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DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR St. Paul MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY VOL. 7 Single Copies 5 Cents MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. MAY 5 1917. No. 12 CHANCE TO SERVE YOUR COUNTRY Join a Training Camp and Become an Officer. BE FIGHTERS, NOT SLACKERS All Expenses to Be Paid—Probably Monthly Pay as Well—Fourteen Camps Established All Over the Country—Movement Started by Spingarn Officially Assured of Success. The movement to establish a military training camp in which to train colored men for army officers, started by Dr. J. E. Spingarn of New York, has now been officially assured of success, but under totally different conditions from those originally outlined. The secretary of war has completely changed the arrangements for all military training camps. Until war was declared these camps were for one month only and were virtually open to any one with very slight qualifications. The war department has now established fourteen officers' training camps all over the country, to last not one but three months and to result in a commission for any one who goes through the full training. At these camps all expenses will be paid, including transportation, food, training and uniform, and it is not unlikely that congress will pass legislation adding monthly pay as well. The camps will start on May 8 and last until Aug. 8, and no one can attend for less than three months. Moreover, no one will be able to obtain a commission in the federal army unless he has gone through one of these camps. Over 350 colored men have already applied for admission to the one month camp originally proposed, and these men must now decide whether they wish to go into the serious business of being officers in earnest and devote their whole summer to the task. If they attend the camp for three months they will be commissoned as second lieutenants or possibly higher, receiving a minimum salary of $1,700 a year. If they do not go to the camp they will probably be conscripted as privates or will be deprived of all opportunity of going to the war either as privates or officers. The war department has definitely stated that it intends to give colored men an opportunity to get this training. The department has not, however, decided whether it will arrange a separate camp for colored officers or whether it will admit Negroes to one or more of the regular camps. In the last few days Dr. Spingarn and the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People have been bombarding the war department with appeals to admit the colored men to the regular camps, but whichever method is finally adopted colored men would make a serious mistake if they did not take advantage of any opportunity to serve as commissioned officers in the army during this great war. This first series of camps will be historic, and attendance at them will be a proud heritage to pass down to one's children's children. As soon as the actual details are settled official government blanks will be sent to all those who have sent their names to Dr. Spingarn. They will then be required to go before an examining officer to test their physical and educational qualifications. Upon passing this test they will be admitted to the camp, and after receiving their three months' training they will be the first colored officers to be commissioned in the great war. NO RELIGIOUS EXCLUSION. Methodist Conference Accords Full Privileges to the Colored Delegates. The suggestion made recently in Boston by Dr. Edgar C. Blake, secretary of the Methodist board of Sunday schools, that unification of the Methodist church of the north and the Methodist church of the south could be brought about by dropping out of the general conference the Negro delegates was openly denounced at the New York conference of the denomination, held recently in New York. The Rev. Philip M. Waters, president of Gammon Theological seminary of Atlanta, Ga., declared that the denomination did not seek unity at the cost of humiliation for its loyal Negro members. Such a suggestion, he declared, was proof that "the cause of democracy is not yet fought out in America." The conference showed itself fully in agreement with him and voted its thanks for his answer to Dr. Blake. Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world. NOBLE M. JOHNSON. Well Known Actor Who Is Showing Some Interesting Developments of Race: Progress In a Hitherto Untried Field Amply Prepared For His Work and is Winning His Laurels. A. The progress of the colored people of the United States in education, business and the various professions is creditable and worthy of commendation. There are few avenues of industry into which some member of the race has not engaged with measurable success. This advance is largely due to education, aspiration and able leadership through organized effort. In this connection we doubt if any organization has been more helpful than the National Negro Business league. In the new field of development of racial activities, such as light dramas, vaudeville and photophases, the race is making splendid headway. The Lincoln Motion Picture company, with headquarters in Los Angeles and a branch office in Philadelphia, is one of the most potent movements launched by Negro capital. The company has for its object the presentation of motion pictures showing Negro progress as portrayed by Negro characters. It offers a direct contradiction to the films that present the Negro in an altogether erroneous light. In this direction the company has done much toward educating the public relative to the best side of the Negro's life and to break down impressions, based altogether upon prejudice and injustice. The company was organized primarily to meet this