Cayton's Weekly

--- State Library Cayton's Weekly SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1918 --- 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, Vash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910 Office 303 22nd Ave. South "KUNNEL" HAWTHORNE'S JOKE The joke of the season is found in the following excerpt taken from an interview given out by "Kunnel" Hawthorne: "I anticipate that I shall have the honor as your representative (Seattle-Kitsap district) of assisting President Wilson in his reconstruction program after peace has returned to the world." Well, wouldn't that jar you? You have no more chance of being elected than has a snowball to fly through hadese. After you will have received your official notification that "you also ran," we suggest that you return to the South and do your bit, converting the southern Huns, who string women up by their heels and cut them open, while yet alive, that an unborn babe may fall to the ground that the fiends incarnate may stamp it into gibblets, to show their barbaric feeling for the mother from whence it came. Perhaps Seattle has lost her sense of common justice and will elect a man from Texas to Congress, but we do not believe it. Yea we verily believe that you have the same chance of being "your next representative" from Seattle as will Uncle Tom of Uncle Tom's Cabin fame have of being "your representative" from a Mississippi or a Georgia congressional district. It is our prediction that John Franklin Miller will beat you five to one and the only way you will ever officially get to Washington City as "your representative" will be by presidential appointment as one of many confidential advisers. Democracy (politically speaking) has no place in the state of Washington, it belongs in the South, where lynching prevails and the number of "niggahs" you have killed is the pass word to political preferment. LET CONVICTS FIGHT If the convicts in the various prisons of this country express a willingness to go to war they should be accommodated. In the light of recent developments in and about Seattle, the actual convict is no more dangerous than the unconvicted ones, who are many. We do not exactly believe that the country is going to the dimnation bow-wows from a right and wrong standpoint, but we do believe that the money-mad American works on the principal of an old man, who had educated his son for a physician, and in the effort had bankrupted himself. After the boy had finished his course and came home before going forth to make his fortune, the old man gave him a confidential talk, which ran about as follows: "Now, my son, I have spent all the money I had educating you, it is now your duty to go out and make good. I want you to make money. If you can't make money honestly, I want you to make money." That father was an unconvicted criminal before the fact and if the boy followed his advice he was an actual unconvicted criminal, and yet either of them would have been acceptable to the army officers, looking for recruits, while the men who had done what they had done, but got caught and sent to prison would be denied the privilege of fighting for their country. The men in prison are just as patriotic as those out of prison and being in prison should not prevent them from fighting for the flag. Not only not let it be optional with the convicts, whether they fight, but let the draft board operate in the prison walls the same as out of the prison. In times like these no qualified man should be exempt from army duty. THERE WAS A BALANCE "You must not get drunk so much, Pat," counselled a Catholic priest to an Irishman. "But, I can't help myself," replied Pat. "Have you ever tried prayer for it?" replied the priest, and having received a negative answer from Pat, the priest proceeded to tell him how to do it. "Tonight before going to bed, take your prayer book and get down on your knees and pray for small things first and then pray for larger ones," which, the following night Pat put into execution. Instead of praying for deliverance from the drink habit he prayed for ten dollars. He prayed so long and earnestly that he fell asleep on the chair, by which he was kneeling. Pat's wife and children were the chief sufferers from his excessive drink habit and she was deeply interested in the praying relief, so from the next room she watched him with intense interest. While yet asleep she thought it might dampen his ardor to not have his first prayer answered and so she went to her "first national bank" and dug up all the money she had saved from washing—seven dollars and fifty cents—and laid it on the chair beside him. When Pat woke up and saw the money he went into his wife's bedroom and said to