Cayton's Weekly

State Library Cayton's Weekly --- PRICE FIVE CENTS CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington. U. S. A. In the interest of equal rights and equal justice to all men and for "all men up." A publication of general information, but in the main voicing the sentiments of the Colored Citizens. Subscription $2 per year in advance. Special rates made to clubs and societies. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON..Editor and Publisher TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910 Office 303 22nd Ave. South WE THANK YOU Not so many of the subscribers of Cayton's Weekly responded to its request, that they mail to the office the regular subscription price, which would be considered a Christmas present from each one of them, as we had hoped would do, but quite a few did favorably respond and for the favor we heartily thank you. Those who did not respond did not do so because they are any less loyal to Cayton's Weekly than those who did do so, but it was due to oversight. Many of the readers of Cayton's Weekly, since it was first published, were former readers of The Seattle Republican, of which the editor hereof was the publisher and to that publication were loyal to its dying day and if they do not pay just when we request them to do so, yet they pay some time and oft times pay more than they really owe. Cayton's Weekly, like The Seattle Republican, loses few of its subscribers and it is slowly increasing its number. We thank you and each of you for your past patronage and take this occasion to wish you a Hapy New Year and many of them. Some few days ago there appeared an editorial in the Post-Intelligencer condemning lynch law so common to this country and every sentence thereof hit the bull's eye. Its the first time within the past thirty years that a metropolitan daily of the Northwest has been so outspoken against the lynching of Negroes. If other dailies would follow in the wake of the Post-Intelligencer it would be but a very short time before the barbarous practice would be abandoned, but this need not be expected so long as the operators are possessed with the spirit of get rich quick and even the P.-I. cannot afford to keep up the fight, but thanks for what it has done. Cayton's Weekly wishes you and each of you a Happy New Year and a prosperous one as well. The lines of many of us during the year about to close have fallen in pleasant places and we have made much of the opportunities. It is our earnest hope that through the coming year we will be no less fortunate and at the close of 1919 we will be able to think as well of it as we now think of 1918. "We want justice and not forgiveness," says an eminent Hun. Well, my dear sir, if you get justice every mother's son of you will be in hell before one can say Jack Robinson. French journalists seek anecdotes from President Wilson, says a head line, which they got if they got anything at all from him. SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY Four colored persons were lynched down in Alabama a few days ago and one of them a woman, and thus does this blood lynching work go bravely on in the United States. In Tennessee a few days ago the ghost of the old Ku-Klux-Klan was revived and suborganizations in every community of the South are to be perfected. The purpose for the rejuvination of this deadly and damnable murderous organization is to be prepared to give the colored soldiers a warm reception on their return from "over there", where they have done such effective work in helping to exterminate the Huns, because forsooth the French people in particular and the European people in general have treated the colored soldiers like human beings instead of like howling hyenas, such as they have always gotten in the South, and such humane treatment, reasons the Ku-Klux-Klan, have made fools of the niggers and they must be regulated even before they have committed any offense, in order to make good niggers of them. Compare, if you will, the reception that awaits the home-coming of the Washington soldier boys on their return from France and their arrival to the Evergreen state with the home-coming of the colored soldier boys from France and their arrival at their respective home states of the South. The former, the fat and finery of the land. Jobs and homes for every one able to hold a job and those unable to hold jobs to be cared for by the Government and to receive special training and instructions in such scientific work as they would like to engage in. The latter to be met at the depot by the Ku-Klux-Klan and informed, "you niggers are not in Europe now and if each and every one of you do not walk a chalk line, woe to your black hides. Get yourselves out of those uniforms as soon as you can get to your homes and forget all about France or there will be a great many more dead niggers in the South than there were in France." And, be it remembered, the colored soldiers for the most part are to remain in Europe while the United States envoys at the great peace conference make a big bold fight to form a League of Nations that the world will be absolutely safe for democracy. In this case however, the "world" does not include the United States of North America and the white man will be free to lynch colored men, women and children at the sweet will of the red handed murderers and give as an excuse therefor, its done to keep the niggers in their places. What, we wonder, would President Wilson's answer be, if some envoy would ask him, "Is the country of which you are the president a civilized