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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-31
EDITORIAL
OUR GRADUATES

Our public high schools will be having their grad
uang exercises and among them will be of race
Some no doubt will make effort to continue their schoas
tic training by entering the University of Washington
other higher school of learning Few may hope day to
become teachers, social service workers. clerks, etc.
Disappointment of course, awaits many Not long ago,
hopes high under the coming of the New Deal 1t brought
with many high hopes Yet during all of its existence OPP
portunies instead of increasing have fallen away Here
the have little to offer In the interim have
even thought about making place for them.
We ea and Dress but place to 60 Other do try
prepare place for their boys and girls when they
the school Dscouragment and plenty of it awaits
those who enter the business field.
1t is about time to think seriously in trying to solve
own economic problems the business world
must look to their aures They need hope for
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Col. Dem. Meet June :
Hear Emmett Holmes

What promises to be the largest
and busiest colored democratic
convention ever held in Seattle will
be staged here when the Washing
ton State Colored Democratic Club
holds its convention June 9th at
the Polish Hall, 18th and East
Madison Street.
Delegates from every city in the
state in which there is a colored
democratic organization are ex-
pected to attend the confab at
which time delegates to the Ma
tional Colored Democratic Conven-
ton which meets in Chicago in
July, will be named.
Emmett H. Holmes of Spokane,
Wash. will be the principal speak
er. He has supported the demo-
cratic ticket longer than any other
colored voter in the state and will
give the members facts on demo-
cratic principals.
After the election of officers, is
sues of state and national import
ance will be discussed by the dele
gates including better working
conditions for the minority groups.
Ira F. Norris is acting president
of the Washington State Colored
Democratic Club, Inc, and Edward
A. Pitter, state organizer for the
democratic party, is secretary
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-31
Call Editor Writes
On Aviation Labor

After the Missouri Aviation In
stitute located at the Kansas City
Municipal Airport, which had lad
vertised" for WHITE AMERIC-
AN CITIZENS" to take training,
intimating that Black American
citizens will not be accepted as
students, Mrs. Chester A. Franklin
has this to say:
Enough To Make Ones Blood Boil
Having spent my so years of
life in this country, I know the
workings of prejudice. Generally
can say Forgive them, they
know not what they do" But this
time l am angry. Not only my
race, but my country is hure by
the advertisement of the Missouri
Aviation Institute published in the
daily press. 1t invites WHITE"
American citizens to enroll, saying
inferentially that blacks are not
wanted.
If this institute were a private
business, operating on its own
money and reputation, I could
withhold criticism. But it adver-
tises that it is approved by the
U. S. Department of Commerce
and by the U. S. Civil Aeronautics
Authority. 1t has the cheek to
make my government appear to
agree with it's discrimination. If it
derives any part of it's income
from government sources this adj
vertising is paid for by money put
into the federal treasury partly
by my people.
Because this breaks down ma
tional unity at a time when the
President and Congress are busy
preparing a defense program to
protect us against a real danger,
I hope whites, too, object to this
schools advertisement. Negroes
having a record of being 100 per
cent loyal, to set them apart as
undesirables even theoretically by
anyone connected with the gov
ment weakens our national de-
tense. The United States should
withdraw its approval from the
Missouri Aviation Institute.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-31
Rev. F. W. Penick In Drive To Aid
Seattle Negro Business Men, Women
BY Doris Nj. Jones

Sunday morning, May 26, Rev.
Fountain w. Penick Pastor of the
Mt. Zion Baptist Church held "Bu-
siness and Professional Men and
Women's Day Service" for the be-
nefit of aiding Negro Enterprises
in Seattle.
DIR. f. w. Penick, of Chicago,
ILL.,, who has recently been appoint
ed pastor of the Mt. Zion church
of Seattle, has lost no time in
working for the benefit of our
Community Tin fact Penick works
so fast he has the reputation of
being dust-raiser) delivered a
termon from the subject, why
We Should Support Ourselves and
Our Friends in Business"
DR.. Cooper (dentist), Mr.. Gus
West (fuel dealer), and Mr.. E. I.
Robinson (editor), gave inspiring
talks on the urge of aiding their
fellowmen in the business world,
who possibly cannot survive with
out your help. THAT there are just
as competent doctors, lawyers, and
many other professional men and
women in the Negro race, as there
are in any other, and they have
their diplomas to prove it. They,
the Business men and women, have
no grievances, and are boycotting
no one, but they need your help,
and will you not heed their pleas ?"
In the large audience many Seat
tie professional men and women
were present and all enjoyed the
services.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-31
|P.C.Y. Backs Drive
For Employment
By jacques B. Chappell

