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It is true that the higher institutions for the training of Negro youth, such as Hampton and Tuskegee, the state normals and the agricultural schools, are turning out graduates who are able to cope with conditions as they find them. Many of these graduates become teachers in the better schools for their race. e Page VOL. 6 Single Copies 5 Cents RURAL TRAINING SCHOOLS SOUTH Necessity For Better Prepared Teachers Clearly Shown. Eight Southern States Are Co-operating With the General Education Board For the Improvement of Country School Facilities--Attitude of Supervisors is Friendly. There is being developed in the south new type of school for Negro youth nown as the county training school. his development is being fostered by a Slater board, co-operating with public school authorities in the councies, says James L. Sibley in the Southern Workman. Any system of publicly supported education in the south is based upon the county as the unit. This is as true of the Negro as of the white public schools. The fostering of a county system adequately supported and adequately supervised occupies the efforts of educational forces at work in the field at the present time. A number of agencies are helping in this development. Eight southern states, through co-operation with the general education board, employ supervisors of their rural elementary Negro schools, who devote their time to the improvement of these schools in the several counties and also help to bring about better supervision on the part of the public school authorities. The Jeanes fund assists in this development by bearing a portion of the expense necessary to employ the supervisors industrial teachers. Their effect has been not only to teach elementary industries to boys and girls, but to stimulate general improvement in the physical condition of school buildings and grounds and to reach the homes of the children, thus developing a spirit of community cooperation. There is also the Rosenwald fund, which has brought about directly the erection of new rural school buildings properly equipped by securing the co-operation of all the forces in the community, both public and private, of both races. All the forces involved in the establishment of a public system of elementary education seem therefore to have been set in motion. There remains, however, the problem of obtaining adequately prepared teachers for the average rural communities in the south, and this problem is a difficult one, for it is beyond the means of the majority of Negro teachers to attend these higher and distant institutions of learning. The need for some sensible, practical school in each county to help meet this demand has long been evident. Such a school should offer training a little more advanced than the average rural school and should be a part of the public school system of the county. This conclusion was reached by Dr. James H. Dillard, president of the flater board, after years of experience and investigation. In many counties there are struggling Negro schools which offer some advanced training to students, but these are generally poorly equipped, lack adequate funds and are often pretended in name as well as in the course of study. To have these schools turned over to the public school authorities, to have funds appropriated for their maintenance and to secure properly prepared teachers for them have been some of the problems to be solved. The south has to support a dual system of schools, which makes it all the more difficult to secure sufficient funds for either race, yet the response on the part of the southern county superintendents has been cordial. Applications from the counties have been greater than the funds could supply and in the case of a number of schools the general education board has assisted in providing equipment for adequate work There is much in the traditional course of study to be avoided. The very name—county training school—indicates that it is of a new type. These schools cover from eight to ten grades of work. Three courses are offered—namely, agriculture for boys, household arts for girls and teacher training during the last year for those who desire to teach in the rural schools of the county. In Alabama three of these schools, similar to those in other southern states, are already in operation. These three are located at Cottage Grove, in Coosa county; at Lebanon, in Pickens county, and at Charity, in Lowndes county. A fourth recently established, but not yet in its new building, is at Plateau, in Mobile county. In establishing these schools we have been able to get away from all traditions, and three of the four will have entirely new plants. We have therefore been able to design and construct buildings adapted to the needs of the community, well lighted, reasonably well equipped, yet within reach of the school finances. BUSINESS MEN COMMEND GOOD WORK OF STUDENTS National Urban League Told Colored Boys Give Satisfaction. The following communication from the Connecticut Leaf Tobacco association, which is composed of practically all the tobacco growers in the Hartford valley, has been received at the office of the National Urban league: The National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, 2003 Seventh Avenue, New York: Gentlemen—I am glad to be able to write that upon every plantation where the colored students are now employed they are giving satisfaction, and plans are made to get them out at the end of the school term in 1827. These boys have proved to be efficient and conscientious workers, and they have won the approval of both the planters and are working for and the members of the different communities in which they have lived. I believe it to be the duty of the association to send some letter of appreciation to the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes for their efforts in this movement and at the same time to provide a better manner in which they have handled this proposition. Very truly yours, CONNECTICUT LEAF TOBACCO AS- CONNECTICUT LEAF TOBACCO ASSOCIATION This letter is in commendation of the work of the 500 students who were recruited from the southern schools and colleges as an experiment to fill the places of foreign laborers who had found more remunerative employment in the various munition factories of the north. Reliable Health News From Georgia. The death rate among the colored people at Dublin, Ga., has been reduced to such a low figure as to cause one of the undertakers of Dublin to offer coffins and caskets at bargain prices. This is good news, as the death rate among members of the race is far too high according to population. This is especially true of the race in large cities. FIERY WORDS. "Direct violations of a nation's sovereignty cannot await vindication in suits for damage. The nation which violates those, essential rights must be checked and called to account by direct challenge and resistance." — From Woodrow Wilson's Speech Accepting the Democratic Nomination For Presidency. BUT— The American flag is still unsaluted at Vera Crus. Villa is still uncaptured and unpunished. Carranza still slaps the United States. There still has been no accounting for American lives and property destroyed in Mexico. The whole question of reparation for invasion of American rights by various warring nations is still sleeping in a pigeonhole. AND— All the "direct challenge and resistance" noticeable to the average American is included in a series of notes said to possess high literary quality, if nothing else in particular. Wabbling Weedrow. Opportunism has claims that every statesman must respect. Sut never has there been an opportunist in the White House of greater willingness to change than the present incumbent. The country feared it had placed power in the hands of a doctrinaire schoolmaster incapable of bending. It finds that it has a man of remarkable plasticity of judgment, who one moment stands for states' rights and the next for nationalism, who one day is a pacifist, and the next is out-shouting Col. Roosevelt for arms and ships, who one week is for a barren neutrality and the next for war in behalf of general righteousness, who one night is for collective wage bargaining and arbitration of industrial disputes and the next is waving the flag of decreeing wages up or down as the votes of the larger number can be controlled.—New York Globe and Commercial Advertiser. Gen. Pershing's army continues in fine fettle, "fit for a fight or a frolic." To its credit let it be said it went as far as politics permitted. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR REPUBLICAN THRIFT IS SQUANDERED BY WILSON Built Panama Canal Out of Current Revenues, Patriotically Hoarding Bonds In Treasury Which Democrats Fileh to Hide a Deficit. CARNIVAL OF DEBAUCHERY IN PUBLIC EXPENDITURE Senator Penrose Believes the Looted Condition of the Treasury Will Necessitate the Wikiholding of Contracts For Battleships and Delay the Whole Scheme of Preparedness—Nation's Money Frittered Away to Finance Hare Brained and III Advised Projects. William R. Willecox, chairman of the Republican National committee, has received from Senator Penrose a brief but positive summing up of the extravagances of the Wilson administration during the session of congress just about to close. The senator says: "When the country realizes what this congress has done in the way of appropriations it will be dumfounded. Already it has been shown that over a billion, seven or eight hundred million dollars have been appropriated—more money than was ever appropriated in any one year in the history of the American government. The total will reach nearly $2,000,000,000 before the end of this carnival of debauchery in public expenditures is reached, because no account has been taken of the $25,000,000 for the Danish islands, the $80,000,000 which the government will probably have to refund as a result of the 5 per cent rebate allowed on importations brought across the seas in American bottoms, and other matters which are likely to come up. "It is only too evident that this bill which is expected to bring in some $200,000,000 will absolutely fall to meet even the requirements for the ill advised and certainly not urgent projects authorized by the present congress." "It is now claimed that these projects are to be financed by the issuance of Panama canal bonds. The American people will regard such a proceeding as a very queer one because the issuing of bonds by the Cleveland administration largely helped to bring about the downfall of the Democratic party in 1808. A bond issue has ever since been viewed with abhorrence by the Democracy; now, we find the party leaders compelled by reason of their extravagance and inefficiency, to resort to it. "To defray the expenses of a nitrate plant and of a shipping board and many other needless projects by the issuing of Panama bonds will be in the last analysis equivalent to paying for them by bond issues. These bonds are lying in the treasury unissued as the result of the thrift and economy and wise administration of the Republican party. "Only about $180,000,000 of bonds were put out in the construction of the Panama canal. The balance of the cost of that stupendous undertaking was paid out of current revenues; and now, to advance the novel doctrine that these bonds which represent the thrift of preceding years shall be issued for these questionable projects is, to my mind, preposterous. In fact, it was expressly provided in the Spooner act that Panama canal bonds should not be issued for any other purpose than that of the construction of the canal, and the ingenious theory that they can be issued now to repay the treasury and that then the money can be squandered by the party in power to finance doubtful projects and to make good a deficit will not alter the fact that such a deficit exists. "No amount of reasoning on the part of the chairman of the committee on finance will alter the fact that outside of preparedness there has been at least $200,000,000 of wasteful appropriations and expenditures by the present congress. That condition of the treasury will absolutely necessitate the withholding of contracts for battleship and delay the whole scheme of preparedness. "The figures of the secretary of the treasury may be juggled as they may but when the secretary is up against the brute fact of not having money to pay for these projects he will then find that figures will not make a surplus in the treasury." Smoke "SIGHT DRAFT" The Rollable 5c Cigar. CONFERENCE OF EDUCATORS TO MEET AT DURHAM, N. C. Atlanta Constitution Highly Approves of Meeting Called For Nov. 21. The following editorial from the Atlanta Constitution of Tuesday, Sept. 18 is significant of three things—first, the constantly widening influence of the National Training school at Durham, N. C.; second, the timely interest which a large and increasing number of the white people of the south manifest in the educational work for colored people, their growing friendliness toward members of our race who show proper interest in racial affairs, and, third, the genuine approval of the able and constructive leadership of Dr. James E. Shepard, founder and president of the institution. The Constitution says: "A conference for Negro education has been called by James E. Shepard, president of the National Training School For Negroes at Durham, N. C., to meet in that city Nov. 21-24 next, to which all interested in the betterment of Negro education are cordially invited. "It is noteworthy that this conference proposes to deal with the subject upon a business basis—upon a basis of results that will beat equip the Negro for substantial self support and aid him most in a self sustaining career. "This is the kind of work the leading educational institutions for the Negro located in the south and fostered and assisted by the white people in this as well as in other sections, are now doing. "The National Training school at Durham is one of these, as is also Tuskegee institute. There are others—institutions that are teaching the Negro a trade, an industrial occupation which not only makes him independent, but makes him capable of rendering a service which is in constant demand and through which he can always earn a livelihood. "The Durham conference will deal with live questions concerning the Negro education. Moreover, if any one has any particular ideas about the betterment of the Negro's condition upon these lines this conference will furnish him an opportunity to present it. The work is one to which the white people of the south can well afford to lend their encouragement and assistance. "Education that will make the Negro a better and a more capable citizen and which, in the industrial world and where he has the ambition and ability, will lift him above the plane of the ordinary laborer will not only help the Negro race, but it will help conditions among both races in the south. "The opportunity is opening up for him more and more every year as a result of such conferences as that to be held shortly at Durham. The day is not far distant when there will be a chance to take advantage of it. It means self respect, better employment and better living conditions. It is a good work and should be encouraged." PROUD OF COLORED RACE. Commissioner Brownlowe's Timely Admits Addition of Fellowship to Washington dress to Odd Fellows at Washington. Commissioner: Lewis Brownlow of the district of Columbia in an address of welcome to the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, which held its eighteenth biennial session at Washington in August, in part said: "I welcome you not only as members of this order, but also as American citizens. I am glad when fraternal orders meet in Washington, because it gives Americans an opportunity to see their capital. I wish especially to welcome those of you who are in this city for the first time. "Washington is the metropolis of the colored race. There are more colored persons here than in any other city of the United States. They form an integral part of the citizenship of which Washington is proud. "We are now completing a well equipped colored high school, named for Paul Dunbar, the great Negro poet. It is to be the most advanced institution ever erected devoted exclusively to the education of the colored race. We try in Washington to give equal opportunities of education to the colored race." The response to Commissioner Brownlow's address was made by Professor William Pickers, dean of Morgan college, Baltimore, who said: "The Negro in America has always proved himself faithful and loyal to the flag. No one, not even the Negro's worst enemy, has ever questioned his patriotism. No one has asked him what country he would stand by in case of war between this and any other power. "I sometimes doubt whether the Negro's best friends are in the north or the south, but I am sure of one thing—that is, that the best friend the American white man has in all the world is the American Negro." **Importent.** Gibbs—I tell you no man can fool my wife. Gibbs—Then how did you get her? PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN RIGHTS Joseph C Manning's View About Southern Conditions. IN JUSTICE TO THE MASSES 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 385,046 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 205,882 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 ingenuous 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 heroic dead, honoring the memory of Garrison. Summer, 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 as 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." RACE PREJUDICE NORTH. George E. Wibecan Entree Suit Against Theater Official In Brooklyn In the south the colored people are lynched upon the most fiasy charges or suspicion of guilt when charged with crime, and in the north they are discriminated against at sight in the matter of places of public amusement or social comforts. A case in point at the north is being tried out by the courts in Brooklyn. George E. Wibecan, well known and popular in social and political circles and a clerk in the general postoffice for a quarter of a century or more, entered suit against John Crawford, treasurer of the Empire theater, on Tuesday, Sept. 12, for refusing, as Mr. Wibecan alleges, to sell him two theater seat tickets. Mr. Wibecan in making the charge against the theater official called the attention of the court to section 61d of the penal law of the state. Mr. Wibecan says he went to the theater and stayed in line for some time, and when he finally reached the box office and asked for two tickets for the performance for the next day he was told: "We haven't got any. Get out of line." He received the same reply, he said, when he asked for two tickets for Friday night, Sept. 8. Manager Curtain of the theater in court told the magistrate the box office man did not refuse to sell Wibecan tickets because of his color, but because there were no tickets left. The case was but over for further hearing. Some time ago Mr. Wheecan started suit against a downtown restaurant keeper because he refused to serve him and gained an award of $100 when the case was brought into the courti. 