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PAUL RECORDER
“The Colored People’s Paper”
CECIL E. NEWMAN, Publisher
ROBERT JONES, Business Manager
ST.
Published every Friday
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Minneapolis Office: 309 Third Street South
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Ga.; 551 Fifth Ave. New York.
The RECORDER believes no man ihmtlil he denied the right
to contribute his best to humanity. As long as that right is
denied any man, no man's rights are inviolate.
Another industry which thrives off the dollars of countless Negroes,
yet fails to give them opportunity for gainful employment, is the brew
ing industry.
In Minneapolis and St. Paul only one brewery—one of the smaller
companies—has a Race employee among its employed personnel.
What we are experiencing now, economically, must end sometime
soon either by evolution or revolution. What has been in the recent
past cannot recur. The heathen trait of worshipping before the money
god and vulgar show is gone forever.
In the New Era we shall appreciate the man who can make the
best mouse trap, not because it nets him much cash, but because he
serves humanity well.
In the New Era morals, manners, minds, and mercy will be the
standards of excellence. Money will take its proper place as a medium
of exchange to supply the needs of humanity.
When the Negro came on the stage of the present economic drama
all the parts were taken except those of scene shifters. Now the cur
tain is slowly rolling down. The Negro has learned much in the green
room. A new drama is in the making. The stage is being set. The
five-day week and the six-hour day will bring leisure.
The crown of wild olives will not then go to the largest barn, the
money pile or gaudy trappings, but to culture, “love, joy, peace, long
suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.”
The Negro should not beg “Race Prejudice” as an alibi in such an
act. Let us prepare ourselves for the world’s greatest drama, the New
Deal—common brotherhood.
THE ATHENIAN’S OATH
Centuries ago the men of Athens took an oath that would be fine
for Negroes to take in these days of just as severe trials if different.
Here it is a bit altered:
We will never bring disgrace to this, our race, by any act of dis
honesty or cowardice, nor ever desert our suffering comrades in the
ranks: We will fight for the ideals and sacred things of the race, both
singly and together: We will revere and obey the country’s laws and
do our best to incite a like respect and reverence in those above us who
are prone to annul them or set them at naught: We will strive increas
ingly to quicken the public’s sense of civic duty. Thus in all these ways
we will transmit the history of the race not only not loss, but greater,
better, and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us.
Other Editors Say
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A case of vicious, unethical and destructive attempt to injure and,
if possible, destroy a Negro business by a white man doing business in
a region almost wholly colored is reported to this paper by Eugene C.
Johnnigan, proprietor of the Wolverine Cafe at 537 Lyndale Ave.
Mr. Johnnigan alleges that Barney Keukal, who has a restaurant
at 700 6th Ave. N., has sought to ruin his, Johnnigan’s, business by
inducing wholesale merchants to stop selling him supplies for the eat
place he has successfully conducted for the past four months.
Johnnigan further alleges that this program of discrimination has
been successful in at least one instance where the Cook Coffee Co., a
Plymouth Avenue concern, has quit accepting his order for coffee and
refuses an explanation.
Keukal has operated a restaurant on the corner of Sixth Ave. N.
and Lyndale for a long time. He makes his living off nickels and
dimes the colored folks in that district spend with him. Yet, according
to the salesman for the coffee concern, he asserted, “If you are going
to sell coffee to those two ‘nigger’ restaurants you can’t have my
business.”
This man who has the audacity to refer to the majority of his
patronage in such an uncouth and prejudiced manner does not deserve
to receive Negro patronage. Negroes who continue to patronize his
place should have their heads examined.
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The fear of God is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish
despise wisdom and instruction. Proverbs 1:7.
BRIDGEPORT 3595
Friday, January 25, 1935
BREWERS UNFAIR
PLANNING THE FUTURE
VICIOUS ATTEMPT
—Minneapolis Spokesman.
HERE and
THERE
By W. M. Smith
The church is generally admitted
to be the foundation stone in good
government. It is the place to
which people go to learn of the life
hereafter; it is the recognized au
thority for the rules of conduct
that should control existence here
on earth. To the people of the
Negro group particularly the
church is a revered institution; a
panacea that lessens in a very
marked degree the many vicissi
tudes met in a more or less
troublous life.
The church, then, should be the
comfort, the instructor of its peo
ple who should feel a renewed satis
faction in life as they imbibe the
wisdom that flows from its pulpit.
But sometimes as I listen I am
left in doubt and I am not al
ways uplifted by the message I
hear. For instance, a recent visit
ing clergyman declared he was go
ing to preach to the congregation
the same kind of sermon he had
been preaching to his own people
for the past ten years; if they
could stand it for ten years, surely
we ought to be able to put up with
it for one day. That seemed fair
enough. But after hearing his ser
mon I wondered at the patience of
his people and I certainly extended
them my sympathy.
Among the divine’s most irritat
ing and oft-repeated remarks were
those to the effect that the things
he said he “would not take back
whether we liked it or not.”
Irritating because no one ex
pects to dispute the age-old truths
of the scriptures. Nor is there any
one to find fault with its strict in
junctions as to life and how to live
it. When any one in the pulpit or
out calls attention to these things
none who hear wants, hopes or
demands that it should be “taken
back.”
