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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-02-10
Alice Rhinelander's S
Attorneys Say Her
Health Is Impaired

NEW YORK, Feb 9.-"Has any
body here seen Rhinelander, XII
Pr" That is the tune sheriffs for
the counties of New York and West
chester are grooming To date they
admit that their query has been
futile.
No definite information as to the
whereabouts of the errant husband
were furnished the authorities when
the papers were served One clue
hit upon represented the tongue-tied,
blueblood heir to Huguenot millions
as being in Florida. Still another
claim was advanced that he is right
here hiding in New York City.
An effort is being made by At
torney Swinburne, Mrs. Rhineland-
er's lawyer in the suit for separa-
tion brought on the grounds of al
legged cruelty and abandonment. to
get an order from the White Plains
supreme court to allow service to
be made by publication and mailing
copy of the summons and COM
plant to Kip's last known address.
While the alleged "playboy hus-
band" is said to be travelling around
the country, most of the time under
aliases, Mrs. Alice .Rhinelander is at
home at 763 Pelham Road, New
Rochelle. She claims that sensa-
tional charges have been published
in the newspapers and on account
of these she has been unable TO go
out in public and has suffered men
tai anguish to such an extent that
her health is impaired.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-02-10
By EUGFNE GORDON

Editorial Comment-The publi-
cation of this article does not indi-
cate The Enterprise belief in the
truth of the assertions and conten-
tions made by the author. Our
views are expressed editorially.
Striking us as II does in humor-
Gus vein, we publish 1t for the
amusing edification of the readers.
Eugene Gordon. author of this arti-
Gle, is a highly educated colored
man, an editorial writer of The Bos-
ton Post and evaluates the Negro
newspapers every year. His home Is
in Boston.)
Nest of the AIramerican's native
attributes-the inclinations. talents.
tastes, preferences, prejudices and
predictions that an all-wise Crea-
tor implanted in him--are fast ooz-
ing out of him. Standing in the
glare of Caucasian ridicule, he has
become sensitive, secretive and hyp-
ocritical, and full of inhibitions--
in fact, sad Freudlan case. He is
afraid to be seen eating pork
chop or. even wing of fried chick
en-. The sight of watermelon sets
him to ,blushing. When he sings
his spirituals II Is in an affected
and artistic" manner; the old in
nocent gusto Is gone. When he needs
a razor he sends white agent to
buy II for him. He is ashamed tn be
caught drinking gin. He forbids his
wife to wear gaudy colors. He is
ashamed OF his kinky hair and tries
to get rid OF its kinks. He spends
many thousands annually on quack
decoctions guaranteed to bleach his
skin.
Let us come to cases. Boston nur-
lures an Aframerican organization
called the Bach-mars - bach from
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-02-10
Senate Comm. Kills
Jim Grow Bill

WASHINGTON, D. CA propo-
sal for "Jim Grow" law in the
District of Columbia separating col
ored and white passengers on street
cars was rejected Saturday by the
Senate District Committee. The bill
was introduced by Senator Cole
Blease CD of South Carolina several
weeks ago.
Blease was bitterly disappointed
by the committees decision. He said
that despite the adverse report of
the body he will make fight for its
passage on the Senate floor.
The Blease "Jim Crow" bill calls
for separate cars for white and col
ored passengers with equal accom-
modations for all. Traction officials
violating the provision of the bill
would be subject to a fine ranging
from $50 to 500.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-02-10
Cohen Wins Out
In Louisiana Party

NEW ORLEANS, La, (ANP)--
Despite the fact that the state re-
fused to furnish polling booths and
declared the primary illegal, the col
ored faction of the republican party
held n primary here Tuesday and
elected Walter Cohen delegate to the
National Convention and the State
Central Committee.
Emil Kuntz, white, was again
elected national committeeman.
The colored vote was 1887 men
and 278 women, white vote $50 men
and 100 women.
The republican party in the state
divided into three factions, the Co.
hen faction, the Kuntz faction, COM
posed of white office holders, and a
third faction composed of lilywhites
to satisfy democrats.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-02-10
U. S. Senate Has Bitter Debate
on Race and Religion Subject