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 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. Brooklyn to Have Employees' Union. A preliminary meeting for the purpose of forming an employee's union was held at the Carlton avenue branch of the Young Men's Christian association, in Brooklyn. Thursday evening, Sept. 28. Messrs. J. H. Hubert and Harold Pilgrim and Arthur Comither are among the prime promoters of the movement. Corrothers on Future of Dark Races. The Rev. S. L. Corrothers in an address before the race conference recently held at the Mount Carmel Baptist church in Washington made the following striking prediction: "The dark races of the world, with the colored race in America leading, will eventually take the lead in world movements along all lines if the white race does not stop the wild nerve racking pace at which it is going." Pennsylvania Mason May Build Homa The local lodges of the Masonic order in the Seventh Pennsylvania district have renewed their effort to perfect plans for the erection of a modern Masonic temple in Pittsburgh. Grand Master J. C. Morton has already taken the matter under advisement with members of the fraternity. DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST PAUL MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY VOL. 6 Single Copies 5 Cents MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. OCTOBER 14, 1916. RURAL TRAINING SCHOOLS SOUTH Necessity For Better Prepared Teachers Clearly Shown. MANY AGENCIES AT WORK. Eight Southern States Are Co-operating With the General Education Board For the Improvement of Country School Facilities—Attitude of Supervisors is Friendly. There is being developed in the south new type of school for Negro youth nown as the county training school. his development is being fostered by his flister board, co-operating with public school authorities in the councers, says James L. Sibley in the Southrn Workman. Any system of publicly supported education in the south is based upon the county as the unit. This is as true of the Negro as of the white public schools. The fostering of a county system adequately supported and adequately supervised occupies the efforts of educational forces at work in the field at the present time. A number of agencies are helping in this development. Eight southern states, through co-operation with the general education board, employ supervisors of their rural elementary Negro schools, who devote their time to the improvement of these schools in the several counties and also help to bring about better supervision on the part of the public school authorities. The Jeanes fund assists in this development by bearing a portion of the expense necessary to employ the supervising industrial teachers. Their effort has been not only to teach elementary industries to boys and girls, but to stimulate general improvement in the physical condition of school buildings and grounds and to reach the homes of the children, thus developing a spirit of community cooperation. There is also the Rosenwald fund, which has brought about directly the erection of new rural school buildings properly equipped by securing the co-operation of all the forces in the community, both public and private, of both races. All the forces involved in the establishment of a public system of elementary education seem therefore to have been set in motion. It is true that the higher institutions for the training of Negro youth, such as Hampton and Tuskegee, the state normals and the agricultural schools, are turning out graduates who are able to cope with conditions as they find them. Many of these graduates become teachers in the better schools for their race. There remains, however, the problem of obtaining adequately prepared teachers for the average rural communities in the south, and this problem is a difficult one, for it is beyond the means of the majority of Negro teachers to attend these higher and distant institutions of learning. The need for some sensible, practical school in each county to help meet this demand has long been evident. Such a school should offer training a little more advanced than the average rural school and should be a part of the public school system of the county. This conclusion was reached by Dr. James H. Dillard, president of the Slater board, after years of experience and investigation. In many counties there are struggling Negro schools which offer some advanced training to students, but these are generally poorly equipped, lack adequate funds and are often pretentious in name as well as in the course of study. To have these schools turned over to the public school authorities, to have funds appropriated for their maintenance and to secure properly prepared teachers for them have been some of the problems to be solved. The south has to support a dual system of schools, which makes it all the more difficult to secure sufficient funds for either race, yet the response on the part of the southern county superintendents has been cordial. Applications from the counties have been greater than the funds could supply, and in the case of a number of schools the general education board has assisted in providing equipment for adequate work There is much in the traditional course of study to be avoided. The very name—county training school—indicates that it is of a new type. These schools cover from eight to ten grades of work. Three courses are offered—namely, agriculture for boys, household arts for girls and teacher training during the last year for those who desire to teach in the rural schools or the county. In Alabama three of these schools, similar to those in other southern states, are already in operation. These three are located at Cottage Grove, in Coosa county; at Lebanon, in Pickens county, and at Charity, in Lowndes county. A fourth recently established, but not yet in its new building, is at Plateau, in Mobile county. In establishing these schools we have been able to get away from all traditions, and three of the four will have entirely new plants. We have therefore been able to design and construct buildings adapted to the needs of the community, well lighted, reasonably well equipped, yet within reach of the school finances. BUSINESS MEN COMMEND GOOD WORK OF STUDENTS National Urban League Told Colored Boys Give Satisfaction. The following communication from the Connecticut Leaf Tobacco association, which is composed of practically all the tobacco growers in the Hartford valley, has been received at the office of the National Urban league: The National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, 2303 Seventh Avenue, New York: Gentlemen—I am glad to be able to write the report on the contribution the colored students are now employed they are giving satisfaction, and plans are being made for their return to Connecticut at the end of the school term in 1817. These boys have proved to be efficient and conscientious workers, and they have won the approval of both the planters they have been working for and the members of the different communities in which they have lived. I believe it to be the duty of the association to send some letter of appreciation to the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes for their efforts in this movement and at the same time to mention the efficient and able staff of the league that enabled this proposition. Very truly yours. CONNECTICUT LEAF TOBACCO AB CONNECTICUT LEAF TOBACCO ASSOCIATION This letter is in commendation of the work of the 500 students who were recruited from the southern schools and colleges as an experiment to fill the places of foreign laborers who had found more remunerative employment in the various munition factories of the north. Reliable Health News From Georgia. The death rate among the colored people at Dublin, Ga., has been reduced to such a low figure as to cause one of the undertakers of Dublin to offer coffins and caskets at bargain prices. This is good news, as the death rate among members of the race is far too high according to population. This is especially true of the race in large cities. FIERY WORDS. "Direct violations of a nation's sovereignty cannot await vindication in suits for damage. The nation which violates those essential rights must be checked and called to account by direct challenge and resistance." - From Woodrow Wilson's Speech Accepting the Democratic Nomination For Presidency. BUT— The American flag is still unsaluted at Vera Crus. Villa is still uncaptured and unpunished. Carranza still slaps the United States. There still has been no accounting for American lives and property destroyed in Mexico. The whole question of reparation for invasion of American rights by various warring nations is still sleeping in a pigeonhole. All the "direct challenge and resistance" noticeable to the average American is included in a series of notes said to possess high literary quality. if nothing else in particular. Wabbling Weedrow Opportunism has claims that every statesman must respect. But never has there been an opportunist in the White House of greater willingness to change than the present incumbent. The country feared it had placed power in the hands of a doctrinaire schoolmaster incapable of bending. It finds that it has a man of remarkable plasticity of judgment, who one moment stands for states' rights and the next for nationalism, who one day is a pacifist, and the next is out-shouting Col. Roosevelt for arms and ships, who one week is for a barren neutrality and the next for war in behalf of general righteousness, who one night is for collective wage bargaining and arbitration of industrial disputes and the next is waving the flag of decreeing wages-up or down as the votes of the larger number can be controlled. New York Globe and Commercial Advertiser. Gen. Perahing's army continues in fine fettle, "fit for a fight or a frolic." To its credit let it be said it went as far as politics permitted. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. OCTOBER 14, 1916. REPUBLICAN THRIFT IS SOUANDERED BY WILSON Built Panama Canal Out of Current Revenues, Patriotically Hoarding Bonds In Treasury Which Democrats Filch to Hide a Deficit. CARNIVAL OF DEBAUCHERY IN PUBLIC EXPENDITURE Senator Penrose Believes the Looted Condition of the Treasury Will Necessitate the Withholding of Contracts For Battleships and Delay the Whole Scheme of Preparedness—Nation's Money Frittered Away to Finance Hare Brained and III Advised Projects. William R. Willcox, chairman of the Republican National committee, has received from Senator Penrose a brief but positive summing up of the extravagances of the Wilson administration during the session of congress just about to close. The senator says: "When the country realizes what this congress has done in the way of appropriations it will be dumfounded. Already it has been shown that over a billion, seven or eight hundred million dollars have been appropriated—more money than was ever appropriated in any one year in the history of the American government. The total will reach nearly $2,000,000,000 before the end of this carnival of debauchery in public expenditures is reached, because no account has been taken of the $22,000,000 for the Danish islands, the $30,000,000 which the government will probably have to refund as a result of the 5 per cent rebate allowed on importations brought across the seas in American bottoms, and other matters which are likely to come up. "It is only too evident that this bill which is expected to bring in some $200,000,000 will absolutely fall to meet even the requirements for the ill advised and certainly not urgent projects authorized by the present congress. "It is now claimed that these projects are to be financed by the issuance of Panama canal bonds. The American people will regard such a proceeding as a very queer one because the issuing of bonds by the Cleveland administration largely helped to bring about the downfall of the Democratic party in 1896. A bond issue has ever since been viewed with abhorrence by the Democracy; now, we find the party leaders compelled by reason of their extravagance and inefficiency to resort to it. "To defray the expenses of a nitrate plant and of a shipping board and many other needless projects by the issuing of Panama bonds will be in the last analysis equivalent to paying for them by bond issues. These bonds are lying in the treasury unissued as the result of the thrift and economy and wise administration of the Republican party. "Only about $130,000,000 of bonds were put out in the construction of the Panama canal. The balance of the cost of that stupendous undertaking was paid out of current revenues; and now, to advance the novel doctrine that these bonds which represent the thrift of preceding years shall be issued for these questionable projects is to my mind, preposterous. In fact, it was expressly provided in the Spooner act that Panama canal bonds should not be issued for any other purpose than that of the construction of the canal, and the ingenious theory that they can be issued now to repay the treasury and that then the money can be squandered by the party in power to finance doubtful projects and to make good a deficit will not alter the fact that such a deficit exists. "No amount of reasoning on the part of the chairman of the committee on finance will alter the fact that outside of preparedness there has been at least $200,000,000 of wasteful appropriations and expenditures by the present congress. That condition of the treasury will absolutely necessitate the withholding of contracts for battleship and delay the whole scheme of preparedness. "The figures of the secretary of the treasury may be juggled as they may but when the secretary is up against the brute fact of not having money to pay for these projects he will then find that figures will not make a surplus in the treasury." Smoke "SIGHT DRAFT" The Reliable 5c Cigar. CONFERENCE OF EDUCATORS TO MEET AT DURHAM, N. C. Atlanta Constitution Highly Approves of Meeting Called For Nov. 21. The following editorial from the Atlanta Constitution of Tuesday, Sept. 19 is significant of three things—first, the constantly widening influence of the National Training school at Durham, N. C.; second, the timely interest which a large and increasing number of the white people of the south manifest in the educational work for colored people, their growing friendliness toward members of our race who show proper interest in racial affairs, and third, the genuine approval of the able and constructive leadership of Dr. James E. Shepard, founder and president of the institution. The Constitution says: "A conference for Negro education has been called by James E. Shepard, president of the National Training School For Negroes at Durham, N. C., to meet in that city Nov. 21-24 next, to which all interested in the betterment of Negro education are cordially invited. "It is noteworthy that this conference proposes to deal with the subject upon a business basis—upon a basis of results that will best equip the Negro for substantial self support and aid him most in a self sustaining career. "This is the kind of work the leading educational institutions for the Negro, located in the south and fostered and assisted by the white people in this as well as in other sections, are now doing." "The National Training school at Durham is one of these, as is also Tuskegee institute. There are others-institutions that are teaching the Negro a trade, an industrial occupation which not only makes him independent, but makes him capable of rendering a service which is in constant demand and through which he can always earn a livelihood. "The Durham conference will deal with life questions concerning the Negro education. Moreover, if any one has any particular ideas about the betterment of the Negro's condition upon these lines this conference will furnish him an opportunity to present it. The work is one to which the white people of the south can well afford to lend their encouragement and assistance. "Education that will make the Negro a better and a more capable citizen and which, in the industrial world and where he has the ambition and ability, will lift him above the plane of the ordinary laborer will not only help the Negro race, but it will help conditions among both races in the south. "The opportunity is opening up for him more and more every year as a result of such conferences as that to be held shortly at Durham. The day is not far distant when there will be a chance to take advantage of it. It means self respect, better employment and better living conditions. It is a good work and should be encouraged." PROUD OF COLORED RACE. Commissioner Brownlow's Timely Address to Odd Fellows at Washington. Commissioner Lewis Brownlow of the District of Columbia in an address of welcome to the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, which held its eighteenth biennial session at Washington in August, in part said: "I welcome you not only as members of this order, but also as American citizens. I am glad when fraternal orders meet in Washington, because it gives Americans an opportunity to see their capital. I wish especially to welcome those of you who are in this city for the first time. "Washington is the metropolis of the colored race. There are more colored persons here than in any other city of the United States. They form an integral part of the citizenship of which Washington is proud." "We are now completing a well equipped colored high school, named for Paul Dunbar, the great Negro poet. It is to be the most advanced institution ever erected devoted exclusively to the education of the colored race. We try in Washington to give equal opportunities of education to the colored race." The response to Commissioner Brownlow's address was made by Professor William Pickens, dean of Morgan college, Baltimore, who said: "The Negro in America has always proved himself faithful and loyal to the flag. No one, not even the Negro's worst enemy, has ever questioned his patriotism. No one has asked him what country he would stand by in case of war between this and any other power. "I sometimes doubt whether the Negroes' best friends are in the north or the south, but I am sure of one thing—that is, that the best friend the American white man has in all the world is the American Negro." Gibbs—I tell you no man can fool my wife. Dibbs—Then how did you get her? PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN RIGHTS Joseph C Manning's View About Southern Conditions. IN JUSTICE TO THE MASSES 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 dring 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 385,046 black male citizens of voting age, and then see that the vote for Mr. Wilson for M. 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 herocolic dead, honoring the memory of Garrison. Summer, 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 as 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." RACE PREJUDICE NORTH. George E. Wibecan Enters Suit Against Theater Official in Brooklyn. Theater General W. Brooklyn In the south the colored people are lynched upon the most filmsy charges or suspicion of guilt when charged with crime, and in the north they are discriminated against at sight in the matter of places of public amusement or social comforts. A case in point at the north is being tried out by the courts in Brooklyn. George E. Wibecan, well known and popular in social and political circles and a clerk in the general postoffice for a quarter of a century or more, entered suit against John Crawford, treasurer of the Empire theater, on Tuesday, Sept. 12, for refusing, as Mr. Wibecan alleges, to sell him two theater seat tickets. Mr. Wibecan in making the charge against the theater official called the attention of the court to section 514 of the penal law of the state. Mr. Wibecan says he went to the theater and stayed in line for some time, and when he finally reached the box office and asked for two tickets for the performance for the next day he was told: "We haven't got any. Get out of line." He received the same reply, he said, when he asked for two tickets for Friday night, Sept. 8. Manager Curtain of the theater in court told the magistrate the box office man did not refuse to sell Wibecan tickets because of his color, but because there were no tickets left. The case was put over for further hearing. Some time ago Mr. Wibecan started suit against a downtown restaurant keeper because he refused to serve him and gained an award of $100 when the case was brought into the court. 