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DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST. PAUL HISTORICAL SOCIETY ive Page VOL. 6 Sirgle Copies 5 Cents The Methodist Episcopal church cannot consistently cast off its Negro membership, according to the Rev. Gilbert Stansell, associate pastor of the Hennepin Avenue Methodist Episcopal church, in an address at the thirteenth session of the Northern German conference of the church, which opened last night at the Central German Methodist Episcopal church. "The Progressive Emancipation of the American Negro," was the title of Doctor Stansell's address, in which he advocated a policy contrary to the one offered by the Methodist Church South as a basis for a union between them and the Northern branch. "The price asked is more than the union would be worth to us," Doctor Stansell declared. "We cannot now consistently cast aside our Negro membership after all the missionary work we have done among them. Too much money has been spent and too many lives have been devoted to upbuilding and educating the American Negroes for us to consider such a proposition. "The Negro members are an asset to the church. It is through them that we are going to learn to sing again. That art has been lost among us, but is an essential part of the Negroe's religion, and one that he can still teach us. Aside from that, Negro's religion, and one that he sionaries and sent to Africa to labor among the primitive members of their own race. Through them the Dark Continent can be saved for Christianity."—Minneapolis Tribune. Cause of Labor Exodus From the South Out from Savannah, Ga., recently there has come a strong wailing protest against the efforts of some northern agencies, which the writer of the protest claims are luring the colored laborers north at an alarming rate. Draining the south of Negro workers, the letter says, and to it is due the unsettling of labor conditions. Be this as it may, let no one be deceived as to the exact cause of the great exodus of colored people from the south, says N. B. Dodson. In this connection many injustices to the race must be borne in mind, and among them are lynching, segregation, low wages and the political crucifixion of the colored voters of the south. The generation of young, educated colored men of the present will no longer continue to submit humbly to such unfairness. Injunction Against Race Segregation. The United States circuit court at Norfolk, Va., recently granted Robert G. Griffin, a property owner at Newport News, Va., a temporary injunction restraining the town of Newport News from enforcing the race segregation ordinance. Thomas Newsome and W. R. Walker were Mr. Griffin's attorneys. Thus another victory for the colored people is recorded. Miss Esther Douglass, whose death occurred at Cedar Rapids, Ia., in August, was one of the most noted of the early workers for the education of colored people in the United States. She was born at Hanover, Mass., in 1824. Miss Douglass went south as a missionary among the colored people in the sixties. Many persons who were pupils of Miss Douglass forty years ago often visited her and showed her kindness in her declining years. SUCCESS OF RARE MUSICAL GENIUS Notable Recognition Accorded Albert E. Greenlaw. STUDENT OF THE MASTERS. Value of Due Preparation For Service Exemplified In the Career and Work of a Former Pennsylvania Boy Who Has Made Good In Canada and the West as Solioist. By N. BARNETT DODSON. While it is not a rare thing to hear of scores of young men and women of the colored race who have attained greatness as finished musicians, both vocal and instrumental, yet there are scores still unheard of except in a local way. It is therefore a matter of pleasing information as well as a splendid evidence of the progress which members of the race are making in classical music. Albert Edward Greenlaw of Detroit, Mich., belongs to the class of songsters which has risen on his merit and whose services have been engaged by the most critical lovers of music for both religious and social entertainment in a very large way. Mr. Greenlaw is a native of Stottdale, Pa. His parents, Peyton and Hannah Greenlaw, removed to Canada when their son Albert was eight years of age. Young Greenlaw received his elementary education at, Woodstock, Ont. Being musically inclined, his parents decided to give him a musical education. Mr. Greenlaw studied under some of the best teachers with special attention given to voice culture. He made rapid progress in his studies and early showed signs of remarkable capacity for music of the most difficult composition. He finished his course in music with a fine record, and his success as a professional vocalist is due to the thorough preparation which he made before entering upon his chosen profession. On account of his thorough preparation and ability as a solist Mr. Greenlaw has endeared himself to the local public in Detroit, through which he has become known in other parts of the west. For ten years he has been constantly engaged by some of the wealthiest and most influential congregations among the white people in Canada doing solo work. For such services he receives liberal pay, which enables him to keep himself abreast of the times in the best music and also time to study and consult the highest musical authorities. During the winter of 1915 Mr. Greenlaw was engaged by one of the most successful evangelists of the country who was laboring in Iowa. His solo work in this connection won great praise for him from the pulpit and press. Every place in which Mr. Greenlaw sang and every time it was announced that he would sing throngs upon throngs of people gathered to hear him, and it was said that much of the success of the revivalists with whom he labored was due to the marvelous sweetness and fullness of Mr. Greenlaw's wonderful voice. Quite recently Mr. Greenlaw sang at the great mass meeting held by the Detroit branch of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, and his fine singing was quite a revelation in Detroit, his own home town. It has so happened that he has always been detained from home in his profession and had been given no opportunity since perfecting his musical education to acquaint the Detroit people with the splendid quality of his work. He is still a young man and in the near future intends to tour the east, where musical critics will have a rare opportunity to add their praises to the most successful male vocalist yet produced by the colored people. All lovers of music who have heard him are his friends and admirers. The Hon. Alfred J. Murphy, noted circuit judge of Detroit, said of him: "It is a pleasure to attest his remarkably fine voice. In volume, range and shading his voice stamps him a rare artist. Personally of upright character, his great vocal excellence should commend him to every lover of music." The Hon. Woodbridge N. Ferris, governor of Michigan, also sent Mr. Greenlaw a letter highly commending his splendid musical work on one occasion after hearing Mr. Greenlaw sing. St. Louis Church Holds Big Celebration. The Metropolitan Institutional A. M. E. Zion church at St. Louis held an interesting exposition for a week at the Coliseum in St. Louis in recognition of the half century of the freedom of the race and the three hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare. The celebration began on Labor day. A feature of the program was a tablel and pageant. A. B. MINNEAPOLIS PASTOR OF METHODIST CHURCH WANTS NEGRO IN FOLD. The Rev. Gilbert Stansell Favors Union With Colored Congregations. Smoke "SIGHT DRAFT" The Reliable 5c Cigar. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. SEPTEMBER 16, 1916. ABLE ORGANIZER FOR CLUBWOMEN WOMAN OF BROAD CULTURE National Association Considered Fortunate In Securing the Services of Noted Leader In Religious, Social and Fraternal Movements—Activities of the New Promoter. By N. BARNETT DODSON. Comment almost nation wide is being made on the wisdom of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, which held its biennial convention at Baltimore in August, on the election of Mrs. Victoria Clay Haley of St. Louis as national organizer. Mrs. Haley is eminently qualified by education, experience and executive ability to fill with credit to the association the office to which she has been unanimously elected. She is often referred to as the queen of platform orators. As a fraternal, social and religious worker Mrs. Haley's record for twenty years is dotted with rich achievements—studded with diadems of national service. Mrs. Haley has just recently retired from the position of royal grand matron of the united grand chapter of the Order of Eastern Star for Missouri and jurisdiction. She has traveled extensively and is well known and greatly beloved for strong personality, devotion to racial interest and sincerity of purpose. During her administration as royal grand matron of the Order of Eastern MRS. VICTORIA CLAY HALEY. Star for Missouri and jurisdiction Mrs. Haley made an unprecedented record by covering the remotest parts of the jurisdiction, which extends through Oregon, Montana and Nebraska and into New Mexico. Besides in the above named order, she has labored faithfully in church, Sunday school and the Allen Christian Endeavor league, in which she was highly successful. While Mrs. Haley has been active in many good movements for human betterment for the past twenty years, it seems that she is now more anxious to serve than ever before. In her new field she will have the opportunity of her life to reach the unreached women of the race and show to them the benefits of being organized. Outside of purely racial movements Mrs. Haley bears the proud distinction of being the leader of the woman suffrage movement in Missouri among the colored women. She is also the first woman of our race, and the only one, to hold membership in the state commission of Missouri appointed by former Governor Hadley to select and purchase a site upon which to erect a building now known as the State Industrial School For Colored Girls. The National Association of Club women is fortunate in securing Mrs. Haley's services to execute the big demands of this important phase of its work. In consenting thus to do Mrs. Haley makes a sacrifice, as one would term it, of many lines of activities of profit and pleasure on the lecture platform, the schoolroom and in social and religious life. But a woman of her genius will use the experience gained in all of these phases of uplift work in carrying forward the work in her new field. Mrs. Haley is the estimable wife of James L. Haley of St. Louis, who for more than twenty years has been a clerk in the St. Louis postoffice, where he is rated as one of the best regardless of race or color. regardless of race or color. Although in public service, to which she sacrifices much of her time, Mrs. Haley is a lover of her home and is an excellent housewife. One has but to be fortunate enough to visit her home to see at a glance that there is a charming personality back of that home. Mr. and Mrs. Haley have not been blessed with any children, but they are giving a life of service for other children. We predict for the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs a successful two years of notable achievements in the department over which Victoria Clay Haley presides. IMPORTANT COMING EVENT FOR THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH Denomination to Hold Triennial Convention at St. Louis, Oct. 8. Many questions of farreaching importance to the Protestant Episcopal church and the churches of that denomination among the colored people of the United States will come up for final adjustment at the triennial meeting of that body, which is to be held in St. Louis in October. One of the leading topics for discussion and settlement is that of electing a bishop or bishops to preside over the churches of the denomination among the colored people. Upon this question the denomination is seriously divided. The report of the joint commission which was appointed three years ago will present a minority report as well as the majority report to the convention. The minority report, criticising the attitude expressed toward the Negro in the majority report of the joint commission, has been signed by five persons. The majority report recommends that the minority report be rejected. The majority report recommends that a separate racial district for the colored people of the south be established, relieving bishops of southern dioceses of any further jurisdiction over the thousands of Negro members of the Protestant Episcopal church and instead that a colored bishop at large be elected and consecrated. The minority report strongly urges that no such action be taken and recommends instead that some southern diocese shall soon take advantage of its present right, according to the canons of the Episcopal church, to elect a colored suffragan bishop to serve under the white bishop of the diocese. Two bishops, two rectors and one layman signed the minority report. One of the rectors is the Rev. Dr. Ernest M. Stires of St. Thomas' church, Fifth avenue and Fifty-third street, New York, so it is said. The bishops, who are both from the south, are the Right Rev. William A. Guerry of South Carolina and the Right Rev. Frederick R. Reese of Georgia. The second rector is the Rev. C. Braxton Bryan of Petersburg, Va. The layman is Joseph Packard. It is the belief that the issue will cause one of the liveliest discussions in the convention. The minority report characterizes the majority report as "both unchristian and uncatholic." It states that a separate racial district "contravenes a fundamental principle of Christianity and destroys the unity of the church under one bishop, which has been the rule and practice from the beginning." EDUCATING YOUNG FARMERS How the Government Aids Agricultural Colleges In the South. The movement actively started by the United States department of agriculture to co-operate with the various state colleges in the south in organizing farm makers' clubs for the colored boys and girls in the rural districts bids fair to become an important factor in racial thrift. The movement has grown rapidly and has been operated successfully in Virginia, Florida, Mississippi and North Carolina the past year. The main object of these clubs is to encourage our people, particularly in the cotton sections, to raise some food instead of devoting their entire attention to a single crop. In the clubs for boys the typical plan is to encourage and help the members to use an acre, one-half of which is devoted to corn, one-fourth to potatoes and one-fourth to peanuts. This teaches a desirable rotation and at the same time furnishes three food products for human consumption and two that are useful for cattle or hogs. The girl members of these clubs receive practical instruction in gardening, canning, cooking and housekeeping. According to recent reports, the county superintendents of schools and teachers of elementary schools are sup supporting the work actively, and state agricultural colleges and the technical schools established for the race are active co-operators in the larger phases of the work. PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN RIGHTS Former Member of Alabama Legislature Reveals Methods Used to Deprive the Colored and Poor White Citizens of the Ballot—Strongly Condemns Lynchings. Commenting on Senator Tillman's recent speech in the senate in which Mr. Tillman referred to the attempt being made (in his opinion) to stir up sectionalism in the present national political campaign, the Hon. Joseph C. Manning of Alabama recites some very cold facts as to the political situation in the south. Mr. Manning is a former member of the Alabama legislature. He is again on the firing-line and is well known throughout the country as a great agitator for the civil and political rights of the colored people. Mr. Manning in part says: "Senator Tillman deplores sectionalism, and those who favored the continuance of chattel slavery deplored sectional interference with southern institutions. So will it be regarded as sectionalism if one should discuss the conditions of political slavery in the south. Revert to South Carolina, having 165,760 white and 335,046 black male citizens of voting age, and then see that the vote for Mr. Wilson for HON. J. C. MANNING. president in 1912 was only 48,942. There is Alabama electing Mr. Underwood to the senate on 63,000 ballots and having 200,000 black and 300,000 white male citizens of voting age. "In Iowa Mr. Cummings polled 205,832 votes for senator, and the combined vote of all candidates was 427,102. These two states have about an equal population. One state, Alabama has ingenious laws to restrict voting. The other, Iowa, has free government. Alabama refuses to recognize United States citizenship as distinctive from state citizenship and declines to permit the sovereignty ballot rights of all male citizens, while