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Advertise in THE ADVOCATE It Circulates In AU The Sutes And Foreign Countries THE An ADVOCATE In d ep en d en t VOI- \ X I V —No. 17 P eper D d r o t e d e to t h e In te r e e te qf In the interest of All THE ADVOCATE Is Published Only $2.50 Per Year Subscribe For It I tie* P e o p lo PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1927 PRICK 5 CENTS 1 IIP?? NS v m s DARROW TO TRY EXPULSION FROM CAR CASE AFRICA NO PLACE FOR AMERICAN NEGRO 1HYAL TO ID S C O W IjCOLOR LINES com THREATEN TO ENMESH WORLD AFRICA IS NO PLACE FOR AMERICAN NEGRO AVERS W ELL KNOWN WOMAN AUTHOR W H IT E MEN S MORALS SO LOW NATIV ES W ONT LET WOMEN WORK FOR THEM Miss Simon ton Says She Believes In Every Educational And Economic Advantage For The Negro. Special To The Advocate Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 24-'men arc so low tl\e native.* < P.C.N.B.) "I would not ad- refuse to permit their women vise any American born Nc- to work for them”, gso to go back to Africa”, Ontrased To Mixed Marriage Vera Simonton, author of “The Negros of America "Hell’s Playround” from ¡are vcrv loyal to their coun- which the much discussed ti\ ; there are no traitors a- play "White Cargo” was montr them and they have no dramatized, told the corrcs- 'other home" expalined Miss pondent at the Hiltmore Ho-.Simonton who is known a- tel here recently. "The lines «r.uiig her intimate friends as between the races arc strict- "Africamts". "The Negro ly drawn; there are no hotel ¡who has been fortunate cn- or rooming house accomoda- ough to leave Africa is done (ions and while the natives with the country forever, would welcome them, their Yes. I am bitterly opposed primitive customs would b e.to mixed marriages for they unbearable to the American Negro. It would he slaught (Continued on page two) er lo send them there. Yes" she answered to my ques tion. “every foot of ground in Africa is owned or claim ed-by some country.” As to female domestic ser vants, ihere are none, accord ing to Miss Simonton who is Tacoma, Wn„ Dec 24— considred an authority on The Portland Advoaete: the African, "you always 1 tal<e this, the closing of her the foreign explorers re 1920 to express my thoughts fer to their ’boy’ servants. regarding your great paper. Lite reason for this is be I think The Advocate is one cause the morals of the white of the W est’s greatest Negro defenders. I must congratu late you on your fearless stand in defence of the race’s cause and I hope that in all By Kits Reid issues, in which the race is T h e Advocate d o e i not neceaaanty THE ADVOCATE 1ST “ARROW TIPS" | ■hare in Kits K eid'i views, but w h e th er we do o r not, her opinions are sane, and logical and well w orth reading. It ii your privilege a i well as ours to disagree w ith Kits and she invites your opinion upon subjects she discusses Irom time to time in her column. "Long ago there lived a man who was crucified for being too loving and lova ble. And strange to relate I met him thrice yestrday. The first time he was ask ing a policeman not to take a prostitute to prison. The second time he was drinking Continued on Page Three Continued on page four I COLORED ORL ATTENDS RESOLUTIONS ON THE E DEATH OF MRS. Los Angeles, Calif. Dec. 24, (P.C.N.B.) Miss Juanita Ellsworth, pretty popular SENIOR MISSIONARY colored student of the Uni SOCIETY OF OLIVET versity of So. California will TO HUSBAND AND attend the National Student DAUGHTERS OF DE Conference at Milwaukie CEASED from Dec. 28th to Jan. 1st. Miss Ellsworth and a group In loving memory of our of white Trogan delegates departed Sister Octavia E. from the Y. W. C. A. and Y. Williams. . ^ . M. C. A. left here Christmas. I The leaves have their time to fall and flowers to wither, intlie north wind's breath. But thou hast all seasons for thine own. Oh death. Wc know when the sun Brother Elks to Entertain shall shine; when summer Daughter Elks. Rose City birds from afar shall cross Lodge, No. I ll I. B. P. O. F.. the sea, but death who will of W. will entertain Dahlia teach us when to look for Temple, No. 202 at its next thee? regular meeting on Wednes Today we are brought face day night January 12th, at to face with that silent reap which time the officers of er known as death who is the lodge will be installed. gathering his harvest, one A royal feast is being plan by one and we must obey his ned by the brothers who say call. Sister Octvia Williams they owe this small honor to has answered to the call. Inasmuch as it has pleas the daughters for their loy alty and sisterly apprecia ed Almighty God to take tion which they have shown from our midst our beloved in every movement which sister who departed this life the brothers have launchd. December 5, 1926. let us bow The affair is strictly one our heads in humble submis for the herd of Flks and the sion to the will of him who doeth all things well, and for Daughters. — -o------ the best. God lias called her Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Mur from Labor to Reward. We ray have moved to 703 First (Continued on Poge Two) Street. t DONT MlNQ T o o « HAVING t h k b o y s here for a