Twin City Star

MINNEAPOLIS THE TWIN CITY STAR MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY FRANCIS M. DENT. Brilliant Young Collegian Being Trained at Fort Myer, Va., to Serve as Officer In New Federal Army—Was Formerly Adjutant of Cadets, Dunbar High School, Washington. Washington.—It is gratifying to note that our race is represented in the military officers' reserve training camps recently authorized by congress and formally opened on May 14. Of the 200,000 applicants only 60,000 were accepted, and 40,000 have reported for duty in the sixteen camps located in various sections of our country. It is a remarkable fact that of the 2,500 select men now at Fort Myer, Va., near Washington, one of that number being trained as an officer of the United States army is Francis M. Dent of Amherst college, Massachusetts, class of 1917, under special provisions made by the faculty because of war emergency. He passed an excellent physical and military examination and was highly recommended by President Meiklejohn, Dean Professor Olds and the head of the Latin department. In this connection it is interesting to note that Amherst college is also the alma mater of such distinguished men as Secretary of State Lansing, Governor Whitman of New York and the late Hon. Joseph Choate, ex-ambassador to England. Young Dent was also a classmate of Mr. Humphrey Redfield, son of Hon. William C. Redfield, secretary of commerce. He is a Sobrino man and wears the charm that has a peculiar distinction for every son of Amherst college. Before entering Amherst he graduated from the famous Dunbar high school of Washington, where he was adjutant of the battalion of High School cadets. He is a modest young man, but courageous and brilliant when occasion demands. An instance of this is the fact that last year when the "Birth of a Nation" was being commended in the chapel service because of its alleged historical value young Dent voluntarily arose in the chapel amid the large student body and the college faculty and in scathing terms denounced the play by Dixon as false in history and a villainous attack upon a helpless race. Afterward when students and professors asked him for evidence upon which he based his spirited attack he gave them, among other things, Governor McCall's "History of William Lloyd Garrison," Major John R. Lynch's "Work on Reconstruction," Rev. F. F. J. Grimke's strong address on the "Birth of a Nation" and "The Crisis," so ably edited by Dr. DuBois. Young Dent is the son of Professor and Mrs. T. M. Dent of Washington, who formerly lived in Rome, Ga. where he was born Feb. 19, 1894. Mr. Dent, whose commendable ambition is to serve his country, is a poor young man who by pluck and the true American spirit worked his way through college, and his splendid record and sterling example should be an inspiration to every youth in the land irrespective of race. Hampton Students Show Great Thrift. That members of the Hampton institute graduating class are alive to the economic, educational and social problems of the passing hour is shown by the questions which the boys have been debating in their English classes. Here are a few of the questions which they have discussed: "Negro Migration to the North Should Be Encouraged;" "Ignorance Is a Greater Menace to Civilization Than Poverty;" "The Submarine Is More Effective In Modern Warfare Than the Dreadnought;" "Hampton Institute Is of More Value to the Negro Race Than Howard University;" "All Labor Disputes In the United States Should Be Settled by Arbitration." SMOKE "SIGHT DRAFT" THE BEST 5c. CIGAR RURAL LIFE IN OLD DOMINION USE OF IMPROVED METHODS Report of John B. Pierce Shows Results Obtained Through the Co-operation of Farm Demonstration Agents Under the States Relation Service. Great Interest Taken in Corn Clubs. BY WILLIAM ANTHONY AERY. Some 5,000 farmers of Virginia, under the leadership of John B. Pierce, who is a Tuskegee-Hampton product, were influenced in the single calendar year of 1916 to improve their methods of work and secure crop yields far beyond the expectations of the most hopeful advocates of the farm demonstration idea. Eighteen local farm demonstration agents working in twenty-two counties of Virginia under the States Relations Service South—the fruition itself of the epoch making work of Seaman A. Knapp—have brought to the Negro farmers not only new ideas and better methods of tilling the soil and caring for farm products, but also a new vision of farm life, a clearer insight into farming as a business rather than as a mere occupation and a deeper sense of responsibility for the all around education of their boys and girls. Let facts tell the story of organization's gift to Virginia, for whatever helps the Negro farmer to increase his earning power also helps the white people to make genuine progress. During 1916, so Mr. Pierce reports to Bradford Knapp, chief of the States Relations Service, South, 449 Negro corn demonstrators in Virginia, cultivating 2,150 acres, under improved methods, secured an average yield of thirty-three bushels per acre. This was an increased yield of 9.9 bushels on demonstration plots over plots cultivated by ordinary methods. In addition, 1,001 co-operators reported a yield of twenty-four bushels per acre in 1,952 acres. Granting that a similar result could be obtained by all those who raise corn if only education could be carried on broadly, Virginia in a single year would add $10,000,000 to the value of her output of corn. Who dares to be skeptical or cynical of the Negroes' interest in better methods of farming in the light of these facts? Corresponding results have been secured in the small grains demonstrations. The average yield of oats per acre on demonstration plots was 18.0 bushels, representing an increased yield of 5.7 bushels and of wheat 16.1 bushels, representing an increased yield of 5.5 bushels. Today over 1,000 Negro farmers are using better methods of growing small grains on account of the government's interest in them. Does all this pay in dollars and cents, in increased interest in farming, in better homes? To ask the question is to answer it—certainly! Hay, forage, cover crops! These words commonly mean little. To the Negro farmer of Virginia they now spell success on the land. The local demonstration agents have worked night and day to make farmers understand the importance of making the land produce (without wearing it out) more food for man and beast and this story of awakening life on the farm. "Community development along all good lines!" This is the object of the 134 Negro farmers' clubs which were organized in 1916 throughout Virginia through the co-operation of John B. Pierce and sixteen local demonstration agents working under the States Relations Service and the extension division of the Virginia Polytechnic institute at Blacksburg. The total membership of the clubs was 1,838 and represented a progressive, farsighted group of farmers in the Old Dominion. These clubs made a good beginning in co-operation by buying 2,234 tons of lime. Five of the local agents also kept a bulletin board, listing goods for sale and goods wanted. What do the local demonstration agents do besides helping the farmers till their land and grow better crops? Here is a partial list, based on Mr. Pierce's 1916 report of the farm and farmstead improvements which the farmers of Virginia have made with the advice and assistance of the agents: Buildings erected, 130; farm buildings painted or whitewashed, 552; sanitary conditions (farm and home) improved, 933; homes screened against walls, 837; farmers furnished with plans and induced to adopt a systematic rotation, 186; total acreage put under rotation, 1,695; drainage system established, 89; home water systems installed or improved, 55; home grounds improved, 894; home gardens planted or improved, 1,198; farmers induced to save surplus farm products for winter use, 1,578. Can there be any question that the work of the local agent is limited merely to helping the farmer grow more crops so that he can secure more money to raise more crops? We think not. That increased earning power is an important and basal factor must be evident to the careful observer of rural conditions. That better living is a worthy goal for the hardworking farmer and his family is recognized by those who are engaged in carrying to the Negro farmers of Virginia a gospel of hope which is based upon intelligent work and Christian good will. FIFTY YEARS OF EFFORT AT ATLANTA UNIVERSITY Time Honored Southern School Ends Term With Big Results. Atlanta, Ga.—On Wednesday, May 30, Atlanta university, in this city, graduated seventeen young women from the normal course and nine men from the college course with a degree of bachelor of arts. Fifty-three students completed the high school course. The commencement speaker was the Rev. Horace Bumstead of Brookline, Mass., ex-president of Atlanta university. This year marks the fifteenth anniversary of the chartering of this institution, and Dr. Bumstead gave a historical address. President Edward T. Ware preached the baccalaureate sermon on Sunday, May 27. The following day the twenty-second annual conference for the study of Negro problems was held. The subject of economic co-operation among the colored people of Georgia was discussed. Among the speakers were the Rev. Washington Gladden, D. D., of Columbus, O.; Monroe N. Work of Tuskegee institute and Miss Rosa Lowe, general secretary of the Atlanta Anti-tuberculosis association. During the year $13,000 has been added to the invested funds in gifts and bequests and about $50,000 additional has been subscribed toward the endowment fund of $500,000. The trustees of Atlanta university have offered the buildings and grounds, in case of need, for war purposes, to the United States government. The grounds are already under skilful cultivation, making a valuable demonstration of the possibilities of intensive gardening. Two teachers and fifty students have volunteered for the training camp for officers of Negro soldiers. IDEAL BUSINESS COLLEGE. Practical Work on a Thrifty Institution at Memphis, Tenn. Nashville, Tenn.