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, Vash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. TELEPHONE: BEACON 3579 Office 317 22nd Ave. South THE WEST AND SOUTH Once upon a time, so goes the story, two typical cow punchers conceived the idea of visiting New York City and, dare devil as it may have seemed, yet they actually did so, and while they were objects of wholesale curiosity to the New Yorkers, nevertheless the New Yorkers were no less objects of curiosity to them, but the straw that broke the camel's back, so far as the cow punchers were concerned, was when they ran across two dudes, such as roamed at large in New York some thirty-five or more years ago. The cow punchers suspiciously eyed the dudes, yea, with intense interest, when one of the punchers turned to the other, while his hand unconsciously dropped to his back aft pocket, only to find it empty, and exclaimed: "Bill, what strange things we see when we haven't our guns." While reading the Business Chronicle of this city one day this week I ran across a communication which made me feel very much like that cow puncher in New York City at the sight of two dudes, and below the letter is reproduced: The Hope of Civilization J. S. Moose, manager Morrilton Cotton Oil Co., Morrilton, Arkansas:—It takes a considerable noise on the Pacific Coast to be audible on this side of the Continental Divide. We have been hearing just enough to know that there is a conflict there between the lovers of God and Home and Native Land on the one hand, and those sane and insane anarchists who acknowledge no Creator, who have no hope of Home, and who respect no Government, on the other. What little we have heard from the Far West does not tell us whether you are wise or foolish, but what we hear certainly indicates that you are on the side of decency and right and that you are backing your convictions with energy and courageous Americanism. Keep up the good work. The hope of Civilization depends on finding enough men with spinal columns like yours. Think about the operator of a cotton oil company in Arkansas felicitating with men operating big industrial concerns in the Northwest and you have a fair example of Lucifer in the bottomless pits of hell protesting against the angels rebelling. Doubtless, not a man in that cotton oil concern gets half decent wages and as all of them employed there are colored men, they are forced to work ten hours per day and yet not get half pay, and if they protest or organize for mutual protection they are declared to be plotting a Negro uprising for the purpose of massacreing the whites, whom they outnumber in that state, and forthwith the white men from near and from far, armed as if for war, close in upon the unsuspecting Negroes and shoot them down like wild beasts of the forest. Of course, such brutality is looked upon in Arkansas as 'courageous Americanism,' but in God's country it is looked upon as the acts of barbarians, who work upon the theory that might makes right. The black men, women and children murdered by those Arkansas rough necks (white) had no desire to be other than one hundred per cent. American, but simply wanted a man's chance and a man's pay, but the plantation and industrial concerns operators in Arkansas are determined "no nigger" shall ever enjoy either of these, and any move on their part to attain them will be severely reprimanded with showers of red hot lead and the lyncher's limb, and then the message will go forth from Arkansas, "the hope of Civilization and white supremacy depend on finding enough men with sufficient back bone to reincarnate the horrors of Elaine at every place in the South where the Negro makes any move to rise higher in the scale of life than that of a slave for the white man. The white man of Arkansas, who felicitates with the industrial man of the North is simply proving to the world that he is the same old damphool that Grant, Sheridan and other great Civil War heroes tried to shoot patriotic Americanism into, but most signally failed. North, South, East and West, the man who toils for his daily bread has rights that the man who manipulates for his millions are bound to respect, or anarchy will prevail. Multiplied thousands of working white men in the North, tips of whose ltitle fingers are more patriotic than all of the white men in Arkansas combined, want and demand a square deal from the man with the money. Such men have nothing in common with labor Bolshevists, but he wants his rights as a man. The colored working man of the South wants a like square deael and, if the men at the head of our affairs are wise, they will see to it that he gets it, or something will drop and great will be its fall. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS After comparing notes as to each other, the Portland editors seem to have reached the conclusion that silence is golden. Judging from Gomper's defeat by his own union, there is no doubt of his "having seen better days" Perhaps R. Satori will give Seattle an ideal service as councilman, but he himself seems a little uncertain about it. The Democrats are living in the hope to Hoover a sufficient number of votes to give them another four years of rule and ruin. Councilman Bill Moore always does things and then tries to justify what he does with flowery explanations. If Poindexter and Hays will just manage to get here Lincoln's birthday Seattle's hotels will hardly be able to accommodate the incoming visitors. At this time Seattle can do without either an aristocrat or a Russian Red for mayor and therefore both Caldwell and Duncan shsould be elected to stay at home. The Man on Twenty-fourth avenue of this city is not a man, but after observing what she has accomplished you reach the opinion that she is a mighty Man. Reports to the effect that Old Booze is not actually dead, despite the fact his funeral obsequies have already been held. Like the tail of a snake, he will flinch until the sun goes down. After reading a copy of the University Daily and realizing that it is the product of the school of journalism, of which so much fuss has been made, we felt inclined to say VOL. IV., No. 33 "deliver me and mine from such a journalistic misfit." There may not be much of interest in the columns of Cayton's Weekly, but whatever there is the editor of it wrote the rot and he does not ape the other fellow by using his stuff whether the same be right or wrong. When Lou Cohen, after having listened to the various municipal candidates tell all they would do if elected, he himself said, "I've read of the stone age, the steel age, and the cement age, but I am inclined to think this the age of the 'bull,'" he said a whole mouthful. The councilmanic candidate who favors the Skagit project, and in connection therewith a line of steamers from Seattle to the point nearest the dam and then a railroad to the point of construction, is for municipal ownership with a vengeance, and if his ideas were put in force and effect the efforts of this city along this line could under no circumstances fail. When men in the council go at this work for the city with the intention of making it succeed, then it will succeed. In our opinion it is a mistake to send a fifteen year old boy to the Walla Walla prison, even though he has life. No one believes that boy will remain in prison until he dies of old age. He, doubtless, will be pardoned in his early twenties, if not sooner, which, if true, efforts should be made to have him leave prison a better man instead of a hardened criminal as he will be if he goes to Walla Walla. The state is lacking for an institution to cover such cases and the next legislature should make provisons to remedy this short coming. Nineteen year old Isom, of Everett, who is to die on the gallows, providing the verdict of the jury which found him guilty is carried out, should have his sentence commuted to life imprisonment by the governor of the state, the opinion of the jury to the contrary notwithstanding. The death penalty may be admissable in the case of chronic and habitual criminals, but it is absolutely wrong to send a boy, though guilty of wilful murder, to the gallows, yea, if he even shows signs of developing into a good citizen, after serving a decade or more, he too, should be pardoned or parolled. CALDWELL'S PLATFORM All I want in this creation is an office for its rations, and if you help me get the prize to none of you I'll tell any lies. I have no platform on which to stand, but will promise anything to land. Municipal ownership is my rhyme if that will swing the voters to my line; Murphine too, I'll fire or keep whichever'll bring the votes to me in heaps. A politician I am not, though an office I always got. The street car system is an ill and should receive a corporation pill, that it may die by slow degrees and yet no one lose his daily fees, but this I promise to improve by telling Murphine he must move. I have a pet for police chief, whose name I am sure won't give you grief, but that tuck snugly in your hat and Warren will continue to stand pat. Of course our mayor has done the best, but I'm entitled to the rest, because I represent the "golden bell" and am the swell guy. Hugh Caldwell. ```markdown ``` ABOUT THE MAYORSHIP If C. B. Fitzgerald had nothing else to recommend him for the office of mayor but his record on the municipal railway, that would be ample evidence to convince us that he is the man over all for the place. From the very inception of the Seattle municipality owning the street car system within her gates Mr. Fitzgerald has been its constant and consistent friend, not its friend in order to kill it, but its friend for its everlasting success. He is still its friend and both he and his appointees are continuing to make it a success, and do so without raising the fare to the patrons of the system. While Tacoma, Spokane and Portland street car systems, and even the privately owned system of Seattle, have all raised their street car fares to six, seven and eight cents, on the Seattle municipal street car system you can still ride for a five-cent fare and be transferred on that one fare, and this is due to the fact that