Cayton's Weekly

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1919 PRICE FIVE CENTS CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington. U. S. A. Subscription $2 per year in advance. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON..Editor and Publisher Entred as second class matter, August 18, 1916, at the post office at Seattle, 'Vash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. SOUTHERN PROPAGANDA Recently the following open letter was issued by James Weldon Johnson bearing upon the race riots in Washington City and Chicago, which is so full of meat for thought that the same is herewith reproduced: There has been for a number of years a well-directed propaganda, issuing principally from the South, which has had as its purpose placing the brand of rapist on the Negro race. This propaganda has been partly successful in establishing in the public mind the idea that there is the direct relation of cause and effect between rape and mob violence against the Negro. Whenever the Negro protests against lynching nearly all southern newspapers and a great many northern newspapers call upon him to deprecate the crime which leads to lynching. The authentic statistics of lynching prove the falsehood on which this propaganda is based. In the twenty years down to 1903 there were 1.985 Negroes lynched in the Southern states. Of that number rape was assigned as the cause in only 675 cases. In 1.310 cases other causes were assigned. In the past thirty years fifty Negro women have been lynched. In the past twelve months five Negro women have been lynched. In the fiveyear period, 1914-1919, 264 Negroes were lynched in the United States, exclusive of those killed at East St. Louis, and of this number rape was assigned as the cause in only 28 cases. Contrast these records, bad as they may appear, with the records for New York county, which is only a part of New York city, and we find that in this one county, in the single year of 1917, 230 persons were indicted for rape by the grand jury. Of this number 37 were indicted for rape in the first degree. That is, in just a part of New York city, the number of persons indicted for rape in the first degree was nine more than the total number of Negroes lynched on the charge of rape in the entire United States during the period 1914-1918. Among these 37 persons indicted by the New York country grand jury there was not a single Negro. The evidence required by the grand jury of New York county to indict a person charged with rape must be more conclusive than the evidence required by a mob to lynch a Negro accused of rape. When the congressional committee on immigration in 1911 made its study of crime in the United States an investigation was made of 2.262 cases in the New York Court of General Sessions, and in that investigation it was found that the percentage for the crime of rape was lower for the Negro than for either the foreign born or native born whites. The actual figures were for foreign-born whites, 1.8: for native-born white, .8, and for Negroes, .5. The echoes from the Washington riots are a present illustration of how this propa- ganda against the Negro works. The newspapers have been filled with attacks on white women as an excuse for the riots, and these 'attacks on white women' are now being used by Southern papers as an excuse and justification for the first acts of the white mob. A retired judge of the Superior Court of North Carolina, writing on the Washington riots in the Wilmington Dispatch, speaks of Negroes seizing automobiles and riding and snorting through the streets of Washington while the raping "went merrily on." What are the facts? According to the date of Major Pullman, chief of police of Washington, there took place in the District of Columbia, between June 25, 1919, and the outbreak of the riot, one case of rape and three cases of attempted rape. The first case of attempt was on a cloored school teacher. In three of these cases the suspect was one man, and he was in jail when the riots broke out. No publicity was given to the fact that five weeks before the riots two white men, a motorman and a conductor on a street car, attempted rape upon two colored girls, who were the only passengers in the car when it reached the end of the line. These two men are now under heavy bail. I repeat that there is a direct plan of propaganda on the part of the South to brand the Negro with being a rapist in order that he may be robbed of all sympathy and public interest when he is lynched and mobbed. The truth is, the Negro is not more addicted, and is perhaps less addicted, to rape than any other group in the country. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS Old Booze is beating it to China as a last resort. Probably he hopes to drive the Japs out of Shantung. The rich oil fields of Mexico may have much to do with the brewing war with Mexico that is heard of in England and United States circles. European women have become infected by the suffrage bug and are making a stand for universal suffrage—that is if America and Europe mean the universe. Perhaps Uncle Sam is endeavoring to head off Old Booze, who has already sailed for the Orient, which prompts him to dispatch an army officer in an airplane to China. Chicago's grand jury that struck for white gore has indicted twenty-five colored and twenty-one white rioters—not quite "hoss and hoss," but almost. Unless much precaution be used, Mexican bandits are liable to steal the most of our leading army officers stationed near the borders and either get big boodle for their return or force them to become bandits. That's some political maneuver on the part of Governor Hart to call an extra session of the legislature to ratify the woman suffrage amendment to the United States Constitution. If Hart does not now get the women vote then of course they will be absolutely hartless. Owing to the discovery of oil near West Columbia, Tex., Charles Brown, who owns 1,000 acres of timber