Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly --- 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 JACK JOHNSON MOVIE STAR No man in all this world has had a more various and varied experience than Jack Johnson, he of world champion pugilistic fame, and his advent into the "movie world" but adds another interesting chapter world but adds another interesting chapter to his long list of ups and downs. In the hay day of his success he seemed to have worked upon the theory, "I have the world by the tail and a down hill pull., and at the end of the trail. like Monte Cristo, I will be able to exclaim, the world is mine." But alack and alas the best laid plans of men and mice go astry and Johnson realzied when it was too late that the world had him exactly where he thought he had the world and at the end of the trail, the world exclaimed, all mankind is mine. Pulling himself together like Napolean the great, he risked his all on a single battle, and again like Napolean it spelled for him the fatal waterloo. Somewhere in ancient history it is recorded that a girl was left to watch the gates of a city, it being her duty to close the same at the approach of the enemy. The enemy came and she closed the gates alright and stood safely within and looked out. Emisaries of the invading army hung round and their arms were laiden with costly golden bracelets, which, woman like, caught her eye. After much conversation between the girl gate keeper and the enemy emisaries, she agreed to open the gates for them, if they would give her the ornaments on their arms, and a bargain was struck and she opened the gates and the enemy soldiers rushed in, but instead of giving her the golden ornaments on their arms, they threw their shields upon the misguided girl and she died a victim of her own greed of gain. At the Havana battle Jack Johnson had but one trump left to make, as he thought, a world winning. He exacted from the promoters the most of the gate receipts before he would consent to meet his pussly gut opponent, and then exacted another fortune ($100,000) to lose the battle and thereby surrender the world's championship. Not yet satisfied he took the lion's share of the fight movie and with it all felt that he was fixed for life. All's well that ends well, but this coupe of the clever Jack Johnson did not end well and like the girl at the gates of the ancient city, he got the shields of the enemy instead of the gold. No, they did not actually kill him, but they left him more or less poverty stricken, at least from a Jack Johnson view point. Since the Havana fight his has been an uncertain career, which took him from country to country until he was almost a man without a country. After many months of mere existence in European countries he landed in Mexico City, Mexico, and there he has resided, living for the most part on his past fame, for more than a year. According to a transmitted story he has held out against being a movie star for months, but finally fell for a fabulous sum of golden shekels from a movie concern, and it is safe to say, his golden star has once more arisen above the financial horizon. He was not half as much averse to entring the movie world, we imagine, as he pretended to be, but was playing for big stakes such as he is reported to have gotten. Few men there are in this world that can drive a closer bargain than Jack Johnson and if he had have had the faculty of saving his earnings for a rainy day, he would now be worth at least a million or more dollars. Even now if he would profit from past experience he would be able from his movie contracts, in all human probability, to be the proud possessor within the next year or such a matter of a splendid fortune. He is yet only in his prime of life and, living in Mexico as he does, he has an opportunity to yet render the American colored man much valuable service. THE RENT HOG In times gone by, Seattle's blind pig sty, had numerous pigs to burn, which called the turn of the fortunes of men, who had reached financial ends. Answer for me, is the rent hog, he, of blind pig fame, that laid by the log, at the end of the lane, and regained his sight, that showed him the right, which enabled him to reap instead of to root the long legged kale, which prevented the gale from wrecking his home and causing him to weep? If the rent hog, is, the blind pig's phis, that strolled the streets, for kale and beets, it didn't take him long to grow quite strong and build a hall at the end of the trail, where men must fall in the rent hog's pail, while this I write, my tenant's in site and I know he'll say, when his rent he pays, if I had my way, you rent hogs would stay in prison and cells, where devils from hell would cause you to burn, until you return, the illgotten gold you clandestinely stold from the rent man's roll." But I smiled and smiled and showed him my child and told of the money he'd make if only he'd continue to raise and to rake. Before he could swear and pull out his hair, I'd bowed him out and showed him the route the blind pig traveled to gather the gravel for the rent hog's goute.