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New Utility Financing.

NEW YORK, July "a N9-The De-
cent stagnation insthe new capital mar
ket, which was not 80 much due 10
lack of demand rs to q decided lack Of
high-grade new issues, resulted IN the
offering today Of two prime public Will
ity offerings. The scarcity of good
municipals has left a ready market for
such offerings. Public Service of North
ern Illinois offered $4,000, 900 Of 4 per
cent notes due July 80, 1892, priced at
par to yield per cent. This financing,
which is the second piece the company
has done this year. will be used to re-
tire all bank indebtedness and provide
for extensions and additions. Net earn
ings for the year ended June 80 were
more than two and one-half times an
nual interest charges, including this
issue.
Arkansas Power & Light put out ST.
600, 900 of first and refunding mortgage
per cent bonds. due 1856. This Is
the last part of series totaling $685.
100000. They were priced at par.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-22
SHANGHAI GOLD BAR
EXCHANGE IN RECESS

BY Gable to The Star.
SHANGHAI, China, July 22-The
London International Conference for
the financial rehabilitation of Germany
is having a direct repercussion on the
Shanghai Gold Bar Exchange
Today the Chinese members of the
exchange suspended all business, pulled
up their chairs and stools. grouped
themselves in fours and spent the day
playing bridge while cali boys served
tea The members declared that they
were unable to do a thing until the
London conference announced its re-
suits.
Daily transactions average $4,000, 900
gold.
Copyright, 1879
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-22
POTATO MARKET.

CHICAGO, July % up Omitted States
of Agriculture Potatoes
Receipts, 1875 cars; on track, 1874,
total United States shipments, 500;
weak. trading very slow; sacked, per
Missouri Cobblers, 90
al10: Kansas, 98a1 .05; poor stock
lower; Louisiana TriumphS, l.50al so !;
East Shore, Virginia, barrel. Cobblers,
225a250.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-22
Money! to Loan

Secured by first deed of trust real estate.
Prevailing interest and commission.
J0senh Weller 4eo Wash; L. & Trust
I'm - w NINA Bldg. 9Th & Z NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-22
PARIS ROuRSE PRICES.

PARIS, July % (Ao).-Three per cent
rentes. 81 francs so confines. Five per
cent loan, 1913 francs 65 centimes. Ex-
change on London, 1913 francs SO cen
times. The dollar was quoted at %
Francs 51k centimes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-22

If the Summer of 1881 is like the
several previous ones there will be
about 100000 motor campers spend
ing some $20,0o0,000 at the tourist
camps throughout the country, but
especially In the West.
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CONTINUED on Page la
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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
eexed by Private o
Stock and
Received by Private

tie Wire Direct to The Star ONCE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-22

- Bill GRADER, sophomore at University
of California, is the fourth man in the
history of the pole vault to clear IA
feet.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-23
Inter- Race Couple Stick
In Spite OF Threats

STEWARTSVILLE, Va.-Threats
of mob violence and other abuses
have failed to separate Joseph
Wright, 10, and his white compan-
ion, Florence Franklin, 80, who have
lived together for a good many
years.
Annually the aged man gets
threatening unsigned letters from
white neighbors. telling him to va
cate the premises which he owns.
And on one occasion three white Of
ficers visited his home upon pretext
of examining his dog tags and used
abusive language to arouse his tenn
per. They then set upon him and
proceeded to beat him up.
Later, threats of mob violence
caused neighbors to go to the home
and wait for the lynching party
armed with rifles. The mob failed
to show up.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-23
God, Rain Down Bibles

