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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-02-11
Butte, Montana
Mrs. Ruth w. Pagan, Reporter

Silver City Lodge No. 9 F. and A.
M. held their regular monthly meet
ing Tuesday evening in their hail.
Mrs. j. w. Duncan was hostess to
the Pearl Club Monday afternoon at
her home. A luncheon was served
after which the afternoon was spent
in needlework.-The Sunshine Mis-
sion and Church Aid of Bethel Bap-
fist Church met Friday evening at
the church. Arrangements for the
observance of Lincoln and Douglass
Day by the mission and other organ
izations of the city at the church
have been completed and Sunday
evening, February ID, the following
program will be presented. Intro
duction of chairman by Mrs. A. L.
Chappell, singing of America by the
audience; Lincolns Gettysburg ad-
dress, Miss Madelon Fenter; Paper,
Mrs. j. E. Palmer; Vocal duet, Miss
Nell Robinson and Miss Berniee
Dunn; Reading. Miss Minola Fenter;
Paper, Mrs. L. R. Ridley; Piano solo,
Miss Billie Coleman; Paper, Mrs. |.
Dunn; Solo, Miss Nell Robinson; Ad-
dress, Mrs. Rance Ware; Singing of
National Negro Anthem by audience.
Mrs. w. Z. Scott was hostess to
the Clover Leaf Club Tuesday after
noon. After election Of officers the
hostess served a dainty luncheon.-
Miss B. letters is nicely domiciled
at 9 w. Porphyny St.-Mr. Pagan
received letter from Mr.. VIM. Ride
out of Youngstown, Ohio. Mr.. Ride
out was a former resident of Helena
and Butte and wishes to be remem-
bered to all of the old timers. The
regular church meeting of Bethel
Baptist Church was held Tuesday
evening in the pastors study. Re
ported i'll this week, Mrs. F. Stewart,
Mr.. NJ. Vince and Miss Hattie With
ers.-Mrs. Madrill is able to be out
again after a two weeks illness
Miss Lena Brown met with a painful
accident last week when she fell on
an icy sidewalk - Mr.. and Mrs.
J. w. Brown were hosts to a num-
Der of friends last Friday, the oc-
casion being the birthday of Mr.. Har-
ry Simmons, Mrs. Browns father
Three tables of five hundred were in
play A delicious repast was served
at a late hour.-Rev A. w. John
son, presiding elder of this district
held quarterly conference and serv-
ices at the A. NJ L. Church Sunday
February z.
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Helena. Mont.
BY HEX

Spending three hours on the flat
between Boulder and Boulder Hill
anroute to Butte is a new experience
'or HEX. The wind blowing a regu-
ar gale had swept an accumulation
of snow on the road at that point
stalling six cars. Shovels from some
of the cars were brought into play,
but one might just as well have tried
20 shovel Boulder Hill away. The
most disappointing feature of the
critical condition was a most delight
fully clear road, void of any snow,
staring at us and only about five
hundred yards parallel to ours. FL
1ally, along comes a team of horses
md tractor and hauled us out.
Winter travel in Montana is always
lpt to be eventful. At least J. b.
Reid, who was driving, opines.
The Rosenwald memorial services
held at st. James Church last Sunday
evening was indeed impressive as
well as instructive to many who,
while they knew of his friendship
COR the colored people, had no idea
of his extensive gifts in a large way
for our benefit. The program as
published in last weeks issue was
,arried out with the exception of J..
3. Ingram delivering the invocation
instead of the Rev. Byrd, who was
not present. Others who participant
ID were Miss Zudora Williams, Mrs.
William Irwin, M. A. Lowery, ]. b.
Reid, Mrs. Robert Stitt, Mrs. A. G..
Dorsey, j. f. Ingram, Mrs. Julian
Anderson, Mrs. Nathaniel Ford, Mrs.
C. H. Harrell and Mrs. Norman How
ard, who read comments from prom
'nent colored citizens all over the
country. Two representatives from
he local Red Cross were present.
The collection, taken up by Charles
4arrell, Jr. and John Williams, Jr.
vas donated to the Red Cross. A
arge pencil drawing made by one
of our stewards, and a picture of
Booker T. Washington draped with
IN American flax was placed within
he chancil rail and commanded the
interest of the audience.
The following is the julius Rosen-
valid program sponsored by The Will
Ter Ave. Baptist Church: Song,
America; Prayer, Mr.. H. J. Soulds
Scripture Reading, Rev. A. l.. Byrd !;
Address, "a Personal Glimpse of Ju-
'ius Rosenwald and His Work." Mrs.
Corinne Byrd; Song, In Bright Man
sions Above. This was Mr.. Rosen-
enwald's favorite spirituaD; Paper,
Mrs. Mary Christian; Paper, Mrs
Cora Parker; Song, | Gave NY Life
For Thee; Address, "The Negro in
he Progressive Age" Rev. A. l..
Byrd; Address, Julius Rosenwald
and the Negro Business League" Mr..
H. j. Soulds: Announcements; Song,
Star Spangled Banner.
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Negro Making Progress In Education

