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it does rain? What if the sun is hotter'n blue cats? Don't forget that winter is just over the hill. VOL.1, NO.38 GREENWAY WILL NOT TAKE HEAD JOB AT LINCOLN Family Condition Will Not Allow Acceptance of Position, Letter States. Pointed Attack of Alumni Gets Explanation From Minister Candidate. (Preston News Service) New York City, July 23.—Correspondence made public Friday by New York members of the Alumni Association disclosed that Dr. Walber B. Greenway, Pastor of Bethany Temple Congregational Church, Philadelphia, had declined the presidency of Lincoln University. Friends of Dr. Greenway state that he had made known his intention of refusing the presidency before students and alumni protested against his selection, declaring him to be a Klan sympathizer. Reasons Given. In his letter of declination to the Rev. John B. Laird of Philadelphia, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the institution, Dr. Greenway said in part: "After taking into consideration my present work and especially conditions in my family I cannot bring myself to the place where I can accept the offer tendered me. it would mean in a way breaking up my home. "My two sons, nineteen and twenty, are just entering the business world and I feel it would not be fair to leave them in Philadelphia at this time in their life. Mrs. Greenway and I both feel our first duty is to them until they become definitely anchored and somewhat older. This is, perhaps, the strongest reason why we feel we ought not to accept the work at Lincoln University." Dr. Greenway's reply to the imme- (Continued from page 2) STATES SEND 354 PEOPLE TO MEET Chicago Convention of N. A. A. C. P. Has Representatives From 34 of 48 States. The recent 17th annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People surpassed all previous meetings in attendance and in the number of states represented. Officials of the organization believe the increase to have been due both to the interest created by the Sweet case, and to a realization by a greater number of people of the necessity for the organization. Actual registrations numbered 354 persons, although there were a large number of others who went to Chicago and did not register. The delegates represented 34 states. Illinois led with 89 delegates, Indiana was second with 29, Ohio third with 27, Michigan fourth with 24, Missouri fifth with 19. The states represented by one or more delegates were: Alabama Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Idaho Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin. FIRST-CLASS CAFE OPENS NIGHT AND DAY SERVICE Ferdye's Place, which is known as the Bee Cafe, opened Friday at 383 Rondo St., and first-class service is to be maintained at all times. The cafe will be open day and night, serving regular noon dinners and chili as a specialty. Ferdye was formerly connected with the Wee Hour Inn and needs no introduction' to the public. Her reputation as a culinary artist is hard to beat. The St. Paul Echo Association To Raise $1,000,000 For Social Work Among Negroes N. A. A. C. P. Figures Show 13 Lynchings for 1926 (N. A. A. C. P. Press Service) Between January 1 and June 30, 1926, there were thirteen lynchings in the United States, according to the record of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The Association's figures show four more lynchings than the record of Tuskegee Institute. Of the thirteen victims, 11 were Negroes, one was white, and one was a Navajo Indian. Six of the victims were hanged, five were shot, and two were hanged and shot. Three were charged with rape. All the others were accused of burglary, murder and less serious offenses. The figures are an increase of three over the number of lynchings for the first six months of 1925. The record by states is: Florida, 4; Mississippi, 3; Texas, 2, and Maine, New Mexico, Arkansas and Kentucky, one each. LOCAL MAN TO OPEN THEATRE Harold Goins With Colored Assistants Will Manage the Remodeled Como. The Como theater, University avenue, near Kent street, is now being remodeled at a very great expense. Work includes interior and exterior decorating, two new machines, new screen and seats. In a short time the theater will be opened, featuring the best in pictures, vaudelle and using all race pictures and acts available. This theater will be managed by Harold Goins and an entire staff of race assistants with a view of giving our local artists an opportunity to perform and develop their ability. Such theaters will be found in almost every large city in the country operating successfully. Cecil B. De Mille, one of the most successful motion picture producers in America, is planning making feature pictures comedies for these theaters. The opening date of the Como will be published in this paper. Vocational Training, Improvement of Home Conditions, Encouragement of Talent Will Be Started With Children. New York City, July 23.—The National Association of Colored Boys and Girls, Inc., whose purpose is to "save the youth and lift humanity," has announced the opening of a campaign for $1,000,000 to carry on its works. The drive will be nationwide. The association has the indorsement of the State Board of Charities. It has headquarters at 2376 Seventh avenue, and its officers are: Isaac B. Allen, president; Irene M. Blackstone, vice president; R. S. King, executive secretary; George Michael, treasurer, and E. Byrd Nixon, recording secretary. Program. It is planned to establish a home at Lenox Avenue and 123rd street, and to extend the work of the organization into every Negro community in the country. The Association announces that its purpose is to stimulate activity in the Negro youth especially, and encourage all boys and girls to make up and carry out a practical, progressive and useful program looking toward development in and getting the best results out of life. Vocational Training. "To this end," the report of association continues, "it is proposed to seize all opportunities possible to discover the mental and physical attributes and gifts, talents and inclinations; improve and develop the mind, the physical body, and preserve the health; and in the meantime, destroy wanton, guile and evil impulses, tendencies and inclinations as far as possible which might serve as a drawback to the advancement of boys and (Continued on page 4) ST. PAUL-MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1926 Latest Mob Violence Upon Negro Home Owners By Indignant Whites Reported In New Jersey (N. A. A. C. P. Press Service) An effort on the part of a white mob at Palisades Park, N. J., to drive William P. Adams of New York from a newly purchased home located at 128 Brinkerhoff Avenue, Palisades Park, N. J., brought prompt action by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, when Mr. Adams appealed to the Association for aid. Mr. Adams owns a home in New York City but wishing to provide for his wife and 3-year-old son a residence in a less congested community, purchased a home in Palisades Park. No Objection Before closing the deal, Mr. Adams asked specifically of the real estate broker and the white owners of the house, if there would be any objection to his occupying it on the part of the neighbors. Being assured there would be no objection, the deal was consummated. Forgotten Body Will Be Burned After 50 Years Pittsburgh, Pa., July 23.—The body of Willie Green, hanged 50 years ago, neared the ends of its travels Thursday after a half century of fruitless search for a final resting place. Green was executed for the murder of his half brother. Relatives claimed the body, had it embalmed and prepared for burial, but for some reason it was forgotten. Years passed, with one undertaker passing the body on to another, until nearly a score have had possession of it. Thursday Oscar Miller, its latest custodian, turned the body over to the city morgue for cremation. TEA SHOP OPENS A unique tea and gift shop at 525 Rondo street has been opened by Mrs. Beulah Karinger, one of the young matrons of the city. A superior service has been developed to care for the clientele of the shop, including the serving of luncheons and dinners at all times. Private parties are solicited and will be made an outstanding feature of the service. JOINT ELKS' PICNIC IS LARGE EVENT OF SEASON Hundreds of Twin Cities folks motored to Bass Lake Thursday and attended the annual joint picnic given by Ames Lodge No. 106 and Minnehaha Temple No. 128. Following the picnic fully three hundred persons wended their way to Elks' Hall, where the weekly cabaret dance was in progress. Tables were at a premium and the hall was taxed to its utmost capacity. Ozzie's entertaining and the dance music by Clarence Johnson and his orchestra measured up to its usual standard. As the result of holding the lucky number, Miss Lenetta Carter carried home a beautiful silver bread tray. According to Mr. Eddie Boyd, chairman and his co-workers, the cabaret will continue to be featured each Thursday evening. COURT DECIDES AGAINST COLORED HOME OWNERS St. Louis, Mo.