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The A D V O C A T E PAGE FOUR SATU RD AY, MARCH IÍ. 1931 PATRONIZE PORTLAND’ S NEGRO ORCHESTRAS D o YVe G e t W h a t | W W W -y-- ^ A W e D eserv e/ “AS NOTED” ® Æp j R cph Clyde KEKFING -FIT- A Health Column By DeNerval Unthank, M. D. Commissioner DANCE ............................................ ... After I had spoken before the stu- his way. Nobody will do this for him dents and faculty of the University of Such has been the history of all op- HARROW YOUR SO UL HOW NEGRO H K V I.l'll WKKK Nebraska the other day. a consider- pressed peoples The Negro must 8TA R T E D Nothing gets my goat so much ns to able number of inem came to meet me make friends of his enemies; and give someone a ride downtown, and at a recaption immediately following those of other races, who are neutral have the pest try to be agreeable by Sutnlay Aprii 3. io Sumlay Aprii IO the address Among these who greet with respect to the race he must relating stories .f shocking automo v ili he the l<th ohservance of Nailon ed me was a Negri' student from Kan- bring around to the liberal point of bile accident» Have you ev-*r had al Negro Health Weok * a* view W hile others are daily trying to this hapi>en to you? The Negro Organi alimi Society of How did you happen to come here turn them against ns we should be e- As you are merrily spinning along, Virginia wlth headquarlers «t Itanip- for your college w o r k - I inquired qually as diligent In combatting such ready to put In a fine day’s work, you ton Institute. firsl concelvcd the Ne "Is not the University of Kansas ade- efforts, see an old man or an elderly lady gro Health Week Idea In ISIS, under quate to your needs?" a s s standing on the curb who Immediate the leadership of Major II. li Molon * * * Now a good many will say that the ly throws you a telepathic request then commandant f • T-v }• • : '• f v f v r V T ■ ;.'* T f v . f '. 'f * : ? '• V i - "In a way It is." said he. "but 1 Negro has end-'avored to do these for a ride . Mr Moton. — dose friend of Rocker | could not stand the race prejudice verr thlnrs. but 1 hare not found this No sooner than they clamber into T Washington was ihe first to realise there They do not allow Negro stu- alwavs the case As a rule we never your car than they relate a number the Import of the Idea Hooker Wash dents to us, the swimming pool, and ,hink seriously of losing ground in the of horrible tales about people who ington Immediately began to stress they try to segregate them elsewhere „.V ial and economic spheres until ihe have been killed In smash ups No- the national Import of the movement * • :!o v do at the l \ rai o f 111 thing has actuallv happened \\ • .o-e tlce how they roll each word of this For ihls reason Hooker Washington Here at the VniTersity of Nebraska too much Inclined to go through the harrowing recital under their tongues receives the credit Thus m 1915 there are only a few Negro students world like children laving and never like a Juicy morsel Hooker Washington initiated a Nation- and we do no' have any such trouble." thinking about the noise they are You feel like . hoktg them andTOlN al Negro Health Week O a • g until it h You feel like choking th< m then au,l "A t the last session of the Annual Other students whom 1 recently met that othera annoyed thereby drive there In rain you (ry to switch the Tuskegee Negro Conference, some at the University of On.ahs and at them away W e go off then to oursel subject, but no str-ee they refuse to startling farts were brought out con- the Vnlrersity of Wichita, tell the yes either to abuse our foes or to ex- ho sidetracked for love or money corning the Heath of the Colored Ue,*- same story of the hostile attitude of press ourselves vociferously in one of The "passenger" leaves and you feel pie of the United Stales It was the leading institution of learning of our usual w hereas-therefore-be- It re- like a dish rag shown that 15 per cent of all deaths "Bleeding K ansas" Universities far- solved meetings, You solemnly resolve that in the among Negroes are preventable; that ther North, however, are not always a a a future all the hitch ami hike gentry there are 450.000 Negroes seriously more liberal toward students of Afrt- There are numerous instances of Ne- will pay a tea cent fare to the street ;,t the time; that the annual cost of can blood. groes who endeavor to win friends in car company rather than make hash this illness is $75.000.000: that sick a a • other races, but unfortunately the out of your perfect day ness and death coat Negroes anuually $100.000.000 llevause o f these facta. And such is the story of the Negro methods used are productive of more LAM E Dl CK l.AW | |,ave thought It advisable to