Twin City Star

DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST.PAUL MINNESOTA HISTORICAL MAN OF LARGE EXPERIENCE Admirable Career of the Principal of the High School at Sherman, Tex. Rose to Prominence by Persistent Effort—Zealous Churchman and Loyal Member of Several Fraternities. Sherman, Tex.—Texas is considered one of the foremost states in the Union for providing for the education of its youths. It can be said to the credit of the state that it has as many really educated men and women as any other state in the Union. In the front rank is found Professor A. J. Kirkpatrick, principal of the high school in this city. While he was born of slave parents who were unlettered, he took advantage of the schools opened to him. Like many of the foremost men of the race, he was born on a farm, his home being near a Kentucky town in Grayson county. He was a hard worker as a youth, but as soon as he was permitted to do so he entered the country school near his home. After finishing the country school course he entered the city school, walking every morning four and a half miles. He used his time wisely when not in school. He learned the importance of saving a dollar, so when he got his hands on a piece of money it would remain with him. Having saved his money, he found that he had enough to keep him in college for one year, so that when school opened at Pralle View he was there with all his earthy belongings, ready to take his place among the young people who were PROFESSOR A. J. KIRKPATRICK: struggling for an education. It was in the fall of 1885 that he entered the college. Being on friendly terms with work, he earned enough money during his school life to keep up his studies and buy his clothes and books. In a class of eighteen graduating from Prairie Normal and Industrial college in 1889 this young man stood at the head of the class and carried off many first honors. After finishing his work at Prairie View he began teaching. He spent the first twelve years as a teacher in the city school. He resigned to accept a position as assistant principal of the public schools of Sherman, where he served but a short time when he was made principal, which position he has held for the past eleven years. Fred Douglass school, with Professor A. J. Kirkpatrick as principal, now ranks with the best high schools in the state. Of course he is a believer in higher education for all Americans, and he him self from time to time has sought to improve himself. He has studied in the summer at the University of Chicago, the State Normal school of Kansas and elsewhere. Twice he has been elected president of the North Texas Teachers' association and in 1913 was elected president of the principal division of the State Teachers' association. He has conducted five summer normals in the state and taught in six. He has gone right into the hearts of the people and enjoys the respect of all who know him or come in contact with him. He has stumped Grayson county a number of times in the interest of education. In fraternal societies he is active and has served for the past five years as chancellor commander of a local lodge in his home. being one of the most prominent members of the Knights of Pythias; also a member of the grand lodge. As an Odd Fellow he ranks high. He is also in the United Brothers of Friendship and grand auditor of the grand temples and tabernacles of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor. But with all of this he is a Christian and an active worker in the Baptist church, being one of the deacons and superintendent of his Sunday school, secretary of the Northwestern Sunday School Convention and secretary of the Baptist association of his district. He won the hand and heart of Miss B. E. Jefferson, one of the best trained young women in the state, who is an accomplished musician. HAMPTON DEFEATS LINCOLN. University Men Outclassed by Students of Noted Virginia Institution. By LAWRENCE A. LBE. Hampton, Va.—The Hampton institute basketball team recently proved its superiority to the orange and blue squad of Lincoln university by defeating them by the margin of one point. Lincoln outplayed the blue and white machine in the first half, but the latter half proved fatal to the visitors. Time and again they delayed the game with no intention other than to get rest. The Seasiders, as usual, began the second half with lightning speed, which was kept up throughout the remaining part of the game. At one time it seemed as though the Lincolnnites were to be the victors, but after J. Dorsey stepped into his position things made a radical change. During the entire first half Hampton was unable to cage a field goal. Edwards made six foul goals out of the eight chances, while Lincoln made five field goals and two foul goals during the first half. The first half ended with the score 12 to 6 in Lincoln's favor. The second half started with Gurnoe, Miser and Plierson as Hampton's fresh men, while Lincoln substituted Henderson for Butler. Captain Edwards and Gurnoe began to find the basket in the early part of this half, and it was all that the Young brothers could do to stop the Seasiders from scoring. In the last few minutes of play Hampton tied the score. Owing to the fact that Lincoln had six men on the court, Referee Thompson called a foul on them. After a lengthy debate the Lincolnites gave in. Edwards made the goal, placing Hampton one point ahead of the orange and blue. The game ended with the final score 23 to 22 in the Virginians' favor. Both teams deserve much credit for the fast teamwork that was exhibited, but it is suggested that basketball teams leave their debaters at home, for the referees are not always willing to hold a debate with the captain while his teammates are getting rested. Hampton, 23; Lincoln, 22. THE LINEUP. Gurnoe..... left forward..... Butler Edwards..... right forward..... Summers (Captain) Dorsey.....center.....N. Young (Captain) Miser.....left guard.....Cruss Walters.....right guard.....W. Young Substitutes—Ford Hampton, McLamton, Paxton and Lawson. For Lincoln, Henderson. Referee- Sergeant Thompson. Timekeeper- Mr. Atkins. Time of halves- Twenty minutes. Hampton Field Goals- Edwards, 4; Gur nce, 4; Lincoln Field Goals- Butler, 2; N Young, 5; W. Young, 1. Foul Goals- Edwards, 8; W. Young, 5; Gurnoe, 1; N. Young, 1. SLATER INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL William A. Blair's Efforts to Increase Our Advantages For Education. Few men of either race are doing more to increase the educational advantages of the colored people of the south than William A. Blair, treasurer of the Slater Industrial school at Winston-Salem, N. C. Mr. Blair is an influential business man, being the vice president of the People's National bank at Winston-Salem. Since September, 1910, Mr. Blair has been making a campaign for funds with which to give the institution a larger equipment. The state legislature, recognizing the usefulness and importance of the school to our people, has promised to give $12,000 toward the new equipment on condition that the trustees raise a like amount. The appeal sent out by the trustees says: "If each reader of this article will slip $1 into an envelope and mail it to the treasurer, William A. Blair, Winston-Salem, N. C., the money will be raised and the school buildings erected. This small amount will not hurt any one and will very greatly aid a most worthy national cause." Freedmen's Aid Society Fifty Years Old. The Freedmen's Aid society is making elaborate preparations for the celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of organization to be held in April. The sessions of the celebration will be held in the Trinity Methodist Episcopal church, Cincinnati. This is the church edifice in which the society was organized. Read the Negro Papers. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. MARCH 3 1917. RACE PROGRESS IN MISSISSIPPI Principal William H. Holtzclaw In Vigorous Address to Representative Gathering Says South is Best Place For the Colored People—Health and Home Owning Discussed. By HORACE D. SLATTER. Utica, Miss.