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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
Kelly Miller Defends Orthodox Christianity
Modernist Editor Says 1t Has Failed

worshipping a white mans God in
a black mans church," Negro
slaves accepted the religion given
them by their masters the speaker
said, and, in effect were old. "You'll
get your pie in the sky" Never
mind getting "a little more of
Jesus" but get better social and
economic conditions, was the speak
er's advice. "Orthodox Christianity
is a religion of classes" he said.
Science and sociology recognize no
classes. Therefore, adhere to sci
ence and become defiant and revo-
lutionary!"
my opponent" said Professor
Kelly Miller taking the floor, was
eloquent; very learned, and very
wrong! l will concern myself
with the reaction of religion upon
mankind and deal with 1t as an
agency of social salvation. Or
thodox Christianity must be judged,
not by the horrors of the middle
ages, but rather by the great sweep
of its influence. Religion has guild
ed mankind through the centuries,
ana IL mas enaDle0 an OppreSSeu
people to endure for over three
hundred years.
There is a great margin between
precepts and practice of orthodox
Christianity, Dean Kelly Miller said
The same is true of the application
OF the Declaration Of Independence
"But we can no more say that or.
thodox Christianity is a handicap tc
Negro progress than to say that the
American government is handicap
to the Negro progress. And IL the
American government is handicap
let us do away with the government
and see what will happen"
A destruction of the Y. M. c. Az
and churches in Harlem alone, sait
1 Kelly Miller, would transform !
from q so-called "Nigger Heaven,
into an abode Of the damned.
There were no Judges to decid'
the debate and the audience was no
asked for q decision.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
STARTS WITH $40
BUILDS $4,000
SAUSAGEPLANT

CHICAGO, May 5.-(A. n. P.)-
Reading almost like fiction is the
progress that has been made by J.
II. Parker, president of the Parker
House Sausage Company, incorpo-
rated. Five years ago, with an idea
and ten dollars coupled with a will
to make good, Mr.. Parker began
making sausage in his home. Max
ing daily deliveries of his product
to a few housewives who had pledg-
ed themselves to buy his sausage,
his business grew until today he
owns a $4,000 modern sausage
plant at 4605-07 S. State street,
and fleet of trucks to make the
regular deliveries to the storekeep-
ers and other purchasers of his
product.
At a great expense, Mr.. Parker
has had installed in his new plant
an elaborate system of refrigeration
that vies with the most modern of
any packing plant in the country.
The machinery used for the manu-
facture of the sausage is of a new
design and is the last word in eff
cheney. The packing room where
Parker House Sausage is wrapped
and placed in cartons for sale to the
public. is spotlessly clean. The en-
ployees of this division of the plant
all use white gloves in the handling
of the product and hence the com
pany's slogan untouched by human
hands,"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
URBAN LEAGUE
APRIL REPORT
ON INDUSTRY

NEW YORK, May 5.--Bulletin
No. 13 of the industrial Relations
Department of the National Urban
League summarizes employment con-
ditions as follows:
Employment improved somewhat
during April, the advance coming
late in the month. The iron and
steel plants, in which large pro-
portion of Negroes are employed
showed improvement in Ohio and
Pennsylvania.
Prolonged unemployment periods
in the West were eased and the
month closed with brighter prospects
for May.
Reports from our associates In
scattered parts of the United States
tell of unemployment and curtail-
ment in working hours almost with
out exception. This caused gen.
eral restlessness with the result
that workers moved back and forth
among cities within easy reach OF
each other Baltimore and Colum-
bus, usually fruitful cities for Negro
workers and among the last to feel
the depression, reported large mum.
bers out of work.
Specific reasons were given fol
the shortage of work among Negroe:
in certain cities. For instance, ir
Springfield, ILL.,, mine lockouts OF
strikes have forced some 5000 mel
out of work, of whom 225 wer,
Negroes; and in Florida work ordi
narily done BIZ Negro is being takeI
from them and given to whites. anC
wages have been cut. In Milwaukee,
the retirement OF colored waiter
has been forced by patrons of |
large hotel.
Here and there were incident
showing relationship with organize,
labor. In Baltimore, the Youn
Workers Labor Party has been es
pecially active-two colored speak
ers appearing at it's open forum.
One-half of the brick masons o
Lexington, Kentucky, who receive,
raise from S1.25 to $50 pc
hour were Negroes.
In Philadelphia. through the Arm
strong Association there, the coop
GRAFTON of colored employees wa
sought and secured in a recent labo
dispute between the Manufacturers
Association and the labor forces o
that city.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06

