Twin City Star

MINNEAPOLIS DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST.PAUL MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY WAGE FIGHT FOR EQUAL JUSTICE Colored People of Richmond, Va., State Their Case. WANT RIGHTS PROTECTED Attempt of Richmond's City Attorney to Prove Race Benefits by Being Segregated Met With Undeniable Facts. Mechanics' Bank Building a Fair Sample of Intelligence and Industry. Richmond, Va.—The Louisville (Ky.) segregation ordinance will be rearged before the supreme court at Washington this month, March. Due to the fact that Louisville copied the Richmond (Va.) ordinance, the city attorney here, the Hon. H. R. Pollard, has filed a brief, as amcleus curiae, commending segregation, and in addition has offered as exhibits in evidence photographs of Negro churches, residences and business places to prove that segregation has been beneficial to the Negro's progress. The colored people of Richmond were amazed when they learned of the city attorney's attitude. There is not a THE BANK OF THE UNION STATE OF CALIFORNIA MECHANICS' BANK BUILDING. building in the city occupied by colored people that can be pointed to as the good results of segregation. All buildings shown in the photos were built or were in course of erection before the ordinance was even drawn. In fact, the building and improving of some of these houses that he uses to commend as the good results of segregation were the immediate cause of the segregating of the colored people. Real Purpose of Segregation Laws. The average southerner pretends that the reason the southern whites restrict Negroes to certain areas in their communities is because the Negroes are shiftless and keep their premises in sanitary condition. They claim the Negroes do not improve but destroy the homes they occupy. In other words, they picture the Negroes as destroyers and not makers of values. Their actions show that the real cause of segregation is to prevent the Negroes from making and showing real progress. The Mechanics' Saving bank, owned by colored people, occupied a substantial but inadequate building on Third street, between Clay and Leigh streets. On the northwest corner of Third and Clay streets stood an old brick residence deserted by the whites. The bank bought this and the adjoining building. After breaking down a determined opposition on part of some of the whites the bank secured a permit and put up a handsome four story brick building and remodeled the old building adjoining it on the west at a cost between $25,000 and $30,000. This improvement would be considered a credit to any community where pluck and enterprise are appreciated, but not so here, as will be shown. Thrift Among Colored People Noted. A congregation of colored people prior to the purchase and building of this bank building had purchased, remodeled and occupied an old unused church building about three blocks west of the bank site on Clay street. This old church building had stood as an eye- Defective Page --- sore to this part of the community for years. Several attempts had been made to sell it to the whites, but without success. No white bladder, so we were informed, had offered more than $6,000. The colored people paid $11,500 for it. Other properties in this and other neighborhoods adjoining the colored section had been purchased by colored people. This was done to provide for the natural increase of the colored population. The whites seemingly did not relish these evidences of the Negro's progress, so they invoked a new kind of hindrance to the Negro's advancement - the infamous segregation law. The colored people fought it from its introduction in the council to the state court of appeals, and, although they were defeated all along the line, they have never ceased their opposition to it, nor have they ever seen anything beneficial to their interests in the enforcing of its-provisions. Baneful Effect of Race Prejudice. A Jew or Greek will open a shop in the colored section. After a few weeks his family will be moved over his store, and nothing is done about it. But if a Negro moves in his own house, should it be located around the corner from the Negro quarter and the whites are in the majority in that block, he will be fined and forced to move out of his own house. Is it reasonable to think that the colored people could commend such a law? The Negroes of Richmond feel, like members of the race everywhere else, that the segregation laws are the greatest foes that the race has had to contend against since the infamous Dred Scott decision of antebellum days. The segregation laws destroy property rights, encourage race hatred, force colored people to live in the unhealthy and overcrowded parts of a community, with no provisions for improving these conditions, set up a bar to their self advancement and thereby stultify their growth as a race. Living in these overcrowded, unhealthy and unnatural conditions will certainly produce and increase crime, vice and immorality and is the basis for the apparent high death rate of the Negroes of this city. CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION Professor T. C. Erwin Reports Success of Organized Work In Virginia. What the Negro Organization Society of Virginia accomplished during 1916 for better schools, homes, community uplift and better health is interestingly told in the report of Professor Temple C. Erwin, field agent for the society. Major Allen Washington, commandant of cadets at the Hampton (Va.) institute, is president of the organization. He expresses much gratification over the good results obtained, yet Major Washington believes that a greater work may yet be done for the people of the rural districts. Professor Erwin in his report says: "More and more the necessity for determined action against the forces of destruction and the wisdom of concerted effort grow upon the Negroes of Virginia. During the year just closed we have seen them rallying with increased vigor to the cause of uplift and battling in ways to them more or less new to improve school conditions, to withstand the inroads of communicable diseases and to remedy untoward conditions surrounding life on the farm. The influence of this movement is being felt throughout the state where colored people live in any considerable numbers, and organizations of almost every conceivable kind are to be counted among the numbers of those that make up this society. "In a number of communities into which we have gone it has been necessary to initiate the idea of school improvement through co-operation and to point out the essential nature of such work to substantial growth. In such places school development is in the primitive stage. In many of these instances leagues were organized, and in some movements looking to the erection of new school buildings were begun and the people thus sent on to their important work of developing better school facilities. "In other communities we have found the people laboring as best they could in accordance with the light they had to remedy conditions for the education of their children. We have sometimes found them working with commendable zeal, but with poor advice, raising money to repair an inadequate and dilapidated building when only the erection of a new one would constitute a wise investment or endeavor to secure funds for a longer school term and yet had permitted the school attendance to dwindle almost to the vanishing point during the last month or two of the regular term. "Reports from twenty of the counties of the state will serve to indicate the breadth and effectiveness of the clean up movement. These twenty counties were selected because the reports coming from them are more or less accurate and complete, as we have better means of getting reports from these than from some other counties. "They report 35 dwellings painted, 311 dwellings whitewashed, 1,006 homes cleaned, 121 fences repaired and built, 370 outbuildings whitewashed, d.51 homes screened, 1,020 yards cleaned, 67 sanitary closets built, 21 closets repaired, 128 barns and outbuildings cleaned, 120 wells and springs improved, 47 schools and school yards cleaned and 20 churches better ventilated. "The reports also show that on 42 farms the tools and implements were repaired and put in order, and on 12 farms untitled land was cleaned. It is impossible to estimate the moral and practical good accomplished through the work done in these twenty counties and in a similar way in most of the other counties of the state." University Students to Held Debate. The debate between students of Wilberforce university and the Virginia Union university will be held at the latter institution in Richmond, Va., on Friday evening, March 23. The subject for debate will be, "Resolved. That the Federal Government Should Own and Operate All Railroads in the United States." E. E. Smith and C. H. Thompson of Union university will speak on the affirmative side of the question. Educational circles in Richmond and the general public are looking forward to the coming contest between the students of these two famous schools with much interest. COLORED MEN FOR ARMY OFFICER Dr. Spingarn Tells Why Training Camp Is Necessary. MOVEMENT MUST NOT FAIL The Establishment of a Military Training Camp For the Race is Intended Fight Segregation, Not to Encounter It, Says Noted Advocate of Human Rights. New York.