ADVOCATE EGISTE Volume 1 Portland, Oregon, February 9, 1951 Number 11 NAACP WANTS Y4 MILLION MEMBERS NEW YORK-A quarter million members is the NAACP campaign goal for 195 1, it was announced this week by Gloster R Current, director of branches. Spring campaigns will be conducted between April and June and fall campaigns between September and November, Current announced, an estimated 25,000 branch solicitors will seek memberships in a thousand cities. FEPC BILL WITH TEETH FOR CALIFORNIA California's two Negro legislators, Los Angeles Assemblyman Augustus F. Hawkins and Berkeley's W. Byron Rumford, returned to their homes recently, following the recess of the legislature and after having led the fight along the vital economic front, principally in the matter of the high cost of living and the rieed for a state FEPC, seen by both as paramount ISSUeS. Rumford introduced a bill, which is backed by Hawkins, to set up a state Fair Employment Practices Commission, which would penalize violators. Important Meeting Notices NAACP Meetings-Every third Sunday on each month. YWCA Center, 6 N. Tillamook St., 4 p. m. ELKS-Billy Webb Lodge 1050 every first and third Sunday. Porters Hall (unless otherwise specified) 1:30 p. m. Dahlia Temple 202, first and third Tuesdays, 8 p.m. ODD FELLOWS - New Northwest Lodge 2554, first Tuesday, 8 p. m., Prince Hall. House hold Ruth 844, every second and fourth Tuesday, 8 p. m., Prince Hall. Meeting Notices of Lodges and Service organizations printed free. Our only fee is the announcement of our Subscription Notice to your membership. Others riot listed; welcome. Left for the Army Air Corps: Ellis, Casson, Robert Herndon, Jr., Loomis Harris, Jr. Doctors Urged to Broaden Interest In Community WASHINGTON - Negro doctors should face all the responsibilities inherent in their status in the community, President Alonzo G. Moron, of Hampton Institute, stated in the November issue of the Journal of the National Medical Association, which reproduced the full text of his address o fwelcome to the 55th annual convention of NMA to the Hampton campus last summer. PULITZER WINNER PLANS LECTURE NEW YORK (ANP) -Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Negro woman to be honored with the Pulitzer prize, continues to crash barriers. The Chicago author will be a guest consultant in the English Seminary at Barnard college. Dr. William Boyd of Atlanta university was the most recent professor of color to hold sessions on the Morningside Heights campus. SIMPSON CALLED UP BY INDIANS CLEVELAND-Clouting Harry "Suitcase" Simpson, big-stick rookie outfielder of the San Diego Padres last season, has been called up by the foundering Cleveland Indians, it was announced. He is the second Negro lifted by the Indians for the 1951 season. Orestes Minosa, up with the Tribe during Spring practice but shipped back to the Padres for the regular season, was called up sometime ago. S. F. NEGRO MADE U. S. COURT CRIER SA NFRANCISCO-First Negro Federal Court Crier is Andrew H. Hatcher, local manager of the Jack Shelley and Helen Gahagan Douglas campaigns in the Negro community. Hatcher, a veteran, plans to study law in addition to his duties in the court of Federal Judge Oliver Carter. H is appointment makes the second local assignment of a Negro to the federal district; Charles Strathers has been a messenger in the 9th district court for over 30 years. , NEGRO FIRST CITIZEN BANQUET FEBRUARY 20 The Negro First Citi~en Banquet is shapeing up into the biggest interracial affair in Portland. Committees are getting the arrangements under way. Tickets are being sold. Reservations may be made by sending $2.50 to the Advocate-Register or calling ATwater 2551 for information. John Binns, a very liberal speaking attorney from Tacoma, Washington, will be the chief speaker. • The Banquet in honor of Mrs. E. W. Smith and Raleigh Washington is to be held at the Nortonia Hotel, Paradise Room, Tuesday, February 20, at 7:30p.m. This is the seventh annual Negro First Citizen selection for Portland. Others named previously were: 1944, Dr. D. N. Unthank; 1945, Clifford C. Walker (deceased); 1946, Miss Doris Reynolds and a junior award to Nick J. Banks Jr.; 1947, Edwin C. Berry; 1948, Chesley E. Corbett; 1949, Oliver E. Smith. The nameing of Portland's Negro First Citizen began as a Program of The Negro Democratic Club by Clifford C. Walker and Oliver E. Smith. Earl M. Wright has promised entertainment for the evening. The Advocate-Register will carry program and full particulars in the February 16 issue. BROTHERHOOD MONTH CALENDAR World Day of Prayer, First Baptist Church ------------- --------------- Februarv 9 G. 0. P. Lincoln Day Dinner, Cosmopolitan Club _________________ February 12 Americans for Democratic Action, Library Hall February-16 Francis Biddle $25 Brotherhood Dinner, Multnomah Hotel ------· ___ ___ ____ __ _ _ February 17 Eric Johnson, Chief Speaker Negro First Citizen Banquet, Nortonia Hotel _______________ February 20 Brotherhood Public Meeting, Central Lutheran Church -·------------_ February 23 Dinner for Mrs. Henry Roe Cloud, Multnomah Hotel ______________ February 24 An editor is a man who knows very little about a great many things and as time goes on he knows less and less about more and more things until eventually he knows practically nothing about nearly everything. Your Editor knows.
