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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-29
Georgia Folks Avoid
"Pllar With a Curse

AUGUSTA, Ga.-For forty-six
years people have walked
around an old pillar projecting
out of sidewalk I'm Augusta
because no one had the nerve
TO move Il. In 1873 an itinerant
Negro preacher pronounced
curse ON the old market house.
He said IL would be destroyed
and any one who disturbed the
pillars would be struck by
lightning.
Next day a tornado razed the
building and left one pillar.
When wOrkmen clearing away
the debris started on the lone
pillar there was n terrific en-
plOsion and no one would go
near the spot aagln, even after
II was learned that a joker had
touched off giant firecracker.
The sidewalk was built around
the pillar with u curse" and
there 1t is today.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-29
Dixie Cops Always Ready To Arrest
Colored Folk For Slightest Offense

ming and desirous of sending a tele-
gram. Where ] roomed the sugges-
tion was made that | take a walk to
the main office Of the telegraph COM
pany, thereby enabling me to see
the town by night.
To make sure was vending my
way in the proper direction | ac-
costed a six-foot police officer, say
ing; Pardon me, will you please tell
me how far | am from the --
Building?" Instead Of promptly re-
plying he looked daggers at me. I
unfiinchingly met his unfriendly
gaze, all the while wondering what
had incurred his displeasure. After
remaining mute what seemed to me
tons Of time, the blue-coated sphinx
blurted out gruffly: "Thsee blocks
tcontInucd on Page %
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-29

hird week OF rains, winds and high
imated that 200 Negroes have lost
stheir lives and that hundreds have
suffered vast property losses.
Continued heavy rainfall In KAN
sas. Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas
and other states brought conditions
that buried hundreds OF thousands
OF acres of farm lands under two
to ten feet of water. floated scores
of resort cabins down Ozark streams
and wiped out early spring crops
farther south.
This week brought new flood
to towns in Mississippi and Louisi-
ana. From Vicksburg. Greenville
and New Orleans came the stories
of weary Negro men working hour
after hour bolstering up the levees
that protect their farm homes, viii
lagos and towns.
The Red Cross officials here said
Monday that $4,000 persons had
been made refugees by flood waters
of the Mississippi and its tributaries.
The first weary contingent of
flood refugees from Greenville ar
rived in Vicksburg Monday and
moved into camps on the Vicks-
burg bluffs, where relief organiza-
ticns gave them food, shelter and
medical care.
Dripping, stumbling. staggering
down the gang plank of the govern
ment steamer Tollinger, approxi-
mately twelve hundred of the fugi-
tives from the water-infested city
were welcomed by the city's popuia-
tion.
So nearly exhausted were the
travellers that they moved out upon
the sand-bagged levee with slow and
halting steps while American Le-
gionnaires, Red Cross workers, river
boat employees and city police helped
them to dry land
OF the number perhaps three hun
dred were white persons and the
others Negroes. Among the whites
men were few. Women with children
In arms or hapgina on TO their fing-
ers fell into the embrace OF friends
or relatives as they left the ship.
The Negroes came mostly in fam
lily groups. carrying on their heads
and shoulders and under their arms
bundles Of clothing, small house fur
nishings and children who gazed
In wide-eyed amazement at the great
throng which greeted their arrival.
They Try to Laugh
All faces showed the strain OF suf-
fering Most of them came off the
vessel with a laugh or an attempt
at laughing. There were many
trembling mouths and anxious eyes,
but few wept and these tried to
conceal their tears of relief.
The white children swung down
the gangway clasping a precious
package of food or some priced
plaything. The little black folk
often were clinging to a pet puppy.
a cat or even rooster. all much
subdued by trying experiences of
flood and flight.
The white persons, for the most
part. were met by friends or were
able to provide their own necessities
under the direction of the organized
agencies. The Negroes, almost with
out exception, knew only that they
were fleeing from hostile waters.
Where are you going, uncle?" a
reporter asked the aged head OF a
family which stood close together in
the mass of waiting Negroes on the
II don't know. boss" was the re-
ply. eve are here--that's all we
know. Our house near Greenville
is full of water, and maybe we
won't ever see IL again.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-29
BY j. A. ROGERS
Enterprise Correspondent

