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An Independent Negro Weekly Newspaper
PUBLISHED BY THE ST. PAUL ECHO COMPANY
fl 4 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, 1925, at the post office at
St. Paul, Minn., under the act of March 3, 1879"
DEFEAT IN WASHINGTON
Claiming that it had no jurisdiction over the case as it was
argued, the United States Supreme Court has dismissed the Helen
Curtis residential segregation case.
One of the things about the Constitution of the United States
is that it allows of many interpretations. True it is, too, that for
the points of latv involved in any particular case, varying courts
have been known to give widely varying decisions, all allowable on
the ground of constitutional interpretation.
In this case of Corrigan V. Buckley, et. al., the Supreme Court
has seen fit to find no grounds in the arguments presented which
would allow a decision from the body to be authorized. Whatever
the grounds of the judges are, and it must be borne in mind that
men who compose this court are recognized throughout their pro
fession to be leaders in the legal field, the results of their decision
will have far-reaching and disastrous effect upon the Negro popu
lation of the United States.
Indianapolis is even now fighting an ordinance for the restric
tion of colored residents. In Kansas City a petition has been pre
sented to the mayor asking that definite residence limits be set
for the colored people of the city. In other parts of the country,
the same question is being faced with bad effect upon racial good
will.
It is possible that the Curtis case may be taken again to the
Supreme Court based upon different and more defendable legal
ground. It is to be sincerely hoped that in the event of another
adjudication, a decision will be rendered which will give the col
ored citizens of cities the country over a more secure foundation
upon the rights which are presumably guaranteed by that much
too-much-interpreted document, the Constitution of the United
States of America.
GOOD POLICE MANNERS
Continued dissatisfaction upon the part of colored taxpayers
over the attitude of the officers at the Rondo street police station
has taken a definite shape toward the activities of one Mr. Falkey,
officer from the Rondo station.
Approximately ten years ago, a colored man named Salter and
this officer Falkey had some trouble in which the officer was shot.
As the years have gone on, Mr. Falkey’s disposition has not
changed, it seems, for with the recent killing of two police officers,
there was indicated a plot in which it was to have been the fate of
Mr. Falkey to go the way of one of the slaughtered men. The kill
ing seemed pre-arranged, but Mr. Falkey, having taken a night off,
missed the party.
Wednesday night a week ago, this same officer took part in
another gallant arrest, assisted by other efficient officers from the
Rondo street station. A car was overtaken in the vicinity of Ron
do and Mackubin streets which was driven by a man who was un
deniably intoxicated. To make the arrest, the officers found it
necessary to beat up the lone man, evidently fearing that he was a
desperado or perhaps the gunman who had been responsible for
the death of the two officers.
From superficial observation it would appear that Mr. Falkey
is carrying a chip on his shoulder, and that he is venting his spleen
upon every person he can. Perhaps it would be wise to remove
the gentleman from the Rondo station for the mutual good of the
community and his own health, or to teach him how to make an
arrest properly.
MIRACLES UP TO DATE
They told Fulton that he was crazy. His steamboat, they
said, was the figment of a fevered imagination and would never
produce practicable results.
Marconi was a lunatic. Projecting messages on wireless
waves of electricity was the green elephant of a man who was
dangerously ill with delirium tremens.
Then came the so-called flying machine. People pooh-poohed
the idea of riding through the air with the same facility as riding
in a boat, and laughed the first experimenters out of the court of
common sense. The war came, and with the war a tremendous
development in the art of aeronautics. Today, flying machines are
accepted with nearly the same degree of nonchalance as are auto
mobiles.
All of which leads to the point that Monday next will witness
the inauguration of the Air Mail service from St. Paul to points
East, West and North—for St. Paul and the Northwest an epochal
event in the history of our local transportation systems.
After the starting of the service, the Pacific, the Atlantic and
the Gulf of Mexico can be reached for a few cents’ additional post
age. Within fifteen hours after a letter is deposited in St. Paul,
the postman in New York will deliver it to the person for whom it
is intended.
Truly the world is getting to be a small place, and St. Paul is
helping it to become smaller and more convenient by steps of this
sort. With the landing of the first plane we may feel justly proud
of our swelling place in the scheme of things as they are.
