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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1941-05-30
Security Through
Organized Labor Must
Be Goal Says Hunton

Roanoke, Va.-Only through the
door of organized labor can Negro
and white workers achieve secur-
ity, the goal of their common
struggle, DR.. Alphaeus Hunton
told the local council of the Ma
tional Negro Songress at a meet
ing held here recently at the Eb-
enezer A. M. e. church.
DR.. Hunton was the principal
speaker at the meeting, where he
presented a charter to the coun-
ellis president, ]. H. Tyree.
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Roll OF Honor
Is Your Name Here?

The Northwest Enterprise ack-
nowledges the following subscrip-
tions ending June 80, 1912.
B. Parker, 61S 4th. Ave. So,
Great Falls, Mont.
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Who Founded Mothers
Day?

Re: Mr.. ]. A. (Jack) Johnson "a
Tribute to Motherhood" issue of
May 9th: Many have disputed his
statement, Frank e. Herring of
South Bend, Indiana, techer, orator
and humanitarian, was father of
Mothers Day." Our investigations
disclose that Frank e. Herring was
the founder of Mothers Day in
1904, three years prior to the time
the honor was given Anna Jarvis,
1907. Mr.. Johnson is correct.
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Scholarship Dance

Monday, June 16 is the date on
which the Community Scholarship
Dance will hold it's fifth annual
dance honoring high school and
university graduates. This annual
classic is held for the purpose OF
raising money to provide scholar
ships and other aids to worthy
students. The community as a
whole is cordially invited and ex-
pected to participate.
Faurot's beautiful ballroom has
again been selected for the occa-
sion, and the committee in charge
of arrangements plan to make this
years event the grandest of ALL
according to an announcement by
the chairman, James Clayton.
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Russell Walton, 2003h First
Ave-, Seattle.
S. A. Moss, 4os 22nd Ave-, Seat
tie
E. Marshall, 1929 w. Dalton,
Spokane.
Rev. E. F. Morris, $50 18th Ave.
Serg. Jno. T eager, 524 Provid-
ence, Spokane.
E. Alexander, 400 Goth No.
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To The Public And Advertisers
OF The Northwest Enterprise

You are the owners of the
Northwest Enterprise. AS a pub
lie necessity, we join you by add
ing our financial and moral sup
port to build bigger and better
public organ for the Northwest.
No longer a private institution,
we are making direct appeal to
double its circulation and place
1t in every home.
To you and our subscribers we
pledge our support.
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Additional Contributors
No Photos
Mr.. e. I. Robinson
Mr.. A. L. Purnell
Mr.. Gus West
Mr.. r. Smith
Walter johnson
Evening star., 1941-08-15
Crime Curb Bills

The proposed habitual criminal act
for the District of Columbia lost
some of its force in the form in
which it passed the House.
AS drafted by the corporation
counsel's office, the legislation enum-
Grated about twenty crimes of vio-
lence" which called for increased
penalties over those now provided,
if committed by persons having
previous criminal record. A District
Committee amendment incorporated
in the House bill, however, eliminates
this list, and leaves to the discretion
Of the court the determination of
whether felony committed by
repeater" is grave enough to de-
mand the heavier penalty.
The Senate bill reported out by
Chairman McCarran of the Senate
District Committee follows the line
of the corporation counsels draft,
and that is the form in which the
Senate is expected to pass the meas
ure after the Labor Day recess.
That would leave the issue for ad-
jUStment in conference and, in the
interest of effective law enforce
ment, the Senate version of the bill
should prevail.
The habitual criminal bill, along
with one to put teeth" in the
vagrancy laws, which also has passed
the House, grew out of the recent
police investigation. 1t provides
maximum sentences under the in
determinate sentence law for second
offenders, increases this by so per
cent for three-time offenders, and
doubles the penalty when the of1ense
is the fourth or more. The leglsla-
ton is designed to reach a vicious
type of criminal and should offer no
loophole of uncertainty that might
permit a single escape. Adequate
safeguards are provided by the leg
islation recommended by the corpo-
ration counsel. The House bill, to
the contrary, gives unnecessary lati-
tude to the courts, while at the same
time imposing an added burden of
proof on the District attorneys office
whenever an effort is made to bring
a chronic offender within the scope
of the law
Evening star., 1941-08-15
Postwar PIuns