-A decision was handed down in Judge Calhoun's court Thursday restricting Miss Agnes Tegethoff, white, owner of property in the forty-five hundred block on Cote Brilliante avenue, from renting or selling this property to colored citizens. This decision upholds a voluntary segregation pact of the white property owners of the block. As a result of the granting of an injunction restricting colored persons from buying or renting Miss Tegethoff's property, restrictions are automatically upheld against five other colored families in the block who have decisions pending in ouster suits. Mr. Adams and his wife were welcomed by the neighbors. Upon making preparations to move into his new home, Mr. Adams was threatened by persons living more than a mile from the house, among the threateners being several of foreign birth and a number of whom are unable to speak English. Threats Made. Several mass meetings were held and veiled threats were made. Fearing for the safety of his wife and child, while he was at work in the Postoffice at New York City, Mr. Adams appealed to the Association for help. The Association immediately took up the matter with Governor A. Harry Moore of New Jersey, Mayor Heder of Pallsades Park, and Sheriff Sherry of Bergen County. Police Protection. Mr. Adams was also furnished with a letter to Oliver Randolph, a prom- ALICE LEAVES ON TRIP TO EUROPE Pays Thousands for Traveling Outfit; Will Meet Mother's Relatives. (Preston News Service) New York, July 23.—Mrs. Alice B. Jones Rhinelander, the bride of Leonard Kip Rhinelander, who successfully fought his annulment suit through a sensational trial, left for England on the White Star Liner Majestic last Saturday. Mrs. Rhinelander denied just before sailing that the trip was to meet her husband abroad to effect reconciliation, although it has been reported that her husband is in Paris. "I intend to meet my mother's people in England," was all Mrs. Rhinelander would say. "As far as this reconciliation talk is concerned—you can see my lawyer about that. I have nothing to say except that it's absurd." Mrs. Rhinelander's going away outfit is reported to have cost several thousand dollars. "I'm going to have a four-room suite on the Majestic, too," she said. A brand new limousine will bring her back to her home in New Rochelle when she returns. The car, which she purchased only a few months ago, has been turned in and the new one will meet her at the pier when she comes back, she said. She was accompanied by her mother, Mrs. George Jones. REFUSED SERVICE BECAUSE 'NEGRO' Restaurant Proprietor Under $500 Bail for Violation of Civil Rights Act. (Preston News Service). Damden, N. J.—July 23.—Refused service in the Famous Restaurant Friday, Hamden Abraham, a silk and linen dealer of New York, caused the arrest of Peter Silos, a Greek, proprietor of the restaurant, on a charge of violating the Civil Rights Act of New Jersey. Silos was held under $500 bail by Magistrate O'Grady. In a statement to the Magistrate, Abraham said he went to the restaurant for lunch and after waiting 20 minutes asked one of the waitresses to serve him. He said the waitress would not serve him food and that Silos said he didn't cater to "colored people." Silos admitted that he refused to serve Abraham because he thought he was a Negro. Abraham said he is an American citizen and fought with the American Army in France. He displayed several scars of wounds received in battle McCALL PHARMACY Opening under new management, the pharmacy at the corner of Rondo street at Louis is ready to cater to all the trade which patronized the former store at that location. The new McCall pharmacy succeeds the Community drug store of the same location. The new management announces that all prescriptions filled at the drug store by the former druggists are on file and can be re-filled at any time. 'Sunshine Sammy' Will Leave Vaudeville. For Pictures inent colored attorney of Newark, who reports that as soon as Adams presented his letter he "called up the Police Headquarters in Pallisades Park, the Sheriff's office and the office of the Prosecutor of Pleas of Bergen County, and, after much trouble, finally got a promise from the Sheriff's office that an officer would be placed on guard at Mr. Adam's house beginning at five o'clock Saturday afternoon, July 9, the date on which Mr. Adams moved in." Governor Moore, in a letter dated July 13 to the N. A. A. C. P., advises that he has referred the matter to "local authorities, who have entire jurisdiction in matters of this kind. Mr. Adams should present his complaint to the Mayor of the town in which he lives, and where he is entitled to the same consideration as any other citizen, and I have no doubt that he will receive it." Statute To Be Built Honoring 'Good Darkies' (The Associated Negro Press) Natchiteches, La.—A bronze statue to the faithful old Negro of the South will be erected in this city on the site of historic Front street by J. L. Bryant, a wealthy property owner. It will be life sized and patterned somewhat after the Keeper of the Outer Gate, a picture of an ancient Negro gatekeeper as depicted in the May issue of the National Geographic Magazine. The shaft of the statue will be about five feet high, the base two feet, making a grand total height of about twelve feet. Beneath the monument of the typical old Southern uncle will be the inscription, "To the Splendid Service of the Good Darkey of Louisiana." Hans Schuler of Baltimore will be the sculptor and the work will be completed about January. 1927. "WEARY BLUES" "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes, the brilliant young Negro poet, is to be published in England this fall by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., who have recently established a London branch. Knopf published Mr. Hughes' book in the United States last January and it has had much critical acclaim and a wide sale. Youthful Star of "Our Gang" Comedies to Make Series of 12 Two-Reel Pictures With Young Turpin. Pacific Court News Bureau. Hollywood, Calif.—Frederick Ernest Morrison, better known as "Sunshine Sammy," will discontinue his vaudeville tour and return to Hollywood as the juvenile comedian in a series of 12 two-reel comedies. Jean Francis DeVillard, the Indian capitalist producer, has signed a contract for Sammy's services as the juvenile comedian in a series of "Messenger Boy" comedies starring Tommy Turpin, nephew of cross-eyed Ben. Sammy May Be Starred. Sammy May be Started. To a representative of this paper it was announced that Sammy may later be starred in a series of comedies after the completion of the "Messenger Boy" series. Sammy's return to Hollywood ends his two-year tour of the colored vaudeville houses under the T. O. B. A. circuit. Ernest entered the picture business in 1915 as a co-star with Baby Marle Osborne in a series of feature length Pathe comedy dramas. Fatty Arbuckle used him in the "Sherif" which attracted the attention of Hal Roach. Under the Roach banner Ernest become internationally famous in support of Harold Lloyd and Snub Pollard. Upon Lloyd's rise to stardom, the "Our Gang" comedy team of youngsters was organized composed of Mickey Daniels (Freckles); Jacky Condon (Towhead), and Ernest Mcrison (Sunshine Sammy) as the original cast. Later three more were added, Joe Cobb (Fatty); Mary Kornman (Mary), and James Hoskins (Farina). (Continued on page 2) Body of Negro Seaman Lost in S-51 Sent Home New York City.