THE ADVOCATE An Independent Paper Devoted to the VOL. XXI. NO. 51 - - - - " ' • ■ Interest» p/ the People PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1924 ' 1 1 PRICE 5 CENTS .................. . ONENESS OF HUMANITY WILL BRING PEACE PRESIDENT ADMITS NO COLOR LINE NEW YORKER SEEKS COOLIDGE INFLUENCE TO BAR POSSIBILITY OF COLORED MAN BE­ ING SEATED IN CONGRESS — PRESIDENT QUOTES ROOSEVELT IN HIS STAND THAT ALL CITIZENS ARE EQUAL POLITICALLY. PROMINENT LOCAL WOMAN PASSES MRS. LILLIAN ALLEN, WIFE OF W. D. ALLEN, PORTLAND BUSI­ NESS MAN, IS MOURNED BY HOST OF RELATIVES AND FRIENDS ALL OVER COUNTRY." GEORGE ORR LATIMER, PROMINENT LOCAL MAN, DELIVERS IMPRESSIVE TALK BEFORE LARGE GATHERING — SAYS RACES MUST RECOGNIZE ONENESS OF HUMANITY BE­ FORE PEACE IS ASSURED — NO RACIAL SUPERIORITY. Cites Wonderful War Record of Colored Soldier — Says They Were No Shirkers — Will Uphold Constitution Funeral Services Wednesday Morning Said to Be Largest Ever Held Race Prejudice Overcome Through Association and Good­ of United States on Citizens* Rights. fellowship — Relates Experiences at Green Acre — Here Amoing the I^ocal Colored People—Flowers Numerous and Excellent Record Made by Colored People. Beautiful—Service Simple and Impressive. colored people is one which, however it might be received in some other Charles Williams, and Don Wormley. of the church, Mrs. Allen was a de­ (By a Friend) quarters, could not possibly be per­ voted Christian Scientist, having spent Letters and Telegrams mitted by any one who feels a re spoil For two hourx I have been writing Mr. and Mrs. R W (Allen (Nash­ eight years in stndy of that religion. sibility for living up to the traditions down the name« of frienda who have Several years ago physicians an­ and maintaining principles of the Re­ tent telegram«, letter» and flowers, in ville), Mrs. N. J. Anderson and family publican party. token of the appreciation, respect and (Nashville), Messrs. Bob and Charles nounced that she had diabetes and would have only a few years to live. "Our Constitution guarantees equal love in which they esteemed the late Allen (N. Y. CityL Mrs. I-ouise Avery, While she was not as strong as she Dan Byrd (Seattle), Jack Bloomfield, rights to all our citixeus, without dis­ Mrs. Lillian Allen, wife of W. D. . used to be. Mrs. Allen yras looking crimination on account or race or Allen, who ascended Saturday night,! Golden Baker (Los Angeles). Mr and color I have taken my oath to sup­ August 9th. at the family residence, Mrs. R, H. Brooke (Berkeley), Henry fine and all her friends thought she was much improved. At the beach port that Constitution It is the source 675 East Madison street. As I perused I she was as jolly and as happy as the of your thoughts and my rights. I the long list, 1 was particularly at­ rest, taking long hikes and outings al­ propose to regard it and administer it, tracted by its diversity. It represented most daily. She returned from the as the source of the rights of all the the high, the low, the riah, tha poor, Allen's cottage at Seaview on the first people, whatever their belief or race the native, the foreigner, the Christian, of the month and on the ninth the end the sinner, the professional and non ­ Quotes Roosevelt came unexpectedly and sudden. professional.—a prince sent his sym­ "A colored man is precisely as much Finley's mortuary had charge of the pathy; the old, the young, the black, entitled to submit his candidacy in a funeral, held at the Portland crema­ party primary as is any other citixen. the white. And as I looked. 1 thought torium. 14th and Bybee Sts., Wednes­ The decision must be made by the con­ how beautiful it is to live this life as day. August 13th, and the simple burial to be so universally respected and stituents to whom he offers himself, rites were read by Mrs. Mary Weldon. loved. And not ail these loving ex­ and by nobody else. Williams R. Boone, prominent piano pressions and tokens had been reserved "You have suggested that in some teacher, played the music for the serv­ for her untimely exit, but they are fashion I should bring influence to ice and the soloist was Mrs. M. Chap­ indicative of the every day regard in bear to prevent the possibility ol a man of the First Science church. which the deceased was held. colored nun being nominated for Con­ Mrs. Allen had all the care that The flowers! They were too beauti­ gress. In reply, I quote my great money and love could give. Mr. Allen ful and too numerous for description. predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt: was to her a wonderful husband; she Words are such futile carriers in which had everything beautiful and lovely; • • • I cannot consent to to convey the description of them— I her home was a palace and she pre­ take the position that the door of hope nature's "Super-creation.” They were , sided over it like a queen. —the door of opportunity—is to lie elegant in all their riotous profusion ! Mourning their loss are W. D. Allen, shut upon any man. no matter how of color and fragrance as they formed husband; W. D. Allen Jr., Nellie C. worthy, purely upon the grounds of a halo about the exquisite couch upon Allen Boyd (Nashville), Lyle F. Allen aud Charles Robert Allen, chil- race or color.'" which reposed the beautiful form of Brown (Deputy District Attorney), Iren; Mrs. W. J. Medley, mother; W. the deceased, and through this floral Mrs. Bonnie Bogle. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. M Medley, brother; Mrs. E. Austin haxe the mourners wended their way Cain, Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Darden (Pet­ and Mrs. G. "Lightfoot of Montreal, CHILD MISTREAT­ to take a last long gaxe upon the face ersburg. Va.), Henry F. Daniels (Chi­ Can., sisters; T. J Medley of Quebec Ku Klux Klan oi their beloved friend and sister. We cago), Harry R. Duvall (Seattle), ED City, brother; Mrs. C. M. Patterson of oftimes hear people say: "Give me Mr. and Mrs. Henry Daly (Los An­ Chicago, sister; Clarence Medley of United States Senator I .a Follette, VICTIM, 11. KIDNAPPED WHEN my flowers while I live—I can't smell I geles), J. P. Emery. Petrovia Everett Calgary, Alberta, brother; Mrs. S. M. independent candidate for President of SHE SPURNS RIDE. DRIVEN them after I am gone." Mrs. Allen (Spokane), Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Flow­ Lucas of Atlantic City and Mrs. H. B TO LONELY SPOT AND received flowers while she moved ers. Mr. and Mrs. L. M Flowers, Bud the United States, replying to a ques­ Gantt of Los Angeles, sisters. tion asked him as to how he stood on THEN HURLED OUT among us here, just as «he received Grayson (Seattle), Mrs. Evelyn Gra- the Ku Klux Klan, said; them out at the Portland' Cremator­ velli, Mrs. L. A. Graves (Seattle). Rev. "Anyone familiar with my record, Police Comb City and Environs for ium Wednesday morning. And if we H. B. Gantt (Los Angeles), Prof. John especially in my own state, knows that Same "Long-Nosed Man" Sought belive the spirit lives always, and if M. Gandy (Petersburg. Va.), Mr. and I have always stood without reserva­ in Series of Crimes we believe it is the spirit in us that ; Mrs. Thomas How-ard, Mr. and Mrs. By Jiggs. tion against any discrimination be­ teaches us to appreciate, then we know Thomas Johnson (Oakland), Mrs. tween races, classes and creeds. I hold San Francisco, Cal., Aug 11.—Hot Mrs. Alien's spirit is smiling down Florence Kemp (Nashville), Mrs. Nan­ BEES AND that every citixen is entitled to the full | on the trail of the "long nosed man" upon us in loving appreciation, and nie Law (Gearhart), Dr. and Mrs. S. exercise of his constitutional rights. I whose attacks on little girls for the that she is happy for the gorgeous L. Lucas (Atlantic City), Mrs. W. S. FREEDMAN "I am unalterably opposed to the past two months have infuriated and bouquets her friends and loved ones Martin (St. Paul). R. P Moore (Nash­ TEAM evident purposes of the secret organ­ baffled the police, a squad of nine de­ presented her Wednesday morning, j ville), Tom Medley (Quebec), Clar-1 isation known as the Ku Klux Klan, tectives yesterday combed the city and She was beautiful in life; so she was | ence Medley (Edmonton, Alta.), Mr. as disclosed by its public acta. environs, spurred on by the details of beautiful in death,—not a trace of, and Mrs. E. J. Minor. Mrs. C. M. WILL PLAY FOR CHAMPION­ "It cannot long survive. his latest attack upon his 14th victim, doubt, fear or suffering was visible Patterson (Chicago), Dr. George Par­ SHIP TO ENTER FALL TOUR­ "Relying upon the sound judgment an eleven-year-old girl. upon her fair face as she lay “like rish (city health officer), Al Patter­ NAMENT; J. S. BELL, PILOT, and good sense of our people, it is SURE OF SUCCESS. A full description of her assailant one who wraps the drapery of his son (Seattle). Mrs. Cora Rea and my opinion that such a movement is was given the police yesterday by couch about him and lies down to daughter (Seaview), Mr. and Mrs. W. foredoomed It has within its own J. S. Bell, pilot of Portland Bees