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PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1926
VOL. X X III— No. 24.
PRICE 5 CENTS
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SAYS AMERICANS ARE ARROGANT IMPERIALISTS
WRITER FINDS A NEW COLORED SOUTH
—
FINDS CONDITIONS IN
SOUTH CHANGED IN
RECENT YEARS
BRANCH Y GOES UP
1 A $12,000 Building is being erected
i on the corner of Williams Avc., and
Tillamook Sts., to house the colored
work department of the Y. W C. A
in i'urtland The building is the gift
of Mrs. L S. Collins, 8/7 Wcstovcr
Road
W ben the gift was first a n n o u n c e d
LOCAL and FOREIGN
NEWS BRIEFS
F A IR Y ” ENTERTAINS
MISSOURI T O W N HONORS ITS
NEGRO PATRIARCH
ARROW TIPS
COUNT SOYESHIMA,
AFTER VISIT TO U. S.
SEVERELY FLAYS
(B Y KITS R E ID )
De Soto Schoola Close And Children
March At Funeral Of K. D. Smith,
The Advocate docs not necessarily
80— Military And Grand Lodge
■hare ui Kits Reid's views, but whe
Burial H»ld Here
Writer Saya Colored People
ther we do or not. her opinions arc ‘They Tolerate The K Klux
EMPLOYEES BALL
Deserve Higher Concept
sane, and logical and well worth read
Klan For The Persecution
When King David Smith, 80-year ing. It is your privilege as well as ours
A BRILLIAN T AFFAIR
Than Fitness as Slave
old N'egro Civil War Veteran, locked to disagree with Kits, and she invites
of Negroes and Coloredu
up the door of his general store at your opinion upon the eubiects she
the n a n u cl III, doftor w a v n o t d i v
Exceeding in numbers if not sur
of Colored Nations”
De
Soto,
Mo._,
a
week
ago
last
Mon
(From the Christian Science Monitor close d but owing to the la, t that passing hi beauty, was the Employes’
discusses from time to time in her col-
Employes'
day night, his will was made, his
som e of the co lo re d people were un Ball tendered complimentary of
January 25, 1926)
flourshmg business in real estate and
Tokio, Feb. 3— Count M. Soyeshi-
On a rrcent visit to Hampton In der the im p re ssio n it cam e fro m the Hotel Portland, on last Tuesday ev
merchandise in order, and he was
ma, former member of the house of
xlitutr. Hampton, Va , the writer wai N. K. K., it was th o u gh t advisable to ening
m the Asenibly Hall of the ho
ready to go home Next morning he
This week's installment of our re- j Peers and one of th prominnt publi-
particularly finprSUM to find no <\i reveal the nam e o f the donor.
died
view of James Weldon Johnson's | cists of Japan, who rcently returned
A mass meeting which had been telCharming indeed were the prettily
deuce of thole train generally con-
His body lay in state at his house Book of American Negro Poetry be after lecturing at the University of
Mdcrcd ineradicable in the Negro, called fur last Sunday at Mt. Olivet and gorgeously gowned matrons and
until the following Saturday, being gins with that charming. altogether Chicago, views Amerca un flatteringly,
>uch at ilovenlineM, laziness, loud Haplist church under the auspices of maids The only thing which marred
'
viewed
by about 2000 persons, both delightful poem of Paul Laurence according to an article written by
n en and impudence On the contra the Brotherhood, was cancelled after the perfect setting for their even
whit(, and colored; the four old Ne Dunbar. “ Little Brown Baby". The him for the Taiyo (Sun), a Tokio
ry. the wai especially impreced with it became known who the donor was ing gowns was the lack of full even
groes who are the only surviving whole poem is quoted in the hope that magazine.
The colored people arc divided m ing attire on the part of some of
the quiet demeanor, Kcntlrneaa and
' members of the Robert T, Shaw Post it will sing itself into the hearts of
Concerning America and Ameri
courtesy u( the students T o one rear- their opinion at to whether or nut a their male escorts who made their
of the G. A. R.; fellow members of every one of us:
cans. he is quoted in part as follows •
rd in the South where the educated segregated Christian organization is appearance in street clothes and still
the Knights Templar, which K. D.
