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An Independent Negro Weekly Newspaper
PUBLISHED BY THE ST. PAUL ECHO COMPANY
Cl 4 Court Block Telephone Cedar 1879 St. Paul, Minnesota
President and General Manager CYRUS L. LEWIS
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HOW RACE HATRED IS PERPETUATED /
Some of the more thoughtful ones of the race, no doubt, often
wonder why race hatred is without doubt increasing in spite of all
efforts of organizations to the contrary. Some give one cause and
some another, but the one fundamental cause of the continuance
and spread of hatred surely has not escaped the notice of the
thoughtful. We don’t claim to have made any new discoveries in
the vast field of “colorphobia,” but when we see on all sides parents
teaching their children to HATE children of other races (not only
Negroes), we shudder with horror as we contemplate what kind of
a crop the seeds of hatred now being sown will bring in another
generation.
When we hear on the one hand the Irish abuse the Scandina
vian solely on racial grounds, and on the other both those races
abuse the Jew on racial grounds, and finally all three of the afore
named abuse and despise the Negro on racial grounds, we are
forced to wonder what of the future ?
On last Thursday morning, when the newspapers of the coun
try advertised to the world that Little Rock, Ark., was still waving
the bloodstained banner in defense of “white supremacy” by lynch
ing a Negro for one of their “supposed” crimes, we boarded a
street car at the end of the line and found the motorman and con
ductor busily engaged in the reading of the murder at Little Rock
by 5,000 savages, of one man who probably had committed no
crime. The motorman said to the “con” after they both had read
and thoroughly enjoyed the lynching article, “It’s good for him, he
had it coming.” That made our blood boil, to think that an indi
vidual would condemn a man to mob rule without even taking the
second thought on the matter. Only because we practice “discre
tion is the better part of valor” did we refrain from calling that
hireling into question and perhaps to the mat. We kept quiet after
a look at him that dared any one.
We arrived at our cross street and got off the car and con
tinued down the cross street on foot; when in the middle of the
block a little child not more than three years old stopped playing
in the yard long enough to say to us, “Say, you are one of them,
too,” after which the mere infant proceeded to abuse us in terms
that would have done credit to any Kentucky mountaineer.
We know that the lynching had been discussed at the break
fast table just an hour before, and the head of the house had given
his lesson in hatred and left and went to work feeling elated that
he had done his bit toward sowing a seed that may help preserve
what he calls “Nordic Superiority,” but what we call treasonable
propaganda. Because just as sure as there is a North American
government, race prejudice will just so surely destroy it.
TO WHOM CAN WE LOOK?
We were about to call on the Attorney General of this state,
to give special attention to the affairs at Lincoln University after
June 1, and see to it that a repetition of four years ago will not
figure in the little finances which the State has allowed to educate
the Negro youths of the State during the next two years. But the
thought comes to us; who will tell the Attorney General when
hands of graft and pillage are threatening that institution ? Will
the president-elect do it, or will his hands be so stained with the
former deals that he cannot? If we look to the three Negro mem
bers of the Board of Curators or to either of them to discover and
expose things, we are confronted with the fact that these men
voted for the governor’s program which was tainted with graft.
Neither of them had the courage, race loyalty or backbone
enough to speak for the people then, and we have not heard that
either of them has repented or had a change of heart since. There
fore, neither of them is to be trusted; they are to be regarded as
blind leaders, seeing only through Baker’s eyes. One of them at
least is not to be trusted on his oath. For it was C. G. Williams,
one of the Negro members of the Board, who swore to a lie when
testifying before the House investigating committee, in an effort
to save Sam James, who was then under investigation for his con
duct as president of the Board.
This same C. G. Williams is now the secretary of the Board of
Curators, and unless he has changed, and we don’t believe he has,
we believe he would change the records which he is supposed to
keep, and even though he might swear to their authenticity, we
would not believe him on his oath.
Therefore, we do not see just now how the hand of graft and
pillage is going to be stayed unless the Attorney General with spe
cial assistance keeps an eye on that institution.
Lincoln must be saved at all cost.—St. Louis Argus.
No matter how hard you work, if your mental attitude is
headed toward failure, you will probably fail.
If there is a virtue in the world that always helps, it is cheer
fulness. Willingly and cheerfully doing a thing doubles the worth
of the deed. The sad man soon tires, but the cheerful man marches
on for days and years. Constant sadness and a grouch congeal our
blood and baffle the building brain.
Some people overlook the value of politeness, but I’ve yet to
see the man or business thae is too big or too little to do without it.
Courtesy is the lubricant that smooths the way to achievement.
