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About The advocate. (Portland, Or.) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1932)
Coming Storie* by F.dward W orth y F.dward Lawton Dorothy W a it The A d voca te u REMINISCE 4 d n 'IU lii« Th e Finest W riter* Send Their Stori«« First to the Illus trated F e a t u r e Section M ' » l r q .s sla llv o « ILLU8TRATKD PKATUKK 8BCTION— October 22, m 2 Hy M A R Y W H I T E O V t N G T O N C H A R T E R III H e W ro te for the Atlantic M onthly I Brg in M y luvestigalion T h e ■ u n im e r u f t e r I l o f t G r e e n p o i n t I lu tti m y o n e « e r io u H illn .- u i, t y p h o i d . I l l< »"k n e u r l y a y e a r f » r r e c o v ery, A t r i p t o I t a l y c a r n e in t h è n p r iiiK . a n d it w u .t n o i u n t il t h è f o l l u w i n g a u t u n m , l'J 0 4 , t l i a t I w a a at w ork Ur fe in Brook* wrote me RiRHON ricTiuM is r »O N D r v r n THfc r» 4 1 1 Hr «r< TIOM hla idea * * o f €*nch « c e . f i e r e , «in t h è « » q u a lit y t h a t I k n e w cen ile! c x in t iti a a e tt le m e n t. w h it e a n d c o lo n * «! c o u ld liv e to g e th «* r , a n d r a c e «iiic a tio iu i w o u l d n o t b e t h è o n l y m a t t e r à u n d e r din- c t i* * io n . Hut i h a «l n e v e r h a d to r a i* e m o n e y a n d I w a * a t a l o * * h o w t o b e ^ ln t o in t e r e n t p e o p l e . S o I w e n t to o n e o f m y w in e n t a e t t l e m e n t f r i e n d * , M a ry K it t fr * h t ir y S i m k h o v i t c h . h e a d o f C ì r c e n w i c h l l o u a e , a n d ask<*tl h e r a d v ic e S h e in h e r t u r i» a * k e « l m e w h a t I k n e w o f N e g r o im I T n .h n h n / .lif' «, the „-iter Mr H W Kit hsi H elped Unstintingly ■* right to m*iu- Mr w*utitu«u>u “ Q®ve Correct R eport’ Mr Washing!. ii had tlie right to accept But ia it the beat and high* eat wisdom or the finest taate U>| make our friend» atifTer becauae It' la In our power to do ao?” Reading thrvr line» after twenty »even vear». I appre« late how many time* my friend» have shown thr finest taste In not letting me suffer.* I had a sense of adventure in going where my rare did not go. where I was warned not to go. Itul I was not allow ed to be In - dlsrreet I was quietly taken tare of, thei and alway». u iis in . T h e d e a ir e t o h a v e a a e tt le m e n t a m o ii(i th è N e g r o « * h a d l i e e » m t i l l m g in m y m in d f o r th e a e m o n th a . I ie lt t h a i a a e t t l e m e n t in a N e g r o a e c t io n w o u l d n o t o n ly h e l p t h è p o o r Ittit w o u l d h e a n e x e e l l e n t m e e t i n g - p l a c e f o r t h è w rrt , At tlie end of u Negro meeting.' I went home alone or with a col ored woman Once this did not happen 1 was walking In the t*ve-| mug with a college student We; went by a hack stand in charge of uu elderly Negro ’ You stop this." he said sternly to the young man “ Slop it I had too little knowledge then It» see the lynch ing back in hut imagination, but 1 saw the place in which he put me c o n d itio n * . I r o n fi '* * « * « ! t h a t I K n e w n o t h i n g . W h e r e u | io t ) * h e a r iv i* « » « ! t h a t I M m l y t h è N e g r o in N e w Y o r k a n d m a d e E II IhiBOlB. DR t h i* p r a c t ic a l b y a e c u r in g a f e l l o w * h i p fo r me fro m and til* contribution» gathered into W hile (hr professions! clast was O S W A LD G A R R IS O N V IL L A R D C ir e e n w ic h I lo u * e . T h i * r e n u lt e d in t h è p u h lic a t io n o f book form b c c iim "T h s Souls of mi lh r whole conservative, there prisons grandson— 1 From an old • Fi om a photogi aph some with a wide outlook on photograph ol 30 years ago>. m y h o o k , in 1 9 1 1 . h y L o n g m a n * . ( J r e e n e , " l l a l f a M a n : Bla* k I-oik made nearly 25 years ago». conditionf. and before Ion* we h a d ------------------------------------------------- t h è S ta tu a o f t h è N e g r o in N e w Y o r k .