Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 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 303 22nd Ave. South THE JEWS AGAIN Not long since Cayton's Weekly had much to say as to President Wilson sending a commission to Poland to see if the Jews were getting an absolute square deal in that recently organized government, and while we did not oppose it, yea, even advocated it, yet we thought it rather inconsistent for a commission to be gallavanting about Europe insisting on subjects of those countries being given square deals because forsooth they had relatives in this country, when the same commission could find work enough to do in the Southern States of this country to keep it busy for the next decade. In the United States the Jew receives the same civil and political consideration as any other member of the white race, but even that does not satisfy him and he is ever endeavoring to entangle the United States government with the affairs of the various European governments, in which the Jews do not get the same public consideration as other classes of their citizenry. But even for this we have no quarrel with the Jew, because, in our opinion, it's blessed for the fellow on top to remember the fellow at the bottom, but the great mass of Jews of this country are full and overflowing with selfishness. In spite of the fact that the European Jews, for the most part, are treated almost as cruel as are the colored people of the United States, yet, with but one or two notable exceptions, they have no word of protest against the treatment meeting out to the colored citizens, yea, not only have no word of protest, but in the Southern States are just as insistent on keeping the Negro down as is Marse Henry. Of course, the Jew thinks he is a white man; he wants to convince the actual white man that he is a white man and in the United States the most convincing proof that he is a white man is to help "lynch a nigger." In Seattle last Wednesday evening was held a mighty mass meeting to protest against the massacre and mistreatment of Jews in Roumania, and to its proceedings we stood across the street and in our sympathetic heart said, "Amen." We stood across the street, we repeat, advisedly, because even the Jews would have roundly protested, if we had have gone in the meeting and added our amen. At the above mass meeting there was an array of vice-presidents from among Seattle's leading and most influential white citizens, both Jew and Gentile, which showed that the public is thoroughly aroused on the subject and is ready and willing to back any move that may mean justice for the Jews. Lest ye, dear reader, be not fully impressed with the important attitude this movement assumed, the vice-presidents are herewith named: Judge Thomas Burke, Judge King Dykeman, Judge Thomas R. Lyon, Judge John S. Jurey, Judge C. S. Hall, Judge Everett Smith, Judge Otis W. Brinker, Judge George Donworth, Judge William Hickman Moore, Dr. Arthur E. Burns, Bishop E. J. O'Dea, Rev. J. G. Stafford, Rev. M. J. Bywater, Rev. Sidney H. Morgan, Rev. W. H. Bliss, Rev. H. H. Gowen, James A. Wood, Erastus Brainerd, Josiah Collins, J. W. Spangler, H. C. Henry, Daniel Kelleher, Edgar Battle, Samuel H. Piles, Albert J. Rhodes, Frederic Struve, Charles A. Reynolds, Harry W. Carroll, E. B. Burwell, Claude C. Ramsay, J. B. Howe, Major George R. Drever, Louis Friedlander, J. M. Jackson, Eben S. Osborne, Marc Lees, George Simmons, A. Rosenthal, Samuel I. Schwabacher, Elkan Morganstern, G. C. Corbaley, M. Goodglick, Julius Shafer, Edmund Bowden, Loren Grinstead, A. Shamenski, R. J. Reekie, W. A. Gaines, Arthur G. Cohen, Lawrence Booth, J. P. Gleason, Otto S. Graunbaum, Louis Nash, George H. Walker, J. Metzger, Dr. F. M. Carroll, John E. Drummey, J. T. Hardeman, Charles Osner, Henry A. Munroe, Louis Rubenstein, Robert B. Hesketh, M. Monheimer, Laurence J. Colman, Leopold M. Stern, A. W. Leonard, Reuben W. Jones, Frank W. Hull, J. J. Sullivan, J. Berkman, Herbert A. Schoenfeld, James A. Kerr, Carl Reiter, D. Lipman, M. Nieder, John E. Carroll, Monte Carter, Dr. J. B. Eagleson, Harold Preston, E. Rosenberg, Samuel Ostrow and Abe Hurwitz. And the chief speakers of the occasion were Governor Louis F. Hart, Judge Jeremiah Neterer. Mayor Ole Hanson, Judge Stephen N. Chadwick, Bishop Keater, Rev. W. A. Major, D.D., Rabi Samuel Koch and Rabbi Simon Glazer. Note if you will the character quality and quantity of the men interested in this Jewish question and you will conclude with us that results are bound to follow. With men of such local and national importance as are many of the men in the list above thoroughly aroused on this or any other subject, there will always be things doing. Recently James Weldon Johnson lectured in Seattle in the main on the wholesale lynching of colored folks in the South, and despite the fact the meeting was widely advertised in the daily papers and personal appeals were made to many of the citizens on the above list of vice presidents, as well as to others of like importance, yet not one was present to listen to Johnson, and if in any way any of them were interested they kept it to themselves, which reminds us of the fellow who could see the mote in his brother's eye but could not see the beam in his own eye. In other words, Europe's treatment of the Jew is inhuman and unChristianlike, but the United