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Evening star., 1934-01-31

O. When will the Bach Festival in
Bethlehem. Pa. be held this year?-E. S.
A. It. will be held on May IL and
H. Bruce Carey will conduct. The
Bach choir is composed of 275 voices.
Evening star., 1934-01-31

@. What is the name Of the pro-
fesSor who is making a study of various
dialects in the United States?-L M
A. DR.. Guy S. LoWman Of Brown
University has been investigating
speech differences preparatory 10 max
ing an Atlas Of American Dialects"
Evening star., 1934-01-31

O When was Helen Keller's teacher.
Mrs. Macy, given a doctors degree?-
B. r.
A Miss Keller and Mrs Macy were
invited by Temple University to receive
the degree Of doctor of humane letters
in 1881. Miss Keller accepted. but Mrs
Macy refused. SAYING that she did not
Evening star., 1934-01-31

O. How many buffalo are there in
Yellowstone National Park?-G. NJ.
A. There are about 900. An area,
easily accessible to tourists. will be
fenced for occupation by about 100 of
the herd
Evening star., 1934-01-31

O. In what book is there RueGles
family?-S A. r.
A. In Kate Douglas Wiggin's Birds
Christmas Carol" the Ruggles are the
family whose children are invited To
the Christmas party at the Birds
Evening star., 1934-01-31

Otis T. Wingo. jr. son and heir OF
the late Representative from Arkansas,
whose name he bears. Is making ar
rangements for a National Institution
Evening star., 1934-01-31

@. How large Is the fruit from which
vegetable ivory is made?-W B NJ.
A. Vegetable ivory is derived from the
nut of a palmlike shrub. whose fruit
reaches the size of an apple. This fruit
has very white, exceedingly hard kerr
mel which can be worked like ivory and
which resembles it closely.
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Leibowitz Back From Europe,
'Scottsboro Boys Shall Not Die

on its scabbard (and I've just seen
it in every country I've visited)-
at a time like this, the Supreme
Court justices must realize that in
deciding upon those boys, they are
deciding whether we will emulate
the disgraceful actions of others.
1--WE been out of contact with
everything for almost two months.
But the immediate status doesn't
matter so much. Whether or not
the boys had a fair trial, whether
the defense filed it's briefs too ear
ly or too late, whether or not pre-
judice was introduced at the hear
ings-these things are but side is
sues. The fundamental fact is that
Negroes, as American citizens,
were denied their rights guaran-
teed under the constitution when
they were not allowed to sit on
that Alabama jury--and that is
the bulwark upon which rests the
fate of nine boys, the Negro in this
country and the future of the coun-
try itself. And because of this, I
tell you:
'They won't die
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National Negro Medical Assn.
DenOunces Anti Fat Drugs

tients, presenting themselves to the
surgeons for care in the late stages
of disorder
DIR. Frederick told of two oper-
atoms in which he removed foreign
bodies from the abdomen of pa
tients, in one case the body was a
ball of gauze one yard and two
inches long when opened.
Dr. Giles is Prize Winner
For the most outstanding a.
chievement of the year, DR.. Ros-
coe e. Giles. Chicago surgeon, was
awarded the first prize. which was
donated by DR. Grille Of the Cleve-
land clinic. A graduate of the Cor
nell Medical School and a Rosen-
wald fellow to Vienna in 1930-31,
DIR. Giles presented q report of his
Continued from Page One)
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NEW YORK CITY CNS) =
Samuel S. Leibowitz, defense law
yer in the famous Scottsboro case,
arrived from ten weeks vacation
in Europe this week. When seen
in his lower Broadway office, three
hours after he landed, he exclaim-
ed, They shall not die!" meaning,
Of course, the Scottsboro boys.
Commenting further, Mr.. Leibo-
witt said:
but the United States Supreme
Court isn't in our position. Those
judges realize that this case is SO
much more than the fate of nine
innocent black boys, SO much more
than the fate of the Negro in the
South--it is. indeed, a case which
involves the fate of America itself,
of our ideals, our whole judicial
system, our future, our ability to
continue as a nation.
"At a time like this, when the
forces of prejudice and hatred are
sweeping the whole world, when
every nation is staring belligerent-
ly at its neighbors with its hand
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Rough limitations

