Cayton's Weekly

State Library Cayton's Weekly 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, Vash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910 Office 303 22nd Ave. South WHAT A SHAME When the colored citizens of Seattle organized a Colored Council of Defense to exclusively look after the entertainment of colored soldiers a more flagrant case of segregation was never set on foot and its an absolute disgrace. While a committee of colored citizens is in Camp Lewis combating the efforts to segregate the whie and black soldiers, other colored citizens in Seattle are segreating not only the colored soldiers but likewise themselves, all of which is so despicable that to be hated it needs but to be seen. Every colored person who voted for the organizing of a separate council for defense should be drummed out of the city. If the officers of Camp Lewis do not fling the actions of the colored citizens of Seattle into the face of the committee and say to them charity begins at home, we will be surprised if there ver was need of am ass meting in Seattle to denounce the actions of a self-constituted few, now is the time and the organizers of that Colored Council of Defense handled without gloves. The colored man who resents the segregation of the white man, but almost with the same breath does so himself, is a hypocrite and is not worthy of being called a citizen of this Republic. THEY ARE GONE "It's a long lane that has no turn" and while the mills of the God's grind very slow, yet they grind exceedingly fine. Within the past month a quartet of America's most dangerous, bleatant mouthed bovines have reached the end of their rows and are now "where the wood bine twineth." Benjamin Tillman, the fire-eating human pitchfork, is doing the sleep that knoweth no waking, and we thank God for small favors. James K. Vardeman, the Mississippi muskrat, has been run into his hole and had to pull his hole in after him to save his bacon; Cole Blease, the South Carolina blatherskite, has a second time been beaten for a seat in the United States Senate, which must be the end of his political career. W.D. Haywood, the Big, Blustering Bill, that should have been hanged for the death of Gov. Stunnenberg of Idaho, some twenty-odd years ago, has finally got his and now faces a twenty-year prison term and in addition a fine of $20,000, all of which will result in life imprisonment for this man of blood and bones. It may be a long long lane to Tiperary, but, "believe me." if you just pound away, some day you will get there. This country is greatly in need of men "all wool and a yard wide," but Tillman, Vardeman, Blease and Haywood were 'too dam wide" and so they have been spilled out. May hell, made doubly hot by the arrival of the Hungarian fiends, be their portion and the sooner the better. HAWTHORN'S RAW STATEMENT In discussing the after-war situation in labor circles, Col. J. M. Hawthorne, the Democratic candidate for Congress from the Seattle-Kitsap district, is quoted as having made the following statement: Hawthorne said he would use every effort, if elected, toward smoothing over after the war problems which might bring chaos to the country if not attended to. "In some jobs, it will not be posisble to have two men do one day's work," he said. "In that case, we would have employes work alternate weeks. I can see the possibility of 80,000 men for 40,000 jobs in Seattle, and the only way to deal with such a situation is half-time work for all." Nothing short of a dangerous political demagogue would go on record as favoring legislation to this effect. He is simply truckling for the support of organized labor and will make any kind of unreasonable promise to camouflage them into giving him their votes, with the hope oef backing and filling when once in Congress to justify himself. When the war is over there will be a greater need for farmers and farm hands than now or any time in the life time of those soldiers and instead of putting in half time in the city work shops they can go to the country and put in full time. For ten years after the war the United States will have to be the store house of the world and it wil be more profitable to raise hog and hominy in the country than to raise hell in cities and towns. Provide homes for the returned soldiers in the rural districts and encourage them to help get the world back to a normal condition from a food standpoint and humanity will be benefitted to a much greater extent than over crowding the cities in quest of four hour per day jobs. But this political camouflaging seems to be characteristic of the southern Democrat. In the south he goes to Congress on the pretext of preventing "nigger dominancy" and in the north he goes to Congress on the pretext of protecting the working man. Some time ago we made the statement that it would be a