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evidence of his supposed wealth. Medical
opinion states that he died of starvation"
The young storekeeper said. Are you
relative?"
Ireland shook his head He said, I'm
cop. Sam Ireland"
The clerk said, Jim Cade," and at the
question in Ireland's eyes. my folks
founded this town." he explained. Its
named for Grandpop,"
They shook hands. Young Cade said. "A
detective? All the way from New York;"
Ireland said, Our Denver Office picked
up this item because of the name Oliver.
They got hold of one of his nuggets and
had it analysed l stopped off in Denver to
pick up report of what they found.
I've got one right here" Jim Cade said.
He showed small lump of gold that looked
like a piece of filling for tooth. 1t was
hanging on his watch chain. Evidently he
did some kind of crude smelling and refining
job on the ore himself, although no one
found anything at the cabin to show how
he'd done it. OF course it isn't nugget.
It's chunk of more or less pure gold
did he spend the stuff in your store
here?"
HE boy grinned. He never spent any of
it. He couldn't spend penny in this town.
He got supplies here every Christmas but
he was never charged for them. Nobody
ever charged him for anything. Why, |
grew up believing he really was Santa Claus.
and so did all the other kids in the valley.
The young ones still do.
But if you mean was his gold any good,
it sure was. People he gave it to turned it
in for real money, and a lot of it. He must
have given away about a thousand dollars
worth every year. He usually gave some
to our Boys Club here and to folks around
who were hard up and so on
Ireland said, If he got his supplies with
out paying for them, how does it happen
that he ran out of provisions and died of
malnutrition?"
Jim Cade shrugged his shoulders. He
just didn't come to town and stock up
again, that's all. He usually came in
couple OF weeks before Christmas ana
stayed around. getting his years supplies
together, until Christmas when he gave his
gold away and went back up to his shack
before the day was over dragging his grub
on a little sled. This year when he ran out
of grub he just stayed in his cabin instead.
HE had tried to trap some rabbits and
birds, we could see that when we went up
there. The doc said he didn't think there
had been anything wrong with him that
made him too sick to get down here"
so why do you think he didn't show
up?" Ireland asked.
my own guessis is that his dirt had
played out" young Cade said. He didn't
have anything to give away for Christmas
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A MEDITATION
Forgiveness in
Human Society
"If your brother (sister) sins
forgive" luke 17;3).

" your pFotHcF koieACtJ obho :
forgive" duke 17;3).
Have we not left out the most
important words in the sentence?
What about the words "rebuke"
and repent? We wish to call at
tention to the fact that in a sickly,
sentimental variety of Christian
ethic which flows fluently enough
for glib tongues, these words are
often forgotten. There is much
about forgiveness in the New Tes-
lament, but hardly is there a case
out of relation to the repentance
of the guilty.
But who will rebuke the offend
er? The answer is: the fine art of
Christian rebuke is ultimate for
giveness. The Christian rebukei 8
never an instrument of punishment
but of adjustment.
The world is full of guilty ma
tions." And because they are guilty
before God and man they mistrust
each other, knowing all the while
that they need each other desper-
ately. Who has the courage TO re
buke" such "amiable sinners?
Nevertheless. as long as there is
one nation in the commonwealth
of men unforgiven. it has the same
effect upon the world as when
there is a morally depraved indi-
vidual in a family.
Unfortunately the majority of
people think of society mechani-
cally and politically and not as an
organism and a Incorporated cor
poration. According to New Testa-
ment scriptures society is not a
heap of miscellaneous articles
which the ocean has thrown up
on the shore. The race of men con-
tinues one vast body of nerves.
all members are vitality inter-
dependent, every part is related TO
every other part in a community
of interest, and every part suffers
when one part is undeveloped
bruised or broken.
The implications of this truth
are obvious. AS long as there is one
little nation in slavery or ignor-
ance. tyranny and vice all other
nations are in danger. Similarly. as
long as there is anywhere in these
United States of America a morally
and spiritually dwarfed person, ev-
cry oyther person will be hindered
from gaining his God appointed
stature. One moral and spiritual
cripple affects the pace and peace
of everybody else.
The Church Woman.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Julian Franklin,
brother and sister-in-law OF the
doctor. and their little daughter
Shonna. made the trip also. 1t was
vacation tour of the vast country
from coast to coast.
A family reunion and picnic at
the Will Graggs' country home and
other family get-togethers, tour Of
scenic Oregon were crammed into
the few days ON this stop and on
to California.
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The Phantom American Negro
By GEoRGE 5. sCHUYLER

