Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1919. --- PRICE FIVE CENTS CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington, U. S. A. In the interest of equal rights and equal justice to all men and for "all men up." A publication of general information, but in the main voicing the sentiments of the Colored Citizens. Subscription $2 per year in advance. Special rates made to clubs and societies. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON..Editor and Publisher Entred as second class matter, August 18, 1916, at the post office at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910 Office 303 22nd Ave. South THE PASSING THRONG PRESIDENT WILSON RETURNS Last Tuesday, after an absence of six months in Europe trying to make the world safe for democracy of the brand manufactured in the United States, where 4,000 colored men, women and children have been swung to lynchers limbs and burned at the stake, mostly in the South, which section made it possible for Woodrow Wilson to be a factor in the world peace pact formalities, our beloved president returned to this land of the free and home of the brave to tell us what he has accomplished in that direction and to command Congress to ratify "my actions." He hit the country with his mouth open and his ears to the ground and he proposes to gallavant up and down, through and across the United States as he did in Europe, endeavoring to create sufficient sentiment among the voters to force the members of the Senate to ratify "my treaty." While it would be morally wrong for the United States to turn the treaty down because President Wilson claims it to be a creature of his mind, that is, if there be any good in it, but thus far, so far as the average citizen is concerned, if there is any good in the treaty, especially that part of it that tells of the League of Nations covenant, it is so far in it that no one, save Woodrow Wilson and Big Bill Taft, has been able to get a glimpse at it. In the opinion of Cayton's Weekly, Woodrow Wilson is an absolute false alarm and had he not "kept us out of war" he would never have been a member of the Versailles peace conference. His speaking tour in this country will avail him little or nothing if Republican speakers will but follow him up and tell the people the whole story. SOWED TO THE WINDS "Your sins will find you out," It was more than thirty years ago that the dashing Harry New of Indianapolis, of rich and influential parentage and family connection, became the consort of an innocent young woman and from that concubinage a son sprung forth, who, in spite of his illegality, bore his father's name. Time passed and that outcast grew to manhood and perhaps even his father forgot of the incident, and it might have never again been mentioned by the public had not the son committed murder and hoped to lessen the degree of his crime by claiming to be the son of United States Senator Harry S. New of Indiana. The skeleton of thirty years ago was thus unfortunately pulled out of the closet and the venerable senator from Indiana, who, since that unfortunate escapade, has lived a life above reproach, had to publicly admit that the young California murderer was his illegitimate son. Your sins will find you out and be visited on to your children's children even to the third and fourth generations. The insane act of Harry S. New, Jr., will prevent the serious consideration of Senator New's name in connection with the next presidential nomination. In early life, watch your step. GRAFTERS HAVE THRIVED Good government from the President of the United States to the mayor of the most insignificant city of the country and to the justice of peace of Whoopole township, Housier county, Indiana, is absolutely necessary to head off the reign of anarchy that this country is being threatened with at present. Wilful waste is the password among the officials of the national administration and from wilful waste to gentlemanly stealing the officials and those in collusion with them pass on in easy stages. Multimillionaires from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from Maine to Mexico are the outcome of the contractors, who supplied the government with war material, and now the war being over another bunch of gentlemanly robbers are to become multi-millionaires out of the left-over government war material, who are to buy the stuff for a song and dance and yet be protected by the government in selling it at fabulous prices. The millions of pounds of food stuff the government has on hand, though paid for by the people, are to be kept out of the market by the government that the trust hogs may continue to profiteer on the people, and that, too, twelve months after the war is over. King Honesty, it is repeated, is needed in every office in this country and if he is not put in power then King Anarchy will be and then surely hell will be to pay. CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME While a dark skinned