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About The advocate. (Portland, Or.) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1928)
THE Saturday, July 21, 192» LOCAL NEWS BRIEFS MORE ABOUT N. A. A. C. P. Xiiik (irraldine Turner played a violin eolo, accompanied on the pia no by her litter, M in Geneva at the Ira honoring M in Mary White O- vington at thr home of M n. J Jt llundiakrr, Friday afternoon, July I3tb Mra. L. E. Johnion tang .a group of aongi in hrr uiual plraiing ityle, ai did Mr*. G. Wi Stoke*. Mrkdame* Jerry Turner, Kunyon, G. M Glinei, poured while the Misaea Maxine Maxwell, Morton, Geraldine and Geneva Turner served Min Chryitalee Maxwell who had juit returned rom Geneva Glen, Colo., where ahe went a« a delcica|e from the Older Girl» Conference, iravc a brief explanation of the work« M in Ovington gave an illuminating talk on the work of the N. A A C. P Among out of town guexlx prexent were Prof I M Terrell of Houituii, Texas, and Mr». I.ouix l„ llyrd, of Seattle, Wa»hingtun Yellow and while daiiie» were til ed decoratively about the room» A number of while and colored gue»t» called during the appointed Imuri Mr» liand'aker proved to be a mo*1 graeiou» ho»len. , (Continued from page one) Commerce toward* the entertainment of thr Convention Mr* l.ouli I. Ityrd (Nora lirown) of Seattle. Wa»hington and her two beautiful daughler« are visiting Mr» Mi* liar,) W arirn Perk. 410 N 2l»t Street for two week* Mr» lirown i» Mr« Peek'» daughter She i* act ive in church and education circle», having aerved ai »ecretary of thr P T. A for »everal year». Mr», lirown i* enjoynging many courtraie» of friend» of former day« She will re turn home next Thursday morning •CONFERENCE From the point o f attendance at thr bu«in*»* ie»»h>n during the day, it i» »aid it wa» larger than at any prevlou» conference Thii wai due largely to the fart that thr Confer ence had been well advertl«ed, not only by the National but by the l.o» Angrlr* N. A A. C. P , of which I)r If Claude Mud»on, ii president. Thr report» from Ttranche« all ov er the country, followed by the gen eral di»cu»iion, were highly illumi nating and beneficial Among the |(ran<he< that had an official rrpre- »rntative wa« thr Portland Branch l)r Cailon, pa»tor of Mt. Olivet ’ Haptut church, Portland’* delegate, gave a brief report at the d olin g ie««ion, on Tue*day afternoon, July .trd lie told how the branch had exrrcl«rd it»elf in 1924 at Grant» Pa»», Oregon in re caie of »everal colored people who had gone into that city and whole presence wdn objected to by the white» there Hip experience there en route to the Conference, led him to believe that the kindly treatment he and hi« par ty received at the hand» of the white penple wa» a m u lt of the Branch’* activity; how a committee from the locat branch had aided Mr Charles II Maxwell in opening up hi» buxi ne»» after it had been) long clo»ed on arcount of prejudiced white»; hy>w the Branch had participated in and materially influenced thr recent poli tical election A choir of SOO trained voice* fur nished thr muiic for thr rna»i meeting« Thr young people'» dr- diriment a« well a« ,<hr Pickcn'i Baby Fraternity" wa» ably repre sented Cooperation wax thr keynote of the Conference There wa» no ««■»angling over office» for there were none to run for About a young man by the name of H C. Hud«on everything seemed to focus- Hr ii the President if the !.o i An- gelex Branch that put it over And about him we »hall write in next week's i»»ue. Mi«» Mary While Ovington vi»ite<l thr pretty »urburban home of Mr Mr». W !•' Smith on 39th Avenue. S 1- and »2nd Street on Saturday, July 14th She wa* charmed with the flower* and vrgrUblr» and ate frr»h ra«pberrie« a« »hr picked them off the vine» Fre»h apple» were rat* rn a* Mi»« Ovington enjoyed a brief rr»t in the «wing in the Smith’S» yard The di«lingui«hrd gurat^rlat ed Millie of her experience» a» a di* vrr»lfird farmer during the world war and how hrr earning’ » from a Mr. and Mr» K P. Phillips of week’« hard labor had to be »pent i.os Angelei, are the house guests for medicine to cure a caie of pol- of Mrs. Stella Harris, scalp special *on oak ist, at her home 285 I.arrabce St., for a few days Mr Phillips is here