Wherever our citizens travel
abroad. they are quizzed about
the Oppressed and prosecuted"
American Negroes. How can you
tell others about democracy when
you terrorize and lynch Negroes?
Why do you deny them their
civil rights?"
.'How does il feel" a Norwe-
gian asked me last December in
an Oslo hotel. ITO be able to
stay In nice place like this
and eat in such a fine dining
room2' He would not believe
that / had been a guest in fine
hotels in the United States.
A Uruguayan cabinet officer
discoursed dolefully on the ira
gedy of the poor Negroes" of
North America until observed
that they owned several times
more automobiles than the tatol
number of cars his country boast
ed, ana that in no city in our
South were the Negroes as inn
poverished as the mestizos l had
seen in Montevideo.
Who 81 responsible for this
false picture of the American
Negro? The Communists, of
course have done their part in
spreading Enthusiastically biased
picture of American race rela-
tons. There has been no effec-
tive American counterpropagan-
da. Indeed, Americans themselves
have helped to publicize misin-
formation. The books that liter
ate foreigners have read-Knigs-
blood Royal, Freedom Road,
Strange Fruit, Native Son-all
stress hatred between whites and
blacks. The news services send
abroad mostly the sensational
and discreditable items, sailed
with occasional mention of Mar
ian Anderson, Jackie Robinson
or Ralph Bunche. On the screen,
foreigners see Home of the
Brave, "Pinky" and mo Way
Out. Small wonder that they
believe in this phantom Negro!
Paradoxically, the average
white American is as misinform-
ed as the average European.
Actually. the progressive i'm
provement of race relations and
the economic rise OF the Negro
in the United States is a flatter-
ing example of democracy in
action. The most exploited Ne
groes in Mississippi are better
off than the citizens of Russia
or her satellites.
II 1866 about 95 percent of
American Negroes We're illiterate.
Today there is little illiteracy
among them. The educational
system that have eliminated their
illiteracy were voted and main
tanned by white-controlled coun-
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HoNoRED

Mrs. Pollyanna Reed. former
president of the Oregon Federation
of Colored Women's Clubs and for
mer corresponding secretary of the
National Federation of Colored
Women, had the distinction and
honor of an invitation (Which she
accepted) to address the Violet Art
Club of the Pittsburgh, Pa. Fed
Grafton on the occasion of the
clubs 45th anniversary. Mrs. Reed
had the pleasure of meeting the
outstanding group of women in
1913.
The club sponsors scholarship
to a deserving high school gradu-
ate each year. Their protege this
year. said Mrs. Reed, is very fine
student who appears on Tv out of
Philadelphia.
Mrs. Reed visited friends in Chi
cago going and returning, despite
her limited time.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Alexander,
of Chicago, left Thursday for their
home after an enjoyable three
weeks visit with Mrs. Alexander's
niece. Mrs. Earl Winslow, and fam
lily in N. E. Roselawn.
The Alexanders shared their visit
with Mr.. and Mrs. James II. Will
liams in N. E. Mallory. Mrs. Will
Iiams (Sula Mae) and Mrs. Alex
ander had been close friends for
40 years. During that time our
friendship has not been broken,
said Mrs. Williams. Many social
courtesies were extended this very
fine couple who are not strangers
in Portland. particularly Mrs. Alex
ander, who has been frequent Wis
itor to the Rose City.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Wilson
IN NE. Shaver had as house guests
the past week Mr.. and Mrs. Carl
Emanuel of Oakland, California, ac-
companied on the motor trip by
Mr.. and Mrs. Longress. also of
Oakland, who were house guests of
their cousins, Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon
Gaskins. in N. K. Union. The hosts
and visitors spent most of the week
as guests of the Elmer Flowers and
their mother, Mrs. Minnie Craw-
ford. at Clatsop. the Flowers beau
tiful beach home. Returning they
enjoyed several informal courte-
sizes.
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PRIEST SPEAKS AT PUBLIC
SCHOOL GRADUATION

New Orleans, - Father j. J..
Albert, of the Josephite Fathers,
pastor of All Saints Catholic
Church here, gave the commence
ment address at Landry High
School here.
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Church News