one? If so, then why are hundreds of your citizens lynched every year and numbers of them burned at the stake? Why do you come to Europe to preach 'peace on earth, good will to men,' when the very class of your fellow citizens, who are responsible for your election, butcher men, women and children no less flagrant than do the Turks the Armenians? Do you not preach one thing and practice another?" To the above question Mr. Wilson would doubtless reply, "Yes, we do all those things, but its on Negroes and they are a rather low specimens of the genus homo, but white folk have the full freedom of the flag." And VOL. 3, No. 29 again, would the Wilson interrogator ask, "If those Negroes are but low specimens of the genus homo, how does it hapen that half of the Negroes of your country are half white and half black, the result of white men cohabiting with colored women? If those women are as low as you say they are, why have the superior white men reared families by them?" To all these questions we suspect Mr. Wilson would curtly reply, "We, the white people of the South, thoroughly understand the Negroes and we accord to them such treatment as seems to us meet and proper for them—its our affair, not yours." The European diplomats might be too diplomatic to say to Mr. Wilson, "You are president of the United States under circumstances no less repulsive to the human family than is Caranza president of Mexico; and there are no more guarantees for life, liberty and the pursuits of happiness in the United States than in Mexico, but a second thought would occur to the European diplomat and he would think it unwise to bring the United States Negro question into the settlement of European affairs, and we over here should be satisfied to have Europe safe for democracy and forget all about the money-mad Americans, except to borrow as much of their money as we can. REACTIONARY POLITICS The recent attitude of the southern senators with regard to equal suffrage has been marked by an attempt to revive racial agitation. The Pittsburgh, Pa., Dispatch feels that something more than race prejudice lay back of these old-line reactionists and points out the real crisis of the matter. The new political status of the returned Negro soldier plus the enfranchisement of thousands of Negro women presents to the white Souhterner a terrifying problem. The Dispatch says: Thus the war and the suffrage issue are reviving and intensifying southern opposition to the Negro vote. Yet the South will be surprised and pained if the returning Negro soldiers, having experienced freedom from southern prejudice, should conclude not to return to Dixie. What would be the effect if they should join the northern trek, which has been evoking such appeals from the South for the Negroes not to desert their old friends? Such an attitude as that of the southern senators gets its real significance from the fact that it emphasizes the passing of a regime. The New Yor Evening Sun points out that the question of slavery as a motivating factor in southern politics belongs to the past: One of the classic speeches of the Senate was delivered during the recent debate on the revenue bill. Because the class of persons who could make that sort of speech is passing, it is probable that it will be the last oratorical utterance of its kind, and as such probably will have historical significance in the future. The speech was made by Senator John Sharp Williams of Mississippi in support of his amendment to the suffrage resolution limiting suffrage to white women. It was in all respects just such a speech as might have been heard in the Senate in the old slavery days, but it is the kind that --- State Library Cayton's Weekly --- PRICE FIVE CENTS CAYTON'S WEEKLY all men and for all men up. A publication of general information, but in the main voicing the sentiments of the Colored Citizens. Subscription $2 per year in advance. Special rates made to clubs and societies. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON..Editor and Publisher TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910 Office 303 22nd Ave. South WE THANK YOU Not so many of the subscribers of Cayton's Weekly responded to its request, that they mail to the office the regular subscription price, which would be considered a Christmas present from each one of them, as we had hoped would do, but quite a few did favorably respond and for the favor we heartily thank you. Those who did not respond did not do so because they are any less loyal to Cayton's Weekly than those who did do so, but it was due to oversight. Many of the readers of Cayton's Weekly, since it was first published, were former readers of The Seattle Republican, of which the editor hereof was the publisher and to that publication were loyal to its dying day and if they do not pay just when we request them to do so, yet they pay some time and oft times pay more than they really owe. Cayton's Weekly, like The Seattle Republican, loses few of its subscribers and it is slowly increasing its number. We thank you and each of you for your past patronage and take this occasion to wish you a Hapy New Year and many of them. Some few days ago there appeared an editorial in the Post-Intelligencer condemning lynch law so common to this country and every sentence thereof hit the bull's eye. Its the first time within the past thirty years that a metropolitan daily of the Northwest has been so outspoken against the lynching of Negroes. If other dailies would follow in the wake of the Post-Intelligencer it would be but a very short time before the barbarous practice would be abandoned, but this need not be expected so long as the operators are possessed with the spirit of get rich quick and even the P.