Asiatic girl clings about the folds of her girdle, on which is stamped the Stars and Stripes, Miss Columbia has been portrayed by an artist, standing erect and with drawn sword defying the on rushing Bolshevists with murder in their eyes and hell in their hearts. Inscribed under the whole she is quoted as saying, "I Will Protect Her." It's a touching as well as pathetic picture and as one gazes on it his bosom swells all up with pride and he exclaims aloud: "Land of the free and home of the brave! Long live the Republic of the United States, the protector of the weak and the feeder of the world's hungry." You wipe your tear bedimmed eyes with a kerchief of the red, white and blue style, and to sooth your sobbing heart reach for the daily paper only to have all or a greater part of those patriotic ebolutions rudely shocked by reading on the front page thereof under stud horse headlines a detailed account of a Negro burned at the stake while the white men, women and even school children, the city schools having been dismissed for the celebration, fight over the charred remains of the patriotically consumed victim for souvenirs of the occasion, then it dawns upon you that Miss Columbia's love for humanity is only for the suffering in a foreign land and that her charity does not begin at home. THAT FATEFUL FOURTH One week ago our natal celebration was in full swing and a great time it was, every one vieing with his neighbor to see which could exhibit the greatest amount of enthusiasm. However, city officials had taken the precaution to issue long and well worded OLYMPIA, WASH. weekly 12. 1919. VOL. IV., NO. 5 proclamations to the effect, a sane and safe Fourth of July would be observed, and the deadly fireworks tabooed, but so far as Seattle was concerned if her last was a safe and sane Fourth, then God deliver us from one devoid of the above qualifications. The human toll for the day in Seattle was one dead and a half a dozen more or less seriously injured and a dozen or more dangerous fires, and all the result of patriotic fireworks, all wholly unnecessary. That Times firework display was nothing more nor less than a bunch of bragadocia and the city official that permitted it should be dismissed from office for the act. As for the Times, the relatives of the man that was murdered by its deadly bomb should sue it for $100,000 damage. Patriotism can be practiced without blowing up the community, and in the future fireworks of all kind, even to the small crackers, should be barred from the streets the Fourth of July. JESS WILLARD WITHERS The passing of Jess Willard as the world's fistic champion is no surprise to the general public as it seems to be the consensus of opinion that he was never champion by his prowess in the roped arena. He took the title from Jack Johnson because Johnson was promised his price for laying down, and was then double crossed and got nothing or so little, that it was the same as nothing. From the very outset Willard fully realized that he was not champion material and he therefore refrained from playing the game, but endeavored to reap a golden harvest from his ill-gotten title. After refusing to fight even a banty rooster he was finally smoked out by the friends of Jack Dempsey to meet him, but even then Willard would not agree unless a fortune was first placed in his hands win or lose, because he knew he was going to lose. Before Jack Dempsey, a real man, that miserable Falstaff put up no better fight than could have a husky eighteen-year-old boy. It was a true case of but two licks passed—Dempsey hit Willard and Willard hit the ground—and the self-inflated gas bag immediately became a vapor. Whether Jess Willard was a party to the sharp practices played on Jack Johnson deponent knoweth not, but has his suspicions. However, he no sooner had the title than he announced he would never fight another colored man, which had the aroma of "because if I do another colored man will be the world's champion." But summing up the whole Willard situation, he, Willard, aided and abetted by others, who, it is claimed, he later on double crossed, took a mean advantage of an unfortunate situation, that has netted him an immense cash fortune, but even his opponents must give him credit for doing some clever head work. ORGANIZED LABOR ORGANIZES Many serious mistakes have been made by the radicals of organized labor and many more will be made, because in the ranks of organized labor, just as in the ranks of organized evertyhing else, there are radicals, who are determined to rule or ruin, but what we set out to comment on, is the progress organized labor has made in a financial way within the past two years. While the writer is not prepared to name all of the industries organized labor has financed in Seattle, yet we are able to point to an extensive laundry plant, a daily newspaper plant with a paper of a daily circulation verging dangerously , x a enaptite Made 3 Whe ka ee Ki Mane A : is Pope SY