ask the in white institutions. Such is the sto- harm **>an good Most of such efforts ry of the Negro in penetrating white ar>’ no m" n> than begging, cringing, Speaking of Congress recently a Negro people of the whole country to communities. Some o f them receive or Pleading for mercy Such confes- doptlng the Norris l-ame Duck Law Join in a movement which shall he Negroes and treat them all right for ','°hs of weakness do us much It injury might be well to call attention to \ k n o w n a s Health Improvement a while, and then follows a change of withers observing us in this attitude the fact that the writer aiso has a Week.. April 11. to April 1«. Inclusive attitude. Why does this happen* Is whatever respect they have had l-ame Duck la w to apply to municipal 1915 “ this due to the increase in the num- for us- Real men will always hare con officials. It Is now proposed to ask the fol- her of Negroes, to the addition of un- tempt for beggars and cowards The city I.ame Duck lavw" propo- lowing Organizations to cooperate In desirables, to a change in the charae- * * * sea that city officials elected lu Nov- amovement looking to wide spread ter of the Negroes, or to all of these The only way for the Negro to wtn ember shall take office the first Coun-1 efforts throughout the country to things? Or is it due to the change !he respect of others is through real cil meeting in January As it la now. Health conditions among our people within the mind of the white man worth. Then, he must not cringe He the Mayor. City Commissioners and The National Medical Aaao, iation of while the Negro remains as a constant must not cower. He must become just City Auditor cannot assume their dut Colored Nurses the National Associa factor, growing neither in numbers as clean, just as industrious. Just as tes until seven months after they have lion of Colored Womens clubs, the National Negro Busin« l eague the nor changing for better or worse* upright as any others in the cornrnu- Have we actually investigated these t>ity. He must not ask for opportunl- Why a city official should have to National la'ague on Urban Conditions thmgs? Do we know the facts? I? 1 he must make it. He must not beg wait that length of time to serve the among Negroes the National Aasocla- • • • for liberty; he must demand II i- a people is a mystery to me. The ques- tion of Teachers In Colored Schools, While crossing the Atlantic once in ma° ln wort^ *° pt*ler* of lt>e tion very naturally arises why a city the National Negro Cress Association, official should serve for seven months the Hlshops and other Heads of Col- a palatial steamer. I was seated at one ,ocla order . , , after he has been repudiated by the ored Religious Denominations. State * most conspicuous tables in the _ * dining room with persons of the Cau- . ” a_. inf w **“ a college professor of voters is also beyond my comprehen- Medical Association, Annual Church i Conerences. and As SOI- lat ions, Secret casian race. Evervthing proceeded -o0rt^1 some years ago I was ask- Bjon State. County, and School officials Organisations. Colored Insurance smoothly until we left Cherbourg and £1 to * ,Te an account of the various Farmers' Conferences, That evening at the close of the din- Ne* ro *radua,es of h>* institution in are sworn in almot Immediately after Companies. Such should be the Churches. Schools, and other local or ner a Nordic from the Re-1 Hills of !he courae of the conversation. I in- their election for our municipality. My ganlxations. Georgia said in a low tone to another , med h,m that one of the in had gone system |ty means of these organisations American who had never thought of al‘ °Fether Into propaganda as an ef- Charter amendment proposes this his being at a table with a man of l2r,* to rlaht the wron* s pf the Negro change and 1 am going to request the and agenrles all the Colored people African blood: This gentleman immediately express- City Council to submit It to the vo- tan he reached and influenced They ' can be taught what to do to aid in •This ship ain't crowded and I am Bd hu reFTet that such a scholarly ters for thetr approval. _ I improving their health conditions going to change my seat, too.” Negro would thus waste his time NO C l RE Thus the amount of slekneaa among "W hv do you want to change your That man . said he, is a bright The thought occured to me if »ome us can be lessened and Ihe number seat?" the other American inquired. fellow H* haa » remarkable intellect; office . of deaths anuually greatly decreased, "I am not going to sit down at the and *** would have done his race of the candidates for public Health Week table because I did not care to be mach mc,r« by restricting him would devote the same amount of Oregon hail ita first self to