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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-15
BLACK ENGINEER
DOES s2,5O0,0OO
COLLEGE PLANT

DES MONIES, Iowa, July IA
Archie A. Alexander, of Des Moines,
young colored engineer, has Just
completed the erection of a $2,5OO,-
900 central heating plant for the
University Of Iowa.
This marks the conclusion of CON
tracts worth $5,000,O00 in twelve
years by Alexander. In commenting
upon the successful career of this
young engineer. 'The Gazette-Re-
publican" (white) published at Ce-
dar Rapids, Iowa, says:
Fifteen years ago the University
of Iowa awarded the degree of bach
elor of science in engineering to a
young Negro. Starting in 1915 in a
field practically closed to his race,
be has forced tn the front until he
Is recognized as one of the leading
contracting engineers in Iowa and
the Midwest.
Fer two years after his graduation
from Iowa, he worked as a design
ing engineer for a Denver company.
Then he became contracting en-
gineer. getting small paving jobs at
the start, but gradually increasing
his field until now he has built
many bridges, viaducts, sewage sys-
TENS and buildings, including the
central-heating plant. Practically all
OF the skilled workmen on Alexan-
der's jobs are white men and their
comments on their boss give a direct
commentary on the character of the
man. Alexander goes about his job
with a pack of blue prints in his
hands and a CLEAN in his eyes as he
directs the rearing of a monument
to himself that will outlast even the
memorial to his class"
1t will be recalled that this is the
same Alexander that became the
first of great trio OF Negro tackles
on the University of Iowa football
team.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-15
FINLEY WILSON
REFUSES TO SIGN
ELKS' BOND

WASHINGTON. ID. c.. July IA
Grand Exalted Ruler J. Finley Will
son has declined TO sign a $4,000
surety bond permitting the Elks'
convention to meet in New York.
Elks In New York requested a
ruling from carrying the convention
to Cleveland. At that time Grand
Legal Advisor Perry w. Howard OF
the Order of Elks. proposed to have
the New York lodges plaintiffs In
the proceedings at Newark. execute
surety bond for $4,000 TO indem-
Nifty the grand officers in event of
arrest for violating the Grattan Law.
an Injunction, should the convention
be held in New York.
representatives of the New York
lodges were willing TO offer such a
signed guarantee, except ]. Dalmus
Steele. of Manhattan Lodge. Will
son, however. refused his signature,
declaring the security bond of no
value, being in the nature of an
agreement to an illegal act.
His refusal to sign the bond after
the proposal by his legal advisor is
taken TO mean that he has listened
to counsel from another direction.
When the grand lodge session was
called off by Mr.. Wilson recently in
New York, II was announced he
would take it to Cleveland. Since
that time an Injunction against coll
ored Elks meeting in Ohio has been
discovered ,a.bst
The case thereby now "A down to
a race between New York and Cleve-
land as to which will first lift its
injunction. E
{ II New York wins. the Elks will
go there and IL Cleveland wins the
Elks will go there. In case neither
is successful in lifting the injunction.
II is likely that the convention will
go to Newark. +.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-15
Harmon Award Winners
to Be Announced


NEW YORK, July 14.-Persons
distinguished in the fields of the arts,
science, business. education and reli-
gion will act as judges in the second
of the annual William E. Harmon
awards for distinguished achievement
among colored people, according to
an announcement made recently by
DIR. George f. Haynes, secretary of
the Commission on the Church and
Race Relations Of the Federal Coun-
ell of Churches, who is administering
the awards for the Harmon Founda-
tions. Entries now being received at
DR.. Haynes office at 105 East 22nd
St, New York City, will pass to the
judges after August is and their
decisions will be announced on Eman-
cipation Day, January 1, 1928.
The sum Of $4,000 Is being offered
people of color for outstanding work
in fine arts, literature, science. in
cluding invention, education, business
including industry, religious service,
music and race relations-the last
being open to Caucasians as well as
colored candidates. With the excep-
tion of race relations, where a single
award of $500 with a gold medal will
be made. the first awards will be
$500 each with a gold medal and
second awards 500 eech with a
bronze medal.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-15
Dixie Women Plan
War on Lynching

