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MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY MINNEAPOLIS DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST.PAUL DOUGLASS HOME FUND CAMPAIGN SCOPE OF THE MOVEMENT National Association of Women's Clubs Outlines Plan For Paying Off $15,000 Mortgage by Popular Subscriptions. Notable Group of White Women to Aid—Mrs. Talbert's Leadership. By JOHN E. BRUCE "GRIT." The National Association of Colored Women, of which Mrs. Mary B. Talbert of Buffalo is president, is making a herculean effort to raise funds to lift the $15,000 mortgage off of the Douglass home at Anacostia, District of Columbia, and the disgrace off the race for which Mr. Douglass suffered insult and contumely at the hands of organized mobs, for its past neglect, apathy and failure to show its appreciation of the greatness of Frederick Douglass, by coming forward now as he came forward in the days when our forbears writed in chains of slavery, and denounced in virile language the hell black crime of human slavery. These good women of the National Association of Colored Women have or are about to circularize the teachers and pupils of our Sunday schools and day schools throughout the United States urging co-operation with their association by the formation of Sunday school and day school leagues and that the teachers in the schools become members of these leagues and such adult members of the Sunday schools as may be interested in the project. Ten is the number required to form a league. These teachers and others organizing leagues are requested to offer their leagues as a Christmas present to the National Association of Colored Women. This can be done by sending at once for an application blank and the payment of 10 cents per year per capita. No other dues or assessments are allowed or expected. The money thus sent is to be used for postage, stationery and literature, "to make our voice heard," reads the circular before me. And "surely you will realize with us that we need the very closest cooperation during these days in which we are traveling through the wilderness. Our president has issued a call to save the home of Frederick Douglass. We want you to help us provide that home. Will you hold a short memorial service on Sunday, Feb. 13, and tell the children something about Douglass, who framed the immortal sentence, "God and one are a majority?" If you love your race and if you are proud of the achievements of its great men and believe in honoring them for the deeds they have wrought send for a program and other details about Douglass day to Mrs. Mary B. Talbert, 521 Michigan avenue, Buffalo. Mrs. Talbert informs me that Mrs. Nettie L. Napier, 120 Fifteenth avenue, North Nashville. Tenn., has been appointed special treasurer to receive all contributions for this fund. Mrs. Napier is a daughter of the late Hon. John M. Langston and the wife of Hon. James O. Napier, former register of the United States treasury. Another interesting point in her letter is that among the women affiliating with her organization are a group of the most noted white women in the United States, a few of whose names are as follows: Jane Addams, Zona Gale, Grace Abbott, Anna Strunsky Walling, Katherine Leckie, Rhetta Walling, Katherine Leckie, Rheta Chlds Dorr, Miss Fola La Follette Florence Woolston, Sophronia Breckenridge, Esther L. Kohn, Mary Rozet Smith, Harriet P. Thomas and Anna O'Hagan Shinn. This is a gratifying list and ought to be sufficient to spur our people on in a mighty effort to save the home of Frederick Douglass and to make it the Negro's mecca for generations yet unborn. Every Negro boy throughout this land should be asked to give from 1 to 25 cents as his contribution to this object, and every Negro man and woman with any red blood in their veins ought for their own self respect to give at least $1. There should be a rivalry between the boys and girls of school age to see which can raise the largest subscription toward this fund. I believe our girls could raise $500 more than the boys because they have got more vim and push in them than some of our boys. The contest is on, and time will develop whether we Negroes can do big things in a big way. Douglass was a great leader and a great man, but not ten Negroes in a hundred really know how useful and great he was. We don't read enough about our own leaders. DAY COACHES FOR TROOPS. Sleepers Not to Be Provided Under War Conditions. Washington.-It is announced by the secretary of war that standard Pullman and tourist sleepers will not be used for the transportation of troops under ordinary conditions during the war. Day coaches hereafter will be used on the basis of one officer to each double seat and three men to each two double seats. The new order applies to all cases except journeys of unusual length, covering more than one night and one day, which cases will be separately considered when they arise. It is explained that the new regulation is necessary owing to the limited number of sleeping cars available for troop movements and to the congestion that would arise on transportation lines if sleepers had to be collected for every large movement of troops. Moreover, by doing away with sleepers, it is declared, the number of cars necessary to handle the movement is decreased by one-quarter. DE POTESTAD OFFERS SWORD Son of Ex-Spanish Diplomat Seeks United States Officer's Commission. Baltimore—R. E. L. de Potestad, son of the late Marquis de Potestad-Fornart, formerly Spanish diplomat in the United States, has applied for a commission in the officers' reserve corps from Maryland and has virtually been accepted by the army examining board at Johns Hopkins university. Leutenant Ellott, chief examining officer, said that although Mr. de Potestad is past fifty-two he is the finest specimen of manhood that has been examined here and has the physique of a man of thirty. Mr. de Potestad's father represented the Spanish government during the settlement of the Cuban claims after the Spanish-American war. He died in Switzerland several months ago. His son has a large estate near this city and is an American citizen. POMEROY CONSENTS TO WORK Notorious Life Convict at Last Mingles With Other Inmates. Boston—Jesse Pomeroy, the state's notorious life prisoner, abandoned his objections to the revised terms of his sentence and for the first time in forty years mingled with his fellow inmates. He has been put to work. When Governor McCall and his council last January commuted that provision of Pomeroy's sentence which stipulated that he should spend his days in solitary confinement Pomeroy objected to the change that made him liable to labor. His refusal to work was punished with twenty-four hours in a dark cell and a diet of bread and water, but he declined to yield until recently. CURED BY LIGHTNING. Sufferer From Rheumatism Says He Is Well Now. Indiana, Pa.—A sufferer from rheumatism each winter for the past fifteen years, Walter Loring of Rayne township believes that he was permanently cured of the disease by a stroke of lightning. While sitting in his home during a severe electric storm, the house was struck by lightning, and both he and his wife were rendered unconscious. It was with difficulty that they were revived. Lately he has not been troubled, and he believes the rheumatism was burned out of his system by the electricity which passed through his body. PROTECTS ENLISTED MEN. Bill Will Prevent Slight to Uniforms Anywhere In United States. Washington. - Representative John Jacob Rogers of Lowell, Mass., introduced a bill in the house to prevent discrimination against enlisted men wearing the uniforms of the military or naval forces of the United States in places of public entertainment. A similar law enacted in 1906 prevents such discrimination in the District of Columbia and in the territorial possessions of the United States. The Rogers proposal would make this law effective in all states as well. The measure will have the support of the administration, it is stated. MUST HOLD FLAG SACRED. Aliens Warned Summary Arrest Follows Desecration. Washington—Warning against desecration of the American flag by aliens was issued by the department of justice. The following notice was sent to federal attorneys and marshals: "Any alien enemy tearing down, mutilating, abusing or desecrating the United States flag in any way will be regarded as a danger to the public peace or safety within the meaning of regulation 12 of the proclamation of the president issued April 6, 1917, and will be subject to summary arrest and confinement." SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. MAY 19 1917. STRENGTH OF U. S. NAVY AMAZES GOCHEPPE Our Fleet, Second In World, Hasten Victory, Says French Admiral. Washington.