Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1920. --- 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 3579 Office 317 22nd Ave. South LEGISLATURE'S EXTRA SESSION In order to save the University of Washington from apparent bankruptey Governor Hart has called a special session of the legislature to provide it with necessary funds to prevent either an alarming deficit or the actual closing down of the school Under the direction of President Oozaoola this institution has been systematically worked up to a rich man's proposition and the poor man's child no longer has a look in out there, where the state's money is lavished on luxuries to such an extent that the whole thing has become a gauling tax on the people and, apparently, without just compensation. The appropriations for the University in the recent past seem to have been nothing short of a wreckless expenditure of public money and that too for no greater reason than to satisfy the mouthings of the president thereof, who seems to have adopted this rather peculiar form to convince the public of his mental superiority over those he comes in contact with During the sessions of the legislature Dr. Oozaoola is either himself present or some trusted lieutenant is to lobby for as big an appropriation as can be wrung from the body, which appropriation is seemingly spent as wrecklessly as it is given With but one year having pased since the adjournment of the last legislature the almost fabulous apropriation made at that time for the State University has been exhausted and a deficit is facing the institution. Is it not almost time to call a halt? The coming extra session of the legislature should make haste slowly in what it appropriates for this millionaire's institution, lest the people rebell and at the coming state election rebuke the party and partisans responsible for such public extravagance We suggest to Gov Hart that he insist on the strictest economy being practiced and the public's money be handled in a like manner as would the individual's money be handled While in session the legislature will be called upon to either reject or adopt the woman suffrage amendment to the constitution of the United States of America, which it will doubtles do on record time. Whether other important legislation wil be taken up remains to be seen. It however, is highly probable that many grand-stand plays will be staged for election purposes before the adjournment THE "UNSPEAKABLE" TURK The Turkish question is fairly and squarely up to the United States today. If anything is to be done to save Armenia, to give Greece what is really due her, and to prove that all the lofty sentiments of the war orations were not simply balderdash, it will have to be done in the United States. The opportunity has come full circle to Mr. Wilson to rescue humanity from a tragedy, and it is the plain and simple duty of Congress and the people to assist him and support him in doing this.—Christian Science Monitor. Congress by all means should do that and do so for the sake of humanity, but it occurs to us that the whole "Dam family" of us is going a long ways from home to help abused humanity when there is so much of it within our very gates. Not quite so many colored persons in the United States are murdered by the "superior race" as are Armenians, but what they lack in numbers is made up in brutal barbarity. If history has ever recorded greater cruelties inflicted on a weaker class domiciled among a stronger, than those that have been inflicted upon the colored citizens from time to time by the southern white man of this country, we have never read it, and these cruelties, mind you, have not been condemned by the white pulpit or the metropolitan press of this country, though the naussiating details have been widely published from time to time. Its the old, old story, straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel, when our government overlooks its barbarities to censure Turkey. The "unspeakable" Turk may be a mighty monster, but he is nothing in comparison to the Christian white men of Georgia and Mississippi who lynch and mutilate innocent colored women and even their unborn babies. The "Unspeakable" Turk is a fit associate of the angles and archangles in comparison to the Vicksburg, Mississippi white men, who buried a colored man's body except his head and then turned an enraged bull dog aloose on him and, while the maddened brute performed its ghastly duty, the Christian white men danced with delight. Charity, we have always heard, begins at home, and we suggest that President Wilson and Congress start their work of saving humanity in our own sunny South before sailing for Turkey and Armenia. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS The blowing down of the oil derricks beats blowing them up. Even the "ouija board" refuses to figure out the income tax of P. Frazier. Mexicans Kill an American, is a headling. Well, Americans do the same thing. If heaven is full of Ardent Spirits no wonder we often hear such a rumbling up there. Some old maids want to marry so badly that they make goo goo eyes at the man in the moon. Prohibition begins to loom up as the paramount issue of the coming presidential campaign Only martial law prevails in Budapest, but even that beats Armenia as she is absolutely lawless. Draft dodgers are still being hounded by Uncle Sam, the armistice to the contrary notwithstanding. And again New Jersey is in the booze fighting game. A Democrat, after all, is a strange animal. Labor is said to be scarce and pay high in the East, but in the West labor is plentiful and pay high Subways for Yesler Way and Madison Stret sounds well, but none of us now living wil hardly see it There has been so much shooting at the High Price bird that the fowl is absolutely afraid to come down. Universal training may be all right, but we suspect Uncle Sam much prefers effective military training VOL. IV. No. 38 EDITORIAL PARAGRAPH Cleopatra, Pokahontas and Lilokulana, all being in heaven or the other place, its a magnificent drawing card. Of course a man of twenty-one getting married looks as old as his grandfather because he feels that way. With Dempsey indicted and Jack Johnson convicted the pugilistic belt is a bit disfigured, though still in the ring. Duncan, Dougan and McNair, took a trip into the air, where they could not hear the howls of the Red tuft horned owls. Seattle hasn't "flu" over the coop this winter as she did last, but, "believe me", she has been doing some tall fluing. Gov. Hart will have to go some to keep check on the gubernatorial aspirants, who are members of the Washington legislature. California continues to pull off earthquake shocks, which must be another way California has of telling us "how dry I am." In 1919 more lawyers than any other class committed suicide. We suppose they had done more to be ashamed of than any other class. Uncle Sam having retired from the railroad business, the people will be punished by the magnates for any short coming on his part. The Allies continue to soften the peace terms for the Germans. In other words they rae tempering the winds to the shorn sheep. No blizzard has raged on Puget Sound as in the middle West, but the Sound country is suffering from no "soft cerulian air" just now. The almighty dollar some years ago was some man in this country, but it occupies a very insignificant place in our life affairs just now. Fifteen thousand colored employees along the Panama Canal zone, who have been on a strike, have returned to work, both sides conceding. If Attorney General Palmer gives a tinker's dam for his job he had better bury his presidential aspirations and await the passing of his chief. Instead of trying to usurp President Wilson's power, Secretary Lansing seems to have been trying to inject more power in President Wilson. Now, Mr. Groundhog, don't you cry, for you'll be an angel by and by, if we ever reach the open crack, in which you rest your little back. Do more than keep your eye on your representatives in Congress, but keep your hand on them or they will not only sell you out, but actually run you out. "Yakima is the slowest town I ever saw," declared former Mrs. Jack Dempsy. Perhaps, madam, Yakima is too slow because you are too darn fast. After the extra session of the legislature shall have adjourned we wonder if the Hart of Washington wil still be in the same place that it was before hand. If Jack Johnson left Mexico for the United States as reported some time ago, he is doubtless walking back to Chicago instead of coming in his Winton Six. "You advertise this as the best hotel in town," said the man who had stayed over night. "It certainly is," replied the clerk. "Well, that may be a good boost for the hotel, but it's a terrible knock for the town." —Boston Transcript. 9 SCANNING THE HORIZON The Southern Baptist Convention (colored) has reached the conclusion to found a National Seminary at Nashville, Tenn. Even before, Nashville, so far as the colored citizens are concerned, was the Athens of the United States, and this new institution of learning but ads another evidence of the fact. Near Clayton, La., a jim crow car went into the river and twenty of its occupants were drowned. The jim crow car was ahead of the baggage car, which piled in on the jim crow car when it went off the bridge into the river, thus preventing any of its occupants from escaping a watery grave. Owing to indifferent treatment accorded to colored patrons in the haberdarseries conducted by white men, R. T. Cater of Birmingham. Ala., has organized the Pioneer Mercantile Company and is now opening up a chain of haberdashery stores in Georgia and Alabama, which it is hoped will move other colored persons to do likewise in other places. "Sunny" Edwards of Bililngs, Mont., had doubtless seen men make fortunes out of