ADVOCATE REGISTER (Designed to Read) Published by Oliver Smith News Agency (Established 1943 OLIVER E. SMITH, EDITOR Office 1453 N. Williams Ave.-EM. 7266 ATwater 2551, 3411 S. W. First Avenue, Pordand I, Oregon Free from Services ~f Any Special Intere&ts The News As We See It. The Editorials Are Our Opi,nions IN MY OPINION AN OPEN LETTER TO SENATOR MAHONEY FROM ONE DEMOCRAT TO ANOTHER Senator Thomas Mahoney, Senate Office, Salem, Oregon February 1, 1951 Portland, Oregon Dear Tom: Your vote on the marriage ( miscegination law) was not questioned, but your vote or comments on the bill unquestionably lost some votes (DEMOCRATICALLY). The intent implied is not personal but ethical in the inter-marriage question. The implication of white and Negro marriages does not mean that the unborn child has security-as is, he has nonsecurity or the alternative. (Abortion). The 24th and 25th Infantry has been wiped out in Korea fighting for the Democracy that you and I know. The inter-marriage of different racial backgrounds 1s not questioned as good or bad. The fact that white men marry Negro women or Negro men marry white women (and they do in both instances) gives the unborn children a place and a name in our integrated society. The vote also gives rise to the "WHERE CAN WE GET REVENUE DEPT). Washington State has no miscegination law and its easier to get to the court house in Vancouver for marriages of any sort than to Multnomah County court house due to the "parking problem". Of course, the Republican sponsored bill, recommended by the Governoq Committee on Indian Affairs intended to rule out the chances or the fact that babies born to illigitimate unions, of any racial ba~kground, might become wards of their respective parents, rather than wards of the state, in baby homes. I admonish you to secure data on illigitimate babies born to white and colored mothers and you will be surprised at the greater number of "white" babies born to colored mothers because of the miscegination law, that forbids their white fathers from matrimony with their mothers. I know of a number of cases where the children are taken care of by their illigitimate fathers. I am not opposed to inter-marriages for that reason alone. Our democracy depends on the freedom of the individual to love and marry whomever they please or choose. I do wish if the statement you made, had to be made, a Republican could have made it. Democratically yours: OLIVER E. SMITH. CHRISTIAN OR ELSE The Church of the People, 4033 University Way, Seattle, Wash. Fred W. Shorter, Minister and Editor. Marguerite Bro, well-known writer in the field of religious education, writes from Java to the Christian Century of some personal experiences in Hongkong, Indonesia, Burma and Formosa which indicate in unmistakable ways that the old white superiority stuff is out. Whites lining up in Hongkong for_ taxes had little chance against Chinese. They usually had to walk, as M. Bro herself did. In· Bangkok Siamese were very alert to any indication of white superiority attitude. In Singapore there had been a riot in which scores of European automobiles were burned. A small incident set it off. Why? The reply was, "They're out to get the whites and take anything as an excuse." Even in polite Japan Mrs. Bro found the people edgy, sensitive, proud and belligerent. She concluded that the advice of Jesus about the brotherhood of man was not just a fine set of principles it would be nice to practice. It is now, she thinks, a matter of survival. We'd better have the dark-skinned people as allies if we wish to survive! "We can't kid anybody with fine phrases; by the time they are translated they seem hollow." So when she returns to the USA she's going to be more open, more honest and more humble in her friendships with dark-skinned friends. In the rural sections of the South a high percentage of our Negroes belong to the church. The 17 teachers who recently visited in the homes of 7486 people found that nearly two-thirds of these people were church members. The