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The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-09-12
OUR FUTURE DETECTIVES
BY A. r. BAKER
Spec. Dep. Chief OF Staff
Department of Washington

AS Special Deputy Chief OF
Staff of the Department of Wash
ngton, and Service Officer, Lewis
Ford Post No. 2S9. v. F. W., my
auties are manifold.
My duty as special deputy is
% recruit as many service and
fx-servicemen as possible for the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, espe
tally for Lewis Ford Post No
sS9. We would appreciate con
iacting any service men, ex-serv.
ce men of the army, navy or
coast guard, regardless of race,
eolor or religion.
If you have served during the
var in foreign countries, aboard
hip in hostile waters, in convoy
pr battle, you are eligible for
membership in the Veterans OF
Foreign Wars, If citizen of the
J. S. A.
Join now. We need you and you
iced us to fight the battles for
III of us now and in the future.
The shooting war is over, but
here is no truce, no armistice in
he battle for your economic Sc
eurity, your future status, and the
maintenance of our own govern
nent. its constitution, equality of
aw.
AS Service Officer of Lewis
Ford Post No. 2s9, V. F. W.. my
iuty is to assist any comrade or
ex-service man. his widow, chill
lren or dependents. regardless of
heir ineligibility for membership
n Veterans of Foreign Wars. to
file any claim or claims to which
hey are entitled for service rem
iered. or to put them in touch
With the proper authority or au-
Ehorities for aid. This service is
free to them. Also we assist them
in sickness and render aid at
Heath.
These are just a part of the
service and duties of all Veterans
of Foreign Wars In the United
States and Lewis Ford Post No,
289, Seattle, Wash.
AS Post Service Officer in the
State of Washington and the Unit
ed States, | am the only Negro
in the State of Washington hold
ing the high and important office
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-09-12
0 Temporal! @ MORES!

Poor Bulgaria. Across Britain's
and the United States knees, with
its pants down, threatened with a
sound spanking because she dares
to deprive her citizens the right
to cast a ballot as their con-
science may dictate.
Our own Secretary of State
Byrnes, hailing from South Caro-
lima with the most unscionable
and vicious election laws of any
state in the Union. issues the ulti-
matum for the U. S.:
THE ballots or tickets at the
polls are usually placed and kept
face upward on the same table
with ballot boxes, and in sep
arate piles, Republican ballots in
one pile, Democratic in another;
making it impossible for a voter
to select one of his or her free
choice without doing so in full
view of the managers and onlook-
ers. thereby disclosing to them
the voters choice"
Obviously. if voter picks up
a Republican voting ticket, he dis
closes his vote. which, of course.
in a federal election, makes his
vote Illegal, for it is not secret.
The brief further states:
g. There being no provision
made for booths or tables at some
distance from the ballot boxes in
which or on which the different
ballots to be selected are placed
ers and managers ." o Tenn
pora! o Moresi
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-09-12
OBITUARY

Mr.. Eugene e. Johnson, for
merly of FIT. Worth, Texas, many
years resident of Seattle, died
at Doctors Hospital last week.
Funeral rites were held at An
gelus Mortuary, Monday at ! p. m.
All funeral arrangements We're
made by his friends, Mr.. Johnny
Henderson and Mr.. Lem Turner.
Interment was at Mt. Pleasant.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs.
Texana Smith, and a half-brother.
A. A. Blackson, FIT. Worth.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-09-12
SPECIAL DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF
TELLS FUTURE DETECTIVES OF VETS

The end of the war viii never
eome to you until death. Until
hat time comes. you are going to
meet many difficulties which YOU
alone will never be able to over
fome.
Your only safeguard is right
how to attach yourselves to some
pf the various Veterans of For
eign Wars posts. here or wher-
aver you may be. These posts are
prepared to aid you in unemploy-
'nent. in sickness and In death.
For further advice. call Lewis
Ford. Post 2s9. Seattle. or A. R.
Baker. Special Deputy Chief of
Staff. Department of Washington
and Service Officers Post 2S9.
Z. F. W.. U. S. A.. GIL. 1931-W.
Don't Neglect Your Rights.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-09-12
JUST TO REMIND U

