The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-03-26

! While President Hoover enjoys
himself on ten-day vacation in Por-
to Rico and the Virgin Islands. you
wonder if the bread lines will soon
claim you as a tenant.
Hope with Col. Wood that things
get better and jobs more plentiful
not necessarily for Negroes. for. as
you know, if money is in circulation
yours, even if they threaten to shoot
| you at sunrise.
Mr.. Ira T. Bryant, editor of Young
Allenite, is always aiming his ammu-
milton at somebody of the A. M. E.
church.
If you follow Mr.. Bryant, it would
seem that the joy of his life is to
say something bitter about the bish-
ops, presiding elders and some of the
preachers.
Many of you, especially number
of A. M. Z. ministers, regardless of
what they say with their mouths, are
with Bryant in their hearts.
Not so long ago Mr.. Bryant wrote
that the Rev. w. A. Lewis, imminent
divine of Nashville, could neither
preach, sing, pray or whistle.
To make things worse, Mr.. Bryant
also claimed that Rev. Lewis took
check sent to him by Bishop Carey
for mission church and spent it for
himself.
That settled it right there; Rev.
Lewis was hurt in his feeling and
his reputation for honesty was in
suited. He asked the court to award
him $4,000 from Mr.. Bryant's hold
ings.
Two trials were held; the first
gave Rev. Lewis $4,000 Judgment.
Mr.. Bryant appealed.
When the second trial was called
Rev. Lewis was too busy to show up
and Judge E. P. Langford dismissed
the suit.
Now, many will never know wheth-
er Rev. Lewis can really preach.
adding singing, praying and whist
ling along as gravy for the yokels.
Melvin Cole, white, Ia, confessed
setting fire to his fathers $4,000
barns and silo at Colesville, Mary
and, in order to see the engines run.
He also admitted firing two other
homes in the past two years.
When first arrested. he exhibited
slashed clothing and told of having
been cut by Negro whom he caught
setting fire to his fathers property
Last week the Enterprise told OF
the case of William Harper who. af-
ter two trials, was freed of the
charge Of criminal assault upon Dor
othy Skaggs, white woman of easy
virtue. At the first trial third
degree" confession which police had
secured from him, was introduced.
and Harper was condemned to the
electric chair and would long since
have been dead but for w. p. Kid,
white man with wife and con-
science, who came forward and swore
that he was out all night with Mrs.
Skaggs on the night she said she
was assaulted.
Harper was freed because among
his friends were the N. A. A. c. r..
and the conscience of Mr.. Kid, who
was unwilling that an innocent man
should die for his nights fun"
White folk have been blaming
their troubles on Negroes for GEN.
turtles. but things will get better. as
we are able to expose more of these
false attributions.
The question as to whether or not
young people should take nip is
agitating the country.
A Kansas newspaper reports young
women in small rural high schools
lob tkAx knx
to he sent home.
The Concord. North Carolina.
Ministerial Union deplores arrest of
''some poor Negro" for drinking
when rich and influential whites get
drunk frequently at public dances
and police, fearing for their jobs.
decline to interfere.
Seventeen University of Minnesota
/, white students were suspended for
drinking and two student bootleggers
were dismissed.
No one should be surprised that
the continued agitation of the pro-
hibition question by the older folks
should lead the younger folks to try
out the claims of both vets and drys.
Although Oscar DePriest is the
! only Negro representative in Con-
gress, and although he and his wife
dine at the table with the mobiles of
/ the country he stands for that which
is fair and square among all sections
of our country.
He can take care of any situation.
whether to oppose a white man or a
! black man on an issue of right
against wrong.
And although he can claim as
much white blood as black blood, he
says: 81 do not know how much
white blood ! have in my veins and
| don't care, am Negro"
We need more men and women
like him, who are not always ready
to want to be with the other race,
as soon as they find that they can.