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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-20
Trucks

FORD ton TRUCKS. There are Of these
trucks with enclosed cab and screened
speedometer. Tires are good. These trucks
cost over $3.50 each and have been used
desiring to get into light trucking BUSINESS
Will be sold as group or separately. Can
be bought on payments. MR.. STUART.
Mechanical 5upt;.i Indianapolis Times.
pa w, Maryland st,
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NOTICE on SALE or School BONDS

NOIlCE Of SALE OF SChOOL bONlJS
Notice is hereby given that the UNDER
signed, Trustee OF Duck Greek township,
Madison County, State of Indiana. WIN
offer for sale to the highest and best bid
der. $l4,000.00 of school bonds of said
Duck Creek School Township at 2 o'clock
Said bonds are in denomination Of ST, 900 90
each and run fourteen years, payable one
bond OF 81 100000 each year and bear In
terest at the rate OF 6 per cent per an
mum. payable semi-annually. Said bonds
cannot sell for less than par. Sale TO be
made at Leisure School House, In said
Duck Greek Township. Madison County.
Indiana. Bids therefor may be fled with
the undersigned Trustee.
Said bond issue is made for repairs OF
school buildings in said township.
IRWIN w. CARR.
Trustee Of Duck Creek School Township,
Madison County, Indiana. p. o. address
r. Il. ID No. g. Elwood. Ind.
VESTAL 81 VERMILLION,
Attorneys for Trustee.
Oct. z. 20. 81 1927.
INDIANA WORLD WAR MEMORIAL
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-20
Lots for Sale
40 CASH-$1O MONTH

Four large lots on Vernon Ave-, in Law
renee Park Lawrence, Ind. 46th ST., wess
of traction line. Price s.. 900. SAL Bankers
Trust Bldg. Riley 5641.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-20
A NEW HOME JUST
RFTNG COMPLETED

Painted white, five rooms, large. down,
upstairs can Nbe used if desired; hardwood
floors throughout. Linoleum on kitchen.
pump on back porch, good schools. ex-.
ground. Price $4,15O Terms. Call Irv.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
Negro History

Who was St. Augustine LIB. r.
F., Norfolk, Nebr.
st. Augustine was one of the
fathers of the early Roman church
and the first missionary to carry
Christianity to the British Isles. He
was black and an African by birth.
AS a matter of fact, most of the very
prominent fathers of the Roman
church were Africans. There were
Philippians among the very first to
adopt Christianity and, being great
students, their learned men gave
much time to the new theology. At
ter the center of Catholicism became
firmly established in Rome, many Al
ricans went thither, among them
Augustine, Tertullian and many 9TH
ers. 1t might not be too much to say
that Africans were the chief found
ers of the early Roman church, be-
cause we find that their impress in
all the early history of the church.
In early times both Christ and the
Virgin Mary were represented as
black and in parts of Poland, Rus
STA and Spain and Italy there are
still shrines to the black Virgin.
Will you kindly advise what an
Gent literature may be found that
has been written wholly by Negroes?
&C. N. c., Seattle, Wash.
Taking the term Negro to mean a
person of African descent, it would
not be possible for me to list all an
Gent literature belonging to our race.
Keep this one thing in mind: every
nation of any consequence from the
beginning of human history down to
the Twelfth century was either Afri-
cans or of African descent. There
fore all ancient literature belongs to
us. The Great Greek and Roman
classics are ours, the llliad and Odys-
sey were the epics of people who
were brown skin, rather than mulat-
to in color.
| am not in favor of the custom
of picking here ard there some ce-
lebrity who happened to have been
born in Africa, or of African par
ents, and making great to do over
him and what he did. The whole
range of those times belongs to US
and if the authors were not wholly
African, they were at least of mixed
blood.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
STRUT YOUR STUFF"

Boast not of what you are, | say;
But my advice to you
Is just to show il, in some way
Just prove what you can do;
Boosting is not enough
You've got to strut your stuff"
If you claim to be "some wise guy,
To know the game and play il,
Don't think the world is going to bow
To you, because you say il.
The world will "call your bluff;
You've got to strut your stuff
When you're demanded to show dowr
You needn't raise your fury
And quicker up" an awful frown;
The world is from Missouri
There's nothing in huff;
You've got to strut your stuff"
SO listen now, my friend, to me.
The only way to settle
II you are what you claim to be
Is just to show your mettle.
Easy be 1t or tough,
Just rise and strut your stuff"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
EDITORIALS

