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PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, A PR IL 18, 1925
LABOR DEPT. OUSTS ANTI-NEGRO PROPOGANDIST
ROLAND HAYES
Roland Hayes Gets Spin-
(tarn Medal Just Before
Sailing for Europe.
LOCAL and FOREIGN
XTCII/C IID IC E C
D K I L l'd
SAILED
Springfield Colored G i r l Old Denver Church Is Total-
Scouts Win Contest W ith
ly Destroyed by Noonday
Negro National Anthem.
Blaze.
Fashion Show and Dance
Brilliant Affair
EUROPE
"Arrow Tips”
Department of Laboi Dis­
misses Dr. Plecker f o r
(By Kits Reid)
Spring with all her magic is here. * using U. S. Postal Frank
The fruit trees are loaded with blos­
to Disseminate A n t i -
soms and are sending out their frag­
Negro Propaganda Upon
rance to the harmony of the bees gath­
ering their harvest ot honey. For years,
Complaint of N.A.C P.
Although many of the models sched­
Nominalion* (or Next Award Should
Mr. and Mra. George Daviaon have
New York. N. Y„ April 10.—The Hampered by Meager Water Preweure, uled to appear in the St. Phillip's Guild
Be Made at Once
Firemen Are Unable to Save Edifice Fashion Show failed to show up, those
| moved from 175 Third St. North, to only colored troop of girl scouts in
at Washington and 23d, and Adja­ who did. made a very brilliant showing
208 ■/, Sheridan St.
Springfield, Mas*., where there arc
and met with the hearty approval of
cent Building* Narrowly Escape.
•
(By N A A. C. P Prc»»>
1,400 girl scouts altogether, recently
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the large and appreciative audience from the office window, I have
- New York, N. Y . April 10
Mra. J. J. Handaaker motored down won tb «local song contest again*! 12
New York. N. Y„ April 10.
Roland Hayes. world fatnou* tenor, from Salem Monday to conduct a fu­ other troop*. Thr colored girl* sang
Denver, C'olo., April 11.—Fire de­ which gathered at Fraternal hall Mon- j watched the elm trees with their long
branches
waving
in
the
breeze
like
The
U.
S. Department of Labor has
day
evening.
Following
the
parade
of
to whom the 1024 Spinujrn Medal *i< neral She spent a part of thr time James Weldon Johnson's Negro Na­ stroyed thr Shorter A. M E. church,
fairy fingers shrouded in lacy green, dismissed from its service Dr. A. W.
awarded during hi* abtenet in Europe visiting amongst her friends, and re­ tional Anthem, set to music by his Twenty-third and Washington streets, thr manikins, dancing was engaged in
one of the oldest church buildings in until twelve o'clock. Music was furn- i and as the color deepens, the trees Plecker of Richmond, Va.. concern-
latt Spring, received it on Ixuid the turned home late it) the afternAon. The brother, J. Rosamond Johnson.
seem to say: "Hope on—work and ing whose anti-Negro pamphlets dis­
C'unard Steamship Aquitanu jott be­ Advocate staff waa among those who
Miss Kdna P. Randolph writes that Denver, early Thursday afternoon, ished by Brock’s Harmony Spillers. A trust. Out of the cold gray shadows tributed at the expense of the govern-
very
enjoyable
time
was
had
by
all.
fore he tailed (or Europe on Tuetday had the pleasure of a call from Mr*. not only did the colored girl scout April 9.
of winter, life and love are borne into ment, complaint was made to Wash-
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Handicapped by lack of water pres­
afternoon, April 7 The Medal wat Handtaker.
troop win the song contest, but they
happiness.''
ington by the National Association for
Mesdames
R.
T.
Waters
and
Mary
pretexted to Mr. Ilayet before an en-
were also the only troop to be in per­ sure. firemen were able to make little
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the Advancement of Colored People.
headway against the flames, which vir­ Ashford were the guests of Mrs. E.
thuaiaatie audience of about 100 friend*,
Among our very pleasant callers to fect uniform.
