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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-12-07

WOMEN ORGANIZE
TO WIN SEAT IN CONGRESS

NEW YORK, N. Y.-If the
plans Of the newly-organized
Harlem Congressional Leagu e
carry through. Congressman Os-
car DePriest will soon cease to
be the lone Negro member Of
the National House of Repre-
sentatives. stung to action by
the plea Of Mr. DePriest for a
larger Negro representation in
the lower house Of Congress. q
number Of women have comhin-
ed their forces to elect a mem
Der from the Harlem District.
$4,000 Negro Women Voters
It is estimated that Harlem
has upwards of fifty thousand
eligible Negro women voters. The
newly organized Congressional
League plans to mobilize these
voters into q concrete militant
body, free Of party bias and de-
voted to the single idea of elect
ing one Of their own group to
represent the District at Wash
ington.
Want > Women "a Congress
DR.. Julia Coleman Robinson.
president OF the Hair-Vim Che
mscal CO. Inc. 118 w. 13Oth st.,
one Of the original promoters Of
the Movement and chairman Of
the committee on organization.
when interviewed, said:
Women like MRS. Marie Law
ton. Mrs. Leila Walters and Miss
Grace Campbell who, through
many years have sacrificed them
selves IN fighting for racial up
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-12-07
ATLANTA MAN
IS APPOINTED
TO LABOR JOB

ATLANTA, CAB. C. Basker-
vile, well known Atlanta citizen,
has recently been appointed an
organizer among Negroes for the
American Federation of Labor in
the Southeast section of the
country. This appointment comes
through the recommendation of
Forester B. Washington, Direc-
tor of the Atlanta School of So
cial Work. Mr.. Baskerville is
working out OF the southern Of
flee of the Aferican Federation
of Labor in Atlanta, Ga. Al
ready he has recruited a large
number of individual Negroes as
members OF the trade union
movement and in addition has
organized a local of express and
freight handlers in Atlanta that
has recently received the A. F.
of L. charter from headquarters
at Washington; one in Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, which has receiv-
ed its charter; and another in
Florence, s. c., which is about
to receive its charter. To date
therefore he has set up three Ne
gro local unions in as many CT
ties.
Mr.. Baskerville's appointment
probably represents the first time
that a highly trained Negro has
been sought as a general organ
izer for his race by the A. F. of
L. in the South. He has made
a study of the history of the Me-
gro in relation to labor and is
well versed in the theory and
practice of collective bargaining
and the entire modern labor
movement.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-12-07
Negro Sailor, 80,
Sends Cash Home
To Mother, ia

PROVIDENCE There is no.
thing unusual about sailor
sending money to his mother.
but when the mariner is 80
years old and a former slave
and the mother Is ia the in
cident is worth recording.
Bosworth Jackson, cook on
the Collier Eastern, which re-
Gently discharged coal here,
dropped a letter containing
a money order in the nearest
mail box, addressed to his
mother in Lunenburg County.
Virginia.
Bosworth was the youngest
Of Il children, all born In sla-
very on a tobacco plantation.
Freed, he took up cooking on
b0ats fishing out Of Norfolk.
He was graduated to clipper
ships In time, went on round
the-world voyages, then to
coasting schooners in the coal
and lumber trade.
Through his industry and
saving, Bosworth has been alb
lie to buy a seven-acre tract,
part of the plantation where
he was born. ad there his mo-
Their lives.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-12-07
81. Peter Not BIackbaIIing FIappers
Who Bob Eair and Doff Their COrsets

enough TO blacinball a girl just
because she clips her hair and
refuses to wear corsets.
But whether she goes to Hea-
ven or not I can say this much
fos the bobbed haired girl-she
sue makes things much pleas
AFTER for us folks while we tarry
lg.re on earth.
The Purity in Rolled Hose 49,.
Now between you and me
there's as much purity in a pair
OF rolled hose and just as much
virtue heath a hoyish bob as in
the skirt that mopped up the
earth and collected microbes and
kept men from getting the slight
est idea of what women used to
propel them about.
Now I may be nuts, but you'll
have to confess that a modern
flapper, when put to the test,
viii prove a much more interest
ing and attractive thing, that is
as far as women folks go, than
her predecessor with her mod
esty that made you feel i'll at
ease for fear of making Some
kind of break, and made you
watch everything that you lid
and careful of everything you
said
Be Yourself
But with the modern maid you
can be yourself and say what
you like and do as you please
and she doesn't pretend to be
shocked and smack your face be-
cause she comedies there are
things about life that really are
mt secrets any more.
Now I don't believe that she's
any worse than her mother was
when she was coming along, just
a little more frank and perhaps
she just doesn't give a darn.
thank you.
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CENSUS REPORTS
BIG DECLINE IN
RACE LLITERACl.

