Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 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, Wash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910 Office 303 22nd Ave. South EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS Murder Is A Habit, says a headline. Quite right you are, it is a habit of gun toting. For the first time in the history of the University of Washington a noticeable colored colony is in attendance. In going to sleep in the senate John Sharp Williams was doubtless suffering from the effects of too much squirrel juice. Real estate in Seattle show looks good to Mr. Colored man and he is grabbing it whenever and wherever he can. What on earth can the United States want with a part of Gibralter if the League of Nations is to obliterate the God of War? “Wilson Comes Back” says a head line. It’s too bad. What he really ought to do is to go way back and sit down. It speaks well for the colored citizens of Seattle that they are not accused of any of the many foul murders that are being almost daily committed in this city. If all of the citizens of this country, who are rocking the boat are damphools then the government is in eminent danger of being overtaken by a flood of chaos. A man in the East writes so well that the government has charged him with convincing the readers of his stuff that an actual lie is a genuine truth. Whether after November Uncle Sam will have to walk to keep warm will largely depend upon the temperament of the walking delegate of the Coal Miner's Union. Still much stress is being laid on the protection of white women against black brutes and yet nothing is ever heard of protecting colored women against white whelps. How things have changed in Berlin, not only is Kaiser Wilhelm prevented from showing himself there, but not even his picture can be shown and that too despite the fact Me and Gott only once lived there. Mexicans continue to kidnap our wealthy and influential citizens and we suspect they will continue doing so until President Wilson can get his League of Nations working smoothly. No, constant reader, Port Commissioner Lincoln is no relation of the immortal Abe Lincoln and if the two should by accident be compared we suspect W. S. Lincoln would retort, "comparrisons are odious." There seems to be little or no occasion for organizing an Old Clothes Society as society these days is made up of folks who are compelled to wear their old clothes if they wear any at all. In giving $20,000,000 to improve medical science John D. Rockefeller knows exactly what it means for one to take the poison ignorantly administered by the average physician. On less evidence than what the police have against William Fay Ealy and his mother, Anna Ealy Nemitz, hundreds of colored men and women have been burned at the stake or paid the penalty of having been suspicioned on a lyncher's limb. And now comes Ham Green and George Green, two brothers, who give it out, "One of us intends to be a physician and the other a mortician, and go in business in Seattle". If its the money you are after fellows come and get it and spare us from such a fate. If John Sharp Williams were not a United States senator and from prophibition Mississippi, from the reports of him, we would put him down as a booze fighter and a bootlegging patron but of course men of his calibre would not be guilty of such outlawry. The scenes of the late world war are entirely too fresh in the memory of the 100% American to permit "sprechensi dutch" plays for the amusement of the public in this country as may be observed from the recent violent outbreaks at such plays in New York City. If southern white men have such an awful horror of "social equality" between white and colored folks it would seem that they would cease their wholesale cohabitation with colored women. Every white-black half breed child that comes into the world is another step in the ultimate social equality that is rapidly coming. Of course the sugar speculaters are nothing short of legalized thieves, but is not the same true of all trust speculators. Persons who enter into combinations in restraint of trade which causes privations among men and beast are most dangerous criminals and the people should rise in their might and completely exterminate them. Mississippi's senatorial roughneck, John Sharp Williams after making a monkey of himself on the Senate floor completed the program by making an ass of himself by going to sleep in Senator Penrose's seat. He had doubtless just received an extra supply of moonshine which accounts for his assinine stupidity. DEALING WITH MOBS (New York Age.) It would be a hard matter to put more blame than belongs on the unconscious or premeditated assininity of police authorities for the results which have attended recent out breaks of mob violence. This is especially true of Omaha, where a costly public building was almost destroyed, the life of the sheriff threatened and the mayor all but lynched. Naturally a great deal of admiration and sympathy has gone out to the mayor of Omaha for the heroic stand