Iowa is within the letter and the spirit of the federal constitution. "Should a candidate for the presidency take up the cause of human rights, go into this southern question, show up the methods employed to repress the masses of the south, the flow of tears from Mr. Tillman would have the aspect of a Johnstown flood instead of a sort of theatrical political play on the superficial sentiment of the north, always easily induced not to discuss those issues in the south that are, in fact, of national concern. "The north goes ahead building monuments to its heroe dead, honoring the memory of Garrison, Suminer, Lincoln, Grant and those like them, while the southern political machine goes as steadily ahead undoing all that these great exponents of human justice championed and defended and established, but as yet no voice is raised to protest its wrongs in South Carolina—to cry out, for example, as against the triple lynching in a southern state, which occurred in August. "Are not the lives of those this side the ocean or the border is much to be protected as those on or across the ocean or over the border? If this is bloody shirt it is not at least bloody conscience! The counting out game was played in the south until the pres- ent system was concocted, to avoid contests for seats in congress, and the swing of the political ax has eliminated practically all colored citizens as voters, reduced them to political slavery and has cut into the poor whites until the aggregate vote in a dozen southern states, for the Democracy, is about 1,175,000, whereas there are about 2,000,000 black and 4,000,000 white male citizens of voting age. "There are questions higher than and above merely getting back into power; there are problems of deeper human interest than getting the south in the saddle out of the saddle in the nation's capital." COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE TO BEGIN FALL TERM SEPT. 20 Notable Work of Byrd Prillerman at a West Virginia Institution. The large number of applicants for admission to the West Virginia Collegiate institute for the coming term indicates that there will be a notable increase in the number of new students when the fall session opens on Wednesday. Sept. 20. President Byrd Prillerman has thoroughly demonstrated his ability and capacity as an educational leader of the first order by his splendid management of the affairs of the institution. The fact that the school has been raised to college rank has created great interest. Many of the new applicants will enter the college department. It is said there is no other institution in the United States especially for the training of colored youth that gives a college course in vocational training or that places the same emphasis on vocational training as is placed on the academic studies at the West Virginia Collegiate institute. For this reason students who have wanted a college course in home economics, agriculture or any other vocational subject were compelled to attend some college or university in the north or west. This places the young colored men and women seeking an education to a great disadvantage, for the reason that they cannot usually secure dormitory accommodations at these institutions, their expenses are extremely heavy, and they are in a great measure deprived of the advantages of social life. There are several graduates of the collegiate institute pursuing vocational courses in northern colleges that would have taken the course at their own state school had such provision been made at the time of their graduation. There is no other Negro college closer than 500 miles of the West Virginia Collegiate institute. President Prillerman says: "The earning power of the Negro laborer of West Virginia is greater than that of any other state in the Union. A large number of the Negro population of West Virginia is in the coal fields. Since they do not find much opportunity for investment of their earnings in real estate, they are willing to invest in the education of their children. "The governor, the state board of control, the state regents and other state authorities have shown such interest in the education of our Negro youth that the administration of the West Virginia Collegiate institute and Negro citizens generally feel that the institution has greater opportunity for usefulness than most other similar institutions in the country." When President Prillerman took charge of this institution seven years ago its largest enrollment to that time had been 235 students, with a faculty of twenty-two teachers. This year, 1916, it enrolled 382 students and had a faculty of twenty-five teachers. For the year 1909-9 the state appropriation for salary and wages was $17,450; for 1915-16 it was $21,500. In these seven years the student body has increased $62\frac{1}{2} per cent, while the faculty has increased in number only 41-6 per cent, and the state appropriation for salary and wages has increased only 231-5 per cent. All the departments of the school have been strengthened, one year has been added to the academic course, the name of the school changed, the college department added and a summer school for teachers maintained each year. SACRIFICIED COUNTRY'S HONOR AND INTEREST Mr. Wilson's defenders say he "has kept us out of war." As a matter of fact, his policy in Mec- xico has combined all the evils of feeble peace with all the evils of feeble war. He has secured none of the benefits of war, but he has not avoided war. He has sacri- fied the honor and the interests of the country, but he has not received the thirty pieces of sil- ver—From the Speech of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Delivered at Lewiston, Me., in Behalf of Charles E. Hughes. SOCIAL NEWS EDITOR, Miss Clara Lucas, 506 Boston Block, Minneapolis. Minneapolis, Minn. NIC. 1873. RAILROAD MEN'S NEWS, Stephen Springer, Milwaukee Depot, Minneapolis. Send your notes to us by Wednes- day A. M. Patronize those business houses, who request your patronage through your paper. McDew is asking YOU a question. Have you read it? It is in our col- umns. Delinquent SupSCRIBERS will please Send the Price of their Subscriptions this Week. We must have money to continue this Publication. Send 25 cents in postage stamps for your For Rent Ads. If you want notices inserted, spend a cent or two and send your copy —clearly and intelligently written. Owing to the increased cost of publication, we will NOT accept any ads, unless paid in advance. Agents will please act accordingly. MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY FORUM Sept. 17th, 1916. The meeting is called to restore the regular order of sessions as called for by the constitution. "Preparedness as it relates to the Colored People of this section" will be the key-note of the programme. The subject will be outlined by the president and briefly discussed by a number of citizens well fitted to shed light upon this important matter. The Forum will have opportunity to again welcome Miss Grazia Corneal, who returns to Minneapolis, after an absence of two years spent in teaching music in Springfield, Mo. Miss Corneal is the most promising violinist that our city has yet produced and the charm of her music has not been forgotten by Forum audiences. For this occasion Miss Corneal offers: Winnewaski's "Legrende." The programme will be supplemented by other members which the programme committee is not prepared to announce. Altogether a most pleasing and profitable afternoon is promised for all who attend. At 3:30 P. M. regardless of the weather. W. M. Smith, Pres. St. James A. M. E. Church will hold their meetings at 23rd St. and Bloomington Ave., till further notice. HERE IS THE POINT. Are the discriminations against us Colored Americans, the denial of rights, the proscription, the persecution, the killings, sufficiently extensive, degrading and injurious to cause you in defence of the welfare and also the very reputation of our race, to induce you to stand the expense of attending a National Congress on rights at D. of C., Oct. 4, 1916; or to solicit the expense to go for yourself or some one else; or to get up a mass meeting or entertainment to raise money to send delegates? That's the rub. A VIOLIN RECITAL The Lee Sewing Circle will present Miss Grazia Corneal in a Violin Recital at St. Peter A. M. E. Church on Wednesday night, October 11th, 1916, at 8:30. She will be assisted by best local talent. Admission 15c. Several improvements have been made at Bethesda Baptist Church. The new concrete steps are a valuable as well as ornamental addition to the building. Rev. Beasley expects a larger attendance this fall and is doing what he can to make Bethesda the most comfortable church among our people. Atty. W. R. Morris attended the B. M. C. of Odd Fellows at Washington, D. C. Mrs. J. C. Trevan of 519 No. Humboldt Ave., returned Tuesday from a lengthy visit to Detroit and Chicago. THE NORTH SIDE DRUGGIST. Call on J. A. Baker, 1320 6th Ave. No., for your Drugs, Toilet Articles, etc. Prescriptions carefully compounded. His phone is Hyland 432. Deliveries on request.