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DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST.PAUL MINNESOTA HISTORICAL ABLE DIRECTOR OF VOCAL MUSIC Success of R. Nathaniel Dett of Hampton Institute. SOME OF HIS ACHIEVEMENTS Brilliant Young Composer Who Graduated From the Oberlin Conservatory of Music Evinces Wonderful Capacity as Organizer and Leader of Choral Work—Knows How to Get Results. Hampton, Va.—R. Nathaniel Dett, director of vocal music at Hampton institute, whose home is at Niagara Falls, is a Canadian by birth and is one of the most successful of the younger American musicians of the present day. In 1908 he was graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with the degree of bachelor of music, being the first Negro in America to receive such a degree for work done in original composition. As he had been a brilliant pianist from childhood, the general expecta- B. NATHANIEL DETT. [Director of Vocal Music at the Hampton (Va.) Institute.] tion was that he would choose the career of an artist. But being endowed with something of the missionary spirit, he took up teaching in the south. For three years he was director of music at Lane college, Jackson, Tenn. Under his direction the Lane College Choral society became a great factor at the school and in the life of the community. Cantatas given by the students and the recitals held under their auspices broke all previous records for attendance. During the season of 1910 he gave two piano recitals in Memphis, attracting the largest crowds of colored people ever assembled there to hear a single performer. He successfully appeared twice in Birmingham, Ala., under the auspices of the Inter-se club to assist in raising money for charitable purposes. The second tour to Birmingham included appearances at Mason City and the Alabama State college. During the last two years at Lane he composed the Magnolia suite and five numbers for the piano. The next year he was elected simultaneously as director of music to the Kansas City High school and the Lincoln institute, Jefferson City, Mo. He chose the latter place, and his work again met with great success. Having charge of the Lincoln institute orchestra, a new outlet was given to his creative genius, and his orchestral arrangements were among the most striking and popular features of the school's programs. The piano and voice students being much advanced, he very wisely devoted more time to their instructions, sacrificing his own public performances to his pupils' advancement. As a result cantatas, solo recitals, orchestral and choral concerts given by the students followed in splendid success. His second suite, "In the Bottoms," was a success. In five years Mr. Dett established his reputation as a successful teacher and had numerous offers as music director. After an interview in Chicago with Major Robert R. Moton of Hampton he decided to accept the directorship of the music of the Hampton school. Mme. E. Azalia Hackley had given a number of "demonstrations" at the institute and was enthusiastic over the possibilities of the large student body. At Hampton Mr. Dett's work has received enthusiastic, almost nation wide recognition. His first important step was the organisation of the Hampton Choral Union, a music club composed of all the singers of the various choirs throughout the community. This organisation took upon itself the study of organ works and the raising of music During two ing the ple ever gle peared der the to assis itable Birmin Mason lege. Lane h and hiv. The taneous Kansas coln in chose again n charge tra, a native rangem striking school's student wisely structic perform ment. citals, given splendid. His was a establi ful tea as mus in Chic ton of the dii Hampta Hackle onstrat enthus large s. At H ceived recogn His ganiza Union, the si through ganiza change. fective Page VOL. 6 Single Copies 5 Cents standards. To this end they proceeded to present some of the best musical artists of the country. Last May the first music festival was held in the gymnasium of the Hampton institute during the commencement week of the school. The climax of the series of four concerts was the presentation of the "Rose Malden" cantata by a chorus of 800 voices, four soloists and orchestra. This is probably the first time in the history of the south that a Negro chorus has sung to the accompaniment of a white orchestra, under the direction of a Negro conductor. The performance was unanimously voted a stupendous success CELEBRATION OF DOUGLASS' MEMORY URGED BY LEAGUE National Equal Rights Body Takes the Initiative In Great Movement. Great and vital causes are advanced by honoring the memory of their illustrious exponents. When the work of these moral heroes is yet unfinished or is being undone the present day struggle for humanity is strengthened by public observances of the anniversaries of the pioneers. Such events furnish the occasion to recall the careers and recite the noble utterances of the great advocates of reform and to urge present day devotion to their ideals. The sentimental appeal which goes with the centenary of the birth of a moral leader makes its celebration, if carried on in the spirit of his life work, of telling help to the same cause today. Hence it is that the National Equal Rights league, representing the cruisade of colored Americans for rights and liberties still denied, urges the celebration of the centenary of the birth of that greatest of all champions of liberty and of citizenship for colored Americans, Frederick Douglass. all day Wednesday, Feb. 14, 1917. The league advises that these observances be in the name of the equal rights cause and that in every place where colored Americans are numerous an equal rights committee or Equal Rights league be formed to arrange the centenary observance of this great colored champion of equal rights. This is the first great duty of our race collectively in the new year 1917 and is the league's New Year's message to the race. It will inspire our young people with respect for and pride in their racial strain to have brought out the wondrous ability of this man born a slave. It will give courage to our men and women to fight in an organized way color discrimination to learn of the brave stand taken by Douglass on many occasions. It will challenge the conscience of white Americans to know the life struggle and the eloquent plea made by him for justice to his race. Douglass was the great colored abolitionist. An escaped slave, he naturally waged an independent campaign of agitation for the freedom of his own race. The approach of his 'centenary' should be the signal for his people to rally to the standard of a fight of our race for rights denied because of our race. Let there be fitting observances throughout the United States of America of the centenary of Douglass the orator, the abolitionist, the editor, the writer, the statesman, under the auspices of equal rights committees or equal rights leagues and the citizens all day Feb. 14, 1917. Thus will our fight for rights be strengthened in the land which Douglass helped make one of freedom for all. President, Hillburn, N. Y. WILLIAM MONROE TROTTER, Secretary, 84 Cornhill, Boston. Contrasting Racial Opportunities. Notwithstanding the many handicaps of the colored people in their efforts to better their condition, they are making considerable progress. Besides the small pay they get for their services, they are handicapped in the education of their children, especially in the south, where the rural school term is not more than half as long as those in the north. Nevertheless the majority of the ablest members of the race in intellectually are natives of the south. The boys and girls and young men and women of the north and their parents, in view of the above, should make full use of their opportunities. RENEW YOUR SUBSCRIPTION 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. ADVERTISE HERE, IT PAYS. SMOKE "SIGHT DRAFT" THE BEST 5c. CIGAR MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. FEBRUARY, 3 1917. WIDE SCOPE OF HAMPTON'S WORK PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE Trustees Declo to Enlarge Plans For the Erection of Auditorium In Honor of the Late Robert C. Ogden—Dr. H. B. Frissell Tells of Hampton's Achievements and Present Needs. The rapid growth of the Hampton school has been made necessary by the fact that hundreds of applicants have been refused each year for lack of room and by the insistent demands made upon the school for industrial and agricultural leaders, as well as for teachers for the rural schools, says Dr. H. B. Frissell, principal of the Hampton (Va.) institute. The enlarged number of students has filled the dining rooms to overflowing, and the increased interest which the community takes in all the activities of the school has brought so many to the lectures and the Sunday evening gatherings that the present assembly room in Cleveland hall is very much overcrowded. For this reason it has seemed best to the trustees to enlarge the plans of the Ogden Memorial auditorium so that it will seat 2,400 instead of the 1,600 originally provided for. The new auditorium will make it possible to use Cleveland Hall chapel for an additional dining room and so solve another serious problem. The increased size and the rapid rise in the price of materials, however, will almost double the cost of the building. One hundred thousand dollars has already been raised, and at least $80,000 more will be needed for its completion. The building is to be erected as a memorial to Robert C. Ogden, for many years president of the school's board of trustees and a lifelong friend of the founder of Hampton institute and of the Negro and Indian races. The auditorium, however, is not only to commemorate Mr. Ogden's service to Hampton, but is also to be a monument perpetuating the appreciation of the south for his assistance in developing its educational resources. The southern education board in its Ogden memorial booklet said: "Through the conference for education in the south he touched the great hearts of the north and south and put upon the nation's conscience a universal need. Not by persuasion, not by fanatical insistence, but by the contagion of his own personal devotion, he rallied men from every section, from every walk and station in life, rich and poor, high and lowly, white and black, to the cause which he advocated." Thus the Ogden auditorium at Hampton is to be a national monument, and people of all classes, races and sections have already contributed generously toward its building. Here the Negro and Indian young men and women who are preparing for their life work will have an opportunity not only for lectures and concerts, but for the visual instruction, now so valuable, through stereooption and moving pictures. Large choruses of the people from the community will gather here. About 20,000 visitors pass through the school grounds each year, and this building will speak to them of Hampton's efforts at race adjustment through mutual understanding, sympathy and helpfulness. Here will gather people of the white and African and Indian races to talk over their problems, which, after all, are worldwide problems, and educators who come from every continent and climate to study Hampton's methods will meet with them. In the center of Hampton's campus, where beautiful trees as old as the school itself have been sacrificed for it, a great excavation makes a mute appeal to the friends of Mr. Ogden, of Hampton, of the races represented there and of the south, to meet this great need of the present and future. All who wish to help may send their subscriptions to Clarence H. Kelsey. 