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. 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, Vash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910 Office 303 22d Ave. South PEACEMAKER WILSON "If the world from a gentile or even a Jewish viewpoint believes the Jews are not getting an equal chance in Poland, then, I, Ignace Jan Paderewsky, Polish premier, invite President Wilson to name a commission to go to Poland and make a thorough investigation of conditions there so far as the Jew is concerned," came over the wires last Monday morning. It is said that Paderewsky has lifted all of the former bans placed upon the Jews in Poland and they are not only as equal before the law as any other citizen, but are being given an equal opportunity in the pursuits of life and happiness, all of which is very refreshing in the light of the past, when a Jew got but little more consideration than the lower order of animals. But the idea of President Wilson sending a commission to Poland to inquire into the treatment of a class of human beings residing therein is like unto carrying coal to Newcastle. Cruel as may have been the treatment of the Jews in Poland it pales into infinitisimal insignificance in comparison to the treatment the Negro has received and is daily subjected to in the United States, especially in that section hereof known as the Sunny South. Two weeks ago this paper reproduced an article from the May number of the "Crisis," that was so shocking and nauseating in brutality that it was unfit to print and circulate in a Christian community. Think of lynching two girls, respectively sixteen and eighteen years of age, each pregnant by the same white brute, and, at the same time, two twenty-year-old boys because the quartet was supposed to have murdered the brute who had seduced the two girls. Think about burning human beings on the public squares, where the white men, women and children fight for souvenirs of the unfortunate. Think about hanging a woman up by her feet, cutting her stomach open, which contains an unborn babe, which falls to the ground and is stamped into mince meat by the fiendish lynchers. Think about the kicks, cuffs, insults and public rights denied the colored citizens of this country from Maine to Mexico and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, not because they merit such harsh treatment, not because they are public parasites, not because they are prowling pirates, not because they are pestering pilferers for their daily bread, not because they are ignorant, dangerous criminals, but because their skins are black, and the skins of the dominant class of this land of the free and home of the brave committing these brutal outrages are white. Think about all of these and a thousand and one other annoying circumstances that impede the onward and upward march of the colored man in the United States and you will conclude with us as to such a commission, "Consistency, thou art a jewel!" Woodrow Wilson is president of this United States by virtue of the fact that there was a solid South. There was and is a solid South by virtue of the fact Negroes were murdered, intimidated and denied the right to cast their votes at the ballot box. Diaz, Huerta, and Carranza have all been president of Mexico by virtue of the fact that their followers murdered and intimidated those opposing them. In other words, Wilson's supporters used the same identical tactics to put their man into power as did the supporters of the various Mexican rulers, and we therefore fail to see in what manner or way President Woodrow Wilson is any more of an humanitarian than was Huerta or is Carranza. The murdered blood of the Negro of the United States is probably not directly on the hands of President Wilson, nor has either Huerta or Carranza ever been charged with actually committing red-handed murder, but if all of them have politically profited from the outrages imposed upon their opponents, then, why are the three not like so many peas in a pod? Pounding peace and brotherly love into the jarring European nations and communities on the part of our chief executive is a beautiful theory and very, very lofty ideals, but, if those peoples who are being peace-pounded could but witness some of the horrors almost daily perpetrated upon the colored citizens of this country, they would say to this fourteen-point peacemaker, "Go ye back to your own land and country and first set your own house in order, then come to us and command us to set our houses in order. You, yourself, have chosen chaos instead of Christ and yet you want us to choose Christ instead of chaos. Have you, Mr. Peacemaker, a selfish motive in all this? What is your game, Mr. Would-Be Peacemaker? We are anxious to hear your motive, But, to return to the original thought, let's have the commission to Poland and let's insist on the Jews receiving equal justice and like opportunities with the most favored few. Let's go a step further and demand for the Jew like conditions in every country in Europe, where he has been oppressed, and may, perhaps, when all that shall have been done the Negro in the United States will receive just and fair consideration. Make the world safe for democracy, including the United States of America, and then the war