persentage who were church members was 61.7. But 29 per cent were children "too young to join." This only left 9.3 per cent of the adults and young people whowerenot members. But their record of church attenc;lance was not so good. Information was secured from 5333 people as to the number of times they attended church during "the last four Sundays." This is shown in the table below. Number of times 5333 people attended their church during · the last four Sundays: Number of Times Attended Number of Peo~le N o n e -- -- -----------·------------------------------- _ _________ 1383 Once _________ -----·---- ----- __ ---------- ___ ------·---- 899 Twice -------------------------------------------______________ 2120 Three Times _______________ ----------- _ 302 Four Times _---------- ___ _ ___ __ _ _____ _ 629 TOTAL ____ ---- 5333 Perct. 25.9 16.8 39.9 5.6 11.8 100:0 The 104 Pages of this survey distributed by the Rural Department, Drew Seminary, Madison, New Jersey for 40 cents a copy shows the reasons these people give for not attending church. "TAKE IT BACK"-SAY YOUNG DEMOCRATS At the annual meeting of the Young Democratic Club of Multnomah County Monday evening, January 22, a resolution was passed to return to Eric Johnston, National head of the Conference of Christians and Jews, the plaque awarded Portland last year by his group for being the city showing most progress in race relations. The resolution read as folows: "Whereas on February 22 of last year the City of Portland was awarded a plaque by the National Conference of Christians and Jews during annual 'Brotherhood Week' for the city having made the most progress in race relations, and "Whereas the citizens of Portland on November 7 of the same year soundly defeated a civil rights measure which would have made it illegal for places of public accommodation to discriminate because of race, religion or national origin, therefore be it "Resolved, That the Young Democratic Club of Multnomah County ask the National Conference of Christians and Jews' President, Eric Johnston, speaking here February 17, to take back the award, since by the vote of the people it was amply demonstrated Portland's citizens are not ready to practice what some of their leaders preach:: 'Brotherhood of Man.' " The club elected Bob Crosier of Reed College as its president. The board elected are: H. A. Anderson, Helen Parks, William McCoy, Jr., Carola Forrest, Ralph Golby and Richard Meigs.
I NEGRO NURSES WELCOME Oregon schools of nursing welcome applications from Negro students desiring to go into nurse training, it is indicated by J a recent statewide survey conducted by the Urban League of Portland. Only two Negro nursing students were found to be in training during the current school year, both in the University of Portland College of Nursing. In addition, however, two students are enrolled in the pre-nursing program at Vanport College. John S. Holley, Neighborhood Secretary of the Urban League, states that the response from the various nursing schools shows a desire to enroll more students of good nursing potentiality, regardless of race. Also, there i no indication of discrimination in the placing of graduate nurses in Portland hospitals. "Nursing is one of the professions in which Negro workers are rapidly gaining acceptance on a basis of equality", Holley points out, "and there is an acute shortage of t!'ained nurses in Oregon, as elsewhere throughout the United States. The several trained Negro nurses in Portland have made outstanding records, and there ts opportunity for many more. Nurse training in Oregon is offered at Emanuel Hospital, St. Vincents, Good Samaritan Hospital, Providence Hospital, the University of Oregon Medical School and the University of Portland College of Nursing, in Portland, at Sacred Heart General Hospital in Eugene and St. Antheny Hospital in Pendleton. Degrees in nnrcing are obtained only through the University of Oregon and the University of Portland. Keystone !