—Notvac. "THE RIGHT TO STRIKE" It sounds well—“the right to strike.” At first blush it seems almost worthy to be included with the "natural and inalienable rights" of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." It means, or seems to mean, simply the right of a free man to quit working. True, it is most often and most vehemently asserted by those who seek to deny the right of a man to work unless he complies with some artificial ailien condition which neither he nor his employer desires. But let that pass. On the face of it the right to strike is a natural corollary to the right to work. We may concede that to be the case in private employment when no violation of contract is involved. If John Doe is working for Richard Roe, at bricklaying or at typesetting or any such occupation, and is not satisfied with his wages or hours or other conditions, he has a right to quit work until he can secure satisfaction. If there are a thousand John Does working for Richard Roe, they all have the same right to quit work; that is, to strike. The issue is between them and Roe, and if he cannot VOL. IV., No. 22 make satisfactory terms with them, they may go and he must seek other workmen. So far, so good. But when from private employment we proceed to public employment, either under the Government directly, as policemen or postal clerks, or in those private employments which are indispensable public utilities, as railroad hands or lightingworks employees, the case becomes different, because there enters into it the third and really dominant factor of the public and its needs of which both the employers and the employees are in the last analysis the servants. A railroad is chartered primarily for the public service. It is understood that those who build and operate it are entitled to make a reasonable profit out of that service. But the service to the public and not the profit to the owners is the primary object of the Government's action in chartering the road and giving it the privileges which it enjoys. Consequently it is required to maintain a certain standard of service, whether it pays or not. It is compelled to run certain trains which do not pay but are a dead loss, simply because they are needed for the accommodation of the public. Now if the owners of a road should demand the right to increase rates of fare, and in default thereof should go on strike by refusing to run trains, we all know what would happen. They would be universally denounced, and they would lose their charter. That would be because they were refusing to render the service to the public for the rendering of which their road was chartered. What, then, are we to say when the employees demand higher wages, and in default thereof go on strike and thus stop the running of trains? They are preventing the rendering of that same service to the public. In the former case everyone would say that the owners ought to keep the roads running, so as to serve the public, even if the rates are too low. They might keep on negotiating for an increase until they prevailed upon the Government to permit it, meanwhile they should keep the roads running. In the latter case, likewise, it may well be argued that the men should keep the trains moving, so as to serve the public. They may keep on agitating for higher wages. until they secure them by demonstrating the justice of their demand, but meanwhile they should keep the trains moving for the public's sake. And if in the one case the owners would be penalized for stopping the operation of the road. it may well be argued that in the other the men should also be penalized for stopping the operation of the road. In each case the wrong is done to the public, and the public is entitled to redress or, better still, to protection against its occurrence. The largest corporations and the humblest wage earners engaged in public utility service need alike to realize that their first duty is to the public; to render it satisfactory and uninterrupted service. They incur that obligation automatically, by the very act and fact of their engaging in that service. Their right to withdraw from that service may not be denied, but it is incumbent upon them to effect such withdrawal in a way which will not militate against the interests of the public. For them to do so in a way purposely calculated to discommode the public by depriving it --- --- k of the service to which it is entitled.—after the fashion of those who were recently threatening to "tie the railroads up so tight that they would never be untied,"—is simply intolerable. |The time is past when either employers or employees could say with impunity: "The public be damned!"