Mayor Fitzgerald and his appointees have stubbornly resisted all efforts to have the fare increased. It has been charged by one of the mayorality candidates that the figures of the system are being juggled, with the view of making it appear the system is on a paying basis, when in fact, it is running behind, all of which is absolutely preposterous. If the money is not in the tills how can it be juggled so as to pay the bills. For an example, if you have $100 how can you juggle it so as to pay $200 worth of bills? It is a fact that the street car system is and has paid from the very beginning and Mayor Fitzgerald is largely responsible for the same. In an address last Monday evening Hugh M. Caldwell attacked Mayor Fitzgerald for maintaining Tom Murphine in office and thereby injecting politics into municipal affairs. In other words, he would have the public to understand that Tom Murphine is the only politician in King county and his connection with the street car system puts the whole into politics. Does Mr. Caldwell know of Mr. Murphine having done anything crooked in the system? If so, why, as a loyal patriotic citizen he has not complained to the state's attorney and asked that Mr. Murphine be charged with malfeasance in office? Mr. Caldwell is not only an attorney at law, but for many years he was connected, as chief deputy, with the prosecuting attorney's office and therefore knows exactly how to go about bringing evil doers to the bar of justice. Mr. Caldwell disclaims of being a politician, which is not borne out by the facts, for he has lived in Seattle fifteen years and within that time he has held office under prosecuting attorneys for five years. He also served nearly three years as corporation counsel for Seattle and resigned that to step into a majorship in the U. S. Army, and having hung on to that as long as it lasted he returned to Seattle and at once began to lay his plns to get some other kind of an office and is now a candidate for mayor of Seattle, because the salary attached thereto is $7,500. Mr. Caldwell may not be a politician, but a politician would have to go some to do more office holding in Seattle than one Hugh M. Caldwell. He confessed in his last Monday's speech that it was the office he was after and he made it a rule, when he wanted an office, to hit at the one that he found holding the office he wanted. In other words, right or wrong, the office I want, right or wrong; and in spite of this statement, Mr. Caldwell says. "I am not a politician." By Hercules, if Caldwell is not a chronic office seeking politician then the American citi- zens have no conception of the real meaning of that phrase. A strange coincidence in this mayorality campaign lies in the fact that, the platforms of Fitzgerald and Caldwell apparently agree to the very letter, which, if true, means that Caldwell has made up his mind that he must always hold some kind of an office, and to do this, he wants the voters of the City of Seattle to disrupt the present smoothly-running municipal government to satisfy his personal ambitions. If he does not stand for more than does Fitzgerald, and his platform does not show it, then what's the advantage of turning Fitzgerald out to put Caldwell in? Granted he will bounce Tom Murphine because he is a politician, but he doubtless will either fill Murphine's place with a politician of his, Caldwell's, liking or with some man who is an enemy to the municipal ownership of the street car system, and this, we earnestly believe is the milk in the cocoanut. Caldwell has never yet said he is for the municipal ownership of the street car system. He did say, in reply to an article in Cayton's Weekly one week ago, that he had drawn all the ordinances for municipal ownership and directed the council on many occasions in municipal legislation. Most assuredly he did and all because he was di- 1 J. C. B. FITZGERALD. rected to do so by the council, whose direct servant as Corporation Counsel of the City of Seattle he was. "I do not oppose the city owning its street car system," he made bold to announce in his last Monday's speech, but at no time has he said he was an advocate of the city owning not only its own street car system, but all of the public utilities within its corporate limits. Elect Hugh Caldwell mayor of Seattle and before the first year of his two-year term expires, in all human probability he will submit a proposition to the voters to sell the system to some private concern on the grounds that the city is unable to make it pay, which will be due to the fact that Mayor Caldwell had put a man at the head of it with the view of balling it to that end. We are not unmindful of a similar attempt having been made some years ago against the municipally owned lighting plant, when Mayor Gill made a trusted employee of the Seattle Electric Company superintendent of the lighting system, who set about to systematically destroy the usefulness of the plant, with the view of forcing the city to dispose of it and thereby give the Seattle Electric Company absolute control of the --- lighting system