Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 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 The editor hereof is unalterably opposed to Negro segregation either in church, in political or municipal affairs, and whenever it is done the final settlement of the alleged race problem in this country will be retarded just that much and for a certain length of time. But a few weeks ago, on the contrary, however, we published an article herein telling how well a colored community in this city is getting along and what a fine showing it makes, and yet all such is but vainly endeavoring to erect a black home on a white foundation, which "can't be did." It is utterly impossible for a white and a black race to live without friction in the same territory, land or country. For the good of our institutions the black folks should be scattered among the whites, and, if so, they (the blacks) would sooner adopt the ways and customs of the whites and lessen the danger of friction between them. All cities in the North, East and West of this country that have black belts are always in more or less danger of race riots. It is due to the fact that the whites and blacks know little or nothing of each other and each mistrusts the other and thereby springs up a wall of color prejudice. It is an undeniable fact that the foremost Negroes in the United States, even before and since the emancipation, are mixed bloods-offsprings of white and black parents. It is a further fact that the colored persons of this country who accomplish the most and who reach the highest strata in their acquired civilization are those who come in immediate contact with the leading white men and women. Those, if you please, who have as their neighbors the most influential white men of their respective communities. In order for the colored man to be able to meet the emergencies of the future, when neither color nor creed will be considered, he must do things as do white men. Now when and where, if ever, the amalgamation of the white and black folks will begin after all this higher state of civilization has been attained by the black man is a question for the future to settle. It is difficult for westerners to understand the race riots which have occurred in Washington and Chicago for the reason that we have no race problem here. There are many colored men living in Seattle, to be sure, but the most of them are educated Negroes. They know their rights, and would insist upon them if necessary. But it is not necessary, for the whites have no quarrel with them. I do not believe that, with the class of colored men there is in Seattle, race riots would be possible. If a white should perform a crime against a Negro he would be punished promptly and sufficiently by the law. The question of white or black would not enter into the controversy. And if a black should perform a crime against a white the same would apply. But in the East there are more tough black men just as there are more tough and uneducated whites.—The (Seattle) Argus. The above excerpt is truly the proverbial clap of thunder from a clear sky. No man in Seattle, and certainly no publisher, has shown more indifference toward the uplift of the colored population of this community in particular and the United States in general than the editor of The Argus, and in spite of his past indifferences he writes as no one else in Seattle has written on the causes of "race riots." When white men in all walks of life here and elsewhere, give colored men in like condition, the same public consideration as has the above editor, then there will be no more race riots and less race prejudice and hatred between persons of different colors and conditions in this country. A white man has no more right, according to the laws of our land, to impose upon a colored men than does a colored man upon a white man and whoever does it should be punished by the law. Anent the anti-Japanese sentiment, the Star of Seattle has endeavored to fasten upon the citizens of Seattle in particular and the Northwest in general, the undeveloped agricultural conditions of the Puget Sound country would seem to indicate that the driving of the Japanese out would be cutting off your nose to spite your face. Coming home from Cle Elum last Monday evening, at least fifty miles of country was passed through and the most marked signs of human habitation was the track on which the train traveled, which was but a circuitous winding highway through the jungles of the virgin forests. In the fifty miles not one farm was seen. Persons residing on those lands come to Seattle for the fruit and vegetables grown by Japanese, on which to exist. Instead of driving the Japanese from our shores those vast acres of undeveloped land would seem to be calling a million Japanese to their aid and assistance to become fertile fields and fine farms. Speaking about the Japanese and the development of wild lands reminds the writer of the fact that twenty years ago Vashon Island was almost in a virgin state, the lands not being valued at more than $10 per acre. The owners leased the lands for a nominal sum for five years or more to Japanese to clear and cultivate the same, and now those lands are valued as high as a thousand dollars per acre. The Japanese is the most thrifty class of human beings in the Northwest, not even excepting the white man. From an agricultural and horticultural standpoint he holds the Northwest in the hollow of his hands, Pullman Agricultural College to the contrary notwithstanding. If by force of circumstances the entire Japanese colony of the Northwest would suddenly quit this country, the actual citizens hereof amid all of their wealth would suffer for want of food for the next three years. And so you see the Jap just now is essential to our lives. VOL. IV., NO. 9 In discussing the country known as the Yakima Valley, a colored man, who has a boot black stand in Toppenish, said to the writer: "The Japanese seem to realize more out of their farms in that valley than do the citizens. He