If other industries could return
to normal peace time service with
the ease of the oil companies,
boy. what a break.
When the last shot was fired
the ration list was shattered and
the sign, Fill 'er Up" was seen
in every block.
Wesley A. Brown of New York
and Washington, named to the
u. S. Naval Academy at Annapo-
lis, Md, win enter upon his
studies this month. Brown is the
sixth Negro to enter the exclusive
Naval Academy.
Hello Riddles: have you regis
tered at school? Don't play truant.
Go back now Nothing, especially
now, is quite so important as 60
ing back to school, and getting
as much education as is possible.
1.-The fact that generally there
is now need for so many to know
so much while. among Negroes,
so little is known by so many,
makes education for them a
must"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-09-12

Police Sgt. II. A. Westman. Pa
trolman Hull and also the officer
who ransacked the desk of the IL
nancial secretary. this is our an
sWer:
Your Police Sgt. H. A. West
man is a sergeant and now is
probably eligible for a captaincy.
This may come to him. and we
do not object. He may also
aspire to become a chief of po-
lice Now or hereafter your city
council win have the last word to
say as to his fitness. Do you think
he could face them with clean
hands?
AS for Patrolman Hull: II his
own statement Is true. you can't
hurt me for l will retire soon"
He should be given a leave of alb
senee until retirement day.
Every indication is that Police
Sgt. II. A. Westman is dishonest.
Ne honest man would hesitate to
give receipt for confiscated
money. The State of Washington
left receipt signed by both
plaintiff and defendant for every
item eonfiscated.
What is there about Police Sgt.
II. A. Westman that would lead
the public to believe his pockets
are the city's deposit vaults?
We repeat these releases are
aimed at Police Sgt. H. A. West
man, Patrolman Hull and that
sordid, mercenary and avaricious
policeman who ransacked the desk
of the financial secretary of the
Elks lodge, whose books have de-
fled a single error during his 25
years of service. What, what did
you hope to find, officer?
And our soul will know no peace
until that little petty thief is
named and removed from our
sight. A petty thieving policeman
is the most despicabIe thing that
God ever created and forgot to
destroy.
Officers Training School
We have no knowledge of your
curriculum. Whatever it is you
should include a course of d.
plomacy and common sense.
Policemen have so long dealt
with a world that had no voice
in court, they take it as a matter
OF course, their decree is law.
II you only knew the narrow
escape your department had from
this very same source you would
shudder.
Critics
These articles in the Northwest
enterprise are hurting the Elks.
Answer: We are not in the least
concerned with such Elks as Won
IL all such Elks are totally de-
stroyed, our work is well done.
Ihey are for the perfection of
more than 1875 fine Elks, person
ally known. For your benefit. sir.
we haven't begun to fight.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-09-12
FLETCHER HENDERSON AND HIS BAND

Americas greatest arranger
Fletcher Henderson, brings his
famous dance orchestra to the Sc
attic Civic Auditorium for one
night only. Sept. %.
Fletcher Is currently playing at
the famous Casa Manana in Los
Angeles, broadcasting over the
major networks nightly. Most
bands are booked into this well
known dancery for periods of two
or three weeks, but Fletcher Hen
derson is proving so popular with
California dancers that they are
staying for a months engagement.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-09-12
ILLNESS CONFINES
PRENTIS |. FRAZIER

Suffering from a minor nasal
operation. Mr.. Prentis /. Frazier,
prominent business executive, has
been confined at home for sew
eral days. A nasal hemorrhage at
tack was serious.
A solicitous wife overruling the
objections of Frazier hurriedly
called an ambulance. rushed him
to the hospital for treatment, and
barred admission to anxious
friends.
He is now sufficiently recover
ed to return to his office.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-09-12
Editor Northwest Enterprise Guilty Criminal Libel?
NORTHWEST ENTERPRISE ATTY. PER Sc
PLEADS GUILTY TO CRIMINAL LIBEL

