Cayton's Weekly

state library Cayton's Weekly CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington, U. S. A. In the interest of equal rights and equal justice to all men and for "all men up." A publication of general information, but in the main voicing the sentiments of the Colored Citizens. It is open to the towns and communities of the state of Washington to air their public grievances. Social and church notices are solicited for publication and will be handled according to the rules of journalism. Subscription $2 per year in advance. Special rates made to clubs and societies. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON..Editor and Publisher Office. 513 Pacific Blk. Telephone Main 24. THAT SILENT PROTEST PARADE A movement is on foot to put on a silent protest parade in Seattle September 22nd Lincoln's emancipation day—and we truly hope it will be perfected. May, perhaps, it will not improve existing conditions, so far as the Negro is concerned, one single iota, but there is one thing certain, it will not make them any worse and then it would show to the world that, though circumstances forced them, the Negroes, to submit to such outrages, they are by no means either pleasing or agreeable to them. And then, again, making this silent parade on that particular day would be calling on the saintly Lincoln to once again intervene in the black man's behalf. If such a thing is undertaken every colored person and his family should enthuse over it and turn out to a man, woman and child, and, for once, line the streets of Seattle with black and tan faces. No conclusions have been reached and no fixed plans decided upon as to this prospective silent parade—its only being talked of with the hope of bringing the forces of the city together and detearmine on the advisability of such, and, if favorable, make the necessary plans for the same. While the thought eminated in the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, yet the members thereof desire no particular leadership in the execution, but on the other hand they desire the people to take it into their hands and create their own leaders and formulate their own plans. The chief desire is that the colored citizens of the Puget Sound country without regard to club, color or creed, join heartily in the plans with the view of making the parade a most brilliant success. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS In destroying a British destroyer the Germans were carrying coals to Newcastle. Instead of a "war time policy needed," a war time president of the United States is sadly needed. "My old Kentucky home' 'seems to not be the only place this summer that "the sun shines bright." China, like Liberia, has declared war on Germany and we suspect just to please some other power, to which she is either under obligations or expects favor. We trust the legislature of Texas will be able to impeach Gov. Ferguson and then we hope the legislature will be indicted, tried and convicted as particeps criminis in all the crimes he will be impeached for. To put it mildly, they are a sweet nest of poisoned pole cats. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, AUG. 18, 1917 Even though a colored man is a slacker, why arrest him, inasmuch as he is not wanted in the war? The salmon run seems to be more of a walk than a run this year, and as a result, salmon is going to be salmon until it does run. The Pope's peace proposal reads well, but the Kaiser's "fine Italian hand" is suspected of being its moving force and it will therefore be rejected. A checker player is to be the official head of the coming Irish government, which is a complete verification of the checkered career of Erin's isles. If all silent parades are talked about as much as the one in New York, made up of Negroes, then silent instead of noisy parades will be the proper caper. If the I. W. W.'s and the pale faced slackers continue their rioting against our government those of our soldiers, who get to France, will be seasoned veterans. Though the Frye Company still has open shops, dollars to doughnuts, the next issue of the Seattle Union Record will claim a sweeping victory for organized labor. Wearing the "union label" is no different than wearing the corporation collar. Who wears either is not a man or a brother and certainly an undesirable citizen. "The war will end soon,' 'thinks Rudolph Spreckles. Inasmuch as ten years "is soon" in comparison to eternity, we suspect he is right as to the war ending soon. In seeking self government Porto Rico must want to follow in the wake of Liberia and declare war on Germany, if for nothing else, the advertisement she will get out of it. Such patriotism as is being exhibited throughout this "land of the free and home of the brave" is enough to move the Allies to say, "You are welcome to keep them, Uncle Sam." Organized labor has driven the most of the job printing of Seattle East and now it is compelling the public to go out of the state for music. As now conducted, organized labor is a menace to good governmentship. Is it not a strange thing that an overwhelming number of the Seattle men winning army titles are sons of the would-be "upper crust"? It may be all wool and a yard wide—a square deal—but we have our suspicions. "Our Headless Congress" is an Independent (N. Y.) head line. Of course its headless and for no other reason than because its Democratic. The Democrats lost their heads many years ago and have never found them. If tobacco is constitutionally