-I. cannot afford to keep up the fight, but thanks for what it has done. Cayton's Weekly wishes you and each of you a Happy New Year and a prosperous one as well. The lines of many of us during the year about to close have fallen in pleasant places and we have made much of the opportunities. It is our earnest hope that through the coming year we will be no less fortunate and at the close of 1919 we will be able to think as well of it as we now think of 1918. "We want justice and not forgiveness," says an eminent Hun. Well, my dear sir, if you get justice every mother's son of you will be in hell before one can say Jack Robinson. French journalists seek anecdotes from President Wilson, says a head line, which they got if they got anything at all from him. SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY Four colored persons were lynched down in Alabama a few days ago and one of them a woman, and thus does this blood lynching work go bravely on in the United States. In Tennessee a few days ago the ghost of the old Ku-Klux-Klan was revived and suborganizations in every community of the South are to be perfected. The purpose for the rejuvenation of this deadly and damnable murderous organization is to be prepared to give the colored soldiers a warm reception on their return from "over there", where they have done such effective work in helping to exterminate the Huns, because forsooth the French people in particular and the European people in general have treated the colored soldiers like human beings instead of like howling hyenas, such as they have always gotten in the South, and such humane treatment, reasons the Ku-Klux-Klan, have made fools of the niggers and they must be regulated even before they have committed any offense, in order to make good niggers of them. Compare, if you will, the reception that awaits the home-coming of the Washington soldier boys on their return from France and their arrival to the Evergreen state with the home-coming of the colored soldier boys from France and their arrival at their respective home states of the South. The former, the fat and finery of the land. Jobs and homes for every one able to hold a job and those unable to hold jobs to be cared for by the Government and to receive special training and instructions in such scientific work as they would like to engage in. The latter to be met at the depot by the Ku-Klux-Klan and informed, "you niggers are not in Europe now and if each and every one of you do not walk a chalk line, woe to your black hides. Get yourselves out of those uniforms as soon as you can get to your homes and forget all about France or there will be a great many more dead niggers in the South than there were in France." And, be it remembered, the colored soldiers for the most part are to remain in Europe while the United States envoys at the great peace conference make a big bold fight to form a League of Nations that the world will be absolutely safe for democracy. In this case however, the "world" does not include the United States of North America and the white man will be free to lynch colored men, women and children at the sweet will of the red handed murderers and give as an excuse therefor, its done to keep the niggers in their places. What, we wonder, would President Wilson's answer be, if some envoy would ask him, "Is the country of which you are the president a civilized one? If so, then why are hundreds of your citizens lynched every year and numbers of them burned at the stake? Why do you come to Europe to preach 'peace on earth, good will to men,' when the very class of your fellow citizens, who are responsible for your election, butcher men, women and children no less flagrant than do the Turks the Armenians? Do you not preach one thing and practice another?" To the above question Mr. Wilson would doubtless reply, "Yes, we do all those things, but its on Negroes and they are a rather low specimens of the genus homo, but white folk have the full freedom of the flag." And VOL. 3, No. 29 again, would the Wilson interrogator ask, "If those Negroes are but low specimens of the genus homo, how does it hapen that half of the Negroes of your country are half white and half black, the result of white men cohabiting with colored women? If those women are as low as you say they are, why have the superior white men reared families by them?" To all these questions we suspect Mr. Wilson would curtly reply, "We, the white people of the South, thoroughly understand the Negroes and we accord to them such treatment as seems to us meet and proper for them—its our affair, not yours." The European diplomats might be too diplomatic to say to Mr. Wilson, "You are president of the United States under circumstances no less repulsive to the human family than is Caranza president of Mexico; and there are no more guarantees for life, liberty and the pursuits of hapiness in the United States than in Mexico, but a second thought would occur to the European diplomat and he would think it unwise to bring the United States Negro question into the settlement of European affairs, and we over here should be satisfied to have Europe safe for democracy and forget all about the money-mad Americans, except to borrow as much of their money as we can. REACTIONARY POLITICS The recent attitude of the southern senators with regard to equal suffrage has been marked by an attempt to revive racial agitation. The