—The body of George Henry Martin, officers' cook on the ill-fated S-51 and one of the 18 bodies identified as victims of the sunken submarine here today, was sent to the home of his widow at 1905 Federal street, Philadelphia, Saturday afternoon. The S-51 was the United States naval submarine which was rammed and sunk under the prow of the "City of Rome" last September off Block Island in the Atlantic. The dramatic struggle made by seamen since last fall to raise the sunken boat has held the attention of the entire world and was just recently crowned with success. Eighteen bodies found in the hull of the submarine at the New York navy yards Friday were identified and Martin was included in the number. Evidence that every man on the boat stuck to his duty to the last has been given by the investigation of the wrecked craft by naval officials. Honors for the dead heroes have been conveyed to their relatives, including a message of condolence from President Coolidge. Martin was the only Negro aboard the submarine. FIREMAN HURT WHILE ON DUTY Joseph T. Harris of Company Nine Cut by Falling Glass; Now Almost Recovered. A fire in the basement of a restaurant and shoe store near the corner of University avenue at Dale street last Sunday afternoon caused the severe injury of Joseph T. Harris, fireman, member of Engine Company No. 9. Burning steadily, a stubborn fire broke out the glass in the doorway in which Mr. Harris is standing while gaining entrance to the building. The full shock of the falling glass was received upon the fireman's head and shoulders, the glass knocking the number plate off the helmet and cutting open the left shoulder. Loss of blood from the injury and the intense heat of the fire caused Mr. Harris to lose consciousness. MINNEAPOLIS PIONEER Mr. Edward Hammond, aged 66 years, passed away at Minneapolis General hospital. Tuesday at 5:30 p. m. Funeral services were conducted at St. Peters A. M. E. church, Friday, 2 p. m., Rev. H. C. Boyd officiating, assisted by Rev. T. B. Stovall and Rev. H. C. Claybrook. Mr. Hammond had been a resident of Minneapolis for the past thirty-five years and had been employed by the J. W. Thomas Co. for 28 years and also at the Minneapolis Auditorium ever since its opening. One of the first members of St. Peters church when the church was established on the East Side, and has always been an active, ardent worker for the upbuilding of God's kingdom. Until the past two years, due to his rapidly failing health, he was a member of the trustee board, steward and class leader. The true Christian spirit was exemplified in his daily life, malice toward none and charity toward all. Dearly beloved by both young and old, he will be greatly missed by a host of friends in the Twin Cities. TENNIS TOURNAMENT TO BE PLAYED AT DUNNING The time for fees in the coming Twin City Tennis Tournament has been extended until July 25, at which time the tournament begins at Dunning Field. Entry fees and membership are $1.00 each. The winner in the tournament is to be sent to the national meet at St. Louis, Mo. The tournament closes August 2. All raquet welders and those interested in the game are urged to attend. CAN ANY ONE live suspended in the air? It simply can't be done, even if pale property owners do try to force us to it. PRICE FIVE CENTS ELKS ANNOUNCE DELEGATES FOR NATIONAL MEET ELKS ANNOUNCE DELEGATES FOR NATIONAL MEET Walker, Hunter, Miller, Todd Selected for Cleveland Convention in August. Bates-Pace Secretary Duel Grows Bitter as Time for Election Draws Near. (Preston News Service) St. Paul will be well represented at the forthcoming meeting of the Grand Lodge of Elks to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, beginning the fourth Tuesday in August. Delegates selected by the local chapter are: W. B. Walker, present Exalted Ruler; Hector Hunter, past Exalted Ruler; Charles H. Miller, present treasurer, and A. J. Todd, present secretary. Alternates include J. Louis Ervin, John F. Coquire, C. W. Wigington and L. C. Jackson, all of whom are past exalted rulers. According to A. J. Todd, present secretary of the organization, all the delegates will go uninstructed as to how to vote in the election battle which is expected at the meeting. For the first time in 18 years the chief interest in the outcome of the election centers around the Grand Secretaryship. Whether Finley Wilson succeeds himself as Grand Exalted Ruler has become a question secondary to the fight which has been so capably made by Harry H. Pace, President of Northeastern Life Insurance company, to oust George E. Bates from the position of Grand Secretary which Bates has held for the past 15 years without opposition. It had been generally regarded that Bates would be a hard man to combat and many prospective candidates who wanted to enter the lists with him were persuaded by their friends to withdraw from the race. Relying on this method of frighten- (Continued on page 3) (Continued on page 3) Two Die in Jail, Two Still Held for Murder After Confession by White. (N. A. A. C. P. Press Service) Two guiltless colored men died in jail in Alabama last year and two others are serving life sentences for the murder of a white man six years ago, while the real murderer, the wife of the dead man, has just been revealed through the death-bed confession of her accomplice. The facts in this case were made available today by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, New York, and confirmed by special correspondence and Associated Press dispatches to the Montgomery, Ala., Advertiser. Six years ago, according to an affidavit made by Tressle McClendon, mother of Otis McClendon, white, the accomplice in the murder, McClendon helped Mrs. Myrtle McClendon King of Guntersville kill her husband and hide his body in a cave, McClendon receiving forty acres of land and two mules for his aid. Four Negroes were arrested at the time, charged with the crime, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. On April 18, 1926, Otis McClendon while dying confessed to his mother his part in the murder. She made the affidavit which has led to the arrest of the murderers, who married again shortly after her first husband was murdered. Otis McClendon, declaring that the woman had ruined his life, attempted to kill Cleve King, the new husband, but King fired first, his shots eventually causing McClendon's death but not before he had confessed. Reports from Alabama indicate that Mrs. McClendon-King is to be tried soon for the murder of her first husband but no steps have been taken so far as is known to free the two innocent Negroes who are yet in prison. 4 "Entered as second class matter Nov. 7, 1925, at the post office at St. Paul, Minn., under the act of March 3, 1879" "GOOD DARKIES" Although the North woke more than a year ago to the realization that there was in these United States of America a New Negro, a colored American who shared only color in common with the conventional Uncle Tom type, the South is only now shaking itself from a deep slumber to discover that the old type of Negro is either completely gone, or is at least moribund. One of the most picturesque and sentimental public recognitions of the passing of the Uncle Tom type is under way in Louisiana where a southern gentleman with tender memories and lavish hand is about to have erected a statue in memory of "the good old darkies" of bygone times. He is seeking to immortalize the man who gave unending service and asked no reward but the smile of the master; the man who basked in the favor of "the great house" on one day, and who cried from the lash of the whip on the next. To conceive the state of mind which prompted the action of this gentleman is not hard. To sympathize with that attitude is quite another matter. In sentimentalizing over the dead days of slavery, in parading the sentiments which swayed the southerner in that day, without any attempt to keep abreast of the progress of the Negro since he left bondage is to foster the essence of the feeling which superimposed race prejudice upon the institution of slavery. And the South needs no reminders to bear in mind its one-time prosperity based on the free labor of black workers. Those things it should be encouraged to forget, or to put away in a sane appraisal of the achievement of the erstwhile slave, for the attitude of the embittered ex-slave holder is a poor foundation for the seeds of racial tolerance which must eventually grow if this country is to gain its highest potential peak of greatness. Let the white southerner in place of a statue to "good darkies" erect monuments to the brilliant group of Negro scholars, writers and artists which has grown up since slavery. Let him read the literature of the Negro if he would put his finger to the pulse of the creative power of his former servant; let him hear Negro orators if he would listen to the persuasive eloquence of an age-old race; let him bathe his soul in the joy and sorrow of Negro music if he would purge himself of pettiness, and if he would come to a realization of the Negro, not as he was, hopelessly enslaved, but as he is proving himself today. THIS MATTER OF DEMANDING RIGHTS The prompt action taken by a New York merchant who was refused service in a New Jersey restaurant because the proprietor of the place thought he was colored is an indication of the way people act when they know they have rights which must not be trampled upon, and insist that those rights be not violated. With the colored man who is receiving ill treatment at the hands of private agencies there is usually a different and far less decisive attitude displayed. Knowing that the justice-dispensing machinery of the courts may very likely vary from the true in meting out decisions regarding him, a Negro