is forced to pay $15 per acre per year for such lands as he leases, and he pays more for any help he has to hire than any one else, but at that he. I repeat, seems to realize more out of his farms than the white and black citizens, who can rent the same lands for $3 per acre per year. The white and black folks, in but rare instances, do little more than drag along year by year and eke out an existence, while those little devils make big money. Our government should not permit them to drive the citizens from the farms as they are doing. Concluding this brief discussion of the Japanese invasion of the Northwest in particular and the United States in general, it occurs to us that the white man is after all not the mighty master of mankind that he has been represented to be, if he is frightened out of his wits at the prospects of a Japanese invasion. In Japan proper there are but sixty million Japanese, while in the United States there are one hundred and twenty million white citizens. Now, if the entire Japanese race was put in the United States, even then the white man should look for no great amount of trouble in ruling the land as he is now doing. It is preposterous to predict dire calamity to this government from the 100,000 Japanese already here, who are doing nothing but farming the lands of the white man at a high rental and selling the white man the products of the lands at a less figure than do those white men who farm and sell their products to each other. In asking to personally defray all of the expense of bringing Billingsley back to Seattle, it seems to us that Sheriff Stringer is admitting a guilty connection with his escape. Since Billingsley has gone we think the community is perfectly willing to say, "Let him go and may God bless him, wherever he may be." In the Gill trial Billingsley rendered the community invaluable service and did not deserve the drastic punishment meeted out to him, despite the fact he was guilty of the crime for which he did time. His incarceration in the King County stockade was in the form of a punishment for exposing a corrupt official ring in Seattle, by odds more criminal than was Billingsley, and that is saying a good deal. Grant you that political pull and influence were responsible for the pardoning of James J. Callaghan, who had been found guilty of embezzlement, but in spite of those a more deserving gubernatorial elemency document never left a state house than the one that freed Jim Callaghan from that conviction. All the time he held the position as charity commissioner of King County he helped deserving men and women. He did not compel them to bow down and take a pauper's oath before helping them, but he helped them without any one of them surrendering the spirit of a man for aye that. He did things he could not legally explain and he helped persons who were ashamed for their fellowmen to know that they were being so helped and here again Cayton's Weekly --- PRICE FIVE CENTS CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington, U. S. A. In the interest of equal rights and equal justice to all men and for "all men up." A publication of general information, but in the main voicing the sentiments of the Colored Citizens. Subscription $2 per year in advance. Special rates made to clubs and societies. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON..Editor and Publisher Entred as second class matter, August 18, 1916, at the post office at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910 Office 303 22nd Ave. South THE PASSING THRONG The editor hereof is unalterably opposed to Negro segregation either in church, in political or municipal affairs, and whenever it is done the final settlement of the alleged race problem in this country will be retarded just that much and for a certain length of time. But a few weeks ago, on the contrary, however, we published an article herein telling how well a colored community in this city is getting along and what a fine showing it makes, and yet all such is but vainly endeavoring to erect a black home on a white foundation, which "can't be did." It is utterly impossible for a white and a black race to live without friction in the same territory, land or country. For the good of our institutions the black folks should be scattered among the whites, and, if so, they (the blacks) would sooner adopt the ways and customs of the whites and lessen the danger of friction between them. All cities in the North, East and West of this country that have black belts are always in more or less danger of race riots. It is due to the fact that the whites and blacks know little or nothing of each other and each mistrusts the other and thereby springs up a wall of color prejudice. It is an undeniable fact that the foremost Negroes in the United States, even before and since the emancipation, are mixed bloods—offsprings of white and black parents. It is a further fact that the colored persons of this country who accomplish the most and who reach the highest strata in their acquired civilization are those who come in immediate contact with the leading white men and women. Those, if you please, who have as their neighbors the most influential white men of their respective communities. In order for the colored man to be able to meet the emergencies of the future, when neither color nor creed will be considered, he must do things as do white men. Now when and where, if ever, the amalgamation of the white and black folks will begin after all this higher state of civilization has been attained by the black man is a question for the future to settle. It is difficult for westerners to understand the race riots which have occurred in Washington and Chicago for the reason that we have no race problem here. There are many colored men living in Seattle, to be sure, but the most of them are educated Negroes. They know their rights, and would insist upon them if necessary. But it is not necessary, for the whites have no quarrel with them. I do not believe that, with the class of colored men there is in Seattle, race riots would be possible. If a white should perform a crime against a Negro he would be punished promptly and SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1919 sufficiently by the law. The question of white or black would not enter into the controversy. And if a black should perform a crime against a white the same would apply. But in the East there are more tough black men just as there are more tough and uneducated whites.