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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06

Monseiur Massciotte and his gang Of pin smashers are making a most determined bid for second place. bui as Alderman Frank Bergen says, q nave learned plenty about injunc- .lons around the city hall to stop nm. My name is on that place."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-06

"Wait until I count the old jack and pay the incidentals and will vote. I don't know where we stand at present. I haven't seen our sec. rotary since Christmas" Now there's good old Jim Fryer for you. A man can bowl 72 and be given a testi- monial banquet, but it takes "the jack' to entertain and feed a small army of 100 plus. And Jim is the treasurer of the committee.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-18
Need To Pray

IL Joseph Kennedy, Boston odd
jobs man, won the $l54, 900 Irish
Hospital sweepstakes as result of
his prayers to God, he will need to
continue praying that he will be able
to keep the money he has won.
1t will be hard job.
Already Joseph Kennedy, white, a
sailor ON the steamship American
Banker. claims his ticket won the
$154,000. There will be squabbles
and maybe law suits before this is
settled.
Colored Joe Kennedy, who had lost
a $30-a-week job and took one at s12
to keep from starving, who couldn't
nav his S20-a-month rent, with Sill
left in his pocket, promises himself a
model home, his wife an auto and
his children a college education.
He also will get gray hairs before
he is through listening to statesmen
trying to sell him everything from
television sets to. worthless stock in
the company making cuspdors which
automatically cleanse themselves.
Kennedy will need continual pray
ers until he has invested his winnings
Mt 6 per cent through high class
hank and makes himself satisfied to
live from the income.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-18
Survey Finds Negro Labor Satisfactory

CHICAGO. = Industrial leaders
of firms which have used Negro la
Dor are for the most part well salts
fled with the experiment" said a
survey of industrial opportunities in
Chicago issued Monday by the Chi
cago Urban League, an organization
of both white and Negro member
ship, of which Edgar Bancroft Pierce
is president and A. l.. Foster exec
utive secretary.
1.-THE general superintendent of a
large company which manufactures
composition roofing" continues the
report States: 4 have handled all
classes of men and find the Negro
laborer, both skilled and unskilled,
will give a firm the same co-opera-
tion and satisfactory service that
the white man does. / find them just
as observing and just as quick to
learn. | am using Negro labor as
firemen in the power houses. coal
passers, assistant electricians and as
operators on the machines. | have
two Negro foremen, and these two
men are just as good organizers as
the white foremen and get the max
imum work at minimum cost.
"A statement from the employ
ment and safety department of a
manufacturing concern of corn pro-
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-18
NEGRO BUSINESS
LEAGUE BEGINS
MEET SUNDAY

NEW YORK CITY.-Dr. Robert
r. Motion, principal of Tuskegee in
stitute, and president of the Nation
al Negro Business League. will ad-
dress the citizens of Harlem Sunday
afternoon, at Mother Zion A. M. f.
church.
This will be the opening session
of the thirty-second annual conven-
ton of the National Negro Business
League which meets in New York,
June 21-24.
This years program provides for
group or sectional meetings in the
day and public meetings at night.
At the Monday night meeting, the
guest speaker will be DR.. Carter G..
Woodson, president, Association for
the Study of Negro Life and His
tory, Washington, d. c., and on
Tuesday night, Mr.. William l.. But
Ter, associate editor of The Progress
sive Grocer, and Mr.. Edward L..
Gerish of the U. S. Department of
Commerce, Washington, d. C.
The Negro Institutional Buyers
Conference will begin Monday morn
ing at the Broadway Central Hotel
On Tuesday, the Buyers will be all
day and luncheon guest of the Fran
els H. Leggett company.
An outstanding educational feat
ure Of the convention will be the
visit on Tuesday afternoon to the
Westinghouse Lighting institute. The
guest speaker for this session will be
Mr.. Kenneth Collins, advertising
manager for R. H. Macy and Com
pany.
On Wednesday afternoon, the del
egates, visitors and business men will
go in body to visit the Education
al Institute of the General Foods
Corporation.
Other features include a Monday
afternoon meeting of the represen-
tatives of Housewives Leagues ana
a special demonstration for retail
grocers at the Peoples Model Gro
Gerry Store, 123rd street and Seventh
avenue.
The convention closes with ban
quet on Wednesday night
"lnterracial Cooperation in Bust
ness" will be the general theme Of
the convention.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-18

