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The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-05
Lack Of Cooperation Reduces
Races Representation.

Lack of unity among our people
has caused us to lose one position in
the City Hall and another is in doubt,
Miss Sadie Marshall the efficient
clerk in the Office of the Recorder OF
Deeds. She resigned her position after
long illness. There was no one of
our people put in her place. The
mayor created position for police
woman of our race. Mrs. w. r
Donovan was temporarily appointed
and made good record. The civil
service examination was taken by ten
colored women and Mrs. Lulu Maxwell
won by about three per cent over Mrs.
Donovan. Mayor Van Lear has not
appointed Mrs. Maxwell and the posi-
ton Is vacant. He did not think
that Mrs. Maxwell was better quail
fed for the position because of her
better education, and said he would
appoint Mrs. Donovan If Mrs. Maxwell
withdrew from the head of the list.
Under the rules the mayor may refuse
to appoint anyone, as he created the
position for the benefit of the colored
people, while he can only appoint the
person. who stands at the head of the
list. Mayor Van Lear has stated that
he did not feel that the service to the
city and the satisfaction given the po-
lice department by Mrs. Donovan
should be disregarded because of the
literary ability of any competitor. The
mayor is fair and within his rights.
These cases show our lack of co-opera-
ton. Miss Marshall should have been
succeeded by a girl of our race, and
now that election is near we are asked
to get together" for the same old
quarrel. 1t appears that Mrs. Maxwell
will not be appointed and it is fact
that Mrs. Donovan would be working
today IL Mrs. Maxwell would withdraw.
This condition has prevailed since
August, and 1t may be that the position
will soon be abolished. The unfortu-
nate part Of the affair is that two
factions are represented.
Now is the time for action. A sacri-
fice should be made. Shall we lose
this position? The Star is for Mrs.
Donovan because she rendered service
and showed the necessity of our race
being recognized to protect our young
people and bring about the desired
reforms among our people for the
good of the community. There was
no need of so much competition for
her position, which was made because
OF her initiative, and IL conditions were
reversed the Star would support Mrs.
Maxwell. This is a matter of vital
concern to our people and should be
settled for the good of all concerned.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-05
WORDS OF WISE MEN


Truth is the conformity Of express
sion to thought. The expression Of
truth is simplicity.
Thrift that does not take into part
nership honesty Of character develops
INTO covetOusness and avarice.
He who has thought, feeling, express
sion, imagination, action, character and
continuity, all in the largest amount
and highest degree, Is the greatest
poet.
A great advantage of riches is that
they enable one to escape so much
good advice. The rich are always ad.
vising the poor, but the poor seldom
venture to return the compliment.
Let us beware lest the dethrOnement
If custom to make place fer right
hould displace along with 1t the prin-
iple nf reverence, which bestOws O
iisciplre which Is Invaluable In the
'o:,n 'i'n s.. haracter.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-05

The king of Siam has bodyguard
Of 400 trained and armed women do
Ing service in his capital.
It is estimated that 10000 women
have been employed in the Wall street
district Of New York since the begin
ming of the war.
In order that their soldier boys may
have a plentiful supply Of cigarettes,
thousands Of women in France have
given up smoking.
Recently 100000 dozen eggs were
landed in Wellington, New Zealand,
from California, and sold readily in
that market at "a cents q dozen.
Guadeloupe coffee planters will har-
vest a crop much larger than that of
1916. The 1917 crop will probably ex-
coed the normal production of 1875, 600
pounds.
Due to an increased demand for
clear spruce for the manufacture OF
airplanes, prices have increased In
northern British Columbia from $50
to 500 q thousand feet.
The mangrove of the South from
Florida to the mouth Of the Missis.
sippi is a curious plant not closely
related to any other genus, but some
what approaching the myrtle family
and is q plant of unusual interest.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-05
THE new YEAR
-1918-

