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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
Only Four Colleges
Have Women Deans

WASHINGTON. ID. C.-Only four
colleges have deans of women, Miss
Lucy ID. Slowe. dean of women at
Howard University and secretary OF
the National Association of College
Women, announced this week.
Miss Slowe said that according to
the result of QUESTIONABLE sent to
the various colleges, the following
schools have deans of women who
meet the requirements sent up by
the National Association of Deans of
Women
Talladega College, Miss Marion
Cuthbert; Fisk University, Miss Su-
san Mendenhall; Bennett College for
Women, Miss Carol Cotton; Howard
University, Miss Lucy ID. Slowe.
Other schools have women who
serve in the capacity of deans. Miss
Slowe said. but the Association
either got no report from them at
all. or their reports are too incom-
plate to include i'm the official rec
ord
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26

NEW YORK. July 25.-The IN
dustrial Relations Department of the
National Urban League has issued
the following bulletin on employ
ment conditions:
June proved an ordinary month
in employment activities. 1t gave
rise to considerable speculation as
to whether or not unemployment
was increasing or declining. May
was most favorable month and
showed signs of continued prosper
ity in industry, but the picture
changed in June although the month
closed with the prediction that steel
and automobile production would
rank high.
A few instances reflect the activi-
ties among Negroes. The chief sign
of progress was the apparent awak-
ening of individuals in several cities
to the need of cranizing colored
men, and women to make effective
appeals to employers for jobs. The
Colored Negro Voters Advisory AS
sociation of Denver, taking advan-
tage of .polifical activities through
out the country and particularly IN
Colorado, has asked employers &c
give men and women jobs in posi-,
tions that have been closed TO them
The Economic and Industrial Asso
citation of Cambridge is making sim
liar appeals Citizens of. Dayton
protesting against the failure CT the
shops there to employ colored men
have become aroused over the situa
tion. and survey is being made
TO determine the extent of the prob
lem.
Two thousand additional Negroe
went to work in Winston Salem, n
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
Bishop Ransom
Advises Race To
Support Al, Smith


NEW YORK, July 25.-~(SpciaD
Discussing the Presidential cam
naign in its relation To the political
and economic future of the Negro,
Bishop Reverdy G. Ransom of the
African Methodist Episcopal Church
told the College Students Club yes
terday, that Gov, Smith offered
greater promise for the Race than
Mr.. Hoover. L." ..
There is little to choose between
the platforms of the two parties,
he said, and the personality of the
candidates will be the decisive ele-
mcnt in the campaign. This being
so, THAT of GOV Alfred Il. Smith
is far more heartening and attrac-
tive" ...r. .a.
Whatever we may think of the
Democratic Party, whose standard
bearer he is, through his entire po-
litical life he has known the Negro
as a factor. to be reckoned with in
the politics of his city and his State.
We cherish no illusions with regard
to his party. 1t is the same old
Democratic Party.
But the party Mr.. Hoover rep
rescnts is not the same Grand Old
Republican Party The Republi-
can Party wrote the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments into the Con-
stitution. If they have long since
been cvaded or nullified by the
Southern democracy it is because
a long succession of Republican adj
ministrations, in full control of
every department of the Govern
ment, has silently acquieseed in
these evasions.
1.-THE Republicans inserted a
spinelcss plank in their platform in
regard to the Eighteenth Amend
ment, while II is silent ON the Four
teenth and Fifteenth Amendments,
which 90 to the very roots of our re-
publican form of government
namely. the right to vote.
"Republicans~ will find in this
campaign that the Negro vote can
not be swayed as of old, by con-
juring with the name of Abraham
Lincoln. while there stands before
us in the person of Gov. Smith. a
man who in sagacity and the com-
mon touch of human sympathy Is
more like Lincoln than any Candi-
date for President since Lincoln s
day.
"The attitude of Gov. Smith
toward the Negro has never been
patronizing, or that of demagogue.
With him they are just a part of
the folks, counting for what they
are worth. Under him there is a
brighter day of hope for all classes
of American citizens"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
Urban League Reports Increase
In Employment OF Negro Workers