1873; A. NJ. f. Church, Western
University, Kansas City, Kan, 1864;
Wilberforce in Ohio, 1873; A. NJ. E.
Zion Church, Livingstone, Salisbury,
1880; c. NJ. E. Church, Lane, jack
son, Tenn; Episcopal P. E. Church,
st. Augustine, Raleigh.
The American Negroes struggle to
get an education has been fraught
with innumerable trials and tribula-
tions. A public school learning has
been easy to acquire in the North,
but in the South, where four-fifths
of the race lives. despite the migra-
ton of 100000 between 1910 and
1928. Negro education in the past
encountered considerable opposition.
Much of this has now disappeared.
Common schools and state institu-
tions for the group are becoming
more numerous, better equipped and
better manned. In some Southern
states such glazing inequalities, for
example, as paying a white teacher
an average of $3.50 annually and
eolored teacher an average of $467.23
annually, and giving the white chill
dren more days in the scholastic
year than the colored children still
exist.
North Carolina has taken the lead
in the South on spending money for
Negro education. The total value of
school porperty for the race is s10,-
902.544. of which s9,795.559 repre-
sents investment in sites and ST.
1O6,0S5 in equipment. West Vir-
ginia is also making large appropria-
tions. West Virginia Collegiate In
stitute is well remembered yearly by
the Legislature.
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Plan to Ship
Negroes South
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CONTINUED from Page II
munities they could not earn a de-
cent living. The Negroes and whites
yet remaining on the farms of the
South are now suffering from the
collapse of the cotton industry due
to the boil weevil, drought, and the
low price of cotton. To add to their
numbers will be merely to add to the
numbers already facing starvation.
2. THE argument that Negroes
will be "better off in the farming
communities from which they came"
entirely ignores the fact that multi
tudes of Negroes still live in a con-
dition of actual peonage-of debt
slavery maintained through commits
sary stores and the system of share
cropping which prevails, by which
Negroes are kept in perpetual debt
to their landlords and thus are held
bound to the land. This proposal
amounts to deportation by federal
subsidy of thousands of United States
citizens into peonage.
3. 1.-THE argument further ignores
the fact that Negroes, like any other
group of citizens, are entitled to seek
advancement in whatever part of the
country they may find it. Why should
this proposal to return Negroes to
the land be confined to one race.
The vast preponderance of those
who have left the farms is white.
4. Besides the economic unsound-
ness of the project, it ignores the So
cial conditions confronting Negroes
in southern communities, which fur
nished a main motive for their de-
parture. | refer to lynching, mob
violence, injustice in the courts, in
suit, denial of equal educational op-
portunity, segregation in public
places and in general inhuman and
degrading and insulting prescription.
To propose to return Negroes,
against their will, to such conditions
is to invite the united opposition of
the colored citizens of the nation.
"The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
through its 1927 branches, the Negro
press numbering more than 200
newspapers, church and fraternal or
CARNATIONS both north and south, as
well as fair-minded Americans of
other races, will vigorously oppose
any such discriminatory action as
that which is being proposed. Every
legitimate means will be resorted to
in opposing this economically I'M
sound and essentially vicious method
of putting upon Negro Americans
even greater handicaps than those
from which they are already suffer-
ing -
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Spokane, Wash.
Sybil Stafford, Reporter
Phone l.. O564M

