Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly A CHRISTMAS REMEMBERANCE. Last December I appealed to the subscriber's of Cayton's Weekly to take advantage of the coming Christmas Holidays and send to the office their annual subscription, and I would receive the same in the spirit of a Christmas rememberance, and it would therefore serve a double purpose. Quite a few of them cheerfully complied with the request and on Christmas Day I was the recipient of a very pleasant rememberance in the shape of a batch of checks and postoffice money orders. Another December is now with us and I am going to make a like appeal to you and each of you, who are subscribers to Cayton's Weekly, to send in your annual subscription at once and I will hold all of them until Christmas Day and then make myself believe I have been personally remembered by all of you, and, I assure you, I will feel just as happy as if you were not actually paying for your subscription. May I hear from you soon. There is still another object in making this request, it bunches my expiration cards and that part of the business is the more easily handled. Perhaps your subscription is not quite due, but it will be due within the ensuing year and what you pay now will take you until next December, when you can send the editor another Christmas rememberance. For the past twelve months I have endeavored to handle the public questions at issue in a manner that would redound to the best good of all concerned, but, if I have not, it has been an error of the head and not of the heart. My constituency however has been painfully silent as to whether I have or have not and this Christmas rememberance I am asking for will also be something of an approval of the course I have persued. To publish a paper of the nature of Cayton's Wekly is no pleasant undertaking because its subject matter is always either of a defensive or of a critical nature, hence it is not a popular paper and especially in the commercial world, which completely robs it of money making qualities, which is another reason for those who patronize it to be prompt in their remittances. Let all who are already subscribers send in their dues now and that will give me more time to endeavor to tease others into subscribing The milk in the cocoanut however is I need the money to help bear the burden. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON, Editor and Publisher, Cayton's Weekly, Seattle, Washington. 317 Twenty Second Ave. So. 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 PEACE ON EARTH. A dime and a dollar, with a standing collar, will cause men to swell and often repell, the man with the hoe, who hits the blow, which makes the corn that fills the horn, for the city dude and his dady's brood. In a land of greed, the mon's the steed, on which men ride to show their pride, and make you bow, while at your plow, because they're riding by. But the man with the hoe will raise the "dough" and buy the world to treat his girl, when he learns to travel, through, the sand and gravel, to the mountains cold to gather gold. But those who plow, should make a vow, never to fight, though they're right, Mr. Standing Collar or the Almighty Dollar, lest they crack the tank or break the bank, and thereby spill the beans. Let the dollar man, invent some plan, to save the earth, from Bolshevist birth, and oust confusion from its seclusion, that peace may reign, and cause the grain, to thrive and grow, on every roe. May man and man meet man and man and brotherly love from God above, bind each to each, while peace they preach—in union's length there's always strength. "My country first" should be the thirst, united all, we never fall. To others always do, what think you due, from all you meet, while traveling round your beat, and then the smiles will come in piles, and the sword and sheath, consigned to the heath, will sleep in the dust or in the rain and the rust. Then millenium dawn, will cover the lawn, where brothers feed on heavenly deeds, and the man with the dollar will cheerfully follow, and seek no row, with the man at the plow. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS. For organized labor and organized capital to each seek to destroy the other is like unto killing the hen that lays the golden egg. There can be no capital without labor. Capital is the products of labor and the capitalist is or should be nothing more than the authorized director of labor. Whatever differences and misunderstandings there may be between capital and labor should be amicably settled, if both of them hope this government to be perpetuated. Brethern, we beseech you to hang together or you will certainly hang separately. "You tickle me and I tickle you" may work out alright in politics, but the colored man in Seattle that tickled the lady he hoped would reciprocate did not appreciate the tickle back he got from her as he is now in the hospital from a bread knife slashing. Things