The N A.A.C.P. has received a let-
tually enveloped the roof of the struc­ , D. Cannady on an automobile sight-; Let's talk about Spring and the
by Walter Datnrotch, eonduetor of the The Advocate thi* week wa* William
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robins—so
much
pleasanter
than
the
ter
from Arthur E. Cook, Assistant to
;
seeing
trip
over
Terwilliger
Blvd,
on
ture before the fire department arrived.
New York Symphony Oreheatra who Webb. Mr Webb ia looking and feel­
New Jersey Leader Dits
The fire was discovered in the choir Sunday afternoon. The ladies had re­ bad breaks of the president. Right the Secretary of Labor, confirming the
declared hr knew of few tourer* of the ing itnr and radiate* a* he alway* doc*.
outside the living room window is a dismissal.
loft of the church by Janitor Hall freshments upon their return to the
while rare who could »in« «ong> of the *un*hine and cheer.
(Columbian Pres* Bureau)
climbing rose and in its branches a
The Association made public a let-
j city at Richardson's Confectionery.
shortly
after
12:30
o'clock.
The
flames
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treat mattera with keener frrlint or
Jersey City. April II.—Dr. George
robin has built its nest for the past ter to Secretary of Labor James J.
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more emotion than Mr llaynet.
The Weat Virginia Supreme Court K. Cannon, Negro physician and a na­ spread to the roof When the firemen
Police reserves had to be called to five years. I don't know, of course. Davis, demanding the dimissal of Dr.
lu prrtenlint the medal, Mr. tlain- recently barred the “Birth of a Na- tional leader of the Republican mem­ arrivrd. the flames were shooting high
protect
a colored church and its con­ whether it is the same robin, but the W. A. Plecker of Richmond, Virginia,
J lion" photoplay which wa* »hown *ev-1 bers of his race, who delivered a speech into the air and a pall of smoke was
rotrh taid, in part:
gregation from being stoned by white nest has been there and each year is from the Labor Department's staff, on
drifting
south
over
the
city.
rial
year*
ago
hi
thi*
city.
The
play
;
seconding the nomiyation of President
"Roland Ilayet it to me a atrikint
The building and site were valued citizens who objected to the church in the home of a brood and sometimes the ground that he had used the Labor
proof of the fart that whether white or tiad been widely advertised and wa* to Calvin Coohdge at the Cleveland Con­
at
$55.000. The building was consid­ the community, March 29th, in Balti­ of two broods of baby robins. This Department's privilege of free mail-
lie
*howii
in
Charlc»toii
from
April
I
vention last spring, died Monday morn­
(dark we are all God'» children, and f
more. Md., according to a press re­ year, Mollie Robin cleaned house and ing. to distribute “a pamphlet Eugenics
herewith take plraturr in handing him to 4. A delegation from the N A A ing at his home, J54 Pacific Avenue, ered a total lot» Officials of the
put in new floor and new wall cover- in Relation to the New Family and
port
from that city.
thr fainout Spintarn Medal, which ia C.P. called on thr Mayor of the city in thi* city, at the age of 56. His death church said the loss was partially cov­
ings of soft feathers and said in the the Law on Racial Integrity,” which
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ered
by
insurance,
only
having
$11,500
awarded only to lliotr member* of thr and pointed out that if the film showed was due to injuries received a week ago
plainest Robin language, Well, old contains the most insulting and viru-
Appointed to Liberia
colored ware who have achieved real hi the state it would be in violation o f , when he fell on alighting front a bus on building, pipe organ and fixtures.
dear. I’m glad to be back. I'm sure lent attack upon the colored people of
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a special law which colored people had near his residence, fracturing several
diatinction."
it was the same robin we had last the United States that could be imag-
The Associate Editor of The Advo­
(Columbian Press Bureau)
sponsored and which passed the 1919 rib* and receiving a concussion of the
In retponte, Roland Hayea aaid:
year, because she never budged when ined.
Washington.
D.
C..
April
13.—Mr.
cate
Is
in
receipt
of
an
original
letter
legislature
ol
that
state.
T.
G.
