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# THE An V O I.. X X I I . ADVOCATE In d e p en d e n t NO. H Peper D d v o te d to th e I n fo r c e t e P O R T L A N D . O R K G O N . S A T U R D A Y . O C T O B E R 18. « / th e P e o p le PRICK 5 CENTS 024 — NOTED SCIENTIST KNOCKS RACIAL SUPERIORITY WHITE MOB KILLS WRONG MAN GIRLS FEAR F R A N Z B O A Z , L E A D IN G S C IE N T IS T , H IT S “ R A C E C H IC A G O S T E N O G R A P H E R S F A IL T O I D E N T I F Y IN F E R IO R I T Y ” D O C T R IN E IN A M E R IC A N M A N B E A T E N T O D E A T H W I T H B A L L B A T M A R C U S G R A V E Y P L E A D S FO R R A C E T O T H I N K A N D A C T ; U R G E S ES M E RC U R Y M A G A Z IN E IN A R T IC L E E N T A B L I S H M E N T O F A N A T IO N A L H O M E FO R B L A C K P E O P L E A F T E R B E IN G A C C U S E D O F “ U S U A L C R IM E ” ; T I T L E D “ T H E Q U E S T IO N O F R A C E P U R IT Y ” . F R IE N D S C L A IM IN N O C E N C E . Police Hunt Suspects and Act to Prevent Race W a r ; Pres ident of Association Claims That White Men Were Responsible for the Alleged Crime. (S|>rriil Iruni N A A C I*. New» llureau) they ran too. but Bell Chicago. Oct. V.—The mob that brat run away. to dratb William Hr It. rolorrd. early •lood hi« ground They raw him sur- this morning at Mth ami Miller atrreta rouudrd and killed. The girl» could in the heart of the Weal Side “ bad not identify Hell, but »aid hr wore a land«," in the belief that he attempted coat and hat like the mac who ac- to assault two younii white girls, prob co»lrd them O tto Kpvlrin, who 1» connected with ably killed the wrong man. The polne »ay the girl . Hetty thr wine »hop, 1» under arre»! a» the He denir» it but Drutscli and llertha tireenblatt, sten wirldrr of the bat ographers, have failed to identify Hell Harper and Thomas arcuar him. Mayor t)rver deplored thr killing of The Hirlt were on their way home after midnight. In fiont of the Drulsch Hell and promiard to bring the »layer* home at 1.157 Miller »tree! they paused to justice. Hundred» of police have hern »ent to chat. A rolorrd man ran up and • aid according to Miss Dent sell. “ cotne into the black district to keep peace. A« a commentary upon the above aero»» the »tree!. I have lot» of money •tory, the N A A C. P. made public and an automobile.** I thr loHowing telegram ' received from Thr girl» »blank back, the man Morris Lewis, secretary of the Chicago seized Mi»« Deutscli by the arm and branch of the N*. A A. C. !*. : •bouldrt and »tailed to diag her aero»» ’'Lynched wrong man. (iirlt were the »trrrt, they declared. H ot h stopped by two white men iu Ford •creamed A do/rn men m a nearby automobile Our crossed street to •acramrntal wine «hop hrard the wine shop and reported to gang there •cream» and ran to (he »erne Bell, a laborer op way home, (w ar) When the crowd arrived they found accosted by white man demanding Hell. He wai knocked down and what hr was doing talking to those beatrn to death with a ha»eball bat women Wa« ignorant of incident. Thomas Clark and Albert Harper. Without warning was set upon, beaten Colored, »aid they were with Hell walk with bdsrball bat and trampled Max ing pa»t the Drutscli home when they well district notrd for race disturb hrard thr girl» »cream and »aw a man ance» and police indifferent.*' LOCAL and FOREIGN NEWS BRIEFS Golden Rule Dinner Given At thr Multnomah Hotel. Friday, October HI, at 6:30 1*. M . Cortland residents of Aimeman, Syrian and lire- ciau birth and thr Multnomah Hotel gave a complimentary dinner to more than two hundred prominent men and tvomen of the city, representing var ious nationalities and interest». Ihc dinner was one of a »eric» of international (.olden Rule dinner» given for the purpose of awakening the people of the world to thr inter nationally useful possibilities infethc service rendered to thr children of the Near Kail 1 hr menu: 1’ ila Armenian, olives, bread and cocoa, were served in por celain plates and tin cups made in the potteries at Jerusalem, and are said to be better than those used by the Near hast orphans. The fare repre sented what the Near I'asl orphan» rat 365 days of the year A letter from (iovernor Fierce, who could not be present, was read by Rev. W. It llinsou, the master of cere monies; A Karahales, president of thr Hrlruic American league, gave the welcome address; Congressman