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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-24
Locals, Rio Grande
City Split 2 Games

The Palmer Tigers and Rio
Grande City split a double-header
here Sunday, the visitors winnisg
the morning affair 81 and the
locals coping the decision In the
afternoon CT.
The opening game was the better.
In the ninth inning with the score
tied IL. Santo Sanchez, Rio Grande
first baseman. slapped one over the
right field fence for a home run.
This was the first ball ever knock
ed over the right field fence in the
new park.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-24
pINER FORECAST

There will be a slight to moderate
rise in the river during the next
"a TO SO hours.
Flood Present 1A-Hr x4-Hr
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-24

Hearing as a rule Is more acute
with the right a than with the
left.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-19
Macarthur Friend Of
Public Utilities

j. W. Macarthur, former state leg
islator. who is now a candidate for
the city council, has declared him
self strongly in favor of EMPLOYING
local labor on a five-day we e k
basis, for all projects undertaken by
the city. He also believes local con-
tractors should be given preference
and northwest products used exclu-
siyely wherever possible. This, he
states, would materially benefit the
unemployment situation.
Mr.. Macarthur stands one hundred
per cent for public utilities. and is
decidedly against the McNear plan
of refinancing the street railway
system. He insists the small home
owner is overwhelmed with taxes,
and believes complete retaliation
of all properties is necessary to Gre
ate fair taxation for everyone. He
will strive to reduce the tax rate.
which has steadily increased in past
years.
Macarthur came to this state away
back in territorial days, and has been
in the drug business here for the
past twelve years. He served sixteen
years on the state board of phar-
macy, and is now a member of the
West Coast wholesale Drug Com
pany.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-19
One Half Of Chicago's Black Belt Whiskey
Merchants The Other Half Are Customers

siye dwellings on Grand boulevard
most of them ply two trades. Those
in the less pretentious neighbor-
hoods do it because they want to
the others do it to appear Success
ful.' The comparatively few cti-
zens who live conventional lives are
either financially well off. mentally
incapable of doing better. or are
afraid to take a chance. There are
few Aframericans who are financi-
allv we'll off.
Flats in h a b ed by fronting
blackamoors" rent from seventy to
one hundred dollars per month.
Wages earned by male members of
the families average perhaps one
hundred forty dollars each month.
The conclusion is obvious.
believe that most of those who
hold community gambling sessions
and house parties drawing as a guest
any man in the street would willingly
stop if thev were financially able to
do so and still keep up a front. The
life of a racketeer is dangerous
one and police have the habit of COM
ing to parties at the most unexpected
moments.
There must be automobiles, for
everybody else has one. With the lib
erty in Chicago of going many places
and sitting in the highest priced
seats at shows-something taboo in
the Southland-expenses of amuse-
ments are greater. There must be
clothes. the latest things in fashion.
and all of the ''hot stuff" unloaded
in the south side cannot be sold
cheap enough to make this expense
item diminutive.
Those who refrain from throwing
parties attend them with the hope of
making one dollar fatten into many.
II not that. they policy or the races
with similar expectations. There is
very little difference.
However. the selling of bootleg
whiskey eclipses all other side money
rackets for individuals. There are
nlenty of booze flats minus gambling,
but there are few gambling places
without their moon.
And so again, | say that the pro-
hibitionists spoke wisely and well,
whether they knew it or not. favor
prohibition because its peculiarities
are not working any particular hard
ship upon anyone. If an individual
doesn't work the whiskey racket. he
probably works some other, so there
is still balance.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-19
Gambler Faxed Holdup
Blamed On Negro

WILMINGTON.-After creating
intense racial feeling when he spread
the alarm that Negro had shot
him, struck him over the head and
robbed him of $500. Saturday, Jo-
seph Moore, white, agent of the
Great Eastern Stages. later admitted
that he lied and that he used the
company's money to plsy the ponies
Moore first told police that at S: 80
Saturday morning man entered
and asked for a ticket to Chicago.
While he was filling the ticket, he
charged the man pressed a revolver
to bis breast and fired. later knock
ing him unconscious and taking his
wallet.
Police Immediately began picking
up scores of men as suspects, while
the white dailies carried great indig-
nant headlines about the colored cul-
prit. Upon continued questioning by
officers, Moore broke down and con-
fessed that he. had expected to win
several hundred dollars with the COM
pany's funds. When his horse lost,
he staged the fake holdup gag.
The local dailies made bare men
ton of the alleged embezzler's con-
fession.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-19
Van Soelen Is Experienced
In CITY Law Dept.

