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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-01
Catholic Priest Relates Amazing Story
Of(Jnbounded Charity OF Negro Race

lttle scanty washing. When I knock
ed at her door. she said: "Fathah. |
sho am glad you come. | want YOU
to meet Miss Annie" When my
eyes became accustomed to the dark.
| distinguished the wasted form of
Miss Annie" an emaciated old con-
sumptiye. The grandmother then ex-
planned how that very morning she
had stepped out her back door into
the biting winter air and had seen
Miss Annie cropping hungry and
homeless through the alley. "Where
you goin', cal" she had asked her. 81
don't much know where my stopping
place is, answered Miss Annie.
You jes' come in an get warm"
insisted the other. So Miss Annie
came in and has already been living
in her new room in comparative
comfort for several weeks. A third
old chair was placed at the poor
table and another battered bed was
installed in one corner. So Miss An
ME sits by the fire and sings and
has something to eat every day. 81
ies' couldn't leave such as she out
in the cold" explained her hostess
confidentially as l babe her good
bye.
If the city or state suddenly had
to care for all the Negro orphans,
sick and aged people who are now
provided for by the gratuitous char
ity of colored benefactors, it would
mean the expenditure of millions of
dollars, and one could well doubt
whether public institutions, even if
they existed in sufficient numbers,
could care for these poor people as
efficiently and in as kindly a spirit
of charity as the Negro is now in
great measure providing for his
own.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-01
Says Colored
Children Have
High Mentality

NEW YORK.-Proof that racial
differences do not necessarily result
in mental differences is proved in
study soon to be released by DR.. AL
bert Sidney Backham, psychologist
of the Institute for Juvenile Re
search.
Dr. Beckham reveals that colored
children in New York have an aver
age intelligence quotient of 104. All
of the children were between the
ages Of IL and 10.
Previous intelligence tests of col
ored children have been unfair, he
holds in an article appearing in the
current issue of Opportunity.
I'm study that is soon to be
published, he writes. concerning
the intelligence of colored children
from the favorable environments of
New York City. Baltimore. Maryland
and Washington, d. c., the follow
ing J. Qs were obtained All these
children were between the ages of
1 2 and 16:
1.-The New York mean was 104,
with range from rs to 122. The to-
tai number of children measured in
New York was 100. In Washington
the mean was 81, with a range from
50 to 1879. The number of children
measured in the District of Column
bia was 1853.
I'm Baltimore 147 children were
measured with a mean l. @. of 95
and a range from Ga to 100
This study indicates the advan-
tage of nurture. 1t proves conclu-
slyely, at least as far as this group
is concerned, that individual differ
enees in intelligence within the same
race are more important and more
obvious than intelligence differences
between the races The study re-
veals that socio-economic status is
significant in evaluating the intelli-
gence of any group.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-01
Childbirth Fatal
To White Wife
OF Jean TOOmer

CHICAGO. In.-Death ended the
inter-racial experimental marriage
of Mr.. and Mrs. Jean Toomer when
the birth of a daughter ended IA
tally for Mrs. Margery Latimer
Toomer, white novelist wife of the
noted poet and psychologist. Tues
day night
Mrs. Toomer succumbed at their
apartment at 60 E. Division Street,
having been afraid to enter hos
pital for her confinement.
The couple had been married
nearly a year, but kept their mar
riage secret until four months ago
when it was revealed in an artists
colony at Carmel, Cal.
Miss Latimer was married to Mr.
Toomer at Portage, Wis, the home
of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Clark
Latimer, after a psychological ,ex-
pertinent conducted by Toomer
The cause of Mrs. Toomer's death
was hemorrhage. complicated by
weak heart The baby was strong
and the mother expressed great hap
piness over its birth before she died.
Both Bril'ia
Mrs. Toomer was a descendant of
Anne Bradstreet. early New Eng
land poet and John Cotton, noted
New England divine. She was a
young novelist of considerable note.
Three of her books-"We are In
credible" "Nallie Bloom and Other
Stories" and This is My Body
have been published. and a fourth.
THE Guardian Angel and Other
Stories" is soon to appear.
Mr.. Toomer is a great grandson
of P. b. S. Pinchbeck, the only Ne
gro who was ever elected governor
of Louisiana. This occurred during
the Reconstruction era. Toomer at
tended high school in Washington.
d. c., and the College of the City
of New York, and the University of
Wisconsin.
Mr. Toomer has lived in Chicago
for several years, but is not known
to have any associates among mem
hers of his race. Frequent refer
airy department of the local dailies.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-01

