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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1926-07-29
OUR DENATURED UNCLE

We brought up to think of Uncle Sam as a
the best interests of his boys and girls quick resent
insult injury to them abroad and anxious to promote
their health, happiness and prosperity at home Who
then, is this ogre in the familiar habilments who syly
posons their liquor and piousy wags his head
the wickenedness of those who drink it and die?
what is denatured alcohol" asks Federal Attor-
ney Buckner "Denatured alcohol is pure grain alcohol
sent from bonded legitimate dstllers legitimate de-
maturing plants which operated under Government
supervision Denatured alcohol alcohol which has
been poisoned by these denaturing plants under Gov
eminent direction in order that the alcohol shall be
used beverage"
II seems that in New York City last year more
than 500 people died from drinking bootleg liquor most
of which, Mr., Buckner gives to understand is made
from alcohol poisoned by the Government.
Years ago the newspapers carried the story of
farmer in Alabama who had been missing some choice
melons from his melon patch To prevent further thefts
he poisoned of the melons remaining The next
day they found dead in his melon patch of his
neighbours boys and also his son.
What happened? Were the boys mourned as sin
who had got their deserts? Was the farmer
treated with respect stern enforcer of the law?
Hardly. The father of the other boy packed his shot
gun with buckshot and drilled the poisoner fnll of
holes prohibtonist argument. And there wasn't
Continued in next column)
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EDITORIALS
DRINK FRUIT JUICES
Cor beer if you can get iD

AS | write this the thermometer is lowering around
the 95 mark. Naturally thirsty, anything cold to
drink appeals to
But ] am told on good authority that it is not safe
to drink too much ice water. Rather should drink
fruit drinks-orange and lemonade, grape juice and
such.
Ice water cools you only while you drink it, and too
much chs the stomach suddenly with bad results
times But fruit juices not only refreshing, they CON
tain elements good for the system and produce more
lasting benefits.
The hops in beer are also recommended beneficial
to the SYSTEM but the prohibonsts will raise their
hands in holy horror when | mention it.
And of course, during these dry times of prohibit
ton there is beer!
Like fun
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WHATS GOOD FOR THE
GOOSE is GOOD FOR
THE GANDER'.

Wayne B. Wheeler, executive head
of the Anti-Saloon League, gave a
surprise party in Washington re-
Gently and let scrawny cat out of
bag which certain of our national
legislators hoped would remain
closed. He gave some names of
Senators and Representatives who
had been in the habit of giving
"dry" speeches on the lecture plat
forms, and also mentioned certain
amounts paid out for expenses and
honorariums. Whereupon certain
Senators and Representatives pro-
claimed long and loud that the prac-
tice was perfectly legal, and ethical
as we'll Perhaps it is. We do not
blame legislator for getting every
dollar he can, short of holding ND
bank or stealing an oil field. But
what's good for the "drys" is also
good for the "wets."
Central (Perkasie) News.
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A HELP IN TIME OF NEED

A rather seedy-looking hurried excitedly from
the rear coach into the ahead. "Has anyone got
any whisky?" he shry inquired. "A lady back there
has tainted"
Half dozen TASKS were offered instantly Sezirg
one he looked at it critically uncorked it. put it to
his lips, and took long, lingering pull
"Ahl he exclaimed. with gusto, Il feel better
now Seeing woman faint always did upset me-"
Central High, Washington.
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CRIME FLOURISHES

The State Department of Institutions and Agencies
finds that the County Workhouse is crowded. The
danger morals involved in housing several prisoners
in one cell has long been recognized and is evil
with which penal institutions have to reckon There
is almost certainty under such circumstances, that
deplorable vices will be spread.
But another reflection is that reformatories,
instead of being emptied under the benign influence of
National prohibition, promised by its deluded pro-
ponents actually in need of enlargement This is
old story now crime hourishes it never did when
personal liberty not abridged. Trenton Times.
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From the New York Herald Tribune's
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, April s,-Seventy-fve million dol
lars year is needed bring about proper enforce
ment of the prohibition law in New York State alone
under the present judicial system, United State At
torney Emory r. Buckner declared in his closing test
mony today before the Senate investigating committee
This would mean the creation of SIS additional Fed
eral courts and appointment of $50 judges to
handle cases. he said
Mr.. Buckners proposed machinery for enforcing the
law also included higher salaries for judges and pro-
hibon agents and increase of 1900 in the number
of agents for New York State alone
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Brennan Cites Chicago Crime

