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SEVEN STARTLING MONTHS
As Congress recesses for the longest shutdown since
H itler’s legions crossed the Polish border six years ago, and
the Churchill government falls in Britain, it is a time for
stock-taking.
An incredible seven- months has come and gone. The
star of Russia is bright in ascendancy over a confused,
w ar-torn, disillusioned Europe. But as the star of Russia
glitters and Fance and England move “leftish,” the Ameri
can system again has revealed its astounding versatility.
The power of the Congress, direct representative of a free
people reach a new height these last seven months. I t s ;
trem endous strength as the balance wheel in our form
of governm ent was never more vividly demonstrated.
History cannot fail to rank the first seven months of
1945 as an “era” drenched w ith the dramatic, hardly
equalled in recorded time. The “era” began as the 78th
Congress convened and Franklin D. Roosevelt was in
augurated for an unprecedented fourth term.
photographed and held up for ridicule we will be willing
Congress set about its affairs in sober atmosphere im to wager that not one of them ever attended a meeting
posed by the Ardennes counter offensive by Germany. of the Tax Payers League, have ever registered to vote or
Pacific reports were skimpy. Then, suddenly, one day, a taken any part whatsoever in a movement to improve
series of titanic events was unleashed.
conditions for their race. Such people as these are of no
It will be years before Americans who lived through value to a community and serve only to take up space.
these months will fully appreciate their magnitude. Trag The youngsters in the picture are to be excused, but, any
ically one day, the man around whom America had built grown person who perm its his picture to be published
its w ar effort—Franklin D. Roosevelt—was dead. But the under such conditions without complaint has no pride in
amazing system which is America’s could not be stilled, himself or his Race.
could not be halted even for a moment. As America’s flags
With the shortage of newsprint, we wonder if the
dipped to half-mast in memory of a lost chieftain, the Oregonian could no. have found better use for that space.
same flag rushed across the redoubts of Europe to the ac Remember also it was the Oregonian that gave the Vanport
companiment of thundering guns which never knew a resident so much space in which to insult the Negro through
new voice was in command.
letters after other papers refused to print his tripe.
Congress gave to the American people a new com
We are now facing a post w ar reconversion period in
m ander for its armies, and itself reassumed its role as the which it will be necessary for the Negro to keep a close
dominant wing of the American government. A former watch to learn who is and who is NOT his friend. Among
Senator was President, and quickly it became evident that it those who are NOT we place the Oregonian at the top of
was from “The H ill” he would draw his main counsel. the list. REMEMBER THE OREGONIAN.
Suddenly the w ar in Europe folded up. The San Francisco
conference w rought and brought forth a charter, certain of
ST. JAMES BAPTIST CHURCH
acceptance by the Senate on the day if its birth.
Rev. J. S. Ferguson, Pastor
International destiny lies in the hands of a man from
120 N. E. Russell St.
Missouri, who was once a haberdashery clerk; in the hands
CHURCH OF GOD
New Masonic Hall.
of Clement Atlee, new prime m inister of Britain, once a 2518 N. Williams and Russell
Morning
services 11:30 a. m.;
Rev. O. F. Brown, Pastor.
social worker, and in the hands of the mystical Joseph
Evening services at 8 o’clock.
Sunday School, 10 a. m.
Morning Worship, 11 a. m.
Stalin, prem ier of Russia, once expelled from theological
Come thou with us and we will
Evening Worship, 8 p. m.
do thee good.
school for M arxist propaganda.
The first seven months of 1945 was indeed an “era”. BETHEL CHURCH. A. M. E.
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TO AV O ID IN F L A
CHURCH DIRECTORY
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has dared more than any other paper in recent months. It
shows very plainly w hat the general trend of thought
and feeling tow ard the Negro in this area is like. Yet, we
know churches and their pastors in Portland who w ant
their names and their doings in this race-baiting paper
so badly that they pay for space in the Oregonian th at the
Negro press has offered them free. (It would interest us
very much to know w hat these same people will have to
say on the subject of this published insult to our race.)
