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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-02-07
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Commission for recommendation
On Jan. 10 this committee met
and unanimously voted against
such a public solicitation in this
city for any particular race, be-
lieving that any dedication should
be to the American soldier
Yours truly,
w. N. SPROUL,
City Clerk"
The reply, by j. A. (Jack)
Johnson, Executive Committee
Chairman, reads as follows:
"W. N. Sproul,
City Clerk,
Spokane, Wash.
Dear Sir:
Thank you for your reply to
our communication of Jan. s.
We had been of the opinion
that the people of Spokane would
be glad to see it's Negro popula-
ton awake to its civic respon-
sibilities. We believed your peo-
pie would commend the Negro
for going out by himself, with
out asking the aid of the white
race. to erect an enduring shrine
to the more than 100000 men
and women of his color who are
fighting overseas.
Our race has fought alongside
the whites in every war for
American freedom. We have TAX
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-02-07

What an impression a beauti
full doe makes on a herd of
Elks!! One entered the last ses-
sion, announced she had tickets
for sale. The boss Elk invited
her to come right up by him. In
a jiffy-old, OLD Elks fought for
the privilege of buying. Some
purchased tickets a second time,
and one Elk 1--WE heard it was
Benny Harper) bought three.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-02-07

Every officer of Puget Sound
Lodge Elks No. 100 is required
to know his ritual. Officers re-
quiring a ritual will not be per-
mitted to occupy his office dur
ing Memorial service nor particle
pate in the last rites of a mem
Der.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-02-07
DO YOU KNOW?
BY The Monitor

Brig. Gen. w. e. Vrooman has
increased his marching club to
near limit? From personal in
spection-they may all look all
right on dress parade lin full
dress) but some of those boogi-
woogie feet are going to falter
if the Brigadier does not enter
them in "A mile race.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-02-07

not attendance at your lodge. You
are only an auxiliary organiza-
ton and p. S. L. Elks No. 100
is your daddy. II you don't
think seo-you may think again.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-02-07

Charley Rouse is the dean of
Elks, a charter member since
1907, and never unfinancial. He
now holds a life membership.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
One Word Led To Another
The Detroit Time
By Patterson
BY Arthur Bugs" Baer

never knew the name of the man who invented the
ktchenette until this winter 1t seems it was Andy
kerwn who the patron saint of the last frontier
Now, Andy has gone to his great reward Which
certainly does not merit the epgram dedicated to the
builder of the Parliament Buildings, Earth rest lightly
upon him, for he put many load upon thee.
There has always been quotation to whether
or not Andy was a benefactor Of mankind Having lived
in hotels most of my red-carpeted life would affirm in
the yessatiVe
The ktchenette was designed for one bottle of milk
egg, piece of toast and one cook. When an inn
passioned serenader strummed his guitar outside the
kitchenette window to the song you the One
body knew whether he meant the lady or the egg
He in the real estate racket in Manhattan where
time space and space money 1t then that Andy
got the bright stencil why waste broom closet
brooms ?"
SO he put in stove, ice box made from converted
umbrella stand and hope chest The hope that you
didn't get cold on it.
There was not enough in the kitchenette for
stout matron to turn sideways if she didn't have
sideways.
("Bugs' Bacr will be tOastmaster at the annual
football dinner of The Detroit Times Downtown Quarter
back Club, Jan. g. For details sports page).
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
By Damon
Runyon

board, but you never can tell
about officials.
THE rich mans pari-mutuels
Il is legalized, and Tom Dewey
as governor rejoices in the tax
revenues the state derives from
il though the revenue does not
reduce the citizens imposts a
penny.
Indeed, IL the citizen cannot
afford the expense of trip to
an accredited gambling en-
closure, Mayor LaGuardia would
deny him the privilege of par
ticipating in the pari-mutuels
per off-the- track bookie and in
fact, uses the citizens own mu-
nicipal employees to protect the
rich mans game.
What we ought to have Is q
national lottery operated
through the post office depart
ment to take the place of all
these other forms of gambling.
especially the poor mans kind
like the numbers game which
undeniably has a certain ca
pacity for public harm the way
il is operated now.
l know you are probably say
ing to yourself, "Ah, there goes
Runyon again off on his lottery
tangent" but I feel that it is
the only answer to the national
gambling craze.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
WALTER WINCHELL p, On

