Cayton's Weekly

State Library 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 TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910 LET'S REASON TOGETHER Wile newspapers and periodicals published in the interest of thet colored folks should zealously guard their rights, yet they should be so well edited and constructed that they would be of almost as much interest to the white citizens as to the colored. The black man of the United States is undergoing a radical change of heart, mind and matter at present and his needs are even greater now than when he was emancipated. Short sighted white folk are still struggling to peonize him, the near short sighted white citizens have assumed a more or less indifferent attitude toward him with the admonition, "I freed you and, for a time, protected you, now fight your own battles." There is still a small percentage of the white citizens of this country, who are outspoken for absolute justice for him, but that number is so badly in the minority that, the black man finds himself in a wilderness with but a ray of light occasionally breaking through. Its for these reasons that well educated and likewise broad gaged colored men and women should direct the destinies of the periodicals and publications issued in the interest of the colored population of this country, that they may set forth the condition of their constituents in the most favorable light. The publication that is devoid of current thought, but is full and overflowing with social fetes can be of no interest to any one save those interested in such social gatherings. We do not want to be understood as advocating the elimination of the social column from such publications, but there is eminently much more need for the column of thought and observation than the social column. Meritorious publications in the interest of colored folks edited and published by them, must reach the heads and hearts of the great mass of liberal-minded white citizens of this country, if the condition of the colored citizens is to be improved. The black man is in this country and is here to stay and its up to the white man to jar loose from his old time color prejudices and indifference and help to fit him for citizenship in the most acceptable manner. It certainly will not help matters for the white citizens of the South to torture colored citizens at the stake and for the white citizens of other sections to pass it up as a matter of fact, in which they are not interested. It therefore behooves the liberal minded white folk of every community to become subscribers of publications issued in the interest of colored folks. Judge George Donworth not long since sent his subscription to a publication issued in the interest of colored folks and added. "I fully recognize the usefulness of such publications, so far as the white citizens of this country are concerned, because they call the public's attention to the abuses as well as the needs of the colored folk in general." We are not going to say one word in this connection as to the future of the American colored man, but he is undergoing some very radical changes and it is the duty of the American white man to keep posted on these changes, and there is no better way of doing so than to read his literature. And as advised in the outset hereof, it is the duty of the colored man to give to the world meritorious publications such as will see things from all angles and will draw lessons and conclusions from the various deeds of mind and matter, and in language so convincing that white or black may be able to see the handwriting on the wall. It makes us sick at heart to note each day that the British and French armies are constantly falling back inch by inch in front of the German and Hungarian hordes and we wonder what will be the end of it all. We look with painful anxiety for a head line that will announce that the Allies have assumed the offensive and the Central Powers have not only been permanently checked but being driven back, the reverse, however, seems to appear. Our courage, however, should be as that of the man on the firing line, "fight until the last arm foe expires; fight for your alters and your sires, God and your native land," but being human and far from the scenes of the clash of arms and the clangor of chains each day's retreat causes us to grow more despondent and again we wonder, what will be the end of all of it. In our opinion if England and France should be crushed at this time it would be the beginning of the reign of chaos and a world-wide war in the fullest sense of the word would quickly follow. With Germany in control of Europe we predict Japan would immediately reverse herself and form a compact with Germany and become a deadly foe to the United States, and seek to subdue her as Germany had England. Its the English speaking nations that the coming world powers would atterpmt to destroy. Under these conditions the American, who seeks to horde up treasure instead of defending his country is an alien enemy at heart and is too low and despicable to have the rights of a citizen. War may be just what Phil Sheridan said it is, but it is gain instead of hell for the average citizen of this country, for every article he handles is done so from a profit standpoint. Here's a time to get rich quick, the dead and the dying to the counterary notwithstanding, so reasons the