The Northwest Enterprise has
been gently reminded By re-
putable attorney that a warrant
lies for criminal libel BY police
officers Police Sgt. II. 4. West
man and Patrolman Hull
Comes now a penitent editor,
in sack clothes and ashes. and
pleads guilty" TO any charge of
criminal libel.
But with an awakened con-
science, despite any anticipated
charge or charges. we are going
to reiterate any possible state
ments already made, with suffi-
cient added statements TO make
such a charge absolute, and of it.
self, libel per sc.
We know the law. What has
been said and what may be said
in the future is and will be de
liberate. AS deliberate as they
may be. they are odious to us.
They are written for the express
benefit of Police Sgt. II. A. West.
man and Patrolman Hull who not
only asked for it. but by their
acts demanded it. We have de-
cided to accommodate them. We
have religiously tried to conflne
all releases to them alone. We
hope they may not go out of
bounds.
The Raids
OF previous raids on the Elks
Club, the Northwest Enterprise
was silent, even though CON
cerned. We entered a protest to
the police department, because
they were nuisance" raids, to
place the Elks Club on a level
with common dives and for other
purposes. We then and there in
formed the police department the
next time Police Sgt. Westman
raided the Elks Club, we would
make him see two of the biggest
Monte Carlos on the Pacific Coast
which he has never raided.
The Northwest Enterprise may
at times exaggerate, but does not
lie or permit correspondents to
lie.
The Northwest Enterprise has
never broken a promise.
Armed with that promise, Pc
lice Sgt. H. A. Westman and his
gang of raiders enter the Elks
Club march down to the cash reg
lister. confiscate all the cash in
the house, arrest and charge eight
Daughter Elks comforting on So
cial arrangements, leave the Elks
Club, enter their lodge room, con-
tanning nothing, absolutely MOTH
ing save chairs, half a dozen al
tars and the private desk of the
financial secretary. and deIiber-
ately ransaek his desk. Adding in
suit to injury they march up to
the office door of the Northwest
enterprise, with a look of con-
tempt which was interpreted,
well, what are you going to do
about lt?"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-09-12
ANN JUDGEMENT

The Colored Walters Porters' and Cooks Club
4O41a 18th Ave South have received the State Liquor
License Members please come in and pay up dues.
No service to any except members
Dspensation SO per year dues and SO to join
CA. 1889
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-09-12

with information of the location
where any man or woman may OBJ
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-09-12

This is the same great outfit that
was booked into the popular Rum
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-09-12
Next Week: DEFIANT MESSAGE Epo..

(More Next Week)
Evening star., 1945-01-28
The Thurber Carnival

1t simply depends on whether you
like him or not. If you don't, no.
body can sell him to you. If you do,
you're already sold. I do. But, as
I know some people of excellent
taste who do not-quite decidedly
do not Il conclude that James
Thurber is something like the snail
an epicure's dish on which epi-
cures themselves are in disagreement
To express some sympathy with
the ants, one can point out that he
seems to write too much. He has
the kind of market which calls for
a type of thing and quickly fastens
its type on its writers. After a
while you get familiar with it and
familiarity breeds its well-known
offspring. You decide that you know
all about James Thurber and yawn
and turn the page. To objectors on
that score-and it is the one heard
most often-there should be a con-
siderable revelation in this volume.
1t is a collection of Thurber writ
ings and drawings from previous
books and in the writings at least
there is an astonishing variety. You
get straight fiction. as in "One Is u
Wanderer." You get brilliant satire,
as in 'The Man Who Hated Moon
baum" You get first-rate auto
biography, as in MY Life and Hard
Times" which is included in the
volume in full and ought to be
made compulsory reading for every
young man about to do some great
writing on his childhood. And you
get character studies which seem
Evening star., 1945-01-28
By Vicki Baum. (Didier: s2.5

By Vtck1 Baum. (D1d1er, $3.50.
The publisher, Didier, presents
this as one of Vicki Baum's earlier
novels, but Miss Baum in a state
ment issued through her present
publisher denies authorship at least
so far as the title is concerned.
She states:
Regarding the publication of a
book of mine by Didier titled Once
in Vienna I should like to point
out that I never wrote book OF this
title. I suspect, however, Didier
sometime managed to purchase a
book which I wrote at the age of
Is, called then Stage Door, or
rather the German equivalent, Elm
gang Eur Buehne'
eff so, I never authorized the
publication, translation into English
or the title of this adolescent, utterly
dated and ridiculous sin of my early
youth 1t was my first novel. 1t
was written before the First World
War and it was first published in
Germany in 1872"
Didier replies: "'Once in Vienna
was purchased from Geofrey Bles,
prominent London publisher, owner
of the English and American rights.
The London edition was issued a year
Evening star., 1945-01-28

to report that, in her current novel,
Miss Ferber returns to the formulas
competent shelter. Once more she
is using the slick, easy craftsman
ship which long ago established her
high among our smart commercial
f1ctioneers.
And that is about all there is to
say of the volume. 1t is set In Seat
tie and gives us a strictly Holly
woodian view of an American family
progressing from pioneer standards
to those of World War II. We have
the shrewd old great-grandmother,
the virile sons and grandsons, the
wives and mistresses. They came
out to Washington in 1851 and
struck 1t rich and stayed, and that's
your story. If you read Miss Ferber,
you know why you do it. Well, here
she is again. NC. r.
Evening star., 1945-01-28
Public Library
Book Pointers
MODERN DANCE.
By Doris Y. Epans,