creative matters to demon energy to their business as they do , Program in 1930. with a nigger", was the reply. Please be out March 1 Nth at $.00 And he did not stay any longer He s!ra,e to other races the equal capa- to chasing the elusive vote, they could P M Williams An* Y W C. A Help retire as millionaires in a few years left that table and carried with him *-Ry ° f ibe Negro, the other American. “ You kuow," said this professor fur- However, such a suggestion is hope Oregon Plan its Health Week. After Hours Call - East 0419 . , . ther. "there is nothing in propaganda less. When a man is bitten b> the Now I often wonder why I had not i or r,c e * et* ” rl1« “ political bug. his case is beyond re demption. Hooch, hop gambling and done or did not do something so to • • • other deplorable habits are subject m e r lin h.*“ ', I did not like this when I first to cure, but the office-running habit, or h m n ~ hi? believe that , It ^ is once contracted, is a hopeless case BY K E L L E Y M ILLER carry him off i t with me to * some other h**ard true A, il- , 1 ^ dld not old er howeTer. There is no usé letting the candi CLEANING A R EPAIRING would have been the wrong thing for come inclined to think that we do get date remain a lifelong, hopeless pest me to do, you would say Certainly hen the National Association for It is declaiming for the enforcement Huts Cleaned what we deserve. If Negroes as a useless and witless. The one thing Shoes however, this fearless exponent of the Advancement of Colored IVople ,llw which everybody accept. In and Blocked whole carry as much filth as I have to do is to put the poor Political Nut Shined race prejudice was more Industrious v . ™ w” l was formed 20 years ago. It was re principle, hot nobody but the Negro than t ™-n - nivin* , . . . . . vDOVn some to have at schools. If Ne- against a wall and shoot him. • 8BKVICK and COURTK8Y • "The Statir Boys" is Ihe name of gariled as a radical organisation to expect» to see put in practice The “ i f * . de' OT ke groes going Into white communities a hand composed of sever, young men . offset the conservatism of Hooker T I’ri-sent dav radicals and ronserva- 334 Williame Ave. while I neglected to employ mine He Iet th elr. pr£?*rty run down and the of Portland who will sponsor a dance ! Washln*ton The Tuskegee doctrine, •■»ea < aine to grips at Smttaboro Ev OfMixf" Rofirher therefore, won in that combat community become noisy and vicious i _ l’hom» Tr STBS if N egr **a continue t q spend most of . on The Battleship Oregon on Faster »1 lhat time, held sway oyer the <"> the Bourbon whites of A Is hums Monday night Melvin l>«w»on. Cllf- mind and Imagination of the Amerl *[ere with the conservative N A A __ * * * their time trying to enjoy what others ■ j w niie it is a miserable feeling for hare produced rather than unite to do ( ford Flowers. Phillip Moore. William 1 can people, white and t.lack The *' *’ « » contrasted with the radical to have to b«ar in B ind rontinu* ■ hemselTes —such Ne- | Duncan. Julius Geary. Hubert Lewis n«w movement »lood for agnation Communists All Negroes »r e now any that he ;s constantly on trial, the groes. then, do get what they deserve | ! ami Charles Harris comprise this for Immediate fulfillment of the te radicals In the sense of the erstwhile * egro must realize that he has to win when others trv to get rid of them. ' S aggregation of musicians who will nets of democracy as contrasted with militant organisation, battling for not only furnish music for dancing the alow, long suffering constructive their legal rights, while none hut the ------ --------------- --------------------- — I f hut have arranged for tallies of cards program of Hampton and Tuskegee reckless and the Irresponsible one are because while feeding upon the blood for those who do not rare to dance. And yet the new movement merely ardlcal as Interpreted by the reds > and the dead pulp tissue, they throw Announcement of Ihe dance is meet emphasized the fulfillment o f the law, . . . SIXTH A O LIBAN S TR U TS ‘out their waste matter (toxin). This ir.g with interest as the people always but never once advised Its uverthriiw The N A A C P lia« ln*t much of By N ANC Y LEE like to have something to go to on InsUtence on the observance of th*- the dynamic power derived from Its is .poisnonous to the body tissues, and PORTLAND. O U Hater Monday night. And it goes 14th and 15th amendments is no more erstwhile reputation for radicalism helps to destroy the bone around the without Ihe saying that the hoys will radicalism than Insistence on Ihe ful It now relies rhiefly upon seising up- By Roy C. Proctor. D. D. S. • • i of U m ’ Mary v s s t i to know whot I U k I b I i vs the hearty support o f all. I on dramatic Instances o f