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| AM GLAD HE IS DEAD!

Thus spoke Spartan father upon learning of the
sordd which brought death to his 16yearold
John Emberg, at the county Jail just week ago. 1t
will perhaps find echo from the weeping mother Nor
will the tears of all the mothers in the state of Washing
ton blot out the sadistc reveres revealed in the latest
edition of juvenile delinquency This hdeous ghostly
nightmare will haunt every household where lives juve
nile for days to come.
What is done is done.
The past is gone, and God is not going to back
the universe Let face the future acknowledging
sins of omission, with determination that parents
will to it that those officials who the keepers of
the bodies and consciousness of ncorrgibe children
would the greater care than they
would a child of their own.
Only short while there any effort to sepa-
rate teen age offenders from hardened prostitutes
fined in the city Jail.
Any place where kids confined and left free to
themselves, Immediately becomes the devils workshop
half dozen kids require attention than
of men.
Kangaroo courts exist in every Jail in the state It's
common practice. And the judge, whose will is law is
the bully in the pen. Kids confined with adults are
likely to suffer any mpositons which depraved mind
may conceive.
You mothers who hold in your keeping the men and
women of the next generation examine your charges
They are your contributions to the world acomng
Will they be jewels? Will you be glad he is dead?
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How To Raise a Criminal

The following rules, if followed
regularly, are guaranteed. The
reader is urged not to hope for
too much; you may not produce
anotrer Dillinger or Bluebeard.
but you can be sure this course
will turn out bigamists and
thieves, drunkards, sex morons,
racketeers, and a few killers.
Never take your child to
the woodshed. (Spanking is ol&
fashioned or something, isn't it?
And, of course, even bears know
enough to cuff their young-but
they're animals.)
2. - Take the child's side
against the teachers-always.
3.-Don't worry if Mary isn't
home when she should be. (She's
only learning bad habits.)
Admire Johnny for clean
ing up" on the Negro children
across the tracks. you've heard
of race riots-race wars-Jap
versus white man, Aryan .vesus
Jew-all that rot.)
5.-Don't bother teaching them
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TWO G. is; One
WHITE, One BLACK

That the white CT who re-
turns will not see eye to eye
with his parents on the question
of the Negroes "place," was we'll
illustrated in story told by
Captain Richard Pullman, Kan
sas City fighter pilot, who tray
eled from the Italian war area
to Camp Shelby, Miss, with a
group of white officers from
the South. The friendly rela
tons which existed between the
Negro officer and tn white Of
ficers on the ship coming over
continued on the pullman
which they rode from New York
to Mississippi. During a stop
over in Birmingham, Captain
Pullam ate with his fellow white
officers. When white civilian
southernors objected, the white
officers reminded them that
Pullam had been in Italy fight
ing for them and for their kind
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Photo by AL Smith, Official Photographic of
The Northwest Enterprise Call East 1872
Perry Gillian Yields
To Heart Attack

Perry Gillian, owner of the
Egyptian Tavern, 204O E. Madi-
son, died Friday, Jan. 10. al
King County Hospital. after a
heart attack.
Prior to his death Gillian suf-
fer stroke, but was unable to
secure capitalization. because OF
congestion. Shortly after he en-
tered the hospital, he was strick-
en- with heart attack from
which he never recovered.
Born in Okolona, Miss, he
had been a resident of Seattle
since 1914. For years he was
in the employ of the Egyptian
Theatre. He later entered bust
ness for himself, operating The
Egyptian Tavern, winning many
friends.
He is survived by two nieces
Matte Norman and Maggie Wat
son: one nephew, Perry Gillian
and wife Orien, and their two
children. Perry Gillian. Jr.. and
Martha Gillian; all of 7eattle.
Funeral rites at Angelus Nor
fury Tuesday, l p. m. Inter
ment at Mt. Pleasant.
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sence of duty. (Imagine a
lawyer getting shocked the other
day just because a 16-year-old
girl asked if she had to look
after her sick mother.)
6.-Giye the poor kid money
every time he asks for it. III
he can't get it when he's grown,
well-banks have lots of IT'D
7. - Let somebody else teach
them about God and citizenship.
Squared and nag at home,
so it makes a kid sick to be
around you. Whatever you do
don't overlook this.
9.-Let Mary go to all the
movies in town. (And don't be
shocked when she joins the sex
seeking Victory girls.)
1O:-Clutter the house with
sexy reading and filthy comics.
(Ask your police heief about
juvenile sex offenses.)
II. = Never ask the poor
Youngsters to work or even dc
home study. eve may have q
second Garden of Eden after the
war where nobody works.)
Be sure to post this where you
can refer to it often. You wan
some kind of idea of the de
generate you're trying to turf
out, don't you?-John Gillese il
The Victorian.
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OPPORTUNITY TELLS The STORY OF
The NEGRO in THE ARMED FORCES