176 Broadway, New York city. How to Stop Southern Race Migration. Better educational advantages for the colored children of the rural districts of the south, better pay to wage earners and the wiping out of mob violence will go a long way toward stemming the tide of race migration from that section of our common country. These, with the full exercise of the ballot, according to law, will soon bring about better conditions for both races. WILBERFORCE TO BROADEN WORK NAMED FOR LATE DR. WARD President W. S. Scarborough Calls Attention to Labors of Great American In Behalf of Our Race—Praise For Other Noted Men Who Have Contributed to Our Education. In outlining the work for the new year, 1917, and speaking of the urgent news of the Wilberforce (O.) university Dr. W. S. Scarborough, president of that noted institution, says in a letter to the New York Independent that it is the purpose of Wilberforce university to erect a science building as a memorial to the late distinguished editor of the Independent, naming it the "William Hayes Ward Science hall." We feel that no better tribute could be paid to his memory by the Negro. He virtually devoted his life to the interests of the race. By voice and pen he alided our emancipation, upheld our rights and denounced our wrongs, advocated our education and encouraged our ambitions. He inspired us with hope for a future free from prejudice and proscription. Dr. Ward was also a personal friend of Wilberforce university and of Bishop Daniel A. Payne, the chief of its founders. Whatever pertained to its welfare deeply interested him. Therefore he noted with deep regret on a visit some four years ago when he addressed us during commencement week that our quarters for science teaching were totally inadequate. Every one who knew Dr. Ward knows what a keen interest he took in all lines of scientific endeavor and research. It seems to us, therefore, very fitting that we strive to build for our great need a monument to him that will not only show our grateful appreciation as a people of his labors in our behalf, but that will also have a close connection with the things in which he so took great delight. It is equally fitting that the oldest Negro school in America should be the one to put forth this effort and that its campus should be the spot where such a memorial shall stand. Dr. Ward was always quick to recognize a real need, and there is no question that a science building is one of the greatest needs of Wilberforce university today. All its class work along scientific lines is greatly hampered by lack of room for work and for even the proper placing of the laboratory equipment for which friends are making arrangements to provide. Our work planned for advance study demands the new building, as does the constantly increasing work in certain industries and in agriculture. We cannot even make the most profitable use of our small but well selected museum because it cannot be properly arranged in our present crowded quarters. Thus we find very important work suffering at every point because of needed enlargement. Wilberforce university, because of its strategic situation, its environment and many admirable facilities, is one of the strongest centers of Negro higher education in the country. Its work is constantly growing. It provides all around training in literary courses, teachers' training and vocational courses, of which there are seven. With forty-one instructors and 500 students, it is serving most acceptably in a wide field of Negro education. It is the oldest institution of its kind in the United States, as I have just said, dating as far back as 1847, when was founded the Union seminary, a manual labor institution for the education of colored people, and which was subsequently merged into Wilberforce university. It was named in honor of the great English statesman and benefactor of the colored race, William Wilberforce. It was incorporated in 1856, and its first board of trustees included Governor Salmon P. Chase, who at his death left it $10,000. Major General O. O. Howard, Major General Saxton, Dr. Bellows, Dr. Edward Everett Hale, Frederick Douglass and other men of prominence have served as trustees of this institution. Mr. Andrew Carnegie recently gave $17,500 toward the erection of a $500,000 building for girls, which with the $200,000 already donated by him for a library building made his total contribution to Wilberforce university $87,500. It has today an enrollment of 500 young men and women, from nearly all the states of the Union, from the isles of the sea and from Africa, and needs still larger quarters for them. We are therefore sending this appeal to the Independent, to the readers of this stanch and fearless paper, to the friends of Negro education generally and to the friends of Dr. William Hayes Ward in particular, asking their aid in accomplishing our purpose. The cost of this proposed building will be $40,000. We beg earnestly that out of their philanthropic love of humanity, out of their interest in education as the saving and uplifting power of a nation as well as a race and out of their friendship for and pride in the master mind that has gone to its reward our friends and Dr. Ward's friends will assist us in accomplishing our purpose. The memory of one who delighted in service will thus be perpetuated in an institution whose aim is service. Hamilton Holt, editor of the Independent, New York, throws the weight of his influence toward the efforts of Dr. William Sanders Scarborough to raise funds for the erection of a suitable science building at the Wilberforce university. Mr. Holt says: "The Independent is glad to publish the appeal to its readers from the president of Wilberforce university. I may add that I have visited Wilberforce, know its president well and can vouch for the good work being done there for the elevation of the Negro. "While the university maintains a very good industrial department, it has always stressed the higher education of the Negro, believing its greatest service lay in training its students for professional life and for the leadership of the race. I have often heard Dr. Ward speak with enthusiasm of the work Wilberforce was doing, and I am sure that any of his friends who feel like responding to President Scar borough's appeal will be aiding a genuinely worthy project." THE COLOR LINE ABROAD. Bruce "Grits" Comment on views of African World Correspondents. Under the caption "The Freemasonry of Race Prejudice" the African World in a recent issue says: "There have been protests in several quarters against the frequency with which black men are seen with white women in London and its environs. * * * The other Sunday at an up river resort a beautiful English girl was seen tangling with a black man to the music of the 'Marsellallse' in ragtime. The double shock to patriotic Englishmen is indescribable, more particularly as a few yards away 500 maimed British soldiers were to be seen lying on the sward or hobbling along the lawns, the guests of the Red Cross at a fete. "The curse of miscegenation has already crept, wave on wave, from Cape Town to the confines of Natal. It has outrun legislation and control, and this is wholly due to the deprivation of the low white men. To their eternal honor it must be said that white women have kept themselves almost wholly unsold and free of blame in this terrible matter. * * * Yet the black peril is always beclouding our view of the future. One consolation we have, and that is that nowhere throughout South Africa is it possible to see a white girl walking out with a young colored man." The writer of the article, which is two and a half columns in length, has evidently resided some time in this country at some period of his life and has been inoculated with the microbe. The prejudice against Negroes in Europe is due largely to these migratory birds of passage, who get their systems full of it from contact and association in this country with that type of the genus American who has come to believe that this world was made for Caesar and his queens and that he is Caesar. They go back to Europe, these migratory birds of passage, and spread the virus of the poison they have absorbed, and soon it begins to work. The attitude of the dock laborers in London recently in refusing to permit Negroes to work as longshoremen and dock hands is a straw which shows which way the wind is blowing in a country which Negroes in America and in the British colonies once thought was the anteroom to heaven. Perhaps England will now disband her Negro West Indian regiments if the objection to Negroes by this writer carries. There are lots of button headed people in the-world, and they don't all live in America. New York Minister Visits St. Louis The Rev. Dr. A. Clayton Powell, pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist church New York, is assisting the Rev. George E. Stevens in a series of religious meetings at the Central Baptist church St. Louis. Dr. Powell preached his first sermon of the series on Wednesday, Jan. 17. He will remain in St. Louis until about Feb. 5. No. 51 JOHNSON WORKING FOR RACE UPLIFT Becomes Field Secretary of Advancement Association. MAN OF HIGH DISTINCTION Has Won Fame In Letters and In United States Consular Service—Awarded Prize For Editorial on Recent Election—Contributing Editor of the New York Age. New York.-The National Association For the Advancement of Colored People at the December meeting of the board of directors appointed James Weldon Johnson to the newly created position of field secretary. Mr. Johnson is well known throughout America as contributing editor of the New York Age, as an author of distinction and as prize winner in the recent contest of the Philadelphia Ledger for editorials on "Why Hughes Should Be Elected." His appointment indicates that a consolidation of forces is being effected among colored Americans at the present time and that the substantial unanimity of opinion expressed by the leaders of all schools of thought represented last summer at the Amenia conference is working out in the direction of a more united front to the common enemies of the race. James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Fla., June 17, 1871, where he was educated in the public schools. In 1894 he graduated from Atlanta university with the degree of A. B. He received his master's degree at the same university in 1904. His southern birth and southern training will make it possible for him to work and organize in the south as no northern man could. Mr. Johnson spent three years in graduate work at Columbia university, in this city, and for several years was principal of the high school at Jacksonville. He was admitted to the Florida bar in 1897 and practiced law in Jacksonville until 1901, when he removed to New York to collaborate with his brother, J. Rosamond Johnson, in writing for the light opera stage. He married Grace E. Nail of New York in 1910. He has had an interesting career in the public service. In 1906 he was appointed United States consul at Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, being transferred as consul to Corinto, Nicaragua, in 1909 and to the Azores in 1912. While at Corinto he looked after the interests of his country during the stormy days, of the revolution which resulted in the downfall of Zelaya and the abortive revolution against Diaz. His knowledge of Spanish has been put to use in the translation of many Spanish plays. He was the translator for the English libretto of "Goyescas," the Spanish grand opera produced at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1915, and also has several translations from the French to his credit. But it is as an American author that he is best known. His poems have appeared in the Century, the Independent, the Crisis and other magazines, and his novel, "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man," is one of the most powerful stories ever woven