Cayton's Weekly

--- Cayton's Weekly PRICE FIVE CENTS CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington, U. S. A. Subscription $2 per year in advance. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON..Editor and Publisher Entred as second class matter, August 18, 1916, at the post office at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. TELEPHONE: BEACON 3579 Office 317 22nd Ave. South THE LOGIC OF LOWDEN There is a logic to Lowden once you grant the premises. He comes from the middle of the country, he stands in the middle of a road, in the middle of his party, about midway between Wood of New Hampshire and Johnson of California. He has risen from a farm to an estate, from obscurity to moderate fame, perhaps not quite the darling of the gods but surely one of their favorite sons. They rejoiced over him at the start, worried over him a while and watched him solicitously, and now smile again. He entered politics when Cannon and Lorimer were powerful. He was of the Old Guard at Chicago in 1912, and yet not of them altogether. He voted for Taft without making an enemy of Roosevelt. He stayed with the party and he will always stay with the party. He does not secede himself, but he does not excommunicate those who do so. So Roosevelt could write to him in 1916: "I earnestly hope you will now assume a position of leadership. What I most desire is that you shall help bring the Republicans far enough forward to enable us to hold the Progressives far enough back to keep a substantial alignment." He is thus the candidate of peace without victory for those who stood at Armageddon and battled for the Lord. It is a series of events in the past that emphasize the candidacy of Lowden today. His most intelligent supporters regard him as a kind of liquidator of situations which happen to control American public life today and may continue to control them for a short time after the election. The first of these is the grim memory of the politicians that Johnson seceded in 1912, and ratified only with nullifying reservations in 1916. The second is the eight years of Republican famine under Wilson plus the recollection of the seven years turbulence under Roosevelt which have combined to create a nausea at strong men, moral heroes, crusaders, saviors and supermen. The third is the condition of the voters, more composed than they were a few months ago, but still jumpy and yawning for a rest. The people are tired, tired of noise, tired of politics, tired of inconvenience, tired of greatness, and longing for a place where the world is quiet and where all trouble seems dead leaves and spent waves riot in doubtful dreams of dreams. Lowden is the noiseless candidate in this campaign. I have watched him appeal to the voters. He tells them that he will talk only of prosaic things, and he does. He assures them that he won't bother them much and he will not. He promises to relieve their taxes, to see that the government is unobtrusive, and that it will run tself without too much cost and without too much friction. He does not invite them to look to Washington for salvation, or to stake much hope upon politics. He invites them to go about their own business with the sense that though the government is a necessary institution which ought to be run SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, April 24, 1920 inexpensively and well, it is not the chief instrument of destiny. His own campaign literature names in the first five reasons why he is "outstanding Presidential timber" the fact that "many have called him a second McKinley." There is nothing highfalutin' about Lowden. He is not burning with moral zeal or with personal ambition. He has a diminished conception of the office which he seeks, and if he represents any "movement" it is the movement away from overshadowing personalties in the White House. Wood and Johnson arouse fierce passions, inquisitor and crusader, hot blue blood, and hot red blood. They are the turbulent spirits of the Republican campaign: Johnson is the expansive, pioneering courage of continental America, Wood the angry ambitions of a receding caste in the first crude manifestation of world power. Both represent an idealization of the American purpose and, therefore, at this moment a somewhat highly flavored version of it. But Lowden is unmistakably the typical member of a going concern, the experienced guardian and manipulator of established American custom in the relation between business and politics. That is the logic of Lowden. His premise is the American social system, modified from time to time by the reformer, but never captured by him. In that system the progressive is free to permeate if he is content also, to be permeated. " . . . help bring the Republicans far enough forward to enable us to hold the Progressives far enough back" for what purpose? "To keep a substantial alignment."