i • LEGION TAKES OVD CITY THE, An VOLUM K 31 - NO. 44 In d «p g n d «n l AD VO C ATE Papar D evoted lo th « In tern ata mf (h a * P e o p la PO R TLAND , OREGON, SATU RD AY, SEPTEM BER 10. 1932 PRICE FIVE CENTS NEGRO VICE-PRESIDENT CANDIDATE TO SPEAK MERCIER HEADS LOCAL COLORED COM. Annow LI Y KITH ItlKH llr<»o who have mil read It Mrs Ilogle and Miss Maxwell from may absorb It pathon: — 3 P M to 7 P. M : Mrs Gaskins and Mm. Carr from 7 P. M. to 11 P. M. "Mm. Lindbergh and I have Kueh of the men serv««d at sometime made our home In New Jersey during the «lay with the ladles' com­ It 1» naturally our wish to m ittee» continue to live there near our friend» and Interest«. Ob­ Mrs. Croaswhlte will serve on the viously however. It 1» Impossi­ l registration committee anil Mm. Mer- ble for us to subject the life cter on the Housing Eugene J Minor of our second »«in to the pub­ I Is chairman of the Housing and Iran»- licity which we feel was. In a | tsirtatlon commltti«»«. He reported a large measure re»p«*tt»lbl«> for | number of cars reglslcted for the the death of our first." I sightseeing trips and room» to ucco- • • • | modulo 505 delegates No fund was re- I ported to b«< available for the purchase Would It be unjust to add to the responsibility of our American Jour­ of gas and «ill for auto» loan«««) for the nalism In the case an equul measure ¡transportation of the guests on pleas­ ure trips about the city and environ of resp«>n»lblllty of American police l Each car donor 1» expected to exer­ method» f cise civic pride to tho extent that he • • • will go down In hts old Jeans anil It Is Interesting to Negroes to rend I "dig up". what the presidential candidal» of Ihe Mr. Mercler appealetl to Ihe com- Hnclnlist party says aluiut them ns to \ mitt««««» to urge the cltlxens to each segregation: | do his anil her share for the entertain- I only 50 cent» admlalon to the dance. AN INTERESTING VET It wai al»n explained that only the I member» of the l«oglon could partic­ Lieutenant Benjamin H. Mills, of ipate In the parade» A good many ex- Nogales. Arizona. Is among Interest­ »erelce men who had planned to taae ing Legionnaires who are In Portland I part rerelred th l» Information with to attend the Legion Convention. He ] great disappointment has been in the Army for 2< years and la at present, historian for the depart Mr. Irvin Flower» decried the fact Excepting the commander of Port­ that »oma people had the arroneou» ______ : ment of Arizona, of the American Le­ land Post No. 1, himself, there I» no Idea that th«« delegate» coming to the gion. He Is a member and officer of (By Kelly M iller) Captain John Hery Allen Post No. 41. Convention were the rough riff raff, The political world waa agog with Lt M ill» has charge of the library lie pointed out that Uncle Ham flr»t expectancy The acceptance address and office at camp Stephen De Little | of all. »elected the best men the coun- of President Hoover and Candidate at Nogales. HU regiment publishes an | try had for enlistment and that the Hoover awaited with bated breath. Interesting 6-page tabloid size weekly i ilclfgato« were the flne»t men who HU treatment of depression and of newspaper known as "The Ballet" of had been or was In the service. A rl- proposed economic and Industrial re­ which hU outfit U Justly proud and j sing vote of thanks waa extended to medies might easily have been antici­ of which be speaks in glowing terms. Mr Minor for his "untiring effo rt» on pated. The editor of The Nation de- behalf of the committee of arrange­ He also stated that the men are clared that he could have forewritten well boused and cared tor and have ment»." the acceptance speech Including both their families with them. The Lleuten- FIR ST VET DELEGATE TO AR R IV E substance. thought and style. But Can a n f« wife U a teacher In the public Jam«-» Wilson, of Radford, V a . arri­ didate Hoover’s new attitude on the 5choota at Nogales. She I- « cradnate ved In Portland at 9:20 the morning Eighteenth Amendment kept the of the University of Soutnern Cauior- of September 8th. He Is stationed at country guessing The drys had pin-, nU. H U outfit U stationed on the Hotel Medley. ned their faith in him as the great border-line between the United States Mr Wilson Is Commander of the white hope. They had looked to him and Mexico and ore frequently kept Rayford Montgomery Post No 119 and as the Moses to lead them through busy on duty there. has an active membership of more the miasma of the wilderness of wet­ than 40 Mr» Wilson did not accom­ Lieut. MI1U served "O ver There” ness to the promised land of high with the 367th U. S. Infantry. He also pany her husband on the trip and dry ground. The rising tide of U stopping at the residence of Mrs. B. Mr Wilson was enllst««d In Camp liquor seemed to be at Rood. The Lit­ lo r . Va He Is very Interested In what J. Fuller. erary Digest hod tested public sent!