—The usual experience meeting of former conferences became this year, 1917, a veritable school, where men and women vied with each other in asking questions that would make their burdens lighter, that would make their community better and that would put them all in position to render better service one to another and to understand their peculiar problems day by day. This in a nutshell describes the thirteenth annual session of the Utica institute farmers' conference recently held in this town. The conference lasted two days and was presided over by William H. Holtzclaw, principal of the school. The meeting was attended by several hundred farmers from the surrounding neighborhoods. Many educators, ministers and other professional and business men were also in attendance. Principal Holtzclaw in his advice to the farmers in the south with reference to migration to northern centers was pointed and vigorous, but he maintained that the south was the better place for the Negro. However, he recognized the right of any individual to change his residence if he thinks best to do so. The declarations adopted by the conference were just as frank as the address of Principal Holtzclaw. They recounted the progress made by the Negro, congratulated him thereon, but did not fall in the meantime to point out the need for the development of the country round about them, the prevention of so much disease, the suppression of crime and the building of home life. Problems of health, community life and farm improvement were considered in a vigorous manner by the conference. County Superintendent F. M. Coleman laid major stress upon the importance of agriculture in the life of the people, urged larger co-operation on the part of the Negro ministers in the large amount of uplift work the Negro teachers were doing in the county and told just what the county department of education was doing to help the colored people in Hinds county. The wonderful fertility of the soil and the varied nature of the yield that would be possible under intelligent farming were demonstrated by Professor George W. Carver of Tuskegee institute in a manner that easily made him the feature of the conference. Unassuming, quite like a farmer in appearance, he hardly impresses one as a member of learned societies that have for their object the promotion of science. He was the most pronounced advocate of diversification and incidentally struck the national begira a hard blow when he showed what the Negro farmer could do with the Mississippi soil the year round. Reducing the high cost of living would be an easy matter if the farmers would raise a goodly amount of their own stuff, according to Professor Carver, who showed how from the velvet bean bread, coffee, candies and foodstuff could be made. Concrete examples of the influence the institute had exercised over the people of the community were afforded by a number of talks from farmers present, typical among which was that of R. D. Morrison, who since the beginning of these conferences had purchased a farm of 100 acres, had taken the lead in his community near Edwards and had succeeded in raising among the colored people more than $1,000 with which they had elected a modern three, room school building. To this Julius Rosenwald added $300, and lately a blacksmith shop has been erected. Cooking, carpentry and blacksmithing were taught in addition to the common school branches. Henry Kennard stated that he had always worked as a renter or share cropper and wanted to purchase a home. He sought light from some one in the conference who had succeeded. John Tyner, who had been buying a home for ten years, told how it could be accomplished and made the point that it was better to be ten years buying a home than to rent twenty, as many had done. Sam Field recounted an incident that illustrates the value and influence of the personal relations between some white and colored men in the south when he showed how by the exercise of diplomacy he succeeded in getting the use of a first class mule from his white landlord. United States Demonstration Agent J. H. Tanner gave some common sense advice and urged the farmers to stick to the pig as a valuable help to get out of debt or to accumulate money. He told the farmers that they were welcome to take advantage of the co-operative shipping of hogs and stated that in the last shipment of a car and a half from Utica a number of Negro farmers had participated. HOWARD ALUMNI PROGRAM HAS MANY UNIQUE FEATURES General Association at Washington Ready For Semicentennial Functions. Washington.—Following the "get together" of the Howard university alumni, which was one of the most successful and enthusiastic preludes to the semicentennial which will be celebrated March 1 to 4, inclusive, the alumni have designed a button about the size of a quarter of a dollar commemorative of the coming celebration. The button has a background of the official blue of the university, with lettering in white, completing the colors blue and white. In the center the letters "H. U." are monogrammed, while on either side appear the dates "1867-1917." At the top of the semicircle is the word "Semicentennial" and at the bottom "Howard University." The outer edge of the design is white, giving the whole a finished setting. Robert A. Pelham, financial secretary of the General Alumni association, was present at the midday chapel services of the university recently and presented to each undergraduate a button for the tickets distributed on the night of the "get together" meeting. The General Alumni will send out to the different local branches of the association samples of the buttons and have them order in numbers to supply the membership of their several organizations, so that by the time of the celebration in March every alumnus in each locality and here may recognize the others in the effort and plans for alumni day. The program feature of March 3, which is alumni day in the celebration, is being shaped and will be announced in a few days. The parade from the university to Convention hall March 1 will include the officers, trustees, members of the faculties and alumni. The Andrew Rankin Memorial chapel will be the mobilizing point for the alumni, and every alumnus is expected to be on hand at 6:30 p. m. so as to be formed under the marshal for the occasion into groups or assignment in the line. Reports from outside associations and individual alumni indicate a hearty response to the call, and the gymnasium appeal has awakened new interest and is the slogan on which the alumni stand united. THE BIG BROTHER MOVEMENT Efforts of a New York Organization to Protect Children. At the meeting of the Big Brother movement under the auspices of the National Urban league, New York, on Feb. 22 plans were perfected for the Big Brother Sunday designated for March 25, at which time the pastors of the various churches have been requested to preach a sermon at their morning services showing the responsibilities of parenthood, using preferably for their text Matthew xxv, 31, as well as the rest of the chapter. An active Big Brother will be asigned to each church to tell of the efforts of the Big Brothers to reduce the number of arraignments in the children's court this year. It is hoped that a monster public mass meeting will be held in one of the large halls in the Harlem district the afternoon of March 25. The following statistics, giving a comparison of the total number of arraignments in the children's court for the years 1915 and 1916 and a comparison as to the total number of arraignments of colored children for the years 1914, 1915 and 1916, will be of special interest to persons interested in child welfare, especially in trying to save a child from appearance in the children's court as a defendant: During 1916 the total number of arraignments in the children's courts was 12,425 children against 14,135 during 1915. Of this number 5,970 were arraigned for delinquency as compared with 7,927 the year before in the special proceedings, which consisted largely of improper guardian ship and neglect cases. 6,455 cases were.tried before the court for protection. In 1915 there were 6,208. 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. EARNED HONORS BY HIS EFFORTS After Buay and Successful Career In Texas Dr. Williams Accepted the Call of the Olivet Baptist Church and Is Doing Great Work—Native of Eufalia, Ala. Chicago. — Olivet Baptist church boasts of having one of the most aggressive and progressive Baptist ministers in the country. The Rev. Dr. L. K. Williams, who was called to the church less than a year ago from Fort Worth, Tex., has taken his place with the leading pastors in the city and is recognized as an able representative of the Baptist denomination. Dr. Williams is a native of Eufala, Ala. He received his early training in the public schools of Texas, which he entered at the age of six years. His life from youth to the present is full of interesting events. He was converted and baptized at the age of twelve and when eighteen years old REV. DR. L. K. WILLIAMS AND OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH, CHICAGO. entered the active ministry, being called to the pastorate of a church with five members. It is said that he organized the church. He served the Bethesda Baptist church, Marshall, Tex., as pastor and from there was called to Macedonia Baptist church in Dallas, where a fine frame building was erected, and it is now presided over by the Rev. Dr. S. E. J. Watson. He was then called to the Mount Gilead Baptist church, Fort Worth, which has a large congregation. The church building was considered a disgrace to the Baptists of the state, and at once Dr. Williams upon taking charge called the members together and laid plans for a new church building. This was carried out, and now Mount Gilead Baptist church has perhaps the most unique edifice in the country. One year in Fort Worth he raided $22,000, and during the seven years he remained there he increased the membership from 1,400 to 3,200. The Baptists of Texas recognized the worth of this young man and for eleven years kept him president of the Missionary and Educational