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, Wash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. TEUPHONE: BEACON 1910 Office 303 22nd Ave. South WINE AND WOMEN Almost since the very foundation of Seattle, wine and women have been her besetting sin. She early became a seaport town in whose harbor the "sails" of the world anchored, which always gave to her a cosmopolitan citizenship with more or less money to "throw to the birds," and that attracted large numbers of questionable characters, male and female, from other places, and the conglomeration delighted in seeing the "wine" flow as freely as did the waters from the melting snows on the mountain top down the rocky gorges to the bay. Open saloons—gilded palaces of hell—with men and women filling them to and overflowing meant games of chance, more crooked than curious, which begat crime of all description from murder down. That these places might operate unmolested these outlaws became the makers and administrators of the laws and with them in full control of the legal machinery, a premium was placed upon crime and the price therefor was collected by the official criminals who gathered in the shekels from those who profiteered from wine and women. So steeped in this disease did Seattle become that even after the state has gone bone dry she is loath to give it up. As of yore there seems to be about as much crookedness in the official circles of Seattle today as when Clancy and Burns dictated the naming of all county and city officials. There is hardly a week that passes, but there is a big scandal in police circles exposed which charges policemen with either open robbery or public grafting. In other words, if reports be true, the police stealing and grafting are a hundredfold greater than the salaries they draw. But a few days ago it came to our ears how a sanitary inspector was grafting from the Japanese and Chinese thrice more than his salary amounted to. And as in this, so all down the line, so goes the story. The fallen women are legitimate prey for all who have to deal with them on official business. Recently the sheriff's office has been accused of working the wine and women machine to the personal gain of some of the deputies thereof, further demonstrating that men seek to be elected to certain offices not so much for the salary thereof, but for the opportunity to graft from the moral perverts who bootleg wine and from the women, who sell their virtue, not so much for the price but for the opportunity of robbing the men who enter their gilded parlors. Summing it all, the whole situation is the result of so-called respectable men being money mad and will agree to anything just to get the money. Until Seattle is regenerated and born again she will ever be the breeding ground of thieves and thugs and pimps and prostitutes. STATE LIBRARY, OLYMPIA, WASH. TON'S M ATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, JUN RE-TRY MOONEY Organized labor all over this country is practically a unit for a new trial for Mooney, and in that the editor hereof and organized labor are quite in accord. We however, have reached the same conclusion as has it by a reasoning process just the opposite to that of organized labor. We believe Mooney should have a new trial because we seriously doubt the veracity of the state's chief witness, and since the state has four other counts on which, if convicted, just as severe punishment could be imposed as the one on which he has already been convicted, why not give him to benefit of the doubt? Viewing the conviction from the witness standpoint the doubt is in Mooney's favor, and for that reason he should be given in a new trial. Despite our advocacy of a new trial for Mooney, yet we believe him absolutely guilty of all he has been charged, but believing is not knowing, and it takes facts to convict anyone charged with crime. Organized labor, on the other hand, wants Mooney to have a new trial because many of the members thereof believe him to be innocent, while still others, chiefly the leaders, whether guilty or innocent, think the state will not be able to prove him guilty, even if he is and thus will another red-handed murderer escape just punishment, and organized labor will have struck another deadly blow at the government fabric and get away with it. Organized labor is purely selfish, basing its conclusions on "God bless me and my wife, my son John and his wife, us four and no more." Every man should have a fair and impartial trial before a jury of his peers and this we do not believe Mooney has had, hence our advocacy of a new trial for him. Because the war is over is no reason why Eugene V. Debs should not pay the penalty for breaking the law, just the same as if the war was raging. He stuck a knife into the back of Unele Sam while he was being attacked by the Huns in front, and that is always the act of a dirty coward, and, who is guilty of it merits