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The Washington times., 1928-07-24
Coddling Often
Spells q Girl for
WifehOOd
Ry Constance CanlerOn

AIUAAStMAkCC 16AAhGA OAe
It was i o'clock Of = day when
Mrs. Gray had gotten up with
the birds, washed the family
clothes, prepared = warm lunch
con for her husband and daughter,
who attended high school, made
the house neat and fairly present.
able In the afternoon, and now
Margery, the daughter, had re-
turned from her afternoon session
It school.
Margery darling" pleaded Mrs.
Cray gently, go and lie down 4
while. You are going to your
nprority party tonight and you
want to be fresh and rested to-
have good time. III iron out !
few things that are Just about
right to press now. Run along. Z
Weary lines circled the mothers
eyes, but her expression was one
of sweet. patient naartyrdOm.
Wasn't she doing everything she
could for her daughter? Wasn't
Alla proving herself to be a good
mother to Margery?
II turned out q few years later
that she had not. Margery mar
ried. Mother was in distant
city, and the small apartment had
20 be run, and on 4 small budget.
There was no one to say Run
sway and lie down, dear, while I
finish your work. There was no
one to take Margery's tasks OFF
her very capable shoulders. Her
mouth began to take on bitter
lines; she sighed over her Redeemed
hands and complained bitterly to
her husband because she had to
DO work. which any young woman
who nnarries = man in moderate
circumstances expects to do as a
matter OF course.
Then the father died. Mrs.
Gray whose whole life had been
G0nsecrated to serving her FAMILY,
was helpiessIy lost, and Margery.
with an lily concealed beam Of
relief IN her eye made the mag.
unanimous offer that she i've with
them. The bearer of burdens took
MP her old routine. and Margery
happy in letting the mother do
the manual labor while she re-
stored her nails to their original
attractive contour and her hair
to its accustomed smart lines.
Friends tried to include the reti-
cent little. old lady In their even
ings OF amusement, but she was
always too tired, and melted away
q 49, - 4 -.
Mother never liked parties ex-
III 10 do homework" The small
mother heard, and through misty
eyes gazed back along the path Of
her girlhood and motherhood.
Didn't like partiesi She who had
sung at her washing, and
placed a record on the pl1ono-
graph sometimes as she busted
because her very soul thirsted for
the music OF her girlhood.
It Ii the easiest thing on earth
10 lie down and let your children
walk over you. It Is vastly easier
than denying them any advice
which Ii In your power TO give
them, but for their own welfare
1t must be done. No one will do
everything for your son or daugh-
Ter when he faces strangers. But.
III you taught him to expect it
there will be many heartaches and
failures In store for him.
Whether your Child respects you
~ an intelligent, fair, friendly
human being. instead of a door
mat Of = mother, Is entirely up to
you.
The Washington times., 1928-07-24

your other friends. For you are
very young, and there are many
beautiful friendships ahead Of you,
on the road to happy romance.
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
like a young man very much,
but / do not know whether he
The Washington times., 1928-07-24

1t IL hard, indeed, to watch
another girl taking from you the
young man you had regarded as
your very own. What Is to be
done in such . case? That Is
the problem presented by the let
ter OF "Dimples.
Dear Miss Fairfax" writes
Dimples. Il am IL and very
The Washington times., 1928-07-24

how are young folks to mate
wisely?
Be sweet to him when you do
see him--do not seem to notice
his divided interest. Speak sweet
" also of the girl. In other
words, be a generous. tolerant
friend. sharing this friendship
and companionship.
Try TO take an interest, also, in
The Washington times., 1928-07-24
Timely Topics

X-ray pictures Of Egyptian
numnnies. showing the skeletons
arrayed in the remains OF once
beautiful clothing and jewelry, are
being displayed beside the nys-
keriously swathed mummies them
selves in a new exhibit at the Field
Museum of Natural History in
Chicago, I'll.
The Washington times., 1928-07-24
HOUSEHOLD
HINTS

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Asstssapt % To puknsfe @xker
they are 1T, clean The hclee with
atiff hrunI.. "a net nel4a fhana
witt a aIzevrer az 1900, - .sr,e.
ftlI ~ fIrrn the rs~ are $685..
atnIv " ~ ret sossea. w ,,rf 10
tIao 1890 earse ~ "a ~isSs 81
kettles and csuespnns. - tki~.
causes n unpieasaat smeiI. ara
teea not make then, boii any mere
The Washington times., 1928-07-24
What DO You KnOu?
ANSWERS TO TODAY's TEST


