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Black Barbara Frietchie

On the face of it there is nothing
alarming in the dedication of the
monument to Hayward Shepherd by
the Daughters of the Confederacy
at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia,
Saturday.
Shepherd was the B. and o. watch
man who was the first man to be
killed by John Browns men in the
celebrated raid of 1859.
In its Implications. the invasion
of a Northern state by the rebel
daughters 81 years after the Civil
War is as important as Confederate
war time raids into Pennsylvania.
First of all there is the plain evil
dence that these Confederate DANES
are as busy today fighting for the
"lost cause" as their ancestors were
from 1861 to 1865.
Second, they are seeking to Justify
secession by blackening the char
acter of the abolitionists and glorify-
ing slavery. So John Brown was
referred to as insane and a Grim
inal by the Daughters at the Ferry
Saturday, while frequent illusions
to "black mammies" and "Uncle
Toms" by the orator caused rebels
in the audience to SWIVEL audibly in
their handkerchiefs.s a.
Unfortunately our Confederate
white women are always able to
hoodwink into their ranks otherwise
'ensible persons black and white, anc
so on the platform Saturday sat the
Rev. DR.. George f. Bragg, colored
rector of St. James p. f. Church
There also was the Rev. Henry Nc.
Donald, white, president of Storer
College, at Harpers Ferry.
DR.. Bragg owes his freedom tC
men like John Brown; the Rev. Mr.
Mcdonald owes his Job to the fact
that John Browns raid made it plair
hat there were white men willing To
lie for Negro freedom.
While ostensi5lv the monument
IGNORED Shepherd, a freeman, the
rebel women very plainly said that it
vas also a memorial to true slaves
who stood by their masters during
he war for emancipation.
Under such circumstances no black
man should view with approval a
movement to desecrate the soil which
John Brown hallowed with his blood
But such dark setting as this
had one flaming Jewel in the person
Of Pearl Tattem, director of Storer
College singers who furnished mu-
sic for the OCCASION.
Though threatened by the rebel
women, Mrs. Tabtem, who was not
on the program to speak, announ-
eed that she was the daughter of a
Union veteran. who fought for the
'ause that John Brown made holy,
that slavery was curse and her own
yes were turned toward the future
and a new freedom for the Negro.
Here was an occasion which seem
ed to demand a Mamie Burroughs.
Mary Terrell, or a Mary Bethune.
Our men, ordinarily reliable. desert
ed the cause. but simple black
Connecticut Yankee woman picked
up the flag they dropped.
SiXty-nine years after Stonewall
Jackson marched into Frederick.
Maryland, the rebel daughter took
Harpers Ferry TO find this time a
black Barbara Frietehie who
Picked APP the flag the men
hauled down.
At her attic window, the staff
she set
To show that one heart was low
al yet.
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DEPT. COMMERCE
RELEASES LIST
OF NEGRO PAPERS


WASHINGTON, D. C.-Chicago,
New York and Los Angeles lead the
country in the number of weekly
newspapers published, according to a
survey released this week by James
A. jackson of the Department of
Commerce.
The new lists contain the addresses
of the news services which supply
news and features to the Negro press,
together with the names an d adj
dresses of publication offices and ed
itors or publishers, names of virtual
ly all Negro publications in the
country.
The pamphlet is subdivided into
ten sections. One hundred forty-four
weekly newspapers are mentioned,
together with monthly magazines of
general interest. IL trade journals,
3 labor organs, 20 religious publica-
tons, % college papers, 5 high school
papers, a fraternal and sorority jour
mails and 9 organs printed in the in
terest of benevolent societies.
Chicago has six weekly papers and
three monthly magazines to its credit
while New York has five weekly pa
pers and two monthly publications
and Los Angeles has four newspa-
pers.
In New York The Crisis and Or
portunity are official organs of the
N. A. A. C. P. and the Urban League,
respectively, while the Chicago mag
azines are privately owned publica-
tions.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, also has four
weekly paDers, as has Nashville,
Tenn. Washington, D. c.; st. Louis,
Mo-; Detroit, Cleveland and Cincin-
natl. Ohio, and Louisville, KY, each
have three papers.
Interest in the list, as disclosed
through requests and by letters of
commentator, is by no means con-
fined to colored people; in fact, trade
association, manufacturers and dis
tributors of goods have been respon-
sibe for the larger number of com
ments as to the service rendered
through making this information pub.
lie.
Mr.. Jackson states in his report
that the list is incomplete, as many
publications have not filed their
names and addresses with the de-
partment.
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This Is No Time To Give Up

