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NEGRO BANKER SETS EXAMPLE IN TOLERANCE
COLORED MAN LEAVES $100,000 TO ALMA MAT
TO GROWN “ MISS OHIO”
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AT N. A. A. C. P. MEET
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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."
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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