—In reply to his criticism with reference to the establishment of a military training camp for colonels at Plattsburg, N. Y., Dr. J. Spingarn, leader of the movement, gives his reasons for the course pursues in the following statement: Dr. Spingarn says: MORE FUNDS FOR EDUCATION American Church Institute Asks Liberal Aid For Our Southern Schools. At a special meeting held at the Church of the Messiah in Brooklyn the first week in March a movement was started to interest a larger number of northern white people in the educational institutions for colored people in the south. The Rev. Dr. St. Clair Hester, rector of the church, presided. The meeting was held in connection with the American Church Institute For Negroes, of which the Rev. David H. Greer, Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York, is president. The Rev. Frederick Burgess, D. D., Protestant Episcopal bishop of Long Island, in a brief address reviewed the work of the institute and praised the people for their interest in it. The Rev. Robert W. Patton, D. D., said that the Church institute needed an increased income of $100,000 for a thoroughly efficient administration of the Negro schools and an endowment of $1,000,000 to insure the permanency of the work and to guard against any calamity such as war. Dr. Patton also said that there is nothing that ought to touch the hearts of the American people, who are always interested in humanity, more than the helping of the colored boys and girls of the south, who, through no fault of their own, find themselves on this continent. National Health Week to be Observed. Local business leagues, churches and secret and civic organizations in the various large cities are planning for the observance of national health week, to be observed from Sunday, April 22 to 28, inclusive. The National Negro Business league is a strong promoter of this movement, which was inaugurated by Dr. Booker T. Washington a few years prior to his death. INDIAN PREFERS NEGROES. Native In Customs Service in New York Has Many Friends. The following appears in the current issue of the Bulletin Journal of the Surveyors and Customs Welfare association. Mr. Tolbert, who is a genuine American, unlike his white brethren prefers the association of the Negro, though a genuine Indian. The Mohawks are the aristocrats of the Indian tribes. "The oldest living Mohawk Indian is in the customs service at the port of New York. William A. Tolbert, who was born in New York city eighty years ago and who was appointed a night inspector in the customs service thirty-five years ago, is still on duty in the office of Deputy Collector J. Castree Williams. "Mr. Tolbert has the unique distinction of being the only employee of undoubted American ancestry in the customs service at New York. His parents, who belonged to the Mohawk tribe, removed from the Onondaga reservation to the city in the nineteenth century. There are now none surviving of those to whom the Indians were a familiar figure many years ago on West street, between Cortlandt and Beach streets, where from crude stands on the sidewalk they sold moccasins, baskets and other trinkets which they themselves made by hand." Right Back at Her. "Does your husband allow you to have things charged at the stores?" "Oh, I think he would, but?" "But the stores wouldn't. Is that what you were going to add?" "Oh, no. I was going to say that he gives me plenty of money with which to pay cash. Does yours?"—Buffalo Express. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR. COLORED MEN FOR ARMY OFFICERS MOVEMENT MUST NOT FAIL The Establishment of a Military Training Camp For the Race is Intended to Fight Segregation, Not to Encourage It, Says Noted Advocate of Human Rights. New York.—In reply to his critics with reference to the establishment of a military training camp for colored officers at Plattsburg, N. Y., Dr. J. E. Spingarn, leader of the movement, gives his reasons for the course he pursues in the following statement. Dr. Spingarn says: "No one could make a greater mistake than to think that the army wants colored men to join this camp. The army officials want the camp to fall. They refuse to set a time or place until 200 men apply, because they know that this is the hardest way of recruiting the camp. They have made the offer merely in order that they might be able to say that they gave colored people a fair chance and the colored people refused to take advantage of the opportunity. The last thing the army wants is to help colored men to become commissioned officers. "This project is intended to fight segregation and not to encourage it. If there were enough men fit to be officers it would not be necessary; we could fight for a wide open army with that material. But there are not enough men. The New York Negro regiment did not have enough colored men to fill the commissions. When war comes we do not wish to be in the same position. We want to be able to say, 'Here are colored men fit to be officers, and you have got to commission them.' "Those who think that a large number of officers could be obtained from the regular colored regiments simply show their ignorance of the army and of the enormous amount of 'paper work' an officer has to do. A good soldier is a man who has had military training; a good officer is a man who has military training, ability to lead and a good education. Few men who have not had at least a high school education can ever hope to pass the written examination that is necessary to become an officer. "The point has been made that a few scattered colored men in a white camp would be neglected and passed over, while colored men in a camp by themselves would all get a fair chance. There may possibly be some truth in this, but I am not willing to go as far as that. I regard this camp as a merely temporary expedient, lasting four weeks, that may possibly alter the fate of the colored race throughout a great war. It is an expedient for a great crisis. Colored men must get officers' training as soon as possible, and there is no other way with the whole army against them. "The south does not want colored men to get any kind of military training; nothing frightens it more than the thought of millions of colored men with discipline, organizing power and a dangerous effectiveness. That is why Vardaman is so bitterly opposed to universal military training. That is why the general staff of the army has decided to exclude colored men from the training and has reduced its original estimate of 900,000 to 500,000. That is why the colored man who refuses to take advantage of this hard won chance for a camp is biting off his own nose to spite his face. "If there is a war there will doubtless be conscription of all ablebodied men. All pretty talk about volunteering or not volunteering will have to cease; all men will have to go. The choice will no longer be between volunteering and not volunteering, but between conscription and rebellion. If conscription comes will the leaders of the race help their southern enemies by preaching treason and rebellion, or will they face facts right now and prepare themselves to go as leaders and not as private?" Buried Treasure Medium - I can tell you about a buried treasure. Patron - Please don't. My husband is always tooting that in my ears. Medium - Does he know any thing about a buried treasure? Patron - Yes; his first wife. The Round World. "I hear you have a brother abroad?" "I have." "Is he a long way off?" "Yes: he could hardly get any farther away without coming nearer."-Boston Transcript. The Star Says So—That's All. CHURCHMAN REPORTED ILL. Organizer For National Equal Rights League Surfaces Breakdown League Cutters Breakdown. The illness of the Rev. James E. Churchman at his home on Oakwood avenue, Orange, N. J. is causing his many friends and the institutions which he so gallantly serves much concern. The Rev. Mr. Churchman is the national organizer for the National Equal Rights league. He was the orator at the Boston celebration held in Faneuil hall Feb. 14 in honor of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglas. The Rev. Mr. Churchman was ill when he delivered his address in Faneuil hall and has since been confined to his home in Orange from overwork. He is receiving many letters of sympathy from numerous sources, which are being answered by Mrs. Churchman as time permits. Mr. Churchman has been an active worker in movements for racial uplift in the north and south for a number of years. As an orator and fearless agitator for justice to the race he holds a foremost place. His condition was reported still quite serious on March 14. Hope for his recovery is the wish of all who know of his unselfish devotion to his race. DEATH OF DR. M. W. GILBERT Able Baptist Clergym Passed Away at Neahville, Tenn. March 8. By the death at Nashville, Tenn., on Thursday, March 8, of the Rev. Dr. Matthew W. Gilbert the race loses one of its ablest Baptist clergymen. Dr. Gilbert was a native of Mechanicsville, S. C., where he was born July 25, 1862. He was ordained to the