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The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1933-01-13
SPECIAL NOTICE TO H. B. AS

Dear Presidents and Members:
The extra assessment of 25c has been
asked for on or before the 18th of this
month. Since Sunday is the 18th, we
are extending the time to the 18th
One or two presidents haven written
to the office and asked for little more
time. Now brethren we have matters
of importance to look after and they
must be looked after, therefore, am
requesting that each Of you send in
your report not later than Monday
January 10th. If your members are
not ready you clear yourself by send
ing in yours.
E. F. Young General President
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1933-01-13

Girls seems to be Mr.. Johnnie Ro-
bert weakness. He blocked traffic Mon
day afternoon on Eighth Street and
Twenay fourth Avenue to talk to one.
Some of you please tell Mr. Robert that
the cops will pinch" him for blocking
traffic.
Mr. Randolph Darden says now that
he has started singing solos, he WI
need a theme song. Wont you come
TO his rescue?
Miss Ollie M. Weston must have re-
solved to be seen less this year, never
the less I'll get her yet just watch me.
How many of you knew Miss Tillie
Jones could sing Well she can and she
and Miss Willie M Wilson are going ~
tell you What a wonderful Savior is
Jesus" on the fifth Sunday night at
New Hope Baptist church. You'll on
Joy them.
was told last week that was caus-
lIlS a Dlt OI ltlNliOllS DtLWCGn lOiil
Miller and his girls. l apologize Mr..
Miller l didn't mean to do it.
/ You didn't know Mr.. Lee Marcus
Cochran could speak did you? Come
to New Hope on the fifth Sunday night
and let him tell you what an awful
feeling it is to be Broke
Before bidding you goodhy. want
you to have the benefit Of New Years
thought that l ran across while read
ing few days ago.
Time was in past-thou canst not it
recall;
Time is thou hast-employ the portion
small;
Time future is not and may never be;
Time present is the only time for thee"
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The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1933-01-13
LEAF

GCne, but not forgotten. This comes
to let the readers know that lodge No.
453 lost one of its members in the per-
son of sister Maggie Hayes who depart
ed this life December 28th. Sister Hayes
was a member of St. John Baptist
church ond lived true Christian in
her community, church and lodge.
The funeral was well attended with
the. Revs. Emanuel Wood and N. Cren-
shaw officiating.
The president and members Of lodge
No. 1854 were present and took part
in the pro ram. Sister Ruth McClain,
sung a solo. Sister Hayes leaves to
mourn her passing husband, mother,
one son, three daughters, three sisters
and a host of relatives and friends.
Sister Hayes was laid to rest in the
family cemetery with H. B. A. honors
Mrs. Libbie Cooper, Pres
MACON
Dear Editor:
Please allow me space in the Echo to
let the readers know that lodge No. 161
lost one of its members in the persons
of sister Rhodia Parks. Sister Parks
departed this life December II, 1882
She was member of Mt. Carmel M. B.
church. Sister Parks has to mourn her
passing two sons and two daughters
Mr. Ames. johnson, Pres
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person of Sister Ida Netherby.

person of Sister Ida Netherby.
Sister Netherby departed this life
January 9th, 1888. She was a member
of Union Kemper Spring Baptist
to her Lodge and to her Church.
Sister Netnerby leaves to mourn hel
passing husband, one son, two sisters
two brothers, and host of relative:
and friends. She will be missed by al
that knew her. We feel that our los.
is Heavens gain.
Mrs. Vina Clayton, Presiden
Mr.. w. A. Steward, Secretary
Lodge No A.
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1933-01-13
LAUDERDALE

Dear Editor:
Please allow me space in the Echo
to let the readers know that lodge No
az has lost one of its members in the
person of sister Nancy Brown who de-
parted this life December 20, 1882. She
was member of Union Kemper
Spring church and faithful member
to her lodge. She leaves to mourn
her passing a husband, one son, one
brother and a host of relatives and
friends.
Mrs Vinia Clayton, Pres.
Mr. T. c. Clayton Sec'y.
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1933-01-13
HATTIESBURG