A. c. Van Soelen is your present
corporation counsel. He was selected
year ago by the city council to
succeed former Corporation Counsel
Kennedy. who resigned at that time.
Mr.. Van Soelen was chief assistant
under Mr.. Kennedy. He has had ten
years of successful experience in the
city law department with fine rec
ord in handling condemnation cases
and personal injury litigation, par
ticularly that arising out of the OPP
Grafton of the city railway system.
He has written 1876 legal opinions
for the guidance of the various city
departments, and although many of
the questions he passed upon were
l;tigated, none of his opinions have
ever been reversed by the courts.
He is former resident of the East
Madison district, having resided at
2214 East Olive STREET from 1911 to
1925. During the latter portion of
this time he was a precinct commit
teeman of this district. He has been
a resident of Seattle for % years
and home owner and taxpayer in
Seattle for 20 years; received his
education in local schools and the
University of Wash i n z o n law
school, working his way as a postal
clerk in the Seattle postoffice nights
for nine years. He is married. has
four children, and now lives at 400
East 10th Street. He asks your vote
at the primary election February
"a and at the general election March
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-19

The prohibitionists tell the truth
when they say that the Volstead act
tends toward greater general pros
perity and results in greater econ
omic betterment. If it were not for
this eighteenth amendment, many
Afro-Americans would starve. This
law helps where it has no intention
of helping-if you get what mean.
There could be no bootlegging with
cut prohibition.
might go further and add that
blackamoors should thank their lucky
stars and rejoice in living in Chicago
where prohibition is not much more
than an excuse for selling inferior
whiskey at superior prices with little
or no official intervention.
1t seems as if half of Chicagoss
south side are whiskey merchants.
The other half are customers.
And so. with the present laxity in
general conditions, am beginning
to shun the multitude. And have
reasons both good and sufficient.
If ! bump into a stranger accident
ally on a crowded street car. or
stamp somebody's corn on an al"
train, or unintentionallv take a seat
in somebody's lap in a blackened mo-
ton picture show, my profuse apollo
gies are met with sanguinity and the
presentation of a card by the defend
ant. Being human. | read the card,
and see the announcement of a
party every Saturday night at Miss
So-and-So's house from nine till"
As result, | am made aware of
the existence of another house rent
party, that peculiar big town insti-
tuition. Although I may be ndisting-
Unstable from Adam the next time
the donor meets me. if ! 90 to such
a party | will be treated with the
greatest of cordiality-if have any
money. gambling. women. whiskev.
card games with the loser setting up
the house to round of drinks.
Come by any time and get a drink.
if you got fifty cents. "Come out
next Saturday night" Of you've got
any money!.
All of which exists in order to al
low the playing of Chicago's super
game. keeping uD front. To keep
up an appearance of wealth and ease.
TIE ma iority of blackmoors lead dual
lives Honest citizens by day. they
become racketeers by night.
The stockyard laborer. the post
office employee. the Dearborn street
resident, the inmates of the expen-
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-19
Case Cites Record
For Reelection
To City Council

