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Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-18

Elest In Arizona-Coroner B.
mons will not go to Yuma to
1t an inquest into the death
ester Daleheart, II, of Phoe-
no died as q result Of injuries
ed in q railroad accident at
junction yesterday morning.
hugh the accident occurred in
ial County, the youth died in
ypital at Yuma and the case
pc taken care of by Arizona
tities.
n Ne At Steve's May 20. adv
! Attractive outside rooms at
j monthly rate. Blue Moon
Phone $50. adv
ckens Bought and sold. Dress.
? un1ressed. Pbcns 900 for
y. 1852 Woodward. adv
ftcer Finds S,dtcase.-A suit
filled with clothing and belong
70 W. f.. McLeroy of San Diego
Recovered by Patrolman Ne
IA this morning. The case was
ll at the home Of Conrad Aguiri,
krecently served 10 days in the
ny Jail on charge Of vagran
Aguiri claims to have found
bag and according to tele.
ic communication with McLe-
he bag was lost while the own
as travelling through FL Centro
a automobile
fay Insurance. Edgar Bros. Real
. o., FL Centro. Cal COS Main 81
he l60 adv
n. A. B. Hansen, Dentist. FIX.
cion specialist. Davis Bldg
,lines by appointment. Phone
/. adv
lg Onion Crop.-Movcment in
fns from Coachella valley was
|rted as extremely heavy ut the
Ehern Pacific office this morn.
70 date the shipments have
lied s5S cars, 742 being ship
east and ll6 west. The mar
prices on the onions was report
as holding up well.
lay Insurance. Edgar Bros. Real
Co., FL Centro, Gal COS Main 81
me l60 adv
'ocal and Piano recital by pupil:
Adelaide Hartman, Friday, Ma!
/. State Street Christian Church
,lic invited. ad,
'ar Thieves at Work-Two minor
fits were reported TO the county
city authorities yesterday. $
aki reported that thieves hat
Ipped his truck, taking two tires
ct of coils and the headlights
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-18

NEW YORK, May ls.-The cot
ton market closed up 10 to -
DOinfs. snots II S0
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-18

Jenkins Students Recital, Chris,
tian Church, May 23rd. Hear the
boys that won the beautiful bronze
medals at the all-state symphony or
chestra, Sacramento. Solos, duets,
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-18
ckens Bought and sold. Dress.
n un1ressed. PbCne 800 for
b. 1852 Woodward. adv

f,y Insurance. Edgar Bros. Real
4 o., FL Centro. Cal COS Main 81
he l6O adv
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-18

trios, quartettes. A good, shappy
program. Public invited. adv
Imperial Valley press., 1927-05-18

y Attractive outside rooms at
y monthly rate. Blue Moon
Phone $50. adv
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
Negro History
Negro Soldiers in the Civil
War ~ sss...


Something like 178, 9T5 Negro SOL
diers were employed in the Civil War
These made up 161 regiments, of
which 141 were infantry, seven were
cavalry, twelve were heavy artillery,
and one light artillery.
The first colored regiments to be
organized were the First South Caro-
lima, in which the first enlistments
were made May 9, 1862; the First
Louisiana Native Guards, September
81, 1862; the Fifty-fourth Massachu-
sets, February 8, 1868; the Second
Carolina Volunteers, February %,
1868.
"There were also $500 Negro
soldiers enlisted at large or whose
credits are not specifically express
sed by the records"
The, Negro troops were engaged
in many of the bloodiest battles of
the war. The engagements in which
they particularly distinguished them
selves were the battle of Milliken's
Bend, on the Mississippi, near Vicks-
burg, July 6, 1868; assault on Port
Hudson (near Baton Rouge, La /,
May 81, 1868; the assault on Fort
Wagner, defense of Charleston, s.
c., July IS, 1868; the assault on
Petersburg, Va, June Is, 16, and
July 80, 1864 and at the battle of
Nashville, Tenn, December Is and
16, 1864.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06