take queer turns some times. If Joseph Daniels, secretary of War, knows the newspaper game that seems to be be the only game that he does know, and hailing from North Carolina we have our serious doubts if he knows the newspaper game. As we see it Joe does not seem to know "nuthin." How we thank our lucky stars, that we are not white folks lest we find ourselves, like a great many white folks, having a "hell-of-a-time" in a country road house, where criminal congregations ne'er break and revelry has no end. Now that the July King County grand jury work has all been wiped off the board there are those, who are mean enough to say, it was a frame up to make biz for the lawyers, who were sadly in need of some extra change to lay in this winter supplies. In our opinion the democratic party would save itself a lot of worry and expense if it would forget that a president is to be elected next year and if not that just remember that, the voters of this country are no longer crazy. A rich Portlander drew a six months sentence for speeding, but he has appealed to a higher court, which means, he will probably be dead of old age before a decision from that court will be handed down. General Grand Jury may, in times past have exercised considerable influence for good in such communities as he was called upon to preside over, but, it is very apparent, he has outlived his usefulness and need now to go way back and set down. Seventy cent turkey made cornbeef and cababge taste like pie and molasses. Thanksgiving Day, but remembering who is president it was not so worse after all. The editor of Cayton's Weekly has been accused of writing poetry, but evil to him who evil thinks, it was only, tweedledum and tweedledee, I ticklum and um tickle me. Unless some kind of a treaty between President Wilson and Senator Lodge is hatched up, the treaty will never be treated. Last December I appealed to the subsvantage of the coming Christmas Holidays tion, and I would receive the same in the s would therefore serve a double purpose. with the request and on Christmas Day I memberance in the shape of a batch of ch Another December is now with us an Bandits and burglars are as common these days as are flees on a dog's back, all of which again reminds us of the fact that "this is a white man's country." Watchman Morris on the Canadian Pacific dock is not only suffering from a Boyle, but is to face a charge of trying to kidnap Miss Canadian Bugjuice. Now if the raise in the price of sugar does not take all the sweetness out of life it will be because you are in on the deal. At Columbus, Ohio, Negroes have organized the Supreme Life and Casualty Company, with a capital of $100,000, for the greater development and expansion of insurance along casualty lines among Negroes and for the acquisition by purchase and reinsurance, subject to legal and departmental supervision, of life, health and accident organizations in various parts of the country. Its incorporators are T. K. Gibson, G. W. Hayes. C. R. Davis, C. S. Smith, Jr., D. C. Chandler, G. A. Steward, B. Beaty, and R. R. Hawkins. In Memphis, Tenn., at the celebration of Labor Day the white committee included the Negroes in the parade, and they marched with the units of their various professions. There was no "Jim-Crowing" or bringing up the rear. The estate of a colored man, Charles Loman, valued at more than two million dollars on account of its oil wells, is in litigation. A white banker has been appointed guardian of the children, but the widow is suing to oust him. Negroes at Chattanooga, Tenn., have filed articles of incorporation for the Chattanooga Coal and Manufacturing Company, with a capital stock of $15,000, to mine coal and other minerals in Hamilton County and to manufacture coke and its by-products. The incorporators are J. D. Fazald, E. P. Jones, Daniel R. Brown, Manson Flower and S. A. Wheeler. --- THE PASSING THRONG One day this week I sent, what I had previously considered an indifferent subscriber to Cayton's Weekly, a $2 statement for a years' subscription and the next day I received a check from him for $20. Of course he had made an awful mistake and I immediately hunted him up and called his attention to the cheek mistake. I have made no mistake, he replied, and my only regret is that my bank account was not sufficiently strong to have made it $200. I do not always agree with your editorial utterances, but believe me, for the most part they call the turn and I trust they will continue to do so, and unless you are financially supported you can not do so. I only wish thousands of white persons would subscribe for it and if they did there would be a much better feeling existing between the white and colored folks in this country. I was delighted with your editorial last week. Separate State and Colored Bishop Again. They were to the point and my sentiment. I repeat I made no mistake in the cheek and I am proud to be able to so remember