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“BEST CITIZENS” FLAYED FDR THEIR
WOMAN FAILS TO IDENTIFY HER ASSAILANT
TELEPHONE OPERATOR FAILS TO IDENTIFY,
YET ACCUSES MAN OF ASSAULTING HER
■ MCLEOD PASSES BUCK" IN AIKEN
LYNCHING TO INCOMING GOVERNOR RICHARDS
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STERILIZATION TO EFFECT NORDICIZA-
TION DEPLORED RY HINDU SCHOLAR
Girl Testifies That Accused Is As Near "Like Him” As
Anyone Could Be; Girl Receives Death Threat.
Pasadena, California, December 9,— (P.C.N.B.) Con
formed with the Negro whom she charges assaulted her«,1
Miss Blanch Adams, 19-yr old white Pasadena telephone
operator, testified at the recent preliminary hearing wjicn
asked if he was the man who assaulted her, that “he is as
near like him as anyone could be.”
Held Under $5,000 Bail
Upon this testimony, Madison Johnson is now being
held to answer under $5,000
hail and is awaiting trial on
the attack charge.
The asserted attack occur
red at night as Miss Adams
By Kits Reid
was entering her front yard
The Advocate does not necessarily
at 1100 Kirkwood avenue af*i share
in K ill Reid's viewa. but w heth
ter coming home from work er we do or not. her opinion* are
and logical and well worth
on the street car. Some one sane.
reading. It u your privilege aa well aa
oura
to
diaagrec with Kita and ahe
followed her, struck her on
nvitea your opinion upon aubjecta
the head with a piece of pipe ahe
discusses from time to time in her
^pd choked her before the lolumn.
approachof neighbors fright
Now that Congress is in
ened him away.
session, wc may look for in
Johnson* who« the police teresting developments in
say. is an ex-convict, was ar the way of preparation for
rested a few days later, at war. In the Senate we find A
his room at 1038 Kirkwood a treaty which will bind this
Avenue, a block away.
peaceful ( ?) nation of ours,
Receives Death Threat
not to use poison gas as a
According to the police weapon in time of war. That
Miss Adams recentil receiv is, if we consider ourselves
ed a death threat in the form as a civilized nation, wc will
of an unsigned letter which confrm the treaty. But this
read, "if you do not swear I do not anticipate as we
this is not the- fellow we will find a peculiar combination
put a bullet through you.” working against it. Manu
The police further state that facturers of muntions and
without Miss Adam’s testi chemicals have pooled their
mony the case against John interests and have hired as
son would be without sub their agent to oppose the
stantial foundation.
See column five
"ARROW T I P S " !
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NEGRO SHOULD CREATE HIS OWN GOD SAYS NOTED
HINDU LAW YER; SHOULD BE THEM SELVES
AND NOT IM ITA TE T H E W H IT E MAN
“Prides And Prejudices Are Based In False Assumption Of Know
ledge Or In Rank Ignorance.” Says Fig-Leaf Used By Eve In
Garden Of Eden Simply Hid Nakedness Of Prejudice.
(By Emma Lue Sayers for P.C.N.B.)
Los Angeles« California, December 9—Nordic pride and preju
dice were given a slap in the face here by the Hindu Lawyer and
scholar, Sakharam Genesh Pandit, B. A. (Bombay) who talked
with me at length on the subject Prides and prejudices are based
in false assumption of knowledge or in rank ignorance, according
to Mr. Pandit. He gave as a basis for this assertion, Adam and
Eve in the Garden of Eden and stated that the fig leaf covering
for Eve only hid the nakedness of prejudice; that is, it was syn*
thetically produced for religion on pretense of wisdom. "That is
pseudo-science” said Mr. Pandit, “yet it gives prejudice the sem-
Idance of a half-truth”. All of this revolves on who are ‘white per
sons’. It has been proven that a ‘white person’ is not always one
with light skin, which is very impracticable and to use his own
words: “even the Anglo-Saxons range from the fair blonde to the
swarthy brunette« often running much darker in color than light
er hued Negroes.
Deplores Sterilizing Race
Mr. Pandit criticised Caucasian biologic redemption of the
■> -Id which only meant Nordicizing and sterilizing other races
i. 'ikenesses of themselves. He stressed the point that Negroes
s uld be themselves and not imitate the white man. “Why should
t . . v Negro for intsance accept the Nordic's religion, his Heaven,
his hell?”h ea sked me; "the Negro should create his own God in
hi* own likeness as other races have done.”
S. G. Pandit came to America 20 years ago, took out naturaliza
tion papers a few years later, married an American white woman
and has acquired considerable property in Arizona and California,
including a $15,000 home in Ios Angeles. Later the Government
sought to dispute his citizenship and brought action under the cu
mulative method provided by Section 15 of the Naturalization
Act of 1906 to cancel his certificate under the claim the applicant
was a Hindu and therefore not a ‘white person’. The Government
also contended thatt he certificate was illegally procured, yet Mr.
Pandit, at the time of the action, had been a citizen of the United
States for nine years. Mr. Pandit recently won a decision in the
Supreme Court at San Francisco on the ground that he had lost
his citizenship and forfeited all rights to his ancestral home and
valuable property ini ndia through his loyalty and allegiance to
the United States.
Letter To N. A. A. C. P. From South Carolina Telia Of
Past Whipping Of Colored People In The State.