The Rev. D. H. Stanton, division
secretary of the American Bible So
ciety, was making trip last summer
and entered a crowded jim crow car.
It was a rough crowd and since
it was to be an all night ride, he
decided to pick his seat mate with
care. He finally chose a man who
had an open Bible in his lap and
was reading. Here follows the Rev.
Mr.. Stanton's own words in the Bible
Society Record:
"The conductor, who had shown
much Impotence with everybody,
seemed curious to know why | had
decided to sit down. j pointed to
the open book. We'll, it is a good
book he said, and smiling added,
This old world would be different
place in which to live if that book
were open in every crowd. Within
few moments he was back again
and glanced at the book as he passeG
for it was still open. On his return
the third time, he asked, Finding a
joy in reading it, are your JOY was
so evident. he didn't wait for a re-
ply, but asked if / thought the Col
ored passengers would like to have
more room. answered yes. A
car which had had only two white
passengers was Immediately cleared,
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-23
Black Benedict Arnold"

patriots were often betrayed, shot,
hung, or CHARTERED. But they fought
on.
These traitors tend to eliminate
themselves: nobody trusts them; least
of all does the vile master whom
they serve, trust them. In the end,
when their usefulness" ceases, they
are deserted by those to whom they
betrayed their race and are cursed
by their own people, and forgotten
by God.
The "tale-toting" Negro is a relic
of slave days: that is the way he
licked his masters hands. in the hope
of securing a little more bread for
his dog-like stomach and little less
beating for his lousy back.
But do not make the mistake of
supposing that only the Servant
class are the traitors-those who
grin and bow and hand the lordly
whites their coffee and rolls at the
breakfast table.
Sometimes there are scurvy trait
ors among these servants. God pity
them. But sometimes also the BLACK
Benedict Arnold" is a Negro who
has "made good" who is developed
and educated "Sambo Negro" who
has lied and grinned his way into
some physical comforts and won q
reputation among the oppressors as
good" or Sensible" Negro. This
type, low and high. must be defeated
and ultimately destroyed Let them
be lepers to all self-respecting Ne
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-23

and the Colored passengers were in
vited to find comfortable seats for
the remainder of the night"
What a fine sentimental story.
Yet the trouble with the Bible and
hairdressers is similar. Their "per-
manent waves" are permanent in
name only.
If Bibles will sweeten up the South
and keep it sweet, we are making a
mistake by not campaining for "a
Bible in every home"-"Reach for
a Bible instead of a sweet" Read
your Scriptures twice a day." ASK
the man who reads one," Good to
the last verse"
The Rev. Mr.. Stanton, if he were
not the agent for the Bible society,
would probably admit that if the
whole South were covered with
Bibles one volume thick, we would
still have lynchings, Jim crow cars,
Acknowledgement and segregation. In
fact the South will misquote the
Bible in the effort to prove that
these ancient race superiority prac-
tees have Biblical sanction.
If the American Bible Society
could put Bible into the hearts of
Southern whites as easily as it places
one in their hands, or their pockets,
the rest of the country could be
prouder of the work.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-23
Old Time Argument

During the last hectic political
campaign in Chicago there was fla
grant attempt made by MANY of the
Colored Republican leaders to bring
up the old washed-out arguments
about the Democratic party being
the party of slavery and the Repub-
lican party being party of emancipa-
ton. Undoubtedly history supports
this contention but Just what that
has to do with present day politics
we cannot see. Hoover of the Re-
publicans has given us no more rec
IGNITION than Wilson of the Demo-
Gratis. He has further cast his lot
with the Lily-Whites of the south and
what purports to be the Khan influ-
ences of the north. We have been
stripped of patronage and left almost
inarticulate. The issues in northern
politics are the issues of men and
measures and not party and politics.
The old time arguments are no long
er in order with intelligent Colored
people.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-23
Hospital Makes Error;
Dead Girl Is Alive

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - Excited
arrangements for funeral here
were halted last week when it was
found that the Philadelphia General
Hospital had made a mistake in the
identity of the corpse.
The error was discovered by the
pastor of the young woman who had
been reported by the hospital as
dead, when he went to the institution
to get details.
Crepe on Door
Crepe had been placed on the door
Of the family home. Several days
before the young woman had been
injured by fall down flight of
stairs and had been taken to the hos
pital. The next day the hospital call
ed up the family and informed them
that she had died.
Immediately they started funeral
arrangements and the casket was Sc
lected.
Another young woman had died
and the institution had telephoned
the wrong parents. The young wo-
man in question is expected to be
out in few days.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-23
By William Pickens

