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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-01-05
Says Negro Is
Less Disposed To
Commit Crime

CHICAGO.-Negroes as lawbreak-
ers were listed among the causes of
crime which deserve national atten-
ton by the Hon. Frank J. Loesch,
chairman of the Chicago Crime
Commission and a member of Pres
ideft Hoover's Commission on Law
Enforcement, in speech at the
opening session of the second an
nual convention of the National In
stitute of Mercenary Crime Monday
night.
Mr.. Loesch was discussing the
"Basic Causes of the Crime Wave"
in connection with crimes committed
for profit, as distinguished from
crimes committed from passion, jeal-
ousy, revenge and so forth. He gave
nine basic causes for the wave of
mercenary crime now sweeping this
and other countries. His eighth cause
was labeled "The problem of the
Negro lawbreaker." He said:
"The Negro is not gang or NJ
ganization criminal. The instability
of character which makes him a
criminal fortunately makes him a
ineligible for membership in gangs
where crime is an organized occu-
patton. He is an individualist in his
criminal career. His entry into our
congested northern cities is very re-
cent, being confined to the last ~
or Is years. His sudden appearance,
owing to the industrial demand for
his labor, found our cities unpre-
pared for him. Many came from the
thern states and were unprepared
for the freedom of the North and
industrial fellowship with which they
were received by the white people.
"Nor were they used to the high
wages and better living conditions
which make it almost impossible as
mass, be accorded high praise for
the restraint they imposed upon
themselves, and even better upon
the lower and ignorant among
them, in the midst of the manifold
temptations to which they were SO
unrestrainedly made subject, taken
so unexpectedly from a different
environment.
although they supply delin-
quents, detectives and criminals out
of all proportion to their numbers
in our midst, they do, however, pre-
sent less of a problem than do the
alien and foreign-born, ignorant Of
our language, since they do speaE
English and are not clannish in pro
tecting notorious criminal of theil
race who may seek to lose himself
in their midst"
Mr.. Loesch went further to STATE
that among the corrections for GRIM
conditions that might be undertaken
among Negroes was better housing
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-01-05
Negro Could Starve
Seeking His Rights

NEW YORK.-The attitude of the
white South toward the rights of
brown men in India and brown men
in the United States is revealed by
letter from Florida published in
the New York Evening Post and
relayed by the N. A. A. C. P. The let
ter says:
"A southern voter was praising
Ghandi, Boosting of the victory
which the little brown man. had
evidently won with his equality fast.
The question was asked: IF an
American Negro should refuse to eat
until every Negro in the South had
been granted the right to vote, what
would you advise us to do?'
"Let him starve" was the en-
phatic and prompt reply.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-01-05
Negro Symphony
To Be Presented
By StOkowski

NEW YORK CITY.-The interna-
tionally eminent maestro, Leopold
StokowsSi, leader of the famous
Philadelphia symphony Orchestra,
will be the first white conductor in
the United States to direct a sym
phony written by Negro musician
and into which has been breathed the
spirit of American Negro music.
First of its Kind
The first symphony of its kind.
composed by William Levi Dawson.
director of the Tuskegee choir, was
handed in SGT sheets to Mr.. Stokow-
ski here early this week and the
famous musician announced that the
Philadelphia Symphony would place
the composition in rehearsal soon.
In speaking of the composition,
Mr.. Dawson said that it is in no wise
religious, but rather a classic in the
modern idiom." He said that it is
an attempt to develop Negro music,
Something they said again and
again couldn't be developed"
Dawson wrote the music to "Sym-
phony No. 1"-as he has called it
IN Alabama, where he was born lat
Anniston) 81 years ago. After study
IN Kansas City and Topeka, he
played first trombone in the Chicago
Civic Orchestra for four years. He
was graduated with honors from the
Horner Institute of Fine Arts in
Kansas City, at which time the Kan
sas City Symphony Orchestra played
one of his compositions. He is now
directing the Tuskegee Choir which
recently appeared at New York :
Radio City.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-01-05
Negro Leaders Ask
Roosevelt To Remove
Barriers To Progress
Dubois Says Parsons
Don't Say Anything

