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and they claim that the pig is naturally
clean animal when given half chance.
They like to tell you about one of their
biggest projects. About 10 years ago the
new vegetable oils began to cut into the
market for lard BeltsvilIe swine breeders
rescued the farmers, whose pigs had
long been bred to produce lard.
First they imported few Danish Land
race hogs famous for lean bacon. Because
this breeds white skin sunburned easily. it
could not stand the hot summer months
here. At Beltsville they crossed the Danish
pigs with dark-skinned domestic breeds.
Now they have good American pig
which won't get sunburned and which gives
its all to bacon, ham and loin roasts.
Next stop is the orchard center. Here one
of the fruit experts will tell you how he
and his colleagues helped solve an old and
tough problem - the loss of that part of
the crop which falls before it can be picked.
The Beltsville men produced a chemical
50 powerful that single drop in several
gallons of water makes cheap spray which
delays the fall of ripening apples, pears and
apricots for as much as three weeks. Now
orchard men can stop worrying about losses
in bruised, fallen fruit Also, they can have
all their fruit picked at one time instead of in
relays as before. Saving of labor is espe-
cially important now.
Projects Related 10 War
MosT of the projects being worked on at
Reltsville now are related to the war.
Its scientists and state experimental sta
tons developed several varieties of new,
vigorous hybrid corn seed suited to the
nations soil and climatic conditions.
This winter 10000 tons of various u. S.
seeds were sent to Russia for spring plant
ing in the recaptured Ukraine. Before the
war, the U. S. imported great quantities
of seed from Europe. Now we are not only
self-supporting but can even help the bat
tered European peasants get started again.
Beltsville is also finding better, quicker
ways to kill harmful insects. Its chemists
showed u. S. chemical companies how to
make DDT. At present the armed forces
take the whole supply.
In the testing laboratories, they breed
$1,000 flies a week and more thousands of
yellow fever and malaria mosquitoes,
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reaches, bedbugs and other insects. The
breeding rooms are lined with cages, each
containing several hundred bugs of one
kind or another Don't let it worry you,
though. They kill the little darlings as fast
as they grow.
The Beltsville men have also worked out
a unique way of spreading insecticides.
They compress solution to pressure of
80 pounds per square inch inside a handy
plastic container All you do is unscrew
little cap, and the contents spray out in
the form of fog.
Iuasnune Honey Bees
BUT they don't struggle against all in
sects. Beltsville is trying hard to create
honey bee which will withstand disease
called American foulbrood. 1t wipes out
thousands of hives every year. In the course
of their research these men have even found
a way to inseminate queen bees artificially.
and through controlled breeding they are
gradually working out bee immune to
the disease.
Their work pays off financially, too.
The Federal plant breeders saved mint of
money for Florida tomato growers. A couple
of tomato-vine diseases were destroying the
plants in that state few years ago. The
new variety, which was able to stand up to
those diseases, arrived in the nick of time.
Characteristically, the Beltsville men
didn't stop there. They started to work on a
tomato plant even more resistant to dis
ease. They imported wild Peruvian
tomato which had never been known to
succumb to such disease 1t was inedible
and it wore a beard, but it provided
starting point for breeding program in
which over 10000 different crosses were
tried The right one finally came along
- a big, juicy, smOoth-shaven tomato
ON q diseasc-resisting vine. Its name:
the Pan America.
That's the way they work at Beltsville.
If they must try 10000, or even 100000
times, they keep on until they get what they
want And what they want is to improve
everything for the farmers who raise the
nations food and the rest of us who eat it.
You can start licking your chops now.
Practically everything that goes on your
plate is going to be better before these scien-
fists get through. The End
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large irrational creature who is acays looking for home
atmosphere tn hotel the hoe Anonymous
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-01-31
The TRUTH WILL
NEVER BE KNOWN