We are always Boosting, on all pa
triotic occasions, that "The Negro
has never been a traitor to his coun-
try; that he has "never assassinated
a president" and that he has been
unchangeably "loyal to the flag. .
This boast is almost one hundred
per cent true.
But, in the name of the God of
Abraham and of all the gods o:
Greece and Rome, how we wish we
could boast: that the Negro has al
ways been loyal to his race; that
mo Negro ever betrayed the best in
terests of his race" to his "white
folks; and that he never stabbed
his own sacrificing leaders in the
back.
All oppressed peoples have had
this difficulty: for 700 years the
Irish struggled against the oppress-
ing Briton and the Irish traitor. The
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-23
We Ask A Favor


We know you patronize Enter
prise advertisers. A large number of
our advertisers know it. But because
some of our advertisers use The En-
terprise in connection with the daily
papers it is difficult for them to
check on The Enterprise. The best
possible check is for Enterprise
readers to mention the Enterprise
when patronizing those who adver-
tise in The Enterprise.
The circulation of The Enter
prise has grown tremendously within
the last month. We believe we are
giving the public better newspa-
per. We are trying to make it bet
ter. Enterprise readers deserve the
best. You can help us by mention
ing The Enterprise to advertisers.
Do this for us, PLEASED
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-23
Using Epithets
For Negroes
Was Just A Joke

HARRISBURG, Pa.-A statement
in which Representative Hartsock of
Blair County was ordered stricken
from the record, and he was censured
as result of using the word coon"
in connection with Negro citizens
here last Wednesday.
Representative Hartsock, who has
been regarded as one of the most
puritanical and religious members of
the state body and who has paraded
his brotherly love doctrine, was
speaking in defense of bill to pro-
hihit coon hunting after 10 p. m.
During the. course of his sneech
he declared: 81 would ask the ladies
and gentlemen of the House to give
us a vote on this bill SO as to protect
our Pennsylvania coons, not the
black-faced ones"
Immediately a motion was made
to censure the legislator and have
the last four words stricken from
the record.
In commenting on the action of
the body, Representative Blair stated
that he regarded the matter as d
Joke.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-23
President Hoover Paid
For Tuskegee Broadcast


TUSKEGEE. Ala. = (ANP) - It
was the intention of President Hoo
yer to visit Tuskegee in person, but
when work would not permit him, he
suggested to DR.. Motion that broad
cast be arranged for.
One inquiry disclosed that it would
be necessary for the Columbia sys-
tenn alone to surrender $4,000 worth
of advertising to schedule the broad
cast.
President Hoover took the ar
rangement in hand and a short time
afterward notified the school that he
had arranged with both the National
and Columbia broadcasting systems.
Later it was learned that the presi-
dent paid for the broadcasting him
self.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-23

Colored people are hardest hit as
usual and their present leadership.
while not taking its cue from white
people is every day showing that it is
not capable of meeting the needs of
their people. While hunger and pr1-
walton are increasing the leaders find
themselves more, and more incapable
of meeting the situation. To point
out that the white people are no bet
ter offers no excuse. Now is the time
for new leadership among colored
people and the best men and women
the race has to offer. Now is the
time, in spite of all that may be said
TO the contrary. that we might effec-
tually unite all of our forces while
those of the other race are failing
and intelligently press our claims to
our Just share in American affairs.
Let us call forth those men among
us who are qualified, stand black of
them to man and make a real bid
in America at time when America
must think and think straight.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-23
Spokane Youth Now
Insurance Auditor

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Arthur
Weiseger, former resident of Spo-
kane, Washington, who graduated
from the school of Business Admin
stration of the University of Mime
sofa in March is now agency audi
tor for the National Benefit Life
Insurance Company with headquar-
ters in this city.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-23
EDIT ORAL S
A New Leadership

