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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-11-25
Jim Crow" Covenant
Void as Section Changes

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Despite COW
enants and restrictive agreements, a
white resident can not keep colored
tenants out of neighborhood when
that neighborhood changes its ma
lture by development, Judge Ralph
Latshaw ruled in local courts here
last week.
The decision was given in the case
of white woman living in the 1900
block of Brooklyn Ave-, who sought
injunction to bar white neighbor
from selling his property to a colored
tenant. Mrs. King, the white woman
based her claim on an old segregation
agreement, but since that time the
neighborhood has become largely oc-
cupied by coloI'ed people.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-11-25
Virgin Isles Marriages
Worry Uncle Sam

WASHINGTON, ID. C.-From SS
to SO per cent of the marriages in
the Virgin Islands are entirely unof-
ficial and without the benefit of the
clergy, according to the United
States census figures of 1917.
Only z per cent of the population
is white. Last year Congress made
the Virgin islanders full fledged aciti-
zens of the United States, but the is
land is following its old custom which
never believed it necessary to consult
the clergy in order to get married.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-11-25
RACE SPENDS
&,500,0OO,OOO l
SAYS RODDY

BALTIMORE. Md, Nov. "a
Some idea of where we let charity
begia IN orr grnuhj declared Bert M.
Roddy, Field Secretary OF the Ma
tional Business League, in an ad-
dress to business men here. may be
seen in the fact that while we pro-
vide salaries for more than 100000
white business young men to serve
our needs. we give employment to
only few thousand of our own.
$4,000, 200, 900 In Trade
Careful surveys show, said Mr..
Roddy, that the Negro group in this
country spends around four billions
and five hundred millions OF dollars
for food, clothing and other necessi-
ties and lururies of life. but out Of
this vast sum we spend less than
$40, 100000 in race owned con-
Germs. Every year we will be fac
ing bigger and more serious crisis
in proportion to the number of
young men and women we train
without providing business oppor-
tunities and places to work.
Mr.. Roddy. who has been in Baiti-
more several days comforting with
business men In connection with the
work of the National Business
League, has outlined the new pro-
gram of that organization. For a
number of years, he said, this or
ganization. started by Booker t.
Washington, has been purely inspt-
rational. II has lately come to see
that 1t must develop practical pro-
gram that will begin to expand Ne
gro business in this country.
Working jointly with the National
Chamber of Commerce 1t is promot-
ing carefully worked out plan
along this line.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-11-25

did about the black cook in the pam
try whose hands kneaded the dough
for the bread they all were TO eat"
Whites only tell the truth about
the Negro when they are too tired to
do anything else. Mr.. Pickens de-
clared describing the white man who
has worked hard all day long and
gees home to drop down in the chair
and admit that he has worked like
a Negro"
Whites More Related
Mr.. Pickens said that the whites
in Dixie are more related to the col
ored people than they are to their
English ancestors and that so per
cent of the colored people are more
related to the whites than they are to
their ancestors in Africa.
He said he was born in Tennessee
and raised in Alabama and knew
what he was talking about.
White workers made up the larger
part of the audience and they fired
questions at Mr.. Pickens from all
sides.
Too Much Religion
One question was "why did the
colored worker refuse to cooperate
with white labor unions or any white
working organization?" Another
was, "why will colored people content
themselves with the most menial jobs
on construction work." Still an
other question asked was, ''if the Ne
gro did not have too damned much
religion?"
Mr.. Pickens' reply to the last was
that he never interfered with any,
body's religion, because everybody
had to go to Heaven in his own way.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-11-25
Keeping Negroes Out
Cost Whites $500, 600

Los ANGELES, CaL-(PCNB)-
Keeping the Negro down in Califor-
mia is proving an expensive PROPOSE
.tion to the taxpayers of Los Angeles
County.
Two years ago DR.. Wilbur C. Cor
don and his associates purchased 213
acres between Los Angeles and the
Pacific Ocean for $191, 900. He
planned a colored suburb.
Whites found out it was too close
to Hollywood and other expensive
estates. They forced through con-
demnation proceedings but had to
pay DR.. Gordon 100000 for his
property. y,ts.s !.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-11-25
Florence Mills Left No
Will; Estate S33,146

NEW YORK CITY.-The herald
ed quarter million dollar estate of
Miss Florence Mills has dwindled to
$33.146 in cash and personal prop
erty, according to reports published
here Saturday. From this amount
the expense of the funeral, which is
estimated at $4,000, must be de-
Quoted.
Becauseshe left no will, Surrogate
Foley granted letters of administra-
ton to her husband, U. S. Thompson,
who in his petitions declared that he
and Miss Mills mother, Mrs. Nellie
Winfrey, were the only heirs.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-11-25
Buys $575,o00 Club

