee a ee * Zion Baptist Church is planning a two weeks’ Revival Meeting to begin about Feb. 20th. Rev. M. W, Withers. Pastor and members desire the co- operation of all Christians and extend a cordial invitation to everyone to at- tend their services each meeting. ‘The Forum Reception will be held at St. Peter's Church on February 16. Free Refreshments. A welcome to strangers, Among the young girls who will be in the receiving line to welcome you the the Forum Reception, will be the Misses Reiva Washington, Ellen Lu- cas, Lillian Thomas, Eunice Smith, Mildred Plummer, and Corrine Par- sons. Mrs. Mary Mosely Withers, wife of Rev. Withers, is home from the Northwestern Hospital, where she has been for two weeks, having under- one a minor operation; and is pro- gressing rapidly. SUNDAY FORUM MEETINGS February 20th at Bethesda Baptist Church, Doors open at 3. P. M. Excellent Program—Choice Music. Begins at 3:30. Come earlier to ‘meet each other, and welcome the de sirable strangers, who are coming tc make good in Minneapolis. Let's Get Together! LINCOLN-DOUGLASS EXER- CISES. . Bethesda Baptist Church. The Young Men's Baraca Club will celebrate the Lincoln-Douglass an niversaries on Sunday, Feb. 13th at 3 o'clock. All are invited. Program. Rev. B. N. Murrell will speak on “Lincoln”, Miss L. O. Smith will read a paper on “Douglass.” Soto by J H. Hickman Jr. Reading, Mrs. Cis- ney. Piano Solo, Miss Corinne Par sons. Duet, Miss Mary Darrier and Mr. E. Thompson. Remarks by Rev. Beasley. Solo, Miss Nettie Ellis, ac companied by Miss Marienne Jeffrey Music by the Braca Orchestra. Hefe- kiah Allen, Chairman. The Majestic Club will have splendid entertainment at Zion Bap- tist Church, February 14th, 8 P. M All are cordially invited. BARACA CLUB BANQUET. The Baraca Club held their first an- nual banquet, last month , at the home of Mrs. Harry Thompson, 3133 Clin ton Ave. Plates were laid for thirty five and the tables were daintily dec- orated with Baraca colors—dark blue and white. Rev. Dr. E. Beasley, Mr 0. A. Lawrence, Mrs. Maude Canty and Rev. J. M. Moss were the speak ers of the evening. ‘The affair shows a promising fw ture for the young men, who are en gaged in striving to build up, a clear worth while organization for the bet terment of young men. Mr. W. W Williams acted as toastmaster. SOME REAL CHARTTY She Ladies of Household of Ruth No. 776 met at the residence of Mrs Hardman on Feb. 8, and were con. ducted by Mrs. Hardman, Mrs. Cor nelius and Miss Bakion to he res idence of Mrs. Sophia Davidge, 611 Dupont Ave. No., where they gave : very pleasant surprize. Mrs. Davidge a member of this Houschald, ha: been very sick all winter and is rap. idly improving. The fadies liberally assisted her and she was full o} gratitude. Among the others present were Mesdames, J. Banham H.Thomp. son, Humphrey, Ricks, J. W. Harper Wynne, Samples, Burwell, Wilkins Alves,) Mr. and Mrs. (J. Johnson and Noah Stone). Messrs. S. Davis, J. P Jackson and McDuff Woodard, ADVERTISE IN THE STAR - 4 THE TWIN CITY STAR ely Time at the WASHBURN FO! NES! ERADE PARTY m ¥.G.B. C's oanany WE / FEBRUARY 18TH Mr. Stanley Wash teresting talk at the AND STH AVE. SO. 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J, E. Stewart, Prop, 24650 FOURTH AVE. SO. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Both Phones. HOW MUCH MONEY HAVE YOU PAID FOR RENT? Did you ever stop to think what beautiful homes people might own, and what snug little bank accounts they might have, if they would invest their savings in little homes of their OWN, instead of continually handing their hard earned money to the LANDLORD? Perhaps you have paid your landlord many times the cost of a home. T have houses for sale from $1,000.00 to $3,500.00, lots from ..65.00 to $2, 000.00. Phone or call and see me it you want to buy. B. MAXEY McDEw, 802 Sykees Block Nic. 621. Mrs. Emma Wallace, 1521 So. Sth St, was buried last week from Law- rence’s Chapel. Her remains were shipped to Clinton, Ta. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. McClendon hve moved to 540 No. Aldrich Ave. Mrs. D. E, Buckner has moved to 2218 Riverside Ave. Mr. Clarence W. Bell is serving on the jury in the District Court this term. ‘Mrs. Sallie Carr-Bomarr expects to return to Duluth in a felw days. Mrs. J. L. Gibson is sick at her cane: THE FORUM. The Sunday Forum met last Sun- day at St. Peter Church. The pro- gram and attendance was good. A piano solo by Miss Labelle Williams was well rendered. Mr. Stephen Springer spoke on: “The European Conflict” and said that “the Napoleo- nic ambition of the Kaiser was the cause of the war, and that the Haps burg curse, which he recited, had come upon Emperor Francis Joseph.’ Mrs. Victoria Graham read her inter esting “Current Events” from leading Negro publications. A review of the work of Prof. W. E. B. Dubois was ably presented by Mrs, Julia Cisney Judging by the interest shown. by those present the future of the Forum is most promising. The president promises tht meetings shall begin a the appointed hour, and an interesting ‘Program given at each session At Bethesda Church the next meeting will be addressed by Rev. B N. Murrel, pastor of Pilgrim Baptist Church of St. Paul. Mr. Wilber Nevells, well known tenor, will give a vocal number and the Young Peo. ples’ Orchestra, under direction 0 Mrs. Maud Canty will assist. | ‘Much interest is being manifested ir the coming Forum Reception to be ‘given on the night of Feb. 16, Some people are wondering “What will be in The Star?” We have the criminal record some of our prominent people, and in spite of many requests, we withhold it, because we do not feel it proper to release it as this time. This is serious. The Star does not seek tc open any doors containing family skeletons or criminal records, but i we must continue war to insure per manent peace, we will begin hostil ities in our next issue. - % iii suena s WASHBURN FOR PREPARED NESS. “Germany Will Not Win.” Mr. Stanley Washburn gave an in- teresting talk at the West Hotel last Thursday on “Russian Side of the War.” He said that “the inhumane warfare of Germany had . created a new issue between the men in the trenches, and that it was doubtful if peace could be made at this time, even if the powers desired it.” He spoke at length on the superior value of the moral ideas and ideals over those material, and in no uncertain tones declared that the Germans would not win, He pictured the horrors of war as witnessed by himself along 1200 miles of Russian front and in 40 bat- tles, and claims that “Russia is com- ing back and will strike the decisive blow of the war.” : Speaking on preparedness. He said that our nayy was a fickle reed to Jean upon in time of war, and referred to the records as proof—and that no man today is so far removed from the war that he may not be firstly called to take a part in it—also that they are looking across the Atlantic for Amer- ica to take her part in this war, and anxiously waiting her action, He ad- vocated actual preparedness, and he mane warfare as a means to the world’s peace, on the moral and di- vine principles that “Right is Might.” Mr. Washburn is the representative of the London Times and one of the world’s leading war correspondents. He is a member of the wealthy Washburn family and a personal friend of Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, whom he thinks is the logical candidate for the Republican party for president. Mr. Washburn met with many of his former friends and co-workers in the Progressive or- ganization. He will write his story of the Russian campaign and we are assured that from his pen, we will hear the truth of the black men in the European conflict. AT THE CLOSED GATE Or WSTICE. To be a Negro in a day like this Demands forgiveness. Bruised witt blow on blow, Betrayed, like him whose woe-dim- med eyes gave bliss, Still must one succor those whe brought one low, To be a Negro in a day like this. To be a Negro in a day like this Demands rare patience—patience that can wait In utter darkness, ‘Tis the path to miss, | And knock, unheeded, at an iro gate, To be a Negro in a day like this, To be a Negro in a day like this {Demands strange loyalty. We serve a flag Which is to us white freedom's em: phasis, Ah! one must love wheh truth an justice lag, To be a Negro in a day tke this. To be a Negro in a day like this— Alas! Lord God, what evil have w done? Still shines the gate, all gold and ame thyst, But I pass by, the glorious goal un "Merely a Negro"—in a day like this won, —James D. Corrothers in The Century. CARD OF THANKS. I wish to thank my many friend: for their kindnesses to my decease mother, Mrs. Jennie Carr, during he illness and for the floral tributes an sympathy extended me in my bereave ment. Mrs. Sallie Carr-Bomarr. Furniture of Rooming House Cheap, House for rent. A dandy location. House in good order. Inquire in Ci- war store, 247 12th Ave. S. Chickens for Sale. T have a choice lot of laying hens and youny chickens for sale. Good stock, good breeders. Single orders taken. John Monroe, 3633 Snelling Ave. - 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 New Year and invite their patronage—Advertisement. Furnished Room For Rent—Strict- ly modern, good location, walking distance, on car line—Mrs. Butler, 564 6th Ave. No. Hyland 214. WORTH ONE DOLLAR. Any Advertisement in Any News- paper of Any Affair at Any Place where Any Admission fee is Accepted is worth One Dollar, the price we charge for our smallest ad for one im ‘sertion. For Sale. SUNDAY SCHOGL. Lesson Vil—First Quarter For Feb, 13, 1916. ' THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. vill, 9—Commentary Prepared by Rev. D. M. Stearns, The topic of this lesson is “Aumtlia. tion and Exaltation,” and the central person {s, as in all the Bible, the Lord Jesus Christ, Creator, Redeemer, High Priest and