Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1919 --- 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 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 302 23d Ave. South WAS IN MASSACHUSETTS That speech made by Dr. George E. Cannon at Springfield, Massachusetts, one day last week, extracts from which were sent broadcast over the world by the Associated Press, read well and sounded better, but the speech, be it remembered, was made in Massachusetts and not in Mississippi, the seat of war, so far as the colored citizens of this country are concerned. We hope he speaks truthfully when he says, "henceforth the Negro proposes to exercise his right to suffrage in every state," but we have our doubts, and had he have excepted the various southern states, we still would have our doubts, because in the state of Washington not to exceed 25 per cent of the colored citizens take any interest in the elections, and as in Washington so in the most of the states of the nation. We seriously doubt if such talks as that made by Dr. Cannon get the colored man anywhere. The colored man gets something of an even break in the north, hence such talks do not make his condition any better in the north, but the colored man gets it in the neck in the south and cursing the southern white man from the mountain tops of Massachusetts does not cause him to change his mind as to the treatment he should accord the colored man. In the U. S. senate when Pitchfork Tillman was accused of killing the colored men of the south he replied, "Yes, we lynch them and burn them at the stake, and what are you going to do about it?" The question of right to vote should not worry the colored citizens one half as much as the question of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Go to Mississippi Dr. Cannon and instead of fighting for suffrage with hot air lay in wait for the next lynching bee and with your gatlin' gun on your shoulder quietly make your way to the scene of the human holacust and at the proper time, pray for a second to the Almighty God in words like these: "Dear Lord, I commend my spirit to Thee. I am about to sacrifice my life in defense of the black folk, not only here, but throughout the south and as I am about to do may others likewise do, when such attacks as this are practiced on colored citizens. Give me the sertngth of Sampson and the accuracy of David and I will sell my life dearly." And then unannounced get as near to the center of the scene of the lynching as possible and begin operation. There is no doubt but that you will die an awful death, but death is onl ydeath, and if you succeed in taking with you a score or more of the lynchers you will put the fear of God in the hearts of the cowardly whelps and lynching bees will be less frequent thereafter and will cease to be holiday occassions. And as you will have done in Mississippi let another do in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and wherever the colored man is lynched as a pastime, and the lynching disease will gradually abate. No, not by organized effort, but by individual effort. Let some colored man conclude at every lynching bee that life is not worth living and that others may enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness he is going to sell himself dearly at this lynching party. So far as not getting an equal deal with the Jews in the late war is doubtless more than true, but the Jew, the Jap, the Indian and every manner of man were classed as white and he drew very largely in proportion to his worth. On the other hand the colored man stood alone and in the United States he was opposed by all of them. The colored man did not get a fair proportion of the military honors, but under the circumstances he did very well, and a great deal better than he had ever done before. Permit us in conclusion to suggest to you, Dr. Cannon, that you get the colored vote out in the north and teach the voters to so cast their votes that they will hit the bull's eye in their own interest. They did well when Woodrow Wilson first ran for president and showed much political independence by voting for a Democrat candidate for president, who proved a traitor to them, but they fell down when he ran the second time by not denouncing him from the hill tops in and out of season. At the last county election in Seattle out of a voting population of 5000 not more than 500 colored men and women voted and at the municipal election not that many. So long as the colored citizens take no more interest in elections than is cited above then so long will they get what "Paddy gave the drum." SUPREME COURT INTERVENTION Legal steps have been taken by the booze advocates of the state to force the secretary of state by supreme court mandamus to accept a referendum petition, which will refer the amendmnet to the United States