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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26

high stepping. Brown skins ghost
ly violet under the arc lamps. A
gorilla man, arms swinging below
his knees, twisting and shivering
like an epileptic medicine man in
Central Africa.
Observation-Disclosures" urged the
saxophoness "Tap-tap-tra-a-a-ap!'
came the drum notes. Sounds that
you might hear along lonely
Congo backwater and not be certain
whether man or animals were gath
cred in the blackness of the trees.
No Restraint
Before the show there had been
little restraint; now there was none.
Quarts of gin were gulped hastily.
The jazz band awoke in wild roar.
Men dragged women on the dancing
floor. Faces swan past the tables
faces that were different from the
Harlem faces l had seen in the day
light. A Chinaman with his mask
off, staring lasciviously into the eyes
of an Elton cropped black woman.
A tall and powerful Negro clasping
girl of pure European blood. She
called him kid" and my friend
looked away. Sallow, tired young
men with immovable grins, colored
girls Rugged close to them. A Ne.
gro in evening dress and a brown
girl sheathed in green.
Some of Harlem's cabarets have
gone white. "Small's' is sometimes
half white, but it is still essentially
the cabaret of the Negro. And il
is not all depravity. Genius hal
blossomed in places like Smalls-
famous players like Layton anC
tombstone and Florence Mills have
sung there before Europe knew
them; sung and crooned those sal
spirituals that were born in slav
cry.
Supper was being served when ;
| girl stepped on the floor to sing
tall, slim, colored girl. The low
hall seemed to rock with the ap
plause that greeted her. Then sh
sang:
Woke up this mawnin'
The day was dawnin
And / was sad and blue, so blu
Lord
Didn' have nobody
To tell my trouble to
AS we listened We forgot on
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
Agrees With barrow

To The Editor:
Mr.. Clarence barrow, in my opin-
ion, is to the Negro race generally
and our American group particular
ly. of the Christian faith the world
over, what Saul of Tarsas. after
ward Paul, was to the Jewish faith
and his kinsmen in the flesh in his
day and before his conversion to the
Christian faith.
He does not profess to be as yet
CHRISTIAN disciple, or believer OF
the way of salvation of Jesus. That
he believes, God will in his own
good time, affect in his person by
his spirit. Meanwhile he is more
honest and frank and has a gospel
of conviction which he is preaching
TO his kinsmen and to our grouI
as well--a gospel of humanity
fraternity, justice and equality.
REV. III. M. BANKS,
Minneapolis, MINI.
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Negro Voters
Deserving G. O. P.

CONTINUED from Page u
the colored vote almost solidly Re
publican, was planning to support
the Democratic electoral ticket.
Through the colored newspapers
in Ohio. 1t is reported, propaganda
with this result in view has been
conducted from New York for a
number Of months.
Different Reasons
Different reasons are given for
this action. The chief one Is believ-
ed to be resentment at the treatment
accorded colored Republicans dur
ing the eight years the party has
been In power.
Colored Republicans also look dis
trustfully at the favor in which Her
bert Hoover is held by the South
and Republican efforts to capture
electoral votes In the Solid South.
The Solid South is made up of
ten states that have never gone Re-
publican. They are Texas, Louisi-
ana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama,
Georgia, Florida, North and South
Carolina and Virginia. These states
have total of ia electoral votes.
tOnCeOf 10 Onuul
Republican leaders concede that
block of votes to Governor Smith.
They profess to have a fighting
chance in North Carolina. In the
other states of the Solid South
they have been led to believe that
the Republican vote can be materi-
ally increased If "black and tam
organizations in those states can be
supplanted by a white mans party.
The checking of the Ohio revolt
is of paramount Interest. If II should
spread to the border States of Mary
land, Missouri. Kentucky. Tennessee
and Oklahoma, Republican success
will be endangered. This group OF
states have total of 61 electoral
votes. The addition Of these votes
to the Solid South would give Gov
ernor Smith IT'S electoral votes, 81
short OF the ma jority needed to win
100000 Votes
IL Smith can carry New York with
As electoral votes New Jersey with
IA, Connecticut with and Rhode
Island with 5, he will still need 20
The Ohio revolt. If not checked, may
give him "a, bringing about his
election. 1t is estimated there are
more than 100000 colored voters
in Ohio.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
Negro Congressman
John IL. Lynch


