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The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-02-06
Position Of Intelligent Negro
Described In Article By White
Writer Says Southern Colored
Man Embittered by Isolation;
NOrtherners Hurt by ''White
Sentimentalists."
IN. A. A. C. P. Press Service)


L. NJ. Hussey, writing in the Feb
ruary number of the American Mer-
curry, under the title, "Aframerican,
North and South" describes the posi-
tion of the intelligent colored man in
America, which he declares is diff
cult, both in the South and in the
North.
In the South, the intelligent COL
ored man, who declines to ingratiate
himself by servility to white people,
is forced more and more into a lonely
existence and often becomes embit-
tered through lack of companionship.
Mr.. Hussey declares of those who are
not able to leave the South, for one
reason or another: "They are iso-
lated men, they are shared men, and
on the confession 1 have had, they
are more often than not embittered
men. Given the opportunity they are
likely to become, Lot exemplars of
patience, but exemplars of belliger-
ency. This, then, is the first por-
trait I have essayed to paint in the
present inquiry. This is the condi-
tion of the black intellectual who
stays perforce in the Southland this
is his bearing upon the South as ra-
cial problem"
Northern Negro.
Mr., Hussey's second portrait con-
Germs the intelligent Negro who
comes North. This class finds al
most an excessive amiability" on the
part of white people, Mr.. Hussey de-
clares. Negro poets, artists and mu-
sicfans fall victims to white senti-
mentalists." THAT is to say, they
become victims when, no longer sim
! ply profiting by the sentimentality of
Northern sympathizers, they begin to
sentimentalize themselves. Into this
error all the Negro intellectuals fall
occasionally, particularly of late"
But the entire race does not fall
into this error, Mr.. Hussey declares.
"Misled by white sentimentalists,
some of the current blacks uncritical-
ly mistake the child for the man.
But the Negro race, as a whole, is in
no grave danger of over-sentimental-
izing its attainments. No other race
is so persistently or so sharply cyni-
cal. By virtue of this saving cynic-
ism the intelligent black who has es-
capped the rigors of Southern isola-
tion, having come North, accepts the
excessive plaudits of white men with
a concealed grin. In the South
he is ignored, he is isolated, he is
driven to sour introspection In the
North he is over-praised, and, grant
ed talent, he makes swifter progress
than the white man of like talent. -
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-02-06
Prize Of $1,000 Announced For
Best Novel About Negro Life
Chicago Defender to
Close Branch Offices

Announcement has been
made that the branch offices of
The Chicago Defender in New
York City and in Washington,
D. c., will be closed in the fu-
ture.
In Washington the circula-
ton of The Defender will be
handled by a white agency as it
will in New York. The offices
in these places will be closed,
and the employees will be dis
missed. A branch office had
been maintained in Washing
ton during the past four years.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-02-06
JOHNNIE BAKER POST POI
TO HOLD SPECIAL MEETING

The Johnnie Baker Post No. 291
of the American Legion will hold a
special meeting Sunday, February H.,
at the Phyllis Wheatley House at 8
p. M. for the purpose of organizing
a woman's auxiliary. 1t is desirous
that all mothers, wives and sisters of
the ex-service men will make it a
point to be present to help form the
organization. We, the members of
the Johnnie Baker, feel that an aux
iliary will be great benefit to the
post and community at large.
JOE JENNINGS,
Commander.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-02-06

Thelma G. Williams, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. S. w. Williams, 31S
No. Grotto ST., who accepted a posi-
ton as musical director at Houston
College, Houston, Texas, last fall, re-
ports a very bright outlook for ouI
group in her section of the South
land
Miss Williams recently toured east
Texas and visited with Rev. and Mrs
P. w. Wesley of Texarkanna, Texas
and spent a delightful time with
grandparents and friends.
She is a talented musician and a
product of McPhail School of Music
Minneapolis.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-02-06
CIGARS SEND TO PEN
(Preston News Seryice)

Memphis, Tenn, Feb. 5.-Seven
boxes of Christmas cigars which he
admitted stealing from the store of
Ricco Gala, cost Earl Mitchell ten
years in the penitentiary Wednesday
when he pleaded guilty before Judge
Harsh to an indictment charging
housebreaking and larceny.
The cigars wege valued at SIS.
They were stolen last Christmas Eve.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-02-06
ColOred Woman Appears
Before Supreme Court

