The broad ax., 1926-12-11


support with prayer, with money, and
with earnest cooperation; for it has been
decades since such a tangible program
as the American Citizenship Founda-
ton announces was attempted. Were
Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sum-
ner alive today they would find at
last, vehicle for their sincere desire
to uplift all of America vehicle
which can, if it keeps the faith, give
new heart to the struggling black
folks of the land of the free and the
home of the brave.
3. Industrious New Jersey
Comparatively few people know that
the little town of Palmyra, N. J.,
boasts of one of the most successful
porcelain enameling and manufacturing
plants in the United States; and, be-
lieve it or not, its entire organization,
shop and Office personnel are COM
prised entirely of COLORED MEN
AND WOMEN. The industry is
named the Standard Enameling and
Manufacturing Company, Inc, Orlan-
do c. Watts, President, and the corpo-
rate charter was granted in 1922, with
capital stock authorization of $125,-
600. The factory, with its 10000
square feet of floor space, is located
on Broad street and Weisman avenue,
with sales department in Philadel-
phia.
According to President Watts, at
the time the company was organized,
enameled signs were not as popular as
they are today. The ease Of cleansing,
together with the high price of brass,
has given enamel a popularity which
is increasing daily, and the Standard
Enameling and Manufacturing Com
pany is beginning to reward the stock
holders who did not lose faith in the
early days when the Company was
swamped with debts and face to face
with other menacing obstacles.
The plant now includes a Cotton
combination oil and gas-fred enamel
furnace, including double speed-burn-
ing forks, capable Of reaching an ex-
cess of 1000 degrees, Centigrade;
three portable furnaces for the eco
nomical production of smaller enam-
cling jobs, spreading machines, pick
cling equipment, six motors, a 40
horsepower steam boiler, a steam
heating plant, and metal cutting ma
chine
An industrial effort like this, fos-
tered, organized, managed, controlled
and operated by race people does more
racial uplift work in one hour than a
million pounds Of platform air pres
sure does in decade. Success and
long life to the Standard Enameling
and Manufacturing Company of Pal
myra, N. ].
4. David Belasco's Lulu Belle"
Lulu Belle" theatrical masterpiece
of David Belasco, continues on towards
its 350th performance on Mr.. Belasco's
own stage in West 44th Street, New
York, with mixed audiences roundly
applauding Lenore Uric, Henry Hull,
Evelyn Preer, and their actress and
actor associates in the greatest inter-
racial melodrama New York has ever
witnessed. The colored Riddles, in
natural hue, add much reality to the
play, which, in all probability, because
of local social antipathies elsewhere,
could not be successfully played very
far south of New York or Chicago.
The play has been ably reviewed
months ago. 1t is semi-sordid, but
true-to-life dranlatization Of the life Of
a beautiful colored vampire, in the
wake Of whose charms devastation and
death repeatedly follow The audi
ences that witness Lulu Belle" day
after day are as interesting as the
play itself. They are typically repre-
sentative of cosmopolitan New YORK,
whose theatre-goers, of all races and
hues, are seeking clean amusement,
rather than pillars upon which TO build
the flames of prejudice or to corrobo-
rate innate opinions of racial traits and
distinctions. The applause is as gener-
Gus for the wiles of the siren Lulu
Belle" as it is for the avenging lover;
and the laughs are as hearty at the
chagrin Of the charmed fools whom
Lulu Belle" entices, as they are for
the representative gyrations Of New
York race folk in Harlem cabaret.
The significant probability as to
Lulu Belle" is that it could not en-
dure where social justice and equal
rights have been forced to give way