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7 THE. % A n VOL. 2A No. 34 'N TW O SECTIONS ADVOCATE " I n d e p e n d e n t P e p e r D e v o te d to th e I n te r e s ts p f th e ' ................ . ■■■ :r . ---------------- U - J ---------1 P e o p le SECTION I. PORTLAND, OREGON, SA T U R D A Y , JU LY 8. 1930 . PRICE: FIVE CENTS NEGRO BAPTITS HOLD CONVENTION HERE ELAN STAGES DEMONSTRATION TO SCARE RACE MANY DELEGATES TO ATTEND SESSIONS Ml. Olivet dim reti to He II on I IN FIRST SECTY m s MASONS TO BUILD NINE SIX LYNCHED MONTHS IT 1930 S E N S E A£ f D MASONS MEET to Wu»ll¡ll|(tOI|o Oregon Clmrrlie*. Announcement I* made by Dr. J. I- Casluii, |>aalor, that the Ml Hamicr Baptist Association made up of all the Baptist Churches weal of the Cas cade a in Washington and Oregon, will meet with Ml Ohvcl Baptist church, I aal T irat and Schuyler atreela, here July a to 13 inclusive. Seventy-five del egates and viailora are expected. The Aaeocialinn will include the Sunday School, Young People's and Women's Horne and Foreign Missionary depart- ■iienta. The program call» for an informal meeting of the delegates Tueaday night July a Wednesday morning the ses sion will be given over to the Young People's work with Mrs. Uelle Henry presiding A symposium on "The It Y P. U." will lie one of the features and a sermon delivered by the Rev. S W Franklin, a pioneer minister of the Northwest will be the other. The Sunday School Convention, with Wc W Caamon, in the chair, will con duct a symposium in the afternoon on ------ wp--------- u ai m c ctvoe roo mi i I mi moi a aiiiUM ClU'M AlUHl AMO C i TV COWNC Ik a m ic a n o “ Sliur|i IVnril Hoys” Figure High FinaiHTH Vi i 11 1 P 11 1 > 1 1 » M a rk e t Here ia a lesson in high finance that we poor dumb bells learn from the sharp pencil boys promoting the new private market corporation They are trying to put over a market building on F'ronl Street if they ran induce the City Council to legislate our Yamhill Street Markrt into the aforcaaid ‘'mil lion dollar" private market F'irst of all these sharp pencil, high- finance boya are going to pay the city $13,000 a year for the farmer stalls privilege Out of the $r .*.000 the city pays out over one-fourth for sal — Please turn to page 4— aries, which leaves us approximately MOOO net The promoters will rent a large number of stoles for which they will receive big money. This we don't begrudge them, as it is their privilege £hcn they are going to rent 342 stalls to the farmt-ra. That ¡a where you and I come in Aa consumer!, we "pay the freight." The farmers are to pay 33 rents to II no per day for the stalli. At 33 By Kits Reid cents a day this amounts to the enor mous sum of $36,30* 30 per year. At the maximum of l i no per day, this The Advocate does not neceaaarily chare in Kits Reid's views, bat wheth- amounts to $I04.3!0. do per year. If ir we do or not. her opinions are you strike an average between the 33 cane, and logical and wall worth ernta and It oo per day rate, the rent reading. It is roar privilege aa wall as out a to disagree with Kits and -aha al fesr the farmers stalls reaches the invites roar opinion upon subiects gigantic sum o( 170,40V 23 per year , discusses front time to time in her This means that we will h u e to pay sh e. lumn. colmi two and three timet the price of veg- rtablrs and farm produce than we are Almut 33 of the younger set, includ now paying (Tf you don't approve of mg dispermia, met at the home of Mr. this, bring all your friends to the City und Mts. léonard Croce white, t03T llatl on Wednesday afternoon, July Division Street, Monday evening and V, at 2 ini I’ M ) This rental can be gate Mrs. J L. Cation one of the meet changed after two y e a rs-y o u can pleasant surprise birthday parties of the guess the rest revision upward! season. Delicious refreshments were __________________ ________ «erved and Mrs. Cation was presented | with a «gfjf pretty purse at a token of McCLOUD, CAL., their esteem in honor of her natal day IS HOST TO She was also the recipient of several other personal gifts and beautiful cards CONFERENCE Arrow After reading the Coolidgc effusions on the front page of The Oregonian, I marvel more than 1 did last week at the waste of valuable space. Soothing- syrup just plain soothing-syrup. Not the g o o d old fashioned brand, ritber. The kind that was warranted to bring sleep to the crying baby and peace to the wearied mother and father. This Coolidge brand of toothing