—
| “ I was not very favorably disposed
Negro ii generally considered to be for the best good
go<id Some say it is a few had on soft rolord shirts and
Smith had helped found; grand mas- Little brown baby wif spa’klm' eyes, j towards America and the Americans.
•croganl and impudent, it wai a most what they need; others are of the
collars
T
here
should
not
be
any
ex
ier‘,
and
past
grand
masters;
men
Come to yo’ pappy an’ set on his knee J did not like the Americans because
Pinion that if it is the best that can cuse offered for those men who fail-
pleasing revelation.
who had served with him on the Ne What you been doin’, sub— mailin' san most of them are in fact most arro-
Thii attiude of resentment toward be done, then its alright; some arc of 1 ,1 to dn ttieir part to make the affair
gro
Industrial
Commission
and
the
pies?
gant imperialists while they have
the advancement of the Negro race ihc opinion that it is the stepping all that its promoters intended it to
State Negro Masonic Relief Board;
Look at dat bib—you's ez du'ty ez me constantly justice and humanity In
is due to false education as to what the stone to separate public sctioois, be.
farmers
from
Franklin
and
Washing
Look
at
dat
mouf—dat's
mcrlasses,
their mouth. While they set themscl-
Negro freeman now standi for, and in innng out that the husband of one
Downing's orchestra furnished ex
ton and even Perry and Crawford
ves up as ardent champions of justice
I bet;
tealouiv on the part of many ineui- of the women prominently connected cellent music and dancing was the
counties; and friends of the Negro
Come hycah, Maria, an’ wipe off his they really are the devotees of the
hers of that clasi of whites in the svith the colored work operates a mam diversion although cards were
race from other sections.
outrageous and brazen-faced Monroe
han's.
Sotl'll known a* 'poor » I 'e trash" business College and will not admit played at several tables by those who
On
Saturday
the
schools
of
DeSo-
a P<1 Uilul. V ill giveti 'lorto Ly the Se colored students. Some argue that a could not and did not care to dance.
Bees gwine to ketch you an' eat you doctrine.
to
dismissed.
All
the
children
march
“While Americans are kind hearted
•
up yit,
niors
themselves to distinguish C ommunily Centre is needed for col
Mrs 1,-sstr G fljrm i sang a group
ed in the procession that accompa Bem so sticky an' sweet—goodness on one hand, they are extremely self
them from the aristocrats or estate ored girls and women, and for both of songs which pleased very much.
nied
i
he
body
to
the
Williams
A
M
ish
on the other. Theirs is an ex
Ian's!
owners to whom the Negroes belong sixes for that matter, but they hold
A Charleston contest between three
E. t ha pel More than 1000 persons
tremely complex character. Intense
ed and as a rule admired t his class it should be a matter of self segrega young ladies and four young men re
ciow ded inside the building, and 300 Litle brown baby wif spa’klm’ eyes. advocates of humanity and philan
of whites have done little to b* !!■ I tion and not forced segregation i c sulted in prizes being awarded to
Ruby Irene Kirk
were turned away from tbe doors.
Who's pappy’s darlin' an’ who's pap thropy, they are at the same time ex
i k W I l l l l l or the community. r a t l i n no. a part of an institution called Miss Barbara Hubbard. E. Fair and
Little
Ruby
Irene
entertained
Fri
Masonic Leaders Present
tremely selfish, unjust, inhumane, as
py's chile?
retarding than aiding any conditions Christian which would not open its Theodore Allen. Jr.
day
January
22nd
in
honor
of
her
In
the
front
pews
sat
Tom
Bass
of
W ho is it all de day nevah once tries their crafty, underhand foreign poli
of betterment Agreeing with them doors freely to all of Ciod's children
Most
delicious
refreshments
were
Third
Birthday
anniversary,
at
the
M
eviio.