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 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. Brooklyn to Have Employees' Union. A preliminary meeting for the purpose of forming an employees' union was held at the Carlton avenue branch of the Young Men's Christian association, in Brooklyn, Thursday evening, Sept. 28. Messrs. J. H. Hubert and Harold Pilgrim and Arthur Comther are among the prime promoters of the movement. Corrothers an Future of Dark Races. The Rev. 8. L. Corrothers in an address before the race conference recently held at the Mount Carmel Baptist church in Washington made the following striking prediction: "The dark races of the world, with the colored race in America leading, will eventually take the lead in world movements along all lines if the white race does not stop the wild, nerve racking pace at which it is going." Pennsylvania Mason May Build Home The local lodges of the Masonic order in the Seventh Pennsylvania district have renewed their effort to perfect plans for the erection of a modern Masonic temple in Pittsburgh. Grand Master J. C. Morton has already taken the matter under advisement with members of the fraternity. DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST.PAUL MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY VOL. 6 Single Copies 5 Cents In Alabama three of these schools, similar to those in other southern states, are already in operation. These three are located at Cottage Grove, in Coosa county; at Lebanon, in Pickens county, and at Charity, in Lowndes county. A fourth recently established, but not yet in its new building, is at Plateau, in Mobile county. In establishing these schools we have been able to get away from all traditions, and three of the four will have entirely new plants. We have therefore been able to design and construct buildings adapted to the needs of the community, well lighted, reasonably well equipped, yet within reach of the school finances. BUSINESS MEN COMMEND GOOD WORK OF STUDENTS National Urban League Told Colored Boys Give Satisfaction. The following communication from the Connecticut Leaf Tobacco association, which is composed of practically all the tobacco growers in the Hartford valley, has been received at the office of the National Urban league: The National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes. 2003 Seventh Avenue. New York; Gentlemen—I am glad to be able to write that upon every plantation where the colored students are now employed they are giving satisfaction, and plans are being made for their return to Connecticut at the end of the school term in 1917. These boys have proved to be efficient and conscientious workers, and they have won the approval of both the planters they have been working for and the members of the different communities in which they have lived. They be the duty of the association to send some letter of appreciation to the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes for their efforts in this movement and at the same time to mention the efficient and able manner in which they have handled this proposition. Very truly yours, CONNECTICUT LEAF TOBACCO AS- CONNECTICUT LEAF TOBACCO ASSOCIATION This letter is in commendation of the work of the 500 students who were recruited from the southern schools and colleges as an experiment to fill the places of foreign laborers who had found more remunerative employment in the various munition factories of the north. Reliable Health News From Georgia. Reliable Health News From Georgia. The death rate among the colored people at Dublin, Ga., has been reduced to such a low figure as to cause one of the undertakers of Dublin to offer coffins and caskets at bargain prices. This is good news, as the death rate among members of the race is far too high according to population. This is especially true of the race in large cities. "Direct violations of a nation's sovereignty cannot await vindication in suits for damage. The nation which violates those essential rights must be checked and called to account by direct challenge and resistance." - From Woodrow Wilson's Speech Accepting the Democratic Nomination For Presidency. BUT- The American flag is still unsaluted at Vera Crun. Villa is still uncaptured and unpunished. Carranza still slaps the United States. There still has been no accounting for American lives and property destroyed in Mexico. The whole question of reparation for invasion of American rights by various warring nations is still sleeping in a pigeonhole. All the "direct challenge and resistance" noticeable to the average American is included in a series of notes said to possess high literary quality. if nothing else in particular. Opportunism has claims that every statesman must respect. Sut never has there been an opportunist in the White House of greater willingness to change than the present incumbent. The country feared it had placed power in the hands of a doctrinaire schoolmaster incapable of bending. It finds that it has a man of remarkable plasticity of judgment, who one moment stands for states' rights and the next for nationalism, who one day is a pacifist, and the next is out-shouting Col. Roosevelt for arms and ships, who one week is for a barren neutrality and the next for war in behalf of general righteousness, who one night is for collective wage bargaining and arbitration of industrial disputes and the next is waving the flag of decreeing wages-up or down as the votes of the larger number can be controlled.—New York Globe and Commercial Advertiser. Gen. Pershing's army continues in fine fettle, "it for a fight or a frolic." To its credit let it be said it went as far as politics permitted. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR RURAL TRAINING SCHOOLS SOUTH Necessity For Better Prepared Teachers Clearly Shown. MANY AGENCIES AT WORK. Eight Southern States Are Co-operating With the General Education Board For the Improvement of Country School Facilities—Attitude of Supervisors Is Friendly. There is being developed in the south new type of school for Negro youth nown as the county training school his development is being fostered by a Slater board, co-operating with public school authorities in the counes, says James L. Sibley in the Southrn Workman. Any system of publicly supported education in the south is based upon the county as the unit. This is as true of the Negro as of the white public schools. The fostering of a county system adequately supported and adequately supervised occupies the efforts of educational forces at work in the field at the present time. A number of agencies are helping in this development. Eight southern states, through co-operation with the general education board, employ supervisors of their rural elementary Negro schools, who devote their time to the improvement of these schools in the several counties and also help to bring about better supervision on the part of the public school authorities. The Jeanes fund assists in this development by bearing a portion of the expense necessary to employ the supervising industrial teachers. Their effort has been not only to teach elementary industries to boys and girls, but to stimulate general improvement in the physical condition of school buildings and grounds and to reach the homes of the children, thus developing a spirit of community cooperation. There is also the Rosenwald fund, which has brought about directly the erection of new rural school buildings properly equipped by securing the co-operation of all the forces in the community, both public and private, of both races. All the forces involved in the establishment of a public system of elementary education seem therefore to have been set in motion. It is true that the higher institutions for the training of Negro youth, such as Hampton and Tuskegee, the state normals and the agricultural schools, are turning out graduates who are able to cope with conditions as they find them. Many of these graduates become teachers in the better schools for their race. There remains, however, the problem of obtaining adequately prepared teachers for the average rural communities in the south, and this problem is a difficult one, for it is beyond the means of the majority of Negro teachers to attend these higher and distant institutions of learning. The need for some sensible, practical school in each county to help meet this demand has long been evident. Such a school should offer training a little more advanced than the average rural school and should be a part of the public school system of the county. This conclusion was reached by Dr James H. Dillard, president of the Slater board, after years of experience and investigation. In many counties there are struggling Negro schools which offer some advanced training to students, but these are generally poorly equipped, lack adequate funds and are often pretentious in name as well as in the course of study. To have these schools turned over to the public school authorities, to have funds appropriated for their maintenance and to secure properly prepred teachers for them have been some of the problems to be solved. The south has to support a dual system of schools, which makes it all the more difficult to secure sufficient funds for either race, yet the response on the part of the southern county superintendents has been cordial. Applications from the counties have been greater than the funds could supply, and in the case of a number of schools the general education board has assisted in providing equipment for adequate work. There is much in the traditional course of study to be avoided. The very name—county training school—indicates that it is of a new type. These schools cover from eight to ten grades of work. Three courses are offered—namely, agriculture for boys, household arts for girls and teacher training during the last year for those who desire to teach in the rural schools Page FIERY WORDS8. Wabbling Weedrow. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. OCTOBER 14, 1916. REPUBLICAN THRIFT IS SQUANDERED BY WILSON Built Panama Canal Out of Current Revenues, Patriotically Hoarding Bonds In Treasury Which Democrats Filch to Hide a Deficit. CARNIVAL OF DEBAUCHERY IN PUBLIC EXPENDITURE Senator Penrose Believes the Looted Condition of the Treasury Will Necessitate the Withholding of Contracts For Battleships and Delay the Whole Scheme of Preparedness—Nation's Money Frittered Away to Finance Hare Brained and III Advised Projects. William R. Willecox, chairman of the Republican National committee, has received from Senator Penrose a brief but positive summing up of the extravagances of the Wilson administration during the session of congress just about to close. The senator says: "When the country realizes what this congress has done in the way of appropriations it will be dumfounded. Already it has been shown that over a billion, seven or eight hundred million dollars have been appropriated—more money than was ever appropriated in any one year in the history of the American government. The total will reach nearly $2,000,000,000 before the end of this carnival of debauchery in public expenditures is reached, because no account has been taken of the $25,000,000 for the Danish islands, the $30,000,000 which the government will probably have to refund as a result of the 5 per cent rebate allowed on importations brought across the seas in American bottoms, and other matters which are likely to come up. "It is only too evident that this bill which is expected to bring in some $200,000,000 will absolutely fall to meet even the requirements for the ill advised and certainly not urgent projects authorized by the present congress. "It is now claimed that these projects are to be financed by the issuance of Panama canal bonds. The American people will regard such a proceeding as a very queer one because the issuing of bonds by the Cleveland administration largely helped to bring about the downfall of the Democratic party in 1806. A bond issue has ever since been viewed with abhorrence by the Democracy; now, we find the party leaders compelled by reason of their extravagance and inefficiency, to resort to it. "To defray the expenses of a nitrate plant and of a shipping board and many other needless projects by the issuing of Panama bonds will be in the last analysis equivalent to paying for them by bond issues. These bonds are lying in the treasury unissued as the result of the thrift and economy and wise administration of the Republican party. "Only about $130,000,000 of bonds were put out in the construction of the Panama canal. The balance of the cost of that stupendous undertaking was paid out of current revenues; and now, to advance the novel doctrine that these bonds which represent the thrift of preceding years shall be issued for these questionable projects is to my mind, preposterous. In fact, it was expressly provided in the Spooner act that Panama canal bonds should not be issued for any other purpose than that of the construction of the canal, and the ingenious theory that they can be issued now to repay the treasury and that then the money can be squandered by the party in power to finance doubtful projects and to make good a deficit will not alter the fact that such a deficit exists. "No amount of reasoning on the part of the chairman of the committee on finance will alter the fact that outside of preparedness there has been at least $200,000,000 of wasteful appropriations and expenditures by the present congress. That condition of the treasury will absolutely necessitate the withholding of contracts for battleships and delay the whole scheme of preparedness. "The figures of the secretary of the treasury may be jugged as they may but when the secretary is up against the brute fact of not having money to pay for these projects he will then find that figures will not make a surplus in the treasury." Smoke "SIGHT DRAFT" The Reliable 5c Cigar. CONFERENCE OF EDUCATORS TO MEET AT DURHAM, N. C. Atlanta Constitution Highly Approves of Meeting Called For Nov. 21. The following editorial from the Atlanta Constitution of Tuesday, Sept. 19, is significant of three things—first, the constantly widening influence of the National Training school at Durham, N. C; second, the timely interest which a large and increasing number of the white people of the south manifest in the educational work for colored people, their growing friendliness toward members of our race who show proper interest in racial affairs, and, third, the genuine approval of the able and constructive leadership of Dr. James E. Shepard, founder and president of the institution. The Constitution says: "A conference for Negro education has been called by James E. Shepard, president of the National Training School For Negroes at Durham, N. C., to meet in that city Nov. 21-24 next, to which all interested in the betterment of Negro education are cordially invited. "It is noteworthy that this conference proposes to deal with the subject upon a business basis—upon a basis of results that will best equip the Negro for substantial self support and aid him most in a self sustaining career. "This is the kind of work the leading educational institutions for the Negro, located in the south and fostered and assisted by the white people in this as well as in other sections, are now doing." "The National Training school at Durham is one of these, as is also Tuskegee institute. There are other institutions that are teaching the Negro a trade, an industrial occupation which not only makes him independent, but makes him capable of rendering a service which is in constant demand and through which he can always earn a livelihood. "The Durham conference will deal with live questions concerning the Negro education. Moreover, if any one has any particular ideas about the betterment of the Negro's condition upon these lines this conference will furnish him an opportunity to present it. The work is one to which the white people of the south can well afford to lend their encouragement and assistance. "Education that will make the Negro a better and a more capable citizen and which, in the industrial world and where he has the ambition and ability, will lift him above the plane of the ordinary laborer will not only help the Negro race, but it will help conditions among both races in the south. "The opportunity is opening up for him more and more every year as a result of such conferences as that to be held shortly at Durham. The day is not far distant when there will be a chance to take advantage of it. It means self respect, better employment and better living conditions. It is a good work and should be encouraged." PROUD OF COLORED RACE. Commissioner Brownlowe Timely Ad- dicate Odd Fallout at Washington dress to Odd Fellows at Washington. Commissioner Lewis Brownlow of the district of Columbia in an address of welcome to the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, which held its eighteenth biennial session at Washington in August, in part said: "I welcome you not only as members of this order, but also as American citizens. I am glad when fraternal orders meet in Washington, because it gives Americans an opportunity to see their capital. I wish especially to welcome those of you who are in this city for the first time. "Washington is the metropolis of the colored race. There are more colored persons here than in any other city of the United States. They form an integral part of the citizenship of which Washington is proud." "We are now completing a well equipped colored high school, named for Paul Dunbar, the great Negro poet. It is to be the most advanced institution ever erected devoted exclusively to the education of the colored race. We try in Washington to give equal opportunities of education to the colored race." The response to Commissioner Brownlow's address was made by Professor William Pickens, dean of Morgan college, Baltimore, who said: "The Negro in America has always proved himself faithful and loyal to the flag. No one, not even the Negro's worst enemy, has ever questioned his patriotism. No one has asked him what country he would stand by in case of war between this and any other power. "I sometimes doubt whether the Negroes' best friends are in the north or the south, but I am sure of one thing—that is, that the best friend the American white man has in all the world is the American Negro." Impertinent. Gibbs—I tell you no man can fool my wife. Dibbs—Then how did you get her? 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 PETER H. 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. Sumner. 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 as 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." RACE PREJUDICE NORTH. George E. Wibecan Enters Suit Against Theater Official in Brooklyn In the south the colored people are lynched upon the most fimsy charges or suspicion of guilt when charged with crime, and in the north they are discriminated against at sight in the matter of places of public amusement or social comforts. A case in point at the north is being tried out by the courts in Brooklyn. George E. Wibecan, well known and popular in social and political circles and a clerk in the general postoffice for a quarter of a century or more, entered suit against John Crawford, treasurer of the Empire theater, on Tuesday, Sept. 12, for refusing, as Mr. Wibecan alleges, to sell him two theater seat tickets. Mr. Wibecan in making the charge against the theater official called the attention of the court to section 514 of the penal law of the state. Mr. Wibecan says he went to the theater and stayed in line for some time, and when he finally reached the box office and asked for two tickets for the performance for the next day he was told: "We haven't got any. Get out of line." He received the same reply, he said, when he asked for two tickets for Friday night, Sept. 8. Manager Curtain of the theater in court told the magistrate the box office man did not refuse to sell Wibecan tickets because of his color, but because there were no tickets left. The case was put over for further hearing. Some time ago Mr. Wibecan started suit against a downtown restaurant keeper because he refused to serve him and gained an award of $100 when the case was brought into the courts. 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 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. Brooklyn to Have Employees' Union. A preliminary meeting for the purpose of forming an employees' union was held at the Carlton avenue branch of the Young Men's Christian association, in Brooklyn, Thursday evening, Sept. 28. Messrs. J. H. Hubert and Harold Pilgrim and Arthur Comither are among the prime promoters of the movement. Corrothers in Future of Dark Races. The Rev. S. L. Corrothers in an address before the race conference recently held at the Mount Carmel Baptist church in Washington made the following striking prediction: "The dark races of the world, with the colored race in America leading, will eventually take the lead in world movements along all lines if the white-race does not stop the wild, nerve racking pace at which it is going." Pennsylvania Mason's May Build Home. The local lodges of the Masonic order in the Seventh Pennsylvania district have renewed their effort to perfect plans for the erection of a modern Masonic temple in Pittsburgh. Grand Master J. C. Morton has already taken the matter under advisement with members of the fraternity. / >. SOCIAL NEWS EDITOR, Miss’ Clara Lucas, §06 Boston Block, Minneapolis. ‘Minneapolis, : - Mina. NTC, 1878. ~ RAILROAD MEN'S NEWS, Stephen Springer, ‘Milwaukee Depot, Minneapolis. Send your notes.to us by Wedens- fay AM. Patronize those business houses, who request your patronage through your paper. ‘Send 25 cents in postage stamps for your For Rent Ads. -Hf-you want notices inserted, spend a cent br two and send your copy elearty and intelligently written. FUNERAL OF MOSES BURKES. After a lingering illness of heart trouble, Mr. Moses Burkes, aged 48 yetirs, who was a resident of Minne- apolis for 29 years, died at St. Barna- bas ‘hospital on Oct. Ist. Services were held Oct. 4th, at St, Peter A. M. E, Church, where he was a member for 16 years. Rev. Stovall” preached the sermon. Mrs. Fannie Pierre sang a solo. The floral offerings were beautiful. Interment at Lakewood. He leaves a sister, Mrs. Ida B. Cal- Jahan, a brother James Burkes, a niece, Mrs. Alvah Orth, a nephew, Heine Burkes and’a host of friends. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank the many friends for their expressions of sympathy and beautiful flowers in the our be- reavement in the death of our brother, Moses Burkes. ‘Mrs. Ida B. Callahan, Mr, and Mrs. James Burkes. STUDENTS AT U. of M. Among the students of our race at the University of Minnesota are Miss Grazia Corneal, Carroll Brown and Webster Stovall of Minneapolis; Fred D. Inge of St. Louis, Mo.; Mrs. Lil- lian'Turner and Misses Alberta Phil- fips’ and Ruth Charleston, Luke Vas- sar, Houston Jacqueman, Allie Pha- men, James Henley of St. Paul. Mrs: M. Hart, the Milliner won a $50.00 diamond ring, the first prize for, selling the most tickets for the Union Hall, amounting to $150.00. Mr: Beyerly Keesee has returned from a visit to Terre Haute, Ind., tc ‘see .his brother, Mr. D, H. Keesee ‘They: had not met in several years He also: spent a while in Chicago. Mr. Keesee is one of our oldest property owners, and has been’ long employed in railroad service. * Mr: Dan, Shaw, the musician, who was hurt in the auto accident with Cong. Schall is improving. Cong Schall. has nearly .recovered. ‘Mrs. B. S. Smith of Oakland Ave., returned from Rochester, Minn., where she consulted the Mayo Bros., the famous specialists. She was taken to ‘Northwestern Hospital for treat- ment for heart trouble. Her many friends wish her a speedy recovery. ‘Mr. Henry T. Burleigh, the cele brated barytone, will appear in St. Paul ‘on the evening of Oct. 19. Ar- rangements are being made by Mrs. W. T. Francis. CONCERT AND DANCE. Pride of Minnesota Lodge, Knights of Pythias will give a grand Hal- Joween Concert and Dance at Arcadia Hall, on October 30th. Watch for fater announcements.—Advertisement. Owing to the increased cost of pub- fication, we will NOT accept any ads, unless paid in advance. Agents will please act ‘accordingly. ‘Write notes plainty—and have your copy intelligently arranged—If you are unable to do 40, have some one write for you, Sign all articles. Several unsigned notes received this week were unpublished. Do not waste your time making promises to our agents. Send your money by Express or Post Office Or- der or in cash or postage stamps. ELE’S TO CELEBRATE. TENTH ANNIVERSARY. ‘Ames. Lodge of Etks No. 106, I. B. ©. P. O. E. of W. will celebrate their tenth ‘anniversary on November tst with appropriate exercises. The feat- ‘ure will be a banquet. A review of the history of the Lodge will be given, algo interesting talks by several mem- Bers. “Ames’ is nationally recog: nized as‘one of the most progressive Jodges of the order. Arrangements até being made to give a public re- eeption’ and: ball. in hpnor of their tenth antiversary. c is. Clarist Lucas, 506 Boston, att ds authorized to. collect for ade See for Twin City, , ee » { 5, sEnp Us THA Nhws. THE TWIN CITY ENTERTAINERS Invite you to attend their SPECIAL CABARET AND BALL GRAND SEMI-MONTHLY BALL UNION TEMPLE HALL, 28 WASHINGTON AVE. SO. MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1916. t * ADMISSION 35c. dances will be held every two weeks during the rest of the season. H, T. BURLEIGH RECITAL. ‘The Burleigh Recital at Pilgrim Baptist Church, St, Paul, next Thurs- day night, October 19, will be quite a society event as it is the first time our people in the Twin Cities will have an opportunity to see and hear ‘our phenomenal baritone and, Amer- ica’s leading composer, of whom the Minneapolis Tribune spoke so highly a few weeks ago. ‘The three hundred patronesses in- terested in the affair are leaving noth- ing undone to make the occasion a grand success and each will be in at- tendance, Because of the low price of admission, thirty-five cents (35c), it is feared the church, which seats less than 600, will not accommodate the large crowd. It is therefore necessary to secure tickets at once. BRILLIANT MILITARY EVENT. The most brilliant military affair that has taken place in the Twin Cities was given last Friday night at 3529 4th Ave. So. The occasion was a luncheon and smoker tendered by Capt. W. C. Jeffrey of Pride of the West Co. No. 1, U. R. K. P,, at his home, to Gen. W. R. Morris and staff. All the officers appeared in full dress uniform and belt, without side arms. Whist was indulged in during the early’ evening and later an elaborate spread was served. At its conclusion Capt. Jeffrey, in a brief talk voiced his appreciation of their presence and outlined his future plans for the Com- pany. Col. P. H. Southall responded for the staff, after which brief talks were made by Col, A. L. McDonald of the Brig. Generals Staff of Towa. Col. EF. Mitchell of Major Gen. Jackson's Staff. Colonels H. A. Thompson, F. G. Thomas, Major M. W. Scott and Capt. S. C. West of Gen. Morris Staff. Gen, Morris closed the evening with a talk full of en- thusiasm and optimism for the future of the uniform rank. W. C. Jeffrey. PYTHIAN NOTES. A renewed activity is noticeable among the K. P. lodges of the city. Pride of Minn.. Lodge has recently reinstated four members and initiated three (3), and have a number of ap- plications waiting. Pride of the West Uniform Rank under. Capt. W. C. Jeffrey, meets the 2nd and 4th Thursday in each month ‘The men are turning out well, and are all very enthusiastic over the show- ing they are making. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION The Dancing Party given on Oct. 6th, by the Young Girl's Beneficial Club was a great success. Every one seemed to enjoy the splendid music. Mrs, Blondell DeLacey of Cape Giradeau, Mo., is visiting in this city. Mr. Jas. A. Newcome let Mondy for Mankato to spend the winter. Mr, George Gardner, who was for many years employed at the Key- stone Buffet, is “mixing” at the Work- ingmen’s Social Club. Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Wright enter. tained several of her relatives and friends on Oct. 11, in honor of her birthday. Mrs. Jessie Davis of Grand Forks, N. D., is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Mayme Burnaugh, 3624 Snelling Ave. Mrs, Sally Williams and her daugh: ter, Mrs. Wm. Taylor, left Wednes- day evening for their home in Van- couver, READ THP STAR, ITS NEWSY Mrs: Narcissa Wright, mother of| Mrs. John Washington, is ill at her daughter's residence, 1500 Penn ‘Ave, Mrs. A, H. Schooley of St. Paul was a visitor to Minneapolis last Sun- day. Atty, and Mrs. W. T. Francis of St. Paul, took Miss Elizabeth Free- man to the churches, where she spoke last Sunday in their Overland. While in the city they called on Mr. and Mrs, Chas. Sumner Smith, 1319 6th Ave. No. John L, Gibson, who is a recog- nized political power on the North Side is attempting “to get voters to register. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION ADVERTISE HERE — IT PAYS. THE TWIN CITY STAR —————— THE TURNER WILL CASE, WELL DRESS ‘The jury in the case of estate of : Chase, Ticaee reteried a “verdi. in| WA SATLORMA favor of the plaintiffs. They de-| When you need yo clared Mr. Turner of sound mind, but | Overcoat. We solicit under undue influence of Mr. Jordan| offer an unusual sho M. Morris, the beneficiary under the| Woolens and a high will. Mr. Morris will take the case to| ing Service at a Rea the Supreme Court, if the trial Judge|I “Know How.” I does not set aside the verdict. Should] to build your clothes. he go to trial again, he will secure} - | * different attorneys. at Aa he ke ae Miss Elizabeth Freeman spoke at} Bethesda Church on Sunday night.| SCALP TREAT She was introduced by Mrs. W. R. HAIR GRO Donovan, pres. of the State Federa-|_Mre. Maggie Ma: tion. Miss Freeman also spoke in St.| @Mounce that she Paul on Sunday morning at Pilgrim| 2polis eet for M Baptist Church. Mrs. W. T. Francis| WALKER’S Wo arranged the meetings. Mr. John| Grower and Prepar Allison sang a solo at Bethesda. Miss| Special attention Freeman gave a review of her investi-| ¢f Eespnns and Gr ies of the “Lynching at "Waco,| S™nPICS, ws strations can be ob Don't Forget—Those Twin City En- Oe tertainers are going to give their] MRS, Feature Ball on Monday eve. Oct. 23.| NN. MAGGIE M. Mr. Ed. Stewart of Stewart's Hotel, expects to have some high class tal- ent from Chicago at his Sunday even- ing Concert. Mrs. M. Hart wishes to thank her friends for helping her in the contest in which she won a diamond ring. Read the proposed Amendments, which are to be voted on at next elec- tion. ANOTHER MEAT MARKET. * Mr. F, &. Jamison will soon vent- ure in to the butcher business. He has been connected with The Cut- Rate Grocery and Meat Market. Mr. Jamison is a young business man who is well qualified as a butcher. He is from Mobile, Ala, and has an ambi- tion to establish a: Meat Market at 629 Sth Ave. No., Minneapolis, which will be a credit and a convenience to the colored people of our city. If Rev. Withers and his political ally Rev. W. S. Malone intend to give political meetings this year, we sug- gest that they be conducted decently. They pulled off a strong one last campaign. Malone was as drank as a Bowery bum, SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR OUR BACK NUMBER COPIES. Agents are requested to return all unsold copies. We send them to sev- eral schools in the Southland, where the young Negro boys and girls may read them. We do not run free ads, or over-ran the time contracted for by our ad- vertisers We respect their right to advertise at intervals, and rather have them do so, than to run continuously an “adv.” and an increasing account. ——$—$ <_< PAID ADVERTISEMENTS weer SPECIAL AUTO DELIVERY. ‘The Cut Rate Grocery Co., have an auto-delivery. They give quick serv- ice and you can call them to do any light hauling and expressing —Adver- tisement. . if BUSINESS NOTICE. I wish to inform my friends that 1 have sold my interest in the Cut Rate Grocery and Meat Market, 429 6th Ave. No., and will open a First Class Meat Market at 629 Sth Ave. No, Minneapolis, on Saturday, Oct. 21, 1916. I respectfully solicit the pa- tronage of the public. $ F. L. Jamison, ST. JAMES MOTHER CHURCH, St. James Mother Church, will hold their services at 407 Sth Ave. South, Sunday evening, Oct. 15th, 1916, and will continue oni until they build their new church. Everybody is cordially invited to attend these services. The first service will be held at 7:45. Signed by the Trustees of the ‘Church, I, Newton, R. DeLeo, Danl. Williams. Our Neutrality. We shall have no further comment or. interest in the fight between’ the factions of St. James A. M. E. Church —which was caused by Rev. F.. J. Peterson, who left with unpaid print- ing bills. The whole affair is dis- gusting. We are handling all notices ‘as paid publicity over signature. If you want to own a home in 1916 See McDew NOW! He has some good bargains. Now is the time WELL DRESSED MEN WEAR TAILOR-MADE CLOTHES When you need your next Suit or Overcoat. We solicit your order. * I offer an unusual showing of Fine Woolens and a high type of Tailor- ing Service at a Reasonable Price— I “Know How.” I will be pleased to build your clothes. CLARENCE W. BELL, 244 3rd Ave. So., Minneapolis, Minn, —$$__ SCALP TREATMENT and HAIR GROWING. Mrs, Maggie Martin wishes to announce that she is the Minne- spots gent for MADAM C. J. WALKER’S Wonderful Hair Grower and Preparations. Special attention given to Tet- ter, Eczema and Growing hair on temples. A full line of Goods. ersonal Instructions and Demon- strations can be obtained at 3013 GARFIELD AVE. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. _ MRS. MAGGIE MARTIN, AG? N. W. PHONE SOUTH 1742 MRS. A. E. DENNIS ‘Agent for the ..PORO HAIR GROWER. SCALP TREATMENTS AND MASSAGING. SHAMPOOING AND DRESS- ING THE HAIR. FINE WORK GUARANTEED. 820 East 36th St. Tel. Col, 4198, ec T. S. CENTER 2626 N. W. MAIN 1551 The Gateway Market Meats and Provisions We Deliver 210 HENNEPIN AVE. MINNEAPOLIS. YOUR TRADE IS SOLICITED ————— T. S. Center 4639. WALFRID WESTMAN Photographer 1425 Washington Ave. So.’ Minn. Res. Colfax 3596 Hyland ‘so MADAM LIZZIE VAN HOOK DRESSMAKING, LADIES TAILORING. 1006 6th Ave. No. Minneapolis, Minn. pe N. W. Phone Main 4975. = THE REX CAFE 252 FOURTH AVE. SO. (Déwn Stairs) Regular Dinner 11:30 to 2:30 P. M. A la Carte Service 7 A. M. to 10 P.M. | MILES ETHRIDGE, Prop. Look up this place NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS Within Walking Distance THE MODERN HOME 1015 So. Sth St. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. N. W. Nic. 951 | WORKING-MEN’S _ FOR MEN ONLY 244 3RDAVE.S. MINNEAPOLIS SYLVESTER wW. OLIVER, MANAGER. J. O. PETERSON. THE SOUTH SIDE DRUGGIST. J. O. Peterson, the popular druggist at Seven Corners has on file the preseriptions of the Segerstrom Drug Store, whioh is closed. The record of all Segerstrom prescriptions are at Peterson’s and can be filled on re- quest. Mr. Peterson has moved to ‘a temporary building on Cedar Ave., opposite his old store. He will erect a building costing $110,000—in which he will establish the largest drug store in the city, and he will con- ‘tinue to serve his Negro patrons as he has done in the. past—Advertise- coma é The Waiters’ and Porters’ Club 4 GLOVER SHULL, Pres. } 311 HENNEPIN AVE. MINNEAPOLIS eae BOYD, Secv' LEE MOF AER ra it Adieu ’ STEWART’S HOTEL FINEST ESTABLISHMENT OF IT8 KIND IN THE UNITED STATES. ‘Twenty Elegant Steam Heated, Elec tric Lighted Rooms. Free Bath. Rates Reasonable. Lobby, Reading and Lounging Room, Buffet and Grill Room, Billiard ‘Room, Dining Room, and bath, Private Dining and Recep- tion Room for Ladies. BARBER SHOP IN CONNECTION A LA CARTE MEALS AT ALL HOURS. BEST.SERVICE. POPULAR-PRICE LUNCH. From 12 to 3 P. M. REGULAR DINNER $to8 P.M. § Courses 35c. J, E. Stewart, Prop. , 24650 FOURTH AVE. SO. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Both Phones. PENTICOSTAL. Peoples Christian Assembly. 1204 Washington Ave. So. Services Sunday—11 A. M. Sunday Sctiool—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. BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH 1120 Eight ‘St. So, Minneapolis. Service, Sunday 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School 12:30 P. M. B. Y. P, U.,Society 6:45 P. M. Prayermeeting Thursday 8 P.-M. Rev. D. E. Beasley, Shepherd, ° 905 Marion St., St. Paul. Phone: Jackson 2079, 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 Schoo! 12:30 P. M. BY. P. U. Society 6:45 P.M. Prayer Meeting Wed. 8 P. M. A WELCOME TO ALL. ST. PETER'S A.M, E, CHURCH, 22nd St. Near 10th Ave. So. THOS. B. STOVALL, Pastor. Parsonage 2205 Elliot Ave. N. W. Phone So. 762. Sunday Services, 11:00 A. M. Preaching 12:30 P. M. Church Class 118 P. M. Sunday School 6:45 P. M. Allen C. E. League 8:00 P. M. Preaching. Prayermeeting every Thursday evening, 8 o'clock. We teach you to Dance all modern and standard dances by a method of superior teachings, fromh the very foundation in the shortest time imaginable. Ten class lessons, ladies $2.00, gentlemen $3.00, Tuesday and Friday evenings. Private lessons by appointment a specialty. Robert K. Cisney, 572 8th Ave. No. Hy, 4323. THE NORTH SIDE DRUGGIST. Call on J. A. Baker, 1320 6th Ave. No, for your Drugs, Toilet’ Articles, ete. Prescriptions carefully _ com- pounded. . His phone is. Hyland 432. Deliveries on request—Advertisement. HOUSE FOR SALE. $300.00 down and $20 per month. 5 Dimcsnghith ecw kota Fait beset ment, heat, electric light and gas, 2204 Minnehaha Ave. See McDew, 802 Sykes Block. ’ FOR RENT—Large Front room, Steam heat, all modern conveniences. Suitable for married couple or gentle- man, One block from Lake St. or Chiéago Ave. car line. N. W. Phone So. 1420, HOUSE FOR RENT. Seven room house, 3029 Grand Ave. Modern except heat. Rent reason- able. Phone: T. S. 691 and N. W. Main 2040, or.call at 405 Tribune An- nex. % FURNISHED ROOMS. FOR RENT: For married couple Nicely furnished room, all. modern near car line, walking distance from town, with private family, $38 Aldrich ‘Ave. N. Hyland 3796, SMOKE THE BEST SC CIGAR . Sight Drait W. S CONRAD CO., Distributers NO. 140. &, 6th ST, ST. PAUL. NO. L WESTERN AVE, MINN. AMES LODGE NO, 106, LB.P.O.E. W. Meets in the Knox Bldg. 4th St. and 8th Ave. So. the 2nd and 4th Tues- days of each month, at 8:30 P.M. AM Elks in good standing are cordially welcomed: Geo. M. Bryant, E.R 818 Met. L. Bidg. Wm. R. Morris, Sec’y. CHOICE CITY AND SUBUR. BAN PROPERTY FOR SALE 2N SMALL MONTHLY PAY- MENTS. ' Houses and Flats for Rent. B. M. McDEW, 802 Sykes Block. | N. W. Nic. 621 Minneay 7 OSCAR GILBERT PRICE, | Real Estate, Insurance and Loans Choice Property for Sale or 2814 10th Ave. So. . N. W. South 5250 -Minneapoli| ——<—_____. N. W. Phone Nic. 187: J. M. MORRIS Real Estate Broker 7 Loans Collections $06 BOSTON BLOCK MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Office Phone N. W. Main 625 GALE P. HILYER ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW With Hall and Tantges © 722 New York Life Bldg. * Minneapotis, Minn, Res. N. W. South 3u7 ————____. : N. W. Phone South 4539 R. AUGUSTINE SKINNER “ATTORNEY AND COUNSEL: LOR-AT-LAW, 2817 Chicago Ave. °°" MINNEAPOLIs, MINN. ——_____ Peterson, The Druggist " .1501 Washington Ave. Se. TOILET ARTICLES, DRUGS PRESCRIPTIONS. ile Solicits You Patronage. SPECIAL SAMPLE SHOES. POPULAR PRICED SHOE RE- PAIRING. WE FIX ‘@M WHILE You walrT, Men'e Sewed Soles .......0000. 04786. Ladies Sewed Soles ............65¢ Men's Nailed Soles ......50 and 60¢ Robber Heels, - ...........060 06408. Ladies’ and Boys’ nailed soles....40¢ SEVEN CORNERS SHOR REPAIR SHOP 1424 Washington Avenue South. _—_—S——_—_—_—_—_—. DR. W. H. WRIGHT. DENTIST. vot Phone Nic. 1963 111 So. 6th St Minneapolis, Mina, — Phone Hy. 3605, DR. ELLIS BURTON 71S Sixth Ave. No., = Minneapolis, Minn. ; DENTIST. Graduate Northwestern Dental School of Chicago, THE SPIRELLA CORSET Mrs. Cora Anderson Carr 365 Aurora Ave. | N. W. Dale 1345. St. Paul, Mina, nea an Main 2869 Office: Main 2831 Center 3674 Twin City Stag Club . AUTO SERVICE te CARS AT ALL HOURS ROBERT V. SINGER, Prop. s Res, Phone South $650 i Stand at Milwaukee: Depot FURNISHED ROOMS, eae ore ee aed Sto Mae Defective 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. 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. FUNERAL OF MOSES BURKES. After a lingering illness of heart trouble, Mr. Moses Burkes, aged 48 years, who was a resident of Minneapolis for 29 years, died at St. Barnabas hospital on Oct. 1st. Services were held Oct. 4th, at St. Peter A. M. E. Church, where he was a member for 16 years. Rev. Stovall preached the sermon. Mrs. Fannie Pierre sang a solo. The floral offerings were beautiful. Interment at Lakewood. He leaves a sister, Mrs. Ida B. Callahan, a brother James Burkes, a niece, Mrs. Alvah Orth, a nephew, Heine Burkes and a host of friends. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank the many friends for their expressions of sympathy and beautiful flowers in the our bereavement in the death of our brother, Moses Burkes. Mrs. Ida B. Callahan, Mr. and Mrs. James Burkes. STUDENTS AT U. of M. Among the students of our race at the University of Minnesota are Miss Grazia Corneal, Carroll Brown and Webster Stovall of Minneapolis; Fred D. Inge of St. Louis, Mo.; Mrs. Lillian Turner and Misses Alberta Phillips and Ruth Charleston, Luke Vassar, Houston Jacqueman, Allie Phamen, James Henley of St. Paul. Mrs. M. Hart, the Milliner won a $50.00 diamond ring, the first prize for selling the most tickets for the Union Hall, amounting to $150.00. Mr. Beverly Keeesee has returned from a visit to Terre Haute, Ind., to see his brother, Mr. D. H. Keeesee. They had not met in several years. He also spent a while in Chicago. Mr. Keeesee is one of our oldest property owners, and has been long employed in railroad service. Mr. Dan, Shaw, the musician, who was hurt in the auto accident with Cong. Schall is improving. Cong. Schall has nearly recovered. Mrs. B. S. Smith of Oakland Ave., returned from Rochester, Minn., where she consulted the Mayo Bros. the famous specialists. She was taken to Northwestern Hospital for treatment for heart trouble. Her many friends wish her a speedy recovery. Mr. Henry T. Burleigh, the celebrated barytone, will appear in St. Paul on the evening of Oct. 19. Arrangements are being made by Mrs. W. T. Francis. CONCERT AND DANCE. Pride of Minnesota Lodge, Knights of Pythias will give a grand Halloween Concert and Dance at Arcadia Hall on October 30th. Watch for later announcements—Advertisement. Owing to the increased cost of publication, we will NOT accept any ads, unless paid in advance. Agents will please act accordingly. Write notes plainly—and have your copy intelligently arranged.