Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 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, 'Vash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. TELEPHONE: BEACON 3579 Office 317 22nd Ave. South WHERE ARE WE The Republicans of Washington are not quite certain as to whether they are afoot or horseback so far as the presidential situation is concerned. Tentatively, of course, they are for Miles Poindexter, but from the reports from the other states Miles Pondexter seems to be making haste slowly, and so far as the records go no other state has even remotely given his candidacy a mere passing consideration. The advisability of the Washington delegation, therefore, going to the Chicago convention tied hard and fast to the candidacy of Miles Poindexter, when he will not have another vote in the convention, is being very generally discussed by the party leaders of the state. Illinois and even California can have their "favorite sons" and stick by them until the balloting begins, but it will be fool hardy for Washington to stick to her favorite son, so long as that, for in all probability, the nomination will have been made before Washington is reached. We are of the opinion that if the delegation from this state decides to stick to Senator Poindexter until the end, then it will never be given an opportunity to even cast the accustomed complimentary vote for him. This delegation should stand pat for Poindexter, if he gets any outside strength, or if in its judgment the convention will for a time be deadlocked, but if neither of the above conditions arise then Senator Poindexter should release the delgation in order to give it a chance to do its best for the good of the state. So far as the King county delegation to the state convention is concerned, with Poindexter out of the fight, it will be all shot to pieces, Wood, Louden, Hoover and Johnson will all have some following among them, but we suspect, it will almost be "hoss an hoss" between Louden and Wood with the odds slightly in Louden's favor. Eliminating the favorite son we unqualifiedly favor the endorsement of Gov. Louden. He seems to have reduced the ugly situation in which this country finds itself at present to a just and equitable position, which, if carried out, will benefit all concerned and Ameirca, under his modus procedure, will be unqualifiedly for Americans. We however realize the fact that a military man like unto Gen. Wood always draws hard upon the people, but Wood draws particularly hard at this tide because he was sidetracked by President Wilson, and in this connection it might be well to say, Wilsonism will be beaten wherever it peeps up it head, and that too by both Republicans and Democrats. The autocrat of the White House is to be unmercifully crushed, is the watchword. In the State of Washington there should be no opposition to the ambitions of Miles Poindexter, if he develops the slightest semblance of support in any of the other states, but under no considerations should the Republicans permit themselves to be left friendless at the White House to satisfy an overdose of sickly sentiment. Let the party leaders after the Bellingham Convention bestir themselves and learn first handed the chances of Poindexter winning the nomination and if he has none then compromise on the next best thing. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS Illinois has Lounden(ed) its cry for a native son to be nominated by the Republicans for president. Bungalow building in the north end of Seattle is badly on the rampage, the profiteering age to the contrary notwithstanding. April snows may make May flowers, but we have our doubts. Puget Sound's soft cerulian air is alright only there "aint" no such stuff. Is it possible that the Hotel Lincoln was fashioned into a deadly fire trap by and with the consent of Marshall Bringhurst? Heaven forbid. Seattle's colored voters turned out very poorly to the caucusses held last Saturday evening and yet they are now clamoring very loudly for representation at the party counsels. Oh ye slothful, why expect to reap, when thou has not sown? Despite the fact Irish potatoes are selling at seven cents per pound, yet multiplied thousands of tons are rotting in the warehouses so that the profiteers may be able to push the price up higher. No, I am not a Bolshevist, but soon will be under such circumstances. Ryan's Weekly thinks Lamping is the only real thing for governor, but Editor Ryan was not so favorably disposed to Lamping when he, Lamping, was running for sheriff of King County some sixteen years ago, but wise men will occasionally change their minds. Little daughter was certainly glad to have her father fack home after he had been in France for two years, working all the way from eight to twenty-four yours in a hospital, rendering valuable aid to the injured while hearing the hum of German "air cooties" overhead. Daddy noticed daughter giving him the once over several times. Finally she seemed to have resolved the thing in her own mind. She was worried because daddy did not have any medals pinned to his coat. "Daddy," she lisped, "why didn't you fight in a war where they had medals?" The applicant for a job in the country asked what his duties would be. He was told he would have to be