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The Twin City star., 1916-07-22
Meeting OF PHYSICIANS.
Interstate Convention Held With Aead-
emy of Medicine In Philadelphia.

Interstate Convention Held With Aoad.
smy Of Medicine In Philadelphia.
Philadelphia.-The convention of in
terstate physicians, dentists and drug
gists held here from July 13 to Is, in
elusive, had a beneficent effect upon
the community. The meeting was held
under the auspices Of the Philadelphia
Negro Academy Of Medicine, whose
president is the well known DR.. N. f.
Mossell. The gathering was made up
Of men representing the professions
above named in six states and the Dis
trfct Of Columbia.
DR.. Mossell has the distinction of be-
ing the first physician Of the Negro
race to graduate from the University
Of Pennsylvania. Another fact which
gave Importance to the session was
that in this city there are sixty prac-
ticing physicians Of the race, forty den-
lists, six druggists and two hospi Ills,
the Frederick Douglass and Mercy hos
pitals.
The opening address was given by
DR.. Mossell, who is the founder and
chief Of the medical staff Of the Fred
erick Douglass hospital. Clinics were
held at each Of the above named insti-
tutions, which were not only interest
ing, but very successful. The delegates
and visitors numbered over 500. Phila-
delphia ranks first among the cities Of
the United States in the medical pro-
fession among our people.
The committee Of arrangements con-
sisted Of Dr.. George Cannon, chairman.
Jersey City, N. j.; DR.. Benjamin With
ers, secretary, New York, and DR..
Charles A. Lewis, treasurer. Philadel,
phia.
The Twin City star., 1916-07-22
HOTEL DALE
Cape May, N. J.

Comfort and Elegance Without
Extravaganza
This Magnificent Hotel Located In
the Heart of the Most Beautiful
Seashore Resort in the World,
is replete with every modern improve
ment, superiative in construction, ap-
pointments, service and refined pa
tronage. Orchestra daily, garage,
lighthouses, tennis, ETC.. on premises.
Special attention given to ladies and
children. Send for booklet.
E. w. Dale, Owner.
The Twin City star., 1916-07-22
MINNESOTA CONGRESSMAN
FAVORS SHORTER HOURS
FOR THE MAN WHO
TOLLS.

Congressman Thomas D. Schall,
representing the Tenth Minnesota
district has taken up the defense of
the man who tolls and has been given
keen attention. Congressman Schall
says:
Yesterdays mistake warns US
against the blunder of tomorrow.
Our mistake in the past has been an
endeavor to transform our workers
into high speed machines, without re-
gard for the economic waste to the
worker or to the race. Faster, faster,
faster, pile up the garments; heap up
the profits, no matter if rest and
health and proper food be denied the
weary laborer; no matter if girlish
forms be withered and the promise of
our national motherhood is blighted;
no matter if the cheeks pale and the
chest becomes hollow.
Cheap Labor Not Prosperity.
"Cheap labor and long hours have
not helped to bring prosperity The
laborer goes home at night too
weary to think after a long day of
toll, at underpaid wages, to a meanly
furnished, dark, unsanitary home, a
scant unnourishing supper and hum
py comfortless bed. He wakes early,
dons his sweaty clothes and with
hem the hopeless, disspirited thoughts
that envelop them. What chance for
him to expand, to improve his mind,
to enjoy Gods fresh air and sunshine?
1T is not the question altogether
to the employer, how many shoes
are made, but how many shoes are
sold. Let us look to it that fewer of
our countrymen have shoeless feet.
With more leisure, more time for re-
Election, comes desire for improve
ment, for better living.
Greatest Good Real Aim.
The governments aim should be
the greatest good for the greatest
number Shorten the day of labor.
Every movement toward the shorter
Cay for the laboring man is a move
ment toward his enfranchisement.
Every man should have the right
to work, the right to sleep and the
right to play. The problem that con-
fronts the United States today is to
tighten the burden of the working
classes. The ideal of our country can
never be realized, we shall never cap-
ture the spirit of liberty, while half
the people are starving and the other
half faring sumptuously every day."
The Twin City star., 1916-07-22
BY w. ANTHONY AERY.