profiteer, and Uncle Sam's grave robbers do not propose that the opportunity pass without them getting theirs. Even the vegetables that are by no means war necessities you have to pay twice as much for them at present as you did a year ago. In the commercial world of this country every fellow is grabbing all he can get away with and is wholly indifferent as to the actual outcome of the war. If the Almighty does not permit our Money Mad Craft to be totally wrecked then we will be surprised. VOL.2, No.45 EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS Winter weather still shows its fondness for lounging in the lap of spring. So soon as a woman thinks she is old then she is so old and decrepit that it gives one a pain to look at her, but so long as she thinks she can make you think she is young she is a thing of beauty. A seven million dollar girl is attending school at Fisk University and her income is $800,000 per annum. "If dat gal don't turn white 'fo she's grown up den Marse Henry's rabbit foot won't work." All that proposed Alaska railroad building that was to be done immediately if not sooner, seems to have been a camouflage to give the Gugenheims time to get a better grip on the Alaska situation. In diplomatic circles it is still rumored that Japan and Germany understand each other and sooner or later Russia will be divided between the two. It occurs to us that Uncle Sam will make no mistake to sleep with one eye open. If the Mt. Zion Baptist Church of this city does not get $10,000 instead of $5,000 the amount it set out to raise by July 1st, it will not be because the members one and all are not bubbling over with enthusiasm in the dollar campaign. We have our doubts as to the German's proselyting among the colored folk of Mississippi, but, judging from the accounts of the unpreparedness of Uncle Sam for the war, they are very successfully doing so among those who are at the head of the preparedness game. A Canadian soldier who recently returned from the front, told to Seattle audiences the barbarity practiced on the captured soldiers of the Allies by the Germans and Huns, and its simply awful. He might have added why its just as bad as the barbarity practiced on the colored men of our own sunny South by the white Christians. Evidently Hoover and Garfield have lost control of the food and coal situations as the price of both of those articles has steadily grown higher, in spite of their promise to lower the price of both. When the "Morgans" of this country set out to pick up a few billion dollars by raising prices they do so, Hoover and Garfield to the contrary notwithstanding. The automobile accident that crushed the life out of E. M. Williams, a former state senator from Seattle, was a most lamentable one. In life Mr. Williams was a very likable fellow and had many political friends throughout the state. He was always associated with the wets of the state, but had many warm friends among the drys. The editor hereof was intimately acquainted with him and often met him in political confabs around the camp fire of the late John Lockwood Wilson, as he did hundreds of others, the death of anyone whom brings more vividly to our mind the memories of those bygone days. : AMERICA’S COLORED CITIZENS United States are concerned in the Chi- cago Lefender in the following sensible words: “We are trynig a great experiment in the United States. Can we gather together from the ends of the earth people of differ- ent races, creeds, conditions and aspirations, who can be merged into one? If we ean not do this we will fail. If we do this we will preduce the greatest of all nations and a wew race that will long hold a compelling force in the world.’’—Seeretary Franklin Lane, Department of the Interior, Kor which we thank you, Mr, Lane, for which we thank you. <A fellow begins to feel as though he were living to some pur- pose under the glorious old banner of free- doin when a member of the President’s eabi- ret speaks right out in meetin’ thus like. Secretary Lane said that, and a great deal more that’s mighty good and true, in an address before a very distinguished — as- sembly of governors, chairmen of state de- fense councils, heads of civie organizations, industrial leaders and business men, The secretary delivered the ‘keynote’? address on‘ Americanization,’? The brethren assembled most certainly got the key; now if they wil just go back home and open the ‘‘door of opportunity’? we will, as sayeth the prophet, get somewhere. Not that we ‘must come to it’’; we are to it now. It is a clear-cut, unadulterated, no-denying case of ‘facing the musie,’’ and if we do not face it, we can sing but one song, and that is ‘‘Good-by, Old Cow.’’ Yow ll have to hand it to Roosevelt. May- he you don’t like him, for one reason and another, but he is giving more force to true American doterine in these troublesome times than any other living person. If a real American can read Colonel Roosevelt's Maine address, or his recent editorials, and not be moved by their lofti- ness of purpose, he has a mind so warped with prejudice that it’s curled up like a poplar board in the garden path. We are all Americans now, nothing more nor less. If we are less in any particular, or in any degree, less than Americans, we are false patriots and traitors, Rooveselt is a Republican and Lane is a Democrat, but in their fine efforts to arouse this nation to a sense of justice and duty, do they not more nearly represent the righteous ideals of our nation than Jim Vardaman, who, as a member of a very important government committee, is letting segregation follow in his wake like odors from a skunk? There is only one kind of justice, and President Wilson named it some time ago: “Equal and exact justice.’