burning disgrace for Seattle to ever again elect a Southern Democrat to Congress and since we have read the above statement of Col. Hawthorne we are doubly certain of it. A house each for one hundred thousand working men is wanted in Seattle and at the rate the houses are being built it will take two years or more to supply the demand and by that time we suspect there will be mroe houses than there will be takers. It's a quer old world after all, when you think you have you haven't and when you think you haven't you have. Because Cayton's Weekly referred to her as one of two colored persons who had filed for nominations in the coming prmiaries, Mrs. W. L. Presto took the editor hereof to task. We beg your pardon, madam, and take half of it back. If we had as much sense as some men think they have, we would say to the Almighty, "You go way back and sit down." VOL. 3, NO. 13 CAMP LEWIS ORDER RESCINDED To the pleasure and satisfaction of the citizens of the Northwest the segregation unpleasantness at Camp Lewis has been satisfactorily settled and now things are moving as of yore. That the readers may have the full history of the case the cause of the unpleasantness is herewith reproduced: HEADQUARTERS CAMP LEWIS American Lake, Wash., August 22. 1918. Bulletin: No.114. I. On account of the overcrowding of the present Hostess House, hereafter the Hostess House at North First and Montana Strets wil be used exclusively by the white soldiers and their friends. The Hostess House just established in the Y. M. C. A. Building, No. 53, including lavatory building No. $ 6 4 1 \frac{1}{2} $ will be used exclusively by the colored soldiers and their friends. BRIGADIER GENERAL VANDERBILT CHAS. D. M. HOUGHTON. Major, A. G. D., Camp Adjutant. Official: CHAS. D. M. HOUGHTON, Major, A.G.D., Camp Adjutant. After the above bulletin became public property a committee of five colored persons called upon the proper authorities at Camp Lewis to protest against its enforcement and ask that the same be rescinded. As said in our last issue, Col. F. C. Johnson received the committee very cordially, and after listening to the spokesman, assured the committee the matter would be given his immediate consideration and added, "I think it can be satisfactorily arranged." He promised to communicate with the spokesman when a conclusion in the affair was reached and to that end the following letter has been received: Headquarters 13th Division Camp Lewis American Lake, Washington September 3, 1918. Mr. H. R. Cayton, Editor "Cayton's Weekly", 303 22nd South, Seattle, Washington. Dear Sir:— I enclose copy of Bulletin No. 122, Headquarters Camp Lewis, which rescinds the exclusive use of Hostess Houses by either white or colored soldiers. I desire to assure you again that the original bulletin was issued solely to avoid overcrowding of any of the buildings and not with any desire to discriminate against colored soldiers. Very truly yours. F. C. JOHNSON, Colonel, Infantry. Chief of Staff. (13th Recorded Div.) In Bulletin No. 122, section two, the following appears: Section 1, Bulletin 114, Hq. Camp Lewis, e.s., is hereby rescinded. By Comand of BRIGADIER GENERAL VANDERBILT. ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` POLITICAL POINTERS Cayton's Weekly, after carefully considering the county assessr situation, has reached the conclusion that of those seeking the office Hugo Kelly should be supported and it makes this recommendation despite the fact that the editor hereof and Kelly have little or no use for each other. We do not believe Hull will give to the taxpayers a fair administration and if Kelly is not nominated, Hull will be. In our opinion the affairs of the assessor's office are in a topsy turvy condition and in the interest of the taxpayers should have other than a court house ring man to look them over. Remember when you go to mark your ticket that Elmer F. Connor is a square shooter while Wardall is ad ouble crosser. Both Clay Allen and C. S. Hall are good men and you will make no mistake whether you vote for the one or the other. Crawford E. White is just as white as his name indicates him to be and on the bench he would be everybody's friend. Z. B. Rawson is no strutting peacock and when he would return from Congress he would know every one he ever knew before. Its cowardly to vote for a candidate because you feel he will win in spite of you. If the candidate in your opinion is wrong vote against him if you be the only one that does do so. It will be Presto change in the senate if Mrs. W. L. Presto is elected next Tuesday. She is a good talker and a hard worker. W. M. Pease will make an ideal running mate for E. H. Guie, who is one of the whitest men that ever sat in the Washington legislature and we truly hope the voters in the 47th legislative district will vote for Pease and Guie. Since the