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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-19

operation from local religious and
civic groups in renovating and max
ing over any garment that are OBJ
tanned.
Mr.. Smith concluded by saying
that assistance and cooperation
from government leading agencies
have been arranged for these two
destitute families, but that addit-
ional help ms badly needed.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-19

cyl Davis, Shelva j. Rockingham,
Betty Joe Williams. Betty J. Nc
Clan, Jerry Ann Smith, Maybell
Powell, Joe Lean Powell, Johnnie
r. Bridgemon and Mary Ann Eas-
terling.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-19

stood that both of these young Ia
dies have received numerous Of
fers but for the time being they
prefer toeir hometown.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-19
William johnson
Bethlehem
Center News
.

On March %, Troops 1853 and
ITO of William Johnson Bethlehem
Center participated in the city
wide hike to CM & | College.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-19

the world to know that he feels
that God saved his life, that he
might tell this story of his saving
grace. = Written by his Presiding
Elder, DR.. N. H. JeltZ.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1947-04-19

Troop 1853 participated in the
Girl Scout hike to G M & l. Col
lege. During Easter week the girls
boiled and dyed eggs for Mrs. M.
G. Collins who wanted them for
the boys at Oakley. Candy making
has been o project of several of
the girls who brought sugar from
home. Troop 169 is planning sew
erai outdoor projects before time
to go to ramp.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-07
MAIL BOX ADVICE TO MOTHERS TODAY
BY Celesta


Mothers, children;
bad will
ing that grateful
up a child he will
not depart true,
ing be good Whatever he
knew mother who every
her might reputed by being
ashamed of her oldfashoned
able wife and friend
doing what he had been
His mother had taught him.
taken into Now mother
his mother had taught obey strong
ana deny himself carefus only help
self.
The who does cheap her
children who requires them drink
and take her when short
them wait her
Is treated with love her
own house, she is to blame
WI" lead him TO
PANIED to see her giving all loving
Sne wonders ne waited think that the
wire mas always expected IL, she not
your sons and daughters grown mother 1t almost
100 ae St you might make
ana get them to do
1ou alone to blame assert
sourse Tell them to take
'he eiuse don't scod clothes nm
o'eu OF unmended and
to do this That would lust
" brave and keep this treatment paw no at
IGNITION 70 tne ACCOMPLISHMENT and rebellion
se az Hrst and the result
irm and pleasant, plan will fail
ono" me the mother will show YOU the man."
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-07
MI. PR. UN. LOCAL 1893, AIM. PACK
TRIANON BALLROOM AT CANCER DANCE

The Musicians Protective Union,
Local 1913. A. F. NJ, Gerald D.
Well, president, augmented by 7
local bands and n soloists jam
ed Trianon Ballroom in an historic
effort to halt the growth of Am
erica's most dreaded disease.
Despite the heavy down pour
of rain. the spacious hall and
its capacity crowd joined in an
effort to make worthwhile con-
tribution to the cancer funds.
Wells, president of Local 49S
A. F. NJ. thanks the public, the
bands and entertainers who con
tributed so much to the cancer
drive. He stated lie is especially
grateful to the Trianon Ballroom
officials. donors of tickets. posters,
contributors of advertising and
cash. make it possible for all
tickets sold, to 60 intact to con
troll Cancer.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-07
Puyallup Repeats
9 Day, Night Event

For the second year in success
sion the Western Washington
Fair at Puyallup will stage nine
day and night event, which this
year will be held from September
10 through September 81. Officials
released the dates at this yearly
date because of the number of
queries received about space. en-
tries, and dates. Interest at such
an early date is unprecedented.
officials reveal
Work of publishing the premium
list and contracting Tor outstand-
ing acts for the day and night
-grandstand shows now are occupy
ing the executive board Also,
they are studying plans for i'm
provements to both grounds and
buildings.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-07
Mrs. Robert Vann
HOnOrs Northwest
Enterprise.
BY J. c.

