St. Paul Echo

CLARENCE JOHNSON'S famous Nighthawks will appear at the Coliseum, the world's largest dance floor, Monday evening, March 7. VOL.2, NO.17 KENWOOD ARMORY TO HOUSE NOTED TENOR'S CONCERT KENWOOD ARMORY TO HOUSE NOTED TENOR'S CONCERT Roland Hayes, Greatest Artist of Race Obtains Fame by Determination. Meets Many Obstacles Recently Returned from Successful Concert Tour of Europe. Roland Hayes, noted tenor and today the greatest artist of our race, has reached the pinnacle of fame by sheer determination to achieve success in spite of obstacles and hardships. Possibly no novel written is more sensational than the bare narrative of the career of this artist who is to sing Sunday evening, March 6th, at the Kenwood Armory, Mr. Hayes is to be presented by Mrs. Carlyle Scott. He will be accompanied by Mr. William Lawrence, who is a pianist of rare ability. Only a short time ago Mr. Hayes was a poor farm boy in Georgia working at odd jobs, and, in fact, any kind of work in order to educate himself while supporting his family. He sang as he worked and people noticed his voice which not only contained the mellow sweetness characteristic of our race, but was entirely different and remarkable. Fired with ambition, Roland Hayes concentrated everything upon training it. Appears in Europe. Encouraged to try his fortunes in Europe, he went to London in 1920, where he barely managed to finance a recital. He was rewarded by immediate success, drawing the musical attention of England. He sang fifteen more recitals that season to packed London audiences. All musical Europe was talking about the new tenor and he whose voice was as silk, whose French and German songs were impeccable and a model for the singers of those countries. Roland Hayes' tour of America in 1923 will not soon be forgotten. It had seemed in Europe that a tenor could not be more in demand or more highly praised. But so it proved. This and the subsequent tour could scarcely heighten his fame but have extended through our southern and western states and into Canada. There have been overflowing audiences at concert after concert. In December of last year when he appeared at the University Armory sponsored by Mrs. Scott, more than 3,000 persons applauded for half an hour at the close of his concert hoping that he would give one more number. Demonstrations took place when he appeared with leading Symphony orchestras, numberless eulogies and articles in leading magazines, lauded him. Remains Natural. Surrounded by praise from critics the world over, Roland Hayes remains simple and modest, sober of bearing, level-headed, in a word—himself. If he dwelt on it, he would doubtless be appalled by the importance the world has made of him. But he is simply absorbed in his art and true to it. Intent only on singing, he has made it about the finest in the world. And this singing of itself has placed him among the great. ONE YEAR AGO THIS WEEK One of our leading evangelists, Sister N. B. Tribble of St. Louis, Mo., was a visitor of the Twin Cities. The Roosevelt Relief Corp gave a silver tea in honor of the G. A. R. at the old Capitol. Rev. W. H. Griffin, pastor of St. James church arrived home from New Orleans, Louisiana, where he attended the Bishops Conference. The Minneapolis local Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. held a public meeting at Bethesda Baptist church at 3:30 p. m. The Triangle club of Postal clerks gave a smoker in honor of Mr. L. White who transferred to the Philadelphia office. The St. Paul Echo Minn Historical Society Minn Historical Bldg St Paul Minn Past Exalted Rulers Council No.32, Elks of Minnesota, Holding Ball at Lake St. Coliseum Butler College Professor To Address N.A.A.C.P. Conference The Past Exalted Rulers Council No. 32. I. B. P. O. E. of Minnesota will give their second grand ball at the beautiful and attractive Lake street Coliseum, corner of 27th avenue and Lake St. Minneapolis, Monday evening February 28th. The council's membership consists of men who have already served as Exalted Rulers in the fraternal order of Elks and are very active in promoting the ideals of Elkdom in their organizations. The Messers J. B. Levy, H. Hunter, B. M. McDew, J. F. Coquire, Walter Dodson, F. B. Simpson, J. E. Sizer, J. L. Ervin, G. W. Bryant, Chas. H. SURVEY OF NEGRO COLLEGES STARTS A Large Number of Presidents of Negro Schools Urged A New Estimate. Washington, D. C., Feb. 25—A national survey of Negro colleges and universities will be made by the United States Bureau of Education, it has been announced. The survey is expected to evaluate the work of 138 institutions, scattered throughout the nation. The Bureau plans also to make a special survey of the seventeen Negro land-grant colleges, as a part of the general land-grant inquiry authorized by Congress. The general survey will include sources of financial support, training of staffs, size and character of bodies and the admission and graduation standards. The bureau explains: "Marked progress has been made in many Negro schools during the last ten years. A large number of the presidents of Negro colleges have urged that a new estimate of their work be made in order that progress may be measured and interpreted in terms of changing standards." BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH Bethel A. M. E. church had a large attendance last Sunday to hear a visiting pastor of the city. Rev. J. S. Strong is doing a great spiritual work. We invite you to come and help. Clarence Darrow Also Accepts Invitation to Speak at Annual Meet to be Held In Indianapolis. Howard P. Jensen, Professor of Sociology at Butler College, and a member of the National Crime Commission, has accepted an invitation to address the 18th Annual Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to be held in Indianapolis June 22-28. Clarence Darrow has also accepted an invitation to address the Sunday mass meeting of the Conference. There is a great demand to hear Mr. Darrow among both white and colored people in Indiana. Other speakers who have accepted invitations include: Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, who will speak of race problems as they affect colored women; Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, who will lecture on Russia and the Far East; William Pickens, who will tell of his recent European tour. Invitations are being sent to distinguished white representatives of the liberal South whose names will be announced when the invitations are accepted. As the largest colored church in Indianapolis seats only 1,100, mass meetings of the N. A. A. C. P. Conference will probably be held in Caleb Mills Hall, which is convenient to both white and colored residents of Indianapolis. A larger attendance of white people than heretofore is expected at the Indianapolis Conference. Branches are urged at the earliest possible moment to notify the National Office of delegates who are to attend the Conference. ST. PAUL-MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1927 Miller, Dr. Val Do Turner, J. R. Young, W. B. Walker, L. B. Greer, Eugene Watts, R. S. Harris, George Hall, F. G. Thomas R. D. Wiley, B. H. Berry, R. S. Harris, E. L. Boyd, A. J. Todd, W. T. Thurston, Wm. R. Morris, L. C. McCullough, Talmage B. Carey, C. W. Wiginton, L. C. Jackson, J. B. Levy, Talmage B. Carey, J. E. Steward, Chairman, announces that every effort will be put forth to make this engagement an enjoyable one. Clarence Johnson's orchestra will play in their luring way and the admission will be 50 cents. Colored Y.W.C.A SponsorsMartha Washington Tea The Y. W. C. A. Center was the scene of the Fourth annual Martha Washington Tea given by the Committee of Management Tuesday Feb 22nd from 3 to 6 p. m. Red, white and blue predominated in the artistic decorations in the assembly room and at the tea table which was presided over by Messames W. B. Tandy, O. C. Hall, Paul Caldwell, Henry Maxwell, Clarence Roper and R. F. Wilson. Each guest was presented with a miniature hatchet as a souvenir of the occasion. An especially fine program was arranged by Mrs. Bertha Lewis King and consisted of a berta solo, Miss Gloria Griffin; vocal solo, Mrs. Parker; Minuet, Miss Mildred Artis and Rosamond Collier; Old-fashioned steps, Misses Janice Wright and Marjorie McKinney, (pupils of Mrs. Freda Jackson). Reading, Mrs. Bettie Jones; solo, Mrs. Gladys Harris; reading, Miss Anselina Faster; plano selections, Prof. Weir. MINNEAPOLIS N. A. A. C. P. The February meeting of the Minneapolis branch of the N. A. A. C. P. will be held Sunday afternoon at the Phyllis Wheatley House at 3:30 o'clock. We are urging every member as well as all others to attend this meeting. Arrangements are being made for our annual spring drive and other matters of interest to our group will be discussed. Wm. M. Smith, pres. W. C. Jeffrey, chairman publicity and meetings. Twin City Community Workers on Committee A selected committee of Twin City club members are acting on the committee of arrangements of the Twin City Community Workers' Spring Frolic to be given at the Coliseum, Lexington near University Ave., St. Paul, on Monday, March 7th. Mrs. Mabel Harris, chairman of the committee, says that she wants one or more representatives from every club and organization in the Twin Cities. With the special arrangements made to have Clarence Johnson's augmented Night Hawks this event is expected to top the climax of all social affairs given in the Twin Cities. ELKS SPONSOR NATIONAL ORATORICAL CONTEST The Elks Gopher Lodge No. 105 announces a National oratorical contest to be held by the Grand Lodge I. B. P. O. E. of the World, under the direction of W. C. Hueston, commissioner of education and director of contests. Gopher Lodge has appointed Geo. Hamilton, chairman and I. Jackson secretary of the committee in charge of the local contest. High school students not over 19 years of age are eligible to compete in the contest. Dates of the contest will be announced later. It's Coming! Make an engagement to go to the Twin Cities' largest event, to be held Monday night, March 7th, at the Coliseum, Lexington and University Aves, St. Paul. NEW COMMERCIAL STEAMSHIP LINE PUTSROTERO HEAD Legal Battle Between Rival Factions Causes New Company. Line Runs To Liberia Progressive Element Desert Corporation as Means of Settling. (Pacific Coast News Bureau) Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. 