Constitution, which was ratified by the late legislature, which amendment drains the slums, saloons and wet resorts of its booze—in other words, makes this country, after July 1st, bone dry. Twice, if not thrice, within the past five years have the voters of the state of Washington passed adversely on the privilege question of vending booze within her corporate limits and it does seem that three knockouts should convince the Mullens et al that the law-abiding citizens of the state are dead opposed to any further booze vending. Law is but common sense or that should be the definition thereto and common sense should teach the former legalized law-breakers—booze vendors—that the people have spoken on the booze question and spoken in no uncertain tones, words or language, and the sooner they drop the subject the better for all concerned. We hope the Supreme Court will deny the petition and thereby permit old man Booze to go to the guilotine July 1st and be beheaded that his soul, if such he has, may return to the halls of hell from whence it came. No, we do not believe that the country going dry will entirely eradicate the drink VOL. III, NO. 45 habit, but it will certainly go quite a way in that direction. We also know, according to history, that man has drunk wine and other forms of intoxicants since the mind of man runneth not to the contrary, but it has been only within the past century that Booze became the debasing monster of the human family. Prior to that time families made and drank their wines and other beverages just as they did their food stuffs, yea, verily, they were but forms of food stuff and as such there were and even now should be no objections registered, but when the damnable stuff was commercialized and then brutalized it ceased to be a family delicacy, but became a human curse. This and the most of the civilized countries have seen the error of their ways and have taken steps to prevent its further commercialization and human debauchery and now that Uncle Sam has set a day for the decapitation of old man Booze the sentence should be promptly executed. This decapitation was not the result of shrewd legal practices or snap judgment, but the proposed execution was submitted to the people and plenty of time allowed them to discuss the procedure without bias or prejudice and after months of deliberations the voters gave their verdict against further booze vending, and when an overwhelming majority of the voters go on record against this or any other proposition that should be the law of the land. The majesty of the law of this or any other land or country is the expressed will of the people thereof and that law should not be overturned by legal subterfuges or by riotous mobs, because forsooth a minority does not agree with the majority. As a parting shot we hope that the opportunity to attend the funeral of old man Booze July 1st will not be denied the American people, for it will be one funeral that they will greatly enjoy, the "no beer, no work" slogan to the contrary notwithstanding. OLD BOOZE Old Booze is dead, so toll the knell for this old maudlin knave; the mourners raise a joyful yell as they stand by the grave. Old Booze hung on with teeth and nails, he tried to dodge the tomb; he hoped to sell his gins and ales until the crack of doom. He hoped to do his ancient task till Father Time is gone; but we've outgrown the jug and flask, outgrown the demijohn. Old Booze is dead, at rest he lies, cashed in beyond recall; he never helped a man to rise, but made a million fall. Old Booze will sleep beneath the loam until the bright sun pales; he never built a toiler's home, but he filled many jails. Ol dBooze has crossed the great divide to see what's doing there; and we'll have less of suicide, and less of black despair. And we'll see less of women's tears, of children needing bread, of wages gone for foaming beers, since Old Man Booze is dead. He'll dish no more the poison drink to knock the good man down; his funeral would make you think a circus is in town. The sextons chortle as they work and dig the clammy clay, and in the shadow of the kirk the pastor yells "Hooray!" The undertaker is on hand, with festive lilts and runes, and by the fence the village band is playing ragtime tunes. —Walt Mason. ```markdown ``` THAT COLORED POLICEMAN A colored policeman in Seattle is the newest thing on tap and for some reason the most of the colored citizens of the city are proud to see him strut around in his blue uniform, not that the position in Seattle is of any special honor, but because colored men have not very often been permitted to hold such jobs and it is a weakness of the human family to always want the things that are denied it, which reminds us of the Dutchman that heard that the bank in which he had some money deposited, was about to break, and not wanting to lose