-' he has seen of Portland and Its peo­ ment and found It so wet that water i ple and Is a very Interesting "Ruddle". C A LIF O R N IA BUDDIE ARRIVES could make It no wetter. The Republl-1 Morris W. Supler. delegate from can convention was no.-plumed and , y Po, t Ko dodged the lsaue with evasive phrase-: of I «os Angeles, California U here to ology. The Democratic «platform had attend the Convention. Mr. Stapler U gone wet, one hundred per cent plus. a naphew of Henry Taylor, a-pioneer The fate of the Grand Old Party hung citiseli of Portland. He Is «loroTiled In the balance. It vacillated between at the home of Mrs. B J. Fuller. 839 W I L B U R MERCIER Tibbetts street. IIALTIM ORE. Md„ Aug 29— Morgan LOCAL CHAIRMAN MORGAN COLLEGE GETS NEW TRAINING ASSIGNMENT (Special to The Advocate by L. Olson) James W. Ford of Alabama, Negro candidate for Vice-President on the Communist Party ticket, who Is now on a national election campaign tour J JAMES W. FORD bringing the Communist message ot solidarity and struggle before the masses of oppressed Negro end white workers, will speak in Portland Fri­ day. September 16. at H AR M O NY H ALL. East Seventh and Alder at 8 P. M. Unemployed are admitted free bnt a 16 cent charge will be mode for Ford, who was unanimously nomi­ nated os their Vice-Presidential can­ didate by 1206 working class delegat­ College has been «signed the tran- doubt but what Wilbur C. Mercler is Sgt. Johnson and Reese, of Son Di­ es at the National Nominating Con­ lng of teachers for the new school the most sought after veteran In the ego. ore also here as delegates to (9e vention ot the Communist Party at for Handicapped Children that Is to City. Mr. Mercler who resides with his Legion Convention. They ore also at Chicago on May 28-29, has an out­ be located here. charming wife on E. 24th and Burn­ Mrs. Fuller’s home on Tibbett street. standing record as a leader In the The new course w ill Include meth­ side slraels was selected by Post No. struggles of the working class, both ods of teaching the harder hearing One of which he Is an active member, i Isaac Moore. VeL, of Mlnnei i polls, Negro and white, against oppression children, lip reading. Industrial arts as General Chairman of colored l e g ­ and exploitation. has arrived for the Convention. for t he handicapped, teaching the ionnaire activities for the American He was born December 22nd, 1893, feebleminded, a regular course of le g io n Convention. Sept. 12 to 15. ing liquor. Smith has brought by his at Pratt City, Ala., his father being a study for the blind, abnormal and clin­ to be held In Portland. unyelldlng Insistence the whole of his local coal miner and steel worker ical psychology. Mr. M errier served In the Fifteenth own party and a large proportion of and his mother a domestic worker. Dr. Harry F. luitshuw who. for sev­ New York National Guard and saw 21 his Republican antagonists to where One of Ford's earliest memories ts en year» w »» Professor of Abnormal months service overseas. Over there he stood and stands on that bad emi­ of the lynching o f his grandfather on Psyrh<>logy at Harvard, heads this de- he served with the Sixteenth and was nence. In the meantime Mr. Hoover the time-worn excuse of “ rape" be­ l>artment of Special Education In the transferred to the 161st French Divis­ has come around to the repeal of the cause ot his courage In expressing his public scho«il» of Baltimore ion. He was In the capacity of First | Eighteenth Amendment, relinquishing convictions. Dr. luttshaw and his corp of assis­ Sergeant. Company C. federal control to the States, and the James W. Ford went to work at the tants are specialists In this field and Mr. Mercler has been a resident of outlawry of the saloon by roasttta- age of 13 on a railroad t rock Job at have served on the faculties of M«*r- Portland for nine years and has ac-1 t tonal prohibition. The only point Ensley. Ala., working variously os a gau and John Hopkins before. liv e ly connected himself with all where he differs materially with the blacksmith helper in a steel plant, This Is not the flm t time Morgan movements looking toward the devel­ Democrats Is the constitutional pro­ machinist helper and also a laborer has assum««d such reai«onsibllltles. for opment and progress ot his race in hibition of the saloon—an impossible In a blast furnace side by side with when ltnltlmore's entire schools sys­ Portland. He Is also a member ot the