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The papers formerly known as The Statesman and The independent, have been merged into The Denver Star
TWENTY-SIXTH YEA* Number 84
Interesting News
Concerning the Race.
Savannah, Ga— Bartow F
Powell, a farmer of Baker
county, Georgia, recently sold
t;oo bales of cotton at 80 cents
a pound. The amount of the
sale was more than $20,000.
Dallas Negro Youth to Haro
Playground.
Dallas. Texas.—The city
has recently purchased a large
plot of ground near the Negro
high school on Cockran street
and another tract near Gard
ner baseball park to be used
for parks and playgrounds for
colored children.
The colored people are
4 commending the project, but
will insist that these institu*
tions be modern.
Civil Rights BU in Pa. Leg
islature.
Harrisburg, Pa. —By a vote
of 138 to 34 the House of Rep
resentatives has paaaed the
Stein civil rights bill, making
it a misdemeanor tor Urn pro
• prieter of' ea'y-twilMiii.ith»s*eo
or restaurant to discriminate
against any person on account
of race', creed or color.
Policeman Gets Job Back
With Back Pay.
Philadelphia, Pa.—l. T.
Garnett, 1725 Addison street,
has been reappointed to the
police force and handed a
warrant for all back pay ac
cruing since his discharge.
This action follows a de
cision by the Supreme Court
that a discharged policeman
can be reinstafed.
17 Yr. Old-Negro in Oratori
cal Contest.
Somerville, N. J. —Paul T.
Robeson, 17 years old, a mem
ber of the senior class at Som
erville high school, was unan
imously selected to represent
his school in the oratorical
contest to be held at Rutgers
College on Saturday after
noon May r. between the rep
resentatives of sixteen New
Jersey high schools.
Ohio to* Entertain K. of P.
Sup tame Lodge.
Columbus, O. —The • ma
chinery for making ready to
beheld in this city in August,
was set in • motion last week.
Knights of Pythias through
out the country, when they
come to Columbus next Au
gust, will find that the entire
state of Ohio is to be the host,
rather than this city alone.
The incorporation last week,
under the laws of the State of
Ohio, of the "Supreme Lodge
Entertainment- Committee/'
marked the beginning of ac
tive step* to prepare for the
receptiM of the Supreme
oSST C n£k C * l * art * t
The Denver Star
White Women Fakes Story
of Assault.
Another alleged outrage by
Negroes proved to be a can
ard of the worst sort when
Adelle Ginnsz, a white woman
declared to police officers that
she had been attacked at the
corner o( Meridian and Ohio
streets, a centrally located
spot, by three Negroes, two
men and one woman, and
dragged to a vacant lot near
by. She declared in her care
fully rehearsed cock-and-bull
story that something white
had keen thrown over her
head, her shoulndrs bared,
and pins stuck in her body by
her assailants.
It was just a year ago that
the officers had been fed upon
a similar storey a young tel
ephone operator so they were
inclined to take the Ginnsz
woman's story with salt. She
was swathed in bandages and
to all appearances was suffer
ing from severe injuries. In
vestigation followed, but after
TCJTcC Xu *
confessed that the tale was a
fabrication. The other wo
man's story was told that she
might escape paying a board
bill, but the detectives could
not discover the reason for
the fabrication by Miss Ginnsz.
Second Highest in Civil Ser
vice fVMw—tiow -
Chicago. 111. —Miss Mae
Coleman, one of the brightest
little girls in the city, has
again demonstrated her abiii
ty as an expert stenographer.
Miss Coleman was at one time
a stenographer for Alderman
Oscar DePriest. She took
examination in a civil service,
passed and secured a position
to work during the “war fe
ver" with Mexico last year.
This running out she took a
state examination and secur
ed a position at Springfield,
111., at the State Capitol build
ing. Just a few days ago Miss
Coleman took another Fed
eral civil service examination
and made the second highest
average with a hundred or
more taking. Miss Coleman
is undoubtedly one of the best
examples of energetic young
womanhood in our midst and
the young women who com -
plain of the lack of opportun
ito can do no better than pat
tern after this remarkable
young woman. —Defender.
Nashville, Tenn.—ln the
passing of Mrs. Anna Dickson
the aged mother of Dr. R. H.