WASHINGTON, D. C. - The
Bureau Of the Census announces
a significant decline In Negro
illiteracy in the United States as
reported at the census Of 1880.
New York State reported the
lowest percentage Of illiteracy.
2.5. OF any state in the union.
In the South illiteracy dropped
from 1913 percent in 1910 to rs
percent In 1920 and 60 1877 per-
cent in 1880.
The Bureau defines an litter
ate person as anyone 10 years
Of age or over who Is not able
to read and write, either Eng
lish or In some other language.
OF the $685. $50 Negroes 10 years
old and over. 1853 percent or l.
513,898 were reported illiterate.
In the North illiteracy decreas-
ed from 1915 percent in 1910 to
z percent In 1920 and At per-
cent in 1890; the highesE per-
centage in this section was re-
ported in Missouri, followed by
Rhode Island, Ohio and Indiana.
South Carolina reported the
highest percentage Of illteracy
in the United States In 1880,
displacing Louisiana where the
highest percentage Of illiteracy
was reported at each ensus
cince 1890; Alabama occupied
second place.
In the West, the percentage
decreased from 7 percent in 1910
to 40 percent in 1920 and 3.3
percent in 1880. California, with
67.S percent Of the total Negro
population of the West, had 62.4
percent of the illiterates report
ed for that section.
Negro illiteracy in the United
States was higher for males than
for fems, ), although in the
District of Columbia and in Is
states-inolu 7lng New York, III
inois, Kar sas and California
the percentage of illiteracy was
higher for females than that of
males.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-12-07
GRAVE DIGGER
DIES in GRAVE

ST. LOUIS, Mo-After putting
the finishing touches to a grave
which he had just completed
digging. Jurdon Johnson, care
taker at the Oak Grove Gene
terry on Laroche Avenue, crumpl-
ed up Monday afternoon and fell
back into the newly-dug grave,
dead. His heart had failed him
at the age OF rs.
The old man had been digging
the grave for a funeral next day.
The pine box in which the cas-
ket was to be enclosed at inter-
ment. lay along side the grave.
After johnson had s1roothed the
base Of the grave, he told Joe
Pinkey. a friend. who had been
watching him. TO go to a nearby
louise and get some dinner for
him.
Unable to get the food, Pinkey
hurried back to the grave. look
ed In and there lay johnson.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-12-07
TURNS
DOWN NEGRO
COLONY PLAN

WASHINGTON, D. C. - The
proposal Of q group Of white pro
motors for the development Of
q Negro colony at Burgaw near
Wilmington. N. c., has been de-
MED by the Homestead Bureau
acting on the advice of C)srk
Foreman.
The project brought forward
by prominent North Carolinian,
Mr.. McRae. really proposed Two
subsistence projects, one for
white people. with another for
colored people adjoining it. Al
ready one colony is being car
ried on in that vicinity. It is a
private effort with white inha-
bstants and was not financed by
the government. The proposed
settlements would be in addition
to the one already functioning,
which is said to be very success
full.
The Subsistence Homestead BIZ
reau, sent the promoter Mr.. Nc
Rae, when he called here two
weeks ago, to talk with Clark
Foreman. advisor on the econo-
mic status of Negroes. Ques-
tioning brought out the fact,
that plans did not include Ne
eroes serving upon the board Of
directors nor in the direction OF
the colony. The plans called for
houses for whites to cost $4,000
while those for Negroes were to
cost about $4,000. Mr.. Foreman
advised the promoter that only
completely democratic represen-
tation In the government Of the
colony would be satisfactory and
that no discrimination in the
matter of housing could be toll
Grated. 1t is understood that the
promoters felt that while their
prime interest was In a white
colony, that their appeal would
be received with more favor If
one for Negroes was also includ-
ed. While Negroes do not live
in the present colony at Bur
gaw, it is said they do the prin-
cipal work of the community.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-12-07
Thanh Travis, Cafe -.
Owner, Succunbs