condition and to furnish to the ambitious young men and women of the race an unexploited field. The president of the company is Noble M. Johnson, who is one of the best known young men in his line among us. Mr. Johnson is employed with the Universal Photoplay company and has starred in such well known photo dramas as "Intolerance," "The Western Governor's Humanity." "The Death Warrant" and others. He knows every phase of the business, and in this direction he is able to bring to his work the background that is necessary to make it real and interesting. The officers are Dr. J. Thomas Smith, vice president and treasurer, and Clarence A. Brooks, secretary, all of whom are well known business men. The entrance of the Negro into this field, which is the fifth greatest industry in the world, is doing more to get the correct side of Negro life before the nation than any other single agency. The first Negro picture produced by this company was entitled "Realization of a Negro's Ambition," which was a two part drama based upon love and adventure and which presented the true ambition of a colored youth's aspiration. CAPABLE MAN ON THE JOB. Edwin B. Fairweather Makes Trip With View of Establishing Business. Edwin B. Fairweather is on a business tour to Belize in co-operation with A. B. Starr, chief engineer of a New York corporation, to investigate the possibilities of the Cohue palm nut resources at Belize and vicinity. Mr. Fairweather has gained considerable experience by travel and contact with business men of South and Central America and has first hand knowledge of the methods used in handling marketable tropical products to advantage. On his return to New York the coming summer Mr. Fairweather will discuss with his business associates the entire situation, giving account of conditions as he found them. Whether he will establish the palm nut business in New York depends upon whether a sufficient supply of the product can be regularly obtained to warrant the outlay in capital it will take to establish the industry. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. MAY 5 1917. LEAGUE ASKS FULL MANHOOD RIGHTS Branch of National Body Issues Timely Memorial. Members of Militant Organization at Boston Declare Their Purpose to Remain True to Government—Equality of Legal Standing and Protection More Precious Than Much Gold. Boston.—The Boston branch of the National Equal Rights league sends out the following memorial to the people of the United States. The league pledges loyalty to the government and asks that colored Americans be protected in their legal and civil rights along with other loyal citizens of the American republic. The league in its memorial says: "When this European war began the world involuntarily speculated whether the Irish would be loyal and the Russian Jews because of the denial of home rule by England and of civil and political rights by Russia. As the United States of America enters this awful war the world speculates whether Americans of color will be loyal because of the denial of rights to a majority of them. "Since colored Americans in the past have offered their lives in every way for the country, if Germany is seeking to induce them to revolt it but proves how notorious is their proscription. "If this nation, knowing the active loyalty of the Americans in the past, believes this alleged plotting could succeed it shows that the government and people believe that colored Americans are most unjustly treated. The Boston branch of the National Equal Rights league, meeting when the country is at war, realizing its responsibility as a branch of the only nation wide organization formed by and of and led by colored citizens to oppose race and color discrimination, declares false all charges of disloyalty. "Colored Americans would be less than human if they did not feel bitter every bar from employment, from public accommodation, because of our race and color. Deep is the resentment against enforced segregation by city, state or the federal government whether in the civil or military service. We have no thought of taking up arms against this our country. Ours it has been to save the government from rebellion. This work of our fathers we shall not destroy. There is not gold enough in all the treasuries of the nations of the earth to corrupt us, for it is not a question of money, but of equality of rights. "Let neither white nor colored Americans seek to deny the truths of human nature. Soldiers of democracies fight better than soldiers of autocracies. The same men fight better if in time of peace they can sell their labor in the open market than if denied work because of race; fight better if public accommodation in peace depends on conduct and the price than if it is denied for color; fight more eagerly if in peace encouraged by possession of a free man's ballot than if represented by its denial; fight with more heart if in peace they have court protection than if their very race means possible murder by the mob. "To the national government which calls us all to war, to our fellow Americans of every race variety, we would appeal in the name of fair play, of justice and humanity. We are all citizens of a common country." "There is need no longer of subjection of Americans to the race prejudices of fellow Americans. In the presence of a common danger and a common obligation, with a war devastating Europe caused by racial clannishness and racial hatred, under Almighty God let the United States of America and the people thereof give up race proscription and persecution at home. Let the door of the workshop, the school, the college, the civil service, the army, the navy, the military school, the naval school now and hence forth open alike to every citizen of the republic without regard to race and without distinction of color. Let