will not have been fought wholly in vain as the drift in the final adjustment seems to now indicate. No, constant reader, Cayton's Weekly has not set the world on fire the three years it has been running, yea, it has not even started a blaze, but today it begins its fourth year just as full of pep as it did its first. It has made many friends and some enemies since it began, but even its enemies admit that it's always there with the goods. America, to be sure, is money mad and is accomplishing much in the way of getting the money, but she would do a hundred times more in that direction if she did not live in such mortal fear of color dominancy. Like Don Quixote, she exhausts much of her energy fighting windmills, which she conjures herself to believe are ether dangerous Negroes, Japanese or Chinese. VOL. IV. NO. 1 For carrying our soldiers across the pond, Johnny Bull, it is said, tried to gip Uncle Sam. Well, John was out of money and he had to "gip" somebody and Uncle Sam had more money than anyone else, and it shows good horse sense to always try to gip the man that has the money, if there is any gipping to be done. Vandevere's opening statement in the I. W. W. trial was so pathetic and so dramatically staged that it brought tears to the eyes of some of the jurors. That old trick has been turned many times before, but it seems that the gullible will still fail for it. Washington City, it is currently reported, has gone bootlegging mad and the men who made it bone dry get much of the forbidden stuff. Judging from the actions of the Seattle police it must be a picnic for the Washington City policemen. If James Weldon Johnson can talk the Tacoma citizens into re-establishing a Tacoma branch of the N. A. A. C. P. and then talk the members into working instead of scolding at each other, then again off goes our hat to James Weldon Johnson. Keep an eye on "Weary" Wilkins, the Seattle steret vendor of war savings stamps, as he has broken into the preaching game and will probably make Billy Sunday look to his laurels. It's the hope of the street car patrons that Murphine is right and Thomson wrong in the five-cent fare controversy. We therefore suggest that the raise be temporarily laid on the table. Peace, yes, that peace that passeth all understanding, is promised the world by the Allies by not later than June 20th, but in the meantime the Allies are keeping their powder very, very dry. It is a rumor that the I. W. W.s and organized labor in Seattle are planning to back Ole Hanson for mayor next Spring and for United States senator in September. They must want him defeated. Having seen the age of the Arkansaw traveler, the age of steamboat navigation, the age of railroad transportation, the age of automobile agitation, we are delighted to welcome the age of aeroplanes. President Wilson, in wanting the ban taken off of beer and wine, has not necessarily left his religious moorings, but he sees an opportunity to do a little politics and he is not letting any political opportunity get by. Three years ago Cayton's Weekly pleaded with you and each of you to buy homes, while buying was good, but you would not do so and now you want to buy homes, but buying is bad. Many graves have been filled with automobile mishaps this year in and about Seattle and, if the pace is maintained for the balance of the year, the auto will prove almost as deadly as the "flu." As summer approaches the ladies show a decided tendency to Hooverize in their costumes with very little waist and "see more" skirts. Waste not your time in trying to rent a home in Seattle and be sure you have "a mighty roll" before attempting to buy one. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS --- ```markdown ``` THE PASSING THRONG At his monthly covenant meeting last Sunday forenoon, the pastor of the Mount Zion Baptist Church, Rev. W. D. Carter, admonished his members to forget the incident of their conversion to Christ and tell of some recent blessings from the Creator, which set us to thinking, and we mentally concluded that every day, every hour and every minute, those who would open their hearts and let the Savior in, a new blessing would come to them. With the Savior in full control of your heart and the "love your neighbor as yourself" radiating in every direction, there is no doubt but blessings from all sides, from above and below, will freely flow in upon you. Who loves his neighbor as himself is a radiator of help and happiness and such person is already God's elect and, like Enoch Arden, his or her name in the book of life, will lead all the rest. Hundreds of voters may be signing the "wet" petitions that are being circulated in Seattle, but those multiplied hundreds who are doing so must be doing it in secret, if at all. Though the speilers implore the men and women who pass them on the streets to halt for a moment and sign their names, yet but few do so. Occasionally, one more curious than the multitude will stop long enough to read the introduction, but hurry away as soon as the nature of the petition is learned. Perhaps the petition will get the requisite number of signers, but it is seriously doubted, after observing the indifference shown to it in Seattle, where the petition expects to get the greatest number of signers. It's hard to