The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1939-10-07
Roaming Citizen
By KNS


physically fit Colored Fleet Reservists
who have had from sixteen to twenty
years service, according to Petty Off
Ger Arthur Pyburn, retired, who COM
pleted his 80 years of service in Janu-
airy 1888. Mr.. Pyburn, former stew
ard instructor, is now commander of
the VIM. E. Garter Post of the Ameri-
can Legion He told us that it has
come to his attention since his return
from the American Legion Convention
in Chicago, that approximately two
hundred colored former naval men,
from stewards to mess attendants, are
now back in the service.
Flowers for st. Mark-Flying Re-
porters such as Louis B. Ransom, who
is a churchman and cycling newsmen
like Jay Powell, another churchman.
sometimes say the incest things about
us for which we, here and now, thank
them. However, since it is nicer to
smell real flowers and to see these
exotic creations which Nature has al
lowed us to smell and see, we some
times go to church where flowers
usually abound. At st. Mark on the
first Sunday in October we attended
Vic oCI NlOCo anu, OCllGNS IL VI IlOI, we
sat in our favorite pew a half hour
before church time. We soon saw how
important ladies, like Mrs. Lucy
Washington, mother of three fine sons,
are, as they prepare the church for a
communion service as we'll as arrange
the flowers for the altar. Mrs. Wash
ington, did this work with precision
and she was rewarded by us with a
talisman rose hich appeared out of
nowhere it seemed. We knew her
right away, but she had temporarily
forgotten us. However, how can we
forget the mother of the famous For
roster Washington, and his less ia
nous, but well known brothers, Law
renee and Ernest.
st. Mark introduced a novel printed
nrogram which showed how the church
functions seven DAYS a Week.-Mrs.
Cora A. Ruff and Mrs. Maiorie Rob
serts joined the church and were well
coined by all. However, we missed
seeing the incest lady we know but
we hope Mrs. Eva Bernard that stately
matron will be there on our next visit.
ShelOh Shorter than XenOphOn-
Sheloh Khall is nom de plume used
bv one of BOston's most interesting
rolored young men.-This young man
IS an assistant in a provision store on
fremont St., when he is not an assis-
ant to Uncle Sam, for whom he drives
a mail truck sporting a big revolver
in holster which is suspended from
= web belt. Invariably, you see him.
when he is not working. walking along
batlncc l.
"les one of six stringed instruments
which he plays and also teaches others
to play. Now, he has written a Music
Sneller which is said to be good. So
folks let us introduce to you Sheloh
Kahl, in reality, Xenophon Clarke of
Al Cunard St., Roxbury, Mass.
Long Live Landladies-When better
landladies are born we hope to be liv-
ing. We have had many but our pres
ent landlady is a peach. She is such
a good landlady, perhaps on account
OF Fate's unkindness to her. Just
imagine cOlored woman in her late
thlrtles going to the Boston City Hos
/ nital for treatment for what the white
| doctors there said was rheumatism
and few weeks later her leg gave
way at the Out-Patient Department
after one of these treatments. This
Young woman had to be kept in the
surgical Ward for months. The X-Rav
, the first week showed a giant cell
tumor and after an operation on the
leg she was treated for a year at the
hospital and at home without success
Accordingly, she went back to the Hos
| pltal from her home and YOU are RIGHT
her leg was amputated.
She did not quit, though a rich
TREND assisted to secure an artificial
leg through the Department of Fdu-
cation of the Commonwealth of Mass.
the State paying half the cost. She
learned to run an elevator and secured
license at City Hall in Boston but
nc, Job, even at the Boston City Hospi-
tai where she applied, was forthcom-
ing. So, on her own, she decided to
90 her old work, as an expert drv
cleaner having been forelady at the
LARGEST wholesale dry cleaning places
IN Boston before her loss. This work
she does IN her own home, but there
Is not enough work right now. Ac-
rordlnglv she asked us to write her q
'etter or recommendation so that she
may do some other work, which of
course we will do because anyone with
her courage and optimism certainly
should be helped. She wants no vel
fare aid, she says, but she wants to
work for real wages and not lust a
pittance. Yes. dear readers land
ladies are really necessary and we dis
covered this fact way back in our stu
dent days many years ago and Won
new students and future students will
discover this when you go away from
home to college or even to work in
another city. So, "Long Live Land
ladies'" is our toast to them ALL
Never Absent from School When
we were young, so young in fact that
we did not know enough to know the
truth our mother told us "you had
better study your lessons or YOU will
be like me. You know cannot read
or write anything because | did not 90
to school when I was a girl" We really
believed it, but we caught her time
after time reading the papers. Well.
we received plenty of schooling but we
only wish we had her education.
whether she was illiterate or not. This
brings to mind the incongruity of the
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