—The leading Negro business college in the world is located at Memphis, Tenn., according to the latest bulletin issued by the Nashville Negro board of trade of this city. The Henderson Business college, states the bulletin, has passed the experimental stage, owning equipment to PRESIDENT HENDERSON AND CLERICAL FORCE IN CHICAGO. the value of $14,000. Professor George W. Henderson is president of this thrifty racial institution. At present there are enrolled at the school 105 young men and women of our race who are preparing themselves for practical and useful business careers. This business college was founded by Professor George W. Henderson of Memphis, a young man who is possessed of unusual literary attainments. He holds eleven different diplomas, including a college degree from Roger Williams university, at Nashville, Tenn. Professor Henderson is considered the champion shorthand writer and typist of the colored race and is also an expert in accountancy and commercial law. In addition to these qualifications, he has won recognition as a writer and essayist, being termed the "Black Herbert Kaufman." YOUNG COLLEGE MEN SHOW PLUCK Success of Patriotic Movement Led by Group of Students and Backed by Broad Minded Men and Women of Both Races Has Significant Bearing on Future of Colored Americans. On Saturday, May 19, the war department authorized the establishment of an officers' reserve corps training camp for colored officers for the new federal army at Des Moines, Ia., to start June 15. The decision, which came as the result of persistent effort by students of Howard university, the central committee of Negro college men and many distinguished men and women of both races, is regarded by qualified opinion as the greatest opportunity for Negroes since the civil war. The establishment of this camp marks a radical change in the policy of the American government. For years Negroes, with a few exceptions, have been excluded from holding official positions in the army and navy. West Point and Annapolis have been practically closed to them. One colored man after another has sought to secure training offered to other classes of American citizens, but no amount of democratic argument or political influence could convince the administration of the justice of such appeal. The war, however, has brought a new situation. A crisis faces the country, and when conscription passed the questions immediately arose: How can colored men serve best their country? Shall they stand on the abstract theory of equal rights, or shall they with common sense meet a practical situation for the advancement of the race and the welfare of the nation? Already fourteen camps have been established for the training of white officers. The war department has officially declared that it would be impractical to admit colored men to any of those camps, which would mean that the thousands of intelligent Negroes in the United States would be forced under the conscription bill to serve as privates with little possibility of opportunity to rise above noncommissioned officers. Loyal to the cause of the Negro, believing in the principle of equality, but at the same time realizing that obstinacy is not firmness, when the government refused to open its camps to all its citizens a separate camp was sought as the next best thing for securing officers. The Negro, ever ready and willing to serve his country, has been kept out of official positions too long. The time has come when he should occupy a place in our army and navy similar to that which he occupies in other spheres of American life, and it is believed that in effecting the training and equipping of one or two thousand officers the central committee of Negro college men has brought about a movement that will not only add to the brilliant records of Bunker Hill, San Juan and Carrilaz, but will make the Negro in truth and in deed a fundamental part of the national life of the United States, a partner in the fight for a world democracy, establish Negro leadership on a stronger and firmer basis, belle the accusation that the Negro is fit for nothing else than a subordinate and pave the way for greater and higher things. All young men between the ages of twenty-one and thirty, having high school education and physically strong, are requested to send their names, height, age, weight, previous military experience, if any, and school attended to the central committee of Negro college men, Howard university, Washington, C. B. Curley, general secretary. Examining stations will be opened at all Young Men's Christian associations, from which applicants may forward their names to Secretary Curley as mentioned above. The leaders in the movement wish it understood that they do not accept the camp as segregation—they are wholly opposed to such discrimination—but they do accept it as a means to an end and as an opportunity for the 100,000 colored men to be chosen for war duty, to be officered by men of their own race. The camp accommodations and pay will be the same as those for white men. The railroad fare of those who go to the camp will be refunded. MEMORIAL MEETING ST. PETERS A. M. E. CHURCH Sunday Afternoon 3 P. M. will Speak on "The Negro as a Patriot." Annual Session of New England Convention to Be Largely Attended. Boston.—Reports received by N. B. Dodson, president of the New England Baptist Sunday school and B. Y. P. U. convention up to Monday, May 28, indicate that the schools in the seven states and the District of Columbia will send their full quota of delegates to the annual meeting of the convention to be held in this city June 12 and 13. The convention will be the guest of the Ebenezzer Baptist Sunday school, of which Dr. T. E. McCurdy is superintendent. By the direction of the president and the board of managers, the corresponding secretary has sent the usual letter of greeting, with statistical blank and delegates' credentials, to the schools and B. Y. P. U.'s throughout the jurisdiction of the convention. It is the aim of the officers to enroll a larger number of the schools at the coming session than has been true of any previous year. Among the objects of the convention, aside from the helpful information it gives to its membership in Sunday school management, are the fostering of small schools, contributions to educational institutions, charitable institutions and missions. The progress of the smaller schools to which the convention has contributed quite liberally is very gratifying to the convention. For the benefit of the public we mention the splendid work which is being done by the Friendship and Antioch schools in Brooklyn and the Mount Carmel school at Arverne, N. Y. The convention has stood by these schools from their very inception, and they have shown their appreciation of the help received by diligent work. THE LIBERTY LOAN BONDS. Hampton Institute's Part In Great Movement for National Defense. Recently the Hampton institute faculty went on record as favoring the publication of the liberty loan terms in the Southern Workmen, its illustrated magazine. The school takes this method of co-operating with Secretary McAdoo in the big undertaking of raising enough money to carry on to a successful finish the present world struggle for democracy. To Hampton's donors, friends, workers, students, graduates and former pupils has graduated the following statement from the official bulletin, which is published by the committee on public information. It is hoped that all those who can do so at this period of national crisis will co-operate actively in buying the liberty loan bonds and will also make similar plans for future service to their country: The liberty loan bonds will mature in thirty years and be redeemable in whole or in part at the option of the United States on or after fifteen years at par and accrued interest. In order to avoid adding to the heavy burden of work incident to the July 1 and Jan. 1 settlements the secretary has determined that the liberty loan bonds shall be dated June 15, 1917, instead of July 1, 1917, as heretofore announced, and that the interest shall be payable June 15 and Dec. 15 in each year. Applications must be made on or before June 15, 1917, subject to the right of the secretary in his discretion to close the subscription books at an earlier date, and payment for the bonds must be made as follows: Two per cent on application, 18 per cent on June 28, 20 per cent on July 30, 30 per cent on Aug. 15, 30 per cent on Aug. 30. Bearer bonds with interest coupons attached will be issued in denominations of $50, $100, $500 and $1,000. Bonds registered as to principal and interest will be issued in denominations of $100, $500, $1,000, $5,000, $10,000, $50,000 and $100,000. Provision