up at 5 o'clock to clean the horses and harness and do various other jobs about the farm.) After breakfast he could help in the house, clean knives, boots, etc. The farmer was going through a long list of duties when the applicant asked what the soil was in that neighborhood. Was it clay or gravel? "It is gravel," answered the farmer. "But why do you want to know?" "Oh," explained the youth, "if it was clay, I thought I might make a few bricks in my spare time." VOL. IV. NO. 44 THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN M. E. CHURCII An event of great importance in the religious development of the race this year is the convening of the General Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which will open in St. Louis May 3rd and continue in session for at least three weeks. This is one of the most representative bodies of Negroes of which we have any knowledge and meets every four years. It is a delegated body, its members being chosen from annual conferences of the denomination, of which there are 81, eight of which, are in foreign lands. The number of delegates entitled to seats in the conference is 636. Of course there will be as many more visitors from all parts of the country, and from South America, the West Indies and Africa. The General Conference is the law making body of the denomination, and also elects bishops and general officers for the work of the various departments. Perhaps the most significant question which will come before the conference at this sessin is the union of all colored Methodists into one great body. The A. M. E. church has about 700,000 members; the A. M. E. Zion about 400,000; the C. M. E. about 250,000. Each of these bodies at their last quadrenial session appointed a commission on union and they have been working together on a plan to bring these 1,350,000 Negroes into one grand organization for the religious and moral welfare of the race. Thousands who are not members of either communion anxiously wish for this great consummation. The election of bishops also attracts wide attention from the entire race, as the bishops of this great organization have always wielded great influence as leaders and spokesmen for the race. Some of them have interested themselves much in politics, like bishops Arnet and Grant, and Presidents and statesmen have sought their counsel pertaining to matters of the race. It is supposed that four or five new bishops will be chosen and many prominent clergymen are being pushed forward by their friends as the right men for the high office. The most prominent candidates seem to be The Rev. Dr. Sampson Brooks of Baltimore and The Rev. Dr. A. J. Cary of Chicago. Dr. Brooks is the acknowledged financier of the race. He is simply a prodigy, when it comes to lifting church mortgages. His last great achievement being the raising of $110,000 in less than three years and clearing Bethel Church, Baltimore, when others had been unable to keep up the interest on the mortgage. He thus gave the connection clear of debt, the finest church owned by the race anywhere. Many think that the General Conference will show its gratitude by electing him bishop by acclamation. Dr. Carey of Chicago is one of the most brilliant orators of the race, but in addition is a great organizer and tireless worker. He is desired on the episcopal bench also for his great influence in politics. He can be of immense value to the race among statesmen. In the South nearly every state will present a favorite son and the voting strength being principally in the South they may be expected to carry off most of the honors. Among those who will attend the conference from the west will be Rev. D. A. Graham and wife of our city. They expect to leave here about the 26th inst. ```markdown ``` THE PASSING THRONG Last Sunday afternoon I attended a meeting, which was called by H. Alfred Lewis and E. C. Miller, and as I was getting ready to follow my usual custom and hot-foot it over there my boy insisted that I go over in the auto, to which I reluctantly consented, but I finally stepped into the car and before I could kiss my baby good bye I was where I was. On arriving at my destination, a number of those present standing on the outside of the building, almost in one voice said, "Now you look like a real editor," and "that's the way for an editor to come to such meetings." To say the least, I was nonpulsed because looking at it from my point of view as an editor, I felt completely out of my element and I felt that everybody else who saw and personally knew me, felt about the same, especially in that particular, just as I did. * * * After returning home I thought about what had been said to me as to my manner of getting to the meeting and I thought of my poor success in operating a weekly paper, and it struck me, like a clap of thundr from a clear sky, that my failure in doing so was due to the fact that I have never had the money to "make up" in an imposing manner, and nature endowed me with neither an imposing stature nor fine looks, hence I had never been able to sufficiently impress my fellow man with the idea that I had anything under my hat, save a bump, when I had it on my head. Do not understand me to say that there really is anything under my hat, but whether there is or is