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The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-07-17
CABARET is PROVING
HOT WEATHER DIVERSION

Thursday evening, July 8, the
weekly cabaret given by Ames Lodge
No. LOG and Minnehaha Temple No.
128, was well attended despite the
hot weather.
Mr.. Edward Frye of the team of
Moss and Frye, which appeared at
the Hennepin Orpheum, was a guest
of the organizations.
Mr.. Hildreth Oden was the lucky
gentleman and carried home an elec-
trio toaster, the prize of the evening.
Ozzie and Clarence Johnson's Mel
ody Boys kept the crowd in dancing
mooo until the wee hours.
All of the Bills, their families and
friends in the Twin Cities were max
ing Preparations for the annual pic
mic at Bass Lake July Is, one Of the
largest of the season. The usual
cabaret dance at Elks' Hall, 9Th and
Lyndale, followed the picnic.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-07-17
MOSAIC TEMPLARS
HOLD CONVENTION
Organization Reports Assets of
$1,000,000 at 14th Annual
Convention.
preston News SerYicel


Little Rock, Ark.-More than 800
delegates from all over Arkansas
gathered in Little Rock last week for
the 14th annual session of the Mosaic
Templars of America, fraternal order
with headquarters in this city. The
order was founded here by c. w.
Keats and ]. E. Bush, and has Or
ganizations in 26 states with total
assets Of $1,0O0,000.
P. H. Jordan, for 16 years state
grand master, was reelected for a
two-year term. P. l.. Dorman, Sec
retary-treasurer,- acted as master of
ceremonies last Wednesday night
during the program at the Mosaic
temple, Ninth street and Broadway.
L. L. Powell, grand master of Ala
bama; A. E. Bush, national grand
scribe; Fred Stewart, grand master
of Pennsylvania; J. E. King, grand
master of Mississippi, and S. ]. Eli
oft, national grand master, spoke
when biennial reports of state officers
also were given. The meeting closed
Friday.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-07-17
NEGRO WATERS
TAKEN OFF OF
CANADIAN ROAD
Canadian National Removes Men
From Diners Without Civ
ing Notice.
Said To Be Inefficient
But President Says Road Must
Not Encourage Negroes to
Migrate to Canada.
Said To Be Inefficient

Toronto, Canada.-The Canadian
National Railroad order replacing
colored dining car walters with white
employees on the International Lin
tied has gone into effect.
During the week, as the Interna-
tional Limited, which runs from
Montreal to Chicago via Toronto, and
Detroit, passed through Toronto, col
ored walters were removed and re-
placed with white servitors, resulting
in numerous colored men being
thrown out of employment.
No Warning.
The drastic order was without
warning, for sometime ago, Sir
Henry Thornton, president and gen.
eral manager of the Canadian gov
ernment railways, in an address said
Canada wants no color problem, and
colored people should be discouraged
from migrating here"
The order emanating from the din
ing car superintendent's Office de-
clares that "the colored waiter does
not give satisfactory service and is
generally inefficient" However, none
of these things were brought forward
until the colored walters attempted
to confer with their superiors in re-
gard to equal wages with white wait
ers on other lines.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-07-17
JOHN T. CLARK TO
ST. LOUIS URBAN LEAGUE
(Preston News Service)

st. Louis, Mo.-According to an
nouncement by the Executive Board
of the st. Louis Urban League last
week, John T. Clark of Pittsburgh
has accepted Executive Secretaryship
of the local league and will report
here August l. Mr.. Clark replaces
Gordon H. Simpson, who resigned
after three and one-half years at the
request of the board.
Mr.. Clark is 43 years old, was born
at Louisville, KY; graduated from
Ohio State University in 1906, spe-
cializing in sociology and economics
and did considerable special work in
New York University. Following his
graduation from Ohio State Universi-
ty he taught at Central High School
at Louisville, KY, for five years.
Mr.. Clark was married to Miss Pa
tricia Ferguson of Chicago, gradu-
ate of the University of Michigan, in
1917. They have two children, Ma
rion and John T., Jr.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-07-17
Pres. Coolidge Promises To End
Segregation In Federal Jobs
Has Already Removed Some, He
Tells Equal Rights League
/ Delegation, and Will Continue
Until All Are Gone.