Twenty four 2 Colt; Monana More: s. Lesseps s,
luxurious eater BY smelling iron ore in blast furnace
Night; runs with Ben Hur; 49, Daughter se
King Troy a. Chief in Coopes The SPY;
poem by Byron.
The Washington times., 1928-07-24
The S.Uiss Merchant Marine

Contrary to popular belief the Swiss 4nR lilies Ghp
ahour rs considerable merchant being
developed Rotterdam, Holland and makes
sonal voyage to England
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-24
Agrees With Mrs. Fields

Editor of The Enterprise:
Please allow me space in The En-
terprise to commend Mrs. Maud C.
Fields of Vancouver, B. c., on her
views regarding the Catholic church.
Although Mr. Aldrich of Tacoma dis
agreed with Mrs. Fields no one could
doubt the trLthfulness of her state
ments regarding her personal ex-
perience in the Catholic church. |
for one know that a Negro will not
receive the respect or treatment in
a white church that he would receive
in a Negro church. Catholic schools
and churches are no different than
other white churches and schools in
their treatment of Negroes. Just
try to get a black boy or girl adj
mitted in Catholic school and see
how far you'll get. Anyway, why
should Negroes want to enter white
churches and schools when they have
institutions of their own that will
accord them decent treatment? |
admire the stand of Mrs. Fields and
wish this race of ours had more wo-
men like her. Negroes must learn
not to try to force themselves where
they are not wanted.
Yours truly,
Pearl Tyson, Seattle, Wash.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-24
Praises The Enterprise

Editor of The Enterprise:
| am reader of The Enterprise
and have been for seven years, ever
since | was in the city of Seattle.
The Enterprise is a paper to be APP
preciated by the colored race. | have
watched with interest the fearless
policy of the paper and l only wish
that every Negro felt the good of
this paper as | do. If they did there
wouldn't be one colored home that
The Enterprise wasn't delivered to.
There are so many enlightening
things to be read in The Enterprise.
| especially love to read the special
articles furnished by The Enterprise
news bureau. / love to read the
many articles telling of the progress
the colored people are making. !
read your editorials with profit al
though / think you slam us awful
hard at times. | am glad to send So
renewing my subscription, and / will
continue to do so as long as the
present high standard is kept up.
Keep up the splendid work you are
doing. May you live long and pros
per.
Yours truly,
Matthew Armstrong, Fargo, N. D.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-24
Black Babies in White
Cradles

Senator Cole Blease of South
Carolina raved in the Senate last
week as only Southern demagogue
can. He assailed Smith and Hoover
as. being too friendly with Negroes.
He warned AGAINST race riots. He
spoke of the Negro woman as more
dangerous than the male of the
species. He painted picture of
how Negro women with torches in
their hands would set fire to the
homes where the wives and children
of white men were sleeping. But
Blease, the firebrand, rose to his
fullest height and yelled the loudest
when he proclaimed that white folk
would find black babies in their
cradles back home.
Senator Blease was simply trying
to move the Senate by conjuring up
the picture of black peril, of course
Blease does not believe any such
thing. He has good common sense.
His words were for the benefit of
his unlearned and illiterate constitu-
ents back in the sand hills of South
Carolina. The hill-billvs of his state
will eat it up and vote for Mr.. Blease
at the next election. Blease knows
that the benighted souls of his state
will vote for the man who shouts
"down the Niger" the loudest. He
is postmaster of mob psychology.
He elected himself governor of his
state by appealing to the baser in
stincts of the voters. He rode into
the Senate on the same platform.
Were his constituents less dumb he
never would have been Senator.
Evidently Senator Blease does not
object to white babies in black
cradles He is horror-stricken when
he thinks of black babies in white
cradles. The Southern white man
started this inter-mixture business.
He is keeping it up. He talks about
race purity while he practices some
thing entirely different. The white
man made it possible for some col
ored people with a drop of Negro
blood in their veins to pass over the
line. If one of them marries a
white woman and there is a brown
baby, Mr.. Blease can blame himself
and the others of his race. The white
man forced a whole lot of white
babies in black cradles and they
should have realized at that time
that ultimately black one would get
into a white cradle
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-24
Puzzling Problems