The colored American has every
reason to take courage. The past
year may have taken something away
but it gave more than it took.
From the Twenty-fOurth infantry
we have lost three score of the best
soldiers in the world, who, up to the
bear-baiting Of Houston, had an en-.
viable record for discipline and sol.
dierly courtesy.-But we have gained
the unprecedented total of 700 colored
commissioned officers in the United
States army and have an equal status
for service in the ranks.
We have heard the greatest Court Of
the land, by an obiter dietum, re-affirm
it's approval Of ordinary "Jim-Crow-
ism."-But the same court at the
same time wiped out the very worst
form of "Jim Grow" in the segrega-
ton ordinance, and removed from us
the threat of an American Ghetto.
We had East st. Louis, supremacy
savage effort to beat us back indus
trially.-But far from being beaten
back, we have broken down the indus
trial wall that hemmed us in the
Southeast, and have sent our hardy
cohorts to every industrial center of
the greatest industrial nation.
We have Chester in Pennsylvania,
and Memphis in Tennessee. o, yes,
Memphis with all the savage instincts
that still infest its purlieus.-But we
also have Detroit in Michigan and We
still have and have still better the Har.
lem in New York City-THE Harlem!
We have to pay more for our butter
and eggs-but we have more to pay
with. What boots it to the colored
man if eggs be a dime dozen and
his wages so low and his chances to
work SO slim that he cannot spare
the ten cents? 1t were far better for
him that eggs should II at fifty cents
a dozen, If he can earn from three
to five dollars day.
We are still stalked by the shadow
Of gOvernment-departm segrega.
tio1.-But in substance we are repre-.
scented in every department Of gov
eminent service, and have high civil
officer in the war department.
AS racial element in the world
war we have earned the hate of Ger
many.-But we have deepened the love
of France. And one Of the acknowl-
edged assets of America is our loyalty
and magnanimity.
Like all the gentle folk of the world
we stand Mortified and aghast at this
World War and world murder.-But
the colored American has gained, in
both material and immaterial goods,
and will gain proportionately more
from this world conflict perhaps, than
any other single element in the world.
"THY WILL BE DONE"
'- VIM. PICKENS.
Morgan College, Baltimore, Md.
Jan. 1, 1918.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-05
THE SUNDAY FORUM

Come out to The Sunday Forum al
its first meeting to welcome the new
administration. Success to the new
president DR.. w. E. Ellis Burton and
his co-workers.
Newly Elected Officers.
The officers elected for the ensuing
term are: DR.. w. Ellis Burton, pres
ident; Mrs. Mary e. Pope, vice pres
ident; Miss Frances Mask, secretary;
Mrs. s. G. Franklin, assistant secre
tary; Mrs. Clarence w. Bell. treasur
er: Mrs. Lulu Maxwell, journalist:
Miss Viola Jackson. organist; p. F.
Hale. critic: VIM. jenkins ard Rev r
B. Stovall, chaplains.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-05
RELIEF FOR DEPENDENTS OF
THE HOUSTON VICTIMS

Washington, Dec. z3.-Colored peo-
pie throughout the country are being
given an opportunity to show how
deep is their regret over the tragic
hanging of 13 colored soldiers, and
life imprisoning of Al others at Fort
Houston, anu how deep is their SYM
pathy for their bereaved and needy
families, for the National Colored
Comfort Committee is sending out one
hundred thousand pledge cards with
an urgent appeal TO respond with con-
tributions. r lief for these Borrowing
and needy families is urgent. They
need sympathy now in the form of fl
nanciaf help and need 1t quick. The
National Colored Soldiers Comfort
Committee has secured the resident
address Of the dependents of those
Is hung and Al imprisoned for life,
in order to reach them with relief.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-05

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The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-05