ministry in 1882 and was the pastor of some of the largest congregations in the denomination. He was the principal of schools at Live Oak and Jacksonville, Fla., respectively, held a professorship in Benedict college and was for some time the president of Selma university. Dr. Gilbert received the degree of bachelor of arts from Colgate university and his divinity degree from Guadeloupe college. He was a member of a number of influential religious organizations among both races and was rated as a scholar. Dr. Gilbert was the pastor of the First Baptist church, North Nashville, at the time of his death. He married Miss Agnes Boozer of Columbia, S. C., May 5, 1882. This union was blessed with three children. He is survived by his widow, a daughter and two sons. Funeral services for the deceased were held Sunday, March 11. Interment was at Jacksonville, Fla. WILLIAMS SURE "KIN HIT." Negro Soldier Boxer Wins Weiterweight Championship of Army. Recently Rufus Williams, a private of the Twenty-fourth United States infantry, stationed at Columbus, N. M., and "Whitey" Burns, a private of the Sixteenth United States infantry, fought twenty rounds at a place THE BOXING GAME RUFUS WILLIAMS. called El Valle, Mex., for the welterweight boxing championship of the United States army. The Negro soldier proved to be the better man and at the end of the twentieth round was declared the winner. The picture reproduced here shows Williams in action. Williams is quite a favorite with the boys of the Twenty-fourth, who regard him as one of the cleverest boxers the race has developed. "Whitey" Burns is quite willing to admit Rufus "kid bit." APPEAL TO CLUBWOMEN. President of New York Federation Asks Ald For Friendship Shatter Home. Brooklyn.—Mrs. M. C. Lawton, president of the Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs, has issued the following appeal to the members of the various clubs. Mrs. Lawton says: "At our last meeting of the Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs, held in Poughkeepsie in July, 1916, we voted to take as our object the Empire Friendly Shelter For Friendless Girls. At this time, when our hearts are brimming full and running over with joy, when the peal from joyous bells are sounding and resounding the world over, I would remind you of the unfortunate women among us who have slipped and fallen by the wayside. "In this institution, as in many others, a faithful few have been carrying the burden in the heat of the day, often struggling against great odds. But the management does not despair. It feels that if it can only bridge the chasm which often lies between success and failure, that this potential factor, the saving of our girls, must receive the consideration and support it deserves. "Other nationalities have the same problem with which to deal, and they are bending all their energies toward its solution. The success of races is not dependent upon superficial gains or advancement, but upon the moral strength of its women. Now that you are turning the last leaf of the old year 1916 and the first leaf of the new year add one page to your credit as benefactresses to some charitable enterprise, and I know of none more deserving or more in need of your sympathy and support. "In view of the high cost of food, fuel, etc., I appeal to your pride as clubwomen to remember this home when you are supplying your wants. Remember the beautiful words of our Saviour, "It is more blessed to give than to receive." Think of the joy we can distribute, think of the hearts we may gladden, and, above all, the souls we may save. "Who knows but that there is a Douglass, or a Washington, or a Langston among the male offspring of that home? Who knows but that there is a Phyllis Wheatley, Frances Watkins, Josephine Yates, Sojourner Truth or Harriett Tubman among the girls? It does not necessarily follow that the boy or girl properly environed makes the most of life, for 'honor and fame from no condition rise. Act well your part. There's where the honor lies.' "It is good to be born well, but it is better to do well after you are born. I feel safe in believing that I have but to call your attention to the promise we made at Poughkeepsle, N. Y., at our meeting in July, 1916, and that no time is better to test our race loyalty than this Christmas time. Respectfully. "M. C. LAWTON, "President of the Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs. "Hofe, 116 West - One Hundred and Thirty-third Street, New York City." 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." Fredmen's Aid Society Fifty Years Old. The Freedmen's Aid society is making elaborate preparations for the celebration of the fiftieth 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. Not Interfering, of Course, With Golf. "I hear you have taken your son into the firm." "Yes," answered Mr. Grabcoln grimly. "He has consented to spend a few hours a day with us." - Birmingham Age Herald. SMOKE "SIGHT DRAFT" THE BEST $c. CIGAR DANCE LOVERS MAY ENJOY TWO EVENINGS OF PLEASURE. WITH THE TWIN CITY ENTERTAINERS. THURSDAY. EVENING, MARCH 29TH EASTER MONDAY NIGHT, APRIL 9TH AT THE UNION TEMPLE HALL 28 Washington Ave. So.; Minneapolis. ADMISSION 35c. _ . GOOD MUSIC CHOICE REFRESHMENTS YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED i —— GRAND EASTER BALL Under the Auspices of PRIDE OF MINNESOTA LODGE , - NO, 5, KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS c ARCADIA DANCING PALACE Sth Street Opposite Court House ‘ MONDAY EVE,, APRIL 9TH = _- - Come and Enjoy a Dance on the Finest Floor in the Northwest i GRAND MARCH AT 10:30 ARRANGEMENT COMMITTEE: Wm. Cratic, C. C. Wm. Moden, Chm, | Wm. C. Jeffrey L. F. Thompson Ed. Southall ~ §. G: West L. Patton EF G.Thomas rns FLOOR COMMITTEE: Re He Thompson James Burk, Chairman ~ » Glover Shull John Gibson Ed. Boyd z RECEPTION COMMITTEE—ENTIRE LODGE _ ADMISSION 50 CENTS Auto. 2 SOCIAL NEWS EDITOR, ‘Miss Clara Lucas, 506 Boston Block, Minneapolis. ‘Wiaseapolia, - - Mina. : NIC, 1873. RAILROAD MEN'S NEWS, Stephen Springer, ~ Milwaukee Depot, Minneapolis. Send your notes to us by Wedens- ay AM A WORD OF CHEER. ‘When we are weary or discour- aged, how @ cheering word will brighten the day and lighten the load for us! Knowing this, why are we eo forgetful of the help we might give to others? PENTICOSTAL. _ Peoples Christian Assembly. 1204 Washington Ave. So. 1204 Washington Ave. 50. 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. Com?! and Serve the Lord. DEATH OF FRANK FISHER. Mr. Frank Fisher died Friday after- noon at his residence. Funeral ser- vices will be held Monday afternoon. Mrs. Fately of Sth Ave. So., has a'comfortable room to rent. Call So. 4948. Mr. Joseph J. Duncan, 3920 4th Ave. So,, is ill at his home. Mrs. Hattie G. Hall of St. Pau, has arranged a series of weekly musicals for the beefit of Pilgrim Baptist. Church. STEWARTS NEW MANAGER. ‘Mr. Charles Brody is the new man- ager of Stewart's Twin City Club and Hotel. He is well known and is mak- ing material changes for the comfort ‘and convenience of all patrons. 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. Rev. W. S. Cooper will preach Sunday evening at the Memorial Bap- tist Church, St. Paul. . Rev. E. H. McDonald left Wednes- day night for an eastern visit. The ladies of the Smart Set Whist Club will give an entertainment for the Crispus Attucks Hom-. ELKS’ MEMORIAL SERVICES. Messrs. W, R. Morris, P. H. South- all and Geo. W. Holbert will speak at the Elks’ Union Memorial Services to be held by Ames Lodge of Minne- apolis and Gopher Lodge of St. Paul, at St. James A. M. E. Church in St. Paul on Easter Sunday night. Rev. J M., Henderson will preach the sermon. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR. a ee | OUR DENTISTS. Speaking of dentists, reminds us ‘that we have only two dentists among our race in this city, that is, recog- nized as Negroes. Some say that there is a Negro dentist, who passes for white. We have Dr. W. H. Wright, the oldest in practice who 1s a graduate of Howard University, and Dr, W. E. Burton of Northwest- ern University of Chicago. They are licensed surgeon dentists. Dr. Wil- liams and Dr. French of St. Paul are also recognized dentists. Mr. M. W. Judy is a good mechanical dentist but is not licensed to practice dentistry. Mr. Allen French of St. Paul is one of the leading. mechanical dentists of the state. : 7 Dr. W. Ellis Burton, the dentist, spoke at the Minneapolis Sunday Forum last Sunday. Dr. French of St. Paul was unable to appear be- cause of sickness. Dr. Burton is’ good speaker and his talks are al- ways very instructive. The Advocate promises a big Easter edition. That is good. The business houses have not given much adver- ‘tising space to the Negro papers, in spite of the fact that the Negroes spend a large amount of money with ‘them. The Star does not go into special editions, because it does not ‘classify as a charity proposition. The Negro paper is a business medium and some day will be recognized as sich by many leading merchants. Atty. W. T. Francis has returned from a business trip to Leavenworth and Kansas City. Prof. W. H. Howard will move his music studio to 2nd Ave. So. opp. the McKnight Bldg., on April Ist. Sergt. Jno. W. Harper, U.S. A. re- tired, is sick at his residence, 1917 4th Ave. So. SPECIAL NOTICE. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will hold their regular monthly meeting at St. James A. M. E. Church, 407 Sth Ave. Co, on Sunday evening, March 25th, Atty. B. S. Smith wil preside. Secy, ‘Skinner expects a large attendance. OLD SPORTS IN BAD HEALTH. Link Manley and Charles Gardner, better known as “Ice Water” are in the City Hospital and Frank Fishe died it his home, 501 11th Ave. So They have figured prominently among the sporting fraternity and have beer “good fellows:” Such is their fate but they are remembered by several friends of bygone days. Mr, E. W. Matthews is no longer an agent for the Twin City Star, and not authorized to solicit business ot collect for same—Editor. ‘Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Southall have moved to 512 6th Ave. No. Madam M. Hart, the milliner, has returned from Chicago, : where she punrchased her Easter stock of hats in the latest styles. Dr. W. H. Wright is the father of a bouncing baby boy, born last Sun- day. Mr, J. M. Mask has recovered from his recent illness and resumed his em- ployment on the Soo Line. The editorial, “Let Us Wake Up” which appeared in The Advacate last week was a very good one. Let us hope they are not “meaningless words.” Mrs, Belle Branch entertained the maids of “The Fair and Warmer Show” during last week. Mrs, M. Reed and Miss B. Jackson were her guests. THE TWIN CITY STAR BELL'S BARBER SHOP. DOUGLASS Mr. Clarence W. Bell has bought the interest of Mr. Benj. Jones, his former partner, in the barber shop at 2b4 3rd Ave. So, Mr Bell will re- novate the place and solicits the patronage of the public. The barber ea shop and billiard room is convenient- ly located near the Milwaukee depot Effort to Clear Ne and strangers will be given all in- formation and attention—Advertise- Estate of He ment. sm A CORRECTION. SCOPE OF THE Mr. Than Travis of St. Paul, wishes — to announce that ladies are invited to} ational Association o visit his Buffet and Cabaret. It hav-| Outlines Plan For P ing been reported that ladies were not] Mortgage by Popul admitted. Notable Group of V — Ald—Mra, Talbert's | Ernest Jamison died this week at the ity Hospital. . se Nation! & Bat Mr. Isaac Venable, a brother of | Women, of which Mr Mr. Alex. Venable, was buried last | Dest of Buttalo le pres week. lift the $15.000 mort: Mr. W. S. Doston died March 18th. Funeral services were held Wednes- day. He was a constructional iron worker and leaves a wife and’ two children. Mr. Doston was a highly respected citizen. BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. J. W. Anderson will preach Sunday morning, March 25th. . Text: “Proving God before midnight.” Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Withers have moved to 1224 6th Ave, No. Mrs, J. T. Stevens, wife of the postman and baby are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Shelton in Duluth. Do not delay in sending in your indebtedness for the Twin City Star The Twin City Star stands for equal rights for all American citizens I am against Catholic, Protestant. or Jew, if the representative of any of these creeds does anything against ‘the American spirit. 1 demand whole- hearted and undivided loyalty to the United States. 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, Dee. 1916. eens Do not waste your time making promises to our agents. Send your money by Express or Post Office Or- ‘der or in cash of postage stamps. DANCE LOVERS MAY EN- JOY TWO EVENINGS OF PLEASURE. WITH THE TWIN CITY ENTERTAINERS. THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 29TH EASTER MONDAY NIGHT, ~ APRIL 9TH 28 WASHINGTON AVE. SO. MINNEAPOLIS GOOD MUSIC. CHOICE REFRESHMENTS COME! YOU ARE WELCOME Nerves ane wern. ‘The man with a weak beart or witn shaky uerves ts apt to bevome distract ed if engaged ou work that Is full of quick surprises or excitement. The excitement Itself supy bis strength, in terferes with bis own safety und addx to the risk of hurting others, but there fg much good and remunerative work that can be done by such a man. 1 would therefore try to steer him into a quiet occupation and would show him how to remedy his weakness or at least how to avoid getting worse.—M. W. Al exander in Industria! Management. Our Indians. ‘The most probable theory of the origin of the American Indian is that which links the Indian with the Mon- goloids of East Africa, whose physical characteristics are strikingly similar to those of the American aborigine. Be- tween the Indian and the Japanese there are many pronounced resem- blances, and some excellent authorities are of the opinion that it was from that eastern race that the Indian orig- tnally sprang. If, as some think, the Eskimos are the best representatives of the Indian as he was upon his ar- rival here, the theory of the Japanese origin is immensely strengthened, since the Ikeness between the Eskimo and the Japanese is striking. A Monkey end 6 Kaet ‘The monkey's tutelligence bax never been able to arrive at a point which en ables that animal to-achleve the unty ing of a knot. You may tle a monkey with a cord fastened with the simplest form of common knot, and unless the beast can break the string or gnaw it tn two he will uever get loose, To un- tle the knot requires observation dnd reasoning power. and. though a mon key may possess bota, he has neither in @ sufficient dexree to enable him to overcome the difficulty, SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR. ‘The Star Says So—That’s All, = ADVERTISZ. HERE, IT PAYS. DOUGLASS HOME FUND CAMPAIGN Effort to Ghar Noid Leader's Estate of Heavy Debt. SCOPE OF THE MOVEMENT National Assoolation of Women’s Clube Outlines Plan For Paying Off $18,000 Mortgage by Popular Subscriptions. Notable Group of White Women te Ald—Mrs, Talbert’s Leadership. By JOHN B. BRUCE “cRIT.” Fas ato Association of Colored Women, of Which Mrs. Mary B. Tal- bert of Buffalo is president, is making @ herculean effort to raise funds to Uft the $15,000 mortgage off of the Dougigss 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 appre- ;Glation of the greatness of Frederick Douglass, by coming forward now as he came forward in the days when our forbears writhed in chains of slav- ery, and denounced in virile language the hell black crime of human slavery. ‘These good women of the National Association of Colored Women have or fare about to circularize the teachers ‘and popils of our Sunday schools and day schools throughout the United States urging co-operation with their association by the formation of Sun- ay school and day school leagues and that the teachers in the schools be- ome members of these leagues and wach 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 or ganizing leagues are requested to offer thetr leagues as & 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 co- operation during these days in which We are traveling through the wilder- ness, Our president has issued a call to save the home of Frederick Doug- lass, We want you to help us save that home. Will you hold a short me- morial service on Sunday, Feb. 18, and tell the children sqmething about Doug- lass, who framed the immortal sen- tence, “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 & program and other details about Douglass day to Mrs. Mary. B. Talbert. 621 Michigan avenue, Buffalo. Mrs. ‘Talbert informs me that Mrs. Nettie 1, Napter, 120 Fifteenth avenue, North Nashville, Tenn., has been appointed special treasurer to recetve all con- tributions for this fund. Mrs, Napier is a daughter of the late Hon. John M. Langston and the wife of Hon. James ©. Napier, former register of the Unit- ed States treasury. Another Interesting point In her let- ter is that among the women affiliat- ing with ber 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 Leckie, Rhetts Walling, Katherine Leckie, Rheta Childs Dorr, Miss Fola La Follette Florence Woolston, Sophronia Brecken. [ridge, Hether I. Kohn, Mary Rozet Smith, Harriet P. Thomas and Anna O'Hagan Shinn. ‘This 1s a gratifying list and oaght 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 un- born, 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 betweea the boys and girls of school age to see which can raise the largest subscrip- tion 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. “Look bere; | want you to take back this alarm clock you sold’me awhile back.” “Why, my dear sir, that’s the most reliable alarus clock on the market.” “That's just the trouble. It's too doggoned reliable. 1 never get a chance to oversleep any more.”"—New York World. 4 telephone wire swings for 1,200 yards across the Yukon river, Portugal makes ability to read and write a requirement for suffrage. Clarence W, Ball BATHS, BARBER SHOP, POLITE BARBERS : POOL AND BILLIARD HALL CIGARS, RACE PAPERS, SHOE SHINING 244 THIRD AVE. SOUTH ..MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Phone Nofthwestern, Main 2511) i STEWART’S HOTEL FINEST ESTABLISHMENT OF ITS KIND IN THE UNITED STATES, ‘Twenty Elegant Steam Heated, Elec tric Lighted Rooms. Free Bath. Rates Reasonable. Lobby, Reading and Lounging Room, Buffet and Grill Room, Billiard Room, Dining Room, and bath, Private Dining and Recep- tion Room for Ladies. BARBER SHOP IN CONNECTION A LA CARTE MEALS AT ALL HOURS. BEST SERVICE. 