Cayton's Weekly

PRICE FIVE CENTS 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 TEEPHONE: BEACON 1910 MOONEY AND THE NEGRO Mooney must not die, floats down from the White House, and the refrain is caught up by the great daily press of the country, as well as by the conservative citizens, and, whether guilty or innocent, we, too, truly hope he will not die on the gallows. Some one says, "The Mooney case is a titantic struggle between capital and labor,' and it must be or the President and the press would not be seeking a compromise in the shape of life imprisonment for Mooney instead of death. To hang Mooney, the President knows, would mean trouble for the country coming from organized labor and to have him go scot free would leave sore spots among capitalists, and so this effort to reach a compromise. And thus has the prospective execution of one man caused the whole country to set up and take notice, for if done, labor would become sullen and an internal upheaval like unto that Russia is now troubled with, be the outcome, and a sitch in time saves nine. But the President ,the press, the pulpit and the great mass of white people in the United States are all totally indifferent concerning the brutal and barbarous treatment that is daily administered to the colored citizens of this country. The lynching, the burning at stake, the wilful shooting and the thousands of mock trials which send them to either the gallows or to prison, move the white citizens not, and yet if one black man is heard to utter one word or sentence that might be contorted into unpatriotism he is arrested, tried and convicted for sedition. But a few days ago a black man was burned at the stake on the suspicion that he had killed a white man and as we write this a dispatch lies before us telling of five colored men who were shot to death in Louisiana by 300 armed white men on the suspicion that they had killed a number of hogs belonging to a white farmer. Such human outrages should almost make dead men rise up in their graves and denounce the perpetrators in such a manner as would shake the great white throne of this "land of the free and home of the brave," but not a word of comment is heard from the President, press, pulpit or people silent and serene, are they, when not one Negro, but scores of Negroes, are wilfully murdered by organized mobs of white men, women and children. If at any time colored men defend themselves, when attacked by mobs, the daily press pronounces it a "negro uprising" and those of them who are not killed on the spot are subsequently arrested, tried and convicted and either legally hanged or sent to prison as in East St. Louis. Is there no sense of justice in the white man when it comes to dealing with the black man? Just how it can be expected of colored people to be and continue loyal to the country in the face of the treatment that is daily meeted out to them from Maine to Mexico and from the Atlantic to the Pacific is more than can be figured out. No white man would be under similar circumstances and would be called a fool if he were. If Great Britain should treat the Sinn Feiners, who have time and time again, run riot and have given the government all kinds of trouble, a hundredth part as badly as are the colored folks in this country, we do not doubt for a moment but that the United States government would not only openly denounce the British government, but would refuse to longer cooperate with her in the present world war. Think about an Irishman being burned at the stake by Englishmen only on suspicion of having stolen a hog from an Englishman, and Germany would'by the entire world be looked upon as a nation of angels in comparison to the English, and yet those things are done almost daily to the colored folks of this country and we are fighting Germany to "make the world safe for democracy." All of which moves us to quote, "Consistency, thou art a jewel." In the south for the present war the blacks are furnishing almost two soldiers to the whites folks' one, and these brave black boys cheerfully take up their country's cause "to make the world safe for democracy," despite the fact that multiplied hundreds of their number at home are murdered by the white Huns. God be merciful! OSCAR MAIN'S ACQUITTAL The suspicion of having murdered his friend, on which Oscar R. Main was arrested, subsequently tried for the crime and propmtly acquitted by a jury of his peers, seems to have only been a camouflage set up by the prosecuting attorney of Chehalis county for the purpose of detracting public attention from himself long enough at least for him to fly to fame and perhaps later on to fortune. In causing Main's arrest for the Napavine murder Prosecutor Allen was either a fool or a knave, that is, judging from the evidence as reported by the daily press. We do not mean to say that Main did not kill Swayne, the verdict of the jury to the contrary, notwithstandnig, but if he did it is his secret. Whether he did or did not commit the crime the prosecuting attorney had neither evidence or suspicious evidence, in his hands, as we see it, and if he proceeded against Main in good faith, with no more evidence than he produced at the trial then, in our opinion, he was a fool. If his actions against Main were prompted for selfish motives, in the hope of real or imaginary grievances against Oscar or anyone close to him, or if after the murder had been committed he thought he saw an opportunity to spring into immortal fame by surreptitiously