Open criticism of the present day
leadership of American affairs is be-
coming more current as the "depres-
sion" continues and more men who
want to work are forced into the
bread lines. The inability or unwill-
ingness of those in power in govern
ment and those whose wealth keeps
them in power to create and put into
operation a new system which will
prevent the occurrence or recurrence
of such conditions stands as a re-
Election on the intelligence of the
American people.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-23
Word Often Mispronounced

Armistice. Pronounce last as in
this" not as in "ice,' and accent
first syllable, not the second
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-23
English
Word Often Misused

Do not say. "He was talking to
you and l." Say, "to you and me-"
Omit you and" and the proper con
struction is obvious.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-23
Word Study

"Use word three times and it is
yours" Let US increase our vocabu-
larry by mastering one word each
day.
ACCUSATORY; pertaining to,
containing, or in the nature of, an
accusation. Gan her statements con
corning him were aceusatory."
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-23

THE NORTHWEST ENTERPRISE
is the best Sc Negro Newspaper in
the u. S. A
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-23

Alert, watchful, vigilant. atten-
tive, observant. prompt, ready.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-23

Word Often Misspelled
Mandatory; tory, not tury.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-23

The Twenty-first Annual report of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People dem
onstrates anew the value of that or
ganization to the Negro. With slen-
der financial resources. but an abun-
dance of courage. vigilance and en-
ergy, II has carried the fight for the
Negro into every state of the nation.
It's most spectacular service was its
active and unremittin@ camnaipn
against the confirmation of Judge
Parker as a Justice of the United
States Supreme Court.
Not resting with its victory over
Parker. the association in the fall
elections opposed the senators who
had voted for Parker's confirmation,
succeeding in five out of seven cases.
These two services constituted the
greatest political victory of the Ne
gro since the Emancipation Procla-
nation. For the first time since he
was given the ballot the Negro made
his political power felt throughout
the nation, rebuking the president
for his encouragement of 'lily white
ISM"
Along with this major activity the
association continued it's crusade
against social and political injustice.
Of its four cases involving citizen
ship rights one was successful one
was lost and two are pending. 1t
fought labor union segregation and
discriminatory coming of residences
and business. Murder convictions of
Negroes were fought in the courts of
Virginia, Alabama, Louisiana and
Texas. Judge Walker of Florida.
reliably reputed to be Negro hater,
was opposed when he sought appoint
ment as a federal Judge in Florida
The fight against discrimination of
Negro Gold Star mothers resulted in
So of them declining to 20 to France
Travel segregation by the Ward Line
steamers and motion picture segre-
cation in the United States army
were also stopped.
The Associations usual investiga-
ton of lvnchings was sustained, no.
tably in the mob atrocities at Chick
asha, Oklahoma, and Marion, Indi-
ana. The report includes the lynch
ing record of 1880, showing that of
% Hnchings only one was alleged to
be provoked by an assault on a white
woman. Georgia headed the dishonor
roll with seven lynchings,
The finance of the association suf-
fered because of the general business
depression. and so did its organ, The
Crisis. An appeal is made for the
support of this organ, which its edi-
tor intends to develop into a forum
for all questions of race.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People has
done more than enough to prove that
it deserves the full support of the
race
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-04-23
The Rising Tide

"Color prejudice is undermining
the foundations of the British Em-
pre-" according to David Freeman
in an article published in the Con-
temporary Review of London.
"In India, China, Africa, every
where the nations are beginning to
show strong resent against ii"
Even in England, ITSELF this pre-
JUDGE is growing" he says whereas
not so many years ago it was alb
sent" LESS than two centuries ago
all England was free of color preju-
dice while it existed strongly in the
English colonies in America" 1t
appears that American racial preju-
dice has taken root in England
II is significant that there is less
color prejudice in Russia and France
than in any other civilized nation
1t is also true that France has the
smallest ratio of unemployed of any
civilized nation.
1t appears that this rising tide Of
resentment has centered an attack
against the commerce of the preiu-
dice practicing nations. And it is
proving most effective. England has
lost millions because of Gandhi's
campaign in India. 1t is possible that
lack of color prejudice on the part
of France has nothing to do with its
full time employment while the rest
of the world struggles under ire
mendous business depression, but the
fact remains the nation which ex-
hibits less color prejudice has most
employment for its workers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13

EDWARD o. BALTzs
VERNON q. OWEN
mhls. d&dbs,exsu Trustees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
NEW YORK FACING
BILLBOARD FIGHT
Proponents of Proposed Law
Hope to End | 5 Years Bat
tie in Present Assembly.

