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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-01-29
BY DIR. CARTER C. wooDsoN


In their own as well as In their
mixed schools, Negroes are taught
to admire the Hebrew, the Greek
the Latin and the Teuton and ia
despise the African. The thought OF
the inferiority of the Negro is
drilled into him in almost every
class he enters and almost every
book he -studiess II he happens to
leave school after he masters the
fundamentals, before he finishes
high school or reaches college, he
will naturally escape some of this
bias and may recover in time to be
of service to his people.
Practically all of the successful
Negroes in this country are of this
type or of that of Negroes who have
had no formal education at all. The
large majority of the Negroes who
have put on the finishing touches
of our best colleges are all but
worthless in the uplift of their
people.
If after leaving school they have
the opportunity to give out to Ne
groes what traducers of the races
would like to have it learn, such
persons may earn living. but they
never become constructive force
in the elevation of those far down
Howard Ph.D. Knew Nothing Of
Negro
The explanation of this is a
simple problem. The schools and
colleges Of this country are so con.
Quoted as to produce this result
For example, an officer of Howard
University, thinking that an add.
tional course on the Negro should
be given there, called upon Doc.
tor of Philosophy of the faculty to
offer such work. He promptly in.
formed the officer that he knew
nothing about the Negro. He die
not go to school to waste his time
that way. He went to be educated.
Hampton Prof. Used Anti-Negro
Texts
Last year at the Hampton Insti
tute summer school. white instruc
tor gave course on the Negro, US
ing for his text q work of jerome
Dowd, who teaches that whites are
superior to the blacks. When asked
by one of the students why he usec
such textbook, the instructor re
piled that he wanted them to gel
Dowd's point. of view. If schools
for Negroes are places where the,
are convinced of their inferiority
how can the race escape from it,
tormentors and rise to recognition
and usefulness? 1858
Propaganda in Schools 81
AS another has we'll said, t.
handicap a student by teaching hin
that his black face is curse ant
that his struggle to change his con
dition is hopeless is the worst sor
of lynching. 1t kills ones aspira
tons and dooms him to vagabond
age and crime.
All friends of the truth. al
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-01-29
By. WILLIAM PlckENs

(For The Associated Negro Press
The false reports in the news
about inter-racial troubles keep the
American white people from having
even chance to get rid of their pre-
JUDGES against the Negro. In the
daily newspapers, for example. we
have just been reading about two
Negro bandits and their woman ac-
complete at Ste. Genevieve, Mis-
souri,, being under arrest for. the
coldblooded. murder of q white man
and the intent and effort to murder
another. BUT AT THE INQUEST,
and after this false and damaging
news has traversed the entire news
paper world never to be overtaken
or recalled. it develops that the two
colored men were not robbers, that
no robbery was committed, and that
no "cold blooded". killing was done
at all. The two Negro men and a
young woman hired white man to
drive them a short distance for a
dollar. The white man took friend
along. On the way toward the Ar
kansas border. as is sometimes the
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Brother and Sister

THE Kaiser, God damn him. even
has tried to destroy the statue of his
own grandmother" King George of
England declared bitterly to General
Pershing and the United States am.
bassador, Walter Hines Page.
The scene was Buckingham Palace
in London and the date June II,
1917. King George referred to the
night bombing of London by Ger
man zepps and pointed to a statue
of the late Queen Victoria, just out
side the window.
That was more than thirteen years
ago.
Miss Clara Bow, motion picture
actress. justified her suit against her
secretary, who she alleged had mis-.
used $4,000, in this language: at
makes me feel like hell. honest. But
what's girl gonna do? Let little
blonde do her out of lot of dough-
HELP and God damn"
General Pershing says King George
was indignant, not profane.
Apologists for Miss Bow also might
allege that she was mad, not vulgar
However. the evidence here is that
an angry king and an angry red
haired film actress are brother and
sister under the skin.
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Chicago Parole
Officer Arrested
(Continued from Page 1l