The Progressive Colored Youth,
body of serious-minded young
men and women who have passed
their 18th birthday, holding sway
at the Y. w. c. A. last Wednesday
evening, does not belle its name.
A Advertising their meeting
brought full house. From the
questions asked and interpretations
it appeared to be wholly a fact
finding body.
The splendid array of young
sters seeking knowledge to guide
them in days to come, lends a
bright aspect to our coming gen.
GRAFTON. The officers, devoid of
levity, lent their time and ears
in search of the things that make
men and women.
In politics they assume a nom
partisan attitude. These young
sters swell the mighty crowd of
independents that give the staid
old politicians a lasting headache.
Several speakers were scheduled
to address the meeting, Mr.. E. B.
Squires of the Seattle Urban
League heading the list. Squires,
an authority able and eloquent,
was nevertheless compelled to run
the gauntlet of interrogating truth
seekers. Following Squires, e. I.
Robinson of the Northwest Enter
prise spoke on the Boeing Airplane
and Aeronautic Mechanics Union
No. ISL, giving his own formula
to combat what he thought an in
tolerable situation He urged the
drafting of their known public
leaders, the ministry and heads OF
national organizations, demanding
their right to their services to lead
them in their fight for jobs and
homes. The interrogations which
followed disclosed other formulaes
equally as good or better.
All in all, we look upon the P.
c. Y. as an organization out of
which may come our future lead
ers in the social, political and &C.
onomic world. Never have we
looked upon a more serious minded
organization of young men and
women; never have our forecasts
of despair been so readily dissip-
ated as that determined optimism
which prevailed in every corner
of the Y. auditorium last Wednes-
day evening.
Harry Earles is president of the
club.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-31
Organize Com. for Defense of Negro
Laborers' Right To Work at Boeing Go.
BY Hutchen r.. Hutchins

In order to protect the consti-
tuition of the United States and
the Washington State civil code
from violence by Trojan horse
filled with band of connspirators
who have decreed that Negroes
shall not work, even though they
are taxed to maintain our industry:
Need for a coordinating and edu-
cational center was recognized
when churches, clubs, unions, fra
ternal, political and other organi-
cations actively started a drive to
smash the fifth column and put at
least 100 race men in jobs at Boe-
ing Airplane Co.
Leaders from these organizations
met and organized The Committee
for Defense of Negro Labor's Right
to Work at Boeing Airplane Co.
1t further stressed that "Care
should be taken to ostracise any
Negro who will attempt to justify
the failure of the Aeronautics Me-
chanical Union No. ISL, who con-
troll the labor situation, to undo
this wretched conspiracy"
A program of action was map
ped out to raise funds to defray
the expenses for stationary, stem
ellis and stamps. A publicity COM
mittee was named whose duty it
shall be to keep the National Ne
gro Press informed and to urge the
National Association for the Adj
vanccement of Colored People to
wage a fight in Congress to enact
laws to prevent such conspiracies.
NOTICE
All Race boys between the ages
of 1S and 80, who have had the
following subjects in school can
earn $500 per month at Boeing
Airplane Co. For Sub Assembly:
semesters of mechanical draw
ing, A semesters of shop work, al
zebra I and II, physics and II;
for Sheet Metal: same as above,
except only two semesters drawing
required; for Bucking and Rivet-
ingk: same as Sheet Metal.
If you have had no experience,
you must apply for the Boeing
classes at Edison School for a six
weeks course The cost is about
$500 plus. Applicants must pre-
sent birth certificates and have
no criminal record; also a Social
Security number is required as well
as transcript of grades.
Do not take NO for an answer.
If you are refused, learn why and
who refused you. In all cases leave
written report to the committee
for defense of Negro labor's right
to work in Boeing Airplane Co.,
611-22nd avenue.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-31
Atty J.Prim Stirs
Tacoma N.A.A.C.P.

