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“Don't ask for rights Take them
An don't let anny nan give them to
ye. A right that is handed to ye fr
nawthin' has somethin' the matter with
it."—Mr. Dooley.
“They have rights who dare main
tain them."—James Russell Lowell.
To be elected an Alderman of the
largest city in the United States is
no small feat and no small honor
The fact that two men of our grc8p
were so honored at the recent city
election held in New York City, is
a splendid tribute to the abiltv and
worth of the men so honored and it
goes without the saying that the col
ored race is indeed proud of their
achievement.
Have you given what you could to
help the Community Chest r If not,
vou should for it is a worthy cause.
cruelty to children and old people»
been impossible.
To-day wc know the Negro by Ro as well as animals, that it would
land Hayes, Charles Gilpin, Paul need an increase of funds rather than
Robeson, Walter White, James W el a decrease We are informed that the
don Johnson, Paul Dunbar. Counter Humane Society has at no time
Cullen, Earl Dancer, Ethel Waters 1 loaned city funds, as published in the
daily press. The Society's hooks
and Florence Mills.
Florence Mills, as an artist and as [ show no such loans, it is said
a genuine person, did a real service We hope that the Humane Socie
to her race. Her career has advanc ty's work will not be handicapped by
ed the whole cause of the Negro. any such reduction in funds as sug
She did not have to apologize for gested hv Commissioner Pier. Its
her color; she did not have to work is important and there is need
smirk and flatter to get recognition for ample fund» to carry it on
for her talentts; she did not have to
FIRMS TO PATRONIZE
“show off for white folks." She sim
ply, in the language of Rroadwav,
did her stuff—and it was good stuff. Trade with the firms that adver
There was no conceit; even her vul tise in your newspaper and who give
garity was artistic, sound, of honest employment to your people. This is
worth. It is said that she left a for at least one way to improve our c-
tune of $250.000; she started work at i conomic condition. It will also show
$9 a week and ended at $2.000. This that our group is united and stand
fact doubtless led to gaudy trappings ing for the common good of all.
at the funeral But don't "whitte
folks" sometimes measure worth and
achievement by money ' The thing to It is mighty poor manners to tell
be remembered is that the Negro w»hat you would do if you were in
actors, writers, artists and even or some other fellow's place Just show
dinary Negro citizens can find their what you can do in your own place.
long and often tragic path eased by
the solid ability of Miss Mills.
PREACHERS
The above editorial is reprinted
from the New York Sunday Tribung, If the preachers would all lead
dail> newspaper and the term Negro upright lives and do their full
wfcs capitalized throughout.
duty as leaders of the people, they
would not have to persuade and beg
In regard to the reduction of the people to come to church And, if
Commission on dog license fees for when the people come, they would
the Oregon Humane Society, men put thier hearts and spirit into their
tioned bv Commissioner Pier, it sermons, prayers and songs, the peo
would seem that as the city is grow ple would come and continue to do
ing daily, and we understand the so But this so many preachers fail to
Humane Society answers one hun do and the result is that the people
dred calls per day, now including do not go to their churches
G **-
Those who fail to attend the Edu
cational meeting at the Public libra
ry on the 18th and 19th—Friday and
Saturday of this month, will miss a
rare pleasure.
FLORENCE MILLS
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 19. 1927
ly 400 miles lay between us and | Advocate: I have tried to tell you in Manuel Bolden, pastor of First F.m-
Portland We left over the Dalles !a small way something about the anurl Church, 105 West IJOth St.:
Before closing this wonderful “Aldrcuian Fred K Moore, >
California Highway, having travel tout
(Continued front png* I)
trip this thought comes to me in the No one rejoices at the election of
ed
over
the
Columbia,
the
Old
Ore
up at 5 a m
form of the following little poem: yourself and Mr Hawkins more
Klamath Falls is a lumber and gon Trail, the John Day. the Pacific
than I You deserve all the honor
now the new road and the best ! Just an every day thought
saw-mill town In and about there, and
that we can give you because uf what
m
the
state.
Up
around
the
lakes
n
arc 28 saw-mills It it a fast growing wonderful drive for about 40 miles From an every day friend,
you are in yourirlf, the service you
city The slogan is JO.tlOO by 1920
That for every day. Heaven's
hav rendered the party fur the past
With the new rail-road coining from you are up and around the lakes you Contentment will *cnd_
fifty years and the servic* you have
the north it is booming the place ve begin lo ascend the mountains The
rendered this eummunity and the
re>ad
is
tine
and
wide
Now
over
the
ry greatly Women work in the divide you hit the long, straight road May each day he happy from
country through thr New York Age
mills Not since the war day« of 1918 for miles without a turn or curve Year end to year end
"John M Royal, whom you helped
have I ever seen so many women in
Just an every day thought
along with myself and Attorney
We
sure
did
hit
'em
up
on
the
strait
overalls They make from $2 50 a
From an every day friend
Louis I avrlle, who came out for »•
day upwaids A good town to get in highway. Back through Bend on to
The end
leclive
representation in 1914, rejoice
Redmond
for
breakfast
As
wc
wan
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on the ground floot Not so many
to
see
this policy in full swing in
ted
to
make
home
early
we
did
not
of our group tlicre. The town is sur
NEURO AIDKKMAN KIECTKD uur day
lose
much
time.