bootlegging booze, but the thought he could beat their game, and so he filled a lot of empty whiskey bottles with tea and began to lay his foundation for a fortune, but Uncle Sam stepped in and said, "you are illegally using United States revenue stamps, and you are under arrest..." In an infirmary in Montgomery, Ala., James Toliver, a colored man, was suffering from hydrophobia, the result of a mad dog bite, and in his deliriums he jumped out of bed and attacked two female nurses, each of whom was biten by the man. A policeman, who was on guard at the institution, was forced to shoot the mad man in order to protect the patients. The two nurses were hurried to a Pasteur Institute. The attorney general of the State of Mississippi holds that children of Chinese parents come under the ban of "colored children" in the eyes of the law and if they desire to attend the public schools as provided by the laws of that state they will have to attend those schools set apart for colored folks. And now the state of Mississippi is bidding for a bit of Oriental notoriety, which will give Uncle Sam more to worry about. According to a report made by Mrs. Ida Wells-Barnett, who spent two weks in Arkansas investigating the cause of the race riots in Elaine, the colored men were the owners of, on the average of twenty-five bales of cotton each and the current price was forty-five cents per pound, but the white merchants refused to give the colored planters over twenty-four cents per pound, which was responsible for the colored planters organizing to get better prices, which was directly responsible for the race riots. Roseoe Simmons, Robert R. Church, Sumner A. Furniss, William H. Lewis and James W. Johnson are the Race patriots asked by Mr. Hayes to help in drafting a platform for the victorious Republican party Of course these men appreciate the honor involved But they also realize the opportunity to serve both their party,t heir country and their people Simmons, great, popular leader; Church, wise in counsel and brave in opinion; Furnis, successful in the politics of a great city; Lewis, distinguished lawyer; Johnson, publicist and specialist. After shooting and killing Eugene P. Davis, a white cotton planter near Laurens, S. C., in a personal altrecation, Eli Blakely, a colored plantation worker, baricaded himself in a "gully" and for some time stood off a mob of white men bent on lynching him, but realizing he was going to lose, he shot himself and died before the mob reached him. If Blakely had have sold his life more dearly much more would have been accomplished for the cause of the black man down there. According to stret report the Hon. I. F. Norirs, Sr., who has recently returned from Chicago, whither he went as a delegate to the Lincoln League, "I am not and never was a Democrat. I have just been missunderstood." The editor of Cayton's Weekly has never believed Mr. Norris a Democrat, his repeated assertions to that effect, notwithstanding. He was, doubtless temporarily suffering from "wheels in the head," which got to running in the wrong direction, but were straightened out by Roscoe Simmons & Co. THE NEW WOMAN'S VOTE A contributor to the Pictorial Review in a well written article of much length discussed the effect the seventeen million newly enfranchised female vote of this country had the following to say about the vote of the colored women in the South, who are permitted to exercise the right of suffrage: There are some straws to show which way the wind is blowing. In Tennessee, where municipal suffrage has recently been granted, women have accomplished great things with their vote. In Memphis, whose city government was not of the variety of which women in general approve, a Citizens' NonPartisan League nominated a ticket to oppose the "machine," and the women voters elected the ticket. Prominent women opened their beautiful homes for registration places, as they have done in California, and the whole matter of holding an election was placed on a different basis. Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, President of the Ohio Suffrage Association, says that when men in the past have opened their campaigns they have had bands and fireworks and sometimes a little lady falling from a balloon with a parachute to enthuse the voters. The new voters demand not bands, but lower prices, and the political party which seriously realizes this will be the successful party of the future. Memphis women had no bands, but they worked early and late, and they won. One woman told me that her husband came to her and said, "I must vote this ticket for business reasons," and she answered, "I must vote against that ticket for higher than business reasons," and she did. In Nashville the most interesting thing was the way in which the better class of negro women stood by the white women and voted with them for the men whom they believed would do most for the city. Tennessee