not, one thing is certain. I have never been able to make my fellow-man believe there is, all of which, in my opinion, fully explains why I have never been able to leave the hitching post in my editorial endeavors. * * * In this connection, I am going to repeat a story concerning my editorial experience, which once before appeared in these columns. I apparently had an admirer in this city, who subscribed for Cayton's Weekly, and after he had read the same he religiously mailed it to a friend in Oklahoma and his friend seemed much interested in it and frequently wrote his Seattle friend flattering compliments about Cayton's Weekly, all of which in due course of time reached my ear, which, of course, made my chest heave to like the ebb and flow of old ocean itself. The Oklahoma reader finally decided that the Puget Sound country was the long looked for promised land and moved his family thither. My Seattle admirer lost no time in hustling his friend over to my home that his friend might see in person the editorial admiration of his mind. Full of joy and enthusiasm he was ushered into my home and presented to the editor of Cayton's Weekly, and his disappointment and chagrin on being introduced were so apparent that he embarrassed the whole of us. He reluctantly shook my hands and then inadvertently remarked, "I thought you were a very large man," and then hesitated but added, "and a very fine looking man, in rich raimant with luxurious surroundings." All present finally enjoyed the awkwardness of the situation and a good old fashioned laugh was the result. * * * In my more youthful days I was a member of a brass band and after we had learned to play a few pieces we would go out to serenade our friends, and on such occasions the persons living near would turn out to hear us play, and I observed that there were but two instruments in that band that attracted any attention and they were the tuba, on account of its size, and the cornet, on account of its diminutiveness. The tuba and cornet players were the center of attraction and received the select gifts of th band. * * * On Monday afternoons, whenever the Rev. Mark A. Matthews is in the city, he may be seen on Second avenue and, on account of his towering height, he is the center of attraction among the hurrying hordes of humanity and those who know him bow most affably, and those who do not know him look back to give him the once over and, perhaps even the stranger will say: "who is the mighty that has just passed." That seems to me Dr. Mathews' visiting day for the city in general. But to the point, owing to Dr. Mathews' height and his splendid raimant he becomes the leader of men whether they do or do not know him. They find out that he is a great man and a natural born leader even though he does not say a word. * * * How often have I heard parents relate how well their son or daughter had married and based their conclusions on the fact that the husband or wife had much wealth. Such person might have had no more real honor than a horse thief, but in those parents' eyes the money covered a multitude of faults. I now fully realize that the public person who does not make a swell appearance will not make much headway with his fellowmen. Of course, this means my everlasting failure as an editor. * * * At the last meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Seattle Branch), much was said about persons who paid their dollar in the drive last June, but who never received their membership cards, but said would-be members never once visited a meeting of the association to ascertain why their cards never came. It seems to me that such persons merely gave their dollar because they had been solicited to do so and had no interest whatever in the good of the order. In other words, they gave the dollar with "do as you damn please with it." Under such circumstances I can not see why they ever made any inquiry at all about their dollars and had I have acted as they have I would be ashamed to admit I had ever given a dollar. * * * "Revenge is sweet," so runs an old saying, and from a recent talk I had with Louie Levy I do not doubt it. One day this week I met him on the street and after discussing the political situation for a minute a bright smile spread all over his face and he said. "I see the Mt. Zion Baptist Church has begun to build on my old lot and I am told that by September both the church edifice and the club house, my old home, will be ready for occupancy," and for a second he could not finish his words he was laughing in such spasmodic doses, "now I wonder what that Irish s. b. has to say since he has a colored church for a neighbor," was his concluding words, and he spasmodically laughed again. Be it remembered Levy, a Jew, and Corbett, an Irishman, for a number of years lived side by each, and during all that time Jerusalem and Ireland were at war with each other, but Gen. Levy took snap judgment on Gen. Corbett and transferred his possessions to the Mt. Zion Baptist Church and immediately evacuated, and now Gen. Levy never tires of telling how he bested his arch enemy. Thus, do these men rjoice and regret the coming of the colored man, in every respect the superior to both, and especially in America. Both Levy and Corbett are Americans by adoption