RIVERSIDE, Cal. = (P0NB) -
Partridge Country Club has been
purchased by race syndicate for
s575,0
The financial end of the deal was
executed through the Nelson White
Holding Company, headed by Eugene
Nelson, a physician, who recently
married a white Hollywood film star.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-11-25
Believe In Education Here

RALEIGH, N. C.-That Negroes
are becoming intensely interested in
the educational program OF this
state, and are making sacrifices to
build and equip schools, was
brought out at the meeting of the
Jeanes Supervisors at Shaw Univer-
sity last week, where It was report
ed that 636 Rosenwald schools were
built last year, a large number being
In this state,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-11-25
Newspaper Grew Quits

CHICAG0.-Several linotype op-
orators and members of the repor-
torial staff of The Chicago Evening
Bulletin Negro daily, 1901 Indiana
Ave, walked out Monday morning
following the owners failure to pay
salaries.
Edwin d. Sheen and ]. A. (Bill-
board) Jackson at present are hold
ers of judgments against P. H. Pace
and F. S. Alexander, owners Of The
Bulletin.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-11-25
Pastor Quite A. M. Els

PITTSBURGH, Pa.-The Rev. J.
M. Evans, former pastor of St.
Tames' A. M. Z. Church here, has
eft the denomination and accepted
he pastorate of Unity Independent
Church at Detroit, claiming that the
continual necessity of moving his
family from place to place interrupt
ed the education Of his children.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-11-25
White Adviser for Haiti

WASHINGTON, ID. C.--Dr. Ar
thur G. Millspaugh, white, formerly
economic adviser Of the department
of state and financial adviser to the
Persian government, has been ap-
pointed financial adviser to the Hal
tian government, according to an
announcement by the department of
state November ID.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-11-25
New Chicago Hotel Said
To Be Country's Finest

CHICAGO.--Hotel Trenier, a $50
room house at Oakwood Boulevard
and South Parkway which has just
opened, Is said to be one of the
finest hotels open to rate guests.
One of the novel innovations Of
the hotel is the Room de Russo, a
part of the house decorated with
Russian motif. The dining hall is
Spanish in atmosphere. Clarence
Towns is manager.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-11-25
Servant Wins $s,1o7

HAvRE DE GRACE, Md.-Mrs.
Ella Williams, a servant in the house.
hold of Lena c. Crothers, white, won
q verdict for $8107.77 for meals and
services rendered against the admin
istrators. Of the estate last week.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-11-25

: DALLAS, Texas. = Mrs. Belle
Green was arrested Tuesday on
charge Of bombing the residence Of
Mrs. Kate Garrett. The explosion,
which city Officials at first thought
was caused by race conflict, was
the result of quarrel between the
women.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-11-25
Francis Sails From London

LONDON.--(A (ANP)-W. 7. Fran
els and Mrs. Francis sailed from Sou
Hampton Monday on their last lap
TO Monrovia, where Mr.. Francis win
assume his duties as United States
minister to Liberia.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-11-25
Says Wife Likes to Live
Near Colored Folk

LOS ANGELES, Cal.--The color
question was thrust into the marital
battle of Mrs. Sada C. Babcock,
white, of Minneapolis. and Ralph II.
Babcock, white Beverly Hills, when
his counsel brought out that Mrs
Babcock likes to live near the col
ored district.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-11-25
Want Wright for Congress

CHICAGO. - (ANP) - The Pro-
gressive League, new political or
ganization, announced last week that
it proposed to enter Edward H.
Wright, Illinois commerce commits
sioner, in the race for congress
against Congressman Martin B.
Madden. n
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-11-25
l4-Year-O Old Bootlegger

RALEIGH, N. C.-(ANP) : VIII
bert Robbitt, age IA, was found gull.
ty of selling white man pint of
whisky here Thursday afternoon and
turned over to the welfare depart
ment. The boy was hired out by this
department indefinitely to w. L.
Pate, white farmer.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-11-25

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - "If you
ever come home drunk again, III
kill you," Mrs. Lee Wayne, 81, told
her husband Walter last week. When
he came home drunk Tuesday night
Mrs. Wayne stabbed him to death
with avtable fork. s
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-11-25

CLEVELAND, Ohio. - Injunction
was sought by the white order of
Moose against the colored order of
the same name seeking to prevent
them the name or emblem Of Moose,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-11-25
New Insurance Company

