Cayton's Weekly

State Library Cayton's Weekly --- PRICE FIVE CENTS CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington. U. S. A. In the interest of equal rights and equal justice to all men and for "all men up." A publication of general information, but in the main voicing the sentiments of the Colored Citizens. It is open to the towns and communities of the state of Washington to air their public grievances. Social and church notices are solicited for publication and will be handled according to the rules of journalism. Subscription $2 per year in advance. Special rates made to clubs and societies. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON. Editor and Publisher 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 COLORED CITIZENS INCONSISTENT To say you are against segregation and then proceed to segregate is quite inconsistent, but that is the predicament in which those colored citizens of Seattle, who organized a Patriotic Council of Defence last Monday evening, find themselves. The meeting was a stormy one and fraught with outbursts and upheavals that savored more of a political ward meeting in some tenderloin section where waring factions disputed over the spoils than a helpful body for suffering humanity. An ounce of common sense would have served as oil on the troubled waters and the meeting proved a blessing instead of a curse to the community. The whole proceedings were not only out of order but an absolute roaring farce comedy. When persons without either experience or ability are placed at the head of affairs chaos is bound to reign supreme and that very thing happened when W. E. Mitchell was elected president of the Colored Council of Patriotic Defense, No. 14. At heart Mr. Mitchell is all wool and a yard wide, but as a presiding officer with an unruly constituency he verges dangerously close to a confound nuisance. In defining the objects and aims of the organization, Mr. Mitchell said things for which his right to be an American citizen should be completely abridged. There is nothing and no place in the United States too good for the biggest and blackest man in the whole country, and the man or woman who advocates anything to the contrary is an enemy alien and should be deported to the wilds of Hotentot. Jealousy of the other fellow—so common to colored citizens—is wholly responsible for persons without the necessary qualifications being placed at the head of organizations whose fundamental principles are not only fine but superfine. When such brilliant minds as the Rev. D. A. Graham will remain in silence and permit such men as W. E. Mitchell to be elected president of any kind of an organization, of which he is an active member, then ignorance is being encouraged. This criticism of Mr. Mitchell is neither the promptings of pique nor the outburst of anger. but a cool, calculated collection of facts after having attended two meetings over which he presided. No person should be put at the head of any organization that is lacking in executive ability, and who is not able to combat the parliamentary attacks of any member of the organization. However, when such a mistake has been made nothing is gained by trying to have the presiding official appear as ridiculous as is possible, but be generous and put your shoulder to the wheel and help pull the whole thing out of an ugly situation. Do not be afraid to undo any mistake you may have made and if need be start all over again. No business was transacted at the last meeting save vote down the report of the committee that offered a compromise, but another meeting will be held next Monday evening' at the Mt. Zion Baptist church, when the work as previously planned will be prosecuted. The directing heads of the organization as it now stands are W. E. Mitchell, president. and Loretta Sawyer, secretary. An executive committee will be elected at the next Monday's meeting. It is truly hoped that the disgraceful scenes of the last meeting will never again be repeated and the organization will endeavor to do whatever good it can along the line for which it was organized. We, however, suggest that the work of the last meeting be reconsidered and the committee's report unanimously adopted, and we further suggest that Rev. D. A. Graham or some one of like ability be elected president of the body as reorganized. STOP. LOOK. LISTEN! The Business Men's League will hold a special meeting next Sunday afternoon at Tutt's Barber Shop and you and each of you are urged to be present. A plan is to be worked at this meeting whereby large numbers of the colored citizens of the city may become interested in the purchasing of a block of U. S. bonds in the coming Liberty Loan drive. There are not less than 200 colored families in Seattle that are more than able to take at least one $100 bond in the coming Liberty Loan drive, and it's your patriotic duty to do so. In our opinion not one of those families is averse to doing so, only the proposition has never been put squarely up to him. In the previous Liberty Loan drives the white citizens have given the colored citizens little or no consideration and even now not one of their number is on any of the committees in order that the colored citizens might become interested. But two wrongs never make a right, and this government needs our assistance and if we