—The (Seattle) Argus. The above excerpt is truly the proverbial clap of thunder from a clear sky. No man in Seattle, and certainly no publisher, has shown more indifference toward the uplift of the colored population of this community in particular and the United States in general than the editor of The Argus, and in spite of his past indifferences he writes as no one else in Seattle has written on the causes of "race riots." When white men in all walks of life here and elsewhere, give colored men in like condition, the same public consideration as has the above editor, then there will be no more race riots and less race prejudice and hatred between persons of different colors and conditions in this country. A white man has no more right, according to the laws of our land, to impose upon a colored men than does a colored man upon a white man and whoever does it should be punished by the law. Anent the anti-Japanese sentiment, the Star of Seattle has endeavored to fasten upon the citizens of Seattle in particular and the Northwest in general, the undeveloped agricultural conditions of the Puget Sound country would seem to indicate that the driving of the Japanese out would be cutting off your nose to spite your face. Coming home from Cle Elum last Monday evening, at least fifty miles of country was passed through and the most marked signs of human habitation was the track on which the train traveled, which was but a circuitous winding highway through the jungles of the virgin forests. In the fifty miles not one farm was seen. Persons residing on those lands come to Seattle for the fruit and vegetables grown by Japanese, on which to exist. Instead of driving the Japanese from our shores those vast acres of undeveloped land would seem to be calling a million Japanese to their aid and assistance to become fertile fields and fine farms. Speaking about the Japanese and the development of wild lands reminds the writer of the fact that twenty years ago Vashon Island was almost in a virgin state, the lands not being valued at more than $10 per acre. The owners leased the lands for a nominal sum for five years or more to Japanese to clear and cultivate the same, and now those lands are valued as high as a thousand dollars per acre. The Japanese is the most thrifty class of human beings in the Northwest, not even excepting the white man. From an agricultural and horticultural standpoint he holds the Northwest in the hollow of his hands, Pullman Agricultural College to the contrary notwithstanding. If by force of circumstances the entire Japanese colony of the Northwest would suddenly quit this country, the actual citizens hereof amid all of their wealth would suffer for want of food for the next three years. And so you see the Jap just now is essential to our lives. VOL. IV., NO. 9 In discussing the country known as the Yakima Valley, a colored man, who has a boot black stand in Toppenish, said to the writer: "The Japanese seem to realize more out of their farms in that valley than do the citizens. He is forced to pay $15 per acre per year for such lands as he leases, and he pays more for any help he has to hire than any one else, but at that he. I repeat, seems to realize more out of his farms than the white and black citizens, who can rent the same lands for $3 per acre per year. The white and black folks, in but rare instances, do little more than drag along year by year and eke out an existence, while those little devils make big money. Our government should not permit them to drive the citizens from the farms as they are doing. Concluding this brief discussion of the Japanese invasion of the Northwest in particular and the United States in general, it occurs to us that the white man is after all not the mighty master of mankind that he has been represented to be, if he is frightened out of his wits at the prospects of a Japanese invasion. In Japan proper there are but sixty million Japanese, while in the United States there are one hundred and twenty million white citizens. Now, if the entire Japanese race was put in the United States, even then the white man should look for no great amount of trouble in ruling the land as he is now doing. It is preposterous to predict dire calamity to this government from the 100,000 Japanese already here, who are doing nothing but farming the lands of the white man at a high rental and selling the white man the products of the lands at a less figure than do those white men who farm and sell their products to each other. In asking to personally defray all of the expense of bringing Billingsley back to Seattle, it seems to us that Sheriff Stringer is admitting a guilty connection with his escape. Since Billingsley has gone we think the community is perfectly willing to say, "Let him go and may God bless him, wherever he may be." In the Gill trial Billingsley rendered the community invaluable service and did not deserve the drastic punishment meeting out to him, despite the fact he was guilty of the crime for which he did time. His incarceration in the King County stockade was in the form of a punishment for exposing a corrupt official ring in Seattle, by odds more criminal than was Billingsley, and that is saying a good deal. Grant you that political pull and influence were responsible for the pardoning of James J. Callaghan, who had been found guilty of embezzlement, but in spite of those a more deserving gubernatorial elemency document never left a state house than the one that freed Jim Callaghan from that conviction. All the time he held the position as charity