Mo.,
Senior
Grand
Warden
Fu' to be cross, er once loses dat cy shows.
that the Negro should remain in the ngardlcs of color, but willing to help dispensed buffet-style bv white jack home of her grand-parents, Mr. and
of tli/. Misouri A. F. and A. M ; Eu
Inconsistency it Charged
smile?
condition in which he was left by ci them apart
eted
Filippinos.
Mrs.
George
B
Hardin,
1008
East
gene
G.
!-acy,
merchant,
of
Kansas
“They are in favor of the indepen
It is said that one minister took to
Whah did you git dem teef? My,
vil War, are those who have sat on
Every
one
present
was
loud
in
its
Yamhill
Street.
City,
and
Past
Grand
Master;
S.
W
dence
of Korea, while they are most
you's a scamp!
Verandas in rocking-chairs, living in task the organizstion which called praise of the Hotel Company for the
Tbe table was prettily decorated Dabncv. the present Grand Master, Whah did dat dimple come fo m in strenuously opposed to the indepen
the past while the world has pro the mass meeting to get an under most delightful evening.
with a center-piece of Jonquils and from Kansas City; Chris Hubbard,
dence of Hawaii and the Philippines.
yo' chin?
gressed taking the Negro with it, and standing of "where wc arc at". This
Lillies. The large pmk Birthday-rake principal of the Sedalia High School, Pappy do’ know yo— I b'licves you's While they publicly identify them
iv lio have failed to realize that the some arr of the belief was as it should
was decorated with tiny pink candles and Andrew Craney of Kansas City.
selves with justice and humanity, they
a tramp;
very training and accomplishments be. holding that if colored people
I N TFIK SCHOOLS
A St. Louis jurist, who had know-n
Mammy, dis hyeab's some ol' strag I tolerate the existence of th K. K. K.
Those present weve: Mona and
the Negro gained as a slave have fit would inquire into things concerning
Smith
for
20
y/.ars,
rose
to
read
the
for the persecution of the Negroes,
gler got in!
ted him to acquire an education which them a little more, and get a better
Bernice Dawson, Mary Jane and Bet
Miss lane Akin, daughter of Mrs ty Jean Morrow. After dinner the tots barest facts of the four score years
and otherwise discriminate against
enables him to make capital of bis understanding, they would be better
the
old
man
had
watched
flow
down
Esther
Hubbard-Akin,
is
an
honor
Let's th'ow him outen de do’ in de 1 *he colored nations.
off in the end And therefore they say
spent a jolly afternoon playing games
•alcnts.
i
" I Inconsistency
n rn n ctcfp n rv
•
is e observable in the
san .
The little hostess received several tht' Mississippi.
As a child in the South during the this organization had a right to in student at St. Marv's Academy. Miss
K.
D
„
as
he
was
familiarly
called
Ak.n
was
exempted
from
all
examina
matter of prohibition as welt as in
quire
if
it
were
friend
or
foe
giving
W e do' want stragglers a-layiin'
first decade following the Civil War
presents.
bv his friends, had been born a slave
American diplomacy and polices. It
Toun' hycah;
it has been the writer's privilege to its racial group such a munificent tions. which has become a sort of
Rubv Irene is the daughter of Mr
habit with Jane She is an excellent and Mrs. Gilbert Kirk of 860 Union i on a tobacco plantation in Todd Co., Let’s gin him 'way to de big buggah- i is reported that in so-called dry Am-
watch with interest the Negro's free present.
Kentucky, in 184S. It is not known
1 erica alcholic drinks are still used to
man;
This slate of nnnds, perhaps ac musician and will plav a violn solo Avenue.
dom and the progress hr has made
how many brothers and sisters he I know he's hidin’ erroun' hycah
the extent of 30 to 50 per cent of the
Repeatedly, has been heard from eld counts for the seeming lack of en at the National Asociation for the Ad
Rubv
Irene
took
part
in
“
Cinderel
had.
or
even
who
his
parents
were.
vancement o f Colored Peoples' pro
quantity used before prohibition.
right neah.
ers the question, "What will he do thusiasm on the part of some.
la”
at
Bethel
church
some
time
ago
At
the
age
of
17
he
joined
the
Army
“ It is comparatively well to do peo-
When people stop to realize that gram next Monday night
Buggah-man, buggah-man, come in
with it’ He was better off as a slave."
and
is
shown
here
wearing
her
fairy
of
th,.