Colored people in South Carolina,
he said. who desire equal rights and
equal accommodations in travelling,
have no desire to hold office and
have no desire to associate with
white people.
"They do not want social equal
ity."
In a speech equally as long as
Senator Blease's, Senator Heflin at
tackled the Catholic Church and told
of the case of Catholic priest,
Father 0'Connor, charged with per-
forming an operation upon wom-
an, destroying his own child, at
Montgomery, Ala.
The priest, he said, fled to Can
ada and the Catholic Church had
opposed all efforts at extradition.
Senator Bruce, challenging this
statement, said that the Catholic
Church had no desire to protect
Father O'Connor If he we're guilty.
IF the priest is guilty" said Sen.
actor Bruce, che will not only be
punished by municipal law, but he
will be communicated by the
my information" the Maryland
senator said, "is that IL Is believed
that the priest is innocent and that
he fled from the state of Alabama
because, dominated as that state IL
by the Ku Klux Klan influence, he
does not believe that he could gel
a fair trial there
Backing up his charge that Ala.
bama Is khan ridden, Senator Bruce
declared that for the last three years
there has been no less than zoe
lawless flogglngs in Alabama and In
some cases old men, women and
children. Recently. he said. one
states attorney under the influence
OF the khan has withdrawn no less
than 100 indictments against some
"a men.
Newspaper men who reported
Helms anti-Catholic speeches were
called "liars' by Heflin. who at.
tackled the Hearst newspapers espe,
cially and served notice on william
Randolph Hearst, the publisher. that
II these newspaper reports contin.
ued he would read some affidavitt
IN the senate exposing Hearts pri
vate life and compelling him ''tr
move some OF these little hickor,
nut reporters IN his employment oul
OF the press gallery"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-02-10
Train POrters
Best Spouters
Of Our Tongue
By Xachel Lindanx

SPOKANE, Wash, Feb. 3.-The
best spouter of the United States
language is a Pullman porter.
Next to him in ability are back
woods Congressman, Tenne ssee
mountaineers and native Kansans.
The United States language is diff
ferent from any other tongue, and it
takes an aristocrat of the sleeping
cars to decant its timber, liquid para
graphs properly.
| have heard a white-jacketed Ne
GRO with college education and g
flock of mellifluous phrases parked
behind his larynx ooze out the United
States language like "Orleens" mo-
lasses pouring through crack in a
back hogshead on warm day.
| have heard It flutter from the
countenauce Of George" like fur
ry of magnolia petals cascading over
the intellectual cliffs of the land of
the free.
A dining car waiter can intone
"Laast cawl fo' dinnuh, dinah will be
detached at Greenville," and make
it sound like the "Star Spangled Ban
ner."
saw a Harvard honor man who
was Negro take his commencement
audience by storm with a blast of
elouuence that sounded like marsh
mallow bombs bursting in air, and
which was yet as smooth and indigo
nous as a rounded pebble in Mas
sachusetts brook.
II was no whit worse, and scarcely
better than the noctural idiom of a
trainload of Pullman porters who
would not be half so proud of them
selves.
OF course that ripe accent, that
mellow roll of vocal undertones, Pc
culiar to the United States Negro,
would deceive those who sit in the
chairs of alleged English at various
colleges, and dish out ukases on the
English language, and they would
think they were hearing dialect.
But an educated Pullman porter
doesn't speak dialect any more than
a pipe organ speaks dialect.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-02-10
enterprise News Bureaul