Bethel A.M.E.-The Rev. e. P.
Williams, pastor. Sunday, June "a,
was MEMS Day." Brother Frank
Mcintosh was the general chair
man of the fine program and a
lovely chicken dinner cooked by
Messrs. Hawkins and w. T. Mat
thew, Rev. Johnson and members
from Pasco CINE. Church were
the guests of Bethel. It was also
the fourth and last quarterly con-
ference. DIR. F. L. Greene, from
Seattle, preached the morning SER.
mon which was wonderful, and in
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The young Misses Jerry Linn and
Eleanor Boswell are spending their
vacation with their grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Gragg. in N. f.
29th. They are the daughters of
the Rev. and Mrs. Hamilton Bos-
we'll of San Francisco. The Rev.
Boswell accompanied the girls via
train. He returned Immediately by
plane for a business engagement.
He and Mrs. Boswell will join their
daughters later.
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Greetings to you. We are glad to
write your different activities, So
sials, visits, guests, weddings, din
ner parties, picnics etc. Please tele-
phone 1854 or mail your news to
1914 South Sixth Street Amanda
Lopez Perry.
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Mrs. Clifford Freeman Dixon is
back to Portland--her home-for
an indefinite stay after several
years in Southern California. She
is residing at 1906 N. E. Victoria.
A warm hearty welcome awaited
her. gifted singer.
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YAKIMA, WASHINGTON
socIALs, COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES AND CIVIC EVENTS
BY AMANDA Lopez PERRY
BY AMANDA Lopez PERRY

the afternoon the men presented
the guest speaker from Seattle,
Mr.. William Tumstill, who made a
fine address. He always holds his
audience spellbound. The dinner
was served in the church dining
room.
Bethel is sponsoring a picnic on
Sunday, July Is, from am. to 7
pm. The tickets are 81 including
the transportation and dinner for
each person.
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Dr. and Mrs. w. A. Franklin and
sons. Billie Jr. and Julian, motored
across country from West Point,
Va, for a visit with Mr.. and Mrs.
Writ Morton ST.. parents of Mrs.
Franklin (Isadore).
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PortIond Welcomes Many Visitors

DR.. w. Farmer prominent physician of Wichita Kansas
with his socially prominent wife Gertrude will be house
guests of Mr. and Mrs w. G. Anthony their visit to
Portland the week of July 20 DIR. and Mrs. Farmer
will be accompanied the trip by Mr. and Mrs III Smith
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also of Wichita. This promi-
nent foursome will visit sew
eral cities in California,
Washington and British Co
lumbia on their Pacific Coast
tour.
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schools. Today the enrolment eX-
ceeds two and quarter million.
In 1900 there were 80 public
high schools for Negroes in the
South. Today there are 250e.
Some 10000 Negroes are grad
uated from college each year,
and there are 10000 students
in attendance - proportionately
more than the total number of
college students in Great Britain.
This climb from chattel slavery
is not accomplished in an at
mosphere of persecution.
In 1900 it was prophesied that
disease would exterminate the
American Negroes. Today their
life expectancy is 60 years, only
eight years less than that of
American whites.
In 1900 Negroes owned IL
percent of the nonfarm homes
in which they dwelt. BY 1947
they owned "a percent. Alto
gether American Negroes now
own one million homes. There
are $4,000 Negro farm owners,
with farms averaging 20 acres.
And in the past few years Ne
groes have themselves financed
and erected $4,000 new hous-
ing units--quite an achievement
for "terrorized" populace.
A standard Soviet charge is
that American capitalists grind
down the Negro. The Julius
Rosenwald Fund expended more
than $22,000.000 largely for Ne
gro education and helped erect
5000 schools in the South. The
General Education Board, set up
by John d. Rockefeller in 1902,
has expended 20 percent of its
money to advance the education
of Negroes, and recently John
d. Rockefeller. Jr., gave $4,000
900 to aid privately owned Negro
colleges.
For the past SO years the eco
nomic gulf between Negroes and
whites has been narrowing. Ne
groes own IA banks, 200 credit
unions. 10000 retail business,
26 savings and loan associations,
and rs large insurance compan-
les with assets of more than
$1OO,00O,O00, with a billion dol
lars worth of insurance III force
in 81 states and the District
of Columbia.
Negroes own and publish $50
newspapers and several major
magazines with a combined cir
culation of three million. Not
single one has been suppress
ed, South or North, although
they are unsparing in their crit
icism of racial prescription.
More than 100000 U. S. Ne
groes are members of labor un-
ions and many predominantly
white unions have Negro offic-
ers, even in the South.
Segregation in the armed serv
ices has been rapidly broken
down since 1914. Today train
ing schools for all services are
fully integrated racially, and
there are some 5000 Negro COM
missioned officers.
The process of migrating the
Negro into the national social
structure has been faster in some
states than in others, and the
record of the inhumanities at
tending the process has been de-
plorable in many areas; but in
spite of all this there has been
amazing and unprecedented adj
justment within the memory Of
living men.
Here, then, is the real Negro
in American society. not the
phantom Negro of the anti-Amer-
lean propagandist, native and
foreign. Admittedly we still have
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Mrs. Nelsine Campbell, in N.
Albina, is spending several weeks
in Denver, Colorado, with her Sis
ter, Mrs. Henrietta Foster. who is
Ill. Mrs. Foster spent the past win
ter in Portland trying to recuper-
ate. Portland friends wish for her
speedy recovery.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Jackson Brookins,
of Chicago, with their granddaugh-
tiers, Josephine and Lulabell, and
Mrs. John Fausette of Omaha were
guests for a short stay with Mrs.
Sue Daniels in N. Monroe. The
party is making stops in many of
the scenic spots and cities on the
coast. Its trip I'll long remem-
ber," said Mrs. Fausette as she
chatted with yours truly MIMI.
d. formally of Omaha, relating the
JOY of the trip up through the red
woods of California, over the Cas-
cade mountains and her anticipa-
tion of Yellowstone National Park.
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District Sunday School
Convention

