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COPS TAKE GRIS FOR R K T H E A D V O CA TE A n I n d a p t n d a n t P m pm r D e v o U d t o th * I n t e r e s t « o f t h e P e o p le ADVOCATE INSTALLS TYPESETTING MACHINE V( >L. 20 - Digesting . . . I IN TWO SECTIONS NO l . . Tße (V e v ^ s Hy C LIFFO R D C M ITC H ELL METHODISTS BISHOP MARTIN SAYS LEA D ER S FIO H TIN G MASSES AT SEA W hat tlocs it • mean? • • .... Nero tiilillnl e while • • Koine burned! A» I *11 hrrr ami tl»gr%t the news Bishop John W Martin, of I.o» An that t'oiiir» to me irom all sctlions ol grir», Celierai Superintendent of the the country, ‘iirough thr pres*, from | jtlvam r p irn felease*, anti from many correspondents. I 4111 amaaetl at the actions of some t»f our people, even tome of our leaders. • • • Irom my panoramic view I see ( ontments, nations, countries, states, cities ami communities and the peo ple therein seem a strutothittf mass of humanity, rushma, li^htmK. icropitlg and going they • know • • not where. In our own country, with a demo cratic form td government, where con ditions should he ideal, what do wr see* Nothing but chaos! (»reed ami Seltishness seem to he sitting on thr throne while Idealism, Truth and Jus lice seem to he sitting idling hy, con tent in thnr own exalted opinion, lack ing the inertia to place themselves in the ruling seat.• • • More directly, what are our people doing' l-itldhng their opportunities away in a misguided conception of fa talism! I he leaders are wrangling and fighting among themselves. those that have are rushing pell inell to de* Stru« lion through their pace of life while those th»l haven*t are fighting, slandering and murdering others in their attempt to • get • • Ili'liop Martin Nowhere is there harmony! The or Ninth Episcopal distrirt of the Afri- ganization» are arrayed against each t an Methodist Episcopal /ton church, other. 1 lie fraternal» are waging in presided at the nineteenth annual ses ternal battles I lie church is divided s i o n of thr Oregon Washington con Politicians are cutting each others ference which opened for a five-day thr<»ut to gain a little power thut after meeting at l-'irst African Methodist all is only a huhhle on the aea and Episcopal Zion church, Williams Av easily washed away Men of business enue at San Kafarl street, Wednesday. and aflairs are conniving, consorting September ,10th. and deceiving 1 he masses, poor souls, I lie local church, Kev. W. K Lov are lost. I*hey know not what to do. ell, pastor, tuadr extensive prcjiara I heir leaders in thnr respective groups lions f o r the entertainment of the vis are larking the all-seeing, all knowing itors who came from Northern Cali- (rower to guide • the • masses fornia. Oregon and W ashington This • aright. session of the conference will have lirlniigmg to no group, organiza added importance due to the election tion and depending upon none, I can of delegates to thr quadrennial srs- write of these things as I see them, sion of the General conference which hut, what are you going to do about will meet in Pittsburgh next May. correcting thr evils? Are you going Prominent visitors include Bishop to continue drifting akmg in a placid L. W. Kyles, formerly m charge of and indifferent manner? Or, are you the Pacific Coast work anil I)r. J W. going to ask yourself why are we Kichrlberger of Chicago, general su here and where • are • we • going ? perintendent of Krhgious Education. Quit fighting among yourselves! (•et together! Do something! Don't just talk about it! Hand yourselves into groups, see what has to he done, learn the real meaning of life, attune your selves with positive thoughts, in short, prepare your receiving apparatus, then you will hear tfir message and can see the beauty of doing things construc tive. • • • Colored America, think of these things and answer my question if you can, "W hat does it mean?** SALEM, O re, Sept. 23—(CN S)— In a recent rrport just released here the statistics show a higher percentage of divorces among the Negroes than the whites. Thr school census also shows a slight increase in Negro atiidrnts, while more Negroes are now attend ing college than ever before. I.aw- NEW YORK. Sept. 2i.—(C N S)— hreaking among Negroes has decreased A check fur $5(H) has been received during thr last few years. by the N A A < P. from Sne B. materially Thr report shows a large number Wflliiton, Executrix of the estate of of Negro churches ami goes on to the late Neval II. Thomas of W ashing say that the condition of the Negro is ton, who willed this sum to the or improving rapidly. ganization iu whose ranks for many In some sections of the state Ne years he was an outstanding cham groes are taking an active part in pion. civic activities, and at least two Ne Mr. Thomas was president of the gro ministers in the state are out Washington branch and was for rnanv standing scholar*. years a member of thr National Hoard of Directors of the N. A. A. C. I’. H E R O IC N E G R O D IPLO M A T AMONG T H O SE FOR W HOM PREACHER FALLS DEAD ARGUINO HO NO R IS ASKED F TWENTY-EIGHT BEATS DPRESS'N TWENTY MILES OUT COLORED GROWS DIVERSIFIED H P 1 / N. C. FARM ER. KNOW N AS T H E "RO U N D BEAN K IN G " SU P PL IE S T H E ATLAN TIC PA CIFIC CO. C IN C IN N A TI. Ohio. Sept. 24.