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THE N A VA L E X A M IN A TIO N SET HELPING THE BLACK MAN MANY SEEK ADM ITTAN CE TO OUT OF HIS SAD PLIGH T IS UN ITED STATES ACADEM Y A DUTY AND PLEASURE. By Julias Rosenwald (In Collier's Magazine) Representative Crumpacker will Give Tests October 24 to Select Four Candidates ADVOCATE FAIREST FLOWERS OF MANY STATES Because I am interested chiefly in M F Crumpacker announces that white people T take an interest in the he has had so many applications for 1 Negro. There are twelve million appointment to the l nited States J Negros* in the L'nited States They. - - are here to stay. That’s a trnth of I navel ? * '* ' academv acadcnn at Annapolis, aid. our O ik e - — t IS ......... V , , . ..... | |W ..m »ll«. “ M or derent. Iprefer my children and|,n8 *n examination grandchildren live where there s no ¡g-1 tore, arranged with the civil service ___ _ ____ to hold a coitipetetive norant, uncouth uud vicious under- 1 commission privileged class. If we s ould” *icceD I examination in Portland, O r, on Sat-! stay down I urday, October .’ 4th 1925, for the pur ihe Negro down we must stay with him. It was this thought that |pose of selecting one principal and j I irrt i n t e r e s t e d me in the Negro. I three alternates to «»k« t h e regular B o o k e r T Washington said: -Y ou entrance .examination tor Annapolis can't keep a man in the ditch without I to be held in February, tween the ages staring in with him and yet you ean tl An young men brtw M him|of get out of the g ditch without him lot 16 It» and gT 20 ............... who are bona fide climbing out t o o " residents of the third congressional Soon alter I had read " \n Aineri-1 district of Oregon arc eligible to I can Citizen,” a biographv o f William I take this examination II. Baldwin, the friend of Tuskegee.l Candidates for entrance to the written by Graham B rooks I met naval academy must be of g o o d ] Booker Washington. He asked me moral character, physically sound. | to become one o f the Tuskegee Insti well formed, and of robust consti tute trustees. In that way I became tution The minniuniutn educational! interested in education for Negroes. requirement is equivalent of a four- ! In one of niv talks with Dr. Wash vear high school course. The pay of a midshipman is $780 ington he pictured to me the miser able condition of Negro secondary a year, beginning at the date of his sufficient to meet I schools in the South and asked me to I admission, and finance an experiment in extension jail his expenses , hilc at the naval W. rk that Would Cost about $25.t44> a, u!> ms I did it. The experiment was a sue-1 Representative Crumpacker will be I cess There was $2,000 left over glad to hear from any young men who j Dr. Washington asked me if I w ould I desire to take this examination be lt! him have it to help build a num-1 fore September 15. her of experimental country school-1 houses. His idea was to interest I MRS. KATE BONHAM . 6 E. SOth both the white people and colored I ST. SPEAKING FOR THE people in the building of modest but I H O U SE-W IVE S’ COUN substantial and comfortable schools I CIL— in given rural communities, donating! on« fourth of the coat when one- 1 _ . . . r ; . <'„„„<-¡1 fourth had b<en ra,-c.f bv th, N .,. Protest,nf tB^ C .t y Council res themselves ami the balance be j Rehnqtuah.ng Any Water Claim. the white people. The plan worked I so well and aroused so much interest] The Housewives Council tecN > on that before the first of the schools]do not realize the gross injustice you was built there were applications for arc doing our city in relinquishing an\ funds for more. The idea spread and water claim whatever, kept spreading with the result that] Compared to other cities of our sizr we have over 2800 schoolhouscs for] our loss goes into nullons Of dollars Negroes in the fourteen southern in not developing our water power slates. They represent an investment | going to waste from our city water] of nearlv twelve million dollars. | system. \bout 55 per cent has been rontrib-1 Show n in tables of comparison com- uted bv southern white people and | pled by T S. Census. L\ S. Depart-] i ut of public funds; and about 22 per]incnt oi Labor, Nebraska Legislative cent has been raised by the colored | Bureau. The Municipal Journal, Me j people. The Julius Roseenwald fund.