The district Sunday School con-
vention was held in Spokane June
1922. Rev. and Mrs. E. P. Williams,
Mrs. Della Woods, Edna Counts,
Vergil Johnson, Elnora Rentz and
Charlotte Stanford, two delegates
from the Sunday School, one from
the Junior Missionary Society, and
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one from the Christian Endeavor
attended. The host pastor in Spo-
kane is Rev. Mays. The report is
that the meeting was great
success.
The Gath annual convention. of
the Colored Women's Association
held it's meeting in Seattle June
21-23. Those attending from the
Elite Hobbyites we're Mrs. Arthur
Gregory, Mrs. Della Woods, Mrs.
Lillian Ellison, Mrs. Lillian Mack,
Mrs. Margaret Malone and the club
president, Mrs. L. E. Bryant. Those
from the Mu-So-Lit were Mesdames
Lois Bradford, A. B. Fuller, and
Tom Lacey. Mrs. E. S. Davis es-
corted the Girls Club which is the
Rose Bud Darlings Club" 1t was
a fine convention.
Masonic Lodge of Yokimo
The Masonic Lodge of Yakima
held its st. Johns Day on Sunday
evening, June "a, at 8 pm. in the
Mt. Hope Baptist Church. The Rev.
E. P. Williams preached the SER
mon. Mrs. William Taylor was the
chairman. The Naomi Chapter of
O.E.S. No. turned out with their
brothers. Both were formal. Bro.
Benjamin Chandler is the Worship
full Master and Sister Gladys How
ard is Worthy Matron.
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Many Portlanders were lured to
the beaches during the recent heat
wave which struck Portland.
Among them were Mr.. and Mrs.
Lloyd Flowers and Mrs. Fielden
Stewart and her mother, Mrs. Ella
Stevenson, a guest of the Elmer
Flowers at Clatsop.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Davis, newly
weds, guests of the Erwin Flowers
at Depoe Bay, where all enjoyed
fishing and digging clans.
Mrs. Mary M. Duncan received
the sad news of the passing in
Chicago of Mrs. Yolonde Buckley.
wife of her nephew. Charles Buck
ley. And also the passing of Mrs.
Ludia Scott of Omaha, mother of
Mrs. Lula Roundtree and Mrs.
Susie Yancey. we'll known to many
Portlanders.
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Robert Herndon Jr. has returned
from trip east, visiting friends
and relatives in Chicago and in
Springfield, ILL.,, and his grand
mother. Mrs. James r. Herndon,
in Marceline. Mo. Bob reports a
very enjoyable trip. the first back
since he moved out to Portland five
years ago with his parents. Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Herndon
Evening star., 1951-09-05
Tie With Chest May Cost
Bristol Red Cross Charter
BY the Associaied Press

