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CHARLES SUMNER SMITH, JOURNALIST, DIES NORFOLK JUDGE REPEATS DECISION DECLARING SEGREGATION INVALID A CLEAR CASE of love at first sight is the usual reaction of the new reader to The Echo. Do you boost your local paper? VOL. 1, NO. 39 CHARL NORFOLK JUDGE RE DECLARING SE Court Attitude Will Remove Teeth From Restriction Ordinance Passed by City. Second DecisionOfKind Attempts at Segregation Believed to Be Stopped by Consistency of Court. (N. A. A. C. P. Press Service) Declaring the residential segregation ordinance passed recently by the City of Norfolk invalid and without effect, Judge Spindle of the police court on July 15 ruled again against efforts to herd the Negroes of Norfolk in restricted areas. This decision was rendered in the case of Samuel Costen, a colored man, who recently sought to move his family into a house located at Mapleton and Majestic avenues, a so-called white district. A warrant was issued against Costen on the complaint of white neighbors charging violation of the segregation ordinance. Former Decision Flouted. David H. Edwards, attorney and president of the Norfolk Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, appeared for Mr. Costen. Mr. Edwards was assisted by B. J. Barnes. For the plaintiffs appeared John B. Jenkins and J. Louis Broudy, who contended that the Norfolk law was not affected by the United States Supreme Court decision of 1917 in the Louisville case, as the law under consideration was identical with the one in New Orleans which the Supreme Court of Louisiana has upheld, which case is now pending in the U. S. Supreme Court through the work of the New Orleans branch of the N. A. A. C. P. Law Called Invalid. Mr. Edwards made a brilliant argument, contending that the law did not differ in its essentials from the Louisville ordinance; that it did abridge the constitutional rights of citizens; and that the provision which allows the occupancy of a home in a white neighborhood by a colored family on consent of the majority of white residents of that section and vice versa, was an improper exercise. (Continued on page 4.) (Continued on page 4) BOOKMAN USES DUMAS FEATURE June Issue of London Magazine Devotes Cover, Space to Article on Negro Author. (N. A. A. C. P. Press Service) The London Bookman for June publishes as the feature article of that issue a study of Alexandre Dumas by Alfred Tresidder Sheppard. Mr. Sheppard in the first paragraph of the three-page article quotes Robert Louis Stevenson, who called the novelist "the ventripotent mulatto, the great eater, worker, earner, waster, the man of much and witty laughter, the man of the great heart. . . ." Mr. Sheppard then gives a critical estimate of the great Negro writer, closing with an interesting story which reveals one of Dumas's traits. Thus Mr. Sheppard tells it: "‘Would you rather be called Davy de la Palleterie like your grandfather the Marquais,’ his mother asked him once, ‘or simply Alexandre Dumas like your father? If the first, you could be a page; if the second, no career opens before you.’" "‘I will be called Alexandre Dumas and nothing else,’ he replied proudly." And Mr. Sheppard comments, "It is that name, that image, that superscription, which gives its value to the bounty flung so lavishly. We owe the magnificent old prodigal so very much." Not only does the Bookman publish Alexandre Dumas’ photograph with the article but the same picture appears on the cover. --- The St.Paul Echo Dancers Plan Annual Exhibit In September Although its individual age vary from two to 18 years, the Freda C. Jackson class in dancing celebrated its collective first anniversary birthday this month. Born a year ago, the class has had a phenomenal success under the instruction of Mrs. Jackson, one of the talented young matrons of the city, and has had favorable mention in some of the national Negro periodicals. The second annual dancing exhibition of the class will be given sometime in September. The youngsters are already in earnest rehearsal for the event, the first one of which was termed one of the most brilliant and colorful things of its kind which has ever been given in the city. The acrobatic classes are guaranteeing a few surprises which will keep the audience wondering. Ballet, tap, character, toe and jazz dancing will also be displayed at the second annual exhibition. The date for the affair will be announced later. KIP TO APPEAL TWO DECISIONS Annulment Suit, Allowance of $12,000 Counsel Fees Will Base New Petition. (Preston News Service) White Plains, N. Y., July 29.—Not only will Leonard Kip Rhinelander appeal to the Appellate Division from the decision dismissing his complaint in a suit for annulment of marriage, but he will also appeal from allowance of $12,000 additional counsel fees. Formal notice of both appeals was on file Friday in the office of the county clerk. The two decisions in favor of Alice Jones Rhinelander of New Rochelle were signed two months ago by Supreme Court Justice Joseph Morschauser, although the jury which found that Rhinelander had not been deceived as to his wife's color, reported last December. Prior to the allowance of $12,000 counsel fees an allowance of $3,000 had been made, which was not opposed by Rhinelander. Southampton, Eng., July 30. Alice Jones Rhinelander arrived with her mother to visit the latter's relatives in England and although surrounded by newspaper men, she escaped with the mere statement that she didn't care whether Leonard is in Paris. It is understood that orders were left for a chauffeur to call at the hotel after all London trains had departed, and it was thought Mrs. Rhinelander intended to go to St. Malo, where her mother's family lives. REMODELS BUILDING Mr. Robert Minor, well known real estate owner of the city, has remodeled his apartment building at Dale and Rondo Sts. One of the north-facing apartments has been made into a new, modern store front, equipped for immediate occupancy of a first-class barber shop. Mr. Minor has been active for a number of years in helping to solve the housing conditions and business enterprises of the race. This adds another very good feature to his many accomplishments. It would be well if we could have a few more Bob Minors. PENSIONED Washington, D. C., July 30.