In addition to Mr.. Buckner's testimony the COM
mittee received from George Brennan, Democratic
candidate for the Senatorship from Illinois wet
platform, comprehensive statement prepared by Bren-
and his associates showing the condition of law
enforcement in Chicago Mr. Brennans committee charg
ed that the increase in boodshed immortality, dsrespect
for law murder poison insanity and blindness due
to the Volstead law. The report accompanied BY
statistics showing large percentage of increase in
crime in 1925 compared to 1918.
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SOLDIERS ORIGINATED

Dubbed HAIR
Philadelphia-Origin of bobbed
hair is now definitely laid to the
war-the Revolutionary War.
Discovery by Captain l.. C. Baird,
an Army officer, of dusty old Con-
tinental Army records stored for
years in the Schuylkill Arsenal here
shows Americas first single was
worn by the American doughboy
and not by the American flapper.
Bobbing the hair was even made
matter of general orders for the
soldier of 1776, the ancient docu-
ments indicate. One such decree, is
sued at West Point, is oddly at var
ance with present-day West Point
traditions which frown on anything
but the trimmest of hair-cuts.
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Estate Of KATE M. TAYLOR MORRIS
late of the Borough of New Hope, Bucks
County. Pa, Deceased.
LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION on the
above estate having been granted by the
Register of Wills of Bucks County TO the
undersigned, all persons indebted TO said
estate are requested to make immediate
payment and those having claims are re-
quested to present the same at once to
II. r. TAYLOR. Administrator.
New Hope. Pa.
THOMAS ROSS. Attorney.
Doylestown. Pa.
tJplylsSshf ,22Re. Augb.t 49, - u. -
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INK FROM OTHER
PRESSES
Humorous and Serious Topics
From Leading Editors
Of the Country
THE OLD SEX APPEAL

Renee-A girl generally gets the
man she goes after.
Frankfurt what happens when
two girls go after the same man
Pauline-Oh, then he is arrested
for bigamy.
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ENLISTING UNDER
FALSE PRETENSES

ENLISIING UNDEh
FALSE PRETENSES
The rookie had been at the
Naval Training Station two weeks,
and had spent most of that time
in digging bitches, chopping trees,
leveling hillocks and filling de-
pressions. Finally he sought his
immediate superior.
"You see, sir" he complained,
when | joined the Navy they said
I'd see the world, and here for
two weeks I've done nothing but
rearrange it."
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SIS MORE u. S. COURTS, $50 MORE JUDGES NECES-
SARY TO ENFORCE LAW; SAYS BUCKNER
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Spurns Dirty Fines and Wants Mans Liberty; Brer
mans Brief Lays Chicago Crime to Dry Act
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is PROHIBITION A FAILURE?
Continued from preceding column)

man in the country conversant with the who didn't
yell "Attaboyl"
Is the case of Uncle Sam, the poisoner, very
different? Is it greater crime for a to sneak
drink in defiance of the Volstead Act than for boy
to swipe farmers melons? Yet when Uncle Sans
victims curl up and die in agony expected to
pull long faces and say it them right How
amusing-Judge.
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IS PROHIBITION
A FAILURE?

Comments for against will be published here weekly.
II sign them. Unsigned items will be ignored.-Edor
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From the New York Herald Tribune's
Washington Bureau
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-18
Piney Woods School, Home of
Cotton Blossom Singers, Indi-
Gates Struggle of Southern
Youth for Education.

Approximately "a miles southeast
of Jackson, Miss, near a postoffice
called Braxton, there lives, moves
and has its being, the Piney Woods
school for colored children.
Founded in 1910 by an idealistic
colored graduate of the University of
Iowa, the school was ushered in with
an inauspicious beginning. Laurence
c. Jones, the founder, was given $50
in money and 40 acres of land with
which to make a start.
Glasses during the first session
were held on logs as desks under an
old cedar tree. Some 29 pupils en-
rolled, ana as more came, more logs
were rolled up to accommodate the
overflow.
At the present time, the school has
1000 acres of land and seven large
brick buildings, including dormito-
ries, school buildings, power house
and garage. A chapel in one of the
buildings will seat an audience Of
1000.
CONTINUED on page 81
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-18
APARTMENT FIRE
TAKES SIX LIVES
Woman Jumps From Fifth Floor
With Baby in Arms; Fire
fighters Hampered.