at Rep Mee yg ne ean - ‘(ig LS aE close to 100,000, a co-operative meat market and grocery, a banking loan association and finally a Listman Service Company that has for its object the fostering of small indus- tries among the members of organized labor. IIe who wrote, ‘‘Just experience in every soil shows those who think will govern who toil,’’ would be surprised could he return to Mother Earth and see those who toil tak- ing an active part in governing those who toil, all of which leads us to compare organized labor in Seattle to a fellow want- ing to go to bed. He was told by the inn- keeper that he would have to sleep with another man, who had already retired. The sleepy man went to the room and after undressing started to get into bed, but just then the man in bed had an awful fit and those fits would come back every time the out of bed man started to get in bed. The latter, finally suspecting the cause, waited for another fit to begin, when he seized a convenient pisselm club and lit into the fitty man with might and main. ‘‘What’s the matter with you?’’ the in bed man shouted. ‘*You have taught me how to have fits.’’ The explanation was amply satisfae- tory and the bed was willingly shared with the man out of bed. The capitalists have taught organized labor the trick of combin- ing their finances and its working like a charm thus far. nts, the explanation was amply satistac- tory and the bed was willingly shared with the man out of bed. The capitalists have taught organized labor the trick of combin- ing their finances and its working like a charm thus far. COLORED MAN IS LAGGING And this spirit of combining capital re- minds us of how effectively successful it has worked with the Japanese in Seattle. Though an apparently dispised people, strangers in a strange land, confronting opposition and race prejudices on all sides, yet by combining their small earnings, for, be it remembered, a Jap would work for less than any man, they are now strong factors in the commer- cial world of Seattle and almost absolutely control the vegetable situation of this great busy, bustling city. And the suecess of the Japanese reminds us that within the gates of Seattle there are almost 6,000 native-born colored citizens, 4,000 less than the Japanese colony of the city, and yet among that number there are but four commercial insti- tutions operated by colored men and women. The great majority of the colored citizens are wage earners and if they would only combine their earnings, they, too, could establish business enterprises, just as have organized labor and the Japanese colony. ‘‘Let’s get together and do something’’ is heard wherever two or more colored men get together, but they do not do it and they, as a result, get less consideration than any other distinet class by the moving spirits of this vapidly growing city. This is worthy. of your prayerful consideration, my brother. OPEN SALOON SLEEPS When and where.the open saloon was horn in the United States is probably an open question, but it surely was born and after reaching maturity it was not long in begating a sufficient number of offsprings to envelop the whole country and so numerous did the tribe become that it was thought for many years that it was irrisistible, but while the mills of the gods grind slow, yet they grind exceedingly fine and after years of continued fighting against Gen. Open Saloon and his forces on the part of the army under Gen, Good Citizen, the former met his Waterloo July 1st and for the time being is resting in durance vile, though the friends of Open Saloon are not leaving a stone unturned to rescue him from his perilous situation. It is not a safe bet that the Open Saloon is gone to never return, because the Supreme Court has not been heard from and that august assembly does not always take the good of the people into considera- tion when it rules, but seems to make its ruling from the standpoint of giving em- ployment to the unemployed legal fraternity. No form of vice in which the American people have become steeped ever proved a hundredth part as pernicious as has the open saloon, and yet men and women who were fully aware of its degenerating influence, supported it because it meant a few lousy dollars to them. He who wrote ‘‘the Americans are money mad”’ must have done so after seenig how they would invariably mortgage themselves to the imps of hell itself, if by so doing they could get the money. But let’s hope not only Gen. Open Saloon, but even Old Man Booze, have both forever gone where the woodbine twineth. DEATH OF REV. EUGENE HARRIS Deep regret will be widely felt at the news that Rev. Eugene Harris has passed away. He died in Seattle, in the Minor Hospital, on June 23rd, 1919, after an opera- tion for goitre. Eugene Harris was born in Nashville, Tennessee, November 17th, 1866. He took the full college course in Fisk Uni- versity, at Nashville, and was graduated therefrom. He then entered the theological department of