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Has Wide Variation
Ceremonies associated with the vari
ous methods of disposing of dead the
world over are as interesting as they
are varied.
Modern nations us well as many
primitive and oriental peoples practice
inhumation, and with it their many
and peculiar rites. But, as in bygone
days, funeral ceremonies of today are
most sacred and impressive occasions.
Cremation or the burning of dead
bodies to ashes, is now practiced to a
small extent in several countries, but
is by no means new. says the Path
finder Magazine. At the beginning of
the Christian era cremation was the
prevailing custom of the civilized
world, with the exception of Egypt,
where the dead were embalmed ; Judea,
where they were entombed in a sepul
cher, and China, where they were
buried Id the eu th Christian in
humation. which ts now universal,
probably owes its nrigin to the doc
trine of resurrection of the body.
While cremation was practiced by the
later Greeks, Bi-mans, Danes and
others, the first cremation societies
were not formed until the Nineteenth
century. This method of disposing of
human bodies is now urged by some
health authorities on sanitary grounds.
Love and Youth Can
Always “Find a Way”
Will love find a way? asks the Bos
ton Globe, which then goes on to tell
this: The observer had missed his
train and was forced to wait an hour
for the next. As he walked through
the crowd of passengers from an in
coming train he noticed the warmtli
of embrace of a young man and his
girl friend. Apparently she was wei
coming him home from a long trip.
Ten minutes later he saw them In a
strangle hold as a train emptied its
passengers at another gate. As the
crowd dispersed, they parted. The boy
friend was trailed to the waiting
room, where he met the girl, greeted
her sans embrace, and sat down for
a chat again. As another train was
announced, they a,rain departed. The
youth mingled with the Incoming
crowd and the girl ran up to meet
him. To the ordinary onlooker it was
a fond welcome home, but to the ob
server it was an ingenious system of
petting in public. Love will find a
way.
Concerning “Tightwads”
You are a tightwad, says a govern
inent budget expert, if your living ex
penses are 37 per cent of your in
come. your savings lit) tier cent and
the remaining 3 per cent scattered
among recreation, education and phi
lanthropy. You are a spendthrift if
yottr living expenses are 58 per cent,
your savings zero, your recreation 40
per cent. You are thrifty if your liv
ing expenses are 50 per cent, your
savings 20 per cent, education, giving
and recretion 10 per cent.
It’s a pleasure to meet a budget mak
er who emphasizes some necessities
of human living besides savings only,
and who will not give the palm to the
fellow who saves the most.—Kansas
City Times.
First “Weather-Glass”
The first mecurial barometer was
constructed chiefly for the purpose of
demonstrating the fact that air has
weight, says Nature Magazine. Later
this instrument acquired a great repu
tation as a means of predicting weath
er and was nicknamed the “weather
glass.” Though its prophetic power?
are not now rated so high as former
ly, it remains the most important of
meteorological instruments. The col
umn of mercury in the barometer
rises and falls with changes of atmos
pheric pressure, and its length is
measured by means of an attachment
called a “vernier,” with a much great
er refinement of accuracy than is that
of the column of mercury or alcohol
in a thermometer.
Naval Range Finder
An accurate method of computing
the distance between ships when the
height of the enemy ship Is not known
Is by the use of the optical range
finder. This instrument is installed in
the turrets of battleships. It consists
of a long tube with optical prisms.
The length of the tube Is taken as the
base of a triangle. The distance is
then figured out mathematically. The
degree of accuracy depends upon the
visibility conditions and the distance
can usually be ascertained within a
few hundred yards of the exact dis
tance.
Progress in Lighting
A common laborer of today works
about ten minutes each day to pay for
the lighting of bis home by means of
electricity. A half-century ago he
would have had to work two and one
half hours to provide the same
amount of light by means of gas
flames. And if he had supplied him
self a half-century ago with the same
amount of light from candles he would
have had to work 24 hours every day
to pay his lighting bill. For this great
reduction in the cost of artificial light
ing, modern science Is responsible.—
Scientific American.