will be made for the interchange of bonds of different denominations and of coupon and registered bonds. Those who wish to buy the liberty loan bonds will find their local bankers prepared to furnish subscription blanks and render every possible form of assistance without charge. Taft Expresses Faith In Our Loyalty. Former President William Howard Taft in a recent address at Augusta, Ga., denounced as ridiculous the report that German agents have made any headway toward meeting the colored people to be disloyal to the flag. Mr. Taft was speaking on the issues of the war. The colored race is loyal to this government, the former president declared with an emphasis that could not be misunderstood. High Compliment Paid to Our Sailors. Discussing the fighting qualities of the colored man as a sailor, a high naval authority on May 17 said: "One of the most remarkable phases of the development of the American mercantile marine is the adaptability of the American Negro as a sailor. Ships' masters have declared them to be among the bravest of crews under the most trying situations." No.16 Winner of Spingarn Medal For Service to Race Is a Famous Musician. HENRY THACKER BURLEIGH Of New York, winner of the Spingarn medal for high achievement as a composer. The medal was awarded at the annual meeting of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People held in the First Congregational church at Washington on Wednesday evening, May 16, 1917. The presentation was made by United States Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washington. THE REHABILITATION OF ATLANTA Marks Some Progressive Tendencies Atlanta, Ga., May 28.—A Committee of Rehabilitation has been designated by the Mayor of Atlanta, with the advice of the Chamber of Commerce to synchronize all the elements that center into the restoration of the burned area and those homes and business enterprises that suffered loss in the recent fire. The Committee is composed of the following persons, all prominent in the business development of Atlanta, and several of much more than local fame: Mr. Edw. H. Inman, Mr. Rockwell Johnson, Mr. Isaac Schoen, Judge Walter Colquitt, Mr. Carlos H. Mason, Mr. Harry H. Pace, Rev. E. H. Oliver and Mr. A. F. Herndon. The three latter are Negroes. The Minister's position is self-explanatory. Mr. Herndon is owner of one of the largest and best equipped barber shops in America, is the dominant factor in the Atlanta Mutual Insurance Company, and resides in a home quite in keeping with his station. Mr. Pace is the distinctive character upon this Committee. He is young, virile and the Negro prototype of the modern business executive. His capabilities are best explained by the fact that at the age of 33, he is Secretary-Treasurer of the Standard Life Insurance Company, a $125,000.00 Legal Reserve Life Insurance Company that has on its books Fife Million Dollars worth of business, and that has met every legal requirement and examination with books and records in such shape as to receive commendation from even antagonistic sources. It is a distinct novelty in the South for Negro interests to be recognized in community matters by the active participation of bona fide business men in the deliberations of consequential bodies. Occasionally in politics and religion some sort of Negro adjunct committees have been tolerated, but here we find a case of absolute and direct interchange of ideas, and it may be said that the exodus has not failed to become a prime factor in the Committee's consideration. Rehabilitating seven hundred white and eight hundred Negro families of every social and industrial type is no mean job for even those eight high-minded and experienced men, and our race throughout the country may feel certain that race interests will be cared for with aggressiveness tempered by a proper sense of justice and business diplomacy. This will represent a lot of work to already busy men but the establishment of this precedent and its satisfactory fulfillment is of immeasureable value to the race. GRAND PATRIOTIC PROGRAM MINNEAPOLIS SUNDAY FORUM St. Peter Church, 22 St. between 9th and 10 Aves. Meeting promptly at 3 o'clock. The Forum session tomorrow, June 3, will be a Patriotic and Memorial Day service, devoted to colored soldiers of the G. A. R., and other American wars. Every race loving man, woman and child should be present and pay tribute to those, and the memory of those who offered their lives on the altar of our country; and to fan brighter the fire of patriotism which we as a race are too apt to let burn low. The following excellent program has been arranged: America—Audience. Piano—Stars and Stripes Forever, Miss Adah Lewis Song of Peace—Forum Double Quartette, Reading—Selected—Miss Eva Walker Vocal Solo—Selected—Mrs. Belle Salters Tyler, of St. Paul. Forum Double Quartette Address—The Negro as a Patriot, by Dr. Chas. S. Morris. Star Spangled Banner—Audience. All veterans and loyal citizens urged to be present. "COWARDS" Is G. L. Morrill's subject at the People's Church, New Garden Theatre, Sunday 10:30 A. M. SALVA-DOR pictures, travel movies, organ. Mr. and Mrs. Moss have moved to 527 No. Bryant Ave. Mrs. L. Sensabaugh has moved to 1919 4th Ave. So. Mr. Edward Odell visited his home in Cendterville, Ia., on account of the illness of his sister, who died after his arrival. Federation To Meet. The club of the Women's Federation will meet June 6th at the residence of Mrs. Kate Smith, 2441 5th Ave. So. Mr. Geo. W. Lunsford is one of the special deputy sheriffs. He is also a member of the Minnesota Game Sportsmen's Assn., whose members have been placed on reserve as sharp-shooters of the civilian guard. Mr. John Withers, the expressman was confined to his bed after a chill early this week. He was able to resume his duties after being attended by a physician. Mrs. Jeanette Ragland and Miss Naomi Crawford made it very pleasant for the ministers at the dinner at Simmon's Café. They took special pains to carefully serve them, which shows that we can get service and respect from our people. SUNDAY SERVICES. The sermon to the Order of the Eastern Star will be preached at Bethesda Church on Sunday night. Rev. Chas. S. Morris will preach at Bethesda Church on Sunday morning and evening. Dr. J. C. Robinson will preach at St. Peter Church on Sunday morning. The Star did (without charge) what it could to assist the revival. Those who have contributed to the musical program and regularly attended the meetings, did so at much sacrifice. They have donated to a worthy cause, and the community has been rewarded. A. FAREWELL SUPPER. A Farewell Supper was given last week by Carling's Waiters in St. Paul, at Jemison's Cosmopolitan Grill, 40 East Third St. in honor of John W. White, who left to visit relatives in Philadelphia. The arrangements were made by C. Wilson. The toastmasters were: "Sid." Harris and Gus. Pope. All present responded to toasts and drank to the health of their departing fellowworker. Those present were J. Falling, R. Stokes, S. L. Maxwell, J. M. Brown, A. Stanley, C. Busly, Geo. Berry, J. M. Drishell, F. Howard, J. Henson, Walter Bloodsow, S. Harris, K. Hamilton, M. Sparks and G. Henry. Wanted—Subscribers to Pay. Visiting Evangelists the Honored Guest. Rev. Chas. S. Morris of Norfolk, Va., and Dr. J. C. Robinson of Monticello, Ark., who had been conducting a Religious Compaign during May in the Twin Cities under the auspices of the Twin Cities Minister's Alliance were tendered a dinner by the auxiliaries and departments of St. Peter A. M. E. Church on Thursday afternoon at Simmon's Arcadia Cafe. Others present were (from St. Paul) Rev. J. M. Henderson, St. Peter A. M. E. Church, Rev. G. W. Camp, Zion Presbyterian Church, Rev. B. N. Murrell, Pilgrim Baptist Church, Rev. J. E. Carr, Memorial Baptist Church—(from Minneapolis) Rev. I. W. Bess, St. James A. M. E. Church, Rev. M. W. Withers, Zion Baptist Church, Rev. T. B. Stovall, St. Peter A. M. E. Church, Rev. D. E. Beasley (Bethesda Baptist Church). The press was represented by P. F. Hale, Chicago Defender, R. B. Montgomery, The Advocate and Chas. Sumner Smith of The Twin City Star. The menu consisted of soup, chicken fricassee, mashed potatoes, maccaroni, green peas, cucumber and tomato salad, strawberry shortcake, coffee, which was specially prepared and served. Invocation was offered by Rev. Camp. Rev. Henderson presided. Rev. Stovell extended thanks to the visiting clergy for their valuable services rendered. Rev. Murrell responded in thanks for the testimonial from the members of St. Peter Church. Dr. Robinson briefly spoke of the hospitality shown him and stated that he had received out of this revival more than he put in it. He commended the ministers on their harmonious spirit and begged their continued efforts to make this campaign a real success. Rev. C. S. Morris paid a high compliment to Dr. Robinson and expressed his approval of his methods of conducting a revival. He expressed his delight in having a chance to visit his mother and sister in St. Paul. In speaking of the huge plan of Saving Souls as successfully carried out by the ministers of the Twin Cities, he said "he would hereafter refer to it as the Twin City idea." The press was praised for the valuable assistive given the meetings. The dinner ended with a prayer by Rev. Bess and benediction by Rev. Carr. Mr. Simmons received many compliments for his excellent service. TRAINING CAMP FOR NEGROES. The Adultant General's Office. The following letter to the Chief of State Departments of the Army gives a brief instruction for training camps for colored citizens. "I. You are advised that training camps or colored citizens will be established at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, under Section 54, National Defense Act, and will be trained in training camps, except as modified herein and hereafter. The camp is under the control of the Department Commander, Central Department, who will preside over the attendance will be twelve hundred fifty, of whom two hundred fifty will be noncommissioned officers of colored regiments of the Regular Army, to be sent to thousand citizens either enlisted under Section 54, National Defense Act for three months beginning June 18th, with agreement to accept appointment tenders. Status will be as in the case of National Guardsmen now in training camps. 