The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1934-03-29
CITY AND STATE
OFFICIALS TALK
At Celebration
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said, that by giving money to
race they have done their whole
duty. But this Is not so, unless it
is accompanied by what I term the
minimum requirements of social
Justice.
Il hold these minimum re
quirements to be:
First, equal rights for all of
the people;
Second, equal protection of
life and property for all of the
people;
Third, equal chance for en-
ployment in the industries and
in business, for all the people;
Fourth, equal opportunities
for education for all the people;
And last, but just as impor-
tant, equal rights to vote for all
of the people"
Unless philanthropy is accom-
panied by these fundamental hum
an rights, Governor Lehman reit-
Grated, philanthropy has failed in
its purpose.
Mayor LaGuardia said. Il wish
had been with you, Oscar, in
Washington to carry on the fight.
Why anyone wants to go in that
restaurant to eat pea soup don't
KNOW know I never went there
I was so afraid that while I was
absent they would put something
over on me. It is one of those lit
tie unnecessary, annoying and Of
fensive acts which are so discour-
aging,
ut is a state of mind those Con-
gressmen have which cannot be
/ described. have lived with them
for fourteen years and found them
a reasonable likeable, fairly liberal
set of men on everything except
the question of race. On that one
thing they have an obsession. You
can't reason with a man with an
obsession. That is one of the -ea-
sons why the population of the in
stitutions for the insane of the
state has increased"
The Mayor facetiously remarked
that he has encountered "57 varie-
ties" of Negro leaders since he has
been in office, each claiming they
represent the entire Negro race in
America.
He seriously suggested, however,
that local committee be formed
of intelligent, representative and
capable Negro citizens of New
York and that this recognized
committee lay before him in an in
telligent and efficient manner, the
various problems confronting New
York City's Negro population.
DePriest Speaks
Congressman DePriest felicitat-
ed the NAACP upon its birthday
and recalled some of the memoir
able battles it has waged, includ-
ing the Arkansas sharecropper
cases of 1928, and the famous
Judge Parker fight of 1880 He
then launched into the House res
taurant fight in Washington, and
declared:
ut is outrageous that the Con-
| or sssman from North Carolina.
Rep. Lindsay Warren, who hap
pens to be chairman of the account
committee, should impose the pc
culiar ideas of his state upon the
citizens of all the United States
who seek to eat in restaurant
underneath the dome of the Capt.
toll of the nation
whenever something like this
comes up, they yell social equal
| ity. I say about social equality
that when the negroes first came
to this country, they were all
black. Now they are not, and that
proves there has been good deal
of social equality somewhere.
"This organization is doing more
to break down racial prejudice and
uphold the rights of the Negro than
any other organization in this
country" the Congressman con-
Guided.
Fannie Hurst, famous novelist,
bespoke her deep interest in and
appreciation of, the labors of the
| N.A.A.C.P., but warned them that
even with twenty-five years ac-
complishment behind them, they
still must not lag.
1.-THE next twenty-five years are
even more important since mans
inhumanity to man is still ram
pant"
President Spingarn outlined the
origin of the N.A.A.C.P. after a