i. A man can row 5 miles per
hour in still water. How far can he
go down a stream which flows at the
rate of 3 miles per hour, so that he
may take only 2 hours and 40 min
utes for his trip down and his re-
turn?
2. A sold a town lot to B and made
a profit of 1-8 over what it cost him.
B sold the lot to C for $306 and lost
800 of what he paid for it. How
much did the lot cost A?
8. How many pieces of money "a
inch in diameter and 1-8 inch thick
can be coined from a piece of bullion
in the form of a cube, the edge of
which is 8 inches?
a. If A is 100 yards ahead of B,
and if A can run 5 yards while B
runs Z yards, how far will B run be-
fore he overtakes A?
/ 5. Four bells tolled at intervals of
8, 7, IL and ID seconds, and began
to toll at the same instant. How
long will it be before they next will
toll at the same instant?
6. A merchant mixes four grades
Of teas that cost him 35c, 40c, 60c
and 75c pound respectively, in
equal quantities, and sells the mix
ture for soc a pound. What per-
centage of profit does he make?
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-24
ANSWERS.

Il. Alb miles. Explanation
HIS speed downstream is 5 plus 3, or
8 miles per hour. His speed upstream
is 2 miles per hour. If he can go 8
miles down stream and back in 5
hohrs, his average speed down and
up is 5-S miles per hour; 2 hours
and 40 minutes equal 2-3, or 8-3
hours; 8-3 divided bv 5-8 equals
S-3xS-5, which is GALS, or Ais.
p $500. Explanation B lost
32Q Therefore, the $500 he re-
ceived represents 1920 of his cost.
S306 divided by 1920 EQUALS $500,
BIS cost. $3.50 equals 90 of AS
cost. Divide $3.50 by 90.
81 48S. Explanation-The area
of a circle equals the radius squared
times pi (3.1416); 3x3x3 equals 81
cubic finches of metal available; 81
divided by 3-8x3x3.1416x1-8 equals
488.
4. $3.50 yards. Explanation-B
must 9ain 100 yards on A. gains
2 yards when he runs yards. There
fore, he has gained the 100 yards
when he has run $50 yards.
5. III / minute and "a seconds.
Explanation-Find the least common
multiple, meaning the least number
which contains all the prime factors
of each sof the given numbers. 8
equals, 3&1; equals Xxi; IL equals
2x2x3; Ii equals 2x7. 3x7x2x2
equals So seconds, or 1 minute and
"a seconds.
6. 52.38 per cent. Explanation
Assuming that he uses 1 pound at
each price, then pounds of mixed
tea will cost 35c plus 40c plus 60c
plus 75c. Divide this result by to
get cost of one pound. Subtract this
result from soc to give profit of l
pound. Divide the profit by the cost
to get the percentage of profit.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-24
Likes Fellowship Idea

To the Editor of The Enterprise
Dear Mr.. Editor: Your editorial in
last weeks issue was very good and
carried with it many far-reaching
conclusions. The one relating to
better and closer relationship with
the young whites for our people was
one, of very great merit and some
thing that should be pushed to the
utmost.
Negroes need never expect to be
more than they think themselves in
this world and what they think of
themselves others are bound to get
the same idea. With the thousands
of students now in training for GER
tain general and special lines of
work. under the general statement
that Negroes may ever expect to do
the common labor certainly would
have an unwholesome effect upon
the minds of those who must face
this old world now and in all future
days to come in America. For ME
| would hate to think of such thing.
Negroes need not set up a separ-
ate empire in America to become
self-supporting and dependent upon
themselves and the country indus
trially / believe that just as the
Negro has proved himself good SOL
der, waiter, porter, barber, doctor, or
anything else he can prove his worth
in making candies for profit and not
for salary or any other line he spe-
eializes in if he will. The best max
ers of. homemade bread and many
other things now being used are
made by members of the race; but
they do not profit by them. The age
is now approaching that stage where
men must use every method by which
honest business may take care of
themselves and their posterity and
the Negro must not be the exception
to this rule. Negroes must deal with
the white race in such way that
their presence will be of the proper
temper if good business relationships
are ever to be successful in any line.
And it would be a very wise thing
IL parents could instill that spirit of
friendship into their children for
the other fellow and go out of their
way to cause a closer relationship to
exist between the two races on every
occasion. IT'S very true that we
must at all times contend for right,
but rights do not always get bread
to eat IL in that contention there is
left a high state of i'll will in any
given community. Friendships and
goodfellowships working together
will, believe, work many otherwise
unavoidable wonders in these things.
] am, very truly yours,
ARTHUR l.. HAYES.
712 South 18th Street,
Tacoma, Washington.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-24
Loafing On Corners