his mone yhe rushed into the bank and demanded "all of my money right now" of the paying teller, and he suspecting the cause of the Dutchman's excitement, grabbed up a roll of bills and threw them down in the window with "there's your money." With eyes bulged out the Dutchman looked at the roll at length and finally exclaimed, "Oh, then you have got my money. Well, if you have my money, I do not want it, but if you haven't got my money then I want it right now." Its no honor to be a Seattle policeman on a beat south of Yesler Way, but "I want it because you do not want me to have it." Seattle has had few colored policemen despite the fact she has, for the most part of her latter day history, had, for a western town, a rather large colored population. The natural antipathy of white men to colored men holding positions that will permit them to command white men is largely responsible for no more colored men hvaing served on the police force than there have, but there is still another cause and it eminates in the bosoms of the white policemen, who not only objected to acknowledging a colored man a brother officer, but objected to a colored man getting a bunch of easy money as so many of the white officers have done. In order to head the colored men off under civil service rules many subterfuges have been resorted to, even to invoking the aid of the civil service commissioners themselves, who adopted a rule that no man with a certain shape of foot was eligible to act as a policeman of Seattle. In spite of opposition, however, periodically a colored man would break into the police circles and though they did not last long they stayed for a while as will hereinafter be seen. It was in 1890 when the first colored policeman made his debut in Seattle in the person of Isaac Evans, who served as turnkey at the city jail. Politics ran the city in those days and Evans got his police job from his political pull. He was a rather fine looking fellow and had the requisite size to make a first class officer, and, yea, verily, as long as he lasted, he did make an ideal cop, but the white policemen tolerated him just so long, when they set about to devise ways and means to get him off the force. They used a couple of down town thugs to turn the trick, and after they had thoroughly instructed them the thugs were sent to the headquarters in the patrol wagon. The desk man turned the mover to the jailer who started away with his men. The trio had almost reached the jail door when the two thugs turned loose a string of vulgar abuse on Evans that would have made the hair on the head of an Indian statute stand straight up, whereupon Evans forgot his official capacity and endeavored to whip them both at one and the sam etime, but found he had a big job. The fight was fast and furious, but finally Evans went to the mat and the thugs left the room unmolested. A long story short, Evans was immediately officially beheaded. Mr. Evans has long since died, but regertted his mistake to his dying day. Under the Ronald mayoralty administration, two years after the unfortunate Evans escapade at the police headquarters, Pleas- ```markdown ``` ant Ford was given the position of driver of the police patrol wagon, which position he held for a number of months, when the force as a whole sickened of having a colored man about, even though he was not in uniform, and through political pull, for be it remembered both the police and the fire departments were subject to partisan changes at that time, Ford was let out. He was much chagrinned at being let out because he had told his colored friends that the Democrats would never treat him as did the Republicans Ike Evans and he moved to British Columbia where he subsequently died. It was some fifteen years thereafter when J. Samuel Peoples ran the gauntlet of the civil service board and was assigned to duty. His first day out was with a day policeman, whose beat was up Second avenue. The sight of a colored policeman in uniform on Second avenue attracted as much attention as did Sells Brothers first automobile on the streets of Seattle. Though a man of iron nerve, yet by the time he was ordered in he felt as though he had been charging a riot mob all day or had been sent through a threshing machine. Sam Peoples was a policeman born and he soon won the confidence of his superior officers and was assigned to many difficult details. He was finally assigned to the Capitol Hill district, where he remained by petition of the residents of that section of the city, for many months. He went from Capitol Hill to the district about Smith Cove where he met his Waterloo. By this time his brother officers had tired of his presence on the force and fixed up a cat hop to get him off and Sam fell for it and was immediately dismissed, though he was forced to dismiss him the chief said, "he has