find even a man mean enough to want Old Man Booze brought to life in this state again. "Strew some flowers along my journey through life and cut out the gorgeous floral designs at my funeral," exclaimed Uncle Josh, who had seen a wagon load of flowers going to the grave of one who in life had been pronounced a common nuisance and not worth a confound. Everybody and his relations will rush to the funeral of some one they did not know when living, and if they did they had no use for him. It often happens that flowers will be sent to the funeral of one for whom the sender had no use in life, but the flowers are sent because it's a fad and the sender does not want to appear less important than his neighbor. If the living would send more flowers to the living and less flowers to the dead, truly would the millenium be with us. That the most of you in whose hands an occasional copy of Cayton's Weekly falls are well pleased with its contents and are not adverse to subscribing for the same, providing some one solicits you to do so, which is almost impossible for the most part, goes without saying, but if it pleases you and you think it worth the $2 that it costs, then why not order the paper either by telephone or by mail. It is a fact that we seldom ever solicit one to become a subscriber but that we get a favorable reply, which is evidence conclusive that, if you do not think it a necessity, you at least are willing to tolerate it. The management would be doubly delighed to receive your order for the paper either by telephone or by mail. Beacon 1910 or 303 Twenty- Second South, Seattle. In one week more the high schools of the city will hold their annual graduating exercises, when hundreds of lads and lassies will be given their coveted sheepskins, behind which many of them will endeavor to fight the battle of life, while others will use them as stepping stones to a higher and more thorough training to meet the successes and reverses of the commercial world. Out of these multiplied hundreds of graduates there will be but three colored children Miss Maggie Revels Cayton, Miss Ida May Brown, and Mr. George Green-by no means a fair average for the colored population of Seattle. Entirely too many young colored boys and girls are dropping out of school illly prepared to meet the trials and tribulations of after life and it is hoped that he future will see an improvement in this situation. It is a fact that no two human beings, like no two leaves on a tree, are exactly alike. No two animals, birds or fish are exactly alike. God in His wisdom has created all things to differ. However, in the case of the animals and things there is no alternative but to continue in a statu quo, but with human beings, however much they may differ in color, condition and stature they have the knowledge and wisdom to sufficiently harmonize their incongruities as well as differences to meet on a common middle ground. Persons who find themselves at variance from their fellowmen in general would do well to right about face and endeavor to bring themselves in harmony with the balance of the orchestra. This veiled lecture may be far fetched, but there is a valuable lesson in it, if you will only seek to get it out. Once on a time few men in Seattle were more ready to serve the public than J. W. Gray, and often he did so at a personal sacrifice, and few men in Seattle were any better qualified from an educational as well as from a general information standpoint, to serve the public for the general uplift than he, but all of a sudden and without explanation he withdrew his helpful hands and, if not in so many words, by action he solemnly announced, "I am no longer my brother's keeper." Probably Mr. Gray has abundant as well as justifiable reasons for thus secluding himself, but whether he has or has not his conclusion to do so meant quite a loss to the uplift work among the colored citizens in this community, and Cayton's Weekly truly hopes that Mr. Gray may see his way clear to break into the harness again. Despite their inability to break into the higher-up circles of the baseball game, nevertheless, those colored men who play baseball are exceedingly clever at the game. A bunch of professional fans sat watching a local colored baseball team operating on the diamond and unanimously agreed that the colored man under the circumstances beat the world at baseball, but there are two things to their detriment, they make more noise than an army of Comanche Indians and do more squabling than a pack of hungry wolves, both of which completely exasperates the spectators. If it were possible for them to eliminate those two shortcomings they might stand a much better chance of breaking into the professional leagues. It may be a fire when it burns, but unless you nurse it very attentively it will only be a bit of steam. Who thinks that the efforts put forh by him or her will set the world on fire and go and sit supinely down and wait to see the big flames tower heavenward will have a long and interesting wait. In other words, no one person can do it all and if you would have success attend your efforts, then ask your fellowman for either a helping hand or a bit of counsel or for both. The person who starts out to run the world will not travel very far before he or