Mi»» PaV’ ada Maxwell, o f Salem, in the interest of the Star Cleaning < >regon, »pent the week in the city product which hr manufactures. vitiling hrr aittrr», M i««n Myrtle They motored here and to Van and Maxine Maxwell She left for couver, 11. C. in their beautiful Reo home on Friday to be present when 8 . Mi«« FIKar another «¡»ter arrive» from l.o i Angrlra on Saturday, Mr*. H. D. Fuller is receiving at where »hr «pent thr pa«t two year« aternoun tea Tcusday at her home studying the violin on 749 Michigan Avenue, honoring Mr«. I.ouiix L. Byrd of Seattle. Thr Mi*»ioary Society of iirthrl A M E. Church xpontored a very Mr. Edgar Williams »petit a day successful chicken dinner at thr or two at Rhododendron this week*. ' church Thurtday afternoon Thr Mr Williams who i* connected with committee in charge wa» Mr« X.'C. the police department of the city re Kunyon, Mr« Ira Mart. Mr* I W port« a thrilling trip Stanley and Mr» W F Smith Mi«» Maxine Maxwell and Mr«. I-ogan Dorothy Harris, 12, is spending a««i»trd i 1 » «erving her summer vacation with her aunt, Mrs. George Clay, in Spokane. She Buxines« men in Hollywood. Sal will remain until school opens. em are holding "Open House” on the 25th Mr. Maxwell ha» accepted The Society Revue held Munday an invitation to join with them night al Hibernia Hall under the auspices of the Oregon Federation Among visitors in the city Sun- i of Colored Women’s Clubs is report day were Mr*. J. R < 4ia»e, Mrs. ed to have been a great success. Sev Carrie Rlack, Mr« Margaret Mo- er!» and stunts were worthy the lone; Mr. Melvin Williams, Mr. A professional tsage. Mrs. Anthony, and W , Robin «op, and Mr Hugh Saun her daughter impersonated Topsyj ders. They worshipped Sunday and Little F’ va of "Uncle Tom ’s Ca morning at Mt Olivet and visited f bin” fame; Two professional dancers friend« in the afternoon. from the Portland theatre were very good; Mr. Ed Collins received Dr. and Mrs. F.. I.. Booker and great applause for his vaudeville Misses MVrtle and Maxine Maxwell stunt He was ably supported on the motored to Salem Sunday a n d piano by Miss Keren Mills; Mrs. spent the day with the Maxwell Katie Johnson, assisted by Mrs. Le family. na Green staged a fine cake-kvalk. The Old Rose Club ha» sent as its The affair was to benefit the expens* delegat: to the National Association fund of the delegates to the Nation., of Colored W omen’s Clubs in al Federation meeting held in W ash Washington, D. C., to reprextn them, ington, D. C. July 27 —Aug. 3rd. Mr*. Cora Coffee, its efficient pres The Revue was a success. Another ident. Mrs. Coffee’s long experience method to raise funds whch was in club and fraternal work and her also successful was selling tags by atteAidanre upon meetings o f this permission of city authorities. character, eminently fit hrr for real The delegates are Mrs. Bonnie (representation of this progressive Bogle and Mrs. G. V. Grayson, club. Mrs. Coffee will go east to vi both prominent in local club and sit friends for a month at the close Y. W. C. A. work. Mr*.- Rogle will of the Convention, before returning leave Sunday for Washington. Mrs. home to make her report. Grayson is a candidate for the o f - o fice of National Second Recording Mrs. F.. D. Cannady took Miss Secretary and she goes with the en Mary White Ovington for an auto- dorsement of the N. W Federation mobile sightseeing trip Saturday, and the Oregon Staljr Federation of Colored Women. July 14th. DRY WABH ROUGH WASH EAST 0883 ■Af»~ 3883 NEW SYSTEM LAUNDRY Chestnut W rites N ew Novel Cleveland, Ohio, July It— Recently awarded the Spingarn Medal for bit "pioneer work ai a literary artist de picting the life and struggle of Afro- American* , and for his long and useful career as scholar, worker and freeman of on* of America's great««1* cities," Mr. Charles W. Che«uutt an nounces that he ha» jus* completed what will be his first novel in twenty years. ..The book,” he elate», "is a novel dealing with Negro life of the present day, just as my former no vels dealt with same subject twen ty-five years ago.” This book, the name of which Mr. I hesnutt is not ready to divulge, and which will be off thr press during the winter, will be his seventh He began writing *hort »tories in 1HM7 