* * a group meeting for the moat part arguments aere continual!» ! *4jit«'<l flr*l la m «*t th « rdu file |Mofe»»toii*l people They w e re ,,, |}ri)<>g i j „ of colored and while. . »lo loa ira llv the Near,, a pleasant, friendly group with c. , i ^ , h. Cosmopolitan Club An- “ ed Biologically. l “ f Negro » * • Negro Bui ! hml noi * Miiglej inferior nothing to distinguish them from dre Trldon. Frenchman, psychiat- Smith of Tulane University wroto stcquHintHiHN* once, un nrv uwi tt%<( itlietr neighbor* but their color nut. was the president. Dr Owen a txx>k to show the horrible danger Ha de II IT e I «.«• risappi unteti Al M'fcst of them lived ln houses in M Waller, an able physician. of amalgamation, or rather o f inter Ilrodtlyn which tliey owned and ardent admirer of Dr D u B cha , was marriage ir r i n i « colorcd girl In llw library He assured his readers ------- were ------ Dr Vrrlns Morton- cruUo lo «trs lly snd by »I* which a little more ugly In * virr.prrM drnt uinl rcalUlttg that I had Ioni Ihla solid nud-Vlcb rian wav than the Jones was m tlie club, and one of f^ ousanCf years of planet-wide ex- naturai way of meeting (he o>lored Whltr. W lirtlirr N.wthrrnrr» or It» b .»t nwmbrrs was thr R. vrrrnd Jn , » K0od fundaments!- soon to Join the Southerners, they were usually de- Frazier Miller w « m UI H u trv fr, ! d u in i know lat. Professor Smith» tlie Negro U iscendanLi of fir e men and had been S<K*ialist cause rvrn one college girl, ho I h »d to proved to be markedly Inferior to ‘ well educated by their parents. w e re single taxers and. o f course. the Caucasian. He added that if UfM- lettera of introductlon from Socialists We exjiected to discuss j What moat impressed m Washington mul D ui! la I mailrd the beat N fr o ra i shown to bo but b before ri« r<* the ™ * * * ! equal to the best Caucasian, then their conservatism n t on thr race rna,|V topics but ten to (Hutnlnent buninrM men vervthing else ,lln* WAf> ^vrr me olwajra got around u ^ hard to prove prow that the question b it on iiNking for In tervie**. They saw tlie while man given op- to the piobiem o f rac ?. lowest white was higher than the I learned thè m*aning of O P T ! | I recall one evening when we lowest black. [> rtunnies denied them and they examined photographs of families Fred Mpurr, editor of thè New Ymk wiiiited the status of the white man Agi* mDWrrfd bv return muli The \ doctor Bean of Baltimore that lived, some in the white, some I to lx* able to go where their money in the colored world. I had heard ottura look thcij* Mine, One F o k showed to his own satisfaction ] would take them Engrossed >v tlietr o f these things but it wa a difTer- two «reeka, anotlwr nix wrelu Pour that the Negro hrain wa* small own problem they did not take tip nt matter to see pictures of Ne- liever am aered ut ull All were cor- er than the white brain, and gave minute particulars regard I the problems of others dial w len la ter I met them one by 1:1 •’ w!io had gone white, especial ing the difTerent classes of they were I<epubliran one II it