The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1938-04-29

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WASHINGTON tC) = Edgar
G. Brown, president of IT, United
Government Employees. q cared
before the appropriation. V nit
tee of the House, Mont q Il
made a plea for $1,OO0,000 h
spent for expanding the W "a
household workers demonstration
centers in twenty-five states.
PHILADELPHIA Co Bill
Robinson, famed tap dancer, and
his wife Fannie, were here recent
ly to help dedicate the Bill &
Fannie Robinson Boys and Girls
Club at the Mcdowell Memorial
Community Church, 21st and Col
umbia avenue, Rev. Arthur e.
Rankin, pastor. The church, one of
the finest edifices occupied by Ne
groes in the city, was taken over
last fall and is being developed
into a real community church,
with a full religious, educational,
social and recreational program.
Rev. Rankin was formerly pastor
of Berean Presbyterian church at
10Th and South College avenue.
DURHAM, N. C. (C)-Chair-
man George Wayne Cox of the Ma
tional Negro Insurance Week, May
GIG, announced Monday that eight
thousand agents of member COM
panies of the National Negro In
surance Association have commit
ted themselves to writ a $4,000
industrial debit during Insurance
Week, and that honor and per-
Torrance certificates will be given
all life insurance statesmen of the
group who produce minimum of
five dollars of Industrial insurance
during the week. A like honor and
performance certificate will be
given Ordinary statesmen who pro-
duce a minimum of $4,000 of Ordi-
nary insurance that week. Mr..
Cox said he hoped each salesman
of each Company would qualify for
an honor certificate, issued by the
National Negro Insurance Associa-
ton, (which may be framed and
hung on the walls of their offices
and otherwise kept to be passed
down to coming generations.
TULSA, Okla. Co - An aud
fence of more than seven hundred
persons saw and heard the dynam-
ic Lue Swarz famed one-woman
show of st. Louis, who was pre-
sented by Pi chapter of zeta Phi
Beta sorority in her own inimitable
characterizations. An observer of
the performance says: The uncan-
ny skill with which she depicted
the life of Phillis Wheatley attest
ed her artistic wizardy. Changing
from one character to another in
rapid succession, speaking excel
lent English and broken dialect
with equal facility, she was able
to make her listeners see what
was not there Her costuming was
authentic to the last detail. She
is a splen>---. speaking actress, a
brilliant pantomimist, able to car
ry much with a few words, MAX
ing her audience feel rather than
see the characters depicted" An
informal reception was given Miss
Swarz after the performance, dur
ing which she autographed many
programs for her admirers.
The severity with which the Ne
gro press attacked Al Jolson for
his alleged signing of a petition
which barred colored people from
a Los Angeles residential section
in which he lived, should be a les
son to other whites who earn for
tunes based on the Negro. The
race will no longer allow any per-
son or group of persons to humil-
late it without severe castigation.
TUSKEGEE (C) - Honorable
Charles Clinton Spaulding, LII. D.,
president of the National Negro
Business League, and president of
the North Carolina Mutual Life In
surance company and the Mechan-
les & Farmers bank of Durham,
N. c., will be the commencement
orator at Tuskegee Institute, in
the Institute Chapel at 2 p. M,
Thursday, May 26, it was announ-
ced by President F. D. Patterson,
Tuesday. Dr. Charles H. Wesley,
acting dean of tn Liberal Arts de-
partment of Howard University,
Washington will be the bacca-
laureate speaker in the afternoon
of Sunday, May %.
RICHMOND, Va. (C) = The
principal address before the open
ing meeting of the eighteenth an
nual session of the National Ne
gro Insurance Association in
Cleveland, o., June 1917, will be
delivered by Editor Robert Lee
Vann of the Pittsburgh Courier, on
the subject, The Progress CT Ne