Progress Noted at New Monrovia, Fla.
New Monrovia. Fla, thlrty-two miles
from Palm Beach on the main line of
the Florida East Coast railway, Is a
rapidly growing community. It is to
be Incorporated under the laws Of the
state and owned and controlled by the
colored citizens Of that section Of the
state. Churches, schools and other in
stitutions usually found in a well regu-
lated town are being erected. Rich
farm land and plots Of homes are being
laid out for sale to prospective resi-
dents. and the whole territory Is as
suming a healthy and thrifty appear
ance. With the influence Of the local
business leagues Of the state and the
efforts Of the officials Of the town It
will not be long before every section
Of the district will be inhabited by
thrifty mambers Of our racA
The Twin City star., 1916-07-22
Look up fhis place
NICELY FURNISHED
ROOMS
Within Walking Distance
The MODERN HOME
1015 So. 5th St.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.
N. w. Mic. 951
ION TO BALTIMORE"
From the Department of the Pres.
National Association of Colored
Women's Clubs.

Women's Clubs.
Easily, the greatest forward race
movement of the age is the National
Association of Colored Women's
Clubs, and the leading spirit among
them the President; Mrs. Booker T.
Washington. Emerging from the
gloom which has recently enveloped
her, she has apparently re-consecra-
ted her life to the uplift of the race,
and by her helpful messages of encour-
agement to club leaders all all over
the country is inspiring officers, de-
partment heads and members to a
greater activity than ever before been
evinced in the work.
The next Biennial will be held al
Baltimore, Nd, in August. Mrs.
Washington presiding.
This meeting bids fair to be the
most interesting in the history of the
Association. The meeting in 1912 at
Hampton was intensely interesting
and inspiring; that at Wilberforce in
1914 was wonderful and far reaching
in its effects - wonderful group Of
women, showing a remarkable insight
in the philosophy of life and demon
strating a constructive ability which
portends wonderful results in the next
few years.
"On to Baltimore" is the slogan of
every race organization of women,
and where the women are the men
will likewise be found.
BY courtesy of the editor I shall
from time to time issue information
through the columns of this paper,
relative to the great Biennial at Bal
timore in August.
Mrs. w. T. Francis, St. Paul Mimi.
Chairman, Press Committee.
The Twin City star., 1916-07-22
PORTERS' AND WATERS
BAND.
Mgr. Shull has Produced a Group of
Good Players. go.

The Porters' and Walters Band is
the latest enterprise of Manager
Glover Shull He has uniformed IL
good players and others are ready to
4 Clint Davis is the lead
er. Prof. w. H. Howard, the we'll
known bandmaster, will instruct. The
band has among them a good quar-
tette. Mr.. Shull will receive applica-
tons and will have band of "a good
musicians, and will spare neither
paines or money to make it a credit
to the Negroes of Minneapolis.
The Twin City star., 1916-07-22
Press Association Official Dies.

The National Negro Press associa-
ton, through Corresponding Secretary
Henry Allen Boyd. reports the death of
the Rev. w. r. Toliver. assistant re.
cording secretary Of the association.
which occurred at Nashville, Tenn. re-
Gently. The Rev. Mr.. Toliver was in
terested in many good movements for
racial uplift
The Twin City star., 1916-07-22
CONSTRUCTIVE WORK OF THE
NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE
How the Nashville (Tenn.) Branch Has
Proved Its Worth.

The work of the National League on
Urban Conditions Among Colored Peo-
pie shows healthy growth in eficien-
cy and in initiative. The league main
tains headquarters in New York and
has branches in many of the large cit
les south and west, which are doing q
beneficent work among our people. Mr..
Eugene Kinckle Jones is the executive
secretary and associate director In
charge Of the main Office in New York,
and DR.. George E. Haynes, professor
vof economics at Fisk university, is the
executive secretary in charge Of the
Office at Nashville, Tenn.
At recent meeting Of the executive
board held in New York DR.. Haynes
made report on the part played by
the league at the big fire which did SO
much damage in Nashville the latter
part of March. DR.. Haynes says:
Nashville made destitute about $500 per-
sons, more than half Of whom were col
ored. Temporary and permanent relief
work was Immediately organized. Our
league office took the initiative, as far as
the relief for colored people was con-
Cerned, ana eStaDllSne0 an ONCE near
the fire zone, with the cooperation Of q
committee from the Negro board of trade.
The whites. led by the Commercial club,
also established an office across the street
from us. Within a short time we were
invited to join with them and carry on
the relief work jointly. In all S6 colored
and 01 white families were helped in
some way or other. and $4,000 was raised
and spent.
On the strength Of the impression made
in the fire relief. some Of the leading
white and colored citizens issued call
for a conference to form a movement to
attack some Of our chronic social prob
lens. AS a result. the final plans were
adopted and the organization completed
on May % Of the Public Welfare league.
This league has since that time estab-
lished an office and undertaken to pro-
mote three lines Of work under subcom-
mittees as follows: Committee on delin-
quency. which will deal with both tuve-
nile court and city and county court cases:
committee on housing and health and
committee on employment and relief.
The interest has become so active that
both white and colored people are united
in the same organization. and our white
friends have been equally or more active
than the colored members. The organiza-
ton has started with the policy Of a care
fully selected membership and has al
ready enlisted the support Of some Of our
ablest white and colored business and
professional men OF Nashville
The Twin City star., 1916-07-22
WANTS

