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The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-19
5000 Colored Folk In New York City
Cross Color Line And Pass For White

n. y. z ,H,I W,nF
hi a minute tney reme oacN with
ac gip, coai'piaek' whom one called
o,si !sS,,-n -, a., -,
.n', vel now a,a II 60 today
rms sa,u ois. 1000 graft To-
gay. "A Wnole convention Drought IN
'heir mats - :,
:. Dr'ves Up TO Harlem.
was apout ! Q clock when !
got thehl nome TO harlem. Inc ram
tnae naa peen heavy IN IN the early
evening had stopped. The SKY had
cleared ana the nignt was cool and
peasant ! was surprised TO see all
the snops SUN open, prigntiy hgnted
ana DONG a rusning business. The
streets were iuli Oh people. Seventh
satmrdo svtmus naa an the aspects oil lively
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-19
enterprise News Bureaul

NEW YORK. - Eight thousand
eolored folk in New York are "pass-
ing for white" according to an esti-
mate by cabaret girl who, herself,
is sometimes ofay, sometimes col
ored.
So, says the Rev. Thomas II. Whel-
pley, white. pastor of Chelsea Pres
byterian Church, who recently took
a job as nighthawk taxi driver for
the experience. He says, writing in
The World, Tuesday:
II was on Broadway ] really got
my first fare my first night out as
a taxi driver. Two smartly dressed
young women were standing at the
curb.
Home to Harlem, but stop first at
the ----- Hotel" said one, q hand
some brunette. We started uptown.
The girls were talking as fast as
their tongues could wag.
"Sure | could get away with il
How about Annabelle Miller? Anna
bellies going to pass. Give her cred
it. She's run around with mustard
seeds long enough. Nobody'll get
wise" 4.
"But what's the big idea? She
going to forget Harlem? She going
to hook up with that jig chaser she
was with tonight? Some sparkler
she had on. He give it to her?"
"I'll say he did. I'm telling you
can get away with the same thing
myself. That new kinkout sure
fixed my hair. Harry says, for a
fact, more than 5000 right here in
New York pass for whites. Just
keep away from the blues, girl, and
you can 60 anywhere-hotels,
theatres, anywhere, without being in
suited.
BY this time we had reached tho
hotel. ....--.--....
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-19
Carvey Agents
On Trial For
Princess Staying

MIAMI, Fla. July i5.--The trial
of Claude Green and J. b. Memo,
purported followers OF Marcus Gar
vey. on murder charge growing
out of the Staying of Princess Laura
Hofey, daughter of King Knesipi OF
the Gold Coast of Africa, opened
here Tuesday. Green was ident-
fled as the man who fired the shot
that killed the princess as he was
delivering an address assailing Gar
vey in a church March s.
RACHEL Rowe, who identified
Green. also testified that Memo
waved a handkerchief giving Green
the signal to fire, and that Max
well Cook, said to have been an ac-
complice of the pair, was in the
church at the time. She also testi-
fled that Green had made threats
against the Princess.
1t was brought out IN the trial
that the Negro World. Garvey news
paper. carried publicity appealing
for aid for the defense of Green
and Memo whom il described as ac-
tive agents of Garvey and innocent.
1t has been disclosed, according
to state Attorney Hawthorne, that
the seven Kings of the Gold Coast
repudiated Garvey and his plans
and principles, principally because
Garvey wanted to keep Negroes to
themselves in his proposed colony
there. The African Kings saw an
opportunity for opening up a pro-
fitable trade with the United
States. And Princess Laura was
sent as their representative TO warn
colored Americans to beware OF
Garvey: also to prepare them for
the proposed opening of commerce
between colored Americans and
their race brother I'm Africa.
Laura invaded Miami on her pa
triotic mission because ii was con-
sidered the stronghold of the Gar
vey group in the United States and
was shot to death in a church here
while conducting vigorous anti
Garvey meeting
Green. colored American, is tried
on a first degree murder charge
and Memo. jamaican, on an acces.
sorry charge in connection with the
death of the Princess. These mer
and Maxwell Cook, said to have
been sent here to train Negroes fol
military duty in Liberia, were re
ported to be agents of Garvey. Cool
however. lost his life on the nigh
| that the Princess was slain wher
! members of the faction suspected
that he was participating in the al
/ legged conspiracy.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-19
White Men In West Africa Have Two
Wives; One White And One Black