— (( NS) i he 5lst annnal conference of thr National Baptist Convention, unincorporated, was opened in the face oi tragedy Wednesday morning when one of the stalwart leaders was seised by the hand of death. The convention members had heroine involved in an argument with the Kev. C. W. Williams, pastor of Triedstone Baptist church. Kev. Williams felt that in the preparations for the en tertainment of the convention his church had been overlooked. He he tieved that the sessions of the women’s auxiliary should have been held at bis chnrch instead of Rev. Haywood. After listening to a fiery speech from the Kev. Mr. Williams, the Kev. Hay wood arose to answer him, hut slumped to the floor before he got started. All efforts to revive him were without avail and lie died an hour later. NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—(CN A )— Among thr list of U. S. diplomats and consular officers for whom commem oration is asknl in recognition of he roic or tragic death on foreign serv ice is a Negro, Henry Highland Gar nett. minister to Liberia who died there in 1X82. Henry Highland Garnett’s name is given in a list hv thr Eoreign Service Association, which it is pro posed to place on a bronze tablet in the State Department in Washington. Mr. Garnett had a most unusual car eer. In Mr. James Weldon Johnson’s “Black Manhattan,” it is noted of him that he was a pastor of a white church in Troy, where he edited the Clarion and that lie had thr distinction on Lincoln's birthday, lKt>5, of delivering a memorial address before the House of Representatives on the adoption by Congress of the constitutional amend ment abolishing slavery. CLEVELAND. Sept. 23.—(C N S)— 1 A new and vicious form of police i brutality came to light here last week when Attorney Louise J. Pridgeon re ported to Safety Director Edwin D. Barry that nine young colored women of allegedly questionable character had been taken off the street in the Central Avenue—East 55th Street CHICAGO, Oct L—(CNA)—AJ- section local police and taken for derman Louis B. Anderson who has a twenty hy mile being forced to just returned to the city from a much walk hack. Mrs. ride, Pridgeon, who is the needed vacation formally announced only woman candidate the Fourth his candidacy for the nomination for District aldcrmanic seat, for reported Congress in a ringing appeal Mr the safety director that the girls had to Anderson sets fortfi distinctly and not been taken to the police station, most forcibly in platjt>mn form a pledge hut that the arresting officers to act upon cert^inHundamental priri had instead hit upon the "ride" scheme as ciples, namely, “to avoid ballyhoo and a means of inflicting rough curbstone bluster; to strive for racial good will; on the alleged offenders. to improve unjust conditions in the justice Director Barry at first exonerated Southland hy education and tact in Captain Louis Cadek, who is supposed stead of aggravating them by inflam to have issued order, while at the matory Utterances and bombast." He same time he the requested such also pledged himself to be “firm “rides” be abolished in the that future. without being insulting, frank with Later, however, when forced to answer out being vulvar; cMtmsous and dip lomatic without being obsequious and Mrs. Pridgeon's letter, he was forced sycophantic; industrious and ener to demand the names of every mem of the police force implicated in getic without being obtrusive and of ber fensive. Always on the job. never the insult. caught off guard while an important In his letter to one of his subordi measure is up." In short, says Mr An nates the present Director practically derson: "My motto will always be admitted that such rides for lesser of that of the courageous and dauntless fenders were customarily inflicted by leader, Theodore Roosevelt; ‘All men the police department in place of tak up; no turn down. A square deal to ing the time for court trial. all." ERSON TO OPPOSE REP. OSCAR D'PRIEST W H IT E V ILLE, N. C.. Sept 23 — (( NS) While many of the single crop farmers of the South are experiencing difficulty liecausr of thr sick condition in which their principal crop, cotton, finds Itself, one Negro farmer, W il liam G Spaulding, is making agri cultural history and feeling nolle of thr ill elfecl, of the percent depres sion Known in this section as the "Round Bean King." Mr Spaulding realized over $Ti5.UOO in the sale of farm produce from his farm last year Began- on Small Scale Hr began business four years ago in a small way selling