At Albany a decisive battle IN the Is
year campaign to curb billboard evils in
New York State is being waged in the
Assembly.
The pending bill, which civic forces
and members Of the State garden clubs
are supporting in the face Of organized
opposition on the part of the outdoor
advertising industry and allied interests,
provides for State regulation and licens-
ing of billboards outside Of municipali-
ties.
For more than Is years measures TO
tax or regulate outdoor advertising In
New York State have been introduced in
the Legislature, but they always have
died In committee. Those who are sup
porting the bill now before the Judiciary
Committee, 1t was reported in dispatches,
have served notice that sentiment
throughout the State in favor of the
regulation of billboards was Increasing
and that the time was not far distant
when the Legislature would be forced TO
enact such a measure.
Offer Labor Arguments.
As in the case of the organized bill
board interests during the recent hear
ing on Slnllar LEGISLATION before the
Maryland Legislature, opponents In
New York brought heaviest pressure to
bear on the alleged wholesale unem-
ployment that would result among sign
board painters, workmen and others
who benefit, directly or indirectly, from
outdoor advertising.
Exposing the fallacy of such ar1u-
ments, Col, Greene, superintendent of
public works in New York, called the
fears of labor groundless.
I'VE have no desire to eliminate ad-
vertising, but we want to place these
billboards where they will not be a men,
ace to life and property" he said. "a
majority Of the people of the State
demand enactment of this bill, because
they do not want their roads lined on
all sides with these horrible billboards."
win Regulate Locations.
Conditions in New York State are
similar to those in Maryland, where an
organized campaign Is being waged
with earnestneSS to protect the great
highways of the State from further
commerciali2ation by the outdoor adj
vertising industry.
Reasonable license fees and taxes,
which the billboard industry in most
, cases will pass on TO the advertiser,
State officials contend, will do more
than restrict the indiscriminate placing
of advertising units and keep them In
the zones where they properly belong.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
THoS. J. OWEN & SON. AUcTIoNEERs,
1881 EYE ST. NV.

TRUSTEES, SALE OF VALUABLE I'M
PROVED REAL ESTATE, BEING THE
BRICK DWELLING NO. 1923 @ STREET
NORTHEAST.
BY virtue Of a certain deed Of trust; duly
Of the land records of the District Of CO.
lumbis, and at the request Of the party
secured thereby, the undersigned trustees
VIII sell at PUBLIC AUCTION; in front Of ,, the
PAY OF MARCH, MAI Ga AP 1891; AT THREE
described land and premises. situate in the
city OF Washington, District Of Columbia,
ana designated as and being part Of original
lot one ID in square nine hundred and
eighty-two (9e2), beginning on g street nifty
and SQUARE sns and TSnninn thenee vest SIonE
line of @ street eighteen (1e) feet, thence
alley, thence east along line OF said alley
eighteen (1S) feet and thence south ninety
800 feet to place Of beginning. Now known
9r aao and taxation purposes as lot
Terms Of sale: one-third Of the purchase
money TO be pa ID in cash, balance in two
equal inStallmentS, payable in one and two
years. with interest at seven per centum per
annum, payable serni-annually. from day of
erty sold, or all cash, at the option OF the
purchaser. A deposit OF 5000 will be re-
CURED at time of sale. All conVeyancing.
recording, etc. at cost OF purchaser. Terms
OF sale to be complied with within thirty
reserve the riEht to resell the property. at
the risk and cost Of defauiting purchaser,
after five days advertisement of such resale
IN some newspaper published in Wash
lngton, D. @.
mh6.s,1l13,isl7 - trustees.