The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-02-02
JUST TO
REMIND YOU

NEW OiNAAANfAAsCI Ia. nC It.
Gently enacted Hatch law barring
federal employees from political
activity was used to force d. p. M.
Slider of the New Orleans Agency,
Department of Justice, to with
draw as a candidate for State Cen
trial Committeeman, thus automat-
ically electing J. p. Mckay, Ne
gro. 1t is the first time in state
history that Negro has become
so elected through a Republican
primary.
You know when thieves fall out:
For IL years the Huey Long die
tatorship has ruled Louisiana with
an iron hand. Somehow, Uncle
Sam asked for a New Deal. Two
hundred little dictators were in
dicted. The vote in New Orleans,
usually unanimous, was won by
fewer than 100 votes. The reform
ers campaigned on a platform of
Throw the thieves out" stand a
good chance to win in the run off
February 20.
When the smoke had cleared
away, the Republicans had sneak
ed in-black Republicans at that.
Comes now the distinguished
scholar and writer Don Salvador
de Madariaga, who was Spanish
Ambassador to the u. S. in 1881,
in book just published, contends
that Christopher Columbus was a
Jew. Maybe so. Can't prove it
by us. They will prove to the
world yet that Jesus Christ was a
Jew also.
Mr.. Elmer A. Carter, editor of
the Opportunity Magazine, before
the Catholic Layman's Union at
the Harlem Y.M.C.A. Sunday, is
sued this warning: The American
Negro is facing the danger of de-
portation to Africa if they become
permanent relief dependents. That
there was nothing surprising or
unexpected in the possibility of
"transplantation" of the Negro
back to Africa in the future. He
said Hitler had shown that such
a movement could be successfully
effected.
Carter claimed that this coun-
try would ultimately be forced to
support 100000 or more persons
permanently unemployed in the
future. Negroes are the largest
racial group on relief and are re-
turning to private industry more
slowly than any other group, and
that the Negro is yet to face his
greatest crisis"
Do you know Hattie Mcdonald?
We think she is the leading lady
in Gone With the Wind" Any
way, her acting in that play is the
why she was given a long movie
contract by Selznich International
Studios. And they plan to give
her outstanding parts where she
can play a courageous, loveable,
Negro mother. Several polls have
voted her the best supporting act
ress in 1889.
Governor Martin, speaking be-
fore church group in Spokane:
II am proud as I approach the end
of my regime that I was able to
keep the schools open" Listeners
said "the end of his regime"
means that the governor will not
be a candidate for reelection.
Some candidates may view that
as good news. But take it from
us, the governor is going to be a
pain in the neck to many of them
before he sings his swan song.
The New York Sun says it took
q presidents of the United States
100 years to top the figure Presi-
dent Roosevelt has managed to get
in eight years of American history.
All of this is of major import
ance to colored groups in the
North, the South, and the Middle
West where they live in such large
numbers. The constitute the larg-
est minority group in the country.
They are generally considered on
ly after practically all others have
been cared for. They are proper
tionately the largest number on re-
lief in all of the large urban, in
dustrial centers, and in the South
where prejudiced administrations
have denied them even the small
allotments to which they are right
fully entitled.