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people? He smiled grimly Probably
the, butcher and the baker and the
candlestick maker were real people in
Cecily's eyes! People who did real
work? Bricklayers. perhaps. He
tried to sneer. There were people in
the world who were doing real things
People like that Belts, whoever he
was. Certainly he was real. Must
be rather fun, too, turning out those
laughable creatures What sort of
man would make animals like that ,
Certainly not man who was bored
with life! He'd like to know that
8etts. He'd like to ask him what ne
thought of life. Like to ask him il II
gave him pleasure to amuse people.
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To Use Corpse as Witness.

An Oklahoma district attorney has
announced that hereafter, because of
the Soft.heartedness evinced by juries.
he intends to have the corpse of the
victime present at murder trials as n
silent Witness says the Dearborn
IndeDendent
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THE STORY THUS FAR.

Judy Belts is a rich little poor girl, rich
IN dreams which tighten happy go lucky
existence with her Bohemian parents Da a.,,
mother. a painter Most of all she loves
the beautiful old Darien place. most charm
Of which lead the Capitals social whirl.
Jack, their only child; poor little ,ns .i Tsa
In chiidhood he meets wistful Judy. who
continues to thin! of him as the years years. erns s
a designer of clay toys and ornaments
They bring too Tommy Garter ca rws s9R 81
newspaper and loves Judy as she grows
TO 20.
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81 Want a Real Man"
vACK grinned at her impudently.
Love me just the same, don't
YOU. Cecily?'' he asked her,
~ caressingly.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-21

Poisoned Ru111yKiIIS Thirty-fiUe
Chicago Pastor Has
Broadcasting Station

CHICAG0.-0ANP)-The Rev.
Harry Haley, pastor of South Park
Tabernacle and Independent Church
with 500 members, has the only
known race broadcasting station.
II is WWAZ and the Rev. Mr.,
Haley broadcasts his sermons, lee
lures, Sunday morning and Wednes-
day evening.
Denied an education in his birth
place, Florida plantation, the Rev.
Mr.. Haley came TO Chicago and en-
tered the ministry. He breaches
the doctrine of preparing to live
while on earth, and says that in
stead Of spending huge sums erect
ing churches or to secure big
churches he advises his members to
pool their money to build big busi-
ness enterprises and industries
where men and women can be given
employment; to secure homes where
they can live in comfort and to erect
hospitals equipped so their own
physicians and nurses may be train
ed adequately.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-21

the sole natural guardian of his
children. He can take the earnings
of his children, while the mother is
powerless to prevent it, no matter
how much she would like to do SO.
In some States there are public
offices which woman may not
hold. For instance, a woman could
not be Governor, Lieut.. Governor or
Attorney General and she could not
even be State superintendent of ed
ucation when the duty OF educating
the children of this country is plac-
ed to a large extent in the hands of
women. rF
Ma Ferguson -
An amusing thing happened when
rMa Ferguson was elected COVER
nor OF Texas. She had to petition
the legislature for the removal of
her disability as woman, so that
none of her acts or contracts as
governor of the State could be call
ed into question. In many of the
States married women are limited
in their capacity to make certain
contracts.
For that matter, the United States
Civil Service Bureau discriminates
against women. Not long ago an ex-
animation was held to select train
ed nurse for the Panama Canal
Zone. The men were offered $t25
per month, while the women were
offered only 500. So that's the
way II goes in this country, where
women are concerned. 81
Twice As Many Burdens tsk
For that reason 1t would be nat
tiral for the white women of the
country to understand what colored
women are up against when they
try to reach a certain goal. They
know what II means to be unable
to succeed, not because they lack
the ability or the industry todachieve
success In certain profession or
pursuit, but solely because they are
women. And 1t would be natural
also for them to have bit of SYM
pathy with their dark-slkinned sis
ters, who are discriminated against,
not only because of their sex, but
on account Of their race as well.
In other words colored woman in
the United States has just twice as
many Burdens to carry as a white
woman and they are twice as heavy
too. "a ,if8a faf $500 sss
Well. some white women do un-
derstnad the huge obstacles which
block a colored woman's path to
success, and they wish they could
help to remove them.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-21
DUBOIS, PICKENS
ASKED TO HEAD
STEAMSHIP Line