Nutter,
brain. He rallied for a time following |
"It ia now nearly twenty year* aince
The letter cites the following quo-
written by the late Coleridge Taylor, Clifton R. Wharton, a colored attorney I shoved up the window with a noisy
I entered upon my artiatie career. I prrsident of the Charleston Branch, j the accident, but tank rapidly after
bang and only turned her pert little tations from Dr. Plecker'* 32-page
of
Boston,
has
been
appointed
to
the
noted
English
composer,
to
Theodore
informed
the
Mayor
that
he
had
power
midnight Sunday. He leaves a wife,
did it brraute I had thr convirtion
Spirring of New York City, noted Diplomatic Service as Secretary of the head when tte curtain slipped and pamphlet in support of the demand for
that my talent wa* thr gift of an In­ 1 to prevent thr •bowing under that stat­ a ton, George Cannon, and a daughter.
went up to the top with a noisy his dismissal:
musician
and orchestra leader, in the I United States Legation at Monrovia,
ute
as
well
a*
by
exercise
of
the
police
Miss Gladys Cannon, hit mother and
finite Mind and that it had brru rn
rush.
The whole human household is
“The mental and moral character-
Liberia.
Mr.
Wharton
took
the
exam­
year 1907 The letter was a gift from
truated to me (or a divine purpotc, and |K>w<r of the city. Mayor Wertz after four sisters, one of whom it Miss F.tta
interested
in
the
bird
housekeeping
go
istics
of a black man cannot even under
the distinguished musician to Mrs. ination for the Foreign Service under
that purpoar was that the varioua racial j consultation with thr City Solicitor, Cannon, Secretary of the Henry Sny­
ing on in the rose vine. I’ll keep you the best environments and educational
the
new
reform
act
of
1924.
Of
the
Cannady
in
fulfillment
of
a
promise
group* that made up the human fam­ and after viewing the pictures which der Junior High School in this city.
made her while he was in the city re­ 150 who took the examination only 20 all advised as to the progress of the advantages become the same as those
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ily ahould be terved with the higheat ! hr denounced, notified the theatre
of a white man."
cently.
Mrs. Cannady prizes the letter passed, and Mr. Wharton was one of nesting.
management that thr "Birth of a Na­ Washington Teacher Wins
cxprrtaion of that gift.
I
climbed
up
on
the
window
ledge
"Let us turn a deaf ear to those who
highly among her autographs and says those. He has been connected with
tion" should not tie shown and that if
"Rerogniaiiig that fart I have atriven attempt were made to show it, he
Sorbonne Doctorate
it will occupy a conspicuous place in the State Department here for several today and saw four beautiful blue egg« would interpret Christian brotherhood
that Molly Robin was hovering, spring to mean racial equality."
without thought of honor, aave that would confiscate the film and arrest
her private library of race literature. months and although a native of Mary­
"Not only do the most enlighteued
(Columbian Press Bureau)
honor which romet by achievement. ! the manager and all the employes of
land is a product of the Boston schools. magic in their turquoise coloring!
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modern authorities recognize Negro
Washington, D. C . April U.—Mrs.
"By tin*, dear friend*, you will un­ , the theatre, also any owner of the film
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Black Men Complete Vital
a trained nnrse in onr house inferiority and the danger of amalga-
derstand what a treinendou* turpriar I who might be in Charleston Through Anna J. Cooper, former principal of
Searchlight Editor Sues and We of have
War-Time Chemical Job
course she bosses every ache mation, but leading Americans in the
it was to me when I learned that the . regular proceedings the matter reached the old M Street, now Dunbar, High
Enterprise
and pain any of us dares to have. But past also until the issue was confused
as Deadly Gases Drive
Spingaru Medal Award Committer of the Supreme Court and that tribunal's School, arrived here yesterday after
once in awhile we “put it over." The by being thrown into politics, saw
receiving
her
doctorate
at
the
Sor­
thr National Attocialion for thr Ad­
Men
of
White
Race
Out.
decision is a* above stated,
S. P. De Bow. editor and publisher other day I was out in the kitchen with clearly the possibility of disaster to
bonne in Paris. March 23. Mrs. Cooper
vancement of Colored People had rrc-
! of the Searchlight, a local weekly father getting supper ready and just our institutions and culture."
presented
a
thesis.
