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OL THE TULSA SAK A. J. SM1THERMAN Editor and Publisher. teied as Second Class iiuiil matter nl Tul.sa, Oklahoma. Sl'RSCRlPTION HATES: Year $2.00 Months ree Months J1-00 1 Subscriptions must he paid in Advance.

10. HAUGHMAN, Managing Editor Al.IIKKT SMITH HUMAN Circulation Manager. THE STAR will on all occasion? ighl the Race's battles rcgnrdlcss to We are; running a t-ice paper in Ihe truest sense. (ilVE the Negro a chance to make in honest living and then see that he nakes it. The loafing individual, is i curse to civilization'.

WHENEVER the Colored man puts "stumbling block" in the pa'h of Negro progress, he is simply ki.i ing himself, and its only a matter of time before this great truth "will be brought home to if you can't go, give the Negro can, good, strong push. AFTER THE SMOKE 01' BATTUE has been cleared away the Star will be found still standing on the old battle ground fighting for the cause of Democracy. WHEN YOUR NEIGHBOR stops "knocking" someone else to you, unless he is a grand exception, he is "knocking" you to someone else, lie can't get away from it. NINETY-NINE and nine tenths of nil you hear about the other fellow is falsely or partly false and the other one-tenth is doubtful if he said it himself. ENVY' AND JEALOUSY have wrecked more lives and ruined more fortunes than all other known agencies and thill these green eyed inoiisters.ss are claiming an enormous toll in our Race.

THAT "scamp" who is everlastingly trying to pick flaws in bis neighbor, only sees one side of said neigh, bcr: the bad regardless to the great good he has, mid is doing, be jmt can't see it. Well, brother, some of the world have better eyes, (hcnrts( too) than you. "RAISING chickens and rabbits" would not be such a bad thing for Oklahoma hoys and girls to do; read the article touching same in this issue of The Star, and let us resolve to join in the move, to give "Old Mr. High Cost of Living" the wallop that will put him out of commission. MAYOR lll'HRARD will make his first cmnpaign this spring.

If the gang could'nt beat him two years ago while be was helpless in a Kansas City hospital, they certainly can't him now when he is able to use both feet and both hands in the contest. NEWSPAPERS arc too narrow to be allowed to go through the 'nails; the effo I of some of our loci contempori 'ies last week to show that lions. E. 1. Saddler mid Fred I Doughs Colored delegates )' 'he Stale Deniucntli- Convention, were given "raw attempted write a story without facts, hence if one believed it.

These Colored mt i were treated with every conuid. crntion and and some other will have to be einplojcd sfire the Cilored brother from tht Demociatir party. See? THE WHITER, while sitting on Ihe gallery where he resides, recent. 'v saw one aged Colored man, with Arranged wagon, drawn by mules the old gentleman coal, and he put every fact by yellinc "oal -cet, before 'I order hut i tfilK VI WAS A VERY feet tliut the Comity Republican Convention did not send a single Colored delegate to the State Convention. Wonder how this take on the stomach of the blind Mack Brethren who can see no virtue in jmiij m.v mu b.

w. i.i uuivu rcircsiimenis served, ah arc invitcu l. iiitr.iii.'v I iegro asnaoi fin. and let your brains work awhile. I I JULIUS CAESAR met his mi-tinielv dentil at the hands of frii-mls whim he trusted nntiiieilvf Bttitus, his bosom friend, plunged tie assassin's blade into the Imcki Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit, Hanoi" his friesd while others stained' unit city and Dayton, to Ibeii souls with his murder.

Rut in his dying agony the great soul lYcoguiilcd the treacherous hand of his protege and turnlus him Mud: lit tu, RruteV u. "And thou too Brutus?" Moral: It will pay us all to remember that Brutus was not the last of his kind. THE EDITOR is indeed grioved to leiiin of the sad bereavement suffered by his friend, Air. Al. J.

