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PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 18, 1925
VOL. XXII.—NO. 47
PR IC E 5 C E N T S
LOCAL LODGE
GRAND E R. OF
NOTED SPEAKERS ON N. A. A. C. P. PROCRAM
Pickens and Bagnall Point
O u t Negro’s Achieve­
ments at Denver Meet.
‘B eauties In ¿Motional Golden ‘B rowns
_______ nZ eauty Contest
“Arrow Tip«”
Grand Exalted Ruler Finley
(By Kit« Reid)
Wilson Speaks at Mt. O li­
• • •
vet
Baptist Church.
> A paragraph in a recent article de­
scribes
the
wretched
condition
in
the
One of the smallest audiences that
New York. N Y„ July 10. IMS.—
Chinese
factories.
Listen
to
this,
you
ever
a public demonstration
In two iililm iei delivered by William
people of the white race, and if you of the atended
local
order
of Elks heard Grand
Pickens, field secretary, And Robert
feel proud of it, you are not worthy Exalted Ruler J. Finley
Wilson deliver
Hsgiull, director ol branch*», before
your “place in the sun":
his
message
last
Sunday
at
the »¡ateenth annual conference, in
"Of the cotton mill spindles (in Mt. Olivet Baptist church. afternoon
(O,
for
Denver, oi the National Aaaocialion
Shanghai) 967,432 oat of a total of Geo. E. W¡beean.) And to judge by a
for the Advancement of Colored Peo­
1,740,556 spindles, are owned by Brit­
rough manner in which he lam­
ple, the Negro's contribution to Amer­
ish and Japanese capital and most of the
basted
City lodge and Dahlia
ica and to civilisation were strongly
the rest by other foreign capital, in­ temple Rose
to
that
small but intelligent
eni|iha»i<ed.
cluding American. The report gives audience, and less
than one-half of
Mr Pickcn* »aid in part:
the average wages as from $4 to $7.50 the order's membership,
we judge that
"American ideal» would be le»» to­
(American money) a month in the some insignificant, long-tongued,
day without the thankle»» struggle for
' textile mills; the women's average be­ important, rattle-brained member self-
had
them waited by the Neurit For »ome
ing from 5 to 12 cents a day, and chil­ been telling Mr. Wilson some mali­
of the Neitro'a »truititle» and contri­
dren earning as low as 4 cents. The cious stories about the orders. But
bution» hr ha» received tardy acknowl­
hours average 12 to 13)4 a day. Over even if conditions were as bad as the
edgment.
22.000 hoys and girls are employed.” Grand Exalted Ruler pictured them,
"He i» struggling now to give to
The report goes on to say that which is not true, that was not the
America, law, order and democracy
only one power has given back to time
the place for such a casti­
People are too apt to feel that the j
China the concessions of extra terri­ gation. nor And
coming from the head of
struggle of an oppressed cla»» con­
torial rights and that power is the the organization,
fear it has done
cern» it »elf mainly. It wa» the Ne-
Soviet government. The article in irreparable harm we
to
growth and
Itro’» »truititle to free himself that maile
question closes with this significant progress of the order the
in
Oregon.
For
thi» a »lavele»» country. The fir»t |
statement;
we
take
it
that
those
men
and
women
al>olitioni»t »at the discontented »lave
“Will the great powers in their ef­ who had made up their minds to join
and the first emancipator was the
forts
to protect the interests of big these respective orders, and who heard
runaway »lave. Before the pen of ,
business
drive the Chinese into the from the lips of its big leader that a
Abraham l.incoln there had to he the
arms
of
the
Soviets?"
terrible, rotten state of affairs existed
tonitnr of Frederick Douitla»». The
England’s
experience
in
India
is
in the order, have probably changed
»lave freed himself hut the itrand re­
partly an answer to that question.
their minds about joining and will go
sult was that he built a bulwark around
Just
room
for
another
question
be­
elsewhere
for fraternal connections.
the freedom of every white man.
fore I do the Dean Collins act and P.ose City lodge and Dahlia temple,
"Moreover the Negro's »trugglr gave
say period. Do you suppose the tike other lodges, have their faults, their
to the South universal suffrage and
churches will have any time left to vices and their virtues, nevertheless,
public school». A fight to free one- ;
discuss
the important political issues if we are to believe printed reports
self is a fight for freedom. The phil- .
