St. Paul Echo

you are seeking a jolly way to spend Valentine evening, read your copy of the Echo thoroughly. VOL. 2, NO. 15 ST.JAMES USHERS TO SPONSOR EULA BELLE TESTIMONY Girl Comedian Has Proven a Big "Hit," Appearing on Many Programs. Added Feature Booked "Master Tenor" Radio Singer of National Repute to Appear. Sponsored by the Usher Board of St. James A. M. E. Church, Central Avenue at Dale St., St. Paul, Minn., a testimonial will be given for Eula Belle Moore Wednesday evening February 16th, 8 P. M. Miss Moore has appeared on a number of different programs given by many organizations and almost every church. Eula Belle, a native of Texas is a graduate of Mechanic Arts High, having worked her way through school. As an entertainer she is styled after the type of the celebrated late comedian, Bert Williams. She has proven a big "HIT" wherever appearing on a program. Added Feature Booked. An added feature will be the presence of Walter Mallory on the program, this being assured through the efforts of Mr. Richard Stokes one of the committee. Mr. Mallory has always been a great friend of the Race, and very graciously consented to assist in making a success of the program when asked. Lawyer by Profession. As our readers undoubtedly know, Mr. Mallory is the senior member of the law firm of Mallory and Lerman with offices at the Pioneer Building. He is a musician of national repute and has lately taken up Radio work being attached to station WCCO, Minneapolis, where his singing over the program on Monday evenings, sponsored by the Pence Automobile Co., has been the sensation of the musical season. Receives Compliments. Since Mr. Mallory began singing over the radio he has received hundreds of compliments from friends and admirers and has been the recipient of many telegrams and letters from persons who have heard him through the air. Mr. Mallory has been singing since he was a boy. He was a boy soprano and won many medals and a gold watch for excellence in singing while boy soprano at St. John's Episcopal Church, St. Paul. He studied five years under Harry Phillips, now an instructor in Minneapolis and also at Macalester college and began singing as a tenor in 1907 and 1908 when he was a member of the University of Minnesota Glee Club. Now Church Soloist For 12 years he was soloist at Westminster Presbyterian church Minneapolis, and now is tenor soloist at St. John's Episcopal church, St. Paul, under George H. Fairclough who always has taken a great interest in his success. Mr. Mallory also sings at Mt. Zion Jewish temple Friday evenings and during the last four summer seasons has been leading soloist in the St Paul parks with bands conducted by Tony Snyder and Fred Albrecht He also has appeared with the leading Shrine bands as soloist in various parts of the country and is permanent soloist with the Osman temple band of St. Paul. Mr. Mallory, through his unusual ability to sing into the microphone doubtless will gain fame in the radio world in the near future." HOLD RIGHT TO EXCLUDE NEGROES FROM PRIMARY (Preston News Service) Washington, D. C., Feb. 11—The right to exclude Negroes from participation in Democratic primaries in Texas was asserted by Attorney General Pollard of Texas, in a brief filed Thursday in the Supreme Court of the United States, in a case brought by L. A. Nixon. Contending that primaries are not elections within the meaning of the Federal Constitution, the brief said that the right to inject one's self into the nominating primary of a political party is not a right which can be enforced in the federal courts. The St. Paul Echo ONE YEAR AGO THIS WEEK Phillip A. Randolph and A. L. Totten, general organizers of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, arrived in the city to encourage organization. Miss Minnie Plummer, Superintendent of Education, Ramsey County Sunday Schools, was the principal speaker at the Y. W. C. A. vesper services. Mrs. Bertha J. King was placed in charge of the weekly meetings to be held at the Y. W. C. A. each Sunday afternoon. Miss W. Gertrude Brown and Mrs. Bina Cabbell attended the banquet at the West Hotel given by the Social Workers of Minneapolis. Milton Shanks, Minneapolis contractor, stated that $25,000 was spent by Negroes in that city for building during the year. Church Board Giving Comedian Program in Recognition of Service A. Eula Belle Moore Miss Moore is generally called the Female Bert Williams and is widely known as a talented dramatic reader, specializing in dialect readings by Paul Lawrence Dunbar. She has also composed several poems. Her services have often been given free and she has appeared at the Aberdeen hospital, St. Paul Institute and Glen Lake. PILGRIM TO HEAR WILLIAMH.HAYNES Assistant States Attorney to Speak for National Bar Association. Hon. William H. Haynes, Assistant States Attorney of Chicago, will arrive here Sunday morning to speak at the celebration of Douglas and Lincoln, Sunday afternoon, February 13th, at three o'clock at Pilgrim Baptist Church under the auspices of the National Bar Association. Mr. Haynes is a Negro of estimable quality and an interesting speaker. Other speakers on the program are Hon. John W. Finehout, Senior Judge of the Municipal Court, Hon. Oscar E. Hallam, former Associate Justice of the States Supreme Court. The Judges of District Court both of Minneapolis and St. Paul are to be guests of the Bar Association. A large and beautiful program has been arranged as follows: 1. Choir—"Hear O' Lord," Obligate—By Wilson, Mrs. Rhodes; 2. Invocation—Rev. H. C. Parsons; 3. Introduction of Regional Director—W. H. Morris; 4. Remarks—O. J. Smith, Regional Director, N. B. A.; 5. Contratio Solo—Mrs. Belle Tyler; 6. Welcome Address—Mayer Hodgson; 7. Address—Hon. John W. Finehout, Senior Judge, Municipal Court, St. Paul; 8. Ethiopia Saluting the Colors—By H. T. Burleigh, Solo sung by Mrs. S. E. Hall; 9. Address—Hon. Oscar E. Hallam, Former Assistant Justice of the State Supreme Court; 10. Choir—"Hallelujah"—By Wilson; 11. Address—Hon. William H. Haynes, Assistant State's Attorney, Chicago; 12. Baritone Solo—John Hickman, Jr.; 13. Benediction—Rev. L. W. Harris. CAMP PRESBYTERIAN The Rev. Lattimore, pastor of the Vanderburgh Presbyterian church, will preach at the Camp Presbyterian church Sunday at 3 p. m. The church is located at 1201 Emerson Ave. No. (St. Anthony Hall). Take Chicago, Penn car or Chicago Fremont car to Emerson Ave. and go one block north. Lawyer "Master Tenor" Appearing on Program With Eula Belle Moore Walter Mallory For many years, Mr. Mallory, who is known as the "Master Tenor" with the Gold Seal Vagabonds, sponsored by the Pence Automobile Co., and who appears over WCCO each Monday, has sung in churches in St. Paul, City parks, and in other public places, but his voice was not appreciated until he began singing over the radio early in December. Attorneys'Names Used Without Their Authority Attorneys'Names Used Without Their Authority Owing to an erroneous impression created by the use of our names on the program of the National Bar Association for the meeting to be held Sunday, February 13, at Pilgrim Baptist Church, the following named attorneys in St. Paul and Minneapolis desire to make public the fact that we had nothing to do with the plans and arrangements for said meeting: Hammond Turner, Douglas Crane, Wayman Arthus Haynes, George W. Hamilton, W. T. Francis, James A. Harris, Gale P. Hilyer, Glessner Fowler, B. S. Smith, Wm. R. Morris, J. Louis Ervin, Homer K. Cannon. The entire matter was planned and arranged by O. J. Smith, and while we believe that the memory of our honored dead should be revered, we do not subscribe to the method used by him. LADIES OF G. A. R. INSTALL The Ladies of the G. A. R. held their installation Jan. 25. Victoria Fields, Pres.; Marie Allen, Sr. V. P.; Carrie Lindsay, Jr. V. P.; Josephine McCall, Secty.; Katie Myers, Treas.; Mary Hickey, Chaplain; Lola Edwards, Patriotic Instruct.; Ada Tobi Conductress; Emma Mosley, Asst. Conduct.; Mary Leavett, guard; Sarah Thompson, Asst. Guard; Sarah Jeffrey, Registrar. CAMEO CLUB ELECTS The Cameo Social club met last Wednesday evening, Feb. 2, at the home of Miss Anita Roberts, 978 St. Anthony Ave. Officers for the new year were elected as follows: Lounnen Pemberton, pres.; Martha Bradley, vice-pres.; LeRoy Lazenberry, Secty.; Cynthia Foster, treas.; Artie Boyd, Sergeant-at-arms; Stanley Bradshaw, Esther Bradley, Albert Patrick, Anita Roberts and Louis Allen, social and entertainment committee. Next meeting Feb. 16, at the home of Cynthia Foster, 1393 Sherburne. UNDERGOES OPERATION Mrs. Hattie Sherwood is improving after an operation for goiter, being performed at St. John's hospital Wednesday morning, Feb. 9th. Mrs. Sherwood is the wife of Jose Sherwood, St. Paul postal clerk. STAGE SET FOR NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE MEETING General Plans and Program of Conference Rapidly Taking Shape. Nationally Known Prominent White and Colored to Be Present. (Preston News Service) St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 11—Letters are being received by the local branch of the Urban League from most of the large cities in the country asking about the general plans and program for the convention to be held here March 29 to April 1st and from present indications St. Louis will be host to the largest number of delegates ever attending the League Conference in the last 16 years. The tentative program submitted suggests that the subjects for discussion at all conferences will be around the general theme of "readjustment of social programs in the light of researches." Special Sessions. There will be sessions especially of value to Executive Secretaries and Board Members of Urban League organizations. One session is to be devoted to the social programs and needs on the Pacific coast. Dr. W. Ashby Jones who is one of the outstanding men in the inter-racial movement in the south and who has recently accepted a pastorate in St. Louis will deliver an address on the "Social Service Needs in the South." Prominent Persons Expected. Among the nationally prominent white and colored persons who are to attend the conference are Dr. John W. Davis, President of W. Virginia Collegiate Institute, Mrs. Mary McLead Bethune, A. Phillip Randolph, Dr. George Cleveland Hall, Prof. Odon, University of North Carolina, Prof. Ellsworth Farris of the University of Chicago, Lloyd Garrison, Whiting Williams and many others. The local board of directors are putting every effort to make the convention a success. It is believed that E. A. Carter, Executive Secretary of the Twin Cities will attend the convention but as we were unable to reach Mr. Carter this has not been verified. PENALTY STARTS AFTER TUESDAY Bill Killed by Legislature Asking to Change License Payment Time. The House Motor Vehicle committee last week voted unanimously for the indefinite postponement of the bill extending the time for paying automobile license fees. This means that there will be no change in the final date for making applications and that after February 15 the penalty of 25 cents a day will be added to your fee. Blank applications may be obtained _____ at your dealer or the State Capitol. These places also have copies of the rate book showing the fee for each make and model of car. If you have your registration card, your application blank properly filed and