injurious then instead of sending the soldiers an additional amount, what they do get should be cut off. Whiskey having been dealt a body blow below the belt, tobacco should get a like blow. VOL.2.No.10 It occurs to us that the United States government is rapidly drifting from democratic to socialistic. Already the food supply, the coal mines and the booze shops are under federal control and with the lumber industry under a like control socialism is a stern reality. "The brilliant elest son of the editor" very recently appeared in an eastern publication. That's the advantage of having a newspaper of your own. You can always make of the members of your family brilliant men and women, and your readers are compelled to swallow the dirty dose. In naming successors to the late Will H. Parry and Bo. Sweeney, owing to the Demo-Bull Moose row, Washington state got what Paddy gave the drum. It's a case of too much Hanson and too much big I and little u, but praise God from whom all blessings flow, it eliminates the spotted politicians. Our own and only Jim Ham Lewis, he of pink whiskers fame, denies that he is fornist the Negroes, but is their friend. It often happens that southern white men are black men's best friends, but they have darn poor ways of showing it, which is quite applicable to Senator Lewis just now. When the "Birth of a Nation" was coming to town the daily press was full and overflowing with its fulsome praise because it was a reflection on the black man, but when the Negro silent parade movie came to town the daily press was so silent about it that it was really painful. What a study to be unfair. There may be eminent need of a raise in the salaries of the King county employes, but there is doubly more need of fully half of the number now employed by the county being given their walking papers. In other words, in every department there are twice and often three times more men employed than are necessary. According to a circular letter sent out by the secretary of the State Press Association "good eats" is to be the chief feature of the meet this year. And the boys, after stuffing themselves, will return to their homes and continue to charge $2.50 for a nine-inch notice that runs seven times. Give us a big feed and to hell with the business end of the affair. A friend has gone. In the passing of Horace B. Frissell, principal of Hampton Institute, last Sunday morning, not only Hampton but the whole world as well sustained a great loss. The term friend in its broadest sense here is used, for was he not a man endowed with riches and all things that tend to make earthly happiness? And did he not forego these things to be of service to those who needed him most? Into the hearts of thousands of people, young and old, had he stolen, because he walked as near as human can, in the straight and narrow path. It was his pleasure, his duty to take the boy or girl whose life seemed o'ercast with shadows and fill it with sunshine. Among the hundreds who have left this institution the records show that only a few failed to "get the Hampton thought,''which in itself is a monument to the memory of this great and noble man. We can but repeat, a friend has gone. Robert S. Abbott. 9 HERE AND THERE The Knights of Pythia has been in session in St. Louis for the past week and it is reported the largest delegation of members of the order that have ever before assembled were on hand. The Twenty-fourth Infantry is now at Camp Logan near Houston, Texas, and the company is reported to be in the pink of condition. It recently had a row with the whites of Texas and as a result some unpleasantness was created. Many attempts have bee nmade to burn the homes of colored folks in East St. Louis, who left them at the time of the riots and as yet have not returned. This is evidently being done with the view of intimidating them into not returning. Political jealousy of the spirit of, "If I can't, you shant," is responsible for the retirement of the Ohio Colored Company, at which Col. Young was as the head. The row raged so raw and strong that the governor tired of it all and ordered the company disbanded, which means the permanent retirement of Col. Young. This is the oft told tale among the colored citizens of the United States. Rev. Hollis Burke Frissell, principal of Hampton Institute, one of the foremost institutions of the South for the education of colored youths, suddenly died at the institution. Dr. Frissell was the successor of Col. Armstrong, the founder of the school, and was almost as much instrumental in its success as was Col. Armstrong himself. A committee of colored men called at the White House recently to protest to the president against the growing outrages perpetrated upon colored citizens in various parts of the country. The spokesman of the committee was James W. Johnson, contributing editor to the Age of New York and secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The president refused to see the committee. The Eighth Regiment, Ililinois Infantry, will not go South to train, according to an order recently issued by the war department, but will find training grounds in the North. It's soothing to know that those black men will not have to train among those white heathens, but it does seem that Uncle Sam would be able to send his soldiers wherever he desires at least in his own country, but the White House, being under the influence of the South, will doubtless continue to do as the southerners want it to do. A copy of the