waiter Albert, but Albert didn't
know him.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY went
IL to Chicago years ago after
working in Kansas City. He
had lived in Oak Park, Ill, and
was an old schoolmate of Ted
Tod's, now working for War
ner's At the time, Tod was
working for the Chicago
Herald-Eprniner as a reporter,
and Hemingway hoped Tod
would try to get him a job on
the paper Tod went in 10
speak 10 Frank Carson. the city
editor. He told him all about
Hemingway - what a good
writer he was He said:
He hasn't worked In Chicago,
but he knows II, knows names,
etc" Carson looked up and
ho-humm'd: Does he know
any Chicago coppers:"
NO" said Tod well. 1
don't care how good a writer
he is," replied Carson. "Our
reporters have TO know the
Chicago coppers" So
Hemingway didn't get the job.
Instead he went TO Canada
worked on a Toronto paper and
from there started his climb.
II il hadn't been for his not
knowing any Chicago police
men, Hemingway might still be
working on the Chicago paper.
THIS isn't as good as the
1 "Westinghouse-I'm west
ing gag-but it's going the
rounds among the icky set-=and
makes me lex:
Were broom-mates. We
sweep together. Dust us two"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
MARY HAWORTH'S MAIL

die on the air without seeming
10 hear them.
! think you are making much
ado about nothing.
The difference between be-
ing II and 10 is very slight. IS
YOU viii discover when YOU ve
had your nlncteCnth birthday.
To all intcnts and purposes.
they are approximately the
same age.
Difference in temperament
makes all the difference at that
age
A silly girl is inst as silly at
10 as she was az II; and a
thoughtful personality would bee
showing "a much maturity al
II as She VIII reveal Al 70
Neither type can be con-
Sidcred groWnup Until size has
ttiFnt-d the corner into the
tWcntleS.
one must SympdTHIZc with
your frightened remorse az hav-
ing deliberately deceived a boy
you love ard tt Is 70 Your
credit that you have a sensitive
conscience.
So here is what | think YOU
ought 20 do. tho very next time
you see the boy tell him the
truth; and tell him YOU deceived
him
Ii the boy really cares for
you b. now he Viii he more
touched and Hattcrcd by he an
nouncomen' than dsbhcrgasted;
and probably feel twice lite
Sizc IN lordly wisdom as com
pared 10 YOUR Y years. which
Is tho way man likes 10 feel
towards the little woman
VI. n.
EDITORS NOTE-Hdry Ha-
North counseis through her coll
unnj not b. mail or personal
interUicV. Write her IN care of
The Detroit Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06

ceived him, that would be worst
of all.
This is very serious 20 me.
Please answer soon. a. r.
DEAR A. F.:
YOUR anxiety AT having
L falsely added two years 10
your age. 10 hold Romeo's IN
terest. would be amusing if II
were not so serious TO you.
Some wag has said, "A
woman who will tell her age
will tell anything
Also. some sage has observed,
A woman is as old as she
looks. and a man IS as old as he
feels"
II is customary social usage
for the gentier sex TO hedge on
the point OF age. GILLETTE Bur
CESS insists that a major in
griedient of regal poise is the
ability 10 turn a-deaf ear 10 in
trusive questions, TO Jet them
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
THE BRIGHTER SIDE

lives in that building right
there"
THE numbers game is the poor
i mans pari-mutuels. II is
form of the old time policy that
once flourished in every Ameri-
can community of any size. 1t
has its counterpart in the weekly
and monthly club" drawings Of
the Pacific Coast. the Bolita OF
Florida, and in numerous other
forms Of chance.
The numbers game pays off
on combinations of numbers de-
rived from the racing prices and
sometimes the bank clearings as
published in the newspapers,
which eliminates the wheels that
are employed in some drawings
and reaches a large clientele inn
mediately.
Tom Dewey once proved in
court that the numbers game
results could be fixed in adj
vance where the racing figures
! were used.
l do not think that Dewey
was interested in the numbers
game per sc but only in the fact
that its existence in New York
was tied in with corrupt poll
ticians, 1 mean / doubt that
Dewey would mind the numbers
game if it was operated above
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
u NAAe AIA~OOOA Pegler