convention of the state, and it is perhaps the largest religious organization in the whole southwest and the most influential. It is one of the conventions that is doing something more than pass resolutions and make big speeches. It has a well organized missionary department, with Dr. J. E. Knox as superintendent; an orphans' home and two colleges, the I. and M. college at Fort Worth and the Houston college at Houston. Both of these institutions are blessed with able men and women on their faculty and a large number of students who are doing good work. Much work was accomplished by these conventions under the administration of Dr. Williams, and it was with regrets that they gave him up in 1910, when he resigned. For his education he is indebted to Bishop college, Marshall, Tex., which gave him the degrees of bachelor of divinity and bachelor of arts. Having accomplished so much in a theological and literary way, the honorary degree of doctor of divinity was conferred on him by the Arkansas Baptist college and Selma university, Alabama. Dr. Williams is succeeding in his new field. He has plunged into the work here with all of his heart and mind and is making many friends. He has not been in the city a year, yet $14,000 has been raised since he has been here, and, in addition to this, 1,235 members have been taken into the church. So popular is his work that every Sunday morning it is necessary to hold two services, one in the main auditorium and an overflow meeting in the lecture room, something new in Chicago church work. Dr. Williams is an active member of the National Baptist convention and has been careful in preserving the records of that body. He is a safe, conservative leader and is constantly in demand in all parts of the country for lectures and sermons. WAR NOW COSTS GREAT BRITAIN $29,000,000 A DAY In asking the house of commons to give the government $2,750,000,000 for expenses until next June Chancellor of the Exchequer Bonar Law stated that the war is now costing Great Britain $28,950,000 a day, an increase of $5,000,000 a day since the beginning of the financial year, March 31, 1916. SAYS U BOAT CAMPAIGN IS DOOMED TO FAILURE SAYS U BOAT CAMPAIGN IS DOOMED TO FAILURE Best Protection Against Submarines Is Gun Mounted on Merchantman, Asserts Transatlantic Traveler. English and American voyagers on the steamship New York, which has just arrived from Europe, are unanimous, so far as opinions could be gathered, in the conviction that Germany had already done her worst in submarine warfare and that the destruction and capture of the undersea craft by the allies was going on at a rate disastrous to the Berlin government. The weapons used most effectively against submarines, it was said, were guns mounted on merchant vessels, guns of warships convoying merchantmen and nets. Guns mounted fore and aft on merchantmen were said by many to be all the protection against submarines needed. One American citizen who had been abroad for many months in a position that might enable him to have accurate information, but who was not free to let his name be used, expressed this belief emphatically. "Out of seventy-eight armed merchantmen which were attacked by submarines," he said, "seventy-four succeeded in destroying or driving off the submarines and in reaching French ports untouched, two arrived disabled by torpedoes and two were sunk. On the other hand, so far as I have been able to learn, every unarmed and otherwise unprotected vessel that has been attacked by a submarine has been sunk. "Germany's assertion that she will shut off England from the world by the use of submarines would be paralleled if Lloyd George to announce tomorrow that he intended to send an army of 500,000 men into Berlin next week. We couldn't do it, and Germany can't do what she threatens either. I am surprised that people in America take the threat so seriously." AVIATORS LEAD CHARGE. Fly Ahead, Pointing Out Weak Spots In Enemy Lines. The steamship Chicago, which has just arrived from Europe, brought in thirty-nine French soldiers on the way to their homes in Canada on furough. Robert McCreary of East Aurora, N. Y., and Frederick Zinn of Chicago, the former a driver for the American ambulance corps and the latter an American aviator, come from the front to spend their leave with relatives. Zinn was wounded while serving in the foreign legion and spent five months in a hospital. His later activities have been in the aviation branch of the service. "Aviators," he said, "are now leading regiments and sometimes whole divisions in charges against the Germans. A capable aviator rises high above the German lines and then signals with a system known as optical telegraphy to the commands beneath him. It is much like the fire control on battleships, where the men at the guns do not see the target, but are able to strike it. The signaling system has just been perfected. When an advance of infantry is ordered the men are not only directed, but the lines are guided away from exceptional peril and toward weak spots in the enemy line. In other words, the work of a general or colonel in directing an advance now devolves on a lieutenant occupying an observer's seat in an airplane." ADVERTISE IN THE STAR ERS ae SOE Se ae aes pS GS RR a ee eMC ee Tears cn One eee Se a OE EE si eS Ck ORNS Re ade hoa EY LARA YS Se AAS EISE DAS trae aera a > i = aR Te * 2 SOCIAL NEWS EDITOR, Miss Clara Lucas, 506 Boston Block, Minneapolis. ‘Minneepolis, : - Minn. “ NIC, 1873. RAILROAD MEN’S NEWS, Stephen Springer, + Milwaukee Depot, Minneapolis. Send your notes to us by Wedens- day A.M. THE COMING REVIVAL. ker and Foster of St. Paul.—Mes- The Twin City Ministers have ex- tensive plans for a Religious Revival during May. A house to house can- vass will be made. Rev. Chas. Mor- ris, the noted Baptist preacher and temperance lecturer, will hold a ser- ies of meetings. Organizations will be asked not to hold any social af- fairs during May. Every church will hold meetings. Rev’s. Stovall, Beasley, Withers, Mitchell, Battles and Bess of Minneapolis attended the meeting on Sunday, There was not a creditabe response to the call, but it is expected that there will be a great religious revival which will be a great help to the community. Suc- cess to the movement. Mrs. Luther Abbey is arranging to hold. the Mock Inauguration at St. Peter's Church. Several prominent persons have decided to participate. The Arcadia Restaurant is receiv- ing a large share of patronage and among its patrons are the best known citizens. A visit during lunch hours will prove that Prop. Simmons is making good. Madam Hart, the milliner and hair- ‘dresser at 1215 Washington Ave. So., has nicely fitted up her new place and everything is in good shape for the service of her patrons. February 25 was Rally Day at Zion Church and the reports showed that about $100 ws,raised.” LADIES VISIT STATE PRISON. A party of ladies visited the state, prison at Stillwater and was shown through the prison and women’s ward by Warden Reed, who gave an inter- esting talk on prison conditions. They were served lunch. Mrs. Fannie Pierre conducted the party. They claim, there is no discrimination and this is the first time “colored” ladies were the guests of the Warden in the history of the prison Mesdames I. W. Bess, —— Chambers, R. B Moulden, B. Glenn, Frank Peoples, ‘W. R. Donovan and Francis Worix, were the visitors, The Star desires to express thanks for the many compliments on the in- vestigation of the Moss affair last week. The Coming Event for the Easter Season. GRAND EASTER BALL KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Arcade Hall Monday, April 9th. Announcement Later. STEWART'S CABARET — SPECIAL — SUNDAY 50c DINNER and Cabaret Entertainment from 5 to 8 P. M. MENU Cream of Tomato Soup Baked White Fish Roast Beef or Lamb Stewed Corn Mashed Potatoes » June Peas Pineapple Sherbet Head Lettuce Salad Creamed Rice Pudding Tea, Coffee or Milk Miss Esmeralda Statham, Miss Toy Brown and Miss Zella Hunter are entertaining at * Stewart’s Club and Hotel at 244 4th Ave. So, Miss Mary Ray of St. Paul appears from 5 to 8 P, M. Miss Sara Marshall is slowly re- covering. Mrs. Matilda McKenzie, who has been spending the winter with her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. W. Floyd McKenzie, 903 No. 4th St, expects to return this spring to her home in Kansas City. Her stay here has been very pleasant. B, M. McDew, the real estate deal- er has submitted a proposition to build a Union Hall to the Negro fra- ternal organizations. Some have ap- pointed committees to confer with Mr. McDew. The need of a hall is very evident, also the lack of race co-operation to secure one. ADVERTISE HERE, IT PAYS. MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY FORUM. With the coming of better weather conditions the Forum confidently ex- pects to show that nothing is the matter with the Forum or with the peopes’ appreciation of its long con- tinued efforts to interest and instruct. For the coming session Sunday, March 4, a special treat is offered in the singing of Miss Elenor Barks- dale, of St. Paul, Interest in Miss Barksdale’s selections is increased be- cause among them she presents a song by a local composer of the race. Mr. Otis Murray, leader of the Murray Orchestra, a violinist of merit wilt make his initial appearance upon a Forum program, Disappointed at not hearing him at the Forum “get together” meeting, many requests have come to have Mr. D. W. Raynor on the program for this meeting. ~If circumstances permit Mr. Raynor will appear. Instructive as well as interesting will be the long delayed talk of R. Augustine Skinner on the subject “Duty.” Since his entry upon the field of law, Mr. Skinner has taken a prominent place among men of af- fairs and for that reason his concep- tion of “duty” will make special appeal. The Forum will meet at St. Peter A. M. E. Church, 22 St. bet. 9 and 10th Ave.