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APPLY 1313 WASH. AVE. SO. TEL. MAIN 2259. THAT DANGEROUS LIE. A he ts always the cause of trouble and oftimes brings about serious re- sults. Misrepresentations on the part of husband or wife will sooner ot later cause a breach in their domes. tic relations. Many men, whose fraternal emblems signify that they are “on the square” and they will “defend the truth” will conspire to pull a crooked deal and protect a Ile especially when'a woman is the vic- tim, A woman should know some- thing about her husband's affairs, and her motives cannot be considered en: tirely selfish or mercenary. A court of domestic relations is needed and will probably be authorized at this session of the legislature. A real adjustment will do much to prevent a family quarrel or a murder. YOUR PUBLICITY PAYS. All persons interested in the pro- gress of their fodges, churches, so- cieties etc., should value the power of printer’s ink. 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She is a com- petent stenographer and will write your letters or handle any business correspondence. All matters éonfi- dential. a re | LIBERAL SUBSCRIPTION OFFER. Special $3.00 Cembination. We offer a Combination Subscrip- tion to our readers for 1917. We will zive you your choice of any Negro NEWSPAPER or MAGAZINE, and THE TWIN CITY STAR, mailed to vour address anywhere in the U. S. tor THREE DOLLARS. Cash in advance. Get your home paper sent rect to you. Forward all orders to ‘THE TWIN CITY STAR, .... Room 302. 305 So. Sth St., Minneapolis. Are you a delinquent subscriber? If s0,.why not send your subscrip- tion? | SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION. EDITOR JOHN H. MURPHY GUEST AT LARGE BANQUET EDITOR JOHN H. MURPHY GUEST AT LARGE BANQUET Baltimore Citizens Honor Veteran Publisher and Successful Business Man. BY FRANKLIN F. JOHNSON. 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 A. B. 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. McGunn 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 sims 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 Vlancion 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. F. 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. NATIONAL LEAGUE OPENS WIDE DOOR FOR SERVICE Plan Includes Courses of Study at Noted Institutions of Learning. In order that an opportunity may be given to able young men and women who desire to devote their time to social service, but who lack training, the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes provides two classes of fellowship, as follows: Fellowships of $50 per month for eight months from about Oct. 15 to about June 15, being necessary living expenses in New York city. In addition a loan of $100 in the form of tuition is made by the New York School of Philanthropy upon recommendation. It is to be repaid when the student is subsequently engaged on salary by some organization. Fellowships of $150, being approximately necessary living expenses at Nashville, Tenn., and tuition at Fisk university. These fellowships are open to those who have made a definite decision to engage in social work of some form approved by the executive board of the league. Such work includes secretaryships of betterment organizations, recreation and playground supervisors, superintendents of charitable institutions, probation officers and similar service. The fellows in New York city take their courses of study at the New York School of Philanthropy, with the privilege of some courses at Columbia university, and obtain their practical experience by two months in the Charity Organization society of New York and through social service work under the supervision of the National Urban league and in connection with several other agencies in the city of New York. The fellows in Nashville take their courses of study at Fisk university and get their practical experience through the activities of Bethlehem House, a settlement operated jointly by the National Urban league. Fisk university and the Woman's Missionary Council, M. E. Church South, and in the work of the Public Welfare league and other organizations of the city of Nashville. Persons who make application for these fellowships will be required to pass a preliminary examination. This examination will be of a general nature and designed to test the applicant's general education and knowledge. It will be based upon entrance examinations given in past years by the New York School of Philanthropy since successful applicants will have to pass an entrance examination. The candidate must also be successful in passing the entrance examination at the School of Philanthropy; otherwise no payment on fellowship will be made. This entrance examination in some cases may take the place of the preliminary examination. A candidate to be eligible must be a citizen of the United States, have passed his or her twenty-first birthday by the 1st of September in the year following the one in which application is made. The candidate must be able to present a doctor's certificate of sound health, declare his or her intention to engage in some social work approved by the league and must have completed a course in a college of good standing or its equivalent. In making its decision the league will take into account the candidate's previous school work, general personality, capacity for executive duties and for leadership, general intelligence on current affairs, ability in knowledge of and fondness for outdoor sports and recreation. Applications for 1917-18 must be received on or before March 1, 1917. No payment is made on fellowships unless the candidate is successful in passing the entrance examination at the School of Philanthropy. Any one interested should write for an application blank to Dr. George E Haynes, National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, 2308 Seventh avenue, New York city, or Fisk university, Nashville, Tenn. FIXING STATUS OF RACES. Kentucky's Task of Distinguishing White Colored People From Caucasian. The following news item in the New York World, dated Louisville, Ky., Dec. 14, relates to the relations between the races. The dispatch, according to the World, says: "Our grandchildren and great-grandchildren will be marrying persons having Negro blood in their veins unless Negro births are registered with greater care," said W. L. Heiser, state registrar of vital statistics, before a meeting of Kentucky city and county health officers here. "Numbers of quadroons," said Mr. Heiser, "cannot be distinguished from white persons, and the resultant conditions are a real peril to Kentucky." He urged a national system of compulsory registration of vital statistics. Local registrars, he said, should for the protection of future white generations observe the greatest care in accurately fixing the racial status of children when registered. Success of a Richmond (Va.) Society. The National Ideal Benefit Society of Richmond, Va., Dr. A. W. Holmes, president, has made great progress during the year in all departments of its work. It will enter the new year, 1017, with a large increase in its membership and a sound financial policy. The success of the society is largely due to the fact that it keeps its pledge to the members and pays its bills. The Rev. Dr. W. T. Johnson, pastor of the First Baptist church, Richmond, is one of the directors and a leading spirit in the membership. THE TWIN CITY STAR JEFFERSON'S LAST WORDS He Explained the Influence of the Declaration of Independence. NINE days before his death Thomas Jefferson was asked to write a sentiment for the forthcoming fifth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the day of jubilee on which, by a singular coincidence, he was destined to die. ```markdown ``` He wrote: "The eyes of men are opened and opening to the rights of men. It has become clear that the masses of men are not born with saddles on their backs nor a favored few booted and spurred ready to ride them legitimately by the grace of God." 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 287. 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." Indiana Baptists Plan Celebration. The executive boards of the various departments of the Indiana Baptist State Sunday school convention held a meeting recently in the South Calvary Baptist church, Indianapolis, to make arrangements for the celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of that organization. The celebration will be held in July. The committee aims to make the affair a notable event in the history of the Baptist denomination in the state. Dr. Thorpe Begins Work at Richmond. The number of professional colored women, not including the great army engaged in teaching, business and social service, is increasing. The latest acquisition to the medical profession in Richmond, Va., is Dr. Bessle B. Thorpe, who has been licensed as a practicing physician and has entered upon her profession. 