Washington.-In reply to a peti-
tion presented by delegation spon-
sored by the National Equal Rights
League, President Coolidge last week
personally stated to the delegation
that he had removed some of the
segregation in the Federal depart
ments here and that he would con-
tinue to remove it until it was all
gone.
VIM. Monroe Trotter, secretary of
the N. E. R. L., presented the petit
tion to the President. He placed on
the table big pile of petitions with
$4,000 signatures from 40 states spe-
cifying one from Maine, and four
from California, saying they proved
universal geographical opposition to
federal segregation. He also pre-
sented one from the "372nd" Batal-
lion, Massachusetts National Guard,
which Mr.. Coolidge authorized when
governor. Mr.. Trotter read the Pc
tition and declared segregation to be
inequality of rights and asking for
it's removal for the race which shed
the first blood for independence. He
then asked the President to lead the
day in having the United States make
the 150th anniversary of American
Independence the beginning of new
American, epoch for the abolishment
of color caste, prescription, segrega-
tion and public ostracism, by himself
removing segregation of the colored
clerks at Washington. He said this
example by the government had Civ
en- great impetus to every form of
segregation, and unless the Presi-
dent would abolish it now, disaster
was inevitable. Finally he urged alb
clifton was fair return for over $50
years of fighting, dying and sacrific-
ing and in just appreciation of per-
feet record of loyalty with never a
traitor. I-r- -s,.-
Rev. Thos. S. Harten, national or
ganizer, urged the President to live
up to the traditions of Massachusetts
which he believed he would.
The President replied to the
spokesmen in a calm, friendly man
ner, that some segregation had been
removed and he would continue to
remove more gradually until it was
all removed.
The delegation was as follows: Jas.
L. Neill, Henry P. Slaughter, Rev.
w. H. Jernagin, President, National
Race Congress-; Rev. J. U. King,
Bishop I. N. Ross, Rev. Chas. Stew
art, Thos. A. Johnson, N. A. Murray,
for Alpha Phi Alpha; Prof. Kelly
Miller, Thos. Walker, A. S. Pinkett,
Secretary, Washington Branch, N. A.
A. C. P; Rev. w. D. Isaacs, Prof. T.
]. Brown, Geo. A. Parker, Secretary,
National Race Congress; Rev. w. H.
Rozier, CAL; ]. A. Jackson, J. E.
Scott, for Kappa Alpha Psi, Ralph D.
Matthews and Emory B. Smith.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-07-17
Careening Auto Knocks
Baby Into Stream; browns
preston News Service)

lIICoIoA 3>OWo oC1 pICCJ
Kinston.-An unusual acci-
dent was reported late Monday
when a car driven by M. T.
Stone, middle-aged man from
Dover, met another on the mar
row Caswell street bridge and
Stones machine struck Mrs.
Anna McGhee, residing in the
vicinity, who was standing be-
side the north rail of the bridge
waiting for the autos to pass.
An infant in the woman's arm
hurtled into the water many
feet below and disappeared.
The baby was drowned in wa
ter only two or three feet deep
toward the Happersville end of
the bridge. Divers sought the
body but were unable to locate
it. The police required no bail
for Stone but ordered him to
return for an Investigation.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-07-17
HOWARD GIVEN
incorporation
Annual Appropriation Assured
by House Vote; Democrats
Give Support.

Washington, D. C.-Despite the op-
position of number of Democratic
members, the House Thursday passed
without record vote, a measure in
cooperating Howard University. Final
passage of the bill would give the
university a substantive law standing
and obviate the situation which aris-
es every year regarding it's appropria-
tion.
Appropriations for it are carried in
the Interior Department bill and is
always stricken out on a point of
order that no legislative authority for
the institution exists. The Senate
always restores the item.
New York Democrats supported the
measure, asserting that the work of
the institution fully justified it's ex-
istence.
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Kip's Printing
Bill For Trial
Totals $500

White Plains, N. UT will cost
Leonard Kip Rhinelander $4,000 for
his printing bill alone in his appeal
of the annulment action against Mrs.
Alice Beatrice Jones Rhinelander,
which he lost in the Supreme Court.
The voluminous records in the case
must be printed for the considera-
tion of the appellate division in Sep
tember, and Rhinelander's counsel
estimates that the cost will be about
81 page for $500 pages.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-07-17
MISSOURI WILL
GIVE EXHIBITION
''ShOw Me" State to Feature Elk.
hibit on Own Emancipation
Day, August A.