expect to continue to enjoy the emoluments it affords we must do our bit regardless of any snubs or overlooks. Say regardless of any snubs or overlooks. Say you subscribe for one $100 bond, you only have to pay one-tenth of it down and 20% per month. When the bond is fully paid for it's one and the same thing as so much cash, but in case you do not desire to dispose of it. the bond draws $41/4 per cent interest and no better present could be presented to your boy or girl to be used at his or her majority than such a bond with accrued interest. The money you have in a savings bank is no better than the bond and if you have money hoarded away and refuse to buy Liberty Bonds then you are as much a slacker as the man who hides in the bushes to keep from going to war. You and each of you are doing well from a financial standpoint and it's as little as you can do to give something for the continuation of such good conditions, and especially since what you invest in United States bonds will be as bread cast upon the waters. The Business Men's League should make arrangements to hold a mass meeting with the view of interesting every colored family in the city in this coming drive and if they subscribed for 1000 of the $100 bonds they then would be doing no more than they are quite able to do and just what they should do. For the information of those who contemplate taking bonds in the coming drive, beginning September 28th, the following information will be of service to them: Plan No. 1. Payment in full must accompany subscription. Plan No. 2.—Ten per cent must accompany subscription. The balance will be due as follows: 20% November 21, 1918; 20% December 19, 1918; 20% January 16, 1919, and 30%, plus accrued interest on all deferred payments January 30, 1919. Plan No. 3.—Ten per cent must accompany subscription. Balance will be due as follows: 10% October 28, 1918; 20% November 28, 1918; 20% on or before the 28th of each succeeding month until the full amount of this subscription and accrued interest on deferred installments has been paid. Subscriptions under this plan are limited to $500.00 from each subscriber. If subscription is made under either plan No. 2 or plan No. 3 it is understood and agreed that should the subscriber fail to meet any payment when due, and such default continue for a period of thirty days, then the subscriber shall cease to have any claim to the bond or bonds subscribed for, and that the bank, at its option, shall have the right at any time tehreafter to take for its own account, or to sell, said bonds at the market, and that the subscriber shall be entitled at any time after July 1st, 1919, on demand, to receive the amount actually paid by him (them) without interest, less discount, if any, at which the bonds are sold. These are days long to be remembered by Kaiser Bill, for, sees he bursting shells to the right of him, bursting shells to the left of him, bursting shells in front of him and bursting shells to the rear of him, and all of them thicken and thunder. No wonder his unhappy consort has sought seclusion and will not be comforted—she must see the hand of fate hanging heavy over her head and the German empire almost ready to be sold as a pawn. May, perhaps the wish is father to the thought, but it truly looks as if the present success of the Allies on all sides is the beginning of the end and the day is not far distant when the German fabric of war will not only fall, but be trampled into the dust. Truly must the German people now fully realize that the Americans are war mad and being in that frame of mind are doing as all mad men do, sweep off every opposing force. Give us not only peace, but pieces in Germany and let the troubles of the world be settled not only for the next one hundred years, but for the next one thousand years. Already Bulgaria is threatening to quit the Central Powers and it looks very much like that Hungary will follow suit as soon as the ice is broken. ```markdown ``` --- EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS Cynthia Gray of the Star is on her vacation. We wonder if its at Mrs. Beals' expense. Six billion dollars is a whole lot of money, but Uncle Sam will raise it before you can say Jack Robinson. From the description of the "fresh air gowns" now on exhibition in Eastern cities, Moth Eve's fig leaf costume must have been elaborate in comparison. The meeting next Sunday afternoon at Tutt's shop is an open one and you are invited to be present. The capture of forty or more thousand Turks means that Turkey will be short of turkeys for years yet to come. While the Germans are still fighting on French soil, yet the home Germans must begin to feel awfully uncomfortable. The only reason John L. Sullivan, of much pugilistic fame, did not whip Jake Kilraine was because Jake could run faster than Sullivan, which seems to be the reason why the Allies do not whip the Huns. And now comes Johnny Boyle and pulls down three Democratic nominations for constable in outside districts and yet we Seattleites voted for him believing him to be a Simon-pure Republican. Your sins will find you out. "You'll ruin my business," whines the cabaret skunks to Mayor Hanson, who orders the enforcement of the curfew ordinance. If the mayor has the same mind as the mothers and fathers of the boys and girls of Seattle then that's