A TOY electric chair in the hand
Of Elks in Camden, N. j., and New
York City, caused the death of one
initiate and the severe shock Of
another.
There viii be the usual cutlery
against this type Of horse play and
agitation to substitute some less
strenuous form of initiation.
Secret orders have long had such
rough and tumble ceremonies and
no change need be looked for in o
hurry.
Elks, however, need to chuck out
some of their inexpert medical adj
visers and get new ones. Candi-
dates whose hearts cannot stand
an electric chair or d jump off a
ten-foot ladder into piece Of can
vas might not be accepted. A man
with weak heart ought not to be
an Elk, any more than one who
can't keep his mouth shut after Ia
king an oath not to reveal the Sc
crets Of the order
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NASHVILLE, Tenn Fat wo-
men were warned to get thin with
out the use of drugs by DR.. Chas.
Hunter, x-ray expert of Kansas
City's municipal hospital, at the
fortieth annual session of the Ma
tionaI Medical Association last
week
DR.. Hunter told of the high rate
of the disease, granulistic angina,
among married women caused by
use Of reducing drugs containing
dinitrophenol.
DR.. Rivers Frederick, surgeon
in-chief Of Flint Goodridge Hospi-
tai, New Orleans, stressed the inn
portance Of early operations in
the cases Of intestinal obstruction.
He stated that the high mortality
in these cases is due to the pa
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-09-13
BAR ASSN ASKS
ROOSEVELT FOR
FEDERAL JUDGE

BALTIMORE, Mr.-The Nation
al Bar Association in session here,
last week, urged colored lawyers
everywhere to use every appropri-
ate legal action to prevent segre-
cation of Negro children in public
schools.
A resolution was sent to Presi-
dent Roosevelt pointing out the
need of a Negro Federal Judge and
requesting that colored lawyer
of ability be appointed.
The Bar Association sent 500
to the Joint Committee on Nation
al Recovery and adopted a resolu-
ton endorsing the committee and
pledging further contributions. The
Joint Committee is, according to
Continued on Page Two)
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ELKS USED WRONG
] SIDE OF PADDLE TO
INITIATE MEMBER

ST. PAUL, Minn.-Damages of
$1,000 were requested in a suit fill
ed last week against Gopher Elks'
Lodge by C. H. Tendle, a Pullman
porter. as the result of an intiia-
ton, in March.
A part of the ceremony consist
ed of the application of paddle.
On one side of the paddle was an
explosive, expected to function
when the other side of the instru-
ment established contact.
However, the Gopher paddleman
got his sides mixed, and instead of
applying the plain side, laid on the
explosive. AS a result, Tendle
claims he suffered severe wound,
burns, permanent Disagreement,
and is unable to work.
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making double drive toward the
achievement Of two definite goals.
One is the protection of society.
The other is the rehabilitation Of
the prostitute.
Would Spare Family
Judge O'Dwyer further stated
ITO brand a woman as a prosti-
tute is terrible thing. It is worse
than calling her any other kind of
criminal; a disgrace which may
haunt her children. If she ever has
any; which win be current source
of shame to her brothers and sis
tiers.
II don't want to do that to the
little girl who's never had a chance
or even to the more experienced
girl who gives any indication that
she can be reached and set back on
the right path.
Like every other judge who
ever sat IN women's court I got
tired of being beaten to it by a
pimp; Of discharging woman for
lack of evidence, or because was
sympathetic, and seeing the pimp
on the other side of the rail fall
into line beside her as she leaves
the courtroom. take her arm before
she is out Of the door"
Representatives of the different
groups in the Women's Court AL
liance--the Protestant, Jewish, and
Catholic Big Sisters, the Urban
League and Crispus Attacks Com
munity Council on hand every
day in the Wonen's Court.
Each woman whom the judge
discharges is turned over at his
discretion, to the protection and
guardianship of socially-minded
women Of her religion.
Miss Bertha Clark of the Prot
estant Big Sisters said: Il blame
the women of Brooklyn for the
fact that such places as the jungle
exist. But some of rs are awake
at last, resolved that the Jungle
shall be destroyed, root and evil"
Continued Next Week.
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DIXIE CANDIDATE
IF ELECTED WILL
LEAN ON GOD"