The fact is that such expressions
are not quotations from the WORD
but a dogmatic personal opinion
expressed in the most aggravating
manner, as when this minister
shouted, “the church is filled with
educated fools,” when everyone
knows this to be untrue. The in
ference being that any man or
woman who has a smattering of an
education thereby becomes unfit to
join a Christian congregation.
The scarcity of young people who
have received an education or who
are in the process of acquiring one
and the small number of men and
women of acknowledged ability and
influence who render service or
even attendance in church, may be
traced, in part at least, to the un>
supported, illogical utterances such
as this minister so volubly poured
into the ears of his hearers.
There are enough beautiful ex
hortations in the scriptures, enough
fine examples of human lives lived
depicted in the GOOD BOOK to
make it unnecessary for any man
to be lost for a fascinating dis
course without resort to unreason
able misinterpretation of what the
scriptures really teach. These can
hold and vitally affect the life of
every hearer and if the pastor
clings to these, there will be no in
clination expressed or unexpressed
by those who listen, to have him
“take it back.”
HALLIE Q. BROWN NEWS
There will be a regular meeting
of the Hallie Q. Brown Forum Sun
day, Jan. 27, at four o’clock. The
Leisure Time Symphony Orchestra
which is composed of an aggrega
tion of about 35 members will ren
der the program. We cordially in
vite you to come out and bring your
friends.
The Camp Fire Girls of Hallie
Q. Brown are sponsoring a Ping
Pong Tournament at the House
ST. PAUL RECORDER
starting Monday, Jan. 28. Regis
tration must be in this Wednesday.
Register at the office with Mrs.
Hazel Butler. For further infor
mation see or talk with Mrs. But
ler.
Health and
Hygiene
During the winter when slippery
sidewalks and streets make walk
ing hazardous, one must use
extreme care to prevent falls.
Thoughtless jumping from street
cars or automobiles often result
disastrously, for in an attempt to
prevent one’s foot from going from
under him, he will subject his an
kles to unusual stress and strain.
Often this strain is augmented by
the presence of some hard object
on the ground which gives in turn,
if immovable, a pressure in the
opposite direction. The ankle
joint as a result may be sprained
due to its being forced to move
within the limits of a greater arc
than normal.
The ligaments which hold the
ankle joint in place are very strong,
and usually hard to rupture, when
the joint is stretched too far. In
the latter case something must
give way, however, and it will be
the bone of the outer aspect of
the leg about three-fourths to two
inches above its lower end.
So you see a fracture is just
the result of a sprain that is too
great. Often the only way, early,
that a fracture may be diagnosed
is by x-ray examination; and this
should be done in all questionable
cases so that proper and correct
treatment is started from the be
ginning.
URBAN LEAGUE AUXILIARY
NOTES
The Women’s Auxiliary met on
last Wednesday evening at the
home of Mrs. Mae Porter, 655 St
Anthony Ave. The following pro
gram was rendered: Current Topics
from the December issue of Op
portunity Magazine, by Mrs. Carrie
Lindsay; Reading by Mrs. Mae
Porter, and a report of the trip
made by Mr. Geo. W. Wills at the
request of the Urban League, to
Thomasville, Ga., which was made
in returning a young colored boy
to his parents, through the Child
Welfare Board. The program
proved to be quite interesting.
The Auxiliary is planning a tour
through the Zinsmaster Bakery,
Friday, Jan. 25, at 8 P. M. All
persons interested in making this
tour, please call either the Urban
League office, Cedar 2430, or the
home of the president, Mrs. Hattie
B. Smith, Dale 8560, for further in
formation. The membership of the
Auxiliary continues to grow, new
members being received each week.
Classified ads inserted in this
paper always pay.
Young Matrons of St Peter
Minstrel Show at Phyllis Wheatley
House, Friday, Jan. 25th, at 8:30
p. m. Admission, adults 25 cents,
children, 15 cents.
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ANKLE INJURIES
SUNDAY FORUM SPEAKER
STIRS HEARERS '
At the Minneapolis Sunday
Forum’s meeting at Phyllis last
Sunday the talk of the principal
speaker Prof. W. J. Huguley, Jr.,
who spoke on “Our Heritage,” in
tensely interested the audience, as
indicated by comments that fol
lewed.
Even after the close of the
Forum session the speaker was
still receiving congratulations for
a very timely and well taught les
son.
John Belton sang a solo num
ber and gave one of his witty read
ings. The group singing, as usual,
once started was hard to stop. A
committee was appointed on ways
and means to develop a larger in
terest in the Forum. Members of
the committee are: W. M. Smith,
C. W. Washington, W. J. Huguley,
Jr., W. Gertrude Brown, Rachel
James, Earl Shamwell, Arnold
Walker and Mrs. Ursula Botts.
Don’t Miss
“OLD CRUSTY
TAKES THE AIR”
at
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Phyllis Wheatley
Tuesday, Jan. 29, 8:15 p. m.
REMEMBER
Each purchaser of one of
the first hundred tickets
will be given another one
FREE
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Friday, January 25, 1935
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SALE OF
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2 Room Size $24.95
4 Room Size - - - - 39.50
5 Room Size - - - - 49.50
Net with Your Old Stove
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WEYAND’S
The Friendly Furniture
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7th and Jackson
INVESTIGATE THESE!
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