It will never be known now
whether Robert E. Lee Folkes
was guilty of the Lower 49,
Staying. Folkes went to his
death proclaiming his innocence.
The man who in all probabili-
ty knew more about the crime
that any other persons-the vic
TINS husband = is dead also, a
war casualty. Folks was con-
victed on circumstantial evil
dence, which has sent many an
innocent man to his death. Now
that Folkes is dead, we truly
hope that he was guilty. We
h ope the law penalized II e
right man. If he we're innocent,
a crime has been committd in the
name of justice. Had the vic
TINS husband lived, 1t is posi-
BILE that the truth may have been
learned eventually as was done
in the celebrated Scottsboro cases
in which the victim" admitted
in later years that she had lied
on the boys. Folkes may have
been justly punished and he may
have been a martyr. It is not
likely that the truth will ever be
known.-K. G. Cal.
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NEGROES MAY
|QUIT SOUTHLAND

CHICAGO - Unless the South
Immediately satisfies some of the
demands of the Negro population.
Dixie will lose a vast number OF
the ten million Negroes in the
region in the next decade.
That is the prediction OF a
white southerner, David L. Cohn,
in significant article in the
January issue of NEGRO d.
GEST, which discloses that the
end of the war will not halt the
migration of Negroes to the
North.
Southern Negroes will con
tinue to leave the South after
the war so long as they believe
they will be better off in the
North" declared Cohn.
Pointing out that colored la
borers are an economic asset to
the South. Cohn says. that a
positive program must be offered
by the whites If they want Ne
groes to stay In the South"
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Reception Honors for
Capt. Francis and Family

Captain and Mrs. Joseph l..
Francois and their 2-year-old
daughter. Monore, were inspira-
lions for a beautifully appoint
ed reception Sunday, January %.
4 to 6 p. M. given by Mr.. and
Mrs. Dave Green. parents of Mrs.
Francois. at their home i'm N. E.
Going st. The two hundred guests
included many old acquaintances
and friends of the family who
called to welcome the Francois
to Portland. Mrs. Francois, the
former Lillia Belard, is the eld-
est of the Green's four daugh-
tiers; the others are Louise (Mrs.
Dawson), Irene MRS. Mccoy
and Edith MRS. CabelD. The
Captain and family, whose home
is In Chicago, arrived FRIDAY
coming up from FIT. Huachuca en-
to Camp Sheridan, Ill.
Commanding the respect, atten-
ton and admiration of those he
met, Captain Francois, an extern
sive traveller. has seen duty al
FIT. Huachuca, FIT. Custer, Mich,
Camp Butler, N. c., and attended
advance officers training in field
| artillery at FIT. Sill, Okla. Ac-
companying the Captain and fam
lily was Mrs. Garnett Douglass
Hargrave and infant son, Gar
nett, Jr., wife and son of 1t. d
G. Hargrove, now overseas. Mrs
Hargrove Is en- route to Will.
ming, N. c.. to visit parents Of
1t. Hargrove. OF further inter
est on this occasion was the pres.
/ ence of another son-in-law of the
Green's, Clarence Cabell, mer
chant ST aman on leave, who is at
tending the Marines Cooks anG
Bakers Training School, at the
George White Center, in Port
land. Assisting Mrs. Green a
the reception table and in re
ceiving we're Mesdames Cora MI
nor, Clara Pickett, Amanda Re
do and Henrietta Marshall.
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Pfc. VIM. A. Johnson
Writes From Overseas

Pfc. VIM. A. Johnson, some
where in the Southwest Pacific,
writes the Portland office a story
about his company. Pfc. John
son, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
johnson. in S. e. 44th Ave, has
brother, Pfc. Walter e. John
son, doing duty in France. and
still another brother at home who
Is in Glass A.
The story-The .18Sth Quar-
termaster Company, formerly Co.
&c" of the 543rd Quartermaster
Battalion, was activated in March,
1943. The personnel of the COM
pany is made up of enlisted men
from all parts of the states.
After the completion of seven
% months training period, the
company was shipped overseas to
the Southwest Pacific Area. The
unit has been overseas now for
more than thirteen (13) months.
During this time the organization
has been in Australia, and many
islands of the New Guinea group.
Its members have been highly
praised by high ranking officials
Tor their outstanding achieve
ments. They have taken part in
several major campaigns, and in
each case provd themselves val
liant and courageous soldiers of
the very highest caliber.
Members of this unit were the
only Negroes to take part in one
of the gigantic .invasions of New
Guinea. They were under fire
for twenty-one CID consecutive
days and were highly compli-
mented for the vital and signifi-
cant role that they played dur
ing the campaign. Out of all the
action they encountered, they
were fortunate enough not to suf-
fer a single casualty.
ITO Be Continued)
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erations Officer in the 332nd di-
vision fighter squadron. Aside
from these honors, Captain Hols-
claw was in September, 1914,
awarded the distinguished flying
cross and was nthe broadcast
program from Rome. Italy. over
the national hookup in which he
told of his downing two Nazi
planes and of the work of the
332nd Division. 1t is reported
that the Captain, a chiropodist
by profession, is rendering much
valuable service.
Captain Holsclaw is the son
of Mrs. Nell E. Holsclaw of Spo-
kane, Wash. and husband of the
former Bernice williams, who is
at present residing in Portland.
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Tolerance A Solemn
Duty Says F.D.R.