exactly the desideratum—the thing desired to be done. These soft drink emporiums are no less damnable hell holes than were the accursed saloons. Already Judge John B. Gordon of the Seattle municipal court has been notified of having three nominations for justice of the peace—two Democratic and one Republican—in outside districts, but none from Seattle. His Honor is wondering if he received a Seattle nomination at the late primary election. Believing she was "done" out of the nomination for state representative from the fortieth legislative district, Lillian L. T. Hall has decided to run independent and is asking her supporters to write her name on the ballot. The voters won't do it madame, and you are simply wasting your time and money. Whether nominated by fair or foul means the voters this year are going to vote the Republican ticket as is. The temptation to peddle booze at any risk has not abated and almost every day some colored person is getting pinched. Uncle Sam has taken a hand in the arresting game and heavy prison sentences are hanging over their heads. The latest to get caught was one Lewis, who was out on $1000 bail at the time of his second arrest. In the death of Bishop Ireland the world loses one of its most notable characters, yea not only notable, but lovable characters, and we regret his death, his eighty summers to the contrary notwithstanding. Though an ardent Roman Catholic, yet in mind and soul he was as wide as the universe and as high as the heavens. What a pity that every man, who takes up the work of saving souls, is not constituted as was Bishop Ireland, for if they were then this world would be a Heaven within itself. In creed he may have been a Catholic, but in the love of his fellowman he was a humanitarian. May his memory live after him and be a well of everlasting happiness to all manner of man. ```markdown ``` OLD GLORY If the Spanish influenza was a death-dealing German device—all the same the Trojan horse—then the skunk is about to be stamped out, his odor to the contrary notwithstanding. Comes now a rather romantic story about Lillian L. T. Hall, who sought a Republican nomination in the late primary election. She says her father was a southern slave owner, but emancipated his slaves and moved North that his two sons might enter the Union Army, but the romantic part of the story she herself briefly relates, which is as follows: "It was our faimly who owned Johanna (Topsy), and grandmother used to let her maid take care of Mrs. Stowe's babies while she (Mrs. Stowe) wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin." The above sounds good, yea verily it is good and we are pleased to meet you and we trust to have an opportunity to shake your hand. .. .. TOWN TOPICS Friends of Carl Norris gave him a farewell entertainment last Monday evening. He left for Camp Lewis last Wednesday in company with a half dozen others. Charles H. Harvey and wife should get the prize for having furnished Uncle Sam with much-needed help. They have three sons and two sons-in-law—one son is in the army, a son-in-law in the navy, two sons and one son-in-law in the government service. Mr. Harvey was exhibiting a picture of "my boys" to his friends all in a line and "believe me" it is some picture. A request has come to Mrs. W. D. Carter for the number of colored citizens that have bought Liberty Bonds and thrift stamps since they were first put upon the market and she appealed to the editor hereof for the desired information. There seems to be no way of finding that out and so no further effort will be made. However, there is one colored citizen that has bought $1000 worth of bonds and is planning to take $500 worth more in the next drive. "So prosperous ar the colored citizens of Seattle at present," so comments Dr. David T. Caldwell, "that they have no interest in anything which has for its object the uplift. Now is the time to lay a firm foundation for the future and unless this is done the colored man after the war will find himself at a greater disadvantage than he was before the war." The theory sounds good, but whether true or false preparedness won't hurt. Mrs. Susie Revels Cayton will sit on the jury the coming month and we congratulate ourselves on having no cases in court during her tenure of "being the sole judge of the case" to decide according to her feelings or we might go to prison for life or lose our supply of good looks. There is a great controversy before the public at present for equal pay for equal work for women and we believe the contention absolutely fair and just. Now the colored women who seek employment find that such firms and concerns who will give them work are not inclined to give the colored women the same pay as they do the white women. Our advice is find other employers. SPARKS AND ARROWS This is the "day" of the American woman who cans.—Christian Herald. That ocean (the Pacific) is going to be the scene of international complications and racial problems unless the peoples in control are peoples with great ideals. Otherwise it will be the scene of an even greater war than now rages.—Premier Hughes of Australia. Good has come from all the great wars of the world; for they have all made the little man more important in the end, and the big man less powerful.