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JEWS WILL HELP
BLACK BROTHERS
in ABYSSINIA

NEW Harlem has long
hoasted OF tribe of BLACK Jewn'
who claim common ancestry with
their white brother. Some years
ago, the local avenues were the
scenes Of numerous parades by the
sable sons of Solomon.
To-day American white Jews are
sponsoring a missionary movement
to Abyssinia to snatch their broth
ere in black from the grasping fin
gers of the Christian saviors.
Ia the Abyssinian capital, Adds
Ababa, school has been founded
to teach the dark youths the glor-
ious heritage of their race. Ameri-
can dollars underworld the pro-
ject. Evidently there is much
truth In the famous story Of King
solomon and the Queen OF sheba
The proposed archaeological expe-
dition to that far away land may
reveal startling information in the
days to come.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-07-26
NAACP ASKS ROOSEVELT
TOINSIST ONLYNCH BILL
WHEN CONGRESS MEETS
MICHAUX FLOCK
CONDUCT PENNY
CAFE in CAPITAL

WASHINGTON Elder Michaux
the famous radio evangelist and
apostle leader of the Church of
God here gives members Of his
enormous flock and the public at
large temporal as well as spiritual
food. He operates a penny" res
taurant at 1927 Seventh st. N. w.
where many items are sold at ore
penny each.
The restaurant does a tremen-
dous business having served in one
mo1th as many as $4,000 persons.
Bread and butter costs a penny, a
cup of coffee or a piece of pie may
be had for l cent. Some items
cost more but satisfying, whole
some and varied meal may be pur-
chased for from 10 to 10 cents.
Originally the restaurant, which
is known as Happy News Res
taurant," was operated by Bernarr
McFadden, Of New York, famous
exponent of physical culture and
publisher Of Liberty" and other
publications. Mr.. McFadden, who
is a philanthropist, established this
restaurant in the colored section
and another for whites at a diff
ferent location something over q
year ago.
Rev. Michaux and his flock took
it over on a six months trial per-
iod, Mr.. McFadden loaning the E.
quipnent valued at $4,000 intact,
Members of the Church Of God
cook and serve the food.
Some idea of the scope of the
venture may be gained by the fact
that they buy 100 pounds of bak-
ing powder a month and buy it of
Negro salesman.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-07-26

WASHINGTON - Speculation
as to who would fill the new posi-
ton Of research assistant in the d.
vision of colored labor, United
States Department Of Labor, quei-
led this week, with the announce
ment Of the appointment of John
Aubrey Davis.
Davis, who VII work directly
under Lieut.. Lawrence A. Cxley,
division chief, is q graduate Of
williams College. wiIliamstown.
Mass, and was elected to Phi Beta
Kappa in his junior year of col
lege. He received his masters de-
gree in political science from wis
consin University last June.
Founded Alliance
The appointee is given credit for
conceiving and founding the New
Negro Alliance, whose function IS
the gathering of statistics on the
participation of the colored people
in white business. and the achiev-
ing of Just economic returns by
the application of the principle Of
consumers power.
Davis collected statistics on three
A. and P. stores. showing the ex-
act amount spent by colored peo-
pie In each store, and the social
and economic condition Of the col
ored people who spent that money.
Following the gathering Of these
statistics, the New Negro Alliance
was able to force A & P officials
to employ colored clerks.
The Davis appointment is con-
sidered another step forward by
the Department Of Labor in the
development of a staff Of trained
colored workers to deal with the
industrial problems of the race.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-07-26
Battering Barriers Of Prejudice
Stirring Chapters From the 25-Year History
Of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People