mail them with a check or draft for the right amount so they will reach the Secretary of State not later than February 15, you will escape the penalty. Due to the congestion, however, you may not get your plates as promptly as those who applied earlier. As long as you have filed your application, you are permitted to use the old plates until April 1. Prompt action on the bill was taken to end the uncertainty which existed while the bill was pending. The action is also construed to mean that if a change is made in the license rate, it will not take effect until 1928. Join the Northwestern Negro Business and Professional Men's Association. Call the St. Paul Echo, Cedar 1879, 614 Court Block. Journalist Legislator Objects To Being Classified As Colored Lawyer W. T. Francis To Speak at the Main Y. W. C. A. Sunday 222 W. T. Francis The Central Avenue Branch of the Y. W. C. A. will observe Inter-Racial Sunday by holding joint services with the Main Y. W. C. A., 123 W. Fifth St., Sunday, February 13th, at 4:30 P. M. Speakers for the afternoon will be Lawyer W. T. Francis and Prof. Edwin Clark in the sociology department of the-University of Minnesota. Mrs. H. F. Ware, chairman of the Colored work committee will preside. It is said that attorney Francis' topic will be "Race Prejudice, LIKE BEAUTY, IS SKIN DEEP." It is expected that he will touch some of the high spots in Negro achievement as this is Negro History Week. Tiger Flowers Meets Bogash February,18th Tiger Flowers Meets Bogash February,18th (Preston News Service) Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 11—Tiger Flowers, former middleweight champion, has been matched for a ten-round bout with Lew Bogash, the Boston slasher, in Boston February 18, according to an announcement made by Walk Miller manager for Tiger Flowers. They will fight as light-heavy weights. Miller said that he received the longest guarantees for the bout ever given by Eddie Mack of the Armory Athletic Club, who will stage the encounter, but he declined to name the figure. Frederick M. Roberts, Serving Sixth Term in California Legislature, Comes From Non-Black District. Sacramento, Calif., Feb.—(Pacific Coast News Bureau). "I am not a colored assemblyman, but an American and one of the assemblymen and was elected by a non-black district," declared Frederick M. Roberts, only Race representative on the Legislative body of the Pacific Coast States, in a recent interview with a P. C. N. B. representative when asked as to his policy in the forthcoming legislative sessions. "My policy," he continued, "is for the general welfare of the State of California and I have no 'special' legislation. What's good for American citizens as a whole is what should be good for me." "Emphasis should be put on the rights of citizens instead of color" Roberts declared. "As American citizens we are guaranteed certain rights and our problem is only for the protection of those rights; to hold, in other words, the rights we are fully guaranteed. We are citizens of America and nobody can get away from that fact. Hereafter I shall no longer permit an American who happens to be of a different hue to speak of me as a Race. I am an American and I can see no excuse for the classification of the Negro as one among many aliens on color." Introduces Bill On Segregation. Backing his convictions with actions Assemblyman Roberts introduced in the last legislative session a bill to provide a law that will regulate restrictions in the ownership of estates in real property, the result of which will hamper, if not entirely prevent really restrictions against Americans of African descent. It is Mr. Robert's hope that through his bill, if made a law, such limitations can be thrown against the right of Race Leaders Circulate Petition for Mrs. Malone (By The Associated Negro Press) St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 4.—Brought face to face with the loss to the community and the race in the likelihood that the receivership may be made permanent with a white man in charge, leading citizens here circulated a petition last week in which they said in part: "Knowing that Poro College is an institution national in character, which we can point to with justifiable pride, and having watched its growth from small beginnings, until it is now regarded as a substantial asset to the whole city, take this opportunity to express our confidence in and sympathy with, its founder, Mrs. A. E. Malone. NEGRO SHRINERS ASK LAW CHANGE Permanent Restraining Order by Texas Courts Asked to Be Set Aside. (Preston News Service) Washington, D. C., Feb. 4—Negro Shriners asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to set aside an injunction issued by the Texas Courts restraining them from using the name, emblems or insignia of white Shriners. A petition seeking a review was filed by the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, which says it was organized in New York State in 1872. Proceedings against the Negro organization were instituted by D. W. Michaux and others in Harris County, Tex., and resulted in a permanent restraining order, which was affirmed by the State Supreme Court. The injunction was made by the State court to apply throughout the United States and enjoined the Negroes from organizing "temples" or lodges where such names, emblems or insignia would be used. BEFORE COMMITTEE Attorney W. T. Francis appeared before the Committees on Public Welfare of the Senate and House this week at the bearings on the proposed Hair Dressers and Beauty Shop Bill. He is representing a group of Twin Cities Cosmeticians. New Relief Fund of Masonic Grand Lodge On February, 3rd, 1927, the Most Worshipful Grand Master, John H. Dillingham paid to Mrs. Nathaniel Goins the sum of one hundred dollars from the Relief Fund Department of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge and Jurisdiction, F. and A. M. of Minnesota. Mrs. Goins, the widow of the late Nathaniel Goins, is the first to benefit by the Relief Fund which is a new law of the Grand Lodge, to assist the survivors of deceased members. Mr. Goins, who died November 5, 1926 was a member of Perfect Ashlar Lodge, No. 4 of St. Paul, Minnesota. In a letter of thanks to the Grand Lodge, Mrs. Goins, states that it is her opinion that nothing will be lost by donating this sum to the unforunate survivors of members of the order. A check has also been sent to Mrs. Robert Muse, 5718 S. Wabash Ave., Chicago. Brother Muse died Nov. 13, 1926. restrictions that this un-American scheme can be overcome. Appointed Committee Chairman. Mr. Roberts, who is editor of the New Age-Dispatch of this City, has served as Assemblyman from Los Angeles consecutively since 1919, and is one of the 5 members who have served five year terms or more. The other four are Henry E. Carter of Los Angeles, now Minister to China; Frank Coons of Napa; Fred C. Hawes and T. Morrison of San Francisco. Aside from being a member of seven committees, Mr. Roberts was made Chairman of the Building and Loan Association Committee composed of seven members. MINESURE is only 21 miles from town and but 45 minutes from Rondo Street folks, over good roads. PRICE FIVE CENTS JUDGE SCHEDULES MALONE CASE FOR LATE MARCH DATE Continuance of Case Announced by Jurist Without Motion Made in Court. Cross-Bill Expected Mrs. Malone Receives Letters of Sympathy From Agents and Friends. St. Louis, Mo., Feb.—(By The Associated Negro Press). Unless some unforeseen development takes place, such as the settlement of the case out of court, which now seems more and more unlikely, the decision as to making the temporary receivership of Poro College permanent, will not be handed down until late in March. Continuance Announced. Judge Mose Hartman mounted the bench last Wednesday and announced the continuance of the case, without any motion being made in court, the attorneys for the opposing side having met in his chambers and agreed to try the matter on March 21. The jurist made no comment confining himself to the bare announcement that the change was made on motion by Mrs. Malone's counsel. It is probable that the divorce case will be heard at about the same time. Mrs. Malone is expected to file her cross-bill setting forth the various disabilities of Aaron E. Malone, her second mate, and asking that she rather than he be granted the divorce, some time this week. Poro Appears Normal. In the meantime the temporary receiver, Conrad Paeben, continues in charge of affairs at Poro College, although his handling of the employees there is said to be much more diplomatic, since he was called in by the judge and instructed to stay within reasonable bounds. Business has not abated and the highly trained force is handling orders and routine as usual. In fact, were it not for the terrific cost which the institution will have to bear in the receiver's fees and his attache's costs, and the air of apprehension which pervades all St. Louis, things about Poro have returned to the appearance of normal. Deluged With Letters. Mrs. Malone has been deluged with letters coming from agents, friends, and sympathetic persons in every section of the country. Mr. Malone is more or less in seclusion. He refuses to be interviewed, directing all inquiries to his lawyers. He emerged last Sunday long enough to address a thrift meeting at the Y. M. C. A. on the subject of "Giving." The selection by Mrs. Malone, of Homer G. Phillips, one of Missouri's best known attorneys, as associated in the case has met the hearty approval of the citizens here. Attorney J. Garner, who has expected to be appointed assistant to the white receiver, has postponed his hopes now until March 21. Mrs. Malone is proceeding with her plans for the Roland Hayes concert which she is presenting February 24. for the benefit of the St. Louis orphans' home for which she is chief sponsor. U. F. B. A. INSTALLS The Union Fraternal Benevolent Association held their annual installation of officers. The following officers were installed: Stella Wiley, pres.; Batavia Taylor, vice-pres.; Emily Harris, Finan. Secty.; Elizabeth Wilson, record. sesty.; Ella Alice Jackson, treas.; Mary Hickey, chaplain; Mabel Brown, chairman of sick; Louise Walker, Nannie Miller, marshals; Alice Jackson, doorkeeper; C. McConnell, Nicy Patterson, Bennie Vliver, trustees; Martha Bradley, Birdie Jones, investigating comm.; Nicey Patterson, Louise Walker, Mattie Boyd, Auditing comm.; Lucy Jackson, herald; Sarah Walker, pilot. Join the Northwestern Negro Business and Professional Men's Association. Call the St. Paul Echo, Cedar 1879, 614 Court Block. / President and General Manager.....CYRUS L. LEWIS Secretary-Treasurer.....EUGENE JACKSON, JR Contributing Editor.....EARL WILKINS Duluth Representative..Mrs. Wm. A. Porter, 1029 E. 3rd St., Duluth, Minn. Telephone Hemlock 1533 Advertising rates furnished upon application. "Entered as second class matter Nov. 7, 1925, at the post office at St. Paul, Minn., under the act of March 3, 1879" HOW TO SPEND YOUR MONEY of our previous issues we pointed out some in Cities relative to how we spend our money we find that between 60 and 90 colored in St. Paul, with an average expenditure of flowers for each funeral, which average 2,000 per year for floral tributes to our deserving flowers for the sick, ferns, palms and flowering public functions, and last, but not least, flowers by Romeos to their fair Julius