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 racea. Philadelphia's Population Is Growing. Philadelphia's Population is Growing. The migration of the colored people from the south in large numbers seems to be on the increase, according to a statement recently made by an official of the Armstrong association at Philadelphia. At a conference held by the housing committee on Negro migration in Philadelphia it was stated that about the entire colored population of Glenwood, S. C., had settled in the southern section of Philadelphia. A large committee was appointed to look out for the welfare of the newcomers until employment and permanent homes could be provided for them. The Military Training Camp Movement Much interest is being manifested among our young men in Greater New York and vicinity in the proposed military training camp to be conducted the coming summer. Plans for opening and operating the camp are being mapped out by Dr. Joel E. Spingarn of 9 West Seventy-third street, New York. Dr. Spingarn is chairman of the board of directors of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People. Benevolent Work of Women's Council. The Women's Council at Indianapolis recently presented a light comedy entitled "Just For Fun" at Pythian castle for the benefit of the Alpha Home For Aged Women and also to assist in the new work of the Y. W. C. A. Mrs. W. E. Brown is president of the council. THE HOWARD ORPHANAGE AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL Financial Campaign Being Conducted For Worthy New York Institution. Kings Park, N. Y.--Dr. J. H. N. Waring, superintendent of the Howard Orphanage and Industrial school, which has a 572 acre farm here, is in the market for a bull, which can trace its ancestry back to the bull which had so much to do with the settling of this part of Long Island. The old story is that Richard Smith, pioneer settler, made a trade with the Indians by which he gave certain trinkets in exchange for as much land as he could ride around in twenty-four hours on a bull. The route of his ride is said to form the present boundaries of the township of Smithtown, and his exploit earned for him the nickname of "Bull" Smith, by which he was distinguished from the "Rock" Smiths of the Rockaways and the "Blue" Smiths who settled in Queens county. The. Howard Orphanage owns what was formerly called Indian Head farm, which was part of the holdings of "Bull" Smith and his descendants, Two farmhouses, one 250 years old and the other built in 1709, are still in use as part of the cottage system upon which the orphanage is based. Lawrence Smith Butler, a direct descendant of the historic settler, is vice president of the board of trustees. "Many of the children committed here from New York city and Long Island are so young that an adequate milk supply is of the utmost importance," said Dr. Waring in speaking of his plans. "Therefore we are anxious to build up a herd of cows that will give us an adequate supply throughout the year. Besides the products of our dairy, poultry yards, pliggery and sheepfold, the farm produced 1,600 bushels of potatoes and considerable quantities of vegetables for canning in 1916. "In addition to enough fodder to keep our live stock through this winter, next season we intend to develop the farm to its utmost so that we may be independent of the rising food costs in the general markets. Even so, how ever, the city and county allowances for the care and education of the children are so small that the farm cannot be made to meet the entire deficiency in the case of 250 children. But the nearer we can come to being self supporting the less we shall have to ask from the general public." Dr. Waring also pointed out that the older boys were receiving practical training on the farm under the supervision of an expert agriculturist. Blacksmithing and carpentry are also taught, and the boys have built under the direction of their instructors a domestic science cottage, where the older girls are taught cooking, laundering and other work. The Howard orphanage was started in New York fifty years ago and soon moved to Brooklyn, where it remained until it built up a group of modern cottages on the farm here five years ago. At present this institution, one at Riverdale and a Roman Catholic home at Rye are the only orphanages supplying the needs of the 150,000 colored people in New York city and vicinity. A campaign has been started to raise $100,000 with which to clear the orphanage of all debt and prepare for the increased needs already resulting from the growing migration from the south of the colored people. George Foster Peabody, Selah B. Strong, surrogate of Suffolk county; J. H. Choate, Clinton L. Rossiter and others. THE HAMPTON INSTITUTE. National Influence of the School Shown by Dr. S. C. Mitchell. The address of Dr. Samuel C. Mitchell, president of Delaware college, Newark, Del., at the recent meeting in the interest of the Hampton (Va.) institute, held at Carnegie hall, New York, was a comprehensive review of the institution's efforts and achievements in the educational field. Interest in these yearly meetings of this famous southern school, held in various sections of the north, increases. The mere announcement of a Hampton meeting is sufficient to guarantee a good attendance of friends of the school from among members of both races. The following extracts from Dr. Mitchell's speech show the institution is regarded nationally. Dr. Mitchell in part said: "Hampton stands not merely as a school, but as a statesmanlike program in the making of a race. In addition to making quiet homes, improved farms and thrifty shops, Hampton has planted racial self respect and hope in the heart of the Negro. Negroes are no longer scattered as sheep without a shepherd. The race has been given coherence, individuality and a sense of capacity for growth and achievement by reason of the confidence which Hampton has reposed in its character. "Hampton is not to be regarded so much as a new method in education as the substance of a social philosophy for all backward peoples. If racial adjustment is today an acute problem on all continents the significance of Hampton is worldwide in showing how races differing in color and character may yet dwell together upon the same soil in the spirit of mutual helpfulness." Promotion For Professor J. W. Frazier. Samuel Houston college, long presided over by Dr. W. S. Lovinggood, is progressing very satisfactorily under the leadership of Professor John W. Frazier, acting president. Professor Frazier is well acquainted with affairs at the institution, in which he has taught for some time. NURSES'SCHOOL APPEALS FOR AID If Properly Prepared They Can Give as Satisfactory Service as Others. Work Now Dependent on Northern Friends of Famous Institution at Hampton, Va. Hampton, Va.—Since 1891 the Hampton Training School For Nurses has been preparing colored women for the profession of nursing. "It has connected with it." says Albert Howe, who is secretary and treasurer, "the Dixie hospital, containing seventy beds, which does a much needed work for the neighborhood, besides furnishing practice for the students of the school. "During the twenty-five years in which the school and hospital have been in operation 6,411 patients have been cared for, 171 nurses have been graduated, and thirty-three nurses are THE MUSEUM THE DIXIE HOSPITAL, WATERFRONT VIEW, AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE, VIRGINIA. now taking their course of training. The graduates who have gone out and begun work as private nurses in dif- ferent parts of the south are in con- tinual demand at wages varying from $15 to $25 a week. "This fact shows the need of just the work that the Hampton Training school is trying to accomplish by fur- nishing skilled nursing service for this section of the country that is at present almost entirely without such service and by retaining in the hands of the trained colored women a profes- sion for which, even without training, the colored women have always shown themselves especially adapted. "The work is still dependent upon the gifts of northern friends for support. If it is to go on it must continue for some years to draw about $3,500 a year in donations from those who are anxious to help along an experiment in scientific philanthropy. We are convinced that the colored women cannot long retain a hold upon the profession of nursing without training at least equal to that enjoyed by white women. "We are equally convinced that with such training they can be prepared to give as faithful and satisfactory nursing service as that of the white graduates of the northern training schools. It is to keep open to them a means of livelihood which they are in danger of losing that the Hampton Training THE MUSEUM THE DIXIE HOSPITAL AND NURSES' HOME OF THE HAMPTON (VA.) INSTITUTE. School] For Nurses was founded. In asking for means to carry on this work we feel that we have only to appeal to the common sense and love of fair play that characterize so many of the best people of this country. "Twenty-five years ago this institution was founded through the unstring efforts of Miss Alice M. Bacon, and here was first made the experiment of training colored women in the profession of nursing. Miss Bacon's unwavering faith in their fitness for this