syrup will have no such effect. Its purpose it to transparent that I wonder it passed the financial syndicate's chemists. First, it says we must take it in large enough doses to stop our howling about hard times, and the first dose must he fol lowed by another dose which will so liemintb the faculties that we shall have faith in "our country, our people, our civil and religious institutions." Then in case we survive the opiate in the two (loses, Nurse Coolidge gave us on Tues day and discontent twists our tummy all up again in tile colic of distrust and doubt, he gives us a larger dose on Wednesday and pats us on the lack and The District Conference of the Cas cade District o( the Oregon-W ashing- ton conferences of the African Metho dist Episcopal /io n church convened at McCloud, California. July 2 to A with the Rt. Rev. J W. Martin, bis hop presiding Rev. T. Allen Harvey ol Sacramento j s the presiding Elder of the Conferences. Am ong the de partments of tlie church represented on the program are the Sunday school, Varick Christian Fmdeavor, the W o man's Home and Foreign Missionary Societies, the Y*S and Huds of Promise. District officers include, Miss Charity Harris /io n represrnative, Mrs. K. Gray, Mrs. I.. M. Rird, Mrs. R. If. Camp, Mrs C F. I.ovell and Mrs. M fitter Mrs. Beatrice Cannady was elected to represent the Varick Soci ety with Miss J Mills alternate. The last sessions of the Conference will be held at F'irst A. M. E. Zion church at Portland, F'riday, Saturday and Sun day, (Colored Manonic Lodge of Western State* Plan Fine Modern Building The 27lh Annual Communication of the Most Worshipful United Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons of Washington and Jurisdiction will con Winlock, Wash., July I.— Plans have vene in Portland July 14 to 1A inclu been announced for the erection near sive F'ntcrpritc Lodge of Masons of Evaiine, north o f Winlock, by the Portland have made elaborate plans for Masonic lodges of the states o f Wash- the entertainment of the delegates and I ington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, of gursts who wi|J be here to attend this a home for the aged and infirm members annual meet Interesting programs of their Rare, and others deserving of cornplrtrly fill the two-days' session j their care. Reported cost of the first with a grand reception to be held unit of the home is placed at $33,(100. Tuesday evening July 13 at the Filks The proposed home ia to serve the Temple. Phil Reynolds is the Dep needs o f the Northwestern states named uty Grand Master; Joseph T. Simms, The site which was chosen includes a Grand Master; Robert Bird, Grand no acre tract half a mile east of the Treasurer; Fred U. Harris, Grand Sec- Evalinc store, on the south side o f the retary; R H. Gray, Grand Lecturer Meier road. About five acres of the and W. H. Wilson, C. of C. on F.C. tract have already been cleared I.ate in April, Master J. C. Sims of Yfkima, Trustee Wiliams of Seattle, Trustee G. N. White, Portland, and Lillian Evunli I* Grand Secretary F. U. Harris Tacoma, Acciaimeli at Najtle* inspected the property, Naples. Italy, July 1—A. N P .)— Mine. Lillian Flvanti, who has had con cert triumphs both in America and also abroad, won the praise of critical Italian l‘T",r ..... naU whfn ,he W r e d here ini Oscar DePrieat. Congreaaman from ' Rapprevrntarion. Straordmaria." I1KnoU who w„ in effigy ln which she sang ,he title role of Open, Birmia|gham> A u „ . fcw by u * . .. .. . „ the Ku Klux Klan The City Audi- Her operatic debut, which climax*» a , , , . . . . . tonum was refuted the local commit- kjnf period of fttudjr under foreign mast # ~ ers. was commented upon by lead,-,, ««* of colormf m « , ^ H u o n n g Mr. De- It,'*u. papers, one of which is a. U |ow ( Pn“ * 1 Wcn,r* ,n a t* Mr Prieat although warned by the Klan "Last night, the Signor,na Lilliana Evanti was warmly feasted by the pub Ik and deservedly so, in the role of “ Violetta" in "La Traviata." Her part, in truth, gives full value to her voice, which is well modulated and true to pitch She ga\e to the personage a combination o f poetry and dramatk feel ing, with a style full of grace and o f Iwauty. She was greatly applauded at the end of each act and at all of the high points." not *° •PP*ar « Birmingham. th« ha ia going to keep hia engagement there. MABLE BYRD VISITS OLD HOME Miss Mahle Byrd is expected to arrive in Fortland early this month for a visit with relatives and friends Miss