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An Independent Negro fPeekly Newspaper
PUBLISHED BY THE ST. PAUL ECHO COMPANY
€l4 Court Block Telephone Cedar 1879 St. Paul, Minnesota
President and General Manager CYRUS L. LEWIS
Secretary-Treasurer EUGENE JACKSON, JR.
Editor „ EARL WILKINS
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“Entered as second class matter Nov. 7, 1926, at the post office at
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MEN AMONG MEN,
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Passivity in Negroes is no longer a virtue. The -white world
which surrounds the black American is grasping, pushing, fight
ing and shouting for the fruits of materialism. It has raised
achievement to a place in the sun among the idols, and has bruised
its own lower element and the mass of Negroes in its headlong
worship of it.
The time has come when Negroes themselves should master a
bit of the philosophy of their white neighbors. Good nature, kind
liness, the friendly spirit should not be thrown over as useless, but
they should be removed from the immediate foreground of inter
racial relations. In the world of today, the spirit which will con
quer, which will win respect/ rights, honor, praise, is the spirit
militant.
Too long has there been a yielding attitude on the part of the
Negro mass. Too little has there been evinced the spirit of con
quest and of demand. The general theme has been retraction
rather than aggression. And that attitude has been the cause of
greater and greater encroachment upon what we are pleased to
term our unattained rights.
In St. Paul, this far northern city where we boast of our
freedom, there are eating places which will flatly refuse service to
colored patrons; there are hostelries which will not admit Negroes
who wish to secure lodgings; there are stores which “are known
to discourage colored patronage;” and the list could be continued
ad infinitum.
Those conditions are the result of the attitude which St.
Paulites have exhibited for years—a passive, non-resisting, harm
ful view of encroaching discrimination. That type of thinking
should be thrown off as though it were a poisonous drug. It is a
drug, sapping from us the strength or the manhood necessary to
protest strongly against hurtful practices.
Let us resolve to do away with it. Let us stand firm and
clear-eyed in our demand for rights, not sheepish and sloven in our
acquiescence to veiled or open discrimination. Let us be men fight
ing and standing among men, but let us have done with pretense
and shameful acquiescence.
RESIDENTIAL EXPANSION
Once more the Sweet trial is to open, and once more Negroes
and whites the country over will be watching the court arena at
Detroit. -
Significant because it is the exemplification of the spirit which
residential expansion among Negroes is meeting in large cities the
country over, the outcome of the Sweet case should be of particular
interest to anyone who has been noticing closely the fight by
Negroes for even an approximation of fair legal treatment.
In Washington, there was the Curtis case; in Detroit there are
the Sweets; in Kansas City, bombings, the last not more than a
month ago, are meeting the rapid expansion of the colored resi
dence district. The question is the ultimate outcome.
Sooner or later every northern city must meet the problem.
St. Paul had its first skirmish with it last year. The facts in all
the cases are nearly identical: a huge}y increased number of
Negroes cannot live where a handful had lived before the north
ward migrations, and the result must be expansion.
As soon as white residents and city officials digest the idea
that Negroes do not want to encroach upon white neighborhoods
merely for the sake of encroaching, but that they want only the
sanitary living conditions which other groups are accorded, just
so soon will a sane solution for the expansion bugaboo be pulled
from the fire of public opinion.
“Intelligent” white residents of Lexington, Ky., recently paid
$2.00 per head to witness the hanging of a convicted Negro. “A
little knowledge is a dangerous thing,” financially speaking.
It is stupid for men to rave and rant about injustice and op
pression and then to leave unused the most powerful weapons
known to the age—organization and buying power.
Now that an attempt is being made in the New York Legisla
ture to bar mixed marriages between whites and blacks, young
millionaire social sportsmen can prepare for a season of legalized
open hunting—that is, if the bill passes.
The President of Indiana University says that the time will
soon come when the holding of a high school diploma will be a re
quirement to obtain a marriage license. Gee Whiz! It’ll be tough
on certain people in Mississippi, Georgia and Florida, won’t it ?
Harry Gr?b (white), deposed middleweight pugilistic cham
pion of the world, is greater in defeat than “dodging” Jack
Dempsey, heavyweight champion, will ever be in victory. For
corroboration, ask “Tiger” Flowers and Harry Wills, champion and
challenger, respectively.