Mississippi,
and
after
the
wrar
^
pie
who indulge in the forbidden lux-
T o his last assertion old slaves have the Negro has been segregald, jim-
de do’.
costume.
wrnt
to
work
as
a
farmhand
near
The
Misses
Geraldine
and
Grnevia
crowd,
set
apart
like
a
leper.
Ivmhiil
Hyeah's
a
bad
boy
you
kin
have
fu’
1
ury,
while inveterate drinkers who
often agreed by enumerating the
o
Valley Mines, Mo. '85 saw K. D
to eat
cannot afford to get expensive aico-
benefits of slavery : im house rent; no and cooked alive, for so long in this Turner, daughters of Mr and Mrs. J
food bills, clothes and fuel provided Ins country bv people who claim to Turner. 1201 E Grant Street closed JUDGE HOUGH VISITS mairied. with enough money saved Mammy an' pappy do’ want him no holis drink are said to resort to ethyl
— «'
a
l r n h n l i in
n m
a n v i instances,
n eftn ea e
« and
m l s this
k L i is
m
to have bought a farm of 80 acres,
alcohol
many
and all the food one wanted to c a t - "understand the Negro” , is it any the past term at school with excellent
which he worked himself. By 1905 h/. Swaller him down fom his haid to so deadly that in Chicago alone over
summing up the situation in their wonder he hesitates and sometimes reports from their respective schools
Frank I vn High and Richmond Grade
300 are reported to have fallen vic
his feetl
dialect, 'Drill wua days, dem wus!" is suspicious of his best friends?
Judge A. C. Hough of Grants Pass had enough off his farm to purchase
tims to it in the first six months of
It is «.ml bv i-tie o f the teachers at an Advocate reader, was in the city a general store, and employ a couple
nut regardless of what the weight
and a shake of the old turban covered
I
of
men
in
it
Dah. now, I fought dat you'd hug me last year.
head accompanied by a low hum and of opinion on this or that view, the Franklyn that Geraldine received the Thursday and was a guest at The
Patriarch
of
DeSoto
Besides, while the quantity of al
up close.
a sort of refrain, "Dem shore wur building is steadily going on and in best report card o f any of the stu Portland.
Toward the ,.nd of the year, K. D. Go back, o f buggah, you sha'n’t
coholic drinks is reduced to 30 to 50
dications are that it will be ready for dents at that school this vear. She re
good tunes I"
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began to fail in health. Though men
per cent, there is a considerable in-
occupancy within a short period ol ceived “ E" in 5 major subjects, one
have dis boy.
But The Free Negro
Mrs. Marion McCIear filed suit
more than is necessary to entitle her Wednesday for a divorce from her reckoned his wealth in money at a- He ain’t no tramp, ncr no straggler, ' crease in the money spnt on thm, as
lluf the free Negro. He who was time, probably four months
tbe prices of these intoxicants have
Perhaps these diverse opinions will In a scholarship letter She also rank husband. Fred McCIear on the ground bove $25,000, he worried over th,. af
of co’se;
born free and did not share the good
fairs of a bank he was interested in
doubled—a great economic loss. And
old days without care for sell or be merged and that all groups will ed high in her minor subjects.
of desertion. The couple has not lived He had remarried in 1913— his second He's pappy's pa'dner an' playmate vet 1 have often met with ladies in
Grnevia was an honor graduate together for some time.
an' joy.
family, where is his place in the Na be better understood and better un
wif,» being Miss Alice Dyer of St. Come to you' pallet now—go to yo' the upper classes boasting that they
derstanding between the groups will from Richmond grade school
She
tion?
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Louis—
for
his
four
children
were
drank more than was good for them
composed the words of the class
res’ ;
Old plantations of the South, where result from it.