Violette N. Anderson, Chi
cago, was admitted last week,
to practice before the Supreme
Court of the United States.
Miss Anderson is the first col
ored woman ever to be admit
ted to such practice. The
grant was made on the pre-
-sentation of a certificate that
the applicant had practiced for
more than three years before
the highest court of Illinois.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-02-06
BelascO Features Negroes
preston News Seryice) }

Philadelphia, Pa, Feb. 5.-David
Belasco last Tuesday presented Lulu
Belle" new play by Edward Shell
vim and Charles Macarthur, in the
Broad Street theater for the first
time on any stage. Lenore Uric, in
the title role, was supported by a
cast of 1913, mostly Negroes.
The play is in four acts, most of
the scenes for which are laid in the
Harlem districts of New York.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-02-06
NOTICE

Persons interested in the Hair
dressers' and Cosmeticians' Union
call Mrs. Henrietta Coins. Dale 1887.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-02-06

here we are again. Hadn't
you people who are staying
on the fence better sub
scribe? We're here to stay!
Evening star., 1926-05-02
Ancient Mexicans Great Gardeners,
Picture Writings of Aztec Times Show

Not only the gardens of Montezuma,
but the picture writing of his sub.
jects, prove the ancient Mexicans to
have been great horticulturists. Their
descendants still use their complex
system of botanical names, a system
which conveys information as to quail
tiles, characteristics and habitat Of
many plants.
Wilson Popenoe. formerly of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture. in a paper on "Plants of Aztec
Picture Writing" gives a long list of
botanical figures used in Aztec hero.
glyphics. The flower symbol recurs
constantly in all sorts of combinations
as a place name. Maize. an important
feature in all Indian life. appears fire.
quently. along with the sweet potato,
the black bean. the cherry. plum, avo-
cado and various less known native
fruits. Most interesting is combi-
nation of the water sign with the
conventionalized sign for cultivated
ground, meaning "place where the
land is irrigated" The familiar des-
ert features, the yucca. the cactus
and the mesquite. are all represented.
but the gem Of Mr.. Popenoe's collec-
ton is the picture symbol which di-
rectly translated means flea pepper"
Evening star., 1926-05-02
100000 Workers
Are Idle in Europe

About 100000 workmen are un-
employed in Europe, according to the
latest statistics, most of them re-
ceiving doles from their governments,
at heavy cost to budgets. The un-
employed are distributed as follows:
Britain, 1.243 900; Germany. 2,030,792;
Russia, 100000: Poland, 359,O00;
Austria, 223,666; Czechoslovakia, 49,
3S4; Switzerland, 20,523. In Denmark,
81 per cent of the workmen are un-
employed; in Norway, %; in Sweden,
10; in Holland. Is, and in Hungary,
16 per cent. This joblessness is attrib-
uted to various causes. Britain's is
said to be due to monetary stabiliza-
tion. coupled with high taxes, high
production costs and antiquated
equipment. Sweden is in somewhat
the same class. High costs and
shortage of capital. resulting from
stabilization after extreme imitation,
explain the cases of Germany. Aus
tria and Poland. Denmark and Nor
way suffer because they are in the
act of debating. Sterilization, with
low costs and plenty of capital, makes
Switzerland, Italy and Czechoslovakia
relatively well Off France and Bel
gium, still initiating, have practically
no unemployment.
Evening star., 1926-05-02

propaganda, at any rate, and there
are those who say the f1are.up of the
independence agitation in the last two
months has close connection with an
approaching drive for propaganda
funds.
The board of directors Of the ma
tional bank remains Filipinos five,
Americans four. There is seldom a
vote in the directory that is not on
strictly racial lines. Sugar centrals
have been carried for huge sums since
the boom days and their loans have
been increased. They are managed
under the direction of a committee
of the bank. They continue to lose
money, while privately managed sugar
centrals show profits. In some Of
the bank k-managed centrals the inter.
est charges mount to 25 per cent of
the gross receipts. The increase of
loans and the management of the
centrals by the bank have been con-
sistently opposed by the American
directors of the Filipino National
Bank. But they have been steadily
voted down, the vote being Filipinos
s, Americans 4.
Gov. Wood, hedged in by two
hostile Filipinos on the board Of con-
troll, can do nothing to remedy a sit
uation which is again rapidly drifting
on the rocks.
Copyright. 1926. by the Kansas City Star.)
Evening star., 1926-05-02
The Story the Week Has Told

