Cayton's Weekly

State library Cayton's Weekly SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1918 PRICE FIVE CENTS CAYTON'S WEEKLY 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. Subscription and Publisher 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 HAWTHORNE'S HALUCINATION As though it was not disgrace and humiliation enough for the citizens of Seattle to give "Kunnel" Hawthorne the large vote they did, still yet the "Kunnel" comes forward and adds insult to injury by intimating in a public address had the soldier boys "over there" had had an opportunity to vote in the late election he would have been elected to Congress. Just why the soldier boy would have voted any different over there than they have always done or vote any different than did their fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters and wives, is one of the things the flowery tongued orator failed to elucidate and in the absence of any prima facie evidence from the "Kunnel" to the contrary we do not believe they would have, and he would have been beaten just as badly, if not worse, had the soldier vote been cast. The fact of the whole matter is the "Kunnel" was in the right church, but the wrong pew. Unlike the state from whence "Kunnel" Hawthorne came, Washington state disfranchises none of its citizens. Despite the fact the political sentiment of the state has always been overwhelmingly Republican, yet no laws have been passed by any of the various legislatures of this state having for their objects the hindering or handicapping of any politicalism inenemical to Republicanism. The state of Washington is made up, for the most part, of broadgaged patriotic citizens, who disdain to shoot a man in the back or kick the fellow already down, regardless of his race or color, hence the inuendo on the part of the "Kunnel" that the legislature failed to provide for the casting of the soldier vote because it was overwhelmingly Republican and the members thereof feared the soldier boys out of the state would suddenly embrace Democracy and cast their votes for Democratic candidates, is ridiculous and likewise absurd. But why say more on the subject for the inuendo is so silly and inconsistent that it is absolutely damphooldom, and may be classed as but another political post mortem, explaining how it happened. You were defeated, "Kunnel," because you were a Democrat from the South and of the same stripe of those southern Democrats who forced President Wilson to commit political indiscretions that were wholly responsible for the defeat of the Democratic party all over the North at the late general election. It will ever be thus with you, my dear "Kunnel," until you have been regenerated and born again. All precedent is to be broken and President Wilson is to leave the country while he is yet president thereof. Nobody save the president himself and his wife can see any good he can accomplish by participating in the peace propaganda, but his ego seems to have gotten the better of him and he is going or die in the endeavor. So far as the outside world is concerned that North Carolina mob cooled down in twenty-four hours after it had done its bloody work, but "Kunnel" Hawthorne, the editor hereof, and others who have lived in the South know that the colored citizens are still being kicked and cuffed about and perhaps killed. Instead of cooling down in twenty-four hours those southern Huns rave like mad dogs for weeks. At the coming December election in Seattle two members of the school board are to be elected and one member of the port commission. Three candidates have announced themselves for this latter position and a good lively scrap it will be. The job pays $5,000 per year now and well worth scrapping over. As usual little or no attention is being paid to the school board. It was but a few days ago when Mayor Hanson through the columns of the Post-Intelligencer said that the Seattle police force, in his opinion, was a rotten bunch, and promised to shake 'em up, but he has not. Now an increase of policemen is asked for. Why get more when what you have is so very bad. If Penrose is the disturbing element in the Republican party, he ought to "go way back and sit down." May, perhaps, Penrose thinks Norris has much right to do that as he and he is correct, but his doing so will unite the party and Norris having to do so will divide the party and thereby lose another presidential election. Penrose can afford to be magnanimous. Justice for Mooney might mean the gallows, but we do not believe that would serve any good purose under the circumstances therefore we truly hope that he will not get justice, but a pardon. However, the the threatened world-wide strike on the part of organized labor, if he is not pardoned, is puerile and would be cutting off its nose to spite its face. There is enough trouble and sorrow in the world now without wilfully precipiating