c., in a new tobacco factory, built
by the r. ]. Reynolds Company,
which closed up factories in Jersey
City and Richmond. Va, when the
new buildings were constructed in
|. .Winston-Salem. In Portland, Ore
gon, there is hope for the employ
ment Of a colcred policewoman now
that a volunteer has been appointed
as a forerunner of a salaried Off
GER
In Baltimore, where costs of
buildings planned or in process OF
construction run into many millions,
unemplc yment is said to have been
relieved 75co A large number OF
Negroes are included among those
working in building construction.
Camp Meade barracks not far re-
moved from Baltimore are under
construction, and common labor,
mostly Negro, is being rapidly alb
scrbed. Philadelphia reports les
sening of its unemployment because
| the street railways and street re-
pairing are using quantities of Ne
gro labor. Newark and Fort Wayne
make similar notations. In. Pine
Bluff. Ark, night shifts have beer
installed in the Nash body plant
and more favorable conditions have
been put in operation for Negro
skilled workers.
= Colored hotel workers were re-
placed by white workers in hote
in Jefferson City. Missouri, and
another in Chicago. Illinois. In tho
shift from union. to non-union en-
ployees. contractors In Lexington
Kentucky. caused the use OF a few.
er number of Negro workers.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
NEGRO VOTERS DESERVING G. 0. P.
Atlanta Shirt Factory
To Employ Negro Help

u
MONTGOMERY, Ala.-(A -
When the East Coast Manufacturing
Company of Chicago, the largest
manufacturers of working mems
shirts in the world, opens its new
branch factory here the latter part
of the month 1t will offer employ
ment to more than 500 men and
women all of whom will be Negroes.
This is the first time, so far as is
known, where an attempt has been
made to use Negro labor in the south
in such an enterprise.
The selection of the workmen has
already begun, there being more than
500 applicants the first two days.
The workers are being taken on at
the rate of 20 day, each group
being trained for their employment.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
Chicago To Have
2,500,00O Building
For Negro Tenants

CHICAGO. July 25 (ANP)-A
$2,500,OOO South Side apartment de
velopment of unusual scope and
design is to be started within Il
few months, according to an an
ncuncement made Tuesday by +.
i. Brown, Vice President of the
First National Bank. who is Chair
man of the Committee in charge of
the project The entire block he
tween Michigan and Wabash ave
nues from 46th to 47th street has
been acquired and is to be develop
ed with four and five story apart
ment building around central
courtyard. The building will be
ready for occupancy by the spring
CT 1920.
The development is to be known
as the Michigan Boulevard Gardens.
The tenants will be Negroes. The
financial backing comes from Julius
ROsenwald.
Four hundred apartments rang
ing in size from three to five rooms
all with baths, will be well provid-
ed Moro than half of the apart
ments will be of four rooms. The
building will be fire proof and all
the rooms will have outside eX.
posure, either on the street or on
the garden.
An unusual aspect of the under
taking is the garden or quadrangle
in reality a small park, of three
acres or more. The garden will
be almost block long and half
again as wide as Michigan Boule-
ward. There will be plenty Of room
there for small children to play
without any danger from automo.
biles. Five portals will lead from
the four streets into this area. The
central garden will be as attractive
as lawns, trees, shrubs and flowers
can make il.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
Louisiana Voters
Endorse Cohen

NEW ORLEANS, La { AMP -
Colored voters have organized the
Good Government League with Rev.
Charles w. Brooks as president, and
John l.. St. Charles as secretary.
Walter l.. Cohen, comptroller of GUS
toms of the Port of New Orleans, adj
dressed the meeting, urging organiza-
tion and the necessity of recognizing
leadership. BY a rising vote of the
assembly, Mr.. Cohen was declared
the leader of the League. 1t was
decided to form Good Government
League club in every ward in New
Orleans and in all the parishes thru
out the state.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
Odd Fellows to Build
New $1S5,OOC Temple