The National Resources Planning
Board in a pamphlet published this
week entitled After Defense,
What?" has rendered a timely serv-
ice in emphasizing the need for pre-
pairing plans Immediately for deal
ing with the employment and other
problems that will face the United
States after the war When this
war is won, we can lose everything
we are arming to defend if, in the
transition to peace, we slip back to
a low national income with it's in
evitable unemployment, suffering,
chaos and loss of freedom" the
board declared.
That the board is justified in its
warning can hardly be denied. In
the effort to halt Axis aggression and
build for the Western Hemisphere an
impregnable line of defense, the
United States has embarked upon a
gigantic preparedness program. Pro-
duction of war materials, in which
a large proportion of the population
is now engaged, has brought indus
trial employment to a record peak,
and defense expenditures are push
ing national income and buying
power to an all-time high. When
the emergency is over and defense
spending is curtailed, however, it will
be necessary for millions of workers
to find new jobs.
The board rightly has stressed the
Importance of intelligent teamwork
among Government agencies, busi-
ness, farmers and industrial work.
ers in maintaining full employ
ment during the period of postwar
economic readjustment. Though the
Government clearly has the duty of
taking the initiative in preparing
plans, industry and labor must share
in their preparation, and to assure
success both must cooperate with
the Government in executing the
program. National unity will be as
much needed to meet the problems
of the postwar period as it is in
meeting those of the present war
emergency.
Since its completion will require
many months, the administration
should lose no time in preparing a
program to deal with the wars
aftermath. The National Resources
Planning Board and several other
Federal agencies already have done
valuable work in this field. Post
war planning is one of the duties of
the new Economic Defense Board,
headed by Vice President Wallace.
Because it is Of vital Importance to
the future Of the Nation that the
transition from war to peace be
accomplished with minimum OF
dislocations in our economic and
social life, postwar planning must
properly be considered as an essen
tial part OF the defense effort.
Evening star., 1941-08-15

ton, the Annunciation and the
Archangel are the sacred symbols of
the faith which the MarxiSts re-
garded as AN opiate for the masses" !"
If throngs of pilgrims no longer
bow before the icons, the circum-
stance does not prove necessarily
that the whole population has turned
atheistic. There probably is as much
underground devotion to religion in
Russia today as ever there was at any
previous date. Were the Nazi flyers
deliberately to wreck the shrines of a
people traditionally reverent, the re-
suit might be a tremendous rebirth
of primitive evangelism. So, too,
the bombing of the tomb of Lenin
on the Red Square might stimulate
increased resistance to the German
foe
Evening star., 1941-08-15

told. BY night and by day British
and even Russian bombers are
dropping their deadly loads on scores
of German cities-Berlin included
where there are military objectives,
and the German citizen has learned
that the promised immunity does
not exist in fact.
How extensive Is the damage from
these attacks is a matter of con-
troversy, but 1t seems significant
that the German government has
found it advisable to direct it's appeal
for endurance to the patriotic in
stincts of the German people. The
attacks to date, after all, are but
small sample of what may be ex-
pected in the future, and it is by no
means certain that the German
people, having been led to believe
that they were safe, can withstand
the punishment to come with the
same fortitude that has character
lied the inhabitants Of the dev-
astated cities of Britain.
Evening star., 1941-08-15
Veto Called For

Legislation sponsored by the farm
bloc to freeze" Government loan
stocks of cotton and wheat for the
duration of the war has received
final congressional approval and
awaits action by the President. 1t
is presumed that the President will
veto the measure.
These stocks were acquired by the
Government through lending public
funds to the farmers on surplus cot
ton and wheat The theory of the
program has been that it is wise to
withhold surpluses from the mar
ket in bad times and to release them
in good times. During the recent bad
years the program has worked we'll
for the farmers. And now that farm
prices have reached, or are near, par
ity the intended and the fair thing
to do is to permit the Government
to market some of its cotton and
wheat, thereby enabling the public
to salvage something from its ad-
vances to the farmers. But the leg
islative farm bloc steps into the pic
ture and says that this must not
be done-that the farmer, having
mad the benefit of the loans during
the lean years. must also be per-
mitted to profit from any artificial
scarcity that can be created in a
good year.
Should this legislation be approved
it would bear directly on the consum-
er in higher and higher retail prices
for food And it threatens indirectly
to increase other consumer prices
by offsetting the Governments
counter -inflationary measures. Sec
retary of the Treasury Morgenthau
and Secretary of Agriculture Wick
ard have expressed their opposition
to the maneuver in no uncertain
terms. 1t is now up to the President.
A vigorous veto message would serve,
first, to protect the legitimate in
terests of all the people and, sec
ond, would serve notice on the in
satiable farm bloc that there Is a
limit beyond which their efforts may
not 60.
Evening star., 1941-08-15
More Police