—Vice Admiral O'Grat, representing the ministry of rine in the French mission here, that he had "every reason to hope we shall succeed in establishing closest possible co-operation between the American and the allied navies the assurance of freedom of the sea the protection of trade and the umph of our rights." "The United States is in possession of the most powerful fleet in the world next to the British, and this is by no means heavily in hastening the when final victory will be wrung the foe," he said. "Your navy is wonderfully equitable and I really felt amazed when I came to see recently some of its war among them the battleship Pena." Sen. Foraker, who made a strong protest against the discharge of 167 men of the 25th U. S. Infantry for alleged complication in the Brownville raid, is dead. Negroes will forever honor his memory—and appropriate services should be held on Decoration day. JURY DECIDES AGAINST SHRINERS IN ATLANTA. Atlanta, Go., May 10.—Following a week's trial in the civil branch of the SuperiorCourt of Fulton county, an allwhite jury brought in a verdict Tuesday which prevents Rabban Temple of the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine from using the signs, grips and other things peculiar to the Mystic Shrine. The case, which has been hanging fire for nearly two years, was the result of an effort on the part of Yaarab Temple (white) to put colored Mystic Shriners out of business. The decision in the case only affects Rabban Temple, however. The first trial of the case resulted in a verdict for Rabban Temple. A "cracker" judge decided against the temple on the second trial, and the Supreme Court of Georgia remanded the case back to the lower courts for a trial on its merits. The arguments made by the attorneys of the white Shriners were entirely of a prejudicial sort, which means, of course, that whites win in the South. An appeal will be taken to the Supreme Court of Georgia, and if necessary, to the United States Supreme Court.—Balto. Afro.-American. OLD MAN TRIED TO ENLIST. Wanted to "Help Out" In Any Way, but Was Refused. Topeka, Kan.—The fact that the United States government does not admit a man over thirty-five years of age to enlist in the army prevented the officers in charge of the local recruiting station from passing on S. L. Palmer, a prosperous Pawnee county farmer, the other afternoon. Mr. Palmer is sixty: two years of age, but appears to be a man of about forty. He appeared very much grieved when he was told he was too old for the service. Neither money nor the desire for experience had anything to do with Palmer's applying for service in the ranks. He owns 700 acres of good Pawnee county land. His only reason was his desire to "help out," he told the officers. He wanted to be admitted as a telegrapher, a draftsman or a mechanic. He said he had fifteen years' experience as a telegrapher. LONDON HONORS GEN. SMUTS Boer Leader Likely to Be Offered High British Command. London. — Lieutenant General Jan Smuts, who was relieved of the command of the British forces operating against the Germans in German East Africa to attend the imperial conference here, received the freedom of the city of London. General Smuts in an address said: "The United States entered the struggle because, like us, she recognized that universal liberty was at stake. The end of the struggle is coming nearer. I have learned the spirit of our armies and knew that it is magnificent in its confidence to carry the struggle through to a victorious end." General Smuts will be offered a high military command, and it is expected he will accept it. STRENGTH OF U. S. NAVY AMAZES GOCHEPRAT Our Fleet, Second In World, Will Hasten Victory, Says French Admiral. Washington.—Vice Admiral Cocheprat, representing the ministry of marine in the French mission here, said that he had "every reason to hope that we shall succeed in establishing the closest possible co-operation between the American and the allied navies for the assurance of freedom of the seas, the protection of trade and the triumph of our rights." "The United States is in possession of the most powerful fleet in the world next to the British, and this is bound to weigh heavily in hastening the day when final victory will be wring from the foe," he said. "Your navy is wonderfully equipped, and I really felt amazed when I chanced to see recently some of its units, among them the battleship Pennsylvania and those trim looking destroyers that came out to meet us at sea. There is no need to praise your naval personnel. Throughout my long sea life it has often happened that I have come across American men-of-war, and I am pleased to say that on every such occasion the very high merit of the officers as well as the perfect training of their men has aroused my intense admiration. "What I have seen here since my arrical serves only to emphasize my previous impressions. And so I am sure that the American navy is ready to support in the most advantageous fashion the cause of the allies now shaping a course toward victory." FIND $4,000 IN "HOME BANK." Money In Small Coin Hidden by Aged Woman. Manitowoc, Wis.—Over $4,000 in nickels, dimes, quarters and half dollars, the accumulation of years, was found by a woman engaged in cleaning the home of the late Mrs. Fred Pingle, aged eighty-eight, pioneer resident of Manitowoc. Money was found among rubbish heaps, sewed in mattresses and quilts, under the carpet and in almost inconceivable places all through the house. The Pingle family at one time lost a fortune through the failure of a bank, which was said to be responsible for the aged lady having secreted her savings about the family home. MORE REPUBLICS AHEAD. Spain, Greece and Sweden Moving, London Hears. London.—Republics in Spain, Greece and Sweden before the end of the war were predicted by a speaker at a conference here of journalists representing the European neutral countries. The speaker, who had returned recently from Sweden, asserted that republican doctrine is becoming popular there. The conference discussed the political and economic conditions in the neutral countries. The effect the Russian revolution had on the countries named was debated at length. It was declared that republican sentiment had won many converts in the three countries. HER OWN ATTORNEY. Mrs. Laura Ella Ruddick In Court Against Brothers. Columbus, Ind.-Mrs. Laura Ella Ruddick, a wealthy resident of this city, acted as her own attorney in a case where she is plaintiff and her brothers, Marcus Hollowell and Hayes E. Hollowell, are defendants. She prepared and filed a motion for a new trial in the case without legal advice. The motion covers several typewritten pages and is written in legal phraseology. Mrs. Ruddick recently was ordered to jail for contempt of court by Judge John W. Donaker. QUESTIONS ASKED IN WAR REGISTRATION The questions which are to be answered in the nation wide war department registration involve comparatively few subjects. Here they are: The name in full, the age in years, the home address, the date of birth, the quality of citizenship, natural born, naturalized or the condition of declaration of intention; the place of birth, trade, occupation or office, employment and by whom employed, dependents if any, married or single, race, former military service and where it was rendered and lastly claims of exemption from draft, with the specific grounds therefor. BURLEIGH WINS SPINGARN MEDAL Noted Composer Given Famous Prize at Washington. AWARDED BY SENATOR JONES Brief Story of Henry Thacker Burleigh's Rise From Obscurity to National Prominence In the Musical World—Rich Trophy Is Donated Annually by Dr. J. E. Spingarn. By N. BARNETT DODSON. Washington, May 16. - The third Spingarn medal was awarded here last night to Henry Thacker Burleigh of New York, the distinguished composer of songs, at a meeting in the First Congregational church, held under the auspices of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People. Moorfield Storey of Boston, the national president of the association, presided. The presentation was made by Hon. Wesley L. Jones, United States senator from Washington. The Spingarn medal is awarded annually to the man or woman of African descent and of American citizenship who shall have made the highest achievement during the preceding year in any field of elevated or honorable human endeavor, the candidate being chosen by a committee of award, which includes Bishop John Hurst of Baltimore, Hon. William Howard Taft, John Hope, president of Morehouse college, Atlanta; Dr. H. Dillard, director of the Slater and Jeanes funds, and Oswald Garrison Villard of the New York Evening Post. The committee's choice is not limited to any one field, whether that be intellectual, spiritual, physical, scientific, commercial, educational or any other. So the winning of the Spingarn medal has come to be the greatest distinction which can be conferred upon an American Negro. The medal is of gold, of the value of $100, and is donated by Dr. Joel E. Spingarn, chairman of the board of directors of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People and formerly professor of comparative literature in Columbia university, who is at present in training for his major's commission at Madison barracks, New York. Henry Thacker Burleigh, the winner of the medal for 1917, is a composer whose songs have for two or three seasons past been sung by a list of prominent singers which would make any composer's mouth water, from John McCormack to Kitty Cheatham. One song, "Deep River," has probably appeared on concert programs during the past season more times than