of this city. So flagrant was the deal that the citizens rose in their might, recalled Mayor Gill and elected George W. Dilling his successor, who immediately fired the pliant tool of the Seattle Electric Company and placed the system in charge of J. D. Ross, who favored the success of the plant and under him it has been and is a most brilliant success. Mr. Ross is still superintendent of the plant and with C. B. Fitzgerald as mayor he will so continue. History, it has been said, repeats itself and it appears to us that the enemies of the municipal street car system have planned to do to it what the enemies of the lighting plant did to it—load it down with sinkers and then declare it impossible to make it float. The trick was discovered in the niche of time and the lighting plant was rescued from its wreckers and we trust that the voters will profit from past experience and not give the enemies of the street car system an opportunity to do it dirt, which will, in our opinion, be done, if Hugh M. Caldwell, late major in the United States Army, is elected mayor of Seattle. Though the municipal campaign has been under headway for nearly three weeks the only serious charge Mr. Caldwell has brought against Mayor Fitzgerald is that he voted for himself for mayor. In social affairs, when two persons are candidates for the same honor, it is customary for them to exchange votes; but we suspect Woodrow Wilson voted the straight Democratic ticket, when he was a candidate for the presidency of the United States and that all persons running for public office vote for themselves. In our opinion Hugh M. Caldwell will not vote for either Fitzgerald or Duncan for mayor, which will leave him the alternative of either voting for himself or not voting at all, and he will vote if he is able to get to the polls. Another accusation that Caldwell lays at the door of Fitzgerald is, his election was forced by Ole Hanson, which is doubtless true, but that is a game that Caldwell very successfully played once upon a time. When Caldwell desired to seek fame and fortune, which he could use to an advantage in subsequent years, when he would seek office, as a "majah" in the army, in order to do so he had to resign from the office of Corporation Counsel of Seattle. Before, however, he tendered his resignation he exacted an iron-clad agreement from the members of the city council that they would vote for one Meir, who was a deputy in his office, or he would not resign. So he too, like Hanson, dictated his successor. Now, may perhaps, Caldwell's running for mayor is after all but a political camouflage, and if elected, he will hold the office for a few months and then offer to resign, providing he himself be permitted to name his successor, and, perhaps, the city council will feel "it a good riddance of bad rubbish," and be of the further opinion that any change would be for the better, and willingly concede to his wishes and elect his choice as his successor. That being satisfactorily accomplished he would announce himself a candidate for United States senator, have the political machinery of Seattle to back up his candidacy and start on his way rejoicing. Oh, no! Hugh Caldwell is no politician, he has never held a hand in the game. At the political game he is as innocent as was a certain man of the Roman age, who was taken from his plow and made praetor of the Roman Empire, which he held until the country was saved from invading hands, when he returned to his plow. Cayton's Weekly telephone Beacon 3579. THE PASSING THRONG In my last issue I said to you, "my son had gone wrong," and at the time I wrote the article, I thought as much, and to the extent of being in bad company, that statement still holds true, but my boy actually participated in no wrong doing. He did drive two men to the scene of a hold up in my car because he was not aware of either their destination or determination and he did so because he was paid the price for the tirp. The city and county authorities gave his case a thorough investigation and, aside from being indiscrete, he was exonerated and sent home. It has been said, "your sins will find you out," and that seems to be a fact, but when my boy's former teachers both in the grammar grades and in the high school read of his connection with the hold up story, to the number of ten went to the juvenile court of their own accord and vouched for him so vehemently that it left nothing for his parents to do, but keep still, which they did, and I concluded to myself, that your good deeds from time to time will find you out more quickly and far more substantially than your bad deeds. His parents are truly grateful to all who showed an abiding interest in his welfare. *** After having read the front page eulogy of Gustave B. Aldrich of Tacoma in a local "weakly" paper I wondered what Tacoma, from a colored man's standpoint, would have done had Aldrich not have settled there just in the niche of time. Had the gentleman have recently died a more fitting tribute as an obituary notice could not have been published, but as an eulogy to further