more. Au revoir, Mr. President. The Huns of the South are again at the bat. Demobilizing three million soldiers and directing them into industrial endeavors will be some job. You did it, and if you will cross your heart and hold up your hand to God, in a promise to not do it again, we will say you didn't do it, is about the interpretation of the decision of the supreme court as to the firm of Gil, Hoyt and Frye. STOLEN FROM THIEVES That American girl who married an English lord, but was snubbed by the lord and ladies of London, evidently took the name of the Lord in vain. VOL. 3, NO. 24 THE PASSING THRONG By You and I Four members of the Seattle Negro Business Men's League met last Sunday afternoon, which was one more than were present at the meeting one month prior, and of course there was no business transacted at either meeting. At the last meeting, however, a motion prevailed that the secretary notify the thirty odd members by letter to be present at the next monthly meeting to vote on whether or not the League disband. The above organization has been running in a way ever since it began, a year and a half ago and the ten promoters have spent something like $350 on it with the hope of stimulating an interest among the colored citizens of Seattle in establishing business enterprises and patronizing the same, but the appeals have fallen on deaf ears and apparently we have fully made up our minds that to be a success we must tread the wine press alone, and so we say "every fellow for himself and the devil take the hindermost one." It is very doubtful if more than one colored firm in Seattle has a business rating. In other words, to consult Bradstreet or Dun business directory for the rating would be like going to a goat's house for lamb's wool. True you may be selling enough over your counters to give you a living, but you are without commercial standing and therefore can never do, but little more than you are now doing. It was the object of the League to overcome this handicap and have the colored business man recognized by the business world. If any of the promoters had any selfish motive in trying to perfect this organization it never showed up, but after a painful struggle for existence it is now face to face with life or death with the odds favoring the latter. There will be no union Thanksgiving service in Seattle this year among the colored citizens, not so much because the idea was combatted by any of the church organizations, but because the one waited for the other to take the initiative in the matter. In every foward movement somebody is bound to lead and if success is ever to follow, neither of these the average colored citizen of Seattle recognizes. Approximately the Seattle branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has a membership of 200 and yet at its regular meetings it's the rarest thing to see a dozen members present, which is a sad commentary on our much boasted racial improvement. Next Monday evening at the Grace Presbyterian Church the branch will meet and elect its officers for the ensuing year and it is hoped that at least fifty members will be present. Get all the trade you can when in business but for a colored person in business to figure on getting the bulk of the colored trade in his or her immediate community is figuring without a foundation. The colored person in business should cater to the public rather than to the individual. In other words so conduct your business that all men rather 5 than just black men will be your steady customers. If you think you see an opportunity to start a business in a community made up entirely of white citizens go to it just as quickly as if they were all colored citizens. Very beautiful and impressive were the ceremonies in connection with the funeral of Mrs. Lenora C. Brown, held at Grace Presbyterian Church Monday, November 18. Rev. Barber officiated and Doctors Carter, Graham and Johnson, the former pastors, and Dr. Forbes, the founder and "father" of the church, participated in the services. Before her illness Mrs. Brown was well-known for her activity in the religious and social circles of the city. Her father, Adrian Montier, husband, Richard S. Brown, and three children mourn her demise. The war is over! Peace, whether enduring or transient, is upon us. The world now speaks in terms of re-construction, plans for the mystic future. One great fact the war has brought out: that several, many, nations though racially, economically, or geographically distinct, can find a common basis for unified, concerted action, more, that even the so-called "lowly, worthless "Negro," usually set apart and not considered, can bear his full share of harmonious world-effort, can be an integral part of the "all things working together," for the "good of the world." The millions freely contributed to war loans and charitable organizations, the rushing stream of their rich