25.—In a final effort to free themselves of the troublesome influence of Rev. J. E. Lewis, Negro preacher, founder and erstwhile head of the Liberian Transportation Steamship & Excelsior Mining Company, a $50,000 California Corporation, the progressive element, under the leadership of Charles Rotero, recently elected President of the Corporation, announce their withdrawal from the present Corporation and their intention of organizing an entirely new commercial steamship organization eliminating the illustrious Rev. James Edward Lewis. No Back to Africa Movement. "We have no intention whatsoever to foster a "back to Africa" colonization movement," declared Mr. Rotero, a native of the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma and a mining engineer formerly connected with the Los dos Amigos Co. of Mexico. "We have under way the establishment of a commercial steamship line that will operate freight steamers only between Monrovia, Liberia via the Panama Canal to United States and Canadian Pacific Coast ports, carrying as exports lumber, canned fish, and manufactured articles. In return we will bring palm or palm kernels, cocoa, beans, ginger and other commodities." "We are also opposed," continued Mr. Rotero, "to the purchase of the steamer 'Chiapas', 905 tons and 300 feet long, for $125,000, as was the intention of Rev. Lewis; when we know that other ships of the same line have been offered to others for $50,000 less." ATTORNEYS AGAIN DENOUNCE SMITH Names Used in a Manner to Mislead the Public, They Allege. The attention of the public is called to the fact that we lawyers would not have published any statement concerning Mr. O. J. Smith's meeting at Pilgrim Baptist Church if he had not used our names in a manner which we believe was intended to mislead the public; and further, we objected to his plan because he proposed to charge an admission fee of fifty cents and furnish lunch at a Sunday afternoon meeting in a church to hear tribute to our honored dead. That we were right in that objection is shown by the fact that many of those who went to the meeting and there for the first time were told of the price charged (no admission fee having been stated in his published announcement) refused to pay and left. While others, paying under protest, voiced their disapproved so vehemently that the admission charge was withdrawn, some paying and some not paying. We share equally the responsibility for the appearance of the article and we were acting collectively and not individually. Signed, HAMMOND TURNER, J. DOUGLAS CRANE, W. T. FRANCIS WAYMON A. HAYNES, J. LOUIS ERVIN, GEO. W. HAMILTON, JAS. A. HARRIS, B. S. SMITH, WM. R. MORRIS. GALE P. HILYER, GLESNER FOWLER. Make an engagement to go to the Twin Cities' largest event, to be held Monday night, March 7th, at the Coliseum, Lexington and University Aves., St. Paul. --- ATTORNEY FRANCIS REPLIES WITH LETTER "Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." In this issue of your paper will be found a letter addressed to you by O. J. Smith, a misguided youth who apparently does not know right from wrong. The statements contained in his letter are so filled with falsehood and error as to entitle him to an official position in the famous Ananias Club. His many inaccuracies indicate that through youth and inexperience he jumps at hasty and erroneous conclusions, using harsh and uncultured language. The young man's letter is doubtless the result of exaggerated ego and an effort to show the members of the National Bar Association what a big man he is. Some one has said, "What you are speaks so loud that I can't hear what you say." The suggestion for the publication of the statement by the Twin City attorneys did not emanate from me, but was suggested by Mr. Fowler of Minneapolis; I did not talk with or call up any one of the attorneys over the telephone. Mr. Turner, Mr. Ervin, Mr. Crane and Mr. Haynes were very positive in their refusal to cooperate with the young man, and when Mr. Crane saw his name on the printed program and called the young man to account for it, the young man said, "The program was printed when I spoke to you about it." The fact that he claims to have written letters to the lawyers in no way indicates that they consented to his plans or to the use of their names, and the signed statement published by them in this issue is a positive denial that they did. Mr. B. S. Smith, who talked to me personally, while he was in St. Paul, and not over the telephone, said he agreed with Mr. Fowler's suggestion that a public statement be made; that while he was in sympathy with the purpose of the meeting he did not agree with the use of the names by the young man without permission, and had not consented to the use of his name. Mr. Hamilton assisted in framing the statement that was published, and Mr. Ervin stated that such an article should not only be published in the Echo, but also in the white papers. The article published made no reflection whatever on the National Bar Association, nor the purpose of the meeting, although the young man is doing his utmost to create that impression. I am one of the charter members of the National Bar Association and some of my personal friends are deeply concerned in it, and knowing me as they do, they will not be misled by the young man's letter. Miss Helen Hudson of the Y. W. C. A. approached me in December last and secured my promise to speak at the main Y. W. C. A. on the 13th of February, long before I heard of the young man's meeting of that date. On Sunday, February 6, the Chairman of the Municipal Forum asked me to deliver a Lincoln Day address before the Forum on February 13, which I declined to do, telling him that I was engaged for that afternoon, and the publication of my name as one of the speakers for that meeting was done, like the young man published the names of the Twin City attorneys on his program, without knowledge or consent. It is true I have urged and will ever continue to urge the young men of the race to prepare themselves to take advantage of their opportunities, and encouraged and helped them to improve themselves, and I have been quite successful in that regard, many of those young men have reflected credit and honor upon our city, and at this moment I can think of but one exception to the rule. The young man has used names without authority before. Not long ago he used the name of Mrs. Griffin, the wife of Rev. W. H. Griffin, pastor of St. James A. M. E. Church, this city, when he published it with a list of others who were on the Executive Committee of a wet candidate, without authority, and when asked by Rev. Griffin to make a public statement in your paper that he had so used the name, and after promising to publish such a statement, failed to do so, thereby making it necessary for the good pastor to use his pulpit on Sunday morning to publicly denounce the young man. He also used the name of the Exchange National (Continued on page 2) Regional Director Of The National Bar Association Assails Attorney Francis Regional Director Of The National Bar Association Assails Attorney Francis February 15, 1927. St. Paul, Minnesota. Dear Sir: In your issue of February 12, 1927, there appeared an article purported to have been prepared and signed by Attorneys Hammond Turner, Douglas Crane, Wayman Arthur Haynes, George W. Hamilton, W. T. Francis, James A. Harris, Gale P. Hillyer, Glessner Fowler, B. S. Smith, Wm. R. Morris, J. Louis Ervin, Homer K. Cannon, to the citizens, that I, as Regional Director of the National Bar Association, had created an erroneous impression by the use of their names on the program of the National Bar Association, that the entire matter was planned and arranged by O. J. Smith, that they did not subscribe to the methods used by him. May I advise that under date of January 18, 1927, letters were sent out to each attorney in, the Twin Cities, except James A. Harris and W. T. Francis, concerning the program of the National Bar Association, soliciting their co-operation and suggestions to make the event a memorable one. Under date of Jan. 27, another letter was addressed each attorney in the Twin Cities except the two mentioned above, enclosing tickets, subsequently as Regional Director I appointed Miss L. O. Smith of Minneapolis as Deputy Regional Director, who personally discussed Bar matters with the Minneapolis attorneys. I made up an abstract program and personally called upon each and every attorney in St. Paul, except the two mentioned above. On this abstract program I had provided for the participation of every attorney in St. Paul and those of Minneapolis in an effort to make the occasion a success. The abstract program provided various committees and chairmen. I first went to the office of Turner, Crane & Haynes, where I discussed the program, Mr. Turner said he did not feel justified in participating in the program or work because he was not a member it would be taking honor where it was not right, but he would be present. Mr. Crane said he could not serve or come for reasons personal to himself which would be laughable to me, not that he had any feeling against either the Bar Association or me, Mr. Haynes had personally advised me because of his numerous activities at his church he would not have time to devote his attention to the program. I later discussed the matter with Mr. Geo. Hamilton who said he would be there unless the N. A. A. C. P. had its program on that date, he turned to the phone and called Miss Hudson and advised me after the conversation, he could come, but would rather listen than serve. Mr. Ervin had personally advised that because of the illness of Mrs. Ervin he did not care to join the National Bar Association, because it was a segregated organization. This proves my fair attitude toward them, now not one of the attorneys mentioned are members of the National Bar Association except W. T. Francis, and because of that fact I was not compelled for any reason to consult them in Bar matters, as Regional Director, I am not submissive to the dictation of no lawyers, including W. T. Francis, only to the Bar Association and its President. The National Bar Association is an incorporated body and as such with its standard reflects great honor upon any lawyer recognized by it. My reason for permitting the names of all the Negro attorneys of our states to be placed on this program was