States' treatment of the Negro is our own affair and it pleases us well to treat him as we damn please." Now, do not understand us to lay such a charge as stated above at the doors of the vice-presidents of the above meeting, for many of them have personally expressed themselves to the writer as bitterly opposed to the treatment accorded the colored man in this country, but when it comes to publicly expressing themselves on the subject they are as silent as the dead. Recently a high school boy (white) read in Cayton's Weekly an article taken from the May number of the Crisis depicting the lynching of two young colored girls yet in their 'teens and two boys, but a few months out of their 'teens, and by the time he had finished reading the article the big tears stood in his eyes and he said, "If the P-L VOL. IV. NO. 3 and Times would publish that article and the other dailies of the country do likewise, an army of occupation from the North would soon be quartered in the South." Bless his young and sympathetic heart, what a pity that spirit of human justice could not remain with him, but for business reasons he will be taught that the least he has to say about such atrocities and against the colored folks the more money he will make, and in all human probability he will agree. However, our sympathies are in full accord with the recent mass meeting and we hope similar mass meetings will be held all over the United States and we further hope that the protest will be made so strong that the European governments will set up and take notice, and he whole will result in the Jew, the world over, being accorded the same treatment as any other class of citizens. Kicking a person because he is designated by his fellow man a Jew, a Negro, an Oriental or any other name is not Christianlike and is inhuman. It does not necessarily follow that you must receive all manner of men into your social sanctums because you advocate a square deal for all manner of man and who looks with scorn upon his neighbor because his neighbor believes in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, is an enemy to the twentieth century civilization and a barbarian at heart. GOVERNOR LISTER DEAD Once again the young state of Washington is called upon to mourn the death of a chief executive in the recent demise of Ernest Lister. Eliminating his politics he was an ideal citizen and he gave his life in his endeavor to give to the country an ideal commonwealth—the State of Washington. Had Ernest Lister been less conscientious, months and even years might have been added to his life and at that the public would have appreciated him just as much. In politics he was a Democrat and he was intensely partisan in his appointments, but at that his appointmentees, for the most part, were conservative Democrats, in whose bosoms there ever burned the fires of intense patriotism, and who would a thousand times over prefer right rather than party to prevail. In spite of overwhelming Republican majorities he was twice elected chief executive of the state and had he lived and maintained his health he would have held a strong hand in the senatorial race next year. He was laid to rest last Tuesday surrounded by the leading men of the state and accorded the military honors of a chief executive in times of war. WILL HE DO IT? Will Governor Louis F. Hart attempt to build up a political machine between now and the election next year is the all absorbing question in political circles just now. To not do so would mean that he would have to take his chances of being nominated in the primary election with the other candidates, but to do so would make of him the most formidable candidate to succeed himself. Should he work on the old political theory "to the victor belong the spoils," there would be not less than 5,000 men and women turned out of office and equally as many Hart boosters put into office. Such unexpected changes as this brings us face to face as to the advisability of putting all clerks under civil service. A sweeping ```markdown ``` change at this time would mean a loss of at least six months, which would run into multiplied thousands of dollars before the new clerks would do the work with any decree of success and it does not seem hardly fair to the taxpayers to thus impose upon them and yet it has been the custom of letting Republicans out and putting Democrats in and there will be much pressure brought to bear on Governor Hart to follow the custom. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS In another column hereof an article from Jim Jam Jems is reproduced in full and the space it takes is not begrudged. No publisher in the United States in the past has said harder things about the Negro than the publisher of the above iconoclastic periodical, but a great change has come over him, and he reverses himself and demands fair play for a greatly wronged people. Giving the other fellow a square deal will hurt no one and the white man of this country is sowing to the winds, which may result in reaping a whirlwind, in not giving the black man an absolute square deal. Writing books on the late war may be a pleasing diversion even if they are not money getters, and so let 'um come. Making much over the five high school graduates of Seattle seems rather general this year and it is hoped that the courtesies shown them will be incentives to