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About The advocate. (Portland, Or.) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1932)
pagk rom T hr ADVOCATE hati ' iuiav a mit. *s. iüjj VOCATIONAL TRAINING STRESSED FOR NEGRO I exercise our muscles will atrophy, ropny, grow weaker The heart Is in» ; tlon. The propel choice of an else that is healthful and heneMc snd not too exciting and overexerting is a matter that requires careful and in most cases professions! consider tion. A Health Column Prevent ion of disease Is a new as peel of M.wlleal and Phat maceutlcal science; Its tremendous value has not I By DvNorval Untbank. M. O. yet bean fully appreciated In China "GINGER T O W N " By CARTKR O WOODSON the Physician la paid to keep his tRy Claude M cKay! (Ity Clifford Mitchell) (Kent well, not to bring him hark to I have Just returned from Johnson Georgia to give out to the Negro pw- May I Imprea* Reviewed for The Advocate by T11K H E AR T AND I T S LESIONS the state of health C. Smith I'nlverslty where was stag «taa sad menial workers what some BETTE R TH AN ’ W ITH O U T COST One of the printed Invitations sent upon you that disease Is prevent« C U fT O R D C .M ITTHK1.L. ed a symposium on "Higher Educa body told them about something else, nut by the National Urluin league TO T AX PAV E R S" hie death is poatponabl# and health Tihs la a collection of twelve short tion among Negroes" In celebrating they fail mgloriously. As these mis- to attend ~ their annuel conference In Three new towns hsr* been heard atorlea and when you know thatthey Is purchasable The money that buys I educated Negroes see it. education is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the May I ft* nth. has Editor's not«: Mr Gllmor«* Is s form. They are New Gleanes. W is r,1Ul. presidency of Dr H L McOrorev. merely imparting to another what consin: W atervllle Washington; and were written bv Claude McKay, you senior student ill the department of health and postpone» death is reached me and being unable to at for prevention The only avenue to will at once know the kind of .torlea The first speaker clearly distinguish some one tells you. They do not Tarrington. Wyoming tend but dealring to contribute to Pharmacy «t North Pacific college. Theae cities ed the "Htghter Education of the Ne thing shout the persons taught They report they will have no local taxes they are. for McKay, has a reputa Portland. Oregon and is today's guest Vitality Strength and Personal Kf their efforts I take this opportunity fecteticy is living within the natural tion of being a realist Thoae who gro" from that of Higher Education merely attempt to inject so much of , to call the attention of the readers contributor to Dr DeNorval Un stream of life this year, because of surplus earning My dosing cotnpll among N eg roes" Higher Education the stuff into their heads as we do from their municipally-owned utilities. object to the stories as not being true thank's department lof this column, the Vocations! Op- meats are may you live in the con to life will call hta efforts a rldtcu la higher education, he contended, vaccine into the veins and then await portuultv Campaign which la being I have said that publiclyow ned lous caricature of some Negro charac ftdence that “ Health** Is the enjoy whether you are educating Chinese results Now. persons who have no conducted by the Urban league, na light and power systems are built ters. moiit of exerlasting happiness, amt better sense thau this should not be or Hindoos. In the accredited Negro tlonally. during the rurent week of through the profits the service makes remember that life is a gift of nature, The first six stories. namely. in the schoolroom. They should be (By Robert Franklin Gilmore) Institution of this country, he said, April 17th to 21th and therefore are "built without coat "Brownakln Blues": "The Prince of you find no such distinction, for they committed for insanity. The heart is the living pump It's hut beautiful living Is a gift of w Is At the pr«*sent writing, d«*ap!to to the taxpayers", but the above three Porto R ico"; Mattie and Her Sweet • • • dom have men of the scholarship and I he rythmical pulsation forces the essence the Intensive political campaign In Nothing illustrates this better than cities are doing better than that— man"; "N ear white". "H ighball" and of life or the blood through th«* arter- the point of view of the best profes tereat; the publicity cainpalgns of they are taking the rest of the city the "Truant" have thetr setting in sors of Harvard. Yale. Columbia and the failure of the Negro educators to i«*s to all parts of the body and back the fraternul. religious and protwat cost from the backs of the taxpayers Harlem, and. of course, are filled enlighten the youth on their economic Princeton: and these men are try again through the veins This pump organisations, then* is no topic he- ing to develop for the Negroes in the situation and their opportunity for ad As W alter Winchell s.