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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-08-02
Are We Becoming
Paranoid?
(From Esquire Magazine)
Written by q prominent White
Writer


Written by prominent White
Writer
The tendency to use terms glib
ly, not knowing what they mean,
nor even caring, so long as we can
hurt the object of our envy or our
fear, is more subtly expressed
when we refer to "wops," mig
gers" "kikes," or "polacks." We
pretend only to be using racial
labels, but actually, we are SUBJ
consciously expressing our prejud-
ices, which in turn, are based on
fears.
Our attitude toward the Negro
is good example. Among some
white, there is smouldering hat
red for this race, which bursts
into riotous flame on very slight
provocation; among other whites,
there is some degree of tolerance.
All whites feel superior to the
Negro. Why? The anthropologist
tells us he's our equal biolgically;
the sociologist assures us he could
quickly reach our cultura !
level, given half a chance e.;
and the psychologist says his I. Q.
would be the same If our tests
really got at native intelligence.
The reason Is because less than
one hundred years age he was a
slave, and has not yet attained
equal rank economically or So
cially. But If that were the only
reason, why don't we give him the
same opportunities to better HIM
self that we offered the whites?
Why don't we provide his children
with good schools, encourage him
to vote, serve on juries? Why do
we ask him to live in different
parts of town? It's not that we
think the Negro could never attain
our status. It's because we are
afraid he could, and we would thus
lose our sense of superiority. We're
afraid that civil equality would
lead to social equality and inter-
marriage. We don't consciously
reason this out; it's at a much
deeper, more primitive level.
For the same reason we hate
the Jap. He's much too courteous,
too Industrious, too thrifty, too
quick to learn. That's why we shut
the immigration door in his face,
and make him resentful that he
is classed as an inferior. And,
naturally, when we fortify an is
land naval base, or hold maneu-
vers in the Pacific, he gets a bad
case Of the filters, and builds an
other battleship or two. Then we
do the same.
Paranoia is as contagious as the
measles. Moreover, it is cumula-
tive, feeding on itself, and finally
like some Frankenstein monster,
destroys its creator.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-08-02

However humble the place /
hold,
On the lOwly trails l have
trOd,
There's a child who bases his
faith on me,
There's a dog who thinks
Pm God.
Lord keep me wOrthy-Lord
keep me clean
And fearless and undefiled,
Lest l lose caste i'm the sight
of a dog,
And the wide, clear eyes of
a child.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-08-02
Yakima, VIZ.
BY Parker Harris

MAo EfS ALT INnLb LI1ANftbCoOAN
Last Friday night, little folks
ruled the Mt. Hope Baptist church.
Sponsored by the w. w. G. Girls
Club, the Tom Thumb wedding
proved a brilliant success.
The bride was Miss Anita James
and the groom Master Alfred
Donaldson. Music was by Miss
Verna Bradford at the piano. The
Misses Anna Howard and Willie
Jones sang a duet, "Oh Sweet
Mystery of Life"
A Baby Contest competed with
the wedding for social honors, the
prize going to Baby Gladys Joe
Ann Hall with Sanford Lee Roy
Barnes winning second honors and
Mabel Waggener third. The win
ner received a $3.50 bank account
and home savings bank going to
the others. Refreshments followed
the entertainment.
SOCIAL NEWS
Mr.. and Mrs. William Yates and
Miss Eunice Quinn returned from
their summer vacation in sunny
California. While in San Francis
CO they visited Chinatown and the
Golden Gate Exposition. In Bak-
ersfield they visited Mr.. Walter
Berryhill and Miss Minnie Berry
hill. cousins of Mr.. Bill Yates. In
Los Angeles they visited Mrs. w.
A. Sanders. The happy trio had a
pleasant time in seeing America
first.
Miss Louise Donaldson, her mo-
Their and uncle spent a week as
house guests of Miss Vera Hick-
man of Seattle.
Mr.. Charles Roscoe spent a
week with Mr.. and Mrs. Dave
Bradford before returning to Sc
attic.
After a splendid vacation Mr..
Morse Waggener is returning to
Spokane.
FOR RENT: Furnished Rooms
and Apartments. Mrs. M. G.
Deering, sos So. Srd st.
Miss Dora Ward is recovering
rapidly from her illness.
The popular Miss La Fay Han
mock has returned from an en-
joyable vacation at Seaside. Ore
gon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Patterson, recent
newlyweds, have returned home
after a splendid wedding party.
Rev. w. l.. Luthen, Miss Arlene
Brown and Mrs. Robinson, all of
Ellensburg, spent the week end
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. John Woods.
Rev. and Mrs. Patterson were
house guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
Intosh last Fiday.
The Jitterbugs had great time
when Mr.. King Shatsy gave a
dance at the Weed hall last Mon
day night. The music was mellow
and everyone was in the groove.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sanford Barnes
entertained Rev. and Mrs. Lucas
and Miss Opal Taylor and Mr..
Gray at dinner last Sunday after
noon.
Miss Flora Anderson of Tenne-
ssee is visiting her aunt and uncle,
Mr. and Mrs. George Anderson.
Mrs. Edna Wise had a lovely
birthday party at her home last
Saturday evening. She received
many beautiful gifts.
Folks, don't forget the Camp
meeting that is to begin Aug. 8
in Toppenish. A special speaker
from California is one of the ma
ny features.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-08-02