WASHINGTON, ID. c., Feb. g.
The bitterness of the senate debate
on race and religious issues last
week has seldom been cqualled in
recent years.
Senator Heflin Dem, Ala.) at
tackled the Catholic Church. Sena-
tor Swanson (Dem., Va.) declared
the South is not violating the 14th
and 18th amendments. Senator
Bruce (Dem.. Md defended the
Catholic Church and declared that
the South is not violating the war
amendment, but is multiplying them
by legal ingenuity.
Senator Blease (Dem., s. Co., ta-
king exception to statements by Sen.
ator Walsh Dem, Mont.) during
clusion case, that certain southern
ers who came to the senate after
the Civil War were technically gull
ty of treason, denied that this was
true.
South Carolina" he said, "had
a right under its constitution to Sc.
cede from the Union IL the people
desired it."
For nearly two hours Blease de-
Tended the South, declaring tifat
nine of the first Is presidents were
from the South, and for 81 years
judges Of the supreme court were
southerners.
He quoted General Sherman re-
porting on his march through Geor-
gia during the Civil War as declar-
ing that he ESTIMATED the damage
to the state at 100000, 900, $780,
900, 900 OF which Injured to our ben
eft and the remainder was simply
wasteful destruction
He scored Abraham Lincoln, who
asked Grant to put his 22-year-cld
son Just graduating from Harvard,
into Grants military family instead
OF putting him in the ranks where
danger was
Discussing how colored people fel,
toward him in South Carolina
Blease said that when he was gov.
ernor he turned out of the peniten.
tiary and chain gang 100 colored
persons who didn't have any bust.
ness there.
The only mistake he made, he
said. was when he left office ht
failed to turn out the whole dnrr
business,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-02-10
Lynchers Fear No Law

ATLANTA, Ca, (ANP) - The
lack of fear of the law on the part
of those who form mobs was given
as the chief cause of lynching by viii
w Alexander, secretary of the Com
mission of Interracial Cooperation in
his report which was made public
Tuesday morning.
The report showed that the inter
est in the education and health Of
the Negro citizens of the south had
increased to marked degree, but
that the sum spent for the education
of a Negro child is yet far made
quate and much less than half that
spent on a white child.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-02-10
Washington, 10000;
Baltimore, l20, 500

Observation-Disclosures TO the
Bureau Of Census, the Capitals coll
ored population for January /, 1923,
is estimated at 10000. whereas, one
year ago il was 10000.
Baltimore, who on a similar date
one year ago, was estimated at H.
900, has jumped to 120,500, for 1928,
according to the Bureau. Race pop
1lation in other cities follows: New
Orleans, 10000; Birmingham, S4,-
200; Atlanta, 10000; Norfolk, Ca
900; Memphis, 63,400; Richmond,
$4,000; Louisville, 4S,900; Indiana
polls. 44,800; Nashville, $4,000; Dali
las, Tex, 81, 400; Kansas City, Kans.,
I,200.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-02-10

Son Succeeds Dad
AS Insurance Head

ATLANTA, Ga.--At the annual
meeting of the Stockholders of the
Atlanta Life Insurance Company,
"Wednesday morning, Home Office,
Atlanta, Norris Herndon, former
viee-president and cashier Of the COM
pany, was elected president-treasure
to succeed his father, the late A. +.
Hcrndon, founder of the concern.
The admitted assets of the concern
are over 81 900 900, 90 with $23, ,0O0-
100000 worth of insurance in force,
giving employment to $50 people with
100000 policyholders in states.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-02-10
Says Slavery Still
Exists in Liberia

BOSTON, Mass.-That slavery
still thrives in Liberia, and in whole
districts men and women are forced
by soldiers to work long hours with
out pay and even furnish their own
food are the charges being made
here by Richard p. Strong, white, of
the department of tropical medicine
of Harvard Medical School.
DR.. Strong says that he did ex-
tensive travelling in Liberia during
the past year.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-02-10
Cullen In Minneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi Countee
Cullen New York poet whose en-
gagement to Miss Yolande Dubois
was announced two weeks ago, will
give readings from his verse here on
Friday night at jackson Hall, First
Baptist Church.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-02-10
Bus Line Suspends

RALEIGH, N. C..-The Dixie
Transit Company has suspended
business, il was announced by the
State Corporation Commission yes
terday. The Dixie line operated be-
tween Raleigh and Winston-Salem.
The establishment Of the line has
been used by white bus operators as
an argument against NEGROES riding.
The suspension of the Dixie Transit
Company deprives them Of this ar
gument. --.l.. / -.-lla.-At-..zi
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-02-10
Write New Harlem Drama

NEW YORK.-Harlem life, which
made its debut in the drama on
Broadway two seasons ago in Be
lasco's Lulu Belle" will be shown
downtown again this spring in a
new play, "Black Belt"
The story, dealing with present
conditions in Harlem, was written
by Wallace Thurman and William
Jourdan.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-02-10
Woodmen Sued for Arrest