NEW ORLEANS, La.-(ANP)-
The formal opening Of the Agents
National Insurance Company occur
red here Thursday, capitalized at
100000.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-11-25
The Week
I. Dark Skin Beauties
2. The Social News
8. We Reach Greece
4. Memphis
!. ROSCOE SIMMONS

I. General Booth of the Saliva
tion Army, speaking to a London
audience, declared:
IF could be young man again,
l would leave all you white beauties
and spend my life among the dark
skins"
Why, General, there are thousands
Of white gentlemen who have spent
as much time as possible among the
dark skins, leaving the "white beau
ties" until society compelled them to
get marriage certificate,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-11-25

Again the big news of the week
comes out Of Memphis, Tenn, where
nearly 5000 Negro voters disregard
"a bomb throwing, threats, economic
Continued on Page Four)
Nogales international., 1927-04-03
IT'S eWdter OVER
The Wheel That
Makes
POWER!"

If only for selfish reasons you
should spend your money at
home. The dollar you spend
away---is dollar gone. The
dollar you spend at home is
a dollar that adds power and
production in your home city
1.-The dollar that grinds the
griist Of better advantages
for you.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-02-25
TO SHOW THEIR
STUFF 3DAYS
TO SH0PP ERS
Elizabeth City Merchants Plan
a Real Spring Opening for
March 7, 8 and 9

Other towns hold fashion
shows. aud seasonal openings
to let the public know about
their new goods. Why not
Elizabeth City. The idea 'sclz-
cd d. Walter Harris, the City
Tailor and CIothier. He plan
ned a spring opening Tor his
store. and then he thought to
tell hi, fellow merchants about
it.
The idea took hold. and the
Merchants Association voted 10 JOIN
Brother Harris and put on a show
that will do credit 10 Elizabeth City.
And So March Z, 6 and . Will De a
genuine shoppers treat in Elizabeth
City. and every night the style show
will bn Oh in full blast.
Elizabeth City merchants VIII not
only show The FOLKS III window dis
plays. The latest things they found
nj New York. but they plan to pro
vide plenty of music, and put on
livcI loca! models at the aIhr"'la
Theatre carli mI2h' pi III" SHOW.
These living models, wearing the
ucw modes. will hc an added at
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-02-25
Home MEAT FOR
OUR own TABLE
New $4,000 Packing Plant
Gives Farmers Market For
More Home Raised Cattle
and Hogs

The outlook for the deve-
lopmcnt OF live stock growing
on larger scale on the farms
of northeastern North Caro-
lima, grew more hopeful this
week, when the new $4,000
packing plant of Marion c.
Love, opened for business at
this city. And the meat pro-
ducts Of Mr.. Loves modern
plant will be sold largely in
this section, putting home rails
cd quality meats on our own
tables.
The new plant, which provides a
market for additional thousands Of
pounds of meats from our farms
each week. fills a long felt want in
this $"ciiCn. II remained for one Of
Elizabeth City's youngest and most
"ntcrpriSing business men 10 supply
th.' need Marion &. Love, i'm his
little stall i'm the city market,
started out on his own ;nrpn years
ago, without financial assistance,
and has built up one Of tha hest
businesses in Elizabeth City. And
he has his nerve with linn, and
faith in the future Of his home Sec
tion.
The new packing house has Il
capacity of 10000 pounds of meat
products week, and is already
packing 1000 pounds Il day, manu-.
featuring SausageS, hams. bacon,
lard. and numerous other by-p"O-
ducts of beef and meat. 1t is equip
ped with the most modern machin.
cry and nothing short Of Richmond,
Virginia will eclipse it.
The machinery, including modern
electrically driven choppers. cutters,
suffers and mixers. etc, all served
Continued on page Four
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-02-25
VhV ONTVN NIETeN 7' F7E oOV' JENNI'E
THE SODA JERKER WANTS AN EDUCATION