John II. Lynch (colored) was
born in Concordia Parish, La. Sep
TENDER 10, 1S47. Engaged in the
business of photography at Natchez,
Miss, until 1869, when Governor
Ames appointed him justice of
the peace; elected member of the
State legislature in 1869, and re-
elected in 1871, serving the last
term as speaker of the house: elect
ed to the Forty-third and Forty
fourth Congresses as a Republican;
elected to the Forty-fifth Congress
but was counted out and Gen. j. X,
Chalmers counted in; elected to the
Forty-seventh Congress as Repub.
lican; appointed Fourth Auditor OF
the Treasury Department under
President Harrison.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
John Adams LYMAN

John Adams Hyman (colored)
was born q slave in Warren County,
N. c., July 20, 1910; sold and sent
to Alabama; emancipated in 1865,
returning to North Carolina and en-
gaging in farming; delegate TO the
State constitutional convention of
1868, and State senator 1858
1874; elected a Representative from
North. Carolina To the Forty-fourth
Congress as "a Republican,; appoint
ed collector Of Internal revenue of
the second district of North Caro-
lima in June, 1871.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
Boisterous Conduct

IL Is commonly observed in stores
and on street cars that many Ne
grces are boisterous in conduct and
are guilty of making insulting re-
marks. Recently this writer observ-
ed a colored woman in millinery
store who tried on hat after hat
and finally said she did not come
to buy" She insisted she did not
want anything, but was trying the
hats on because she had been told
the clerks I'm the store did not like
to wait on colored people. The
woman was so rude and boisterous
that she was asked out of the store.
1t is our opinion this woman will
tell her friends not to patronize the
store as "they do not like to wait
on colored people" AS a matter
of fact, the spirit of prejudice did
not exist, but the woman's appear
ance and department was such that
any clerk would be reluctant to
serve her.
Any day one can observe folk
down town who look as II they had
Just dropped their broom and mop
and left home. They seem to have
paid no attention to their personal
appearance. Observation of both
races leads many to believe that
there is q great work for the race
in this matter, particularly. No one,
white or colored, wants to try on
clothing after some one who has
not bathed since last week, and
whose hair is unkempt and clothing
soiled. -
Not only is the appearance of the
customer often against the race. but
boisterous conduct in stores adds to
the overwhelming burden of preiu-
dice. Many times rudeness to the
sales people prevents receiving at
tention which we would otherwise
receive.
We need to develop an introspec-
i've attitude toward race prejudice,
Cor there are two sides to 1t as
there are to any other question.
Since we hate to be limited and
circumscribed at every turn, we
must look within ourselves and see
to. it that we have done nothing to
increase prejudice and narrow ouI
opportunities but have done all that
we could to lessen the evil.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
Lessons in English
Word Often Misused
,,AX pn-r ttff x.,oo N nrnttU nlngf

Word Often Misused
DO not say "it was pretty close
race Say very close"
Word Often MisspeIled
Effervescence; note the two rs
and the sc.
Word Often MispronOunced
Dual; u as in unit, not as 90 in
tool.
Synonyms
Abbreviation, abridgement. COM
pendulum, condensation, contraction,
summary.
Word Study
Use a word three times and it is
yours. Let us increase our vocabu-
larry by mastering one word a week.
HOLOCAUST; a sacrifice wholly
consumed by fire. 1.-THE holocaust
claimed over fifty lives"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
Poem This Week
The Winds of Fate

One ship drives East and another
drives West
With the selfsame winds that blow.
IT'S the set of the sails,
And not the gales,
Which tell us the way to go.
Like the winds of the sea are the
ways of fate;
As we journey along through life,
IT'S the set of a soul
That decides its goal,
And not the calm or the strife.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1S55-1919
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
Look and Learn

/. What is real mohair?
2. Who wrote the "Hunchback of
Notre Dame?
3. What creature does the stone
called the scarab representa-
4. How many cruisers has the
U. S. navy? a.
4. Where is the city Of Dawson?
Answers
1. The hair of an Angora goat OF
Asia Minor. 2. Victor Hugo. >.
Beetle. 4. Eighteen. 5. Alaska.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
Sin Of Color