profession has been rewarded by the record of good work done by the graduates. Their training here has been an advantage not only to them as individuals, but through them it has been felt in the communities where they have made their homes. "Twenty-five years ago a small two room structure, most primitive in all its appointments, housed both nurses and patients. The hospital opened with one girl in training under the supervision of a superintendent who was a graduate of the Waltham Training school. The first class numbered five, and there were thirty-seven patients under their care during the first year. There were countless problems to be met, but in spite of discouragements and difficulties there was a steady growth. A gift from General Arm-strong built the nurses' home and an operating room. Several private rooms were added from time to time. "Friends rallied to Miss Bacon's support when again and again it seemed impossible to tide over financial crises, and many of them still help the present treasurer to meet the annual deficit which must be met by every unendowed hospital. In 1918 the dream of a new building suitably equipped for the work of a modern hospital and training school was realized, and the new Dixie began its wider ministry. During this twenty-fifth year there have been thirty-three nurses in training and 916 patients have been under their care." The directors are: Frank W. Darling, president; Albert Howe, secretary and treasurer; Dr. H. D. Howe, Hunter R. Booker and Louis Heffelfinger. The executive committee consists of Dr. H. D. Howe, dean of the medical faculty; Dr. Esther Morgan, superintendent, and Albert Howe, secretary and treasurer. The resident staff follows: Dr. Esther Morgan, superintendent; Miss Edna A. Meler, supervising nurse; Miss Kathryn C. Miller, operating room supervisor; Miss Mary Murphy, dietitian. WILL ADMIT NEGROES. Federation of Labor Decides They Are Worthy of Membership. Negroes are no longer to be shut out, either directly or indirectly, from the American trade union movement. Instead, they are to be welcomed in. This is the stand taken by the American Federation of Labor in convention upon the issue raised by the wholesale migration of southern negroes to the industrial centers of Pennsylvania and the middle west. This resolution, presented by the delegates from the Ohio State Federation of Labor and the Cleveland Federation of Labor, has been approved: "Whereas, the emigration of southern Negroes to northern labor centers, which has lately attracted the attention of the United States department of labor and has occasioned anxiety on the part of the organized labor movement because of the danger such emigration will cause the workers in the northern states; and, "Whereas, The investigation of such emigration and importation of Negroes into the state of Ohio has demonstrated to the satisfaction of the labor leaders in that state that they are being brought north for the purpose of filling the places of union men demanding better conditions, as in the case of the freight handlers; and, "Whereas, The shortage of European labor has made the southern Negro an asset in the labor markets of the north and the conditions that prevail in Ohio may apply in all northern states; therefore, be it "Resolved, That this thirty-sixth annual convention of the American Federation of Labor instruct the president and executive council to inaugurate a movement looking toward the organization of these men in the southern states, to the end that they may be instructed and educated along the lines of the trade union movement and thereby eliminate this menace to the workers of the northern states." DANIELS DODGES ISSUE. Secretary of the Navy Refuses to Discuss Recruiting Colored Men. The Democratic administration at Washington has run the gantlet of race prejudice, especially in so far as it applies to the colored people. Thrift, intelligence, loyalty to the flag and efficiency seem to count for naught. An exhibition of such unfairness on the part of an official of the present administration toward our race is given in an article which appeared in the New York Evening Telegram of Dec. 13. The Telegram says: "The color line has been drawn in the navy by Joseph Daniels, the secretary, who at the hearing of the navy estimates before the house naval affairs committee disapproved of the suggestion that Negroes might be accepted as recruits. Mr. Daniels had made various recommendations for meeting the shortage of officers and men, none of which seemed adequate to the members of the committee. "Representative Oscar Callaway, Democrat, of Texas finally asked the secretary what he thought of the advisability of obtaining Negro recruits, calling his attention to statements by officers that the Negro troops were good soldiers and good fighters." "Secretary Daniels did not approve the suggestion. Instead he waved his hand to the committee stenographer, asking that his reply be not made a part of the record, and then, leaning back in his chair, said: "Mr. Callaway, if you will excuse me I would prefer not to discuss that matter." Atlanta Constitution Sounds Warning. 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." 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Dodson, a Negro, which gives us the best side of Negro publicity. Every week the Star has in its columns articles of the race, which will never appear in the white papers or some Negro weeklies. Too often malicious remarks are made about women, in particular, the young women of our race. When they are employed by men, white or black, they are often accused of having immoral relations with their employers. If they are unemployed, the general remark is "Somebody is keeping her." The malicious liars are the worst trouble makers. They "just heard so and so" and cannot name their informer, because they are the only authority for their own statements. SOCIALIST ASSAILS RACE PREJUDICES. Philadelphia, Pa.-Charles Edward Russell, author and Socialist, praises France, because "the narrow, blind hatred of race prejudice is unknown there." Mr. Russell spoke on "Race Prejudices" in the Broad Street Theatre under the auspices of the Socialist Literary Society. The speaker declared race prejudices were rampant in this country and decried the tendency of the white race to consider itself superior to other races of the world. This country, he said, was constantly bungling the Negro problem. He denounced the lynchings in the southern States, and added: "Unless race prejudices are eliminated in this country the crust of the volcano on which we are sitting will give way very soon." "France," continued Mr. Russell, "has given the Negro true citizenship. In France liberty, equality and fraternity are not hollow mockeries and empty dreams. In the Chamber of Deputies Black men sit side by side with whites. France has never deigned to draw a color line. "The Negroes rallied to France's colors when she was threatened. But what if we had a war here and needed our Negro citizens? What if, when we called for them, they answered truthfully enough: 'You have oppressed us; you have killed our men and women and children; you have shown us no justice in your courts; you have trampled us down. We will not fight for you! Would not the Negro be justified? But we know the Negro in his loyalty will fight for us despite our great injustice to him. There is no national safety for this country except in strict adherence to 'liberty, equality and fraternity'." General Charles Young's Leadership. The success of Lieutenant Colone Charles Young as an official in the United States army is concrete evidence of the colored man's ability to overcome severe difficulties, even though given only half a chance. Colone Young is not only a true and tried soldier, who has seen service at the front, but is an organizer and leader of men. GREEK FOREIGNERS `REFUSE TO SERVE NEGRO CITIZENS. Jim-Crow Christianity in Ohio. The white man's "jim-crow" christianity received a severe jolt here, last Friday evening. John R. Mott, of New York city, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A., was here to address Y. M. C. A. people at a dinner given him at the new Deshler hotel. Colored Y. M. C. A. men in many parts of the state were invited to be present at the dinner, and hear him. Among those who responded from Columbus were: Dr. Method, Howard Gillard, Robert B. Barcus, and Secretary Nimrod Allen of the local "jim-crow" branch; Drs. Jordan and Pettiford, of Springfield, and Secretary Dunbar of the "jim-crow" branch at Cincinnati. Our men were put at to themselves—"jim-crowed!" This they stood for—to see what would next develop. When it came time to serve the dinner, the foreign (Greek) waiters of the Deshler refused to wait on them and a colored "bell-hop" in flashy uniform was hastily summoned and assigned to wait on them. At this, Attorney Barcus, in disgust, immediately left the table and strode from the dining room, refusing to stand the insult. The rest of our men accepted the "jim-crowing" insult and remained, your correspondent regrets to report. The Deshler is the only hotel in the city employing foreign waiters (unnaturalized Greeks). They refused to serve native-born American citizens, and the white Y. M. C. A. men presented for the insult given their colored allies. Good Lord! have mercy on both.