MeiNulty, City btreej. Commis sioner, through the death ol his beloved wife last Friday afternoon after a week's uttuck of pneu monia. Words fail ns to expro-s the depth of our sympathy for him and ins little ones tints overwhelm ed with the distress of loss of wife and mother. It is our prayer that God may urant him sticiiKth to bt-i up bravely, and thut he may liud solace through faith In llim who giveth and also tnketh away THE TULSA STAR was not born on the eve of a political campaign, nor was its birth conceived in Hie minds of design politi cians, it was conceived and born from a sincere desire to muke con ditions iu Tulsa better for the Kaee.Just how much we have suc ceeded iu this we leave to otlurs to sn. t.onsiderniK the tenths from which we have risen liow- cer.

our progress has been most remarkable. Ours has been a struggle from the start and (hough our efforts have been in the main for the Race, not one dollar has been donated by IJuee men of this community, or else, to help us in our work. But we would a thousand time rather it be so. Wliut progress we have made has been on iur own merit. THE TULSA TH II JUNE seems to have set itself up as dictator for conducting the municipal, affairs of Tulsa.

It would tlo away with both' ine uiti parlies and pick a set of good-u-goody men from all the parties to run the affairs or the city. In other words the Tribune would name a non-partisan ticket made up of men from all the parlies selected by a general committee. They tell us this is non-political movement, but the whole scheme seems to he a well hitl political plan of high-up politicians to hoodwink the public and get co.drol of the city government os. lensibly to help "guard" the expenditure of the coveted $5,000,000.00 to he siient for city waler. This hue and cry about a business administration for Tulsa is nothing if not absurd.

A careful investigation of the records of our city will prove that the present city administration is highly efficient from a business stand point and that each member of the administration has been a decided success is his private affairs. The Star endorses the desire of the Tribune for a business administration anil would respectfully suggest that all rules be suspended and the present ndministrntios be elected bj iicclamatou. We offer that as a motion. Gas we get a second? THE EDITOR is back on the job iii again after evcrnl days' contest with the a little disfigured but still in the ring, and desires to (hank his friends for their kind cs pression of sympathy, and letters of Some Heartless Wretch Steals Raker's Clothes. Mr.

George Baker, a young man living at 1101 N. Frankfort is on 'he sick list, but not on account of tin flu. He nan not be blamed, as jny of us would feel us sick as he if were treated as shabby as i been by some heartless and -ulc VTCtch. Tuesday was looking fo- Mr. aid him in re- -a blue serge from hU First TULSA STAU, FBU.IWABY lp2, MiVU (5 It AH SCHOOL NEWS.

'('he I'urcnt-'I cithers' Association wii cct Friil on I'cb. 13, ill p. in. Prof. Fortncr will ad-dicsss the meeting.

A short Valen tine program will he rendered and M. E. HOOTIIE, Hcporter. NEGRO HASH HALL LEAGUE ENTERS ARENA Arrange Schedule. (Star News Service.) KANSAS CITY, Feb.

13. This city will be today and tomorrow Ihe meeting place of a group of Colored base ball managers to organize circuit, including Chicago, Indianapolis, Detroit, Kansas City, and Day. ton, O. Rube Foster plans to form a national league after this circuit has been been perfected. The Cuban Stars will he the traveling team in circuit.

Foster, who is man. ngcr of the American Giants; Joe Gicen of the Chicago Giants, and Carey R. Lewis, sporting editor of the Chicago Defender, will leave good will, and in turn he was re- next week for the conference. warded with thc confitlcsce and high regard of the better (element of OKMULGEE NEWS NOTES "'Tlu'cUizensof IloSowhite and bliirk, who recognize the great value Rev. G.

G. Grattan, the of Ihe service rcmlcred by Uic lost Nt'Kro educator ti his race and his gressive pastor of the CM. h. stall, will heartily approve of honor-church of this city, was in Tulsit last inK his mcIIlory in lhis cily whcPe wfek. his work is so well known.

His life Okmulgee Colored people are wils KXMnvc cvcry Ncgro yoiIth surct' a hospital, to be erected on miuiii well cmnl-itr hast Third Street. In the grand ral ly and tag drive nearly $2000 in cash was put on the table, besides more than a thousand dollars subscribed. Mr, R. G. Hayes, our bustling real filln In fliwilnv Iml IIia r1ini(i(iv jrt inittec by reporting over $1500 of which over was cash.

The Dunbar High Sshool Tag Rally netted better than five hundred dollars. The freshman class headed by Miss Day, led the school classes with Mr. A. M. DeLyle spent Saturday and Sunday a guest of Miss Dixie Scott of Muskogee.