NEW YORK, Oct. 20.-The N. A.
A. c. p. offices get many queer let
ters from people everywhere in the
world. Recently the following item
came in the mail:
Alabama, Aug. rs, 1927.
DR.. Du 3ois,
New York City,
Dear Sir:
send you this clipping in which
I read in the paper here and in
which was greatly glad to know
that Liberia is out of her debts and
now l hope that you will in the
near future run a steamship line
from your city to Liberia and you
be the President and Prof. Will
Pickens the Sec. of the line, then
l would be too glad to go over
there. also have been on the look
out to hear of some OF the boys
from your city TO make a fly over
there in an airship and return like
Mr.. Linderburg and the others have
flew over to France and return. So
| hope to hear from you very soon
Wishing you the greatest of success
Also please DIR. Duboise whenever
you may have the time to do so go
over to 31S East 4Sth st. and see
DR. Lee De Forest and tell him ]
sent him a card on my birthday
and did he ever receive it or not
He is an inventor of the radio
which is now used so many ways
and even on the airshlps flying in
the air and tells us how they are
going and how far it is to heaven
and how can we poor Negroes get
there from this Earth.
| remain your friend,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-21
Dixie Cafe Owner
Draws Color Line

NEW YORK. - (ANP) - Green
wich Village, long known as the
home of freedom. was the scene of
a bitter controversy on the "color
line" last week, when James (Jim-
my) Harris, popular school teacher
OF the city, after attending an ex-
hibition of poetry in the poor po-
cts exhibition" sought to obtain
food in an adjoining restaurant.
The proprietor OF the place, Su-
sane Strouvelle, white, formerly of
Oklahoma, told Mr.. Harris. 1--WE
don't serve colored people here.
come from too far south to do it,"
Mr.. Harris protested the New
York Civil Rights Law, but the bi-
goted woman persisted. Mr.. Harris
has brought suit and has the sup
port of practically the entire will
age.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-21
Student Strike Closes
Hampton Institute

HAMPTON. Va.-The Hampton
Normal and Industrial Institute, list
ed as the largest Negro college in
the country, is closed following vir-
tually unanimous strike" of its GAG
men and women students. DR.. James
Z. Gregg, principal of the institute,
announced. the suspension of classes
would be indefinite until the student
walkout ended.
The strike, which occurred Friday,
was due to the turning on of lights
during a motion picture show and to
the confinement of the student body
to the school grounds from early eve
ming.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-21
Legal Wrongs Of White Women Make
Them Sympathne With Race Women
by MRS. MARY CHURCH-TERRELL

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salii,s IoIl three wnite Judges OF
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ne laws oi inahy states SUN pa,
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men, s1s pointeu ou,. slsn. mere
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ciuslon OF tne motner. "A concrete
iliuseration Oh the inlustice Oh TINS
wh,eh ,aM s wen aa li,us'ra.eo ,as oy caSe \,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-21
TIGER FLOWERS
NEARLY M0BBED
In VIRGINIA