the child, who was kidnaped Sunday pleasant drcams." Nothing but peace H. Robinson, Miss S.illie K. Stone body the seeds of its death night at the corner of Twentieth and and love were noted there.. I cannot (Nashville). Mrs. N. J. Sykes, Laura baseball team is all smiles today as "Abraham Lincoln, nearly seventy Douglass streets, thrown into an auto refrain from thinking of it all as a big Sykes. Dr. and Mrs. F. A. Stevens he announced the game between the years ago set forth his views on thia and driven to a lonely spot in Corbett floral greeting, and those who sent (Nashville), O. S. Thomas and family, Bees and the Freedman All Star team question in a letter to his friend, Mr. road, where she was attacked and then the flowers are: Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Troutman (Brook­ to take place Sunday (tomorrow) Aug. Joshua F. Speed, dated Springfield, lyn), Mrs. R. S. White (Nashville), 17, at the Vaughn street baseball park Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Allen, Mr. and thrown into the street. Illinois, August 24, 1855: Mrs. Waldo Bogle. Julia Bailey. Mrs. William Webb (Seattle). Miss Debor­ at 11:30 o'clock sharp. No wonder Child Describes Fiend •• • • • « You inquire where I C. H. Bloomfield, J. A. Bandy. Mr. ah Williams (Council Bluffs), Mrs. Mr. Bell is happy, for this game comes The little victim, in a serious condi­ now stand That is a disputed point. and Mrs. W. S. Badger. Mrs. Cand­ Mary Willis (Nashville). as the fulfillment of a long sought 1 think I am a Whig; but others say tion, yesterday gave the police an ac­ ance Black, Mrs. Zoe Boston (Seattle), Mrs. Allen was born in Quebec 46 and hard earned effort on his part to count of her experience, and this de ­ there are no Whigs, and that 1 am an Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Boone (Duncan years ago, spent her childhood in Mon­ gain recognition for the colored ball scription of the fiend: Abolitionist. In 1901 she graduated from players of Portland. Mr. Bell has been Jr. Music teacher), Dr. and Mrs. A. treal. Age—40 years. '“I am not a Know-Nothing; that M Cochrance, Mrs. A. L. Corneal, Provident Hospital, Chicago, in nurse with the team, working with it, en­ Height—5 feet 11 inches. is certain. How could I be? How Canadian National Telegraphic Em­ training and for a time served in that couraging it for two years and now he Weight—165 pounds. can any one who abhors the oppression ployes (Quebec), Prince W. S. J. institution in the capacity of assistant feels repaid for his strenuous efforts. Face—Smooth shaven. of negroes he in favor of degrading Later she went to There were those who said the team Challoughlczilcgise (Africa), Mr. and superintendent. Nose—Long and angular. classes of white people? Our progress Mrs. F.. D. Cannady, Dahlia Temple Council Bluffs and Omaha and did would not accomplish anything, but Suit—Brown. in degeneracy appears to me to be No. 202, I. B. P. O. D. E. of W., professional nursing, then back to this game scheduled to take place Sun­ Hat—Soft black felt. pretty rapid. As a nation we began Calvin Evans, J. D. Emery, K. S. Chicago where, in 1905. she was mar­ day is most .certainly sufficient con­ ------- o------ - by declaring that "all men are created Franklin, Mr. and Mrs. B J. Fuller, ried to W. D. Allen of Nashville, tradiction. equal." We now practically read it Bishop Parks Senior The happy couple went to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Greenland. Mrs. Tenn. It is announced also that the win­ "all men are created equal except Catherine Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Wo Nashville and spent their honeymoon, ning team Sunday, wilt be matched A. M. Church negroes." When the Know-Nothings Gong and family. MY s . G. O. Graves, later coming West, where Mr. Allen with the Fulton Blues for the Fall get control, it will read "all men are With i,.a death of Bishop L. J Cop­ Miss Eva Graves (Nellie Alien's music entered the hotel business and ever Tournament championship. created equal except negroes and for­ pin, Bishop W. H. Parks become« teacher), Mrs. L. A. Graves (Seattle), since that time they have made Port­ With such an aggregation as Mills, eigners and Catholics.” When it comes automatically the senior bishop of the W. A. Green, Helen Green. Golden land their home, rearing a beautiful Rhodes, Parks, Robinson, Strain, to this, I shall prefer emigrating to A. M. E. church—that is senior in act- West Club, Mr. and Mrs. G. V. Gray­ family of three children. William