\'' t;.«Mi t.uck. with nlte-tlfe, gay women, loose mo commences to function long before fore the American Negro that is *o Wisconsin. Washington and W yom rals. high life, low life and real life vancement in the commercial s; here; South the same sort of institutions. actual birth The heart is a hollow worthy of his serious thought an tin* ing." For the next four stories. "The muscular organ, when contracted a and yet we have had teachers who ex theme of Vocational opportunity for • • • • • • Agriculture Show . ‘ I’ raxy Mary". bout the size of the fist, lying In the Thereupon I protested against any celled in such studies in school. They without a soundeconomlc lies!*, all D AYLIG H T DELIVERY "W hen I Pounded the Pavement" ami upper part of the chest, nearly In the such imitation or duplication There failed, however, to excel in their other efforts will have about as The City Council is considering "The Strange Burial of Sue". Me middle is no need in the Cotton Belt for such knowledge of Negroes and the meth The amount of work that much force as excessive steam, be regulation forbidding deliveries by Kay takes us down to Jamaica and od of reaching them The teaching an institution as Harvard. Yale. Col this Uttle mass of muscle performs is ing able to “ pop o ff" when danger Is umbia. or Princeton Most of what of Economics «to Negroes in the Unit trucks on the streets of Portland theta we are Introduced to various ■imply stupendous Every minute each In sight but calling on others todo form 11:00 at night to 9:00 in t he characters In and around the vintage ed States is a different proposition such universities teach as language, ventricle pumps about seven quart* of something of ' Gingertown". from which Ihe hook blood. In a day. the normal equiva It morning. mathematics, and science may serve from that of teaching whites One can hardly pick up a paper The intent of the ordinance la to gels Us name a good purpose anywhere, but much of ought not to be so. but it is so. By NANCY L I E lent of seven and one half tons of these da vs without railing that In • • • put a stop to th e noisy delivery of When I say that the Jamaican stor blood. This enormous amount of work what they teach as economics, history some community, colored help has Of all the Negroes who have stud milk at all hours of the night. In or ies are replete with free love. Jamai Is accomplished by a msss of flesh literature, religion, and philosophy la been replaced by others It Is not rule effective. It can rum. and the propagation of child propaganda and that would involve a ied Economics at Harvard. Yale, and der to make this M m gn « b t a b n id ts s e lfis h only one or two inefficient employ w~as found that t he proposed law ren. they are fully explained, which, Columbia. I have never yet known waste of time and mislead the Negro Diseases of the heart are Increasing la*y and mean and she wanta toknow ees being laid off but the entire col one to profit sufficiently thereby to must include all classes of deliveries, together with a little “ color caste" at an alarming rate race for years to come. In »he statin what some of our readers think she ored group of similar workers is be otherwise it would be class legisla make them very interesting work out a solution for the problems a a a tics of the Cnlted States departnumt should do stay with him with no The last two stories. "N igg er Lov of public health, heart dlseaae has outlook r<*i the future > t leave him ) ing replaced confronting his people in life With tion Ami there Is no organization, that And even in the certitude of science The appeal asking for such regula er" and "L ittle Shtek". are drawn most of them Economics 6 or Econo risen from fourth to first place In the uud begin sll over After supporting I have been able to observe, which or mathematics the approach to the mics 114 was merely course which tion is widespread, as the drivers from life in far o ff Morocco and causes of death There Is a similar hint for years she finds he hss been Is doing more to offset