Two colored “Who’s Whos” are on the Printer’s press,—One
the product of the Phyllis Wheatley Company, and the other the
product of the Inter-Racial Board of Council, both of New York.
Talk about putting A. N. Marquis & Company in the shade! Who
is who?
BOOK REVIEW
“COLOR"
Countee P. Cullen.
€2.00 net Harper and brothers,
New York and London, 1925.
/
William Dean Howells Is reputed
as having said that Paul Lawrence
Dunbar was “the only man of
American Civilization that felt Negro
life aesthetically and expressed it
lyrically.” Dunbar was twenty-four
when he published his first volume,
and now comes another Negro youth
slightly younger than he was with
perhaps a greater aesthetic concep
tion, and surely a greater aesthetic
conception, and surely a greater
lyrical execution. Countee Cullen is
the youngster, and he is now a twen
ty-year-old student at New York
University.
Besides winning the Amy Spin
garn Prize, the Yale Younger Poets’
Contest, and a host of smaller
awards too numerous to mention, he
has completed one degree at the Uni
versity, has been elected to Phi Beta
Kappa, and is now taking his Mas
ter’s degree at the same school. Mr.
Cullen’s success wap immediate upon
the publishing of his first book,
“Color,” .... like Edna St.
Vincent Millay he sprang into
prominence over night, and we are
inclined to believe that even greater
things can be expected of this man
when he has tempered his youthful
spirit with the wisdom of maturity.
Mr. Cullen has unlimited versatility,
it seems, and he is able to write upon
any subject from titles pertaining to
the defense of his down-trodden race
to light capricious love songs.
We meet him in his most serious
mood in “The Shroud of Color.”
His. plea is:
“ . . . .“Lord, being dark,” I
said, “I cannot bear '
The further touch of earth, the
scented air;
Lord, being dark, forewilled to that
despair
My color shrouds me in, I am as
dirt
Beneath my brother’s heel; there is
a hurt
In all the simple joys which to a
child
Are sweet; they are contaminate, de
filed
By truths of wrongs the childish vi
sion fails
To see; too great a cost this birth en
tails . . . .”
Mr Cullen has done something
that few other poets have been able
to do. In his section of twenty-nine
epitaphs he has written chapters in
to four lines. He reverts to the
Arabian Nights when he says:
“For a Magician”
"I whose magic could explore
Ways others might not guess or see,
Now am barred behind a door
Which has no ‘Open Sesame.’ ”
Or he mingles humor with the in
evitable as one would add seltzer to
a drink to give it zest:
“For a Lovely Lady.”
“A creature slender as a rded,
And sad-eyed as a doe
Lies here (but take my word for it,
And do not pry below).”
In all of his attempts, serious and
humorous, one can catch an under
current of understanding. One is
inclined to weep with him when he
weeps, and to dance on the hill when
he does. He has feeling ....
perhaps too much at times .
but feeling nevertheless. He has a
masterful vocabulary, but he some
times lets it run away with him a
bit (as he does his conceit), and con
sequently he is often rather ambig
uous. He often lets his poet’s li
cense go a bit too far for the sake of
rhyme, but his faults are all over
balanced completly by his youth and
cleverness.
To those of us who have followed
Mr. Cullen since his first poems ap
peared in periodicals it seems
strange that some of his earliest
works (and some of the best) have
been omitted from this collection.
We searched in vain to find his de
lightful “Spark” and a few others
which we thought surely were
worthy of a place in his first book.
The main fault we find in “Color” is
not in the poetry itself, but that it
seems to be poorly edited. There is
a mal-arrangement, so to speak, and
it is fairly safe to say that the book
could have been far more enjoyable
had little more care been exercised
on the format.
All ,in all we may safely say that
we have in Countee Cullen a man
who has taken up the work of Paul
Dunbar, where the latter left off,
but he is approaching the situation
from a different angl. He “feels
Negro life aesthetically and ex
presses it lyrically;” he feels life it
self keenly and expresses it phil
osophically. He is a youth and has
the short-comings of a youth; hq is
conceited and ambiguous, but he is
a poet, and an invigorating, interest
ing, delightful and understanding
poet.
Carl H. Litzenberg,
Literary Critic, Minnesota Ski-U-Mah
University of Minnesota.
ST. PAUL ECHO
1 IN THE REALM
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I V^lubdom
The Handicraft Art Club, which
met at the home of Mrs. Mildred
Johnson, March 18, elected the fol
lowing officers:
Mrs. Carrie Lindsay, pres.; Mrs.