NEW YORK.-In a message to
the National Conference of Chris
tians and Jews urging attention
to a need for keeping the United
States free from racial prejudice
and bigotry, President Roosevelt
has called for recognition OF
that need as "a solmen duty,
according to the Religious News
Service. DR.. Everett r. Clinchy,
president of the conference, add
ed last week that plans had been
made to hold meetings during
Brotherhood Week, Feb. 1925,
at Army and Navy posts through
out the country.
The Presidents message. sent
in an appeal for a wider observ-
awe this year, said:
at is highly fitting that in the
midst of the world struggle for
libery we should remind our
selves of the spiritual realities by
which the ideals of freedom are
nourished. The principle of hui
man brotherhood is the source of
our political democracy and this
principle is rooted in the faith
which our fathers knew and
which we have lived by. One
God is our Father and all of us
are brothers and sisters in His
family. We worship at different
affairs and express this faith in
many ways. But deeper than the
differences is the spiritual unity
that makes us one people.
ION battlefields throughout
the world. Americans of many
cultural backgrounds stand to-
gether in one fighting force that
presents an unbroken front
against he enemies of freedom.
We move forward to victory
one people dedicated to one flag
in the service of justice and
peace for all. AS these men and
women of the fighting forces car
ry on their struggle against tyr
amy overseas. they dream of the
homeland in which equal oppor.
tunity for the good life If open
to all. 1t is, therefore. a sol
emn duty for us who live and
work in the United States tc
keep our country free of preju.
dice and bigotry so that wher
our fighting men return they
may find us living by the free
dom for which they are ready tC
| give the full measure of devotion
THE United States is tht
| greatest team of free men anC
women that the world has evel
seen. This Is he hour for us t
decide that our determination
shall be in peace, as in war
teamwork. am happy. there
fore, to welcome the twelfth an
niversary of Brotherhood Week
Feb. 1925, 1945. under the aus
pieces of the National Conferenc,
of Christians and Jews. | hops
that our people will come to
gether during this week to re
new and strengthen their deter
mination to serve the high prin
ciple of liberty through spiritua
unity"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1945-01-31

Mrs. Bessie p. Jones, 97I5 Sc.
Ash, will be hostess to the Rose
bud Study Club Wednesday. Feb
ruary Z. Mrs. Blanche Holiday,
in S. e. 18th, was hostess for
he January meeting of the club.
Believing in full democracy for
all people regardless of race,
creed or national origin. the
Rosebud Club cooperated with the
Civil Right Committee of the
N. A. A. C. P. in its draft of a
Civil Rights Bill. The club also
cooperated in the statewide eff
fort to save Robert r. Lee Folke
from execution. Correspondence
at this meeting includd a letter
Of resignation from Mrs. Marie
Anthony.
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PORTLAND NEWS
22l6 s. E S7h Phone East f

death. was a stewardess of Beth
Ell.
Quarterly Conference Monday.
January %. presided over by P.
f. Green. was largely attended
by officers. department heads
and members. Reports from all
departments were exceptionally
gratifying. Spiritual and finan-
cial increase in the Steward and
Trustee departments were suppli-
mented greatly by the Increase
in attendance, interest and fl
nance of the A. C. E. League and
Sundaf School. Leagues attend
ance over 800 for the quarter.
Special mention was made of the
o. NJ. E. Clubs growth. P. E.
Green was thanked for the fine
manner in which he conducted
the conference and also his con-
sideration of time.
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LIFT us up