2. The contingents of citizens and National Guardmen from the various departments is as follows: Northwestern Department 84, Eastern Department 140, Department 140, 430, Central Department 195, Southern Department 75 plus contingent from Twenty-fourth Infantry 84 and Tenth Cavalry 57, Western Department 20. 3. As far as consistent with the character selected shall be not less than 30 years of age. Local distribution as between various States and cities and between citizens and National Guardmen is left to the discretion of Department Commanders and department Commanders will select their contingent so that deaffine notice to proceed to the training camps may be given to the selected men not later than 18th June. The contingent will be ready to receive the noncommissioned officers of the Regular Army June 5th, and all others June 15th. The course of instruction begins June 18th. In addition to the contingents mentioned above, 84 men will be sent from Fifth Infantry in Hawaii and 25 men from the Ninth Cavalry in the Philippines. Applications should be addressed to the Commanding Generals of Departments as follows: Northeastern Department, Boston Mass, Eastern Department, Governors Island, N. Y., Southeastern Department, Charleston, S. C., Southern Department, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Central Department, Chicago, III., Western Department, Providence, R.I. The contingent from each Department will be as follows: Northeastern 40, Eastern 240, Southeastern 430, Central 130, southern 75, Western 20. The remaining 250 will be noncommissioned officers from regiments as indicated above. H. P. McCAIN May 23, 1917. EVERY DAY is BARGAIN DAY at the ROOT & HAGEMAN STORE, 407 Nicollet Ave. THE TWIN CITY ENTERTAINERS Last Dance of the Season MONDAY NIGHT, JUNE 4 Music by Prof. Earl Blevens Peerless Orchestra. ADMISSION 35c. War Department I THE TWIN CITY STAR NEGRO DELEGATES ATTEND. The call to organize the Hennepin County Public Safety Assn., was answered by nearly 500 delegates at the Auditorium on May 28. Among them were three Negroes, J. C. Trevan and Chas. Sumner Smith from 4th Ward and Harry L. Scott of the 3rd Ward. Fred B. Snyder presided as temporary chairman. Speeches were made by Dean L. D. Colman and Prof. A. D. Wilson of the University and Mrs. T. G. Winter, National representative of the American Red Cross. The organization was perfected with the following officers: Fred B. Snyder, president; A. L. Sorter and Frank Nelson, of Minneapolis, and Grant Robinson, of Excelsior, as vice-president; Edgar L. Noyes as secretary, and E. L. Mattson, treasurer. An advisory committee was elected and the chairman will appoint 15 on it which will include the committee of Public Safety of the City Council. Harry L. Scott made a demand for the appointment of a Negro on the committee. He was roundly applauded and Atty's John Long and Albert H. Hall requested that a Negro be appointed. The chairman promised to deal fairly with all people and the resolution as adopted show that the work of the association is for the welfare of humanity, regardless of class, color or creed. Alderman Kean, of the resolution committee made an eloquent and patriotic address in presenting the resolutions which pledged aid in gathering the national harvest, protection to the consumer against excessive prices and a monopoly of foodstuffs, protection to the producer against shrinkage of prices below production costs, to protect the health and morals of enlisted men, to aid morally and financially America's allies, to take such steps as will assure the Northwest ample fuel supply, fairness in the selective draft, and to put down with a strong hand the disloyal, unsympathetic and unpatriotic. He was seconded by Chas. Sumner Smith, who pledged the loyalty of the Negroes. The resolutions were adopted and the meeting adjourned subject to the call by the chairman or 10 members of the committee. Chairman Snyder will appoint a Negro after due consideration, and it is believed that he will name the one of our race, who has been most active for civic advancement and is thoroughly efficient to know what is best for our welfare; who will have the confidence of all citizens and at all times fearlessly and intelligently represent the Negro, with honor to himself, credit to his race and loyalty to his country. ADVERTISE HERE, IT PAYS. 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. Contractor People's Latest Offer. Contractor Frank Peoples will let the new apartments at 409 E. 39th St. to responsible Negro families with references. Eact apartment contains 4 rooms, including bed room, sun parlor, living room, wall bed, bath, kitchen, electric light, gas range, and janitor service. Located one block from 4th Ave. So. car line. Rent $23.00. Ready for occupants June 1. See F. Peoples.—Advertisement. FOR RENT. Large Front Room. Neatly Furnished, in residential section, for respectable persons, modern conveniences. Mrs. W. W. Williams, 3135 Findley Pl. N. W. Colfax 2096. FOR RENT.—Six Room Modern Flat. Apply to J. S. Wright, 2737 11th Ave. So., Minneapolis. THE ARCADIA RESTAURANT. Starts Summer Service. Mr. W. S. Simmon has started his Summer Service at the Arcade Restaurant, 500 Fourth Ave. So. Refreshing Tonics, Brazilla, Lemonades and Ice Cream Soda, will be served. Patrons will find this the best place in the city to enjoy clean food and delicious soft drinks. Two Part Program Includes Variety of Topics on Practical Subjects. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama.—May 24 has been set aside as the day for the commencement exercises here. The commencement sermon was preached on Sunday, May 20, by Rabbi Max Heller of New Orleans. On Monday, May 21, the commencement exercises of the Phelps Hall Bible training school were held, the principal speaker being Rev. O. C. Alleyne of Charlotte, N. C. On Tuesday evening, May 22, the annual Boston Trinity church prize contest was held and the annual class day exercises on the 23d. The program for commencement day, Thursday, May 24, is divided into two parts and is as follows: Orchestra, music; "The Lark at Morn," by the choir; salutatory, "Machinery, the Chief Servant of the Dairyman" (illustrated), Ernest Frazier, Selma, Ala.; "The Development of Tailoring (illustrated), Robert N. Scott, Falmouth, Jamaica, B. W. I.; music; "Rockin' Time," girl's choreo, in the Home (illustrated), Miltade Berrie Beverly, Galveston, Tex.; "The Machinery of a Business Office" (illustrated), James Julius C. Flood, Demopolis, Ala.; music; "My Heavenly Home," boys' chorus; "New Helps For the Rural Minister" (illustrated), Ismay Robinson, Mandeville, Jamaica, B. W. I.; "Vitalizing the Daily Program." In the Schoolroom, illustrations of the Farm; "The Pig an Economic Factor on the Farm" (illustrated), Sylvester Sanford Davis, Waugh, Ala.; music, medley of national airs, orchestra and school. Music, "Anvil Chorus" (Verdi), choir; industrial exhibition; valedictory, "The Wonders of Modern Machinery," Abraham Hill, Tuskegee, Ala.; music, "Toreador" (from "Carmen"), choir; alumni address, Dr. A. B. McKenzie, '70, Tuscaoose, Ala.; music, "To Go to Sleep, My Dusky Baby, Girl chorus; commencement address, Professor of Arts and Sciences, Howard College of Arts and Sciences, Howard university, Washington; the Tuskegee song; awarding of diplomas; the Halleluja chorus, choir. Among other features of commencement week are the exhibition of physical training by the young women students, the cadets' prize drill and the Inter-society declamatory contest. VICTORIA LODGE HONORS "FATHER" HENRY C. WADKINS Twenty-third Anniversary of Brooklyn Odd Fellows Wise Affairs Brooklyn.