indeed an effort to be fair; it was a compliment to these men. I did the work and was willing they should share the honor. Mr. Francis was Regional Director of the National Bar Association before me and during his official connection not one of the local attorneys were invited to become members. It was considered by me it was a privilege personal to Mr. W. T. Francis until I received a letter from the Association as did several other attorneys here. The reason our program was changed from Feb. 11 to Feb. 13 was because Mr. Wayman Arthur Haynes came to my office after my SPRINGTIME means cleaning up time, so don't neglect cleaning up that subscription you owe the Echo. PRICE FIVE CENTS calling him and suggested to me that he thought the 13th would be better. I immediately telegraphed the President for authority to change the date and was so authorized by telegraph, yet Mr. Haynes' name was signed to the article. Now the real truth of the matter is this Mr. W. T. Francis called all of the attorneys and personally went to the office of Turner, Crane and Haynes when he suggested opposition to me and the National Bar Association program, Mr. Crane told me Mr. Francis and Atty. Fowler came to their office in the matter. Mr. Ervin told me one had called him and that Mr. Francis called him inquiring whether he was supporting my program and whether he had permitted me the use of his name. Miss L. O. Smith, Deputy Regional Director of Minneapolis, was called by Atty. B. S. Smith of Minneapolis and advised that Mr. Francis had called him inquiring of his attitude and suggesting that an article be placed in the paper opposing the program. This proves the fact that W. T. Francis personally planned and instigated the act; further, not one of the attorneys except probably James A. Harris, Glessner Fowler signed, or even saw the article, but that Francis personally wrote the article, using the names and put it in the St. Paul Echo. As to Mr. Hamilton, I went to his office Saturday. He was not in, so I haven't a word from him. It is shameful indeed that these attorneys were so unethically imposed upon. It is a known fact throughout the county Mr. Francis has continuously insulted, lied and embarrassed me both in the church, in business, and used his friends against me in fraternal matters, jealously, meanness, and ignorance has been constantly apparent, for three years, I have tolerated all his niggy acts, not once have I spoken in defense or one ill word of him, but there is a limit to any man's toleration and I have reached that point. W. T. Francis has committed an act no censure can be to sever, he has betrayed our group, he has besmerched the honored efforts to pay tribute to our honored dead, his effort to embarrass and spoil our meeting was deliberate and malicious and without any reason, other than selfish, just how long are Negroes going to tolerate such acts, he knew these men were not members, he knew that the Bar Association was holding like occasions throughout the country, he knew these meetings were under the Directors and yet he planned and executed this contemplable act. He knew, too, that our church needed funds and he knew this was an effort to help our church, he betrayed the church. I have heard him speak of youth, tell what we should do to inspire youth, it has been nothing but talking when he could consume time and advertise himself as a conspicuous champion of right and throw a few slams at those he did not like, he should eternally be ashamed to ever let a young person hear his repetition of these principles, he has proven to all he is an eloquent liar. It is indeed shameful that at the hour when every citizen should have been helpful in any effort to commemorate our honored dead that one of our own should stoop to such dastardly, contemptable and niggardly acts to spoil, frustrate and cause dissension among us, such conduct is the cause of our present condition, it has kept us in servitude, it has prevented our economic advancement, shattered the morale of our ranks, and has given to youth such few noble examples. Sad indeed is such a condition. The blood that ran through the veins of Douglas runs through the veins of every Negro and if we are proud of his noble examples his gift to our race we should be quick to defend his honor and any attempt to prevent prayerful commemoration of his deeds. W. T. Francis owes every citizen an apology for his conduct, he owes the honored lawyers of our communities an apology for his imposition, as to the Bar Association, they will take care of that without fail. Mr. Francis advertised himself most conspicuously and his supposed speech at the "White" Y. W. C. A. at 4:30 and his supposed speech at the "Municipal Forum" at 3 o'clock, An Independent Negro Weekly Newspaper PUBLISHED BY THE ST. PAUL EGHO COMPANY 614 Court Block ‘Telephone Cedar 1879 St. Paul, Minnesots a, nee ene President and General Manager.———--——-—--------CYRUS L, LEWI* Secretary-Treasurer _------------ BUGENE JACKSON, JR Contributing Editor gcc asia antaigennemmer as WEL Duluth Representative. .Mrs. Wm. A. 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It is absurd to ask a man who has a policy of 15 years standing in a eompany to cancel his policy and buy one in a colored company, but it is good sense to try to persuade him to take out some more insurarice and give this added business to the race, and it is also good sense to try to persuade young people to give all of their business to race companies, Strong insurance companies is one of our principal methods of amassing huge capital for working purposes. ‘The regrettable part of the insurance question is that only one eighth of the policies held by Negroes is with colored companies while the other is with one strong white company and a negligible number of smaller ones. In spite of such a condition our colored companies have given the race big dividends for the money in- vested. They are responsible for the existence of many of the business concerns that operate among us, they are responsible for the thorough training of many Negro business executives, and have been known to come to the rescue of many a property project. When you buy a policy from your race companies you are paving the way for a job for some Negro boy or girl who is now in school. Our companies while they get only one eighth of the whole Negro business they pay back to Negroes more than $500,- 000.00 annually in salaries, they give all kinds of employment to our boys and girls from executive down to janitor, while the white companies make no pretense at giving us any employment save menial, and not even that in many cases. While our companies have only $164,000,000.00 worth of policies on the lives of mem- bers of the race they employ many thousands of the race in all capacities. The sooner we build up giant corporations the sooner we will stop walking the streets begging some white employer for the job that he is going to give his white brother who happens to be out of work the same time we are. To build huge concerns we have to make some arrangements to spend our money within the race. In establishing and conducting religious, social and welfare institutions care should be exercised to avoid fostering unsupport- able or duplicating agencies. One set of people in the community must support all. St, Paul is indeed a large city, but the Colored group is less than 2% of the population. Some institutions that are necessary and can be well supported in other cities of 300,000 inhabitants are wholly out of place here. If our ministers were adequately paid and our churches pro- vided with suitable facilities, we have enough religious organiza- tions to care for twice our Negro population. With lodge halls, old folks homes, clubs, welfare and social organizations we are likewise well provided for, with the exception of one urgent de- mand. Welcome Hall with its dormitory, class rooms and playgrounds is doing a fine job in Christian social center work. The Urban League with an executive secretary who knew well how to cap- italize existing, wholesome contacts, occupies a field unique in itself. The Central Ave. Y. W. C. A. Branch is well located and cares well for a group not touched by other agencies. But none of these many and useful institutions provides the erying need of our youth—a gymnasium. That need is being sup- plied by a committee of ladies cooperating with the Troop Com- mittee of Troop 55, Boy Scouts. The ladies are asking members of the race and friends to give a few dollars each toward this project. There will not be a duplication of the activities of any existing agency. The gymnasium is a community need and will be con- ducted as a community institution. It is probable that no dollar can be invested in the Colored boys and girls of St. Paul that will bring a higher return, It will give us a manhood and womanhood physically strong, mentally alert, morally clean and religiously devout. With those elements we shall conquer. Now is the time for home buying in St. Paul. The family that has saved a few hundred dollars, and is still paying rent, can make big interest on that saving by investing it in St. Paul real estate today. A few years ago St. Paul was 5,000 homes short of the rea- sonable demand. To get housed people paid builders big profits and financeers large commissions for loans. Then came the period of depression. Work got slack. Families moved into smaller quarters or out of town. Houses became vacant. Buyers failed to make payments. Taxes became due and delinquent. All of these conditions and more have thrown valuable property upon the market at from 25% to 40% discount on former prices. Times will get better with warm weather and these properties will regain in demand and value. Our people, with their scanty incomes and small savings must take advantage of every oppor- tunity. This is a rare one. Consult one of your own and an hon- est dealer. All deals are not what they seem. Watch the man who is trying to save you from paying a commission, perhaps he is covering something. Buy now. A month from now things may be different. A home gives standing nothing else can bring you. PAGE TWO SUPPORT NEEDED ACTIVITIES BUY A HOME NOW e time for home buying in St. Paul. 1 ew hundred dollars, and is still pa: rest on that saving by investing it it ars ago St. Paul was 5,000 homes sh GAYETY AND COLOR IN