—Advertisement. SPECIAL AUTO DELIVERY. The Cut Rate Grocery Co., have an auto-delivery. They give quick service and you can call them to do any light hauling and expressing—Advertisement. The Cut Rate Grocery Store is conducted entirely by Negroes. See their Ad and patronize them/ THE QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN MADAM M. HART, Leading Twin City Milliner HER FALL OPENING Madam Hart will offer a special display of fall millinery at her store 1210 Washington Ave. So., on Wednesday afternoon and evening, Sept 21st. This display will include many artistic designs. Madam Hart is anxious to serve her people and spares no pains to satisfy her patrons. Skilled workmanship, reliable material, prompt service and reasonable prices can be had at her establishment. MADAM HART, THE MILINER, 1210 Wash. Ave. So., Minneapolis. —Advertisement. Delegates From Grand Lodge Report. Ames Lodge of Elks held their regular meeting on Sept. 12, which was well attended. The delegates from the Grand Lodge recently held in Philadelphia, made lengthy reports, showing the rapid advancement of the order. Remarks were made by delegates P. H. Southall, who was elected Grand Esquire, Geo. W. Holbert and Fred. Thomas, also Rev. T. B. Stovall and P. E. R., Chas. W. Dwyer. An elaborate luncheon was served by Jas. J. Roberts, master of social sessions. A PROSPEROUS YOUNG MAN. Mr. Louis Cavette is an example of energy and thrift. He has built successful business in a few years and is highly respected in the Lynnhurst section of this city. Mr. Cavette has charge of several residences and garages. He is an expert on keeping lawns and washing autos. He employs several men and has a comfortable bank account, a prosperous business, and is deeply interested in everything for the advancement of his race. Mrs. T. V. McAllister of Vicksburg, Miss., who has been spending six weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Moore, 331 Farington Ave., St. Paul, returned home this week. Mrs. McAllister is one of the oldest public school teachers of her city. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Raynor have moved to 5139 No. Dupont Ave. Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Ball have moved to 611 No. Lyndale Ave. Mr. John L. McHie and family have moved to 3018 Findley Pl. Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Francis have moved to 820 East 36th St. Rev. Augustus Gould is much improved after a serious illness, and is able to resume his clerical duties with the Pillsbury Milling Co. Mr. Raymond W. Cannon is serving on the jury in the District Court for two weeks. Prof. Billy De Black is recovering from a sprained ankle. Mr. Samuel Teal, conductor of the Soo dining car, received the sad news of the death of his brother in Sparta, Ill., a few weeks ago. Don't miss the Violin Recital by Miss Grazia Corneal, at St. Peter A. M. E. Church WEDNESDAY, OCT. 11, 8:30 P. M FURNISHED ROOMS Desirable rooms—Suitable for gentlemen, or a married couple—Good locality. Near car line. Convenient for hotel men. N. W. Phine Hy 3056. FOR GENTLEMEN ONLY Modern Furnished Rooms. Nea car line. Neat, clean and comfort table. Mrs. Pearl Ball, 611 Lyndale Ave. No. Hy. 4298. NEGRO LABORERS WANTED. WANTED—Negro laborers at Duluth for United States Steel Mills, $3.00 per day and pay for all over time work. For further information write R. C. McCullough, 510-511 Columbia Bldg., Duluth, Minn. THE TWIN CITY STAR PROMINENT MEN TOUR VIRGINIA Many Notables Are Included In Party Which Recently Accompanied Dr. Robert R. Moton on Trip Through Important Sections of Old Virginia. Rural District People Encouraged. Hampton, Va.—"Better homes, better farms, better schools and better health" is the motto of the Negro Organization Society of Virginia, founded by Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee institute and at present president of the organization. Dr. Moton put to work in the establishment of the society one of the most important factors for the uplift of the race in the country, and its influence is farreaching in the rural districts. At the annual session in November Dr. Moton on account of leaving Virginia will give up the presidency, and another strong man will be selected in his place. The representatives of the society have just completed a tour of some of the counties of Virginia, where talks have been delivered to the people along the line of better homes, better farms, better schools and better health. In the party were Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee institute; Major Allen Washington, commandant of Hampton institute and treasurer of the society; Professor W. T. B. Williams, Hampton agent for the Slater and Jeane funds; Rev. A. A. Graham Phebus, chairman of the executive committee of the Organization society; Professor T. C. Erwin, Petersburg, field agent, Organization society; Professor J. M. Gandy, Petersburg, president Virginia Normal and Industrial institute; Professor M. W. Connor, Petersburg, Normal and Industrial institute; J. B. Pierce, district farm demonstrator of Virginia; Frank Trigg, president of the Virginia Collegiate institute; R. Nathaniel Detts, director of music, Hampton institute; Professor E. A. Long, principal Christiansburg institute; Rev. L. L. Downing, Roanoke Presbyterian church; Charles Stewart, A. M. D. D. The party left Portsmouth, Va., over the Seaboard Air Line, going to Franklin, where the first meeting was held and was attended by a large number of people from both races. The mayor of Franklin declared that it was the most helpful meeting held in that section for the past fifty years. At night a meeting was held in Suffolk, the party returning by the Seaboard to that point, and after the meeting they were carried by automobiles to the wharf and put on the Hampton yacht, where the rest of the tour was made. The next point made was Smithfield, where the party was met by a committee with automobiles and carried to Isle of Wight courthouse, where another interesting meeting was held. Then to Scotland county courthouse, a meeting being held in the Baptist church; thence to Ruthville. At each of these points the people turned out in large numbers. Dr. Moton was the principal speaker. The people were anxious to see and hear him, because it was the closing of his administration as president of the society and the opening of larger things for him, becoming the success of Dr. Booker T. Washington. Some wanted to see the new principal and then shake the hands of the foremost educators of his race. Dr. Moton was himself and delivered some strong practical addresses to the people. At each place his addresses were punctuated with outbursts of applause. Major Allen Washington was also an important figure, because he is the successor to, Dr. Moton at the Hampton institute. "Education" was preached to the people by one of the most noted and perhaps the best posted educators in the race, Professor W. T. B. Williams. This was his specialty, and he handled it well, while Professor Gandy hammered away on health. "Plenty soap and water" were urged to play a part in the uplift of the race. It seemed that every man was a specialist in his particular line and was prepared to instruct the people who were anxious to hear and receive the much needed advice. The party also visited historic Jamestown, where the first cargo of slaves landed in this country. They went through the old fort, viewing the graves of those who figured in the early settlement of Virginia and counting the time of the landing of the first slaves to the present, viewing the wonderful progress made by the race they sang "Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow." And why not? It was interesting to see the farmers and their families lay aside their work and go to school, as it were, for a few hours. Then to see how they honored their leaders. In the matter of better farms the organization is assisting, as well as in the matter of better schools. They are encouraging and helping to lengthen the terms in the rural districts where they are short, helping to build substantial school buildings and advocating the employment of the very best available teachers for the rural schools, as well as those in the city. The next annual session of the Negro Oraignation society will be held in Roanoke, Va. Nov. 8. L. H. H. CONGRESSMAN THOS. D. SCHALL. His record in Congress, his valuable service to the Republican party in the present campaign his endorsement by the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee makes him the logical candidate and insures his election. THE LISLE MONUMENT. Shaft Erected by the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention In Memory of the Rev. George Lisle, First Baptist Modern Foreign Missionary, Unveiled at Savannah, Ga. Sept. 9. PSALE The George Litchfield the man who saved Fouquay-Missouri gave in his 1820 memorial to the Sullivan, C. H. 1732 1820 1820 L. H. L. LORD. No Loved One A. D. 1916 LISLE AFRICA, CAL. D.C., ILL. KY, MISS, MINN. TEXAS, CALIFA, IND. KAN, MONTE ARK. CONN. GL, IOWA, CA, MICH. MTE. MD. Savannah, Ga.