Cayton's Weekly

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 TOWN TOPICS Cayton's Weekly joins with hundreds of others who have known Dr. F. B. Cooper since he has lived in Seattle, in regretting that he will leave us for the "front" next Monday. Since coming to Seattle he has identified himself with all of the movements for the uplift and has been one of the most active in pushing them along. He has built up a splendid dental practice, all of which he will leave to scatter as it will or may. Like the most of the successful colored men in the West, Dr. Cooper has as large white as black trade. He will be a member of the medical corps at the front and in all probability will sail for France as soon as he reports for duty. A number of social courtesies have been extended to him within the past week, which will continue until the hour of his departure. At the bimonthly meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which was held ni the Grace Presbyterian Church last Monday evening, some forty odd members were present and considerable routine business was transacted. President Stone stated in the outset that it was not only a meeting for the purpose of the new members getting acquainted with each other, but to also enlighten the new members of what the organisation was actually doing for the advancement of colored people all over the United States, and to that end he read at length from the annual statement issued by the general secretary. Twenty-seven dollars, the proceeds of a ball given by Mrs. J. A. Vrooman, were turned over to the treasurer and the organization by a rising vote extended thanks to her. After the adjournment a magnificent colation which had been prepared and arranged by the refreshment committee was served. Rev. Barber was one of the new members and spoke briefly. L. T. Hart, lieutenant governor of the state, was a Seattle visitor last Tuesday and in the course of conversation with the editor hereof he said: "I will not be a candidate to succeed myself and I am not sure that I will be a candidate for any office." Gov. Hart was one of the speakers at the Tacoma reception to Prof. Kelly Miller. "I am glad you reminded me of the fact that Lecturer Miller is one and the same person as Kelly Miller, the writer of the open letter to President Wilson, entitled The Shame of Democracy, and I will go back and give the book a second reading," said the governor, while in Seattle. Horace R. Cayton, Jr., spent a couple of days visiting with his family the past week, returning to his work Thursday. Each of the thirty-three boys is allowed a two day vacation and this being his time off, he blew down home to see the folks. "I am de- lighted with the work and am there for all summer. We have been working every Sunday and as much overtime as the boys will put in, but the Sunday work will probably be cut out and only straight time will be put in by the boys. There are seven boys in a tent and strict army rules are maintained. All must retire at 9 o'clock and any one heard talking after retiring hour will be punished as the court sees fit. All must rise promptly at 5:50 o'clock and be ready for breakfast at the sound of the gong. I am captain and librarian of my tent and likewise a member of the council. We are all enjoying ourselves hugely and the health of the boys is just fine." Mrs. A. Lynch, whose husband was recently discharged from the U. S. Army and is now working at the Butler grill, has been seriously ill for the past month and but recently returned from the hospital. In welcoming Prof. Kelly Miller last Wednesday evening Mayor Hanson said things about Seattle and her official family that pleased the throngs of colored men and women who listened to him. Yes, he said things that, if he as mayor of Seattle lives up to will greatly endear him to them. When first talked of for mayor no one was more objectional to the colored voters for that office than Oley Hanson, but he and one other were nominated and the colored voters, as they then saw it, choose between two evils and supported Hanson. He promised to be fair and impartial if elected and thus far he has kept his word and it is the hope of every colored person he will so continue. Fifty members of the Harmony Lodge, A. F. and M. of Seattle, chartered a car and proceeded to Everett last Sunday to be present at the annual services of the Everett lodge. The Rev. S. J. Collins preached the annual sermon, which, by all present was pronounced par excellent. It will be remembered that many of the Masons of Everett visited Seattle a few weeks ago when the annual sermon for Harmony was preached. These are splendid get together meetings and it is to be regretted that more of the fraternities do not follow in the wake of the Masons. Washington Hall was never filled with a more enthusiastic audience than the one assembled there last Wednesday evening to greet Prof. Kelly Miller. Mr. Tutt introduced the Rev. W. D. Carter as chairman of the evening, who after a brief talk introduced or presented Mayor Hanson. It fell to the lot of Andrew R. Black, an attorney at law, and himself a graduate of Howard University, of which Prof. Miller is dean, to present the professor to the audience. Mr. Black's remarks were brief, but interpersed with apt illustration, which put the audience in a happy frame of mind to receive the speaker of the evening. The band interspersed the program