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K E E P IN G
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A Health Column dedicated to
readers o f The Advocate by
DeNorval Onthank. AB M.D.
Arata Building— 12W N. 6th St.
Phone AT 1703; MU 2621
by Nancy Lee
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SATURDAY. MARCH 21. 19.11
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By C L IF F O R D C. M ITC H E LL
We Sell Lor Less Because
We Sell for Cash
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The human race is controlled by a
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The Advocate does not necessarily
q a ip u c ç t v o e
certain amount o f mass psychology share in the writer's views, but
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The Advocate does not necessarily
LC OUI AT dit* Arsi'
A new department is being offered in all o f its undertakings. Just as whether we do or not. the opinions
are sane, logical and interesting It
share in the writer's views, but
to the readers o f the Advocate. A men and women are slaves to fashion, is the readers' as well as our privilege
whether we do or not. the opinions
column devoted to advice on friend so they are slaves to medical super to disagree with the writer who in- j
are aane, logical and interesting
It
COMPLETE NEW STOCKS OF QUALITY MERCHANDISE
vites your opinion upon the subject* >
ship, love, and all matters pertaining stitions and fads.
is the readers' aa well as our privilege
discussed from time to time in this
to disagree with the wnter who in
to tho home.
M u n ic ip a l O w n e r s h ip
FOR THE HOME AND PERSONAL SERVICE
v ie s your opinion upon the subjects
The superstitions and fads are column.
Anyone wishing such advice, please
discussed from time to time in this
based
upon
fear
and
ignorance.
Indi
Here is some interesting news on column.
write Nancy Lee, in care of this paper.
viduals fear sickness in that it leads
This writer, who thoroughly reads public ownership, whic hgives the
ultimately to death. They attempt about fifty o f our publications week growth o f the movement.
Remember that if you can do a
to avoid death by keeping healthy and ly and about half as many white
Dear Nancy Lee:
The City of Paris. Texas, recently
I am wanting some advice for a avoiding sickness. Every individual, papers, was very agreeably surprised voted two to one to build a municipal good deed, show love to someone, you
very dear friend o f mine. Will you therefore, has his own ideas about by an advertisement that appeared in ice plant. They are so encouraged must do it now, because the opportu
keeping healthy. He seeks advice only the Charlotte Republican-Tribune, one they are now planning to build a mu nity will pass and not return.“ —
please tell her what to do?
She is greatly interested in a very when his own theories fail. Then he o f the best white weeklies in Mich nicipal power and light plant.
A friend coaxed me to go to a
prominent man, and she has had him seeks the group o f healers or the cult igan, in their issue o f the 6th.
B. F. De Lanty. manager o f the
church the other night, one of those
to lunch several times. He seems to that most nearly fulfills his own ideas
Pasadena Municipal Light A Power
s s s
« e nominate as a cult, or mtaaion,
like her, but does not take her any of h.aling. Thus each race and each
Plant, just sent us the 22ml annual
On
the
second
page
of
their
first
where the preacher does the healing
place. What can she do to make him generation since the beginning of
report.
This little California city
more keenly interested? Appreciate time bows to its own superstitions, section the Eaton County Savings earned $660,022.21 profit in one year. as well as the preaching. He called
Bank carried a quarter-page adver
fads and medical cults.
your advice.
B. R.
If you are interested write Mr. De himself doctor, was a sleek, well-fed,
tisement and to attract attention to
well-dressed individual who very evi
Dear B. R.:
Despite education and civilisation, their savings feature they use the Lanty for a copy of the report.
dently enjoyed the adoration and all
Virginia,
Minnesota,
has
one
o
f
the
superstitions as to medical healing follow ing;
I think your friend is “ running
SAVIN G S D E P O SIT O R S
lowest lighting rates in the country the rest o f the emotional reactions
still exist. Children still go to school
after” this man. In spite of the meth
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for small cities. The rate o f 3 \ which his operations stirred up. Une
EARN $1.000.000
wit beads o f dried potatoes around
ods of the modern woman, man still
“ Booker T. Washington said: ‘To cents per kilowatt hour charged by could notice how he worked on their
their
necks
to
ward
o
ff
diseases.
An
likes to do the courting. He likes to
morrow, my brother, after you have its municipal electric plant ia remark emotions until the worshipers were
The more than 56,000 savings depositors
plan entertainment for his women asafetida bag tied around one’s neck,
said
your prayers, go and start a sav able when you consider the popula hysterical. The services begun with
here at the United Slates National last
friends, because he likes to take them sately and securely in a dirt-catching
singing several hymns and one could
tion ia only 16,030.
ings bank account.’ ”
year earned $1,000,000 in intrrsst on savings
t oplaces that attract him. He also sack, will do away with the necessity
The people o f the City o f Milford, see that the music unsettled the tiny
deposits aggregating $27.000,000 Your Sav
o
f
the
much
heralded
vaccinations
• • •
likes to make the advances, as lie
N. J.. have emphatically refused to fraction o f self control that would
ing* Account can be started with aa little
and
toxin
anti-toxin
injections
in
the
loses xest in the chase when the wom
The remarkable feature o f this ad dispose o f their municipal light and have been there otherwise. Then it
as one dollar.
