Cayton's Weekly

State Library Cayton's Weekly JUDGING from the many persons who fail to rise promptly when the "Star Spangled Banner" is played, and the vast number of men who have to be reminded to doff their hats when the flag goes by, it is evident that many are not conversant with the rules of etiquette of the Flag. If other Flags are displayed, Old Glory must be on the right of them all, or above. The only exception is the Church Flag of our Navy which is hoisted above Old Glory when divine service is going on, and signifies Our Country's submission to God. Also the only object that can be laid on our Flag is the Bible. Never place the Flag upside down, as this is recognized as a signal of distress, and should never be made use of except in cases of extreme danger. When the Flag is old and tattered, it should be placed in a glass case. The Flag should never be placed below a person sitting, always above. Every man and boy should stand and doff his hat when the Flag goes by, and as a matter of courtesy to our Allies, rise when their National hymns are being played. Even when the Flag is thrown on the screen at the movies, show your respect by rising. PRICE FIVE CENTS CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington. U. S. A. 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 BOSCOE CAYTON. Editor and Publisher EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS One of Uncle Sam's bravest of the brave young men fell to his death when Quentin Roosevelt, a son of Theodore Roosevelt, was shot in an encounter with the Huns in an air battle last Wednesday. Of Quentin it can be said without fear of successful contradiction that he was a chip off the old block and all America had hoped he would come through the bloody ordeal and return to the land of his birth and become as useful to the country as has his illustrious father. His death is as lamentable as was the death of the late John Puroy Mitchell. Just why Schwab and D. E. Skinner being total strangers to each other, found it necessary to so lovingly embrace each other on meeting the first time is a more or less mooted question just now, but they did and it strikes us very forcibly that there is a "nigger in the wood pile." Skinner is doing more government work than any other shipbuilder of the Pacific Coast. Schwab is working for the government for one dollar per year. Is it possible that things have passed between these men that make life-long friends of them though total strangers. It begins to look very much like that Bill Kaiser has been hooked and his efforts for the past week to get away will result in him wearing himself out and be eventually drawn in. This week's offensive on the part of the Huns has proved an absolutely failure, not only gained nothing, but lost heavily. How different is this last drive to former ones and if we read the signs of the times correctly it means the beginning of the end of this great worldwide war. An offensive drive on the part of the Allies now seems the proper thing. It is highly gratifying to the citizens of the United States to note the splendid manner in which our soldiers over there are acquitting themselves. At present the U. S. soldiers in France number more than a million and they are in action all down the line and since they have been the tide of war has turned in the Allies' favor. Apparently the troops of the Allies were tired out and the same must be true of the Germans, and the Sammies gave new life to the Allies and gave death and destruction to the Huns. Let's hope that our boys will keep the good work up and not only check the Huns, but drive them from the field. It begins to look as if John Sharp Williams is to inherit the mantel of buffoonry of the United States senate, which recently fell from the shoulders of Ben Tillman. Both Williams and Tillman hailed be displayed in stormy weather. If other Flags are displayed, Old Glory above. The only exception is the Church above Old Glory when divine service is mission to God. Also the only object to Never place the Flag upside down, and should never be made use of except When the Flag is old and tattered, The Flag should never be placed by Every man and boy should stand and as a matter of courtesy to our A being played. Even when the Flag is thrown on the by rising. from the "po white trash" of the South and their life-long tirades against the colored man is the principal part of their religion and education. John Sharp Williams, like Benjamin R. Tillman, is a dangerous demagogue and a no less public criminal than Huerta of Mexico. Today, if Williams had not proved himself a past master at murdering Negroes, he would be following a razor-back mule in the cotton fields of the Mississippi, the vocation of the rank and file of "po white trash" of the South. If any one got the impression from an advertisement in this paper last week that any one save Horace Roscoe Cayton has anything to do with its policy, then such person or persons were never so wrong. Cayton's Weekly is Republican in politics and has no intention of kicking out of the traces after the primaries, but before the primary election it proposes to hand the court house ring a whole armful of hot stuff and you can bet your bottom dollar your time is coming. Its costing more to operate King County than it does Spokane, Pierce and Multanomah (Oregon) counties combined, which means somebody is getting more than