N
JACKSON, Miss. July 11.-Meet-
ing here last week in annual session,
the Mississippi Woman's Committee
on Race Relations pledged themse Ives
to the most progressive program of
interracial justice ever adopted by
any group in this state. Beginning
with a terrific broadside against
school advantages for the colored
people of the state. offered their CO.
operation to the colored club women
in their efforts for a home for de-
linquent bows, and then gave proof of
their sincerity by inviting the colored
women of the state to membership on
their committee. Among the specific
improvements in school conditions to
which, they pledged themselves were
better facilities for teacher train
ing, better school buildings and a
more equitable distribution of school
funds.
Mrs. David M. Key, wife Of the
president of the Millsaps College, was
elected president of the state com.
mittee, which includes score of the
most prominent women in Missis-
sippi. if tH n.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-15
DENIES PORTERS'
CASE HAS BEEN
THROWN OUT

NEW YORK, July IA Phillip
Randolph. organizer of the Pullman
Porters' Union, denied the report
that the Unions application to be
officially recognized as represent
tative of the Pullman pOrters and
maids throughout the country had
been thrown out by the Board of
Mediation.
Randolph quoted the following
telegram signed by John Marriman.
'This office is not responsible for
unfortunate statements in press re-
ferred to in your telegram.
THE matter submitted by your
organization remains under consider
alton by this Board"
The newspapers printed story
Saturday morning 20 the effect that
the case OF the so-called Brother
hood of Sleeping Car Porters thought
to be organized by A. Phillip Ran
dolph. had been thrown out by the
United States Board of Mediation
because the members of the board,
of which former Governor Edward
Morrow, of Kentucky, Is the chair
man, found no ground for interven-
ton on their part, and Randolph
did not represent the Pullman por-
ters.
The action of the board came af-
ter nearly two years of pronounced
agitation and elaborate preparation
on the part of Randolph and a group
Of self-styled radicals, who had as
sociated themselves with him.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-15
Black Frenchmen Must Serve A
Year In National Army Of France
In A Restaurant

Some days ago in a restaurant in
which I was a tall dark Negro with
bushy hair entered and was seated
by the head waiter at the long table
built into the wall, between two
white men. At once the one on his
right shrank away closer to his COM
panion, while the one on the left
seemed not the least bit concerned.
Having finished my meal | went
over to the Negro, and soon discov-
cred that he was from the French
West Indies, and was an actor who
had played minor parts in several
of the leading French theatres,
among them the Folies-Bergere.
Ask for Garyey
Learning that l was from Amer
lea he asked me after a while about
Garyey and his imprisonment. Gar
vey seems to be the only Negro in
America that the majority of white
and colored people hear about. All
of the latter with whom / have talk
ed believe that the charge of theft
against him was trumped up by the
white people.
lSuilS " tAptdih W my qhNo7
toner that a third would be taken
off Garvey's sentence for good be-
havior ] said Gun tiers" (one-third) }
but failing to get the "tiers" over
/ turned to the two white men on
the right, who had been listening
eagerly to me, for aid, whereupor
one of them replied: I'VE doh't
know French so well ourselves. We
are Americans"
Frenchman Gets Excited
Thereupon quite a discussion or
the race question ensued, during
which the colore1 Frenchman goi
quite excited. "What / want ltc
know he said raising his voice ant
attracting the attention of nearly
everyone, ''is why do you treat thos,
people like that All they are ask
ing is to be able to live like a mar
as you are"
With attention conferred on then
I could see they weren't feeling yer,
comfortable, and one of them hast
ened to explain that he came from
a part of America where the Negro
was treated quite differently, ant
appealing to me, asked me II 1
weren't true.
Personally I was enjoying thei
discontinue, but l recalled the ligh
of welcome in the eyes Of boil
when | told them I was an Ameri
CONTINUED on Rage 81
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-15
BY ]. A. Rogers
lEnterprise Correspondentl

