The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1933-11-09
EDITORIAL
LET Down Your
Buckets Where You
Are"

-"
AND NOW COMES DIR. Car
ter Woodson. wei known COM
piler Of Negro history, writing
as a columnist for several Ne
gro publications. urging mem
bers Of the Negro racial group
to seek opportunities in foreign
countries. Try your hand as
artists and IN business IN Eur
opean countries. is the admon-
ition of DR.. Woadson.
This writer regards Or. Wood
sons advice as fallacious and
unworthy Of consideration.
DURING THE WORLD WAR
thousands OF Negroes we're lur-
ed into the cities of the North
and East. leaving properties in
the Southland Representing ac-
cumulatiuns over a period Of
many, many years. They were
told by certain so-called Negro
leaders that the northern and
eastern sections afforded unsur-
passed opportunities for adj
vancement and many believed
that ali Of the problems con-
fronting the racial group would
be satisfactorily solved as they
settled down in new sections Of
the country.
WHILE IT IS TRUE the lar
ger cities Of the North and East
offered superior advantages a.
long many lines. such as pro-
lection of life and property and
educational advantages, the dis
advantages in the way Of dis
elimination IN industries and the
inability of Negroes to secure
work as competition increased
during the depression. far OUT
weighed the so-called advan-
tages and it was not many years
before thousands of those who
had forsaken the southland
were ready and willing to re-
TURN, and they would have re-
turned but for the fact that all
their possessions had been dis
posed OF.
THE NJ sRO may as well UNI
derstand, AID that right now
that he is certain to meet com
petition in every phase Of LIES
activities, regardless as to whe-
Their he is in Mississippi or in
Maine: in Alabama or Alaska;
in Chicago or Hong Kong; In
New York, or IN London. The
apparent trouble with the race
is the too evident expectancy to
get through life on "flowery
beds Of ease" There is no uues-
ton but that many Of the in
justices directed at members Of
the racial group are unwarrant-
ed. yet with the present day
program launched by leaders Of
the nation to correct many OF
the conditions that have proved
a serious handbag to the pro-
gress Of all men, the Negro
should look about his own ranks
with a view of correcting any
irregularities existing there and
then fail in line with a view Of
taking advantage Of the thous-
ands of opportunities that are
at his very finger tips. on ev-
cry side.
MEN LIKE Carter Woodson,
who are in position to gain the
ear Of the mass Negro group.
viii do well to warn Of the nee
essity of tossing aside petty
chickering's. envy, jealousy, OBJ
jectionable traits within the
ranks Of the race that do far
more to retard progress than all
the iniustices imposed by the
other race. When the house Of
the Negro is cleaned from with
in, there is not the least ques-
ton but that all other affairs
will be adjusted in a most sat-
isfactory manner.
MEN AND WOMEN Of both
racial groups who are interest
ed in the welfare of the Negro
and who are sufficiently ac-
quatnted with his problems. are
unanimous Of the opinion that
it is about time that the race
follow the safe and sane adj
monition as offered by the late
Or. Booker T. washington, near
" q half century ago
LET DOWN YOUR BUCK
ETS WHERE you AREi"
mot EVERYONE that SAITH