EARLY ENGLAND Solemnity Not a Feature of Medieval Times. ‘The closer we look at medieval Eng- land, the more we shall feel inclined to picture it as young and hardy and Joyous. To begin with, the country was full of color. The churches glowed with stained glass and painted walls; the dresses of the wealthy, men as well as women, were gorgeous and brilliant, and if the peasantry wore more serviceable russets and browns and blues, they usually managed to in- troduce a splash of red or other bright color in thelr hoods or kerchiefs. And the country was full of song. Though the English were not so de- voted to music as the ‘Welsh or the Irish, and though the men of the south country were, even in the ‘Twelfth century, less tuneful than the northerners, yet they were a musical race; and with the singing went danc- ng, and nowhere did the country ance flourish more than in England. Fitzstephen, who wrote a .description of London at the end of the Twelfth century, tells of the dancing in the fields which brought to a close @ hol day. Medieval London was a gay, busy, prosperous city, with ships of all na- tions loading and unloading at the riverside, tradesmen calling their wares ‘and crowds buying and bargaining at the stalls and open shop windows, On occasion, too, business would be sus- pended and the streets thronged with people to watch the king ride by in state, going to be crowned at West- minster abbey or returning from the ‘wars. At such times the houses would be hung with silks and brightly col- ored cloths, in the open spaces would be built-up stages, covered with decora- tlon, on which were fair women In beautiful dresses, representing virtues, ‘sclences or other allegorical figures, who would recite Latin verses for the King’s benefit. In the king’s procession would ride ‘his nobles, gorgeous in silk and vel- ‘vet, their very horses covered with cloth of gold, the mayor and alder- men in scarlet, and four or five hun- dred cltizens, ‘all wearing the same colors. ‘Though such a pageant as @ corona- tlon occurred but rarely, there was every year the excitement of “the marching watch” on the night of Mid- summer eve, when the constables and police patrols assembled fully armed and marched through the principal streets, headed by the mayor and al- dermen and attended by torch-bearers, leach with # straw hat bearing the badge of his company or ward; arch- ers, drums and fifes, and morris dancers ; bonfires blazed in the streets and the houses were gay with gar- lands and bright with lamps—From “Pnglish Life in the Middle Ages,” by L F. Salzman. Infant Prodigy Is Fifty American musie lovers who can turn thelr memories to the time when Joset Hofmann was billed as the “infant prodigy,” will find {t rather difficult to realize that the then youthful pian- Ist 1s today celebrating his fiftieth birthday anniversary. Yet it was on this date in 1877 that Hofmann first saw the light, in the city of Cracow. His father was a musician and com- poser of some note and it was from him that the future renowned pianist received his first musical lessons in Infancy. His progress was so rapid that at the age of seven he attracted the favorable attention of the great Rubenstein. At ten he made his first visit to the United States, but was compelled to abandon his concert tour because of interference by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil- dren, At a later age Hofmann re- turned to America, and has since been heard in cities throughout the coun- try—Kansas City Times. Will Measure Volcano The United States coast and geodet- le survey of the Commerce depart- ment 1s co-operating with the geo- logical survey to determine, by the most accurate survey methods, the ex- act elevation of Mauna Loa, in Ha- wall, reputed to be the highest active voleano in the world. ‘The height has been given as 13,675 feet, but this fig- ure may have to be revised somewhat, since the original survey was not made with a high degree of accuracy. The most imiportant point in the sur- vey, from a scientific standpoint, 1s the question of whether the whole volcan- fe cone {s rising or sinking. This can only be determined by additional ac- curate surveys at intervals of five to ten years and will eventually furnish aclentists with additional information as the “why” of volcanoes. Misprints George Doran, the New York pub- Usher, was talking about misprints. “The funniest misprint on record,” he said, “was of course the one where the shipping editor's caption was placed over the obituary column by mistake, and a long list of obituaries appeared under the headline, ‘Passed Through Hell Gate.’ “But almost as good a misprint was the one about the accident case that ald: “The surgeon felt the patient's purse and said there was no hope.’ “another amusing misprint occurred im the financial column of a morning newspaper. The financial editor was discussing a new gold mine company, and the compositor made him say: “The company is about to offer the public 1,000,000 snares.’” 8ST. PAUL ECHO qramQRDER TO SHOW CAUSE STATE OF MINNESOTA, oF RAMSEY, DI BEC. OND JUDICIAL BE inthe Matter of Applleation of Lydia ‘widow, for the iasuance to ner ofa Certinents of ‘itis for Let. 30 Block io, nice street Villa, ta lieu gd tn Piace of a certitonte number ‘oFiginaily touistorsd by” decree ‘Upon the petition ot the above named dpon ‘of the above mi applicant setting forth that title to the Premises, described. in ‘the ‘certifcat erelnafter referred to has vested In herby Teason of the. foreclomure of & certain, lortsags, and praying for an order directing the Registrar of Tities ofvsaia County to cancel Title ‘Certine eate No. 38101, ‘and. to tasue. in. leu thereof new ‘certifcate inthe name oF the applicant: ‘NOW THEREFORE IT 18 HEREBY QRDERBD, that seid nr Thompson, formerly #rtle Slaughter, and all oth: er persome. interested, “stiow’ cause i Any’ there be before this Court at. the Gourt "House inthe Clty of St." Paul County’ of Ramsey and State of Minne: Sotu, on the bth day. of Mareh, 1927, at Cen "(10)_ o'clock in’ the forenoon: why anid petition and the reliet there: in'Brayea For should not be granted, FURTHER ORDERED, that this or- der ‘be served personally ‘upon. Myrtic Thompson, formerly Myrtle. Slaughter, at least. ton (10) days ‘before the date of hearing, and be published once each Week for two successive weeks in the Be*Bauh, Echo, Dated ‘February 10, 1927. HUGO 0. HANFT, Sudge of District Court, Approved W. b, Westfall. BE"Paul Eetio, Feb. 12-18. Join the Northwestern Negro Busi- ness and Professional Men’s Associa- tion, Call the St. Paul Echo, Cedar 1879, 614 Court Block. “Hold Monday, Feb. 21, for an- other M. W. ©. club serial dance at the Oxford Ballroom.” Aid) = —« am SOME | ee GE EE, F ws a fine thing to know where you can get cash when you need it. Our ser- vice is quick and confiden- tial, We have helped your | friends for years. Ask_| them about the Local Loan Co. 216 Exchange Bank Building Sixth & Minnesota Sts. Tol. 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Convenient to all Car and Bus Lines , Monday Night, March 7th Our Own Alfred Shutte, One of WCCO’S Radio Artists, Will Feature a Number of the Latest Popular Song Hits | ing their own cars there is approxi- ticipate in the fantastic realm listen- mately 5 acres of free parking space ing to the syncopating melody of in connection with Clarence Johnson’s Night Hawks THE COLISEUM FAMOUS ORCHESTRA Doors Open at 8:30 p. m. Come Early and Stay Late ADMISSION 50 CENTS RECEPTION COMMITTEE Gladys Lewis Harris Jimmy Hughes Cecil Young Ward Geraldine Pickett David R. Francis Walter Minor Aimee Hall Ethel M. Ray . Jennie Cason Lezar Claiborne Florence M. Robinson Ruth Walker Notah Wilson Delphine Manning Maxine Shannon Bessie Pierce Mabel Harris, Chai ——————————————— FRENCH PROFITEER NEVER AT A LOSS James B. Beck, the famous lawyer and statesman, said on his return from Brance: “Brench prices don't seem high to ‘Us on account of the exchange, but to the French they must seem awful. Imagine a French widow with an in- come, of 25 francs a day—a fair tn- come before the war—obliged now to ay 25 francs @ pound for ham, “And prices won't céme down. In fact, they are still going up. Any- thing and everything serves as an excuse to put up prices. It's like the story of the water-carrier in the be- sleged French town who was going his rounds and shouting: “‘Water} Fresh water! two francs a bucket!" “Suddenly a bomb whizzed through the air, exploded and knocked one of the buckets out of the man’s hand, but he kept right on with his shout- ing, only he shouted now: “Water! Fresh water! Four francs @ bucket!” “Lesal Tender” Neither a personal check nor a Lib- erty bond is legal tender. Legal ten- der is a quality given a circulating medium by congress, and possessing this quality tt becomes lawful money. All forms of money do not possess full legal-tender qualities, yet each kind has such attributes as to give it currency, and all forms are convertible into standard money. Odd Work of Machines American industries use many odd machines in the production of their commodities, but perhaps the oddest are the machines for testing the power of adhesive tape, the deformation of golf balls under driving stress, the strength of casket handles and the tractive efforts of elephants, Climbing “So your wife is determined to move. What’s her idea?” She's convinced that she can keep up with a more rapid bunch of neigh- bors."