—If you are unable to do so, have some one write for you. Sign all articles. Several unsigned notes received this week were unpublished. Do not waste your time making promises to our agents. Send your money by Express or Post Office Order or in cash or postage stamps. TENTH ANNIVERSARY. Ames Lodge of Elks No. 106, I. B. O. P. O. E. of W. will celebrate their tenth anniversary on November 1st, with appropriate exercises. The feature will be a banquet. A review of the history of the Lodge will be given, also interesting talks by several members. "Ames" is nationally recognized as one of the most progressive lodges of the order. Arrangements are being made to give a public reception and ball in honor of their tenth anniversary. Miss Clarist Lucas, 506 Boston Block, is authorized to collect for ads and subscriptions for The Twin City Stort. THE TWIN CITY ENTERTAINERS Invite you to attend their SPECIAL CABARET AND BALL GRAND SEMI-MONTHLY BALL UNION TEMPLE HALL, 28 WASHINGTON AVE. SO. MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1916. ADMISSION 35c. The Burleigh Recital at Pilgrim Baptist Church, St, Paul, next Thursday night, October 19, will be quite a society event as it is the first time our people in the Twin Cities will have an opportunity to see and hear our phenomenal baritone and America's leading composer, of whom the Minneapolis Tribune spoke so highly a few weeks ago. The three hundred patronesses interested in the affair are leaving nothing undone to make the occasion a grand success and each will be in attendance. Because of the low price of admission, thirty-five cents (35c), it is feared the church, which seats less than 600, will not accommodate the large crowd. It is therefore necessary to secure tickets at once. BRILLIANT MILITARY EVENT. The most brilliant military affair that has taken place in the Twin Cities was given last Friday night at 3529 4th Ave. So. The occasion was a luncheon and smoker tendered by Capt. W. C. Jeffrey of Pride of the West Co. No. 1, U. R. K. P., at his home, to Gen. W. R. Morris and staff. All the officers appeared in full dress uniform and belt, without side arms. Whist was indulged in during the early evening and later an elaborate spread was served. At its conclusion Capt. Jeffrey, in a brief talk voiced his appreciation of their presence and outlined his future plans for the Company. Col. P. H. Southall responded for the staff, after which brief talks were made by Col. A. L. McDonald of the Brig. Generals Staff of Iowa. Col. E. F. Mitchell of Major Gen. Jackson's Staff. Colonels H. A. Thompson, F. G. Thomas, Major M. W. Scott and Capt. S. C. West of Gen. Morris Staff. Gen. Morris closed the evening with a talk full of enthusiasm and optimism for the future of the uniform rank. W. C. Jeffrey. PYTHIAN NOTES A renewed activity is noticeable among the K. P. lodges of the city. Pride of Minn. Lodge has recently reinstated four members and initiated three (3), and have a number of applications waiting. Pride of the West Uniform Rank under Capt. W. C. Jeffrey, meets the 2nd and 4th Thursday in each month The men are turning out well, and are all very enthusiastic over the showing they are making. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION The Dancing Party given on Oct. 6th, by the Young Girl's Beneficial Club was a great success. Every one seemed to enjoy the splendid music. Mrs. Blondell DeLacey of Cape Giradeau, Mo., is visiting in this city. Mr. Jas. A. Newcome let Mondy for Mankato to spend the winter. Mr. George Gardner, who was for many years employed at the Keystone Buffet, is "mixing" at the Workingmen's Social Club. Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Wright entertained several of her relatives and friends on Oct. 11, in honor of her birthday. Mrs. Jessie Davis of Grand Forks, N. D., is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Mayme Burnaugh, 3624 Snelling Ave. Mrs. Sally Williams and her daughter, Mrs. Wm. Taylor, left Wednesday evening for their home in Vancouver. Mrs. Narcissa Wright, mother of Mrs. John Washington, is ill at her daughter's residence, 1500 Penn Ave. Mrs. A. H. Schooley of St. Paul was a visitor to Minneapolis last Sunday. Atty. and Mrs. W. T. Francis of St. Paul, took Miss Elizabeth Freeman to the churches, where she spoke last Sunday in their Overland. While in the city they called on Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Sumner Smith, 1319 6th Ave. No. John L. Gibson, who is a recognized political power on the North Side is attempting to get voters to register. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION ADVERTISE HERE — IT PAYS THE TURNER WILL CASE. The jury in the case of estate of Chas. Turner returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs. They declared Mr. Turner of sound mind, but under undue influence of Mr. Jordan M. Morris, the beneficiary under the will. Mr. Morris will take the case to the Supreme Court, if the trial Judge does not set aside the verdict. Should he go to trial again, he will secure different attorneys. WELL DRESSE WEAR TAILOR-M When you need y Overcoat. We soic offer an unusual sh Woolens and a high ing Service at a Re I "Know How." I to build your clothes CLARENCE Miss Elizabeth Freeman spoke at Bethesda Church on Sunday night. She was introduced by Mrs. W. R. Donovan, pres. of the State Federation. Miss Freeman also spoke in St. Paul on Sunday morning at Pilgrim Baptist Church. Mrs. W. T. Francis arranged the meetings. Mr. John Allison sang a solo at Bethesda. Miss Freeman gave a review of her investigation of the "Lynching at Waco, Tex." Don't Forget—Those Twin City Entertainers are going to give their Feature Ball on Monday eve. Oct. 23. Mr. Ed. Stewart of Stewart's Hotel, expects to have some high class talent from Chicago at his Sunday evening Concert. Mrs. M. Hart wishes to thank her friends for helping her in the contest in which she won a diamond ring. Read the proposed Amendments, which are to be voted on at next election. ANOTHER MEAT MARKET. Mr. F. L. Jamison will soon venture in to the butcher business. He has been connected with The Cut-Rate Grocery and Meat Market. Mr. Jamison is a young business man who is well qualified as a butcher. He is from Mobile, Ala., and has an ambition to establish a Meat Market at 629 5th Ave. No., Minneapolis, which will be a credit and a convenience to the colored people of our city. If Rev. Withers and his political ally Rev. W. S. Malone intend to give political meetings this year, we suggest that they be conducted decently. They pulled off a strong one last campaign. Malone was as drunk as a Bowery bum. OUR BACK NUMBER COPIES. Agents are requested to return all unsold copies. We send them to several schools in the Southland, where the young Negro boys and girls may read them. We do not run free ads, or over-run the time contracted for by our advertisers We respect their right to advertise at intervals, and rather have them do so, than to run continuously an "adv." and an increasing account. PAID ADVERTISEMENTS 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. BUSINESS NOTICE. I wish to inform my friends that I have sold my interest in the Cut Rate Grocery and Meat Market, 429 6th Ave. No., and will open a First Class Meat Market at 629 5th Ave. No, Minneapolis, on Saturday, Oct. 21, 1916. I respectfully solicit the patronage of the public. F. L. Jamison. ST. JAMES MOTHER CHURCH. St. James Mother Church, will hold their services at 407 5th Ave. South, Sunday evening, Oct. 15th, 1916, and will continue on until they build their new church. Everybody is cordially invited to attend these services. The first service will be held at 7:45. Signed by the Trustees of the Church. I. Newton, R. DeLeo, Daml. Williams. We shall have no further comment or interest in the fight between the factions of St. James A. M. E. Church—which was caused by Rev. F. J. Peterson, who left with unpaid printing bills. The whole affair is disgusting. We are handling all notices as paid publicity over signature. If you want to own a home in 1916 See McDew NOW! He has some good bargains. Now is the time Our Neutrality. When you need your next Suit or Overcoat. We solicit your order. I offer an unusual showing of Fine Woolens and a high type of Tailoring Service at a Reasonable Price.—I "Know How." I will be pleased to build your clothes. CLARENCE W. BELL, 244 3rd Ave. So., Minneapolis, Minn. SCALP TREATMENT and HAIR GROWING Mrs. Maggie Martin wishes to announce that she is the Minneapolis Agent for MADAM C. J. WALKER'S Wonderful Hair Grower and Preparations. Special attention given to Tetter, Eczema and Growing hair on temples. A full line of Goods. Personal Instructions and Demonstrations can be obtained at 3013 GARFIELD AVE. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. MRS. MAGGIE MARTIN, AGT N. W. PHONE SOUTH 1742 MRS. A. E. DENNIS Agent for the ...PORO HAIR GROWER. SCALP TREATMENTS AND MASSAGING. SHAMPOOING AND DRESS- ING THE HAIR. FINE WORK GUARANTEED. 820 East 36th St. Tel. Col. 4198. T. S. CENTER 2626 N. W. MAIN 1551 The Gateway Market Meats and Provisions We Deliver 210 HENNEPIN AVE. MINNEAPOLIS. YOUR TRADE IS SOLICITED N. W. Phone Main 4975. THE REX CAFE 252 FOURTH AVE. SO. (Down Stairs) Regular Dinner 11:30 to 2:30 P. M. A. la Carte Service 7 A. M. to 10 P. M. MILES ETHRIDGE, Prop. Witbin Walking Distance THE MODERN HOME 1015 So. 5th St. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. N. W. Nic. 951 WORKING-MEN'S SOCIAL CLUB 244 3RD AVE. S. MINNEAPOLIS SYLVESTER W. OLIVER, MANAGER. J. O. Peterson, the popular druggist at Seven Corners has on file the prescriptions of the Segerstrom Drug Store, which is closed. The record of all Segerstrom prescriptions are at Peterson's and can be filled on request. Mr. Peterson has moved to a temporary building on Cedar Ave., opposite his old store. He will erect a building costing $110,000—in which he will establish the largest drug store in the city, and he will continue to serve his Negro patrons as he has done in the past.—Advertise-ment. CHICAGO Ave. car line. So. 1420. HOUSE FOR R Seven room house, 302 Modern except heat. able. Phone: T. S. 691 Main 2040, or call at 405 nex. FURNISHED R FOR RENT: For m Nicely furnished room, near car line, walking town, with private famil Ave. N. Hyland 3796. The Waiters' and Porters' Club GLOVER SHULL, PRES. 311 HENNEPIN AVE. MINNEAPOLIS EDDIE BOYD, BECY' LEE WHEELER, MANAGER A STEWART'S HOTEL FINEST ESTABLISHMENT OF ITS KIND IN THE UNITED STATES. Twenty Elegant Steam Heated, Elec- tric Lighted Rooms. Free Bath. Rates Reasonable. Lobby, Reading and Lounging Room, Buffet and Grill Room, Billiard Room, Dining Room, and bath, Private Dining and Recep- tion Room for Ladies. BARBER SHOP IN CONNECTION A LA CARTE MEALS AT ALL HOURS. BEST SERVICE. POPULAR-PRICE LUNCH. From 12 to 3 P. M. REGULAR DINNER 5 to 8 P. M. 5 Courses 35c. J. E. Stewart, Prop. 246-50 FOURTH AVE. SO. MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. Both Phones. PENTICOSTAL. PENTICOSTAL. Peoples Christian Assembly. 1204 Washington Ave. So. Services Sunday—11 A. M. Sunday School—1.30 P. M. Praise Meeting—3 P. M. Preaching—8 P. M. ELDER G. W. MITCHELL, Pastor. Assisted by Mrs. G. W. Mitchell. Comel and Serve the Lord. BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH 1120 Eight -St. So., Minneapolis. Service, Sunday 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School 12:30 P. M. B. Y. P. U., Society 6:45 P. M. Prayermeeting Thursday 8 P.-M. Rev. D. E. Beasley, Shepherd, 905 Marion St., St. Paul. Phone: Jackson 2079. ZION BAPTIST CHURCH. 7th Ave. North and Houg 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. ST. PETER'S A. M. E. CHURCH, 22nd St. Near 10th Ave. So. THOS. B. STOVALL, Pastor. Parsonage 2205 Elliot Ave. N. W. Phone So. 762. Sunday Services, 11:00 A. M. Preaching 12:30 P. M. Church Class 1:15 P. M. Sunday School 6:45 P. M. Allen C. E. League 8:00 P. M. Preaching. Prayermeeting every Thursday evening, 8 o'clock. DANCING ACADEMY We teach you to Dance all modern and standard dances by a method of superior teachings, from the very foundation in the shortest time imaginable. Ten class lessons, ladies $2.00, gentlemen $3.00, Tuesday and Friday evenings. Private lessons by appointment a specialty. Robert K. Cisney, 572 8th Ave. No. Hy. 4323. 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. HOUSE FOR SALE. $300.00 down and $20 per month. 5 room modern new home. Full basement, heat, electric light and gas, 2204 Minnehaha Ave. See McDew, 802 Sykes Block. FOR RENT—Large Front room, Steam heat, all modern conveniences. Suitable for married couple or gentleman. One block from Lake St. or Chicago Ave. car line. N. W. Phone So. 1420. HOUSE FOR RENT. Seven room house, 3029 Grand Ave. Modern except heat. Rent reasonable. Phone: T. S. 691 and N. W. Main 2040, or call at 405 Tribune Annex. FURNISHED ROOMS. FOR RENT: For married couple Nicely furnished room, all modern near car line, walking distance from town, with private family, 538 Aldrich Ave. N. Hyland 3796. and Porters' Club HULL, PRES. VE. MINNEAPOLIS LEE WHEELER, MANAGER W. S CONRAD CO., Distributors NO. 140. E. 6th ST., ST. PAUL. NO. 1. WESTERN AVE., MINN. AMES LODGE NO. 106, I. B. P. O. E. W. Meets in the Knox Bldg. 4th St. and 8th Ave. So. the 2nd and 4th Tues- days of each month, at 8:30 P. M. ```markdown ``` All Elks in good standing are cordially welcomed: Geo. M. Bryant, E. R. 818 Met. L. Bldg. Wm. R. Morris, Sec'y. CHOICE CITY AND SUBUR- BAN PROPERTY FOR SALE ON SMALL MONTHLY PAY- MENTS. Houses and Flats for Rent. B. M. McDEW, 802 Sykes Block. N. W. Nic. 621 Minneapolis OSCAR GILBERT PRICE. Real Estate, Insurance and Loans Choice Property for Sale or Rent. 2814 10th Ave. So. N. W. South 5250 Minneapolis N. W. Phone Nic. 1873 J. M. MORRIS Real Estate Broker Loans Collections 506 BOSTON BLOCK MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 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. Rea. N. W. South 3347 N. W. Phone South 4539 R. AUGUSTINE SKINNER ATTORNEY AND COUNSEL- LOR-AT-LAW, 2817 Chicago Ave. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Peterson, The Druggist .1501 Washington Ave. Se. TOILET ARTICLES, DRUGS PRESCRIPTIONS. He Sollicits 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. DR. W. H. WRIGHT. DENTIST. Phone Nlc. 1963 111 So. 6th St Minneapolis, Minn. Phone Hy. 3605. DR. ELLIS BURTON 715 Sixth Ave. No., Minneapolis, Minn. DENTIST. Graduate Northwestern Dental School of Chicago. THE SPIRELLA CORSET Mrs. Cora Anderson Carr 365 Aurora Ave. N. W. Dale 1345 St. Paul, Mina. Main 2869 Office: Main 2831 Center 3674 Twin City Stag Club AUTO SERVICE CARS AT ALL HOURS ROBERT V. SINGER, Prop. Res. Phone South 5650 Stand at Milwaukee Depot FURNISHED ROOMS, Comfortable Furnished Rooms, for Light Housekeeping Clean and With- in Business District. Call Mrs. Har- ris, 707 So. Third St., Minneapolis. Defective Submitted by the Legislature at Its General Session 1915, Together With a Statement of the PURPOSES AND EFFECTS, Prepared by Hon. Lyndon A. Smith, Attorney General of Minnesota. Addressed to Julius A. Schmahl Secretary of State OFFI 14 E OF THE ATTORNEY GEN- ERAL, ST. PAUL. April 7, 1916. Honorable Julius A. Schmahl, Secretary of State, Capitol. DEAR SIR: Pursuant to your request and in accordance with the provisions of Section 46, Statutes 1913, I herewith hand you statement of the purposes and effect of all amendments to the Constitution proposed by the legislature of 1915 and to be submitted to the electors at the next general election; such statement also shows the reading of the existing sections and the way the same will read if the amendments are adopted. By Chapter 379, Laws 1915, the legislature convened for adoption by the state, an amendment of Section Two (2) of Article Eight of the Constitution, by adding to said Section Two a new paragraph. Section Two as it now stands reads as follows: Section 2. "SCHOOL AND SWAMP LANDS—SCHOOL FUNDS FROM SALE OF—The proceeds of such lands as are or hereafter may be granted by United States for the furnishing of schools shall remain a perpetual school fund to the state; and not more than one-third of said lands may be sold in two years, one-third in five years, and one-third in ten years; but shall be sold first. Provided, that no portion of said lands shall be sold otherwise than at public sale. The principal of all funds from sales on or property granted or entrusted to this state in each township for educational purposes, shall PR By lature electro (2) o tion, new See an fo ive Page LYNDON A. SMITH. Attorney General. PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 1. forever be preserved inviolate and undiminished; and the income arising from the lease or sale of said school in each township, between the ages of ten and fifteen, is further townships throughout the state, in proportion to the number of scholars in each township, between the ages of ten and fifteen, be faithfully applied to the specific objects of the original grants or appropriations. Suitable laws shall be established for the investment of the principal of all funds which have heretofore arisen or which may hereafter arise from the sale or disposition of such lands, or the income of such lands, in the year 1850, may way before the sale or disposition thereof in interest-bearing bonds of the United States, or of the State of Texas, or of such other states as the right time may by law from time to time direct. All swamp lands now held by the same officer, thereafter accrued to the state, shall be appropriated and sold in the same manner and by the same officer, and the minimum price provided by law for the investment and sale of the school lands under the provisions of title one of chapter 11 of the Code of Civil Procedure, half of the provisions of said principal all arrived from sales of swamp lands as aforesaid shall forever be preserved inviolate and faithfully applied to the proceeding of said principal all appropriated to the common school fund of the state; the remaining one hundred and sixty-nine national and charitable institutions of the state in the relative ratio of cost to support said institutions.