nominee on the Democratic ticket for prosecuting attorney is to be Brown it might be just as well to make the Republican nominee for prosecuting attorney Brown and let the Browns go to it. Albert D. Martin is one of the brainy lawyers of the state and should he happen to be nominated and elected King County's legal business will be well taken care of. If Tom Mulligan does not win one of the nominations for Constable in Seattle and then he is one Irishman whose right hand has forgot its cuning and his tongue cloven to the roof of his mouth. Tom is a good fellow. Horace R. Cayton will represent you in the legislature as you have never been before because he knows the ropes. Give him a vote. Frank Hull and A. E. McBreen belong to the court house ring that pass the office down from one member of the ring to the other. A political ring is a dangerous thing for the tax payers and should be voted out of existence. If Special Prosecutor Reames could have only induced enough Democrats to have filed for office to have completed a ticket for the primary election his official brow beating might have gotten him somewhere, but as it now stands the Democratic party will not be entitled to a place on the primary ballot two years from now. HERE IS THE TICKET County Treasurer William A. Gaines .....X A. E. McBreen Sheriff Robert T. Hodge .....X John Stringer Fred Tuite ```markdown ``` OLD GLORY **County Clerk** Percy F. Thomas ..... X **Prosecuting Attorney** Fred C. Brown ..... X John D. Carmody S. M. Brackett A. D. Martin Thomas D. Page **County Coroner** Dr. C. C. Tiffin ..... X **County Engineer** Samuel J. Humes ..... X **Superintendent Common Schools** A. S. Burrows ..... X **County Auditor** Elmer F. Connor ..... X Norman M. Wardall ..... X **County Asesor** Hugo Kelly ..... X Frank Hull —— Day R. A. Tripple **Commissioner Second District** Lou C. Smith ..... X M. L. Hamilton Herman Nelson **Commissioner Third District** Thomas Dobson ..... X A. E. Ruffner Charles Marble John E. Mullane James A. Johnson **Justice of Peace (Seattle)** (Vote for five) John B. Wright ..... X Victor Zednick ..... X Rhea M. Whitehead ..... X John B. Gordon ..... X Otis W. Brinker ..... X **Constables Seattle District** (Vote for five) D. C. Brown ..... X John Wachter ..... X Tom Mulligan ..... X James F. Shannon ..... X John H. Boyle ..... X **LEGISLATIVE TICKET** **Thirteenth Senatorial District** Howard D. Taylor ..... X Ira H. Case ..... X **Thirty-first District** George B. Webster ..... X or Dan Earle ..... X **Thirty-second District** Daniel Landon ..... X **Thirty-third District** William Wray ..... X Louis Williams ..... X **Thirty-fourth District** Ralph A. Horr ..... X T. D. Rockwell ..... X **Thirty-fifth District** Frank H. Renick ..... X Alice M. Lord ..... X **Thirty-sixth District** Fred W. Hastings ..... X G. E. Steiner ..... X **Thirty-seventh District** Mrs. W. L. Presto ..... X E. B. Palmer ..... X George B. Lamping ..... X **STATE REPRESENTATIVES** **Fortieth District** No Choice. **Forty-first District** No Choice. **Forty-second District** No Choice. **Forty-third District** Horace R Cayton .....X **Forty-fourth District** No Choice. **Forty-fifth District** No Choice. **Forty-sixth District** No Choice. **Forty-seventh District** E. H. Guie .....X W. M. Pease .....X J. B. Kinne .....W. G. Lickey .....C. K. Poe .....Neal Boyle .....J. M. Wilson .....H. D. Buchanan **For Congress** John F. Miller .....Z. B. Rawson .....X **NONPARTISAN TICKET** **Supreme Judges** Short Term Kenneth Mackintosh .....X Walter M. French .....X Long Term Wallace Mount .....X John F. Main .....X Charles E. Claypool .....X **Superior Court** Crawford E. White .....X Clay Allen .....X The ticket as marked above is cheerfully recommended to you and each of you for your suffrage at the polls next Tuesday, September 10, by the editor of Cayton's Weekly. The march to Berlin goes bravely on and while the Allies find it difficult to keep in shooting range of the fleeing Boches, yet they keep near enough to capture a few thousand every day. Billy Kaiser has seen his best days and from now on his biggest fighting will be in getting out of the way. House building is the order of the day and the day and the thing may be over done unless the warning of James A. Moore is heeded and a mammoetaoishrdlumfwypetao lished near Seattle to give employment to those now employed in the shipyards after the war is al over. It's barely possible that the reason the papers misquote Clarence Reames is because the editors and reporters have too high a regard for Mother English to quote him correctly. Mutilated English always looks bad in print. Bonner, in discussing the Camp Lewis situation says, "I am of the opinion there is a dead dog up the branch," which is taken to mean somebody is profiteering at the general expense of the colored