Kansas City, Mo.-(SpeciaD aD-The
accomplishments of the Negro in the
fields of art and industry during the
last sixty years will be displayed as
a feature of statewide Negro pic
mic and celebration to be held here
August 4, Emancipation day.
The picnic, which is sponsored by
the Kansas City Negro Business
league, will be held in Liberty Park,
Thirty-fourth street and Raytown
road. Plans will be made at a meet
ing in the Paseo branch of the Y. M.
C. A.
N. S. Adkins, president of the
league, announced Wednesday that
all Negro ministers and heads of Ne
gro organizations in the city will be
invited.
Every Negro in the state who has
done piece of creative work or who
has made special progress in business
or industry is requested to write to
F. d. Lane, 1879 Lydia avenue, secre-
tary of the Urban league. Space in
the exhibition will be given free of
charge.
The Emancipation day celebration
will be non-partisan and non-denomi-
national, Mr.. Adkins emphasized.
More than 10000 Negroes are expect
ed to attend.
Judge Albert George, municipal
judge of Chicago, will be the speaker.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-07-17
SOUTHERN DAIL|ES
ATTACK N.A.A.C.P.
Accomplishment
North Needs Associations mil
lions," Not Peaceful South,
Says Knoxville Paper.
Chicago Dailies Praise
Negro Must Not Fight for
Rights but Should Accept
Place South Has for Him.

New York.-Within one week of
the close of the seventeenth annual
conference of the N. A. A. c. P. re-
Gently held in Chicago, clippings
from newspapers from all parts of
America, filling four huge envelopes,
have been received by the national
Office of the N. A. A. G. P.
The Associated Press, The United
Press, The Consolidated Press Asso-
citation and other news distributing
agencies sent detailed reports to all
parts of the country, and the delib-
erations of the meetings were car
ried by newspapers in practically ev-
cry city in the United States.
Southern Attack.
Especially significant is the fact
that southern newspapers reported to
a surprising extent the proceedings
of the conference. Many of these re-
ports were favorable, but some of the
southern newspapers apparently be-
came frightened at the growing pow
er of the N. A. A. C. p, and carried
editorials attacking the association.
Among such attacks which, it is felt,
are most significant proofs of the as
sociation's growing power, there ap-
peared editorial comment in the
Knoxville, Tenn, Sentinel and the
Winston-Salem, N. c., Journal.
The former, with unconscious
irony says: "Let this association ex-
pend its millions in the North where
troubles are continually arising be-
tween the races, and let the peace of
the southern states be undisturbed.
The southern Negro and the
southern whites know how to dwell
together in peace, and the southern
Negro is coming into his own in the
South"
'Place'' of Negro.
The Winston-Salem Journal heads
its editorial comment, "The Negro
has much to be thankful for and
much to be proud of, but the Nation
al Association for the Advancement
of Colored People is responsible for
neither the one nor the other" The
Continued on page p
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-07-17
PULLMAN FIGHTS
INVESTIGATION
Attempt Being Made to Dislodge
Resolution From Commit
tee on Rules.
(Preston News Service)

New York, July 16.-Congressman
Emanuel Celler, sponsor of resolu-
tion in the house of representatives
for the investigation of the Pullman
company and the conditions of it's
porters and maids promised large
gathering of this newly organized
group of workers further fight for
their cause. Celler is trying to dis
lodge his resolution from the COM
mittee on rules and have it transfer
red to the labor committee. Pull
man company influence is making ev-
cry effort to bury the proposition in,
committee. .".
The richest families in America
are represented in the Pullman COM
pany board of directors, Celler re-
minded the porters and maids. He
mentioned the George F. Bakers,
senior and junior; ]. Pierpont Nor
gan; a representative of the Marshal
Field family; one of the Vanderbilt
clan and Robert T. Lincoln. The lat
ter, Celler told the workers, is doing
all he can to enslave Pullman por-
ters in spite of his father Abraham
Lincoln's proclamation Of emancipa-
tion which was supposed to free Ne
gro slaves in America.
: Porters average less than $125
month, including tips, Celler said,
while the average estimated living
wage is $4,000 a year for an Amerii
can family. Porters besides have to-
endure hardships of uncertain hours,
too short sleeping periods, fake
company union, etc.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-07-17
COLORED WOMAN SELLS
CORNER FOR $4,000

Kansas City, Mo.-The store build
ing on the northeast corner of 18th
and Highland, which has been owned
by Mrs. e. s. Lee for several years,
passed into the hands of Hurst, the
pawnbroker, last week at price un-
derstood to be $4,000. Since that
time it has been transferred again
and Felix Payne is now the owner.
Mrs. Lee is the wife of E. S. Lee,
one of Kansas City's pioneer phar-
macists and head of the Lee Labor
atories.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-07-17
COlOred Firm
Gets $4,000
Bid For TOYS