* The paragraph which it is proposed to add to said Section Two reads as follows: "A revolving fund of not over two hundred thousand thousand dollars ($250,000) may be set apart from the fund derived from the sale of school and swamp lands, to be used for the maintenance of ditches and fire breaks in, through and around unsold school and swamp lands and in clearing such land, to be used for the maintenance as long as needed from the enhanced value realized from the sale of such lands so benefited." Under Section Two as it now stands the proceeds of the sale of school and swamp lands constitute the principal amount of the fund is used for the support of the schools, educational and charitable institutions of the state. Section Two as it now stands shows that the principal of such fund "shall forever be preserved violate and undiminished." THE EFFECT of the proposed amendment, if adopted, will be to modify the provision last quoted to the extent of permitting the legislature to set aside not to exceed $250,000 of the principal of the trust fund as a revolving fund to be used for the purposes stated in the amendment proposed. PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 2. By Chapter 880, Laws 1915, the legislature proposed for adoption by the state an amendment of Section Six (6), of Article Eight (8) of the Constitution. Section Six as it now stands reads as follows: If the proposed amendment is adopted it will then read as follows: THE PURPOSE of the amendment is to authorise the investment of the permanent school and university funds in first mortgage loans secured upon improved and cultivated farm lands where the amount of the loans so secured does not exceed 30 per cent of the value of the land mortgaged. THE EFFECT of the adoption of the proposed amendment will be to permit the legislature to authorise the investment of the permanent school and university funds in farm mortgages as above stated, as well as in the bonds of any county, school district, city, town or village of this state. Under Section Six as it now reads bonds cannot be purchased unless they mature at least five and not more than twenty years after purchase. If the amendment is adopted, bonds and mortgages may be purchased if they mature not less than five nor more than thirty years after purchase. PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 8. By Chapter 381, Laws 1915, the legislature proposed for adoption by the act of January 1, 1915, the (9) of the Constitution by adding thereto a new section, which reads as follows: "Section 17. The legislature is hereby authorized to provide by law for the mining and sale of any mineral owned by the state owns, in its sovereign capacity, and as trustee for the people under the waters or bed of any meandered public lake or river, and for that purpose may provide for the mining and sale of any river, or the diversion of the waters thereof to a new bed or channel and the diversion of the waters thereto to a wharf or wharf enclosed in a bridge." THE TWIN CITY STATE vate parens or corporations own- tance, and legal rights, such as shall not be destroyed or dammed without their consent, unison com- pensation thereof shall be first made available to the state, all funds arising from the sale of such iron ore, or other minerals, shall forever be preserved invi- dible, and the principal of such funds shall be lance or invested in the same manner, by the same officers and upon the time hereafter may be authorised by the constitution and laws, for the permanent school and university funds of the state." shall have passed formity to the and the joint houses, shall be been made shall sign and one of the secr- where it origin the construction, improvement and maintenance of the pubi- lic roads of the state, the principal of such funds shall be lance or invested in the same manner, by the same officers and upon the time hereafter may be authorised by the constitution and laws, for the permanent school and university funds of the state." shall have passed formity to the and the joint houses, shall be been made shall sign and one of the secr- where it origin the construction, improvement and maintenance of the pubi- lic roads of the state, the principal of such funds shall be lance or invested in the same manner, by the same officers and upon the time hereafter may be authorised by the constitution and laws, for the permanent school and university funds of the state." THE PURPOSE of the proposed investment cannot be more clearly stated than the following: THE EFFECT of the amendment, if adopted, would be to confer power on the legislature to provide by law for the mining of iron ore and other minerals, which the state own in its newreign capacity and situate under the bed of any meandered public lake or river, subject to the restriction that the rights of riparian owners on any such lake or river, shall not be destroyed or injured without compensation. If the legislature exertises the power, in case it is conferred, it could also provide for the drainage or diversion of the waters of the lake or river with reference to which it se legislates; it could also prescribe by such minerals could be mined and the compensation to be paid to the state therefore. The purpose of the sale of any such minerals would constitute a fund to be found and invented the same as the permanent school and university funds, the income of such fund to be used in the construction, improvement and maintenance of public roads. PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 4 By Chapter 823, Law 1915, the legislature proposed an amendment to Section Two (2) of Article Six of the Constitution. Said Section 2 now reads as follows: "Section 2. SUPREME COURT" The supreme court shall consist of one chief justice and two associate justices. The number may be increased to a number not exceeding four, by the legislature, by a two-thirds vote, when it shall be final jurisdiction in such remedial cases as may be prescribed by law and appended to the law and equity, but there shall be no trial by jury in said court. It shall hold one or more terms in each year, and may be adjourned. Voters in the seat of government, and the legislature may provide, by a two-thirds vote, held in each or any judicial district. It shall be the duty of such court to appoint a reporter of its decisions. There are three officers of the state, one clerk of the supreme court, who shall hold his office in each district. His successor is duly elected and qualified; and the judges of the supreme court, or a majority of them, shall have office of clerk of the supreme court until an election can be regularly had. If the proposed amendment is adopted the section will then read as follows: "Section 2. The supreme court shall consist of one chief justice and five shall constitute associate justices. Five shall constitute of at least four shall be necessary to a decision. It is have of original jurisdiction in such reasons as described by law, and appellate jurisdiction in all cases, both in law and equity, but there shall be no trial by jury. The court shall be one or more terms in each year, as the legislature may direct, at the seat of government, and the legislature may appoint three votes, that one term in each year shall be held in each or any judicial district. It shall be the decision of the court appoint a reporter of its decisions and a clerk of the supreme court." PURPOSE AND EFFECT: The Supreme Court as now constituted consists of a chief justice and four associate justices. The clerk of said court is now elected. If the amendment is adopted, two associate justices will be added to the court and the clerk will be appointed by the court instead of being elected by the voters. PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 4. By Chapter 383, Laws 1915, the legislature proposed for adoption by the electors, an amendment of Section 112 (1) of Article Four (4) of the Constitution. Said section now reads as follows: It is proposed to amend that section so that it shall read as follows: "Section 11. Every bill w PURPOSE AND EFFECT: Under the Constitution as it now in, the governor may vote any item in an appropriation bill, but he cannot cut down the amount appropriated for any specific purpose. The amendment, if adopted, will give the governor power to reduce the amount of an appropriation for any given purpose, unless upon request the legislature or a statement of the governor of an appropriation bill to which he objects, the two houses, each by a two-thirds vote, approve the item as it was originally passed. PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 4 By Chapter 384, Law 1915, the legislature proposed an amendment of Section Thirteen (13) of Article One (1) of the Constitution. The section as it now stands reads as follows: "Section 13. PRIVATE PROPERTY FOR PUBLIC USE — Private property shall not be taken, destroyed or damaged for public use, without just compensation therefor first paid or secured." If the amendment is adopted the section will read as follows: "Section 13. Private property shall not be taken, destroyed or damaged for public use, without just compensation therefor first paid or secured, and such private property may be taken, destroyed or damaged for the purpose of private use, as public drainage upon just compensation therefor being first paid or secured." THE PURPOSE of the proposed amendment is to permit the taking of private lands for the purpose of drainage purposes where the drain or ditch will be of no public benefit, but on the contrary will only benefit the land or lands of the person or persons constructing the drainage ditch. PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 7. By Chapter 285, Laws 1915, the legislature proposed for adoption by the electors, an amendment of Section One VII of Article Four (4) of the Constitution. Section One as it now stands, reads as follows: "Section 1. TWO HOUSES — SESSIONS — The legislature shall consist of the senate and house of representatives, which shall meet biennially at a market or government of the state, at such time as shall be appropriate law, but no session shall exceed the term of ninety legislative days, and no new bill shall be introduced in either of the senate or the house of the governor, during the last twenty days of such session, except the attention of the legislature shall be given to such important matter of general interest by a special message from the governor. If the amendment is adopted, the section will then read as follows: Sec. 1. TWO HOUSES-SESSIONS. — The legislature shall consist of the senate and house of representatives, which shall be elected by the state of government of the state, at such time as shall be prescribed by law, but no session shall exceed the term of the legislature, unless the state of government no bill shall be introduced in either branch, except on the written request of the governor, during the session; except the attention of the legislature shall be called to some important matter of general interest by a special message from the governor, to themselves direct power as follows: (a) CONSTITUTIONAL INITIATIVE. When at any time prior to the commencement of any session the amendment of the constitution, two previous electors of the state, or one been filed with the secretary of state a petition proposing an amendment to the constitution, two previous electors of the state, the secretary of state shall transmit the same to the legislature not later amended, or the amendment of the session. If the amendment so proposed be not submitted to the electors by the legislature submitted in an amended form, then, upon a further petition or petitions, each signed by eight per form, the electors of the state filed with the secretary of state within six months after the adjournment of the legislature. the amendment proposed in the amended forms thereof, shall be submitted to the electors for their approval special state-wide election occurring not less than ninety days after the filing of any such further amendment proposed by initiative petition in its original or in an amended form, submitted to the electors by the legislature or by a further petition, shall become a part of the constitution if approved by the man who elects it, or by such election, or by four-sevenths of the electors voting on the proposed amendment; provided not less than four-eighths of the electors voting at said election voted for the proposed amendment. This section shall be construed as the "constitution of the state," Article 14, of the state constitution, for amending the same. (b) STATUTORY INITIATIVE When at any time prior to the commencement of any session of the legislature, a petition proposing a law, signed by two per centum of the members of state, shall transmit the same to the legislature not later than ten (10) days after the commencement of the proposed law; further, no proposed be not passed by the legislature at such session, or if be passed in a form amended from the previous petition, each signed by six per centum of the electors of the state, within six months after the adjournment of the legislature, the law proposed in the first petition of the legislature shall be submitted to the electors at the next general or special state-wide election, occurring filing of any such further petition or petitions, and if approved by a majority of the electors voting of the proposed law be not less than thirty-three per centum of the total number of votes cast at the election, and some a law and go into effect thirty days after such election, and shall supersede any amended form passed by the legislature. No law passed by the initiative petition and approved by the electors shall be superseded by an error. The authority of the people to enact laws, as provided in this subdivision, shall extend only to the authorised by the provisions of the constitution. (6) THE REFERENDUM. — If within ninety days after the final adjournment of any session of the legislature signed by six per centum of the electors of the state, shall be fled with the secretary of state against the legislature passed by the legislature at such session, such law, or such part of a law shall be submitted to the electors at next general meeting, the state-wide elector ring not less than ninety days after the filing of said petition. If a majority of the votes cast thereon for the negative vote be not less than thirty-three per centum of the total number of votes cast at such elector, a law shall thereby be repealed. Provided, that if a referendum petition is signed by fifteen per centum of the electors of the state, the law of law which such petition is fled shall be suspended pending the referendum vote thereon. Provided the vote at such election. Any law providing for a tax law or appropriating money for the enforcement or state institutions, any act of the legislature submitting constitutional amendment or other action to the state, or any emergency law necessary for the immediate preservation of health, or safety, shall go into effect immediately upon its passage such laws, except emergency laws, shall not be subject to a referendum vote. All other laws shall go into effect immediately upon their passage. A bill proposing an emergency law setting forth the facts constituting the emergency. A separate bill ample of such bill by a call of the years and nays, and if the pleaable be adopted by a two-thirds vote it shall be an emergency law. (4) GENERAL PROVISIONS.—All provisions provided for in this section shall contain a title indicative of the proposed law or constitution, amendment, or the law, or part of a law to be referred, and if a proposition is proposed, a constitution, provision or statute, in addition to referring to the same, it shall state the general or the law or part of a constitution, provision or statute, also the full text of the proposed law or amendment to the constitution, or of the law or part of a constitution, provision or statute, or a positive referendum petition may be signed in separate parts but each part shall conform to the provisions shall be signed and verified before a person authorized to administer an oath, and shall be in possession of the petition thereby states under oath, the date of his signature, his residence, that he is a qualified elector with knowledge of the contents of the petition shall be attached the amdavit of the person before whom the same was signed, which affirms the number of signers thereof, that each of the signatures attached to such part was made to the number of signers thereof, that to the best of his knowledge and belief of his signature is the genuine signature of the person whose name he leaves the persons who have signed such petition to be electors, that they signed such person, and that each person thereof, and that each person signed the same on the date stated opposite his name, is provided for herein, or the prohibition of the circulation thereof, may be regulated by law, and that a petition is prohibited by law, the percentage of signers required on any petition provided for in this section, and the percentage specified in subdivisions a, b and c of this section. The percentage in any case shall be based upon the total number of petitiones required for an appending election. All petitiones provided for in this section shall contain the signature of not less than one-fourth of the total estimated percentage of the electors in not less than one-fourth of the counties of the state to review the constitutional amendment, electors who have signed the first shall be qualified to sign the second petition. The sufficiency of all petitiones shall be decided by the secretary of state subject to review the total number of state decides that any petition is insufficient, he shall permit a reasonabler or for filing additional signatures. In the event of legal proceedings in court to prevent giving effect to the constitution of insufficiency, or any other ground, the burden of proof shall be upon the electors as herein provided, without on account of the insufficiency of any initiative petition: nor shall the representation of the constitutional petition be held invalid for such insufficiency. All initiative laws and constitutional amendments shall be so permitted an affirmative or negative vote. If conflicting proposed laws or conflicting proposed amendments proved at the same election, the one receiving the highest number of affirmative votes shall prevail as to conflicting provisions. The style of all legislative measures and amendments to the constitution, but only the people under this section shall be: "Be it enacted by the People of the State of Minnesota." The provisions of this section may be enforced by appropriate legislation, but until this section has been enacted, this section shall be self executing. THE PURPOSE AND EFFECT of this amendment, if adopted, will be three-fold. (a) It will permit the voters to propose amendments to the state constitution, for adoption, without action by the legislature. Under the constitution as it now stands constitutional amendments can be proposed only by the legislature. (b) So, too, if adopted, the amendment will permit electors to propose laws for enactment and if not enacted by the legislature, the voters may by sufficient petition, require the question of the enactment of the proposed law to be submitted to the voters. If approved by a majority of the electors voting, thereon, provided the vote in favor of the proposed law is not less than thirty-three per cent of the total number of votes cast at such election, the same becomes a law with the same number of votes cast and through the legislature. The governor will have no power to veto a law so passed, but the people cannot so pass any law which is prohibited by the constitution. (c) So too, if adopted, the amendment will permit the voters by proper petition to require a vote on the question of whether or not any law or part thereof, of certain classes of laws, passed by the legislature shall be repealed. If the petition asking for the referendum is signed by fifteen per cent of the voters of the state, the number of whom is to be determined by the number of votes cast for Governor at the preceding election, the law so referred to the voters will not take effect pending the referendum vote thereon. The vote required to repeal a law passed by the legislature and the classes of laws which cannot be so repealed are specified in Subdivision "O" of the proposed amendment as above noted. PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 8 By Chapter 286, Laws 1915, the legislature proposed for adoption by the electors an amendment of Section 7, Article 6, of the constitution. The section now reads as follows: "Section 7. PROBATE COURTS" There shall be established in each organized county the state a probate order, and be held at such times and places as may be prescribed by law. Shall be held by one judge, who shall be elected by the county for county for the term of two years. He shall be a resident of such county at the therelin during his continuance in office; and his compensation shall be provided by law. He may appoint his clerk, but the legislature may authorise the election, by the electors of any county, of one clerk of register of probate duties, term of office and compensation shall be prescribed by law. A probate court shall have jurisdiction over the county under guardianship, but no other jurisdiction, except as prescribed by this constitution. The amendment simply proposes to substitute the word "four" for the word "two" so that the sentence prescribing the duration of the term of office will, if the amendment is adopted, read as follows: "It shall be held by one judge, who shall be elected by the voters of the county for the term of four years." PURPOSE AND EFFECT: The amendment, if adopted will make the term of office of the Judge of Probate four years instead of two. Vitaled by the Catacomba. "Did I understand you to say you were in Europe!" he asked of the man who was talking to a drummer across the aisle. "Yes, six." "Were you in Rome?" "I was there for a month, sir." "Ah, I am glad to have met you. I wanted to ask about Rome. You visit ad the catacombs, of course!" "Didn't have to. They visited me." "How do you r.m.san?" "Why, I never stirred out of the hotel that they weren't striking me for alms. Never saw such an infernal set in all my born days." "Don't you mean the lazzaroni!" "Of course. The catacombs and the lazzaroni are the same thing, only 'catacombs' is the Italian of it and the other is 'he English. If you haven't been ever I'd advise you to go—if you can raise the dudads. You don't know how much a trip abroad will broaden and liberalize your mind." And the other sank back and hid himself in a corner, and he did not get ever looking pale for the next 20 miles. Real Academic Dignity Max Muller tells a story of one of Dr. Strachan Davidson's predecessors as master of Balliol. "Once, when returning from a solitary walk, Doctors Jenkins, whose regard for his own dignity was very great, slipped and fell. Two undergraduates, seeing the accident, ran to assist him, and were just laying hands on him to lift him up when he described a master of arts coming. 'Stop!' he cried. 