land in the oil belt, on which oil wells are now flowing, is so VOL. IV., NO. 11 rich that he may fill the financial place recently left vacant by Carnegie. Mr. Brown is an ex-slave. Doubtless war is brewing with Mexico and if murdering United States citizens is responsible for the war brewing announcement, then this is no new brew, but the same old brew that has been brewing since the last war with Mexico was closed, which gives every evidence of going to die while brewing. A New York husband (white) has sued his wife for an absolute divorce and named Bert Williams, the noted colored comedian, as co-defendant. Bert has the money and Dempsey may yet get a wad of it from the sabled son of the footlights, which is more profitable than getting him lynched by a thousand miles. "Too much gold in the world." argues a British financier, and "Too much food in the world." argues an American trust hog. In the past, trust hogs have been destroying food in order to keep prices up and now we suspect the money hogs will go to destroying the gold in order to be able to control the entire money supply. In answer to the anti-Negro propaganda attempted to be spread in France by the United States soldiers, recently the French Chamber of Deputies adopted a resolution condemning race prejudice and affirming the absolute equality of all men without regard to race o recolor. And now Frenchmen spoiled Negroes may be consistently burned at the stake as have been the French women spoiled ones. That recent appeal to the Negroes who have left the South by the southern farmers "to return to their former homes at their expense" will not find a response. In distress, the southern white man is an angel without wings, so far as the colored man is concerned, but once out of trouble and he immediately becomes the same intolerant murderer that he has always been so far as the Negro is concerned. The Negro knows him of old. RACE RIOTS Race riots bring no prestige to any city. Neither Chicago nor Washington need hang its head unduly, however, for it was only the good fortune of a dozen or more large cities that prevented similar disorders elsewhere. The same fires of discontent with a world where the Negroes gives everything and receives little more than nothing in return are as ready to flame forth in Pittsburgh or Philadelphia as in Chicago. So long as we proceed upon the theory that the black man must enjoy only the crumbs of a white civilization, just so long are petty incidents like those that started the Chicago or Washington riots liable to release tensely controlled passions and bring on pitched battles between the races. There is no royal road to racial peace. Even in that day when the laborer shall receive the full social product of his labor and when all artificial barriers to work shall have been removed there will still remain traces of old hates. Racial hatred, like all hatred, is born of fear. Those who talk about the black menace or the yellow peril are merely thinking of the possibility of PRICE FIVE CENTS CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle. Washington. U. S. A. Subscription $2 per year in advance. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON..Editor and Publisher Entred as second class matter. August 18, 1916, at the post office at Seattle, "Vash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910 Office 303 22nd Ave. South SOUTHERN PROPAGANDA Recently the following open letter was issued by James Weldon Johnson bearing upon the race riots in Washington City and Chicago, which is so full of meat for thought that the same is herewith reproduced: There has been for a number of years a well-directed propaganda, issuing principally from the South, which has had as its purpose placing the brand of rapist on the Negro race. This propaganda has been partly successful in establishing in the public mind the idea that there is the direct relation of cause and effect between rape and mob violence against the Negro. Whenever the Negro protests against lynching nearly all southern newspapers and a great many northern newspapers call upon him to deprecate the crime which leads to lynching. The authentic statistics of lynching prove the falsehood on which this propaganda is based. In the twenty years down to 1903 there were 1.985 Negroes lynched in the Southern states. Of that number rape was assigned as the cause in only 675 cases. In 1.310 cases other causes were assigned. In the past thirty years fifty Negro women have been lynched. In the past twelve months five Negro women have been lynched. In the fiveyear period. 1914-1919. 264 Negroes were lynched in the United States, exclusive of those killed at East St. Louis, and of this number rape was assigned as the cause in only 28 cases. Contrast these records, bad as they may appear, with the records for New York county, which is only a part of New York city, and we find that in this one county, in the single year of 1917, 230 persons were indicted for rape by the grand jury. Of this number 37 were indicted for rape in the first degree. That is, in just a part of New York city, the number of persons indicted for rape in the first degree was nine more than the total number of Negroes lynched on the charge of rape in the entire United States during the period 1914-1918. Among these 37 persons indicted by the New York country grand jury there was not a single Negro. The evidence required by the grand jury of New York county to indict a person charged with rape must be more conclusive than the evidence required by a mob to lynch a Negro accused of rape. When the congressional committee on immigration in 1911 made its study of crime in the United States an investigation was made of 2.262 cases in the New York Court of General Sessions, and in that investigation it was found that the percentage for the crime of rape was lower for the Negro than for either the foreign born or native born whites. The actual figures were for foreign-born whites. 