Cayton's Weekly

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, JULY 5, 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 ROSCOF 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 22d Ave. South TORE DOWN THE BARS Organized labor has broken down the bars and permitted the black laborers to graze in the green fields of industry the same as the white laborer and thus ends a long drawn out battle between white and sideratum for both black and white laborers, will for a while meet obstacles, but the worst is behind him, while, on the other hand, the white laborer will not lie in mortal fear as he has in the past that, if he strikes a black laborer will take his place, and summing it all up, it's the desideratum of both black and white laborers. Until working men, irrespective of color, or creed, stand as one man, just so long will the working man get the worst of it. Now, let the bars be broken down from Maine to Mexico and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, not only in theory, but in actual practice and may the black man be as welcome in the local labor organizations of Seattle as in Alabama and may fitness and not color be the password for employment in every place and shop in the United States where organized labor exercises control. If these tenements are lived up to by organized labor then we truly hope the colored man will prove as true to his trust in the cause of organized labor as he has to his flag and die by his guns. WATCHING NORTH DAKOTA As little as is being said about it, the thinking men and women of this country are keeping their eye on North Dakota from a political viewpoint. A great majority of the citizens are good and tired of the country being turned over bag and baggage to the trust hogs and are planning a halt thereto. We hardly wish to venture the assertion that they are in a "socialistic" state of mind, but they are certainly in an anti-trust state of mind. In spite of the fact that labor is being paid higher wages than ever before in the history of the United States, yet the laborer has less money than when two dollars per day was the prevailing price for a day's work, and this is so because the price of household necessities have doubled and in many instances trebled in prices. When wages were two dollars per day beefsteak was ten cents per pound. Now wages are four and five dollars per day and beefsteak is forty-five cents per pound and as in this so also with every other living commodity. In the proportion that commodities have increased in prices, labor should be twelve dollars per day. All of this has caused unrest in the minds of the working people and it would not surprise us if a majority of the western states do not adopt the North Dakota plan of operating their respective industries. Monroe Trotter, who is in France, has petitioned President Wilson on behalf of the colored soldiers in France, who, he says, are being badly treated. SEATTLE'S COLORED COLONY Forcing colored folks to colonize in cities is a well developed plan of real estate men in large cities, which, from our viewpoint, is absolutely wrong, and yet such has its advocates among highly educated colored men and women. "It depreciates the surrounding property for a colored family to live therein." it is argued, and a trust has been formed by the real estate associations to not sell to colored applicants in exclusive white communities. In the mind of the white snob the property in the neighborhood where lives a colored family may not be so desirable as it would be if such family did not live there, but it is a fact that the home of a colored family living in such an exclusive neighborhood is, for the most part, more attractive and better kept than his neighbor's, and the deportment of the members of such colored families is equally as good as that of his neighbor's, it therefore follows that to transplant the colored folks from settlements to all parts of the city makes of them better citizens. The millennium dawn may not be on us at present, but fight as much as the white snob will or may the age of world-wide democracy if not actually on us, is rapidly coming. Families must be judged in future from what they actually are instead of from what class they come. America is the cosmopolitan land of the world and here must the Jew and the Gentile, the white and the black, the red and the yellow all live side by each in perfect peace and harmony so long as the one does not encroach upon the rights of the other. The age o fthe millionaire snob is hapidly drawing to a close in this United States of America and the sooner those fellows bow to the inevitable the better for all concerned. However, colored colonies in large cities, as said above, have their advocates even among intelligent colored citizens. "It brings us closer together and gives us greater opportunities to combat the prejudices of the white so common to this country," argue some. "We stand a better chance to get representation in the political affairs of the state, county and cities by living in communities," argue others. "We are not always being interfered with by our neighbors and our neighbors' children and our families are saved from annoyances from time to time," argue others. Thus it will be seen the colony idea has its advocates. In spite of the fact that there has been no determined disposition on the part of the white citizens of Seattle to force a colored colony herein, yet, like Topsy, one has "jest grown up" and is now well established. In and about Madison street and Twenty-fourth avenue, for six blocks in all directions, a majority of the property owners are colored folks, and, be it said to their