rent, etc, leaving them S5.5. But |
they had not been paid evei this /
amount for four weeks.
Payday at a Myersville, Mis-,
camp Lad been held up five weeks
In a Louisiana camp when the in
vestigator asked what they were
paid the men and women in the
group laughed and finally one said ::
you mean what us gets paid,
or what us works for?"
commissary Prices Higher
Camp commissary prices are from
100 to 500 per cent Of regular store
prices, the report discloses. In an
Arkansas camp a 12-pound sack Of
flour was sold for go cents as
against the store price of 80 cents /;
the camp charged $l.50 for shirts
selling elsewhere at 35 cents; an
Scent can of condensed milk was
sold for 20 cents, and corn meal
was sold at the camp at 6 cents a
pound, whereas store prices We're
Y cents a pound.
One man said he had received
$3.50 for five weeks work and he
knew the amount he had gotten
from the commissary could have
been bought from any store for Sc.
Brutality and Filth
in a Mississippi camp the report
states the contractor himself took
the lead in brutal treatment. Whip
pings are said to occur daily. At
one camp two men were whipped
for refusing to work at night after
working all day. Brutality was re-
ported in about half the camps Wis
tied.
Only one camp operated directly
by the government was visited and
this had the l2-hour day. It had
regular paydays, however, with moth
ing held back from the wages of
$50 a month with board and 500
without board.
Hoover Refers" Report
A copy Of the report sent by the
N. A. \. c. P. to President Hoover
with a request for action to correct
the conditions, was referred by
Lawrence Richey, one of his secre-
taries, to the war department, which
has charge of flood control work
along the river.
The department of justice is in
vestigating the reported violation OF
the eight-hour law in the camps. the
N. A. A. C. p. has been advised by
Roy St. Lewis, assistant attorney
general. Secretary of War Patrick
j. Hurley, to whom a report was
sent, has not acknowledged receipt
of it. The N. A. A. C. P. will continue
to press for an investigation and q
correction of the conditions revealed
in the report.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-01

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-The Rev. Viii
liam F. Markoe, S. j., editor of the
Chronicle, organ of the Federated
Colored Catholics of the United
States, tells of sense of charity
among American Negroes that will
probably astonish whites. The priest
says:
Thousands of Negro homes in the
United States house one or more
orphans, a destitute old man or
woman, or an invalid. Frequently
these unfortunates are not of the re-
hottest kin to their benefactors. Oft
en- they are utterly unknown until
the day on which they are gladly
given a refuge. The day after they
have found shelter, a stranger can
seldom distinguish them from the
members of the family. Frequently,
in the case of an orphan child, the
ceremony of verbal agreement, in
vitation or plea on the part of the
waif is not deemed necessary nor
waited for. Mutual helpfulness ap-
pears to be quite commonly UNDER
stood.
An orphan, whose mother or
grandmother has lust been buried,
will wander into a yard or an al
ley, play with some of the children
of the family, and at night the moth
er will put it to bed as one of her
own, send it to school, and feed and
clothe it until of age. An old woman,
elected from her miserable room be
cause she can no longer pay the rent,
will step into a dwelling one or two
doors beyond, where she will be well
come at her neighbor's fireside and
table until she dies. In MANY in
stances colored families vie with one
another in their efforts to harbor
such an abandoned creature.
Long years of sorrow and suffer-
ing have taught them this mutual
consideration and wonderfully gen
uine sympathy. Neighbors are often
known to contend for the right to
take and rear destitute children aft
er their mothers funeral. There al
ways seems to be room for one more.
The large size of a family seldom
destroys the chance of a needy new
comers being cheerfully received. If
Bethlehem had been a Negro town,
it is likely that the Christ Child
would have been welcome at all the
inns and houses of the citv.
There are many EXAMPLES of the
practical hospitality of the colored
people. Not long ago a colored boy,
who had recently been baptized.
came to the church and said that
his grandmother wanted to see me.
The old woman lived with her little
grandson in two wretched rooms of
tenement. She eked out living
] for herself and boy by taking in
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-01
Robbed Of Savings
And Burned To Death