about the theme of race relations. Mr. Johnson is a member of the American Society of Authors and Composers, of the Civic club, New York, and is vice president of the New York branch of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People. Recently he has been on a six weeks' mission throughout the south, representing the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, in an endeavor to persuade the editors of the leading white newspapers to take an enlightened attitude toward the exodus of Negro labor from that section. Everywhere he was received with the greatest courtesy and consideration, and much good is expected to result from his splendid work of representation of the Negro. Dr. Elbert New State College Trustees The colored people of Wilmington Del., are much gratified over the recent recognition accorded Dr. Samuel G. Elbert by his appointment to the trustee board of State college by Governor Miller. Although State college is composed of colored students, Dr. Elbert is the first man of the race to hold the position of trustee. He is well and favorably known throughout the state and was one of the late Dr. Booker T. Washington's warmest friends. The institution is located near Dover. Read the Negro Papers. TWIN CITY ENTERTAINERS PRE-LENTAL BALLS THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8TH, 1917 AND WEDNESDAY EVE. FEBRUARY 28TH, 1917 AT THE UNION TEMPLE HALL YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED ADMISSION 35c. 506 Boston Block, Minneapolis. Minneapolis, Minn. NIC. 1873. RAILROAD MEN'S NEWS, Stephen Springer, Milwaukee Depot, Minneapolis. Send your notes to us by Wednesd ay A. M. Several improvements have been made at Bethesda Baptist Church The new concrete steps are a valu able as well as ornamental addition to the building. Rev. Beasley expects a larger attendance this fall and i doing what he can to make Bethesda the most comfortable church among our people. Here we have over 6,000 Negroes, and there is not one organization interested in their civic or moral advancement. The interesting topic is: What about the "clubs"? and Who is to be detective? There is a change coming soon and those who assume leadership will be relegated and their successors will co-operate with the white organizations on questions affecting the Health, Labor and Criminal conditions. The interest of one is the concern of both and now is the time to get busy. HULA DANCE IN CHURCH. G. L. Morrill will say "aloha" to his congregation next Sunday, Feb. 4, at the New Garden Theatre at 10:30 A.M., before leaving that night for the Bahamas, Havana, Yucatan and Mexico. Kaimiola's Hawaiians will sing and play in the service, and Miss Kaimiola will give a real hula-hula dance. Mr. Morrill will show 100 views of the Hawaiian Islands. MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY FORUM The Forum has long boasted that it takes no account of the weather. This however, does not include such weather conditions as obtained last Forum day. In common with every other activity The Forum had to quit. At the coming meeting (on Sunday the 4th of Feb.) the programme prepared for the previous meeting will be given. The interest in the talk by Mr. R. A. Skinner, will lose nothing by reason of the untoward circumstances that have delayed it several times. Mr. Monroe is expected to render a vocal number. Other interesting features among which a report from the committee arranging the annual "Get-to-gether" meeting. The Twin City Star of next issue will have a full account of the plans and the personal of the entertainment. The Forum meets this time at S., Peter A. M. E. Church, 22 St. and 10 Ave. S., called promptly at 3:30. All invited and made welcome. W. E. Jeffrey, Pres. The birthday of Fred. Douglass, Mayor Thos. Van Lear and Dr. S. N. Dinard will speak. Judge Johnston celebrated his 50th birthday on Jan. 26. He entertained several friends in his usual hospitable style, and received several useful presents. Mr. John Elliott, the veteran head-waiter at The Nicollet Hotel, is the last of the old school. He keeps up with the modern methods and has an experienced crew, many of whom have seen long service at The Nicollet. Mrs. O. G. Lee, who is in the City Hospital in St. Paul, is improving. Mr. Clarence Wooten left this week for a short visit to Marshalltown, Ia. Mr. Jordan M. Morris, has won his claim for the estate of the late Chas. Turner, and is in full possession of all property as stated in the will. Mr. Alfred Anderson, the Vaudeville Star, was the guest of his old friend, Mr. John Elliott during his recent engagement. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott entertained in his honor. Mr. John Simms continues sick at his home. His wife, Mrs. Ida Simms, has been removed to the hospital, suffering with asthma. Camera In a Bank It is said that the Bank of France has an invisible studio in a gallery behind the cashiers, so that at a given signal from one of them any suspected customer can instantly have his photograph taken without his knowledge ADVERTISE HERE, IT PAYS. The local branches of The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and The National Equal Rights League will hold joint services in commemorating the Centenary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, and the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Arrangements are being made for a united meeting. Churches, Lodges and all organizations and individuals are requested to co-operate. The event will be held on Feb. 14th, the birthday of Frederick Douglass, Mayor Thos. Van Lear and Dr. S. N. Deinard will speak. The National Equal Rights League was organized by W. Monroe Trotter of Boston, Mass., at St. Peter A. M. E. Church, and is working in harmony with the N. A. A. C. P. RECENT DEATHS Richard C. Marshall died on Jan. 28 after a lingering illness. He was a native of Richmond, Va., and had lived a long while in Minneapolis. He was one of the founders of St. James A. M. E. Church, and its oldest class leader. He leaves five children, "Bobby" Marshall the well known athlete, and Louis Marshall, the postman, Mrs. Lee, of Chicago, Misses Alice and Sadie Marshall. Funeral services were held on Wednesday at St. Peter Church. Presiding Elder Higgins and Rev. Stovall officiated. He was a charter member of Pride of Minnesota, Knights of Pythias, who paid him their final honors. Mr. Marshall was one of the best known men in the city and an ardent church and civic worker. Mrs. J. M. Simpson died Tuesday. Funeral services were held Thursday at the St. Peter Church. Her husband is very ill. James Ostell, who has been in bad health many years, died Thursday. He had no known relations. Mr. Ostell was one of the old waiters and had been in charge of the check room at the Porters' and Waiters' Club. After being sick nearly a year at the University Hospital he was able to return to his work, but was recently taken to the City Hospital. Mr. Shull gave him a Christian burial. Daniel Williams, who formerly conducted a restaurant on So. Third St., died this morning after a few months' illness. Funeral services were held at St. James A. M. E. Church. Rev. Bess preached the sermon. He was a trustee of the church, also a member of the Knights of Pythias, St. James Commandery K. T., and Anchor Hilvard Lodge of Masons. He was well known, having lived here many years. "Dan." was a devout Christian and was well liked because of his good nature. Mrs. Lizzie Graham was buried Wednesday from St. Peter Church. She formerly lived in Kansas City, and was the mother of Mr. James M. Graham of the Omaha Ry. A COMMENDABLE APPOINTMENT. Mr. F. H. Hatcher, formerly a waiter was recently appointed steward and assistant manager of the University Club, one of the exclusive white clubs in this city. He has proven that efficiency counts and The Star congratulates Mr. Hatcher on his promotion. He has the best wishes of a host of friends. Miss Sadie Marshall is on the sick list. Dr. W. H. Wright and Mr. and Mrs. Willis Wright, have returned from Sloux Falls, S. D., where they accompanied the remains of their mother. Mr. Fred. Abbey is serving on the jury in the District Court. Pride of Minnesota Lodge, Knights of Pythias, give an Entertainment and Dance at Lane's Hall, on February 12th. Watch for later Announcements. THE LADY USHERS The Ball, given by the Lady Ushers of he local theatres, on Monday night, was a brilliant success. The attendance was very large and Lane's Hall was filled. The music by Prof. Clarence Johnson was very good. The Lady Ushers have become exceedingly popular and their entertainments are looked forward to with much interest. TAINERS ALLS RUARY 8TH, 1917 JARY 28TH, 1917 PLE HALL Y INVITED THE TWIN CITY STAR HALL'S R OF ACHIE Has Won Fame and Eyes MAYOR THOMAS VAN LEAR. He will deliver an interesting address at the Centennary of Frederick Douglass, the noted Abolitionist Statesman and Orator, which will be held on the evening of Feb. 14th in the Assembly Room of the Courthouse. This is the first opportunity for the new Mayor to present his views on questions of vital importance to our race and it is expected that he will be greeted by a large attendance. "The Spirit of Douglass" will be the topic in many Negro churches all over the country on Sunday, Feb. 11th. NEGRO DEFENDS WHITE CLIENT Atty. Brown S. Smith, the well known Negro attorney, was the chief counsel for Frank Odenbradt, charged with the murder of James L. Gardner, the town marshall of Osseo, Minn. The case was called on Monday morning and went to the jury Thursday afternoon. Atty. Walter Newton appeared for the state. Self defense was the defendant's plea. The court room was crowded, when the final addresses were made to the jury. Atty. Smith received many compliments on the handling of the case and his brilliant address. He was associated with Atty. B. W. Wilder. The jury had not reached a verdict on Friday morning. Owing to the increased cost of publication, we will NOT accept any ads, unless paid in advance. Agents will please act accordingly. Pride of Minnesota Lodge, Knights of Pythias, give an Entertainment and Dance at Lane's Hall, on February 12th. Watch for later Announcements. 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. A BARGAIN NEW HOUSE FOR SALE. FIVE ROOMS, MODERN. FULL LOT. NICE GARDEN SPACE. WALK- ING DISTANCE. SMALL PAY- MENT DOWN. $15 PER MONTH AND INTEREST. SEE OWNER, 2204 MINNEHAHA AVE. FOR RENT—MODERN BRICK HOUSE, 211 ELEVENTH AVE. S. 16 ROOMS, SUITABLE FOR ROOMING HOUSE. $30 PER MO. APPLY 1313 WASH. AVE. SO. TEL. MAIN 2259. A Desirable Room, Steam Heated, Modern conveniences, near car line, for a respectable man or man and wife. 3732 Portland Ave. Phone Colfax 1150. HOUSE FOR SALE. 3852 4th Ave. So. 7 rooms--modern, almost new. Good location on car line, lot 40x132 ft. Price $3500. Easy terms. See McDew, Sykes Block. .. FURNISHED APARTMENTS. For Rent. 4 furnished rooms, 2 bedrooms, lying room and kitchen. $5.00 per week. Call after 2 P. M. Phone Main 5444. Mrs. Phelps, 119 Western Ave ADVOCATE OF FAIR PLAY. Father Vernimont Lauda World's Editorial on Colored Soldiers. Father Raymond-Vernimont, a Roman Catholic priest at Denton, Tex., in a recent article to the New York World under the caption "Justice to the Negro," says: "It is refreshing to see the great change taking place in some leading papers on the Negro question. Your eulogy of the Negro soldier is reproduced in the last issue of the Crisis page 237. High minded people glory in this forward step. The enemies you make by giving justice to the Negro are few and unworthy of notice. Continue to use your pages for the defense of that long oppressed race. God and man will bless your paper for it." Are you a delinquent subscriber? If so, why not send your subscription? Do not delay in sending in your indebtedness for the Twin City Star ADVERTISE HERE, IT PAYS. HALL'S RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENT Has Won Fame as Clergyman and Eye Doctor. NOTED FOR SCHOLARSHIP States In Various Sections of America Bear Testimony to Esteem In Which Name of Ernest Hall is Held—Now Pastor of Liberty Baptist Church in Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga.—Ernest Hall, as he is affectionately called by thousands of people in every section of the country, has had an interesting career from poverty to competency. Born in the state of Missouri forty-five years ago of former slave parents on the banks of the "Father of Waters," the fifth son of William and Annie Hall, he, early showed a passion for books and learning that is seldom seen in one of his years. His parents were too poor to buy him all the books he needed as he attended the common school in his home town. So he had to borrow a book from first one and then another of his playmates to enable him to keep up with his classes, at the head of which he stood for many years. Realizing M. B. that his home town or village did not offer adequate educational advantages to satisfy him, he was permitted to leave home, at an age considered much too young by parents of this day, to go to Quincy, Ill., where he worked during the day and attended school at night for ten years, graduating from the oldest higher educational institution in the state. He also took a business course and read law in the office of one of the greatest law firms in the state. For fourteen years Ernest found employment with the Tenk Hardware company of Quincy. Henry Tenk, the president, has said many a time that he was thoroughly trustworthy and was trusted implicitly in all the relations of his extensive business. Leaving the employ of the firm referred to above, Ernest went to Peoria, Ill., where he entered the Christian ministry and was ordained by the Mount Pisgah Baptist church of Bloomington, Ill. It would take a page to tell of all his educational ventures, covering thirty years. Beginning his pastoral labors at DuQuoin, Ill., where he built up the church and drew a salary three times as large as any one ever drew who served there before him, he blazed the way for other good men to follow him. Upon leaving there he went to Bloomington, where he remained for many years with the church that ordained him and left because his mother died there. But few men in any age have been attached to their mothers as was Ernest Hall. While living at Springfield Dr. W. H. Hill of Pittsburgh telegraphed him to come to Pittsburgh to see him on a matter of pressing business. While there he preached for the Trinity Baptist church to fill an engagement for Dr. Hill, who was sick at this time, and the church would not let him return home until it had a promise from him that he would become its pastor. This church paid him more money than it had ever paid any other pastor and did not owe him a cent when he said goodbye to the congregation in June of this year. Upon the first Sunday in July of this year he took charge of the Liberty Baptist church of Atlanta, Ga., amid the joyful acclaim of a joyful church and city. Liberty church is paying him a larger salary to begin with than any other man has ever drawn at any time during its history. The coming of this man to this church two mighty forces have united for the extension of the kingdom of God. Ernest Hall is one of the best preachers, with one of the best minds for preaching, the race has produced. He has a long list of degrees, most of them from white schools. He possesses the finest library of any man of the race. Dr. Hall is one of the oldest if not the oldest eye doctor in the race. The history of the Baptists of the race cannot be written without giving prominence to his name. Happy is the church that can secure his services and happy the man who can call him "my friend." DR. ERNEST HALL. ORDER A TELEPHONE FOR YOUR HOME $2.00 and $2.50 per month Contract Dep't. Main 4000 Sight Draft POPULAR-PRICE LUNCH. From 12 to 3 P. M. REGULAR DINNER 246-50 FOURTH AVE. SO. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. T. S. Center 4639. WALFRID WESTMAN Photographer standing are cordially welcomed. Geo. M. Bryant, E. R. Wm. R. Morris, Secy. 818 Met. L. Bldg. Office Phone N. W. Main 625 GALE P. HILYER ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW With Hall and Tantges 722 New York Life Bldg. Minneapolis, Minn. Res. N. W. South 3347 Peterson, The Druggist 1501 Washington Ave. Se. SPECIAL SAMPLE SHOES. POPULAR PRICED SHOE REPAIRING. 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. WORKING-MEN'S SOCIAL CLUB FOR MEN ONLY 244 3RD AVE. S. MINNEAPOLIS DR. W. H. WRIGHT. DENTIST. Phone Nic. 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 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 --- De I STEWART'S HOTEL FINEST ESTABLISHMENT OF ITS KIND IN THE UNITED STATES. Twenty Elegant Steam Heated, Electric Lighted Rooms. Free Bath. Rates Reasonable. Lobby, Reading and Lounging Room, Buffet and Grill Room, Billiard Room, Dining Room, and-bath, Private Dining and Reception Room for Ladies. BARBER SHOP IN CONNECTION A LA CARTE MEALS AT ALL HOURS. BEST SERVICE. 1425 Washington Ave. So. Minn. I. O. PETERSON. 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 me DANCING ACADEMY We are Expert Teachers in all Modern and Standard Dances, including the American, Foxtrot, Brazilian Maxixe, New Egyptian and Spanish Dances. Private Lessons a Specialty. Terms Reasonable. ROBERT K. CISNEY, 572 8 Ave. No. Hyland 4323 T. S. CENTER 2626 N. W. MAIN 1551 The Gateway Market Meats and Provisions We Deliver 210 HENNEPIN AVE. MINNEAPOLIS. YOUR TRADE IS SOLICITED SYLVESTER W. OLIVER. MANAGER. YOUR PUBLICITY PAYS. All persons interested in the progress of their lodges, churches, societies etc., should value the power of printer's ink. They should see that their secretaries SEND ALL NOTICES to the newspapers in proper time. They think the Editor should attend every affair, whether invited or not, and should know "What is going on?"—without being informed. Many exchanges clip from our columns, and often things done in Minneapolis get national publicity. J. M. MORRIS Real Estate Broker Loans Collections 506 BOSTON BLOCK MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. NORTHWESTERN TELEPHONE LOCAL FOR LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE EXCHANGE COMPANY SMOKE THE BEST 5C CIGAR 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. All Elks in good CHOICE CITY AND SUBURBAN PROPERTY FOR SALE ON SMALL MONTHLY PAYMENTS. 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 TOILET ARTICLES, DRUGS PRESCRIPTIONS. He Solicits You Patronage. Defective Pa TWIN CITY ENTERTAINERS PRE-LENTAL BALLS THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8TH, 1917 AND WEDNESDAY EVE. FEBRUARY 28TH, 1917 AT THE UNION TEMPLE HALL YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED ADMISSION 35c. Milwaukee Depot, Minneapolis. Send your notes to us by Wednesday A. M. Several improvements have been made at Bethesda Baptist Church The new concrete steps are a valuable as well as ornamental addition to the building. Rev. Beasley expects a larger attendance this fall and i doing what he can to make Bethesda the most comfortable church among our people. Here we have over 6,000 Negroes, and there is not one organization interested in their civic or moral advancement. The interesting topic is: What about the "clubs"? and Who is to be detective? There is a change coming soon and those who assume leadership will be relegated and their successors will co-operate with the white organizations on questions affecting the Health, Labor and Criminal conditions. The interest of one is the concern of both and now is the time to get busy. HULA DANCE IN CHURCH. HULA DANCE IN CHURCH. G. L. Morrill will say "aloha" to his congregation next Sunday, Feb. 4, at the New Garden Theatre at 10:30 A.M., before leaving that night for the Bahamas, Havana, Yucatan and Mexico. Kaimiola's Hawaiians will sing and play in the service, and Miss Kaimiola will give a real hula-hula dance. Mr. Morrill will show 100 views of the Hawaiian Islands. MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY FORUM The Forum has long boasted that it takes no account of the weather. This however, does not include such weather conditions as obtained last Forum day. In common with every other activity The Forum had to quit. At the coming meeting (on Sunday the 4th of Feb.) the programme prepared for the previous meeting will be given. The interest in the talk by Mr. R. A. Skinner, will lose nothing by reason of the untoward circumstances that have delayed it several times. Mr. Monroe is expected to render a vocal number. Other interesting features among which a report from the committee arranging the annual "Get-to-gether" meeting. The Twin City Star of next issue will have a full account of the plans and the personal of the entertainment. The Forum meets this time at S., Peter A. M. E. Church, 22 St. and 10 Ave. S., called promptly at 3:30. All invited and made welcome. W. E. Jeffrey, Pres. The birthday of Fred. Douglass, Mayor Thos. Van Lear and Dr. S. N. Dintard will speak. Judge Johnston celebrated his 50th birthday on Jan. 26. He entertained several friends in his usual hospitable style, and received several useful presents. Mr. John Elliott, the veteran head-waiter at The Nicollet Hotel, is the last of the old school. He keeps up with the modern methods and has an experienced crew, many of whom have seen long service at The Nicollet. Mrs. O. G. Lee, who is in the City Hospital in St. Paul, is improving. Mr. Clarence Wooten left this week for a short visit to Marshalltown, Ia. Mr. Jordan M. Morris, has won his claim for the estate of the late Chas. Turner, and is in full possession of all property as stated in the will. Mr. Alfred Anderson, the Vaudeville Star, was the guest of his old friend, Mr. John Elliott during his recent engagement. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott entertained in his honor. Mr. John Simms continues sick at his home. His wife, Mrs. Ida Simms, has been removed to the hospital, suffering with asthma. It is said that the Bank of France has an invisible studio in a gallery behind the cashiers, so that at a given signal from one of them any suspected customer can instantly have his photograph taken without his knowledge ADVERTISE HERE, IT RAYS DOUGLASS-LINCOLN. Joint Memorial Exercises. The local branches of The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and The National Equal Rights League will hold joint services in commemorating the Centenary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, and the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Arrangements are being made for a united meeting. Churches, Lodges and all organizations and individuals are requested to co-operate. The event will be held on Feb. 14th, the birthday of Frederick Douglass, Mayor Thos. Van Lear and Dr. S. N. Deinard will speak. The National Equal Rights League was organized by W. Monroe Trotter of Boston, Mass., at St. Peter A. M. E. Church, and is working in harmony with the N. A. A. C. P. RECENT DEATHS Richard C. Marshall died on Jan. 28 after a lingering illness. He was a native of Richmond, Va., and had lived a long while in Minneapolis. He was one of the founders of St. James A. M. E. Church, and its oldest class leader. He leaves five children, "Bobby" Marshall the well known athlete, and Louis Marshall, the postman, Mrs. Lee, of Chicago, Misses Alice and Sadie Marshall. Funeral services were held on Wednesday at St. Peter Church. Presiding Elder Higgins and Rev. Stovall officiated. He was a charter member of Pride of Minnesota, Knights of Pythias, who paid him their final honors. Mr. Marshall was