commissioner of King County he helped deserving men and women. He did not compel them to bow down and take a pauper's oath before helping them, but he helped them without any one of them surrendering the spirit of a man for aye that. He did things he could not legally explain and he helped persons who were ashamed for their fellowmen to know that they were being so helped and here again --- ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` Jim Callaghan showed his big heartedness by permitting all the load to fall on him. In spite of his misfortunes, Jim Callaghan is one of God's noblemen. Hundreds of colored and white people came together last Monday at Cle Elum, Washington, for an annual celebration, which was commemorative of the Act of Parliament emancipating the black slaves of the West Indies in 1837, which eventually brought about the emancipation of the black folks held as slaves throughout the world. Probably a great majority of those present knew little or nothing of the underlying cause for that celebration, but the big feed of barbecued beef was promised, and that was their cause of coming. After having been called to order by James E. Shepperson, the moving spirit of the occasion, a splendid paper apropos to the cail of the gatherings was read by Miss Williams and this was followed by an address by the Hon. E. K. Brown of Ellensburg, which was full and overflowing with pride, pathos and patriotism for the American people and from the record the black man of this country had made in times long gone by and in the recent world war he, too, was entitled to more than a great many persons seemed willing to give to him. An advertisement in the P.-I. last Saturday increased the size of the Sunday evening congregation at the First M. E. Church of this city very much. Dr. Crowther advertised that the subject of his sermon would be "Race Riots," and that was his subject and, believe me, he handled it without gloves. Never before have we heard a subject pertaining to the American Negro handled with such force and fairness. While he told his audience no more than what we, and all other well informed colored men know, and what the average white man should know, vet we never heard either a white or colored man tell a white audience in such forcible language its shortcomings toward the black man of this country. If during his entire discourse he said one appologetic thing in favor of the actions of the intolerant white man we did not hear it. So far as the black man is concerned it was the Sermon on the Mount. Let not the bugbear of social equality deter white men of well balanced minds from seeing to it that colored men be given an absolute square deal before the law and as near as the circumstances will permit an equal opportunity in the battle of life. The colored man makes no effort to become active in the industrial world of this country because he knows his color is a handicap. He may have the ability and in some instances the experience, but he is a marked man because he is classed as colored. In the past he has never favored anarchism. Bolshevists or the rule or ruin element, but is it not reasonable to suppose he will do so if he finds at every entrance to the industrial world the door of hope closed against him? There are few avenues open to the educated colored man seeking a higher life, but he still has hopes. The white man will have to do more than preach justice, but has to begin to practice it if anarchy is to be prevented in this country. May, perhaps, the colored folks got a shade the better of the Chicago riots, but now that things have quieted down the DR. C. I. 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 thitis style and fashion. Rates very reasonable. Beacon 1910. P. FRAZIER Real Estate. Insurance, Collections. 316 Pacific Block, Seattle Main 4554. J. W. EDMUNDS, OPH. D., Graduate Op- Eye Specialist. Personal attention given in Eye examinations for Glasses. Fifteen years in Seattle. Balcony, Fraser-Paterson Co. --- grand jury has begun operation and already a score or more colored men and women have been indicted but not one white person. While the colored people may have fought back in Chicago, yet it is a well known fact that they did not start the trouble. It was the wilful killing of that young man at the bathing beach by the white bathers that started the riots and yet it will be the colored people who will get all of the punishment in the courts. It will be remembered that after the East St. Louis riots it was the colored people and not the white that the courts sent to the penitentiary, though the riot was precipitated to drive the colored folks out of the town. However anxious the 100,000 or more subscribers may have been to get the Chicago Defender, not one got it, and all because the entire issue of the paper was bought up by the state authorities and the same suppressed. Rumor has it that the Defender contained the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth as far as the Chicago riots were concerned and the state authorities bought up the issue lest it, if circulated, would add further fuel to the rioting flames. It is always considered dangerous to tell the whole truth about the valor of the colored man and the publication that attempts it is either violently suppressed or is subsidized. Even the good things the colored soldiers did in France are suppressed by the authorities of this country and the daily press. To sell the food the government purchased for the army in France to the citizens at cost is a short step in the right direction, but the amount is but a drop in the bucket, as it would not feed the entire population more than a day, yea, verily if that long. Continuous lower rates for food is what the people need and what they must get or anarchy will run riot throughout this entire land and country. Sugar, it is reported, will soon be selling at 15 cents per pound, to say the least, twice two high. Shoes are to double in price in the very near future and, as in these necessities of