everlasting credit, a more orderly district does not exist in the entire city than this. Not only is it orderly, but it is as inviting a section of the city to drive through as any other. The homes are well kept, the lawns are as green, the automobiles stand in front of their doors as numerous and the music from their homes as sweet as any other district in the whole city. In view of the fact the home surroundings of colored folks in other cities of this country have been severely criticized, it is a pleasure to take the most critical white person through this particular colored colony of Seattle. OLYMPIA, WASH. JULY 5, 1919 eekly MEN WITH HOBBIES In the early history of Seattle there lived an expressman in the city who came to the conclusion that the world was soon to be destroyed by fire, and he reached this conclusion from diligent research of the Bible, so he set himself about to warm his fellowman to make preparations to flee the wrath of God. That his arguments would be absolutely convincing he had made for his use when he was discussing or preaching his doctrine expensive charts and other argumentative documents, and armed with these on Sunday afternoons in his express wagon he would drive down on Pioneer Square and begin his lectures, and he usually drew immense crowds. Finally he out grew the express business and the last the writer heard of him he was in the East doing a land office business financially speaking, converting men and women to the belief that the end of the world was near at hand. It was first an idea, then a hobby and finally a financial enterprise with him, but at no time could it be rightfully called a fake. Persons with resourceful minds can prove almost any kind of a theory by the Bible. Many years ago J. M. Webb, a Seattle barber, who devoted much of his time to the study of the Bible, came to the conclusion that the parents of Jesus Christ were a mixture of Jewish and Ethiopian blood, and he set about to verify his suspicions and to that end he read the Bible and the commentaries thereof until he now has no doubts of his theory. At first he went forth to preach this doctrine for the purpose of humiliating the white man for his abuse of the black man in the United States, but this he could not continue without funds and so he began to write booklets on the subject, which he sold at so much per, from which he has reaped some financial reward. But one thing suggests another and now he has had pictures made of Jesus Christ and His associates fashioned after his theory and has steroptacized them, and with them has gone into the lecture field. He plans to go a step further and put his ideas into moving pictures and if he does it is here predicted he will realize a small fortune from the whole. A thorough study of sacred history will doubtless fully convince any one that the peoples from whence Jesus Christ came were a mixture of Jews, Ethiopians and otherwise and it could hardly have been to the contrary, as there did not exist at that time the strong class and color distinction among the peoples of the world that is common to this age and time, but Mr. Webb's pictures to an extent belie his theories for one of his pictures shows the Christ Child being held by Mary, His mother, the child of a chocolate color and the mother pure white. If there be anything in the theory, Mary herself would show up as a mulatto. But there is nothing condemnatory in Mr. Webb's lecture and pictures, and so far as we are personally concerned we rather enjoyed the whole affair and found much in it for food for thought, and we are thoroughly convinced that there is nothing hurtful to anyone in the lecture. On the other hand, we see no benefits to be derived from the theory to the black man even though the whole world including, the late peace conference, arrive at the same conclusion as has Mr. Webb. If history is to be believed, the Jews did --- VOL. IV., NO. 4 THE NEGRO ENTERS LABOR UNION Not since the abolition of chattel slavery, says the New York Age, a leading Afro-American weekly, has any step been taken toward the industrial freedom of the race so important as that of the American Federation of Labor when it voted to open its doors unconditionally to the Negro. This means, as the New York Times points out, that "all over the country the Negro worker will have, as he has not had hitherto, a chance to enter all of the skilled, and therefore better paid trades, and in them to be judged on his merits." It wipes out "the part of the color-line which most impeded the progress of the black race," says the New York World, which reminds us that colored wage-earners now constitute about one-seventh of our industrial population. The New York Tribune interprets this victory for the Negro as "a by-product of the war." One of the colored delegates to the Federation of Labor convention in Atlantic City, pleading for the resolution which was afterward adopted with only one opposing vote, exclaimed: "If you can take in immigrants who can not speak the English language, why can't you take in the Negro, who has been loyal to you from Washington to the battle-fields of France?" And he went on to say: "We ask for the same chance to earn bread for our families at the same salary our white brothers are getting. The Negro is ready to live for you and to die for you, with all his dirty treatment in this country, if you give us equal rights the same as you have to earn bread for our families." The connection between the federation's action and war and reconstruction conditions is emphasized by Mr. Fred R. Moore, editor and publisher of the New York Age, who is quoted by the New York Tribune as saying: "The