The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-01-17
Good Neighbors
BY S. 7. NfcCants
seattle's Next Mayor

Your humble scribe after thirty
two years continual residence in
Seattle, and by the way is the
owner of a great big vote, decides
that he too, should say a word
concerning our next mayor.
We have witnessed the coming
and going of many mayors and
city officials, but, this election
really excites our interest. / am
sure that many of the Negro race
in Seattle will take advantage of
the opportunity to vote for their
favorite candidate.
Well, I shall not hesitate to in
form you of the kind of Mayor that
I shall vote for, and pray for his
election.
My choice of all the candidates
is the one who will honestly be
the Mayor of all the people of
Seattle, regardless of class, creed
or color. am asking for a Mayor
who will give the Negroes of this
city a square deal. Not a new one.
1 am sure that there are many
improvements needed to be made
by our next Mayor and council.
So, please allow me to predict,
that our new Mayor can hold the
coveted power of being Seattle's
greatest city executive of all times
and it is as simple as this. just be
Mayor of all the people. -.
See that all citizens are given an
equal right to live, and just here
l must truthfully state that of
all the city executives during these
thirty-two years, have lived in
Seattle, none can boast of this
great and important fact. I know
of but one other city executive
who has successfully stepped out
of the line of hypocritical city
heads, and has performed his full
duties to all of his citizens. speak
of Mayor LaGuardia of New York
City. Every city executive in the
United States could well emulate
this most worthy citizen of our
country, who strives in every way
to assist all humanity, where and
whenever he can. This Cody act
on his part in the minds of many
millions of citizens of these Unit
ed States proclaims LaGuardia
qualified for the highest office of
our government. This is the kind
of Mayor we very much need in
Seattle. Yes, we need a Mayor and
council that will use their influence
for the good of all the citizens, re-
CARELESS of race, creed or color.
A Mayor and council who will not
stand by and see the minority CT
items of color Disseminated and
deprived of their rights to work
and live as other citizens and for
eigners. I am praying for a mayor
and council that will see to it,
that all citizens are given a square
deal. A mayor that will at least de-
nounce the acts of these damn pre-
JUDGE Labor Unions who dictate
the amount and kind of labor, the
Negroe should do here in Seattle.
We also hope that you and council
will not stand idly by and allow
propaganda such as I'll not recon-
mend other than white men to
work in plant where thousands
are employed. Please be advises,
Mr.. new Mayor that it was just
such Irregularities as these that
brought Hitler and Hitlerism into
being. Will we too, allow greed
and power to destroy us as we
see it in Europe today?
God fo,b;d DIaoca l,po,,, +I,o+ +I,o
Mayor and council of all our CT
ties throughout the country are
responsible to God for the many
souls that look to them for their
righteous judgements, and they
can do much to bring peace to
their souls, and on the contrary
can do much to destroy them.
I hope that our new Mayor will
take a glance at the past history
Of the Negroes in America and
give us credit for more than 800
years of slave labor and do not for
get that it was Negro slave labor
in the corn and cotton fields of the
South that accumulated this coun-
try's first wealth. We ask no spe-
cial privilege, we simply ask to
be accorded the same opportunities
to work and live as other races and
foreigners.
So, Mr.. New Mayor please know
that the Negroes of Seattle are
earnestly praying for relief from