life, so is it to be with all others. As the man with a big family faces the future nothing but black despair confronts him. At the soaring price of necessities it will be a physical impossibility for a man to provide for his family the coming winter. A statement has been issued by the Japanese government to the effect that as soon as Japan and China reach an agreement, Japan will evacuate Shantung. "As soon as," mind you, but the probabilities are that "as soon as" will never come. The exactions from China will be so great for Japan to evacuate Shantung that China would fare just as well to permit the Japanese to continue to occupy the country. The disputed territory of Shantung has a population of forty million, but twenty millions less than Japan's entire population. The country is rich in natural resources and the Japanese claim that the United States' capitalistic class is jealous of Japan getting control of those resources, for the reason that the Japanese trade with the United States would be greatly decreased. In our opinion the Shantung affair is the seat of the next world war. In disposing of the army food to the people let the postmasters not overlook the facts that the trusts are in more eminent need of the same than is the average householder, and let said postmasters further see to it that the said impoverished trusts be sold the lion's share of the said unused necessities of life. It will be a burning shame to deprive those poor fellows of the benefit of the low prices the government will sell those articles of food for. The crime of Shantung will hardly be eclipsed by any that may occur during the twentieth century and yet the president of the much boasted republic of the world, with high sounding platitudes and rounded phrases, is endeavoring to justify it. Imagine, if you will, the turning over of forty million souls to be ruled, governed and shamefully abused by sixty million souls of an autocratic government and you will have some slight idea of how our noble president is making the world safe for democracy. If amid the roaring canons and the screaming humanity calling for protection as it flies in and out of the capitol building to dodge the maddened mobs, one could hear Uncle Sam's prayer as he calmly sits on the Statue of Liberty, something like this might be heard: "Give me strength, Oh Lord, to help humanity. Aid me to crush the power of Turkey that the Armenians may be free forever. Strengthen my grip on Bulgaria that the Jews may no longer be crushed. Approve of my act in turning over the heathen Chinese to the Japs, who will civilize them by enslaving them, as I have done the Negro in this country." LISTEN! Are you going to the Grand Dancing Entertainment given by the Efficiency Club MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1919, 8:30 O'CLOCK You Know Us.—At Renton Club House, 18th and Madison. COMMITTEE. J. T. Gayton, A. Hartsfield, S. Young, C. Miller, Ed. A. Pitter, W. H. Wilson, Arthur Williams. Watch for announcement of formal complimentary entertainment. Leave your name and address or card for invitation. WHERE TO EAT At the Diamond you will find everything as you like it. Chaffen Dishes Our Specialty. So long as you eat, so long will you live. If, therefore, you want to live long, come to the Diamond to eat. Boxes for ladies. WE NEVER SLEEP GEORGE SIMMONDS, Proprietor William McHinton, Manager 1207 Jackson Street The Grand Opening of the ATLAS POOL HALL Is Announced, with BOB DISHMORE, Proprietor, M. C. HARRIS, Manager 1212 Main Street 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 "OUR OWN SUBJECT RACE" REBELS There is a touch of irony, a good many observers find, in the chance that brought a race-riot to President Wilson's door in Washington so soon after he had returned from looking after the needs of supprest nationalities and subject races in Europe. "One of the most brutal forms of oppression," asserts the New York World in an editorial entitled "Our Own Subject Race," "is the punishment of a whole race for the crimes of individuals. For many years this has been, and still is, the practise in American States that do not recognize the citizenship of the Negro." In the Washington riots, for the first time on any considerable scale, the Negroes met "mobs with mobs," and inflicted at least as many casualties as were inflicted on them. This rebellion against injustice was "bound to come," according to The World, which concludes: "We grieve over the hardships of many subject peoples a long way off, and on occasion manifest something resembling indignation, but in all the world there is hardly a population so God-forsaken and law-forsaken as our own blacks." The trouble in Washington had its roots, according to most observers, in crimes committed by Negroes: "as a matter of fact," observes the New York Times, "practically all the crimes of violence in Washington were committed by Negroes." In the last few months violence has so increased that the Washington Herald called the country's capital "the most lawless city in the Union." "Crimes against women," "daylight hold-ups," and "other outrages," we read, incited white men, mainly soldiers and sailors, to a general attack upon the Negroes. The Negroes armed themselves and fought back. Automobiles loaded with black rioters fired on convalescent soldiers on the lawns of a Washington hotel. Eight persons were killed, and some hundreds wounded, before troops called through the initiative of Secretary Baker and President Wilson finally got the situation in hand. Throughout the whole trouble, complains the New York Times, the Washington police. "trained for at least a generation to expect comparatively few crimes from the whites, and to regard the Negro population as in the main not only law-abiding but even submissive," were incapable of hanliding the situation. They failed, since all their training had been that of constables doing duty in a peaceful town, just as they failed to protect the women suffrage-paraders from rioters a few years ago. But to