Mrs. Hattiie Jackson who has been grown up. and he w is more or less Wisht you could alius know ease an' overnight. They were evidently proud
song.
lived (rom 1000 to 2000 slaves, WCte
suffering
with
her
foot
and
confined
alone.
Lavinia
had
married
Cal
Mc
that they possessed the power of in
small colonics. On such plantations, SOLDIERS &
cleah skies:
SAILORS
Maaten Bobbie Allen and Ivan to her house since Dec. 7th is slowly Gowan and was living in St. Louis. Wisht you could stay jes' a chile on fringing the law of the land. As for
tood for all was raised, cured, pre
for making
Cannady plavcd in the Fernwood improving. We hope her a speedy re So was her brother. Chauncey Sarah
my breas'—
, instruments
,.
.
.. cocktails,
s--------- and
-
served and disbursed. All the wear
liv,.d on the other side of DeSoto Little brown baby wif spa'klin eyes! whiskey in flat bottles to be carried
Soldiers and Sailors Day was fit School orchestra Friday and Satur covery.
ing apparel including the shoes worn
1 with her husband, John Abbington.
i in be pocket, these are on sale in pub-
bv the Negroes, was made on the tingly observed at Mt Olivet Baptist day evenings, Jan 22nd and 23rd, the
Mrs. Blassengame is at Good Sa And Eli Christopher was thriving in
In direct contrast to the humor and 1 Uc-
placc Stockings and socks, knitted church Sunday evening January 24th occa-inn being a benefit entertain
1
ortland,
Oregon.
K.
D.
needed
some
love in that poem, is the pathos of
I hre is a growing body of opinion
maritan Hospital
by the Negro women, were made under the auspices of the Brother- ment for the school piano fund
one to make him less lonely.
George and Ivan Cannadv also had
“ At the Closed Gate of Justice" by J* ?avor of the abolition of the prohi-
from yarn carded and spun by the M od of the church \ fine program
But
h,.
was
still
the
patriarch
of
consisting
of
speeches
of
their
ex
special parts in the Operetta, "The
Negroes, as was the cloth of the gar
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles H , DeSoto. and DeSoto was no longer a Carrothers. It fairly wrings one's *>*t.*n *aw- J>,ut. '* s uulkely that such
heart as one is earned along by the ?P>.n>°n will be readily acted on. ms
ments they wore Blacksmiths and periences in wars, were delivered bv Cruise o f the Trundlcbcd".
Maxwell, 590 So. 25th Str., Salem, hamict. The country had grown.
Sent
A
J
Franklin.
Presley
Holli
tragedy of his cry:
,l ,s opposed by many people who
eai P< liters were skilled m the high
Oregon, an eight-pound boy, Jan. 28.
In
November,
K.
D.
had
a
slight
day,
Irvine
M
Flowers,
and
Sgt
Mrs
Alice
M
Handsaker
addressed
“ T o be a Negro in a day like this ha,Je made money by the smuggling
est degree.
1926. His name is Paul Henry, and »poplcct» stroke, with no serious
Demands forgiveness. Bruised with and secret sale of drinks and who are
At the time of Lee's suiictidtr, Dave Haskins; Sgt Joe White plavcd the graduating class of Russelvillr both mother and son arc doing finely.
immediate consequences. January S,
gaining influnce inpolitics.
blow on blow
thousands of these skilled and un several numbers on his horn which he public school, Friday evening upon
The ladies of the Missionary socie 1926. he died.