fastening the crime onto the nearest man to the scene of the same, and Main being the "fall guy," then Prosecutor Allen is a knave, and not only a knave but a disgrace to the legal profession and likewise VOL.2, No.40 a dangerous citizen. It is the duty of the machinery of the law to ferret out those guilty of crime, and bring them to the bar of justice, but it is pettyfogging, expensive and ridiculous to attempt such on a beclouded suspicion. If Main had have been a single man there might have been some grounds for believing he killed Swayne, if there were any truth in one of the contentions of the prosecuting attempt to the effect that improper relations existed between Mrs. Swayen and Oscar Main, but he was a married man and so far as the public is aware absolutely devoted to his wife and children, and the death of Swayne would get him no closer the goal than before. Looking at it from any angle, there could seem to be no motive for Main to kill his friend and the suspicion, as we see it, was not remotely incriminating, yea, if even suspicion at all, and for these reasons we are at a complete loss to see how any man with ordinary sense would do as did Prosecutor Allen. This is written from an unbaised standpoint, we not even knowing Prosecutor Allen, and but passingly knowing Oscar Main. And moralizing for a moment, we are thoroughly convinced that one of the troubles of this land and country is too much lawyer. If a lawyer can by some camouflage humbug the public and get it to thinking he or she is a great expounder of the law, then the damphools who go to court with matters they should either settle between themselves or submit their contentions to some level-headed neighbor and abide the decision, will flock to him and his fortune is made. Some red-handed murders frequently go scot free because the circumstantial evidence is not sufficiently corroborated, but there are entirely too many legal abortions in the courts for the good of the Republic. LABOR IN CONTROL At its recent municipal election Seattle got rid of Gillism, turned down organized labor's candidate for mayor, and at the same time elected three members to the city council who are practically pledged to carry out the policies of the organized labor leaders of the city. The council at present constituted is now under the control of the labor leaders and hereafter no ordinance or resolution of any kind is likely to be adopted which does not first receive the approval of the Central Labor council. The people turned down for the council Will H. Hanna, the only member of the body who refused to bow to the demands of the walking delegate. The particular objection to him was that he voted against jitneys, that did not afford insurance protection to the public. While Seattle got an organized labor council, it refused to accept labor's candidate, Mr. Bradford, for mayor. Hanson, however, while repudiating the local walking delegates, has always played for the support of labor and owes his election to the fact that he was able to somewhat divide the labor vote. The one deduction to be made from the results of the recent election is that organized labor is gradually getting the municipal machinery of Seattle under its control.—The (Tacoma) Forum. Russia gets a crimson light on peace without a victory.—Boston Herald. --- ```markdown ``` EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS If Bob La Follette does not pad the seat of his trousers before going to Wisconsin he will be awfully pained when he sits down. Spring will soon come riding in on the wings of the morning, writes an enthusiast, and winter weather will come riding in the evening of the same day. Labor's share of the spoils of trade industry is all that the trust hogs are not able to take away in one load, and the middleman's share is in a hell of a fix. In leaving the office which he has so long dishonorably filled, if a hundredth part of the accusations laid at his door be true, Charles Hiram Gill leaves not a friend behind, nor does one await his return to private life to extend a welcome hand. As you sow, so shall you reap. Religious creeds are slowly but surely fading away before the flood of blood that is coming from the present world struggle between men, and this blending of creeds seems but in its inception. Within the next decade we would not be surprised to see many of the religious creeds which have been at war with each other merged into one and Christianity become one common cause for men and women who want the world to be better. In naming Byron Alexander a West Point cadet and James Parson as a second shipman to Annapolis by Congressman Gand, both of whom reside in Dayton, O., the colored folk of that state and district have received a recognition from Representative Gand that few white men would have the backbone to do. With nineteen white boys the colored lads took the examination and Bundy led, with Parson a close second, and, as said above, both got places. Oscar De Priest, who was defeated by R. R. Jackson for the Republican aldermanic nomination for the second ward in Chicago, has decided to run independent, which probably means that the colored citizens will lose their only representation in the Council of Chicago. De Priest was the first colored man to be elected, but declined a second nomination and a Mr. Anderson was elected. De Priest, however, came back, but lost in the primaries and apparently rather than see Jackson win will elect a Democrat. It is ever thus among colored folks. There