this«* condi Negro should not be borrowed from they had in Room 124 or 127 By use have circulated questlonairea. and rounding out twelve tales of "Ginger- and scarcely less striking increase in lax In his morals "stepping out" with tions by cementing a g<H»d will rela a foreign pedagogy. To teach the of a good memory they made a high nine out of every ten consumers hare town" ftrtion by the author of "Home the number of deaths of disease of flashy looking girls while she paid tion between the colored employes youth you have to take into consul mark in it. obtained their degrees voted for daylight delivery Other to Harlem". the arteries the bills. and tin* whit«* employers, thau the eration the people themselves and the with a Phi Beta Kappa standing or cities have daylight delivery, and Diseases of the heart may be divided ■—■■■ - - ^ ' National t'rhun League Here and circumstances under which they live Summa Cum Laude. and then forgot Portland should follow- suit. into two classes: those in which the As Marge has a*k«*d for advice there I have observed. and noted, For example, the teaching of arithme • • • it. membranes » r e prtntsniv affec»*'«! .... t from our readers I am going to leave local factional disputes, hut In the tic in the fifth grade in Washington • • • P O L IT IC A L -DOUBLE CROSSING those which chiefly affect the muscle, it up to them l*et us hear from you main this league is accomplishing County. Mississippi would mean one There are a lot a charges of "doub-1 Among the white students in the luflamatton of this membrane is call and learn h«>w different ones have some worthwhile results. If nothing thing in the Negro school and decid same class in Economics with these le crossing" made by candidates and « m J Endocarditis. Among the most solve*! this hashed over” problem more than by keeping us statistical edly different thing in the white In this connection. I [ Negroes, the result was different In their friends frequent causes of endocarditis may Don't t»«* afraid to write All names ly lnforme4| on the changing labor school. The Negro children as a rule, a good many cases, the whites came wish to say "double cross!ng"ln poll-; be mentioned rheumatic fever, ton will I h * kept a secret and gaurded situation throughout the country. come from the homes of tenants and from "homes of merchants, hankers, tlca. or in any other walk of life. Is silitls. gonorrhea, scarlet fever, septi with my life Ily compiling and studying the re peons who hare to migrate annually and brokers: and when Carver. Taus a stigma and one not easily wiped ’ cemia and so forth In view of the ports of this organization, one will from plantation to plantation. looking sig. or Seligman in taking i»p the pro o ff by success or the lack of It. N AN C Y LEE fact that the endocardium covers also become convinced that the time has for light which they have never seen 1 do not approve of this sort of j duction and distribution of wealth the valves of th«* heart, these inflama arrive«! when the Negro must create The children from the homes of white touched the life which they were liv policy. I hare had numerous oppor tlons often lead to deformities and and maintain his own vocational op planters and merchants live perman ing at home it meant something to tunities to throw the movement down leaky valves, which remain as a per portunities. not from a strictly racial ently in the midst of calculations, these whites, and they brought back Every man in public life has similar 1 nuinent disability Individuals with angle, hut front an efficient compe family budgets, and the like which en from school some new thought for propositions, so It Is no unusual i this type of heart lesion must remem titive basis able them sometimes to learn more the improvement of the economic con thing, but it is not so much a case of | ber that the heart is working at a Where possible, one of the best by contact than the Negro ran acquire dition. The Negro students in return "double crosslug" my following as it | disavantage. and should avoid it nit « pc - m««th<H|s of achieving vocational op in school Instead of teaching such ing to the land of peonage, tenancy, was a case where I did not want to I essarv strains, as by violent physical portunities Is to cooperate with and Negro children less arithmetic, they trades union proscription, social os- "double cross" myself. exertion or excessive smoking through the various systems of should be taught much more and even tracism. and commercial isolation find 1 want to