selfish interests and appearing in a publication, of which he was an associate editor, it appeared to me that it appeared to him that, that was his last opportunity of letting the public know just how great a benefactor he had been, is and probably will be to the colored man. I have known Aldrich for a long time and he has high and noble ideals, he has done much for the uplift of the colored man and has been a useful citizen in this commonwealth, but at that the article seemed wholly uncalled for. *** “An ounce of pluck is worth a ton of luck,” wrote some syncic and I believe he was about “three-thirds” right. Some fourteen years or more ago Mrs. Man of this city came to the conclusion that, she could brave the rigors and hardships of interior Alaska and accumulate a sufficient amount of money to make the balance of her life less strenuous. How well she succeeded is her own secret, but I do know she lives in a well arranged home in this city and boards at the same place, and I heard from a very reliable person that she did not owe a dollar on that home. I was shown through her place the other day, which has been rearranged so as to keep roomers and the income therefrom will always keep the wolf from her door. But what I was most interested in at that home was a collection of Indian curios, which she had picked up during the fourteen years she had spent in Alaska, and I am of the opinion that some curio fancier of Indian art would any day give her $2.000 for her holdings, but “my junk is not for sale,” is her reply to all as to it’s worth. I do not think I ever met a more energetic and thorough going woman than Mrs. Man and I am told she has holdings in GREAT NORTHERN POOL AND BILLIARD HALL Cigars, Tobacco and Soft Drinks. BOYD & WILLIAMS, Props. 1032 Jackson St. various shapes and phases that will bring to her a small fortune at no distant date. * * * After months of work and planning and the expenditure of some $8,500 the Alhambra Cabaret will swing open its doors next Tuesday evening at 12031/2. Jackson street. That those who wish to attend may not miss the place, a large and very attractive electric sing has been swung up at the corner of Jackson street and Twelfth avenue. A five-piece orchestra and six entertainers will be on hand to make the welkin ring. I looked through this new cabaret and as far as my knowledge about such things goes it is not lacking in a single detail, and if it is not a huge success it will not be due to a lack of finishing touches. Harry Legg is as proud of his new institution as I was of my first pair of blue top boots. "Nothing ventured, nothing made," is an old addage and thus reasoned the backers of the Alhambra Cabaret. * * * In the past I have from time to time frequently had things to say about Jimmy Duncan, secretary of the Central Labor Council of this city, but had never seen the man. I was at a meeting last Monday evening and not only saw him, but heard him speak, and he said many things that I fully agreed with, but taking it all in all I would never be willing to risk the reins of this municipality in the hands of Jimmy Duncan, not because he is a representative of organized labor, but because he seems to be an impetuous spit fire that would have things go his way or hell would be to pay. And, strange to say, that seems to be the calibre of man that organized labor generally puts forward as it sspokesman. I agree with Jimmy in that the 85 per cent working men voters of Seattle should not tolerate being wholly governed by the 15 per cent capitalistic class and when conservative working men are put forward to represent the working classes labor will come into its own. Labor must know no color, no creed and no natioality in its struggle for better conditions and under such circumstances it is bound to win in the long run. * * * From the daily press I learned that the colored citizens of Chicago recently formed and organized what is termed the Vinculum Co-Operative Society for the purpose of establishing co-operative stores in that city among them. The move, in my opinion, is a splendid one, and it is my further opinion that, if it proves successful there it will spread all over the Middle West and the South, though some of them may be lynched in the South. Co-operation is a difficult undertaking, but when it does work it works all over and is a most magnificent success. Many years ago a number of colored men organized a co-operative society in Tacoma and bought up a number of tracts of land, among which was some twenty acres, which is now almost the heart of Tacoma, but dissatisfaction arose among them and the whole was lost. For many years George P. Riley endeavored to regain through the courts the property, but was unable to finance it and it was pocketed by greedy speculators. Echoes from the Nigger Tract litigation even yet sneaks into the courts and has to be repassed upon. THE NEW SEDITION BILL Representative Graham of Pennsylvania has introduced in the House a sedition bill which is so drastic that it has little chance of passing, even in these days of radical baiting. The