with splendid musical selections. A score or more colored waiters have been put in the dining room of the New Washington hotel, thus making another opening for colored men, which will prove to be quite a financial harvest. Something over a year ago colored men were given the dining room of the Butler hotel and there have been VOL. 3. NO. 3 few changes among them since it first opened, so lucrative is the job. The New Washington will, it is here predicted, pay those so fortunate as to be selected to work in the dining room even more than does the Butler as it is patronized by a more wealthy class of tourists. The colored man who is idle today does not want to work and some steps should be taken to make him work. Despite the fact that Seattle men were solely responsible for Prof. Kelly Miller's tour of the Northwest, yet he had less opportunity to meet the general public in Seattle than in any other large city of the Northwest. In Spokane he spoke before the Chamber of Comemrce at its regular noon day lunch and to the general public in the evening. In Tacoma he spoke to the Chamber of Commerce at noon and to the public in the evening, while here he only had an opportunity to speak in the evening. If at any place a public function aside from his regular lecture were given for him, it should have been in Seattle. So far as the committee in charge of the arrangements is concerned it may have been unavoidable, but it was so, which is very regrettable. There was still another colored delegate from King county to the Republican State Convention besides Rev. W. D. Carter in the person of Dr. David T. Cardwell and, be it said to his credit, he is one of the most active Republicans of Seattle. He was more or less disappointed that more colored men did not interest themselves in the caucausses that a larger colored delegation be named by the county convention to attend the state convention. At Tacoma the two colored delegates stepped just as spry, carried their heads just as high and looked just as wise from their alloted seats as the white delegates. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS Without suffix or prefix Prof. Kelly Miller is one of the learned men of the world. A sane Fourth sounds good, but if one shows signs of saneness the coming Fourth, in view of the recent Italian victories, such an one will have to be pronounced temporarily insane. Billy Kaiser is doubtless Bill Blue about now, but we all seem to have our troubles. It's day light when we go to bed and day light when we get up and yet we are in bed such a short time that we almost meet ourselves coming back as we go to bed. Partisanism has been buried by the President, but buried in such a shallow grave that it gives him no trouble to pull it out every time an appointment is to be made. In the Great Civil war thousands of families did not have three pounds of sugar a month for the whole family to say nothing of three pounds for each member of the family. The most of us preach economy for the other felwlow, but go right on practicing the same extravagance that we have always done. Charity should always begin at home. [Name] and a brother of him. The starters white men that they will sacriof the war did not foresee that the fice every drop of blood in them effects of the war would cause a to make the world safe for dem-million Negroes to give up their ocracy if they, the white men, will homes in the South and move to agree to surrend their race and the North where lucrative em-color prejudice that the world ployment awaited them. But all will be democractic." of these thnigs the war has Thus did this gifted man drive brought about, and the whole is shot after shot in the bull's eye conclusive evidence that the pres- and do so in language so choice ent war means the end of autoc- and diplomatic that even the racy and the supremacy of dem-white man suffering from color-ocracy. AN OLD-FASHIONED FOURTH What fun to hold the big bass drum, with thumpin' on behind; A boy could walk a dozen miles or more an' never mind. An' speakin'? Say, Judge Perkins he could make the people cheer. An' folks they come from miles around to git a chance to hear. An' then the races an' the games, sack races, don't you know. An' climbin' of the greasy pole—them days of long ago. I hate to speak of "good ol' days," becuz it sounds. I vow, Almost like castin' slurs upon the days of her an' now; But I'm ol' fashioned, just a bit, as all my neighbors know, An' so I miss a heap o' things that happened long ago. Maybe I'm changed, I s'pose I am, but things have changed as well. Who tries to ketch a greasy pig now-a-days, I'd like to know? An' then such wondrous things to eat! Home cookin', yes sir-ee! I most kin taste them vittles now of back in Sixty-three! An' there was dancin' in the grove with Sloky fiddlin' loud. With ruddy cheeks and sparklin' eyes all sprinkled through the crowd: An' whether they're improved, or wuss, it's mighty hard to tell; But take that day of all the days when youngsters' spirits flow, Do they have ha'f the fun we had in days of long ago? Why bless your heart, we fairly b'iled with patriotic pride, An' daylight found no boy asleep in all the countryside. An open widndow o'er the shed oft left its tell-tale track, An' many breakfasts were untouched beezu we weren't back! O, there were many things to do, things that must needs be done. Like ringin' of the ol' church