Oberlin College, at Oberlin, Ohio. After being graduated from that in- stitution he was appointed to a professor- ship in Fisk University, his Alma Mater, where for a number of years he taught in the college department, and later filled a chair in the theological department. Upon an examination of the Bible satisfactory to himself, he joined the First Baptist Church at Nashville and was ordained to the Baptist ministry, after a thorough examination in which the colored and white Baptist pastors of Nashville participated. He came to Seattle in 1898 as a Baptist missionary. The field did not hold out promise of a livelihood, and it had to be given up. In the meantime he had learned stenography and typewriting, in which he became quite proficient. The Klondike gold discovery led to the formation of a multitude of corporations, partnerships and syndicates in Seattle and to an urgent demand for stenographers. Answering ad- vertised wants, Mr. Harris was everywhere rejected because of his color. Some friend advised him to apply to John Arthur as a man friendly to the colored people. He did so and was at once employed. He remained several years with Mr. Arthur. With the latter’s consent, approval and encourage- ment, he took the examination for the civil service of the United States; he passed very creditably, and was assigned to duty as stenographer and typewriter in the United States Land Office at Walla Walla. In 1911 he resigned from that office and became the court reporter for the counties of Adams, Franklin and Benton, residing at Ritzville. He studied law and was admitted to the Rar, but he did not enter upon the prac- tice, although it was his intention ulitmately ta do so. Mr. Harris was a gentleman of fine liter- ary culture and warm poetic temperament. Many of his poems obtained wide circulation and won much praise. He was buried in Portland, where Mrs. Harris’ relatives live. Mr. Harris is-survived by his wife. REMARKABLE REMARKS Mary Pickford—Money isn’t everything. Sir Frederick Henderson—I am afraid of America. William H. Taft—Ask any woman what “‘proposes’’ means. Rey. William Burghess—The modern stage is set for Hell. D. W. Griffith—The motion picture will Americanize the world. Congressman Kahn—Europe is a hell-hole of political plotting. Senator Borah—The hour has struck for me to speak out boldly. Richard Croker—If you have any money to bet, put it on Dempsey. Jane Cowl—Few women are so weak as the sex plays would make them. Lena Cavalieri—There is nothing so im- portant as to be well corseted. Prof, Francis Ward—Fish fall in love just as surely as human beings. Manager John McGraw—The first thing T look for in a young player is speed. Representative Gillett—President Wilson will not be elected to another term. Ramsay MacDonald—The first Soviet ever known was the British House of Lords. Vice-President Marshal—Are the hopes of humanity to be but the apples of Sodom? Ed. Howe—My greatest ambition is to own two pairs of suspenders at the same time. Charles Hanson Towne—Murder and arson are the daily food of the modern child. Arthur Brisbane—A_ devil _ blushing through the fur on his face would be a very interesting devil. Julia Marlowe—We feel that people are more interested in Shakespeare now than for a long time. ‘Bugs’? Baer—Krupp’s is manufactur- ing charlotte russes and the kaiser is cutting out paper dolls. Vice-President Marshall—I favor sending a large enough force to Russia to extermin- ate the Bolsheviki. Senator Reed—The administration of Woodrow Wilson is a hybrid between a French Revolution and an Oriental des- potism. Minnie Maddern Fiske—If people knew in what condition animals are received at the stock yards less beef would be eaten. Montague Glass—If we must have a col- lege president for President, we should at least elect a president of a business college. Rev. Dr. Cortland Myers—The Peace Conference is a tragedy, almost a blasphemy. They have never had a prayer and have never mentioned God. Secretary of War Baker—America’s effort in this war is altogether the most spec- tacular exhibition of national strength which has ever taken place on the face of the earth. Cayton’s Weekly REGULAR READABLE RELIABLE REPUBLICAN Will Help You If You Will Help It 303 22nd Ave. So. Beacon 1910 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 RICHARDSON’S UNDERTAKING PARLORS Embalmer and Funeral Director 1216-18 Jackson Street Office, Beacon 103; Res., Main 5610 PEBBLES. A girl, at least, may smile and smile and be a-willin'.—Yale Record. We gather from the newspaper that shooting for the new Mexican presidency has commenced.—Punch. She—Did you know that Maude has a dark room on purpose for proposals? He—Well, rather. I developed a negative there myself last night.—Blighty. “What kind of a woman is his wife, Amanda?” “I think she is what you call a mandatory.”