the work of any other contemporaneous composer. And across the ocean Burleigh's "The Young Warrior," with words by the Negro poet James Weldon Johnson, translated into Italian and orchestrated by the great Zandonal, has become a sort of patriotic anthem of the present war. Mr. Burleigh's compositions include about 100 songs, a few festival anthems for church chorus and a volume of plantation melodies, which he compiled in an effort to save them from falling into oblivion. The small group of songs by which he is best known include "Deep River," "The Gray Wolf," to words by Arthur Symons; a superb setting of Walt Whitman's "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors," "The Soldier" and "Jean." "The 'Five Songs of Laurence Hope,'" writes a critic in the Boston Transcript of March 10, "probably represent Mr. Burleigh's best work. Here are haunting melodies, accompaniments rich in detail, yet not overwritten, striking bits of delineation and much skill in the wedding of music to words." Regarding "The Soldier," A. Walter Kramer in Musical America wrote: "Wars produce a mass of inconsequential literary and musical stuff. The present European conflict is no exception. * * * But I think that this Burleigh setting of Rupert Brooke's inspired lines will be among the important art products of the great war when the record is made." These creative achievements have necessarily been snatched from a life of routine musical toll, by which Mr. Burleigh has earned his daily bread. Since 1804 he has been bartoneist soloist in St. George's church, one of New York's old and aristocratic congregations, and for seventeen years he has sung at the Temple Emanu-El as well. These achievements become doubly significant when one realizes how Mr. Burleigh has worked his way f-ward almost without aid, handicapped by color as well as poverty. It is related how Mr. Burleigh as a boy in Erie, Pa., contracted pneumonia from standing in the snow outside the drawing room No. 14 window of Mrs. Elizabeth Russell, where his family was in service, in order to hear Rafael Joseffy play, and was given a chance to open the door for the guests when later Teresa Carreno played at the Russell home in consequence. Working at Erie, Pa., as a stenographer until he was twenty-six, in 1892 he came to New York and out of 500 applicants was given a scholarship in the National Conservatory of Music, where he studied for four years. By teaching singing during his last year there, together with assisting the secretary, the mother of the well known american composer, E. A. MacDowell, he was able to liquidate his indebtedness to the founder of the institution. During one summer Mr. Burleigh worked at a hotel in Saratoga in order to make enough to carry him through until the following Christmas. But when, in 1894, the young musician, standing upon the threshold of his career, secured the position of solist at St. George's, in competition with sixty other applicants, his path became much easier. His talent for interpretation of his own folk songs soon became widely known, and he was in demand to sing in concerts and in the musical programs of the leading mansions of fashionable New York and elsewhere. The achievements last year which won Mr. Burleigh the Spingarn medal are but the mature fruitage of a long life of consecrated labor. This is the third year the medal has been awarded. The first was presented to Dr. E. E. Just of Howard university for original researches, in biology, Governor Whitman making the presentation in New York. In 1916 the governor of Massachusetts presented the second medal in Boston to Lieutenant Colonel Charles Young of the Tenth cavalry, United States army, for his services in reorganizing the constabulary of Liberia, West Africa. HAMPTON HONORS CELE. Dramatic Club Presents "Oedipus at Colonus" For South African's Benefit. Hampton institute does not teach Greek as a language, but through the Sophoclean Dramatic club, a student organization, its workers and students see, once a year, a careful and artist's presentation of some fine Greek plays. For the benefit of Madikane Q. Cele (a Hampton graduate) and his work in South Africa the Sophoclean club recently played "Oedipus at Colonus," translation by Sir George Young—the last play written by Sophocles, but the second of the three dealing with Oedipus and his family, the first being "Oedipus the King" and the last "Antigone," which was presented last year. A history of the play follows: Oedipus, for many years a wise and honored king of Thebes, found late in life that instead of being the son of the king of Corinth, as he had always supposed, he was really the son of the king of Thebes, Laius, whom he had killed in self defense many years before and whose name he had never known. This and other laws broken in innocence so affected his mind that, in despair and self reproach, he put his own eyes and allowed his kingdom to pass into the hands of his two young sons, Polynices and Eteocles, and their mother's brother, Creon, who acted as their regent or councilor. To gain their own selfish ends both Creon and the sons made the old king's life so unhappy that he was at last forced to leave his native city and wander in other lands. The two daughters were loyal to their father, Antigone, the elder, sharing his wanderings as his guide and Ismene remaining at home to guard her father's interests. Through an oracle of Apollo the rulers and people of Thebes learned that the welfare of their city was to depend henceforth upon the presence either in life or death of their deposed king. To gain this blessing of the gods and at the same time to continue their own plans they decided to bring back the wanderer and imprison him just outside the city walls, where they could control him while he lived and claim the blessing promised to the city that should hold his grave. GAINS SIX POUNDS IN DAY. Eats Four Heavy Meals to Reach Weight For U. S. Aero Service. Chicago—McMillan Weddell of Hinsdale, a suburb, has been accepted as a recruit to the government aero service after having been refused earlier. Weddell, who is an experienced aviator, tried to enlist, but was found to weigh but 142 pounds. Recently he was accepted, having brought his weight up to the required 148 pounds by eating four very heavy meals during the day, the meals being made up of many eggs and large quantities of other foodstuffs, together with much water. "What's your missus kicking about?" inquired the housemaid from next door. "This is her night out, but I told her I had an engagement myself."—Kansas City Journal. SMOKE "SIGHT DRAFT" THE BEST 5c. CIGAR SOCIAL NEWS EDITOR, Miles Clara Lucas, 506 Boston Block, Minneapolis. Minneapolis, Minn. NIC. 1873. Send your notes to us by Wednes- day A. M. The Star tries to publish the news of Negroes entirely. We know the "war news" is interesting, but Negroes read and pay for the daily papers, which carry the current news. We have the exclusive right of the plate service edited by N. B. 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. Read the Negro Papers. IMPORTANT NOTICE. The publisher of The Twin City Star urgently requests that subscribers send in their dues, or ask for a collector to call. The cost of publishing a newspaper is increasing, and it is important that subscriptions conditions improve The Twin City and ads be paid for NOW. "DIG UP." Is G. L. Morrill's subject at the People's Church, New Gorden Theatre, Sunday 10:30 A. M. NICARAGUA views, travel movies, organ. REVIVAL AT BETHESDA. The two weeks Revival Services began at Bethesda Baptist Church on Wednesday night. Dr. J. C. Robinson of Monticello, Ark., who has spent two weeks at Pilgrim Baptist Church in St. Paul is having great success. Mrs. Maud Canty, the organist has selected special music. Rev. Beasley, the pastor, is confident of a large attendance of Bethesda followers. THE SUNDAY FORUM The Sunday Forum meets at Bethesda Baptist Church, 8th St, and 11th Ave. So.,Sunday afternoon, May 21. The program committee is pleased to announce that the Rev. Alfred H. Lealtad will address the Forum on that day. Rev. Lealtad has charge of the St. Phillips and St. Thomas Episcopal Churches of St. Paul and Minneapolis and has a host of friends in both cities who will prize this rare opportunity to hear him lecture. Mrs. Harley Poore, whose charming voice added so much to the success of "Saul" of recent memory, will be heard in a selected vocal number. An instrumental number and a reading are other expected additions to a program that promises to be unusually satisfying; also the usual features of Critic, Journalist, Reports etc., that go to make up the Forum's usefulness and interesting meetings. You are cordially invited. Rev. Chas. S. Morris of Norfolk, Va., has closed his meetings in this city and is drawing large crowds at St. James A. M. E. Church in St. Paul. Mrs. Chas. Sumner Smith left Thursday night for Boston, Mass., to visit relatives. She expects to remain all summer. Mrs. O. Alexander of Minneapolis, Minn., has gone to Owatonna for a two week's sojourn. While there she will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Max Armstrong. Little Albert McClure is ill with the chicken pox. Miss Eunice Smith, of Elliot Ave., entertained the Y. G. B. C's on Wednesday evening. Mr. Walter Dodson left this week for Duluth to remain indefinitely. Mrs. W. Ellis Burton is rapidly improving. She will spend the summer at Anoka, Minn. REMEMBER THIS. The J. & H. Laundry is owned and operated by the Gibbs Boys, sons of Mrs. Ione E. Gibbs. We mention this because many on the north side patronize other firms. This is the most modern wet wash laundry in the Northwest. Don't forget The Usher Girls on Monday night. Bigger and Better than ever.