The Negro soldier will face harder
battles in America, than somewhere
over there" These have paid the
penalty and it Is said they faced
death bravely." Americas mob VIC
lence was the agitator, and race pre-
judice was their executioner. The
death of these men has done more
to bring about a real democracy in
America than the onslaughts Of a
thousand black heroes in Europe. The
world is watching and the Negro
awakening. Those men knew the
penalty and suffered the consequences.
II the hell hounds of the South or any
where, choose to intimidate, or in any
way modest the Negro soldiers and es-
pecially their women, then somebody
must die. This is the beginning of
the end. The Negro soldier can give
but one life The question is whether
it shall be in defense of his own or
his country.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-05

The 1917-1S Egyptian cotton, crop IL
estimated at 6.250OO0 cantars Of 90
pounds.
Massachusetts, is said to be the
birthplace of the tanning and boot and
shoe industries of the United States,
which are now nearly 800 years Old.
An aluminium alloy has been invent
ed by an Australian that Is said to be
as hard as steel, to he noncorrosive
and which can be brazed and soldered.
Claiming that It holds fish more Sc
:urely than the usual type of hook, q
Norwegian has patented a fish hook
with the barb at one side of, instead
Of inside the point.
William Aren Dimmock, aged twen-
y-two, of Limington Village, Mo-, who
has received his appointment as post
master, is believed to be the youngest
postmaster in the state.
A ten-hour bill for domestic serv-
lnts is now before the California Leg
stature, while a bill has been intro
luced in the Oregon legislature max
ng an eight-hour day for working
women.
A notice has been sent out by the
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
iron company that their employees
be furnished pea coal at $2.95 a ton,
The general public in the anthracite
region must pay $40.
For the first time In the history of
the University Of Colorado q woman
has become president.of the Combined
Engineers, an organization composed
If engineering students, Miss Elsie
Caves having been awarded the honor.
Realizing the severity and extent of
FROST injury, Wisconsin farmers have
gathered two or three times more seed
corn than they will themselves re-
luire. Their surplus will probably be
badly needed In other states before
complaining time.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-05
ABOUT PERSONS

Mr.. and Mrs. T. M. Tobin Of Swan.
ton, VT, for SO years have had chill
dren attending school.
Mary Fitzsimmons Of Winchester,
Va, recently left her own ground foi
the first time In 40 years.
Governor Mccall Of Massachusetts,
has been advised by Food Director
Lythgoe to require storage Of larger
quantities of food by dealers.
Fuel Commissioner Weaver forbids
Washingtonians boarding coal, saying
"Where once 1t might have been called
thrift for citizen to lay up Ten or
fifteen tons of coal in his bin, 1t IL now
downright seIfishness, the very incar
M lion Of selfshness."
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-05
WAR OBSERVATIONS

Military force is redoubtable. Men
tai forces alone are invincible.
War is one thing that gives to ma
ton clear understanding of it's good
and bad qualities, it's weakness and its
strength.
War is an amazing proof Of the pow
er of mental forces. Under it's influ
ence fear Of death and all personal in
terests vanish.
In her preparations Germany tool
everything into account but the influ
ence Of her mental forces, which have
been strong enough to rouse the world
against her. ...
A nation becomes powerful insofar
as it possesses an ideal that is capable
of exciting in all its people the same
feelings and thoughts and consequent.
ly the same actions.
War, though appearing to be materi.
al is in reality conflict of ideas. Amer.
ica's entry has made the present con-
dict crusade against autocracy.-Gus.
tsve LIE Bon in Les Annales (Paris).
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-05

The Star wants to see American
Negro soldiers in the European war
making record for the race in AM
erica. This is their country, their
cause is here. II America will not
defend them here, many will not get
over there, because they will die in
a riot or by order of courtmartial.
Neither will be their choice, but their
destiny, because there must be real
democracy in America. Many South.
ern white men are willing to die to
prevent 1t. and Negroes are enlisted
and willing to die to establish 1t.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-05
THANN'S BUFFET MOVED
Occupies Phil Reds Old Place,

Mr.. Thanh Travis has moved to 90
East Fourth street, st. Paul. He IL
located at the old place, which was
kept many years by the deceased, Phil
Reid. Mr.. Travis will thoroughly
renovate and equip his new location.
which is larger and more desirable
for his patrons. His genial disposi,
ton and business like management
VII! insure to the public every accom-,
Observation-Disclosures.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-05
FIGHTING FOR HIS PEOPLE.