Pittsburgh, Pa., Dispatch feels that something more than race prejudice lay back of these old-line reactionists and points out the real crisis of the matter. The new political status of the returned Negro soldier plus the enfranchisement of thousands of Negro women presents to the white Souhterner a terrifying problem. The Dispatch says: Thus the war and the suffrage issue are reviving and intensifying southern opposition to the Negro vote. Yet the South will be surprised and pained if the returning Negro soldiers, having experienced freedom from southern prejudice, should conclude not to return to Dixie. What would be the effect if they should join the northern trek, which has been evoking such appeals from the South for the Negroes not to desert their old friends? Such an attitude as that of the southern senators gets its real significance from the fact that it emphasizes the passing of a regime. The New Yor Evening Sun points out that the question of slavery as a motivating factor in southern politics belongs to the past: One of the classic speeches of the Senate was delivered during the recent debate on the revenue bill. Because the class of persons who could make that sort of speech is passing, it is probable that it will be the last oratorical utterance of its kind, and as such probably will have historical significance in the future. The speech was made by Senator John Sharp Williams of Mississippi in support of his amendment to the suffrage resolution limiting suffrage to white women. It was in all respects just such a speech as might have been heard in the Senate in the old slavery days, but it is the kind that --- --- will be heard no more, because the men who knew the old South, who knew the slave question, are passing and the coming generation knows nothing of these things. THE COMMON BURDEN (The Crisis) Ignorance and lack of sympathy are at the root of race prejudice. Until the one is removed and the other awakened, there can be no real improvement. Development along these lines is needed more by the white man than by the black man. J. L. Kesler says in the American City: The Negro problem, public or private, industrial or institutional, is, a human problem. Until we face the issue as human in its human relations; until we think of all citizens as human beings with human rights, human interests and human possibilities; until we insist upon equality of opportunity, economic, industrial, educational, equality before the law, equal sanitary provision, equal protection of person and property; until we become conscious of a common brotherhood and cease to exploit the weak and to treat them as chattels and property; until we put democracy into our own life as we speed its splendid hope of the world we are not even in sight of a solution, and futility faces our tasks of reform. It is not simply a Negro problem; it is also a Caucasian problem. It is not simply the "white man's burden;" it is also the black man's burden. It is a problem of both races. Its solution means mutual understandings and readjustments. It means mutually a more generous sympathy and respect, without which there can be no common standing ground. This new attitude must not only be intellectually allowed by the white people; it must be consciously felt and communicated, so that a new atmosphere of dignity and freedom and possibility shall meet and strengthen the aspiration of the Negro race and superinduce a conscious self-respect and hope. By some such means alone may the perils of two segregated races with mutual interrelations, living in the same territory, be reduced to a minimum. * * * What he (the Negro) loathes and detests is the constant reminder that he is inferior, that anything is good enough for a "nigger;" that sanitation and sewerage and police protection and paved streets and parks are not necessary for him; that moral leprosy and segregated vice may preempt territory in his community and be immune to civic interest and disturbance; that he is discriminated against not on account of merit but on account of color; that his wife or his daughter, if they are beautiful—and some of them are—are not safe from insult on account of the lack of racial respect and honor. Mr. Kesler feels that the rights of man regardless of race or color must be recognized. And white Americans must acknowledge and rectify the awful abuses of legislation and lynch law. * * * Respect! Here is the solution-interracial respect. For lack of it both races are in peril. Moral safety demands a deep and abiding respect for personality, interracial and among all intergraded social levels, if we are to escape the moral backwash between races and classes of society. Here we need a broader and deeper democracy. We may be separate as races or classes, but one as human beings and citizens. This conscious democracy of the rights of mankind, as human beings, is fundamental and final. * * * We must acknowledge that there has been discrimination against the Negro in legislation; but the law has not been so crooked as the execution of the law. Even in politics he has been cheated out of his vote more shamefully than prevented from voting by crooked legislation. This crooked politics has reacted on the integrity of the ballot against the very people who forget to do right. While justifying shady practices on the ground of the necessity of securing a white man's government, they were bringing in a blacker regime by their own duplicity than black ballots could have ever delivered. They forget that the moral law never sleeps, and never frogets. This phase