enterprise AOIItSpOhuthhg
MARSEILLES, France.-To give,
as l promised in my last, the rea-
sons why Marseilles with her colored
migration has no color disturbances,
while a similar condition in America,
as say at Chicago or Carteret, would
have caused a riot. / asked a good
many French people, on and off the
trains, just why this should be, aud
in nearly every case the reply was
the same.
The answer? Suppose for instance
that an American Nordic were to
read that in some far off country we
will call Vespucia, part of the peo-
pie were being denied their rights
because they had red hair or some
physical characteristic they were ut
terly unable to change; further that
these people were being put to death
by mobs or being burnt alive. what
would those Nordics think of Yes
pucians in general? What they
would thing Is precisely what the
average European does think OF
America. and what the people whom
/ questioned responded.
Worst Element of Europe in U. $. A
One of them gave as the reason
the allegation that II was the worst
element of the European people thai
migrated to America. America" hi
said, ''is only aEuropean colony
after ALL"
The opinion of the European re
garding the white Americans Is no
at all flattering. Indeed, II is 81
poor, that with no special love fol
them. feel that 1t is as overdone al
is that OF 80 many white people re
garding Negroes. In short, founded
on lack of contact and on prejudice
No American Gentleman
The following story which is toll
here, for instance. Two men set ou
TO see which could tell the most i'm
possible story.
The first begins as follows: 9TH
other day | met an American gen
tleman who "Stopl" cried tn
other, you win, there amt no sucl
animal"
Tales of injustice to Negroes
many of which find their way to tn
European papers do not help 4
improve matters. and many whit
Americans are quick 10 inform Eu
ropeans that they do not come fror
the part Of America where thes
atrocities are permitted.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-15
Pastors Son a Forger

LOS ANGELES, Cal.-Hilbert Ro-
zier, son of the Rev. Mr.. Rozier, 233
N.'s3onate Brae St., was taken into
custody Friday on a charge of issu-
ing worthless checks. He is scheduled
to appear before Judge Westover Fri
day for preliminary hearing.
Rozier is member Of the young
society circle in this city and recent
iy was graduated from college, where
he studied law. 1t is believed that Ro-
zier had become a victim of a beau
tiful woman whose company he is
said to have constantly sought.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-15
Beat Man To Death At MOnteSd11O
Girl Gets S65,0O0
for Loss Of Leg

NEW YORK, July l5.-0ne of the
largest sums ever awarded in dam
age suit for personal injuries was
granted 7-year-old race girl Thurs
day for injuries suffered when she
was run down by an automobile.
The girl, Hilda Morris, received a
verdict of S65,000 in the supreme
court, Queens, before Justice Mitch
ell May. The judgment was awarded
against A. II, Hewes Company, pot
cry makers, of Brooklyn.
In the plaintiffs petition il was
charged that she was struck by a
truck owned by the defendants as
she was on her way to school March
IS. The accident was blamed upon
carelessness and speeding.
Little Miss Morris lost her right
leg as n result of the accident.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-15

drove with old friends through
the exquisite suburbs of Honolulu.
up the famous Pali, where you look
suddenly down two thousand feet
towards the surf and green lands on
the windward side OF the island, and
where the fierce wind blowing up
the gap whirled our auto against
the cliff-side and broke its wind
shield. Honolulu is city OF glow
ing. many-colored blossoming trees.
with wide-verandaed houses and
people dressed in white.
talked with Professor Harada
of the University of Hawaii and with
other old friends, and began to see
the social life behind the flowered
surface.
There Is perhaps less race preju-
dice here than anywhere in the
Pacific. Twenty years ago. when !
last visited the islands, the upper
social set was composed of every
race and race mixture. Inter-mar-
riage between Hawaiians. Chinese.
Japanese. Portuguese, Americans,
brought no social stigma. This old
army set has superseded it." said a
friend. THE army has dominated
and ruined the social life of the
islands. Lots of night life, and
pretty free moralsr'
She added that we have in Homo.
lulu what was before the war the
largest army post in the world and
that Pearl Harbor Is the largest
naval station in the world. have
no means of checking these state.
ments, which sound interesting for
nation Dragging OF its peaceful
intentionsl They are big enough
anyway. About oQe-third of all the
Americans in Hawaii are attached tc
the army.-12, 900 soldiers. All the
Americans together are only some
10000.
The Japanese are the real popula.
tion OF the islands. Though forbid.
den now to come to, Hawaii, since
II is a part of the United States
they form over 4095 Of the total
population. with Chinese and Ko.
reans they are much more thar
half) They came In as coolies .tc
work on the sugar and pineapple
plantations. They preferred to work
| "on contract" taking a definite jol
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-15