'I see a masters of arts coming down the street,' and he dismissed the undergraduates with many thanks, and was helped on his legs by the M. A."—London Chronicle The Clever Wasp. Wasp appear to be well-nigh as in dustious as ants or bees. One authority has declared that the cardinal doctrine of the wasp is: "If any wasp will not work, neither shall he eat." Division of labor is clearly seen in the wasp's nest. Some of the workers seem to be specially employed as foragers and soldiers, others appear to be told off as nurses and guardians, while yet others are engaged as paper makers and masons. | ee ee | vePoe | Proposed h ments tothe \ Constitution ofthe : TATE OF J MINNESOTA tk .@ Submitted by the Legislature at Its , General Session, : 1915, Together ' With a Statement «, of the ; ~ PURPOSES AND EFFECTS, Prepared by Hon. Lyndon A. Smith ., _ Attorney General of Minnesota, ~~ dressed to ~— Ialtus A. — Secretary of State PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 1. “By Chapter 379, Laws 1916, the legis: lature ‘proposed. for "aduption by the tisetore an ainendment of Rectlon) tave iS of ‘Article: Buge (oC the ‘Constitu. tion, by adding to maid Section Two & ew paragraph. Section Two as It now stands rends ea follows: + Sextion 2, “SCHOOL. SWAMP KANDE SCHOOL, HONbe Rom SALE The proceeds of such, lads As tre gr hereathar may be, stunted: 2 tne aited ates for the use et schools Within each township in this state Foal “reipain & "perpetual senoet, fun Beh rama Robtiatnctan Sat third ‘of. aui@: lands may be sold in two Jeair, gne-third in five venre, and one, rd in ten yearn: but the lands of the arcatent, valuation shall, be, sold fens.” Brneited. that no oartion,of snl Inne grail he ‘sold otherorize than at Pa a a ate toate ‘eaten ar ot is ay mtv, Kranted of gulp (Cor educat ‘purposes, shal forever be preservs das iiesinisned:? asa the “income sarislnd fromthe lease or aie ‘Uf anid ‘woh fend shau"B6* attectuuteu- to, tue. ait Fant! townships Uurousout the stat in proportion to ths auimber Of schol Rrspin each townabip, Dutwean the aged $f Ave and twenty-one years; and alt be “fauthtuily “appilea. to. the apeciia ebooks of the ‘orginal grants Or rintions.” Guitubie, inws ‘ait Be eee ‘ofthe principal of all tangs aceon see ea rom the ‘le, bts laispesitinof atch "anda“or” ug me from auch lands accruing ta aay way before the sale of dispostt rape ia. itierest-hearing bands. a fnmesota. tanued “after the "year i800 gr ef-uch other state, as the Tenitia” firs mag. by law from time to dite dt swamp lands ‘now hel by asta, of that may Mereatter accrug a aiate, shall. be" ‘appraised an Fist cece ‘and ‘the vinfmum ‘price and ‘the im be the same, less one-third, as 18 By ,fam for, che aporaisement ape" school inne under the ond oF idle cone ot chapter "ot the General Statutes 6 aripoloa of alt fans «derived fesvof swamp lands as afore aka” rSrefer be presgrved inviez te ‘and. Undiminished. "One-half of A ‘of mala principal shail S¢ or Yo the common sch state: the remaining ‘one- opriated to the edu: onal apd gharitnole insiltutigns of ‘ate In the reiative ratio of vost ‘oupport sald institutions” ‘The paragraph which it ts proposed fo nd. te sald Section Two reads ad fellows: “- fof not 5 raity thousand dole Hod), may be get apart mt ma ‘derived, from the o and swamp lands « ‘ued fe deamtgucting. r lghne snd Ae ‘brenice in: thro Pisnds and'in-clearine sue fiSde’such fund tobe replontaned Ba cod vats realised from the sale Sf"such lands’ o bonedted.= Under Secti as it now stan ie rovmedy of he tale at echoat and gonautute, the principal ‘a Gust fund, the income of wis aed for the, support Gf the school edventional and charitatie tnstitution¢ the state, Bection ‘Pwo as it now Provides ‘ihat_ the principal ‘of sh tukd. “shall forever’ be, preserved wviolate and undiminished” THE EFFECT cf the proposed pmendment If ndepted, will be to mod- the provision lest quoted’ te the extent of permitting the legislature to pet aside Rot to exceed $250,000 of the ef the trust fund as a revolv- fund to be used for the puryores ‘in the amendment proposed. PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 2 Chapter $80, Lawa 1915, the 1 fire propose ot "adoption by ihe eee : of "artiole Wight <8) of the ‘Con= ad flection Six as tt mew stands reads oo toliewst in 6. NVESTMENT OF USS volley ZOEMENT OF Sofooi and untversity fund of thin tees Sing be tavaurg iy (ung of ne tate Fenmere angel austist” avy ota ae lage of this state, but no such in- zn ent shalt be made until approved ft comissanets dais py law to eewinte: the" inv ent of the permanent school fund and ipsembsebt manera ten siae tnd pesegrac ebarT USen sae ft yeae ent, variaade hep the Ronan orbs iaeaee oe pare ae gate. ae antire bonded indebtedness exceed ft Sea per eons of ten taneannd Vesta ‘the taxable real mea of the ty, school’ district city, town treating SUE Se? yt pa ightloans of indebtedness be made a Siawat nats iaeeeee ean ehteetys Sout pr' thas nor "Zor‘otmnbrise Bes % eryenee Sie 1a tabes Mhan Seen tate’ Salitss Enange ‘of ithe” town, “schoo! district tty, village or of copnty. lines’ shall fehoot district: 2oakte village: or cI) fer fn, Bete lage lg uch bonds Stem aay unilty fot taxation to pay such bonds.” If the proposed amendment is adopt- o4 St will them read as follows: “The permans yhool and uni- versity Rand of thig state may be Paveerea HOG estld Menta ee ctehool giseeae only, “tlw er Mortenge lone ‘sectred' upon ‘teat Droved and cultivated farm lands ee ee Sporereg Sp te beard ot coma! PBrare eslanated Sy tact Os raw tees thectaventinsae of Me paees Heat chook funs'and te Bofa: Hare school fund and ths Bete: Bors abeil crual’ sean’ cot tivsettcat Shel on purchesed, would mate tg ire obaded:IndeDicaneay ezteed be Ss serie sra er 4 Z or ing such bonds: ‘nor a any farm loan, of Investment meds hor atl! Crytaveumtest Han weult saceed" a0" por cant Sf e acti Value of the farm Mang mortenge ce rare ‘sald in- westeaene? Shalt MS, titate inentsor loans be made at a low= “Ot Fate of interest than 3 per st Par angus, got for ashore etl gresia nor for Bee Barlod thane hie” "yosra and Sao ghange of the town, school dis- iy sty Milese or of county a all Salege che. fou Otay” erty in such town, schoo! district, county, village or city in this state Bonds trom any Usbility. tor tases Bon te pay such! Bonde” ‘THE PURPOSE of the amendment to te authorise the investiacat of the pers fenant sebeot tad iversey fend ta imertgeue Ineas severed pea t= proved and, oultivetea’ tara lanes where the amount of the ionns se se- cured, Goce ‘not eevee So per onat of the value of the land mortgaged. ‘THE RFFUCT ot dhe adoption of the pereense coleemuent Wiaite oinneae Gio tastlntare eo authorise the ios seston of tos permpeent ack poe Csrecssty fanae ta aneat sersenapes ap above stated, as well as im the bonds ef amy county, school Gistriet, city, town or village of ghis state. Under Section Siz an it neve reads bends can= net be purchased unless they mature at least five and pot more than twenty ee keke: pera ime Sant i sawesea Manis oat Gheioaoes may be purchased if they mature not fous than five ner mere’ than thirty years after purchase. PROFOSED AMENDMENT NO. 8, Chapter 381, Laws 1916, th Br cei ama ne a iteatos aes fo a new section, which reeds as ei “Section 17. ¢ legistat io ‘ports 17. .athe leciatatare | sa THE TWIN CITY STAR [Rt® persons or corporations own- ier fe fk Bin Botte dictapta ot danced fing atime Shamans Fete tted hat seit a si tunaatrising from@the tate Bot hia stander sta tte fist ater et gresivct inte afd tei Bia re come rom be used. for ge eaaecencen he and) maintenance of the publie roads of the state. The principal ch devas nian SE" geingt isd Seana daa atin er Ta of ort tine tt eg acrokar fad! se Tucetaed Tpaveaattity Beanies at nee oceogh Sad" aaivendtt RENT aSiaa- Fim FURFoEE of the rrepeed smenamest soeaet be Sere eit tated than ts expressed therein. ‘THE EFFECT of the amendment, tt adopted, would be to confer power on the letters to prvige br ire fr the mining of tron ere and other min- fen, whieh te sats‘ ts bor treigm capacity and situate under the bed of amy meandered public lake or fiver, subject te the restriction that the rights of siparian owners om any rect teks oy ston all" be ae tiered or injared’ whine! sommpones tom. If the legislature exercises the ferent com it contra oou provide fer the drainage er éi- frien st theaters th Take wits Gotconss oo wala i Eee 8 cei cree sesecntbe by yhom such minerals could be mined [ELLs compenention to be paid to the ‘acreion ue precnan of th tale of ay noch mince weld one Fite stead te tamed tnd tevee he name en tne pormenast soho tnd entversty tang neon fee fund to be nood ta the smi Gon, improvement nad! etscanen a public reads, PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 4 By ir $82, Laws 1915, arg. ropeeed du tueudmssnt to penrora cana Race fa section 9 new rena oo tatowe “Section 3. SUPREME Corea attend, SENS, COUR Fe Rina ccstat a Racin trent a? sects ee Soh ndate fete ra weet Ee a°twro-tniras, vote, ‘when it ensil b¢ ed ns . Tt shall have orig, otic taeryrne ares aly ate ace ae [aml partes ial by. fury. fa said cope it SA ay ee agate aay Int peat of xeyerament, the Ears Bet BY dee areal Ee Sige oceans Ba age phe Pace Bit betes teats Shah shall osen, by the apalised eleo- iat eee, rhe aan see gl ine ts Bathe i de price hele he te ig, successor is duly elected and quall- ea and. the Judges of the supreme gourt, or a majority of them, shall have Seow ween Sao tea te eptan to eet FR Bat, If as peoples meine ate oak citon wai tha Pad 2 th lows: “ “Section ipreme snalt‘onnist, devong' chet” gugtlee ee ee Sofas es shall cameeeney s bia and Seu seee? & See hetat ences ee shall have criginal jurisdiction in Sl era eel dees qpripad by law, and erpetate. juris- cas ty ltcaaae Rae Tle sais a Grad Hie Wahi coee ne aaah Sree hate Gs the logisiature may ‘direct. at the seat of goveramest and the Beattie er manta yee cast hier niiore We ta Reeatitye hi ice. 2 aee Ped sans Seeth e Sire Tris Caleta cack of the supreme court.” PURPOSE AND EFFECT: The’ Su. pee eee poe eee oe SS OTs? sac a Tt tc fuetnn ae sr ot sd oe Piece oad saevsus te seca festons Wal be sty 'mo soerviend ee sc as be appointed by the court instead of Suttons at Soe PROPOSED AMENDMENT No. & lature proposed for adoption by the electors) an amendment’ of Section Ben, ab of Artic Four (4) of the ratitutton. ald nection new reads ax follows: “Section 11. APPROVAL OF. BILLS BY GOVERNOR — VETO POWER— Every bill which shall have peased the Senate and house of representatives, in conformity to the rules of each house Sn the joing rules of the two houses, Shait, Welore 1¢ becomes s law, be Dre: ented to the governor of the state, anproveg te shall sign and depodt [in Re obes of the suctstary. of aeate lor preservation, and notify the house where it originated the fact. Bat if not, he shall return it with his fections, to the nouse in which {t ‘nail five originated when such objectic shall be entered at large on the Jour Ral of the same, and. the ‘house Proceed to. reconsider the Dill. EXsP "tuck reconsideration, two-thirds Of that House shail sgres'to pase the Sin it shall be sent, together with ths eblections torthe'ather house, by wh feahail iikewise be recopsidersd’ [Eide approved, by tire-tairds of that use it shall become’ a Tawe, But in all such cases the votes of both houses shail be determined by Yeas and nave, nd. the names of the persons. votin or of against the Dill sail be ents on the fournal of ‘sach ‘house Teapee- tively. If any bill shall not be re- ined by, the governor within three ya (sundays cxcopted) atter it shail ye Geen presented to him the san shail bea law in ike ‘manner set he had signed it, unless the legislature, by adjournment within that time, pre- Tot bes law: ithe governor ‘may’ ap : werner may. ap Bone’ sete Ta ais setae ohee at the Bcretatg of stater within ‘three days fier the aajourninent.of the lesisiae fe, aDy tring’ the: taxi three days of the seesion: and the sane shall become ia." if any, bil pre: othe ‘governor contains Sev tral heme of Sporcpriaian ot ener Hoke” whlle approving. of the other portion fea such case) he ‘hall append to the bill, at the time of signing ie, a etatement of the iter fo which he objetts and the approprige fon ag objected, t® nail, wot ae et- fect. If the legisiature be in sessic fershallcranamft (9 the neues in'wll je bill originated a copy of much state: Bent, and the tems objected to. shall be senarately reconsidered. If, on re~ icc be approved by twactnirds of mem! elected to each gt tl iNnanging’ie Bitclont og Ws dot- Brnor "Ail tne ‘provisions of this ‘secs ion. in relation to bills not approved eine” governor, ‘shell nasty theca tn which he shall withhold his appro rage. amy ieam,er flame contained ft & ll appropriating mey.” It ts proposed to that section ve tat 1c shall yond an follower “Section 14. Bivery vm fonae "arson caet cama cant of “reprenohtatives, in, cone te Joint. rules of the twe uses, “silat, betore it becomes’ s probe presented fo the overnge a, sistas AL be 'apptovan ioe Seal ce tua aspen here ee Sites, of the" secretasy ot state for Vatlon, and motity: the house are it ofisinated Gt ‘tite faok ie if not ‘her abad retura. it, with Goiectiona yo, "the holes in waien it ve orieinnteg: When such objections shall’ been ame, and’ the house snail bros to "resonsider “the. bill. "Ig ‘of that ‘house ¢hall agree to ‘ake bit IU shail be. sone toe ‘vith ithe ghiyotions. tthe Wise be vecontidered; aad if it Se ed'“oy twortnirds' of ‘that shat ‘peogme'e law, Bat sch gases, thy votes oi, both shail’ be determined” by Biit’atall qs antored, Sey tke fs tives at fe toe aot be Fe- 7 or with 11) thas Here, Sen, Drasen Manner as, it he had: sien aa Tunloss “the Josisiature. DY aa ‘ ch ease te is yin which ase tt Botte, an: error oF the gecretar f ie ithin” three oad: ent of the. agiatgeare, any Pot the ‘seesion, and Seah Went ti Boveral “items ot Flation Roney, he may. object to one. SF Bore ¢ fuch eran fn whole er tn while: typroving of tne other jon of the bil In. auch ‘cass shalt append’ tothe ofl at’ the of signing ie. @ statement 0! fiom “and. perte of items, tg which ‘he. ol andthe part oi pata 20 ,gujected, 0 Tot take afoot” 12 ths lonie- Kifure be in seasion he shall crane fo, hp house In when te bli Stigtaated evr” of, puch state. ie or in part shalt be separate: Fy fecotaldered: YE ont resoneid: on ane ot mors of euch items Schapproved ‘by, trs-taiegs of the Fe elected to, use mame ‘shall bes hs m,, nopegtnetanding. "the, pbisc- i Sot "the ererer, Se Provisions of le section, ta reine on, to. bills Rot, approved by "the Geers, shall aapy. th conte. Moh ‘he ‘shail ‘witthoia ‘hiss ap> am whole "or in part fro isin oF items contained ins appropriating money”. PURFOSE AND EFFEOT, Unt: mo Constitution au it new ta, the ge ener may veto any item tn an appr riation bill, but he ennnct ent dow he amount appropriated for any aD. Mile purpose. ‘The amendment, if adop, a, will give the governor power t duce the amount of an appropriate or aay given purpose, unless wpe raneuitGal to the legislature of atement of the part of am item of « Ppropristion ‘bill to whlch he object ie two Rouses, each by a two-thiré ote, approve the item an it wae origis hy ‘passed. PROPOSED AMENDMENT No. 6 =. Chapter 384, Laws 1915, tee Jegie- papas ty tetas ge ee ey elena oe ae Ree ses so cas fe Green oe br daTTagn anornnrs rah era oie weet . : Peepers I ‘If the amendment is adopted the seo. cei a eh BP n ety oe wt dae Se adel amas bala or sec ang auch. privat PLease Eee a hate tree Ss areas eines Se ee cometh, ‘THE PURPOSE cf the proposed pee cern the: memset pepe pater Berea es Se Se pee St ae Sore Sa oe Pee aoe Sas a tt fe a pe agpgiee reat ee oe cee os PROPOSED AMENDMENT WO. ¢. By Chapter 885, Laws 1915, the legis- iekure proposed. for "adoption by ii ‘of Bection One fot Ariale Four Wi) of the Gone Section One an tt new stands, reads as follows: "Section 1. TWO HOUBES — SES. SIONS he legislature shall’ consi of the senate and house ‘of representa- fives, which shall ‘meet ‘biennially’ at the seat “of government of the stat atvaugh time ‘an shall be prescribed law, but no, seasion shail exceed the term of ninety legislative days, and no pew pil'shail be introduced tn either ranch except on, the written. request of the governor, during the inst twen- fy days of auch’ session, except the at- Keatign ot the egisiatare "anal be jo -some important matter of eneral interest by a bpecial mesuage the governor It the amendment te adopted, the section will then read as follows: Seo. 1. TWO HOUsES—sEe- mola, — rhe, legisiatare Sonsist of the senate and house o feprenentativens which shall mee Bienalatiy' atte” seat of govern mont of the state, st such {ime aa Shall be prescribed ‘by law, but ng jon’ tials axcted they term, of ai 50) loginiative aye, an 0 bill shall ve introduced in aither- ranch, except on the written re: uest of the woverner, Suring. the fast’ twenty days. of such session, frcept” the, aftention, off the leqie: Aktute ahait"be called to some im portant matter of general. inter S20 97 special, essage from the Feat the m fe"heistives alrser"power a Zole NBTETOTIONAL — When a anytime pelor te commencement of ‘any "seasion tthe legislature, there shall ha Biante “a petition proposing’. sa - Simengment to the” constitution, Signed by two per ‘centum of ths sisetors at the state, the secretary: Of wate, “shall tranamit the deme tothe “laginlatyre not later them ven (ib) deze after the, com: Mencamont of the senslon. “if the Smendment so propased be’ not subs faltted to the bythe dats Tature at such session, or it it submitted "in an aménded form, then, upon a further petition oF Petitions, each slened bY sine per Gantum of the electors gf the stat, fied with the sscretaty of Sournment, of ‘the ‘tevistature, the a Amendment “proposed in the: fi Patition, or Gnevor more amend forma thereof. shall” be submit ot rafection at the next general oF 4 at the Speclat viahecwige Slecslon cogure re not han ninety dare Sfter the Ming’ of” any. auth, ture renee tive rom ay fenmleition, {PSporoved byt mae tution, tf approved by & mae of the electors. yotin Wlapuon: of “oy four-eeraathe sirendinent: “provides, "aot ian threeseventne of the Ree "he props; abdmsent amendment. section shalt be as ia addition fo Bection ty ‘i tir SRA ie QR ATATORORY, neyrra: When vat aay time prior to of nay -pesslon. 