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About The advocate. (Portland, Or.) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1933)
T M ■ kATUROAY, JANUARY 14. 1*11 A D V O C A T E PAGE TH REE SAYS “ NEGROES IN CITY PLAY WHILE ROME BURNS” PRISONS and Advocate Editor PRISONERS a c. INE Responds To Editorial QUESTIONS !» AND ANSWERS ■••0 prepara and deposit hla own ballot without aid Wh»n legal method« fall to keep the N rgro from the polls, other methods equally If not more effective are use«! I quote from the Keptembet CHIHIS of I • "Albert W liltr, editor of the Hhreve port. I.« . AFHO AM KItfC AN newepa per, waa last week driven from Bhre report by entaged state and city po lice, forced to hide In outlying hills, herauae of hla activity In organising a ‘«• g u t of Negro voters (Tnahle to find White, the heavily armed consta bulary stormed the large latkealde Auditorium where a mass meeting of the l.eague of Negro Voters had been ache«luleil to be held, s I ixm I guard he fore all entrances, threalened with death any who dared enter Rhreve port's leading citizens dei-lared that the atreela of their fair city would be dietiched with blood before Negroes would be allowed their right to vote “ Time nor apace will permit me to cite any further reasons why Oregon should "rop y" Mlaalaalppl or any of her alster atatra, bul I sincerely be lieve those I have given ought to be sufflrlnt for any aane thinking per son to rtallse whal a backward a'cp O i e g o n takes should she ch«M«ae to use Mlaalaalppl aa a pattern for her sal« a tax. Youra for Oregon setting the pare, B EATRICE C AN N AD Y F R A N K LIN . Editor. TH E ADVOCATE “ AS NOTED J R lIp h I By CLIFFO RD C. M IT C H E L L ) City Cossi is s istio w r rra for inalumr Listen lo Ihla from (f'oiitlm icd fr<>ni pa*« o n ») rUMl, Mlaslsalppl lynched &41 people, John l, Hplvak'a book. "Georgia Ml* Reader« of this column desiring any an average of « lltllr unir» than 11 ger"; Information on this subject grs re "Yaith," Twlua (wardon) anlil, and a vrnr Km til of ihr n io b i villin i* quest«*«! to w rit« or phon« to th« au were burii*il ulive Waller Whlti , III walknl lo Ilia alunlrd cone ra I a poal thor who will give replies In this lo «h lrh thr guard «a a already lying hta booh. "H op« A Faggot" drat ritira column as soon aa tha data has been l ha cony let. a Mlaalaalppl lynching a» f ililo » a secured "Tba unrcalaling nigger. with hla "I « a l i lini a N airn burned al ilia Leroy Crourhley asks If It la true Slake at Itocky Kord, Mlaalaalppl, bark lo Ibr poet, «a a larrd lo ll from that the Municipal Street Railway anklaa In lilpa with a rope and ona Siindav afirrnniin I watrliril au angry System of Seattle la aup ported by city mob chain him In an Iron atakr t Had In lha ruffa clipped about tha ear- taxes « »li Inni Ihrm pllv «mul arminil hla onil poal Thr guard pullrd aharply In answer to f'rouchley’s question, Thr cou v lil’a lorao Jerked forward, hrlplraa I mn I v I « a l i tin! Ihrm pour we wish to say that the Seattle Muni gasoline un lilla «m ul And I watched 1111111111» at rlghl anglee. hla arma out- cipal Street Railway haa never been alralrhrd. Hla head dropped balwrau Ihrrr mull art Ihla »und on flra. eupported by taxes In Seattle, In any hla arm« The awrat on hla bark and “ I alluni III » crowd o f Dilli p r u p l r m way. manner, shape or form Ihr flaim-a gradually rrt-pl nearer and |'rm» gllalenrd In III» Ughi William A Dalxlel Is Interested In Hi retch " tha warden ordered lirarrr In Ihr lirlplraa Negro I watch Knowing what city first established hat ably The guard pulUd the ropa un rd the htair climb higher and hlgliei a municipal bus terming' service. encircling him «llh u u l mrrry I Inaid til It waa aa taut aa a tuned violin The City of Camden. New ^-reey. hla cry of agony aa Ihr Mature reach airing Ob. Jeaua-* the nigger »creak first established city-owned bus term! ed 'Yu' pullin' my arma o u t" ed him and art hla clothing on fire nal facilities about two years ago. “Tha rope waa wound around tha ••‘Oh. God; Oh. G o d " ha ahouled. *1 and It haa proven very aucceaaful. K E L L Y M ILLER didn't do H’ H a »» m ercy" Tha blare poat and tied, leaving the convict Henry Spanl Inquire« how long haa leaped higher Tha Negro atruggled atratched so the ellghleet movement Richmond. Va owned Its gas system threatened to wrench hla ahnuldvra lie kicked thr chain ItMtee from hla and If It pa?