Article 2. Should one of the con-
tracing parties, despite it's peaceful
attitude, be attacked by third
power or by several other powers.
the other contracting party shall
preserve neutrality throughout the
duration of the conflict.
article g. Should a coalition
among other powers in connection
with a conflict such as is suggested
neither of the contracting parties is
engaged in warlike activities be Or
ganiZed for the purpose of imposing
an economic boycott upon one of the
contracting parties. the other con-
tracing party will not participate in
such coalition.
Article 4. This treaty shall be
ratified and ratifications shall be
exchanged in Berlin. The treaty
thereupon goes into effect and will
be valid for q period of five years.
The two contracting parties will
reach an understanding over the fur
before the termination of this
period"
United States Of America.-On
Thursday an agreement for funding
our Government was signed by the
American Debt-funding Commission
for the United States and by Ambas
sador Berenger for France.
In the following | largely use the
language Of the announcement of the
transaction issued by our commission:
The amount to be funded was calcu-
lated on the same basis as in other
debt settlements; |. G. at Az per cent
interest to December Is, 1922, and at
per cent interest thereafter to June
Is, 1925, the date of the agreement
Total to be funded. $4.025, ,000, 900
whereof $3340, 600 900 represents prin-
cipal and $685. ,000. 900 accrued interest
TO date of agreement.
The agreement provides for annui-
ties commencing with $30,000,000 and
reaching $125, 100000 in the seven
teenth year; thereafter continuing at
the latter figure. except for the sixty
second or final year, for which the in
stallment is trif1e less. The total of
the principal funded is to be paid in
full
On this principal interest is to be
paid as follows: No interest for first
) years. for the next 10 years, l per
cent per annum; for the succeeding 10
years, . per cent per annum; for the
y
annum; for the succeeding { years, 5
per cent per annum thereafter 3l2 per
cent per annum.
Total of payments, $6S47, ,674, ,104:
present value of this total, on a AZ
per cent basis, 81 ,00S, ,122.624, or prac-
tically so per cent of the debt funded,
as compared with 26 per cent in the
case of the Italian debt.
The settlements contain no safe
guard" cause ii. e. lone to relieve
France should Germany fail to pay
reparations). NJ. Caillaux's highest
offer totaled s6,220 900, 900. the present
value Of that offer on "A per cent
basis being $l.755. 100000. Thus the
present value of the settlement total
exceeds that of Caillaux's highest offer
by 253,000.000.
For the first five years NJ. Caillaux
offered a total of 5000 900 900; the
settlement calls for 100000. 900. The
commissions agreement to easier
initial terms than those of the Gail
laux offer was necessary, because
the present fiscal condition of the
French government is less strong
than it was last September when NJ.
Evening star., 1926-05-02

| coholic beverages is having a serious
| erect on the revenue. The number OF
registered unemployed in Britain is
below a million, for the first time in
| five years. The number of Workmen
registered under the insurance law is
II $780, 900. Before the war 100000 to
| 500 900 unemployed was considered a
normal number. From the armistice
to April 1, this year, the British eX-
/ chequer contributed the equivalent of
about 1925 900 600 to unemployment
insurance. 1t has contributed a much
larger amount by way of indirect re-
lief. Some one has estimated that since
the arnliStice the equivalent of ST.,
$50 coo, 900 has been expended on land
settlement, public works, training. etc,
whereof the government contributed
about 40 per cent.
The French government has offered
in anticipation of a definite settlement
of it's debt to Britain, to pay 100000
pounds on account, so to speak, be-
tween now and the end of next March.
Bloody clashes continue between the
Hindus and Mohammedans of Calcut
ia. In five days of rioting to include
April q, 38 persons had been killed
and $50 injured.
X X n
France.-At last the French 1926
budget has definitely been passed, the
Chamber having, much against the
grain, accepted the latest Senate
amendments. 1t had been under de-
bate since last July, as result of
which debate two cabinets and five
finance ministers bit the dust. It's
total is 81 SOC, 100000 francs. but in
view of the Syrian and Moroccan
wars, the behavior of the franc and
other considerations that surplus is
doubtless illusory.
Fifty-ei per cent of budget ex-
penditures will go for service of the
public debt.
Negotiations continue at Oujda in
Morocco between representatives Of
France and Spain on the one part
and Abd-elkrim on the other.
strong French force, including cav
airy, artillery. tanks and aircraft, has
captured the citadel of Suweideh, the
chief stronghold of the Hauran
Druses in Jebel Hauran (Jebel
Druse).
Spain.-The following would seem
to be significant. Primo de Rivera is
reported to have declared in a recent
speech II do not think that / shall
convoke Parliament or call for cleo
tions, for the government needs 10
listen only to the opinions of the
Council of State and the Economic
Council. If the workman has a COM
plaint we will hear it, and if the
issue is too serious for us to de-
eide, we will submit it to national
referendum and thus give the people
an opportunity to express their
opinion
X x x
Germany and Russia.-The follow
ing is translation of the treaty
recently concluded between Germany
and Soviet Russia. 1t impresses this
writer as vague and probably de
liberately SO:
article /. The basis of relation
between Germany and the Soviet
Union remains the treaty of Rapallo.
The German government and the
government of the Soviet Union will
remain in friendly contact with one
another in order TO insure mutual
understanding on all questions of
political or economic nature affect
ing their two countries.
Evening star., 1926-05-02

