The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-08-04
Negro Reporter
Travels In Dixie
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the more conscious you become that
the world is not so bad after all.
People seem to have lot of How
do you do?" in their systems that
they are anxious to get out.
They seem to take you for grant
ed and entertain little suspicion that
you are going to fleece them the
first chance you get, like people do
farther North.
Lynchburg Uncle Toms
One doesn't have to travel very
far below the District of Columbia
before he comes face to face with
that diabolical business called race
prejudice.
At Lynehburg. Va. you run into
1t in its most subtle form-that in
which ignorant Negroes exercise dis
eriminatory tactics against their
own.
At the station of the Southern
Railway here, two dirty coffee and
sandwich butchers met the train at
about 3 a. m. With loud yells of
Get your hot coffee with pure
cream and sweet sugar" they STAN
peded the white coaches, evading
the well crowded jim crows alto
gether. One impatient traveller, ag-
grieved by their hardness and the
aroma of the coffee drifting to his
nostrils, cornered one of the greasy
butchers between the cars and de-
manded cup of coffee. you'll
have to wait awhile" said the cot
fee vendor none too gently. 81 goi
to make sure | got enough to serve
these white folks first"
The train was pulling out wher
they reached the colored coach ant
consequently, only about three per
sons were refreshed.
Keeping His Hand In
AS the train rumbled on into the
bowls of Dixie | noticed a well
fed young man of greasy brown
complexion carrying the bags of thu
women as they left at the variou,
stations. A while later he was aid
ing some distressed mother with
pair of twins. Then he was putin,
up and pulling down windows tina
were stuck or helping to turn bacl
seats. In fact, he was so busy an,
so consistently useful that I wa
certain he was porter minus hi
uniform. When for the sake of al
inquisitive passenger he ratified of
the train schedule, | was certai
of it. but I determined to make SIRE
oh no." he replied, I'm JUS
helping folks out to pass the tim
away You see, | used to work o
this railroad about eight month
ago, and / am just keeping my han
in until they can put me back t
| WORK. That's the southern spiri
| In Business
AT High Point, N. c., I found a
| interesting experiment in inter-racis
enterprise. About 5 a. m. the do,
| ing passengers were aroused by
/ great hullabaloo on the platform a
| Two little boys, one white and on
| colored, began to scream the morn
ing papers.
| They were tattered little urchir
IN large straw hats and bare fes
ana seemed about seven years {
age. After disposng of their ware
| they began to count their pennit
on the ground and divide thel
evenly.
| You see," one of them explain
= ed, sometimes he sells more tina
do and sometimes l sell more tina
ne does, so We always divide. We'1
been partners two years.
He Won An Argument
1 A half dozen men were sprawle
| about on the long seats in the smol
ing compartment when l entere,
They were a friendly lot. One ma
passed around a big, brown bottI
that contained some of the wori
corn l had ever tasted. 81 make
myself" he informed us proudly.
suspected as much.
| Going to stay South long?"
asked one of the passengers.
| "All depends" he replied. "P1
got to hide out down here awhil
Got in a little brawl with a Wei
Indian fellow in New York and
thought I'd come down here unit