people. Sunday and Labor Day were strenuous ones for Kaiser Bill for he neither had time to receive prayers for "me and Gott" nor to listen to the labor day orators. Owing to his touchousness on the lynching question, we have our suspicions that Clarence Reames is a Democrat. It's a case of "run sheep, run," with the Germans just now, for the buggar man will catch you if you don't. We do not believe Mooney innocent, but we do not believe he should hang. (Paid Advertisement) REAH WHITEHEAD Justice of the Peace For Re-Election Republican Primaries September 10, 1918 --- VOTE FOR THESE THE KING COUNTY COLORED REPUBLICAN CLUB HAS ENDORSED THE FOLLOWING PERSONS SEEKING REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS AT THE PRIMARY ELECTION, SEPTEMBER 10, 1918. THE CLUB HAS THOROUGHLY INVESTIGATED THESE MEN AND DO MOST HEARTILY RECOMMEND THEM TO THE VOTERS. THE WOMAN'S POLITICAL ALLIANCE HAS ALSO ENDORSED THE SAME CANDIDATES AND WILL WORK IN HARMONY WITH THE KING COUNTY COLORED REPUBLICAN CLUB FOR THEIR NOMINATION AND ELECTION. (Paid Advertisement) FOR SHERIFF ROBERT T. HODGE FOR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY FRED C. BROWN THE CLUB HAS THOROUGH AND DO MOST HEARTILY RECOM HAS ALSO ENDORSED THE SAME CAMPAIGN WITH THE KING COUNTY COUNTY THEIR NOMINATION AND ELECTION THE COLORED SOLDIER ON THE SCREEN (By Lester A. Walton) Colored Americans are giving their lives, money, moral support—their ALL to help take the "germ" out of German. Yet this display of generosity and loyalty has not moved the average white American to look at us out of serious and unprejudiced eyes. "Over there" they continue to poke fun at the colored American even when he is in the trenches "over there." If you want to see the colored soldier misrepresented and ridiculed just go to the movies. The Hearst-Pathe pictures are supposed to keep us acquainted with what our boys in khaki are doing in France. For months this film has sought to arouse interest and kindle the enthusiasm of the American public by presenting on the screen each week the American soldier. There has been one notable exception to this propaganda. AT NO TIME HAS THE COLORED SOLDIER BEEN SHOWN AS A MAN! On two different occasions last week I saw the colored man as a soldier ridiculed on the screen. The first instance was when a Hearst-Pathe picture, after showing white Americans in the trenches at their best, portrayed a colored soldier, a most dumb specimen of humanity, sitting with book in hand trying to learn French. The man who posed for the picture was scratching his head and gazing into the book in bewildreed fashion. Evidently he was as dumb as he looked for no intelligent, self-respecting colored solider would permit himself to be used as a clown. The second instance in which the colored man was used to inject a dash of "comedy" took place at the Strand Theatre. I was in company with a colored war worker, and we --- FOR AUDITOR ELMER F. CONNOR FOR COUNTY TREASURER W. A. GAINES LY INVESTIGATED THESE MEN MEND THEM TO THE VOTERS. INDIDATES AND WILL WORK IN HARLORED REPUBLICAN CLUB FOR N. By Order of applauded without stint pictures showing white troops engaged in fighting the Hun. Then a "joke" was flashed in which one colored man called another "niggah" in controversy as to whether it would be safer to enlist in the army or navy. The implication behind this "piece of humor" was that two badly frightened Negroes were figuring on the less dangerous way to serve their country. "That isn't funny to me," stated the war worker after he had read the "joke," and I, very much abashed concurred. Both of us agreed that no more insidious propaganda could be used to humiliate and dampen the martial spirit of the colored American. And yet now and then you hear absurd talk about attempts to create dissatisfaction among the Negroes of this country by German agents! Almost weekly for nearly ten years I have seen motion pictures either as a part of a vaudeville program or at theatres devoted exclusively to photoplays. During all this time I have not noted a single picture wherein the colored American has been shown at his best. I am not including in this summary the ambitious pictures gotten out by colored producers. If someone will advise me when one good-looking colored woman was ever thrown on the screen or when a colored man was made to appear other than ridiculous I shall be glad to make known these exceptional cases. Colored people are usually employed to act as servants and if not of ebony hue they are compelled to use cork. The concensus of opinion among white movie producers is that dialect should be put into the mouths of Negro characters although few of us know anything about Negro dia- lect. Some movie producers would make a DuBois or a Braithwaite use "dis" and "dat" on the screen, although these literateurs know