coming King. From the day that Saul saw Him and heard Him on the way to Damascus he had no eyes nor ears nor heart for any one else, as is plainly seen in some of his words in this epistle: “To me to live ts Christ” “Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.” “I count all things loss for the excel- lency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, ** * that may know Him and the power of His resurrection” (chapter 1, 20, 21; ili, 8, 10. He never ceases to speak of the gospel or the good news concerning Jesus Christ (5, 7, 12, 17, 27; Ml, 22; iv, 3, 15), and he encourages all who belleve the gospel by such assurances as that He who begins the work in them will not fall to finish it; that their names are in the Book of Lite; that all their need here shall be supplied; that in the resurrec- ton the mortal body shall be changed to an immortal body, like the resur- rection body of the Lord Jesus, and that we should ever be looking for His return from heaven (Phil. 4, 6; 1v, 8, 19; {il, 20, 21). As to the present daily life we must count suffering a privilege and not be discouraged even by sick- ness in His service, content under all circumstances and free from all anx fety, fully ylelded to Him, that He may work in us both to will and to do of His good pleasure (chapter 1 20; iL 25-90; tv, 6, 7, 11; fi, 13). In our lesson verses we are led to conalder the comfort that there 1s for us in Christ by fellowship with Him in the power of the Spirit. In the pres: ent conflict with the world, the desh and the devil the only way 1s to ran with patience, looking unto Jesus, and consider Him who endured such con: tradiction of sinners against Himself for us, lest we be wearled (Heb. xi, 18). If we are in Christ His God and Father ts our God and Father, and He fs the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort, and though we may have tribulation we need not be trou- bled (II Cor. 4, 8, 4: John xiv, 27; xvi, 88; xx, 17). As we consider the meck and lowly One, who said “Take my yoke upon you and learn of me,” we shall be ashamed of all strife or vain glory, for the servant of the Lord must not strive (Matt. xl, 20; II Tim. ii, 24; James ill. 14-16). How unseemly was the strife for greatness among the apostles on the last Passover night Even Baruch, the scribe of Jeremiah, was told that he must not seek great things for himself (Luke xxii, 24; Jer. ly, 5). Few seem to have attained to that fulness of grace, which enables them to rejoice in the welfare of another church or denomination as well as their own, because they have not seen that to gather from all the world the Chureh, the body of Christ, s far more fmportant than the welfare of any particular denomination or church or society. If believers had more fully the mind of Christ they would never consider their own reputation or name, but would live only to magnify Him who so emptied [Himself for us, He who had such glory with the Father before the world was as we cannot be- gin to imagine humbled Himself to Bethlehem, and Nazareth, and Geth- semane, and Golgotha, with all that each name suggests. that all who will acknowledge their guilt and receive Him as their Saviour may become ebil- dren of God and joint helrs with Him- self and in due tine share His king- dom and glory. To this end God hath raised Him from the dead and set Him at His own right hand, far above all power and might and dominion and every name that fs named, not only in this world, but also In that which Is to come, and hath put all things un- der His fect and gave flim to be head over all things to the Chureh whieh fs His body (verses 9-11; Epi 1, 20 3). Tt ds this body and bride. that other Bve for the last Adam, that is now be ing gathered from all the world in this age to reign with Him in the next age, When every knee shall bow to Him and every tonzte confess that Jesus Christ ts Lord to the glory of God the Father. This will be at the time of chapter il, 21; Acts til, 21; Reveill, 21, and the fitness for our taking part tn It all ts seen In Gen. Hil, 21. He must relgn till He hath put all enemfes un- der His feet (1 Cor. xv, 25), but He will not begin to relzn till He has His Eve, His bride. His body. the Chureh, to relgn with Him. We see not yet all things put under Him, but we see Je- sus crowned with glory and honor, waiting for those other sons whom He 1s bringing to glory and fitting them for it by thelr present sufferings (Heb. i, 811) Only as we by faith see and thus realize something of our heavenly calling and the glory that awaits us shall we be gladly willing to fll any place of lowly service now if only He can be magnified in us and ‘use us to win others to Fim and thus *coples Christian Assembly. 1204 Washington Ave. 80. Services Sunday—Ii 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. Come! and Serve the Lord. ST. PETER'S A. M. E, CHURCH. 