she will wake up to the fact that he or she will have to step lively or the world will run all over him or her and thus will a would-be brilliant career end in a bad smash up. "I am agreeably surprised to find you the congenial fellow that I have found you to be since undertaking this work," said one man to another not long since. "For some reason I had formed the opinion that you were arbitrary and egotistic and it was next to impossible for anyone to work with you unless he perimtted you to have your own way from start to finish, but here we have worked together without jar or friction and I have not seen one thing in your disposition that would remotely justify my former opinion of you," and thus are we, one and all, frequently mistaken in our fellowmen. Often the faults we seem to see in the other fellow are really in us and when we think the other fellow has changed, we ourselves have opened our hearts and let the Saviour in. You smile first and you will be surprised at the number of persons that will smile in return. "That man is a chronic grouch," said an acquaintance to the writer. "No, it's no peculiarity, it's just the worse dose of grouch I ever met. One troubled with eccentricities might be termed grouchy in spots and at times, but that man is grouchy twenty-four hours per day and 3651/4 days a year, and year in and year out. He opposes everything that is proposed, whether good or bad, and never has a pleasant word for friend or foe. Why, he even speaks disparagingly of his wife and children. He claims to be not only a Christian, but an ardent churchman, and yet he does not warm up to the members of the church, to which he belongs any more than he does to total strangers. I know of no remedy that will relieve persons thus troubled, but it would be a great blessing if "my friend" could in some way get relieved of the body of this dead one." The editor of Cayton's Weekly is looking for ten persons to join hands in the purchase of a twenty-acre tract of land in Ranier Valley, not to exceed five blocks from a street car line. The price of the property is $10,000 and can be sold in quarter-acre tracts for more than twice that amount. In case it is not desired to put it on the market at this time, it is a capital investment and ten years from now (not very long) the same land will bring at least three thousand dollars per acre, but if put into quarter-acre tracts it would mean eighty suburban homes for working men, which would give old High Cost of Living the jim jam jeans. Not a cent of expense attached thereto except a thousand dollars, which, if divided between the ten, would mean two acres for each of the investors. Are you interested? Ruth Garrison is again in Okanogan to testify in the Storrs case. She broke down on entering the hotel. Judge Jurey will sit in the Storrs case. Riots in Cleveland, Ohio, assumed such alarming proportions that state troops were called out. SANDERS & COMPANY LOANS NEGOTIATED 1003-1004 L. C. Smith Building Office Hours From 8:30 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. Seattle, Wash. Elliott 4662 Phone East 179 Calls Made Promptly Day or Night PENN UNDERTAKING CO. Funeral Directors and Embalmers H. Alfred Lewis, Funeral Director 1215 East Marion St. Seattle ENTERTAINERS' CAFE Open to the Public EVERY EVENING From 8 to 12:30 P. M. Come and See Something New With Up-to-date Music M. C. HARRIS & ROBT. DISHMORE, Props. 1238 Main St., Seattle Phone, Beacon 136 UNCIVILIZED An ancient ape, once on a time, Disliked exceedingly to climb, And so he picked him out a tree And said, "Now this belongs to me. I have a hunch that monks are mutts And I can make them gather nuts And bring the bulk of them to me, By claiming title to this tree." He took a green leaf and a reed And wrote himself a title-deed, Proclaiming pompously and slow: "All monkeys by these present know."— Next morning, when the monkeys came To gather nuts, he made his claim: "All monkeys climbing on this tree Must bring their gathered nuts to me, Cracking the same on equal shares; The meats are mine, the shells are theirs." "But by what right?" they cried, amazed, Thinking the ape was surely crazed. "By this," he answered; "if you'll read You'll find it is a title-deed, Made in precise and formal shape And sworn before a fellow ape Exactly on the legal plan Used by that wondrous creature, man, In London, Tokio, New York, Glengarry, Kalamazoo, and Cork. Unless my deed is recognized, It proves you quite uncivilized." "But," said one monkey, "you'll agree It was not you who made this tree." "Nor," said the ape, serene and bland, "Does any owner make his land, Yet all of its hereditaments Are his and figure in his rents." The puzzled monkeys sat about; They could not make the question out. Plainly, by precedent and law, The ape's procedure showed no flaw; And yet, no matter what he said, The stomach still denied the head. Up spoke one sprightly monkey then: "Monkeys are monkeys, men are men; The ape should try his legal capers On men who may respect his papers. We don't know deeds; we do know nuts, And spit of 'ifs' and 'ands' and 'buts,' We know who gathers and un-meats 'em, By monkey practice also eats 'em. "So tell the ape and all his flunkeys, No man-tricks can be played on monkeys." Thus, apes still