no consideration. Debs does not claim to have not had a fair and impartial trial as does Mooney, but thinks he ought to be pardoned because he at one time was a rather important personage and the war being over wants bygones to be forgotten. THE GRAND JURY At no calling of a grand jury in the history of King County was there so eminent need of it as at present, and if the grand jury now in session does not indict upwards of two hundred Seattle citizens then there is either nothing in that old saying. "Where there is so much smoke there is bound to be some fire," or the grand jury will of itself have reasons for not indicting the many whom Madam Rumor has already convicted. The work of grand jurors in King County in past years has not stood the test before trial jurors, but let's hope that the present inquisitorial body will free itself from sickly sentiment and political polly-wash and will hew to the lines, letting the chips fall where they will or may. Either the police department of Seattle has been sadly maligned or many of the members thereof are guilty of heinous crime and the jury should make a searching in- a searching in VOL. IV. NO. 2 quiry of their official conduct and let not one guilty one escape. In county official circles, too, many charges and recharges have been made, which reflected upon the integrity of the officials and in some instances even questioned their honesty, and this, too, should be carefully talked over, and if the facts warrant it let the jury cause the accused to be arrested, hauled before the superior court and tried. Seattle is no longer a robber's roost and it's high time to rid the community of such characters, who think it is, by sending them to the penitentiary. Once on a time officials had to soft peddle any reforms necessary for the good of the community, but if that used to be the caper it don't go now, because the political future of no one is dependent upon political bosses and back room wire-pullers. The present grand jury is free to make as searching an inquire as it sees fit and the bludgeon of no political machine hangs over its head. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS It is very unfortunate that the voters of Seattle have seen fit to continue Oliver Erickson a member of the City Council, who is always against every municipal measure that does not eminate in Erickson's effeminate brain. If it be possible for a man to be a "granny," then Erickson comes nearer fitting the bill than any other man known to the Northwest. His repeated election to the position of city councilman must be due to his peculiarity rather than his popularity. Recently he journeyed all the way to Tacoma to belittle Seattle, and, to be perfectly plain, in our opinion flatly lie about the street car system of Seattle. When we remember that Erickson has been repeatedly elected to a seat in the City Council by the people and the same people voted for the purchase of the street car system, then we rise to remark, "What fools we mortals be." Had not Ruth Garrison murdered Mrs. Storrs she and Dug in all human probability, would still be living in open shame, and the prosecuting attorney of Okanogan county would be bowing and crutching to Ruth as if she were a veritable Virgin Mary, but no sooner did she come under the limelight than both she and her paramour at once became dangerous criminals. Had both Ruth and Dug been sent to jail for criminal cohabitation the next day after they landed in Okanogan and registered as man and wife, the state would have been spared the disgrace that this brace of wretches has heaped upon her. What a pity the keys to their cells could not be lost and never found. Despite the fact that I. W. W. organizations throughout the United States have endeavored to do all within their power to bring about a state of chaos among the lawabiding citizens hereof, yet they have made little or no headway in that direction, and we very much doubt if it will help matters along so far as they are concerned to add to their numbers a million more I. W. W.'s recruited from the ranks of colored men and women. When I. W. W. is interpreted I Will Work instead of I Won't Work, then there may be a chance of labor adjusting its misunderstandings and financial differences with capital. Most any fool can buy ten cents worth of chuck steak for thirty cents these days. