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Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-11-03
Band TO Share In
Game Ceremonies

London High School will crown
Doris ChesSer as queen at the
London-Delaware h m e coming
game Friday night.
The London and Delaware
bands will open the musical pro-
gram for the game with the Star
Spangled Banner.
At half time the LFIS band
will dedicate its program to the
school queen. Following the ira
ditional drum entrance and FAM
fare the band will march to mid
field and salute the Delaware
stands with the Delaware school
song.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-11-03
Madison Rural
Nonor Roll

Grade 12-Nita Klonk, Bill
Wakeman, Betty Bauerle, Doro-
thy Dunkle, Doris Jones.
Grade 11-Mary Lee Brown,
Sue Gordon.
Grade 10-Margaret Brown,
Barbara French Dolores Harrison.
Grade 9-Bonnie Baughn, Bar
bara Bowman, Betty Darlington,
Joyce Finchum, Faye jenkins,
Walter Kidd, Betty Penix.
Grade s. Robert Brown, Bar
bara Davis, Barbara Geesling,
Roger Kronk, Ann Moody, Mary
Renick, Crystal Stewart.
Stewart.
Craze 7 - Elwood Dillon,
Rhelda Clark, Joan Stewart.
Grade 6-Martha Boyd. Hattie
French, John Hunter, Patty Lacey,
Nancy Lewis, Kay Meyer, Barbara
Price, Charlotte Renick.
Grade 5-Dolly Brust, Roger
Clark, Geraldine Clemmons, Step
hen Dowler, Thelma Fnchum,
Nancy Gammell,. Linda O'Brien,
Beatrice Otte, Janet Rinehart.
Grade 4-Frances Cline, Judith
Deck, Larry Earles. Thomas Fin
ney, Gloria GeeSling, Theresa Har-
risons Dorothy Jenkins, Gerald
Maggard, Kay McClaskie, Miles
Patton, Dennis Reffit, Peggy
Sparks, Jean Wakeman.
Grade g. Walter Allison, Pa
tricia Campbell, Donna Foreman,
Linda Hoover, James Lacey, Rob-
ert Rea, Ruth Ann Ropp. Mar
zanna Turvy, Janice Whitaker.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-11-03
Replace Confusion with Common Sense!
VOTE REPUBLICAN,


a native Of Cincinnati, has been
called by Washington news
men "thei best Senator" COL
lier's summed it up by saying:
"E4e has risen to leadership /.
through character and superior
ability and nothing else. No
one could match him in
industry. experience, integrity
and absolute trustworthiness."
Return this outstanding citizen
to the u. S. Senate.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-11-03

Our forefathers fought for Freedom in 1916 The Aeri
freemens votes have kept Freedom Votes
the muscles that put the strength in democracy But
votes, like muscles, get weak when not used
We were pretty 7abby last election, when rs million
qualified voters didn't 60 to the polls.
Tovartch Stain wants to country softer,
this time. Do you?
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-11-03

Sounds HSe'i ike an inside Job LONDON OHIO
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-11-03

William Henry Harrison, later
President of the United States,
was the first delegate to Congress
from the Northwest Territory in
1899.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-11-03

Republican State Central and Executive Committee
Ray G. Bliss. Chairman. Columbus. Ohio
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-11-03
DRINK

DRINK
The man who takes bracer
viii soon need brace. - Alta
Bulletin.
Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1950-11-03
SCORES

SCORES
In the basketball carnival at
Midway Thursday night, Mid
way defeated Fairfield 21-15; S.
SoIon downed Madison Rural
20-18, Madison Rural defeated
Fairfield 23-13 and Midway de-
feated South Solon 27-24.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1950-12-28
YWCA Ski Closses

YWCA ski classes will start
Sunday, January Z. Instructions
will be for both beginners and in
termediates for an eight weeks
session under Ken Syverson who
has taught the Times Ski School.
Skiers will meet at the WV each
Sunday and go by bus to the ski
acres at Snooualme for a half day
of instruction and a half day of
practice. Transportation each time
will be approximately So rounu
trip.
Anyone wishing to join this co.
educational class should register
beforehand at the central WV, 5th
and Seneca. The cours of instruc-
ton is $3.50 plus a protective med
ical examination of 81 and years
WV membership of $1.50.
Starting Tuesday, January 4,
will be the ski conditioning class
at Z p. M. The eight weeks course
is So. However, a person may
join the class at anytime and get
the eight class sessions. 1t is open
to both men and women.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1950-12-28