which he took and for the grave consequences which he suffered; but, after all, his stand and the consequences should and could have been made absolutely unnecessary. What would anyone think of the chief of a fire department who, on seeing a fire starting, keep his men squirting water on it through atomizers until the whole building was ablaze; and then, at the risk of his life plunge into the burning structure to put out the flames? His act of plung- VOL. IV.. No. 19 ing into the building might be proof of bravery and heroism, but the fact that such a chance on the building and such a risk to the lives of himself and his men were avoidable would make the whole course of his action assinine. This was just the sort of thing that was allowed to happen in Omaha. The fire of the mob spirit began to kindle and blaze and spread for several days before it became a great conflagration; and all the while the police were busy squirting on it through atomizers. A mob is never the result of the spontaneous and simultaneous uprising of ten thousand or one thousand or even one hundred people. A mob is always the result of the activities of one person or of a very few persons. Around this small nucleus the mob begins to gather and grow until it becomes a raging, surging mass of humans turned, for the time, into beasts and fiends. When the mob reaches this stage it is beyond control. The plain duty then before police authorities when the mob spirit is sensed—and it is easy to sense—is not to allow any nucleus to be formed. In the two or three days before the mob reached the uncontrollable stage the Omaha police should not have allowed any gathering on the streets whatever. Whenever small knots of people came together they should have been promptly dispersed. This should have been done, even if it took guns to do it. If such a policy had been carried out no mob would have been formed. The Omaha authorities are now seeking a man named William Francis. This man is said to have ridden a horse at the head of the mob on the afternoon of the outbreak. The newspapers report that Francis carried a rope on his saddle, with which he said he would "string him up;" and that he threw the rope out into the crowd several times and lectured to the mob when it seemed to weaken. It is all very well to arrest Francis now and punish him for his part in stirring up the mob, but the proper thing to have done was to arrest Francis while he was stirring up the mob. This should have been done by taking Francis alive, if possible; but dead, if necessary. When General Wood took charge in Omaha he gave a lesson to the police departments of every city in the country. The prime lesson which he gave was contained in the order which he issued to his men. He said to them: "When you go to make arrest use no more force than is necessary and use all the force that is necessary. Remember you are sent for a certain man. Come back with him. Bring him in alive, if possible. But bring him in." The chief weakness of police authorities all over the country is that they temporize with mobs whenever the intended victim of the mob is a Negro. And they do this because ninety-nine out of every hundred white men whoes sworn duty it is to uphold the law cannot bring themselves to the point of enforcing the law to the utmost against white men for the protection of a Negro. Away down in their hearts they do not believe that white mobists should be killed in order to give a Negro a fair trial before the law. Until officers of the law are men of sufficient courage to believe and act otherwise they will always be at the mercy of mobs. Thy) ae fT Oe ee ee RE Fee. a i YW eT ats Ree tas Pier el Be et LER Cy fa ee ee Ae ee, P et Ee epee eS > elle RC Se Mie THE PASSING THRONG. I met my Friend I met a white friend of mine the other day and he was in company with a white lady, and I say my friend advisedly, for in times past he has proven himself to be my friend, and, knowing him to be my friend as soon as I espied him approaching me I be- gan to make preparations to give Chester- field cards and spades and beat him at his own game of politeness, and at the proper time. I did the act to my white friend, but instead of returning the courtesy he simply nodded his head and never broke his con- versation with his lady. As my friend pass- ed I stood spell bound for a second and then IL whispered to myself, oh, he is my friend alright, but unlike the father of his country, the immortal George Washington, he permitted a ‘‘nigger’’ to have more man- ners (politeness) than he had. What a con- tradiction there is in the actions of the same class of human beings. Had my friend’s lady accompanist known me, in spite of her escort, she would have graci- ously acknowledged my salutation, and this is said without knowing the lady, but white women make it a rule to let know one be more polite than themselves, and, it seems to me, a white man would feel like a Friday fool at a Saturday market, in per- mitting even a colored man to show more gallantry to his lady than he himself does. What fools we mortals