Los Angeles, Calif.-The Heflin
Manufacturing company of this city,
a colored organization devoted to the
manufacture of furniture with toy
making as side line, received an
order recently from a New York firm
for $4,000 worth Of the "Wampus
8" toy automobile, which the COM
pany makes, according to advices
from its president, L. N. Hefiin, this
week. The company has a capacity
of 1000 Of the toys a day and last
year employed fifty-two persons.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-07-17
New Negroid Race Forming Says
Kelly Miller In Latest Article
Randolph Scheduled for
Mass Meeting Tomorrow

A. Phillip Randolph, General
Organizer of the Brotherhood
of Sleeping Car Porters, will
hold a series of meetings in the
Twin Cities beginning tomor-
row. A schedule of the meet
ings follows:
Sunday, July 1S-Mass meet
ing at st. James A. NJ. e.
church, 3 p. m.
Wednesday, July 21-Ad-
dress at Labor Temple, sol 4th
Ave. So., Minneapolis, 9p. m.
Thursday, July 22-Speech
to students at University of
Minnesota.
Friday, July 23-Open meet
ing, Labor Temple, Franklin
Ave., between Sth and 9th Sts.,
st. Paul.
Sunday, July 25-Mass meet
ing at the Unitarian church,
La Sale at Sth St., Minneapolis.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-07-17
PROTEST NAMING
SOUTHERNER AS
LINCOLN U HEAD
Alumni Bitterly Opposed to Ap.
pointment of Rev. Walter
b. Greenway.
He Backed Klan, Charge
Petition for Election of Veteran
Prof. w. L. Wright Instead
of Tennessean.
(Preston News Service)

New York City.-Charging the
Rev. Walter B. Greenway, pastor of
the Bethany Temple Presbyterian
church, Philadelphia, is a Klan SYM
pathiser, local graduates of Lincoln
University have joined in a protest
against his election as president of
the university. 49,.
In statement issued by the Lin
coin Alumni association, signed by
the president, DR.. E. P. Roberts, and
the secretary, William M. Ashley,
executive secretary of the Newark
Urban league, the alumni quote an
article in the Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin of June %, headed Pastor
Raps Klan Ban." The quoted article
reads:
Mayor Hendricks order, refusing
to allow the Ku Klux Klan to hold a
paraae in the city next September in
connection with the Sesqui-Centen-
nial was criticised in a sermon last
night by the Rev. Walter R. Green
way, pastor of the Bethany Temple
Presbyterian Church, 53rd and
Spruce Streets. where are we
Americans? Are we going to be sold
out?" he cried. In answer to this
there was a chorus which doomed
mo"
Object to Southerner.
The statement continues: "The
alumni Of Lincoln University have
been stirred into rage by the
knowledge that the presidency has
been rendered to a southern man.
The meeting at which the tender took
place was held in Philadelphia, June
%. The man to whom the presi-
dency was rendered was the Rev.
Walter B. Greenway, pastor of the
Bethany Temple Presbyterian Church
of Philadelphia. He was born in
Broylesville, Tenn, and educated at
CONTINUED on page ~
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HOUSING CRISIS
REACHED IN K.C.
Committee of White, COlored
People Called to Consider
Relief Measures.