made a splendid officer." Ten years or more after Peoples was dismissed Giles Graves passed a splendid examination and is assigned to duty as a city blue coat. Graves is of a splendid family and if he lives up to his parental teachings he will never go wrong, but if he tries to pattern after some of the get rich quick policemen of Seattle he will go to hell in a hand basket, vulgarly speaking, before he can say Jack Robinson. He was sent to one of the tough districts of the city, on which to be initiated and if he does not fall before he gets started it will be no fault of those who always seek to trap colored policemen. Graves has lived in Seattle the most of his life and he has the reputation of being a splendid fellow. He has a wife and two children, a mother, sister and a host of friends in the city, who wish him well. At the Grace Presbyterian church Monday evening, April 28th, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will hold a mass meeting for the purpose of devising ways and means to send a delegate to the tenth anniversary of the parent body, which will be held in Cleveland, Ohio, the latter part of next June. The Northwest has never been represented at any of the anniversary gatherings and the Seattle branch should see to it that a delegate from Seattle be in attendance at the next regular anniversary. Cayton's Weekly is going to take advantage of this opportunity and suggest to the Seattle branch that one of its most talented members be chosen as a delegate that the northwest may be well represented if it is to be represented at all. At those anniversary meets some brainy men (white and black) of this country are present and the problems of this country are discussed pro and con and for our delegate to participate in those discussions he or she must be of superior intelligence. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS Keep in mind Officer Graves that your real enemies are dressed just like you.. "Stay wet" may be the caper in Chicago, but it don't go in Michigan, while has just voted to "stay dry." Butte went Republican hell bent for election. When thieves fall out honest men come into their own. Europe All Nerves, says a headline. Is thasso? We thought it was all skin and bones. If Seattle is enjoying spring weather at present we would regret to see her at this time enjoy a dash of winter weather. Public sentiment seems to be unanimously in favor of everybody doing it—paying their car fares. A heavy snow fall is reported in Texas. Between the snow falling and hell raising, Texas will soon be not worth a damn. And now the waterfront is on another rampage. The spring showers seem to always keep the waterfront in a seething, surging condition. In the death of Bishop C. T. Shaffer, the African M. E. church in particular and the church in general loses an able and consistent worker. A majority of the daily papers of the United States favor the League of Nations propaganda, according to the Literary Digest, but even at that we most emphatically say no. If President Wilson brings a copy of the peace pact back with him we suggest that he hold a boat in readiness to send the pieces thereof back after the U. S. senate finishes dissecting it. If Col. Theodore Roosevelt, the second, is successful in perfecting his contemplated soldier organization, he will be in a position to say to his party convention, "See me or I'll see you." Evidently the League of Nations is to be the paramount issue of the next presidential campaign, and on it Woodrow Wilson hopes to capture a third term, but if he does he sho will have to come some. It strikes us that some of the members of the Young Men's Republican Club must have found the fabled fountain of immortal youth and partaken of its waters, which has enabled them to continue as young as they used to be. In Salt Lake City the club women are boycotting good butter. Wonder what they are doing to bad butter? Aoccrding to the Seattle Daliy Times, Seattle is cleaning up, painting up and turning up in general, all of which may be true, but search as diligently as we may we have been unable to find any such good work going on. If it be true that Europe is being split in two hostile camps then the wise thing for Uncle Sam to do is to get out of there immediately if not sooner, or he will not only get cut in the fracas, but also get cut above the fracas. Perhaps the wish was father to the thought, but it does seem to us that the street cars run smoother since they have become the property of the municipality than they did when they belonegd to the greedy capitalists of Boston. Chop suey seems to have had a fighting effect on a triumvirate of 'fro-Americans in a Chinese chop suey joint in the Seattle tenderloin district one day this week. The stuff had doubtless been waiting for that bunch so long that it got a kick in it. When