2and St. near roth Ave. Sor Rev. Thos. B, Stovall, Pastor. ST. JAMES A. M. E. CHURCH, * 318 &h Ave, So, Minneapolis, REV. FRANCIS J. PETERSON, 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. ede MEN’S BARACA CLASS. 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 Ist and 3rd Friday nights ‘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. Mat- tie Renix, Treas. Mrs. Minnie Burrell, Honorary Pres. Mrs. Mayme Dono- van. MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY _ FORUM. * *** The new officers of the Min- neapolis Forum, are Wm. H. Smith, president; O. A. Lawrence, vice pre- sident; Miss Gladys Waters, secre- tary; P. F. Hale, critic; Miss M. Chandler, organist * * * PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH. Cedar Street and Summit Avenue, 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. BY. 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 SUBUR- BAN PROPERTY FOR SALE DN SMALL MONTHLY PAY- MENTS. Houses and Flats for Rent. B. M. McDEW, 802 Sykes Block. N. W. Nic. 621 Minneapolis ——— DAN’S RESTAURANT 306 So, 3rd St, Minneapolis HOME COOKING My Specialty N. W. Main 2767 Daniel Williams, Prop. RESTAURANT AND ROOMS MRS. D. L. RODGERS 2010 Cedar Ave., Minneapolis Meals at all Hours Rooms by Day, Week or Month ROOMS FOR GENTLEMEN. Modern and up-to-date furnished rooms to rent to gentlemen at Mrs. Joseph Thomas’, 1809 Fifth Ave. So. One block from the Fourth Ave, car line. All modern conveniences, steam heat. Anyone wishing to be accom modated call her up. South 2164. CHOICE FURNISHED ROOMS. MRS. HARVEY. 2718 2734 St. So. Minneapolis. ROOMING HOUSE For Sale or Rent. Piano tuning N. W. Phone and repairing. South 3755, PROF. L. W. ANDERSON, The Piano Specialist My Motto: Satisfaction or | No Pay Prices Reasonable Voicing and Regulating 2737 11th Ave. So. Minneapolis ective Page 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 Bols, 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 scenes 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 Poe's Race 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 fine co-operation in the larger work for racial advancement. Mrs. Sarah McClanahan is president and Mrs. R. E. 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. TASK FOR THE NATIONS. Ray Stannard Baker's Plea For Human Brotherhood. Ray Stannard Baker in a recent issue of the American Magazine has the following to say about prejudice of one race against another: "Why will men not see that there can be no true civilization while any men in the world are left out of it and that no race and no nation can go far forward while other races and nations lag behind? "Let the white person again tread the black person under his heel! (Say, which is trodden under heel after all?) "It is not enough that we give the alien nations our learning, our religion, our science. What signify all these things? Are we hurt by giving them? Are we not, on the contrary, the material gainers? No; we must be prepared to go further than that, else we have not learned the fundamental concept of religion. "It is not the great task of any nation that it shall remain pure or white or learned or that it shall assure to its posterity the possession of land and comfort, though this has been the belief and the doom of every aristocracy from the beginning of time. The great task of every advanced race or nation is to bring more love, more light, into the world. "A stand for racial aristocracy means war, hatred, barren exclusiveness and finally degeneration and failure; a stand for racial democracy and brotherhood means love in the world, friendliness, sacrifice, new fertility, a wider sweep for faith and final triumph. Individuals may suffer in the process, nations may perish, but civilization, the kingdom of humanity, will grow, will become more beautiful. "We are willing to do everything for Chinamen or Hindus or for our own poor, except the one essential thing. Yes, educate them (a little); yes, teach them the religion of resignation; yes, give them shoes and coats, but do not disturb us in our luxury. "It won't work; it won't work. So long as we refuse to give ourselves we have fallen utterly." NATIONAL DEGENERACY. Lincoln Abhored Oppression and Depressed Hypocrisy. and Despised Hypocrisy. The speech of Abraham Lincoln in 1855 regarding the political situation and the tendency to disregard the rights of human beings to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is strikingly applicable to the condition of affairs in this country at the present time. Mr. Lincoln said: "I am not a Know Nothing—that is certain. How could I be?" How can any one who abhors the oppression of the Negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' "We now practically read it. 'All men are created equal except Negroes.' When the Know Nothings get control it will read. 