more about the use of English than all the white move picture producers combined. A problem in arithmetic is solved when one works it out along proper lines and then finds the correct answer. But in America the average white person seeks to solve the so-called race problem by making the answer whatever he personally thinks it should be. Hence, instead of solving the problem he makes it more complex. Not until the white American completely disrobes himself of his over-burdened self-conceit and false notions on the race question will there be a revolutionary change for the better in this country. As long as our motion picture people and many of the daily newspapers insist in carrying on a propaganda of misrepresentation and educate the general public to judge twelve million native Amecirans by the worst and lowest types of the race (an unfair test to which no other race is subjected) just so long will there be a race problem. For problems are solved in the same way as medical experts bring about cures—by a proper diagnosis—by looking facts squarely in the face, not by avoiding them. A young white woman, who has appeared in Broadway productions, went South last fall with a dramatic organization. So impressed was she with the remarkable progress being made by the colored people of that section, despite handicaps, and so depressed did she become over the lynching of innocent Negroes which occurred near the towns where she was playing, that she resolved to write a motion picture play with the hope of bringing about a better understanding between the races. Coming to New York in the early spring of this year she set to work to finish the scenario. Then she unconsciously started out to get a wonderful education—an education already received by hundreds of colored people. She soon found that fair play and right meant nothing to motion picture producers when the Negro question was at issue. It was not very long before it dawned on her that a photo play dealing with facts in advocacy of better treatment for the colored American had no commercial value. One motion picture producer told her that she could not tell him anything about Negroes; that he was a Southerner and for years had had a colored cook. Here was another case of a white man having the audacity to assume to know twelve millions of people of all walks of life by his cook. Verily we can say that even the war has not robbed some of us of our unadulterated self-conceit and superficial notions about race superiority. I was an onlooker to an incident last Saturday afternoon which afforded me a rare opportunity to closely observe what a disturbing element race prejudice is. About thirty passengers, bound for Brooklyn, got off at the Rector Street Station of the new Seventh Avenue Subway forming a line for transfers as they marked out of the subway entrance. One of the passengers was a young colored woman. She was proceeding in orderly fashion to get her transfer of the agent, when a man and a woman, who gave evidence of being used to "Jim Crow" cars rushed from the rear of the line and created confusion by trying to get transfers ahead of the lady of color. The latter was thrown out of line as were several white persons. Had the two "superior persons" been orderly and applied for transfers with some consideration as to the rights of others there would have been no confusion. But they saw a colored person ahead of them and could not refrain from putting their "superiority" ideas into practice with the inevitable result—disorder! And it will be ever thus—unless more sanity is shown on the part of those laboring under hallucinations. White Americans who think they are su- 9 perior to others are just as much in error as those in the asylums who regard themselves as millionaires, but who are not. One must act in a superior manner to prove his superiority, although usually those wishing to impress you that they are "such-a-much" conduct themselves in a decidedly inferior manner. The action of the couple in the subway is a case in point. We the colored people of the United States are tired of being maligned; we resent being misrepresented. If this campaign to make the Negro in America the National clown is due to rank ignorance on the part of those engaged in creating false ideas about us, then let them become better versed on the race question. If, on the other hand, downright meanness actuates these plotters in their pernicious endeavor to magnify our faults and to hide our virtues then it is but to smile. For one may just as well try to bridle the tide as to stem the onward progress of the colored American who is just as sure to grow and prosper as the Kaiser is to taste bitter defeat. Nothing could be worse for America at this time than to pursue a policy of belittling the Negro—by educating the white public to think of him as he is not instead of as he is. Whether this policy is put into execution either by sins of omission or commission, it is dangerous, it is unjust, it is un-American. The sooner a more liberal view is taken the better it will be for all. As for the failure of the Hearst-Pathe and other film companies to show the colored soldiers in France as warriors bold fighting proudly and valiantly for democracy and the general tendency to make him a Sambo, I respectfully refer this matter to Mr. George Creel, head of the Committee on Public Information, Washington, D. C., with the request that it be regarded as important and worthy of immediate consideration.