Kansas City, Mo.-The strife over
homes for Negroes here has reached
crisis which has necessitated the
calling of city-wide committee OF
white and .colored people to consid-
er ways and means.
For some weeks, the Linwood I'm
provement association, an organiza-
tion of white people, has been at
tempting to get the city to condemn
81 Negro homes and make a large
park between Twenty-seventh and
Twenty-ninth streets. The associa-
tion would force Negroes back north
of Twenty-seventh street and have
the new park serve as a "deadline''
over which colored families might
not move southwark.
In this project, the association has
received the endorsement of the
South Central Business association,
powerful body of south side busi-
ness men.
The assessed valuation of the Ne
gro homes sought to be condemned
is 100000 and the park board,
which must pass the recommendation
on to the city council, has said un-
officially, that this was too great a
sum for the project. The city is al
ready in debt six million dollars and
the new administration is seeking to
cut down; not increase the load.
Some of the families in the pro-
posed park district have lived in their
homes more than a dozen years and
have made many improvements. 9th
ers have purchased newly built homes
in the district within the last year,
while still others have bungalows and
duplexes under construction in the
area.
City Manager McElroy, social agen-
cies, both white and colored, and the
race relations committee of the
Council of Churches are deeply con-
cerned over the problem and Thurs
day committee was selected to hear
"plain talk" from both sides and at
tempt to arrive at solution salts
factory to all.
Both sides deny any violence will
be attempted, but colored citizens
freely point out that since their pop
ulation has increased nearly fifty per
cent and the area in which they are
allowed to live has been increased
scarcely ten per cent, they must have
homes. Openly, too, they have de-
clared they are tired of the bombings
which have been the rule in Kansas
City. The spirit is typified by short,
seemingly timid little woman, who,
with her husband, has just purchased
home in disputed area. She said I:
II do not want any trouble, but
I've got to have place to live. The
closet with the pretty glass in 1t
right across the hall from my front
door holds two Winchester pump
guns and If somebody doesn't get
sane pretty soon. I'll shoot until my
ammunition runs out"
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-07-17
SELF-DEFENSE PLEA
FREES BOY SLAYER
preston News Service)

Muskegon, Mich.-Isaac Pullett
1S years old, charged with man
slaughter in connection with the
death of David Rice, was acquitted
Thursday by jury in circuit court.
The jury was out more than two
hours.
Pullett had been charged with
murder, but the charge was changed
to manslaughter Wednesday when
the trial began. Pullett admitted
having stabbed Rice in an alteration
following an argument, but said he
did it in self-defense. E
Rice was stabbed in the arm,
Pullett's knife severing an artery. He
died few hours later.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-07-17
TIGER FLOWERS UNHURT
WHEN CAR HITS TAXI
(Preston News Service)

Dover, N. when a taxicab col
lided head-on with an automobile
which carried Tiger Flowers, middle
weight champion Of the world, Roch-
ellie; Henry Parish, boxing promo
ter; Miss Anna Swindell and William
Fleming, of New York, early We'd
nesday, Fleming suffered deep cuts
in his scalp and was taken to the
Dover General Hospital unconscious.
Miss Swindell was taken to the same
hospital, cut on the head: Flowers
was only shaken up.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-07-17

There is nothing truly evil, but
what is within us; the rest is either
natural or accidental.-Sir P. Sid
ney.
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Article in South Atlantic Quar-
terly Claims Negro Losing
Identity; Blames White Men
for Intermingling.
preston News Service)

Durham, N. Cts the American
Negro to remain black or become
bleached?" is a question interesting
ly answered by one of the races fore
most educators, Kelly Miller, of How
ard University, in an article appear
ing in the current issue of the South
Atlantic Quarterly, review publish
ed at Duke University.
Professor Miller declares that the
Negro is becoming bleached, and is
losing much of his identity as black
man, which he declares is greatly to
be regretted. A.
The writer's statements have Gre
ated no little interest among mem
bers of the sociological and biologi-
cal departments of Duke University
being one of the first men to open
the subject. in such a clear and
scholarly manner.
New Race Rising
"a careful observation of Negro
schools, churches and other assem-
blages, in all parts of the country
writes Professor Miller, "convinces
the writer that fully three-fourths OF
the rising generation have some no.
ticeable infusion of white blood. One
finds about as many children of un-
diluted Negro type as of the opposite
extreme who cannot be easily detect
ed from white. Both extremes, how
ever, are rapidly diminishing in guam
tity, while the average of the race is
approaching medium of color and
physical characteristics.
Within the next three or four
generations it will be hard to find a
pure blooded Negro outside the re-
mote black belts Of the rural South.
The near whites will have crossed the
line or bred backwards on the color
scale. A new negroid race will have
arison. ~-.--.a-'
Blames White Men.
The Howard University dean
blames the composity progeny upon
the white man, the males of the
stranger race taking advantages OF
the females of the weaker. He says
he is primarily responsible for what
ever race crossing has already taken
place, or that threatens to take place
in the future. The Negro woman has
been victimized, and the approxima-
tion Of the races is the result, he says.
Should the white race issue a de-
cree enforceable upon every member
of that blood, that there shall be nc
further intermingling of the races,
the process would instantly cease
the writer asserts.
Of the 1,660,0O0 colored persons
returned as mulattoes in the census
of 1920, and of more than as many
with concealed white blood in their
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Evil events come from evil causes;
and what we suffer, springs. gener-
ally, from what we have done
Aristophanes.