—On the United States pension rolls are five mothers of Civil War veterans drawing pensions, and they range in age from 96 to 102 years. One of them is Mrs. Samantha Farrer of Athens, Ga., who does not know how many years over 98 she is. ST. PAUL-MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1926 Dr. Johnson to Assume Howard Duties Sept. 1 Washington, D. C.—Howard University's new president, the Rt. Rev. Mordecai W. Johnson, Pastor of the First Baptist church at Charleston, W. Va. will officially succeed Dr. J. Stanley Durkee, resigning head in September. This announcement was made following the receipt of a telegram of acceptance from Dr. Johnson, who is making a tour of England and Europe. Dr. Johnson will return to the United States about the middle of August after visiting London, Berlin and Geneva. He is with a party of Americans interested in the interracial question, which is headed by Sherwood Eddy, International Y. M. C. A. worker. ORGANIZER GIVES PLANS OF B.S.C.P. Statistics on Condition of Pullman Porters to Be Presented to Conciliation Board. Pointing out that the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters had become so strong that the half-veiled opposition of the Pullman company had been withdrawn, A. Phillip Randolph, general organizer of the B. S. C. P. concluded a week's series of meetings at a final mass meeting at the Unitarian church, Minneapolis, last Sunday afternoon. The immediate program of the organization is the securing of a living wage for porters and maids, Mr. Randolph said. In outlining the plans and activities of the organization, Mr. Randolph stated that the only opposition which had been met with from the workers themselves came from a group of conservatives who refused to see the value of organization. The figures compiled by statistical experts on the condition of the Pullman porter in regard to hours and wages will be submitted to the United States Conciliation Board very soon, Mr. Randolph said. Frank Boyd of the St. Paul local outlined the background of the movement. S. A. Stockwell, candidate for the state legislature, gave a short speech; and Paul L. Caldwell, secretary of the local union, acted as master of ceremonies. Two musical numbers concluded the program. FROGS TO GIVE HARLEM LITTLE THEATER IN FALL America's first little community theater owned and managed by Negroes will be opened this fall in the heart of Harlem's large colored population. The building at 46 West 135th street, a stone's throw from Lenox avenue, has been bought by The Frogs, Inc., and will be converted into a 299-seat playhouse, equipped with stage, scenery, dressing rooms and modern lighting effects. The Frogs were organized some years ago by Negroes prominently identified with the theatrical profession. Among the incorporators were Bert A. Williams, Bob Cole, George W. Walker and James Reese Europe. One of the aims is to encourage dramatic art among Negroes by providing an outlet for plays written by talented members of the race. The project will be primarily in the interest of dramatic art and not in any sense a commercial venture. The co-operation of the entire community will be sought. ETHEL WATERS STOPPED Washington, D. C.—Ethel Waters and her revue were obliged to close at the Howard Theater on Thursday by an action of the American Federation of Musicians at the instance of the local organization, of which Sylvester Thomas is president. The house has been listed with the national organization for some time as "unfair." Miss Waters was denied the right to permit her musicians to work and was informed that her show would be liable to a listing as unfair, if she continued work in the house. COLORED STAFFS TO HEAD NEGRO SCHOOLS URGED COLORED STAFFS TO HEAD NEGRO SCHOOLS URGED Best Results Will Be Secured Through Use of Educated Negro, Penn Says. White Philanthropy Should Be Supplemented by Negro Support, Contention. (Preston News Service) Spirit Lake, Iowa, July 30.—Before the Lake Okiboja Bible Conference, Dr. I. Garland Penn, Cincinnati, Ohio, one of the Secretaries for Negro Schools and Colleges of the Board of Education, Methodist Episcopal church, declared that to secure the best and largest results in the education of the Negro, philanthropy should now work through the educated Negro as Presidents, teachers and workers. The recent movement at Howard University in electing a Negro to the Presidency is in the right direction. No Work for Negro. "We had just as well be truthful about it," said Dr. Penn. It is an economic question. Thousands of Negroes are being educated and are now doing graduate work in the summer schools for their degrees. They have nowhere to work except among their own people." He said this should not be considered as eliminating white workers from Negro schools but rather a compliment to those God-fearing, self-sacrificing men and women, in that, they have done their work so well in the last fifty years as to have prepared Negro men and women for the task. The time has also come, he said, when Negro leaders and people must give of their means for the education of the race and thus supple (Continued on page 2) Latest Briefs In Home Fights A new case where attempts were made to prevent a colored family from occupying its home developed in Jamaica, L. I., during the past week. Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Jefferson purchased a home recently at 110-34 173rd street, Jamaica, L. I., moving into their new residence on June 2. After occupying the home for six weeks they received a letter signed "Ku Klux Klan" ordering them to move. The case was reported to the N. A. A. C. P. by Mr. Eugene Kinclek Jones of the National Urban League. The Advancement Association immediately took up the matter with Police Commissioner McLaughlin, Mayor Walker, and with the United States postal authorities, inasmuch as the threat against Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson passed through the mails. Most of Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson's neighbors welcomed them into the neighborhood and are exceedingly friendly. The agitation against them, according to indications, is being stirred up by a retired actress who lives some distance from the Jefferson home. Another factor in the case is believed to be due to the fact that the Jefferson home is the most attractive residence in the neighborhood. Mrs. Jefferson was for seven years connected with the Y. W. C. A. at Washington, while Mr. Jefferson is employed by the Pullman company. LaSalle, N. Y.-Within a few hours after Richard Walker, prominent colored business man and his family, took up their residence at 309 Elizabeth street, a white neighborhood, here Saturday a huge cross was burned in their yard. Firemen were called to extinguish the blazing cross. The police conducted an investigation with little results. The burning of the cross was considered the work of Klansmen. The coming of the colored family in the neighborhood had been resented by the whites. Former Local Student Attends Mayo Clinic, July 23-Aug.7 'My God, No!' Says White Mother To Girl Who Would Marry Negro A. B. Xuma, B. S. Minnesota, '20; M. B., '25, M. D., '26, Northwestern, to Spend Year of Study in London, Budapest. Dr. A. B. Xuma, native of Cape Colony, Africa, who received his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Minnesota in 1920, spent two days in St. Paul July 21-22, on his way to Rochester, Minn., where he will do general observation work in the Mayo clinic until August 7. After finishing from the University of Minnesota, Dr. Xuma spent two years in the medical school at Marquette University, after which he attended the medical school at Northwestern University for two years. He received the degree of Bachelor of Medicine from Northwestern in 1925. On completing his medical course, Dr. Xuma spent one year as interne at the City Hospital No. 2 in St. Louis, Mo., as a result of which work he was granted the degree of Doctor of Medicine from Northwestern. Dr. Xuma received his elementary school training in Cape Colony, South Africa. He came to the United States in the fall of 1914 and attended Tuskegee Institute for two years. In the fall of 1916 he came to St. Paul, where he was active in church and Sunday school work. On August 7, Dr. Xuma will return to the Twin Cities and will spend three days in the private clinic of Dr. Justus Matthews in Minneapolis. Leaving here he will go back to Chicago, Detroit, New York and Washington. At the end of the summer he plans to leave for Europe; where he will spend a year in advanced study in London, Budapest and Vienna. PORTO RICAN WORKERS (President News Service) San Juan, P. R., July 30—Plans for the emigration of a large number of Porto Rican laborers to Arizona for work in the cotton fields are under discussion between representatives of a cotton growers' association and the local government. Prospects point to an early decision, according to Carlos Chardon, Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor. Similar projects from several Southern states recently have been considered. Daughter Held to Be "Mentally Unsound" After Refusing to Reject Cuban Lover in Face of Family Protests. (By Associated Negro Press) Samden, N. N. J.-After she had procured a license through a lawyer to marry a colored Cuban, Gladys Jones, a white girl of 21 years, was arrested on complaint of her grandfather and held by Judge Cleary for "examination" to test her mentality. The girl lives with her grandfather at 519 Spruce street. Frank Michiner, a colored Cuban, is a deep sea diver. In court Friday, Michiner made a vain effort to obtain the release of Miss Jones. He said he loved her and would marry her at any cost. "Lots of Cubans have white wives and there is nothing unusual in this case," he declared. Mrs. Jones, the girl's mother, who lives in Woodbury, near here, when told of the action of the daughter, in wanting to marry a Negro, "had a fit." "The very idea! My girl, a member of the controlling race of this world, wants to mix her blood with that of a Negro. No, my God, No! But when she learned that her daughter had ignored her grandfather, Mrs. Jones stated that Gladys was subject to "spells," while her grandfather declared she had an ungovernable temper and that at times she would threaten to kill all in the family. Miss Jones insisted that she was of age and could do as she pleased. "His first wife was the same color as I am," said Miss Jones. "I knew MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY CHO NALIST udent Attends nic, July 23-Aug. 7 New Fraternal Order Is Incorporated in State The Patriotic Benevolent Order of Bees is a fraternal organization which has just been incorporated in Minnesota. The organization has its head office in Detroit, Mich. It is organized strictly on the lodge plan, has provisions for loans to its members with sick and death benefits, has a large group in the Southern states, with one of the largest organizations of any lodge in the city of Detroit. The incorporating men are E. O. Pearce of St. Paul, Jorl E. Tarver, Alozono B. Pettiford and Dr. D. E. Northercross