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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-02
(By Wee willic)

Madrona Park in addition to be-
ing q Mecca for comfort seekers in
the summer and rendezvous for
lovers is a place to study the defects
in human thinking. Madrona beach
is cosmopolitan resort where all
races and nationalities rub elbows
on equal terms. Highbrows, work
ing folk, Jews, Gentiles, Japanese,
Filipinos, white folk and colored folk
iostle each other, smile and laugh.
They're Just human beings on pleas
ure bent. An automobile with a
Texas license stops on the highway op
posite the beach. The occupants gaze
with amazement at the mixed crowd,
whisper to each other and drive on.
A little colored girl turns the revolv-
ing swing for a group of smaller
white children and is cheerfully ac-
cepted as one of the bunch. A white
man tries to teach little colored girl
how to swim and she clings with her
arms about his neck as he douses her
in the water. Color prejudice is
more of a matter of what you are
doing than what you are. In for a
Saturday afternoon swim. The park
superintendent is a pleasant fellow.
He says that an average of three
thousand dip daily in the waters of
Lake Washington. Fifty thousand
should go bathing. Nothing will
knock immoral thought out of man
as much as cold water and clean
sport. Takes some of the obligation
and greasy ring off the Saturday
night bath tub. Saturday night stroll
ing about town. Down on Yesler
Way there Is blind man who has
solicited me three times today. Well,
he got nothing each time. Across the
street from the Union Station Grip
pied colored man asks me to buy a
pencil. | didn't as | use fountain
pen. Jackson street shows both sides
Of people tonight. Doorways and
steps are jammed with women. men
and children out for air. Filipino
shieks, japanese clerks and sports.
Chinese lottery kings and colored
Pullman porters saunter up and
down the street. stopped in front OF
o restaurant specializing in seafoods
where in the show window there Is
glass tank with live fish, crabs
and turtles. A pretty colored girl
stops, looks for awhile, nudges me
smiles and walks down the street
Now and then she turns and smile.
at me. I wasn't acquainted so
didn't smile. Just around the corner
on Maynard avenue three men drinl
from q pint hottie of whisky, openly
on the sidewalk. A blue coat arm
of the law less than 100 feet away
peacefully gazes in the other direc
ton. o Volstead, where is tn,
sting?
A man and woman scuffle togcth
er in the 100 block. A crowd gath
ers and the two are parted. The wo
man gives vent to her choice stool
of oaths and makes her way down th'
street to find policeman. Possibl!
an arrest, trial in police cour
Monday and more money for the cit!
with which they should pave Thir'
avenue.
Early Sunday Morning
Sunday morning Is hot and blaz
ing. People who are concerned NOR
with comfort than custom dodge tn
church and go to the parks. Perhap
God Is out there too in the spirit o
happiness. IN this spirit l went 4
Woodland Park, God and lots o.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-02
(By Walter White for Enterprise
News Bureau)


NEW YORK, Aug. There is
no more amusing or tragic or drama
provoking manifestation of race or
color prejudice in these United Sta
tes than the phenomenon of pass
ing" or crossing over the line" by
Negroes whose skin is light enough
in color to permit them to do so.
A few days ego Bishop of the Af-
rican Methodist Episcopal Zion
Church, addressing the annual con-
ference of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored Pco-
pie at Los Angeles, ventured the
guess that upward of 5000 Negroes
forget their Negro blood every year
and become to all intents and pur.
poses white-socially, professionally
and in every other way. There are
many who think the Bishops esti-
mate far too modest.
No one knows nor can one know
the exact number--the nearest one
can come to accuracy is by studying
the decennial reports of the Census
Bureau, estimating the number of
mulattoes, Uuadroons, octaroons and
other mixed bloods which normally
would result from the marriages of
mixed bloods with each other. or of
a mixed blood with one unmixed in
blood whether Negro or white, and
then guessing the whereabouts OF the
shortage-the discrepancy between
the number of light-slSinned Negroes
one ought to find and the number
one actually finds.
Obviously, such figures would be
of little scientific or statistical value
for at best, considering the many fac
tors and especially the impossibility
of determining the number of illicit
relations between white and Negro
uersons, any such figures would de.
mend largely on the personal slant ol
the one who made the estimate.
myself pretend to no exact knowl
edge. Yet il has been my experienced
many times in travelling in the unitet
States and abroad to encounter Ne
groes who arc passing.
Ambitious MIR. X.
X was born, believe, either il
Texas or Mississippi. Little wa
known Of his parentage or OF M
life until he appeared in the lat
ninet;es i'm New York. He was mag
.nificently built. over six feet II
height, with not a superfluous ounce
His skin was Of ruddy swarthiness
his hair a dark brown, inclined 7
curliness. He had TO difficult!
among Negroes in so far as race wa
concerned, for that he was a Negr
was TO them beyond doubt. But NeN
York with It's vast variety of race
and the South, with racial inter
mixture and climate hold many wn
we're and are as dark or darker tina
x but who are white .--
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-02
Committee Find
Porters' Finances
In Good Shape