JULIUS ADAMS, the associate
- editor of the Amsterdam
News of New York, one of the
Negro journalists who went
trooping with Gov. Dewey last
September, has been trying TO
spell me out in friendly letters
TO his dience of Negro
readers.
1t appears that somehow
some. If not most of them, have
had an impression that these
dispatches at some time ex-
pressed an unfriendly attitude
toward their race, which, OF
course, is nonsense and prob
ably the result of both slovenly
reading and the Communist
propaganda.
1 think il goes back to
time about three years ago
when l made a careful exami-
nation of some of the leading
Negro newspapers and found
them not only trashy but down.
right dangerous TO our Negro
people as we'll as to the whites
Wit. their deliberate coloration
and inflammation of news items.
These papers. which, incident
ally, did not include the Am
sterdam News. were not merely
pro-Negro but anti-white,
propaganda which / still hold
partly responsible for the riots
in Detroit and Harlem.
4 MOTHER little popularity
"A of theirs that 1 touched
upon was their brassy advertis-
ing of a line of luck charms and
voodoo junk. all obvious fakes.
Well, at that the combined
Negro press of the United
States with only a couple of ex-
ceptions presented me with a
great big house. a brick at a
time, and the Communists got
out literature insisting that /
had insulted the mother of
every Negro serviceman in the
armed forces.
This brings us down TO now
when Mr.. Adams says l could
help the cause of race relations
greatly by my pieces in the
paper.
Well, that is something that
any decent man would like TO
do, but somehow my construc-
tive and humane intentions do
not always get over to the
customers and / hold off some
times for fear that something
composed in a spirit of sweet
ness and light may touch off a
massacre.
Mr.. Adams reports to his
readers. on the basis OF some
visits we had on Deweys train,
that Pegler doesn't know the
full Negro story, and that i
agree TO.
But in talking with him and
Ralph Matthews. OF the Afro
American. did take hope that
the white people would take
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06

MIR. LaGUARDIA has been
wi mayor of New York town
a long time and is coming up
again Tor another portion, so
you would think he knows the
big city like you know the back
OF your hand.
Either Mayor LaGuardia is
not as familiar with New York
as he should be or he is just
kidding when he says that in
asmuch as the closing of the
race tracks will put the bookies
out of business, policemen now
assigned to preventing of-the-
track wagering will be shifted
TO the task of running down
operators of the numbers
racket, because he must know
that this is no task at all.
He must know that ait he has
to do to run down the numbers
fellows is TO go into any part of
OF New York where they
function, for instance Harlem,
Brooklyn, Manhattan or the
Bronx, accost the irst young
'un he finds playing in the
street. and ask:
"ChIld, will you kindly tell
me who runs the numbers
around here and where they
may be found?"
"Why. sir. Mr.. Phatso," the
child will perhaps reply. He
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06

According to Harry Emer-
son Fosdick. famous preacher,
everyone can acquire a pleasing
personality by developing three
great habits. First, use your
imagination. Picture yourself as
being something worthwhile.
Edison pictured himself as an
inventor, Florence Nightingale,
as a nurse. Continually build up
a personality picture of what
you want TO be. Second, use
common sense. Pick out some
thing you like to do, and can
do. but don't try something be-
yond your abilities. Third, be-
lieve in yourself. This gives you
the courage of self-confidence.
BY all means. talk it out
on the SPOT. If each one tries
TO think it out, the problem
grows worse. Each one soon
gets 90 going round in circles.
Remember, however, when talk
ing il out. you must stick TO the
subject. If you Try TO heap
blame on the other person, YOU
don't talk 1t out, you merely
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06

proved Listers technique. but
his fundamental ideas still pre-
vail.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
j. X You mentioned nasal
douche and chest compress for
colds. Please explain just what
they are.
Answer: You can get a nasal
douche apparatus at any drug
store. Use hot salt water in IL
The druggist will explain how
IL works A chest compress is
towel wrung out OF 1ukewarm
water laid on the chest and
covered with a layer of blanket.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
WASHINGTON Scene
BY George Dixon

THERE is a very moral lady
Il in this town named Helen
ESSary who writes an uplifting
column under the standing head
Dear Washington The column
practically drips virtue, being
devoted largely TO pointing out
the way Of salvation.
Mrs. Essary is fully as auStere
az her writings. Dignity sits
upon her like a mantle. l have
seen some OF the most depraped
characters l know suddenly be-
come chastened schoolboys in
her diSapproving presence.
In all her literary offerings |
have yet 10 zee so much aS an
undignfiied semicolo on. Her
printed thoughts are so lofty
and noble you have 10 make a
balloon ascension 10 look over
them.
CONSEQUENTLY her follow
~ erS were almost shocked
out Of their skins the other
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06