The move in the House to increase
the Metropolitan Police Department
by at least 100 men is a logical
corollary of the plan for a reorgan-
ization of the force from top to
bottom to meet the increasingly
serious menace of crime in Wash
ington. One of the handicaps under
which Major Ernest w. Brown
worked in dealing with laWlessness
in the rapidly growing Capital was
a shortage of personnel. 1t would be
most unfair to Inspector Edward J.
Kelly, who has been designated to
succeed Major Brown, to expect him
to accomplish wonders while labor
ing under the same handicap.
Although the city was expanding
greatly during the past decade, only
eighty-two patrolmen were added
to the police force. To preserve the
ratio of police to population that
existed in 1880, 282 more policemen
should have been added to the de-
partment during the ten-year period.
Major Brown for years has been
asking the Commissioners and Con-
gress for 100 additional officers, but
it was not until recently that his
requests began to bear fruit to an
appreciable degree. The original
budget estimates for the current
fiscal year called for only twenty new
numerous criminal outrages in the
expanding community appropriated
for eighty more men, including four
"Superdetectives," to draw the pay
of captains. The authorized strength
of the department now Is 1,512
men-but Acting Chief Kelly believes
that more than 100 additional men
should be provided in view of the
continued growth of the city during
the emergency. Representative Coch-
ran of Missouri has introduced a bill
to add 100 policemen to the force and
House Appropriation Subcommit-
tee heard testimony yesterday to the
effect that perhaps $50 more men
should be supplied to curb the cur
rent crime wave" Certainly the
new superintendent of police should
be given the men-and the equip
ment-which are required to deal
effectively with the problem of crime
in the District.
Evening star., 1941-08-15
Not Settled Yet

With the approval by the Senate
yesterday of the House-approved bill
for $35000,000 concrete War De-
partment building near the front
gate of Arlington National Cemetery,
Congress has completed legislative
action in summary manner on most
revolutionary and controversial pro-
posal affecting the future of the Ma
tional Capital, Ordinarily it would
behoove opponents of this legislation
to accept the verdict of Congress in
good grace and to let the matter
rest, however keen their diSappoint-
ment. But this is not ordinary legis-
lation, handled in the ordinary way.
Congress has rendered its verdict
without giving the advisory groups
the time necessary for full and ad-
equate study, which would have been
the case had the extraordinary prof.
ect received the customary treatment
Of public buildings bill. This War
Department scheme was submitted
to Congress without advance notice
and without affOrding the National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion and the Fine Arts Commission
any opportunity whatever to pass
upon it. 1t was railroaded through
Congress as a rider on defense ap-
preparation bill, which precluded
consideration and report by the Pub
lie Buildings and Grounds Commit
tees. 1t was adopted by both Houses
without adequate discussion of the
vital eSthetic, practical and long
range planning questions that were
involved.
In these circumstances, the matter
cannot, in truth or in justice, be said
to have been settled by the vote of
the Senate yesterday afternoon. The
issues are too deep to be disposed of
so easily. They affect the future of
Washington and create new and per-
picking problems which by no means
have been solved.
The Star earnestly hopes-indeed
expects-that when Congress begins
consideration of these collateral
problems, there will be full realiza-
tion of the gravity of the error about
to be committed. There is yet time
for reconsideration of this ill-advised
project, and reconsideration will not
be out of order until the actual
pouring Of cement begins across the
river.
Evening star., 1941-08-15