had been having her share of the old anti argument based on the alleged "menace of the negro women's vote," but in Nashville the white women found that the negro women of the better classes helped them to save the day. Prominent negro women consulted with leaders in the suffrage ranks and it was understood before the election that certain needed reforms were to be carried out if victory could be secured. Accordingly, there are now negro nurses in the city hospital where formerly white nurses were required to nurse negro patients. Both negroes, and whites sought this reform and there is also in Nashville now a negro policewoman. One of the demands made by the negro women was for a negro on the Motion Picture Board of Censors. The claim is made and sustained, that the pictures shown in the theatres for colored people were of the lowest type. It is true that in Nashville there are a great many of the better class of negroes, as Fiske Unevirsity, the great institution for the education of the negro, is located there. But there were evidences that it was not only the educated negro women who helped. An old ignorant negro woman went to see one of the suffrage leaders. She had heard that the women were going to vote and she wanted to know about it. She said she had owned her little home "down dar in de alley" for nineteen years, and that she had been paying taxes to the "white folks" for all those years. "Gawd said, 'let der be light,' she said, "But, Miss Ma'y, you knows d'ain' navy light in dat alley—de white folks ain' nuver put none dar." She said the only water she and her family had to drink was the water that "Gawd sends down in de rain bar'1," and she told of how she and her children and their children had drunk "wiggle-tails and things" until they had to go to the "expensary run by the white folks," to get medicine to cure all the ills that arise from drinking rain-barrel water for a ilftetime. She figured that the "white folks" would save money in the long run by furnishing city water instead of free medicine. But that wasn't what she was interested in. She wants to see the town "cleaned-up" and she wanted to know if she could vote and how to do it so that she could help elect the right men to office. And so, between their hard-earned experience gained through these fifty years, and the "Schools for Voters." the new voters in 1920 will be neither green nor ignorant. Furthermore, they have some ideas of their own concerning what should be done in National affairs and they will not wait for the men to start things. From present indications there is going to be such a housecleaning in State and National legislative bodies in the near future as the country has never dreamed of. LET US HOPE When 'neath a load of woe I bend, I thus address my nieces: "I wonder when our grief will end? The world's all shot to pieces! Men strike for this, they strike for that, they all forsake their knitting, and under every passing hat a lot of bats are flitting. "The prices of all things have riz until they're out of reason, and buyers always cry, 'Gee whiz!' and talk a lot of treason. And taxes grind us to the dust and fill our hearts with sorrow; alas, my girls, I have no trust in better things tomorrow!" A man must talk like this when nieces, aunts and cousins would touch him for his hard-earned dimes to buy new gowns in dozens. So when females of my home come up with smiles to work me, the sweat of anguish racks my dome and dire emotions jerk me; and I put up a bitter spiel about the ills that face me, until some sympathy they feel, and they no longer chase me. We've talked this sort of stuff too long, not only to the ladies; we've sworn that everything is wrong from Halifax to Cadiz. We've stood before the synagogues, and cried, in anger heady, "All things are going to the dogs, if they'rs not there already!" We've chased around the clanging marts with faces long and gloomy, and talked about our broken hearts, and wept till eyes were rheumy. And now it's time to change the tune, and cut out whine and whimper, to be as happy as a loon, and, like one, smile and simper. For better days are just ahead, and we can bring them quickly, if we proceed with buoyant tread, and can the forecasts sickly. If we keep shedding briny tears and talking dire demnition, it may be months, it may be years, before the changed condition. At home the old grief graft will go; a man must sigh, confound him, and wade around knee-deep in woe, when all the girls surround him; when one would buy a farthingale, and one a point-lace collar, and all are eager for the kale, and yearning for the dollar. The married man has certain rights as to the tomb he hurries; and he may walk the floor at nights, and talk about his worries. But when he leaves his home behind, to mingle with his fellows, he ought to have a cheerful mind, that's free from blues and vellows. Too long we've sloshed around in tears and heaved our groans so hollow, and handed out our dotard fears and talked of worse to follow. We've got the habit, I'm afraid, of setting teardrops splashin', of saying Liberty's decayed, and eagles out of fashion. It is a habit we should drop; it's time for smiles and jesting; let's boost, with a triumphant yawp, the planet we're infesting. Of course at home the maried man may say things sad and bitter, and none who knows his helpful plan will say that he's a quitter.