been colored. All throughout the
agricultural districts of the rich
Mississippi Delta, where plantations
for thousands of square miles are
under water. Negroes outnumber
whites six and eight TO one. Even
in Greenville. the largest city COM
pletely submerged, the majority of
the homeless and destitute were
Negroes. Probably the exact num-
ber of colored dead will never be
known. Coroners and press reports
give John Jones. white, drowned,
three unidentified Negroes dead"
but little accurate records have been
kept.
But out Of the chaos, suffering
and distress, come many bright
glimpses, which prove that in the
face of death and misery humanity
rises above race in deeds of brav-
cry.
Black men have faced death for
white men and women and white
men have done the same for black
men and their families.
Standing on q knoll at Spots
Landing near Greenville, Miss, you
get a vision of the vast deluge as
the torrents surge through the val
ley land of shacks and shanties
where thousands of farm hands and
troopers who till the richest and
most fertile soil in the world have
literally been driven like rats from
the low lands.
On Sunday. when the work of res
cue was at its height. men and wo-
men were seen clinging to the top
of trees and the roofs of houses and
refugees by The tha9aEls pouring
into Memphis littie Rock and other
nearby towns.
Perhaps a more typical picture of
the terrible hardships caused by the
flood can be CLEANED by a minute
description of conditions at SCOTS.
Miss. Here great stretches of farms
owned by the Mississippi Delta Plan
tation Company, a syndicate financ-
ed by Northern capitalists and head
ed by S. l.. K Salisbury of Mem
phis, are literally under water.
When a sluice in the levees allowed
water TO pour into the valley land.
men, women and children fled to
high hills, to trees and to house tops.
Some of them rescued Sunday, had
been without food or water since
Thursday.
A few miles above when sand
boils had threatened a section of the
levee were forty men fighting furi-
ously to mend the leak, we're swept
away like ants when section of II
gave way. They may never be
Continued on Page %
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
The Enterprise to Receive Flood Fund

Natiouvide response flood relief in the
S7OO0OoO it announced
by he Amcra
Ten raised of which seale's quota
is $4,000.
receive contributions and they
he a local committee 10
Red ross o other relief agencies
The contributions to Flood Relief Fund,
The Enterprise.
This Mississippi Valley has KNOWN
Hundreds have and whites Thousands
be all their possessions
I'm The wayo O clothing and homes
undersigned called meeting TO be
Baptist Church which
be take for sufferers
in its contributions whether
of California
Mississippi sympathy and beraity ought
to maintained.
T. Rev. D.
Moore E. NJ. Lewis Dr. r. b. Cooper, r. L. Woodson H.
X, Cayton G. and w. II. Wilson,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
Fisk Fills Pot of Gold

NASHVILLE, Tenn.-"I want my
name in. the pot" is the slogan that
is drawing thousands of pennies into
a pot of gold" for Fisk University,
a novel plan to boost contributions
for that school.
A large metal pot, which is ex-
pected to hold about 100000 pennies,
has been set up on Fisk campus by
DR.. S. w. Crothwait and into which
students and friends drop pennies.
That the pot also is to be in reality
a pot of gold was demonstrated re-
Gently when white friends dropped in
$40 gold eagles instead of pennies.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06

NEW YORK.-Does Orthodox
Christianity handicap Negro prog
ress? This was the subject OF
debate of vital interest between ".
F. Calyerton, white, of the affirma-
tive, editor of the Modern Quarterly
and author of "The Newer Spirit" :"
and sex Expression in Literature"
and Professor Kelly Miller of the
negative, famous author, lecturer
and Dean OF Howard University,
washington, d. c., before a repre-
sentative audience at the Commun-
ity Church, Sunday, under the aus
pices of The Messenger Magazine.
In opening the debate, Mr.. Cal
yerton emphasized that Orthodox
Christianity is, and always has
been, intensely reactionary to the
progress of science and the Negro.
Christianity, he said, was the pill
lar of slavery, and 1t has failed ut
terly to put love into the hearts
of men or to change their hearts;
and that only by changing and i'm
proving the social and economic
conditions of man, can his heart
he changed or love be put into 1t
Orthodox Christianity, never accept.
ed by the ruling classes. was created
for the purpose of offering a way
of escape OF the masses from socia
and economic expression, Mr.. Cal
yerton said, and 1t was in this man
ner that civilization came undel
the dictatorship of the papacy.
Having no scientific acceptance
Il is very doubtful that Jesus Chris
ever existed, the speaker said, ant
declared the story of the Gardei
of Eden to be all allegory. Tn
Holy Bible was described as be
ing an unauthentic book of con
tradictions, both ludicrous and alb
surd.
"The position OF the Negro to
day," said Mr.. Calverton. is OF o.
people, the most grotesque. tragi
and hilarious. Nothing is NOR
humorous than seeing black me
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06