When Benjamin Franklin landed
in Philadelphia he had one dollar and
twenty-five cents in his pockets.
Most of US remember the story of
his eating a loaf of bread on the
street on his arrival in Philadelphia,
and later of his marrying the girl
who laughed at him. When others
dawdled, Franklin worked; where
others wasted, he saved; while others
idled, he read. At first he worked
for wages, but finally he owned a
printing office of his own. Rather
than disappoint a customer he would
work all night. He was not above
taking his printing paper to his of
flee in wheelbarrow. BY his per-
severance and intelligent manage
ment he fought his way up the lad
der of success until he was recog-
nized as a man of power-printer,
journalist, inventor, statesman and
diplomat. He devised a remedy for
smoking chimneys; invented the
Franklin stove; made the bi-focal
lens; improved the printing press /;
told sailors how to better the rigging
of their ships; introduced practical
improvements in carriage wheels and
windmills. He set on foot a public
library in Philadelphia, and was ac-
tive in the matter of pavements,
street crossings, the establishment of
fire company and of a police force.
Although poverty when he
landed in Philadelphia, by his own
work and efforts he raised himself
from this low level to one of Ameri-
cas- most prominent and useful citi-
zens.
Abraham Lincoln was born in pow
erty. He lived in log hut. His
mother taught him to read the Bible.
He walked miles and borrowed other
books. He read by the light of a
fire place. He split rails. He work.
ed on farm, was hand on flat
boat tried store keeping, studied
law, was a candidate for the legisla-
ture, and the man with whom he
studied law later said of him: "He
was tall, gawky, rough-looking fell
low then; his pantaloons didn't meet
his shoes by six inches, but he made
very honest, sensible speech" Lin
coin worked hard, studied much, and
finally was elected President of his
country-one of the greatest men
who ever served in that capacity.
Booker T. Washington was born in
slavery. He entered life with the
handicap of being Negro. When
he was small he worked in salt fur
mace and coal mine. He entered
night school. He walked for miles
m tho Hamntnn sohOol for NeoroaS
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Marketing Negro
Spirituals

We are singing the NEGRO Spi-
rituals" on the stage-that is erst-
while church choirs have signed con-
tracts to appear before the theater-
goers and present their wares. White
choirs have been doing this before
and famous singers from Europe
have felt the urge TO sing their sa-
cred songs for pay but they did not
put the same premium upon their
songs that the colored people have
unfortunately put upon their spiri-
tuals. We say that our songs are
the sorrow SONGS of our unfortunate
forbears, who walled and moaned out
against their chains and letters, we
say that these songs exemplify a
beautiful and unparalleled religious
faith and fervor, they are deemed
sacred. These are the same spiri-
tuals that are moaned to bring sin
ners to the moaners bench amidst
the salutatons from the Amen
corner. They are now being present
ed upon the stage along with the
blues crooner, tap dancer, the SHIN
my twister and the picture moving
along with all the tempo of the jazz
age. To see and hear one of our
cheirs singing little David PLAY On
Your Harp, Hallelujah" is strangely
reminiscent of the levee blues and
the swaying of the singers bodies
as they play upon their imaginary
harps compares favorablv with the
popular step known as the "snake
hips" There might have been deep
fervor and spiritual feeling behind
these songs when the slave men sang
them but there certainly is none now.
We are now singing them on the
open market to the highest bidder
but when we do so we bring back the
memories of the rope, the lash and
the overseer.
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Some weeks ago a Negro maniac
around Birmingham, Ala, restrained,
shot and killed two white women.
The third one whom he shot, recov-
cred. Lately, while riding through
the streets of Birmingham, she saw
a colored man who doubtless looked
like the criminal who had shot her,
and she thus identified" him. Such
an identification" only means, if the
identifier is honest, that the accused
persons resemble closely the person
for whom he is taken; it does not,
cannot in reason, PROVE that he is
the person wanted. Only an expert
check-up of time and place, a sitting
of the evidence of "alibis," cool
dispassionate analysis of other ele-
ments besides Cooks" can determine
whether such identified" person is
the one wanted. In brief, only an
impartial and methodical court Of
law and evidence could determine
whether this colored young man was
the guilty party or not.
But in Alabama, as soon as this
girl identified" this Negro, he was
doomed, whether innocent or not.
Under the pretext of Questioning"
him, the officer struggled the brother
of the girl into the Jail and allowed
him to shoot the prisoner in cold
blood-an act equal in its eowardice
to the act of the maniac who had
killed the other girls. Only the act
of this white young maniac was far
more cowardly because he ran less
risk than the black criminal ran, and
knew that he was running less risk.
There is nothing romantic in the
shooting perhaps to death of this
black prisoner who was behind the
iron bars Of prison; it is lust plain
savage brutality.
1t is said that when his sister
identified" this Negro. the young
white fellow was $50 excitedp that he
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We Must Protest