Southerners continue to whine out
that the black people can get along
better in the southern states than
elsewhere provided they "stay in
their place" The place of the ex-
slaves in the south is the position of
technical slavery. AS long as they
submit to the ruinous crop lien sys-
tenn, as long as they do not grum-
bic about the infamous commissary
practice, as long as they permit them
selves to be Systematically robbed
and to be taxed without repre-
sentation, just so long can they get
along. Such submission describes the
black mans place in the south.
Lynchings, pogroms and brutalities
are TIE means and METHODS used to
perpetuate the well-defined status of
our unfortunate brothers. The north
following the lead laid down by Ex-
President Taft, who declared that he
would make no appointment of Ne
groes to federal positions offensive
to the southerners," has winked at
the patent injustices and cur burdens
have been made heavier.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
III Candidates for
1927 Harmon Awards

: NEW Y0RK.-There were 1T
candidates presented in the 1927
Harmon award, according to state
ment made last week by DR.. George
Z. Haynes, secretary of the COM
mission on church and race relations
of the Federal Council of Churches
of Christ in America.
Nominations and applications for
the 1928 awards must be filed in
writing with DR.. Haynes on or be-
fore August Is and the announce
ment of successful candidates will be
made January 1, 1928.
Awards in literature, music, fine
arts, business, science, education, re-
ligious service and race relations will
be made.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
EDITORIALS

The Jewish people have inherited
to large extent their wonderful alb
ility to sell and Notwithstanding the
fact that there are scarcely seven
million of them in these United
States they compete with the other
ninety-three millions with surprising
facility and success. They sell to
the world and they sell successfully.
In every industry and profession that
civilization can boast of the Jew
stands forth pre-eminent and so per
cent of his success can be attributed
to his high powered craftsmanship.
American black people have shown
remarkable enterprise in the varied
vicissitudes of American life, partic-
ularly in gaining an economic foot
hold where racial prejudices and diff
ferences has thrust opportunity upon
them. In building churches, in con-
Quoting barber shops, undertaking
establishments where competition
from without the race has been neg
ligible, they have amassed some rep
resentative capital, but only in the
last decade has there been a positive
appearance in the banking, insurance
and other highly competitive indus
tries. Such success as has been
attained can be attributed more to
the individual genius of some pio-
neer than to any intensely organized
force of statesmen.
Scientific craftsmanship with an in
telligent understanding of sales pror
motion, sales resistance, sales psy-
chology and sales production will ele-
vate the economic status of the black
people to a much higher plane. When
the possibility of the lucrative prof
it to be derived from high powered
craftsmanship, both to the salesman
and to his employer is fully appre-
ciated by the great rank and file
of ambitious young men and women
of the black race, a great stimulus
will be found in our various econom-
'ic ventures.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06

The issue has been raised as to
whether Governor AL Smith would
be an acceptable candidate for the
presidency of the United States. The
usual cry has been raised against his
religion. For Gov. Smith is cath
olic.
Of course, Gov. Smith would not
be acceptable to people of color un-
der any circumstances. For the VIC
ious campaign waged in the mayoral-
ty election in Chicago last month has
convinced the colored people once
again that no democrat can be of
worth to them as long as he is al
lied with a party whose basic creed
is the suppression of colored people.
Moreover, there comes from the
state of New York information that
Gov. Smith has never given to any
colored person any position of politi-
cal Importance. And he vetoed the
legislative bill that would give to col
ored people the mass power to elect
a city judge.
But on the. score Of religion. col
ored people will disagree with those
who would raise the issue of "ca-
tbolicism" against the man who has
served three times as chief executive
Of the most populcus state in the
union. To be against Mr.. Smith be-
cause of his religion is intolerance
and bigotry. It should not be coun-
tensnced in a republic. 1t is the same
spirit that is back of the discrimina-
tion against Hebrews and colored
people.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
| Love You Mother

No nobler work can nature do
Than give to me Mother,
No sweeter song can words atune
Than call you dear Mother"
IT'S not the pain you bore for me
Nor is it the tears you she'd;
But, to me the true beauty see
81 love you dear Mother"
A Mother truer than all the world,
A woman clean and pure;
A Mother who gave love rather than
gold,
All else can be endured.
A Mothers smile, a Mothers kiss
To some other Mothers child,
A Mother, whose true Endcavor
In love and truth is told.
Mary NJ. VanDyne.
Seattle, Wash.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06