F.lton Watkms emphasised the practice of the (■olden Rule ill America; Harvey Ach- eson, who recently returned from thr Near Fast, drew a vivid picture of the condition of the Near least, the work necessary to be done there, the needs of properly educating and training the youth for leadership in thr industries, etc., and said that those in America who did not help iu thr great cause would miss a wonderful opportunity for service. Judge O. F. Coshow of Roschurg also spoke. Two little (..reck lads played violin selections. W. B. Hinson was rhairmait of the (.olden Rule committee and Rev. J. J. Hand- sakrr is slate director of the Near Fast Relief work. Mrs. K. I). Cannady and A. H. Morrow, of The Advocate Pub lishing Co., were among those present. Mrs. Franklyn 111 Mrs. Cora Franklyn lies ill at home, i 405 52nd and FI. Davis with rheumatism. She is under care of • physician and has been fined to bed for two weeks. N O T A R Y P U B L IC A D V O C A T E O F F IC E Much Interest Manifested In Coolidge Campaign Judging bv the way voters are regis tering in #the Coolidge Club at 314 Mat'leav Bldg , the President will he a sure winner in this state at the N o vember election Miss Hrria Kirk and Mrs. Genevieve Mullen will assist next week at the headquarters with Miss Helen l.og.Ri Coming Events N, A A, C. P Mass Meeting Sunday, Oct. 19th. Hallowe'en Dance, Wanatinia Chapter, O. F" S., October 31st. Past Patrons » id Matrons Club, O. F’ S Dance, November lltli P .«em ber orii- particulars later Nov. 2Sth— Particulars later. - — -o ■ The Old Rose Club held its regular meeting at ijie Y. W . C. A. on Friday afternoon at 3:00 P. M Tuesday night, O cl 14 at Mt. Oliver the world in which wc live, there would from indigestion. The Japanese do not swallow his thoughts; the Chinese re liaptist Church, Honorable Marcus be no need (or me to be here now. Men everywhere are re adjusting fuse to »wallow his thoughts and no Garvey, President General of the Uni themselves to meet the demands of the other nation swallows them but our versal N egro Improvement Associa hour Every nation is preparing hut own. God did not graft the white n.an'» tion, addressed an enthusiastic audi the Negro. He Mares death in the brain» onto mine, and until you can ence on the subject of Africa and the face at this hour, and doesn't know it show me that one-half my brain is possibilities of it becoming the future He laughs, He dances, he carouses; he white and one-half is black, I am not National home of the negroes of the eats, he drinks, he sleeps It it from going to let any white man think for world Space will uot permit the full that lethargy that the U. N. I, A. is me text, hut following are some of the trying to arouse him. W e are a race • The speaker said that an individual is high-lights of his speech. in the last period of our existence with "The U. N represents the out preparation. Another one hundred not judged by the fine clothes he wears, sentiment now m 1;,. making among years will tell another awful tale about nor by the color of his skin, but by his Negro people ol the world The daugh our race which otace lived Here the independent contribution to civilization, ters and sons of Flthiopia know the day speaker cited the case of the American and what is true of an individual is true of a race. He stated that the Negro has come that not only every part, hut Indians who looked on—and died. has been only a consumer, and until universal Africa must stretch forth her “ W hy vote for thr exclusion of Asiat hands. W e bring you a message of ics from this cou n t'y? For the pre he produces, he will always remain a I wipe based upon preparation, a brighter servation of America for Americans. tail-cnder. TJiat Africa is sought by day based u | k iii present day thinking The time is coming when room and the Negroes o f the world for ft. nation and present day activities. Thr black space will lie at a^irenuun in America al home, where they may give expres sion to their own thoughts and their race has hern flattered too long W e -then the weakeif man has to move are self-satisfied, while hell is burst out for the stronger man. As the new own deeds and present their independ ing around us, hut it is gratifying to urge for frredom actuates thr French ent contribution to the world, was a notr that all of us do not fall for flat man. the Indians and all Asiatics, »0 logical one in the mind of the speaker tery — some of us are searching and it has stirred the sleeping Conscious He urged his hearers to be proud 01 probing for thr truth, and are telling ness of four hundred millions of black their race, "for,” said he, "black people the truth to the world The U. N. I. A. people the world over N o-one but a are going to make history.’