ponders a long time before going to the expense and trouble of starting court action on the basis of the Civil Rights Act. In the South is that especially true because from the southern white man little is to be expected in the way of courtesy, and little is demanded. Instead of risking embarrassment, the southern Negro has built up the protective wall of race industries which shield him from too intimate contact with the whites. Men of the North, knowing—or at least, believing—that conditions are better here than they are in the South, accept an occasional slight as the natural and to-be-expected thing. Their expression on the matter is apt to be more passive than militant. For the time, of course, they are angry, but their anger seldom leads them to any constructive action which will better a discriminatory situation for the next person who follows them to the place of their refusal. Two young men in the community were recent notable exceptions to this rule. Having been refused service in a Minneapolis restaurant about a year ago, they brought suit against the proprietor of the place. That they were awarded one cent damages each is not the important point in the case. They proved their earnestness in a demand for common rights by taking official action. Should that same prompt measure be taken by all colored citizens in similar circumstances, this tightening rope of prejudice which is every day gaining a stronger hold would be forced loose. Colored men in the North will some day learn that merely being here is not predicating full citizenship rights. Action there must be, vigorous action, and enough of it to show the courts that the Negroes of this section are alive to and protestant against the condition which is surely hemming us in. Only in that way can the North remain the North with all that it has meant to the Negro in the past. "LIKE LITTLE CHILDREN . . . . " One of the things which makes white people regard colored folks as little children is the behavior of many members of the darker group in public. Three incidents taken at random from Twin Cities street cars may help illustrate the point. The boy could not have been more than 13 years old. He sat in a cross seat chewing gum very audibly and with many a facial gesture to indicate exceeding pleasure with the gum, with himself, 1 and with the surrounding white world through which he was flowing with a minimum of effort. On his head he wore the top part of a stocking which had been purloined from a sister or mother. The bottom part of the cap was loose and frilled around his face like a lace night cap. The top or gathered part protruded a full three inches from the head, standing out pronouncedly like the war headdress of a Bantu warrior. He was complacent, as smug as though he had been just outfitted at a fine clothier's, and as oblivious to the amused glances of the people in the car as though he had been at home in his bedroom surrounded only by four unobserving walls. IN THE REALM of Clubdom He was a tall man with a good rich brown color. He seated himself on the long seat of the car immediately behind the last cross seat which was occupied by two white girls, and with one dextrous fling twisted both his legs up over the arm of the long seat so that he was facing forward with his back to the rear door of the car. His face was hanging half way between the shoulders of the two girls as he peered delightedly at the flying landscape. His action was rude, was an intrusion, and would have been unwelcome no matter who had been occupying the cross seat. Even so, he paid no attention to the annoyed glances which the girls exchanged or to the scowls which greeted him from both white and colored men. When will the lesson be learned that discretion in action is a friction point which should always be well cared and that careless annoying is often worse than proffered affront? * * * * * They were three couples. They waited until the car stopped dead before they made any preparations to get off. Each of the women paid her own fare (although they were obviously in the company of the men) and each of the men followed suit. The last man to get off had no token but had to wait to get change for a two-dollar bill so that he could pay his fare in cash. His companions had preceded him off the car, and as he fished around for his money there fell upon the whole car that dead silence which bespeaks the exasperation of tired hurrying people who are being unnecessarily delayed. And then from out of the darkness outside the car into that eerie stillness there clanged the harshness of a woman's voice speaking in pronounced southern dialectic: "Come on Johnnie; you'ah holdin' up traffic!" And the passengers as one man guffawed. Carelessness can never be reckoned a virtue, and some instances, it is criminal. (Continued from page 1) diate opposition of Dr. E. B. Roberts of New York and William Ashley of Newark, N. J., president and secretary of the alumni association, was a flat-footed denial that he was a klan sympathizer. He admitted that he was a Virginian, and admitted also that he had flayed Mayor Hendricks for refusing to allow the Klan to parade in the streets of Philadelphia. He asserted that he had scored the mayor because he thought the mayor's refusal smacked of "partiality." "I am a Shriner," he said, "and 75 per cent of the Shriners are members of the Ku Klux Klan. I am a Southerner. I was born within the first and second congressional districts of East Tennessee." Do you know it takes money to run a newspaper? Send in that delinquent subscription now. First Animal Protection The first step in the enactment of humane legislation was taken in 1822, when a bill providing punishment for the ill treatment of cattle was introduced into the British parliament by Richard Martin, an Irish nobleman, later nicknamed by King George IV "Humanity Martin." To Richard Martin belongs the credit for the first conviction under the law for the protection of animals. The misused animal was dragged into court to show evidence of its master's cruelty, and the driver was found guilty. Two years later, Martin formed a society for the enforcement of his anti-cruelty act. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was thereupon organized. From this society originated the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, founded in New York in 1866 by Henry Bergh. Try Our Double-Thick Siren Bittersweet Malted Milks.....20c Regular Malted Milks 15c Special Double Chocolate Sodas 15c ALL BRICK ICE CREAM 44c Wily Whales Str John Bland-Sutton, famous English surgeon, tells a striking story to demonstrate the cunning with which the "killer" whale chases its prey. It feeds on seals, which it cannot easily drag off the ice, but it swims under the ice on which the seal lies, and using its powerful dorsal fin, suddenly rises, and breaks off a piece of the ice with it. If the seal tries to escape by sliding over the ice, the whale follows it, and continues its breaking tactics until the seal is captured. The teeth of killer whales make those of the crocodile seem puny, but, curiously enough, these terrors of the seas, who even prey on their harmless relatives, hunt in packs, like wolves. SIMPSON @ WILLS The Reliable Morticians are now located in their beautiful new mortuary chapel Office Phone—Cedar 1024 Residence Phones Tel. Dale 1914 Tel. Dale 2541 17 West Exchange Street ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA Houses of all kinds Small Payments Down Equities Arranged Real Estate Notary Public NEED SOME? ITS a fine thing to know where you can get cash when you need it. Our service is quick and confidential. We have helped your friends for years. 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Fountain Pens With each year's subscription ($2.00) to the "Echo" A beautiful Jumbo Fountain Pen with 14K. gold plated pen point, gold filled lever and clip, or ladies size with ribbon rings. Your Choice of Three Colors: Green, Red & Mahogany Send for Your Pen Today! Make checks or money orders payable to the ST. PAUL ECHO 614 Court Block St. Paul, Minn. --- Society·Notes ST. PAUL NOTES Mr. A. Philip Randolph, Editor of the Messenger and general organizer of the B. S. C. P., was the guest of honor at a dinner party given by Mrs. Rose L. Davis, 387 N. St. Albans St., Monday evening. The other guests were Mrs. Hattie Smith, Mrs. Chas. E. Cotton, Captain . C. Jones, P. L. Caldwell and N. A. Evans. Mrs. Prior of Hot Springs, Ark., is in the city the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Walter Porter, Sherburne Ave. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Green and Mrs. Eva Cause of Chicago are guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Wilson, 406 Farrington Ave. The party motored here in the Greens' handsome Locomobile. Mr. Green is a member of Tabor and Green, vaudeville artists. Miss Minnie Toble, 990 Gaultier St., has been quite sick for several days. Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Ingram, 890 Rice St., entertained at six o'clock dinner on Tuesday evening in honor of Mr. A. Philip Randolph of New York City. Covers were laid for six. Miss Mildred Artis and Miss Virginia Hedge promise you a surprise of your life in their latest dance number, "From 1876 to 1926," in Freda Jackson's second exhibition in September. Watch for it. Y. W. C. A. NOTES Miss Helen Hudson left Tuesday morning with the three Girl Reserve delegates, Anna Foster, Margaret Tresvan and Henrietta Bonaparte, to attend the Summer Conference at Frankfort, Ky. They met Mrs. W. H. Griffin in Chicago, who will also attend the Conference. Miss Hudson will take her vacation immediately following the Conference. Miss Hazel Wigington, office secretary, will be in charge during Miss Hudson's absence. A Juvenile Sewing class will be opened at the "Y" Wednesday afternoon from 2 to 4 p. m. Send your little girls to learn how to make their little dresses and the like. Miss Hazel Wigington will be the instructor. Miss Hazel Wigington, who has been spending her vacation in Chicago with her sister, Mrs. Birdie Washington, was back on duty Monday morning. Miss Wigington reported having spent a delightful time in the windy city. New finds of footprints of reptiles left in soft sand at least 25,000,000 years ago have been made in sandstone 1,800 feet down from the rim of the Grand canyon. This is the greatest depth in the canyon at which such prints have been found. The level at which the fossil plants and reptiles have been found belongs to the latter part of the carboniferous period, or the time when the great coal beds of the world were being formed, and was a few million years before the famous reign of the dinosaurs. One specimen shows a row of tracks very much like mouse tracks impressed in a small slab of red stone, and in among the tiny footprints is a wavy line which represents the track of the animal's tail. Other exhibits show prints larger than a man's hand, indicating that some of the reptilian creatures of this age may have become as large as crocodiles. No bones of these creatures have been found in the Grand canyon, though some bones of reptiles making similar tracks have been found elsewhere.—New York World. Spot Made Famous by Genius of Alexander The site of the most brilliant coup of Alexander the Great's campaign in India has been located by the eminent archeologist, Sir Aurul Stein, according to dispatches received in this country. In a section of the hills of Upper Swat known as Torwal, near the northern frontier, Sir Aurul believes that he has identified the site of the fortress of Aornos, captured from the warlike hill tribes by Alexander in 327 B. C. According to the classical historians the stronghold was perched on a rock over the river Indus and had even resisted the attacks of the legendary Hercules. The particular features of the rough and rocky regions which suggested this site are said to agree more closely with the account of the Greek historian Arrian than a previous tentative location at Mahaban. The strategic value of this hill country has been appreciated and utilized by petty chieftains down to the present day, and it is only recently that conditions have been sufficiently settled to allow archeological exploration. Real Estate, Chattel Mortgages and Loans 328 METROPOLITAN BANK BLDG. Phone CD234 6234 O. J. Smith, Trees MINNEAPOLIS NOTES Chappelle and Stinnettte, the fashion plates of vaudeville, with Miss Marienne E. Jeffrey as pianist and accompanist, closed a very successful season in Los Angeles over the Pantages circuit, and are returning East. En route they will be in Chicago, two weeks playing at the Grand Theater the week of the 26th. Following that four weeks in the East. Miss Jeffrey will return to Minneapolis for a two weeks' visit with her parents about September 1, before returning to New York for the Fall and Winter season. Mrs. W. C. Jeffrey, 3529 Fourth Ave. So, left last Saturday night for Chicago for a two weeks' visit with her daughter Marienne, who is en route East with Chappelle and Stinnettte. While there she will be the guest of Mrs. Herendson and Scott, 3334 Vernon Ave. Miss Hilda Anderson of Baltimore Md., and a student at Smith's College arrived Wednesday from Chieago She is the guest of Mrs. Arthur White. 3625 Tenth Ave. So. DULUTH NOTES Mrs. Stephen Coles left the city for Mackinac Island, to be gone several days. A large party motored up to Beaver Bay Saturday and returned Sunday. In the party were Mr. and Mrs. Covington, Mr. and Mrs. Colby and daughter Ann, and Mary and Marshall Kelly. Mrs. Roy Avant continues quite ill at St. Mary's hospital. Mr. Thomas Oliver passed away at St. Mary's hospital, Duluth, Monday morning, July 12, at 3:30. Mrs. Wm. A. Porter, E. Third St. spent the week-end in St. Paul this week visiting relatives and friends. The "Queen of the South" degree was conferred on six candidates in the order of the Eastern Star, Tuesday evening at their hall. Mr. Kenneth Golns and Charles Hargraves are in the city working and are stopping at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Greer, E. Fifth Ave. PICNIC PROGRAM RESULTS In spite of the weather, the young and old were there by thousands and all had a great time. The winner in the Little Tots' race was L. Jones, Bethesda S. S. Martha Kay Goslers of St. Peters S. S. was winner in the Little Girls' race. Joe Willard of Bethesda S. S. and H. H. Willis of St. James S. S. were winners in the three-legged race. Joe Willard was also winner in the Young Men's race after a tie with Clarence Smith of St. Peter S. S. Everrett Welsh of St. Peter S. S. was winner in a 100-yard dash. Beatrice Nova of St. Paul Baptist S. S. was prize winner in the Girls' race. Mary Gratz of Phillis Wheatley House was winner in a Girls' race. The games of the Minneapolis and St. Paul indoor teams were the most interesting the crowd ever witnessed. There were many compliments and many cheers. Just one little argument was heard. It started when a Minneapolis man made a Ty Cobb play. Some one said, "They are big league players." "No, they are home boys," the other one said. Then he said, "I don't care if they aren't, they are just as good." St. Paul won the first prize. Minneapolis second. POSTAL EMPLOYES TOUR Postal employees who intend to drive their cars to the convention at St. Cloud Saturday, July 24, are requested to carry extra passengers, and they will be reimbursed by each passenger. Please notify Fred Wood-rich Industrial Station. LOOK - YOUR OLD HUCKSTER RASPBERRIES For Sale By Crate and Half Crate DELIVERED AT MARKET PRICE Lee Washington HUmboldt 3946 FOR 8ALARY LOANS SEE ANDREW A. MURPHY 312 Builders Exchange Bldg. Ga 1096 INITIATION CEREMONIES Fezzan Temple No. 26, A. E. A. O. of M. S., held a ceremonial session Saturday evening, July 17, at Union Hall. The caravan started moving at nine o'clock, at which time twelve novices crossed the hot sands and sought protection under the dome of the temple. Following the ceremonies, a bounteous repast with plenty of smokes completed a memorable occasion. ELKS NAME DELEGATES TO CLEVELAND MEETING ing every other candidate away, Bates has built up a machine which has its clutches firmly upon the financial structure of the Order. In Pace's campaign he has dug into the finances of the Order and has brought to light many transactions by which the membership had been deceived by both the Grand Secretary Bates and the Grand Treasurer Carter, who, it is alleged, has been merely a sort of rubber stamp for Bates, who personally has dominated Carter's every action. Dr. O. C. Clayborne, now of Gary, Ind., but formerly of Huntsville, Ala., and who was a Grand Auditor for several years, has also brought to light the fact that a shortage in the accounts of the Grand Secretary amount to $400, was never satisfactorily explained nor made good by the Grand Secretary Bates. Bates Shrewd Politician. One of the oldest political tricks which has been employed by Bates has been to draw attention away from himself and his long tenure of office by setting up a contest for the Grand Exalted Ruler's position year after year. He has been continually at war with the present Grand Exalted Ruler J. Finley Wilson throughout his several administrations, largely because Wilson insisted on exercising the authority of his own office, which Bates usurped from some of Wilson's less positive predecessors. Notwithstanding Bates' constant and repeated denunciation of Wilson, he has sought to claim credit for the growth of the Order