July Ia.
Stars Named
Attention was called to the fact
that colcred stars of international
repute were expected to enter the
meet this year, De Hart Hubbard,
holder of the worlds broad jump
championship. and Charlie Majors.
National Senior Amateur Athletic
Union high jump champion, being
specifically mentioned.
Upon considering the seriousness
of the situation, Mayor Arthur j.
O'Keefe after an ultimatum was is
sued from New York by Fred Ru-
bien, president of the Amateur Ath-
letic Union, saying that II New Or
leans wanted the meeting the city
must permit Negroes to compete
and that the Amateur Athletic Un-
ion could not disfranchise any per-
son on account of race or creed.
Due to the possibility that all
such inter-racial competition might
cause race trouble, the business men
who attended the meeting decided
to withdraw their invitation.
1.-THE possibility OF racial trou-
bles. has been over-estimated," ;"
said Secretary Ruben. "The games
were held in New orleans iifteen
years ago; IN jamestown, va IN
1906, and Baltimore IN 1918, anu
at no time was there any indication
OF trouble resulting
"The games are especially I'M
portant this year in view OF the
Olympic Games in 1873 ana the
ability of such men as Cecil
Cooke OF syracuse University quar-
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
COLORED ELKS
REFUSED HALL
IN WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, d. c., May s.
The Washington Auditorium, the
only modern and spacious concert
and convention hall in the District
of Columbia, is not for the use of
colored folk.
This fact was again stressed when
of William c. Hues-
ton, commissioner of education of
the Improved Benevolent and Pro-
tective Order of Elks of the World,
of Gary, Ind, were refused the use
of the auditorium for the holding
of a national oratorical contest in
June.
Strenuous efforts were made by
Mortimer M. Harris, representing
Mr.. Hueston, and Perry w. Howard,
grand legal adviser of the Elks, to
secure the auditorium. They made
their plea for its use directly to Ro-
bert N. Harper, president of the
Washington Auditorium Corporation.
They cited the significance of the
contest. They told him of the nu-
merical and financial strength of the
Elks. They impressed him with the
patriotic and educational values of
the contest. Their representations
were underwritten by men high in
business and in politics.
After considerable negotiations
Mr., Harper finally told that It had
been decided to make a change in
the management of the auditorium
and that pending this change II
would not be let for any purpose.
Only one colored person may use
the Washington Auditorium. He is
Roland Hayes, internationally fam
ed tenor, because he appears there
under the direction of Mrs. Wilson
Greene, white, who experienced
trouble with one OF his concerts
because OF efforts to impose segre'
CATION.
Colonel Harper, who controls the
auditorium. b virginian. He II
president of the District Nationa
Bank, in which thousands of mem
bers OF Columbia Lodge and Nor
ming Star Lodge OF colored Elk
deposit their money.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
BY J. A. ROGERS
Enterprise Correspondent

EHNtI IpTlSt COiItSpOhutuN
ROME, Italy.-For the past few
days 1 have been wandering around
the Eternal City.
Before / attempt anything let me
tell rather interesting incident
that took place on the way from
Naples. In the compartment in
which was were five others, a
French lady. and four Italians, all
Fascists.
AS it happened all spoke French,
and as the Latin is far less formal
than the American or the English
man we were soon in friendly con-
versation. The Italians had warmed
UP to me Immediately as l spoke
we'll of Mussolini--indeed / had
better speak well of him.
For hours things went on like this
until two Germans, man and his
wife, entered the compartment, when
suddenly there was hush and q
constraint. The'effect was precisely
as II the scene were in the smoker
of a white Pullman car in the South,
and a Negro had entered as a pas
senger.
Germans Uneasy
The Germans, apparently feeling
as uneasy as the Negro would have
been in the white smoker, kept to
themselves, speaking in low tones In
their own language-the only out.
side remark being addressed to my.
self when the man wanted the loan
of French newspaper had on the
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
Rogers Says Germans In Italy Treated
Like Colored Folk Down In Dixie