we see in the Southern states where
Negro batting politicians and the
champions of white race purity
usually have two families, one white,
the other black. There is this ex-
ception, however, in French West
Africa, the American atmosphere of
hate is lacking.
The principal character of the
story is one Count Robert de Cous-
san, who at the opening of the tale
is making a livelihood by finding
Negro virgins for newly arriving
whites. He is a former official,
secretary to the governor, Kervelen,
and had come to Africa in the hope
of getting out of the debts in which
he found himself hopelessly en-
tangled in France. He takes love
where he finds it, and has had con-
siderable success in Paris.
On arriving in Africa he finds all
the white officials married and un-
married, including the governor
himself, who advises de Coussan to
get q mousse.
De Coussan's first adventure,
however, is with the white wife of a
white colonist, Nine. Heliet. The lat
ter has a Negro servant, Gorko,
statue of ebony, on whose power
full back the muscles play free and
harmoniously. Nine. Heliet gives the
newly arrived de Coussan a rendez.
vous, but while he may have beer
competent lover in Paris, he is
evidently not so for this white wo-
man, who admits that she has the
tastes of Negro woman" after
living in Africa. As soon as de Cous
san leaves Nine. Heliet seeks out hei
black, and a strange love scene fol
lows, although like most of tn,
whites she entertans a certain con
tempt for the blacks. but the lure o.
the black proves too great. TIL,
whites, for instance, nearly alway,
begin by complaining of the odor o.
the Negro but usually end in finding
special zest in it.
Gorko is wearing only loin cloth
His mistress calls him as soon as he
white lover has left. ''Lie at m.
feet" she says. With her toe sh
tries to open the thick lips of tn
black. She finds a singular pleas
ure in making the Negro repeat tn
gestures of her last lover. Cork,
Continued to Page 81
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-19
BY j. A. ROGERS
Enternr;sn News Bureau }


PARIS.-Books on the Negro con-
tinue on the increase. Within the
past week three just off the press
have come to my casual notice, not
including the weekly articles by Prof.
Cestre of the Sorbonne, which ap-
peared in Larousse, and of which |
already gave one criticism.
One of the three books in ques-
ton is astonishing. 1t is having a
tremendous sale, and one may say
Immediately that it would prove a
frost in America. Those white critics
who lauded McKay's "Home to Har-
lem," with its dirt, degeneracy, and
discouragement to Negroes, will find
their enthusiasm considerably damp
ened by this because now the shoe
is on the other foot; although it is
ADLER than McKay's we fear that they
will not find so much ''art" in it as
they did in "Home to Harlem"
This book is largely study of
the sex relations of white men and
women with Negroes in French West
Africa; the author is Louis Charles
Royer, who lived several years in
Africa and the title is ia Maitresse
Noire," that is to say, THE Black
Sweetheart" or the "Black Concu-
bine," as you WILL M. Royer is white
The author calls spade a spade
so much that one will have consider
able trouble in finding language
sufficiently roundabout and shifty
for Anglo-Saxon consumption. Never
theless the book is an important one
especially for Negro readers. 7
deals, it is true, with only French
West Africa, but is true of al
Africa; in short, wherever black ane
white meet. For instance, the prin
cipal cause of the revolt of thu
natives of British South Africa il
1906 against the whites, as given II
the report of the British Parliamen
tary Commission, was: 'Interference
by white men, with Negro women.
British missionary reports also pro
test against the Generalization o
black women by white men, so that
as was said, the author of ia Matt
resse Noire" may well be speaking
for all Africa.
NJ. Roger shows the very great al
traction that q black skin exercise
on white men and women, such
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-19

TOPEKA, KGnsas. The Rev. JEFF
ferson r. Ransome, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Wright have filed suit against
DR.. Willis G.. Moseley, of Kansas
City, and John b. Key, of st. Louis,
alleging fraud and deceit in the sale
Of stock in the Midwest Life Insur-
ance Company and the Standard Life
Insurance Company of Missouri.
The pastor claimed he mortgaged
his home in order to buy $4,000
worth of stock.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-19
The Week
----.. .t-..H.-
Politics and Facts
Leader Rosenwald
Two Deaths
(Read The Week and Get a
College Education
By ROSCOE SIMMONS
By ROSCOE sIMMoN
Politics and Facts.

