The Houston Informer (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 26, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 17, 1928 Page: 3 of 15
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upon good ground”
The Sower, in the parable, cast his seed
to the winds of heaven.
That which landed among the stones, the
thorns and in the barren places, perished.
Only the seeds which reached the food
ground had a chance to grow.
The modern advertiser does not strew his
seed of salesmanship to the winds.
He plants it carefully in the “food ground”
— in the places where because of favorable
conditions it has a chance to bear a harvest
of consumer results.
He uses newspaper advertising because
through the newspapers be covers complete-
ly the markets which he knows, upon care-
ful investigation, to be right places for his
product to flourish.
Advertising in The Informer Sells th
Good.
How Can We Break In?
The New York News:
A committee of prominent colored
citizens recently waited upon a direc-
tor of one of the great Broadway de-
partment stores, asking that qualifi-
ed colored boys and girls be given
equal employment in that store. They
pointed out the thousands of colored
citizens in the greater city. They de-
tailed to the director the excessive
ratio of consumption and of spending
among colored people; that the color-
ed householder spent more money for
household furnishings and for com-
modities, for the groceries and uten-
sils of the kitchen and of the pantry
than any population of a like econom-
ic status in this city.
They related to the management the
discrimination that many colored buy-
ers felt in going into downtown de-
partment stores was being practiced
against them, saying frankly that
many stores preferred not to have
their patronage and their support. As
a consequence, this representative
group composed of ministers and so-
cial workers offered to guarantee to
this popular department store the
patronage of all Harlem if this de-
partment store would employ colored
youths on an equal basis. The direc-
tor, after listening patiently, gave to
the committee the crux of the situ-
ation as it affects colored people seek-
ing better employment. He gave to
them what seems to us the solution
of the commercial, industrial and in
large measure, social proMem of the
race. He said: “You have many
wealthy men and women of your race
in New York City who can afford to
subscribe from one thousand dollars
to five thousand dollars in the stock of
this corporation. If you will secure
as many as* fifty holders who will
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that he will be able through the board
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boys and girls on our apprentice list
than you will be able to find qualifi-
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If the colored people of this coun-
try will share in the railroads of the
nation, they will be able to wipe out
the “jim-crow” cars of Dixie almost
overnight. If the colored people of
the country will buy shares in the
great hotel systems of the North and
South, they will find that all the same
time they will have opened the door to
equal accommodations for the colored
tourists seeking hotel accommodations.
If colored people will pool a few mil-
lion dollars and lay firm hold upon
all the great industrials of the nation
they will be able to place colored men
and women, boys and girls in all of
the great manufacturing plants and -
in all the vocations, both artisan and
clerical of big industries without any
question as to their color, the only
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FISK UNIVERSITY
INSTALLS ORGANS
IN MUSIC SCHOOL
Nashville, Tenn.—(ANP)—Im keep-
ing with the progressive program be-
ing prosecuted here by President Jones
of Fisk University, two practice pipe
organs were installed here Wednes-
day by R. J. Lilley of the M. P. Mol-
ler Organ Company. While the or-
gans do not improve the facilities for
organ concerts at the university, they
offer students a greater opportunity
to become more proficient in this
phase of music.
The two organs, which have been in-
stalled in the music school annex, are
of modern electric action, both on one
blower with two manuals and pedals.
They cost $3,500 and were made pos-
sible by donations from donors scatter-
ed over the country.
Phones: ONice, Preston 2926
Residence, Hadley 6383-3
Once Hours: 10 to 12 a. m,
3 to 5, 6 to 9 p. •.
DR. W. M. DRAKE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Disses W-e Meed and
302-3 Odd Fellows Temple
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with the cooperation of
The National Negro Business League and the Department of Commerce
and Other Reliable Agencies.
HOOVER URGES
AMERICANS TO
JOIN RED CROSS
NOTE—If the articles appearing in this column suggest any par-
ticular question to your mind, or if you desire further information
along the lines suggested, you may addreas the Editor of the Busi-
ness Department of the Associated Negro Press, 3423 Indiana Ave-
nue, Chicago, Illinois, or Secretary, National Negro Business League,
Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, or a communication to the Inquiry Di-
vision. Bureau Domest Commerce, Washington, D. C., will be pro-
ductive of the further information desired.
PATRONIZE YOUR BLACK NEIGHBOR
By G. H. LEMONS,
Durham Branch National Business League
One sees, from time to time, many plans and predictions concerning the
development of this country for the next fifty years. Machines are be-
ing invented to cut down the use of man power. Engineers are being press-
ed te increase production. Factories are expanding, million dollar banks
are merging, and the stock market is breaking all records. With all of this
we wonder if the Negro is progressing with the times.