BRISTOL, Va.-Tenn.. Sept.
5.-BriStol may son lose its Red
Cross chapter charter.
A National Red Cross official
intimated yesterday the chapters
charter will probably be with
drawn because of the local groups
insistence upon taking part in a
Community Chest fund drive.
The Red Cross viii not allow a
chapter to take part in such a
campaign unless 1t gets co-billing
with the Chest. But the Bristol
Community Chest yesterday re-
fused to consider such an ar
rangement. The chapter decided
to go along with the Chest any,
way.
John H. Wilson, Office manager
Of the American National Red
Cross, dropped the hint that the
charter would be revoked. In a
long distance phone conversation
with Chapter Chairman Aulick
Burke, Mr.. Wilson said the final
decision would be made known in
few days.
He added that the Red Cross
would continue to maintain it's
home service department at
Bristol, should the charter be
taken away.
Evening star., 1951-09-05
Harvard Professor Is Denied
Army O. K. on Trip to Japan

The Military District of Wash
Iington has refused to clear Har-
ward University Prof. John K
Fairbank for entry to Japan, but
his application is under review
by higher Army authority, off,
IcialS said today.
A trustee of the Institute of Pa
Icif1c Relations, which is under in
Ivestigation by the Senate's Inter-
nal Security subcommittee, DR.
Fairbank is a. top authority on
modern Chinese history and has
visited China several times.
Officials said he has received a
leave Of absence from Harvard fol-
study In Japan.
Clearance Permits Required.
Since Japan is an occupied area
under Army control, they ex-
planned, all passports must be &C.
compalied by Army clearance
permits, after routine security
checks.
An MDW spokesman refused tc
comment on the professors appli-
cation. beyond saying that it hao
been denied under present poll
cies and regulations.
The Army Department, through
a spokesman, confirmed that the
MDW action is under complete
review," however, and indicated
Evening star., 1951-09-05
Eastern Kansas Girds
Against New Threat
From Rising Rivers
BY The Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Kans., Sept. 5.
I-Surging rivers overf1owed anew
in Eastern Kansas today and
threatened Kansas City industrial
districts still recovering from last
July's billion-dollar flood disaster.
The rivers, fed by heavy rains,
forced evacuation of farmers and
some town areas.
In Kansas City, Kans., Army
engineers rushed bulldozers and
other earth-moving equipment
into the Argentine and Armour
dale districts. Both of these heav-
lily industrialized sections are still
digging out of the great flood of
midsummer.
Rising waters also were being
watched with apprehension in the
central industrial district of Kan
sas City, Mo.
Working Around Clock.
Work continued around the
clock in an effort to strengthen
dikes along the Kansas River, the
States largest.
Federal officials have estimated
damage in Missouri and Kansas
from the July flood at SIS billion.
1T has been called the Nation S
worst single disaster.
I Some dikeS, wrecked by the
flood, are still out and others are
dotted with soft spots.
/ At the State Capital of Topeka,
Mayor Kenneth Wilke ordered the
evacuation of North Topeka, one
of the hardest hit areas in July.
| Approximately $500 of the 10000
persons that inhabited the district
before the flood had returned to
their homes.
Emergency Shelter Set Up.
An emergency shelter was set
up in the Topeka Municipal Audi
torium to house the refugees.
Rivers already overf1owing in
cluded the Smoky Hill, Salina,
Republican. Marais Des Cygnes,
Neosho and Cottonwood.
The Marais Des Cygnes spread
into part of the business district
at Ottawa and also forced some
lowland residents from their
homes.
Near Emporia farmers moved
livestock and equipment to higher
ground.
The Weather Bureau predicted
the Kansas River would crest at
q feet at Kansas City. but said
additional rainfall could push it
higher.
Evening star., 1951-09-05

that a decision has not yet been
reached. DR.. Fairbank, it was un-
derstood, is in California with his
family.
Passport Application Held Up.
State Department officials said
no action has been taken on the
professors application for pass
port, and that none will be until
the Army reaches final decision
on its clearance investigation. The
department has on file from the
Far Eastern expert a copy of an
affidavit filed with the Senate in
vestigating subcommittee, stating
that he was not and had never
been a Communist.
DR.. Fairbank did not testify
before the group, but his name
was raised in connection with the
institute probe during recent
hearings. His affidavit was SUBJ
mitted shortly after.