her: "God isn't a half bad fellow. I prayed for ten dollars and he brought me 'seven fifty.'" The next night Pat had his usual "gallorious" time and the good wife sought the priest and told him of the prayer outcome. "I'll fix him," exclaimed the priest, and in the mean time you go home and watch results. The saloons closed at 12 and on the road to where Pat lived was a cemetery and wrapped in a sheet the priest waited behind a tomb for the drunken man. By and by Pat came staggering along and the priest stepped in front of him and with right hand raised, dramatically said, "I am the son of God." Pat shyed by, when the would-be ghost repeated, "I am the son of God." Pat turned and looked the apparition square in the face and between his "hicks" he retorted, "then you go right straight home and tell your father he owes me two dollars and fifty cents." The good priest concluded that Pat could not be broken of his drink habit. If the Rev. W. D. Carter does not sue the Searchlight of Seattle for criminal libel then we miss our guess. To be mistaken for the editor of Cayton's Weekly is an offense more serious than a mere mental annoyance. VOL. 3, NO. 19 Irvin S. Cobb, the facetious writer, who predicates any nice thing he has to say about the colored soldiers in France with some story that first holds them up to public ridicule and then tells his story, is to lecture in Seattle within the coming winter, and it would give us much pleasure to have an opportunity to tell him that in "our opinion," he is a damphool. It was Irvin S. Cobb, at the time of the last National Republican Convention, that quoted an eminent colored physician—graduate of a first class college and medical school both of the North—in plantation jargon. We would have to manufacture words to express our contempt for such a long haired beast. In one of Cobb's overseas articles he said, "when the colored soldiers were drawn up in battle array and the Germans showed up the colored soldiers all put their guns aside and pulled their razors and made a rush for the Boches." That was such a ridiculous lie that the American paper that would print it was as big a "damphool as is Cobb. It develops in the death of John Murray that no crime is too reprehensible for our effete Christian civilization to commit in order to get the money. If Christ died to save such reprobates He will have to die again before His saving grace will reach them. It is rather remarkable that no heinous crime is unearthed in Seattle without a policeman being in some way or other criminally implicated. Is the police department a robbers' roost instead of a peace protectorate? May, perhaps, the policemen are not guilty, but there is an old adage, which says: "Where there is so much smoke, there is bound to be some fire." After all John Sharp Williams, U. S. senator from Mississippi, seems more the educated brute than a human being. A trained or educated lion in certain conditions exhibits almost human intelligence, but his brute qualities rush to his brain at the smell of fresh blood and his intelligence immediately vanishes and it is again a vicious brute. As with the brute so with John Sharp Williams, who has acquired a fine education and for the most part gives great evidence of being a real human being, but so soon as justice for the colored man is proposed his beast-like propensities rise supreme and once again he is the howling human hyena that he was before he was trained or educated. Its not the French people that watch the colored soldiers with mingled wonder, but its the American people, now in France, that watch the colored soldiers in wonder, simply because the French people treat the colored soldier just as well as they do the white soldiers, which is a great surprise and revelation to the prejudiced whites of the United States, who have no higher regard for the colored soldier, however valiant his acts may be, than they do the army mule. If mustered out in France we have a sneaking suspicion that a great majority of the colored soldiers would say "polly vous" for me." No, the Huns have not as yet sued for peace, but they will do so as soon as they get far enough from the Allies to take a long breath, which will enable them to say "nuff." It looks as if Germany has played her last tune. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS Better late than never, runs an old adage, and applying it to the editor hereof, though sixty, he is boasting of his first grand child, which is a daughter. Mrs. Ruth Cayton Wright presented her husband with a bouncing baby girl last Wednesday afternoon and it was a drag and a draw between the father and the grandfather, which felt the better over the arrival of the young miss. It's really amusing to watch the local Democratic campaign committee search for victims with whom to make up a Democratic ticket for the coming fall election. Despite the fact there is a Democratic president of our country and a Democratic governor of the state of Washington, yet Democratic voters are as scarce this year as the proverbial hen's tooth. Segregation, so far as the colored citizens of this country are concerned, shows up so often that it's enough to discourage the strongest minds, but getting discouraged does not help the situation. It is the duty of every man and woman to be prepared to meet it as often as it presents itself and slay it, hip and thigh. Pending a thorough investigation Police Officer L. M. Norton has been suspended by the chief of police. Rumor has it that other officers will be caught in the drag net and thereby prove beyond a reason of doubt that there are "crooks" on the police force the same as "under the bed." "Keeping the race pure," the slogan of the U. S. senators from the South, is so ridiculous that it's ludicrous. There are upwards of six million mixed bloods (white and black) in the United States and the white man is wholly responsible for them all. Keep the race impure has been the white man's burden ever since the first black woman landed in the new world. A move has been made by an organization whose head is in Kansas, to habeas corpus the convicted members of the 24th Infantry now in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, who were found guilty in connection with the Ft. Sam Houston riots. The grounds on which their proceedings are based sound plausible and we hope they win. In the investigation of the murder of John Murray the sheriff's office has unearthed a sweet nest of polecats and poisoned purps. As bitterly opposed as we are to lynching or capital punishment, yet nothing but one or both of them would seem meet and proper for the perpetrators of such a diabloical crime. You, who have been interested in the Negro Business Men's League of Seattle, are requested to be on hand next Sunday afternoon at the regular monthly meeting, to listen to some important business that must be disposed of at that time. Fail you not to be present. Our "Berlin or Bust" article in last week's issue hit the public just right and "Hawk the Kaiser" has been buzzed in our ear all the week. If the Allies continue to route the enemy it will be a matter of but a very short time before it will be "to hell with the Kaiser." If the health conditions of Seattle do not improve now that the winter rains have set in then it will be vastly different than in the past. As pleasant as is the fall sunshine on Puget Sound the appearance of Jupiter Pluvius is more than welcome just now. If William Gottstein is innocent of all the crimes that are now being laid at his cell door he is much in the condition of old dog Tray—found in damn bad company. In our opinion, however, Mr. Gottstein had a finger in the pie and he had as well give the whole thing dead away. We desire to suggest to the Allies that they begin at once to have their artisans design and forge an iron cross for the Kaiser and that he be forced to wear it until his death, which should not be very long after his armies lay down their arms. Not peace for Germany, but pieces of Germany, before our boys come marching home. ```markdown ``` Without the counsel and advice of Clarence Reames or "Kurnel" Hawthorne the president will find himself in deep water if he continues his peace negotiations with Germany. Much has been said in the Seattle daily press about a bank president who is working in the shipyard. If the follow works conscientiously he is probably earning his first honest dollar. ON THE HINDENBURG LINE According to a London cable, received the first of the week, troops from the states of New York, Tennessee and North and South Carolina, under the command of General George W. Read broke the Hindenburg line on a front of nearly three miles, sweeping across the St. Quentin Canal before Le Catelet and capturing Bellicourt and Nauroy. As General Read, at last report, was in command of the Fourth Army Corps, which comprises six divisions, including the Ninety-second, composed of colored troops, the probabilities are that many of the Negro regiments took part in this drive. Among them it is not unlikely that the 367th Regiment, under the command of Colonel Moss, took an active part. It is also probable that the North and South Carolina troops referred to are also colored. At all events it is entirely within the possibilities that the "Buffaloes" and the others of their race are maintaining their right to the forefront of the battle by bucking the Hindenburg line. They are all adepts at "treatin' 'em rough," and may be trusted to live up to the traditions of the race in all the battles of the Nation. That these Negro soldiers can stand punishment without flinching, as well as inflict it, is shown in the latest story of the conduct of the old Fifteenth New York, as told by a staff correspondent of the New York World. As the report says, they stood up under all kinds of gas, the most colossal artillery fire, bayonets by the thousand and every other kind of punishment. The recital of their conduct is calculated to make every New Yorker feel increased pride in this regiment.