ducts saws: When it was suggested
that we try and introduce colored
help there was some antagonism on
the part of foremen and others in
the organization. We decided to
experiment, however, and in short
time had between seventy-five TO
100 Negro workers. We expe-
rienced no difficulty in working the
colored and white men in the same
departments; in fact there was no
discrimination of any kind, as we
had them use the same locker room
and eat in the same lunchroom. We
have never had serious encounter
between the white and colored work
ers. The league comments that
the plant referred to in this state
ment is fourteen miles from Chica-
go.
The leagues report adds: an
the stockyards tanneries, steel plants
and some manufacturing concerns
Negroes are no longer the first
to be.fired and the last to be hired.
In the stockyards particularly eff
cheney and seniority determine the
idNiiE oIl VI lnNii ptIiOuo VI
depression"
Negroes Buying Power
In discussing the Negro consumer
as an asset to the community when
he has the wherewithall for buying
the league estimates that Negroes in
Chicago spend $12,000,000 a year
for furniture.
THE present Negro population of
Chicago" SAID the leagues statisti-
clans, "is 100000, or approximately
81 900 families. If the average Ne
gro family spends 33 per cent of
his income for food and 10 per cent
for clothing, based on average in
come of $3.50 per annum, Chicago
Negroes spend somewhat as follows:
Groceries & vegetables $11, 107.S00
Meat ..............-.............. 7,06S, 500
Milk. butter and eggs 2,019, 500
Wearing apparel .-........ 4,31S,8SO
Shoes and overshoes 49,. 1884, l 60
Milln'ry and haberd'sh'ry 954,720
Laundry and cleaning 31S,240
cat least 10000 families use cleo
tricity and gas and have telephones. +"
The league reported in addition
to its relief and shelter of the I'M
employed, placing in the last fiscal
year, through its free employment
bureau, 2,9S3 persons in general
work, 534 in positions never before
held by Negroes, 1853 through its fra
ternal committee, and added that
the industrial secretaries of the
league saved by adjustments the job
of 1910 Negro workers.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-18
Tea Business
Professor Herber. Adolphu. Mill.

Professor Herbert Adolphus Mill
er. white, seven years professor at
Ohio State University, has been fired
because. among other "offenses." he
taught race equality.
Typical of the man is letter
signed by him in the June 2. 1881,
issue of the New York Nation, in
which he says:
Exploratory visits are the be-
ginning of change of attitude and
stimulus to fact-finding. If one
accents the prevailing attitude in the
South, visit to Tuskegee is a rev.
rlation which cannot fail to have en-
larging emotional possibilities. A
visit to Negro business concerns may
be constructive shock to those who
have seen only Negro ianitors. To-
day I am taking large class to have
tea at the house of Negro phvsi-
clan. For those who think tea will
be tasteless if drunk co-racially it D.
a genuine education to try it."
Ohio owes its existence today to
the spirit of 1776 that eventuated in
tea parties at Boston and Annapolis.
But clearly exploratory visits" and
"interracial teas" are too much for
1881.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-18

The Negro masses must be told
frankly the conditions. They must
be steeled for the fray in which
they are to participate if any resis-
lance is expected of them, and this
can only come if Negro leaders tell
the truth. They should know the
truth, for by it alone will they be
free.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-18
Try and Try Again