a living salary for loafing about that court house, purporting to be holding a clerkship and giving the taxpayers value received for the princely salary they are drawing down. OF GENERAL INTEREST The Divinity School of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia has been purchased by the Mercy Hospital for Colored officers and soldiers. The hospital will be enlarged so as to accommodate 2000 patients and the six acres of ground around VOL. 3, NO. 6 Whenever the "Star Spangled Banner," our recognized National Air, is played, or sung, all should rise, and remain standing, facing the musicians or singers, until the ending. The Flag should never be hoisted nor displayed out of doors before sunrise, nor should the Flag be allowed to remain out after sunset. When the Flag is raised at ceremonies, all present should stand at attention and salute with the right hand raised to the forehead over the right eye. It is an unwritten law that the Flag should never be washed, as it is always considered immaculate. It should never be allowed to trail or lie on the ground, or be left out over night or Old, Old Glory must be on the right of them all, or at the Church Flag of our Navy which is hoisted service is going on, and signifies Our Country's sub- ject that can be laid on our Flag is the Bible. be down, as this is recognized as a signal of distress, of except in cases of extreme danger. stattered, it should be placed in a glass case. placed below a person sitting, always above. stand and doff his hat when the Flag goes by, to our Allies, rise when their National hymns are down on the screen at the movies, show your respect the South the building will be used as a recreation center for colored soldiers and sailors, where of their various amusements will be provided. The warp Wil- s a dan- work of the hospital will be directed by the Crispus Attacks Circle for War Relief. Reports from the front declare that the Colored American troops in France are not only holding a portion of the west line of Verdun, but they are making an exceptional showing in the trenches. They are also operating in the Argonne region, which is an important area six miles back of the firing line. There is at least one large steamship plying between Newport News, Va., and England, carrying food and ammunition to the Allies, which is commanded by a colored man, Captain Rocha. The rest of the crew is white. He is the only colored captain on record. Three hundred men are in training at Howard University. They will receive special instruction in radio engineering, construction and operating in automobile repair work, electricity, engineering and woodworking as well as a number of other mechanical and technical branches. When the course of training is completed they will be assigned to special duties either in this country or with the American forces "over there." The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church has voted to move the C. M. E. Publishing House from Jackson, Tenn., to Nashville. The plant with all its machinery will be moved in a short while. They are publishers of a series of Sunday School literature and The Christian Index. --- --- TOWN TOPICS Periodically there is a call from white persons arranging for some kind of a show for the amusement of the white public for colored persons to attire themselves in the costumes of their former slave parents and parade themselves in front of a gaping public for its entertainment and amusement. Such white persons must think the colored persons are proud of the fact that they were once human chattels and occupied positions in the body politic of this republic on a par with the horse, mule and cattle of the field. If there are any humiliating features about a public function, whether of a personal, or patriotic nature, the colored man is alaways asked to perform that, but he is never wanted when the accomplishments of this country are being paraded before the public. The very next time some one asks you to reassume your former chattel attire, you will be perfectly justified in spitting in such person's face and follow that up with a fist full of fingers full in the face. We once were slaves and there is no denying it, but we are not boasting of it, yea not only not boasting of it, we verily think that every slave holder has either already gone to that lake of everlasting fire or will sooner or later get there. Thanks to Garrison, Brown, Lovejoy, Stowe, Lincoln, Grant, Sumner and thousands of others, the colored man is a full fledged citizen of the United States and has no desire to recall the days of slavery. At high noon last Tuesday Miss Lola Graham and Mr. S. T. McCants were united in marriage at the First A. M. E. Church in the presence of a host of friends and well wishers. A reception followed the ceremony at which many invited guests felicitated with the happy couple. Mrs. McCants is an accomplished typist and stenographer in the government service at Bremerton, while Mr. McCants is a well known business man of the city, who has been quite successful in his business undertakings. Rent profiteering is one of the many problems that confront the American people and organized labor is doing the greatest amount of hollering. Men earning from $7 to $10 per day want to get comfortable apartments, steam heated, at prices the same apartments rented for before coal went skyward. But some of the phases of the rent