—Harvey's Weekly. OPEN AND CLOSED SHOP The employer does not own labor and never again will own labor where the American flag waves. The day of that infamy has passed forever. It cost hundreds of thousands of precious lives and millions of money to wipe out that foul stain upon our country's good name. But the task was done, and thoroughly done. Labor is no longer the employer's property. It is the laborer's property, his to dispose of when, where and how he pleases. No man nor any group of men may dictate to the American what disposition he may elect of what is his own, unless he voluntarily assign that authority to others. If he does not make that assignment then he is forced to labor for whom he will and on such terms as he will, and in the exercise of his fundamental right of the American citizen to work for a living at any lawful employment he is entitled to protection in his person and property, even if it be necessary to call in all the armed forces of the Republic to afford him that protection. All this ought to be axiomatic, but somehow there seems to be a good deal of confusion of thought on the subject. An impression seems to prevail that when a number of men of a certain craft organize they become dictators as to who shall not work in that craft. If they are dissatisfied with their terms of employment they abandon that employment in a body, thus bringing pressure to bear upon their employer to compel him to meet their terms. All of which they have a perfect right to do. If they stopped there their position would be impregnable. But, unfortunately, in many, and indeed, in mose cases, they do not stop there. They refuse to work themselves and they refuse to let others work. They assume a continuing proprietorship in the opportunity to labor which they voluntarily relinquished when they abandoned that opportunity. They undertake to maintain a proprietary right in "the job" which they have abandoned. They accuse others who would work of taking away their "job." The "job" that is the opportunity work, was never theirs. It is the employer's; it is as much the employer's as is his own labor the laborer's. The striker assumes a title to what never lawfully was his. The laborer who would gladly take the abandoned opportunity to work is reviled, threatened, his wife and children terrified, he himself assaulted, maimed and often murdered. But the field of coercion does not stop there. It is extended and expanded to the "closed shop." In the closed shop no man may labor until he has affiliated himself with the union in control of that shop and subjected himself to its dictation and its penalties. He may not want to join the union. He may be bitterly opposed to relinquishing his industrial freedom. But it makes no difference. Until he has relinquished that freedom he cannot work in that shop. So, here we have an organization rising superior to the law. It forbids what the law declares shall be the American citizen's privilege. It forbids the American citizen to earn his living by lawful employment, free from coercion and on such terms as may meet his approval. It refuses to the employer permission to give work to such a free applicant.. That is the closed shop. The open shop is one wherein neither membership nor nonmembership in a labor organization is essential to the American citizen's right to work. There is no discrimination for or against the labor union. The opportunity to labor is free and open to all who are equal to the task and content with the terms. The closed shop is a direct assault upon fundamental rights of the American citizen, whether employer or employee, under the laws of his country. The open shop is a full and free recognition of those rights. The open shop is American. The closed shop is utterly un-American in principle and traditions. It has no right to existence under American concepts of right and wrong.—Harvey's Weekly. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPH If the privilege of the Seattle School Clinic is being abused then the leak should be stopped, but under no circumstances should the clinic be discontinued. unless the city is to operate one on an even more extensive plan. The misfortunes of hundreds of children, who, unless corrected by such an institution, would continue indefinite, owing to the physician's trust, which fixes the prices for such operations so high that the ordinary person is unable to have his child operated upon. A great percent of the children of school age are sadly in need of clinical work, which they would never get unless taken to a public institution. Heads of families. not necessarily paupers, find it hard to furnish the actual living necessities, hence they just have to defer having their children operated upon for a defect, when they know its to cost them anywhere from $50 to $100. We suggest instead of closing the clinic that it be enlarged. It is our hope that the colored voters of this state will put themselves in a position that they can make every vote count in the primary election when candidates for state offices will be nominated. There will be no less than six candidates for governor next year and out of that number the colored voters of the state ought to be able to select the winner, but whether win or lose in your selection stand by your guns after you have made your primary fight. As we have repeatedly said the ten thousand colored votes in this state can select their gubernatorial candidate and put him over like greased lightning if they will just unite on one man and all rally round him No we have no one to recommend, but it will be no trouble to locate the man if you will only search deligently for him. While the Congressional canvass shows Gen. Leonard Wood to hold the lead in the presidential preparations, yet that means little or nothing as applied to the people by and large, for while a Congressman may himself be popular in his bailiwick, yet he exercises no control over his