In the interest of All T H E ADVOCATE la Published Only 92.50 Per Yew Subscribe Por I ti THE V ul. «ft— N o . II» ADVOCATE » A u VCT u M ill T H E ADVOCATE It Circulates In All The 8tatee And Foreign Countries PRICE: PORTLAND, OREGON SATURDAY, JANUARY ft, !!>«!» B CENTS NEGRO BANKER SETS EXAMPLE IN TOLERANCE COLORED MAN LEAVES $100,000 TO ALMA MAT TO GROWN “ MISS OHIO” j AT N. A. A. C. P. MEET r iI tAL T INTER-RACIAL MELT ACQUITTAL A CREDIT TO MISSISSIPPI AIDS WHITE AND LABOR MEMBERS BUCK THE SAME I; BARS PRESS. NEGRO Washington, I». C., J mu. 4. — The National Inter-Kail*I ( nnferencc ti n t Held a three-day session m tin» city i» accused by the American Negro Labor C tingre»» ol having tiarred represen tativea i.l Negro lalror ogani/ationa loin it» sesiona, denying them the right to »end delegate» The A N. L C. contend» that a» a retult of thi» action the labor viewpoint was prevented by a reactionary rrp rrtc n ta tiv r only <•( the lieurarracy of the A. F. o( I.. That the N egro preta w-aa barred al»o i* the accusation of the Pitta- burg C ourier, which, in its i»»ue ol D rrrm lier 20, report» that the se»»ion» "w ere held liehind closed door», with the pre»» barred So com pletely w ai the fourth estate kept out, that an exam ination ol the 'guest' list (ails to disclose one ineinlier ol the prexs." - o ------- ASSOCIATE EDITOR HAS INTERESTING T R IP TO EAST A rm in g in Chicago on Saturday evening over the O riental Limited, Mr» E. 1». C annady w ai met at the depot by Mr». L. II. I’reston, a time- honored friend, and was driven to the residence of Mr. and Mrs Charles H ftentley, on South Michigan Avc.. where she n u d e her home while in the W indy City. On Sunday, Mrs. Cannady worship- lied at St. M arka Church, where she attended Sunday School a num ber of years ago while a student at Chicago U niversity, and voice pupil of l>. A. C lippingrr, at Kimball Kail. Mrs. C annady wax introduced to the Sunday School and was requested to address the young folks, which she did. T h at evening »he was the dinner guext of Mrs. P reston and the Crolley family. O n C hristm as Day, she was a guest of honor at dinner at the home of her hrotlitr-in law and his wife, Mr and Mrs. Janies Fdw in Stam ps. Mr Stam ps is agent-m anager of the V ic­ tory Life In su ran ce Co. of Chicago. C hristm as night, she attended a su r­ prise birthday party, honoring Mrs. M. C. It. Mason, at the M ason a p a rt­ ments. W ednesday and T hursday were (C ontinued on page four) W YATT W. W ILLIAM S Attorney at Law W ith Julius Silvcstone, 523-524 Lumbermen* Bldg. Attorney and Counselor Phonta: Br 0635— Sail. 6260 Portland’s (B y W illiam Pickana) N ever in our life have we heard of anything m ore honorable to a S o u th ­ ern Slate than is the acquittal of Mr. *erry H ow ard, to Mississippi. Twelve white Southerlies in a S outhern court th at was about all white, as are all New York. Ja n 4.—O bjection to the courst in Mississippi, said " N o ” when location of a com bined school for the the false N orthern friends of a prom i- Colored race in Tennessee, on the part of whites, was met by a lesson in tol- ] erance by Jesse llinga, Chicago bank-1 er. according to the N. A. A. C. P., ■looting (rum an article in the cu rren t I "A m erican M issionary.'’ It appears that at the very time o p ­ position to this C olored school was j being m anifest, an appeal was going out over the radio for funds for a school for white students in the same j State of Tennessee. O ne of the silent listeners to the appeal was Jesse llinga —w ho prom ptly sent his check The gift brought a reply from the C han- ! ccllor of the T ennessee school, which said “ W hen one reaches your plane of j thought and feeling, h r is of necessity raised at>ove racial o r religious c o n ­ sciousness and m erged into what may be designated as the cosmic n u n — broad, sym pathetic, to leran t and. as Lincoln expressed it, 'w ith malice to ­ w ard none and charity for all'.'* T h is Chicago hanker, a Catholic in religion, co ntributes to Catholic schools, N egro churches, Jew ish Y M 's A., C ongregational In stitu tio n s,, the Y M. C. A , the United C harities, and tw o independent schools in the 1 Mr. Pirkttu South — one C olored and the oth er 1 nent black man tried to spring a politi­ white. cal deadfall upon him. T hose white ju ro rs were perhaps all Mr and Mrs. Jam es M Russel, ol D em ocrats, o r at least the court as a 1281 F. tilth St. N „ extend their sin­ whole was m ost decidedly D em ocratic cere thanks and best w ishrs to the —in o th er w ord, they were political D aughter Elks for the gift of a basket o pponents of P erry H ow ard. He had of groceries for C hristm as not been helping them all these years, -----------o ---------- hut he had been helping those who were try in g to kill him — and these Read white S o utherners am ong whom hr had lived and whose political am b i­ S12 Mai Irav Building tions and trad itio n s he had often thw arted, were his defenders against the treach ery of his "friends." Now, when M ississippi has done w rong to the N egro, as M ississippi