exodus of Italians and other southern Europeans from the United States, the imminent restriction of immigration by Congress, and the great need of labor during the reconstruction period have combined to bring about this action. "With the large influx of colored labor into the Northern States during the last three years there was danger to the Federation of Labor from colored strike-breakers. This danger was recognized by the federation, and was one of the impelling causes leading to the federation's action. With equal opportunity and equal wages and membership in the federation, the colored man will not lend himself to strike-breaking." In the editorial columns of his own paper Mr. Moore says that the action of the convention "was largely due to the progressive policy of San Gompers." And he adds. "The real extent of this forward movement on the part of organized labor can only be gaged by the spirit in which it is carried out. With good faith and fair dealing on both sides, the industrial progress of the race should now be assured." And in The Amsterdam News, another New York Negro weekly, we read of the federation's action— "It is one of the most far-reaching advantages that has come to Afro-Americans in recognition of their labors in essential industries during the world-war. No one studied with closer interest the employment of Afro-Americans in war and essential industries than Mr. Samuel Gompers and the able men who surround him in the councils of the American Federation of Labor; and no one looked with more concern than they upon the considerable migration of large masses of Afro-American workers from the Southern to the Northern and Western labor vintage-ground. This interest and study convinced Mr. Gompers and his associates that the only safe way to deal effectually with this labor force was to open wide for it the door of membership in the American Federation of Labor, qualified membership in which it has enjoyed for some time with more or less dissatisfaction to all concerned. This dissatisfaction has led to a concerted movement among Afro-Americans to effect labor organizations of their own, the most pretentious being the National Brotherhood Workers of America, with headquarters at Washington, of which Louis J. Brown is president and Miss Jeannette Carter is secretary. Mr. Gompers and his associates have taken, therefore, the wiser and more politic course in seeking the cooperation rather than the organized opposition of Afro-American labor. "It is of the greatest importance not to lose sight of the significant part the industrial educational policy of the late Dr. Booker T. Washington played in the preparedness of Afro-Americans to do the work during the war, and which has convinced the American Federation of Labor that it is the part of wisdom and policy to give it equal membership opportunity with white wageworkers rather than bar it out and make a 'scab' working force of it." Mr. John Mitchell, editor of The Planet, a Negro paper published in Richmond, Va., also comments on the "far-sightedness" manifested by the American Federation of Labor. For— "The greatest menace to organized labor as opposed to organized capital is the black multitude that entered the industrial plants of the country and demonstrated beyond the shadow of a doubt that they could execute and master the tasks assigned to respective members thereof. It was organized capital and not organized labor that gave to black labor the position that it now occupies. Will the colored man accept the invitation and join the white labor unions or will they stand out as independent units under their own leaders and from their respective platforms deal directly with the moneyed interests of the country? On this decision will depend the fate of the white laboring interests of America as represented by the American Federation of Labor. "It is also an interesting question as to whether the American Federation of Labor can hold in leash its own membership should the invitation be generally accepted by the colored men of this country. We see, or think we see, a changed condition of affairs, which must necessarily benefit the colored laboring elements of America." The federation's action "opens the gateway to real American life for the first time within the last half century," says the Boston Guardian (Negro), which continues: "The decision may establish so great a hope within our youth that it may save even a greater exodus from this country, the land of colored people's birth, to any other country that might bid for them than any other favor." In still another Negro paper, the Nashville Globe, we read: "In a number of the Southern States the Negro constitutes the greater factor in the agricultural, manufacturing, and mining industries, so to admit him into the trade unions will not only vouchsafe to the Negro a better opportunity for promotion and advancement along these industrial lines, but it will give to the manufacturer a higher degree of efficiency in labor. We hope that his admission into the union will mean his promotion as he fits himself for the work. Too long America has delayed justice to the Negro along industrial lines, and the step now taken is welcomed by thirteen millions of real Americans." A "striking contrast" between the attitude of the American Federation of Labor and that of "the alleged Christian Churches of the United States" is dwelt upon by The Appeal, a Negro paper published in St. Paul, Minn., which goes on to say: "Some of these orthodox Christian churches asked the colored members to get out and form segregated bodies, and in some cases legislation was enacted to compel segregation. The action of America's great labor body is a strong confirmation of the attitude The Appeal has always maintained, that the real advancement of the colored people will come through economic forces and never through hypocritical religious bodies." 