either as a prize offering. Nevertheless, the flowers are used some florist gets the money and makes portable and furnish nice pleasant jobs for the said young people have no Negro boy who whole thing boils down to this, the more annually for flowers goes to make up a pay people are not eligible. Sunday morning we listened to a sermon the usual and body (emphasis on the body). This truth told his hearers that "One of the British such a powerful Empire was the first among themselves to such a great extent do we know that the British built up a capital by trading among themselves. British had traded heavily with the continent the Empire was formed they would not have of capital necessary to embark on the colonization which eventually so encircled would truly boast of having "An Empire of pets." commercial enterprise is run for profit. We the firm selling it makes a profit on the sale, spend your money with are the people you then spending large sums with persons or buy get something in return for your patronage for the race or their patronage of race enterprises or you are the loser. In one of our previous issues we pointed out some instances in the Twin Cities relative to how we spend our money. Upon investigation we find that between 60 and 90 colored people die each year in St. Paul, with an average expenditure of from $25 to $30 for flowers for each funeral, which average is very conservative. From these figures it is obvious that we spend from $1,500 to $2,000 per year for floral tributes to our dead, besides a tidy sum for flowers for the sick, ferns, palms and flowers for weddings and public functions, and last, but not least, flowers are sent by the many Romeos to their fair Julietts either as a compliment or as a peace offering. Nevertheless, the flowers are bought and paid for and some florist gets the money and makes himself and family comfortable and furnish nice pleasant jobs for young people provided the said young people have no Negro blood in their veins. The whole thing boils down to this, the more than $2,000 we spend annually for flowers goes to make up a pay roll to which our young people are not eligible. Last Sunday morning we listened to a sermon that was good for both soul and body (emphasis on the body). This brilliant expounder of truth told his hearers that "One of the things that made Great Britain such a powerful Empire was the fact that they traded at home among themselves to such a great extent," which is true, well do we know that the British built up an immense amount of capital by trading among themselves. If the British had traded heavily with the continent when the nucleus of the Empire was formed they would not have had the huge amount of capital necessary to embark on their enormous program of colonization which eventually so encircled the globe that they could truly boast of having "An Empire on which the sun never sets." Every commercial enterprise is run for profit. When you buy an article the firm selling it makes a profit on the sale, hence the people you spend your money with are the people you make rich, therefore when spending large sums with persons or business firms you should get something in return for your patronage by way of employment for the race or their patronage of race journals or other race enterprises or you are the loser. LACK OF BATHS UNREST CAUSE sorted by the Daily News of a talk before ordered by Kenneth Lindsay, Oxford University, member of the British Labor Party, he is a close connection between the abses dead of communism." That doctrine is true England, nor is St. Paul immune. Communism is a revolt against the strong oppo- tion the weak, and if baths are among the privi- d of baths" is a cause for developing commu- nity of St. Paul. Amherst H. Wilder creates with the fundamental rule that no one shou- d of that charity on account of race. Yet be perhaps both, a nice clean Colored boy can Wilder Baths because he might contamina- fortunate, unkempt white boy from the flats money to support the Y. M. C. A. is raised in est. There is not another group in St. Pa- that contributes as well as we do to the Ch enjoy the pool in that building which we w. Another excuse for communism in the C assessor puts the low value of $750,000 upo- C. A. properties, that we cannot use, and exempt Tax List. Because they pay no tax. Those properties represent a taxable ve a greater taxable value than all the house due from Western Avenue to Grotto Street that oppression, exploitation and baths use in manner? Would any one be surprised at the fruit thereof? As reported by the Daily News of a talk before the Lions' Club, delivered by Kenneth Lindsay, Oxford University graduate and prominent member of the British Labor Party, the speaker said, "There is a close connection between the absence of baths and the spread of communism." That doctrine is true in America as well as England, nor is St. Paul immune. If communism is a revolt against the strong oppressing and exploiting the weak, and if baths are among the privileges denied, then "lack of baths" is a cause for developing communism in the Colored group of St. Paul. Amherst H. Wilder created the Wilder Charity with the fundamental rule that no one should be denied the benefits of that charity on account of race. Yet by some hook or crook, or perhaps both, a nice clean Colored boy cannot swim in the pool at Wilder Baths because he might contaminate the water for a less fortunate, unkempt white boy from the flats. The money to support the Y. M. C. A. is raised by the Community Chest. There is not another group in St. Paul, of similar incomes, that contributes as well as we do to the Chest, and yet we cannot enjoy the pool in that building which we helped build and support. Another excuse for communism in the Colored group is that the assessor puts the low value of $750,000 upon the Wilder and Y. M. C. A. properties, that we cannot use, and places them upon the Exempt Tax List. Because they pay no taxes, we must pay more. Those properties represent a taxable value of over $300,000, or a greater taxable value than all the houses on St. Anthony Avenue from Western Avenue to Grotto Street. Is not that oppression, exploitation and baths used in a most un-Christian manner? Would any one be surprised to find communism as the fruit thereof? FREDERICK DOUGLAS THE HELPER tubble about creation, the immaculate con- Christ, the eucharist and the trinity among no person of parts questions the truth the carpenter of Nazareth who said men she device. Frederick Douglas is typical of that, six-foot youngster who believed in freed- ed his physical power to free himself. O so much he wished to pass it on to his fell- ot dominate him. With Douglas it was He learned to read and write that he mi- me was upon free soil himself, but he prac- fice the world's greatest orators that he mig- The philosophical carpenter's aphorism, " Men quibble about creation, the immaculate conception, the divinity of Christ, the eucharist and the trinity among other Bible questions, but no person of parts questions the truth of the philosophy of the carpenter of Nazareth who said men should be first through service. Frederick Douglas is typical of that truth. He was a rugged, six-foot youngster who believed in freedom for himself. He used his physical power to free himself. Once free, he enjoyed it so much he wished to pass it on to his fellows. "T" and "Me" did not dominate him. With Douglas it was always "Us" and "We." He learned to read and write that he might help his fellows. He was upon free soil himself, but he practiced and became one of the world's greatest orators that he might help free his fellows. The philosophical carpenter's aphorism, "Greater love hath no man than that he will lay down his life for another," found a place in the life of Douglas. For many times he risked his life at the hands of an irate mob that he might speak the truth for his fellows. In this, the month of the birthday of Frederick Douglas, every Negro who has graduated from an institution of learning look at his diploma and thank Douglas, for he helped make that diploma possible. And then let him realize that this race of ours needs nothing more than that those who are able to free themselves shall work, and suffer and die, if need be, not for themselves, but for their fellows. Let all of us bristle for action as he did when he sang Julia Ward Howe's words, "Christ died to make men holy; let us die to make men free," as the soul of Douglas leads on. Be a helper. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT. In the Matter of Application of Lydia Lewis, Rice for the County of 10, Wicklow for the Title County of Block 10, Rice Street Villas, in lieu and in place of a certificate number entered by decree entered by file number 800. Upon the petition of the above named applicant setting forth that title to the certain mortgage, the praying for the hereafter referred to has wasted in her by reason of the foreclosure of a certain mortgage, the praying for the title of said County to cancel the Title Certificate No. 33101, and to issue in lieu of a certificate in the name of the applicant: NOW THEREFORE IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, that said Myrtle Thompson, and to issue persons interested, show cause if any there be before this Court at the County of Ramsay and State of Minnesota, on the 5th day of March, 1927, at ten (10) o'clock in the foremoon, and in the County of Ramsay and State of Minnesota, on the 5th day of March, 1927, in prayed for should not be granted. FURTHER ORDERED, that this or- deration be serve person upon Myrtle Tonight, person upon Myrtle Slaughter, at least ten (10) days before the date of hearing, and be published once each seek for successive weeks in the Dated February 10, 1927. HUGO O. HANFT, Judge of District Court. Approved W. W. Leach. St. Paul Echo, Feb. 12-19. Join the Northwestern Negro Business and Professional Men's Association. Call the St. Paul Echo, Cedar 1879, 614 Court Block. "Hold Monday, Feb. 21, for another M. W. C. club serial dance at the Oxford Ballroom." 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. Ask them about the Local Loan Co. 216 Exchange Bank Building Sixth & Minnesota Sts. Tel. Co 2417 Home Cooked Meals Salads Barbecued Ribs TOASTED SANDWICHES ALEXANDERS SWEET SHOPPE Dale and Rondo Streets Phone Dale 7175 FOR WEEKLY NEWS RELEASES DEAD LINE ADVANCED TO WEDNESDAY NOON For BILIOUSNESS Use BEECHAM'S PILLS for the relief of Constipation, Biliousness, Sick Headache and for moving the Bowels. Helps clear the skin. Contains no Oatmeal! Buy from your druggist. 