—Boston ‘Transcript. ATTORNEY FRANCIS REPLIES TO SMITH (Continued from page 1) Bank without authority, according to ‘4 statement published in THE ECHO, October 30, 1926, by some of his clients to whom he had given checks on that bank when he had no ac- count in the bank, and they got thelr money only after they enlisted the services of the County Attorney. It has been said by one of the employes of the County Attorney’s office that a large number of checks issued by the young man have. been referred to that office because they were not honored by the bank on which they were drawn. ‘The young man refers to his church. One who fails to contribute anything to the regular support and upkeep of his church has not a very high regard for ft. He made a week- ly pledge for 1926, in accordance with the system used by the church, ‘but the clerk’s records show, and they are posted in the church, that ‘he paid nothing. he is deeply interested in the success of the National Bar Association, but I think if one was so concerned he ‘would not take a contract to pur- chase real property, in which he was ‘the purchasing party, and after he had made but one of the monthly payments of $50.00 required by the contract—although collecting the rentals on the property every month —and after he was several months in arrears on the contract, and last December, after notice of cancella- tion of the contract had been served on him because of his failure to pay, use that defaulted contract as se- curity for a loan of $275.00 from one of his friends, His mother, working In the ladies’ room of a department store, realizing the fraud, although earning but $12.00 per week, offered to pay the loan in installments with the understanding that if the party who made the loan ever gets it from the young man her money will be returned to her. The young man has not paid. Some time ago the young man bor- rowed $375.00 upon his statement that that amount completed a large sum necessary to put through a real estate and building deal about to be consummated by him. When the note for the amount borrowed fell due there was a failure to pay. The al- leged real estate and building deal never matured. Suit was brought against the young man on the note and a judgment for $432.63 ob- tained, and not paid. I hope the little boy baby born out of wedlock, whose mother says it is the very image of the young man, and who has given it the name “0.” “J.," will have a better sense of the fitness of things than has the young man, ‘The young man has tried for a long time to engage me in contro- versy, but I have declined to do so, and would not write you thus at this time but for your statement to me that he insists that you print his let- ter and you will to do so; therefore I am acting only in self-defense. Among the many things that the young man has not yet learned is that it is futile to attempt to fight one’s personal battles, be they real or imaginary, through the columns of the public press. W. T. FRANCIS. It’s Coming! Make an engagement to go to the ‘Twin Cities’ largest event, to be held Monday night, March 7th, at the Coliseum, Lexington and University Aves., St. Paul. Join the Northwestern Negro Busi- ness and Professional Men's Associa tion. Call the St. Paul Echo, Cedar 1879, 614 Court Block. sy oath EADY SASS i SRN iced SAMA uel SR taal ahi caine, ae es ch ae are INES ea elas poe ihe a aa tin ea ae ae a. / : / A . | | | ! poecncnece se a at. | 1 1 | } 4 | ST. PAUL NOTES Mme. Belle Salters Tyler will leave March Ist for Los Angeles, Calif, via Seattle, Portland and Oakland, on a concert tour. Mrs, Alma Stewart is entertaining a number of her friends at a dancing party at her home this evening? ‘The St. Paul Hikers were enter- tained by Miss E. Flowers, 546 St. Anthony, Thursday, February 17. After business was discussed lunch was served. Miss Thelma Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 8. W. Williams, who is a director of music at Houston Col- lege, Houston, Tex., gave her parents a pleasant surprise when she called them on the telephone, Saturday night. Mr. and Mrs, James Lee were hosts to the Shuffle Along 500 club ‘Tuesday evening. The Adelphai club met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. J. B. Johnson Guests of the club were Mesdames B. Stephens, E, Johnson, R. Artis and J. Murphy. Attorney George Hamil- ton, Jr., gave an interesting talk on the “Needs of the Community. Charles Young Auxillary of the Spanish War Veterans were hosts to a progressive whist party Tuesday evening at the Old Capitol, First prize $2.50 was awarded to Mr. Hewitt of Minneapolis, second priz¢ won by Mr. Neal. Mr, and Mrs. E. A. Hatton enter- tained the Nifty club Friday evening. Mrs, Wm. England has been very ill at her nome for the past three weeks, Rey. W. H. Griffin, pastor of st James A. M. E, church who went to Jacksonville, Fla., as one of the Edu- cational committee of the Bishops Council, reports that he is well and enjoying the southern clime. ‘The Ladies Minstrel given by the St. Paul Chapter No. 1, 0. E. S. at Union Hall, Monday evening Feb. 14, was a huge success. A large crowd was in attendance and standing room was at a premium. ‘Mr. Chester Spicer, 322 Avon St. was taken seriously ill at his work this week and was brought home un- conscious. He is still confined to his bed. ‘The fifth anniversary of the St. Paul Baptist chureh will be celebrat- ed Tuesday, Mareh 1, at 8 p. m., in banquet and program. Mr, and Mrs. Charles Bradley, Jr., 669 Rondo, are the proud parents of an eight and one-fourth pound baby boy, born Feb. 9, 1927. The name decided on is Richard Ferdinand. Mr. R. C. Shane is steadily improv- ing at Ancker Hospital. MINNEAPOLIS NOTES Miss Viola Johnson, one of Min- neapolis’ popular hairdressers, has been confined to her home by illness for about two weeks. ‘A beautifully appointed birthday dinner was served by members of the Pastors’ Aid, an auxiliary of St. Peters A. M. E. church, last Wednes- day at the residence of Mrs. M. C. Buttner. The color scheme was car- ried out in St. Valentine colors. Cov- ers were laid for fourteen. Guests of honor were Mrs, Mattie Boyd, Rev. H. C. Boyd, Rev. and Mrs, T. B. Stovall and Mrs. Eva Abbey. She was the recipient of many beautiful presents. The Booker T. Washington Study club gave a Colonial Silver Tea at the home of Mrs, Nellie Walker, 3616 Fourth Ave So., Feb, 22, with a very interesting program. The club fs grateful to all who participated. ‘The Knickerbocker Literary club of Minneapolis had their mid-winter election of officers at the home of ‘Miss Laura Mae Mann. The follow- ing were elected: Laura Mae Mann, pres.; Maxine Shannon, vice-pres.; Jewel Coleman, secty-treas.; Pearl Gilbert, sergeant-at-arms; Carlotta Smith, critic. WELCOME HALL NOTES ‘Welcome Hall has opened an em- ployment bureau. Come and register for work of every kind. Don’t forget to see our dressmaker for your Spring wardrobe. Sewing days, Tuesday and Wednesday. If you want to help the needy join the neighborhood club. This club meets every Wednesday afternoon from 2:30 to 4. Kindergarten every morning from 10-12. A few more children can be taken care of. MISS BROWN GIVES TALKS Miss W. Gertrude Brown, head resident of Phyllis Wheatley House, Mpls., spoke at the Horace Mann ‘School to the Parent-Teacher’s Asso- ciation Monday afternoon on “Race Relations.” On Tuesday evening Miss Brown spoke at the Booker T. ‘Washington Tea, on “Recreation for the Group in Minneapolis.” _On ‘Wednesday Miss Brown gave a talk at the Lions Cinb Luncheon, at the Raddison Hotel, using as her subject, “Phyllis Wheatley House and Ex- periment.” French National Gems Are Well Protected ‘The ease with which the rubbery at Chantilly was committed, in which the Grande Cond was taken, may recall to many tourists that the French crown Jewels, including the great Re- gent diamond, considered by many the finest in the world, are exposed In the Louvre in a similar showease, appar- ently equally unprotected. ‘No such simple means as were used at Chantilly will enable any one to es- cape #ith the Jewels in the Louvre, however. There they Ie in glass show- cases during the day, stared at by hundreds of casual wanderers. ‘The Regent diamond alone is sald to be worth $3,000,000. Near it is the Mazarin diawnond and with them the great dragon-shaped ruby, Cote de Bretaque, cut for Mme. De Pompadour. ‘The crowns of Napoleon and Charle- ‘magne sparkle with fortunes in pre- elous stones. Down the center of the great room, the Galerle d’Apollon, the most gorgeous in the Louvre, is a whole line of similar eases loaded with precious Jewels from all ages, many of them presented by the late J. Pier- pont Morgan. Sardonyx and jasper, lapis Inzull, pearls, diamonds, emer- alds, objects of rock erystal and finely worked gold make a glittering array. ‘What more simple than for deter- mined bandits to force thelr way In at night in the best American fashion and make a haul. But should they try {t the bandits would be mystified. They would find the room bare except for unwieldy busts of forgotten emperors and vases welghing as much as an ordinary “burglar-proof” safe, For at night the wide glass cases containing the more precious Jewels— all that a robber would covet—disap- pear into cunningly devised vaults built under the floor. And few are the bandits who could work the machin- ery which brings the cases into sight again for the next day's tourist rush. —Guy Hickok in the Brooklyn Eagle. Human Nature ‘The tate Charles R. Erwin, the well Known advertising expert, attributed success in advertising to a knowledge of human nature. At a banquet in New York he once said: ‘We used to hear a lot about scien- tifle management. We hear nothing about it now. Why has it died out? It has died out because, unlike ad- vertising, It ignores human nature. “Look here, my man,’ a young selen- tific management sharp sald to a hoary old hod carrier, ‘let me show you how to pack those bricks in your hod. You don't do it right. You should do tt like this, ‘There—see? By this new sclentifle management you actually get eleven more bricks in the hod.” “Yes, sir, very much pleased,’ sald the hod carrfer gloomily, ‘but to tell ye the truth, sir, I Ike me old way best. “‘Great Caesar's ghost! Why? “Because the hod’s easter to carry the old way, boss."” Teaching Child Care Actual child care and training for home economics students, under ex- pert supervision in a home manage- ment house having @ preschool child, 1s provided by the state agricultural colleges of Towa, Montana, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania and South Da- kota; by the state universities of Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma; by Cornell university, by the state normal schools at Terre Haute, Ind, and Buffalo, and by Drexel institute, Philadelphia, Nursery schools are maintained at Cornell university and Purdue university, Indiana; by the state universities of ‘Minnesota, Nebraska and Ohio, and by the state colleges of Iowa, Kansas and Montana. Christ’s Code “Unworkable” Andrew Gibson, a member of the town council of Edinburgh, belleves u modern elty could be effectively gov- erned under a code of laws based faithfully upon the teachings of Christ, and shortly before Christmas intro- duced in the body of which he ts a member a resolution that would estab- Ush the precepts of Jesus as the foun- dation of all acts of the council. ‘The council voted down the motion after experts had declared it legally incompetent. Gibson quoted the Scrip- tures freely in arguing for his resolu- tion, After {ts Introduction he re- celved hundreds of messages of con- gratulation and tenders of support.