—Baltimore American. He—I notice that women don't wear earrings in their ears so often nowadays. She—No; but they still have them bored. —London Opinion. The little pig was weeping, For his father had been slain; But a porcupine, consoling said, "Oh, porcupine in vain." —Harvard Lampoon. "You say your laundry woman reminds you of a good preacher?" "Yes; she's always bringing things home to me that I never saw before."—Boston Transcript. "Has your wife a sense of humor?" "I don't think so," relied Mr. Pynhed. "I have told her the same joke over and over and I don't believe she has laughed at it more than twice in her whole life."—Washington Star. Binks—As one grows older there are certain things in which it is difficult to keep up one's interest. Don't you find it so? Jinks—Er—yes; there's the mortgage on my house, for example.—Boston Transcript. Merchant—Did you deliver my message to Mr. Smith? Boy—No, sir; he was out, and the office was locked up. Merchant—Well, why didn't you wait for him, as I told you? Boy—There was a notice on the door saying, "Return at once"; so I came back as quick as I could.—The Passing Show. Ex-soldier answering advertisement for cook: "I'd like to apply for the job, sir." Hotel Man—What can you cook? Ex-soldier—Anything, sir—I used to cook in the army. Hotel Man—Well, how do you make hash? Ex-soldier—You don't make it; it just accumulates.—Carry On. “‘A burnt child dreads the fire,’” announced the teacher during the lesson in proverbs. “Now give me a sentence different in wording but meaning the same thing.” A grimy hand shot up from the back of the class. “Please, teacher,” came a small voice, “a washed child dreads the water.”—Blighty. How many million dollars stuck to the fingers of those who handled the thirty billion dollars, the late war cost our government, deponent knoweth not, but he verily doth believe the number will run into the big figures. If there were as much activity in organizing Poindexter presidentail clubs in other states as in this state then our junior senator might not be quite so many Miles from the goal. In view of the fact that the country is bone dry Jack Thatcher might make a fairly good tax commissioner. Jack Stringer might have made just as good a chief as he did a deputy had not his promotion caused his head to swell out of all proportion for his shoulders. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS If President Wilson "ignores his enemies" (political) he has a long and loansome road to travel. Having failed to capture U. S. A. by friendly invasion the Teutons propose to take a whirl at Argentina, South America. Wilson's peace treaty message was productive of pique instead of peace in the United States senate. Seattle's safe and sane Fourth almost drove her citizens insane, but they would have it. Old Booze has boiled over and is rapidly evaporating. Soon there will be but a shadow of his former self left to tell the tale. With Hart and Hartley in a gubernatorial combat a savage campaign may be expected. Burleson denies of having tendered his resignation to the president, which is the same as being willing to destroy the Democratic party for the sake of selfish agrandizement. From the amount of under current rumbling in state Masonic circles, Grand Master Holmes is liable to feel a mighty quake before the coming session is over. The crimes of Jack Johnson were not a hundredth part as heinous in the eyes of the American white folks as was the color of his skin. In this country the degree of one's crime depends entirely upon whether the criminal is of the Negro or Caucasion race. A mayor of Seattle without political ambitions is next to impossible, but such an one would make a bird of a chief executive, if he happened to have been an A1 business man beforehand. "Crowds Cheer Wilson," says a Times headline. Persons as peculiar as is Wilson always attract the attention of the curious. Perhaps Jess Willard realized a fortune out of his recent fight, but the public realized that Jess was and is only a tub of guts. Organized labor demonstrated its good sense by telling the Mooney agitators to go to Helen Hunt for it. It was nice of the sheriff to want to help Billingsley get out of the King county jail that the people of Oklahoma might the sooner have him in one of their jails. A grand jury indictment in Seattle has never amounted to very much in the courts nor has the ones the grand jury have indicted ever amounted to very much in the community thereafter. That broad, bland and childlike smile that Sheriff Stringer wears on leaving the grand jury room may yet get twisted about his neck and give him trouble to untangle. Let's hope President Wilson has not given the European governments the same brand of democracy that the United States drinks or they, too, will greatly enjoy our national passtime, the lyncher's limb. The escape of Logan Billingsley may be all wool and a yard wide, but it looks like a frame-up and if Sheriff Stringer is not called upon to favor the grand jury with another of his bland and childlike smiles we will be very much surprised. Foodstuffs are to move up again for the benefit of the speculators and profiteers of the country and the government is powerless to prevent such public thievery. What a pity. According to the packing house kings the people are not eating so much meat, and they will eat less with meat at forty-five cents per pound and wages $4.65 per day. That "no beer, no work" strike, like the Mooney release strike, has faded away like snow in June. Both of them were damphool propositions. Cayton's Weekly has not as yet been designated the "leading weekly." but the 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. P. FRAZIER Real Estate, Insurance, Collections. 