bell, an' load the sunrise gun; An' there were things to be compared, and' things to swap. you know. An' ev'ry Fourth was safe an' sane, as far as we could know. An' every boy had loads of fun them days of long ago. Them good ol' days in Gungywump! I miss 'em, I confess, When ev'ry Fourth was just one round o' youthful happerness. I am ol' fashioned, just a bit, an' I don't want, I vow, To say a single word a'gin the days of her an' now, But I jest wish down in my heart the youngster of to-day, Could see us celebrate the Fourth the good ol' fashioned way: I really b'lieve there was more health an' happerness an' glow, In celebratin' Gungy's way—the way of long ago! Like pin-wheels, punk, an' paper caps, them days of long ago. An' we had celebrations then, upon the village green. With music by the Gungy band, the best was ever seen! ```markdown ``` PROF. KELLY MILLER Bristling with patriotism, pathos and profoundity was the lecture of Prof. Kelly Miller last Wednesday evening in Seattle. What man, woman or child, who listened with rapt attention to every word and sylable that he uttered from his first to his last, who were not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that, in the language of the little colored boy of one of the southern states, when asked by a white man from the North who was visiting in the South, soon after the close of the Great Civil War, what message he had to send to his white friends of the North, laconically replied. "Tellum wes risin." Yes each and every one of us under the sound of his voice felt that we had risen to a tenfold greater height than that we had ever before enjoyed. His burning words of patriotism set our souls on fire and as one man we rose and from the depths of our heart shouted to our country's call for volunteers to fight for freedom. "here am I, send me, send me." More eloquent men have spoken in Seattle in the past than did Prof. Kelly Miller; more flowery and silver tongued orators have stirred audiences in Seattle than Prof. Kelly Miller. Men more pathetic have appealed to the hearts of audiences and moved them to tears in Seattle than did Prof. Kelly Miller on last Wednesday evening. But what man of national and even international reputation has even so happily combined all of those rare attainments in one homogenous mass as did Prof. Kelly Miller. This minute he had his audience roaring with laughter and then almost in the twinkling of the eye he had it hushed in tearful silence; then a blast from his patriotic gun brought them to their feet with "my country first, right or wrong, my country first." "If Russia started the present world wide war," he argued, "for selfish purposes, as declares the Kaiser, she built better than she planned. Little did she think, when she began the war that the Jews, who had been crushed in almost every European country would be socially and politically emancipated as they now are and Bv Joe Cone This profound thinker and logician had for his hearers an almost complete colored audience and it was plain to be seen as well as to be heard that his words and his thoughts were theirs, but we would to God that we would to God that as many white men as there were colored men could have heard him. His open letter to President Wilson, entitled, The Shame of Democracy is one of the ablest documents that was ever written, but even that did not surpass his brilliant speech and we feel safe in saying every one present felt that his or her soul had been greatly blessed for being there. If the observing public is in search of a worthy subject on whom the mantel of the late Dr. Booker T. Washington can successfully fall, why not let it be Prof. Kelly Miller. He truly seems to be the man of the hour for he brings a message to the white man as well as the black man. The white man can not afford to allow the black man to assist him to win the war and after the war treat the black man unfairly. The black man can not afford to not help win the war and after the war share the spoils of war with the white man. This is not a white man's war nor is it a Democrat's war, but an American war, which should be vigorously prosecuted by all classes of Americans and after the war let all classes share and share alike the results of the war, whether they be good or bad. Such broad gaged and liberal minded men will take the lead. Some one has said, "Just experience in every soil, shows those who think will govern those who toil." There is no doubt but that Prof. Kelly Miller is one of the world's greatest thinkers and if the black folks of this country have lost a leader in the person of Dr. Washington, this distinguished educator is more than qualified to fill his shoes and wear his mantle. ```markdown ``` STATE CLUBS MEET The Washington State Federation of Negro Women's Clubs convened in Seattle last Thursday to be in session three days. Mrs. J. E. Mapps of Spokane is president of the state federation. The following women are accredited delegates from different clubs of the state: Spokane, Mrs. E. N. J. Sims, Mrs. B. Dorsey, Mrs. A. C. Houston, Mrs. George Anderson, Mrs. C. Carter, Mrs. William Thomas, Mrs. H. L. Walker, Mrs. W. T. Parker and Mrs. Mamie Hagan; Tacoma, Mrs. N. J. Asberry, Mrs. J. C. Smith, Mrs. L. W. Mack, Mrs. N. Copeland, Mrs. J. E. Binford, Mrs. J. H. Corbin, Mrs. P. V. Spencer, Mrs. T. Adams and Mrs. J. A. Nelson; Everett, Mrs. C. A. Davis, Mrs. J. Samuels, Mrs. J. Morton, Mrs. E. Baugh, Mrs. Frank