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 ROSCOE CAYTON..Editor and Publisher Entred as second class matter, August 18, 1916, at the post office at Seattle, "Wash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910 Office 303 22nd Ave. South Thousands of years ago—long before the great western nations of today, long before even Greek and Roman were heard of—there were more or less advanced civilizations on both sides of the Pacific. China, for example, had grown into a stable Mongolian kingdom perhaps 4,000 years before the beginning of our era. A Chinese author writes: "There is no existing nation in the world that has a larger past than China. She has seen the rise and fall of the ancient Egyptian dynasties; the extension of the Persian empire; the conquests of Alexander; the irresistible advance of the Roman legions; the deluge of the Teutonic hordes from the north, and the birth of all the nations of modern Europe." The Japanese also, a people compounded of various elements, but chiefly Mongolian and Malayan, stood at the beginning of our era on a high plane of civilization, and even then exhibited the tendencies and the adaptiveness which distinguish them today. Then away to the east in Central and South America, civilizations waxed and waned, reaching their highest development in the Aztec and Incan empires, the latter of which was an extremely interesting example of despotic socialism. "HOUSES ROOFED WITH GOLD" "Houses roofed with gold," of which Marco Polo wrote from rumor, were not mythical. On first arriving in Japan I made a journey to Otoko Yama, in central Japan, January 27, 1871, to test the story. For centuries gold had little more value in Japan than in South America when Balboa sought the Pacific. Even until 1859 gold was worth only four times as much as silver. I found at the Shinto temple, erected 859 A. D., a gilded rain conduit which once encircled the whole of the eaves of the roof, but after the long wars only 30 feet or so was left. Even at the Vienna exposition the solid gold plates on the dolphin from the Nakoya castle attracted attention. It is historically true that in early Japan there were roofs of gold.—W. E. Griffiths in New York Tribune. MAKING THE PLEASURE COMPLETE People who were present smiled at the little passage of arms which took place between two young ladies at a luncheon. One of them, a bride, shaking hands in her characteristically cordial way, said to the other: "I'm so glad to meet you! You have afforded me so very much amusement lately." "Oh, ves." went on the bride. "I've been through my husband's desk, and I've read all his old love letters. I found several very affectionate letters from you, and I enjoyed reading them ever so much." "I'm so glad you enjoyed them," purred the other. "But do come and see me very soon. Here is my card. I have the answers to all those letters, and you might like to reading them as well. Mr. X.'s letters are so much more affectionate thna those I wrote to him. I know you'll enjoy reading them ever so much more than you did mine." AN IMPORTANT POINT The wife of a professional man had advertised for a girl to do the housework, and was showing an applicant over the house. She had been very liberal in her promises of privileges, and it looked as though the two were about to come to an agreement, when the girl suddenly asked: "Do you do your own stretchin'?"" "Do we do our own what?" asked the puzzled mistress. "Stretchin'," repeated the girl solemnly. "Do you put all the food on the table at dinner and stretch for it, or do I have to shuffle it round?" SOME OPTIMISTS! Talking of optimists," said Furbiston; "have you heard the story about Woolby?" "No," said his friends. "Well, the folk in the town where he lives are getting up a raffle in aid of charity. There are ten thousand tickets at a quarter each, and the prize is a motor car. Woolby took one ticket. Now he's busy erecting a garage." "Not bad!" said Johnson. "It reminds me of Joe Kelly. Ever heard of him?" "No," said the others. "Well, Joe was poor, but he often used to go to a fashionable restaurant without a cent in his pocket and order oysters. He calculated upon paying for his supper with the pearls he hoped to find in the oysters." Join the army behind the army—be a war saver. It has been decided by the powers that be that the government shall hold the railroads for the next five years. It will be a strong spoke in the next Democratic campaign wheel to have the railroads as a campaign asset. For the first time in the history of the United States of North America a president thereof has set foot on foreign soil. President Wilson in this has broken all precedent and is and expects to be in Europe for many many days. As he has broken this so does he hope the third term unwritten law and succeed himself unless he happens to be made monarch of the world, which he hardly will be. COST OF WORLD WAR TO BELLIGERENTS IS OVER $220,000,000,000 The war cost to the world is made up of approximately the following figures: United Kingdom, $52,000,000,000. France, $32,000,000,000. Germany, $39,000,000,000. United States, $20,543,471,000. Russia, $30,000,000,000. Italy, $12,000,000,000. VOL. 3, No. 27 Austria-Hungary, $20,000,000,000. Bulgaria and Turkey, $5,000,000,000. Other belligerents, $10,000,000,000. The allied nations have spent about $157,000,000,000, while their enemies have spent about $64,000,000,000. Of the amount spent by the United States $7,732,000,000 represents credits to allies. The United States government's disbursements for October amounted to $1,542,056,-613 as compared with $280,538,167 for the corresponding period a year ago, almost six times as much. One more Liberty Loan, of about $4,000,-000,000, is regarded as inevitable. It is figured that this loan will come about March 1. The treasury is offering certificates of indebtedness to carry it until that time. These certificates, of course, will be refunded in bonds. Mr. Average Man is firmly convinced that the women spend the money and that a lot of it goes for their dressing. Well, here are some facts on the matter: The Bureau fo Labor Statistics in Secretary Wilson's Department of Labor has been studying the yearly cost of clothing for a hundred representative families in the New York City shipbuilding district. The average income involved was $1,730 per year. They found it cost $73.17 to dress papa, $52.04 to dress mamma; big brother's clothes came to $70.41; big sister's to $62.13; the kids in school ran from $37.81 to $40.46 for the boys, $33.07 to $38.86 for the girls; boys under six had to have about $32.30 worth of clothes for the year, and male babies $19.10; the little girls cost $29.60 to dress, and the female babies $22.36, and it is in this last class that the women, for the first and only time in their lives, are more sartorially expensive than the men! That to our mind was a magnificent article, concerning the colored soldiers, which appeared in the last issue of Cayton's Weekly and came dangerously close to completely absorbing the paper. Its very rarely that a white man will write concerning the colored folks with such a degree of fairness and still more rare that a paper with the circulation of the Metropolitan will print such an article when submitted and for that reason we unhesitatingly sidetracked everything else to give it the right of way. The shortcomings of the colored man were brought out and the excuses therefor fully depicted. Would to God there were more such writers and fewer such skunks as Irvin S. Cobb. Sojourner Truth Club is the name of a new organization that promises to be one of extensive usefulness in the very near future. The prime motive of the organizers of the club is to build a home for colored women and girls, not by any means a chraitable home, but a home in fact where women out of employment and girls without the protection of mothers can get home-like accommodations and greatest of all motherly advice from kind hearted women. Each one will be expected to pay a rental for the quarters and accommodations she receives commensurate with her earnings. Nothing to our mind is more necessary than the establishing of such a home in --- JOIN IS