and aliens by nature, feel deeply chagrined to live beside the colored man, 100 per cent American, and American by nature. Both of them should feel extremely honored to have a colored man as his neighbor, but once in America such aliens go floating down the stream with the native white men and exclaim to themselves, "don't we apples swim." * * * "Lon, its a bird," is what I said to Alonzo D. Peoples after he had shown me his new five passenger sedan, which he had the day before purchased. Do not understand me to want the readers hereof to get the idea that handsome automobiles are out of the ordinary among the colored citizens of Seattle, for many of them own magnificent turnouts, but the Peoples Brothers are to be congratulated for the smartest looking cars of any concern of the city that has cars for hire. They dispose of their cars as soon as they begin to look a bit seedy, and replace them with new ones, but I think this last one is the smartest looking thing they have ever yet put out. * * * Before Judge Gordon in the police court last Wednesday afternoon. A. Heck plead guilty to a charge of having exposed his person to two little girls, for which he was fined $100 and thirty days in jail. Now, here is a man that seems to be possessed of a bunch of cussedness, which he always directs toward some little girl, but scarcely in her teens. Twice before he has been charged with a similar offense and had he been turned over to the prosecuting attorney at this time, he probably would have drawn a heavy term in the penitentiary. The man is past the half a century mark and yet he is constantly making like exposure to little girls. I seriously doubt the advisability of permitting such characters to plead guilty to a petty offense when they are repeatedly guilty of heinous felonies, for any man, in my opinion, guilty of intruding upon a twelve or thirteen year old girl almost deserves life imprisonment. Though Heck is a colored man. I do not believe his color prompted his perverted nature, for a white man sat beside him in the prison dock, who was charged with carnally knowing his thirteen year old daughter. I have always opposed capital punishment, but any man, who will carnally know his own thirteen year old daughter, is too much of a brute to enjoy the air, sunshine and society of human beings, and death should be his punishment, and even after death I would like to join in a petition to Lucifer to give the wretch a chunk of fire and let him go off and start a hell for his own lonely self. Men who intrude upon little girls are the lowest and most depraved of human beings in my opinion, and no mercy should be shown them. MBS. L. T. GREEN 1101 Washington St., Seattle, Wash. Phone Main 4573. Hair Culture and Scalp Specialist. Will call at your home if desired. Graduate of Oxford College. St. Louis. ALHAMBRA CASH GROCERY Distributor of Mme. C. J. Walker's Hair and Skin preparations. Mail, postal and express orders promptly filled. 1201-3 Jackson St., Seattle, Wash. FURNISHED ROOMS 317 22nd Ave. So. Rooms large and commodious, on car line, but walking distance. MRS. S. R. CAYTON 317 22nd Ave. So. 1000 1000 Thousands of Barrels of Refreshing, Exhilerating, Intoxicating Music Poured Out Nightly at the Entertainer's Cabaret 1238 Main Street By the Best SYNCOPATED ORCHESTRA on the Coast DON'T MISS IT ENTERTAINER'S CABARET BS THE NEGRO SPEAKS aN ve ee UY EU LCG =o OL me one of the sweetest books I have ever read. ‘‘T was born by a golden river,’’ Dr. Du Bois records, ‘tand in the shadow of two great hills, five years after the Eman- cipation Proclamation.”? The shadows lie on his hook, but the gldoen river runs through it, and the waters of the river are sweet. Only an aritst like Dr. Dubois can pos- sibly speak as he does for the Negro. The mission of Booker Washington—‘‘a great man, Booker Washington,’’? Dr. Du Bois ealls him—was to work out definite and immedi- ate programs that required the cooperation of white folk. To that mission Dr. Du Bois pays tribute. But his own business is the much less tangible, much more difficult one of opposing to the white conception of the Negro the black conception of the Negro, and in that way showing his belief in his own Negro blood. Only an artist can do that. Dr. Du Bois is an artist, and his book must he reckoned among those that add not only to the wisdom but to the exaltation and glory of man. We all know the delicacies that surround oppressed peoples. Oppressed peoples are. heyond doubt, an enormous nuisance. Worse than oppressed classes, they carry around the manner and substance of failure and inferiority. These characteristics, failure and inferiority, are hard to live with, par- ticularly for those who know success and superiority and hate the atmosphere of dis- ease. It is mighty unpleasant to see and hear whole groups and herds of people who have a chronie complaint against society. It is unpleasant and unflattering and de- pressing and degrading. And the only thing that can be done is to ordain the delicacy of silence and keep the veil of silence as thick and heavy as possible But oppressed peoples, like oppressed classes, have become literate and articulate. The mute are speaking. And no matter how deep their failure and how hopeless their inferiority, they evidently