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS "eg ee ee gen a ene Rerrenc, LES e e| er and the entertaining of Mr. Johnson. He gave his time to the cause at a time when his time was worth in dollars and cents ten- fold more than has been taken in during the drive and as well as at the Johnson lecture. Nothing would be more appropriate than to send him as a delegate to the tenth annual session of the parent body in Cleveland, Ohio, from June 25th to June 28th. A motion to that effect is therefore in order. However desirous the prosecuting attor- ney may have been to frame up against Sheriff Stringer, this same Stringer will have a hard time convincing the public that Dr. Tiffin and John Hart will enter into any collusion to frame up against him. If you are on the square and in the open, Mr. Sherdf, throw your doors open and invite the closest investigation of your every official act and if there be an appointee in your office that has not walked the straight and narrow path, then turn such appointee over to the cold charities of the courts. It is hereby agreed that the manufae- turers of the country foree wages down, but at the same time let ‘them go a step further and force the price of living neces- sities down, With butter at a dollar per pound and other necessities of life propor- tionately high, the man who earns ten dollars per day will find it quite difficult to maintain a wife and three or four children, Granted, for the sake of argument, that the Seattle taxicab operators offered a reward to anyone who would beat up the president of the Taxicab Drivers’ Union, even then they were no less eruel and brutal than were and are the strikers who have beaten up every nan that dared take out a-car for the company, What’s sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander, Organizing against an increase in’ the price of the necessities of life seems hardly hecessary as the prices themselves will be prohibitive against their usage by any but millionaires. By fall the most of the neces- sities will increase at least 40 per cent over what they now are, which will be abso- lutely prohibitive against their usage. After all Dug Storrs and Ruth Garrison are under the same vine and fig tree, though they are not basking in the sunshine of each other’s love. If Ruth had have told the truth, we suspeet Dug would be com- pelled to remain under this self same vine and fig tree during his natural life and one day thereafter, We quite agree with President Wilson in that “there are certain things happening and may be attended to, if Congress so de- sires, and among them is the president taking up his abode in Paris contrary to the custom of this country and which is quite prejudicial to our government welfare. A Tacoma branch of the National Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Colored People: was not exactly organized the eve- ning James Weldon Johnson spoke there, but forty-five persons planked down their dollars as a primary move thereto, which is a long step in the right direction. It is currently reported that Woodrow Wilson, he of fourteen points fame, has de- cided to spend his vacation in Washington City, but much depends on the state of soviety in Paris as to whether he will or will not. Things seem to be entirely too plebian in Washington for Mrs. Wilson. Krom a labor paper it is learned that America (United States) spends six times more for booze and tobacco than she does fist-fight, but they do everything else that Irishmen do when they are together. * In launching Hiram Johnson’s _presid- ential boom, the Progressives have taken the initiative and they evidently think they have the situation so well in hand that they will be able to rule or ruin. Johnson, how- ever, is a good man at that. It’s now a penitentiary offense to go joy- riding in another person’s automobile with- out getting the owner’s written consent. Kid boys had better give the matter a once over before taking ‘‘dad’s machine’? out to joy ride the gang. Inuendoes are unpleasant bombs to be dropped in public meetings for they often explode and hit the wrong person. If you really have it in for some one, wait until you are both outside of the hall and then call the turn. Between the judges not wanting their vacation program broken into and_ the sheriff not wanting the morale of his depu- ties put in question, a grand jury inqui- sition went powerfully against the grain. Already the states have begun to ratify the woman suffrage amendment and it’s a safe bet that every state in the North will do as Ilinois has already done—ratity it. In wanting to be a member of the League of Nations, Germany must think she ean accomplish more by strategy and cunning than she did with arms and U-boats. Murdering Jews in Russia has grown to be of as much a common occurrence as murdering Negroes in the South. Might makes right in both countries. No snow as yet has fallen in Seattle since the month of June has been with us, but it frequently felt very much like it would do so almost the very next minute. When a deliberative body takes two hours to transact what it should do in thirty minutes, then there is altogether too much deliberation being done. The message James Weldon Johnson brought to Seattlites was well delivered and all who heard it say, ‘‘Tats off to the mes- sage bearer.’’ If what Lieutenant Parker says about the draft boards of the South be true, then they took pleasure in throwing monkey wrenches in the machinery just to see the sparks fly. Let Ole do it pleased well those who heard the recital and Ole did it pleased Mayor Hanson. It was a true case of every- body being tickled to death. Official corruption seems to have always been one of the chief ingredients of the far- famed Seattle spirit. With Hiram Johnson in the presidential running it means just that many more miles from the goal for Poindexter, America for Americans is a most beautiful theory, but who are the Americans is the question. Owing to the strike the wire owners are not so anxious for the return of our property, Perhaps President Wilson is not an idealist. but he seems to be idealess just now. If Stringer was not hamstrung by the P.-I. then that feat cannot be done. It was a splendid meeting despite the fact that three hundred or more persons should have been there, who were not, James Weldon Johnson acquitted himself in a masterly manner and the Seattle branch is fully a hundred members to the good there- from, while the gate receipts more than covered all the expenses which the meeting entailed. The program went with a bang from start to finish, so well had every detail been worked out, and the audience of 400 approvingly applauded the proceedings as they moved toward the end step by step. Mr. Cragwell’s opening remarks were brief. but to the point. Mayor Hanson was pleas- ingly introduced and his welcome to the speaker of the evening met the hearty ap- proval of all present. From start to finish Mr. Johnson held his audience in rapt atten- tion and had he added an hour more to his already one and a half hour address still the audience would not have tired of listening. It’s the coming of such men that will bring the dissenting elements among us closed to- gether and a_ nucleus thereby will be formed that will eventually reach the goal. That Charley Parker is a bigger and broader man from his experience is plain to be seen by those who knew him well prior to his entering the United States army. Persons who do not go to pieces under pres- sure emerge therefrom a hundred per cent. more efficient from their trying experiences. For nearly two hours Lieutenant Parker told to a packed house his army experience last Sunday evening and during all that time not a move was made by anyone in the audience. Te made it plain that the bed of the colored soldier oversea as well as in this country was not one of flowery bed of ease, but in spite of his handieaps he rose supreme to the moment and acted well his part, and was therefore a bigger, better and broader minded man from his trying experiences, As he related the various sub- terfuges the white South resorted to to be- fuddle the black man and make him appear ridiculous in the eyes of the world, you could but sit amazed and then wonder how a highly civilized and cultured citizen, on the ground that might makes right, could so override ‘his humanitarian qualities to perpetrate such atrocities. While laying no claims to oratorial abilities. yet he did talk without hesitancy and had his audience with him from start to finish. John TH. Ryan evidently means well and is deeply interested in the uplift of the colored folks of this country, but his means of attaining it for them is seriously ques- tioned. Tn a short speech last Sunday he expressed the hope of seeing one million colored men and women T. W. W.’s well laden with dynamite, and of course if need be start out on a war of extermination to force their civil and political rights in this country. Two wrongs never make one right and for the colored folks to turn Bolshe- vists to combat the opposition of many of the whites in this country would mean one wrong endeavoring to make another wrong right, which is a philosophical impossibility. jouer en) Oi 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 = eee 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 9 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 Nitti MOR OK Be Rae pe ih oad cGah Re Fuh, CO GUTOR ST ST 0 Wa aarp oe ne tr Gel ante Skea a MBM Recep ree > Russia has many millions of I. W. W.’s and they have been raising ‘‘hell,’’ vulgarly speaking, in that country for quite two years, and yet they are no nearer the goal of their ambition than they were the very day they began their wild outlawry. What is true in Russia would be doubly true in this country. For a million colored persons to start out on a mission of outlawry it would mean immediate extinction for the whole. The colored man in this country in his general uplift work is making haste slowly, and it’s just as well that he does, for he will last longer and travel further. Instead of a million I. W. W.’s, ten million law-abiding educated Christian — citizens among the colored folks should be the am- hition of every colored man and woman, and in that state of mind he would hasten the millenium between himself and the white man of the United States. Good citizens under pressure are better