Cayton's Weekly

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 BOSCOE CAYTON. Editor and Publisher THE PHONE: BEACON 1910 Office 303 22nd Ave. South EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS In another column hereof is an article describing the new method of cotton picking, which is attracting considerable attention. Just now cotton is king, the high prices of wheat to the contrary notwithstanding. The demand for cotton the world over is so keen that it is predicted that sooner or later the government will take a hand in either the producing of cotton or its sale or perhaps both, in either case the colored man of the South will be appealed to to assist in its increased output and instead of driving him from the cotton fields as the southern white man has done from time to time, he will be substantially encouraged to stay on the farms and assist the government in its endeavor to supply the world and his family with the necessary cotton supply—day is breaking. It is estimated that Uncle Sam had 100,000 casualities in the late European unpleasantness that is killed, wounded and missing, which is not so worse for two million soldiers. Our boys did some hard fighting over there and it is rather remarkable that so few of them were killed in comparison to the number in the trenches. Turkey or no turkey, by all means let's have a Thanksgiving day such as this country has never had, though the dinner for the day be nothing out of the ordinary. If Bob LaFollett is not a Republican then is he a Democrat? and if he is neither then what the hell is he? What the map of Europe will look like five years from now no one but God knows and He won't tell. Even the elements smiled beneficiently on our delighted citizens last Monday as they celebrated the rturn of the dove of Peace. Evidently President Wilson is not willing to let House do it and plans to go to Europe in person to sit at the table that will carve the German Empire. Billy Hohenzollern now resides in Holland on a farm for his health. Billy saw the city by the gas light and got more than he bargained for. It is reported that "Kunnel" Hawthorne got real mad at the editor of Cayton's Weekly, and we are curious to know why. Thanksgiving Turkey—wrong again for Turkey is in no mood just now to give thanks. --- Kaiser Bill profited from the rather sad experience of Czar Nick and got out of Germany while getting was good. He took refuge in a neutral country and unless all precedent is broken the Allies will not be able to extradict him, he being a war fugitive. Bill was a nervy old chap when things were coming his way, but made his get away when things started the other way. Remember, "old chap," he that fights and runs away will live to fight another day. If all the European countries that are now thinking of seeting up republics to supplant their monarchies do so, then Uncle Sam will have his hands full suplying them with "first grade" teachers that they may all get started off right. Canada has planted nearly two million more acres of wheat than she did in 1917 and the United States has greatly increased her wheat acreage, all of which would seem to indicate that the wheat grower desires to be his brother's keeper. It seems quite apparent that times will be about as good in Seattle for the next five years as they have been for the past two years and if you and each of you do not lay by for a rainy day you will wish you had. Both the legislature and the people having voted the state of Washington "bone dry" we do not apprehend any interference on the part of the state supreme court. Already the question of returning the railroads of this country to their former owners bobs up serenely and unless we miss our guess it will be one of the many paramount issues in the next presidential campaign. That big stick labelled "War Measures," which has played such a conspicuous part in the affairs of this country for the past two years was itself dealt a terrific blow last Monday by Gen. End of the War. An evening paper in Seattle had duck fits because it was on the streets eighteen minutes ahead of its afternoon contemporaries with the peace announcements—what fools we mortals be. After attending the funeral of Bill Kaiser last Monday the World and its family peacefully returned to their respective labors last Tuesday. With the campaign over, the war ended and the "flu" ban lifted it occurs to us the daily press is up a tree for something to print. Many a man, who has been fifty past woke up last Monday, only forty. Representatives from the South are now being accused by Democrats of the North as being responsible for the recent Waterloo of Democracy and there seems to be no doubt of it. Probably the former crown prince of Germany is not dead as has been reported, but if he is not dead he doubtless feels that he will be in a very few days more. VOL. 3. NO. 23 There is hardly any doubt but that multiplied thousands, if not millions of colored people, will leave the United States for either European