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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-19
Jensen Rites
SET Thursday
VolleY Employment
Office Closing

fIfAILIr - Funeral services
FIR Alfred Jensen. So. : resident
Of this city for Is years. who died
Tuesday afternoon. vii be held
Thursday At o'clock II the wr1g-
lev and Clements chapel Rev.
Walter Watkin viii offieiate and
burial viii Be in woodbine ceme-
terv.
Jensen came TO the state from
Chicago > years ago and moved
here from Kettle Falls. The FAM
ily home Il AZ e2a 7th 81. 5. Z.
He was an employee Of the Hunt
Brothers Packing Co. and = men,
Der Of the Lutheran church. Sur
wing are his wife. Minnie: =
step-son. Herbert Jackson. Of San
Francisco; three grandchildren and
one great-grandchild.
New Essay Contest
Young people Of this community
are TO be given the opportunity
Ia compete again in q national
essay contest sponsored by the
auxiliary of the Veterans Of For
eign Wars. according to Mrs. Leon
Cecil Of Puyallup. department
president.
The contest. an annual activity |
of the auxiliary. Is open to high |
school students under u years of /
age. The prize TO the national
winner Is $1,000. with a $500 Sec
ond award. There are also state
prizes and the winner has his or
her name and school engraved on
the travelling cup. Two years ago
Miss Ruth Hanawalt. daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul B. Hanawalt.
won first honorable mention In
the state contest.
Married Saturday
Miss Dorothy Blanche Marcoe.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. I. NJ.
Marcoe of Puyallup. and Steven
Wehmeyer, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frederick Wehmeyer of Heppner.
Ore. were married Saturday eve
ming at a quiet ceremony in the
rectory of All Saints Catholic
church with Rev. John Power
officiating.
The bride was given In marriage
by her father and was attended
by Miss Lillian Marcoe. her sis
ter. Best man was Walter c. Hall.
Following the ceremony recep-
tion was held in the parish hall
at which about 100 guests were
present. On their return from a
motor trip to Winthrop. the new
home win be at s12 South NJ St,
Tacoma.
Building permits issued during
the past few days amount to
1920. according TO c. J. Brake
field. fire chief. The largest one
Is for $500. issuec 20 Elmer john
son for a residence at 612 18th St.
s. w. Mrs. NJ. ,smit viii erect
cottage at 702 18th St, N. w. at
a cost of $500; John B. Dzyaski
will repair his home at 1119 5th
st, S. w. at cost of $3.50, and
A. G. Johnson will enlarge his
home at 5th st. and 18th ave,
S. w, cost to be $40.
Office to Close
With seasonal employment rap
Idly coming TO close In the val
ley, the Washington State Employ
ment office will close for the year
on Saturday. according to Howard
Root. local manager.
The office was opened April 1.
Root said. and during the season
he issued approximately 5000
cards to men and women seeking
employment. However, the nn-
employment compensation service
will be continued. The office will
be open Wednesdays.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-19

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Thursday; iiath ouartermastsf
regiment. headquarters and head
quarters company. Company A head
quarters and headquarters dstaen.
ment. ard Battalion. 4 company
company and medical department
detachment. all Of seattle ite1h
ouartrfmastsr regiment. hsaduuaF-
tsrs. IL Battalion. and n company
from Walla wsiia.
Friday Signal company. sist di.
vision. headquarters AMI heaaauaFs
tiers detachment. s1st division. ad.
vance detachment. tseth Infantry.
advance detachment headquarters
headquarters company, n9nd fnfans
try brigade ia7nd Infantry adsannr
detachment and baggage 7iath Field
Artillery advance detachment and
haseass. all from Portland and
vicinity
SATURDAY.. Company X lsand In
fsntrs. from Tiilamoek spselsl
troops. sist division. hesaaasftsfs
and headauartsrn detachment and
Medical department detachment. all
from Centfalia and ksiso llHlh
Medical regiment. headquarters. brad.
quarters and service company div.
sion surgeons office. Company A
headquarters. and battalion. and
Company 2. from seattle hsadauar=
tiers and headquarters battery astn
Field artillery brigade ana head
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-09-19

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The Phoenix index., 1940-11-02
Concern Over The Negro Vote