intend to go on speaking, believing that there is such a thing as the conscience of mankind. The conscience of mankind, curiously enough, is not their invention. It is the tenet of the suceessful and superior who otherwise would have no elevated sanction for their super- jority and success. So the oppressed peoples have a practical inducement to speak and go on speaking—to work through the in- terests and nerves and dear pretensions of their masters up to that last stronghold and gun-pit of superiority, the ethies of those who rule. In speaking for the Negro, con- sequently, Dr. Du Bois is foreed to apply to the Negro’s situation the Ethics of Chris- tian America. That is what gives his po- sition such strength. So. combined with the personal sweetness that Dr. Du Bois manifests so aboundingly, there is a sterness that belongs to his cause. Tle examines with tense feeling some of the claims of white folk to call themselves su- prior to black folk, and by Christian ethics he judges the Southern white woman and the behavior of East St. Louis and the Jim Crow car. Tt is not flattering to the white people. It is blunt and stubborn. But is not useless and unjust. Tleaven knows that America asserts often enough its respect for the elevated principles to which Dr. Du Bois appeals. .The truth stings not because Dr. Du Bois is bitter but because we are vul- nerable. The sinfulness of the United States is oc- casionally exaggerated by Dr. Du Bois. THe has touches of hypochondria. ‘‘T remember onee, in Nashville, brushing by accident against a white woman in the street. Po- litely and eagerly I raised my hat to apolo- gize. That was thirty-five years ago. From much by the arguments that Dr. Du Bois assembles, or the poems and parables he cre- ates, as by the story he gives of his own re- lations with people, his own temptations and struggles, his own appreciation of beauty through the landscape veiled in pain. Be- cause he is an artist, because he tells this story of his own people so simply and so charmingly, he establishes that kinship which is the essence of everything human. Dr. Du Bois as a ‘bus boy at the ‘‘broad and blatant hotel at Lake Minnetonka’’—this is a_piec- ture he draws with wry humor, and it is unforgettable. Equally unforgettable is his warm, glowing, happy account of Negro wo- men. ‘*We have still our poverty and degra- dation, and lewdness and our eruel toil; but we have, too, a vast group of women of Negro blood who for strength of character, cleanness of soul, and unselfish devotion of purpose, is today easily the peer of any group of women in the civilized world.’’? T should think Negro women would: read with welling hearts this chapter, The Damnation of Women, It is perfectly unsentimental. It is simply a high recognition by a man who is proud to be a Negro of traits that are especially rich in Negro nature, The whole political tendeney of such con- fidence and pride in Negro stock is to con- centrate the Negro on an African poliey— Africa for the Africans It may reasonably be urged aganist Dr. Du Bois that he links Asia and Africa much too simply. It is true that black and brown and yellow men are oppressed. It is also true that Negro and Negroid, East Indian, Chinese and Jap- anese form two-thirds of the population of the world. But is it good sociology or good ethnology to say there is a Dark World ranged against the White World on these lines. The case of the Negro is the case of Africa, not Africa and Asia. But the case of Africa is solid. You cannot read of Belgium in the Con- go, with its toll of 10,000,000 Negro lives, without feeling that there is another side to poor little Belgium. You cannot read of organized labor or of socialism (‘‘interna- tional’? in name only) in relation to the Negro, without feeling the louring primi- tiveness of labor and the dirty narrowness of socialists. You cannot read of the British Empire—sanctioning such exploitations that “British justice’? seems a miserable sham. “Tn black Africa today only one-seven- teenth of the land and a ninth of the people in Liberia and Abyssinia are approximately independent, although menaced and _ policed by European ecapitalism.’? But can black Africa rule itself, the white man asks? Whether he can or not, the driving of the blacks into swamps and marsh, the grabbing of the best native land by ‘‘legal’’ act is wicked. And it is wicked to falsify native character, as the Britsh administrators have done everywhere they have gone, from the West Coast of Africa all through Asia and Polynesia, to the despair of scientists and democrats and decent men everywhere. Dr. Du Bois himself is a victim of that weari- some tradition. But to read Darkwater is to forget that tradition, to be emancipated from its smug- ness, and to breathe a liberal air. The ordi- nary Anglo-Saxon assumptions fall away as one reads Darkwater. What, after all, if God be a Negro, and the Southern white man and the South African legislator and the Brooklyn housewife and the American Federation of Labor and General Crowder’s draft boards and the railroad presidents see A SRT ai eg ne acca acr A ca Tha Oe mI I. A woman whose husband, a soldier, was stationed abroad, went to register her new baby. After answering all the necessary questions, she put down