of Detroit, Mich. Dr. J. W. Crump has been chosen as a medical examiner in this state. O. J. Smith is the attorney for the organization. DUBOIS TO WRITE FOR BRITANNICA Editor of Crisis Sails for Europe; Will Lecture in Germany, Switzerland. (N. A. A. C. P. Press Service) Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, Editor of The Crisis and Director of Publications and Research of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, saluted Saturday, July 17, on the S. P. Penland, for Europe. Dr. DuBois is to spend a number of weeks lecturing in Germany and Switzerland, and has received special commission to write a number of articles. Dr. DuBois, according to the New York World of July 19, has been signally honored in being asked to contribute to the Encyclopedia Britannica a chapter on Negro literature in the United States. Harry Hansen, Literary Editor of the World, in commenting on this new arrangement, points out that hitherto one individual has written on all American literature. Yays White Mother Would Marry Negro Only Whisper Needed to Guide Smart Kansas Hens Oskalaosa, Kan. — You can believe this tale or not—but stranger things have happened. Terry Nichols here has perfected a new breed of fowl which he is pleased to call the "Bumming Cockrel." Mr. Nichols claims, without cracking a smile, that this chicken does not need to be created and hauled, but that when it is taken to the depot and a destination whispered in its ear, it will hop on the rods and stay right there until the town is reached—Yes, sir! And Mr. Nichols relates further, also with straight face, that he has already sent three fryers to his mother, Mrs. Edith Nichols, in Topeka, via the rods. And if you doubt that he is taking himself seriously, read the sign: "Bumming Cockrel Eggs for Sale, $5.00 a Setting." his wife and since her death we have been friends. I love him and intend to marry him." The next day Miss Jones was committed to the State Home for Feeble-minded at Vineland by Judge Cleary. The court took this action after Drs. Kain and Conaghy had examined the girl and declared her "unsound mentally." The girl declared she will escape and marry Michiner if it the last thing she does on this earth. Michiner was deeply moved at the action of the court and the girl's mother. --- A CAMPAIGN to have sent in subscriptions that are due The Echo is now being carried on. Have you responded? PRICE FIVE CENTS END COMES ON WEDNESDAY AT VETS HOSPITAL Late Editor of Minnesota Messenger, Twin City Star; Active Fraternally. In Letter to Friend Indicates Anticipation of Death; Wife Out of City. By Mrs. Aimee Hall Charles Sumner Smith, veteran newspaperman, former editor of the Twin City Star and the Minneapolis Messenger, died Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 p. m. at U. S. Veterans' Hospital No. 65, Dayton and Virginia avenues, St. Paul. Mr. Smith had been unwell for several months and had been in the hospital since the first of June. The cause of death was a complication of diseases. Wife Absent. At the time of his death, Mr. Smith's wife was visiting her mother, who is also ill, in Roxbury, Mass. She is to arrive in Minneapolis this morning in time to complete funeral arrangements. Mr. Smith had just passed his fifty-second birthday on July 15. Although he was optimistic about his recovery in the presence of all visitors, a letter which Mr. Smith wrote to his former associate, Hamlet B. Rowe, on July 11, would indicate that he anticipated his death. Well Known Journalist. In the letter to Mr. Rowe, he said: "I have fought gamely but I will have to submit to the inevitable. I am only immediately concerned with the welfare of my wife and brother Jim." On coming to Minneapolis more (Continued on page 3) VICTIMS OF MINE BLAST REMOVED VICTIMS OF MINE BLAST REMOVED Six Negroes Among Dead as Result of Gas Explosion in Southern Disaster. (Preston News Service) Blockton, Ala., July 30—Bodies of nine victims of a local gas explosion in the Dixie mine of the Moffat Coal Co. Thursday, in the northern part of Bibb County, were removed early Thursday afternoon. The victims of the blast were: Isaiah Ward, 45, foreman; J. E. Jones, 26, assistant foreman; H. F. Field, 32, all white, and six Negroes, John Smith, Cleve Calhoun, Will Johnson, Will Sanders, James Carter and James Hitt. Reports reaching here early last Thursday night said the blast was confined to one pocket of the mine and only those men in the immediate vicinity were endangered. The victims were members of an over-time shift. Nearly 350 employees of the mine were ready to enter the pit shortly before the blast occurred. These aided in the work of removing bodies and clearing the debris. CHILDREN KILL Darlington, S. C.—When the mother of 18 months' old Nathan Ellison had left home to go to her work, seven children, the oldest being seven and one-half years, were left at home playing. When she returned, not more than an hour later, Nathan was dead, laid out in his best clothes in the parlor of the house, and the children were playing in the yard. The child had been struck in the chest with an axe by a four-year-old girl, and, when dead, the children had affected funeral services over him. No arrests were made by the coroner, none of the children seeming to realize the gravity of their misdeed. 