« anklra but II held hla walat and neck from their socket« Richmond. Va haa owned Its munici "'O n e h ou r" the warden ««Id curtly agaluet lha Iron poal that waa herom pal gas plant alncelkSt—or SO years and e»tlngul«hed the torch “ Ing rad with tutrner heat Tbs city chargss tntsrest, deprecia The punishment Juat described la •• 'Hava mercy, I didn’t do II' I did tion and taxes against the plant and called “atretching" and la Georg!«'» n't do I I " ha ahAutrd again ■till maks more than 1100.00000 a variation of breaking victim» on the Nowhere waa Ihrrr a algn year profit. of merry among Ihr mrmbrra of the wheel, which waa uaed In the Spanish Mrs Charlotte Simpson inquires," mob, nor did they erem lo regret the Inquisition three hundred year« ago. What city on the Pacific Coaat haa horrible thing they had dona. Tha Nr and 1« a torture which no rlvtllaed the moat electric range« In use?" fr o had euppoerdly eluned agaluet country has uaed alnce. The answer to this question Is that Negroes are held In virtual atavery thrlr race and be died a death of lor In Seattle nearly one-third of the city on the Georgia "deaih farm »“ and the lure. cooks with electricity. "Horn hr became ipilrl There waa condition 1« general It waa alao In E R Crump asks If It Is true that no doubt that hr wee dead The flamra Georgia that Mary Turner an eapect the newer resldenris In Tacoma are Jumped and Irei-ed aboer hla h eal An ant mother, waa lynched by a mob built without chimneys odour of burning fleeh reached my beeauae ehe protested the lynching of In Tacoma a large proportion of the noalrlla Through Ihr leaping Mate 1 her Innocent huabaml and made the hornet are heated by electricity, and could are Hie Negro aagglng and aup mistake of aaylng »he waa going fo new homes are being erected without have members of the mob, arrested ported by thr chain« . . . . cblmneye. In spite of the low rates . . . . The mob walked away In They hung Mary Turner to a tree by Tacoma earned a million dollars pro tba vanguard of Ihr mob I noticed a her feet and after »hooting her. per fit on Ra municipal electric plant. woman She eermed to ba rather formed a Caesarian operation with a Frank A. Uergman aska if thr r-ub butcher knife, much after the fashion young yel II la hard lo tall ahont worn llclyowned electric plant, not to an of her type; alrong and healthy, of slaughtering a cow Her prematura Kelly Miller noted author and sduea uae. In the basement of the County apparently a woman of Ihr country ly delivered babe, after making a fee «lie walked with a firm, even atrlde ble outcry had It« title life stamped tor « n o aays Negro will be slimlnated House la in good running order. The electric system In the basement out by the heel of a member of the or flattened out at bottom of econom Phe waa beautiful In a way . . . of the Multnomah County Court House “ I'm hungry aomeone complained mob She waa hurled In a grave whe-e ic seals. Is capable of lighting and heating the the mob placed a whlakey bottle with “ Le't gel eomethlng lo ant** . . . “ (inventor W hitfield won’t have a a cigarette butt In It as a “ head piece" JANITHESS P A Y S IN S TA LLM E N TS entire building Our authority for this statement Is Hen R. Thomas engineer FOR JO YEARS TO PURCHASE Why doesn't Oregon emulate Oeor lick of lurk with any Inveallgallon of of standing In Portland Mr Thorns» SE ALSK IN S1.000 COAT the burning of Jim Ivy", declared Wil gta’ was engineer of a similar plant In the Ham N llradahaw, of t'nlon County, In many southern «tale». Including IN D IAN A PO LIS . Ind . Jan 11— An Multnomah Hotel for a number of Mlaalaalppl, admittedly a member of Mississippi and Georgia. Negroes are the m«>h that for forty-eight hour» not allowed to vote The rule 1« gener official of a local department atore years This plant la sttll In operation »ought 11« Negro victim and lynched al t'p to June SI. ISIS, many Negroes here relates the following story for Mr Thomas says there Is nothing the him without ratahllahlng hla Identity were »uceeaafully dlalranchtaed by the a place In the “ believe It or not " aer matter with the electric plant In the basement and know» no reason why with the crime Grandfather Clanae On that date the ies of «lories. “ A Negro woman who scrubbed It cannot be used However, It ehnntd not have been United State« Supreme Court declared nereaearv for the flovernor to tnvea the Grandfather Manse Invalid on a floors and washed clothe« for twenty TH E SAME tlgate very far bec»u«e I have per«on case which came up from the state of years lo make payment« weekly on ally aeen “ eiclualve" picture« of the Oklahoma The Oklahoma Grandfather a sealskin coat coating il.UOO has paid The following poem by the famonr lynching. In which the face« of at Clause prohibiten any one from voting the last Installment and received the Negro writer, t-angston Hughes, was leaat a hundred member« of the moo anlraa on January 1. 