IN HIS masterul article in Liberty Walter White gave
startling figures and facts relative the distribution OF the
coored and mpeng effect national elections 1t
shown concsivey where the close few Negro votes
in pivotal ceners might elections 1t the electoral vote
in state with electoral votes lose the plum losing
by small margin the electoral vote in big states like Penyl-
yana Ohio and Illinois, This factor giving the
the coming national election.
Robert Quan word-famous commentator, in his column
days ago cited did Mr. White that the Negro vote
great this coming election Mr. Qulan stated in plain
language that few well organized units might large
After his survey Walter White summarized his article
saving he possibly could tell how the Negro would
;So in this election, but he would not.
Be that what it may must be admitted that the coored
in the pivotal well organized Despite the fact
that sfrancsement and other sberuges have played havoc
with the coored the SOUTH there dismay in the
north and middewest Coored in large
bes and ward bosses give great the distribution
of this
Candidates in the pivotal doubtful sections that the
colored worth going after and spang pains in
making bids for that
1t slow process but the south awakening the fact
that ballots powers be enved Forward thinking people
seldom overlook power The south has done this her chagrn
and loss of industry and opportunity She gradually awaken
ing and from the lesson that the North giving in its anxiety
the colored the south day will seize every
medium that will enhance the vote counting election days
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-02

AS result of compact living on
residential island their several
cultures are tending to blend into
a culture pattern widely at varl.
ance with the Metropolitan New
York and foreign in many respects
to the average conception of ma
tional culture patterns. The langu-
age of the Harlem Streets reflects
this tendency m no uncertain terms
and even now might be called
"Harlemese" A glance at the menus
in the popular restaurants will re-
veal many new dishes quite un-
familiar to native Americans living
outside of the confines of Harlem
A native of these United States
coming to live in Harlem feels
like a stranger-as matter of
fact he is a stranger. He is treat
ed like a stranger for the natives
on this cultural island" sense
quickly that he does not belong
here.
The writer has said on several
occasions that one must be abnorm-
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-02
From Ny Study Window
By REV. JOHN CLARENCE WRIGHT
The Voice Of The Negro Minister

launching out in business, seeking
representation in government, Sc
curing the right to vote and estab-
fishing their home lie on firm
spiritual and social foundation.
1t may oe that what tney lacked
in pull" as friend of mine face
tiously observed recently, they
made up for in "bull," but we know
that much of the marselous
achievement of Negroes in Ameri-
ca in which they and their friends
take so much justifiahle pride and
satisfaction, is directly attributa-
BILE to the voice of the Negro min
lister which, though often harsh
and crude, has ever called his peo- .
pie from the low grounds of sor-
row to the higher levels OF spirit j..
ual and cultural triumphS.
What We haven't known, per-
haps, is that his voice was heard
not only in the South, but in the
North; and not alone in churches
of his own group, but occasionally'
even those of the whites. To sub
stantiate this statement I quote
from an item in The Expositor ana
Hon. Hectic Review for october
1910 reprinted from the Christian
Advocate of December 1889.
Under the caption, "He Preached
IA artin1n ga 0rQQE
historical document of primary i'm
portance," is the scholarly way IN
which Director John Spargo of the
museum at Bennington. Vermont,
described the mural which shows
a Negro minister of Revolutionary
times preaching in the historic
meeting house. 1t seems that the
preacher, Lemuel Haynes, was a
bond servant until he was twenty
cne. But he enlisted in a company
of volunteers who went to the re-
lief of Fort Ticonderoga in Octo-
Der IT'S.
Returning from that engage
ment, he became an "eXhorter." he
studied for the ministry, and was
later ordained in the Congrega-
tional church. He went about as a
Missionary preacher in the villages
of Vermont. He settled down as
the preacher of White congrega-
ton at West Rutland in 1888, and
served that group for almost thirty
years.
He was an able speaker, a re-
spected student of theology, and
preacher whose printed sermons
were read in London.
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-02
Seeing and Saying By william A. Fonlke,