a worthy cause. To say I was greatful was mildly putting it and I would be glad to call his name, but it would hardly be the proper thing. *** Quite a few of the colored boys about the city have recently enlisted in the navy and though colored boys do not get as many golden opportunities in the navy as do white boys, yet if they make much of such opportunities as come their way they will be greatly benefitted from the three year enlistment. I saw a young colored boy last Saturday evening, who recently enlisted and he enumerated the things he had taken up for study, among them being the study of radio and short hand and stenography. He is compelled to keep good hours and is lectured to keep away from bad company. Before enlisting he was rapidly drifting in the city with no objective point in life. There are some boys that a term in the navy would be a detriment to them because they are dutiful, studious and tractable at home and need no severe discipline, but those boys, who seem unable to control or direct themselves the navy is just the place for them. * * * And that man coming is C. J. Smith, of much local fame in years gone by, when at the head of the Oregon Improvement Company, now the Pacific Coast Company, and though he has lived here right along, yet I seldom ever see him and so when we met I shook hands with him, and after chatting for a second or more we passed on. As I proceeded up the street I fell to thinking about him and many pleasant memories came to my mind. It was C. J. Smith who directed that something like 1000 colored miners be imported to the Franklin and New Castle mines to take the place of the striking white miners, but unlike a great many persons, who employ colored persons as strike breakers, he did not go back on them when the whites became reconciled. As long as he was connected with that institution the colored miners got a square deal. Not many if any of the colored miners knew what a friend they had in C. J. Smith, the head of the company, but my business frequently called me to the general offices of the company and he said many things to me that he never said to the miners. In short in his own peculiar way he was a loyal friend to the colored miners. Mr. Smith is now one of the rich men of the city and he probably is not thrown in contact with a colored person once a year if that often. Not many of the later day colored folks of Seattle know James D. Hoge when they see him, and I am of the opinion that he does not know a dozen colored persons in the city at present, yet there was a time when he knew practically all of them and all of them knew him. When that condition existed I knew him as either Hoge or Jim and he was one of the most congenial fellows in the city. I met him on the street the other day and though I tried awfully hard to say, hello Jim. yet I absolutely failed and instead said, Iam exceedingly glad to see you Mr. Hoge, and he forgot for a minute the millions of simoleans he now has at his command, and grabbed my hand, just as he did, when he directed the destinies of the P. I. or when he and I met to talk over the advisability of sending Doc Ames and Z. B. Rawson to the legislature, and I convinced him they were O. K. It was during the McKinley campaign that I met him the most as he was the president and I secretary of the Republican State Editorial Association, and, believe me, there was no political gathering, banquets or party conflabs that my seat was not reserved by the side of President Hoge and he leaned heavily on Mr. Secretary for the detail work. It was this same James D. Hoge, who made it possible for the Seattle Republican all insignificant weekly publication, whose destinies I directed, to bloom into a daily paper over night and become in an hour thereafter one of the official organs of the city of Seattle—those were the good old days. Lucky dog that Jim Hoge. Fortune has favored him and he now flies so high that he won't come back 'til the 4th of July," using a street slang, but our lines lead in different directions and so much so that he only has time to bow as he passes. On this recent occasion he stopped to extend sympathy for my recent bereavement and then talked for a minute of "how are you getting on." He leaves for Europe in the near future and it may be years before I will again say a dozen words to him. A great old world is this. * * * One of the more or less exclusive white residential sections of Seattle was thrown into mental spinal miningitis the other day on account of a Japanese family purchasing a residence therein, and that too despite the fact the Japanese family is U. S. college bred. One or more indignation meetings have been held, at which the most of the white residenters were present, and took the pledge they would not sell to Japanese. Now there is some method in this madness, but not sufficient to justify the intemperate language, that was indulged in by some of the speakers. That the