1.8: for native-born white, .8, and for Negroes, .5. The echoes from the Washington riots are a present illustration of how this propa- ganda against the Negro works. The newspapers have been filled with attacks on white women as an excuse for the riots, and these 'attacks on white women' are now being used by Southern papers as an excuse and justification for the first acts of the white mob. A retired judge of the Superior Court of North Carolina, writing on the Washington riots in the Wilmington Dispatch, speaks of Negroes seizing automobiles and riding and snorting through the streets of Washington while the raping "went merrily on." What are the facts? According to the date of Major Pullman, chief of police of Washington, there took place in the District of Columbia, between June 25, 1919, and the outbreak of the riot, one case of rape and three cases of attempted rape. The first case of attempt was on a cloeted school teacher. In three of these cases the suspect was one man, and he was in jail when the riots broke out. No publicity was given to the fact that five weeks before the riots two white men, a motorman and a conductor on a street car, attempted rape upon two colored girls, who were the only passengers in the car when it reached the end of the line. These two men are now under heavy bail. I repeat that there is a direct plan of propaganda on the part of the South to brand the Negro with being a rapist in order that he may be robbed of all sympathy and public interest when he is lynched and mobbed. The truth is, the Negro is not more addicted, and is perhaps less addicted, to rape than any other group in the country. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS Old Booze is beating it to China as a last resort. Probably he hopes to drive the Japs out of Shantung. The rich oil fields of Mexico may have much to do with the brewing war with Mexico that is heard of in England and United States circles. European women have become infected by the suffrage bug and are making a stand for universal suffrage—that is if America and Europe mean the universe. Perhaps Uncle Sam is endeavoring to head off Old Booze, who has already sailed for the Orient, which prompts him to dispatch an army officer in an airplane to China. Chicago's grand jury that struck for white gore has indicted twenty-five colored and twenty-one white rioters—not quite "hoss and hoss." but almost. Unless much precaution be used, Mexican bandits are liable to steal the most of our leading army officers stationed near the borders and either get big boodle for their return or force them to become bandits. That's some political maneuver on the part of Governor Hart to call an extra session of the legislature to ratify the woman suffrage amendment to the United States Constitution. If Hart does not now get the women vote then of course they will be absolutely hartless. Owing to the discovery of oil near West Columbia, Tex., Charles Brown, who owns 1,000 acres of timber land in the oil belt, on which oil wells are now flowing, is so rich that he may fill the financial place recently left vacant by Carnegie. Mr. Brown is an ex-slave. Doubtless war is brewing with Mexico and if murdering United States citizens is responsible for the war brewing announcement, then this is no new brew, but the same old brew that has been brewing since the last war with Mexico was closed, which gives every evidence of going to die while brewing. A New York husband (white) has sued his wife for an absolute divorce and named Bert Williams, the noted colored comedian, as co-defendant. Bert has the money and Dempsey may yet get a wad of it from the sabled son of the footlights, which is more profitable than getting him lynched by a thousand miles. "Too much gold in the world." argues a British financier, and "Too much food in the world." argues an American trust hog. In the past, trust hogs have been destroying food in order to keep prices up and now we suspect the money hogs will go to destroying the gold in order to be able to control the entire money supply. In answer to the anti-Negro propaganda attempted to be spread in France by the United States soldiers, recently the French Chamber of Deputies adopted a resolution condemning race prejudice and affirming the absolute equality of all men without regard to race or color. And now Frenchmen spoiled Negroes may be consistently burned at the stake as have been the French women spoiled ones. That recent appeal to the Negroes who have left the South by the southern farmers "to return to their former homes at their expense" will not find a response. In distress, the southern white man is an angel without wings, so far as the colored man is concerned, but once out of trouble and he immediately becomes the same intolerant murderer that he has always been so far as the Negro is concerned. The Negro knows him of old. RACE RIOTS Race riots bring no prestige to any city. Neither Chicago nor Washington need hang its head unduly, however, for it was only the good fortune of a dozen or more large cities that prevented similar disorders elsewhere. The same fires of discontent with a world where the Negroes gives everything and receives little more than nothing in return are as ready to flame forth in Pittsburgh or Philadelphia as in Chicago. So long as we proceed upon the theory that the black man must enjoy only the crumbs of a white civilization, just so long are petty incidents like those that started the Chicago or Washington riots liable to release tensely controlled passions and bring on pitched battles between the races. There is no royal road to racial peace. Even in that day when the laborer shall receive the full social product of his labor and when all artificial barriers to work shall have been removed there will still remain traces of old hates. Racial hatred, like all hatred, is born of fear. Those who talk about the black menace or the yellow peril are merely thinking of the possibility of a ™ a he Sic ute tt de