New York.-Six people were killed
and many others seriously injured
in an apartment fire which broke out
at 42O St. Nicholas avenue in Har-
lem early on Wednesday morning OF
last week. Forty families were trap
ped in the five-story building as
fiames,a starting on the first floor
rushed to the fifth and spread rap
idly.
One woman, Mrs. Mamie Ramboe
with her two-year-old daughter
jumped from the top floor to avoid
death by burning. She and the baby
are now at Harlem hospital in a
critical condition, both having suf-
fered fractured skulls in the jump.
Mrs. Mary Allen, who also jumped
from the fifth floor, suffered broken
leg and internal injuries.
Efficient fire-fighting was prevent
ed because of construction work be-
ing done on a subway in the street
below. Water pressure was so low
that the first streams played upon the
building did not carry to the top
floor. The entire building was gutted
before the flames were put under
control.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-18
Race Loyalty Will Bring Self
respect as Well as Race Well
being and Opportunity, Edu-
Gator Says.

Speaking to an audience at Pill
grim Baptist church Wednesday eve
ming, Dean Kelly Miller of Howard
University in developing the subject
Loyalty" pointed out that perhaps
the chief need of the American Ne
gro is union of aim and effort.
Indicating that Especially in busi-
ness, the Negro had not yet learned
the valuable and necessary lesson of
self-patronage,. Dean Miller said that
sooner or later race loyalty would be
forced upon the American Negro.
"Rudyard Kipling," said the Dean,
"the celebrated English poet and
jingoist, helped to create race con-
sciousness on the part Of the whites
when he formulated the term, the
white mans burden Lothrop Stod-
dard, in his Rising Tide of Color,
has stimulated that feeling of race
consciousness, and has helped it to
become race animosity. Such feeling
has aided the growth of such organ
izations as the Ku Klux Khan"
Citing Moses as man who typi-
fed the essence of race loyalty be-
cause he refused to become a natural
lied Egyptian and remained of the
despised Jews, Dean Miller showed
the benefits of race loyalty, one of
the chief being self-respect. In the
same connection, the speaker scored
any person of any race who was
ashamed of his people.
Continuing, Mr.. Miller said, "The
voluntary segregation of Negroes in
the cities of the United States gives
a basis for leadership and unity. Un-
derstand, hold no brief for segrega-
tion, for segregation in its legal as
pect must be fought, as we are fight
ing it now in Washington, lest it as
sumo legal rigidity.
Race loyalty will be forced upon
the Negro by outside compulsion.
The Negro must develop his own in
stitutions and own interests so that
the youth of the race can rise to the
higher executive functions in busi-
ness which are denied to him all over
CONTINUED on page 81
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-18
NEGROES FORCED
To VACATE HOME
Little Rock Whites Eject Ten.
ants Under Protest From
Home Owner.
(Preston News Service)

Little Rock, Ark, Sept. IL
Rabid white residents of the 1900
block of Rock street assembled last
Thursday night and forcibly elected
a family of Negroes from a house in
that block. The property is said to
be- owned by Gustav Breitke, vice.
president of the Oaklawn Dairy
Company.
About 8 o'clock George Cope ap-
peared at police headquarters and
inquired of the sergeant how much
it would cost to plead guilty of fight
ing.
He explained that he and his
neighbors had protested to Breitke
against renting the property in that
neighborhood to- Negroes. A heated
discussion followed and Cope admit
ted that he knocked down Breitke.
Cope was advised to return home and
wait until complaint was made.
About midnight the owner of the
property complained that several
men were attacking his Negro ten
ants. The police went to the scene
but said that the evacuation had been
effected when they arrived. Breitke
has sworn out a warrant against Cope
and others.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-18
WHITE DENOUNCES.
CHURCH ATTITUDE
Claims White Baptist, Methodist
Churches in South Recruit
ing Grounds for Klan.
IN. A. A. c. p. Press Service)