colonizing of any distinct class in any one section or community in this country depreciates the value of said property so far as the dominant class is concerned goes without saying, and I suspect the Japanese would oppose that as much as the white citizens. But so few Japanese are able or are willing to pay the price for such homes that the residents are foolish, in my opinion, to take alarm because one, two or even a few Japanese families move into their immediate neighborhoods. If its depreciation of the property that is causing the alarm then get your price from some Japanese and move some where else. I would not want to buy real estate for speculative purposes in an exclusive community of Japanese, Chinese, Italian or even colored, if you please, but, for a home, my neighbors, so long as they did not disturb me, and were not public nuisances, would give me little or no concern. For a home for myself the exclusive white residential districts do not appeal to me and all because the price is prohibitive. Some time ago I thought seriously of buying a home and soon after I reached that conclusion a lady living in the Mt. Baker district called me up and talked sale to me. From the description she gave of her property it must have been an ideal place and she admitted she was no longer able to maintain such sumptious quarters. She, under the circumstances, would sell at a sacrifice and would take $10,500 for the same. I am not looking for a home, I loconically replied and hung up. It did not require a set of resolutions to keep me from moving out there. But the white man of this country has invited the Japanese here and the Japanese government is solicited to have its merchants make this their American headquarters, and they have to stay some where and if we want their business there should be no place to good for them to live, if they have the money to pay the price. To The Editor: The committee of arrangement for the banquet held at Harmony Hall, Monday evening, November 17th, agrees with your issue of November 22nd, that more colored speakers should have been on the program. The committee had planned to have one colored speaker from each of the following cities—Tacoma, Spokane and Seattle. Spokane was given its subject—"The Colored Women in Politics," and Tacoma's subject was—"The Necessity of a Republican Administration in 1921," An attempt also was made to place a Colored woman from Seattle, on the program. The plan miscarried at the last moment, hence the shortage of colored speakers. DR. D. T. CARDWELL. Chairman, State Organization Com. * * * I understand a colored women has purchased a splendid piece of real estate near Twelfth and Jackson, which brings in a monthly rental of over $200, which is the second large purchase in that neighborhood within the past thirty days by colored persons. I am with holding the name of the purchaser because I published the name of a person, who had purchased a valuable piece of real estate on Jackson street, and I was so severely reprimanded for the same that I wondered if I had committed a crime in doing so. I mean to profit by experience and in future only hint at the big deals. I am heartily glad to see the colored folks grabbing valuable pieces of real estate, while grabbing is good, for within the next ten years all of that property will be worth ten fold what it now is. Others I am told, are seriously considering getting on the outside of valuable real estate on Jackson street. P. FRAZIER Main 4554. J. W. EDMUN Eye Specialist. 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Alfred Lewis, Funeral Director 1215 East Marion St., Seattle --- Editorial Warblings. --- GOD IS A STRONG TOWER A recent issue of the Wall Street Journal says: "In 1906, Professor Langley petiored Congress to appropriate $50,000 to enable him to carry on his experiments for the conquest of the air. 'Uncle Joe' Cannon wrote 'Larius Green and His Flying Machine' and Congress laughed the "appropriation" off the floor. But in 1917 the same 'Uncle Joe' voted for a $660,000,000 aerial program and Congress did not laugh. The public, like Congress, when it realizes the possibilities, will get behind the airplane and place it where it belongs in national defense and progress." In ardently urging upon this nation the importance of aerial defenses, the same general article has this paragraph: "England is arranging for as perfect a national defense by air as by the ocean. Her first peace appropriation for the air ministry is $325,000,000. Washington proposes an appropriation for airplane work of $25,000,000 for the army and $25,000,000 for the navy, a total of $50,000,000. Even France appropriates more for aviation than the United States." There is a little lull just now so far as a great world war is concerned; but everybody recognizes the tense situation, and sees anarchy, revolution, and war confronting us. Albert Thomas, formerly France's minister of armaments, in