PALERMO, Sicily.-Fed as | am
on Nordic literature, the word, ST.
Gillian conjured UP a picture of a
dark-skinned individual of saturnine
features with a long sharp knife
with which he is already to slice
you in the ribs on the least provo
cation, and most of all when you
glance at his girl
Or l think OF him as bandit,
gun in hand. hiding behind a crag,
which he pokes in your face when
you approach. after which he takes
you to his den and holds you for
ransom. Well, there are brigands
in Sicily as the tourists will soon
find out, but they do not use such
tactics, oh no, they use modern
methods; the finesse Of folk at say
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-29
Insurance Men Meet

MEMPHIS, Tenn AMP The
big men of the insurance world are
arriving hourly in Memphis for the
seventh annual session of the Ma
tional Negro Insurance Association
which takes place here next week
The meetings which will be held in
the Masonic Temple, 200 South
Fourth street, promise to be of
great importance to the economic,
business and health welfare of the
group.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-29
Malone Case Set for May z

ST. LOUIS. - The Poro College
ownership case is now set for May
End.
Mr.. Malone, who has been con-
fined at st. Mary's Hospital in East
St Louis since the night he jumped
through window at the home of
Prof. Robert Jackson, 4212 w. Cook
avenue, has been removed because
his condition was reported growing
worse each day and other reports
unconfirmed declare he attacked
and bit his nurse.
Friends Of Malone decline to
state where he is.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-29
Women's Hotel Opens

LOUISVILLE, Ky.--"The Allen,
one of the first hotels to be operat-
ed exclusively for women, was OPEN
ed here last week
The building which has been new
ly constructed, is owned by the AL
len Management Corporation, and
its appointments are 16 suites de-
signed to accommodate women Aodg-
ers, beauty shop, a reception
room, lounge and cafeteria.
There is also a palm room capa-
BILE of accommodating $50 persons
which will be used as banquet
and dance hall.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-29
Church Scandal to Break

PHILADELPHIA.--Rev. Charles
v. Monk. one time, member of the
A. M. E. Phila. Conference and. now
editor of "The New Era" was ar
rested last week for criminal libel
on charges preferred by Bishop w.
A. Heard.
In the current issue of the paper
Rev. Mr.. Monk hits back by citing
IL cases OF alleged immortality and
graft in the bishops district.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-29
Philadelphia Undertaken
Dead

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. r Seth,
Sr., Philadelphia Oldest colored
undertaken, died Tuesday at his late
residence, 517 s. 9th street. He
was born in Philadelphia, graduate
of the Institute for Colored Youth,
associated in business with his aunt,
the late Henrietta s. Duterte, from
1875 until her death in 1908, after
which he continued the business, it
later becoming J. T. Seth & Son.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-29
Niece of Booker T. Weds

TUSKEGEE, Ala.--Miss Margaret
James Washington, youngest daugh-
ter of Mrs. Susie Washington and
the late John II. Washington, BROTH
er of the Founder of Tuskegee In
stitute, became the bride of John
Wesley Darlington of the Treasur-
er's office staff of Tuskegee Insti-
tute, Saturday.
The couple left on an auto hon.
eymoon to South Carolina.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-29
Louis Anderson to Be
Floor Leader for Thompson

CHICAGO (ANP )-Accordin TO
an announcement Friday, Louis B.
Anderson, alderman of the famous
Second Ward, has been appointed
floor leader for Mayor William Hale
Thompson, supplanting Alderman
Arvey, Dever's floor leader.
Major r. r.. Jackson, alderman
of the Third Ward, has been named
on the committee on police and
municipal institutions. Major Jack
son fought strenuously against the
reelection raids on the Southside
and has been an outstanding mem
Der of the city council during the
three terms he has served.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-29
Bishop Carey Ponders
Over So, Chicago Job

CHICAGo-Bishop A. ]. Carey of
the A. M. E. Church has been man,
ed civil service commissioner at a
salary of $500 a year.
His salary as bishop is $500 a
year.
There are 37,500 employees OF the
city who come under the civil SER
vice commission. Seven thousand
five hundred of these are policemen
Two white men with Bishop Carey
make up the commission. II is ex-
pected that Bishop Carey will ac-
cept.
Bishop ]. A. Gregg of the same
church declined a $4,000 post as
president of Howard University.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-29
Harlem Democrats Plan
War On Gov. Smith