nag nie. * es ie ~ . F rae iihieet ere. Lene a : RE: sc cs ay loa eee mee Dee ee ey a. ea eee ee tt eta be Bee eee | Ne SN Re ele Be ge me a ok fesys Bie ce yh casts i the black or yellow man monopolizing a partiolar part of the earth and preventing the white man from making a living. Some day we shall learn that the earth is big enough, and that if we will but remove the harriers there are plenty of jobs for all nen regardless, of creed or color, Funda- mentally. the black man’s problem is. the white man’s problem. Until the bounties of nature are open to both without pay- ment of toll to any exploiter, white or Hlack. men will be artificially conseripted into opposing camps. Is there nothing to be done until this millennial day of industrial and economie freedom? Yes. much. Men who work in powder mills must learn not to serateh matches. Racial animosities can never be extinguished until the cause is removed. But we can prevent these critical outbreaks which mar our national record. A more serious riot than either of these two would have occurred in Birmingham three or four nmionths ago had it not been for resolute co- operation between whites and blacks. The danger is greatest where the races know tthe of each other. Foreseeing this the Secretary of Labor recently started a nation-wide movement to set up cooperative relations between Negroes and — whites throughout the entire country. It is a tragic joke upon the Negro that this institution set up by his. traditional enemy, the Democratic Party, should have heen straneled by his traditional friends, a Republican Congress. The Public, SOME OLD ACQUAINTANCES iomet the Rev. J.P. Brown of Roslyn, Washington. on the streets of Seattle a few days ago and ‘Elder Brown,’? as he is ad- dressed by the most of the colored citizens in and about Roslyn, came hobbling up to me with outstretched hands and a face splitting smile. all of which were so charac- teristic of him twenty-seven years ago, when 1 first met him in Spokane. that T could searveely force myself to believe that many years had elapsed since we were first ae- quainted, Rheumatism to some extent has hindered navigation, but he looks the same and, To am told, doing better financially now than then. At his home he preaches on Sundays and works at his trade, paper- Nangine, during the week, The two chil- dren at his home when 1 first met him are now married and have families of their own, Dut mamma and papa are still plodding alone as of yore, T have a subserdiber in the Haller build- ing by the name of Joe Bennett and T have known him for twenty-seven years and had I come to Seattle ten years before T would have known Joe thirty-seven instead of twenty-seven years. Tle hardly looks as young as he did twenty-seven years ago. but he does look very well considering his three score and ten years of age and the troublesome rheumatics that almost con- stantly racks his body. ‘'Oh, well, just tell them that you saw me and they will know the rest.’” said he when pressed for some message to fake to his hundreds of friends. Tle is still custodian of the Haller building and will be until death relieves him of his earthly eaves. Mrs. Bennett is still his faithful better half and his only son, Norris, is also with him. COLORED LITERATURE wines" 28cm Periodicals. High-brow Toilet Articles. First Class Tonsorial Articles at Tutt’s Shop, 300 Main Street. DR. : 7 N, pens Examination free. DR. C. ; ALLEN, 27 Stove ges iat and cae Ox appointment: Residence 1830 24th Avenue. CAYTON'S WEEKLY s?"*y,i%comas made up after thtis style and Fa ee suas reasonable. Beacon 1910. P. FRAZIER iit! *Hvp.daraisn, Gh MS) eae eileieaaalaaiilee ciel 1. W. EDMUNDS. OPH. D... Giatusis 2; Eve Specialist. Personal attention given in Eye ex- aminations for Glasses. Fifteen years in Seattle. Balcony, Fraser-Paterson Co. PURELY PERSONAL eo gee eo oor Fre WOO: Bers: ously sick for the past week, but is im- proving. Miss Clifford Freeman of Portland has heen visiting with friends in the city for the past ten days. : . Dr. D. 'T. Cardwell and family are en- Joying their Kitsap home as a week-end rest these summer days. Mr and Mrs. E, R. James entertained last Monday evening in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Merriman of Portland. ! Mrs, J. Byron Parker of Spokane is visit- ine with her daughter, Mrs. Andrew R. Black, who has recently moved into her new home. Mrs John T. Gayton and children are spending a fortnight at their country home across Dake Washington and have as their guest Miss Madge R. Cayton. Mrs. Pitter. Mrs. T. F. Norris, Sr.. Mrs. Thorne and others are likewise spending the week-end with Mrs. Gayton at her country home across Lake Washington. Rey, W. D. Carter was elected a delegate to the National Baptist Convention, which will convene in Newark. N. J.. September 10th. hy the Narthwest Baptist Convention, which reeently convened in Everett. Major Svingarn. so writes James Weldon Johyson to the Seattle branch of the N. A. \. ©. P.. may visit Seattle in the near future. and in ease he so decides. President Stone has appointed a committee of arrange- ments with TT. R. Cayton as chairman. Rev. M. ©. Knight was transferred to the Missouri conference and will take a theological course Rey. Grant was trans- ferred to the Colorado conference. Rev. M. W. Frazier. presiding elder, was trans- ferred to the Missouir conference. Mrs. S| W. TLayten. president of the National Women’s Baptist Convention. lec- tured at the Mount Zion Baptist Church last Simdav evening and her lecture was avite on a par with those delivered by the other Jmminaries. who have recently leetured in Seattle. Dr. avd Mrs. Meriman of Portland. Ore- gon, visited with Mr. and Mrs. John Robin- son for a week. leaving for their home last Wednesday. Dr. Meriman is editor of the Times of Portland. which recently issned the most voluminous as well as most ex- tensively advertised annual number that has ever been issued by a colored company in the West. Mrs. Curley