"While the military authorities of
the important subject of the meaning ty of the First Methodist Church of
Still must one succor those who
skilled workers were let out of em li.itnllid like a professional
After
the
jurist
sat
down,
a
letter
America are so busily engaged in the
Mr. Lawrence asked to be excused of Education.
brought one low.
ployment and homes. The plants that
Salem, Oregon, gave a little stork of condolence from the Governor of
amplification of armaments, however,
To be a Negro on a day like this.
had furnished them work were de from making a speech He lost In
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shower for Mrs. Charles H. Maxwell Missouri was r/,ad. The services con
it appears that the majority of Amer
stroyed, as it were, without insurance sight fightng for Old Calory.
who is a member of that church and cluded with a simple prayr by a local
ican people are opposed to the idea
The
Brotherhood
quartette
renuer-
W
IL
E
Y
EXPANDS
T o be a Negro on a day like this
to reconstruct them. One increases
active in its various departments.
i readier.
of war. and in my opinon this is quite
serve a flag
admiration for Abraham Lincoln ed excellent music for the occasion
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Then the body was brought to St
as it should be, for a war between A-
A full house greeted the partici
Which is to us white freedom's
when considering his courage in c-
Wilev University, Marshall, T ex
Louis for burial in the National Cent-
inerica and Japan would be like a
emphasis.
ruancipating the Negro to work out pants.
has an Extension Department in 1 SHILOH HAS BIG DAY , etciv at Jefferson Barracks, and doz
fight between a tiger and a shark.
The president, Mr. F. Williams, as.
Ah! One must love when Truth
lus own salvation against such fear
SanAntonio,
Texas
which,
according
ens of K. D.'s townsmen came up
However strong the tiger mav b. it
and Justice lag.
ful odds for the bcttrrincn of his race presided over the program
to recent reports, is proving a great
with
the
train.
T o be a Negro in a day like this! ! cannot attack the shark: nor can the
and for the good of the country.
success. As the demand grows, other Shiloh Baptist Church was held Sun
Wednesday
afternoon
K.
D.
was
in
As for ragtime, Mr. Johnson says 1 shark fasten a quarrel on the tiger
Hut the Negro of both sexes could PASTOR RESIGN
Extension courses will he establish day January 31st at 2 p m. Rev. J terred with the honors of a military
whatever hatred the former may con
earn a living with his hands, and only
ed in other large cities in Texas.
W . Anderson. Regional Secretary of functal and a grand lodge burial. that it is the one artistic production j ceive against the latter. Neither of
AS
FLOCK
BOWS
with his hands has he maintained
the National Baptist Convention, pre Three hundred members of his race by which America is known the world j the two powers can take the aggres
himself since his freedom until now
TO KU KLUXISM
sided. The program was good. Greet stood bv in silence on a bluff that over. In the beginning, the words I sive with any prospect of success. If
The second generation of the free Ne
GOES TO AFRICA
ings front Mt. Olivet Baptst Church ov/.rluoks the ice-locked Mississippi, wete all in Negro dialect and the i the pro-war parties in both countries
gro is learning the balance between
bv Pastor E. C. Dver; from First A. while the four men that had been his story was that of the cotton-field, the ! weigh this point they will readily re
Quits
Berth
When
Trustees
head and hand under the wise guid
M. E Zion church by Pastor J._ F companions in arms went through the levee or their love affairs. And he ! alize the impracticability of war be
VV.
A.
Jackson
is
in
the
city
from
adds rather quaintly;
ance of those educators who have
Permit Klan Meeting in Seattle. Mr. lackson is here on busi- Moreland; rentiniccnsces of the Shi miliUiy
service. A squad of infantry
“ Only a portion of Ragtime songs I tween America and Japan .
seen his needs and supported them
loh church bv Rev. G. G. Gardner. from the Barracks detailed for the
His Church
nes in connection with the American The history of the church was told
relate to the Negro. The truth is. 1 a point emphasized
. -
„ during my recent
prudently.
cercniony
fired
the
customary
salute
Foreign Corporation, of which he is bv Mrs. Ida Thompson; solo by Miss
Ragtime is now national rather than I stay in America,
The old art of plantation days are
of
rifles.
racial."
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earned on by the younger generation
Grccnport, L.
Jan 24.— Declar- an employe. This corporation is pro Violet Hooker, also a solo bv Mrs.
From Ragtime it is but a step to
New« o f the Iota by fir* of all their
at Hampton. In the shops there ing that “ The spirit and practice of moting trade between the U. S. and V. E. Keene. Rev. Anderson told how —St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jan. 15th
the
west
coast
of
Africa.