constituents. Gen. Wood, however, seems to be personally popular all over and being a military man, it is our opinion he will be a hard man to beat. It will be remembered that President Wilson used Gen. Wood badly in the late war, which was, and is still resented by all patriotic citizens of this country, and that of itself has added much to his present presidential popularity. Barring favorite sons we feel like already saying, "mee too" for General Leonard Wood. Such bloody riots as occurred at Centralia the other day are to be deplored and those misguided wretches, who fired upon innocent men from ambush, it is hoped, will be detected and punished to the full extent of the law. Lynching one of the men said to be responsible for the cowardly attack added another wrong to the already wrong and those responsible for the lynching should likewise be punished. Lets have this a governmnt of law and order or lets have no government at all. Two wrongs never make a right. The men who fired from ambush on the men doing them no harm are cowardly assassins and, we repeat should be given the full benefit of the law. Washington should seek to suppress all such forms of violence if it takes a standing army to do so. In declaring in an open advertisement that the leading print houses of Seattle are now open shops the master printers are denying the union printers allegations and defying the allegators, and yet this is the first instance of a printing Bolshevist being designated an allegator. Unfair shops and commercial enterprises are so common in Seattle just now that the most astute union labor agitator does not seem to be able to keep up with them. If it be true, as it is so often told, especially from the pulpit, "God loves a cheerful giver," there is no denying that, "we are all like Him" for goodness knows we sinful creatures truly love a cheerful giver, yes, so dearly do we love them that we really hate them when they do not come through. This however is very unkind because times are so critical that many persons are willing to give cheerfully, but have absolutely nothing to give. Prohibition is falling heir to a great many ails and complaints. but there is one thing certain no one ever loses his head from the effects of too much prohibition. Perhaps even Jack Dalton himself does not know, but he must be a "nigger" turned wrong side out that is if a hundreth part of the stories told about colored men and COLORED LITERATURE Books, Maga- zines, Eastern Periodicals. High-brow Toilet Articles. First Class Tonsorial Articles at Tutt's Shop, 300 Main Street. 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. 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Centralia's awful outrage brings other and similar horrors to our minds that have been perpetrated from time to time in this country on men, women and children, just as innocent as were those slain from ambush in Centralia the other day only the ones who fell in those other horrors we have in mind had black and tan skins instead of white as did those who fell in Centralia. These other horrors occurred in the South and were perpetrated, not by Bolshivists and Russian Reds, but by the flock and flower of the land, and before whom our fabulous fabric of civilization falls down to worship. Who can read the detailed accounts of the Elaine Arkansas horror, where more than a hundred innocent colored persons were shot down on sight, their homes burned and those not killed, driven from their homes; and for what, "to," using the words of the governor of that state, to a detective from the North, "prevent the niggers from owing the state," without a creeping sense of horror coming over them. "Yet come it will. the day decreed by fate. How my heart trembles while my tongue relates. When thou, imperial Troy, must fall, thy glories end." Under the guise of protecting white women, black men, who never dreamed of sexualities with white women, by the thousands have been murdered by white men, who returned from the scenes of Throughout this entire land, the seeds of crime have been sown to the winds and many of them have fallen in fertile soil and sprung up, ripened and then multiplied until our country is almost a festering boil and a whirl wind seems eminent, and if its saved from chaos, it will be because violent hands will fall heavily upon all criminals, whether they be white or black, whether they be rich or poor; whether they live in the South, East, North or West. We trust the authorities will run to justice every red handed murderer connected with that bloody tragedy at Centralia, and we further hope that the proper authorities will yet see their way clear to hang as high as Hayman the half humanized white devils of our own sunny South, who slay innocent Negroes for the pass time of seeing them fall. Unless this is done the withering hand of anarchy will blight our entire civilization and the scenes of Elaine, Arkansas and those of Centralia, Washington, will be the only means of adjusting differences between man and man-Let us pray. --- chicken coops be true, we suggest that Jack look himself up. If Oldman Booze is ever again rejuvenated in the United States and Woodrow Wilson, though President no longer, the booze vendors surely