Cayton's Weekly

Statutory 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 Entred as second class matter, August 18, 1916, at the post office at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910 Office 303 22nd Ave. South MAKE IT UNANIMOUS Within the United States there are upwards of twelve million persons designated "colored" and almost another million offsprings of white and colored folks so white that they are white—more by a good deal than was the population of the thirteen colonies, when they rebelled against the British government, because they were taxed without having representation. In the states of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana the colored population outnumbers the white in the proportion of 60 to 40 per cent while in a number of other states the proportion of colored is as 40 to 60 per cent.. This horde of black and tans may not be as industrious as the Yankees, nor as thrifty as the Japanese, but in both of these particulars they are far superior to the Southern white man. They have not accumulated as much, yea by a thousand per cent, as the Southern white man, but that is due to the fact that they are not so well trained in profiteering and plundering those with whom they do business as the white man, however, in this particular, they are profiting by experience. Since these black people have been emancipated 4000 of them, including men, women and children, have been lynched and burned at the stake and during the present year almost a hundred of them have been thus abused by mad mobs of white men, women and children without any questions being subsequently asked. In other words, when a colored person does anything at which the Southern white person takes umbrage the proper punishment is to lynch him, her or all concerned. Now fighting in the trenches for the Allies in the world-wide war are, in round numbers, five hundred thousand colored soldiers. All Europe is full and overflowing with words of commendation for the valor and gallantry of the black fighters and even our own Gen. Pershing sounds their praises to the sky, which our prejudiced press stintingly publishes, all of which proves beyond a reason of doubt that the good things in these black folk who are mobbed, lynched and even burned at the stake by the scores, hundreds and even thousands for crimes and alleged crimes, which if committed by white folk are not looked upon as penal offenses, are too numerous to mention. In substantiation of this the war department recently reported an incident on the high seas, which in substance is as follows: "A boat carrying some colored soldiers and a number of white passengers was torpedoed by a German U-boat. The soldiers took charge of the situation and saw that every passenger was safely aboard of a rescue ship, but before they could get off the vessel parted and they realized that they were lost. Immediately every one of them took a soldier's position and as the ship went down they stood like statutes with right hand erect saluting the flag. Who says those men were cowards and unworthy of all the rights and emoluments of the whitest white man that ever lived is a liar and the truth is not in him or her. A million and a half of the flower of this country are fighting like demons to democratize the world and yet, so far as the twelve million colored folks in this country are concerned anarchy runs riot in every state in the South. What a different light the world would view the United States if pure democracy reigned supreme in every state in this Union—example always leads precept. Have those twelve million or more people any representation in either the legislative or judicial or executive branches of this government? you ask. In the first two none in the world and in the latter so slight that it is not to be even considered. Ignorant, no indeed, as a whole they are better educated and more generally qualified to fullfill important governmental duties than are the great mass of Russians, who form and overthrow governments between suns. The world is watching the ruling class in this country to see if it purposes to democratize the United States before it places General Democracy on the throne of the World and his fullnes sthereof. In another column hereof a sycophantic appeal made by the President of the United States of North America for the citizens to refrain from mob law is reproduced, which, in our opinion, will make no more impression upon the minds of the Southern white folks than water poured on the proverbial duck's back. The slaughter of the chickens of this land are prevented by a presidential order, the same is true of the hogs, cattle and sheep and the law is not only enforced, but generally lived up to, but when it comes to the slaughtering of the colored folks, good and true, no order is issued for the slaughtering to be discontinued, but an appeal is made which is without force or effect. God help those who rule this country to live in the spirit of the Golden Rule. MONEY-MAD AMERICA When a boy we used to hear the old Christian colored men and women fervently sing: "You may have all this world, but give me Jesus." It seldom happened that the white man took advice from the black man, but the words of that old time song seemed to have been as soothing to the white man's soul as it was to the black man's and a bargain was then and there silently struck between them and now we seem to hear the white man, whether alone or with others, fervently singing, "you may have Jesus and all His belongings, but give me the money." No condition seems to arise, but that the white of the United States devises some way to turn a dollar into his tills therefrom. An anonomous correspondent in Frank