THE following is brief sum
mary of the most important
news of the world for the
Il seven days ended May l.
X X X
The British Empire.-At midnight
April 80 the truce in the coal mining
industry ended, the wage agreement
of 1924, extended to cover the crucial
period, lapsed; the government sub
sidy to the industry. which made pos
sihle The truce, ceased; the combined
strike and lockout began. For more
than a week Prime Minister Stanley
Baldwin had labored desperately in
ceaSelesS conferences to effect work
ing agreement between representa-
tives of the miners and of the oper-
ators, to hold good while a general
reorganization Of the industry should
be considered by miners, operators
and Parliament.
A great many intelligent persons
feel that the government made a
great mistake in accepting the report
Of the Royal Coal Commission in toto
instead of using it critically as the
basis of constructive legislation; they
say that, while it contains many ad
mirable suggestions. it does not pre-
sent a constructive program of the
fundamental character required. AT
any rate, the miners and operators
failed to find in the report commended
to them a formula of agreement, and
SO the strike Is on. There Is, however
still hope that within a few days an
other crucial arrangement can be
patched up.
The fact is that the coal mining in
dustry Is desperately i'll and that an
economic physician of "he first genius
is required to effect cure. Ruin
Gus" is not an excessive word for the
results to be apprehended from a
strike of any length. 1t looks as
though the government. if disaster is
to be avelted, must tender further
financial help 70 the industry pend
ing formulation by it of a deflnitive
epochal policy. involving a bold re
organization of that industry as the
center of the industrial system.
There is. of course. the fear of
general sympathetic strike. in the
event of which the emergency poweps
act to insure maintenance of the es.
sential services would become effect
i've. 1t is, however. reassuring to
note that the attitude Of the indus
trial committee of the Trades Union
1OtlS itoS, Which, petI llCiIbdtcu Ill MI
Baldwin's conferences. has been con
ciliatory.
On Monday Winston Churchill.
chancellor of the eXchequer. sub
mitted to the Commons his budget for
the fiscal year 1926-7. II calls for an
expenditure total of S20.641 900
pounds: including a sinking fund of
$4,000, 900 pounds and shows a surplus
of about 100000 pounds. 1t contem-
plates no remission of taxes. but some
increases. There is to be some exteD'
sion of operation of the principle of
imperial preference and of the safe
guarding of industries act, and a 5
per cent tax on legal betting. 1t pre-
supposes peace in the coal mining in
dustry. Mr.. Churchill stated that near
ly all the basic industries continue de-
pressed, and that the income tax had
not yielded up to expectations. Never
theless, he declared, the future is
not black. 1t is not gray. 1t is pie
bald. On the whole, the dark patches
are less prominent this year than
last" Decrease in consumption of al
Evening star., 1926-05-02