—Adv. WHY WORRY? TAKE LIFE EASY! You may enjoy comfort and make it pleasant for the whole family and your friends at little expense, if you invest in a Porch-Couch or Rocker, or Lawn Swing or Hammock. They are on sale at BOUTELL'S. Reasonable Prices and Terms.—Advertise-ment. ALL SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS ONE DOLLAR PER INCH. NEGRO PASTOR SUED; WIFE CHARGES CRUELTY. Rev. M. W. Withers, pastor of the Zion Baptist Church, colored, was today restrained from selling any property that he owns, pending a hearing on a petition filed by Mary Withers, asking for temporary alimony of $25 a month while she sues for divorce. Mrs. Withers alleges in her complaint that her husband beat her. His side of the story has not yet been told.-Minneapolis Journal, May 17, 1917. MRS; MARY MOSELY WITHERS. The Star regrets the matrimonial troubles of Rev. and Mrs. M. W. Withers. Mrs. Withers came to Minneapolis from Chicago with a splendid reputation. She has proven, by her public life, to be a worthy woman. Her accomplishments are unusually good, and she has that sympathy which she deserves. Rev. Withers has a record he should not be proud of, and it is the opinion of many that Mrs. Withers has good grounds for her action. Mr. Montgomery of The Advocate has returned to the city. He assumes a great interest in the Revivals and rumors are current that he is actually interested in soliciting finance for a church. Montgomery is a money-getter. Mr. Phil. Hale admits it. ST. THOMAS' BAZAAR Decoration Day. Admission Free. The Ladies of the Parish Aid of St. Thomas Mission, 27th St. and 5th Ave. So., will give a Bazaar on Wednesday afternoon and evening, May 30th. Excellent program. Green Dinner served, and many other good things to eat. Admission Free. DICKERSON'S COMBINED SHOWS. Mr. John A. Dickerson, the king of road-showmen, has assembled several of the most entertaining aggregations in his Combined Shows. Mr. Dickerson is recognized as the premier producer of amusing features and his latest novelties are clean and will meet the approval of the most discriminating audiences. He has secured many leading white professionals and expects to feature a Negro Jazz-Band. Mrs. Luther Abbey attended the Grand Chapter of Eastern Star this week in Iowa. Read Mr. Martin Brown's advertisement. Rev. and Mrs. E. H. McDonald of St. Paul, have gone to Pittsburg. Pa., to reside. Rev. McDonald is pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church which has a congregation of 1500. Mrs. Brown S. Smith was called to Kansas City on account of the death of her sister, Miss Sarah Porter, a former school teacher. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McMoore have moved to 918 Bassett Pl. Mrs. R. D. Ware, of Lethbridge, Ala. is visiting her father, Mr. David Kinnebrew of 932 LaFond St., St. Paul. PILGRIM'S OLDEST DEACON DIES. John D. Trotter, one of the old citizens of the city, who for many years was deacon of Pilgrim Baptist Church, being the oldest deacon of the church at the time of his death, died at the City Hospital May 4th, aged 80 years. The funeral took place at Pilgrim Baptist Church on Monday, May 7th, at 2:30 o'clock. There was no regular sermon, but a eulogy was given by Rev. D. E. Beasley, Mr. Geo. W. James spoke in behalf of the deacons and Rev. B. N. Murrell made appropriate remarks. Special music by the choir. Floral tributes were beautiful. Lyles, funeral director; interment at Oakland. He leaves two children to survive him, Mrs. Gertrude Vinegar of Minneapolis and Mr. Robert Trotter of St. Paul. THE TWIN CITY ENTERTAINERS MAY BALL AND FESTIVAL MONDAY NIGHT, MAY 21 See the May Queen Crowned! Music by The Peerless Orchestra. Prof. Earl Blevins. ADMISSION 35c. HERE WE ARE AGAIN! THE USHER GIRLS The Ushers of the following Showhouses: NEW PALACE, NEW GARRICK, NEW ASTER, GAYETY will give their Committee—Miss Myrtle Hughes, Pres.; Miss Lillian Henderson, Secy.; Miss Margurite Bludsoe, V. Pres.; Mrs. Emma Russell, Treas. DANCING FROM 8 P. M. TO 1:30 A. M. ADMISSION 25c DANCE PITY THE CHILDREN. Pity the poor children of many families. It is hard for many a hard working parent to support a family. Under the high cost of living these innocent sufferers are denied the necessities of life. We have a Belgium within our borders. NEGRO PRESS IS ACTIVE. Millions of black men are watching national legislation and regulation. The recognized press of the race is doing its duty. There are a few slackers, but the vanguard is on the firing line fighting for their rights. Article 1, of the Amendments to the U. S. Constitution is a sacred safeguard for all loyal citizens. The free exercises of religion, speech, press or peaceable assembly and petitions for redress of grievances constitute the fundamentals of this great Republic, and are intended to give all men equality before the law. The Negro press stands for love of country and duty to their race. Whenever duty calls, they will not falter. Dr. Chas. S. Morris is lecturing in the Twin Cities during the May Revival services. Dr. Morris is the greatest temperance lecturer in America. Several agents of the Department of Justice are watching among our people. Any remarks, inclined to discourage volunteers, may cause serious trouble. We have few traitors among our race, but we have many who talk in opposition to any movement for argument only. AN IMMUNITY BATH. A man, who was asked, why he did not attend therevival meeting? said, "Hell! I gave Rev—— my dollar." May-be this preacher who preferred a man's money more than his presence peddled him absolution from attendance, and lost a convert. This accounts for the small audiences for Dr. Morris when there should have been standing room only. Peoples Christian Assembly. ELDER G. W. MITCHELL, Pastor. Assisted by Mrs. G. W. Mitchell. Come! and Serve the Lord. 1204 Washington Ave. So. Services Sunday—11 A. M. Sunday School—1:30 P. M. Praise Meeting—3 P. M. Preaching—8 P. M. ANNOUNCEMENT. John H. Hickman, Jr., attorney, hereby announces that on and after Monday, April 23, 117, he will be engaged in the practice of law, associated with Attorney Hammond Turner. Offices, 321 American National Bank Bldg., corner Fifth and Cedar streets. Mr. Hickman will be pleased to consult and advise with any who desire his services. WANTS TO LOCATE HIS PARENTS. Carl Beckwith wishes to know the address of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Beckwith, who lived in Minneapolis. Mr. Beckwith was a cement worker. Send information to this office by mail. AUTOMOBILE LESSONS GIVEN. Young men! Learn to earn $100. per month. I will teach you to drive and operate any make of automobile within five weeks. Apply to M. BROWN, 2313 Park Ave., Phone Main 5040. Mrs. Ford and daughter, Hazel Jones, of Mississippi St., returned after a three week's visit in Chicago, Ill. Mr. Wm. Stafford is in the City Hospital suffering from an amputated toe. Mrs. Arthur Hedge and daughter are in the city guests of her mother, Mrs. Taylor. CITY ENTERTAINERS BALL AND FESTIVAL DAY NIGHT, MAY 21 Queen Crowned! Music by The Prof. Earl Blevins. OMISSION 35c. ER GIRLS following Showhouses: BLOCK, NEW ASTER, GAYETY are their MONDAY MAY 21ST. TH AND NICOLLET Hughes, Pres.; Miss Lillian Hendere, V. Pres.; Mrs. Emma Russell, :30 A. M. ...ADMISSION 25c. THE TWIN CITY STAR BE CAREFUL. Mr. Ralph Watson, who has for many years held one of the most responsible clerical positions with the N. W. Consolidated Milling Co., left last week for Williamsburg, Va., his birthplace. He expects to visit Norfolk, Hampton, Newport News, Richmond and other eastern cities before returning. Mr. Watson has not been to his former home in 28 years. He is an authority on the milling system and has given several lectures on the scientific production of flour, and is held in highest esteem by many of the best people of both races in the Twin Cities. Mr. Watson is an ardent fisherman and will enjoy the deep sea sport in Hampton Roads. Dr. W. Sampson Brooks, formerly of Minneapolis, is the new pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Church in Baltimore, Md. EVERY DAY is BARGAIN DAY at the ROOT & HAGEMAN STORE, 407 Nicollet Ave. The Poor Debtor's Court has been established and Hon. Thos. H. Salmon appointed as its judge. We shall invite his decision on many of our delinquent subscribers. Are you a delinquent subscriber? If so, why not send your subscription? Mr. James A. Jaxon of Baltimore, special representative of the B. and O. R. R., spent several days in the city. The Twin City Entertainers May Festival, Monday Night, May 21. Do not waste your time making promises to our agents. Send your money by Express or Post Office Or-dummae approved to us at 10 p.m. Eastland, From Which Many Lives Were set Will Be Eligible Were Lost, Will Be Flagged. Great Lakes, Ill.