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Economic Prejudice Against
Negro Shown in Relief Figures

WASHINGTON CAMP = That
the Negro may be deprived of a
rightful job, but he must be fed,
clothed and sheltered, by the same
taxpayers who withhold employ
ment, is one of the truths to be
CLEANED from the Unemployment
Relief Census as of October, 1888,
just issued by the Federal Elmer
gency Relief Administration.
To the stranger who goes into
the factories, rides the street cars,
surveys the ranks of union labor,
and the white-collar ranks, and
asks: Where is the Negro?" How
does he get his bread and meat ?"
the federal figures give loud an
sWer.
These figures show that he is be-
ing given free board, lodging and
clothing to greater extent than
any other group of United States
citizens. They show that the same
interests whose prejudices would
block free and equal economic OPP
portunity for the Negro worker,
yields complacently to program
which fastens upon the Negro a
status as a word and what they
are read, to yield in aims to him
what they viii not pay in wages.
Heavy Load in North
The proportions of all persons in
continental United States on relief
is 1913. But in only few states
containing as many as 100000 Ne
groes does the percentage fall be-
low the United States average. In
the great states of the North where
the Negro came seeking the pro-
missed industrial opportunity, he
constitutes the heavy load.
OF 431, psf Negroes in Pennsyl-
vania, 151, 726 or 1872 per cent are
receiving relief, one in every three.
In New York, 1O4, 1886, or 25.s per
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ALA. SUPREME COURT
REFUSES REHEARING OF
CASE OFCOLOREDL LADS
ABEY MONGO

Far away in Belgium Congo
Reads the chieftain Abey Mongo
Papers from America:
Zone is hung" the headlines say,
Infant kidnapped yesterday
Daring gangster murders four, "
western mob hangs two more"
On and on, King ABBEY reads,
Horrible crimes, CHASTITY deeds;
All the doings of a nation
That's endowed with education.
Somehow he can't understand
Such things in a cultured land;
Neither can he comprehend
Why these people yearly send
Missionaries with advice
About the way to Paradise.
While the king doth sit and wonder
Why these dare to let men plumber
others homes, to steal and slay,
To him speaks his servant, Bey;
20 King, give ear unto my speech
Perhaps they forget what they
teach;
Now since they did SO kindly tell
Us how to dodge the pits Of Hell
To tell them they, too, should re-
pent."
"Thy word is wise," the king re-
plies.
"Call out my men and ere sunrise
Send them throughout all the land:
Have them tell that I command
That every man of Cody look
Shall take himself a holy book
And come at once unto my port.
Across the sea thew win be sent
TO help my hayward friends re-
pent."
Thus DEGREES King Abbey Mongo,
Far away in Belgium Congo.
(By Enterprise reader, Flint,
Mich.)
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Couple Denied Relief
Unless Home Is Sold

EXMORE, Va. II Because they
own the home in which they live,
a family of three persons here, al
though facing starvation, have
been der.ed emergency relief, it is
reporsed.
The husband, Sc, his wife, So,
and granddaughter, 10, after ina
bility to secure employment, osught
q food order, but were advised by
a visiting relief worker that they
were ineligible because they owned
their home. They were advised to
sell the home or to borrow upon it.
According to the policy Of the
Federal Emergency Relief Admin
istration, ownership of property is
no bar to relief and it is likely the
case here will be investigated.
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ELDER M|CHAUK
HAPPY AM |" IN
MOVING PICTURE