|Graw s Electrical Dictionary and such as it is now called, has contributed 18 noted men as Homer Talbot. \\ S per cent and supervised the construc Stinson, Homer Livinston, \\ lilts J. Spaulding and Frank Parson, we are j tion >t keeping space with Seattle. Fort j The results have been so gratifying that there is a feeling of satisfaction Wayne. Cleveland, Chicago. Sprinc- fiehi andmore than 2000 other cities j and a desire to increase rather than limit the work. Wherever these and towns in the L'nited States that schools are built there is an immed-|havc made use of their water power iate and noticeable improvement in | They have proven to the world from the life and thought of the colored] the standpoint of general welfare people served. We find the Negroe|that their officials are doing their taking more pride in his home and] duty. premises and more pride in his chil-| These tables compare the initial dren The little schoolhouse with its|Cost, income, population served, tax- trim windows, its spotless coat of| es and savings: paint and its tidy furnishings set a| Seattle, Wash.—Under private ow n- mark for him and he tries to live u p ]er«hip, $0614); under public owner- to it. | ship, $54 00: saving effected. $12.00 The Negro has city problems too.] Orange, X. J.— L’ nder private owner- lie needs a center for education, rec-1 ership. $85.04); under public owner- nation and service, such as the Y. M ship. $5695; saving effected, $28 05. C. A. furnishes in its buildings, and Ft. Wayne, ln d — Under private this need has been emphasized since wnershrip. $751)0; under public own the recent migrations to northern ership, $53 00; saving effected. $2214). cities. The Negroe lacked the means Chicago. III.— Under private own to provide such facilities. This led ership. $90 00; under public'owner- me to make an offer which stimulated ship, $3296: saving effected $571)4. white and colored people to work to Detroit. Mich.—L’ ndcr private own 1. Mii> Cecil Nicholson, Kansas City, Mo. 2 Mrs. Roberta Patterson, Lincoln, Neb. 3. Mrs. Ida J. Wilkins. Tuscaloosa, Ala. 4 Miss Alma Berry, Tulsa, Okla. gether for the same cause. They ership, $132 41; under public owner 5. Miss Florida Porter, Chicago, 111. 6. Miss Ella Tripp, Mobile, Ala. 7 Miss Sallie Lee Donaldson, Abbeville, 5. C. B Miss Mary Ann Chapman, New Orleans La raised the needed funds, constructed ship. $24 14; saving effected. $108 25 9. M isa Mary Cobbs, Waco, Texas. 10. Mrs. Florence Mitchell, Ocean City, N. J. II. Mist Irene Hubbard, New Orleans, La. 12. Mrs. Witlia Jackson, Taaarkaaa, Ark. the buildings and co-operateted in the Springfield. I ll— Under private own 13. Miss G. Lorena Mann, Dea Moines, Iowa. management of the completed proper ership. $138(4); under public owner ty. ship, $60 00; saving effected, $78(4). MEMPHIS, TENN. — Glorious ! and the fairest flowers o f our race | tered into the spirit o f Madame ! era and progressive college girls, women, and on untiring worker The Y. M C. A. appealed to me for Cleveland, O.—Under private own girl* and winsome women o f our women are in the thick of the Hightower’s National Beauty Con- minister’s wife, clever sales wom in behalf of greater loveliness. this work because it could organize ] erihjp $69 72; under public owner en, office girls and factory girls - Through her Golden Brown t’hem. race from nearly every state in contest with votej pouring in by test and protect the Negroes—be a b $49 80; saving effected. $19 92. North, East ."outh and \V<•-•(-- all are united in the one effort to ists of Memphis, Trnn., she ha* I the thousands from friends Bnd bother to a neglected group. the Union are vieing with each oth relatives. Holyoke, Mass. — L’nder private all are represented among the achieve the Qbeenly Crown, and constantly discovered newer and This movement has resulted in »wnership, $114)00; under public own er for the honor o f being Beauty Above are but a few o f the beau lovely contestants. From small cit win the gorgeous Hudson Super- finer preparations for maintaining eighteen buildings in fifteen cities. ership, $4514); saving effected. $55 00 ies, and towns, and hamlets, from ties who have sent their photo Queen. Six Coach, or one of the five free our age-old standard o f feminine Two of the buildings are for women Columbus, O.