his vegetables to the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, concentrating on the South ern Division with headquarters at Charlotte Today lie is an accredited representative of the company He ia thr prottd possessor of five trucks, and has under cultivation over 65 acres of snap brant. Hr is known to have thr largest market for fancy vegeta bles iu this district. Over 15 acres of turnips plus additional fields of Savy Cabbages At the present time he is experimenting with Italian Sprouting Broccoli, a comparatively new field "Right now," says Mr. Spaulding. .'I am curing over 10,000 bushels of tweet potatoes in several tobacco barns for the fall market, these will be sold to the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. Not to mention my having a sufficient I supply of Collards to be worth my I while." Modestly he explained his many attempts to co-operate with the l farmers in Columbus county. "I had | always bail the ambition to organize i the farmers of this district. I knew j that ti wr could get together, a prof itable business could lie built right Ken in tip- localne I could not get NEW YORK. Oct. 1.—That the them to sec my point of view, there 10th Cavalry at Fort Huachuca, Ari- fore. I borrowed some money and and that the troopers are doing guard started in on ntv own.” zona, has already turned in its arms, information coming to the National duty "with their fists," is the latest Association for the Advancement of Colored 1’eople which is urging all colored citizens to continue unremit ting pressure on congressmen and sen ators against the W ar Department's Jim-Crow demobilization plan for col ored regiments The N. A. A. C. P. is also informed that the plan now being turned against the loyal colored soldiers of the re public emanates from President Hoo ver himself and that, as comntandcr- M OBILE. A la, Sept. 18.—(C tfS )— 1 in-chicf of the armed forces of the I hr filial chapter in thr sensational United States he could suspend the charges of Miss Ollic Glass, 18-year- operation of this plan if he so desired. old daughter of a local minister, Meanwhile the N. A. A. C. P. is named Bishop R. A. Grant of the /V continuing in its endeavor to enlist M K. church as her seducer and the the action of the American Legion father of her unborn child, this week against the outrage upon the colored when the A. M. E. prelate made an soldiers. The following talegram was out of court settlement with the girl sent at the outset of the Legion's con for the sum of $2,000. According to vention to Commander Ralph T. the girl’s original charges, the bishop O'Neil; took advantage of her in her own "The recent order of the W ar De room, where he was the guest of her partment breaking up the famous 10th father, the Rev. J. B. Glass, a min Cavalry into three parts and using it ister in Bishop Grant's diocese and to absorb service detachments is violated her in the absence of her with dismay by millions of parents. W hen at a later date the girl's viewed loyal colored and hy thou condition became apparent and her sands of white Americans citizens who of father confronted the bishop with her its splendid combat record know through charge. Hr denied all knowledge or three wars and numerous Indian up responsibility for the girl's condition, General John J. Pershing and refused to do anything toward a risings. once served with this unit. The Na settlement with her parents. tional Association for the Advance The story was noised abroad and ment of Colored People feels that the congregations all over the church set American Legion could perform a up a clamor against the offending to the Army, the nation, to prelate, that the bishop's council of service thousands of Negro members and the A. M. E. church appoint a com its hy passing a resolution mission to try Bishop Grant on the well wishers that this famous regiment be girl's charges. Fellow bishops of asking Grant's sat in trial and arc charged kept intact at one post." with having rushed through the trial hearing only witnesses who were fa AM ERICAN LEG IO N ASKED TO vorable to the bishop, and ending the PR O T E ST AGAINST T R E A T trial with a whitewashing hy finding M ENT OF NEGRO the prelate innocent. T RO O PS E PRES. C A LIFO R N IA ED ITO R ON W A TER C O M M ITTEK - I.OS AN GELES.