Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The advocate. (Portland, Or.) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1928)
TH E. Advertise in THE ADVOCATE i l Circulât«« In All The Sut«« And Foreign Countries VOI An 24— NO M AD VO CATE In d ep en d en t Fa D d v o te d t o th e In the interest of AB THE ADVOCATE I« Published Only 12.50 Per Yeer Subscribe Por Itf In te re a ta o f PRICE 5 CENTS PORTLAN D . OREGON , SATU R D A Y , FEB RU AR Y 4. 1928 16 NAT’L BODIES TO HOLD INTERRACE CONFAB FISK SINGERS WIN LAURELS IN PARIS FRANCE TO t E T 4 Icvtlaad, Ohm, Feb I—The an nual Hireling •'( the Executive Com- »•»liter of ihr Federal Council of I hurrlirs nirl hrrr last week, ami a mong »hr several reports of the va- Mom < .o in tn ix M o iit wax that of tin ( onimixtion on the (hurtIt ami Race Relation» ARROW I IPS" B y K its R ei i The Advocate does nox necessarily •hare in Kit* Reid’s views, but wheth- •r we do or not. her opinions are •ane, and logical and well worth I reading. It it your privilege as well as 1 ours to disagree with Rita and she invites your opinion upon sublecta she discusses from time to time in her I column. i "God made us neighbors; let justice make us friends” . — Borah The Executive Cominiltre approv ed a proposal that itx Comtni»»oii on i Hacr Krlalionx cooprratr with ftf An interesting item comes to our tern other national organizations attention which should be comment in sponsoring thr xecotid National In ed on in this column Thr school trrraiial Conference to hr held neat boys of Belleville, N. J . were asked November Following a report on the question, "who would yuu like H r recent national Kshibil of Fine to be if you were not yourself. Out Artx by Negro artixt» in New York of 682. J6J answered, ’ Lindbergh’ . held in cooperation with thr Harmon President Coolidgc got 110, Henry Foundation, thr »e»*ioii approved Ford 66 and so rin down to poor old the propoxal that »uch an exhibit of father who received only 2 votes, fine art» by Nrgr.te» be focterrd an plainly indicating the no longer is nually father a hero to hix son. But let us Did these boy» Thr question drawing the kernrit analyse the vote attention wax a recommendation on vote for "Lindy” out of admiration thr enforcement of thr amendment» for the qualities which have made to the Constitution, involving thr ! him a hero or did they vote for him Fpurlrenth, Fiftrrnth and Eighteen because of hix position in the spot th Thi« rrcommrndation wax pre- light of the world—the latter reason •rntrd hy George I llayne», »ecre- would xeetn to be carried out by the tary of thr Conitiu»»iun F'rar wax next two candidate» on the list— rxprctxrd by »omr of the delrKatex Coolidgc ha» no hold of any de that »uch a resolution would partake scription ax to character or service— too much of politic» and thu» in he has only the position with all volve the churches in partisan poli its perquisite» Henry Ford has dem tical controversy Bishop (ironic ( onstrated nothing of particular aeluc ( lenient, chairman of the ( oinmis- in character—only mechanical abil to m , d e fend ed » h r re s o lu tio n <■« (h r ity to operate industrially and ama»s ground that law enforcement wa* a large fortune primarily a moral question, especial | ."Gee, fellahs, just think of flying ly the enforcement of the Gonslitu- anywhere you want to and get pres tion which is (hr bulwark of our li- j ents and everything and a chanst to brrtiex Bishop K ( Ransom of the I make a lot of money; he’s a chump A M F Church, a member of the for not gotn’ into the movies ” Thus Commssion, »aid., "W e mini face spoke one boy in our vicinity. I thr»c questions; I am inclined to be should like to have the J6.1 boys an lieve that our not being willing to swer qurstons like these before I face them ¡» an evidence of coward- pass judgment on the significance of ice on tlir part o f i he white pet iplr the item c oi and by pocrixy on tlu part o í us < What is there about Lindbergh orrd pcopie " which you admire thr m ost’ His The resolution. alter heinK re- modesty? His friendliness’ His mod fcrrrd to tlir bu» we** committee of erate habits? His democratic habits’ thr meeting and receiving a Finai What would you do if you were in draft following the diftCtiMiovt on In» place ’ Would you smoke cigaret the floor, wax adopted by thr ex tes’ Would you drink all the cham- paigne in sight? .lust what would uditive body as follows: ilic you do, boys, to earn 1.indy's glory’ question oí enforcing • III. IHlIi Amendment ha» become a out standing moral issue in America to day and Imx raixrd (hr quetion of Gracious, but the militarists are obedience to the fundamental law uf getting fussy— First we have Hugh our land, including all amndments Hume in a recent number of the Spectator just flaying the pacifists to the Constitution We, therefore, go on record ¡j» klive—and Kirby Page in particular— endorsing the honest enforcement of for merely saying that "peace cannot the Constitution including all (he