of our politics is passing. But the most outstanding crime is lynching. * * * The tragedies seem to thicken. The fact is, we are simply waking up. Our consciences are quickened. It is the hour before sunrise. The sentiment is rising and organizing against this hideous savagery and orgy of beastliness. The battle is joined, but the fight is not over. There is a respectable number of people who do not belong to the underworld, and who, if they do not openly advocate lynch law, excuse it. They will not bring an offender to justice. They are not moved with moral passion and indignation against it. If they do not start the mob, they follow it, and enjoy as high sport this American diversion. Such men are not peculiar to the South, though the South has suffered most from their atrocities. Nor is the Negro the only victim, though he has been the chief sufferer. In condemning mob violence the criminal is not excused from the villany of his crime, whether Negro or alien. But law must be made sacred and safe under all circumstances of excitement and of emotional stress and storm. *** This is indeed frank speech from a man living in Texas. He concludes with a tribute to the Negro soldier: The Negro as a soldier in the present war will be more than an episode in relation to his future history. $ \cdot $ $ \cdot $ $ \cdot $ He is the synonym of loyalty. He is a typical patriot. He makes a good soldier. He is furnishing his quota of the American army. What effect will this war experience have on his public and institutional relations? Already the atmosphere is changing. I dare not guess HAPPY NEW YEAR and may the goods the gods provide come your way in copious showers. The Alhambra Cash Grocery has shared in your trade the past yaer and if man to man dealings counts for anything it will get the bulk of your trade. That carload of Southern Yellow Yams is being dug into but plenty are left to fill your order, and another carload is coming. When we get a good thing we push it along. TABLE DELICACIES Happy Home Corn .....23cts. Reliance Corn .....23cts. Delmonte Corn .....23cts. Ultra Brand Peaches .....27cts. Ultra Brand Pears .....27cts. Ultra Brand Appricots .....27cts. Raisins, Cranberries, Figs and Dates Finest Apples and Oranges THE ALHAMBRA CASH GROCERY H. LEGG, Prop. W. H. BANKS, Mgr. 1201-3 Jackson St. Tel. Beacon 505 what breath will blow upon us when the war is over. But this I know, the man who gives all a man can give for his country, his life, cannot be forgotten by the people; the race that fits into the world program of democracy and liberty will find a place and an appreciation, whatever his color or previous condition. Seattle's worthless Cedar River dam seems to be not only worthless, but equally as destructive as it is worthless. We suggest that the darn thing be dynamited and then forgotten. A straight fight between organized labor and the citizens of Seattle is being planned for the coming municipal election. Such a fight would be refreshing. The world war cost Italy, so says a recent report, 2,800,000. It will take that country a long, long time to recuperate from that awful loss. Spain wants Gibralter back in the great settlement of European affairs. We hardly see how Spain can expect much from the Allies in view of her rather inclined neutral policy. LABOR AND MIGRATION The continued exodus of the Negro from the South has not only improved the social and economic condition of the migrant, it has also awakened the South to a sense of its own remissness. According to the Chicago, Ill., News, Monroe N. Work said recently before the Southern Sociological Congress: So great is the migration to the North, which began in 915 and continues to the present time, and so far reaching and profound were its effects, that the whole fabric of the South's social structure was disturbed and shaken in a way that it had not been since the Civil War and Reconstruction days. The loss of so large a part of its labor caused the South to see the value of this labor in a new light. As a result the South is giving labor better pay, according it juster treatment, better protection under the law and better educational facilities. There is also a disposition to endeavor to find out just how the Negro feels and thinks about the situation and what he would advise doing to better conditions and make him more contented and satisfied. Negro labor itself has assumed a new attitude toward the South and on all sides colored men express freely their views concerning the cause for their migratoin. Mr. Work quotes from a letter written by a Negro to the Macon, Ga., Telegraph: "First enforce the law equally between all men, black and white. The wholesale arrest of Negroes for very slight causes tends to create a feeling in the minds of our people that they are not getting a square deal. In the second place, public school accommodation for our people in the South in many places is very poor. Hence it is in easy matter for many of the Negroes to be ured away when they are told by an immigrant agent that in the North they will not only receive better wages, but that they will receive better advantages for the education of their children. The Negro has settled convictions about educating his children. This he means to do no matter what sacrifice as a parent he has to make." THE EMPORIUM Soft Drinks. A Choice Line of Cigars and Tobacco. Candy Meals from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Chillie Con Carnie --- WORTH YOUR WHILE No, the Negro Business Mens Club of Seattle did not demobilize at its last meeting, but, at the