(By N.A.A.C.P. Press) Service
New York- N. Y. December 8—According to latest dis
patches published in the New York World from its special
correspondent in the Aiken, S. C., lynching area, Governor
Thomas McLeod intends taking no effective action during
his term and will “pass the buck” to the new incoming
Governos John G. Richards. Gov. McLeod has declined to
call a special session of the Grand jury and the case will
therefore not come before ’ ——---------------- -— -■ —
that body until January, af-j
ter he leaves office.
The incoming Governor,
Richards, is quoted bythef-
W ORLD as expressing a de
termination to push the case
against the lynchers energe
tically. He is quoted as say
ing: “I have not hesitated to FACE UNPLEASANT
condemn the Aiken crime
FACTS AND PLAN
without qualification and I
FOR IM PROVEM ENT
think the honor of the State
demands that the lynchers
Birmingham, Ala.« Dec. 1
be punished if it is humanly Pledging themselves to seek
possible to punish them. I more adequate educational
can and do assure the people provisions for the colored
of- South Carolina that I children of Alabama, better
shall do everything in my public health facilities, and
power as Governor to bring the provision by the State of
this just culmination to pass, an institution for the care of
I heartily commend the ac_ delinquent Negro girls, the
tivities of the newspapers woman’s section of the Ala-
and other agencies that have bama State Committee on
sought to have this situation Interracial Cooperation held
cleared up.
its annual meeting here Mon-
Meanwhile« the Columbia day, with an attendance of
STATE continues to harsh- of fify representative women
ly criticise the “best citizens” from over the State. The
of Aiken County for their in (Continued on page two)
activity and silence in face of
are being urged in their
(Continued on page two) name.”
Concluded next issue
eminent extravagance.” Of
course he and T would not
Daily Fashion Hint
agree as to what constitutes
“government extravagance.” i
I think that when a govern- f
ment devotes 80% of its in
come to army and navy ex
penditures—to paying f o r ,
past wars, that it is the
height of extravagant folly.
He brags about our expend-
ing $680,000,000 on prepar
edness and that we are
“maintaining the most ade-
quate defensive forces in
these present years that it
has ever supported in times
of peace.” Defense against •
what?— Mexico?— China?
Please Mr. Coolidge explain
why it is necessary to main
tain the most expensive arm-
y and navy this nation lias
ever supported?
ALABAMA WOMEN HOLD
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ton College at Austin, Tex. pibces in abundance signified treaty, the national legisla-
On June 18th, 1909, she this noble woman was held, tive representatives of the
and Mr. Williams were mar- the love and esteem in which American Legion, according
ried at the home of her par-
She leaves to mourn their to a signed article by Ray-
cuts in Bisbce, Arizona.
loss a husband, three daugh- mond Lonergan in a Wash-
Shc with their two eldest ters :Dorthulu, 16 years old, ington, D. C. newspaper.
daughters came to Portland a sophmore at Lincoln High j
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in 1918 to join Mr. Williams School; Geraldine, 12, a pu-, I thought I would find
who had preceded them to pil at Failing Grammar plenty of material in the pre-
arrane for their coming.
School and Bernice, 6 years , sident’s message for
lor my col-
The deceased was reared who attends the kindergart- umn this week but nothing
in the church and upon com- en. A sister who is ill in No- doing. It is a wonderful col
ing there found, next to the gales, Arizona and her fath- lection of words and senten
care of her family, her great- er, and a host of friends in ces that one can dump into
est pleasure, indoing church the South and here,
a big box and label the
Nvhole mess “glittering gen
work. At Mt. Olivet Baptist
white slavery charge eralities”. He begins the
Wouldn’t you think that
church of which she was a
Wliliam . Eason in , J thing
some “near”
faithful member, she direct-
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cd the Junior Missionary ac- ,a,‘ Tuesday. He is said to tory on prosperity. And th en ' can Legion would remember
tivities of which their eldest have transported an 18 year he says things about econo- enough of the horrors of the
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gas warfare
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daughter,
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California.
theory of our institutions is war, to satisfy themselves
president.
based on the liberty and in that it is the most unciviliz
She was also an active
dependence of the individu ed weapon ever invented?
member of the Parent Tea
al.” Yep, I agree with him ¡Wouldn’t you expect these
cher Association of the pub
that he is right as to the men to be the stringest ad-
lic school where theis child
“theory”. But how about the vocates for peace? Instead
ren attended. A member of
practice? I still have recol of that, they are supporting
this organization and one of
the teachers in the school,
lections of the last general every gesture that even
upon learning of the demise 1
election when the forem an| hints at war. I am told that
in our big factories passed their legislative representa
of Mrs. Williams, called at
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the word around to the men tive is also backing the “uni
the family residence offering
that if they didn’t vote to re versal draft bill” which is in
condolences and. aid and ex-
elect Coolidge the factory Congress now and which is
prest the apreciation of the
Mrs. Octavio Williams, the operation she underwent teachers for the excellent co
would shut down and there supposed to draft all the mo
the beloved wife of Edgar was known beforehand to operation which Mrs. Wil
would be no jobs. He says ney resources of the nati,on
Williams, died Suday even- he a very delicate one, yet liams had always given to
further that the laborer “is but in its text makes no men
ing, December 5th at Deer the result came as a com- them.
not to be deprived of what tion at all of the financial re
Sanitarium« 617 Kearney St., plete surprise to her family
he earns that others may be sources of the country. It
Mrs. William’s funeral
following an operation per- and others who knew of her was held from Mt. Olivet
benefitted by what they do drafts only men and women,
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Mrs. Williams was born and Schttyles Sts., Thursday
significant para
dear reader, said that wc lowing
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