| IN. A. A. G. p. Press Service)
Speaking before the eleventh bien-
nial session of the National Conven-
tion of Congregational Workers
Among Colored People in Detroit re-
Gently, Walter White, Assistant Sec
retary of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, delivered scathing denunci-
alton of the attitude on race rela-
tions of Christian clergymen in the
United States.
In the City Of Detroit, declared
Mr.. White, not one clergyman raised
his voice during nine months In
which colored people were threaten
ed and attacked eliminating In the
case Of DR.. Sweets defense Of his
home; whereas when Clarence Dar-
row visited the colored Y. M. G. A. in
that city and declared that he could
and did drink now Just as he did be-
fore prohibition, the Presbyterian
clergymen met and denounced him.
Mr.. White further assailed the
white branches Of the Baptist and
Methodist churches In the South as
recruiting grounds for the Ku Klux
Klan and asserted that the Negro in
America was becoming increasingly
skeptical of the professions Of white
Christianity when these were con-
sistently unaccompanied by any ac-
tion in accord with the doctrine
preached.
The address was enthusiastically
received by mixed audience of
white and colored clergymen.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-18
SEEK GIRL TO
SWIM CHANNEL
Ministers Will Try to Get Finan.
cial Backing for Prospective
COlOred Ederle.

Washington, D. C.-An American
Negro girl to swim the English
Channel. This is the hope of the
Rev. Edward Johnson, Baptist pas.
tor, who passed a resolution at the
annual session of the White Cross
bureau that the organization seek tc
find the mermaid who will conquer
the channel, and finance her in hel
efforts.
The drive to find the race girl that
appears as a likely master of the
channel swim was started in earnest
Sunday at Atlantic City. Rev. S.
P. w. Drew, president of the State
White Cross Bureau, said that eff.
forts were being made to induce
Watt Terry, wealthy race real estate
man of New York, to aid in financ.
ing the project.
Aspirants for the proposed chan.
mel swim met Monday at 1929 v
street northwest. Several brown.
skin mermaids from Baltimore, one
of whom is said to have completed
a 20-mile swim in Chesapeake Bay
last week, were present. A trial
swim will be held at Atlantic City
Friday.
One year of training will be given
the girl selected by the bureau to
attempt the channel feat. All he1
expenses will be paid during the
period of training.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-18
ELKS TO ENTERTAIN

The second feature of the week to
be given by the Elks' Gopher Lodge
los at their New Rest, 207 w. Cen
trail Ave-, will be card party given
on each and every Friday evening,
beginning September "a. According
to Mr.. Sid Harris, chairman of the
Trustee Board, there will be three
valuable prizes given away each Fri
day evening. The proposed party
which was to be held Thursday.
September 16, was postponed on ac-
count Of the several deaths within
the membership of the Gopher Lodge.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-18
School Started On Logs Under
Tree Grows Into Brick House
New Baptist Church Is
Formed; Carr Officiates

A new church to be known
as the st. Peters Baptist Mis-
sionary church has been organ
lied and will be, located at 14O
E. Fairfield Ave-, st. Paul. The
church has been regularly or
ganized, according to the Rev.
Mark Brown, pastor.
AT a recognizing council
called Sunday, September S, the
Rev. T. J. Carr of st. Pau.
Baptist church officiated.
Conducted by the Rev. D. w.
Short. an evangelist of Kansas
City, Kan, revival meetings
have been held at the new
church since September S, and
will continue for approximately
a week longer.
The Rev. Mr.. Brown an
nounces that the ushering in of
the new organization has been
unusually prosperous, and that
already there are candidates for
baptism. He invites a large at
tendance to the concluding
meetings.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-18
PAVING JOBS LET
BY STATE Will
HELP MINESURE
Road Leading to Summer Resort
to Be Fixed at Cost of
$26,659.
$2,1OO, O,OOOTo Be Spent
New Marking System for Roads
Planned to Help Inter-
state Motorists.

Fifty-five miles of paving, 43 miles
of gravel surfacing and 115 miles of
grading are included in list of
trunk highway projects which
Charles M. Babcock, state highway
commissioner, announces will be
placed under construction this fall.
Bids on these projects will be
opened at the State Highway depart
ment Offices at 10 a. M, October s..
Minesure Helped.
Among the roads which will bene-
fit by the expenditures is one of the
roads which leads to Minesure min
ee-shuree) on-the-St. Croix, colored
summer resort project.
This road, trunk highway No. 3,
from Newport to near Hastings, is
scheduled to get &C miles of grad
ing at a cost of $26,659.
Work Let.
The proposed paving jobs when
completed will close the last gap on
No. l from st. Paul to Duluth, on
No. 8 from St. Cloud to Sauk Centre
and on No. from La Crosse to
Winona. 1t is also proposed to pave
No. 2 from Moorhead to Hawley.
The grading jobs to be let are
scattered over the state. Part of the
grading is in preparation for paving
contracts which may be let next year.
The graveling is on stretches of
No. and No. IL, which have been
graded this year. "
The estimated cost of the twenty
six jobs is $2,10O,00O. A large part
of the grading and graveling will be
done this fall. Gasoline and license
tax receipts up to December 81, with
funds on hand, will be ample to COW
er all the work done this year.
New Marking System.
Marking of "U. 81 routes in Min
CONTINUED on page ~
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-18
Kelly Miller Says Negro Needs
To Learn How To PatrOnize Self
Number "6' Charms Lay
Delegate to Conference