—The New Republic. "PUBLIC OPINION BE DAMNED" You, reader, have probably heard some fellow blow up and exclaim, "Public opinion be damned—I don't care a rap for it." But he does—we all do. It is human nature for us to want our neighbors to think well of us. Even if it is not especially so as a matter of personal pride, it is so as one of good judgment and sound business—they bring him trade and increase his financial revenues. There are many things a man may do that would lower him in the estimation of the public, yet would not bring him into conflict with the law. And have you noticed that men invariably conceal these little acts as much as possible? And why? Because they do not wish to incur the displeasure of their fellow men—and women. Were it not for the moral effect of public opinion this world would soon become a maelstrom of iniquity and debauchery. It would be impossible as a place of residence for respectable men and women, and to bring children into existence under such conditions would be a crime against humanity. Public opinion makes or unmakes us, as we count its verdict. We value it, and we cherish its good reports. For when all other courts fail, public opinion becomes the court of last resort—Kent Advertiser-Journal. The framers of the Federal Constitution never dreamed that there would be a President who would refuse to join the Senate in giving peace to the United States. Probably that is why in the instrument they omitted any reference to the establishment of peace after a war. Vol. IV. No. 45 EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS The State of Washington is maintaining its reputation as leading all others in her Wood work. Bluebeard is certainly the man of the hour or he could not have so easily disposed of so many wives. Kicking Turkey out of Europe is good gallery stuff, but no one now living will hardly see such a performance. With Michigan, California and Nebraska endorsing Hiram Johnson for president, it can be truthfully said, thus far, he leads all the rest. At a cock fight, over which the plug uglies were wrangling, Billie Whitney's speech last Saturday would have been the very thing. May and Methodism seem to be synonymous these days as almost all branches of Methodism will be in quadrenial session the coming May. Justice will be a myth in this country so long as the degree of crime is based upon the color of the person committing the act, rather than the actual facts. It has been predicted that the ice in the Alaska rivers will go out by May 15th, but no prediction has been made as to when Seattle will experience her spring thaw. To the small boy no season of the year is so inviting at Spring, but everything has its objectionable feature, and the small boy bitterly objects to the usual spring tonics. If Caldwell makes as good a mayor as he did presiding officer at the Republican county convention, then Seattle is in line for the most successful administration she has ever had. Greater New York is undergoing a legislative muck-raking and, if reports be true, like Sodom and Gomorah of old, not five righteous men in the city will be found by the investigators. If all Methodism among the colored citizens of this country were united and all Methodism among the colored and white citizens working in harmony, Lucifer would find business distressingly poor. This country is to experience a billion dollar religion and to that end all Protestant denominations are requested to contribute thereto. You must pay the price to get religion these days of high cost of living. Thirteen thousand enthusiastic Seattleites turned out to see her base ball team get the tar knocked out of it and every mother's son of them declare it was great. That's a parental fondness that quite passeth our understanding. If Mr. Post and Mr. Palmer were candidates for the presidency today, Mr. Post in our judgment, would win—Union Record. It would not amount to a tinkers dam which of them is a candidate as no democrat is going to win. Soviet states in Europe have for their foundation the bodies of dead men, women and children, which reminds us of the fact that sections of Europe are almost as barbarous as North Carolina, South Carolina Georgia, Florida, Alabama. Mississippi Louisiana and Texas. --- 9 EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS Together a colored man and a white man committed a crime down in Kansas and the colored man was sent to the grave while the white man was only sent to the calaboose, as a reminder to him of having been in bad black company. "The birds have nests and the foxes have holes, but the son of man hath no place to lay his head," so runs a Biblical quotation, and the man or woman who goes out to find a house to rent in any of the large cities of the country at present will fully realize the truthfulness of the quotation. Whether there is or is not such a thing as "just retribution" deponent verily doeth not know, but we do know, that our own and only Sunny South is being visited by an unusual amount of storms and hurricanes, which have exacted a heavy death toll and destroyed millions of dollars worth of property. According to the daily press the potato hoarders are to be punished by the government. If they receive the same kind of punishment as that which the government has administered to the profiteers from time to time, then potato hoarders will enjoy their ill gotten gains without molestation or disturbance. If it be true that A. Mitchell Palmer has carried the Georgia primaries by an overwhelming majority, then that should settle him as a presidential possibility, for any many that Georgia would so pronouncedly endorse in her primary election is a dangerous man to consider for the presidency of this country. Now comes the bankers of Chicago with, "we