1**4. or at any garyu-nt. e-iltten while Mr Hughe« wa» In Mos A W ore of years ago. according lo cow, IT S S R , with the Negro film are ea«lly distinguishable Vet the Ju time prior thereto, he waa entitled to ry returned a verdict that Ivy had vote under any form of government, ■lie store m anage!», the woman, whose group It first appeared In the m ar« come lo hla death “ at the hand« >f or who at that time resided In acme name they refused to devulge. selected line. "T h e Negro W orker", published the m.-mbem of a mob which are tin foreign nation, and no lineal descend the garment and had It placed In the at Hamburg. Germany, a« the organ of known " Theae photograph« were ant of ail« h person shall tie denied the lay away department. When «he paid the International Trade Union Com puhllahed In the “ N ew « Scimitar“ , of right to register and vote because of off her hill recently. It win discovered mlttee o f Negro Workers: Memphla, Tenn hla Inability to read and write aueh the coat she had rhoaen In 191! had It Is (he same everywhere for me: been lost She was aatlaflrd. how And Oregon 1» «»b ed to copy M l«« constitution, On 'he dorks at Hlerrs Leone. laalppl* Many of the states. Including M l«» ever. v hi n the management replaced In the rotten fields of Alabama, Rut why limit outwelvea to copying laalppl have what la known aa "I'n ll with a 1912 style Jacket-length seal In the diamond mines of Kimberly. Mlaalaalppl* What-» the matter with dem anding and Character" testa by skin. On the coffee-hills of Haiti. Florida for Instance* down there, not which they effectively keep Negroes The banana land of Central Amerlea. EXTENSION OF AIO TO long tgo. Mra. Mary Mrla-oil Itethun«, “ In their place": The streets of Harh m. NEGROES ADVOCATED preeldent of a college, former prcsi Alabama. Arkansas. Florida, lam!« And the rltlea of Morocco k Tripoli dent of the National Aaaoclatlon of Ians. Mississippi, North Carolina. Black: CHICAGO. III.. Dec I t Extension ' Exploited beaten and robbed. Colored Women'» Club« and their rep Tennessee and Virginia, require I he reaenlative to a meeting held at Oe payment of poll tales aa a prerequl of building and loan association acti* Shot and killed. (o .NY a rood to enable them to | Blood running Into neva by llte women's Internationa’ ul «h e 1« voting In Georgia, all taxes banco, wna arrested w hile ahov Ing legally required since 1977 must be obtain benefit* of the home loan hank > Dollars an* advocated by Charlen S. Puke. | a parly of frlemla the city of Miami. |.,|q « I « months before the election Pound« because she drove her car tinon cer The properly requirement In Ala president off Ihe National Technical Francs tain »tre e !» til that city where no Ne bantu '« forty acres of land In the Aiiaoclattoii. Peseta* Duke pointed out that while Negroes grò la permitted except In the capaci rlate c.i real or personal prop« ,-|y Lire ty of a servant or a delivery hoy This worth torn- hundrid dollars on which make up a twelfth of Chicago'■ popu For the wealth of the exploiters escrlb-nt woman waa hailed Into court, the laves for Ihe preceding year have lation, only two of 4**10 build Ing and DIood that never come* back to me fined and lectured for h«T “crim e". been paid In Georgia, It Is forty seres loan nnsorlations have negro members again. Not i «intent with Ra law s to sep.ir of laml tn the stale or five humlred and that it I m difficult for them to Better that my blood get real estate loan«. Since all Nc ate and segregate N egioes and to ke«-p ,|ll;|grn worth of property In III«- s tile liur.a into the deep channels of Kc- th»'in utterly detached from while so -,-hc I.