When a crime is committed If
there be any colored people in the
proximity they are the first to be
suspected. Since there are colored
people in small or large numbers in
almost every neighborhood of Amer
lea they are therefore nearly always
the first to be suspected of every
unsolved crime.
Prejudice causes the Caucasian to
think of them. Prejudice. causes the
evidence to be piled up against
them. II is an endless chain, They
are suspected only too often simply
because they are colored. And they
are convicted after having been sus'
pected largely for the same reason
1t goes even further than this. Many
Caucasians knowing they are guilty
of crime, often frame the evidence
against some person of color.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26
, n. u. Cheatham

Henry Pmmmer Cheatham (color-
ed was born at Granville, y. c..
December 81, 1857; elected registrar
of deeds of Vance County; elected
to the Fifty-first Congress as a Re
publican and reelected to the Fifty
second Congress- recorder of deeds
for the District of Columbia at
Washington, d. G. 2. 49,. 81.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26

food. One day, London and Paris
will hear that girl. l left when
the song was over, and sailed for
South Africa few days afterwards.
Out in the wide spaces of the lonely
Atlantic sometimes heard that
voice again: SO wistful and sad that
it might have contained allithe sor-
rows OF the Negro race.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26

Readers may write On any subject
they like Usually $50 words are
enough. Beyond that expect the edi-
tors blue pencil Reading maketh
ready man, writing an exact man:
Sign name as evidence of good faith, II
will not be published II you SO desire
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26

You needn't go far to find evil
dence of this. Several murderers of
the past few years have been found
to have BACKED their faces so that
suspicion might fall on some colored
person. In the Lilliendahl ease down
in New Jersey. the convicted widow
declared to the last that her hus-
band was slain by two colored men.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-26

HEALTH IS WEALTH
GET IT AND KEEP II
Start With Your Dentist
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Bad teeth are sure to cause you
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Our Charges Are Moderate
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Wife Wanted

I am as years old. a resident OF
Montana, own my home and other
property and considered well-to do. l
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tween the ages of is to 80 years with
the object of marriage. Prefer brown
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Correspondence strictly confidential.
Address Miles Brown, care Players
Company, z. o. Box 1913. Seattle
Wash.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-10-16
COLORFUL FIGURE
 NOME STAMPEDE
 GOES OVER DIVIDE
WAS IDENTIFIED GROWTH OF NOME FOR LONG PERIOD
 WAS WEALTHY

SEATTLE, Oct, 16, (P)-Sour- doughs and pioneers will gather tomorrow morning to bid farewell to Charles John Mckay, colorful figure of early Alaska days, who died Saturday after an operation.
 He was born in Paisley, Scotland coming to America at p years of age and joined the gold rush. He organized the first Miners Union in Nome; served as deputy U. s. marshal later, and was actively identified with the growth of Nome for IT years.
 He was we'll known throughout the North as Scottish singer. Nine years ago he moved to Seat tie where he had extensive realty holdings. He is survived by his wife Edith and brother Archie, both of Seattle.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-10-16
Plenty Of Fish
 In Chesapeake Bay

WASHINGTON, Oct.. 16, R- Chesapeake Bay is regarded by the United States Bureau of Fisheries IS one of the most prolific fishing 2, ounds in this country. Produc- ton is estimated at II tons of fish per square mile against three tons from Georges banks off the New England coast. More than 50,000,- GOO pounds of edible fish are taken from the bay annually and as much as 300,000,000 pounds of menhaden. The industry employees about 10000 persons, produces about $5,00O,OO0 worth of fish annually and repre- sents an investment of nearly ST. 100000.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-10-16
ELECTION IF HOOVER
 |S BEST ASSURANCE PROSPERITY. MELLON

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16, (P)-Sec- retary Mellon in his first extended campaign address over the radio, said that the election of Herbert Hoover and the retention of the Re- publican Party in power in the Fed tral Government is the best assur- ance of future prosperity.
 He reviewed what he called the constructive accomplishments in the postwar period and contenoed the record he portrayed entitled the Party to victory at the polls.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-10-16
SEARCH FOR DANGER