Marcus Carney languishes in a
felon's cell in the Atlanta peniten-
tiary. He has been there almost two
years now and has served more than
one-third of his fve-year sentence.
1t is reported that Garvey's health
is failing fast and should he be kept
prisoner much longer, will die. Gar
vey should be paroled and pardoned.
He has suffered enough and there is
no just reason for his continued inn
prisonment. We believe every men,
Der of the race in America should
join with the Universal Negro I'M
provement Association in securing
Garvey's release. There is no doubt
Garvey allowed his enthusiasm and
dreams of power for his organization
to run away with his good judgment
and thereby violated the laws of this
country.
He made some fragrant misrepre-
sensations of fact in his captivating
advertisements and was thereby
found guilty in the federal courts of
using the mails to defraud. Admit
ting this is true, it also is true there
is nothing in Garvey's record to class
him as a criminal.
In this case the elements of per-
sonalities should be forgotten. Gar
vey's idiosyncracies and eccentricities
should be overlooked. The virtues in
the man should be estimated and
weighed. Gavey did one thing if no
other-he famed the Pickering
spark OF race consciousness until II
glowed. He made a standard in
black.
Every black man in America
should march to the front in behalf
of Marcus Carney and help secure
his freedom.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
Captain Charlie. Lindbersh. a 2

Captain Charles Lindbergh, a %
year-old youth, has flown from New
York to Paris in Y hours. The
distance was $3.50 miles. For this
age that is well nigh a miracle. Young
Eindbergh deserves all the fame and
material fortune that will follow in
the wake of his achievement.
Why are not colored youths such
notable pioneers in newer fields?
Simply this: lack of opportunity. You
can not expect colored boy to dare
in fields to him totally unknown.
Aviation, for example, is to him a
hidden book. During the World War
colored boys were not allowed in the
air service. After the war Chambers
of Commerce did not include them in
proffers of help. So colored boys DO
not become proficient in pioneer lines
Prejudice does not permit them to.
But there is a remedy. 1t is a con-
centration of colored capital to sup,
port pioneer colored ventures. When
that is done the barriers will fall.
The Hebrew has to do It and does
yet. The colored people will have to
do the same.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03

We wish to call attention of our
young men and women, particularly
those having musical and literary ta-
Tents and ambition, the advantage
of entering the various prize contests
along these lines being offered to
our group with increasing frequcn-
cy, by different newspapers, maya
zines, organizations and individuals.
The contestants have nothing to lose,
but much to gain, by participating in
this form of artistic competition. II
costs nothing but the effort involved
in preparing the manuscripts to be
submitted, and even in case the in
dividual contestant should fail to win
a cash prize. he will not fail to gain
the augmented skill and dexterity
which such efforts develop. The adj
ditional efficiency acquired through
the unsuccessful attempts today, may
prove the determining factor in to-
morrow's victories.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03

In certain regions of the Missis-
sippi River Valley Negroes are held
in abject peonage, type of slavery
more vicious and dehumanizing than
human mind can conjure or compre-
bend, and when the raging waters
of the Mississippi began to overflow
and inundate these salubrious farm
lands, the colored workers on these
farms were rushed to these refugee
camps and are being held a spiritual
prisoners by state militiamen pending
the subsistence of the water, when
they will be carried en- masse back TO
their habitats of Involuntary servi-
tude.
The federal government spends
millions of dollars annually for the
Knocked enforcement of the national
liquor statute, while Mississippi and
sister Southern states hold thousands
of American citizens in human bond
age; many of these Dixie planters
refusing to make any settlement
with their colored field hands OF
share-croppers, always contending
that these unfortunate and untutored
black Americans still are in debt to
them-as IL the law permits any man
to hold another in enforced bondage
because of debt or financial obliga-
ton incurred.
While the federal government lays
plans for rebuilding the levees and
making safer the section of the
country through which the Father Of
Waters wends his way to the gulf,
The Enterprise is Of the opinion that
the government ought to also take
steps to liberate the countless number
of black men, women and children
still held in human bondage by the
landlords and politicians of Missis-
sippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas and
other Dixie states where colored
Americans are thus denied their con-
stitutional rights.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03

