L THE, In the intereet of All TH E ADVOCATE Is Published Only $2.50 Per Year Subscribe Por It I VOL, 24— No'-w 1 ADVOCATE PORTLAND, OREGON, SATU RDAY JUNE 9, Jtaver w e ut TH E ADVOCATE i t Circulates In A ll T he States And Foreign Countries 1928 PRICE 5 CENTS SOUTH EXCITED OVER NEGRO PRIMARY VOTE OFF AWARDED MEDAL FOR FOILING MOB ML IK M. 111 « 1 IF FLO R ID A SWEETS occupy HONORS GIFTED SINGER DEFENDED HOME W H IT E S E XC ITED OVER NEGRO PRIM A R Y V O TE 41 »» FIOH T By Kits Reid New York June 4—'The National Association (or the Advancement o( Colored People, W Filth Avenue, ha* received inlurmation that white citi­ zens ol Florida are excited over Ihr determined effort being made by Ne­ groes of Pmtacola to establish their riitht to vote in the Democratic pri- marie* of the »late of Florida. N. A Jotie*_ Pre*ident of the Pcn- Mcola llranch of the N A A C P re­ port* that the ra*e arising out of Or attempt to bar Negroe* from/Pw poll* will probably be argued in Jiurt aotne time in July or Auguet. "M ott member* of the N. A. A C. P are member* o f the Voter* Lea­ gue and hence are bound together," report* Mr. June*. The white citizen* according to lo­ cal newspaper report, w eft called to­ gether by Mayo? J H. Rayltii of Pensacola being notified by tele­ phone of a meeting Mayor Baylits of Pentacola, being notified by tele­ phone of a meeting Mayor Bayliss wa* renominatru a* a member of the City Cnmmittion in an election from which Negroe* were barred The white citiren* attending the meeting voted to a«k that any »urplut remaining from county candidate*' f era after the June primary election, be u*ed a* a fee to pay attorney* op- poring the Negroe*. Other meeting* of the white citi­ zen* were rrportr d planned in con­ nection with thi* content The Advocate doe* no\ neceaiarily «hare in Kite Reid'a views, but wheth- ir we do or not, bar opinions arc tane, and logical and well worth reading. It is your privilege as well a* oura to disagree with Kita and she invites your opinion upon subjects ah« discuaaea from time to time in her column. "God made u* neighbors; let justice make ua friends". — Borah Isn't it a lovely world these day« in spile of badly managed election»— school and otherwise — telephone franchise*—and kindred ills? The roses are so beautiful the honey­ suckle on the porch sends me to sleep every night with its fragrance and the garter snakes in my garden cat up all the earwigs. Yes it is a lovely world. So Old Lady England wont allow Harry K. Thaw to land on her shor­ es. My goodness if England begins to play that game, she will be hear­ ing protrsts from the steamship com ­ panies. Most of their dr luxe cabins will be empty. But then 1 recall Grandma Kjrllogg getting nervous and anxious a year or so ago over ('outers something or Other conting to America. Dear me. how delicate and easy to contaminate we all AT TIM ES One of these days I may. write a book which I shall call "Mother America" and I may dedicate it to Miss Katherine Mayo author of "M o­ ther India". I may pick out all the excrescences of crime vicious poli­ tics, peculiarities and indulgences of l.o* Angeles^ Calif. June 6— l.o s various types of religions, I may Angeles ha* organized the lrrst dress up traditions in modern attire C haplcr of what they call "The Dean so that they will appear as rational Pickens Baby Fraternity." 1 like to customs. I may use Hawthorne's think ol it as “The Knights and Scarlet Letter as the balis for a chap­ Ladies of thr Tenth Crusade." ter showing how America treats her Twenty-five members qualified in Hester Prynnes. I will take Harry the l.o* Angeles chapter, the first Thaw as a typical American_ I majr chapter of the world's lirst Frater­ relate in detail the Teapot Donne nity of Babies. All Babies bringing $50.00 or m orein the contest were scandal as a national habit; I may de­ admitted as members. Those bring­ scribe some of the 12 and 13 year old ing the largest amounts are the offi­ mothers at the Louise Home as in­ cers. Pasadena has organized chap- , dicative of thr sex life of America ter 2. « i . i and incidentally throw in a story or This means more than present two of the indicting of prominent money: it means starting these business nirn for degenerate fndulgrn youngsters on the road which they | ces. Again I may drsribe in faithful detail some o f our lynchings and should travel. A Fraternity pin has been adopted, burnings at the stake of our Negroes every member receiving a pin when and call it a time honored method of the contest was