the right to travel, to vote, to have court protection be free, without barrier or denial. "Give. Mr. President and all our governors, the same encouragement for volunteering or enlisting to white, to brown, to yellow, to black. Americans all, by vouchsafing the same free chance to enlist, to rise on merit, and on return home the same right to civil service and to civil rights without bar or segregation." "Now is the time for all in authority to declare for the abolition of all racial discriminations and proscriptions and for all to join in our unhymbrated Americanism for victory under the favor of the God of all mankind." E. T. Morris. Cambridge; Major Wesley J. Furlong, Melrose; William H. Scott, Woburn; William Monroe Trotter, Boston; Eveline Sport, Cambridge; A. W. Whaley, Mrs. Nannie Bray, William D. Brigham, Mrs. M. Cravath, Simpson Everett, Rev. J. W. Hill, Mrs. A. Morse, William Still, Mrs. Mary Ellott, Cambridge; C. J. Wright. Esq. Mrs. Lucy Hunter, Cambridge; Mrs. A. Morse, Mrs. M. C. Hall, committee on memorial. WORTHY OF CONFIDENCE. German Intrigue Will Not Corrupt Col- labor Amnesty. Save Not Good Land German Intrigue Will Not Corrupt Colored Americans, Says Col. Copeland. Hampton, Va.—The large gathering of colored Americans in the gymnasium of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural institute recently, the speeches which were made by men of that race and the response of the audience to the patriotic appeals of speakers of both races were sufficient proof that the Negroes are loyal to the flag and may be counted upon to do their share of the fighting. It was a notable fact that the highest tributes to the loyalty of colored Americans were paid by Colonel W. S. Copeland, governor of the Soldiers' home, near here. He is a veteran of the war between the states and a Virginia editor whose early life was spent in a southern state while that war was in progress and who knew by experience the fidelity of the colored people. German intrigue presumes that all men are traitors at heart and may be weaned from their allegiance by bribery, says Colonel Copeland, but German intrigue will not corrupt the colored citizens of this country. "The Negro, the southern Negro, the Negro citizen of the United States, as anybody familiar with, his character knows full well," says the Christian Science Monitor, "unfortunately for the purposes of the German strategist, diplomatist and conspirator, is loyalty personified. He is true to the core. He has given countless exhibitions of self sacrificing devotion such as have left, neither in the south, north nor in the nation as a whole, any lingering doubt of his personal or national fidelity. "He is loyal to a cherished conviction in the southern household, in the southern community, in the southern heart and wherever he is best known as he deserves to be throughout the land. He is not treacherous, he is not deceitful, he is not underhanded, he is not ungrateful, he is not a plotter, he is not a conspirator. He is not at all deserving of the confidence or reliance of the imperial German government in any enterprise that calls for treason." There are renegades in the colored race as there are renegades in the white race, says the Newport News (Va.) Daily Press editorially, but as a people they are faithful and loyal. In this community there have been many expressions on the part of the whites of their faith in the loyalty and patrolism of the colored people and that faith will not be betrayed. COLLEGE DEBATING LEAGUES Teams of Three Schools Break Even In Triangular Debate. Atlanta, Ga. There is a great and growing interest in intercollegiate debating among the Negro colleges of the United States and particularly in the south. There are several triangular leagues. The one between Atlanta, Fisk and Howard is perhaps the oldest and the one that has attracted widest notice. The annual triangular debate held in April was upon the subject, "Resolved, That the National Government Should Require Compulsory Arbitration of Disputes Between Capital and Labor." Atlanta university met Fisk in this city and won by a unanimous decision of the judges. Fisk met Howard in Nashville, Tenn., and won, while Howard met Atlanta in Washington and won, so that in every case the home team won from the visiting team. Atlanta and Fisk have been debating for eleven years, during which time Atlanta has won six contests, while Fisk has won five. There is also keen interest manifested in Negro colleges over the present outlook of the world's war. Atlanta university's first representative, in the person of James Williams, the star fullback on the football team, has gone to the front as a United States cavalryman. He will be sorely missed, but perhaps the whole team will follow his example. Graduates of Atlanta university are showing a timely interest in the endowment fund commemorating the fifteenth anniversary of the founding of the university. Clubs in various parts of the country are making encouraging contributions. This is as it should be. Negro graduates and Negro people in general must contribute more toward the maintenance of their institutions if they expect people in general to give to them. Perhaps there is no institution in all the country that has so much to show in gifts from its loyal and loving graduates as Atlanta university has. TIME TO ASSERT POLITICAL RIGHTS VOICED BY COLONEL BOWEN In Paying Tribute to Work of Hon. Joseph C. Manning at New York Meeting Eloquent Lawyer Protests Against Mirapresentation In Some Southern States. New York.