—After being in session in this city since Wednesday, Sept. 6, the national Baptist convention closed one of the most interesting meetings in its history on Tuesday, Sept. 12. The number of delegates and visitors was estimated by the thousands, and among them were men and women who have achieved success in business, the various professions and in home and foreign mission work. The crowning event of the convention's work from a denominational standpoint came on Saturday, Sept. 9, when in the presence of the great throngs of people the monument erected to the memory of the Rev. George Lisle was unveiled. George Lisle was the first Baptist modern foreign mission. He was born in Virginia in 1750, ordained to the gospel ministry in 1775 and sailed for the British West Indies in 1782. The idea of the monument was conceived in the fertile brain of the Rev. Dr. L. G. Jordan, who has been the corresponding secretary of the national Baptist foreign board for nearly a quarter of a century. Dr. Jordan traveled the country over in a campaign for funds with which to defray the expense of the monument. In this effort the board gave its hearty co-operation, and the denomination responded to the appeal quite nobly. Among the states which sent in their contributions in time to have their names carved on the monument are California. Illinois. Kentucky. Mississippi. Minnesota. Alabama. Colorado. Florida. Indiana. Kansas. Maine. Iowa. Louisiana. Michigan. Missouri. New Hampshire. Ohio and the District of Columbia. There was also a contribution from Africa. IMPATIENCE Impatient people cheat themselves out of the best of things. We can almost have our choice between something good today and something better tomorrow. But the highest good never will be ours until we have learned to wait for it. "That young Gadsby is an amiable fellow." 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Plan to Promote Racial Enterprises Suggested by Dr. R. R. Wright. Dr. R. R. Wright, Jr., the versatile editor of the Christian Recorder, Phil adelphia, who has been appointed man- ‘ager of the Book Concern, has come forward with a brilliant idea, which has made a great impression upon the business men of Philadelphia and is belng discussed as one of the most in- teresting topics in church circles, It is to observe throughout the coun- try a “Negro business booster week,” which is to begin with a “booster Sun- day,” when every pastor in the nation 1s to preach a booster sermon and ‘urge his congregation to patronize race ‘business men, During the week fol- lowing every Negro in the nation ts ‘requested to make purchases from Ne- ‘gro business men. Dr, Wright sug: ‘gests Oct. 22-29 a “business booster Week.” His plan, so far as PBlladel- phia is concerned, is told as follows in ‘the current issue of the Christian Re- corder: “Philadelphia has a population of more than 100,000 Negroes, and if we include the suburban towns from Camn- den to Chester the number will ap proximate 140,000. No definite effort fs made by merchants to get thelr trade. The big white merchants el ther do not want ft or do not know how large it is. ‘The Negro merchants too often depend upon mere race pride ‘to get the trade. “But, as a rule, the people do not ‘know who the colored merchants are. For instance, as well informed as the ‘editor 1s, he does not know any Negro who sells meats in Philadelphia, or who makes'shoes, or who repairs auto- mobiles, or who does roofing or plumb- Ang or drying cement walks, or a bun ‘dred other things. But they must be here and would be patronized if we knew them. “If our people knew the places thes would go to them. “We are going to make a suggestion not only for Philadelphia, but for-all places—let the ‘church take more in terest in Negro business and appoint a business booster day. We suggest Sunday, Oct. 22, as Negro business booster day throughout the country. when every pastor shall urge the pat ronage of Negro business from his pulpit and, if it can be arranged, give the Negro business men an afternoon hour for addresses on Negro business. “Let the week, Oct. 22 to Oct. 29, be business booster week and see if we cannot get every Negro in every town to purchase something from a Negro merchant. What say you, brother min Isters? What say you, business men? Let the people know that the Negro business man exists where he is, what he has to sell, what his terms are and that he will treat them right. “Let the Negro papers talk booster week and get out special editions where they can.” If you want to own a home in 191¢ See McDew NOW! He has some good bargains. Now is the time THE TWIN CITY STAR OLD NORTH STATE BAPTISTS. suneey Benes: Convention Semmancs: Work of Dr. James E. Shepard. The North Carotina State Baptist Sunday schoo! “convention Is among the largest and most proxressive re- Ugious organizations in that section of the south. The annual inceting of the convention recently held at* Oxford was largely attended. and the reports from schools throughout the state showed that a great religious work ts betng done for our young people. ‘The Baptist denoinination in North Carolina has made remarkable prog- ress in numbers and effictent church, Sunday school and missionary workers within the past five years, ‘The color- ed Baptists of the state now number over 200,000. ‘The increase in church membership ts largely die to the ef- forts of a better educated ministry than ts true of the recent past and to the fact that a larger number of school, teachers and parents are taking a more active interest in the children of the, urban and rural communities, ‘The convention showed tts interest in the splendid efforts which Dr. James E. Shepard {s putting forth as president of the National Training school, Durham, N. C.. by adopting resolutions commending the work of this noted institution and pledging con- fidence and support in and for Dr. Shepard's able leadership. ‘The leaders of the convention are all loyal supporters of race thrift. ‘There- fore it 1s not surprising to the public that this large and influential body of Christian men and women should ree- ognize and encourage an institution Uke the National Training school and the constructive work of Dr. Shepard in preparing trained workers for better service. Murphy Favors the Race Congress. The Afro-American Ledger, owned and published by the venerable John H. Murphy at Baltimore, speaks edi- tortally of the call of the National Equal Rights league through its prest- dent, Dr. Byron Gunner. for a national race congress as follows: “Byron Gun- ner’s call for a great national congress of colored Americans for the special purpose of voicing the feelings and sentiments of the race on unfavorable and favorable conditions now surround. ing them needs only the settlement of place and date of the convention before getting responses from every section of this countrr 't ourht to be the big- gest convention we have ever had.” New York Regiment Gets its Name. ‘The regiment of colored soldiers for the national guard of New York is to be known as the Fifteenth infantry. Company A has been mustered in un- der command of Colonel William Hayward, public service commissloner. Captain. Lorillard Spencer, Governor Whitman's military secretary, ts the acting recruiting officer, Three re crulting offices huve been opened in New York city. The officials stated on Joly 4 that-within a month the fol quota of men for the regiment will te enlisted. 