often has, we have never "bit our to ngue" in saying w hat we thought of M ississippi's conduct. W e have not feared to blam e M issisippi; neither will we fear to praise her. In acquitting this N egro leader, the white people of M ississippi have upset a whole string of preconceived ideas as to "how the South will alw ays act." It has been supposed by a lot of peo­ A food for pro­ ple that the South was still, to a man. or to a white man at least, in that tein; a food for stage of social b arb arity that would m in eral salts; t cause them im m ediately to tear to for calcium and I pieces any prom inent black man whom phosphorus; all I they got a chance to d estroy; that I they would destroy him most assured- the essential ele­ : !y if he was prom inent in politics; and m ost dam nably of all, if he had been ments for health rival against white people. and strength are • a successful It has also been supposed that any found in good | N egro w ho had grow n som ew hat bigger than his Southern environm ent cheese. And all and had come to he a national figure the essential ele­ and to spend m uch time, say in New m ents of good York or W ashington, would be sacri­ ficed with the ringing of bells and the cheese are found blowing of w histles, if ever the South­ in Kraft Cheese. ern gentlem en got him into their net, by fair o r foul m eans. A nd it has been firm ly believed th at alw ays and everyw here a N egro who is econom i­ cally independent or a fair financial success, would be destroyed econom i­ cally and reputably, if not corporeally KRAFFPHENIX and "bodaciously." as soon as his THE ADVOCATE 1D elicious C ^o o d M A H ® CHEESE SAYS HAYS PAYS $35,000 FIRST BACHELOR OF “ARROW TIPS” ARTS DEGREE RECIP­ IENT LEAVES A HUGE New Y ork, Jan. 4.—A "M is* O hio" By Kits Reid SUM TO UNIVERSITY conteat i t being held by the branches in that S tate of the N. A. A. C. P., the winner to be crow ned in C leve­ Mi»* Crystal Byrd Said to The Advocate does not necessarily land next June, during the T w entieth 'hare in Kita Reid's view*, but wheth­ Many House«, Stocks and Have Lollerted Sum A nniversary C onference of the N. A. er we do or not. her opinions are Bonds, Comprise tane. and logical and well worth A. C. P. T he co n testan ts and their A fter Threatening reading. It ia your privilege as well as friends are raising m oney th ru m em ­ ours to disagree with Kite and she Gift to Fisk. berships, donations and "C risis" su b ­ of Suit. invites your opinion upon subjects ibe discusses from time to time in her scription*. column. O th er branches thruout the country NASVfLLE, T enn., Jan. (A P ) NEW Y O R K —T h at R oland Hayes, arc conducting "O n-to-C leveland” con­ I wonder when kings and cardinals —James Dallas Burrus, 82, first negro the internationally fam ous tenor, has tests o r baby contests. T h e first prize settled out of court for S3*,000 a th reat­ will learn that the common man feels [ to take a bachelor of a rt degree in a for the “O n-to-C leveland” contest it a ened breach of prom ise suit by M ist he has a divine right to "think out" his college south of the M ason-Dixon line, trip to the C onference as one of the C rystal Byrd, form er Y. W. C. A. sec- own God ? That if the scientists demon- w ho died of a heart attack on a street delegates of the branch. retary, if the widely circulated rum or »trate the necessity for a new concep- car here D ecem ber 5, left approxim - C ontests are now pending in the persisting am ong the close friends of tion of the idea of the Father other ately $100,000 to Fisk university, following S tates and cities: Illinois— the couple according to the K ansas than that settled upon by the theolog- j T he estate, which includes 8$ houses B loom ington and D anville: Indiana— C ity Call. ‘ans of several centuries ago, that the in N ashville and stock* and bonds, T erre H aute; M ichigan—G rand R ap­ A t an y rate, Miss B yrd has gone to new idea is none the less re v e re n t Just will be used for an endow m ent of ids and Saginaw ; M ississippi—Jack- Europe for tw o years study, tailing re- 'hink of the days when kings and cardi- teaching and for the erection of a fac- son; New Mexico— L as C ruces; N orth j “ l* thought the best way to teach a ulty apartm ent house on the Fisk cam- C arolina — C harlotte; O hio — A kron i cently. H er close freinds are responsible for j person the truth about God was to put. and Cleveland; Pennsylvania— H a rris­ B urrus w as graduated at Fisk col- the sto ry th a t their m any-year-old en- stretch the unfortunate man or woman burg; W est V irginia—C harleston and] gagem ent beginning in the obscure, on the rack and turn the screws until lege, a negro institution here. Logan C ounty; W isconsin—Beloit and poor days of both in B oston, has been his bones were broken. O f course, they ----------- 0 Milwaukee. broken. M any of them declare that don’t do that now. T here are new ways the huge settlem ent w as paid by Mr. of teaching truth even in religion. Does “ CAL” LORDS IT OVER H ayes out of the goodness of his heart. ;t not say somewhere in the Bible “Let Murion Antlertton to Give NEGRO WORKERS feeling as he does that he is response 'here be light?” It may be shocking to Fimi New York Recital ble for her long spinsterhood. A n- sundry cardinals that light is now being Sea Island, Ga., Jan. 4.