one of the best known men in the city and an ardent church and civic worker. Mrs. J. M. Simpson died Tuesday. Funeral services were held Thursday at the St. Peter Church. Her husband is very ill. James Ostell, who has been in bad health many years, died Thursday. He had no known relations. Mr. Ostell was one of the old waiters and had been in charge of the check room at the Porters' and Waiters' Club. After being sick nearly a year at the University Hospital he was able to return to his work, but was recently taken to the City Hospital. Mr. Shull gave him a Christian burial. Daniel Williams, who formerly conducted a restaurant on So. Third St., died this morning after a few months' illness. Funeral services were held at St. James A. M. E. Church. Rev. Bess preached the sermon. He was a trustee of the church, also a member of the Knights of Pythias, St. James Commandery K. T., and Anchor Hilvard Lodge of Masons. He was well known, having lived here many years. "Dan." was a devout Christian and was well liked because of his good nature. Mrs. Lizzie Graham was buried Wednesday from St. Peter Church. She formerly lived in Kansas City, and was the mother of Mr. James M. Graham of the Omaha Ry. A COMMENDABLE APPOINTMENT. Mr. F. H. Hatcher, formerly a waiter was recently appointed steward and assistant manager of the University Club, one of the exclusive white clubs in this city. He has proven that efficiency counts and The Star congratulates Mr. Hatcher on his promotion. He has the best wishes of a host of friends. Miss Sadie Marshall is on the sick list. Dr. W. H. Wright and Mr. and Mrs. Willis Wright, have returned from Sioux Falls, S. D., where they accompanied the remains of their mother. Mr. Fred. Abbey is serving on the jury in the District Court. PYTHIANS TO GIVE BALL Pride of Minnesota Lodge, Knights of Pythias, give an Entertainment and Dance at Lane's Hall, on February 12th. Watch for later Announcements. THE LADY USHERS The Ball, given by the Lady Ushers of he local theatres, on Monday night, was a brilliant success. The attendance was very large and Lane's Hall was filled. The music by Prof. Clarence Johnson was very good. The Lady Ushers have become exceedingly popular and their entertainments are looked forward to with much interest. TAINERS ALLS BRUARY 8TH, 1917 JARY 28TH, 1917 PLE HALL Y INVITED c. THE TWIN CITY STAR HALL'S R OF ACHIE Has Won Fame and Eyes MAYOR THOMAS VAN LEAR. He will deliver an interesting address at the Centennary of Frederick Douglass, the noted Abolitionist Statesman and Orator, which will be held on the evening of Feb. 14th in the Assembly Room of the Courthouse. This is the first opportunity for the new Mayor to present his views on questions of vital importance to our race and it is expected that he will be greeted by a large attendance. "The Spirit of Douglass" will be the topic in many Negro churches all over the country on Sunday, Feb. 11th. NEGRO DEFENDS WHITE CLIENT Atty. Brown S. Smith, the well known Negro attorney, was the chief counsel for Frank Odenbraadt, charged with the murder of James L. Gardner, the town marshall of Osseo, Minn. The case was called on Monday morning and went to the jury Thursday afternoon. Atty. Walter Newton appeared for the state. Self defense was the defendant's plea. The court room was crowded, when the final addresses were made to the jury. Atty. Smith received many compliments on the handling of the case and his brilliant address. He was associated with Atty. B. W. Wilder. The jury had not reached a verdict on Friday morning. Owing to the increased cost of publication, we will NOT accept any ads, unless paid in advance. Agents will please act accordingly. Pride of Minnesota Lodge, Knights of Pythias, give an Entertainment and Dance at Lane's Hall, on February 12th. Watch for later Announcements. 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. Cornel and Serve the Lord. A BARGAIN. NEW HOUSE FOR SALE. FIVE ROOMS, MODERN. FULL LOT. NICE GARDEN SPACE. WALK- ING DISTANCE. SMALL PAY- MENT DOWN. $15 PER MONTH AND INTEREST. SEE OWNER, 2204 MINNEHAHA AVE. FOR RENT—MODERN BRICK HOUSE, 211 ELEVENTH AVE. S. 16 ROOMS, SUITABLE FOR ROOMING HOUSE. $30 PER MO. APPLY 1313 WASH. AVE. SO. TEL. MAIN 2259. A Desirable Room, Steam Heated, Modern conveniences, near car line, for a respectable man or man and wife. 3732 Portland Ave. Phone Colfax 1150. HOUSE FOR SALE. 7 rooms—modern, almost new. Good location on car line, lot 40x132 ft. Price $3500. Easy terms. See McDew, Sykes Block. .. FURNISHED APARTMENTS. For Rent. 4 furnished rooms, 2 bedrooms, lying room and kitchen. $5.00 per week. Call after 2 P. M. Phone Main 5444. Mrs. Phelps, 119 Western Ave. ADVOCATE OF FAIR PLAY. Father Verniment Lauda World's Editorial on Colored Soldiers. Father Raymond-Vernmont, a Roman Catholic priest at Denton, Tex., in a recent article to the New York World under the caption "Justice to the Negro," says: "It is refreshing to see the great change taking place in some leading papers on the Negro question. Your eulogy of the Negro soldier is reproduced in the last issue of the Crisis page 237. High minded people glory in this forward step. The enemies you make by giving justice to the Negro are few and unworthy of notice. Continue to use your pages for the defense of that long oppressed race. God and man will bless your paper for it." Are you a delinquent subscriber? If so, why not send your subscription? Do not delay in sending in your indebtedness for the Twin City Star ADVERTISE HERE, IT PAYS. HALL'S RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENT NOTED FOR SCHOLARSHIP States In Various Sections of America Bear Testimony to Eateem In Which Name of Ernest Hall is Held—Now Pastor of Liberty Baptist Church in Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga.—Ernest Hall, as he is affectionately called by thousands of people in every section of the country, has had an interesting career from poverty to competency. Born in the state of Missouri forty-five years ago of former slave parents on the banks of the "Father of Waters," the fifth son of William and Annie Hall, he early showed a passion for books and learning that is seldom seen in one of his years. His parents were too poor to buy him all the books he needed as he attended the common school in his home town. So he had to borrow a book from first one and then another of his playmates to enable him to keep up with his classes, at the head of which he stood for many years. Realizing M. B. that his home town or village did not offer adequate educational advantages to satisfy him, he was permitted to leave home, at an age considered much too young by parents of this day, to go to Quincy, Ill., where he worked during the day and attended school at night for ten years, graduating from the oldest higher educational institution in the state. He also took a business course and read law in the office of one of the greatest law firms in the state. For fourteen years Ernest found employment with the Tenk Hardware company of Quincy. Henry Tenk, the president, has said many a time that he was thoroughly trustworthy and was trusted implicitly in all the relations of his extensive business. Leaving the employ of the firm referred to above, Ernest went to Peoria, Ill., where he entered the Christian ministry and was ordained by the Mount Pisgah Baptist church of Bloomington, Ill. It would take a page to tell of all his educational ventures, covering thirty years. Beginning his pastoral labors at DuQuoin, Ill., where he built up the church and drew a salary three times as large as any one ever drew who served there before him, he blazed the way for other good men to follow him. Upon leaving there he went to Bloomington, where he remained for many years with the church that ordained him and left because his mother died there. But few men in any age have been attached to their mothers as was Ernest Hall. While living at Springfield Dr. W. H. Hill of Pittsburgh telegraphed him to come to Pittsburgh to see him on a matter of pressing business. While there he preached for the Trinity Baptist church to fill an engagement for Dr. Hill, who was sick at this time, and the church would not let him return home until it had a promise from him that he would become its pastor. This church paid him more money than it had ever paid any other pastor and did not owe him a cent when he said goodbye to the congregation in June of this year. Upon the first Sunday in July of this year he took charge of the Liberty Baptist church of Atlanta, Ga., amid the joyful acclaim of a joyful church and city. Liberty church is paying him a larger salary to begin with than any other man has ever drawn at any time during its history. With the coming of this man to this church two mighty forces have united for the extension of the kingdom of God. Ernest Hall is one of the best preachers, with one of the best minds for preaching, the race has produced. He has a long list of degrees, most of them from white schools. He possesses the finest library of any man of the race. Dr. Hall is one of the oldest if not the oldest eye doctor in the race. The history of the Baptists of the race cannot be written without giving prominence to his name. Happy is the church that can secure his services and happy the man who can call him "my friend." DR. ERNEST HALL. ORDER A TELEPHONE FOR YOUR HOME $2.00 and $2.50 per month Contract Dep't. Main 4000 SMOKE THE BEST 5C CIGAR Sight Draft Twenty Elegant Steam Heated, Electric Lighted Rooms. Free Bath. Rates Reasonable. W. S CONRAD CO., Distributors NO. 140. E. 6th ST., ST. PAUL. NO. 1. WESTERN AVEL. MINN. POPULAR-PRICE LUNCH. From 12 to 3 P. M. REGULAR DINNER 246-50 FOURTH AVE. SO. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. T. S. Center 4639. WALFRID WESTMAN Photographer standing are cordially welcomed. Geo. M. Bryant, E. R. Wm. R. Morris, Secy. 818 Met. L. Bldg. 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 J. M. MORRIS Real Estate Broker Loans Collections 506 BOSTON BLOCK MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Office Phone N. W. Main 623 GALE P. HILYER ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW With Hall and Tantges 722 New York Life Bldg. Minneapolis, Minn. Res. N. W. South 3347 SPECIAL SAMPLE SHOES. POPULAR PRICED SHOE REPAIRING. 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. FOR MEN ONLY 244 3RD AVE. S. MINNEAPOLIS DR. W. H. WRIGHT. DENTIST. Phone Nic. 1963 111 So. 6th St Minneapolis, Minn 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 --- De I STEWART'S HOTEL FINEST ESTABLISHMENT OF ITS KIND IN THE UNITED STATES. Lobby, Reading and Lounging Room, Buffet and Grill Room, Billiard Room, Dining Room, and-bath, Private Dining and Reception Room for Ladies. BARBER SHOP IN CONNECTION A LA CARTE MEALS AT ALL HOURS. BEST SERVICE. 1425 Washington Ave. So. Minn 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 me DANCING ACADEMY. We are Expert Teachers in all Modern and Standard Dances, including the American, Foxrot, Brazilian Maxixe, New Egyptian and Spanish Dances. Private Lessons a Specialty. Terms Reasonable. ROBERT K. CISNEY, 572 8 Ave. No. Hyland 4323 T. S. CENTER 2626 N. W. MAIN 1551 The Gateway Market Meats and Provisions We Deliver 210 HENNEPIN AVE. MINNEAPOLIS. YOUR TRADE IS SOLICITED WORKING-MEN'S SOCIAL CLUB SYLVESTER W. OLIVER. MANAGER. YOUR PUBLICITY PAYS. All persons interested in the progress of their lodges, churches, societies etc., should value the power of printer's ink. They should see that their secretaries SEND ALL NOTICES to the newspapers in proper time. They think the Editor should attend every affair, whether invited or not, and should know "What is going on?"