of
the
day.
if the fundamentalists can concerning other lodges' troubles. Rose
o c o p h v of life and of society it that
just
keep
the
evolutionists stirred up City lodge and Dahlia temple are
you ran get no good thing for your­
until
after
the
next election? We need angels with wings in comparison. For
self that you do not immediately con­
Dr. Hinson to lead the fight for civic instance: When G. E. R. Wilson vis­
tribute to everyone else
righteousness instead of allowing him ited Manhattan lodge of New York
"At for segregation, the wo r l d
to use up his energy quibbling over City, some time ago, he had to be
is too small for it. When there it
the mental equipment of missionaries escorted out at the point of a gun,
segregation, white people are not seg­
Just
keep the missionaries at home in otherwise he would have suffered bod­
regated. the Negro it simply put out
America,
doctor; they are needed to ily harm by some of the members who
And in fighting segregation of himself,
help
put
over
the child labor amend­ were incensed by Mr. Wilson’s rul­
the Negro is fighting against a vicious
ment
so
that
the little children of ings.
principle Kvery fight for social jus­
Texas
will
not
be sac—*iced to the Columbia lodge of Washington, D.
tice is everybody's fight. God made)
cotton crop; they will be needed in C„ of which Mr. Wilson is a member,
individuals, not races."
congress so that Mr. Mellon's income took him into court over some of his
Mr Ragnall in the address he de­
tax will not be reduced several hun­ rulings. The lodge in Newark, N. J.,
livered on the closing night of the '
dred thousand through the president's of which Grand Secretary Bates is a
Denver conference of the N. A. A.
scheme for economy in cutting down member, was recently suspended by
C P. pointed out that many of the
the income taxes of the rich; they will Mr. Wilson for disobeying some of
mechanical wonders of the age had
be needed right here in Portland next the Grand Lodge laws; a temple in
been made possible by Negro inventors
week to help enforce the prohibition New York City, which has been hav­
and their discoveries. Among the
law. Forget vour abstractions and get ing trouble among its members, of
products of Negro genius, Mr. Bag­
down to brass tacks of every day life such grave nature that their charter
nall pointed to the flanges on car
of decent citizenship.
was threatened by the grand officers.
w heels, the telephone transmitter, shoe-
I am suspecting the master mind of Other instances of trouble we could
making machinery, automatic lubrica­
a politician back of this evolution scrap cite but the above is sufficient. How­
tion of machinery, the pianola, a device
—something
hard to be done; the ever, we thought it strange that Mr.
and high school girls from all the leading publications of our
1. Miaa Mary Buford, Chicago, Hightower’s national Golden Brown women
for controlling by a push button, the i
churches have been altogether too Wilson in his severe criticism of the
Group.
In
addition,
from
50
to
the
Atlantic
to
the
Pacific
are
re­
Beauty
Contest.
5.
Miss
Burna-
who
won
the
prise
as
the
best
volume of sound from a phonograph, i
100 votes are being packed with
deeply interested in politics and such; lodge here, failed to mention the
Walker, winner of the prise ceiving votes.
dressed girl at the Golden Brown deen
and the vacuum pan for granulating
of the world famous Golden
as the best Charleston Dancer at At the conclusion of the contest each
the
great industrial questions; give trouble of these other lodges. Grand
Beauty
Ball
held
at
the
Eighth
Brown Beauty Preparations, which
Golden Brown Ball. 6. Miss Golden Brown of America are
sugar which revolutionised the sugar
them
something else to think about— Exalted Ruler says that Rose City
Regiment Armory under the au­ Chicago
on sale at all druggists.
(the girl receiving the most votes) Madame
Mrs. Austin Wesley, a prominent will
industry and saved Louisiana from j
spices of The Chicago Defender. Dallas
the old, old trick.
lodge is so badly governed by too
Hightower,
long
adored
receive
a
free
trip
to
Atlantic
matron
entered
in
Beauty
2. Miaa Thelma Eubanks, winner Contest. 7. Miss Blonsetta Ev­ City, a $100 Trousseau and a gor­ as the Benefactress of our Group,
bankruptcy.
many bosses, has more complaints and
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of the 925 prise as the prettiest erett, a Xenia, Ohio, beauty in geous Hudson Super Six Coach; has determined to crown her great
The Negro, Mr. Bagnall continued,
doing
nothing, scoffed at the idea of
Training
Schools
for
Colored
girl
at
the
Chicago
Golden
Brown
work by discovering the real beau­
had furnished the subject for much of
contest 8. Miss Vivian Gentry, the next four girls will each get a ties
being
only
one lodge and one temple
Ball.