Mr.. L. c. Fulp, resident of Spo-
kane for 2S years, passed away last
Tuesday night at a local hospital.
Mr.. Fulp was well-known masseur.
He is survived by his widow Mrs.
Caroline Fulp, two step daughters,
Mrs. w. E. Scott of Spokane, and
Mrs. f. A. Behrens of San Francis
co and one grandson. The funeral
services were h d last Thursday
from Smith funeral home. Rev. f..
B. Reed and Rev. T. A. Patterson, Of
ficiating. -Bethe A. M. E. Sunday
school won the prize for the largest
attendance at mass meeting last
Sunday afternoon at the Central M.
E. Church.-Misses Ruth Lipscomb
and Sybil Stafford and Mesdames T..
A. Patterson and F. A. Stokes, teach
ers at Bethel A. NJ L. Sunday school
will attend the Leadership Training
School beginning February 16 to
March 3, in the Swedish tabernacle.
Mrs. Geo. Pierce is confined to her
home with a severe CODA Valen-
tine party will be given Friday eve
ming February II, by the Bethel A.
NJ. L. Sunday school.-The elected
and installed officers of United Or
der of Odd Fellows for annually,
semi-annually and quarterly are as
follows: Geo. Anderson, P. S.; Jas.
Whitley, P. T.; Morris Walden, +. c.;
Thos. billiard, w. c.; Doph Pierce,
N. G.; Roy Anderson, V. G.; j. w.
Jones, P N. F.; Emerson Williamson,
w; John Thompson ST., N. F.; ]. J.
Johnson, P. N. F.
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70 Million Americans
Have COlOred Blood

Continued from page j.
is not. To one who knows the al
most infallible signs of mixed blood
such as the greenish gray eyes,
the slightly broad nose, the full lips,
the olive complexion,-the populs-
ton of almost every community in
this country reveals an astounding
number of whites" who are really
only whites in name.
Thinking, observant eolored peo-
pie know Just how persistent has
been the seepage from the colored
group to the white group in just the
past % years. Almost whole com
munities from certain sections of the
lower South. have migrated North
and West, during this period, and
have gone over from the colored
group to the white.
Augusta Cited
From Augusta, Ca, alone, almost
the entire original congregation of
a certain Baptist Church have mi
grated North and West, and passed
over the line. From other older
Southern communities like Savannah
and Richmond, and Charleston and
Baltimore and New Orleans other
tens of thousands have crossed the
line that separates the two groups
in America. Today a very conserv.
alive estimate would place the tota
number of Americans of some de.
gree of colored blood at close to 90.
900, 900.
The New York Times put a very
pertinent query up to its distinguish
ed contributors when il asked then
to tell the world something about the
future American, but all of then
side-stepped the racial, physical side
of the question. One of the con
tributors, Sir Arthur Keith, in hi,
other writings, is rather insistent in
his unsupported belief that race pref
udice performs a really helpful serv
ice for mankind. As it happens, he
did not drag his pet theory into the
Times discussion.
But notwithstanding his silence
and DR.. Mayo's petulance, the truth
remains that prejudice as a racia
trait has not kept white blood here ir
America from mixing with black
blood. And the further truth re.
mains that this mixing will go or
and on till white Americans will be
decidedly less white and brown
Americans be swallowed up entirely
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Billings, Mont.