The best advice the American
people have had for many years
came from former President Her
bert Hoover last week when he told
the nation that the war in Korea
has been lost and in effect said that
we cannot afford to continue to
finance and police the world. He
advised that our attention now,
should be turned to the protection
of our own interests and outlined
a program which 1 believe all
Americans of every ace and creed
will subscribe to, fight and if
necessary die for.
I am skeptical, however, of the
former presidents idea of arming
Japan. Japan is just as Asiatic
as is China or Korea, and they all
believe that the white man should
get out of Asia and leave Asia for
Asiatics. And, why shouldn't they ?
Why shouldn't the people of Asia
regard our American democracy
as it is so often practiced as being
just as rotten as any form of
government as they could possibly
have?
Let all of us as Americans, re-
CARELESS of race or color view this
situation in the cold light of rea-
son. Let us all for once be honest
about it. There has never been a
problem in the history of mankind
but what has in one way or another
been controversial. There has
never been a problem but what
has had at least two points of
view. The people of Asia know all
about the treatment of dark skin
people of America. They know all
about the uphill struggle of dark
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1950-12-28
Burton Reports The News

win public support for the NORTH
WEST ENTERPRISE. When we
opened in our new location on East
Madison Street I publicly invited
the community and its leaders to
help us put out a newspaper that
everyone could be proud Of. Some
where along the line we must have
failed, because this splendid COM
munity that has been able to put
across some of the most ambitious
tasks ever to face them has not
come forward with the help that
they can easily give, and which
our newspaper needs SC badly"
"You see," continued Mr.. Fra
zier, mo competent journalist is
willing, at any reasonable price, to
take a position on a newspaper
that doesn't have some community
support. But with any reason
able assurance of community sup
port I could get a good managing
editor in a very short time, and
the NORTHWEST ENTERPRISE
would again be the power it once
was in the past"
Thus answered, We had to bow
our head, for we knew that we, no
less than the others of u ac-
I, quaintance, had failed to do any
thing to help when asked We sud-
denly remembered that we had
urgent business elsewhere and
hastily scurried off, fiercely re-
solving to do something to help
the NORTHWEST ENTERPRISE
! and it's owner We determined that
we would write a column that
would stir up the community and
make them cognizant of their duty
shake the very foundations of our
district perhaps.
After many abortive efforts in
that direction We decided that per-
haps it would be better if we went
into this thing a little more slowly
and ~discretely. Perhaps a timely
topic, submitted from time to time,
would do just as much to stimulate
reader interest. So, submitted
herewith, after days of terrific
concentration over a typewriter in
our bid for increased reader in
terest for the NORTHWEST EN-
TERPRISE and journalistic fame
for ourselves, is the following per-
tinent and timely news article:
ut is reliably reported by an
informed parsonage of high rank
whose name must be withheld for
security reasons, that New Years
Day will be celebrated on January
1st, 1851, despite the present ma
tional emergency"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1950-12-28
Political Comments
BY PRENTIs I. FRAZIER

skin Americans to win the full
rights of citizenship and they know
if they lived here that they would
have to live as second class cit
liens.
If any one thinks that Japan
has forgotten the licking she took
in the last war, 1 think they are
mistaken, and / think that any
weapons sent to Japan now, will
some day be used against us. The
preservation of Western Civiliza-
ton as former President Hoover
said is the one thing most vital
to the United States, and we should
get out of Asia and at the same
time forget about England and
the United Nations uness those
countries right nov begin to give
the fullest cooperation to Ameri-
cas- efforts to protect them. 1t is
their hides that r in the greatest
danger, rather than ours.
The American nation now faces
the most serious crisis in it's his
tory. The life of the nation itself
is in critical jeopardy. There is
but one reason. The Democratic
Party, present and previous has
been in power too long. It's foreign
policy has been ~senseless, its mis-
takes too often, too serious and
too dangerous TO rthe American
people to further tolerate. A
change in the administration of
the nations affairs is needed, is
necessary and must in someway
be brought about. We have fol-
lowed the democratic party into
three vars, and if we tell the truth
they were nothing less than wars
of aggression. No one has attacked
America, but each time America
has sent its money and armies
across the seas to fight the battles
of someone else. 1t is impossible
to estimate the cost of these wars
in loss of life and in dollars.
A hopeful sign for a change can
be seen in the recent declaration
of the republican party to make
an effort to recapture the Negro
vote in 1852. The effort to do this
must be an all out-one. Not merely
confined to the South, but all over
the country. The South, prior to
the Civil War made Presidents
packed the Supreme Court and
did generally as it pleased. Since
then it has been the North, the
East, the middle-west and the
West that elects presidents. 1t is
in these sections where the Ngro
J can help the Republican party
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1950-12-28