life and 500 fines; one to three
months and one fined 500.
Following the Washington Riots,
46 colored and six white men were
arrested for carrying concealed
weapons. The local N.A.A.C.P.
defended the colored men. Nine
teen were placed on probation and
the others, with one exception,
were given very small sentences.
Mr.. Walter White investigated the
Tulsa riots and the association
raised $362O.17 relief fund for
the Negro victims.
After the Duluth, MINI, triple
lynching in 1920, the local Branch
raised $1,000 and hired Attorneys
Barnett of Chicago, Something's of
Bemidji, MINI. and McCulloch Of
st. Paul to defend the 1S Negroes
accused of the rape" for which
three Negroes had already been
lynched. Twelve of the accused
were freed. The Association I'M
successfully appealed the 3O-year
sentence given the other man.
Saved From Texas Justice"
Elmer Williams was arrested by
Ohio police in 1925 because he re-
sembled Negro wanted for muir
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snatched from the Jaws of Death
Again and again the N.A.A.C.P.
has snatched innocent colored peo-
pie from the jaws of death, secur-
ed reduction Of savage sentences
or won amazing acquittals.
It's Oklahoma City Branch in
1920 won freedom for young Ne
gro accused of numbering white
merchant after proving that the
merchant was killed by whites.
The New York Branch also won
acquittal for a 16-year-old boy
charged with homicide. The Pu-
eblo, Colo, Branch secured life irn-
prisonment instead of death for a
Negro convict who had killed a
brutal turnkey and it secured ac-
quittal for the Negroes wife, held
for completely.
The Association in 1919 pre-
vented Chicago police from rail-
reading to long prison terms the
Negro participants in the race ri
OTIS there. OF so colored men tried,
46 were freed. OF the IA convict
ed, 6 were fined from 81 to SIS,
one got so days; one nine months;
one 20 years, and four were given
life after unsuccessful appeals.
Two white men were sentenced to
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-07-26

EDITORIAL
CoIored Lawyers

THERE ARE approximately T.
100 colored lawyers N America.
Many Of them have given Of their
time ana money IN an effort to ae-
cure civic equality for their peo-
pie.
Like any other professional
group there are shystera among
eolored lawyers. But on the whole
they are an excellent class Of citi-
zens serving always the highest
and BEST Interests Of tie eommun-
ity in which they live.
Because Of the old-fashlened le-
gal ethics many Of their exploits
are unheralded and the general
public does not know Of them
Then. too. q large number Of col
ored people continue to believe in
the face Of contradictory evidence,
that colored lawyer can not rem
der them effective service.
The records show that the col
ored lawyer achieves as much and
ia many instances more for his
clients as those Of any other racial
group. It Is time that coIored peo-
pie abandon their old ideas con-
corning colored lawyers not being
able to win cases when the evil
dence shows Hey do.
Thousands Of colored people have
been gypped'' BY lawyers Of 9TH
er races. IN law. as Ia most other
things colored men and women are
honorable and give their best to
those VINO employ them.
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Passing

RUSSIANS are somewhat peev-
ed because well-known coIored
American Of distinguished paren-
tage Is passing" there as an Ar
alb.
You can be colored over there
and be the equal Of anybody else,
the Russians declare. 50 passing
as an Arab isn't nscessary.
Knowing the young man as we
do, perhaps we should advise Rus
sian authorities that his action is
no reflection upon Red Russia,
where all races are free and equal
The young American Is simply
practicing for q role he intends
playing when he returns to the U.
s. A.
He knows what Jaclxasses we are
on the color question over here,
and is preparing to outwit his tor
mentors.
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be presented on the screen, subject
only to necessary dramatic con-
trasts.
Law, natural or human, should
not be ridiculed, nor shall sympa-
thy be created for its violation.
The article then goes on to list
particular applications, under the
sex, vulgarity, obscenity, and other
''repellant subjects"
Under the heading of Sex" the
blowing general statement is
ma 1e, followed by particular APP
plic,ttions:
"1he sanctity of the institution
of marriage and the home shall be
upheld. Pictures shall not infer
that low forms of sex relationships
are the accepted or common thing.
IL. Adultry, sometimes necessa-
ry plot material, must not be ex-
plicitly treated or Justified, or pre-
scented attractively.
~. Scenes Of passion should not
be introduced when not essential
to The plot. In general, passion
should be so treated that these
scenes do not stimulate the lower
and baser element.
80. Seduction or Rape.
"(a) They should never be more
than suggested, and only when es-
sential to the plot, and even then
never shown by explicit method.
"(b) They are never the proper
subjects for comedy.
"A Sex perversion or any influ-
ence Of it is forbidden.
20. White slavery shall not be
treated.
IS. Miscegenation is forbidden.
~. Sex hygiene and veneral d.
seases are not subjects for motion
(Continued on Page Three)
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-07-26