Mr.
Jack-
jazz,
wearing apparel and furniture was
where work is done in the nature of the Ku Klnx Klan do not accord 1
the Publishing Board. Rev H Boyd,
Mr. K. D. Smith whose funeral re
—
received at The Advocate office from
apprentice work, for the .shops are a with the spirit and principles of lesus son, plans to sail within a week or founder, was taking care of the Shi
port
is
taken
from
a
large
white
dai
two
for
France
where
he
will
place
From
the
music
of
the
race
it
is
Rev. and Mrs. Dyer whose home
source of remuneration, many beau | Christ,” the Rev. H. Lawson Nich-
loh S S. through him. The church
tiful pieces of antique furniture are oils, pastor of the First Baptist Chur- his three children with a friend in was filled and a splendid offering was ly newspaper was the father of our j but a shadow of line to the poetry ' caught fire Tuesday night while they
own highly respected citizen, Chris and here we find a wealth of treasu- were at church. Rev. and Mrs. Dy-
being carefully repaired and splendid I ch of this city resigned after church Baris, where they will go to school. raised for the church.
Smith who resides at 534 Columbia res. and as I turn the pages, each one | er had recently moved into their new
lv renovated bv these young embry trustees had permitted the hooded He will then go on to Liberia, Africa
Street -Ed.
offers a stanza which makes your ve home on E. 72nd St., and all their
onic skilled cabinet makers.
order to hold a meeting in his church to make his headquarters.
Mr. Jackson has studied business
ry heart strings quiver. Listen to this 1 pretty new furniture was also damag
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The same careful work is the fna- on January 4th.
poem, “ The Feet of Judas" by Mc ed by fire, the origin of which has, as
chine shops and in all other lines.
"T o be clearly understood by the and trade for quite a while and feels
CHARMED
with
SOUTH
Clellan:—
we go to press, not keen established.
Hut this is not the end within itself, community that I had nothing what thoroughly prepared to do the big
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"And so if we have ever felt the
it is the basis from which the free ever to do with permission being iob before him.
Mr.
lackson
was
the
welcome
Mr.
Murray
who
has
the
wash-room
wrong of trampled rights, of caste,
Nrgro is learning to maintain a home granted,” Mr. Nicholls, January 8th,
Mr and Mrs. C. Young and family
guest
of
his
friend,
Preslcv
Holliday
it
matters
not.
consession
at
the
Union
Station
has
The ultimate of learning febdv po
have moved from 769 Harold Are., to
issued a statement to the Suffolk
iust returned form a trip to the south
Whute'er the soul has felt or suf 417J4 Union Avc., N.__ ____________
The ultimate of training at Hamp Times. He read it to his congregation while in Portland this week.
ern states and Havana. Cuba
fered long,
ton is that both sexes shall be fittted Sunday, January 10th.
Messrs. Murray and C. E. Ivey ac
Ch heart! This one thing should —about a pail,
to be home makers, aiming to own
"Our Jewish, African and Catholic
companied each other as far as Mr. not_ be forgot
Fo mah ol' gran'ma always said,
and maintain a home as respretrd fellow citzens ought not ot be sub- VERNONIA GIVES $35.001
Ivey's home in Florida where Mr
Christ washed the feet of Judas."
American citizens. Good citizenship ectcd to the atmosphere generated
When yo’ can't eat, you're almost
Murray visited with him and his peo
dead.
has a high place as an ideal at Hamp ty this spirit in ours or in any other
Several weeks ago we published an
ple at the old farm home. Mr. Mur
And li/ten to this ridiculous thing
ton. It is made very clear that a land community,” Mr. Nicholls declared.
item about the Longview Branch of
ray went from there to several other “ Calling the Doctor” bv Halloway :- S«> ah got scared and sent fo. you—
owner is a valuable and important
the National Association for the Ad
parts of the south including Miami,
'Wha'd ah take?” Well le’me see: Now doctor, see what y o j i n do;
citizen, or, in the words of a resolu for years, professionals of recognized vancement of Colored People send
I
Fla., where he avers the colored peo Fir— horhound drops and catnip tea; Ah'r.< sick, doctor man, God knows
tion bv the National Negro Business ability. Alongside of their work, the ing some money to the Sweet Fund
ple arr quite prosperous
aK'u rick.