earnest persuasion of P. Frazier and others, it voted to live on. The annual election of officers will occur at the next monthly meeting, the third Sunday afternoon in January and it seemed to be the concensus of opinion of those present at its last meeting that new blood be elected to the various offices, which in itself would be a fresh impetus for the motives of the organization. The club has been in existence two years and it has little, save having liquidated every obligation it contracted, to point with pride to, but its a long lane that has no turn, and this may be the turning point. Since the organization of the above league the Japanese residents of Seattle by combining their efforts as well as their money, have gained control of the hotel situation in Seattle. Yea, if they so desired they could close the doors of so many of the hotels of Seattle today that the traveling public would be paralized for lack of accommodations. Yea, even much of the stock of the New Washington, the Savoy and other uptown leading hosteleries have been purchased by Japanese. Their pluck and energy have taken them a step further and they have under cover gotten control of a majority of the apartment houses of the city. Long years ago they invaded the grocery business of the city to such an extent that the white men demanded that no more groceries protested to the wholesalers and as be sold to Japanese retailers and the wholesalers agreed, but then the Japanese took the initiative and retorted: 'You sell Japanese no more groceries? then Japanese neither in and about Seattle nor in California will supply Seattle with fresh vegetables. On investigation it was found that the Japanese of Washington and California will supply Seattle with fresh all of her fresh vegetables. It took the wholesalers (white) two seconds to announce to the Japanese retail grocers they could have all the supplies they desired. Unless the "new blood" that it is proposed to inject into the Business Mens League take steps to have colored persons branch out into communities and establish small business houses no more will be accomplished in the coming year by the club than has been in the past two years. At present Z. L. Woodson is the only operator of an apartment house for the accommodation of colored folks, which means a falling back instead of a gaining. If colored persons want to get the exclusive patronage of colored folks before they go into business then there will be no more of them in business in Seattle ten years from today than at present. The colored man and woman with a stall in the Pike Place Public Market doubtless does not have more than one colored customer in every one hundred they sell to. Unless others strike boldly out to sea and plan to cater to the public only as has the above couple done then a hundred business leagues will accomplish no more than the one that it is proposed to inject new blood into in order to prevent it from dying a natural death. New Year's night, under the auspices of the Seattle Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will be held a public meeting at the Grace Prsbyterian Church to commemorate the taking effect of the Emancipation Proclamation issued by the immortal Abraham Lincoln. There are those among us who are inclined to have the memory of the day pass from the public mind, but in our opinion such is a sad mistake. Its a splendid day to cast up accounts, to compare the present with the past and to speculate as to the future. It will reflect nothing on the little ones of today to remind them that the opportunities and advantages of the colored folk of the United States have not always been as flattering as at present. The man, woman or race that can rise phoenix-like above its degraded environments, for which he, she or it was not responsible, shows that it contains the proper stuff and its only a matter of time when he, she or it will be able to cope with would-be oppressors. A mass meeting of the Seattle Branch of the Equal Rights League will be held Sunday, Dec. 29, at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church at 2:30 p. m. Rev. Carter, delegate to the Equal Rights Convention at Washington, will make his report. Every citizen should be present as final arrangements for sending our representative to France will be effected. Grant Smith, who came to Seattle from Arizona early last summer, after much casting about for a home of his liking, has finally purchased a six-room house with an unusually large lot at Columbia City. As has been pointed out in these columns in the past for a colored person to rent a respectable house is an utter impossibility, but they can purchase homes of their liking and in almost any community they feel able to live in. Mr. Smith seems to be a very enterprising citizen and is doing well in a small business enterprise in which he is engaged in this city at present. He has land enough about his house on which to raise sufficient vegetables for his family, if properly cared for. Not exactly a "white Christmas" in Seattle, but very near it—a bitter cold day from daylight until dark—and the fireside was the most inviting spot. Santa Claus was by no means stingy in his distribution of presents and it was common for families to have received one hundred dollars worth of presents, but why not as the World and his family have been making money as never before and the future looks bright. The dances Christmas eve night were well attended and one and all enjoyed themselves hugely. On the whole everybody enjoyed the time of their lives, but were ready