climb to get their food, Since monkeys, minds are crass and crude, And monkeys, all so ill-advised, Still eat their nuts, uncivilized. —Edmund Vance Cook. Beautiful theory—an utopian dream—but damn poor practice. It's idle folly to argue that when one improves a piece of ground, though he or she appropriates the same, he has no more right to it than the other fellow. Rats! EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS A check was made at First and Pike last Saturday afternoon between 4:30 and 5:30. During that time 20,924 pedestrians crossed First and Pike in one direction or another. Segregating the figures, 8,7336 crossed First avenue on the south side of Pike and 5,232 on the north side. Those crossing Pike on the east side of First numbered 2,798, and on the west side 4,115. If Senator Johnson of California has his way in future the Japanese will have hard sleding to get into the United States. With Reed waving the Negro bloody shirt and Johnson the Chinese-Japanese, things are going to be rather grey in the Senate before the present session will have become history. Between the hours of 10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. the following cars passed First and Pike: Autos, 6,775; street cars, 946. During the same hours the number of vehicles crossing Second and Pike were: Autos, 8,641; street cars, 917. Between the devil and the deep blue sea seems to be the predicament President Wilson is in now. He is for the League of Nations while the United States government is against it, and it remains to be seen whether Woodrow Wilson or Uncle Sam is the greater personage, That was a splendid mention last Thursday's P.-I. gave James Weldon Johnson as to his coming lecture and the members of the Seattle branch are very grateful to that paper for its consideration. Have you any idea of the number of people who are trying to do about the same thing as you on a Saturday afternoon at First and Pike? Or the number of autos the policeman helps you to dodge? Woman suffrage has won at last, thanks to a Republican Congress, and now our political president will fall over himself to sign the measure. If the Allies turn their guns loose on Germany as they are now mounted, the Huns will immediately realize that Sherman was talking from the heart. A ton of coal for the June brides should be just as acceptable a wedding present as a diamond brooch. Logan Billingsley has been released from McNeil's Island, which may mean a new move for General Bootlegging. The United States Senate is still calling for a copy of the proposed treaty, but the same is not forhcoming. Washington pioneers held their annual reunion June 4th. The street car system of Copenhagen is owned by the municipality. Woman suffrage, after many years fighting, has won its coveted prize. A CATECHISM OF THE STATES Question.—Which is the best State for fresh pork? Answer.—New ham, sure. Q.—Which is the best for an early summer hotel? A.—May inn. Q.—In which should surgeons dwell? A.—Connect-a-cut. Q.—In which should laundrymen prosper? A.—Washing done. Q.—In which do impudent people dwell? A.—Can sass. Q.—Which is the best for deer-hunting? A.—Collar a doe. Q.—Which is the best to steal a walking-stick in? A.—Cane took, eh. Q.—Which is the best for locksmiths? A.—New brass key. Q.—In which would you look for a morning attire? A.—Day coat, eh! Q.—In which is one likely to fail in getting a drink? A.—Miss-a-sip. Q.—In which can you find a red letter? A.—Florid A. Q.—In which does the hustle make one sick? A.—Ill o' noise. Q.—In which is one likely to use his farming implements? A.—I'd a hoe. Q.—In which can one acquire an estate by marriage? A.—Mary land. Q.—In which is one letter of the alphabet taller than the others? A.—O higher. Q.—In which are bodies of land surrounded by water given a ride? A.—Rhode Island. Q.—Which is called to your mind by holding two $5 bills? A.—Tenn I see. Q.—Which would a woman rather have if she can't get a new sealskin sack? A—New Jersey. Q.—Which does the farmer's wife mention when she asks you to partake of apple sause? A.—Take sass. —Capper's Weekly (Topeka). 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. P. FRAZIER Real Estate, Insurance, Collections. 316 Pacific Block, Seattle Main 4554. NEW WORLD IN THE LEAGUE The proposed signatories of the League of nations are thirty-two in number—thirteen in the new world, ten in Europe, two in Africa, five in Asia, two in Australasia. Additional states invited to sign are six each in the new world and in Europe and one, Persia, in Asia. Together the fifty-five states which may be looked upon as composing the league at its inception cover all the continents, but very unequally, and include the greater part of the people of the world. For the present, Russia, Germany, Hungary and Austria are out, as well as the new states carved out of Russia except Poland. These exceptions contain 40 per cent, of the people of Europe and much more than half its area. Signature is or will be made for by far the greater part of the people of Asia, though it may be questioned how conscious is approval on the part of the people in China and India. Doubtless Siberia favors the league, but is in no stable condition to enter it now. Only a small part of Africa is capable of intelligent