Mrs. Robert L. vann, the num-
Der one lady of Pittsburgh, Pa,
accompanied by Mrs. B. X. John
son and chaperoned by the Rev.
F. Benjamin Davis, paid the North
west Enterprise a friendly call
during a two-dsy visit in Seattle.
enroute home
Publisher and treasurer of the
Pittsburgh Courier, Mrs. Vann
Yields a or eater influence than
any living woman of our rec. We
learn that during her visits, south
and west, she shared small agen-
cies the same cordiality as large
ones.
Mrs. Robert Vann wears her hon.
ors like a tailored gown; yet,
she has proven herself business
executive.
Mrs. Vann's visit to the west
was in the interest of the Pitts
burgh Courier and her return trip
to go where the Pittsburgh Cour-
ier goas
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-07
SEATTLE SOCIALS

During a visit of the stork to
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie
Barber, they were presented with
fine seven-pound boy. The hosts
were left all smiles while the
happy father saluted his friends:
Have a cigar on me-"
Mrs. Anna Anderson is confined
to her home because of a flu
attack, and is recovering suffi-
eienly to have friends call.
Mrs. Joseph Dickerson of Port
land is visiting in the city, to be
with her husband, a railroad en-
ployee whose layover is in Seattle.
Mrs. Dickerson has many friends
in Seattle with whom she shared
her visit. Among them was Mrs.
H. C. Thompson, last Wednesday
She returned home Saturday.
Mrs. Nathaniel Robinson has
returned home after a hasty call
to her mothers bedside account
of serious illness. Her mother is
sufficiently improved to permit
her return home. Enroute she
visited her former home, Kansas
City, Mo-, renewing early friend
ships.
The Matinee Matrons' Club held
their first meeting since the war
with a tea and art exhibit at. the
home of Mrs. Gerald Wells, ga
goth No last Wednesday. The
art work was exquisite, especially
large table cloth which met the
admiration of more than 20 guests.
Mrs. Vivian Spearman is president
and Mrs Ruth Weber, secretary
Mr.. Henry C. Thompson will
leave Friday for Los Angeles
California, on a business and plea
sure trip combined. The pr.ncipa
cause of the visit is his mother
81 years young and an i'll sister
On Friday. the A. NJ f choi
will held it's first fellowship part!
at the home of their president
Lionel Page. Each member is ex
pected to bring a guest, to shar
the evenings pleasure.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-07
Texas City, Texas

The disaster in Texas City. Tex.
which cost the lives of nearly
1000 persons is one of three
major such catastfophies within
month. The locale of the Texas
City calamity. an industrial port
on the Gulf of Mexico, carried
with II the lives of several hun
bred Negroes and Mexicans.
Jim Grow laws forced these
people to live in the rndesir-
able homes along the shores of
the Gulf. The number of dead
will probably never be known.
Disasters, know no race. Despite
laws and customs. blacks and
whites together sought their loved
ones and together shared their
misery.
Yet, when the debris are clear
ed away those who shared their
sorrows with whites will again be-
come untoucaaIha as Jim Crow
wears the crown.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-07
mrs. CARRIE DUVALL LEADS In
The NAACP MEMBERSHIP DRIVE

president of the Seattle Branch
continues his sincere efforts in
the work of the NAACP and re-
ports 10 members and s1SS.00.
We extend congratulations and
sincere respect to these cons ient-
ious hard working builders of
true democracy.
Other captains have not made
full reports to date but warn the
three leading captains that they
mean to be real threat for first
place in this drive. There are
six new PANCAS for 1947 Pancas
are the workers who have reached
their individual quota of thirty
members. They are Rev. Shorter,
Carrie Duval, Alexander Bishop,
Mae Polletto and George Wood.
We are not surprised to find
these people leading in this years
drive because of the fine record
they made last year. They are
all busy people with business.
a job, or a profession to take
care of. They are busy in church
activities, social and civic groups,
yet they give unselfishly of their
time and efforts. They realize the
necessity for each of us in sharing
the responsibility of developing
better community a better coun-
try, better world.
Church and Club contributions
are coming in with many expected
next week. We thank the Peoples
institutional Church for 5000, the
Evergreen Temple Elks for $500
and the Conjugal Club young
Married Couples) for $500. What
is your organization doing? What
are YOU doing?
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-07
BY Walter White in N. Y.
Herald-Tribune