for thr Atlantic Monthly. These he later collected in a book and called the "The Conjure Woman.” Thi» .was followed by “The Wife of His Youth" and “The I-ife o f Frederick Douglass.” In 1900, he wrote his most famous book, "T he House Be hind the Cedars." to be followed by "The Marrow of Tradition." and in (90S "The Colonel's Dream.” Mrs. B J. Fuller write» The Ad vocate from Ktalanuuqo, Mich., that «he is still enjoying her trip Her friend», the Gibsons, drove over to Chicago from their home in Kala mazoo and took her back with them. Mrs Fuller says: "I am having such a swell time. I don’t know when I • hall return.” She will motor thru a great part of Michigan before go ing on to Kentucky. MORE ABOUT MISS O V IN G T O N (Continued from page one) ti-lynching legislation, the speaker said «he did not believe such legis lation would pa»» soon, nor did she regard it important, but that through the Association had brought to the attention of the American People for the first time the real truth about lynching She urged the people here to work for the passage of a Civil Rights law referring to the benefits derived from such a law by the col ored people of the State o f New 5 ork el al. She »aid that the Association wa» 90 per cent colored »nd 10 per cent white and she favored the organiza tion of white group« in each locality who would assist the branches in time of criais. Miss Ovington traced the course of literature about the Negro from the popular "Leopard Spot" by Dixon 24 years ago which dispara ged the race to the books of today such as DuBois Souls of Black Folk; Cullen’s poems Johnson's et al for the Bahai Assembly Friday the 13. For all stom ach and intestinal trouble« and d istu rb a n ce « d u e to teething, there ia noth ing better than a sale Infants’ and C hildren !« Laxative. MftS.WlNSftOW*S S rm u p Notice to the public UPPOSE L YOU you are today paying 50c a tube for your r tootK tooth paste (and there are manv very good denti frices selling today at that price). Suppose, like most peo ple. you buy about twelve tubes during a year. Now if you knew that you could buy as good a dentifrice as can be made and still save each year the price of 25 loaves of bread or 60 bars of soap or 40 pounds o f sugar or a box o f fine cigars— could you conscientiously fail to take advantage of such an opportunity? That ia exactly what you do when you buy Listciine Tooth Paste at 25c for a large tube. Figure it out for youraelf. LISTERINE ORIGINATORS OF INDIVIDUAL WASHING • TOOTH PASTE Wa Do Not Mark Your Clothing Large T ub« 2 IN 1 WABH WET WASH 607 E. Flanders, Portland, Oragon _______________________________________ ■ 25 ? ADVOCATE PAGE THREE it ran be Ussened by local initiative, it ran and should be wiped ont by national enactment It ia clear from P eople two recent murder« that lynching) «till need* to be stopped A Federal Anti-Lynching Law should write in é' ií *• New York, July 13—Th* National to the statutes of tbe nation the de Association for the Advancement of termination o f America to put down Colored People, W Fifth Avenue, to m*»b rut*. L B P. O. E. OP THE WORLD day made public the full text of the friafranchiaement and segregation, Address to the American People race hatred and war, all are step* aodpted at its 19th Annual Confer toward the same degeneracy. W e ence in Loa Angeles The Address have driven official residential seg drawn up by a Committee of which regation out from the protection of Dr. W K B. Du Knit is Chairman, the law; but it continues to be com ia aa follows: mon in real estate manipulation and The year of thr ('residential Elec- by voluntary agreement. Some seg NOTICE ton brings forcibly lo the mind of regation by race of American citizen- every American, white or black, the Is «till practised and persisted in the Dahlia Temple No. 202, I. B. P insistent problem of Democratic departments of the Federal Govern 0. E. of W., of Portland, Oregon, Government in tbe U. S. The ment at Washington It ia due to meet« the lat and 3rd Tursrta; National Association for thr Ad- our unremitting effort that tbi* open nighta in each month at Stag Audi vancctnrnt of Colored People in its defiance of the constitution i* no torium. All viaiting Daughter 19th