life's blood, overwhelmingly illustrate this fact. We can get together with the company of nations and races: Let's GET TOGETHER in ourselves. Twelve million hearts, functioning in harmony, would form "a lever to uplift the whole earth, and move it in a better course." Five thousand, working together in Seattle, would make it the Queen of the world. Would make themselves felt throughout the length and breadth thereof. Let's re-construct, or better CONSTRUCT. Let US plan for the coming days. LET'S GET TOGETHER. To the many friends of our dear sleeping wife and mother, Lenora Carolina Brown, whose constant devotion and labor of love, helped so greatly to brighten her last hours, and in sustaining us in our sorrow, this card of thanks is ascribed with deep, undying gratitude. Richard S. Brown and Family. On Monday or Tuesday of last week the Seattle branch of the N. A. A. C. P. received reports alleging the unfair treatment of the colored soldiers at Camp Lewis, stating that they had been taken from their "comfortable barracks" and had been housed in tents in a remote and very undesirable part of the cantonment. Looking into the matter a committee was appointed from members of Seattle branch, Pres. S. H. Stone, H. R. Cayton and the Rev. J. B. Barber, to investigate these conditions and to confer with the authorities of the camp in their regard. On reaching the camp it was found that because of the prevalence of the Spanish influenza, the entire camp being quarantined, nothing in the way of a personal investigation could be effected, but the committee was ushered directly into the office of the general in command, Maj. Gen. J. D. Leitch. Editor Cayton, as spokesman, explained the nature of the committee's mission with clarity, stating that the committee was but the representative of the N. A. A. C. P., and of the parents and friends. That it did not come as a group of carping critics; that it was actuated only by the spirit of patriotism, the desire for justice and from a deep and keen interest in the boys, and for their welfare. He stated further that the committee did not seek any special privileges for the boys; that if whatever had happened was a part of the general training for all, that all shared it,irrespective of color and other extrenal circumstances, no complaint would come. Maj. Gen. Leitch emphatically stated that discrimination of color was not in any way the cause of the action. That though it was true that the colored men had been placed in tents, it was done only that there might be accommodations for the newly-drafted men coming into the camp and that at the same time the colored men were moved three thousand white men were put in tents also. That they had been notified to prepare for the reception of seven thousand civilian soldiers and that men already having some training could better live in the tents. It may have been true, he said, that some of the tents were incompletely furnished and without flooring at the very first, but that the condition was remedied the next day. "Moreover," he said, "all of the men are back in their barracks now. With the ending of war, the men coming to the camp were turned back and the fellows sent to their former quarters. Maj. Gen. Leitch assured us again that there was no desire to deal unfairly with the colored soldiers, that he had the highest respect for them, having served for twenty years as the commanding officer of the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Infantry, made up of Negro troops. He then spoke of the greater health conditions accompanying the living in tents, and of their affording lesser possibility of contagion during an epidemic. The committee was deeply gratified in finding the reports to be without proper foundation and by the cordial and thoughtful consideration of Maj. Gen. Leitch and feels that if, whenever the occasion for conference arises, the same courteous frankness and gentlemanly spirit that characterized the Camp Lewis officials is present, most of the difficulties that sorely vex will be most speedily adjusted, with pleasure and with profit to all concerned. Later word comes to us from Camp Lewis thanking the Seattle branch for its interest and activity and that all is well and the boys are hapy and, so are we. A TRAVELER'S OPINION Dear Friend: Being acquainted with the fact that you possess race pride and that you hold sacred the relation of the "Brotherhood of Man," we take this means to appeal to these particular senses. We have striven, and have succeeded in making the Alhambra Cash Grocery an enterprise to which all race loving and serious thinking colored Americans might look with pride. Our business is operated on a strictly first class basis, a sanitary, modern 1918 Wholesale and Retail Grocery and Confectionery. "Quality" is our slogan and "Service" is positively our aim. You must eat, you want the best, and you are not satisfied