Jefferson, Mrs. D. J. Morgan and Mrs. G. W. Samuels. At the Thursday evening session Mayor Hanson welcomed the delegates to the city and spoke at length of the good work the women were doing and many other things the colored folks were accomplishing, thus showing he had been posting himself on the subject. Short welcome addresses were also made by Mrs. W. D. Carter, Mr. Andrew R.. Black and Rev. W. D. Graham and responses were made by Mrs. A. C. Houston and Mrs. J. E. Mapps of Spokane. The following is the annual address of the president of the Federation: There have been many organizations brought together for the benefit of the human race. Religion, social, fraternal, political, business, Army and Navy, and in all walks of life, the object of all was Unity and co-operation. The measure of the success gained by any race or people is to look at the origin of that race, their condition and environment and compare the progress and development. The world knows the history of the American Negro, and has viewed with amazement, the stupendous strides which they have made since their emancipation. Religion, Education and Uniity have brought about their advancement, and the leaders and teachers have been largely the women. Realizing that the men who started the schools of Hampton, Tuskegee and others must have united help, we find our women working to plant the idea of better homes, better children and uplift in every branch of their new life. A little society, a school started here and there, conferences being held from time to time, finally a united convention was held in Boston in 1895. From the result of that splendid meeting, the women took new courage to work harder to help. They looked upon it as a sacred trust and how nobly they have fulfilled that trust you have been made to see. Women's clubs have become as much a necessity as any other of the vital part of the governing machinery of the world. They stand for all good, work for the mutual benefit of all; they are interested in better methods of caring for our homes and children, education along the higher lines, and in all problems of reform. From 1895 to 1913 we had twenty-five states federated, with 50,000 busy women working for the uplift of the race, and in 1918 we have a membership of over 100,000 with thirty-eight states in the National and other federations. In 1913 the property owned by club women was valued at $61.845.15. Today they own property worth $213,000. A call has never been refused by these good christian women for aid. One of the splendid works during the past year, of the United Federation, under the leadership of our noble president, Mary B. Talbot, was the raising of $15,000 to redeem the Frederick Douglass home. The mortgage has been redeemed and the home secured for a perpetual race monument. It will now be used as a school and social center for our young people and will be under the watchful supervision of these good women who saved it for us. This was done by Unity. Could I have my way, the word Unity would be so placed that every child of our race would ever have it before him, and from the babe in arms they would be taught the meaning until the next generation would claim it as their glory; or had we a race flag other than our own Stars and Stripes, I would beg permission to place across it, in letters that "he who ran might read," Unity. My friends, it is our only salvation. Today we see our country in the throes of another barbarous war, the past comes before us as a hideous dream, we can see thousands of homes broken up, mothers going around with aching hearts just as our fore-parents did when their children were snatched even from their nursing breasts and sold on auction blocks; we see thousands of our loved ones going to be slaughtered and we shudder with grief. But we can pause and think of the lesson this war can teach us. Here is a sample of that same Unity I speak of. Where have you ever before seen such blind devotion to leaders right or wrong? Unity, amongst our enemies has been their watchword. "Theirs was not to question why, Theirs but to do and die." The lesson is here for us, the opportunity is yours, will you take it? God has given us each forces and capabilities. What will you do with them? How use them? Club work in this far Northwest is still in its infancy. Yet we have made the start and with the united effort and co-operation of each one of us, working together for the future, Washington will soon become known as a State where the people of our race do things for good and that count of something. But we cannot succeed without the united aid of each one of you. Some of us complain that we have the same women in office and as leaders all of the time, but, my friends, that is not our fault. We are not paid salaries, we often make enemies of our friends because we try to lead, but if you sit at home and find fault and won't take hold and help, we are like the hunter in the woods, we have taken hold and we can't let go. Now that the start has been made, rather than fail, we must keep on until you decide to do your share. To my mind the future is filled with wonderful possibilities, and on us as Race women the fulfillment of these great opportunities depends. I have always insisted that when we can, as a whole united body of women, show to the world, especially the women of other