«nit"tnu4 icqufivment Is «hree kio bn ilka Imve been closed, fore* lo- rolution. clnl institutions, Florida would pro hnnilrnl dollars worth of property unti mircH are numerous and property 1 h Runs Into the strong hands of Re l**comlttg mi» down ns tin* owners see v«-nt Negroes from establishing *ob epayni« ul of personal taxes. S««ulli Ca volution, divisions of their own Not long age ro||nM pi escribes three hundred do!- the proapeets o( their losing their Stains all flags red. when some Negroes attempted to « » |nrl m„ rth of rroperly on which tux- horn« s becoming almost a certainty. Drive» away from tnhllsh n subdivision for their own In pf for |b(, preceding year have been Surra Leone Northwestern Tampa, a hand of ap paid, Kimberley proxlmately fifty white men set fire Abitiamo requires Hint Ihe spplt Alabama to Ihe rules office on Ihe property and fant unless physically disabled muni Haiti drove away four special policemen ile b„ al,|p rrart Kn,| wrlf(. , b), Consti Central Amerlea tailed to protect the property. tution ot the United Slater It. English Morocco Georgia Isn't ao bad herself She la In Georgia, unless physical rtlaehl«. d. Tripoli ultra modern In handling h«T prison must ri-uil and write the C ouni I- And all Ihe hlaek land« everywhere tution of the United Stntes In English; The force (lint kill» or If phj1 a lcnlly disabled from reading The power that robs and writing, to uuderatund and give And the greed that doea not car». a reasonable Interpretation of Ihe rnnatltullon of the United Slates or Better tknt my blond make« one ot Georgia, when read to him In with the blond Louisiana, applicant must lie able lo Of all the struggling workers of the read and write and must make an ap world • plication for registration In hia own T ill every land Is free of THE DO u S l E TESTED handw Ring Dollar robbers DOUBLE ACTING In Mississippi, he must he able to Pound robbers understand nr reasonably Interim ! Franc robbers any part of the Constitution of the Peseta robber» / (tsini nui) state In North Carolina, applicant Lire robbers Appmvesl by th r Forai C o m m it. must read and write the slate Consll- Life robbers • I « » o f the Am erican Mesticai tutlon In English In Oklahoma, appll Until the Red Armies of the Inter Aaaoriatiou. Y ou r grocer haa It. cant must be able to read and write ■ ^FOROVER ^ national proletariat any section of the Constitution of the Their face» black, white, olive, slate. South Carolina requires ability yellow, brow n. to read and write the Constitution and Unite to raise the blood red flag 2 5 .ounce? for 25* In Virginia, applicant must make out that Í I L I I O H S OF P O U N D ! U f l D HV apllcutlon In his own hand writing and OUB C O V I O N M I N T y Tha Delicie«* New O m w Feed Never will come down' Marvelous flavor! & FI NE TEXTURE , in your cake.s .? I f / * BAKING I V C POWDER CAME PRlQ 42 YEARS OAtcf ¿fc. ntitñxtÍGitaSl nxrfutq ÀA. ♦ -f + KRAFT V elveeta "Heize this very minute! What you lure, he Is not afraid to brush up a- galnal the hardships while be begins can do, or think you ran, begin i t ! ” what he thinks he can accomplish. It la not necessary to go Into the — Von Goethe. history o f SCHOOL NEW S We all know that until McNabb saw the op It might seem aa quite a coincidence portunity for It there was no medium that the above quotation should be lt> which the Jackson prlaonera could used aa a tkeme Juat at the same express themselves It's present pop time a new editor. Louis Kish. 29995 ularlty and growing nationwide rep takes over the helm oi o O i'J O L aration speaks volumes for Its origi N E W S ’ This article Is Intended to be nator. A T BOTTOM OF ECONOMIC «C A L E (By K E L L Y M ILLE R ) I do not wish to strike a note ot peaslmlam or despair but to aroua« the race to a conscious sense of tha serlouanes of the situation. Optimism la the philosophy of the fatalist and the fool. They were eating and drink ing and making merry In the days of Noah while the waters ot the devour Ing flood were gathering In the sklea W e are almost sure that. In the overhead. inspirational and we are sure that Our civilization la being battered Kish needs no inspirailon, from this free world. McNabb will recogr.lv? source, In order to continue what our oportunltlee and we feel «are that h- with the shocks ot doom. The machine friend McNabb has so well establish wlll ever feel Inspired to fight on has won the first battle between man wards when he realises that be leaves and mechanism. The creature has for cd. If anything. McNabb