If this writer has not been, for
the past year at least. the most
severe critic of the NORTHWEST
ENTERPRISE that the paper has
had, it was only because he could
not think of the applicable phrases
at the appropriate time. The owner
(and p~ublisher2) Mr.. Prentis I.
Frazier, has had the dubious plea
sure of listenig, time after time,
to our argument, well illustrated by
citation Of instances, proving to
Il satisfaction at least, that the
NORTHWEST ENTERPRISE was
worse than most of the newspapers
generally regarded by the reading
public as lousy. Such an unhappy
circumstance usually doesn't hap
pen by pure accident, so just out
of pure malicious curiosity we
demanded to know how come.
Now those of us who know Mr..
Frazier best will acknowledge that
he is a very busy businessman,
and like most successful business
men he doesn't waste words. We
knew that our question had touched
on a subject dear to his heart, so
we were amazed at his concise
analysis of the problem underlying
the current slump of the NORTH
WEST ENTERPRISE. In a few
thousand we'll chosen words he
put his thumb directly on the
crux of the matter, figuratively
speaking of course. Double dis
titled, dissected and enriched with
tiger stocks" his masterful pre-
sentation of the problem ran some
thing like this:
The NORTHWEST ENTER
PRISE needs and must have "a a
thoroughly trained and compe-
tent managing editor, and t2) the
solid support of the citizens of our
community.
Our next question, What are
you doing to satisfy these two
requirements ?" although entirely
unexpected, didn't catch the astute
owner of the NORTHWEST EN-
TERPRISE without a satisfactory
and ready answer.
81 am" said he, ready, and will
ling and able to hire any person
who is competent to III the news
paper and who will accept the
position. I have the money and
I will spare no reasonable expense
to provide the best in plant facil-
tiles for the competent person in
the position of managing-editor of
my paper, with free rein to do
what he thinks will best build the
newspaper and serve the COM
munity. 1 have done my best to
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1950-12-28

most. The south will go Dixiecratic
anyway.
If the Republican party hopes
to win the Negro vote in 1852
it must have a program that APP
peal5 to our intelligence. The mere
statement that 1--WE, the Repub-
lican Party favor equality of OPP
~portunity for all citizens regard
less of race or color" will not win
the vote. That declaration has been
interpreted time and time again
and we find that it says every
thing but doesn't mean anything.
And please don't bring back the
slogan, Freedom versus social
ism" That slogan was laughed
about by Negroes from one end if
the nation to the other. Why?
Because we have enjoyed such a
small degree of freedom and because
we know nothing about socialism.
Negroes want an honest open
declaration from the republican
party stating how it stands re-
garding social justice and racial
tolerance. We want a declaration
favoring civil rights that the aver
age fourth grade scholar can un-
derstand. If the republican party
will do this, with the aid of the
d%ixiecrats whose attitude is grad
ually driving Negroes out of the
democratic party, I believe it has
a chance to win control o fthe
government in 1852.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1950-12-28
Urbon League Heed
Pledges Out Aid
In US. Emergency

In commenting on the speech
made by President Truman Friday
night, December Is, Lester B.
Granger. executive director, of the
National Urban League, said: "In
his challenge to the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen, President
Truman put his finger squarly on
a fatal weakness in our national
armor. The same reckless irrespon-
sibility of these union members
which has prompted them for fifty
years and more to bar Negroes
from jobs in the railway industry
because of their race, prompts
them now to disregard their coun-
try's safety in the interest of tenn
porary financial gain. Thank God
that these union members are not
representative of responsible labor
leadership"
WILL RESPOND
This national emergency" said
Mr.. Granger, lis one which pos
sesses upon every American of
whatever economic, religious or
racial circumstance. All loyal Am
orleans will respond to the Presi-
dents challenge to make this coun-
try the arsenal for the defense of
freedom"
LEAGUES ALERTED
The President has clearly out
lined the need for ~unreserved civil
ian and military effort to meet the
current crisis, MI. Granger said.
1.-THE National Urban League
places at the disposal of the gov
eminent the full resources of it's
nation wide movement. Local Ur-
ban Leagues have already been
alerted, and are ready to cooperate
unreservedly with Mr.. Charles E.
Wilson, director of the Office of
Defense Mobilization, Mr.. Willard
Caldwell, Civil Defense Adminis-
traitor"
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1950-12-28
Oath Of Our Negro Youth