The aoorry co1o might haze iUed
till not0,
If she'd only SGved her breath,
But she feared the hay aooaldn't
last all day
So she choked herself to death.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-08-02

A. M. E. Zion Church, Rev. Fred
Blythwood, pastor, 23rd and Olive.
Sunday morning worship led by
Sister La Force. IL a. m. Sermon
by Rev. Blythwood, "a Man of
the Pharisees." Afternoon, praise
service, sermon by Rev. Smith.
Evening service by Rev. w. Ora
ham of Redding, California. We'd
nesday night, prayer service, Fri
day Bible Study Sister La Force,
assistant pastor.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-08-02
Churches
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Rev. Fountain w. Penick, Pastor

MT. Zion Baptist Church
Rev. Fountain w. Peniclx, Pastor
Annual meeting of General Bap-
fist Association of the Washington
Baptist Convention will be held
at Mt. Zion, Aug. through Aug.
II. DR.. Emmett B. Reed, Moderat-
or; theme, "The Church," text:
upon this rock l build My Church
and the gates of hell shall not
prevail against it"
Guest speakers: DIR. ]. P. Hub
bard, Pastor Beth Eden Baptist
Church, Oakland, Calf; DR.. w. A.
Shanks, Executive Secretary of the
Washington Baptist Convention,
Seattle; Rev. J. J. Glow, Pastor Mt.
Olivet Baptist Church, Portland,
Ore; Mrs. o. M. Fahey, president,
Washington Baptist Convention;
Mrs. George Webster, President,
Women's Conference; DIR. H. v.
Jensen, Pastor, First Baptist
church, Seattle; DIR. v. N. Witter,
State Director of Christian Educa-
ton, Seattle.
Chairman of Association Com
mittees: State of Country, f. B.
Cooper; Resolutions, e. B. Wilson;
Obituary. Mrs. Willie Scott; Mis-
sions, Mrs. Jessie Grubbs; Divine
Services, e. B. Reed; Enrolment,
Registrar of Mt. Zion.
On August 18th and 10th, Miss
Empress Lorenzo Kitzer will pre-
sent a mammoth musical festival
at the church. There will be rs
voices under her direction.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-08-02
EDITORIAL
CONTINUED from Page one)


toward this end will not be disrupted by the dissenting voices
which rise at times such these
Let us look forward survey the field understand the
of the problem and the task which lies before
and then untedly with front and effort
approach this problem and reentessy fight for the ultimate
goal namely complete participation in the program of
poyment and earning at the Boeng Aircraft Corporation
Plant in the City of Seattle
THE FIGHT HAS JUST BEGUN. LET'S ALL FIGHT
TOGETHER
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-08-02

The race marches forward on
the feet of little children.
Only the brave deserve the fair,
but only the rich can support them.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-08-02
HERE'S MORE ABOUT
Negro Leaders
Continued from Page One)
Expansion of New Deallsm
Threatened

Karl f. Phillips Baltimore,
Maryland, former Director of Con-
Citation, Department of Labor: "In
his 'sacrificiaP acceptance of the
Presidential nomination for a Third
Term, President Roosevelt has I'M
forgettingly established himself as
the Super-Presidential egoist of all
times. Thus, IL elected, he fatty
promises the American people a
general expansion of New Dealism
in the continued and graver forms
Of futile social and economic ex-
Fermentation, increased taxation,
heavier public debt, the increased
sitting of free enterprise, new
threats to the Masters of Indus
try, scorn for Constitutional Gov
eminent, and last, but by no means
least, larger beads of sweat on
the brow of every laborer. 1t is
bDCb1 biNcCbg IiioI VIC hdbC OH duC-
quate defense against Mr.. Roose-
velt's offense."
A Threat to Constitutional
Government
Perry w. neutrality-suspicious.
National Committeeman for Mis-
sissippi, and former Special AS
sistant to the Attorney General of
the United States: 81 regard the
Third Term issue precipitated by
the Presidents denomination the
greatest threat that Constitutional
government has had since the eff
fort to pack the Supreme Court.
1t is even greater threat to the
safety of the American Negro be-
cause of its near approach to tam
pering with the Constitution. Next
to this, we shall be further chained
to the iniquities of the New Deal"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-08-02