— L’nder private own- I All the way from the rock bound graphs to Madame Mamie High the teeming ritiei like Chicugo and trips to Atlantic City with a fasci loveliness. and girl— in New York and Philadel [ership, $90 14); under public ownership,: tower, Beauty Culturist o f Inter San Francisco, from mountain and nating $100 trousseau free. The great contest does not close phia The total value of the proper $44 52; saving effected, $45.48 coast o f Maine to lovely Louisiana national E-jpute and extraordinary from valley— from everywhere in From 50 to 100 votes are packed until midnight. Sept 15, 1925, ty is more than three milion dollars. From “ City o f the People," by on the Gulf, from historic Bos Benefactress of the Race. our country come Hese myriads of with each o f the Golden Brown and dozens o f thousands of our Ö f that amount, colored people gave Frank Parsons. ton to Los Angeles and the But even from this small group the very cream of race girls. Beauty Preparations, which have women nre saving the free votes nearly four hundred thousand dollars. Holyoke, Mass., in 1904 paid $34,- 1 Golden West, here, there and readers may gain some idea o f the Banker’s wife and shoem aker’s made Madame Mamie Hightower that come with each preparation White friends, in various cities, gave 236 26 for 263 street lights to a p r il-! everywhere interest is increasing. thousands of girls who have en- daughter, handsome school teach- i known as a friend o f our race and casting them for their favorite more than a million and a half I va,e company and in 1916 paid $31,-1 The acquis, .on o f money is largely U ,, ¿ j [<jr hts supplltd m w t t o r <.i I ss. -L- • o m ri n in h p r ife I . * * a matter of luck; a man inherits by the municipal plant. ° t money or he stumbles upon some D EN TIST BURNED W ITH ACID NOTARIF.S PUBLIC IN OREGON I fog your otw i. There ia no charge The cost o f electric lighting in these r V F .R F T T N E W S H A V E B E T T E R HAIR money making opportunity. W HEN HE ANSWERS various cities averages $2 H4 per K. EVE4YM 0T U«ts T O lo o k their best In my own case, I luckily, at the W. H. per year, about 33 1-3 per cent] (By Mrs. C. Davis) FAKE CALL During the o f June. 1W5 r * ^ W E L L G B O O M E D right moment, fell into business that higher under private than under muni H A I R A D O S A G R E A T th. notarial law book division of tlu wP,on* Broadw*J' **>7 or caU at 312 The fact that I have been commer cipal DEAL TO PERSONAL flic«* of Srcn-tary of State Sam \ Macleay HMg. if you with to iub«cribt ownership. Similarity the cost The F.. B. S nn<J Nannie Burroughs Houston, Texas, Aug. 19— !>r R. APPEARANCE BY cially successful is not due so much to of electricity for power averages ING FORD S HAIR study ( tub lu Id a joint picnic on the II Ward, dentist. 419 1-2 Milam St Kozer, issued a total of 97 notarial for The Advocate. niv ability as to great good luck $2 34 per K. W. H. per year, 42 perl P U O S M ADCANDPORD S beach 'I hursday evening and every one wa- tarred, feathered and burned commissions and tlu- number of qual- There are, no doubt, men right here HAIR STRAIGHTEN enjoyed roasting weinies, telling «to with carbolic acid last Mom^iv, by ified notaries public under cotnission A WORD TO WAR MOTHERS in this businesss (Sears, Roebuck & cent higher under private than public ING AND S H A M P O O ownership. COMBS STUBBORN. rn • and singing folk songs. three men whom, lie assert« were in tile «tat«- of Oregon to Inly 15, 1925, Co.) today working for modest wages Without naming any more you | H A R S H . S N A R L Y 6 was 5,131 I lie total fees collected Mr« \mand.i lack'on, Mr- \S hit- who would have made a greater suc white men with blackened faces. UNRULY HAIR BE- Florence Graver, slate War low ., Mi«« C Whitlowe, Walter ad cess of it than I have, had they my should be