Il wish waS educated. said til"
Soda .Irrkrr to his friend the Bank
Clerk.
'Wcll if yuu wish yon were cdu-
cltcd," said the Bank Clerk. "Whl
don't YOU proceed 10 get an edit
catium:'
ITS too late now" said The Soda
.Trrkcr: The years when ! should
have been in school are behind III"
and its too late for me I" begin
tn learn anything now.
and that's one Of the biggest of
all The biz fool ideas that are keep.
iug the world back. said The Bank
Clerk.
"Thc idea seems Ia hc generally
prevalent that if Il person docSn
learn lot of stuff in school before
hc is lG or IS years old hr is doom
rd To ignorance the rest of his HE.
The truth of the matter is that Il
man isn't rapHh'c of learning auy
thing until he is too old to so 10
school.
"To try to make myself clear,
when | went to school | studied Il
great deal of history, geography
biography. physics. literature, rtc.
II meant little or nothing to me and
! can't recall to-day Il single import
ant fact that learned.
cone profits by the reading ON"
does only in 50 far as ono can read
ones self into his reading. You
can not he interested in, under
stand or appreciate anything That
YOU can't read yourself into. |
mean hy that that YOU must have
felt or experienced thing yourself
before YOU can understand or ar-
ureratc what some one else says
about it. Geography means nothing
to IL person who has never Travelled
outside of his own township or read
ANYTHING but IL local newspaper.
Hist Dry is meaningless tO the same
fellow. And 10 Il man who haSm
lived long and thought much about
life philosophy is absolutely unin-
telli%ihlc.
''rhc greatest good that one gets
out of the years of book learning he
acquires III school is that it enables
him to sense something OF the
density o. his ignorance onC3 re IS
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-02-25
INDEPENDENT RATED
IN ALL-STAR CLASS
I University Of MissOuria Professor
.fS Rates IL With 1 Best All
{ American Country Papers

The independent was accorded a
signal honor the other day. Prof.
John H. Casey, head of the JOurna-
Iism Department of the University
Of Missouri. selected it with ten
other papers to represent what he
calls his "All-American Country
Newspaper Elcvcn,' which means
that these papers represent the emil
nent professors opinion Of what
constitute The best small town
papers in America. The InlcpfD-
dent is the only North Carolina
paper on this team representing thc
newSieSt, livcSt. most entertaining,
aud hest edited papers in the c0un-
try.
The publishers Of these / papers,
were given the regular foot ball
titles. and alihU the myslhical
team will play no games, each
editor hos his own place on the field
Four Of the publishers. including W.
o. Saunders. were selected, 10 altcr-
nate as left half-back, and editor
on The All-slar eleven.
Prof. Casey made his selection
after reading the papers from week
TO week. Here they are: Washing
ton. y. j.. star, +. \. Robertson,
Editor: lumia County. Michigan.
News. Fred II. kciStrr. Editor
Elizabeth city. independent. w. q.
Saunders: EG.ior; puak"rt"wn'
Penn, Free Press. {. VI. Meredith,
Editor: Monroe County. Missouri,
Appeal. H. J. EIaminn. Editor
Bcmidji. Minm.. Sentinel. II. Il. Nit
chrll. Editor: Storm Lake, lCwa.
Pilot Tribune, W. &. .Iarnagin. Edi
Tor: Walton. y. j.. Reporter, Ed
ward :. White, Editor; ST. james.
Mimi. P!aindralrr. J. Harold Cur
It's. Editor: Macon, Mo, Republican,
Edgar White, Editor; Tracr. Iowa.
Siar-Clippcr. Harry Taylor. Editor
HoonviIlc, Mo-. Advertiser. Edgar I.
Nelson. Editor: Red Banks. y. j.,
l;cyistCr. John II Cook. Editor
York. Ncb.. Republican, John q.
Alden. Editor: Colorado Springs,
Col. Farm News. John y. Green.
Editor.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-02-25

The above figures show that
March shipments, exceed many
times over, the shipments Of Feb
ruary. With moderate prices and
demand holding up, it is believed
that the catch Of fish should run
well up toward million dollars
this year. The biggest single catch
is reported. from Stumpy Point
where W. r Mason took thousand
dollars worth of shad in single
day. Many fishermen have done so
well, that they can quit and go home
with a good years work In their
pockets. it is said. The best thing
about this season, is that most all
pound net fishermen have done well,
everybody making fair catches.
Most of the income bf the fisher
ment. finds its way thru the trade
channels Of Elizabeth City, and
practically all money spent by the
industry is spent at home. All the
boxes and ice is bought at home.
The boats used i'm the industry are
built by home workmen from North
Carolina juniper, and large part
Of the fishing material Is handled Ly
local dealers
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-02-25
RESPECTABILiTY NOT
AT ALL IN HIS LINE
wv. o." Tries TO Bc Respectable
and Disappoi,its a Thousand Who
Turned Out In Rain TO Hear
Him Speak