Boyd, the race loses an inesti
mable character. She leaves
3 sons, one Dr. R. H. Boyd,
one of the best-known men in
public life is the founder of
the National Baptist Publish
ing House; the other two. Rev.
&MIMWI J. Dickson and Mr.
Denver, Colorado, Saturday, may i, 1913
Votes Clinch
The Nails.
EVERYMAN TO HISPOST MONDAY
Negroes Prepare to Stop Unfair Treatment. They Make
Choice of School Directors, Endorsed hr Colored Pro
tective League. Now Do Your Part.
t — *
Every School House a Voting Place.
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Dear Friends and Voters: — V
On the eve of the greatest cejhtest ever known in Den
ver in which Negro voters are tor take such an active and
prominent part. The Star’s last word and direct appeal to
you is to stand by the men selected to help yourself. These
men favor and will look after yoor children's welfare. They
are honest, capable and efficient .and have been endorsed by
the best body ot representative people in Denver, the Color
ed Protective League.
Do not let anything keep yog from the polls, go early
and advise your friends what the election of these directors
mean in the Negro taxpayers and’ Negro parents. Our very
existence is at stake, whether we continue to.fight by your
votes. If you think we have stood by you fearlessfy. clinch
the nails with your votes for jonel and Barry. Dear voters,
you know how the Star and tfca Protective league have been
nailinsr and drivinor without of harmonv. progress
BEN B. JONES
election wheh there are 61 graded schools and 8 high schools
with 802 colored pupils attending them and not one janitor,
engineer, fireman nor truant officer of color employed? No
not even a man to occasionally pick dandelions in the back
yard of any of the remotest school*. Does not your taxes
suggest and cause you to think of the $1,500,000 expended
yearly without the slightest chance of a dollar of that big
sum ever reaching the pocketbooks of the Negro? Why not
clinch those nails and change the flow of the money to you
and yours by voting your interest? -
Think of this rank discrimination! Absolutely no con
sideration given Negro labor in any capacity in the entire
school system in Denver! Pray,
how long will you let this continue
when by your voting and your
friends votes Monday you can and
will change these wrongs, destroy
many present evils and help to up
root the weeds of prejudice and
injustice. The children's interest
demand it, the city, county and
state require it and you owe this
duty to God and man. Our candi
dates. Messrs Ben B. Jones and 11.
J. Barry are pledged to fair'and
equal treatment to us in the school
graduations, in the class rooms,
upon the playgrounds, in the dis-
tribution of labor and in all the operations of the school sys.
tem/ THERE WILL BE NO FAVORITES. Even mix
ed schools with mixed teachers are possible and probable, if
any Negro boy or girl desires to qualify. Get your friends
and go to the polls, if you believe in the Star and vote ac
cording to the best judgment of \our representative men'and
that is for Ben B. Jones and Hairnet J. Barry.
Colored Protective League Endorses
Ben B. Jones and Halmet J. Barry
at Nippon Hall.
i.o close -oserver ot the school candidates wno tnought
well enough of the suffrage of the Negroes to be interested
in their welfare would be be mistaken as to whom appeared
Tuesday Night before a crowd of Colored People at 2041
Champa St. The candidates were subjected to all kinds of
questions relating to our school svstenvwhich the audience
eagerly asked. These are the candidates that appeared—
Ben B. Jones, Hansel J. Barry, John f; Rot ruck, Jeanette
(CottiMMd on Nftit)
and protection into racial boards of in
justice, big)i|M| and color blindness. You
know the Negro was com
pelled towMI wedges of fair play and
equality jgjfHt ever insisting wood of
caste, di*Ctfjfti.ition a«d wrong done us
room as prac-
Does it need more argument^ to
show and convince you the necessity of
your individual voting (.clinching ‘the!
nails with votes) especially at this school
HALMET J. BARRY
COLOR LINE IN RELIGION.
A LETTER TO BILLY SUNDAY..
Dr. Francis J. Grimke, welll
known colored clergyman ofl
the District of Columbia, has'
been writing to Mr. ‘Billy"
Sunday as follows:
“I am a colored clergyman.
I see that you are to be in our
city on the 18th of this month.