to which growth he has made little or no contribution. Although the Grand Lodge pays him $3,000 a year salary, two clerks, office rent and expenses suming into big figures, Bates gives the Order only his time after his office hours at the Pennsylvania Station. Some lay members who are good at figures are beginning to realize that the Order has been run largely for the financial profit of Bates, who has drawn in salary over $25,000 from the treasury of the organization for work done after sundown. In addition to this he drew in one year $2,188 for "back expenses." The question is now being asked way "to what purpose is the payment of taxes?" The bulk of the Order's money has been for many years in white banks at unfavorable interest rates in one southern city, while colored banks are given the smaller accounts and required to give bonds to secure the deposits. The Order's printing, issued out by Bates, was given entirely during the past year to a white printer while colored printers, mem- CAFE At Keystone Hotel Open Under New Management SUNDAY Chicken Dinner 50c Mrs. Strothers, Mgr. 379 Carroll Ave. E. N. Martin L. R. Blair And You Are Next All the Time Sanitary Tonsorial Parlor 329 NO. DALE STREET Keystone Hotel Barber Shop Ladies' and Children's Hair Bobbing, 35c Men's Hair Cutting, 35c (A specialty) All Work Guaranteed Open 8 A.M. to 8 P.M. A. WYLIE, Prop. Dale 3601 379 Carroll Ave. Royal Lodge 159 U. B.F. Meets first Monday each month at Union Hall. Visiting members cor- dially inuited to attend. The Unity Cafe HOME COOKING Prices Reasonable ICE CREAM AND SOFT DRINKS OF ALL KINDS Come in and try one of our Delicious Chicken Sandwiches OPEN DAY and NIGHT RONDO AND ARUNDEL STS. DALE 7325 MINNEAPOLIS ADVERTISERS in Own Peace Temple San Francisco.—The "Geneva" of the Chinese on the Pacific coast is in San Francisco's Chinatown, on the third floor of a dingy brick building. They refer to it as "Wo Ping Woe," which in English is "peace temple." Here the warring factions have their round table about which representatives of the so-called "high binder" tongs recently renewed their pledge of peace. A few months back when reports of tong killings were coming in from other American cities, comparative quiet and order prevailed here. The lack of violence was probably due to two things—the peace temple and Sergt. John J. Manlon, strapping police officer of the San Francisco department. Promote Him New York.—A patrolman attending an uptown theater dashed onto the stage when Jean Bodine slipped off a coat and polished to enter a bathtub. She was clad in tights, but he arrested her anyway. Fever-Laden "Skeeters" Bite Army Volunteers Washington.—Submitting voluntarily to bites of mosquitoes infected with dengue fever, 70 enlisted men of the forces in the Philippines have been mentioned in general orders for displaying "a high sense of duty and solidly conduct worthy of emulation by others" the War department has announced. As a result of the study of the infected men, army doctors have obtained valuable information for the treatment and prevention of the disease. The disease has now been reduced to slightly less than 20 in every 1,000, whereas in 1924 80 soldiers in every 1,000 in the Philippines suffered attacks of the fever. bers of the Order, were not given a chance to even figure jobs. One white firm received for printing in 1924-25 the sum of $3,912.08, which ought to have gone to help build up colored newspapers and job printing offices. In his appeal to the members of the Order, Pace pledges himself to correct these conditions, asserting that "Elk money ought to be spent with Elks." His platform is to give all the Order's printing as well as its regalia work to colored business houses, to deposit the Order's funds under proper safeguards in our strong and well managed banking institutions, to urge the investment of the large amounts of unnecessary cash balances in first mortgages to help lodges buy their own homes, and to reduce the unnecessary high taxes and useless expenditures of the Grand Lodge. The Un HOME COOKING ICE CREAM AND SOFT Come in and try one of our OPEN DAY RONDO AND ARUNDEL STS. MINNEAPOLIS WATCH REPAIRING Exclusively at a big SAVING Written Guarantee With All Repairs Mainspring 50c All Other Repairs Half Price Our 2nd floor location is the reason Room 211 Lumber Exchange PERRY'S Watch Hospital Phone—South 7954 W. SQUIR Funeral 502 E. 24th Street Free Delivery to All Parts of City Economy Market 902 6th Ave. No., Minneapolis GROCERIES Poultry and Meats Hyland 9746 McDUFF WOODARD, Prop. MILTON SHANKS General Contractor and Builder Will Finance the Construction of Your Home on Your Lot Phone—Locust 2449 3712 4th Ave. So. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Patronize Our Advertizers MAN JAILED BECAUSE HE CLAIMED TO BE WHITE Baltimore, Mr.—On a warrant sworn out by his white bride's mother, charging that he took oath falsely that he is white, Roy B. Misner, 21, has been lodged in the Hagerstown jail. Mrs. Misner, the bride, stated that she had heard rumors several times that Misner was colored but that she did not believe them. "I have known Roy three years and I am convinced that he is white," she said. "I love him. Of course, I'm going to stick to him." In answer to question, Misner informed the Magistrate that he was white. Previously, Patrolman Michael Simmons said that he had claimed his grandfather was part Indian. PROTEST MADE AGAINST "NEGRESS" IN DAILIES Louisville, Ky., July 23.—William Warley, editor of The Louisville News and president of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has entered a strong protest to The Herald Post, white daily paper, against the use of the term "negress" and for the capitalization of the word "Negro." The protest has grown out of the practice of the daily papers to feature the word "negress," and to spell "Negro" without a capital initial letter. COLORED NUNS INSULTED BY TROLLEY CONDUCTOR (The Associated Negro Press) New Orleans, La. — Complaints have been made to the officials of the New Orleans Public Service, Inc., as to the conduct of a conductor on the St. Charles avenue line toward two colored nuns who boarded his car. It is said the Sisters were asked if the cloth around their heads did not make them feel warm, if they were married or single and other questions equally insulting. The conductor's number as given by witnesses is 938. He is still at work and as yet the company has taken no action. Spend your money with the advertisers in the St. Paul Echo columns. P.C. McMAKIN C.H. JACKSON Proprietors Blue & Gray 1068 N. Dale S'root HUmboldt 3050 EAT SHOP city Cafe Prices Reasonable DRINKS OF ALL KINDS Delicious Chicken Sandwiches and NIGHT DALE 7325 ADVERTISERS FOR SALE $1,700, Easy Terms, New 4- Room Bungalow Two nice, desirable residences, near Nicollet, on E. 25th St. Rent reasonable. Both modern except heat. McDEW Atlantic 0621 Locust 5265 Established 1905 RE NEAL Director Minneapolis, Minn. Don't let that lot stand idle! If it isn't clear, I'll pay balance, finance and build for you — PAY LIKE RENT. F. Peoples Real Estate and Home Building Company 334 E. 38th St. Minneapolis Colfax 2044 Carpenter and Builder REMODELING RESHINGLING PORCHES, GARAGES C.W. Butler—Phone Dupont 4528 3725 18th Avenue So. Minneapolis, Minn. THE OPENING OF FERDYE'S PLACE CLUB ROOM—CEDAR 6245 CAFE—CEDAR 9088 When in the Twin Cities don't fail to visit The Progressive Association Headquarters for Railroad Men and Theatrical Folk THANN TRAVIS, President E. FOY ELLIOT, Manager 40 EAST 3RD STREET ST. PAUL, MINN. BEST OF THE CADETS WIDE WORLD PHOTO William Clyde Baker Jr., of Clinton, Tenn., who won the coveted title of honor man at the United States Military academy at West Point this year. This is the highest honor that can be attained by any member of the corps and by accumulating 2,804.16 points out of a possible 2,956 points, Cadet Baker won it. "Read The Want Ads" Announcing THE OPENING OF FERDY The BI Regular Noon Dinners Open Day 383 Rono Moved To Our 654 UNIVERSITY Herlz Heating & S Sheet Metal Work Phone Elkhurst 4750 Beulah's Tea Shop MRS. BEULAH WE SERVE Luncheon Private Dinner P EVERYTHING 523 Rondo Street Wine and Grape Juice The same wine grape juices that were formerly used in the manufacture of the best grade of domestic wines can now be procured in the sweet unfermented, unpasteurized form. Any one suffering from a general run-down system due to lack of iron and vitamins should order a keg today. Serve at every meal. Prices delivered to your door C. O. D. are as follows on Port type: 5-gallon keg . . . $10.00 10-gallon keg . . . 16.80 15-gallon keg . . . 23.50 30-gallon keg . . . 44.60 50-gallon keg . . . 