—The hearty co-operation between white and colored citizens in movements for the good of the masses of both races in various sections of the country is an indication of the growth in friendliness of the two races toward a better understanding of their problems and how to solve them. The great mass meeting in appreciation of the Hon. Joseph C. Manning, held in New York recently, was, therefore, a wise and timely movement on the part of our people. For thirty years Mr. Manning has championed the cause of our race in the south. He believes that the race is entitled to the ballot, has a right to the protection of the law as given in the constitution and its amendments. A right is a just claim. Among the prominent and influential men delivered addresses in commendation of Mr. Manning's work were HON. JOSEPH C. MANNING. the Hon. Edward F. Craigin of the Republican club, this city; Attorney Isaac H. Nutter of Atlantic City, N. J.; Hon. George E. Wibecan of Brooklyn and Colonel William M. P. Bowen, chairman of the Republican city committee, Providence, R. I. Mr. Bowen is a distinguished barrister and a diligent advocate of the principles of human justice. In his address Mr. Bowen in part said: "I count it a privilege to join with you all in this merited tribute to the work of Hon. Joseph C. Manning. He has felt the iron hand of Bourbon rule, he has reached many minds that count and he has often, almost unnailed, kept burning the light that shows the way to a just freedom. I wish that I might say the people of the north have appreciated his devotion as they ought, but in the generality of the application of southern misrepresentation, in the multiplication of their own individual interests and in the overshadowing European struggle. I fear that all our people have not yet aroused their consciences as they should to action on this important subject. It has remained for you in this serried meeting to emphasize the voice of those who have 'loved justice and hated iniquity.' Political Reforms Needed. "Fashions and mankind move in recurring cycles. Some years ago, through Mr. Manning's efforts in the collection of convincing evidence, a large number of fraudulently elected Democratic congressmen were elected from their seats. Today there is a growing discussion of suggested changes in the national election laws to prevent in future the wholesale robbery of the federal franchise by one portion of the country to maintain its political ascendency at Washington, through strangling the voter and carrying off his vote. "We in the north and west have a direct concern in the presidential office and in the membership of the congress. It is no mere matter of local interest, whether justifiable in local public opinion or not. Southern suppression of the national ballot, both black and white, is playing the game with loaded dice and doesn't give the rest of the country a fair shake. Our property and our human rights are handled in such a way as the preponderating south and its allies may dictate, irrespective of what the actual majority of the whole people in this country may desire. In the language of the street, the tall wags the dog. "Now, what are we going to do about it? Well, let us see. "We can protest to our southern friends and arouse their sense of justice. That protest has already been made and doubtless its truth has been felt by some, but the dominant political organizations of the south have smiled amiably, filed the protests away in the attic with grandfather's clock, thrown out some harrowing suggestions about not 'waving the bloody shirt' or 'stirring up sectional feeling,' and continued carefully to hang on to what they already have. This is all interesting, but unprofitable. "What else is suggested? A national election law-call it what you will—that recognizes the right of every citizen of the United States of America to vote without intimidation for president and vice president and for senators and representatives in the congress and to have his vote honestly counted as cast. No longer should membership in the federal house of representatives be based upon population alone, but the provisions of Section 2 of the fourteenth amendment to the federal constitution should be made a living force rather than exist as a mere scrap of paper. For one thing at least bipartisan federal inspectors of elections throughout the United States would generally give the country the facts upon which to reduce properly the representation in the congress from those states where the national franchise is denied or abridged. American Autocracy Condemned. American Autocracy Condemned. "We discuss today a state of war with the German empire for interfering with the rights of American commerce and of American citizens to use the free seas, and we are pledging more lives and greater treasure to combat the ruthless doctrine of sinking ships without warning in a violation of international law which affects our lives, safety and property. But as a nation we have remained too indifferent to the beam in our own eye. We have condemned foreign autocracy and apologized for American, but we haven't yet effectively stopped either. "How shall we bring about appropriate and effective national action on the southern question? In just the good old way that we Americans always employ, whether at the grocery senate, the crossroads, the clubs or the mass meetings. What did the argonauts do, the early settlers, the colonists, the forty-niners, the abolitionists? And today what are the prohibitionists and women suffragists doing? They acted; they are acting. And so must we until the congress acts. Clean House at Home! "The American people in maintaining their rights abroad must not forget to clean house at home, must not forget to spread the gospel of equal national rights, human justice and liberty as an actual fact and not a mere theory. "When that is done state rights will keep step willingly with national and naturally adjust themselves to their cadence. We can all do missionary work in this cause by discussing it with our neighbors, by pushing