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-(SpeciaD
Contrary to Pullman propaganda
that the Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters is on the rocks and that
the officials had squandered the
funds, the finances are in ship-shape
and orderly condition, reports the
Policy Committee.
In the recent conference Of the
Policy Committee, held in New York,
the Financial Department, which is
under the direction Of the General
Secretary-Treasure Roy Lancaster,
handling of the finances after care
full investigation by the Policy Com
mittee WIS stamped as efficient and
honest, vote of confidence was
given the Secretary-Treasure and
the Headquarters of the Brother
hood.
The Policy Committee is composed
of representatives from all parts Of
the country. ..
1t was found after examination of
the hooks and records of the Finan-
cial Department end the reports of
the Certified Public Accountant, Mr..
Stuart Chase, of the Labor Bureau,
Inc, 2 West l3rd Street, New York
City, that the monies of the porters
have not only been scrupulously han
died. but they have also been care.
fully conserved, according to A. Phil
in Randolph, Generalv ORGANIZER
The Brotherhood is honestly and
scientifically conducted, so that they
will bear the examination Of the most
critical and exact, upon moments
notice, saws Mr.. Randolph. |, to.
gether with the other officials, an
bonded. although, | handle no funds
| he continued
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-02
All the News
Tersely Told
Kelly Miller Is 65

WASHINGTON. - DR.. Kelly Mil
Ter was Go years old Monday. He
spent the day quietly with his fami-
ly at his home 2225 Fourth street,
northwest. The family had a water
melon for him that night.
He worked in the garden the re-
mainder of the day after teaching
school in the forenoon.
He came to Howard University in
1880 and became a member of the
faculty in 1890. He has seen all of
the important changes at Howard.
Most important change is in the col
ored scheme of the administration,
for he has seen the school change
from a small college with 20 pupils
to large college with LOO pupils.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-02
Although Deaf and
Dumb He Heard This

NEW YORK CITY CAMP. For
a number of years Robert King, age
Ga, has sought the aid of the public
posing as being deaf and dumb. Tues
day morning he was arrested and as
usual could not hear what "His Hon
or" was saying to him. He was sent
to a cell and as he started to enter
one of the wardens cried to him
'cYou can't 60 in there until you've
taken a bath"
"The hell | can't" King answered
and then proceeded to tell the jailer
Just what he thought Of him and the
whole outfit. Being trapped he con-
fessed that he had posed as being
deaf and dumb for several years and
had profitted b. it, ...
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-02
Woodson Lauds Booker T

TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala. -
Not as a Negro, nor as an American
but as a world man will Booker T.
Washington be remembered fifty
yeers hence" Df. Carter G. Wood
son, editor Of the Journal of Negro
Life and History, declared in an ad-
dress before the teacher-studcnts of
the summer school here Monday. "He
revolutionized education. He was
an educational rcformer of the sta
ture Of Pestaozzi. And as such will
the world pay tribute to him."
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-02
Infuriated Mob
Fights Police
And Fimenlerl