question are so amusing that the hard hearted "rent graber" has to smile. All the landlords are by no means rent profiteers, yea verily they go to the other extreme. A landlord down in Rainier valley prior to the rent raising reign let his elegant house and lot with fruit and berries for $12 per month, since the reign begun he has only raised his rent two dollars, which means that he gets $168 gross annually from his property. To say the least the property cost him $3,000, but including all of his labor nearer $4,000. He could sell the property today for that amount. If he would sell the property for $3,000 and loan the money out at 7 per cent interest, it would net him $210 annually, whereas the property rented, after deducting taxes and upkeep does not net him to exceed $70 per annum. The property would rent for $45 per month as readily as it does for $14 per month. Another phase of the rent raising question runs like this, an apartment house tenant, who also has considerable property for rent, was raised three dollars on the price being paid, which so incensed the tenant that the picture on the wall hung its head when said tenant had finished speaking a piece on the rent profiteer. But the same tenant proceeded to do some rent raising too and one tenant who had been paying $18 per month for an eight-room house, got a notice that said rent had been raised to $50 per month and it was pay or move. Now, that is probably none too high, but for the love of Mike what's sauce for the gander should be sauce for the goose. And now that a number of our colored bretheren have purchased aere tracts in Kitsap county and have recently taken their families thither to begin to lay the foundations for swell summer homes they are showing some class. Already Dr. David T. Cardwell, B. F. Tutt and S. H. Stone have purchased summer homes across the bay and the former two have already moved on their properties for the ensuing summer. His drawbacks and handicaps to the contrary notwithstanding the colored man is rapidly adopting the habits and customs of his brother in white. Many of them in Seattle are making much money out of their respective businesses and professions and whether extravagant or otherwise they are purchasing such things as will add to their bodily comfort and that too whether it takes much or little money with which to do so. It is safe to say that in the city of Seattle the colored folk have over $100.000 invested in automobiles. So common has the garage become among colored families that it no longer excites comment and now the summer home fad has broken out among them and its end can not be forseen. Recently John Roberts, who is in the auto express business, purchased a thirty acre tract near Cherry Valley and has already begun to improve the same and within a year hopes to have some live stock on his country or summer home. Once upon a time the colored man in Seattle was compelled to spend a great deal of time hunting a job, but at present the jobs have a long and weary chase trying to find an idle colored man to beg him to take it, organized labor to the contrary notwithstanding. As has been repeatedly said in these columns hundreds of colored men are now employed on the Seattle waterfront at wages in comparison to what the same men were compelled to work for some two years ago, almost fabulous. Many, perhaps the most of them, are investing the greater part of their earnings in either paying for property previously acquired or in new real estate contracts. Think about it, one day this week, the manager of a public garage offered a colored man $100 per month to do the janitor work of the establishment, to which he laconically remarked: "Do you think I am throwing my time away?" He knew he could go to the waterfront and earn anywhere from $150 to $200 per month and why work for half that amount? As has been previously pointed out by Cayton's Weekly it is unfortunate that a great majority of those who earn these big wages do not live in the suburbs where they could raise almost everything they consume on their tables the year round. There is just as much in saving money as in making money. Even the churches are able to raise thousands of dollars where as many houndred a couple of years ago would have been looked upon as phenomenal. There is a disposition in Seattle among some of the colored men and women at the head of affairs to completely ignore the "press" in their public functions, which seems to be a rather shortsighted policy. Those who arranged the Kelly Miller lecture in Seattle took pains to extensively advertise the lecture in the two papers published by colored men, but neither of the publishers was given an opportunity to meet the professor, which even he must have been sadly disappointed over such a shortsighted policy. Public men know that the press is the only medium of reaching the public pulse. Whether those in charge of public functions are friendly or unfriendly to the publishers of papers and periodicals if they would fully succeed they should take the press and the pulpit into their confidence. In the Kelly Miller visit the pulpit was fully recognized but it was to hell with the press, and especially the colored press. Recently the women of the state met in annual session and at the initial meeting, at which welcome addresses were made, the lawyers, doctors, preachers and the laity were all invited to meet the visitors, but