25c and 50c the box. BEECHAM'S PILLS --- Even fruit and flowers have affected people curiously. The secretary of Francis I used to stop his nostrils with bread if he saw a dish of apples to prevent an otherwise inevitable bleeding at the nose. A king of Poland had an antipathy both to the smell and sight of this wholesome fruit, and a family of Aquitaine had a hereditary hatred of it. Gretry, the composer, could not endure the scent of the rose; neither could Anne of Austria. The mere sight of the rose was too much for Lady Heneage, bedchamber woman to Queen Elizabeth; indeed, Kenelm Dighy records that her cheek became blistered when some one laid a white rose upon it as she slept. A violet was a thing of horror to the Princess de Lamballe, while tansy was amenable to an earl of Barrymore, and Scaliger grew pale before watercress. The harmless cat has frequently been an object of aversion. Henry III of France had so great a dislike to cats that he fainted at sight of one, and it was said of the duke of Schomberg, as it was said of another famous soldier of our time, that he could not sit in the same room with a cat. John o' London's Weekly. Woman Accordeed High Raph in Intellige Rink in Intelligence That Anatole France had a high regard for women may be gathered from the conversation which took place between himself and his secretary, Sandor Kemerl, and which is reported in her book, "Hambles With Anatole France." "The intelligence of the woman is very high and she is ready to go to all extremes in asserting herself," he says. "More than the man she is aware of the age in which she lives, because she carries it within herself. In our search for the history of the past it is the woman who shows us the way. It is she who makes us foresee the future, it is the woman, heroic, sentimental, romantic, emancipated, independent. She was taken from Adam's breast, near his heart, brought to life by his ardent desire. How could she be anything else but his image? Therefore the woman's destiny depends on the man." Traders Made Own Coins Mincing lane, London, the center of the wholesale tea trade, derives its name from certain tenements there once owned by the "mlnchuns," or nuns, of St. Helen's. There in the time of the Plantagenets lived a colony of Genoese traders called galley-men, because they brought their wines and other merchandise to Galley wharf. They were a wealthy and powerful people and one time issued a silver collage of their own. These coins, known as "galley half-pence," were broader than the ordinary English silver half-pennies, but not so tilck and strong. Their use was prohibited by an act of parliament in the reign of Henry IV. Shopping in China Finding one's way in Chinese cities has its difficulties. Capt. Robert Dollar, well known American steamship man, once set out to visit a wholesale store in Chefoo. He describes his experience as follows: First we went through a grocery store into a courtyard containing beds of flowers and shrubs; from there we followed a crooked alley three feet wide into another courtyard, then through another three-foot alley into a small open square. Bordering this square was the wholesale establishment we were in search of. There is, however, nothing unusual in finding important stores in such obscure localities in that country. Pupila Taught Poisoning Both boys and girls are taught the poison arts in the jungle schools, and at the conclusion of each school it is customary to experiment on some member of the class. At the boys' school the victim usually is some unruly member of the class. At the girls' school, it is some iconoclastic malden who has dared voice criticism of the tribal marriage customs. In case a child dies at either school, its parents are not apprised of the fact until after the close of the school, when the fetish doctor breaks a white bowl in front of their but. H. W. L. and the Telephone It seems that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow inaugurated the voice with a-smile campaign in connection with telephone operators. No better proof can be had than the line in "A Psalm of Life," in which we read, "Tell me not in mournful numbers." And as for waiting for a number, the following is given in "The Courtship of Miles Standish": "Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of silence." Does it not speak for its self? Old-Fashioned Mothers She looks to the affairs of her household and she cherishes her bables. She sings, and her songs are the joy-hymns of the mother heart; she cuddles her bables as mothers have done since the beginning; and she is proud of her kicking, crowing "latest" though she loves them all alike. She doesn't mind the pitying jeers of the unfortunate class of her sisters who fail to see in the home the divinely temple of peace and happiness that has been ordained by God.-Jackson (Texas) Newn. Franklin Saw Day of Although desiring a quiet life in his older years, Franklin could not retire. One political office after another sought him out. He tried his best, to avert the Revolution, and his examination before the house of commons in February, 1768, marks the zenith of his intellectual powers. In September, 1776, Franklin was appointed envoy to France and sailed soon afterward. Despite his seventy years, no other American could have accomplished the things he did. His reputation had preceded him to France. Great ladies sought his company; shopkeepers hung his portrait on their walls and the rabble worshiped him. Under Franklin's influence, money was loaned the struggling colonies. He won from France recognition of the United States and then the treaty of alliance. This was his last and most important work. Biographers maintain that Franklin more than any other great American possessed the woman's viewpoint. Some even maintain that his great successes were achieved because of this quality; that the great French treaty might not have been brought about were it not for the homage paid the first civilized American by the great dames of Paris. Certain it is that he was the means of starting the first American woman in business, and he was first in a movement that has changed the present-day life of 110,000 Americans. Old Man in Picture A landscape artist sold a picture to a wealthy woman. The latter soon became tired of it, because, she declared, it lacked animation. So she sent for another artist and asked him to paint a man or woman on the road that ran through the middle of the painting. The artist did so, and when he met the man who had painted the original work he told him what he had done. "I had the temerity to alter a landscape of yours the other day," he said. "It was one you sold to Mrs. Jones. She wanted a figure painted in, so I added an old man walking down the road" "Road? What road? There's no road in that picture!" "Why, yes, there is," said the other. "A road runs through the middle of the canvas." "Why, cried the first artist, indignantly, 'that's not a road! That's a river!' Wife's Faith in Columbus If it be true that there is a woman in the background of every notable achievement, there seems to be justification in calling Dona Felpa, the wife of Christopher Columbus, that influence in the life of the man who was later to discover the Western world. When Columbus talked to her about his exploration enthusiasts, she was sympathetic and his ambitions appear to have found grateful nurture at their fireside. There is a tale of how Dona Isabella, Columbus' mother-in-law, produced an old box containing maps and logs—pliously-kept relics of her husband's. It may be that something found in this box prompted in Columbus the conception, later to become a flaming article of faith, of a land beyond the horizon—New York Times Magazine. Royal Ear Wiggler Empress Marie Louise, second wife of Napoleon I, used to shake her ears through some nervous effort, believing the practice would drive away wrinkles and make her beautiful. "One of the greatest pleasures of the imperial evenings is to watch the empress turn her ears," wrote Mme. d'Abrantes, one of her ladies of honor. "This faculty is very extraordinary and I believe she is the only person who possesses it." Marie Louise often shook her ears to amuse her friends, but Napoleon disliked the practice and it is said he slapped his imperial spouse several times for doing it. Rich Soil Two farmers were arguing about the fertility of the soil of their respective states. "Why, the soil is so rich in my state," said one, "that a man with a peg leg don't stand still for five minutes. The wooden leg will grow roots." "That's nothing," the other farmer responded. "Back where I came from the land is so rich that all the pegged men carry hatchets so they can chop off the twigs that keep sprouting on account of all the nutritious dust in the air."—Exchange. China Once "Cathay" Cathay was the name for China which Marco Polo brought back with him from his travels in the Orient. It is supposed to have been derived by him from the Khitah or Khitan, a tribe of medieval conquerors of northern China. The term was long applied by Europeans to the Far East in general. The only language in which it survives as the customary name for China is the Russian, where it has the form Khitah. Audrey's Opinion Little Audrey gazed in rapt fascination at a contortionist in a vaudeville show. "Mamma," she laughingly said to her mother, "That man has no more bones than a plate of ice cream." Addition to 'List of Fruits Without Seeds There have long been seedless oranges, lemons and grapefruit, and now there are seedless apples. A seedless fruit does not propagate its own species. It grafts itself on branches grown from fruit with seeds. The seedy mother provides the fecundity; the seedless fruit gives the pulp and the flavor. The idea of a seedless apple comes from the seedless orange of California, a freak of nature discovered over a hundred years ago. About 1820 a missionary of Bahia, Brazil, discovered a new kind of orange growing wild which contained seeds of propagation not in its own body, but in a little sac at the top. He sent 12 of the trees to the United States, and although they did not live long, others were budded from them, and are budding still. A Mrs. Eliza Tibbets gave us Washington Navels, oranges without seeds. One of the trees she planted in 1873 is still alive and producing good fruit. Next in favor come Valencians, with about a seed aplice. It is as well they retain it, for California grows most of the best oranges of the world, and if there were no seeds there would soon be no oranges. History's Pages Full Aesop's fables are really not Aesop's at all, but Babrius' fables. A GraecoItalian named Babrius wrote and compiled them several centuries after the Phrygian fabulist's death, the date of which is given as 564. Some chronicles say Aesop never lived at all. The fables he is said to have composed are lost. Socrates and later writers made versions of the Babrian inventions, to which they gave Aesop's name, thus bestowing immortality upon one sage and robbing another of his rightful laurels. A mistake in computation by a Sixth century chronologist is responsible for the common and erroneous understanding that Christ's birth was in the year 1. Christ was not born in the first year of the Christian era but about four years before the beginning of that period. Cinderella's slipper was made not of glass but of sable. Noting these and similar errors, Josh Billings once wrote: "the trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance, as known so many things that ain't so."—Mentor Magazine. The Cat The cat would make an excellent diplomatist; he is seldom ruffled, never loses his head, is usually polite, has admirable manners, and great aplomb, and there is that sharp claw concealed in the velvet glove to resent any intrusion upon his interest or felicity. But, above all, he has the diplomatic virtue of concealing what he thinks. Whereas, the dog opens its whole soul, the cat keeps it as close as an oyster. There is certainly nothing of the "new" or "open" diplomacy about the cat. He looks wise and maintains a grave and dignified silence. He may be cold, he may be selfish, but it must be said in justice to the cat that he does not make a business of ministering to human egoism—like the dog. His own dignity is to him of very much greater importance; he lives his own life, and goes his own way.