The annual membership drive of
the Tacoma Branch of the N. A. A.
c. p. came to a close last Sunday
as very appreciative crowd came
out to hear the very able address
of Atty. John Prim of Seattle,
President of the Seattle branch.
Probably not SINCE the visit of
the late James Weldon johnson
here some years ago, have the
achievements of the N. A. A. C. P.
been SO chronologically presented.
Atty. Prim began his speech by
reviewing the sad anti and post
bellum days when the so-called
Negro had no rights that a white
man was bound to respect. He
referred to the inadequacy of the
Constitution of the United States
which brought about the passage
of the ID, IA and Is Amendments
thereto. Then came the reaction
of these amendments by the pas
sage of Grandfather" measures
which brought about the birth of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
Feb. II, 1909.
Southern states continued to in
stitute devious ways, said Atty.
Prim, to abrogate the rights of
the black man but with the fine
machinery of the N. A. A. C. P.
these measures were smashed.
Then came the great fight against
lynching in which the N. A. A. C.
P. were pioneers. Lynching has
spread all over our land with the
exceptions of about six states till
the 1910 reports, no release of
any lynchings.
Atty. Prim brought out the pres
sure brought against segregation
in residential districts which is
being brought against this prac-
tice. Also segregation in schools
and their attendant inadequacy in
equipment and lesser teachers sal
aries.
Prim cited the recent cases in
Missouri and Maryland in Univer-
sity discrimination. Out of some
of this chaos in teachers salaries,
order has been out in Maryland
where salaries are equal. Prim
also spoke of the discrimination
in hours and wages and mention
was made in discrimination in the
Army and Navy and Aeronautics.
Speaking locally Mr.. Prim cited
the Berry Lawson case and its
sequel. Also the weakness of our
Civil Rights and the need of its
amendment.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-31

Is a native of Mississippi and
is a specimen of that rara avis
among us; the man who prefers
to be sought after rather than to
seek. Those close to him say he
Is a man in whom there is no
guile. Waters came to the Pacific
Northwest some 35 years ago. He
was employed by the Pullman Co.,
in the sleeping car department
some 81 years ago, working out of
the Seattle District.
Waters has tried to live so that
the Pacific Northwest would be
a better place to live for all peo-
pie.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-31
Lost Generation
BY Emmett ]. Scott

Washingto, D. Cat present
one-third of the young people of
this country between the ages of
16 and rs are out of school and
unable to find employment. They
number approximately 1000, 900. 1t
is sad and tragic situation in
which they find themselves. They
are often referred to as The Lost
Generation.
Out of school and out of employ
ment, they have no opportunities
to realize their best possibilities.
Born since the World War of
1914-18, in which we participated,
with the Declaration of War by the
Congress of the United States on
April 6, 1917, they are victims of
poverty, distress and a serious
gripping of all that makes for vi
rifle young manhood and woman
hood. The so-called Recovery pro-
grams of the past seven and a half
years have not relieved this condi-
ton.
Added to the unemployment of
these millions of young people are
also millions and millions of men
and women who also have donned
garments of economic and spiritual
despair.
Emancipation For Youth Needed
AS has well been said: "This
Nation is as much the Nation of
the youth of today as it is of their
elders . F.. What we need today
more than anything else is new
Proclamation of Emancipation for
the young people of this Nation"
Negro youth, handicapped by ra-
cial and economic barriers, will
have to struggle harder than other
portions of the population. How
can they expect to enjoy a normal
future with the handicaps which
now envelop them, and which are
to enjelop them for many, many
years to come?
1t is time that coiored men and
women, particularly those in the
North, East, and West, where their
votes are not subjected to oligar-
chic control and Acknowledgement,
begin to think upon these things,
and determine whether they should
not have a serious interest and
concern for their children, and for
those who are yet to come.
They must do something about
it. If free opportunity is to be pro-
vided for this lost generation to go
to school and secure employment,
radical changes must be made in
the administration of our Govern
ment. The present situation cannot
continue to exist.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-31