Miss Archie Henderson, Tacoma
Dear God of Earth and Altar,
Bear down and hear our cry!
Our earthly rulers falter,
Our people drift and die.
The walls of gold entomb us,
The sword of scorn divides,
Take not thy thunder from us,
But take away our pride.
From all that terror teaches.
From lies of tongues and pens,
From all those evil speeches,
That comfort cruel men.
From death and profanities,
From OWL and the sword
lift up living nation
A single sword to God"
&c. X. Chesterton.
We reprint the above because
1t may refresh our minds of our
plain duties towards one another.
"A. L. II.
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GA Jackson st.
Main 0404

extreme involvement of chest
arms and legs. Breathing was
difficult, and swallowing almost
impossible. Marie was placed
Immediately in an iron lung, and
doctors and nurses fought night
and day to save her life. Look
ing to right and left, she could
see other stricken children in
respirators, fighting for life.
Mostly, they were white children.
But they suffered alike, for tn
Crippler is no respectr of race.
creed or color.
Marie spent two weeks in the
respirator. Under the skilled care
and treatment provided by the
National Foundation for Infan-
tile Paralysis, she rallied anu
started on the long road to re-
covery. Now she is in the con
yalescent ward and making
steady gains.
In one of the wards for boys,
another of Maries' brothers, also
a victim of infantile paralysis. Is
winning his battle with the Grip
pier. Like their brothers over
seas, these children are game
fighters and bound to win out.
They are two of the fourteen
children of farm family in
Moorfsboro, N. c. Besides the
brothers and sisters safe at home,
there are the wives.
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The Miracle Of Hickory

In a ward at the Emergency
Infantile Paralysis Hospital at
Hickory, North Carolina, 14-year-
old Marie Jolly, daughter of
Negro farm family, is bravely
fighting the Crippler.
Overseas, three of her brothers
are grimly engaged in the bat
tbs of global war. They have
been serving with our armed
forces for more than eighty-ope
months.
Marie is now in the fifth
month of her fight against in
fantile paralysis. She was rushed
to the hospital in August with
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Negro Congressman
Flags Rep. Rankin

Observation-Disclosures casting
his first vote against the estab-
lishment of the infamous Dies
Committee on Un-American Ac-
tivities as permanent agency,
as proposed by Rep. John e.
Rankin. Mississippi Congressman
Adam Clayton Powell Jr., of New
York FLASHED verbally with Ran
kin when the later publicly stated
that he would not sit near Rev.
Powell. New York's first Negro
Congressman stated: LAS far as
Democracy is concerned, Rankin
is a degenerate. He is the leader
of American fascism. His pres
enee in the House of Represen-
tatives is the most serious OBJ
stacle to Americas part in win
ming a Peoples War or estab-
fishing a Peoples Peace. He does
not represent the best of the
majority of even his own Gin
gressional District. Out of over
100000 citizens. not as many
are allowed to vote as are mem
beds of my church.
II am happy that Rankin will
not sit by me because that makes
1t mutual. The only people with
whom he is qualified to sit are
Hitler and Mussolini. II is
too bad that the Republicans
have deserted their party and be-
come followers of Southern
fascist.
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CHURCHES

Rev. l.. F. Green, Presiding Ell
der, preached at the A. ii. and
P. M. sermon hours at Bethel
AME Church on Sunday, Quarter
ly Meeting, January. Sermon
subjects, chosen and ablJ deliv.
cred were respectively: "The Way
of the Cross Leads Home and
Christ Crowded Out" On the
latter were these emphasis: No
Christ in our business. pleasure,
conversation, literature, no family
altar. AS professed Christians,
there is too much enmnity, en-
Wy, strife, covetousness; too lit
tie room given to Christ in our
hearts. Bethel publicly acknowl-
edged letters from Cpl. Louis Full
Ter (church dues enclosed) and
Pfc. Emmit c. Jackson, who sent
$32.50 from his compan
Through Pastor Allen, Bethel
received a bequest of $100 from
the estate of the lat Ira Hart.
Mrs. Hart, who preceded him In
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PORTLAND SOCIALS