| will never bring disgrace upon my race by
any unworthy deed or dshonorable act. | will
live a clean, decent, manly life and will ever respect
and defend the virtue and honor of womanhood;
/ will uphold and obey the just laws of my country
and of the community in which l live, and will
encourage others to do likewise l will not allow
prejudice, injustice, insult or outrage to cover my
spirit or sour my soul but will ever preserve the
inner freedom of heart and conscience l will not
allow myself to be overcome of evil, but will strive
to overcome evil with good; 1 will endeavor to
develop and exert the best powers within me for
my own personal improvement, and will strive
INCREASINGLY to quicken the sense of racial duty and
responsibility; will in all these ways aim to uplift
my race so that, to everyone bound to it by ties of
blood, it shall become a bond of enoblement and
not a byword of reproach.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1950-12-28

Opening Friday night, December
29th at the Black and Tan, Roy
Milton Tin person. and his orches-
ira, featuring Lille Greenwood,
the dynamic vocalist and Johnny
Rogers, the wizard of the guitar
will higlight the popular rendez-
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1950-12-28
Roy Milton and Orchestra
Lille Greenwood; Johnny Rogers
Hilight Block 6 Ton Dec. 29 Thru jan 10

vous with a mighty welcome to
1851 thru January 10th.
Roy will appear in Tacoma, on
Monday, January 1 from 4 p. m.
to $3.50 p. m. at Palomar Club.
Advance tickets, at Broadway
Music, 1925 Broadway.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1950-12-28
Mcchanized Farms

Four out of every five Americans
were farmers a century ago,
whereas today fewer than one out
OF every seven produce our food
and fiber. The geason is, of course,
that INFLAMMATION Of farm equip
ment has increased mans produc-
tivity MANIFOLD. Yet there are
times when a farmer will swear
that he would trade the best of en-
gipes for a good team of horses.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1950-12-28
1880 Kegs a Year

N one year over i6, 500 kegs of
nails. or the equivalent of more
than two IONS of nails every day in
the year, were purchased for use
at the nickel mines and plants IL
Northern Ontario. Canada
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1950-12-28
Girahes' Vision

A mother giraffe has little trouble
keeping her eye" on a playful
youngster. CRATES have eyes which
allow them to see behind and to
the sides without turning their
heads.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1950-12-28

Now when Jesus wos born in Bethlehem of Judeu in the Days OF
Herod the King. behold there come wise men from the East to Jerusu
lem. suyng where is he thot is born King of the Jews? for we have
seen his str in the cost. od IRE come to worship him.
St Matthew Chan IL
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-07-17

Newcombe or at lease his words
dicated as much last year before
Don was called up. And he. has
continually assailed Don as being
lazy : a statement which is hot
ly denied by some sports writer's.
At every possible chance whenDon
is pitching, Shotton demonstrates
a lack Of confidence in the big
fellow by yanking him.
Looking at Don in action he
seems to be pitching in a damn
ed : if l care manner. Is it a sore
arm? Was his wrist badly hurt
when he got plunked on it the
other day? What the dickens is
Continued on page ~
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-07-17
Ethiopian Trade
Figures Released

WASHINGTON (ANP)- In
formation from the international
Monetary fund indicated last week
that the total value Of Ethiopian
exports fell about 16 per cent, and
imports dropped Is per cent in
1948-49, compared with 1947-48.
a boom year.
Exports were deported at $685.
100000 and imports at $36,100,-
900. On the whole, the drop in
values was due to a lowering of
prices and not to an overall de-
crease in quantities. Qualities OF
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-07-17
AVariety Of
Explanations