64.75 Order a Keg Today Whitesell Mercantile Co. 220 Globe Bldg. St. Paul, Minn. Or Phone Geneva 5820-Minneapolis Note. These juices must be kept cold, other juices must will ferment, do not order unless you have facilities for keeping them cold. CLUB ROOM—CEDAR 6245 When in the Twin C The Progress Headquarters for Railroad THANN TRAVIS, President E. FOY ELLIOT, Manager TIGER TRAINS (Preston News Service) Los Angeles, July 23—Tiger Flowers of Georgia, holder of the world's middleweight boxing championship, started training at Venice, Cal., for his fight here July 24 with Eddie Huffman, Los Angeles light heavyweight. Flowers' title will not be at stake. The champion is scheduled to fight Harry Greb, from whom he wrested the middleweight crown, in New York, next month. ST. LOUIS GETS NEW NEGRO FIRE COMPANY St. Louis, Mo.—A new Negro fire company has been appointed by Director of Public Safety, Mr. Brod, and is expected to assume active duty Friday or Saturday of this week. The eight new men will be located at Jefferson avenue and Walnut street, and will be the regular relief for the men already there. Elkhurst 3418 Elk Tailoring Co. Suits Made to Order M. LOVE, Prop. 306 Rondo St. St. Paul, Minn. Herman Lewis 288 Rohdo St. Dale 5718 Representing Berry Chevrolet Co. Chevrolet Sales and Service Grand & Vio'oria Phone Elkhurst 1500 Phone DAle 8807 EVE'S PLACE EE Cafe and Night Chili do Street a Specialty New Location SITY AVENUE Sheet Metal Works of Every Description St. Paul, Minn. up and Gift Shop KARINGER, Prop. as and Dinners parties Our Specialty HOME COOKED Phone Elkhurst 3551 SHAKE THAT THING On Player Roll 50c AND COLUMBIA RECORDS LEHNERTS PIANO CO: 525 Wabasha Street Outstanding Used Car Values OAKLAND and PONTIAC SIXES Used cars can also be purchased more advantageously than ever before. Now is the time to make your selection of used cars at SAM J. BECK, Inc. Oakland & Pensile Distributor 153 West Sixth Street CEDAR 1667 Patronize Our Advertizers CAFE—CEDAR 9088 Cities don't fail to visit True Association Bad Men and Theatrical Folk 40 EAST 3RD STREET ST. PAUL, MINN. IN THE Spot Light By Johnny Walton The St. Paul kittenball team defeated the Phyllis Wheatley team at Minneaha Falls for the Twin Cities championship by the score of 11-8. Vassar for St. Paul pitched a wonderful game. Hilyard and Wilson played a strong game for St. Paul. Bryant P. Hughes and H. Gibbs played a good game for Minneapolis. GIANT FLASHLIGHTS ROCK WHOLE CITIES Aerial Photographers Use Powerful Light Bombs. Dayton, Ohio—When the convention photographer says "Hold it!" and pulls the chain of his flash pan, he discharges only a pinch or two of flashlight powder. But when Lleut. George W. Goddard, army aviator, takes a flashlight of a city he explodes bombs measuring as much as ten feet in length and weighing as much as fifty pounds. The detonation is so great that it is not a few frightened girls who jump and blink but a whole city that is shaking and hundreds of thousands of eyes that are temporarily blinded. Several night photographs from airplanes have been taken of Dayton and of Rochester, N. Y. So all of the nation's greatest cities are to be "snapped" as gigantic bombs are released over them with their warlike crash and rumble. High Explosives Used. The bombs are innocent looking affairs, resembling bolts of goods in a department store, but under the folds of cloth are separate compartments loaded with special high explosive powders concocted to give a quick brilliant light. Each of the compartments is connected to an electric fuse which explodes them all simultaneously. The bombs are carried under the fuselage of the airship and are dropped by the working of a lever as the plane reaches the designated point. There is first a discernible stream of sparks as the fuse burns and six seconds later comes the flare. So efficiently are the bombs constructed and so accurately timed, that, although of such large proportions, they are exploded completely in as brief a space of time as one-fifteenth of a second. So complete is the explosion that there is no after-slow. Too Quick for Human Eyes. Never has the minutest bit of the bomb's covering been found afterward. The flash is so quick that although persons on the ground see the illumination it causes, they do not actually see the flare itself. It is too quick for the human eye. In Dayton and Rochester photographers also were stationed at various points on the ground, in spires and on tall buildings to take panoramas of the surrounding country by the light of the bursting bomb. Some of these pictures have been exceptionally clear and have approximated daylight photographic work. The photographic plates are usually exposed when the warning trail of sparks is seen and are left exposed until after the flare. The shutters on the cameras carried by the planes in the test flights are usually four times as fast as those on the average commercial camera. Some of these cameras are between four and five feet long with 86-inch lenses, measuring nine inches in diameter. They take photographs measuring nine by twenty-three inches. The usual height at which these pictures are taken is 3,000 feet. Trees Live Long Thomas Parr, who lived to be one hundred and fifty-two years old, is credited with a record, but this longevity, as well as that of all other members of the animal kingdom, is easily surpassed by those of the vegetable kingdom. The life of the great forest trees varies from 100 to as much as 5,000 years, says London Tit-Bits. Cypress trees are said to live for 350 years, lv 450, chestnut 600, cedar 800, oak 1,000 to 1,500 years, yew 2,500 and t'baobab tree 5,000 years. Classified Advertising Rates: All Classified Ads Payable in Advance. Three cents per word; minimum charge thirty cents. NICELY furnished front room in modern home, for man and wife. Dale 0766. Residence Phone Ekhurst 1615 Office Phone Garfield 1200 McGAVOCK FUNERAL SERVICE AARON J. McGAVOCK, Sole Proprietor PERSONAL ATTENTION GIVEN EVERY DETAIL Mortuary and Chapel, 550 Rice Street CALLS ANSWERED ANY TIME, DAY OR NIGHT Learn Beauty Culture Ruled Divorce Cause San Francisco."—"Back seat" automobile driving is a just cause for divorce. The S supreme court of California has ruled so, in a case here. Claude H. Harman sued for a divorce on the ground that his wife, Jessie, belittled his ability as a driver by constantly telling him from the back seat just how he should negotiate the danger- ous curves ahead. A lower court refused to grant a divorce, and Harman appealed to the Supreme court. The decree was granted. Weds Girl Who Found $2,500 Purse He Lost New York.—Andrew Ragone married an honest and modest girl. Her name before the ceremony at the Roman Catholic church was Miss Rose DlConco. Three years ago Ragone set out from his restaurant in Spring street for the Chatham and Phenix bank on Broadway, carrying a wallet containing $2,500 to deposit. When he reached the bank the wallet was gone. With little hope that so much ready cash would be returned he advertised in newspapers, offering a reward for its return. The next day a girl called at his restaurant. It was Miss DlConco. She had found the wallet. Ragone produced the promised reward of $800 and offered it to her. She refused to take it. She agreed, however, to go to dinner with him. Friendship in the course of time ripened into love. "And the rest," Ragone stated, "is history." Robs Fiancee's Home Day Before Wedding San Francisco--Private William Jensen, medical corps, U. S. A., and stationed at the Presidio here, was scheduled to appear before a minister to wed Miss Helen Hoeing. But all wedding plans temporarily were suspended when Jensen appeared in the police court to plead guilty to a charge of having burglarized the home of his prospective mother and father-in-law the night before. Jensen confessed that after taking his flancee and her parents to a theater he had escorted his guests home and later had returned and stolen some jewelry and an overcoat belonging to a brother of his flancee. He called at his flancee's home with part of the stolen articles. He told his flancee and her family that he had observed a man trying to burglarize the premises and had overpowered the intruder and recovered part of the boot after a terrific struggle. Noiseless Plane Secret Is Guarded by French Paris.