Leslie's gloried in the fact that at the beginning of the present war not over two billion dollars worth of goods and wares were being annually manufactured in this country, but at the close of the last fiscal year over 35 billion dollars worth were being annually manu- VOL. 3. NO. 8 factured. "We should worry." In other words the lives of the million men that are being snuffed out is a mere bagatel in comparison to the money we are making. So money-mad are we that our cabinet officers, our elective and appointive officers are accused of being badly infected with the disease of grafitis. But one day this week Gen. Green and a number of minor officers formerly stationed at Camp Lewis were openly accused in the courts of Tacoma as being mixed up in an amusement company that was operated near Camp Lewis, which was little short of a vice syndicate, and be it remembered Gen. Green barred all soldiers from Seattle because it ran riot with vice. And as in this case, so all over this fair land of ours to get the almighty dollar is the highest ambition of the men and women. Seattle's corporate interest is turning heaven and earth, figuratively speaking, to defeat the municipality from getting the Skagit power site, and the leader of that class of financial highbinders, at present seems to be David Whitcom, who at one time was the government's coal regulator of the State of Washington. When he was first named for the position Cayton's Weekly then and there made the statement that, one of the coal kings had as well been appointed as Whitcom, and subsequent developments in the coal business in this state has proven the correctness of the allegation. It is safe to say that the coal mine operators are realizing more cash out of their investments at present than ever before and as in the coal business, so also in every line of corporate greed and David Whitcom is now their friend at court. His efforts to block Seattle from giving the working folk of the city cheap electricity shows the calibre of the man and if the present National Administration is in sympathy with the people it will boot David Whitcom out of Washington City before he can say Jack Robinson. Billy Kaiser is doubtless not favorably impressed with the threatened Turkey trot. The Stone & Webster dog in the mangers are working hard to prevent the City of Seattle from developing the Skagit power site. Thank God the day of the corporation hog is almost closed. Roosevelt will either be the Republican presidential nominee or he will name the nominee," declares a writer, but the 1920 Convention is almost two years away and there will be many a slip between the cup and the lip before that time. Another week has passed and the tide of war continues in our favor. The two weeks offensive on the part of the United States and the Allies have temporarily slowed down, but it has brought rich rewards to them at the expense of the Germans. The hot blood that Uncle Sam has injected into the Allies has made things look blue for the Huns, and, if the pace is maintained for the remaining summer months it it here predicted that, the Boches will be praying for real peace before snow flies. But Uncle Sam is taknig no chances and is pouring men into France by the multiplied thousands. --- SUPPRESS THE MOB SPIRIT My fellow countrymen: I take the liberty of addressing you upon a subject which so vitally affects the honor of the nation and the very character and integrity of our institutions that I trust you will think me justified in speaking very plainly about it. I allude to the mob spirit which has recently shown its head amongst us, not in any single region, but in many and widely separated parts of the country. There have been many lynchings and every one of them has been a blow at the heart of ordered law and human justice. No man who loves America, no man who really cares for her fame and honor and character or who is truly loyal to her institutions can justify mob action while the courts of justice are open and the governments of the states and nation are ready to do their duty. We are at this very moment fighting lawless passion. Germany has outlawed herself among the nations because she has disregarded the sacred obligations of law and has made lynchers of her armies. Lynchers emulate her disgraceful example. I, for my part, am anxious to see every community in America rise above the level, with pride and a fixed resolution which no man or set of men can afford to despise. We produly claim to be champions of democracy. If we really are, in deed and in truth, let us see to it that we do not discredit our own. I say plainly that every American who takes part in the action of a mob or gives it any sort of countenance is no true son of this great democracy, but its betrayer, and does more to discredit her by that single disloyalty to her standards of law and right than the words of her statesmen or the sacrifices can do to make suffering peoples believe her to be their savior. How shall we commend democracy to the acceptance of other peoples if we disgrace our own by proving that it is, after all, no protection to the weak? Every mob contributes to German lies about the United States what her most gifted liars cannot improve upon by the way of calumny. They can at least say that such things cannot happen in Germany except in times of revolution when law is swept away. I therefore very earnestly and solemnly beg that the governors of all the states, the law officers of every community and, above all, the men and women of every community in the United States, all who revere America and wish to keep her name without stain or reproach, will co-operate—not passively, merely, but actively and watchfully—to make an end to this