NEW YORK - A nationwide
drive for $4,000 to take the
scottsboro cases to the United
States Supreme Court for the sec
ond time and to appeal the 1920
year chain gang sentence against
Angelo Herndon to the same court,
was initiated by the international
Labor Defense, last week.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-07-26
Minneapolis Man Is
Sentenced to Prison

CEICAGO-Marvin Shivers, for
mer Twin City business man was
sentenced to 1 to IA years in the
Illinois state penitentiary at Joliet
this week. Shivers plead guilty to
a charge of forging Chicago Ella
vator Lines passes. The misspell-
ed word transit" was the inaccur-
acy that trapped Shivers and the
men who hired him to print the
passes.
Shivers was well known in Min
neapolis as an Industrious young
man; was connected with three To-
cal weeklies in Minneapolis. For a
time he operated a printing plant
at 401 Washington Ave. So.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-07-26
Hot and Bothered

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH is
all hot and bothered because the
moving picture industry is not
clean" They claim that the pic
lures are demoralizing the youth
Of the nation. The Methodists and
Baptists have joined the Catholics
in urging a boycott on the pictures.
We wc=der why these Christians"
don't do as much to blot out lynch
ing. surely lynching is just as
demoralizing as Mae West shak-
ing her hips and inviting q bald
headed maRsto come up to see her
sometime.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-07-26
LYNCHING WAVE
SPURSFIGHTFOR
FEDERAL | A v


NEW YORK Calling upon Pre-
sident Roosevelt to make federal
anti-lynching legislation a mus"
item in the next Congress. de-
manding of Governor Sonnet Con-
ner of Mississippi that he prompt
ly punish the lynchers of James
Sanders of Bolton, Miss, on July
16, and scoring Senator Hubert D.
Stephens of Mississippi as having
''helped stimulate the lynching
spirit" by his "willful obstruction"
of the Costigan-Wagner anti-lyn-
ching bill. Walter White, secretary
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
Tuesday fired the opening gun in
a new crusade for a federal bill.
In an impassioned appeal to the
presidents of the Associations 400
branches, Mr.. White urged them
to join in a mighty nationwide eff
fort to raise sufficient funds to
wage more effective struggle for
the passage of the anti-lynching
bill by the new Congress. They are
asked during the summer to stage
entertainments, picnics, and bene-
fits so that an adequate war chest
may be on hand when Congress a.
gain convenes.
Reports from various sections
of the country, according to Mr..
White, reveal that colored people
are seriously aroused by the startl-
ing increase in lynchings since
June 8 when Congress adjourned
without passing the costigan-Wag
ner bill.
Lynchers Grow BoIder
The N.A.A.C.P. official declares
that eight of the ten lynchings so
far recorded this year, have taken
place since the adjournment of
Congress on June 8. The other
two occurred in January about the
time the Costigan-Wagner bill was
introduced. To date there Us been
one more lynching than was chalk
ed up for the same period last year
thus revealing renewed holiness
on the part of the lynchers. All of
this years lynchings have taken
place in the South.
In his telegram to the President,
Mr.. White declares that ''this fur
nishes irrefutable proof of the con-
tention of the supporters of fed
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-07-26
African Opposes Use
OF Word "CoIored''