NEW YORK, July 30.-Machinc
guns, fire apparatus and $50 po-
lice were called upon to quell race
riot in the heart of Harlem, Sunday
night. and a special patrol was main
and 139th street.
Four policemen, three white, and
the prisoner whose actions led to
the rioting we're injured.
That there were not more hurt is
a miracle. in view of the barage of
broken chairs, bottles, garbage and
bullets as the machine gun squad
hove in sight.
The trouble started when Clarence
Donald, of 233S 7th avenue, invaded
81 rrGr+mcr' Il $50 LennoX avenue,
s.. men, There they ad-
,tel beating, according to
ponce, =. AIRS. Henry Chavis, for
reasons said to be alcoholic.
As they moved off Mrs. Chavis
screamed to PatrolInan Charles ku-
biel, white, If Traffic c, and he Or
dered Donald to halt.
Kubiel was felled, but clung to
his man as the crowd swarmed about
him, and Patrolmen Irwin Young and
Herman De Stelle, both white, of the
West 139th street station, rushed to
the rescue.
In plain clothes, a colored police
man, Samuel McFadden, joined his
fellow officers against the mob. All
four sustained minor injuries during
the fight that followed.
White civilians took sides with the
Officers, as the odds rose against
them. A riot call was turned in and
Il host of bluecoats were soon upon
the scene.
Then a barrage from the rooftops
followed, continuing until the patrol
men began firing into the air and
two hook and ladder trucks rolled up
scattering the crowd in the street.
The seriously injured, all of
whom were taken to Harlem, Hospi-
: tal are Patrolnen Sahuei i1eTad-
den, colored, fractured hands, cuts;
Avarles Kubeil, internal injuries
Herman De Stelle, cut eye and face,
bruises; Irving Young, fractured
right hand, cuts, and Lawrence Nc
Donald, prisoner, internal injuries,
cuts on head and body.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-02
New York Sets Self
For Jas. Lowe Play

NEW YORK, CAMP 1.-The latter
part of August will witness the ad-
vent of Il rev dramatic actor on
Broadway when James b. Lowe, star
of Universai's "Uncle Toms Cabin"
appears in "Goin' Home"
The play, which will be produced
by Brook Pemberston, white, will
have a mixed cast, with the role of
Israel Dubois. soldier of fortune, as
the star. The entire action is laid
in France.
Coin Home" the work of Ran
som Rideout, a University of Cali
fornia professor, will be "brokcn in"
outside of New York before coming
downtown.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-02
Hampton a Beneficiary

NEW YORK - Hampton Insti-
tute will receive $4,000 from the
$10,000,O00 estate left by the late
Mrs. Fannie Garrison Willard, white,
last surviving child of William Lloyd
Garrison, who died at Dobbs Ferry
several weeks ago.
Except bequests amounting to
S292,O0O, the estate will be divided
between two sons, one of them be-
ing Oswald Garrison Willard, editor
of "Thc Nation"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-02
Color-Line Against
Negro Letter Carriers

JACKSON, Miss. - The universal
practice of segregation in the state
of Mississippi last week reached the
ranks of the postal workers, one of
the few organizations that had not
been affected.
The Mississippi Letter Carriers
Association voted to restrict the or
ganization to white postal workers
at its annual meeting here.
The question of barring race pos
tai workers came up on the report of
the committee Of constitution and
bylaws, which reported the PROPOSE
tion for acceptance by the conven-
ton. A heated debate on the sub
ject lasted for nearly two hours and
it was unanimously adopted.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-02
Elks Treasurer $1,000 Short

BOSTON. Mass. Ernest c.
Johnson, 38, treasurer of Pocohon-
tas Lodge of Elks, Cambridge, was
held under $4,000 bail in the East
Cambridge Court, Thursday, before
Judge Stone charged with larceny of
$4,000 from the treasury.
1t is said that he was caught on
his way south in a high-powered
car. The sum involved was supposed
to pay the last Indebtedness before
the burning Of the lodges mortgage.
Johnson was an auto salesman.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-02
Jim Crow Bathing Beach

NEW ORLEANS, La.-(ANP)-
For the first time in the history of
the city, Negroes have been allotted
a section of the bathing beach along
Lake Pontchartrain, which will be
operated under the supervision of the
levee board with an adequate num-
Der of police officers and life guards
furnished by the operators Of the
bath houses and concessions.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-02
Opens Hardware Store

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - (ANP.) -
Messrs. Gallery and Thomas have
opened Louisville's first Negro hard
ware store. The place is fully equip
ped with the most select goods. The
company has warehouse where
large supplies are stored. In connec-
tion with the hardware store the
company will take contracts for elec-
trio wiring and building.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-02
School Gets $23o.Ooo