disgraceful evil It cannot live where the community does not countenance it. I have called upon the nation to put its great energy into this war and it has responded—responded with a spirit and a genius for action that has thrilled the world. I now call upon it, upon its men and women everywhere, to see to it that its laws are kept inviolate, its fame untarnished. Let us show our utter contempt for the things that have made this war hideous among the wars of history by showing how those who love liberty and right and justice and are willing to lay down their lives for them upon foreign fields, stand ready also to illustrate to all mankind their loyalty to the things at home which they wish to see established as a blessing and protection to the peoples who have never known the privileges of liberty and self-government. I can never accept any man as a champion of liberty either for ourselves or for the world who does not reverence and obey the laws of our own beloved land, whose laws we ourselves have made. He has adopted the standards of the enemies of this country whom he affects to despise." —Woodrow Wilson. COLORED NURSES Claim of Race Discrimination in the Army Is Made Under the above caption the P.-I. published the following communication, to which we say amen and thank God for the writer: To the Eeditor: Friday's editorial page ```markdown ``` of the Post-Intelligencer copies an article from the Louisville Courier-Journal relative to the discrimination against colored nurses entering the service abroad. It is true that we have a great shortage of nurses, evidence of this being in the continued request for young women to train as nurses for service in this country, releasing trained nurses for the firing line duty. Is not this the time of all times when we should all work together,shoulder to shoulder as brother with brother withdrawing color line and racial prejudice of which by this time we should all be heartily ashamed of harboring in our breasts if we would be known as patriotic Americans? Why should one American citizen discriminate against another American citizen solely because of color, and this is what we are doing. In Thursday's parade, five hundred or more Americans, including American Japanese, but excluding American colored men, marched in a body to serve their country in her time of need. Next week twenty-five American colored men from this city, as eager to serve and as ardently patriotic march alone to perform the same service for their country, which is as truly their country as it is mine. Why can't they all march together, side by side when we are all united in the common purpose of destroying the Hun, thereby perpetuating liberty and civilization? Let us have civilization at home too. The bravery and loyalty of the colored soldier on the battle field has never been disputed and in this world conflict we have countless proofs of it. Neither have we ever had cause to question the loyalty and patriotism of those left at home. Now is the time to 'bury the hatchet' and do unto others as we would have others do unto us and not only for the duration of the war, but for all time. OLIVE WOLFF, 1716 Bovlston Avenue. COAL AND COAL-DUST Burn your coal and your coal-dust separately. Either may be used as fuel, but a mixture of the two is almost incombustible. To burn coal-dust, a special type of furnace is required, but this can not be used when lumps are mixed with the dust. And when used in an ordinary furnace the dust in this mixture simply serves to clog up the apertures between the lumps, choking off the air entirely. The remedy is to separate the coal and the dust and burn each in its appropriate type of furnace. Recent experiments, described in The Electrical World (New York, June 22), prove that a clean coal of inferior heating quality may give better practical results than a better quality used in the form of lumps clogged with dust. These facts are of especial interest just now, when buyers of coal can not be pickers and choosers, but must be content to take their fuel in whatever shape it comes to them. We read: "The encessity of the utmost economy in the use of fuel is gradually being brought home to all operators. Through all of the discussion before the convention of the National Electric Light Association last week that thought was constantly recurring. "Exactly in line with various recent discussions of fuel economy was the description by L. A. Stenger of experiments on the combustion of coals carrying large quantities of dust. Everybody is getting at present about such coal as is available, and no one can longer count on selected high-grade fuel of uniform size. Mr. Stenger's experiments were directed chiefly to the air-flow through fuel-beds composed, on the one hand, of clean coal and, on the other, of coal carrying much dust, meaning by dust particles up to $ \frac{1}{8} $ - inch in diameter. Although the general effect of dust in choking air-supply is familiar, the extent to which it may do this and the disastrous effect on efficiency, as disclosed by Mr. Stenger's figures, are somewhat surprizing. "The immediate effect of dust, particularly if it settles in layers and is not uniformly disseminated, is to choke the passage of air so much that the combustion in ordinary furnaces is very unsatisfactory. Wetting the coal aggregates the dust in lumps or attaches it to the larger pieces of coal, so that the particles no longer pack and obstruct the air. Even after drying so much of the dust sticks together and to the rest of the coal that the aggregate burns more freely than before wetting. "The most striking effect brought out was the degree to which dust injures the fuel efficiency. One of the experiments showed