CHARLOTTE, n. C.-In Dixie
drawl which many people think is
characteristic only of colored peo-
pie, Olin Johnson, white, Democrat,
promised to lean on God" if South
Carolina elects him governor in
the coming run-off primary.
IN the first election, he led his
opponents. polling 100000 votes.
His rival in the run-off is Cole
Biease, white, former u. S. Sena-
tor and enemy of colored people.
Johnson spoke over WHIT, local
super-power station, on Tuesday
night. He promised, If elected, to
Keep criminals in jail and give the
state a nine-month school term.
Comment on Johnson's address
was audible here Tuesday It is
understood that he means to lean
on a white god, if elected, one CT
tizen declared, and that he mears
to give a fair administration and
q nine month school term for the
whites only.
Colored children have less than
six months schooling in South
Carolina, and teachers are paid sa-
laries in most cases fifty per cent
Of those paid whites.
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lThls Is the sixth Of a series Of
articles concerning vice dens in
New York city,.
BROOKLYN, N. Y. Especially
One cannot deny the fact that
conditions of prostitution exist in
various other parts of the city, but
the girls IN these places are those
who are just starting in the racket.
When these girls can no longer
remain in these class houses
they are turned out and their
places are taken by imported girls.
Then they must resort to the
jungle In the filthy tumbledown
ancient shacks of the Jungle, girls
are on sale day and night, for as
little as fifty cents.
Once the dark shadows the
clinging growths. the poisonous at
mosphere of this vicious district
have swallowed up a girl, she can
hardly ever escape alone.
Moreover, in an appalling num-
Der of cases the girl has become
physically diseased ninety per-
cent of the women arrested, con-
victed and examined from this dis
trict are found to be suffering
from venereal infection.
Prostitution win continue as long
as mankind exists, but it is the
wholesale vice that these groups
are trying to stamp out, in an eff
fort to check these DISEASES, which
this type Of woman spreads, not
only to the men who are the GUS
toners. but through these men into
the homes Of innocent women.
She's guilty. but damn it. 1
want to give the girl a chance, {"
said Judge Wiliiam O'Dwyer, as
he sat in the women's court. re-
Gently. It is with such a smpa-
thetic attitude that the judges in
this court are trying to help these
girls back onto the right road.
With sympathy, but without
sentimentality, with charity sea-
soned by common sense, they are
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-09-13

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. (ANP)
u. Finley Wilson will rule Elk
dom fo~ two more years instead of
just another term as result Of a
parliamentary stroke engineered
in one of the sessions of the 35th
annual convention of the Grand
Lodge IB.P.O.E.W.
Wilson sprung his coupe d'etat
Tuesday morning just after he had
read a part of his annual message.
DR.. William j. Thompkins inter
rupted him as the other delegates
looked on in surprise and gained
the floor
Moves That Rules Be Stricken
81 move that the rules be strick-
en-" DR.. Thompkins stated swiftly,
land ]. Finley Wilson be elected
grand exalted ruler for the ensu-
ing year,"
DIR. Thompkins' motion in favor
of the ruling power, caught the OPP
position headed by John Marques
of Philadelphia, unprepared and
threw CONSERVATION into their
ranks.
Overriding the objections, T..
ellis Nutter, presiding officer, de-
clared the motion in order and the
vote was taken which resulted in
an overwhelming vote for Wilson.
Not expecting an election until the
following day, several score dele
gates opposed to Wilson were alb
sent from the session.
Promise of an attack on the con-
stitutionality of the move was
made by the Marques contingent
who contend that the exalted ruler
had already been elected in Indian
apolis for two years and that his
name could not come up at this
session for election.
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MINUTES SHOW GRAND
LODGE SPENT $lO,O17
MORE THAN TAKEN In
EXALTED
RULER EXPENSE
TOTALS S6,562