— ‘The Argonaut. Empty Graves Not Hazards According to a new rule of the golf club at Tientsin, China, one need not play his ball from a hole recently va- ated by corpse. In making reg lations for a contest between Tientsin and Peking Japanese players recently the committee issued the rule that “Preah excavations and surrounding ‘soll resulting from removal of coffins will be regarded as ‘ground under re- pair? and balls lying therein may be lifted and dropped into lne with where the ball entered and not near- er the hole, without penalty.” Tune Out ‘Walter Anthony was bewailing the change in the public taste for muste. “Or rather,” he amended, “I deplore the manner in which erstwhile good fmustelans cater’ to the prevalling mode. “Only the other night, in a rather fashionable dine-and-dance salon, I heard the baton wielder hiss at one of the men: ‘Cut that out! I heard yuh! Don't ever pull that harmony stuff again ; this {s a Jazz orchestra!’ ” —Los Angeles Times. FLYING CHAFF ‘Liberality increases the value of riches. By doubting we come at the truth Cicero. : Every art is an imitation of nature. —Seneca. Love can sun the realms of night —Sehiller. Woman tndeed was born of delay itself—Plautus, Much learning shows how ttle mortals know.—Young. Success never comes to a man who Is afraid to face failure. ‘Oh, have a care of natures that are mute!--George Meredith. I know and love the good, yet, ah! the wrong pursue!—Petrarch. Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.—Richter. ‘Obstinacy in a bad cause is but con. staney in a good.—Sir T. Browne. Even if a man’s good deeds live after him, he isn’t in a position to care. ‘Many people talk themselves. into positions, but frequently they are awkward positions, — Washington Star. ‘A poem ts the very Image of life expressed in its eternal truth.— Shelley. Quarrel about trifles if you really must. The less one has to quarrel about the better. Tt can never be said too often that, while life is our supremest possession, it Is also our sternest test. ‘There would be no objection, to boys. being boys if they would only be men when they get to be men. Geysers Found Only in Volcanic Regions Iceland's chief boast is the original geyser. Geyser, which means “rush- ing,” Is an Icelandic word that has been adopted by all the world. Saxo, a Danish writer of the Twelfth cen- tury, made first mention of this hot spring but It was not until the Nine- teenth century that Bunsen, the Ger- man chemist, explained the action of such springs, after a visit to Iceland, There are geysers in most volcante regions—notably in Yellowstone and New Zealand. Some of the American geysers spout as high as 260 feet. The original Iceland geyser is erratic; sometimes it will blow to a helght of 150 feet, but ordinarily only 30 or 40 feet, and sometimes it gets peevish and will not show off before visitors. Geysers are caused by water coming in contact with hot rock underground under such conditions that steam ts formed and the water is ejected— Pathfinder Magazine, Necktie in Russia People in the towns along the Volga paid extraordinary attention to my clothes. If I drank beer and wore no cravat the cost of living went down. Apples cost 2 kopecks and a droshky ride @ ruble. People took me for a foreign political outcast living in Rus- sia. They bade me welcome and walt- ers had the proletarian instinct to ex- pect no tip. Shoeblacks were satisfied with 10 kopecks, and the peasants in the post office begged me to address thelr letters in a clear hand. But how expensive it was when I wore a cravat! People called me Grafhdanin (burgher) and Gospodin (sir). German settlers said Herr Landsman, Business men began to abuse the government. Coachmen ex- pected a ruble for thelr fare. Walters told me that they had gone to business school and were really intelligent men—Frankfurter Zeitung (Living Age). Fareot Year Zera Whether the year 1930 or the year 1981 A. D, 1s the two thousandth annl- versary of the year 70 B. C. is a sub- Ject that has been agitating the Brit- Ish press. The Times says 1990 but one of its correspondents, Doctor Glover by name, maintains that it is 1981, ‘The latter view 1s based on the theory that, among other errors, his- torians have mistakenly omitted the year zero from their computation of time on an A. D, and B. ©. basis. ‘The system now is that the morning after December $1 B. C, was January 1 A. D. But astronomers know better and {insist on inserting a zero year at this point—Living Age. No Letup Caller—Why don't your husband take a day off now and then? Hostess—John works in the weather bureau and you know, my dear, people simply must have weather—New Ha- ven Register. Opportunity “Now fs the time to sell our house, dear. “The people next door are sick, thelr children are away, and the man on the other side who plays a saxophone is in Florida."—Boston Globe. Could Hardly Expect One Jonee—Have you a reference from your last employer? ‘Typist—Well, no; you see I married and divorced him. . We Never Know “Your stenog seems a demure miss.” “Yeh. She seems so. Sometimes I wonder just how much I have got her impressed.” The Dumb Lady Lodger—I'm going out tonight to see “The Barber of Seville.” Landiady—WUll you find out what he charges for ladies? — Passing Show, London. SIMPSON & WILLS — NE hn ee MINNEAPOLIS ADVERTISERS eee es ey { MRS. CARLYLE SCOTT { Will Present | ROLAND HAYES | | in a Song Recital { Sunday Evening, March 6th, 8 P.M. ‘At MINNEAPOLIS ARMORY | KENWOOD PARKWAY AT HENNEPIN. ' Prices $3 and $2, Plus Tax Certain Sections at $1, Plus Tax { Orde sh oe at Seats avalsile Tor since | re MRS. CARLYLE SCOTT at FOSTER & WALDO'S I Bokiaiee aca warns | ES Phone—South 7954 Established 1905 W. SQUIRE NEAL Buneral Birector 502 E. 24th Street Minneapolis, Minn. ST. PAUL ECHO African Sheep Noted for Fighting Strain Six Barbary sheep, whose parents were brought from the mountains of northern Africa, have been born at the Zoological gardens, London. ‘They are veritable “little bounders,” for within an hour of birth they had sealed the rocks of thelr home on the Mappin terraces and were to be seen surveying the world in which they found themselves, from the topmost pinnacles, Barbary sheep are a bellicose lot, and when the males are not fighting the females are. Each mother pro- tects her youngsters so zealously that she will not allow another to approach too near, * “If the females keep fighting too long a male comes along and stops them,” sald the keeper; “but, as a rule, the one who is beaten gives a squeak, as much as to say, ‘Enough,’ when she is allowed to depart in Peace. The males squeak, too, when vanquished.” Spread-Eagle Patriotism “Patriotism is all right, but deliver me from the spread-eagle kind,” sald ‘William Allen White, the noted editor, of Emporia. “At a banquet in Emporia one night a visiting Englishman responded to a toast. Goodness, what a patriot he was! “Friends, he yelled, ‘I'm proud to say I was born in England of English parents, I was educated in an English school, I married an English wife, I've Uved all my life in England, and In England I will die’ “Then an Emporian at the other end of the table said: “‘Say, bo, ain't ye got no ambl- tion?” Folding Airplane Wings Alr experts of the United States navy have designed airplanes which fold up their wings like birds, or col- lapse altogether, to fit merely into pigeon holes of enormous “floating ga- rages.” Great strides are being made in perfecting planes of these classes, especially craft which could be “en- tirely knocked down and its parts stacked together.” Star as Symbol A large electrically lighted star burned nightly from Christmas until New Year's on top of the National cathedral at Washington. The star ts ‘547 feet above the city, as high over the Potomac as the top of the Wash- ington monument, counting the height of the apse and the height of Mount St, Alban, site of the’cathedral. Fashion Note There is only a year's difference in the ages of Thelma and Edna, so Edna usually falls heir to Thelma’s ‘outgrown dresses, As her mother put another one on her she sighed: “I wisht I'd grow fast- er zan Thomle’s dwesses!” World’s Debt to Edison _ Edison has given mankind inven- tions which, in their present develop- ment, are conservatively valued at '$15,000,000,000. . Smart Librarian “I would like to see a thesaurus, please.” “Animal books on the next atsle, ir” || ree Detivery to Al Parts | . of City | Economy Market 902 6th Ave. No., Minneapolis GROCERIES | Poultry and Meats Hyland 9746 McDUFF WOODARD, Prop | | 7 “eee lS | | | REGIONAL DIRECTOR ASSAILS ATTY. FRANCIS (Continued from page 1) his program was well arranged to draw the people from the Bar Asso- clation’s program commemorating our honored dead at our ehureh, to his, “Beauty Speech.” Francis knew the Judges of both the District Courts were invited as special guests of the Bar Association and this was a splendid time to embarrass every ‘Negro by his failure to pay proper respect to Gne of his own Race, so he wanted to confuse the public’s mind to prevent their interest in our program. The front of ther page is quite dedicated to Mr. Francis and his immortal principals (if you can find any). If Francis was the leader he desires people to think he is, then he would have joined his own people on such an auspicious occasion, no man can be a great leader unless he can be a good follower, because he could not dictate the program then he used every malacious and con- temptable means to make it a failure. ‘This letter, which has been paid for its insertion in the St. Paul Beho, was prepared by Attorney Olander J. Smith. ‘WARNER & NG Our lease ends Feb. 28. Every- thing going at unheard of low prices. 