Coming so closely on the heels of a recent expose by
the Inquirer of Harold Wendell and the Lipman Wolfe
store (P.I. June 21) it becomes very clear th at it is not the
little fellow or the newcomer alone among the w hite race
in Portland that holds the Negroes in contempt, but the
people who are ordinarily considered the city fathers. A
daily newspaper is no little thing, it is big because it is a
m oulder of public opinion. It creates the impressions and
forms the ideas that go far toward making race relations
b etter or worse. Newspapers are second only to the movies
in spreading propaganda. For the Oregonian or any other
daily new spaper to print such insulting pictures shows
a p aten t disrespect for the Negro race in general and the
local residents in particular.
As to th e grown-ups who perm itted themselves to be
N. McMillen and Larrabee
Portland, Oregon
REV. B. T. CAREY
Vanport Community
Church
The Benevolence Church
2405 N. Cottonwood Ga. 4092
Vanport City. Or«.. Apt. 1559
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WILLIAMS AVE. CHURCH OF
GOD IN CHRIST
: Elder Claud L. Lampkin, Pastor
2504 N. Williams Ave.
ORDER OF SERVICES:
Monday and Friday: Evange-
listical Services 7:30. Wednesday
Bible Band 8:00. Sunday, Sunday
School 10, Morning Service at
11:30. Y. P. W. W., 0:30. Evening
Services :45.
Come One! Come All!
Mrs. Lampkin, Reporter.
UNITED CHURCH MINISTRY
Force and Broadacres
Vanport City
Sunday School, 9:30 a. m.
Worship, 11 a. m.
Worship, 8 p. m.
Inter-Denommational Services.
Rev. Leslie Denton, Minister.
AFRICAN METHODIST
EPISCOPAL ZION CHURCH
Rev. J. F. Smith
2007 N. Williams Ave.
Portland, Oregon
CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
Rev. B. M. McSwain, Pastor.
120 S. W. Front Ave.
Portland, Oregon.
SERVICES:
Morning Worship, 12 noon.
Evening Worship at 8.
Every Tuesday and Friday
ivening 8.
Radio Broadcast every Sunday
morning at 8 oo’colck over Sta
tion KWJJ.
HOUSE OF PRAYYER
2205 S. E. 10th Ave.
ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH
SERVICES
(Episcopal)
8 a. m. Radio Broadcast.
Vicar L. O. Stone
10:30 a. m., Sunday SchooL
N. E. Knott and Rodney
12 noon, Morning Worship.
Portland, Oregon
0:30 p.m., Young Peoples Meet.
7:45 a. m., Communion Service ALL NATIONS CHURCH OF
GOD IN CHRIST
8 p. m., Evangelistic Services.
10 a. m. Church School
Elder James S. Lomax, Pastor
Wednesday, Friday and Satur
11 a. m., Morning Prayer
Thursday 9 a. m. Communion Multnomah and Wililams Ave. day, 8 p. m., Evening worship.
ORDER OF SERVICES:
Service.
Tuesday and Thursday: Evan
Th« Church of God in Christ gelistic Services 7:45.
Wednesday: Prayer Meeting at
Working with All Nations
Sunday: Sunday School 10:00,
Sunday school, 9:45 a. m.
7:45.
Morning Service 11:45, Y. P. W.
Regular Services, 11 a. m.
W.
6:30. Evening Service 8:00.
YPWW Services, 5 p. m.
Time is Our Business
Evangelist Services, 7:30 p. m.
PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY
Prayer Meeting every Friday
Licensed Watchmakers
BAPTIST CHURCH
night at 309 N. E. Hancock St.
Expert Repairing
E. 74th and Glisan St.
Week-day Services every Tues Rev. N. R.
E. Donaldson, Minister
day and Thursday, 7:30 p. m.
5 to 10 day service
SERVICES:
Elder C. L. SIMMS, Pastor.
Sunday School 10:30 a. m.
420 S. W. Washington
BE 0441
Morning Worship 11 a. m.
CATHOLIC CHAPEL OF THE
B. Y. P. U. Meeting 7 p. m.
LITTLE FLOWER
Inter-racial
21 N. E. Broadway
Rev. Jerome M. Schmitz, ChapL
Miss Doris Reynolds, Catechiet
SERVICES:
Sunday, Mass and Sermon:
1412 N. Williams Avenue
9 o’clock a. m.
Wednesday, Novena Devotions:
8 o’clock p. m.
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