Dun­ Brooks. Williams. Hayes, Bogle and some country where they make no ! ive service. Bishop B. F. Lee is the son, A. G. Green, Golden West Hotel can Jr., Nellie and Robert. others as good. Mr. Bell is confident pretense of loving liberty,—to Russia, bishop longest in office, having been (Seattle), Mr. and Mrs? G. B. Hardin, For many years Mrs. Allen was act­ that the Bees will "bring home the for instance, where despotism can be elected in 1892. As senior bishop, Misses Violet and Gwendolyn Hooker, ive in club and social circles. She bacon." taken pure, and without the base alloy Bishop Parks thus becomes the rank­ Walter B. Honeyman, Mrs. E. L. was the first president of the Colored Through Mr. Bell’s efforts the of hypocrisy. ♦ ♦ • ing bishop of 7000 ministers, who are Jamison, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Keller, Mr. Women's Council, was a member of Junior baseball team, was entered into " ‘Your friend forever, pastors of 7500 churches with a mem­ and Mrs. Virgil Keene, Miss Norma the Rosebud Study Club and the the City League and held city cham­ "‘A. Lincoln." bership and following of nearly 800,- Keene, Bessie Kelly, Maria Lee (Nash­ Eastern Star, but later gave up her pionship penant until this year when "With this statement from Abraham 000 people, and will preside over all ville), Dr. and Mrs. S. L. Lucas (At­ activities to devote her time to her it lost by a score of 6-7 in the final Lincoln I would join also a passage the meetings of the Bishops' Council. lantic City), Miss Kate Lewis, Mr. home and children of whom she was game. They say that Rube Foster has from a letter written by Thomas Jef­ Bishop Henry Blanton Parks was born and Mrs. George P. Moore, Mrs. exceptionally fond. She was a de­ his eyes on some of the Portland Bees. ferson to Edward Dowse in 1803: in Georgia and educated in Atlanta Jeanne Myers, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. voted mother, loving wife and good Everybody is asked to come out and " ‘I never will, by word or act, bow University. He was missionary secre­ Minor, Mrs. W. B. Medley and family friend. • «- see the boys play ball. to the shrine of intolerance, or admit tary from 1896 to 1908, and elected (Montreal). Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Mer­ Mrs. Allen was accomplished in -------- o-------- a right of inquiry into the religious bishop in 1908. Was a delegate to the riman, Dan Marx, B. L. Murray, music and spent much of her time with For Rent — Neatly furnished room opinions of others.’ Ecumenical Conference in 1911; and Charles H. Maxwell (Salem), Mr. and her son William Duncan Jr., who is for man or man and wife. Call Sell­ "Upon these statements of Jefferson served as president of the Financial Mrs. C. M. Patterson (Chicago), J. C. an excellent pianist. At the time of wood 0217. and Lincoln, expressing the sentiments Board of the A* M. E. church. Was Pugh and mother, Rosebud Study her passing it is said she had her plans -------- o-------- which I am happy to believe the vast bishop over Alabama and Tennessee, Club, E. Richardson, Mr. and Mrs. J. all made to accompany him East to The womanless wedding, another majority of our citixens cherish and to served four quadrenniums over the H. Reed, Miss Blanche Ross, Mrs. C. enter college. (William Duncan grad­ great" event, will be pulled off at Zion which they will ever rigidly adhere, fifth district, and is now serving his C. Smith, F. P. Sheasgreen and family, uated with honors this Spring from Friday, August 29th. and upon my own views expressed in ; first quadronnium over the 18th dis­ Messrs. Howard and Tom Troutman, Jefferson high school) ■--------- o---------- this letter, I am content to stand with­ trict, comprising California, Washing­ Mr. and Mrs. Bert Turner, Mr. and Mrs. Allen was of a quiet and pleas­ For Rant— Furnished housekeeping out qualification or evasion. ton, Oregon and Oklahoma. Mrs. O. S. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. R. ing disposition and had friends all over rooms. Convenient to car line. Mod­ "Sincerely yours, Bishop Parks will preach in Portland S. White, Mrs. E. L. Webster, Mrs. the country who exchanged visits with ern convenienaes. Sellwood 1021. 1695 (Signed) "Robert M. La Follette." at Bethel church, Sunday, August 24th. L. K. Weeks, Mrs. West, Mr. and Mrs. I her frequently. While not a member East 7th St.