commenting on the world situation, says: "The strike situation in America proves clearly that the entire world is threatened with half a century of revolution. Wage demands are only incidental to the upheaval which is at the bottom of the unrest." Leading business men and prominent statesmen, in view of the situation confronting us, are anxious that the latest devices shall be brought into use, so that the nation may be able to protect itself against any possible aggression. The monster battleships and cruisers and submarines, together with all the high-powered guns and other equipment to be used on land and sea, are the creations of the present generation, and are so awful in their destructiveness as to strike terror to the stoutest soul. To the statesmen of all the nations, and to the men of the world in general, these conditions may be perplexities that are without a parallel; but to the one who knows and believes the prophecies of the Bible, all is clear and plain. The conditions of this time are just what he knowse should be expected. The commercial greed, and the love of self, together with wickedness in general, God has fortold would produce in the last days just such scenes as we now see filling the world. And when viewing the Judgment Day scenes, the revelator was bidden to write that "the nations were wroth, and Thy wrath came, and the time of the dead to be judged, and the time to give their reward to Thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to them that fear Thy name, the small and the great; and to destroy them that destroy the earth." Revelation 11:18. And Revelation 16:12-16 gives a description of the demons that will go into all the world to gather the nations to the great battle of Armageddon. The conditions of this time show that the great event cannot be long delayed; and if we would stand secure in that time, we must see to it that we are gaining true Christian fortitude now. It must not be a superficial experience, but one that brings to us the truth that God is our personal Saviour and protector. Moses was able to live his life of power because he became so intimate with God. he learned to know Him so closely, the expressed in the sacred page, "he is dured, as seeing Him who is invisible." Our God has promised that "when thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee." Isaiah 43:2. And in the twenty-fourth verse of this same chapter, the Lord speaks of our having burdened Him with our sins, but immediately adds, "I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for Mine own sake; and I will not remember thy sins." Verse 25. We must know the Lord Jesus Christ as our personal Saviour, as the One who blotted out our transgressions, as the One who is infinite in power, and who constantly dwells with us through His Holy Spirit; and if we know Him in this way, this world has no terrors that can destroy our perfect peace of mind. In the storm that is about to break, it will be much more difficult for us to find the calm that will enable us to lay hold upon the mighty strength of Jehovah; so let us be exhorted to seek Him earnestly today, and to get that nearness to Him which will enable us to sense His presence, and to know the consoling strength of His omnipotent power.—The Signs of The Times. READING COLORED PAPERS Have a heart, good people. The house is divided against itself. It is written, "That a house divided against itself cannot stand." While Congressman Burns is of the opinion that many Race newspapers are doing harm, Dr. Robert T. Kerlin, professor of English of the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va., makes the exclusive statement to the Associated Negro Press concerning newspapers. Startling in its frankness and complimentary to the last degree, Dr. Kerlin says: "I am reading Negro newspapers—reading them by the dozen, reading them by the score, from all parts of the country, from half the states of the Union, papers of every kind, secular, religious, fraternal, institutional. Let me tell you some of my impressions—the impressions of a white man. "First of all, I am profoundly impressed by the unanimity of these papers in their expression of the wrongs, the discriminations, and injustices practiced against the Colored people by their white neighbors and fellow citizens. Never, I think, did so many millions of people constituting a racial unit exhibit such a solid front, such unanimity of feeling and purpose. Their reaction to lynchings and the riots of which they have been victims—to the shame of white America—has been that of one outraged and tortured soul, heroic in forbearance and in suffering. "Then I am impressed by the force and resoluteness of the Colored people's contention—also put forth with absolute unanimity for justice, for opportunity and constitutional rights, and for all that as human beings and patriotic Americans and loyal citizens, they are entitled to. "Such are my impressions, not to