We hear many people say that the Negro race, in America, has made more
progress in the last half-century, than any other race of people has ever done.
We point with pride to our banks, real estate firms, professional men, insur-
ance companies, and the like, but the question of most vital importance to us
is, “What will they be doing fifty years from today?"
Negro farmers, laborers, porters, maids, and cooks, when speaking of their
children, invariably say that their children shall have the educational advan-
tages that they were denied. But what are these same people doing to as-
sure themselves that their children are going to have something to do when
they complete their education. Nothing!
These same Negro parents put their money in white banks, buy in white
stores, and insure themselves in white insurance companies, all of whom have
absolutely refused to give employment, unless it be menial labor, to the edu-
cated children of the Negro worker who has invested his money with them.
It is a distressing but true fact that one white insurance company alone
carries more insurance among Negroes than all of the Negro companies com-
bined. And the highest executive position that a Negro may hold with this
company is assistant head janitor in their palatial main office building. But
even he cannot use his own initiative for the head janitor is a white man.
Yet, when Negroes buy a policy in this, or any other white insurance com-
pany, they firmly believe that they are doing their best to prepare for the
welfare of their children. They never think that if they were to insure
themselves with a Negro company, and influence their friends to do so also
that their educated son or daughter may be one of those employed.
Ask a Negro why he does not put his money in a Negro bank and he will
probably tell you that he “just don’t like the idea of giving those Negroes his
money to keep." He gets the same rate of interest and the same service, but
still he is “giving” his money to those Negroes. Just because he gets his pay
from some white man he feels that he must turn around and put it in the
hands at another white man who will, of course, use the money to make, for
himself, a profit.
Watch the grocery stores on any Saturday. The poor Negro merchant,
===== who has given credit all the week, paid a delivery boy, kept a wagon or truck
going, and has given good service, is passed by the shoppers, who, having
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Fairchild Undertaking Co.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
EMBALMERS
1015 Dowling Street
Fairfax 1835
Fairfax 6464
DR. C. L. BARNES
DENTIST
Hours: 9 a. m. to 1 p. m.
2 to 6 p. m.
Sundays by appointment
Suite: 204.5 Taborian HR-
8671 Prairie Ave.
Office: Pres. 6780 Res: Tay. 6409
DR. C. M. NICHOLS
Physician and Surgeon
Office: Taborian Bldg., Suite 220
Preston 4181
807 1-2 Prairie Ave., Houston. Tex
DR. RUPERT 1. MEH
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
402 odd Fellows Temple
Phones: Office P. 2217, Res. P.S919
Residence: 410 Robin St.
Phones: Office P. 8418, Res. F. 0727
Hours: 1 P. M. t 5:19 P. M.
J. M. LAWSON, M. D.
Res. 3237 Reeves Ave.
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just been paid, have their pockets full of ready cash to go to the white chain
store because the sign in the window says the price is a few cents cheaper.
Bat they must pay cash (sometimes bus fare two ways), carry their own
goods, and be half-heartedly served by a disinterested white clerk. Unneces-
sary to say, the profits are received by a white corporation and the luxuries
that profits buy go to them also.
We cannot get now, the book learning that we want our children to have,
bat we can get, and use, more common sense. If we want the world to keep
marvelling at our rapid progress, we must be progressive. And the only way
to progress in these United States is to build our future upon that most solid
of structures, "Economic Independence.”
In other words we must learn the lesson of cooperation. If we help our
black neighbor he will help us. Not because of gratitude or sentiment but
because it is simply good business. To all Negroes we say, patronize your
own kind, for by doing so, you are making an investment which shall return
to you a profit which shall always increase as the years go on.
PEACE MAKER DEAD
IN FAMILY QUARREL
Nashville, Tenn.—(ANP)—W hen
Joe Roach attempted to prevent his
brother, Percy Roach, from clubbing
his “girl friend” with a revolver he
was shot and fatally wounded, dying
a few hours later at the Vanderbilt
University Hospital, here Tuesdayr
morning.
According to information obtained
by officers, Percy Roach and Marie
Witherspoon engaged in a “family
fight” and Roach was about to club
her with a revolver. Joe Roach in-
terfered and attempted to wrest the
revolver from his brother and in the
struggle was shot in the chest, the
bullet penetrating the heart.
Roach and the woman were arrest-
ed and are charged with murder.
FIRES AT BLACKS,
NORDIC WOUNDED
Nashville, Tenn—(ANP)—J. T.