Caillaux was here to negotiate). Upon
the present exchange rates payment
of the first annuity Of $30,000000 re.
| uuires that France shall find $685.
| 200, 900 francs. In October last a
payment of $4O,O0O,OO0 would have
required that France find only
! S45. 700, 900 francs"
Completion Of the arrangement for
| the French debt nearly completes the
work of our Debt Commission, as
only 1926, 100000 remains unfunded
us-$193 900 900 Russian, $4,000, 900
Austrian. $51, 900. 900 Jugoslavian,
SIS 100000 Greek and S12,000,0O0 Ar
menian. Congress granted Austria
a 20-year moratorium.
The Armenian State has passed
| into limbo.
1t is to be hoped that Congress will
| ratify the French settlement at this
| session. The French Parliament has
adjourned to May 27, but it seems
possible that it will be convened in
special session to act on the settle
ment.
On Monday the Senate, 80 to %,
ratified the Belgian debt agreement.
On Tuesday the Senate ratified the
agreements for funding the debts to
our Government of Latvia, $5.775 600;
Esthonia. $13,830 900, and Rumania,
| $44, $50. 900.
ON Wednesday the Senate ratified
the agreement for funding CZecho-
slovakia's S debt to us of $115, 100000.
President Coolidge has signed the
| Italian debt agreement, making 1t
effective.
| BY 1876 to the House has passed
| the Mellon Andrews bill, which pro
-, ho nf
| Treasury direct supervision of the ad-
| ministration of the NOlstead act. 1t
provides for creation of a Bureau of
| Prohibition, to be headed by a Pro
| hibition Commissioner. to the relief OF
| the Commissioner OF Internal ReVe-
| nue.. Ergo the Prohibition Commits
sioner. would be Immediately respon-
! Sible to the Secretary of the Treasury
| or such Assistant Secretary as ne
/ might designate. Under the operation
| of the measure Gen. Andrews would
| be relieved of petty details.
! The steamship Chantier. conveying
| the Byrd Arctic expedition, arrived
at Spitzbergen on Thursday.
! 1t will be recalled that on April
| Is Capt. Wilkins left Fairbanks in
the airplane Alaskan with a load
| Of gasoline and other supplies for his
1
! Barrow. He had a radio outfit with
| him. but for IA days no message from
! him at Fairbanks, wherefore great
| fear that he had come to grief. He is,
| however, safe and sound at Point
Barrow, kept there by snowstorms
fog and a propeller accident. His
radio had struck work. On Monday
Maj. Lanphier hoped off from Fair
| banks in the DetrOiter, Wilkins
other plane. in search of his chief
but was compelled by engine trouble
| to return.
X X
Notes.
! The Norge was to have left
| Gatchina today for Spitzbergen. but
has been delayed by snowstorm at
Spitzbergen.
| The commission, which is to do the
| preliminary work for the Interna
| tional Economic Conference to he held
under league auspices. met at Geneva
| on April 26.
| Having organized and assigned
work to committees yesterday the
commission adjourned to October.
Evening star., 1926-05-02
BY SIR CHARLES HIGHAM.
British Author and Publicist.

The time has arrived when enlight-
ened people see that there is no emo
tional issue or economic impulse with
an influence upon human action that
advertising cannot touch. 1t dusts
mems minds. In the commercial
world it not only sells: it explains,
interpretS and teaches, too. 1t helps
to make the public connoisseurs. 1t
intensifies their powers of discrimina-
ton and adds to the social and eco
nomic welfare of the state.
Advertising has so cheapened the
cost of production that one-time lux
uries have become everyday necessi-
ties. with the result that a thousand
refining influences are let loose upon
society at large.
Fosters Good Habits.
Advertising has fostered more good
habits than any other force. This
statement is made without qualifica'
ton of anv kind. Were it not for
advertising no one would know the
merits or names of any goods made
or distributed outside the radius of
his own locality. Think what that
would mean. The limitations it would
impose on trade. But, as it is, if
persons living in quite isolated places
want 10 DuN SramOpnOne, d IdulO'
a carpet, a player piano. a sewing
machine, tobacco. cigarettes or any
thing else. certain names leap in
stantly into mind. 1t is advertise
ments that have given us this knowl-
edge and formed associations in our
mind which make our judgment
sound.
The result of advertising has been
to store our minds with facts con-
cerning the ordering of our domestic
and personal lives. Consumers are
greatly indebted to this force of ad-
vertising in that they can. eat well.
dress well. live in comfortable homes.
and order their existence in a method
ical and labor-saving way despite the
complexity Of modern systems of pro-
duction and distribution.
COmpels Commercial Honesty.
Advertising has compelled COM
mercial honesty. Advertising never
sold a bad article twice. The result
is that today manufacturer does
not put upon the market an article
under a branded name and advertise
it if the public won't recorder it the
first, the second, the third. fourth and
fifth time, because it is only by the