ST. PAUL, MINI. = Funeral
services for Richard N. (Thann)
Travis, 279 Kent St., promi-, mt
restaurant owner who died sat.
urday were held Tuesday in Eae
McGavock mortuary, $50 Rice ct.
under auspices of Gopher Ledge
No. 104, IB.P.OE.
Burial was at Omal-1 I;,.,
where he was born and SCI, ,ss
were conducted by the Kn shts
Of Pythias lodge there, of VI oh
he was a member. Mr.. G~vis
had been in the restaurant bust
ness In st. Paul for g yeass arz
operated cafe at 325 J-ckscn
st. He is survived oy l. v,a-
ow, Rebecca L. Travis.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-12-07

BALTIMORE. Nd. When I
hear folks cry In a horror struck
way. rs the world getting worse
are we all on our way to the de-
vil9" I laugh. because If I'm not
mistaken chat question was ask
ed when Eve first bit the apple
and donned a fig leaf and Adam
got gay and bought a silk hat
or something like that.
You know each generation that
moves on before looks back at
the one that's coming behind and
wonders what in the deuce is
the world coming to. and what
viii become of the younger set.
In last weeks paper you may
have read where a D. c. pastor
in a sermon said that the wide
leg trousers that males wear are
a silent protest against the scan
ty attire of the fairer sex. a sort
Of humble way we men folks
have OF showing that we disar-
prove Of such displays of the
dimpIed knee.
Now. If he is right. and in
course of time my wide legged
parts might cause the girls 10
low ey -sneii skirts I give my word
I'll never be caught in those
blame things again.
Old st. Peter
And he also asked us 1t pos
sible for a bobbed haired girl to
enter the Kingdom OF Heaven?"
Well, I've never read IN any Bib
lical books where ones personal
looks played a heck Of a part in
gaining admission to para disc. I
firmly believe that a inodern
girl in a boyish bob las as
good a chance as Ter grandma
did in her high couture and wide
hoop skirts and I don't believe
that old st. Peter would be mean
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-12-07
sos" Sends ''ParsOn" Carroll
Fleeing From Georgia Town

SAVANNAH, Ga.-A Ford car
and another engagement might
have been the two forces that
saved Seymour Carroll, Southern
Field Secretary of the American
Humane Education Society of
Boston, Mass. with southern
headquarters at Columbia, South
Carolina, his life. Last week Mr..
Carroll spent three days in
Brunswick, Georgia, and visited
the race schools. An article tell
ing of his presence in the city,
appeared in the local white daily
newspapers, and referred to him
as Mister" Carroll.
Reporter interviews Him
The story begins at the Post
Office: A newspaper man mis-
took him for a local lace minis
ter while he was writing some
letters. He approached Mr.. Car
roll at a writing desk IL. the
Post Office, and addressed Mr..
Carroll as "Parson," saying, HE
had been informed that the col
ored people had a cracker-jack
good speaker at the school to-
day" One word brought on an
other and Mr.. Carroll said, yes,
he made an interesting talk to
the students and Humane Edu-
cation" What was his name?"
Mr.. Carroll" What is the
name of the society he is presi-
dent Of in Boston," asked the
white XXX. citizen. The AM
erican Humane Education Soci-
ETY. of Boston, Mr.. Carroll is the
field secretary, sir" "That is
good. and I thank you SO much.
Parson," The conversation last
ed about fifteen minutes in the
lobby of the Post office.
They parted. Mr.. Carroll had
been interviewed by newspa-
per reporter. That afternoon, on
the front page of The Evening
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-12-07
Trials Of Seven
Other Colored
Boys Postponed
Gets 80 Days
For Sleeping
In a Church

ASHEVILLE, N. C.-Thirty
days for sleeping in church
was the sentence imposed on
Elmer Stewart in municipal
court recently. He was jail
ed not for ignoring religious
services. but for appropriate
ing the church for an apart
ment house.
Lots of people go to church
to Sleep" Judge McRae said
in passing sentence, but they
go at the regular service hour
and not when the church is
empty"
Stewart was sentenced for
vagrancy and carrying con-
cealed weapons. He was ar
rested in the Zion Holiness
Colored church by one of the
church elders.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-12-07
WHITES FORCTBLY
EJECT FAMILY
FROM HOUSE

