The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-01-26
JUST TO
REMIND YOU


We have a feeling of sympathy
for the former editor of Digest
ing the News" He would not be
comforted because his race had
not increased nor decreased from
his childhood to 1910. Thirteen
million Negroes, no more, no less.
1t is strange.
To some minds Negro popula-
ton has increased; to others 1t has
decreased. During the present
year Uncle Sam will try earnestly
to satisfy both minds. We have
been called the tenth man." the
indications are that we may be re-
duced to the ninth man." Watch
the census report.
Mayor Maury Maverick of San
Antonio, Texas, in an address to
the Georgia Tech students, said:
'The Negro was the South's great
est problem; the white people
should give the Negro full econo-
mic justice for the sake of high
er standard of living for them
selves. AS for social equality, Ne
groes do not even talk about it.
What they want is groceries - a
chance to eat and live"
Ten such men would debunk the
u. S. economic problem No. 1.
The south must remain in the
ditch with the Negro in order to
keep him there.
For the first time since its es-
Establishment in 1893, Negroes in
Alexandria, Va, may have access
to the public library of that city,
according to a ruling by Judge
William p. Woolls in Corporation
Court last Wednesday.
One by one the barriers fall.
Judge fancy rendered his famous
Dread Scott decision - Negro
had no rights a white man was
bound to respect. Ten years later,
the Negro was made a full-fledged
citizen.
1.-THE sword of heaven is not in
haste to smite, nor yet doth ling
err"
Ku Kluxers in South Carolina
lost their heads when they began
terrorizing whites. The governor
and his constables put three of
them in Jail, after Selling records
and correspondence. He offered
rewards for evidence to convict.
They kidnapped and beat up a
white mechanic.
Just beneath the skin of every
human is a bit of the beast, and
the Sign of the Cross or the color
of the victim is no saving grace.
No great white man has come
out of the south in a century. His
mind is so encircled by his preju-
dices, development is impossible.
Sam Hobbs, u. S. Congressman of
Selma, Alabama, said at a politi-
cal banquet last week, white su-
premacy" was one of the four car
dinal principles upon which the de-
mocratic party had flourished. He
said he had no quarrel with the
Negro race, but we ought not to
forget white supremacy.
The school board of Arundel Co.,
Md, was perpetually enjoined from
discriminating in the payment of
salaries to Negro and white teach
ers, in a final decree signed jan
IL by u. S. District District Judge
Calvin w. Chestnut.
Bernard E. Squires, speaking to
a large audience at the Forum
hour of the King County Republi-
can club last Sunday, in reply to
a question asked from the audience
said, Negroes, themselves, are
presumptuous." If you do not
think that he is right, listen to
this: Negro Federal Workers at
an Emancipation celebration Day
meeting, adopted a resolution sug-
costing the President name a bat
tleship after some prominent Ne
gro.
All battleships are named after
states of the Union. Now, bat
tleship named after any Negro
would be an orphan. The kids in
our neighborhood never cared any
thing for an orphan or a stepchild.