Harrison had promised clemency to
four white men now in the peniten-
tiary. These men were notified. it
is said, that for $1,000 each they
may expect pardons or paroles.
Mrs. Sigmund Smolek, white,
Tooth street and Cicero avenue, wife
of former inmate of Pontiac ref
ormatory, made a confession of the
allegede scheme to police. Her hus-
band also confessed. They are both
in custody.
Officials of the parole board were
notified. In view of Harrison's al
legged refusal to take the marked
money and his purported statement
that he was tipped off by "some one
in the board" not to take the money
it is believed that the prosecutors
were double-crossed. +s
Harrison before his appointment
was an assistant attorney general,
1925-28, and was once a candidate
for Congress from the First District
against Oscar DePriest. ~
He is originally from Oklahoma,
where he was at one time a special
Judge in Oklahoma county.
He is an ex-grand chancellor of
the X. of p, deacon and Sunday
school superintendent of Olivet Bap-
fist church, Of which the Rev. L. X.
Williams, head of the National Bap-
fist convention, is pastor.
= He has practiced law and lectured
all over the country for twenty-eight
years. He is known as silver
tongued orator. He is an Elk, Kap-
pa Alpha Psi, and holds degrees from
Livingstone, Walden and Roger Will
liams universities.
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Propaganda In Schools And Colleges
Tend To Make Negroes Despise Race

+, lovers of freedom should rise up
against the present propaganda in
the schools and crush it. This cru
SADIE us much more important than
the anti-lynching movement, be-
cause there would be no lynching
if it did not start in the school
room. Why not exploit, enslave, or
exterminate a class that everybody
is taught to regard as an inferior
being,
Wall Street Psychology
The points, of attack may be
easily discovered. In the schools of
bust n ess administration Negroes
are trained exclusively in the psy-
chology of Wall Street and are,
therefore, made to despise the OPP
portunities to run, ice wagons. push
banana carts, and sell peanuts
among their own people. Foreign
ers, who have not studied these
things but have studied Negroes,
take up this business, and grow
rich. fIt
journalism
In schools Of journalism Negroes
are being taught how to edit such
metropolitan dailies as the Chicago
Tribune and the New York Times,
which would hardly hire a Negro as
.janitor; and when such graduates
come to the Negro weeklies for en-
ployment they are not prepared to
function in such establishments,
which to be successful must be
built upon accurate knowledge of
the psychology and philosophy of
the Negro. In other words, the
longer Negroes attend the present
day schools the worse off they are.
History Week
During Negro History Week,
then, we should emphasize the inn
portance of the reconstruction of
the curricula. Both Negroes and
whites should be taught the eternal
truth of the equality of man. Ne
gro students especially should be
taught about the rock from which
they were hewn and the status of
the people among whom they must
live and move. The so-called intelli-
gent class cannot rise any higher
than those far down. The teamsters
and hodcarriers will get their rights
| a. tuc odlic tiHic Siot tNc PhO1CS-
sional men get theirs.
live as Leeches
In the schools there should be not
only courses in Negro History but
also in the literature, art. psyckol-
ogy, but philosophy of the race. Be-
cause these things have been neg
lected, our most learned" Negroes
cannot recite an African folk-tale,
have never heard of the works of
Es-Ssdi, and know very little about
the rising Negro writer's Of today.
Negroes Of this type, then, do not
cooperate with the churches; they
) avoid welfare organizations; and
they seldom, participate in Negro
enterprises. In fact. they give back
practically nothing to, the people
J upon whom they live as leeches. i,
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Manfactlr Race Prejudice.

habit of white men of southern Mis-
souri,, and of Arkansas, the two
white men made inddcedept advances
to the colored woman. The colored
men protested. White men Of that
kind resent the presumption of Ne.
gro men in defending a colored wo.
man, even though She be escorted by
the colored men. One of these white
men struck one of the protesting
Negro men and got shot through, this
heart. In the fight the other white
man was also shot and supposed ia
be dead and both thrown in the
river. - m
This is the sad part about it
When colored men in the south com.
init violence in self-defense against
white people. then through fear 'oi
prejudice and mobs they proceed to
what is unlawful,-to hide the re
suits of the action as if they were
criminals. NJ
And for this the Negro population
of Ste. Genevieve. many. of. whom
have lived there for generations
were driven out by imobs, while pa.
.pers all over the country spoke pal.
liating of the expulsion.
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English
Words Often Misuacd