NEW YORK. "A comprehen-
sive account of the Negro in the
Armed Forces is carried in the
current issue of OPPORTUNITY,
Journal of Negro Life, published
by the National Nrban Leagh=.
Lets Look at the Record, :"
based on official government in
formation, brings together the ac-
tivities Of Negro troops on the
battle fronts of the world. The
courage and heroism of combfl
troops, and the significant part
played by the unsung heroes OF
the war: engineers, port bat
talions, and transportation COM
panies. show that Negro men and
women are having their full
share in the struggle for survival
of the democratic ideal. che issue
is profusely illustrated with pho
tographs of Negroes serving with
the infantry. artillery, signal
corps. military police. teehnicians,
and engineers. The participation
of Negro women in the Armed
Forces is seen in illustrations on
activities of army nurses and
WACs, and of the first Negro
WAVES.
1.-The Negro Veteran Comes
Home" an editorial by Alphonse
Heninburg. insists that returning
members of the Armed Forces
will not participate in organized
violence in this country. but that
they will serve as stabilizing in
fluences in their communities.
Jesse o. Thomas in your
American Red Cross Is at His
Side" tells of the Indignation OF
Negroes into Red Cross activities.
at home and abroad, with photo
graphs of Negro Red Cross wora-
ers serving in India and Italy
and conyalescent soldiers in New
Guinea being entertained by the
Red Cross service.
William Pickens of the Treas
ury Department shows how Ne
groes have Joined in the purchase
of War Bonds in his article, 1.-The
Negro Participates in War FL
nance"
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OF this amount, the local quota
is $1,167.000, Day announced.
Plans are already under way,
with Frank w. Hull as general
chairman for the second consecu-
tive year, for an early start in
this area.
Supplies will go out to firms,
and to individuals who will serve
as the volunteers in the Red
Cross drive, by the middle OF
February, Hull declared.
"An early start it necessary
this year" HUI said, because
of the great demands upon man.
power on every side. This is
probably one of the most impor-
tant appeals in the entire year
of 1915, for any war support, be-
cause wherever the armed forces
go, Red Cross services must be
assured to meet every demand
which may arise. We are sure
the people of King County and
Seattle will be generous in their
support of Red Cross, the great
mercy part of the war"
The entire month of March
will be officially Red Cross month
throughout the nation, Hull said.
The Special Gifts Division is out
lining its work for February
advance of the main drive, be-
cause of the greater demands on
manpower, he said. Residents
are urged to greet their Red
Cross solicitors cordially, and il
possible, to decide in advance
how much they plan to give. A
good guide to ''how much" is
the information that one second
of Red Cross services through
out the world can be bought foI
Sc $. every citizens can de-
eide how many seconds they want
to buy with their 1916 gift tc
the Red Cross.
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and that he had as much right
to eat there as they did. When
there was objection when Pull
am used telephone in the
white" section of the station,
the white officers, born and
bred in the South, defended
him again and refused to let
him use the jim crow station.
Such is the spirit of the new
America. The old traditions
of the South are losing sup
port. Before he went to war.
one of the officers had never
seen a well dressed. educatd
Negro. To him, NEGRO" meant
the type of illiterate darkskin-
ned individual kept in virtual
slavery on his fathers planta-
ton. His eyes and his mind were
opened when he met brown-skin-
ned Americans like Captain Pull
lam. c. Call.
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Monday. January Is. P. s. L.
Elks No. 100 celebrated the adj
vent of 1916 in fraternal circles
by installing the newly elected
officers. Evergreen Temple DIR.
Elks No. 157 being honored
guests. Anticipating the coming
Social Session and the rejuvena-
ton of Evergreen Temple, the
master of the S ial Session,
R o bert Groves, fastened the
completion of alterations. With
the finished touch of a master
designer and the newly decorated
rostrum where reigns the exalted
ruler, Puget Sound Lodge rooms
yield to none throughout the jur-
isdiction. This sublime achieve
ment won for the master of the
Social Session, high praise from
the entire lodge.
Deferring all committee re-
ports and obligations, Grand Ira
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IS CoIored Adults
Baptized In New York