measure dfines sedition, covers conspiracies to overthrow the government by force and provides heavy penalties for interference with the decrees of the courts. The bill goes so far in doing these things that it has aroused opposition from many members of Congress who are themselves heresy hunters. We believe that the scare over the "red" danger in this country is entirely out of proportion to the danger itself. We also believe that most of the talk about the overthrow of the government by force is indulged in merely to furnish an excuse for crushing out radicalism. If there is sufficient proof to convince sane men and women that there is an organized movement on foot which threatens the overthrow of the United States, that proof has not yet been made public. There is a lot of talk about plots being uncovered, plots to overthrow the government, but just what these plots were and how they were to be carried out is never stated. The charges are being made against those who are said to be conspiring to overthrow the government by force, but the fight is being made against all who have what are termed radical ideas. In this way an effort has been made to bring the Negro in under the charge. The Graham bill is intended not only to secure the "safety of the government of the United States," but to cure all unrest by means of repression. We are of course opposed to such a bill as Representative Graham has drawn, chiefly on the grounds that it is unnecessary and un-American; but there is one section of the measure which interested us very much. The sedition section of the bill in part reads as follows: For some time efforts have been made to get Congress to pass a law to punish lynching; read the above section of the Graham bill through carefully again, and see if you can imagine a better law that could be drawn for the purpose of punishing lynchers, that would have a chance of being passed. If we take out the clause, "or with intent to set up or establish another form of federal or state government," this whole section is a clear indictment of members of a lynching mob. To "cause a state of anarchy," to "oppose, hinder or prevent the execution of the laws of the United States," to "oppose, hinder or prevent the free performance of official duty by * * * any officer of the government of the United States * * * or by the judges of the courts of the United States" would with any common sense interpretation of the law cover the acts of a lynching riot as well as the acts of a strike riot; and there is no doubt that the interpretation would be stretched to cover the latter. The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution was adopted for the purpose of securing to the Negro his political and civil rights; under this amendment the Supreme Court has rendered more than 600 decisions, but less than five per cent of those decisions have had anything to do with the question of the Negro's rights. The principal use of the Fourteenth Amendment has been to invoke it for the protection of the property rights of individuals and corporate interests. If Congress should pass a bill containing the section quoted above, it would be worth the effort to see if the Supreme Court could not be constrained to be as wide in its interpretation of the section as it has been in the interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment. However, we hope that Congress will be wiser than to pass such laws as the Graham bill and the Sterling bill, even though they might be used to fight lynching, because a passage of these bills as they stand would entail greater evils than lynching. New York Age. LS a y : | HERE AND THER E Se: e ii eattle needs this bridge inst as hadlv c« iia. MIRC IT T CREEN ee ge ee a a fee sons eligible to vote in her coming election. John E. Ballaine is being solicited to enter the race for representative in Con- gress from the Seattle-Kitsap district. A Lincoln Smith is being groomed for county auditor and his groomers are pretty reliable men. John Arthur, a Seattle pioneer, is being groomed for the Superior Court bench by friends and acquaintances. I. F. Norris, W. J. Mitchell and some of the candidates attended the Lincoln League last Monday evening and Mr. Norris talked about ‘‘my people.”” The King County Colored Republican Club will discuss the merits and demerits of the municipal candidates in executive session next Sunday afternoon. Because a man is engaged to marry it does not necessarily follow that the man has a college education, the constant pounding of the woman to the contrary notwithstanding. For my party three times I’ve died and for resurrection I have cried, but to me things look blue, because my party thinks nothing’s due —W. J. B. Last Wednesday Seattleites enjoyed a bright sunshine the entire day, which was so unusual that the superstitious involun- tarily thought of Porta and his end of the world story. A one day session of the grand lodge of the Masons of Washington and jurisdiction is to be held in Seattle next week. After all that Masonie tribe is a great bunch and never fail to come