as early as November l wine and
spirits froze into solid masses of ice;
birds on the wing fell dead
This ought to be good news for those
war enthusiasts.
As to fighting" each one of the
60-year-olds still can lick his weight in
wildcats" with his fists. So he claims.
In short. in these modern times they
still have the prize ring in mind. And
yet. said Gibbon 16O years ago: THE
skill and strength that are exerted in
wrestling and boxing bear only a dist ant
relation to the merit Of a soldier. 1t is
the handling of the weapons that
counts"
In this the historian is backed up by
nationalities with whom have con-
versed. This writer, by the way, has
never served in any mans army. A
Frenchman World War, chasseur a
pied, 81 months in the front line-he had
papers to prove it, was very emphatic
on this point. We'll. but how about life
guardSman Shaw at Waterloo? He sailed
III Wlln Ills ISlS. 1Ildl y DLIlk- So
returned the Frenchman. Said I. Then
please. tell me, what is it like. How do
you act? What do you do?" Its shoot
and be shot at all day long. Once in a
while you are ordered over the top
bayonet fixed to your rife, straight up
and-down motion when engaged; no
fancy monkey business. There is no time
for that"
Were you ever in a hand-to-hand
conf1ict?' Twice The first time I went
through with it and l 'pigstuck' quite
few Boches" Grabbing a broom he
showed me how. Well, and how about
the second time?'
"Oh, I considered matters On the
way up an incline 1 managed to stumble
and TO drop my rifle. l was in no parti-
cular hurry to locate 1t. BY the time l
did find it, my buddies were already
coming back on the run" The attack
apparently had been failure.
This is no reflection on the French. All
armies, no doubt, include number Of
men who consider things" The spirit
is willing, but the flesh is weak Not
every one is a Horatius at the bridge,
Bayard, a Sergt. York.
FRED VETTER.
Evening star., 1941-08-15
Nuzi Front Lines

There is more than passing sig
nificance in the fact that Nazi Off
cials have found it necessary to tell
the residents of bombed German
cities that they have been brought
into the front lines" of the war, and
to praise them for their "heroism"
under attack.
In the early stages of the conflict
these same citizens were being
assured by their government that
German cities were immune to aerial
assault. So strong were Nazi anti
aircraft defenses and so efficient the
Nazi air force, according to those
early assurances, that no enemy
raider could hope to cross the Ger
man frontier and live
But now a different story is being
Evening star., 1941-08-15
Rediscovers Washington's Refusal
OF a Royal Crown"

OF a Royal Crown"
To the Editor of The Star:
A member of my family having re-
Gently purchased an old farm in Mary
land, he found in the house a copy of
the Hagerstown Town and Country
Almanack for 1842. Under october in
that issue the following was printed:
1T may not be generally known that
at the close of the Revolutionary War,
certain officers of the American Army
rendered the royal crown to Washing
ton. The popularity of Washington at
the time might have enabled him to
accept the tender with comparative
safety. The quarrel with Great Britain
had in the first instance been against
oppression, rather than against the prin-
ciple of monarchy, and multitudes at
the period referred to, before the ad-
vantages Of republican institutions had
been tested, might have been induced
to believe that limited monarchy, at
the head of which Washington should
be placed, would fully secure all the
rights for which they had been con-
tending. The noble and virtuous chief
tain, whom no crown could have digni-
fed, Indignantly rejected the offer. His
reply, as we learn from the National
Gazette, has lately been brought to light
by Mr. Sparks. a portion of which is
subjoined:
Sir, with mixture of great sur
prise and astonishment, l have read
with much attention the sentiments you
have submitted to my perusal. Be as
sured, sir, no occurrence in the course
of the war has given me more painful
sensation than your information of
there being such ideas existing in the
Army, as you have expressed, which I
must view with adherence, and repre-
hend with severity. For the present,
the communication of them will rest in
my own bosom, unless some further
agitation of the matter shall make a
QlSClOSuTe necessary.
"I am much at loss to conceive
what part of my conduct could have
given encouragement to an address,
which to me seems big with the great
est mischiefs that can befall my coun-
try. If I am not deceived in the knowl-
edge of myself you could not have
found person to whom your schemes
are more disagreeable.
LET me conjure you, then if you
have any regard for your country. con-
Germ for yourself or posterity, or
respect for me. to Danish these thoughts
from your mind, and never communicate
as from yourself, or any one else. a
sentiment of the like nature. I am. &c.
GEORGE WASHINGTON"
JOHN N. QUINN.
Evening star., 1941-08-15
THIS AND THAT
By Charles E. Trdcepell.