—London Morning Post. Music Is Swinging The northern races are coming into their own in music. Music has swung into the fields of the less efface races in recent years. With this I associate the increased use of wind instruments, as opposed to strings. These are able to portray the wilderness, the primitive spirit and also the lonely musings of shepherds, the grandeur of the Himalayas. Nobody would think today of describing a mountain in string tone, but a bass oboe solo could do it very impressively.—Percy Granger, in Musical America. Knew What He Wanted A society woman recently was giving an elaborate dinner party, which she permitted her small son Freddie to attend. The hostess sat at the head of the table, and Freddie sat near the foot. All went well until the dessert course was reached. Deciding to ask maternal advice before partaking of the sweet Freddie called lustily to the amusement of all except his mother: "Hey, mom, may I have a hunk and a gob?" His Taste Impeached A minister was in the habit of running his hands through his hair while preaching his sermons, giving his hair the appearance of having never been combed. One Sunday as the congregation was leaving the church he overheard one woman say to another: "I wonder if he wears a wig?" The minister, knowing how his hair must look, asked: "Do you think if I wore a wig I would have picked out one like this?" Tender Spot An old bachelor who was very bald, fell in love with a pretty widow, whose late husband's name was Robin. One evening the bachelor dropped in to have a cup of tea with the widow. After tea was over, she commenced to sing "Robin Adair." The bachelor picked up his hat. "Madame," he said, "even if your husband did have hair, it's no fault of mine that I haven't." Success Credited to Boys who have grown into successful men will, as a rule, say that the greatest asset and blessing they enjoyed was the exactions of poverty, the struggles they had to make through which they kept their appetites in check, in keeping with their earnings; that frugality was necessary because they had to make ends meet. had to pay for their keep and could only have that they were able to buy after contributing to their families or relatives. They will say that the self-denials they made for others were the most valuable lessons on the road to success, and that the practices forced upon them by necessity lasted through their business careers and made success possible. It is hard for the boy who earns a dollar a week to give part of it for his keep—but there is more in it than the mere contributions of the money. The boy is learning—learning everything worth while. Poor is the boy who is denied this part of his education, it matters not how great his money riches.—Macon (Ga.) Telegraph. Fool Friends Scored Luther Burpain preferred his garden experiments to business ventures, but the activities of his friends succeeded in embroiling him in business relations with various people for more than twenty years. His business ventures not only turned out badly, but they took considerable time from his creative work. "I do not believe any of the men who tried to exploit or subsidize me or my work had base motives," he wrote in the Saturday Evening Post. "On the contrary, most of them were actuated by a desire to increase my usefulness and to widen the scope of my experiments and to broadcast the results over a greater area. "I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend; now and again my friends have led me astray, and it has cost me a lot of money, a world of trouble and a multitude of worries before I got back on the main track again." "Ghost Money" "Money" and other articles made out of tinfoil, and intended for the special use of departed spirits, provides the town of Shaoching, China, with a curious and profitable industry. All day long the din of thousands of hammers pounding on anvils can be heard, and the production of these symbols for departed spirits is said to bring in £3,000,000 a year. The symbolic money is made by hand, the tin being hammered out on anvils until a surprising thinness is obtained. Although the "money" is intended for the use of the dead, there is considerable traffic in the ashes of the fires burnt at the tombs where the "money" is placed. The tin is extracted from the ashes and used again to make more "money."—London Tit-Bits. Sugar Cane in America Sugar cane was introduced into the New world shortly after its discovery, and it is recorded that in 1518 many sugar mills were in operation on the Island of Santo Domingo. It was not until 1751, however, that the plant was grown in continental America, as a result of the importation of cuttings by Jesuits in Louisiana. From that time it was cultivated in a desultory manner until the end of the Eighteenth century, when the failure of indigo and other crops forced the Louisiana planters to turn their attention to the manufacture of sugar as a source of revenue. Establishment of the American sugar cane industry may be said to date from 1795, when the first successful mill began operations on a plantation about six miles from New Orleans. Odd Butterfly Perhaps one of the most remarkable instances of camouflage is that of the "Green Hairstreak" butterfly. The upper surface of the wings are blackish-brown; the undersides an intensely vivid leaf-green. A butterfly invariably folds the wings close upwards when resting. Consequently the green hairstreak, conspicuous enough among the hedges, has only to alight upon a green leaf for his green undersurface to render him instantly invisible.—Nature Magazine. Order Was Placed The teacher of the kindergarten Sunday school class was asking each member if there was a little brother or sister at home who might soon be eligible for admission to the class. One little boy, as he heard the proud responses of the children in front of him, felt that he was rapidly losing caste. "No, ma'am," he admitted reluctantly, then added in sudden desperation, "But we're going to get one!" The Only Girl Jack had just asked Jill to marry him, and she had murmured, "Yes." "Jack, dear," asked Jill, after a long silence, "am the I only girl—" "Jill, darling," he interrupted, "don't ask me if you are the only girl I have ever loved. You know it as well as I do." "That wasn't the question at all, Jack," she answered. "I was just going to ask you if I was the only girl who would have you." ST. PAUL NOTES On the sick list are Mrs. Rose Martin of St. Anthony Ave., Mrs. Queen Turner, 1047 E. Rose St., and Mr. Love of Marion St. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Brown are the proud parents of a little daughter, born Monday at Ancker hospital. In compliment to Mr. A. Brutus Cassius, Tau Sigma Beta fraternity entertained at a small dinner and dance Wednesday, Jan. 27, at the homes of Mr. Henry Ervin and Mr. Hogwood Goins. Mrs. Cecille Young Ward was hostess at a very pretty 500 party on Wednesday afternoon, in honor of her sister, Mrs. Caldwell Watkins, of Chicago. Mrs. Caldwell Watkins was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Manning. Bridge was the feature of the evening. A dainty luncheon was served by the hostess at midnight. Mr. Theodore Charleston, formerly of St. Paul, now residing at 1015 Forrest St., Louisville, Ky., who was taken seriously ill some three weeks ago, is not much improved, being still confined to his bed. The St. Paul Hikers' club enjoyed a delightful afternoon on Thursday, Feb. 3, at the home of Mrs. P. Buckner, 461 Rondo. Attorneys Wendell E. Green and Herman E. Moore of Chicago, who are in the Twin Cities on business, were visitors at the St. Paul Echo office Thursday. The Twin City Hairdressers wish to thank Miss W. Gertrude Brown of Phyllis Wheatley House and Rev. W. H. Griffin, Rev. G. W. Camp and their members for their co-operation. At St. Peters Baptist church special services were conducted by Rev. L. W. Harris of Pilgrim Baptist church. The service was wonderful. Subject of sermon, "By the Grace of God I Am What I Am." Rev. M. Brown, pastor. The Growing Up club met at the home of its treasurer, Valdora Turner, Saturday afternoon. The club will donate a small sum to the Building Fund of Pilgrim Baptist church. The club regrets that their vice-president, Margaret Downing, has moved to California. Mr. Lee Bates, 51 years old, and a former resident of this city, died Jan. 31, in Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Bates was the father of Mrs. Ora O'Neal, who recently returned from Kansas City after attending the funeral. Mrs. Dovie Adams Welsh entertained at luncheon Tuesday in honor of Miss Thelma Johnson of Chicago. Covers were laid for four. A committee from the Clover Leaf Charity club visited the shut-ins at Ancker hospital and showered them with fruit and candy. Mrs. Herman Cotton had as her luncheon guest Friday afternoon Mrs. Caldwell Watkins of Chicago, who has been visiting her parents for three days. Mrs. Watkins returned to her home Friday night. Mrs. E. W. Lindsay, 426 Rondo St., was hostess to the Handicraft Art club on Wednesday. In the evening Mrs. Lindsay entertained the members and their husbands at a progressive 500 party. The Juvenile Society No. 1151 of the G. U. O. of O. F. held their regular monthly meeting last Saturday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Franklin. Several names were added to the roll. The meeting closed with a social hour and refreshments. Wednesday afternoon of last week Mrs. W. S. Archer was hostess to the O. N. T. club. Tuesday of last week Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Hatton entertained the Shuffle Along 500 club. Prizes were won by Mesdames E. W. Lindsay, E. A. Hatton and G. Mundell. The T. N. T. club met with Mrs. B. F. Edwards Monday evening and had as guests Messrs. E. W. Lindsay and Hammond Turner. Thursday afternoon the Nifty club held their meeting at the residence of Mrs. J. Roberts. Mrs. Wm. A. Porter of Duluth, Minn., is a visitor in the city and is the guest of Mrs. W. G. Hood, 674 St. Anthony. Mrs. Porter came to attend the Ermine Hall Recital. Mr. C. Williams, 639 W. Central is seriously ill at Ancker hospital. MINNEAPOLIS NOTES Mrs. M. M. Donovan has returned from an extensive trip. Mrs. Donovan will leave about June 1 for Detroit, where she will reside permanently, having purchased a beautiful residence in Hyland Park. She will be greatly missed in the Twin Cities, where she has taken an active part in the social and civic affairs. The Ophelia Rice Union of the W. C. T. U. will meet Sunday afternoon at 3:30 at St. James church, Minneapolis. A Lincoln Day program will be rendered. Join the Northwestern Negro Business and Professional Men's Association. Call the St. Paul Echo, Cedar 1879. 