it forward in the press, the magazines and in public gatherings. And lastly, but not least, let us support with such means as we can afford the work of those who, like Mr. Manning, are devoting their lives and their labor to the cause of truth. Supply the sinews of war and his tried leadership will do the rest without fear or favor and without faltering, but with boundless enthusiasm and winning the victory. BAPTISTS CALL MEETING. Nashville, Tenn., Selected For Executive Session of Unincorporated Body. The annual meeting of the executive committee of the national Baptist convention (unincorporated) will be held in Nashville, Tenn., on Thursday, June 14. The first session of the committee will be held at 10 o'clock a.m. Besides the work of preparing the program for the next annual meeting of the said convention, which is to be held at Atlanta, Ga., in September, the committee will have many other important matters to claim its attention. All vice presidents at large from each state and territorial convention and the elected officers of the national Baptist convention, the chairmen and secretaries of the various boards are members of the executive committee and are urged to be present. There will be reduced rates on practically all railroads to Nashville on account of the Sunday school congress. It is therefore urged that the members arrange to reach Nashville not later than noon Tuesday, June 13. Every member is urgently requested to notify the secretary whether he can or cannot attend. SMOKE "SIGHT DRAFT" THE BEST 5c. CIGAR | , og _. $4 ENO EEE | 1 al rn mi ftw i i . To fo [ th. G0 TO CHURCH "y,'s,tte Time, TORN se. eT ee “NOW” 18 THE GREAT WORD OF GOD. “NOW” IS THE ONLY TREASURE WE HAVE, YET WE SQUANDER IT AS IF IT WERE OF NO VALUE. WHEN A PERSON SAY8 HE HAS BEEN KILLING TIME HE HAS BEEN KILLING LIFE, FOR LIFE is TIME. YOU CAN DO MORE WITH FIVE MINUTES NOW THAN YOU CAN WITH A THOUSAND YEARS AFTER YOU ARE DEAD. WHAT YOU DID YESTERDAY AND WHAT YOU WILL DO TOMORROW SINK INTO INSIGNIFICANCE COMPARED WITH WHAT YOU MAY DO TODAY. ‘TWo FORCES STRIVE WITHIN US—ONE 18 ACTION, THE OTHER 18 DELAY. ACTION 18 A SEVERE TASKMASTER, BUT 18 RICH IN REWARD, WHILE DELAY 18 AN EASY BOSS, BUT A POOR PAY- MASTER. Shakespeare declares in his familiar but ever true lines, “There ies Gee in ths sifaia of rons which tala at the food Ieads on to fortune.’ ringingl “Once to every man and nation comes the moment to a's There is cae mons tous secret in the psychological moment when the heart is hot and the emotions aroused. Now is always the day of salvation. The old hymn rightly conceived the trath: is a time, we know not when; A place, we know not where, That marks the destiny of men To glory or despair. : ‘ THEREFORE, DO NOT PROCRASTINATE. GO TO CHURCH NOW. YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO GO TO CHURCH TOMORROW. WHO CAN SAY WHERE HE WILL BE TOMORROW? THERE ARE YOUNG.MEN WHO LAUGHINGLY DECLARE THAT THEY WILL @0 TO CHURCH WHEN THEY ARE OLD. THEY MAY NEVER GET THAT CHANCE. THEY MAY BE CUT DOWN IN THEIR PRIME. DON'T DELAY. DELAYS ALWAYS ARE DANGEROUS, BUT NEVER MORE 80 THAN WHEN YOU DELAY MAKING YOUR PEACE WITH Gop. ” GO TO CHURCH NOW. ETHIOPIA’S GETHSEMANE. ‘Whence comes this curse, ‘That permeates the ages with its stench Fastening its claws upon the weaker race, ‘The while it hides a loathsome, craven face From a revealing Justice? ‘Whence comes this curse . ‘That, like grim war, fattens on red life-blood And more cruel yet, condemns a darker race— (Nor for its crimes or wrongs) to an inhuman place: Half man,—half filthy thing? ‘Whence comes this curse ‘That, passing o'er the strong, the vainly proud, the guilty, Chooses its victims from the meekly low; Dealing with heartless cruelty, blow on blow, On those already helpless? ‘Whence comes this curse? Is it a child of Hell or test from Heav'n? Ie it a heritage from Adam's sin, \ Or a stern plague-of-Job to bring us in \ Closer touch with God? ‘Whence comes this curse? But wait:—the mind grows weary of the quest. . 7 ‘The Christ-man's prayer, my Father, teach it me. I too have entered dark Gethsemane— “Thy will—not mine—be done"! A. V. Hall, St. Paul, Mini GRAND MAY REVUE AND MILITARY BALL. Pride of the West Co. No. 1, U. R. Knights of Pythias LANE’S HALL, 8TH AND NICOLLET. MONDAY EVENING, MAY 7TH. __, Brig. Gen. Morris and Staff, and Capt. Jeffrey and Company in _Full Uniform. This will probably be the only dance during May So Everybody Come Out. Good Music. Committee—Col. F. G. Thomas, Chm., Gen. W. R. Morris, Col, J, H, Hayes, Col, Silas G. West, Lieut. J. H- Burkes, Serg'ts I. W. Rhodes, L. F. Thompson, L. Patton, Capt. W. C. Jeffrey, Com- manding—ADMSSION 35 CENTS. . SS HERE WE ARE AGAIN! THE USHER GIRLS ‘The Ushers of the following Showhouses: NEW PALACE, NEW GARRICK, NEW ASTER, GAYETY will give their MAY DANCE.... ~ “MONDAY MAY 21ST AT LANE’S HALL, 8TH AND NICOLLET Committee—Miss Myrtle Hughes, Pres.; Miss Lillian Hender- son, Secy.; Miss Margurite Bludsoe, V. Pres.; Mrs. Emma Russell Treas. DANCING FROM 8 P. M. TO 1:30 A. M. ...ADMISSION 25¢. ———— LEADERS WITHOUT CONVIC-) The Minnesota Indians have of- TION AND PURPOSE. | tered a company te Gov. Burnquis' Men without convictions are like ships without ridders that go hither and thither because they have nc fixed purpose, and they drift - like Yeaves on the surface of @ stream. If there ig any one thing in which Negro leadership is lacking, it is strong con- victions, fixed purpose. They have nc clear conception of purpose, and as 2 consequence they accomplish very lit tle for their constituents, eat, In, ee age of ligence and, efficiency; it is of es importance that thoge: who: ‘ere.should have #tfong convi purpose, and will and energy to ex: ecute them. The result of their achievements, the good which they can ccomplish for the race will be ir direct proportion to the distinctness and clearness of their vision and their honesty and sincerity in the pursuit or enterprise undertaken. 