The War Department has come
again into disrepute as far as Ne
groes are concerned. To its already
full list of racial crimes perpetrated
upon the Negro in the country's mil
itary service. it now adds the disin-
tegration of the Tenth Cavalry.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People is
very vigorously protesting this out
rage. Intelligent Negroes who pay
attention to Governmental maneu-
vers have added their voices to the
associations stand. DESPITE it all
however, the mounted unit has had
to relinquish everything except pos
sibly its uniforms.
The Tenth Cavalry has served bril-
liantly for the United States as a
combat unit. It's record is unblem-
ished. 1t has been successful in
fighting everything that threatened
Americas existence except the
beast of prejudice, now gnawing at
its vitals.
The department is guilty, also, of
practicing segregation within the
ranks of the country's defenders.
Negroes are not allowed to join the
Air Corps. The department gives as
its reason that an Interpretation of
a ruling by Congress, which says that
certain regiments shall be composed
of Negroes, forbids that Negroes and
whites should be mixed in military
circles. The War Department bases
this prohibition on ''the spirit of
Congress"
There can be little doubt, in the
face of past actions, that the idea
originates with the War Department.
1t has continually shown itself head
ed by petty. prejudice and practical
" unprincipled executives who have
gone, time and again out of their
way to heap insults upon Negroes
in the service.
The War Department is merely a
part of the Federal Government
which Negroes help support. Under
the Constitution the department Is
subject to dictation and suggestions
from the President, but until now
he has been too busy appointing COM
missions to hear the protests con
corning insults heaped upon millions
of the republics citizens.
The slap in the face given the
Tenth Cavalry is a slap for every
Negro in the country. The segre-
cation now being practieed by the
War Department is worse; but mere
~ standing idly by will do no good.
Negroes should add their voice to
the N. A. A. c. P's stand. The ac-
ton of the War Department is a
crime and Negroes should let Wash
ington know that they feel that way
about It.
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mothers were washer women; there
have been great men whose fathers
were drunkards; there have been
hundreds who have lifted themselves
from poverty and illiteraey to wealth
and knowledge.
In these times when thousands are
crying for food and clothing, to them
life's pathway seems dark and dreary
indeed. Success seems far in the dis
lance. The night hovers and want
stands at the door ready at any mo-
ment to knock. The nerves and
courage of hundreds and hundreds
are being tested to the point of
breaking. The natural step is to
lose confidence, give up hopes, and
quit.
But examples like the ones we
have cited in Franklin, and Lincoln,
and Booker T. Washington are shin
ing lights reckoning to you to hold
on. But you say that these men were
examples of rare intelligence. They
surely were. Their choice in the
matter proves this beyond the shad-
ow of doubt.
Suppose Franklin had quit when
he landed at Philadelphia with the
rolls of bread and the SIPS, His
wise sayings, his craftsmanship, his
diplomacy, and his inventions would
never have been heard of-his name
would not have gone in history as
one of Americas greatest men.
Suppose Lincoln had been con-
tented to have dwelt in log cabin
to have remained unlearned, to have
been contented as a flatboat hand.
He never would have occupied the
Presidential chair.
Suppose Booker T. Washington,
that poor ignorant Negro boy, born
in slavery, some nights as he slept
under a sidewalk gazing through the
cracks at Gods shining stars beck
oning him to strive on, had given up,
quit the fight, and had gone back
the next morning fully contented in
his own mind to be nothing but a
lowly, despised Negro. But that Ne
gro didn't quit. He had confidence
in himself even in adversely and he
fought his way from the cradle of
slavery to be recognized as the most
eminent Negro the world has ever
known.
You, who are out there undergo
ing the hardship and trials of pow
erty, discouraged, heartsick, and in
need-are you going to give up?
Why, bless your souls, of course,
you are not! Franklin was poor,
and the girl who later married him
laughed at him as he munched a
piece of bread. Lincoln was poor,
awkward, and his pantaloons did not
fit: but he had the courage to arise
from his environments. Booker T..
Washington was a poor, oppressed
Negro boy; but he saw the hand of
opportunity waving him royal well
come and by an uphill route he
wendell his way to the open door and
walked in. All could have remain
ed poor; all could have remained ig-
norant; all could have remained lost
on the great sea of humanity but
they chose the higher plane and won.
All cannot be great, but by the eter-
nal heavens, all can do the best they
can: they can have confidence in
themselves-an if this is done much
will be done to relieve the depres-
sed condition. This is no time to
give upi
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WORDS OFTEN MIsSPELLED
Slaughter. Observe the augh.
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WORD STUDY
PERSONIFICATION; m b d Ii =
ment, incarnation. "He was the per-
sonification of good-natured indo-
lence."
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English
WORDS oFTEN MIsusEn

