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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-02-28
Let Us Get Behind This Bill

Several weeks ago members of
the Seattle Youth Council drew up
bill prohibiting the denial of
civil liberties to minority groups.
The bill was read the first tine
February 10, 1941, before the
House of Representatives and was
ordered printed and referred to the
Judiciary Committee.
Wednesday, Feb. 26, a group
of members of the Seattle Youth
Council went to Olympia to intro
duce into the House Judiciary
Committee and discuss the House
Bill 331. This bill reads Every
person who shall deny to any 9TH
err person because of race, creed,
color or religion, the full enjoy
ment of any of the Accommodations,
advantages, facilities or privileges
of any place of public resort, ac-
commodation, assemblage or am
usement, or the full right to trans
&C business of any kind or nature
including sales, executory contract
of sale, contracts to sell real es-
tate contracts, or the full right
to employment of any nature, shall
be guilty of a gross misdemean-
or"
Members of the Council present
were Eleanor Snyder, Herb Snyd-
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-02-28
Alabama Negroes,
Work With Whites

New York-The recent settle
ment of a strike at the Alabama
Dry Dock Company at Mobile,
Ala, where Negroes and whites
are employed, was cited today by
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People as
an illuminating refutation of the
spurious claim advanced by many
industrialists who refuse to hire
Negroes because white employ
ees won't work with them"
The strike, according to the N.
A. A. C. P, involved $500 men,
bers of the Industrial Union of
Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
of America, a CLIO affiliate, and
lasted ten days. Negro and white
members of the union benefited
from the settlement, which union
officials said involved general
wage increases. According to union
officials, a minimum wage of fif-
ty cents per hour was established
which meant a fifteen cent per
hour increase for many of the col
ored laborers. The higher classif-
ications received an increase of
four cents per hour. Officials of
the union described the settlement
as representing "the highest min
imum wage for unskilled labor in
any large industrial plant in the
Gulf"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-02-28
WHERE is MY BOY?
Russell Rivers Wanted

The Fathers of st. Edmund,
Admission, Ala, write saying
your mother is very anxious for
you to come home.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-02-28

er, Roberta Chef, Phiel Chef, Bill
Take, Claudia Legaris, Abe Bias
cho and Fredrosa Blackwell. Also
present were Mr.. Prentis Frazier
and Mr.. Bernard Squires. Squires
gave a very convincing and force
full account of discrimination and
discussed certain phases of the
bill. He also pointed out to the
committee the difference between
discrimination and segregation and
said that the passing of the bill
in the State of Washington would
greatly change the practice of dis
criminatory acts in this state.
Squires did much to convince the
skeptical members of this COM
mittee but in order to impress this
committee, it is necessary that
Sends all communications to:
Representative C. r. Shumann
Chairman House Judiciary Com
mittee
House of Representative
Olympia, Washington.
or to the Northwest Enterprise.
In this letter, ask the commit
tee to do everything in it's power
to put the bill on the floor of the
house and ask that they do every
thing in its power to effect the
passage of the bill.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-02-28

LOUIS NASH states that he
would improve the administra-
ton of the public schools 'by
the use of such books and the
study Of such subjects--other
than the 8 Rs--as will give
students some idea of the prac-
teal problems they will have to
meet and solve when they start
out to make a livelihood"
Vote For One
Louis Nash
Election: March Ill
141O Textile Tower Ell. 3647
(This ad paid for by friends of
Louis Nash)
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-02-28
Christian Youths
Center Opens Sunday
By j. A. (Jack) johnson