gam e nor t d o n t c a r l . LONG TH E Y STAY, BOT FOR S o ODNE j « SA W E t e l l T h e m T o L E A V E T H E lR A U T O M O B IL E S A T h o m e A f t e r t h i s d \ d >< o j h e a r t h o s e p o o r m a c h i n e s s e t t i n g S t a r t e d a t T n e sa m e t im e G o o & n e s s s a k e ! r r a w a k e n e d m e a n d i ' l l b e t o u r n e i g h b o r s F e l l o u t o f B E D , - N o W O N D E R T h e y KM o u ) A l _ oor B u s in e s s - Y LIEUT. GOVERNOR Los Angeles, Dec. 24— (P.C.N.B.) With a plea that was most touching, Lieuten ant Governor elect Huron R. Fitts asked that the people of the State of Colifornia have faith in his doing "the decent, honorable tiling” for all people in all walks of life. "There is not a man in the State of Clifornia who can- (Continued on Page Two) ARTHUR G. HAYS, W ITH CLARENCE HARROW ARTHUR G. HAYS, W IT H CLARENCE DARROW ASSOCIATED, RETA INED BY NEGRO AD VANCEMENT ASSOCIATION QUESTION OF COLOR ENTERING MORE AND Damages Asked For Expulsion Last July From Sleeper INTO INTERNATION At Palatka, Florida. AL RELATIONS ~ New Y'ork, N. Y. Dec. 24- The National Association for the Advancement of Col- ored People, 69 Fifth Ave- nue, has received a clipping for “The African W orld’ (Continued on page two) TO HONOR DTS. T H A T LITTLE C A ME” intfr-n»n < wim »( «., n.v By B. Lwik* T50M*r u v o n n V about oora. i N E IG H B O R S ,- A N Y O N E U)ITH A C L .E A T Ï C O N S C IE N C E OUGHT To s l e e p T hrough T hat N o is e . - lu HERE a r e m y P a j a m a s » \ Special To The Advocate New York, N. Y. Dec. 22, and costs after a night in the Suit for daages aggregating County jail for alleged viola- $25,000 against the Pullman tion of Florida’s “Jim Crow” Company and the Atlantic law which prohibits use of Coast Line Railway was an- railway accomodations set a- nounced today by the Na- part for whites within the tional Association for the State by Negroes. Advancement of Colored Arthur Garfield Hayes has People, 69 I- ifth Avenue, in been retained as attorney in behalf of Blanche S. Brook- the case by the NatiQnal ins, a colored woman who Association for the Advance- was ejected on July 18, at ment of Colored People with Palatka, I lorida, from a Clarence Darrow as asso- Pullman sleeper on which ciate. Damages are asked in she had purchased through the sum of $25,000 each, on accomodations from New four separate causes of ac York to Orlando, and a Pal tion. Papers in the case were atka Court, was fined $500 served on Decembr 21, by Hays, St. John and Buckley, 43 Exchange Place. The complaint drawn by Mr. Hays recites that Mrs. Brookins on July 16, purcha sed a through ticket for Pull man accomodation from N. Y. to Orlando, Florida, on a car attached to the Havana Special, operted by the At lantic Coast Line Railroad Company. Mrs. Brookins, N. A. A. C. P. ATTORNEY the complaint continues, be- CALLS PU N ISH M EN T (Continued on Page two) "CRUEL & UNUSUAL” SIX MONTHS FOR j Judge W. A. Ekwall be loved of the colored citizens for his fair and impartial at titude in all matters in which they were involved heard by him while on Municipal Bench. Judge Ekwall won a berth in the Circut Court at the November election, his opponent being Judge Ash by C. Dickinson, for Depart ment No. 8. ... After January 1st 1927, | if any of the old offenders wish to appear before ‘his- oner” they will have to go to the Circuit Court in the Court House. Portland’s Own Christmas n WOMAN FINED $500 EOR Store New York, N. Y. Dec. 24- W'iliam L. Patterson, retain ed by the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored people, in the case of a young colored man, Jas. Williams, sentenced to six months imprisonment for New York, N. Y. Dec. 24- breaking a window in the It was announced today that fcubway during an alterca nominations for the Spin- tion, has appealed the case garn Medal to be awarded at asking for reversal of magis the 18th Annual trate’s judgment and prompt of the N. A. A. C. Conference In- release of the prisoner. Argu dinapolis next June, P. are in now ment on the case is to be This medal, iven since beard on December 28 in the open. 1914 by Spingarn, Trea Appellate Part of the Court surer of J. the E. N. A. A. C. P., is of Special Sessions. ‘‘presented annually to t0e Mr. Patterson in his brief man or woman of African points out that the only wit descent and American citiz ness aainst the colored man enship who shall have made was a policeman, who gave the highest achievement dur indmissable testimony in the ing the preceding year or form of opinions and surmis years in any honorable field es, after admitting that he of human endeavor.” The did not know anything a- medal has come to be recog bout what had occurred to nized as the highest mark of cause the disturbance. The honor and recognition which only statement by the color lean be awarded to an Amer ed defendant, not solicited ican Negro. Nominations (Continued on Page Two) (Continued On Page Two) GRAND ENTERTAINMENT & B A L L T H E STORE FOR EVERYBODY —Auspices— SYR ACUSE CLUB M O N D A Y EV., JANUARY 3, 1927 *"fftUa a T m . b Q uality 7v¿i S tiÁ. Úfr. to «« of P ortland O bioom —AT— BROADWAY HALL