Words Often Misused
Do not confuse "hence" (from this
place) with thence" (from that
place., and do not use from" with
either word. Say. Hence We shall
go to Detroit
Word Often Misspelled
Garnishee, garnisheed, garnishee-
ing; each word retains the double e.
Words Often Misnronounccd
Avenue. Pronounce av-e-new, a
as in at, as in me, accent first
syllable, not av-e-noo'.
Synonyms
Engagement, skirmish, battle. en-
counter, combat, conflict, contest.
Word Study
"Use word three times and it is
yours" Let us increase our vocabu-
larry by mastering one word each
week.
Eminent: prominent; high in es-
teem;' distinguished. 81 was told by
an eminent authority"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-01-29

An old writer has written that
''well-meaning fools do more harm
than the wicked" A well-meaning
fool is one who is submerged in ig-
norance and does not know it. This
race of Colored Americans is being
harmed immeasurably by its own ig-
norance. Those who can read and
write are in no sense intelligent or
intellectual. There are millions OF
fools who can read and write. While
the Colored race may be over 30
per cent literate, this literacy does
not eliminate or dissolve our mass
ignorance. Pope, in his essay on
man, writes that, "a little learning
is a dangerous thing. drink deep or
taste not the Pierion spring" A
little learning makes ignorance
more stubborn and almost totally
destroys the ability of the individual
to know that he is ignorant.
The abject ignorance of the Col
ored race in this country is APPALLING.
II is ignorance that halts and checks
our advance in business and eco
nomics and throws us upon the mer-
cy of few well-meaning fools who
see through the glass but darkly.
In politics well meaning fools
have timorously touched the ques-
tons of political privileges and have
shrunk away in horror screaming
that the time was not ripe. They
have been advocates of segregation,
have been apostles of inferiority
have been scape-goats, tale-bearers
and stool-pigeons and the great trag-
edy is that they thought they were
acting wisely and doing right. The
well-meaning fool in politics has GER
tainly caught the ear of his fellows
and prolonged the unfortunate status
of his people. The history of the
Colored Republican will prove this
condition.
A a social creature, again the
well-meaning fools have gummed up
the picture. They cry out that we,
the Colored people, do not want So
cial equality but merely equality of
opportunity. They do not know that
ono precludes the other and they
cannot be inveigled into learning
the truth because they think they
know. A disconnected vision of dem
ocracy has confused their interpre-
tation of real democracy and they
go blindly stumbling and cropping
with countless thousands following in
their train.
In our religious life, the fervent
Bible-beater, who in many cases is a
well-meaning fool, has obscured the
true meaning Of religion and has
impoverished the masses with his
plaintive pleas for more money to
build churches with. These ill-guided
and ignorant souls have taken money
out of circulation and hampered the
advance of actual wholesome liv-
ing.
The weil-meaning fools of our
race. the great tribe of the ignor-
ant. the dense and thick-headed are
the strongest forces in holding our
people down. God grant that the
light of knowledge and information
will come upon us and drive from
our midst the well-meaning ignor-
ants who do not know and cannot
know
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The abject ignorance of the Col
ored race in this country is APPALLING.
Il is ignorance that halts and checks
our advance in business and eco
nomics and throws us upon the mer-
cy of few well-meaning fools who
see through the glass but darkly.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-01-29
Whites Careles. of Books

AUSTIN, Texas.-Colored chill
dren take better care of school
books than white boys and girls, the
Texas State Board of Education dis
covered in. a survey made of the
free text books furnished to public
schools. III
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Try the league