Secy. Trotter Of he Equal Rights
League is always active in the inter-
ests Of Negro "stizens. He led fight
against the reelection of Mayor Cur
ley of Boston, who endorsed "The
Birth of q Nation" ana assisted in
electing Mayor Peters. Mr.. Trotter
assisted by the leading citizens, fought
the extradition Of Charles Johnson,
who was wanted in West Virginia.
Editor Trotter is fearless and forward
In every movement for the Negroes
rights end progress.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-05

The hanging of several Negro SOL
diers and the Imprisonment of many
by authority Of the War Department
Is certainly some comfort for the
enemy"
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-05
HERE AND THERE

Hardware dealers report calls
). for left-handed nails are getting
scarce.
Would you say man is lover
head and ears in debt" when the
derby he has on, is not paid for?
One good thing about the polar
} night is, there's a chance of fin
ishing a chess game during the
evening.
In the stone age, butterfly COL
lectors went after a butterfly
with q. wagonload Of powders
drawn by q dinOsaur.
The best description of a tank
is, it's wobbling thingamjig, full
Of whatchamacall-' and they
blaze away like blazes.
Ninety-nine women in q hun
dred are naturally generous.
Where one woman will keep a
secret, ninety-nine will give it
, away.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-05
RENEW 1oUR SUBSCRIPTION.

The publisher of The Twin City
Star urgently requests that subscribe
ers send in their dues, or ask for .
collector to call. The cost of pub.
fishing a newspaper is increasing,
and it is important that subscriptions
ard ads be paid for NOW
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-05
BREEZY FACTS

The oath of q man and the tear Of q
woman are twins.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-05

Borrowing is the ruin Of agricultural
nations and the life Of manufacturing
mes.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-05

The Twin City Star stands to,
equal rights for all American citizens
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-05
WORTH KNOWING

The development of water pow
er in Norway has made electric
ity cheaper than steam In that
country.
Platinum deposits recently dis
covered in Spain are believed to
be greater and richer than those
of the Ural mountains, which
furnish the greater part Of the
worlds supply.
Lathe tools made of alloys of
cobalt with chromium and other
metals have been found to work
satisfactorily ut speeds greater
than is possible with tools made
of high-speed steel.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-05
THE TWIN CRY stan. MINNEAPOLIS, MINI.
ROUND ABOUT

The 1917-1S Egyptian cotton, crop IL
estimated at 6250,000 cantars Of 90
pounds.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-05

THE SUNDAY FORUM MEETINGS
The regular meetings of the Mime
apolis Sunday Forum are held BIZ
monthly as follows: f..
First Sunday Eacir Month.
st. Peter A. M. e. Church, 22d st.
between 9th and 10th AYES.
Third Sunday Each Month.
Bethesda Baptist Church 1922 Sth
St. So.
The public always invited.
Exercises begin at $3.50 p. m.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-05

Massachusetts, Is said to be the
birthplace Of the tanning and boot and
shoe industries Of the United States
which are now nearly 800 years old.
The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1918-01-05

An aluminium alloy has been invent
ed by an Australian that is said to be
as hard as steel, to he noncorrosive
and which can be brazed and soldered.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-04
w aVeIetS
Fro m
The Deep
c. Gree n