—Among the most brilliant functions in secret society circles held in this city recently was the twenty- third anniversary and reunion of Victoria lodge, No. 886, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows. The guests of honor were Henry C. Wadkins, who organized Victoria lodge May 30, 1898, and members of Mount Zion lodge No. 1670. Mrs. Mary Mallard was chairman of the committee of arrangements, and Mrs. Lucy Cotman presided over the literary program. Special honors were paid to Founder Wadkins of Victoria lodge and Robert Lee Williams, secretary of the Household of Ruth. In giving brief bits of the history of the lodge "Father" Wadkins, as he is affectionately called, said that on the night of May 30, 1893, when Victoria lodge was set apart, forty women assist in the ceremonies or were initiated. Of the men who helped to organize the lodge the following have since died—namely: P. H. W. Hadley, E. A. Johnson, James B. Alston, Alexander Poole and John Parrott. At the time Victoria lodge was organized there was only one Household of Ruth in Brooklyn, but at the present time there are four, Mr. Wadkins asserted. Among others who took part in the program were Mrs. Lydia Jackson, Miss Geneva Cutler, Mrs. Mary Poole, Jeremiah Keeling, Robert Turpin, Isahal Walker, Mrs. Thess Poole, Mr. Cotman, Samuel Taylor, Miss Maud Robinson and Charles Smith. In honor of "Father" Wadkins as founder of the lodge and his close connection with it to the present time, Victoria lodge presented Mr. Wadkins with a gold jeweled badge. The Household of Ruth also presented Mr. Robert Lee Williams with a gold jeweled badge in recognition of his services as secretary. The presentations were made by Mrs. Blair. Mrs. Williams stated that the first Household of Ruth was organized by Mrs. Katie Robinson at Harrisburg, Pa., Sept. 29, 1859, and that the organizer was living at the present time. Compliments the Hampton Institute. Colonel Charles E. Hasbrook, editor in chief of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, has sent the following telegram to the "Greater Hampton Patriotic movement." Chicago: "Hampton institute in this time of national stress, in keeping with its long and honorable traditions, is taking splendid and efficient steps to develop its men and women into worthy and useful citizens. Its agricultural extension work and instruction in military tactics are its greatest measures of war preparedness." Howard University's Patriotic Spirit. Howard university has put at the disposal of the government a site for a training camp for soldiers. There are at least 25,000 colored men available for the army at short notice. One thousand colored men will be trained as officers if the war department carries out its idea of establishing a training camp according to plans already announced. The prevailing opinion in Washington on May 15 was that fully 25,000 colored men would be called at once under authority of the new conscription bill. Part I-10 A. M. Part II-3 P. M. POPULAR PRICED SHOE REPAIRING. SPECIAL SAMPLE SHOES WE FIX 'EM WHILE YOU WAIT. 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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. BER SHOP BELL, Proprietor. POL, POLITE BARBERS BLIARD HALL ERS, SHOE SHINING MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Eastern, Main 2511. N. W. Main 5244 DENTIST'S NEW LOCATION. Dr. W. H. Wright wishes to announce that he has secured offices at 521 Marquette Ave., second floor. He will be pleased to meet his former patrons and those desiring first class Dental Work. Appointments made by phone. Call Nic. 6951. DR. WRIGHT, The Dentist, 521 Marquette Ave., Minneapolis. 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. Peoples Christian Assembly. ELDER G. W. MITCHELL, Pastor. Assisted by Mrs. G. W. Mitchell. Comel 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. 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 and ads be paid for NOW. HOME COOKING- REASONABLE RATES THE ARCADIA 500 Fourth N. W. PHONE MAIN 3487 REGULAR DIN W. S. SIM ½ Price Winter Suits $30.00 Suits or O $35.00 Suits or O BROWN BROS. 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They are on sale at BOUTELL'S. Reasonable Prices and Terms.—Advertise ment. ALL SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS ONE DOLLAR PER INCH. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR. ```markdown ``` Read the Negro Papers. Talking about Negroes being "too cowardly to fight" show me where one ever faltered on the battlefield. Name a traitor if you can. When the Son of God was on his way to death, Simon stepped up to his side, put his shoulder under the cross and helped him carry it. When a white foe felled President McKinley, a black man felled the tyrant. When at Carrizal, a white officer was mortally wounded, a Negro soldier also shot, grabbed the falling officer and held him up with one hand while he shot at the foe with the other. Braver soldiers never lived, truer Americans can't be found, and by and by justice will be ours.—The Pioneer Press, Martinsburg, W. Va. I am against Catholic, Protestant, or Jew, if the representative of any of these creeds does anything against the American spirit. I demand whole-hearted and undivided loyalty to the United States. I denounce as a crime against the country the effort by any section of our people, of whatever origin to perpetuate racial divisions in this country.—Theodore Rosevelt, in Metropolitan, Dec. 1916. 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. ADVERTISE HERE - IT PAYS. CLEAN SERVICE FOR TABLE BOARD. RESTAURANT Avenue So. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. INNER 25 CENTS MONS, Prop. On Unclaimed Tailored and Overcoats Overcoats $15.00 Overcoats $17.50 MERCANTILE CO. and Furriers. street, Minneapolis. AND ENJOY IN CITIES Picture Map Folder entitled "Cities Today" Information About Minneapolis Published. finest paper. Tells how to resting sights in and about cities, in the least possible expense. Contains new in- well as ten splendid colored now attractively Minnehaha and Lake Como, Lake Min- the Central Portion of Min- neses, Phalen Park and Lake, the Central Portion of St. shows the Twin Cities and tributary 16 miles by 48 miles, Rivers and Parks. Most folder will be mailed to cents in stamps. Agent, Twin City Lines, Minneapolis. Lynching Record in the United States. The National Association For the Advancement of Colored People shows the negligence of officers of the law who fail to carry out their sworn duty in protecting persons charged with crime from mob violence. Under the heading "Life, Liberty and the Pur-suit of Happiness," on our own side of the border, among the colored citizens, the association shows that for the past thirty years there have been an average of ninety-two colored persons lynched or hanged without the semblance of a trial to prove their innocence or guilt. Hen. Wise, the famous old Comedian died in Honolulu recently. REMEMBER THIS THE TWIN CITY STAR PHYSICIANS TO MEET IN JACKSON, MISS., JUNE 27 President Sherrod's Effort to Better Condition of the Masses. Meridian, Miss.—The colored people of this section of the state are showing a timely interest in local and national affairs and are ready to perform any service for the good of the country at this critical period of our national life. While the farmers are redoubling their efforts to enlarge their crops our business and professional men and women are lending splendid patriotic co-operation in all good movements for the public good. Among the able and influential leaders of the race in this city and state is the well known Dr. D. W. Sherrod, president of the Mississippi Medical, Dental, Pharmaceutical and Surgical association. Dr. Sherrod was formerly an instructor in Latin at Meharyar Medical college, Nashville, Tenn., and secretary of the board of United States examining surgeons. In order to co-operate with the other leaders here for the benefit of the masses Dr. Sherrod has sent the following letter to all members of the General Medical association with regard to the coming annual meeting of that organization. Dr. Sherrod says: "This is a year impregnated with many possible events. The world seems to be more generally disturbed now than it has ever been since the dawn of true civilization. There are wars and rumors of wars throughout the world. "Every country, organization, race and class of citizens is studying how best to prepare for possible coming emergencies. Our people, the Negroes, are commercially and financially disturbed and are migrating to the north and other sections in great numbers in search of better conditions. "Owing to these general disturbances and the duty we owe severally to our various communities in assisting in this great work of preparedness and readjustment of conditions among the laboring elements of our people, I have, after conferring with the executive committee, decided to defer the meeting of our association until Wednesday and Thursday, June 27 and 28, and I hope that these dates will meet your hearty approval. "We are expecting a great meeting, with quite a number of prominent members of our professions present from other states. You will remember that the meeting will be in Jackson, where ample arrangements are being made to entertain us. "I will thank you for an immediate reply, with your subject sent to Dr. L. R. Young, secretary, Hattiesburg, Miss. "D. W. SHERROD, President." THE REMEDY FOR CRIME. Fair Attitude of a Northern Publication Toward Our Race. Under the caption "Education and Crime Among Negroes" the American Review of Reviews in a recent issue gave this remarkably fair and logical comment on the subject: "Certain mistaken deductions from statistics of crime and education in the south are discussed by Judge Gilbert T. Stephenson of Winston-Salem, N.C. in the South Atlantic Quarterly. "In the first place, it appears that the amount of crime for which the Negro race is responsible has been considerably exaggerated. For example, if one counts the inmates of the prisons of this country on any given day he finds that the Negro race, constituting only one-tenth of the total population, is penalized for nearly one-third of the crime, but if he counts the number of commitments for crime during any given