Make Sure You’re Right
First be sure—that you are right,
then go ahead. But be sure that you
are right. More than one man has
made the mistake of hugging a de
lusion under the impression that he
was embracing an opportunity.—Grit
Set Training Tablet
for Fighting Crickett
The sporting element In China has
been training fighting crickets for
hundreds of years. Huge sums are
still bet on cricket lights and the own
ers of champion crickets are nation
ally known. In his booklet, “Cricket
Champions of China,” Dr. Berthold
Laufer, famous sinologist of the Field
Museum of Natural History, discloses
the interesting methods used by the
Chinese in training these scrapping in
sects. Even In ancient times the train
ers prescribed strict diets for their
battlers. The usual diet consist of a
disb of ri'-e mixed with fresh cucum
bers, boiled chestnuts, lotus seeds and
mosquitoes. Some of the owners and
fanciers allow themselves to be bit
ten my mosquitoes, and when the mos
quitoes are full of blood they are
given to their favorite crickets.
The fighting crickets are kept In
specially devised jars, which are made
to serve ns both summer and win
ter homes. The jars are furnished
with tiny beds and water Jars. The
champion crickets are transported in
finely wrought cages, some of which
are filigree gold.—Pathfinder Maga
zine.
New Cast Doubt on
Myles Standish Tale
Capt Myles Standish may have
asked John Alden to propose to Pris
cilla Mullens for him, as Longfellow
wrote (there Is historical doubt on
(he point), but despite the means he
may have taken the redoubtable sol
dier was married twice and left many
children.
Proof of this has been found
through twenty-one years’ record
searching by Dr Myles Standish of
Boston, eighth lineal descendant of
the soldier
“The legend about which Longfel
low wrote ‘The Courtship of Miles
Standish’ Is not very convincing," said
Doctor Standish “Before coming to
America. Captain Standish was In
Holland and there fie married his first
wife. Rose. Rose died the first win
ter In America. Later the soldier
married Barbara, who is said to have
been a first cousin of Rose. They
had several children. It is between
the death of Rose and his marriage to
Barbara that the captain is supposed
to have courted Priscilla. It is a
pretty story."—Miami Daily News.
Brotherly Love
A large crowd was waiting breath
lessly on the beach. In tbt distance a
small black object could be seen bob
bing up and down on the crest of the
waves. It was a bottle—and inside
was a message!
A party of brave men ventured out
In a row boat to see what tragic news
it contained. After some difficulty the
bottle was picked up and brought
back to shore. With shaking fingers
the leader of the party pulled out the
message.
“The finder ot this bottle," he read,
“might please send it to my brother
in Aberdeen and tell him to take it
to the Pig and Whistle. There s two
pence on it,’’—London Answers.
Too Much Pep
Norma, age seven, was visiting her
grandma, and they were telling jokes.
Grandma told Norma the one about
the boy who went to the grocery and
bought some pepper for his mother,
and when he arrived home and opened
tire package be found the pepper was
half peas (p’s).
Norma was guief for a few mo
ments. and then she said: “Grandma,
here is one for you:
“A little boy went to the store to
buy some pepper for his mother, and
when he came home and opened it
he found it was half pep.”
Appropriately Named
Little Hock, Ark., was named from
a rocky promontory which rises on
the south bank of the Arkansas river
some fiO feet above the river and now
used as one of the abutments of one
of the four bridges which span the
river. This rock Is the first seen as
cending the river, and was called
“Little Rock’’ In contradistinction to
the bold precipice about ten times
higher which rises some three miles
above upon the opposite bank and is
called “Big Rock.” This Is now the
site of an army post.
Movie Star
Five-year-old Ethel had never at
tended a picture show, but had heard
her brothers and sister* talk a great
deal about the “movie stars.” One
evening Ethel was out riding with her
parents after dark, it was a new ex
perience to Ethel to be out driving
late enough to see the stars, and she
was very much interested in watching
them. One bright star in particular
attracted her attention, and a* the
machine moved Ethel thought the star
was moving and said, “Mamma, that
must he a movie star.”