Congressman Adolph J. Sabath of Illinois, says: “I hope that
the day will be fast approaching when prejudice and intolerance
will disappear; that good will may prevail, which will make for a
happier, more contented, stronger and more humane country.”
Bravo, congressman!
IS
BOOK REVIEWS
By
MARY WHITE OVENGTON,
Chairman, Board of Directors of
the National Association for
the Advancement of
Colored People.
“TURBOTT WOLFE”
By William Plomer. Published by
Harcourt, Brace and Company,
383 Madison Avenue, New York
City. Price, 12.00. By mail,
32.10.
“Turbott Wolfe” is a book about
South Africa and its native problem.
It depicts an Englishman of fine
qualities, an artist, a humanitarian,
thrown with intolerably cheap colo
nials and Dutch settlers, or with peo
ple who, if not cheap, are so odd as
to be unbalanced. These ignorant,
ill-mannered white settlers talk of
the natives as nothing but animals,
while the men have their black mis
tresses and their black families.
They bring disease with them and
they despise African culture. Tur
bott Wolfe finds the last word to be
said of them and of the white man’s
civilization in Africa, whether it be
trader or agriculturalist or mission
ary is “Unclean.”
Of the African, the picture drawn
is very different. Unlike Sarah Mill
in, who wrote of South Africa in
“God’s Stepchildren,” he finds much
that is beautiful and dignified in the
African though he also sees that the
best in the savage is being destroyed
by so-called civilization. He thus
describes a native girl to whom he is
attracted: “She was a fine rare sav
age, of a type you will find nowhere
now; it has been killed by the mis
sionaries, the poor whites and the
towns * * *. An aboriginal, per
fectly clean and perfectly beautiful.
I have never seen such consummate
dignity. She was an ambassadress
of all that beauty (it might be called
holiness) that intensity of the old
wonderful unknown primitive Afri
can life—outside history, outside
time, outside science.” A very dif
ferent picture from the squatting
savages in Millin’s tale, or the in
credibly dirty creatures in the
French Africa of Bactuala.
The plot of the book is slight, but
it is bold enough to deal plainly with
miscegenation, and with the passion
that a white woman may feel for a
colored man. But chiefly it has giv
en the author the opportunity to talk
about the ever interesting theme of
color.
Of South Africa, the writer says
through one of his characters: “Na
tive question, indeed! My good man,
there is no native question. It’s an
answer. I don’t know whether peo
ple are willfully blind that they can’t
see what’s coming. The white man’s
as dead as a door nail in this coun
try.” His three principal characters
get together and form a society of
blacks and whites that stands firmly
for miscegenation as inevitable, right
and proper. The half caste world is
coming and they believe that they
will prepare the way. The new mis
sionary, one of the three, counts this
more suitable work than teaching the
natives that Esau was a hairy man
and other such Old Testament tales.
Of course, disaster comes to all
three, and Turbott Wolfe, for whom
you have a growing affection, and
whom the natives learn to love and
trust, has to give up his work and
return to England. It is he who
tells the story as he lies slowly dying
of African fever. Here is one of the
conclusions that he gives to his
listening friend: “I think if you go
into the question thoroughly you
will find that ultimately, our civiliza
tion is obscure. It has always seemed
to me to be the chief mistake of our
age that we take it for granted that
science is a panacea. The chief
tendency of modern science has been
to produce noise.”
Some fish make nests of sticks
and weeds.
Sates RENTALS Service
Houses of all kinds
Small Payments Down
Equities Arranged
Real Estate Notary Public
FOR SALE
8-Koom House on Rondo St.
$5,000. SSOO down payment.
O-Room House on Rondo St. A
bargain. $3,100. S6OO down
payment.
Semi-Bungalow on Fuller St.
$6,800.
House on Carrol St. $4,000. Down
payment SBOO.
Duplex on Western Ave. 5 rooms
up and 6 rooms down, hot wa
ter heat, electric light. $5,500.
SI,OOO down payment.
Mackubin and Kent. $5,000.
FOR RENT
Rondo St. 5-Room Flat reason
able rent.
Flats on 7th and Chestnut.
What you don’t see, ask for It,
we have It.