PARIS, Oct. 16, [P)-Police are searching for the "Gigolo" or Dane ing Man who, according to the tes- t!mony of Mrs. Elizabeth Neumann, 'niddle-aged matron of New York, took her for a ride in an automobile thru the St. Germain Woods and then robbed her.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-10-16
COMMANDER McNUTT

SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 16, (P)-Paui NIcNutt, Indiana educator, was elected National Commander of the American Legion at the final ses- s,on of the Convention. His elec- tion was made possible by the with drawal of Capt. John Ewing, anoth- CT candidate.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-10-16

James Cooney, a native citizen of Wrangell,, one of Wrangers old lest citizens and held in esteem in that town has depared from this life.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-10-16

DOMESTIC AND IMPORTED PER FUMES AND TOILET ARTICLES. scHALLERER's ALASKA SHOP.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-10-16
Hand-cOl0red Alaska pic lures at Sylvia's

MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY AT TENDED. SchaIIerer's Alaska Shop.
Seward daily gateway., 1928-10-16

The Gateway leads-otners follow
The Bismarck tribune., 1928-09-21
WHERE ARE THE BUGGlEs?

The Kansas town Of Hutchinson has about 20 600 in
habitants, 2777 automobiles and buggy-and that
not in commission, but slowed away in the loft of
former livery stable, which is garage What has
become Of the buggies of America? Horse drawn
trucks and farm wagons and spring wagons there are
in plenty, but the vehicle which to other vehicles
yacht is to tramp steamer is longer part Of the
panaroma of streets or roads.
Swiftly, in a while people were just looking
the other way, all these equpages passed from view.
There historic vehicles in the repository of the
Studebaker corporation at South Bendthe landau that
belonged to Grant, the carriage in which Lincoln used
to ride, the state carriage built for Lafayette-but
doesn't this corporation make something now that
runs without horses?
For religious Mennonite farmers in Ohio and
Kansas stick to the buggy. When the roads of
tain Kentucky bettered maybe will displace the
saddlehorse and win little empire of its Else
where its wheels scrapheaps and the mice build
nests in its leather seat in cobwebby carriage houses
and hay is piled its skeleton in barn mows. Too
bad! Not so long ago it the vehicle of PRIDE the
chariot of adventure, the rumbng caravansary Of
sentiment the travelling ark of the covenant in which
tender vows were pghted. Not long ago-but
things move fast
The Bismarck tribune., 1928-09-21

Over the picture Of Ina Leslie,
cow-milking champion, some face
tious captioneer has written "An-
udder Champion" Which oil will
agree is udderiy absurd.
Things you never read in the
newspapers: "The visiting candi-
date commented critically on the
dirty appearance Of the town and the
apparent unintelligence Of the pso.
pie"
Somebody sent AL Smith another
pair Of suspendcrs. It seems, tbs
Whispering Campaign has given
him no suspense whatever.
Chicago police the other day were
ordered to arrest Al Capene on
sight. Is it possible they have be-
gun to suspect him?
Doctors in Arkansas City have
formed Z credit association. It's
getting so that you can't even beat
a doctor out Of bill any more.
Chicago is planning : History
building. Probably on the theory
that you have to get out Of range
in some direction.
Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.)
The Bismarck tribune., 1928-09-21
Pierce Co. Telephone
Properties Are Sold

Telephone property Of two Pierce
county companies has been pur-
chased by the Public Service corpor-
alton by authorization Of the state
railroad commission.
The commission granted the Pub.
lie Service corporation permission
to purchase The rural telephone
property owned by the Barton Farm
crs Telephone company IN the north.
western part Of Pierce county, and
the property owned BY John Brusven,
1T Barton.
The commission also granted I
permit to George r. johnson, au-
thorizing the operation Of motor
freight service In the vicinity of
Minor, N. D. The schedules of
electric rates filed by the Otter Tail
Power company, applicable at Tower
Etty, Mapes, and Buffalo, were ap-
proved. The commission also grant.
Cd the joint application o. the Ban
try Telephone company and the Pub
lic' Service corporation 10 6oll and
buy, respectively, the telephone lines
IN McHenry county.
The Bismarck tribune., 1928-09-21
PLOWMAN OF THE FUTURE