ST. LOUIS.-Mrs. Anne Lee,
white. descendant of signer of the
Declaration Of Independence, left
S1,300,000 TO white colleges and
10000 to st. Ema Industrial and
Agricultural College, Belmean, Pow
atan County, Va,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-02
Ark. Democrats Organize

LITTLE ROCK, lamp -
A real honest to goodness Democrat
ic organization was formed here
Thursday night when 250 prominent
citizens, headed by DIR. j. NJ. Robin
son, met at the Mosaic Templars
Temple and organized local branch
of the National Negro Democratic
League.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-02
Louisville Has Traffic Cops

LOUISVILLE. Ky.-(ANPD -
The Chief of Police, in making as
signments of police officers to GER
tain dangerous corners, assigned col
ored cops to 10th and Chestnut and
Tenth and Walnut streets during the
morning and evening hours when
traffic is so dangerous.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-02
Darrow for Al Smith

NEW YORK. - Clarence Darrow,
white, noted criminal lawyer, and hu-
came out last week for
Al Smith for president.
He gave as his reason Smiths
stand on the prohibition question.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-02
Masons Burn Mortgage

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.-The Grand
Lodge of A. F. and A. M. of Ala
bama closed its fiftieth annual com
here, Thursday night,
with its burning Of the mortgage on
its $750.000 temple at Fourth avenue
and 18th street, at which time DR..
Robert r. Motion, principal of Tus-
kegee Institute, delivered the adj
dress.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-02
Here's Black and White
Population Of South

WASHINGTON, d. C.--The black
and white population of the states
Of the ''sold south" is shown in the
following table:
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-28
At the Movies
CAPITOL THEATRE

A hard-riding, two-fisted cowboy
who swears vengeance on the girl
he loves. That is an unusual angle
IN Fox Films latest Western thriller
featuring Rex Bell. This flaming
epic taken from story by Richard
Bret Harte, and brought to the screen
under the title Of Taking a Chance"
which will be shown at the Capitol
Theatre today, Friday and Saturday.
Rexs pard. an old missionary, is
under suspicion as the famous lone
bandit. THE Locust" and to free
his friend Rex promises to capture
the terror of the hills, either dead or
alive.
He shoots at 1.-The Locust" but
misses. Then follows his mysterious
trail night after night on his mission
of vengeance and finally tracks him"
down. only to find it is the girl he
loved
This brings to a climax one of the
best-depicted Westerns ever brought
to the screen, and others featured in
the cast with Bell are Lola Todd as
"The Locust" Richard Carlyle as the
preacher. and other known
names. including Billy Watson, Jack
Byron. Martin Cichy and Jack Hen
/, derSOn.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-28

Editors Note: This Is another
of the series Of stories by Rodney
butcher. Washington correspond
rny FOR The Tribune and NEA
Service, who is accompanying
President elect Hoover's party in
Latin America.
Amapala, Honduras (By MaiD-1t
is the fate. of Honduras. to become
more and more "Americanized" Her
mineral resources remain undevel-
oped and American capital prob
ably will enter there. She hopes for
more port. railroad and steamship de-
yelOpment and more automobiles and
highways-American capital again.
Honduras manufactures only some
OF the necessities of life. Other ne
cessities and all so-called luxuries she
imports. Most of her imports are
manufactured goods. If her present
progressive tendencies toward eco
nomic Improvement continue, the de-
mand for them will greatly increase.
But even now, one of the most sur
prising things about Central America
is that it has SO many things which
remind one of the United States.
Amcricanism Advances
Even in Amapala, perhaps the most
primitive of the villages and cities
visited by the Hoover party. there
were indications of the extent TO
which American business enterprise
has invaded Honduras. At Teguci-
galpa. the capital. these evidences arc
far more pronounced.
The natives may have been bare
foot and their dogs sadly skinny, but
the native women in large numbers
wore cheap cotton print dresses the
cloth of which surely came from all
River or North Carolina. AS for the
handful of pretty girls who came with
the men from Tegucigalpa. they APP
peared to have drawn impartially for
their styles from New York and Paris.
These ladies from the Honduran up
per crust would have graced any tea
party in the world.
In the cantina of the little Venecia
hotel on the Amapala wharf OBJ
served a newspaper photograph OF
former President Harding high OH the
wall. Beneath 1t were similar photo
graphs of the wife of the commandment
of Amapala, Senorita Sofia Robes,
daughter of the last Costa Rican min
lister of the United States, and other
Central American beauties.
my Blue Heaven" There. Too
A large pile Of monograph records
bore the imprint Of the leading Amer
lean disc manufacturer, though the
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-28
IN NEW YORK