—New York Age. A MIXED SITUATION The Census Bureau recently issued some interesting statistics concerning the newly acquired territory of the Virgin Islands, formerly the Danish West Indies. The era of these new possessions is slightly more than 132 square miles, comprising the three principal islands, St. Croix or Santa Cruz, St. John and St. Thomas. Although these islands had belonged to Denmark for 245 years, the language of the people is English. The population according to the census taken in November, 1917, was 26,051, classed as follows: 1922 white, 19,523 Negro and 4,606 mixed. Of the 430 farms reported 102 were operated by white farmers as owners, managers or tenants; 270 by Negroes; and 58 by mixed-blood farmers. It was to be expected that the annexation of foreign territory containing a large proportion of colored population would add to the incongruities and absurdities of the color question, as it already existed under the proscriptive policy prevailing in the United States. But the peculiar classification adopted in this census of the Virgin Islands betrays a new kind of discrimination. Here, in the States, under the latest governmental ruling, adopted in the military registration, the slightest admixture of African blood is supposed to class the individual as "Negro." Yet in this latest possession, besides Negro, we find the classification of "mixed" and "mixed blood." It is to be hoped that when the struggle toward a fuller and freer democracy is achieved, much of this hairsplitting and discriminatory classification will be done away with.—New York Age. RACE PURITY Out of the suburbs of the southern town of C——, in front of a low frame house, two children played upon the curb. "OOoo-oh," shivered the little flaxen haired girl, as she discovered a long, hairy worm, which had evidently fallen from the tall tree near by. She amused herself for a while with it, poking it with sticks. The boy was seated in the gutter, a few feet away, busily engaged in building a sand fort. A few minutes passed. Perhaps instinct caused him to look around. He saw a black, hairy worm wrigging and writhing between two sticks held in the chubby hands of the little girl. "Annie McClaine, if yo' put that wo'm on me I'll smack yo'," threatened the boy. The little girl giggled childishly. Then her face sobered. She knew Jimmy meant what he said, but she had no intention of moving the position of the worm just yet. "I done tole yo'," he added warmingly, and then continued patting his fort into shape. Just as he finished speaking, something hit the back of his neck and rolled underneath his blouse, stinging as it went. The worm had wriggled free. He wheeled suddenly around and struck the child a full blow on the cheek. "I didn'n mean to-oo-oo," screamed Annie in pain. "I tole yo' I would," Jimmy shouted defensively. A passerby saw the blow delivered and interfered. Catching the boy by his collar, he boxed his jaws fiercely. Then kicking him from the curb into the street, he exclaimed wrathfully: "You d—n little nigger! What in th' h'll do you mean?" "You," he said in a softer tone, turning to Annie, "run home to your mother. I'd like to see that mother of yours that allows you to play with——" "He's my bru-vv-er," gasped the startled little girl through her tears. THE SPICE OF LIFE Word from Br'er Williams—When you think you is at de end o' de road, don't fling up bekaze you find dar's one mo' river ter cross. Dat's a big compliment from Providence ter de grit and' git dar what's in you.—Atlanta Constitution. Commercially Speaking—"I understand you have several speeches ready for delivery." "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum. "They are ready for delivery; but they remain uncalled for."—Washington Star. Advice to a Soldier—"Remember, my son," said his mother as she bade him goodby, "when you get to camp try to be punctual in the mornings, so as not to keep breakfast waiting."—Life. Fashion Notes from the Front—"Where are you going?" asked one rookie of another. "Going to the blacksmith shop to get my tin hat reblocked."