The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1938-09-09
What Are They Doings
By Airline \. paiya

OEllENtJ1i 49, Inc ANdlionAl III
ban League Conference has Just
closed another very fine session at
Green Pastures Camp. To have
been able to meet with, 10 discuss
with, and to listen to many of our
national leaders was an education
within itself. The secretaries
closed session an innovation and
extremely beneficial. You will read
more about the conference when
the editors get their official release
Green Pastures Camp was donated
to the Detroit Urban League by a
wealthy white man at a total cost
of S100,0000o. It is dedicated TO
underprIvileged children. There is
a trained staff of 10 persons to
care for the children during the
summer. The Detroit League has
two center also, well-equipped, do
mated to them, and the building in
which their office is located is
owned by colored people with the
League as the principal stockhold-
er. There are a number of very
wealthy people here who are quite
generous to the Urban League
But | promised to tell you about
former Seattleites. Mrs. Walter
willis marjorie Ruhen) was the
first Seattleite / met and she well
heads the list. Her husband is q
dentist with lucrative practice
in a white neighberhaod They
have one of the finest homes in De-
troit and two cars, a Packard and
one smaller. Contrary to the u.s.
ual state of things, the dentists in
Detroit have the finer horces are
more evidence of success than the
M.D.s. DR.. Willis is also a golf
enthusiast and when I saw him,
had Just returned from the golf
tournament in Chicago with one Of
the prizes as runner up Mrs.
Willis has arrived, but she is very
modest about 1t all. Interior de-
corating is her hobby with the re-
suit that her home is furnished in
excellent taste. She devotes all her
time to home and social duties, but
she does take time out once a year
to make an extended trip She
hopes to bring her husband to Sc
attic next year.
Mrs. Alva Carroll Teresa Man
ming, sister of Mrs. p. Frazier and
Mrs. Eugene Coleman) was the
next person I met. Mrs. Carroll
has done quite well for herself. She
is the assistant to the executive of
the Detroit Urban League, a posi-
ton she holds with much credit.
Her husband is a graduate of
Morehouse and is employed by the
Ford Motor Company. He is tall
and handsome and quite devoted
to his wife. The few years since
Mrs. Carroll has been sway from
Seattle has served only to intensi-
fly her rare beauty Mr. and Mrs
Carroll make a very charming and
congenial people.
Speaking of the Ford Motor Co,
I must mention my trip through
the Rotunda and the factory. In
addition to the reaction to massive
factories and grounds, the speed
of production and the other inn
pressive things we have read about
I got distinct thrill and sense of
pride in the Ford Company when /
encountered many colored men
working in various departments,
from the student apprentice on up.
It is something you don't get by
just reading about It, The colored
man has an opportunity here, and
they are not confined to any one
type of job
Back to Seattleites. Next l met
Mrs. Anna Chatters Ball, employ
ed as clerk-stenographer for a
prosperous law firm in Detroit,
but she and her husband live in
Windsor, Canada, where Mr.. Ball
works. She was happy to send
greetings to her friends in Seattle.
She, too, shows every evidence OF
success.
Marley Smith and Alvester War
field lives down the street Always,
and both are employed by a fruit
company as truck drivers. Verley
has been in Detroit less than a
month and likes it well enough to