Annual Conference reiterates longer general. Whatever political Elks in good standing in their re its charge that the disfranchisement power we have, should be used to spective Tempiea are invited to of the majority of intelligent adult continue the fight. meet with ua. Negroes in the United States ia not DOLLY PARIES, In the past, racial discrimination simply a race problem, it is a prob in the United States ha« been re Daughter Ruler lem of Democracy and it affects the peated! y excused on account of the entire nation and thr whole world ignorance of the descendants of the ROSE CITY LODGE No. I ll, I. T E T R O N E L JACKSON, If Democracy is discredited and »laves, despite the fact that this ig B. P. 0. E. of W„ MEETS th« srirered at today, it it very largely Daughter Secretary norance was once notoriously made 2ND AND 4TH WEDNESDAY because of its partial failure in the compulsory by law. Even today EVENINGS OF EACH MONTH United States. W* are today domi with the tremendous advance which AT THE STAG AUDITORIUM. nated openly by «elfish private in- black Americans have made in in 381J4 E. MORRISON STREET. Syracuse Lodge, No teresta, rather than by free and in telligence. their means of education ALL VISITING BROTHERS L K. of P., meets the telligent public opinion; and this is are deplorably limited. In the chief ARE CORDIALLY INVITED second and fourth Fri no small measure because tbe dis centers of Negro population there is day nights each month franchisement of J,7S0,000 black vo open discrimination in the salaries at the Stag Auditorium T. H. WILLIAME, E. R. ters i„ the South ha* involved the ’ o f teachers, length of school terms, 381J4 E Morrison St disfranchisement of more than 5 STAG AUDITORIUM provision of housing and equipment, L. A. ASHFORD, C. C. million Southern whi e voters. Des and amount o f money spent on white SSV/z E. Morrison St 328 Wheeler St. pite an increase of 100 per cent in and Negro public schools. thr voting population of 11 South A recent document published in W Y A T T W IL L IA M S. Secretary, H. B. T R U IT T. ern states, and despite the 19th A- the Congressional Record shows that 836—E. 30th Street K. of R. A S mendmrnt, we face the astonishing the states which have separate schools fact that in the last four years the for Negroes have only 3,000 college voting population there has increas students, where they orjlit to have ed only 50 per cent and in the South 27,000. and receive only $2,300,00(1 a ern South, there has been practically year from State and National funds, no increase in the number of voters when they ought to receive twelve in a generation millions. This is illegal and uncon These facts, together with the dis stitutional and socially suicidal. Tt franchisement of the foreign-born in must be remedied and wy must re England, and the gerrymandering of Will Promote a Full Growth of Hair. medy it by ballots and by court of congressional districts elsewhere, Will alao Restore the Strength, action. give the astonishing result that a Vitality and the Beauty o f the Our economic situation is still million voters can elect 45 Congress Hair. If your Hair is Dry and precarious and deplorable. W e have men in he South and 16 in New Eng Wiry, T r y - more difficulty than white folk in land, but only 13 in the Middle Wes* securing decent work and we are and 12 on the Pacific Coast. paid less for the same jobs. W e F'acts such as these arc ruining denounce the secret enmity toward the interest of Americans in elections black workers which is still mani all-over the United States. Ordin fested by those American trade un arily, scarcely one eligible American If you are bothered w\ h Falling ions which acquiesce in discrimina voter out of three goes to the polls, Dandruff, Itching Scalp, or any Hair tion toward them and in opposition Trouble, we want you to try a jar of and the number o f citizens 21 years to their membership and employ EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER. The of age and over who did not vote [remedy contains medical properties that in the last election, reached 90 per* ment. W e should refuse to use our go to the roots of the Hair, stimulates cent in two states: 70-90 per cent in political power to advance