retain my own self res Diseases of the heart muscle are of ownership Merely trading with, or longer than the white children who themselves bewildered with problems pect, and if I betrayed the noble men such wide variety of types and of so refusing to tradewlth. a store, a fac attend a graded school consolidated which they cannot understand Such and women who fought shoulder to different degrees of danger that It tory. nr an Industry, la not nearly aa by free transportation when the Ne Negroes develop, there fore, into fault shoulder with me for the Cause of is very difficult to give any brief out FOX PAR AM O U N T powerful a weapon as being a part groes go from one room rented hovels finders or jobseekers, and then drift Humanity. 1 would feel like the gro line Young people may recover from owner o f auch an enterprise to be taught without equipment and to other parts— to Washington, to cery clerk, who was employed by an them with no apparent remaining 1 1 1 M T M E M I R A C L E M A N “ W i t h In some rommunltl«*a. where our by incompetent teachers educated States Street in Chicago, or to Har ol d lady, and who “ pinched" pennies , Now, (dance ha i studied ordi effect But In the later years of life S>lvia Sidney. Cheater Morris. Rob pen pi«* predominate, we have active scarcely beyond the eighth grade. out of the till. nary people leading normal lem. as a rule they are more serious thau ert Coogan. Irving IMchel. John orgauizat ions. • • • leagues, anno« tat Inns, I do not like "double crossing". No ! lives ond hoi proved that those the valvular defects Muscular les Wray. Ilohart Ibis worth. Ned Sparks. «♦tc . who are blazing the way by Northern institutions which Ne Harvard. Yale, and Columbia have man who indulges in it eau succeed Ions are caused bv various pnlsnna, Lloyd Hughes and Boris Karloff gargling with listerine twice a teaching our people how to success groes attend take up rural education, no times for such matters as concerns in the long run He may seem to as tobacco, headache tablets, and a! , PLU S Fatichon 6 Marco’s —- fully compete with others In the var d a y had 6 6 % few er cold* but they restrict themselves mainly Negroes especially They are dealing get by at the start, but eventually he Th** annum» >>f 4lMbUltJ “ Rhapsody in Rhythm*' ious avenues of trade and wlo re to the problems of their race just as primarily with matters which concern | »IU * down to doom and oblivion. than those who did not use it. which results from disease of the j such activities are conducted our they do in dealing with other aspects the large majority of their constitnen This is because full-strength heart muscle may range from a viNAtional opportunities have In of life. The majority of courses cy—with problems which confront U N IT E D A R T IS T S listerine kills the common cold scarcely perceptible reduction of nor ! crease«! in proportion. which students of our race pursue at merchants like Wanamaker and Mar mat ai’tlvlty to complete tnraiaFitn j germs—almost instantly I And Em h community has Its own pro such institutions, therefore, have no shall Field and manufacturers like lam Carrillo and Lupcx Valoa— blems and must !»e solve«! in their tion In concluding may I 'nvlte your consequently, when germs bearing upon their life in the past, Ford and Schwab A Negro univer attention to another type of cardiac Melvin Douglas In own way but In every «'«immunity th«» have mode your throat sore, present or future. The more time a sity patterned after these institutions - T H E B R O K E N WING** I lesion. because it Is so common a i problem of increasing the vocation Negro spends wearing his brains out then, is out of place in the South. you can kill the germs and re I complication of many disease of the! al opportunities of the ra«'e should in such an unprofitable exercise, then, Mordecai W. Johnson may bring Har lieve your throat by gargling 'h eart and Is frepuently the indication taki* precedence over all other acti the less time and energy he has to vard to Howard. John Hope may dup of the beginning of the end In terh | Listerine. Lambert Phormocal vities ami in this the National Urb learn something about his own people licate Columbia at Atlanta. W ill W nical language It Is known as Dlllta an League can materially help ORPHEUM TH E ATR E Co., St. Loeis, Mo. whom he must understand if he is to Alexander may reproduce Princeton itlon or stretching of the myocardium --------O------- function among them as a leverage at Dillard, and Thomas E. Jones may or heart