say that the magnitude of the trouble was the fault of the police is simply keeping our race question "in abeyance," in the words of the New York Globe. The Amsterdam News (New York), which refers to itself in a subtitle as "The Leading Colored Newspaper," probes the recent outbreak to this effect: "What is the matter with the white soldiers and marines that they have come back from 'over there' determined to give the Afro-American soldiers, sailors, and people all the trouble they possibly can? "We have had violent outbreaks of white soldiers and sailors at Norfolk, Charleston, Pensacola, and now at Washington, with isolated instances in all parts of the country, against black soldiers and sailors, some seven of whom, it is said, have been lynched, without justifying provocation: and there is no justifying provocation for lynch-law. "There must be something at the bottom of this new hatred which the white soldiers and sailors have fetched back from France against the black soldiers and sailors. It is said that the cause is to be found in the unusual valor of the black soldiers, brigaded with the French and commanded by French officers, and the splendid recognition of their heroic services that the French government and commanders bestowed upon them, in decorations and citations, in orders, and the like, together with the open-arms hospitality that the French people extended to them. They accepted them as men and brethren. "The Southern white soldiers and their sympathizers resented this generous treatment of the French government and people, and the conclusion is, irresistibly, that they are now, through the methods of the lynch-oerat, undertaking to keep the Negro in his place—the place that the white soldiers and sailors and their sympathizers think he should occupy, and not the place he made for himself as a soldier in action and as an industrial force in essential industries at home." Ex-Senator Vardaman, of Mississippi, whose Weekly is strongly of the opinion that "the mob is the only protection of the white man's home," and who is, therefore, calling upon "the bravest and best" in Mississippi to organize, "since there is no doubt that hell will be to pay in this country in the near future," agrees with The Amsterdam News at least in admitting that the American Negro's experience in France has sharpened our own race problem. The colored man in France was received by the inhabitants on a basis of social equality. Senator Vardaman describes these returned Negroes as "French-women-ruined," and holds the threat of Judge Lynch over their heads. His sole thought is of hangings and burnings at the stake," comments the New York Evening Post, "whenever, as he elegantly expressed it in connection with a recent lynching where an innocent Negro was done to death, "the infuriated mob demanded a victim upon which to wreck their revenge." While the Washington Star remarks that the "unusual spectacle" of rioting in Washington is "enough to shock the community seriously," the New York Globe calls it "a humiliating and shameful business," in which the only discoverable moral is that "we make no protense nowadays of settling the race question; we simply keep it in abeyance." The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, when asked by The Digest for an expression of opinion on the matter, forwarded their "Ninth Annual Report," with a marked paragraph. This paragraph not only contains a criticism of the mob tactics employed by the Negroes to meet the mob tactics of the whites, but suggests one large source of trouble that most other commentators neglect. It runs: "We would deeply deplore the forcible defense of Negroes by other Negroes, since it would perhaps lead to sanguinary conflicts between the lower elements of whites and the Negroes, but no sane observer can fail to reflect that either white men, who make and enforce the laws, must stop mob attacks upon black men, no matter what reason may be given for the attacks, or confess themselves unable to maintain law and order and protect all citizens from unlawful attack. "No class of citizens can be denied the protection of the law with impunity."—Literary Digest. RENEWING OLD ACQUAINTANCES For the past month I have been doing quite a bit of getting around work and during that time I have met quite a few persons of color whom I met in Seattle twenty years ago. Age on some of them has begun to leave its imprints, but at that the most of them I found to be well preserved in spite of their age. "One is as old as he feels" is a saying and there is something in it. Twenty-seven years ago to me seems almost as yesterday and I do not feel a day older today than I did twenty-seven years ago. But in spite of our feelings and our looks, as far as age is concerned all of us are growing older day by day and some day the end will come. Twenty-seven years ago there was between 500 and 1,000 colored persons in Seattle and I knew the most of them, but of that number few are left to tell the tale. While death has exacted its toll, yet greener fields have claimed the majority of them. However, among those I met were John F. Cragwell, who has always done well in Seattle and is still doing so. I saw him at his home feeling his best and save a few gray hairs he looked but little different than he did twenty-seven years ago. Twenty years from now, barring unforeseen mishaps, he will still be wearing a smiling face and pushing Father Time back. And then I met Mrs. Etta Hawkins, widow of the late J. E. Hawkins, and I was agreeably surprised how well she is holding back her age. In a home, the yard of which is a bevy of shrubbery, Mrs. Hawkins busies herself with her daily duties and is wholly unmindful of her years. As I walked into her home I met Ed's life-size picture in the hall and again twenty-seven years seemed but yesterday to me. Real estate that her husband left at the time of his death of questionable value is now enhancing in value and, if money will help any, she will soon have quite a bit of it and can live on and