A LII THIS talk of what to do
"A with Germany - and, OF
course. IL is more than talk,
II is a grave, great problem
reminds me of this tale
An apostle of Cancellation once
asked the late Georges Clemen-
ceau II his hatred of the Ger
mans was based on knowledge.
"Have YOU ever been 10 Ger
many" he inquired.
mo, Monsieur" replied the
Tiger, II have not been to Ger
many. But twice in my life
time the Germans have been to
France"
TT HAPPENED at an army
L training camp. reports Irving
Hoffman. The sergeant had 20
recruits lined up for fatigue
duty They were not as
energetic as the rgean I
thought they should be So
iAt ~ lNA W RAA Aii' ~
1--WE got nice easy job for the
LATEST man present" he barked.
"Will the LATEST man raise his
right hand?" Nineteen
men raised their right paws
Nhy don't you raise your
hand?" inquired the sergeant
OF the Goth lad.
TOO much trouble" he
drawled
JOHN HERSEY'S BELL for
% Adano the short novel, the
play and the forthcoming movie.
viii be, word for word one Of
the most profitable writing jobs
OF all time HCrscy WI0ic
ii in Italy while covering the
war.
Copyright by Daily Misror Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06

down the heat of this situation
by the DEGREES necessary to pre-
vent an explosion some day,
just by opening up some new
lines of work to them.
1t means more than the mere
actual jobs to the whole race
of them when a telephone COM
pany hires Negro girls as switch
board operators and when, by
whatever process, Negroes are
upgraded to the status of con-
ductors and motormen on the
car lines, if only in taken num-
bers. 1t means that another
old bar has fallen.
Copyright. 1945. by King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06

Gige kiss from those sioeet
lips of thine
And make II double by enjoin-
ing mine,
Another get. nay yet. and yet
another,
And let the first Kiss be the
seconds brother. It
Gipe me thousand Kisses and
yet more
And then repeat those that
hare gone before.
Pierce.
COMMON sense is not so COM
" mon. Don't know who said
that but he certainly was right.
An eminent gentleman has
stated he found ~ appalling
that some war plants closed for
the New Years holiday. Have
you seen mass production in
action ? Ever watched the work.
ers on an assembly line? Have
you done the same thing hour
after hour, day after day, for
months? If SO, your common
sense tells YOU that war plant
workers must have relief from
the routine on an occasional
holiday or their efficiency suf-
fers and their desire 70 change
10 another type c work in
creaSes.
STATES a young old-timer:
~ EVA Tanguay was not
blonde but a redhead. She was
billed as the Cyclonic Eva Tan
quay Also as the BOmbshell
of JOY"
Am informed dairy store in
Enid, Okla, offers all the fresh
buttermilk you can drink for
5 cents. Quite bargain.
Not for me, however. l don't
like buttermilk.
Am asked if radio cut-up
Walter O'Keefe did not write a
stage play that was produced
on Broadway. Not that I know
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06

DETER DONALD forwards
4 the story about three els
just back from overseas who
went into the automat and found
that the only available table was
one that was occupied by a
spinsterish female. Wanting a
little privacy, they decided to sit
down, hoping by means of con-
versation to make her finish and
leave in hurry The first
CT said: boy, life overseas sure
was tough. ] didn't have . bath
In eight months"
Think that's bad:" said the
second. IL couldn't even wash
my hands In four weeks"
1--WE were 90 busy" the third
added, ~ couldn't change my
underwear In Ave months"
At that point. the old gal
look up and said, "WouId ono
Of you stihkers mind passing the
salt:"
EDWARD STETTINIUS, GER
II tainly the most modest and
democratic of our secretaries Of
state, used to visit the Broadway
night clubs occasionally a few
years ago. One night he went
into the old Paradise with
male companion Headwaiter
Albert Bergman scanned them
with an appraising and unrecog-
nizing eye "Hello, Albert"
said Stettinius. "don't you re-
member me:"
"Oh, yes" fibbed Albert TRY
ing TO place the mani, as he
showed him TO none-too-good
table.
The part I like is that Stet-
tinius lwho was the only chair
man of u. S. SteeD knew head
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
BETTER HEALTH
BY DR.. Logan Clendening-