S.
Miss
Vera
Adams,
New
our Group. Every Race
Chicago, champion girl waltxer at $100 Trousseau and a free trip to Girl in of America
Nurses
America's finest literature and at pres­
in the state of Oregon which he said
York
City,
who
won
the
prise
as
has
a
chance
and
Atlantic
City
with
all
expenses
the
Defender’s
Beauty
Ball.
ent an immense development was tak- ]
was the only state in the U. S. where
the prettiest girl at the Interstate Hundreds of girls from every paid and the next forty-eight girls thousands are asking their friends
The Hospital Library and Service such
ing place among Negro writers, as |
Tatler'a Ball at the New Star Ca­ nook
help them save the coupons and
—the leader in each state—will to
of push and energy is
and
village
of
the
entire
Bureau of the American Conference on shown. a lack
sino. 4. Miss Josephine Leggett, United States have been nominated each receive a glittering diamond sending them in to Madame High­
evidenced by the volumes of prose,
The
statement that we have
tower, in care of the Golden Brown
famous actress of New Orleans, in Madame Mamie Hightower's ring.
Hospital
Service
has
just
completed
a
poetry, novels and criticism, recently
only
one
lodge
true, but why is
Nomination coupons good for Chemical Company at Memphis,
who is one of the leaders of the en­ great beauty contest Wives, sweet­ 10,000
study of the educational facilities for there not another is lodge
published and announced for early \
Tenn.
votes
are
being
printed
in
hearts,
mothers,
teachers,
business
tire
country
in
Madame
Mamie
colored nurses. Questionnaires were The reason is plain; there and is temple?
publication. These books, Mr. Bagnall [
not an­
sent to the 1.696 accredited schools of other town in the state outside
said, should be on the shelves of every ,
of
NOTARY
PUBLIC
CLUB TO MEET
nursing in the United States, 48 state Portland which has enough eligible
Negro. Among the works mentioned Spokane Club Woman Here
N.
A.
A.
C.
P.
Meets
ADVOCATE OFFICE
boards of nurse examiners, 933 city colored men to organize a lodge. The
by Mr. Ragnall were: "The Autobi­
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and
health officers, various na­ progress of Rose City lodge made dur­
ography of An Ex-Colored Man," by Mrs. D. L. Harril of Spokane, The Portland Branch of the National All members of the Portland Wo­ New Golden
West Cafe—It will be tional county
associations,
a special list ing the past four years is phenomenal,
James Weldon Johnson; "The Quest Washington, Second Vice-President of Association for the Advancement of men’s Mutual Benefit club are re­ interesting and pleasant
to many of institutions. The and
report
comprises and greater than any other lodge of
of the Silver Fleece,” by W. E. B. Du- the Washington State Federation of Colored People, held its regular quested to meet Monday evening. 8:30 Portlanders to learn that news
J. S. Smith, I two volumes, copies of which
have Elks in the Northwest that we know
Bois; “Cane," by Jean Toomer; "There Colored Women’* Club» in company monthly meeting at Bethel A. M. E. o'clock, at the home of Mrs. E. D. the well-known chef cook,
re­ been placed on file with the American
Is Confusion,” by Jessie Pause!; "The with her children and Mr. and Mr*. Church last Monday evening. The Cannady, 520 E. 26th St. N. Urgent turned to the city and is now has with
of, when it is taken into consideration
Fire In the Flint,” by Walter White; Derrick of the same city, motored to business of the organization was at­ business to be transacted. Visitors Holliday in the New Golden West Nurses' Association, National Organi- that the colored population is so small.
ration for Public Health Nursing, and Yet within less than four years the
the forthcoming volumes of poetry by Portland from Seattle, Tuesday. Mrs. tended to and several spoke upon in­ are welcome.
