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
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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
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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
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