NEW YORK CITY--(ANP)-Ac-
cording to Oscar II. Waters, leader
in the Nineteenth Assembly District,
under its new leadership Tammany
Hall is high hating" the Negro
democrats of Harlem to such a
point that few Negroes will support
the Democratic candidates in COM
ing elections. Waters further de-
clared that the Harlemites were
now bitter against Governor Smith
because of his failure to recognize
the support accorded him by the
Negro democrats as indicated in
the fact that he has not appointed
a Negro to any important office.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-29
Says 100 Negroes Drowned

GREENV1LLE, Miss, April 27.---
While all the women and children
OF Greenville and nearly all of the
men We're waiting for boats to take
them to Vicksburg, Sergeant Henry
d. Bay, in charge of motor boat
rescue work, estimated that more
than one hundred Negroes had
drowned in the immediate vicinity
of Spot Landing break, Is miles
north of this city.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-29
MISSISSIPPI FLOOD TAKES HEAVY toll
Many Negroes Are Victims Of High Water
Which Causes Destruction In Five States

CHICAGO,
millions
of
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-04-29
Rural Negro Soon Masters Difficulties Of
Earning Decent Living And Is Progressive
Enterprise News Bureau)

29-Newcomers o
De easily Identified their
he come there all
Cities bringing
Evening star., 1927-03-08
EXPOSITION HONOR
FOR SERVICE UNITS
Army, Navy, Marines and
Guards Have Nights at
Industry Show.

| Four evenings of the ten-day pro-
gram for the Chamber of Commerce
industrial exposition, which opens
! Thursday at the Washington Audi
torium, have been set aside in honor
of the various military services in the
National Capital.
Opening night has been dedicated to
| the Army. The Navy has been as
signed Friday night. while Saturday
evening is designated Marine Corps
Night" The Army. Navy and Marine
bands win give the musical programs
on. their respective nights. The Dis
| trict's own military organization, the
National Guard, has been given next
Monday night, when the Guard band
will play program of stirring martial
airs throughout the evening.
Leaders to Be Guests.
Gen. John J. Pershing. Secretary of
the Navy Wilbur, Brig. Gen. Samuel
d. Rockenbach. comma nding the dis
trict of Washington; Maj Gen. John
A. Lejeune, commandant of the Ma
rine Corps: and Maj. Gen. Anton
Stephan, commanding officer of the
District National Guard. have been
invited to be the guests of honor on
the evenings on which their respec-
tive services will be honor guests.
The District National Guard is pre-
pairing a special feature exhibit for
the exposition. In this display will
be placed several small artillery pieces
and small arms specimens. The model
of gun in emplacement, a cut-away
rifle and automatic rifle also will be
included. A feature will be a sand
table model Of the training grounds
at Fort Humphreys, Va, to which the
121st Engineers will go next Summer.
Complete Parade Plans.
Gen. Stephan has designated as the
officers in charge of the exhibit Brig.
Gen. Lloyd M. Brett, Col. John w
Oehmann, Maj. Walter w. Burns and
Maj. Louis c. Brinton, jr. Col.
Oehmann. commanding officer of the
engineers regiment, is overseeing the
part to be taken by that unit, while
Maj. Burns is directing preparations
being made by the 26th Coast Artil-
lery for participation in the exposi-
ton.
Plans are being completed today
for the March OF Progress" parade
which will be held shortly before noon
tomorrow to usher in the exposition.
The line Of march will be up Pennsyl-
vania avenue. Many of the larger
exhibitors are preparing to place in
the parade both floats and q group of
their regular commercial vehicles.
Several exhibitors are planning to
place in the procession replicas of
their exhibits in the Auditorium. The
parade will be the only event on to-
morrow's exposition program. The ex-
hibition proper will be opened at s
O'Clock Thursday evening.
Evening star., 1927-03-08
URGES NEW IDEA OF GOD.
Chicago Dean Pleads for New Con.
ception of Deity,