—Call to order 3:30 P. M. Again the public is cordially invited. W. C. Jeffrey, Pres. N.A.A.C. P, Meets at Zion Church. sociation for the Advancement of Colored People held a successful meeting at Zion Baptist Church on Sunday evening, Feb. 25. Rev. Withers accorded them a hearty welcome. Pres. B. S. Smith spoke on the pur- pose and achievements of the Assn., and correspondence was read by Secy R. A. Skinner. Several new members were enrolled and Rev. Withers, Mrs. W. R. Donovan, Oscar G. Price, I. C. Vale and W. M. Smith were named on the executive com- mittee. A collection was made for the Anti-Lynching Fund and literture was sold. It was one of the best meetings recently held, ang the en- couraging response by members of Zion Church was a great credit to its congregation. Mrs. W. R. Donovan and Mrs, Francis Worix were the guests’ of Mrs. Jose H. Sherwood"on Tuesday. They visited the Art Gallery and lunched at the Minneapolis Tearoom. Mrs, Glover Shull ahd daughter, Miss Edna, visited St. Louis during the past two weeks, They returned via Chicago, and were joined by her daughter, Miss Mildred Shull. They are guests at the Auditorium Hotel. ATTUCKS HOME MEETING. The Crispus Attucks Home Assn., will hold their regular _méeting’ on Sunday, March 11th, at 2:30 P. M., at, St. Peter A. M. E. Church. The pub- lic are cordially invited to attend. Mrs. Bessie Miller, Pres. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to express our most heart: felt thanks for all the beautiful flow- ers and sympathy shown us during our father’s illness and death. a Robert Marshall, Sara Marshall, Lewis Marshall, Alice Marshall. Messrs. Alonzo D. Price and Len- ard Oiver are serving on the jury in the district court. Mrs. Addie C. Minor was operated on for a tumor in the St. Paul City Hospital on Wednesday. The Forum meets Sunday, March 4th at St. Petér Church. Mr, Frank Fisher is: very ill Mr. Chas. W. Dwyer. is confined to his home, 1015 So. Sth St., with an at- tack of stomach trouble, Mr. Wm. McIntosh has returned to work after several week's illness. Mr. John Simms is ill at his home, 20 Ist St. So... The Twin City Entertainers’ Ball on Wednesday was one of their usual successes. Mr. Gus, Berry is confined to his home with a severe cold. The funeral of Mr. David Garner, who died of tuberculosis, was held last week, and was attended by several friends, Business Thrift of Race In Chicago. ‘The latest reports on the number of business enterprises among our people in Chicago show that the number bus Increased from 400 to 781 since 1914. In many other large cities of the coun- try similar progress is noted in tho business and professional activities of the race. Read the Negro Papers. THE TWIN CITY 8TAR secre) SE WN CIES TAS wrcwinan somo. | VIEWS OF Peoples Christian Assembly. 1204 Washington Ave. 80. Services Sunday—Il A. M. Sunday Schoo!—1.30 P. M. Praise Meeting—3 P. M. Preaching—8 P. M. eS ELDER G. W. MITCHELL, Pastor. Northwestern Fe Assisted by Mrs. G. W. Mitchell. Come! and Serve the Lord. 0 wes A Negro newspaper is a good Plea For th medium for the personal advertise- ——— ments of many, who never subscribe for it. Usually, those who fail to| STANDS FOR El support Negro newspapers are often first to need them. 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 ef- ficiency, They have too often, ac- cepted the luxuries and rejected the necessities, The tables are 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. + Owing to the increased cost of pub- lication, we will NOT accept any ads, unless paid in advance, Agents will please act accordingly. FARM FOR RENT, To a settled couple, farm under cul- tivation near city on Lake Minne- tonka Line, furnished house, one cow, two horses. To be taken by March 1. Phone E, 5358. 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. 8. 16 ROOMS, SUITABLE FOR ROOMING HOUSE. $30 PER MO. APPLY: 1313 WASH. AVE. 80. TEL. MAIN 2259, 5 FOR RENT—5 Room, modern flat, furnace heat, within walking distance reasonable rent—I917 Sth Ave. So. Phone So. 4948. Mr. John McCoy is going into the real estate business. 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. - eek a RCT seu 4th Ave. So, 7 rdoms—modern, almost new. Good location on car line, lot 40x132 ft. Price $3500. Easy terms. See McDew, Sykes Block. FOR RENT—Large, light, front room and private kitchen for married couple. Walking distance; price rea- sonable. Call Hy. 4323. FURNISHED ROOM — Conven- ient, on car line, in walking distance to hotels, $2.50 per week, 119 Western Ave. Main 5444, Call after 2 P. M. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT. Three nicely furnished rooms, mod- ern, gentlemen preferred, 612 Bryant Ave. North. N. W. Hy. 6910. LIBERAL SUBSCRIPTION OFFER. Special $3.00 Cembination. We offer a Combination Subscrip tion to our readers for 1917. We wil 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. Sth St., Minneapolis. —— N. W. Cedar 8190. Res. Dale 8935 HAMMOND TURNER Attorney at Law Suite 321, American Nat’l Bank Fifth and Cedar Sts. St. Paul. —————————————— The Star will be discontinued unless conditions improve. These are hard times for small publishers and many Negro papers all calling for payments of small accounts. The Star does not appeal for charity, but will suspend indefinitely, unless many of the loyal race supporters send their indebteed- ness. : < VIEWS OF WOMEN ON THE FRANCHISE AorthwestornFotoration Makes Plea For the Ballot, STANDS FOR EQUAL RIGHTS tlo Campaign With Votes For Womer ‘as Paramount lesue—Platform Call For Effective Legislation. By MINNIE M. SCOTT. Chicago.—The Northwestern Federa tion of Colored Women’s Clubs, Mrs. J. Snowden Porter, president, has done a noteworthy service in its work to se cure the ballot for women. In the campaign just closed the federation adopted and used the following as Its platform and plea for fair play: A group of Illinois women, encour- aged as they were by the hope of this new emancipation offered to then! by thelr state and realizing the opportuni. tles afforded them in thelr Work of so etal servite through the ballot, are co operating with thelr sister workers having the same or partial rights in thetr effort to make national suffrage a tact, thereby giving to all women the power to use the ballot for the purpose of securing such legislation as will pro mote the advancement of all citizens of all sections of this country. “Deeds, not words,” is a motto much believed in by this group of earnest women, and they set about the work of organizing women of the “old north- west” and the “new northwest” with these ideas in ‘mind at their first an- nual meeting, held at Wichita, Kan.. adopted as their platform of principles, among other planks, a recommendation for a national child labor law and one for universal suffrage, asking the na- tional parties, which intended to make thelr appeal to the voting contingency for support, to incorporate these prin- ciples or their substance in their 1916 platforms, ‘This organization has been carefully watching the situation since that time and analyzing the pledges of the par- tles and their nominees, especially those of the Democratic arfd Repub- Ucan parties, Woodrow Wilson and Charles Evans Hughes. The paramount issue, so far as women are concerned, lg -aniversal suffrage, for it will be through this source only that we can hope for such legislation as we have continually asked for, which will bring to us all the other progressive meas: ures along social and economte lines and assure to the home and the com munity the security and welfare of the people. Universal suffrage will make the child labor law secure. We have work ed for, hoped for it atong time. There fore we want to stand by our own platform and urge all women to co operate with the “vote for women” movement. Such laws we have ~also looked forward to as u protection te our children and future ten and wo men and a safeguard to the health and happiness of the breadwiuner. but when we analyze this legislation ‘care fully, given us in the eleventh hour. presumably for political purposes, we find Uttle of merit in the giver. America {s again in travail, the re- sult of which we are hoping and pray ing will give birth to national woman suffrage, that new emancipation to ward which women have been work. ing and hoping for more than forty years, hoping