la the one who behind him thousands of bis fallen the moment outmastered the creator. will need all the Inspiration he can brothers who will ever be wishing The Frankenstein haa overmastered recelee. providing it la the kind of In him the same success In the free Its maker. But the victory la only spiration that forces a man onward world that he haa made for him s'lf temporary The evil la obviously med icable by human genius and enter to do the best that hla talents will tn our twin "villages". One thing certain that McNabb haa prise. Our fields are yielding In over permit McNabb goea out Into the free world practically at the beginning of a done and that la to leave behind him abundance, our factoriee have over winter that undiiubtedly will b'tnc a precedent for every other prisoner stocked the market with goods And hardships, poverty and misery lo a to shoot at He believed that while yet we have starvation In the midst In prison he could accomplish some of plenty, a condition which can last great many. The next few months will bring a- good and believing it he simply began only until the human mind adjusts It bout changes many changes In for- It W e all know what hia first effor'a self seriously to the anomaly Some «m m enial and clrtl life and amidst were In comparing bit Issue No. 1 look to Moscow, some to Rome, and these conditions McNabb beglna hit with the present Issue No. 124. there some to New York and London to life over. If he can successfully sur is about aa much comparison aa be point out the way. But no serious Tlve the first few months hla ultimate tween a baby and a grown man but minded students doubt that the way with a healthy spark of life dotr-uat- will be found Man will sooner or la ■uceesa will be assured ter — rather sooner than later — dom Two and a half years after all la a Ing throughout. very brief time in which to become With the liberal educational policy inate the machine and make It hit o- well acquainted with any man but of tbla Institution, which la said to l-edien! and doc lie servant. There will knowing a man tor that length of surpass that of any other penal tnetl be work and wealth sufficient for all. time In prison la sufficient to learn tution In the world, every prisoner Tne present depression wit; lift, but the real “ stuff" that he Is made of. who thinks he can do something con Just hew soon we dare not prophesy. but In tbia time McNabb has success structive should not hesitate In mak President Hoover, with a fatal optim fully demonstrated hia ability to bat ing the start That atari might he In ism. has been telling ua for the past tie against all obstacles. the form of many months, or years, three years that prosperity Is Just a- W<; know from what he has accom of study In somo special course but round ihe corner. Hia intentlors were plished that McNabb Is an opportunist whatever form It might be In the thing good but his judgment bed. He mis and a good one. Amidst the rocks, to do la to make the start and like judged the direction In which prosper thorns and hrlar he has proven that the quotation rlterl: "Seise this very lty was moving. It was indeed around be ran recognise an opportunity and minute* What you ran do. or think the corner; but instead of approach regardless of any personal uiacomff you can. begin It !" ing us it was moving in the other di rection. It haa now turned two co|-n era and ts still receding. W e are now concerned with immediate ills rather 'han ultimate prophecy. Negro Victim Of Machlifk What will happen to the city Negro while thla readjustment bet wen man Perfect Funeral Service and the machine la taking place and after It has been accomplished? The MRS. BEATRICE REED Lady Attendant Negro is a victim of the machine He has little or no function where ma —at— chinery prevails. He can raise cotton M ILLER A T R A C E Y M ORTUARY by hand labor but must not manufac May be reached by calling the Fn- ture It into cloth. He used to be in n«>r«i Parlor« or her home. Re!w«vwt great request aa a coachman, but nev 5475. She will be pleased to serve you. er as an engineer As a chauffeur he relieving you of much anxiety anil is entrusted to run a single automo worry In your hour of bereavement. bile about the crowded streets with out tracks, bat mutt not be allowed MRS. REED haa proven auch a as motorman to operate a street car help, not only to her employer«, with