—Washington Times. Attentive observers are becoming convinced that no serious effort will be made to maintain Turkey in her old role of football in the international diplomatic game.—San Francisco Chronicle. July 4, 1918, will stand out in the world's history as marking the cementing of a brotherhood among many peoples as they have joined to insure the world's safety and progress and freedom.—Literary Digest. The consumption of alcohol in the manufacture of explosives is reported to have increased enormously. Nothing like using the deadly stuff where it will prove deadliest.—San Francisco Chronicle. Contrary to the impression conveyed by the silence of the orthodox press, there never was a time when the labor situation was more tense.—The New Republic. My conclusion is that Turkey must be taken in tutelage by the western powers.—Sir William Ramsey. These are the best days the world ever saw; and in spite of the fact that we have a world war on, and that a fellow is a bit inclined to say, when he thinks of some things, "It's a mad world, my masters," these are the best days the world ever saw.—Congregationalist and Advance. Where wealth accumulates and men decay, there can be but one final result. result.—Scott Nearing. This country is the home of that newborn autocracy, the autocracy of dollars. of organized monopoly, special privilege, national exploitation, backed up and exalted by a servile press that eats from the plutocrat's hand.—Arthur Brisbane. A mob has no heart, no brains, and no soul. A mob makes mistakes five out of six times, and the sixth one is usually half a mistake.—Extension Magazine (Roman Catholic.) By the fall in the birth rate, the war has cost the belligerent countries of Europe 12,500,000 potential lives.—Leslie's Weekly. Certainly the movies, with their superficiality, with their appeal to excitement, and their appeal (in a large share of those that are presented at present) to that which is vilest in man and woman, are utterly out of keeping with such a serious age as that in which we are living. The movies ought to go. * * * While they amuse, they also corrupt. They are beyond a question one of the most corrupting influences at work in human society today. They are making more wounds and deeper wounds in human morals than the saloon, as fearful an agent of evil as it is. * * * They are wrecking homes and manufacturing thieves, thugs, libertines, and prostitutes. And they resent all attempts at control or censorship. They demand the right to let their painted and almost nude women roam at will in public places, on streets, in parks, to be seen by innocent boys and girls whose parents have sense and decency enough to keep them from attending these vile shows.—The King's Business. --- King George of England has ordered a suit of clothes which will cost him $15. A fine example for us who are somewhat less than kings! One ton of the average city garbage will yield enough glycerin for fourteen shells. enough fats for seventy-five pounds of soap, and sufficient fertilizer to grow eight bushels of wheat. For the three months ending September 30, 1917, the number of killed and wounded on American railroads was 48,601. This is at the rate of 5,712 killed and 188,692 wounded per annum on our railroads alone. The trenches are not the only danger zones. Tax returns indicate that for the month of May, 1918, the American public spent $45,000,000 on theaters, concerts and cabarets. A well-known Russian prince, an exile of the revolution, has opened a restaurant in London, and is doing the cooking himself. Former ladies of the czar's court are waitresses. Cigarettes to the number of 34,832,385,676 were made in the United States last year. Besides these, 9,050,960,224 cigars were manufactured. An average of 500 persons a day are succumbing to cholera in Petrograd. Pestilence and Famine are chief members of Mars's staff. The Catholic Extension Magazine tells us that "Benedict XV has been, is, and will be, neutral in this war. If he were not, he would be untrue to his obligations. If he were untrue to his obligations, it would be a world disaster." Yet his subjects are ardent participants in all the armies involved. Great Britain. in taking Palestine from the Turk, did not take it for herself, but for the Jewish people. It is the policy of England to do everything reasonably within her power to put the Jews back in the home of their ancestors in the Holy Land, and Great Britain looks to the Jews to set up a civilization there.—Literary Digest. Samuel Dett has been appointed special assistant to the chairman of the executive committee of the Niagara Falls, LaSalle, Sanborn, Ransomville and Lewiston, N. Y. FRANCE THE IDEAL DEMOCRACY Lieutenant Charles A. Shaw sends the following letter to a friend in this country from "over there": "This is indeed a beautiful country, a country where true democracy reigns. Every man is judged according to the amount of good that he contributes to the community and not on account of his color. The colored troops have made an everlasting impression over here, and these people really make a fuss over them that they have never experienced. The French people are the most courteous I have ever met, and there seems to b no end to their endeavors to make the men feel happy and contented. "The American boys, white and colored, are putting up the real stuff over here now, and the