Birds not only resemble human beings
in having two legs but also through their
immense appetites.
Just as most humans eat too much, so
do the songsters. :
They eat all they can hold, whenever
they can get 1t, summer and winter
alike.
We have been amazed to watch the
way the birds in the yard pack away the
grain and seed which we have put out
for them this spring and summer.
Exactly paralleling humans, the birds
eat about as much during the hot weather
as during the cold.
The theory, of course with both hu-
mans and birds, is that they do not. We
hear a great deal about tagging appe-
tites," due to excessive heat. but have
you ever stopped to watch one OF those
tagging appetites?
Certain types of food may be eaten
in lesser quantities, but these are more
than made up for by larger consump-
ton of other foods.
+* +*
IL ID tllc SAINT WIFI Gile DlIuS.
They eat as much now, provided, of
course, that you give it to them.
With them, it is exactly the same kind
of food they get in winter.
The only commodity they like in winter
which they refuse to eat now is suet.
The reason for this is that suet-eating
birds get plenty of fresh insects and
grubs at this time.
When 1t comes to seeds and grains put
out for them, they fairly make them fly.
They DO this, it should be pointed out,
only If you put it out for them. In other
words, they cannot eat what is not there.
Even persons who feed the birds in
the hot weather most often fail to put
out as much as they do In cold, Thus
they are not in position to know just
how much their feathered charges will
eat, since they never give them a chance
to eat all they want
The truth is that the birds. like hu-
mans, like to eat for the eatings sake.
There can be no doubt of it.
They are blessed, in this respect, the
birds, by having such short alimentary
canals
No matter how much food they devour,
they are able to eat more in short order
On al sides Of them are plenty of
insects. worms. flies. beetles, to say
nothing OF mulberries and other fruits
Grass seed provides for the seed eaters.
Some of the early Towering ANIMALS al
ready are going TO seed
There is natural food everywhere but
the songsters prefer to pack themselves
into manmade feeding stations, and to
eat what is put there.
Any one can prove this by putting
out the food 1t is simply matter of
keeping the bins and trays, full.
Human beings love disputation.
That partly accounts for the difference
in feeding costs of different persons in
terested in this combined indoor out
door sport.
Evening star., 1941-08-15
The KremIin

When the Germans attack Moscow
from the skies, it is at the Kremlin
that they aim. The government Of
the Soviet Union is centered within
the battered walls of the ancient
fortress Fifty different buildings,
crowded into an area of only sixty
three acres, shelter the Bolshevik
regime as we'll as most of the insti-
tutional relics of the imperial system
which the MarXiStS replaced in 1918.
The proximity of one edifice to
another constitutes in itself fire
hazard impossible to exaggerate.
Many of the older structures have
been weakened by time. They could
not survive a ruthless bombardment.
Neither is it likely that interior fab
RIGS of timber would escape the eff
fects OF incendiary missiles dropped
from the clouds.
OF course, such destruction of the
"heart of Russia" might be justified
by the Nazi raiders. They could
point with reason to the strategic
advantage of the demolition of the
Soviet capital. But something more
than the headquarters of the Boil
shevik dictatorship and the SOU
venirs of the czars who preceded
Stain would be lost to the world if
the Kremlin were consigned to
flames. Not MoScovites merely, but
visitors from distant parts OF the
earth also have been deeply stirred
by sight of the Kremlin. Viewed
on a bright day from bridge across
the Moskva River, which creeps
along beneath, the red walls broken
here and there by loftier towers
covered with rich green tiles, the
white cathedralS with their gilded
domes, the mass of pink palaces, and
the sloping hill clothed in its carpet
of green rising up from the broad
waters - form a wonderful pic
ture" In those words Nevin o.
Winter described the scene as he
saw it twenty-eigh years ago. There
have been a number of superficial
changes since then, but only in minor
detail has any fundamental altera-
ton of the prospect been accom-
plished.
The old Kremlin Palace, with its
halls of Saint George and Saint An
drew. still preserves the fearsome
memories of Ivan the Terrible and
Peter the Great; the Treasury con-
tinues to house museum exhibits OF
value beyond price; the former Court
Of Justice is in service as resi-
dence for BolShevik officials. the
Little Palace now is assigned 10 the
Soviet Of NationaliteS, so called.
IT, the CathedralS OF the Assump-