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About The advocate. (Portland, Or.) 19??-19?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1933)
am m m *- B A Q t TW O T H g Entered aa Second Class Mattar tn tho ' Poet Office at Portland. Oregon Under the Act of 1911 Recall« Bird .: . Beatrice Canned) Franklin. - . • Editor and Publisher DeNorral Unthank . . . Leu:* G Gregory CcTama .at . Ralph W . Lester Abbe’ W allace. Duck Jordan - . . • Ashby C. Dickson . Social Editor . M a iU fr Contributi® t EJ Health Ed Special W rite* The President's Emergency Re employ men* Campaign may be describe«! briefly as a plan to add from $.000.000 to *,000.000 persons to the nation’s payrolls within the next six weeks or so, through agreements made with the President of the United States liy some 5.000.000 concerns or individuals, employing iwo or more persons raoh Special W riter • special W riter • Special W riter . 111 order that this number of Jobs mav be made available. It will be necessary, of course, for employer* in many cases to shorten working hours. The plan also provides for certain minimum wage scales wh h also m many casea will mean adde<| labor coala for the employer. Seattle Editor ' Coiuao at ! C olua* at Subscript en Ratos payablt In advance Ona Year. *2.i0; S * Months, J1.SC Co-'u=r st I Three Months $1.00 The Presidents agreement, however. Includes a pledge of cooperation from the con suming public, and tt is thus antlclpati-d that the employer, while undertaking a larger «x ;e n »e as the direct result o f his agreement with the president will gain added patro nage as the Just rewant ot his public splnnst altitude. man » b o a fear s f* k < a so died Nat- j arally tt was rapretrd by the colored people and also by many of the white ' patrons ot that fashionable hostelry , that another cok>red man would be employed to take his place Several. weH-too mmecded colored men ap j ?Led for the Job. but it 1» being filled ! by a white man. Now comes the report that A. Mai- weil. a colored man w ho has been » ith i the J. P Finley Undertaking Company j for a period of many years has been ! dropped from the Company's pay-roll, j Just why. we are not in a position j to say. d $ i ; we hare been told the old alibi— economy. Then there is the case of W. P Lo- 1 max colored, who has been in the em ploy o f the City Street Paring IVpart T H E NEW DEAL AND T H E HOME ment for many years indeed so long « -------- that when one thought of City Streets. : Perhaps the most interesting as well they thought o f Lomax. About ten as the most important phase of the days ago he was dropped from the Cl- “ New D e a l' program, «s the effort on ty pay-roll Also Pearl Williams, auo i the pan of oar Federal government '.her colored m.^i who was employed to stop the transient movement nil at intervals. In that department re- I over the United States of young boys mains only one colored man. Mr. lrvie and men Flowers. Let ns hope that the econo | Thousands of the boys and men. my program will not go so far as to ; many who come of good famihes and remove him. These City Jobs, of j some of wealthy parentage, becoming course, are under C ivil Service and restless and nervous under the eco- men are retained on them, we are told, j nomic strain and tn their pursuit of according to seniority However, it be the ever-fleeting Job. find themselves hooves the colored people to look care- j "on the road” , tracking from one city fully into the matter fr Civil Service to another in a endless procession. is not by any means without its flaws. Uncle Sam. realising the demorali- In Portland theatres with but a pos ting effect of such a condition on the sible exception of two. other than col- indlvidual as well as the home, has ored maids are employed, set its motion machinery to cope with W e could rite other cases w here the situation.—to save the boys and colored employees have been replaced men and rehabilitate tha American by whites both m domestic and other home— the bulwark of the nation. lines o f work. But these examples al- Federal funds are available through ready cited are surely sufficient to the proper agencies In every large prove our contention that the Negro city in the coontrT. to feed, sleep and In Portland Is fast losing out in the if necessary, "shod " and clothe these struggle for existence jobless for a limited tim e; or at least W e have some opinions why som- until contacts can be made with their of them are losing out Ail Negroes homes and families if they haTe any. who work are not competent, nor are in the case of (¡oyg under 18 years: all Negroes