Mr.. Raymond Leslie Buell., writing
in the January IL issue of the Chris
tian Science Monitor, suggests that
the United States surrender its pres
ent parental control over Liberia in
favor of a system of international
direction under the auspices of the
League of Nations.
In eighty-four years of United
States tutelage Liberia, founded as
a refuge for ex-slaves, has not been
able to reach and educate its $780,
900 people, nor to unity them by
means of common language. The
government has failed to foster pub
lie works, agriculture or public
health.
For ten years Uncle Sam has not
only tolerated forced labor and slav-
ery-as exposed by the recent inter
national commissions report = b u t
has stood back of President King, a
tyrant who has violated the spirit
and purpose of Liberals founding
and enlightened public opinion, by
maintaining himself in office for ten
years through means Of fraudulent
elections.
United States control has not pre-
vented England and France from
stealing large slices of Liberian ter
ritory. 1t has permitted and blatantly
justified private United States finan-
cial interests in replacing 30-year Lii
berian obligations at 5 per cent with
a $5.000,000 loan running So years
at per cent.
Mr.. Buell's proposal has merit.
The league might do a better job in
Liberia than Uncle Sam. 1t scarcely
could do worse.
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Legion Favors Bonus Now

CHARLOTTE, N. C.-The Colo
mel Charles Young Post, No. 1853,
American Legion, is asking all posts
of the legion to write their, various
state representatives in Washing
ton, asking them to vote in favor Of
full payment of compensation bonus
certificates of World War veterans.
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Edict Ends Winter League

LOS ANGELES.-Judge Lands
has issued an edict which suspends
the Winter Leaguers from further
playing at the field. The leagucrs
are Kelly Kars, Royal Giants, Shell
Oil and Commercial Club. Poor at
tendance is said to be the cause of
the edict.
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Harlem Seeks 500, 600

NEW YORK CITY.-A mass
meeting to raise 100000 for relief
of the unemployed was held at Zion
Church, West 137th Street, Sunday,
under the auspices of the Harlem
Cooperating Committee on Relief
and Unemployment.
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If You Feel
Weak and Sickly
Take Warning Now!