and working to free themselves from a bondage of inequal- ity. Ae at the time of the emancipa tion of the Negro slave, so it is now in the affairs of the nation. Men's hearts are failing them for fear of what Is coming upon the republic, whatever they may say to the contrary. They are seeking everywhere for a solution of the problems which are continually confronting them. Wars and rumors of wars, disasters by land and sea, la- bor complications, the tariff question. many matters of social and economic interest, are constantly engaging the attention of our wisest and most sober statesmen. They invoke the consid eration of congress, and still they are far from splution. Our country was never in a more unsettled condition since its discovery than it {s at the present time. Wherever women have been gives the franchise, elther partial or iii full home and community conditions havé been bettered because laws have tev made better and more secure. Yet, as “a little leaven leaveneth the whole jump,” there must of necessity come a retardation of effect, and we cau only hope for universal and steady ad- vancement when all the women in ev- ery part of the country shall bave the power to express thelr desire through the ballot. Until then we shall con- nue to see our country rise and fall. ike the ebb and flow of the sea, Four years ago there came to us & new party with a new platform, with 2ew planks. offering us protective shild labor laws and woman's suf- rage. This party was to woman like he cloud the size of a man's hand. 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PHONE MAIN 3487, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. REGULAR DINNER 25 CENTS 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. N. W. MAIN 2259 KEYSTONE BUFFET 1313 Was FOR LADIES Music Every Day fr Kidd Mitchell, Prop. LADIES SPECIALLY PUSHING CAMPAIGN FOR BIG GYMNASIUM FUND. General Alumni Association of Howard University issues Open Letter. Washington. - The general Alumni association of Howard university in this city has issued the following open letter to graduates and former students throughout the country: "Office of the President, 639 F Street. Northwest, Washington, Feb. 3, 1917: "Dear Alumnus—The plan of the university in celebrating its semi-centennial, March 1, 2 and 3, includes the alumni and some time students of Howard university throughout the country. We are co-operating to make a showing commensurate with the opportunity, confidence and hopes of alma mater and to connect ourselves with this epoch making event. "We plan to reach, interest and register every alumnus and as many some time students as possible between now and March 3. We are requesting your aid in reviving local associations which may be inactive. Have lists of members and officers sent in immediately. Where no organization exists please call a meeting at once and organize, sending us a list of members, listing some time students as associate members. "The plan throughout the country is to organize in every locality where Howard men and women are a celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the university with a public meeting and program concurrent with the big celebration to be held here on that date, and have telegrams of congratulation and expressions pour in through the General Alumni association, to be read at the public ceremony March 1. "Will you not as an alumnus rise to the spirit of the occasion and join us in a permanent memorial to the alumni in completing our gymnasium fund? If you have already pledged, in the campaign of 1912-13 or at any other time and have not paid in, your pledge is still alive and counted on. Should you wish to increase this the pleasure is yours. Should it be that you have not pledged please do so at once. Contributions of $1 for each year you may have been away from the university up to ten years and beyond that $1 for each five years or multiple thereof might appeal to you. In any event may we have your co-operation for not less than $10 on or before March 2? "Expressions approving this plan have been quite cordial, and responses thereto are expected to cement Howard and its alumni, as is the case in all other leading institutions. Come with us, and for once let us pull together. "We are planning also for representation from each local organization or group and should like to know in time, which means at once, how your group or organization will be represented so as to include them in our program. Fraternally your. "SHELBY J. DAVIDSON. "Pres. General Alumni Association. "W. W. COHRAN." ADVERTISE HERE, IT PAYS. UFFET CAFE STREET ANN. of Historical Folk R. N. TRAVIS, Prop. NISHED ROOMS AT ALL HOURS Hotel and Cafe Phone: Cedar 9088 Souvenirs for Ladies every Wednesday afternoon and Evening T and CLUB CAFE' n. Ave. South & GENTLEMEN from 2 P. M. to 11 P. M. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN INVITED EVERY DAY. If You're in SIOUX FALLS, S. D. You'll find Comfort at WYATTS' ROOMING HOUSE (Exclusively for Colored People.) 229 West 6th St. Barber Shop—Cigars C. J. (Kid.) Wyatt, Prop. INSTRUCTION ELOCUTION and SPANISH Taught by PROF. J. W. BUNDRANT 3616 Fourth Ave. So., Minneapolis Tel.: N. W. Colfax 4835. 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. Are you a delinquent subscriber? If so, why not send your subscription? It Helps Your Eyes to see with clearness and comfort; it brings beauty and cheer into your home; it puts money in your purse,—this wonderful Welsbach "Reflex" "SHIELD OF QUALITY" Gas Mantle Formerly 25c Now 15c (For Upright and Inverted Gas Lights) Awarded Grand Prize Highest Honor Paname-Pacific International Exposition 100 Points Excellent FOR SALE BY Gas Company and Dealers When you know Welsbach lighting you prefer it THE MINNEAPOLIS GAS LIGHT COMPANY. THE TWIN CITY STAR By WILLARD BLAKEMAN A meeting of a revolutionary committee broke up in Petrograd, and the members went out one—sometimes two—at a time in order that they should not attract the attention of the police. A couple emerging from the building went together down the street. "Peter," said one to the other in an undertone. "What is it, Ivan?" "We have a traitor among us, a spy of the government, who has joined our circle to betray us." "Heavens! What can we do to circumvent him?" "It will be impossible without making sacrifices. I am going to the chief of police to denounce him as a traitor to the government, one who pretends to serve it while betraying its secrets to the circle. But I will not be believed unless I betray several of our members at the same time." "But they will be sent to Siberia." "We must contrive to get them off before they go, and if that is impossible we must attempt a rescue." "A rescue! Impossible!" "We shall see." Ivan Demizorf the next day was closed with the chief of police. He named four men who were plotting against the government, including the spy, and recommended that they be confined in a room on the top story of a certain building, a window of which could be seen from windows on the opposite side of the street. "Other spirators," he added, "will learn where they are, will communicate with them and can be arrested." The chief assented to the plan, the arrests were made, and the prisoners were confined as suggested. Spies were set to watch the opposite side of the street, and if any one was seen making signs to the prisoners the police were to be informed. The men were held several days, but no one was seen to be communicating. Not only did the spies become tired of watching and consequently careless, but those guarding the prisoners relaxed their vigilance. It was hoped that they would all go to sleep at the same time, but they did not. Finally Ivan Demizorf confessed to the chief of police that his plan was a failure, but it was agreed to leave the prisoners where they were one day longer. If at the end of twenty-four hours no other fish were hooked the four men were to be sent to Siberia. That night at 8 o'clock a man of dark complexion, wearing a red fez, was seen to enter the building where the prisoners were confined. About half past 8 a woman with a long stride went in; later a negro and still later a man in Montenegrin costume. The last of these persons passed in at 10 o'clock, and none of them were seen to pass out. In the morning when the relief guard went to the building they found the door of the room where the prisoners had been placed locked. They called and were answered by the guard within and told to break down the door. They did so and found the guard bound and gagged, while the prisoners were gone. They told the relief that during the previous evening they were set upon by a number of men dressed in different costumes, who had succeeded in snatching their guns, had overpowered them and taken away the prisoners. The man who wore the fez, first entering the building, was Ivan Demizorf; the others were members of the circle of which he was a member. They concealed themselves in different parts of the building, and near midnight the negro, who was so black that he could not be distinguished in the darkness, crept up to the top story, where