3 + EMPTY PHRASES INSTEAD - OF CONCRETE ACTION. : = i. Not once has President Wilson + squarely placed before the Amer- + ican people the question which Abraham Lincoln put before the American people in 1860, What + is our duty? Not once has he + appealed to moral idealism, to + the stern enthusiasm of strong # men for the right. On the con- f trary, he has employed every + elocutionary device to lull to t sleep our sense of duty, to make + us content with words instead + of deeds, to make our moral + idealism and enthusiasm evap- + orate in empty phrases instead + of being reduced to concrete ac- + tion—From the Speech of Colo- + nel Theodore Roosevelt, Deliv- + ered at Lewiston, Me, in Behalf + of Charles E. Hughes, a PEPE EEE EEE EE EEE Telling Tariff Points Let these telling points on tariff and protection in the speech by Charles Evans Hughes, the Republic- an candidate for President, delivered in the Salt Lake Tabernacle, be Oxed Permanently in your mind and memory during the remainder of the campaign: We are desirous of having strong and sre the foundations: of our na- tional greatness in this pursuit of com- petition among the nations which is sure to follow the cessation of the present struggle. I propose that the Republican party ‘as the national party, according to the constitution of the United States, within the national sphere, shall pro- ceed wherever it is practicable to build up and foster and encourage American enterprise and open the doors wide for honest American achievement. I propose that we shall study this out, applying a principle that we believe in, and secure intelligently and honestly adequate protection to American indus- tries in every part of this land. ONCE eee + M'KINLEY'S WAR COST LESS: + BLOODSHED THAN WIL- 3 : SON'S PEACE ; * _— 4 + Pe ee 4 Under .President McKinley we bad a war with Spain, Under, Presideut Wilson we are assured that we have bid “peace” with Mexico. These are the words. Now for the deeds. During the war with Spain fewer Americans were killed by the Spaniards than have been killed by Mexl- cans during the present “peace” with Mexico. Let me repeat this, A greater number of Amer- icans have been killed by Mex- teang during these years, when we are officially Informed that we have been at peace with them, than were killed by the Spaniards during our entire war with Spain, Moreover, when the war with Spain was through, it was through. But peace still cou tinues to rage as furiously as ever in Mexico. Nor is this all. ‘The instant effect of the out- come of the war with Spaln was to put a stop to the dreadful butchery and starvation in Cuba and the Philippines, and the entry of both Cuba and the Philippines on a career of elght- een years of pence and pros- perlty such as they had never known before In all their check- ered history. But during these three years of Mr. Wilson's “peace” the Mexicans them- selves have been butchered by thelr own bandits steadily and without intermission; and Mex- {can women and children have died by thousands—probably by scores of thousands—of starva- tion and of the diseases incident tostarvation. In other words, Mr, McKinley's war cost less than peace; and It reflected bigh bon- or on the American people; whereas Mr. Wilson's peace has been one of shame and dis- honor for the American people, and one of ruin and bloodshed for the Mexicans. PEEEEEEEEEEREE EES A PICTURE OF HUGHES. The New York World, which once was outspoken in its admiration for Mr. Hughes, now declares that the people do not know where Hughes stands, or what he stands for. This Wilson organ bad no such criticism to make when Mr. Hughes was gov ernor. The World said on May 117. 1910: “He dictated no nominations controlled no convention, trafficked In no patronage. made no bargains with office-holders. He has rewarded no- body for supporting him and punished nobody for opposing him. What in. fluence he has wielded over public opinion bas come through bis appeals to the voters themselves.” That Is the estimate of Mr. Hughes given by the World six years ago. It is a pretty fair letter of recommendation Could the World say as much for President Wilson? Hardly, for the president bas done all of the things from which the World absolved Hughes.—Kansas City Journal. / GUARDSMEN PAY THE PRICE | OF WILSON’S ABASEMENT. Having condoned the repeated - murders of Americans by the | Carranzistas and having abased himself, before Carranza and , having aided in placing Carran- - za-in power, what is Mr. Wil- son's reward, and who pays it? | The reward is that Mr. Wilson » has to place 150,000 troops on the border to partially prevent the raids and murders that his | friend, Mr, Carranza, will not or cannot prevent, and the pay- - ment is made by the soldiers - who are slain and by the fam- + ilies of the guardsmen who go in want because their husbands and fathers have boen called to - the border to make good Mr. » Wilson's refusal to let the regu- lar army administer such pun- ithment to the bandits as to in- - spire in them a healthy fear— | From the Speech of Colonel | Theodore Roosevelt, Delivered » at Lewiston, Me. in Behalf of + Charles E. Hughes. ‘The President himself bas tried to appropriate for bis own advantage the sentiment of “America first.” The Democrats have tried to make his sup- port an act of piety by adopting “Thank God for Wilson” as a slogan. Mr. Hughes, with rare courage, frank- ness and penetration, ts exposing the Aimsy foundation for the claims of Wilsonian infallibility. He 1s laying bare a record of extravagance, par- tisanship, sectionalism, Incompetence, wrongheadedness, vaccillation and in. sincerity which destroys the attempt to make a joss out of the President ‘The Democrats must come out of their ecstatic trance and defend their stew: ardship. The President ts to be put on the stump. We are to hear some thing beside Delphic prose poems.— St. Louls Globe-Democrat. Mr, Wilson now virtually admits that all bis own Ideas were wrong four years ago, He bas changed bis mind ‘on every public question. On some of them he has changed twice or even three times. Even if bis friends could satisfy the public at this time he {s exactly right, what assurance could be given that he would be right @ year hence? PEEEEEE EEE EEE t ‘ + WILSON KISSED THE HAND + RED WITH AMERICAN + BLOOD. + President Wilson explicitly 4 + shows that the Carranzistas, not 4 + once, Lut repeatedly, made at- 4 tacks on American towns and 4 + killed American citizens and mu- 4 + tilated them In September, 1915. 4 + Yet on Oct. 19, 1915, less than a 4 + month later, this same President 4 + Wilson, through bis same secre 4 + tary of state, formally announe- 4 + ed to Carranza’s agent that it 4 + was his “pleasure” to take the 4 + opportunity “of extending rec 4 + ognition to the de facto govern- 4 + ment of Mexico of which Gen- 4 4 eral Venustiano Carranza ts the 4 + chief executive.” President Wil- 4 + son thus recognized the govern- 4 4 ment which, bis own secretary of 4 4 state declares, had been less 4 4 than a month previously engaged 4 % in repeated assaults upon Amer! 4 4 cans and in the invasion of Amer- 4 + {ean soll, the government at 4 4 whose bead was General Car 4 ranza, who. less than two months 4 + previously, on Aug. 2, 1915, had 4 # contemptuously refused to pay 4 4 any heed to any representations 4 + of President Wilson on bebalf of 4 4 mediation, saying that “under no 4 4 consideration would I permit in- 4 4 terference in the Internal affairs 4 of Mexico.” President Wilson 4 did not merely kiss the hand 4 4 that slapped him in the face. He 4 4 kissed that hand when {t was 4 4 red with the blood of Amertcan 4 4 men, women and children who 4 4 had been murdered and motilat- 4 + ed with, as President Wilson, 4 + through his seeretary of state, 4 4% says, “ruthless brutality.”—From 4 4 the Speech of Colonel Theodore 4 + Roosevelt, Delivered at Lewiston, 4 + Me, in bebalf of Charles B. 4 + Hughes. 4 * 4 i eee (N. Y.) SUN STROKES. Roger Sullivan steps aside.