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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-29
ARMED CITIZENS
IN CALIFORNIA
HUNT FOR MORON

Los ANGELES, July 23.-(Spe-
ciaD-A posse of approximately one
hundred men is conducting a search
for a Caucasion moron who crimir-
ally assaulted Rose Williams. II,
and kept her captive at Baldwin
Hills the entire night Thursday.
Miss Williams staggered into the
Venice police station Friday morning
and related her narrowing exper-
ienee to the authorities. She said
she was on her way home to SOS
North Normandie avenue from Lin
coin Park when she was seized,
bound and gagged and thrown into
a car by the man who drove up in
II as she alighted from a street car.
Later on the girl declared the man
forced her to swallow the contents
of bottle which she believed con-
tanned a drug. She then tearfully
related how she fought off her as
sailant and how he placed her back
in the machine, and then threw her
out when they reached the beach.
Meanwhile the girls parents had
become alarmed over her disappear
ance and informed the police depart
ment. The Caucasian N,s described
as a man about 35 years old.
smooth-faced, tall and fairly well
dressed.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-29
BY Kelly Miller

My last release was written from
Denver. am now writing from Sc
attle. | am concerned now with the
Negro contingent in the intermoun-
tain region. During the past week
have trayersed the Rocky Noun
tains, and 1t has been my good for
tune to lcok upon the condition of
the brother in black in practically
every city in the section under ana
lysis.
The Negroes in the mountains
differ from those on the plains main-
ly in that they are more strictly
isolated and defined In the lam
gnage of Julius Caesar, they are
hemmed in on all sides by the nat
ure of the place. Denver, Colorado
Springs, Pocatello,. Boise City, Butte,
Billings, Cheyenne, Salt Lake City,
Spokane, Tucson, Phoenix, New
Mexico and Columbus, all tell the
same tale. From one we may learn
all
Denver is the largest of the inter-
mountain cities, so far as the Negro
group is concerned Located mid
way between the oceans, this alti-
tudinous city attracts large num-
Der of transient Negroes, who find
here pleasant and inv.goratine
summer resort. The city makes an
inviting bid for the national organi-
cations. The N. A. A. G. p. held
its last session in Denver; the Ma
tionai Baptist Convention is now
planning its approaching session
here. The woodmen OF the World
have located their headquarters in
this salubrious city.
Denver. however, permits its Ne.
groes to labor under the same limi.
tations as the other Rocky Noun.
tain communities. The Negroes are
excluded, or, rather, not permitted
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-29
Kelly Miller Says Negro Population Of
the West Tends Towards Gradual Decline

to enter the standard types of in
dustry. They are kept out with all
but religious rigidity. Pueblo, Colo,
at one time seemed to be an excep-
tion. The great steel mills are To-
Gated here, which have given large
opportunity to both manual and
skilled Negro labor.
But the lines are drawing tighter
and tighter to the detriment and dis
advantage of the colored workmen.
/ met with this universal plant that
Negroes everywhere were being
crowded out of the occupations
which We're formerly theirs.
In Salt Lake City working oppor-
tunities are reserved for Mormons.
Negro walters are still employed at
the great Mormon hotel, but, aside
from this, the Negro male hardly
finds anything to do. The women
have "a better chance in domestic
and household industries. Porters,
ianitors and odds-and-ends jobbers
constitute the chief wage-earning OPP
portunities of the Afro-American in
this whole region.
The Negro population in these ci-
ties is small and tends towards a
gradual decline. Aside from Den-
yer. with 5000 Negroes, the other
cities range from 800 down to 100,
and still further to mere handful.
In an article l contributed to
Forum Magazine some twenty years
ago on "The Growth and Distribu.
tion of the Negro Population" laid
down the general proposition that
wherever the Negro population was
thin, It tended to grow thinner; and
where II was dense, II tended to be.
come denser. and that II would ulti.
mately settle in black belts and
groups in the South and in black
wards in the large cities. The move.
! Continued on Page ~
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-29
DR.. MILLER SAYS
QUIT APIN G
WHITE FLAPPER'