over. It is a beau­ punishing suspected criminals. And tiful gold pin, with blue trimmings, thcn I’ll send it all over the world thus presenting the Association col­ (financed by an unfriendly power'. I or*,—'"Gold and Blue.” It ha* the think I ought to get my name before letters "NAAC.P" at the top, the the public and get articles into the Association seal in the middle, and niagaxines and I ought to make a lot the words "Baby "28" at the bottom, of money out o f it, don’t you think showing year of membership. It is so? I said I might write such a bosk heart-shaped, point downward. Those when I M AY have deseeded into who wish to organize their Baby the ranks of the Katherine M*yot. contestants in other parts of the country, should get in touch with I have nothing but contempt for Los Angeles and secure this same such women who prostitute their pin. The next chapter to be organ­ powers in such a fashion. I under­ ized, will be chapter J. stand that she wrote a similiar book The minimum achievement in Los J about the Philippines. Makes one Angeles for membership sva* $50.00, think of the story of the man who and those who brought $200 or more was telling about the mosquitoes in wc call “ Honor" members But we Florida and a frond said, "Yes I suggest that the general rule for the know all about it. I spent two years Fraternity hereafter shall be: $25.0t)1 down there one night." The Kather­ for membership, $50 00 or morn lot ine Mayos of the world make it a "H onor” membership. In all cases, harder place in which to live. Y o u those bringing the highest amount* don't suppose that she i* interested shall fill the offices in this order: in any remote way in the struggle President, Vice-President, Secretaryi the natives of India are making to Treasure Sergeant.at Arms. throw off the tyranny of English rule? I saw nothing in her book| of this same English officer being laud­ Read ed to the skies and given a nice fat purse of golden coin when he return­ ed to England. No_ Miss Mayo Is JI2 Macleay Building not an American of whom we are proud. I should like to treat her Jlo PORTLAND - - OREGON an old American custom— long since $2.,SO per Year forgotten but which I am sure she would have dragged out of the muse­ Delivered at Your Door um had it been in India — the old JO B P R I N T I N G ducking stool? I might cool her wil- (•Continued on page four) Rabies R aie Thousands For Defense O f R ace STREETS TO BE DRESSED FOR NAACPCONVENTiON n e u n COMMISSION WORKS TO UPHOLD THE LAW Priende of Mrt. Shirley McCanns Many Applications Receive. in Portland will be delighted to Admission T o Parade kow o f her phenomenal, «ucccsful New York_ June 4— Dr. Ossian H. in the Fail. Therefore achievements Bay St. Louis, Miss.' June 4— Iyt New Y or*t' June 4—Dr. H .C. Hud­ Sweet is now occupying the home he we reproduce t h e follow h g news recognition of his successful stand bought in Detroit, from which a mob son President o f the Los Angeles items from Chicago newspapers: against a mob determined on lyn­ sought to eject him and which he, to­ branch of the National Association (By Marian Foster Downer) ching two of his prisoners, former gether with his brother and friend* for the Advancetnet of Colored Peo­ Chicago, May 24—The time was Sheriff Joseph V. Bontemps was defended. This report comes from ple, reports to the National Office Mothers' Day, the place was Greater honored by his fellow citizens here Robert W . Bagnall, Director of that the City Council of Los Angeles Pilgrim Baptist Church, 3301 Indiana Friends of Mr. H. J. Asberry in this morning by the presentation of a Branches of the National Association is planning decoratios for the streets Avenue, and the hour was II o'clock for the Advancement of Colored Peo­ and meeting places in honor of the Portland and elsewhere will be much handsome bronze medal awarded by sharp! F'rom early morning th e 19th Annual Conference there of the interested in reading the following a committee o f distinguished South­ ple who. on bis wag to Los Angeles streets were filled with a pushing erners. The incident commemorated for the 19th Annual Conference of N A A C P June 27 to July 3. account of his business career pub­ struggling mass of humanity wendinR Councilman Shaw has presented lished recently in a white daily news­ took place on April 17th of last year the NAACP stopped in Tucson, Aria. its way to Pilgrim until every nook In Tucson, Mr Bagnall met Mr*. a resolution for decorations "in paper in Tacoma, his home. A very when two Negroes accused of