"L'Attitudc
de
la
oguiird inv achievement* to be worthy
(Preston News Service)
Mrs. Yatea Howard is improving at
newspaper, t h r o u g h his attorney. E as she came in Father gave a rousing
"The mongrels are superior in men-
Baltimore. Md. April 16.—It is said
of thi* moat aignifieant honor. Indeed, her home on IJth street, following a France a L’Kgard de L'esclavage."
R. Pcnland filed a suit Monday against sneeze.
taL power to the lower race. They are
In
her
defense
of
the
thesis
she
that open confession is good for the
it i* a great honor, and yet not any recent operation.
"There.” said she, “you’ve been out more cunning and more capable, but
worked out the themes "Legislative soul and surely leading chemical ex­ the Seattle Enterprise Publishing Co.,
part of that honor- can I accept, ex­
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Measures Concerning Slavery, 1787- perts of the country should feel much asking that a receiver be appointed and without your overcoat on and have they lack the creative power of the
cept with thr iindeeataiiding that the
Mr*. A. Latty, of Charleston, Wash ,
an accounting of the business be or­ taken cold and now you'll have the higher race, and cannot sustain a last-
honor which thr award'earrira with it is here visiting her sister, Mrs. J. D 1850," and "The Ideas of Equality and better now since they have gotten off
their chests something about the "su­ dered. De Bow alleges that he bought grip." She had hardly finished her ing civilization that will rank with the
include* all of the colored people of Yancey. 341 Graham Ave., for ten the Democratic Movement.''
from W. E. Mitchell for $100 an in­ scolding when I followed suit by nearly ; best of the world.”
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periority" of Negroes.
three United State* and the world *o days. Mr*. Latty was accompanied by
Speaking of the advocates of birth
At a meeting of chemists held here terest in the Seattle Enterprise Pub­ sneezing my head off.
far a* my talent ha* been recognized, her sister-in-law. Miss J. M Latty. ! Colored Typist Marvel Wins
lishing Co., and the company refuses
"Oh dear," she wailed, "and you have control. Dr. Plecker is quoted as say­
last
week.
Dr.
H.
J.
Killefer
of
New
because that which you recognize of and arrived Saturday evening of la»t
Diamond Medal
York, told the members of the Ameri­ to give him an accounting of its busi­ been down town in all this rain with­ ing:
merit in my work ia that which you week.
out your rubbers on, and you'll have
"They are failing utterly, and will
can Chemical Society how Negroes ness.
your»elve* have helped to bring into a
(Columbian Bureau Press)
sore throat again.”
always
fail to reach the uneducated,
perfected
experiments
with
tetra-nitro-
vivid, conaciou* existence, through me,
S. E. Hill, 283 Larrabee St., prom i-, Washington. D. C., April 13.—At a
Her voice and attitude indicated a the feeble-minded, the morons, the Ne­
League
of
Nations
and
aniline
after
NORDIC
blondes
and
a willing inatrument.”
general
assembly
of
the
faculty
and
nent member of Mt Olivet Baptist 1
penitentiary offense on our part.
groes. criminals and undesirables, who
Africa
Nomination* for the 1925 award of church, left Tuesday night for Hous- j students of Dunbar High School, held Jewish chemists had keeled over in a
"Wrong diagnosis, my dear tiained do not read and hear, and if they did.
the Spingarn Medal to lie presented | ton, Texas, to visit his mother, sister, j last Monday morning, Cortez W. Pet­ laboratory at Boundrock, N. J.
Washington, D. C., April 13.—Abys­ nurse. I have only spilled the pepper would not have foresight, self-denial
Tetra-nitroaniline, igniting 100 times
at the N.A.A.C.P. Annual Conference brother ami other relatives and friends. ers was awarded the Underwood dia­
or fortitude to practice the methods
sinia
has notified the League of Na­ box.”
in Denver in June, ahould be aent at | Mr. Hill plans to he gone about a mond medal emblem for accuracy and faster than TNT. was sought by the
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advocated.”
tions
that
she
will
participate
in
the
Government
during
the
war.