—A fleet of training ships shortly will be sailing the great lakes, it was announced at the United States naval training station here. Captain W. A. Moffett, commandant, has planned the mobilization of a number of vessels mounting guns ranging from one pounders to six inch pieces. The fleet will serve to train recruits passing through the training station here, which has been greatly expanded since the outbreak of war, in addition to protecting lake cities. The steamer Eastland, which turned over in the Chicago river in 1915 with a loss of 812 lives and which is now being rebuilt as a gunboat, will be the flagship. Other vessels in the fleet will be two of the former Spanish gunboats which were captured by Dewey at Manila bay. SLACKERS NOT WANTED. But This One Enlisted After He Changed His Name. Newark, N. J.—A heavy set young man walked into the army recruiting office here and told the officers in charge he wanted to enlist. "What's your name?" asked the lieutenant. "Slacker." was the reply. "Nothing doing," shot back the officer. "We don't want any slackers here." The man later explained that he was Andrew Slacker of Middletown, Sussex county, N. J., and that he wanted to break off diplomatic relations with his name. He was accepted. BOY TO GET A MEDAL FOR RESCUING ROBIN It Was Held In Trestop by String and He Climbed to Free It. Hartford, Conn. - The Connecticut Humane society, through its president, the Rev. William Deloss Love, has informed ten-year-old Michael Ravolefe of the Second North school, East Hartford, that he is to have a medal for rescuing an imprisoned robin a few days ago. Little Michael had to climb an elm tree seventy-five to eighty feet high to effect the rescue. The robin had flown to one of the topmost branches with a long string in his bill for nest building. The string caught in a stout twig, and as the robin worked to get it free the string tangled itself into a double hitch about one of its legs. It was then held prisoner and was noticed for two days helplessly trying to work itself loose and squeaking plantively. Michael's schoolfellows were talking about the bird, and he asked them to lead him to the elm. It took him more than half an hour to work his way to the top at the tree. And at the last of the job it required nerve and coolness, for he was out on very slender and swaying branches. But he managed to reach the twig to which the string had fastened itself and snapped it off. With this hanging to its leg the robin fluttered to the ground, was released and flew off wildly chirping at its restored freedom. 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CHOICE CITY AND SUBURBAN PROPERTY FOR SALE ON SMALL MONTHLY PAYMENTS. Houses and Flats for Rent. B. M. McDEW, 802 Sykes Block. N. W. Nic. 621 Minneapolis OSCAR GILBERT PRICE. Real Estate, Insurance and Loans. Choice Property for Sale or Rent. 2814 10th Ave. So. N. W. South 5250 Minneapolis N. W. Phone Nic. 1873 J. M. MORRIS Real Estate Broker Loans Collections 506 BOSTON BLOCK MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Office Phone N. W. Main 625 GALE P. HILYER ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW With Hall and Tantges 722 New York Life Bldg. Minneapolis, Minn. Res. N. W. South 3347 Peterson, The Druggist 1501 Washington Ave. So. TOILET ARTICLES, DRUGS PRESCRIPTIONS. He Solicits You Paironage. Phone Hy. 3605. DR. ELLIS BURTON 715 Sixth Ave. No., Minneapolis, Minn. DENTIST. Graduate Northwestern Dental School of Chicago. INSTRUCTION ELOCUTION and SPANISH Taught by PROF. J. W. BUNDRANT 3616 Fourth Ave. So., Minneapolis Tel.: N. W. Colfax 4835. WHITING-CHARLTON SHIRT CO. Established 1870 Custom Shirts and Underwear 314 SOUTH FOURTH STREET All Measures Kept On File MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. PETER H. BURKE MINNEAPOLIS. JOSEPH DAHL, Prop. RBER SHOP BELL, Proprietor. UP, POLITE BARBERS BILLIARD HALL ERS, SHOE SHINING ... MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. tern, Main 2511. N. W. Main 5244 GO TO CHURCH. Do it now. "NOW" IS THE GREAT WOR TREASURE WE HAVE, YET W OF NO VALUE. WHEN A PER TIME HE HAS BEEN KILLING CAN DO MORE WITH FIVE MIN A THOUSAND YEARS AFTER YESTERDAY AND WHAT YOUR INSIGNIFICANCE COMPARED TWO FORCES STRIVE WITHIN IS DELAY. ACTION IS A SEVE REWARD, WHILE DELAY IS A MASTER. Shakespeare declares in his is a tide in the affairs of men w fortune." And Lowell ringing and nation comes the moment tous secret in the psychological the emotions aroused. Now is old hymn rightly conceived the "NOW" IS 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 SAYS 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 IS ACTION, THE OTHER IS DELAY. ACTION IS A SEVERE TASKMASTER, BUT IS RICH IN REWARD, WHILE DELAY IS AN EASY BOSS, BUT A POOR PAYMASTER. Shakespeare declares in his familiar but ever true lines, "There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune." And Lowell ringingly proclaims, "Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide." There is some momentous 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 truth: There 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 NOW. YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO GO TO CHURCH WHO CAN SAY WHERE HE WILL BE TOMORROW. YOUNG MEN WHO LAUGHINGLY DECLARE THAT GO TO CHURCH WHEN THEY ARE OLD. THEY MA THAT CHANCE. THEY MAY BE CUT DOWN IN DON'T DELAY. DELAYS ALWAYS ARE DANGEROUS MORE SO THAN WHEN YOU DELAY MAKING YOUR GOD. ORE, DO NOT PROCRASTINATE. GO MAY NOT BE ABLE TO GO TO CHURCH MAY WHERE HE WILL BE TOMORROW IN WHO LAUGHINGLY DECLARE THAT WHEN THEY ARE OLD. THEY MAKE ICE. THEY MAY BE CUT DOWN IN Y. DELAYS ALWAYS ARE DANGEROUS MAN WHEN YOU DELAY MAKING YOUR 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 GO 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 SO THAN WHEN YOU DELAY MAKING YOUR PEACE WITH GOD. GO TO CHURCH NOW. HOME COOKING- REASONABLE RATE THE ARCADIA 500 Four CONABLE RATES FOR TABLE M THE ARCADIA RESTAUR 500 Fourth Avenue So. MONE MAIN 3487, MINNEAPOL REGULAR DINNER 25 CENT N. W. PHONE MAIN 3487, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. REGULAR DINNER 25 CENTS W. S. SIMMONS, Prop. Winter Suits and Overcoats $30.00 Suits or Overcoats $15.00 $35.00 Suits or Overcoats $17.50 BROWN BROS. MERCANTILE CO. Tallors and Furriers. 21 South Sirth Street, Minneapolis. A Do you dread the summer with its hot, tiring days and the big problem of keeping the children happy without letting them run the streets? Let us offer a suggestion: will be the center of life for the little ones all summer long, the best playground they could ask. You will have the comfort of knowing they are safe at home, and when the household duties are completed, you, too, will have the rest that is to be found only in a comfortable garden swing. BOUTELL BROTHERS Marquette at Fifth ATE. GO TO CHURCH TO CHURCH TOMORROW TOMORROW? THERE ARE ARE THAT THEY WILL THEY MAY NEVER GET DOWN IN THEIR PRIME ANGEROUS, BUT NEVER ING YOUR PEACE WITH -CLEAN SERVICE THE TWIN CITY STAR Closing Our 38th Every month of May we reduce our stock used or slightly soiled. Our fiscal year ends May 31st and our off that anyone can own a Piano or Player Piano. Dozens and dozens of people are finding th BIGGER and BETT Closing Our 38th Business Year Every month of May we reduce our stock by quoting lowest of prices on everything used or slightly soiled. Our fiscal year ends May 31st and our offers until then are so low, and terms so easy, that anyone can own a Piano or Player Piano. Dozens and dozens of people are finding this month of May that our propositions are BIGGER and BETTER THAN EVER Sheet Music Hundreds of good sheets of music slightly soiled, 7c a copy. Many of these are 30c hits. THURSDAY WALWORTH, Maho DYER & HOWARD STARR, Mahogany, GABLER, Immense CHICKERING, Big ROYAL, Oak Case, Also a Steinway, Kranich A few good cabinet player YOUR PIANO METRO 41-43 South Sixth St Mail O THURSDAY and FRIDAY OFFERS: Also a Steinway, Kranich & Bach, Ivers & Pond, Mason & Hamlin and dozens of others A few good cabinet players----335, $40, $50, $60----Everything guaranteed. YOUR PIANO and PLAYER PIANO IS HERE. METROPOLITAN MUSIC CO. 41-43 South Sixth Street Mail Orders Filled Promptly in All Departments. MUST DRAFT MEN. Volunteer System Cost Britain Specialists and Inventors. TO SAVE AMERICAN BRAINS. Sir Ernest Shackleton Says That No Matter How Long War Lasts, No Matter What Burden of Suffering She Places on Rest of World, Germany is Beaten. New York.