that a dust-free coal of only 9,900 British thermal units gave much better results than a dust coal of 2,000 British thermal units. Of course, in suitably designed furnaces one can burn almost any kind of fuel with fair economy, but in attempting to fire udst-bearing coal in ordinary furnaces there is certain to be considerable loss. Even under very favorable circumstances the dust is still an embarrassment in obtaining efficient combustion. "Poor combustion means not only lowered efficiency but lower boiler capacity. Mr. Stenger's suggested remedy for dealing with this troublesome mater is simple and in plants of considerable size ought to work out very well. It is merely to crush the coal as received to a uniform rather small size and then to screen out thoroughly the dust. The crusht coal would then be used in the ordinary furnaces, while the dust would be pulverized and fed to boilers equipped with suitable combustion chambers, as indicated recently in these columns. In this way the dust instead of obstructing the combustion of the normal coal would itself be burned at an efficiency quite up to all that its value should imply." Literary Digest. Austria asked for something to eat and Germany offered her a generalissimo. Arkansas Gazette. Von Hertling's belief that the German Army will be able to obtain a decision by October may be well founded. But it will be a decision in the negative.—Rochester Herald. The present situation of Dr. Muck illustrates the value of the rest as an effect in music.—Washington Star. CAYTON'S WEEKLY Regular, Reliable, Republican, Readable Wants 500 New Subscribers This is a Sample of what it sends out Every Week No Friends to Reward or Enemies to Punish A Publication of Ideas Rather Than Personalities Read for Yourself and be Convinced Telephone Beacon 1910 TOWN TOPICS With the hope of improving the health of her daughter, Miss Gladys, Mrs. W. L. Presto left last Sunday evening for the seashore in Oregon where she will remain for the next five weeks. Miss Gladys has had a long siege of illnss and though much improved over what she was a couple of months ago, yet the family felt a change would completely restore her to health, hence the sea-side visit. Today the citizens of Seattle will banquet the thirty-five drafted (colored) men, who will leave for Camp Lewis about 4 p. m. An elegant repast will be given them and speeches made by notables. Andrew R. Black will act as master of ceremonies and Will E. Humphrey will be the chief speaker. The war department is making an urgent call for all the colored drafted men in this section to be held in readiness for a call to duty. That was a magnificent meeting held at the Grace Presbyterian church last Tuesday evening under the auspices of the National Association (Seattle branch), not magnificent from the point of numbers, but from the point of splendid addresses made by Mrs. E. A. Johnson and Will E. Humphrey, and the appeal made for membership by the Rev. W. D. Carter was as good as an address. The prayer offered by the Rev. D. A. Graham was within itself a sermon and it hit the nail on the head at every point. More such meetings are needed. There was a union picnic at Woodland Park last Thursday in which the Sunday Schools of the Mt. Zion Baptist and the Grace Presbyterian churches participated. Cayton's Weekly is endeavoring to give to the public a publication, of which no one need feel ashamed and to continue to do so it desires 1000 new subscribers at once if not sooner. Why not call Beacon 1910 and order the paper sent to your address? POLITICAL POT-POURI It begins to look as if the fight for sheriff is going to be between Jack Stringer and Bob Hodge and a hot fight will it be. On Bob's campaign card he says "Elect a real sheriff" and to this a great many voters of this county will say amen and that real sheriff, in their opinion, is Bob Hodge. Hodge has many strong friends among the colored voters of the county and one of the very heavy property holders among them called at the office of Cayton's Weekly to say, "I hope you will be able to see your way clear to help Mr. Hodge and if you do you will greatly please a great many of your readers as well as personal admirers." Others have spoken in equally friendly terms of the candidacy of R. T. Hodge for the nomination of sheriff of King county. Since our last issue the following filings for public office is reported by the county auditor: Robert Grass, representative 40th district. Republican. James A. Johnson, 2327 Emerson Street, Seattle, commissioner 3rd district. Republican. Dean Burkheimer, 2539 Tenth Ave. West. Representative 42nd district. Mrs. W. L. Presto, 1818 30th Ave., Seattle. State Senator 37th district. I. G. O'Hara, 9530 Rainier Ave., Seattle, State Senator 31st district. Clarence L. Gere, 823 East 82nd Street, Seattle, Representative 42nd district. Personal admirers are urging H. D. Buchanan to file for senator in the thirty-seventh senatorial district and he is seriously considering the same. Being state senator is not holding office to any great extent and to that end a number of strong friends are urging Thomas P. Revelle to file for state senator in the 37th senatorial district and he may do so. Tom has always fought on the side of the people and if he files the other fellow will know he is in the race. LOVE FINDS A WAY "You can't vote here because you can not understand a clause of the Constitution when it has been read to you, and if you could you can't vote because neither your father nor your grandfather could read and write," was the verdict of an election clerk at a voting booth in the state of Mississippi, where the colored population outnumber the white as 60 to 40 per cent. The colored man