period he finds that the Negro race furnishes only about one-fifth instead of one-third of the convictions. This difference arises from the fact that the terms of imprisonment of Negroes are, as a rule, longer than those of white people. "All the available statistics and the unanimous opinion of men in a position to know the facts would seem to be proof that education—elementary or advanced, industrial or literary—diminishes crime among Negroes. The alarmingly high rate of Negro criminality is as much a condemnation on the community in which it exists as of the offending Negroes themselves. "Having discovered that the Negro school is at least one institution which successfully combats crime, the community cannot afford to withhold its active interest in and generous support of its Negro school. The more money spent in making such schools responsive to the special needs of the race the less will have to be spent or crime. "And if it comes to a question of cost it is cheaper in the long run to maintain and equip schools—Negro schools even—than police departments, courts, jails, penitentiaries and reformatories, for the school properly conducted makes the Negro a greater asset, while the court finds him a liability and nearly always leaves him a greater liability of the community." Tristate Medical Association Meet- a. The Tristate Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical association meeting at Memphis, Tenn., from Tuesday, May 22 to 24, inclusive, included in its program of discussion many topics of first importance to the health and well being of the race. The meeting also records a high note of progress and patriotism. The city of Memphis is richer in racial good will because of the presence of this body of capable men and women, who are interested and working for the advancement of both races, the states and the nation. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STAR. SUPERVISOR OF RURAL SCHOOLS Notable Record of Professor C. L. W. Smith. POPULAR WITH THE MASSES Former Principal of Graded School at Smithfield, N. C., Has Accomplished Much Good For the Colored People In Johnstone County—Lengthened Term and Raised Standard of Teaching. By GEORGE F. KING. Smithfield, N. C.—Never before in the history of Negro education in North Carolina has there been such a keen and substantial interest in educational conditions on the part of the better element of the race as is being evidenced at the present time. This interest is especially noticeable in the rural districts. Johnstone county, of which this place is the county seat, several years ago did not afford the colored people such facilities as they now have. The school term has also been lengthened. During the year of 1900 Professor C. L. W. Smith, a native of this town, graduated from Shaw university, and after traveling for several years he accepted a position with his father, who is the wealthiest and most progressive Afro-American in Johnstone county. Young Smith was then persuaded to do some journalistic work and later accepted a position as bookkeeper in the navy yard at Pensacola, Fla. He was afterward transferred to the Norfolk (Va.) navy yard. In June, 1900, he resigned his government position to return to his home town to become principal of the graded school. Because of his success as principal for three years he was appointed supervisor of the colored schools of Johnstone county. With his characteristic manner of bringing things to pass he secured special appropriations for education, raised a higher standard and procured efficient teachers, who received better pay. Professor Smith made the same PROFESSOR C. L. W. SMITH. requirements for colored teachers as were for teachers of the white schools and has reduced to a minimum teachers without professional qualifications. In many places in the county the schoolhouses were inadequate, and where there were two school buildings worth $400 he consolidated the two, wherever practicable, and erected buildings worth $1,500. When Professor Smith became supervisor there was no two teacher-trual school in his county for the race. Now there are six two-teacher and two three-teacher schools and there have been built three new schools. Under his supervision the graded schools at Smithfield, Selma and Clayton have had a splendid growth along varied lines. For the past three years he has held county commencements, which have been inspiring events to the extent that the largest assemblies of Afro-Americans in the annals of the county enthusiastically support Professor Smith and his teachers and make these commencement features a source of inspiration to the race in this county. About 1,500 children from various schools participate in the parades. The exhibits are highly creditable. These events have largely increased the enrollment and attendance of the children in the county. Professor Smith saw the necessity of having an institution in his county for the training of teachers and has succeeded admirably well in making the Smithfield Training school a factor for the development of the county teachers. This institution has a boarding department for students and annually conducts a summer school. His efforts have caused a wholesome cooperation on the part of the people, the teachers and the county superintendent of education. He has created the kind of enthusiasm that is helping the Negro in the south to overcome obstacles. This is due to the fact that young men of his type are absolutely essential in work of uplift of the masses of our people. As an example of his efficiency and the confidence the educational officials have in him Professor Smith has charge of the reports and the employment of teachers in his county. All applications from teachers are referred to him, and the selection of the local school committees, composed of Afro-Americans, constitutes another phase of his work. TERMS USED IN FEEDING Scientific Nomenclature Reduced to Every-Day Meanings. [National Crop Improvement Service.] Stockfood consists briefly of three chief parts or compounds, omitting the water and minerals. They are: Protein (containing nitrogen), a muscle former. Fat (not containing nitrogen), a fuel or fattening substance. Carbohydrates (meaning made of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen). These three substances are called organic matter, because they will burn. Mineral matter is called inorganic. An animal can live on protein alone, but would not under normal conditions, because protein (or albumen) is only found mixed with fat in the case of meat and with fat and carbohydrates in the case of plants and cereals. Familiar examples of protein are white of egg, lean meat and the gluten which can be chewed out of wheat. Fat or oil we all know. Carbohydrates include sugar, starch, cellulose, bref, gums, etc. To keep alive and not lose weight an animal must have small amounts of protein and larger amounts of fat or carbohydrates. They serve as building material to replace worn-out tissue and flesh and also to furnish power (energy) to move, work, and do all the inside work of the body. The ash or mineral matter furnishes bone material and is also necessary but abundant in nature. A growing animal needs plenty of protein and ash (bone food) and of carbohydrates and fat. A grown-up animal needs less of either the first two, but plenty of the last two. A pregnant animal needs plenty of food for its unborn young. BUYING FEED INGREDIENTS Difficult to Buy Proper Feed Stuffs at Random. [National Crop Improvement Service.] There are not a dozen food stores in the country that carry in stock all the ingredients of a first-class mixed feed at all times and at reasonable prices, and usually they do not carry feeds of the same high quality used by the mixers who work scientifically through a laboratory. This is humar nature. Competition compels a dealer to sell the cheapest quality. The best quality of feed is seldom carried, because the average buyer will not pay the highest price. A good many experiment stations in a general way will advocate that a farmer mix all his own feed, but they are human like the rest of us and they will use recognized brands in their own feeding operations rather than go to the trouble and take the time to follow their own advice. There are a good many herds at experiment stations which are kept as sort of a clinic for professors to practice theories upon. The poor brutes are used a good deal as guinea pigs in hospital practice. On the other hand, at the experiment stations are to be found many of the finest animals ever bred. The mixed feeds of the first grade can be fed alone or in connection with home-grown corn, oats or barley. To do this widens your ration, and it is correct to do so if it will reduce your cost of feeding. Mixed feeds, therefore, are largely a matter of arithmetic. You can usually get the result for less money than by feeding more expensive grains separately. THE MANURIAL INGREDIENTS OF FEEDS. [National Crop Improvement Service.] Nitrogen is the most important and most valuable fertilizing element supplied by feeds, and it is in this element that they show the greatest variation. The Connecticut Experiment Station states that it was found that the average mixed fertilizer contained 3.95 per cent nitrogen and showed in a table that eighteen of fifty-two different feeds contained 3.93 per cent. Among this list is cottonseed and linseed meals, gluten seed, middlings, brewers' and distillers' products, and a few of the feed mixtures. It is obvious, therefore, that a wise selection of feeds enhances the value of the manure and consequently plays an important part in farm economy. BARLEY PRODUCTS. Prof. J. P. Street, in the Annual Report of the Connecticut Agricultural Station for 1912, says: "That malt sprouts should receive more consideration from dairymen, especially in comparison with many of the proprietary mixed feeds containing only from one-third to one-half as much protein as malt sprouts, prices being considered." He also states that dried brewers' grains, prices considered, in connection with the feed's high analysis, is one of the cheapest high-grade feeds on the market. WHAT'S IN A MIXED FEED? [National 1996 Improvement Service.] A high-grade mixed feed suitable for any kind or breed of dairy cow should have high protein content, with an exact digestible analysis. It can be mixed with corn, oats, barley, hay or other forage, which should be grown upon the farm, provided the mixture would save the farmer any money. As a rule, the ingredients of the highest grades are corn, distillers' grains, gluten feed, cottonseed meal, hominy meal, malt sprouts, brewers' grains, linseed meal, pure wheat bran and salt. The best grades contain no cheap fillers of any kind and so the feed is highly concentrated and recharge can be supplied at home. 