PolltIcs ana facts.
Colorcd Republicans who get to
national conventions on their party
as delegates know trouble from all
angles. If they speak up in the con-
vention or in committee they don't
represent the race" If they are
silent they are "moral towards. "
Gentlemen who thus denounce these
delegates would like to belong to
some other party but lack courage.
Your bravest men are the editors
and political fighters.
Democratic colored gentlemen cs-
cape criticism of this kind because
their party doesn't allow them seats
as delegates. Easy writers tell you
that colored delegates" have lost
standing. What they mean is that
the people these delegates represent
have lost. .,.s
The two great characters of the
Kansas Citv convention suffered de-
feat. William Mcdonald of Texas,
the most picturesque figure of the
session. lost his delegation only be-
cause Hoover supporters, able politi-
clans. were afraid to take chances.
Walter Cohen. one of the few great
nolitical minds of modern times, lost
his organization while holding his
seat. because he kept his word with
those unable to keep their word with
him. You have too many statesmen
and loo few politicians to make much
headway.
Read more; talk less, and wait fol
word from those in position TO know
before passing judgment.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-19
$50 Colored Waters
Ousted From Jobs

ATLANTIC CITY. ~- The Gate
way Casino, for two years manned
by eolored walters, opened white"
on July 4. This house carries $50
men. Its going white" means just
another loss to the Negro Waterman.
A report indicates that within two
years the race waiter will be thing
of the past. This report is said to
have been discovered in circular
letter found in the trash by hotel
employee.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-19
Conference Hears
DR.. [. K. Williams
Discuss Democracy

TORONTO, Cam, July While
delegates to the Baptist World Con!
ference from 6S nations listened as
founded, DR.. l.. A. Williams, pastor
of Oltvet Baptist church, Chicago.
and recognized leader of the color
ed Baptists at this meet, told of the
Aframerican's place in history and
offered him as the severest test of
the sO-called democracy of the day
DIR. Williams said that the contri-
button of colored men in the realm
of exploring, laboring, educating,
and Christianizing is considerable
lie said that men of color had dis
covered America before Columbus
had been with Balboa at the Pacific,
had stood with Peary at the North
Pole. lie also showed how such
leaders as Hannibal, Hasdruval and
Clitus had layed foundations upon
which the modern world was built.
He further contended that today
there could be no fatherhood of
God if there was no brotherhood of
man. DR.. Williams also said that the
colored man had his peculiar con-
tribution to make to the spiritual
life Of the world.
The Rev. DR.. Williams hoped that
the colored people of the world
would never come together in the
sense which was pictured by racial
alarmists and agitators. He looked
forward, however. to the day when
the colored people, in common with
the others of the world, would get
together at the foot of the cross.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-19
Negro Leader
Is Suspended
From Office

WASHINGTON, ID. c., July H.
Perry w. Howard, Negro Republican
national committeeman from Missis-
sippi and special assistant United
States attorney with office in the
department of justice and Scott
Hubbard. U, S, Marshall for the
Southern Mississippi district. indicte-
ed at Biloxi, Miss, by special
grand Jury for conspiracy In the
sale of federal offices, today were
suspended from office by acting
Attorney General William ID. Nit
chell.
Mabel Willebrandt. white, assist
ant Attorney General, placed tho
facts before Attorney Mitchell con-
cerning the indictment of Howard.
Illegal practices in connection with
the administration of his office as
national committeeman are said to
have been substantiated. Howard
flatly denies that he knows anything
about the sale or bartering of post
offices and other Federal posts In
Mississippi. He declared that he
had heard rumors OF such trades,
but had never been actually able to
substantiate them. He admitted
readily that the Republican State
Central Committee received contri-
buttons from Republicans both In
and out OF office. He said these
expenditures were handled by tho
State Committee.
Howard is the sole remaining coll
ored national committeeman, Benja-
min Davis. of Georgia. having been
eliminated In a factional fight last
month.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-19
Average S. c. Teacher
Pay S2S9.O5 a Year

COLUMBIA, S. C. - The average
South Carolina teacher is paid $3.50
05 a year, according to a school sur
vey made public by II. d. Gregg.
Average school term is 5 months,
two weeks. Average number of pu-
pills per teacher is sos.
A teacher must have at least three
grades to q room. Some teachers
have as many as 6, Z, and grades.
The average is 3.27 grades per teach
er.
Half the school buildings are not
equipped with proper blackboards,
teachers desks, pupils desks, globes
and wall maps.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-19
5000 Miles On Hike

OMAHA, Neb. = Bound from
Chicago to Tiajuana, Mexico, Los
Angeles, Portland, Ore, and Seattle,
5000 miles, Miss Rainbow Sistesso,
with a gigantic wolf dog has reached
this place.
She gets dollar for each mile ira
versed but must finish the 5000
miles within six months.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-19
Called NEGRO Lover
White Woman Sues