upon one of my Fascist friends, lift
ing his newspaper to hide his face
gave me an ugly scowl as IL to say
that il wasn't the proper thing to
show approval of Germans.
Later, when the Germans had
left, one of the Fascists made re-
mark which had quite familiar
ring for me: he said that the spe-
cies of "cochon" (swine) shouldn't
have been permitted to ride among
decent people, while the French lady
who happens TO be from Morocco,
thanked heaven that Germans
weren't permitted there or in any
part of French African territory.
Leaving the friends at home to
draw their own moral / will go on
to speak of Rome.
In Rome
Rome is very fine, clean city,
what modern appearance. have
discovered that the best way. for
more reasons than one, is to do
these cities on foot. First it saves
the argument you are sure to have
with the guide or cabdriver, unless
you are prepared to give him just
double what he asked you. Tourists.
sooner or later. learn that the orr
ginal price asked at a hotel or al
most any similar place is only the
hors d'eoevre. You'll be lucky IL
IL isn't double before you're through.
One White, One Black
Passing magnificent homes and
fine gardens / came to a park where
saw a white nurse leading by the
/ hand. two little boys. one white,
the other, dark and plainly of Negro
ancestry. He was dressed in a
jaunty sailor suit and carried a cane.
Both apparently belonged to a good
family or families. and anxious to
learn more. l spoke TO them. but
J unfortunately know no Italian.
Continued on Page 81
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
A. M. E. Church Gives
$1,000 Flood Fund

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-The A. M.
f. Church financial board appropri-
ated $4,000 for flood relief Wednes-
day.
Secretary John r. Hawkins of the
board and Secretary S. J. Johnson of
the church extension board have been
commissioned personally to visit the
flood area next week and dispense
this fund as they see fit.
Both secretaries visited the Red
Cross bureau Wednesday and con-
tributed 500 each for that work.
The Virginia A. M. f. conference ap.
propriated more than 500 for Hood
relief work last week. e
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
Makes $4,000 Bequest
To Storer College

HARPER'S FERRY, w. Va.-The
largest single gift made to Storer
College has just come to the institu-
ton. 1t will amount to almost
$4,000 and is made possible by a be-
quest from Frank Gibson, a former
student of the college.
A hard working, frugal man, he
denied himself that his small savings
might grow and that he might thus
pay debt Of gratitude to the school,
which started him on the upward
path.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
Holy Jumpers to Wed

BROCKTON, Mass.-Two Holy
Jumpers, one a Boston white woman,
the other a Cape Verde Island black
man, found romance in their strange
religious cult and are to be married
in a short time.
Edith May Alexander, white, of
SO Hammond Street, Boston, is one
of the principals, while the other is
Ambrose Comes Rodreques of Grove
Street, Brockton. They have taken
out marriage intention papers.
The two were among the six Holy
Jumpers recently found guilty of dis
turbing the peace here.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06

NEW YORK. - The Methodist
Federation of Social Service of New
York, through the April number Of
its social service bulletin, sets forth
In detail the issues involved in the
organization of the Brotherhood OF
Sleeping Car Porters throughout the
country.
. In support of the araft, the bulle-
tin says, the Methodist Episcopal
Church stands for the highest wage
that each industry can afford, for the
most equitable division of the prod
uct Of industry that can ultimately
be devised.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
Germany Honors Black
Soldiers

BERLIN.-The question of Ger
many's future connection with her
African colonies came to the fore
this week when it was learned that
she had given back pay to African
troops who fought so brilliantly
against the Allies in No Mans Land
during the World War.
The tardy remuneration, IL is said,
is hoped to influence the natives de-
sire for German control of their ter,
ritory.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
National League Opens

MEMPHIS, Tenn.-Memphis and
Kansas City opened the National
League here Saturday, the latter win
ming, 6 to 0, while Monday the locals
reversed the issue and downed the
visitors, to a.
Shortstop Newton Allen and Will
liam Bell, pitcher of the Monarchs,
who have been training at Hot
Springs, could not reach here on ac-
count of high water.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
Emperor Jones' Revival