WASHINGTON Happy Am /"
a moving picture starring Elder
Solomon Lightfoot Micheaux, ra-
do evangelist. went under produc-
ton here In the American League
Park Sunday with the first shoot
ing of scenes for the novel flicker.
The picture, which is an adap-
ton of the Happy Am I" preach
er's original story based on his
theme song, will require about two
weeks to film and is scheduled to
make its premier at the Washing
ton auditorium.
According to the script, Happy
Am r. opens with the Devil COM
ing to Washington over the B. & O..
railroad. Accompanied by the
limp" representing Depression"
the two start trouble at the station
by humping into a man who in
turn strikes another and so on un-
til there is free-for-all fight. In
the meantime the Devil and the
Imp disappear.
Further originality of Elder Mi
chaux's latest publicity venture is
the appearance of the Devil and
Imp at the Capitol, where they
have gone to see the 'Kingfish. T"
After visiting various federal de-
partments the pair wind up at the
American League ball park where
instead of seeing ball game the
Devil runs into one of the radio
evangelist's stirring services. The
choir chases the Devil and Imp
from the park to the Church of
God ION the banks of the Potion
&C." The choir and members fin
ally drive the Devil and Imp out
of the city.
The National Educational Film
Company is making the picture
which is expected to have wide APP
peal to the thousands of radio lis
tensrs of Elder Michaux's CHS fea-
ture.
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cent, are on the dole. Illinois has
115,8O3 or 1872 per cent, and Ohio,
with 117,49s, or SO per cent of the
BOG, 3O4 Negroes in the state re-
ceiying relief, leads the role of the
states
Southern States
The percentages for southern
states are not as high as for those
northern states, except in Florida
where it is 1866 per cent, but in
many Of the states in the South,
relief is a sort of choice welfare
provision which is reserved for the
whites. The whites are put on re-
lief and the Negroes are told to
pick cotton, regardless of their
work experience.
Thus in Mississippi, although.
Their are 1,O09,718 Negroes TO
996,S56 whites in the state, there
are $3.50 whites on relief to o.
375 Negroes, figures which indi-
cate how the whites go on relief
and the Negroes do their dirty
work. for them.
Visitors to such cities as Pitts
burgh and Cleveland would scarce
ly suspect that almost one out of
every two Negroes met in the
streets is being taken care of by
public funds, but such is the case.
1t is in the cities with large Me-
gro population that the percentage
on relief is highest. Pittsburgh
leads all others with 43.4 per cent.
Cleveland is a close second with
$1,000 out of 72,O0O or AZ per cent
receiving help. Other cities high
on the list are New Orleans, 37.9
per cent; Philadelphia ,S44; Chica-
go, 34.4; st. Louis, 34.3; and Bal
timore, Birmingham. Detroit, At
lanta, Washington, and Houston,
with percentages between twenty
and thirty.
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DECEMBER I SET
FOR EXECUTION
Of TWO VICTIMS

MONTGOMERY, Ala.-The Ala
bama Supreme Court Monday ov-
erruled application for the rehear-
ing of the case OF Haywood Patter-
son and Charles Norris, two of the
Scottsboro boys condemned to die.
The date of execution was set for
December Z.
Unless the decision of the Alaba-
ma court is set aside by the Unit
ed State Supreme Court, these two
youths, whose trial has become in
ternationally famous, must pay the
supreme penalty, for a crime it is
believed they did not commit.
The boys are two of nine who
were originally charged with at
lacking Victoria Price and Ruby
Bates on a freight train on which
all were hoboing in northern Ala
bama, March %, 1881. The Bates
girl testified at the last trial in
Decatur, Alabama, that the case
was frame-up. Leslie Carter.
white, who was also one Of the
young hoboes, corroborated the tes-
timony of Ruby Bates. Victoria
Price stuck to her original story
Of the attack and was the star wit
ness for the prosecution at the
world-famous trial.
Last Sunday afternoon, IN Nash
vile, Tenn, Dan Swift, New York
lawyer, and Sol Kone, were ar
rested and held in connection with
alleged bribery in the Scottsboro
case. The bribery charge suppos-
ed to have centured about the
Price girl.
Whether or not this had any in
fluence on the decision Of the Ala
bama court Monday could not be
ascertained. However, it has al
ways been the general opinion that
the fight to save the lives of the
condemned youths would again
have to be taken to the highest
court in the nation.
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Marshall Typical Texas Town
Where Negro Must Keep Place

(5y Roger s. McManus for A.
merican Negro Press).
Marshall, Texas, is a typical
small town (around 10000 Of the
bible Belt in this pagan South
land It Is the county seat Of Har-
rison County. The population Of
the county is q little more than
10000. about sixty per cent OF
which are colored
The county courthouse is an Inn
posing semi-Romanesque building
and occupies the center of the town
the Square" It seems that the
architect competed with the size
Of the county in planning the build
ing. / have wondered several
times which is the larger.
All during the week swarms Of
whites and blacks sit lazily around
the county court house. There
seems to be always something go
ing on in the building that inter-
ests a rather large number of the
county folk.
Crime to Hurry
It is q crime to be in a hurry
here. Nowhere have I seen traffic
lights so rigidly respected. Every
time I go down town lose at least
twenty minutes waiting for the
lights to change. And yet almost
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EDITORIALS
Why Not 4 United
Negro Church