A disgusting and disgraceful ten
dency we colored folks seem prone
to manifest and practice is the herd
ing together and aimlessly lettering
on certain street corners in our
neighborhoods. This foolish habit
is more to be observed on Saturdays
and Sundays during the summer
season when we are "all dolled up"
and are out to show "our glad rags"
Such actions as are practiced by our
people on popular corners on Jack
son street and East Madison street,
right here in Seattle. lay us open to
deserving criticism. COMPLAINTS have
been filed with the police depart
ment requesting them to keep the
crowds off the corners and we be-
lieve the police would do the COM
munity good turn if they broke
up this foolish, silly habit.
There is no occasion for us to
gather on these important corners
and obstruct traffic and make our
selves general nuisances. We can
understand whv this habit prevails
down south. There is no place to
go, as most of the clean places of
amusement and recreation are closed
to us, and we stand on the corners
down south to break the tragic mo-
notony of life. Up here there are
ample and sufficient places that we
have full access to for diversion and
relaxation. The theatres, Libraries.
lecture halls. churches, beaches and
our wonderful parks are open to all
without discrimination We should
use them and stop this disgusting
habit of congregating on corners
and making a show of ourselves,
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-24

The move on the part of the Hart
ley bunch to overthrow the actions
Of the Yakima convention, which en-
dorsed Dick Condor for national
committeeman, will hardly work, but.
should it do so, it would create a
breach in the Republican party that
would make it exceedingly difficult
for the factions to bridge over in the
general election. You are therefore
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-24
Lessons In English

Word Often Misused.
Do not say 81 tasted of the bread"
Omit "of."
Word Often Misspelled.
Liuuety; que. not qui.
Word Often Mispronounced.
Numerous; first as in "feud,"
not as 90 in "noon."
Synonyms.
Permanent, abiding, changeless,
constant, durable, enduring, lasting.
Word Study.
Use a word three times and it is
yours. Let us increase our vocabu-
larry by mastering one word week.
OBSESSI0N: a vexing idea that
dominates the mind. "His theory of
perpetual motion became an obses-
SION"
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-24
Letters to The Enterprise

Readers NAV write On any subject
they like. Usually s150 words are
enough. Beyond that expect the edi-
tors blue pencil Reading maketh
ready man. writing an exact man.
Sign name as evidence of good faith, 1t
will not be published If you so desire.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-24
Notice, Correspondents

All news matter and correspond
cnce must be in our office next week
by Tuesday, May 20, as Wednesday
is Decoration Day, a holalay.-THE
ENTERPRISE.
The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-05-24

Governor Hartley and his gang of
political high binders are ex-
periencing more or less trouble in
finding plant political tool, that
is. one with sufficient following to
amount to a tinker's damn, to pit
against Clark V. Savage for state
land commissioner, and, thus far, it
has not been done, and, it's a ten to
one shot, it won't be done; and
Savage is showing his good hard
horse sense by Getting the heathens
rage" The Hartley inuendoes of
Savage's official shortcomings to
the contrary Notwithstanding, yet it
can be said, and that too without
fear of successful contradiction, that
the state of Washington has never
had a more efficient, trustworthy
and painstaking official than Clark
V. Savage, and the voters realizing
it refuse to be stampeded by the
Hartley rawhide and bloody bones
story, even when told by such YER
satile political polyglot as !. Thomas,
who seems to live to tear others down,
and point to that as the greatness of
ME-. 1t is here predicted that Mr..
Savage will be overwhelmingly nomi-
mated at the coming primary election
and nomination will be equal to cleo
ton.
Evening star., 1928-05-18