killing and cranny looked like overworked Sweet who has been there recovering keeping with the dignity and service splendid cut of Mr. Asberry shown in a white man were threatened by a bee hives for the word had pa»*ed a- mob numbering 1200. Sheriff Bon­ her health after the terrible strain of of the N A A C P._" reports Dr. his shop, accompanied the writeup. iong during the previous week that temps sent in a hurried call for troops the trials she and her husband had to Hudson. (Reprint of Tacoma New» Tribune) Shirley Graham McCanns was to and meantime with thirty-nine citi­ Dr Hudson also writes that the undergo, Vfrs.Sweet told Mr. Bagnall Tacoma, Wash June 5— Reminis­ bring a message from the soul of Ne­ that her husband had moved into the idea of a parade through the street» cent o f other days when the true zens whom he had deputized stood gro music at this hour All prelimi­ home they had protected and was liv­ of Los Angeles is meeting with most worth of a gentleman was measured off the mob with shotgun* and pis­ naries finished, the speaker was in­ tols. ing in it and that she was very happy enthusiastic response The branch by the length of his coat and the troduced by none other than that The medal, a handsome bronze de­ is being "besieged” with applications over this latest development. spread o f his whiskers is this tale picting a heroic figure standing guard magnetic character. Pastor J. C. Aus­ for admission to the parade from concerning H. J Ashberry, a barber. tin who did to befitting!/. before the temple of justice, was sup- clubs, and organizations of all kinds. 1 he little girl in white prove«! e claim to recognition lies not in pIied by tbe Southern Commission on qual to the occaeion and although PASADENA RAISES $2.338 19 IN the fact that he holds the longest ten interracial Cooperation and was a- ure of unbroken service of any barber warded by a committee composed of speaking to an undreamed and un­ N A A C P BABY CONTEST D ISC RIM IN A TIO N CONTINUES on tbe Pacific Coast, nor doc* it rest anticipated number was able to hold Gov. John W . Martin of Florida, in the fact that during 39 years on Hon. Hugh M. Dorsey of Georgia, her own beautifully. Mrs. McCann IN LAND OFFICE SAY one job Mr. Ashberry has shaved Mrs. J. H. McCoy of Alabama is a rare jewel in the music depart* ....Forms Second Chapter O f Pickene TH OM AS the great-grandchildren of his first Marshall Ballard, Editor of the New inrnt at Howard and all Washington customers. acclaim her ability. She is the direc­ Baby Fraternity Orleans Item, and George B. Dealey The fame of Mr. Ashberry lies in Editor of the Dallas News. tor of the Afro-American Chora’ New York, June 4—Continued dis­ the back room of his Tacoma h otll Club of that city and doing superior crimination in the General Land O f­ barber shop where engraved on pew- --------------------- quality of work in research as a spe­ New York June 4— A telegram to y —, i cial student of Negro music at H o­ the National Association for the Ad­ fice in Washington, under Secrtary ter and carefully enshrined in a « * Work_ is reported by Neval H. Tho­ glass case i* preserved the tonsorial I V I r V ^ U IT y V jO C S J O U t t ) ward. vancement of Colored People, 69 President o f the Washington biography of many of Tacoma’s most When interviewed by a Courier re Fifth Avenue, reports that in a record mas, ¿ranch* of'th e National Association distinguished citizens. Fifty shav- — — preventative, she said: “ I was awed baby contest the Pasadena Branch of for the Advancement of Colored Peo- ing mugs, some of the finest pottery Mr. j y f Q , rryi popular owner of when I stepped into the pulpit last the N A A C P has in the twin , pie and all embossed in gold with indi- Sunflqwer Camp will leave Monday Sunday and beheld such a surging I of l.o » Angeles. ** Mr. Thomas writes in part: mass of humanity." I don't marve vital name,, here await the b*<*|for L o , Angeles to see Us daughter Pasadena is organizing Chapter II “ Miss Gretchen McRae, the brave and call of their unshaven owners. at the great things this church is d o­ of the Pickens Baby Fraternity which Miss Clotilde Curry graduate from little gilr stenographer who led the ing iow hat I have rren it ir. a! it The oldest mug in this unique col- , (he University of Southern C«Iifor- was begun after the triumphant out­ men of the department in protest has lection is the property of S. M. Jack- n;a W e ^ M(. glory.” Mrs. McCanns is the daugh­ come of the Los Angeles context. Curry a pleasant been