4 "Entered as second class matter Nov. 7, 1925, at the post office at St. Paul, Minn., under the act of March 3, 1879" THE WAVING OF THE RED FLAG A local white critic in speaking recently about colored newspapers, stated that they served a function, he supposed, but that they were all too prone to "wave the red flag." He did not see why it was necessary to dwell constantly upon the latest lynching, the most recent bombing of colored homes in white residential districts, and the flaunting of discriminatory measures in states whose composite citizenry was supposed to be protected from embarrassment by Civil Rights acts. The gentleman must never have examined the organs of other races or groups, or else he was simply talking without thinking if he was serious in saying that the Negro press should abstain from constant reference to the things which most vitally concern the welfare of its readers. Journalals of the working man devote little if any space to the latest discoveries of some anthropological expedition in the heart of Africa. They talk of things which affect the status of the working man. A Y. M. C. A. organ wastes none of its linotype bill paying for accounts of the periodicity of the business cycle, or the debate between the chemists and the physicists as to what the potential power of the electron is. Rather, such a paper devotes space to matters of religious import, information which its readers are seeking. Even the large daily papers, by which the critic was judging Negro journals, openly admit that they give the reader what the reader wants to hear. More than catering to their readers, however, they cater to the large business interests, as Upton Sinclair has ably pointed out. In any case, they give what is wanted, and what their reading or advertising public demands. Colored periodicals have an audience which is reached to a certain extent by any of the journals which supply the reading wants of white people. In addition to those, they have a whole world of interests which the white periodicals never even approach. To throw completely aside the service of colored papers in presenting to colored readers the intimate facts about the highly colored stories about Negroes which do find their way into white papers, there is yet the whole world of Negro drama, art, sports and social life to be presented—topics which are handled only superficially, and often not at all, by white papers. "The waving of the red flag" is merely the presentation to Negro readers of facts which vitally concern them as responsible citizens, and as ordinary folks. It is natural that people should be interested in themselves, and in this case, being interested in themselves predicates an interest in every man whose life is taken by a lawless mob, in every home-owner who has his home bombed, and in every city which passes a residential segregation ordinance. These are the things with which we must live. These are the conditions which are going to make us happy or resentful, satisfied or discontented. These concern living itself. To expect us to forget them in abstract contemplation of the problem of the universe at large is to display a degree of weak-mindedness and to hope for the reversal of human nature. SCHOLARSHIPS The University of Minnesota has just announced that beginning with the fall quarter of this year it will award scholarships from a stable fund to deserving entering freshmen. Awards will be made on the basis of scholastic record and of extra-curricular accomplishment in high school. With this movement of our state university to keep abreast of educational development, and to facilitate the higher education of the youth of the state, there seems every reason to believe that the children of the colored people of Minnesota will benefit equally with the white in the granting of the awards. This is unfortunately not true and the fault does not lie with the state or with the people who will be selected to administer the scholarships. The blame rests instead flatly upon the colored population, and the weighty end of it is upon that prevalent type of Negro parent which can afford in every way to send its children both through high school and the university, but which will not do so because it lacks mental vision. One of the things which should redound eternally to the shame of colored Minnesotans is that they have in their front yards, to phrase it figuratively, one of the best public school systems which the country can boast, and that they take the minimum advantage of those facilities which are so readily at hand. In the South where the schools are bad, where many of the teachers are of a poor grade, and where arbitrary discrimination in state grants to colored and white schools is practiced, colored youngsters scramble and slave and cry for education. In Minnesota where the schools are alike for every one, where the teachers are efficient, and where there is every incentive to carry on in school, colored children "get tired" of school when they are half way through high school, and colored parents lack the foresight to insist that their short-sighted offspring continue their education. Because of that apathetic attitude the percentage of local colored entrants at the state school each year is disgracefully low, and because of that low percentage, by using the law of averages, it is evident that the chances of colored scholars being awarded scholarships is by that much decreased. To protest because we are denied civil rights before the law is both right and necessary. That we will never learn to get civil rights, however, before we first learn to seize the valuable and readily-available fruits of taxation is so obvious as to need no elaboration. "NO! MY GOD, NO!" As long as two or more races live side by side, there will be, laws or no laws, social sanction or no social sanction, legally or illicitly, a certain amount of race intermixture. The white South, which is blood guilty in that respect, should long since have learned the lesson as well as has the black South which has had to suffer the consequences of sexual brutality. Apparently, though, the lesson is being just driven home to one agonized mother whose white daughter insists that willy-nilly she will marry the dark-skinned Cuban of her choice. Daughter insisted