compiled reports of the seventeenth annual session of the National Negro Business Men's League, which was held in Kansas City last August, has just reached this office and it is chuck full of good things. The chief organizer of this league was the late Dr. Booker T. Washington and that was the first meeting held after his death, and the memorial addresses showed in what high esteem he was held, not only by the members of the league, but by the citizens of this country by and large. The annual session this year will be held in Chatanooga, Tenn. Among the prominent Pythians present were Rev. James Jones, Pine Bluff, Ark.; Dr. C. M. Wade, Hot Springs, Ark.; W. R. Springer, Marianna; Dr. Jos. A. Booker, Little Rock; E. O. Trent, Ft. Smith; Dr. E. C. Morris, Helena, Ark.; Prof. H. C. Yeager, Hope; Dr. N. R. Parker, Dermott. The following officers were elected: Henry Avant, Helena, grand chancellor; J. H. Culler, Forrest City, vice G. C.; W. H. Allen, Monticelle, grand prelate; Fred D. Morris, Little Rock, G. . of R. & S.; Theo Bond, Madison, G. M. of E.; E. J. Lunon, Marianna, G. L.; J. S. Davis, Little Rock, G. M. at A.; Matt Gilliam, Hot Springs, G. M.; Dr. Z. M. Mazique, Wabbaseka, G. M. E; Wm. Meacham, Camden, G. I. G.; J. B. McGowan, Tillar; G. O. G.; Frank A. Young, Little Rock, grand trustee; supreme representatives, Rev. James Jones, Pine Bluff; Ed. Pembroke, Gaines Landing. The grand lodge will meet next year in Fort Smith. The Eighth Illinois Regiment having been mustered in the government service the leading colored citizens of Chicago have begun the organizing of a home guard, the services of which will be tendered to the governor of the state. There was a move looking toward the organizing of a similar body in Seattle, but it seems to have died a bornin. Let's hope the Business Men's League of Seattle will revive the effort and absolutely put in into effect, providing the governor will accept the company, and even if he does not, it would not be a bad idea to organize it just the same for it might come in handy when you least expect it. At a convention of charity workers held in Hampton, Virginia, twenty white southerners met a like number of black southerners and discussed without reserve the social relations between the whites and the blacks, how the one could learn of the other and, how can we better attain racial co-operation. The mooted question has been, how to most effectively reach the colored needy by the whites. In some of the cities in the South no distinction is made and a black person gets the same consideration as a white person, but this is the exception and by no means the rule. The good that may be done for the needy colored is lost sight of by the whites lest in doing so the black folks will get the idea that they, the whites, are extending to them social equality. As in charity work so in religious work, a majority of the whites worshiping at the shrine of race prejudice instead of at the shrine of Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Prof. Kelley Miller was one of the principal speakers, he representing Washington City, and his talk was along broad and liberal lines. He advocated the dropping of all colors and conditions, when doing charity and religious work. In those cities that have joint boards of white and colored members far better results are achieved by the charity workers. TOPICS IN BRIEF Evidently the Prussian diet is pie for the junkers.—Chicago Daily News. The real peacemakers today are at the front.—Wall Street Journal. Germany can lick any army that stops to talk socialism.—Wall Street Journal. The army having been drawn, the next thing will be to quarter it.—Chicago Tribune. The French-Canadians appear to be neither French nor Canadians.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. That Russian "drive" always seems to be pulled off on a circular track.—New York Morning Telegraph. The crown prince seems to know all the impregnable points of the French line.—Wall Street Journal. Norwegian Mission will do plenty of explaining, but our Allies need the food.—Wall Street Journal. Low birth-rate scares Germany, for she can not afford a failure in the crop of future taxpayers.—Wall Street Journal. Michaelis sees the Teutons victorious. For a man of sixty, Mike has remarkable eyesight.—Wall Street Journal. The Russian army appears to have adopted the recall as a fundamental article of its military discipline.—New York Sun. Rather more than nine persons out of ten guess wrong about the subject-matter of Mary Austin's new novel, "The Ford." Boston Herald. Senator La Follette may have a dark deep plan to make Senatorial courtesy so odious that it will be abolished.—St. Louis Globe Democrat. The soldiers fighting on the Euphrates have come to the conclusion that that story about the Garden of Eden was a myth. Boston Transcript. The Kaiser imagines that changing the needle changes the tune, but it will be the same old record on the same old machine.—Wall Street Journal. That North Dakota cartoonist elected to Congress can earn his stipend if he does no more than to enliven The Record.—Louisville Courier-Journal. The secret of the sedition of the Mayor of Chicago has been shrewdly guessed. He will be a candidate for the United States Senate.—Springfield Republican. Senator Lewis, of Illinois, fancies the German Chancellor made a "direct bid" for peace. It was not loud enough to be caught by the auctioneer.