OAKLAND, Miss.-According to
a report announced by Sheriff W.
N. Frost, who is investigating, a
band Of white men bounced upon the
family of Louis Bryant and tortured
him, his wife and his 15-year-old
SON until they told them the hiding
place of $426 which Bryant hal
been saving over period Of 20
years.
The white men then saturated
the clothes of Bryant and his son
with oil and set fire to them and
the house, burning the two men to
death Mrs. Bryant fled while the
fiends were numbering her husband.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-01
Negro LabOrers On Mississippi Levels
Work Il Hour Shifts AT ice An lOur

NEW YORK (special)-Negro
workers in the flood control camps
along the Mississippi River are be-
ing paid an average wage of ten
cents an hour for a 12-hour day and
a seven-day week, it was revealed in
a sensational expose made public
here by the National Association
for the Advancement of Golored
People. The association sent an in
vestigator on a personal tour of the
camps from New Orleans to Mem
phis.
The flood control work is being
done under L. S. government con-
tracts by private companies.
The report declares conditions of
virtual slavery" exist in the camps
Physical violence in the. handling of
workmen, unsanitary camp sites, IN
regular paydays, overcharging by
means Of a camp commissary sys-
tenn, as well as the long hours and
low wages were cited as abuses
found to be general.
One 14-Hour Day
At the Forrest Jones camp near
Delta, La, the contractor agreed to
pay the men $1.25 for IL hours
/ 5 80 to 5 :30-but he said they US
ually worked II hours a day. At
the Neal camp in the same neigh
borhood a 13-hour day is worked on
the day shifts a. m. to p. NJ
and an 11-hour day on the night
shift. These men are paid 81 a day
| and at the end of the week 80
cents is taken out for drinking wa
ter and so cents for tent rent, in
addition to their board as charged
by the commssary.
Says the report of Camp Teale,
where Tate Lowrance is the CON
tractor
"Colored labor is hired at S1.5O
to SO a day. The contractor admit
ted this was high pay for Negro
labor, but said he made up for it
by working them hard and long
hours. They work two shifts from G
! to 6. Paydays are irregular. At the
time of this visit there had been
no payday for five weeks"
One man at camp near Myers
vile, Miss, stated he had received
$12.35 for two months work, II
hours day, seven days week and
not an hour missed off the job. At
another camp in this vicinity the
men complain that they are forced
to work IA hours a day with no
overtime for the two hours above
the regular ~. They are allowed
only 20 minutes for dinner.
At Wayside, Miss, was a camp
which paid $3.50 a day or $1O.50
for seven-day week From this
sum is subtracted IS for good, tent,
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-01
Negro Movie Stars
Stranded In Russia

NEW YORk.-Reports have
reached here that the % Negro
actors and actresses who sailed
June II on the Bremen en- route
to Moscow. Russia, TO make a
true motion picture of Negro
life" have been stranded i'm the
Russian metropolis because of
the abrupt decision of officials
to cances plans fer making the
picture. Varied rumors are to
the effect that the molten pic
ture officials did not wish to
antagonize the United States by
such a picture with conditions
in the diplomatic circles already
far from satisfactory.
The picture which, was to
have been made on gigantic
scale and to have shown COM
plete cross-scction of Negro life
i'm America, was 10 have sbecn
produced by Mezharabpom, lead
ing motion picture company in
the Soviet republic, under the
direction of Pudockin, premier
director of that country.
The Negro cast selected i'm
Guided scme of the finest actors
i'm the country as well as num-
her OF promising amateurs from
college ranks. The group in
Guided: I4angston Hughes, novel;
list and poet; Sylvia Garner,
singer and actress, who had APP
peared in "Scarlet Sister Mary;
Katherine Jonkins, social work.
er; Juanita Lewis, singer and
dramatic reader and member of
the Hall johnson Choir, and
Mollic Lewis, student at Column
bia.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-01
Young Republicans Meet