The largest CROWD ever assembled
in the big High School auditorium
at Mathews. Va, it is said. turned
ont over bad roads to hear W. O.
SAUNDERS. the Elizabeth City news
piper editor, make u speech Mon
,lay night. The auditorium was
packed TO. overrlowing. And they
heard the Sorriest speech ever made
in Mathews County.
That's the report Mrs. Saunders
brings back to Elizabeth City and
she was there and heard her huS-
band speak. She says she wished
she could have been any place else.
Mathews is 30 miles from New
port News, GO miles from Richmond
aud "a miles from rail road. II Is
| Old Virginia where the Cavaliers
still live like Cavaliers, where the
women are queens, lhe horse is king
and every loug-eAred. Slal-ribbed
fox hound sacred animal. There
one fluids he true aristocracy and
culture of the Old South holding its
own against the inroadS Of the auto
mobile, the radio and all the rest
of il. In fact the ariStOCrats even
own automobiles and enjoy them.
The fame of the Elizabeth City
newspaper man had spread into
Mathews az in many other Of the
provinces. And 50 Nv. O. was i'll
yitcd to come and make a speech.
Saunders spoke according TO schcd-
ulp and the speech fell flat.
And all because [ tried to be re-
suertahle," saws "W. O." The fact
is that, unknown to the Elizabeth
City editor. word had gone out all
over the county of Mathews that
Saunders was going to set en- on
fire" II was whispered about lhai
he was going 10 attack the ku kiuX
Khan IN particular. Mathews is
Ku Klux county. Those who cant
be arisiocratS im Mathews belong I"
ihc Ku Klux. The Klan isn't parti-
cular who wears its nights shirts.
The Klam turned out on maSSc To
hear Saunders. The klcaglc and
the Cyclops and all the rest Of them
were there.
And wv. o." talked for al hour
without getting a rise out of his
audience. And all because | tried
10 bp respectable. and make the folks
nice. friendly sort of talk, says
wv. o." And then he said mourn
fully: DANNY if I'll ever try to. he
respectable any more: I'll JUST he
myself" And that is just what fhc
folks seem to want him 10 be.
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-02-25
CULPEPPER FOR
MAYOR TO BEAT
MILES FEREBEE
That's The Dope on Early Can
didacy of Head of Interests
Whom Ferebee Offended

The announcement OF W. /.
Culpcppcr, president Of the
CulpcpDcr Hardware Co., that
he is 4 candidate for the mayor
atty III the municipal election
this summer is taken to mean
that Elizabeth City is going tc'
have Il bitterly contested munI-
Cipal election. :
Friends uf City Manager Miles
W. F'erehpc arr quick tu see i'll the
candidacy of Mr.. Culpppprr IL fight
on the present city manaGcr. Fere-
bee has been Il thorn in the flesh
of the Culpcpp"r interests III lhlS
city. II was city Manager F"rc.
bee who sprung sensational chAr@"S
last Summer that the tuipcplrr
interests were umluly acliv" in try
ing tu Influence the letting of city
contracts and in one Instance it
WAS alleged that l.. Il. Culprppcr of
the Culprppcr firm had offered the
City Manager Il division of Il secret
rebate ON Il biz sand and gravel
contract:
Friends of the tuImppcrS freely
predicted last summer that That
would bc the end Of City Manager
Frrcbrc: il WAS openly declared
that they would 80 after his scalp.
And now comes the announcement
of W. Il. Culprppcr himself That hc
is Il candidate for the mayUraIly to
succeed Mayor McGabr. Mayor
Mct'abr says he will not he u can
didatc for reelection and il is raIh-
or early for other candidates To AN
nUuncc themselves.
II is conceded that the tulpcppcr
interests could not pat forth Il NOR"
likely candidate than W. i. Cut
pepper himself: IL" has Il host ot
friends and a political following II
not il political organization.
But Mr.. Culpcppcr will not run
without opposition, T.. c. Cahoon
formerly alderman from the Third
Ward aud one Of the oldest, strong
est and best Informed men ever CON
mrrtrd with the ciiy'S adminiStra-
lion. will also Ir Il candidai" Tor
Mayor. Mr.. Cahuun authorized this
newspaper to say aS much this week.
No other candidates for municipal
Offices have appeared Ia date. Four
The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-02-25

WALTER J.. C0H0OS, JR.
ELIZABETH CITY notes with con-
siderable pride, the news that this
youngster now 4 sophomore, is one
of two students chosen from the en-
tire student body. of Wake Forest
College, TO represent that school in
an intercollegiate debate with tie
famous Johns Hopkins University
of Baltimore. The debate is to be
held in April, and the query con-
Germs the establishment Of uniform
divorce and marriage laws. Walter
GsIioon, JT.., has been recognized f0r
his gift of Oratory since his days
i'm the Elizabei! City High School.
His father, Walter L.. COhocn, is
noted for his gifts Of Oraicry, and
he carries medal, wen at Wake
Forest by his silver tongue during
his own college days al that school.
XOellcr Photo.