Den rock candy soaked in rum.
I.caguc, "to increase the number of work done by the American Negro Between the headline and the story
He was captured by the beauty and And a good sized chunk of camphor Gi’tre sumpin to he’p me quick,
taxpaying citizens which
is the woman stood out conspicuously in appeared a disparity in the amount
kindly spirit of the Cubans and says gum;
Dr nt— ah It die!"
strongest and most effective force freshness of treatment, brilliancy of sent. It was $35 00 which that little
that Havana is one of the prettiest Next ah fried was castor oil
that can be employed to gain and coloi and in composition and design Branch contributed.
Here's the end of my space, but
places he has ever visited.
An' snakeroot tea brought to a boil
maintain the privilege of American And it mav be said in further ircdil
how I wish I could give you another
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The taxi-service is elaborate and Sassafras tea fo' to clean mah blood; column with some of Countee Cul
' to this young woman, trrated with
citizenship.”
Mrs. Ruby Hardin entertained the
not costly, 20cents bring the fare to But none o' dem tings didn' do no len’s exquisitely beautiful verses;
I “ social equality" in a winc-dt'iikin.r Rose
In the Pine Arta T oo
Bud
Study
Club
at
her
home
any part of the city, while one pays good;
Anne Spencer's, and many more
But the citizen farmer is not the country, that in discussion with a na 1008 E. Yamhill St., Wednesday af-
from two to three dollars for a mo- Den when home remedies seem to others. Just to close here are the
only contributing citizen the Negro tive on the subject of drinking «In- ternoon last.
<
tion
picture
show.
shirk
last four lines of McKay's “ to the
is supplying the Nation. In the fine turned to another American and said;
Autos on the streets not clean and Dem pantry bottles was put to work. White Friends” .'—
arts as well as the trades, the Negro "Isn’t it true that all loyal American
polished,
their
owners
are
arrested.
citizens
are
prohibitionists?
It
must
"Thy dusky face I set among the
talent is gaining and_ holding its
A NEW SUBSCRIBER
Many were the virtues of that city Blue mass, laudinum. liver pills,
white
be so, breause it is now a part of the
place by virtue of merit.
as related by Mr. Murray who admits “ Sixty six, fo' fever an' chills,"
For thee to prove thyself of highest
It wa s the writer's privilege while t Constitution.”
that wedding bells will soon be ring Ready Relief, an’ A. B. C. *
Among new subscribers to The
Wih these points of good cltizen-
vorth:
studying painting in France during
ing for him and a popular young An' half a bottle of X. Y. Z.
Before the world is swallowed up in
the past year to meet in the class an ' ship, desirous of becoming a taxpay Advocate we are pleased to record
Portland woman.
An* sev’al mo' Ah don’ recall,
night.
American Negro woman whose work er rather than evading tax paying, the name of Mrs. E. S. Collins, 877
Mr. Murray who has been in busi Dev nevah done no good at all.
T o show thy little lamp; go forth, gw
tanked among the best Hone In this and loyalty to the Constitution, one WeMover Road Mrs. Collins recent
Q
u
a
u
ty
tre
a
t
ness for the past five years in the ci
forth!”
class were artists from Seotlar.d, must conclude that the Negro de ly donated $12,000 for a building to
house
the
Y.
W.
C.
A
work
among
ty, takes a pleasure trip each year to
Mah appetite begun to fail;
Fngland and France, men and women serves a higher concept than only fit
a
different
section
of
the
country.
colored
women
and
girls
in
the
city.
Ah. fo'ced some clabber,
Say you saw it in The Advpi
who have been exhibiting and telling ness to be a slave.
Portland’s
t
Own
Store