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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-20
LIBERIA ELECTS
KING PRESIDENT
FOR THIRD TERM

WASHINGTON, d. c., May IL
Cable advices received here Monday
from Monrovia, state that Charles
d. b. King has been reelected Presi-
dent of Liberia by a majority of
10000 over T. r. Faulkner, a for
mer American Negro.
Kings victory is constructed as
an Endorsement of his economic, IL
nancial and educational program,
recently. adopted. He will establish
precedent by entering on his third
term as. Chief Executive of the little
Negro Republic on the west coast
of Africa.
Liberia is. enjoying a boom since
American interests started to grow
rubber in the hinterland on a large
scale. Already nearly $4,000 ma
tives are employed clearing the for
ests and planting rubber. At Mon
rovia the government has opened a
new general hospital, and is plan
ming a modern electric lighting sys-
TEN.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-20
Black Hero Saves Is
Families From Flood

Z NEW ORLEANS, La. = Follow
ing the flooding of certain sections
of the city by the recent record rain
fall, the heroism of Samuel White
railroad employee who rescued and
cared for twenty-five white famil-
les, is being warmly acclaimed by the
public and the press. When the wa
ters began to overflow the suburb. of
Edgewood, White, who works in the
adjacent stock yards, hastily built a
raft from Communicated timbers,
voyaged among the submerged homes
and brought twenty-five families to
safety. He first placed his own home
at the disposal of the refugees, but
that was soon crowded and he pro-
vided shelter and straw beds for the
others in box cars in the railroad
yards. Meantime his wife was busy
preparing hot coffee and food and
from Friday night until Monday NOR
ming the two furnished meals to the
refugees and helped nurse family
of children who were i'll with measles
at the time of their rescue. "a
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-20
Millionaire Banker Who Began As
Barber Tells Story OF His Success

in his Binga State Bank-''under
Clearing House supervision" said
the gold letters on the plate glass
windows--and when he said, I'VE
should do this,' twenty-five cash
iers. tellers, secretaries arj filing
clerks--many of them university
graduates--saw to 1t.
He wore gray business suit. He
used no resounding words. He spoke
of Negroes as "men of color" and OF
the colored race in Chicago as four
group" He had to be drawn on to
talk about himself and when / urged
that surely there was profitable
discourse in the story OF man who
had begun as barber and Pullman
porter and now was millionaire
banker, he said, 'Yes, there's a
volume In every mani often say
that"
One OF Ten children
Jesse Binga was born in Detroit
In 1865. He was one OF ten chill.
dren and when he struck out in the
world for himself Il was by him
self, There was spell of barber
ing, and OF Pullman portcring, and
of huokstering, but always with an
eye on houses and lots.
At last came the opening OF d
real estate office at 1891 South
State Street, Chicago, with a capital
of $40.
The rent was $40 a month.
Jesse Binga paid half of II down.
He bought desk for $3.50.
TIo n~Jn~oI mn 1...~t..~.- ~-~I-
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-20
RELIEF
AMERICA
SAYS HAWKINS

WASHINGTON, d. c., May 19.-
Willingness to come to the aid of
the victims of the Mississippi area is
test of the Americans heart, de-
clared DR.. John r. Hawkins, A. M.
f. Church financial secretary, just
back from a southerl trip.
Dr. Hawkins returned Tuesday,
having been accompanied by DR.. S.
j. johnson of the Church Extension,
the two of them taking $4,000 ap-
propriated by the church for relief
work.
Everywhere, DR. Hawkins said, he
found heart-rending conditions, con-
ditions beyond all Imagination. In
three camps at Vicksburg, Jackson,
Miss, and Helena. Ark, together
with one at Yazoo, Miss, which we
did net visit, there are 10000 refu-
gees.
"There they are In most instances
helpless, clothesless, most of them
destitute, having in this case only
the clothing on their backs; some
of them ill, children everywhere,
sleeping ten and fifteen in tent,
while the government through the
Red Cross works hard to provide
food and temporary shelter.
"All of these camps are closely
guarded by militia. 1t was neces-
sary for us to get pass in order to
go in, and get another pass in order
to come out.
The Red Cross explanation of this
is, that close guarding is necessary
in order that they might keep. up
with those to whom relief Is fur
nished so that there viii not be
overlapping and duplication.
Refugees, themselves, many OF
whom are tenants on farmlands. be-
lieye that close guarding is done to
prevent them from leaving and find
ing more pleasant homes elsewhere.
Thousands of them are off the
farms for the first time. Under their
breaths they say confidingly that
they do not want to go back. Lands,
fields and homes are to be cleared,
and set up anew. Planters are de-
peding upon colored labor to do 1t.
This labor kept in ignorance, poorly
housed and in virtual peonage, is
now out for the first time. II doesn't
want to go back without a strug-
gle."
"In each of the communities" DR..
Hawkins said, local committees
have been set up to handle relief
funds. independent of the Red
Corss'
According to DR.. J. s. johnson,
he did not visit Yazoo City, because
of alleged racial troubles reported
there. Their itinerary also included
Little Rock, Ark, but because OF
the lynching no stop was made
there
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-20
DIXIE ~Y' PUTS
AN END TO JIM
CROW BANQUETS