If science accepts the theory that
Africa is the home of the oldest
races and that the black people are
the closest to the primitive and orig
inal types, then it will clearly fol-
low that we are the oldest race of
mankind and that the diversified
groups of present day humanity are
descended from us. Yet bigoted and
prejudiced historians have influenced
us tc believe that we can not trace
our ancestrage and that we are
people without history. Our his
tory has been submerged but as sci
ence gets more fearless in its dec
laration and discoveries it seems that
it will be established some day that
Va, are descendants of the original
race of man that white, yellow, red
and brown races are offshoots of our
prehistoric sires.
Facts like these in conjunction
with the study of available history
viii gradully explode some Of the
prevailing myths and the black peo-
pie will find out that they have many
things to be proud of. It does seem
that the oldest race on the face of
the globe ought to find sufficient
reason upon which to predicate and
establish pride In itself.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06

One of the greatest curses of civil
ization is waste. The waste of one
section of the world would go long
way toward alleviating the suffering
of the other. The prosperous Sec
tions of the world throw away and
destroy enough to develop and sus-
tain The poorer area.
One small example of this is the
Mississippi Valley deluge. Homes
are destroyed, lives lost, fertile lands
laid waste. The economic loss is
appalling. 1t runs into millions upon
millions of dollars and untold suf-
fering. And this same condition,
in either large or small measure, is
repeated in the valley year after
year.
The estimated cost of flood control
would be about half the cost of the
Panama Canal, or about $200,000,-
900. But the loss goes on. II is time
for the federal government to step
in and stop this unnecessary waste.
The country can i'll afford it.
Colored citizens all over the Uni
ted States are vitality interested in
this development. For they are
strongly for everything that will
make for the peace, prosperity and
happiness of the country. And in
addition they know full well that
there are thousands of colored citi-
zens who annually are in peril of
their lives and their property. They
know also that the disposition Of
most of their southern neighbors
would be to succor and restore these
colored citizens to status quo only
after all of the whites of an equal
degree of suffering have been taken
care of. So that the flood ravages
take their heaviest toll from colored
natives.
If the federal government will look
at the situation in the light of the
future development of the country
1t will get to work to harness the
Father Of Waters. Bond issues pay
able in the far future will insure
the job.
For it is better, so much better to
spend millions for a sound principle
that will mean permanent good than
to spend one-tenth the sum for re-
lieving suffering. For the latter is
wasted in that the suffering should
have been stopped at its sources.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06

Word Often Misused
Don't say che has got money"
Omit "got."
Word Often Mispronouneed
Equine. Pronounce the sc" as in
'he," the "i' as in "mine," accent
on first re-.
Words Often Misspelled
Complexion.
Synonyms
Steal, thieve, rob, pilfer, purloin,
appropriate, plumber, loot, despoil.
Word Study
Use a word three times and it is
yours. Let US increase our vocabu-
larry by mastering one word each
week.
INADEQUATE: unequal to what
is required. "The building is made
quate for our purpose"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
Sunday, May 8, win be observed

SUNDAY, May o, Will De opserFeu
as Mothers Day.
From one end of this vast nation
to the other millions will pause for
a while in reverent memory of the
greatest friend that any man or wom-
an, boy or girl, ever had.
There has never been worth
while thought or deed, but what
sprang from the teachings of good
mother. Every noble thought and
desire to do good come from such
teachings.
Roland Hayes, born of slave par
ents in Calhoun, Georgia, had mo-
Their who not only toiled and sacri-
feed through his early life, but fol-
lowed her boy in his efforts to ac-
quire a musical education and devel-
op his voice. She was his constant
companion and guide until her death
a few years ago. Roland Hayes has
become one of the greatest tenor
singers of this century. He has spe-
cialized in Negro spiritual songs in
an attempt to give to the world the
thought and ideals inspired by his
mother. He has been heard by all
crowned heads of Europe and fills
every auditorium wherever he APP
pears.
Financial success has come to him,
and as an expression of gratitude to
his departed mother Mr.. Hayes has
purchased 600 acres of land near his
birthplace where he proposes to es-
tablish a school which will become a
center of inspiration to his own peo-
pie as well as to white people who
may come to it. Mr.. Hayes has an
ideal worthy of high purposes of
the woman whose beautiful charac-
ter constantly inspired him and now
bids him pass along to others some
thing of its beauty and the oppor-
tunity it envisioned.
Whether her presence still warns
your days with the beams that shine
only in a mothers eyes, or whether
she has passed beyond, it is fitting
that all of us renew that vow so of
ten made, to follow more closely the
pathway lighted by her tender influ-
ence and make her spirit proud of
us.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
Color Bar Stops National
Track Meet Plan
(Continued from Page onel