on. Then I met Bob Dixon, who never had an enemy, but sickness and age have told on him and he, to some extent, has undergone some changes in the past twenty-seven years, but Bob was fifty when I first met him. He is happily surrounded by his grandchildren and is still cheerful. It was a pleasure to shake the hand of John T. Gayton, who can still whirl in the mazy dance like a budding kid. He has some gray hairs, but otherwise he has not greatly changed. Mr. Gayton has a growing family, which makes him hustle to provide for and that to an extent has aged him. He is doing quite well financially. If Mrs. Jennie Clark was but twenty years old twenty-seven years ago, she is but forty-seven now. She looks some different now than what she did then and yet she is still good to look on. Mrs. Clark is almost as active in business now as she was twenty-seven years ago. She is in good health and is making a good living. How well you look, I said to Henry Jones, who lives at Kennydale, who twenty-seven years ago was a coal miner in Franklin, and the remark was not an empty platitude. No he is not quite sixty, but is sixty's next door neighbor, and still he looks hale and hearty. Some years ago he gave up coal mining and devoted his time to improving a ten-acre tract on which he lives. He is doing reasonably well financially and otherwise. I shook his hand and was glad to see him because I had known him for all these years. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Clark are the same Mr. and Mrs. Clark in looks and actions that they were twenty-seven years ago when I rolled into Seattle and looked over the colored population. He was hustling then, and he is still hustling. I know both of them are twenty-seven years older than they were twenty-seven years ago, but they do not seem to be no more physically incapacitated now than they did then. Mr. Clark is just as hopeful that he will die a millionaire now as he was then. After having reared a large and interesting family and wishing them all, save one, their parents' blessings as they went out for themselves they are almost back to their starting point, "me and my wife."—Editor. 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 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 ``` "MAKE AMERICA SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY" (Jim Jam Jems.) As a slogan the title of this article suits us. We are aweary and we don't mind saying so, of a flock of phraseological rainbows which lead nowhere. "Making the world asfe for democracy:" "self determination of smaller nations:" "open covenants of peace openly arrived at:" "men of vision:" "new spirit and methods" and "the same great family of the world," all glittered alluringly until they were sunk in the slimy depths of intrigue, chicanery and diplomatic grab and graft at the so-called Peace Conference. "Tis sweet to be remembered," and the gratitude of our European brethren positively floods our tear ducts. Take a look at it. Russia after carelessly annexing a few hundred millions of American money massacres American soldiers sent there to prevent German lootage of war supplies. But their hatred of America hasn't yet resulted in repaying the hundreds of millions out of which they gipped us, has it? Gangs of Italians paraded in front of the American Embassy at Rome calling down curses upon America, and everything American—except the American money which was keeping their wobbly government alive. In Hamburg there was an anti-American riot in front of the American club with obliging interpreters translating into English the hoots and curses of the mob. Over in "dear old England" they don't riot about America. They just calmly remark that we didn't accomplish much in the war anyway, just sort of casually strolled in at the finish and stole the applause. It was different when Balfour was here with his hat in his hand in the spring of 1917: it was different when Douglas Haig said their "backs were against the wall"; it was different when they were imploring aid and sending transports to hurry American soldiers to their crumbling fronts: it was different in March, 1918, when the Germans were chasing them to the channel ports. But even "dear old England's" scorn of American intrepidity and valor—and her smug forgetfulness of the hells of Chateau Thierry and the Argonne forest—haven't resulted in the payment of her huge indebtedness to America. John Bull's magnificent disdain hasn't gone far enough vet to produce payment of any of those billions of dollars America loaned him in his dire need when no other nation on this planet could or would do it. Oer in France, while the shopkeepers shake down Americans and American soldiers with prices that are merely gilded swindles, the Parisian papers cheerfully stab us with their polished rapiers of barbed sarcasms. But even French disgust with America and American methods hasn't resulted in any gold shipped hitherwards in payment of the enormous debt to America. Eerybody in Europe is hating and deriding America and Americans—without whose men and money their continent would have been but a blood-soaked segment of seared chaos! Who appointed the U. S. A. the Grand Almoner of this planet anyway? Why should we keep three-quarters of a million of American soldiers policing Europe and acting as collection agents for mounds of indemnities which we ourselves disdain? Why should America be the international "mopper-up" and disinfector financially, morally or governmentally of the age-old cesspools of European loot and intrigue and brigandage? We want to say here and now that we are no Internationalist. We are American. On American Decoration Day there were 70,000 graves of Americans on European soil to be decorated. The President and hundreds of thousands of American soldiers participated in those ceremonies. These American dead should be returned to American soil. But whether they are or not it is a good time for Americans to resolve that, peace league agreement or no TACOMA REAL ESTATE City of Unexcelled