NEW YORK, May 17.-Robert
Bagnall. Director of Branches of
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People, has
addressed ten colleges and universi-
ties on his present Southern tour,
and at many of the institutions
where Mr.. Bagnall has spoken, chap
ters of the NJ. A. A. c. p. have been
started.
These include Morehouse College,
Morris Brown University, Atlanta
University and Clark University; al
so A. and T. and Livingstone, in
North Carolina; and chapters are
projected at Allen and perhaps Ben
nett in Columbia.
"In the South the students are
manifesting a growing spirit OF
freedom reports Mr.. Bangall. "At
the Y. M. G. A., student conference
OF North Carolina they tried to serve
Negroes a jim-crow banquet which
they refused. asking either that
they be admitted to the general ban
quet or that It be done away with.
The counter-proposal was made that
they come in to hear the speaker
after the whites had eaten. This
they refused to do.
"a committee was appointed who
intended to table the matter, but
the students next day after the ban
quet offered a resolution on the
open floor of the convention deplor-
ing the unfortunate and unchris-
tian practices of the convention in
shutting out its delegates from the
banquet session because of color or
race, and recommending that here
after the banquet include all dele
gates or be abandoned, and the
committees with Negro members
should meet at such places as the
Negro members could attend and
not at restaurant luncheons from
which they were excluded"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-20
5000 LABORERS
HELD PRISONERS
IN FLOOD AREA

VICKSBURG, Miss, May 1S,-
Packed like sardines in worn-out di-
lapidated box-cars, denied sufficient
food, kept within prescribed bounds
by the menacing rifles of national
guardsmen, colored refugees have
been reduced to virtual slavery by
the plantation owners of the south,
who have invoked the aid of military
authorities to foil any attempt of
the stricken colored people leaving
the district. To further insure their
inability to get away from the ini-
quitous -f:shares systemv of the
South, II is reported that clothing
doled out to flood sufferers of color
is charged for and the amount Is
credited on money advanced them
by plantation owners. This, in ef-
feet, will give these owners the
right to make these people work
out" the price of clothing that in
many instances have been sent to
them freely and voluntarily by their
brothers in the north.
Only one casualty has thus far
trickled through. Last week, II was
reported that Marshall Dunbar, a
refugee, was shot to death by a
national guardsman, when he at
tempted to take food and clothing
into segregated camp of colored
refugees. The guardsman, H. X.
Moore, was commended for his ac-
tion, officials declaring "This will
be a lesson to the rest of the mig
gers" @
Boats have been dispatched from
this city to rescue 1000 colored
men, women and children, who are
reported to have been held prisoners
in soggy box-cars by planters who
fear that II they permit their work
ers to leave they will never return.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-20
Wanamaker Music
Contest to Close June

PHILADELPHIA. - The Rod
man Wanamaker $1,000 cash prizes
for musical compositions will close
June 1, according to announcement
sent out from the Robert Curtis Og-
den Association.
These prizes, which range from
$40 to 500 each, have been offered
for musical compositions in the fol-
lowing five classes, I'D a hymn of
freedom for chorus, either with or
without accompaniment; (2), love
song for voice and instrument; (3), a
lullaby; (4), prestidigitation, a rhy-
thmical step In a rapid tempo for
piano, band or orchestra; (5), melo-
dies and motifs of synchronous eff
fects. VISA. t. W tf
The winners will be announced dur
ing the annual convention, Of the
National Association of. Negro Musi.
clans, which will be held in st. Louis
in August. r,k a.4.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-20
$50 CANDIDATES
ARE BAPTIZED In
ROMAN CHURCH