able to see that the saving] C O M C S S O F T E R . Late in the evening, lie left his by this division during June wa« of I (regoli'« National War STRAIGHT! R MORE Margaret Simmon-, Mr Fisher, Mis« home in hi* car to answer a call from $1,62305, of which $485 wa« for opportunity. Having made money, on street lighting alone would pay for f all colored War mothers PLIABLE. A N D EASIER TO D RESS AN D Gract Fisher and Roland I'isher of th.. 1(41 block on Ruthven street, notarial commissions; $x4 for filing my problem now is how to use it so the plants in avery few years for P U T UP IN A N Y S T Y L E T H E L E N G T H of organi/iiiK a chapter of Si attic, Mr. and Mrs. .Geo. Norwood which requested that he attend a certificate« of migratory eliatel mort W ILL PERMIT EXCELLENT FOR as to give and get happiness out of these tables show the average cost of in- < (regoli arc lights is about 48 per cent less un- j A L L A Y I N G D A N D R U F F A N D L O C A L gages; $933 55 for law book sales, Jr., H Barton, Miss Edith Johnson, child’ - tilth W lun ha arrived, lie touch with Mrs SCALP TROUBLES. j Phelps, Mr and Mrs. Aurelius was informed that the call was a and $1975 for filing warrants and ar I ant glad of the privilege of trying der municipal ownership than under Fir Silt By Dniffiiti & Dealer* la Toilet Articles. private ownership, or an average of Davis, spent the week-end camping mistake and no patient wa* at tlu rest certificates of i haracter, etc. to help the Negro climb the ditch. 1« Mr* fM K«t the PM M Ftrf t. MmdMtiirM Ply H on the Snoqualme River. $29.(4) per arc light. Do we not pay address given As the perplexed den THE O Z O N I Z E D O X MA RRO W CO MUSIC NOT IMMORAL M iss ( Whitlowe was hostess to tist left till house and started to get TH E CHURCH MUST GET BUSY nearly $275,(44)14) a year for street j Pay Your Subscription WARSAW ILLINOIS lights? I M I t r i M S teH>( Mv ii t m o n i l IR Iair the Nannie Burrough Study • lub, into his car, he was approached by AND SUBMIT LIVE NEWS When we spoke to Commissioner «1* cMSleiRA il il fnr. •Vug 13. The evening was spent in three men, one of whom carried a TO THE NEW SPAPER “ Music in itself is never immoral,” 11 you Imvc aevrre hi'Hilnrheii. Mann about this he said, ”Ju<t howl interesting study of the state of bright, shiny pistol. says Joint Philip Sousa writing ilizziiiexs mill fuiiiting n |>«'II m , ac- , r D lr iN Mr \ureliu Davis plea-antly sur- By Rev J. T. B. Smith, Before Asso would you proceed’ '’ aprop«is of imirli critiri«e«l jazz in the Taken to the Timber PRINCESS BRINGS We read in the specal season <>f prised her husband Friday evening ciated Advertising Clubs. He was compelled to get into a July number «if the Woman's Home «’otnpanitMl by r h <• u in a t i a m, DAUGHTER TO UNITED the 1H9K Legislature of the State: when be came home alter showing Mr gar which appeared to be a Dodgr Companion. "It ran In made im it « iii |> h , lum bago anil fitn, ita a STATES. G Malone of\ ;in. Oliver B. ( . over with one headlight out. A ack was moral only by the association of im- pretty gooil sign you are not well, We sent a questionnaire to the man „The City o f Portland is authorized ] aging editors of more than 2(41 news and empowered to construct or pur the city of Everett At 10 p. m. when laced over hi« head and his hand- proper words with it,” adds Mr chase, keep, conduct and maintain ] “ The so-ralli-d 1 jungle mul nre linblu to “ e r o a k ” at any papers with reference to church news „ „ JCH k . Atlanta City, X. J., Aug. 18— Mr h. walked in tin house and turned were tied behind him after the party Sousa. oil the lights, lie was surrounded by reached Waugh Drive, so 1 >r. Ward rhythms’ of jazz are «imply the nat time. So pay y o u r atilxtriptinn t«» and how to accomplish a closer waterworks and all necessary plants and facilities for furnishing light and>ar") ^ r' James^X aughn < annoti gave forty friend«. t ards and dancing co-operation of the pulpit and press stales When they reached a timber ural walking step of an human In ing, ’I lie Adwicttte a<> you ean meet a dinner party for ~ * their I f cousin, Mr The answers showed that church lighting