Los ANGELES, July 26.-(Spe-
ciaD-stop aping white flappers and
sheiks and try to develop those
traits OF character that make for
better manhood and higher citizen
ship. is the keynote OF the sound
advice of DR.. Kelly Miller, noted
educator.
Our young people today are ap-
ing the white flappers and sheiks
and trying to outdo them. II has
gotten to the place Hollywood in
stead of the Holy Land sto be pat
termed after. Instead of initiating
the vices of the white man, let us
develop our spiritual natures and
win a place in life by sheer force of
the good We can accomplish.
More Of our people should seek
homes on the farm. The Negro is
a natural tiller OF the soil. There
he would be producer instead of
a hired man"
"The trouble with the Negro is
that he thinks he is inferior to the
white man because the white man
has more dollars or more power and
position. Naturally, the white man
will continue to have superiority
complex so long as the Negro. con.
tinues in his present subservient at.
titude. Neither dollars nor power
make a man, it requires manhood. /"
Henry Ford has made more dol
lars In the last 10 years than the
l0.O0O,000 Negroes OF America COM
bined, yet / will not admit that Hen
~ Ford is a better man than /. We
should try to develop those traits of
character that make for better man
hood and higher citizenship"
Before returning East Prof. Mil
Ter will visit various Arizona and
Texas points, including Houston.
where he will lecture on "The New
Negro and the DID, Friday night.
The Inkslingers club of Los An.
geles, a group of writer's, entertained
Prof. Miller with banquet mostly
attended by university students and
writers before his departure.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-29
MONT. WOMEN
HOLD SESSION
In MISSOULA


MISSOULA, Mont. July "a
(SpeciaD--Mrs. M. B. Chapel OF
Butte, who organized the Montana
Federation of Negro Women's clubs
seven years ago, yesterday was elect
ed president of the federation for the
ensuing year. Mrs. Emma Harris
of Billings was elected vice-presi-
dent, Mrs. J, Atkinson of Bozeman
second vice-president, Mrs. r. Fagen
of Butte, recording secretary; Mrs.
L. L. Vaughn of Butte, correspond
ing secretary: and Mrs. E. Watts, of
Billings, treasurer.
Charitable and other work con-
ducted by the local women's clubs
was discussed by Mrs. E. A. Peppard,
who gave an address on Activities
of Missoula County and Local Wo.
mems Clubs" yesterday forenoon.
Donations were made to the Near
East relief fund and to the Missis-
sippi flood relief fund. One girl was
sent through the State University
and IL girls were given assistance
Loans were made to girls enrolled
at the University. and no compulsory
repayment requirement was made.
Mrs. Peppard closed her address by
reading a poem by Mary Stewart,
former dean Of women at the State
University. Mrs. Chapel responded
to the address.
Other officers named yesterday
afternoon were Frances Mayfield OF
Butte, parliamentarian; Mrs. E.
Bank of Helena, auditor; Mrs. WV
ian Dorsep of Missoula, statistician
Miss Maxine Young of Great Falls
historian; Mrs. Bivens of Billings,
chaplain; Mrs. Matte Anderson OF
Helena, head of the ways and means
department.
The committee chairmen named
to act during the year we're: Mrs
Belle Mcdonald of Billings, art; Mrs.
Ada Hart of Great Falls, emergency:
Mrs. Lulu McCabe of Missoula, civ.
les; Mrs. Claudia Ware of Butte
publicity; Mrs. Scott of Butte, his
torical; Mrs. c. Laurie of Helena,
music. ar. =
Mrs. Chapel was elected state
delegate to the 1928 national fede.
ration convention at Washington, ID,
G., and Mrs. Harris OF Billings was
named alternate. One member OF
each club was selected to serve on
the board of trustees, which will
have charge of the building of q
clubhouse, the site for which will be
decided upon later. They are Mrs.
Bivens of Billings. chairman; Mrs.
Dorsey of Missopla, Mrs. Atkinson
Of Bozeman, Mrs. Laurie of Helena,
Mrs. Davis Of Billings, Mrs. Hart OF
Great Falls and Mrs. Palmer OF
Butte.
Installation Of officers and read.
ing of the prize essays took place at
the last nights meeting, which con.
cluded the convention. A lawn par.
ty was held at the home of MIR. and
Mrs. Robert Mudd, 1882 South Fifth
street west, following the adjourn.
men.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-29
Oldest Negro Order
End Session in St. Louis