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Rabid
white residents Of the 1900 block
of Rock street assembled last
Thursday night and forcibly Ell
ected a colored family from a
house in that block. The pro-
perty is said to be owned by
Gustav Breitke. vice-president OF
the Oakiawn Dairy Company.
About eight o'clock George C.
Cope appeared at Police Head
quarters and inquired of the
sergeant how much it would cost
to plead guilty of fighting.
He explained that he and his
neighbors had protested to Brett
ke against renting the property
in that neighborhood to Negroes
A heated discussion followed and
Cope admitted that he knocked
down Breitke. Cope was advis-
ed to return home and wait I'M
til complaint was made.
About midnight the owner Of
the property complained that
several men were attacking his
tenants. The police went to the
scene, but said that the evacu-
alton had been effected when
they arrived. Breitke has sworn
out a warrant against Cope and
others.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-12-07

Our Boys

WHAT Is GOING to become
OF the boys Of our Racer An
opportunity to show how interes-
ted we ire win Be presented next
FRIDAY night when Puget Sound
Lodge Of Ellxs VII stage a Faith
srs and Sons banquet at Mt. IL
on Church. This is 3 commend
able move ON the part Of the
Elks organization. Men should
meet at least once q year and
gather around them the youth
of their race for the purpose Of
giving them the collective ex-
perience Of twenty or more years
we cannot make q better invest
ment than in the youth OF our
race. They are the persons up
on whom we must depend to carr
r. on where We leave off and
we cannot permit them to be
reared II a way that their lives
cannot have expression. Life is
not given to US as q cup to be
drained but is given to us as an
empty goblet to be filled. II we
can teach our boys TO enjoy the
Cod given gifts that are all ar
ound them. then we have build
ed q solid foundation for sturdy
and upright manhood. It all
sums up as a proper regulation
OF giving to our youths the be-
nefit Of our experience. # this
spirit is encouraged it viii be
turned into something that win
be useful to society and the
Race. The degree to which men
show themselves willing to sacri-
flee the time and money neces-
sary for these deliberations plan
ned for the welfare of youth win
show rather definitely their in
terest IN the future Of their chill
dren. II there is any interest,
it certainly should be shown now
Every man who thinks az all and
who has the time should attend
the Fathers and Sons banquet
next Friday night.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-12-07
GETS ARRESTED
FOR AGITATING

PINE BLUFF, Ark.-A. Brow
mel, who came here from Chi
cago, found out that it is not
safe to advise Negroes in this
section of the country ito de-
mand their rights" here Friday
when he was arrested on the
charge of "agitating Negroes a.
gainst the whites"
Brownel, who claims he is a
Moorish-American, is alleged to
have told colored citizens here
that they were not Negroes but
American citizens and as such
should demand their full rights
as accorded them by the Consti-
tuition. When arrested, officers
claim they found cards of re-
ligious cult on him and herbs
which led them to believe that
he was a peddler of herbs.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-12-07

Daily News, was published with
catchy headlines: 'EIr. Carroll is
Brunswick's Guest Today" and
at the end, the reporter said,
Although Mr.. Carroll is white,
he is very much interested in the
Negro schools; he is one of the
most prominent educatros in A
merica and is at the Northern
winter tourists golf club here"
X. X. X. Starts Search
That afternoon, the newspa-
pers had Just been mailed; Mr..
Carroll was discovered to be a
Negro, with black skin. Then
a sneaky search was made for
him by what is thought to be
the members of the Georgia K.
K. K, but Mr.. Carroll had gone.
The newspaper reporter later
found out that the same man
that he had talked with in the
Post Office and had addressed
in the usual southern title, when
speaking to Georgians of color,
as 'Parson." was the Boston Vi
sitor himself.
The SOS" call went out ali
over the city, but inquiry led to
the final information that Mr..
Carroll had departed from the
city in a Ford car towards JAG
ksonville, but he went from
Brunswick to Savannah where
he had an engagement to de-
liver an address at the Georgia
State Industrial College, in his
plea for kindness to animals"
The American Humane Edu.
cation Society with national
headquarters at Back Bay Sta
ton, Boston, has In its service,
a number of race workers. Mr..
Carroll q former American Red
Cross war worker, is the FIELD
Executive for several southern
states; DR.. Francis H. Rowley of
Boston is the president of the
National Society.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-12-07
ALABAMA JURY
SAYS COLORED
BOYS MUST DIE