proceed further in stating them, that I wish the white people of America generally might go to reading your papers, and do so with a serious mind to get your point of view, to learn how you think and feel on the subjects that so vitally concern us, to know what measures you have to propose to bring about better racial relations and an improvement of conditions with prevention of mob violence and lawlessness. Out of such reading would certainly spring a better understanding, atoning sympathy, saner and surer co-operation. The question of questions for us as a nation today is racial adjustment. The present conditions of distrust and hostile feeling, ill disguised if not open and violent, is intolerable to all self-respecting and human-hearted people. It is utterly opposed to Americanism and to Christianity. I, for one, take my stand for justice, for humanity, and for a square deal. Simply because it is right and following the promptings of my own heart. 'Another thing I wanted to say about your papers is that they display no little editorial ability, and reflect credit upon the race. Their editorials are often worthy of the ablest white papers—cogent in reasoning, temperate though resolute in tone, uncompromising yet dignified in their demands, throughout showing intellectual strength and moral conviction. "A general reading of the best Colored weebles could not but greatly benefit the white people and produce good results for all America." Just to bring about such of a more or less general state of affairs has been the object of Cayton's Weekly since it came into existence. When colored publishers send out papers so well edited that no one need feel ashamed of being seen with them then, in our opinion, more white men like the above will read them and be proud to recommend them to their friends. Cayton's Weekly has many white subscribers, who pay promptly for the same, but whether or not they appreciate it as much as does Prof. Kerlin, deponent verily doeth not know, but we feel certain that they must or they would not continue to subscribe. Jean Boileau throws some light on a discussion which has been pretty widely mooted in the American press in the last few months. M. Boileau writes in the Baltimore Evening Sun: I should prefer to remain silent on the question of the comparative merits of the American and the French girls. But since so much is being said in your Forum, favorable and unfavorable to the girls of France, I beg to state what I and thousands of other Frenchmen believe to be the main cause of all this hostile criticism of the women of my native land. The mian cause of this criticism is found in a letter to your Forum of the 6th instant signed by "Allen P. Sadtler." Your correspondent unwittingly "gives the game away" when he says that "the good French girl loves a Negro." This fact of French women's love for American Negroes is the tap-root of the unfavorable comments made by white Americans against French women. French women were urged not to mingle with colored American soldiers. They were told many awe-inspiring tales about Negro soldiers as a whole. But their social experiences with these men of color absolutely failed to verify the many stories which had been pouring into their ears. A brief social contact with the American Negro soon caused all fear to vanish like a stain of vapor upon a mirror. But had the women of my country fallen victims to this subtle and extensive preparanda launched in France by white Americans against colored Americans; had they allowed their souls to be filled with what is known in America as "nigger-hatred"; had they drawn the "color line" and refused to open their doors, their arms and their hearts to the Americans of ebony hue, they would probably have been exalted to the sky as being among the best and most worthy girls on earth. But no! French women do not measure men according to the color of their skin. A white skin is not an essential attribute of French society or French citizenship. French women are criticized because of their love for colored soldiers. But why should they hate Negroes as such? Or why should they even ignore them for no other reason than their color? The Negroes' very polite, sincere maner, their exemplary conduct among the French civilians and their reckless, brave and courageous conduct on the firing line won the hearts, not only of the French women, but also of the French people as a whole. These brown skin sons of America were conceded to be the most lovable of all foreign soldiers on French soil. If French girls are to be regarded as unworthy because of their affection for these men of color; then the French people as a THE NEGRO "IS NOT WITHOUT HONOR SAVE—" --- ```markdown ``` whole must for the same reason be deemed unworthy. The French people do not discriminate against their own colonials on account of their color. They honor and respect them. It was the mighty Senegalese who saved the day for