BY j. A. (Jack) johnson
A special program featuring the
best available talent will be rem
dered Sunday. March 2 at p. m
at the Christian Youths Center,
Twenty-first and East Madison,
The guest soloists for he occasion
will be Mr.. Andrew Hardy and
Miss Ethel Tennyson. Regular
Church services hereafter will be
held at the Center each Sunday at
IL a. m. and 8 p. m. until the COM
pletion of thechurch property at
twenty-third and East Olive.
The Gala Theatre at twenty-first
and East Madison was recently
purchased by the Trustees of the
A. M. e. Zion Church and will be
developed into a Social Center for
the Youth of the community. An
executive committee has been or
gained to direct the activities of
the Center. Mr.. Walter Mayfield
$500 Amberside Drive is president,
Mr.. c. B. Warfield, ia u 21st
Ave-, treasurer and Miss Ethel
Tennyson, 1855 Main st, Secretary
The committee is planning a grand
opening some time during the
month of March.
Rev. Friedrich N. Blythewood,
pastor of the A. M. e. Zion Church
negotiated the purchase of the pro-
pertly assisted by the Church Trus-
ees. Interviewed by the writer,
Rev. Blythewood said, 81 saw the
need for such an institution i'm
mediately upon my arrival in Sc
attic. Our purpose is to maintain
a place where youth may gather
in the right environment and I'M
der proper supervision, develop
for themselves citizenship that en-
tails responsibilities. Environment
is a factor which polishes rough
edges of a seemingly crude charac-
ter, or strange as 1t may seem to
be, hicks the smooth surface of the
most refined naure. If the youth
full mind can be placed In clean,
moral surroundings on a larger
scale than is the home environ
ment, we will indeed have more
hopeful outlook on the future"
Rev. Blythewood was recently
appointed to the Passionate of the
A. M. e. Zion Church by the Pre-
siding Bishop of the Ninth Episco-
pal District of Vallejo, California.
He previously spent some time on
the West Coast investigating he
affairs of he Washington Oregon
Conference. He joins the commit
tee in inviting all Seattle to the
opening of the Center, Sunday.
March End.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-02-28
Four Senators Introduce Resolution to
Probe Discrimination In Natl Defense

Warrington, d. C. = Declaring
that the exclusion of Negroes from
the national defense program, par
ticularly in industrial plants which
have been granted contracts for
that program, robs the Nation of
the services of tenth of it's man
power and thus constitutes a bottle
neck of serious proportions, four
members of the United States Sem
ate introduced a resolution for a
Senate investigation Wednesday,
February 10.
Material already gathered by the
proponents of the inquiry reveal
that many of the plants to which
contracts have been awarded for
a considerable percentage of the
seventeen billion dollars already
voted by the Congress, either re-
fuse to give employment of any ma
ture to Negroes or restrict them
to work as cleaners and porters.
Some of this is attributed by
those employers to some labor
unions which bar Negroes from
membership through constitutional
provisions, ritualistic practices or
other means.
Unless this discrimination is
examined, exposed and corrected"
the introducers of the Senate reso-
luton declared Wednesday, "thir-
teen million Negro citizens are
going to question with increasing
bitterness our protestations of
fighting for freedom and democ-
racy and foreign powers will in
creasingly fling at us charges of
hypocricy regarding our protests
against the mistreatment of minor
tiles in those countries. In addi-
ton, the shutting of the door of
opportunity to work in the faces
of our Negro ciizens by industries
who are being paid out of the Ma
tional treasury for the support
of which Negro citizens are taxed
the same rate as other Americans,
will tend to pauperize this part
Of our population and to increase
mortality, morbidity, Juvenile de-
linquency and crime rates among
our colored population for which
we, and not they, will be to blame.
Either complete opportunity to
participate in every phase of our
defense program must be extended
to all our people or our whole
premise of democracy is proved
invalid and hypocritical."
The Senate resolution provides
for special committee of eight
Senator'S to be appointed by the
Vice President and asks $25, 900
for the inquiry.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-02-28
Devin Thanks Voters
And Makes Statement