The best way out Of difficulty
is through 1t.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-14
THE OLD RULE WORKS
OUT IN FEDERAL COURT

Sentence has been passed on five de-
PENDANTS, four of them japanese, in the
Yamatoda kidnapping case. Former Police
Chief J. Sterling Oswalt is awaiting
second trial in federal court. In the eyes
of the law he is still an innocent man.
There are many who believe, and always
will believe, that the five who were con-
victed were not guilty of kidnapping, be-
cause they believe there was no knidnap
ing. The case is so bewildering in all its
ramifications, and many of those involv
ed so needless of truth and integrity,
that it is doubtful if the true story of the
Yamatoda case will ever be known.
But one thing is plain for anyone to
see.
When gambling is allowed on a big
scale, trouble follows. When organized
gambling flourishes, graft and corrup-
tion are its natural running mates.
Perhaps it is true that mankind will
always gamble Most likely it is true
that no law absolutely prohibiting all
kinds of gambling could ever be enforce
ed. (The woman who plays for an eighth
cent a point at her bridge table would
complain long and loudly, for instance,
if she were hauled into police court on
a petty midemeanor charge Yet techni-
cally she would be in the same class as
the poverty-strcken laborer who loses
his weeks wages at one sitting of poker.
So it is not gambling as a whole that
we object to so strenuously; it is gamb-
ling on a commercial scale, where one man
or group of men stands to reap fabulous
profits from wholesale wagering, card
playing or other forms of gaming. Such
gambling always ends in trouble
Witness Yanlatoda, ct al.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-14
NO, CENSUS CAN RECORD
(Christian Science MOnitOr)

The Midwestern professor was right,
most persons will agree, who said re-
Gently at Evanston, Illinois, that it is the
people themselves, and not the mere num-
Der of them, that make a community. SO
it is with nation. While the 1910 census,
like all its predecessors, had its undOubt-
ed good uses, it is their mental and moral
qualities that determine the real strength
of the people and not the rising of falling
rate of community populations.
This is year in which the American
people are re-valuating the character of
national leadership. Every national cleo
tiOn is, in a degree, a key to the quality
of popular thinking. Democracies, like
individuals, make mistakes, but eventu-
ally higher motives and aims gain the
ascendancy. This is proved by social,
moral, and governmental progress "The
people themselves" that is the peoples
thinking-make the Nation as we'll as it
component communities. They govern
and control it policies, through its laws
and in spite of them They can be de-
pended upon to decide fundamental is
sues honestly for the most part and to
make the right choice in a crisis because
of the progress they have made, not
merely materially, but in the develop
ment of their thought-proceses under
democratic government.
A nation is richer when its moral fiber
is strengthened-and this growth may
accrue through travail and readjustment.
1t is this increase that no census can de-
termine, but which make itself seen and
felt when the popular will is registered.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-14
THE FIRE HAZARD
COMES HOME TO ROOST

Forest fires? Brush fires? What do
we care about them? We haven't any
forests in Imperial Valley, and the brush
we have on the desert couldn't get up
good fire if you lit match to each bush
individually.
So lot of valleyites have though from
time to time, when they have heard warn
ings against careleSsness in heavily tim
bered or brushed areas. Let the people
worry about such things who live where
they happen, has been pretty much the
tenor of opinion here.
Now it is a different story.
Summer homes of several well-known
Imperial Valley people have been destroy
ed in one of the worst brush fires ever to
hit the San Diego mountain area. Any
one travelling the highway between In
peria Valley and San Diego can see the
ravaging damage of the fire.
1t NAV have been started by incend-
iaries, or it may have been started by
some thoughtless person who flipped a
cigarette to the ground without thinking
what the results might be. Whichever it
was, the damage has been done. 1t makes
little difference now how it started.
1t does make a difference, however, if
people in Imperial Valley and elsewhere
can be made to realize the gigantic cost
of one careless action. A smouldering
cigarette flipped through a car window,
a match that has not quite gone out, a
glass bottle tossed away where it can
catch and concentrate the suns rays. Any
of these things, innocent though they may
seem, may cost hundreds of thousands
of dollars
Let's be careful, always, when we're
where fire might start
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-14
GABLE AND TRACY
RIB EACH OTHER