the prisoners were confined, and peeping, saw that of the four men composing the guard at the door three were sound asleep, and the other was dozing. Returning, he reported what he had seen, and the rescue party, headed by Ivan Demizorf, crawled up the staircase. On reaching the top Demizorf awaited his opportunity, then made a dash for the gun of the man who was nodding. One of the other men of the rescue party got the gun of a man who was asleep without encountering any resistance, but the two remaining rescuers were obliged to fight for the other weapons. However, it was not a minute before every guard was covered by a gun in the hands of a rescuer. Demlzorf opened the door where the prisoners were confined and found them all awake and intensely interested in what had been going on outside. There were now double the number opposing the guards, and their guns had been taken from them. Ropes and gags had been brought, and the first thing done was the insertion of the latter. Then the guards were bound, laid on the floor, the door locked, and the rescue party departed with the prisoners. The three bona fide members of the circle made their escape across the border. One remained in Germany; the two others went to America. Demizorf did not dare face a suspicion of having had a hand in the rescue, though he had been well disguised, so he made off for parts unknown. He turned up in the United States, where he became a head center for an association of exiles who plotted to aid their fellow workers in Russia. The fourth man who was rescued was never heard from after his rescue. It is supposed that he suffered for his treachery before the party separated. "What is it. Ivan?" MAJOR WRIGHT ON RACE MIGRATION Prominent Educator Speaks at Darien, Ga. VIEWS SITUATION CALMLY President of Georgia State Industrial College Believes Now Is Opportune Time For Limited Number to Enter Northern Industrial Field—But Hold Southern Home, He Says. Darlen, Ga.—The address delivered in this town on the migration of colored people from the south by Major R. R. Wright, president of the Georgia State Industrial college at Savannah, recently was a most thoughtful and logical discourse. The address has caused widespread comment by leaders of both races in this part of the south. People from the rural districts of McIntosh county were here in unusually large numbers. Major Wright is very popular in McIntosh county and while in Darlen A. B. MAJOR R. R. WRIGHT. met many of his old friends with whom he was associated several years ago when on several occasions he made campaign speeches in behalf of the Republican party. During the Spanish-American war Dr. Wright was one of the two colored men who served as paymaster in the army with the rank of major. The Morning News of Savannah, Ga., gives the following extract from Major Wright's address: "I have been asked to give my opinion of the movement of colored labor to the north. I regret to see or hear of so many colored people leaving the south. I must say that I am unqualified against the indiscriminate migration of these people to a climate and conditions to which they are not accustomed. You will recall that Frederick Douglass opposed the exodus of colored people to the north some years ago, when conditions in the south were worse than they are today. I can see, however, why some should go. "In fact, I believe that this going of a limited number will not hurt us, but may help. And perhaps now is the opportunity time for the Negro to enter the northern industrial field, when he can become a welcome member and an asset in the labor markets of the north. With many others I think the opening of the northern labor field may prove a great blessing to the race and to the south. If this opening is accepted cautiously and in wise numbers it will benefit the Negro laborer in many ways. "He will learn from his northern employers and competitors many lessons of efficiency and thrift. Unfortunately for our colored labor, we are too easy going. We lack punctuality and regularity. We don't labor long enough and steadily enough. Our habits of labor are not the most efficient. If we are forced to meet northern competition and succeed it will help the whole race. But let's not sell out our southern holdings. Let the one or two of the men of a family who go north make all the money they can and bring it back to the south. That's the way many of the European immigrants have done. "I say this, and yet I am not blind to the other causes which induce the colored men to leave the south. Let us confess that it is undoubtedly true that the high wages offered is the main cause. The fact that the European war caused a shortage in the northern labor force created a demand for unskilled labor which could be supplied from no other source than from the Negro of the south. "There are other alding causes, however, for this movement besides low wages. Naturally the Negro, who is peculiarly adapted to a southern climate, prefers to remain in the south. He has made his best progress in the south. There are nearly a million Negro farm operators, and most of them are in the south. The total acreage of their farms is 42,279,510, valued at $1,141,792,526. In the value of farms operated there was an increase of 128.4 per cent during the last census decade, while the value of the farm property operated by white farmers for the same time increased only 99.6 per cent. The Negro is prospering in the south. Now, this and other facts constitute for the Negro a strong tie to the southern soil." --- A Mistaken Identity By DWIGHT NORWOOD Friends were arriving for the funeral and on entering the house turned into the room where the coffin rested on supports. It had been left open, and any one who wished to have a look at the deceased was permitted to do so. Mrs. MacElroy looked down upon the corpse with melancholy visage, then went to her seat and whispered to Mrs. Martin beside her: "He looks very natural." "Do you think so? I wouldn't know him." Mrs. Gonigle leaned forward and remarked in a subdued voice that she had been asked to go to the hospital where he had died and identify him. She was in doubt at first, but as she looked the features seemed to throw off the death look and take on a lifelike appearance. She would stake her life on his being Parker. Nathan Parker had left home several days before to go to work at his trade—he was a plasterer—and had not returned. He had complained of dizziness and was seen to stagger as he walked down the street. Night came and he did not return. His wife was worried about him and fearful that he had collapsed. She would have gone to inquire of his employer, but her husband had told her that he was going to do a job on his own account that day and unfortunately did not inform her where it was. That night was one of great anxiety to Mrs. Parker. She went to the grocery and called up every hospital in town, asking if a man of the name of Parker was there. They all replied that they had no such person among their patients. The next day passed without bringing the missing man's return. Mrs. Parker sent out a police alarm, but nothing came of it. Then one day the missing man's son concluded to go the rounds of the hospitals in search of his father. At one of them he found that a man had died who had been taken in unconscious and no name obtained. He had fallen on a sidewalk, been picked up by a policeman and brought to the hospital in an ambulance. He had died the day before. John Parker went in to see the corpse, dreading to find his father. He no sooner looked upon it than he covered his eyes with his hands. There lay the man he had feared to see. Then he went home and informed his mother of what he had found. After she had given way to the first outbursts of grief she asked John if he was sure that the body he had seen was that of his father. John said he was, but there would be no harm in sending some one else to identify it. Stephen Parker, the deceased's brother, went to the hospital and expressed a doubt that the corpse was that of Nathan. Then Mrs. Gonigle, an intimate friend of the family, went to the hospital and confirmed John's report. At the hour appointed for the funeral the family and relatives came into the room where the burial rites were to take place and took seats beside the coffin. A minister appeared, who conducted the services and dwelt at length on the virtues of the deceased. When all was over the undertaker put the lid on the coffin and screwed it down. While he was doing so a man, very pale, staggered in at the door. "What's all this?" he exclaimed. "Good gracious!" cried Mrs. Parker. "Who are you?" asked the minister, starting forward to head off the interloper. "Who am I? I'm Nathan Parker. Who's that in the coffin?" "Oh, Nathan," cried the wife, "Is it really you?" "Really me? Who else should I be?" "Have you come back from the dead?" "I haven't been with the dead." "It looks like you, but I can't be sure." Johnny went up to the intruder, looked him close in the face, then threw his arms around him, crying: "I made a mistake! I made a mistake!" Then Mrs. Parker took her