HICAGO.--Mrs. Ida E. Shepherd,
for many years affiliated with the
American Woodmen here, and ar
rested some time ago charged with
embezzlement, has sued officials Of
that order for false arrest and back
salary to the total amount of $685.
o36.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-02-10
3-Year-Old Becomes Actress

LOS ANGELES.-A n o h er race
youngstcr, Hannah Oatmeal Wash
ington, three years old, has just
broken into the movies.
The little girl is niece of Mildred
Washington, night club performer.
She will act in the Christie come
dies
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-02-10
Two Harrisburg Women
Killed In Auto Crash

HARRISBURG, PA, (PNS)-Miss
Dolores Bryant, 81, and Mrs. Mar
garet Carpenter. %, were killed in
stantly Saturday night when Forest
Murray, driver of a speeding auto
mobile in which eight persons were
riding, lost control of his machine
after it had struck and critically in
jured Donald Moreland, 13.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-02-10
100000 Patent
Suit in Supreme Court

WASHINGTON-The 20 year old
$40, 100000 car wheel patent against
the American Car and Foundry Co.
suit brought in behalf of the estate
of Ebert r. Robinson and his wild
ow was heard before the supreme
Court here Monday by J. Gray Lu-
cas-, Chicago attorney for Mrs. Addie
Robinson, administrators.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-02-10
Nanny" Chief Witness

SOMERvILLE, N. j.. Aunt
Sally" Turner, southern "Manmy"
Is chief witness In scramble ior $2,-
100000 which group of relatives"
are claiming against execution of the
], B, Duke estate.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-02-10
One Harmon Award


Perhaps you were interested in the
news that an award of some kind had
been made to julius Rosenwald and
James H. billiard. These distin-
Euished gentlemen are honored be-
cause of what they have done. to in
crease goodwill among men. AS you
find in the Bible, Honor to whom
honor, custom to whom custom.
Hang a picture Of Mr.. Rosenwald
on the wall If you have one and tell
the children Of him. The three races,
according to those who have looked
into the matter, are the Caucasic, the
Negro and the Mongolian.
Mr.. Rosenwald's race started out,
not a race, but a people. After the
grandeur of Babylonia came the
Jews, the only undaunted trace" Al
ways under the yoke, they know the
yoke, and know 1t as they have borne
It they know it upon others.
Rosenwald's interest in your ad-
vancement is the cry of sympathy
from the heavy heart.
MAJ. T&
Mr.. billiards. trace" is in debt to
ali other "races," more in debt to
yours than to any. Few men in your
time have done more for peace, good
will, love among men, than Mr.. Dill.
lard. Tell the children of both Mr..
billiard and Mr.. Rosenwald and say
further as you speak to them that
these gentlemen are signs OF better
times.
Above all, however, remember fol
- A. Al 4 Al
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-02-10
The Week

. ROSCOE SIMMONS
No Southern President


Other southerners talked about for
the Democratic nomination: Robin
son of Arkansas, George of Georgia,
Hull of Tennessee, Glass of Virginia.
These are all highly respectable
gentlemen, married, church members
and total abstainers, according to the
Anti-Saloon League. The Virginia
senator told Mr.. Bruce that his grand
children would not see a southerner
in the presidency.
You wonder why no southerner
can reach the White House, do you
not? The reason is YOU. Southern
ers keep you out of the voting
booth. Turn about being fair play,
you keep them out of authority, pow
er, the highest honor.
No president will ever reach Wash
ington direct from e state where
there is either a Jim crow car, a sep
arate school or a disfranchising law.
Mr.. Wilson got to the White
House not from Virginia, Georgia or
South Carolina, his home states, but
from New Jersey, showing once more
that often the longest way around is
the shortest way home.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-02-10