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. CAYTON'S WEEKLY wants two columns of classified adds made up after this style and fashion. Rates very reasonable. Beacon 1910. "The American Federation of Labor has sensed the absolute necessity for organizing Negro workingmen along with white workingmen in order to face capital with a solid front in working out the serious problems of the new era," remarks Mr. Eugene Knickle Jones, executive secretary of the National Urban League, an organization for social service among Negroes. Labor leaders, we are told in an Atlantic City dispatch to the New York Tribune, regard the federation's action in this matter as only surpassed in importance by its declaration of 1917 supporting the administration in its conduct of the war. Mr. Gompers himself is quoted as saving: "It is one of the most important steps taken by the federation in many years. In the past it has been difficult to organize the colored man. Now he shows a desire to be organized, and we meet him more than half-way." Figures on the cost of building brick issued by the Department of Labor show that prices in New York, Philadelphia, and other Eastern cities are approximately 50 per cent greater than elsewhere in the United States. In Chicago the rate is $12 per thousand, and Los Angeles and San Francisco $12.50, as compared with $17.85 in New York and $19.50 in Philadelphia. The anniversary of the first flight of the Washington-Philadelphia-New York air mail service was celebrated at College Park, Mo., and at Belmont Park, N. Y., on the 15th. The Post Office Department in a statement declared that the service inaugurated as an experiment had proved a success in every way. Of the 1263 trips scheduled for the year, 1,136 were successfully completed, and the total distance flown was 128,255 miles. The revenue on 7,720,840 letters carried amounted to $159,700 as against $137,900, the cost of the service. The two planes used in the trips on the day of the celebration, one starting from Belmont Park, N. Y., and the other from College Park, are the same machines that made the first trips a year ago.—The Public. 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 ``` not accept Jesus Christ as the long expected king because He preached of a heavenly kingdom instead of a worldly kingdom and now the idea of Christ being of black blood is advanced, owing to a jealousy existing between white and black fanatics, each trying to place Him upon their color prejudiced pedestal and claim Him as their's and not the world's which very dogma Jesus Christ abused when on earth. It is of little or no consequence through what particular class of human beings Jesus Christ reached the world, since He came to save the world and did it. It is the duty of the black man, the white man and all manner of man to act well his part in the present world drama and there all the honor lies. In this country, however, men like Mr. Webb, with hobbies that have for their object the black man overshadowing the white man in the past, which forms the basis for a hope that he will again do so, will for the next century be a drawing card for lecturers, which will be taken advantage of by men desiring to make easy money and to which we take no exception and have no quarrel with the lecturers. Mr. Webb's lecture was well worth the price from our viewpoint and that, too, as little interest as we take in the theory. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS The delegates to the Colored Women's Federation of Washington and jurisdiction have returned from the Spokane meet and report a most instructive session. The officers elect are: President, Mrs. John E. Mapps, Spokane; vice-president at large, Mrs. W. D. Carter, Seattle; recording secretary, Mrs. Harry Walker, Spokane; corresponding secretary, Mrs. G. A. Dupee, Seattle; treasurer, Mrs. George A. Anderson, Spokane; historian, Mrs. Samuels, Everett. It has been estimated that the colored folk of Seattle own not less than 250 automobiles distributed among a population of between 4,000 and 6,000 inhabitants. It is a safe guess to fix the average price of these cars at $1,000 per car, which would mean that they have not less than $250,000 invested in automobiles purely for pleasure. In view of the fact that so few of them are in business for themselves that certainly looks like a whole lot of money tied up purely for pleasure. Leg's Alhambras lost in last Sunday's bout with Duthie's retired professionals, but they disputed every inch of ground and each one of them died with his face to the enemy. Those who saw the game say it was a hair-raising contest and the Alhambras played almost like professionals. A little more right down to business training and the Alhambras would make even Brewster's colts look to their laurels. Harry W. Jones (white) of Pittsburg was recently called on a jury in that city and openly admitted that he entertained prejudices toward colored folks that would prevent him from rendering a fair and impartial verdict in a case where a Negro was a litigant. The presiding judge expelled him from the jury, cut off his week's pay and recommended that his name be permanently excluded from the jury wheel. Millions of dollars were appropriated for the early completion of the Alaska railroad, but was ruthlessly squandered by Democratic officials, and the road got nowhere. The Republicans have reduced the next appropriation to a mere bagatelle