Music Division Washington Public Library
AS comparatively new emphasis
in the history of dance, modern
dance has received its share of mis-
representation both in performance
and in literature Now this trend has
secured definite. though not uni
versally recognized, place in higher
education while good books on the
subject are still relatively few.
Pleasant and informative reading
about some of the PHILOSOPHERS and
theories behind modern dance and
about the developments in the field
are found in Invitation to Dance
by Walter Terry; Modern Dance
by Mary Wigman, Martha Graham
Charles Wiedman and others
Dance We Must" by Ted Shawn;
Introduction to the Dance" Mod
ern Dance" and American Dane
ing" by John j. Martin and Dance
"a Creative Experience" by Mar
garet N. HDoubler.
Evening star., 1945-01-28
Brief Reviews
RELIGION.

Love One Another, by Fulton j.
Sheen. (P. J. Kennedy and Sons)
WaShington's distinguished divine
presents a volume urging the spirit
of Christian love as solution OF
the many social problems which
perplex us. A worthy document
against intolerance on all levels.
Treasures From the Bible, Sc
lected by the chaplains and pastors
of America. Essential BoOkS.) A
volume of passages from the Bible
prepared at the request of the
American Bible Society. Arranged
without the old division into verses,
prose printed as prose and poetry
as poetry, it is an excellent work.
BIOGRAPHY.
Christopher Columbus, by Ser
aphim G. Canoutas. Published by
the author. A life of Columbus based
on the idea that the Discoverer was
a Greek,
Evening star., 1945-01-28
(Clymer Motors. S1.50.J

Floyd Clymer began taking an ac-
tive interest. in motors at the age of
7, when his father let him drive the
family car. 1t was an Oldsmobile,
the newest 1902 model. When he
was II, Floyd was licensed auto
mobile dealer, back in his home town
of Berthould, Colo. He was sue
cessful, too. But that was not the
end of his career.
He branched out at the age Of II
as inventor of "cycleplane," or
winged bicycle which bucked him
over the handlebar on its first run
and would not rise an inch; he
added motorcycles to his line and
became a racing driver; when he
was IS he drove the automobile In
one of those then popular races be-
tween a car and an airplane (aero-
plane) and won two out of four
times. He spent his childhood and
youth, in short, with his back bent
over a drivers wheel of some de-
scription.
But he was not just mechanic.
either. He loved motors with a
scholars passion as we'll and, as
years passed, he collected all man.
ner of motor age data, from the
most primitive to the most ad-
vanced. Last spring he issued his
first "Scrapbook," a compilation of
bits of this lore.
The second volume is in the same
tradition. 1t contains a short ac-
count of some of Mr.. Clymer's
youthful experiences with motor
conveyaces and great mass of
period stuff, from the late COS to the
early 20s - advertisements, articles
from motor magazines, cartoons,
light verse and photographs. One
sees in it sucn items as an 1896
Duryea with-if you please-trailer;
a horseless carriage which had a
dummy horses head and neck fas-
tened to the dashboard so as to
soothe the fears of real quadrupeds
encountered on the road; a 1900
taxicab in which the passenger
rode in front of the driver; truck
mounted antiaircraft guns, vintage
1909; electrics advertised to run-"a
whole day with current to spare"
1905 drive-in with bearded cava-
liers and ladies of pre-Gibsonian
figures having a coke, and so on
and so on.
Along with the strictly motor
ads go others reminiscent OF the
spirit of those times-where to buy
a good suit for $3.50, a mail order
Evening star., 1945-01-28