* He urged is often referred to as a hunch of ig fool can say that the prog, am of the a higher plane of living for the race. Instead of so much stress being put on norant people. I think it is a great U. N. I. A. is untimely.” dying Mr. Garvey closed his discourse compliment to the U. N. I. A. to be White men had the vision four cen able to hold together 11,000,000 ignor turies ago of a 1(734 American; they did by appealing for support of the Steam ant Negroes, when it is a known fact not wait until 1924 to begin. The same ship Company now organized in the that one-half dozen intelligent Negroes vision that led the Filgrim Fathers, is : U. N. I. A. and the steamship which is can't hold together for one-half hour the same vision which leads the U. N. already being purchased. The U. N. I. A. anticipates making a trip to the Ignorant people have always brought I A ." West Indies for raw- mateaials to be aluiut great changes in thr world's his Here Mr. Garvey flayed the race for tory; the com m on people were so ig depending upon the leadership of white manufactured into commodities and norant that they saw- virtue in the people, especially mentioning the N A. returned to the natives. In January, the Christ, even on thr Mount when Hr A. C P. and lA . DuRois. He ended ship will sail on its maiden com m er delivered that great Socialistic speech, this by saying,^that after fifty years cial trip to Africa, announced the speak thr greatest political speech ever de the Negroes are still unable tq, lead er. Mr Garvey stated that at pres livered after He had been cast aside themselves," And because the U. N. 1. ent the program of the U N. I. A. by the learned peoples of the age Now A. has given out a program as big as seas necessarily educational and in intelligence has somersaulted lack , Constintine’s as big as Alexander’s, as dustrial. Jno. C. Logan, one of Portland's over the centuries and accepted this big as Kaiser Wilhem's, as big as Geo. same Chri«t whom ignorance accepted ! W ashington’s as big as the patriarchs oldest and most highly respected citi centuries ago. And the U. N. I. A who built up F"ranee, purely by Negro zens introduced the speaker. R. Bird, hopes that intelligence may some day front top to bottom, and from bottom President of the local branch of the accept the program of the U. N. I. A to top, they say Garvey is crazy. Association presided. Mr. Garvey left We have swallowed the white man's on the midnight train for Seattle to W e arestill somewhat in the propaganda — the educational stage. If we as a books and his thoughts without di fill a speaking engagement,» on his race of people had been thinking about gesting the mind now we are suffering cross-country trip. i (B y N. A A. C. Professor Franz Boas, of Columbia L’ niv., and curator at the American Museum of Natural History, in an ar ticle entitled "The Question of Race Purity," published in the American Mercury for October, attacks the d oc trines o f race inferiority and race su periority and asserts that science has yet seen no proof that any race is su perior to any other. P. Press Service) cultural primittveness of the great mass of individuals, which finds expression intellectually in the uncritical accep tance of traditional attitudes and em o tionally in the ease with which they succumb to the power of fashionable passions. W e may say with certainty that the local types of a single race like the European are each »0 varia ble that fixed hereditary differences in mental characteristics between the “ I insist," writes Professor H«as. types as a whole are most unlikely. W e “ that nobody has ever given satisfac may say, furthermore-, that cultural an tory proof of an inherent inequality of thropology makes the existence of races, and that the final solution of fundamental racial differences very this problem still has to be found." improbable." Concerning the prejudice against ----------- o ----------- Negroes in America, Professor Boas George Galiord of Houston, Tex., is writes: [ stopping at the home of Mr. and Mrs. "It is particularly worth remarking Thomas Howard. 