desideratum. Whetherthe Eighteenth his father. He worked his way through tem was changed, a few years ago. l«egal Redress committee of the Port­ Amendment goes up or down, the A school, graduating high school In three K E L L Y MILLER Morgan assumed the work of training land branch of the National Associa­ me'rlcan people will never again write years. W hile attending Fisk Universi­ high school teachers. tion for the Advancement of Colored despair and hope. The bepuxzled lead­ a police regulation In the organic ty at Nashville. Tenn.. and within a Ninety per rent of Junior and high People and a frali'rnallst and church ers waited for their master's voice, law. few months of graduation, he enlisted school t««achers in the schools of Ma­ man. As I sat in the audience and listen In 1917 in the U. S. Army. Ford en­ and could only proclaim: "W ait t ill ryland are graduates of Morgan Col­ Mr. Mercler enjoys the respect and I ment and comfort and pleasure of the you hear from Hoover” . Alas, at last, ed to him pour out a volume of in­ tered the Signal Corps service, in the "T h ey (N egroes) want noth­ confidence not only of the entire Post we did hear from Hoover. The erst­ vective remarks against the evil of the .guests He also statiul that no horn«« , lege. ing except the right» white charge ot radio and telegraph commu­ The college recently celebrated Its No. 1. but o f all the people In the city while champion of prohibition became saloon. I was convinced that this was ■ woulil get more than two delegates workers should want. Separ­ nication for the S5th Brigade of the 65th annlversury and Its was point­ of both races who know him. tiutll all the homes had been cared ' the compromiser with rum. Liquor the only moral passion evinced dls- 92nd Division in France. W hile over ate Negro areas under self de­ ed out that the assets of the school The auceeas and happiness ot a wlthout the saloon Is liquor Just the 'course, which except for the prohibi- for to thnt extent provided enough termination would be monn- there he helped organize protest meet­ In 1867 were 85.000. and basements of large group of veterans here and colored delegates and guests came. Ingless except as an Invitation same. There Is no recorded Instance tion straddle was excellently done. ings against Jtm-Crowlsm and mis­ First class rooms cost |2 per night churches were used ns classrooms for Journeying to the Rose City to attend in our annals where a statesman of But even this attempt at sermonizing to settle Iho race problem by treatment of Negro soldiers, especial­ for one In a room and for two. $3 per tho nine students enrolled, while to­ the convention rest upon his should­ like eminence has executed such a was tainted with the suspicion of po­ ■ segregation. Actually the at­ ly frame-up charges of rape against day Its assets are (075.000, with thir­ ers and he solicits the whole-hearted night. This Includes bath but no meals sudden sommersault on a moral Issue, litical guile and insincerity. He bad' soldiers in his outfit tempt to set them up would teen stone buildings for Its summer which will bo extra. Seroml class ar«« support of all the people of Portland I not eren Webster's apostasy ly implied. If he did not openly accuse Inrlte race war. • • * What When he received his discharge nnd regular students. and especially the members o f his own from abolishment of slavery. Nor Is the Democrats of favoring and foster­ 81 per nlglfl for one In a room and the Negro wants and needs Is from the army and though expert as ra«-e. Ills slogan Is: What has to be $2 for two, Including hath. what the white worker wants there a tike Instance of self-stultlfl- ing the return of the open saloon with a radio operator and skilled in tele­ accomplished Is never too difficult to catlon. Elected four years previous all of its attendant evils, prudently Ilead«|uarters for the colored actl- and neixls; neither more nor PIONEERS F U N E R AL LARGE phone communications, he could not accomplish. villas: registration, transportation, less. That Is what wo Social­ by an overwhelming majority of his oblivious of the fact that the rival find work. He finally found a job In a housing, etc., have been established ists stand for." fellow cltlxens. bound by platform and platform avowedly decried the evil of mattress factory in Chicago and then Among Pnrtlanders who motor«'«! to In the Hoys Division of the Williams pledge to enforce the whole Constitu­ the saloon and pledged support to the in the Post Office of that city as a Sale into nltend the funeral of Mr. Facts About the Telephone - j Avenue branch of the Y. W. C. A. nt Johnny Jones were Mr, nnd Mrs, Pin- tion with especial emphasis on the state to obliterate Its abuse. The only parcel post dispatcher. He joined the MORE ABOUT FORD . 