the press was completely overlooked and yet both of the editors published pages of reading matter about the meeting, which was the same as taxation without representation. Among the whites few public functions are pulled off without the press being let in on the ground floor. The press is willing to devote its space to the efforts of others for the uplift, but it wants to know that its work is fully appreciated. Not long since a young lady asked that the program of a church entertainment be published gratis, which was done, and she complained because the publisher did not pay his way to see the show. Bootlegging seems to be one of the most fascinating games that many of the colored porters, who run into Seattle on the various railway trains, have ever played. To one up a tree the game of "Little Joe" and "Seben Come Leben" pales into infinitisimal insignificance in comparison to selling a bottle of booze. Almost every week a colored porter is arrested with booze in his possession, on which he had hoped to make a big wad of money, and still there are others who make their boast of getting by with the goods every ten days and have done so since the state went bone dry. In other words these men will run a chance of being arrested and having to pay heavy fines and sooner or later serve jail sentences and worst of all lose their jobs on the road for the sake of making a few hundred dollars dishonestly. He or she who bootlegs is as much a criminal as he or she who robs a house and the next legislature of the state should put the bootlegger in the same class of criminals as the pickpocket. Laws are made to obey and no mercy should be shown to the person who breaks any law. The Government should fire any railroad employee found guilty of bootlegging and not only fire him, but put him on the black list so that he could never again get employment in the railroad service. "Is see so few colored folks at the leading markets" commented a well known colored man, which lead the editor hereof to scrutinize the Saturday marketers more closely, with that view in mind. And for the past few Saturdays a favorable location was selected that the passing throng might be observed, and it is almost safe to say that out of every thousand or more white persons who passed to and from the market, but one colored person passed. After watching for some minutes the pulling, pushing, surging crowd at the market a colored man passed and to the chagrin of the observing colored man, but to the amusement of the whites thereabout, he had three chickens under his arms, the feet of all of them sticking out, which seemed to give him no concern. But what this article set out to lay before the colored families of this city was, its a mistake to depend on the telephone to buy your table edibles, when you can go to the public markets, especially the Pike Place Market, and discount your grocer fully fifty per cent. Of course everybody can not or will not go to the market, but it would be to the financial benefit of every colored family if some one of the family would go to the market for edibles at least three times per week. If multiplied thousands of white persons find it to their financial benefit to go to the markets instead of to the grocery stores for their food then it is doubly advantageous to the few thousand colored persons in the city to do so. Not many more exciting games of base ball were ever played in Seattle than the one last Sunday afternoon between the Keystone Braves, all colored., and the Asahi, Japanese champions, which was the last of a series of three games between the two teams. The first game was won by the Keystone Braves 8 to 4, the second by the Japanese Champions, 6 to 4, and the third by the Champions, 2 to 1. The park had an almost record breaking crowd to watch the black and the brown men fight for the championship and it took twelve innings to decide the contest and at that the Keystones charge the umpire with throwing --- the game. Though victorious the Champions are not boasting over their success and it is thought another series will be pulled off before the season closes. The Keystones will play in Tacoma next Sunday. Last Sunday's game was a pitcher's play, few men leaving the bat. POLITICAL POINTERS Two years ago the Woman's Political Alliance did some magnificent political work. It was however new at the business at that time, but should be in a much better position to do political work now than two years ago. Two years ago Mrs. W. L. Presto was president of the club and having had considerable political experience she was able to take advantage of many seemingly, to persons less experienced, awkward situations that arose in the campaign. Let's hope the present president is equally versed. Next Sunday afternoon at 300 Main Street the King County Colored Republican Club will hold its regular monthly meeting to consider the approaching political situation. The coming primary promises to be one of the hotest scraps that has ever been pulled off in this county and if the Colored Club has any trumps it should lose no time in getting into the thickest of the battle. There will be a number of candidates for each nomination and the fur will begin to fly in the very near future. No Democrat can be found willing to run for any office in King county from constable to congressman. All the filings in the primary are by Republicans. The same condition is