who had presented himself to vote was modestly educated and who was neither black nor white, but a half and half, partaking however more of his white than his black ancestor. Owing to his coal black, drake tail, hair and swarthy complexion, in any other section of the United States except the South he would have been taken for a foreigner, and never as a Negro, but in the South such completed persons are more or less common and of course are always classed as "colored persons." This young man was known as Allen Davis, a name his mother gave to him because she did not dare to tell his real name though no one who was acquainted in the community had any doubts as to his real name. In form, face and features Allen Davis was not only a very handsome young man, but a perfect beau brummel. He was a heart smasher among the colored girls in his bailiwick and many of the young white girls watched him from behind screened windows as he passed, and one more desperate than others was seen to come out on the veranda and bow to him, smiling as she did so. "But I can understand anything you read, not only understand anything you read, but I can read it just as well as you can, and moreover not only my father can read and write, but my grandfather could likewise do so, in fact both of my grandfathers could read and write," and he continued his protest by relating the names of his grandfathers. You, dear reader, may be puzzled to know how a colored man at that time could have had two grandfathers who could read and write, when it was a penal offense to teach colored men letters, but Allen Davis, be it remembered, belonged to that class of homogenous mixtures so common to the South. His mother was the daughter of a prominent white man and a colored woman which left no doubt about his grandfather maternally being able to read and write, and his father was his mother's master and in that case his parental grandfather was also quite able to read and write and therefore the grandfather suffrage law could not be legally applied to him. Allen Davis' real father took more than a passing interest in him and behind the scenes he put up the money to keep him in school and when he was twenty-four years of age he was a university graduate and handled the dead languages like an adept. No wonder it incensed him when the election clerk informed him that he was too ignorant to understand a clause of the Constitution when read to him. A gentle mother, however, was responsible for Allen being a perfect gentleman to everyone, but especially to white folks, and realizing the odds against him, he quietly left the voting booth, but not before the members of the election board had unanimously informed him that "smart niggers like you are out of place in this community." But Allen being well connected he paid little or no attention to what they said though it implied a dire threat. At home that night he related the incident to his mother and later on she related it to Mistah Wilson, who the community believed was the real father of Allen Davis, but he had little to say on the subject. Soon after that he and Allen were going to town and the young white woman who in the past had frequently found an excuse to be in the yard when Allen went by, evidently to bow to him, not observing the white man with him on this occasion gave him a most gracious bow and then threw an American beauty rose over the fence at him. Allen was afraid to pick it up until Mr. Wilson commanded him to do so, which he did, and he nervously handed it to the white man, who carefully put it in the buttonhole of his coat, leaving the impression that he thought the rose was for him and then smiled most pleasingly at the young miss. It was a fortunate thing for Allen that Mr. Wilson was with him as the girl's father had likewise observed the incident and felt proud that his daughter had thrown a rose to so noble an old gentleman as Mr. Wilson. Nothing was said about the rose incident by either of the men as they continued their journey to the city or back to home, but the next day Mr. Wilson called Allen to him before he left for the school, which he was teaching and to reach which it was almost necessary for him to go the same route he had traveled the day before, and said to him, "Suppose you go to your school through the Magnolia gulch, it is a little longer but you can start a little earlier." Without asking the reason why or waiting for any further explanation he replied, "yes sir," and raising his hat hurried away. He still had three months of school at that place, but never saw or ever heard of the young white woman again while engaged in teaching school. Allen Davis had not called that white election officer a liar nor exactly disputed his word, but he had almost done so, which was quite enough to breed trouble for the young colored school teacher in the community where he was bred and born. Violent steps had not been taken to "regulate" him by the Brandywine bulldozers as yet, but trouble was brewing. "Allen Davis, that damn smart nigger school teacher lives on Mr. Wilson's plantation and all of his niggers are protected by him," it was argued, "and we'll have to go slow." This young colored man, however, was full of high strung blood that could not be conquered and he did not bite his tongue when the Negroes of the community were imposed upon. One morning at the breakfast table the father of the young white girl, to whom reference has already been made, told the family of the intention of the bulldozers 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. Mary A. Graff Plaintiff vs. Frank E. Graff. Defend- 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 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.