their beloved France in the first battle of the Marne. And France is not ashamed to acknowledge her indebtedness to these conquering sons of Africa. The French girls would regard as unreasonable any criticism against them because of the social welcome they extend to their colonials. Likewise, they cannot see the reason or sense of any unfavorable comments because of their widely known, hearty attachment to American Negroes. As compared with this "fault" of having deep affection for colored Americans, all other faults of French women sink into insignificance. If the American people as a whole knew the fruitless efforts of these very ones who are finding fault with French girls to prejudice their minds against American Negroes, they could then see, as I do, the real reason for all this talk against French girls. French girls have no hatred or prejudice in their hearts based on the color of the skin of other people. Is this a just cause for condemnation? French people do not think so, and cannot be made to think so. Many French girls will testify that they received more courtesy and better treatment from the American Negroes than from the whites. No Negro ever referred to a French woman as a "jane" or with any other slurring epithet. By the way, I notice that even your correspondent uses the term "frog jane" in reference to the French girl. If the failure on the part of French women to hate and discriminate against American Negroes merely because of race or color be regarded as a fault, then French women are proud of such a fault." PURELY PERSONAL Mrs. Lula Sheets accompanied by her nineteen year old son, has returned to Seattle after an absence of thirteen years. Mrs. Sheets is the daughter of John Conna, a Washington pioneer, who settled on a homestead many years ago near the present townsite of Auburn. Her son is a cabinet maker and will seek employment in the city. They are stopping with Harold Conna, 1240 King street. Rev. W. D. Carter who was to have preached the sermon at the union services Thanksgiving Day, got snow bound in Clellum, and did not reach the city until that evening. Rev. Barber officiated in his absence. Rev. Eugene A. Johnson will preach at the Grace Presbyterian Church next Sunday morning, thus ending, so far as he now knows, his labors in this city for all time to come. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Owens will leave next week for a month's stay in the Eeast returning about the middle of January. Mr. B. C. Making left for his home in Montana and will be absent from the city about five months. Miss Lodie Biggs was hostess to a number of young ladies and gentlemen at a dinner party Thanksgiving, after dinner, at a dance. For sale, near Thirty-first and Judkins, eight lots with an eleven room house well finished, for $10500. H. R. Cayton, 317 22nd So. THE HORIZON Julius Rosenwald is offering through the General Education Board six scholarships to qualified Negro graduates of Medical schools of the United States for advance study in medical sciences. Expenses and support up to $1200 will be provided. The appointments will be made in 1920 by a committee of which Dr. William H. Welch, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, is chairman. Applications may be made to Secretary Abraham Flexner, 61 North Broadway, New York City. Piney Woods School, an institution for Negroes at Braxton, Miss., has received a legacy of $1,000 from a Mr. Olson of Minnesota. The school now owns free from debt 1,414 acres of land and six large buildings, the entire value of which is upward of $75,000. It has enrolled 300 students and 18 teachers; a private telephone system, a brass band, its own railroad station, a post office, with a colored postmistress, are among its equipment, with $6,000 invested in city bonds, which is the beginning of an endowment fund. Professor Lawrence C. Jones in the principal. The School Board of Lake Charles, La., has voted to build two new schools for the colored people. The two buildings will cost $125,000; in one building industrial education will be featured. The State of Georgia has appropriated $20,000 for the years 1920 and 1921 to the Georgia Normal and Agricultural College. The installation of John W. Davis as president of West Virginia Collegiate Institute has taken place. Mr. Davis is a graduate of Morehouse College and the University of Chicago, and for the past two years has been executive secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Washington, D. C. Two new teachers for the institution were announced A. A. Taylor, a graduate of the University of Michigan, at the head of the Department of Mathematics, and Walker Bacon, a graduate of Syracuse University, director of physical training and athletic coach. The enrollment is 250, the largest in the history of the school. Tuskegee Institute has enrolled 1200 students, an increase of 500 over the enrollment at this time last year. W. T. B. Williams, Field