a* bn*lnrv» men. arrord ly when a brother, still in the col American Negroes and where Marttcha Lytms. since deceased ored world, exhibited them. ititi lo thè KtAiulard o f thè a b ile they came from in Africa. I waa oik* of tlie moat attractive o world i»r und them. tlvey falled on Southern legislatures w^re at that sent him two pages of eager H it flr*l rount They dld not thU group. She had won the right time (Missing laws to make a person but ironic questions that asked promptly attend to thclr montine of colored graduated fr m the nor with a drop of Negro blood a mem- the number of years hr had r a ¡mat college to teach In the pubii bt*r o f the Negro race. Tragic con- mal!. spent in Africa, how long a pe L ij schools. Few outside of New York ditions were resulting Mr Mtiare waa helpful »m i I was riod hr hau given to detailed a j l . » . . know that there is no discrlmina ulatl to gel thè vlrwpolnt of un en study of the American Negro, Nnutli Carolina had refused turn in the placing f colored normal t Imaiaaiic W.ushlngtonhin I wa»| FR E D MOORE. etc., etc. lie had not sallied far to pass this law. a member of nlnsulv u Ih» Boia etilhtt.tlR.Ht. hav- ,.tm or New York Age. recent Ci^‘hi.vte'% and that th\v frequently A from Baltimore. Ilis researches the legislature *1 give this story leach m schools where there arc no lug read Ills articles m the Atlantic photograph on the hrain were in a few years as it was told me) rising and Negroes. I went to Superintendent M ntlily that wer* l iter Inrorporat proved incorrect. But the pub saving that they rould not pos. , Maxwell when I began my investi rd in “T h e BmiU o f Black Folk lication of derogatory articles sibly have su< h legislation In jllm j ur pst o' Business proved ruie o f the least m tile Henry »Street Settlement Mid |{allfl|Vs anj ,lsk went steadily on l l i e public that state. “ We are all of us ,1b.- Ilurv .,1 C l is r lt i« . sii.l ul*" ........... tr*rlirrs lie **V f mr to un- ter es ting pha.se* (o study. wanted them. niggers. more or less." was T lie Negro had been steadily los »H U 111.- iiirm luT» of '.hr m lsrd ,ir r , t >nj (rom hU mannrr that mv printed from his speech in the I jumped into this world of w rit K in d er- - lug out since th* davs when he Hikirds • « f n the i e Walton wauon r Free r r e ivuuhm n w aa an Impertinwicr ' ne\t morning's paper. ing and tried to get my favorable (instituted ten i»er cent o f the »t*ften and th* Hoiie Day Nursei\ iv.ich rrs were put into schools wlth- material published. The popular c ity ’s imp'ilaM n a few men In real 1 (obired churches gave me wel rrgar(| to th -ir color. He did T lie club was small and con- turned it down, but r.stair, a few caterers, some small, M,,‘* 1 b,*1*,n** i * l” ill*u l w llil ll,p not know how many colored teach- genial Ir t e r it achieved sudden . * . s , th . d id '*^ 1 l,w «roup of p hila n th rop ic era he >.. a ___ .,< h as »n H ^ n iv ,*Kiivi.sn |«.marines mow uu s u n e y i. tne in had nor ...»___ where •».-.. they were r*»w» > »nie and suddenly oblivion Minim, seemed all One man dependent then under Ward, and ’orkera. T> mention names w* uld teaching. lulr I * » . m skm « »orisi ron- .......... .. . ntiM -* W i IU n r ol Vii filila la While Stuirrintrndrnt. NL.rwrll '«r t* > » » • rr»din« r.mtmnslly on 1 . iourn*ls *l>o l».r l.-wlrr . 11.1 II. « I ,»! Ihr A»|>!l*lt U k " lo>' |0" * » " rt ,,,• " * ^ r; Hut W ,uk. t v union I s»w him .u th. >«•"* '<» N- « V o ik n * * The new»|M|iers R.indsy s H m io on Ikhor »«th rrln *. * 1» * * |U ,,,v 1.» undrrstsnd|^L, tlm r thr rolorrd Komrn the educated Negro I rememb-r. excc|»tions. too. when the Century gave me a <l*ik mn*. M V»kl>.