CAPE TOWN, So. Africa. - A
reader of the Sun, local weekly,
expressed objection to the use of
the words "colored" and mon Eu-
ropeans," as racial designations
and suggested 'Maraydian" as a
substitute, in a recent letter to the
Sun editor.
I'VE are the only colored race
spoken and written of as colored, .
the writer stated, (which is insult
ing and misleading. At present we
don't know what we are"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-07-26
Poor Attendance At
Opera Forces Closing

NEW YORK-The presentation
of grand opera which started last
Tuesday evening with Jules Bled-
soc singing Emperor Jones" was
forced to close temporarily due to
poor attendance.
The sudden illness of the con-
ductor of the orchestra was an
other cause.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-07-26
2 Arrested in Virgin
Islands Fund Probe

ST. THOMAS, VI. tcNs)-Two
employees of the public works de-
partment have been arrested in
connection with District Attorney
Baer's investigation into the ex-
penditures of Federal funds in the
Virgin Islands.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-07-26
Art Classes To Open
For Harlem Children

NEW YORK Conducted under
the auspices of the League Of
Struggle for Negro Rights, and the
John Reed Club, classes in draw
ing, clay modelling, shop work and
dramatics together with excursions
and nature study, were opened to
children of Harlem this week.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-07-26
Negroes Top Murder
Record In Memphis

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (ANP)-For-
ty seven of the So homicides in
Memphis during the first six
months of the year have been Me-
groes, is the information contain
ed in a report given Commissioners
Davis last week by Capt. Frank
nilsson of the homicide bureau.
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Unitarians Back Bill

NEW YORK-The Unity Circle,
the women's organization of the
First Unitarian Church of Des
Moines, Iowa, has passed resolu-
ton endorsing the Costigan-Wag-
ner Anti-Lynching Bill.
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I PATTERN 1909

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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-09-20
That Needless Letter

Little Edith-Say, mamma, I want
to know something?
Mamma-What is it now, Edith?
Edith-When the first man started
to write the word psalm" with "p"
why didn't he scratch it out and start
over again?
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-09-20
S(iid5agk
UNHAPPY HOMES

would you marry a man for
money!"
"No," said Miss Cayenne. give
seen too many homes spoiled by hus-
bands who were perpetually worry
ing about their income tax"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-09-20
Close Tongue

Florist-Want to say it with flow
ers? About three dozen roses, say?
Cyril-How about ski don't want
to say too muchl
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1934-09-20
Open Wide. Now

Goodness Have you had another
tooth pulled"
"Yes. / have a regular drawing &C.
count at the dentists"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-23
BACK TO THE DELUGE

Having streamlined almost everything about the
house but the ash can the stylists may be able to
turn their attention to the development of some
new and even more startling change in the shape
of things. The average family man, driving home
from his work in his streamlned automobile, would
like to switch his thoughts into channels that are
not forever suggestive of the flowing lines OF some
otherwise prosaic commodity. -,
Perhaps he had hardly got out of his stream
lined bed in the morning before this nemesis of
the world of fashion again slapped him in the
face as a pair of streamlined sausages appeared
on his plate at the breakfast table. Looking about
him, he observed that the streamlined perambula-
tor was in its place and that the coed housewives
streamined couture had lost of its attractive
ness Headlines in the morning paper announced
that his next suit of clothes would adopt the grace
full lines of an ocean greyhound.
The new dining room furniture, which the sales
man had assured him was the last word in stream
lining, displayed its flowing contours to the best
of advantage and brought him so fully under the
streamline influence that he wondered whether he
had better use an overland stroke in leaving the
house or Just lie on his back and float out. Even
as he crossed the streamlined doormat, his UNI
brea resisted efforts to open it lest it might sac
ri6ce its ieaousy guarded streamline effects But
DESPITE all these evidences of nation gone mod
ern" he chuckled as he thought the idea went way
back to Noah who streamlined the animals into
the ark with full knee action.-Christian Science
Monitor
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-23
WHEN RADICALS MEET