CHICAGO. - Mae Moffit, white,
owner of Macs" a lunchroom at
SO +. 35th street, has sued l.. X.
Stagg, white, for $4,000, alleging
slander.
Stagg, she alleges, called her n
Negro lover" and told a waitress
she had a cab driver for a sweetheart.
Stagg filed an answer denying her
charges. In an out of court conver-
sation he is reported to have ex-
planned that being Texan he could
not have any but the kindliest feel
ings for Negroes.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-19
Girl Dancer Stops Show

NEW YoRK.-tANP,) = Comoa-
ratively unknown until the opening
of "Say When, white musical COM
edy at the Mofosco, Cora La Redd
looms on the horizon as new dane
ing star, in the opinion of the Even
ing Sun. Stephen Rathburn, the crit
ic, wrote: "How she did dance. She
not only stopped the show, but she
danced better than all the white
dancers put together. She was ably
assisted by Negro named Duques-
ne Miller--not that she needed any
assistance
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-19

Perry HOzvard Ousted From Office
She Gets Religion;
Commits Suicide

MEMPHIS, Tenn, CAMP )-Inr
tense religious mania induced the
suicide of Mrs, Annie Atkins, forty
year-old woman, who lives in Holly
wood Mrs. Atkins was stricken in
the midst of the church service Sun
day morning, and i required several
members to quiet her. Again Sun
day afternoon she ran through the
streets, screaming and tearing off
her clothes.
Monday morning she went to the
home of Sam Weakly and asked to
use the telephone. Seeing a revolver
on the table she grabbed it and shot
herself through the heart.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-19
White Pastors Called In
To Settle Church Row

SAVANNAH, Ga. - Three white
ministers appointed by the Superior
Court had charge of an election at
First African Baptist Church, the
oldest Baptist church in America, to
determine whether the Rev. Z. G.
Thomas will be retained as pastor.
One faction of the church has at
tempted to oust the pastor for over
a year.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-19
Leader Rosenwald.

A fr;srd. evidently n lew. sends
D.;ai Gus 49, suO NJ! !oU,ish ,,ooLIv of
.ha. e' ~. ,,a,,,J o.n;tal II p,as mark
S,'. ~, IA" nd Won aro c;ven II !.
gu ",r. Tso 40 rnd;sn,tod ,, Ieader of
A..;,on @ u I"soai nm 20 tbo time
~ '.,m ~. Ina a.i, 10 ,uos Gaonh IT scbiff
% 1s $500 uea.p ,or,os',l ma9 % t. i o,,r
oon,,;nt;on w. ] that tha mantle Of
,snSa..s,,;r Sns failor nnon tho
n,i, .tauJis,ap I,,l;,rr pnsanwo,d
nouiaeaS Tn" La y. ' pahh; MonJalsobn
at nv .st c. rnnr sr;ond Mr.
pold ppo.e LII ,oo 30 or;t;o;zad s far do;nG
nosenmao, ,s,,,oa, so, ~ i oovr ] .otnowledcod
~ ~ - - 'o AZ, Io,,,s
10 ne ne eaGes a;tar VI ,,ts tn dov, tvo or three
r. ne fso,,, so,oo' ,ho % henafactor for tho
LII stn ono fnr uahrow Irn;on
Ce,,a en PvD,sY ess ooo Co, q Iay;sb edu-
1Ji,eSe oat;eS.l h,,iid;nS E IN cb;caeo. $40 600
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-19
Lightning Takes Shoes Off

CHESTER, s c., CAMP. Light
ming Knocked John Sawyer, who is
sixty years old, off the horse he was
riding, killing the animal. Except
for ripping the shoes off Sawyers
feet. he was uniniured.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-19
Had Roosevelt Been There.

Wh~r comparing men of the pres
ent with those of the past keep in
mind the change in conditions. In
the G.. q. p. convention. 1880. ". x.
Bruca. about to retire from the u. s.
Senate. received 8 votes on the final
ballot for the vice presidency. -Four
voars later John r. vnch. who. like
Bruce. came from Mississippi, re.
ceivad 424 votes to 384 for Powell
CLAYTON as temporary chairman.
At that time, remember. all Amer
leans, evervwhere, including Missis-
sinni, could vote. and Republicans
held elective offices in the South.
In Rishor's "Roosevelt end His
Time" find this description FROM the
New York Times account of Roose-
velt's seconding speech for lynch
Sup from tho Fmnire State
DELEGATES rose slight, almost
boyish figpre an active.
nervous. light-haired. gray-eved
nan who had just thrown off a
straw hat and scrambled to his
nerch on the chair"
Imaoine o delegate from New York
scrambling to his perch on the chair
in the 1929 convention TO make a
fight for William Mcdonald or Wal.
ter Cohen. Young men will find
imagination hard at this point.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-07-19
so Lads at Training Camp