—New York World. If the tons upon tons of iron crosses awarded in Germany had only been dropt from airplanes, the destruction of London might have been completed.—New York Evening Sun. The active participation of the Crown Prince in the present crisis suggests the belief that the Kaiser is thinking less of a place in the sun than of a place for the son. —Pittsburg Post. Any one who supposes German military authorities would keep silence about it if they really had Kitchner as a prisoner gives them undue credit for reticence and modesty.—New York World. It is comprehensible why the Teuton advance in Galicia should slacken as it approaches the line of Okrimovice, Romanouvka, Jerebki, Colodievka, Polnankaletmanska, Eleonorouvka, and Sorokikrogouletz.—New York Evening Post. Bad as it is, the Russian situation may be less dangerous, with the Germans striking at the heart of the country, than it was in the anxious weeks of truce on the front while German agents sought to effect a separate peace.—New York World. Great Britain's best reprisal for airplane-raids upon defenseless cities would be the same kind of raids upon the bases from which the German aerial squadrons operate. Either way the distance is the same, and it is no more difficult for London to bomb Zeebrugge than for Zeebrugge to bomb London.—New York World. About the only argument in favor of autocracy that appeals to Americans is found in the fact that under an autocracy the so-called German-American press would not be permitted to misrepresent the American Government, malign the nation's allies, and encourage the nation's enemies.—Chicago Daily News. BURR WILLIAMS President RUSSELL SMITH Secretary DUMAS CLUB, INC. 209 Fifth Avenue South CAFE IN CONNECTION Phone Elliott 3763 SEATTLE WASHINGTON TAKE YOUR CHOICE Faith is not feeling. "Faith is the substance of things hoped for;" feeling is often but the empty bubble blown by perserve human nature. Faith rests upon the unchangeable foundations of God's word; feeling floats upon the fickle currents of physical or mental conditions. Faith is always upright and trustworthy; feeling is often despicably mean and low, and therefore unreliable. Faith constantly brings victory; feeling largely produces failure. Faith sees clearly in the time of greatest darkness; feeling is befogged and confused in time of greates light. Faith speaks to fre eone from the power of physical ills; feeling vents itself to entangle one in the meshes of his own fallen nature. Faith creates its own atmosphere; feeling sucumbs to the miasma of the hour. Faith triumphantly presses forward in th eface of bitter opposition; feeling gives up as soon as a bar is thrown across its path. Faith asks not for demonstration of the truth before accepting it; feeling waits for signs and wonders before obeying. Faith is the gift of God, through the visitation of the Holiy Spirit; feeling may and often does spring from disturbances of the nervous system or the alimnetary tract. Faith never claims to be feeling; but feeling often claims to be faith. Faith rejoices and is strong in the midst of greatest afflictions and temptations; feeling wilts and weeps over supposed difficulties. Faith pursues the even tenor of its way without change; feeling is up to day, but down tomorrow. Faith lives always in the now; feeling has its mind on the things of yesterday or tomorrow. Faith looks to the God who has bidden that Jericho be taken; feeling trembles at thought of the giants who are within the walls. Strong faith may be accompanied by very weak feelings or no feelings at all; weak faith may have as a companion very strong and joyous feelings. He who lives by faith may do his best when he feels his worst. —C. L. TAYLOR. WHY CHILDREN GO WRONG "The Court of Domestic Relations," a Chicago institution, has handled fourteen thousand cases during the past two years. But Chicago is no exception. Our country today teems with unhappy homes. The divorce courts work overtime, yet they reveal but a very small fraction of the woes of desolated families. Homes that should be heavens of peace and love are hells of strife and hatred. There are even Christian homes, so called, where novels are read more than the Bible; where rances are common, and prayer is unknown. In the country, as in the city, hundreds of young boys and girls go wrong, most of them because they have never known a happy home. The American Statistical Association recently made a study of such moral shipwreck as ruined six hundred Philadelphia girls. The association thus tersely states the result of its research: "The principle results of the stury were to show that in a large majority of cases, the girls came from families in which the relation between parents was abnormal, or where one of the parents was away from home." A faithful father, a devoted mother, a sunny, happy home-there three are the forces for lack of which boys and girls go wrong. —L. H. CHRISTIAN Cayton's Weekly publishes legal notices at current rates. Main 24. THE SPICE OF LIFE Signs of the Times "Has your wife started her spring housecleaning?" "I guess so. The hired girl quit yesterday."—Detroit Free Press. The Retort Feminine She—What do you supose Harold meant by sending me those flowers? Also She—He probably meant to imply that you were a dead one.—Jack o' Lantern Age Won't Matter Then The Boy—I shall be glad when I am old enough to do as I please. The Man—And about that time you'll go and get married, so it won't do much good after all.