BALTIMORE, Md do not go
to church." explained Dr. w. f. B..
Dubois, editor of the Crisis, of New
York City, when he addressed the
Young Peoples Forum here last Fri
day night. A groan went up from
the huge audience in the Bethel A.
NJ. +. church as the editor made the
announcement.
4 would go. but most churches
ministers have no message for me.
Very little they say is really bcne-
fetal to their hearers" Dubois said.
When asked if he believed the
present system of religion should be
discarded and new religion based
on science substituted, Dubois simply
replied, yes"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-01-05
Jobless To Be Trained
By N. Y. Urban League

NEW YORK CITY.-A new move
ment in education will be launched
here when the local Urban League
opens its center for the training of
unemployed persons in various voca-
tions for their general Improvement.
Glasses in household management
and cooking demonstration, sewing,
correct speech, personality, arithme-
tic, civics (including instruction for
securing citizenship papers), read
ing, writing and other common
branches now are held during the
day and are open to both men and
women of II years of age and over.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-01-05
Reds Tell Why Alabama
Farmers Were Killed

WASHINGTON. = Lem Harris,
white, executive secretary of the
Farmers National Relief Conference,
today telegraphed Governor B. M.
Miller, white, of Alabama and Sher-
iff Kyle Young, white, of Tallapoosa
County, Alabama, protesting in the
name of farmers of 26 states the
armed warfare now being waged
against colored farmers in Tallapoo-
sa and adjoining counties by sher-
ifs and possemen.
Six colored farmers from Ala
bama attended the conference held
here December to IL as delegates
from the Share Choppers Union. The
attack by authorities on the farmers
in Tallapoosa conceded with the re-
turn of the delegates to their homes
in the several Alabama counties.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-01-05
Civil Service
Improvement Is
Major Measure

WASHINGTON. d. C Improve
ment II tho Civil Service is one of
the major tasks to which Franklin
d. Roosevelt. Democratic nominee
for President. will be asked to de-
vote himself after MARCH 4 next
This is one Of several requests to
be asked of the new president as de-
cided in conference of Negro lead
ers held here this week
No effort will be made to unload
at the White House entrance all
the ills which colored people suf-
fer 1t is understood, however, that
present civil service regulations.
which make it almost impossible
for colored persons to receive an
appointment, constitute serious
menace to which Governor Roose-
welt can he asked to give attention.
Repeal of hateful and discrimna-
tory provisions of the law would
mean new dawn of civil rights to
colored people.
As to presidential appointments,
1t is expected that the new Presi-
dent will be asked to see TO it that
nothing which we now enjoy be
taken from us, but rather that GER
tain other positions be asked. espe-
cially those which we formerly held.
Liberal grants of funds for educa-
tional purposes will be requested
with the Land Grant Colleges, How
ard University. aud the public
schools of D. c.. especially mem
toned.
Governor Roosevelt will be asked
to carry to the White House that
human friendlness that marked
his campaign for the presidency.
lie will be urged to manifest the
friendly attitude that will welcome
representative delegations and will
prompt him to attend occasionally
the meetings OF noteworthy organi-
cations for Negro folk.
No special word will be asked in
The inaugural address, 1t is said.
However, Governor Roosevelt will
he asked to say broadly inclusive
word that win give all the people
hope.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-01-05
War Dept. Probes
Arrest OF Colored
Citizen In Panama
Chicago Mayor Stops
Birth Of Nation"

CHICAGO. - If the birth of a
Nation" David Wark Griffith's in
famous motion picture reflecting up
on American Negro citizens, has
nine lives, it lost one of them this
week when the city censors, under
orders from Mayor Cermak, ordered
the film to be stopped at the Cinema
Theatre where it was being shown.
The mayors action came after the
protest of committee, composed of
Alderman Robert r. Jackson, Edgar
Brown and Earl B. Dickerson, at
torney and a demonstration in front
of the theatre by white and colored
citizens.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-01-05
Court Rebukes
Carolina MasOns
Violating Vows