CHICAGO, March GP).-Religion
must shape new idea of God as a
deity aligned with world advancement
IN science and democracy, Dean
Smaller Mathews of the University of
Chicago assailed the idea of the deity
as a post-feudal monarch in an
address to Methodist ministers here
yesterday.
I'VE cannot sweep back the ocean
or science" Dean Mathews said, 80
we must preach God in accordance
with the fundamental conceptions Of
society as they now exist. Our old
plea Of the deity as post -feudal mon.
arch no longer endures.
We must not try to analyze mems
souls through guinea pigs" the theol-
ogfst said, "but bring psychologists to
the aid of religion by interesting them
in our destinies. not our origin,
Evening star., 1927-03-08
Silver Medal for Army Private,

Pvt. Laverne r. Jackson, Company
C.. 18th u. S. Infantry, stationed at
Governors Island, New York City, has
been awarded q silver medal by the
Treasury Department for heroism in
saving the life Of Pvt. Thomas j. Car
ney Of the same company when the
latter accidentally fell into the Hudson
River near the Military Academy at
West Point last Summer.
Evening star., 1927-03-08
AUTHOR TO GIVE TALKS.
Mabel Nelson Thurston to Open
Lecture Series Tomorrow.

Mabel Nelson Thurston, author and
religious instructor, will give the first
Of her series of six Lenten talks to-
morrow at pm. in the lecture room
of the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church. Her subject will be How
Can We Get Hold of Faith?"
The other subjects are as follows:
March 16, "Why Could We Not?';
March %, Teach Us To Pray;
March 80. when the Answer Always
viii Be Yes: April 6. when There
Seems To Be No Answer; April 13,
Problems of the Easter Roads"
Evening star., 1927-03-08
GOOD NEWS
for
NEW YORK VISITORS

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Evening star., 1927-03-08

KHlG9 S., whose little iuneheons
IVA and eurpefs ore famous among q
ese cf New York writers and artists.
won't iet 10 print her name In the papers,
but The 10 90 enthusiastic about Gceton's
DUep Sea Roe, 80 well 90 other 0orton
esa Foods, that che was glad to give out
thss original recipe Of hefs to the houss-
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Evening star., 1927-03-08

can Gorton's Deep Sea Roe
hard-bodled eggs. chopped fine
u cup soft bread crumbs
Z cups creamed sauce
! esaspOon grated onion
II teaspoon aais
I s.biespoon chopped parslsy
A dash Of paprika
A grating Of nutmeg
Ceve1 the roe With boiling water. edit
saghtiy and simmer Is minutes. Draia.
ssason, and mash. Then mix well with
csumhs and egg and allow to cool. Ehaps
into eroQuettes. dip In crumbs, then In
beaten egg diluted eighty with water,
than In crumbs again. Fry in deep fat
until brown. Serve &C once.
Evening star., 1927-03-08

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bar muslin. in sizes to IL years. Ru0
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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-05-05
Campaign Notes

Candidates who have formerly been
the hardest workers are still going
at it as if they had saved up their
energy for the big finish. Some cam
didates who in the past have been
down in the list are showing real
speed This indicates that every sim
gle candidate in the list has plenty of
flight" left. 1t shows that the candi-
dates who look Harmless" now will
be among the strongest when the end
comes. They are all watching the
"other fellow" and arranging and
planning to go them one better.
That interest is getting more spir-
tied both among the candidates and
the general public is evidenced by re-
ports from the automobile dealers
from whom the Courier-Reporter pur-
chased the two big prize cars, to the
effect that each day sees more and
more people calling to see these beau
tifui cars. If you have not yet seen
these wonderful prizes do so as soon
as possible. See these cars, and tell
all your friends they are also cor
daily invited to view these extraor
binary prize cars, each of which pre-
sents the very latest in the automo-
bile world today.
Each and every candidate should
make a careful and intelligent study
of the tables which appear on this
page today. There is table showing
how Second payments" or extensions
count-for extensions of first period
subscriptions. This plan will NOT
be in effect next week. Another set
of tables shows the difference in the
voting value of subscriptions turned
in this week and up until IL pm. Sat-
urday as compared with the value of
subscriptions you secure after Sat-
erurday-the last period of the CAM
paign. Notice in these tables that you
do NOT receive extension votes for
send" payment subscriptions after
this week.
The list this period will show
large number of names have been
dropped from the list of active cam
didates. You must keep active if you
want to share in the big distribution
of cash prizes. automobiles and cash
commissions. Any candidate who does
not make cash report each week of
the campaign, is considered as hav-
ing given notice of withdrawal from
the campaign. Their name is dropped
from the list sand they forfeit all
right to prize or commission. If
you wish to share in these prizes
you must keep active.
1t seems that some candidates
ought to profit by their lesson in the
second period. Had some of the can
didates shown as much speed during
the second period as they have the
first few days of this week 1.-THE third
period) another story would have
been told. But there were those who
just slept during the second period
and ekidded" themselves into believ-
ing ''there is plenty of time" It is
now or never and you'll find this to
be fact eventually.
With but few more hours to go
on the next to the final period in the
Courier-Reporter's automobile and
cash campaign, candidates this week
are displaying wonderful activity
with excellent results. Just think of
it-only few hours in which to win.
When the clock strikes IL Saturday
night the third and next to the final
period will be over.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-05-05
This All-Inlportant
Third PERIOD