transferred to a position all by son president of the Nationay Bank ter of Rev. and Mrs. D. A Graham The result of the Pasadena Con­ trip and congratulate both his daugh­ her-. It is In a room to herself, of Tacoma. Mr. Jackson, who has | who are well-known in the A. M. E. test is considered extradaordinary in ter and himself. where white clerks visit her for trans- permitted plenipotentiaries of finance connection and who have just com­ view of the small colored population crip of work. She is still forbidden to cool their heel in bis own outer pleted four years o f service in th< o f that city. Mrs. Thomas H Par­ indentification with the stenographic officC' today patiently awaits his foreign field. rish was Contest Chairman Mr. William Duncan Allen, Jr. pool, yet they require her to send her turn in this barber shop for the deft Hobnobbing With Mra. McCann* work there. She succeeded a white hands that have never failed him in has issued invitations to friends here The entire week was one of unusu­ man in the job but be did not have nearly four decades of tonsorial ser­ to attend the Commencement of O - al whirling here and there for the berlin College June nineteenth. Mr. to send his there. Our point is that vice. gifted visitor. There had been a so­ since she is refused by the pool $nd _ mugs Allen who is in the graduating class Among the personal shaving cial committee appointed which in­ since her white male predecessor did of present-day owner* that have re- recently gave his organ recital which cluded Mrs. S. F.. J. Watson, Miss not have to do 'this, she should have posed in this collection from 25 to tnclued numbers from Bach Wridor, Lena Compton_ »ecretary to Rev complete divorce from this pool." 35 years, are those that bear tbe Guilmant' DuBois, Bonnet and Cole. Austin; Attorney Oscar C. Brown names of Theophile Feist S. A. Per­ His many friends here continue to and Marian Foster Downer. Kb| Mrs. B. J. Fuller who recently left kins, Maj. C. O. Bates, J. L Carman pray for hi* success. phase of her social life was neglected for an extended trip East writes the Miss Chrystalee Maxwell who «vas C. C. T Clausen W . F. Sheard, Ben during her brief stay. Mrs. McCanns following interesting letter about her in the graduation class at Salem High Norman, Judge Wr. S. Snell, J. T. was the honored guest along with hcr trip. W e pass it on for the pleasure School^ Salem Oregon Friday of Steeb Evan Stallcup, A. C. Phillips, Mr. Joel P. Oliver graduated this brother, Lorenza, who also has seen of her many friends and co-workers last week spent several days in the Gen. James M. Ashton and Maj. Ev­ June from the Medical department of (Continued on page four) who will be happy to know she is en­ city this week visiting her sisters, erett Griggs. The name o f Lambert Meharry Medical college, Nashville joying herself immensely: Misses Myrtle and Maxine and a Davis is omitted from the above list Tenn. Mr. Oliver is the husband of ‘‘St. Paul^ Minn. May 31^ 1928. —■ number of friends including Mrs. Lu­ because his mug has existed in this Mrs. Bula (M orrow ) Oliver a sister Mrs. Cannady, My dear: I am send­ la Gragg' Mrs. E. D. Cannady' Mrs. traditional collection but a mere o f Mrs. E. D. Cannady and Mrs. Hen- H O LLID A Y -H O LLID A Y ing just a line to say I am now In, Alice Jamison and Miss Kate Frank­ eight or nine years. . . . . . _. . , T Coleman. He has been retained on St. Paul for a few days after spend­ lin. Inspired by the confidence reposed 1 the Meharry faculty, Tonsorial Parlors ing a few days in Spokane. W e did in him by the owners of the cups not intend to stay over there but Mr. Ashberry has preserved them un- --------------------- 125 North Sixth Street friends came down to the train, pick­ cracked and unchipped to a single j Mr. Lonny McCline was taken mug. He became associatied with his In our present location we ed us up in their car whisked us a- ill home to Salem from Portland one round for two hours then back to a present duties when hired in 1890 by are equipped to give better lovely breakfast as our train was two Col. Chauncey Griggs, Nelson Ben­ day last week. He is reported to be quite ill. nett and Gen. James M. Ashton, then service than ever before. — hours late they held us up bodily to owners of the Tacoma hotel to be­ W e are prepared to take stay a few days. Having their own come manager of the barber shop. | cars^ they made it very pleasant for care of men, women and i us Really I never found people more The hotel barber shop was recent- ® r- an