The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-09-03
Elk Commission To
Aid Negro Labor
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knight. Prior to the election, dele
gates heard j. Finley Wilson, declare
that fraternal organizations were to
large extent responsible for ami
cable relations between countries.
This fraternity has done more to
bring the Negro people in this coun-
try together in a common bond of
loyalty, ambition and patriotism
than any other factor" he said. The
health department, he added, aimed
to impress on the Negro that good
health is the greatest possession in
the world.
The report of the Civil Liberties
Commission was read by Robert j.
Nelson of Washington, chairman of
the commission, at the Grand Lodge
session of the Improved Benevolent
Protective Order of Colored Elks of
the World. in O. V. Cato Hall, Six
teenth and Fitzwater streets, yester-
day afternoon.
Among the recommendation of
the commission was that an indus
trial committee be appointed to look
after the interests OF Negro labor.
The commission protested the &C
ton of the Farm Board In failing to
loan any money to any of 100000
Negro farmers in this country. The
discriminatory attitude of the Amer
lean Legion was also protested.
The Grand Lodge voted that the
chairman of the Civil Liberties Com
mission appoint a committee of five,
preferably Legionnaires. to go to the
national convention of the American
Legion, in Detroit. and there to pro-
test the attitude of this national or
ganization
John F. Rhines, of Washington,
Commissioner of Athletics, in his re-
port outlined plans for inter-lodge
competition in basketball, baseball
football and track sports, and said
that he would have a programme of
athletics for the entertainment of
the next Grand Lodge session.
Criticizing entrance requirements
of American colleges as "notoriously
too low, Judge William e. Hueston,
of Washington, told delegates that
"only through education can the
Negro be free" iA
The speaker, commissioner of edu-
cation of the order and Assistant
Solicitor of the Postoffice Depart
ment, read report on education.
81 am firm in my conviction that
the Negro of intelligence is mentally
capable of meeting any educational
test that may be set. would, how
ever, keep out the intellectually I'M
fit Negro men and women as well as
the white.
THE professional field is far from
overcrowded among our people.
There is need of more Negro prac-
titioners in the law, in medicine.
dentistry and engineering, to serve
the Negro population. The educa-
tional department of the lodge,
which is sending twenty-nine stu
dents to college at a cost of $104,-
900, is endeavoring to inspire young
men and women to train for profess
sional careers
Right-minded men and women
among the white race deplore the
economic servitude of the Negro and
sympathize, but they can do little
in remedying the condition. The
A'SbiO pVcpiC hClp lHtlT ltdu-
ers to help them by acquiring educa-
ton"
Results of a health survey among
more than 200 cities were reported
by DR.. William J. Tompkins, of
Kansas City Mo-, chairman of the
health commission of the order. Ne
groes, he said, are shown to be as
healthy as white residents in COM
munities where living conditions are
safeguarded.
Because of health work, the sta
nina of the Negro has now a fair
show" he said. American insurance
tables are being adjusted more ia
vorably to Negroes. There. are some
15.0OO,O00 of us in the country, and
there is still a crying need for
health education in the South"