matter how distasteful they may
be for all. That's a peculiar re-
ligion!
1t Is no wonder that those who
assume positions of leadership
often betray or quit the real cause
through which their leadership is
born and turn to personal gain.
This may be looked upon as 'poor
spirit" but they must be made to
t,En by the beatings in the face
they receive from those they in
tended to work for.
SAM SOLOMON's CASE
Mr.. Sam Solomon, formerly OF
Miami, Fla, was in the Office the
other day. Most of us know Mr..
Solomon. A successful undertaken
in the Florida city, he successfully
led in registering and taking to
the city election polls large mum
Der of voters Of color despite
Miami's extra-active Ku KluX
Klsn. For his excellent activity
and work, the National Association
for the Advancement OF Colored
People gave him recognition. He
was acclaimed by the press anc
the people of color throughout the
nation. AS a leader in racially hos
tile Miami, Solomon had gol
something done.
Well, about a month or so ago,
the Tropical Dispatch, an SNS
publication, carried a news item
that Mr.. Solomon was leaving
Miami for other parts, quitting
business there and taking his
family. No explanation was Civ
en- in the article as to why Mr..
Solomon was leaving. A dead cat
was on the line, however, we
knew.
Mr.. Solomon arrived in Atlanta
and dropped by the SNS. He need
ed to get no further in his expla-
nation to another that Miami Ne
groes, themselves, played the big
gest part in his decision to aban'
don the city where the nation ac,
claimed he had done lots of good.
That's peculiar religion among
our people. We won't lead and we
won't be led to the waters OF en-
Hghtenment and action.
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-02
WALTER CHIVER SAYS

al in order to live normal life in
Harlem, for Harlem is abnormal
The philosophy of life guiding
these people is basically different
from that of thu country at large.
And why shouldn't it be so, they
would probably ask? After all, this
is Harlem A stranger is remind
ed frequently, after he masters his
timidity sufficiently ask, why
people do as they do in Harlem
that this is Harlem" Harlemites
want to be different and strive
hard to be SO.
There is much Imitation of
Life" here and it follows various
models. For instance, there is
Sugar HILL The model copied
here is that OF Cafe Society of
Time Square and Broadway fame,
so dynamically pictured by Walter
Winchell. Here one encounters
doormen dressed like German
generals, dogs, of aristocratic
pedigrees and ferocious appetites
canopied fronts, men ard women
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-02

one time is reputed to have re.
ceived as much as $4,000 for a
single engagement.
The soft-volced artist was sing
'ng to his audience in a foreign
language and, apparently, had ev-
eryone gliding down the musical
lane with him when, suddenly a
woman occupying a reserved seat,
turned to her companion and said.
Whats he saying? l can't un-
derstand a word
But, the lady fairly beamed, and
joined the others in thunderous
applause when the noted tenor got
around to singing Negro Spiritual
and Folksongs,
7 can't say that the lady was
alone in her opinion of those
foreign numbers rendered by Mr..
Hayes, I'm not a keen student OF
music, so naturally I caught my
self staring at the ceiling during
some of those difficult numbers.
But, when I caught myself do
ing this, I made my self realize
that the man is an artist. And /
reminded myself that there is
such a thing as enjoying the
movements and gestures OF an
artist.
Yet, l don't mind saying that
Mr.. Hayes pleases me most when
ne sings good old Spirituals and
American Folksongs.
And getting back to the college
professor who was unable to con-
vince the OLD lady that Shake
speare was really something to ap-
preciate, I must say I have never
heard anyone moan down a person
who was in the midst of one or
Paul Laurence Dunbars poems.
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-02
The Globe TrOtter ass Bv cliff Maekay

nearly brought this nation on the
verge Of rliin,
Negroes did not seek relief, be-
cause they wanted it; they were
forced to it by the same big manu-
facturers and businessmen. who
now through Wendell Willkie have
suddenly become "the Negroes best
friends" These powerful employ
ers, religiously followed tradition
that a mans color automatically
ruled him out as Il possible employe.
Even foreigners to these ardent
supporters of Mr.. Willkie were
more acceptable as workers than
were Negroes.
MIR. WILKES RECORD
Many of the subsidiary power
companies which came under the
gigantic Commonwealth and South
ern of which Mr. Willkie was presi-
dent, could boast that not single
Negro was on their payrollS. Re
Gently one of these companies
which controls the city's transpor~
tation system had employed twen-
ty-one Negroes as buS-washerS.
Without notice or fanfare, these
Negroes, the only black men or
the corporations payroll, were dis
missed. The next day an automatic
bus-washer manned by crew OF
white men was doing the work.
This is just one among many
incidents which explains WHY Ne
groes are On relief rolls. The prob
lem was not made by the Roosevelt
administration 1t remained for
this administration to seek solu-
ton for it..
That is why this writer con-
tends both of these pet arguments
advanced by the National Republi-
can Committee 90 not ring true,
they have a hollow sound. The
Negro division charged with the
task of selling MIR. Willkie must
have scratched their heads and
searched a long time to find one
thing in his whole career thas
would serve to mark him as
friend to the Negro.
His whole background fails to
support all the glittering promises
he made to Negroes in his speeches
at Chicago and New York. 1t ap-
pears that only since his nomina-
ton to the presidency has he dis
covered his true" feelings about
us. Slightly belated, don't you
think? .--- -- -"
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-02
EDITORIALS
NYU Students Insist
Negro Back Play
Against Missouri