violation of I _____________________ ___________ _ The toxins now thrown out by the of "gum chewing.” But thinks it I law and In holding the courts to re- It is most unfortunate when the germs warn the blood that there is j looks very unladylike in public Igtilar proceedlire Tills Is to be Con- |»ervntism I read somewhere In the pulp of a tooth die» The decaying an ir .Pmy at work. Under the»e cir- . . . , You are right Mary Established press that President Hplngnm In a re tissue must be rem oval and the caví cumstances it manufactures substan- rulel of etiquette forbid chewing of [cent address before the Twentieth T earh rr af ty sterilized and skillfully. E ven »cea which neutralizes the toxins and Kum m public as a disgusting nabit Cntttry Club of Boston declared Hint PIANO — H ARM O NY — VOICE when it is not always possible to pre- carie * these -ubstances throughout and classes it in with picking one’s | Ills organization was about to launch PIPE ORGAN a new policy which would Involve ec serve the tooth, since the tendency tjje body. The better the bodily teeth at the table or dipping one'» food In hi* coffee. Refined people Diploma from National Acadomy onomlc ns w-ell ns political doctrine. to abcess formation at the root-end hpalth the more capable it is as a do not indulge in such 'practices. One The fiilfll!m cnl of Iliis declaration of of Music, California is great. rule of makir.g *r.e neutralizing mater stamps himself as crude. Ignorant, Intention Is anuloiisly awaited. An Stato O r tlflr a t* for Muale Bacteria which find easy entrance, ial swiftly, thus keeping the infect without proper breeding and (he j matters now stand, there are no gen- Instructor ulne economic radicals except the Im hasten the breaking down of such a ion under control. This etplains why knowledge of culture when he makes "FIRESID E POEMS" REASO N AB LE TEH Mil himself »o unsightly possible and the Irresponsible reds, pulp and the inflammatory processes in some individuals, '‘dead teeth” may By Frank A. John»on Beginners and Advanced Pupils who have fanatical fringe The N I saw a very striking looking girl about the root ends of pulpleis teeth. not cause trouble for a long time. A A ( ’ F has become as conserva on the car one day chewing gum in (M r». Daisy M. Huchanan, 401 I’attnn 874 UNION AVENUE NORTH Street, Knoxville, Tenn., Sale» Agent« tive as the Y M C A might as well the most vulgar way. while everybody Phone Garfield 8945 bo consolidated Into n single orgunlza In the car riveted their eyes on her Reviewed for The Advocate by tion for the advancement of colored she notice» the »tare», but It dld nt C LIFFO R D C. M IT C H E L L people, so far as aim and methods are lesson the movement of her Jaws. i - MUSIC BY Louie and His “Rinky Dinks” ITALIAN HALL- 4 th s m a d is o n DANCING Til’ 1:°°A" | hirst Fide Couples Admitted FREE mirara A d m is s io n trfifa MARCH ¡anananaraaiaiM u m BwwBnBnmBnBriarianB/'.arani rsr£-®fSfsnanBrtsra iSays That N.A.A.C.P. Has Lost Much Of Its Power! Ï0 GIVE DANCE! w Ü jr ljifit l SHOP AUSPLUND DRUG STORE hints - (VoiV /ty Pressing DENTIST IS BOOK R E V IE W tim er C. ,‘/ 3 artlett S J f f lU J B i f i LOOK! L ISTEN! PRICES SLASHED LADIES’ FUR TRIMMED W IN TE R COATS 8UITS ........... 50c O’COATS 50c SW EATERS 40C TIE S ................ 10c cleaned and pressed SUITS ............ 35c sponged and pressed 99c 75e WOOL DRESSES ....... [-lain 75c SILK DRESSES 4 plain > SPORT COATS ........... 75« cleaned and pressed Fur Coats Cleaned A Glazed »2.50 HATS Cleaned A Blocked 35c ALTE R ING, REPAIR NG AND RELiNING A T REASONABLE PRICES S P E C IA L: any kind of Ladle»' cloth coat relined (not Including lining) *2 00 W t Employ E X PERT Help and GUARANTEE AIM Work ALAMEDA CL E A N E R S W E C A L L FuR AND D E LIVE R MUrdock 1047 235 Alberta Street FINLEY’S Tnule Mark Emblem is the W ir Tree of IMMORTAL LIFE Use O ur N ew Parking Space Por Fun J P IIN L IY 6 S 0 N M O R T IC IA N S eral Cart at Fourth and Montgomery Street* concerned The first wants the law She, no doubt, poor child, thought A pockct-aiiced edition of the poem» I enforced, the second wants the Nc they were admiring her, or was too of Frank A Johnnon, bound with an gro to tie good and obey the law. Ignorant to know »he was doing any oxpenaive ceiluaeude cover, printed while the third wants him to have thing out of the ordinary I on good hook »lock In a clear read economical and Industrial opportuni We Americans are such a nervous, able manner, and comprising twenty- ty. These are nil -parts of a conser energetic cla»» of people that we are r.ino selection» vative program prone to waste too much energy and The thought of the author can be»t i chewing gum 1» one way of doing It hi expressed by quoting from one of