promises to be a titanic struggle in this state next September and November between the "drys" and the "wets," as to which will control the next legislature. If it is dry the national constitutional dry amendment will be ratified, but if wet, of course it will not. In order to prevent the nation from going dry the wets will have to control thirteen state legislatures. Quite a few of the state legislatures have already voted on the proposed amendment and thus far all have voted dry except New York and Rhode Island. A desperate fight has been waged in New York by both sides for the control of the legislature, each hoping as goes New York so goes the Union, but New York has put it up to the voters. It has been given out that President Wilson is still ready and willing to extend to Russia a helping hand, which, to say the least, is exceedingly charitable on the part of our president. About the most charitable thing the United States government can do for Russia is to give Japan and China free hands to overrun Siberia and as much more of Russia as is possible to save the country from being completely absorbed by the German government. Russia is more in need of some strong government occupying her vast territory and controlling her unruly subjects than she is of dollars and cents, and if the allies hope to win the war they should promptly land armed troops in Siberia and then push on into the heart of Russia as rapidly as is possible. The bond of Dr. Leroy N. Bundy has been reduced to $14,000, which is a great come down from $48,000. He is charged with murder in connection with the East St. Louis riots. His wife has worked night and day in the interest of her husband. Dr. Bundy, like many other colored persons, who defended themselves against the mobs of East St. Louis, is now charged with crime. If guilty of anything at all in connection with that riot, it must be of not getting out of the way. This is not the first instance in this country when the black man was punished because he was just hanging around. We regret very much to learn from Mayor-elect Hanson that it is not his intention to accept invitations to dinner parties and social fetes during his term of office, for, owing to having warmly supported him for the office, we feel that we had sufficient claim on him to not only have him dine with us on eatless days, but to have him act as godfather for our four-year-old ink-spittle, be at the wedding of another and the first to kiss the bride. We feel certain he would never have issued such an edict had he known what was in store for him, but alack and alas! it's too late, as the die has been cast. MOTHER NIGHT Eternities before the first born day. Calm night, the everlasting and the same. A brooding mother over chaos lay. And whirling suns shall blaze and then decay— Shall run their fiery course and them calm. The haven of the darkness whence they came Back to Nirvanic shall grope their way. So when my feeble sun of life burns out, And sounded is the hour of my long sleep, I shall, full weary of the feverish light, Welcome the darkness without fear or doubt. And heavy-lidded, I shall softly creep Into the quiet bosom of the Night. (By James Weldon Johnson, Field Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.) THE GLAD SEASON Fair spring will soon be springing the climate we adore; each passing day is bringing her closer than before; fair spring, whose fragrant lilies will drive away the willies, and many goats and billies will gambol on the shore. To winds that chill the gizzard we soon shall say farewell; the wild bewhiskered blizzard no more shall roar and yell, but spring will show some poses, and thaw our frosted noses and carpet with her roses the meadow and the dell. The brooks will gayly babble along their pebbled track; the guinea hens will gabble, the happy ducks will quack; goodbye to crazy snowing! So glad the winter's going, the muley cow is lowing until she sprains her back. Fair spring will break the shackles that gall the voter's soul; for in the spring he tackles no job of pushing coal into a furnace crater, whose appetite grows greater each day, and soon or later will put him in the hole. Now signs are in existence that spring is close at hand; she's eating up the distance, she comes, to beat the band; along her course she teeters, to banish coal and heaters, and fill with joyous skeeters the flower bespangled land.—Walt Mason. Make a garden! pleads the government, and straightway starts a campaign urging people to keep chickens.—Pittsburg Gazette-Times. WISE AND OTHERWISE Who knowest the most has the least to say about it. Stop, look, listen and then go on and you will probably travel longer without mishaps. A man of God will help any good cause as far as he can whether he is affiliated with it or not. If you are really a person of brains the other fellow will find it out without you announcing the fact. Newspapers that are always full and overflowing with personal paragraphs are the poorest public educators. Who sings "You may have all this world, but give me Jesus" will discover when it is too late that Jesus has a mighty little use for him. Giving advice on subjects and questions at issue, on which you are not posted prompts wise men to "whisper as they pass, there stands that self-conceited braying ass." God doubtless helps him who helps himself, but He is rather busy just now and you had better try to help yourself all you can and just leave the finishing strokes for Him. Broadguaged, liberal-minded