—without being informed. Many exchanges clip from our columns, and often things done in Minneapolis get national publicity. NORTHWESTERN TELEPHONE LOCAL LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE EXCHANGE COMPANY 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. All Elks in good 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 Peterson, The Druggist 1501 Washington Ave. So. TOILET ARTICLES, DRUGS PRESCRIPTIONS. He Sollicits You Patronage. Phone Hy. 3605. DR. ELLIS BURTON 715 Sixth Ave. No., Minneapolis, Minn. DENTIST. Graduate Northwestern Dental School of Chicago. Pa Defective ective Page Your Baggage Direct from Maker, NORTHWESTERN TRUNK CO. Retail Store 248 Nicollet Ave. T-HE ARCADIA RESTAURANT 500 Fourth Avenue So. N. W. PHONE MAIN 3487, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. REGULAR DINNER 25 CENTS W. S. SIMMONS, Prop. SUNDAY SERVICE BEGINS AT 11 A. M. TURKEY DINNER 50c.—CHICKEN DINNER 35c. THANN'S BUFFET KEYSTONE BUFFET and CLUB CAFE 1313 Wash. Ave. South FOR LADIES & GENTLEMEN Music Every Day from 2 P. M. to 11 P. M. Kidd Mitchell, Prop. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. LADIES SPECIALLY INVITED EVERY DAY. Our Expert Optician will give your eyes a thorough examination FREE and tell you frankly whether you need glasses or not. If you do need glasses he will fit you with a fine looking pair at a very moderate price. Bring your repair work here. Prices are most moderate.—THE LEADER DEPT. STORE, Third and N. W. MAIN 2259 KEYSTONE BUFFET 1313 Wash FOR LADIES Music Every Day fr Kidd Mitchell, Prop. LADIES SPECIALLY Tel. N. W. Main 2634. MURRAY'S ORCHESTRA Music Furnished for DANCES, WEDDINGS AND PARTIES 2721 10TH AVE. SO., MINNE- APOLIS. PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER Agent and Correspondent for The Twin City Star. Miss Clara Lucas will receive your advertisements and news Call on her at 506 Boston Block. She is a competent stenographer and will write your letters or handle any business correspondence. All matters confidential. AMERICAN NEGRO ACADEMY. Institution to Observe Hundredth Amendment of England Law university of Frederick Douglass. Washington.-The American Negro academy and other organizations in and near this city will celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of the great Frederick Douglass with appropriate exercises, beginning Tuesday, Dec. 26, for three days. Papers and addresses will be read and delivered by noted essayists and speakers dealing with various phases of the interesting career of this greatest of Negro leaders and prince of orators. The American Negro academy is making extensive preparations for this event, and an unusually attractive program will be presented during the sessions of this famous organization. During the Christmas holidays there are usually a great many strangers visitors in Washington, and an opportunity will thus be presented to them to hear and see some of the race celebrities who will take part in celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the great and only Douglass of the leonine face and shaggy mahe. Secretary John W. Cromwell of the academy is sparing no effort to make this the most notable and memorable gathering in the history of the academy. Read the Negro Papers. EYES! Our Expert Optician will gition FREE and tell you frankly If you do need glasses he will fit very moderate price. 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We will give you your choice of any Negro NEWSPAPER or MAGAZINE, and THE TWIN CITY STAR, mailed to your address anywhere in the U. S. for THREE DOLLARS. Cash in advance. Get your home paper sent direct to you. Forward all orders to THE TWIN CITY STAR, ... Room 302. 305 So. 5th St. Minneapolis. FREE save your eyes a thorough examina- whether you need glasses or not. you with a fine looking pair at a our repair work here. Prices are OUR DEPT. STORE, Third and THE TWIN CITY STAR MISS VIVIENNE A. WARD. Industrious and Well Qualified Social Service Worker In General Office of the National League on Urban Conditions Among Colored People Given Charge of New Branch Office In New York. 1970 New York.—The Urban league closed the last ten days of its fiscal year, ending in September, with a financial campaign to raise $3,400 in order to complete its year's work without a deficit. John D. Rockefeller and A. T. White pledged $1,600 of this amount if the $1,800 could be raised before the fiscal year expired. The league was successful in raising this sum through the assistance of many wealthy people of the downtown district and several of the leading colored citizens. Among the colored people who contributed substantially to the campaign are: Rev. Hutchins C. Bishop, Bishop Alexander Walters, Dr. Leo Fitz Nearon, Mrs. Lella Walker Robinson, Hon. Charles W. Anderson, Edward A. Warren, Mrs. W. F. Trotman, Dr. E. P. Roberts, Fred R. Moore, Claude M. Tonor, Major R. R. Moton and members of the Union Baptist church, of which Dr. G. H. Slims is pastor. The league is extending its work locally by the opening of a branch office at 202 West Sixty-third street, this city. Miss Vivienne A. Ward, for many years an assistant in the industrial department of the league, will be placed in charge of the office, which will be conducted in co-operation with the work of the Lincoln House. The league recently completed an intensive investigation of the social causes underlying the high infant mortality on Columbus hill. When the facts discovered are presented in final form by Miss Naomi B. Spencer, investigator, the work of organizing a movement for reducing this death rate will be inaugurated. This will take the shape of house to house visits to mothers of young babies by experienced nurses and women who know the best methods of rearing children and possibly the establishment of a day nursery. In conducting the work of the league during the past year more than $30,000 has been expended through the league's treasury. The colored people have contributed more toward this work this year than at any time since the league has been organized. JOURNALISTS TO MEET. Nashville Will Be Host to Members of National Negro Press Association. Nashville, Tenn.-The meeting of the National Negro Press association is to be held in this city Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 7, 8, 9 and 10, 1917. The official call is just being released from the corresponding secretary's office of this city, and it comes out signed by C. J. Perry of Philadelphia as president, Joseph L. Jones of Cincinnati as chairman of the executive committee and Henry A Boyd of this city as corresponding secretary. This will be the fourth time the newspaper men have gathered in the metropolis of Tennessee for an annual gathering, it having been made the regular meeting place of the regular sessions by constitutional provision. The executive sessions have been held generally in connection with the Business league during the month of August. It is understood from the corresponding secretary that they are expecting the largest attendance in the history of the association, as there are practically no annual gatherings being held now in midwinter that will interfere with the newspaper men's program. The Nashville membership, which consists of twenty-five or more, has already called a meeting of the local members, and they are making preparations for the entertainment of all who may come. In addition to this, some of the leading newspaper men of the United States who are connected with the association have expressed their intention of being present at this session. The work to be completed covers a wide scope and is of vital interest to the newspaper fraternity. Some constitutional changes are to be made, but the most important thing will be the consideration of the report of the executive committee, which held its session last August in Kansas City. I can't This Rough! Ella—A poet wrote a-sonnet on my face the other day. Stella—Did he write it on the lines! Gems In Verse A THANKSGIVING POEM. THE sun hath shed its kindly light. Our harvesting is gladly o'er. Our fields have felt no killing blight. Our bins are filled with goodly store. We feel that had our merits been The measure of thy gifts to us, We, erring children, born of sin, Might not now be rejoicing thus. No deed of ours hath brought us grace. When thou wert nigh our sight was dull. We hid in trembling from thy face, But thou, O God, wert merciful. Thy might hand o'er all the land Hath still been open to bestow Those blessings which our wants demand From heaven, whence all blessings flow. Thou hast, with ever watchful eye, Looked down on us with holy care And from thy storehouse in the sky Hast scattered plenty everywhere. Then lift we up our songs of praise To thee, O Father, good and kind. To thee we consecrate our days. Be thine the temple of each mind. With incense sweet our thanks ascend. Before thy works our powers pall. Though we should strive years without end. HARVEST SONG. HARVEST SONG. THE harvest fields again are white. Once more is heard the reaper's song. Oh, for the glory of this sight. We toled and prayed the Father long! The grain that stands ripe mile on mile Was once a hope beneath the sod, And now its richness makes us smile. And well we know that God is God. We now can gather in at last The wealth our tolling summer brought. For this we faced the hot wind's blast, And this is the dear reward we sought. So let the reapers sing and sing. I tell the fields so golden white. And unto God praise let us bring For all that now doth bless our sight. —George Lawrence Andrews. PERSEVERANCE. swallow in the spring Came to our granary and 'neats the eaves Essayed to make a nest and there did bring Wet earth and straw and leaves. DAY after day she toiled With patient art, but ere her work was crowned Some sad mishap the tiny fabric spoiled And dashed it to the ground. SHE found in ruin wrought, But, not cast down, forth from the place she flew, And with her mate fresh earth and grasses brought And built her nest anew. BUT scarcely had she placed The last soft feather on its ample floor When wicked hand or chance again laid waste And wrought the ruin o'er. BUT still her heart she kept And toiled again, and last night, hearing calls. I looked, and, lo three swallows slept Within the earth made walls. WHAT truth is here, O man! Hath hope been smitten in its early dawn? Have clouds o'ercast thy purpose, trust or plan? Have faith and struggle on! -R. S. S. Andros. BROWN EYED DICK. H He is just a common mongrel, But that eyes of silky brown That are scintillating magnets As he goes around the town. He is always kind and friendly To the children when they meet. And they hall him as a comrade As he passes on the street. He is never in a hurry, Never chases cats around; Nine clunges in the places Where contentious dogs are found; Has no master, has no kennel, Has no home to call his own; Has no pedigree to back him— Just as Brown Eyed Dick is known. But to know him is to love him As you would a human friend, For the slightest act of kindness Is the greatest act of kind. His expression is entiling, And his courtesy is grand, For those brown eyes speak a language That all hearts can understand. Not a dog in town molests him As he goes his quiet way, Charming all with gay good humor, But too dignified to play. Those brown, scintillating magnets And his gentle nature blend In a pleasing combination That has made the world his friend. -Jake H. Harrison in Our Dumb Animals IF ONLY? SAYS the city bred girl, "Oh, the exquisite farm!" Says the town's wife, "Only the city has charm!" Says the millionaire's daughter, "I wish I were poor!" Says the waff, "I'd be happy with money, I'm sure!" It's perfectly plain that the heavenly spot is exactly the place where at present we're not. And these never was bog hole or ditch to be found That distance refused to name coveted ground! -Jane Burr. WHEN all is cooked and all is eaten There is one pie that can't be beaten. When all is said and all is thunken There is no pie that equals pumpkin. —Exchange. IF ONLY?