—Pittsburg Sun. Well Seasoned—"Are they seasoned troops?" "They ought to be. They were first mustered in by their officers and then peppered by the enemy."—Baltimore American. --- --- THE HORIZON General Pershing has appointed Lieutenant E. B. Cheatham, of Indianapolis, Ind., Judge-Advocate of the 372nd Infantry in France. Major Ollie B. Davis, of the 9th U. S. Cavalry, has been promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel. Over two thousand colored nurses have been enrolled in the American Red Cross. There are 2,640 colored soldiers in thirteen vocational schools receiving special technical work. Since its organization fifteen months ago the fifty-three colored men of Company A, First Battalion, Kansas State Guards, Topeka, have become commissioned or noncommissioned officers except two, and they are in the Y. M. C. A. The former company clerk, F. L. Jackson, is now First Sergeant on a Hospital Ship between France and New York. Captain W. W. Russel commanded the company. E. M. Anderson, of Pittsburgh, Pa., has been appointed Assistant Field Secretary of Western Camps, with headquarters at Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kans., to have charge of religious, social and educational needs of colored soldiers. Will H. Vodery, of Philadelphia, Pa., is bandmaster of the 807th Infantry now in training at Camp Dix, New Jersey. General Pershing has written to William Stevenson of the Y. M. C. A.: I wish to assure you that I place the greatest confidence in the patriotism and devotion of our colored soldiers, and their splendid work both in the front line and in the Services of Supply. It also gives me pleasure to inform you that they have made a fine impression on our Allies by their soldierly bearing and exemplary conduct. Samuel Ransom, formerly college printer of the University of Chicago, has become commissioned a Lieutenant in France. He enlisted as a private. The colored people of Colorado Springs, Colo., recently raised $500 for the Red Cross. Among ten men cited for bravery recently by the Secretary of the Navy was Robert E. Hill, a colored gunner's mate. Lieutenant Russel Smith, of Covington, Va., who has seen service with the 10th U. S. Cavalry and attended the Des Moines training camp, has been put in command of the army training camp on the grounds at Howard University. The last remnant of German resistance in East Africa is being carried on by General Von Lettow-Vorbeck, who is now making his stand in the Portugese colonies in Mozambique. There are thirty-one colored chaplains in the U. S. Army and more are needed. A class began August 23 at Camp Zachary Taylor, near Louisville, Ky. Applications may be sent to the Adjutant General, Washington, D. C. Charles S. Morris, a colored boy, has been made Quartermaster in the Naval Reserve Force and is stationed at Provincetown, Mass. The colored people of Evansville, Ind., have planted more than 1,000 war gardens. They hold $500,000 worth of real estate and have bought $70,000 worth of Liberty Bonds and contributed $8,000 to the Patriotic Fund. The city has furnished 500 colored drafted men. There were ten honor men among 2,500 graduates of the Central Artillery Officers' School at Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, Ky., six of whom were colored. Thirty-five Negroes were given commissions. Colonel Roosevelt has contributed $4,000 of $45,482.83, securities and cash from the Nobel Peace Prize, to the colored Y. W. C. A. War Work Council. Negro draftees in Indianapolis, Ind., were tendered a reception at Tomlinson Hall and were addressed by the Mayor and Governor. Recruiting stations for the student Nurse Reserve have been opened in South Phil adephina for colored women. They may, however, enroll at any station. The Reverend Mr. R. H. Windsor, of Raymond, La., has twelve of his nineteen sons in the U. S. Army, eight having volunteered. One is a Lieutenant and two are Sergeants. Mr. Windsor has bought $350 in Liberty Bonds and $75 in War Savings Stamps. Colored people of Maryland subscribed $1,000,000 to the first to Liberty Loans, and $1,000,000 to the third; $10,000 to War Savings Stamps through colored agencies and $65,000 more through white agencies. For the Red Cross they contributed 2,000 one dollar mebmers in the Christmas drive and $1,600 since; made 1,500 comfort kits and 350 pieces of knitted wear. Five thousand of their men have been called through the draft. The War Camp Community Service has taken over a house on College Avenue, between Nineteenth and Twentieth Streets, Philadelphia, Pa., which has been fitted as a dormitory for the use of Negro service men. A caferia, restaurant and poolroom are among the features. There are 6,000 Negro men in uniform at Camp Dix and