by far than crim- inals at large seeking whom they may devour. Mrs. N. J. Asberry journeyed to Seattle from Tacoma last Monday evening to meet with the Seattle branch of the N, A. A. C. P. to bring the thanks of a proposed branch in that city for sending to them James Weldon Johnson. Mrs. Asberry said forty-five per- sons put their membership fees on the table the night of the meeting and hundreds of others have since expressed their willing- ness to join, and on the whole the outlook is very encouraging for a membership equally as large as the Seattle branch. After listening to the proceedings of the Seattle branch she expressed a fear lest the Seattle branch, like the former Tacoma branch, will split hairs over small matters to such an extent that either the organiza- tion will be wreeked or its usefulness im- paired. Mrs. Asberry is still the field agent in the Northwest and she is hopeful of see- ing other branches established in the near future. “A female member of this congregation,” said Rev. W. D. Carter, pastor of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Seattle, ‘handed me $50 for the building fund and T hold the same in my hand and others have made promise equally as encouraging’? A supreme effort is being made by the pastor and the members to get together sufficient to erect a new church edifice and if. the other members are as full of the determina- tion as the lady above, the church will soon be a stern reality. anc! Whenever 1 hear the claim made that we are unfit for self-government in this country, I feel that it is somewhat justified by our supine attitude toward lynching. A com- munity controlled by a mob is not a civilized communiay, and should be placed under the control of a more civilized part of the coun- try. One great objection to lynching is its effect upon the community itself, particu- larly upon the young, and the lawlessness and disregard for order which underlies lynching, when nine times out of ten it is not because of abhorrence of the crime com- mnitted, but a desire on the part of a mob to vent barbarous natures in some form or another upon those who are weak and in- capable of retaliation. I am decidedly op- posed to lynching and have an utter con- tempt for those taking part in it——Anna Tloward Shaw. More than 140 Negro soldiers, most of whom’ served under Colonel William Hay- ward in France, have obtained places in the last two weeks through the Hayward Unit of the War Camp Community Service. These jobs have ranged from actor to Pullman porter.—Times. The first town to be constructed by the Housing Corporation of the Department of Labor exclusively for members of the Negro race was dedicated on Sunday at Truxton within the corporate limits of Portsmouth, Virginia. The opening ceremonies were par- ticipated in by Government officials. William Trotter, ‘delegate to Paris and secretary of race petitioners to the Peace Conference,’’ has written to President Wil- soit asking him in the name of the National Equal Rights League, in view of recent lynchings in the South, and for the sake of American Negroes who gave their lives in the war, to send a message to Congress recommending that lynching be made a crime against the Federal Government. Chicago has a population of 80,000 Negroes—possibly 100,000. Every unit of this colored population is a potential stick of dynamite. What hap- pened in Springfield and East St. Louis— not to go outside the bounds of our own state—can and may happen in Chicago. These colored citizens are dynamite, potentially, because they are in Chicago, but not of Chicago. The responsibility for this condition ,while divided, lies with the white man in the proportion of his superior num- bers and superior opportunities. Racial antipathy is the fuse which will fire this dreadful charge, if it is every fired. And radical antipathy, translated into everyday terms, means prejudice, injustice, misunderstandings, neglect and indifference. Thousands of these: colored people have streamed into Chicago in the last two years, attracted by war’s urgent call for labor, In finding homes, amusement and work, these people have jogged the white man’s elbow with inereasing frequency and in unex- pected quarters. Some bad blood has been engendered. Shootings have — occurred. White’s in a panie over invaded neighbor- hoods, have sold their property at a sacri- fice. This will inevitably coninue. The Negro’s presence is economically justified, and he will stay. Besides, this is a free country, and the Negro was here before many of us whites. What is to be done about it? Alexander L. Jackson, a Negro and a Harvard graduate, in a very temperate ad- dress to the City Club, recently stated that the Negro does not get the right kind of hearing before he public. By this he doubt- less meant that there is a disposition on the part of whites to regard the coloréd man as an interloper, or at least to let him work out