During this a-important third period, all import
ant because of the closeness of the race Second
Payments" on subscriptions given earlier in the
campaign will play very important part. If you do
not fully understand the Second Payment" plan
you should confer with the campaign manager at
This vote plan will not be in effect during next
week, the last period of the campaign.
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Who Will Win?

Who will be the winners in tho
Courier-Reporter big Gift Campaipnq
Who will ride in the handsome en-
g closed motor cars, just a week from
Sunday? Who will win the 500 Cash
Award? These questions are para
mount questions of interest in this
vicinity. Only few more days and
the questions will be answered.
Scores of predictions have been Of
fered; astrogolists, palmists and ex-
ponents of the occult science have
been consulted, all in an effort to
obtain some inkling of what the out
come will be. Yet all these questions
avail them not, for the final result is
as much as ever in doubt.
In frenzied effort to eliminate as
much of this doubt as possible, can
didates all over this territory are
securing the communities ceaselessly.
From the waking hours Of morn until
the day is done these ambitious can
didates are fighting the battle cour-
ageously, never pausing but keeping
busily at it, that the tide of favor
will sweep toward them.
Such activity as this with such ca
ger candidates filled with spirit Of
conquest, have never had their equal
in this section. The race for suprem-
acy is rushing forward, nip and tuck.
Many of those who apparently have
no chance, if they be judged by their
present vote standing promise to
spring such big surprises at the end
as will send the too-confdent ones
down to defeat. Over confidence is
the biggest handicap under which
candidate could possibly labor. This
unwe}come attribute causes more re-
grets than anything else in cam
paign of this sort.
The only way to be sure Of win
ming is to spend every minute scour-
ing for. subscriptions. Perseverance,
is the only winning quality. And see
what there is at the top for the
plucky ones-two luxurious enclosed
motor cars and 500 in Gold, hum
dreds of dollars as cash prizes and
commissions, each the reward Of per-
severance. These prizes viii make
their owners proud.
The big vote schedule and point
schedule in effect this week and the
100000 extra vote offer, together
with the Second Payment" or ex-
tension plan, makes easily possible
a rapid rise in votes. One candidate
stated yesterday that she was making
a thoro canvass of every SUBSCRIBE
she had previously secured, and thus
far her returns have averaged better
than so per cent.
Determined methods are being bros
into play to make an exhaustive
cleanup" of the territory. Candi-
dates are darling hither and yon, ey-
er in quest of votes. Make these days
the most active of any that have gone
before, that victory may crown your
efforts. The schedule points the way
The time is short-only few more
hours It'll the close of the third per
iod"-yet any candidate can make
himself or herself the winner in that
time. And, when the sun sets on the
final day, then you can reflect con-
tentedly that your work was mighty
effort well put forth.
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Until Ii p. m. Saturday

Every ten new 1year subscriptions will entte any can
didate to 100000 Votes towards the big cars and 12O
Points towards the EXTRA $4,000 in Gold This liberal
vote and point offer will NOT be in effect next week
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Until IL p. m. Saturday

Every 10year subscription will entle any candidate
to 100000 votes towards the big cars and 81 points to-
wards the EXTRA $500 in GOLD This liberal vote and
point schedule WILL NOT be in effect next week