WASHINGTON, d. Disregard
ing the failure of the Masons to
complete their You Street temple
and the resulting five years of liti-
cation. the Grand United Order of
odd Fellows, of the District of Co
lumbia, are planning a $1S5,OOO
temple at 112th and You streets.
Their present property on M street
is sold to the National Geographical
Society.
Tentative plans call for a five
story building with lodge rooms on
the upper floor, drill hall i'm the
basement, auditorium on the second
floor with several stores on the
ground floor.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
Report 1894 Porters
and Maids on Pullmans

WASHINGTON, d. C.-According
to an abstract. which has just been
published by the Interstate Com
merce Commission. of the report
rendered by the Pullman Company
for 1927, the company that year had
1924 porters and maids in its em-
ployment and their average salary
was $3.50 a day.
The abstract also showed revenues
received by the Pullman Company
from the operation of sleeping cars
in 1927 amounted to $S0,952,20S.
The total operating expenses were
S66, ,5O2,582. The total number of
revenue berth passengers was 22,-
O42,O93 and the total number of
seat passengers was 13,155, ,0S5.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26

DlHCh-duu-Wlllle CdDdItlS'
The ebony arm of Africa stretches
across half the world II throws a
long shadow Something drops over
you darkly in cities far from the
beat of tom-toms and the song of
the paddlers on tropical rivers.
There is Africa more insistent than
memory of the East
When | watched th,t last man
grove swamp of the Congo estuary
vanishing astern of French liner
homeward bound. / thought that |
had seen the end of black humanity
for time. But in Paris they we're
applauding mulatto actress at the
Folies. In London a black man
held out his tin mug as he tapped
his way along the wet pavement.
And in New York found the larg-
est Negro city in the world. Har-
lem they call it; though there is
another and more expressive name
--"Nigger Heaven" Among the
quarter of million blacks and gol-
den browns, yellows, and .almost-
whites in this section of New York,
all the Negro types OF the world
are represented, South America has
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
Ten-Y Year-Old Lad
illustrates Robbery

JONESBORO. Ark.-ANP. )-0f-
ficials of the Martin Chain stores
are heaping enconiums upon little
Harry Taylor and they have a real
right to do so. Harry who is just
ten years old, saved the company a
neat little sum in cash and merchan-
disc here Tuesday morning when he
discovered thieves trying to effect an
entrance in the rear of one of the
stores. The lad, despite the threats
of the bandits. screamed for the
police, and the robbers took to their
heels
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
Leaders Declare
They Can Win
Victory In Week

NEW YORK. July Especially
The Policy COMMITTEES of the
brotherhood OF Sleeping Car por-
ters concluded its conference Mon
day noon. July 30. The agenda con-
sidered covered a wide field relat-
ing to organization and propaganda
policies. The conference was called
into session by A. Philip Randolph,
General Organizer.
According to General Organizer
Randolph, definite decision to
strike has been made unless the
Union secures recognition from the
Pullman Company Secret orders
and directions on the time of call
ing and execution of the strike are
in sealed envelopes In the hands OF
the Regional Supervisors who shall
relay same to the Division Organiz-
ers These sealed envelopes are not
to be opened until the order is re-
ceived from the Strike Committee,
which is composed of A. Philip RAN
dolph, General Organizer, and NJ. p.
Webster, Chicago Division Organic
err
The order for the sealed strike
envelopes to he opened will be given
in consultation with Mr.. William
Green, President of the American
Federation of Labor, says Randolph.
The 1900 members of the Broth
erhood in every district of the Pull
man Company throughout the coun-
try have made it definitely and un-
mistakably known that they are
ready TO walk out whenever the or
der Is issued, says the General Or
ganiZer. Mr.. M. p. Webster, mem
Der of the Policy Committee and
Chicago Division Organizer, who
presides over the second largest
division in the country, says that
eighty-five per cent of the men i'm
his division will step down when the
order Is given. He also claims that
strikehreakers will be total fail
ure in Chicago on account of the
militant spirit of the membership.
A. l.. Totten, Assistant General
Organizer. Roy Lancaster, Seere-
tary-Treasurer. w. H. Des Vefney,
Assistant General Organizer; Bemie
Smith, Field Organizer; f. J. Brad
ley. st. Louis Division Organizer, at
tending the Policy Committee Con-
ference, alleged that the porters'
unio mean win the strike in less than
n week, if it is called.
The reason why the Brotherhood
is so confident of victory in the
event of strike is based upon the
fact that strike can be called
within twenty-four hours, inasmuch
as the strike vote has already been
taken and the mandate given to
the Policy Committee by the mem
bership, says RandolphJ Besides
the discipline and spirit Of the men
have increased enormously since the
strike was postponed. The organiz-
ers claim that the men feel that a
strike will surely come unless the
Pullman Company meets the repre-
sehtatives OF the Brotherhood and
signs an agreement on rules and
working conditions.
The Policy Committee has for
mulated plans and methods that
will strengthen the organization
over o hundred per cent. so that
instant and effective strike action
can be executed without delay or
complications.
General Organizer Randolph
pointed out that the actual date OF
the strike would be withheld ffom
anybody and not made known until
twenty-four hours before its execu-
tion.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
Nation Wide
Revolt Among y
Race Voters