614 Court Block. Might Work Injustice This is a callous and unbelieving age. A little correspondence in a contemporary on Christian ghosts has produced an assurance that it is perfectly easy to distinguish between a genuine ghost and a mere hallucination. All you have to do is to squint at the apparition; if the poor ghost is really there "the distortion of the line of sight will cause it to be seen double." But if the apparition remains unaltered after this treatment it is proof that it is really an hallucination from within and not something which exists outside the percipient. This habit of pulling ugly faces at what may be perfectly good ghosts, hardworking and deserving in every sense of the words, will be depreciated by all courteous and right-thinking humans, the Manchester (Eng.) Guardian comments. Moreover, the choice between a double ghost and a single one does not exhaust the possibilities from this harsh test. The apparition may give an eldritch shriek and vanish clean away. And what will that prove? Simply that the experimenter has squinted so vilely at the visitor that he has frightened the poor thing out of its wits. Cold Weather Due to Seeing that volcanoes fling out molten lava and burn up everything near them, it may seem a queer contradiction to suggest that they can cause cold weather, but the explanation is this—volcanoes throw up vast masses of fine dust which floats in the upper atmosphere. Dust cuts off an amazing amount of the sun's heat, and it has always been noticed that after any really big eruption or series of eruptions there is a period of cold, dull weather. In Humphrey's book, "Physics of the Air," a table of these is given, beginning with the frightful outbreak of Asama, in Japan, in 1783, and ending with the eruptions of Tomboro in 1812. There were three cold years after the first eruption and four after the second. Some experts declare that the great Ice ages through which our planet has passed may have been caused by eruptions on a huge scale which cut off the life-giving rays of the sun and reduced the temperature of the whole earth. So Silly "Darling," he asked, as he drew her closer to him, "am I the only man you have ever kissed?" "William," she replied, somewhat testily, "before we go any farther I should like to ask you a few questions. You are aware that my father is a millionaire, aren't you?" "Y-yes." "You understand, no doubt, that when he dies the whole of his fortune will be left to me?" "Y-yes." "You know that I also own nearly half a million dollars' worth of property?" "Y-yes." "Then, for goodness' sake, talk sense! What difference would it make if I had been kissed by a thousand men before I met you?" Scotsman's Way Doctor Hsieh (by the way, his name is pronounced "Tee-yee Shee") learned our language at Oxford, where his instructor was a Scotchman who insisted that the young student stick to words of one syllable in speaking English. He taught Doctor Hsieh that it was ridiculous to use big words when a small one would do just as well. "For instance," explained the Chinese visitor, "he told me not to use the word 'preserve' (here a delicious Scotch burr crept into his speech, and the audience howled) but to use shorter synonyms, such as 'keep' or 'can.' So for a long time I found myself going around innocently saying, 'Heaven can us!'"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Caesar's Personality Historians say that Julius Caesar was tall and of commanding presence. His features were angular and prominent. He had a fair complexion, with keen, expressive black eyes. In later years he was bald; at no time of his life did he wear a beard. Though endowed with a constitution naturally by no means robust, he became injured to hardship and exhibited astonishing powers of endurance. In matters of dress, he was particular to the verge of effeminacy. Here is a Bad One The American goshawk is the fiercest, most destructive, and most daring of all the hawks, says Nature Magazine. Because its breeding range is far north and it is fewer in number than the Cooper, the aggregate damage to poultry is less; though grouse and other game birds suffer greatly, mammals and insects are also taken. Because of the coloring, the depredations of the young birds are often laid to the harmless redtail. Showing Off It was a children's Christmas party and tea having been consumed each child was asked to sing or give a recitation. All went well until it came to Tommy Jones' turn. "Come along, Tommy, we would like to hear you sing." "I can't sing, but I'll fight any other kid in the room," was the startling reply. MINNEAPOLIS ADVERTISERS Chitterling and Chicken Dinner By the Colored Women's Pioneer Economic Club 4 to 11 P. M., FEBRUARY 14, 1927 Valentine Evening at Phyllis Wheatley House 808 Bassett Place, Minneapolis Dinner Prepared and Served by Mrs. R. B. Moulden Friday Evening, Feb. 18, 1927 Prizes to Winners AT MINNEAPOLIS COLISEUM, 27th and LAKE ST. REMEMBER THE DATE, Minneapolis Friends and St. Paul Friends ON MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14th AT THE SOUTH SIDE AUDITORIUM Layers of Warm and Cold Waters in Lakes It has been found that some of the salt lakes in Hungary present the peculiarity of a layer of warm, or even hot, salt water between two bodies of colder water. Thus, in the Medoc lake, the surface temperature in summer is about 70 degrees, but at a depth of a little more than four feet the temperature becomes 133 degrees, declining again to 66 degrees at the bottom. The surface water is fresh, but the warm water beneath is intensely saline, and the explanation of the difference of temperature is that, since the specific heat of salt water is less than that of fresh water, the salt water is more easily heated by the sun, and, having risen to a higher temperature than that of the overlying fresh water, retains its heat, because the fresh water prevents its escape by radiation. It is suggested that some use might be found for these natural reservoirs, or accumulators, of solar heat Rondo Barber Shop First Class Hair Cutting Special Attention to Ladies and Children Private Entrances and Private Booths for Ladies SHAMPOOING & MASSAGING W. M. CASSIUS—Prop. DALE AND RONDO STREETS E. N. Martin L. R. Blair And You Are Next All the Time At Our New Location Santtary Tonsorial Parlor 709 RONDO STREET Manicurist St. Paul, Minn. RIDE IN COMFORT COSBY'S DE LUXE AUTO & TAXI SERVICE Seven Passenger Sedans Low Meter Rates Dale 1966—Phones—Dale 7175 587 Rondo St. SIMPSON The Reliable are now located in their bea- Office Phone—Cedar 1024 Residence Phones Tel. Dale 1914 Tel. Dale 2541 MINNEAPOLIS CARD 8 to 11 Chitterling and By the Colored Women 4 to 11 P. M., FE Valentine Evening at 808 Bassett Pl Dinner Prepared and Serv The Better Will S GRAND BALL and BLA Friday Evening, Feb. 18, 1923 AT MINNEAPOLIS COLLE Music by Al. Freeman's All Members and Friends Invited Frank Clark, President Dancing From 8:30 to 1:30 REMEMBER THE DATE, Minneap ON MONDAY EVENING AT THE SOUTH S Special Features: GRAND CASH PRIZE AND O ADMISSION 50 CENTS Phone—South 7954 W. SQUI Jumeral 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 DON'T MISS IT! ATTEND THE BE THERE! LADIES MINSTREL ST. PAUL ECHO ning DON'T MISS LAD Given By Many Pretty Legends Concerning the Poppy The poppy has been the symbol of death since the time the son of Tarquinus Superbus asked his father what should be done with the people of a conquered city. Tarquin did not reply, but going into the garden he slashed off the heads of the largest poppies, thereby commending the massacre of the most influential citizens. The color of the poppy, resembling blood, also symbolizes death. When Persephone was stolen by Pluto her mother, Seres, searched for her day and night. The gods, pitying her and unable to restore Persephone, caused poppies to spring about her feet. She inhaled their heavy, bitter scent, and put the seeds into her mouth, and presently sleep closed her eyelids and she gained that rest which her weary body needed. The state flower of California is a brilliant yellow poppy, which shines on the mountain slopes under which gold lies hidden. The Saxon name for poppy is "popig." It used to be a custom in olden days to strike a poppy petal in the hands to ascertain whether a lover was faithful or not. If it broke it signified that he was unfaithful, but if it held together and made a noise it showed he was true. Explaining Small Checks Checks may be drawn for less than $1, though there is a federal law stating that they are not lawful. Many individuals and even governments, make checks for an amount less than $1, but they are not intended to circulate, being only intended to pay the amount of the check to the person the check is made payable to. A check is not lawful money and consequently cannot be passed as lawful money. A check is a personal credit instrument used in place of money. RASKINS Cut Price Fruit, Grocery and Meat Markets Store No. 1—931 University Store No. 2—397 No. Dale St. Phones—Dale 1014—Dale 2465 & WILLS Morticians faitful new mortuary chapel 17 West Exchange Street ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA ADVERTISERS PARTY P. M. and Chicken Dinner Pioneer Economic Club FREBRUARY 14, 1927 Phyllis Wheatley House Fice, Minneapolis ed by Mrs. R. B. Moulden Music Club sponsor a BLOCK BOTTOM CONTEST 7 Prizes to Winners EUM, 27th and LAKE ST. Black and Gold Orchestra Free Checking Until 10 P. M. Harry Freeman Sec.-Treas. Admission 50 Cents Collis Friends and St. Paul Friends NG, FEBRUARY 14th IDE AUDITORIUM CAKE-WALK AND BALL CAKE GIVEN AWAY Ruth Walker, Chairman Established 1905 Minneapolis, Minn. 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. World Made Brighter "There is a little old lady on our street," writes C. F. W., "who creates sunshine for the whole neighborhood, and I felt that her story might interest your readers. "The day is brighter for everyone when she elects to go downtown. She is short and plump and there is a kind and gay twinkle in her eyes. The street car and bus crews call her 'Mother,' and though she lives in a nice house on a nice street, and wears good clothes, she evidently likes it. She shatters all the rules of traffic, but the hardest boiled motorist slows up to let her pass. All the other passengers in the cars and busses have to wait until she is safely and tenderly helped aboard. The conductor personally conducts her to the door when she gets off. All the passengers responded to her smiling 'Good morning,' spoken to the world in general, although no one seems to know her name. "I wish that when I grow old everyone might be so glad to see me and to serve me, and I'm going to put in the intervening years trying to cultivate a winning smile like my little old lady's and overcome my present aversion to being called 'Mother' by the hol polol. I shall have to exchange snobbishness for winniness if I am to be the sunshine of the neighborhood when I grow old, will I not?"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Departed Hero Now there is no place in the modern novel for the hero. The novelist maintains, not without irritation, that it is none of his doing; he has no choice but to write of things as they are, and he finds no hero in modern life to occupy the place. "Tono Bungay" set the pattern for a whole school of novelists, until Dorothy Richardson and James Joyce broke it again. In "Tono Bungay" H. G. Wells gave to his principal character, young Ponderevo, a reasoned excuse for his inadequacy in the heroic role: "I began with the supposition that life consisted in doing things. I discovered that it consisted in having things done to me."