—The Cleveland Gazette, March 10, 1917. Don't say "insult" Bro. Smith. Just refer to it as impertinence or insubordination on the part of the waiters. Inferiors can not insult superiors. They placed these gentlemen in an embarrassing position and Attorney Barcus is the kind of a MAN to show up this kind of Christianity. AN APPEAL The Minneapolis branch of the N. A. A. C. P. will hold its monthly meeting at St. James A. M. E. Church 5th Ave. So., between 4th and 5th Streets, Sunday evening, March 25th. The fundamental evil of our race is the lack of sufficient appreciation and interest of the responsibility and duty we owe to each other. We have allowed ourselves to so lapse into a state of inertia and lethargy that we are oblivious of the wrongs and injustices meted out to our people, and not even attempt to raise our voice in protest. Have we lost every sense and quality of manhood? Will we stand erect before the world high of heart and purpose? If we intend to play our part as a people and be prepared to do our duty to others, let us decide now what we want to do and make ready to do it. It is the duty of every adult member of the race to align himself or herself with this living existing organization and become an integral part of it. I am somewhat perplexed to think that any right thinking Negro should be without the pale of an association that stands uncompromising for freedom, equality and justice. Dear reader! is it your duty to take out membership? We wee each other a duty for it is the cement which binds the whole moral edifice together without which all powers and intellect, can have no permanence. The membership fee is ONE DOLLAR a year. Will you not lend your moral and financial support to this great movement? We are far from being immune to insults and prejudices here, and we can only do effective work by uniting ourselves and thus be prepared to legally fight these evils. Come out to our meetings and know and learn for yourself what is being done. The question you should put to yourself is not, what would people say? but, is it my duty? Remember. Whate'er thy race or speech thou art the same. Before thy eyes duty, a constant flame Shines always steadfast with unchanging light Through dark days and through bright. R. Augustine Skinner, Secy. N A. A. C. P. RECORD OF CRIME AMONG EDUCATED COLORED PEOPLE Senator Vardaman's Statement of the Facts Is Overdrawn. Senator Vardaman's statement that Negroes who can read and write are more criminal than the illiterates is reexamined by Judge Gilbert T. Stephenson of Winston-Salem, N. C., in the South Atlantic Quarterly. His method is that of instances rather than a comprehensive survey, but his figures are convincing, says the New York Evening Post. The president of Atlanta university says that, although the university follows the record of its grad- uates with great care, not a single one, so far as the authorities know, has ever been arrested for crime. Fisk university reports one graduate convicted and another dropped from the list for immoral conduct. Shaw university has almost as good a record. If such dangerous institutions as these do not develop criminal instincts in their students there can be nothing surprising in the failure of the industrial colleges to do so. SIX GOOD I Why You Should Join Association for the ment of Color It teaches that the most evil thing day and that "Jim accorded all their political rights and exact justice in all segregation, a laws and all other Not one of the 300 graduates of the Agricultural and Technical college at Greensboro, N. C., has been convicted of crime and only five of the 2,000 who have matriculated, two of the five being expelled students. Less than half a dozen of the graduates of Hampton have been imprisoned for crime, and the same holds true for Tuskegee. As to the ability to read and write and no more, half of the Negro convicts in the Mississippi penitentiary had so much education and half lacked it. In the Atlanta county jail, however, seventy-five of the 100 Negroes could read and write. This looks damaging, but as only fifty had finished the first grade in school and none had gone through the eighth grade it would seem that if a little education is bad a little more is excellent. Biblical critics of today have no doubt that the behemoth mentioned in Job is the hippopotamus and that the leviathan denotes the crocodile. OPPORTUNITY OFFERED TO NEGROES IN THE ARMY Government Will Give Educated Men Chance to Become Officers. A military training camp for colored men is advocated in an open letter from Dr. J. E. Spingarn, well known as a friend of the Negro race, who says: "To the Educated Colored Men of the United States: "It is of the highest importance that the educated colored men of this country should be given opportunities for leadership. You must cease to remain in the background in every field of national activity and must come forward to assume your right places as leaders of American life. All of you cannot be leaders, but those of you who have the capacity for leadership must be given an opportunity to test and display it. "There is now just such an opportunity possible for you in case of war to become leaders and officers instead of followers and privates. Major General Leonard Wood of the United States army, commanding the department of the east, has promised that if 200 of you apply for admission he will organize and maintain a military training camp for colored men, with just the sort of training to fit you to serve as officers of volunteers in case of war. "I do not believe that colored men should be separated from other Americans in any field of life. But the crisis is too near at hand to discuss principles and opinions, and it seems to me that there is only one thing for you to do at this juncture, and that is to get the training that will fit you to be officers, however and wherever and whenever this training may be obtained. If 200 of you do not send applications immediately the opportunity may be lost forever. "The camp will be conducted on exactly the same principles as the military training camp held at Plattsburg, N. Y., where thousands of men have received intensive training in military service. It will be under the direction of United States army officers. It will last four weeks. The date has not been fixed, but it will probably begin early in June. The status of every student at the camp will be that of a cadet. just as at West Point. "I understand that the transportation to and from the camp will be defrayed by the government and that the subsistence and training at the camp will be free. It is probable that every man will have to pay his own fare to the camp and that after he arrives his traveling expenses will be refunded and his fare home paid. The only expense will be the cost of the uniform, which each man must furnish himself. This consists of a khaki blouse, khaki breeches, two olive drab shirts, web belt, campaign hat and cotton leggings, costing in all about $8 or $10. Any good russet walking shoes will do. The outfit may be purchased on arrival at camp, or, better still, from the Arm and Navy Co-operative company, with branches in New York, Washington and Philadelphia. Almost any sporting goods store can furnish the outfit, which must be of the regular army pattern. Those who wish to do some study in advance are advised to read 'Moss' Manual of Military Training.' "Candidates must be between the ages of twenty and forty-five, in vigorous health and of good moral character. Men who are graduates or undergraduates of colleges, high schools, normal, agricultural or industrial schools or other institutions of learning are preferred, but any man of intelligence, character and ability may join. Previous military experience is not necessary. If you are not a graduate or undergraduate of some institution it might be advisable to have a letter of recommendation from some person of repute. "Send in your own application immediately. But that is not enough. Go out among your friends and persuade them to do the same. We must not let this chance slip. We must have as many colored officers as possible." "Applications should be sent to Dr. J. E. Spingarn, 9 West Seventy-third street, New York. A brief letter, with a few details about yourself, will be sufficient for the present. We must persuade General Wood that over 200 men want to join immediately." 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-rate inter-marriage lawa 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 thereby 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. Personal Instructions and Demonstrations can be obtained at 3013 GARFIELD AVE. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. MRS. MAGGIE MARTIN, AGT. N. W. PHONE SOUTH 1742 QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE. Our Countrymen's Patriotism Must Not Rebuild the Nation's Confidence 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 southners 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? 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