the cause the skin, helping nature do its work. 7 states; from 50 to 70 per cent in of white unionism when it stands Leaves the hair soft and silky. Perfumed with a 9 states; and from 40-50 per cent in for color discrimination. W e rejoice kalui of a thousand flowers. The best known remedy at the continued growth and devel 16 states. opment o f economic Negro culture, for Heavy and Beautiful Black Eye-Brows, also Thus, Democratic Government in restores Gray Hair to its Natural Color. Can be used art and literature. Despite efforts! the United State* has become a with Hot Iron for Straightening. farce, primarily because for the sake within and without the race to pros titute beauty to filth and defeatism. of disfranchising black men, white Price Sent by Mail, 50c; 10c Extra for Postage America has been willing to disfran W e are still objects of petty public Aug.vrs OUTFIT insult, coupled with economic theft. I Hair Grower, 1 Tempi« S. D. LYONS chise itaelf. Oil. 1 Shampoo, 1 Preeatn* In time of public calamity, like the Oil. 1 Face Cream and direc 316 N. Central Dept. B The National Association fur the Mississippi flood, we are treated in tion fo r «ellin*. |2. I V Extra Advancement of Colored People in for Poeta*«. Oklahoma City, Okla. Itiany instances like slaves and crim this year of the Presidential Election inals. W e still lack the right to en calls on th© nation for a new faith in ter many places of public accomo Democracy without regard to race dation, and especially we continue or color. The American ballot must to pay railroads in the South fot be re-established on a real basis of accomodations which we do not re intelligence and character. Only in ceive. These public carriers, even such way can this nation face the in interstate traffic, enforce a specie* tirmendous problems befors it; the of discrimination so outr»"»uos and problem of free speech and an un- so obviously illegal as to call for im subsidizcd press and civil liberty for all people; the problem of imperial mediate redress before the courts. ism and the emancipation of Haiti, Our great weapon of offense against all this is the ballot. W e must not Nicaragua, Cuba, the Philippines and Hawaii from the Government of give it up. W e must register and American banks; the overshadowing vote whenever and wherever we can. AND SAVE THE DIFFERENCE problem of peace among the nations W c must not mortgage our vote to faithless and corrupt political organ and o f decent and intelligent co-op izations. W e must demand in return eration in the real advancement of Agents for for our political allegiance, educaton, the natives of Africa and Asia, to decent home surroundings, public gether with freedom for China, In Butterick protection and national respect. Be dia and Egypt Patterns hind that ballot and fighting for it If we need the power of intelli stands the National Association for and gent democracy for these broader the Advancement of Colored People. Publications matters, we need it all the more her* No American, black or white, does The most in value-Th* in quality in our own land and for tbe specific his full duty who does not support hurts of the population that this its policies and its work. Association especially represents. W e hail and greet our friends. For the first time in a generation there has passed in the United North and South, black and white, States one period of one hundred and whose liberal thought in word and twenty days when a human being deed, in platform, newspaper, class has not been lynched by a mob. The room, hook and press, is forwarding gratification of recording such a fact the day of our complete emancipa only increases the sense of utter tion Address T o American THE EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER EaSt India Hair Grower Buy For Cash P. shame that a great modern nation must needs rejoice at so elementsry an exhibition of decency. If lynch ing can he stopped for four month* it can be stopped for four years. If FINLEY & Here SON MORTICIANS Montgomery at Fifth Phone Day or Night Atwater 2181 F e e r á f m in t The Laxative Toa Chow Like Gam N e T asta B a ttìi« Mint C. Gee W o 28 years in Portland C. 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