The St. Paul echo., 1926-11-06
ONE YEAR OLD


are by grace kind providence by
tremendous amount of hard work. celebrating first annver
sary
We no longer have to read about the struggles small
to succeed We know The bleak weeks without
with much criticism longer paper facts
to We have lived through them
And the occasional gnts of praise encouragement and
dences of goodwill They but the because
of their scarcity They help greatly the process of carrying
Yes year old. Our staff with but minor excep
tons the We have through the first year unit
There things that have learned There
things that have done that would forget There
certain high and depressed periods during the
that will with all for time Above ALL there much
that do not know but that will continue to learn
the of the hard knocks which expected
and received-durng the first year of existence
The attitude of the community has been sometimes and
sometimes cooy hostile We believe that the year has swung
by the spirit whole has been of sympathy and cooera
ton rather than of dsst and fear AS time passes
believe that skngy will be shown the cooperative
spirit.
In instances the attitude of certain ministers of
the Cities there has been slight hesitation the
ing of cooperation These have supported publicly and
privately they have sometimes disagreed with and have come
in and talked to plainly and raghtforwad They have been
staunch friends inspiration when affairs seemed dark
Throughout the community there have been other people, not
in public fe who have taken the friendly attitude They
have and their advice has been
invaluable They too have indicated continued because
of their faith in and the work trying to do
In fairly consistent trying to keep faith. We
promised do certain things the career
have kept most of promises faithfully We have tried
give to the coed community How far we have succeed
ed has been determined in large by the willingness the
community has shown to be served We have tried be fair We
have been aggressive in pointing evils the community and
trying have them corrected The extent of policy of png
the lid off undesirable situations has extended from the police de-
parent to industrial In all where have made
Investigations have arrived at conclusions which have
sented for the community to observe.
We have been fair in editorial and treatment of all
subjects Our editorials have covered current activities from the
local and the national angles.
Finally have attempted to maintain high standard of
Journalism and in part have succeeded On makeup
have had favorable criticism from all the country Our policy
of local and national has prevented from becom
too provincial outlook Our editorials have been quoted
frequently by Negro all the United States and have
elected commendatory comment from such S. W. Ruher
ford president of the National Benefit Life Insurance
Washington D. Co. and Walter F. White author and assistant
secretary of the National Association for the Advancement
cred People,
Thus having achieved small part of aims, and ha
ing set higher standard of service for the coming twelve months
reach the end of first year.
The Kansas City CALL powerful sister journal of Chi
stated edoray last week that it's paid circulation for the
current week $4,000 copies thanked the public for it's
porsuppo which had made possible the attainment of that
great gureand spoke remncenty of the time when it had
issued 1000 week. had climbed to 0O0 and then $1,000
We still in that early crawling stage After year of
existence still in the swaddng clothes PERIOD but
hopes high Without the community do nothing
With cooperation and support there limit the good
do for and for the Northwest And believing that
assistance forthcoming and trusting efforts plus
cooperation start second year with high hopes
ultimate