drive, which you doubtless have read of in the papers over there, was a masterpiece. If we can keep this up, and I have no doubt as to our ability to do so, we soon will be back to our homes, mingling among friends." Let's hope the time will yet come when we over here can write in a similar strain to those over there. --- THE ACT OF BARBARIANS The following excerpt is taken from an exhaustive report of a white man, who investigated a Georgia colored massacre, of which Mrs. Mary Turner was among: We reproduce this nauseating report for the benefit of Clarence Reames and persons of like dwarfed and corrupted mentality and also to let many good white persons fully realize the brand of brutes that prevail in the South who style themselves "white men." The murder of the Negro men was deplorable enough in itself, but the method by which Mrs. Mary Turner was put to death was so revolting and the details are so horrible that it is with reluctance that the account is given. It might be mentioned that each detail given is not the statement of a single person but each phase is related only after careful investigation and corroboration. Mrs. Turner made the remark that the killing of her husband on Saturday was unjunt and that if she knew the names of the persons who were in the mob that lynched her husband, she would have warrants sworn out against them and have them punished in the courts. This news determined the mob to "teach her a lesson." and although she attempted to flee when she heard that they were after her, she was captured at noon on Sunday. The grief-stricken and terrified woman was taken to a lonely and secluded spot, down a narrow road over which the trees touch at their tops, which, with the thick underrowth on either side of the road, made a gloomy and appropriate spot for the lynching. Near Folsom's Bridge over the Little River a tree was selected for her execution a small oak tree extending over the road. At the time she was lynched, Mary Turner was in her eighth month of pregnancy. The delicate state of her health, one month or less previous to delivery, may be imagined, but this fact had no effect on the tender feelings of the mob. Her ankles were tied together and she was hung to the tree, head downward. Gasoline and oil from the automobiles were thrown on her clothing and while she writhed in agony and the mob howled in glee, a match was applied and her clothes burned from her person. When this had been done and while she was still ailve, a knife, evidently one such as is used in splitting hogs, was taken and the woman's abdomen was cut open, the unborn babe falling from her womb to the ground. The infant, prematurely born, gave two feeble cries and then its head was crushed by a member of the mob with his heel. Hundreds of bullets were then fired into the body of the woman, now mercifully dead, and the work was over. NEWS NOTES Charles Dudley and D. Wright have been appointed members of the police force in Omaha, Neb. Five hundred members of the Philadelphia Ushers' Association listened to their annual sermon at the Asbury M. E. Church, Atlantic City. The Rev. W. C. Butler of Elizabeth City, N. C., for fifty years a minister of the gospel, died recently, 82 years old. Benjamin F. Hughes has been nominated in the primaries as the Republican nominee for the Ohio Legislature from Franklin county. Colored men are barred from the Royal Air Force, the application of Leopold Bell, a Jamaican, having been denied by officials at Toronto, Can. Bishop Charles Henry Phillips of Nashville and Miss Ella Cheeks of Cleveland were recently married at the home of his son. The colored people of Chattanooga, Tenn., have opened a park to be known as Lincoln Park. The local lodge of the Odd Fellows had charge of the opening ceremonies. Miss Lillis Farrell of Charleston, S. C., has passed the state examination for expert public accountant and has been placed in charge of the auditing bureau of a life insurance company with headquarters in Boston. The "Jim Crow" signs have been removed from two of the tennis courts in the city park, Denver. Colored people now have the privilege of using any court they see fit, instead of the two labeled, "For Colored People Only." Frederick M. Roberts has been nominated for assemblyman, 74th district, at the primaries held in Los Angeles, Cal. He was supported by members of his race and quite a number of white voters. The fourteenth annual session of the Connectional Council in connection with the Board of Bishops of the A. M. E. Zion Church was held in Hopkins Chapel, Asheville, N. C., Bishop G. C. Clement presiding. A telegram was sent to President Wilson commending him on his stand against lynching. Word has been received by Miss Josephine Rutherford of Kirkwood, Mo., that Capt. G. Kelly, formerly stationed at Camp Dodge. Ia., is in France in good health. Lawrence Oxley and Rosecoe Bowser of Massachusetts, have been awarded commissions after three months and twenty days of training at Camp Pike, Ark., where no line was drawn at officers' training school. The Self-Preservation Loyalty League of Walker county, Alabama, has been organized with the white citizens electing Prof. R. W. Taylor vice-president and Prof. M. H. Griffin a member of the executive committee. The colored citizens of East Orange. N. J., are conducting a drive to purchase a war ambulance, which will be presented to one of the colored regiments stationed at Camp Dix. Mrs. Lottie Cooper is one of the leading spirits of the movement. At a meeting of the executive committee of the War Camp Community Service Commission of Spartansburg, S. C., held recently, plans were laid for the establishment of a colored soldiers' club, to be patterned after those established in other camp sites. An appropriation of $500 was made and it is expected that the colored citizens of Spartansburg will increase the fund to $1000. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Lizzie Bridgewater, Plaintiff, vs. Frank Bridgewater, Defendant.—No. ..... Summons by Publication. The State of Washington to the said Frank Bridgewater, 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 21st day of September, 1918, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint oft he 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 drunkenness and cruelty. ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O. Address, 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash.' Sept. 21—Oct. 2, 1918. 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. TERMINAL CHILE PARLOR 218 Washington St. Serves the best Chile Con Carne and Light Lunches Good Service YOU ARE WELCOME Mrs. Tena Anderson, Proprietress --- - - a a ee ae or OT sa yy ae oy Tae ee jes PO ace g I CPLR ea ag si iP nn mm WHAT IS OUR RATIO? (From New York Age.) a paragraph in the introduction to the re- port, written by Mr. Max Hirsch, the pres- ident of the association, This paragraph caused us to take out our lead pencil and do a little figuring. In closing his intro- duction, President Hirsch said: “T cannot praise too highly the efficient work of our staff; to them no effort has been too great, no detail too small. Thanks is also due the ladies of the Social Serv- ice Bureau for their assistance in the sur- vey of undernourished children, to the members of the Efficiency Committee for their intelligent criticism as well as con- structive suggestions; but most of all is thanks due the big-hearted, generous Jews of Cincinnati, who responded so nobly to the call recently made upon them. Some say we are a race, others a people, but the last two weeks have proven that we are one big united family inspired by that great Jewish ideal—Justice. Justice not only to the poor, but justice to each other, each member of the community insisting that if there was a burden to be borne, it would he borne equally in proportion to the means at his command. Nine hundred new sub- scribers and over $75,000 in additional sub- scriptions! Ten per cent of our people giv- ing at a ratio of nearly $8 per capita of the Jewish population! Cincinnati still shows the way!’’ It was the facts stated in the lines which we have set off in black type that caused us to exercise our rusty knowledge of arithmetie, Ten per eent of the Jews in Cincinnati—for we take it that there fig- ures refer to Cincinnati—giving at a ratio of nearly $8.00 per capita of the Jewish population of that city! And for the sole purpose of charities among Jews. These same people no doubt contribute to many other of their racial eauses. Now let us speculate a little. Take any city in the United States with a large col- ored population. Now take the most. phil- anthropic and liberal ten per cent of that colored population. Now speculate upon what is the ratio to the whole colored pop- ulation at which this selected ten per cent gives to any fund for the general welfare of the race. Surely you will not begin by putting it at $8.00 per capita. Would you be willing to say that it is as high as 80 cents per eapita? To make our ealeulations easier, let us take the cities of Washington, Baltimore. Philadelphia and the Borough of Manhat- tan in New York City. Each of these com- munities have Negro populations that may be put down in round numbers at 100,000. If ten per cent of the colored people of either of these communities contributed at a ratio of $8.00 per capita of the whole colored papulation, the sum contributed would be $800,000; that is, an average of #80 for each contributor. Of course we know that no such sum was ever raised. But if ten per cent of the colored people of either of these communities contributed at a ratio of eighty cents per capita of the whole colored population, the sum contrib- uted would be $80,000; that is, an average of 8.00 for each contributor, We are compelled to say that no such sum as that has ever ben raised. Well, if ten per cent of cither of these communities contributed at a ratio of merely 8 cents per capita of the whole population, the sum contributed would be $8.00, We leave it to our read- ers to say if any such sum as that has ever been raised at one time for the general welfare of the race, not by ten per cent of the colored population but by the whole colored population of any city in the coun- try. Since $8.00 per eapita was the ratio con- tion of not only the communities mentioned above, but of any city in the country could contribute that amount if they had intelli- gent co-operation and the will to do it. Now apply this ratio of only 8 cents to the entire Negro population of the country. Put that population at ten million; then if ten per cent of that population gave at a ratio of 8 cents per capita of the whole