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. MANICURING AND FACIAL MASSAGE ELECTRIC HAIR, TREATMENTS ARTESIA CREAM. Handled past ten years. Removes Liver spots and black-heads. Bleaches the skin and renews its natural color. ELECTRIC HAIR GROWER 500. Overton's High-Brown Powder. Testimonials. Mrs. Essie Taylor, 633 Mississippi St. St. Paul and Mrs. Nancy Wade, 1403 Fifth Ave. So., Minneapolis and others have sent testimonials recommending Madam Hart's Preparations and Hairwork. MADAM M. HART, 1215 WASHINGTON AVE. S. MINNEAPOLIS. MINN. 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 OFFER. Special $3.00 Combination 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. 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. 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, tho denied his rights. Do not waste your time making promises to our agents. Send your money by Express or Post Office Order or in cash or postage stamps. Dr. W. Sampson Brooks, formerly of Minneapolis, is the new pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Church in Baltimore, Md. 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Twenty-five Cents Reading Notices, per line, Five Cente Wedding Announcements, Fifty Cente Card of Thanks ........One Dollar: Ya 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 ad: vertisers We respect their right tc 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 afl mail to Twin City Star 905 8. Sth 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. Negroes are being killed and driven out of East St. Lous, because they came from the South to earn an honest living. Negroes have no rights under Lynch Law, and America calls herself a free country. The waiters of Carlings Hotel of St. Paul and The National of this city have subscribed to the Liberty Loan. Our sympathies are with the people of Atlanta, Ga, who are suffering from a recent calamity. Lynchings and calamities seem to go hand in hand. Peculiar co-incidents; but God’s ways are mysterious. Dr. Chas. S. Morris arose from the floor at the Memorial Day services in the St. Paul Auditorium and regis- tered a strong protest against the injustices of the American people to the Negro. He paid the race a glow- ing tribute and concluded his remarks amid prolonged applause. CONG. LUNDEEN ADDRESSES VETERANS. Congressman Ernest Lundeen, a veteran of the Sponish-American War, by the request of the Veterans organizations of the District of Col- umbia delivered the Memorial Day address at the Congressional Ceme- tary, Washington. The Weakly Advocate, our com- petitor, deserves every consideration. Before you subscribe to the Star, pur- chase a copy of the Advocate, then get a choice for your money. We invite competition and the “WEAKLY” is the best advocate for subscribers to The Twin City Star. A MAN ABOVE HIS PARTY. Thomas Van Lear, the Socialist Mayor of this city is attending to his duties as Mayor, despite the criticism and threats of dismissal. Business has not been paralyzed and the city has not “gone to ‘hell” as predicted by many. It s true that “the powers” ‘can remove Mayor Van Lear, but it is known that he would resign rather than rule under intimidation. He en- dorsed nothing lawless, and the police department under his control is doing excellent work. The radical wing of the Socialists are arrayed against -him. He is a loyal citizen and an American by birth also a War Vet- eran. He is a man of undaunted courage and sound judgment. He re- spects a Negro as a man and he is admired by all people, because, he is a strong and fearless advocate of those three fundamentals of American freedom—“No taxation with out rep- resentation,” “the consent of the governed” and “equality of all men before the law”—these rights when ‘enjoyed by all citizens will forever be the safeguards of this Republic. _ The ‘great revival has closed. The speople ofthe Twin Cities have been “qzeatly benefitted. Are you a delinquent subscriber? If 90, why not send your subscrip- tion? NEGROES SPECIALLY IDEN. TIFIED 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 considera- tion 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 South- ern 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 re- gard the rights of black men. Ne- groes 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 abolutionist, 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 supre- macy, because of free labor. They may now regain their “lost cause” 2 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. Writthg Their Own History. The dailies, which have published an extensive account of the Memphis lynching, have shown to the world the savagery of our citizens of the supposed superior race in that local- ity. It is a sad commentary on the white man’s civilization and adds an. other blot of shame on another page of American history. He, who demands his rights, guar- anteed him under our constitution, is not a traitor. The Negro cannot be expected to rally to the country’s call today as he did to Lincoln and McKinley; but he is ever ready. He cannot be aroused by martial music, brilliant uniforms, patriotic addresses or pecuniary promises. Should the American people grant him equal rights as other Americans, he will then forgive their wrongs he has suf- fered. As it is, he is- calm and deliberate. He will enter this war for his second emancipation. Tho he serves no human master, he -is the slave of Race-hatred, Discrimination and that prejudiced | Americanism— the Southern propaganda of the pres- ent administration. He is denied the right to enlist in many branches of his Nation’s defensive service. He is awarded special honors, i, e. “held in reserve,” for breast works. But ‘he must fight to save his Country— that he might enjoy Liberty in its fullest sense. He must fight—that posterity shall awake in a new Amer- icanism. This is our fight, if Amer- ica needs us, and we shall not be called until needed. a MEMORIAL PARADE POST- PONED. Owing to severe weather the Mem- orial Day Parade was indefinitely postponed. Many of the Negro fra- ternities were to have taken part. “KNOCKING ME” ~ Oftimes a person fails, regardless of the assistance received and when the true cause of their failure is told; they resort to that. old alibi, “He's knocking me.” Such persons wear their own labels and investigation will show their inefficiency. Do not pre- tend to deliver, if you haven't the re- quired goods. Initiative is desirable, but ability is necessary. Egotism, suspision and fear of competition are some of the causes of the failure of those who elect themselves as Or- ganizers. Self-denial, faith in co- workers, co-operation and gratitude are essentials for success. BUNDRANT’S VOLUNTEERS. The members who have enrolled under J. W. Bundrant, have not been drilled and even a temporary organ- ization has not been effected. The military-honor of the Negro citizens depends on the volunteers. It is up to Mr. Bundrant to organ- ize Now or Never. THE TWIN CITY 8TAR SEER aE ELS any other grbup of is loyal to anything ATTITUDE OF THE | ss""asi't ‘are bound up in the F they are loyal, As to AMERICAN NEGRO} sxe ra Jy convinced to the c © answered in hypothe: cae c Linge! = " group ormal Professor Plokens Declares} 2 cero i cera Race Is Loyal, «=~ | Wach,tem, but be sou — with the deliberate in t'ituation the Nee MEANING OF GERMAN PLOT] *,stzsts2 2 Nesro In Scholarly Addrese at Washington Prominent Educator Enlightene Coun- try on Colored Americans’ Position In Nation's Great Crisle—Do Not Need Watching, but Want Square Deal. Washington. — Speaking under the auspices of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored Peo- ple at a meeting held in this city on the evening of Wednesday, May 16, on “The Attitude of the American Negro,” Professor William Pickens, dean of uaota college, Baltimore, in part 1 “There 1s no question as to the Ne- gro's patriotism or loyalty. But the mistake is being made by a misinter- pretation of the mind of the Negro which is back of this patriotism. The last