WASHINGTON. - Young Negro
Republicans, members of the Nation
al Negro College Republican League,
held rousing open meeting at
Whitelaw Hotel here last Monday.
Hon. Z. F. Colladay, national COM
mitteeman for the District of CO.
lubia, and Hon. Oscar De Priest of
Illinois were guest speakers at the
meeting.
Hyman Y. Chase of the District
of Columbia is president of the or
ganization, which is organizing Re-
publican units for campaign work
in the coming election.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-01
Five Arrested
For Staying
Negro FiiyeSaen

JACKSON Nfss.-The reign of
error in ,.n1hich six colored railroad
firemen lave besn slain and scores
wounded in a seres of mysterious
shootings and beatiGxs in Louisiana
and Mississippi over a period Of mare
than a year was believed solved til,
week. Five white men arrested here
we're said to have confessed partici-
pating in the crimes. Those held
are Reedy Lee, Emmett Saith
Charles Miller, J. Lewis and NJ.
Vardo.
Arrests Follow Probe
The arrests followed searching
Investigations under the direction &C
railroad officials on the continued
attacking OF their employees, and the
instigation of the N. A. A. c. P.
The firemen were usually fired on
from the dark and slain in their cabs
or waylaid and brutally assaulted.
The five prisoners admitted eonnec-
ton with the shootings, but not the
killings, according to police. They
said they desired to drive the col
ored firemen from the railroads in
the South in order to make open-
ings for white men. Almost a half
of the railroad firemen on the IL
inois Central and Yaboo & Nj. V
railroads in Louisiana and Mississip-
pi are colored. They entered the
jobs when the whites turned .hcir
backs on such work.
Say Gunner We're Hired
Four of the five men under arrest
are former firemen of the Illinois
Central Railroad. Those held po-
lice say told them pool had been
formed by unidentified white per-
sons to pay gunner 1T rate rang
ing from SIS to 1925, depending on
the result"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-09-01
Sweatn1an's Orchestra
On River Cruise

NEW WILDER Sweatman,
the well known clarionetist and his
orchestra are being featured on the
Berkshire, the largest steamer OPP
Grated by the Hudson River Line,
and which is now being used for
moonlight and Sunday cruises.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-04-14
Congress Did Very We'll.
(NeW York Times)

People who will readily admit that in the mat ter of balancing the Federal budget Congress be- hayed very well in the long will nevertheless, ask why it necessary for Congress to start out by giving everybody heart failure.
 This, it seems to us, is bit unfair to the House. It also shows a want of grasp the essentials of drama politics and life. Where would be the merit of balancing budgets if budgets didn't start out by getting unbalanced? A humdrum automatic parity between revenue and expenditure is like the hum drum virtue which flourshes in the absence of temp tation The budget which slips but doesn't fall is the budget really to be proud of.
 Similarly, where would be the interest in a lot of Congressmen always preserving their balance? The Congress that goes off it's balance and saves itself by grabbing at the awning frame-that is the kind of well-balanced Congress country can get a kick out of
 Think of a tight-rope walker completing his trip without dipping a bit sharply once or twice and bringing your heart into your palate Think of the trapeze artist pulling off his stunt on the first try Think of the juggler letting the gold watch drop and ntereepting it just before it touches the ground-what would be their worth as show?
 An you will say, but Congress isn't there to put on show. Isn't it. though? Can representative gov- ernment get on without staging a bit of show now and then for the benefit of the folks back home? What other business profession or human occupation is there that can get without certain amount of theatre? Banking? Railroading? Mayor ing? Presdenting? Ringing? Fascistng? Proletarian- izing? College -presdenting? We pause for reply
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-04-14
AN ABSURD PROPOSITION.