We frequently hear some colored
person complain about the services
rendered them by some other colored
person, whether that other person is
doctor. lawyer. mechanic or servant
To this complaint they add that
never again will they use colored
man or woman for this service and
state that they will henceforth use a
white person whenever such service
is required again. These assertions
come after they have had some dis
agreeable experience with a colored
carpenter, mechanic or tailor as the
case may be. But to this day we
have not ever heard of these same
people or any colored person. in fact,
say that they are through with col
ored BARRIERS in the case of men or
colored beauty parlors in the case of
women. They may decide that they
are not going to have particular
colored barber, but they do not rush
in their disappointment to a white
barber shop to have their locks trim
med or ARRANGED the fashion that
they want. Colored women who are
exasperated with a certain colored
beauty operator do not rush to the
finest white shops to have their hair
dressed. They merely look around
and inquire for a first class colored
barber or beauty expert.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-18
Washington Pastor
breaches L Hours

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The Rev.
G. z. Brown Negro pastor of Mount
Zion Baptist Church, recently claimed
the worlds record for the longest
sermon. For twelve hours and ten
minutes he preached yesterday. His
sermon had been prepared and con-
sisted of SS,794 words.
Four lamb chops, chicken leg
and a glass of milk sustained him.
The Rev. Mr.. Browns first sub
iect was gambling. which took more
than three hours. Companionate
marriage occupied him until dark.
Law breaking, prohibition. fast liv-
ing and "the evil in dancing" fol-
lowed.
Famine" was reached about 10
p. M, when time out was taken for
the chicken leg Then ''Pestilence"
and Drought" the latter signal
for a drink of milk.
Mr.. Brown finished at midnight,
"a little husky" as he put it.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-18
EDITORIALS
The Same Root

Hussein, rs, exiled king of Hedjaz,
Arabia, died last week and his body
was carried to Jerusalem for burial
Born in Constantinople in 1856,
Hussein belonged to the "oldest"
family in Arabia, he Hashamite
branch of the Koreisch tribe. He
traced his descent directly back to
Moses.
Those who read the Bible with
care may recall that Moses married
into a colored family. as is often
done today in Columbus, Ca, and
Raleigh, N. C.
The seed of Moses. after $500
years, must approximate thousands
by now. Yet, Moses has nothing on
Adam, who is father" of all the
millions on the earth today.
Silly people who talk about blood
and ancestry might remember some
day that all these family trees go
back to the same root.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-18

ALSO il is true that those who
raise their voice after some Disagree
able experience with a colored per-
son do not seek out white under
taker TO bury their beloved ones
when they die. They do not over
crowd the finest white restaurants
when they are Disguised with the
service of some colored restaurant.
" short. thev only change and use
white merchant or service where the
white man eaters to them. If we can
look around for a better barber or
hair dresser we can do it when it
comes to the grocer. doctor. LAWYER,
drug store and all of the other serv-
ices that we require. If in the search
for good colored service in any line
we encounter some disagreeable ex-
periences we can do as we do in the
case of the barber or beauty expert
continue to search until we find COM
petence courtesy and service If we
take this attitude on all colored en-
ternrises it would be surprising how
efficiency would be increased vol
ume of business would swell. If we
can do it whore We are forced we
certainly oueht to do it where we
are not forced, if we have any self
respect
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-18
English

Word Often Misused
Do not say: II have been wishing
to see you the worst way" Say, TO
see you SO much"
Word Often Misspelled
Lovable, not loveable.
Word Often Mispronounced
Laryngitis. Pronounce lar-in- ii-tis.
a as in at, first and third is as in
cit, second as in "ice" mot 'jee')
accent third syllable.
synonyms
Union, unity, junction. combina-
ton.
Word STUDY
DEBRIS; rubbish, especially such
as results from destruction. at res
CURED many days to remove the
storms debris"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-18
Telling the Truth

