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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-23
Something to Think About
By BRUNO LESSING
Work and Pray.

employing these hours Is in study ana
reading and thinking.
Study and reading and thinking
improve the mind. As the mind linz
proves it has better capacity for
Judging what is best TO do for ones
own interests. With the improve
ment OF the mind comes improvement
in taste. You may even reach the
point where you find prize-fighting
vulgar, professional baseball stupid
and most Of the pleasures Of the mod
ern mob exceedingly foolish and In
sipid.
But study and reading and think.
ing mean work. So, perhaps, the citi'
zens of the ideal state may work even
harder than the union laborer Of to-
day. He may even work Sundays and
holidays because Of the pride he takes
in doing good work.
Maybe the ideal state is not going
to be what George Bernard Shaw
cracks it up to be.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-23
come TO advanced ag

Cutie 20 auVanced age.
Back when he married Gram" he probably
thought that was the elimination of all the color and the
Jingle in his life. But then long lean hard years
Nellie seems to have acquired philosophy of content
ment with which TO meet them He is now among those
who will envy him the color of his Lake tennessee
wassee and the Jingle of his air blowing out of the pine
noches of the White Mountains and down the valley of
the Androscoggin. But Nellie admits he was down to
his last eight dollars.
Along comes the magician vaudeville TO dump
thousand dollars week into his lap. Gram cried
itte though Nellie wsecracked to keep his courage up
But visions must be whrng through their old heads at
II all Humble visions, but tinged with gold And MeIes
unless we misjudge him, must be tinged with purple
Think Of the purple tales of backstage he can tell
when he gets back to sit around the stove in the store
in Norway, Maine
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-23
BucoGe Press

Welcome relief in the form Of wind
and rain has come 70 most cities in
the great hest zone, where people have
lived on lemonade and fire escapes
since June !. - Beaver Falls (Pa.)
Tribune.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-23
YE TOWNE GOSSIP s,E: c: 3:

THAT j speak with him.
AND THE man replied
m WAS very sorry.
But THEY were instructed.
TO CALL no ore.
FROM A conference.
AND THEN I asked.
WHO THE conferees were.
GALL DEPARTMENT heads"
AND 1 hung up 'he phone.
AND WENT downtown
AND A half hour later.
I WAS in the place.
TO WHICH ] had phoned. s.
AND WHERE ! waited.
WAS WHERE / could see.
THE CONFERENCE door.
AND THEY all came out.
AND i found Mr.. C.
AND FINISHED my business.
AND WENT on home.
AND AN hour later.
THE GIRL called up.
AND SAID to me.
IF YOU'D like to talk.
TO MR.. C.
AND I may be wrong.
But ] am the master.
OF MY purse.
AND I'm going TO spend it.
WHERE CUSTOMERS.
ARE AS important.
AS DEPARTMENT. heads.
I THANK you.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-23
j TELEPHONED.

] TELEPHONED.
TO A company.
OF WHOM am.
A GOOD customer.
AND I said to the girl.
THIS Is Mr.. B.
AND I'D like to talk.
WITH MR.. c."
AND TOLD my name.
AND THE girl tsid.
JUST A moment please"
AND I waited a moment.
AND A mans voice said.
E
WHO DO you wapt:7
AND i said again.
THAT / wanted 20 talk.
WITH MIR. C.
AND THE man replied.
JUST A moment, please
AND THEN I waited.
FOR MAYBE two minutes.
AND THE man came back.
AND SAID to me.
THAT Mr. C.
WAS IN conference.
AND I said to BIN.
Il AM a customer.
OF YOUR firm.
AND EVERY year.
I SPEND with you.
A LOT Of moneJ.
AND 1T is important
TO MIR. c.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1925-11-28
Minneapolis Church Woman,
Old Resident, Quietly Dies

of years until their only son Edward
brought them to Minneapolis in 1907
to spend their declining years in
peace and comfort at his home.
On account of his advancing age
Rev. Stewart gave up his ministerial
duties and assisted in the services oc.
casionally at Bethesda Baptist church
until his death in 1913.
Services Friday.
Funeral services were held at 2
p. m. Friday from Bethesda Baptist
church where the deceased had been
a member for 18 years. Rev. H. c.
Parsons officiated. The floral tributes
were numerous and very beautiful
Burial took place in Lakewood cem-
etery. w. Squire Neal was the
funeral director.
Mrs. Stewart is survived by her
son Edward, a nephew E. E. Perkins
Of Winnipeg, Manitoba, who attended
the funeral, brother, J. H. Coates OF
Cedars, Miss, and nieces and grand
nieces living in Washington, D. c.,
Chicago, ILL.,, and Jackson, Miss.
She will be greatly missed in
church by her hosts of friends who
admired her beautiful Christian
character.
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new CAFE OPENS
DOORS TO PUBLIC
Bridgeforth Announces Beginn-
ing of One More Negro En-
terprise in City.