Suffrage Drive
Spreads In South

New York The right-to-vote
program now getting under way
throughout the South, under the
direction of the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Color
ed People, is gaining momentum,
and bids fair to becoming the most
important drive sponsored by the
organization outside the equaliza-
ton of teachers salaries, and the
anti-lynching bill.
Thurgood Marshall, special coun-
sci for the N. A. A. c. p. is maxi
ing a tour of the South, setting
up the mechanism for carrying for
ward the program. Texas, with
every association branch lined up
behind the program, is raising
$4,000 to carry the fight through
the courts, should Negroes be de-
MED the right to vote in the COM
ing July primaries in that state.
New Orleans, Louisiana, Bir-
mingham and Mobile, Alabama,
and Atlanta Georgia, are other i'm
portant southern centers where
programs are now getting under
way to push the register-and-vote
campaign.
In a statement issued this week
Marshall said:
1.-The Negro citizen in the South
is tired of being denied the right
to participate in the election of
officials who will have the say as
to how he is to be governed. And
he is not scared, if indeed he ever
was. That is why he has made
up his mind to fight all the way
for the right to vote, right long
denied him, despite the fact that
this right is guaranteed to all the
citizens by the Constitution of the
United States"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-31
Pullman Porter
Slugged And Robbed

Last Sunday morning early, A.
Mcgee, Pullman porter operat-
ing out of the Western District of
Chicago, ILL.,, was held up and
robbed of $6.25. His assailant
struck him a severe blow on the
chin, so disabling him that he was
confined to his room for several
days.
The police made an arrest in the
case and MCGEE is held as a ma
terial witness.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-31
Marcus Carvey
Very Much Alive

LONDON-(C)-Back from the
dead" where he had been en-
tombed in American news columns,
the redoubtable Marcus Carney,
originator of the Back to Africa
Movement years ago, was reported
to be very much alive and show
ing definite signs of recovery from
stroke of paralysis. During the
last fortnight the Negro press of
the United States seasawed be-
tween confirmation and denial of
Garvey's demise.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-31
Four New Bishops
Are Elected

The new Bishops of the AME
Church are as follows: D. Ward
Nichols, sent to Alabama; G. E.
Curry, sent to West Africa; F. M.
Reid, sent to South Africa and
A. j. Allen, sent to Cuba.
w. A. Dorsey was elected Man.
ager of the Book Concern and
Howard Gregg, Sditor of the
AME Review.
c. A. Hatcher elected Editor
Southern Christian Recorder.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1940-05-31
n. W. Enterprise
Contest Rules

ATTENTION.! SEATTLE,
PORTLAND, TACOMA, SPO-
KANE and YAKIMA!! CALL
ING ALL QUEENS, CALLING
ALL QUEENS!
On Monday, July %, the
Northwest Enterprise will cele-
brate its 21st anniversary. We
want FL sepia charming ladies
to become prospective Queens.
Continued Page FOur)
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Address NAACP Meet

New York, May 31-Aubrey
Williams, administrator of the
National Youth Administration,
will be the principal speaker Fri
day night June Fl, at the 31st an
nual conference of the N. A. A. C.
P. in Philadelphia.
Evening star., 1940-11-08

comers to wrest 1t from him.
Uncle Sam, too, has treasure
he wants to protect-the vast oil
fields, refineries, forests and indus
tries behind the island; booming
ports, air fields and the population
itself.
Accordingly, Galveston has one
of the most important systems of
harbor defenses along the stretch
of land from Mexico to Pensacola,
Fla.
A Chance of Peril.
1t would seem improbable that
an enemy admiral would send a
feet into the Gulf of Mexico, risk
ing the chance of being bottled up
at the narrow entrances on each
side of Cuba.
The United States acquisition Of
bases in the South Atlantic also
would appear to be a further guar
antee of immunity.
However, the fortunes of war
Evening star., 1940-11-08

sometimes do not follow books of
strategy. Besides, the Army must
worry over the submarine and air
menace, and the possibility a foreign
power might obtain a foothold in
South America or Mexico as a base
from which to essay invasion.
Fort Crockett here, the hub of
this Texas Gulf Coast defense net
work, Is humming In fashion
equalled only in World War days.
Two years ago, all anti-aircraft
groups east of the Rocky Noun
tains had a total of five gun bat
teries. Today the 69th Coast Ar
tillery Anti-aircraft Regiment alone,
stationed here, has three batteries.
Improvements totaling nearly ST.
000, 900 are being made at the post.
A year ago, after departure of
most of the troops for Puerto Rico,
The 69th's personnel comprised "a
men and three officers. Today its
strength stands at 1,400 men.
The Goth Coast Artillery has been
Evening star., 1940-11-08