CHARLOTTE, N. c. "A secret
meeting of the Grand Lodge of
North Carolina Free and Accepted
Ancient Masons was held in Char
lotte last week despite the fact that
Raleigh had been unanimously Sc
leeted as the convention city.
This action was taken after Judge
w. c. Harris had signed "A restrain
ing order enjoining Dir. l.. b. Cape
hart grand master, from calling the
annual meeting to order in any city
other than Raleigh, which had been
duly selected.
Noting an appeal from the judg-
ment, the entertainment committee
Of the lodge posted a bond Of $50.
On the entertainment committee are
Collin A. Walker, chairman; Chas.
II. Boyer, Charles Winters, D. II.
Reid and Tom Hayes. They were
represented by f. J. Carnage of Ra-
leigh and p. II. Bell of Plymouth,
attorneys. Clyde A. Douglas, white,
was counsel for DR.. Capehart.
1t was learned that DR.. Gapehart
had objected to the convention
meeting in Raleigh because of diff
ferences he had had with the enter
tainment committee, which is OPP
posed to some of his policies as
grand master.
The court in handing down The
restraining order rebuked the order
and scored them for violating their
VOWS Of brotherhood.
The action taken at the secret
session has not been disclosed.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-01-05
Blames Whites For
High Murder Rate

RALEIGH, N. C.-Conceding that
southern Negroes and northern for
eigners were responsible for the
large homicide rates in these sec
tions, the editor of the News and
Observer here placed the blame for
the high rates on the white leader
ship Of beth sections.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-01-05
Secy. Hurley Asks
Canal Governor For
Report On Case

WASHINGTON, D. C.-The Sec
rotary of War has received a COM
plant and demand for redress trans
mitted by the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People in behalf of John Samuel
Clark, naturalized American citizen,
born in the British West Indies.
who by reason of his color was
placed in Jail and subjected to in
dignities at Cristobal, Canal Zone,
while en- route from Kingston, ia
maica, B. w. l., to his home in San
Francisco.
The complaint, drawn up for Mr..
Clark by his attorney, Edward D.
MADISON of San Francisco, states that
Mr.. Clark was carrying a passport
issued by the United States govern
ment, that he had in his possession
sufficient funds to cover the ex-
penses of his passage from San
Francisco to Kingston and return,
and that on his way home, while
waiting for his ship at Cristobal, he
was insulted and jailed by the local
officers.
1t is charged that the local health
' officer, DR.. 20. A. Hearne, chief
Quarantine officer for the Canal
Zone at Cristobal, sent him to the
captain of the port at Colon, who
asked him only his name and where
he was going, thereupon returning
him to the custody of DR.. Hearne to
be put in Jail. Upon Mr.. Clark's in
quiring the reason for his detention,
as he was first-class passenger,
having his passport and first-class
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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-01-05
Attorney Picks
List OF Twelve
Greatest Negroes

PHILADELPHIA, Pain re-
lease this week to the Associated
Negro Press, Raymond Pace Alexan-
der, leading Philadelphia attorney,
submits the following list as the IL
greatest Negroes:
Booker T. Washington-For dig
nifying manual and machine labor
and for establishing an industrial
school which serves as model for
European countries.
Frederick Douglass For states
manship and anti-slavery activities.
Paul Laurence Dunbar-America S
greatest poet, ranking along with
Longfellow and Whittier.
w. E. B. Du Bots - One of the
keenest minds, with great depth and
vision. One of the greatest critics
and satirists.
Carter C. Woodson-Has given the
African races and the American Ne
gro a place in the history of the
world.
Richard Allen - For establishing
the necessity of religious training by
Negroes for Negroes and for estab.
fishing one of the greatest forces in
religion-the A. M. L. Church.
Sojourner Truth-For bringing the
abuses and privations of slavery be,
fore the northern sections and Great.
ing an anti-slavery sentiment.
DR.. Daniel Williams-One of the
greatest surgeons, the first to per
form an operation on the human
heart.
Nat Turner - Was forerunner Of
the idea of the instruction of slaves
to free themselves; was ahead o.
John Brown.
H. o. Tanner-One of the creates
living artists, a member of tbs
French Legion of Honor.
Ernest Just-Greatest scientist il
zoology and experimental biology.
Roland Hayes-Reeognized as tn
leading lyric tenor. Would undoubt
eddy be greatest concert artist if
were not for his color.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-01-05
5000 HarIemites AT
Ace Club Formal Dance