With the opening of the Unity
Cafe. 438 Rondo St., one more chord
is struck in the march of the business
life of st. Paul.
The cafe entered active business
this week, and is advertised as being
strictly modern. sanitary, and of SER
vice fit for the best. Its location is
in a place close by the main Negro
settlement of the community.
Mr.. David Bridgeforth is the pro-
prietor of the restaurant. He has
lived in the city for long while, and
was connected with the late Walter
Chestnut in the management of the
Unity Dancing School.
The plan of the cafe calls for spe-
cial attention to motor parties. Home
cooked Sunday dinners will be made
a specially. The management also
announces that after theatre parties
will be catered to, and that chicken
sandwiches will be served at all
times.
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Rhinelander Case Displays
Weaknesses OF 'Old Families
J. C. ANDERSON ENDORSED
AS CANDIDATE FOR BISHOP

C. Anderson, D. D., candidate for
the House of Bishops of the A. M. E.
church, and former pastor of St.
Paul, has been officially endorsed for
the Office he is seeking by several con-
ferences of the church.
The North Ohio, the Ohio, the
South Ohio, the Pennsylvania, the
Pittsburgh, and the West Virginia
conferences have placed their stamp
of approval upon Rev. Anderson.
At the West Virginia conference
held in Parkersburg, w. Va, two
weeks ago, Bishop Joshua Jones in a
short and eloquent speech paid high
tribute to the worth of the candidate,
and claimed that he was well fitted
for the high position that he sought.
Rev. Anderson is at present pastor
of Bethel A. M. E. church of Pitts
burgh.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1925-11-28
CRISPUS ATTUCKS
INMATES ENTERTAINED

Members of the Tri Art Coterie
visited Crispus Attucks home on the
evening of Thanksgiving, and treated
the residents to a short program and
a buffet supper.
Thelma Davis, Doris Erwin, and
Mary Toliver gave a display of the
Charleston dance in costume, while
Mabel Douglas played the piano.
Laura Oden read several humorous
selections.
Old fashioned songs sung with the
true spirit of another time were
featured by Bette Johnson, Mabel
Douglas, Muriel Alexander, Gladys
Gardner, Louise Hoage, Pauline Ven
cradle and Agnes Gardner.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1925-11-28
NEGRO SOLDIERS
PRAISED BY FISH
Congressman, Leader of 369th,
Takes Issue With Bullard in
Defense of Veterans.
(Preston News Service)

Washington, D. c., Nov. 27.-"The
colored soldier, properly trained and
given an equal opportunity, is just as
brave and will go just as far as any
other soldier"
This tribute to the part colored
troops in the World War was voiced
by Congressman Hamilton Fish, Jr,
of New York City, last Wednesday
night at meeting of the National
Memorial Association held in John
Wesley Church to arouse sentiment
favorable to passage by Congress of
bill for the erection of a memorial
building in this city in honor of col
ored service men. - 49,.
Col. Fish said he spoke from ex-
perience, as he was leader of the
famous 369th Infantry, first colored
troops overseas. He outlined the his
tory of bill introduced in Congress
by himself to erect a monument in
France to soldiers of the four colored
regiments.
General Frank T. Hines, director
of the Veterans Bureau. and Col.
Hanford E. MacNider, Assistant Sec
retary of War, also addressed the
gathering and lauded the part the
Negro played in the war.
Il take exception" Col. Fish de-
'clared, "to remarks made by Gen.
Bullard last summer condemning- col
ored soldiers, because l know the re-
marks to be false, and because they
apply mostly to men unframed and
improperly led. If the United States
is to erect 80 divisional monuments
to white troops, many of which did
not have half the casualties of the
four colored American regiments that
served with the French, consider it
unwarranted discrimination against
those regiments not to erect similar
monument in their honor"
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U.N.|.A. SAID TO
HAVE WIPED OUT
debts OF GARVEY
Claimed 100000, Total Indebted.
ness of Association, Has
Been Paid Up.
Uplift' Not Promised
$1,500,00O Building to Be Erect
ed in New York; Garvey Will
Be DepOrted.
(Preston News Service)