others in line for final honors to press onward and upward. It's up to Germany as to which road she will travel in the future, the one leading to Peace or the one to War. If she elects to travel the alter the Allies feel that it will require but a word and a blow to convince her that it is the road to Peace that she is bound to travel. "The new skirts are tight, but the women can't kick," says an exchange. Are they so tight that they can't even pull them up high enough to permit them to kick the nose off of your face. Not if the court knows itself and it thinks it does. Neither Democrats or Republicans were satisfied with the political appointments made by the late Governor Lister and yet Washington never had a chief executive that had higher ideals of statecraft than had Ernest Lister. Fees for filing court documents in the county clerk's office have advanced a dollar each, which probably means that Grant is in the fight to succeed Thomas with blood in his eyes and "iron boys" in his hand. Organized labor in part may be favorably inclined to the propaganda of the League of Nations, but President Wilson will not have as smooth sailing even in the West as he has been led to believe. The world having been made safe for deomercacy, Uclee Sam no longer needs or desires colored troops for patrol duty on the Rhine. Once again it becomes a "white man's war." Uncle Sam had causes to chastise Villa one day the past week, just as he has done on other occasions, but Vlila bobs up serenely whenever he wants to "start something" just the same. Criticizing an audience to whom you are supposed to speak words of consolation may be another way of getting even, but the audience always has the last say. "A House" is wanted by nearly half of the population of Seattle, not for any crime it has committed, but to simply make it comfortable and pleasant for them. There is a marked difference between twin-six and six twins—the former means lots of fun while the latter mean lots of fuss and fume. It took a revolution in Russia to put an American Negro in the Bolshevist cabinet and now that government is tottering to its fall. Did you ever see such luck? "Labor Laughs at Ole Hanson," says a Unoin Record headline, but it didn't laugh at Ole Hanson when he headed off the sympathetic strike. There seems to be no doubt now but that Turkey-in-Europe will be literally Turkey in Europe as soon as the peace pact goes into effect. General Grand Jury seems to have his fighting clothes on this time, which has caused Colonel Criminal to cut for tall timber. Whether a safe and sane Fourth of July be observed in Seattle this year will depend solely on the heft of the pocket books about that time. However heartless Olympia may have been in days gone by she now has a Hart that goes out to every county of the state. Bootlegging is so profitable in Portland, Oregon, that the boys are just rolling in luxury, but it's a long lane that has no turn. PROHIBITION A MINORITY LAW To the Editor: The action of the American Federation of Labor proves the unpopularity of prohibition and foreshadows an eventual repeal of the law. No drastic law against liberty in the home can ever be enforced in America or any other country without great expense and much public dissatisfaction. Democracy is a good thing in its way, but when a minority controls a majority as it does in prohibition it becomes autocracy and a menace to law and order. It is like Mr. Wilson, the greatest autocrat of all time, shouting to make the world free for democracy. Mr. Wilson did not know where his slogan would lead him and neither do the Prohibitionists. Both are trying experiments. The ratification of the constitutional amendment pertaining to the manufacture and sale of alcoholic drinks is undemocratic because the population of the states is unequal. The desires of a small majority in a thinly propulated state like Washington control the wishes and comfort of a great state like New York. Nothing need be said about the operation of the licensed saloon. That issue is dead as it deserves to be. When it comes to a ban on manufacture and sale and control of the people's dinner table the operation of the law is so drastic it will inevitably defeat itself. All nations have used liquor from time immemorial. The appetite is hereditary and no law can be enforced that interferes with the habits of the people in their homes. The scandal at the court house should be proof sufficient. No grand jury can control the illicit sale of liquor: it can commit for trial of offenses, but the matter does not end there. We may stir up a stench in the community and create another bill of expense for the already overburdened taxpayer. Let us drop an impossible situation and allow prohibition to die the natural death that sooner or later assuredly awaits it. GLOBE TROTTER. If Globe-Trotter in the P.