—Adv. Washington, A uk 11-—Replying to a letter of protest against the candi­ dacy of a colored man in New York state for Congress. President Coolidge Monday expressed "amazeinent" at the suggestion that he intervene and re­ affirmed his intention of administering the Constitution winch he pointed out "guarantees equal rights to all our citixcns without disci iminatioti on ac­ count or race or color.” The letter, made public at the White House, was written by the president to < harles R Gardner of Fort Ham ilton. N. Y. Gardner had sent a news­ paper clipping concerning the candi­ dacy of the colored man for a seating from New York and suggested “re­ peated ignoring of the growing race problem does not excuse us for allow­ ing encroachments.*’ "I .caving out of consideration the manifest impropriety of intruding him­ self in a local contest (or nomination,” Mr. Coolidge wrote in reply, “I am anutxed to receive such a letter. Citea War Records "During the war 500,000 colored men were called up under the draft, not one of whom «ought to evade it. They took their places wherever assigned in defense of the nation of which they are just as truly citizens as are any others The suggestion of denying any meas­ ure of their full political rights to such a great group of our population as the Doomed, Says 14TH La Follette BY AUTO THUG AMUSEMENTS and SPORT PORTLAND ALL-STAR TO MATCH HERE SUNDAY Bishop of the E. (Special to The Advocate) (Reported by Miss F. Swain) she established in this little town of i« . Maine, this -------------- center — for the an been created from the same divine based upon the final unity of all races I power with the right to equal oppor­ and of peoples. The same thing works tunity to develop our capacities. If we out in races. We cannot find a super­ understand such things as that, then ior race on the face of the globe. Our we have already entered into the new leading naturalist in this country as­ era. It is a question very often of edu­ sures us that there is not a scintilla cation, environment, or one condition of evidence of the superiority as re­ ed a rather small and what is known gards the civilizing effects of the Nor­ as an aristocratic college in New Eng­ dic race, and that is our leading au­ land. This college has had very few thority. We find the same thing to students from the South, that is colored be true of religion. The same is true students, although when I was in col­ in our industrial and social crises. lege we didn’t consider it aristocratic What seems to be much more acute at all but considered there was a great here in the Western world also affects I deal of democratic spirit in the col- the Oriental world. They also have lege. But in the graduating class the their problems and their solutions to­ highest honors this year were given to day depend greatly upon the solution a colored student, and the next high­ est honors were not awarded at all, of our problems. This spirit of the oneness of the and this colored student, perhaps the world religions had a great inception only one, was asked to give the ora­ in this country in the year of the first tion by the class. Recently a contest world's fair at Chicago. At that was held to judge the poetry of the world's fair there was a gathering of undergraduate world. The poems were races and religions and it is interesting submitted without name and without to note that the British government is distinction of the color or sex. The holding a similar conference in Lon­ first prize was given to a colored stu­ don this year. Now you can see that dent of Columbia University. You can every religion in the world is going see by this that superiority, as we con­ to be represented and most of the races sider it in races, does not exist at all in the world will be represented in where the conditions are not known. That is the little keynote of what that conference and that is bound to make toward a greater understanding they have found the Bahai Spirit means In this conference held at the world’s to the world. ----------- 0----------- fair. Miss Sarah J. Farmer, one of the COLORED Men wanted to qualify pioneers of the women's movement in this country, was there. She received for sleeping car and train porters. Experience unnecessary. Transporta­ that inspiration from that congress tion furnished. Write T McCaffrey. to carry on the ideal and the next year Supt., St. Louis, Mo. WATERMELON FESTIVAL * given by "MAJOR ASHFORD OF ZION’S MILITARY FORCE’’ TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 8:30 P. M. At First A. M. E. Zion Church 417 William* Avenue PROGRAM . .........................——. ADMISSION 10 CENT8