In
a
once to Biahop John Murat, Chairman I month and will take a run over to San speed in a typing test given at the
The world seems very flat and un­
Commenting upon Dr. Plecker’s
of the Spingarn Medal Award Com­ Angelo, while in the state, to look Washington office of the Underwood necessary intermediate process, there conference for control of the interna­
eventful just now. Helen Maria hasn't pamphlet sent out under U. S. Labor
tional
traffic
to
arms,
opening
in
Ge­
results
a
deadly
poison.
Its
fumes
Typewriter
Company
on
March
26.
mittee, at 69 Fifth Avenue, New York l after some oil property which he owns j
announced any new plans for reform­ Department franking privilege, the
Mr. Peters is a graduate’ of the De­ enter the skin, and kill the red cor­ neva, Switzerland, shortly, and has
City. Such nomination* ahould «polity I there.
ing the senate for over a week. I Advancement Association's letter to
submitted
a
memorandum
explaining
puscles,
causing
suffocation.
Group
partment
of
Business
Practice
of
Dun­
thr achievement for which the award
wonder if he's sick or something? But Secretary Davis says!
why
she
needs
arms
and
ammunition.
after
group
of
white
men
were
tried
i* asked and thould give a short life-
An American Negro Labor Congress. bar High School, and in the test main­
"Dr. Plecker is an avowed anti-
I Coincident with the action taken by I am wondering whether there is any
and
found
unable
to
withstand
the
ac­
tained
a
net
speed
of
one
hundred
nine
history, with date*, of the candidate
Word has been received here that an
the Abyssinians, the Rchoboth tribes­ significance in the affection of the Negro propagandist who is continu­
nominated for the honor.
American Negro Labor Congress will five-stroke words a minute for thirty tion of the fumes, finally Negroes were
standpatters for Stanfield, Oregon's
Biahop Hurst authorize* the an­ be held sometime during the summer minutes, the requirement to qualify ordered to make the experiments, and men of southwest Africa have peti­ senator. I don't like the company he ally expressing his views in the public
prints and on the platform. What he
tioned
the
League
to
make
their
coun-
were
found
to
be
able
to
withstand
nouncement that unles* such nomina­ in Chicago. 111., composed of delegates being only one hundred words a min­
| try a free and independent state. This keeps, Butler, McLean, Moses. Short- has to say through these two mediums
tion' arc sent in at oner there is danger front the various Negro Iubor Unions, ute. The medal is 20-K white gold, the poisons.
It is said that the participants in the district is under the mandate of the ridge, Smoot, Wadsworth, et at. He is insulting to all colored American
they will arrive loo late for considera­ mixed unions (black and white), dele­ platinum-plate, with alternating dia­
seems to he a favorite of Helen Maria citizen*, but when as an official of the
! Union of South Africa.
tion by the Committee.
gates from groups of unorganized monds and emeralds, and crown-set. experiments were graded as to com­
too. It is significant, too painfully United States Department of Labor
plexion
to
determine
if
the
dark-skin­
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workers in the faetories, shops, etc., Mr. G. W. Ward, assistant manager
significant, Mr. Stanfield!
he sends this matter out under govern­
Garner
Grayson,
for
nine
year#
a
The Liberty Building and Loan As­ from organizations of Negro agricul­ of the Washington office of the Undeç- ned men could withstand the deadly
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ment frank and at the expense of the
trustee
of
Bethel
A.
M.
E.
church,
re­
fumes,
and
they
did.
It
is
said
that
sociation of Los Angeles recently cele­ tural workers, and Individuals of both wood Typewriter Company and the
Here is the latest wrinkle in the common tax-payers, his actions be­
signed at a recent meeting of the
brated its first anniversary.
rare* well known for their champion­ students friend, presented the award the lightest skinned keeled over in a
board. Mr. Ford was elected his suc­ Coolidge program of economy: During come a public outrage.
ship of the cause of the Negro working and stated that Mr. Peters, was the week, and were resuscitated with dif­ cessor.
the summer vacation, five buckwheat
"Dr. Plecker has used his official
ficulty.