boosted to $50 men from nothing"
Until the emergency. the goth bare
ly had enough men to keep the guns
in shape.
At Hitchcock, about IL miles
northwest of Fort Crockett, the War
Department will build a 1,200-acre
replacement center for 1900 troops.
To Train Selectees.
Selected service recruits will be
trained here in coast artillery, anti
aircraft and harbor defense over
three-month periods.
In December, the 69th Coast Ar
tillery Anti-aircraft Regiment will
be transferred permanently to Camp
Hulen at Palacios, Tex, but the
personnel total will be virtually un-
affected.
The 265th National Guard Regi-
ment from Florida will replace the
69th.
Augmenting a dozen 3-inch anti
aircraft guns, the Army has a group
Evening star., 1940-11-08
President May Name
Three More Justices
During Third Term
Only Roberts Ineligible
To Retire From High
Court by l945
BY tie Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
One possible result of the national
election is that the number oil
Roosevelt appointees on the Su-
preme Court bench may increase.
Five members of the nlne-man
tribunal have already been chosen
bv Mr.. Roosevelt and this number
will grow to eight if all justices
eligible for retirement actually do
leave the bench during the Presi-
dents incumbency.
Two of the present justices are
eligible to retire now and another
will reach that status in two years.
Of the four appointed by Mr.. Roose-
velt's predecessors, only 65-year-old
Owen j. Roberts will not have be-
come eligible to retire when the
next presidential term expires.
Members of the Supreme Court
may leave the bench at full pay OF
$4,000 a year after serving 10 years
and reaching the age of 70.
Chief Justice Charles Evans
Hughes is 78, but he has told friends
that he intended to remain on the
tribunal as long as his health per-
mitted. He is reported to be In
good physical condition.
Friends of 78-year-old Justice
James c. McReynolds say he has not
made up his mind whether TO retire.
1t has been understood that he re-
manned on the bench for some time
in the hope that the next President
would not be a New Dealer. His
plans in view of the reelection of
President Roosevelt have not been
determined, his friends report.
Justice McReynoldS, the leading
dissenter, is the only justice de-
scribed by administration men as
conservative.
D.. Justice Harlan F. Stone, Repub-
lican, who has been one of the
courts leading supporters of New
, Deal legislation, is 68 and will be
eligible to retire October II, 1912.
:. All of Mr.. RooSevelt's five appoint
.ments were during his second term.
They are Hugo L. Black, Stanley
Reed, Felix Frankfurter, William
20. Douglas and Frank Murphy.
Evening star., 1940-11-08
Navy kaChinist Pay Rate
Will Be Protested

Disappointed at the failure of
Navy Yard machinistS and other
skilled Workmen to get pay in
.Creases in the new general wage
,revisions announced yesterday, N. P.
.Alifas, president of District A, In
ternational Association of Machin-
lists, said today that the matter
would become the subject of for
NAL protest.
Mr.. Alias said he would seek the
support of the American Federation
of Labor when he attends the con-
vention of the metal trades at New
Orleans, and that probably the
"neglectful treatment" of the Navy
Yard machinists will be called to the
attention of Congress.
The union leader also cited the
Navy Departments unwillingneSS to
offer applying machinists better
than "a third class rate" He said
the Government was pursuing the
right course if it is the desire tt
discourage skilled mechanics from
going to work for the Navy"
Evening star., 1940-11-08
Mass Prayer Causes
Traffic Jam

Mass prayer caused a big traffic
Jam in the heart of Capetown, South
Africa, recently. More than 10000
gathered in the city to do their
shopping and observe the noon
prayer pause. The police and traffic
inspectors had the greatest difficulty
in dealing with the chaos which
followed
The crowd milled about, but would
not move away. The police had to
draw their batons and struggled for
nearly an hour before they restored
normal conditions.
A week before, during a similar
mass prayer for peace, soldiers be-
came involved in clashes with the
crowd.
Evening star., 1940-11-08

Of bigger fellows, some of them of
the 10-inch disappearing type, point
ed out to sea.
They could give a feet some
trouble.
The guns are ancient, but Army
officers insist their usefulness has
not been impe'rei. Their range is
1880 yards.
"They can shoot as well as ever .
said Col. Olin Longino, commander
OF the harbor defenses.