ITO all those who voted for
honest government in Seattle yes
ter, regardless of the candidate
they designated, my most sincere
thanks.
individuals in public office only
are as important as the principles
they holland fight for.
II am deeply grateful for the
wide acceptance at the polls of the
principles to which I adhere and
upon which will stand or fall"
Devin, in statement to the
Northwest Enterprise, said:
1--WE want Seattle to be a good
city i'm which to rear our families.
We want her to be a prosperous
city, with good will existing be-
tween labor and industry. We want
her to be free from corruption. We
want her operated on a sound fin
ancial basis.
"She must be a truly democratic
city where there is no class hatred
or prejudice, where there exists a
cooperative and tolerant spirit of
brotherhood. In short, we want
Seattle to be a city with a soul"
"The United States was not
founded nor has it grown upon
class distinction"
Indeed, the reverse is true"
Judge Devin said. "Our natural
wholesome disregard of racial, re-
ligiOus, color and class lines has
added nightly to our strength.
The citizens of Seattle are large
ly Woodworking men and women
who ask only that they be not
exploited, that they have the pro-
lection of an impartial govern
ment. To these I pledge my CO.
operation and support.
Judge Devin's campaign looking
toward. the final. city. election
March IL was gathering momen-
tum rapidly today, with campaign
leaders in all parts of the city re-
porting gains.
Judge Devin's campaign empha-
sizes honesty and efficiency in all
phases of municipal government;
fair deal to labor and industry
alike; street rehabilitation; expan-
sion of the lighted playfield pro-
gram; solution of traffic problems;
establishment of a separate Traffic
Court, balanced budget and i'm
provement of the Police Depart
ment.
This is Devin's second appear
ance in politics. In 1888 he was
elected justice of the peace and
appointed police court judge by
Mayor LangIie.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-02-28

Walter L. Robinson, Negro gradu-
ate of the University of Minnesota,
who, after finishing high in a C.
A. A. course, was barred from the
United States Army Air Corps
because of his race. Robinson has
since enlisted and been accepted
in the Royal Canadian Air Force.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-02-28
Too Much Interference

The primaries and II candidates for mayor
been discarded by scrutinzng public the decree of
the people and they the court of last From
decision there is no appeal.
It easy matter for thousands voters to say
VINO am going to support Many business felt decision
to remain away from the polls because oftheir intimate
friendship for three four of the candidates Such
was trivial 1t paved the way to make possible the nomna
ton of an unwanted candidate in the finals
The leading Negroes of the city at their expense
time and labor prepared QUESTIONABLE and called cand
dates for their These Negroes
the welfare of every Race and child in Seattle
They had in mind placing before the people candidates who
would speak to them their attitude the submitted qes
tionnare They called meeting for that purpose.
At the time other Negroes, anticipating desire
for leadership had meetings purpose
to satisfy their stomachs with little beer and wieners
When other elements for whom the QUESTIONABLE
submitted stage opposition meeting they scott at the
aid of their leaders.
These leaders in turn scott at the necessity of such brides
beer and wieners to stimulate attendance In few years
they will be beyond the pale of leadership The young
who will succeed them must still carry and their record
Their past record must not lack the fundamentals for leader
ship.
Candidates Strike Back
Every candidate for mayor uttered complaint be-
cause of having to address 81 varieties of would be leaders of
the group seldom than three Dozen Such
meetings have little effect candidates. What they
rear Is packed mouse carrying with enough terror TO force
any candidate to give them the highest consideration In
other words this unntegent interference oo many trying
for the ba caused the ball to be mud and perhaps
the loss of the game
If this 81 varieties of organizations representing
than 5000 voters could themselves candidates
them in all probability this hint would be sufficient
Candidates usually good sports, from necessity if
not from choice They ttered your invitation to adj
dress them but sadly disappointed to face handful of lis
teners few you are too forgotten What the cand
date thinks that accepting such invitations loses to him
opportunity to address audience of five times the number
These 81 varieties of organizations have actually
duced our bargaining power just 579o.
The united meeting of Democrats and Republicans in
this municipal campaign will WELD influence in single
effort than the 81 varieties will WELD during the entire term
of the next mayor.
This same committee will perhaps hold final mass
meeting for the general election They will
wieners the preservation of your homes and the welfare
OF children of moment the result of the election
would mean nothing to you anyway.
These men in subordnatng their politics to higher in
terest have placed the standard of the
vidual
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-02-28

The race paper of Denver, Colo
RADIO, the Denver Star, has has for
motto this little gem, Wisdom,
Alertness, and Courage, bring for
ward, upward thinking"
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01