ought to be good to him for, if reports be true, he has certainly tried to be good to them. Our beloved president may not succeed in lifting the war time prohibition ban, but it seems to us, he has done his damdest. "Open shops". the right to give employment to any one capable of performing the required work has been recently styled the American Plan, but whether American or otherwise, it certainly is a humane plan. and if American we truly hope that it means all Americans irrespective of class, color or creed. It may be an easy way to pay a bad debt for Johnny Bull to give Uncle Sam a deed for the West Indies Islands, but it seems to us that the citizens of those islands have some rights Johnny Bull and Uncle Sam should feel inclined to respect and at least consult them before making the transfer. Should the second hand furniture ordinance become a law of Seattle some of those chaps, who have been piling up fortunes by buying dirty junk for practically nothing and selling it for fancy prices. will find the business less lucrative in the future. When is a banker a real banker? inquired one caddy of another. A number of answers were ventured, but none hit the bull's eye, and he gave up. "When he can play golf. "Man's mind," so says a college professor, "is the biggest thing about this earth." That doubtless accounts for so many persons thinking, "what I do not know is not worth knowing." The average man does not have much the appearance of a wild deer and yet a great many of them are shot for deers by indescrete hunters. THE PASSING THRONG Dr. Cardwell A Republican I met Dr. David T. Cardwell the other day and inquired of him about the Lincoln League, which rumor says he is pushing throughout this state. "I am not biting at every thing that comes along," said he, "and take it from me I do not know a dam thing about this Lincoln League. It is being fathered, so far as I can understand, by Roscoe Simmons in general and I. F. Norris in particular neither of whom, politically speaking, appeal to me. At the banquet tendered Simmons in this city some weeks ago, he declared that the Lincoln League was Republican to the back bone, but the printed constitution of the Lincoln League says it is an independent political organization, and either Simmons or the Constitution has belied itself and its a dirty bird that will befoul its own nest. Politically speaking I am first, last and all the time for the Republican party without either prefixes or suffixes. Whatever short comings the party may have, I mean to fight them out in the primary election, but when that is over. I am for my party, right or wrong." That's good Republicanism Doe and I am almost morrally certain that I., H. R. Cayton, will be able to influence the editor of Cayton's Weekly to give you a hearty support. What of The Future. "I did not say that the colored folks of this United States would eventually be absorbed by the white folks hereof, but I do say that no where in history can it be found that two distinct races have occupied the same territory at one and the same time. We seem however to be getting further from legal miscegination each year and the miscegenation that has been and is still going in is a transgression of God's moral law, which sooner or later must cease, if we believe in the teachings of the Holy Bible, and suming it all up, the outcome of the human conclomeration in this country is a problem for one to solve who is higher than you and I," said Rev. W. D. Carter to me a few days ago. In a New Year's address some three year's ago. I used language similar to the above, but went a step further, and made the prediction all races in this country would sooner or later be one gigantic mongrel race, composed of the racial elements of the world. Many who heard that speech, not only criticised it, but actually condemned it, and inquired of the chairman of the evening, why he permitted me to talk such rot. Study and thought will bring you to the same view points, whether you are white or black. If it is not peaceful absorption it will be a bloody extermination and the latter I take no stock in, the recent Arkansas horror to the contrary notwithstanding. A. Slater at Home That, said I to myself, looks like Al Slater, and though my sight is a bit treacherous these days. owing to my three score and then some years, yet I feel certain I have made no mistake, and shouted, hello Al! The broad grin that spread over his face convinced me that I had hit the mark, and called the turn. He was looking fine, but on close inspection I discovered that he was suffering from the effects of having had a collision with an airplane. Before he went to war he was one of the crack chaffeurs of the Northwest and was one of the first in the Northwest to pull down more than a hundred bucks per month to send a car through distance like greased lightning. He joined the aviation service during the war and is still in that service, but, on account of a mishap, is temporarily out of commission. Just how he got injured he either did not explain or I did not understand, but the night after having seen him in the day I got to thinking about him and I wondered, if while in the air he got out to crank his machine and came plunging down through