Green aud her daughter, Miss Roseman Williams of Roslyn, visited with Mrs T. A. Graves for a few days the nast week, leaving for their home last Monday. Mrs. Susie Revels Cayton, who for the vast five months has been sojourning in Santa Moniea, Cal. returned to the city last Sunday. She is much improved in health as are her little daughter Lillie and her grandchild. Rey. D. A. Graham has returned from the Pneet Sound conference and reports the followine appointments for Washington: Seattle, Rev. D. A. Graham: Spokane. Rev. R. F. Jones: Tacoma. Rev. G. S. Allen; Portland, Rey. James Tsaaes: Yakima, Rev. C.D. Parker; Ellensburg. Rev. J. A. Dun- can; Bremerton, Rev. William Beavers: Everett. Rey. F. J. Barr. One hundred and ten persons attended the community song service at the Mount Zion Baptist Church and_a most enjoyable evening was spent. Mr. Russell throws his whole soul into the work and his audi- enee enters into the same spirit cand the Whenever Germany’s affairs become des- perate there is _a movement to turn the matter over to Bernstorff. The Italian cabinet has fallen, says a headline—or, was it pushed? In marriage one and one make one; in divorce one from one makes two. Measured in terms of aviation, the Atlan- te ocean continues to grow narrower. ‘Disapproval of American soldiers is a creed of every political party in Mexico. German delegates were inclined to mis- take the peace table for a bargain counter. Old John Barleycorn is pleading pathetie- ally for just one more Fourth of July cele- bration. “Once big union by all means.” says American labor, **The American Union of States.”’ Lucky is the man whose troubles don't bether him any more than they do his friends. 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. Tickets, 50c. MUSIC BY SMITH’S BAND. Watch for announcement of formal com- plimentary entertainment. 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Private Vaults rented at $4.00 per Anum SOLVING THE RACE PROBLEM "You tell that French woman-spoiled brother of yours that the white men of Claiborne County will burn him at the stake if he dares to speak to a white woman hereabouts unless she first calls him, and even then, he had better keep his hat in his hands as long as she is talking to him," said Lawyer Martin of Shady Grove, Mississippi, to a beautiful octaroon young woman with whom he frequently spent an evening and from which liaison one tiny tot already slept in its little bed and another one fast on its way to a world of woe. While George Washington Davis, late of oversea service, had shown no signs of undue familiarity with any of the white women thereabouts, yet when Miss May, dauhter of Cap'gn Big Gun, saw him with his uniform on and bearing the insignia of a first lieutenant and the French Croix de Guerre pinned on his breast, she felt proud of him and condescended to say, Howdy George! Um mouty glad to see you," to which greeting Lieutenant Davis gallantly saluted her as he had been instructed to salute ladies by his respective officers of the day. George knew he was making a mistake, but he was between the devil and the deep blue sea, for harby was a superior white officer adroitly watching his every move. If he took his hat off he was breaking an army rule and if he kept it on he was violating a southern regulation. Under such circumstances, what could a poor colored man do? He knew the penalty for violating the army rule and that too in the presence of a superior officer, and so he quickly concluded that he would violate the southern regulation trusting to luck that the breach would not be noticed or under the circumstances be overlooked by the southern white men. Ordinarily Miss May would not have spoken to a colored man in public, though she might have known him on the farm or in a menial capacity at her father's home, but George was the grandson of Uncle Jim and Aunt Sally, both of whom were still on Cap'n Big Gun's farm and George had been a "nice little nigger boy" before going to France to fight to make the world safe for democracy, and she saw no southern impropriety in not only speaking to him but smiling at him as he with his company marched by on the way to camp to be demobilized. Miss May was a granddaughter of Cap'n Big Gun and was therefore of a like age of George and her youthful fondness for him as they played together way down on the farm broke over the traces which put George in a most distressing position. Nancy Jane, the paramour of Lawyer Martin, was likewise the granddaughter of Aunt Sally, and, by common consent, Uncle Jim, "but Nancy Jane's mother looks powfully like Cap'n Big Gun, and if she don't, how could Uncle Jim be Mandy's daddy, with Mandy so yaller and Uncle Jim so black," was common plantation talk, but it was not wise to do much talking on subjects like that and little was said. Mandy was a beautiful mulatto girl and the colored boys' mouths just watered for her, but when Mandy was sixteen Mistah Bob, Cat'n. Big Gun's son, spent every evening in the quarters playing with Mandy and the other children. Of course Mandy was Cap'n Big Gun's child and the half brother of Mistah Bob, but Mandy was a nigger and a white man could be of no relationship to a nigger. Nancy Jane was the first born of Mandy, Uncle Jim's daughter, and Nancy was so white and so pretty that Ol Miss Liza had Mandy to come to the "big house" to cook and she would rock the baby while Mandy did the work, and so Nancy Jane "grewed up as a white folks' nigger." As soon as she was old enough she took up some of the duties of her mother Mandy. George Washington was Nancy Jane's mysterious brother, both of whom were without a father, and he too grew up about as did Nancy Jane. It was in Cap'n Big Gun's home where Lawyer Martin first saw Nancy Jane and it was in the great house yard where Miss May first saw George, and where, as a little nigger boy, she seemed to think a great deal of him. By some unknown force she was drawn close to him. Nancy Jane had been