good and worthy. But If the boy has a suitable home to go when It appears that they are p n f ti- to. the government fnrnisbeshim tran cally all slated for the bread line then sportathyi to his home where he re- we must look further than the Negro Joins his family. If. on the other hand, himself to fix the cause, the home proves not a suitable en- Something must be done in the wav viroment for the boy. these same a- of employment for the colored people gents of Uncle Sam set about to find in this city. They must live and they a suitable home where the young man cannot do so without work Those who has an opportunity to work and earn have must help those who have not. his way If he wishes to continue his The conditions which face the col- education. he is also encouraged in ored people as winter stares at them this way and given assistance In find- are pathetic to say the least And the j ing employment to aid himself In such cry is for work, work, w ork ’ honorable endeavor. For the most part the colored people BE k M M I f * while in P- rtland are self-respecting ^w-a-I contacts are being made with nla home biding, tax-paying clttxens and the big and P a u ly and in some cases, social employers in this city owe it to them welfare agencies In the boy's commum- selves and to the loyal colored cltixens 1 ty, the government gives him three to aid them in this, time of need meals a day and a place to sleep.— What shall we do about It? How- ninety cents a day allowed for same, shall we start at It? Every effort is made by Uncle S a m ' a ------------------------------ - Portland agents, and may we add. that no distinction is made by them on the Jast because the curriculum of the ground of color as far as we know, schools give no account of the par. to see that these boys have the pro- Played by the Negro In the history of per care and environment while under the United States, is no reason why their supervision, even if for only a Negro youth should plead inability day or two. to obtain such knowledge. .Not only to Just how effective such a program obtain the knowledge but to pass it will b€ remains to be seen after it has °® 10 tboee of another rare who may been tried Ion* enough. It is too early b* ignorant ot the historical that now to be able to estimate its whole bare been recorded and are in the ar w orljj ’ rhivea of our national library. They ... hare been resurrected and carefully ; LAYIN G OF COLORED W O RKERS chronicled by scholarly Negroes and ______ can be obtained by request at any , The extent to which colored men in *>°ok store Many of them may be ob the City of Portland have been retired at the public library W e learn, from their Job* has reached the point DO* 'on* a*°- ° ‘ an amusing incident of alarm. Bo quietly have they—one happening in the rlass room of one g<f by one— been forced to Join the unem- ‘ he city’s elementary schools Poems I ployed ranks that many colored people » e r e being read from a volume ot themselves do not sense the real sit- «’ a'll Laurence Dunbar One o f the uation The fact that colored people scholar s of the class had answered are The last to complain a b o « -heir that Dunbar was one of the well >ncwn misfortune, helps also to conceal the American poets W hen asked for a seriousness and enormity of the condi " h" rt description of his life the »tn- tjon d«?nt started by accrediting him as Let us take for example the Rail- There was a small N egro girl road men. that Is. the men who work '? ,h,i '-'aBB Immediately called In diners and Pullman service Some- *b* »“ a' hers attention to the inarm- time a g o - t o be e x a c t-a year ago— '<*'* "tatement and proceded to give The Advocate called attention to ihe ‘ ^e f ull ¡»tatory ,,f the poet from his , fa it that twenty-five of these colored !.r,b *? fllB '^ath. Now there was a railroad workers had been laid off dissemination of useful Information with less than two week s *hlch could not have been given un- These men. upon entering the Pull- ^ BB tha* *'’" * * X**™ "•«'len t had man service were required to show ”'" n htcgare'l for Just such an enter a record of five years* continuous hon* f * ncy j* *H *''neon rage ment to see the orable employment. The majority of M erest displayed by the youthful Ne- them left good-paying Jobs in the south f r" ' * b" *B anxious to find out the to come out here to enter the Pullman B ground of the Race and equip service. They broke up their homes In ‘ hemselvee to place, with Intelligence, the Soutlj. moved out here, bringing the splendid achievements of their their families with theiA. R - -stablish- !l’rf M r 'r* ,h* «»h o w ln g public ing their homes in their new environ- 1 ” Ptl'leful consclenousness is more ment was costly. They did not com- no' l";a >le In the younger of the hoys plain. They did It and many are still at“ 1 girls of this decade than in that paving on expense incurred in mov- ,h‘' PaBt H""h s pertaining to the ing here. Some of these men were r,f ,h'’ ra" ’ ar* r* a'1 aml later put back to work. Rut today, * tu , d with avidity. It is this In- they are faced with the same condi- K*neratlon that we look, and lion that confronted them a year ago build our hopes on the attainments The railroad company has pulled off 7T,, h .. 