political action. Nearly all of the rest is represented in the league by Great Britain, Portugal, France, Spain, Belgium and Italy. But it is the new world, "called in to redress the balance of the old," that is most completely included. The nineteen American signatories omit only Mexico and Costa Rica. They have 90 per cent. of the people and 95 per cent. of the area of the new world. And while, even today, eleven of the sixteen European signers and all those of Asia, with the exception of China, possess monarchial systems of government, all the American signers have the form and most of them enjoy the fact of democratic institutions. In a peace of self-determination following a war for democracy they form a most important element.New York World. Lightning hit Stone, the caterer, but it was devoid of the desired golden shiekels, much to Stone's regret. 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. ```markdown ``` --- THE CLOSING RALLY The closing appeals for membership for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at the various churches of Seattle will be made next Sunday and the following speakers and solicitors at the respective churches will make the appeal and take your name and membership fee: SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 1919 MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH MORNING SERVICE. Rev. W. D. Carter, Speaker. Dr. F. B. Cooper, Harvey Chandler, Mrs. W. D. Carter, J. W. Anderson, Solicitors. EVENING. Rev. E. A. Johnson, Speaker. Dr. F. B. Cooper, Harvey Chandler, Mrs. E. A. Johnson, Mrs. W. D. Carter, Solicitors. FIRST A. M. E. CHURCH. MORNING SERVICE. Mrs. Clara Bonner, Speaker. Dr. Arthur Williams, Mrs. E. N. Drake, H. Alfred Lewis, W. L. Mitchell, J. F. Cragwell, W. H. Wilson, Solicitors. EVENING SERVICE. Rev. D. A. Graham, Speaker. Dr. Arthur Williams, Mrs. E. N. Drake, H. Alfred Lewis, W. L. Mitchell, J. F. Cragwell, W. H. Wilson, Solicitors. GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Rev. E. A. Johnson, Speaker. Mrs. B. F. Tutt, Mme. Coombs, J. T. Gayton, Sr., F. D. Wright, Solicitors. EVENING SERVICES. Rev. J. B. Barber, Speaker. Mrs. B. F. Tutt, Mme. Coombs, J. T. Gayton, Sr., F. D. Wright, Solicitors. CHURCH OF GOD. MORNING SERVICE. W. L. Presto, Speaker and Solicitor. EVENING SERVICE. Rev. J. B. Barbour, Speaker and Solicitor. LIEUTENANT PARKER'S LECTURE Lieutenant Charles S. Parker has returned from overseas and is visiting in Seattle. It will be remembered that he was among the first United States troops who sailed for France and was among the first to be sent to the front, where he remained until the armistice was signed, he thus seeing the war from beginning to the end, so far as the United States was concerned. Friends of the lieutenant have prevailed upon him to remain over Sunday in Seattle, and he will speak from the pulpit of the Mount Zion Baptist Church Sunday evening by invitation of Rev. W. D. Carter. The Rev. Carter extends a cordial invitation to the general public to be present and listen to what he has to say about his services in the trenches. Once on a time Lieutenant Parker was a well known citizen of Spokane and for five years he published the Spokane "Citizen," a weekly paper, and Washington citizens are proud of his army record. KEEPING THE NEGROES DOWN The following letter has been sent to all of the timberworker colored locals in the southern yellow pine belt. We publish it so that our members and readers may know to what extremes the Southern lumber manufacturers' association will go to keep the colored race employed in the timber industry servile to their masters. It is reasonable to suppose that Milton S. Hampton, the author of this letter and editor of the Negro Advocate, has been employed by the Southern lumber manufacturers to carry on this propaganda to discourage organization among the colored workers in the South. The letter is so raw that it needs no further comment.—Editor. "Negroes as a rule get any kind of favors they may ask of their white employers. Why? It is because of his efficiency as a workman along general lines. And one of the main points of efficiency is that "he Phone 2647 1034 Jackson 1034 Jackson GOLDEN WEST Tailors and Cleaners. Clothes called for and delivered. Hats retrimmed and blocked. H. S. Frazier C. W. Curtest would not strike." It is commonly said that the colored worker may lay off to go fishing or to town on Saturday, but that he would not strike. "This one feature has been highly appreciated by our white friends. Do not let any false leader come in and instill another doctrine, the heinous doctrine of striking! "The striking man is a troublesome man. Although the war has brought on a scarcity of labor, it's just about over now, and labor is again going to be plentiful, and those who have been troublesome are going to be the first let go, and the worker who stuck to his employer during the trying times is going to receive as a reward not only his continued employment, but any reasonable favor he may ask. "The Negro's best friends have always been his employers, who represent the highest class of white people. It is them to whom our preachers and church workers go for funds to build our stately churches, and to help out any fund wherein the membership has failed