—The selective draft finds a strong advocate in Lieutenant Sir Ernest H. Shackleton, the antarctic explorer, who arrived here on his way to report at London for duty on a special mission. The world, he said, would have to look to America for the next thirty years for its specialists, inventors and scientists, and only by saving these by selective conscription would the United States be able to perform this great service. "Selective conscription," he said, "assigns these specialists to the posts where they will do the most good for the country instead of sacrificing them PETER H. HARRIS Photo by American Press Association. SIR ERNEST H. SHACKLETON. in the trenches. I am satisfied that volunteering is the costliest system in the long run. The volunteer system fails at the crucial moment, for there comes a time when all of the high hearted have volunteered and recruiting dwindles away. "That is what is happening in Australia, where conscription was defeated by popular vote. Australia already has contributed 280,000 men out of a total population of about 5,000,000, but it requires a monthly quota of 12,000 to keep this force up to strength, and already there are signs that the supply of men to be secured by volunteering is approaching exhaustion. The Australians are learning their lesson, and I think that Sir William Hughes, the premier, and his supporters will carry conscription. "England's losses in brains under the ur 38th Busin we reduce our stock by quoting lowest may 31st and our offers until then are so piano or Player Piano. people are finding this month of May t R and BETTER THAN THE PANEL SDAY and FRIDAY ON Many Pianos Only $1 Per Week. Hogany, only... D, Rosewood, only... Y, only... Se Bargain, only... G Snap, only... e, only... Bach & Bach, Ivers & Pond, Mason & Harn yers—$35, $40, $50, $60—Everything NO and PLAYER PIANO ROPOLITAN MUSIC The Complete Music Store. volunteer system have been incalculable. Our specialists are being destroyed on the battlefield. America should profit by the mother country's mistake. "No matter how long the war lasts, no matter what burdens of suffering she places on the rest of the world. Germany is beaten." BEAVERS ATE HIS TREES. But State Doesn't Have to Pay Damages to Barrett. Mount Vernon, N. Y.-Following a contest in the courts for five years William G. Barfett of Katonah has lost his claim for $1,900 against the state of New York for destruction of poplar trees by beavers on his game preserve in the Adirondacks. The decision of the court of appeals reverses the appellate division, which affirmed a judgment for that amount granted by the court of claims. The case was the first action of its kind ever tried in the state. The court of claims found that the destruction was caused by four beavers liberated on Eagle creek and their descendants that used the branches for their houses. The claimant claimed that the beavers were wards of the state. Not`One Graduate Divorced. Lafayette, Ind.-Records of graduates of Purdue university show that not one young woman graduate of Purdue has been divorced. The records show that an unusually large percent age of the girl graduates are married. WHOLE FAMILY TO SERVE UNCLE SAM Cincinnati.—Cincinnati boasts it is the only city in Ohio to have an entire family enlist for war service. The family is that of James A. Vine. The son is a member of a guard regiment. His father has joined the reg ment band. Vine's wife and daughter, evidently not of the "clinging" type, have enlisted in a Red Cross unit. NO FIREWORKS THIS YEAR. Adamson Won't Permit Sale of Noise Makers In New York. New York.-This year's Fourth of July is to be absolutely sane and noiseless. Robert Adamson, fire commissioner, has decided against granting licenses for any kind of fireworks. He gives as his reasons—first, alien enemies might take advantage of the public sale of fireworks to store explosives; second, the powder that would go into fireworks ought to be conserved for war purposes. FIVE HUNDRED REDMEN WILL FIGHT FOR FLAG Eastport, Me.—Five hundred Passamaquoddy Indians, led by Chief Peter Neptune, marched six miles from their reservation to this city to escort a company of Maine infantry to the railroad station prior to its departure for duty in another section of the state. All male members of the tribe of military age offered to enlist and then were accepted. In bundles of 4 to 6 rolls each. Many rolls are new but we are overstocked. Many bundles have $8 value. $1 per bundle. OFFERS: $85.00 $88.00 $93.00 $98.00 $128.00 $130.00 amlin and dozens of others thing guaranteed. NO IS HERE. IC CO. Minneapolis FOR DRY FARMING Can Be Practiced Where Water Is Not Available. REQUIRES MUCH PATIENCE. In Missouri, In Drought of 1914, Use of Dry Farming Methods by Only Part of Farmers Largely Increased Yield of Corn Per Acre as Compared With That of 1901. Washington.—With the burden of supplying the world's wartime crop facing this country, the committee on statistics and standards of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States has called attention to the possibilities of dry farming. Such methods, it is declared, can be made to fit the requirements for raising many of our most important products. Dry farming is said to be the only form of agriculture which can be successfully practiced in any region where water is not available for irrigation and where rainfall is not sufficient for humid farming. The inherent purpose of dry farming, it is pointed out, is to conserve moisture in the soil until neede. for growing plants. The dry farmer resorts to methods of timely and proper cultivation, harrowing, disking and plowing, to increase the penetration of water, prevent evaporation and store moisture in the soil for the benefit of the plants. "Dry farming is not an easy job, nor is the lot of the farmer in the semi-arid regions any happier at times than that of the policemen in the 'Pirates of Penance,'" says Archer Wall Douglas of St. Louis, chairman of the national commerce committee. "It is a business requiring much industry, patience, fortitude and intelligent understanding of the surrounding conditions. Likewise in the beginning it needs some reserve capital against emergencies. For there are years when, through weeks, even months, of rainless heat, the sky is as brass and the earth as iron underneath, and rainfall only a distant memory. "Yet persevered in and intelligently stuck to, it is apt to record a success and to furnish a great need for the utilization of the vast area of semi-arid country. Once exploited as a panacea, then denounced as a fad, it has at last come into its own a nation intelligent scientific form of agriculture absolutely essential to the development of a large section of our country." Of particular interest in meeting war time conditions is the argument that dry farming methods are applicable not only to farming in the semi-arid, but likewise humid regions in times of drought. In Missouri in the drought of 1914 the use of dry farming methods by only a part of the farmers largely increased the yield of corn per acre, as compared with similar conditions in 1901. Atlanta Constitution Sounds Warnings In discussing the exodus of colored people from Georgia and its cause the Atlanta Constitution says: "Back to the law' is a slogan that should appeal everywhere upon purely a moral basis; but, if it will not in sufficient force, then we are confronted now by the possibility of serious industrial calamity which must follow upon the removal of Georgia's best and most satisfactory farm labor." THE LADY OF THE ROAD 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 Pattern Hats alike. A choice stock to select from. Sale closes May 15th. MANICURING AND FACIAL MASSAGE ELECTRIC HAIR TREATMENTS GIVEN HAIR STRAIGHTENING MY SPECIALTY. MADAM HART'S PREPARATIONS. ARTESIA CREAM. Handled past ten years. Removes Liver spots and black-heads. Bleached the skin and renews its natural color. Mrs. Essie Taylor, 633 Mississippi St. St. Paul and Mrs. Nancy Wade, 1402 St. Paul and Mrs. Nancy Wade, 1402 others have sent testimonials recommending Madam Hart's Preparations and Hair- work. MADAM M. HART, 1215 WASHINGTON AVE. S. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 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. YOUR PUBLICITY PAYS. All persons interested in the progress of their lodges, churches, societies etc., should value the power of printer's ink. They should see that their secretaries SEND ALL NOTICES to the newspapers in proper time. They think the Editor should attend every affair, whether invited or not, and should know "What is going on?"—without being informed. Many exchanges clip from our columns, and often things done in Minneapolis get national publicity. LIBERAL SUBSCRIPTION OFFKR. We offer a Combination Subscription to our readers for 1917. We will give you your choice of any Negro NEWSPAPER or MAGAZINE, and THE TWIN CITY STAR, mailed to your address anywhere in the U. S. for THREE DOLLARS. Cash in advance. Get your home paper sent direct to you. Forward all orders to THE TWIN CITY STAR, .... 305 So. 5th St., Minneapolis. Room 302. Cairo's Books. Books printed in Catro are read by the camp fires of the Sahara, in the market of Timbuktu, under the very shadows of the Kaaba and are treasured in the mosques of Java and western China. The Largest Painting. The largest painting, exclusive of frescoes and panoramas, is Tintoretto's "Paradise." It is hung in the grand salon of the doge's palace at Venice and is eighty-four feet wide and thirty-four feet high. Unbreakable Windows Repeated coats of raw or boiled linseed oil applied to a newly meshed wire fabric will give a good substitute for window glass. The wire may be used for many purposes and is especially good where glass might easily be broken. The fabric may be dipped in the oil instead of applying it with a brush.