Cafe. Mr. Smith is popular among the ; the
National League of Nursing F.du- membership has grown from 13 to
Countee Cullen and l.ang»ton Hughes. Harril was the luncheon guest of Mrs. teresting phases of the Association
and his connection with the cafe ! cation.
There are fifty-four accredited 250. The lodge pays a higher funeral
Fumiahed rooms foe rent. Sunset boys
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E. D. Cannady at Meier ft Frank’s in work.
will
prove
beneficial.
;
schools
for
nurses which admit colored expense, more sick benefits, than any
Mrs I. L. Davison has returned the afternoon. In the evening »lie and
2325—Adv.
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students,
sixty-six
hospitals which other lodge here. It has dispensed
from a ten days' visit to Seattle. She her husband, who is here attending the Mrs. Lillian Morrow, her mother,
For Rent—Furnished front room to have colored graduate
nurses, and liberally to charity. It has purchased
reports a fine trip.
Grand Lodge of Masons, attended the Mrs. Leavy Johnson and her three F. L. Marshall of Hercules Lodge man and wife. East 2657.—Adv.
have
colored
graduate
nurses,
fifty-
No.
17
of
Masons,
of
Seattle,
Wash.,
Masonic reception
valued by experts at $20,000.
children, are spending a month at Sea­ was a representative at the Grand
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nine departments of health which em­ property
And
the
lodge has a solid financial
A
group
of
the
younger
society
set
side,
Oregon,
in
the
Curry
Tent
colored nurses, and nineteen vis­ credit at the
N. A. A. C. P. to Meet in Chicago— Colony. Mr. Morrow drove the party Lodge here. He is a live wire and is motored to Multnomah Falls on a pic­ ploy
local banks. While it is
iting nurses' associations which use true, like all lodges,
much impressed with Portland.
churches and other
The National Association for the Ad down Monday morning and he, ac­ very
only thing which bothered Mr. nic Thursday, July 9th. honoring out- colored nurses. There were twenty- organizations, it has its sore-heads,
vanccment of Colored People, which companied by George and Ivan Can­ The
Marshall was his inability to get ac­ of-town visitors, including Miss Frank­ one hospitals among the 1696 in­ fuss-makers and critics, but they are
closed its 16th annual convention in nady, returned Monday night.
quainted
with the ladies. Mr. Marshall lin of Seattle. In the evening, Mrs. stitutions reported on which need in the minority and can do little harm.
Denver, Colorado, June 3()th, will meet
is
eligible,
and a fine “tatch" George Scott entertained with cards. colored interns.—Copied from “The Dahlia temple, while only 2'/i years
next June in Chicago, III.
Frank A. Henry of Port Angeles, for the lucky ladies,
Journal of the American Medical As­ old, has a membership of nearly 100,
one.
\\ ashiugton, was a representative of
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Charles
H.
Maxwell'»
sociation” July 4, 1925, p. 61, by Mrs. cash in the bank reaching nearly four
Ths Advocate is proud of several R. R. Carle Lodge No. 18, F. & A. M., Micco T. ---------O---------
Mildred Corliss-Andrews of New York figures and a drill team which has won
four
beautiful
daughters
were
the
in­
Harjo,
628
Clinton
St.,
orders for printing given us by visit­ of that city at the 22nd Communication left Tuesday night for Vera Cruz and spiration of an informal party at the City,
especially for the Advocate read- praise and honor from one of the big­
ing delegates to the C. E. convention. of the Masonic Lodge here this week. Mexico City on business. He will go home of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Cannady
gest annual civic enterprises, Rose
Among those who patronised us are Mr. Henry is very much in love with via El Paso, Texas, and plans to re­ Thursday evening, July 9th. Fifteen
Carnival, in the city. If other lodges
Bishop J. W. Martin, Bishop L. W. Portland and says he enjoyed his so­ turn August 1st.
persons enjoyed the social evening.
Mrs. Laura Diamond writes from •nd temples of Elks ¿r^as progressive
Kyle», Mr. Thaddeus Chase and Miss journ here.
Seaview, Washington, that she is hav­ as are Rose City and Dahlia temple,
El R*e Maxwell, also Dr. W. T.
ing
a pleasant sojourn there.
(Continued on page 4)
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