Rodgers, a white man, was arrested
here Wednesday in connection with
the shooting of Ray Lanier, a four-
year-old white boy. According to Rod-
gers he fired at a group of Negro
children and a stray shot struck the
white boy in the right cheek.
Witnesses testified that Rodgers be-
came angry with the colored children
when they chided him and fired point
blank at the crowd. Lanier was stand-
ing nearby and was struck. Rodgers
is charged with firing a gun in the
city limits and shooting with intent
to kill. Not one of the colored chil-
dren was injured.
Washington, D. C.—(ANP)—Her-
bert Hoover in urgingageeitizens of
the nation to supporIMKe American
Red Cross drive for membership, calls
attention to the fact that it is the
guarante that relief will be provided in
all disaster emergencies. The annual
roll call, which has for its goal this
year five million members, will open
tomorrow and continue through
Thanksgiving Day.
The statement by President-elect
Hoover follows:
"The American Red Crosa has be-
come an indispensable part of our na- .
tional life. In peace and in war, it
has served in the name of the Ameri-
can people, and in our most exacting
emergencies it has never failed us.
"Its history of the last five years
has proved the necessity for main-
taining at all times a national organi-
zation prepared to act instantly and
efficiently in times of great disasters.
Its work in the Mississippi Valley
flood, and in lesser disasters, has in-
spired American confidence which
need never be shaken so long as we
give it the support it deserves. It has
become the one guarantee to ns that,
through coordination of relief efforts
under it, loss of life shall be prevent-
ed in calamity; that suffering shall be
mitigated to the utmost degree, and
that the great problems of restoring
homes and re-establishing the eco-
nomic and social life of stricken sec-
tions shall go forward speedily and
efficiently.
“When the American Red Crone
goes into action for the relief of
stricken people, we all unconsciously
feel, and are proud of the fact, that
it is our Red Cross and that we are
having a part in its work. It is our
privilege and duty to make this a
reality, and by becoming members
during the annual Roll Call, to have
a share in its great work in behalf of
humanity."
OVATION IS GIVEN
YOUNG NEGRO GIRL
FOR EXPOSING G.O.P.
(By FLORIDA RUFFIN RIDLBY)
The big sensation of the political
campaign in Boston has been the ap-
pearance on the scene of Miss Gretta
McRae. Miss McRae, young and in-
telligent, slender of figure, brown and
most attractive in face and manner,
appeared almost unheralded the day
before election, straight from Wash-
ington, D. C., where she had just re-
signed as stenographer in the general
law office of the Department of the
Interior. This charming young wo-
man, stinging under the implications
of the segregation to which she had
been subjected, had given up her job
rather than to remain in the storage
room when she had been placed there
after having served for several years
in the regular stenographic part.
On coming to Boston, late as it was
in the campaign, she was seized by the
Democats and put upon the platform
at the last great noon rally of the par-
ty. Then in the dining room of the
famous old Young’s Hotel, Miss Mc-
Rae spoke to an audience (counting
those who listened in on the amplifi-
ers) of approximately three thousand
—an audience that wildly cheered and
applauded her for her courage, and
many of whom endeavored to express
their sympathy after the meeting, by
embracing her.
The incident is thought-compelling
and epochal—one of those spontaneous
unplanned events which reveal and
open up new leads.
Miss McRae has made an entry and
cannot retrace her steps—it is worth-
while to watch her. The effect of the
act of this young girl is going to be
far-reaching and of great consequence
to the race.
NEW ORLEANS CHURCH BURNS
New Orleans, La.—(ANP)—The
Second Baptist Church, 2524 Melpom-
ene Street, was destroyed by fire
Monday with a property loss of $15,-
000. The blaze started in the attic
of the church from some undetermin-
ed cause and spread rapidly. The
building was enveloped in flames when
the first detachment of the fire de-
partment arrived on the scene and
despite the efforts of the firemen was
completely destroyed. Insurance to
the amount of $8,000 was carried by
the church trustees.
CHRISTMAS CARDS
ERHAPS you haven’t even thought of your
Christmas cards yet, but you are going to
order some between now and Christmas, so
why not have it over with? Our stock is all
__clean and fresh; beautiful new designs, and
best of all, a telephone call will bring our representa-
tive to your house with samples and suggestions that
will make it easy for you to make a selection. Prices
range from 5c to 50c. Get this much of your Christmas
shopping out of the way before the holiday rush.
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Richardson, Clifton F. The Houston Informer (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 26, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 17, 1928, newspaper, November 17, 1928; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1637634/m1/3/?rotate=270: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.