NEW YORK.-Depression meant
nothing to five thousand New York
ers, who crowded Manhattan Casino,
Saturday night, logged out in their
best "bibs and fuckers" at the Sew
enth Annual Formal Dance of the
Harlem Ace Club-marking the larg-
est depression crowd" seen in this
huge hall in three years.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-01-05
Roxy Shows Fine Spirit

NEW YORK CITY-First pictures
of the interior of the magnificent
buildings of the Roxy Radio City
Music Hall, which the Tuskegee
choir, Glen and Jenkins and other
noted colored stars helped open De-
cember 27, were published in New
York last Sunday. The impartiality
of S. H. roxy Rothafel, managing
director, to colored performers of
merit is responsible for the unusual
ly large number of eolored acts APP
pearing there.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-01-05
A Full Meal for Is Cents

NEW YORK CITY. - The low
price eating places in Harlem have
been outdone by places where the
prices are even lower. Rock-bottom
was reached, it was thought, with
the opening of the ascent dinner
places, but Seventh Avenue now has
its 15-cent lunchrooms, featuring a
full meal for that price. And what a
meal-if you can eat it.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-01-05
Jim Crow Signs
Draw Protest

WASHINGTON.-Jim Grow signs
displayed in lavatores of the Wash
ington District Water Works have
brought strong protest from a dele
cation of local citizens. Don't
bother me" was the response of w,
V. Robinson, white, local official
responsible for the signs. D. w. Hol-
ton, superintendent of the water
department, has promised prompt
investigation.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-01-05
Bonus Marchers Jailed

WASHINGTON - Samuel Nicoli,
90, and Captain Alexander, 36, both
Of whom came here a few weeks
ago with the Cleveland delegation Of
the Rank and File Central Commit
tee Of radical bonus marchers, were
given Is days in jail this week when
arrested on charges Of soliciting
aims.
The men were arrested while try
ing to collect money to repair the
truck in which they had entered the
city.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-01-05
Tolan Offered Job
AS Deputy Sheriff

DETROIT - An opportunity to
test his speed against fugitives of
the law has been offered Eddie To
Ian in the form of a job as a dep
uty sheriff.
Sherff-elect Thomas Wilcox has
offered to appoint Tolan, it was
learned this week. If Tolan accepts
he will receive $1,000 a year
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-01-05
Guests Flee Hotel Fire

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-West End Ho-
tel, Vandeventer Ave. and West
Belle Place, was damaged to the
extent of $4,000, chiefly from wa
ter, and about 100 guests were rout-
ed from their rooms in hastily don
ned attire at midnight.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-01-05
Praises Paul Robson

NEW YORK CITY. = Reviewing
the last years broadeasts, Orin E.
Dunlap, in the New York Times,
declares that among the high spots
of the season was the work Of Paul
Robson singing with the "Shqw
Boat and Florenz Ziegfeld on the
same program as master Of cere-
monies.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-01-05
NEW deal" ASKED OF ROOSEVELT
REFLECTIONS