| Queen, a financier and promoter
who symbolizes the pressure of in
dustry upon agrarianism, commerce
upon traditions, expedient objec-
tives upon ideals. The power of re-
ligion has for its exponent Father
Emile Beaubien. vigorous and
starkly ruthless foe of modern inno-
vations and their disruptive in
fluences.
Trial by Fire.
Dr. McLennan carves these men
and women out of the birch and
the pine of the Canadian scene and,
having perfected them as puppets,
brings them alive with the magic of
his own creative understanding
moves them over the roads of the
province of Quebec and the streets
of the metropolis thereof, puts them
through ordeals which are as cruel
as flre-and as purifying. Much
of the action is cataclysmic. There
are passages which are reminiscent
of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables'
and several situations which recall
John Galsworthy's pathetic Skin
Game"
But the story never escapes the
authors management of it. Two
Solitudes' is credible production.
Not to believe it would be to doubt
the reality of contemporary history
in Canada. If ever literary enter
prise was born of a prevailing
dilemma, this is it. DR.. MacLennan
has not imagined the all-pevading
problem. He simply has brought
into focus the struggles which are
going on in the Dominion. His con-
clusion is hopeful. The threat in
Europe-the demand ito do what
was necessary"-perhaps, as he
seems to believe, may bring the
divergent populations together in a
single unit. New legends may take
the place Of old.
The mystic title Of DR.. MacLen-
mans endeavor is taken from the
lines of Rainer Maria Rilke: Love
consists in this. that two solitudes
protect, and touch, and greet each
other"
Let it be added that Canada it
self is not isolated. Rather, as
thoughtful reading of this volume
will show, it is part of cosmic con-
fusion in which hope, if nothing else,
contributes toward solution.
Evening star., 1945-01-28

w
Events are challenging American
attention for Canada, the largest
the closest, and in many different
ways, the most notably interesting
neighbor of the United States. Dur
ing the next few years developments
in the Dominion almost surely will
reach a series of crises. Political
and economic clashes, racial and
religious conflicts, cultural conten-
tions are shaping up from day to
day. The pace has been accelerated
by the impact of the war.
Meanwhile, Americans who visit
Canada or who merely read about
the country and its peoples more or
less naturally find in what they ex-
perience the values, the contradic-
tions, the issues which they expect
to discover. DR.. Hugh MacLennan
in his 1.-TWO Solitudes" has tried to
personify in his characters the
principal motivations, the most i'm
portant fulillments and the most
significant Illustrations which un-
deniably do exist everywhere north
of the unfortified boundary roughly
formed by the Great Lakes and the
st. Lawrence River.
The Glasses.
French-Canadian aristocrats are
persuasively represented by Ath-
anase Tallard, a tragic martyr to
the instinct for fruitless compro-
mise; the alleged Fascist elements
are summarized in one of his sons,
Marius, and the sensitive, fright
ened middle ground" community
bred of intermarriage and liberal,
humane educational processes is ex-
emplified in another, Paul, the hero
of the book
Members of counterfoil group
are retired Nova Scotia sea cap
tain, John Yardley; Janet Methuen
his daughter, who strives to justify
leading position in too-sophisti-
Gated Montreal society. and Daphne
and Heather, her children-the for
mer glamorous and proudly
sensual; the latter wise and gen.
erous and good in an environment
which is brutally hostile to such
virtues.
A connecting link is Huntly Nc
Evening star., 1945-01-28
COP Holds PAC Main Foe

poses OF improving the lot OF all
the people in the country, regardless
Of their birth, occupation, race,
color, creed, station in life or place
of residence. That means, of course,
that Government should and must
intervene in our economic system. 1t
means that such things as roads,
public parks, schools, public health
programs, public institutions and
many other activities which do not
lend themselves to the application Of
the profit or private wealth-creating
techniques must be created, MAIN
tanned and operated by Government.
Government must, furthermore,
police and economic system as a
whole to the end that in the aggre-
gate it is operated for the welfare
Of the public. Government must
help absorb, to the extent that
other remedies are not available the
risks of illness, unemployment and
temporary economic distress which
should be borne by society as a
whole and not by the few unfortu-
nate individuals on whom such bur-
dens may chance to fall. These
proper functions of Government
must be administered as fairly, as
competently and as efficiently as Is
humanity possible.
Our Government should now be
planning to harness the enormous
creative energies which lie within
our free enterprise system so that
when this war is over our country
will achieve a standard of living
higher than any before attained
here or anywhere else. The full re-
sources of our economic system
must be utilized through full en-
ployment and every effort must be
made to improve working conditions
and our national way of life. We
need to stimulate, more than we
have, the activities of small business
because in many, many areas of the
economy small, privately owned
business is the best way to produce
the maximum amount of goods and
services and to create prosperous
and Independent citizens"