Temple. The masons and the East
ern Star order held their thanksgiv-
ing service Sunday pight at Bethle-
hem Baptist Church where the SER
mon was preached by the Grand
Chaplain, Rev. c. c. Clements of
Spokane. Mrs. Margaret Malone OF
Seattle was soloist The delegates
were officially welcomed TO Tacoma
in session Monday morning. when
Mayor NJ. G.. Tennant. and City Com.
missioners J. w. Silver and Dyer
Dyment addressed the assemblage.
The response was made by II. II.
Holmes OF Spokane, past grand mas
ter of the order. Henry j. Asberry
of Tacoma, past grand master, pre-
sided over the welcome ceremonies
feature of which were tribute to
the flag by y. d. Wilson. vocal solo
by Mrs. l., McCabe and addresses by
Major Brown, master OF Cassia
Lodge Tacoma. Mrs. g. @. Matthews.
Olympic Chapter, Tacoma, II. ID.
Brown. grand master.
A public reception was held for
the delegates Tuesday night at the
Odd Fellows Temple. Election of
officers was held Thursday morning,
resulting as follows:
Howard ID. Brown of Seattle,
grand master; Thos. ii. jefferson,
Everett. deputy grand master; John
Golden, Ellensburg. senior warden;
Roy Williams. Bremerton, junior
warden; +. u. Harris. Tacoma, sec
retary; j. b. White, Bellingham,
treasurer; w. f. Cranshaw, Walla
Walla, lecturer; George Pollard,
Victoria, b. c., and ii. j. Asberry,
Tacoma, trustees. Seattle was chos-
en- for the 1928 session where the
Masons will celebrate the 25th ami
versary OF the Washington Grand
Lodge. Delegates were loud In
praise of the hospitality accorded
them by Tacoma citizens and the
housing, feeding and care OF the
delegates by Cassia Lodge OF Ia
eoma was voted the best OF all
grand lodge meetings.
Continued on pnRe %
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-15
Endowment Is Completed

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Amidst
scenes of rejoicing in the new dining
hall of Howard University Thursday
night. DIR. Mordecai w. johnson an
nounced the completion of the cam
paign in the interest of the endow-
ment OF the school of medicine. The
conditional offer Of $3.50 900 made
bv the General Education Board of
New York was met by paid-in sub
scriptions Of an equal amount by
The officers, faculties, alumni and
friends Of the university.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-15
New York Elks
Put Up $40, 900

WASHINGTON, ID. Casper
Holstein and Joseph (Blondy) Brown
of New York City were here in con-
ference Wednesday with J. Finley
Wilson, Grand Exalted Ruler. and
Perry w. Howard, Grand Legal Ad-
visor of the /. u. p. o. of Elks OF
the World.
They are seeking an amicable set
tlement of the controversy regarding
the meeting place of the Elks in
August. Mr.. Holstein had in his pos
session 100000 in cash to deposit as
a guarantee that there would be nc
interference with the Elks Grand
Lodge, If it should be held in New
York City.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-15
Made Police Lieutenant

OMAHA, Neb.--Long and persis-
tent meritorious service has won Ser
geant Harry Buford, colored, of the
Omaha metropolitan police force a
promotion to the rank of pclice lieu
tenant by the city council.
Among the criminals caught in the
nets spread by the crafty sleuth have
been the Harding brothers. notorious
bank robbers; leaders of the desper-
ate Black and Tan gang, and Sam
Baxter, outlaw. For the last act he
received a gold star.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-15

Of piece work and putting men, wo-
men and children at the Job. Thus
they rapidly saved money and be-
came small capitalists. BARRIERS,
chauffeurs, jltney-owners. Tens of
thousands still work on plantations,
but, on the whole, the coolie class
is now being filled by Filipinos In
eyer-increasing hordes imported for
contract-labor
The orientals form over half the
island population (Chinese. Japa-
nese and Koreans). But do they
vote? oh, no. this is the United
States, where voting goes more or
less by color. The only Japanese
who vote are those who have been
born on the islands. and cannot be
denied the right OF American citi-
zenship. The Japanese, with 400
of the population, have some 5e5 of
the votes. :. However, babies are
being born much faster In Japanese
households than In white homes, and
increasing numbers are reaching
voting age. =. No doubt, when
they grow too many, our ingenious
democracy will find some way out
of II.
The Hawaiian government Is much
exercised over the fact that some
of its citizens tthose with yellow
skim cannot visit the United States
freely. They are American citizens.
with birth certificates in an Ameri-
can territory; legally the Constitu-
ton gives them freedom of movement
anywhere in our country. But the
u. s. immigration authorities are
above the law.
The report of the Governor of
Hawaii shows what good citizens the
japanese are. or those eligible to
vote. a larger proportion are regis
tered than of Anglo-Saxons; they
set more store by their citizepship.
Their children stay in school so long
that although they form only 4Oc5
of the population. they have more
than half OF the school-children.
They have a smaller proportion of
crime than any other race, less than
that OF the Caucasian. and only one
third as high as the Filipinos. who
are apparently the unruly element.
Among the dependent and delin-
quent children coming before the
Juvenile Court, there are three times
as many whites as Japanese. though
the. Japanese In the population out
numbar the white four to one.
Rather remarkably good citizens.
| one would say. Yet we Ameri-
cans seem to fear them.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-15
May File Charges sf Obstructine
Justice