POETIC FANCY IN
LEGEND OF LENIN
How Soviet Leader Earned
Love of Allah.
Among the many legends concern
ing the life and deeds of Nikolai Lenin
already Incorporated in the popular
mythology of the Moslem inhabitants
of the soviet union Is one passing
from mouth to mouth in Turkestan In
the form of a song and summarized
as follows by Lenoid Solovief, a Rus
sian writer who specializes in collect
ing Lenin stories, according to the
New York Times:
The World war was raging and
thousands were being slain because
the kings of the earth wanted to fill
their treasuries and were forcing
their subjects to go to the front and
kill each other. The stench of the
fallen men and the noise of the con
flict rose to high heaven and annoyed
Allah himself, who concluded It was
time to call together his most faithful
followers and select one wise and
strong enough to end all this misery.
In order to find the best man for
the job, Allah set up a double test. His
elected agent must be able to turn
over a huge rock weighing 60 poods
(about a ton) and to give the correct
answer to the following riddle: “Who
is the strongest on earth, who Is the
happiest, and who is the weakest and
most unhappy?”
There were many candidates for the
glorious mandate, but none was able
to turn over the rock, although they
tried so hard that the stone soon bore
traces of their fingers. Neither could
anyone solve the riddle, despite the
variety of answers, most of which
made Allah the strongest and happi
est and Satan the weakest and most
unhappy. Finally, Allah noticed a
man of slight figure but with a very
high forehead looking intently at the
big rock. Maybe this little fellow car.
do It, thought the Most High.
When the last candidate threw off
his coat and stood revealed In all his
physical weakness, Allah’s heart sank.
But what was his surprise to see the
man walk away from the rock and re
turn In a few minutes with several
beams of wood. One of these he
shoved under the big stone: Then an
other was placed under the free end
of the first, and by means of this im
provised lever the rock was easily
turned over, revealing the poisonous
serpent Ok-Ilen, whose tail, weighing
100 pounds, had helped hold the stone
down.
Then the little champion answered
Allah’s riddle as follows: “The strong
est Is the most Intelligent, who wins
every one’s love; the happiest Is the
most honorable, who gives happiness
to many; the most unhappy and the
weakest Is the man beloved by no
body.”
Allah saw how wonderful was the
talent of this man. So he lifted him
up into heaven, where he spent 50
days and 50 nights learning the wis
dom of the Most High. Thus equipped
the successful candidate was named
Lenin and sent back to earth. Lenin
strode over the earth and stopped the
stream of blood. He brought happi
ness to humanity. Then he returned
to rest in Allah’s halls. He left the
world pacified and happy. His name
shall endure while the word “happi
ness” lives.
So runs the legend.
He Liked Boxing
Paul was quite fond of boxing.
Whenever he was with his little pal
Frank he never lost an opportunity
to deal him a blow. One day Frank,
growing weary of being the daily vic
tim of these blows, bolstered up his
strength and dealt Paul such a box
that he sent him home crying.
Rejoicing over his victory, Frank
hurried In and told his grandfather.
His grandfather reprimanded him,
saying: “Frank, do you think that Is
anything to be proud of? Don’t you
know that the good Lord seek all you
do? In the day the sun Is God’s eye
and at night the moon shines on all
deeds.”
“Oh, that’s all right,” replied Frank,
“I hit Paul on the shady side of the
house.” —Indianapolis News.
Cancer Research
Studying the light given off by ash
of tumors burned in an arc light is
the latest method of attacking the
cancer problem, one which has been
applied at the Hahnemann Medical
college in Philadelphia by a trio of
biologists and a physicist, Donald C.
A. Butts, Thomas E. Huff and Freder
ick Palmer, Jr. By means of a spec
troscope, which analyzes the light and
reveals the elements that cause It,
they have found that the yellow lines
due to sodium, which appear only
momentarily when the ash of normal
animal tissue is placed in the arc,
persist until it has all been consumed
when the ash from tumors is analyzed.
This shows the presence of the ele
ment sodium in cancerous tissue.
Skyscraper Possibility
New York’s recent announcement
that it would beat Its own sky
scraping record in the construction of
Larkin tower, more than 1,200 feet
high, leads the London Morning Post
to comment that the proposed build
ing will be higher than the highest
highbrow, and its elevators will give
more uplift than the loftiest thinkers
even in the United States. Altogeth
er, It will be quite the latest thing in
aerial suburbs. “I wonder,” says the
writer, “If the skyscraper is carried
much further, whether the saloons on
the top floor will be able to claim
they are beyond the three-mile limit”
ST. PAUL ECHO
GOOD FRIEND TO
ALL, IS PATIENCE
Writer Asks Why Impetuous
Youth “Must" Be Served.