-I. would study statistics more and globe trot less he would discover that, in the prohibition law the minority is not ruling the majority, but the exact reverse is true. For years the whisky minority succeeded in domineering the politics of almost every state and county in this union of states. Vast sums of money were spent by this political viper in controlling the editorial influence of the metropolitan dailies and likewise the leading weeklies of the country and so potent was this influence that the majority never had a chance. Billions of dollars were expended in corrupting the various legislatures of the country and even Congress and it was like unto putting the camel through the eye of the proverbial cambric needle to have any anti-liquor laws passed. Even the courts felt the subtle influence of King Booze and its decisions were frequently warped to meet the exigencies of the whisky operators. In this state as in most of the states a great majority of the voters were opposed to the open saloon, but hey never had a chance against the Whisky Bags who pulled the strings. If a majority of the voters wish open saloon the minority will submit, but if a majority wish prohibition then let the booze advocates take their medicine without murmur or complaint. THE HEALTH OF COLORED TROOPS The Negro is constitutionally a "better physiological machine" than the white man. This is the conclusion drawn by experts from the military examinations and experiences of the past few years as reported by the editor of the "Current Comment" page in The Journal of the American Medical Association (Chicago, May 17). Students of eugenics, he says, point out that certain races have unconsciously varied in their choices of partners in such a way as to bring about differing conditions, with respect to resistance to disease, to mental capacity, and to moral quality. Of these, the resistance to disease is susceptible of most accurate estimation because it can be considered on the basis of statistical information. He goes on: "A peculiarly valuable instance is afforded by the comparison of white men and Negroes in the United States Army. The numbers are sufficiently large to give some semblance of validity to the deductions which they permit. The white and colored troops live under equally good sanitary conditions and are examined with equal diagnostic skill. A study of the sort indicated has recently been reported by Lieutenant-Colonel Love and Major Davenport, who have undertaken an analysis of more than half a million admissions to sick report in our Army, including more than 15,000 for the colored troops. For many maladies the morbidity-rate is the same in the two races. The army officers have, however, ascertained from the statistics that the colored troops are relatively less resistant to diseases of the lungs and pleura as well as to certain general diseases, like tuberculosis and smallpox; they are also much more frequently infected with venereal diseases and suffer wide-spread complications of these diseases. Love and Davenport point out, on the other hand, that in general the skin not only on the surface of the body, but also that which is infolded to form the lining of the mouth and nasopharynx, is much more resistant to microorganisms in Negroes than in white men. The white skin seems to be relatively a degenerate skin in this respect. Furthermore, the nervous systems of the uninfected Negroes show fewer 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. 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We were Mayor of a Western North Dakota City at the time, and during the afternoon we gathered a small party of prominent citizens to join us while we took the Southern Senator for a ride about the country. That evening Tillman prefaced his lecture with a few complimentary remarks about our "splendid little city with its wondrously progressive citizens" and then he spoke of our broad, level prairies and wound up with the ejaculation: "Great God! What a country to chase niggers in!" And that warmed our southern blood and we applauded long and loud. Jim Jam Jems has never been a defender of the black man. On the contrary we have pooh-poohed the doctrine of equality between blacks and whites and have unmercifully flayed the black rape-fiend of the South. But we have never overlooked the fact that there are good Negroes as well as bad niggers; we have always maintained that the greatest problem in America is the race problem; and the world war has done much to augment the situation while the public's attention has been directed elsewhere. With a spirit of fairness we have compiled this article and we commend it to our readers because we believe that common justice demands a fair hearing for the colored soldier who carried the Stars and Stripes into No Man's Land. Absorb some dusky facts. The following appeared in a daily paper published in Montgomery, Alabama, U. S. A.: "The city of Montgomery was visited last night by a Klu Klux Klan that bore all the ear marks of the ancient honorable order that placed white supremacy back in the saddle after a reign of terror for several years by Negroes and sealawags." Other demonstrations of this Klan—resurrected after a burial of forty years—have occurred at Birmingham, Mobile, Troy and other smaller towns in "ole Alabam." Also the old ghost is reported as riding abroad by night in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. The general idea is that colored soldiers and colored officers returning from the World War must be terrorized into servility and subservience. The Mayor of a small Georgia town thus addressed a company of Negro draftees about to entrain for Camp Gordon: "You boys are going out to fight for your country and for democracy and that is a very fine thing, but there is one idea some of you have been expressing and I want you to get it out of your