To the Secretary of the H. B. A.
Enclosed you will find Money Order
in the amount of $100 for December
Assessment for one of my members
l have been successful in reporting for
everyone of my members for the Dec
ember Quarter. am now collecting
my Csc assessment for January 18th.
Hoping to make full report. Please
rush my March report blank. l am
doing business.
A. j. Barnett President Lodge 270
THE FOLLOWING DECEASED MEM
BEERS HAVE BEEN REPORTED
SINCE THE LAST BOARD
w. M. Hardy No. IS, C. L. Pringle Pres
Langsdale, Miss.
Perlie Radcliff No. 3, R. w. Radcliff,
Pres. Russell, Miss.
John Mason Mo. 116, James Walker,
Pres. Mt. Olive, Miss
Francis Faulkoner No. 308, Mrs M E.
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1933-01-13
STATE LINE

This comes to let the readers know
that lodge No. 1855 is doing nicely
Our president has been i'll with the Flu.
and confined to his bed for more than
three weeks but is now improving
Mr.. Burley is doing a great work in
this part of the country, all he asks is
a trial
Mr. E. D. Burley, Pres
Miss Josephine Bethea, Rep
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1933-01-13
H. B. A. WILL NOT QUIT

Local Presidents and members of the
II. B. A. Show signs of improvement.
In last weeks issue of the Weekly
Echo we wrote an article with refer
ence to the H. B. A. Holding its own.
1t is marvellous as to how, during these
depressed times and conditions, the
H. B. A. continues to hold strong
hand in business activities However,
it goes without saying that we are
holding our own. Of course, there is
some small fall off in membership this
is no more than we should expect re-
membering the many thousands of
folks who are jobless and for that rea-
son hundreds of H. B. AS are not able
to pay their claims. Whereas, on the
other hand there are thousands who
make the sacrifice to see to it that
their claims are paid.
HIGH DEATH ROLL
If one would read the death list on
this page, you will find that a large
number of H. B. AS are dying. An
Epidemic of Flu and other diseases
have caused more members to die in
the H. B. A. in this short period than
we have ever known. When the last
Boards opened on November 20, we
had not one death left over. However,
on the date that the Boards opened
enc member died and they have been
dying ever since We have two Lodges
in which two members have died,
giving us four deaths in two lodges.
Well we promised to pay our claim
ants and we are going to do it We
have more than 20 members who have
died in the last 81 days. Yes, they are
dying but they are ours and We are
going to pay the last one of them.
H. B. A. CASKETS
May l advise all members and Pres
idents for your own good, use your
own casket remember, however,
that you are not compelled to use an
H. B. A. casket We make no dis
elimination whatever, if you do not
use it. But you do save money when
you use it and big money at that
WIDOW IN OFFICE
A certain widow came to the office
few days ago desiring to know how
much money was in the office for her.
She had lost her husband. Friends do
you know that this poor widow had
turned her whole policy over to an
undertaken She had given all of it
to the undertaken She had given us
written order to pay over to her I'M
dertaker the whole amount coming
from her policy. But when pay day
came she felt the need of money. You
may know that we did not have it
when she had ordered us to give it to
an undertaken.
PLEASE DO NOT MISUNDER-
STAND ME
l do not wish to be misunderstood.
Please do not get the idea that I nor
the H. B. A. would attempt to knock
the undertakers. We need them and
must have them Some of them are
honest and upright and will do their
best to see to it that you get fair deal.
There is question in my mind how
ever, and that is this why is it that
some people when they lose their re-
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1933-01-13
LAUDERDALE

This is to let the many readers know
that Kemper Spring lodge No. AZ has
lost one of its faithful members, in
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1933-01-13
MACON