when they are ealled. The following conflab was overheard: Harry—I have spent all of the money I have in the world on you. What more do you want? Madge—More money of course. Whereupon Harry weeps bitterly. : The new Masonie lodge for Seattle has christened its home as Madrona Tall. The place is conveniently located and if thrown open to the publie will prove a source of revenue to its owners. The musicale given by Miss Minnie M. Albiton at the A. M. E. Chureh of this city under the auspices of the National Associa- tion, was highly commendable and the par- ticipants were greeted with a crowded house. President Winston says it is the intention of the officials to bring other talented persons to the city for similar entertainments. Ile who predicted that the arrest of three colored men had ‘‘broken the back bone of the hold-up game in and about Seattle,’’ must now feel like alleging that their arrest gave the real hold up men a clear field to do their work bang up, as the past week seems to have been the greatest hold-up harvest during the present hold-up season. According to a communication sent out from the New York headquarters of the National Association to the various branches the Supreme Court of Arkansas has granted the twelve doomed colored men an appeal and the secretary is quite confident six of the men will go Scott free while the other six may only get short prison terms. Every one of those men should not only be set free, but should be given damages for false im- prisonment. If there be one real meritorious bond issue to be voted for in Seattle at the Mareh election it is the Spokane Street bridge to W. EDMUNDS, OPH, D., cisius'e 925 . . ? ° +) tometrist and Bye Specialist. Personal attention given in Bye ex- aminations for Glasses. Fifteen years in Seattle. Balcony, Fraser-Paterson Co. aie gl Ae ee Seattle needs this bridge just as badly as it needed the two bridges across Lake Union and the sonoer it is built the better for the entire city. An active minded man grows old without realizing it and outlives his active day of public usefulness, long before he will admit it. If men could only realize that Osler was more or less correct in his theory of chloroforming men over sixty years of age there would be less turmoil in this world. We do not advocate as did Osler the actual killing of old men, but we do advocate old men giving way for the most part in all public matters to men more active in mind and body. Old men become set in their ways and are unwilling to give and take hence they hinder instead of help in all public performances. PURELY PERSONAL Mr. Burr Williams has gone to California, where he will remain for two. months. Mrs, Irene Woodson and her son Fred have gone to Colifornia where they will re- main until spring. Mrs. Della Watkins, who resides at 616 Twenty-sixty Avenue North, is seriously ill and needs the assistance of the ladies. Mr. Arthur Wright was found dead in a room which he occupied in the Afro- American hotel last Wednesday. Death was from natural causes. Miss A. Carr and her mother, Mrs. Taylor, who recently came to Seattle from Oklahoma, have purchased a $4,000 home on Twenty- fifth Avenue near Denny Way and, having had the same furnished, have moved into it. Messrs. C. W. Jamison, Ace Brooks, Wil- lie Hendricks and Roy Johnson, constitut- ing a male quartet, made one of the country movie circuits last week, returning last Monday morning. Mr. Alvin Pollock of the famous Sunnyside district in Eastern Washington, has been visiting with Mrs. Mann for the past two weeks. Mr. Pollock has leanings to the brush and easel and will doubtless take a course in the work. Mrs. Lettitia A. Graves entertained. the three batchelor girls who attend the Uni- versity, in honor of the nineteenth birthday of Miss Madge Revels Cayton, at breakfast Sunday morning. Though the batchelor boys of the U were not present, they remem- bered Miss Cayton with a beautifully en- graved fountain pen. Cayton’s Weekly telephone Beacon 3579 MERRY-MAKERS PLEASURE CLUB Will Give a Plain, Fancy Dress and Masquerade Ball Celebrating Washington’s Birthday Monday Eve., Feb. 23, 1920—All Night at Washington Hall, 14th and Fir Prizes for Ladies and Gentlemen COMMITTEE—James ‘Titus Dial, Chairman; F. M. Gordon, Jerome Cov- ington, W. Sanders, A. Purnell, T. Taylor; Leroy Bundy, Floor Manager. Music by Mrs. Smith’s Full Orchestra Subscription 50c ATLAS POOL HALL Under New Management Wishes You a Happy New Year FELIX CRANE, Manager 1212 Main Street Seattle MRS. L. T. GREEN 1101 Washington St., Seattle, Wash. Phone Main 4573. Hair Culture and Scalp Specialist. Will call at your home if desired. 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Alfred Lewis, Funeral Director 1215 East Marion St., Seattle CAYTON’S WEEKLY (Office 303 22nd Ave. South) Regular, Reliable, Republican, Readable ‘Wants 500 New Subscribers This is a Sample of what it sends out Every Week No Friends to Reward or Enemies to Punish A Publication of Ideas Rather Than Personalities Read for Yourself and Be Convinced Cayton’s Weekly telephone Beacon 3579,