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Resided at 507 Lyndale Ave. No. Funeral services at Chapel Feb. 23, Rev. Channey officiating. Burial at Crystal Lake cemetery. W. Squire Neal, funeral director. # E.N. Martin L. R. Blair £ And You Are Next : All the Time : z At Our New Location * Sanitary Gonsorial Parlor § : 709 RONDO STREET 4 = Manicurist St. Paul, Minn, J White Front Store (CASH and CARRY Prices With Quality Meats and Groceries Fresh Dressed Poultry at All ‘Times snuiade: wae be aneuiny avi __FAGE as _ We Comingt Make an engagement to go to the ‘Twin Cities’ largest event, to be held Monday night, March ‘7th, at the Coliseum, Lexington and University rte St. Paul. Join the Northwestern Negro Busi- ness and Professional Men's Associa- tion. Call the St. Paul Echo, Cedar 1879, 614 Court Block. FOR SALARY a ANDREW A. MURPHY | 312 Daliders Exchange Bly. Ga 1008 RIDE IN COMFORT COSBY'S DELUXE AUTO & TAX! SERVICE Seven Passenger, Sedans Low ‘Meter Rates ‘} pate 1966—Phones—Dale 7175 587 Rondo St. Wham #8 §€§€§=65d Rondale Barber Shop _ First Class Hair Cutting special At tion to Ladies " and’ Children Private Entrances and Private Booths for Ladies SHAMPOOING & MASSAGING W. M. CASSIUS —Prop. DALE AND RONDO STREETS COMING ATTRACTIONS Keep off date of May 5. A May Pole to be given by Kings Daughters Circle. The Pilgrim Baptist church choir will feature the Passion Play at Pilgrim church, Cedar at Summit, St. Paul, on Friday night, March 4. Admission, adults, 35 cents; children, 25 cents. Attend the Elks' Past Daughter Rulers' Council card party, Thursday evening, March 8, at Elks' Hall, 6th and Lyndale, Minneapolis. $2.50 gold piece, first prize. Crispus Attucks Clean Up Club Card Party, March 1st. Pioneer Hall. Tickets 25 cts. Prizes. Lunch Free. Don't forget the musical Comedy "In the Garden of the Shah" given by St. James Senior choir, under the direction of Mrs. Emma Archer, March 3rd. Admission 35 cts. The card party scheduled by the Golden circle on Feb. 18, has been postponed to a later date. It's Coming! Make an engagement to go to the Twin Cities' largest event, to be held Monday night, March 7th, at the Coliseum, Lexington and University Aves, St. Paul. PHYLLIS WHEATLEY NOTES The Shorthand and Typewriting classes are doing exceptionally good work 27 have enrolled with an average attendance of 24. The Phyllis Wheatley Cubs No. 1 (boys) won from Margaret Barry, 18-5 and Cubs No. 2 from Margaret Barry's second team 13-11. With wonderful progress made by the newly organized American Legion Band ere long Minneapolis will have a band that will not only be a credit to Mpls, but the entire Northwest. This band practices every Tuesday night promptly at 8 o'clock. The Junior Girls sang a group of songs at the Leamington Hotel for the Annual Hennepin County Tuberculosis Association Meeting Friday noon. Ten little girls and boys assisted by Miss Willie Lee Pointer gave a most enjoyable program for the Northeast Y. W. C. A. Friday night. The program consisted of readings, solos and folk dances. Those who did not attend the Girl Scout program Friday night in the gym missed one of the best programs ever given by young people. Sixteen girls received their Scout Pins and Miss Marguerite Seymour received her second class Scout badge. The Millinery Class had a very nice party after the regular class work had been completed Tuesday night. Miss Ethel Ray, Assistant Head Resident spoke to the Inter-Racial group at the University on "Suggestions for Student Fellowship." Because of the illness of her father it has been necessary for Mrs. Luther Oakes to give up the presidency of the Board and Mrs. Henry Frazier has accepted the position. Altho we sincerely regret to lose Mrs. Oakes we heartily welcome Mrs. Frazier. Mrs. Frazier was the first Chairman of the Board when the first plans were being made to establish Phyllis Wheatley House and we are confident that she is well prepared for the responsibilities she is about to assume. WANT ADS Bring Results Classified Advertising Rates— All Classified Ads Payable in Advance. Three cents per word; minimum charge thirty cents. MRS. T. H. LYLES UNDERTAKER Cedar 0508—Phones—Dale 2947 626 RONDO—Nice front room for rent, furnished or unfurnished. Call Dale 1285. FOR RENT—Modern, 4-room flat, alcove and bath; newly decorated. FOR RENT—Modern, 4-room flat; both newly decorated; on Iglehart. For information call Dale 3027. ALL modern, 4-room flat, large screened porch and garage; rea- sonable rent. 976 Carroll Ave. Call evenings. Elk. 3969. FOR RENT—Beautifully decorated 4-room apartment with summer porch; modern except heat; every convenience; garage in rear. 2926 Chicago Ave. For rent by D. P. Jones Co. McKnight Bldg., Mpls. Key at house. NICE 4-room flat for rent. 378 Jay St. Humboldt 3675. TWO 6-room heated flats, $12.00 to $85.00 per month. 319-329 Farrington Ave. F. D. McCracken, agent. Cedar 6349. --- Overcame Handicap Old-fashioned long skirts interfered with Miss Jess Gray Davison learning to play an organ as a girl, but this has not prevented Miss Davison from becoming managing director of an organ manufacturing concern in England. The business has been a family concern since 1750, and Miss Davison took charge on account of the illness of two brothers. Her grandmother regarded it as "unladylike" for Miss Davison to play the organ as a girl because "the long skirts worn in those days might get mixed up with the pedals." Soft Answer When Betty Blythe was in Rome, she acquired a rather persistent and therefore annoying suitor. One day they went to see Vesuvius, and while there Betty encountered an old friend from Los Angeles. As time progressed, her Italian escort waxed more and more jealous, and when opportunity came, demanded in rather brusque tones who the interloper was. "Oh," said Betty, with one of her disarming smiles, "he's just a big butter and egg man watching the crater." Good Business Woman Mrs. Graydon Stanus, a collector of Irish glass, started a factory in Peckham, on the outskirts of London, and has made it a paying concern. Mrs. Stanus discovered that delicately tinted glass was scarce, and decided to revive the hand-made glass. She obtained an old bottle factory, engaged a chemist and designed and discovered some artists in hand-made glass who had not made anything by hand for years.—Indianapolis News. ENGLISH LANGUAGE USED BY ROYALTY Although German blood was represented before the war in many royal houses in Europe, the memoirs that have recently been written by princes who can now say what they think, show that English was really the lingua franca in many royal families, especially in the nursery. Thus, Prince Nicholas of Greece has been telling us that he and his brothers and sisters always spoke English in the nursery, although their father was a Dane and their mother a Russian; and when they visited their relations in Copenhagen and in St. Petersburg nearly everybody spoke English. Royal families are usually supposed to be polyglot, but this, apparently, is not always the case, for the crown princess of Belgium is only now beginning to speak French, while the prince does not speak in her native Swedish. So they talk to each other in English. Prince Nicholas believes that a working familiarity with so many languages is "a mixed blessing."—London Graphic. Housing and Child Health The larger and more comfortable the family house, lil other things being equal, the better chance babies have to live, according to a recently published yearly report on child welfare in England. In one-room dwellings, in Newcastle-on-Tyne, the death rate was 108; in two-room dwellings, 106; in three rooms, 89; while in those over three rooms, it dropped to 76. Odd Shingle Substitute Oscar Lemdalil, Seattle, Wash., did not want to buy shingles for his summer cottage, so collected several piles of auto license plates at garages-2, 300 all told—and now has a water-tight roof on his cabin. He laid them about 5 inches to the weather in nailing them down, then applied a thick coat of roofing paint. Yankee Ingenuity A foresighted man is Frank W. Morrison of Bellows Falls, Vt. He has planted 41,650 year-old sugar maples on the southern slopes of two hills. By a system of pipes he hopes to lead the sap direct to the big pots. In 25 years the trees will be large enough to tap —Boston Globe. Nickels Mounted Up One Bath (Malne) woman on Christmas eve, 1925, commenced saving her nickels, and during the year would not spend one when it could be avoided. On Christmas eve, 1926, she got out her nickels and counted them. She had $142.05. HOPES TO DEVELOP VEGETARIAN DOGS London hears from Calcutta that a village has been purchased near Baroda by a Hindu millionaire and turned into a settlement for vegetarian dogs. It is called Kutta-Nagar, kutta being the Hindu word for dog and nagar for city. The millionaire belongs to a Hindu sect which absolutely discountenances the killing of any living thing in any form, and he founded his dog-town in order to wean away fierce Indian canines from their instinct of killing. All the dogs in the settlement are fed on rice, milk, and butter. No animal food whatever is given them. Puppies are fed on semolina liquefied by clarified butter mixed with sugar. On reaching three months of age they are given oiled and salted wheat bread. According to apparently authentic reports, the dogs are strong and healthy and the millionaire vegetarian hopes to breed a new type of dog in which the instinct for blood will have been eradicated. Mice are not allowed in the village.