THE SEVERAL MILLION col
ored church members are divided
and sub-divided into several hun
bred different sects.
There is no central organization
which controls this tremendous
power. Each Denomination Is Sc
parated from the other but they all
have faith In the same God ana are
striving for the same heaven.
Regardless Of all arguments to
the contrary. the church Is the
most powerful institution among
Negroes. There are many reasons
why this IS true. It Is not our pur-
pose to argue that point
We realize that the chief end Of
the church is to promote Christian
ity. Our argument IS not against
but Ii support Of that proposition
A united Negro church would do
more to bring about Christian bro
therhood than any other single a.
gency.
Many difficulties stand between
the desire and the accomplishment
The same thing is true concerning
Negro newspapers and anything
else where cooperation is needed
between sun-klssed Americans. But
the barriers should not prevent an
attempt to bring It about.
The Catholic Church is a power
full organization. Its strength is
directly due to its centralized pow
er. Catholics are respected and
even great governments refuse to
mistreat Catholics.
A united Negro church could
strike the fear Of God IN the hearts
81 those who oppress colored peo-
pie. When the millions Of Ne
groes can speak with one voice,
many Of their ills win vanish like
snow fall on the river.
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and people attend each night
With the uncanny power of sell
Getting the right word Of the right
color and texture, the ability to
play up and down the emotions of
his hearers, his wit In twisting a
sentence so that it remains on the
side Of propriety but suggests the
salacious, he has been making the
people clap their hands, shout as
some have never shouted, and cry.
Devil In New York
Monday night he started the de-
vii ION the run" In his first SER
mon on 1.-THE Devil Is Not in Hell,
But in New York." add his forty
voiced grey-clad choir, and his Sc
ven-piecc band helped notably. On
Tuesday night he set out to tell
where the devil came from, and af-
ter quoting two score Bible pass
ages. and preaching one and one
ha:f hours, he concluded.
The devil came from heaven.
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while 80 per cent have no regular
incomes.
The door-to-door survey includ-
ed 400 families, which represents
26 per cent of the total colored
population, and consisted Of 85 ia
miles who own their homes and
4O5 families who rent homes. The
families who rent live as follows:
"a per cent live in Broom houses,
80 per cent in 4-room houses, %
per cent In 5-room houses, and II
per cent in Groom houses.
Statistics revealed that the rent
ers are so per cent more crowded
than home owners and so per cent
more crowded than decent living
standards require.
Construction I-age
IN conclusion, the report recon-
mended that low-cost housing be
provided for the group, stating:
1.-THE percentage of vacant dwell
ings for colored persons is almost
negligible, being less than 2 per
cent, which further emphasizes the
fact that as time goes on, with the
colored population increasing 6 per
cent per year, steps must be taken
to house the group properly in the
very immediate future.
CONSTRUCTION must be increased
to provide for formal population
increase, to take care of the nor
NAL obsolescence CT buildings. and
to make up the deficit caused by
lack of construction, in the past 8
years. To safeguard the commun-
ity from a health or fire menace
standpoint, the demolition of obso-
leseent homes should be brought to
legal steps y necessary.
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always there is not the least sign
Of an automobile.
In fact. pedestrians are watched
more carefully than autoists. May
be It is merely the attempt Of the
officials here to give the fat sassy
officers something to do. I said
to a woman yesterday on the street
that one does not have to abide so
rigidIy by the traffic signs in New
York as here in Marshall. She
said, "They shore will fine you if
they catch you disobeying."
Germany and Dixie Are Kin
I have become still more fully
aware of the close kinship between
the Southland and Hitler Germany
since this venture into the deep
South. The Jew enjoys freedom
and prosperity here, but the col
ored man is actually frozen out.
The church and the government
here are so interested in having
the Bible rightly interpreted, in
keeping beer and liquor from flow
ing, and in proving the superiority
of the whites that they have no
time and energy left to allow the
colored brother a chance to devel-
op normally. That would be a
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L.ynching Is Termed
Trend Toward Facism