—New York Age. HE SAID SOMETHING Some two weeks ago Cayton's Weekly in discussing the troubles between the whites and the blacks in the United States stated that even in the South there were white folks that favored absolute justice for the black folks, but as a rule they did not have the nerve to come out in the open and say so, but now comes Frank Wayne of Merigold, Mississippi in a communication to the Commercial Appeal of Memphis, Tennessee, and in unadulterated English says just what he thinks and we take pleasure in quoting his letter in full: I have just finished reading your editorial, "Lynchings Most Helpful to the Prussians." You are right. Your statement, "we have got to stop this lynching business in the United States," is entirely correct. Again you say, "Every lynching in the United States is more hurtful to the allied cause than the loss of a brigade of soldiers." There can be no doubt but to some extent this is true, and we here in counties of the size and population of Bolivar can especially appreciate the danger lurking in the lynching evil. You speak of the Osceola meeting, and what the Negroes did there—I can say that here in and around Merigold that we have organized 12 war savings societies among the Negroes—and you will have to admit that if Mississippi, and especially the delta, going to raise its quota of the war savings money asked by the government, that it is absolutely going to be necessary to enlist the aid of the Negro to the last man of them. These societies have not only organized, but I can substantiate the fact that every member is an active worker and buyer of the stamps. Our town here is one of the smallest in the county, the last census giving us 242 people, yet the postoffice reports show Merigold to be leading the county by a good margin in the sale of war savings stamps. I can assign as a cause for this magnificent showing nothing else than the great interest which the Negro has taken in the forwarding of every interest of this county. Again on last Saturday we had a mass meeting here for the Negroes. At this meeting I. T. Montgomery of Mound Bayon, made an excellent address to the members of his race. He was followed by a distinguished lawyer of this county, and nowhere in the talk of this lawyer was there a single reference to the loyalty of the Negro. As a result of this mass meeting over 300 Negroes that evening donated—not liberally, but practically—all that they had or could raise, and promised more. Immediately after the speaking the Negroes on one of the largest and finest plantations in the South, through their white manager, asked that they be furnished with speakers for a meeting which was to be held at one of the churches in their neighborhood, and the manager made this statement at the time: "Every Negro has promised to give to the Red Cross and I want to say that in case there be any who hasn't the ready money that I will advance the money and charge it to him." It has been my experience in this community that all on earth that the Negro is asking us to do is to educate him up to just what the government expects of him as a citizen. As to the loyalty of the Negro, it is not surpassed by any other people in the whole country. He will enlist, he doesn't hesitate when called in the draft, he donates his money, he buys bonds when able and almost to a man in this community is a buyer of the war savings stamps. And the only thing he asks is: "What do you want us to do?" Now, isn't it hard for the white men in this county and throughout the South who are engaged in educating the Negro as to the war and the things that go with it, if they are to be met every day by statements in the newspapers that in Georgia, in Tennessee and in other sections of the country they have been pulling off barbarous lynchings? Can a man conscientiously speak of the law in this country, the democratic principles of this government, the gigantic fight to preserve liberty, when on the very pages that describe the heroic fighting in Europe, that this law of justice may be a lasting one, there appears a description of the lynching of some Negro? Just as sure as the South is to do her part in this war the Negro has