The revival at the St. Paul C. M. E. church, conducted by Rev.

J. H. Peters, I). of Oklahoma City, is the center of attraction here. Rev.

Peters is one of our greutcse pulpit orators. His sermons find a ready plare in the hearts of his hearers. Prof. Ed. Cox, a wealthy farmer ami ranchman of Wetumka, spent pleasant hours here last Mon- lay.

Mr. W. M. Sulser, financial secretary of the ookcrtelle Agricultural College of Hookertec, delivered -an address at First Baptist Church (white) of Henryetta in the interst of his school. Prof.

Leftwich and Mr. Sulser raised cash and subscrlp. wjth hospitality nccord-tions in their canvass of our little' i tiirm ilv city last week. Race prejudice has cropped out in our city. The Colored employees of the American Express went on a strike last Wednesday rather than swallow the rank injustices of Iho local American Express agent.

Rev. S. S. Jones, I). delivered two strong sermons last Sunday.

Audiences and collections large. Di. Kidd of the A. M. E.

church pleached tip top sermons at both services last Sunday and congrega-tioi were well pleased. Splendid services were held at Mt. Olive Presbyterian, Franklin M. E. and Zion Bethel churches last Suii- day.

"Hlack Hilly who has conducting a revival at Anti- och Muskogee, the week.Aviii open services ncre at First Raptist Church on N. Central Street. Rev. S. S.

Jones, nastor. on Wednesday the coining week. Order your Star at I). F. Wilson's popular new-stand.

Fifth Street, near Muskogee. The Star is Oklahoma's leading all home print Colored journal. STATE HOARD MAKES VERY UNFAIR RULING TcnchcYs Must Work for Low Salaries or Get Out and Starve. (Star News Service.) OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 11.

I Principals and teachers of Lawtou I who have resigned their positions because the board of education foil. ed to grant them, the increase in sal- demanded, will not be able to 1 uositions in other cities in the nder a ruling of the state such 'nlon of R. H. Wilson, of public In. 'ay, 99919 HOUSTON POST COMMENDS NEGKO EDUCATOR.

Prof Hlackshear's Mtmory Proservwl by Naming of School. In renaming the Emancipation Hlackshcar school, the Houston board pays a fit t'ng tribute to the life and work of one of the worthiest Negro citizens who ever lived in Texas. Piof. E. L.

Hlackshcar who passed away a few ecks ago at Hempstead, was one of thc foremost Negro f.duca tors in the slate for many years, lie was the firt principal of Ihe school hich now bears his name, and later became lb? head of ni'j Praiiie View Normal, for Negroes, which may be bei di si lib' i' as tin 1'iiskegee c.f lie labored unceasingly fdr a generation for the norinnl, mental end economic advancement of his Hnce He worked along practical lines, holdling to the belief that the Negro crtuld improve only as he becomes a more useful and more responsible citb.es. He at all times for the best interest of the Negro people, sometimes against strong opposition. Thrcuhouhis career he cntcrtan- eil a friendly regard for the white people, sought their, co-operation and Mrs Hughes Entertains Hayes House Party The high-class attraction of Mr. in concert pro- grain under the auspices of the Booker T. High School given at Convention Hall Alontlay night was a most signal success and an event which will U'liicmbcrcd with pleasure for a long time, not alone by Tulsa mus- it; lovers und students but by many others frou.

distant and nearby cities who came to enjoy it. One of the most notable groups of visitors i Tulsa was thut of a number of well known and talented ladies wlio were thc happy and congenial guests of Prof, and Airs. J. W. Hughes of North Detroit St.

They were: thc Alcsdamcs Corinne Graham, Aluskogee; M. E. Sanders, Okmulgee Dr. Humphrey, James, Thomas and Dr. Owen, Sapulpa.

Airs. Graham, who is head of Normal Department, AI. T. II. at Aluskogee, spent Tuesday in a survey of the Tulsa Colored Schools returning to her home that evening.

Airs. Sunders was in the city en route to Atlanta, Ga. All ex- niisnd themselves ns hii'lilv irnt. Alrt J. Hughes.

Dr. Johnson Holds Impromptu Classmato Re-union, Dr.ll. T. S. Johnson, thc popular pastor of Wesley Chapel, this city, is congratulating himself for having had opportunity during thc past week of vividly and pleasantly reviving in his memory the by gone scenes and incidents of his college student days.