and parents cajoled; daughter insisted, and parents entreated; daughter insisted and parents protested; daughter insisted . . . and parents had daughter put in an insane ward! In spite of all the fuss, daughter still swears that she loves her Cuban deep-sea diver and will marry him if it's the last thing she does. The parents are being crucified on the two horns of a dilemma. If daughter is to be kept from ruining herself and disgraceing her family forever, she must be kept locked up as insane If she is released, thus wiping the family escutcheon clear of any suggestion of previous tainting by syphilis or worse, she will do herself irreparable injury by marrying a Negro. Mother, at least, seems to have made up her mind about what course to choose, for when asked if daughter might marry she boiled, "No! My God, no!" the Last Judgment should have been painted, how lacking it was in horses and chariots, in angels blowing their trumpets, how Michael should have been there and Gabriel with his wings stretched toward the East and toward the West, the one colored preacher says: "Mr. Angelo aint never had the tenth part of the necessary inspiration. Without the aid of the speerit he did very well, but when I stood there and contemplated the missing parts of his picture I had to say in my heart: 'Well, here's an amateur.'" And the other preacher explained volcanic eruption to the Negroes of Coosa County with an imagination that a scientist might envy. "In de beginnin' de Lord made de earth round. Now when a thing is roun' it' made to go roun' an roun'. And so de good Lord made two poles on each side uv dis roun' BOOK REVIEWS So runs the advertisement, and in sober judgment this is probably the best collection of short stories that America has ever had. And for this good reason that the funny stories about the Negro, which dominate this volume, are fresh, spontaneous and amazingly funny. Mr. Pickens has also some good Jewish and Irish stories, but, at least to his white readers, they will have "an ancient and fish-like smell." But while we will hear Booker Washington's voice as we read some of these colored bits they will smell fresh, salty. They are unmistakably alive. Especially does the Negro preacher enliven the pages. The illiterate black man who feels a call to preach, and with the Bible as his whole library, shouts the gospel to his flock, will in a generation or two have passed away. From the standpoint of ethics this will be a good thing, but the coming minister who will find much of his gospel in the morning newspaper, will lack in noble imagery. The two longest and most interesting tales that the book contains concern Negro preachers, the one standing in the Sistine chapel in front of Michael Angelo's Last Judgment, the other faced by the catastrophe of the eruption of Mt. Pelee. After telling how Try Our Double-Thick Siren Bittersweet Malted Milks..... 20c Regular Malted Milks 1 5c Special Double Chocolate Sodas 1 5c ALL BRICK ICE CREAM 44c McCALL PHARMACY Houses of all kinds Small Payments Down Equities Arranged Real Estate Notary Public FOR RENT Rondo St. 5-Room Flat reasonable rent. What you don't see, ask for it, we have it. Duckett 687 St. Anthony Dale 1422 and take to the McCALL PHARMACY, 234 Rondo St., corner Rondo and Louis Sts., or mail to the St. Paul Echo, and $1.00 WORTH OF MERCHANDISE WILL BE GIVEN AWAY FREE. 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PAUL POLICE SUNDAY The support of all colored baseball fans of the Twin Cities is asked when the St. Paul Colored Gophers, a local ball team, meets the team of the St. Paul police at Lexington Park, August 1. The Gophers have played eight games this season, six of which they won, and two of which they tied. The brand of ball displayed by the colored team has caused a deal of comment all over the Northwest, and the players are enjoying the reputation of being one of the best semi-pro teams in this part of the country. In games played recently, the Gophers defeated Warren, Minn., 6-5; Thief River Falls, 6-1, and Crookston, 13-2. Colored fans are strongly requested to be out at the game Sunday to witness what is predicted to be one of the hottest games which the Lexington grounds will see this year. BOY SCOUTS COP HONORS IN ATHLETICS AT CAMP At the Boy Scout camp at Square Lake, Minn., July 5-17, eight colored boys from local Scout Troop 55 romped off with all available athletic honors, winning seven first places in the athletic contests. 128 boys from the city attended the annual camp. Troop 55 won first place in the high jump, the 50-yard dash, the cross-country race, the potato race, the pole climb, and the broad jump. John Kelly, Jr., was high individual scorer, winning first place in the 50-yard dash, the pole climb and the broad jump. Lonnie Thompson took first in the high jump and Maurice McGavock coped a second in the same event for juniors. Douglass Green walked away with first place in the potato race. J. W. Kelly is scoutmaster for Troop 55. First Settlement in Oregon Was Astoria The first permanent settlement in Oregon was founded at Astoria by agents of the Pacific Fur company, who arrived at the mouth of the Columbia river 115 years ago. The fur company was backed by John Jacob Astor, but the men engaged by him to invade the northwestern wilderness were Canadians, a majority being of Scotch descent. The party left Montreal in a big canoe and made their way down the St. Lawrence, thence to the Hudson and New York, from which port they sailed on the ship Tonquin, which doubled Cape Horn and proceeded to Hawaii, sailing thence for the Columbia river. Arrived at the mouth of that mighty stream, they built a fort, calling it Astoria, which gradually developed into the town and city of that name. Tea-Totalers The English poor owe their indigestion