—Walt Mason. THE PASSING THRONG It was some ten years ago, if I make no mistake, when I was running a paper known as The Republican, that Tillman Smith, one of the Newcastle colored mine workers, left the mines owing me $2.00 for my paper. Years came and went and so far as I knew Tillman Smith no longer lived, but the other day he hailed me on the street and as soon as he had greeted me he said, "I owe you two dollars and I am going to pay you and in addition I am going to give you an extra dollar for interest." That it was the veritable "clap of thunder from a clear sky." I would have sworn, but I thanked the long lost man and said to him, "you are one of the few, if any such." I felt good all day from the effects of meeting the lost man, but when I got home that night I found two letters awaiting my arrival, both from preachers, who had been receiving the paper for three years or more and each of them refused to pay, and, furthermore "stop the paper." While Tillman Smith had never been put down as a "torn down sinner," yet he had never been looked upon as a saint, but in this instance in good deeds he had the two preachers skinned two ways for election. *** That call meeting to which I was invited last Wednesday evening, met on record time and soon got down to business. H. Alfred Lewis was elected president, G. B. Miller secretary, and W. H. Banks treasurer. A committee was named to work out something along the line those present spoke, which committee will meet next Sunday afternoon in the office of the Douglas Apartments. There never was greater need for a committee or organization to try to remedy certain evils so far as the colored man and this community are concerned, and I trust perfect harmony will prevail and all work like Heck to accomplish the desired end. * * * The late election proved to be a veritable whirl wind and Caldwell was elected by an overwhelming majority. Oliver Erickson once more won out and that, too, in spite of strong opposition. While his election could not be put down as a Triple Alliance victory, as he has on prioir election occasions won just as signal victories, when there existed no such thing as a Triple Alliance, but Erickson's victory was the only ray of hope the Alliance got out of the mixup. The defeat of A Lou Cohen was a great surprise to his supporters and admirers and many have been the regrets that have been expressed at his defeat. Phil Tindall may not have done much running some years ago, when he wanted to be corporation counsel, but he "sho got there with both feet up" last Tuesday, by beating his nearest rival 10,000 votes. Taking it all in all the election contest had a most pleasing ending. DEMOCRATIC PROHIBITION The coming Democratic convention will be rent by Prohibition, as Edwards the New Jersey "gov" plans to hit it from above, and give it softening of the brain, that it no longer can remain, on duty in the states and towns, saving homes from drunken clowns. While Prohibition has done well, yet Edwards wants it sent to hell, and thrown in never-dying fires to satisfy the evil ires, of those who want to sell more booze to get the "mon" to buy fine shoes. But Prohibition has a man, who has never rushed the can, and it's his plan to be on hand, when Edwards paws the golden sand, and he's a friend of Temperance Ann and bears the name of Bilie Bryan Now the state from whence the hero hails is just as dry as pine fence rails, for many, many years ago, it told old Booze he had to go, and state-wide Prohibition lead, the barroom veteran to his bed, where since that time he's slept in peace and not disturbed by corn juice greece, and this self same Billie lead the bolt, that gave old Booze the final jolt In San Francisco next July, again GOVERNOR LOUIS F. HART Who Has Called an Extra Session of the Legislature. he'll bid old Booze good bye, and save his party from the blame, of having Prohibition put to shame Our country is Sahara dry, and has no wish to have more "rye," Budweiser, too, will also hear, that Bryan has no use for beer, and California's vinyard vines will "grape juice" yield instead of wines, and he who hopes old Booze to see, will find him hanging on a redwood tree. Strange bed fellows politics make, but Bill and Ed. will hardly take, a hotel room with but one bed, where each of them can rest his head, from his labors in convention hall, to up or down John Alcohol Of course each leader has his friends, who will follow all the bends, which means a Prohibition split, in the Democratic party mit, but old Booze will never rise from his bed of cankered flies.