Eighty-five coIored adults were
baptized in an impressive cere-
mony at st. Charles Borromeo
Church, New York, in which 16
priests assisted the pastor, the
Rt. Rev. Msgr. William r. Nc
Cam. In the past decade more
than 5000 persons 3,402 of
them adult converts-have been
baptized in the church. Arch
bishop Francis J. Spellman was
represented at the baptism by
the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph P.
Aonahue, Vicar General of the
Archdiocese of New York.
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FIRST LADY URGES
END OF BAN ON
NEGRO NURSES

WASHINGTON. Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt declared this week that
much of the critical nurse short
age could be laid to the ban on
Negro nurses.
The First Lady, while favorfng
an overall draft of nurses. blasted
the Jim Grow quota Of colored
nurses and appealed for the free
utilization of Negro nurses.
The mounting wave of protest
which hit the Jim Crow nurse
draft this week drew defensive
reactions from Washington Off
cials.
Denying that any discrimi..=-
ton existed in the use of colored
nurses. Brig. Gen. George F.. Lull.
deputy surgeon and Col. Flor
ence Blanchfield, superintendent
of the Army Nurse Corps. said
that the army has taken in quail
flied Negro nurses without dis
elimination or segregation.
But the draft plan, as it now
exists, continued to encounter a
solid block of opposition from
Negro organizations throughout
the country.
The National Association OF
Colored Graduate Nurses through
its executive secretary, Mrs. Ma
bel X. Staupers. placed full blame
for the small number of Negro
nurse recruits on the army and
navy jim crow policy.
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feeling in their hearts, seek to stir up anmosty to the
plan because they don't want to contribute money to
ANYTHING.
Bureau have fit to protest against such campaign
in Seattle Why? Simply because they believe that the
Negroes intend too ask the white business the
client of the Bureauto supply the bulk of the funds for
the memorial Had the Bureau representative taken the
trouble to investigate he would have found that the pro-
pOsal is for Negro War Memorial sponsored by the
Negro and built with funds contributed by Negroes
up and down the Pacific Coast.
The best to the few criticisms that have been
CONTINUED
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ANNOUNCEMENT
BAND BLACKOUT FOR
COOKS, PORTERS AND
WALTERS CLUB

Mr.. Gerald Wells, head of
Colored Musicians Union has
decreed that no more named
bands may again be booked
for the Cooks, Porters and
Walters Club, 4O41@ 18th Ave
So.
This information is given
in answer to the many queries
of new band bookings, sale
Mr.. Louis Todd, manager.
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yelling Deputy Jay Chavis, assist
ed by Grand Esquire Benny Har-
per, lost no time installing the
new officers. Ex-Ruler, E. X.
Chainey: Est Lead knight,
Johnny Steele; Est 10y Knight,
Sam Landerson; Est Lee. Knight,
Irwin Higgins; Fin. Sec. w. &c.
vroman; Recording Sec, e. l.
Robinson; Treasurer, Philip Nc
Cullough; Physician, DR.. VIM. H.
Calhoun; Inner Guard, Alfred
Washington; Tyler, James Smith.
Restoring the gavel to the ell
ected exalted ruler, e. r. CLANCY,
will guide the lodge for the
32nd time. In accepting his new
honors, Chainey delivered the
most eloquent and forceful adj
dress of his long reign. He CHI
NAKED his address by naming a
Civil Liberties Committee to join
Continued on Page a
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Filings For City Council
To Close January II

January 81 is tn last day for
filing for the city council Moth
ing is more close to citizens than
local government.
Your councilmen or women
should be of a type that under
stand the needs of the city. Men
who are practical and look into
the future, who can vision Seat
tie as post war city and able
to meet the requirements for a
larger city.
No better recommendation may
lead the way to such a council
than actual experience.
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Red Cross Marks Time
For Annual Drive

Because of the increased tempo
of the war in European and Pa
cific theatres, a release received
by Lew Y. Day, chairman of the
Seattle-King County chapter. an
nounces that the 1916 War Fund
goal TO be raised for Red Cross
in March will be $500. 900, 900.
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Porter Is Fined
On Assault Charge

julius e. Colman, 39-year-old
Negro railroad porter, was finea
5000 and ordered to pay court
costs yesterday when he was
found guilty of third degree as
sault in Justice of the Peace
William Hoars court.
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at home may continue to live IN peace.
And yet, to shame, there are some Negroes
among us who cannot plan evolved for fitting
monument to these heroes without trying to push it
around to cover their selfish and commercial ends
That, to speak very bluntly is what is behind 959 e
Of the opposition that hears here and there to the
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SALE! SALE!
LAST WEEK
Wonderful Values Shop Until $50