persons, always ready to give and take, are a thousand times more serviceable to the world than the penureous penny-wise and pound foolish persons. Because you have reasons to differ from someone else do not impugn the motives of your opponent. Every man should have an opinion of his own and no two are exactly alike. Entertaining others on the good traits and fine qualities of the members of your family shows very conclusively that the other members of the family did not take after you if they are really as smart as you picture them to be. Money is a mere convenience for the exchange of commodities and neither the hearing or the lavish expenditure of it adds to the real greatness of the man. Man's greatness is measured from the assistance he renders his fellow man and a man with only good health and strength who does to others as he would have them do to him is great by many times over than he who gives millions to charity to see his name in print. Equal pay for equal work. That is putting it briefly and to the point. Women who take the place of men should get the man's pay as long as they do the work as well as the man. Where they do the work better they should get better pay than was given the man. That is so simple that it seems impossible that anyone should misunderstand it. And it is quite fair and just. —Camas Post. A casket for the Bolsheviki in Russia may as well be ordered. It has tackled the Church question.—Atchison Weekly Globe. Alaska is celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its annexation to the United States; also it should be celebrating that it doesn't belong to Russia.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. King George, in his message to Parliament, speaks of "my army," "my dominions," "my empire," and "my allies," which gives the impression that Queen Mary must be away from home.—Seattle Post-Intelligencer. --- ary er eee | BAL Se ————-_ ES .. bo Ss alka dca ihsteske GAMMA paket ae Be ee al THE WAR at rnitadeipnhia. te was unable to be pres- ent but sent a letter which said: In our training camp at Des Moines, representative young colored men presented themselves for training. They devoted them- selves with zeal to the task, and they are now imparting to the men under their charge the military lessons which they themselves learned, but more than this, they are teaching to their fellow-men the principle for which America is in this war —those vital principles of democracy which are the foundation of the hopes of free people. Brig.-Gen. Blanding declares that the 370th Infantry, formerly the Eighth Illi- nois, ‘‘are as fine a set of soldires as I ever hope to command. Their work along mil- itary lines as well as their personal conduct has been beyond reproach. Forty-nine pri- vates and non-commissioned officers have been given commissions. Forty-one colored cadets from the Tenth Cavalry and Twenty-fourth Infantry will be trained at Camp Stanley, San Antonio, Texas. Thirty other cadets are expected. Thirty-one colored cadets are among the 934 students of the Officers’ Training School opened at Camp Upton, L. I. They are from the 367th Infantry, the 351st Machine Gun Battalion, and other units. Three or more colored cadets are among those assigned to the Officers’ Training School at Camp Grant, Il. Forty-eight colored cadets have been se- lected at Camp Logan, Tex., for training as officers. At Camp Stewart, Newport News. Va., are First Separate Maryland Infantry with 150 men and 3 officers. They now form Company I, of the 372d Infantry; the Ninth Separate Battalion of the District of Columbia, with thirteen colored officers ; Company L of the Massachusetts Sixth Infantry. which is fully equipped; the colored Separate Company G of Nashville, Tenn., now form Company K of the 372d Infantry, all of whose officers are colored. At Camp Meade, Maryland, all the non- commissioned officers are colored and have been promoted from the ranks. A com- manding officer has said that the colored troops have put the white troops to shame by their splendid spirit. These troops will form the 351st Field Artillery. There are no colored commissioned offi- cers at Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga. There are six colored Y. M. C. A. men and several non-commissioned officers. Only twenty-five per cent of the colored men are illiterate. The officers declare that the colored troops are the most apt men in the camp. Ex- amining and Exemption Boards have sent up numbers of colored men who never should have been passed. At Camp Funston, Kan., there is a build- ing for colored Catholic soldiers, but open to all men. It has a library and amuse- ments. William H. James is in charge. Robert A. J. Shaw has been made Judge- Advocate at Camp Logan, Tex., where the former Eighth Illinois is stationed. One hundred Negroes are in a second Officers’ Training Camp opened at San Juan, Porto Rico. In an examination of thirty-seven men drafted for the Army at Charleston, W. Va., Sherman Green, a colored man, was pronounced physically the best man. The percentage of illiteracy among the colored yeeruits was less than among the whites. B. W. Kirk, of Chicago, Ill., has been promoted to a first class mechanic in the U.S. Navy. John E. Green, military attache to the American Legation, Monrovia, Liberia, has Rest err me ay | mee ee ea Sead ae Nee At Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio, there are 3,600 colored men. They are divided into nineteen companies. Fifty- five of the line officers are colored. The motto of the camp is ‘‘Only one color and that is olive-drab.’’ One hundred picked men were organized into a bayonet class. Sergeant E. G. Roundtree, a colored man, was especially commended for excellent work. The instructor was an English of- ficer. All of the colored units in the National Guard, including the companies mentioned above, the Fifteenth New York Infantry. —From The Crisis. THE BLACK MAN AND THE UNIONS From The Crisis I am among the few colored. men who have tried conscientiously to bring about understanding and co-operation between American Negroes and the Labor Unions. I have sought to look upon the Sons of Free- dom as simply a part of the great mass of the earth’s Disinherited, and to realize that world movements which have lifted the lowly in the past and are opening the gates of opportunity to them today are of equal value for all men, white and black, then and now. I carry on the title page, for instance, of this magazine the Union label, and yet I know, ard everyone of my Negro readers knows, that the very fact that this label is there is an advertisement that no Negro’s hand is engaged in the printing of this magazine, since the International Typo- graphicali Union systematically and delib- erately excludes every Negro that it dares from membership, no matter what his qual- ifications. Even here, however, and beyond the hurt of mine own, I have always striven to recognize the real cogency of the Union argument. Collective bargaining has, un- doubtedly, raised modern labor from some- thing like chattel slavery to the threshold of industrial freedom, and in this advance of lanor white and black have shared. I have tried, therefore, to see a vision of vast union between the laboring forces, particularly in the South, and hoped for no distant day when the black laborer and the white laborer, instead of being used against each other as helpless pawns, should unite to bring real democracy in the South. On the other hand, the whole scheme of settling the Negro problem, inaugurated by philanthropists and carried out during the last twenty-years, has been based upon the idea of playing off black workers against white. hat it is essentially a mischievous and dangerous program no sane thinker can deny, but it is peculiarly disheartening to realize that it is the La- bor Unions themselves that have given this movement its greatest impulse and that today, at last, in East St. Louis have brought the most unwilling of us to ac- knowledge that in the present Union move- ment, as represented by the American Fed- eration of Labor, there is absolutely no hepe of justice for an American of Negro descent. Personally, I have come to this decision relunctantly and in the past have written and spoken little of the closed door of opportunity, shut impudently in the faces of black men by organized white working- men. I realize that by heredity and cen- tury-long lack of opportunity one cannot expect in the laborer that larger sense of justice and duty which we ought to de- mand of the privileged classes. I have, therefore, inveighed against color diserim- ination by employers and by the rich and well-to-do, knowing at the same time in si- lence that it is practically impossible for any colored man or woman to become a boiler maker or book binder, an electrical worker or glass maker, a worker in jewelry or leath, a machinist or metal polisher, a paper maker or piano builder, a plumber or a potter, a printer or a pressman, a telegrapher or a railway trackman, an elee- trotyper or stove mounter, a textile worker or tile layer, a trunk maker, upholsterer, carpenter, locomotive engineer, switehman, stone cutter, baker, blacksmith, boot and shoe maker, tailor, or any of a dozen other important well-paid employments, without encountering the open determination and unscrupulous opposition of the whole unit- ed labor movement of America. That fur- ther than this, if he should want to become a painter, mason, carpenter, plasterer, brick- maker or: fireman he would be subject to huniliating discriminations by his fellow Union workers and be deprived of work at every possible opportunity, even in defiance of their own Union laws. If, braving their outrageous attitude of the Unions, he sue- ceeds in some small establishment or at some exceptional time at gaining employ- ment, he must be labeled as a ‘‘scab’’ throughout the length and breadth of the land and written down as one who, for his selfish advantage, seeks to overthrow the labor uplift of a century. The recent convention of the American Federation of Labor, at Buffalo, is no proof of change of heart. Grudgingly, unwill- ingly, almost insultingly, this Federation yields to us inch by ineh the status of half-a-man. denying and withholding every privilege it dares at all times.—W. E. Du Ritna, BORROWED THOUGHTS Well, anyway, we don’t believe many babies were named for Trotzky—New York Sun. Trotzky is now learning that it takes two to withdraw from a war.—Wall Street Journal. Germany is a country bounded by war on one side and by anarchy on the other. —Florida Times-Union. A war-expert is a man who knows as little about the Russian situation as you do and admits it—Brooklyn Eagle. Germany is willing to swallow four of the President’s peace terms. The other ten will be rubbed in.—Pittsburg Post. Bolshevik diplomacy seems to be the sure way to make the Russian world safe for German autocracy—New York World. With Bulgarian and Turkish troops join- ing the Prussians in Belgium, the prospect brightens a bit for less barbarous warfare there.