Boom Town" is a movie in the
super -duper category, action-pac
ed and giving thoroughly satisfact-
ory accounting of its huge cast. But
I'll remember it longest for the
incessant ribbing between Clark
Gable and Spencer Tracy, two items
of which found their way into the
picture.
In a courtroom scene, Tracy from
the witness stand silences the pesky
prosecutor and launches into a
long, homespun speech which in
cludes everything from Oil con-
versation to Americanism. Defend
ant Gable, sitting with Claudette
Colbert and listening in astonish-
ment to the harangue, comments
critically, "Quite a lot of ham in
him, isn't there?" That crack was
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-14

In spite of everything, n misty
myth has clung to the memory
Of Huey Long.
The canebreak fuehrer was so
picturesque. so fascinating a fig
ure, that even after his melo-
dramatic death, some people per-
sisted in regarding him as a sort
of political Robin Hood who used
the technique of Jesse James. but
who somehow did it all for the
people. Long ruthlessly rode down
every vestige of orderly constitution
al rights in Louisiana, but some
people still retained a lingering af-
fection for his sWashbuckling man
ner. and insisted that he was
after ali on the right side.
Advent of the Sam Jones regime
to power in Louisiana has pro-
vided the white light in which the
last shreds of this myth are van
ishing. Bruce Cation, NEA Service
Washington correspondent, in
recent able survey of the stack of
dirty dishes the Jones regime found
in the Louisiana sink, has destroyed
that myth forever.
II is now clear beyond any doubt
that the people of the state were
not only ridden rough-shod, de-
prived of their rights. but robbed
blind and left in a desperate fl
nancial condition by the man who
always told them he was doing
it all for their sweet sake.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-14
MEETING The CHAMP
IN NOVEMBER
klamath Falls NeiCs- -Herdld)

Writing from his place among the
newspaper correspondents with Wendell
Willkie at Colorado Springs, J. Roscoe
Drummond, staff correspondent of the
Christian Science Monitor, affirms his
belief that Willkie really means it when
he says that he is glad that 1t is Franklin
ID. Roosevelt who is opponent for Novem-
Der.
At one of the early press conferences
at Colorado Springs, Willkie was asked
for a definite statement concerning his
attitude toward the candidacy of Roose-
welt VS.. others in the Democratic party.
Wilkes reply:
Il have said that I'd like the fun of
hard, fighting campaign, but my position
really goes deeper than that and | am
glad to clarity exactly what | mean.
Mr.. Roosevelt is the champion New
Dealer, the outstanding advocate of the
philosophy which holds that the govern
ment's control over the individual should
be extended and intensified. There is no
monopoly so dangerous as that of political
power That is what the New Deal means
and that is the most vital issue of the ma
tional campaign ahead.
"The nomination of Franlin Roosevelt
means that this issue will be brought out
into bold relief.
81 would rather lose the election on the
real issues with the New Deals most eff
fective advocate against me than win it
against any lesser candidate whose cam
paign would hedge on the issues and blur
the verdict. I'm really thinking of more
than the fun of the battle am thinking
of the welfare of our democracy.
Now that Mr.. Willkie has his wish, this
should be a vigorous campaign with
clear-cut issues.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-14
Willis Thornton's Editorial On:
White Light on the Huey Long Myth

Outsiders had the idea that, what
ever they thought of the crude
overbearing Louisiana boSs-man, the
people in the remote parishes loved
him as one of their own. How
much truth there was to this part
of the Long legend is shown by
Cations report.
He tells of a little upstate town
in which somebody started an auto
parade to celebrate the defeat of
the Long machine. AS it passed
from town to town it grew in length,
and finally state police had to
block off the roads in a hopeless
traffic jam of thousans of cars as
other thousands stood cheering by
the roadside and even knelt to pray
in Thanksgiving.
True, they loved Huey Long at
first. He was vulgar and he was
stormy; he promised to free the
people from oppression.
But he seized more and more
power until he became himself the
oppressor. He followed the dictum
of Lord Acton that "all power cor
rupts, and absolute power corrupts
absolutely"
Then came the reckoning, then
came the grim stack of dishes in
the kitchen sink Louisiana con-
fronts with dismay and sorrow the
aftermath of its experiment in the
efficiency OF dictatorship"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-14
Paul Harrison S Notes
On Hollywood 5 FoibIes and Fads