to be educated up to a point where he will thoroughly understand what the war is about, why he is being called upon to take up arms under the draft law, why it is necessary that he buy war savings stamps in order that the war may be financed and why it is absolutely necessary that he donate his money to the Red Cross in order that humanity may be served. Can you build up in the Negro a sense of security and lawfulness with the newspapers full of news about lynchings? We go out among them and tell them of the many acts of barbarism of the Prussians, yet our papers show that we also violate the law. "Lynching is savagery and lynching is anarchy," and goes hand in hand with the Hun. Let's stop all this law violation; let's avoid doing the things that we accuse the Prussians of doing, and then when we go out among the Negroes of our community we will go with clean hands, and not be held up to the ridiculous position of preaching one thing and doing another. TOWN TOPICS S. P. DeBow was much disappointed when Cayton's Weekly did not show up last Saturday. "What the humping hip hops would this town do if Cayton's Weekly should take a notion not to come round." Pete's a wise old guy. "Now you fellows rush over to Camp Lewis and fight segregation and may the good God be with you. I'd go with you, but I am going to be busy that day organizing a Colored Council of Defense, which will confine its work to looking after colored soldiers only," said W. E. Mitchell, et al. A committee consisting of officers from Camp Lewis has not waited on President Mitchell to protest against segregation, but if it does it will be quite consistent. Practice what you preach. Th eeditor hereof felt "belly muche man" last Tuesday as he watched three of his young hopeful march away to the Council of Preparation and in that he felt no different than did ten thousand other parents. The "saddest of the year" season may be marching in, but Mrs. Jennie Vrooman does not think so and her hundred and one outings convince others that they should not think so. Another membership rally meeting will be held in the Grace Presbyterian Church next Sunday evening under the auspices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, announces President Stone and an excellent speaking program has been arranged for the occasion. If the local branch had a thousand members it would then need more members. You are invited. Before the Smith building climber left the ground P. Frazier, so goes the story, handed the fellow the card of the Penn Undertaking Co. and added, if you need assistance our firm will treat you white." When the fellow went over the top Frazier disgustedly remarked, "I gues I'll go." On behalf of Eddie Gardner, we deny the allegation and defy the allegator, he did not discover the fabled fountain of immortal youth labor day, but he did take something that made him so tried in the knees that it was with difficulty that he hobbled down to work Tuesday morning. Bless his dear soul, Eddie, is just as afraid of "mountain dew" as is Oscar Collins. No, Constant Reader, that was not Giles Graves that climbed the Smith building last Tuesday afternoon, but he was his cousin. He did the feat for the soldiers' tobacco fund, but when Giles does so it will be for the rising of the black man. That was quite a stormy session of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held at the Grace Presbyterion Church last Tuesday evening and it looked very much like some one wanted to show off. Chauncey W. Jamison called to inform the editor he was in error about making a thousand simoleans last week because he had to pay for a punctured tire. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Robert L. Lavender, Plaintiff, vs. Minnie Lavender, Defendant.—No. ...... Sumons by Publication. The State of Washington to the said Minnie Lavender, Defendant: You are hereby sumoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixty days after the 2nd day of August, 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 grounds of desertion. ANDREW E. BLACK IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. R. E. Warren, Plaintiff, vs. Lida Warren, Defendant. —No. 130089. Summons for Publication. The State of Washington to the said Lida Warren, defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: Within sixty days after the 3rd day of August, 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 complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court, the object of the above entitled action is for the dissolution of the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and defendant upon the grounds of desertion and abandonment described in the complaint. CRAWFORD E. WHITE. Attorney for Plaintiff. Post Office and Office Address: 1303-4 L. C. Smith Building, Seattle, King County, Washington, Phone Elliott 1113.