Byrd, whose hixnc is in Fortland, was the first secretary of the Williams Ave. Y. Wr. C. A. She later served as secretary of a New York "Y " and since that time has spent much of Iter time abroad. She will be widely feted during her visit in Fortland, as she has a host of friends who are happy to have her home again. MISS HURBARI) IN RECITAL Become« N. A. A. C. P. “ Life Member” Miss Barbara Hubbard was among the pupils of Paul Hutchinson, presented in recital last Monday evening at the Sunnysidc Congrcgatioal Church, to an D O N T SPEN D Y O U R M O N E Y appreciative audience. She sang "Only W H E R E Y O U C A N N O T W O R K I a Rose” from the Boatman Lover, by Friell, and was ably accompanied on the FOR RENT—Two-story unfurnished piano by Miss Helen Grant. Miss Hub bard, who possesses a rich soprano voice, house. S i a m . 7.18 Tillamook St. Phone was beautiful received by the guests who Atwater 9840.—Ad. gave her number much applause. A large number o f her intimate friends were present to hear her. Miss Hub bard was quite charming in a pretty creation of green organdy. She is the only Colored pupil studying with Mr. Hutchinson. The recital of artist pupils marked the close of the season. Miss Hulibard plans to renew her work with Mr. Hutchinson after vacation. Make Por Hand’s Own Rev. and Mrs, W. R. Lovell, Mrs. The Advocate acknowledges with ap Mary Johnson, Louise Ballard, and Ida preciation complimentary tickets to the l-ovell, spent Tuesday at the Johnson opening of Lotus Isle, F'alonia, Ore., W H E R E Y O U C A N N O T W O R K ! Ranch. as the special guest of its manager, T. H. F'slick, in the beautiful Peacock Ball Room, last Saturday afternoon. Lotus Hpend your Hummer vacation at . . . Isle is really the "most ambitious amuse ment and recreation enterprise ever at SUNFLOWER CAMP tempted in Oregon, and it is hoped that its popular promoter will not he dis J. W. Curry, Owner HEA8IDE, OREGON appointed in attaining the success he has Itextfiil Swings Croquet— Horseshoe Throwing predicted for it. spf : n d YOUR M ONEY and Fishing Within 100 Feet of Camp Furnished Cottages and Furnished Tents fo r Rent! Mrs. Madelyn Flowers Will He There to Serve You at Any Time Pay or Night That You Arrive Dahlia Temple, No. 202, I B. P. O. D. E. of W. has a A0 day dispensation during which time it hopes to enroll a number of new members. This popular fraternal order is ruled over by Mrs. Pauline Young, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, July KLAN SAYS EQUALITY ,— According to the records compiled at Tuskegee Institute in the Depart- Springfield, Mass, July I—That the OF WORKERS “ BAD ment of Records and Research ip the American Negro is able not alone to first six months of 1130 there were maintain and defend but even to "im- BUSINESS” 9 lynchingt. This number it 3 more prove" white civilization was the as- that the number 4 for the first six sertion last night (W ednesday) of months of 1929; 4 more that the num Colonel J. FI Spin gam, of New York, Birmingham, Ala., July 3— (C N A )- ber 3 for the first six months o f 192* addressing the opening mass meeting Several thousand leaflets distributed and is the same number as the 9 for of the National Asociation for the Ad- by the masked parade o f 300 Ku Klux the first six months of 1925. 192A and vancement of Colored People whose Klanmen through the Negro section 1927. is 4 more tjian the number for the 21st Annual Conference just closed o f this city last Thursday are unique same period in 1924, A less that 1923. here. confessions of the business interests 21 less than 192f and 27 less than 192! 'The white Sputh is forever talking , b^ck^” f~t'his attempt at terror. The All figures are for the first six months o f being the defender of a white civi- leaflets, printed in red ink, with an o f the years mentioned. lization,” declared Colonel Spingarn, A.F.L. union label on cardboard, read: O f the persons lynched 1 was white "endangered by the threat of 'Negro KU K L U X K LAN TO N E G R O E S! and 8 were Negroes The charges supremacy.’ " But the last twenty .."F oreg in and northern agitators are were rape, 3; murder, J; bombing o f a years have shown that the Negro is in Birmingham teaching social equali house,1; slaying landlord in altercation ,able to maintain and defend our white ty among whites and blacks. over debt, t ; Attempted rape, 1. civilization— yes, even to improve it. "Alabama laws guarantee the su The in which the lynchings oceured Colonel Spingarn said in his address premacy of the white race by prohibit are as follow s; Flordia, 1: Georgia, l ; l that the past twenty-one years during |* ing mixed marriages. Mississippi. 