a- be talked on the campus of the O. mendinentx. and we ask the cooper A. C.” And Pres. Kerr is tryinR to ation of all the communions o f the slide out from under the glare of Federal Council of Churches to (hat light publicity his refusing has brc.’t down on him. Useless, my dear Dr. end." The Executive Committee of the Kerr, we all know your position— Federal Council al»o passed without we all know that O. A. C. ranks as No. 7 in the list of highly equipped debate the following resolution: military colleges (under agricultural "W e urge all our church organiza comouflagr) in the United States. tions in selecting their places of And then comes Clias B. Robinson, meeting to insist that provision be assistant secretary of war, in his made for delegates for oilier tti;\>» firt public address to the Womens the white race and that every pre Patriotic Conference on National caution be taken to protect such Defense who joins in the Hume cho brethren against rmbarasstnent from rus ami calls the pacifists all the any form of social discrimination.” wicked names in the calender. What right in the first place hae these ------------0------------ mothers to bring sons into the world Subscribe for the Advocate. to he slaughtered by marhitic guns, blinded and tortured by poison gas, maimed and crippled by cannon fire and crazed by shell shock? What right have they 1 say, to salve their BRoadway 1674 vanity with a gold star at the ex MISSKNNEAW A pense of the agony of sons who did CON TRACTIN G COM PANY not ask to be born? Also Cabinet W ork And What a damnable farce the whole Upholstering things is, Yes, Mr Robbins, "Human nature must be changed before we C M PRATH ER, Manager can rely on peace and good will 293<4 N. 16th St. Portland. Ore. throughout the world ami thus pre vent wor." But you and your kind OFFICE PH ON E B D W Y 8967 J EDITORIAL Daily Fashion Hint Centralized Banking Portland’s The centralising of all of one’s banking at one bank naturally makes for closer contact between bank and customer. 3 PANAM A FOR REN T—6-room, modern ■- partment, 695 Kearney street. Beacon 1402 or call at 402 Glisan street. Ad. Store EXQUISITELY STYLED Flat crêpe, flannel 'or fine twill would be appropriate for this stun ning model. An applied band, under which the dress is cut down from the left shoulder, supplies a neat trimming effect, while the lower edge of the upper-front section is trimmed with embroidery. The skirt, cut in four pieces, has plaits at the sides Medium size requires yards 36-inch mate rial. Pictorial Review Printed Pattern Ncx 3971. Sizes 14 to 18 years and 34 tc 42 bust, 50 cents Embroidery No. 13040, colored transfer, 35 cents. Read THE ADVOCATE il Ikink. T H E STORE FOR EVERYBODY $2-50 per Year Delivered at Your Door BUILDING N. E. Cor. Third and Alder A MAN'S FORGIVING FACUL T Y IS IN PR O PO R TIO N TO THE GREATNESS OF H I S SOUL. L IT TL E MEN CANNOT P A R DON.— Dr. Lyman Abbott. Keep off Feb. 14. Prize Masquer ade Dance by Community Club at Hibernia Hall, Music by The Chan ter»” —Adv. Own With every department of banking un der one roof and one management here at the United States National, this central isation of banking Is both possible and practical. BroatHap and Stjdh. si Suik. DENTIST THEY SINC FOR HAÏES, TENOR For some time we have been car By William Pickens Los Angeles, Calif.—The Lincoln rying a list o f readers who do not It is reported that a white prison- Theatre’s midnight show was jamm pay for the paper. We believe that by ed and the people were standing at er in a Los Angeles jail was beaten Paris, France, Feb. I—The music this time they are sufficiently ac the regular midnight show Bill (Bo- to death by other white prisoners circles of Paris have been agog with quainted with the policy of the paper jangles) Robinson was the drawing because they thought that he was enthusiasm at the re-appearance of and its contents from week to week card, direct from the Orpheum cir the criminal who had kidnapped and the Fisk Jubilee Singers in concert to know whether or not they care to IN LAST W E E K ’S ISSUE WE cuit. Bill is a great favorite with An slain the little girl. If anything were at Salle Gaveau, recently. Numerous continue reading it. If to, it surely needed to better illustrate the crim gelenos. prominent people have served as PUBLISH ED A SCATHING ED ought to be worth the small sum of this hideous The Doc Strain Company, whose inality of Amercia, . . . sponsors. The singers ga ve a private crime $2 St) per yrar, and we hope to re contract will soon be up, continues .. „ criminals supplies recital for Roland Ha y « . himie,f , IT O R IA L FROM A MISS. ceive remittance from same. to pack the show ni ghtly. that illustration. So, even in jail form„ student of Fisk> before |hdf D A ILY FLAYIN G CHICAGO Los Angeles, Calif. (PCNB)— The The cost of publishing a weekly public appearance. This announce first stenographic bureau to be open newspaper such as The Advocate is DEFENDER UNDER T IT L E ment appeared in the