the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The 813th colored Infantry is being formed at Camp Sherman, Ohio, under command of Colonel John E. Morris. The noncommissioned officers will be colored men. American Negro troops, brigaded with the army of General Gouraud, east of Rheims, are doing such remarkable work in action with their bayonets that they are said to excell all other men on the fighting front in their use of these weapons. Company A, 301st Stevedore Regiment, has been cited by Rear Admiral Wilson and General McClure for exceptionally efficient work. The colored men unloaded and coaled the immense steamship "Leviathan," formerly the "Vaterland," in fifty-six hours, making a new world's record. A film showing this regiment at work and at play is to be exhibited throughout the country in the leading colored and white theatres. Charles M. Bonnett is the only colored mechanic attached to the Canadian Army Service Corps Mechanical Transports. For three months he was placed in command of a motor shop in England controlled by the Canadian Army. In the class of one thousand cadets that completed the course of training in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at Harvard University, August 12, there was one colored boy, Richard B. Sansbury, who was recommended among twelve for an immediate commission. Industries—Twenty-eight colored women in Louisville, Ky., have been officially appointed street cleaners. They have a colored man as overseer. Their wage is two dollars per day and hours, 6:30 A.M. to 4 P.M. More than five hundred white and colored men walked out of the American Car & Foundry Company at Birmingham, near Memphis, Tenn., for higher wages. The white men were offered more wages, but refused it unless the colored men were givn the same consideration. Since joining the union movement the wage of the Negro laborers has increased 100%. Five thousand Negro laborers are being imported from Nassau for Government dock contracts at Charleston, S. C., at $3.25 a day. The Link Belt Chain Company, Indianapolis, Ind., is employing colored women as moulders. They were taught by an expert moulder and new machines to make the work lighter have been installed. Ten thousand colored men are now working at the Dupont Construction Company, Jacksonville, Tenn. Wages are said to be as high as ten dollars a day. Twenty-one colored women, selected from the Public School Teachers of the District of Columbia, have been assigned to Special War Work in the Loans and Currency Division of the U. S. Treasury Department. Colored barbers have replaced white barbers who demanded higher wages at Camp Sherman, Ohio. The Service Company, which has been organized at Atlanta, Ga., by colored men owns the Gate City Laundry, valued at $30,000, and is planning another laundry at Augusta. The president is Herman E. Perry. A. J. Webster, a coal miner at Buxton, Iowa, has broken the record by earning $214.06 in fourteen working days during the last half of July. The wage was based on the amount of coal mined and the distance that it was hauled to the mine mouth. It is estimated that Negroes in New York have invested more than $20,000,000 in real estate. The Mennig-Slater Pickling Company, Des Moines, Iowa, has opened its doors to thirty colored women laborers. Politics—In the New York primary, E. A. Johnson was renominated to the Assembly by the Republicans of the Nineteenth District and J. C. Hawkins was nominated to the Twenty-first. In the Twenty-first Congressional District J. A. Bolles, the white man who caused the defeat of R. C. Ransom, the colored candidate last year, was renominated by the Republicans. Charles H. Turpin at St. Louis has again been nominated for Constable on the Republican ticekt in the Fourth Disrtict. Dr. W. M. Riley was nominated for State Representative. The Republicans have nominated three colored candidates for the Lower House of the West Virginia Legislature: J. V. Coleman in Fayette County, H. J. Capehart in McDowell County, and T. G. Nutter in Kanawha County. H. M. St. Lauir has been re-elected City Councilman of Cambridge. Md. Harry E. Davis, of Cleveland, Ohio, has been nominated for the State Legislature by the Republicans, standing at the head of the poll in his district. E. F. Hughes, of Columbus, was also nominated for the Legislature, standing second in a list of fourteen candidates Colored women of Texas have formed a Republican Women Voters' League with Mrs. M. A. Bradley, of Galveston, president. Dr. D. Jonathan Phillips, of Kingston, Jamaica, formerly of Philadelphia, Pa., has been elected to the City Council of Kingston. Education—The secretary of one of the largest mission societies controlling colored schools and colleges throughout the South