races, that we value our homes as they do, that we want our children to have the best in education, skilled labor and trades and professions, thus increasing the morale amongst our race, then they as a Unit will help us, the women, to do away with lynching, and it will be done at once. It is the women who do things always, and it is up to us. So let us forget the past with its terrible wrongs to us as a Race, let us work for Unity, drop all narrow-mindedness and petty jealousy, hold up the hands of our leaders everywhere. Let us see the value of organization to us in this new democracy which the world is fighting for; let us help do away with the dives and breeding places of crime and we will share to the fullest extent in all good things to come to this world when peace comes. Let me suggest a few ways in which the Federation of Washington and Jurisdiction can help. One efficient aid will be an active civic league. How many of us really know the value of a wide-awake Civic League? How many of our clubs do any civic work? How many of our people know the meaning of civic? You can watch out for our young people, especially our girls, protect and advise them; when a question of politics is prominent, find out the morale and fitness of candidates, also hold community meetings and have short sessions of patriotic singing and talks and at this time have prayers for our soldiers; notice the homes and surroundings of our people and if they are not living in a sanitary way, with tact and kindness, show them what helps they will be to the race to change conditions and assist us in City Beautiful plans. These ideas will lead to others and you will find that by working in unity, much will be done. I should also like to see an active Art Committee. Their field for good work is so vast. If you have your own club rooms, see that they are attractive and homey, enticing the young people to gather there and spend their time reading good books and papers, especially those written by our own race authors; have good lectures, chalk talks, study the moving pictures and recommend the good ones. Cooperate with a music committee and your civic league, and next year's meeting you will be second to none with a grand report of work accomplished. A vital necessity is an active Finance Board. We need a State Fund, for so many calls will be made to us for help later on, when the natural results of the war is brought home to us with the loss of husbands and fathers. In time we can also have an endowment. Our Literary and Library Extension Committee has not been active as yet, but I hope next year they also wil be busy. Cooperating with a good press committee, having an exchange system for the different Clubs, current events and papers, topics of general interest will help them. Let us also try to interest our older ladies in our club work, inviting them very especially to visit and join with us in our meetings. We might also urge them to form clubs of their own, to cooperate with us, regardless of literary ability, as we can doubtless learn much from their vaster experience of life. And so this means more work for our Club Extension Bureau. I wish to thank each officer, each committee chairman, and each member of all the clubs who have worked so hard for us to have a successful first year's work. You will all admit that my position as your first State President has been a difficult one, each move that I made was criticised, either kindly or otherwise. Having no guide posts to watch, I have gone on in fear and trembling, but I now feel thankful that we have arrived at our first milestone. I feel that with the kindly cooperation which you will continue to give during this coming year's work, it will enable us to tell our new officers and comrades next year that we feel that the foundation of our State Federation is builded on a firm rock of sisterly love and Unity of Race and they will not have to tear down what has been done, but can go on and build a Federation Structure which will be a lasting Race Monument to us in this great Northwest. And now for a last thought, which I hope above all others, you will keep in both your minds, active and sub-conscious, and that is this, whenever you criticise, be sure that you are right and just. If you deem it necessary, try and criticise in a kindly, constructive and not a destructive way. Remember that the longest night has a day, and if you are displeased with your present leaders, support them in Unity of spirit and duty and change worthily at the proper time. The friendships we have made, the exchange of good will and kindly hospitality shown us, are bright memories forever, and we look forward to much larger service in the future. Our first year is closed, Our first records made, And now let us with purpose clear, Start out for united work another year! AFRO-AMERICAN HOTEL Phone Beacon 912 1261 Main Rooms by Day or Week. Well kept and highly sanitary. Steam heated. Mrs. T. H. Jones. VROOMAN HOTEL Phone Beacon 29 1236 Main Three story concrete building. Steam heated. Beautifully furnished. W. E. Vrooman Jennie Vrooman NEW WAY CAFE Phone Main 5964 1034 Jackson Regular Dinner from 4 to 8 P. M. We give Special Attention to Theatre parties J. C. Garner and E. T. Palmer, Props. GOLDEN WEST Phone 2647 1034 Jackson Tailors and Cleaners Clothes called for and delivered. Hats retrimmed and blocked. H. S. Frazier C. W. Curtest