HARRISoNBuRG. Va. Oct. IT.
--"Tiger" Flowers. middleweight
boxer, can dodge nearly everything
except law suits.
John Logan, white, aged play
ing on the state road last Friday
with other children, ran in front of
the Tigers car and was run down
before the auto could be stopped
Then things happened as they will
anywhere In Dixie.
First, without any investigation
the boys grandfather threatened to
shoot the fighter who ran to look
up a policeman, bowling over wo-
man and cutting his own neck and
face on a wire fence.
His sister-in-law and friend
left in the car, a Lincoln sport
model. were badly frightened by
the crowd which gathered.
Flowers himself, was held in $5,-
900 bond, which was Immediately
wired from Atlanta by his manager,
Walk Miller.
The boys parents filed suit for
$4,000 damages and attachment
papers were served against the car
That car took the cops eyes, they
wanted to know what was in It
They found out.
Without any warrant they
searched" the car for liquor. Ali
satchels and pockets were opened
and contents turned out. No liquor
was found.
Finally. Flowers must come back
to this place for trial, Nov. 5th, on
charges of reckless driving and
felonious assault. Flowers carries
$4,000 casualty insurance on his
car and his damage suit will be
defended by his insurance company.
There were no Witnesses to the
accident. However, Flowers is
charged with driving his car ''reck-
lessly" at a high rate OF speed"
failing to warn pedestrians" and
failing to keep a look OUT
To all of these charges the "Tf-
ger" answered that the youngster
darted out from behind another car
and was struck before he could put
on his brakes.
Released, the "Tiger" drove his
party on to Atlanta.
Flowers, known also as Deacon.
has earned nearly a million in purses
since he began fighting and saved
80 per cent of what he's made.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-21
POISONED BOOZE
KILLS 0W NE.R
AND CUSTOMERS

BALTIMORE, Nd, Oct. 20.-
tSpecial) )-Thirty-five people. 32 Of
them colored are dead in Baltimore
from drinking poisoned liquor this
week, dispensed at a saloon, owned
by Charles Herman, white at the
corner of Oxford street and Penn
sylvania avenue, who with his bar
tender James Young, white, is also
among the number.
According to police report, Ker-
nan is said to have been missing
liquor from his establishment for
some time and set a trap for the
thief by poisoning some of the
liquor. The containers became mix
ed, it is alleged, and the poisoned
liquor was sold for good, both the
owner and the bartender drinking
it with the customers.
For some reason the health au-
thorities refused to attribute the
deaths to poisoned alcohol and in
all cases attributed the deaths to
acute Indigestion or natural causes.
Although 30 of the victims were
eolored, no colored undertaken was
allowed to handle any Of the bodies
Daniel Easton, white, Pennsylvania
avenue undertaken, buried II of the
victims, but when questioned by
A. N. p. reporter refused to make
statement that they had met their
deaths by foul play. The colored
persons known to be dead from
drinking the liquor are Isaiah and
Teresa Queen, sos Oxford street,
George Nelson, az, 22s Rock street,
Daisy Patrick. 26, 53S Greenwillow
street, Hazel Camphor. 80, 921 Mid
die Court, Ethel Powell, "a. 120o
Pennsylvania avenue, David Scar
borough. 60, 440 Orchard street,
Mary Lewis, So, els Plum alley,
Frank Brown, 23. 9zs Shields place.
Others can not be 9lscertained.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-21
URBAN LEAGUE
LABOR REPORT
FORSEPTEMBER

NEW YORK. Oct. 19.--In a re-
port issued today the National Ur-
ban League summarizes employment
conditions for colored people during
September as follows: A depressed
state Of employment existed through
out Northern cities. In New York,
Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland and
Philadelphia many colored workers
are unemployed. Many Southern
cities also report many laborers un-
employed. Several reasons are as
signed for the continued unemploy-
ment period Among the reasons
given are slowing up in automobile
production, approaching National
election. and trade disturbances be-
tween the United States and other
countries.
Whatever the cause is, the result
is depressing as the following re-
ports show:
Harrisburgh: Men are awaiting
the resumption of full activities in
steel mills"
Springfield, Ill: There is perhaps
not single night, but what we
have three or four transients in Jail
for lodging"
Tampa, Fla: "A continuation of
the inability of many to find work.
This is true of white and colored."
New York: "All evidence points
to the fact that there is much more
unemployment prevalent at this
time"
Fbrt Wayne: "a growing feeling
among leading colored citizens that
new openings must be made"
Advances Shown
There were some slight gains dur
ing September, as for instance, in
Newark, where a Novelty Company
employed bench workers and a dress
factory employed machine operators,
thereby Increasing their number of
colored help.e Also in winston
Salem, where skilled bricklayers,
cement finishers and carpenters
made significant gains. Incidentally
Negro union hod carriers scored
over open-shop workmen on a 27
story building in Tulsa, Okla. Ho-
tells in two cities, one in Texas and
the other in Missouri, decided to
use coltred orchestras. In Pitts
burgh a new hotel opened with a
colored headwaiter and crew of
thirty walters. Here also the coal
strike caused the use of colored
operators in mines which hitherto
denied q Negroes employment. In
New York City large oil company
with subsidiaries in various parts
Of the country has hired its first
colcred clerk. In Chicago the de-
mand continues for skilled lamp
shade workers and power machine
operators, fields in which colored
girls work in large numbers.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-21
EDITOR GIVES
RADIO TALK ON
NEGRO LEADERS
BY FLOYD J, CALVIN
Special Feature Editor