IL is a deporable fact that many
short-sighted Negroes, chloroformed
by the white mans propaganda,
have spread so many untruthful ru-
mors concerning the meaning of the
aims and objects of the Universal
Negro Improvement Association. II
feeding the fire of desire for racial
freedom in the hearts of people
makes leader a menace then many
have been honored and revered as
leaders of their people who should
have been despised and scorned.
Marcus Carney gave the Negro the
finest thing the race ever had when
he created the Universal Negro Inn
provement Association. II advocates
and fosters outstanding manhood and
womanhood among Negroes. The
principles it teaches can not fail to
make the Negro who believes in and
practices them a better individual, a
better citizen, better neighbor
wherever he happens to be found.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
Answers

L. Not by the United States Su-
preme Court, who ruled Japanese
were not in the same calss as "frec
white people,"
2. Attorney Kari F. Phillips.
3. ,Boley, Oklahoma.
4. From the Latin word mi
GER" meaning black.
5. A son of Ethiopian slaves, born
in Sicily, made head of the Monas-
terry of Santa Maria de Jesus at
Palermo. Italy, and cononized a saint
by the Catholic Church for his vir-
tues.
6. A Jewish philanthropist, who
contributed about 100000 for Ne
gro Y. NJ. c. A. buildings in the
United States. He is head of the
great mail-order house, Sears-Roe-
buck of Chicago
z. About 10000.
8. April 5, 1856.
9. The Caucasian race.
10. Famous pastor of Plymouth
Church, in Brooklyn, whose work in
opposing slavery made him an out
standing character of those times.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
Smart Coats
A Greater Anniversary v -
Value at

Clever Sport and Dress Types
Coats that you would expect to pay great
deal more for. few of the materials are Kash-
cen, satin Kashmr, twlsheen, plaid and check
sport fabrics-Cleverly fured and self trimmed.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
We have had our "Health Week. )

We have had our Health Week."
History Week" and several other
kinds of weeks. With the coming of
summer it is fitting and more than
proper that we should give our ener-
giles to "Clean Up Week" The melt
ing SHOWS have left dirt and debris.
The sunshine and warmth will bring
us out in the open and careless hand
and thoughtless head will leave
litter and dirt about. These weeks"
serve well to focus attention, but
are weak indeed If they end when
the week has passed. A "Clean Up
Week" may take some Of the dirt
away and cause few grass seeds to
be planted, but it will take more
than Just week of effort to keep
the dirt away and the grass grow
ing. Let us try to keep the spirit of
these weeks" spread out over the
year.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
Lessons in English

Words Often Misused
Don't say "the charges against him
hurt his character" Say "reputa.
hon
Word Often Mispronouneed
Hearth. Pronounce harth. the "a"
as in "arm," not as "e" in che"
Word Often Misspelled
Opaque.
Synonyms
Discipline, judgment, penalty re-
tribution, Nemesis, requital.
Word Study
Use a word three times and it is
yours. Let US increase our vocabu-
larry by mastering one word each
week.
GESTICULATI0N: gesture. "His
wild gesticulations attracted their at
tention."
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
Look and Learn

1. Are Japanese classed as "white'
in the United States?
2. Who is the colored Commits
sioner of Cancellation in the U. S.
Dept. of Labor?
3. What is the best known city
governed entirely by Negroes?
4. Where did the word NEGRO"
originate?
5. Who was st. Benedict the
Moor?
6. Who is julius Rosenwald?
7. What is the colored membership
in the Women's Christian Temper
ance Union?
8. When was Booker T. Washing
ton born?
o. With what race are the Abys-
sinians classed?
Who was Henry Ward Beech
orr
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03