muscle Itself Each time the Flats f«»r rent Call Garfield 752.1 to bring them to higher ground. G arg le Full-Strength transplant Chicago to Fisk; but the Joe Cooper. prominent north weal heart Is called on to perform a super ! • • • Negroes will drift backward until we nnmal amount of work It must stretch theatre executive. Wednesday assum Kelley Miller was there to participate find some one of vision to understand Bishop Walter Taylor Sumner ad to accomodate the abnormal amount ed management of the ItKO Drphe- in this symposium; and, of course, he and educate them. dressed the regular meeting of the 1 of blon«l which It Is unable to evac um theatre In Portland, aucceedlng advocated both sides of the question Portland branch of the National uate As the heart grows larger Its Ted Gamble, who resigned sovoral in his peculiar way. endorsing both as ON SICK LIST Association for the Advancement of tw ice a d a y I muscle clitu re becomes thinner. Just days ago to operate the Rialto thoa one hundred per cent sound; but he Mrs. Robert W. Roberts is Retting a- Colored People last Sunday afternoon as when you inflate toy baloon. the tre. stood for neither side. We must con long as well as could be expec ted at at the Williams Avenue branch Y. W larger It get» the thinner Its walls j For the past four yeara. Cooper tinue to imitate, and we must be ori her home on Eugene street. She is C. A. As the walls become thinner they lose has been northwest explication man ginal at the same time. No sensible able to sit up in her room. ^ ^ of _____ ____ ____ ^ th He told his work among a considerable degree <»f the effeden- ager for ItKOOrpheum in charge of man has ever advocated that Negroes Mrs. Bessie Johnson, or 101 E 7^th Jcolored people In Chicago and also cv therefore • able to perform houses In Seattle. Portland, Tacoma .ci < 1 1 —leW ~ ___ L . S . V . . r . _ should stop studying the multiplica St Vneth North is ill with a touch of the of hla wnrk with St Phillips their function. and .Spokane tion table or the law of falling bodies. influenza in Portland. A study of the statistics of deaths Two years ago. Cooper managed Our Northern universities did not On learning of the cut in the How- j from heart disease shows that the the local theatre for a period of a produce these. We can wipe these Mrs Harriet Simms of Montavilla. ard University budget by the Senate great Increase has been in persons bout five nfenth*. institutions off the map and still have 60, was committed to the hospital for Committee. Bishop Sumner stated above forty years of ag*- Advocate readers who visit the lo a great system of education based up the insane at Salem on Friday. April that he would have his diocese send j in youth the heart, even when dfa cal RKO Orphanm will he glad to on the discoveries of the ancients, 14th. Mrs Simms suffered a state of its protest to Oregon Senators a eased, temporarily overburdened will welcome the new manager. She formerly suffered gainst the cut. The local branch of | many of whom were persons of color. meloncholia. recuperate rapidly If relieved of I t s , _____________________________ Negro education has been a down the same kind of trouble several years the N A. A. C. P. of which Clarenc- i strain, hut Iff later life a heart once Mrs. Simms is said to own a E. Ivey is the president wired its | right failure because the promoters ago. overtaxed returns hut slowly If at all have not yet emerged from the mon nice little home on East 78th street protest against the Howard budget I to Its former strength As our hair key stage of imitation. They go to* n Montavilla cut to Oregon Senators also. turns gray we must learn. If we wish schools like Harvard. Yale or Colum The meeting was well attended \ to live useful lives, that we cannot bia and acquire what information and proved to be one of the most in | overstrain, even for a short length PLEASE PAY YOUR SUBSCRIP these professors can rive, and when teresting ones of the season. of time, our hearts with Impunity they go down into South Carolina or tion . “ Sonny Boy” Unthank has recov Lf»at some should quote me as recom ered from an attack of the measles. mending a life of sloth as the gate George Orr I-atimer, local Bahai i way to longevity, let me add with "LCherc Voting M en Buy” leader left yesterday morning for ! special emphasis »hat disuse of our Chicago to attned the National con ! functions Is as deadly to their efferl- vention of Bahais. ency as over use. 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