Do not say, 81 wish that it was
true" We're is required after wish
Say, 81 wish that it were true"
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You Can Buy
THE ENTERPRISE
At These Places

In Seattle you can buy The Enter
prise each week at the following
places:
Liberty Newsstand at End and
Union; 3rd Ave. and Pike and 9Th
Ave. and Pike.
Persons Barber Shop, $40 Jack
son St.
The Tobacco Box, 600 Jackson st.
Golden West Hotel, 418 7th Ave.
South.
Coast Hotel, 504 9th Ave. South.
Robinson's Drug Store, 18th Ave.
and Jackson st.
Browns Pharmacy, 2311 East
Madison st.
Gath Ave. Grocery, 1890 Gath Ave.
Joe's Cafe, 302 Main st.
The DeLite, 2201 f. Madison St
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WORDS OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED
Munich Germany. Pronounce
mu-nik, u as in "unit," as in click"
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Herb Specialist
Chinese

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ian. trenting am nil-
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With Ihe Chinese nature
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Salaries of Actors Cut

NEW YORK.-Salaries for actors
in "Singin" the Blues" were cut one
third Saturday and the whole show
will run on a week to week basis
from now on.
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SYNONYMS
WORD STUDY

Innocence, blamelessness, guiltless
ness, sinlessness, guilessness.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-01-23
HAMILTON FISH COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS 0UTLAWING OF COMMUNIST PARTY

WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. IT. Fourteen recommendation for deal ing with Communism in the United States, including outlawry of the party, were made to the House to- day by Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York and his com mitteemen.
 Other recommendations include the following:
 Strengthening of the immigration laws to prevent admission of Com munists.
 Enlarging the authority of the Department of Justice to investi- gate activities.
 Provide additional funds for de- portation.
 Forbid naturalization to Commun- ists.
 Keep students of Communism out although born in the United States.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-01-23
Chicago Hotel Safe Gives Up Secrets Of Underworld Crime
RECORDS REVEAL ILLICIT DEALS BETWEEN POLICE, POLITICIANS. GANGSTERS