Peter Salem Shooting British Commander Bunker H June H. w
Call Just issued by the National Equal
exercises public celebrations Of the anniversary Of the Battle Bunker
HILL OF Peter ouand
this regular battle for founding the s. A. and Salem Poor
Colonial notify
white service and sacrifice for them from the cun
BIRTH rights to the
fdence claim respect
resolutions Codg with addresses promoters for federal
arranged Equal Rights Committees Leagues such
H. and the Churches June 10TH
mndaton that resolution
Independence
postpaid.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03

Once again the 14th amendment
to the U. s. Constitution has given
protection. but again II is not the
Negro receiving 1t, though it was
his amendment when passed. JAP
anese in Hawaii, prohibited by the
territorial law from teaching their
language to their own children in
schools of their own successfully
attacked that prohibition. using
the 14th amendment.
The intelligence of our race is
going to waste on society. on mu-
sic. or fraternity. on politics, on
everything. so long as it has not
first secured opportunity which is
the right of every American, OPP
portunity which the 18th amend
ment will give to us as ii does to
everybody else. II only we will
spend our money to invoke ii.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03
A Preston New. Service editoria

A Preston News Service editorial
writer laughs at the theories of DR..
r. r, Wright who speaking at Trim
ity Church here recently declared the
Negro is physically to the white race.
DR.. Wright said,
(1) Curly headed Negroes keep
their hair longer than whites.
(2) Dark skinned people with
stand heat better than whites.
go Negroes arms and legs are
longer than whites. 1t enables them
to perform manual tasks better.
(4) Negroes with mouths and lips
larger than whites are better vocal
lists.
Those afflicted with an inferiority
complex may ridicle Dr. Wright's
theories, but they can neither deny
or disprove them.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-06-03

Covered up under a headline that
sought to prove that Negroes were
thieves, Nordic woman offers Negro
women mighty fine compliment in
Wednesday dispatches. This white
woman is the wife of a big game
hunter in Africa. She indicates in
90 many words that the black women
she encountered in the jungles at
tempted to steal her cosmetics. What
we get out of the article is that they
occasionally stole the attention of
her husband.
The same experience that Mrs.
Johnson has had in the jungles of
Africa has been been the nightmare
of millions of white women the world
over. The dispatch did not carry a
picture of the lady who claims to
have lost some cosmetics, but we
have an idea that the face she car
ries does not "look WE'LL" Just think
Of it. If it had been in Mississippi,
Alabama or Georgia we would have
felt that Mrs. Johnson had an even
break. But to complain of African
women-women who have no way of
presenting themselves except in the
costume of September morn. Wen
have to withhold our sympathy and
take refuge in the old adage which
says "a bad workman quarels
with his tools"
DO not throw away your valuable
time trying to break up or destroy
your competitor. Get on the job.
Produce a better article. Keep a
cleaner establishment. Give greater
service. There is no other way to
keep up with the march of progress.
We know a man who is unable to
pay his bills. He spends the ma
jority of his time worrying about
his rivals in business. He is lazy
and thriftless. He constantly be-
means his hard luck.
Time is the most valuable posses
sion a man has. Use IL to the full
est extent. Work hard. Stick on
the job. And above everything else
don't squander your energies think
ing about the business of somebody
else. Devote all your powers to
your own business and your business
will succeed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-04
BARN YIELDS
LIQUOR
Prominent Peru Business Man Held
. After Raid.
By United Press

By United Press
PERU, Ind, Aug. 4.-Lincoln H.
Scott, IS, prominent and wealthy
retired business man, was at lib
erty under $500 bond today on
charges of violating the liquor law.
Police arrested him when they
found huge distilling plant and a
quantity of liquor in barn rented
in his name.
The barn ostensibly was used for
breeding chickens. Scott formerly
operated a hotel, saloon and the
aters here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-04
Stop Stomach Misery
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sale at Haag Drug Stores and all
> other drug stores throughout this
section.-Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-04
Brain Te0Ser
AnS7OeYS