be. Was It Social Equality? Seattle is truly a eosmopolitant city and one’s color, condition and financial cireum- stances have little or-no effect on his inns and outs as he transacts his daily affairs. The other day I was going down Second Avenue and I saw on the same boot black stand, having their shoes shined, a judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Wash- ington, and a colored laborer, whose gen- eral appearance belied the desire to have his shoes shined, but the two sat side by side as contentedly as if both were judges or laborers, as if both were white or black, while the Italians worked away on both of them to get the money. I bowed as I pass- ed to the judge, with whom I was well aec- quainted, but not knowing me the colored man merely glanced up from his paper without recognization. I thought much about the simple performance and said to myself, that is the kind of social equality the southern white man is turning heaven and earth to prevent the black man from enjoying. Those two personages perhaps never saw each other before and but slight- ly then. The colored man did not know he was on the ‘“‘bench’’ with a supreme judge and would not have changed his attitude had he have known it. The judge did not have the colored man on his mind and felt none the worst for having been on the bench with a colored man, yea, he doubt- less did not remember the incident ten minutes thereafter. And as in this so should it be throughout the business world. Too Much Law If it is not the duty of judges to foster business for lawyers then pray tell me of what service can they be to the public. The person who causes the greatest amount of money too constantly change hands is al- ways the useful personage to any community —distribute the coin should be the wateh- word—but the distribution should be done without prejudice or bias. Recently, a Superior Court judge after listening to the reading of a will of a deceased fellowman, written by his own hand and with no one contesting the same. refused to permit the law to carry out the will of the deceased be- eause forsooth he while alive did not fol- low the letter of the law, and had the same put up in high sounding legal phrases and the signatures of two witnesses thereunto attached. I consider such an opinion that of a judicial jackass and that similar ones are largely responsible for the necessity of nine superior court judges in this county where four should do the work. Where two persons are at loggerhead with each other a legal decision is necessary to safeguard the community, but where there is no controversy it is the duty of the presid- ing judge where matters are taken judicial cognizance to comply with the wish of the deceased whether it was drawn legal or cottenfield style. This country is top heavy with judicial opinions the most of which are rendered with the view of mak- ing business for an oversupply of legal petty foggers. Will They Do So? “Cut the rope from the neck of the black man and quench the fires that burn him at the stake and the colored folks of this country will wipe out the red flag,’’ said Roscoe Simmonds in his public ad- dress in Seattle, to which a working white man took exception and commented on the remark about as follows: ‘The working white man of today has no quarrel with the working colored man, he now realizes that his trials and tribulations from a working- man’s stand point, are common to his (the working white man) and whatever his oppo- sition to the working colored man in the past may have been he, the working white man, now sees the error of his ways. The members of the despised I. W. W. have endeavored to prove to the colored working man his change of heart toward him and where colored men are working with them at present it will cost a boss his job to discriminate against the colored worker. To err is human, but when one errs and then rectifies the mistake there is no rea- son in continuing to keep the past fires burning. Working men of all colors, class- es, creeds and conditions have one common cause and that cause must be safe guarded, especially in this country, by both the white and the black man. The two must hang together or hang separately.’’ A Marked Man For quite a week the editor of the California Eagle, J. B. Bass, has been visit- ing in Seattle and receiving the courtesies and hospitalities of the foremost citizens of the city. I met him last Sunday after- noon at the meeting of the King County Colored Republican Club and at first glance it was plain to be seen that he was a man of much importance. He was asked to give a short address before the club and from his remarks my suspicions, on first seeing him, of him being a man of much importance, were fully substantiated, as he told the audience of the splendid work, **T am doing in Los Angeles.’’ Mr. Bass hails from a district of California in which there are about twenty thousand colored voters and sixty thousand white voters, but inspite of the disparity in numbers on the part of the colored voters, a represen- tative to the legislature of the state was elected at the last election. ‘‘I am much impressed with your political work in Seattle and if the Central Committee in California had have followed my advice, when Woodrow Wilson was a_ candidate to succeed himself, he would have never gone to the White House the second time. California was lost by a 3,000 plurality and not less than 10,000 colored persons fully qualified to vote neither registered or vot- ed. In the subsequent campaign, however, my advice was followed and 20,000 colored folks voted.’’ Cotton Field Philosophy When I was a boy on my father’s plan- tation a still larger boy said to me one day as we were erossing a creek that was flooded on account of recent rains, ‘‘the water you see running in that ereek is the same water that passed along this spot one year ago.’’ What he said was false philos- ophy and yet it had a seintilla of sense in it. That identical water may not have passed that spot at the time stated. but it at some time had flooded streams, some- where, it had subsequently become vapor and again returned to the earth and fiood- ed other streams. That unsophisticated il- literate colored boy had either intuitively or observingly arrived at such a conclu- sion, all of which shows that nature is a coming and going and finally a returning to the original starting point last. Sunday afternoon the president of the K. C. C. Republican Club said the next meeting of the Club will be held at the old Afro-American Hall, 2617 East Madison, which had been recently rehabilitated for publie service. Fifteen years ago that hall was the mecca of all colored organizations and the owners thereof seem to have the world by the tail with a down hill pull, but unfortunately, the world reversed the situ- ation and got the owners in the same place they had had the world. For years the building has been a delapidated wreck but it has recently been renovated and is to again be the mecea for colored organiza- tions and public meetings, all of which re- minds one of the false philosophy of the COLORED LITERATURE ancs"* Bester zines, Eastern Periodicals. High-brow Toilet Articles. First Class Tonsorial Articles at Tutt's Shop, 300 Main Street. P FRAZIER Real Estate, Insurance, Collect- . ions. 316 Pacific Block, Seattle Main 4554. Graduate Op- J. W. EDMUNDS, OPH, D., icretiist 23 ye Specialist. 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Its Not Segregation "To win the next national, state and county election so far as King County is concerned is my highest ambition, and to that end I am appealing to all Republicans for their cooperation," said Reeves Aylmore, chairman of the King County Republican Central Committee last Sunday afternoon in an address before the King County Coloreed Republican Club. The Central Republican organization is the parent body to the whole, but it seems to be necessary to have sub organizations, such as is this club to reach the goal. If any one has the idea that in fostering this club the Central organization is encouraging segregation such an one was never worse mistaken. Like all the other distinct classes in the body politic of this country it seems to me that colored leaders can make more headway lining up the colored voters than can white leaders and yet the colored Republican is just as welcome in the parent organization as the white Republican. The members of this club will get their full party recognition not only in the campaign, but after the campaign. Be it understood, however, that only Republicans will be recognized. Decide among yourselves who you will have as your representatives and through your chairman present their names and, believe me, they will be named." The above is good organization talk and such as the old political war horse the late John Lockwood Wilson of Seattle used to preach to his political organization. Entirely Too Much Ego If persons called upon to talk to the public would forget what, "I have done" and discuss abstract principles, it occurs to me that more good would come from such addresses. The public is not sufficiently interested in one's individual success as to content itself in listening to long harangs, in which the pronoun I is the foundation for the entire discourse. Who can not address an audience on the public questions and issues of the day without constantly injecting his or her personal experiences in it is wholly unqualified to appear before a waiting congregation. Your ideas and opinions may be capital ones and if adopted prove the panacea for all ills and aches, but for you to make "I did" the prominent feature of your public conversations will move those. who hear you to whisper as you pass, there goes that self conceited 'ass.'" No one person has the key to the whole situation and if you think you have, you were never worse mistaken Who said, "brethren lets reason together, said well and true and if you do not reason with the other fellow, however, brilliant may be the ideas you advance they will die a bornin'. The human family is diametrically opposed to the one man idea and will under no circumstances