Any attempt by any part of it to assume the
role of dictator over the others leads to de-
generation and death.
This sounds a little like the old Chinese
fable of the revolt of the hands and eyes and
mouth against the stomach. The moral OF
that tale was that all must work together and
that is the moral of DR.. Cannon's analogy.
However, he added the point that the body
automatically sets up an internal environ
ment'' suitable to its existence, that the ad-
justments necessary for its functioning are
automatic, and that it must be the purpose of
society to create similar controls.
In the last years we have been striving,
somewhat blindly, to achieve a similar econom-
lie and social internal environment" The
lesson is that we must see the end more clear
ly lest we make the mistake of assuming that
we need a dictatorship of one part over the
others.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01
Negro Is Arrested For
Theft Following Chase
In Business Section

Hermon Tyson, 80, negro, of 909
Cleveland alley, was arrested on a
charge of larceny and receiving after
a chase in the downtown section late
yesterday afternoon.
Police said the negro, who has a
long record for shoplifting, snatched
two mems shirts, valued at 50. at
the H. L. Green company Five and
len Cent store, at 258 North Front
street, and ran out of the store,
The chase in the downtown section
ended shortly before 5 o'clock when
the negro was cornered and captured
by Officer J. e. Moore in the post.
office building, corner of Front and
Chestnut streets.
The negro, police records showed.
who had previously been arrested or
charges Of larceny, vagrancy, and
highway robbery, was lodged in New
Hanover county jail for trial at 10
o'clock Thursday morning in re.
corder's court.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01
The Body And Democracy

Probably not many listeners heard Pro-
lessor Walter B. Cannon through when his
presidential address at the first meeting of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science was broadcast. The speech brlstled
with words and terms unfamiliar to the lay.
man. It took effort to follow it.
Those who mad that effort. however. were
rewarded for they heard the human body
compared with the body polite in a way that
threw considerable light on the history of the
last few years. Moreover, they were provided
with a new concept of democracy that is GER
tainly stimulating.
DR.. Cannon. said that the most efficient and
most stable human society would be one mod.
eled after the organization of the body. in
which myriads of differentiated cells make
up the organs that cooperate for their mutual
benefit. The body. he said, is q democracy.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01
Editorial Comment
WILMINGTON HAS STRONG CASE
Charlotte Observer

Executive General Agent J. T. HERS of the
Wilmington Port Commission has presented a
strong case to the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation for a loan of $685., 900 with which
to construct municipal port facilities, particu-
lar]y adequate storage warehouses, on the old
Liberty shipyard property at North Cardinals
chief seaport.
In making application for the loan, the port
commission presented in a brief an array OF
facts and figures and testimony designed to
prove that not only Wilmington but the great
Industrial Piedmont section of North Carolina
would directly benefit from the proposed i'm
proved facilities.
A point that should be emphasized and that
should appeal to the people of North Carolina,
especially manufacturers of textile and to-
bacco products, was explained by Mr.. HERS
in a recent interview in The Observer.
Many citizens perhaps did not know that,
while Wilmington has facilities adequate to
handle fertilizer, raw cotton, bulk petroleum
products, and other commodities, it lacks suit
able and adequate warehouses for handling
manufactured products such as textiles, to-
baccos, ETC., which are shipped in vast quaint
ties from North Carolina to the markets OF
the East and other sections of the United
States and to other countries.
The lack of such facilities, Mr.. HERS con-
tends, is the one thing that has forced North
Carolina business through the ports Of other
~states,' specifically Norfolk and Charleston.
It is the argument of the port commission
that, with the needed facilities, greatly in
creased quantities of goods would be shipped
through Wilmington at a big saving to the
shippers of the State.
It would seem that shippers Of the industrial
Piedmont section as well as Of other parts Of
North Carolina would be keenly interested in
seeing the Wilmington Port Commission sue
coed in its present undertaking. And it would
seem that its proposal would appeal to the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation as feast
BILE and sound. !
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01
Test Of Democracy