'All men are created equal except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics.' "When it comes to that I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty—to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure and without the base alloy of hypocrisy." New Movement For Race Segregation. There has recently been some talk of appointing capable physicians of our race as health officers in the larger cities to administer to the needs of the colored population exclusively. The idea does not meet the general approval of the race, and we believe that few reputable physicians among the colored people would accept an appointment with segregation as its chief object. The fact that the colored race does not want any special recognition of the kind mentioned ought to be well known to public officials at this stage of our progress and citizenship. In all matters of public service, conveyance and comfort the colored people simply want that which is due them in common with all the other races which make up our country's citizenship. Miss Ovington Succeeds Miss Norney. Miss Mary White Ovington, the well known social service leader in Brooklyn, has been appointed secretary for the time being of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People. Miss Ovington succeeds Miss May Childs Norney, who resigned the position at the January meeting of the association to enter another line of work. Miss Norney had been secretary for three years and a half, during which time she rendered valuable service to the organization. She knew the work thoroughly, and it was with regret that the association accepted her resignation. However, on account of Miss Ovington's deep interest in the association, coupled with her knowledge of its aims and needs, the work will not suffer any setback. Miss Ovington is one of the vice presidents of the association. THE TWIN CITY STAR STEADY ADVANCE AMONG FARMERS Millions of Improved Acres Are Being Cultivated. INGREASE IN OWNERSHIP. Census Figures Place Amount of Land and Buildings Under Control of the Colored People at $900,132,334—Tenant Farmers, However, Are Still In the Majority. There is now a vast number of colored farmers in the south, working millions and millions of acres rich in possibilities, and yet only a small fraction of this land is rated as improved land. According to the census of 1910, there were in the south 890,141 colored farmers (28.7 per cent of the total number of farmers) working 42,600,117 acres (12 per cent of the total farm acreage), of which 27,735,748 acres (or 18.4 per cent) were reported as improved land. Colored farmers control nearly a billion dollars' worth of land and buildings in the south, and still they control only one-eighth of the land and buildings on all the farms in the south. The value of the land and buildings under the control of all the colored farmers was given at $900,132,834 (122 per cent of the total value of land and buildings for all farms in the south) as against $380,280,963 (11.6 per cent) for 1900. That the Negro farmer is going forward by leaps and bounds in the possession and control of property, however, is clearly shown by the census figures of 1900 and 1910. Even where the Negro has many disadvantages to face he is making progress. The 218,467 colored farm owners in 1910 held land and buildings valued at $272,992.238 (4.8 per cent) as against $106,619.828 (3.7 per cent) in 1900. The owners were distributed as follows: South Atlantic states, 101,961; east south central, 58,737; west south central, 57,769. As long as the colored tenant farmers, however, outnumber the colored farm owners three to one and as long as the tenant farmers have under their control a proportional amount of land and buildings which they may use wisely and well or utterly abuse through sheer ignorance the tenant problem and, indeed, the whole land problem for the white south will be a pressing and serious one. The 670,474 colored tenant farmers in 1910 tilled 26,567,802 acres, of which 20,068,875 were reported as improved land. These tenants were using land and buildings valued at $018,768,147 (8.4 per cent) as against $268,177,330 (8.2 per cent) in 1900. These colored tenants were distributed as follows: South Atlantic states, 253,181; east south central, 266,232; west south central, 151,061. If the Negro tenant is not taught how to treat the land properly and increase his earning power the whole south will suffer a tremendous economic loss. When more than 75 per cent of the Negro farmers are tenants there is important work still to be done along agricultural lines through the public schools, the private institutions, the state departments of agriculture and the press to help the tenants raise themselves into the class of owners. This improvement for many, many white farmers has already come about. If the south is to make the progress it should there are still too many white tenants as compared with white farm owners. One of the most hopeful signs of progress, however, is the percentile increase in Negro farmers, the amount