or South American countries within the next five years, not because they will be able to make so much more money in those countries than they can in this, but because they will not be compelled to bump up against color discrimination in those countries as they do in this from Maine to Mexico and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Every country in Europe is ready and willing to give the colored man an even break and in South America his color is seldom referred to. It's preposterous to think the colored folk now living in the United States and especially in the South will continue to put up with the barbarity that is from time to time perpetrated upon them when they can go to other countries and make just as much money and be treated as other men are. In another column hereof an interesting article is reproduced touching on this self same subject. When the chief of the police intimates that the members of the police force are a rotten bunch and may be just as criminal as the criminals they pretend to be hunting there must be more truth than poetry in the allegation. But a rotten police force is nothing new for Seattle because they have always gotten the money while getting was good. So far as England is concerned war began with them at Mons and when it closed they were still at Mons. It was in the beginning of the war when some one asked one of the English war lords where the war would end. "I do not know when it will end, but I know where it will end—right here." and so it did—wise old owl. In King county after an exciting campaign for prosecuting attorney Brown won out and if the election is contested and the finals changed Brown will still win. As we predicted a few weeks ago Hock the Kaiser has given way to Hawk the Kaiser, which Holland is preparing to do. Perhaps Dr. McBride, Seattle's health officer, is a wise old boy, but no one save himself believes it. Permit us, Mr. Mayor Oly Hanson, to suggest to you that on your reconstruction committee you name at least two prominent colored citizens as they have interests that need consideration the same as other classes. Let's hope that the proposed street car purchase will not meet the same fate as did the proposed municipal telephone system that Seattle's citizens once voted. Despite the fact the war is over General Segregation continues throwing sharpnel at the colored citizens. "Let George do it" may have successfully held the boards for many years, but President Wilson seems to want us to "let Billy do it." sia, the man who bears the same relation to Russian literature that Shakespeare bears to English literature. Alexander Pushkin was born at Moscow in 1799. He had no struggle with poverty nor did he seem to have any struggle for recognition. As one of his biographers puts it, "He walked into the Hall of Fame as naturally as a young heir steps into his lawful inheritance." When he was thirteen years old he went to school at the Lyceum of Tsarskoe Selo. When he was sixteen he declaimed his "Recollections of Tsarsko Selo" in public at the Lyceum examination, and was immediately acclaimed as a poet. All that Pushkin accomplished he accomplished within a short lifetime; for he was only thirty-eight when he was led unto an unfortunate duel in which he was mortally wounded. An officer in the Russian army had been flirting with his wife. Pushkin received an anonymous letter, and thinking that this officer was the author of it, wrote him a violent letter which, according to the custom of the time made a duel inevitable. It is recorded that such was Pushkni's frenzy of rage that, after lying wounded and unconscious in the snow, he insisted on going on with the duel, and fired another shot, giving a great cry of joy when he saw he had wounded his adversary. He died a few days after the duel. Maurice Baring in his "Outline of Russian Literature," says, "Pushkin is Russia's national poet, the Peter the Great of poetry, who out of foreign material created something new, national and Russian, and left imperishable models for future generations. He set the Russian langue freef rom the bondage of the conventional; and all his life he was still learning to become more and more intimate with the savour and smell of the epople's language. He was gifted with divine ease and unpremeditated spontaneity. His soul was sincere, noble and open; he was frivolous, a child of the world and of his country; but if he was worldly, he was human; he was a citizen as well as a child of the world; and it is that which makes him the greatest of Russian poets." TOPICS IN BRIEF German efficiency has had a sufficiency. Columbia Record. Next thing we know Germany will go dry—Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Dollars to doughnuts is no longer the big odds it used to be.—Boston Globe. The only thing more destructive than an invading Hun is a retreating one.—Chicago Tribune. It may be hard to tell who is leading the German armies, but we all know who is running them.