his destiny as best he may. But the Negro’s destiny, as a citizen, is interlocked with our own. This negative and selfish policy will fail. The superior race cannot lay the onus of the situation on his brothers in black. If he does, he will pay the price. The Negro may be able to work out his economic salvation unassisted, but he must be swung, somehow, by intelligent and sympathetic effort, into the current of civie life. Ilis leaders should receive civie recog- nition. Points of contact between him and the white race must be multiplied. THe must be made to feel that Chicago is his city. Only so can he be expected to assume re- sponsibility for its good name and good government. It is no hopeless task. All the Negro asks is a chance. He has demonstrated his capacity. Tle made an ideal soldier. No shadow of disloyalty has fallen upon his race. He is tremendously faithful. Just the other day a colored detective, Cornelius Wilson, died in the discharge of a duty that a coward would have evaded. The Negro, to be sure, has his part to per- form in this adjustment; but we have em- phasized the white man’s hole. The leader- ship falls to him. It is up to him to decide whether this potential human dynamite shall ever explode.—Chicago Journal. IN LABOR CIRCLES The eight-hour day has been established on all Italian railroads by ministerial decree. The latest returns of unemployed men and women in Great Britain are: For Birm- ingham, 70,000; for Lancashire, 285,111; for Glasgow, 49,411. June 25, 26 and 27 have been determined upon as the date for the next convention of the Labor Party, and Southport has been selected as the meeting place. The acting commission of the Socialist In- ternational, in session in Amsterdam re- cently, assumed virtually the importance of an international conference o nthe peace situation, DR. C ALLEN, Pertist;, Examination tree, » UL. J. 9211 Globe Bldg., Ist and Madison. Office hours 9 to 12 a. m., 1 to 6 p. m., Sun- days by appointment. Residence 1830 24th Avenue. East 6419, DR. F. B. COOPER, Pert'st, ,362:3 Empire . Tr. DB. 9 Bldg, 2nd and Madison. Special appointments for evenings and Sundays. Of- fice hours 8:30 to 12 and 2 to 6. Main 6093. Resi- dence, East 5056, * wants two columns CAYTON'S WEEKLY 3" %,i3%fhoat 38 made up after thtis style and fashion. Rates very reasonable. Beacon 1910. STONE THE CATERER i,..°°%%% You" parties and ban- quets cheaper than you can do it yourself. Stone's ice cream leads. East 275. P. FRAZIER Bet! 8state, Insurance, Collect . fons. 316 Pacific Block, Seattle Main 4554. The three locals of brewery workers, beer bottlers, and beer drivers, of San Antonio, Tex., have merged into one organization that will be known as Cereal, Beverage, and Soft Drink Workers’ Union No, 12. A total of seventy-two unions in Chicago representing about 80,000 members hal voted up to and including the returns of May 17 in favor of the Fourth of July general strike for the release of Thomas Mooney, Virtually every man, woman, and child in London, Canada, now works eight hours a day or less and receives as much if not more wages than when the longer period was worked, This change has all come about within a year. While a ministerial committee was. still considering the question of the legal adop- tion of the eight-hour day, Danish om- ployers and employes concluded an agree- ment providing for the eight-hour working day before January 1, 1920, Members of the Victoria, British Colum- bia, branch of the provineial Civil Servants? Association have voted overwhelmingly in favor of becoming affiliated with organized labor, by applying for a chatter to the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada, The United Mine Workers announce that the verdict of the United States Court penalizing the union. $600,000 for conspir- acy to ruin the business of the Coronado Coal Company as a result of the strike, will he appealed to the United States Supreme Court. Investigation of differences between the Southern Bell Telephone Company and_ its employes at Atlanta, Ga., which led to the threat of a nation-wide strike of telegraph and telephone workers, was ordered on June 1 by Postmaster General Burleson. The publication of virtually all news- papers in Buenos Aires was suspended on the 29th, pending the settlement of the dis- pute between the printers and publishers which arose when the printers refused to set advertisements of a boycotted department store, The Department of Labor announced on PACIFIC COAST COAL CO. Puts the Best COAL on the Market Phone Main S080 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. * 1 a Fe | Oe i aaa Be iT ad * b4 ee tae the 28rd that official investigations of Chinese deportation cases indicate that many of the arrests have been the result of animus on the part of employers, and that the underlying motive for these arrests was membership in the union. More than 100,000 British farm workers are