—Isabel Paterson in the Bookman. Your Profession It is in the nature of man to abuse his own profession. In his own profession he realizes his limitations, but he blames them upon the profession and not upon himself. On the other hand, seeing things from outside, he imagines that other professions are easier than his own and that if he had entered one of them he would have gone higher. In his own profession he is inclined to note only the failures; in the others his eyes are on the successes. Between disloyalty to his profession and disloyalty to himself he instinctively chooses disloyalty to his profession—Baltimore Sun. Odd Fellows Old Order The "Odd Fellows," as such, were formed in the Eighteenth century, but with the intermediate link of the trade guilds they stretch back to Roman times. From a marble monument found at Lanurium, near Rome, it is clear that the practice of combination for providing decent burial, and periodically spending a convivial time in each others' company, was a feature of the life of the ancient Romans, and those two objects (with others) have always been part of Odd Fellowship. Some, indeed, contend that the Roman legions founded lodges, in Britain—London Mail. Heroic Roman Figure Cincinnatus was one of the favorite early heroes of the Roman republic. In the year 460 B. C. he was elected consul, the chief executive officer of Rome. Two years later, in time of great national danger, he was chosen dictator or supreme commander to lead the army against the nation of Gauls, or modern France, that was threatening Italy. The messenger sent to tell him of his elevation to the dictatorship found him plowing on his little farm. He put on his toga, the robe of a Roman citizen, to listen to the reading of his commission, and then he went to Rome and took command. He decisively defeated the enemy, and 16 days later he was at home again at work on his farm. 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. FOR SALARY LOANS SEE ANDREW A. MURPHY 312 Builders Exchange Blvd. On 1095 Y. W. C. A. NOTES A farewell surprise party was given by the Wide Awake Triangle last week for Gladys Fox, president of the club, who has since left for her_new home, Los Angeles, Calif. The Triangle will miss so faithful and loyal a leader. What Does the Future Come to the MYSTIC VAR Given by ELKS' SOCIAR Como Temple 128, at ELKS' MONDAY EVENING REFRESHMENTS AND A Readings by Gra- Lillian Coleman, Mist Admission 35 Cents SERIAL The M. W. C. Club Announces T at a Ser- MONDAY EVENI The Pla Beautiful Oxford Oxford and Grand MUSIC BY JOE PEYER Admission 50c WALT 25c=25c Will List You As A Paid Sub How race pr What co-op have about? The St. F was an in- Life of Booke Is the Future Hold in Store? MYSTIC VALENTINE DAY SOCIAL SESSION C at ELKS' REST, 207 W. EVENING, FEBRUARY ENTS AND ASTROLOGICAL dings by Graduate Astrologo soleman, Mistress of Social RIAL DANCE Announces That It Will Eve at a Serial Dance DAY EVENING, FEBRU The Place Is the Ful Oxford Ball Dancing DE PEYER'S 8-PIECE C WALTER MINOR, C 25c List As A Subscrii How about ace pride? What abo o-operati have been about? St. Paul What Does the Future Hold in Store for Me? Come to the MYSTIC VALENTINE DANCE and See Given by ELKS' SOCIAL SESSION COMMITTEE Como Temple 128, at ELKS' REST, 207 W. Central Avenue MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1927 REFRESHMENTS AND ASTROLOGICAL READINGS Readings by Graduate Astrologist Lillian Coleman, Mistress of Social Sessions Admission 35 Cents Good Music SERIAL DANCE The M. W. C. Club Announces That It Will Entertain Its Friends at a Serial Dance MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21 The Place Is the Beautiful Oxford Ball Room Oxford and Grand Dancing From 9 to 1 A. M. MUSIC BY JOE PEYER'S 8-PIECE ORCHESTRA Admission 50c WALTER MINOR, Committee Chairman Will List You As A Paid Subscriber How about your race pride? What about that co-operation we have been hearing about? The St. Paul Echo 614 Court Block Cedar 1879 On Drawin A committee of three f puzzled as to what would be drawing a crowd to one of the nwing a of three from a large c at would be the most ec to one of their coming e t hard bills the second --- A committee of three from a large organization was puzzled as to what would be the most economical way of drawing a crowd to one of their coming events. One suggested passing out hand bills, the second said, "Mail out circulars" while the third simply said, "Newspaper." To say the least the last suggestion is the most logical. When you realize you get the three suggestions combined which is "Triple Service" for the cost of one. When claims of economy in advertising are set forth remember this, in the first place, the one way among many ways to get advertising at a low cost is to use the newspaper that creates and offers "Triple Service." Your ideas can be portrayed and conveyed to more than 7,000 readers through THE ST.PAULECHO THE RACE'S YOUNGEST GREAT NEWSPAPER Union Hall Aurora At 8 O'clock Admission 35 Cents teresting speaker at the joint Vesper service Sunday. A vocal solo by Mrs. Mabel Brown and violin selection by Victoria Stokes were highly enjoyed. The Book Lovers' club will meet Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 p. m. Mrs. B. H. Miller will review the Life of Booker T. Washington. Hold in Store for Me? ENTINE DANCE and See SESSION COMMITTEE REST, 207 W. Central Avenue FEBRUARY 14, 1927 ESTROLOGICAL READINGS Graduate Astrologist Press of Social Sessions Good Music DANCE What It Will Entertain Its Friends Final Dance FEBRUARY 21 Is the Bord Ball Room Dancing From 9 to 1 A. M. S 8-PIECE ORCHESTRA TER MINOR, Committee Chairman 5c=25c Subscriber Know about your ride? At about that eration we been hearing Paul Echo ing a Crowd from a large organization was the most economical way of their coming events... One sug- s, the second said, "Mail out imply said, "Newspaper." PAGE THREE 4 COMING ATTRACTIONS Episcopal Ladies' Dinner, Feb. 23. Chicken and chitterlings. Keep off date of May 5. A May Pole to be given by Kings Daughters Circle. Card Party, Elks' Hall, 6th and Lyndale, Golden Circle. Feb. 18th. $2.50 gold piece, 1st prize. Admission 15 cents. Clareta Jackson, Chairman. Clover Leaf Charity Club will give a card party Feb. 24th at Pioneer Hall, 588 Rondo St. Prizes. Tickets 25 cents. Lunch Free. Don't miss the Spanish-American Auxiliary Card Party, Tuesday, Feb. 22nd, at 8:30 p. m., at Old Capitol. Prizes worth while. PHYLLIS WHEATLEY NOTES The Girl Scouts will hold their first Program of Investiture next Friday evening, February 18. We are proud that the troop had grown to 20 members. The parents are especially urged to be present. A social evening is being prepared for both young and older folks. The Glee club will sing Sunday, February 13, at the Central Y. W. C. A., St. Paul, on a program arranged for Inter-Racial Sunday. The Dostaler Girls' club entertained 50 children at a Valentine Party Saturday afternoon at the Center. As always, the kiddies had a glorious time. This group of girls have proved themselves stuncheftriends of the House, and this is only one of a large number of parties that have been given for the children during the year. The Postal Alliance meets the first Sunday of each month. Enlightened postal employees are availing themselves of the opportunity of becoming a part of this beneficial organization. The unusually large crowd who attended Forum Sunday afternoon were well pleased with the fine program presented. Remember, the Forum meets the first and third Sundays of each month. Miss Brown appeared on the program Saturday afternoon at the Young People's Conference held at Fourth Baptist Church. Her address was on "Relationship of Races." The Better Music club gave a dance at the House Friday evening. This is the group known as the Black and Gold Orchestra. The Intermediate Girls lost their game with Wells Tuesday evening. Miss Brown addressed the young people of Fourth Baptist Church Sunday at their early evening meeting. NORTH CAROLINA MAN SAYS HE IS FATHER OF 42 Burlington, N. C., Feb. 10—Tom Moore, Orange County, father of 42 children and his second wife, mother of the last 24, paid Burlington a visit Monday, shopping for some time in the business district. Moore, who is 70 years old, but could pass for 45, said he was not considering entering his claim as champion sire because the system to handle vital statistics was not so highly perfected when his family was coming along. His second, no doubt could associate with one of her younger step-daughters as a sister. She looks quite young. ELK OFFICIAL REMOVED New Orleans, La., Feb.—(By the Associated Negro Press). Aaron A. B. Chatters, grand district deputy for Southern Louisiana of the I. B. P. O. Elks, has been removed from office by Grand Exalted Ruler J. Finley Wilson, of Washington, D. C., and Crescent Lodge No. 299 reinstated pending the decision of W. D. Thomas, acting deputy stationed at Southern University, this state. Join the Northwestern Negro Business and Professional Men's Association. Call the St. Paul Echo, Cedar 1879, 614 Court Block. WANT ADS Bring Results Classified Advertising Rates— All Classified Ads Payable in Advert Three cents per word; minimum charge thirty cents. MRS. T. H. LYLES UNDERTAKER FOR SALE—Home-made jellies, preserves, pickles and relishes, reasonable. 445 University. TWO 6-room heated flats, $12.00 to $35.00 per month. 319-329 Farrington Ave. F. D. McCracken, agent. Cedar F. D.349. Well Was He Called "I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction to the sentiments of others, and all positive assertions of my own," wrote Benjamin Franklin in his autobiography. "I even forbid myself the use of every word or expression in the language that imported a fixed opinion, such as certainly, undoubtedly, etc, and I adopted, instead of them, I conceive, I apprehend, or I imagine a thing to be so or so; or it so appears to me at the present. When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the pleasure of contradicting him abruptly, and of showing immediately some absurdity in his proposition; and in answering I began by observing that in certain cases or circumstances his opinion would be right, but in the present case there appear'd or seem'd to me some difference, etc. I soon found the advantage of this change in my manner; the conversation I engag'd in went on more pleasantly. The modest way in which I propos'd my opinions procur'd them a reader reception and less contradiction; I had less mortification when I was found to be in the wrong, and I more easily prevail'd with others to give up their mistakes and join with me when I happened to be in the right." Mother-in-Law Gives Voice to Reflections "I thought a while that Harold was going to get out to the golf course alone, but just as he was leaving Minnie's new trousers were delivered. "Lamech and I lived happily together many years, but he never played a game of any kind after we were married except once. We went to the volunteer fireman's picnic and he played baseball for two or more minutes. He was laid up four days. "Minnie's husband works harder at his play than he does his job. Lamech used to watch the weather signs to keep from losing his crops. Many's the time his rheumatic knee has given him warning to get the hay in off the south forty. In the spring and summer Harold reads the forecasts to see if the weather is likely to be bad enough to make him go to the office. "Of course, Minnie makes him take his recreations seriously. I've noticed a woman who can wear sport clothes usually advocates golf for her husband. But If Minnie isn't any better swinging a club than she is a broom it is a waste of all-wool cloth to put her on the links."