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. = Three
score colored youths have enrolled
for the Citizens Military Training
Camps to be held at Fort Harrison
during the month of August. Many
citizens Of the West are represented.
Evening star., 1928-02-01

"Come out and have a look at It,"
he invited.
lie led her along the tagged stonc
walk on each side of which were prim
rows Of crOcuSeS. up few steps into
a little Summer house. set to face sea
ward. Below them, on the other side
of the lower park. was the hnrbor.
1t was low tide. and most Of tho
fishing boats We're lying upon the
sand, but the Silvery streak of sea was
flowing in and already the deeper
places were being filled. Here and
there one caught giimpscs Of red roof
from he hidden village. ana beyond t.
tho right were strips of marshlaud.
family mauve with wild lavender. yell
low patches Of glistening sand. and
creeks fuller and fuller while they
watched-and beyond was always the
Spring sea. soft and gentle and carcss-
ing.
They stood side by side in the Sum
mer house, and Miss Browns eyes
We're not quite 50 blue because there
was mist which came there some.
times on those rare occasions Wh"r
sh" had time to indulge in very beau.
tiful thoughts or saw very bcautifU
things.
Miss Brown" he said. Eve have
known each other for quite some time
and have never heard your Christian
name"
Edith" she murmurod.
mine is GeoTrcy," he said. taking
her into his arms.
Then. for the first time. Miss Brown
was kissed uron the lips.
TIE END.
Evening star., 1928-02-01

it's perfect naturalncss. stfil remained
with her.
Hungry. hope" her host asked.
Nothing like motoring fur giving ont
an appetite.
Il, is wonderful" she asscnted.
Have wc much farther 10 Io?''
"A good distance. The roads around
here are perfect, though. 1t won't
take uS long. Quaint old place. this.
he went on. Il used t6 come here
racinc when was II lad. All my pep
pie were keen on IL Sec That picture
Of n horse on the wall over the door?
That belonged tn my father
"iiow you must have missed all
these things" she remarked sympa
thctirallv II WAS born in the coun
try. 50 | know What sport means to
"A man"
lie Smilrd-~one of his curious un,
analNzahlc smiles
Don't imagine that | have hc"n
without II Sometimes | have been
the quarry. sometimes | hay" zen the
huntcr You cct all thr 'hrilt N"G
sant when YOU know that rour lif"'s
the penalty for II mistake, or when
yuu'rc watching for that one slip
which means death to tho other nan
san one can't go IN with I! use things
forever. It's good to com" lack To all
of this"
lie talked much more than usual
throucilout luncheon. although T."
avoided n discreet inquiry from his
companion aS to the nature "f the
business upon which they were bent.
In the ear aftcrWHrd he closed his
eyes as though con cnt to est
Miss Brown remHincd alert and
happy fascinated hy tn" country
1hrou:h which they passed, with III
smooth motion of the ca" and the
hrcath nf the Wind. sometime Favored
a liti'e with the odnr of III" pin" woods.
sometimes hrjngin" faint reminders az
hvacinthS ard dAfTodilS from the cot.
t@"n gardens.
Soon they left tho great ";'"n
stretches Of heath starred ,Tith yellow
corsn and passed int" what seemed
~ he an older world. luintcr vii
Ia Cr> with small. thatchod.roofed houses
in the garden pf which hollyho"hs and
even in the sunny corners early roses
We're making a struggling aurcarance.
The region of straight roIGs was
ended They curled and twisted oven
fir.clad ridges and into shady hollrwS
whore the mcd"wS on each side were
rich with green he, baSe and here and
there a wealth of primro>es peered
out from the moss grown stone walls.
or through the long grass of the wredy
bitches. Tho breath Of Vinl"ts came
Ia them from many places heneatn the
hcdctrowS facing Southward. and Miss
Brown gave = LITTLE sob Of delight when
ON a sheltered slope between two strips
of woodland she saw . Wavln. " ist OF
faint purple. herald Of com ne blu"
bells.
Dcssiter opened his eyes with
smile
Fond ot the country, Miss Brown"
he asked.
Il WAS brought up in T." she re