minds. Don't think that after the war you are going to change things. I want to tell you here today that this isn't so and you want to remember that our white boys are going over to France and learning how to fight and that we here at home are preparing for you when you come back. Don't get any new-fangled ideas about democracy." Inspiring language to be addressed to a body of American fighters about to battle for freedom overseas, wasn't it? We are now going to hand you some facts about the blacks in battle for this U. S. A. Consider them: A Negro, Crispus Attucks, in Boston, was the first human sacrifice on the altar of freedom in the Revolutionary War. Many of his dusky brethren fought under George Washington until America's flag enfolded a free land—in which the Negro was enslaved. In the war of 1812, with Andrew Jackson at New Orleans, American Negroes again spilled their blood for their white brethren —whose manacled slaves they still remained. In the Civil War at the call of their Great Liberator, Abraham Lincoln, over two hundrend thousand Negroes fought for the Union—and for the first time for their own freedom. In the Spanish-American War at San Juan Hill it was the feet of American Negroes that first pressed the heights of Victory. Consider now the Negro in the World War overseas. It is a magnificent record. It should make the heart of every American white or black-thrill with pride. We pass by the Negro stevedores who won the world's record in freight and supply handling and come to the American Negroes in battle. In general these Negro units were known as the 369th, 370th, 371st and 372nd Fegiments of the Ninety-third Division. They were officered largely-almost entirely, in fact-by Negro officers when they charged the Germans. And charge they did, too! Here are some of the results: The Negro lieutenant colonel of the 370th, a Negro Major, eight Negro captains, seventeen Negro lieutenants, eight Negro noncommissioned officers and twenty-six Negro privates were decorated with the Croix de Guerre in last November. General Vincenden, the French commanding officer, said of the 370th on November 11th, the day of the signing of the historic armistice: "Fired by a noble ardor they go at times even beyond the objectives given them by the higher command: they have always wished to be in the front lines. In the name of France I thank you." In his farewell address to this Negro regiment General Vincenden said: "You have given us of your best and you have given it out of the fullness of your hearts. The blood of your comrades who fell on the soil of France, mixed with the blood of our soldiers, renders indissoluble the bonds of affection that unite us. We have, besides, the pride of having worked together at a magnificent task and the pride of bearing on our foreheads the ray of a common gradeur. A last time—Au Revoir." This is the language of a man who recognized bravery and the red blood of courage regardless of the color of the skin whence it gushed. Have some more. It is good stuff. This tells of the 371st and the 372nd brigaded with the 157th French Division under General Goybet—known as a martinet and a fire eater—who said: "For seven months we have lived as brothers at arms, partaking of the same activities, sharing the same hardships and the same dangers. Side by side we took part in the great Champagne battle which was to be crowned by a tremendous victory. Never will the 157th Division forget the indomitable dash, the heroic rush of the American Negro regiments up the observatory ridge into the Plain of Monthhois. The most powerful defenses, the most strongly organized machine gun nests, the heaviest artillery barrages—nothing could stop them. These crack regiments overcame every obstacle with a most complete contempt for danger. Dear friends from America, when you reach the other side of the ocean do not forget the Red Hand (the 157th) French Division. Our brotherhood has been cemented in the blood of the brave and such bonds will never be destroyed." The Distinguished Service Cross was awarded four Negro officers, five Negre privates and one Negro corporal from the 372nd Regiment. Two colored corporals and two colored privates from the 371st received the Croix de Guerre and seventy other citations for valor were awarded among the Negro troops. Space prevents further details but the fact is that American colored troops in the World War bore themselves gallantly, courageously, and fought like demons when they were unleased for a charge. The French know it and say it and the world should know it. Let us be fair. Think you that in the torrents of blood springing from valiant hearts the blood of the American Negro differs from the blood of his white brother? 