Mr.. Esau Sledge, of Macon, Miss,
has made his home in St. Louis, Mo-,
where he joins his mother, two sisters
and four brothers. Friends wish for
him much success.
J. A. johnson, Rep.
The weekly echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1931-1942, 1933-01-13
WHO'S WHO AND WHAT'S WHAT
IN THE LANGSTON HUGHES
DRAMATIC CLUB
(By) Canary N. Wilson

You have never known a person to
tell anything on himself have you?
Yet some of these people wonder why
l don't ever tell anything on myself
Evening star., 1933-02-21

He ardently favors worldwide system
Of reciprocal tariffs as the sanest and
surest way out of the international trade
morass. He demands that the sanctity
of treaties be respected, as the corner
stone" of relations among the nations
He has not, publicly at least, gone the
length Of suggesting that if Great Brit
ain and our other debtors are ready to
enter into individual compacts compre-
hending the fundamental articles in the
Roosevelt creed, as just enumerated.
the United States would revise the
debts. But it is fair to infer that he Is
ready to discuss them from that
broad" STANDPOINT.
Sir Ronald Lindsay was importuned
for an interview as he stepped from
the gangplank Of his ship yesterday. He
gave one, which admittedly, though
briefly, epitomizes the situation. 1t
contains. he said, '1ots of difficulties
and lots Of common sense" Britons and
Americans between them will find the
way out of the difficulties If they draw
heavily on the common sense for which
the Anglo-saxon character claims to
be famed.
Evening star., 1933-02-21
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEEELL.

One Of the oldest spells in the world
is that which a well told narrative
weaves about reader. 1t is a mystic
bit out of fairyland, Transforming life
for a few hours, and maybe for longer.
Some one has we'll said that fiction,
properly done, is simply experience;
that no one need apologize for reading
such books II they meet the standards
of ones taste and are true to life.
Life, of course. has many def1ni-
tions-and limitations.
Taste, too. Is not rigid.
Every reader will attempt to find in
his reading his own experiences,
wreathed in such taste as he possesses.
This necessarily will narrow the
world of books for him.
This is something that is not gener-
ally realized perhaps.
AL too many readers try to read
everything" as they say, little realiz-
ing that they are untrue to themselves
and untrue to books.
1t cannot be done, successfully at
least.
There are too many works of fiction
produced each year, too many which
were never intended but for their own
readers.
Did you ever stop to think that every
its own cover and its own author?
II one attempts to cram ones self
into story never intended for him, he
is like the old familiar square peg in a
round hole.
To arrive at complete satisfaction in
the reading Of fiction, the reader must
consider well the mind of the writers,
as well as the minds of the publishers.
He must take into account. above all,
the minds of the authors public.
1t is fallacy that any one writes
for every one.
No one does, novelist or other writer.
He necessarily writes for like minds.
If other minds read him, they do 1t
under protest. He is not for them and
in their hearts they know it. He knows
it, too; that Is why he has written as
he has.
There are many divisions of the
great reading public, fixed firmly by
the education of its members, their
sonsibility Tin the older sense Of the
word), their present likes and dislikes,
their taste, their aims in life, their
ambitions, their beliefs.
All of these are as diverse as man
kind.
Every reader makes his own classifi-
cation, more or less, or life makes 1t
for him, perhaps 1t doesn't make much
difference, in the long run. maybe not
as much as we think, sometimes.
Once he is in his classification, he is
in it. for good or bad, and there is no
particular use for him trying to escape
from 1t.
This means, in relation to the read
ing of fiction, that there will be certain
situations which he prefers to read
about, in broad outlines, and various
other situations which he does not
enjoy.
One may have a sensitive nature, for
instance, which shrinks from accounts
of cruelty
This instantly means that a certain
section of the newer books will be cut
out of such a readers list automati-
cally.
This reader will soon come to recog-
nize the names of those writers who
like to deal in such stuff. To them, and
to those for whom he writes, 1t Is "he-
man" stuff To the person who does
not like 1t, 1t Is nauseating, or at least
depressing.
Others may read it without batting
Evening star., 1933-02-21
Ratification by Conventions.

