The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-08-12
EDITORIALS

ment Of Calvin Coolidge. Out Of tn,
Black Hills of South Dakota cam,
that terse statement, so characteristic,
Of the president. There is wild spec
ulation in political circles as to how
1t should be interpreted. Some thinl
that tbs a final and flat refusal t.
accept the nomination from the Re
publican party; others believe that il
means that even though he doesn'i
choose,to run, he would accept it il
the people forced it upon him. One
guess is about as good as the other
because the silent man in the White
House mas few close friends in whom
he confides the secrets of his heart
The president, during his -four
years in office, has not done one
outstanding thing for the Negroes
in this country. He conformed in
every way with the time-worn GUS
toms of his immediate predecessors.
Because of these facts there will be
no mourning among colored people
when Calvin sets out from the White
House.
One thousand Irish Jews in New
York organized to look after their
group interest in Ireland. More than
hundred million American Negroes
do little but talk about "our inter-
ests" in Liberia, Haiti and San Do
mingo. Those 1000 Jews in New
York know the value of international
conference. They are Americans, but
they know they also are Jews and
Jews are Jews the world over.
Every time we spend a dollar we
should consider not only what we are
getting, but what we are doing to
increase opportunities for our boys
and girls.
This is not race prejudice, but the
fundamental law of self-preserva-
ton. Some stores are fairer than
others. Trade with them. Some ad-
vertise in colored journals. Trade
with them. Some employ colored
men and women to larger extent
than others. You should pick them
out.
If five million Jews in America
can bring millionaires like
Henry Ford to their senses; can DOM
mate civic organizations, and get
fair treatment through dollar diplo-
macy, ten million colored men and
women ought to be able to raise the
level of their economic opportuni-
ties by proper use of their purchas-
ing power.
The general principle should be to
look for some trademark of racial
benefit on every article you purchase
and, above all, part of your money
should be spent with some business
man or woman of the group.
Why keep Marcus Carney in pris.
on? No purpose of any sort is to be
served by his continued incarcera-
ton; therefore, there Is no real JUS
tice in holding him.
In fact, if Garvey had been SEN
fenced to five months instead of for
five years, and then deported-or, If
1t had been legally possible simply
to deport him, without any prison
term-the ends of useful justice
would have been as well met. Mar.
Gus Carney was not more of a crimi-
nal than half dozen or more of
those who were associated with him
in the Black Star Line business prof.
ect. His worst enemies, if they are
honest, must admit that.
Now, some of the sharks working
for Garvey's organization and giving
Garvey advice" knew that it was a
violation of law to sell stock in a
bankrupt concern-and these fell
lows are out of Jail and have not
even been put in.
Garvey, who helped to Jail him.
self by being Drawer than the others,
but less shrewd than the others dur
ing the trial, can now be released
not only without any social hurt, but
even with social justice.
Plenty Of important events took
place on this old globe of ours last
week.
Foremost in far reaching effects,
the Geneva disarmament conference
went on the rocks. That is bad news.
We will have to continue building
$50, 100000 battleships which go to
rust and get ready for another war.
Plain John Smith, laborer, won't
know why the dignitaries at Geneva
could not come to terms, but he will
know the tax pinch when it comes.
More and more of them are coming
TO understand the relation between
huge armies, spending millions for
idle sailors, their families and cock
tails, and his hard times in this coun-
try of plenty.
Some day he is going to vote a
law which will make the men who de-
eide that we go to war fight, and
then we will have more successful
peace conferences.
Japan, a colored race of men, was
one of the three main takers at that
Geneva parley. japan got her place
there by fighting for it. That's the
only way races or groups get any
thing in this world.