It
was
found
that
the
dark-
Mr*. Clifford McClain is here from class. Questions to be considered at first student, and the only person in the
cakes instead of six shall be the regu­ position to disseminate propaganda of
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skined
Negroes
withstood
the
fumes
District
of
Columbia
ever
to
win
it.
Seattlr visiting her mother, Mrs. Ollir thr conference include: Racial pre­
lar portion at White House breakfasts. insult and injury to a targe class of
and enabled the chemists to complete Million Dollars Await
Henderson on Union Avc., and other judice, jim-crowism, equal pay for
A saving of at least $1.32 a year in the
citizens and in so doing has
the
experiment«,
but
the
armistice,
it
is
Phone
Broadway
5807
or
call
at
312
relatives and friends.
Missing Colored Woman buckwheat budget. Great is New Eng­ American
white and black workers, discrimina­
used the government franking privilege
said,
was
signed
before
much
of
the
tion in l.abor Unions, lynching, and a Macleay Bldg, if you. with to aubacribe
land economy!
for fhe distribution of matter entirely
explosive could he used.
Kansas City, Mo., April 10.—(By A.
Unite. American working class. Its for The Advocate.
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unofficial. Therefore, we, the Na­
N. P.)—So far, Emma Johnson, 37,
motto is: "The future of the world is
At the Civic League luncheon last tional Association for the Advance­
has
not
made
her
appearance
to
claim
in the hand of the working class, black
Saturday Dean Collins gave the So­
a fortune of $750,000 in Oklahoma oil cial Workers a truly Mark Twain diag­ ment of Colored People, voicing the
and white." The date of the congress
[ lands, A white attorney of Oklahoma nosis. You remember how disgusted united sentiment of the Negro citizens
will be announced later.
| was in fhe city this week seeking only Mark Twain used to be when a care­ of America, respectfully place before
to hand Emma three quarters of a less public would read only humor in you their demand for the summary dis­
W. D. Allen and family were the
| million dollars. The woman is said to his work instead of the philosophy missal of Dr. Plecker from the federal
dinner guests Sunday of Mrs. Pugh, on
have married an Indian in Oklahoma which was there and which the dis­ service.
Larrabee Street.
"We are sending a copy of this let­
| and later to have left him. When he criminating reader always found and
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! died some years ago, half of his acres for which we loved Mark Twain? So ter to President Coolidge."
The Turkey Dinner given at Bethel
U. S. Citizens, white and colored,
went to the tribe and half-was held it was with Dean Collins’ humor—it
church Thursday of last week, was a
j in trust for his wife. Oil has since served only as a cover for the real sig throughout the United States are be­
decided success from every standpoint,
ing urged to protest to the Labor De­
been found and Emma is now nearly mficant philosophical u'terances. Hfc*partnl(.nt
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aK, jnst the retelltion of Dr
a millionaire—if she only knew it.
Dick Brown of Seattle, is in the city
nude them feel that they were simply Plecker.
All
kinds
of
plumbing
work
and
on business.
dealing with the waste of our economic
trouble shooting. Call SEIlwood 1021. system and making a very poor job of
Mrs. H. C. Baker and daughter, Miss
the salvage process at that. He showed English Clergyman to Speak
Golden Baker, spent Easter vacation
On Peace
Phones Broadway 8141, Tabor 7100 how the industrial system goes on pil­
in Seattle and Tacoma with friends.
ing up the scrap heap and that social
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Taylor
Street
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Many Portland people are interested
work and social workers are simply
Freita Shaw is receiving congratula
devices of the system with which the in the coining of Dr. Leyton Richards,
lions front those who heard the cantata
Typewriter Ribbons, Carbon Papers, moral conscience is being drugged. It of England, one of the foremost work­
rendered at St. Philip's Mission Fri­
was a rare treat for those who under­ ers of peace in fhe world. He spends
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stood him.
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rected.
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