stand for it. This is intended for no particular person, but my conclusion after having recently listened to men of talent talk to large audiences, whose bump of ego simply overshadowed the entire world and its fullness thereof. Publishers Pacified Paupers I hot footed down to a meeting last Sunday afternoon, which had been advertised to be held in the parlors of an undertaking establishment, and as I neared the place I began to think of what point of order I could raise on entering the meeting in order that those present might know that I was there and also to silently give them to understand, that they could get no where without my direction, and before I could finish my mental deliberations, I was at the appointed place. Standing in front of the place were a dozen or more finely finished automobiles and limousines. Startled at such an array of luxury at an ordinary club meeting of colored citizens, I hesitated to enter and had about concluded that. the political meeting had been abandoned, on account of some funeral, but while I pondered suddenly from within I heard, "Mr. President, I rise to a point of order," and believe me the judge heard a familiar sound, and in I bolted lest I miss something good. What however, I want to get out of this is the prosperity that the colored citizens of this community seem to be enjoying. At the simplest gathering thousands of dollars worth of expensive automobiles are found waiting at the door for their owners within. Later on when some one attempted to flatter me by saying, you are a born newspaper man, I mentally agreed with the accusation, for had I not walked thither while my accuser had come in his limousine? Good newspaper men as a rule are but pacified paupers. General Preston's Demise One day last week Gen. S. M. Preston of this city passed to the great beyond. He was not quite a centenarian, but he was near it, but remained more or less active almost to the time of his death. I have had many talks with Gen. Preston, since he and I first became acquainted in Seattle. I have always rather enjoyed talking to G. A. R. veterans of the Great Civil which habit I suspect, I acquired while living in Kansas. in which state lived 150,000 such veterans. However, after first getting acquainted with Gen. Preston I was always doubly pleased to engage him in conversation, because for a number of years he livd in Natchez, Mississippi, which was but a few miles from my birth place, and he was personally acquainted with hundreds of persons with whom I was acquainted and he was a personal friend of my father-in law. I however, bore him no ill will for that. When I was a lad bidding and budding for manhood I casually met Gen. Preston at a state Republican function and learned from the political warhorses that he had been more or less instrumental in the election of Dr. Hyram R. Revels to the United States Senate and John R. Lynch to the House of Representatives and he rendered valuable assistance to scores of struggling colored men and women whose chains of bondage he had assisted in the Great Civil War to burst assunder. But both Gen. Preston and myself dropped out of Mississippi Circles and strange to say I subsequently met him in a casual way in the middle west, but did not recognize in him my Mississippi acquaintance and again we parted. Gen. Preston's G. A. R. button attracted my attention one day in Seattle and I engaged him in conversation and learned from him that he was the Mississippi Preston and the middle-west Preston that I had known at different times. The milk in the coaknut however to this story is Gen. Preston was not only a true friend, but a shelter in a mighty storm for the foot sore and heart broken emancipated colored man, who, after the Great Civil War, was much like "the son of man," without a place to rest his head. Time may have to an extent weaned him from the active advocacy of the colored brother, but until his dying day he related his Mississippi experiences with pardonable pride. ?Circumstances prevented me from attending his funeral, but my prayers were for him: —Editorial Ramblings. Howard A. Fisher has been for the third time re-elected Secretary of the Darby Township School District, of Delaware County, Pa. He has been president and vice-president of the Board and was once elected treasurer, "but no bond company would go on my bond of $4,000 simply on account of my color." STOLEN FROM THIEVES "Want ads" are sometimes comic in their phrasing. Here are several recent specimens ('Annual sale now on. Don't go elsewhere to be cheated—come in here." "Furnished apartments, suitable for gentlemen with folding doors." "Wanted a room by two gentlemen about thirty feet long and twenty feet broad." "Wanted, by a respectable girl, her passage to Europe; willing to take care of children and a good sailor." "For sale—a piano, the property of a musician with carved legs." "Mr. Baer, furrier, begs to announce that he will make up gowns, capes, etc., for ladies out of their own skin." "Bulldog for sale; will eat anything; very fond of children." "Wanted-An organist and a boy to blow the same." "Wanted-A boy to be partially outside and partly behind the counter." "Wanted for the summer a cottage for a small family with good sewerage." "Lost, near Westlake Park, an umbrella belonging to a gentleman with a bent rib and a bone head." The last is a copy of an inscription painted on a board which adorns a fence in East Glencoe: "Notis: If any man's or woman's cow gets into these here otes, his or her tail will be cut off as the case may be."