One Thing Miueing
Mrs. Newlywed rushed in from the
kitchen, a smoking pie dish in her
hands. She placed it on the fable in
front of her husband.
“There, dear." she cooed, “that’s a
cottage pie.”
“I'd have known it was cottage pie,”
be remarked after the first few mouth
fuls.
“You would?” she asked, delighted.
“Yes,” he replied. “I can taste the
thatched root and the crazy paving.
But what did you do with the bricks?”
j UNEMPLOYMENT INCREASING;
WHITES REPLACE NEGROES
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New York, N. Y.—The National
Urban league through its department
of industrial relations of which T.
Arnold Hill is director, reports as fol
lows on unemployment for the month
of February:
“Unemployment is not merely bad
for Negroes; it is critical. From all
parts of the country reports for Feb
ruary showed conditions growing
worse. Not only are colored men and
women not being employed, but they’
are being replaced by white workers.
This substitution is going on in the
south as well as in the north; even
though the jobs taken are menial and
of the type that are customarily re
garded Negro jobs only.
“The policy of not working white
and colored employees together
means that today not one or several
Negroes lose their jobs to white work
ers, but that whole shifts and entire
crews of colored workers are being
sacrificed to make places for white
people. One cit.v is reported to have
adopted the slogan. “No Negro must
have a job any white man wants.”
Little Rock, Ark., illustrates this.
There, two hotels turned off its bell
men and waiters; also a railroad dis
missed approximately 100 shop em
ployees; Chicago reported several in
stances of replacement during Feb
ruary.
“So similar are the reports of un
employment throughout the country
that it is not necessary to record the
cities separately. Buffalo, with 200
families being cared for by the city,
iis among those feeling the situation
most. Detroit appears to be suffer
i ing less from unemployment than any
of the cities sending in reports. This
is due to the revival of the auto
mob’le industry. Most of the colored
men ai • being hired at the Ford
plants. A loop clothing firm in Chi
cago hired eight salesmen who were
trained by the company for the posi
tion. Six other men are in training.
The St. Louis Urban league was ask
ed to engage 25 women elevator oper
ators. The firm has stipulated that
they must be from ‘five feet, eight
inchest to six feet tall.’ ”
INSURANCE COMPANY
WILL DEDICATE NEW
OFFICE BUILDING
Supreme Life and Casualty Company
to Mark an Epoch in Economic
and Social Life of the
Race
Columbus, Ohio — The Supreme
Life and Casualty company of this
city announces the dedication and
formal opening of its new branch
office building in the city of Cin
cinnati, Saturday and Sunday, April
7th and 8th.
The building being the first of its
kind erected by our group in Cin
cinnati, is creating widespread in
terest, and its dedication will be fea
tured by elaborate ceremonies.
It is located on one of the principal
thoroughfares of the city, on West
Ninth street, a national highway; is
constructed of Indiana limestone, con
crete and reinforced steel, and mod
ern in every detail.
It comprises 21 handsomely equip
ped suites, a double storeroom and
auditorium, designed and constructed
by an architect and builder of our
group, Samuel Plato, with fully 95
per cent of the entire work done by
artisans and laborers of our race.
The principal exercises will take
place at the building Easter Sunday
at 3 p. m., at which time dedicatorial
addresses will be delivered by Robert
L. Vann, attorney and editor of The
Pittsburgh Courier; Jane Hunter, ex
ecutive secretary of the Phyllis
Wheatley association of Cleveland;
Ray E. Hughes, assistant prosecuting
attorney of Franklin county, and
others.
It is truly an epoch in the economic
and social life of our group in this
city.
URBAN LEAGUE MEETING
At a mass meeting held Sunday af
ternoon April 8 at St. John’s A. M. E.
church in the interest of the Omaha
branch of the Urban league, ad
dresses were delivered by George W.
Thompson of Akron, Ohio; T. Arnold
Hil! of New York; John F. Hall, sec
retary of the Omaha Community
Chest; C. A. Cushman, vice-president;
Henry Monsky of the board of gov
ernors of the Community Chest; Dr.