—St. Louis Star. The only difficulty about reprisals is that the Allies are too civilized to inflict them in kind.—Richmond Virginian. Well, the prospect for thrones for all those six sons as the outcome of the war begins to look pretty bad.—Columbus Dispatch. Germany's system seems to be to offer as a peace inducement something that Foch has made her do already.—New York Tribune. Bill Kaiser said to Ambassador Gerard: "I shall stand no nonsense from America." Well, you're not getting it, Bill.—Columbia Record. Look out for sudden affectionate demonstrations from neutrals who have been waiting to see which way the cat would jump.—Washington Post. Big Bill Hohenzollern now realizes more clearly than ever what a mistake he made when he picked on quiet, peaceable Wood Wilson.—Anaconda Standard. If a league of nations is to include barbarians who fire shrapnel at boats laden with women and children, there won't be any waiting list of applicants.—Indianapolis News. And again we wonder how much time the average returned soldier will have for the kind of religion preached by the minister who claimed exemption from military service because he was a theological student?—Emporia Gazette. Seems as if the Government ought to take over the entire supply of one or two of these patent medicines. If they are up to their advertising, an army properly primed with them ought to be able to clean up the enemy in half a day.—Los Angeles Times. Retreat is the order of der Tag.—Wall Street Journal. Looks as tho the Kaiser must fight or work.—Baltimore American. The Huns will never entirely appreciate Kaiser Bill until they begin to foot his warbill.—Columbia Record. Retribution for Germany presents the biggest problem in penology that the world ever studied.—Venango Herald. Prince Max will find that the easiest way to deal with the Allies is to take the helm from Wilhelm.—New Orleans Item. We are also expecting to hear that John Barleycorn would be willing to negotiate an "honorable peace."—Anaconda Standard. Germany professes to have had a change of heart. Be that as it may, we demand also a change of head.—Baltimore American. Germany has found a substitute for everything else. It shouldn't be hard to find a substitute for the Kaiser.—St. Louis Star. Looks as the Prussian officers might as well begin practicing stepping off the sidewalks now to let civilians pass.—Columbus Dispatch. We have just been enjoying the latest photographs of the Clown Prince. His is, indeed, the face that launched a thousand quips.—St. Louis Star. The Geramns are now using armor that protects chest and abdomen. Unless it is reversible it will doubtless prove of little worth.—Asheville Times. Prince Max was, back in '96, confined in an insane asylum, which fact perhaps especially fitted him for handling his country's present emergency.—Nashville Banner. If it's true that Wilhelm has abdicated, we hope Mr. Wilson will have a heart and not turn his job over to Mr. McAdoo. No use in riding a free horse to death.—Macon Telegraph. The report that the Leviathan, formerly the Vateralnd, has moved more soldiers across the Atlantic than any other ship is a mistake. The Lusitania has moved most of them.—Houston Post. It is going to be pretty hard on the poor, patient German people, wtih all the other things they have to bear, not to have any atrocities to look forward to.—Columbus Ohio State Journal. STOLEN FROM THIEVES Keeping the Secret—Stella—“Molly told me you told her that secret I told you not to tell her.” Bella—“It's beastly of her to have told you that! Why, I told her not to!” Stella—“Well, I told her I wouldn't tell you she told me. So don't tell her I did.”—Tit-Bits. Wouldn't Take a Chance—“Why don't you get out and hustle? Hard work never killed anybody,” remarked the philosophical gentleman to whom Rastus applied for a little charity. "You're mistaken dar, bos," replied Rastus; "I'se lost fouh wives dat way."—People's Home Journal. New Name, Old Disease—Two girls were quarrelling. "Oh," said one, "I'm sick of you! I believe you can't help it, tho. You've got a chauffeur's tongue!" "What?" cried the other girl, scared. "Is it catching? How does one get it?" "Oh," said the other pointedly, "through constantly running people down."—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. One of Uncle Joe's—Uncle Joe Cannon tells of a conversation overheard in his home town in Illinois. "Was the wedding a success?" "Yes, in most particulars; but some of the guests thought the bride's mother did a lot more crying than was necessary. You see, the young couple are to make their home with her, so she really isn't losing her daughter. " "Maybe that was what she was crying about."—Pittsburg Chronicle-Teelgraph. Try This—The captain of the s. s. Piffle listened patiently to a passenger's account of his shooting abilities, then he quietly remarked: "I don't think you could hit this bottle at twenty yards, placed on the taffrail, while the ship is heaving like this." "It would be only child's play," said the passenger. "Well, I'll bet you a guinea you don't hit it three times out of six." "It's a wager. Come along." The bottle was placed in position. Crack! The passenger hit it, and it disapeared in fragments into the sea. "Trot out another one," said the marksman. "Not at all. The conditions were that you hit that one three times out of six. Five shots more."