minds o f some people. Children in
an tries to usurp his rights.
vertisement. to this writer, is the fa< t power plant. The power trust, as was brother this and sister that un
I would advise your friend to be tenement districts are still sewed in that the white hank and the white usu#it spent considerable money to til the note o f Intimacy was struck.
come interested in some other man. their underwear for the winter. It is paper were appealing to white sub
prove public ownership a "failure.” Then a story from the Bible which
and try to forget him for a while. He not a good policy— so some say— to scribers and prospective bank custom
The
voters could not see it that way. was clekrly a perfected statement of
may become so lonely for her that he comb one's hair while very sick, as it ers, there not being enough Negroes
By a vote o f six to one, they refused ita meaning and its application to the
I iiîk n I S i tilt's Ntilioiuil IVtiiik,
may
prevent
a
speedy
recovery
or
will seek her company and plan some
in that particular community to war to sell their plant to the private com every-day experiences of each one of
Bew ail»«» and M o l i al k n i t
PurlUnd
may even cause death. To move the
entertainment for her himself.
rant, much less to make it profitable, pany. which offered $460.000 for the the listeners. I had difficulty to keep
bed
of
some
extrmely
sick
pople
will
To interest a man, a woman should
appealing to them through an adver city utilities.
from shouting, “ It is not true. God
be sympathetic, sincere and interested surely p recent a speedy recovery-. tisement o f this site.
never meant that His words should
in his hobbies. This man may not Some women about to become moth
• • •
be so misconstrued.” Then another
ers
would
not
think
o
f
“
reaching
ujU’
be a sponger, but just tired anl de
brother from some fa r-off country
If the admonition, quoted above, is
pressed over business conditions, and because o f extreme danger to herself
who had forsaken his old faith to
applicable
for
the
whites,
it
certainly
would rather spend his evenings quiet or the baby. Some others feel that
KINLKY’H
abide in the true religion as preached
should be more so for our bankers,
a
woman
about
to
become
a
mother
is
ly, or he may be very busy evenings
by the doctor, begun a monotonous
our
large
insurance
and
financial
in his office, and not have time to susceptible to exciting events so much
recital of his experiences. I would
Trmlt* Murk Kitiltlpin is the
companies should engage in an ad
take your friend out. In any case, that they will leave lasting impres
have been more interested and would
vertising campaign to teach our
she should not invite him to lunch sions upon the child. I have had many
Tree of
perhaps have believed some of the
masses the benefits to be derived
with her again, until he shows some patients who have firm ly believed that
story of his preparation for his life
through systematic savings
they
had
bad
"spells”
cast
upon
them.
disposition to repay her hospitality,
IMMORTAL LI FK
work if he had used decent grammar.
or seek her company.
I
counted
16
years
o
f
preparation
in
These are just a few examples of
Our people, especially, who find
NANCY LEE.
Use Our Nsw Harking Space For Fun
different schools and colleges and yet
superstitions which lead to medical themselves caught in these depressed
J PI INI I Y ¿.SON
erti Cars at Fourth and Montgomery
this imminent student o f the divine
lads and medical cults and cause them times, do not need much teaching.
N.10H1M I ANS
used such expressions as “ have did,
to flourish.
Streets
Given the opportunity, they would
he "asked and requested" several
gladly go back a few years when they
times.
Spoke o f the Russians as
were rolling along in luxury and cur
Roosians -n ot so bad in an uncultured
tail and budget their expenditures,
person but thia man was introduced
placing the funds that they so reck
SIN G LE GIRLS
us u “ cultured scholar and gentle
S IX T H à O LIB A N S T R U T S
lessly spent in a savings account or a
man.”
His chief aim through his
Answer this if you are single, send,
good
revenue-producing
investment.
PORTLAN D O U
long rumbling, inconclusive talk seem
us your name and address and re
ed to be the arousing o f the visi
ceive a one-dollar coupon and valu
There arv, however, even now, a
bilities o f the worshipers. The whole
able péri mai information FR E E !
large number o f our people whose in
thing was a pitiful exhibition o f the
come has not been diminished, of
P. H. BO D DIE.
frantic hunger o f these mentally
P e r fe c t F u n era l S e r v ir e
whom we are constantly reading of
For COLDS, COUCHS
1211 S street. N. W .
Washington.
starved men and women. Their faces
Our Merchandise and Service Certificates Save
their good-time parties and affairs, |
D.
C.
were
blank;
their
clothes
indicate
pov
Sore th roat, m u scu la r rheu-
You from 20 to >o
who need to be taught the advantages
erty; their frantic response to the
CALL US IN CONFIDENCE ANY HOUR DAY OK NIGHT
■ u t ic ach es A paina, ap ply Mua-
of savings and preparedness so that
W \ S H I M . ION > I H M I
doctor's invitation to “ bleed your
counter-irritant
when their affluent days commence
Between 20th and 21st
selves white in the cause of the Lord”
to recede they will not be caught in
—all told the story. They were in
the same web of financial disaster of
the clutches of a clever charlatan who
It melt* to • * m oot H and crrmmf
their less fortunate sisters and broth
S. W . C o r . 4 th s o d
HRoailwav <»‘>D
ItKoailwav ltf)
played upon their fear o f death and
W a s h in g to n
nance. And * hat flavor I A rich,
ers.
hope
for
physical
healing
most
skill
time-mellowed flavor that only
fully.