husband away from Johnny and hugged him. Meanwhile Parker, who had just got out of bed after several days, being either unconscious or delirious, succumbed to the shock of arriving just in time for his own funeral and would have fallen to the floor had his wife and son not supported him to a sofa. Johnny ran for a stimulant, and Mrs. Parker chafed his hands. "Take that thing away!" he cried faintly. Parker was put to bed and the corpse removed. As soon as he became sufficiently composed to give an account of his absence he said that while going to work the sidewalk and his head seemed to come together—he knew not how—and he was unconscious till he found himself in bed in a strange house. He called; a woman come into the room and told him that she had seen him fall, had gone out and had instructed several persons who gathered about him to carry him into her house. She had not the heart to send him to a hospital, but had sent for a doctor to attend him. Parker asked how long he had been there, and when she told him it was a week he jumped out of bed, declaring that he must go to his family, who would be worried about him. On approaching his home and seeing a hearse at the door he feared his wife had died of fright on his account. Industrial Institute at Topeka, Kan., Shows Thrift. MANNED BY ABLE FACULTY Institution Which Was Begun as Me Kindergarten Now Ranks With Fore- most Schools in the State—Dr. W. R. Carter's Work Recognized by Gov- nor and Leading Educators. Topeka, Kan.—The Industrial and Educational institute in this city is one of the foremost institutions in the west for the moral, intellectual and industrial advancement of colored youth. While it is a state school, it had its inception in the thrift and industry of its president, Dr. William R. Carter. He has worked his way to the front upon his merits and is considered one of the best qualified educators among our people. He knows by actual experience the needs of the youth of the [Name] DR. WILLIAM R. CARTER. race, especially those who are struggling against great odds to get an education. Dr. Carter is a native of Brunswick, Ga. He is forty-three years of age and has had an interesting career in many good movements. Being a native of the south, he knows and has felt the sting of race prejudice. He received his early training in the public schools of his native town. From the public schools of Brunswick he entered the Tuskegee institute in 1890. He received much encouragement and was also inspired by Dr. Washington to go forward and make the most of his opportunities to fit himself for his life's work. After three years of hard work at Tuskegee institute young Carter received his diploma from the hands of Dr. Washington with this solemn declaration: "I shall ever honor this piece of paper." He returned to Brunswick, and, recognizing that he owed something to his home town, the place that had made it possible for him to get his foundation, he accepted a position in the public school as one of the teachers. He at once gained the love of pupils and their parents. He gave three of his best years' work to Brunswick and resigned to accept a position in Orange Bend, Fla., where he had charge of all the public school work in the county. He conducted all the normals and had under him many teachers. His worth as an educator was recognized by the state, and often he was called into conference with the state superintendent of education. He gave up teaching for a short time and entered Gammon Theological seminary, where he prepared for the ministry. It was at Gammon that his ability as a public speaker and minister manifested itself, and he was classed among the able ministers of the Baptist denomination. He, however, again resumed school work. He taught for a year at the East Tennessee Normal and Industrial institute, Harriman, Tenn. He began teaching in Kansas at the instance of Dr. Booker T. Washington. The school to which he went was a mere kindergarten, carried on by a couple from Boston. The need of a larger work was soon felt, and this little school was reorganized into an industrial institute and is now an ideal center of education. At the first session of the state legislature after Dr. Carter took charge of the school $1,500 was appropriated for its support. This amount has been gradually increased to $21,000 per annum. The indebtedness of $3,000 has been paid, and the plant is now worth $175,000. The school has a faculty of ten teachers, and students from ten states are in attendance. Although Dr. Carter is a very busy man, he is intensely interested in all movements for the advancement of his people. He stands high in Masonic, Pythian and Odd Fellow circles. For the past twelve years he has been the only colored member of the board of directors of the Kansas Children's Home society and for several years secretary and treasurer of the Ministerial Union, Topeka, composed of all the white and colored ministers of the city. He has several times been honored by the governor with positions of trust. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY CHARLES SUMNER SMITH, 305—So. Fifth Street. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Entered in the Post Office at Minneapolis as second class matter. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION Subscription by Mail, Postpaid. ONE YEAR ..... $2.00 SIX MONTHS ..... 1.00 THREE MONTHS ..... .65 Harvet B. Rowe, Local Agent. Hamlet B. Rowe, Local Agent. ADVERTISING RATES. One Inch—1 Insertion—One Dollar. Liberal discount given on 3, 6, 9, Months, or 1 year contracts. 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I denounce as 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. QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE. Our Countrymen's Patriotism Must Not Be Judged by Sectional Sentiment. In an article by R. K. McWoodson which appeared recently in the New York Sun on the attitude of the northern and southern white people toward the colored people as individuals and as a race and whether the colored man should fight for his country in case of war the writer says: It is true that the black man is no more the pet of the north. There was a time that he was, but it seems now that he is the "pest" of the south and the puzzle of the north. The southerners may not be too nearsighted to see the black man's future nor the northerners too farsighted to see his present condition. But it does seem that neither north nor south has very much sight when it comes to seeing the black man in the right light. One is prejudice blind, and the other is color blind. The white people of the south see too much of him, and the white people of the north see too little of him, and, as a rule, the white people of the north judge the black race by the few they see in the northern cities. They must go south to see the black man. We mean the majority of the progressive black men and women. There are many leaders in the north who are a strong type of the worth and value of the black man's genius. The white people of the south are said to love the individual black man and hate the black race and the northners to hate the individual and love the race. And here we find the black man again between two extremes. The southerners see too much of him and the northerners see too little of him. The first blood shed for America's in dependence was by Crispus Attucks, a black man. in Boston. A question comes in my mind now: Should a black man shoulder a gun and go to war and fight for this country, a country which denies him the rights of citizenship under a flag which offers him no protection, strips him of his manhood by enacting laws which keep him from the ballot box, disfranchised, segregated, discriminated against, lynched, burned at the stake, Jim crowed and disarmed? If he fights, and fight he must. for what does he fight? Mr. McWoodson's argument is quite logical, but the attitude of white people north or south, whether favorable or unfavorable toward the colored race, cannot blot out its loyalty to Old Glory. The Negro will continue to fight for his country and also fight for the rights and protection which the constitution and the flag guarantee to all Americans without regard to race, color or previous servitude. Sharen Baptist Church Celebration. The Sharon Baptist church, Balti more, celebrated its thirty-second year as a religious corporation in February. The church was founded by the Rev. Dr. William M. Alexander, who is its present pastor. Dr. Alexander is widely known as a Baptist minister and an able advocate of home and foreign missions. EDITOR JOHN H. MURPHY GUEST AT LARGE BANQUET Baltimore Citizens Honor Veteran Publisher and Successful Business Man. Baltimore.