ST. LOUIS, Mo-, july 2S.-The
national grand lodge of United Bro
theirs of Friendship and Sisters of
Mysterious Ten opened the Goth tri-
ennial session in this city Tuesday.
Delegates from nearly every state
in the union are attending these ses-
sions which continue through the
week and terminate in the gala day
parade and exercises Friday.
The United Brothers Of Friend
ship is the Oldest fraternal order of
the race in the world, having been
founded at Louisville, KY, in 1861.
1t has had a continuous existence
since that time and now has lodges
in virtually every state of the Union
where there is Negro population, and
a grand lodge in Liberia, Africa. The
Sisters of Mysterious Ten, the wom-
ems branch of the. order, dates its
existence to the year 1876. 1t proba-
bly, is the largest colored women's
organization in the United States.
The order has assets in its real
estate investments and eleemosynary
institutions running into the millions
of dollars. According to w. F. Bled-
soc, the national head of the order,
it plans a great expansion during the
next few years both in members and
in its financial assets. Marshall w.
Taylor was the founder of the order.
All of the officers of the grand
lodge were reelected for three-year
period.
Mrs. Leota CASTOR of St. Louis was
elected national grand princess, sue
ceeding Mrs. Edmonia Watkins of IL
linois.
The next session will be held at
Louisville, KY.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-29
COP.
BOLT COOLIDGE
BAND W AEON

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, July 2S.--
The regular Republican organization
in Arkansas is for Calvin Coolidge
in 1928. The Negro organization is
for anyone else.
The regular Republican organiza-
tion has been for the last ten years
virtually "lily-white% as Sipio Jones,
the prominent Negro leader CON-
plains. Jones says: "There's only
been one Negro appointed to federal
office In the State of Arkansas since
1916" Therefore the Negro Repub-
licans are refusing to fall in line
with the regulars-''lily-w
I'VE Negroes don't care much for
Mr.. Coolidge" Jones recently assert
ed. Well send our own delegation
to the national convention. We want
to see someone elected who'll give
the Arkansas black man more OF a
show
Since Negro Republicans in Ark
ansas, up to the time they were ELI
minated from the patronage picnic,
were invariably red hot for whatever
Republican who happened to reside
in the White House, the situation
down here is not only illuminative of
what federal patronage really
means in the South, but it is filled
with explosive possibilities.
It is said that Arkansas is about
the only state in the South where
white Republicans of accepted
standing in Washington have tried
determinedly to keep their party the
color of unpicked cotton. There have
been "lily-white" movements else
where below the Mason and Dixon
line, but the white leaders have been
singularly lacking in party recogni-
tion. The Negro leaders In Georgia
have been able to route their white
opponents. Tennessee has set of
able Negro leaders who hold their
own. In Arkansas, however, there
is H. L. Remmel, favorite of five
presidents, national committeeman
for 13 years. chairman of state COM
mittee for 28 years, millionaire ban
ker philanthropist, manufacturer, a
man respected by the Democrats.
Remmel through his henchman,
Ginnachio, said recently, "We be-
lieve that the Republican party In
the South must look toward the
future. We believe that IL there is
to be any progress, that we must
get along with our Democratic
friends. We must keep our organi-
zation pure and white"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-29

Mrs. Graham Is enroute to her
home in Seattle, Washington. The
climate, hard work and the lack Of
kind of food to which she has been
accustomed, Mrs. Graham said, made
il necessary for her to return to re-
cuperate.
Suits against Bishop Brooks, Mrs
Graham said, arose because teachers
claimed pay for months when the
school was not in session. In the
case of DR.. NJ. Taylor, a former
president of the college, whom BIZ
shop Brooks ousted, payment for
salary due him had been held up
until he could account for property
OF the school entrusted to him which
disappeared when the bishop visited
America.
Some of this property, like type
writers, etc, Mrs. Graham said, has
never been recovered. Taylor caused
the bishops arrest. and due to the
long drawn out legal process the
case has never been settled yet.
According to Mrs. Graham, her
sister, Mrs. Brooks, wife of the BIZ
shop, who has steadily refused to
leave Liberia since the bishop first
went over there, years ago, is
steadily falling in health and will
return with the bishop to America
sometime after January L.
Anti-American feeling is prevalent
In Liberia, Mrs. Graham reports, and
it is especially evident in the arrest
OF Bishop Brooks and in the arrest
/, OF Major Moody Staten al s Of
ficer in the Liberian government
guard to assist in training Liberian
militia.
On her way to America. Mrs. Gra-
ham was the guest of Lady .Astor in
London. at meeting at her house
of Parliament.
DIR. Graham for Bishop
Liberian delegates to the next A.
M. E. general conference will put
forward the name of DIR. d. A. Gra-
ham, president of Monroyia College,
as a candidate for bishop to sue
ceed Bishop Brooks there in West
Africa.
Due to the present trend of Lii
berian feeling, A. NJ. e. affairs in
Liberia are in a critical state and
the presiding bishop ought to be one
like DR.. Graham who is already ac-
customed to the climate and who is
able to understand the situation and
is able to get along with the Lii
berians.
In her trip to Ba,.imore Mrs Ora
ham was accompanied by Mrs. ]. C.
Robinson, of Philadelphia, trustee
of Monrovia College.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-29
Bishop Brooks Wins Case InAfrica
Monument Disappears