~vestment Co. 1453 N. Williams Ave. Keystone Cafe 1461 N. Williams Ave. Good Eats A. M. E. ZION CHURCH 2007 N. Williams Ave. Sunday School ------------------------- ~ 9: 30 a. m. Morning Service ----------------------- 11 :00 a. m. Evening Service _____ __ __ _ _____ _ _ 8:00 p. m: Wednesday-Prayer Meeting.. 8:00 p. m. Rev. J. F. Smith, Pastor HUGHES MEMORIAL CHURCH 2809 N. E. Rodney St. Church School ________ ------------------ ____ 9:45 a. m. Morning Service --··--. ________________ 11:00 a. m. Youth Service ---------------------------------- 6:00 p. m. Evening Service ----------____ --------- _____ 7:30 p. m. Rev. Ennis Whaley, Pastor ZION HILL CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST Sunday School --------· ______ ---------------- 9: 30 a. m. Morning Worship ----------------------------11:30 a. m. Y. P. W. W. ---------------------------------- 6:30 p. m. Evening Service ------------------------------ 8:00 p. m. Tuesday - Friday-Evening Service 7:30 p. m. Wednesday-Prayer & Bible Band .8:00 p. m Thursday-Junior Church ... ···----- 8:00 p. m. Saturday-Prayer Meeting ___ __ 6:00 p. m. Elder W. L. McKinney, Putor VANCOUVER AVE. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 1914 N. Vancouver Ave. Sunday School ---------------------------------9:30 a. m. Morning Services __________________________11:00 a. m. B. T. U· ---~-------------------------------------- 2 and 4 p.m. Sunday-Brothrhood Union ________ 3:30 p. m. Evening Service ________ --------------------- 7:45 p. m. Wednesday-Prayer Meeting _____ 7:30 p. m. Sunday-2-4 ----------------- ·---------------- 3:30p.m. Elder 0. B. Williams, Pastor MT. OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH 1734 N. E. 1st Ave. Sunday School ------------------------------- 9:30 a. m. Morning Service ----------------------- _____ 11:00 a. m. B. Y. E. --------------------------------------__ 6:15 p. m. Evening Service -------------· _ ------- ___ 7:30 p. m. Thursday-Prayer Meeting . _____ 7:30 p. m. Dr. }. ]. Clow, Pastor BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH 1239 N. Larrabee St. Sunday School ·------------·-·------------- 9:30 a. m. Morning Service ----------·__ ______ ____ 11 :00 a. m. Christian Endeavor .... .. ·---------- 6:00 p. m. Evening Service ------------ --· ___ .. ____ 8:00 p. m. Wednesday-Prayer Meeting _ 8:00 p. m. Elder Justus Ezra Roberts, Pastor ST. PHILIPS EPISCOPAL CHURCH 120 Knott Holy Communion ___ ---··----------------7:45 a ...m. Sunday School _ ------· --------------------- 9:45 a. m. Morning Prayer __ ______ 11:00 a. m. Holy Communion (Thursday) 8:30 p. m. Rev. L. 0. Stone, Vicar ALLEN TEMPLE C. M. E. CHURCH 1911 N. E. 9th Ave. Sunday School ______________ 9:30 a. m. Morning Worship __________ 11:00 a.m. Epworth League 6:00 p. m. Evening Service _______ 7:30 p. m. Mid Week Service Prayer Meeting Wednesday 7:45 p. m. Rev. L. R. Kibler, Pastor Any Church not listed need only to send their program to the Editor with the Church name, address, and pastor's name. (Editor's Note). Drop In At the RED FRONT CAFE Under Personal Supervision of SIMON HOLLOWAY EPPS 1813 N. Williams MUrdock 9673 PEOPLE IN THE NEWS North Central 'Y' Opens Drive Edgar Lee, chairman of the North Central 'Y' ( 120 N. E. Russell St.) Annual Membership's Campaign, announces that this organization, last Monday, had their campaign Kick-Off meeting. The men and women working on this campaign a.:e out to sign up 650 adult supporting members of the 'Y' before February 19. The memberships are considered "supporting" memberships in that all of the activities at the North Central 'Y' are for boys. Funds collected go to the maintenance and supervision of the 'Y' center and boys' clubs. , Mr. Edgar Lee, Mr. Clarence Ivey, and Dr. Miner T. Patton are Division Guides. Squad Leaders are: Anthony Smith, U. G. Plummer, E. Shelton Hill, Robert Fritsch, Mrs. Otto Rutherford, Bennie Hamilton, Rev. L. 0. Stone, Dr. DeNorval Unthank, George Reynolds, Mrs. E. Riley, Mrs. Alice Lee, Harold Gaskin, and Henry Nelson. The workers are simulating a race to the top of Mt. Hood. The top man