—Chicago Herald. Victim of First Aid Doctor—Have you been the victim of an assault? Patient—No, sir. I simply fainted and was brought to by a member of the First Aid to the Injured Society—London Opinion. Yes, replied Bronco Bob. And playing faro-bank? Quit, entirely. What do you do for amusement? Go to moving pictures and laught at the reckless way they think us Wild West fellers behave.—Washington Star. Passing It Along "The neat and even elegant appearance of the American soldier isn't maintained, said War Secretary Baker in an address, without hard work. Yes, the work is hard, but doesn't the result more than justify it? On the train the other day a private sat with his tunic unbuttoned, for the temperature was high. A sergeant strode up to him and said: Button up that tunic! Did you never hear of by-law 217 subsection D? I'm Sergeant Jabez Winterbottom! A gentleman in the seat behind tapped the sergeant sternly on the shoulder. How dare you issue orders with a pipe in your mouth? he asked. Go home and read paragraph 174, section M, part IX. I am Major Eustace Carroll. Here a gentleman with a drooping white mustache interposed from the other side of the aisle: If Maj. Carroll, he said soldly, will consult by-law 31 of sec. K he will learn that to reprimand a sergeant in the presence of a private is an offense not lightly to be overlooked.—Washington Star. Premonition Spike Tuff—Me fodder knew a month before his death when he would die. Jim—Who told him? Spike Tuff—The judge.—Lamb. A Bright Future I want to be honest, sir. I can't support your daughter, but I am afraid to tell her so because she has set her heart on marrying me. Never mind. Do your best. I can't support her, either.—Life. A Mean Man The telephone bell rang with anxious persistence. The doctor answered the call. "Yes?" he said. "Oh, doctor," said a worried voice, "something seems to have happened to my wife. Her mouth seems set, and she can't say a word." "Why, she may have lockjaw," said the medical man. "Do you think so?" Well, if you are up this way some time next week I wish you would step in and see what you can do for her."—Harper's Too Learned "That 'ere Sammy's an educated toff from 'arvard,'" said Tommy Atkins, lean- ing on his spade. "I'm jolly well weary of 'is learnin', too, that I am. We're ordered to throw up trenches along the Marne, and as 'e picks up 'is spade, th' bloomin' college blighter says, says 'e: 'Well, Tommy, come on; it looks like we're infra dig!' And wot I says is: Blarst a college education, anyhow, eh?'"—Richmond Times-Dispatch. Only Wanted Facts They were having an argument as to whether it was correct to say of a hen she is "setting" or "sitting," and, not being able to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion, they decided to submit the problem to Farmer Giles. "My friends," said he, "that don't interest me at all. What I wants to know when I hear a hen cackle is whether she be laying or lying."—Tit-Bits. Thought Too Highly of Both On a road in Belgium a German officer met a boy leading a jackass, and addrest him in heavy jovial fashion as follows: "That's a fine jackass you have, my son. What do you call it? . . . Albert, I bet!" "Oh, no, officer," the boy replied quickly. "I think too highly of my king." The German scowled and returned: "I hope you don't dare to call it William." "Oh, no, officer. I think too highly of my jackass."—Paris Liberte. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Bertha Wiggins, Plaintiff, vs. Taylor Mill Company, a Corporation, and Lee McKinstry, Receiver for said Taylor Mill Company; The Mercantile Company, a Corporation; and all persons unknown, if any, having or claiming an interest in and to the real property hereinafter described, Defendants.—No. Notice and Summons. The State of Washington, to the above named Defendants, and each of them: You, and each of you, as owners, claimants or holders of an interest or estate in and to the real property hereinafter described, are hereby notified that Mrs. Bertha Wiggins is the holder of ten certain delinquent tax certificates herein below more particularly referred to, issued by the Treasurer of King County, Washington, for delinquent taxes upon and against real property situated in said King County, described as follows, to-wit: That the several sums hereinabove set forth bear interest at the rate of 15 per cent per annum from date of payment, and are all the unpaid and unredeemed taxes upon and against said real property. And you and each of you, (including said persons unknown, if any,) are hereby directed and summoned to appear within sixty days after the first publication of this Notice and Summons, to-wit: within sixty (60) days after the 21st day of July, 1917, exclusive of the day of said first publication, and defend this action and serve a copy of your appearance or answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at the office address below stated, or pay the amount due, together with interest and costs. And you are notified that in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered, foreclosing the lien of such taxes and costs against each parcel of said real property for the sums and amounts due upon and charged against the same as hereinabove set forth. Any pleading or process may be served upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at the address below stated. ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Plaintiff. Office and Post Office Address: 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Washington. First Publication July 21, 1917. Last Publication Sept. 1, 1917.