of improved land held by them and the value of land and buildings they control. In the south, according to the census of 1910, 24.5 per cent of the colored farmers were owners, 0.1 per cent managers and 75.3 per cent tenants. For 1900 the figures were 25.2, 0.2 and 74.6 respectively. In 1910 the white farmers of the south were distributed as follows: Owners, 60.1 per cent; managers, 0.7; tenants, 39.2. For 1900 the figures were 63 per cent, 0.9 and 86.1 respectively. The total number of Negro farm operators in the south in 1910 was 880,887, and in 1900 it was 732,862. From 1900 to 1910 the percentages of increase in the south were: Total white farmers, 17.4; colored farmers, 20.2; white farm owners, 12; colored, 17; white tenants, 27.6; colored, 21.4; improved land in farms, white, 19.6; colored, 19.5; improved land in farms owned by white farmers, 13.8; colored, 25; improved land in farms of white tenants, 34.6; colored, 17.8. In Virginia, according to the census of 1910, there were 134,155 native white farmers who had 17,257,416 acres of land in farms and 48,114 Negroes and other nonwhite farmers who had 2,228,230 acres of land in farms. There were 101,436 (74.6 per cent) farms operated by white owners and 32,228 (67 per cent) farms operated by colored owners. The value of land and buildings of all the white farmers was $486,833,558 and that of all the colored farmers $45,224,504. The white farm owners had land and buildings valued at $74,781,761 and the colored farm owners $28,069,534. The value of domestic animals was: White. $63,941.810; colored. $25,153. SMOKE THE BEST 5C CIGAR Sight Draft W. S CONRAB 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 Solicits You Patronage. SPECIAL SAMPLE SHOES. POPULAR PRICED SHOE RE- PAIRING WE FIX 'EM WHILE YOU WAIT. Men's Sewed Soles ..... 75c Ladies Sewed Soles ..... 65c Men's Nailed Soles ..... 50 and 60c Rubber Heels, ..... 40c Ladies' and Boys' nailed soles ..... 40c SEVEN CORNERS SHOE REPAIR SHOP 1424 Washington Avenue South. 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 REASQNS 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. 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. 722 New York Life Bldg 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. 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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 Senator 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 Reciprocity. 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, L. 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 struggle for today, is not altogether for today; it is for a vast future.—Abraham Lincoln. STAR "ADS"—BRING RESULTS 33 $ _{3}^{1} \% $ OPENED UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT THE DAYTON HOTEL Phone N. W. Nic. 1505 1205 SO. WASHINGTON AVE. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. First Class Conveniences. Reasonable Rates, by Day, Week or Month. RAILROAD MEN PREFERRED. N'S BUFFET THIRD STREET PAUL, MINN. L AND CAFE headquarters of Walters, Porters and Theatrical Folk FURNISHED ROOMS OPEN AT ALL HOURS Hotel and Cafe Phone: Cedar 9088 THE MORAL PHASE OF NEGRO LIFE. Home Training Most Important. Says Miss Nannie H. Burroughs. The moral phase of the Negro problem is the most serious part of the whole aggravating question. To improve the standard of the life of the masses is the only solution. As with other races, the standards in the homes are set up by the women who preside over them. Therefore to bring about a reform the womanhood of the race must be taught how to instruct their children in those virtues, that have made the most advanced races what they are. We are prone to think that the Negro is by nature religious and therefore moral. He is both; but he is not enough of either when it comes to living up to fundamental principles every day life. Because of his crude conception of what the Christian religion really is he too often practices one thing and preaches another. Often the foremost woman in the church is so far from a model for her less ambitious sisters that they look with contempt upon her and discredit religion. This misrepresentation of the genuine article takes many forms and sometimes the one woman is a combination of all. She allows beer drinking, card playing, and rag time music in her home. She is loose in her conversation. Her language is often smutty. Her demeanor becomes a woman of the street. Her home is a hangout for "sliding elders" and loafing, hungry preachers. Her house is poorly kept. Her children are too young to be men and women and too old to be children. They are theregorge 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 Worker. If you want to own a home in 1916 See McDew NOW! He has some good bargains. Now is the time to start. READ THE STAR, ITS NEWSY THE TWIN CITY STAR PUBLSHED EVERY FRIDAY BY CHARLES SUMNER SMITH, 305—So. Fifth Street. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Entered in the Post Office at Minneapolis as second class matter. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION Subscription by Mail, Postpaid. ONE YEAR ..... $2.00 SIX MONTHS ..... 1.00 THREE MONTHS ..... .65 Hamlet B. Rowe, Asst. Manager. ADVERTISING RATES. Months, or 1 year contract. 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 .....One Dollar Write all Checks payable to The Twin City Star. 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 S. 5th St. STANDS UP FOR FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT. One, at last, of the avowed candidates for the Republican nomination for the Presidency is squarely on record favoring the right of the Negro to the ballot vouch-safed him by the Fifteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution. On April 18, 1903, Hon. Henry D. Estabrook, of New York, who is favorably mentioned for the nomination, addressed a letter to the editor of the New York Sun which was published on the editorial page of the Sun in its issue of April 20th, 1903, discussing the Fifteenth Amendment and the Negro's right to the franchise. In this letter Mr. Esthrook said in part: "The problem as put by a certain element of the South is: How to eliminate the Negro vote? Thus stated it enlists neither my sympathy nor tolerance. To the Negro, as such, ought not to be denied a voice in a government, of which, by virtue of numbers and usefulness, he is so conspicuous a part. The Fifteenth Amendment was not a mistake. I am Christian enough to believe that it was divinely ordained. Repeal that Amendment and you block from our flag a star of hope, and leave millions of people orphaned of country and worse than slaves, for they would have neither the ballot for defense nor the protection of an owner's self-interest in his property. In a country like ours, dedicated to personal liberty and self-government the denial of political rights must be based on just and fundamental distinctions. So long as certain elements of the South cling to the hallucination that the worst of white men are better than the best of black men, so long will the South suffer, and deserve to suffer; for it is a false conceit, a wicked conceit, an obsolete conceit, and freedom in its march will not turn backward." CAUSE OF THE EUROPEAN WAR John E. Bruce "Grit" Attributes It to Sin and Selfishness. The root of sin is selfishness, and selfishness is at the bottom of the present war, which is devastating Europe, says John E. Bruce "Grit" of Yonkers, N. Y. Selfishness is the mother of greed, avarice, inordinate desire and all unrightousness. Its other names are benevolent assimilation and covetousness. A good many people would like to enjoy the fruits of Christianity without having the root of Christianity in their philosophy. Some of the stronger races have made the attempt, and they have failed. Christianity may not be said to be a failure in America for the reason that it has never been given a fair trial by those who profess to have a monopoly of it. They have never really practiced it not accepted what it teaches. Until it has been given a fair trial it were well to suspend judgment on it. That which now passes for Christianity is a tibel upon that which Jesus Christ, its Founder, taught and practiced 1900 years ago, for it embraced in its broad fields men of every race and nation and recognized God as our common Father and all men as brethren. Modern Christianity does not go quite as far as this. EQUAL RIGHTS LEAGUE'S ADDRESS TO THE COUNTRY. National Organization Heids 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 fiftieth 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, disfranchisement 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 prescription than in any civilized land. Demand incessantly that race and color discrimination shall cease and there shall not in the boasted land of the free be a reversion to a caste 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. R. C. Ransom, 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 readrs 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 SUBSCRIBE NOW. THE 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 Dec. 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 astute statesman, that i reproachable knight, that Napoleonic warrior, Toussaint l'Ouverture, of whom his biographers said, "Cet homme fait une ouverture partout ou il passe" ("This man makes an opening wherever he passes."