1 must not be superficial; it must be the result of great thought and de liberation —The Atlanta Independent It should be the delight of every Negro to serve under the command of Lieut. Col, Young. We must be willing to follow our dwn leaders. Should the war require a great num- ber of men, it would be a grand thing to have Col. Young as a Brigadeer General. An Army Corps of Negroes would show to the world their fight- ing power and demonstrate that Ne- groes will serve under Negro officers. Defective Page 4° 20, CHURCH. The Minnesota Indians have of. fered a company te Gov. Burnquist to serve as a unit. They have been accepted. The Greeks, many whe have served in this war, are organiz- ing a company to serve as a unit They want to protect themselves Why should the Negro not do like. wise? If the Negroes were so void of manhood as to forget the injustice o! the present administration against them, they would not be possessed o! that loyalty to the American Flas which they have defended with honor in all of this Nation’s conflicts anc always respected in times of peace This is the only home of the Amer. ical Negro and he will defend it tho denied his rights. CONG. THOS. D. SCHALL. Cong. Thos. D. Schall is making R004. He is a National factor and has the courage to do the right, re- gardless of criticism. His enemies refer to his “political ambitions.” The man who does right has no fear that his political ambitions will not oe realized. Cong. Schall is a friend o! the Negroes and they are proud of his record. Company L. of the 6th Mass. Reg- iment, under the command of Capt. J. Holman Pryor, are doing guard duty at Portsmouth N. H. Co. L. is the crack company of the State, and its officers and men are Negroes. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR. . | pees " THE TWIN CITY STAR —_—aS—S___ 2 RACE P &.2" 5 Gifted Young ( I a | ; at Hampton | £ EMANCIPATION Sen of Well Know \ Masterly Address 3 Struggles of the Re ery to Freedom—s J. LOUIS ERVIN, World's Greatest 8: = eee =“ Charles Satchell M cocious son of Rev. | folk, Va., who has be GRESHAM—NOT GUILTY. a temporary breakd Ex-Negro Police. Officers Acquitted| work, recently deliv of Charge of Murdering White institute an addres: Man. tion,” which comman Wesley Gresham, ex-police officer, was acquitted of the charge of mur- dering Martin Larson, a white man, in Distrief Court, St. Paul, May Ist, 1917. It was claimed that on the night of March 24th, 1917, after the closing hours of the saloon, Gresham went into the saloon , cor, Carroll and Western Sts, and demanded that he be served a drink and refused to pay for it and shot the bartender, Martin Larson, who died instantly. Gresham proved that he went into the saloon, bought and paid for drink, and that the proprietor locked him in the saloon and that he was attacked by three men. One of the men struck at him with a police- man’s billy, They threw bottles at him and the proprietor shot at him with a revolver. Mr. Gresham was defended by at- torney J. Louis Ervin, of St. Paul The decision is quite a victory for Attorney Ervin. The tase is the first in many years, if not the very first in the history of St. Paul, where a Negro was accused of killing a white man and defended by a Negro attorney unaided by a white attor- ney, and where the verdict was an acquittal. County Attorney O'Brien asked for a conviction for Wesley Gresham, but asked that he be convicted as if he were a white man. May we never forget such men as Hon. RD. O'Brien. 5 MRS. GOFF ACQUITTED. Mrs. Goff, a white woman was ac- quitted in the district court of St. Paul for killing Garfield Goff, a Ne- gro. Goff was a deacon of St. James A, M. E. Church and employed as porter at the Union Station, County Attorney R. D. O'Brien made a strong cas@ against Mrs. Goff. He was as- sisted by Atty. W. T. Francis. Let- ters and testimony of persons of both races were evidence of Mrs. Goff’s relations with men, her white lover was shown up in the case. Mrs. Goff is the daughter of the Treasurer of Grand Forks, N. D., and had been married ten years. She was dsessed in deep mourning during the trial, but it is reported that she tore off her widow's veil when she reached the street after her acquittal: TO THE PUBLIC. Mr. Woodsie Jamison announce: that he has purchased the interest o his former partner, Mr. Lee Turpin and is now the owner of the saloor at 40 E. Third St. St. Paul. (Phil Reid’s old place). —Advertisement. MAY QUEEN CARNIVAL After the Pythians, go to the May Queen Carnival, given by the Twir City Entertainers, at Union Temph Hall. CLUB’S NEW MANAGER, Mr. Benj. Jones is associated with Mr. Sylvester W. Oliver in the man- agement Of the Workingmen’s Socia! Club at 244 3rd Ave. So. Mr. Jone< was formerly a partner in Jones & Bell’s Barber Shop. He has many friends and a genial disposition. His connection with Mr. Oliver will meet the approval of club patrons. Do not waste your time making promises to our agents. Send your money by Express or Post Office Or- der or in cash or postage stamps. It is our purpose to have our young people learn the value of ef- ficiency. Learn to be the master of ‘one vocation. The ambitious Negro of the last generation has everything in his favor. It was not long ago, that the college diploma was the best credential for menial employment. There is a grand future for every am- bitious young man or woman today. They may feel assured of a safe re- turn for their time spent in preparing for their proposed work. MORRIS REVIEWS RACE PROGRESS Gifted Young. Orator Speaks at Hampton Institute, EMANCIPATION ls THEME | Struggles of the Race Threugh sla Waddle @onoe Gee ans Breohe. World's Greatest