“ c*ve cu rin g" can give.
Our National Negro Bankers Asso
ciation and our National Negro In
Try it for rarebits, sauce« foe
surance Association would do well if
All through the evening I listened
vegetable*, halted dishe«, toasted
“ Where Young M en Buy"
they would embody as a part of their
for the utterance o f a truth that
sandwiches. Ymirgrocerha*Kraft
program, this year, a plan whereby
would lie a bit o f spiritual encourage
American (ihceae. Order today.
N O T
A
F A I)
their constituent members would do
ment to carry away. Not one word
nate a specific percentage o f income
of humility, o f the sacred message of
Electricity in the home, the office or the manufacturing establishment
to a common fund for the purpose of
love Christ brought to us. The buf-
TW «alp |1 m ia tkm U S wKer« catalo*. «nd
mmettr c w m n u j lin« o f butine««
educating
our
masses,
through
the
is
not
a fad or a fashion subject to changing styles or to be discarded as a
fonary,
the
soddid
appeal
to
greed,
Join
the
•r product can be
F r«e and W ithout
O b i — b — i n *k« A » e m * n !nd :«tr al Library.
press and other advertising agencies,
the questionable stories- all were dis
passing whim.
*°r p t n t M i Advertising M arer you are
to the advtanges and necessity of be
gusting, and I went away with the
taBM ■and ia, tame will be promptly forwarded.
{P R U D E N T IA L H O S P IT A L
coming a more thrifty race which
same sort o f sadnesa I carried horns
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It is just a* much sn essential commodity as any other commodity re
Balldiag, Cki«a|o, llliaeU
will quickly enhance our standing as
with me the afternoon I spent at the
A S S O C IA T IO N
quired in the operation of these institutions Fashions in methods of its
good American citizens.
legislature in Salem.
utilization may vary from time to time, hut its usefulness and the need
and Keep W ell!
puts on a few colored women as maids
What a load must be lifted before
for it are basic
in the lavatories o f his store, that the we ran approach to that righteous
See
whole colored contingent in Portland ness o f Christ's teachings! Although
We are in the business of manufacturing, selling and distributing this
L. A. ASHFORI)
should flock to the store and spend the faces o f the legislators were more
commodity.
It is our business to furnish a never-failing supply of kilowatt-
their
pennies.
I
believe
that
we
black
intelligent,
there
was
the
same
e
x
328 Wheeler Street —
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folk must give our patronage to the pressions o f greed, of vacuity, of in
hours and to distribute them in the most efficient manner possible.
Buy a new hot with what
merchant who has the cleanest busi tolerance and indifference, o f fear and
it saves you
ness methods and who live the best o f parched desire in the faces o f the
This is what constitutes server The best pussble service at the lowest
DESTROYS
he knows how.
We will never be legislators that I saw in the faces of
Wky pay SGt or more for a dentifrice
possible cost is our one aim, and wr recognize that only by the accomplish
good citizens .ourselves until we re the crowd at the doctor’s "church.”
when you caa get Listerine Tooth Paste,
the quality dentifrice, tt 2.5 t the large tube?
ward the good citizen merchant. If After two such exhibitions I came
ment of this aim can we discharge our obligations to the imlividual ami the
DOUBLE-EDO! BLADES
It satee approximately $3 per year per per-
we reward the merchant who exploits home and resolved, like old Cincin-
community.
•on over dentifrices in the S0g clast. Use
us by giving a few o f our race menial naters, to plow my fields with my
The best shave
the saving te buy a new hat Lambert
PhannacaT Co.
jobs, we but sell ourselves for the over and stay away from the insin
you ever had—or
SERVICE COMPANY
material advantage o f a few.
We cerity o f the crowded world.
your money back.
(PKPCO)
must carry our banner o f race high
If your dealer cannot
above the dregs o f political and eco
I do not think that I agree with
supply you, writ« direct.
nomic exploitation and do right and our lady editor when she says that
50c for 5— $1 for 10
ELECTRIC IIIIIIJJINC Broadway and Alder FORTI AND, OHM,(IN
be rivht and reward right actions be we should give our patronage and
Division Offices at Salem. Oregon City, Hillsboro, Gresham, Si Helens and
Sample blade— 10c
cause they are right and not because support to those merchants who give
St. Johns, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington
MOSAK CORPORATION
Get a can o f F L IT to day!
they have bought a few o f us with colored men and women jobs. I do
•M nasv « v w w
favors.
not believe that because a merchant
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STORE
C O O K
MILLER & TRACEY
w it h
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American
C h e e se
Bradford
Clothes $ 25.00 to
Shop
$ 45.00
2
2
Free to Public
Arrow Tips
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M oths, Flies I
B edbug
Roaches
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TOOTH PASTE
25c
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