The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-10-07
EDITORIALS


Eight nuuored Wntte etuoents went
on strike in Gary, Ind, because thir-
ty dark Americans enrolled for study
in the Emerson High School. Par
ents, citizens and officials have sane
toned this snobbish, un-American
trick and another deep dyed stain
has been smeared across the escut-
cheon of Indiana. Indiana must be
contaminated, corrupted and defiled
to shameful extent. II must be
under the evil and satanic spell of
some devil incarnate. From all in
dications and evidences it must be
stagnating and stultifying under the
leadership of Goddess and soulless
people.
Its former governor has just been
released from the federal peniten-
tiary, its former political dictator lies
smouldering in the Michigan City Jail
house serving life sentence for
murder, rape and debauchery, the
mayor of Indianapolis has just been
convicted of corruption in office and
sentenced tc, serve term in the Gala
boose as well as forfeit his position;
in short the state of Indiana seems
to be permeated and inocculated with
moral depravity, mental obliquity
and physical impotency.
The stencil of Indiana reeks in the
nostrils of polite society.
A few years ago a group of mar
row-minded, Ehort-sighted members
of the black race started an agita-
ton for separate schools in Gary
They were really motivated by sell
fish desire to secure well paying jobs
for themselves and now we have the
reaction. The seed of dissension was
sown by these nondescript "Uncle
Tens" who bear around the necks
of our people as the albatross hung
around the Ancient Mariner. When
an evil force is released it is aug
mented by other forces of the same
nature and they sweep on and on
tearing down accumulated genius,
blasting hopes, wrecking institu-
tons, scattering discord while the
souls of men become filled up with
hate and fratricide. Just such sit
uation now obtains and prevails in
Gary, Ind.
The whites should be censured be-
cause being foreign born" for the
most part and descendants of that
cheap imported labor that put Gary
on the industrial map, they should
be level headed and sensible enough
not to feel themselves socially supe-
rior to other proletarians. They
should realize how they have been
exhibited and appreciate the irrefut- !
able fact that they cannot ease their |
own burdens by trampling under a
still more unfortunate people. Gary !!
should be severely criticized by all !
true Americans for such a fragrant |
and inopportune expression of heath
enism and pagantry. Judge Gary's |
bones have not rotted when the great
city of steel. that he made possible. |
rises up to humiliate and crush an
ihoffensive, ignorant but ambitious
people. But after ell what can we
expect to- come out of Indiana?
II is not Gary alone that offends
but the whole Klux-infected confines
Of the state of Indiana that needs a
pufging. It is fortunate indeed that
the, people of Indiana is hell and
the people of Indiana do not have to
confess to the priests in large num-
bers. Indiana is hell and many devils
abound there.
Citizens who are seeking to rear
families and develop their posteiity
to fullest capacity cannot better sub
serve their own desires and inten-
lions than by taking out insurance.
II has been customary for the men,
hers of the black race to take out
"nickle and dime" insurance on them
selves and their children for the sole
purpose of paying off the undertaken
when death laid its clammy hand
within the family circle but few have
looked upon insurance proper as a
safe, sound and fool-proof protection
for the future.
Our people need to take more in
surance, they need to load up with it !
as far as it is judiciously possible. |
At this time when the states them |
selves protect policy-holders who pay
their premiums there is no sane reas-
on to be offered why 7ur people |
should not take out larger policies. |
If our people spend more money for
insurance and less money for meat |
the next generation will be healthier,
Weather and wiser.
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