1; Oklahoma. 1; South which the Association has been active "A vast majority of southern Ne “ are perhaps the most epoch-making Carolina, 2; Texas, 3. groes know that social equality d o c period in the bistory of the Negro trine is "bad business" and are advis race," and continued; ing their friends to leave alone the “ Individual Negroes throughout the Communists and their like. SOLDIER DISCHARGED course of history have attained dis- ■ ... ... , . i “The agitator* should be sent back tinction and msny held political of-1 _ _ AFTER 15 YEARS’ .. . . o . *7. „ . ‘ to * • north, or to Russia. See that t tec during the Reconstruction period with the help of white bayonets. But • “ Alabama SERVICE ia the beat tu ta in the j the last twenty years have seen the Union for good Negroes, and one ot Negro take his full place in a white the worst states (or bad Negroes. | civilization for the first time in his- . “Think it over—A ct!" Letter sent by an ex-soldier to Mr. itory—in every field of activity.—and Pickens, and which Mr. Pickens has The Negro workers are openly told win his victories by his own force and sent on, in copy, to the Secretary of the “ white race ia to be supreme.” , by the methods devedoped by the War: They are threatened, "Alabama ia one white civilization itself. Tuscon. A riz, June IS. 1930. , „ „ . „ .. . , . . of the worst states for bad Negroes,” Dr Wm Pickens - How sha11 ,lus * reat work be fur_ and the remark about "social equality Dear Sir: I am now sending you me theT d« * clop<'d5 U t Ne*ro radicali ¡doctrine ia bad busineaa" gives away renson why I left the army after serving w» h wh“ e rad,caJ*- bot lrt [more than is meant It is “ bad busi 13 years. them not dream o f handing over a | ness," bad for the exploiting busineta Just a few days before I was dis wholf racc *° * "* one fonn o f Pol,ti men and landlords of the South when charged they gave me the blank and in cal or doftna ” Negro and white workers unite to formed me that I would have to fill it fight low wages, and lynch terror. out before I could rc-enlist and I said I Threaten Death for Equality would quit before I would sign where gf^KS GIVE THEIR The parade was conducted in auto- fe w uld hair '*or*‘ - Captain A W 1 I A I P A R T Y mobiles and carried an effigy of Tom c : ,my w,fJ r° T e rac annual pa r ty (ohns„n ComraUBj,t P, rty di5tmt or. sign and for her to work for her and --------- „• a ex . .. . ____ . _ . . . . ginzer and Oscar D ePnest Negro re- New York, June 27.—Dr. E. A. Ken l ^ ** 'J . r0° P . Thf new Elks Temple on Williams congressman. The Klansmen dall, presidlnl of the Woodmen of the I was also talking wuh some of the Avenut „„d McMillen streets was the i ^ ^ d through the Negro Section. Union, one of the very large fraternal , h ,>C! ,Cr y.’„ *™V thtT. *° d m ,1.,hal »erne of a ver* pretty dancing party of town Graymont, North Birmingham orslers o f this country, with headquart 4 k Z ^ •••« the Elk. Lodge gave Barmash and N^rthside. having started ers at Hot Springs, Ark., has taken out to the hoanitaMhrv I ' l "l J* ' i,s *nnual Summer entertainment The from ,j,e center 0 ( town w jthin a block a life membership in the National Asso to the hospital they ask whatever they Dlxje S|ro0er# orchestra of which Bert of the Federal Building. It stopped at m in lg cr. furn,she<! the mu.- dation for the Advancement of Colored have to say m the presence o f mej, or T Collegeville School, Jim Crow public whoever „ the waning room. They fc for 0£CMion. The People. school for Negro children, and on the also give employees the very best of successful from every angle and is a school grounds burned the effigies at quarters and enlisted men and their erunne. o f the brilliant opening re- ffic stake. families get what ever they can get and ception and ball which the Elks and C M. A. STORES Over the ashes were erected signs: there is a large number o f them that have families and they won't let them Daughters will stage in the near fu “ Here lies the body o f Negro DePriest BEAT THE TARIFF come in post because their wives won't ture. — He belived in social equality” ; and “ Here lies the. body o f white Tom work for an officer for small wages. Johnson— He b^Jived in social equality” Now, if there is anything else you The