Speech delivered over Station
WGBS (Gimbel Brothers), New
York City, Monday afternoon, Oct.
II, at 3:40.
Good afternoon. radio audience:
IL is with pleasure that avail
myself of the opportunity to broad
cast the names of some notable
colored men. Recently, through
this station, you were told of the
achievements of our women. Natur-
ally, the men feel that they should
get a hearing.
1t was with some misglvings that
/ undertook the task of selecting
the names to be mentioned In this
talk. Although my list is Just twice
as long as that of the women, still
many important figures are omit
ted. | simply chose what / term
the leading walks of life in our
group, and named the more out
standing figures coming under these
various heads.
Business Leaders
First, we have the business lead.
ers, among whom are men of ex-
tensive corporate interests. Anthony
0verton of Chicago, Is head of a
national bank, president OF a life
insurance company, and president
of large cosmetic manufacturing
concern. c. c. Spaulding of Dur
ham, NJ c., is president OF another
large life insurance company, and
is one of the guiding spirits of the
only Negro fire insurance company
in America. Watt Terry of New
York and Brockton, Mass, is prob
ably the newest Negro millionaire
and represents what is possible for
us in the highly competitive North.
He made his fortune In real estate,
and his life is insured for $685.
600. s. w. Rutherford is founder
of the largest Negro life insurance
company in the world, at Washing
ton, ID, c., which has insurances in
force to the extent OF $76, 900, 900.
Harry IT. Pace Is president OF a life
insurance company at Newark, N. j.,
and is our most promising big busi-
ness pioneer of the East. Jesse
Binga is head of thriving state
bank bearing his name in Chicago.
C. Benjamin Curley is an efficiency
expert who is called In by various
Negro business enterprises for coun-
sell. Paul q. Johnson has developed
a large electrical medical appliance
manufacturing concern at Chicago.
A few of our business managers
Continued on Page 30
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-21
Fight Florida Jury Ban

NEW Y0RK.--Louis Marshall,
member of the Legal Committee and
OF the Board of Directors of the N.
A. A. G. p, is to prepare reply
brief to be filed in the State Su-
preme Court of Florida. challenging
the states right to execute Abe
Washington, on the ground that de-
liberate wilfull exclusion of colored
people from jury services violates
the Fourteenth Amendment to the
Constitution and renders the con-
viction void.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-21
by j. II. ROGERS
Enterprise Correspondent