-Vie de Toussaint l'Ouverture). These scions of a worthy ancestor, who it should be remembered to their MOROCCO TEMPLE ERECTED BY THE BLACKS OF HAIMI TO COMMORATE 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 Luson, 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 vine and fig tree find a veritable refugium peccatorum from the edium 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 drul 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. BATTLE HYMN OF THE NEGRO Devi Written Thrilling Poem In Memory of Dr. Washington. The "Battle Hymn of the Negro" was written by William H. Davis of Washington and is dedicated to the memory of the late Dr. Booker T. Washington. Mr. Davis is the official stenographer for the National Negro Business league, in which position he has rendered valuable service. The "Battle Hymn of the Negro" is to be sung to the tune of Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic." The hymn: Our eyes have seen the glory of a Booker Washington. He has fought a swordless battle for the cause of right and won. He has made his race respected, though his life on earth is done. His truth is marching on! CHORUS. Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! "Our Booker Washington." We have seen him in the watchfires of our race's bitter woes Beating down the flames of prejudice and making friends of foes. We have heard his forceful pleading, and our racial progress shows The work of Washington. We have have heard his loving gospel urging "Brotherhood of Men," "Mutual helpfulness" his doctrine, preach- by section, tongue and pen. Whites and blacks should live together—not as enemies, but friends, For God is marching on. He has sounded forth the trumpet that would never call retreat. Prove yourselves useful Americans and never fear defeat. Oh, he swift our souls to answer, make the victory complete. Of Booker Washington. In the hills of "old Virginia" he was born in poverty. With ambition in his bosom, even "up from slavery." As he died to lift men higher, teach our children then to see The truths of Washington! "THINKING WHITE" DOWN SOUTH. (From The Outlook.) What do the best white people of the South today think of the Negro? What is their attitude toward Negro education? What is the real temper of the leaders in the New South? What do they think about Booker T. Washington's work for Tuskegee and the advancement of over ten million Negroes? The Rev. Dr. John E. White, of Atlanta, Georgia, a fearless exponent of "thinking white in the South," recently stated and frankly answered the incisive questions before several thousand Northern and Southern Negroes who had assembled in the Boston Symphony Hall, primarily to hear Dr. Washington deliver his presidential address to the sixteenth convention of the National Negro Business League. Dr. White said: The relation in the South between the races has never been so happy as it is now. Never has the outlook been so prosperous. The people of the South are "thinking white;" that is, the leaders are giving expression to the best sentiments. The South is now looking upon its millions of Negroes, not as a liability but as an asset. The South is training the Negro for success, for efficiency. The South sees that it is common sense to help the Negro. When the Negro owes something, then he is respected. White people down South think that the Negro is a man. They are saying this out loud. They are praying God to help them deal with the Negro on the basis of humanity. They think that the Negro is distinctly a Southern man. I predict that the time will never come when three-fourths of the Negroes of this country will not be found in the South. The civilization of the South, everything that makes it peculiar and characteristic, centers around the Negro. Indeed, the Negro has sweetened Southern life. Whole communities are shaped by the Negro. Property-owning Southern men do no lynching. Of the sixteen men who were arrested for rioting in Atlanta, for example, not one had his name on the county taxbooks. The race problem is to be solved, not by having a few Negroes with education and culture reach the top, but by having the well-trained Negroes reach down and help up the ladder the black men and women who are below struggling. No Time to Loss. The Milliner—Run fast, boy! Get that delivered before it's out of style!—Life. Alexander Again In Editorial Harness. Professor Charles Alexander, formerly of Boston, but who has resided in Los Angeles for the past two years or more, is now editor of the Los Angeles Post. Mr. Alexander was editor and publisher of Alexander's Magazine at Boston before taking up his residence in Los Angeles. He is well known in the east as a lecturer and dramatic reader. Pullman Porters to Establish Home. The Pullman Porters' Benevolent association, with headquarters in New York, has decided to found a home for the aged and dependent men of the service among its active members. Frank C. Fane is treasurer of the association and one of the prime factors in the new movement. A black serge or white pique CASKET, a SHROUD, EMBALMING, HEARSE, 2 CARRIAGES, BURIAL VAULT in Crystal or Layman Cemetery. Outside Box and Lowering Device—with Prompt Service. $85.00 FUNERAL COMPLETE FREE USE OF CHAPEL LADY ASSISTANT IF DESIRED D.W.Raynor. FREE U LADY ASSIST Office: 317 PLYMOUTH AVE. 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