Dresses, crepes woods; casual and soft
$500 to $500, now " $15.s5
Dresses crepe wools casual and soft,
$500 to $780, now " 11e5
Dresses to clear, in broken sizes and
colors $5.95 and SOS
Furred Coats long or short, $500
to $780, now as e5
Untrimmed Coats, Chesterfields fitted
$1,000 to $500, now " 2295
Hats, felt, fur trimmed, all colors, $1.s5 to 1896
Macs Dress ShOppe
$50 Jackson St. sE-1se5
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MOST PEOPLE WHO CAN TEAR DOWN
THINGS, CAN'T BUILD ANYTHING
, ]. A. (JACK) JOHNSON


Thousands of Negroes giving their lives on
American battefieds in al parts of the world that
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proposal to build outstanding here the
Pacific Coast eternal shrine to the Negro heroes
Of this and other wars.
Some take the view that money should be raised for
Negro housing proect instead Others want the money
to cover the erection of a community hall And some
who have patriotism in their blood and apparently
Evening star., 1945-10-14
New Books

Hetb Any osfapse Number Can Play, Edward Harris
Dark Prophecy, Marjorie Alan. octo.
Earthbound China, Hsaio-runs rei and
Chin-I Chang, October Is.
ose. Eye1s L.sn. LEssf1 9s,2SeE fa% Has,n ls
Most Secret, Nevil shute. October H.
oelnnsr lhs Human Life Of Jesus, John Erskine.
NY Fayorite War Story, compiled BY
sd1sSIs Habn.m, Of ami Look; M.S,s. October is ,.
jordan and Edward r wiilett, October a 5 5.
Hossossky, s Sss ossoDea sas Is Leading Man. Eson
The WhistlinE Legs, Roman McDougald,
cSuntry Mouse, Louise Andrews Kent,
ct. The Wisdom Tree, Emma Hawkridse,
Pay Dirt, J. l. Rodale, October IS.
Stuart Little. E. B. White. October II
9 Maauisard' Albert J. Guerard. october
Brook of Our Own Money. Mariory
The Wind Is Rising, jules ROMANS, oc-
The Theater Book Of the Year, George
Jean Nathan. october Is.
Poems; David Merton. Merton. ossober is.
trsnd Russell, october 10. n''''n'' 'e''
The Rocky Mountains, W. W. Atwood,
And the ss' Field Is the world. Dola De
Jone. October Is.
Passport to Oblivion, Bsbs Lee, oc-
4 Lsss ,s,!I Like q the Moon. eenevisve VIM
= Amsriesn soldiers in Siberia, Sylvan G.
Appoinsment in Manila. Elinor Cham
berlafn, October Is.
ALASKA. stuart Ramsay Tompkins. oc-
Evening star., 1945-10-14

popular tall tale" school of re-
search. This part of his book has
about 1t the wonder which makes
literature, the absolute wonder of
the unfinished quality of ordinary
life, changing and developing, frag-
mentary as far as one person can
see 1t, but a whole for the interpre-
ter nonetheless.
AS for the personal narrative, it is
brought of with minimum of edi-
torializing which, in this violently
autobiographical age, ought to win
for Mr.. James infinite gratitude
from the reviewers trade at least.
He does not tell us that he was a
shy sensitive young soul in whom
the urge for self-expression was
strong and untutored. He spares
us that. But he shows US his awk-
ward younger self with great clar-
lty. Without either invoking the
readers pity or engaging in exl1ibi-
tionistic self-analysis, he quietly
contrives to make that self both an
individual and type.
That is the quality of the book.
The actual narrative, dealing with
Mr.. James family's f1uctuating for
tunes. his struggles to pay for his
schooling, his early experiences on
the various newspapers, his final
plunge into the larger world is of
less Importance. Similar things
nave happened to many other boys.
1t Is with a rough-hewn artistry
however, that Mr.. James relates
them to their environment and gives
them here a significance beyond
themselves. NC. r.
Evening star., 1945-10-14
The Cherokee Strip
By Marquis James. Viking

