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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-31

NEW YORK.-The leading Crisis
Magazine editorial in the January
issue of which DR.. w. e. b. DUBOIS
is editor, asks God what Is going TO
he done about colored women, pow
erty, unemployment and lynching IN
America It reads:
Magnificent, 1891
blessed art thou among women
and blessed is the fruit OF thy
womb"
And Mary Black said. Who2 Me-
Blessed? and another baby coming
and none OF us with job?
Blessed? How come? | cant un-
derstand you and God and | don I
see no call for this soul of mine to
magnify nothing Look here: You
see how we've shaved and worked
and kept decent and gone to church
and nobody calls us blessed,-they
Course us.
you're mighty all right, Cod
know that you've done great things
and your names holy and all that
But how about me? How about tina
mercy on them that was afeared o
Won from generation to generation
Didn't Ma and Pa serve your Dldh.
Grandpa preach your Word? Am
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-31
Village OF $50
Families Aided
By Henry Ford

DETROIT. - The little village of
Inkster, located adjacent to Dear
born, and composed of 800 colored
and so white families. has been ehos-
en- by the Ford Motor Car Company
for an experiment in emergency re-
Mobilization of debt-ridden employ
ees.
Selection of lnkster, with its cab
ms and mud roads, was accidental
and due to proximity rather than To
the attempt to choose such mixed
racial group. Late last summer
when the company began seriously
to consider the fate of lnkster, most
of whose male members had been out
on work from six months to TIVE
wears. the men were taken out of the
S6-a-day group and paid IL = cents
an hour. 81 day being about what
was needed to feed these families.
The company okeyed all of the out
standing accounts, electric, gas, in
staIlment payments and real estate
contracts and has now established q
Temporary commissary where fooo
| NAV be purchased at practically
wholesale prices. A hot vegetable
kitchen has been opened, where OF
November O. LOO received supplies
and on December IA, CAT were eare'
for.
Wives of the men employed by TN
Ford Motor Company volunteer thei
services in the kitchen, "A new GREY
being used every day. A shoe eobbl
ing department reeonditions shoe
| for So cents a pair and clothing ha
been furnised in amounts rangln
| from S25 to $40 a person. Nothin
| is being given to anyone free, an
the experiment is not felt to be /
competition with local merchants q
these people have no individual Pun
chasing power.
1t is hoped that eventually, by tn
plan. homes will be saved and pu
chasing power restored. Food fe
next year has been assured by Il
| iplowing Of 500 acres of waste Ian
"What we are trying to do, explain
ed a Ford official, "is to find wa
to do things without money. II
system which requires money f
every move you make is wrong"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-31
Liberia To Have
School Similar To
Tuskegee Institute

NEW YORK. A "Tuskegee In
Africa" to be established in the Re-
public of Liberia. is being planned
it was learned this week.
The school to be called the Book
err 7. Washington Agricultural and
Industrial Institute, will be similar in
character to Tuskegee Institute in
Alabama and TO Hampton Institute
in Virginia. The Liherian govern
ment has decided | 900 acres of land
and voted $4,000 annually for ten
wears toward the erection of build
inps, and in addition has issued
charter to the American board of
trustees. authorizing it to promote
education in that country and to ap-
point persons as board of managers
in Liberia.
Henry l.. West, for many years
head of the American Colonization
Society in Washington, has @ n
elected the first president of the
board of trustees. DR.. Thomas ,.
Donohugh Of the Methodist Eplsco-
pal Board Of Foreign Missions is first
vice-president; DR.. X. X. Motion, prin-
cipai Of ruskegee Institute, second
vice-presidcnt, and Dr. Arson Phelps
Stokes. Canon of Washington Cath
edral and president of the Phelps
Stokes Fund, third viee-president.
More than 100000 has already
been received toward a permanent
, endowment fund, $4,000 coming
from the will Of Miss olivia Phelps
Stokes. $4,000 from the Methodist
Episcopal Board and $4,000 from the
will Of james L. Sibley, edueation-
al adviser. Other funds have been
appropriated by various Interested
mission and colonization societies.
A staff consisting of principal.
and heads for the agricultural and
industrial work. is being selected
Several native teachers are employed
to handle the elementary subjects. A
permanent trades building, and sew
1 eral Temporary native buildings havt
= been constructed and two native
dormitores and five native cottages
q are already in use.
The institute is planning to teaci
q native boys and girls To read, WRIT
II and figure more effectively, and als'
4 how To live and to earn their own
J. liyings. Agriculture. trades and in
+ dustries will be stressed. Health
% homemaking and community and ma
" tional life all will have importan
T. places in the curriculum.
Ie Approximately 100 native boy
and GIRLS already are enrolled at tn
It institute. The boys are sons Of chiei
Is and native parents and most of thel
Sc never saw a white man before. Fe
k of them know their own ages b.
ne the average student begins his ed
n cation in lis tenth year. All schoo
MS ing is in English and the boys spes
one of many tribal dialects.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-31
Pullman Co. Fined
$4,000 In Mexico