Paris edition ed by colored girls in this locality tremendous, and we believe that all of the New York Herald prior to was opened last Fall under the name ■GO TO H---------" thr friends of free speech ought to j the recital; of the A-Z Stenographic Bureau, show their appreciation of such a pa Because of the importance of the managed by Emma Lue Sayers and per by at least paying a year’ s sub work done by Fisk University, a Following Editorial In Chicago Zella M Taylor. scription to same We cannot publish group of distinguished patrons has After six month's operation in the a, newspaper and increase its circula charged itself with the task of mak Defender I s Editor Abbott*« Y. M. C. A. Building, the office tion and its power for good in the ing a success of the European tour community by a lew folk dropping i;i Answer T o The Southern Editor’s moved to larger quarters at 4122 1-2 of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, which Central Avenue. They are fully e- occasionally and buying a few copies will begin tomorrow evening with a Attack. quipped to handle all lines of work containing some special article which concert at the Salle Gaveau. inscluding memeographing, multi- has attracted the individul or indi On the list of sponsors was Mr. graphing, addressing, mailing, book viduals. William Phillips, American Min For the benefit of those who did ister to Canada. Ambassdor My If you like The Advocate and wisk not read the Southern editor's At keeping, notary public and teach the ron T. Herrick, because of his ab- it to grow and become a power for tack, elswhere in this issue, we have business courses at a nominal fee. good in the emmunity and nation, sense from Paris, is unable to act a s reproduced it. just sit rigth dwn and mail us a check a patron, as he did last year. Musi (Reprinted from the Chicago De der just how even as many as 2,000 for at least $2 50. You can make it cians are represented on the list of out of the 290,782 members of our fender) sponsors by Miss Eva Gautier, the more if you like Race down there who can read and Elsewhere on this page is reprinted Or, is it fair to permit The Advo singer; Mrs. Efren Zimbalist, wife of write, made the grade and qualified the violinist and M. Valdimir de cate to stand the expense of publi an editorial from the Jackson (Miss.) as voters. Certainly they must know Daily News, ostensibly the mouth Pachman. cation and subscription? something that Bilbo and the Daily Think this over and let us know in piece of Governor Theodore Bilbo News do not know. Roland Hayes, the prominent Ne a very definite financial way what and the white people of Mississippi, gro singer, was given a private re “ Go to hell,” bellows the Daily while we thank our worthy contem you think of The Advocate for we cital by the Fisk jubilee Singers, at News, and thinks that closes the sub porary, the Jackson Daily News, for cannot pay our bills with your good the apartment of Mr. Walter Varney, ject. But it does not! Although will as much as we would Ike to and its generous advertising of us in its concert manager, 44 rue du Bac, Yes that terse phrase seems to have come cditoral colunmns, we cannot refrain as much as we appreciate it. terday afternoon. Several other dis in t o p o p u la r ity ju an official state By the first o f March we should from calling thJf organ’s attention to tinguished persons were present in ment (being the height o f official in its grievous errors which must not be have a very definite expression of tellectuality in Mississippi) does not they lynched an innoocent man. He cluding Migeul Covvarubias,, Mexi your opinion All who have not re overlooked was not innocent of everything, or can caricaturist; Rose Rolando, dan First, if the editor of the Jackson express anything new—nor does sponded by that date will be stricken he would not have been in jail; but cer; Corinne Lowe, writer, and Elea frighten in these days of specialized Daily News devoted a litte of his off our books he was innocent of the offense for nor Sbaler, Comedienne. time torcading and improving his swearing and eloquent snappy come which his fellow offenders beat him Mr. Hayes was enthusiastic in his backing. to death. praise of the sextet of his own race. t n BOt making any effort in the di mind he would quickly learn that The Mississippi, its seem, is mad After the rcital Louis Schneider, a That is a grim comment on the rection of a new humanity You and World Tomorrow is not a "Negro White people of that forlorn state the Spectator arc not bent on mak publication.” It is just an ordinary have so long wallowed in their own whole business of lynchings: they noted music critic wrote: ing the world any better but arc giv fair American periodical, all of whose muck and filth that what to other cannot be trusted to kill the right ' ‘T h e famous sextet o f Negro ing your best efforts to make it editors are of the white race. Neither commonwealths would stink of sew man, even when he is in jail. How singers