OAKLAND, Cal. (PCNB)-Chas.
Johnson, native son of California
whose. color plates for countoe cala
lens code to a Brown Girl" have
been so highly praised, has returned
home to play the part of the Emper-
or Jones in the 0'Neill drama that is
to be soon presented at the opening
of Krigwa, the new Negro Little
Theater in this city.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
Coolidge Creets Borno

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti. = An
airplane message of friendship and
good will was dispatched last We'd
nesday by President Coolidge to
President Louis Bono of Haiti. The
message was delivered by Major Dar-
jue, commander of the Pan-Ameri-
can fliers Of the United States army.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
100000 HOMELESS In MISSISSIPPI FLOOD
Color Bar Stobs National Track Meet Plan
Greenville Has $500
Not Yet Under Tents

To The Enterprise:
Refugees all fed. Twenty-Five
hundred eolored not yet under
tents. Last of refugees will be
in "a hours. Morale good. Col
ored folk cause no trouble. San
itary and health departments
funetioning. Cash for relief
work gratefully received. Wea-
ther good.
]. A. CANNON,
Greenville, Miss. Mayor.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
Black White Man Dies

GLAsCoE, Ky. - Eugene Clark,
who came into prominence several
years ago when his skin began to
turn white, died at his home near
Sulphur Wells, near here, Wednes-
day. Before his death Clark had vir-
turalIy become a white man.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
Race Group In Mississippi Valley Face
Ruin As Flood Sweep Away Homes, Crops
(By The Associated Negro Pressl
NICKSBURG,

VICKsBURG Miss death-deaIing
Mississippi
River and tributaries eaced
inclined
frequently speci-
refugees them have
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-05-06
New Orleans Withdraws Bid For Natl A.
A. u. Meet Because Of Negro Athletes

NEW ORLEANS Possibility of being
competition
suited
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26
.[ENTEN SERVICES
FOR EP|SCOPAL|ANS
Churches Very Active During
Season-Canon of Cathe-
draI to Lecture.

The season of Lent, which begins
next Wednesday, will be observed in
the Episcopal churches of the city and
diocese with the services which have
been usual in other years. In the
larger and more centrally located
churches there will be an afternoon
service every weekday except Satur-
day; in the smaller and more outlying
evening services during the week.
There Will be q short service at
Epiphany Church every weekday ex-
cept Saturday at 1906 noon.
Rt. Rev. Philip Mercer Rhinelander.
formerly Bishop of Pennsylvania and
now canon of Washington Cathedral,
will deliver a series of lectures during
Lent in st, Thomas Parish Hall,
Church street near Eighteenth north
west, Thursday evenings at 8 o'clock
His subject will be 1.-THE Teaching Of
Christ and the Faith of the Church"
The first of these lectures will be given
next Thursday.
Rev. DIR. w. l.. De Vries, chancellor
of Washington Cathedral, will begin a
series of addresses the same evening
on THE Sermon on the Mount" These
lectures, which are given Under the
auspices of the Department of Reli-
gious Education, will be delivered
every Thursday evening at o'clock
in ST. Marks Church, Third and A
streets southeast. They are open to
the public and Sunday school teachers
throughout the diocese are expected to
attend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-26
C. E. ORATORN CONTEST
AT A. M. E. ZION CHURCH
Junior and intermediate Societies
in Golden Rules Union Have
Competition.

The defamation and oratorical con
tests for the Junior pnd intermediate
Christian Endeavor Societies of the
Golden Rule Christian Endeavor Union
were held Tuesday evening at the
Galbraith A. NJ. E. Zion Church. The
Junior contest was won by Silly
Louise Pinkett of the Nineteenth
Street Society Sylvia Chase of the
Galbraith Society was awarded second
place and Hortense Jackson of Zion
Baptist received honorable mention.
Elise Fletcher of Third Baptist G.
r. Society was in the intermediate
group. Mabel Wyche of Nineteenth
Street was second and Aubrey Thomas
of Peoples Congregational Society re.
ceived honorable mention.
The Juniors had selections from
negro authors and the intermediate
subject was Frederick douglass.
The first prizes were. gold coins and
the second prizes were silver cups.
Presentations were made by Charles
w. Anderson.
James A. Brown, chairman of the
ION to Cleveland" committee. reported
that clubs had been organized with a
membership of so. A registration
drive for the Cleveland convention
will begin March 10. ThaddeuS II,
Chase, president of the union, pre-
sided