MEXICO CITY, Mexico. = The
Pullman Company paid $4,000 pesos
100000 approximately to learn
that the Mexican Department OF
Communication is not the u. S. In
terstate Commerce Commission, and
to definitely discover that fragrant
discrimination against rail patrons IN
Mexico cannot be gotten away with
as is done in the U. S. A.
Last October, the Mexican minis
ter of foreign affairs and his wife
attended the inauguration of the
governor at Monterey. When ready
to leave they reserved a Pullman
drawing room aboard the Monterey
Mexico express bound for the capital
only to find their paid-for space oc-
cupied by two bellicose white Amer
cans who refused to vacate, despite
the minister's prior claim. Charges
were filed accusing the Pullman Go
of violating the communications law
and the $4,000 fine followed.
That the same action would hav'
been taken, the same findings reach
led. under similar circumstances, l
the offended person had been th'
humblest Mexican or foreigner, wa
stressed. The offense was against
law of Mexico; that the persons con
cerned happened to high govern
mental official and wife, was merel
) incidental, it was noted.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-31
Rogers Cheerful In
Spite OF Hardships
w. II. Wilson

NV YORK.-A cheerful fellow is
Joel A. Rogers, aathor of "Man and
Superman," and other good works,
whose latest book is just off the
press. But those who live the sac
rificial life are almost invariably
cheeful, and the life of Mr.. Rogers
is certainly sacrificial.
In two trips over the European
continent, and on a visit to Abyssi-
MIA, Rogers has delved into the sec
rets of the past buried in libraries
to make startling factual discoveries
with respect to the greatness of
black peoples. He finds that in SO
closely country as Italy, the prime
| Christ image toted out on greatest
feast days is the image of a black
person.
This is just one of the many in
stances of his discoveries" that take
all the "whitness" out of white SUI
premacy.'
Utterly without finance, aside
from what he may exc out writing
about something else, j. A. Roger
has carried on for the denied am
despised blacks of the universe. Phil
anthropy and foundations will sent
colored Americans over to make re
searches in African music, IN biol
ogv. and mules hoofs, but is not Fl
naneine such as Rogers to dig u
facts to reveal that their pretension
to ultra greatness are ''phony.' New
ertheless, Rogers keeps delving.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-31
NO DISCRlNE AATlON" SAYS HOOVER
Ivory and Gold
By Melvin J. Chisum

Editors Note: The opinions ex-
pressed by Melvin j. Chisum in this
column are not necessarily in con-
formity with the views of The Enter
prise and its editor assumes no re-
sponsibility for Mr.. Chisum's views.
He is much travelled and well
known writer. This column is print
ed in this newspaper, because The
Enterprise believes its readers will
appreciate the opportunity of fol-
lowing Mr.. Chisum's comment on
widely diversified subjects.
The Honorable Anthony Overton.
president of the Victory Life lnsur-
ance Company, head of the Overton
High Brown Preparations Company,
and president of the Douglass Ma
tional Bank, all of these in Chicago,
Illinois, has proved himself to be a
master of finance and a mighty
commercial giant in the time of ter
i'ible financial storm.
In a territory of more than 400
blocks, bounded by 22nd Street on
the north, 9th Street on the SOUTH
Cottage Grove Avenue on the east
and Wentworth Avenue on the west
at the beginning of 1881 there were
eleven banking institutions; two OF
which were operated by colored PEG
pie. There is only one left in this
territory as 1881 closes its books.
In the month of June, this year
twenty-four white banks closed thei
doors, all in three days. A weel
later six more went down and though
the storm of fear and distrust be
seiged the souls of the people An
thony Overton's institution stoo'
like the rock of Gibraltar. Ten o
the failed banks went up Salt Greek
nine white and one colored. Thi
writer would say that Mr.. Overto
and his general staff have niue
cause for rejoicing, and the colore
people the entire country over, hav
a right to be proud of Mr.. Overtor
The secret of this mans success, b
the way, is, he is first a culture
gentleman.
DURHAM, N. C.-Here in Durhal
where careful conservatism IN bus
ness is taught co lored men an
women by that Nestor OF successf
business, Captain C. G. Spauldin
one young man, high in the medic
profession, owns more than fort
houses and his collections in re-
amount upward of thousand dolla
a month, and what is his art? D
Clyde Donnell, to begin with, is WI
born, raised right, and is at all tim
Continued on Page 81
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-31