316 Pacific Block, Seattle Main 4554. leading people are rapidly having it sent to their homes. Ffty new subscribers within ten days and no solicitors out is surely going some. With the colored man of the United States in full fraternity with organized labor, "one big union" is now with us. If Old Booze lost caste because he interfered with business on what grounds in heaven's name, does he expect to come back. The unusual activity of General Lynch in the South this year is a reminder that next year is presidential year, and such brutalities assure continued white supremacy. A policeman of Seattle says the city is going to the"dimnation bow-wows." Has the supply of seized booze been exhausted and no prospects of any more coming in caused this state of despondency to come over the "bull" thieves. Down in Oklahoma the agents of Mme. Walker's harisuital factory are to meet in annual convention to compare notes. They will meet but they will miss her and there will be one vacant chair. From the amount of bickering that is constantly going on in the Seattle branch of the N. A. A. P. C. it would seem that instead of advancing the colored people the branch is bent on accomplishing the exact opposite. A wealthy white woman down East is about to be adjudged insane because she wants to marry a colored man. If she would just be his concubine and lavish her wealth upon him she probably would experience less publicity. Poindexter's presidential boom in this state seems to be a lily white affair. Oh, well, ten thousand colored votes do not amount to a tinker's damn any way, so let go Reiley, let go. Among the distinguished dead for the past week is the name of Professor John H. Jackson of Cleveland, Ohio. He was the first colored graduate of Berea College, Ky., and was subsequently president of a number of universities and higher institutions of learning in different sections of the country, and at the time of his death was secretary of the Y. M. C. A. of Cleveland. He was a ripe scholar and a Christian gentleman. 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 ``` Satter eet Aaa ee eee i a ae iat a eee ee. Fe nm 820 ae MN REE, EY SARE Or ee re Nea SNS ES STRIKES AND THEIR EFFECT, and in other countries are giving thoughful people great concern, Not only many large industries are paralyzed by the — striking workers, but, in large cities like Chicago, strikes are ordered in departments the clos- ing down of which endangers the health of every citizen, Just at present the street and alley cleaners, re-enforced by other essential departmental employes, are on a strike for higher wages, and the budget for the year will have to be materially increased to meet the demands. The money must come from somewhere and that somewhere is the tax payer's pocket. With the cost of living steadily advancing the wage earner has a perfect right to de- mand more for his labor, but his demands should be reasonable and not enforced by violence. Strikers always command the sym- pathy of the masses until by some overt act they lose it. In the past it was at this point we stepped in and rescued the em- ployes from their embarrassing positions. The thought of bucking union labor never occurred to us. It was ever a case of follow- ing the first law of nature—self preservation. The unions in the main barred us from par- ticipating in the benefits of organization, yet it has never been clear how they expected us to be friendly or expected us to starve rather than fill a place left by a white striker, The inconsistency of the thing should have dawned upon them years ago. It should have been apparent that we are a strong factor—always were and always will be— in the labor world in America, For union- ism to triumph we must be recognized as a part and parcel of every trade, nor must we have separate organizations affiliated with the whites, for with that arrangement the day is not far distant when a break would come, Capital is never asleep and to con- serve its interests one organization might be pitted against the other. The dollar bill, not sentiment, rules the business world. Daily our services are becoming more in demand. Aliens, according to customs officials, are moving overseas at the rate of 1,000 a day. This exodus is going to have a marked effeet upon the labor supply in this country. No foreigners coming