President Mordecai Johnson struck
n KEYNOTE among the present needs
of Negroes when he impressed upon
the graduating classes of Howard
University the ADVANTAGE of telling
the truth and facing facts as they
exist.
In speaking to the graduates about
the fields of education into which
they are going, the proxy said; Zone
of the greatest services you can rem
der in this cause is to BIT truthful
interpreter of the conditions as they
exist and of the real needs of the
people"
President johnson is right. One of
the heavy burdens of the New Ne
gro is the presence of an untowardly
number of golden-throated, ignoran.
optimists. who in their zeal to be
heard, block the progress of
mighty people by Understanding
the hazards which lie before them.
Liars for the moment-making peo-
pie feel good over a given period only
to return them to a worse condition
than they knew before.
If the newly groomed leaders of
Negroes who are urged to go into the
forgotten places and take the good
shepherd ideal with them are ever to
become part of the peoples prog
ress and share in the end their conf
dence, they will have to tell them
the truth and teach them to know the
truth, so that they stay in the path.
The Negro long has been the COM
mercial bonanza of other races be-
cause he has not been taught to
know the truth. He has been too
gullible. This may be attributed at
least in part to the fact that he has
followed in blind-horse manner
leaders who led him to slaughter.
Leaders who themselves did not
know the truth and who did not
teach the assets of its practice.
The Negro masses must be told
frankly the conditions. They must
be steeled for the fray in which
tLo,, ,,.o ,1o,ticinato &c opu raciu-
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-18
What Hampton Needs

Until Hampton (Va.) Institute has
a colored president there always will
be these persistent efforts on the
part of white residents of the town
of Hampton to have some form of
Jim crow on the campus.
Several years ago lily-white Hamp-
tonians failed to get separate seats
for themselves at certain college en-
tertainments in Hampton Institute
auditorium.
This weeks Enterprise records the
plan to have SEPARATE waiting rooms
in the new Dixie Hospital. financed
nv julius Rosenwald on Hampton's
campus.
President Arthur Howe. Hampton
head. will not support this Jim crow
movement. A Negro president would
not tolerate it.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-18
Marines to Leave
Haiti BY Dec, 1892

WASHTNGTON.--All marines will
be out of Haiti by the end of next
year, ii has been announced by Sec
rotary Stimson. The Secretary de-
elared that the government is has
tening its program of bringing all
American officials except collector
# customs, out of the Republic be-
fore the treaty ends in 1886.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-18

THE NORTHWEST ENTERPRISE
is the best SC Negro Newspaper in
the u. y. A.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-06-18

Coming to Seattle? Have your
mail directed to The Tobacco Box.
6O9 Jackson St. When you call you'll
get your mail without any delay. No
charges for the service.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-24

a iashy young man, and pictures
with a m OWE actor. Oh, he had a
marvelou 8 time!
Nobody was up in his car this
morning until 8 o'clock-except
the YouIsg Fellow.
He WIS up at the first streak OF
dawn.
Out o D the platform. getting what
he Gale q "a breath OF fresh air"
The vsind was blowing a gale-but
he lovers II.
The harder IL blew the more he
laughed He buttoned his overcoat
around. him and stood on the obser-
walton platform. conquering the
weathe q like q Viking sailing q ship
into II te ice-floe OF an unknown sea.
Whs q 10 have for breakfast-that
was tlse question?
Harm and eggs. with the eggs
turned over. and sort Of brcwnish
with the ham gravy. don't YOU
know; or little pig sausages and hot
cake:i or maybe scrambled eggs and
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-24
Duck, Hot
and Cold.

? tablespoons melted butter
2 tablespoons orange juice
] teaspoon salt
Il teaspoon pepper
Drain the apricots either canned
or dried ones hat have been cooked.
then chop with the b~readcrumbs,
add other ingredients and mix well.
II apricots are not available other
dried or canned fruits may be used.
Chopped peaches. apple and walnuts
mixed with hreadcrumbs and season
ings are very good. But duck needs
some slightly acid ingredient in the
dressing 10 counteract its own fat.
II duck is left over IL can be
served cold. which many claim is
even tastier than the hot dish. Slices
Of duck. cold ham. garnished with
sections Of orange and grapefruit on
endive. make an attractive dish for
sunday night or late supper. Duck
and pineapple make another delicious
blend. Or II leftover duck is TO be
served hot. heat in butter with a few
mushrooms.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-24
A Fashion Models Diary
BY GRACE THORNCLIFFE
Exercise and Then Some More Exercise