reported over the Pacific northwest generally. But nearly always hitherto the Democrats have elected part of their ticket in King county and the state, and two years ago Woodrow Wilson carried Washington by 17,500 and King county by 13,000. It's in the air that this is to be a Republican landslide year. Why the change? All the progressive Republicans are either back in the Republican party or they are sawing wood. Ole Hanson, who stumped for Wilson among the Scandinavians in 1916 and rolled up thousands of Republican votes for the Democratic candidate, was an honored guest on the platform at the late Republican state convention. John Ballaine, who wrote the famous open letter to Candidate Hughes asking his views on Alaskan issues, which Hughes dodged, praised the Wilson record in Alaska in the campaign two years ago and promised Alaska coal on the markets of the western coast by 1917. The Railway and Marine News and the Post-Intelligencer, mouthpieces for the Guggenheims, now show that Alaska coal will not be on the markets before the next administration. They are jeering Ballaine for his letter to Hughes, and are pointing to the carnival of waste and bad management on Uncle Sam's Alaska railroad as a sample of Democratic incompetence. Col. Otto Case, too, who did the work of a hundred men in organizing Wilson clubs among Progressive Republicans, is dumb just now. Col. Otto spellbinded on the Wilson achievements in Alaska, like Ballaine. But now, alas! Alaskan and Seattle papers are saying that the Guggenheims are again in the saddle in Alaska stronger than ever, and the old line Republicans are chuckling. And now comes Mayor Ole Hanson with a demand on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the coal shortage and the high prices of coal in the northwest. --- No wonder there are no Democratic candidates. It's all nuts for the Republican politicians. The War Department has arranged to send about 4000 colored drafted men to school this summer for special training in radio-engineering, general engineering, electricity and the care of motor vehicles. As soon as they have finished their courses they wil lbe assigned to regiments of Negro troops. SEEKING PUBLIC OFFICE Filing for the primary election (thus far all Republicans) which began last Friday one week up to going to press are as follows: County Treasurer A. E. McBrien, 1005 4th Ave. Wm. A. Gaines, 901 6th Ave. Sheriff John Stringer, Sheriff's office. Fred Tuite, 326 Ballard Ave. Robert T. Hodge, New York Block. County Clerk Percy F. Thomas, County Clerk's office. Prosecuting Attorney Fred C. Brown, L. C. Smith Bldg. John D. Carmody, 727 18th North. S. M. Brocket, Prosecuting Attorney's office. County Assessor Robert A. Tripple, Frank W. Hull, Assessor's office. Julius G. Day, 3818 Linden Ave. County Auditor N. M. Wardall, Auditor's office. School Superintendent A. S. Burrows, Court House. County Engineer Samuel G. Humes, Court House. County Coroner C. C. Tiffin, Joshua Green Bldg. Justice of Peace (Seattle District) John B. Wright, Court House. Victor Zednick, New York Block. C. A. Austin, 535 N. Broadway. John B. Gordon, City Hall. Otis W. Brinker, Court House. Hillman Jones, 4818 Holly St. R. B. Brown, 126 East 55th St. Constables, Seattle John Watcher, 1908 Atlantic St. James E. Shannon, City Hall. James N. Lambert, Court House. Louis Hunty, 4223 King St. County Commissioners (Second District) L. C. Smith, Auburn. County Commissioners (Third District) A. E. Ruffner, Ballard. Thomas Dobson, Renton. Charles Marble, 113 W. 60th St. State Representatives District 40 Fred Mess. District 41 H. P. Rude, 4801 Alki. L. J. Cross, Renton. Evan Thomas, New Castle. District 42 H. J. Phillips, 5770 26th N. E. District 43 A. F. Haynes, 810 28th So. District 44 W. W. Conner, 907 Summit. District 45 C. O. Qualheim, 1700 Terry Ave. District 46 C. C. Bras, 2611 1st Ave. S. A. Hull, 2125 8th W. District 47 W. G. Leckey, 1634 30th. C. K. Pole, 1144 Federal. James B. Kinne, 1216 Madrona Drive. Senatorial District 31 Geo. B. Webster, 9773 Arrow-smith Ave. Ralph D. Nichols, 4815 37th So. District 32 District 33 Wm. Wray, 838 34th So. District 34 T. D. Rockwell, 613 Minor. District 35 F. H. Renick, 1424 Belmont. District 36 Fred W. Hastings, 2 Prospect. District 37 E. B. Palmer, 521 13th No. Liberia is to get the foodstuffs it needs. Arrangements have been made to export from the United States foodstuffs in limited quantities, according to the War Board of Trade. George E. Haynes has been appointed Director of Negro Economics for the period of the war. He will advise the Department of Labor in matters relating to the Negro. His duties as director began May 1st. One June 13th the Germans sent a messenger ashore from one of the U-boats just off the coast of Liberia, Africa, and demanded that the German and French Wireless station be destroyed before noon or the town would be razed. The Monrovians failed to comply with these orders and the Germans opened fire on the French station doing considerable damage in various places over the town. The Germans told the mayor that they intended to use Monrovia as a submarine base. Carlton Avenue Y. M. C. A., Brooklyn, N. Y., officially opened its doors on June 4th. The principal address at the dedication exercises was delivered by Gov. Whitman. Other prominent speakers as well as singers and musicians took part on the various programs which lasted throughout dedication week. Seventy-five colored women have been put to work in the steel works in Indiana Harbor. Ind., as laborers. They will handle light steel brick and do the ordinary work of laborers. This movement is caused by the shortage of men. TERMINAL CHILE PARLOR 218 Washington St. Serves the best Chile Con Carne and Light Lunches Good Service YOU ARE WELCOME Mrs. Tena Anderson, Proprietress 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 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. 