C. H. Miller of st. James A.
M. E. church, Central Ave. at
Dale street, St. Paul, occupies
a rather unique position with
regard to attendance at church
conferences.
Mr.. Miller left the city Tues
day evening to attend the sixth
session of the Northwestern
annual conference, fourth Epis-
copal district, of the A. M. E.
church, which is being held in
Council Bluffs, Iowa, this week.
This is the sixth consecutive
year that Mr.. Miller has rep
resented st. James as lay dele
gate to the Northwestern con-
ference.
Before the Northwestern con-
ference was separated from the
Chicago conference, Mr.. Miller
attended that body for six con-
secutive years. He has also
been secretary Of the st. Paul
District conference six consecu-
tive times, and is chairman Of
the resolution committee of
that conference.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-18
Father of Negro Baseball, Presi-
dent of Negro N NatiOnal a
League, Declared Mentally IT.
responsible.
(The Associated Negro Press)

(The Associated Negro Press)
Chicago, Ill.-After confinement
of eight days in local psychopathic
hospital for observation and examin-
alton, Andrew "Rube" Foster, presi-
dent and founder of the Negro Ma
tional League, and manager Of the
American Giants, was declared men
tally irresponsible and transferred to
Kankakee, ILL.,, last Thursday after
noon.
Mr.. Foster, according to those
close to him in his work, has been
showing the effects of his strenuous
labors for some months and friends
repeatedly advised long rest for
him, but he refused to stop, saying
that the game needed him and more
SO at that time than at any other
period. However, he finally went
to Michigan for couple of weeks,
only to be brought back to Chicago
on account of urgent business Of the
league. The crash came within
thirty days after his return to Chi
CONTINUED on page ~
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-18
ST. PAUL GIRL GOES TO
WACO, TEXAS, TO TEACH

Miss Leah Minor, daughter of R. G.
Minor, All w. Central Ave-, left last
week for Waco, Texas, where she
has accepted a position as instructor
in music at Paul Quinn college. Miss
Minor assumed charge of her duties
September IA when the school year
opened.
Having received her elementary
education in St. Paul, Miss Minor at
tended college at st. Frances De
Sayles in Virginia. Her musical
training she continued on returning
to the city at the MacPhail School
of Music and Art. She received a
certificate in piano there at the
spring commencement.
Miss Minor was accompanied by
Miss Alberta Mayo, recent graduate
of Wilberforce University, who will
also teach during the coming winter
at Paul Quinn College.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-18
Career OF 'Rube' Foster Ends AS
He Is Confined AT Kanakee, Ill.
Library Gets Two More
Books by Negro Authors

According to officials at the
st. Paul public library, two new
copies of books by colored au-
thors have been added to the
files, and are available from the
loan desk.
The books are w. c. Handy's
Blues" and Walter F. Whites
"The Fire in the Flint" With
the acquisition of these two
books, the number of books by
Negro authors in the library
collection is swelled to a con-
siderable size.
For the, convenience of its
patrons. the library has COM
piled a list of all books in the
library by Negro authors, and
such a list may be obtained
from the loan desk.
The St. Paul echo., 1926-09-18
Man Speeds AS
Painine Corns
Press Him On

New York.-Philip Tohis, white,
9742 S6th street, Brooklyn, was ar
raigned before Magistrate Conway in
Long Island City Court Wednesday
on a charge of speeding. Asked why
he broke the law, he said:
"My corns were hurting"
What have your corns to do with
the charger" asked the court.
whenever it is going to rain my
corns hurt and l wanted to beat the
rain home" replied Tohis.
did it rain?" asked the Magis-
trate
"It did next day."
you got home in time then, which
showed that you were poor weather
prophet, but guilty of speeding"
Tohis paid a fine of $25.