CHICAGO Wilson Jeffer-
SOM Prejudice, six cent cotton
and the present business depression
seem to be combining 10 throw thou
sands of colored persons in the low.
er south into a condition OF virtual
slavery.
Three Investigators for the New
Republic magazine have just com
pleted their report and tell Of the
awful plight OF the colored people
under a growing system OF peonage'
aided and abetted by the terrorism
of the mobbist and the lyncher.
The black man of the small
towns of the South, forced into idle
ness by the general business depres-
sion is a shining mark for these
new slave drivers and their agents
The following Associated Press
dispatch from Macon, Ga, is q gooa
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-31
Need Social Workers,
Saws T. Arnold Hill

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Depression
has created a demand for trained
social workers, T. Arnold Hill, Of the
National Urban Leagues Department
of industrial relations, says. The
speaker urged those undecided as to
their careers to examine their own
ATTITUDES and capacities, as well as
the varied types Of work covered by
the field Of social work.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-31
PRESIDENTS SECRET ARY REPLIES
TO NATL ASSOCIATION LETTER
Haitian Marksmen
To Enter Olympics

Los ANGELES. Calf. - Colonel
Arthur T. Mark, L. S. NJ, retired
attaehe of the Republic Of Haiti to
the Olympic games here, Inspected
the facilities of the Olympic rifle and
pistol range. recently.
Haitian sharpshooters. trained by
L. S. Marines, have participated in
previous Olympic games and Colonel
Marks appointment is expected to
make the 1882 entry stronger than
ever. The colonel is president of the
retired officers association and in
1920 and 1921 was minister of for
eign affairs in Santo Domingo.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-31
GarVey In Accident

KINGSTON, Jamaica. - Marcus
Garvev. organizer of the Universal
Negro Improvement Association, and
founder Of the Black Star Line, mar
rowlv escaped death in an automo-
bile accident, Sunday.
Garvev was in company with two
women when the motor car in which
tbev were riding overturned. One Of
the women was hurt.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-31
DePriiest Crooms
Two Youths For
West Pt. Academy

WASHINGTON Congressman Os-
car DePriest will submit the names
of two young men in January as
candidates for appointment to the
West Point Military Academy
The youths, Francis D'Angelas,
and the sob of Col. Benjamin Davis,
are now taking special courses in
mathematics and English in Chi
oago institution. Mr.. DePriest stated
that he hoped the records OF the
youths would prevent their having
to take preliminary entrance exams.
Young Davis, who received APP
pointment previously, passed the
physical tests, but fell down in the
mental tests Asked why he thought
it was so difficult for these youths
to secure a berth on the military
and naval academies, Mr.. DePriest
remarked ITS regGettable that We
don't have the schools for gfyine
1.-The youths the special instruction
they need to gain admlttance. Tht
white youths receive thorough coach
ing"
No Anti-Lynch Bill
The congressman averred that h
would present no anti-lynching bill
as a result of the findings Of tn
Non-Partisan Convention. 1.-THE pri
mary purpose of the convention wa
to mould public sentiment agans
certain evils Slavery was not abol
ished.' he said. until public opinio
was aroused Women can help to d
much in this respect.
Then too" he said further, ''yo
know. we couldn't get an anti-lynch
ing measure through congress whe
: 1t was Republican. The Democrat
are in power now. and 1t would d
10 good to introduce such a met
sure"
, During the adjournment of Cor
gress, Mr. DePriest will visit in Oh
: cago Columbus and Cleveland b.
2 fore returning TO the opening
S congress on January a
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-31
Married Fifty-six Wives
In 81 Years; Left All

