The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1917-03-17
DOUGLASS HOME
FUND CAzPA|GN
Effort to Clear hOtsd Leaders
Estate Of Heavy Debt.
SCOPE OF THE MOVEMENT

National Association Of Womsn's cIubs
Outlines Plan For Paying on $4,000
Mortgage by Popular subscriptions.
Notable Group Of White Women to
AId-Mrs. TaIbsrt's Leadership.
D. JOHN 3. BRUCE crit"
The National Association Of Colored
Women, Of which Mrs. Mary B. Tai
bert Of Buffalo Is president, Il making
Q herculean effort to raise funds to
Lift tho $4,000 mortgage OF Of the
Douglass home at Anacostia, District
Of Columbia, and the disgrace OF the
race for which Mr.. Douglass suffered
insult and contumely at the hands Of
organized mobs, for its past neglect.
apathy and failure to show its appre-
citation Of the greatness Of Frederick
Douglass, by coming forward now as
he came forward in the days when
our forbears writhed in chains Of slav-
cry, and denounced in virile language
the hell black crime Of human slavery
These good women Of the National
Association Of Colored Women have or
are about to circularize the teachers
and pupils Of our Sunday schools and
day schools throughout the United
States urging cooperation with their
association by the formation Of Sun.
day school and day school leagues and
that the teachers In the schools be-
come members Of these leagues and
such adult members Of the Sunday
schools AZ may be interested In the
project
TIN u the number required to form q
league These teachers and others Or
ganizlng leagues are requested to offer
their leagues az Christmas present to
the National Association Of Colored
Women. This can be done by sending
at once for an application blank and
tho payment Of 10 cents per year per
capita. No other dues or assessments
are allowed or expected. The money
thus sent n to be used for postage,
stationery and literature, Ito make our
voics heard" reads the circular before
me. And surely you viii realize with
% that we need the very closest 90
operation during these days in which
We are travelling through the wilder.
nsoA Our president has issued a call
b ave the home Of Frederick Doug
Ass. We want you to help 10 save
that home. VIII you hold q short me-
mortal service on Sunday, Feb. 13, and
tell the children something about Doug.
lass, who framed the immortal SEN
tence, "God and one are a MAJORITY
II you love your race and If you are
proud Of the achievements Of its great
men and believe in hon6ring them for
the deeds they have wrought send for
program and other details about
Douglass day to Mrs. Mary B. Talbert,
621 Michigan avenue, Buffalo. Mrs.
Talbert informs me that Mrs. Nettie
L Napier, 120 Fifteenth avenue, North
Nashville. Tenn, has been appointed
special treasurer to receive all con-
tributions for this fund. Mrs. Napier
IL q daughter Of the late Hon. John NJ.
Langston and the wife Of Hon. James
G. Napier, former register Of the Unit
ed States treasury.
Another interesting point In her let
ter 10 that among the women afiliat-
ing with her organization are a group
Of the most noted white women in the
United States. few of whose names
are as follows: Jane Adams, iona
Gale, Grace Abbott, Anna strunsky
Walling, Katherine Leckie, Rhetts
Walling, Katherine Leckie, Rheta
Childs Dorr, Miss Fola La Toilette
Florence Woolston, Sophronia Brecken.
ridge, Esther L. Kohn, Mary ROGET
Smith, Harriet p. Thomas and Anna
O'Hagan shinn.
This IL a gratifying list and ought
to be sufficient to spur our people on
In q mighty effort to save the homo Of
Frederick Douglass and to make It the
Negroes mecca for generations yet I'M
born. Every Negro boy throughout
this land should be asked to give from
I to Is cents as his contribution to
this object, and every Negro man and
woman with any red blood In their
veins ought for their own self respect
to give at least 81.
There should be q rivalry between
the boys and girls Of school age to see
which can raise the largest subscrip-
tion toward this fund. l believe our
girls could raise $500 moro than the
boys because they have got more vim
and push In them thap some Of our
boys. The contest IL on, and time Will
develop whether We Negroes can do
big things In big way. Douglass was
. great leader and a great man, but
not ten Negroes In q hundred really
know how useful and great he was.
We don't read enough about our own
leaders.
Honest, Anyhow.
There is a young lawyer of this town
who u as modest as he Is witty.
How much" asked a client of his.
will your opinion he worth In this
case?"