Congress has for the first time in
American history proposed an amend
ment to the Constitution to be ratified
by the States by conventions instead OF
by the Legislatures. This is in accord
with the alternative method of ratifl-
cation provided by Article v of the Con-
stitution. That provision, however, Is
not specific as to the manner in which
conventions shall be called, constituted
or organized, and now as the twenty
first amendment is submitted to the
States, repeating the eighteenth amend
ment-the first repeal amendment to be
thus submitted-the question arises as
to procedure, for which there is no
precedent.
Already several of the States are pre-
pairing to set up the ratifying machin-
cry, moves to this end having been
started even In advance of the vote yes
terday In the House of Representatives,
and there Is evidence that there will
be a wide variation of methods, in the
ratio Of representation OF the popula-
ton of the States in the conventions
and in the manner of voting. There Is
also question of whether the cost Of
assembling these conventions will be
borne by the Federal Government or by
the States, though it is generally as
sumed that it will rest upon the States
and not upon the National Treasury.
Most of the State Legislatures are
now in session, this being the year In
which the greatest number of them as
semble. 1t is assumed that the Legis-
latures will act in provision of the con-
ventions and there are indications that
in some of the States where the Legis-
latures are not now sitting special ses-
sions will be called for this specific
purpose This will raise question OF
expense which may complicate the pro-
cedure of ratification.
Evening star., 1933-02-21
Mutiny ON Dutch War Craft
Hailed as Modern Romano

were pirates under our definition Of
the word. but they weren't lawless mu-
tineers. The pirates we read about in
the story books were more common in
the Caribbean. They were usually
good men gone wrong, European sea-
men who had been driven to mutiny by
LII treatment, long voyages, poor food
and strict discipline"
There is an element Of shock in the
spectacle of Malay rnutineers issuing
strike literature by wireless" suggests
the Fort Worth Star Telegram. "If
there is modern Gilbert and Sullivan
team to be had, the material is ready"
In more serious vein, the San Antonio
Express states. THE natives complain
that their pay was cut II per cent,
whereas the reduction for Europeans
was only IA per cent The Batavia
government probably will correct that
condition. which already has cost q far
larger sum than the savings planned.
4 X
The question as to "how the royal
navy might have gone about captiir-|
ing the rebellious crew peacefully" is a
subject of speculation by the Provi-l
dence Journal. which feels that lit isl
not at all clear how they could have
acted otherwise than they did" TheI
Louisville Courier-Journal asks: "Wasl
It necessary to kill SO many simply toH
secure surrender, which would surely
have been forthcoming If the airplane
bombs had been dropped close enoughk
10 snow the mutineers the hopelessnesS
OF their position?"
Taking up another phase of the mat
ter, the Rochester Times-Union saws
t1at the truth is the carnage amona
the mutinesfs settled nothing what
ever, so far as the ship-plane controI
versy is concerned" The Toledo Bladd
points out that "the most signi1canl
feature of the story is that the com
mander was driven to the expedient O
using flying machine to take his owr
Warshlp: Observing that the cruise
was put out Of commission, the Del
Moines Tribune remarks: I'VE are stil
waiting Tor the admiral's explanatiol
OF that one" The Baltimore sun Con
ciuees that 'the naval experts ma
nnd In this triumph of aircraft owe
surface craft some new material n
document the long-standing debate"
Evening star., 1933-02-21
Anglo-American Agreement.