—Exchange. You often hear a single man bragging that he never made a mistake in his life. But you never heard a married man make a crack like that.—Cincinnati Enquirer. THE TWIN CITY STAR PUBLSHED EVERY FRIDAY BY CHARLES SUMNER SMITH, 305—So. Fifth Street. minneapolis, Minnesota. Entered in the Post Office at Minneapolis as second class matter. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION To Subscribe Is To Pay. Subscription by Mail, Postpaid. ONE YEAR .....$2.00 SIX MONTHS .....1.00 THREE MONTHS ......65 Hamlet B. Rowe, Local Agent. ADVERTISING RATES. One Inch—1 Insertion—One Dollar. Liberal discount given on 3, 6, 9, Months, or 1 year contracts. Want Ads .....Twenty-five Cents Reading Notices, per line, Five Cents Wedding Announcements, Fifty Cents Card of Thanks .....One Dollar; In Memoriam .....One Dollar Business Announcements, One Dollar Death Notices .....One Dollar We do not run free ads, or over-run the time contracted for by our advertisers We respect their right to advertise at intervals, and rather have them do so, than to run continuously an "adv." and an increasing account. Write all Checks payable to The Twin City Star. Address all mail to Twin City Star 903 8, 5th St. Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Twin City Star stands for equal rights for all American citizens. Negroes are not wanted as cooks at the Ft. Snelling Training Camp. The people of Minneapolis who have heard Dr. Chas. S. Morris, have profited greatly by his gospel teachings. A million dollars of State moneys was appropriated for the Public Safety Commission, and Gov. Burnquist did not appoint a Negro, even as a messenger. Gov. Burnquist has done nothing for the Negro except preside at a few meetings of The National Society for the Advancement of Colored People. The State of Minnesota has not over six Negroes on its pay-roll, outside of the Stillwater State Prison. Cong. Schall has informed The Twin City Star that he has asked for information from the Navy Department about the enlistment of "Negroes as Mess-attendants only" at the Minneapolis Recruiting Station. We have inquired, "if the orders were local or Federal." The Negroes know that the great patriotic parade in Congress was halted long enough for Cong. Vinson of good old Georgia to read into the Record his bill to Jim-Crow the Negroes in the District of Columbia. They hear that Gen. Joffre sat in the Supreme Court of the U. S. when the Louisville Segregation case was being argued. They know that the leading Negroes who attended the hearing were not allowed to eat in the public dining room in the Capitol. They want to in this trying hour. They want know whether this All-American program includes or excludes the Negro Above all, they want friends at court Congressman Schall and all red blooded Representatives to do their sworn duty; they expect those Negro haters from the Southland and their Northern colleagues, who barter pork barrel patriotism, to strip from the Negro every human right and if possible reduce him to worse than his former bondage. Secy. McAdoo will be in St. Paul today. A huge Twin City Committee will greet him. The patriotic loan is being boosted, there is not a Negro on the Committee. Nobody is seeking votes and while it is a fact that there are several prominent well-to-do Negroes here (and even some Democrats) they are NOT WANTED NOW. Mr. Jose H. Sherwood of St. Paul has qualified for the Officer's Training Camp at Ft.'Snelling. Many say, "What's the use," while Sherwood stood the test. He has not been ordered to report and may not be, but "Fighting Joe" is not a quitter. He is a calm, consistent and creditable contender for equal rights. His conduct and aggressiveness against "The Birth of a Nation" won for him the admiration of the public through the white press and many foes against the picture. The late Dr. Booker T. Washington, if he were alive, would be a Brigadier General of a Negro Agricultural Brigade. Tuskegee has long been a training camp for officers in such a division. NEGROES SPECIALLY IDENTIFIED BY GOVERNMENT REGISTRATION. "If person is of African descent, tear off this corner." This statement appears on a lower corner of the U. S. registration card for selective draft service. Why such special consideration should be given persons of African descent, is causing much comment. Negroes should not worry. If this is to deny them the privilege of war service, they must await the inevitable under a policy of watchful waiting." Such discrimination will prove a boomerang to the Southern wing of the Administration. If the Negroes are drafted for the farm, they cannot avoid service and will make the best of it. It is probable that they may be called later for war service, and will have a greater share and honor in their Country's defense than those who planned to deny them that right. There are more than 20 million persons of African descent within the confines of the United States and its Insular possessions. They are willing to "do their bit," but are not wanted now. While party politics is being played and proven patriots like Roosevelt must fight for a chance to serve their Country; it is more than foolish to expect that a Democratic administration will regard the rights of black men. Negroes should be consoled with the knowledge that "There is a Divinity that shapes our ends," and it will come to pass that the stone which the builders rejected has become the keystone of the arch. Remember the words of Harriet Tubman, the Negro abolitionist, to Frederick Douglass; "God is not dead." The South in the Saddle. The farm enlistment project of the Southerners is another victory for them. The bloody battle of the Civil War was caused by Southern supremacy, because of free labor. They may now regain their "lost cause" a hundred fold by Federal labor. Are we drafting for the National peonage of black men? Human nature gives answer, and today the voice of the South is the voice of the Nation. NEW YORK PAPER'S OPINION OF POLITICS IN THE SOUTH Evening Mail Sees Little Progress Toward a Real Democracy. The Evening Mall, New York, recently carried the following editorial under the caption "The Hope of the South and the Nation." At the ballot box the south stands today where it stood half a century ago. It is like a voter who makes his X mark under the symbol of his partisanship and seeks no greater responsibility or activity in the big decisions of his day. He votes his prejudices, and there his interest ceases. In the same way the south subordinates all else to its fixed purpose to control the Negro in all of his activities and to perpetuate its feud against the Republican party no matter in what form or by whom Republican policies are advocated. Every effort under Republican auspices has failed to loosen the grip of the past on the vote of the south. There is less indication of success by that influence today than there was ten years ago. Every one concedes that it is not helpful to the development of the south that it should remain perma nently as a sort of no man's land politically, nor is it well for the nation The south ought to be an open forum. It ought to take its rightful place as a factor in the solution of all our national problems, viewing them in the light of today and not in the darkness of yesterday. We do not mean to say that the south should be Republican. It is as unintelligent to be blindly partisan one way as another. What we mean is that the south should not let the Negro dominate it and shape its destinies as he is doing today. Southern people believe that they are dominating their Negro population, whereas the reverse is true. The Negro may not vote, but he dictates every white vote. It is cast in fear of him, regardless of every other consideration. It is cast against the Republican party because it is the party that gave the Negro the rights which the south is determined he shall not exercise. A SMART (?) NEGRO. The cunning and criminal Negro solicitor who can "get the money from the white folks" is generally hailed as a sort of a hero by our lower element and some of our leaders readily extend the "helping hand." But "the white folks" are learning that the Negro leader who endorses these microbes is playing 50-50 and the game is not so profitable. Few years ago it was not unusual for an itinerant gentleman of color to present credentials to leading business men, tho he might be an ex-convict. Some of the preachers here received their tithes from these hustlers. The game was played on a large scale recently. Women of the underworld posed as church and social workers by day and would "turn their tricks" by night. Many a big night has been spent in buffet-flats from the proceeds of charitable donations. THE TWIN CITY STAR THE ONENESS OF MANKIND. Gems From Professor William Piokene's New York Address, April 29. AN APP The fundamental cause is the lack of sufficiency The annual health week campaign conducted in Greater New York under the auspices of the National League on Urban Conditions Among Colored People was brought to a successful close on Sunday, April 29. Professor William