NEW YORK, (AP)-A group OF
New York University students has
formed an organization to protest.
against the decision not to play
Leonard Bates, Negro Sophonoro
halfback, in the football game with
Missouri at Columbia, Mo; on
November 2.
Previously, Head Coach Stevens
said he had no intention OF playing
Bates since it was against the Uni
versity of Missou1i's policy.
Bates also is not expected t0
make the trip.
Larry Gordon, sports columniss
in the student newspaper said
Bates was told when he entered
school last year he would not be
permitted to play in the Missouri
game. The student group that met
yesterday passed a resolution ask
ing that Bates either be permitted
to play or the game cancelled.
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-02

placing the former uti;:.y car in
the White House, the arguments
urging Negroes to support Mr.. Will
kie as against Mr.. Roosevelt boil
down to two main themes.
They are:
Cd Mr.. Roosevelt wants third
term. A third term is bad because
it is a violation of an American
tradition, and it MIGHT lead to
dictatorship.
CD The New Deal has kept the
masses of Negroes On the relief
rolls, while Mr.. WILKES kind
hearted crowd, if and when the
sage of Indiana" is elected, will
Immediately open all employment
to our people.
These are the twin arguments
the Negro division is working night
and day to put across. They are the
very essence of the reasons supplied
our people to make switch back
to the Grand Ola Party. a
Let us examine them under the
cold light of reason. First the
proposition of tradition, in the
matter of the third term. This
argument might be all right to
majority group i'll a democracy. but
Is poor argument for minority
In particular tradition is a poor
argument when applied to Ne
QrOeS
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-02
Bv ROBERT M. RADCLIFFE

'by hODEh1 M. hhA OAAECG
YEARS AGO IN MEMPHIS,
Tennessee, a professor of Rust COL
lege agreed to recite few lines
from one of Shakespeare's plays to
an audience attending a program
in a Methodist Church.
The professor took a good look
at the congregation and then said
he would sit down when anyone
got tired of listening to him. He
knew that Shakespeare's works
were lust a little too much for
the average run of minds.
So the professor from Rust Col
lege took a deep breath and then
launched into one of the noted
poets brilliant plays. If / remem-
ber correctly, the professor was re-
citing lines from Macbeth. Il think
Shakespeare wrote Macbeth).
Well, the professor was going to
town, so to speak. Even I was en-
joying il. He made the play seem
real. YOU COulQ dliliOSC oSS
characters moving right there IN
church.
The recital was hardly a minute
old before one of the good
sisters of the church let out a
low moan, The professor continued
however.
Then the old lady came right
on out with her thoughts. She
simply said:
ooh, Lord, what's this man talk
ing about?"
The professor took his seat.
The audience applauded, urging
him to continue, but he just kept
his seat
The other night in Atlantas
Greater Wheat Street Baptist
Church, we were listening to RO-
land Hayes, famous tenor, who a.
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-02

Most Of the sacredly- -honored
traditions in America, do not favor,
but are against the general we'll
being and happy existence of Me-
groes. We as a group should be
the last to adhere religiously to-
tradition. Those who doubt might
here examine some OF the tradi-
tions, against which Negro organl-
cations have fought for 10 these
many years, with but little marked
success.
HERE'S A TRADITION
1t is a tradition in most South
ern states, and not a few Northern
that no matter how well-prepared
and educated is a Negro, and no
matter ii he is doing exactly the
same tasks as his white fellow
workmen, the Negro should be
paid less than the white, Could
Negroes who have the interest OF
the group at heart argue against
the abandonment of this most un-
democratic of traditions?
Tradition has it that Negroes
must be exploited in the matter OF
housing. Some of our Northern
friends are better acquainted with
this tradition than those of us who
live in the less congested areas OF
the South. 1t is under the rules OF
tradition that white landlords al
ways increase the rent when Ne
groes move into urban residences,
after white occupants abandon
them.
It. is tradition that keeps alive
the practice of discrimination on the
part of one group of Americans
against another, because of color.
And it is tradition that has in
spired the last to be hired, first
to be fired" rule against Negro
labor. We as group should be the
last an appeal On the grounds OF
tradition could be made. We have
been invariably the victims of ira
ditiOn.
STUPID REASONING
The second argument about the
New Deal keeping Negroes on the
relief rolls and out Of jobs, seems
to this writer rather stupid rea-
soning in the face of facts.
Relief was setup as result, not
as a cause. 1t was the result OF a
do-nothing, favor big business poll
CIV that for twelve years was foster
ed by Harding, Coolidge and Hoov-
er. 1t was the policy that not only
made relief necessary, but very
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-02
Judges Widow
Accidentally
Shot By Son