% ABERDEEN, Hsyv liz tspeciaD
Alleged attempts TO intimidate
witnesses of the affray in which
Henry McCrea was fatally injured
here last week may result in arrests
on charges Of obstructins justice. it
was announced yesterday by author
titles. A concerted effort is being
made by several men to keep au-
thorities from learning details of the
assault of white men which led TO
MeCrea's death, it is claimed.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-15
Women Held for
kidnapping Boy

NEW Y0RK.-Fcr the kidnaping
Of 4-year-old Ernest Clark Jr., coli
ored, Mrs. Loretta Salvador, white,
was held without bail Tuesday by
MAGISTRATE Douras.
Detective Kammerere. who arrest
ed the woman after she had kept
little Ernest three days, testified that
she abducted the tot because she
liked the little fellow"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-15
Recreation Hall Dedicated

TU6KEGEE, Ala.-The new $7O.-
600 recreation building at the Veter-
ans Hospital No 81 was dedicated
Saturday afternoon. Governor Bib
Graves Of Alabama and the principal
of Tuskegee Institute were the prin-
cipal speakers. The building will
serve as a theater, social center for
patients. Colonel Joseph II. Ward Is
medical officer In charge.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-15
Brice Taylor to Coach
at Clafton University

Los ANGELES. = Brice Taylor.
eoiored football and track star at the
University of Southern California for
the last three years, has been APP
pointed coach at the Clafton Univer-
sity for Negroes at 0rangeburg, S. C.
Taylor was all-Pacific coast guard
for three years and was mentioned as
an all-American in 1925. 80
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-15

Thursday night as the result of a
beating the trio are alleged to have
given him Sunday morning, July 3,
after McCrea had entered the home
of Lpugheed's sister, Mrs. Earl Pear
son. here.
Lougheed and Schlegel are in Jail
here, and Miller has not been arrest
ed. He left last week with his wife
and family for a trip to Iowa. No
bail has been fixed.
Can Furnish Bail, Belief
All three of the accused are wen
known here and il is expected that
they will be able to secure any bail
that may be set According to their
story they searched for the colored
man for some time after he entered
the house. but we're unable to locate
him.
Later they passed him on the old
highway east of town, and attempt
ed to capture him and take him to
the county Jail. He, they say, drew
q knife and they had struggle
with him. After McCrea was taken
TO the jail the three accused men
left at once for Hood canal.
Shortly afterward McCrea's shack
on Main street south here was burn
ed from unknown causes. The trio
claim at that time to have been
eating in an Elma restaurant. Me-
Crea had lived here for some time
and had recently been released from
serving a term in the county Jail
here for liquor law violation. He
is said TO have been user and ped
dler of dope.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-15

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-After a hec-
tic three-hour session of officers and
members Of the American Woodmen
who held their convention here this
year Fort Worth, Texas, was selected
as the next meeting place Of the or
ganization.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-15
Letters From Anna Louise
Strong In Honolulu

Editors Note-(These letters were
originally written for a circle Of
personal friends. This fact should
be borne in mind, and will make
them I'll the more attractive and
valuabie).
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-15
Alleged Beating Of Cobred Man, Captured
Robbery Suspect, Basis Of Murder Charge

ioughed clerk and Curly Schegel and T. H. Miller all of
first
by Prosecuting Attorney NJ Wade They accused the
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-15
MASONS RE-ELECT BROWN GRAND MASTER
Seattle Man Chosen Head Of Order For
Third Consecutive Term, 1928 In Seattle

TACOMA a-night
Masons Of Washington and Jurisdiction ended their wentourh
before hundred
members the grand lodge representing hrve lodges attended the