Continued from Page One)
prejudice are: DeHart Hubbard,
worlds champion broadjumper, &C.
ell Cooke, of Syracuse. collegiate
champion quarter-miler; Ned Gour-
din, ex-Olympic champion broad
jumper; Charles Major. st. Bonavin-
ser College, one of the greatest high
Jumpers in the world today; Charles
Drew of Morgan College, represent
ing the Century A. c. as national
junior high hurdle champion; Wes-
ley Foster, Seattle, national junior
100-yard champion.
The color line issue in national
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06

athletic games is 20 years old. In
1907 ]. b. Taylor, national quarter
miller, representing the University OF
Penn, was threatened with lynching
IL he dared run against white con,
testants in the A. A. U. games at
jamestown, Va.
Mr.. Taylor went through it. set a
new record, and established himself
as one of the greatest quarter-milers
the world has ever seen.
Southerners who protested against
colored men in the A. A. U. games
IL years ago, demanded of President
James Z. Sullivan that all colored
athletes be barred. President Sullf
van told the protestants to read the
American Constitution and the A.
A. U. rules.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (PCNB)-
Contending that there is no city or
dinance to correspond to the "Jim
Grow" law, which is a state act,
Judge Williams of the city court re-
Gently dismissed Mrs. Lucy Wesson.
Police arrested Mrs. Wesson when
she refused to move back from the
section in the street car set aside
for white passengers and in which
she was sitting.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
Companion Wanted

! ann Just plain man who would
take great delight in making a
bcne where one would be glad 10
come after hard days work. I
have some means aud have never
been married. Interested In mar
rage 90 woman Of good character
not over rs years. Address NJ. II.
Rrownlec, p. o. Box 32s. Seattle,
Wash.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
Marcus Carney Reported III

ATLANTA, Ga.-Marcus Garvey,
imprisoned provisional president of
Africa, is III with asthma and La
grippe in the prison hospital, accord
ing to a report sent out from the fed
eral prison at Atlanta, where he is
serving a five-year term.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
Lynch Man in Little Rock

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-John Car
ter was lynehed and his body burned
in bonfire Wednesday night by a
mob Of whites after he confessed
crashing his automobile into a car
driven by Mrs. c. E. Stuart, white,
injuring her and her daughter. Car
ter fed after the crash and was found
hiding In the colored section.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
5000 Hear Hayes Farewell

NEW Y0RK.-Some 5000 per-
sons crowded Carnegie Hall Friday
night to hear Roland Hayes, tenor,
in his farewell recital.
1t was his last appearance until
the fall of 1928 and no singer has
ever been given a more noted and
marked tribute than that accorded
Hayes.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06

containing 10000 facts concerning
the Negro. Authentic. compressor
sive and historically correct Price.
$50. Sent postpaid on receipt Of
price. Players Sales Agency, p. o.
BOX 33S. Seattle. Wash.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
Look and Learn

1. Who wrote Fire in the Flint?"
2. On what date is Kelly Miller's
birthday?
8. Why is the village of Mound
Bayou famous?
4. Who composed "Listen to the
Lambs?
5. What have the following in
common C. C. Spaulding, R. H. Ruth
erford.
6. Are there more red or white
stripes in U. S. flag?
Z. Who was Phyllis Wheatley?
8. Which amendment to the con-
stitution guaranteed colored people
right to vote?
Q. Who is president of Liberia?
10. What is the highest commission
ed office a colored man has ever held
in the U. S. Army?
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
ANSWERS

1. Walter White. 2. July %,
1868. 8. Founded and operated by
Negroes. 4. Harry T. Burleigh. 5.
Heads of Insurance Companies. s.
More Red. z. Colored Poetess. 8.
18th. 3. C. B. d. King. 10. Col
onel.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-25
COURT DENIES
SACCO APPEAL
Small Army of Guards and Sol
diers Keeps Vigil at Charles
town Prison