to her mania for tea drinking. An hour before he gets up every Englishman drinks on an empty stomach a huge cupful of tea as strong as it can be brewed. This furnishes the foundation for the tea jag that he will build up in the course of the day. A peasant woman in an English village once asked an American visitor to have a cupful of tea. But the tea was as black as ink, and the American declined. "How long have you had that tea-pot simmering on the steve?" she asked. "Why, miss, I never take it off," the peasant woman replied. "I put in a fresh pennyworth when it gets weak and then, when the pot gets full of leaves, I put in my hand and pull out a handful for my old man to smoke." Water on the surface of a river travels faster than the water at the bottom. WANT ADS Bring Results Classified Advertising Rates:— All Classified Ads Payable in Advance. Three cents per word; minimum charge thirty cents. Houses for Rent. ONE furnished room, all modern, for rent. Call South 6856. NICELY furnished front room in modern home, for man and wife. Dale 0766. ROOM for two gentlemen; twin beds. One block from Dale or Rondo car line. Call Cedar 1879. FOUR-ROOM, modern flat, pleasant and convenient. Call Colfax 2499. FOR RENT—Modern, 8-room house, on Iglehart. For information, Dale 3027. 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 The Daisy DeLuxe ZIPPER HAT BOX Black, patent finish, light of weight, yet so strongly built that it will car- ry every thing you need for most any trip—Prices range from— $5 to $6.50 Special Vacation Values in SUHT CASES 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. GARLAND LUGGAGE SHOP SIXTH AT CEDAR **Got Napoleon's "Goat"** Napoleon had an unusually deep interest in world politics, extending even to the internal politics of a remote section of the United States, it was revealed when Col. Duncan K. MacRae of North Carolina went to Paris as consul general more than a century ago. Napoleon was pungent as to why the people in one part of a country embraced one party, while their neighbors hold opposing views. In some manner he had learned that Edgecombe county, in North Carelina, was Democratic, while Pitt county embraced the Whig faith. Informed that Colonel MacRae was from that state, he said to his courtiers: "New. I will find out the riddle of North Carolina politica." So he gave Colonel MacRae an extraordinary welcome and said to him: "I understand that the same river flows through the counties of Edgecombe and Pitt in North Carolina, that the people of both counties till the soil and own slaves. I am told that practically all the people in Edgecombe county belong to the Democratic party, while most of the people of Pitt are Whigs. Why is it?" Any other person than Colonel MacRae would have been flabbergasted, remarks the Raleigh News and Observer, but not so the eloquent colonel, known as North Carolina's first orator. Nobody knows the answer he made, but he was quick to give a reason that satisfied the monarch. Asbestos Long Known People of modern time are engaged in a ceaseless search for ways to improve living conditions. Safety, comfort and reduction of expense rank among the principal things to be considered. Asbestos, a material known for centuries but put to use only a comparatively short time ago, has done as much or more toward the realisation of these three fundamentals than any other one thing in its class. Traces of its use have been found in ancient China, in Persia, by the early Greeks and Romans, and later, in about the sixteenth century, in the island of Guam, now a possession of the United States. The sudden emergence of asbestos, from the long period in which it was almost entirely the subject of myths and legends, or treated merely as a costly curio, into one of the world's most important minerals and industry's most important aids, is remarkable. Even electricity did not have quite so sudden a transformation. British Army Club The Union Jack club is a national institution of Great Britain where soldiers, sailors and airmen can go when on leave or passing through London, a place where they may deposit their kits and valuables, where they may obtain at moderate charges good meals and comfortable bedrooms to themselves and where they find the usual amenities of a club, including library and writing room, billiard room, baths, barber shop and also a club shop in which articles of everyday use and almost everything that service men require may be purchased. The Union Jack club was erected by public subscription as a national memorial to those who had fallen in the South African war and other campaigns, and was opened on July 1, 1907, by his late majesty, King Edward VII. Phone Dale 8339 Try the Drug Store First ELMER MORRIS DRUGGIST Prescriptions Rondo and Mackubin 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. The Union Fraternal Benevolent Association will have a Box Social Thursday evening, Aug. 5, at Union Hall. Boxes will contain delicacies of the season. Single boxes and boxes for couples. Come out and have an enjoyable evening with us. Mrs. Brittania Taylor, chairman of committee; Mabel T. Brown, secretary. Trust to Pictures In these days of hustle and burtle, hyper-activity and constant "go," there is one thing that every one can do to neutralise to some extent the restlessness that has invaded our life. That one thing is to surround oneself with beautiful and restful pictures. Pictures take the mind off the worrisome, petty details that are so irritating to the nervous system. A good-natured jolly Cavalier to look down on us understandingly from the wall, or a lovely Madonna to fill us with peace and contentment are like real companions and friends, and have an advantage that even the best friends do not have; they make no demands and expect no favors; they are