needs a number of teachers for next year. They must furnish testimonials of high character and hold degrees from first class Northern institutions. Candidates may send testimonials, together with photographs to "Missionary Secretary" in care of The Crisis. The Free Colored Library, Knoxville, Tenn., since its opening, May 6 of this year, has circulated 3,537 books, and had an attendance of 6.146. Robert E. Clay, of Bristol, Tenn., has been appointed Rural School Extension Agent. A new administration building has been erected at Hampton Institute, known as Palmer Hall, which contains thirty offices, a museum and reception room. J. L. Bowler, of Wichita, Kan., has received his M. A. degree from the University of Wisconsin. Rosamond Alston is the first colored student to graduate from the East Greenwich, Rhode Island, Academy. She majored in English, History and Social Science. S. Percival James, of Jamaica, has received his M. D. at the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery. William E. Davis, of British Guiana, received the degree of M. D. at the New York Medical College. Philip H. Savory, of Georgetown, British Guiana, secured the highest honors in all final subjects at McGill University, Montreal. FOR SALE, close to colored district; near 12th and Jackson, 45 rooms; a money maker. For full information address F. S. Smith, care Cayton's Weekly. 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. Phone 2647 1034 Jackson Tailors and Cleaners. Clothes called for and delivered. Hats retrimmed and blocked. H. S. Frazier C. W. Curtest 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. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County Washington for King County. R. E. Warren, Plaintiff, vs. Lida Warren, Defendant. -V. E. Warren, 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. Washington for King County. Florence Brice vs. Dwight Brice, Defendant.—No. Summons by Publication. The State of Washingt. 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 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. --- 1 Social Progress—The War Work Council plans to erect a $200,000 building for the colored Y. W. C. A. at 9th and Rhode Island Avenue, Washington, D. C. "Jim Crow" signs have been removed from the tennis courts in City Park, Denver, Colo., through efforts of the local N. A. A. C. P. The colored people of Fayette County, W. Va., have petitioned the County Court to appoint colored people for jury service. They claim that the court "has persistently discriminated against persons of color," and that they represent 2,000 voters. The colored people of Philadelphia, Pa., have formed a city-wide protective association as a result of the recent riot. They will publish 20,000 pamphlets giving the cause of the race riots. The McCoach Playground, Philadelphia, Pa., has an entire colored staff of ten teachers with Roland Davis, who is principal. There is a swimming pool, 90 by 40 feet, depth 3 by 9 feet. The grounds are also used as a community center. The Frederick Douglass Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., is making an appeal for $22,-000. The hospital cost $118,000 and was founded by Dr. N. F. Mossell in 1895. It has cared for 73,000 out-patients and 8,000 patients in the wards. One hundred white and colored guests were entertained by Mme. C. J. Walker at her new home, Irvington-on-the-Hudson. There was music by J. Rosamond Johnson, Joseph Douglass and Melville Charlton, and speeches by Mme. Walker, Emmett J. Scott, William J. Schiefflein, Fred Moore and others. Soldiers of the 25th U. S. Infantry together with representatives of all Hawaii's cosmopolitan population joined in celebrating the Fourth of July. The Declaration of Independence was read in fourteen languages. Union Station Bank, a white institution, of St. Louis, Mo., has failed. More than fifty Negroes lost their deposits. The insulting signs in the park at Houston, Tex., refusing admittance to colored people, have been removed. The Colored State Medical Association of Oklahoma has issued a health bulletin of twenty-four pages. The U. S. Shipping Board has started a Mississippi River Steamboat for the training of Negro firemen. Negroes of Georgia have petitioned Governor Dorsey to advocate the repeal of the statute disbanding the state colored volunteer militia. Foreign—The British Government has made the following recommendation of changes in the government of India; a select committee from the House of Commons on Indian affairs; a privy council for India; larger representation of Indians in the Governor-General's Executive Council; a council of state and a legislative of assembly, the former to have fifty members of whom twenty-one will be