DECATUR, Ala.-In a court
presided over by judge self ac-
knowledged leader of the Klu
Klux Khan, in a town seething
with hatred for black people; in
trials limited to three days each,
Haywood Patterson and Clarence
Norris, two of the nine colored
boy defendants in the now ia
nous Scottsboro case were con-
victed by two Morgan County
all white juries and given the
death penalty. Patte.son, first
to be tried, was convicted last
Friday after a trial las'ing three
days. Norris was convicted to-
day wednesday, after a trial
lasting only two days. Both of
the boys heard their fate I'M
moved. AS a matter of fact,
Norris smiled and was asked by
Judge w. w. Callahan what
are you laughing at?" Norris re-
piled nothing"
Both trials were marked by
amazing decisions from the
bench Judge Callahan's anita
gonism against the defendants
and their attorneys was so pro-
that he openly berated
the defense attorneys when they
sought to cross question witness
ses for the prosecution. Orville
Gilley, who said he was hobo
poet" and Victoria Price, who
she was prostitute,
were the principal witnesses for
the state. The Price woman T.
Identified both Patterson and
Norris as two of her attackers.
She testified that seven of the
boys assaulted her and that Pat
terson and Norris wele two of
them. The other white woman
in the case, Ruby Bates, who in
the second trial of Patterson re-
pudiated her first testimony and
(HOntfpnad IN DoOo FrhranA
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-12-07
N. Carolina Leads
In Colored Schools

RALEIGH, N. C. = Thirteen
standard high schools, on the
basis of last years work, were
added to the accredited list for
Negroes, making the total num-
Der of high schools in the state
for Negroes 100. North Carolina
is the only southern state where
Negroes are admissible in 100
high schools. There are 696 high
schools for whites. The white
population of North Carolina in
1880 was 1884 ,948 and the Ne
gro 918,647. Negroes constitute
90 percent of the population and
have IL per cent of the high
schools.
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Builds Business Worth
$4,000 In Five Years

NUTLEY. N. J.-SJarting only
five years ago with $50 In cash
and 5000 borrowed, Charles R.
Tenbrook has built up now a
garage business on a space of SO
by 100 feet housing over so cars
with approximately $4,000 year
ly business.
His house, garage and repair
business amount to over $4,000
with his wife, Mrs. lola Ten
brook as his partner. The Ten
brook Garage is one of the larg-
est in this city.
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Fake Bishops

THE PRETENTIONS Of GER
tain ubiquitous individuals who
style themselves leaders Of the
Negro race and the antics they
cut up frequently before an un-
inspecting public are enough to
rake horse laugh. Not infre-
,Iuently we take up the daily pa
p>rs to find that Bishop" Blank
or Doctor" So and So Is in the
city with a new nostrurn for the
immediate cure Of all of the ra-
cial ills with which our people
are afflicted.
Now the Negro race can boast
Of only a few bishops regularly
trained and ordained and select
ed by the churches which have
thoroughly tested them out. and
usually they are modest in their
claims and seek to lead our peo-
pie by constructive services ra-
Their than by parading their tit
les to impress the public with
their Importance.
WHEN SOME COIoRED men
desire cheap notoriety they are
stricken with a "call to preach, :"
and in a short while they gather
around them few dupes and
adherents and name themselves
bishops With this dignified
sobriquet they sally forth and
the next thing we know they
break into print with a few pi-
Gus platituSes which every school
boy must know before he is pro-
NOTED to the fourth grade in our
elementary schools. This gentry
is usually incapable Of writing
or speaking a half dozen sem
fences correctly. they employ q
high school boy to get them off
something and then they go
prancing up and down the street
with pocket full Of visiting or
business cards on which is writ
ten the word Bishop" or DOC
tor" or some other high-sound-
ing title. Indeed these false tit
les have become so common a.
mong our people that the men
who really are entitled to them
are ashamed to use them and
prefer to use their simple names
and let their work speak for
them.
These self-styled bishops and
doctors Of divinity are pests
unbridled and unblushing.
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Given life Terms
For Robbing Negro

MIAMI. Convicted of rob-
bing colored man, Edward E.
Walker, of $3.50, w. J. Quillian,
20, and J. E. Oliver. 80, both
white, were sentenced to life inn
prisonment by Judge E. c. Col
Inns in Criminal court here last
week. A third member of the
bandit trio, A. v. Burchfield, 81,
turned states evidence.