DUCKETT
687 St. Anthony Dale 1422
ST. PAUL ECHO
C J INTHEREALM
iubdom
The K. A. S. club had their an
nual outing Decoration Day at the
summer cottage of Mr. and Mrs. O. G.
Hall at Round Lake.
The work of Williams’ Minstrels,
produced by the men of Pilgrim Bap
tist church, under the auspices of the
Usher Board of St. James A. M. E.
church, Tuesday evening, June 1,
1926, was a very creditable affair,
proving the ability of S. Ed Hall and
Dr. Geo. W. James, especially in this
line. The chorus work was of a high
order. Mr. Williams, as interlocu
tor, was in the right place.
The Cameo club held their last
meeting of the season on June 1,
1926, at the home of the Misses Mar
tha and Esther Bradley, 934 St. An
thony Ave. Plans are now being
made for a Pow Wow at Robbinsdale,
Minn., which will mark the close of
the club’s activities until September.
Messrs. Albert True, William Benja
min and Miss Clara Smith were vis
itors.
The Harriet Tubman Civic League
will be hosts to an educational tour
at the Water Works on the 14th of
June. The guests will be conveyed
in busses from the Y. W. Center,
where they will meet at one o’clock.
This is the seventh of a series of edu
cational tours sponsored by the
league.
The Tom Thumb Wedding given by
the King’s Daughters Charity club
was quite a success. The solo ren
dered by Master Lewis Williams was
highly enjoyed by all. Also the solo
by Miss Loretta Powell. Miss Powell
is a vocal student of Mrs. Mae Black
Mason.
The Women’s Auxiliary of the St.
Paul Urban League was host to the
first of a series of progressive whist
parties, Thursday evening, at the
home of Mrs. Mary Wilson, 697 St.
Anthony Ave. The first prize, a beau
tiful lamp shade, was captured by
Mr. W. Shackelford. Mrs. Addie
Howard received the second prize.
Refreshments of hot weiners, rolls,
potato salad, ice cream and cake were
served. Mrs. Belle Plummer acted
as chairman.
At 2 p. m. Sunday, May 30, Leslie
Lawrence Post delegates met with
the G. A. R. Women before the mon
ument of Josius King in Summit
Park while the Boy Scout Troop No.
55 placed a wreath on the monument.
The flags waved in the breeze and the
three delegations stood at attention
and Earl Clendenon blew “Taps” and
the music floated up Summit Ave.
The Bible is now translated in 572
languages.
j Grand Picnic
i The Large Event of the Season
I Given by
| Men's Episcopal Club of St. Phillips Church
| WEDNESDAY JUNE 23rd
l State Fair Grounds
i COMO AVENUE GATE
! Music by Clarence Johnson’s Orchestra
A Eugene Jackson, Jr., Floor Manager
I EVERYBODY INVITED THAT IS SOMEBODY
A EVERY ONE IS PUT ON THEIR HONOR TO CONDUCT
I THEMSELVES AS LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
f GOOD ORDER MUST PREVAIL
| THE COMMITTEE RESERVES THE RIGHT TO
I REFUSE ANY UNDESIRABLE PERSONS
X COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS
I Eugene Jackson, Jr. E. O. Brown Oliver Taylor
■ Wm. Anderson Noble Hauser Clarence Tibbs
I Charlie Charleston Lewis Moore S. Lewis
X Pardee Lealted Geo. Manning L. H. McCoy
v Wm. Pettet Frank Fawkes E. Neal
A Wm. Elliott Ernest Starks F. D. McCracken
I McPhetis Don. LaFaucette A. P. Rhodes
I Wm. Benjamin E. Gouch Chas. Cuthbert
■ M. R. McKnight Walter McCoy John M. LaCoste
T Geo. Shannon Chairman
The Bargain Market
Comer Seventh & St. Peter Streets
Fresh Fruits, Vegetables & Groceries
Noted for Its Quality and Service.
OUR DELIVERIES ARE PROMPT
Call CEdar 9419
People Have Learned
Value of Thermometer
A man named Galileo Invented a
thermometer In 1002. The liquid was
in an open vial, and there was no
mark or scale to show temperatures.
After a while a mark was need show
ing the temperature of snow and an
other for the heat of a candle.