will be honored by a trip to Timberline Lodge on the new Skiway and Dinner at the Lodge. * * * Headliners William (Bill) McCoy has appeared on the front page of the Advocate-Register more times than any other person, in first ten issues, he nosed out Chesley E. Corbett by one and was two ahead of U. G. Plummer and Charles Maxey. Herman Plummer has already begun to edge up on the big 4 since assuming the NAACP presidency. The score so far: McCoy, 6; Corbett, 5; U. G. Plummer and C. Maxey, 4; Herman Plummer, 3. Radio and Stage Appearances The Harmonizing 5 Gospel Singers L. C. Ellison, Director and. Manager 938 N. Cook St. TR. 8162
BRIEFS Its a month since Christmas and I wonder if I am the only father that has to go to bed amid cowwboy pistols, fire truck, auto racer, a whole array of musical instruments, cut-outs, FBI badges and a million other small fry gadgets, but my assistant editor of the Advocate-Register says all that is necessary for the successful operation of a newspaper (Editor with a 41f1 year old son.) * * * American Negroes may expect the same support in their fight for racial equality FLASH! FLASH! FLASH! Due to weather conditions and railroad strike, the Elks meeting presenting Honorable Roscoe Simmons is POSTPONED! Thanks to everyone for their Cooperation .... Chesley E. Corbett, Exalted R~ler Billy Webb Lodge 1050 Filmore 1959-1321 N. Benton Ave. Wanted To Buy STAMP COLLECfiONS ACCUMULATIONS,DEA.LERS STOCK HiKhest Cash Price. Northwest Stamp Co. 1838 S. W. Cable Ave., Phone AT. 4616 Home Portr~its Films For Sale Public Engagements Films Developed Baltzegar's Photos 9 N. E. Halsey St. EM. 0979 MANLY M. BALTZEGAR, Prop. from Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1 r. and Philip Willkie as was given them by the famous fathers of the two fledgling s~atesmen. This is the conclusion drawn by Ebony magazine in interviews with the two young men in the 1 anuary issue. • • * Mrs. Lillard Evans of 125 N. E. Shaver was rushed to Good Samaritan Hospital for an emergency operation, Wednesdav, 1 anuary .31. At the last report she was doing very well. The Wright Night is Every TUESDAY at McClendon's Rhythm Room 1500 N. Williams Ave. featuring HARRY KENNY at the Piano EARL M. WRIGHT, M. C. Everyone with Talent Welcome! VICfORY LUNCH AND GRILL Home of Best Putty in Town Watch for Grand Opening ROBERT SEEGER, Owner 1466 N. E. Williams Ct. VE. 9483 YOUR PERSONAL ITEMS WELCOME Vacationers and Visitors, the Advocate-Register welcomes and is glad to print without charge the "Personal Items" of its readers such as the following: Visits to town, entertainment of visitors in the home or elsewhere, Birthday recognitions, entertainment of friends at meals or on other occasions, anniversary celebrations, honors to the children or others in the family, sicknesses, deaths, births, marriages, special church activities ot members of the family, hunting and fishing trips and other such items including good pictures of the above. SUBSCRIPTION BLANK I Would Like To Subscribe To The Advocate-Register Enclosed is ($2.50) for Subscription for 1951 Name ----· Address _____________: _______________________ _______________________________________________ City. __ _ ----· _ _ ____ ___ _ Zone S t a t e --- -- ------------------ Mail check or money order to Oliver E. Smith, Editor, 3411 S. W. First Ave., Portland 1, Oregon. INCOME TAX SERVICE OLIVER E. SMITH Notary Public AT. 2551 3411 S. W. First Evenings By Appointment Ladies and Mens Suits NASH TAILORED CLOTHES Made to Measure Shirts William G. Mitchell, ATwater 0920 4794 S. W.'Slavin Rd. Portland, Ore. RUTH FLOWERS Real Estate 3300 N. Williams Ave. TR. 6553 Advertise in The ADVOCATE REGISTER Easy to Read DESIGNED TO READ All Readers Take Time To Read Direct Mail to Your New Customers RATES ON APPLICATION AT. 2551 ADVOCATE • REGISTER 3411 S. W. First Avenue Sec. 34.66, PL&:R U. S. POSTAGE PAID Portllllld, Oreaoa Permit No. 206 Mr. Otto Rutherford 830 ~. E~ Shaver .Portland, Vre[';on
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