This fortunate happening was brought about by the presence in this city of two of his old classmates and chums, the Ecv. Dr. Hugh L. Ashe and the Rev. C.

K. Brown. Dr. Ashe, who has been the guest of Dr. Johnson during the is thc highly cultured nnd eloquent pastor of St.

Paul Chapel, AI. E. located at Winston-Salem, Nortli Carolina. The Hew Brown, who was passing through, and stopped over, is pastor of Trinity AI. E.

Church, locat-e at Houston, Texas, and is widely known throughout thc West and Southwest as an orator nnd church worker. Dr. Ashe delivered a timely and interesting nddrcss on Tuesday evening at Wesley Chapel in behalf of the Cei tcnary Drive. The Rev. Brown was returning from St.

Louis, where he had been in attendance at thc wedding of Dr. Jones. Editor of The Southwestern Christian Advocate, of New Or-leri's, nnd Aliss Harriet Brown one of the best known and highly accomplished teachers of the Sum ner High School, St. Loius, Mo. Mrs.

Lena M. Laflore entertained informally on last WJednesday cvcningv A plcnsant'evening was spcnl with games. There were covers for three tables and luncheon was served. She was assisted ))v Mrs. Eva A.

Light. CHAIRMAN HAYS MAKES WONDERFUL, DISCOVERY, WeNc Thought Lynching a Crime All Now We Know-It (Star News Servic'd.) CHICAGO' Feb. 11. Lynching, untlir any circumstances 'or comb- tions is a crime, Vill II. chair- man of the republican national com- inittec, said tonight al Ihe conven- tio.i of the Lincoln league of Ameri- co, an organization of negro rcpubli- cans.

"Lynching is a crime against judgment and justice, reason and right eousness, nn assault on our most sa-red institutions, and is an affront to the accumulated wisdom of past ages." Hayes declared. li is a conuemnniion oi ennsuan-ily and merits the 'excoriation of every high-minded citizifn." SOUTHERN CHIVALRY BALKS, WOMAN SUFFRAGE. AT Amendment Ratified by 27 States; Only 4 of These Southern. (Star News Service). CHICAGO, Feb.

13-Full suffrage for women of the United States in tii.ie to permit them to vote ut thc 102(1 presidential election hangs upon the frazzled ctigfe of accomplishment. If the suffrage amendment to the federal constitution is ratified by thc requisite thirty.six slates this year, it will he by the narrowest sort of a wit) the exact number of thc states lred up in the ratifying column to tlo Ihe job. Thc national equal suffrage convention assembles in Chicago Thursday for what has been planned os the "victory session," possibly the sine die conclave of thc organization thai has led the fight for votes for women since the days of Susan B. Anthony. The women will meet confident of ultimate success, but somewhat doubtful that the thirty-sixth state will he captured in the immediate future.

Here is the stackup of the situation at thc present moment: Stales that have ratified ..27 States that have rejected 1 States that have extra aeaaiona railed States with legislature! in regular session States with no extra sessions call. ed 9 Number necessary to ratify 36 These are the twenty-seven states tint have ratified: Arkansas, Call fornia, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine Massaclms setts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Ore-grn, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Kentucky. Of thc twenty-seven, twenty-three arc Republican, so far as the legislative majority is concerned, and four are Democratic Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, and Utah. Southern States Oppose. The four states that have rcjcctcJ ratification, all Democratic, are Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Virginia, Of the five states where special sessions have been called, and where ratification is considered as assured during the month of Februarythrcc aie Republican Idaho, Nevada, and New Mexico and two arc Demo.

eratic Arizona und Oklahoma. New Jersey's legislature is now in regular session and is Republican. The ratification resolution has been adopted in the senate and comes to a vote in the house at Trenton tomorrow. Supporters of the federal amendment express confidence that P'c house vote will be affirmative. Maryland and South Carolina, both Democratic, are in regular session, the suffragists having little or no hope in cither state.