WASHINGTON, ID. c., July 25.-
Especially Leaders of the Republi-
can Party are much worried over
the Negro lineup in the impending
Presidential campaign.
The Republicans are worried be-
cause of the activity of the lily
white in the South and their de
mand that the Negro be relegated.
The Republicans fear that the Sem
atorial investigations that are now
being made, and seemingly aimed
at the Negro by wholesale indict-
ments of Negroes, may react and
cause a nationwide revolt against
the party.
In Delaware, Maryland, West
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Missouri and Oklahoma, the Negro
holds the balance of power, and as
they vote these states go. In the
East, including New York, and in
the Middle West, the Negro holds
the key to the situation, and as he
votes the election goes.
Republican leaders are worried
also over the activity of Democratic
leaders who are organizing "Al
Smith-Joe Robinson Negro clubs" in
all important centers where there
is a large Negro vote
Ferdinand q. Mortcn, member
of the New&G0rk City civil service
commission and said to be the high
est salariel Negro officeholder in
the country with those other New
York city officials of this race visit
ed Washington last week on a tour
through1this country westward for
the organizing of "Al Smith-Joe RO-
binson Negro clubs" in all import
ant centers of Negro voting activity.
Negroes in several cities in "b0r-
der" and Northern states have re-
Gently become much accustomed to
voting the Democratic ticket in lccal
elections. This has been true often
in considerable degree in certain
sections of New York end Chicago.
ri has been tfde IN BaltimorG under
the leadership of TON" Smith, IA
locally extremely powerful Negro
politician. II has been true also in
Memphis under the leadership OF
Robert II. Church, one of the ablest
and most outstanding Negro char
aeters of the country, who IL a
staunch Republican nationally, but
who in local affairs has been fire.
quent and welcomed ally of the
local Democratic boss"
Even in Arkansas, state of the
"solid South the chairman of the
State Democratic Committee J. S.
Utley. has now under consideration
a project for Smith and Robinson
clubs" among Arkansas Negro vot-
nrs.
The first report of n revolt of
colored voters from the Republican
party reaches here from Ohio. If
the detection should prove 70 be
as general as it is reported, it may
swing the "a electoral votes of that
state into the Smith column in the
presidential election. Ohio has not
gone Democratic in a national cleo
tion since Woodrow Wilson carried
IL in 1916.
According to accounts reaching
here, an investigation was made OF
the reported desertion of the Re
publican party by individual colored
men and women. 1t developed that
the movement was general and that
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sent Spanish and Portuguese speak
ing Negroes. Many know nothing
but French. Thousands came from
the British West indies. There is
a slightly mysterious dark-skinned
Abyssinian sect who speak Hebrew
among themselves ana worship III
tiny synagogue.
From Dixie
Harlem, however, draws an over
whelming number of its teeming.
population from below the Mason
Dixon line; from those Southern
States of jazz and cotton fame,
where the Ku-Klux- Klan and Jim
Grow ordinances make life unhappy
for the colored man. The soft ac-
cents of Virginia and Georgia are
heard in every corner of New York's
BLACK belt"
Each morning the subways are
crammei with Negroes bound for
the wharves and giant hotels and
skyscrapers down town." As dock
workers, elevator, operators, in fac
tories and in faundries, they toll .all
day. At night, Harlem sends out
Continued on page AZ
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
100 Year-Old Woman Dies