Seer and Prophet. Charles Satchell Morris, Jr., the pre coctous son of Rev. Dr. Morris of Nor- folk, Va., who bas been suffering from a temporary breakdown due to over. work, recently delivered at Hampton Institute an address on “Emancipa- tion,” which commanded the respectful attention and admiration of an au- dience of more than 1,500 representa- tive colored people. Mr. Morris is a student at Wilson academy, Nyack, N, Y,, and has made an enviable rec- ord as a public speaker. He bas spent a great deal of time and strength in speaking before large religious bodies. Prior to his recent illness he wus en gaged in preparing magazine material on “The Exodus of the Southern Ne gro." Some excerpts, from bis Hampton in stitute address on “Emancipation” wili indicate the style and scholarship which cbaracterize this young man's public speaking. He in part sald: “This fs the fifty-fourth year of eman: cipation, and it is eminently fitting that there should be an observance of it ut the shrine of Negro education in Amer- fea. Here are displayed in a conspicu- ous form the gallant deeds of those whose souls are not trammeled, whose hearts are not embittered and who bear their burdens with a sense of manly pride and complacency. We come to show that theirs is a patriot ism which will overthrow every despot and overcome every tyrant. “What have we accomplished? What I the sum total of our work? We have produced a Benjamin Banneker, a Phillis Wheatley, a Paul Laurence Dunbar, a Frederick Douglass and a Booker T. Washington, We have plant. ed a schoolhouse on every hill, a church in every vale, a home on every street, a bank on many corners, an in surance company in every city. We ‘own 300,000 separate pieces of property. the sum total of our wealth exceediny '$700,000,000; we have 4,000 lawyers. 8,000 graduate doctors, 150,000 business men, 50,000 ministers, 40,000 churches. 35,000 schoolteachers, who, with a pa triotic fervor in thelr hearts, are help ing thelr race. We love Lincoln. He broke our bonds. He rent our chains asunder. “The white race often boasts of the fact that we have not intellectually been thelr equals. I dare to challenze this statement. I dare to say It ix willfully false and maliciously untrue ‘The Caucasian’ has had fourteen cen turles in which to develop. He, too. was in slavery for five consecutive centuries under Roman rule, yet he dares to assail us because ours was more recent, which is bad logic and worse common sense. But the black man who must of necessity hate » white man fs but half free. The whit: man who will hate a black man is bu! half free, “I am glad the Negro was brought te America. I am glad be worked in slavery which extended over a period of 250 years. 1 am glad be labored with a loyalty, a faithfulness unex celled by any people in similar servi tude, I am glad he did not falter. 1 am glad he bore this crushing weisht well. Iam glad be was crucified ov the cross of American slavery. 1 am glad he was buried in the grave and from that grave cometh a voice und sayeth, ‘Though dead, yet I speak ant live." “When the two sections were becom- Ing more and more estranged, when slavery was the very ground of the southern Confederacy and when the north had seen that ‘slavery was a covenant with death and an agreement with bell’ and that she could no longer support {t, there came the great crisis of the American republic. But God always has a great man ready for ev- ery great crisis. He hadsCaesar reads to wage the campaign against the Gaul» to build up Rome; he had Arnold Win- kelried to defend Switzerland against the Austrians; be had Toussaint LiOuverture ready in Haiti: he had George Washington ready for the American Revolution, and be had the first American, the greatest man in the world’s history, to guide the ship of state through four years of fire and blood. Lincoln knew that slavery was wrong. Lincoin knew that God had said long before, ‘Let my people go. Lincotn knew that a republic could not enduré whose cornerstone was slavery “Henry W. Grady, the south's most brilliant son, has well said of the Ne- gro, “To his eternal credit be it said that whenever be raised his black and huni- ble hands that the shackles might be shaken off, those hands were innocent | of wrong against hia helpless charges and worthy to be taken in living grasp by every man who honors loyalty and devotion.’ We are helping our brethren In every city; we are trampling upon our former trivial prejudices. When we can present a united front, when we Rhee, Spent edges eaenante te aches Tet cscatecl THE CRISIS MAGAZINE. Historic Illustrations and Timely 8to- ries Featured In May Number. ‘The May Crisis is a notable and in- teresting number. It contains the con- cluding part of Jessie Fauset’s strik. ing novelette, “There Was One Time,” and an article on a southern colored farmer, Taylor Henson, written by a southern white man, “The Looking Glass” has some interesting comments 6f the war from the Point of view of colored people and a largely unknown story of the colored sailors on the Mer- rimac. Among the pictures is a page ple- ture of the French African troops after the battle of Douaumont and also pic- tures of the new Douglass square, Bos. ton, and the Agassiz school, Cam- bridge, of which Miss Maria [, Bald- win, a colored woman, is head. In “The Men of the Month” section are featured the late Drs. M. W. Gil- bert and A. 8. Gray, Mr. Battey, the photographer; Miss Knox, a school. teacher; two constructing architects connected with the United States treasury and Dr. Waring, the new head of the Howard Orphan asylum. “The Horizon” has a picture of Blanche Deas and of several recent high school graduates, together with an unusual amount of news. Perhaps the most striking thing in the whole magazine is a new poem bs Mrs, Johnson, “To the