slumped to the floor, apparently un-
Mrs. kellogg then ran to the apart
ment in which Payne lived ana asked
Mrs. Louis Lawrence 70 assist In getting
Payne up stairs.
When Mrs. Lawrence came down she
told kellogg that Payne had been Ill.
Kellogg said then that Mrs. Lawrence
was not strong enough TO assist, SO ne
alone picked Payne up and carried MN
to his apartment, where he placed nm
in a chair, returned to his wife's apart
ment to tell her that he was sorry 10
have made a scene. and lett.
Doctor Is Called.
Mrs. Lawrence called Or. James T.
Wolfe. 1875 Mintwood place, and ne
pronounced Payne dead on arrival. :.
After leaving Kellogg said he started
to his mothers apartment at % new
York avenue, but decided he had better
report the affair to police. so he stopped
at the second precinct and told Capt,
GUY r. Burfingame OF the affair, leaV-
ing his address and telephone number
in case Payne wished TO press assault
charges against him.
He had barely had time to reach
home when he was informed by teie-
phone OF FayneS ueatn, ana was dli iest~
ed there a short time later by Detective
l.. M. Wilson of the Detective Bureau.
He was taken 10 the lineup at police
headquarters today and afterward
ilnger-printed In the Identification Bu-
reau.
Payne, IL was said today by his sister.
Mrs. Howell Peoples. the wife of an ofli-
cial OF the Southern Railway, was a lieu-
tenant In the aviation during the World
War, volunteering when he was 40 years
old and past the draft age. He saw
service overseas.
He was a son Of the late Charles #.
Payne Of Warrenton, Va. and q nephew
Of the late Gen. William II. Payne, also
Of Warrenton. He Is survived by two
brothers, Col Brooke Payne. U. s. A..
retired Of Fredericksburg, Va, and j.
Keith Payne OF ST. Louis, Mo-. and three
Evening star., 1928-05-18
THE WEATHER

district of Columbia. Maryland. VIZ
,vinia and West Virginia-Partly clouoy
&nnf0Et and tomorrow: local tnunder-
,EfoWers tomorrow: little change 10
temperature.
Record for "A Hours.
Thermometer-4 pm, n; pm, ~:
~ midnight, 65; am, 64; a.ri1' o.
Pa, Bar,ometer-4 pm, 1904; pm,
m "a. - midnight. 30.o2: am, 29.9s;
am. 2o98; noon. 2o.e7.
Highest temperature, 90. occurred at
ais pm. yesterday.
Lowest temperature. s.. occurred a.
Ternperstsire Ten same date last year
Highest. Sc; lowest. SO.
Tide Tables.
fFs1rnashed by United States Coast and
Geodetic suryey9
Today--Low tide, l2:46 am. and ] 30
ON: high tide, 6:42 am. and 7:i2 pm.
Tornorrow-I1ow tide. 1886 am. and
2:23 pm; high tide. 7:s4 am. and sos
The Sun and Moon.
Today--Sun rose 4:53 am; sun sets
E:i6 pm.
Toaaorrow-Gun rises 4:53 am; sun
sets 1:1f pm.
Moon rises z.20 am; sets 6:24 pm.
Automobile lamps 70 be lighted one
hall houT after sunset.
Condition Of the Water.
oreat FaIis--clear.
Weather In Various Cities.
Evening star., 1928-05-18
SUES SMITH AIDES
FOR S82OFOR WORK
Los Angeles Woman Starts
/ Own Fund Probe as Re-
suit of Campaign.

LOS ANGELES, May ia Los
Angeles woman has her own campaign
fund inouiry-the question Of who'll
pay her $500 for work which she says
she did in the campaign of Gov.
Alfred E. Smith of New York in the
California presidential primary election.
Mrs Florence Gilmour carried that
question into court by fling suit here
Yesterday for that amount against the
Al Smith Presidential League, p. E. Alb
bott, Isadore b. Dockweiler, Democratic
national committeeman; Harry c. Baf-
fer, Mrs Marie A. Larkey.. Tom MIX
and others. whom. she declares, were
active in supporting Smith In the MAY
primary. which resulted IN the eleclon
OF Smith delegates TO the coming DEM
ocratic national convention.
Mrs. Cilmour's claim also threatened
20 figure in the senatorial campaign
Investigation when she received tele-
gram from United States Senator Fred
erick Steiwer. a member or the Sena-
torial committee now investigating
campaign expenditures, asking details
nf the suit. She forwarded the re-
ouested information by telegraph.
NFra Gilmour'S suit recountS that Sne
Uas esSared at the Smith headquar-
Es IA Southern California TO act as
ADVANCE agent for the speaking tour
AZ Mrs, Nellie Tayloe Ross, former GOV.
ernor of Wyoming. Mrs. Giimour Salo
she was to receive SIS day ana nef
exoenses for this work ana the or
Sarization of Smith -for-P President clubs
in orange. santa Barbara and Ventura
Counties. -r
on the same day that Mrs. Gilmour
SLED her S,lit here Smiths State CAM
naicn manager filed a statement at
sacramento showing primary campaign
rynenditures Of his committee 70 nave
ioeen sac .2eo6I. with contributions OF
the same amount.