—Exchange. Veracious Farmer—Country Boarder — "You wrote that you were never bothered by mosquitoes here, and they have almost eaten me alive." Farmer—"I didn't say anything about 'em botherin' you, did I? I said they never bother me, an' they don't; I'm used to 'em.'"—Boston Transcript. Some Men—"Some men," said Uncle Eben, "is willin' to work or fight, but wants to set around too long thinkin' over which dev'll choose."—Washington Star. She was a young widow who had just remarried, and hubby number two was causing her much anxiety. "I can not understand why my husband is so fastidious," she confessed to a friend. "He scarcely eats anything Now, my first husband, who died, used to eat everything that I cooked for him." "Did you tell your present husband that?" queried the friend. "Oh, yes! Of course. Why?" "Well, perhaps that's the reason."—London Tit-Bits. "I am an American," said a man to a foreign-born. "You were an immigrant?" "True," said the foreign-born, "but I really have more right to be proud of my Americanism than you. You came into this country naked, and I came here with my pants on. You came here because you couldn't help it; I came because I wanted to, and of my own free will."—Ladies' Home Journal. JUST THINK When the doctors strike we'll stop getting sick. When the bricklayers strike—we won't use a brick. When the ink makers strike we will quit using ink— But when the undertaker strikes what will we do—just think. --- AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK & TRUST COMPANY American Bank Building, 2nd at Madison CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, FULLY PAID, $700,000.00 Assets, 4 MILLIONS 4% Compounded semi-annually, Paid on Savings Our Safe Deposit Vaults are the Largest and Safest in the Northwest. Private Vaults rented at $4.00 per Anum --- THE CHILDREN'S CODE A code of ethics for children has been written by Rev. William J. Hutchins and to our mind nothing on this subject one-half so appropriate has ever been published. The most of the rules are about as have been told to children by all God fearing parents sometime during their childhood. but this is the first instance of the whole being published. We take pleasure in giving our readers the full benefit of Rev. Hutchins labor along this line. Boys and girls who are good Americans try to become strong and useful, that our country may become ever greater and better. Therefore they obey the laws of right living which the best Americans have always obeyed. The first law is THE LAW OF HEALTH The Good American Tries to Gain and to Keep Perfect Health The welfare of our country depends upon those who try to be physically fit for their daily work. Therefore: 1. I will keep my clothes, my body and my mind clean. 2. I will avoid those habits which would harm me, and will make and never break those habits which will help me. 3. I will try to take such food, sleep and exercise as will keep me in perfect health. The second law is THE LAW OF SELF-CONTROL The Good American Controls Himself Those who best control themselves can best serve their country. 1. I will control my tongue, and will not allow it to speak mean, vulgar or profane words. 2. I will control my temper, and will not get angry when people or things displease me. 3. I will control my thoughts. and will not allow a foolish wish to spoil a wise purpose. The third law is THE LAW OF SELF-RELIANCE The Good American is Self-Reliant Self-conceit is silly, but self reliance is necessary to boys and girls who would be strong and useful. 1. I will gladly listen to the advice of older and wiser people, but I will learn to think for myself, choose for myself, act for myself. 2. I will not be afraid of being laughed at. 3. I will not be afraid of doing right when the crowd does wrong. The fourth law is THE LAW OF RELIABILITY The Good American is Reliable Our country grows great and good as her citizens are able more fully to trust each other. Therefore: 1. I will be honest, in word and in act. I I will not lie, sneak, or pretend, nor will I keep the truth from those who have a right to it. 2. I will not do wrong in the hope of not being found out. I cannot hide the truth from myself and cannot often hide it from others. 3. I will not take without permission what does not belong to me. 4. I will do promptly what I have promised to do. If I have made a foolish promise, I will at once confess my mistake, and I will try to make good any harm which my mistake may have caused. I will so speak and act that people will find it easier to trust each other. --- The fifth law is THE LAW OF CLEAN PLAY The Good American Plays Fair Clean play increases and trains one's strength, and helps one to be more useful to one's country. Therefore: 1. I will not cheat, nor will I play for keeps or for money. If I should not play fair, the loser would lose the fun of the game, the winner would lose his self-respect. and the game itself would become a mean and often cruel business. 