for General Work the next day. Phone 2647 1034 Jackson GOLDEN WEST Tailors and Cleaners. Clothes called for and delivered. Hats retrimmed and blocked. H. S. Frazier C. W. Curtest HAPPY NEW YEAR and few things would make your friend so happy as a copy of Life and Work of BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Life and Works of PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Any of Prof. Kelly Miller's publications Negro Soldiers in Our War By FREDERICK E. DRINKER Or a subscription to a Negro Journal or Magazine. We also carry useful gifts in Toilet Article,s Toilet Water, Perfumery, Razors and Strops, Combs and Brushes, Etc. High Class Tonsorial Artist in Attendance Mr. Edw. Gardner, Mr. J. C. Garner, Mr. Thos. Williams, Mr. George E. Hayes. We Solicit Your Inspection TUTT'S BARBER SHOP 300 Main St. W.S.S. WAR SAVINGS STAMPS ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT . MUST BE FUNNY From the cradle to the grave, in this country, a colored person is a huge joke in the eyes of the average white person and even when a colored man takes himself serious and insists on others doing likewise, yet he is laughed out of court and told, if you do not laugh and joke you had better move on. No employment, generally speaking, no favors one way or the other, if you can not laugh and dance for the amusement of the alleged superior class. He, on a broad principle, is the king's jester and must make good if he expects any royal favor. I am at a loss for words to explain why the white person is so desirous of having the colored person amuse him or her when to do so is at the common sense expense of the colored person, but it is so and thereby hangs many amusing incidents in connection therewith. "Oh, I am just crazy to see a colored baby; and so are we chimed in a half dozen others and there being one in that particular house in which the above remarks were made, all kinds of schemes were concocted to have that baby put on exhibition. Once when one of the baby's family was carrying it through the hall a bunch of women went perfectly wild to see it and it was just too cute for anything. There was no more about that half black and white baby to attract one's attention than the average white baby and yet it seemed an object of great curiosity. Oh, there is a colored baby, exclaimed a white woman of the underworld and with her five others made a mad rush for it. They in turn hugged and kissed it and went through other jesticulations with it while the mother, almost horror stricken, gazed at them without being able to protest. The women explained to the mother that the colored baby would give them luck, but in order to get the luck, they each left $5 to dress the baby up. A little colored boy in company with a bunch of white boys of like age strolled into a work shop at the noon hour. Nothing was said to any of the boys until the colored boy was spied, whereupon all exclaimed, Hello, Sambo, can you dance? Get out there, and by that time the men had formed a circle about him and, Sing a song and cut the pigeon wing and we will give you a dollar, but the boy was not of the funny kind and looked bewildered. From a money standpoint his parents were better fixed than the parents of any of his playmates. It was some little time before the little colored boy caught on and then he offered to fight the entire bunch of men. They all denied the accusation when the father inquired into the affair. A case of "if the coon will not be a monkey for the love of it then pay him to be." Ain't it funny. A lone colored boy was fortunate to get into a summer working camp with some sixty white boys. No, neither the boys nor any of the bosses ever asked me to dance or act any different than the other boys, but the foreman over all the first week we were there would always tell me to sweep the floor, to run on errands or do all the piddling work about the camps. I got tired of having to act different than the other boys and I turned to the boss and asked, Why do you always put me to doing this kind of work? Why, because I have always heard that colored boys and men were looking for easy jobs. Well, I am no janitor and I want to do the same kind of work as the other boys do or to home I go. The foreman accommodated him to the fullest extent and the colored boy made so good that the superintendent said to him on the verge of his leaving, "If you will come back next summer I will give you a good paying job. Here is one case of, if you won't be funny then I will help you to be serious, seems to have been his conclusion, which was quite out of the ordinary. MORE AND ANON. --- INDUSTRY (The Crisis) The two-story brick building, formerly occupied by the Citizens' Bank of Elizabeth City, N. C., has been taken over by Negroes at a cost of $10,000. The purchasers are the Home Development Company, of which T. R. Fleming is president. Some of the colored women at the packing houses, Chicago, Ill., earn as high as $33.00 per week; colored butchers often make as much as $9.00 a day. At Paris, Ky., colored women receied during October $3.00 a day for cutting corn, $12.50 a week for breaking tow, and $12.00 a week in tobacco factories. The Tallassee Power Company, of North Carolina, has established welfare work among the colored people of Badin, with two colored workers. It has been estimated that because of better treatment and higher wages, 10,000 Negroes from the South have been added to the population of Brooklyn, N. Y. One factory employs sixty colored workers; a man is getting $35.00 per week, and several girls earn as