The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-12-13
TACOMA, NEWSISECTION

An interesting organization at
Puget Sound College is named "The
Cosmopolitan Club" as it Is COM
posed Of various nationalities. It
functions as an inter-racial commit
tee and brings about better un-
derstanding between the races. The
club holds meetings on the first
Tuesday of each month. At the re-
cent meeting. the chairman was =
Japanese. Mr.. Shergo Tanabe-
Among those on the program were:
Mrs. Mabel G. Shepard, II. H. Ar
nette, w. H. Lewis, Miss B. Pierre
and Mrs. N. ]. Asberry. The meet
ing proved 10 be very interesting.
Mt. Tacoma Lodge No. 143, l. b.
III. p. O. Z. of W., held their semi
annual election OF officers, which re-
suited as follows: f. J. Broadhead,
exalted ruler; F. E. Gilmore, lead
ing knight; 0'Neal Lander, loyal
knight; r. Gibson, lecturing knight;
r. Robinson. secretary; J. A. Sage,
treasurer; F. L. Bean, inner guard.
The Elks held their annual memoir
ial services Sunday night at Bethle-
hem Baptist Church. Despite the
inclement weather,a large crowd was
present to witness the exercises.
Word has been received from Mrs.
Felicia E. Ray. who was called to
Bay st. Louis. Miss, by the death of
her mother, that she is now in Chi
cago and will soon leave for Ia
coma.
The epidemic and colds and Ia
grippe, which is prevalent through
out the Northwest, has struck Ia
coma and many Of our group are
incapacitated by illness.
In a letter the other day pub
lished by the press, President Cool
idge was slightly more happy in his
references than he was in his con-
gressional message. He spoke of a
summer White House and along with
this he brought in the presidents
wife. Few people realize that in her
way the wife of the president, like
the wife of a preacher-pastor, serves
the people who call her husband, but
she receives little on no recognition
of that fact. No doubt in time the
wife of the president will be given
official status. The wife of king
Is a queen, and as such she has a
standing as a government official,
responsible for social rule. There
Is much to do at White House, as
there is to do about a church and
parsonage which only the wife of
the Incumbent can fulfill. No doubt
some day the wives of Methodists
and other pastors will find the rec
ognition they deserve from the peo-
pie they serve gratuitously, as well
as the mistress of the White House.
II appears that very few voters
vote for what they believe is
the best politics or even for the best
man, but the evident fact is that
most people who exercise the right
to vote do so because they wish to
set somebody back. We can get up
crowd any day in the week to
throw mud, to villify and abuse a
person or set of persons, regardless
of whether the accused are innocent
or guilty. and if you put forth
enough propaganda you can hang
the president of the United States
several times over. This is the dam
ger in democracy. There are too
many men like that old Greek of
ancient time who took an oyster
shell and placed upon it the name
of Aristides. "Why, what have you
against him?" the ancient Greek
was asked. II have nothing against
him." was the reply, "but am tired
of hearing people praise him." Per-
haps we shall borrow a Mussolini
some day.