The service conducted bv Rev.
Choice at Waymcn Chapel, Sunday
evening, was very inspiring. Next
Sunday a Frederick Douglas Memo
rial will be held under the auspices of
the Music and Literary department
of Phyllis Wheatley Club.-The Mite
Missionary Society met at the par
sonage on Tuesday afternoon. A de-
votional and business session was
held after which the hostess, Mrs. G.
ID. Choice, served delicious refrest'-
ments.-Rev. d. D. Banks, regional
secretary of the Baptist Missionary
Board, was in Billings Thursday en-
route to his home in Muskogee, Okla.
He was the dinner guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. McCabe, while in the city.
The Sunday School Club gave a
social at the home of Mrs. Mary Al
bridge on Saturday evening, January
30. The social was well attended and
financial success.
Mr.. and Mrs. Berry Milton have
gone to Rochester, Mimi, where Mr..
Milton will go through the clinic
Those reported on sick list are Mrs.
0. Williams and son, Junior. Mrs.
Leona Moller and Mrs. Fannie Jack
son. Mrs. Moller and Mrs. A. Wal
ton, are convalescing.-The Art and
Domestic Science department of
Phyllis Wheatley Club held their reg
ular monthly meeting Thursday, Feb
ruary 4, at the home of Mrs. Emma
G. Harris. The afternoon was spent
very delightfully."- with needle work
and talks on Home Economic sub
jeets. After the meeting the guests
were seated and partook of an ap-
petizing luncheon served by the hos
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Ogden, Utah
zudOra Blakey, Reporter

Mr., Tommy Brown was called to
Weber College to take part in play
given by the students.-A box social
was given by the A. c. E. League
Friday evening. A very enjoyable
and socisble evening was spent. -
A hard-time party will be given by
the Women's Missionary at Embry
Chapel A candy pull and also a
spelling bee between the adults and
children viii be the feature Of the
evening, and a prize will be given for
the best speller Mrs. Marcella Wal
don and Miss Emma Henry will be
in charge.-Mr. Leander Steel suf-
fered very painful injuries from slip
ping on ice.-Mr Hadley is also un-
der doctors care.-Mr. Jack Wilson
is out after an attack of "flu. -
Also Mr.. jefferson is slowly recov-
ering.
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DePriest Names Another
Candidate For West Point

WASHINGTON. - The War De-
partment announced this week the
naming by Representative Oscar De-
Priest (Rep.,I ILL., of Theodore E.
Moran, of Chicago, as first alternate
candidate for admission to the U. S.
Military Academy at West Point.
Moran is the seventh youth to be
designated by Representative De-
Priest for West Point, six others hav-
ing been announced several weeks
ago. 1t. is understood that all will
take the March l entrance examina-
tions for admission to the academy.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
BRING RESULTS-PLAcE YOURS
IN THE ENTERPRISE
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TACOMA NEWS SECTION

In observance of Negro History
Week local colored speakers and sin
gers will present programs at various
schools and churches. Mr.. w. T. Nc
Call will speak at Jason Lee school
Friday morning. Music will be fur
nished by a group of singers COM
posed of Mesdames f. C. Tumlin, Flo
renee Jones, Mary Shortridge and
the Misses Matilda Roberts, Roberta
Weber and Geraldine Shortridge.
The same group of singers will pre-
sent program Sunday morning at
the First Methodist Church. Mr.. E.
B. Wilson will be the speaker An
other group of singers composed of
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Everett, Wash.
Mrs. Carrie Davis, Reporter

Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Stewart enter
tanned the Five Hundred Club Satur-
day evening at their home, 1926 Col
by Ave.-Charles Gibson was host
for the Bud Bllikin Club Sunday at
the home of his uncle and aunt, Mr.
and Mrs. A. Davis.-Mrs. Dorothy
Coleman was hostess to the Mamie
Burrough Study Club Thursday eve
ning.-Those on the sick list this
week are Mrs. B. H. Battle at her
home, 1916 Wetmore, Mrs. J. L. Coo
per, Miss Dora Davis, Miss Grace
Wright, Mrs. Pearl Isham-The Nan
ME Burrough Study Club, and the
A. M. f. Church will sponsor a joint
program Friday evening, February
II, Concentrating Negro History
Week.
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Ellensburg, Wash.
Mamie Robertson, Reporter

The A. c. E. League will have an
Allen Day program Sunday evening.
Miss Gladys Little of Seattle was
the house guest of Mrs. Hattie Bun
ley.-Mrs. Evelyn Evans entertained
six little children in honor of little
daughter Jeans birthday.-Mrs. Jas
Smith is reported better.-Mr. Chas
Grimes went to Swank on business
Mrs. Ralph Perkins is visiting friends
in the city.-Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Williams and Mrs. Collins entertain
ed with a birthday party last week.
Mr.. Walker, Mr.. Fred Samples and
Mr.. Jess James sang at the party
last Sunday evening.
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Baker, Ore.
Mrs. P. spearman, Reporter

Little Ida Watkins entertained a
group of little friends with a party
at the home of Mrs. Lewis Jones,
Wednesday afternoon in celebration
of her eighth birthday anniversary.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Spearman were
hosts Wednesday night for the meet
ing of the Royal Knights Whist Club.
Highest scores were made by Mrs. P.
Spearman and Mr.. J. L. Russell
Mr.. Lewis Jones was host Friday
night for a stag party at his home
Mr.. and Mrs. j. /. Russell were
guests Sunday evening at the home
Of Mrs. G. B. Spearman.--The Hully
Gully Club met at the home of Mrs.
P. STANDARDIZATION Tebeau, Jr.,
is abe to return to school after an
illness of measles.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-02-11
VOTE FOR
A. R. (AB.) BERGERSEN
A Progressive Business Man
for

Commissioner of Public Works
Primary Election, February %
appeal to the Colored voters to
support A. r. Bergersen. | have
known him by contact in business for
nine years. He is sincere, honest,
and a believer in a square deal for
everybody.-E. M. Hollowell, chair
man of executive board of Pierce
County Colored Republican Club.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-05

of the war. The German boy he bayoneted, also a musician. looked at him with dying eyes that the French boy can never forget. They haunt him walking and sleeping.
 The French youth finds a name and address and a farewell letter, as we'll as a story of Beethoven. He feels a veritable murderer and goes to the church for spiritual aid. The church smiles him away, explain ing that he but did his duty as soldier. This leaves him but one escape; he must go to the Family of the boy he killed and tell his story, begging their forgiveness.
 So he arrives in a charming German town and visits the herr doctor who is the dead mans father. In this menage Is the charming old doctor, the wife and the fiance-all with hatred in their hearts for the Frenchman who killed their ''boy." But when they meet the newcomer and hear that he has word from the grave, he Is greeted with such kindness that he cannot gain courage to tell the truth. He passes for a fellow who knew the dead man and, still tor tured, wins his way into all their hearts, at the same time loving them. In the end, only the girl finds out. The old folks accept him as their new son.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-05
Scorpion Club
 Show and Dance
Took Place at Mary Ab-
 bolt School Last Night

The first annual minstrel show and dance of the Scorpion club was presented at Mary Abbott school last night before a large audience. Frank Petro directed the show and Stanley Kuska was interlocutor. James Bagley and Ivar Carlson were end men. Members of the cast included: Gustie Orsatti, Ivar Carlson, Alden Carlson, Ernie Pa- lomba, Arthur Palomba, Robert Palomba, Jack Buonocore. Nick Buonocore, Frank Patrick, Tony Ratushny, Richard Cyrus, Gus Gyllenhammer, George Martino, Thomas Martell, Clemnece Obern- fer, George Carlstrom, Stanley Kuska, Walter Kuska, Joe Hench, Ray Meir, James Begley, A. He'll mann, Adolph Petro and Francis Houle.
 The following program was giv- en: Opening number: Lies" Frank Patrick; "In a Dream" George Carlstrom; speciality, Louis De- Negris and Frank Petro; This is the Missus." Ivar Carlson, Blue of the Night" Thomas Martell; Rest
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-05