space and hit the ground on his head and sprained his ankle from the jar We talked It Over I met Rev. W. A. Major, he of quasi local political fame, though one of the eminent divines of the Northwest, and we stood discussing coming events, politically, so long that it was about mid day eating time, and in order to continue the discussion he invited me to lunch and as we quaffed over the repast memories of by gone political days in Seattle came vividly to my mind. Rev. Major was never a factional ward politician, but he did take an active interest in the success of the Republican party and in keeping Will Humphrey in Congress and to that end the most of the boys appreciated his political activity. While I have never heard his name mentioned in connection with holding any public office, yet I would not be surprised to hear of him some day in the government's diplomatic service. I said the mid day luncheon with Rev. Major brought memories of the past to me and it verily did. In the early political history of Washington politics was more or less a profession and the professional politicians frequently met to count noses. I was running the Seattle Republican those days, which was a politicaal organ pure and simple. It had a long and curious subscription list—about as many really against the political factions it affiliated with as those who favored it. My paper was a John L. Wilson mouth piece, so went the story and the Ankneyites took the paper to watch the Wilsonites. It sometimes would be weeks before I ever had to pay for midday lunch on account of the fellows taking taking me to lunch to put a bug in my ears, and that is why I say the luncheon with the Rev. Major brought memories of the past to me. Do not understand me to say that the Rev. Major was putting a bug in my ear the other day, but the Rev. Major is a great big hearted fellow and just loves to talk about politics. Goes To Los Angeles After quite a few years of usefulness in Seattle, Rev. Eugene A. Johnson has decid- 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 ```markdown ``` ed to move to Los Angeles and live on the more or less retired list the balance of the time. It can be said without fear of successful contradiction that the Rev. Johnson is one of the most scholarly divines that Seattle boasted of and the place he has made for himself in this community will be hard to fill, but what is Seattle's loss will be Los Angeles' gain, and thus it happens all through life. I have often heard the Rev. Johnson in public, but I think the brief eulogy he delivered over Miss Gladys Presto was the most pointed and yet pathetic address that I ever heard fall from his lips and from few others. It is a fact that the average preacher does not know where to begin nor where to end in delivering eulogies over the dead. In short they do not follow the rule, "the least said is the easiest mended." Rev. Johnson will leave the latter part of November or the first of December. WASHINGTON MEMORIAL SERVICE. At The Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Evening Song-All hail the power of Jesus Name. Choir and Congregation Scripture Reading by Dr. E. A. Johnson Prayer by Rev. Wm. Hammond Anthem-Choir UNVAILING OF PICTURES. Mr. Lincoln, by Miss Anna Richardson Poem, by Dr. F. B. Cooper Mr. Douglass, by Miss Theodosio Clark. Poem, by Mr. Hamilton Green Mr. Washington, by Miss Francis Springs Poem, by Miss M. J. Byrd Mr. Roosevelt, by Miss Ruth Williams. Poem, by Mr. H. T. Lewis Violin Solo, by Mr. H. S James, Accompanist, Miss H. J. James. Paper. Mr. Washington as a student. Mr. H. R. Cayton. Paper. Mr. Washington as a Builder, Mr. M. P. Davis. Solo. Miss Loretta Sawyer. Memorial Sermon. by Dr. Sidney Strong, of the Queen Anne Congregation Church. Mr. Timothy Tillman, presiding. Let every one honor the memory of this great race man. REPUBLICAN CLUB MEETS The King County Colored Republican Club meets Sunday, November 16, 1919 at the Afro-American Hall, 2613 East Madison Street at 3 P.M. Very important business each and every member and well wisher are invited to be present. F. B. COOPER, President. C. R. ANDERSON, Secretary. BLACK MAN AND AFRICA Bv E. C. Douglas Africa is a large, rough-shaped compact of land, three times the size of Europe, with a fifth of its surface covered with the largest deserts in the world. Brimming rivers, with courses of from one to three thousand of miles, plunge down the terraced steps to join the sea; mountains guard the coast everywhere, with snowy peaks on the east side looking down on a most wonderful group of great lakes. Such is the face of Africa. The burning sun, travelling overhead some part of the year in the greater part of Africa, looks down on millions of black and brown men—Negroes and others on millions of Arabs, on an ever-increasing number of white men from Europe. The Arabs from the other side of the Red Sea found their way to Africa at various times through the centuries, down the coast, over desert and plain, over rivers and mountains, all over the land. Their coming brought woe to the black men. The white men did not begin to come, except to the coasts within hail of Europe, till nearly the time of Columbus; and their coming also brought woe to the black men. The sorrow