—News- paper headline. Students of Democratie polities know what a thin line divides stepping aside and sidestepping. ‘The Democrats seem to realize, to thelr dismay, that If they can't per- suade Mr. Hughes to change from plaintiff to defendant the case ts lost. ‘The president “will not take the stump,” but “will accept invitations to speak at different places.” Chatr- man Vance McCormick {s as Machia- vellian ag a muskmelon. It ts not what Wilson has kept us out of but what he's got us into that counts at present. VILLA AIDED BY WILSON'S FAVOR AND BACKING, + In March last Villa made a | 4 raid into American territory. He | 4+ was a bandit leader whose + career of successful infamy had 4+ been greatly aided by Mr. Wil- 4 son's favor and backing. He + was at the bead of Mexican sol- 4+ dlers, whose arms and munitions 4+ had beon supplied to them in 4 consequence of Mr. Wilson’s re # versing Mr. Taft's policy and # lifting the embargo against arms # and munitions into Mexico, They # attacked Columbus, New Mexico, # and killed a number of civilians # and a number of United States . # troops. On the next day the 4 president issued an announce: - 4 ment that adequate forces would 4 be sent in pursuit of Villa “with | # the single object of capturing # him.” On April 8th, the an- # nouncement was made from the - White House that the troops . # would remaln in Mexico until # Villa was captured. It was { furthermore announced tn the. 4 press dispatches from Washing. - 4 ton that he was to be taken - + “dead or alive.” Fine words! + Only—they meant nothing. He | 1s not dead. He bas not been - # taken alive.— From Speech of - # Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, De- # llvered at Lewiston, Me. in Be- # half of Charles B. Hughes, . . Mr. Wilson during the past few days has become such a Ife long opponent of the pork barrel that he 1s almost sorry now he didn't veto some of those bills, Secretary McAdoo warns Treasury employees against too much political activity, and if they don’t disobey the order they are likely to be bounced. A HEARTLESS ‘ADMINISTRATION This administration has die- played no more feeling of re- ‘ponsibility for the American women who have been raped and for the American men, wo- men and children who have been killed in Mexico than farmer shows for the rats killed by his dogs when the hay is taken from a barn. And now the American people are asked to ‘tanction this policy In the name of peace, righteousness and hu- manity!—From the Speech of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, De- livered at Lewiston, Me., in Be- half of Charles E. Hughes, fi Ashi, vd a _——- =, aa REM AAAI RIE RE RE IE IEC ee ; | | | | | | | | | Bess = | | rh ree eee ene +} os aaaneoeanents cei da. 1 | fo THE TWIN C.rY STAR \ S> PUBLSHED EVERY FRIDAY BY CHARLES SUMNER SMITH, 305—So, Fifth Street. Minneapolis, Minnesota Batered tn the Pest Office at Min- meapelis as second class matter. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO races] ste ASSOCIATION MINNESOTA EDITORIAL ASSN. ‘To Subscribe Is To Pay. Subscription by Mail, Postpaid. ONE YEAR ......ceeeeeeee ee 0062.00 SIX MONTHS ........00eeee4+ 1.00 THREE MONTHS ..........-. 65 Hamlet B. Rowe, Local Agent. ADVERTISING RATES. One Inch—1 Insertion—One Dollar. Liberal discount given on 3, 6, 9, Months, or 1 year contracts, Want Ads ...... 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To be a Negro in a day like this— Alas! Lord God, what evil have we done? Still shines the gate, all gold and ame thyst, But I pass by, the glorious goal un- kissed, “Merely a Negro”—in a day like this won, —James DB. Corrothers in The Century. INDIVIDUALS, ORGANIZA- TIONS, COMMUNITIES Should be Present or Represented a National Colored Citienship Rights Congress to be Held at Washing- ton, D. C—John Wesley Church, October 4-5— This National Colored Citizenshis Rights Congress is to be an open one both to delegated persons and to in: dividual representatives of the caus¢ who attend on their own responsibil: ity. It is to be free and open for race conference, action and declara- tion. The congress will organize it- self independently. The National Equal Rights League will call it to order and those assembled will then create the Congress at Washington, D. C,, one month hence. Bodies Should Send Delegates—Have a Citizens’ Committee, Delegated representatives are quite advisable, and churches, civic and literary societies, fraternal organiza- tions, political and other clubs are asked to elect and send delegates. The call asks that a Citizens’ Equal Rights Committee be formed by pub- lic spirited citizens in each com- munity to work up interest, hold a public meeting and send representa- tion. Any person is at liberty to start such a committee act at once. Write Wm. Monroe Trotter, cor responding secretary, for any informa. tion desired. (Do -ndt confuse this “Congress” with “Conference”. Success to al ee CONTENTMENT, One contented with what he has done stundx but small chance of becoming famous for what be will do. He has tin down to div. The prass te at: Fendy growing over lin. Raver ROOSEVELT LEADS, WE FOL- Low. We heartily accept the advice of America’s greatest citizen, and will support the regular presidential nom- inee of the Republican National Con- vention, Hon. Chas. E. Hughes, and do what we can for the success of the Repubican ticket. We are not in accord with the entire platform of the party. The suffrage question, as a State's Rights measure, will not sive the Negro women of the South a right to vote. We are against any Program giving a State a right to over-ride the Constitution. We had hoped to see some plank in its plat- form recommending legislation to make ‘Lynching a Federal Crime.” We cannot get our constitutional rights under State Soverignity, and must rely on Federal legislation and enforcement for our protection. The Republican party has done more for us than any other party and we must overcome its evils with its good; still contending for right and protesting against wrong—believing in Divine Providence and thankful that Col. Roosevelt has accomplished his ulti- mate purpose, which was also his prophecy—that he would drive out of the Republican party, those who cor- rupted the principles of the party. We regret the loss of a friend, of cur race on the Supreme Bench, by the resignation of Justice Hughes— which gave Pres. Wilson an oppor- tunity to appoint a Democrat—and fate may decree that by his appoint- ment we may have a Justice White or Justice Harlan. Though Demo- crats they were honest interpreters of the law and spirit of the Consti- tution. It is up to the Negro to be loyal to himself and the door of hope will soon open to him. We have awaited orders and willingly obey the requests of Col. Roosevelt, who led us into the Progressive Party in 1912, and we return to the Republican ranks under the same leadership and convictions. Let the slogan be “Hughes and Fairbanks must win” and now that the Progressives have accomplished their purpose, we ex- pect a large following, and a return to the Grand Old Party, for its suc- cess in November next. ; MINNESOTA. CONGRESSMAN FAVORS SHORTER HOURS FOR THE MAN WHO TOILS ,—Congressman Thomas D. Schall representing the Tenth Minnesot: district, has taken up the defense o} the man who toils and has been giver keen attention. Congressman Schall says: “Yesterday's mistake warns us against the blunder of tomorrow Our mistake in the past has been an endeavor to transform our worker: into high speed machines, without re- gard for the economic waste to the worker or to the race, Faster, faster fastez, pile up the garments; heap up the profits, no matter if rest and health and proper food be denied the weary laborer; no matter if girlish forms be withered and the promise of our national motherhood, is blighted. no matter if the cheeks pale and the chest becomes hollow. Cheap Labor Not Prosperity. “Cheap labor and long hours have not helped to bring prosperity. The laborer goes home at night too weary to think after a tong day of toil, at underpaid wages, to a meanly furnished, dark, unsanitary home, a scant unnourishing supper and a hum- py comfortless bed. He wakes early dons his sweaty clothes and with hem the hopeless, disspirited thoughts that envelop them. What chance for him to expand, to improve his mind, to enjoy God's fresh air and sunshine? “Tt is not the question altogether to the employer, how many shoes are made, but how many shoes are sold. Let us look to it that fewer of our countrymen have shoeless feet. With more leisure, more time for re- flection, comes desire for improve- ment, for better living. Greatest Good Real Aim. “Every man should have the right to work, the right to sleep and the right to play. The problem that con- fronts the United States today is to lighten the burden of the working classes. The ideal of our country can never be realized, we shall never