The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-09-23
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son to the Methodist passionate of Ia
coma was stroke of good policy on
part of Bishop Parks. The young
man and his wife were welcomed back
by the flock in such a manner as to
show an augury for better team work
during the coming year.
Every one who loves pies ought to
get those made by Mrs. w. G. Ham,
ilton at her home; one thing Hamil-
ton ought to be thankful for, he
can't complain that his wife can't
make good pie.
Negroes ought to learn to compli-
ment each other. Often when a per-
son of some other race begins any
thing those around him or her always
tell the beginner 1--WE hope that you'll
succeed. or we believe that you will
succeed" and that gives heart to the
faint-hearted. We should make it a
practice to encourage everything one
of US tries to do that is not wrong,
even though we don't believe it will
succeed; tell them so any way. Some
times grit and determination is re-
enforced by the encouragements of
others and many a venture would sue
coed if people did not always be so
ready to say, Hell fail; she can't do
it." We must quit talking in a dis
couraging way about our own peo-
pie. Our people are Just like all 9TH
err people and no whit different ex-
cept as they are placed in differing
circumstances and conditions. Igno-
rant whites and ignorant blacks are
about on a par.
We once heard a colored man crit
izing another for marrying a white
woman. The gist of his complaint
was that the white woman was
poor trash; that there was nothing
to recommend her except her color.
For his part, he said, he wouldn't
marry the whitest woman in the
world unless she was the top of the
not among her own race. We asked
him at once, "Do you think the top
of the pot among the colored women
would marry you?" He said, Eyes,
of course" Then they can't be very
much, was the answer. You get the
same kind of a woman whether she is
white or black that you are man.
No better and no worse. A trashy,
black man or woman will marry a
trashy white or colored for the reas-
on that like goes to like and birds of
a feather flock together. See? A
white man or woman who marries a
colored person is just as good as
the colored person he or she marries,
and not better and no worse. A col
ored person seems to believe that he
or she should have the daughter of
the U. S. president in such cases.
Why?
Louis Adams went to Yakima and
other points east on a short vaca-
ton last week.
Mrs. A. l.. Byrd, the pastors wife,
was reported to have gone to the hos
pital for an operation last Tuesday.
Contractor Henry Trial sued the
Fircrest Golf Club last week to fore
close mechanics lien on the club
house for labor and material.
Mr.. Aldrich is his attorney. Teats
G. Teats represent the club.
d. s. Guilford is a very busy man
out at his Fern Hill ranch. He has
his garden, his eggs and chickens and
his barber shop all right there to-
gether and when he gets slack in one
he Just turns right to the other. Mr..
Guilford had childhood friend Wis
itor last week from Roslyn.
Mrs. N. ]. Asberry, president of
the State Federation of Colored Wo-
mems Organizations, attended the
piano recital of Lorenza Jordan Cole
last Friday evening at Seattle.