Below are answers to the Brain
Teaser questions on page 4:
/. Cossacks are horsemen from
the steppes of Russia.
2. The letter occurring most fire.
quently in the English language is
Sc"
3. Mt. vesuvius is volcano of
Italy.
4. Robert Burns was a Scotch
poet
5. The tibia is a bone in the lower
leg.
6. The pointed arch is a distin-
gushing feature of Gothic arcni-
lecture.
7. Miles Standish asked John AL
den to do his wooing for him.
8. The Congo River empties into
the Atlantic Ocean.
8. Little Eva was character in
''Uncle Toms Cabin"
10. The "Just So Stories" were
written by Rudyard Kipling.
H. Robert T. Humes.
r.. Enforcing motor vehicle laws
on State highways and curbing mo-
tor theft.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-04

Girls and men in canoes and row.
boats called to one another across
the echoing water; on the tennis
court two men ard two girls were
playing a swift game, their laugh
ter floating invitingly toward the
new arrivals.
my home for two weeks!" Vera
told herself, tingling with the thrill
of adventure.
81 have a room with bath re-
served for today" Vera said IN the
aloof voice which covered timidity
when she faced the hotel CLERK
across the register.
The young man smiled as he
cooked his head to watch her write
her name. Miss V. v. Cameron?
Yes, we have your wire, Miss Cam
eror. I hope you will enjoy your
visit, Miss Cameron. Pretty warm
in the city, isn't it? New York is
all right in the spring and the fall,
but give me the country in the
summer time"
Thank you. I'm sure I shall en-
Joy Minnetonka," Vee-Vee answered
briefly.
"Show Miss Cameron to room 618
Dick" the affable clerk directed the
bellboy.
Vera had turned away to follow
the boy, when it occurred to her TO
ask the clerk the closing hours for
New York-bound mail.
She stepped toward the desk
again, but hesitated when she saw
that the young couple who had SO
closely observed her in the bus were
at the desk, the woman leaning for
ward to whisper confidentially to the
clerk, who was listening with amaze
ment.
When he raised his eyes, I'M
doubtedly to stare after Vera, and
saw her coming toward him again
he flushed as if he had been caught
in an indiscretion.
Vee-Vee resisted a strong impulse
to run away-anywhere. Instead
she raised her chin 'haughtily, wait
ed until the embarrassed young cou-
pie had turned away, then put her
question coolly.
mail leaves for New York al
nine in the morning, at one in the
afternoon and at eight in the eve
ming" the clerk informed her
hastily. "And-er- MiSS-er-
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1kI)E N1IlNI( PRINCESS
I'M ssz7 q = SHA sgrvics ~ Dy Mnne dustin

Cameron, if you don't like your
room, would prefer a suite, perhaps,
I'm sure it could be arranged"
Vera wondered why he spoke so
eagerly, with almost servile defer
ence.
Thank you. I shall let you know
if 1 desire to change" she said
coolly.
AS she followed the boy down the
long, richly furnished lobby toward
the elevators she felt horribly con-
spicuous and alone. When she had
tipped him and closed the door of
her room she was seized with vio-
lent fit of trembling. She stood
clutching the edge of the dressing
table, staring at herself with fear
widened green eyes.
why are they watching me like
that?" she whispered with cold lips.
do I look like a thief or-or an
impostor? And why did that clerks
manner change so toward me?
Maybe it's because l look as If
were a millionaire's daughter, as
Jerry said. Oh, I'm foolish To wor-
ry! Maybe this is just gossipy
sort of summer hotel, where every
body speculates on everybody else
and tries to find out every ones
business.
"Well-they won't learn much
about Miss v. v. Cameron" she
nodded to her reflection with a
wicked little smile.
She lifted off her hat, hung 1t in
the deep, electrically lighted closet,
and started off on tour of inspec-
ton of her small domain-her own
apartment for the next two weeks
1t was not a large room, but it was
kso exquisitely decorated and fur
nished that Vera drew a deep
breath of thrilled wonder.
In all her repressed, unhappy
penny pinching life she had never
seen a room to compare with it. The
walls were covered with a French
gray tapestry wallpaper. 1t was a
corner room overlooking the lake,
The wide, deep windows were hung
with jade green taffeta, .ooped back
to show gauze-thin gold silk inner
curtains.
even If I don't find Schuyler,
it will be worth it all to live for
two weeks in a hotel like this and