This, then, is Lionel Barrymore's picture, as so many have been of late. Film by film, Lionel Barrymore is proving himself one of the great character men of the cinema.
 Nor have Sam Raphaelson and Ernest Vadja been up to the dia- logue that might have been. There was the stuff in this story of which a classic might have been built.
 Lubitsch, Barrymore and Louise Carter must take what credit there is left, after eliminations have been recorded.
 Lubitsch first, what with such intelligent camera work as seldom is seen: a village scene where neighborhood gossips pass gossip from window to window; a scene where the German father envisages his son going to war; a scene where army chiefs are gathered at an Armistice day sermon in a cathe- dral while their sabres glisten in the sun and their guns and medals come into the spotlight.
 <
 At time when the world echoes with breeding troubles, this is an important propaganda film since 1t teaches a lesson in the relation ship of man and man, irrespective of nationality.
 And what an idea; a French lad, sensitive and artistic, has killed German in the last days
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-05
NOTICE

Proposals covering the seasons requirements for bituminous mate rials are available at the office of the State Highway Commissioner, 165 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, Con- necticut. Proposals will be re- ceived up to twelve o'clock noon, March 30, 1892.
 The State Highway Commissioner reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
 Q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-05
NOTICE

A list of the Small Tool Equip ment Requirements for the Con- necticut State Highway Department for 1892, is available at the State Office Building. 165 Capitol Avenue. Hartford, Connecticut.
 All quotations must be returned to the State Office Building on Feb- ruary 18th, 12 o'clock noon. The State Highway Commissioner re- serves the right to reject any or all bids.
 2-3-3t
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-05
Opportunity Is An Advantage Only To The Alert!
 Answer These Ads Quickly For Best Results

STATE OF CONNECTICUT. Dis
 trict of Waterbury. ss. Probate
 Court. February End ,1932.
 late of the Town of Waterbury. in said District, deceased.
 The Court of Probate for he Dis trict of Waterbury, hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof for the creditors of said estate to exhibit their claims for settlement. Those who neglect to present their accounts properly at- tested within said time, will be de- barred a recovery. All persons in- debted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to
 THOMAS J. BOWLING, 2-3-3t Administrator.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-05
STATE of CONNECTICUT:

STATE of CONNECTICUT: DISTRICT of WATERBURY, -ss. Probate Court, February 3rd, l952. ESTATE of ELIZABETH FENT- ON, late of the Town of Waterbury, in said district, deceased.
 The Court of Probate for the dis trict of Waterbury, hath limited and allowed six months from the date hereof for the creditors of said estate to exhibit their claims for settlement. Those who neglect to present their accounts properly attested within said time, will be debarred recovery. All persons indebted to said estate are request ed to make immediate payment to The CITIZENS & MANUFACTURER
 NATIONAL BANK.
 By Thomas F. Moore, Trust Officer. Executor. 2-4-3t
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-05

of the Criwd Goes Home," entire company; speciality, Marion Petro; "Wild Irish Rose" Ernest Palom- ba; Gall Me Darling" Arthur Pa lomba; Potatoes are Cheaper" Jim Begley; Mary" Alden Carl son; speciality, Richard brothers; Scorpions duet. Carlson and Beg ley, and closing number, "When You're Smiling"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-05
BEARS 10 COMMANDMENTS

Mexico, Me.-Standing as a gate post at a local farmyard is a stone tablet bearing the Ten Command ments, carved more than 125 years ago by Ben Edmunds, a preacher who was known as "A Maine Noses