—The long, unselfish and little heralded services that John H. Murphy, publisher of the Afro-American, has rendered for racial uplift were extolled at a banquet given at Pythian Castle, in this city, in February. The function was given in honor of Mr. Murphy by a committee of gentlemen under the chairmanship of Captain George W. Brown, and men in all walks of life attended, thus showing the general esteem in which the veteran editor is held. The banquet was most acceptably served by Caterer Logan Jenkins and began shortly after 9 o'clock. Following the disposal of the appetizing menu Attorney George W. F. McMechen was introduced as toastmaster by Captain Brown. Chris J. Perry, editor of the Philadelphia Tribune and president of the National Negro Press association, told [Image of a man in a suit and bow tie]. EDITOR JOHN H. MURPHY. of the wide esteem in which Mr. Murphy is held as an editor and praised his work for the upbuilding of the Afro-American. Rev. A. L. Gaines paid a fine tribute to the guest of honor, reciting his services for the race along uplift lines. Warner T. McGuinn told of the hostility of the daily press when it comes to publishing the bright side of the race, pictured the trials that fall to the lot of a race editor and declared that the guest of honor had blazed the trail in chronicling events of racial moment. Dr. Ernest Lyon declared that the guest of honor had always appealed to him because of "his intense love for liberty and hatred of all oppression." Rev. George F. Bragg told of his long association with the editor of the Afro-American Ledger and said he was acquainted with his aims and ideals. Rev. R. W. S. Thomas in a well received address praised the work of the race press and said that editors bring to the front things needed for the people. In an address punctuated with good stories Dr. W. A. Sinclair of Philadelphia praised the work of the editor and told of two recent attempts to get Mr. Murphy to accept flattering positions out of the city. When Toastmaster McMechen introduced the guest of the evening he was greeted with a flattering ovation. After asserting that he thought that he hardly deserved all of the good things that had been said about him Mr. Murphy advised his hearers to work for community and racial uplift. "I am afraid that many of us," he went on to say, "think because we are colored that we have no civic responsibilities, considering ourselves a thing apart in the community. I would that all of us would consider ourselves a part of the community and work toward racial and general betterment. We must get behind our professional and business men and adequately support them. In this room there are enough brains and capability properly directed to shape the destiny of the race in Baltimore. We must work for the larger things, and then we will merit general confidence." Musical numbers were furnished by Rev. Charles E. Stewart, Mr. Howard D. Brent, Mr. Ernest Purviance and Mr. John W. Brown. At the conclusion of the speechmaking Dr. Lyon proposed a toast to the president of the United States. Dr. W. A. Sinclair, Chris J. Perry and Henry Freeman, the latter of Washington, were among the out of town guests. During the twenty years that Mr. Murphy has published the Afro-American Ledger he has succeeded in putting it in the forefront as to reliability and influence. Born in Baltimore Dec. 25, 1840, he received his education in private schools. He served in one of the Maryland regiments during the civil war and later entered business here. He is widely known'in the Masonic fraternity, having served as imperial potentate of the Mystic Shrine. He has been one of the most active laymen of the A. M. E. church in this country for more than forty years. Pittsburgh Church Installs New Pastor. The Monumental Baptist church, Pittsburgh, began a series of special meetings in connection with the installation of its new pastor, the Rev. J. H. Watkins, on Sunday, Feb. 18, to continue until Thursday evening, March 1. The aim of the congregation is to raise $1,000 for building fund purposes during these meetings. THE TWIN CITY STAR DOUGLASS HOME FUND CAMPAIGN Effort to Clear Noted Leader's Estate of Heavy Debt. SCOPE OF THE MOVEMENT National Association of Women's Clubs Outlines Plan For Paying Off $15,000 Mortgage by Popular_Subscriptions. Notable Group of White Women to Ald.-Mrs. Talbert's Leadership. By JOHN E. BRUCE "GRIT." The National Association of Colored Women, of which Mrs. Mary B. Talbert of Buffalo is president, is making a herculean effort to raise funds to lift the $15,000 mortgage off of the Douglass home at Anacostia, District of Columbia, and the disgrace off the race for which Mr. Douglass suffered insult and contumely at the hands of organized mobs, for its past neglect, apathy and failure to show its appreciation of the greatness of Frederick Douglass, by coming forward now as he came forward in the days when our forbears writed in chains of slavery, and denounced in virile language the hell black crime of human slavery. These good women of the National Association of Colored Women have or are about to circularize the teachers and pupils of our Sunday schools and day schools throughout, the United States urging co-operation with their association by the formation of Sunday school and day school leagues and that the teachers in the schools become members of these leagues and such adult members of the Sunday schools as may be interested in the project. Ten is the number required to form a league. These teachers and others organizing leagues are requested to offer their leagues as a Christmas present to the National Association of Colored Women. This can be done by sending at once for an application blank and the payment of 10 cents per year per capita. No other dues or assessments are allowed or expected. The money thus sent is to be used for postage, stationery and literature, "to make our voice heard," reads the circular before me. And "surely you will realize with us that we need the very closest cooperation during these days in which we are traveling through the wilderness. Our president has issued a call to save the home of Frederick Douglass. We want you to help us save that home. Will you hold a short memorial service on Sunday, Feb. 12, and tell the children something about Douglass, who framed the immortal sentence, "God and one are a majority?" If you love your race and if you are proud of the achievements of its great men and believe in honoring them for the deeds they have wrought send for a program and other details about Douglass day to Mrs. Mary B. Talbert, 521 Michigan avenue, Buffalo. Mrs. Talbert informs me that Mrs. Nettle L. Napler, 120 Fifteenth avenue, North Nashville, Tenn., has been appointed special treasurer to receive all contributions for this fund. Mrs. Napler is a daughter of the late Hon. John M. Langston and the wife of Hon. James C. Napler, former register of the United States treasury. Another interesting point in her letter is that among the women affiliating with her organization are a group of the most noted white women in the United States, a few of whose names are as follows: Jane Addams, Zona Gale, Grace Abbott, Anna Strunsky Walling, Katherine Leckle, Rhetta Walling, Katherine Leckle, Rhetta Childs Dorr, Miss Fola La Follette Florence Woolston, Sophronia Breckenridge, Esther L. Kohn, Mary Rozet Smith, Harriet P. Thomas and Anna O'Hagan Shinn. This is a gratifying list and ought to be sufficient to spur our people on in a mighty effort to save the home of Frederick Douglass and to make it the Negro's mecca for generations yet unborn. Every Negro boy throughout this land should be asked to give from 1 to 25 cents as his contribution to this object, and every Negro man and woman with any red blood in their veins ought for their own self respect to give at least $1. There should be a rivalry between the boys and girls of school age to see which can raise the largest subscription toward this fund. I believe our girls could raise $500 more than the boys because they have got more vim and push in them than some of our boys. The contest is on, and time will develop whether we Negroes can do big things in a big way. Douglass was a great leader and a great man, but not ten Negroes in a hundred really know how useful and great he was. We don't read enough about our own leaders. Atlanta Constitution Sounds Warnings In discussing the exodus of colored people from Georgia and its cause the Atlanta Constitution says: "Back to the law' is a slogan that should appeal everywhere upon purely a moral basis; but, if it will not in sufficient force, then we are confronted now by the possibility of serious industrial calamity which must follow upon the removal of Georgia's best and most satisfactory farm labor." Isn't This Rough? Ella—A poet wrote a sonnet on my face the other day. Stella—Did he write it on the lines? SIX GOOD REASONS 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 law. 6. It is composed of members of both races and sexes on terms of complete equality and as brothers and sisters in this holy cause of freedom. An Appeal for Funds. The Association needs money and new members. It costs just one dollar to join. If you believe in fair play, in fighting for your rights, if you believe in organization and 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. J. WALKER'S Wonderful Hair Grower and Preparations. Special attention given to Tetter, Eczema and Growing hair on temples. A full line of Goods. 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