-French military aviation authorities are guarding with the closest secrecy the new invention of a silent airplane propeller enabling noiseless night bombing raids. If this proves successful, anti-aircraft artillery will be unable to find a target at the tremendous heights raiding machines fly, which is far above the reach of the most powerful searchlights. Heretofore, anti-aircraft fire was directed by microphones detecting the sound of the propellers and actuating the range finders and directors. The new air screw is metal made from a solid forging. Its silence is believed to be due to the absence of tip flukes and the keen leading edges of the propeller blades whose knife-like propelless enables them to cut the air with the least possible disturbance. With the propeller's whir silenced, the manufacturers can muffle the motors. Big Barbecue, Aug. 4, given by the Royal Circle of Friends. On Rondo, near Kent St. Barbecue, Friday, August 6, Grotto and W. Central, by the Ladies' Aid Society of Pilgrim Baptist church. HEAR A. PHILLIP RANDOLPH SUNDAY, JULY 25, at UNITARIAN CHURCH, LA SALLE at 8th St., MINNEAPOLIS, at 3:30 P. M. Old Turkish Capital Approaching Constantiflora one may get the impression that it either is the world's most beautiful city or that it is the most squalid city on earth, depending upon whether it is approached from the sea or the land. From the land the city's 680 mosques and minarets, its 500 palaces and gardens, rising in the form of an amphitheater above the Golden Horn, give it the appearance of the type of oriental city described in the Arabian Nights, says E. Alexander Powell in the American Magazine. Alexander von Humboldt, noted traveler and student of nature, declared Constantinople was one of the three most beautiful cities in the world, Naples and Salzburg being the other two. Lord Byron also extolled Constantinople's position as being incomparable to any he had ever seen. The historical interest that abounds in Constantinople even surpasses, for many, that of its beauty. The city's history extends back nearly 8,000 years. Since the corn-laden galleys from the Black Sea glided through the Hellespont in the days of Darius and Alexander, and the Phoenicians moved in from the Marmora sea, down to the present time, when gigantic battleships swing at their moorings off Seraglio point, Constantinople has been an object of desire for ambitious military leaders and land-seeking nations. Unwise to Disregard Danger in Lightning There are cases of persons having garments torn by lightning while they themselves have suffered no serious harm. The body is largely composed of water, and if the clothing is dry the bolt will pass through the body. If the clothing is saturated the bolt may follow the clothing instead of the body. It is advised by some that anyone caught in a thunderstorm in the wilds should immerse himself in order to saturate his garments, or, if this be impossible, to expose himself fully to the rain in order to be drenched at once. There are few manifestations of nature's power more awe inspiring and at the same time more fascinating than a violent thunderstorm. Comparatively few adults acknowledge a feeling of terror in the presence of this majestic display. There is, however, a distinct difference between fear and caution. The danger from lightning is never great, but it exists and it should be reduced as nearly as possible to the vanishing point. CALL MRS. BERTHA MORGAN, 5. P. M., for Appointment and 2:30 P. M. on Saturdays. 505 Erik H. Hirsch Erik H. Hirsch In sad memory of my dear and only brother, Sidney Howard Allen, who passed away one year ago. He is sadly missed by his only sister. Kramer Diethert Co. College Girl Writes With Pencil in Teeth New York.—Although unable to use her hands, Henrietta Eidelsaheim, has passed through primary and high school and now is a student at Hunter college, doing all her written exercises with a pencil held in her teeth. Her dream is to be a designer or a journalist, in which careers she would have to put her pencil to a more delicate use than she did in school. Henrietta is inclined to think she has done nothing unusual in triumph over such a handicap. "People talk as though I have done is remarkable," she said, "but it never occurred to me. I could not use my hands to write and I had to write to go to school and having nothing else I used my teeth." HUGE FUND STARTED FOR COLORED SOCIAL WORK (Continued from page 1) girls generally." Further, the Association proposes to prepare children between eight and twenty-one years for the battle of life through vocational training; to have representatives visit prisons, to encourage patriotism; and to send representatives into homes with the end of improving home conditions. In addition to the home it hopes to acquire, the Association also plans to establish an athletic field and farm plot of more than 100 acres outside of New York. The home will include a swimming pool, a library equipped with Negro literature and songs, and an auditorium and other features. A regular course of study will be instituted. Cadet and scouting movements will be encouraged and a mixed band of twenty-five boys and twenty-five girls will be organized. A series of Sunday lectures are planned, to be given by prominent speakers and to be aimed particularly at Negro youth. Phone Dale 8339 Try the Drug Store First ELMER MORRIS DRUGGIST Prescriptions Rondo and Mackubin White Front Store CASH and CARRY Prices With FREE DELIVERY Quality Meats and Groceries Fresh Dressed Poultry at All Times Elk 1388 559 St. Anthony Av. see at Kramer D Phone DAle 8016 Storage, Repairing an ```markdown ``` Special Vacant SUIT CASE LONG-FELLOW BREAD The WRAPPING Keeps it Clean and Fresh Zinsmaster Master of Good Baking MRS. ETTA RICHARDSON. Opportunity—The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. George Eliot. LONG-F The WRAPPING Keeps it Clean and Fresh Child's Cost to Parents One of the life insurance companies estimates that a child costs $6,150. This includes birth and expense until he is eighteen years old. This total is reached by adding to the initial "cost of being born," estimated at $250, the sums of $2,500 for food, $1,620 for rent, reckoning the share of the child as one-sixth of the total so expended; $800 for fuel and light, $851 for furniture and household maintenance, $144 for first cost of installation of the house, and for clothing $912 for a boy and $1,002 for a girl. Mrs. T. H. LYLES Oldest Established Mortician Office: Cedar 0508 Res: Dale 2947 150 W. Fourth St. St. Paul, Minn. Hellie's Cash Grocery & MEAT MARKET 393 No. Dale St. Free Delivery We Carry a Full Line of Groceries Fresh Dressed Poultry at All Times See our line of fresh green vegetables Whippet EUROPEAN TYPE CAR Three New Types Diethert Co. 315 University Avenue g and Reconditioned Cars The Daisy DeLuxe ZIPPER HAT BOX Black, patent finish, light of weight, yet so strongly built that it will car- ry everything you need for most any trip—Prices range from— $5 to $6.50 vacation Values in SES at $5 In black enameled drill and cobra grain Dupont Fabricoid. Cloth lined, shirt pocket in the lid. 24 and 26-inch sizes. Special vacation price is $5. REDUCED TO $1.25 KILLS HOME-BREAKER New York, July 23.—David King, postoffice clerk, shot and killed Chester Bagley last week when he alleges that he found Bagley in bed with his wife, Mrs. Frances King. Both men are well known and respected in church and fraternal circles. King is being held without ball on a charge of homicide. Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.—H. W. Beecher. E L L O W B R E A T BURR YELLOW BREAD Zinsmaster Master of Good Baking Asked for It Said the teacher: "Now, boys, quadruped and biped, you know, are two kinds of animals. Quadruped, animal with four legs, such as cow, elephant and horse. Biped, animal with two legs, such as—well, ah— Yes, there is a biped—pointing to a picture of a goose on the wall—and I am a biped, and you are all bipeds. Now, what am I?" A breathless pause, then one of the bipeds answered, "A goose, sir!" After the theater try our delicious Chicken Sandwiches Picnic Box Lunches TOASTED SANDWICHES ALEXANDERS SWEET SHOPPE Dale and Rondo Streets Phone Dale 7175 Become a Lawyer Study at home in spare time. Course endorsed by Chief Justice W. H. Taft, Degree (LL. B.) conferred. Educational Guidance Bureau 414 Metropolitan Bank Bldg. (Fifth & Cedar St.) REDUCED Now on St. Pa CARD OF THANKS We wish to acknowledge with sincere thanks the kindness shown us during the illness of our son, Herman Few, by our many friends and relatives. Also Anderson Circle, for the sympathizing letter. We are glad to say he is now up and getting along fine. MR. AND MRS. S. L. FEW. Give according to your means, or God will make your means according to your giving.—John Hall. D The St. Paul Echo maintains a branch office at The Economy Market, 902 6th Ave. No., Minneapolis. For the convenience of readers living on the North Side, any business for the Echo can be transacted with Mrs. Cabbell at the Economy Market, Hyland 9746. ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS —It Pays! The Echo is read by more than 7000 readers. Phone St. Paul Cedar 1879 Minneapolis Hyland 0436 TO $1.25 ale by the l Echo