HOLLYWOOD, Aug. fittings
were kind of quiet on the Hired
Wife" set, as might be expected
with three stars such as the re-
ticent Briton, Brain Aherene, digni-
fled Virginia Bruce, and purposeful
Rosalind Russell. So the still poto-
grapher wasn't very hopeful when
he suggested that maybe the prin-
cipals would get up on the stage and
dance. After all. this picture is
a comedy, and he simply had to
get some informal shots, and of
course it was awfully warm, and he
hated to ask this, and
Why, sure, said the stars, head
ing for the platform, they'd give
him something to shoot at. The
band went into jittery jive. Miss
Bruce dead-panned a torrid routine,
forefinger and hustle wagging as
she trucked on down. Miss Russell
nearly fell off the stage trying a
high kick in her long evening kown.
Mr.. Aherne heretofore considered
pretty much of a stiff-collar man,
went into tap routine that set
the extras to whooping and clap
ping.
When they'd stopped, the warm
and beaming Aherene painted /:
Couldn't We do this again some
time? I've just thought of a couple
of tricky steps didn't try. One
gets SO rusty. Where'd I learn? Oh,
one summer when I was in New
York show; took lessons for SO
cents an hour"
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-14
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
M. A. No. O53O83
District Land Office
Los Angeles. California

June 2, 1910
Notice is hereby given that The
Tycrete Chemical Corporation, by
Louis A. Tyce, president. of Chula
Vista, California, has made appli-
cation for patent to the White
Crystal No. l placer mining claim.
embracing Ek SEA NEA Sec. l6
and White Crystal No. 2 placer
mining claim, embracing SWANWh
NWA Sec. Is; SEA NEANEA Sec.
l6 all in T. II S., r. E. SBM
containing 40 acres, in the Ell Gen.
tro Mining District, Imperial Coun-
ty, California. There are no adj
joining or conflicting claims. The
location notices are recorded in
Book 359, page 148 and Book 358,
page 1876, and amended notices are
recorded in Book AGO page .488,
Book AGO, page 489. and Book 48l.
page 563, official records of Imper-
ial County, California.
PAUL B. WITMER,
Register.
J11-A20 incD
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-14

ad libbed Director Jack Conway
and Tracy-let it stay. .-
Gable, in turn, lent his outstand-
ing ear for laugh in the picture.
Tracy peers at the youngster who's
suppose to be Cables son and says,
yeah, he looks just like you. !
think III buy him football he'll
met
He's too young for football hek-
NETS" protests his pappy
II don't expect him to play in
it," says Tracy. He ought to sleep
in it," *-
GAGS THE SCENARIST
NEVER THOUGHT OF
FraZzled from overWOrk, Tracy
left for a months vacation just
as Boom Town" went into pro-
duction. But he took time almost
daily to wire Gable begging him
not ham up the picture hopelessly
before he could return. When he
finally walked on the set, Gable1
was playing a scene. He was look
ing at a newspaper and exclaiming
,'Shorty's in town. But this time,
having glimpsed Tracy on the side
lines he padded his speech. He said
"Shorty's in town. The old -
has been hiding in Palm Springs
until the critics forgot his last
picture"
. There's an emotional scene III
which an angry Miss Colbert stands
with her back to Gable, then turns
to face him as he speaks. Mickey
Rooney happened on the set that
day, and Master Rooney can do
a very fair imitation of the guy
whom Carole Lombard calls 1.-THE
Big Moose" incidentally, that nick
name has been borrowed by this
StOryO
The two he-stars coached Rooney
in the lines and pushed him on
the set. Miss Colbert's expression as
she whirled and found herself in the
arms of a half-pint hero should
win her the Total Astonishment
Award for 1910.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-14
No. 3I17

IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-
TATE AND GUARDIANSHIP OF
RAMON SANCHEZ, AN INCOM-
PETENT PERSON.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO EN-
CUMBER REAL PROPERTY.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN that
Mariana Guizar as guardian OF
Ramon Sanchez, incompetent, has
filed his verified petition praying
for an order authorizing cucumber
ing the real property hereinafter
described by giving a deed of trust
thereon and that Friday the 23rd
day of August, l940 at IL O'Clock
A. M in the Superior Court of the
State of California, in and for the
county of Imperial, in Department
/. thereof, has been fixed as the
time and place for hearing said
petition when and where any per-
sons interested in said estate may
appear and object TO granting said
petition.
Reference is hereby made to said
petition for further particulars as
to the terms and conditions of the
proposed encumbrance
Said real property is situated in
the City of Ell Centro. County of
Imperial, State of California, and
particularly described as:
Lot of Block 18 of the Town
site of Ell Centre, according to
Map No. 953, on file in the
Office of the County Recorder
of San Diego County.
w. j. McCLELLAND,
County Clerk and Clerk of said
Superior Court.
BY Maxine Console.
nanI1tu
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-14

While Bruce Cation vacations,
other members of the NEA Ser
vice Washington bureau pinch hit
for him.