Tired? Run down? Feeling
out of sorts? That's natures
danger sign that you're out of
condition.
Right now, this minute, you're
probably suffering from vitamin
starvation. Even if you eat
three meals a day you're not
getting all the vitaminS you
need. The way to get these
vitaminS is to take cod liver oil.
But don't take it the old-fash-
Toned liquid way. Take it in
tiny taSteleSS tablets.
McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Tablets
will give you all the vitaminS of
the pure Norway cod liver oil
from which they're made. All
the benefits are there. Every
thing but the bad taste. Your
guarantee of this is the seal of
approval of the Good House
keeping Institute.
So to get back on the road to
normal health and vigor, start
taking McCoy's today. You can
get them at any drug store; and
once you see how they help you,
you'll thank us for this advice.
so tabletS-60 cents.-Advertise-
ment.
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ton has had to face during the cur
rent session, was one of nine House bills
affecting Montgomery and Prince
Georges County passed by the Senate
and sent to the Governor Saturday
night.
The bill was passed with amend
ments exempting the towns Of Glen
Echo, Brookmont and Mohican Hills,
but this amendment must now be con-
Cured in by the House.
The only other Montgomery House
bill passed authorizes a $175,000 bond
issue for the completion Of the Rock
vile Court House. the purchase OF a
site for a proposed new county building
at Silver Spring and the sale Of the
present county building.
Two Montgomery County Senate bills,
providing that county repositories be
bonded and authorizing 10000 police
fund deficit bond issue were passed by
the upper branch, however, and sent to
the House.
Important Prince Georges bills given
final passage In the Senate and sent to
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ACTRESS ATTORNEY
TO CALL MRS. WINSHIP
Widow Will Be Listed as Chief
Witness in Suit to Recover
Trust Fund.
az the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, April edward
Cunha, attorney. said today he would
list Mrs. Dorothy Blount Winship as
chief witness in a proposed suit against
the estate Of her husband, the late
Emory winship. for the benefit Of Helen
Thompson, film actress.
The actress, prior to Winship's suicide
here March 81, had received 5000
monthly from the former naval officer
because Of friendly interest" The
payments were made. Cunha said, from
a $4,000 trust fund created by Win
ship in the Irving Trust Co., New York.
Mrs Winship, he said, ordered pay
ments stopped.
Cunha said as soon as an executor
was legally appointed in Macon. Ga,
where Winships will was filed for pro-
bate Saturday, he would file suit for
recovery of the trust for Miss Thompson,
whom the will ignored. The will pro-
vided $3.50 monthly for Mrs. Winship
on the condition she does not marry
again.
ITO prove our case we shall use Mrs.
Winship as chief witness" Cunha said.
This may seem unusual, but then the
entire situation is unusual. We know
Mrs. Winship was aware Of her hus-
bands relations with Miss Thompson.
Cunha said his suit would be based
on the supposition Winship's mind was
troubled by events leading up to his
suicide.
Women are not allowed to appear
without q hat in English courts.
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ROAD RIGHT OF WAY
CONTEST IN court
Lee BouIevard-van Every
Suit in Arlington to Be
Argued Friday.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va, April 6.-The cross
bill fled by the State Highway Commits
sion through its attorneys, F. Shields
McCandlish and Charles Pickett of
Fairfax, on the injunction secured sew
eral weeks ago by Mrs. Virginia Van
Every and the heirs of the late E. B.
Van Every of Arlington County pro-
hibiting the State Highway Commits
sion from working on the Lee Boulevard
right of way through the Van Every
property, was heard Saturday at Fair
fax Court House before Judge Walter
Mccarthy The evidence en- both sides
was completed late Saturday. Argu-
ments will be heard Friday at Arlington
County Court House, provided Judge
Mccarthy, who opens court today in
Prince William County, can spare the
day.
Option Presented.
The State Highway Commission,
through its attorneys, presented to the
court an option contract signed by the
late e B. Van Every granting the Lee
Boulevard Association a right of way
through his property. which would take
approximately four acres of land. This
contract was later assigned by the
boulevard association to the State. The
State claims that the terms of this
option contract we're complied with by
the association prior to April l, 1926,
the date of expiration provided the con-
ditions named in the contract were not
met.
Mrs. Van Every and her children
testified that the conditions had not
been fulfilled They stated they had
been informed by officers of the aSso-
ciaticn that the contract would expire
in 80 days If construction Of the boule-
ward had not been started within that
time and all other necessary rights Of
way obtained.
The State brought forward as wit
neSses DR.. S. NJ. johnson, w. S. Hoge,
jr.; j. Hammond Brewer, Mrs. Elizabeth
Chambers and her daughter of Airing
ton County, who testified that they
were members of a party which went
TO the Van Every home March 90, 1925,
and Informed Van Every that the CO.
operation Of the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, State High
way Commission, communities and
other land owners had been obtained, as
stipulated in the contract.
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the Governor provide for the rental Of
q metropolitan district building in
Hyattsville, the adoption of a building
code for the metropolitan district of the
county and the appointment Of an in
spector to see it is enforced and the re-
peal of the present police force law.
Other Prince Georges measures which
originated In the House and were read
the third time in the Senate authorize
a referendum on the question OF paying
salaries to the mayor and councilmen of
Mount Rainier, define the boundaries of
that town and provide for a $4,000
bond issue for street improvements in
Laurel.
A bill introduced by Delegate Rich
ard G. zantzinger increasing the pay of
the stenographer to the Circuit Court
to SIS day was also finally passed in
the Senate.
The House became so embroiled in
arguments over committee reports 1t
failed to reach its third reading file be-
fore both branches recessed until today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-06

Eliminate the Irksomeness
of Shaving!
Snow" does away with
razors, soap, brush and Incl
dentally with the pains, cuts
and smarting of shaving.
Gives a clear, smooth shave,
too.
Works effectively, but is
perfectly harmless. A pack
age contains enough for one
to two months.
PALAIS ROYAL--Main Floor
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Meeting at Bowie School.

BOWIE, Md, April Especially The
regular monthly meeting of the Lanham-
Severn Road Association is scheduled
tonight at the Bowie School. 1t is
expected formal announcement will be
made Of the killing of the bill in the
House Of Delegates at Annapolis which
would have authorized $780, 900 bond
issue for construction of State road
from Lanham to Severn. The asso-
citation was organized to work for this
road
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Standards, was elected vice president in
his place.
The board decided to proceed with
the program of expansion authorized at
a previous meeting. Twenty-three thou
sand dollars have been appropriated for
erection of an addition to the present
fire house.