Otto A. Case, present city council
man and known by thousands of citi-
zens throughout the city as a tested
and staunch friends of the eity's
pubicly-owned utilities. is again a
candidate for reelection to the
council.
Mr.. Case, who Sas been county
clerk. auditor and councilman, cites
his record as his reelection cam
paign program. He led the fight in
the council against the, original Nc
Near plan loan of 1000, 900 for
the street railway that called for G
per cent guaranteed bonds at a pre-
MUM.
Case fought and defeated meas
nre introduced in the city council
that would lend S421 900 from the
light department to the street rail
way when he said the light depart
ment could i'll afford such a loan and
which would weaken this strongest
of utilities. He also defeated the
movement to eliminate the light de-
partment's own telephone exchange
which he said would have handi-
capped the department in its deal
ings with the departments 10000
customers.
He fought and defeated the pro-
posed Hanging Rock dam project on
the Skaeit that engineers have since
held to be unfeasible and which
would have cost the taxpayers So
900, 900 He led the move to end
logging on the Cedar River water
shed; introduced the bill that saved
the water in Lake Young's basin
from pollution. and Investigated and
exposed the ring that attempted to
Illustrate the awarding of the Cedar
River pipe line contract, thereby
saving the city S13S,000. He also
exposed the privilege" system of
the city public markets which re-
suited in new management, and Wig
orously opposed the proposed forty
year taxicab franchise.
Case has always been known as
an independent and progressive Of
ficial. His knowledge of city and
community affairs has made him a
warm friend of community organi-
cations throughout the city.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-19
CLARENCE X. ANDERSON
Attorney
sol NeDowalI Bldg.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
State of Washington for King
County.-In Probate
In the Matter Of the Estate Of Marie
Bowman. also known as Marie Van
ne. Deceased.-No. 51459.-Notice to
Creditors.
Notice is hereby given that the un-
dersigned has been appointed and has
qualified as executor of the estate Of
Marie Bowman. also known Marie
Nanne. deceased; that all persons haV-
ing claims against said deceased are
hereby required to serve the same,
duly verified. on said executor viii
liam Bowman, or his attorney Of rec
ord at the address below stated and
file the same with the Clerk Of said
Court, together with proof of such
service within six months after the
date of first publication Of this notice,
or the same viii be barred.
Date OF first publication February
10, 1891.
WILLIAM BOWMAN.
Executor OF said Estate.
Address sol McDowaii Bldg
Seattle, Wash
CLARENCE r. ANDERSON
Attorney for Estate
sol McDOwau Building,
Seattle. Wash L
First publication Feb tuary 49, 1881
Last publication March 5, 1884.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-19
Doomed Man Makes Fun
OF "Ol' 'Lectric Chair"

NASHVILLE, Tenn.-(A.N.PD-
Prison officials and witnesses of the
last minutes of the life of James
Theodore Harris. 23-year-old slayer
Of white physician. his wife and
his son, were astounded by the brav-
ado maintained by the condemned
man until the very last minute of
his life.
For four hours. Harris laughed
and ioked with the persons who
kept him company.
Each half hour he would take
cup trimming full of water and
hold it out straight without spilling
q drop to show how strong his nerves
were.
Just before the current was
turned on, after he had been
strapped in the chair, he directed
"Tell 'em, tell 'em all. | made fun
Of this OF 'lectric chair"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-19
Congressman DePriest
Favors Small Loan Bill

WASHINGTON. - Legislation to
regulate small loans in the district
so that borrowers would not be
charged excessive rates, discussed
without action in the House, Satur-
day, was favored by Congressman
Oscar DePriest (Rep.. mo.
The measure. H. r. 1922, sought
to legalize per cent month in
terest on loans of less than $500.
Representative DePriest said the
measure is preferable to that which
allows pawnshops in Virginia just
across the Potomac River froA
Washington to charge as high as
100 per cent a year.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-19
Howard Graduate Gets
Tuskegee Hospital Post

KANSAS CITY.-Dr. Edwin H..
Lee, a graduate of Howard Univer-
sity and for the past seven years
doing special tubercular work here,
left Saturday for Tuskegee Insti-
tute. Ala, where he has accepted Il
position in the tubereular ward Of
The veterans hospital.
DR.. Lee had charge of the only
eolored tuberculosis clinic in the
city at the General Hospital No. 3.
He was also on the staff of the
Leeds Sanitarium.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-19
Caroline Senate Favors
Anti-Negro Barber Bill