Henrietta Goins, vice-pres.; Mrs.
Julia Caldwell, sec.; Mrs. Bessie
Roberts, corres. sec.; Mrs.-Mildred
Johnson, treas.; Mrs. Bessie Lucas,
instructress; Mrs. Rowena Follings,
press and publicity com.
The Wilberforce Alumni club met
at the home of Mrs. L. Wilkerson,
130 Arch St., Friday evening.
The members of the Co-Ed club
were entertained by their president
Co-ed, Ruth A. Brown, at her home
on Sunday, March 14.
After a business session the girls
presented Co-Ed Beulah Stephens
with a beautiful gift in honor of her
birthday.
A twilight supper was served in a
charming manner by the hostess, fol
lowed by social chat.
The Co-Ed club announces the
membership of Miss Helen N. Jack
son of Prospect Park, Minneapolis.
Charles Young Auxiliary No. 12
met Wednesday, March 17, in regular
session.
Mr. Alfred Shute was initiated on
Thursday, March 25, by the Omega
Psi Phi Fraternity.
The Cameo Social club met at the
home of Miss Guinevere Kelly, Fri
day.
STATE OFFICER BRUTALLY
ATTACKS COLORED WOMAN
(Continued from page 1)
eral had made a “thorough investi
gation of the case, and determined
that the facts did not warrant a
criminal prosecution.” The N. A. A.
C. P. there upon replied to Mr. Town
send as follows:
“Inasmuch as the facts which I
have presented to Governor Robin
son were included in a duly executed
affidavit signed by Mrs. Purnell and
witnessed by two reputable citizens
ofSeaford, I am- writing to inquire if
Governor Robinson, Attorney Gener
al Southerland or you would be will
ing to give us the facts as ascertain
ed by the Attorney General’s investi
gation. This request, of course, does
not imply any question of Attorney
General Southerland’s diligence. On
the other hand, this matter was re
ported to us by citizens of Delaware
whom we have every reason to be
lieve are thoroughly reliable. You
will understand that feeling that
proper action has not been taken to
bring to justice the alleged attacker
of Mrs. Purnell, whether that feeling
is justified or not, there will be great
discontent among the colored citi
zens of the state. It is for the pur
pose of letting them know exactly
what action has been taken by the
state that we take the liberty of re
questing you to send us this informa
tion.”
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Rice St. at .Summit Ave.
HILL CREATED SALESMAN
AT LOCAL KISSEL AGENCY
Edmund M. Hill, newly appointed
salesman for the Llndstrom Motor
Sales Co., 479 Rice St., agents for
the Kissel Motor Car Co., came to
St. Paul in 1907. From then until
1920 he was employed on the rail
road, and after that he received em
ployment from the city.
Six years ago Mr. Hill organized
the Twin City Automobile Club and
has been its president since its or
ganization. Mr. Hill has associated
himself with the Kissel Motor Car
Company in order to help his people
to get new cars at reduced prices.
Mr. Hill Is a Christian gentleman,
having joined the St. James A. M. E.
church some fifteen years ago. He
has been a faithful member of the
church since joining and has been a
member of the official board for more
than six years and is now treasurer.
He cordially invites all prospective
automobile buyers to call him before
buying at Llndstrom Motors or at
his residence, Midway 2668.
“THE BIRTH OF A NATION”
BY KLAN, BARRED IN OHIO
(N. A. A. C. P. Press Service)
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People has
received word from Harry E. Davis
of Cleveland and member of its
Board of Directors, that the private
showing by the Ku Klux Klan of the
“Birth of a Nation” film has been
barred in the state of Ohio, accord
ing to a ruling of the State Attorney
General.
Public showing of the film had
previously been barred by the State
Board of Motion Picture Censors and
the Attorney General held that pri
vate showings would be circumvent
ing the law. The State Supreme
Court some months ago upheld the
barring of the picture.
Mrs. Henrietta Goins
Announces the Opening of
7he Henrietta Beauty
Shoppe
Thursday, April Ist
Marcelling Shampooing
Facial and Scalp Treatments Hair Bobbing Manicuring
331 Chatsworth Street
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Given by ST. PAUL HIKING CLUB
Saturday Night, Mareh 20th, 8 to 12 p.m.
At PIONEER HALL, 688 Rondo St.
First Prize $2V. 2 Gold-Piece
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