New York City, Nov. 27.-Accord-
ing to an announcement of the law
firm of Jacobson and Jacobs, counsel
for the Universal Negro Improvement
Association, Incorporated, all of the
liabilities of the association have
been wiped out by paying forty-eight
of it's members about 100000 for
which judgments had been obtained.
This was learned last Thursday.
These liabilities, it is said, had
been incurred by Marcus Garvey, the
founder and leader, who is now
serving term in the Atlanta peniten-
tiary for mail fraud.
Garvey Promises Salaries.
Much of Garvey's popularity, it
was said, was due to his witness and
generosity in giving jobs to all who
he thought could be of service to him
in spreading propaganda for the up
building of his movement, and
charging their salaries to the associa-
ton. 1t is said that these salaries
ranged all the way from $1,500 to
$4,000. When the association fail
ed to redeem the promises of pay
ment made by Mr.. Garvey, suits were
brought and judgments were obtain
ed.
According to the lawyers the U. N.
l. A. is educational and is again
flourishing. They pointed out that
the association owns a site in West
138th street on which is a modest
building known as Liberty Hall. Mr..
Jacobson said that the association
was about to erect $1,500,00O
building on the site and that there
would be no difficulty in obtaining
enough money for the enterprise.
Ga1vey to Be Deported.
1t is understood that Garvey is
definitely out of the old business OF
uplifting" members of his race in
this country becouse the U. S. Gov
ernment intends to deport him as
soon as his prison term Is ended.
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while organizations of their kind in
the Northwest.
Their efforts have been given not
alone to merely conducting recitals
but also to an attempt to have their
hearers recognize that the Negro has
a place, and a high one, in the world
of music.
For a good many years these
groups have been singing in churches
in and around the Twin Cities and
with the growing prominence of the
radio. they have been doing some
broadcasting as well. The personnel
of the Pilgrim Quartette includes
Mrs. Matte Rhodes, soprano; Mrs.
Hattie Hall, alto; A. v. Hall, tenor,
and E. Murphy, bass.
Nine. Belle Salter Tyler, Mrs
James E. Combs, Mrs. Matte Rhodes,
and Mrs. Hattie Hall are members OF
the Treble Clef club. The club was
organized in 1916 under the direc-
tion of Mrs. Hall, an able teacher OF
music and director of musical organ
izations.
Mrs. Rhodes, Mr.. Hall, and Mr.
Murphy have been well known in the
musical life of the community for
some years. Nine. Tyler, who has
spent the last eight years in Seattle,
Wash, is the soloist in Pilgrim Bap-
tist church choir. She is studying
music in Minneapolis and is planning
for a tour sometime in the near fu-
fura
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1925-11-28
OPENS FOR
CHRISTMAS SEALS
SUPPORT DESIRED
IS Per Cent of Proceeds Used in
State for Prevention, Cure
of tuberculosis.
Death Toll Cut In Half
Campaign Will Run Until Dec.
"a; Endorsed BY Governor,
Mayor, Officials.

Make 1926 banner health year
by making this years sale of Christ
mas Seals the biggest in the history
of the Ramsey County Health Asso-
citation!
This is the slogan among the
working personnel of the anti-tuber-
culosis campaign-a slogan that is
being passed among all the groups
that are assisting this year in the
seal sale.
Dates Set.
Officially opening Thanksgiving
Day, November 26, with the whole
hearted endorsement of the gov
ernor and mayor, the campaign. will
continue through December "a with
Buy Health and Happiness with
Christmas Seals" as a slogan.
Only five per cent of the proceeds
goes to the National Association
which has under it's general super
vision an anti-tuberculosis association
in each of the forty-eight states and
over $500 affiliated associations and
societies financed almost entirely
through the sale of seals. Ninety
five percent is used entirely within
the state.
Death Rate Reduced.
Statistics show that as result OF
National campaigns the death toll
of tuberculosis has been decreased so
per cent in the United States since
1900 and that since 1910 the figure
has been cut in half. They also show
that the toll is greatest during the
most productive period of life-that
between the ages of fifteen and nine
teen the death rate is three times
greater than from any other cause;
between 20 and 20 it is ten times
greater.
Program Outlined.
A general program of education in
the Importance of health is carried
out with the proceeds. The present
work includes provision of a follow
up worker, free pasteurized milk
for underweight children in public
schools, school nurse for the rural
districts, height and weight charts,
health posters, talks and films for
the general public, medical eXamina-
ton of children in parochial and 9TH
er private schools and many other
aids.
Money raised in the seal campaign
is used where the greatest benefit
will accrue without regard to race or
color. Colored children in schools,
and tubercular people of the state
will receive as much good from the
result of the sale as any other
citizens.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1925-11-28
RAILROAD man -.
OPENS new STORE.
E. G. Sayles Starts Business En-
terprise on Basis of Past
Experience.