The father that allows his son to
"see through" every move he makes
is sure a "trans-PARENT.
4 humble bee that has a pain is
certainly aching bee.
Colored man fell in front Of the
Lake Pharmacy this morning aid
candy manufacturers were pleased to
see chocolate drop.
People who live out by Francis
Beach have to pay a dollar to have
a trunk hauled into town. They
don't think the Holdings WORTH
tire money.
Saw field on the Medulla road
this morning that had been planted
to tomatoes, but the corn was
them out. First case I ev-
err saw of corn on toma-- TOES.
Ills a foolish jokester that tries to
string" an instrument.
A western steak may come from
the West, an EASTER egg from the
Fast but the SOW still is plentiful
in the South.
Speaking of September Morn, a
party asked the originator of the
picture If he knew it was bare and
he replied that he NUDE it all the
time.
Farmer in Kathleen couldn t
weigh hog because he was ten
miles from nO-Weigher.
It's flirty auto that goes around
sparkling" plugs all day.
TEN YEARS AGO IN LAKELAND
= Man who Stunned his aunt was
sure ignore-ant.
FIVE YEARS AGO TN LAKELAND
Engine on the Coast Line tried
to break" into a freight train but
the brake" wouldn't work.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-04

Many Floridians didn't even know
that Saturday was grounding day"
"a day pregnant with prophetic influ-
ences among the people of the North.
For up there, tradition hath it, on
February I'd, the grounding ventures
to poke an inquiring muzzle out from
his winter lair, and if he should see
his shadow, he turns back and goes
into Information again, knowing that
the spring time is yet afar off. If,
however, he should not see his shad-
ow, he dozes along with one eye open,
as IL were, for he takes this absence
OF sunshine as an indication that
spring will arrive in six weeks. In
this conclusion he is usually proven a
false prophet, for, as matter of fact,
dependable spring rarely reaches
those regions until at least eight
weeks after grounding day, and even
later than that it is frequently very
raw and cold; nevertheless. many
people pin their faith absolutely to
the grounding sign. In this State
the grounding is without honor, and
really does little business as a wealth.
er prognosticator, for if he were to
tell us Crackers that it is six weeks
until spring, we'd give him the loud
ha! ha! But folks from the North
who are basking in our sunshine will
do well to remember the kind Of
weather they have from grounding
DAY until actual spring-and STAY as
long as possible where spring has
already arrived.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-04

Very often our visitors see things
from new viewpoint instead of look
ing at them from the old familiar an
gle of the residents. Their sugges-
tions, therefore, are often worth con-
sidering, though sometimes they take
up as bran new ideas propositions
which we lave thoroughly ventilated.
One suggestion advanced by an intel
ligent and cultured tourist is that the
city should move to secure a Carnegie
Library. Such an institution un-
doubtedly has its advantages, and we
hope to see one opened here at M
distant day. If the people of Lakeland
want a library they can get it-they
can get anything they want if they
want it strong enough. In passing
we might state that the Woman
Club has nice collection of books
comprising the nucleus of very good
library. These books are available tc
the public generally at a very mod
est library fee.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-02-04

tendency to get back to the soil nave
done wonders in the way of slowing
ND Father Times dreaded clock. We
have a great many more men now
who have postponed oldage by active
exercise and a mental attitude that
makes for youthfulness and ambition.
One good result of the present war
may be the elimination of the dead
line at so" which some short-sighted
employers have adopted.
with the ancient is wisdom and in
length of days understand."-Job
xxi:12.
1.-THE glory Of Young men is their
strength; and the beauty OF old men
is the gray head."-Proverbs xx:29.
Old boys, brace up. Have the spir-
it of Edward Everett Hala who when
asked his age, replied. II am SO
wears young" Commodore Wander
bilt increased the mileage of his rail-
road eightfold after he was 70, and
J. ]. Hill, boy at the start who had
no money nor pull, but indomitable
energy, at the same age controlled
10000 miles of track, and most of it
acquired after he was 60, and could
carry men and goods on his own cars
and steamers from Buffalo, N. Y, to
Japan and China. And he was at the
supposed dead line" of so when he
completed the only transcontinental
railroad built without land gram.