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. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Georgia Watson, Plaintiff, vs. Milton Watson, Defendant—No. ..... Summons by Publication. The State of Washington to the said Milton Watson, 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 15th day of June, 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 cruelty. ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O. Address, 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. June 15—August 3, 1918 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of thfs summons, to-wit: within sixty days after the 29th day of June, 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. June 29—August 17, 1918. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. 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 29th day of June, 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 cruelty and non-support. ANDREW R. BLACK. Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O. Address, 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. June 29—August 17, 1918. eee FROM THE ‘‘RECORD”’ By JAMES W. JOHNSON than what is found in our funny papers. And occasionally there are flashes of real wit in it. But generally speaking, it is rather dreary reading. On June 27, the Suffrage Amendment was up before the Senate, and Senator Thompson of Kansas made a good, old fashioned, eloquent speech in support of it. He opened his speech by saying: ‘‘Mr. President, from the beginning woman has played her part in the development of civilization. She has done her share toward maintaining the material welfare of man- kind and more than her share in advane- ing the moral welfare of the people. Yet, since Adam and Eve dwelt together in the Garden of Eden woman has been fighting for her rights before the world. Even her helpmate, man, early deserted her in her struggles. In the midst of ignorance, superstition, and oppression, she has been regarded as man’s inferior. The darker the age, the more uncivilized the people, the more autocratic the government and fewer the rights she has enjoyed. As time has rolled on and the people have become more civilized and enlightened and the nations of the world more democratic the nearer she has come to be regarded as man’s equal, and, indeed, in many things his superior.’” Mr. Thompson closed his speech with the following panegyrical tribute to wo- man: “Ter spirit is with us today pleading the great cause, so long unjustly denied, to the nobler half of the human family. Like all martyrs, prophets, and seers, she has not only had the vision but the faith and indomitable courage of her convictions, and toiled with almost ceaseless energy while she lived for the cause that was to her above every other cause. Clearly she was in advance of her time. Slowly all thinking and justly disposed peoples are moving up to her advanced position. Her dream has all but become a grand reality. What in her day was to all others but a few faithful followers of a hopeless cause has now risen, swollen, stream fashion, to such a height that he must be brave to the point of foolhardiness who would longer de- sire to seek to arrest the success of this greatest of world-reform movements. “Yes: posterity will marvel, and justly, if the Senate shall fail here and now to do its duty. Did I say duty? And let me add the words, privilege, solemn and profound. Sirs, we stand in the spotlight! The eyes of the world are gazing full upon us! The world now waits on the Senate. Let us right these ‘immemorial wrongs, Woman's otherwise immedicable woes.’ ’” In spite of Senator Thompson's eloquence, the Senate did not rise to its solemn and profound duty and did not right those ‘‘im- memorial wrongs.’? President Wilson re- cently expressed his approval of the Suff- rage Amendment, but that did not make sufficient impression on the Senate to cause the measure to be put through. After the failure of the Amendment, some of the Women said that it did not go through be- cause the President did not put as much effort behind it as he has behind some other measures that he wanted Congress to pass. They expressed the opinion that if the President had gone before the Senate, as he has done on other occasions, and per- sonally plead for the Amendment, the mem- bers of that body would not have dared to let it fail. Perhaps it is true; but it must be real- ized that the Amendment did not fail tithentee oan avai lt lamas iGo aac ee eee Jearnead from the remarks made by Senator John Sharp Williams of Mississippi when Senator Thompson had finished his speech. Mr. Williams said: “Mr. President, two things said by the Senator from Kansas have struck me favor- ably. All of it, of course, has struck me eloquently, because what he read to the Senate was all eloquently indicted. One of the things that strikes me is his refer- ence to the female sex as the nobler part of the human race. I not only agree that: women are the nobler part of the human race but the purer part of it, the prettier part of it, the most poetical part of it, and the best part of it in every way in the world, “The next thing that strikes me about the Senator’s speech is his elaboration of the two words ‘‘white’’ and ‘‘black.’