1 make * lorl0I1B ,he rae>al another train from this end That is. ' " the train Is manned by Chicago men w-ho run into Portland Just why cant BLUE K EY NAMES GEO. C AN N AD Y the Comoany here put on another train ______ give employment to at , which . . would . , Salem. Oregon, October 28—Wiliam- The fact also Is to he tv>rne In nitnd that where alt employer* art together to put people back on their payrolls or to raise wages, no employer, as the ITesident himself has pointed out. w ill suffer because the relative level of rom petlve cost w HI advance by the same amount of all.’* It is to tv1 understiMvl that this plan Is supplementary to the plan ot rode adoption h> various industrial and trade groups which ha* for Us purpose the elimination of unfair competition, the establishment of more equable rewards for labor, the spread of em ployment and the control o f production This plan for »pointing business recovery, launched under the provisions of the National Recovery Act passed by the last C'ongro** Is rapidly being made effective, and there wilt he no let up on the drive to make its adoptiou widespread. The President’s Emergency Re-employment plan will bridge time and bring the na tion out of the ilepresaton more rapidly than if the code adoption plan were depended upon exclusively The President's Agreement also cover* many business groups that would not be amenable to any of the code airangementa. And what 1* still more lmp«’ rtanL perhaps, the President's Emergency Re-employ ment campaign carries certain psychologies! values that are priceless as patriotism at this Juncture of our economic history. The President himself made this quite clear In his recent addross to the nation when he said "On the basts of this simple principle of everybtwly doing thing» together, we are starting out on this nation wide attack on un employment. It w ill succeed If our people understand It In the big Industries. In the lutte shops. In the great cities and In the small vintages There Is nothing complicated about It and there Is nothing particularly new In the principle tt goes hack to the haste idea of society, and of the Nation Itself, that iwople acting In a group can ac> om plish things which no Individual acting alone could ever hop*- to bring about.” Thus we have ail the power and potency of mass attack directed along sound lines of organlxation and system Here briefly. Is an outline of this organised attack on un employment: In every community, organisation* are formed atong military llnca. which ts fitting enough, because the President's Emergency Re employment campaign t* Uncle Sam's war on unemployment and the nation is rallying lo the colors Just a* loyally aa though we were actually engaged in a war against a foreign foe The local committee ts made up of the active heads of the leading business and civic organisations, and Includes also the mayor. These committees In the thousands of cities and ’.owns throughout the country were forme«! following telegrams and letters sent by Genera! Johnson to the presidents Chambers of Commerce or simitar trade bottle* tn eTery section o f the country These local committees el«-ct a general to have charge of the city campaign and a lieutenant general who la a woman The general selects three colonels, each of whom isto take over a certain part of the campaign work For exam ple. Colonel No. 1 has charge of the ’ man-power" or organisation department Under his direction block-toblock canvasses will he matte to check up on compliance with the President's Agreement, and to make a survey of the unemployed, as to adaptability by experience as to trades and industries and thus be able more readily to help In the i rte cess of assimilation of labor by expanding Industries Colonel No 2 briefly, has charge of newspaper publicity and kindred activities, and Colonel No 5 has the training and direction of public speakers under his charge. » Each of these three colonel* has seven or more