357 13th St. Mrs. that the current unfavorable opinion Galfard will join him later and they of the Negro is has*. 1 largely on com will make Portland their home. plete ignorance of African native con ditions, and of Negro achievements in Keep the date— Nov. 25th.—Adv. the industries and arts and in political ----------- 0----------- organizations, and that likewise the E. H. Ficklen is among new sub glorification of our own race is found scribers to The Advocate. Mr. F'-icklen ed exclusively on a consideration of the is having a 15 pound cake baked for cultural opportunities given to the few his mother's 101st birthday anniversary and on the complete neglect o f the early in November. Dies at Home of Her Daughter “FOR ALL THE PEOPLE” A Clean. Constructive City Govern ment. Restore Original Intent of City Char ter by Centralization of Responsibil ity in the Mayor. Humiliation of Polities from City A f fairs, Especially the Police Bureau, and Encouragement of Loyalty and Efficiency. JOSEPH A. I B y M r*. K » lp h F lo w e r * ) To Know the Man Is to Vote for Him KEEP C O O L ID G E and ELECT D A W E S Vote for the Common Sense Candidates — Their Records Recommend Them • Mrs. Mary Thomas died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W aldo Bogle. j 567 F'. 35th St. South, Monday morn- j ' ing, following an illness of several months. The news of her death came as a surprise to those who did not know that her illness was so serious. She was born in Glasco, Kentucky. 1 in 1850. She came to Portland in 1898 where she made her residence. Mrs. Thomas was a faithful member of Bethel church over a period of many years and was a member of the Stewardess Board of the church; She was an active member o f The House hold of Ruth. She was an enthusiastic S T R O W B R ID G E For M AYOR Encouragement of New and Careful Protection of Existing Industries as a Guaranty of the Working Man’s Pay Check and his HOME. Will Give Personal Attention to the Needs and Problems of All Districts of the City and hold “ Open House” at All Times. A Business Man for a Business Man’s Job Headquarters 901-2 Spalding Building (P a id A d v .) “ I AM FOR ECONOMY. AFTER TH AT I AM FOR MORE EC ONO M Y.' ’— Coolidge lit* proved his faith by his works. This mlmiiiistratioii has sa v ed the people $6.000,000 daily in taxes as compared with 1921. It has lopped off 95,456 employes from the federal pay rolls. A Vote for Coolidge and D&wea is a Common Sense Vote Republican State Central Committee, Portland. Oregon. I. L. Patterson, Chairman. John W . Cochran, Secretary. (Paid Adv.) Hallowe’en Novelties C R U M PACKER R E P U B L IC A N C A N D ID A T E For Congress F A V O R S — P R IZ E S Three Piece Overstuffei D E C O R A T IO N S L IV IN G R Q O M SET $ 169.50 P A R T Y S U P P L IE S He will work with the Republican her Delegation from this state and will get Sts., better rcsnlts for the State. the He knows what O regon needs. con FV»r all the people all the time. C R U M P A C K E R W I L L W IN The J. K. Gill Co. Beauty, Comfort and Honest Workmanship Rofiksellc«» and Stationers Fifth and Stark member of the Religious Department of the Williams Ave. Y. W . C. A. She was also a member of the Old Rose (jlub. She was chid, i bv her friends about taking care of herself, but she always said that she enjoyed doing for others. She always had the best of health; she had no complications of disease during her life. Besides a host of friends she leaves a daughter, Mrs. W aldo Bogle, two grandsons, Richard Bogle and F'ugene Powell of Phoenix, Arizona. Funeral services were held Friday at 2 oclock from Bethel A. M. E. Church, Rev. E. C. Dyer read the simple burial rites. The floral offerings were beautiful and numerous. / * * * * * * * # * # r r » » » w » * * r W M <ar * * * » s » » » a » » * * * * * « « » # * * * « «. Vote 36X on ballot. Paid Adv.— Congressional Committee. If You Want T o Be Lucky, Happy and Well, Tell Your Secret* to * the Right Man Murct-lling, HffHinpooiug Facial and Scalp and Bnhhing Treatments V f/* /* Y ■ IS FRIENDSHIP. BUSINESS. ETC. L O V E A P P L E S IN A L L F O R M S All kinds of highly appreciated roots and herbs B m itfti Utmt by Mail Only MME. 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