Opportunities. Manufacturing City of Northwest. R.R. Centre where rails and soils are I am offering nice cleared leevl lots ready to build on for $25 and up per lot on easy payment plan. City houses and lots, farms, improved and unimproved, cheap and on easy terms. Five nice cleared lots ready to build on for only $150 for the bunch on terms of $25 cash, balance monthly. H. P. LAWHORN, 403 National Bank of Tacoma Bldg., (13th and Pacific Avenue) Tacoma, Wash. peace league agreement, no visionary "mandatory" buncombe shall make necessary the decoration of any more American soldiers' graves on foreign soil. Let Europe and Asia and Africa do their own policing and execute their own "mandatories" and clean up their own cesspools! They made their own filth, let them clean it up or live with it! Let the Old World do its own disinfecting! Look at facts. We were compelled to enter this war—not to make money nor to save our loans as has been falsely charged to save Europe from destruction. We have lost 70,000 American lives; we have sunk over twenty-five billions dollars in war expenses; we have loaned over nine billions of dollars to our allies, balancing on bankruptcy's verge; we have brought home scores of thousands of maimed and invalided Americans; we have snatched hundreds of millions of Europeans from starvation's horrors and we have disbursed hundreds of millions of dollars in charities to suffering Europe! It is the most magnificent record of humanitarianism and of philanthropy and of minted charity ever written on this plant! Let's get out of Europe and let's stay out of Europe. We saved it. Must we therefore guard it, police it, disinfect it and rehabilitate it? America has a few problems of her own, such as unemployment, such as illiteracy, such as labor unrest, such as governmental graft and extravagance, such as the seacarrying trade, such as profiteering brigandage, such as competing with the ill-paid hordes of European and Asiatic peons and such as straightening out Mexican atrocities and murders and lootings perpetrated upon Americans. "Let us "make America safe for democracy" and for Americans. It is our heritage and the grandest on this planet. When America has no problems of its own to solve, when its huge war debt is all paid—when every American is employed at a good wage, when there is not an illiterate in its borders, when its government is administered honestly and economically—when all that happens, along about the Millenium, will be a good time to attend to the abolition of evil in the rest of the world. And pending the dawn of that golden day we believe in "making America safe for democracy." Don't you? PURELY PERSONAL Albert Murphy was accidentally shot by James Boyd last Monday evening. C. H. Baker was among those who took in the barbecue at Cle Elum. Tommy Williams, one of the tonsorial artists at Tutt's shop, has gone to British Columbia to reside. Noy Pierson having had little success in landing fish with his tackle went in person after them and had less success. Mrs. J. M. Evans, Mr. Burnsides, and others motored to Cle Elum last Monday to the barbecue. Miss Washington visited in Seattle for a few days. She returned to her home last Tuesday morning. Newton Johns has gone to Bustal, Pennsylvania, to visit with relatives and former friends. After spending some time there he will go to Washington City, New York, and other places on the Atlantic seaboard. Some years ago Mr. Johns jumped into national renown by plunging into the bay at Seattle and saving a dozen or more persons in the act of drowning on account of a fallen wharf. Mr. Johns has many friends and admirers in Seattle. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS Dispatches say President Wilson is worried over the threatened labor troubles, which must be his first experience. Negroes are responsible for all race riots and that's why they are always the first to be indicted after such outbreaks. In preaching such sermons as did Dr. Crowther last Sunday eevning he is toying with dynamite. Because the Japanese are both frugal and industrious the Star wants them driven out of the country. "Busts the Trusts" sounds good, but it occurs to us that the trusts are about to burst the country. Who will be the first to write a history on the Chicago race riots? is the burning question just now. It was truly a case of "bull" run at the Chicago unpleasantness and he did so to avoid it being "bull" dead. To save further humiliation we suggest that Seattle either jump the league for the season or supplant its present aggregation with the Alhambra team. COLORED LITERATURE Books, Magazines, Eastern Periodicals. High-brow Toilet Articles. First Class Tonsorial Articles at Tutt's Shop, 300 Main Street. DON'T MISS THE Dance and Reception FOR 815th PIONEER INFANTRY at KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS HALL Wednesday Evening, August 13, 1919 1401 Harvard Ave. Soldiers in Uniform Free Admission 75 cents Stop! Look! Listen!!! G. U. O. OF ODD FELLOWS Will Give Their Fifteenth Annual Picnic August 18th, 1919, Don't Miss the Biggest and Best Picnic of the Season. Plenty Refreshments of All Kinds, Fried Chicken. Plenty of Jazz Music by the Best Jazz Band in Town. Lots of Sport. FISHING, BATHING AND BOATING. Take the Yesler Way Cable to Leschi Boats for Wildwood. Admission, including fare on boat and grounds, 75 cents. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County.—In Probate. In the Matter of the Estate of Laura M. Proctor. Deceased—No. 35170. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as administratrix of the estate of Laura M. Proctor, deceased; that all persons having claims against said deceased or against said estate are hereby required to serve the same, duly verified, on said Lucy Scott Whitley or her 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 August 9, 1919. LUCY SCOTT WHITLEY, Administratrix of said Estate. Address 791-703 Leary Building, Seattle, Wash. E. H. GUIE, Attorney for Estate. 701-703 Leary Building, Seattle, Wash. ---