It would be useful if more persons
understood earlier in life what a very
good virtue and very good friend pa
tience is. Without it men could have
added hardly anything of importance
to their stock of knowledge.
Darwin had his chief ideas on evolu
tion when he was thirty, but waited
20 years—spent in the most laborious
investigation—before he wrote any
thing about It. Other men had much
the same Ideas, but it was Darwin’s
20 years of tireless digging for facts
that put his Ideas over. Copernicus
at forty was certain the earth went
round the sun, instead of the sun go
ing round the earth, as astronomy had
it up to his time, but he was sixty
seven when he published the treatise
that proved it.
To read even a nontechnical sketch
of Pasteur’s experiments makes one’s
head ache. One might fill pages with
such examples. Innumerable flints
must have been broken, and knuckles
skinned, before men found out how to
shape a symmetrical arrowhead. Pa
tience is a great virtue and a good
friend.
Most of the world’s popular litera
ture is romantic, and the romancers
have usually been in an unholy con
spiracy to praise youth’s vice of im
patience and to disparage age’s virtue
of patience. We must put a stop to
that. The romancers suggest that pa
tience may be very well in a cow, but
is stultifying in a young person—es
pecially when in love. Medieval
Aucassin fixed the type of the popu
lar lover. He won’t work, he won’t
fight, he won’t talk, he won’t eat; he
won’t do anything but bellow for Nlco
lette; he must have her right now; the
mere suggestion of patience gives him
fits.
Probably he will always be the most
fetching figure in a novel or poem, or
on the stage. When he is safely iso
lated in print, or across the footlights,
everybody sighs for him. But who
wants to live with him? In the real
world what Is he but a bad-tempered
brat in a candy shop, bellowing to
have his fill right now?
“Youth must be served” is quoted as
though it were very laudable of youth
to insist on being served regardless
of the feelings of everybody else in
the shop. Why is selfishness more
admirable at twenty than at eighty?
Especially at present, It seems, a lot
of young persons take the poetry seri
ously and live up to the theory that
they must have whatever they want —
If they can possibly get it.
Age Is at such a discount that the
aged must try to pass themselves off
as counterfeit hills of youth. Grandpa
cries “On with the dance!” In brave
falsetto. Grandma has her skirts and
her face lifted, and drowns the twinges
of rheumatism In another cocktail.
They call that nervous commotion be
ing alive. But a pup is far more alive
In that respect. The acme and perfec
tion of that sort of being alive is found
In a dock walloper’s free-for-all fight.
However, the moldy youths of the
night clubs and the cartoons are a
minority.—Will Payne In the Saturday
Evening Post.
History Repeats Itself
A curious document has come to
light in Germany. It’s a manuscript
dating from the Fifteenth century,
written by a citizen of Augsburg. This
Individual wrote a daily observation
on the fashion of the day. He start
ed when he was eighteen, and one day
heard some ancients deplore the ten
dency of “modern” dress, especially
among women. The first ten years the
changing fashions amused him consid
erably. After his thirtieeth year he be
comes more conservative. Forty sees
him ranged with the Lutheran clergy
of Augsburg In a condemnation of low
necks for frauleins. At sixty he is a
fulminating, roaring denouncer threat
ening dire destruction of the Nine
veh type for his native Augsburg, if
the women do not come back from the
“frivolity and sinfulness” of the fash
ion of the year 1500.—Pierre Van Pas-
Ben, in the Atlanta Constitution.
Excavators Rewarded
New light on the life of ancient
Carthage is thrown by the discovery
of the foundations of a sanctuary dedi
cated to Astarte, or Tanit, Phoenician
goddess of fecundity and love, in
whose honor the Carthaginians used to
Immolate children. This find is the
more significant to archeologists and
historians in view of the unearthing
in its vicinity several years ago of a
magnificent winged statue represent
ing the goddess Tanit. It is now in
the Peres Blanc museum In Carthage.
Excavators among the Carthaginian
ruins usually have to content them
selves with epigraphical discoveries,
such as epitaphs, dedications to gods
and other inscriptions. —Chicago News.
Kongo to Have Aviation
Commercial aviation has just in
vaded the Belgian Kongo and. is giv
ing transportation speedier than ever
dreamed of by residents there. A
company which has secured the ex
clusive franchise for operation of
civil aviation lines has established
regular aerial service between Boma
and Elisabethville, covering the 1.28.6
miles in two days instead of in 50 by
any other method. Flights are made
every eight days to connect with mail
steamers from Belgium. Hydroplane
boats will provide transportation
between the small towns and settle
ments along jivers.