—II. R. CAYTON. "Knowledge is power," observed the Sage. "Oh, I don't know," commented the Fool. "A low-browed pugilist can make more in one fight than an educator can in a year." Cincinnati Enquirer. Of course a sneak thief would not steal a bath tub as it would be a useless ornament at his or her home. Sneak thieves do not generally take baths, which accounts for them being so dirty. Seattle's own and only George Vandevere, who is defending the Centralia I. W. W.'s, gave the sheriff of Chehalis county a touch of high life the other day. George always was very very accommodating. Last Monday March came into town, without a frown or single sound, but Tuesday was election day, and March being leary of his pay, said watch me raise particular hell, and palm it off on Hugh Caldwell If only Col Hartley would stand for the legislative vacancy now in Snohomish county and be on hand for the assembling of the extra session, there certainly would be things doing in that august assembly during its coming sitting Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin D. Davis, the highest ranking officer in active service of color, has been placed in command of the Ninth Cavalry, which is stationed at Camp Stotenberg, the most important military post in the Philippine Islands. President Woodrow Wilson has declared that he has no ambition to succeed himself, which is a happy solution of the presidential nomination mixup. Now let the convention nominate Edwards of New Jersey as he stands a good chance to carry his home state. The last extra session of the legislature of this state was called to impeach a high state official, but it did not do so, though one of them resigned under fire. It is said the present extra session was called to boost a high state official and we wonder if it will do so. "Mr. Gadspur extols the advantage of a college education." "And no wonder." "Why?" "His son spent four years at college without becoming engaged to a chorus girl or learning how to play the ukulele." —Birmingham Age-Herald. Viewing the telephone rates of Seattle through Superintendent McNally's eye glasses every patron of the telephone company plainly sees that the telephone rates of Seattle are absolutely fair, but viewing them through the consumer's glasses they are thievingly unfair and with no prospect of them being otherwise. "Wilson's Rejoinder" is still prowling about Europe without any invitations to come in; Wilson's peace pact is prowling about the United Staes and can find no place to rest its weary bones and thus does Wilsonism aimlessly wander from land to land and from country to country and, like the aleged wandering Jew, must always "move on." "I haven't seen your son for several years. He seemed then quite a promising lad." "That's the proper adjective; he's been sued twice for breach of promise."—Toledo Blade. The Grocer—Yes'm, the high price of mustard is due to the scarcity of fuel. You see, people are buying up mustard and are keeping themselves warm with poultices. Melbourne Punch. --- Gara eT am - ashes Ey Pk, fee Ne ee TE ge ae me Te sua igen Se NNO Sa fas THE LINCOLN LEAGUE CONVENTION Lincoln League was held. This league is a chartred organization composed exclusively of Colored Americans. Roseoe Conkling Simmons is the president, but the silent genius who is primarily responsible for the organization and formation of this splendid organization is Robert R. Church of Mem- phis, Tenn. These gentlemen have associated themselves with a number of the most prom- inent and influential members of our group in every section of the country. The purpose of the organization is to arouse a proper sentiment in the country that will result in a removal of the griev- ances to which we are subjected and of which we have just cause to complain; chief among them being lynch law, Jim Crowism and disfranchisement through an evasion or vio- lations of the 15th amendment to the con- stitution, That much good will be aecom- plished along these lines through and by this organization has been clearly and un- nistakably demonstrated by the proceedings of the convention held during the past week. Ilundreds of delegates came from all parts of the country at their own expense, which is conclusive evidence of the fact that they are not only free and independent citizens, but that they are both able and willing to make any necessary sacrifice, financially and otherwise, to accomplish the purposes they have in contemplation. In the resolutions adopted, in which attention is called to the grievances of which we complain, the public will not fail to see that the words were not minced, but plain and indisputable facts were set forth in language that, cannot be misunderstood. No threats, but demands. While we ave loyal and faithful American citizens, we insist