? In every in- stance, however, words must be backed up by deeds. Illinois has been playing the popular American game of ‘‘lynehing’’ again, but th's time the unfortunate victim was a Ger- man, Governor Lowden is red-headed about the incident—or is this more than an inci- dent ?—the lynching is getting action from the federal government, not, as we have heard up to date, because lynching is itself is a barbarous performance, but because it is feared that the Germans may do a little playing of the lynching game on their own vacant lots across the pond, and use Ameri- cans as the rope bait. Lynch law must go! But it must go be- cause it is one of the most demnable spots in American life. Leading citizens of the South, white, are waking up to the real faets in the case. In foe a ea eee ce nn hav Oem eee eet ee cena ence of the best people in the presence of this distressing situation, and their unwill- ingness to grapple with it, have helped to produce the conditions out of which have sprung lawless and frenzied mobs and timid officers of the law. We have a strong con- viction that lynching is unjustifiable under any any all circumstances, and is wrong in the sight of man and God.” That kind of talk ought to hold ’em for a minute, if backed up by grim determination. All of the foregoing leads up to the “Big Idea.’’ The men in public office and the men who hold positions in our economic life, such as were addressed by Secretary Lane, these men must be real men, 100 per cent Americans. It is perfectly natural for people to form themselves into political parties. As long as we have a government, officials will be selected through party organizations, but we have cme to the time and the place when the American people want at home exactly what we are fighting for abroad—freedom and justice, The political party, whether it be Demo- cratic, Reupblican, Nationalist or what not, that most nearly approaches the carrying out of these fundamental principles of life, that party is going to elect its men. When the people get to thinking right they don’t care a tinker’s damn about gangs, machines, rings, organizations, bosses, parties or any other set of combination. They spew on them all, and vote as their conscience dictates. That’s what is going to be done this year of our Lord 1918. A sign of this determination is mani- festing itself in the matter of prohibition. Prohibition is coming to this nation as sure as the sun shines. The legislatures of state after state are voting to adopt the prohi- bition constitutional amendment. There are going to be some more tough fights, and there are going to be some more shrewd plays like the one recently pulled in Chi- cago. But that only defers: it doesn’t de- ter. Even the drinking American people like a fair game and good sportsmanship, and the Chicagoans will probably come strong- er than ever next time they get a whack. Now what is this all for? What is it about? ‘‘Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,’’ is the answer. The packing es- tablishments of Chicago are employing more than 20,000 colored men and women; the great steel mills and foundries of the coun- try are employing hundreds of thousands; manufacturing and commercial concerns throughout the country are employing tens of thousands of skilled and unskilled colored people; they are employed by the railroads in various capacities; they are employed in offices now by the hundreds as stenograph- ers and bookkeepers. More opportunities are at hand than we have ever before had; our sons and brothers and friends are marching on to the battle fields of France. Let us keep at the helm in the high places the best that America affords in manhood, character and courage and success will be ours WE MUST ALL WORK TOGETHER AND WE WILL GET SOMEWHERE, eet tet Fre On ene a Se ee oe ia A. The German soldier does exactly what he is told, and no more, A German officer was drilling recruits, and had just given them the order: ‘‘Quick mareh!’’ when he noticed his sweetheart coming across the barrack square. Forgetting all about the recruits, he en- tered into conversation with the girl and went away with her. Six months later the same officer was walking down the main street of the same town when he saw some tattered and tired soldiers approaching him. One of the sold- iers, recognizing the officer, went up to him and, saluting, said: “Please, sir, what about a halt?’’ Who has made little or no effort in put- ting in a garden as yet will probably have little or no garden, but better late than never, so get busy. Rev. W. F. Green, who resides at 1439 Jackson Street, Seattle, is the pastor of the Second Baptist church of Everett, Wash- ington, closed a thirty day rally with the members and friends of the chureh April 14th with an excellent program, as follows: Organ Prelude. Doxology—Choir and Congregation, Song by Choir. Scripture Lesson by Pastor. Song—‘‘Rock of Ages’’. Prayer by Rev. S. J. Collins. Song by Choir. Recitation by Mrs. A. Davis. Address—Mr. J. B. Griffin, Solo by Mrs. Baugh. Reading by Mrs. C. A. Davis. Address—Mr. M, J. Rodgers, subject, “Prophetic Visions of a Race’’. Song—‘‘Lead Kindly Light’’. Address—Prof. B. C. Makins of Kalispell, Mont., subject ‘‘History and Progress of the Negro Race’’. Solo—Mr. M. E. Bird. Remarks—Rey. 8. J. Collins. Offering and Song by Choir. Closing Remarks by Pastor, Rey. W. F. Greene. The re-eipts for the occasion amounted to $60 with still more to come in. The Rev. Greeve is very grateful to all who assisted in the matter and especially to the pastor and members of Pailey Chapel of the A. M. KE. Connection and asks the blessings of the Lord on one and all. A weary looking tramp begged for some- thing to eat at the back door of a subur- ban home and was given a whole plum cake. In less than two hours he was back on the same doorstep. “Tady,’’ said he, when the good house- wife answered the timid knock, ‘would you be kind enough to give me the recipe for that cake you handed me this morning ?”’ “For goodness’ sake, man,’’ exlaimed the astonished housewife, ‘‘what do you want that recipe for?’’ “To settle a bet, lady,’’? answered the tramp. ‘‘My partner says you use three cupfuls of cement to one of sugar, and I claim. you only use two and a half.’’ National Colored Soldiers’ Grand Musical Entertainment Benefit for Our Colored Soldiers’ De- pendents Left Behind Tuesday, May 14th, 8 to 12:30 Renton Hill Club House 18th and Madison St. PROGRAM Master of Ceremonies Atty A. R. Black Invocation ...Rev. W. D. Carter Opening Remarks Atty. A. R. Black Solo a a Mrs. Belle Tyler Address Rev. W. D. Carter Reading: Mrs. C. Armstrong Solo re Mrs. W. F. Jackson Address e ...Dr, F._B. Cooper Solo ... oer Mr. Wm. Bunch Quartette Alpha Tennis Club Program will be rendered from 8:00 p. m. to 9:00 p. m. Banquet from 9:00 p. m. to 10:00 p. m. Music from 10:00 p. m. until 12:30 p. m. COMMITTEE: MRS. JENNIE VROOMAN, MRS. HELEN LEFTRIDGE, MRS. SADIE MABLES, MRS. LILIAN GILES. . ; Tickets, Including Banquet $1.00 "NEGROES AND THE WAR" (By John D. Barry) Shortly after we entered the war Emmett J. Scott, secretary of Tuskegee, for many years closely associated with the late Booker T. Washington, wrote to Julius Rosenwald of Chicago, one of the Tuskegee trustees, suggesting that the Negro soldiers have a counselor in Washington, both to give them guidance and to look after their interests. Rosenwald at once approved and entered into communication on the subject with Washington's successor at Tuskegee, Major Robert R. Moton, who wrote to both President Wilson and Secretary of War Baker. The result was that Scott was detached from Tuskegee for a while and sent to Washington, where he now has an office in the War Department. He has made himself so useful that he will probably stay there till the war is over. In the first draft, out of one hundred thousand men, eighty thousand were colored. Out of every hundred colored men certified for service thirty-six were accepted. Twenty-five were accepted out of every hundred whites. Perhaps the boards were less regardful of Negroes. On the other hand, the Negroes may have been physically more fit. General Crowder says that fewer Negroes applied for exemption than whites. In Atlanta virtually all the Negroes were accepted and virtually all the whites were exempted. The board was removed. In the District of Columbia, though at this time, the colored people were about one-third the population, they contributed considerably more than one-third the number of soldiers. There were many problems associated with the Negroes in the war. Most of the more intelligent Negroes favored separation. But they were concerned about discrimination. It was natural that they should feel both suspicious and sensitive. For example, when they found themselves in large numbers assigned to battalions for manual labor there was some grumbling among them, though they knew that many of the white soldiers had also been assigned to such labor. One manual laborer in the ranks wrote from France: "Our men want to fight and die in the trenches just as other men want to fight and die in the trenches." According to the first estimtae of the War Department three hundred and fifty thousand men were to be put into the service battalions and fifty thousand of them were to be chosen from among the colored soldiers. Where the colored were, roughly speaking, about one in twelve as compared with the whites of the first draft, they would contribute one in seven to the manual laborers. Nearly all the stevedores selected were colored, for the reason that many of them were experienced stvedores from such ports as Galveston, Pensacola, New Orleans, Savannah and Charleston. Scott is a pretty busy man. His work obliges him to use several other colored men in his office as assistants. Whenever a colored soldier wants advice or wants to file a complaint, it is to Scott he turns. And a more tactful counselor than this inetlligent, accomplished Negro could hardly be im agined. On looking at his smooth, unlined, smiling face, you would never suspect that he was forty-five years old. He has seen his people do a good deal of traveling in the past quarter century and he has traveled with them. He makes a point of keeping in touch with the feeling and thought of the colored race throughout the country. A great many of the two hundred newspapers and magazines that now represent