RALElGH.-While delegation of
colored BARRIERS objected vigorously.
the senate voted favorable report
to take the power of barber shop in
spection from the state board of
health and give it to the BARRIERS
examining board
The original measure was spon-
sored in 1921 by white BARRIERS or
ganization, presumably to prevent
colored BARRIERS from serving white
patrons. The senate also favored the
adjustment of the small town ex-
emption clause in the original, max
ing the provision state wide.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-19

All that the rank and file of white
people need in this country to make
them lose overnight their prejudicO
against the colored people is to see
that the "best" white people and
the most influential white people are
treating the colored people as equals
in every respect If this were done
the attendance of Mrs Depriest ut
a White House social function would
NOT be news-it would be merely
what it should be-a social event
among equals--no more, no less. If
Rosenwald, and other white men who
are manifesting an interest in colored
people were active and foursquare in
their interest, they could insist and
use their power and prestige on the
University of Chicago officials and
colored medical students would not
be problem" but would simply be
what they are-students like any
other student And so on down the
line. Here is hoping that these
good friends" become active in their
interests. When they do the so-called
problem that is now engaging their
attention will pass like cloud be-
fore the moon.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-19
Assets of $4,000

SAVANNAH. Ga. "a. N. P)-
The report of the Guaranty Life
Insurance Company. for the last six
months in 1880 shows that the
company has total assets of $1S9,-
452.2l; the income during the pc
riod covered by the report. was
$l52.S36.72 and the disbursements
$146.47794.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-19
Paradise of Snobs

The snobbish u S. Naval Academy
which likes to boast of athletic teams
which have never competed against
Negroes, and college halls which have
never housed Negro cadet. exhibited
something real new last week in u
race war between Filipino enlisted
men and the academy's colored mess
attendants.
Trouble arises because of the strict
color line which white navy officials
set up at a government military
school maintained by taxes from
pockets of all the people.
In addition, foreign born Filipinos
despite race prejudice, live on both
sides of the Annapolis color line and
a new caste is fixed for them, little
lower than the white, a little higher
than the Negro.
Nowhere is the Federal govern
ment's innate rottenness so apparent
as at Annapolis. the paradise of snobs
par excellence. Some day a wrathy
Congress will probe its muck and
clean out the dirt which has been
allowed to accumulate.
Meantime. the sooner Mr.. De-
Priests candidates qualify and enter.
the better.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-19
Real Friends

To sit at one of the numerous
"inter-racial" banquets or confer
ences Of organizations which have
mixed" boards the casual observer
will see some of the most influential
white people of the community pres
emit Usually these white people are
motivated by desire to edo some
thing for the poor colored man"
Their speeches at such "inter-raciaw
gatherings usually show a desire to
be fair-minded and their presence
ARGUES their interests, because of their
prominence in the community there
are many demands made upon their
time. At any one of these gatherings
there are enough powerful white peo-
pie, who, if they would translate
their mild philanthropic interest into
vital active and positive attitude,
would be able to change the senti-
ment of thousands of white people
over night
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-19
o. X. New Virgin Isle Head

NEW YORK.-William Pickens,
field secretary of the National AS
ISOLATION for the Advancement OF
Coiored People, recently issued a
statement commencing the appoint
ment of Professor Paul M. Pear
son as civil governor of the Virgin
Islands.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-19
Want Negroes Restricted

MEMPHIS, Tenn. C. n. S,1-To
prevent colored people from annoy
ing white children and women who
attended Bellevue Park. white
civic association petitioned to the
city park commission TO keep Ne
groes off the playground.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-19
New Apartment House

ATLANTIC CITY A modern
three-story apartment house at an
estimated cost of $4,000 is to be
erected next week by Dick Austin
at 3l3 Baltic Avenue.
All colored workmen and con-
tractors will be used on the job.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-19
EDIT ORAL