Pvt. Carl Cochran. who reeeiv-
ed his military training At TT
Huachuea and later vas station
ed at \. Y, Is now In France,
according to recent reports.
Visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Willis A.
Reed in N. f. Cherry st. is Mrs.
Reeds cousin, Richard Van Bur
en-, of st. Louis. Mo.
Pvt. Raymond Cantrell. OF De-
troit, Mich, and Pvt. Walter
Hill, were guests this week of
Pvt. Raymond's cousins, the j.
N. Cantrell's, in S. q. Tibbetts.
Mrs. Arthur Nelson. 42O5 NE.
18th. received the sad intelligence
Friday of the heath of her o.
year-old aunt. Mrs. Florida Cor
an. at FIT. Scott, Kansas.
Mrs. B. c. Allen received the
sad news of the passing on Sat
urday of her brother, William
Buekner, at Oakland, Calf. He
was the son of Mrs. Fannie Buck
ner. at Pasadena, Calf. Two
other sisters of the deceased.
Mrs. Ruth Jones and Mrs. Ber-
die Canada, both of Pasadena, at
tended the funeral held in Oak
land.
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Founders Day, Race Relations
and Negro History Week will be
observed at Bethel Sunday, Feb.
IL. Pastor Allen in a special
message at 1880 A. M. and Pro-
fessor E. shelton Hill. guest
speaker at 8 p. NJ. Literary and
musical numbers will supplement
the evening program. which is
sponsored by the A. C. e. League.
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NEWS FROM HOME

Pittsburgh Courier, Chicago
Defender, Kansas City Call,
Air, A merican, Amsterdam
Star News, Negro Digest,
Northwest Enterprise, Pacific
Coast Negro Directory for sale.
Mrs. Josephine McCraven, Sole
Agent for all Negro Literature.
PA Goth Ave. Phone PH.
O902, Seattle, Wash.
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Mrs. ADELAIDE Gaskin In n. Il.
9Th. and Mrs. Stella Gragg, in
N. +. 29th, were hostesses re-
spectively for the Bethel-Ite Club
MEETINGS Jan. and %.
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CLUBS

The Literary Research Club
met during the month with Mrs.
Pearl c. Glow, at Mt. oiiyet par
sonage and with Mrs. Rachel
Green at her home in y. f. Co
ing.
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1t. Jack D. HolscIaw
Is Now Captain

Friends and relatives have the
good news of the recent promo
ton to Captain, of Jack d. Hols-
claw, who is also Assistant OPP
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Chile has prohibited the de-
struction of surplue wine.
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THE ENTERPRISE IS ON
SALE AT THE TACOMA OF
FICE as LONG AS THEY LAST.
BETTER YET. SUBSCRIBE TO
BE SURE. NO EXTRAS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-05
Views Of The Press

Corregidor." General Wainwright may rest assured that we all do understand and that we do not have to jump up feeling of kind- ness for this gloriously defeated soldier. The feeling we have for him as he symbolizes the living and the dead of the first Philippine cam- paign, is deep and warm in all hearts.
 It is an understanding of the commander who said when urged to save himself: T have been with my men from the start and if captured I will share their lot" It is an understanding of the officer who went into the fox-holes with the privates on Dataan, facing the enemy fire as they did. It is an understanding of the military strategist whose skill as well as valor shone in the delaying defense of northern Luzon, in the successful withdrawal to Bataan and in the inf1iction of heavy loss upon the enemy. It is an understanding of a fighting man, nearly sixty years old at the time of the surrender, who, with his comrades, became, in the words of President Roosevelt, living symbols of our war aims and the guarantee of victory"
 In the light of nearly forty months of war we do not see Jona- than Wainwright as general who lost a battle but as one who won a battle. After Corregidor there were black days and black months, but no longer any doubt as to the end. If American soldiers and their Fili- pino allies could do and endure what was done and endured in that campaign they could beat Japan. They did beat her. Corregidor was the beginning of victory and Gen. eral Wainwright deserves a victor's welcome and the place at the sur- render to which General Macarthur has invited him.