them pass under his eye. For the Negroes are becoming articulate. Political, economic, educational and social opportunities, in spite of limitations, are counting in ways that would gladden Abraham Lincoln if he were alive today. Here is one kind of comment, published in The Advocate of Cleveland, that reaches that office in the War Department, headed, "More Work for Mr. Scott": "It is regrettable, it is depressing, it is discouraging to learn that a colored man, wearing the uniform of an American army officer, en route to his post at Fort Sill, where ordered by his government, should be taken from the train, tried and fined by a local court, because he refused to leave his berth in a sleeping car, which he paid for, while passing through the state of Oklahoma, and especially so at a time when the railroads are under government control. "It is wonderful—a marvel—that our race is showing such splendid loyalty to country—such patriotism—when denied the comforts and conveniences, the rights and privileges enjoyed by others who have offered their services to fight, bleed and die for their country. "It tis to be hoped that Mr. Emmett J. Scott, our only intermediary in the War Department—or any other department of this great government—will cite this case, and have steps taken, if possible, that will prevent other colored men—officers or privates, wearing the uniform of an American soldier—being arrested and fined for riding in a sleeping car from the far east to the far west. "The race—the colored race—will be one compact unit in supporting Mr. Scott in urging that, at least while railroads are under government control, colored soldiers be not subjected to the humiliation, insult and injustice of being taken from trains, tried and fined for enjoying American rights and privileges." Scott tis now investigating this case. It is only one of many now in his office, presenting a wide variety of problems. Those publications of the colored people are very interesting. It's a pity they are almost wholly read by the colored people alone. They might be read with great profit by the whites as well. Some of them, however, it is only fair to say, are helped by the whites, both of the North and of the South. In the South white leaders of the Negro race are emerging. In Dalton, Georgia, Mrs. L. H. Hammond has formed what she calls "The Southern Publicity Bureau," to enlighten and educate Southern public opinion. On the committee working with her she has Southerners of distinction. The world is moving fast and the American Negroes are helping it to move in the direction of a genuine democracy that they count on sharing.—San Francisco Bulletin. The annual election of officers of the King County Colored Republican Club will be held at its next regular meeting. April 21st (Sunday) at 3 p. m. The meeting place of the Club is at 300 Main Street—Tutt's Barber Shop. Quite a number of persons, who say they are members of the Club, have made many inquiries as to the time and place of the meeting of the Club as they were desirous of attending. If you are interested, come out and speak your piece. "Kuffing the Koon" is always a pleasing diversion for the editorial staff of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and its slam at Jack Johnson last Thursday morning was but another to be added to its long list of kicking the nigger. With the P.-I. editorial staff it is truly a case of "aall coons look alike to me' and it will put plantation jargon in the mouth of a colored person a graduate of Yale or Dartmouth Colleges as readily as it would in the mouth of an uneducated colored person born and reared in one of the lagoons of the South and who had never seen inside of a school room. But with a Democratic editorial staff not much else could be expected from the P.-I. An Irish cab driver, grumbling at the shilling gratuity at his journey's end, said in a sly undertone: "Faith, it's not putting me off with this you'd be if you knew all." "What do you mean?" Another shilling was tendered. "And now," said the gentleman. "what do you mean by saying 'if you knew al?' " "That I drove your honor the last three miles without a linchpin!" COLORED MEN NO SLACKERS We read in the Associated Press dispatches in one of the daily papers last week, from Mississippi, and probably you read it also, that German propagandists were using money in Holmes County, Miss., to influence colored men to resist the selective draft. In other words, to become slackers And that the efforts of these Germans and their sympathizers had been successful. The man who claimed to have made this startling discovery was a government inspector by the name of Ethridge. The telegram further stated that Inspector Ethridge charged that a colored preacher, pastor of the Church of God in Christ, was the ring leader of the conspiracy, he being in the employ of the Germans, and that his sermons teemed with praise of the Germans and abuse for the whites of this country. Just think of an occurrence like that in a state where they lynch and burn colored men and women for simply talking back to white people, and then allowing a preacher and his followers to abuse and curse the government as charged by Inspector Ethridge, without any lynchings or burnings! Inspector Ethridge's tale, it seems, is without truth or foundation, and his main object in circulating such a tale was to stir up a race riot which he hoped would result in a wholesale lynching and burning of colored people. The fact that his story was so preposterous and absurd, no particular attention was paid to it—hence it fell flat, and Inspector Ethridge, we learn since, has been recalled to Washington. We expect soon to hear of him looking for another job.