NEW YORK-King Solomon. Brig
ham Young and all of the much mar
ried record holders have been toppled
from their lofty perches. Their
successor is William L. Jones, 65,
who claims to have married and left
SIS wives in 81 years. He was ar
rested in Mt. Holly (NJ), for the
theft of a pair Of trousers. Jones
blandly admitted taking the pants
and added. his marriage record fol-
good measure.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-31
Chocolate Weds
Girl Who Said
He Betrayed Hel

WASHINGTON. - There is no
reason why Kid Chocolate should not
return to the United States if Gu
ban authorities have dropped their
charges against the boxer, State De-
partment officials said here Monday.
Chocolate will have to meet, OF
course. the routine immigration re-
quirements.
HAVANA, Cuba. = Eligio Sardi-
Mas Montalvo, who most people
know better as Kid Chocolate, Ju.
nior lightweight boxing champion oil
the world was married by proxy, here
Thursday, to Miss Rosario Mora.
The ceremony, performed by Dlaz
Silveira. an attorney, in his law Of
fees here. was the result of seduc-
ton charges preferred against the
Keed by Miss Mora, who alleged that
he failed to keep his promise OF mar
riage.
While the ceremony was being per-
formed. Chocolate, aboard the ). D
MORO Castle, was Fastening here, al
fer having spent 10 days in the Fed
eral detention house IN New YORK
City, awaiting extradition.
He was released upon bond. sup
nled by James J. Johnston, match
maker of the Madison Square Gar
den. Twice last summer, the boxer
was arrested here upon Miss Mora
charges, being released each time II
$500 bond and subsequently, saillni
for the United States. By his mar
rage It is hoped that his legal trou
gles are over, although it appear
fbat q. S. immigration officials vii
have the last say as to whether, or no
he NAV return to American shores.
Present at the proxy weddln
were two of Chocolates attorney
pablo Mora, father of the bride an
Asuncion Montalyo, Chocolate
mother. 49, c,..aoIa+o
manager, represented him at the ce
emony. Under Cuban law, no tu
fher formalities need be carried OF
bv Chocolate and it is understof
that he will not be detained upon n
arrival in Havana.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-31
AboIitionist's Kin Dies in
Underground R. r. Stop

PRINCETON, Ill. - Elijah Parish
Loveioy. descendant of a prominent
abolitionist family, died here recent
ly. Md. Loveioy was born in farm
house which was an underground
way station before the Civil War.
The house is still standing.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-31
Popular Dentist Dies

PHILADELPHIA. - DR.. Haywood
p. Edney, Jr., dentist, popular IN
local circles, died on the operating
table at the Jewish Hospital last
Saturday
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-12-31

The Northwest's Most
Popular and Widely
Read Newspaper
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-07
Your Baby and Mine
Bx MYRTLE HEYER ELDRED.

Yesterday we dealt with those prob
lens of the too dependent child, which
had to do with eating. Today we are
concerned with some other problems of
this same child. Mrs. @. r. asked,
my child puts everything into her
mouth. What shall do when this Is
a Din or q button7 She takes 1t out
but only temporarily. How shall
teach her to play alone, inside or out
Of the house?"
Because the mouth is such q sellsi-
tive portion of the child's body, 1t is not
surprising that everything is measured
by this keen. sensory tape measure.
The child learns taste, texture and con-
sistency by biting and tasting and
these are valuable lessons. While the
small baby may temporarily discard
many things we consider essential be-
cause she is disturbed by their strange
curiosity about almost any object that
satisfaction results only when it has
been looked at, handled and tasted.
For that reason choose toys for young
children at this experimental and In
discriminating age which may be bitten
and licked. If decorated with uneat-
able ornaments, taste for hair and
fuZz cannot be INDUCED.
Buttons should always be fastened to-
gether by stout cord and then they
make excellent toys. Single they are
from the child.
If the child finds a pin, teach her to
bring 1t to you to put In box or pin
cushion. The curiosity of child Is
often stimulated by the mothers eff
forts to arouse fear Of pins. Sharp,
nasty old pin bite baby" This sounds
more exciting than terrifying. Instead
teach the child to associate pins with q
box or a pincushion, and the chances
are that she will hurry to place them
there. The mother may let her learn
this habit by throwing some pins on
the floor and asking baby to bring them
to her and drop them In the box or
punch them In the cushion.
Our lesflet, Dealing With q Child's
Curiosity" goes further into this same
subject. Any reader may obtain it by
sending q self-addressed, stamped en-
velope with her request to the your
Baby and Mine" department Of this
newspaper.
If the baby is to learn to enjoy her
self alone, her separations from the
mother must be pleasant ones. Play
mates stifle The first keen pangs of sep
aration and are desirable at this age. A
first step is to let the child help the
mother, and then take over small tasks
to be done alone. There are numerous
little tasks which children can do at
this age, and any activity which is
pleasureahle for the child and Is &C.
complished Independently Of the mother
and praised by her will tend to be re-
peated. One Independent activity leads
to another.
Outdoors some tasks may need to be
manufactured. Sweeping the walk with
her small broom, putting leaves or twigs
into a basket or wiping of the front
door may blind the child to the fact
that she Is alone.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-07