what is the leading characteristic
of those who call themselves go
eiety?"
The ease with which they fall for
"free-doings." Their talent for
whitewashing the sins of those who
are liberal in entertaining.
'Plate sin with gold, and the
strong lance of justice hurtless
breaks;
"Arm it in rags and pygmy's
straw doth pierce it,"
She was hurrying to mass. Mer-
curry, with a frigid smile on its face.
fingered at six below. A poor, little,
old Irish woman, yet happier by far
than many bobbed-hair belle, nestl-
ing amid a wealth of blankets in a
rug floored, mahogany furnished,
steam-heated boudoir. A martyr to
the cold and privation, she hurried
to the sanctuary of her God, the
music of the spheres filling her soul
with its melody, as her eyes glanced
ahead into heaven.
Six of the toughest, dirtiest, fill
thiest, and yet at times, best, most
expressive and most appropriate
words in English consist only of
four letters. 1t all depends on how,
and who uses them. What the above
lacks in originality, receives compen-
sation in accuracy. The Anglo-Sa
words pertaining to the body were
short and not always sweet.
The lad who killed one or two men
and ravished one girl in Chicago, de-
clared by the alienists to be ment-
ally sound but emotionally unstable,
faced jury that had more sense
than the alienists. 1t condemned him
to die. He was poor.
The lad who killed his grandma
was given from one to ten years.
He was rich.
A big "family row" between the
heads of the household. Finally "the
female of the species" fired her Big
Bertha:
81 will tell you, Bill Johnson,
again and again, if there were no
women there would be no more
men,"
To which her husband replied,
"And I'll tell you, Susie Johnson,
again and again, as God made old
Adam, he can make other men,"
Colored citizens have been invited
to the reception the Roosevelts are
giving. A good start. If Hoover's
inter-racialism had started sooner
he would probably have had more
Negro votes.
The Jewish merchant makes a God
of his patron. The Negro merchant
wants his patron to make God of
him. Honey catches more flies than
vinegar.
"What first caused people to wor-
ship the SUM-"
They had been victims of so many
dark and cloudy days that when the
sun came forth its warm and glor-
ious radiance was as the gladstone
smile of God.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-01-05
Chapel
Windows Depict
Trials OF Negro

NEW YORK.-Decorative stained
glass windows rich in color and de-
picting numerous scenes of Negro
spirituals and Negro subjects and de-
signed for the chancel of the chapel
at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, were
on exhibition in the studio of ]. and
r. Lamb, 1923 Sixth avenue last week
just before they were shipped to AL
ALBANIA.
1t is said to be the first time that
Negro spirituals have been portrayed
in stained glass.
There are three lights in the win
dow, which represent the advance of
the Negro race and the Negroes
aspirations. The center shows the
Negroes worshipping in the swamps
before they were given the right to
worship collectively. In the left win
dow the earthly struggle for freedom
is represented by such spirituals as
Joshua Fit de Battel of Jericho"
eve are Climbin' Jacobs Ladder"
"Roll, Jordon, Roll,' and ooh, Sing
All the Way
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-01-05
Trials Depicted

The elderly Negro at the end of a
hard life is represented in the right
window. At the bottom is the Negro
in slavery, typified in go Down
Moses" Just above are figures of
elderly Negroes reaching upward to-
ward the Promised Land, typified in
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" Next
is the representation of the spirit
uals, "Deep River" and at the top,
my Lord, What Mornin'" Other
spirituals in the three lights are
"Shout All Over Gods Heaven"
"Rise Up, Shepherd and Follow"
and "Steal Away"
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-18

The plot may be summed up as
follows:
The story is that of the curious
makeup of Temple Drake, last of
the line of an aristocratic family.
Her personality is a weird composite
of conventional traits and reckless
abandon Rather than ruin the life
of the young attorney she loves,
played by William Gargan, she re-
fuses to marry him, runs off on a
lark with a member of the younger
set, and a wild ride through the
night is climaXed by an automobile
smaShup.
She and her escort take refuge
from the rain in moonshiner'S
hangout. The men fight for pos
session of Temple Drake, but Trig-
ser enforces his own desires at the
point of a gun, kills feeble-minded
boy who attempts to protect her,
and flees with the girl to house in
the city.
She stays with him, ashamed to
return home to her family and to
the town that has always looked up
to the brakes.
An innocent man is accused of the
murder of the boy. Temple brakes
lover is assigned to defend him, and
seeking witnesses, he discovers the
girl and Trigger in their hide-out.
In the climax. Miss Hopkins en-
acts the pathetic atOnement Of this
tempestuouS character.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-18
IMPORTANT MOVIE
DUE AT THE INDIANA

Song of the Eagle" timely pic
ture dealing with the prohibition era
just past and with the dealers of
the legalized beer competing with
the bootlegger, comes to the Indiana
for one week starting Friday.
Charles Bickford, Richard Arlen,
Mary Brian, Jean Hersholt and
Louise Dresser head the cast in this
unusual picture which also has the
services of Andy Devine. George E.
Stone and others. 1t was produced
by Charles Rogers for Paramount.
The story traces the tempestuouS
march Of the nation through .he