majors on his stsff. *nd each major has Shout the s a m e number of captain*. Each captain has 7 or men- field workers A ll of the local organisations are. of course, constantly suppli-d with educational and In spiratlonal material of all kind* form the National Recovery Administration In Wash ington Literally tons and ton* of printed matter ha* been shipped to every nook ami corner of the country. The N RA emblem, known as the Rlue Eagle. Is one of the moat interesting and vital features of the campaign All employers who sign the President's Agreement are en titled to display the Blue Eagle with the Initials N R A and the word* "W e IYi Our Part ’’ Merchant*, manufacturers and all others who hr.ve the right to display the insignia by reason of their having compiled with the President s Agreement, are permitted to hang It on their wall*, or In their windows, or on truck* and car*, and. If they so desire, to It on their product* or merchandise. It Is. In fact, the desire of the Recovery Adminis tration that all make liberal use of this badge of patriotism. Any person in the United States who wishes to cooperate in the President’s Emergen cy Re-employment Campaign and be con*lder«»d as a member of the NRA may go to the authorized establishment In his locality ami sign a statement of cooperation as follows: “ I will cooperate In re-employment by supporting and patronising employers aud wor kers who are members of N R A .” Every phase o f the progress of this mighty campaign will lie flashed In the news paper* of the country and announced constantly over the radio In this way everyone w ill be In a position to know Just what the campaign la doing from day to day In ac tually putting people back on the payrolls and adding to the mass purchasing power of the country. (Continued on page threel ,h‘!r V T I ‘UV" ‘ ° f 8 r,>r," ,ry ’ inis Job had b<***n held by one colored IN I •• TO UR I •A N T I’H I N I i N T I t ’l l It I! ■ Y A BU ' WALLACE (Y o iltl| *l( Mentali*! on tin* American Staso Today 1 A ium nc KAlsI.AC'K L. 0. f .— I want to know If thi* boy acroti the »*.ro#t will ray attention to mo tho way I want Him to and •hould I write him a lottorf Ana Why don’t you urtili him tt 1 telegram If you want to make friend* with him a g o o d plan »rpuld bo to get »oiue good friend to put In a good ¡word for you. about tho oponding of hi* monoy or am I right in my opinion conoorning .! * Ana You aro tigli» Ilo 1« upend* ing hla ilion« v on another »ottimi Hut I aak you. who I iun <« bettor righi to »pend hi* money tho wav lie picanea, and »liâ t right have you any moro than any other girl to uae hint for A mieker. Do you think tho boy I ^ — P itas« toll mo how I can got Into M M W dream about care« for m#f a hot bunch at achool and how I can got tho nowapapor to w rit« aom# An* Mr « are* for a g»*«»d time and now« about mo «uch a« “ what I wort to tho danco, otc.” You know what It don’t make any difference fo hltn »h o it i* with lh»n‘t center your hopea I moan. around him You might get a Jolt An»: My advice tn you I* tn cultl [vale the nci|tialntaiice of our aoclety A F ~-Oo you think It would bo wi«e for u« to «oil out and loavo thia editor. Mavhe you can get a little town f publicity that »a v Your time would An* North l'andina D feeling the i he better »pent burning mid night o|| j»*ver your bonk*, than tunning ga» depraaalott Just «■ much a* any other on the highway »tthoom o me in tier of alate an don't evpe» I ton much by Ittnv lug there I believe It would be worth the hot hunch your while to atay here awhile lotigei. R.W 8 — Will I ovor become a mother ’ Instead of Helling out. P.I.L.— Pioa«o toll mo the coot of your drpâm book and al«o may I writ# to you 1 R A J.— I have lo«t a wallof containing a «mall amount of ca«h. valuable An* You may «end a dollar any* paper« and a fountain pin. Can you time for one of my new l.u« kv Dream toll mo whore they are ? Hooka and my fret* advlie You limy Ana The »a lle t with Ha entire write to mo anytime i content« w «* found J»y a teacher In the «chon! near »h e re you »o rk You can get thl* hack by applying there at the office of the principal. An» It* too late # “NOW I FEEL FULL OF PEP’ R S C — Will wo get our church out of dobt? A f t r r tu k iiiK l . t i l U F. P in k , h a m 's > <- k <-tu h lr < z i i i i | m > u i u I Ana The only » a v von » ill t your church out of debt I n through the cooperation of the entire rongre gallon One or two people alntit» call* not shoulder the »h o le burden Make a drive to thi« effort I prepheay the debt chart'd up. T h a t’* what huntlrvOa ol wnmssi an). It »n u iles 111« iw iv «. . . . make* you rat I h - m «•« . . . *|««p |>«i|«r . . . rrltrxrs prilotllt tlruilaitio aixl l«ui kai tu- , . . ntakffs trying days ciuluiahle. IÍ you arv not a* «*rl| as y « hi want to be. give ihU nivduins ■ «h a n «« to help you. <.