Mr.. E. G. Sayles, who operated as
a representative of the Worlds Star
Knitting Co., for number Of years,
has opened a store at $40 Rondo St.,
with a large stock of the very latest
designed goods.
Mr.. Sayles states that salesman
ship is battle of brains and that
only real statesmen are rewarded. He
claims that the salesman is as neces-
sary to the public as the sun is to the
earth. Without the salesman, the
manufacturers product would go un-
sold and without the sun the world
would be barren desert without
light or vegetation. .-... -.. 20.
Mr.. Sayles further states that by
boosting legitimate Negro business,
executive positions will be created for
those of our race who are being train
ed by going through colleges.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1925-11-28
NORTH / CAROLINA
SCHOOLS LAUDED
Director of ROsenwald Flu n d
Comments Fav0rably on Ne
gro Schools of State.
(Preston News Service)

Raleigh, N. c., Nov. 27.-North
Carolina has built one to every other
five Negro school houses erected in
all the southern states, according to
DR.. Francis w. Shepardson, secretary
and director of the julius Rosenwald
Fund, of Chicago, who was in Raleigh
last week to attend the Annual State
Negro Educational Conference here.
While in North Carolina DR.. Shep-
ardson with Prof. S. L. Smith of
Nashville, Tenn, general field agent
for the Rosenwald Fund, visited
many of the Negro schools through
Continued on page -
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Picture of Case, Bad Enough on
Surface, Painted Worse By
Press Reports Blaming Wife
and Guying Kip.
(Preston News Service)

Pittsburgh, Pa, Nov. 27-Seeking
annulment of his marriage Leonard
Kip Rhinelander, has caused much
ink to be spilled, both pro and con,
as well as furnished entertainment,
amusement and occupation for the
idle rich, scandal lovers, social work
ers, writer's, thinkers, empty-heads,
all. Commenting on the case Frack
C. Harper in the Pittsburgh Press
says:
1T is unlucky for the Rhinelander
family of New York, which boasts of
it's blue blood, that it could not find
some other way than a suit at law to
release one of it's scions from a mar
riage distasteful to it.
Family Pride Hurt.
Young Leonard Kip Rhineland-
er's portrait, as painted by his own
lawyer, is anything but fiattering to
the family pride. A mentally back
ward and physically defective youth
whom his handsome Negress wife Sc
duced and got into her power-that
is the picture.
He was so infatuated with her,
says his fathers lawyer, that he was
her slave, body and SOUL
I How that confession must tickle
the shade of Booker T. Washington,
who insisted that the black was the
stronger race of the two!
Parents Need Reflection.
"On the other hand, just what
position does it put fond parents of
highly-placed young ladies in when
they are planning marriage be-
tween favorite daughter and young
man concerning whom they know
little except that he belongs to one of
our oldest families?'
How little that distinction proves
or is worth as a guarantee of ply
sical soundness or moral or intellec-
tual character! ...,..-.. -. =.
"'Great Names said Rochefou-
cauld, degrade instead of elevating
those who do not know how to sus-
tain them
THAT is equivalent to saying that
great families should constantly keep
their weaklings and incapables under
the closest surveillance"
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1925-11-28
LOCAL DANCERS FEATURE
CURRENT CAPITOL BILL

At the Capitol theatre this week.
the management is featuring on the
stage The Dixie Land Revue with The
Kentucky Colonels, comprised of a
group Of local talent.
Charleston dancers include Clara
Smith, Cecil Lewis, Leona Taylor,
Estella Palmer. .' Sylvania Roberts,
Raymond Whiting, Reginald Wallis,
William Browning, and William Ben
jamin.
The dancers appear in plantation
costume, and 1t is said that they are
gathering great deal Of applause.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1925-11-28
500 PEOPLE PACK
CAMPHOR To HEAR
TALK BY T|NDLEY
Philadelphia Pastor Addresses
Jammed Audience in Sermon
on Race Progress.
Race Pride Vital Need
Rise of Dark People to Position
of World Prominence
Pointed Out.