—Boston Herald. The Russian bureau in New York says that Russia is sound at the core. The trouble is that Germany seems to have got the core.—Rochester Post-Express. If shipping space were not at such a premium it would seem desirable to send some of our German spies to France for trial—Philadelphia North American. Carranza has put a head tax of $8 in gold on persons leaving Mexico for the United States. But no doubt the privi- lege is worth the price—New York World. Austria may split with the Germans, but it is certain that Germany will not splt fifty-fifty with the Austrians when it comes to the spoils of war.—Louisville Post. McAdoo has decided that the baby car- riage factories are essential industries. If that doesn’t reconcile T. R. to the admin- istration, he’s hopeless.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. A part of the peace treaty between Ger- many and Ukrainia provides that a por- tion of the boundary shall be established on ethnological lines. Of course, the de- cision will be left to some distinguished Sed MRE eels pas ES a Re oa ```markdown ``` PERSONAL Miss Myrtle Shockley, one of the very bright students of the Franklin High School, is still seriously ill at the residence of her parents, which is quarantined, thus preventing friends from calling to see her. Andrew R. Black is to join the imaginary rotary club of Seattle among the colored citizens. Mr. Black is one of the very prosperous attorneys of the Northwest who has grown in his chosen profession steadily since the day he opened his law offices in the Pacific block, where he still has offices. John and James Gayton, sons of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Gayton, gave an informal party last Saturday evening to which a number of their young friends were invited. Dancing and other amusements were indulged in and light refreshments were served ere those present said goodnight. The evening was pleasantly spent by all present. Dr. L. D. Wishard, who was to have spoken to a mass meeting of colored people in this city last Friday evening, but changed his plans in the interest of the Red Cross, will speak at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church next Sunday evening taking as his subject "The War and Its Results." He has watched with much interest the part the colored man is playing in the war and will confine much of his talk to telling about him. His life has been spent in the uplift work among the colored folk, he having been connected with Howard and Fisk Universities. His father was a pronounced abolitionist and was connected with the underground railroad. The Rev. W. D. Carter, pastor of the church, extends a cordial invitation to as many as will be present to listen to Dr. Wishard. S. A. Watts has returned from California, where he went to take his wife for her health. He has been away about two months and reports that his health was likewise improved by the vacation. "California is a delightful place and what nature has fallen short of in the way of pleasant surroundings men and money have bountifully supplied. It is a pleasure to own an automobile in southern California, for you can get out on the hundred and one good roads, and ride until you tire of looking at the beautiful scenery, but there are by no means the opportunities to make money there that you find on Puget Sound. The chief industry about Los Angeles is fleecing the tourists and that is so greatly overdone that wages are very low," said Mr. Watts. He had planned to stay a month longer, but the firm for which he has worked so long as packer wired him to return at once, as his services were much needed. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Ball have the sympathy of their many friends and acquaintances on account of the death of their only daughter. Something over a year ago they mourned the death of their older daughter, and now the same fate has overtaken their younger. Both of these young ladies possessed brilliant minds and had no sooner reached their maturity when they began to make their marks among their fellowmen. Some one has said, "The good die young," and judging from the early deaths of these young ladies there seems to be some truth in it. Thirty years ago Mr. Ball had two brilliant sisters who were burned to death on a Mississippi river steamer, and they, like his two daughters, had just launched out into useful lives when their careers were suddenly ended. It must be one of the bitter pills of life for parents to put forth their every energy to perfect their children for useful lives to see them silenced in death almost at the very beginning of life. But these are things over which man has no control and to go mourning all his days over such misfortunes but adds a double load to the already heavy one. Every sorrow has its silver lining, and may this be a consolation to the bereaved parents. Chester Dixon, who has been in the U. S. navy for the past twelve years, is visiting with his mother, Mrs. Roscoe Dixon, this week. He comes to Seattle at this time as one of a crew who will man a torpedo boat destroyer. When yet in his teens he enlisted in the navy and since then has been almost everywhere on the water. He has made good and has steadily rose in the service. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Dixon were pioneers in the Northwest. LECTURE NOTICE Prof. Edward G. Cox, of the sociological department of the University of Washington, will lecture to the Brotherhood of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church Tuesday evening, March 26, taking as his subject the Sociology of the Races. You and each of you are cordially invited to be present. Refreshments will be served by the ladies of the church. FOUR YEARS AGO Four years ago the nations smiled; no sword had flashed, to bleed them; so tame they were, a little child seemed competent to lead them. The children sailed their paper boats and had no thought of sorrow; their parents fed the pigs and goats, and planned work for the morrow. Most kings observed the rules of Hoyle, and tried to do their reigning so well there'd be no loud turmoil, of beefing or complain- Vaudeville and Dance Given by the Alpha Tennis Club Wednesday, March 20th at Washington Hall 14th and E. Fir 8:15 Curtain Rises 8:15 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County.—In Probate. In the Matter of the Estate of Mollie Anderson (formerly) Mollie Anderson, Deceased—No. ..... Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as Executrix of the estate of Mollie Anderson (formerly) Mollie Anderson, deceased; that all persons having claims against said deceased are hereby required to serve the same, duly verified, on said Executrix or her attorney of record at the address below stated, and file the same with the Clerk of said Court, together with proof of such service within six months after the date of first publication of this notice, or the same will be barred. Date of first publication February 23, 1918. MOLLIE LAFONTAINE. Executrix of said Estate. Address: 316 Pacific Block ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Estate. 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. Feb. 23; March 16, 1918. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County.—In Probate. In the Matter of the Estate of James Golden, Deceased.—No. 29903. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as Administratrix of the estate of James Golden, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to serve the same (supported by claimant's affidavit as required in Sec. 108, Probate Code) on the Administratrix or her attorney of record at the address below stated, and file the same with the clerk of the court, together with proof of such service, within six months after the date of the first publication of this notice, or same will be barred. Date of first publication February 23rd, 1918 MARIE GOLDEN Attorney for Estate. 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. Feb. 23; March 16, 1918. ALHAMBRA CASH GROCERY Fancy and Staple Groceries. Vegetables and Fruits in season. Bakery in connection. Free delivery. Tel. Main 2923. 1036-40 Jackson Street. TUTT'S BARBER SHOP "He wants to see you." High-class Tonsorial Work. 300 Main Street, Seattle. Latest race papers. All kinds of toilet supplies. --- ing. But one was dreaming on his throne a maudlin dream of glory, he'd make all lands and crowns his own—you know the weary story. Because the madman dreamed his dream, the world is rent and shaken; and still the gorging vultures scream o'er red fields God forsaken. Four years ago the farmers mowed their harvests in the valley, where cannon balls tear up the road, and battered armies rally. And they'd have laughed wth silly scorn had any one forecasted that all their farms would soon be torn and stained with blood and blasted. Still must our banners be unfurled, the cup of wrath be tasted, still must the manhood of the world be thrown away and wasted, until we're safe from madmen's dreams, made safe by stern endeavor; till all the war lords and their schemes are beaten down forever.—Walt Mason. The German crown prince said he would like to visit Canada after the war. He has managed to keep at a safe distance from the Canadians participating in the war.—Minneapolis Tribune. Russian bear looks more like a daschund every day.—Wall Street Journal. General Wilson is now at the head of the British General Staff. succeeding Gen. there is, after all, something inspirig and helpful in a name.—New York Morning Telegraph. The bolo is a crooked blade used by the Philippine head hunters for decapitating their victims. The French Bolo is a weapon of much the same description used by the kaiser for similar purposes.—Pitstburg Post. Cayton's Weekly publishes legal notices at current rates. Main 24. DR. J. A. CHENT. SPECIALIST In Surgery and Gynecology has removed his office from the Marion Bldg. to 221 and 222 Seaboard Bldg., formerly Northern Bank Bldg., corner Westlake and Pine. Tel. Main 1185. BURR WILLIAMS RUSSELL SMITH President Secretary DUMAS CLUB, INC. 209 Fifth Avenue South CAFE IN CONNECTION Phone Elliott 3763 SEATTLE WASHINGTON IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Thomas Harris, Plaintiff, vs. Nellie Harris, Defendant.—No. ..... Summons by Publication. The State of Washington to the said Nellie Harris, Defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixty days after the 12th day of January, 1918, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The object of the above entitled action is to obtain a decree of divorce from the defendant by the plaintiff on the ground of desertion. ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O. Address, 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. Jan. 12—Feb. 23, 1918. THE DOUGLAS CLUB Now Occupies spacious and elegantly furnished and equipped NEW QUARTERS And will be pleased to meet old and new friends 308 Washington St. Frank Smith, Prop. Main 4930