—Exchange Strictly Business A celebrated Welsh basso profundo, after years of fame, returned to his native village in the wilds of Cardi-ganshire. A charity concert was arranged, and the world-famous virtuoso was billed to sing "The Village Blacksmith." Just before the concert a local supporter came around to the artist's dressing room. The visitor approached the artist and sald: "I understand that you are going to sing a song, 'The Village Blacksmith.' Well, I'm telling you now that I am the village blacksmith and I want to say that if by any chance you get an encore, will you shove in an extra verse to say that I also let out bikes on 'ire at sixpence an hour?'—"Taffy Tales From Welsh Wales." Good Reading Good literature has a charm incomparable, but it has also a power immeasurable in the forming or trans; forming of a nation as of an individual character. The people that have the cleanest, healthiest literature will become the cleanest and healthiest people. A good thought wisely expressed and thoughtfully applied is priceless for its endurance. Throw it on the winds and it will find its bourne; sink it in the deepest water and it will reach its haven, for the noblest thoughts are the breath of Almightiness, and remain imperishable to the end of time and beyond.—Exchange. The Crucible The passing over from one year to the next offers opportunity for stocktaking or inventory-making in life. What interest in service has my life yielded? Life has been considered by some one as doing business under the firm name of "Soul & Company." Soul is the senior partner. Body is the associate. January first is the time to set down the income and the outgo of the character, to consider how life's business prospers; to determine whether "Soul & Company" are rich in the coin of heaven or are facing moral insolvency—Cheesman A. Herrick. Party-Line Incident "Whenever my sister called up my mother, as she did every morning at a certain hour, the people downstairs listened in. That led to installing a private line," writes M. G. "A short time afterward a member of the family met one of the eavesdroppers. She said, 'You're not on our party line any more, are you?' The answer was, 'No, ' I'm sorry, said the eavesdropper, 'because we don't get the latest news any more.'" . . . That sort of evened it up.—Capper's Weekly Celebration Passed Up Fourth of July in Vicksburg, Miss., is much the same as any other day. It is the only city in the United States which does not celebrate the Fourth, as it was on that day that the city fell to the Union troops during the Civil war—Detroit News. on Church Sun Dale In 1743 a meridian column was set up in the old Church of St. Sulpice, Paris, for determining the date on which Easter and other church fetes would fall. The column bears a long vertical mark extending down its center; this mark is prolonged on the floor. Together these two lines determine a vertical plane in space, which if sufficiently produced would include the earth's axis and through which the sun would pass at noontime as the earth rotated. In order to make this event visible a small slit was cut through the roof of the church in the same meridian plane. Through it the sunlight penetrated, slanting downward toward the line below, and swept across it at noontime. As Easter approached, the sun's altitude in the heavens increased until the spot of sunlight finally crossed the line at the marked point. Since the other fetes followed Easter by an arbitrary lapse of time, the old meridian column, installed by Maurice de Sully, determined them all—Scientific American. Character Is Shaped by Means of Thought Every day we are becoming more like our thoughts. If they are mean and selfish, we cannot prevent ourselves from becoming so. If they are unclean and evil, our character and conduct will inevitably be shaped by them. It is true that as a man "thinketh in his heart, so he is." As Charles Kingsley says: "Think about yourself; about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, and then to you nothing will be pure. You will spoll everything you touch; you will make sin and misery for yourself out of everything which God sends you; you will be as wretched as you choose, on earth or in heaven either." And on the other hand, loving thoughts will produce loving acts, and a generous, kindly way of regarding others in our own minds will bring us to a generous, kindly treatment of them in daily life."Pentecost Herald. Manners and Breeding I make a difference between good manners and good breeding; although, in order to vary my expression, I am sometimes forced to confound them. By the first I only understand the art of remembering and applying certain settled forms of behavior. But good breeding is of a much larger extent; for besides an uncommon degree of literature sufficient to qualify a gentleman for reading a play, or a political pamphlet, it takes in a great compass of knowledge; no less than that of fighting, dancing, gaming, making the circle of Italy, riding the great horse, and speaking French, not to mention some other secondary or subaltern accomplishments, which are more easily acquired.—Jonathan Swift. Post-Facto Postcards The acme of preparation was attained by a woman whom the Boston Herald tells about. She had gone to a hospital to undergo an operation. Before the surgeon arrived she asked for two postal cards, wrote a short message on each, addressed them both to her husband and asked the nurse to mail the one it was best to mail the next day. The nurse glanced at the cards and saw that one of them read as follows: "My dear husband: I have had the operation and am doing nicely. Will be at home in a week or two." On the other card was written: "My dear husband: I have had the operation and am sorry to tell you that I did not survive." Cassowary's Vengeance A cassowary in New Guinea, after a formal magistrate's inquiry, was convicted of murdering two human beings. The criminal had been tethered in a native village as a pet, and no doubt, had been thoroughly teased. Breaking away, it nursed its grievance in the bush until full grown. Then it came back and made war on the natives. A man named Tauno was killed in his own garden, and his mother, who went to look for him, was also murdered. Such was the terrorism caused by the cassowary that people in the village were ordered not to go out alone. Soft Bed Saves Sleep If you earn your living mainly by brain work, you can save at least two hours of rest every night by sleeping on a good, soft bed. Such is the conclusion reached by Dr. Donald A. Laird of the department of psychology, Colgate university, following a series of experiments with students. By measurements of mental reactions in terms of calories, says Popular Science Monthly, he found that a soft bed will build as much mental energy in six hours as a hard bed will build in eight. China's Olympic Games More than 3,000 years ago China had gladiators who met in a contest somewhat like the modern Olympic games. These gladiators amused and thrilled the crowds not only with fancy juggling, but with real encounters between champions, one defending himself with a sclimitar while the challenger tried to plunge a long spear into a body. Their skill would hold the audience breathless. There is an effort on to revive these feats of skill and strength. Much on Environment In order permanently to cure a child of nervousness it is necessary to remove the underlying cause, not merely to alleviate the distressing symptoms, declares Dr. Frank Howard Richardson in Hygela Magazine. This will probably involve some change in the environment, for it is recognized that environmental influences affect a child so much that they will greatly modify any mental condition, no matter how bad. LONG-F The WRAPPING Keeps it Clean and Fresh ophy who loves to definition of frozen mu- mous wom- While this is encouraging, there will be plenty of difficulty in many cases. If a companion, a teacher, a brother or a sister is at the bottom of the nervous condition, the change may easily be made. However, in many cases the child's nervousness is really due to a jealous or tyrannical father or to a weak, pampering mother. It is almost hopeless to alter the environment resulting from such parental disturbances. In all cases it is up to the parents to provide the proper atmosphere and environment for their children's development. Otherwise no amount of treatment by physician or psychiatrist will be of any avail. It is Mmme, de Stael who loves to quote that imminible definition of Schelling, "architecture is frozen music." It is she, the most famous woman of her century, who finds that "for women glory is only a brilliant mourning worn for happiness," and that "everything which does not touch one's heart leaves one's life free." On a profounder subject she says: "The mystery of existence is the connection between our sins and our sorrows. I have never done a wrong which has not been the cause of a misfortune;" and, "One must take care, if one can, that the decline of this life be the youth of the next. To forget self without ceasing to be interested in others gives the soul something of the divine."—From "The Women of the Salons," by S. G. Tallantyre. It'S Long Lasting Qualities Make It Economical $15^750 WILLIAMS Hard Coal OZARK A child, who is in the first grade at school, returned home one evening, and, at the dinner table, repeated a riddle that she had heard at school that day. d up in a there was t would he s of unsuc- the answer, "gave up" F. D. Williams Coal Co. 63 East 4th Street Cedar 3236 "If a man were locked up in a house for two weeks, and there was no food in the house, what would he eat?" After a few minutes of unsuccessful attempts to guess the answer, the members of the family "gave up" and requested the solution. "Why, he would eat the raisins on the calendar and drink the milk from the bed," replied the child. The answer had been: "The dates on the calendar and water from the springs in the bed." One day while riding on a crowded street car I noticed a woman standing in the throng struggling with many bundles and a baby. Thinking of being of some assistance, I inquired, "Can't I relieve you of some of your bundles?" To my surprise, she handed me the baby. My bachelor dignity was already at the zero point, but when I noticed a group of giggling girls who were students in my class at the city high school my mortification was complete. I assure you my embarrassment did not end with the incident.—E. N. A. B., In Chicago Tribune. Where Does Y You Can Help Make A News- Paper If you and do n him why race new If you the Echo that will in the co lished, us coupons bills when literature es Your Money Go! Where Does Your Money Go! If you are trading with a merchant and do not see his ad in this paper, ask him why he does not advertise in your race newspaper. If you are willing to co-operate with the Echo and help build up a newspaper that will fight for the interest of its race in the community in which it is published, use the coupons below. 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