unless you get the best, and as much as your demand can be fully met by your colored brother, why not give him your undivided patronage and your encouragement? We have also a well organized department for handling mail orders, insuring your prompt and efficient service in every respect. Send us your next mail order and so convince yourself of this assertion. Again I say, and with impunity, "we are in a position to meet the demands of the most rigid connoisser in our line." We invite your inspection, and appreciate and solicit your patronage. ALHAMBRA GROCERY 1201 Jackson Street Food does not seem to agree with your friend. It doesn't for he himself says his wife's market bill gives him a pain. That elderly woman use to be the toast of the town. Maybe that accounts for her crustiness now. Where now are those whinning pessimists who were so sure that the Fourth Liberty Loan would fall short. Taking a short nap to be ready to make similar predictions about the Fifth Liberty Loan. Putting a fellow in prison to make him act right does not seem to be the proper punishment for the fellow, but recently let out of jail for good behavior. To insist that a fellow wearing a heavy beard is a "bare faced liar" is telling a lie or a liar. How much per week do you get for working at the shipyard, inquired a prospective worker of one on his way home from work. Well, my friend, if I give it all to my wife, I get a conditional armistice. Pat, who had been drinking heavily to drown his sorrows, was asked, "Are they not dead yet?" "They may be," he replied, "but I am holding a wake over their remains." The Optimist rejoicing over the fact that his troubles were at an end, was reminded by the Pessimist that that was just fine as he could now start all over again. The millionaires would not object to the flu if it were not so common. The very idea of one of them having to die with the same disease as the ordinary laboring person is almost discouraging enough to drive them to commit suicide. "Do you think I could learn to be a moving-picture actress?" "To be sure. All you've got to remember is that anger, hate, passion, revenge, rage, grief, despair or love are indicated by heaving the chest."—The Screen. Willis—I hope you women will learn the secret of cooperation. Mrs. Willis—Indeed we are. We're doing it at our sewing club now. Instead of all working on different socks for the soldiers, we are are going to all work on one big sock.—The War Worker. THEY SAY Mayor Hanson is a beautiful promiser. Jones has a $4000 home that leads them all. Sam Stone is more enthusiastic than discrete. Chief Warren is full of misgivings instead of thanksgivings. Chauncey W. Jamison wants some help to get in "my house." The Alhambra Cash Grocery Company is worth its weight in gold. Rev. Graham will have a Thanksgiving service with me and mine. Woodson will send the editor of the Sarchlight a Thanksgiving turkey. P. Frazier has so much money that he does not know what to do with it. H. C. Bell has a head on him that will make a millionaire of him foresoon. Roger Watts, a former Tacoma attorney at law, according to the post office depart- --- " os 7 , Rae 7 / OS) ee Pea Se Ee LEI Se eT ET pe tee Tee a | 8 ment, is now in Seattle and not having seen him, he must be lost, strayed or stolen. Cayton’s Weekly is not ‘‘the leading colored paper,’’ but a darn good weekly. Big Bill Sweeney is going to spring a sur- prise on the public in the near future. Osear Collins is ‘‘bone dry.’? Now laugh, confound you, as though it is not so. Mrs. Black (A. R.) is figuring on having Black’s Addition to the City of Seattle put on the real estate market. Rey. W. D. Carter having been seen with all of five dollars in his purse, must con- template going into the banking business. THE HORIZON (From The Crisis) Music and Art Bertha Lhambers, o Lynchburg, Va., who has been attending the Columbia University Summer School of Music, was asked to teach the class of forty students a Negro melody. She taught ‘‘Listen to the Lambs,’’ by R. Nathaniel Dett, and was highly commended. Sylvia E. Lyons, a fourteen year old col- ored girl, of Boston, Mass., and piano pupil of Mrs. Ancrum Forster, won a first prize in the September Etude or an essay on ‘‘Mu- sie and Patriotism.’ A collection of traditional Negro songs, “Old Melodies of the South,’’ memorized by Mary Gillen and harmonized by Oliver Chal- ifous, has been published. Kamper Herreld, violinist, was heard in a series of recitals during the month of September. At the concerts given at Wil- berforce University, Clarksburg and Charles- ton, W. Va. Mr. Herreld featured ‘‘An African Lament,’ ’composed by Colonel Charles Young. The Musical America published a picture of the New York colored Regimental Band in Europe, viewed by General Pershing, who speaks appreciatively of the joy the music of this band has given. All-native programs were planned for the sixty-first annual Worcester Musie Festival. At the fourth concert, Emma Roberts, the well known American contralto, sang a group of selections, including ‘‘I stood on de Ribber,’’ by H. T. Burleigh. During September, the Dunbar Commun- ity Centre gave an entertainment for the soldiers at Dunbar High School, Washing- ton. An event.of the gathering was the singing of Mme. Miura, the Japanese prima donna, who not only sang arias from the operas, but joined with Mrs. Newton D. Baker, wife of the Secretary of War, in the choruses of the folk-songs sung by the col- ored children and students. Mrs. Baker gave an address, and also sang for the soldiers. Twenty wounded Negro soldiers, headed by 100 Home Defense Guards, paraded in Philadelphia, Pa., to aid the Merey Hospital Fund. The New York Clef Club, under the mu- sical direction of Will Marion Cook, will tour New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Wash- ingtotn, Virginia, Illinois and New Jersey during November, with the aim of fostering the development and exploitation of the best Afro-American music. Ethel Richardson, the only colored com- petitor among five, won the year’s scholar- ship to the Institute of Musical Art in New York City. Industry The Chevrolet Motor Company, of Flint, Mich., employs four colored foremen: Harry Nelson, Thomas Kelly, Lovell Roueland and S. J. Smith. The Labor Service Board of the U. 8S. Government has disaprpoved of the labor eard system which Birmingham and other southern cities have tried to introduce for Negro labor. Factories at Hickory, N. C., are giving employment to 150 colored laborers. The Hickory Hosiery Company has installed ma- ehinerv in a building owned by Mr. S. A. groes and gives employment to fifty colored women. Isaac Bernard, a colored tenant of the G. E. Rivers’ Plantation at Yazoo City, Miss., delivered a bale of cotton at market which brought him $273, said to be the highest price ever paid for any grade of cotton. Wesley Thomas and H. A. Bowley have been given positions in the Electrical De- partment of the Erie Railroad in Jersey City, N. J. They will serve as storage bat- tery men under Edward Crabb, colored fore- man, who has a record of fifteen years’ ser- vice with this company. Among the new industries in which col- ored men are being employed in New Jer- sey are the following: Cigar making, fur- dyeing, awning making, shirt making, hand- kerehief making, helpers on knitted sweat- ers, making celluloid novelties, helpers on aprons and towels, pasting and lining trunks, packing suitease handles, garment making, busheling and thread cutting on soldiers’ garments, helpers in laundries, toys and dolls, buttons, feathers, fur cutting, candy making, picking fowls and pasting labels in packing houses. A colored man, ©, B. Burnet, has been ap- pointed by the Fiscal Court to investigate and report on the unemployment of Negroes in Louisville and Jefferson County, Ky. His salary is $125 per month, of which the county will pay one-third and the Federal Government, two-thirds. Booker T. Washington, Jr., son of the noted colored educator, has accepted the po- sition of Claims Adjuster, representing the 9,000 Negro employees at the U. 8S. Gov- ernment air nitrate plant, at Mussel Shoals, Ala. Education Tuskegee Institute opened its thirty- eighth annual session September 10. More than 1500 students have been enrolled this year, and the first day’s enrollment was one of the largest in the history of the school. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Malone, colored, of St. Louis, Mo., recently contributed $1200 to Tuskegee Institute. The Hickory, N. C. School Commissioners have erected a brick building, costing $4,- 500, for colored youth. The eighth and ninth grades have been added to the graded course of study. ; Geneva Daniels, a colored girl of Bloom- ington, Il, has won in a competitive ex- amination the George Washington Scholar- ship, providing $300 a year for four years at any college in the country. Miss Daniels graduated from the Normal High School with the class of 1918, and will enter Chi- cago University. The Rosenwald School Honse Building Fund reports that up to July 1, 1918, 450 school houses had been built in eleven Southern States at a cost of $665,555. Of this Mr. Rosenwald gave $186,477, the col- ored people $194,480, with the balance from publie school funds. The American Rolling Mill Company at Middletown, Ohio, has built the Booker T. Washington School for colored children at Bon Veue, costing $60,000, and turned it over to the city. Three colored teachers and 114 pupils have been enrolled. There are fifty-six colored teachers in the Public Schools of Cleveland, Ohio, teach- ing mostly white pupils. The Church The First Baptist Church of Charlotte, N. C., has been completed at a cost of $43,- 000 and the last mortgages burned. Eleven thousand dollars has been raised through a drive to clear the indebtedness