$4,000 in Cash and Premium
Awards to Women, Men, Girls, Boys,
Societies and Churches for distribut-
ng the Printed Key, and the ANTI
RACE Hatred-By Law Bill-the abb
solute secret to solve the Race Prob
lens.
Send stamped envelope for circulars.
Prof. c. Braganza,
Fitchburg, Mass.
Bureau of Research.)
The Twin City star., 1916-07-22

J. o. Peterson, the popular druggist
at Seven Corners has on file the
prescriptions of the Segerstrom Drug
Store, which is closed. The record of
all Segerstrom prescriptions are at
Peterson's and can be filled on re-
quest. Mr.. Peterson has moved to
a temporary building on Cedar Ave-,
opposite his old store. He will erect
a building costing $110,0OOHin which
he will establish the largest drug
store in the city, and he will con-
tinue to serve his Negro patrons as
he has done in the past-Advertise-
ment.
The Twin City star., 1916-07-22

ADVERTISE HERE - IT PAYS.
Macon beacon., 1916-08-04

Anent the appointment of P. P.
Garner as Commissioner of Agri-
culture, the Progressive Farmer
has the following to say:
The new Commissioner of Agri.
culture, Mr.. P. P. Garner, will as
sumo charge of the office Septem-
Der 15. He was raised on q farm
and has q good general education,
with considerable special agricul.
tural training. His experience
during recent years as agent of the
cooperative farm demonstration
work for the district of south Mis-.
sissippi also gives him a know!.
edge of the agricultural condi,
ti0ns and needs of the state which
peculiarly fit him for the duties of
his new Office.
The Progressive Farmer wishes
to congratulate and thank Gov.
ernor Bilbo for giving us this rare
but wholesome example of one
having appointive powers by vir.
tue of political Office appointing a
man with agricultural knowledge
and training to an agricultural
executive Office. The rarity of
the occurrence in this country
makes it none the less refreshing
and commendable. This is one
case whore our regret that Mr..
Blakeslee Is to leave the Depart
ment of Agriculture which he
has built up does not lesson the
warmth of our welcome to the
new occupant of that Office.
Macon beacon., 1916-08-04
The Only Respectable Dtssase
10 Old Are"

DIR. Harvey W. Wiley speaking
in Kansas City recently said that
old age is the only respectable
disease to die of.
"Hardly one hundred Of you
here tonight will die of old age"
DIR. Wiley said, "the only respect
able disease of which man may
die. The rest Of you are going to
die before your time.
81 mean it. You men are burn.
ing yourselves up with tobacco
and with business cares. You
women are trying to shorten your
lives by drinking tea, dancing the
tango and playing bridge.
"Diseases that could be avoided
are going to carry you of. You
wait for an ache before you 90 to
the dentist. You ought TO 90
twice a year. The dentist will
find cavity or he will prevent
one from coming. Every tooth Is
worth $1,000.
"The average life is A years.
Why, a mau is Just getting into
his best years then. just getting
where he can pay back Q little in.
teresc on the investment he ha,
cost. 1t is not unreasonable that
the average life should be ad
vanced to SS years."
Macon beacon., 1916-08-04