H. von Shulte, president of the Coun
cil of Social Agencies; Dr. J. H. Hut
ten, vice-president, presided. Addi
tional members were secured, bring
ing the membership to about 400.
The goal set for memberships is 500.
Mr. Thompson, who has been execu
tive secretary of the Akron league
for several years, has accepted the
same position for the Omaha league
and will return to take charge here
early in May.
NEGRO SINGERS, LAYTON
AND JOHNSTONE, GIVEN
OVATION IN PARIS
New York City—Clippings received
from France by the National Associ
ation for the Advancement of Col
ored People. 69 Fifth avenue, record
an overwhelming success achieved at
the Empire, one of the leading music
halls in Paris, by two colored singers,
Layton and Johnstone.
Jacques Patin, writing in the Fig
aro, one of the leading Paris dailies,
says in part:
“The singers Layton and Johnstone
are admirable artists, and it is a joy
to hear them ... A triumphal
success was achieved by these greatly
talented artists.”
Gustav Frejaville, the critic of
Comoedia says that Layton and John
stone made all Paris rush to the Em
pire. “The first evening.” he con
tinues, “the public gave them a wild
reception; curtain call after curtain
call, ovations, effusions shouted
from the audience to the stage . . .
Layton and Johnstone are highly sym
pathetic artists, who show a touching j
earnestness and perfect good grace:
in satisfying the desires of a public !
carried away by its pleasure.”
Louis Leon-Martin, writing in
Paris-Midi, declared he owed to Lay
ton and Johnstone “perhaps the most
deliciously persuasive moments he
had ever spent in a music hall.” He
concludes his enthusiastic review by
calling them great artists.
An equally laudatory notice ap
peared in La Volonte, signed by Le
grand-Chabrier.
HARMON AWARDS GIVEN
School Man and Rosenwald Aided
in Negro Problem
Washington, D. C.—James H. Dil
lard of Charlottesville, Fla., and Ju
lius Rosenwald of Chicago are the
recipients of the Harmon awards for
outstanding contributions in 1927 to
wards improving relations between
white people and Negroes.
The commission on race relations
of the Federal Council of Churches
presented the wards recently at First
Congregational church.
Dr. Dillard, a well-known educator, j
received a gold medal and five hun
dred dollars. He is rector of the
board of visitors of William and
Mary.
Mr. Rosenwald, chairman of the
board of directors of Sears-Roebuck
& Co., received a special gold medal.
NEARLY THREE MILLION
VOTERS REGISTERED IN N. Y.
Albany, N. Y.—A total of 2,822,
892 residents of New York state en
rolled last year and can vote at both
the spring and fall primaries, accord
ing to an announcement made recent
ly by Robert Moses, secretary of
state. This total is 24,774 under the
enrollment in the fall of 1926. The
spring jjrimary is scheduled for April
3 and the fall primary for Septem
ber 18.
The democratic enrollment last fall
totaled 1,325,821 as against 1,344,
574 in 1926; the republican enroll
ment last fall being 1,478,822 as
against 1,483,780; the socialists en
rolling 18,249 as against 19,312. The
drop is due to the fact that last fall
was what is known politically as an
off year. In the fall of 1925 the
democratis enrollment was 1,246,389;
republican, 1,451,173; socialist, 19,
099.
LINCOLN, NEB.
Miss Evelyn Battles appeared in a
violin recital at Quinn chapel A. M. E.
church last Thursday night and was
accompanied by her sister, Miss Inez
Battles, on the piano. Mr. P. M. E.
Hill gave a solo. Miss Cleo Ross
rendered musical selections. The
program rendered was quite worth
while.
Mr. Paul L. Moore is lying critical
ly ill at his home on South Eighth
street.
Palm Sunday was observed by the
Heroines of Jericho at Masonic hall
Sunday afternoon. An interesting
program was attended by a fairly
large crowd.
The touring trip given by Mrs.
Ursula Botts and young people last
Friday night proved to be an enjoy
able affair and quite a success.
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