always equally dependable and ever ready to serve. Genius and Freedom Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom. Persons of genius are more individual than other people, less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurful compression, into any of the small number of molds society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their own character. If, from timidity, they consent to be forced into one of these molds, society will be little the better for their genius. If they are of strong character and break their fetter, they become a mark for the society which has not succeeded in reducing them to commonplace, to be pointed out as erratic, much as if one should complain of the Niagara for not flowing smoothly like a Dutch canal—John Stuart Mill. Cold Foot "Do you suffer from cold feet?" the doctor asked the young wife. "Yes," she replied. He promised to send her some medicine. "Oh," she replied nervously, "they're—not—not mine." Apex System HAIRDRESSING Call MRS. BERTHA MORGAN 5. P. M. for Appointment and 2:30 P. M. on Saturdays. 565 St. Anthony Elk. 5583 Mrs. T. H. LYLES Oldest Established Mortician Office: Cedar 0508 Res: Dale 2947 150 W. Fourth St. St. Paul, Minn. CHAIN GANGBOSS TRIED FOR DEATH OF FIVE CONVICTS Howells, Terrell, Alleged to Have Been Beaten to Death by Cransford, Boss. Evidence Shows Cruelty Witness on Leaving Camp "Advised" to Say Nothing; Describes Treatment. Albemarle, N. C.—Seeking to connect N. Charles Cranford with the killing of five colored convicts during his 20 years as boss of the Stanley county convict-chain gang, state's attorneys Saturday produced testimony to show that torture and cruelty have been in vogue in North Carolina convict camps for years. Cranford is on trial for beating to death James Howells and James Terrell in 1918. More Evidence. New charges were that Henry Wooten, another Negro, had died shortly after the chain boss beat him, and that a fourth, Arthur Butler, disappeared mysteriously after Cranford had ordered other prisoners to leave the camp and "pick blackberries." The state added to the strong evidence it produced Tuesday that Cranford had beaten John Quincy Leake to death 16 or 17 years ago. Teeth, hair and decomposed shoes, dug from a shallow grave, were presented to explain the disappearance of Leake. S. P. Thompson, a witness, a former convict, said when he left the chain gang Cranford "advised" him to tell nothing. He said the two race men, Terry and Howell, claimed they were sick and were given medicine and forced to go into the hot sun to work. They said they wanted to stay in the shade, whereupon Cranford rushed toward them screaming that he would give them shade. Then, the witness said, Cranford beat them until they were unconscious. "They never talked again," Thompson declared. Solicitor Don Phillips announced that he would not seek the death penalty, but instead 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 Letterheads Programs Circulars Tickets Dodgers Business Posters Cards or anythu PRIN L We will cheerfully SERVICE th The St. P 614 Court Block LINE We will cheerfully furnish estimates SERVICE that PLEASES The St. Paul Echo 614 Court Block, St. Paul, Minn. Phone Cedar 1879 ing of legislative authority. Following the submission of briefs by attorneys an both sides, Judge Spindle rendered his decision, declaring the law invalid, unconstitutional and without effect. Judge Spindle's previous decision was rendered when Mr. Edwards prosecuted a white merchant who moved into a Negro neighborhood. The case was dismissed on the ground LONG-F The WRAPPING Keeps it Clean and Fresh LONG-FELLOW BREAD The WRAPPING Keeps it Clean and Fresh Zinsmaster Master of Good Baking CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our sincere thanks to our friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy shown us during the illness and death of our beloved one. (Brother) We also wish to thank Rev. Stovall and Rev. Parsons for their kind words of comfort and the Zion Choir for their service rendered and for the many beautiful floral offerings, a silent reminder of love and esteem. MRS. LAURA LEWIS, MR. AND MRS. S. TEAL, REV. AND MRS. BURTON, MISS HAZEL-CLARK, MR. OTIS OLIVER. The United States produced $49,000,000 worth of gold lace last year, which is less than half the production of 1915, the record year. would ask conviction either on a charge of manslaughter or second-degree murder. Hellie's Cash Grocery & MEAT MARKET 383 No. Dale St. Free Delivery We Carry a Full Line of Groceries Fresh Dressed Pebitry at All Times See our line of fresh green vegetables Whippet EUROPEAN TYPE CAR Three New Types iethert Co. 315 University Avenue d Reconditioned Cars ing in the TING NE by furnish estimates at PLEASES Paul Echo that the law was invalid. It is believed the two adverse decisions will end attempts at segregation in Norfolk by this means. PASS EXAMINATION Raleigh, N. C., July 30.—Out of a class of 93 applicants to practice medicine in North Carolina, 93 successfully passed the examination and among them were three race men, according to an announcement by Dr. K. P. B. Bonner, Secretary of the E L L O W B R E A Z insmaster Master of Good Baking DROWNED Homestead, Pa., July 30.—William Compann, aged 25 years, of Gold Way, employed as a laborer by McCrady Brothers, contractors of McClure Street, Homestead, was drowned in the Monongahela river at the foot of McClure street at 11 o'clock Friday morning. The man was working on a barge when he fell into the river. His body was recovered Saturday afternoon. After the theater try our delicious Chicken Sandwiches Picnic Box Lunches TOASTED SANDWICHES ALEXANDERS SWEET SHOPPE Dale and Bende 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. 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