CHICAGO, May. 6.-(SpeciaD =
At o'clock Sunday afternoon sol
emn baptism was administered at st.
Elizabeth's Church. 41st and Wabash
Avenue, to 110 children of st. Eliza
beth's school, ranging in age from
z to 16 years old. Forty-four adults
also were baptized
This baptism class is believed not
only to be the largest in the mission
history of the Catholic Church of
this city but of the United States.
The children accepted, with but few
exceptions were never before affili-
ated with any church or had been
members of any Sunday School.
The st. Elizabeth Church is now
In charge of the Fathers of the Di-
vine Word, with Father Joseph F.
Eckert as pastor. He is also chap
lain of Englewood Council For the
past two and one-half years, this
church has been the center of a
mission field among 165, 900 people
of color of whom approximately 35,-
600 are Of the Catholic faith. The
school is in charge OF the Sisters OF
the Blessed Sacrament, founded 3S
years ago by Katherine Drexel OF
Philadelphia for the education of
Indians and colored children. Today
Miss Drexel is Mother General OF
the school of 1000 children of
whom 450 are Catholic.
The Very Reverend Father Arndt,
Superior General of the Marianhill
Missionaries of South Africa, and
two other priests from that conti-
nent were present. They have spent
years among the several tribes there
and report that a most notable ad-
vancement is being made by these
people, especially the Zulu tribe,
which prior to the coming of the
missionaries to their people, were
considered one of the most vicious
of tribes.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-20

OuhOdy
The killing, in which squads OF
officers used machiSe guns, was the
result of trouble which started Sat.
urday night when Robinson refused
to allow an alleged white deputy to
enter the place.
When the deputy started to force
an entrance with a gun, Robinson
used rifle and drove him from the
plant, several shots were fired by
both men. When the deputy return.
ed with assistance too "get' him.
Robinson barricaded himself and
stood them off all night with his
rifle, by firing from different points
in the building.
Boyd Summoned
Henry Allen Boyd, Secretary OF
the Board and general manager OF
the plant, was called from his home
by officers who are said to have in.
sisted that he enter the building in
an effort to find Robinson. DR.. Boyd
however, failed to find the barricad.
ed watchman, and the officers went
into camp setting up machine guns
about the place.
Two stories of how Robinson met
his death Sunday morning have
been told. According to patrolman
Marsherello, he saw Robinson come
to a back-gate at day-break Sunday
morning and, having known him for
some time, called him TO come out
His request, he said, was answered
by shot from Robinson's rifle. Of
ficers then using machine guns rid.
died his body rs he stood in q. door
Alleged Whislsey Found
Officers also testified that when
the locker where Robinson kept hi.
effects was searched, a half-gallor
jug of corn whiskey was found. Two
officers were wounded during the
barrieade.
Henry Allen Boyd, Secretary OF
the Publishing concern, would give
out no statement as to the incidents
leading up to the affair.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-20
American Tourists Canop Thru Florence
Glad To Get To Paris, Says Rogers

most of the tourists who flock here,
know little and care less what it's
all about, from the manner in which
they gallop through the places. It's
fashionable to say you have been
here and that'st enough.
Most of the tourists are English
and American, the former do 1t as
rite, but many of the latter are
bored, and confident that those
around them don't know English
frankly express themselves. I'm
glad this town is the last. and we
can have a good rest in Paris
overheard one elderly lady with a
down-home accent say to her tired
husband. Both we're being dragged
around by an enthusiastic daughter.
1t was their fourth palace that
morning, and there are some seven
ty-six palaces in Florence.
These palaces were built many
centuries ago. and today look like
anything else but residences. Cold
and uninviting as homes. I. at least
would much prefer a steam-heated
| flat in America. But in their day
they were the last word in resi-.
dences.
No Bath Rooms
The rich, of course, have moved
out of most of these palaces, many
of which are now used as public
buildings. The poor, however, have
continued to live in their homes
built about the same time, and as
builders in those days made little
or no provision for getting rid Of
the waste Of the human body By
] Continued on Page Four)
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-20
Color Line Absent
In New Zealand