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. Comes it not from a heart as courageous and flows it not upon the same sacrificial altar? In the all-seeing eye of that Great Jehovah, the omnipotent God of Battles, is not the blood bursting from a dusky skin as sacred as the blood of his white brother? In the rivers of blood, washing tyranny from the world's ways, is not the blood of the American Negro, drop for drop, as sacrosanet as any with which it mingles? And when in the crash of battle souls released from their earthly tenement rise aloft are they not equally white in His eyes? But American colored troops had to bear other burdens besides the shocks of war and the strifes of charges. They had to endure from their white American brethren in arms not from the French or British—the most determined anti-Negro prejudice. Not one-third of the white American soldiers would salute a Negro officer and American Negro soldiers were habitually jeered at and disparaged by their white American fellow soldiers. But they had to bear a still more grievous burden. American colored troops had to sustain themselves and maintain their morale not only against habitual insults in their own ranks but against the most insidious German propaganda. We quote but briefly from one leaflet showered by Germans upon American colored troops: "What is democracy? Personal freedom, all citizens enjoying the same rights socially and before the law. Do you enjoy the same rights as the white people do in America, the land of freedom and democracy, or are you not rather treated over there as second class citizens? Can you go into a restaurant where white people dine? Can you get a seat or berth in the railroad car or can you even ride in the South in the same street car with white people? And how about the law? Are lynching and the most horrible crimes connected therewith lawful proceedings in a democratic country? Now all this is entirely different in Germany where they do like colored people, where they treat them as gentlemen and as white men, etc." And there was enough truth in this insidi- 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 ``` ous and venomous prepaganda to make it sting, too. But not one American Negro soldier ever listed to that siren song! Now pause right here and put yourself in their places. Only barely fifty years removed from the blight of slavery at home; freed in name, but in fact always the victims of a venomous race hatred at home; enrolled as American soldiers to fight for freedom overseas, with their white brethren in arms from the same land constantly jeering and disparaging and insulting them; forced to rebut and repel German propaganda so true that it burned like fire; compelled to maintain their courage and their morale and their bravery against foes within and against enticing propaganda without—we say that these American colored troops wrote high their names on the scroll of fame! We say that from Crispus Attucks, the first victim of freedom in the Revolutionary War, to the last dusky hero who laid down his life in battle charge in France, all down the line of American history, the American Negroes have proven with their hearts' blood, their courage, their valor, their patriotism and their love for a land—which has ill requited their devotion. Now observe further. Look right down into the black record—blacker than the duskiest skin. Truth harms none but the guilty. In the thirty years last past upwards of three thousand American Negroes citizens of this land—have been brutally mutilated, tortured, butchered, unsexed, burned and lynched. Only recently a Negro woman was disemboweled and her unborn babe torn from her quivering flesh. Almost within sight of the White House, at Alexandria, Virginia, a Negro was most brutally lynched. At Springfield, Illinois, where rest the ashes of Abraham Lincoln, and almost within sight of his tomb, a Negro was burned. Last year at East St. Louis, Illinois, over forty Negroes were barbarously slaughtered. And, in addition, in the past year thirty-one Negro men and one Negro woman were barbarically lynched. Negroes have been burned at the stake even in John Brown's old State of Kansas. And mark this: In just two places in this world has the smoke from living human torches ascended heavenwards—at Rome under Nero and in the United States of America under the Star Spangled Banner! Look further. The United States—with the aid of the American Negro, too—protested with all its might, with all its billions, with millions of its men, on sea, on land and in the air, against the awful atrocities, mutilations, defilements, butcheries and outrages perpetrated overseas. America's strong arms—upheld by American Negroes, too—spanned the seas and throttled to its death barbaric atricities abroad. Aren't burnings at the stake, mutilations, tortures, unsexment, hangings, disembowelments, crucifixions and human tortures just as atrocious in America as they are overseas? Why visit barbarities with fire and sword overseas and tolerate them in our own land? America idealizes, enshrines and worships justice—justice to all abroad and at home. Is her arm long enough to span an ocean but too short to throttle her own satyrs of bestiality? Most American Negroes are poor; but who stole their toil for generations and still pays them but a pittance? Many American Negroes are ignorant; but who kept them so for generations and still doles out education with niggardly hands? Many American Negroes are lustful; but are they the only ones, and if so, whence come all the millions of mulattos? There are ten million American Negroes in this laad—their ancestors brought here kidnapped to minister to American idleness and but few voices are raised in their behalf. We raise our voice. Phone 2647 1034 Jackson Tailors and Cleaners. Clothes called for and delivered. Hats retrimmed and blocked. H. S. Frazier C. W. Curtest If American Negroes are good enough, brave enough, courageous enough, patriotic enough, to