The Seattle Housing Authority
in its sixth annual report has
given the clearest and most cour-
ageous answer yet to the question
Of race in public housing. The
successful pattern established
there provides a model which. If
followed by other housing author
tiles, can do more than almost
any other step which could be
taken to ease tensions and even
tually provide as much of solu-
ton as is human possible to the
mounting racial and religious fric-
tons which threaten America.
Before the war Seattle was
chiefly known as a gateway
which the Northwest pour
ed its abundant wealth of raw
of lumber, fish, dairy
products, furs, minerals and agri-
culture. The opening of the Boe-
ing plants. in which the famous
BITS and BIOS were manufacture
ed with incredible speed. the ex-
pansion of ship building and other
war industries, caused SeattIe's
population to increase with sudden
and enormous rapidity. Into the
city poured men and women of
every race, creed and color to
work in its war plants. No Ameri-
can city faced a more acute hous-
ing problem.
The Seattle Housing Authority
tackled this problem realistically.
1t determined from the outset
that housing would be unsegregat-
ed and that available units were
to be given to the applicant ir-
respective of race or creed on the
basis of his need and of his
value to the war effort. There
were, of course, those who fear
ed the results of such a policy,
since many of the
were Southern whites.
'An alert management frankly dis
cussed its non-segregation policy
with any resident who expressed
an interest, or wanted question
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-07
WEDDINGS!

=. Cupid is being worked overtime.
Last WedneJd2.y Mr. joseph H.
Bland chose for his wife, Miss
Margaret Goaby. now and mere
after. A reception followed at the
First A. NJ. e. church of which
she is member. Many beautiful
and useful gifts were received.
The Rev E. d. Chapelle offiiat-
ed.
Sunday. Miss Geraldine A. Hunt
will become the wife of Mr.. Geo
rye w. Follings, at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Follings. with
the Rev. F. Benjamin Davis Off
Chatting. A reception at the Y. w.
c. A. will follow.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-07
EIks State Oratorical
Contest at Mt. Zion Bap.
Church May Is

Puget Sound Lodge, No. 109, and
Evergreen Temple No. 157 of |. B.
p o. E. of w. announce May 18th.
8 pm. at Mt. Zion Baptist church.
18th and East Madison Streets,
Seattle, Washington, as the date
of their annual Washington State
Elks Oratorical Contest.
For those students who find it
difficult to maintain themselves
while in school and for others
more fortunate, the Elks Contest
offers an excellent opportunity of
proving the means necessary to
continue their studies. In addition
to the prizes given locally, the
Young people have the goal of a
thousand dollar scholarship to any
college or university of their
own choosing If they emerge vic
torious in the national contest
which is held during the annual
national assemblage of the lodge.
Many deserving boys and girls
have been helped through college
by the Elks sponsorship of this
annual oratorical contest. To the
large audience expected to greet
the contestants on May 18th, an
extra treat is in store, for William
Tunstall, local young radio announ-
Ger and one time winner of an
Elk Oratorical Contest, has con-
sented to deliver his winning ora
ton on the program in order to
key the contestants to the matter
in hand and spur them to greater
effort.
Attorney Charles NJ Stokes.
Washington State Director of Ed
ucation for l. B. P. o. F. of the
World and Mrs Helen Krisel, As
sistant Director. issued a joint
statement today promising an in
spirational afternoon to all who
attend the contest. They further
stated that the judges would be
persons prominent in the forensic
affairs of the city and urged all
to support and encourage these
young people in their quest for
learning The meeting. which i:
open to- the public, is free o.
charge.
| Time 8 P. M. May IS. Place Mt
Zion Baptist Church. 18th an,
East Madison.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-07
THE IMMUTABLE LAW OF CAUSE
And EFFECT RIP TIDES
By Or. John K. Larremore


According to Shakespeare;
There is tide in the affairs of
men, which taken at the flood
leads on to fortune"
The above quotation is true
when one is riding the crest of
the tide in an era of prosperity
There is also tide in the affairs
OF men. which, if ii is not con-
troiled, viii lead on to bread
lines and despair. This is the
Rip Tide of economic retrogres-
sion.
Today, Negroes in particular and
all other Economic slaves in gen.
eral, are walking on uneven bot
tom with the angry waves of re-
action swirling about their nechs
trying to drag them under.
Throughout the length of Calf.
ornia. Oregon and Washington
wartime workers have taken to
riding the freight trains again
me old fashioned 'Bindle STIR
with his ever present bulky mack
mas given way to the young Elk
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-07