In this sorely troubled universe of
today-troub.ed economically and polit-
ically, troubled East and troubled
West-it is an inexpressibly wholesome
and encouraging thing that Great
Britain and the United States have
laid the basis of agreement on war
debts. The two English de-
mocracies have gone further than that.
They have moved for world revival on
the grand scale and pooled their pur-
poses to promote it as speedily as
possible.
The guarded statement issued at
New York yesterday by President elect
Roosevelt at the end Of a protracted
conference with Sir Ronald Lindsay
is lacking in details, but it is easy to
read between its lines that it is the
forerunner of fruitful negotiations at
Washington after March 4. These are
to be initiated at once, as the British
Ambassador, the statement discloses,
will continue, prior to Mr.. Roosevelt's
Inauguration, to confer with the rev
Secretary of State as soon as the
latter's appointment is announced
Sir Ronald Lindsay returns to Amer
lea after ten days of intensive confer
ence with Prime Minister Macdonald
and the other heads Of the British
government. The statement covering
Mondays Roosevelt Lindsay talk in
Manhattan needs to be read in the
light of last weeks declarations in the
House of Commons by Mr.. Macdonald
They revealed, in SO many words, that
the British are now prepared to discuss
with the United States not only the
Anglo American debt, but practically
unlimited range Of what this country
considers correlated questions of eco
nomics, finance, trade and world
politics. The prime minister tacitly,
if not textually, acquiesced in the
American position that concessions at
Washington must be met by concessions
in London.
It was to convey to this Government
this conception of the situation, which
is the United States irreducible mini
mum, that Sir Roland Lindsay made his
recent trip to England. Mr. Roosevelt S
statement says that the Ambassador
gave him "the views of the British gov
ernment touching the broader aspects
Of the world economic and other situa-
tons" Sir Ronald learned at Warm
Springs, before going to London, what
some of these broader aspects of the
world economic and other situations"
are in Mr.. Roosevelt's estimation.
The President-elect Is a believer In
the gold standard and sound money
Evening star., 1933-02-21

an eye. but for this man there is no
satisfaction in It. He will do well
therefore, 70 be his own judge and Jury.
carefully refraining from the works of
those writer's whom he knows deal in
such savageries.
There are batteries of writer's, and
their publishers, who specialize on what
may be termed the sexy side of life.
This Is nothing new, of course, but
these fellows do it with difference.
Their intention is plain. Their amor
Gus detail does not grow out of the
story naturally, but is the be-all and
end-all of plot and characters.
These are but two types Of novels
which some readers will do well to
leave alone They are but outstanding
examples of mental focus too concen-
trated for the taste of some readers,
who demand treatments more in &C
cord with traditional developments of
the English novel.
The matter of intention is every
thing.
Much can be forgiven. If the inten-
ton Is in accordance with ones own
desires.
AS to whicr authors best coincide. as
It we're, with any given readers likes,
that must be left to the reader in ques-
ton.
All the rules in the world could not
make up for a second in this matter,
for the good laws which every reader
lays down for himself.
He does this, too, whether he real
izes 1t or not.
There is just that much more pleas
ure, however, in being conscious of
what one does, when mentality, in any
degree, is involved.
To read, and to know why one reads,
is better than just to read
To know why one does not read Is
katter still.
1t should be made plain, at this
point, that to read, or not to read, is
not criticism.
BY reading, one may praise, perhaps,
but by leaving alone one does not nee
essarily condemn. The book may suit
others.
One merely expresses preference.
1t is this preference which counts,
since on it hinges all the possible de-
light, and profit, the entertainment
and happiness, which any one may
realize from a really well done piece
of fiction.
Its experiences can be experience
only If they are ones own experience
This will not mean that a variety of
characters, scenes and happenings may
not be presented, utterly foreign to
the characters. and so on, in real life,
which the reader may have known.
Indeed, II book failed to present
these differences, it would fail in its
chief mission.
The essential requirement Is that the
mind Of the writer present them with
a like mind.
1t is this like mind which makes
writer and reader akin, no matter how
they may differ otherwise
This is the essential requirement in
fiction reading, so little understood that
it is often disregarded, so little es-
teemed, at times, that many a person
bores himself hopelessly over works
which were never intended for him,
and could never be his If he read them
a thousand times.
Select the fictional experiences which
you intend to undergo, therefore, with
an understanding mind and heart-ta
mind which understands your own
mind, and heart which comprehends
your own heart. Read, in short, your
own stories.