—Portland Advocate. SMILE WITH US A schoolmaster one day was trying to explain to his class the term booking as applied to our railway system. "Now," he was saying, "can any of you tell me the name of the office at which railway tickets are sold? Right," he continued, as a pupil answered correctly. At this moment his eye fell on a small boy at the end of the class, who was evidently paying very little attention to what was said. "Did you hear that, Dick?" he demanded. "Wot, sir," said the youth, innocently. "As I thought, you were not listening. We will suppose that your father decided to have a day's holiday and visit the sea-side. What would he have to do before he could take his seat in the train?" Without a moment's thought, the youngster electrified the master by replying: "Sell his tools!" A private of a well-known regiment, who was always wanting leave on some excuse or other, applied to the orderly room and asked his commanding officer if he might have a few days' leave as his wife was ill, and had sent him a letter asking him to come at once. But his commanding officer, getting tired of his always wanting leave, said: "This is strange, Private Cheek, as only this morning I received a letter from your wife saying she did not want you to see her any more, so hoped I would not grant you leave." Private Cheek—"Then I suppose I can't have leave, sir?" Commanding Officer—"No, you cannot." Private Cheek turns as he gets to the door)—"Sir, may I compliment you?" Commanding Officer—"Yes, certainly; on what?" Private Cheek—"In having two such lovely liars in the regiment, because I'm not married at all." Job work in the latest and newest styles turned out in this office. --- ```markdown ``` THE GLORY OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC The Science of Government The Hope and Dependance of the Human Race Copyright 1917 By ORLANDO BELKNAP POND (All rights reserved) The railroad brought ruin as well as prosperity; but we take no note of the unfortunate victims in the rapid progress of events. We have time only to consider and emulate the prosperious; though in the final reconning and summing up of the benefits and injuries, the profits and losses, the advantages and disadvantages these concerns must all be taken into consideration. The first mail contract made between the government and railroad corporations was signed in January, 1838. As a result of this contract the Baltimore and Washington, the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore, began carrying the mail between Washington and Philadelphia. Prior to this innovation the mail had been delivered by stage coaches on the lines of their travel. The railroad transportation of mail proved to be so much more rapid and satisfactory to the public that long before the civil war the railroad had become the carriers of the mail in all parts of the settled country and wherever it had penetrated into the regions of pioneer life. The stage-coach still continued to deliver the mail to such place as were not in immediate proximity to the railroad line; and the stage-coach and horse-back-rider were pushed on beyond and ahead of the railroad as pioneer mail carriers in the unsettled west, blazoning the way for the locomotive which soon followed with its trains of immigrant settlers of the soil and builders of states. At the time of the civil war the population of the country had reached forty million. In the settled East the railroad had already penetrated every important region of trade and commerce and was even then leading the people into the unsettled section. There were no longer any railroads with wooden rails plated with straps of iron. The invention of the "T" rail in 1830 by Stevens and the establissement of the rolling mills in America, after about 1845, gave to the railroads a suitable rail; and its manufacture in this country put the railroads into a more independent position. The "T" rail, from, and after 1845, came into general use; and the wooden rail was gradually supplanted and finally in a few years more became a thing of the past. The subject is of interest to us only as showing how little was then known about railroad building, and the crude condition out of which the modern railroad as known to us has been evolved. The pioneer railroad builder had not a faint conception of the progress in the improvements to be made, in the increasing numbers to be undertaken, or the extent of country to be traversed, or the effect his labor was to have upon trade and commerce, or the part he was taking in the development of the great resources of the country, neither did it occur to him that he was building a system that would exercise great powers and wield vast political influence in shaping the policies of the national government, nor did he realize how intimately and closely related the railroad would become in course of time with every interest of the state and nation; what drafts it would make upon every person, and what control it would exercise over the destiny of every individual in the land; that