-(ANP)-Mrs. Maude
Roberts George, widow OF Judge
Albert B. George, late municipal
judge of Chicago and one of the
most prominent matronS in the
city, was shot accidentally and
seriously wounded last Monday
morning when her son, Alber:.
George, Jr., mistook her for Il
burglar.
Young George told investigating
officers that he was awakened by
a noise early Monday morning.
Slipping On his bathrobe and going
downstairs to investigate, he saw
a shadowy form in the kitchen.
Not knowing that his mother had
arisen early, he fired a single shot
from a pistol which he kept in his
room. The bullet struck Mrs
George in the corner of her mouth
and lodged near the back of hel
head. She was removed to Provi-
dent hospital where Dr. Homer
Cooper declined to speculate upOr
the outcome of the wound.
Mrs. George for many years ha'
been one of the outstanding wom-
en- of Chicago. She is a former
president of the National AssCcia.
ton of Negro Musicians, promin-
ent in club life, secretary of thu
Provident Hospital Woman's boar6
and active in numerous other ac'
tivities. Young George was hell
under technical custody pendini
the outcome of his mother
wound.
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-02

EVERY NOW AND THEN, a
book, an item of historical
research, or an unusual news re-
lease reminds us anew of what a
powerful, moulding influence has
been the voice of the Negro minis
ter. In this new and enlightened
age of science, invention, discovery
and learning, he is frequently be.
Titled, caricatured, criticized, ex-
plotted in minstrels and jokes.
But the extent to which, with his
limited intellectual endowment the
Negro minister has made himself
felt in the shaping of the morals
and the religious traditions. not
alone of the Negro in America, but
of the entire nation, will stand as
one of the real marvels of this age.
We have known of the place he
occupied in the South prior to, dur
ing and in the crucial years imme-
diately following emancipation. We
know how he succeeded in making
the church what so many ministers
of all faiths and creeds are vainly
trying to make it today, the very
center and focusing point of all
of a community's vital activities
and interests.
People under his leadership
sought him and the church for
light, counsel and guidance in ev-
erything that affected their indi-
vidual and group well-being and
progress. His voice uttered the
rallying cry that aroused them to
interest in establishing schools.
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-02
Death Of Noble Leaders

THE NEGRO RACIAL GROUP suffered rreparabe
losses months the deaths of Robert S. Abbott
editor of the Chicago Defender and Robert Vann editor of
the Pittsburgh Courier.
No two who held positions of leadership of
their people contributed effectively, efficiently and
earnestly than did Editor Abbott who succumbed to eng
thy illness of several months Their useful
brought early ends due to the strenuous programs they
fOstered through the highly representative Influential and
widely circulated newspapers which they published for
many years.
Certainly the Negro racal group in particular and
citizenship in general suffer greatly the passing of
these noble leaders.
The Phoenix index., 1940-11-02
1&}Ei(iA MS ~ Ad2A:|22z1 Els
10y THOMAS JEFEERsoN FLANAGAN X&&Al
When The Morning Brings The
FrOstlines Back TO Dixie

THERE'S hush along the meadow and distant gobbe
YELL ,-.-- 1900
And tinke 'rorn' the haystack like music of bell
Hangin from the necklace of the OF all the dell
When the morning brings the frosines back to Dixie.
/ love to follow yonder where the mossy fences
Aroun' the pasture acres-ike circle rom the SUM-
But beauty's rarest picture my sweet is never done
TIL the morning brings the rostlnes back to Dixie
Down aroun' the branches you will possum track
An YOUR OF heart goes leaDn the woodpeckers whack
An your OF feen that good times comm back
When morning brings the frostlines back to Dixie.