five — shillings. “There is no charge’? said the registrar. “What.” answered the mother, and alter thinking, murmured: ‘Wait till he comes home. It has cost me five shilling every time he has registered our six children.” Little Jimmy went with his mother to visit an aunt in the country, and his mother was very worried as to how he would be- have. But to her surprise he was angelic during the whole visit—always did as he was told and never misbehaved. As soon as he got home, however, he was his natural self again. ‘‘Oh, Jimmy,’? she said, ‘you were so good while you were away. Why do you start behaving badly now??? “What’s home for?" asked Jimmy, in pained surprise. The depreciation of our curreney today is nothing to be compared with the slump in Confederate paper money after the Civil War. General Mulholland relates that short- ly after Lee's surrender he heard two Con- federate soldiers bargaining over a very ordi- nary-looking horse. *‘TTe’ll do for my farm, Jim,’’ said one. “Tl give you $20,000. for him.’’? ‘‘No,’’ said the other. ‘‘Give you $50,000.77 “*No.”? “Give you $100,000,” “Not much!’? replied the owner. ‘1 just paid $120,000 to have him shod.’ SANDERS & COMPANY LOANS NEGOTIATED 1003-1004 L. C. Smith Building Office Tours From 8:30 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. Seattle, Wash. Elliott 4662 Phone East 179 Calls Made Promptly Day or Night LEWIS & BLACKWELL FUNERAL DIRECTORS and EMBALMERS H. 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The President is going to Cape Cod for the summer. That's a long way from the Cape of Good Hope.—New York Evening Sun. The Boston Herald observes that the new summer capital is not the first hole the President has got into.—New Bedford (Mass.) Standard. Anyhow, the public business won't be given any less attention at the isolated retreat of Wood's Hole than it has been for a long time at the White House. One reason why Mr. Burleson remained so patient and imperturbable under abuse may be because the letters and papers have not yet reached him.—Columbia State. Having "kept us out of war" until he was reelected in 1916, it is possible the President now meditates keeping us in war until he can attempt another reelection? Charles R. Crane is doubtless being sent as minister to China to inform the Chinese what a great benefit the President did them in helping transfer Shantung to the Japanese. If the railroad administration under McAdoo ran behind a million dollars and more a day, how much would the government of the United tSates run behind if he were President? Former Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, vests, spats, whiskers and all, is going to run for his party's nomination for Vice President. This will be good news for the editors of fashion press. Bainbridge Colby is secretary of state and may God help us not to think of the men who have held that office from Thomas Jefferson down to Richard Olney and John Hay.—Cedar Rapids (Ia.) Republican. William J. Bryan denies that he is a candidate for the democratic presidential nomination, but, of course, he would not refuse if drafted. Politically, William is no conscientious objector.—Chicago Daily News. There are now 759,870 persons employed in the federal service, more than thrice as many as were employed when Mr. Wilson became president. No wonder taxes are high.—Fort Wayne (Ind.) News and Sentinel. Son-in-law McAdoo is represented as not caring if they do call him the "heir apparent." the "crown prince," etc. What he is worrying most about is that father-in-law will abdicate in favor of A. Mitchell Palmer. Admral Sims indicts the naval department on thirteen counts. The whole trouble in this case seems to be due to the custom of placing a landlubber in the position of secretary of the navy.—Council Bluffs (Ia.) Nonpareil. Our war with Germany lasted 19 months. The Wilson "peace" has been prolonged 17 months. Why not declare the war officially at an end and get back to normal once more?—Caldwell (O.) Republican Journal. A group of leading citizens, including men of both parties, have appealed to the White House to accept the peace treaty with the Lodge reservations. They have no doubt that the responsibility for failure of the treaty rests with the chief executive. "They are giving Admiral Sims rope enough," observes George F. Babbitt in the Boston Sunday Globe. And the result may be metaphorical hanging for someone, but we venture the prediction that it won't be Sims.—Concord (Mass.) Evening Monitor. Still trying to crack the whip over democrats in Congress, the President has ordered the resolution for peace beaten. Small wonder that a constantly increasing number of the members of his party are unwilling to follow the strange meanderings of his leadership. Champ Clark declines to be a candidate for Senator in Missouri, preferring the sure thing he now has. As there may not be any more Democratic Senators from Missouri the ex-Speaker has got his discretion on straight.—Winston-Salem (N. C.) Union-Republican. It is reported that the President has sent orders to his servants in the Senate that they must not vote for a resolution declaring a state of peace with Germany. Well, he did not keep us out of war and he will not be able to keep us out of peace.