Ole Hanson lands in Seattle some cop may immediately shoot him and claim self defence. The self defence would lie --- in Ole not keeping his word and the police had to pay their fare, which would result in breaking the copper's heart. Evidently Johnny Bull has a bigger and better heart in him than has Uncle Sam, as the Irish question is said to be worrying the former, while the Negro question gives the latter little or no concern. Its a long lane that has no turn. Uncle Samuel. In order that prohibition will prohibit, Uncle Sam is training 3000 internal revenue officers to watch moonshiners after July 1st on which date the remains of old man Booze will be consigned to the tomb. The old rascal is dying hard, but die he must. Having failed to set the world on fire or even start an incipient blaze President Wilson is ready to sail for home. What a pity. If President Wilson leaves the peace conference what on earth will happen to his infant, little Miss League of Nations? That colored seargent that publicly declared the white soldiers in France were cowards, promised to retract, but up to date has not done so. The sergeant was a jackass for making the statement and the white soldiers were two jackasses for paying any attention to it. Because Uncle Sam holds the purse string of Europe, let us not run away with the idea that, European diplomats at the peace conference are going to permit the moneymad Americans to put any old stunt over the top that happens to please their money-grabbing proclivities. Modern political machinery would come nearer Gov. Hart's heart than modern farm machinery, on which subject he will speak to the farmers of Walla Walla, April 24th, but the latter subject may get him more votes when he is a candidate for governor next year. The policeman who gets $140 per month working only eight hours per day, is getting all he earns and then some, but if there is an ounce of rumor in the much street talk about the police rakeoff, then the $140 salary they get for their police service is a mere bagatel to the amount they get on the side. If the Union Record is the only paper in Seattle that's the "people's paper" then the 350,000 persons who do not take the Union Record must only be apes, baboons or monkeys. That's a weakness of the Americans; they run away with the idea that a part is greater than the whole and the few who make the loudest noise is the greatest number. The financial ills and complaints of the colored citizens of Seattle should now fade away like snow in June, for Capitalist James and Promoter Rostom got thier think tanks into operation and a $100,000 corporation with the view of turning the old town wrong side out immediately if not sooner, is now on tap. If you need a piece of money just ask for it and it will be forthwith coming. The controversy in Portland, Oregon, between the Advocate and Dr. J. A. Merriman et al has reached the stage of brass tacks, and if Dr. Merriman does not disprove the utterances made by the Advocate against himself, then it occurs to us that he is afraid to go into court. Of course, every controversy has two sides, but when one side flatly accuses the other side of being guilty of crime then its up to the accused to disprove the accusation by having the one making the accusation legally punished for criminal libel. Journalistically speaking we would regret to get mixed up in such a controversy in order to mkae some one be good. He or she may go to hell if he or she so likes, but we will see to it that he or she does not take Cayton's Weekly or its editor with him or her. THE VISION OF LINCOLN Whene'er some vested wrong seems rgiht, When error sits on Freedom's throne; Whene'er Goliath armor-shod Shall dare to challenge Heaven's own God sends some David to the field The power of darkness to dethrone. Our Lincoln, reared among the woods, From virgin soil had drawn its powers, Untutored in the ways of kings Had grown in silence as the flowers. From nature learned the secret strength Of storm clouds and of darkened hours. The powers of darkness, safely throned, Laughed deep in scorn to see him come In homely garb and ready wit. With jest and laughter on his tongue, They could not se ethe sword of flame Hid beneath the coarse homespun. He used the vision God had given To set a race of bondmen free Not hate, but pitying love was given To all who called him enemy. And in the deepest, darkest hours His soul drank deep from hidden powers. Today above a world hate riven Majestic-like his face I see, With heart of strength and love sustaining All those who work for liberty, And smiles as one whose soul can see A world United! Happy! Free! —Henry Victor Morgan THE NOBLEST REVENGE. (By Dr. Frank Crane.) The don'test of al don'ts is: Don't get even. The greatest of all time-wasting is time wasted on revenge. It not only is a waste of time, but