in, but 1,000 leaving a day, is going to deplete the markets of those men who have been doing the work that demanded muscle. There may he some falling off in these figures, but it is safe to assume that emigration may be fairly steady, or at least that we may not be flooded with the ‘‘cheap European labor,’’ the fear of which played so large a part in the sup- port of the exclusion bill in the last congress. Kverywhere labor has been granted greater power and better conditions. The strongest indication that these advantages will be maintained and even increased is the shortage of man power Europe will certainly face the moment her industries begin to pick up. The chief advocate of complete exclu- sion is the American Federation of Labor, and judging by the past, they are right in the position they take. Foreigners are not accustomed to the American standard of living. They overcrowd the labor market and keep down wages, especially in the un- skilled trades. They are hard to organize and hard to control when organized. Of course, depression in Europe may be so severe and prolonged that the tide will again set this way, but the possibility that work- men will be leaving rather than coming to the United States should cause us to take a new look at bills of exclusion, There has been some talk of opening the door to the Japanese and even to the Chinese workmen he placed on that ‘‘square deal’’ remains to be seen. The clause ‘‘for whites only’’ has not been stricken from the by-laws of some of the organizations, and until it is, labor, both black and white, will suffer. Unwill- ingly we assume the role of strike breakers. The labor unions drive us to it. We must live and to live we must work. If they will not protect us we must protect ourselves, and further, we will protect ourselves. The effect of a strike is largely problematical when the strikers have not the support of our workers, and if for no other reason than self protection it would seem that the unions could ill afford to keep us out of their organizations.—Chicago Defender. PURELY PERSONAL ‘ Irving Flowers of Portland visited the city the past week. The Aces (Seattle) cleaned up the Duces (Tacoma) at Wildwood July 4th. P. Frazier took in the Tacoma races July 4th. Henry Williams seems to have forgotten to return from his vacation. ) C. R. Anderson’s income tax next year will be a hummer. Charles H. Harvey and sons are sporting a magnificent auto. Dr. F. B. Cooper continues to bore for gold and is eminently successful. E. R. James hopes to have his new apartments at the Douglas ready for occu- pancy before September. Mrs. Marguerite Sloane’s church concert was a_ brilliant success. P. S. Barnett has many musical calls these days. Harvey Chandler is still looking for the sheriff to help him get that report. B. F. Tutt’s book sale is well worth your careful investigation. Dr. F. B. Cooper’s name has been sub- stituted for that of H. R. Cayton on the committee to wait upon Goy. Hart. Louis Cooper writes from France: ‘‘T am driving a truck and don’t care if I never come back.”’ Jim Young fits in a restaurant like the paper on the wall. Noy Pierson shaves notes at reasonable rates, so he says, but he will have to ‘*show me.”? Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Owens have copped a nice home at 5645 Sixth Avenue N.W. Thomas H. Jefferson, Newton Solomon, W. F. Green, Scott Harris and M. E. Bird make up the Everett delegation to the Masonic Grand Lodge at Tacoma next week. Mrs. Belle Slater Tyler will represent the state at the National Musicians meet in Chicago. Hi. J. Henry is a member of the grand jury that’s investigating the booze scandal. 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Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as Administrator of the estate of Dominico Lipari, Deceased; that all persons having claims against said deceased are hereby required to serve the same, duly verified, on said Administrator or his attorney of record at’ the address below stated, and file the same with the Clerk of said Court,’ together with proof of such service within six months after the date of first publication of this notice, or the same will be barred. Date of first publication July 12, 1919. NICHOLAS MONTERUSS, Administrator of said Estate. Address 1617 Lane St., Seattle, Wash. JOHN J. KINNANE, Attorney for Estate. 1927 1. C, Smith Bldg., Seattle, Wash. ile 108 ite Oa 0Nw: 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 F. 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 F. 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 heen 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 F. Rawlings, his wife, bearing date the 16th day of December, 1908, and filed for record in the office of the Auditor of hing 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. JOHN J, KINNANE, Attorney for Plaintiff. Office and Post Office Address: 1927 L. C. Smith Building, Seattle, Washington. First publication June 22, 1919.