true to Lawyer Martin and as far as possible he had been true to her, but Lawyer Martin belonged to that school of southern white men that would swim the swells of hell to prevent a nigger from mixing with a white woman. He and all such were ever ready to do and die to continue the purity of the white race. But Nancy Jane was just chuck full of blue blood, her classification to the contrary notwithstanding, and she loved her brother George next to her mother and for one time she talked straight from the shoulder to "Mistah Martin." The next day Nancy Jane told Cap'n Big Gun what had been said about her brother and while he made no rash promise, yet he promised to see that George was not burned at the stake. After the demobilization had been completed and George Washington Davis began to circulate about the neighborhood trouble for him began to brew, which soon reached the ears of the Big Gun family and it was plain to be seen both the Cap'n and Mistah Bob were a bit distressed. Presumably because Miss May's name was more or less involved but probably for some reason by no means aparent. Miss May felt something was wrong as she had not had an opportunity to see George since he had been discharged, he never visiting the old home, which greatly disappointed her and so she concluded to consult her grandfather as to the cause. As she made her way to the great library over the heavy napped carpets her footfall was nosieless, and seeing the door ajar she entered the library unobserved by her father and grandfather, who were in an animated conversation, though with much modulatet voices, and after waiting for a minute, she heard her father say, "We must get George away from here at once, because trouble is brewing, but, father, I will die defending that boy's life. He is my son and I am not ashamed of him, yea, even proud of him, despite the fact he has colored blood in him, and if things come to the worse, I will defend by blood." "I quite agree with you Bob and your father will defend his son, but let's send him North at once and save trouble," said Cap'n Big Gun. Miss May's eyes dazzled in their sockets, but she held her peace, and as soon as possible she stealthily left the room. Once out she ran with all her might with the hot tears rolling down her face. "George is my brother and Nancy my sister, and George is to burn at the stake. No, not if May Big Gun can prevent it, and she thinks she can." In a few minutes she was at Nancy Jane's cottage but so badly out of breath that she could scarcely speak, however she finally said, "you tell George that I must see him at once. Meet me here tonight," and she left before Nancy could reply. Unaware that his daughter had but a few minutes before visited Nancy Jane's cottage. Mistah Bob without knocking walked into his half caste daughter's two-room California cottage and she saw at first glance that something was wrong. "Nancy get word to George and tell him Mistah Bob wants to see him tonight at your house." Nancy for some unknown reason to her had implicit confidence in Mistah Bob but she was sorely troubled less he that night find Miss May there too talking to George and get the wrong idea; but she hoped to manage it. Lieutenant George Washington Davis too had begun to hear whisperings and was a bit nervous and so when he got Miss May's message he thought it best to hear her, and at an early hour he was at his sister's cottage and awaited Miss May's coming. She was not long in putting in her appearance and no sooner had the door closed behind her, she jumped to George with "I heard my pa say you are my brother, and I am not only proud of you, but I love you, and your sister May will die for you." Before, however, she could unfold any plan for George's escape the footstep of her father was heard coming and there was nothing for her to do but to crawl under the bed. "Lieutenant Davis, I believe," said Mistah Bob as he walked into the room. George rose and replied, "Yes, sir, or no sir, just George, Mistah Bob." The two men shook hands as they had never before—father and son—and Nancy Jane smiled as she had never smiled before. The noise you heard under the bed. Mistah Bob, is my dog, explained Nancy Jane. Mistah Bob was a man of few words and he immediately took his two half caste children into his confidence and told George he must leave that night for Tarrytown, "and you remain there until I either come to you or you hear from me. I mean for you too Nancy, as soon as possible, to go North, and something will happen to Martin unless he does the square thing by you. Bob Big Gun is the father of you and George and he will die in the defense of both of you. When things quiet down May and I will visit with you." Naney Jane's dog under the bed all of a sudden burst into tears over what it had heard and all because it was overjoyed, and as it began to crawl out it suddenly turned into May Big Gun. All hands began to try to explain, but May told her father what she had overheard him tell her grandfather and she had come here to warn George of the coming trouble and it was a happy meeting. Uncle Jim, old as he was, had to go to the railroad station that night though there was no one in the open buggy with him. When No. 2 whistled George came from under the seat and took the train, and so the mob did not burn a French woman spoiled nigger at the stake the next day. Nancy Jane's second baby was born a few days thereafter, largely due to overexcitement, but mother and child got along exceedingly well. A trained colored nurse came from town to care for Nancy Jane and more nice things were sent to her from some unknown source than she had ever before had. "Nancy Jane is gwine Nof fur her health," was circulated in Colored circles and it was true. With her two children she left her southern home almost surrounded with luxury and as the train was pulling out somebody said, "Lawyer 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 GREAT NORTHERN POOL AND BILLIARD HALL Cigars, Tobacco and Soft Drinks. --- ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` Martin kissed his hand as Nancy looked out of the window at him, who happened to drive by the depot that mornin'." The mob was sadly disappointed but had little to say about having lost its victim, and Lawyer Martin was not so outspoken on the subject as before. He worked on as of yore, but owing to poor health took no new cases. He finally left to regain his health, but would return in time for the fall court. It was at Tarrytown that a family reunion was held and Mrs. Nancy Jane Martin, Lieutenant George Washington Davis, both with a strain of Negro blood in their veins, received with open arms Cap'n Big Gun, Mistah Bob (my father) and Miss May (my sister) and another chapter was written in the solution of the United States' impending Race Problem in that second reunion.