2. I will treat my opponent with politeness. 3. If I play in a group game, I will play, not for my own glory, but for the success of my team and the fun of the game. 4. I will be a good loser or a generous winner. The sixth law is THE LAW OF DUTY ) The Good American Does His Duty The shirker or the willing idler lives upon the labor of others, burdens others with the work of his felolw citizens, and so harms his country. 1. I will try to find out what my duty is. what I ought to do, and my duty I will do, whether it is easy or hard. What I ought to do I can do. The seventh law is THE LAW OF WORKMANSHIP The Good American Tries to do the Right Thing in the Right Way The welfare of our country depends upon those who have learned to do in the right way the things that ought to be done. Therefore: 1. I will get the best possible education, and learn all that I can from those who have learned to do the right thing in the right way. 2. I will take an interest in my work, and will not be satisfied with slip shod and merely passable work. A wheel or a rail or a nail carelessly made may cause the death of hundreds. 3. I will try to do the right thing in the right way; even when no one else sees or praises me. But when I have done my best. I will not envy those who have done better, or have received larger reward. Envy spoils the work and the worker. The eighth law is THE LAW OF TEAM-WORK The Good American Works in Friendly Cooperation with His Fellow Workers One man alone could not build a city or Cayton's Weekly READABLE RELIABLE REPUBLICAN Will Help You If You Will Help It 303 22nd Ave. So. Beacon 1910 a great railroad. One man alone would find it hard to build a house or a bridge. That I may have bread, men have sowed and reaped, men have made plows and threshers, men have built mills and mined coal, men have made stoves and kept stores. As we learn better how to work together, the welfare of our country is advanced. 1. In whatever work I do with others, I will do my part and will help others do their part. 2. I will keep in order the things which I use in my work. When things are out of place, they are often in the way, and sometimes they are hard to find. Disorder means confusion, and the waste of time and patience. 3. In all my work with others, I will be cheerful. Cheerlessness depresses all the workers and injures all the work. 4. When I have received money for my work, I will be neither a miser nor a spendthrift. I will save or spend as one of the friendly workers of America. The ninth law is THE LAW OF KINDNESS The Good American is Kind In America those who are of different races, colors and conditions must live together. We are of many different sorts, but we are one great people. Every unkindness hurts the common life, every kindness helps the common life. Therefore: 1. I will be kind in all my thoughts. I will bear no spites or grudges. I will not think myself above any other girl or boy just because I am of a different race or color or condition. I will never despise anybody. 2. I will be kind in all my speech. I will not gossip nor will I speak unkindly of anyone. Words may wound or heal. 3. I will be kind in all my acts. I will not selfishly insist on having my own way. I will always be polite. Rude people are not good Americans. I will not trouble unnecessarily those who do work for me. I will do my best to prevent cruelty, and will give my best help to those who need it most. The tenth law is THE LAW OF LOYALTY The Good American is Loyal If our America is to become ever greater and better,her citizens must be loyal, devotedly faithful, in every relation of life. 1. I will be loyal to my family. In loyalty I will gladly obey my parents or those who are in their place. I will do my best to help each member of my family to strength and usefulness. 2. I will be loyal to my school. In loyalty I will obey and hep other pupils to obey those rules which further the good of all 3. I will be loyal to my town, my state, my country. In loyalty I will respect and help others to respect their laws and their courts of Justice. 4. I will be loyal to humanity. In loyalty I will do my best to help the friendly relations of our country with every other country, and to give to everyone in every land the best possible chance. If I try simply to be loyal to my family. I may be disloyal to my school. If I try simply to be loyal to my school, I may be disloyal to my town. my state and my country. If I try simply to be loyal to my town, state and country. I try above all things else to be loyal to may bes disloyal to humanity. I will humanity; then I shall surely be loyal to my country, my state and my town, to my school and to my family. of the good American