Their local affairs will still be
directed, not from Dublin, but
from London. This slightly
modified system of home rule is
to last until the war is over,
when a great council is to decide
Oh a new organization for the em
pire, including the question of an
independent local government for
Ireland.
So intense are the feelings OF
Orangemen and Nationalists, OF
Tory and Radical, on the Irish
question that the settlement will
be in constant danger of being
upset until Parliament has actual
ly transacted it into law.
The fact that Mr.. Lloyd George
has succeeded in convincing all
except a very few hidebound
English Tories of the wisdom of
his plan is a proof of his singular
powers of persuasion. Even Sir
Edward Carson, the militant
leader of the Ulstermen, has
agreed to it, and consented to oc.
cupy a seat in the new Irish
Parliament. But we canhot help
thinking that the martyrs of the
luckless Sim Fein revolt had
their part in bringing the embit.
tered quarrelers over the future of
Ireland to a sense of the necessity
of compromise and agreement.
This particular settlement would
not have met the approval of the
rebels, but the TACT that they
were ready to lay down their
lives for definite and, as they
believed, just way OF escape from
the falterIng uncertainty of the
relations between Ireland and
England stung both nations into
a realization that at last talk
must stop and action take its
place.
The news that Mr.. Lloyd
George on c. mpleting his work in
Ireland is to take Lord Kitchen.
er's place as Secretary for War
makes it clearer than ever that he
is the strongest man in the
British ment. When the
war began he was the uuques.
toned leader Of the advanced
Liberals, bat 10 man was less
trusted or more disliked by the
conservative part of the nation.
Within year his financial policy
wen the admiration and confidence
Of those who had always hated
Macon beacon., 1916-08-04
Rejreshine Candor

Hon. James A. Cunningham
has withdrawn from the race for
Congress against "Zeke" Gambler
in the First District, and in a
card to the voters states that be
retires because he regards his
chances bad.
A few days ago Judge W. H.
Hughes of Raleigh, retired from
the race for Supreme Court Judge
in the Southern District, saying
that he didn't think he could be
elected.
This sort of candor is refreshing
because it is so unusual. It gives
evidence of q new spirit in poll
tics in our state. These two men
quit the contests in which they
we're engaged, and in their letters
of '.xplanation they had nothing
unklnd or critical to say concern
ing their opponents. 1t is evi.
dent that each was a game fighter,
but not the sort of "game fighter"
who keeps right on even when he
knows that he has no chance.
We need that kind OF men in
public life in Mississippi. 1t is
lnuch better to be sensible
|ouitter than q poor loser. Jack
( son News.
Macon beacon., 1916-08-04
Rural Credits Law at Last

'Not so good as we should have
liked, but better than we ex.
pected." This expresses the
view or the National Field, organ
of the National Farmers Union,
as to the new National rural
credits bill; and this opinion is in
line with President Wilson's own
moderate declaration: III look
forward to the benefits of this
bill not with extravagant expecta-
tions but with confident expecta-
tion that it will be of very wide.
reaching benefit" Says the
Field:
''The system as proposed is not
perfect, but it Is q better one than
we had hoped sor Ii has taken
a great deal Of thought on the
part of congressman and others to
give to the public this piece of
legislation, and now we look for.
ward eagerly to see it put into
operation. A few months or
years of trial will necessarily
prove the need of adjustments
and changes. The adjustments
can be made by the Federal Farm
Loan Board, which is to have a
great deal of freedom of action,
and fundamental changes will be
made by congress, for once it gets
into action the farmers will de.
mand things for it in a way that
cannot be ignored.
These expressions reflect the
sentiment of most agricultural
leaders. Here, for example, is
the view of the Dakota Farmer:
"Carping critics and learned re.
viewers may find fault; biased en-
thusiasts and earnest exponents
may praise its provisions, but
every criticism of whatever nature
is at this time purely theoretical.
There is no American experience
upon which We may absolutely
predict the success or failure of
this rural credits act.
''Bere is the point: We have
it. Now let us make it work.
eff we find q weakness in &C.
tual practice, let's reinforce that
spot. If we find anything work.
able in this federal farm loan act,
we have made as great q stride
forward On the economic side OF
agriculture as was made in oper.
ative farming by the invention of
that first crude self.binder."
Macon beacon., 1916-08-04

Bonneville, Miss, July 31.-
The following self explanatory
card was issued by j. A. Cunning.
ham today:
"My withdrawal from the race
for Congress is hereby announced.
l am close enough to the end to
see that the chances for my elec-
tion this time are bad considering
the district as q whole. Two
months out of my profession and
away from my family and home
surroundings convinces me that
l will not make another race. The
people Of my county, Prertiss,
were planning a barbecue for my
friends from all over the district
to be at Bonneville, and several
hundred citizens to make a tour
of the district in automobiles for
three days. covering some 400
miles of distance, with a band,
ETC., all at their own suggestion
and expense, as announced by
program published. With my
views of the situation / had
grave doubts as to the propriety
of keeping from them q full dis.
closure of my real feelings in the
premises, advised my committee
accordingly and we in consulta,
tion with other friends concluded
this course proper, in view of the
unprecedented efforts and ex.
pense in preparation by my
friends, which would cost them
not less than %, 500 or $1,000.
Out of Difference to those for or
against the other candidates ! re.
frain from commenting on newly
developed conditions outside Of
my circle of acquaintance so
greatly affecting my chance for
election. I will make q definite
statement after the primary.
Neither of my opponents or their
friends had any knowledge what
ever of my intentions until this
course was fully determined.
With every expression of graft
tude to my friends, who are the
best friends in the world, I am,
JAMES A. CUNNINGHAM"
Macon beacon., 1916-08-04