It would be more consistent and sensible Ii the Government were to seek legislation to turn the Alaska Railroad over to the War Department than to seek authority to turn War Department road activi- ties over to the Interior Department which has no road making organization The Engineers Corps of the United States Army is organized to carry on public works of all sorts and conditions. It has been engaged at it for Of years and its record for efficiency and honesty is of very high character
 If the activities of the Road Commission were turned over to the Interior Department it would become immediately necessary for the latter to or ganize for the work and road making would be sadly impaired during the transition period And after that the Interior Department would probably not be able to form an organization as capable and free from politics the Army organization that is doing and has done wonderful work in Alaska for a quarter of a century.
 People might credit the statement that the Gov ernment was working for consolidation and concen- tration of agencies if the proposal to turn the Road Commission work over to the Bureau of Pub lie Roads but that is not the plan The Depart ment of Agriculture has road making organiza- tion but not the Interior Department It has neither organization nor experience in that line of work.
 However, there is old rule W ich advises us to let well enough alone. The War Depart ment is not only doing well enough with Alaska extraordinary service for the people of Alaska It has been getting the best possible results from the funds that had at its disposal AlaSkans ought to prevent the fruiton of this attack on the Road Commission if it is possible to do so.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-04-14
H. R. SHEPARD,
 City Clerk
NOTICE ID PAY SCHOOL TAX

NOTICE 1O PAY SCHOOL TAX
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the undersigned has been duly appointed School Tax Collector for Juneau, Alaska, in conformity with Chapter 29, Alaska Session Laws, 1919.
 All male persons between the ages of twenty-one and fifty years, except soldiers, sailors in U. s. Navy or Revenue Cutter Service, volun- teer firemen, paupers and insane persons, are subject to tax in sum of Five Dollars ($500).
 Should you be living in Alaska on or prior to the first Monday in April, 1882, said tax shall be due and payable on said first date and shall be delinquent after May 1st, 1892. Should you arrive in Alaska later than first date above men, toned, tax will be delinquent thir- ty (30) days after your arrival, or within ten 10) days after notice is given you.
 All persons, firms or corporations. employing labor shall furnish list of employees to collector and are authorized by law to deduct amount of tax from wages of employees.
 Fines and imprisonment are pro- vided by the Act above quoted for those who fail or neglect to pay tax or furnish list of employees.
 Dated, Juneau, Alaska, April 5, 1882.
 H. R. SHEPARD,
 School Tax Collector for Juneau, Alaska. First publication, April 5, 192. Last publication, April 16, 1892.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-04-14

see me in it every time I go any where
 T thought it was new one honest"
 You're silly" But she warmed to his non .ense Hubby amused her witt his devotion, his clumsy humor She felt at ease with him. With the others, at times like this, ii was like playing a part in a play, the role of which she knew well, now.
 Gar was at the other end of the table. He had kept the chair next to him empty. He was watch ing the door. Presently he sprang to his feet. Here's Marge." Marge approached the table with Paul Somerset. The others hailed her coming a little bols- serously.
 It was Gar, not Somerset who took Marge's evening coat from her shoulders. Sit here" he commanded, indicating the unoc- cupied chair next to him. It eft one for Somerset across the taible. I'm on the job he add cd, in a low voice.
 Marge lifted a deeply reproach- tui look to him as she slipped nto the seat he had saved for her. Her fingers went signifi- cantly to the orchids, against Gler shoulder. Her eyes travelled swift ly down the table and met Kit tvs wide, startled glance fixed or her. She laughed softly, her lips scarcely parting over the sound.
 At their end of the table Tub by was deep in a story which he was pouring into Kitty's ear. All at once he became aware that she was not listening. He thought she spoke.
 What did you say, Kitty?"
 She turned back to him, her eyes blue-black, heightening col or on her cheeks Did I say anything-If did-it was only just silly, thinking it for a mo- ment.-"
 But what I'm telling you is gospel truth, Kit It happened to a fellow I know"
 Copyright, Jane Ahbott.)
 Christmas eve brings Kitty
 present of tragedy. tOmor-
 row.