NEW YORK - Absence of race
prejudice and of color problems in
New Zealand is commented on in the
British Australian and New Zea-
lander" copy of which has just come
to the press.
"In New Zealand the colonists
encountered the Maoris, fighting
race, not despicable either in num-
bers or capacity. Their rivalry and
claims to the same soil, in which
justice was by no means always with
the whites, provoked long and fierce
ly contested wars. But no bitterness
remains.
New Zealanders are fortunate in
having colonized country in which
the native race is capable of living
alongside them in amity, and probab-
ly eventually merging with the
whites. Individually half-caste and
pure-blood Maoris have already at
tanned to the highest positions in the
State, and more of them will do so.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-20
New York Gives Elks
Permit for Parade

NEW YORK. - Preparations
continue to go forward for the
coming of the 2Sth Annual
Grand Lodge l. b. p. o. e. of
W., to be held in New York
City.
M. J. Lahey, chief inspector
of New York Police Department
has issued a permit to the Grand
Lodge Entertainment COMMITTEES
to hold their parade August GARD
at twelve noon. This is New
York's answer to the report that
the convention will be taken
elsewhere. .....
The reports that have been is
sued by the General Secretary,
c. M. Hanson, indicate that over
fifty thousand marchers will be
in line with over one-hundred
bands. Marching Clubs, and
drill teams from every state will
take part in this Gala Event.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-20

'hentucky ana HOW II thtHutT VI tno
Mediation Board. with Mr.. w. +.
Mitchell. statistician for the Board.
are the two Government officials
working on the case.
The present investigation is con-
tinuation of the hearings begun by
the Board in December, and was
later postponed because OF sudden
and compelling developments on GER
tain railroads in the Southwest. The
porters demands include living
wage, reduction of hours, and modi-
fication of working conditions; also
recognition of their right legally to
organize in their own union as
against the Company Union.
The investigation is expected to
last many days after which the
mediators will proceed to Chicago
to get the Pullman Company's side
of the matter. --..
A. Philip Randolph, general or
ganizer of the Sleeping Car Porters'
Union, in a statement today declar-
ed that white men had been held
chattel slaves in America as well as
Negroes, but white slaves freed
themselves long before Negroes were
freed, because they organized
through labor unions to fight the
evil.
"The Pullman Company would
placate the minds of the porters
by holding field days where the
porters can sing and dance. They
give them death benefits instead
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-20
BY J. A. ROGERS
Enterprise Correspondentl J

Enterprise Correspondent
FLORENCE, Italy,--For many
centuries this city of 100000 souls
has been the Mecca of art lovers
the world over.
Michael Angelo, Dante, Benvenuto
Cellini, Fra Angelica, Giotto, Loren
20 the Magnificent, all had their
homes here. John Milton played
the organ in the great cathedral;
and Browning. Ruskin, Lowell and
many other great American artists
and writer's also spent considerable
time here. ~ at
Calico
Here also was the home of Cali
leo, the astronomer, who 1t will be
recalled was compelled by the
Churchmen to sign the famous doc
ument, which declared that the
earth was flat and did not move
around the sun, but that the sun
moved around it.
3 Florence. was really the home oil
the Renaissance; as far as artistic
production is concerned the only
other place in the world that can be
mentioned in the same breath with
Il. is Ancient Athens. Hence to
come to Italy. and not visit Florence
or lrirenzo. as 1t is known here. Is
like putting your knife in your
mouth at the table--it shows thai
here and that's enough.
i Tourists Gallop Through
And because OF this tradition ths
Fiorentine hotel-keepers wax rich tt
the tune of several hundred thou
sand dollars yearly, for Il seems tha'
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-20
Cincy Mayor Wants Doctors

CINCINNATI, Ohio (ANPl-
Murray Seasongood, mayor, speaking
before white medical society, urged
that Negro physicians and nurses be
added to the staff of Cincinnati Hos
pital. fat
He said that there was only one
hospital in Cincinnati run by Negroes
and that ii lacked the proper equip
ment and that the physicians lacked
the skill to perform operations like
white physicians.
He declared that an up-to-date
hospital for Negroes, with the proper
equipment would greatly aid the
race and mean much to Cincinnati.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-20
Citizens Balk at Jim
Crow Restaurant

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Howard
University students and citizens in
the neighborhood of lie Droit Park
are silently protesting the establish
ment of Jim Grow restaurant in
their midst. g
The plant, which is said to be con-
Quoted by Storm & Sherwood, res
tauarnteurs, has sidedoor compart-
ment and walled off section for col
ored patrons. t4u ~
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-20
BY James O'Donnen Bennett