New York, Dec. 28.-In those my
Rad places where fiddlers fiddle and
cornetists foot, they will tell you that
The old dyed-in-the-Wool musician Is
passing from the scene.
Up and down the street of folly and
frolic YOU can see musicians tramplng
The pavement, as actors are no"
tramping the pavement. looking lor
work. and you'll hear the prediction:
This winter the musician Will
starved"
It is not necessary to keep your ear
to the ground to hear also that soon
there will be but concert artists and
Jazz bandists. And when you ask for
the answer you will hear-"The talk
ing pictures"
Up and down the street OF irollc
and folly, the theaters have come to
depend for their music upon the
canned variety that goes with the
synchronized films.
And after some weeks Of doleful
predictions, I did little personal
observation-disclosures I detest statistics
and found that 60 per cent OF the
Broadway theaters which once pro-
duced films with orchestral accom-
paniment now use the musical cellu-
loids. Only the three key theaters,
which present prologues with their
pictures, maintain the usual sym
phOny OrcheStraS.
The sidewalks Statisticians will ask
you to remember that sound equip
ment is being installed in thousands
of theaters across the land and where
this happens the orchestra disappears
that is, In majority OF cases.
There remains. then, the symphony
orchestras-and there are a limited
number of these-the jazz bands, to
which the old-time musicians are not
attuned and the concert artists. II
the musical celluloids continue theil
invasion, the necessity for orches'
tras will disappear. Thousands, an
told. will be out of work this winter
and the problem is one which bring:
premature gray hairs to those organ.
ization heads which look after the IN.
tereStS of the musician.
The army of women gamblers ha;
grown to such an extent since thu
recent sales squirt In the Stock Elk
change that most of the big brokerage
concerns now have ''ladieS' ROOM"
Time was when brokers discouraged
women margin gamblers. and SOM
actually refused to take their account
Women, 1t was said, were bad loser
and had q habit Of committing sui
eide when wiped out or faced by ,
heavy loss. This, OF course, was bat
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-12-28
GGAtz HOOVER MA G
@Latin Americdh4ssf

! inscriptions were in Spanish. Among
them were Ramona, MY Blue
Heaven" 5"Valencia."
Yet the Venecia WIS neither large
enough or fit to accommodate the
luncheon to Hoover. That was held
in the large home of Amapala's lead
ing importer and exporter, Ger
man.
American money is accepted here
more eagerly than native money. but
prices seem to go up when any APP
pears. On the north coast where the
bananas are cut and shipped. one Is
advised that Honduran currency Is
not accepted at all.
Even in Amapala are signs depict
ing the superior merits OF some Amer
lean pills and other signs show prom
inently a Spanish trade name for a
famous brand Of aspirin, with the
American trademark.
The stock in trade of the nearest
approach to delicatessen store
shows that anyone who eats other
than native food here is pretty sure
to be filling up on American canned
goods. Shrimp from San Francisco,
table sauce of the most popular Amer
lean brand, American condensed milk,
red snapper sauce from New Orleans,
pickles and chow chow from the firm
that makes 81 or more different kinds,
canned bacon from Chicago. baking
soda from "Nueva York. asparagus
from San Francisco and canned Or
anges from London firm-but who
wants canned oranges?
American Movies
No movies in Amapala, but they
have them in Tegucigalpa and other
larger communities. They are 80 per
cent American. The other 10 per cent
are films from Britain and France.
which Hondurans say arc too long
and involved. On the other hand
these folks are fed up on our wild
west films. They demand plenty OF
sentiment.
American movies are believed to be
having an immense effect on the GUS
toms and habits of the people,
especially in the interior towns.
But development of pro-American-
ism and spread of American ideas of
progress are also coming from the
many younger men of the upper class
who now receive their education in
| the United States. Nearly all the pro-
| fessional men in Tegucigalpa are
Americana educated and although
many of the elder men in politics and
government do not speak English,
most Of the younger men SO engaged
| do