cap- ture the spirit of liberty, while half the people are starving and the other half faring sumptuously every day.” Every movement toward the shorter cay for the laboring man is a move- ment toward his enfranchisement. “The government's aim should he the greatest good for the greatest number. Shorten the day of labor Raleing Funds to Run Down Lyncher: ‘The National Association For th Advancement of Colored People he! two big meetings on Thursday, Aug. one tn New York city and the other tn Brooklyn. The mectings were hell in the interest of the anti-lrnching fund of $10,000 which the association has undertaken to raise for the purpose of bringing to trial the lenders of the lynching mob responsible for the re- cent murder horror at Waco. Tex. THE TWIN CITY STAR Political Jottings ‘The Houston lost revsons that | was easier for its owu beloved Democ racy to indorse the president's Mexicai | bolicy than to detiue it, While he was about it Senator Jame Hamilton Lewis also might bave ex plained that the Rome that was “to proud to fight” died a rather disastrou: death. “In all fairness," asks the Bostor Transcript, “slouldn't the expense o financing Carranza be borne by th Democratic campaign committee?" Democrats really haven't any objec ton to big appropriations for army and navy and internal improvements. The} expect the Republicans to rustle the revenue to foot the bills for the nex! four years, Hughes says be would like six months to investigate the administra. tion, but the administration figures he’s doing very well as it ts. Yes, and the same policies that have filled Judge Hugbes and others with “a deep sense of shame” have sent many other Americans to their graves The president has changed bis mind about sending more troops to the bor der, thus running true to form. When Tom Taggart talks economy to them It ts time the Democrats stopped thelr extravagance. The Hughes smile ts beginning to at- tract favorable attention. | President Entertains Five Progres ‘sives. — Headline. Others he simply amuses, : Democratic papers chide Hughes be cause he says he ts “100 per cent a candidate.” The Wilson papers natur ally prefer a fifty-fifty candidate. ‘The president says he bas no interest in any political party “except as an tn- strument of achievement.” If that's It then how did he happen to select such a poor instrument as the Demo- cratic party? Carranza Isn't a candidate for prest dent of the United States. but be did more for American preparedness in three weeks than Woodrow Wilson did in three years. Another thing you never hear of since the Democrats reduced the cost of living is the “baker's dozen.” Mr. Hughes is criticised for his fre quent use of the word “now.” Evi: dently his immediateness is worrying the watchful waiters, who put things off until tomorrow. Families living in the rural districts where mail service has been curtailed will be interested In knowing that Postmaster General Burleson has sent Secretary McAdoo a check for $5,200. 000, representing surplus postal reve nues. Mr. Gardner should not quote what Mr, Wilson said while president of Princeton, His utterances are outlaw- ed by himself in seven days. ‘That man Hughes ts causing the Democratic newspapers an endless amount of worry, Apparently they will never be satisfied until he turns the management of bis campaign over to them. Mr. Hughes’ speeches are giving poor satisfaction to the Democratic press, which proves they are very good speeches indeed. Secretary Baker ts developing an agility in changing his mind that must endear him to his discoverer, Mr, Wilsoi's administration must confess itself incompetent in one re- spect or the other. It either has ap propriated for an unneeded navy or it has neglected a needed navy. It can select its fault to suit Itself, In one re spect or the other it must be wrong. “I believe in efficiency in politics just as much as in anything else.” says Mr. Hughes, Efficiency ts an excellent watchword, and its use in the cam paign is merely a forerunner of its use in the White House when he gets there First they said that Hughes was an ceberg: now they are saying that he js a mud slinger. He cannot possibly he both and, as u matter of fact. ts neither. The Democrats must feel in 2 mighty tad way when they cry out ‘mud and treason.” fete eee e tee eee ; - WILSON ADMITS HE I When Mr. Wilson forgets him- self he admits that we have been at war. For example, on May 11, 1914, in an address over the dead marines at the navy yard in Brooklyn he said that the marines had been engaged in “a' war of service.” A war Of service to whom or to what? Certainly not to the United States, nor to Mexico, nor te humanity at large, Was it te Mr. Wilson?—From the Speech of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Delivered at Lewiston, Me, in Behalf of Charlee E. Hughes, Editorial Comments ‘The Democrats continue to tgnore Mr. Hughes’ xpeeches to the extent that all they do Is to sputter and gasp: Let 4t be conceded there are really strong grounds for the opinion that President Wilson’ may carry Texas next November. If these indication: fare taken at their full worth some en thusiasts will soon be going out to bet that the tide will sweep on until Mis sissippl and Alabama are also enrolled in the Democratic column. Many blg Democrats willing, and ready to speak for Wilson are careful that thelr money shall not say any: thing on bis side, President Wilson says he is utterly indifferent as to his re-election.’ Per- haps that explains a good many things nobody bas heretofore been able to understand, “Help me, Cassius, or I sink!" For “Cassius” read “congress.” ‘The notion seems to be that the Democratic national chairman 1s claim. ing more than he will get, but not any ‘more than be will need. As further evidence that he is warm hearted and Intensely human, Mr Hughes Ukes apple ple. No man is golng to be elected—or re- elected—to high office by votes galned from states’ rights declarations this late In the game. The states’ rights question was settled some fifty years ago to the evident satisfaction of a considerable majority. — Kansas City Star. “Adequate preparedness 1s not mill tarism, It Is the essential assurance of security. It is a necessary safe guard of peace.” Candidate Hughes has left nothing to be sald on this subject. He has snuffed out counter argument at the very ontset. “Are we Americans a vation of bunglers?” asks the New York Sun It would be very harsh to answer this tn the affirmative and, anyway, we elect a Democratic president only ev ery once in a while. Charles E. Huxbes cannot zet so far away from Washington that the men in charge of the «hariot of government there do not feel the jolting of bis eriticlsms. In fact, the Democratic leaders at the capital city show symp: toms of seasickness from the way in which the ex-Justice of the supreme court has shaken them up. Mr. Hughes fs pursuing the only proper method, which fs first to take the deadwood out of the way so that the path to righteous and propitious government may be made clear. - e = + THE+ NEUTRALITY 4 + OF PONTIUS PILATE 4 + — + + But as soon as the need for 4 + deeds arose Mr. Wilson forgot + ‘+ all about “the principle he held + + dear." ‘He promptly announced + that we should be “neutral in + fact as well as in vame, in 4 + thought as well as in action.” 4 between the small, weak, unof- + fending nation and ‘the large. 4 + strong nation which was rob- 4 ‘& ing {t of its sovereignty and in + + dependence. Such neutrality bas + % been compared to the neutrality + of Pontius Pilate. This ts un- + just to Pontius Pilate, who at + + least gently urged moderation + ‘ on the wrongdoer. — From the’ + + speech of Colonel Theodore + + Roosevelt, delivered at Lewis- + ‘ ton, Me., in behalf of Charles E. + + Hughes. + + + EEEEEEEEEEEEE EE EES The president gets up early during the hot spell, and there are some who think he may have to continue the practice until November if that man Hughes continues to be so undigni fied.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. / WILSON’S IGNOBLE, UNSUC- - CESSFUL LITTLE WARS. President Wilson took Vera Cruz In 1914, as. we were official- ly informed at the time, to get a salute for the flag and to pre- vent the shipment of arms into | Mexico, He did not get his sa- lute. He did not prevent the shipment of arms. But soveral hundred men were killed or - wounded, and then he brought the army home without achiev- ing either object. 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