—H. R. Cayton. TIME TELLS THE TALE Time fully explains many things that are more or less complicated when they actually happen. When I was about twenty-two years old, in order to make some extra money to be able to continue my college course. I decided to teach a summer school in Copiah county, Mississippi, and to that end I went to the county seat to take the examination. On entering the superintendent's office I saw ten other young colored men seeking a like opportunity. Those young men were from another academic school and between the students of each there was much rivalry. In a few minutes all of us were at desks answering the printed questions given to us to answer in order to get a teacher's certificate. One of my rivals, I being the only one from my school, seemed to me to answer his questions without effort and before I had half finished my questions he was walking out of the superintendent's office with his certificate and the other nine followed him within the next hour. I had met the enemy and had been found wanting and my school had been beaten to a frazzle. Toward the close of the day I walked out with my certificate, but much crest fallen over my tardiness. I frequently met my rivals at the end of each month, when we went to get our money, but I must confess, not with pleasure. Time wore on, however, and wrought many changes and in maturer years all of us struggle for an existence in our own peculiar ways. Thirty-five years after that examination I met the man who lead all the rest in that examination, but my jealousy had completely faded away and in a jocular spirit I complimented him and related the incident to his wife and children. During all that lapse of time I had only incidentally heard of him, but I always remembered the brilliancy of his mind. As I related the incident to his wife he smiled for a minute and then replied. "The reason I passed such a brilliant examination on that occasion was because I paid a clerk in the office a nice little piece of money to get the questions to me Friday evening and I worked all night looking up the answers and the next day I had nothing to do but copy the same and then I passed them on to my friends." I can not say that I lost respect for the man, who had thus shattered my ideals, but since that time I have often regretted that he made the confession. In the end my school had whipped, but I would have had more faith in my fellow man if the fact had never been known to me. What you do not know will never hurt you. Who loseth and never knows it is the same as not losing at all. I met George F. Cotterill the other day and was glad to see him as he seems to always be full of food for thought. He has on many occasions delivered masterly addresses in this state and when a member of the state senate proved himself to be a ready debater. Of all the speeches I ever heard you make I think the reply you made to the anti-prohibition speech delivered by Senator TACOMA REAL ESTATE TACOMA REAL ESTATE City of Unexcelled Opportunities. Manufacturing City of Northwest. R.R. Centre, where rails and sails meet 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 rice 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. Ruth was the most masterly effort I ever heard you make, and that is saying a good deal, said I to him one day this week. I say this because, in my mind, you completely answered Ruth's speech, which was the most powerful defense of intoxicating liquors that I had ever heard delivered. Mr. Cotterill smiled as I talked and then slowly said in reply: You doubtless had not followed the prohibition fight very closely or you would have entertained a different view of that debate than you have just expressed. Practically everything that Senator Ruth said was stock stuff that had been used for twenty years by the whiskey advocates and it was as common to me as was my text book during my school days. Ruth had culled from propaganda literature the glittering generalities he palmed off as his own. I had frequently answered like speeches and I too used nothing but what the prohibition advocates had used from time to time in the denunciation of the liquor traffic. I, as well as Ruth, knew that the average person was not sufficiently posted to brand our speeches as not being original." I thought for a moment and then to myself I said, another ideal shattered after many years, and I am sorry he has confessed to me that what I thought was a masterly effort was only a stock speech. Surely does time explain immediate complications. Like these two incidents. I surmise many others transpire, but multiplied thousands of them are never explained. Yes, it is hot—in the East. But the corn crop is growing every twenty-four hours of the day. The ex-kaiser has not distributed so many photographs since he decided to let his whiskers grow. Clemenceau, the tiger, has an entirely patient and diplomatic manner of concealing his claws. While the temperature remains up, no one worries greatly about the alarming shortage of wool. The fact that the career of a party splitter has always been difficult does not terrify Senator Borah. August 23, 1919, exclusive of said date, and defend Date of first publication August 23, 1919. Date of last publication September 27, 1919. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County. Mrs. J. Campion, Plaintiff, vs. Emma E. Ware, and all persons unknown, if any, having or claiming an interest in and to the real property hereinafter described, Defendants.—No. 137331. Notice and Summons. The State of Washington: To the above named defendants and each of them: You and each of you, as owners, claimants or holders of an interest or estate in and to the real property hereinafter described, are hereby notified that Mrs. J. Campion is the holder of 1 certain delinquent tax certificate herein below more particularly referred to, issued by the Treasurer of King County, Washington, for delinquent taxes upon and against real property situated in said King County, described as follows, to-wit: Hillman's Meadow Garden No. 3; lot 1, block 28; Emma E. Ware, owner; certificate No. C-15552; date Dec. 11, 1918; amount $1.93; year 1915. That the taxes upon said real property for prior and subsequent years have been paid by the plaintiff as follows, to-wit: Hillman's Meadow Garden No. 3 Lot 1, block 28; receipt No. 90995; taxes for 1916; amount $1.00; rate of interest 12%; amount of interest $0.18; date paid Dec. 20, 1918; total payment $1.18. Lot 1, block 28; receipt No. 90995; taxes for 1917; amount of taxes $1.16; rate of interest 12%; amount of interest $0.07; date paid Dec. 20, 1919; total payment $1.23. Lot 1, block 28; receipt No. 90995; taxes for 1916; amount of taxes $1.28; rate of interest 12%; amount of interest $0.07; date paid Dec. 20, 1918; total payment $1.30. That the several sums hereinabove set forth bear interest at the rate of 15 per cent per annum from date of payment, and are all the unpaid and unredeemed taxes upon and against said real property. And you and each of you, (including said persons unknown, if any), are hereby directed and summoned to appear within sixty days after August 23, 1919, exclusive of said date, and defend this action and serve a copy of your appearance or answer upon the undersigned attorneys for plaintiff at the office address stated, or pay the amount due, together with interest and costs. And you are notified that in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered, foreclosing the lien of such taxes and costs against each parcel of said real property for the sums and amounts due upon and charged against the same as hereinabove set forth. MRS. J. CAMPION. Plaintiff. FRED C. BROWN & C. C. DALTON, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Attorneys for Plaintiff. Office and Post Office Address 431 County-City Bldg., Seattle, King County, Washington. Date of First Publication August 23, 1919. Date of Last Publication Sept. 27, 1919. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Mrs. Emma C. Williamson, Plaintiff, vs. J. B. Hanrahan, and all persons unknown, if any, having or claiming an interest in and to the real property hereinafter described, Defendants.—No. 137234. Notice and Summons. The State of Washington: To the above named defendants and each of them: You and each of you, as owners, claimants or holders of an interest or estate in and to the real property hereinafter described, are hereby notified that Mrs. Emma D. Williamson is the holder of 2 certain delinquent tax certificates herein below more particularly referred to, issued by the Treasurer of King County, Washington, for delinquent taxes upon and against real property situated in said King County, described as follows, to-wit: Hillman's Pacific City Add. Div. No. 6; lot 27, block 113; J. B. Hanrahan, owner; Certificate No. B76981; date June 1, 1912; amount $0.95; year 1910. Hillman's Pacific City Add.. Div. No. 13. Lot 27, block 113; Receipt No. 78536; taxes for 1911; amount $0.41; date paid June 1, 1912; total payment $0.41. Lot 27, block 113; Receipt No. 79783; taxes for year 1912; amount $0.64; date paid June 5, 1913; total payment $0.64. Lot 27, block 113; receipt No. 77621; taxes for year 1913; amount $0.76; date paid June 1, 1914; total payment $0.76. Lot 28, block 113; receipt No. 98448; taxes for 1914; amount $0.73; date paid June 1, 1915; total payment $0.73. Lot 28, block 113; receipt No. 12955; taxes for 1915; amount $0.69; interest $0.01; date paid June 23, 1916; total payment $0.70. Lot 28, block 113; receipt No. 67775; taxes for 1916; amount $0.59; date paid July 3, 1917; total payment $0.59. Lot 28, block 113; receipt No. 131378; taxes for 1917; amount $0.82; date paid July 1, 1918; total payment $0.82. Lot 28, block 113; receipt No. 134772; taxes for 1918; amount $0.88; interest $0.02; date paid July 29, 1919; total payment $0.90. Total $11.10. That the several sums hereinabove set forth bear interest at the rate of 15 per cent, per annum from date of payment, and are all the unpaid and unredeemed taxes upon and against said real property. And you and each of you, (including said persons unknown, if any), are hereby directed and summoned to appear within sixty days after August 15, 1919, exclusive of said date, and defend this action and serve a copy of your appearance or answer upon the undersigned attorneys for plaintiff at the office address below stated, or pay the amount due, together with interest and costs. And you are notified that in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered, foreclosing the lien of such taxes and costs against each parcel of said real property for the sums and amounts due upon and charged against the same as hereinabove set forth. MRS. EMMA C. WILLIAMSON. Plaintiff. FRED C. BROWN & Attorneys for Plaintiff. Office and Post Office address: 431 County-City Bldg., Seattle, King County, Washington. Date of first publication August 15, 1919. 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. 25710. 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. Attorney for Estate. 701-703 Leary Building, Seattle, Wash.