Marquis James, best known for
his great biography Of Andrew Jack
son, has written here the story of
his early years in the Cherokee
Strip of Oklahoma. 1t is truly a re-
markable tale
Mr.. James is not venerable. He is
not even old. 1t can reasonably be
expected that he will still write q
lot of books. But much Of this story
of his boyhood reads like Mark
Twain. 1t has the idNllic quality
which one associates with our coun-
try's lost age of innocence. 1t is a
reminder Of how recent-how very
recent-our frontier period-or some
of twas.
The Cherokee Strip was opened
to white men in 1893, opened with
the famous run" in which land
hungry settlers lined up for a start
ing gun and raced one another to
stake out claims in the virgin terri
tory. Mr.. James father was one OF
the racers, and Mr.. James, himself
q way Shhoh wy, d1AAfCu Will lllS
mother to live in the new home sis
months later. 1t was q prairie farm
house, few miles from the town OF
Enid. The Indians were no longe,
a problem, but the memory Of them
was there and bad men and bandits
were decided reality.
There are two motifs In the tale
of the succeeding years, as Mr.
James tells it here. One is of that
wide-open era and place. The other
Is of himself. He carries them along
about equally.
He tells us the story of the Strip
its famous characters, its legends
its feuds. the growth of its town, Its
politics, its booms, its naive Amer.
ican pride. Over this narrative hi
spreads the color of the frontier
time, of new age in a new country
as it is remembered by one whe
knew it. That is to say, with pa.
tient reality and melancholy-nO1
with the spurious vitality of tn.
Evening star., 1945-10-14
Bridge
BY Frank B. Lord

In the first bridge tournament
Of Eastern Pennsylvania which local
players have been able to attend
since the war started, a Washing
ton foursome came home with the
major prize The winning team,
DR.. and Mrs. A. j. Steinberg and
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard Rossan, de-
feated a crack Philadelphia team
composed Of Charles Solomon, Mrs.
Ben Colder, Mrs. Olive Peterson
and DR.. John Starr.
Among other Washingtonians who
participated in the tourney, held at
Reading last week, were: Dr.. N. j.
McHugh, president of the WASH
ington Bridge League; DR.. w. H.
Gorton, Mrs. Jack Bennett, presi-
dent of the Womens Auxiliary OF
the Washington Bridge League; Mrs.
Harold Young, Mrs. Lucelle Gibson,
Mrs. Dora Schwartz, Ralph Webber
and Miller Roberts.
The Coasters, the Hamlin-Athey
foursome, won Is out of "a boards
in the first section of the team-of- :
four series of the Federal Bridge
League Tuesday night. In the Sec
ond section the Army team took Is
out of "a boards; the Mixed Party
team took 1914 out of "a in the
third section, and. the Griffith
Ryman foursome, a new Treasury
team, won 1914 boards out of 20
in the fourth section.
The following Is the latest COM
piled standing Of the various teams
of the league:
Evening star., 1945-10-14
In the ArtWorId
Work of Genaro Amador.L Lira, Noted
Nicaraguan Sculptor, on View Here

Rosenfeld has interpreted as two
figures side by side, distinguished
only by their clothes. He endeavors
to eliminate irrelevant detail, it Is
said. But faces would seem to be
more relevant than mere attire
unless the artist believes that
clothes make the man" Cor woman
and child.
The most vivid reminders of his
earlier work are the large canvas
Sewing Machine" which includes
also carpet sweeper, both having
modicum of distortion, and a tiny
sketch, Egg Stove" Mr.. Rosenfeld
is interested in the design of 10Th
century American stoves, and Sc
lected an exhibition of photographs
of the subject, for the Library of
Congress last season.
II + **
PrinfmakerS to america
A small but superior group of
Currier & Ives prints has been
hanging for some weeks at the
National Gallery, in the corridor
leading to the cafeteria. Undoubt-
edly it has done much to relieve
the tedium of the hungry crowds
whose snail-like progress toward
lunch amounts to nearly half an
hour for the average person in the
queue.
This afternoon a lecture on
Currier & Ives will be given in the
National Gallery's auditorium at
4 pm. by Lois Bingham of the
gallery staff. Hearing the lecture
and seeing the exhibition should
give one comprehensive knowledge
of these 18th century printmakers,
whose output was so extensive that
TODAY it constitutes a valuable
record of our national life to many
of its aspects from 1884 to the early
Goth century.
The 26 Autographs in the ex-
hibition are drawn from the best of
Currier & Ives production, includ-
ing number made from the works
of their leading artists: Fanny Pal
mer, Louis Maurer, Arthur TAFT and
George H. Durrie. There is also
the admirable large folio from East
man JohnSon's well-known painting
'Husking" in 1861. David Keppel,
curator of prints at the National
Gallery, has supplied informative
labels, some Of their data having
been taken from Harry T Peters
authoritative book "Currier g. Ives,