Negro population, the sum contributed would be $800,000. Imagine how much could be accomplished with such a sum contributed annually. Things could be done with it all the way from dispensing charity to fighting for our equal rights through the courts of the land. It would even ren- der possible the establishment of a great Negro bank in Wall street, which would make the race a power in the financial world. Such a bank could finance legiti- mate Negro enterprises, and thus open the door of economic opportunity to thousands of colored men and women; and that would be getting right at the heart of the solu- tion of our problem, would it not? In many ways the Jews can serve as an example for the Negro. Both races have similar conditions to contend with. But the Negro has much to learn from the man- ner in which the Jew meets his problem. For a long time the Negro has been afflict- ed with the idea that to get the things that are due him, all he needs to do is to pray. The Jew knows that he must not only pray, but that he must also pay. And so it is, Jews put their dollars together and in that way raise millions for charities, for the defense of their rights, for great busi- ness undertakings and for any other pur- pose that will make the Jewish race stronger and more independent. If the Jews can put their dollars to- gether for such purposes, why canont the colored people put together at least their pennies? If the selected proportion of the Jews contribute $8.00 per capita of the whole Jewish population, why cannot the selected proportion of the colored people contribute 8 cents per capita of the whole colored population? There is a great dif- ference between the wealth of the Jews and the Negroes, but it is not so great as the difference between $8.00 and 8 cents. The American Negro must learn this vitally important lesson, and he can learn it by watching and studying the Jew; that in order to get those things that he desires and even those things that he is justly en- titled to, he must need not only work and pray, he must need also pay. The colored people must learn to put their pennies together—and we have shown that their pennies if put together will amount to mil- lions of dollars—for the charitable aid of each other, for the purpose of defending their rights, and for big business enter- prises. If they learn that lesson, they will have the chief key to the solution of their problem. It is simply a restatement of the old axiom, ‘‘In union there is strength.’’ But we come back to the question we started with. What is the ratio at which any ten per cent of the colored people of any community give per capita of the whole colored population? It is not $8.00 per capita. It is not 80 cents per capita. Is it as much as 8 cents? Or is it at present even 8 mills? We should like any of our readers to figure it out for any community and send the figures in to us. At Somerset, Pa., the largest parade ever witnessed in the town was held when Wil- liam Stewart, the only colored draftee, was escorted to the station, followed by the mayor, the town’s drum corp and Civil War veterans. Social disease is being rapidly curbed in our army. The Army Medical Corps state that less than one new case per thou- sand men occurs each week among our men in France; and in America, one new case a thousand is reported every two weeks. ALHAMBRA CASH GROCERY ee ete acy «Fall Zine of Fensy aud” Staple Groceries WE KINDLY INVITE YOUR INSPECTION Our New Store: 1201-3 Jackson St. Phone Beacon 505 VIOLA N. BERRY Successful Masseur Facial Massage, Hair Shampooing and Scalp Treatment Open for Business Parlors 2103 E. James Tel. East 5694 CAYTON’S WEEKLY (Office 303 22nd Ave. South) 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 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 Laven- der, Defendant: You are hereby sumoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first pubitcatton of this sumons, 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 fail- ure 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 ob- tain a decree of divorce from the defendant by the plaintiff on the grounds of desertion. ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Plaintift P. O. Address, 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. August 3—September 14, 1918. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. R. BH. 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 en- titled 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 5. WHITE, Attorney for Plaintiff. Post Office and Office Address: 1303-4 L. C. Smith Building, Seattle, King County, Washington, Phone Elliott 1113. CAYTON—9-12 oeccce-MAMMIC cseseeee sovenren soeeeeeceee ee DDE IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF ‘Washington for King County. Florence Brice vs. Dwight Brice, Defendant.—No. vrsssenseee_ SUMMONS by Publication. The State of Washingt »u to the said Dwight Brice, 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 13th day of September, 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 fail- ure 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 ob- tain a decree of divorce from the defendant by the plaintiff on the grounds of desertion. ANDREW R. BLACK, Attorney for Plaintiff P. O. Address, 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. Sept. 13—Nov. 1, 1918.