— Mrs. C. A Bass, managing editor of the California Eagle, local weekly paper, has been named recently as a member of the Colorado River W ater Committee of the St.ite. Phis committee has as its function the planning and control of the water supply for the city. PRICE PIVE CENTS I 1 1 N 1 A A l N i t N i U U n A L L i C w O n N r F A A D B d m i p p e d for NEGRO PROGRESS BISHOP PAÍS TO GETS CHECK EOS $500 SECTION ONE PORTLAND, OREOON, SATURDAY,. OCTOBKK 3, 1931 NEW YORK. Sept. 24—(CN A)— An appeal is being made to the Amer ican Legion at its Detroit Convention, which opened September 21, to pro test to President Hoover against the break up of the 10th Cavalry and other famous Negro regiments of the regular army. The appeal to the Legion forwarded to the National Commander, Ralph T. O'Neil, by the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People, urges a legion resolution ask ing the President to order the Negro regiments to he maintained intact. Ti U. OF 0. OPENS The Portland Center of the L'niver- sity of Oregon announces that more than one hundred courses in twenty- four different fields will be offered this coming year. The fall term opened Monday, September 28, with classes meeting in Lincoln high school and the central library. During the past year over 3,000 men and women were enrolled in the different exten sion classes in Portland. The courses are arranged particu larly for adults who are occupied dur ing the day and who wish to attend class one. two or three evenings a week. Work may be taken in the fol lowing subjects: anthropology, biologv, written English, literature. German, history, library methods, mathematics, sociology, art, architecture, account ing. advertising, business law. geo graphy. salesmanship, merchandising, philosophy, psychology, public speak ing. French, Spanish, Scandinavian, education, journalism, public health, musicv and physical education. Catalogue, may be obtained from the University office, 814 Oregon building, Atwater 2919. BOSS M URDERS COOK 'S HUSBAND P IN E BLU FF, Ark., Sept. 30._ (CN A )—Not satisfied with tasty cook ing. Viola Payne furnished. Elmer Herring, her boss, also insisted upon other favors. Herring is a well known business man of Pine Bluff. W hen Clyde Payne, husband of Vi ola. objected to Herring's demands for favors from his wife, an alterca tion arose. Herring secured a shot gnu and fired point blank into Payne's breast, instantly killing hint. The au thorities, members of Herring's class, have made no arrests. AM ERICAN NEGRO PR A ISES SO V IET T R E A TM EN T PARIS, France. Sept. 6.—(C N A )— Robert Robinson. American negro worker who is employed as a mechan ic in Soviet Russia, is spending his vacation here. He speaks very enthu siastically about the Soviet L’nion and the building of the Five-Year-Plan and has the highest praise for the treat ment of Negro workers by the Soviet workers and officials. Robinson is the worker who was attacked by two white southerners, Lewis and Brown, while in the USSR. These two men were arrested, tried and sentenced to ten years' imprison ment by the Russian court, but as they later apologized very humbly to Robinson, the sentence of one was changed to deportation and the other was pardoned and allowed to remain. YEARS! INTERTYPE ANO OM R T BY W. J. W HEATON "If we can develop the AD VO CA 1 E as an instrument to bring about a better racial understanding between The Advocate staff wishes to an the citizens of Portland and the State nounce the installation of an Intertype of Oregon we wilt feel that we have typesetting machine and other equip accomplished something worth while. ment this week in its shop and from That is our ideal.” It was in the yes now on The Advocate will be published teryear that those words were spoken regularly each week and on time as to this writer, and they come to us we are fully equipped now to do all with renewed interest at this time when our own work in our own shop. the ADVOCATE is noting this 28th w e know our readers and supporters will be happy as we are for our suc year of its publication. in being able to purchase this At the time there was a wide chasm cess in order that we may be separating the people of different race equipment better to serve our patrons and lineage. The chasm seemed so wide to give enabled public a better newspaper. and the abyss of such depth that the Very the Ngro newspapers are able task appeared too difficult for suc toboast of fw their own shop where they cessful accomplishment. out their own paper and do job The existing condition, at the time, turn The Advocate can and we was caused through misunderstand printing. solicit your continued co-operation in ings, caused in turn by no personal our efforts to build a business of which contacts. Racial antagonisms threat ened to disrupt the social safety the race may well be proud. through lawless activities. They were perpetrated on both sides. Obsolete laws remaining on the statute books of Oregon were resurrected and certain race inhibitions sought for enforce ment. Nothing daunted. The ADVO CATE kept steadily working; work ing for the ideal which it had set as its goal. Never apologetic, ^fie practice of forbearance has been strictly adhered to. The good was extoled, and the bad denounced In searching through the editorial files we find the thread of N. A. A. C. P. PAYS DARROW sane journalism throughout. No bla tant denouncements nor sugary praise. The pendulum has never swung to * $2000 SCOTTSBORO CASE the extreme in either direction. The R ETA IN ER result is that, today, the ideal for which it has worked, is in sight. Per sonal contacts between peoples has NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—The Na narrowed the chasm and lessened the tional for the Advance depth of the abyss. Misunderstandings ment of Association People has sent its are so few as to be classed negligible. check for Colored $2000 to Darrow A spirit of co-operation has been built as a retainer on his Clarence fee for partici up between all of the people, and it pating in the defense of 8 Negro can well be taken as an example by boys sentenced to death in the Scottsboro, any community. A newspaper, like the mirror, re Alabama. has consented to go be flects the personality of its sponsors. fore Mr. the Darrow Supreme Court of the State Insincrritv of purpose will be detected of Alabama make one of the ar readily. Hypocrisy will be uncovered, guments on and for a reversal of however well it may be couched in the convictions appeal trials. words of deception. It would be gross The N. A.A. and C. new P. is prepared, if injustice to not give that praise which necessary, to carry these on ap is due the editora and publishers of peal to the U. S. Supreme cases re The ADVOCATE. Their work has lying on the precedent set in Court, the Ar bern arduous, and their emoluments kansas cases, where that court held few. Like any who work for the public a mob-dominated trial was not good, that work has gone unappreci that due process of law. ated. Bills of exceptions supporting tha There are bigger journals than The petition were submitted to Advocate, but we have no better. The the judge of in appeal by N. A. A. C. community which it serves has. in P. attorneys Scottsboro on September 17. Sixty the Portland Advocate, a Sentinel. days are allowed the judge to sign the Standing on the tower it observes all the happenings. As a trusted soldier, bills of exception. it can be relied on to fight for those things it deems to be right. We need more editors of the same calibre, more Journals like the PO RTLA N D AD WINLOCK RESIDENT DIES VOCATE. RET« E NEGRO WORKERS DENIED PARK PITTSBURGH, Pa., Sept. 30.— (CN A )—Negro workers have been denied the use of the city's $200,000 pool in Highland Park. This denial has not been made effective by law of course, but comments in the capitalist press concerning the presence of Ne groes in a swimming pool with white women has been sufficient to inflame the minds of white workers. This is just what the bosses desired. Police called in to protect Negro “rights" joined in the attack against the Negro workers. Sergeant W. B. Rose died Monday, September 21, at his home in Winlock, Wash., following an illness of about six months duration. Sergeant Rose received treatment for several weeks in the Veteran's hospital in Portland and was pronounced in excellent con dition when he requested to return to his home in Winlock four weeks ago. His funeral was held Thursday from the East Side Funeral Direc tors under the auspices of Segt. Jo seph White Camp, Spanish American W ar Veterans, the Rev. D. G. Hill, Jr., officiating. The deceased, who made his home partly in Portland and partly in Win- iock leaves to mourn their loss a wife, Mrs. Mamie Rose and a daughter, Mrs. Duke Jackson and two grand children. MRS. MAE W A LK ER PERRY JO IN S W A LK ER MEDAL E D D IE TOLAN GOES TO W. VA. AW ARD CO M M ITTEE NEW YORK. Sept. 18— (CNA)— IN ST ITU T E, W. Va., Sept. 17.— Mrs. Mae Walker Perry has succeeded President Davis has announced the her mother, Mme. A'lelia Walker, as of Eddie Tolan, Univer a member of the committee which an engagement sity of Michigan track marvel, as in nually awards the Mme. C. J. Walker structor and coach for the W est Vir Gold Medal for greatest service to Institute track team. He assumed the Negro race through the National ginia his duties at the school September 21. Association for the Advancement of her 21. Colored People. CHICAGO H O U SEW IV ES FORCE JOBS FO R NEGROES CHICAGO, III.—Concerted effort on the part of the Housewives League on the south side in this city has re sulted in the employment of fifteen colored men as chauffeurs for a local dairy company which serves the col ored section. Mrs. Naomi Wilkins, president of the League, and Miss Jean Settles, secretary, had several conferences with the heads of the dairy company and promised support to the company if the Negro laborers were placed on the payroll. WOULDNT PUT UP NANOS: SNOT M EM PHIS, Tenn., S e p t . 17.— (CN S)—Unwilling to stick his hands up because the bandit ordering him to do so was a Negro, J. W. Camp bell, 40-year-old white merchant, is now nursing a wound in the neck caused by a bullet from the holdup man's pistol. Instead of putting his hands up, Campbell was busy trying to think of some way to trick the intruder.