A little gum chewing won't hurt any- his poem», entitled. "A rtificial Men": T h « »Negro mass Is sluggish and one. but aside from Its vulgarity, too The case of so much worldlv sin, ln«rt. It require« some constantly of it increases the flow of saliva And purely selfish lives, stimulating force to urge It forward. when It is not needed In the stomach j» being asked each day. within, flllment of thn IRth Booker Wash Any form of radlralsm which threat- and impairs digestion. n y the foolish and the wise— disruption of existing order InKton filed. Ill« philonophy continu «ns Nancy Lee j "W hy 1» this world which we are liv es by whoor fore« of Ita own Innrtla. would he suicidal. Th«* Imported rail ing In unacc«l«rated by bln dynamic person Irallsm of the reds would be treason COMMUNIST P A R T Y IN HAM Among thin human throng allfy. The World War cam « and against this land ami country. And TR AM CK N O M INATES NEGRO Full of so little of the right. wont. Instead of being a war for de yel without something of a stirring W O R K E R POR p iT T C O U N C IL And so much of the wrong? mocracy. a h Woodrow Wilson declar nature Is brought to play upon him. Mamtramrk, Mich., March 10 ed If tf> be, It wuh th« means of weak he sinks Into Inactivity and sloth (CN'A) Cass Bailey. Negro laundry "W hy Is It?” Is the dismal cry ening th« democratic spirit through 11« Is now .at the depth of racial d«- worker, Is candidate for Councilman The world around today; Not a single progressive on ihe Communist ticket in ihe ■ om- Why should men In a Christian world. out th« world. T h « word has lost Its preaalon place meaning It the lexicon of Oer “ " '1 stimulating motive spurs Ills Ing city elections. George Kristulsky, Be denied of a place to stay? many, France, Italy, Russia, Japan, lethargic energies. The Industrialism a white worker Is the Communist Why can't men on land an I sea England, and even ln Ihe United " t Booker T Washington quickened candidate for mayor Forget subjoctlve plans. Hiatos. Economic dictatorship now him for a while. The blznrrn move- The Communist platform for Ham And realize that Christ should be rules Ihe world The eighteenth m i meni of Marcus Garvey aroused him trami k demands Immediate relief for Vitalized in man? Inry doctrine of the rights of man fur but a moment The N A A C the unemployed, and the abolition of Is no longer proclaimed from the i I* starts and stirs him only momen all discrimination against Negro wor Why doesn’t Ihe Christian church be halls of Congress or preached from ‘ »Irty when some tragic happening ker- In whatever form such discrimi true pulpit or platform. The enforcement j occurs. But 11 makes no lasting up nation may show Itself. And in union, combat with sin, of Ihe 14th and ir,th amendments Is 'peal to his Imagination. Ordinarily Why should we hold our peace In war ny longer understood to be the seri-1 the people have right to look to the Like artificial men? OHS purpose of th« government The I youthful Intelllgentla for the sllmn FOR RENT Men of purely rarnal lilrth, N A. A C P. Is about the only v o lc o , Iation of Ihe masses Mens ugltat MUST he born again which seriously hopes to revive "thu ! »o le m . But our college fraternal les To give that carnal frame the right ’ost cause." They In biennial session, meet, dine, dnm-c have pli;ied to Of a real and honest man. Presidents Harding, Conlldga a n d and adjourn. They are engrossed In Hoover, but they do not dance. The literary activity and In research work vith GARAGE Real enough to pay the price so-called "N ew N egro" does not look In I hemlHtry, physics and lilnlngy, Ol i Chrlst-llke Christian Ffe for redemption In thnt direction while the masses may go hang. There 834 East 8th St. N. Bold enough to turn our back Instead of hoping for a return of the Is a dearth of agitation In a sane con On the artificial life; old political regime, he rather expect structive direction. In politics ediica Phone:- MUrdock 3232 True enough, to keep the faith. a radical change in the economic or lion, religion, and eorln! polity we Forever in our heart, der. The N. A. A. C. P. today stands are Just about where Fred Douglass B. Tinsley And loyal enough to never fa,I as a conservative body motivated and Booker Washington left us. Who T o do our Christian part. mainly bj Ihe dead hand of the past will take the next step? 2 MODERN FURNISHED APIS. MRS. ZEPHA BAKER BEAUTICIAN Specializing In All Lines of Beauty W o rk C J. W alker Toilet Goods for sale .146 Williams Ave. MUrdock lOltl MRS. S. REDMONO B EAUTICIAN la now located at 9911 E. 69th Avenue S. E. Phone Hu. 4125 Formerly at 748 E. 27th Hi. 8 8GT. JOSEPH W E IT E Spanish American V 'ar VETS Meet» 2nd and 4th Saturday Nights Veterans Hall County Court House