CHICAGO - Lynching and sup
preston of the colored group, anti
Semitic tendencies, and the awak-
ening of anti-red hatreds are man
ifestations of a trend towards fac
ism in this country, DR.. Harry F.
Ward, CHAIRMAN told the United
States Congress against War and
Facism in a meeting at the Ash
land Auditorium.
Underneath these manifesto
tions," he declared, lis the increas-
ing use of the state not only to
keep alive capitalistic economy but
to prevent opposing forces from
forming. Meanwhile workers and
farmers are kept alive on promis-
es."
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MUCH HOSTILE CRITICISM
Is being directed ct Negro leader
ship.
Negro leaders are hat-in-hand
and spineless, comes from lips Of
every soap box orator.
But does not leadership depend
upon followers? Can a leader be
stronger than those who made him
leader?
A leader depends upon followers
for his strength. If that is true.
and it is, the leader is strong or is
weak in exact proportion that
those who are in the ranks are
powerful nr vacillating.
A leader can develop program
and make plans. but the power to
make them succeed is not the sole
responsibility Of the leader. In q
larger measure the Job must be
done bv those who follow.
A great general must have
brave soldiers to carry out his
commands. General Grant could
not have been victorious without
the sacrifices Of his soldiers.
The point Of successful leader
ship has been missed entirely. In
the first place a strong people viii
not accept weak leadership. # they
do they are not strong. People
get what they Deserve and nothing
more.
Negroes either want their pres
emit type Of leaders or they are too
lazy TO get what they want. The
result is the same. And until they
get more courage or become more
interested in themselves they must
accept what they have in the way
Of leaders.
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DEPRIEST FLATS
DEMOCRATS IN
ST.L0UISSPEECH

ST. LOUIS - John J. Cochran,
white, Missouri's Democratic rep
resentative-at-large, who has been
in Congress since 1926, was uncer-
enormously labeled a political rat"
by Congressman Oscar DePriest of
Illinois, as the latter dashed into
bitter attack on the MIRA and IIrg-
ed the selection of colored Con-
gresslnen in an address at a ban
quet, held at the Pine st. YMCA
Friday night.
Congressman DePriest accused
the Missourian of opposing him IN
the fight against jim-crowism in
the capitol during the early spring.
The speaker also charged that Mr..
Cochran was no friend of the coll
ored group and that there was no
record to show that he had ever
done anything toward its advance
ment.
Hell vote against everything
that is for your rights, 7 know
him." declared Mr.. DePriest.
Attacks New Deal
1.-THE MIRA is the worst curse the
american colored man has had
since slavery" he continued. IF
we follow foolish Democratic doc
trines much longer, Wen lose ev-
erything. The Democrats bar the
colored people from voting in the
primaries down in Texas. # I'm
not good enough to vote for them
in Texas, I'm too good to vote for
any Democrats in Illinois and Mis-
souri, A vote for any Democrat
is vote for the South in the sad
die, and the saddle is on the color
ed mans back"
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35% CoIOred In Charleston
Work In Domestic Service

CHARLESTON, w. Va. That
thirty-five per cent Of the city's
6734 colored citizens are employed
as domestics and nine per cent are
engaged in mining, was the reyel-
alton of recent survey undertake
en- by the Bureau of Negro Wei
fare and Statistics In an effort to
promote and stimulate means Of
providing better living conditions
in the group.
The colored population, which is
eleven per cent Of the total popu-
laticn, IL divided into two parts.
One lives in Wilson Hollow at the
extreme east end Of the city, and
the other lives near the Patrick st.
bridge at the extreme west end OF
the city.
Workers Classified
The remaining workers were
classified as: miscellaneous, 81 per
cent; janitors and porters, IL per
cent; laborers, per cent; 8 per
cent chauffeurs; government ser
viss, 5 per cent; construction me-
chanics, 8 per cent.
The lowness Of the income ia
borne out by the rent paid: is per
cent Of the renters pay less than
$40 per month; 80 per cent pay
between $40 and SIS monthly; 2
per cent pay between $50 and s25,
and 8 per cent pay above s25 per
month.
The survey discloses that 26 per
cent Of the families have incomes
less than 500 a month; IL per cent
have incomes between $50 and $40,
II per cent have incomes between
$50 and 500, II per cent have in
comes Of more than 500 a month,
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Plea Made for Race
At Labor Convention