also of gray matter, nerve, force, vitality, and soul juice and life reserves. The desire for retaliation is the most dangerous lust that enslaves human beings. When you want to hurt him who has hurt you you want something that irritates you while you want it, disappoints you when you get it, and makes you feel mean after it's all over. You can't get through this life without meeting people who injure you. There are those that snub you, those that betray you, those that cheat you, those that envy you, besides all the swarm of spiteful, malicious, weak, and venomous human mosquitoes, worms, and wasps. If you stop and chase each of these to punish them you will have no time for anything else. If you allow yourself to think of them they will poison you until your mind is sour as buttermilk, your sleep ruined, and your hours of leisure turned from content to wretchedness. Forget it! It makes not so much matter whether or not you forgive an offense: the only satisfying thing is to forget it. Go on! There's too much to do, to stop and fight bees. Life's too rich to pauperize it by hate. Let it pass! Go on! Doubtless your enemy needs a thrashing. But what's that to you? The question is: What do YOU need? You need peace of mind. poise and contentment; and to keep thinking about him is to upset yourself. When a man wrongs us, let us simply drop him. He's out of our life. Bood-bye! There are plenty of others. As far as we are concerned, he is an undesirable citizen, and that's all there is to it. Next! Why redress injuries? They always redress themselves automatically better than we can redress them. We don't realize the self-acting, automatic equalizing efficiency of the spiritual world. It's more actual than any mechanical device. When a man does dirt, he gets dirt, by-and-by. Let him alone. Why bother? Into what horrors of suffering has the de- DR. C. J. ALLEN, Dentist. Examination free, 211 Globe Bldg., 1st and Madison. Office hours 9 to 12 a. m., 1 to 6 p. m., Sundays by appointment. Residence 1830 24th Avenue. East 6419. DR. F. B. COOPER, Dentist, 362-3 Empire Bldg, 2nd and Madison. Special appointments for evenings and Sundays. Office hours 8:30 to 12 and 2 to 6. Main 6093. Residence, East 5056. CAYTON'S WEEKLY wants two columns of classified adds made up after this style and fashion. Rates very reasonable. Beacon 1910. STONE THE CATERER will serve your parties and banquets cheaper than you can do it yourself. Stone's ice cream leads. East 275. sire for revenge plunged the world! Look at hideous Europe now; the mountains of mangled bodies piled on the altars of revenge! When Jesus said that about turning the other cheek he was not talking impossible idealism, but plain sense. Te people who spiritually arrive are the forgetters. Here is a sentence you may paint on your wall where you can see it by day, on your ceiling where you can gaze on it when you wake up at night, on your mind where all your thoughts can read it as they pass by, and on your heart where every emotion can be shaped by it: An injury can grieve only when remembered. The noblest revenge, therefore, is to forget. BOOZE AND WATER Old Forty-Rod is on the blink, its knell will soon be tooted; but water is a goodly drink, when it is not diluted. Oh, water makes no strong appeal to sports all soaked with whiskey; they want a drink that makes them feel obstreperous and frisky. But soon 'twill be a groundhog case, this thing of water drinking; man can't buy bitters for his face, or get the same by winking. And this will rack full many a mind, to some make life distressing; but soon the red nosed sports will find that hydrants are a blessing. It is a noble thing to rise, at morn, with buoyant body, and have no sore and blood-shot eyes, no headaches loud and gaudy. It's fine to spend a restful night, nor dream of alligators, and then to have an appetite for steak and eggs and taters. It's good to have a bone or two, to have a kopeck handy, that will not go for someone's brew, some brand of gin or brandy. The hydrant draws no gilded boys, no dead game sports surround it; but it increases human joys, when once the soak has found it; when once he's learned to like the juice that from the hydrant trickles, he has to wonder why the deuce he blew for beer his nickels. —Walt Mason. PACIFIC COAST COAL CO. Puts the Best COAL on the Market Phone Main 5080 You Are Welcome To Spend Your Leisure Moments at the GREAT NORTHERN POOL AND BILLIARD HALL Cigars, Tobacco and Soft Drinks. Courteous Treatment BOYD & WILLIAMS, Props. 