Should Gray's immortal "Eegy" be revised in 1886 it
would probably read "The plowman, no longer, home
ward plods his weary way. For it is predicted that
within another decade the bucoc child of the poets
brain will turn the juice in the morning and at
controlled electric plow.
This, electrical engineers say, will be one Of the
many blessings to be brought to the farm by the uni
versal adoption of electricity by the agrcuturist And
these engineers go further to say that such uni
versal adoption is not far distant
There is nothing fanciful in predictions and promises
for rural Identification They not any more revo-
utonary nor impractical than the Identification of the
home But just as there many who a few years
ago scoffed at the thought of stoves toasters
lators, vacuum cleaners washing machines and irons
al operated by electricity just economically and with
as little dirt and trouble electric lights there will
be those who will rdcule the thought of electric
pows and other adaptations of electric power on the
farm.
But the fact is that the identification of the Ame,-
can farm has already an advanced stage
Hundreds OF thousands of farms, large and small in
the United States already have electric power either
from commercial lines private power plants and are
employing it in pumping their water, milking their
cows, churnng their butter, cutting wood electrfyng
the farm home just the city home is electrified and
for many other purposes.
When his fieldr are 7lo,<-d his seed is planted his
crops are cultivated and harvested by electricity the
farmer will have time for making the raising of
food science and for putting the business of farming
On business basis.
The Bismarck tribune., 1928-09-21
SIS FINE FOR A CAR

1t takes wise man to be Judge these days.
The other day a man brought into court in New
York for violating traffic law. The judge imposed
fine of S. at which the motorist remarked that he
would prefer instead of paying it, to surrender his
Amazed. the judge asked him why; the man replied
that he had only paid 81 for the auto wheezy old
thing made eight years ago.
Justice is justice, and the law must be upheld; but
paying SIS fine 81 is too much Even the
judge admitted it. So, after due thought he suspended
the fine and told the motorist depart in peace-f
he could make his auto 60.
The Bismarck tribune., 1928-09-21

LABOR HAS PROSPERED

Herbert Hoover, in his speech at Newark, N j., fully
vndicated the popular belief that for its past
years of national prosperity and progress the United
States is indebted in large part to the able Republican
administrations and the popular opinion that if this
prosperity and progress to continue the Republican
party should remain in power for four more years.
Millions of thoughtful voters will ponder long
these words of the Republican nominee:
"At such time this change in national policies
involves not-as may lightly think-ony choice
between roads by either of which may go forward
but question also as to whether may be taking
the wrong road and moving backward. The measure of
national prosperity, of stability, Of hope Of
further progress at this time, is the of what
may risk through change in present policies. More
than in national history change in policies in
time Of advancement has been quickly followed by
turn toward disaster"
Than Mr.. Hoover there is American who better
knows the modern relationships of government and in
dustry' which "a tangled of economic and
social problems" and make for the happiness of
every home in country
When he said "the Republican party has performed
unparalleled service to the employees in
and industry throughout its history" it empty
phrase of stump speaker 1t tt., logical conclu-
sion arrived at BY former secretary of commerce af
ter exhaustive analysis of facts. Not the least of
that service the reduction of the unemployed from
six million in 1921 to less than million 1928 And
for nearly six years of that period there actually existed
labor shortage.
Not all the Democratic candidates, managers and
campaign speakers can argue the people out of the
settled opinion that the Republican party in the seven
years since 1921 has produced fundamental program
which made this restored employment secure on
foundations Of prosperity and that his recovery and
stability accident" but the fruits of Sound
governmental policies and wise leadership"
The Bismarck tribune., 1928-09-21
OUR ENLIGHTENED ELECTORATE

The American electorate is, you all know, highly
enlightened and intelligent and be trusted to decide
at the polls any weighty question.
To be sure. Yet Detroit attorney, last spring, bet
friend that any man running for Congress under the
name of jefferson in the 18th district could draw at
least 10000 votes, though he made effort to in
troduce himself to the voters.
After the recent primary this attorney collected He
had entered the fictitious of John G. jefferson
in the congressional primary, making no campaign
whatever and exciting not one line of comment He
polled 10, 729 votes.
Thus occasionally, does the enlightened American
electorate work.