BY James O'DonneIl Bennett
Certain sayings of Jesse Binga:
Learn n business--and then
mind it. fn
Learn something not SO you
know about it but SO You know
il. - taf ~ taft
Save. save, save, and when
you've got IL then give, give, give.
Nothing is so easy or so waste
full as the work of hating---except
hating work. And that goes for
races as well ms for individuals.
Get. a competency. Then the
world--whitc or colored--will
conoede that you are competent.
a Only business contacts with the
community as whole--white and
colored--will educate the colored
man in business. si'a
- Learn business: Establish
credit; Provide for your own
wants. That Is my message 20
our group. +
You can be a mental or a man
of business. But TO get out OF
the menial place requires the
thrift that produces properly. And
property enlarges life. Work,
then, not for gain alone but for
the enlarged life that honest
gains create.
Life is pretty much what You
make it--and making II big
means using every day of Il.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-20
New Orleans N.A.A.C.P.
To Receive Flood Funds

NEW Y0RK.--ln response to in
quiries addressed to the National Of
flee of the N. A. A. c. Pr 50. Fifth
Avenue, as to where contributions
for colored victims Of the Mississip-
pi Valley of Floods might be sent,
the national office telegraphed to
New Orleans and has received the
following telegram from DR.. Geo. w.
Lucas, president Of the New Or
leans Branch Of the MA. A. C. p.
New Orleans Branch will handle
anything for flood sufferers"
The address of the New Orleans
Branch Is: 2107 Dryades Street, New
Orleans, La, and all gifts and con
tributions may be sent to that ad-
dress. ~
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-20
PULLMAN PORTERS CASE GETS HEARING
Baptist Publishing Plant Scene OF Race Riot
Marcus Garvey Loses
Suit for $32,275

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (ANP)
George o. Msrke, who was at
one time deputy chief potentate
of the Universal Negro Improve
ment Association, and who was
formerly town clerk of Sierra
Leona, Africa, has been awarded
judgment against the Carvey
movement to the amount of
$32,275. Suit had been entered
to recover six years salary at
$4,000 a year, under contract by
which he was to be deputy chief
potentate for life of the Uni
versal Negro Improvement AS
sociation, but he resigned last
August and sued for overdue
pay.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-20
Pythian Temple Given
Back to the Order

WASHINGTON.-The receiver of
the Pythian Temple, 18th and You
Street N. W., Charles H. Flagg, was
discharged when consent decree
was signed Monday by Justice Jen-
nings Bailey in litigation involving
the Knights of Pythias of N. A., S.
A., Europe, Asia, Africa and Austria
liza, and the building turned over
to the trustees elected by grand and
subordinate lodges of the District of
Columbia. f
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-20
Wash Tub Voyage Halted

KINGSTON, N. C.--The bid for
fame and fortune made by Alfred
johnson came to grief here last week
when a wash tub in which he planned
voyage down the Neuse River
sprang leak three-quarters of a
mile out. johnson attracted atten-
tion by announcing that he would
make the trip to New Bern in two
days and carried provisions to last
that long. +- i
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-20
Pastor Dies in Pulpit

WILMINGTON, Del.-Rev. ]. l..
Witten, pastor of Bethel A. M. Z.
Church, who entertained the Della
ware conference a week ago, SEEM
ingly in good health, although he
had been suffering with high blood
pressure for quite while, collapsed
in his pulpit Sunday afternoon and
died few minutes later.
He was about TO preach sermon
to the Odd Fellows. .
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-20
Boston Undertakers
Boycott Newspaper:

BOSTON.-Because, as they de-
clared, the Boston race weeklies ac-
cepted the advertisements of a white
concern which offered prices it could
not meet, colored undertakers have
instituted "strike." The papers de-
clare they can not legally refuse ad-
vertisement on account of race or
color.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-20
Horseman Wouldn't
Let Wife Play Piano

LOS ANCELEs.-Beeause J.
!. W. Fisher, wealthy Blacksmith
and horse trainer, wouldn't let
his wife play the piano as IL in
terfered with his armchair nap,
she Is suing him for divorce and
alimony in local court. Fisher,
who is said 10 be worth $780,
600, was for years trainer in the
stables Of Lucky" Baldwin, and
made HE money in careful real
estate deals.s,as g., ser.-s.s ers,.