—Albany (N. Y.) Evening Journal. It is currently stated that the President is going to spend the summer at a Cape Cod retreat where he will be away from the politicians and completely isolated. He can hardly be any more isolated on Cape Cod than he has been in the White House. Ask Senator Simmons. Bryan says that he will accept the Democratic presidential nomination if the party calls. As he is accustomed to defeat, his selection would be timely. The next President will be a Republican, very many Democrats are frank enough to admit.—Winston Salem (N. C.) Union Republican. The impropriety of foreign interference in American affairs, especially of foreign comment on the attitude of the United States toward the unamended covenant of the league of nations, has finally dawned upon the administration press agents.—Bronx (N. Y.) Record and Times. The failure of the peace treaty has put Mr. Wilson down and out. When the allies said they would accept the senate reservations the president made the greatest political blunder of his life in obstinately refusing to improve his opportunity to secure ratification.—Burlington (Ia.) Hawk-Eye. The New York Democratic platform says: "The Democratic party proposes to cure social unrest by removing the evils which gives it birth." The Democratic party had six years of complete control of both the legislative and executive branches of government and confessedly failed to perform the operation it now promises as a remedy for what ails the country. Surely it's time to call a new Doctor.—Dubuque (Ia.) Times-Journal. PURELY PERSONAL Mrs. R. A. Clark, who has been in poor health the most of the past winter, seems much improved at present and she says she is beginning to feel her natural self again. Lieutenant J. A. Roston, Mr. W. H. Wilson and Mr. H. Alfred Lewis make up a committee to devise ways and means to entertain a Mr. Barber, who will speak in Seattle the latter part of May. Mr. Bragg of Yakima, who is deputy grand master of the Masons of Washington and jurisdiction, attended to lodge business in the city the past week. He returned to his home last Wednesday evening. Mr. A. J. Hassell, Mr. Tillman and others organized a branch of the Black Star Line organization of New York last Thursday evening and made preparations to have an all day opening in the very near future. Mr. H. Alfred Lewis, the undertaker, has had a flattering offer to go to France to assist in returning the bodies of the U. S. soldiers who fell on the battle fields of France and he has the offer under advisement. Mr. G. W. Jones has so far recovered from his late mishap to be able to be about again. Mr. Jones has been exceedingly active in all uplift work in the city and his absence from the various meetings has been quite noticeable. Mr. James E. Shepperson, after having spent a week in the city attending to lodge matters, returned to his home at Roslyn last Thursday morning. Mr. Shepperson has lived continuously at Roslyn for the past thirty odd years. Mr. O. H. Winston, Rev. W. D. Carter and Dr. David T. Cardwell were elected delegates to the Republican King County Convention, which is to be held in Seattle today. All are candidates for honor as delegates to the state convention at Bellingham. Mrs. Beatrice Clark Allen has returned from Portland after having spent a week there demonstrating for the company for whom she is employed. She is to be seen each day at her post of duty in Seattle and it can be truly said of her, she is making good. Mme. Wood seems to be the most active worker in the way of getting new members for the National Association and her report at the last meeting was so flattering that she was tendered a vote of thanks. Last year, it will be remembered, Mrs. Wood did equally as good work. Rev. David A. Graham read a letter at the A. M. E. services last Sunday evening from persons in Oklahoma making inquiry of Charles Edmunds. He died in Roslyn some five years ago and Mr. J. E. Shepperson is able to give all the information about him that may be wanted. Rev. W. D. Carter filled the pulpit of the First Baptist Church of Wenatchee last Sunday. He was well received by the pastor and members thereof and they promised him a liberal contribution for the building fund of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church of which the Rev. Mr. Carter is the pastor. Sargeant S. E. Buxton is now connected with the Alhambra Cash Grocery as outside man. Sargeant Buxton has had much experience in such work, and working in conjunction with Mr. W. H. Banks, the store will be an even greater success than it has been in the past, and that is saying a great deal. Mrs. L. A. Graves and her daughter, Mrs. Zoe Graves Boston, are having their hair dressing establishment remodeled, redecorated and remodernized, and when completed it will be second to none in the city. Both are very progressive in their tastes and an ideal emporium must be the conclusion of the whole matter. Mr. Ralph Jones, the gallant oversea soldier who must have acquired the habit while in France, complimented a bevy of young ladies of the Grace Presbyterian Church Sunday School to a joy ride to Stokes ice cream factory. After they had looked the plant over they were turned lose on a two gallon tub of Stokes' best and, well Stokes got his tub back.