MEMPHIS, Tenn, July 20. (ANP)
-Consternation reigned in the con.
vention of the Woman's Home and
Foreign Missionary Society of the
A. M. Z. Church here Thursday when
it was discovered that the memorial
to Bishop Henry Turner, which was
to be unveiled that day, had been
stolen.
The memorial, which was a bust of
the bishop who had founded the So
ciety, had reposed in the entrance Of
the Booker I. Washington High
School, carefully draped, and was to
BE- unveiled Thursday with apprcr
pirate memorial services. When the
committee sent for it the bust had
disappeared and the unveiling was
postponed. Bishop William Decker
Johnson expressed the opinion that
the memorial had been taken by an
opposing faction"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-29
Nolle Pross Sweet Case


DETROIT, Mich, July 20. CAMP
DIR. Ossian H. Sweet, his wife and
eight friends will not be retired for
the killing of Leon Breiner during a
miniature race riot when whites at
tempted to oust the Sweets from
their home, according to the ruling
of the court Thursday, in which all
charges were dropped and the case
nolle pressed.
This brings to an end one of the
most sensational trials ever staged in
Detroit and is proclaimed as one of
the greatest victories won by colored
citizens in their fight to own and live
in homes in any part of the city.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-29
Kills Self Accidentally

PORTLAND, Ore. = Tom King
house detective for Olds, Workman &
King Company, went to 521 Lovejoy
st. in search of stolen property. He
found, instead, Charles Pitts, Negro
dying on the floor with a bullet
wound near his heart. The wounded
man was sent to st. Vincent's Hos.
pital, where he died.
Pitts lived long enough to say that
he had shot himself accidentally. He
was said to be due for trial on Grim.
linal charge in federal court next
week.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-29
Texas School Is Given
100000 by Legislature


DALLAS, Texas, July 27.-Tbe
state legislature in a special session
appropriated 100000 toward the
maintenance of Prairie View State
Normal and Industrial Institute for
the biennium beginning September 1,
ls2f, and ending September /, 1929.
although $4,000 was trimmed from
the original budget, the appropria-
tion remains the largest given to this
college in recent years.
The appropriation provides for
teachers salaries and general main
tenance of the college. One hundred
thousand dollars win be allowed for
the construction of new buildings.
Dormitories for both boys and girls
will be the first new buildings to be
erected, according to officials.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-29
King in London

LONDON. - President c. D. B.
King Of Liberia, who landed in France
fortnight ago for continental visit,
arrived in London Tuesday. He was
met at the station by the earl of
Lucan, representing the king and
queen.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-29
intercollegiate Conference

NEW YORK.--"Economic condi-
tons Of the Negro in the United
States" viii be the subject discussed
at the third annual iwo-day confer
ence of the intercollegiate Associa-
ton, which will include A. Philip
Randolph, George Hall, James H.
Hubert, Harry Pace and William
Pickens,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-29