One thing that the ordinary citizen finds
it almost impossible to understand is the
venonous bitterness which the different
radical sects hold toward one another.
The row between Socialists and Com
munists at that Austrian protest meeting
III New York the other night is case III
points s. s.: -
To most of us, probably, the difference
between a Socialist and a Communist is
not very great certainly it cannot be a
tenth as, great as the difference between
either party and an out-and-out capitalist.
But neither Socialist nor Communist
ever, aSsails the capitalist with half of the
sustained fury that he looses on his COM
rade-in-radicalisn.
A Socialist Communist row is the most
savage of all political scraps.
And it's all very hard to comprehend.
Qae yxou4a think the two factions at least
could present united front against the
established order.
g ButstAey can't. They never fight so well
as when they are fighting each other.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-23
IN THE PUBLIC TROUGH

Twenty-Five million Americans are drawing
money from the Federal treasury, or, one out Of
every SIX of the population of the country men,
women and children.
Fifteen million of them are direct benefciaries,
roc, 600 farmers, 1,O61,OOO veterans and
10, 600, 900 relief cases.
You think of the immensely of this matter from
the money angle. That's. serious factor - ..
But far more involving phase of the situation
is the social side.
What is happening to the inside PHILOSOPHERS OF
this army of American citizens who are eating at
the Federal table? ..' Ct. o..
The big question is now not so much what it is
costing or how much longer all of this business
will go on, but what sort of citizens will be left
to emerge out of this enforced prostitution of the
principles of overnment-Charlotte Observer
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-23

the State of South Carolina, which is merely the
people of South Carolina are under any obligation
to afford them company in misery by pouring their
not plentiful millions into another such scheme.
If Lake Murray is a failure economically, and
cannot pay its way how can the Santee scheme
be expected to do so, when it would still more
over-supply current?
With the progress that steam engineering has
made in recent years, it is serious question
whether any hydro-electric plant can compete sue
cessfully with steam generation electric power
plant unless the natural advantages of fall, cheap
ness of damming, etc., are exceptionally favorable
-Newberry IS. c. Observer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-23
NEWSPAPERS OPINION
sTHEq sAETEE POWER AND NAVIGATION
= SCHEME

gThat the vast power and navigation scheme Of
damming the Santee and diverting its waters into
TIE Cooper and thus connecting Columbia and
the City by the Sea almost like Chicago and Mil
wAukee are connecting by a great natural wateT-
way would be most excellent thing if it had just
S&n found that way in nature, we readily believe.
But how to get nature transformed from what
sAs is to- what we would like to see here, is an
otter question. The proposal to have the State Of
Sslth Carolina back such scheme with its credit
isspreposterous. The state is already dangerously
bRdenedswith debt If the Santee scheme prom
issd to be sel-supportng, the billions Of dollars
Otcapital in this country constantly hankefhg aft
eRproftable means of investment would rush into
tn opportunity. -
Some years ago body of northern capitalists
tBught they saw such opportunity on the Sa.
luda river They poured what IS popularity sup
posed to be about $4,000, 900 into their dream
and their profits are still a dream and promise
long to be. We deeply regret that these forward
looking gentlemen hate not realized their profits
on their huge adventure. But we do not feel tina
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-23
TAKE YOUR CHOICE

Critics of the policy of the Administration as
invoked in what is known as the CWA are usually
right-superfcially.
They are not always fair however, because their
judgments are just that-superfcial.
They hold that the Federal government IS not
justified in putting people to work on relatively
useless projects and dumping many millions to
them in wages.
On the face of it, they seem to be correct.
But which do they prefer-that or federal
agent going around with these same millions in
basket and dishing them out to the needy and
destitute without requiring them at least to go
through the formality of earning. these benefac-
tons.
That's the issue-and the choice is unacceptable.
It's one or the other-Charlotte Observer.