There have been more explana,
tions for Don's allure than Heinz
has varieties of pickles. In fact il
Heinz has as many varieties OF
pickles as there have been ex.
cuses for Don's failure, the IA
nous 81 would be in front of
about six zeroes.
Can it be that there is some
thing to this Second year jinx''
that is usually blamed when a SEN
sational rookie flops in his sop
homore year? Is it that Don wants
to be traded from Brooklyn as
has been whispered round about.
(They say hat Jackie Robinson is
headed for the Cubs in 1882. Is
is the fault with Burt Shotton.
whom some ofthe writer's are be-
laboring mercilessly.
Truth is Shotton never wanted
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-07-17
Glowing Athletes
Make Enormous
Profits
By Alvin E. White

i
sports promotion has been the in
PRODUCTION of the "clowning" an
gle by white sponsors of colored
Clowns r a major attraction
at circuses. That's where they be-
long and that's where they should
stay. In the baseball it borders on
idiocy to introduce ball players
as clowns : and the same may be
said about basketball. Nc matter
how talented a player may be, if
hes talented, that's all that should
count. Out with the Glowing!
This tendency to make colored
athletes laughable has paid enor-
nous profits, but it also has tend
ed to keep the colored athlete in
the class of an amiable imbecile in
in the eyes of thousands of white
folk why pay to see this sort of
thing.
Colored people long protested
Amos and Andy onthe air and SER
want roles on the screen, but it
has been perfectly all right for
white promoters to deck colored
baseball players in clown outfits,
give them jaw-breaking names and
send them out on the field to play
baseball.
It has been Okay for white pro-
moters to ask colored basketball
players to cut-the-fool on the
court and act like zanies to give
the crowds laughts and outwit the
other players.
The s~ure-fire draw of these col
ored outfits led to the formation
of one or two white groups using
the name of clowns and perform
ing in clown suits and makeup =
but they didn't seem half as nat
ural or as funny to white audien-
ces as colored folk in action. Won
der why?
The failure of the Renaissance
team may be due to Bob Douglas
everlasting insistence III at his
men play basketball and act like
men, not monkeys. Imagine
Johnny Casey Holt cutting up
some tomfoolery on the floor. I'M
agine Eyre 'Bruiser" Saitch play
ing Uncle Tom or giving a pretty
fair initiation of the old gent, or
William "Pop" Gates doing any
of this stuff. Remember Casey"
Holt?
Well, one night in a holly con-
tested game, a superb Celtic forgot
himself and spit, at or on Johnny.
Folks at theRnnny that night re-
member what happened. Of
course, that wasn't in fun. Then
when Pop Gates played in the old
basketball league with an upstate
team, some fresh opponent hurled
an epithet at "Pop", and do you
known what happened? The play
err woke up in the hospital with a
broken jaw. They were Douglas
The Ohio daily-express. (Dayton, Ohio) 1946-1950, 1950-07-17

crease in quantities. Qualities of
football team. We travelled
through the adjoining areas, Con-
necticut, Massachusetts,, upstate
New York, New Jersey and around
We never made any fortunes, but
we had a lot of fun. Nearly every
where we went, it marked the first
time an all-colored team had ever
been seen in that place. They had
seer n or two colored players
on a team, but II at a time never.
So the team was an attraction
land the booking agents got fat
while we got leaner). Before game
time, the townspeople, in the small
towns and in the big ones, too, for
that matter, would come to look
the colored boys over. They'd see
some big cats, some small ones
(they liked fast scat backs) and of
course, some medium sized boys.
Fellows like "Big Booker" Pierce,
"Big Bear" Jeff Lamar, Dave Me-
yers "Greenie" Giles, Earl Peter
son, Sam Dunlap, Tom Sanders,
Sodie White, Ralph "Count" Gar
ner, George Stevens, Guy Fultz,
Allen Jackson, George Gilmer, Ted
Bolden, Ed Graham, Ray Vaug-
han, "Goo-goo' Livingston, H. H.
Gill and scores Of others were with
theteam at m time or other.
gkhanh. ale
1t was nothing unusual for some
half baked citizen to ask me Il
managed and so forth): "Say,
manager, where's the funny fell
low?"
I'd look up in amazement and
ask, "What do you mean, the
funny fellow?"
"You know" the usual reply
came, "the clown, the nut?"
"Oh, yes, "I'd glare back at
| him. "That's me! Pm the clown
and nut for ever getting into
something like this" And slowly
like the pig treated the drunk in
! the gutter, they'd walk away look
ing at me pityingly.
But no one ever could say play
' ers like the chaps named here
, would trade their ability as foot
ball players Of caliber for some
! silly stuff to make white folks
laugh.
] So I wonder how those fellows
feel who tog out in that stupid re-
! gala, call themselves all kinds OF
names, feel about the thing. And
other clowns too, whether they
dress the part or merely act it, to
line somebody else's pockets with
folding money.