unionized, Their organization is known as the National Agricultural Laborers’ Union. They have more than 2.000 locals. They are urging now a minimum wage of #12 a week for a six-day working week of 44 hours the year around. They would work unavoidable overtime at time and a half for week days and double time for Sunday. The Marine Transport Workers’ Union has been organized in’ Buenos Aires by sailors of all nationalities in an attempt te abolish foreed payments to ship chandlers and other employment agents for obtaining jobs for sailors on vessels at Buenos Aires. The working vesults adopted are based on the rules of similar organizations in the United States and wages are scheduled in American curreney. Believing that the Central Labor Council of Seattle is devoting too much time to oratory, debate, reading of communications. and speeches by labor leaders, some 55 local unions have started an organiaztion called the “Federated Unions of Seattle.’ This body. it is claimed by the promoters. is not to interfere with the work of the Central Labor Council, but is to assume authority on economie and industrial questions. PURELY PERSONAL John BF. Gragwell as campaign manager of the four-minute men of the N. A. A.C. P. drive, is to be congratulated for his efficient as well as successful work. W. TI. Wilson was one of the most effective speakers and Was an invaluable assistant to Mr. Crag- well, Mrs. BE. N. Drake, Dr. F. B. Cooper, John T. Gayton, Sr. Rev. E. A. Johnson, Mrs. Wood and others are largely respons- ible for the suecess of the drive. Miss Maggie Revels Cayton. Miss Tda Brown, Miss Theo Clark, Claudius Norris and George Green were among the high school graduates of Seattle last Tuesday evening, Harry Lege busied himself in collecting much public data and information for James Weldon Johnson concerning — the colored citizens of Seattle. I. 1. Walker, who recently returned to his ranch across Lake Washington, attended the James Weldon Johnson lecture and was well pleased, Mrs. Ethel Howard gave a dancet at the residence of Mr, Stone last Saturday eve- uning, which was attended by quite a number, Lieutenant Charles S. Parker, who visited with his sister last week, left for Spokane, his former home, last Sunday evening. Rey. A. W. Williams of Tacoma were among the out-of-town visitors that attended the Johnson lecture. Harvey Chandler has the thanks of all for putting his automobile at the disposal of the Johnson committees. dames Weldon Johnson was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. 8. IL. Stone last Wednesday and Thursday. Mrs. Nettie J. Asberry of Tacoma was a guest of Mrs, L.A. Graves last Monday and Tuesday. John Henry Ryan of Tacoma visited with his brother, Pearl, last Sunday and Monday. Dr. Arthur Williams says he cleared $1.50 at his dancet instead of going in the hole. Mr. and Mrs. Shockley have moved to 1705 Twenty-fourth avenue, Mr. and Mrs. John F, Cragwell had dinner in honor of James Weldon Johnson Phone 2647 1034 Jackson Tailors and Cleaners. Clothes called for and delivered. Hats retrimmed and blocked. H. S. Frazier C. W. Curtest last Wednesday evening, to which a number of local lights were invited. THE PASSING OF “UNCLE TOMS” that for the past 18 years I have been one myself. Eighteen years is not considered a long service record; but it does give one an unusual opportunity to study the Pull- man porter as he really is today. Magazine writers of national reputations take a slam at the porter through some popular magazine, but always the picture is drawn of a class of men who are de- cidedly in the minority. A writer in The Saturday Evening Post recently said, ‘‘Be- cause of his contact with white people the Pullman porter makes a desirable citizen’? another says ‘‘L find the Pullman porter above the average of his race in intelligence,”’ but none of these writers have ever taken him seriously, none ever forgot he was a Negro and bore traits characteristic of his race and none could close without the cus- tomary and threadbare chestnut that all Pullman porters liked their chicken, would steal a watermelon or if one produced a pair of craps you could part him from his money and if asked a question his inevitable reply would be ‘*Yessa, Boss.’’ Another writer says to become a Pullman porter is the height of the colored man’s ambition, and if he can -get into the Pull- man service he is willing to take his chances on getting into Heaven, and so on. Every article, while stating a few facts, always ends in a humorous vein. To picture the Pullman porter of today in this light is as inconsistent as it would be to place an old wooden lamp-burning, stove-heated car on a modern limited train. No live organization stands still and the pro- gress the Pullman Company has made in its twentieth century equipment, so has the twentieth century porter succeeded the Uncle Toms. When [I mention men of the old school of porters as Uncle Toms 1 cast no reflections whatever at the many progressive men who carry service stripes enough on their arms to give them the zebra effect, in which connec- tion I might mention Mr. K. W. Macky, St. Paul; John Hammond, Washington, D. C., and J. B. Newsome, Chicago. The combined service of this trio nearly reaches the cen- tury mark, and to converse with either of them would soon convince the most skeptical that they are among the most brilliant and progressive men we have in the service today, and there are any number of these old-timers that are really a credit to the craft and to build such a story around this class of men would indeed be a great injustice. [ am referring to the ante-bellum days, when the Pullman porter considered a smile from ear to ear as a part of his equipment, and the handiest word in his vocabulary was ““Yassa, Boss,’’ and if you called him Sambo or Rastus it only provoked a greater smile, and so goes the story of those good old days. These may have been happy days. Even if he left a sick wife or child at home, he smiled; if his mortgage was past due, he smiled; in fact, because he was supposed to smile, for no one ever expected him to look sober, not even the day he attended his own funeral. When Mr. Withers wrote the article ‘CA Ifundred Per Cent Efficient,’’ a short while ago, he paid the Pullman porter a fine trib- ute. In his conclusion he says: ‘‘ Education fits men for civilization, and civilization for service’? Edueation is the first stepping stone to success. It enables one to master many complex situations that arrive in your daily task. It teaches you to meet discour- tesy with courtesy. In fact, education means everything. It is by no means pleasant to have one several years your junior to call you boy, Pee es Oe » Wert. e's erase Poet ame article in the May issue of the Review. To handle the traveling public is one of the hardest jobs that can be found today. Think the following over: one having a number of people to give service and each with different temperaments, there is where one knows that discretion is the better part of valor. Many men have lost their tempers and sometimes their jobs, for the want of tact. With a porter he has three things to look forward to; first, he must obey the Com- pany’s instructions; second, he must not «lisplease passengers; and thirdly, he must have the good will of all; even though the person wanted something that seems unrea- sonable; there is where the porter is called upon to show discretion. Te is called upon to treat both parties alike and yet not to be displeasing to either. Day after day a service porter finds new things that confront him and day by day he is called upon to show tact and diplomacy; he must be physic- ally and mentally fit. I know that all men in regular service will agree with me; to be a commendable porter, one needs to bring all reasonable energies to bear. Speaking of myself, at times things arise that only God- can tell where words of emergencies spring from. Time and time again I sit and think the matter over to see the many dif- ferent classes of people that comprise the traveling public. To deal with unreason- able people, I find it a wise plan to always think twice and weigh my words before ex- pressing myself. Things said or done with- out previous study most generally hurt. To be efficient we must always be on the job, watching and listening. The good things pass us but once in a lifetime, and if we are asleep when it passes by, then we have lost our chance, The Pullman porter years ago had not these conditions to contend with. The service had not been standardized as today. It was merely the beginning of a successful end. In the old days, if a porter could polish shoes or answer a bell, there was little else re- quired, Today it is vastly different. Te must have some knowledge in the mechanism of the car; he must read and write well; in fact, he finds nothing so valuable to him in his daily task as education. Education has caused him to be thrifty, fitted many for a successful business career, and today 1 know several porters who can write a check in four figures, and the only remark- able thing about it is—not one of them got it hy playing Uncle Tom.—Pullman Porters’ Review. i SEE WILLIAMS When You Want to Rent, Buy, or Sell Real Estate. “LET HENRY WILLIAMS DO IT.” 316 Pacific Block Main 4554 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 Publica- tion. 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 publ*- cation of this summons, to-wit: within sixty (60) days after May 17, 1919, and defend the above en- titled action in the above entitled Court, and an- swer the complaint of the plaintiff, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attor- neys for plaintiff at their office and post office ad- dress 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 com- plaint, 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.