'and pneumonia.
Few physicians are better known
on the Pacific Coast than DIR. Eu-
gene Nelson, whose home is in the
Wiltshire district.
At first he had HIS offices down.
town, but later moved up in the col
ored section around 12th aud Gen.
trail avenues where. his patients are
both white and colored $3.50.
DR.. Nelson Is separated from HIS
first wife and two children. The
whole family Is fair in complexion
and could easily pass for white or
colorsd.
First Wife Cole-Talbert's Sister
He is a native of South Carolina.
He located In Los Angeles In, 1912
or 1913 after graduating from Me-
harry A few years later he was
united In marriage to Miss Analita
Cole-Williams, sister 10 Mrs. Flor
ence Cole-Talbert, famous lyric So
prano.
The first Mrs. Nelson. whom Il Is
said, recently divorced DR.. Nelson,
also possesses a fine voice and has
two children tgirls) aged and 10
years.
Mrs. Nelson No. Is said TO be
the most beautiful woman on the
s as't.e voaS' anu pUssesses euusa.ioh
anu aien.; ~ Ne,soh - uomes-
sleagy unfortunate tnat pc Is
nanusone 700, ol plvs oomp,exion
anu a seems ~ nave uniini,eu iunus.
ms ,ns' "iie was eA'reneiy lea'ous
Vi MN.
rs,sVn ,'as nvnps iYr lhne
su,on,oo'ies. % a. one ,inne ne posses
seu ewo nisn Grass aueomophes ior
his his no,essionsi poo,ss cans ana useS doS aos
MS sociai ana iamiiy the Siz,oVv
Town car which Is said to have been
,ne propefy ot ciara hmnail-
i1.hs, the ae.ffss, TOT Wh'eh ~
said ne paia f,oVo casn'
r Doesht want 10 nc Mm'e
ihere are some VINO declare that
Nelson wants 10 De wnite. THIS is
nara LOT tnose VINO know MIN 10 pe-
heVe ior ne Is q READY supporter OF
every earnest effort on the part of
Nesroes whether OF rehsion. pusi-
ness OF sport ana tnere are put rev
pooks written OF OF Dy negroes tnat
ne does not possess a COPY, while
every negro magazine ana large
numper oi Negro weekiies find place
On ms oilice ana library tapies: AS
siseants IN MS ollice are coiored'
common stree. report is that Ut;
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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-29

MEMPHIS. Tenn. (ANP)-Appro-
val has been given by the trustees of
Roger Williams University and Howe
Institute, located at Memphis, to
merge the two institutions and locate
the enlarged school at Memphis,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-29
Film Negro Coal Miners

PoCAHONTAS, Va. The Com.
munity Church here, of which A.. D.
Williams, Lincoln graduate, is pastor,
has produced motion picture, "The
Goal Digger" an authentic view OF
the life and problems of the Negro
miner in southwest Virginia.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-29
Mrs. D. A. Graham Enroute To Seattle
Reports Anti-American Feeling In Liberia

BALTIMORE Nd. July
Liberia recently arrested for debt filed
others pending,
Brooks Baltimore
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-29

NEW YORK. 7r The Mississippi
flood is said to have been the inspi-
ration for 9 new record, "Rising Wa
ter Blues" by Blind Lemon" JEFF
ferson,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-29
DOCTOR WEEDS MOVIE STAR
Los Angeles Physician Leads Ex-
FOlies Girl To Altar In Mexico City

MEXICO CITY, Mexico, 26-(spea)--The
Foles
pury
The Bozeman courier., 1927-10-14

try specialist. II IS a means Of con-
trolling disease and standardizing
poultry production on a basis of eff
ficiency and profit. To meet the re-
quirements for accrediting, flocks
must be inspected and all diseased,
off-type and defective birds eliminat-
ed. Each bird must be tested for
bacillary white diarrhea and those af-
fIicted with the disease must be re-
moved from the flock. Accredited
hatcheries can use only eggs from
accredited flocks, must meet certain
sanitary requirements and the eggs
used for Matching must average at
least one and seven-eighths ounces.
If MOntana's poultry industry is to
expand as it should an acceptable
system of accrediting is necessary
The Bozeman courier., 1927-10-14
t. H. Sears. Business Manager

counties should understand and take into con-
sideration this feature
Replying to complaints that maintenance of
state highways in Gallatin county has not been
up to standard this year, Mr.. Warden said that
this has been a bad season for maintenance,
inasmuch as many of the federal-aid roads had
been allowed to deterioate. "The commission
wishes to bring back to standard condition, as
rapidly as possible all roads that have been con-
structed," he said 1.-THE complaints about high
ways in Galatin county have been referred to our
maintenance engineer, and 1 believe some action
already has been taken. You may say for the
commission that it is always ready to receive
suggestions, for it has in mind to do only what
will be to the interests Of the traveller and the
people"