— RHAPSODY. MISS ROSALIE I. SINGLETON Graduate of the Emerson Institute Pursued College Course at Talladega College and Received Her Training For Social Service at Fisk University. Leader In Community Work at New Orleans. P. E. New Orleans, La.—The National League on Urban Conditions Among Colored People may well congratulate itself on the fact that it is doing a work for the race that is not duplicated by any other organization. The fruitful efforts of the league are shown in the activities of several persons who are at present engaged in gainful occupations. For instance, Miss Rosalie I. Singleton, who has recently taken up community work in connection with Straight college and the co-operation of three Congregational churches of New Orleans (Central, Howard and Beecher), has been well trained for her work by practical experience. Miss Singleton has come to her present position by doing hard and faithful work. Entering school late, before she reached the fourth grade in a private school of Mobile, Ala., she was compelled to discontinue her education because of lack of funds. After an interval of three years she entered Emerson institute and worked her way through, completing her high school education there in 1011. Because of her ambition for a college education, by the help of friends she was able to enter Talladega college as an aided student. At Talladega during her senior year, after she had looked up some poor children at Christmas time, she gave up the idea of becoming a secretary of the Young Women's Christian association and decided to fit herself for social service. In order to carry out her plans she thought of teaching several years in order that she might get the money to receive social service training. About this time Miss Singleton learned of the fellowships for training social service workers offered at Fisk university by the National League on Urban Conditions Among Colored People. Her application was accepted because of her previous record, her qualities of character, her earnestness of purpose. She therefore spent a year in social service training at Fisk. While at Fisk the work at the Bethlehem House, the settlement operated jointly by the woman's missionary council, the M. E. Church South and Fisk university, gave her the training which she is beginning to put into practice now. At the Bethlehem House she learned how to organize and conduct clubs and classes of various kinds. She did friendly visiting into the homes of the people and received much valuable experience as a relief worker in the great East Nashville fire of last March. Miss Singleton is beginning to use all of that experience in her present work in New Orleans. She is co-operating with Straight college and the churches of this city. She is endeavoring to make the life of the community better by organizing clubs among both old and young, conducting cooking and sewing-classes and by promoting clean and wholesome play and recreation among the children and young people. The National league's northern headquarters are at 2303 Seventh avenue. New York. WELL MANAGED INSTITUTE. Collegiate School at Institute, W. Va., Doing Efficient Work. Notable progress is being made this term at the West Virginia Collegiate institute at Institute, W. Va. The president of this thrifty school, Professor Byrd Prillerman, has used every available means to put the work on a substantial basis, and he has succeeded admirably. Less than two years ago the institution was raised to college rank and now has thirty-three students doing college work out of an enrollment of 386, which is the largest in the history of the school. The number of students in the college department not only shows the wisdom of the governor and other state authorities in raising the school to college rank, but shows high appreciation on the part of our young men and women of the opportunity afforded to pursue the higher branches at their own state institutions. The first three months of the present school year register the most commendable effort on the part of President Prillerman and faculty to get the very best results from students in all departments. Graduates of the institute consider it an honor to advance from the normal to the college grade at their alma mater. This is a noteworthy sign of progress and confidence on the part of students in the ability of the institution to meet their needs. JAN CURRY'S WORK IN GERMAN ARMY Timely Comment on Achievements of Colored Men In Various Lines of Employment as Far Back as the Eighteenth Century—Society For Historical Research Secures Rare Book. BY JOHN E. BRUCE "GRIT." Although Dr. Bernard Dernburg, one time secretary for the colonies for German Southwest Africa, declared some years ago in a speech in London, "We want no educated proletariat in Africa," it is a fact that thirty years ago, in a work published in Berlin, mention is made of Jan Curry, an unadulterated African, who was raised to the dignity of commandant of the Brandenburg Fort de Grosse, Frederickberg, situated in the Cape of Tres Forcas, on the western coast of Africa, by the German government. He must have been a man of some education to have held, as he did, such an important post. As the officers of the German army who passed through the department of military history of the general staff were promoted, the achievements of this Negro as a military genius formed a part of their curriculum. He was cited as one whose military career was worthy of emulation. One of these German generals has paid a high compliment to Jan Curry as a military strategist. I am indebted to Dr. Kunst of Guatemala, a great German scholar and friend of the race, for these facts. Dr. Kunst wrote for the Journal of Negro History for October a most interesting article on another subject relating to the Negro. The late Governor Russwurm of Liberia, some time editor of one of the early Negro newspapers in New York city, while governor applied for and obtained leave of absence to visit the United States to make a report to the Colonization society, of which he was the duly accredited representative in Liberia. The members of the board, sitting in the city of Baltimore, took advantage of his presence in the city (1847) to make his personal acquaintance. They gave him a dinner at the principal hotel in the city, at which there were no absentees, and there was not one present, says J. H. B. Latrobe, who was not impressed by the grave, courteous and dignified bearing of the agent whose wise and prudent conduct of the society's affairs in Africa had given such satisfaction. "One with difficulty," says the editor of "Maryland In Liberia" (1885), page 72, "recalls nowadays the sensation that the idea of this dinner to a colored man in 1847 produced in Baltimore. It was ludicrous to see the astonishment of the Irish waiters who surrounded the table at Page's hotel when they were called upon to render the same service to a colored man that they were in the habit of rendering to many socially prominent citizens." So we have three instances of record where Negros have dined with distinguished white men—Jullus Melbourne as the guest of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello in the eighteenth century, with many notable of the period, among them Chief Justice Marshall, Dr. Dexter, etc.; Governor Russwurm at Baltimore and Booker T. Washington at the White House in Washington. How many of the present generation know that in 1810 there existed in the city of Philadelphia an insurance company composed of colored men, with a capital of $5,000 and with an office located at 159 (now 520) Lombard street? Its president was Joseph Randolph, Cyrus Porter treasurer and William Coleman secretary, and its capital was in cash. It flourished from 1811 to 1813, as stated in the city directories of that period. In the latter year it was located at 153 Lombard street, in the residence of its secretary, who was a schoolteacher. Some of the policies are yet preserved in the families of the insured. There is a great demand by collectors of old books for books by Negro authors. I recently picked up at random a catalogue of a New York city dealer and noted the following: DuBois "Philadelphia Negro"; "Africa and America"; Alex Crumwell; "Running a Thousand Miles For Freedom"; William Craft, and "Personal Experience of Uncle Tom," by Jones. The wonderful thing about these books is that they are more sought after by white people, for some reason, than their own. This is not bad. Still it would not hurt if we Negroes were a little bit more interested. The Negro Society For Historical Research has recently acquired a very rare book, "An Account of the Trial of the British Soldiers Who Killed Attucks," on whose death the trial was based, and Gray and Maverick, his colleagues, who attacked the main guard of the British soldiers in Boston March 5, 1775; also the true story written by a Negro of the Denmark-Vesey insurrection in South Carolina, with all the inside facts. Poor Stuff. "I see that Jones has failed. Has he any assets?" "Nothing of any value; the inventory which he filled with his petition in bankruptcy shows he had 230 wedding presents."—Brooklyn Citizen. THE TWIN CITY STAR PUBLSHED EVERY FRIDAY BY CHARLES SUMNER SMITH, 305—So. Fifth Street. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mattered in the Post Office at Minneapolis as second class matter. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION MINNESOTA EDITORIAL ASSN. Subscription by Mall, Postpaid. ONE YEAR ..... $2.00 SIX MONTHS ..... 1.60 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 contracta. Want Ads ..... Twenty-five Cents Reading Notices, per line, Five Cents Wedding Announcements, Fifty Cents Card of Thanks ..... One Dollar In Meznoriam ..... One Dollar Business Announcements, One Dollar Death Notices ..... One Dollar 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. Minneapolis. Minnesota. The Star Phone is Hyland 5580. Just think! With the temperature around 30° below; it must be some work to get news and make collections. OUR DUTY. Woodrow Wilson is our president, and every loyal American must support him. If there be war, the Negro will be as usual, among the first to offer his services for the defense of his country. I am against Catholic. Protestant, or Jew, if the representative of any of these creeds does anything against the American spirit. I demand whole-hearted and undivided loyalty to the United States. I denounce a crime against the country the effort by any section of our people, of whatever origin to perpetuate racial divisions in this country.—Theodore Rosevelt. in Metropolitan. Dec. 1916. The Star takes no part in criticizing the actions or opinions of Dr. Robert Morton. the successor of Dr. Booker T. Washington. "The South is the place for the Negro", and when justice prevails many will be returning to their native localities. The great movement today among the Jews is to reclaim Jerusalem. Let us agitate for right and protest against wrongs, wherever we are, and we must do so decently and in good order. The Negroes of the North have not borne their share of their Southern brothers' burdens. We may have the many privileges in the North but we have not in any great measure, accepted them, while the Southern Negro is working out the Negro problem (?) under discrimination and persecution. Let us do our duty, where we are. The high cost of livng is a blessing in disguise to many of our people. It is a lesson in economy taught by experience to be practiced with efficiency. They have too often, accepted the luxuries and rejected the necessities. The tables age turned and instead of idolizing the vanities of an existence, they must idealize the realities of life. Put more brains in your business, and you can and will overcome the adversities, that beset you in every walk of life. The Negro press has' liberally praised Gov. Stanley of Kentucky, who sped across his state, in a special train, where a mob was threatening to "Lynch a Judge" for postponing the trial of a Negro. He said "I am here to protect this court and uphold the law; with my own body if necessary. All honor to Gov. Stanley. He probably prevented the lynching of the Judge and the Negro. More honor to the Judge, who saved the Negro, by postponing the trial and sending the Negro to Hopkinsville for safee keeping. The Negroes should feel grateful indeed that Kentucky can boast of a fair Judge and a fearless Governor. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION RACIAL RECIPROCITY IS A Matter of Choice. The jury had just gone out in the case of State vs. Frank Odenbredt, a white man, accused of murder, who was defended by Atty. B. S. Smith, a Negro, when the next case called was "Kid" Mitchell, charged with carrying a revolver. He was defended by Atty. Albert H. Hall, a white lawyer. This goes to show that there is no color line in a business proposition. It is a matter of choice. The Negro lawyers, doctors and laborers could not pay expenses on their race's patronage. As it is they are doing well and are employed, because of efficiency and not color. Many of us yell "patronize our race" too loudly, and if the white man forces us to "patronize our race", we holler louder. When we qualify as real men and women the world will respect us. Negroes are being employed by white men in professions and trades, but if a Negro employs a white man, we hear a yell from the calamity howlers. Let us reciprocate and thereby do much to overcome much color prejudice, for which we are mainly responsible. A Negro newspaper is a good medium for the personal advertisements of many, who never subscribe for it. Usually, those who fail to support Negro newspapers are often first to need them. Judge E. F. Waite of the Juvenile Court sincerely regrets that other engagements prevents his appearance at the Centenary of Frederick Douglass on Feb. 14. Judge Waite knew Mr. Douglass personally, and takes great pride in this acquaintance. He is always willing to address our people, and has at all times taken a special interest in our young people. The death list is unusually large this week. There are several cases of sickness. The doctors and undertakers are busy and lucky is he, who is spared from disease or death. However, it is a serious warning and we may all profit by giving thought to the 90th Psalms. THE INFLUX OF CRIMINALS. Detective Weare told The Star that several of the new-comers among the Negroes were committing many crimes. "We have not arrested one who has lived in the city for over a year" he said, in speaking of the many arrests for hold-ups, etc. Several have pleaded guilty and have been sentenced to prison. This speaks well for the older residents, and shows that Detectives Weare and Brunskill are doing good police work under adverse conditions. There are many good citizens coming to our city, but it shows that the "floaters" of every race are generally undesirable. Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois and Bishop Alexander Waters are improving. Dr. Du Bois had one of his kidneys removed at St. Luke's Hospital in New York and is expected to leave the hospital in a few weeks. Bishop Walters is now at his home and steadily improving. INQUIRY IN NEGRO ARRESTS. Savannah, GU.—The Police Committee of the City Council is conducting an investigation into the wholesale arrests made by the police department of Negroes who were said to be leaving Savannah to work in the North. Attorneys for the Negroes, employed by the Colored Business Men's League, maintain that the majority of those arrested were young Negro students and that the arrests were illegal, and without cause. ENCOURAGE THE YOUNG PEOPLE. Encourage the young people, who are interested in church and social work. They need the advice and assistance of those, who are older and more experienced. Instead of such being the case; it is often that rivalry and agitation results, when the young people make a better showing than the older element. We are doing nicely with our "Mail Order" system for articles for insertion. Owing to severe weather, it is impossible to reach our subscribers. We have not found the telephone to our advantage as an authority for correct copy or a collection agency. ECONOMY One of the greatest curses of American civilization today is the fact that it is unfashionable to save and that the people are ashamed to save, while extravagance, waste and carelessness are looked upon as smart and signs of prosperity.—Roger W. Babson. SEND US THE NEWS. THE TWIN CITY STAR PUSHING WORK FOR MEMORIAL FUNDS Effort to Honor Dr. Washington's Memory Succeeds. WELL MANAGED CAMPAIGN President and Secretary of the Tuskegee Institute to Speak at Several Meetings While on Northern Tour in November—Many Examples of Race Loyalty Are Shown. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.—So well was the memorial fund campaign organized in Dallas, Tex., that, although $500 was pledged, the movement had received such impetus that when the final counts were made recently Dallas had given $525.31. Churches, societies and loyal individuals worked with unfagging enthusiasm for the success of the fund throughout the campaign. Dr. B. T. Hamilton, the chairman of the committee, well deserves the following compliment, which was paid him by one of the pastors of his city, who said: "The Dallas committee was requested to raise $500. This has been done, and Dr. R. T. Hamilton well deserves the credit for securing it. He has gone about the work from the very beginning with enthusiastic interest and has spared no time or energy in visiting individuals, lodges and churches and speaking a good word for the success of the campaign in Dallas." Announcement has already been made of the $2,000 which was recently sent from the colored people of New York city—$1,000 through the memorial fund committee and $1,000 from the Southern Beneficial league, an organization composed of colored people who formerly lived in the south, but are now residents of New York. Mr. Thomas W. Grigsby is president of the Southern league. Enthusiastic meetings in the interest of the memorial fund have been planned for New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. These meetings were fortunately arranged at a time when Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal, and Mr. Emmett J. Scott, secretary, are scheduled to be in New York city on business for the school, and they have arranged to be present at these meetings on their way south the latter part of November. These meetings and the response referred to above are in thorough accord with the outlook referred to in a previous article, when it was predicted that the coming of fall would mean the revival of interest in the movement. Committees in many other cities are meeting regularly and planning the most thorough campaigns to raise suitable sums to represent their cities. It has been most encouraging to receive letters from various workers who are interested in the success of this worthy cause. In all the letters received here there is interwoven an appreciation of the race pride which is involved in this effort among the colored people. For example, Rev. Aaron G. Thomas, pastor of the Second Baptist church, Okolona, Miss., writes: "I am glad to know that our white friends have given more than a half of the amount which they were asked to give to the memorial fund and regret that the colored people's response is less than a fifth of the amount they were asked to give. Knowing as we do of Dr. Washington's devotion to the cause of humanity, as exemplified by his unselfish labors both for our race and for our nation, it is disappointing that our people have done so little toward raising their $250,000, which is only an eighth of the amount." In addition to the inspiring letters from friends in the United States, we have also received this encouraging word from a colored lady in Alaska: "I just learned tonight of a memorial to the memory of Dr. Booker T. Washington being secured from the colored people and will inclose $10 in my next letter for the fund. We have nothing but gold on hand at present, but will remit when I can get some currency from the mint at Seattle." Altogether the outlook is most promising for a good response from the colored people before the end of the year. Now that the election is over things will settle down to normal and many of those who are now dividing their attention between politics and business will be able to renew their efforts in behalf of the memorial fund. "The campaign is an education for the colored people in self dependency, and I feel sure that they are going to do their part," writes one of the Tuskegee trustees, and this sentiment is being reflected every day in the letters and efforts of our people. Hinton D. Alexander's Notable Career, Hinton D. Alexander of Chattanooga, Tenn., who recently celebrated his thirty-third anniversary as a letter carrier at the Chattanooga postoffice, is one of the best known men on the force. He is not only known for his promptness in reporting for duty, having to his credit the distinction of not being late once during his tenure of service, but he is noted as one of the original members of the Fisk jubilee singers of Fisk university. This company of singers made a tour of Europe more than forty years ago, appearing before the rulers of the different countries. Fisk university is proud of Mr. Alexander's record. Why You Should Join The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. 1. It teaches that race prejudice is the most evil thing in the world today and that "Jim Crow" cars, race accorded all their social, civil and political rights and will receive exact justice in all the relations of segregation, anti-intermarriage laws and all other manifestations of it are unchristian and cruel efforts of the stronger to oppress the weaker. 2. It combats in the courts, state legislatures, the Halls of Congress, the government departments and everywhere the spirit of persecution against the Colored People which grows out of race prejudice. 3. It aims to bring about such a healthy public sentiment in this land that Colored People will be accorded all their social, civil and political rights and will receive exact justice in all the relations of life. 4. It believes in and teaches the doctrine of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, and the equality of all races in our American civilization. 5. It aims to uphold the honor of our women by opposing the passage of anti-race inter-marriage laws. 6. It is composed of members of both races and sexes on terms of complete equality and as brothers and sisters in this holy cause of freedom. The Association needs money and new members. It costs just one dollar to join. If you believe in fair play, in fighting for your rights, if you believe in organization and code your bit toward advancing the race and therby helping to make human brotherhood a reality and not a fiction Send One Dollar to the undersigned and join in this great work. Sec'y R. A. Skinner, 2817 Chicago Ave., Minneapolis. SCALP TREATMENT and HAIR GROWING. Mrs. Maggie Martin wishes to announce that she is the Minneapolis Agent for MADAM C. I. WALKER'S Wonderful Hair Grower and Preparations. Special attention given to Tetter. Eczema and Growing hair on Personal Instructions and Demontemples. A full line of Goods. strations can be obtained at MRS. MAGGIE MARTIN. AGT' N. W. 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