of the People’s Baptist Church, Boston, Mass. Among three or four colored men who appointed. They formulated twelve articles of agreement. The ©. M. E. Church has accepted the articles, but the other general conferences do not meet until 1920. The membership of the three bodies, according to the census, is 1,056,447, but they claim 1,440,168. Personal Dr. James C. Fowler, a Negro graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, has been appointed one of the city health physicians by Mayor E. V. Babeock. The State Board of Health has employed Dr. 8. B. Ennis, a Negro physician of Troy, Ala., to take charge of educational work among the Negroes of the state in the eru- sade that has been launched against social diseases. Dr. E. A. White, former President of Walden College, has been elected Field See- retary of the Freedman’s Aid Society at Cincinnati, Ohio, to do special work in the centenary campaign. Dr. D. A. Bethea, of Terre Haute, Ind., has been appointed “Medical Inspector of Schools, and a member of the Board of Di- rectors of the Anti-Tuberculosis Society. This is the first time that such honors have come to a colored man in that city. Emma Griffin, of the widely known col- ored vaudeville team of Griffin Sisters, is dead at Chicago, Ill. Mrs. Ida Hudson is connected with the firm of Hudson & Butler, Undertakers, at Oakland, Cal., specializing in funeral direct- ing. She has completed a post-course in floral decorating under Professor Wagner of New York. R. V. Green, having served five years as Deputy Registering Clerk in East San Diego, Cal., has been appointed Deputy City Marshal. Blanche A, Perkins has been taken into the service of the U. S. Department of Ag- riculture as Supervising Agent of Home Economies Work for the State of Louisiana. She has five colored agents under her. Mrs. Powhatan Bagnall has been elect- ed Director of the Harreit Tubman Home for Working Girls at Boston, Mass. Dr. George W. Adams, for ten years cashier of the Mechanics and Farmers Bank of Durham, N. C., is dead. James Admire, a colored policeman of Indianapolis, Ind., for eighteen years, is dead at the age of sixty. Dr. Peter Murray has been appointed Assistant Chief Surgeon at Freedman’s Hospital, Washington, D. C., sueceeding Dr. Simeon Carson, who has resigned. Dr. Mur- ray is a medical graduate of Howard. Social Progress Citizens and packing interests have pledg- ed $200,000 for a three years’ program of social uplift among colored peole in East St. Louis, Il. This includes coordination of all existing agencies, community centers, day nurseries and physical and educational classes. The Provident Hospital, Chicago, TIL, has opened a new department, a post-graduate course. The colored hospital at Garrison and Law- ton Avenues, St. Louis, Mo.. has been pur- chased by the city for $62,500. At the annual meet of the National A, A. U. championships held in Chicago, II., Rob- ert E. Johnson, of Camp Upton, N. Y., won the five mile run in the junior events. Colored employees at the Washington, D. C., Navy Rard raised among themselves $1,000 for Camp Pleasant, a camp for poor colored children, of which Mrs. Laura Bruce Gleen is superintendent. Justice Frank J. O’Brien, in Sacramento, Cal., has awarded a judgment of $50 to the Foreign it is bad enough, it reads worse than it is it is bad enough, it reads worse than it is. "Officers and soldiers are worried to death about home. One of the girls in the censor office dropped incidentally that the numbers of cables sent over about the deaths of wives, sisters and children were getting worse and worse, and some days there wer more than came from the other side about the deaths in battle. She said it broke her heart to send the messages, and even to her, with all her experiences in the months she has been in the office, nothing has seemed as sad. And som of the answers that came back to other members of the family seemed such a cry from the heart—a new moan from the battlefield. "Well, this morning a dear little woman's husband who has been wounded and is in a hospital cabled her to know if she were all right. He had evidently been in touch with somebody who got one of these sad cables from home. She has not much money and she is ill with the influenza, but not seriously so. So I said I would cable for her. In her instruction book there were prices given, and just how to get cables where they ought to go. In addition she had two or three different ways that her husband had written her since he had been in the hospital. She gave me a five-dollar bill, with a carefully written message, and off I went. When I handed it in, after eliminating a few unnecessary words without losing her message to her husband at all that was going to relieve his mind, the man in the cable office counted the words and said $6.75—and I had expected about two-fifty back in change! "I paid the extra and got the message off, with the understanding that there was no certainty about its getting to its destination on time. 