that we should no longer be denied the full exercise and enjoyment of the public rights and privileges accorded other citizens. In other words, we insist that members of our own group should no longer be subjected to treatment different than that of other citizens. One of the beneficial results which we are sure will be the outcome of the declarations promulgated will be a notice to the political parties that members of our group will no longer vote for the candidate of any party for senti- mental reasons or from a spirit of gratitude for what has been done in the past but on account of the attitude they may take upon questions we deem to be vital and paramount. The platform declarations must not only be satisfactory along these lines, but the record and attitude of the candidate nomi- nated to stand on said platform must be such as to justify the hope and belief that if elected the promises faithfully made will be carried. out. The indications are hopeful and favorable from every point of view. The convention made a deep, profound and favor- able impression, not only on account of what was said and done, but on account of the dignified and orderly manner in which the affair was conducted. We firmly believe that the great mass of the American people are in favor of justice and fair play, and will not tolerate or ac- quiesce in aets and methods to the contrary when brought to their attention by those di- rectly concerned. The main purpose of this organization is to take the initiatory steps along these lines which we have heretofore somewhat neglected. The presumption is that the organizers and promoters are actuat- ed and influenced by motives that are wholly unselfish; this is the only way in which any good can come to ur group. If the fact shsould subsequently be demonstrated that it is a close and selfish corporation, brought into existence for the purpose of advancing or promoting the selfish and politeal ambi- tion of a selected few. its usefulness ag an If this be true they will not only merit, but will receive the approbation and support of a confiding public.—Chicago Defender. PURELY PERSONAL Mr. Richard Brown is now employed at the Keeble tonsorial emporium. The A. M. E. basket ball quintet met de- feat in the last of a series at the hands of the Christian Church quintet last Monday evening. “Tusband, that Chinese visitor seems deeply interested in our Chinese room.’’ “*Yes, he says he never saw anything like it in China.’’—Louisville Courier-Journal. = Mr. John F, Cragwell, who has not had a real day off from business for many years, is enjoying his change of business locations by doing some much needed work around home. He (admiring a vase of flowers)—Are they not beautiful? Do you know they re- mind me of you. She—But they are arti- ficial. Tle—Ah, yes, but you’d never know it.—Boston Transcript. “When water becomes ice,’’ asked the teacher, ‘‘what is the great change that takes place?’’ ‘The greatest change, ma’- am,”’ said the little boy, ‘is the change in price.’’—Our Dumb Animals. National Association for the Advance- ment of Colored People will hold its regu- lar monthly meeting next Monday evening at the Grace Presbyterian Church. All persons interested in the work are invited to be present and participate in the meet- ing. The many friends of Thomas E. Wilson were pained to hear of his death, which occurred last Tuesday, after an ilness last- ing but three days. Mr. Wilson has lived in Seattle for the past nineteen years and was well and favorably known. Ile leaves a widow, two children and a brother in Seattle and brothers and sisters in Mis- souri to mourn his loss. As yet no conelu- sion has ben reached as to whether the re- mains will be interred here or shipped to Seattle. J. W. EDMUNDS, OPH. D.., omens? 22 . W. ? + U., tometrist and ‘ye Specialist. Personal attention given in Hye ex- aminations for Glasses. Fifteen years in Seattle. Balcony, Fraser-Paterson Co. ATLAS POOL HALL Under New Management Wishes You a Happy New Year FELIX CRANE, Manager 1212 Main Street Seattle You Are Welcome GREAT NORTHERN POOL AND BILLIARD HALL Cigars, Tobacco and Soft Drinks. BOYD & WILLIAMS, Props. 1032 Jackson St. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington, for King County.—In Probate. In the matter of the estate of Krank DeLao, De- ceased.—No. 26763. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as Executor of the estate of Frank DeLao, Deceased; that all persons having claims against said deceased are hereby required to serve the same, duly verified, on said John DeLao or his attorney of record at the ad- dress below stated, and file the same with the Clerk of said Court, together with proof of such service within six months after the date of first publication of this notice, to-wit, within six months from and after the 7th day of February, 1920, or the same will be barred. 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