Half a century later a man found
he could make a thermometer of a
glass tube with a bulb on one end, so
by sealing the other end you could
carry the thing about. Another half
century or more passed, and Fahren
heit became interested. He developed
the thermometer until It was a prac
tical instrument, and by ITI4 he had
established his now famous Fahren
heit scale.
That was over 200 years ago, s&ys
Good- Hardware, yet people are Just
realizing how actually useful this In
strument Is. For centuries It was
looked upon with superstition j a score
of years ago school children could tell
you the owner of nearly every ther
mometer in town. The incubator, and
then our scientific dairying, cooking
aqd gardening, brought the thermom
eter into common use.
Thermometers are cm important
item now. They are In demand every
day of the year among folks who have
learned a little about their cues.
Many people demand a specially de
signed thermometer for each differ
ent purpose,
Misunderstood
An old negro named John Jones,
upon leaving Atlanta, Ga., went to his
bank, a negro institution, and had
his book balanced, which showed a
balance of 3200.
Landing in Cincinnati, the old darky
issued a check on the Atlanta bank
for S2OO, payable to a Cincinnati bank.
In a few days the check was re
turned marked “Insufficient Funds,”
whereupon the Cincinnati bank sent
an inquiry to the Atlanta bank about
the old negro’s account and the bal
ance they showed on the pass book,
against which no checks had been is
sued. The following reply was re
ceived :
“Gentlemens—We don’t mean that
John Jones ain't got sufficient funds,
but we mean that our funds are In
sufficient.”—Forbes Magazine.
| Who’s Who
| and Style Revue
St. James A. M. E. Church
WEDNESDAY, JUNE, IS
Under the auspices of the Yount Matrons
Admission 25 cents
HIGH COURT DISMISSES
CURTIS RESIDENCE CASE
(Continued from page 1)
nouncing slavery and involuntary
servitude but not in other matters
protecting the individual rights of
person of the Negro race.
As to the contentions raised under
the fourteenth amendment, the opin
ion said it had reference only to state
action and not to any action of pri
vate individuals.
Court Lacks Jurisdiction.
For these reasons, Justice Sand
ford said, the constitutional amend
ment cited did not cover such trans
actions as that complained of and
did not bring before the court a
question upon which it had jurisdic
tion to consider its merits.
The decision leaves open to the
complainant further proceedings in
the lower courts to force the sale
provided she can find some other
constitutional ground upon which to
proceed.
The case had attracted nation-wide
attention, especially from a number
of cities in which the issue had been
fought over locally.
The average American family con
sumed 824 pounds of dressed meat
last year.
If there is anything that keeps the
mind open to angel visits, and repels
the ministry of ill, it is human love.
—N. P. Willis.
ANNOUNCEMENT
A dispensation was granted the
U. B. F. Lodge for ninety days. •
I. R. HAGAN, Secretary,
398 St. Anthony Ave.
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URBAN LEAGUE NOTES
The Mothers’ Club met on last Fri
day at the West Side Neighborhood
House. The meetings are held the
second and fourth Fridays in each
month. All members and friends are
urgently requested to come and as
sist with the sewing.
Mrs. Bertha Lewis King has or
ganized a class in music at the West
Side Neighborhood House whereby
the children of that neighborhood
may be given piano instructions at
a very nominal cost.
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3TS 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 a Minnesota Sts. Tel. Ce 2417
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Tel. Dale 2696 Res. Elk. 3519
F. W. POTHEN, Jr.
Plumbing, Heating
and Cas Fitting
Jobbing Promptly Attended to
495 University Ave. St. Paul
A. J. Scheiderbauer Geo. Adam
University Electric Co.
439 University Avenue
ELECTRIC WIRING
and FIXTURES
Old Houses Wiring a Specialty
Bus. Phone Elkhurst 4729.
Res. Phone Dale 1913.
Phone: Elkhurst 1156
Capital City Auto Electric Co.
ELECTRIC SUPPLIER
Ignition, Generator, Starter,
Motor and Magneto Repairs
BATTERY CHARGING
Eight Hour Service
697 University Ave., St. Paul
Tel. Dale 2487
I. KAHN, Tailor
Perfect Fit Guaranteed
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Of Ladies' and Oents' Clothes
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