—Chicago News. Ruse That Failed—The called-up one volubly explained that there was no need in his case for a medical examination. "I'm fit and I want to fight. I want to go over on the first boat. It want to go right into the front trenches, but I want to have a hospital close, so that if I get hit no time will be wasted in taking me where I can get mended right away, so that I can get back to fighting without losing a minute. Pass me in, doctor. Don't waste any time on me. I want to fight, and keep fighting!" The doctor, however, insisted, and, when he got through, reported a perfect physical specimen. "You don't find nothing wrong with me, doctor?" "Nothing." "But, doctor, don't you think I'm a bit crazy?"—Tit-Bits. Catty—Edith—"What makes you think Jack loves me so desperately?" Maud—"Oh, a thousand things! He always looks so pleased, for instance, when you sing and play."—Boston Transcript. No Time for Pikers—"John," exclaimed the nervous woman, "I believe there is a burglar in the house." "I haven't time to fool with small fry," was the sleepy response. "I've spent the entire day fighting regular profiteers."—Washington Star. Equal to the Occasion—"Say, that lot you sold me is three feet under the water." "Is it?" "Yes, it is, and you know it is." "Well, it's a good thing you told me. I can let you have a bargain in a canoe."—Kansas City Journal. Trench Repartee—Australian Soldier (to American)—"You Yanks think you've done a lot, but you forget we Australians have been at the game for four years." "Well, what have you done, anyway?" "Done? We've been at Gallipoli, Mesopotamia, the plains of Bethlehem, and—" "The plains of Bethlehem?" "Yes; I slept a week there myself." "Well, I guess that was a busy week for the shepherds watching their flocks!"—Tit-Bits. Ought to be Genuine—Sam, the choreman, returned from the city with a scarfpin that contained a "diamond" of no usual size. It was the pride of his heart and the envy of his village companions. He treated all inquiries from them as to its value and its authenticity with high scorn. His employer, after a week of basking in its radiance, asked Sam about its history. "Sam," he said, "is it a real diamond?" "Wall," said Sam, "if it ain't I I've been skun out of a half-dollar."—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. before the commanding officer, the whole was quickly adjusted. The committee was cordially invited to visit the camp at any time and inspect the quarters occupied by the colored soldiers. School, after a five weeks' vacation, caused by the Spanish influenza epidemic, opened last Thursday. Many of the high school pupils took advantage of the vacation and made themselves a piece of Christmas money. In the near future the Scott Harris family of Everett will give a concert at the Grace Presbyterian church of Seattle, which will contain many new feautres in comparison to other concerts it has given in Seattle. Mr. Cragwell will have charge of the details and he hopes to make of this the start attraction of the present winter season. If Mayor Hanson has to consult organized labor every time the city employs a colored person, then there will be but few of them employed by the city while Hanson is in the chair. Now that the war is over Socialism seems to be the prevailing sentiment of the most of the European countries and it is even being whispered in the United States. While we know little or nothing of the disease, yet it can not be so worse since all those who have it seem to love it. To post up on the subject might not be half bad. There may be considerable house building done in Seattle next summer, but at that the demand for houses and apartments will continue just as accute as at present. A financier that will get fifteen million bucks, with which Seattle is to buy the street car system is wanted. Well, why not let Oly do it? He has turned lousy old tricks in the past. 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 Tailors and Cleaners. Clothes called for and delivered. Hats retrimmed and blocked. H. S. Frazier C. W. Curtest --- --- --- Shock Was Too Severe—Once there was a woman who moved into an apartment and found everything swept and scrubbed and as clean as if she had done it herself. The shock left her lying helpless on the floor, but soon she managed to drag herself to the telephone where, her strength fast ebbing away, she gave central a nummber. Presently a voice came over the telephone. "I just wanted to tell you," said the suffering woman, "how thankful I am to find the apartment in such lovely condition. You are one in a million, and I shall never forget—" There was a sudden clatter at the other end of the line. The woman