Bury Child's Clothing
to Be Rid of “Spirit”
It has taken half a century for
peace officers in the hard-coal fields to
learn what motive Inspires those who
bury the clothing of children. This
practice in the anthracite districts has
mystified state police, as well as offi
cers of the cities, boroughs and town
ships. Often wild goose chases after
murderers have resulted only in the
discovery of clothing, but with no
body therein. Sometimes the bun
dles have been buried deep and have
been uncovered through the settle
ment of the mines or by the caving of
the sides of breaches In the workings.
Ever since the collapse of the 1875-
76 strike, which saw the English,
Welsh, Scotch, Irish and German
miners gradually 'displaced by Slavs,
Poles, Russians, Italian and Monte
negrins, who now predominate In the
collieries, these murder scares have
occurred in the hard-coal fields until
now the hurry-up call from some per
son who tells of the discovery by
boys of a bundle of clothing usually
is discounted l)y the officers.
Some one last winter took It upon
himself to dglve into the. mystery, and
his inquiry into the practice has re
vealed that the burial of children’s
clothing is an overseas custom, used
by the peasantry where youngsters
are subject to convulsions. The old
idea that a child is “possessed” still
prevails in some families, with the
belief that to bury the entire clothing
outfit of a little boy or girl will mean
that the spirit goes along with the
garments and is buried with them.
This discovery adds another quaint
Idea to coal region customs. The
oddest one is that which is followed
in the treatment of hernia. The be
lief prevails In certain quarters that
hernia can be cured by a tree if the
treatment is followed in the spring. A
tree In the woods is found that shows
signs of the sap starting to flow after
the winter period of inertness.
Its bark is split and then a binding
Is placed across the gash, the bandage
doling of the person who suf
fers from the hernia. The belief
is that as the new, growth bridges the
cut the muscles in the abdomen of
the sufferer grow together and the
rupture is cured.
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The Crisis
It is a common saying that men
and women hate to pass forty and put
on glasses.
There is a greater trial ahead of
them; to have all their teeth out and
buy a set of the kind that never looks
natural.
False teeth are as easily detected
as a wig; but people are rather more
charitable for false teeth—somehow,
they expect a man to boldly face bald
ness.—E. W. Howe’s Monthly.
Instinct Makes Hubby
Take Refuge in Lies
American husbands instinctively lie
to their wives, contends Charles J.
McQuirk in an article in Liberty.
“Even in those circles that keep up
the fiction of the supremacy of man,”
the writer maintains, “the influence
of the American wife reaches, causing
husbands to lower their voices and
think up lies.
“For corollary to this tyranny, and
chiefly responsible for it," the writer
explains, “is the cowardice ot the
American husband. There isn’t a nor
mal married man in the United States,
who has been that way for a year and
upward, who won’t cower and look
guilty when suddenly asked a ques
tion by the woman he swore to love,
cherish and protect.
“It makes no difference how inno
cent the question may be. Instinct
and experience cause his mind to dive
beneath the inquiry’s surface in
search of the ulterior motiVe that
prompted it. Generally his answer is
untruthful but highly exemplary. His
motto is, Safety First.
“If you ask these husbands why
they lie, they will tell you, ‘To keep
peace lu the family.’ That is true as
far as it goes, but It doesn’t go far
enough. The real reason lies deep
in their subconscious minds. It Is an
unconscious memory Inherited from
their millions of husband-ancestors. It
is the instinctive knowledge that a
wife will believe a lie quicker than
she will tlte truth. She prefers fic
tion to fact.”
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Father Paid Dearly
“Recently a little chap, known to
ns as ‘Junior,’ cried for a whole day
because his mother made him wear a
little suit all trimmed in ruffles and
the boys down at the corner garage
called him ‘Betty’,” writes Pansy from
Urbana.
“That night when his father re
turned home he met with Instant sym
pathy, and he explained to him that
he need never act like a ‘Betty,’ even
if his mother did insist sometimes that
he look like one.
“So "the next morning, still wearing
his ruffles, ‘Junior 1 went down to this 1
same corner garage and heaved almost
a whole brickbat through the front
window. A father, with considerable
pride, paid the bill.” —Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
“Wealth does not always bring hap
piness !”
“1 should say It doesn’t,” answered
Senator Sorghum. “Out my way
they’ve been using so much money
that anyone who wants a chance in
the political game has to pretend to
be as poor as possible.”
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