en- all your pencils. YOU arrange your
notebook open ready for work. You
pile blank sheets of paper neatly.
Then you fuss and fidget again with
your pencils. You don't read q news
paper because it's the first day on the
Job. You would like to speak to some
body, but you don't know who's who,
and so you just sit and wait.
After awhile you get word that you
are to 60 to Mr.. Dinglebob's ONCE to
take some dictation.
You 60 In and sit down at his desk.
He dictates a number Of letters. He
says, IT have to have them at 4 o'clock
this afternoon" Then you 60 back to
your desk and write the letters.
All the time you really don't know
what you are doing. You don't under
stand what his letters are about or
what his work Is. You don't know even
what Mr.. Dinglebob's job Is. In shofS,
nobody has told you anything that you
really need to know.
In order to do your work properly
you should know what the firm sells,
what territories it sells in. You should
know how its prices compare with those
Of other firms, who its executives are,
who its chief competitors are.
You should know what sort of goods
1t makes and what your particular de-
partment is supposed to do; what the
various departments are, whom you are
to go to for everything you need.
If you knew all that, how much
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-07
Copyright. 1879
Steak. Yorkshire Pudding.

Pound half cupful of -four and
some pepper into a round or sirloin
steak cut two inches thick. Heat cne-
fourth cupful Of ham or bacon drip
pings and brown the meat in it on
both sides. Add some salt. Remove
the meat and make gravy, allowing
one tablespoonful Of flour to each ia
blespoonful Of fat. Add more fat II
necessary. Blend thoroughly and brown.
Add two cupfuls of boiling water and
two tablespoonfuls of catsup. Add the
meat to the gravy, cover closely and
bake slowly for two hours. Chopped
onion may be added If onion flavor is
desired Ten minutes before serving
pour the following batter over and
bake: Beat two eggs well with one cup
full OF sweet milk Add two cupfulS Of
-four, two teaSpoonfuls Of baking pow
der and half a teaSpoonfu Of salt. Mix
well. Before pouring this over the meat
add more water to the gravy, as the
batter absorbs much Of the gravy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-07
SPRINCTIME


Bright plunage-raucouS voice; dun
feathers-God's chorister" Such Is an
old saying, or at least the words go
something that way. and there is much
truth in It, with, OF course, such con-
spicuous exceptions as the cardinal bird,
the bluebird, the orioles and the
tAnagers.
It Is q fact that Q European nightin-
rale is such an uninteresting creature
TO look upon that nobody would suspect
him Of being the greatest tenor among
the trees. A. wren who looks rather
like o fat little, niddle-aged housewife,
busy about pcrpetually tidying up OF
house and premises, has more song to
the cubic bird than anything that flies.
The contralto-voiced veery is almost In
visible, so dull Is his plumage. The
white throat looks like nothing better
than a street sparrow till you come close
up him, yet his voice is the most poig-
Ylant In the skies of Spring. And the
hermit thrush Is a greeny-brown singer,
who melts into the forest covering un-
seen. In appearance he is like the
nightingale. Not absolutely unrelated
to the nightingale, he is the most magi-
cal singer between the Atlantic and the
Rockies.
With us the hermit thrush Is q bird
Of passage. You must listen now or
you will not hear him. He Is, of course.
no true hermit, much less a misogynist,
since he Is counting his lady in this
sentimental time. Indeed, I have heard
him in Rock Greek Park Of a fine Spring
twilight, within sound Of the street cars
But 1t Is true that he better loves the
niarshy woods down river. Actually,
however, thrushes dislike the densest
part of the forest, for nesting purposes
ct least, and SO, though they hide them
selves away, ! suspect 1t Is only the
modesty that is seductive. Like all
singers, the hermit thrush sings in
order to be heard. Unlike most, he
cares little for being seen.