of Africa can be summed up in three words: slaves, ivory, rubber. In the oldest maps, made by those who lived on the Mediterranean nearly 2,000 years ago, all that is shown of Africa is the north and northwestern shores, and the narrow strip of the land of Egypt in the northeast corner, near the Isthmus of Suez. This neck of land joining Africa to Asia was, in the past, the great highway of the nations from east to west. Over it passed multitudes of people, armies for conquest, embassies from great kings, merchants who went to and fro between Egypt and the East. The secrets of Africa were buried for many centuries. Of all the sorrowful ones that explorers have found, the saddest are the hard trodden paths across Africa, trodden for centuries by the feet of gangs of miserable slaves, torn from their homes, which were often lake dwellings for safety. Sometimes they would carry ivory to the coast, but for them three was not any return. Many of the travellers are held in rememberance by the names of places on the map; this marks the white man's progress across unknown Africa. Our country is known now; its southern tip points to the South Pole; round the gulf of Guinea it faces westward; its eastern horn points to India. Here on the northeastern stretch it is divided from Asia only by the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, which pilgrims cross on their way to Mecca. The hills that rise from the sun-scorched Sahara are higher than any mountains in the great Appalachian range. The Atlas Mountains, opposite Spain, are as high as the Swiss Mountains, with fine valleys and lovely scenery. The Abyssinian highlands, southwest of the Red Sea, consist of high and rugged mountains, with deep, dark ravines between. South of the Abyssinian heights rise the twin giants of Africa, Kilimanjaro and Kenia, both close to the Equator. Abyssinia is an independent State that has had many passages at arms with European nations. The hardy mountaineers adopted Christianity in early times. Next we will see that Italy stands in the way of the Abyssinians by cutting off this great country from the Red Sea. Now the country is practically surrounded by Italy and England, with no ports on the Red Sea nor the Aden Gulf but the rivers that drain the land, Blue Nile and the Atbara. When Britain was a barbarous outlying nation, the peoples of Africa had long been the centre of the world. But today we may IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF KING COUNTY, State OF WASHINGTON. ELBERTIE FLORENCE PEAK, Plaintiff, vs. EMMET STEDMAN PEAK, Defendant. No. 139203. SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. THE STATE OF WASHINGTON TO: Emmet Stedman Peak. Defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons to-wit; within sixty days after the 8th day of November, 1919, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled Court and answer the complaint of the plaintiff and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for the plaintiff, at his office below stated and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint which has been filed with the Clerk of said Court. The object of this action is to dissolve the bonds of matrimony now and heretofore existing between the plaintiff and the defendant in this action and for an absolute decree of divorce. Date of first publication, November 8th, 1919 Office & P. O. Address, 320 Railway Exchange Bldg., Seattle, Washington. November 8, December 13, 1919. have declined to stand in courts and palaces; but less than 2000 years ago when the peoples were at peace with themslves and the world a great civilization had long been born and existed. An old Arab writer said this about Africa: "He who had not seen Cairo, hath not seen the world; its soil is gold! its Nile a wonder, its houses are palaces, and its air is soft; its odor surpassing that of aloes wood, and cheering the heart." When the tributaries of the BlueNile and Atbara were traced to the highlands of Abyssinia, the mystery of the rise of the Nile and its fertilizing soil was solved. The torrents of tropical rain tear down the earth from the gorges and cliffs, and the muddy water rushes down through Nubia over the chains of cataracts to the almost level land along the course from Assuan to the sea. It mean's famine if the Nile rises too little or too much. But above all Africa has given to the New World more realities than all the other continents that had been discovered long before. The black man today is not an experiment on this side of the world. What is known of him has not been duly credited to him, but within the next few years Africa will be explored by black men. Then the history of Africa will be given to the world as it is. Next will be treated the Slave traffic and how it started; men who helped to overthrow its progress. Cayton's Weekly READABLE RELIABLE REPUBLICAN Will Help You If You Will Help It 303 22nd Ave. So. Beacon 1910 STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, Circulation, Etc., Required by the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912, of Cayton's Weekly, published weekly at Seattle, Wash., for April 1, 1919. State of Washington. County of King-ss. 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