Congressman Oscar DePriest
opened his mouth on the floor Of
the House last week and opposed
Federal aid for the unemployed and
drought-stricken citizens of this
country.
So proud are most of us of our
lone wolf" in the House of Repre-
sentatives that we are generally in
clined to say "hurrah" to anything
he says, especially in the halls of
Congress, but his statement on this
matter, like the statement of many
of his white fellow Congressman
strikes as without a basis of either
logic or good Judgment. 1t is Ger
tainly without heart and soul.
What the country is up against at
the present time is not a problem of
states rights nor charity. 1t is one
of economic adjustment affecting
the entire country.
What President Hoover and like
wise Congressman DePriest is try
ing to avoid is doing anything which
will set up the right of men and
women, caught in maelstrom of
unemployment as result of eco
nomic depression, to draw upon the
common reserves of wealth in the
country.
We had just as we'll face the fact
as they are. What Mr.. DePriest and
Mr.. Hoover say is, in effect, this.
Although you are out of work against
your will. you have no right as hu-
man beings to expect to eat unless
there are men and women kind heart
ed enough to hand you a crust of
charity.
On the other hand, it is the doc
trine of men like Borah and other
liberals that as long us there is
penny in the u. S. Treasury, as long
as there is any source from which to
secure means as taxes or by borrow
ing, starving men and women have
fulf'rght to succor through govern
mental action.
If it is not the duty of the gov
eminent to guarantee. through wise
le@islation and regulation of indus
try. work and wages to all men in
dustrious enough to do this essential
work. then what is its duty?
This question is especially perth.
ent in a time like this when there
is really plenty and when it is evil
dent that our depression has resulted
from short-sighted administration
coupled with human greed run wild.
When Congressman DePriest ar
CUES that it will make mendicants of
needy men and women to give them
direct governmental aid, his nina
must certainly have gone blank on
the fact that the largest single item
of expense being borne by this gov
eminent is its pensions and bonuses
to ex-soldiers. Some of them are not
only able to draw salaries for pres
ent work but compensation as we'll
1t would certainly have a more
heartening effect upon an honest
working man or woman to cash a gov
eminent check than to stand in the
bread-line of the Salvation Army OF
the Red Cross soup kitchen. Ana
nothing would stimulate industry
more than to have honest working
men and women know that they could
work in any avenue of life with the
assurance that the government would
guarantee them a square deal in time
Of distress.
From an economic standpoint also
about the only way to bring back
prosperity would be to dump all pres
ent reserves in both money and other
resources back into circulation thru
the masses.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-19
The New Emancipation

The people of the United States,
particularly those of the colored race,
are rapidly learning the effective
ness of the economic ballot. They
are learning that with the force of
their massed dollars that they are
able to break down prejudice, oppo-
stion and hindrances that heretofore
they could not surmount. Last week
through the efforts of the California
News and its editor, d. f. Taylor,
the Southern California Edison Com
pany gave employment to nearly fiji
ty colOred men. This follows in the
line of the Don't Spend Your Money
Where You Cannot Work Campaign"
and shows what possibilities that are
contained in the great program map
ped out and put into operation by the
Chicago Whip.
Over in Boston colored people have
been put to work in the Atlantic and
Pacific Tea Stores showing the will
ngness of this great company to fol-
low and respect community senti-
ment. This shows how the idea has
swept from coast to coast. Everybody
in Chicago knows the history of this
campaign or at least those who are
interested in the colored districts.
The colored people are holding GER
tain, good jobs in the face of this
depression that will enable them to
learn the inside of modern business
The power of the economic ballot has
been demonstrated from coast to
coast.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1931-02-19

II the colored people of America
are able to hold on at this time
when chaos and confusion are the or
ders of the day then when conditions
are restored to normally then they
will be able OF get foothold in mod
ern industry and business. As it
stands now we are in a pitiable con-
dition. The most encouraging sign
that we see is the awakening of the
people to the value of their buying
power.
The greatest trouble with the col
ored race is its poverty and from this
source Gibbs our duplicity, cowardice,
backwardness and inferiority COM
pick. With more of the worlds goods
the colored race would be Drawer,
truer to its ideals, more loyal to
its own causes and less inclined to be
bought and sold by white dema-
gogues. The idea for emancipation
is spreading like wild fire even now
it extends from coast to coast.