1032 Jackson St. --- LIFE FOR BUNDY In July of 1917 the sovereign state of Illinois was disgraced by a race riot at East St. Louis. To fully understand the conditions out of which the trouble grew it is necessary to take a comprehensive view of the rottenness of civic conditions in that unfortunate city. For years vicious political machines, both Democratic and Republican, had dominated its municipal affairs. The law was constantly suspended by those in authority, and because of the laxity of law enforcement low dives sprang up without number, disreputables from the surrounding country swarmed in, and all this, added to the supineness of the police force, made a situation that was well nigh volcanic in its possibilities. The Labor Unions, inspired by the situation, thought the time ripe to settle a longstanding grievance with the employers of labor, who from time to time had been charged with importing large numbers of our workmen from the South. Our people, scenting trouble, commenced to arm themselves and to make such preparations for defense as were thought necessary. Among the leaders of this defensive movement was Dr. Leroy Bundy, a practicing dentist. It is not our purpose here to defend the life of Dr. Bundy nor his methods in dealing with the situation prior to the riot. It has been charged by his enemies that his practices were not altogether commendable. The fact remains, however, that in playing the part that he did he acted only as any other sensible, far-seeing man would have done under like circumstances. He knew conditions as few other men in that section knew them. He knew the mob spirit of the white man, whether the mob comes from Texas or Illinois, and when he saw the storm gathering he prepared to fight. Any other red-blooded man would have done what Bundy did. He exercised a right that is as old as the centuries—the right of self-defense. We have had too much supineness on the part of our people in such crises, and it is decidedly refreshing to find a member of our group who knows his rights and is not afraid to defend them. The proneness of our people to move along the lines of least resistance to forms of outlawry such as characterized the actions of the East St. Louis mob encourages and feeds this form of evil. There is but one way to deal with a mob that is to prepare for it, and when you see it in action move to meet it with every weapon at your command. We have found from bitter experience, and this case is no exception, that we cannot depend upon the police, the possee of the sheriff, or the militia. If Bundy felt that the forces of constituted authority could not be depended upon to safeguard the lives and property of our citizens, was he not then justified in taking the steps that he did? All in all, one must regret that the governor of the state, who was undoubtedly in touch with the situation, did not take prompt measures to forestall the trouble. We are informed that his adjutant general had been on the scene for several days for the purpose of keeping the chief executive of the state informed as to conditions. A little exercise of executive backbone at the proper moment might have resulted in the saving of many lives and in preventing the destruction of thousands of dollars worth of valuable property. It might have kept the great state of Lincoln and Grant from stepping into the same column with Texas and Mississippi. This was not done, and a black and bloody page was written into the history of Illinois. A few white men have been given light sentences, a few of our men heavy sentences. Tailors and Cleaners. Clothes called for and delivered. Hats retrimmed and blocked. H. S. Frazier C. W. Curtest as a matter of course, and Leroy Bundy, one of the central figures, must serve a sentence of life imprisonment. We believe that Dr. Bundy's case presenst a gross msi-carriage of justice when all the facts in the case are considered. We believe him to be the victim of prejudice and clamor. In England and France he would have been acquitted, in all probability, but in America, where the color of a man's skin has much to do with the measure of justice dealt out to him, things are quite different. The white participants in the Springfield riot of a few years ago went upon the witness stand and openly confessed their part in the disgraceful scenes that gave a lasting black eye to the capital of the state, and were acquitted. There was no excuse for their conduct, but much can be said in palliation of the conduct of Bundy and those associated with him. It is not our purpose to hold up Dr. Bundy as a martyr, nor do we wish to enter into a defense of the criminal element of our people. If they violate the law we want to see them punished. We cannot escape the conviction, however, that in the case of Dr. Bundy the element of color prejudice entered too largely, and if a reviewing court cannot see its way to right the wrong which we believe has been done him, then the matter should be brought strongly to the notice of the pardon board of the state with a view of securing his freedom. It goes without saying in this connection that the trouble for which this unfortunate community was made to suffer lies primarily at the door of the lawless white element. For days they had been muttering dire threats against our people until, in their alarm, they began to make preparations for the defense of their lives and property. With the conditions reversed the white residents of East St. Louis would have taken the same steps, and they would have been commended on all sides for so doing. Had they fought and taken life in defense of themselves and their homes no white jury would have convicted them. And because we do not believe in one law for the white and one for the black forces us to array ourselves in the cause of Dr. Bundy.