— "Lording” other says th a t it is confirm ation of turned on some of the old ideas. I am the reputed m arriage of H ayes to an not afraid of new ideas about God $s it over 256 underpaid Negro workers New York, Jan. 4.— M arion A nder­ A ustrian C ountess. A n o th er says that long as the old ideas are not destroyed ° n , *le 8reat Sapelo estate on Sapelo son, well known as a contralto, who Miss B yrd’s departure for E urope is —that God is love, justice, mercy and Island, off the coast of Georgia, Presi­ has had a successful E uropean tour, for the purpose of ultim ately m arry in g brotherhood. And these, no scientist dent Coolidge whiled away his Xmas is to give her first New Y ork recital H ayes and safeguading the fam ous has as yet destroyed. vacation he aw arded himself only a of the season in Carnegie H all, on few m onths after hit summer vaca­ singer against the w iles of designing -------- Sunday evening. tion. O n S aturdays, Coffin's Negro E uropean adm irers. Miss B yrd is said I wonder where we will be when the how ever, on good au thority, to have Legislature gets through with the in­ w orkers were ordered to amuse Mr. declared before leaving that their en­ come tax measure, which the T ax Com­ Coolidge with a rodeo. On Sunday he stam ped his presidential seal on K. OF P. HOLDS ITS gagem ent w as finally broken. mission will submit to it ? There is only one of the ancient legends, dedicat­ one way to look at the recommendations ANNUAL ELECTION ing a m em orial tablet to hang on the of the sub-committee which the news­ tree w hich is said to have grown from papers have given us as to the prosper­ WOMAN HONORED I an acorn th at grew on the tree from ity offset. It looks to me simply as a Friday night of last week, Syracuse ; which the keel and ribs of the frigate measure proposed in the interest of my Lodge, K. of P„ elected officers as C onstitution were hewn. follow s: Lee C. A nderson (re-elected) Firat Colored Woman to Receive Thi* landlord and other larger property hold- j ers, leaving us renters and workingmen C. C.; W ilbur M arshall. V. C ; Sam Official Registration. to pay the tax. Now then, the way I Sm ith. P relate; L. A. A shford, M. F.; understand it is in this fashion: If my Alberta Yvonne Mayo W. W . Brown, K of R. & S. ; N im rod landlord pays $250 property tax, and his announces Jackson (re-elected for the fiftieth T uskegee Institute, Ala., Jan. 4.— income tax am ounts to $250, and the tim e), M aster of E xchequer T he the opening of a class in Mrs. Frances C arpenter M cShann. a property tax offset is placed at 100 per following T rustees were elected: W . Private and Class Lessons dietician at T uskegee Institute, has cent of the income tax, the landlord pays C. H olliday and R obert Gilmer. recently been appointed A m erican Red no income tax at all. H is property tax Clarence W hite, M. A.; E. D. C an­ PIANO C ross dietician, follow ing an exam ina- exempts him. But I, his renter, owning nady, M. W . tion taken at the headquarters in no property, pay an income tax ju s t the T he Inner and O uter G uards will be Studio W ashington, D. C. She is the first same. So, my friends, who pays the appointed by the C. C. at the next colored w om an to receive official reg- income taxes? We poor devils who can- 8 7 8 Union Avenue N orth m eeting, at which time, the installa­ istration fo r this w ork. | not, even now, save enough to buy a tion of officers will be held. Trinity 1676 T he appointm ent authorizes her to T he election was one of the m ost teach n u tritio n and food selection to (Continued on page four) peaceful and harm onious that has been Red C ross units. T h e Red C ross held in the lodge for a long time. g ran ts a certificate for this work. E very m em ber has pledged him self Mrs. M cShann is a graduate of the to w ork for the increase of the m em ­ H ow ard U niversity and she form erly bership for 1929. served as a dietician at Freedm an's MISS H ospital. Mrs. E. D. C annady retu rn ed hom e | —w hen— Gladys Catching»« to Attend on M onday evening from a business Cleveland M eeting Jan. 6 trip in the E ast. YOU R^ LY SOMETHING ------- < o „ . New York, Jan. 4.— Miss G ladys Catching», the Colored nurse at the F eennan H ospital in W ashington, w ho was ousted because of her color from a special training course at the Sloanc M aternity H ospital in New Y ork, will be present and will speak at the a n ­ nual m ass m eeting on Sunday a fter­ noon, January 6, of the N. A. A. C. P. — FRANK HUGHES PASSES F rank H ughes, a m an about town, w ho w orked as a porter in the Stage ; T erm inal B uilding on Y am hill St., was found dead on T uesday m orning in his room at 95G Russell St. It is. believed th at heart trouble w as the cause of his death. YOU ATTEND MOUNT OLIVET Good Choir — Good Preaching Goo ? ^ • DENTIST explain ev& I,