CHICAGO, H., Jan. 19-The po- lice tore the lid off a veritable Pan dora's box and crime secrets have sent shudders quivering through the underworld and purported pub lie allies.
 Detectives swooped down on the Rex hotel, from whence the gang of Al Capone for years sent forth henchmen to deal in liquor, gamb- ling and other vices,a and emerged with two safes full of records which authorities describe as astounding.
 Assistant States Attorney Charles Miller said the records cast shad- ow of suspicion into every branch of the government in Cook County, and even into Congress.
 Officials said the records show il- licit dealings between Capone gang sters. policemen, politicians, public officials including what they des- cribed as thames we don't even dare talk about yet"
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-01-23
Air Mail For
 Alaska Believed To Be Assured
AIRWAYS WILL BRING HANG.
 AR TO WRANGELL; DREDG- ING OF DRY PASS DISCUSSED

According to announcement made by F. G. Hanford before the Mon day noon meeting of the Wrangell Commercial Club, the question of air mail to Alaska will be settled within a few days, and in fact may have been settled by this time. MT. Hanford secured his information from officials of the Alaska Wash 1ngton Airways during his recent visit to Seattle. The plan of this company, which expects to secure the contract for delivering Alaskan air mail, calls for a delivery every other day. A new hangar will be constructed in Juneau and the one now in use in Juneau will be brought to Wrangell, where 1t will be located on the harbor near town
 Assuming his new office of pres ident of the club, pr. R. N. Scruby expressed his appreciation to the club for the honor shown him, and cited a number of activities which he hoped the club would be able to engage in, including additional cold storage facilities, close atten- tion to the possibilities of the Shoe maker Bay development, possibili- ties of tourist traffic and several other projects.
 A letter was read from the Ketchikan chamber stating that the matter of dredging Dry Pass on Prince of Wales Island was to be pressed, and asking for the coop eration of the Wrangell club A questionnaire included to be filled out to show the need of this work was delivered to Walter Waters to be distributed on the trip he is now making on the west coast, The club expressed itself fully in favor of aiding in all ways to secure the work of dredging Dry Pass,
 Rev. Russell F. Pederson, chair man of the finance committee asked for "a ruling concerning the time dues become payable and the length of time covered by payment of dues On motion the club declared dues to be payable not later than March s1~o of the current year, and it was further held that the club year be- gins January 1 and closes December 1, regardless of when dues are paid.
 Rev. Corser reported that appar- ently it would be impossible to se- cure a totem for exhibition at the Paris Exposition.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1931-01-23
All Ready For
 Plenty WhOOpee At Legion Party
BANQUET, BASKETBALL GAME DRUM AND BUGLE CONTEST DANCE, WILL BE FEATURES

At least one hundred local and visiting legionnaires and members of the legion auxiliary are expected to gather at the banquet in the Redmen's hall tomorrow evening as the first official feature of the party planned by the Wmngell legion in honor of visiting comrades from Ketchikan and Petersburg.
 Word received from Petersburg today indicates that twenty or more will come from that town, in ad- dition to the basketball team and rooters. The Hazel B. will bring the official legion party from that town.
 From Ketchikan at least sixty are expected, arriving on the hali- but schooner Mckinley and another unnamed boat.
 Ketchikan is bringing a five-piece orchestra to provide music for the dance, which will be held in the gymnasium. Both Petersburg and Ketchikan are bringing drum and bugle corps, which will parade the streets of Wrangell during the af- ternoon, and during an intermission at the dance will stage a competi- tion for a cup to be offered by the Wrangell post.
 Between the banquet and the dance Petersburg and Wrangell teams will stage a basketball game at the rink, and it is hoped that before their departure Sunday the visitors may be shown around Wrangell and taken to the Shoe maker Bay project, about which they may possibly have heard.
 Under the suspervfsion of Mrs. F. Dunn and with the active assistance of every member of the Wrangell Legion Auxiliary, "a spread is being prepared which will set a high mark in Wrangell. Numerous le- zion and auxiliary officials are to speak, since the gathering will in clude several departmental officers and some of the best-known spell binders in Southeast Alaska.
 Special permission has been ob- tained from the council to continue the dance until early morning, and with the exception of the one un- certain element, the weather, all is in readiness to stage the biggest and best legion blowout seen in the Panhandle for many year.
 The banquet is set for o'clock sharp and will start at that time providing that the Ketchikan con tingent has not been delayed in ar rival by the weather.