0 shat have ican with ‘the: sssretary- prepesing slaw, piensa secretary : ft the sane Rot later thas ") 3c the commence: peer ernst oe no ‘such session, or Ubon e, turthee pati oF sr petition fionme sit" per isn gf the electors of tue atta, With the secretary ‘of ‘stess Prernmene, ofthe weislatire rv proposed, i volgen a fa et mitted to the eo ecfiom oocurrln esa than inaty age after {Be ing of ‘any such further. petition Galery ed the velectore. voting . vote ta favor ‘he "be act Be oF votes cast geen’ “Sontiens le ‘same shail ‘ber v Ep ee such law which may have bean The legislature. No jew approved by the electors shall nablact to the Yate of the gov. staat iawn ag provided in this ease RAL iat "the constitution. ) THE REFER! = in ninety gaye atten the nat jourament “of any seesion of the ture: a Feferendam petition, Dy? atx’ per centum of th tore Bt ie Slate ‘shall be fl ith the secretary of state aguinet Sy et or ety part oto ae, by ies fogialatare, at gush oh ame ge Sine shail be"submiited othe eneral OF specks! atatecwide election, occur ie not'leas thaneninety days after fling ef aald petition,” ifs rity of the votes chat thereon iin the negative, provided ‘wack Seetgerete tenet eee, saa three per centum of the tor Sal Sumber sf votes cast at slortion, sigh jaw.cr fuck part a Tow thereby be. repeal ovided, that it's Zeferendut, pe fitfon fs signed by Aftsen per. cene fam of the electors, off the aint the tae, oF par ‘gel Tichafeeh frou st ie relers seraichee Paw eal S3 per conto Votes at euch election. Any law providing for » tax lev een tbereptating ones” for "the Surrett ekpenses of the state gove SHament “oF state ‘institutions, “any Sct "of ‘ene fogisiature. submitcing 2 constitutional amendment ol Sther question. to the leotore the"stale or any emergency law Becerrar? for the tmmeflate prow Stvation” of” the public peace, hy or safety. shall go into aft ject iinmediately upon. {tsp 5a approval by the governor, such laws, except emergency laws, H mgt bs, dubject orm referen: fam vats. “Ail other laws shai West ‘ninety days after eniment legislature, UA Dropgmine. an ernst + ling’ forth the “acts, constitat ting the ‘constitu. comer. A paparate vols ahail’be taken upon. the pres Sabie of such Bill py.e call ofthe Zeetannd, nea, and if the preame fait the iwembers of each hours, HF shal Be'an emergency law. 4) GENERAL | PROVISIONS. — anf Roltions provided for in this section shail Pontain a title: indie sating the gubject-and_ purpose o fhe proposed law oF voraticution stiendoteaty or the layr or Patt Sieg Wace is adultes ropoged in genatlivttonat ieriston ‘or statute, Sddition te referring’ tov th same if aha state, the gener fect, of the proposed, change ‘ute. full text of the prepa wor amendment, to the sonsutus Hon, or of the law oF, part. of 6 UNG of°referenduin patition may Be a Signed Is" soparate parts but each parts shalt eonform te the, provl- fone ‘herein contained. “All” peti jens. shell be signed and, veried Belore' e person authorized {page Sine Oa ae cee a Be at person a on thereby siatee under oathe dat of is planaturey ie Feat? cor thet he fava qualified oleae Mined any part of suck petition, Sud that he fas signed the petition Sith Knowledge ‘of the contents To each pert of such fon shall be attached. the atic ie of the ‘person before whos fs same wad signed, which” af: rifvanail"conteig a etaterpent of ths, number ,of- signers ‘thereon, "each of” the ssignatures “at edfo. such part Was made. fi ‘presence of ihe “aifant,. th fo°tne bert of his Knowledge Beuiet’ each. stenature ts the. gen Eine signaturetof the person ‘whose ifyurports to bar that hp bee leven the persons who’ have aikned ia petition tobe electors That 7 Rigned auch patition wi nawiedge of the contents therao fson signed. the fare om, thy dake. stated “oppose tide fed for neretn, oF a Pret pronibititn of ‘the cireulation inSrdae may be ‘resulated by law, ‘and in case the sirculation of any Botition ts prohibited by law, tne Percentage Of signers required on Ray ‘petiflog ‘provided for in te seugm sneli "be one-Balt of the Sercen ° Bisse aE’ ands of this section. The tn any case sl pene Se eens, tay amber ot eee ‘cant Tor goversor at the nest eding, AT petit rovidede for inthis section. avain ture of not i fan one: ihe “donignat parentage, of the slecrors fnonct "hes “one-fourth of {he coun- HF of Somatitutionst amendment wr, oF tional Seg eevee petidion: ‘The, sumet ail petitions ‘anth® ,eeMctonoy of all petitions iving the hign Sf*anirmetive ‘votes “shalt ‘prevell 35 fo" condicting provisions’ style of all perenne Pan ce ire ty the, People of ‘f te i sratd cukeroed, Hy agpropritte fehais But until aug louiaian be bait executing. ‘va FURFOSE AND EFFECT of Gis amendment, if adopted, will be Garee-tola. (a) It will permit the voters to peo ‘amendments to the state conatite- Lice, ‘fer adoption, without action by fhe legisisturs. Under the constitution te tt new stands cenetitutional amend- ments can be proposed enly by the lea- Iatature, (2) 0, too, it atepted, the amend- ment will permit electors to pregese fers toe entetment and if net cnnvtd ‘the legislatures, the voters may by vuMictent petition, require the question fof the enactment of the proposed law to be submitted to the voters, If p- proved by a majority of the slesters Weting, thereon, provided the veto ts favor of the proposed law ts not leas than thirty-three per coat of the total number of votes cast at such election, Ghe same becomes a law with the oame foree and effect an though paased 7 the legislature. ‘The governer. will Pert Dorey forse ane om sam ‘the people canact so pase any law which ia prohibited by the evs. i mea es iment will permit the voters by proves Petition to require © vote on the quee- tion of whether or not any law or par Wherect, of certain classes of laws passed ‘by the legislature shall be re Dealed. If the petition asking for the ta signed by fifteen per ¢ of the Voters of the state, the aum- of whom is to be determined. by ‘the sumber of votes cast for Governes at the preceding lection, the law oe Fetorred to the voters will not take Pending the referendum vote fhereons whe vote required to repeal e Jaw passed by the legislature and the Vinsese ef laws which cannct be se fepenled are specified tm Subdtviston “0” of the proposed amendment os above pelntes. \FROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. & er Chapter 86, Laws 1915, the te Ee ee tile 6, of the constitution, ‘he evtion ne ree a tes “Section 7. PROBA’ Te mirth, IRATE couare= Pitta ts AS sent or which shall be @ court of rec. reads Seen Sete ty feat a eee seats hate 7 at e Hes, of his election, and Fey reeeuinane aes Sate eee oe cei, Hara tre payed oS may a TE aioe eek eee oa Hi fico arnt eae ce Rema rane one ae have ju perien, om, ‘the feted Reo aah iedon axegpt ae” ‘prescribed. Oy | ‘The amendment simply proposes te saketine the tort Sitar tert ere ove oy Sit tan Dees set Tring te ertten ett Tine Wott tne samadnt aet od, read as follows: spaysiall op eectga oy the donee Of the, county ‘for the term of four i Tonroms AND EPTEr: sarantony ut elpte Wal bane Te eet sdel set aie wt acs TE pac mind a oe Vietted by the Catacombs. ere in Hurope?” he asked of the man who was talking to a drummer acroaq fhe aisle, | “You, stn” “Were you ts Rome?” “1 was there for a month, sir.” “Ah, 1 am glad to have met you granted to ask about Rome, You visth (04 the catacombs, of coursef*~ “Didn't have to. They visited ma" “How do you msant” “Why, I never stirred out of the fotel that they weren't striking me for ‘lms. Nover saw such an infernal seq fm all my born days.” “Don't you mean the lassaront?” “Ot course. ‘The catacombs and the faszaron! are the same thing, only ‘cate combs’ is the Italian of it and the othes fs ‘he English. If you haven't been over I'd advise you to go—if you cam raise the dudads, You don’t know how tc Sto abevad wil broaden ond iberalize your mind.” ‘And the other sank beck and hid bimself in corner, and he did not get ver looking pale for the next £0 milen Real Academie Dignity. Max Muller tells & story of one of Dr. Btrachan Davidson's predecessors es master of Balliol. “Once, when re turning from ® solitary walk, Doctes Jenkins, whose regard for his own dip nity was very greet, slipped and fell ‘Two undergraduates, secing the accb dent, ran to assist him, and were just laying hands on him to lift him up when he desoried a master of arts com ing. ‘Stop!’ he cried. ‘I see a master ef arts coming down the street,’ and he dismissed the undergraduates with many thanks, and was helped on hiq teas by the M. A."—London Chronielq ‘The Clover Wasp. ‘Wasps appear to be well-nigh as fm ustrious as ants or bees. One author ity has declared that the cardinal doo trine of the wasp is: “It any wasp will not work, neither shall he eat.” a vioys neat Sons of ts wortad the wasp's nest. Gome of the seem to be specially employed aa for agers and soldiers, others appear te he 9 ce sere ee while others are engaged as makers and mascas. THE TWIN CITY STAR PUBLISHED 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 MINNESOTA EDITORIAL ASSN. To Subscribe Is To Pay. Subscription by Mail, Postpaid. ONE YEAR ..... $2.00 SIX MONTHS ..... 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 .....Twenty-five Cents Reading Notices, per line, Five Cents Wedding Announcements, Fifty Cents Card of Thanks .....One Dollar. In Memoriam .....One Dollar. Business Announcements, One Dollar. Death Notices .....One Dollar. Write all Checks payable to The Twin City Star. Address all mail to Twin City Star 303 S. 5th St. Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Star Phone is Hyland 5580. REGISTER OCT. 28. The registration of the Negro vote is very important. The right of suffrage should be exercised and a full vote will make the Negro a political factor. There is not a Negro employed at the State Republican Headquarters. No effort has been made to secure the Negro vote. Some members of the State Republican Committee are just being informed about Pres. Wilson's segregation policies and practices, and they expect the Negroes to devote their time, energy and money to defeat him. This newspaper is not donated to any campaign committee. We sell space and if there is nothing to be paid for space we remain neutral in State affairs. We are not boosting every State candidate, because he is a Republican. We are against Mr. Wilson and for Mr. Hughes for President. A REAL FRIEND. Miss Elizabeth Freeman is the only advocate for Equal Rights for the Negro in connection with the Hughes Campaign Committee. She was on the Hughes' Women's Special and made a strong protest against the injustices to the Negro by the American people. Miss Freeman is leading a crusade against "Lynching" through the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. She also represents the New York Independent, published by Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, the grandson of Wm. Lloyd Garrison, the great Abolitionist, and publisher of The Liberator. Her work, for the Negro, is an appeal to the influential white individuals and organizations, for Equality before the Law for all people, as a remedy for America's greatest social crime. Her clear and forceful presentation of conditions impresses on her hearers the horrors of lynching, which she calls "the white man's sport." Miss Freeman has raised a large fund to carry out her work; and the people of America, especially the Negroes, owe her a debt of gratitude for her invaluable service, rendered to them through the assistance of that great humanitarian, Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard and the N. A. A. C. P. There has been no public expression from Mr. Hughes on the Negro question, except to Negroes. It is a bigger problem than Woman's Suffrage, prohibition, immigration or international policies, etc., which are much discussed through the campaign. MUST PAY SUBSCRIPTION. Just as Valid as Grocery Bill in Any State in the Union. Recently the publisher of the Huron State Spirit sued a subscriber who refused to pay for the paper, and secured a judgment for the back subscription amounting to $8. Costs were added and the subscriber had to pay these too. It was a test case. There are no federal post office rulings which exempt a man from the payment of any amount of back subscription to a newspaper. A subscription debt is as valid as a grocery bill and is collectable under the state law—Brookings Register. CLOSER UNION OF LEADERS SOUGHT Account of Conference Held at Troutbeck, N. Y. PROGRAM FOR FUTURE WORK Fifty Representative Colored Americans Were Recent Guests of Dr. J. E. Spingarn at His Summer Home. Where a Frank Discussion of Problems Confronting the Race Was Held. Amenia, N: Y. — Fifty representatives of the Negro race of every school of thought and every form of activity held an important conference recently at Troutbeck, the country home of Dr. J. E. Spingarn, near here, having been invited by Dr. Spingarn, in order that the leaders of thought from every section of the country might freely and frankly discuss vital questions confronting the race and endeavor to M. DR. J. E. SPINGARN. ascertain the most advanced position that all might agree upon and hold as vantage ground from which to work for new conquests by colored Americans. Every phase of the race question was discussed. The following report was unanimously adopted: Your committee submits the following report for your consideration: The Amenia conference believes that its members have arrived at a virtual unanimity of opinion in regard to certain principles and that a more or less definite practical result may be expected from its deliberations. These principles and this practical result may be summarized as follows: First—The conference believes that all forms of education are desirable for the Negro and that every form of education should be encouraged and advanced. Second.-It believes that the Negro in common with all other races, cannot achieve its highest development without complete political freedom. Third.-It believes that this development and this freedom cannot be furthered without organization and without a practical working understanding among race leaders. Fourth.-It believes that antiquated subjects of controversy, ancient suspicions and factual alignments must be eliminated and forgotten if this organization of the race and this practical working understanding of its leaders are to be achieved. Fifth.-It realizes the peculiar difficulties which surround this problem in the south and the special need of understanding between leaders of the race who live in the south and those who live in the north. It has learned to understand and respect the good faith, methods and ideals of those who are working for the solution of this problem. Sixth.—The conference pledges itself to the inviolable privacy of all its deliberations. These, coelclusions, however, and the amicable results of all deliberations of the conference are it subjects for discussion in the colored press and elsewhere. Seventh.—The conference feels that mutual understanding would be en courage if the leaders of the race would meet annually for private and informal discussion under conditions similar to those which have prevailed at this conference. (Signed) Fred R. Moore, John Hope. J. R. Hawkins, James W. Johnson and Dr. J. E. Spingarn, committee. Dr. Spingarn is chairman of the board of directors of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People. Besides the conferences; a number of distinguished and representative members of both races were invited to be present and take part in the discussions from day to day. Among those in attendance and who addressed the conference were: His Excellency Charles S. Whitman, governor of New York; Captain Lorillard Spencer, military secretary to the governor; Colonel William Hayward, colonel of the Fifteenth regiment; Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of the Evening Post; Hon Herbert Parsons, Miss Inez Mizel Holland. Other guests for the day were Edward Ware, president of the Atlanta university; Dr. V. Morton Jones, Leutenant V. W. Tandy, John E. Nall, A. G. Dill and Glicchrist Stewart. THE TWIN CITY STAR R. R. WRIGHT, PH. D. The Scholarly Editor of the Christian Recorder, Who Was Recently Elected Business Manager of the Book Concern of the African Methodist Episcopal Church at Philadelphia. A. The board of managers of the Book Concern of the A. M. E. church at Philadelphia at a recent business meeting accepted the resignation of the Rev. J. I. Lowe, D. D., who was elected business manager by the general conference at its session held in Philadelphia in May. Dr. Lowe stated that the condition of his health and the great declining condition of the business and the pressure of many claims was such that he did not feel himself justified in continuing longer in the position. His resignation was accepted, and Dr. R. R. Wright, editor of the Christian Recorder, was elected business manager to succeed Dr. Lowe. The bishop expressed himself as highly pleased with the selection of Dr. Wright, who held the dual office of manager of the Book Concern and editor of the Christian Recorder for three years prior to May, 1912, when he declined to be elected as business manager and was elected editor of the Christian Recorder. The success of the Book Concern during Dr. Wright's management was such that he has again been recalled to the dual office of manager and editor, and it is believed that he will again make good. There was talk of the Book Concern being offered to Rev. W. T. Anderson, formerly chaplain in the United States army, but he did not see fit to accept. It was also rumored than an offer was made to the veteran journalist, J. H. Murphy, editor of the Baltimore Afro-American. Dr. Wright brings to the business high attainment both as a scholar and a business man, and his assumption of the duties of manager and editor has awakened not only among the creditors a high degree of confidence, but also among the large Methodist constituency. It is expected that he will be able to build up the business of the Book Concern to a larger degree than ever before. His first job is to print the new revised discipline of the church, and he is arranging now to print 20,000 of them, with 10,000 new hymn books and other books to be used by the Methodist denomination. Dr. Wright is a member of the National Negro Press association and represents the state of Pennsylvania on the executive committee of the association. YEAR BOOK PRIZE WINNERS. Hayes of New Jersey and Brown of Kentucky Meet Requirements. In connection with the appearance of the 1916-17 edition of the Negro Year Book it is announced that the $50 price offered in 1914 for the best suggestions relative to the improvement of this publication has been awarded to Arthur L. Hayes of Lyndhurst, N. J. Mr. Hayes is a graduate of Hampton institute and is employed in the New York city postal service. His suggestions related to the most advantageous size for the book, the kind of type to be used, the arrangement of the subject matter, the form and scope of the index, the securing of advertisements and the advertising of the book. His suggestions with reference to the arrangements of the subject matter were: "At the beginning a calendar of the year, putting every date in black faced heavy type that has any meaning to the race and a foot note for explanation. "Then would come the permanent facts about the race, dates and the events compared, charts with comparison, politics, art, business, farm homes, city homes, men and their work, monuments to men and the race for what and by whom and where, property wealth compared with that of various small countries and some states in area, population, business done and wealth. Devote a few pages to who's who in America and other countries of Negro blood. I would not confine this section to all the wealthiest, but also to those who have been felt by their respective sections of the world for good." The award to the reader first pointing out error in statement of facts in the 1914-15 edition went to Lee L. Brown, editor, Louisville (Ky.) News, who immediately after the appearance of this edition called attention to the fact that Stephen Bell, national grand secretary of the United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of the Mysterious Ten, resided in Louisville, Ky., and not in Jefferson, Tex., as reported in the year book. Congratulations are extended to both Mr. Hayes and Mr. Brown. THE PARTY LABEL. It is hardly necessary to state that the Negro vote will go to Mr. Hughes, because Negroes have been consistent Republicans. They cannot support Mr. Wilson, because of his "Segregation of Negro employees" and his catering to Southern sentiment, which is anti-Negro. But there are many good men in the Democratic party who are our friends. Some are in office and their record on Negro questions stands on par with their Republican colleagues. It is more a matter of secessionism than partisanism. The Northern Democrat is often preferred to the Southern Republican. Notwithstanding that we want to increase our Republican strength in both branches of Congress; we should not follow the label and vote for a candidate, who is tagged as a Republican and repudiate a present office holder, theo a Democrat, who is on record as being for equal rights for all Americans. Dr. Cyrus Northrop, a supporter of Pres Taft, said that "if Mr. Wilson proves to be a good president, he would support him for re-election." Dr. Northrush is for Mr. Hughes. We, as Negro voters, must put the character and record of the candidate above any party label. AT THE CLOSED GATE ON JUSTICE. James D. Corrothers in The Century. CONTENTMENT. One contented with what he has done stands but small chance of becoming famous for what he will do. He has lain down to die. The grass is already growing over him. - Royce Raising Funds to Run Down Lynchers The National Association For the Advancement of Colored People bel- two big meetings on Thursday. Aug. one in New York city and the other in Brooklyn. The meetings were hell in the interest of the anti-lynching fund of $10,000 which the association has undertaken to raise for the purpose of bringing to trial the leaders of the lynching mob responsible for the re- cent murder horror at Waco, Tex. Teast of Colored American Congress. The historical and astronomical tour used at the national congress of col- ored Americans held in Washington Oct. 4-5 is, "The stars in their course side with a race fighting for its rights." —Trotter. J & H Wet Wash Laundry J&H WET WASH LAUNDRY 5753 57 CEDAR AVE J&H WET WASH LAUNDRY We maintain that we can wash cheaper and better than the housewife. We make this claim, because we have one of the largest, most modern and sanitary Wet Wash Laundries in the United States. OUR PRICE IS 25 POUNDS OF FAMILY WASHING FOR 65 CENTS. CLOTHES WEIGHED VHEN DRY. Our Auto-trucks and wagons deliver Everywhere. CALL SNELLING 1509. 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