elected and the latter, one hundred members of whom two-thirds are to be elected; these bodies are to have limited powers of legislation. Provision is made for provincial legislatures, partially elected, and for modified local self-government. All racial bars in the civil service are to be abolished. The proposed reform is not acceptable to radical Indians. There are 185,000 slaves in the African colonies recently conquered from Germany. King Bell, of the Kamaroons, was hanged by the Germans for high treason at the outbreak of the war. There was "a great outtery from the populace all night long." The greatest land case in British history has opened before the Judiciary Committee of the Privy Council of England. It is to determine whether 73,000,000 acres of land belong to the chartered corporation which rules Rhodesia, or to the white settlers or to 800,000 natives. A bill for rearranging the administration of native affairs in the Union of South Africa is under consideration by the government but probably will not be put into operation until after the war. It is probable that the proposed unfair division of land between whites and natives will be partially corrected. M. Rene Claparede, of Geneva, Switzerland, writing in La Revue Politique Internationale, on "Europe and the So-called Inferior Races" proposed that Switzerland, which was the birthplace of the great Red Cross work, may see the foundation of a Black Cross or a Golden Cross League in the interests of oppressed natives. In the legislative councils of Nigeria a native member, Mr. Agasa, has raised a protest against the Empire Resources Development Committee of England, which proposes a huge monopoly of raw materials after the war. Four thousand native Nigerian troops have been fighting in German Africa. The cocoa industry continues to grow and the importation of liquor has decreased from 1,808,000 gallons in 1913 to 3944,000 gallons in 1916. One quarter million dollars annually is being spent in education. CHEERFUL NEWS FROM "OVER THERE" It's a shame to do it, but public safety impels us to expose the sergeant who is palming off his Mexican border service- ribbon as an American croix de guerre, thereby raising his own holdings of "amourique Amerique" stock in the eyes of petite Madelon. Even so, sleeping on the rocks has its advantages, for in the rosy days of the future when friend wife turns the lock on our late nocturnal home-coming, we can curl up on the front porch with sleepful abandon. And when we are in the parlor with our best girl telling her of the great role we played in the world-safe-for-democracy drama, we'll not mind it a bit if the passing guard orders, "Camouflage those lights!" So many Yanks are over here now that there is scarcely room to house them, thereby creating the necessity of extending the eastern frontier of this domain of Foch, Pershing, et al. To our exchange-desk has recently come a copy of the Kriegszeitung, the official organ of the Seventh German Army. The most we can say for the sheet is that it is Boche and bosh. What gets us guessing is how this daylight-savings plan works out in the land of Eskimos, but we suppose all they have to do is to get up six months earlier each morning. Elsie Janis danced so gracefully that, after she had alighted from a perfectly stunning flip-flop, a dough-boy in the third row was heard to remark: "Just like a wheelbarrow I saw in the air after a high explosive hit near it." Our staff correspondent who made the trip to Paris is recovering from a rather severe headache. Cursed be the mule who braying is like unto the whistling of a shell.—The Ohio Rainbow Reveille, Official Organ, 166th Infantry, Somewhere in France. Showing Them What Was What—New Curate—"What did you think of the sermon on Sunday, Mrs. Jones?" Parishioner—"Very good indeed, sir. So instructive. We really didn't know what sin was till you came here."—Tit-Bits. Might Be Too Much for Him—Southern Parson (to convert)—"Does yo' think yo' kin keep in de straight an' narrer path now, Sam?" Sam—"I reckon I kin, pahson, ef dey ain't no watahmillion patches erlong de road."—Boston Transcript. Mannerly Conservation—Mama—"Willie, Willie—"Well, if I waste them now I won't have any when company comes." Judge. It All Depends—"How late shall you remain at your summer cottage this year?" "Ask the cook."—Boston Transcript. APARTMENT HOUSE 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 1034 Jackson Phone 2647 GOLDEN WEST CRAWFORD E. 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 .....Minnie .....bpxz IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Attorney for Plaintiff P. O. Address, 316 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. Sept. 13—Nov. 1, 1918.