to raise. It is to them we go when we want our schools built, additions made, and any other enterprise always receive assistance. It is through them that our leaders must appeal for justice, reforms and benefits for the race. "Their willingness to help us is brought about by the desire to appreciate our steadiness and dependability and also a genuine interest in our welfare and advancement "Striking will bring about the loss of this faith in us and will greatly endanger the friendly feeling and spirit of co-operation that exists between the white employers and the colored laborers. "Merit and stedainess will bring about the things that any honest and right thinking worker may want. "Always be in harmony with your employer: it pays. Respectfully. "Industrial Welfare Committee. "Milton S. Hampton, Director, and editor Negro Advocate." It is very seldom that we agree with the Union Record, but its comment on Editor Hampton's letter meets our hearty approval. In our opinion Editor Hampton is little short of a servile slave in writing and sending such a letter to men working like beasts of burden for their daily bread. If the men are paid what is rightfully coming to them, they should be too proud and independent to ask any man for money to build churches and schools for their benefit. Who is given steady employment and paid commensurate wages therefor and then asks for alms or charity does not deserve to be anything but a peacon or a slave. As to the conditions in those lumber camps we know nothing, but whether black or white the laborer is worth his hire and if men are cajoled into working for less wages than is a just compensation by men who can and will write and send them—the laborers—such letters as the above, then they are standing in their own light and the letter writer is little short of a cowardly, crouching cur. The colored man asks nothing more nor less than equal opportunity and the same pay as the white laborer gets. Her work was finished. The angel whose mission it was to guard the every footstep of Mme. C. J. Walker delivered her precious charge to the Keeper of the Heavenly Throne Sunday morning last, just as the rays of the morning sun were brushing away deep shadows of night. The world mourns; mourns, for in the passing of Mme. Walker we have lost the one woman in our racial group who has by her life, her deeds and her achievements given us a concrete example of "where there's a will there's a way." From the washtub to a palace on the Hudson harks like a fairy tale from the Arabian Nights, and yet this is but one of the wonders worked by this woman of destiny. Blessed with but few of the physical attractions for which her sex craves, fashioned with a dark skin so unpopular in this democratic country; with all these so-called drawbacks she climbed from obscurity into the public limelight in a little over a half score of years. Nor did she climb selfishly. On every rung of the ladder she paused to help one less fortunate than she to rise. Her purse was ever open to the needy. Her voice was always raised against the injustices heaped upon her people, upon her lips there was ever a word of good cheer, while the doors of her palace swung open as freely to the respectable washwoman or janitor as they did to the banker or millionaire. A legacy such as Mme. Walker left seldom falls to the lot of a struggling class such as we. The dollars that she piled up through her business sagacity pale into insignificance in comparison to the actual uplift work that had been hers to give her people. Who knows of the thousands who have taken new courage and have made of themselves useful members of society by trying to emulate her? Who knows the vast number who have through her guidance turned business failures into successes? And they say this woman is dead; she can never die. Tender hands may place her motal remains in the sepulchre, but the spirit of Mme. Walker will remain in the hearts of the people forever and a day.—Chicago Defender. Seattle's dry squad destroyed thousands of dollars' worth of booze last Wednesday. 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 RICHARDSON'S UNDERTAKING PARLORS Embalmer and Funeral Director 1216-18 Jackson Street Office, Beacon 103; Res., Main 5610 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County. Robert W. Jeffery, Plaintiff, vs. Myrtle E. Jeffery, Defendant.—No. 135467—Summons for Publication. The State of Washington to the said Myrtle E. Jeffery, Defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days from and after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixty (60) days after May 17, 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 attorneys for plaintiff at their office and post office address below designated, and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demands of the plaintiff's complaint, which has been filed in the office of the Clerk of said Court. The object of this action is to obtain a decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony now existing between plaintiff and defendant on the grounds of abandonment. MORRIS & SHIPLEY, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Office and Post Office Address: 55 Haller Building, Seattle, King County, Washington. Date of first publication May 17, 1919. ---