and for another two years the road will get nowhere. In face of it all Alaska lies dormant and her resources of no value. Holland money, it is said, is being withdrawn from this country, which will result in a tightening up of the money markets. Evidently Holland has begun to realize that Bill Kaiser is an expensive luxury and it has to call in its money to keep up expenses. J. Silas Harris of Kansas City, Mo., has been named as one of the clerks in the United States senate. The naming of a colored man to a clerkship in the senate is due to the Republicans having control of the same. Despite the fact the state primary election is fourteen months ahead, the name of Roland H. Hartley for governor is being effectively passed around in the city of Seattle among those who do things in politics. That laborer that dropped dead and among other things left $3,000 in cash on deposit would doubtless be surprised to learn in what high esteem his remains are held by the undertakers and court officials. Having placed Perfect Peace on the throne of the world, Woodrow Wilson is to soon return to this land of the free and home of the brave, where hundreds of Negroes are lynched every year. Old Booze is still hopeful of having beer and wine placed on the preferred list and to that end he is dying hard, but, in our opinion, he is surely dying and the end is quite in sight. With organized labor receiving the black man in full connection and extending to him the right hand of fellowship, it is in a position to make organized capital set up and take notice. Come, come come! The summer now is here. Come out among the roses and make some pretty bowers. Come, come, come! The summer now is here. Washington state is to have a three-day holiday the Fourth, fifth and sixth, and in most instances full pay for two of those days. And thus is labor reaping its reward. Apparently nobody save Woodrow Wilson is fully pleased with the peace treaty and we suspect when the United States senate gets through with it he will deny it. That proposed Mooney strike will peter out just as did that sympathetic strike. It's damphooldom pure and simple. There is nothing to it but that Jim Brewster has a lot of dead ones, with whom Seattle is thoroughly disgusted. If the Democrats of this country are not in a "hell of a row" just now then please give it a name. It's harry leg to the contrary notwithstanding, the Alhambra baseball team met its Waterloo. BITS OF FACTS In accepting the essential unity of the human race, we must regard the humanity in entirety, as a great collective being, a social organism of which the different nations represent the living members. It is evident, from this point of view, that no people can live in itself, by itself, or for itself, but that the life of each one is merely an individual share in the general life of humanity. Five men have already been burned at the stake in the United States since the first of the year, and more than twenty persons have been lynched in that time. Citizens in all parts of the country are urged to send immediately all information, press clippings and editorials concerning mob murders to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth avenue, New York City. Steps toward a Congressional investigation of lynching with a view to the Federal Government's taking action to stamp out mob murder have been announced. Facts and figures and all available testimony and information concerning mob murder in the United States are being assembled to be laid before Congress. It is announced that out of the funds to be raised by the Salvation Army drive some two hundred thousand dollars are to be devoted to the erection of a building in South Philadelphia, "exclusively for colored people." So even the Salvation Army, remarks the New York Age, broad as is its humanity, has got to fence off the colored brethren. The New York Age animadverts on the difference in the treatment of the whites and blacks when accused of committing this capital offense upon a girl of thirteen. His arrest followed and he was brought back to the city and "will probably remain in jail until the June term of court." "No mob no lynching, no avenging of outraged womanhood or childhood by southern chivalry in this case." Recently the following telegram was sent by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to the International Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen and Oilers in session in Washington, D.C.: "The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, with 210 branches in as many cities in thirty-nine states, and some 53,000 dues-paying members, sends you its deep satisfaction that colored workmen in the crafts represented by your brotherhood are admitted without discrimination and that as we are informed, some thirty-odd delegates of the colored race are sitting in your convention." You can't surprise a Chinaman. An aeroplane was flying over Peking for the first time and a proud European pointed it out to a native. "Don't you think it's wonderful?" he exclaimed. "Well," said the Chinaman, after a passing glance at the machine, "the thing is meant to do that, isn't it?"—Argonaut. For years the poor man had hardly been able to earn enough money to clothe his wife and family, until one day he invented a new kind of death bomb. The government paid him liberally for his invention, and he went to his wife with tears in his eyes and said: "At last, my dear, you'll be able to buy yourself some decent clothes." "I'll do nothing of the kind," she retorted, hotly, "I'll get the same kind as the rest of the women are wearing." Don't fail to attend the moonlight excursion around Lake Washington Monday evening, July 14th, by the Efficiency Club. Boat leaves Leschi dock promptly at 8:45. Music by Smith's jazz band. Fortuna and return. Tickets 50 cents. Joaquin Estevan, of Barcelona, Spain, has invented a straw compound as a substitute for coal. This combustible is said to have great advantages over coal for locomotives and agricultural tractors, as it develops sufficient heat in thirty minutes to give the machinery the necessary pressure. Besides, the ashes make an excellent fertilizer. 