'Race prejudice is rampant in
this city, it flaunts itself every
where. Has Christianity no
message on the subject? Is
this evil, this ever-growing
evil that is doing almost more
than anything else to destroy
the self-respect and to in
crease the burdens of ten mil
lions of colored in this coun
try, to go unrebuked by the
representatives of religion?
Will you not say a word on
the subject, while you are in
our midst? I notice that you
have been striking with sledge
hammer blows some of the
great evils of today —intem
perance, impurity, gambling,
the lust of gold, frivolity, po
litical corruption, the tobacco
habit, and the like. Will it
be asking to much of you to'
turn for a moment to this gi
gantic evil. RACE PREJU
DICE. and deal it ako one of
sledge-hammer blows?
It f* difficult to get aby one to
speak on the subject. All
seem to be afraid. A short
while ago we had a Bible con
ference in our city. It was at
tended by some ot the most
distinguisned representatives
of Christianity in the country
and even from abroad. For
most among these represen
tatives was the Rev. G. Camp
bell Morgan, of England. I
wrote to him; called his atten
tion to the subject; begged
him to say a word on it, but
he skulked away like a cow
ard without opening his lips.
And'what is true of him is
true of the great majority of
the men who fill the white
pulpits of the land, North as
well as South. They are a
set o: moral cowards. From
what I have read of you, how
ever, 1 am led to think differ
ently. The Christianity which
you possess seems to have
sufficient power in it to stiffen
up a man’s backbone and to
take out of h m the craven
spirit that fears the face of
man. I seem to recognize in
your ringing words the daunt
less spirit of Peter and John
and the other apostles as
BEWARE OF GRAFTERS.
Attempt Made to Hurt Denver STAR In Its
Fight On Graft.
The STAR has been reliably informed that a tall dark
man with a heavy mustache baa been collecting money in
the name jrf the STAR from the candidates for a “write
up” to appear therein. The STAR knows nothing of such
transactions and has authorised no person to deal for it.
except its staff. Let the public investigate all newspaper
men of the abeve description conning from Pueblo. If any
candidate or person will give any reliable information suffi
cient to arrest the thief, the STAR w* gladly prosecute
him to the feUrnt extant of the law e|fc pleasure. Kfcedßy
KIVK CINTS A COfY.
they stood before the Jewish
officials and said: We must
obey God rather than man.’
A clear, strong utterance from
you on the subjeet at the
National Capitol will greatly
help matters."
We regret to say that Mr.
Sunday has not seen fit to an
swer this letter.
The Norfolk (Va.) Journal
& Guide, a colored paper, has
these few facts on the results
of residential segregation.
"The exponentsof race seg
regation claim that the color
ed people ‘want to live among
white people because of a de
sire to associate with them.'
That is decidedly untrue.
Colored people object to
being segregated because it
deprives them of municipal
protection; the sanitary laws
are not enforced with due re
gard for their health; the
money, that they pay in taxes
is usurped for the benefit of
white communities; their
streets are unpaved, and, in
case of fire, the fire fighting
apparatus cannot reach their
property. They have inade
quate police protection and
the streets are not properly
lighted. An example: When
Huntersville and- Barbours
ville were annexed to Nor
folk, the boundaries were ex
tended to cover enough of
adjoining white wards so as
preclude forever the possibili
ty of Negro votes ever con
trolling the revenue from
Negro taxable values. Taxes
were raised ioo per cent and
$370,000 were appropriated
for street improvements in
the ward, but not one dollar
of it was spent for paving or
curbing of a single street in
the colored section of the
ward.’
Another colored paper, the
Cincinnati (Ohio) Union edit
ed by W. P. Dabney, is mak
ing a brave fight in Cincin
nati against the evident anxi
ety of the colored people of
that city to segregate and
“Jim-Crow" themselves. It
says: '
"Instead of fighting to put
competent teachers of our
race in the mixed schools a
few ambitious and selfish peo
ple, backed up by those who
did not know and could not
know, for they doubtless nev
er had the opportunity of
learning, succeeded in estab
lishing the Colored School.
"The white board now finds
it a necessity! The Colored
people have to all intents and
purposes shown that they
want segregation.