? He went on to draw a map, a part of which he painted white and a part of which he paint- ed black. The people who agreed with him are placed on the white part of the map and the people who disagree with him are, of course, on the black part of the map. It struck me right here that I should. offer an amendment to this joint resolution which could express something ‘white’? sure enough, not merely ‘‘on the map’’ but really. “Tn a great Republic where there is a democracy and where people pretend, at any rate, that they are in favor of fra- ternity and equality and liberty you want a homogeneous population that can be vir- tually and really brothers with one another. You cannot have that with a heterogeneous population where there is no possibility of blood relationship in lawful marriage. You can only have it where there is a poten- tiality of blood relationship in lawful mar- riage. “*T have, therefore, made up my mind to give the Senator from Kansas something “sure enough white’’ to talk about, not merely on the map, but racially and other- wise. I think the amendment which I am guing to offer can be understood by any white man or, as they say out West, by any man ‘‘who is white’? temperamentally white. who is ‘‘white sure enough, down to his gizzard,’’ you understand. “*T shall, therefore, offer an amendment, and I do now offer it, in line 9, page 1, of the joint resolution after the preposition ‘of’ and before the noun ‘citizen’ to insert the adjective ‘white,’ so that the joint reso- intion shall read: Seetion 1. The right of white citizens of the United States to vote shall not be de- med or abridged by the United States or by any State on account. cf sex. ‘“‘Now, Mr. President, I move after the preposition ‘of? and preceding the noun ‘citizen’ in line 9, page 1, of the joint reso- iution that there be inserted the adjective ‘white’.”’ Senator Williams here clearly expresses it as his opinion that where there is a heterogeneous population there can be no common demo¢raey. Then since ther is a heterogeneons population in the United State, it is his opinion that we can have no common democracy in this country. Now, Senator Williams is one of the most learned and intelligent men in the Sen- ate. A part of his studies were pursued in European universities. Then if he holds such an opinion, what must be the opinion of the great number of half-baked, .22 caliber statesmen that the South sends up to Washington? This opinion expressed by Senator Wil- liame fe tha matzamty oaninion of the whole Record show better than any written article could that race prejudice and injustice to the Negro does not only concern the Negro and the South; it is a matter of national concern. The North and the West have allowed the South to do as it pleased about the Negro, and now the white women of the North and the West find themselves balked and defeated by this same race pre- judice and injustice which has been allowed to grow and establish itself. No part of the nation will be entirely free and inde- pendent until absolute freedom and inde- pendence is also given to the Negro.—New York Age. The Government has organized a bureau for educational work among the Negroes of the South. A. U. Craig, a member of the Food Administration stati, who has been conducting food educational work among the colored people will be director of the counter propaganda bureau. The new bu- reau will combat German propaganda and will organize a big staff of workers to carry the campaign into the homes and churches of the Southern colored people. It is believed that much of the lynching of the South, and other widespread evils, are of German origin. Preparations are being made for the an- nual session of the Negro Business League which will be held in Atlantie City, N. J., August 21-23. VIOLA N. BERRY wUuccessiul muasseur Facial Massage, Hair Shampooing and Sealp Treatment Open for Business Parlors 2103 E. James Tel. East 5694 MASS MEETING Under the auspices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, at the Grace Presby- terian Church. Hon. Will E. Humphrey will address the Colored Citizens of Seattle July 30th, 1918 The committee of arrangement an- nounces the following program: AMECTICA ccirennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnme Audience Prayer vce Rev. D, A. Graham Master Ceremonies....John F. Cragwell Paper won Mrs, E, A. Johnson Our Country cnn Rev. Barber AdrS8 ccccnccnn Will E, Humphrey Appeal for Members o.cccccccccnnnennenne He dae toe eee RCV ou Wes oD is CARLOR: Refreshments served at the close of the program. TOBACCO FUND POT For our Boys in the Trenches Social and Patriotic Dancing Party Leschi Park Dancing from 6 to 12 o’clock. Monday Evening, July 22 Under auspices Colored Soldiers Comfort Committee. Smith’s Jazz Band. Chip in and help fill the Pot for our Tobacco Fund. Come and bring your friends for a jolly time. Committee—Mrs. J. Vrooman, Chair- man; Mrs. Helen Leftridge, Mrs. Sadie Marbles, Mr. S. H. Stone and Sergt. W. E. Vrooman. No Refreshments Served on Grounds. Take Yesler Car to Lake. Invitations 75 Cents