who had just moved out of the apartment fell to the floor with a crash, tearing the telephone connections from their fastenings. She had swooned, for tho she had cleaned apartments annually since her wedding-day, no succeeding tenant had ever admitted it before. They met in the hospital three weeks later, in a ward marked "Quiet." Both recovered slowly and whiled away the long hours getting acquainted. They became friends—such good friends, indeed, that they have canceled their leases, broken up housekeeping, and have moved their husbands off to a family hotel, in order that they may be together forever and forever. Kansas City Star. THE TOWN CRIER Grace Presbyterian Church will, like the most of the churches, begin its regular services next Sunday forenoon. During the suspension Mrs. B. F. Tutt, assisted by others, has had some extensive interior decorations made in the auditorium. Rev. Barber will occupy the pulpit Sunday forenoon and in the evening there will be a splendid sacred concert in which a number of local lights will appear. President S. H. Stone announces that the Seattle Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will hold its annual election Monday evening November 25th inst., and he hopes every member of the branch will be present to participate in the same. The branch has and is doing well and the hope is it will continue doing so. The funeral ceremonies over Mrs. Marion Washington Brooks were by odds the most pathetic that Seattle has seen for many a day. To see one so youn and beautiful and with a babe in her arms asleep in death brought tears to the eyes of all who beheld them. Mr. Brooks and Mr. and Mrs. Washington have the sympathy of the community. You and each of you have much to be thankful for this year and it's the religious as well as patriotic duty of all of us to really be thankful. A union service should be held and there should be an outpouring to it such as has never before been seen in Seattle. Two at least of the most eloquent men in our midst should address the crowd on that occasion. Next Sunday afternoon the regular monthly meeting of the Negro Business Men's League will be held at 300 Main Street and it is hoped that you will be present. The King County Colored Republican Club will convene immediately after the adjourning of the league and a successor to the late Andrew R. Black should be elected. Under the auspices of the Seattle Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People a committee of three headed by President S. H. Stone, visited Camp Lewis last Tuesday in the interest of the colored soldiers stationed there. The committee consisted of S. H. Stone, Rev. Barber and H. R. Cayton, the latter acting as spokesman. After laying the complaints ```markdown ``` OLD GLORY EDITORIAL PARGRAPHS 1034 Jackson GOLDEN WEST SEATTLE LIGHTING CO. Lightens your burdens. Day or night it's always there with the goods. SEATTLE LIGHTING CO. Phone East 179 PENN UNDERTAKING COMPANY Funeral Directors and Embalmers The only Colored Undertaking Establishment in the Northwest Owned, Managed and Financed by Colored Brain and Money. "Best service at moderate prices," is our motto. Your business will be highly appreciated. Calls promptly answered day or night. P. FRAZIER Funeral Director and Manager Parlors, 1215 East Marion St., Seattle WEST & WHEELER There are real estate dealers and real estate dealers, but— WEST & WHEELER Marion Building Cheasty's Good Clothes for Men and Women. You can't beat it. CHEASTY'S Second and Spring IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Victoria M. Glass and George Glass, her husband, plaintiffs, vs. Times Printing Co., a corporation, et als, Ernest Huschke, and any known or unknown heirs or persons having or claiming to have any interest in Lot 5 and W. half of Lot 4, in Block 10, of Hillman's School House Division of Green Lake Addition to City of Seattle, King County, Washington, defendants.—No. 131890. Summons by Publication. The State of Washington to the said Ernest Huschke and any known or unknown heirs or persons having or claiming to have any interest in Lot 5, and West half of Lot 4, in Block 10, of Hillman's School House Division of Green Lake Addition to City of Seattle, King County, Washington, defendants: 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 16th day of November, 1918, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiffs, 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 quiet title to Lot 5 and West half of Lot 4 in Block 10 of Hillman's School House Division to Green Lake Addition to City of Seattle, King County, Washington. Z. B. RAWSON, Attorney for Plaintiffs. P. O. Address: 617 Pacific Block, Seattle, King County, Wash. Nov. 16 to Dec. 28, 1918. CAYTON'S WEEKLY Regular, Reliable, Republican, Readable Wants 500 New Subscribers This is a Sample of what it sends out Every Week No Friends to Reward or Enemies to Punish A Publication of Ideas Rather Than Personalities Read for Yourself and be Convinced Telephone Beacon 1910