year or two of the great war have discovered an unprecedented thing— unprecedented except by the spirit of the Negro himself during the civil war namely, that America’s least privi- Jeged and most persecuted class proves to be in a critical time its most de- pendable citizenship. For several sea- sons now every white man in America has been watching every other white man, but nobody has felt the need of watehing the American Negro. To be sure, a false alarm was recently start- ed in the south about German plotting among Negroes, but those of us who kmow the south knew at once what that alarm meant. It signified not a fear of Negro disloyalty, but a real and genuine fear of the Negro’s grow- ing industrial and economic opportuni- tles which the great war has brought him. ‘This alarm, which is the most treach- erous thrust that has been made at the Negro in recent years, failed. It fail- ed against the solid fact of the Negro's loyalty, past and present. The south, which has fooled the world about the ‘Negro in almost every other particular, which has made the north believe that he ts a characteristic libertine, that he fs an unprofitable laborer, that he is un- reliable as a machine operator and that he fs an undesirable in almost every other capacity—this historic traducer of our race, after being backed even by high official “confirmation,” failed, ut- terly to stir the blood of the nation with the scarecrow of Negro disloyalty. Such ‘is the universal and unconsciously ‘acquired confidence in the Negro as. an American, But, singularly enough, the. peoples who ‘have been highly favored abote the Negro are the classes who are now deemed worthy. of suspicion—those who have been permitted to buy a house on any corner, who have been permitted to live in any part of our cities, who have been admitted to work in any business or industry, who have not been dis- franchised, but who have been jubilant- ly naturalized as fresh recruits for the ghost or fetish called “white civiliza- tion,” the people who have not been Jimerowed or hanged without trial or ‘burned at the stake (behold, ye gods!) —these are the peoples whom the na- tion watches when the nation’s security is threatened. But the Negro, whose ancestry, by the way, was American long before that of the great majority of our white peo- ple and whose record of loyal service has been uniform and unvarying, is the only class upon whom all~of these abuses have been heaped, and yet by the reluctant confession of his worst enemies he ts the class of all classes not needing to be watched. Although the Negro’s dependable: ness is the best attested fact in Amer fea today, he 1s the one man not en- thusiastically welcomed in all our great preparations for war. We wish to get along without him if we possibly can, To be sure, we have left the door ajar so that the colored brother can be called, as usual, when sorely needed. Meanwhile some of us are between the devil and the deep blue sea. We must elther send the Negro to the glory of the trenches in France or we must permit him the gain of becoming further intrenched in our home indus trles, and we feel that elther trenci: will have a mighty elevating infuence on the American Negro's status. What could be more effective than the Negro in Europe, freeing big souled France, glorifying America and estab- Ushing democracy in the world? On the other hand, what could be of more solid gain to the Negro race in the United States than to be permitted by the incident of war and the tron law of necessity to work in the great in- dustries of America and prove that he can do’ satisfactorily the very things which bis enemies have for fifty years shouted and maintained that he could never be relied upon to do? For the Negro it is a case of “heads I win, tafls you lose!” What the Negro's real enemy fears is not the race's fond- ly catalogued vices, but its virtue. We repeat ‘that, although there ts ‘no question as to the Negro's loyalty a ee Gevep of men in the world is loyal to anything, because they think that thelr best group interests are bound up in the thing to which they are loyal, As to whether the Ne- gro would be loyal if he were absolute- ly convinced to the contrary must be answered in hypothesis by the same answer which would be given for any other group of normal human beings. ‘The Negro is certainly not loyal to isfranchisement, “jimcrowism” and lynch law, but he follows the star of America in spite of those evils and with the deliberate intention and fond hope of overthrowing them. In such @ situation the Negro must of course continually face dilemmas. He has had to be a strike breaker to get a Job, he has had to flee to a separate and inferior school system to escape ignorance, and he has had to dissect the body of Christ in order to enter the church and the kingdom of heaven. In the same spirit he would accept a separate military training camp that some of his college trained men might get commissions in the army and serve their country more effectively than as mere “cannon fodder.” It is not strange that in the last named dilemma the majority of his leaders and friends in- dorsed the camp idea, but it is signif cant that, while some of his leaders and friends conscientiously opposed it, all of bis worst enemies consistently opposed it. Those who favored it do not favor discrimination, but they seized that horn of the dilemma which ‘would lend a future advantage—to gain a height from which they could deal segregation a heavier blow. His en- mies also saw this and opposed it unanimously. ‘This explains the frequent appear- ‘ance of a lack of union among Ameri- can Negroes. It is plain to an insider. ‘They are perfectly united in aim and ambition, and they differ only in meth- 0 and policy. ‘This difference ts due to thetr peculiar situation. No other group of people in the round world is brought oftener face to face with a dilemma, where the choice is not be- tween an evil and a good, but between two evils. A choice between evils is & more disintegrating question than any choice between an unmixed evil and a definite good. “Which is the lesser evil?” ‘This puzzling dilemma is at the bottom of many of the appar- ent differences’ among Negro leaders, whose hearts and souls are perfectly united in ambition and aim and object. The only solution of this difficulty is conference, frequent and widely rep- resentative conference. Probably Net. “Is Pickleby a manicure artist?” “I don’t know. Why?” “I just saw him, and be told me that he had charge of a hundred hands at his place of business.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. Young College Men For Army Officers. Great interest is being taken in the movement to enlist large numbers of young college bred men to be trained ‘as army officers at the new camp just established for that purpose by the war department. Applicants are being rap- idly enrolled under the auspices of the ‘Theta Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity at ‘Washington. New Carlton Avenue Y. M. C. A Heme. "The Carlton avenue branch, ¥. M. C. ‘A, has closed the contract for the erection of its new building at a cost of $200,000, including cost of plot and furnishings. The branch will have its headquarters at 907 Fulton street, Brooklyn, during building operations, which were begun on Thursday, May 24. Miller Offers to Raise Army of 30,008 In all sections of the country the colored people are offering thelr serv- ices to the state, nation or muntelpality in which they live to ald in some way im the present war against Germany. ‘The offer of the Hon. Thomas H. Miller of South Carolina to organize an army of 80,000 colored men to go to the front is enough to silence forever, it seems, any statement that the colored people are not loyal to the flag of their coun- try. When the colored people of South Carolina and Georgia beg to shoulder arms against the enemy in this crisis every traducer of the Negro race in America ought to hide his face in shame. BIG BROTHERS’ CONFERENCE. Urban League Continues Work to Safe- guard Young Lives. At the conference of Big Brothers recently held at the headquarters of the National Urban league, 2308 Sev- enth avenue, New York, a resolution was adopted requesting Police Commis. sloner Woods and Captain William H. Ward to detail Officer Samuel J. Battle as a crime prevention officer for the Thirty-eighth precinct as soon as con- venfent. Arrangements were also made for Big Brother co-operation in the cases of inmate and released boys from the Colored Orphan asylum at River- dale, N. ¥. ‘The conference designated Messrs. J. ©. Dancy, Jr., chairman; Richard ©. Lockett, Julius A. Watson, Paul G. Prayer and William R. Dorsey, secre- tary, as a committee to solicit contri- butions and to send 0, ©. Allison, Jr. secretary of the Colored Big Brothers, ‘to the first American Big Brother and Big Sister conference, to be held in Grand Rapids, Mich., May 28 and 29, ‘The representative of this conference is the only colored delegate in the United States in attendance at the ses. sion, The Big Brothers voted to have conferences on the evenings of the sec- ond and fourth Thursdays in each month. Edward J. Henkel of the pro bation department, Manhattan chil. ren’s court, was the speaker at the session held Thursday, May 24. Mr. Allison made-bis report on the confer ‘yncee of correctton and charities. STOP! LOOK! 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