On
to
The
Dalles.
rounded by many prrttv lakes They
IN NEW YORK
"If thre is anything that I can itu
Now we are on the last stretch for
call it the Isthmus ol I'aradise.
to
make your term as Alderman
Portland
We
arrived
at
6:40
that
r-
Lots of deer in the mountains. Ev
successful,
do not fail to call on me
ery body was up on time a» ordered vening A long drive and every one pubiUzu and Drmurrat candidate*,
Richard
Manuel Bolden".
but
managed
to
poll
22,000
votes
was
tired
but
very
happy
to
be
home
Now we are about to start for that
through.mt
ihe
Borough
This
is
place which, be it ever so humble, i» again aftr being away a month
SHILOH BAPTIST
The last wVrds from the members one of the largest votes given a
HOME! Every body is happy
M rs McCanns' train did not leave of the troup, "see you at church to Socialist candidate in Brooklyn m re
76th
A E. Everett Sts.
cent years.
until 2 o'clock that dav but she was morrow"
Sunday
School at 10 A. M.
up to see us off. We left at 6:20 with Now to our friends we made on Justice Davi* and Crane of the B. Y. P. U. at 7 P. M.
Portland as our goal \pproximatr- the trip and to the readers of The 7th District Municipal Courth were Preaching a t 8 P. M.
both beaten by Democratic oppon
ent» for re-election They lost by FIRST A. M E. ZION 0HU10M
about 700 votes.
William# Ava.
Unusual support was given Fred 417 Rav.
John F. Moreland, pastor.
COURT OK CALANTHE'S SIXTEENTH ANNUAL
K Moore during thr campaign for
The Stranger'a Sabbath Moose
Alderman Although it was his first
political race in Manhattan, hr was Mt. Olivet Baptist Church
supported by all the churches, ira
East Firet à Schuyler Street«
ternal and civic organizations of his
R Y. P U. 6:30 p. m
district,
regardless
of
political
affili
At the STAG AUDITORIUM. Ml 1-2 E. Morrison St.
Sunday School 10 a. m.
ations Many independent Democrat*
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 24. 1927
and a number who were staunch
BETHEL A. M. K. CHURCH
Tammany men also supported hi*
loirrabee and McMillen Street*
candidacy
Admission SO Cent*
Music By the Chanter's Orchestra
Rev. P. X. Runyon. Pattar.
This support from thr opposition
E. L. Jameson. Assistant
wa* not altogether attributable to
hi* personal popularity and standing
8T. PHILLIPS MISSION
in the community Since the election
Rodney at Knott St.
of Mayor James J Walker, thr con M orning service, II a. m .; Sun
viction has brnt growing that Tam day School, 12 in. Archdeacon
many Hall ha- not brrn playing fair Black in charge; Mr. B. Colea, lay
with thr Nrgro wing of thr party. reader. A cordial welcome awaita
Although Mavor W aller has made
countless appointments, not onr Ne you at St Phillipa.
gro has brrn given a job by him 8EVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
since hr brram r head of the city go
•vjva
62nd St. and 39th Ave. 8 B
vernment
Sabbath School 2:00 P. M
Mr Moore is the first Nrgro al Services 3:00 P. M.
Mi»s Pearl Stafford. Leader.
derman front the 19th district since Visitors
welcome.
Dr. Charles II Roberts was defeated
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for re-election five years ago The
THE HOUSE OP PRAYER
21st district has been represented by ! 28 Union Avenue North. Portland, Or
Negro Rrpublicans and Democrats
Fldrr Robert Searcie. Pastor
in thr Board of Alderman for thr 6705-66ih S t, S. E. Phone Su. 2794
Sunday School 10 A M ; Sunday ser
past eight year*.
vices. 12 M and 7 30 P M Mid-week
Many Congratulations
Srtvi.es, Monday. Wednesday and
Mr Moore's campaign attracted , Friday evenings All nations welcome
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nationwide attention and at soon as
THE BAHAI ASSEMBLY
the results came in telegrams and
messages of congratulation* began
Meets Every Friday Night at
to pour in Thr following letter was
405 Yamhill Street
sent Mr Xfoorr by the Rev Richard
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We have come a long way from
Uncle Remus. Since the loquacious
tales of Joel Chandler Harris there
has arisen what is known as the New
Negro — or is it the Negro with
more accurate interpetation? F'o-.-
ence Mills, died at thirty-two. as fa
mous in Europe as she is in An eri
ca, will be buried today. Sincj her
body has lain in state, thousands
black and white, have p.ss*d. Police
reserves have been ca'lod to keep
the lines in order. This is in the Ne
ro tradition. It was much the same
for Battling Siki, the child of the
jungle who was found murdered in
a Hell's Kitchen gutter. The race Is
proud of its own. And Flornce Mills
on evenings when she had finished
with showing her talents on Park
Avenue, went to Harlem and played
until dawn with her own people.
Put there is more to the death of
Florence Mills than the passing of a
clever Negro dancer and diseuse
Time was when one knew Negroes
by the memory of Peter Jackson,
the great prize-fighter; by Jack
Johnson, the F.mporer Jones from
the Galveston docks whose fists beat
down Jeffries; by Booker T. W ash
ington, who was born a slave and
lived to be honored, and by the oc
casional players who brought con
descending applause from the Nord
ics. Times have changed. Jack John
son, though still vigorous, is as lost
in the mists of history as Uncle Re-
mus_ It is doubtful if even Paris,
long the heaven of the black man,
could afford the Negro a better op
portunity than New York now of
fers. The Negro section of Harlem,
spreading block by block in the last
half-dozen years, has created a tre-
mndous colony. Has it, in the face of
wretched husing conditions, created
a new crime prblcm? Crime news,
and crime statistics, combine to
prove that it has not. Has it created
one of those ominus social prob
lems? It has not; an excuse for
race clashes is more far-fetched to
day than it ever was. Indeed, for the
first time, the Negro has a chance to
show what he can do as a person
and not as a Negro. Time was, even
in New York, when this would have
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