—Chicago Defender. GRAND BALL The Compliments of the EFFICIENCY CLUB Easter Monday April 21, 1919 at GREYERBIEHL'S HALL 27th Avenue and Jackson Street Music by Smith's Jazz Band, which means things doing from 8 o'clock P. M. until 12. You Are Welcome Committee of Arrangements Arthur Williams, Chairman Stephen Young Wm. Wilson John Gayton C. Miller Edward A. Pitter Ed Gardner Admsision 50 Cents --- Office, Beacon 103; Res., Main 5610 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. John J. Shirley, Plaintiff, vs. Jesse W. Rawlings, and Mabel Rawlings, his wife, and Emma T. Rawlings, Defendants.—No. ..... Summons and Publication. The State of Washington to Jesse W. Rawlings, and Mabel Rawlings, his wife, and Emma T. Rawlings: You and each of you are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: sixty (60) days after the 29th day of March, 1919, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court and answer the complaint of the plaintiff and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for the plaintiff at his office below specified in Seattle, King County, Washington, said King County being the place designated by the plaintiff as the place of trial of said action, 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 foreclose a certain mortgage executed by the defendants Jesse W. Rawlnigs and Mabel Rawlings, his wife, bearing date the 17th day of December, 1906, and filed for record in the office of the Auditor of King County, State of Washington, December 23, 1908, in Volume 424 of Mortgages, page 315 of the Records of King County, Washington, whereby there was mortgaged to the said Emma T. Rawlings the following described real estate situate in King County, State of Washington, to-wit: The north twenty and six one-hundredths (20.06) feet of Lot two (2) and the south nineteen and ninety-four one-hundredths (19.94) feet of lot one (1) in block one (1) Leschi Heights Addition to the city of Seattle, together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any way appertaining. That said mortgage and notes were duly assigned, transferred and set over for a valuable consideration by the said Emma T. Rawlings to said John J. Shirley, the plaintiff herein. That said assignment of mortgage was dated the 23rd day of September, 1918, and duly recorded in the office of the Auditor of King County, State of Washington, on the 28th day of January, 1919, in Volume 760 page 460 of the Records of King County, Washington. The object of said action is to exclude defendants therein and each of them from any lien or interest in said property and otherwise as will more fully appear from said complaint. JOHN J. KINNANE, Attorney for Plaintiff. Office and Post Office Address: Hotel Seattle, Seattle, Washington. First publication March 29, 1919. Last publication May 10, 1919. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for the County of King.—No. 133363. Summons by Publication. J. Abe Fisher, Plaintiff, vs. Fred Therriault, and William Fisher and Eve S. Fisher, his wife, Defendants. tendants. The State of Washington, to the said Fred Theriault, Defendant You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit, within sixty days after the 1st day of February, A. D. 1919, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the Clerk of said court. The object of the said action and the relief sought to be obtained therein is fully set forth in said complaint, and is briefly stated as follows: To partition the following described real property: The East Forty-five (E. 45) feet of Lots Eighteen (18), Nineteen (19) and Twenty (20) in Block Thirteen (13) of Front Street Cable Addition to the City of Seattle, King County, Washington. Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O. Address: 320 Railway Exchange Bldg., Seattle, County of King, Washington. First publication Feb. 1, 1919. MASS MEETING Monday, April 28th, 1919 at Grace Presbyterian Church The Seattle Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will hold the above meeting to determine whether a delegate will be sent to the Tenth Anniversary of the Parent Body and to transact other important business. S. H. STONE, President, ARTHUR WILLIAMS, Secretary