With the Annual Membership
Drive of the Seattle Branch N. A.
A. G. P, in its third week we
find Mrs. Carrie Duvall leading
the Captains with IT'S new mem
beers totaling $4,000. Runners-up
in this campaign are Mrs. Octavia
Brown, reporting la members
and $133.50; Rev. w. Shorter. past
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-07
Seattle HA- Unsegregated Pattern, Americas Finest
ALLOTTING HOMES TO WAR WORKERS
REGARDLESSOF COLOR, CREED QUICKLY
DISPELLED ANY FRICTION IN SOUTH
answered" the Seattle Housing
Authority report states.
ACCEPTED BY ALL

answered" the Seattle Housing
Authority report states.
ACCEPTED BY ALL
ANY sign of friction was quick
" dispelled by this fortnight
policy. Problems were openly met,
and tenants were quick to real
lie that all persons housed by
the Seattle Housing Authority
were equally essential in the inn
portant business of producing war
goods. Management candidly ex-
pected each resident to behave
with reasonable consideration for
his neighbor, and residents res
ponded intelligently to that ex-
pectation.9
AS a result, what might have
been an explosive situation was
quickly changed into a community
pattern which was accepted by
every one. including Southern
whites who but recently had come
from states like Mississippi.
1t is hoped that the Congress
In considering the Wagner-Taft-
Ellender housing bill pay atten-
ton to the successful Seattle ex-
pertinent and will not let itself
be influenced by the prophets of
hate and defeatism who declared
that integrated racial housing can
not be achieved. One of the most
unfortunate deterrents to solution
of Americas racial and religious
problems is that instances of con-
flict, being more news worthy
(because two men fighting always
create more news than two men
getting along peacefully together).
are used to set the pattern. There
are surprising number of instan-
ces similar to the Seattle exper-
iment where integrated public
housing has been made success
full because housing and municipal
authorities have had the courage
to oppose segregation and dis
elimination.
Charles Abrams in a recently
published pamphlet, Race Bias
in Housing" points out that by
Jan. l 1914, there were 325 pub
CONTINUED on Page A.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-07
THE WORKINGS
OF DEMOCRACY
BY RUTH TAYLOR

impatient souls are apt to
grumble at the slow workings of
democracy. They say it cannot
function properly and are all for
taking it apart and putting it to-
gether again according to some
plan of their own. They speak
of it though it were but the
blueprint of some intricate mach
Inc which. with clocklike precision,
should turn out articles alike to
the shading of hair.
Democracy is not a blueprint
or machine not even mach
inc in the political sense. Democ-
racy is the way of revolution by
evolution. It is the only way to
overcome the slavery of want, the
slavery of ignorance, the slavery
f discrimination whether 1t
re of class, creed or color. In
it lies the solution to all of our
problems, for democracy depends
upon the will of the people -
which is but the will and the
courage of many individuals band
ed together.
Democracy is the way of action
It is not static Its growth is
low but never ceasing. 1t is not
based upon tradition alone. Demo-
cracy is the way to do the things
that must be done. 1t must always
move ahead. Democracy is the
traffic rule of life. 1t adapts it
self to the exigencies of the read.
Its green and red lights are spaced
on the traffic changes of the
time.
Democracy is the way of just
ice. Racial or religious discrimi-
lasion, class hatreds, group pres
cue are all breaches of demo-
cracy, are flaws in the road that
must and win be corrected in the
Course of time. The way may 5e
long and hard but the democracy
way will prevail in the end!
Democracy being way and
not an arbitrary law has flaws
many of them. But those mis-
axes are man made and can be
corrected by the will of the major
ity. What rights the majority
have, can be retained by them
only if they allow the same rights
to the minority. Because the maj
GRITTY wants free speech, they
must allow 1t to the minority.
The right of argument and con-
version is open to the minority
and majority alike.
Democracy like Christianity is
way that must be followed to
be proven. Democracy is way
of life which stems from the indi-
vidual. II is the method by which
he learns to live amicably with
his neighbor. II is the formula
which civilized and free people
have found most useful in work
ing out the great problem of
human relations.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-07
BY The Associated Negro Pres