fixed tracks He may “ tote” hut to the Colored Patrons In gen bricks to the top of a bonding bat eral. that during the past two year« M ILLE R A TR A C E Y have must not lay them in their place on handled 90 per cent of the Color««! the wall by means of a trowel. The Funerals. white man and hla machine seem cat rotated to eliminate the Negro or to flatten hun out at the bottom. When WASHINGTON ST R E E T there Is work enough for all the Ne Retween 20th and 2l*t gro may be called on as surplus man. He Is to use a much used and trite Phrase, "the last to be hired and Ihe first to be ftred.” In timee of unem ployment, he is made the chief suf f“ rer. In ail of onr great cities today fully a third of the r*ce it unemploy ed and another third under emplox-d Money Back I f One Bottle o f Dare’s Mentha Pepsin Doesn’t D o The white workman will not combine Y o u M ore G ood Than Anything Y o u Ever Used. with bim and will not allow him to compete with himself on equal terms. Why bother with elow actors when Dare’s Mentha Pepsin sot only on« tablenpoonful of this «plendld and quickly relieve« stomach distress, but He has very feeble rapacity for self pleasant liquid remedy will cause gaa. It also conquers stubborn indigestion, help. Large aggregations of wealth bloating, heaviness, heartburn or any dyspepsia and gastritis, and pula an upaet condition of the stomach to end to disslnesa. nervousness, head and capital are controlling whatever speedily vanish. ache. slue pi ess ness and despondency residue of work there may be. The And why should any man or woman which distressing troubles exe nearly suffer another hour with Indigestion always caused by chronic stomach Negro is always the left out or left or any stomach misery when the rem disturbance. edy that acta almust instantly can he Dare's Mentha Pepsin Is a supremely over man. White competition la taking easily procured? good remedy that druggists every away the manual and menial work Hut there is more to say about thla where guarantee—a fine tonic that remarkable remedy—something that builds you up and makes you work of which he once had a monopoly. will interest thousands of despondent with vim, sat with relish and sleep The chain store and the merger cur people. soundly. tail his chance as a small self propri etor. A ll attempts at organized and concerted big business seem destined to en-1 In failure and humiliation. In nil of our large cities the colored race has been loaded dow n with cast off homes by shrewd white realtors, whose cost and upkeep are Impossible on the basis of their occupation and income The economic fate of any group Is easy to foretell who must pay half of their income for rent or under 'he guise of purchasing a home. The constable, auctioneer and the sheriff will be kept busy. Without a doubt, the best article of its kind — a combination HAIR Today our great business and fi GROWER and HAIR STRAIG H TEN ER. Gives the hair a natural nancial corporations are living on soft and silky appearance, stimulating hair growth In the most public dole. The Negro inevitably be hopeless case. comes the object of charity, b t we cannot live on charity forever. The Our High Brown Hair Grower Goevrnment Itself has but one source »tamia aa one of our highest of revenue — and that Is from the achievements — it Is a preimr people. Our state governments and ation we look u-pou with prldi our proudest municipalities are now b'oklng to Washington for hekp. Un Makes the hair soft anti lux less the depression lifts within a ve urious. stimulating a healthy ry short while the whole situation growth. will become Impossible, the lot of the Negro worst o f all. Diatrlbuted by During the last two decades, lured on by the semblance of opportunity which a shortage of white labor af TH E BRO AO W ILL forded. the Negro has been rushing DRUG STORE Into the large cities In unprecedented PO RTLAND . OREGON number«. But now the cityward tide has ceased to flow. The reflux tide ha* se.t in. MADE O N l.V DY TH E The city Negro will hardly increase In numbers In face of threatening conditions. The future of the urban C m » c c a o o Negro, to say the least, is not roseate. The outlook of the rural Negro wLl be treated In my next release. MILLER & TRACEY To A ll Who Suffer Stomach Agony, Gas and Indigestion H ICH -BRO wn HAIR GROWER W I T H O U T AN E Q U A L - Hi OVERTON HYGIENIC MFC.CO.