not TO study up on my golf this
year. Not working for 80
many weeks has added
weight to my figure and that means
that. IL I get much fatter. ! won't Be
a model girl. no. indeedy. And 80,
exercise and then some more exer-
else for yours truly this Summer. I
don't think that ! have TO cut down
on my diet because ! never was a
very heavy eater and praise Be. I am
not a bit fond OF the things that add
the extra poundage. I can look a box
Of chocolates in the eye and remain
coldly indifferent 20 its charms. I
have seen such awful tragedies
through dieting. One OF the most
beautiful girls We W had in the
store was hired by a famous pro-
Queer TO adorn n Of his shows.
She wanted to be even thinner than
she already was. and. contrary to
his advice. she continued to diet.
And Just when she imagined that
she could live without almost any
food. she was taken seriously III. On
the night the show opened poor
Frances was taken TO a sanitarium
and IL was only last week that
Helene heard from her sister. She
said that II would be months before
Frances would be well again. So
much for OVERRIDING things.
Talking OF models. Madame has
engaged some lovely girls for the
new store. She has lost so many
through marriage and through the
stage that she sometimes despairs OF
ever being able TO train them thor
oughly. Helene and i always tell her
that she should be glad that neither
OF Us have any stage aspirations.
We both had offers. and both de-
cided that the stage. unless II was
at It's best. vas too uncertain a pro-
fession- And now that we both nave
good Jobs as s~aleswonen as well as
models. I am glad that we both were
so sensible. And now. with the new
shop, there should be much more
business and. therefore. much bigger
salary checks
we have all decided to 20 out golf
we can improve our game and how
much weight ! can shed Bill be-
longs 70 a very nice little club Just
n short distance from the city. His
married sister lives only a couple OF
miles away and she has q kindly Of
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-24
For Sunday, May "a

CIUNDAY'S horoscope stresses
the importance OF social. domes-
~ tic. romantic and cultural
acf hvities. which may assume an
an gle OF the idsalistic. erratic or
m. Ts~terious. While these may be man.
ip ulated safely by discretion and
r. straint into happy channels. yet
q tere Is menace OF subtlety and in
uHgue. Protect the employment and
he finances.
Those whose birthday II IL are on
: he eve OF a peculiar or confusing
e: rear. with many angles Of the crafty.
furtive or battling dominating the
affairs. Employment is In jeopardy.
finances somewhat critical. but the
social. domestic OF affectional affilia-
rtions may offer compensations. al
Though also subject to the subtle or
erratic. However. this nay not be
deemed sinister. though curious A
child born on this day may be social
ly. ~culturally and Economically in
clined. with Utopian or visionary
ideas. leading II from practical and
worldly interests.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-05-24

u0nL A
fun Of whistles and squawks and
other queer noises which you
wouldn't imagine I'm a thousand
years meant anything.
Crackers. crackers - why don't
they give me something else for o.
changer" Polly continued, Why
don't they give NE
plum pudding?" broke in Yama
apple dumpling7" said Nil.
chocolate layer cake2" added
Flor.
Yes. why don't they give me ali
those things for a change? They eat
enough OF II themselves. i wonder
how they'd enjoy eating nothing but
crackers twenty times a day2"
But they don't ask for crackers
twenty times n day like you do"
Knarf pointed out. Again Polly paid
no attention 10 him. You'd think
crackers tasted better than anything
else. I don't like them. What's more
I'm not going TO eat them any more.
The very idea OF giving them to me.
I'll tell these people here m thing or
two Just send them in TO me. Send
them all int'
Polly got 40 angry she bit savage
ly at the bars in her cage and went
climbing up 10 the top and down the
other side. holding on by her beaks
The shadows were frightened They
hoped when the people came I'm Cor
she was whistling and squawkinE an
though something terrible were the
matterl that she didn't do them any
harm. BY and by the children. who
were sitting JUST outside the room.
came running In. Here. here. whats
the matter7" they cried.
Polly glared at them She uttered
q terrifying squawk. Then she cried
out az the top on her voice: Polly
wants IN cracker. Polly wants I'm
cracker
And that's exactly what she gOt4
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