Saturday, following the parade, New York City. July 1 (By N. N B. want to ask me, I will be glad to an SAYS INDIVIDUAL the Negro and white workers of Bir L P. S ) —During the process of nego swer if I can. Sincerely your«, mingham answered this threat by mob tiations between a New York sugar ATTITUDES CAN ilizing in hundreds on Capital Park and broker and the Harlem C. M. A. Stores, (Signed) Harvey M. Lee. the tariff bill passed the house. In an END RACE DISPUTE cheering speakers for the Communist tinpation of a rise in price following the Party and th? Trade Union Unity President's signature, a good buy League. sugar was hastily consummated. The Negro Chairman at Oberlin, Ohio, July 1.—That the wo very next day, as expected, the price men attending the third general Inter- Madison Square Meet advanced, but the C. M. A. Stores were Racial Conference o f Church Women at CONTRIBUTING EDITOR protected Oberlin College could themselves revo- (Continued on Page 4) d o n t E NEGRO IMPROVES WHITE CIVILIZATION . ERECT A NEW HOME “ Black Be ll*” TRIES TO BREAK DP Store - Your Shopping Headquarters ( New York, July 1 (C N A )— A Negro chairman, in the person of J. W. Ford, presided over a mass meeting of more than 13,000 workers in the huge Madison Square Garden building of this city on Friday night. The occasion was the o f ficial opening o f the Seventh National Convention o f the Communist Party. REV. T. ALLEN HARVEY VISITS PORTLAND Rev. T. Allen Harvey, presiding El der of the Oregon Washington and California Conferences of the A. M E. /io n church was a visitor in Port land Sunday, preaching twice at the local Zion church. While in Portland he was the house guest of Mrs. L. M Bird, A8t Gantenhicn Avenue. Mon day he was the guest at dinner of Mr. and Mrs. R, H, Camp. Rev. Harvey left Tuesday for McCloud to attend the District Conference. Dr. A. L. Howarth, white, former dis trict superintendent of the Methodist churches of Portland, has been chosen to head nationally a $«,000,000 campaign in M ialf of Negro educational institutions of-tbe denomination. Ó *. ■■ TM« Q u a lity t r o u a jrbriiÄ.0! mb P lease P ay Your Subscription lutionire the world in its attitudes on race problems, was the challenging state ment of Dr. Leslie Pinckney Hill, in the closing address of the conference. Dr Hill, who is principal of the Chey- ney Training School for Teachers, near Philadelphia, went on to show that the attitude of white American women tour- ists in Europe is responsible for grow- ing discrimination shown to Negroes in London, Paris and Rome, where form erly they had real freedom of action, and no amount of education, cultural train ing and experience or money can make the American Negro really free in his native country. While recognizing the need o f group study and action. Dr. Hill stated that it is after all, the attitude of the individual that settles the great social problems of the world and he urged his hearers to adopt this pledge, "Where I stand all shall be right.” BOYS ARRIVE AT CAMP SAFELY News Letter No. 2 ot Spirit Lake Camp, tinder date o f July t, has been received at our desk. It carries a list of the boys in camp. Among the S3 boys are listed the names o f Philip Moore and Clifford Flowers. They oc cupy Elk Praric Cabin. Ivan Cannady, who is an old-timer, is a member of Pine Creek Cabin household. Phillip and Clifford went up Saturday, June 28. OF “ THE ADVOCATE” IS INVITED New Y’ ork, July 3—Some of the Ne gro officers of the Tenth U. S. Cavalry situated at F ort Huachua, in Arizona, hav( extended, on behalf of the men of the regiment an invitation to William Pickens to come as soon as possible for lectures to the Tenth Cavalry. It is said that the men would join the N. A.A.C.P. by the hundred, if Mr. Pic kens would coqie. One member of the regiment writes: “ You certainly did a lot o f good by the visit you paid us in March. Peo ple outside forget the men in the army, when rendering social service. "N oby else could have expressed the situation as you have done it. Since you wrote the President, the men who are re-enlisting this year for another term, are not required to sign up that their wives will be servants to the white women " Charles Hart is the name of a young man from Independence, Oregon who is a visitor in the city. Mr. Hart has considerable literary ability as a writer of short stories and poetry. Some of hi* works have appeared in the Oregon Daily Journal. P lease Pay Your Subscription