274 Tillamook street, corner of W il­ ey Williams, Mrs. I Shepherd, Mrs. Eighteenth Amendment, he now con­ difference Is that the one would seek (From Col. 1 on this page) liams Avenue where somt«one Is con Alice Williams, Northern Ireland has one tele­ fesses the failure of his stewardship to accomplish by federal compulsion (Concluded at bottom of col 1 page 1) Mrs. L. E Wilson, Pimtnl \Vork««rs Union No. 1. II'' stoutly on duty to enre for the ne««ds ’ Mrs. Lena Johnson, Mrs. J. T. Ken­ phone tor each forty seven ot Its anil asks for a reversal of policy. He what the other hoped to reach by mo­ preted as dry to the drys, as wet to population. fought ugiiliiNt Iho spei««l-up system ,,f u,„ v««t» nnd other guest» hero to looks backward after putting his ral suasion. This was the only point nedy, Mrs. John Irwin. the wets, and as damp to the moist. nnd the bureaucracy In the union. He ,itti«nri Ihe convention, where he showed poor sportsmanship, hands to the plow of righteousness. They report thnt the funeral o f the Long distance telephone service This new doctrine of freedom of con­ wim elected dalegntn to the Chicago World Wnr vets present nl the final ploner Salem resident was about Iho He now stands on precisely Ihe same I the debacle of the Eighteenth Amend- has been Inaugurated between Can­ science on the liquor question rever­ Federation of Labor, wh««- • he «•nrri«, American Negro Labor Con- honor the delegates and visitors are: acted as pall-bearers. loud resounding cry was heard even In position was ahsurdedly Inconsistent vil. “ Because thou art neither hot nor grrn» In 11125, and finally Joined (be \ tr|p on |j,„ Columbia river highway, The Republican party, o f which Mr. Mrs. Plney W illiams of Portland at the remote Southland whose political The commercial telephone service cold but lukewarm.” The genuine drys Communist Party In 1928. II«« Is a „ jj ,]ny nn,| ,,iKht picnic and dance at whose house Mr. Jones died. Is his Hoover is the titular head, derived Its solidity was split asunder for Ihe first recently Inaugurated between Great are left tn a pitiable plight between forceful speaker nnd every one 1» In- m „p i,ak,« park (not official however) daughter. historical greatness and glory from lim e In a generation. So great was Rrltaln and Soviet Russia U avail the two platforms and can only rely vltod to hear his m«»Hngn nnd leurn on the 14th nnd Ihe eolored Legion able to all parts of Great Rrltaln and the triumph of Ihe dry Hoover over Its espousal of moral causes. It stood upon the ultimate triumph of social more of the work and aetlvltlen of Dance (o ffic ia l) at Cotillion hall on Northorn Ireland, but Is restricted the wet Smith. Smith then stood for for the rights of man; for the protec­ righteousness but must now prinounce Mrs. T. J. Kennedy,mf 759 Front St. this noted man both In America and Thuraday night tho 15th. to Moscow for the prcsenL tion of the weak, and for temperance the repeal of the Eighteenth Amend­ Plague on both your houses." Europe. The general manager made a spe celebrated her 77th lllrllulny Anniver­ ment. State control of the liquor traf­ and sobriety, not m erely as a matter sary on August 11th. She looks well Mr. Hoover, at the close of his seven The widespread Investment tn elnl appeal to Ihe women of the com- j fic and moral condemnation of the sa­ of prudence, but as a matter of prin­ thousand word address, pfedges him­ mlttees for a largo attendance from | nnd with the exception of rheumatism terest In the Bell System Is indl loon. Mr. Hoover then stood for tho ciple. It was reserved for Mr. Hoover DON’T SPEND YOUR MONEY among the Indies so that the visiting which annoys her nt times, she Is In catcd by the tact that more than self to the nation and to Almighty strict anil unflinching enforcement of to declare In behalf of the Grand Old 280,000, or about 40%, ot the stock­ God to carry out his proposals Includ­ WHKKE YOU CANNOT WORK! mltht llav„ *B M excellent hcnlth. Party that attitude on the liquor ques­ the Eighteenth Amendment forbidding holders of the American Telephone ing the restoration of liquor without ^ on the official night, 15th. in categorical terms the manufacture, tion is not binding on the conscience. and Telegraph Compnny. Ihe parent Please pay your subscription to .he saloon. All logffinnalrea will be admitted company of the Bell System, own transportation and sale of Intoxleat- Mr. H oover’s position may be Inter- T H E ADVOCATE. Welcome Vets to The Ailvorilte. five shares or less eac) j free and tho public will be charged