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. = The
grand lodge of the Improved Bene-
VIOLENT and Protective Order of
Elks of the World went $1O,SO7
in the red, during the year ending
July 81, 1888, according to the
minutes of the thirty-fourth an
nual grand lodge session, released
at the convention here last week.
Receipts from all sources for
that period totaled $38.825. The
disbursements were $49,632. A
balance of SIS, 498 was left on hand
to the credit of all funds as of Ju-
ly 81, 1888. The cash balance
year previous was SGT ,304.
The receipts for the period were
reported as follows:
General fund, S26,433; educa-
tional fund, Stab; Official organ
fund, S4,625; Junior Elks fund,
$266; Shrine fund, 81; total, $685.
825.
The following disbursements
from the several funds were re-
ported:
General fund, $32,17S; educa-
tional fund, 1854; official organ
fund, $3.50; Junior Eiks fund,
1910; total, $49,632.
Elk lodges paid taxes totaling
$2O,0S0 into the general fund. 9th
er items credited to the general
fund were 1871 from the sale of
supplies, 81, 2s8 from fees for new
and reinstated lodges, $1,000 from
the grand lodge entertainment
committee, $2,853 from taxes from
affiliated temples of Daughter
Elks, $295 from taxes from past
exalted rulers councils, SIS from
fees for organization of civil nber-
ty leagues, $31 from the closed
Mechanics Bank of Richmond, Va.
The educational fund received
$6,173 from taxes paid by lodges.
$137 from contributions from tenn
pies and lodges, $3.50 from admis-
sion fees for the oratorical contest,
1881 interest IN bonds, 1887 from
the grand temple.
Officers Paid $13,933
Disbursement from the general
fund included the following:
Salaries of officers: $13,933;
Continued on Page Two
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Additional Burdens

ONE CANNOT live a more or
less artificial life, pep up continu
ally and excessively on tea, tobac-
co, coffee and alcohol, habitualIy
deprive the body Of good, whole
some exercise, over-eat or under
eat the right or wrong things, re-
duce the sleep quota to the point
Of exhaustion, and expect the old
heart to go merrily on in spite Of
it.
Man cannot do his best work If
his health is poor. Illness is a
drain on the family treasury It
costs money to become sick. Jobs
are lost because of a poor physical
condition.
colored people are handicapped
by their color from the day they
are born until the funeral process
sion moves to the cemetery They
should not impose the additional
burden Of illness upon themselves
through riotous living.
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Why Don't You
Practice What
You Preach?

You're always telling me
What ought to do,
You tell me that it's wrong
To look at someone new
You're telling me,
Well, I'm telling you,
Why don't you practice what you
preach.
You're always telling me to wait
until you call,
! wait and wait, then you
Don't call at all
You're calling me, well I'm calling
you
Why don't you practice what you
preach.
lou tell me I'm your sugar pie
You swear you never tell lie
You even say you hope to die,
How come you say it with your
fingers crossed.
You're always asking me
TO name that certain day
Then you change the subject
And then you think it's okay
You're asking noe, we'll Inn asking
you, DIVERSITY OF WASH
WHY don't you practice what you
preach. -Hs Tx
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How To Get Government Loan
To Modernize Your Home

loan association if the renovation
of his home will amount to a sum
greater than customarily lent by
the bank on personal note. The
loan association will require q loan
be secured by a first mortgage
on the property.
4. No government agency win
make these loans. Institutions ell
igible to make such loans include:
Commercial, savings, and indust-
rial banks, trust companies, fin
ance companies, mortgage compa-
MES, building & loan associations,
productive credit associations or
gained under the Farm Credit Act
of 1888, and others.
5. The federal home renovation
and modernization program is not
relief measure and is administ-
cred by the federal housing admin
istration with an administrator at
it's head.
6. Dwellings for not more Tran
four families, used in whole or
part for residential purposes are
eligible for mutual mortgage insur-
ance.
Z. In order to be eligible under
the insurance plan an institutions
rate of interest on outstanding ball
ances may not exceed 5 per cent a
year. Stated in another way, the
total charge may not exceed an a.
mount equivalent to SIS discount
per year per 500, original face a.
mount of the note.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-09-13