—Chicago Daily News. According to His Station Mrs. Multikids—Your child seems to be teething. I always gave my children a silver dollar to cut their teeth on. Mrs. Newglit—Really! I must give little Launcelot a hundred-dollar bill to bite on. One More Bennett—Just because I held 15 spades four times in succession, all 7 of them thought I was cheating! Grimshaw—And if I had been there 8 would have thought that. Old Lady Got Even A little old lady was taking her first ride on a railway train. She noticed that at every station the conductor descended from the train, and, after the passengers had debarked, raised his arm and waved his hand in a peculiar manner. Finally she stopped him when he passed through the car and said "Who are you waving at in every town where we stop?" The train was late, the conductor was grouchy, and he snapped: "I don't know as it's any of your business, but that what's we call the 'highball.' It's my way of telling the engineer to get to h—l out of here." A little later he remembered how gruff he had been to the old lady and his conscience smote him. He went back and said to her: "I'm sorry I spoke to you as I did. Everything has gone wrong today and I felt cross or I would have been more courteous." "Oh! that's all right," said the old lady demurely, and raising her arm she gave the conductor the "highball." —Southern Agriculturist. A defense of the frame house has been called from organizations of lumbermen to refute the charges made by the advocates of other building materials. The tendency to belittle the permanency of wood construction has been intensified by recent announcements of successful experiments in the use of fabricated materials, such as steel. However, about 85 per cent of all dwelling houses in the United States are built mainly of lumber and three out of every four erected at the present time are lumber, according to an estimate of the association. It is stated no material exposed without protection from the elements will last forever. Wood decays, steel rusts, marble disintegrates and wears away. Wood under ordinary conditions of use and exposure outlasts the life of man, even of several generations of men. All that wood as building material requires is that it shall be treated with preservative if in contact with the earth and painted when exposed to the weather. When so treated wood equals in permanency and surpasses in beauty, warmth and comfort any other building material, Hard to Stop Legend It is rather interesting to watch a legend in the course of growth, remarks the Manchester Guardian and cites the case of the ancient chance which was recently found and which after a hectic newspaper career is now so far advanced that it is honored by some as the cup that served the Lord at the Last Supper. It was a similar jumping at conclusions which involved medieval legend makers in some hopeless tangles, Pierre Van Passen comments, in the Atlanta Constitution. The classical case is that of the Eleven Thousand Virgins of Cologne. Diggings in the Twelfth century brought to light a big collection of human bones. An ecstatic woman proclaimed at once to be the remains of the Eleven Thousand martyrs. Further search showed the bones of men were among the piles. The ecstatic lady was not put out. She declared at once that certain ecclesiastics had been put to death with the virgins. Worse followed. The bones of children were found. Were the seers defeated? By no means. Entire families had been put to death with the 11,000, they said. Modern research made an end to the whole farce by establishing the fact that the bones were those of the first Roman colonists in Cologne and that they had been buried in a catacombian cemetery. Capernaum Holy City to Early Christians Naturally, Capernaum was a place dear to the early Christians, who loved to plant their feet where Jesus had once trod. A church was built there which was enlarged as years went on. When Hadrian permitted Jews to re-enter the Holy land (about 137 A. D.) Capernaum was one of the cities granted to them, though its name was changed from Kefra nahum to Tell Hum, the Hill of Hum. Hadrian is said to have given some assistance to the rebuilding of parts of the city destroyed by the invading Romans. By the year 600 A. D. the church had been enlarged into a basilica, and was said to cover the site of the house where Peter enjoyed the felicities of family life. But the city never recovered from the destruction that Moslemism brought up on the once fertile plain of Gennesareth, a strip of land on the northwestern side of the sea of Gallilee (really a fresh-water lake) five miles wide by six miles long, on or about which were when Jesus lived on earth thriving cities, Chorazin, Bethsalda, Tiberias and Capernaum. To this day Moslemics hold the sea and the district to be accursed, and it remains, as does the city where once Jesus dwelt, a place of desolation as though literally it had been "brought down to hell." Military Horses Compete In Show At Los Angeles Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. (Pacific Coast News Bureau). Side by side with the aristocrats of the equine world, the smartly groomed military chargers of the famous Tenth U. S. Calvary stables from Ft. Huachuca, Ariz., vied for the favor of the judges and the elite society audience at the recent opening of the sixth annual Los Angeles National Horse Show. LONG-F The WRAPPING Keeps it Clean and Fresh Before 5,000 spectators assembled within the four walls of the Ambassador Hotel auditorium, and in competition with 300 horses gathered from all parts of the United States, including representations from the First Cavalry Division; the Eleventh Cavalry Division and other Army outfits; the entries from the colored cavalry unit held up the world wide reputation of the famous Tenth, as the "best trained cavalry, troop in the American Army." M. W. C. SERIAL DANCE HELD MARKED SUCCESS The second serial dancing party given by the M. W. C. club at the beautiful Oxford Ballroom, Feb. 21, proved quite a success. The boys again proved that they are capable of giving the public what they seek in entertainment. Joe Peyer's orchestra featured some of their popular numbers. The management of the Oxford asserts that the crowd was the most orderly and well mannered that has ever entered the hall and that the boys are welcome to the use of same at any time. Feb. 20, Sunday school opens at 9:45 a.m., by Supt. W. A. Vann. Lesson was open for discussion by teachers for 30 minutes. Visitors 6. Two new members. Many a man has traveled a personally conducted tour under the management of his wife. If civilization hasn't common sense enough to save itself, it will have to take the consequences. The weight of a woman's first baking is usually equal to twice the weight of the ingredients. KREGAL & RENCHIN DRUGGISTS Dale and University Ave. Formerly EGBERT PHARMACY Services began at 11 a. m. Choir sang Holy, Holy. Pastor took his stand. Subject for the morning service, "God's Standing Army." Sunday evening B. Y. P. U. from 6:30 to 7:30 p. m., by president, Miss Odessa Williams and her assistant Mrs. Maud Bridgeforth. Program committee rendered a splendid program. Evening service at 8:00 p. m. Pastor took his stand for 30 minutes "Such a resolution to exalt a worthy name." A goodly number were present including 10 visitors. Mission Circle meets every first and third Friday in the month. This circle is conducting prayers in the various homes, accomplishing much in inspiration toward Christianity, with the assistance of their pastor. The pastor has done wonderful work in this city. Six new members have been added to the church and a goodly number of old members have returned. The Women gave a very interesting program in addition to the rally which was held Sunday. Rev. I. T. Brown, pastor; Mrs. E. Saunders, church clerk, telephone Elk. 5101. es Your Money Go! Where Does Y You Can Help Make A News- Paper If you and do no him why race new If you the Echo that will in the co lished, us coupons bills when literature 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. Cut these coupons out and paste them on your bills when paying and on the advertising literature of firms seeking your business. t. Paul Echo ock Phone Cedar 1879 The St. P 614 Court Block MEMORIAL BAPTIST WHY NOT ADVERTISE IN THE ST. PAUL ECHO? The Only Negro Weekly in the Northwest CEDAR 1879 WHY NOT ADVERTISE IN THE ST. PAUL ECHO? The Only Negro Weekly in the Northwest CEDAR 1879 LONG-FELLOW BREAD The WRAPPING Keeps it Clean and Fresh Zinsmaster Master of Good Baking Y. W. C. A. NOTES Commodore W. E. Longfellow who is National Director of Red Cross First Aid and Life Saving, will speak on the Advantages of Red Cross First Aid at our Vesper Service Sunday afternoon. Vocal selections will be rendered by Alfred Shute. You are cordially invited to attend. Plans are being made to begin a Practice Injures Cotton The Department of Agriculture says that "snapping" as a method of harvesting cotton lowers the grade. The decreased cost in harvesting cotton by the "snap" method may be much more than offset by the expense of passing it through boll extractors and by the loss of value resulting from the lower grades. According to tests made by the department, snapping cotton in 1925 resulted in a loss to the grower of $7.29 a bale as compared with pickling. When greater discounts were assessed against the cotton because it was snapped, and when it was sold in the seed, the loss was from approximately $14 to $27 a bale. REAL CREAM AT NO EXTRA COST CreamTop The new style milk bottle SUPPLIED EXCLUSIVELY BY CONSUMERS MILK CO. PHONE ELK.1750 WHY NOT ADVERTISE IN THE ST. PAUL ECHO? The Only Negro Weekly in the Northwest CEDAR 1879 WHY NOT ADVERTISE IN THE ST. PAUL ECHO? The Only Negro Weekly in the Northwest CEDAR 1879 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 UNIVERSITY AVE. ADVERTISERS Agency for Minnesota Paints and Kyanize Varnish WE SPECIALIZE IN SPORTING GOODS ONE WEEK'S SUPPLY Free Free BRONZE BEAUTY face powder STRAIT-TEX CHEMICAL CO. PITT SQUARE, N.Y. U.S.A. BORNZE BEAUTY Face Powder is made by a new French process, and is not affected by perspiration. Used satisfactorily on dry or oily skin. Makes the complexion soft and velvety—and stays on until removed. Three tints which blend with any complexion: High Brown, Bronze Glow and Flesh. Fill out and mail the coupon below and we will send you a whole week's supply free. class in First Aid under the direction of the Red Cross. If you are interested come out Sunday afternoon or call Dale 1068. The Y's Owls were favored to have Dr. Mary McFarland speak to them on the Value of Health, at their last meeting. A series of meetings are being planned with Dr. McFarland as speaker. YELLOW BREA Zinsmaster Master of Good Baking Residence Phone Elkhurst 1615 MCGAVOCK FUN AARON J. McGAVOCK PERSONAL ATTENTION Mortuary and Ch CALLS ANSWERED AND CA BLUE & OUR RATES HAVE NOT BEEN RAISED AND ARE THE LOWEST IN THE CITY UNIVERSITY AVENUE PLUMBING & HEATING SIMPLE SERVI Phone Dale 2315 GLENWOOD Hard Coal $15.75 THREE PHONES Garfield 7501-7502-7508 S. BRAND Rice and University STORAGE, REPAIRING and RECONDITIONED CARS ONE WEEK Free Our joint service with the N. A. A. C. P. proved very interesting, with Miss Maurine Bole, a student of the University of Minnesota as speaker. Miss Bole gave a resume of the recent Student Conference held at Milwaukee. "The Crusaders," the younger boys Club entertained their friends last week with a Valentine party. 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