MODERN surgery came to
N1 maturity just so years
ago. in the spring OF 1865 in the
ancient city OF Glasgow. when
the young and newly appointed
professor, DR. Joseph Lister.
found that he could stop putri-
faction. or surgical gangrene.
by the application Of carbolic
acid 10 surgical wounds.
IT IS difficult Tor a modern 10
L realize the condition in early
1865 before Listers discovery.
Surgeons had learned TO con-
tTol hemorrhsge and they
could put patients 10 sleep for
a surgical procedure.
Ether, nitrous oxide and
chloroform had all been intro
duced. g.
But whenever the surgeons
knife touched a part OF the
body. infection occurred sup
puration. the formation Of pus
and finally gangrene-hospltal
gangrene IL was called
JOSEPH LISTER happened 10
~ stumble on Pasteur's de-
scription Of minute organisms
which caused putrefaction.
But IL was really the expert.
ence of the city of Carlisle in
its destroying OF the smell of
It's sewage and garbage by the
use Of carbolic acid that in
fluenced him most.
In the cold and icy winter of
1865 in Glasgow when there
were many accidents he tried
the application of it TO COM
pound fractures and managed
to save limbs that would other
wise have been lost.
Soon the knowledge was
worldwide and modern surgery
was started on its brilliant
path.
Modern surgeons have inn
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06

quarrel. Quarreling never solved
anything.
3-No, not il they have ever
acquired these habits. A sur
vey by psychologist Eugene 5.
Briggs showed that every other
form of recreation and leisure
time activity. including sports.
dancing. swimming and even
bridge, decrease with nearly all
persons as they grow older.
However, going TO church is
still the leading leisure time ac-
tivity of older people, and going
TO concerts and lectures comes
next. The number of those who
almost never attend movies in
crease steadily from IS per
cent at age 20. to 20 per cent
at so. 40 per cent at II. and
100 per cent at age 80. No
doubt that is why / see at my
lectures so many old people
who will not heed my advice.
but like 10 listen 10 H.
the DETRnIT TIMES C-IJ
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
On the
Side

nURGA MOTA. film comedian
- Of India. now weighs $40
pounds. He did weigh $50
pounds. Last July the point
system of rationing was intro
duced in Mota's home town.
Since then the comic has lost
"a pounds. This has made him
so i'll he has been taken 10
hospital TO be treated for semi
starvation. Five hundred and
forty-six pounds must certainly
be the worlds record weight
for starving man.
QUERIES from clients. O.
Vt You report a circus elephant
named Alice had blessed events
in 1914, 1916 and 1918. Don't
you know an elephant can only
give birth once in every nine
years?
A-NO, sir, I didn't know that.
Now we have Gene Fowler I'm
the elephant argument. Because
the statement about Alice ap-
peared In his book Timberline.
CIDELIGHTS: "As for young
~ grandfathers," writes a Cali
fornian, "my father Is a grand
father. He also has two sons I'm
the armed services. He IL 35
years old"
Seems definite John T. Brush
when owner of the Cincinnati
Reds originated Ladies Day at
baseball parks.
There are 104 dog racing
tracks in the British Isles where
in 1943 the equivalent Of S243,-
100000 was wagered. In 1914
about S253,000,00O was bet by
the British on the galloping
puppies. These figures represent
only what was bet by the total
isor method. British dog tracks
also have bookmakers.
Copyright, l945. By King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
DEAR MARY HAWORTH:
7 AM only II years old and in


i love with a man in the serv-
ice who is %. He loves me. too,
a. his actions prove when he
is home on furlough; and he al
ways mentions his love in
letters.
My trouble is that have de-
ceived him about my age. He
thinks l am 10. as most people
do, since / am tall and well
built.
/ am afraid 10 tell him the
truth. because l think II he
knew l was only IL he would
discontinue writing, and give
me up as too young for him.
And yet on the other hand.
II l don't tell him. l am afraid
some one else will.
And II he learned / had de-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
Detroit Times Rationing Timetable

LIQUOR
No. fr-Valid through Jan 81,
PROGRESSED FOODS
Blue KS through G-2-Naiid indeh-
nitely.
MATS. CHEESE. PATS
Red Q-s through N-B-Valid Indefinitely
Oue 10 salvage Ia good Tor cents
ana tNO meat ration points.
SUGAR
stamp "a Book A--Vaud indefinitely
a new stamp SaId Fe0. 4 for } months
PROBABLY.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06

GASOLINE
Coupon ia gallons. vsld through
Starch 81.
rs and Is Coupons gallons each.
RS ard &c Coupons gallons zach
claw requires state name ana license
number Re written on every coupon
when received
fIFL OF.
Periods 4, and 3-Nsld through sept.
SWnFS
Airpsne stamps 4, and t-Vshd
indefinitely.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1945-01-06
Brain Game Answers

Sesame"
2-False. Solomon was the son
of David.
3(a) is correct.
Lacrosse.
5-The yuan.
6-Florida.
There were no signers. The
document doesn't exist in Of
fetal written form.
s.. grievous words stir UP
anger"