Mr.. Lloyd. George, who is the
pacifcator as we'll as the fighting
man of the British cabinet, has
returned from Ireland with a pro,
gram that seems likely to restore
quiet to that troubled island
while the war lasts, and that may
prove to be a final solution of its
perplexing problems. According
to the plan, an Irish parliament
will be set up at once, to consist
of an appointive Senate and lower
House made up of the Irish repre-
sentatives at Westminster, who
are, nevertheless, to retain their
seats in the British Parliament.
From that arrangement the six
most strongly Protestant counties
Of Ulster are to he excepted,
Macon beacon., 1916-08-04

If people ate less meat in sum
mer and more fruits and vege
tables there would be less sick
ness. 1t was an interesting testi
mony which q healthy, rosy
checked old lady gave at a recen'
farmers institute:
"For thirty years we have
had home grown fruit on the
table at least once every day.
We haYe raised nine children
during that time, and they
are all living, most of them
here today, and in Ill that
time we have called q doctor
but Once.o
Macon beacon., 1916-08-04
A Live Cow Tsstine Association
Shelf Thomas in Progressive Farmer.

The Noxubee County, Missis.
sippi, Cow Testing Association
was organized in March of this
year and began work May the
first. 1t is composed of Is men,
bers and 500 COWS. This is the
first association in the state, and
in fact is the first one this far
south. They have just finished
their second months work, and
the members are all well pleased
with the record work and are be-
coming very much inertested in
their cows.
The following record gives some
of the records made in the first
two months:
Macon beacon., 1916-08-04

him. Then as minister Of muni.
tions he organized British indus.
try with an efficiency hardly less
remarkable than that Of Germany.
His tact and firmness have con.
quered the intractibility Of stolid
capitalists and suspicious werk.
ingmen. He has, it seems, car
ried through settlement In Ire.
land, and now he succeeds Kitch-
ener ih the most conspicuous and
most important post In the cab.
met. Mr.. Lloyd. George may
never achieve his ambition 10 be
premier of the British Empire, but
it will not be strange if posterity
sees in the ''little Welsh attorney"
the chief figure Of the great war,
as far as Britain ia concerned. -
Youths Companion.
Macon beacon., 1916-08-04
Mr.. Editor:

Mr.. Editor:
In behalf Of the Confederate Pen
sioners Of Noxubee county. desire to
thank our most efficient aud accommo-
dating Chancery Clerk. Mr.. John A.
Tyson for his kindness in mailing to
every pensioner on his book. copy Of
their application without request from
any one, bat because he 10 ever ready
to do what he can to aid the old
soldiers and their wives. John always
takes acknowledgement for any paper
whatsoever pertaining to pension for
any veteran without any charge. No
county In the state has . more efficient
or accommodating Chancery Clerk
than Noxubee. and am glsd that he
10 20 willing to help our old veterans
who need this ala from the state.
Yours,
BIC Run.
Macon beacon., 1916-08-04

The union of the Congrega-
tional, the Methodist and the
Presbyterian churches Of Canada,
which has been under discussion
for several years, is at last as
sured. By voting, four hundred
and six to eighty eight, in favor
of the proposed union, the Gen.
eral Assembly of the Presbyterian
church recently removed the last
obstacle,
Macon beacon., 1916-08-04
FROM THE PEOPLE
Mr.. Editor:

Mr.. Editor:
/ have . letter from Col. Pink eagle
Of Louisville inviting me over to de-
liver the address to the old veterans
Of Winston county on next Wednes-
day. the 9th instant, and he in
structs me to invite ell Of the Noxubee
vete rams over there. He said he
would see to It that they q splendid
time and will be well taken care Of,
and intimated that In spite Of the
strict prohibition law, he migut be
able to cure a snake bite II anyone
should be 90 unfortunate as to get Bit
ten.
I hope lot of our boys will 60 over
and partake Of the generous hospitality
offered us by the Winston veterans.
Yours,
BIG BUD.