NATCHITocHES, La, --(ANP.)
Mrs. Winnie Jackson, reputed to
be over one hundred years old, is
dead. She often said she distinct
ly remembered when ''the stars felP'
in 1883. She was a native of Georg.
ia and a former slave.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
Prayer Fails to Halt /
Fire in Bishops Tent

HAMPTON, Va.-Prayer of Bish-
op C. NJ. Grace failed to halt destruc-
tion of his 5000 gospel tent on NAL
lory avenue recently by fire.
The big ten, 40 by so feet, made
of canvas, valued at 5000, was tot
ally destroyed.
John Stith, James Freeman and
Iodine Braxton, of Newport News,
were arrested charged with arson,
and later freed.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
Negro Ice Factory
Runs Day and Night

LOUISVILLE, Ky,-(ANP)--Lo-
cal Ice Factory fully equipped is run
ming day and night in order to fill
the rush orders that are coming in.
The factory has. day and night
force, the storage room is kept filled
with ice
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
Klan Granted Armory

LOUISVILLE, Ky.ANewly elected
Republican board of county commits
sioners have granted the armory to
the Ku Klux Klan for the celebration
Labor Day. Previous administra-
tions of both parties had denied the
Klan permission to parade or gather
in public places.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
Dad Burns Daughter

FAIRMONT, w. Va. (PNS. -
Burns which proved fatal were sus-
tanned by Anna Mae Austen, when
her father, during a family brawl,
poured kerosene over the child, in a
fit of anger, and then set fire to her
clothing.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26

LOS ANGELES, Calif.-( AMP y
After two years of the "Uncle
Tom" role, James Lowe will appear
in a new one. The role of Israel
Dubois, soldier of fortune in the Ma
tional Drama League prize winning
play "Goin' Home
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
African Memorial Unveiled

NAIROBI, Africa. - A monu-
ment TO perpetuate the memory of
African soldiers who served the Brit
ish colors during the World War was
unveiled last week here
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
Nelson May Head
Democratic Campaign

WASHINGTON. - Endorsed by
Senator Bayard, of Delaware, Rob-
ert Nelson, editor, "Washington
Eagle" is expected to head the dem
ocratic campaign among colored.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
Rosenwald Gives $4,000

CHICAGO. - Julius Rosenwald
has donated $4,000 to the Provident
Hospital, here, toward a new build
ing. 4---..-----.-..-
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
The Week
Olympian Games.
Two Old Ladies.
Pullman Porters.
No Third Party.
{ Read The Week and Get a
College EducationD
By ROSCOE SIMMONS
oLYMPIAN GAMES.

f. Regret is expressed that colored
Americans won't have old-time rep
resentation on their country's team
at the Olympian games at Amster-
dam. Don't worry over that; a year
hence nobody will remember who
Jumped highest Or ran fastest at
those games.
After watching an ancient contest,
Paut who missed nothing, said "The
race is not to the swift" If young
men prepare to hold their ground in
this world they may make name
more valuable than one printed one
day for high kicking,
Isocrates (ask some book friend
about him) had something to say at
Olympia when the game took place
at that immortal spot.
Young men. read it carefully:
81 have often wondered that
those who convene the great
festivals and have established
athletic contests have deemed
physical excellence worthy of
such great rewards, and yet
to those who have individual
ly tolled Tor the public good,
and have so form d their
minds as to be able to benefit
others as well as themselves,
to these, | say, they have al
loted no honor, for whom they
ought to have had more con-
sideration; for if the athletes
were to acquire tw c e the
strength they possess, no adj =
vantage would accrue to other
men; but if one man were to
conceive wise thought, all
would reap the enjoyment of
his understanding who were
willing to share it"
You might read that again, re-
membering, as you go along, that
while no one can recall who ran a
race or threw the javelin. no one can
forget lsocrates.
Your Olympian games are held
daily and you are contesting with the
world. Leap the bars of prejudice
and run the race set for you by Lin
coin. If you triumph call would reap
the enjoyment"