high as $35.00 weekly. The A. G. Spaulding Brothers' Factory in Chicago, Ill., is employing a colored expert stitcher on athletic goods, Mr. M. Lemons. Swift & Company, in this city, are employing twenty colored girls in their sausage factory, where formerly white girls were employed. Dr. Frank V. Plummer, because of a successful diagnosis of a case at Camp Grant, Illinois, has been called from the ranks as a corporal and commissioned a lieutenant, detailed to practice medicine. Herbert C. Hoover has appealed to the Negroes of the United States, urging the distribution of the new Home Card. He says: The Negroes have shown themselves loyal and responsive in every national crisis. Their greatest opportunity of the present day, to exercise this loyalty, is to help save and grow food. I am confident that they will respond to the suggestions of the Food Administration and thus prove again their patriotism. The Circle of Negro War Relief has sixty-one units of thirty states, with over 2,000 members. It has bought ambulances, made thousands of knitted garments, sent entertainers to camps, supported canteens, supplied musical instruments, contributed to the Red Cross and other agencies, and raised from working people nearly $50,000. The City of Trenton, N. J., has given a public reception and presented a house to Sergeant Needham Roberts, the well-known recipient of the French War Cross. Ernest T. Attwell, head of the Business Department of Tuskegee Institute, has been appointed head of a section of Negro activities by the U. S. Food Administration. Mr. A. U. Craig has given up the work. Colored men are being trained as moulders at the Cooper Engineering Company, Mt. Vernon, Ohio. In a dispute between the Detroit United Railways Company and the Labor Union, the company refused to accede to the demands of the union not to employ Negroes. One hundred Negro motormen are now employed and others are being installed. The Negroes are being employed on some of the best lines in the city and are giving satisfaction. Notwithstanding some attempts to prevent the Negroes from joining the union, on the part of union members, the Negroes have insisted upon joining. --- Frank Harris, a Negro employed by the American Rolling Mill, Columbus, Ohio, has worked a total of 239 days out of 243. He wears a ten-year gold service button. Four days taken off have been made up by seven and one-half days' overtime work. Albert Jones, another Negro employee, has worked seven days a week, without losing any time from March 30 to August 19. 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FRAZIER Funeral Director and Manager Parlors. 1215 East Marion St., Seattle 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 ```markdown ``` Lightens your burdens. Day or night it's always there with the goods. 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. In the Mater of the Estate of Nelson J. Wing, Deceased—In Probate. No. 23689. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as Executrix of the estate of Nelson J. Wing, Deceased; that all persons having claims against said deceased or against said estate are hereby required to serve the same, duly verified, on said Executrix or her attorney of record at the address below stated, and file the same with the Clerk of said Court together with proof of such service within six months after the date of first publication of this notice, to-wit: within six months after the 7th day of December, 1918, or the same will be barred. Date of first publication December 7, 1918. VIOLA GRAY, Executrix of said Estate. Address 701 Leary Bldg., Seattle, Washington. E. H. GUIE, Attorney for Estate. 701 Leary Building, Seattle, Washington. Dec. 7, Jan. 4, 1919. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County. In the Matter of the Estate of Enoch J. Mathis, Deceased.—In Probate. No. 23991. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as Executor of the estate of Enoch J. Mathis, Deceased; that all persons having claims against said deceased or against said estate are hereby required to serve the same, duly verified, on said Executor or his attorney of record at the address below stated, and file the same with the Clerk of said Court together with proof of such service within six months after the date of first publication of this notice, to-wit: within six months from the 7th day of December, 1918, or the same will be barred. Date of first publication December 7, 1918. WILLIAM H. CLARKE, Executor of said Estate. Executor of said Estate. Address 701 Leary Building, Seattle, Washington. E. H. GUIE. Attorney for Estate. 701 Leary Building, Seattle, Wash. December 7, January 4, 1918. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County. In the Matter of the Estate of Cora Green, Deceased. In Probate. No. 22412. Notice of Hearing Final Report and Petition for Distribution. Notice is hereby given that W. D. Carter, Administrator of the Estate of Cora Green, has filed in the office of the Clerk of said Court his final Report and petition for distribution, asking the Court to settle said Report, distribute the property to the persons thereto entitled and to discharge said W. D. Carter; and that said Report and petition will be heard on the 2nd day of January, 918, at 9:30 A. M. at the Court Room of the Probate Department of said Court. Dated this 27th day of November, 1918. PERCY F. THOMAS, ,Clerk of said Court. By GEO. L. BERGER, Deputy. December 7, December 28, 1918 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. Over 1000 Negro women are employed in workshops in Newark, N. J.