'There is so much Government work,' the man said. Of course I had it out with the cable man about the rate and about the 'code' he was afraid I might be using to send a message to a possible spy! If he could not understand, then it must be wrong! Of course, my friend and I both knew enough not to use a code, but in the elimination to save words the man, with his dull brain, thought it ambiguous or something, and I had to fight that out, too. I am not going to tell my friend about price or the trouble I had—she is having trouble enough, with her own illness and the husband in a hospital, and she not knowing just how badly he is wounded; but, girls, I am beginning to get so tired, so heart-weary, so—" "Say, girls, what do you think—shut up, Mollie, you can't cheer me up this morning what do you all think of this Government having a private man—like that Lind who went to Mexico and this Colonel House who has now gone to France—to send on secret missions? Don't you think—oh, here's the waiter. Let's take the cocktails. Trust Mollie to have had it made cheery—and forget all the disturbing things we are learning about running war and Governments. How!""—The Annalist. 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 ```markdown ``` Provincial Commissioner of that colony. Jacob Silvanus Bruce-Vanderpuye, Barrister-at-Law, has been made Gyasie Meiatse to one of the native chiefs of Accra, Wa. Africa, a position of great importance. In Johannesburg, the Mineworkers' Union has expressed itself against the removal of the color bar, saying that the Union would object to the Government running mines with colored labor, including colored men with natives. They were fighting for a white South Africa. Ghetto Carl J. Murphy, editor of the Afro-American, Baltimore, Md., was charged with "disorderly conduct," arrested and fined $26.45 for refusing to be "Jim-Crowed" on a train in the W. B. & A. Station, scheduled for Washington. A case has been started against the railroad company. At the Hog Island Shipyards, where colored riveters made championship records, continued effort is being made to keep Negroes from working as mechanics and to use them as common laborers. It is charged that in the Canal Zone wages for Negro workers remain the same as in 1912, with additions of $5 per month and one cent an hour. White workers have had their salaries raised 35 per cent. Negroes must pay rent from their wages, while the white workers get rent, fuel and light free. Street car motormen and conductors in Pittsburgh, Pa., refused higher wages, when the Railway Company agreed to give them a raise, providing they accept the employment of colored men as motormen. The Supreme Court of Georgia has handed down a decision restraining for all time Negro Shriners from using the name, insignia or regalia of the Shriners. WILES OF WOMEN Marian sat down at the Monday Luncheon table with blood in her eye, and the other five held their breath, this time without any of the usual persiflage, knowing the outburst would come without help. And it did. "Talk about your wiles of women! Do you know what this—this—damn—yes damn!—control of the railroads and telegraph and telephone offices means? If I tell you just what I think it means I will get jailed not only for profanity, but treason! The railroads were bad enough—with the lost baggage, crowded cars, poor food or no food—at least no seats in dining-cars, until the food was all gone—but it is nothing compared with telephone and telegram and cable service. "Here we are with every last man of our families doing service overseas. You know the army has always had a rate. And we at war with this awful holdup in getting things—news—officially until weeks after the casualty of either death or wounds, and some of us might cable over there or get cables through from there if you but just know how. And what happens? The Government isn't getting enough out of us with Liberty Bonds, stamps, decreased incomes and increased expenses, but cuts off every bit of solace and comfort of quick communication by taking off rates for the army and not only charging full price—twenty-five cents a word—for cabling, but charges for the address and the signature at the same rate! "We could manage to reduce the cost in the few words we need to say to let our men know that things are all right at home, but there is no way of leaving out a word of the address, and addresses are very long, unless you send the message to "Amexforce," to be taken care of officially. In that case God alone knows when the official side would get to it! Might as well not send it. 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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 al., 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 (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