fight—as they have fought like dusky demons—in every American war, aren't they good enough to be protected at home? Blood gushing from dusky skins has hallowed every American battle ground and ought not that blood—ever freely shed for this land—to be protected in this land? Should we cleanse Europe's pits of infamy with the aid of the American Negro and leave in our own land as deep pits for dusky feet to press? Ought the American Negroes, having battled—against fearful odds within and without their ranks—heroically abroad for freedom, to return home to battle against a resurrected Klu Klux Klan? We say No! PURELY PERSONAL Mrs. Georgia Green was buried from the Richardson Undertaking Parlors last Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Zella M. Ashby and Mr. C. A. Flemming are honeymooning to San Francisco in their new auto. They will be absent about a month. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Evans sport a bran new Maxwell, which runs like greeced lightening. Percy F. Norris is the proud possessor of a well-equipped auto repair shop. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Wright have returned to Seattle after a six month's residence in Olympia. W. C. Wilson, the Bremerton wonder, visited in the city last Monday evening. President Stone of the Seattle Branch of the N. A. A. C. P., has districted the entire city and captained the same with persons, who will work for new members. Mrs. E. N. Drake visited with friends in Bremerton last Wednesday. Rev. W. D. Carter, B. F. Tutt and H. R. Cayton have been made a committee to pay the respects of the King County Colored Republican Club to Governor Louis F. Hart. Henry Williams, who is ever ready to do something for the good of the cause, will motor the committee to Olympia with his compliments. Mrs. George Green breakfasted the five graduates last Tuesday. Mrs. Margueret S. Malone is visiting with relatives in the city. GRADUATES BEING HONORED That the recent high school graduates of Seattle may know the high esteem they are held in a public reception in their honor will be held in the A. M. E. church next Monday evening at 8 p. m. Dr. F. B. Cooper, one of the chief promoters of the affair, will act as chairman of the evening. The following program has been arranged for the evening: Chorus A. M. E. Choir Invocation Rev. Eugene A. Johnson "Spirit of the Occasion" Rev. D. A. Graham Vocal Solo Mr. C. C. Wilson "High School Education" Rev. W. D. Carter Piano Solo Miss H. I. James Class Prophecy Mrs. Warren T. Russell Vocal Solo Mrs. Margueret S. Malone “An Education” Mr. O. H. Winston TAKEN FROM OTHERS TheDepar tment of State reports that the Union of South Africa will hold a national exposition at Pretoria ni March and April, 1920. New York Stock Exchange seats have reached the highest price in nearly a decade. Two exchange seats the other day sold at $85,000, the highest since 1910. Speaking of the Piedras Negras consular district in Mexico, Vice-Consul W. P. Blocker declares: "It can be stated with emphasis that conditions have improved very remarkably during the past twelve months and that each day adds to the security and safety of the country." The milling plant for a new Zululand papyrus-pulp enterprise has been purchased in America. The mill has a capacity of 6000 to 8000 tons per year, but the material available is equal to an annual output of 100,000 tons. Motor boats equipped with mowing machines are used for harvesting the papyrus. Removal from office of Frederic C. Howe, Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island, has been demanded by Senator King of Utah, on the ground that Commissioner Howe presdied at the Pro-Soviet meeting at Madison Square Garden in New York last week. Great Britain must raise $7,500,000,000 to meet estimated expenditures for the current financial year ending March 31, 1920. Taxation on the present basis (including the excess profit tax) can be depended on for $4,680,000,000. For the balance new taxation is necessary. The expectation is that an attempt will be made to raise $5,000,000,000 by taxation and the remainder by loans. In a statement to the House of Commons Chancellor of the Exchequer Chamberlain said that the national debt on March 31, 1919, was $37,175,000,000. John J. Shirley, Plaintiff, vs. Frank T. Rawlings and Jane Doe Rawlings, his wife (whose true Christian name is unknown); Jesse W. Rawlings and Mabel Rawlings, his wife, and Emma T. Rawlings, Defendants.—No. —. Summons for Publication. The State of Washington to Frank T. Rawlings and Jane Doe Rawlings, his wife (whose true Christian name is unknown), 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 days after the 21st day of June, 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. Rawlings and Mabel Rawlings, his wife, bearing date the 16th day of December, 1908, 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, no the 28th day of January, 1919, in Volume 760 of Mortgages, page 406, of the Records of King County, Washington. The object of said action is to exclude defendants herein 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: 1927 L. C. Smith Building, Seattle, Washington. First publication June 22, 1919. SEE WILLIAMS When You Want to Rent, Buy, or Sell Real Estate. "LET HENRY WILLIAMS DO IT." 316 Pacific Block Main 4554 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.