( lo thr | .s »l 1 to > <* ■ ( N*-» gajn.il the point he rmphsalard luuinrss-iikr ! lr handled „ * r r i Yl* k » N rsro prohh-m from thr vs The Negro h *» worked and suffered ' ' V ' ‘>r- r " V . 'o , <,f,L'idu.NT I » « ’ in »h tc h I explained that the lU ll.m s th in N r»r.*-» Ill* trsdr |rt*«'-> >»>»» "> r N-xr.*-. Ihrm - selve.« looked at it. 1 have met however, was so* mi to be doomed, i My .(Tort* to n.rrt Ihr |Mo(r. "is n y whttr I » ' f i r N. ht M. « well * » Mon*1 rlM . wrrr m m surorssful wh* knowing m ir Nrgm ter.« that I hav«* k»*(>t I 4« m * h a un i . sh r.Jni«riti k .*». • I dropped into an exciting, buay A* • v w l*l - rkrr I » I once studied *1*'*'" "* r v like h « r thrtr Phllsn endtngly kind my new acquainlances , m v N.Hthein nTuctam f now *-or,d T,M‘ r* r*“ qufst,on tliroiiy m »m hla advice. were to m e lluay m .n U c r, gave ,os mieresim g con.scU among tI m * wkt »1 »rrvlo.» work for tlie Nr- Oswald whites as well as colored I met a New York man not so Interview* and ly lix v l nu- to nieel ..'" '''r . " 77" gio»*» I'hrrr wa» Ih r FT lends’ Ml* long ago who had raised nearly a »Ion under whltr guidance, down In people who rould tell me more I g „ PW „u u„. N e gri anil the c»* rr,5on V lll* rtl- Osrtlson's grand- tlie Weal T h ir d *» M r» Klmber, cslm hundred thousand dollar» (• r a N e have had the privilege the Rev- North IVothmg l SOn h<,||>ft1 'nr » “ » “ " « " • ' J ' Th a Iw-nlgiiant. wa* at the head, and gro without Inquiring how he alood erend Hutchins Hlshop’s Irlend- Tout aee s FViol < Errand wa» su- ,lrst ,lm<‘ 1 W,’ ,U to ,1,n' 1 * * s l,OT* t was blamed ship (or over thirty years. I went perceded by Dixon s The Lpopgrd'al! witt. h tr i young girl, Kate Slier with hla own gioup h ,d '"’u .T ^ tu 'n d 'e d '^ 'lw d "'^ ’n man. a* entluiaiaatlr a* ever I could lor not endorsing him and not ualng tmm one denominati n to another s p o t» " The best publishers seemed "^ L ,rl .2 l d n h ln heen ^ m .ul 1 hope to lie I remember her **y - my Influence to get the Negroes to !.. my quest l.„ knowledge eager to print rabid criticism of the X , ^ „ a thè m ^ T è r < £ T l.e late W illiam T Hr.xika ol 81 American Negro * li m g .»K-e. My heart la black even endorse him. I wa* to take the N e Ihougli my fare may be white." She gro . m i this white man s evaluation. M arks U M me that his atudy d.wr Thomas a renegade Negro. Washington, loud cries ol wrath We had a dls llshed * » nasty a book as can b*|(rnin pia supporterà, and a not i.lv.w cl me some AlwrkWig ron di- All v»-ry Iileiwanl ( . » tlie white man. was always open Agw raien» on the W n eerrlt-W »»h - but there are MumnlmSi rmiNgt» lion*, boi she knew lew Negvoea ol found about hit race snd M scm ll- t didn’t know meetings rould be the Negni’a making wltlvhlt the Inglon dinner. I believing W ashing »•“ her own calibre. »(■ Back in th# mtnds rrportPd ,,ke th„ but Mr VllllUll ton wa* right tn accepting the has o f the white critics was the fear of. ____ !__ Moon I (»v a in e acquainted wtUi ahlUi man’s inanulaotuiiiig more. Ttiruugh Hie social workers I met pHahty. tlie colored m ira«* connected WtO< Negro domination, and tire old slav-[ canUnoed m i page 4 hrtd rigidly t . II.» rul- nut brl.KV o c c ^ o n .11, put m * kind word, (or ........ ,rr„» ; ¡¿zg&zjz■ ,.... - «, _ *«. zxrss ar^sar « ”5 ■ t £ - — ss c-t* cz