Agent for the Jeanes and Slater Boards, has transferred his headquarters from Hampton Institute to Tuskegee Institute, where he will, also, act in an advisory capacity to Principal Moton on educational matters. The business manager is now G. W. A. Johnson, succeeding E. T. Atwell, who resigned to enter War Camp Community Service; J. E. Whitfield has been appointed acting Director of the Agricultural Department, succeeding F. M. Cardoza, who resigned on account of his health; James L. Whiting is in charge of vocational work. The R. O. T. C. is in charge of Major William Wolcott; disabled colored soldiers are being trained, under the direction of Captain G. Kelly. Albion L. Holsey is secretary to Principal Moton. The trustees of Morgan College, Baltimore, Md., have agreed to buy the forty acres of the Morton estate, on Hillen Road. They have in mind a school for training teachers for rural school work, especially in agriculture. Contractors are at work on a new dormitory and Carnegie Hall, a three story and basement structure, 52x75 feet. The Maryland State Board of Education has given its approval for the establishment of the Central Colored Industrial School, at Belair, which will start this fall with three teachers and a capacity for seventy-five pupils. The Rev. Dr. Charles S. Morris, of Norfolk, the widely-known Negro preacher, has accepted the presidency of the Boydton, Va., Institute. The total number of colored pupils enrolled in the Washington public schools for the fall season is 12,120; including the vocational students the number is over 17,000. A drive for $500,000 is being made by Lincoln University, a Negro institution at Chester, Pa., for the extension of its work. Alumni and friends in New York City have pledged $10,000. In the Richmond, Va., school savings system there are 3509 colored depositors, as against 3281 white depositors. The Crossett, Ark., Lumber Company is employing 500 Negro men and women. It maintains a nine months school, with five teachers, and a Y. M. C. A. building is soon to be erected, of which Charles E. Johnson, formerly Army Y. M. C. A. secretary, will be in charge. At the meeting of the American Labor Party, Hartford, Conn., Mrs. Mary Seymour made the statement that colored women workers in tobacco fields in the South are being paid wages as low as $2.10-$4.90 a week. A unanimous vote of "condemnation of the exploitation of colored women in tobacco fields" was passed and a committee of three appointed to confer with the Central Labor Union on the subject. The British Guiana Industrial Trading Company, Ltd., organized and incorporated by Negroes in British Guiana, is carrying on a business as merchants and provision dealers. Mr. H. Critchlow is managing director. In Pittsburgh, Pa., 3000 Negro miners have Union cards of membership in the United Mine Workers. Samuel L. Pangburn, a Negro, is district organizer. The Over-All Manufacturing and Industrial Association, Inc., at Hot Springs, Ark., with a capital of $100,000, has been organized by Negroes for the purpose of operating manufacturing plants and to secure enough land to develop a manufacturing center among Negroes. George S. Washington is president. George H. Benjamin, a Negro clerk at the Wil'amette Iron and Steel Works, Portland, Ore., has been promoted to the position of private secretary to the General Superintendent. C. W. McCraye, a Negro in St. Louis, Mo., has invented a new five-power plow combination. Mr. McCraye is also the inventor of a cotton chopper and an automatic railway gate. He anticipates forming a company for manufacturing. The Southern Labor Congress has ended a three days' session, at Asheville, N. C. It voted unanimously to admit "Negro labor in the ranks of the organized labor union." Jerome Jones, white, of Atlanta, Ga., was re-elected president. Robert Isaacs and Cabel Cheatham, two Negro delegates to the thirty-fourth annual convention of the Massachusetts State Branch, A. F. of L., held at Greenfield, had the following resolution recorded in the minutes of the convention by unanimous vote: Resolved: "That the State Branch of the A. F. of L. go on record against the denial of justice to any person regardless of their color and that we call upon Congress to see to it that these amendments to the Federal Constitution are strictly enforced." Messrs. Isaacs and Cheatham are members of Local 14,936 and 34, respectively, of Boston. Hotel Roscoe Simmons has been opened by Negroes in Louisville, Ky. It is situated one block from the City Hall. Mr. Henry Allen is manager. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF KING COUNTY, State OF WASHINGTON. ELBERTIE FLORENCE PEAK, Plaintiff, vs. EMETET STEDMAN PEAK, Defendant. No. 139203 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION 159203. 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. COLORED LITERATURE Books, Magazines, Eastern Periodicals. 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