BY The Associated Negro Press
TEXAS CITY, Texas,-A heavy
toll of Negro life was taken in
last Wednesdays blast here. that
literally wiped out the Negro COM
munity along with nearly every
other section of this small indu-
strial city.
No official estimate of Negro
dead and injured has been re-
ported, but the proximity of the
Negro vicinity to the waterfront
indicates that it was among the
hardest hit of all areas here.
Rescue workers lost all racial
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-07
Mrs. ]. T. Bradley
Taken by Death

Mrs. J. T. Bradley. prominent
socialite and fraternal official, o.
+. s.. dies at her home, 120-26th
Ave. So. Sunday morning at 1;40
O'clock. An autopsy is being held
TO determine the cause of death.
Full details in next weeks issue
Of the Northwest Enterprise.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-07
RACE COMMUNITY, CLOSE TO WATER
FRONT, IS One OF HARDSHIP AREAS

consciousness and thought of tradi-
tional southern Jim Crow by pill
ing the death together.
The total number of Negro res
fdents here was about 700 or 800,
but many were able to escape
after the first explosion from the
French freighter Grandcamp,
which was loaded with high ex-
plosives. Negro stevedores and
dock laborers fled for their lives
when the initial blast seemed to
split the wharf.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1947-05-07

Soldier, Sailor. Marine, Wave and
Wac, with trim. streamlined packs.
following the "Old will of the
Wisp' of better conditions else
CONTINUED to page a
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the Civic Unity Committee placing the Red Feather plaque
signiyng group May Joined family
Chestsuppoed services
mittee headquarters located the
cherry Building. The
establish racial harmony the
financial Community
for continuing is work of reducing
goal the forthcoming
fall campaign.-Courtesy Seattle Star
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( Continued ON page A
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-14

There are two good reasons for this One
is that daydreams are nearly always self
glorifcation affairs, and people don't like to
admit that they fancy themselves Supermen or
Gary Coopers or Ingrid Bergmans.
The second reason that people keep their
daydreams to themselves is that from earliest
youth they are cautioned against daydream-
ing. Parents tell them it is lazy, dangerous
habit. They say, Where do you suppose
Thomas Edison and Henry Ford would have
got if they'd sat around daydreaming?"
The stigma attached to daydreams is
ridiculous. A moderate amount of day
dreaming is normal and useful. They are
indications of our secret hopes and desires,
and when correctly understood they can be
just as helpful as night dreams In the second
place, it is impossible for a human being
to keep from daydreaming, whether he wants
to or not.
Daydreaming is what the mind does when
it's relaxed. During most of an adults waking
hours, he consciously directs his mind in three
ways: % he makes it solve the countless
problems, large and small that make up his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-14

Walter NIFTY was born in the brain of
Writer James Thurber back in 1899. Mr..
Thurber made him the hero of modest short
story entitled THE Secret Life of Walter
NIFTY" Few short stories have snowballed to
popularity as NIFTY" has.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-14

OVcI ConSlQeIdDly 10 III Ddnny
Kaye, but he is still the little
man whose life is a series of
grandiose woolgatherings.
Mental Hexoics
HES NIFTY, the great surgeon
who saves a milionaire's life;
NIFTY, the brave rescuer of
beautiful blondes in distress;
NIFTY, the air hero who wins
the war single-handedly. Mil
lions will scott and laugh at
NIFTY, but secretly they'll feel
a deep kinship with him.
Tho cfropro fb;nY oI>~,,< dow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-09-14

TIM CARLsoNs elevator whirs up floor after
81 floor. Jim "a former 4-F) is dreaming he
isleading squadron of fighter planes through
a hail of enemy fire ..."I said fourteenth
f1oor," barks busy-looking man with brief
case. Sorry. sir" murmurs Jim sheepishly,
stopping his car with jolt, then bringing
it back down two floors
Young Mrs. Purdy is cooking dinner. A
PARKWAY look comes into her eyes as she sits
down on stool and dreams she's the singing
and dancing star of new Broadway hit
Critics claw their way out of the theater on
opening night to write rave reviews She can
hardly squeeze into her dressing room for all
the floral tributes What the devils burn