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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
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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-
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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-
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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<l Mrs. Henry Boyd are ex-
ly entirely renovated and reeon- j P«cted in Portland in July from their
children. Come and let us hospitable in my life than Spokane
structed under the direction of the ; home in Nashville' Tennessee.
people. Now in St. Paul. W e arrived
serve you.
new manager, J. F. Hickey, but the !
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| Wednesday at 7:30 A. M. and I had
traditional atmosphere that attracted (
a lovely breakfast. Ladies began to
Holliday & Holliday
Tacoma’s most prominent citizens 40
come in to call and I've met so many
TH E FRIENDSHIP
years ago remained unchanged.
wonderful people in both places. So
T IM «
I
HAS
M rs. Fuller W rites In
Praise O f Friends
Daily Fashion Hint
Por Hand’s
Own
now I am engaged for an afternoon j
drive today then to dinner and a
drive and dinner again tomorrow. So
you see I am on the go every minute j
and they are still framing up things
for each day so I will simply have to
slip away from them as my frieinds
are looking and waiting for me in the
East.
My friends have come for me now
so I must close. Will let you hear
from me later on.
Yours sincerely,
MRS B. J. FU LLER
Miss Geraldine Turner, a graduate f
of Franklin High a year ago, has
been elected to enter Reed College
this Fall. Her entry will be the first
colored student in that fashionable
College. All success to Miss Turner
who is among our sweetest and most
gifted young girls.
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