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 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 2 a eat rs Pie eid WR Ee 22 pie oer i, Sealand gS ae ats \ . ‘ . nr) ' , 4 \ / ~ 1 » Prag sabia! SGh Ee AORN ES Orta Pete ss ot Ame es ee Pk DID YOU KNOW? See, See ee SS he ees | en aes | eee house servants. The girls and women who went into munition factories and other war work are disinclined to return to the kitchen. In France, in England, as well as in the United States the servant problem has become acute through lack of supply. Higher wages, even to doubling or to trebling, have had little effect, nor does the multiplication of servant privileges. In- deed, it is the very faet of being a servant that is creating all the trouble. The spirit of democracy has been taken seriously. Good wages they want and better hours and treatment generally. But. first of all they want to be men and women. If any ser- vantless msitress wishes to know just what this means, let her imagine herself working in another woman’s kitehen. Such a thought may seem fantastic to her. Pos- sibly it is when she thinks of the somewhat undeveloped maids she has seen. Yet she must remember that one has aspirations far above the present ability to gratify, and to attain those aspirations. During the last year of the war cultiva- tors of vacant lots in Great Britain grew sixty thousand tons of vegetables on five thousand acres of land. Leadership of this wonderful effort was given to the Vacant Land Cultivation Society of London. With an expenditure of a little over $5,000 for the year, this organization developed an army of 295,000 cultivators of little gardens. Now the owners of vacant lots who have been willing to assign them to garden uses for the war are reealling them, and the question arises in the minds of these work- ers who have turned to utilizing land that hitherto has lain idle, why there is not some means by which they can have access to tand in time of peace as well as in time of war, A parliamentary committee has been appointed to consider the matter with a view to devising legislation that will keep the slacker vaeant lots producing for their country, The Vacant Land Cultivation Society, which was founded eleven years ago by Joseph Fels, and is continued with the cooperation of Mrs. Fels, was so efficient in its work that the British Government placed all the war gardens in its charge during the latter part of the war. The Argentine Woman’s Party which was formed recently is planning a pan-American conference to be held in Buenos Ayres in July, 1921, at which women from North and South American countries will be present. Though women in Canada are enfran- chised, they have not achieved full political or social freedom, They are not yet eligible to sit in the Dominion Parliament, nor in some of the provincial legislatures, nor to hold municipal offices, nor to sit on juries, and many magistrates’ benches are forbid- den them. The State Department on the 14th notified the National Woman Suffrage Association that Wisconsin goes down in history as the total amount of salary paid to the supervis- amendment. On the 10th Illinois (and Michigan unanimously) took similar action, and on the 16th the New York Legislature passed the amendment without a dissenting vote, making New York the sixth State to ratify. As one of its first acts after winning pres- idential and municipal suffrage the Knox- ville Equal Suffrage League of Knoxville, Tennessee, has been formally disbanded and merged into the Non-partisan League of Knoxville, which is composed of both men and women of voting age. The object of the new organization, as expressed in the constitution adopted, is to encourage the study of municipal government. the investi- Phone 2647 1034 Jackson Tailors and Cleaners. Clothes called for and delivered. Hats retrimmed and blocked. H. S. Frazier C. W. Curtest Cee ee te tn se a a ee Se. ea Nee ee upon the subject of voting and good citizen- ship. In Stockholm the greatest number of women town councilors elected belong to the Liberal party, compared with the number of representatives of this party. Regarding the Stockholm elections the results are now exactly known. Fifty per cent. of all women voters.have made use of their rights there, which, considering the fact that most of these women were entitled to vote for the first time, and thus were very little pre- pared to take part in public matters, must be regarded as a very fair result. Fifteen women are now town councilors in Stock- holm. Of these, one Liberal, two Conserva- tives, and two Socialists have been re- turned; thus there are ten new women members. In the course of a speech before the Woman’s City Club of Boston recently, Charles Pergler, commissioner of the Czecho- Slovak Republic in the United States, made this interesting statement: ‘‘In Czech political history of the nineteenth century Women came into their own. Although sur- rounded almost wholly by Germans, whose respect for womanhood is not the highest. we never accept the German view. Political equality for women became very early an axiom among Czech statesmen anl in Czech public life. The Czech political parties some years ago determined to see to it that if it was within their power a representa- tive of Czech womanhood should oceupy a seat in the Diet of the Bohemian kingdom. The well-known author, Bozena Vikova Kuneticka, was duly elected. The Austrian government refused to permit Mrs. Kune- ticka to take her seat. But when Austria- Hungary was dissolved, and the new inde- pendent Czech-Slovak Republic erected, Mrs. Kuneticka took her seat, and is now a member of the National Assembly of the Czecho-Slovak Republiec.’’ Delegates from twenty States have said they will attend the tenth anniversary con- ference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, represent- ing 100,000 members, which will be held in Cleveland from June 21 to June 28. The Southern representatives include Louisiana, Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Caro- lina. Edmond Turner, representing the Black- smiths’, Boilermakers and Machinists’ Help- ers of Mobile, Alabama, presented a resolu- tion to the convention of the American Fed- eration of Labor, as follows: ‘Resolved, That the annual convention of the A. F. of L. give the executive board authority to appoint a colored organizer for the southern district of Alabama. The colored organizer shall work in the interest of labor at all times.’’ Turner tells a vivid story of how the Ku-Klux Klan ran Ralph Clemons, who was organizing the helpers, out of Mobile in the dead of night. Clemons is still in New Orleans because the power of the fed- eration is not strong enough to protect him in Mobile. Serious race riots, occasioned by the presence of Negroes brought to Europe from Africa and other parts of the world during the war as labor battalions, have occurred ut several ports in England and Wales re- cently. They culminated in a night-long fight on the 11th between Negroes and white men at Cardiff and Barry Dock. One white man was killed and numerous whites were wounded. Boarding houses in the Negro quarter were stormed, one of them set on fire and others looted. Negroes armed with revolvers fired on the police in Negro rural schools, cooperated during the session ending June 30, 1918, with public school. superintendents in 209 countries in fourteen States. The Supervising Industrial Teachers, paid partly by the counties and partly by the Jeanes Fund, visited regualrly in these counties 5.717 country schools, mak- ing in all 20,903 visits and raising for pur- poses of school improvement $204,646. The total amount of salary paid to the supervis- ing teachers was $65,182, of which the county school authorities paid $25,334, and the fund $39,848. The business of these traveling teachers, working under the direc- tion of the county superintendent, is to in- troduce into the small country schools simple home industries; to give talks and lessons on sanitation, personal cleanliness. ete.: to encourage the improvement of school houses and school grounds, and to conduct gardening clubs and other kinds of clubs for the betterment of the school and the neighborhood. The meat ration of an army of three million men could be furnished from the animals lost through exposure in a single year, exposure meaning starvation in most cases, The startling figures are taken from a government report which goes on to state that most of this wastage is preventable. In such states as Maine, where almost all stock is farm fed, only two in 1,000 of the cattle are lost through exposure, though it is as cold as in Colorado, where the loss is 27 in each 1,000 because so many eattle are on the open range throughout the year. In Montana the loss runs as high as 34, while for sheep the figures reach 58 per 1,000 in Wyoming. The American Red Star Animal Relief branch of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals wlil. during the coming year. give particular attention to this kind of relief work. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County,—In Probate. In the Matter of the Estate of Kumeske Shinsako, Deceased.—No, 25210. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned have been appointed and have qualified as Administrators of the estate of Kumeske Shinsako, Deceased; that all persons having claims against said deceased are hereby required to serve the same, verified, on said Administrators or their attorney of record at the address below stated, and file the same with the Clerk of said Court, together with proof of such ser- vice within six months after the date of first publi- cation of this notice, or the same will be barred. Date of first publication July 5, 1919. U. TERAOKE and T. KOURA, Administrators of said Estate. Address: 617 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash, ZB. RAWSON, Attorney for Estate, 617 Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash. July 5, July 26, 1919. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. 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, De- fendants.—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 Se- attle. 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 fore- close a certain mortgage executed by the defend- ants 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 there- unto belonging or in any way appertaining. That said mortgage and notes were duly assigned, transferred and set over for a valuable considera- tion 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 defend- ants herein and each of them from any lien or in- terest in said property and otherwise as will more fully appear from said complaint. i: JOHN J. KINNANE, ; Attorney for Plaintiff. Office and Post Office Address: ae 1927 L. ©. Smith Building, Seattle, Washington. First publication June 22, 1919.