Depend on Three States. Figuring the five slates where special sessions are on their way at'd New Jersey in with the twenty-seven ratifying states makes a Ibtal of thirty.three. The three a'duition-al slates needed'tb "put" "over the amendment, therefore, must come fnm this list of nine, five Republi can and four Democratic: Republican Vermont. Connecti cut, Delaware, West Virginia, Wash ington. Democratic North Carolina, Flo.

ritla Tennessee, Louisiana. Nothing is expected from the four southern states by the suffrage leaders, unless it might be Tennessee. Gov. Holcomb of Connecticut, Republican, has refused steadfastly to call a special session. Gov.

Clem- cut. Rcnublican. has failed In mil lnn in Vormnnl Townsend, Republican, is understood to be prepared to call a special ses- sion in Delaware. Gov. Cprnwell, in West Virginia, is a Democrat, and 1ms held out against a special es- sion of his Republican- legislature Gov.

Hart, Republican, in tlie full suffrage stale of Washington, is the. only western executive who has failed to act, for suffrage, but it is the confident heifer of Republican leaders and of the suffrage forcci thai a sp.ccial session can be held in Washington, if the state thereby can become thc thirty-sixth, in time for women to vote in 1920. OUr ONLY TRUE FRIEND (T) DISPLEASED AT OUR Mr Ida Vose Woodbury, Field See rclary American Missionary So- COTnmend Negroes. (A. N.

P. Service.) WALTHAM, Feb. 13. Tin' World Outlook Club of the Congrcr- gational Church, to anad dress on Americanism by Ida Vose Woodbury, who is field secretary, of the American; Society. She is connected -with thc home missions of thc Congregational Church wliich 'among the mountain whites of the South, the Negroes, the Mexicans "and the Alaskans.

Mrs. Woodbury spoke principally if her York among the Negroes. Woodbury is very enthusiastic about the future of the Negro, she says that the Negro is intelligent and ambitious when given a chance, but that the opposition to his progress in the South is Dittcr. Particularly she spoke of his faithfulness to America and American traditions. Shct spoke of the great work of our NegrO' triJops in" France.

She said the trouble that has occurred in Ihe South' upon the "return' of thc Ne-gio is due to the fact that the South does not like to sec them pro gress. She said that the Negro in thc army learned that he is as good as thc rest when his chances are equal und that he is going to tie. mand that they be so. "She showed na American flag, mad.6 by a Negro girl in Alabama in in a small country town, where there was no flag to be found, on the inspiration of which several en- tered the Spanish War. Mrs.

Wood- bury emphasized the fact that thc Negroes wish to good citi-deut, if given, the opportunity. COLORED WOMEN1 CLIMBING UP TO HIGHEST PINNACLE. "Tending theiBaBy," and Left 'Fdroor Mxj-Man. (A. N.

P. Service.) MACON, tfe'b. 13. Mrs. W.

E. Jackson, Macon's first vToniaTlTaw. yer, has won her first criminal pasc in local courts, having secured, 'the acquittal of Arringtonf a N'-, gi-j, charged with robbery In coh-'t ncclion with an assault on Dr. W. Stevens, several inosths ago.

The solicitor consented to the easy "being dropped after witnesses haq.heen examined. CROWN PRINCE OFFERS SELF AS For 900 German Compatriots to tht Allied Nations I (Star News Service.) WASHINGTON, Feb. Wilson has received a cohlt from the former Crown PrincV of Germany offering himself to the allies for trial in place of 900 Germans demanded. Thc cable was dispatch1" irom Weiringen, Holland, where Frederick William is exiled. It was transmitted to Prqsident Wilson by white house officials.

Following is thc text of -the mcs. sage Ihe Crown Prince seiil to President Wilson: the. President of the. United States of North Washington: I'i'i demand, for the delivery. of.

every walk nf life, has- airain confronted my country, sorely tried by foii. years of war and one year of seven internal struggles with a crisis that is without a precedent in ly of tho world as affecting the life of people. I That a government can be found in Germany which would carry out the demanded surrender is out of th question: the tonsequenco to Europe of tin enforcement of the demand by violence are incalculable, hatred and revenge would be made eternal. "As the former successor to Hit thtcne of my German fatherland I willing at this lalclul hour'to und up for my computriots. "If the allied and associated gov trnment want a victim let them Uk.

ne instead of to 000 Germani wfco ns'f cnmmitf.1 )ffCn olhr man mat or serying their I be eoustry "Wt'irint'en Island, Feb. 9, 1920. WILHELM. 3fc uml nv prLmre.