SAN FRANCISCO = A rssolu-
ton proposing a conference Of the
executive council of the various af-
filiated international unions with
the object of banning any prac-
tees which tend to bar colored
workers from trade unions was Of
fered by the International Ladies'
Garment Workers Union at the
convention of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, here, Tuesday.
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Schools Get Order To
Discard Caricatures

WASHINGTON-An order was
sent out by Asst Superintendent
Garnet c. wilkinson to principals
of public schools, forbidding them
to display an American Automo-
bile Association poster, which he
termed offensive to the colored
race.
The poster, a part Of that organ
ization's campaign for traffic safe
ty, displays a colored man pulling
a mule across a railroad track.
The black figure, whose thick lips
are the most conspicuous figure a.
bout him, was called caricature
by those protesting against it.
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run, Little ChilIun' !
Now In Rehearsal

CHICAGO (ANP)-"Run, Little
Chillun," Hall Johnson's musical
drama, which met with such sue
cess in New York, is being re-
hearsed here for production at the
Studebaker Theatre late in Octo-
Der. The cast, except for a couple
of the principals, has been recruit
ed from local talent.
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Elder Michaux Opens Attack
On Father Divine Friday Mite

NEW YORK = Elder Solomon
Lightfoot Michaux. radio pulpiteer.
who is waging a weeks campaign
against sin here, win carry to the
front his heaviest artillery and his
greatest forces Friday night when
he leads an attack against Father
Divine.
On that night Elder Michaux
win preach on. Us Father Divine
or the Deyil?"
And he announced that after 1
am through with him you win be
able to tell for yourselves" Sun
day he win be heard over the ra-
dio from the New Madison Square
Garden.
1000 Attend Nightly
With the Roclkland Palace as his
house Of worship, the Happy Am
T. Billy Sunday. Father Coughlin,
William Jennings Bryan and Fin
ley Wilson all rolled into one ora
torically speaking has been bring
ing his messages every night and
some mornings. Over two thous-
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Girl Heads Library
In Colored Section

LOS ANGELES CAMP Miss
Miriam Matthews, popular Delta
and honor graduate from the Uni
versity of California, will assume
duties as head librarian at the
Vernon branch library here Octo-
Der Is.
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Movie Operators
Picket Theatres

NEW YORK-A number of Har-
lem theatres which discharged coll
ored union motion picture operat-
ors are being picketed to force the
unemployment of the men they
fired because of their demands for
higher wages.
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Best Advertising Medium
Of It's Kind In The
Pacific Northwest
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MRS.MARY ERWIN
STILL IN COMA
FROM SHOOTING
Grows Steadily W e ak +
but Has Not Regained
Consciousness

Mrs. Mary Erwin, who was found
unconscious on the Gold Gre k
bridge Monday night as the resuls
of bullet wound III her head, has
not regained consciousness and is
reported to be growing steadily
weaker, by hospital authorities.
Small hope is held out for her
recovery by Dr. w. w. Council,
who was called to attend her.
After d cursory examination of
the injured woman's rooms at the
Cliff Apartments yesterday, the
City police discovered two sheets
torn from a catalogue of a Chicago
mail order firm, on which was
advertised a % short pistol, of
the type found near the place Mrs.
Erwin was discovered.
Her husband, who with her two
sons, lives in Petersburg, is ex-
pected to arrive in juneau to-
morrow.
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PROMINENT INSURANCE
MAN AND WIFE ARRIVE
HERE FOR WEEK STAY

George j. Cleary, head of the
legal department and Superinten-
dent of Claims for the United Bene-
fit Life Insurance and the Mutual
Benefit Health Association of Oma-
ha, Nebraska, and Mrs. Cleary, ar
rived in Juneau on the Yukon after
spending the last three weeks on a
combined business and pleasure trip
through the Interior.
They expect to spend a week in
Juneau with f. S. Scobee, Manager
of the Territory for the company.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Cleary are
delighted with Alaska and the IA
nous Alaskan hospitality and see
marvellous possibilities for the coun-
try along many lines. They are
staying at the Gastineau Hotel
while in the city.