Chief Justice Hughes speaks rarely in pub
lie but when he does his words are well worth
listening to. This is not merely because OF the
holds; it is also because his vision of the
fundamentals of American democracy is crys-
t~al-clear, unclouded by temporary political
storms.
This is particularly true of the brief talk
which the Chief Justice gave in accepting a
citation from the National Conference of Chris
tians and Jews for his work toward the i'm
provement of human relations.
At present most Of our attention is concer-
trated on enemies outside our nation. The
Chief Justice chose this occasion to remind
that rancor and bigotry, racial
animosities and intolerance are more deadly
enemies of true democracy because they
undermine the very foundations of democratic
effort"
This is something for all Americans to
remember in the stresses and strains of the
months ahead. And it will be we'll for all OF
us, from the highest to the lowest, to remem-
Der also the Chief Justices warning that
while popular elections express the peoples
will, it is the true democratic spirit which
alone can save us from the excuses of force.
Liberty cannot be conserved by majority rule
unless the majority hold sacred basic indi-
vidual rights, regardless of race or creed, so
that along with our differences of view, po-
litical and religious, we have a deep and
abiding sense of human dignity and worth"
1t is this sense of the dignity of the indi-
vidual which makes democracy worth saving
and, if necessary, worth fighting for. 1t is
this which distinguishes democracy from all
of the other political systems existing in the
world today. And it is this, finally, which we
must keep clearly in mind through crisis and
confusion.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-County Government
under Council Manager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck INC Berry Preserving
and Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial Shows.
Seaside Highway from Wrightsvile
Beech to Bold Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
35-Foot Cape Fear River channel, uid-
er Turning Basin, NTH ship lanes into
industrial sites along Eastern bank south
OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, Via
Orton Plantation.
Development of Pulp Wood Production
through sustained-yield methods THROUGH.
out Southeastern North Carolina.
Unified Industrial and Resort Promo.
tiondl Agency. supported by one county.
wide tao.
S~hipydrds and Drydocks.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital .i1tics for .ohites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Developm OF native grape 0rowtno
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern Tuberculosis sanatorium.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01
Philadelphia Ledger
Sold To New Company

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 81. -lR-
The Evening Public Ledger has
been sold to a new company head
ed by Robert Cresswell, former
treasurer of the New York Herald
Tribune, it was announced tonight
by trustees of the estate of the late
Cyrus H. K. Curtis.
Cresswell will be president and
publisher.
The announcement said that C..
M. Morrison, editor of the Ledger
from 1880 to 1889, would return to
that position, succeeding George
F. Kearney.
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01
Seeds, Plants And Jars
Giuen To Garden Program,

Approximately $500 worth of
seeds, plants, and fruit jars were
contributed by interested citizens
to the city garden program during
the first six months of the current
fiscal year, Carl Render, director,
reported yesterday.
Program activities for the pe-
riod, he said, included: 1902 Of.
flee calls for seed, 500 visits and
conferences, expenditure Of 500 for
seed, leaving a balance of $207,
which will be needed for spring
gardens.
Gardeners r now being given
mustard and turnip seeds and next
month will receive onion sets and
cabbage plants. Render said gar
deners were doing a splendid job
IN raising their own vegetables for
daily use. l
The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-01
JURY lMPANELED
IN PADCETT CASE
BODY Of WPA Nightwatch-
man Taken To Warsaw, His
Former Home, For Burial

Coroner Asa W. Allen yesterday
impaneled a jury to view the body
of Bonnie Padgett, 59-year-old
WPA night Waterman, who died
at James Walker Memorial hos
pital early yesterday morning aft
er being brutally assaulted early
Sunday morning.
However, the coroner said that
no date for the inquest. has been
set as yet.
Members of the jury are: C.. L.
Meister, F. E. Wick, r. S. King,
c. F. Worrell, M. M. Hinnant and
J w. Groom.
Meanwhile police last night con-
tinued their investigation Of tn e
mysterious assault case but no ar
rests have been made up to now
Padgett was beaten about the
head and suffered a fractured skull
while on duty at Seventh and Har-
nett streets Saturday night.
His body was taken to Warsaw,
his former home, yesterday for
burial. ]