NEHteTpTlSe correspondent
BRUSSELS.-This city is often
called Little Paris" by its admir-
ers while others say 1t is a sister OF
Paris. Step-sister. perhaps, because
1t Is difficult to find other than a
superficial resemblance. French, of
course, is the principal language
and the menus are written in French.
but first and foremost what does
one find; that instead of drinking
wine, the Belgians are drinking
beer. ''
In the cafes on the Boulevard
Adolphe Max everyone has a glass
of blond beer before him. And
some of these glasses or rather con-
tainers of beer on some of the back
streets are big enough to wash your
face In. You have seen the glass
top used in restaurants to cover
cakes aud pies. well 1t is the shape
and about that. Verify the human
stomach has unthinkable possibili-
ties.
Strong Beer
Don't the Belgians drink liquor in
their cafe? Well, perhaps they
would like to, but a semi-dry law
came in with the war. and was said
to be found so beneficial that II
was never repealed. Plenty of liquor
is found for sale in the stores, but
one needs his passports or card OF
identity to get it, ! was told. How
ever, the manufacturers get even by
making a beer so strong that IL you
are not an expert few glasses of II
will put you under the table. was
told that quite a little bootlegging
goes on In the cafes in spite OF the
heavy fine.
a Palace of Justice
cannot recall ever seeing any
where else a building OF greater size,
strength and majesty than this Pal
ace of Justice. Standing on the
summit of the hill it resembles some
cyclopean rugged mountain Of rock
carved into the shape of a build.
ing. It is the show place Of Brus-
sells. It was easy to tell that. One
can always tell the show places by
the number of guides and postcard
sellers standing outside. In this
case counted nineteen of the lat
ter, mostly women. rather seedily
dressed.
They Tell Americans
The preceding evening. rather
late, while standing on this hin,
contemplating the Sity with its nom
deseript roots, tall industrial Chin
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-21
'No Colored Trade" Signs
In San Diego, Cal.

SAN DIEGO, CAL (PGNB) ~ Fol
lowing the refusal of the manage
ment of local shoe store to take
down its sign mo Colored Trade
Solicited; the colored citizens of
the city have carried the fight to
the city council asking that an ordi-
nance be enacted making it unlaw-
full for proprietors of business es-
tablishments to refuse to sell their
goods to colored persons. or to dis
play signs to the effect that colored
trade is not solicited.
At a recent meeting OF the City
Council the matter was referred to
the city attorney for an opinion as
to the legality of such an ordinance,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-21
Suspend Cleveland Elks

CLEVELAND, O.-Cuyhoga Lodge
of Elks suspended exalted ruler
Chas. Smith, John Green, secretary.
Steven Ball, Charles Gray, James
Reed and Sydney B. Thompson,
trustees, for actions unbecoming Of
ficers. 81 ''H
Lodge officers are said to have
incurred bills without consent of
the members and to have left bene-
fits unpaid.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-21
Injunction Halts Gary's
Jim Grow School

GARY, Ind.-Charging that the
$4,000 appropriated by the alder
men of this city at a recent meeting
to erect Jim Grow school is an IL
legal expenditure of taxpayers
money, committee of public spirit
ed citizens Thursday filed suit in the
Lake circuit court at Crown Point,
Ind, to enjoin the officials of Gary
from further proceedings in their
plan to erect the proposed Jim Crow
school.
This decisive action on the part of
the citizens came as a distinct sur
prise to the officials of Gary, who
had concluded they would meet no
further opposition from the colored
citizens other than the boycotting of
the school by the children and their
parents. tHF .l
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-21
Wife Made Husband
Cook His Own Meals

SPOKANE. Wash. After be had
testified that his wife had neglected
her household duties and had forced
him to cook his own meals. Thomas
e. Slater, colored. was granted a
divorce from Minnie Slater, by Su-
perior Judge Lindsley They had
been married since 1914, and he
had taught her to play many musical
instruments. he told the court.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-21
Jalers Fail to Stop
Lady 'Jailbird' Singing

BUTTE. - Bessie Clark, colored,
was so hoarse from a prolonged pro-
gram of singing in her cell in the city
jail Saturday that she was barely
able to Make Judge Shea understand
her side of the case when she went
to trial for vagrancy. The woman's
singing could not be halted by jail
ers so she was placed in special
cell, where "she was singing to her.
self" according to policemen.
Miss Clark informed the court
that she could go to church and pray
as good as any of them" but the end
of the trial resulted in finding her
guilty and she was sentenced to 80
days in the county Jail.