s.ss~esssss - f- Z '.r...
For AZ years Congress has been
appropriating money for the MAIN
tenance of Howard University, the
first appropriation being the sum of
$4,000 in 1879. Since that time
there have been continuous and in
creased appropriations. The Govern
ment has also appropriated money
for the erection of new buildings.
There is no authority in law for
these appropriations for the main
tenance and development of Howard
University. Consequently it has fire.
quently happened that appropriations
proposed in a bill were stricken out
in the House on points of order. The
Senate has invariably restored the
appropriations. The conference COM
mittee has agreed to the restoration,
and the House has accepted the con-
ference report.
The Reed bill would amend the or
ganic act Incorporating Howard Uni
versity so that points of order may
not be made against appropriations
for the school. The Reed bill is iden-
tical with the Champion bill intro
duced in the last session of Congress
by Representative Louis c. Cramp-
ton. republican, of Michigan.
1t would authorize appropriations
to aid in the construction, develop
ment, improvement, and maintenance
of the university. It provides that
no part of these appropriations shall
be used for religious instruction. An
inspection of Education would be
made at least once year.
The bill would also require an an
nual report making . fpil exhibit Of
the affairs of the university to be
presented to Congress each year in
the report Of the Bureau Of Educa-
ton.
The committee on education adop-
ted the hearings held in 1926, but
permitted Representatives Malcolm
G. Tarver, Of Georgia, and B. G.
Lowery, of Mississippi, democratic
members of the committee, to insert
statements in opposition to the pro-
posed legislation.
Representative Lowery is the max
err of the points of order against
the Howard University appropriation
this year. He also made similar
points of order. The Senate bill tot
aling $390,000 for Howard Univer-
sity were stricken from the Interior
Department appropriation bill upon
his points of order. The Senate will
most likely restore them.
Following the committee meeting
Chairman Reed stated that he ex-
poets to get early action in the House
upon this measure.
DR.. Mordecai w. johnson, presi-
dent, and DR.. Emmett J. Scott, sec
retary-treasurer, of Howard Univer-
sity, were present at the hearing last
Friday.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-02-10
American Negro
Is New Type,
Says Scientist
Enterprise News Bureau)

NDhNNi PAAot ANS"o
CHICAGO. Feb. "a new racial
type is being produced by the melt
ing pot OF this country, according
to Prof Melville j. Herskovitz
(white) of the Northwestern Uni
versity.
Intermixture of white, Indian and
black skinned races, he says. in less
than a century has developed a type
of Negro which is really no more
Negrcid than Caucasian. In such
details as the color of the skin, the
shape of the nose, the thickness of
the lips and the size of the body
and legs, the American Negro as
such is distinct from his forebears.
Prof. Herskovitz's details on this
subject are contained in a book,
"The American Negro, q Study in
Racial Crossing" in the course OF
publication by Alfred A. Knopf,
Inc, New York. The volume is ex-
pected to appear in March, the pro-
lessor told The Enterprise corre-
Gpondent.
Tentative conclusions as to the
ultimate color of the American Ne.
gro were discussed by him in a pa
per published in the proceedings of
the National Academy of Science
for October, 1926.
New Physical Type
The fact that the American Negro
is evolving new physical type was
first suggested by Prof. Herskovitz
while a member of the department
of anthropology at Columbia Uni
versity and his conclusion was pub
lished in the Current History Mag
azine of September 1926. .,..-s.s.... \.
In that paper the professor meas
ured more than 1900 individuals,
including public school children and
adults, in Harlem, New York, and
Howard University. Washington.
He found that the American Ne
gro, physically, averages about half
way between the African Negro and
the white European.
Taking nostril width. for exam
pie, he found that the American
whites average 35; Africans, 43:4;
American Negroes nostril width is
about half way between these two,
varying from 39.9 to Alb.
Discussing stature. Prof. Hersko-
Continued on Page Three)
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-02-10
HOWARD i. MADE GOVT SCHOOL

NIlN Az
IRE any Negro students.
The Government appropriated
u, 900 for Howard University, the
institution for Negroes which it
|ectly aids.
For the support of the Indian
hools the Government expended
, sum of S5,4s0,2s0.
The other expenditures for the
pport of institutions. from which
igroes receive no training, include:
Department Of Navy; Naval train
7 ststion, $SS5,000; recreation of
listed men, 100000; naval reserve
ficers' training camps, $40,00t-
val college, $105.O00.
Department Of War; Army War
'llege, $6S.390; command and gen.
al staff school. S40,599; engineers
lool. S29,S35; infantry school,