HEN. HENRY ALLEN 6OHD
MUSKOGEE II Delegates from
nearly every state in the union are
attending the fifty-fourth annual
session of the National Baptist
Convention, OF which the Rev. G.
/. Prince is president, at is open
ing on Wednesday.
Among fifteen items to be sub
mitted by the president for action
are: definite expressions on Flor
ida Baptist College, Guslalope Col
lege, the Lynchberg Theological
Seminary, and acquisition of a
quarter-section of land in New
Mexico for the National Old Folks
Home and Orphanage.
Meeting jointly with the parent
body was a Women's Auxiliary of
which Mrs. M. A. B. Fuller, of
Austin, is president, and Mrs. E.
B. White, of Baltimore, is cores
ponding secretary.
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Harlem CHECKS
UP IN BATTLE
FOR MORE JOBS

NEW YORK CITY - Harlem
women who refuse to have colored
salesgirls wait on them and house
wives who insist on spending their
dollars where they cannot work
were called dumb" and fast as
leep," Sunday afternoon, at mass
meeting in which the African Pa
triotic League took stock of it's
two-year-old battle to put colored
salespeople in stores on 125th st.
Last week, Koch's department
store reopened with 81 colored en-
ployees, one-third of its entire
staff.
Eric Miller, assistant to a mana
ger Of the Koch store, told how
some Harlemites had come into
the store since it had been reopen
ed, passed or actually refused to
be waited upon by girls of color.
I'VE must get rid of that type of
woman" he declared. They are a
disgrace to the race and a hin
drance to the fight that is being
made"
Housewives Criticized
The speaker also lambasted the
1000 local housewives who did bu-
siness in Blumsteins over h e
weekend, despite the persistent
picketing carried on in front of the
store. One of the picketers was
the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
of the Abyssinian Baptist Church.
Continued on Page Two
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla CAMP
The fifty-fourth annual session
of the National Baptist Convention
of America got underway here on
Wednesday, following a pre-con-
vention program held in the Coli
scum Tuesday night.
The program, under the direc-
ton Of Mime. B. B. Bell, chorister,
presented nearly every form Of
music, under the title, "The Negro
in Song" showing the spiritual
and moral growth of the race.
Presiding at the Wednesday ses-
sion was Dr.. L. K. Williams, pre-
sident of the body and pastor of
Olivet Baptist Church, Chicago.
Nearly eight thousand delegates
from all parts of the United States
and representatives from Liberia,
Sekondi, Gold Coast Nigeria, Ny
saland, East Africa, Panama, Pu-
erto Rico and the Philippines are
in attendance.
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QUESTIONS

1. What is the National Housing
Act?
2. What is the purpose of the
Act?
g. How viii the home owner get
the money to modernize his home ?
4. viii a federal agency be set
up to lend government money for
the purpose?
5. How does this national hous-
ing program differ from the home
repair program of the Home Own
ers' Loan Corporation?
6. What kinds of property may
benefit under the Act?
Z. What win it cost the home
owner to modernize?
ANSWERS
1. The National Housing Act
was passed by the last congress
and signed by the President, June
q, 1884. It is a series of measures
affecting the whole field of home
Financing.
2. The central aim is to make
home financing possible at reason
able cost To stimulate such fin
ancing so that there viii be imme-
date activity within the construc-
ton industry. To make attractive
and permanently safe investment
for private capital.
8. The home owner goes to his
local bank for the loan, or he may
apply to a savings or building and
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Editor Quits Atlanta
World; Dislikes South

CHICAGO-(ANP) Frank Mar
shall Davis, managing editor of the
Atlanta Daily World since 1881,
announced last week that he had
resigned the position because he
disliked the Deep South and want
ed more time for creative writing.