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Boston
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo VAN
xetti, shortly after midnight, paid the
penalty Of death exacted by the state
tor murder.
Celestino Madeiros preceded them
20 the electric chair by a few min
utes, the world-known radicals fol-
lowing as rapidly as the execution
routine would permit.
Madeiros died at 1900 a. m, for
che murder of Wrentham bank
cashier. Sacco and Vanzetti were
executed for the murder of pay
master and his guard at Braintree,
more than seven years ago. Sacco
was pronounced dead at 1913 a. m.
and Vanzetti at 1925 a. m.
Army Of Guards Posted.
! Inside and OUTSIDE of the high pris-
bn wall stood small army of armed
guards. Waiting also were the press
wires to inform the world that the
long fight to save the men was at an
end. The fight in behalf Of the men
continued up until the last minute.
Both Sacco and Vanzetti made
brief speeches in the death chamber
before they took their seats in the
chair, Vanzetti protesting his inno-
Eence to the last.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-25
J. O. Armour Dies In London

Northumberland by a siege of
Illness, the crisis Of which he had
passed safely, J. Ogden Armour.
wealthy Chicago packer, at the Carl
ton hotel. Mrs. Armour, Mrs. John ].
Mitchell, Jr.. the former Lolita Ar
mour, and her husband, were at the
bedside when Mr.. Armour died. Mr..
Armour, whose illness developed In
July, only week after he arrived in
London on his usual summer trip to
England, was too i'll to be told of his
mothers death, which occurred three
weeks ago. He once controlled a bill
lion dollar year business, but who
liquidated his holdings to such an ex-
tent that he had virtually vanished
from financial and commercial fields.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-25
Brandeis Rejects Sacco Plea

Boston-Arthur D. Hill, chief OF
counsel for Sacco and Vanzetti, an
bounced that the United States Su-
preme Court Justice Brandeis had de-
clined to consider the case. Justice
Brandeis declined to consider the case
when Mr.. Hill visited him at his sum-
mer home at Chatham, Mass, basing
his refusal on personal relations be-
tween members of his family and in,
nividuals connected with the case.
Che call on Justice Brandeis was the
becond attempt within a few hours
10 obtain a stay of execution from a
United States supreme court justice,
bn application to Justice Oliver Wen
dell Holmes at his summer home in
Beverly having been refused.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-25
ON MOVING FROM
CITY TO COUNTRY
By ]. A. WYE

j. A. wye who was at one time
an instructor at University Farm,
st. Paul, and lived with his fam
lily in the capital city for many
years, has written an interesting
story on his moving from the city
to the country in the Journal
Press at st. Cloud, on which pa
per is now fieldman. When Mr..
wye and his family left st. Paul
in 1925 they came to Sandstone,
so much Of the material for the
article is taken from that village,
and other parts of Pine county.
Mr.. WYE was fieldman for the
American in 1926. He has a
knack of portraying nature vivid
ly. His article follows:
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-25
668 Killed. on CROSSINGS

| Neutrality-suspicious. filed by the
railroads with the interstate COM
merce commission and just made pub
tic show that 66S persons lost their
lives in grade crossing accidents in
the first four months of 1927. This
ts a decrease of three compared with
the total fatalities for the correspond
Ing period in 1925. In the same Pc
eiod 1000 persons were injured on
grade crossings compared with 2,062
In the first four months last year.
Reports showed 1,746 highway grade
crossings accidents compared with
h,761 for the same period last year.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-25
Filler Who Helped Indy Killed

st. Louis, Mo.-Lieutenant George
J. Stumpf of this city, member OF
the 35th division air force, was killed
when the airplane in which he was
passenger crashed to the ground on
the outskirts Of this city. Stumpf,
real estate salesman, had been sent
! to New York by hackers of Colonel
Charles A. Lindbergh to assist him in
preparing for his New York to Paris
flight.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-08-25
New Zealand Flight Begins

Detroit-Captain Frederick A. Giles,
British aviator who intends to fly his
Hess-Bluebird biplane by series of
overland and overseas hops to We'll
Hngton, New Zealand, plans to take
off from the airport here for Chicago.
From Chicago Captain Giles plans to
make the flight to the coast In easy
Jumps to Omaha, Cheyenne, Salt Lake
City and San Francisco.