«| a txiltln (rum your druggUt today. A.A.— H a l A W. W boon truo to mo NOTE — Your question printed (re* Ir «« In this column For privais reply send 25c and aelf-addreeeed enveli slop« for my Nsw Astrological K nit Ing and receive by return mall my advice on three questions free. Sign your full name, birthdat*. and correct address. I I I Address: ABBE W A LLAC E . P. O. Bos 11. A T L A N T A . GEORGIE ^ j I r SERVICE. Our Motto. I Iks Stilli!<ii > liai! I m ‘I M m i » E. W. AGEE. Proprietor Hair — For g al*— Preparations, Straightening Co mb« and Literature ot the Race 304 N. W. TH IRD AVENUE PO RTLAND . OREGON hi CH-BROW n HAIR GROWER W I T H O U T AN E Q U A L . Without a dntiht. tho best article of Its kind - a rnniMnatlnti HAIR GROWER and H AIR 8TRA IG H TE N E R Gives the hair a the most hopeless case Fisk Tires Our High llrown llnlr Grow* ••r »»and* «a on » of our high i»at achievement« — It 1« « preparation we look upon with pride. Make« the hair aoft and Itixurloua. HtlmwUt I n g a healthy growth. — Distributed * cro W í R O V IR T O N HYGIENIC MADE TlavMlfc ft*-Hr* CCTAMMr V ONLY by— TH E ADVOCATE 2&111 .V K. 2f»th Avenue Portland, Oregon BY THE O V E R T O N HYGIENIC MFOeCO*8 G t AKA.NTKK F IflK T I K IS carry an un lim ited guarantee for the life o f the tire again*t all defecta In workmanahlp and material IN AD D ITIO N. F ISK give* an abaolute FREE INSURANCE BOND up to IH m onth* covering: 1. B low out*; 2, Cuta; T Brul*e* 4, Rirncuta, ft, Faulty Brake*. <5. Underinflation: 7. Wheel» Out r f Alignm ent IRE prices are going higher immedi ately • W et weather and alippery pavements are coming • Trade in your old, smooth tires for new N O N -S K ID FISK TIR ES at these U N H E A K D -O F - PR IC E 8 and your old tire*. T Then* Special I’ricen for One Week Only— Sept. 8 to Sept. 16 Incluid ve / C H I C A G O KinnnnjÇT. IMMIIHIUI HlMlIHllltltH : b a ■ • • » • EXTRA 4-PLY 4 .5 0 - 2 1 ................. $ 4 .7 5 4 .7 5 - 1 9 .............. $ 4.95 5 .0 0 - 1 9 ................. $ 5.25 $ 6.25 $ 6 .5 0 5 .2 5 - 2 1 ................. $ 6.75 5 .2 5 - 1 8 .............. 5 .2 5 -2 0 .............. HEAVY 6-F‘ L Y $ 5.95 4 .7 5 - 1 9 ............... $ 6.25 5 .0 0 - 1 9 ............... $ 6.95 5 .2 5 - 2 1 ............... $ 8.50 5 .5 0 - 1 8 ................. $ 8..50 G .0 0 -2 1 ................. $ 9 .9 5 4 .5 0 - 2 1 ............... B o o n e T ir e C o . Grand Avenue at Couch * TH K RK 18 A F I8K EA 1887 D E ALE R IN TO UR NEIGHBORHOOD . nunmiiHiiiiimtr.iT’ ‘ I't'r fv r t F u n era l S e rvire ____ —at— M ILLE R A TR A C E Y M O RTU ARY May he ranched by nslllntt the Fu neral Parlors or her home, Selwood 6475. Bhv will l>* pleased to serve you. MRS. REED has proven attch a help, not only to her employers, but to tho Colored Patrons In gen eral. that dttrltiK the pant two yearn M ILLE R A TR A C E Y have hnndlod 90 per cent of the Colored Funerals. relieving you of mm-ti anxiety and worry In your hour of bereavement. W A S H IN G T O N STR E E T Between 20th and 21st . ran m iiLiM ioiis MILLER & TRACEY MRS. BEATRICE REED Lady Attendant PU* Uni* « " » ‘ r chapter of the Blue Key. national honorary service organ! ration has announced the election of George Cannady as a member This brings th, total m e m ^ s h .p to 21 Mr. Cannady who is a iunlor at the university was G e n t ly elected prlsn dent of the International t int, This club has a 60 per cent foreign mem bership and 40 per cent American It is one of the finest organisations on the campus at Willamette and manv prominent Salem residents are plan “ ,B* t0 -ntertain the club this year. ••Is ! V I A l natural soft and silky appearance, stimolatimi hair growth In notice. t h r r , r n ; r k with the Portland Chamber of Com m erre and the leading business and professional men of this city that they do no, look into the m atter’ I, seems to us that It would be good business for them to help get these men back to work so they in turn could pay their delinquent debts and also put Into clr- ' alation money which otherwise they would not have. Let us take another example the Job of footman at the Hotel Henson, Saturday, October, 2*. t ( U The Scope and Purpose of the the President’s Emergency Re-Employment Campaign THE ADVOCATE Published Every Saturday at ÎS1* N K. Mth A r m a r Portland, O r ff 'S Telep ho ne G A R F I E L D r S ÍS A D V O C A T E