A crowd of more than five-hundred
people overfowed the auditorium of
Camphor Episcopal church Tuesday
evening to hear Rev. Charles A.
Tindley of Philadelphia.
L. w. Harris. pastor of Pilgrim
Baptist church was the presiding Off
Ger of the evening. Before the ar
rival of Rev. Tindley, he gave short
talk on the general subject of race
pride, urging strongly that the chill
dren of the present generation be
educated with the special view of
having developed in them the deep
sympathy for and understanding of
the race problems. A song service
was held under the direction of o. c.
Hail..
Tindley Talks on ."'Crucifixion."
the subject of the sermon-talk
which Rev. Tindley gave was "Cruci-
fixion." In it he stressed the points
that it was necessary for individuals
to be proud of their racial identity if
the race would ever gain anything
from their membership.
He voiced the opinion of many his
torians that the darker races are
even now on their way to a high
pinnacle of success in the story of the
worlds civilization, and that their
advance will spell a consequent de-
cline Of the white race.
Points Methods of Growth.
Graphically he pointed out that
there are three ways to get up the
ladder of achievement; go up, grow
up, and blow up. To his audience he
developed at some length the mad
visibility of the third of the methods.
Carrying the picture further, he
pointed out that to get results, a
match has to be scratched on a rough
surface. Likening the Negro to the
match, he showed that the rough
treatment which was being accorded
colored folk was perhaps for their
good, because it would bring out
greater results in the end.
Speaker at Conference.
Rev. Tindley left Immediately
after the service for his train. He
was in the city as a delegate to
Methodist Episcopal ference
which was held the first part of the
week at which he was one of the prin-
cipal speakers.
DR.. Tindley comes from Philadel-
phia where he is the pastor Of
church which is called the largest
Methodist church in the world. Un-
der him he has a staff of seven as
sistant pastors. When he first went
to the church some "a years ago, as
it's janitor, the membership number
ed about $50. At the present time,
the roll includes more than 5000
people.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1925-11-28
N. A. A. G.. P. NEWS

1t was decided on last Sunday at
a meeting held at Little Pilgrim, "
that the annual election of officers
which should have taken place at
that time, be deferred until Sunday,
Nov. 29th, at 400 P. NJ at Little
Pilgrim" Grotto and Central.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1925-11-28
Grand Chapter to Meet.

The Minnesota Grand Chapter, O..
E. S., will hold meeting Sunday.
Nov. 29 at Union hall at 1:30 p. m.
Worthy Grand Matron Orlivia Nc
Kenzie, will preside. All members
of the Order of the Eastern Star are
requested to be present.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1925-11-28
Mrs Stewart of Bethesda Bap-
tist Church Ends a Long Ca
reer of Varied and Useful Ex-
periences in Twin Cities.

Mrs. Maria Ann Stewart, beloved
mother of Edward Stewart, 2915
Columbus Ave-, Minneapolis, slept
peacefully away into the arms OF
death at 7 a. m. Monday morning.
Though long past the age of four
score years, Mrs. Stewart was pos
sessed of all her faculties. She was
staunch Christian, having always
lived an exemplary life, and was a
faithful member of Bethesda Bap-
tist church.
About a month ago she was strick-
en- with her last illness, and she be-
came constantly weaker until the
spark of life finally ebbed away.
Wife of Minister.
Born in Hines County, Miss, she
spent the early part of her life in the
south. She became the wife of the
late Rev. John Carter Stewart who
spent four years as a missionary
worker in Africa. On the return of
Rev. Carter to the states, they lived
in Washington, D. c., for a number
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1925-11-28
Musical Organizations Sing
Fame Of Negro Over Radio
Treble Clef Club, Pilgrim Church
Quartette, for Many Years
Entertaining With Spirituals,
Broadcast Program.
Trying to impress upon their white
audiences the courage, patience, and
faith of the Negro in the pre-Civil

War days by pre-
senting in a SIM
pie and dignifed
way Negro spir-
ituals and folk
songs, the Treble
Clef club and the
Pilgrim @ u ar
tette have stamp
ed themselves as
two of the worth
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1925-11-28

A New York magistrate is fixing
the fine for speeding at a dollar a
mile; a case where the speedometer
makes the punishment fit the crime.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1925-11-28
BLOWING

our own horn won't carry
us very far. You are the
ones who must advertise us
if we are proving successful