of Fisk University has a- worse —intensifying hatreds, stim is it fostered by the “ American Asso- ers smells perfumery. They pat them much less can they be trusted to gain filled to overflowing for this ulating false loyalties, turning Amer cation for the Advancement of Color selves on their own backs and de "get” the right man when they are opening concert and the singers ob- ican ideals o f peace and good will in ed People," by which we assume the clare “ W e are good.” And they be all out of jail and free to roam a triumph which will stand out in . to travesty and world wide ridicule Mississippi daily means the Nation lieve it. Like Rome in the heydey of around and seize the first object of the annals o f their tour. “ From the musical point of view You and your kind call the pacifists al Association for the Advancement her glory, Miss, is riding for a fall their wrath. ,... „ , . . . . . harsh names’ Let me say to you that of Colored People. These prisoners w|jo took part in their singing is perfection. I lustice, such as is dished out in Rut we are wasting time correcting I . . . .. , , the pacifists are the truer Americans killing their fellow prisoner are not _____ _ fh»* s*»le. 1S a pretty poor founda —the finer souls— the torch bearers a Mississippi editor W ho expects tion upon which to build monuments a bit less detestable than the young SUBSCRIBE FOR TH E ADVO towards a better, safer world for all him to be accurate anyway? By what that will stand. And “ go to hells' fiend Hickman, whom they thought CATE, $2.50 PER YEAR. mankind. You say, "no pacifism doc precedent are we led to the belief that always indicate a limitation of modes they were killing; and their crime trine ever maintained a nation" — a white man in Miss, wants to be of expression would be none the less excuseless if you can only prove the contrary — either honest, just or praiseworthy? A wfc te man in Miss, is, after All« their victim had been Hickman. T H A T NATIONS ARK D E STRO Y And why should he’ Is not being just man, all editors to the contrary white sufficient glory for him? Any- ED BY M ILITARISM Keep off Feb. 14. Prize Masquer ... ... notwithstanding. If one should stand one who has seen a Miss, clodhopper ade Dance by Community Club at , . . . . . . and count himself he would find that Elks’ Annual Ball February 20th. strutting about prating of his inherent . . . . . . . * . ; _ , . i he totals only one. That his face is Hibernia Hall. Music by The Chan- Stav off that date. Adv. superiorly and his God-given suprem- '. —Adv 1 , • , . . : , _ l unpigmented is no sincure— no guar ters” acv, knows that he is hopeless. To antee of immortality. He would dc TH E COLORED DEACON’S watch the record of lynchings in Mis W Y A T T W . W ILLIAM S sissippi—to read of such despicable well to look about him and realize, PRAYER I if he is capable of that mental effort, crimes as was committed recently up- Attorney at Law that he cannot stop the progress of A white minister, after conducting 1 on two boys in Jacksonville— is suf those who are genuinely seeking pro- services at a colored church, asked ficient guarantee that Mssissippi is a With Julius Silvestone, i gress. He could not dam the Miss an old deacon to lead in prayer. The lost province that beyond hope. issippi river with alt his sand and brother in black offered a fervent ap The Defender foolishly attempted 523-524 Lumbermens Bldg. machinery at his command; how does peal for the white brother ar^l said: to reason with Governor Bilbo con he plan to dam the flow of progress Attorney and Counselor “ O Lord, give him de eye of de ea cerning his statement about the 2,000 that is sweeping a great race toward gle det he spy out sin afar off. Wax persons eligible to vote in that state its destiny? There will yet come Phones: Br. 0635-Wa. 3920 and his hand to de Gospel plow- Tie his only succeeded in eliding more . , . , . | time when “ Go to hell", will ring in from his spokesman, the , . . . . . . , , tongue to de line of truth. Nail his Portland, Oregon dumbosity “ i .. .. ___ the ears of not only Mississippi but ear to de G6spel pole. Bow his head Jackson Daily News. Now we won- ' of the entire South, a challenge to way down in some lonesome, dark swim in order to keep afloat or and narrer valley where prayer is -I drown in the tide of real civilization! much wanted to be made. ‘Noint For it is still true: "W ords better him wid de kerosene i!e of salvation left unsaid come back to grieve you and sot him on fire." when you think them dead.” -------- o— — RES. PHONE SELL. 1536 doctor E. L. BooHer HOURS. 9 - 12, 1 . 6 502 Sun. ft Evening by Appointment PICKENS SAYS THEY WHAT IS THE ADVOCATE fl^ F F N n F R FI1ITÎ1R BOJANGLAS PACKS WORTH TO YOU? « ï ï ™ . À? LINCOLN THEATRE LYNCH IN JAIL JO B P R I N T I N G "One of the Northwest's Great Ranks" T h « Q u a l it y tro u a k OacooM :J (fa#. 312 Madeay Building PORTLAND - - OREGON Bradford 9 jLwUii “ 4 Clothes $25.00 to Shop $45.00 "When Young Men Buy”