streets and public buildings A<la Vaughn * Moore of Lagos, I ast were i njoved until a late hour. 1 he near the road, hr was stripped of It« somtiincs hurried old St. Peter with a elear con of the City, etc.” out of town guests were Mrs. ( . U news is in good demand and more "What is wrong with many of the and tar smeared on him. A "And not so very long ago, the Su Africa, on last Saturday evening, the Reid of Chicago; Miss Laura Oden clothes Hcienee. Hexides make ym irgelf rnuld be used if it was of the right popular ja/z selections is not that roat of feathers were sprinkled on guests were Hon. J. < . Asbury and kind, that is to say, newsy, safe preme Court granted you the power wife and Mrs Carrie W. Brown, Mr. of St. Paul; Mr Farrell, Mi«« Brown, him and carbolic acid thrown on hi« they are ethically bnd but they are gooil for it fluttering obitu ary. sound, sane, snappy, sensible and ser to issue utility certificates, besides, Cannon's uncle, Mr Vaughn went to Mr. Thomas of St. Paul; Mr. and Mrs hand«. musically bad. They are stupid, viceable Some editors said they there is a body of idle men begging Afica as a young man, married an Fred James, Mr . Nellie Williams, Although, he -fates, they did not dull. Even the young turn think of AGENTS Sell guaranteed hosiery for work. would give tile churches all the spare African princess, who was Mrs. Mr« Mattie C har, Miss Elinor May- heat him, they robbed him of $18 and them as something to dance hv—not direct from mill to wearer; all styles We not only protest against the they wanted; other* that they could Moore's mother. Mr Moore dealt field, Mr John Gayton and Mr. John a watch. Ouside of the fact that something to remember as music.” never secure sufficient real church passing of this ordinance but we extensively in ivory and amassed a son of Seattle; Mr. Burton of El one of the men answered to tile name, The democratic music of motion and rolors; salary paid lor full time or doubly protest against the emergency news. picture orrhestras and of player spare hours; no money needed for len sburg. "Slim,” lie could offer no description great fortune Me educated Ins chil Mr- I B. Smith, and daughter, pianos and phonographs, however, s a m p l e s . Let the church that think« it does clause. Any sensible person knows dren, two »ons and a daughter in F.u- Investigation Started IN TE RN ATIO N A L not get its share of space honestly that there is no need “ for the immed rope, one became a doctor and th* Mrs Foster were in Everett a few Tuesday morning, Dr. Ward ap is luartilv defended by Mr, Sousa, MILLS, 1465, Norristown, Pa.—Adv. iate preservation of the public health, ask itself the reason not blame the other o/ie a a barrister, the daugh hours Tuesday, as guests of Mrs. A peared before the district attorney. who holds that movie and phono paper . It is ridiculous to say peace and safety of the City of Port ter married the Hon. Mr. Moore who Davis. Horace Soule, and made a ramplaint. graph tiiusir arr doing much to edu Please pay your subscription to land.” Therefore we must conclude Mrs George Samuels and family He exhibited burn« on his hands from cate a discriminating public, this church or that controls a certain is a senator in Lagos, East Africa that it is for the “ safety” of the cor have a« their house guest, Mr. G. B. the carbolic arid. When the district paper, nr that certain interests run F.nlargitig on his theory that music I be Advocate and avoid missing an .Mrs. Moore has traveled through issue of the paper. the newspaper. There is no con poration. Paris, Brussels and India, she -peaks Malone and little «on, Jimmy, who attorney went to tlu: scene of the is the most democratic «if the arts, trolled press. The church must get several languages; came to this roun- are enroute t<» < hicago. outrage, he found a bottle which the baml leader makes a serious plea FOR YOUR LIBRARY H O W C LO TH IS NAMED Rev and Mrs Murray returned had contained fabolir arid and a f«ir “ major and minor league bands,” busy and submit some real live news. try to plan- one of her daughters in That is the way to control the press. organized along much the same lines school. Mrs. Moore sailed for South from Yakima, Monday. bucket, partly filled with tar. Mrs R. U Robinson and grand- as baseball teams, and for more ex The word Cretonne comes from hampton, England, on Augu-t 12th. Old Funs Recalled Scott'a Official Hiatory of Th# -on«, James and Wesley Chase were .A white delivery boy from a dental tensive teaching of music in the pub REV T W. ANDERSON COM Creston, a village in Normandy; cam American Negro in th# World lic schools. visitor. Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. MENDS THE ADVOCATE bric from Cambrai, in French Flan supply bouse was also questioned War. by Emmett J. Scott, A. M., SATU RDAY EVENING POST Aurelius Davis. ders; Poplin from an Italian word when it was recalled that last Nov Mr Editor of The Advocate: Mr A Davis and Mr. G. B. Malone ember, the boy and Dr. Ward engaged Guaranteed hosiery, samples • your 111 «. I)., npecial ANNintant to the aec- meaning papal, according to the arti PUBLISHES A RTIC LE ON H AR Please allow me space to sav a few cle: “ What’s in a name?” in the LEM. -pent Monday in Seattle. in a quarrel due to the failure of tile size free to agents. Write for propo rctary of wnr, can be purchaaed at Mr. and Mrs. M. James spent boy to take off his hat when he came word« of commendation on the 22nd August Woman’s Home Companion sition paying $75.00 weekly full time, The Advocate office, 312 313 Mac anniversary o f The Advocate for ser “ From the Latin word for shaggy,” Following the success of tlu Harlem Monday in Everett at the home of into the office where lady patients $1.50 an hour spare time, selling guar leay Building, Broadway 6807.— vices rendered me as a gospel minis the article adds, “ are derived velvet, Number of The Survey Graphic Mr. and Mrs. A. Davis. were sitting. The hoy told the o f ter during my pastorate in this city velveteen and velure. Linen is from Magazine, the Saturday Evening Post, ficers that he was playing cards in anteed hosiery to we&rer; must wear or Men, women sell guaranteed silk and since I have become representa the Latin word for flax; rrepe, from with circulation running into the mil Wanted, very capable, reliable wo Root Square Monday- night when the replaced free. Quick sales, repeat or tive of the National Baptist conven curled; lace from noose or snare, from lions, has published a lengthy article man for general house work. Elder outrage occurred anil three other boys hosiery direct to wearer; Iteauliful ders. International Stocking Mills, tion your paper is looked for each which we get also the words lasso and ilustrated article on Harlem, “ The ly couple. Albina or Pridmont dis whose names he gave, corroborated goo«|s, fashioned and full fashioned, 6267, Norristown, Pa. week in our home as I look for the la tch et........... Percale is of Eastern World's Largest Negro City,” bv trict, walking distance. Walnut 1472. hi« statement, establishing an alibi. wonderful rolors. Prices lower than return of my wife and children when origin, probably a Persian word; so Chester T. Crowell, in its issue of The investigators are trying to de stores. Sell only. We pay every day. they leave me in the house and go is taffeta, its glossy surface suggest August. A BIG SNAP Geo. Orr Latimer if back from the termine thesonrre of the tar and rar- down town shopping. May you live ing the Persian word shine. Ging East where he went to attend an bolic arid, although they state that International Silk Hosiery Co., Norris long amongst the journals o f this ham is the Malaysian word for Shoe Shine Parlor for sale. Good town, Pa. they are not wholly convinced that Mrs. E. D. Cannady and son, Ivan Amity Convention. country. money maker. Price right. Srr own the assailants were white. striped or checkered cotton flannel were the dinner guests of Mr.«. Clara Sincerely Yours, Dr. Ward is a graduate of Meharry er, 286 Washington strict, between and wool are probably Welsh; gabar Bell, 673 Union Avenue, North, Fri Rev. J. J. Handsaker and children 4th anil 5th streets — Adv dine is Spanish.” J. W. Anderson. Suit- i rilie for The Advocate. are vacationing at Rockaway Beach Dental college, «if ’24. day, August 14th. ,