Mantled.” which, picturing the future freedom of the Negro, ends with these lines: Like joyful exiles, swift returning home, The cnytarale chanson of their eager While voices, strange to ecatasy, Ions dumb, Break forth in majer cadences, full ‘weet. Into the very star shine, lo, they come, ‘Wearing the bays of victory complete! On the cover Miss Anita Thompson of Los Angeles, Cal., is dancing. The Crists 1s published at 70 Fifth avenue. New York, and is edited by W. BE. Burghardt Du Bois, head of the re search department of the National As: sociation For the Advancement of Col ored People. ‘Sunday Schools to Meet In Boston ‘The board of managers of the New England Baptist Sunday school and B, ¥. P. U. convention held a meeting in New York on Saturday, April 21, to arrange the program for the twenty. fourth annual meeting to be held at the Ebenezer Baptist church, Boston Tuesday and Wednesday, June 12-13 The Boston meeting will have many Patriotic features, according to the plans of the board. N. B. Dodson of Brooklyn is president, and Mrs. C. Goode Harris of Stamford, Conn., 1s the recording secretary. Tents to Meet In Atlantic City May 9. ‘The twenty-ninth annual convention of the National Order of Grand Tents, eastern district division, will be held at Atlantic City, N. J., for three days. beginning on Wednesday, May 9. Mra Alice W. Seay of Brooklyn will re- spond to the mayor's address of wel- come. Rev. James Enoch Churchman Dies. By the death of the Rev. James Enoch Churchman of 78 Oakwood ave- nue, Orange, N. J., at St. Mary’s hos- pital, in Orange, on April 23, the race loses one of its ublest young men. The Rev. Mr. Churchman was organizer for the National Equal Rights league, # business man and an eloquent preach- er. He was a member of several or- ganizations for the eivic and social het- terment of the race, in each of which he played an important part. Mr. Churchman's last great public address was delivered in Faneuil hall, Boston, at the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass, Feb. 14, The Rev. Mr, Church. man was forty-three years of age. ‘Beny Statement ef German Sympathy. The colored people of Wilmington. N. C., are indignant over a report re- cently circulated that the race in Wil. mington sympathized with Germany in the present crisis to the exclusion of thelr own country. It was stated by one of the speakers at a meeting held in Wifinington the last of March that the first three victims of the Ger. man submarine slaughter were colored who dled at their post in defense of the American flag. ‘Traveler—is there water in my room’ Hostler—1 guess not. This here hotel’ got a new roof.—Chaparral. _ Scott Addresses Lodge of Elke. Attorngy Armond W. Scott of Wash- ington, grand exalted ruler of the Im- proved Benevolent and Protective Of: der of Elks, was the chief speaker for Mizpah lodge of Elks at Phoebus, Va., on Sunday, April 15. ‘The occasion marked: the annual memorial and thanksgiving services of the todge. On Tuesday evening, April 17, Mr. Scott delivered an address to the lodges of the order at Pittsburgh. Keystone lodge of Washington, Pa., joined the Pittsburgh lodges at exercises held April 17. Prosperous Society of Virginia Women. ‘The ladies’ auxiliary of the Soclety of the Sons of Virginia in Brooklyn closed the flecal year of the organiza- ton the second week in April with a bank balance of $2,600 and a large in- crease in its membership. Mrs. Annie Harkless was installed as president of the auxiligry for the fourth consecu- tive year. Patristio Washington Congregation. ‘The pastor, Rev. Simon P. W. Drew, and congregation of the Cosmopolitan Baptist church, Washington, have of- fered the use of the church edifice for the recruiting of soldiers. ‘The resolu- tion adopted granting the use of the building urged all colored men eligible to enlist to fight in the war against Germany. y Peake td “9 i “a © ¥ ee £ MADAME M. HART, The Reliable Milliner. BARGAINS IN MILLINERY. MADAM HART, 1215 Washington Ave. So. is having her ANNUAL SPRING SALE of HATS of the LATEST DESIGNS. No two Pat- tern Hats alike. A choice stock to select from. Sale closes May 15th. ATTENTION! LADIES. 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Miss Mary Ray of St. Paul appears from 5 to 8 P. M. NEW RESTAURANT OPENED. Mrs, Attie Bright will hereafter conduct the restaurant at 252 Fourth Ave. So., formerly the Rex Café. Choice meals at all hours. Family cooking a specialty. Mrs. Bright is the wife of Mr. John Bright, the pop- ular lunchman, and their many pa- trons are invited to call—Advertise- ment. ‘YOUR PUBLICITY PAYS. All persons interested in the pro- gress of their lodges, churches, so- cieties etc, should value the power of printer's ink. They should see that their secretaries. SEND ALL NOTICES to the newspapers in pro- ‘per time. They think the Editor ‘should attend’ every affair, whether invited or not, and should know “What is going on?”"—without being informed. Many exchanges clip from our columns, and often things done in Minneapolis get national publicity. LIBERAL SUBSCRIPTION OFFER. Special $3.00 Cembination. We offer a Combination Subscrip- ‘tion to our readers for 1917. We will ice 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 alll orders to < THE TWIN CITY STAR, .... 305 So. Sth St., Minneapolis. Room 302. Very Diplomatic. “rou say De Skill plays an idea! game of golf?” “Yes. He plays well enough to make tt interesting for an Influential friend without actually beu.ing bim.”—New York Telegram. “How did Jones happen to fall down tains?" “Why, bis wife sald, ‘Now, Henry. be careful. and. as he ts not the man to be dictated to by any woman, 4>wa he went.” Chicago Herald. More failures ure due to luck of will than to lack of strength, | In Latin America xuu dried beet tx stretched for tether ropes,