it could or would build up or retard, discriminate against or in favor of cities; that it could or would enrich or ruin, directly or indirectly, individuals, he did not consider or comprehend. They were things too far ahead of him. They were matters of the more distant future. They have actually, however, been devel- oped by other minds, and by other people, later genrations, for personal benefits and emoluments. The original builders and promoters though made no provision in favor of, or against, such results and conditions, because he could not penetrate in vision the future and comprehend the results and consequences of his own handiwork. He could only understand the present and that present to him was to build and equip a railroad that would accomplish certain intended results. The intended results were to overcome natural obstructions that turned trade and commerce into natural and easy channels of transportation to certain centers detrimental to other and less favorably situated centers of trade; and to secure more rapid methods with larger capacities, and more economical rates of transportation, than had been previously known and employed. The result of his effort in this direction was certainly a success, but though many unfavorable consequences have followed they were not included in his intentions and expectations. He gave us the result of his effort. It is for us to see that they are used for the best interests of the people, the state and the nation. If these interests have not been well served, if rights have been perverted, invaded, ignored or set aside, it is for us to ascertain the evils, if there are any such, and to indicate the remedy, keeping in view all the interests involved. It is not too much to say however that the railroad should serve all the people alike without discrimination. They should be made the servants, not the masters, of the nation, the national government. The "wets" are recalling that Russia went dry in 1915 and crazy in 1918.—Brooklyn Eagle. FOR RENT—One or two furnished rooms for men. Good accomodations. Ballard 1975. 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 20th day of April, 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. April 20—June 1, 1918. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Henry T. Bailey, Plaintiff, vs. Amanda Bailey, Defendant—No. ... Summons by Publication. The State of Washington to the said Amanda Bailey, 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 20th day of April, 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. April 20-June 1, 1918. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Parilee Leaf, Plaintiff, vs. Sam Leaf, Defendant.—No. Summons, by Publication. The State of Washington to the said Sam Leaf, 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 6th day of April, 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, and for the restoration of her former name, Parilee Townsend, and likewise the real estate, lot 18, block 2 of Highland View, an addition to the city of Seattle, King County, Washington. ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O. Address, 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. April 6—May 18, 1918. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County.—In Probate. In the matter of the estate of Frank O'Neil, alias Mitro Bossaroba, Deceased.—No. 22884. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as administrator of the estate of Frank O'Neil, alias Mitro Bassaroba, Deceased; that all persons having claims against said deceased are hereby required to serve the same, duly vrified, on said administrator 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 March 20, 1918 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Saddie Melton, Plaintiff, vs. Eugene Melton, Defendant.—No....... Summons by Publication. The State of Washington to the said Eugene Melton, 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 30th day of March, 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. March 30—May 11, 1918. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Myrtle Carpenter, Plaintiff, vs. Paul Carpenter, Defendant.—No. ... Summits by Publication. 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 30th day of March, 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 this 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. March 30—May 11, 1918. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, in and for the County of King. In the Matter of the Dissolution of Toyo Shokai, a corporation.—No. 128072. Notice of Dissolution of Corporation. Notice is hereby given that Toyo Shokai, a Washington corporation, with headquarters at Seattle, has petitioned the King County Superior Court for authority to disincorporate and dissolve. Notice is hereby given that said application will be heard in Department No. 1, of the King County Superior Court on the 28th day of May, 1918. Datd at Seattle, Wash., March 29th, 1918. PERCY F. THOMAS, County Clerk. By W. F. HOTT, Deputy. A. R. BLACK. 316 Pacific Block. March 30—May 25, 1918. ALHAMBRA CASH GROCERY H. Legg, Prop. W. H. Banks, Mgr. We Carry a Full Line of Fancy and Staple Groceries WE KINDLY INVITE YOUR INSPECTION Our New Store: 1201-3 Jackson St. Phone Beacon 505 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. DR. J. A. 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