Pickens, dean of Morgan college, Baltimore, was the orator of the day. Dean Pickens' subject was "The Negro and Health," and he said in part: The American Negro has been so often discussed as if he differed from other men in his relation to the laws of society, that some have grown bold enough to imply that he differs from other men even in his relation to the laws of nature. That effort to be consistent is natural. The question is not so much a "race question" as it is a question of environment. It may be called a class question, for it is closely connected with his economic and social status. In brief, the Negro is not sick or well because of the color of his skin or because of the shape of his nose or feet. There may be certain diseases which more readily cause illness, but that the true of all races in reference to disease or other, and perhaps the explanation is historical. Man was scattered over the earth and lived in more or less isolated groups for a long period of time. It happened, therefore, that one group had to battle with a certain disease more than did the others. This group developed a constitutional response that the disease weeded out from this group those elements which were peculiarly subject to its attack. It may be that the white man of the past was more subjected to tuberculosis and became in a degree immunized so that now tubercular baillii attack the Negro's constitution more readily, and it may be that the Negro's disease was from hookworm so that now hookworm attack the white man more successfully. But, be that as it may, it is plain that environment is the chief factor and is the point of attack for science. For these evils are preventable. Tuberculosis may be worse for the Negro when he has it, but it is not necessary for him to have it. Hookworm may be worse for the white man when he has it, but it is not necessary for him to have it. The black man cannot escape tuberculosis by becoming white; the white man cannot escape hookworm by becoming black. The race question cannot help either, but an improvement of economic conditions will help both. If the black man can have better job so that he can have better food and a sanitary house he will have less tuberculosis. If the poor white man can have better pay and instruction so that he will possess the means and the knowledge to simply shun the hookworm he need not have that disease at all. The Negro's death rate under present conditions is often spoken of as if it indicated that he is not human like other men, but on the contrary it proves that he is exactly human like other men. If the Negro, living as he now lives, died no faster than the white man living as the white man now lives, it would prove that the Negro is not human like the white man. Another thing—the psychology of the matter. We have learned that the mind helps to kill or to make alive. "Worry is more wearing than work." The lower economic status bears on the Negro the harder and injures him the faster in proportion as he feels and knows that in the painful injustice rather than of natural causes. The "jim crow" car kills him only with its flesh and germs, but also with the state of mind which it induces in him. The Negro is often spoken of as a happy go lucky race that never worries. This is a half truth. He may be sunnier in nature and inclination than the white race, and for that very reason a period of depression may have more terrible effects on him. A more phlegmatic temperament might be less affected by either joy or sorrow. The Negro who can laugh most loudly in the sun may also weep most bitterly in the shadow of _despain_. In a segregated and neglected city district, where the slums are thrust at his very door and the saloon is placed under the very eaves of the schoolhouse his children, he is usually one to death, by the filthy streets, the accumulating garbage and the lack of sewers, but also by the mental and moral depression which his normally sunny disposition is compelled to support. The more intelligent he is the more he will suffer. The man who does not know that disease germs exist does not worry about them. Does this not partly explain the fact that the more intelligent Negro of today will die quicker under conditions in which the less intelligent Negro of two generations ago lived? Another indication that the cause is the environmental rather material is the testimony of the missionaries to the remarkable physical well being of the African Negro. And European scientists say that the physically most perfect type of man is the Zulu Negro. Since the principal cause is the environment the remedy is science and social justice. Let us consider how closely bound up is the question of health with the question of economic effect. The better health, the better business success and economic progress, and the more success in business the better advantages for preserving health and especially for endowing the succeeding generation with health. The United States is the fourth-bound Negro's death rate figure grows smaller as his home ownership figure grows larger. The reason is evident. The man who owns a house will be prouder of it. He will keep it in better repair and cleaner, he will cut a new window for light and air, he will put in panes promptly, he will engage the plumber without delay, he will install sanitary fixtures and convenience, and, being freed from the bondage of rent, he will have more money for recreation, decent amusement and needed medical care. This is what makes the National League on Urban Conditions Among League of the most useful organizations in the whole land. They realize that the question of physical, intellectual and moral health is closely connected with the question of industrial opportunity and economic condition. The league endeavors to get a man into a better job and his family into a better house, which will sounder health, more leisure and study and higher morals. Traveler—Is there water in my room? Hostler—I guess not. This here hotel's got a new roof.—Chaparral. If the Negroes were so void of manhood as to forget the injustice of the present administration against them, they would not be possessed of that loyalty to the American Flag which they have defended with honor in all of this Nation's conflicts and always respected in times of peace. This is the only home of the American Negro and he will defend it, the denied his rights. 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 uncompromisingly for freedom, equality and justice. Dear reader! is it your duty to take out membership? We owe 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. Send One Dollar to the undersigned and join in this great work. Sec'y R. A. Skinner, 2817 Chicago Ave., Minneapolis. STEADY ADVANCE NOTED AT WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY Commencement Begins Sunday, June 17, With Sermon by Bishop Cepkin. Wilberforce, O. - The progress of Wilberforce university for the current year has been of such a nature as to cause considerable favorable comment from various influential sources. The work of the president, Dr. W. S. Scarborough, the faculty and student body has been accompanied by skill and great energy. Another feature of note about the management of the institution is its painstaking method of economy used so successfully without neglecting any of the departments of the school. The commencement program will embrace the usual features, with some new speakers of national repute. The week of festivities begins on Sunday, June 17, at which time the baccalaureate address will be delivered by Bishop Levi J. Coppin, LL. D., of Philadelphia. Dr. Coppin is the presiding bishop of the Fourth Episcopal district of the A. M. E. church. In the afternoon of the same day the anniversary exercises of the religious societies will be held. Dr. G. F. Woodson is dean of the theological seminary, the anniversary exercises of which will be held under the auspices of the faculty of that branch of the institution. These exercises will mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the theological seminary of the university. On Monday, June 18, at 7:30 p. m., the annual prize speaking contest will be held, and on the following day the board of trustees will hold its annual meeting. The exhibits of the commercial, normal and industrial departments will also be on display, and the twenty-fifth anniversary exercises of Payne Theological seminary will be held in the evening of the same day, June 19, with Bishop Evans Tyree of Nashville. Tenn., presiding. Class day exercises, the alumni dinner and the cantata entitled "Joseph" will each occur on Wednesday, June 20. The board of trustees of the normal and industrial departments will meet on Thursday, June 21. At 10 o'clock a. m. of the same day Professor Richard T. Greener of Chicago will deliver the commencement address, and at 8 o'clock the Tawawa hospital for the use of students and teachers will be dedicated. Professor Greener is a former United States consul to Vladivostok. Professor Greener while abroad represented officially Japanese and British interests in Siberia during the Russian-Japanese war. 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