will loan $100,000,000 during 1920 to Chicago home builders." If the bankers of Seattle would take a like interest in those wanting to build homes in the city, Seattle would enjoy the greatest home building boom in her history and then the rent hog would die of starvation. It is currently reported that Sam Walker, chairman of the Republican state central committee, set out to beat S. A. Perkins for national committeeman, and with an eye single to the job for his own self. It seems that he has beaten Perkins alright, but in doing so he has not only ruined his chances to get Perkins' job, but will probably lose his own job. The King County Republican organization has no second choice for the presidential nomination, but is unqualifiedly for Miles Poindexter for president and it advocates that the delegation be instructed to remain for Poindexter as long as there is any chance of him being nominated. When, in the opinion of the Chicago delegation, Poindexter is without hope then as to whom the delegation supports for the nomination should be left to their own discretion. "The county organization is under the influence of no presidential aspirants and will so continue," said Reeves Alymore, chairman of the Republican County Central Committee. REPUBLICAN PROPAGANDA If the President goes to the bat for a third term it will be three strikes and out.—Burlington (Vt.) News. Let's have peace, anyway. If we can't get Woodrow's sort, let's take any sort at all.—Schenectady (N. Y.) Union Star. Harding thinks Wilson and Bryan could boss the party. They could if Wilson could boss Bryan.—Evansville (Ind.) Journal. The Republican party goes into the coming election as the champion of the constitution and the will of the people to govern themselves.—West Chester (N. Y.) Globe If empty words would lower the high cost of living Attorney General Palmer would have had it buried forty fathoms deep long ere this.—Reno (Nev.) Home Builder. Atty. Gen. Palmer will have to cut down the cost of living in order to get credentials entitling him to a place on the Democratic presidential ballot.—Pottsville (Pa.) Republican. If sugar consumption broke all records when buyers could get only one and two pounds at a time, where will we get sugar if ever people are able to buy what they need?—Pittsburg Dispatch. In the contest between Mr. Bryan and President Wilson for control of the minority in congress over the peace treaty, Mr. Bryan appears to have the best of it.—Peoria (Ill.) Evening Star. If Germany wants a real, name-blown-in-the-bottle President either write or consult our small ad. columns. Know of a bargain on the market directly.—New York Evening Telegram. "He never takes the advice of anybody," means a contemporary referring to Mr. Wilson. Which is unfair. He always consults himself, and never fails to take his own advice.—Milwaukee Sentinel. It strikes us that President Wilson would not carry a single country in Europe if he were a candidate for anything.—Los Angeles Times. Or in this country, either, for the matter of that.—Salem (Ore.) Statesman A committee of the United States Senate is now giving its attention to an alleged abuse, a press agent paid out of the public treasury and maintained for the purpose of exploiting the President and his administration.—Scranton (Pa.) Republican. Partisanship is nothing in the world than united loyalty to certain well-defined principles. When it comes to acting without precedent, the present occupant of the White House holds the blue ribbon. The Democrats in the House maintain that Congress cannot pass a resolution stating the existence of a fact which everybody knows exists. Has the Democratic party been "vamped" by President Wilson, or has the Democratic party applied for a divorce from President Wilson? Is it not singular that the Democrats can smash the Constitution to promote international interests and invoke the Constitution to promote party interests? The Los Angeles Times suggests that Secretary Daniels would prove "a first class housekeeper to a widower with children, but as Secretary of the United States Navy his outlook is a trifle circumscribed." The peace resolution passed by the House of Representatives is not a separate peace with Germany, but a declaration that a state of peace exists. The Versailles Treaty or any other Treaty can be taken up by the President and the Senate at any time. Congress pasesd the original war resolution of April 6th, 1917. Congress could have repealed that resolution at any time by a majority vote. Nobody disputes this. A repeal of that resolution practically would have been a return to peace. This is the Republican position. The world economic conference next month called by the Council of the League of Nations is deeply interesting to the bankrupt countries of Europe. Of course; but do they expect the solvent United States to pay or discount their debts? Has not the United States enough to attend to right here at home? Both of President Wilson's Industrial Conferences having failed to recommend any definite course of labor legislation approved by employers and employes, it is up to the Republicans to search for a solution of the big problem. The Republicans have never failed in any great crisis. They will not fail in this. The Democratic party must be growing angelic, judging it by the number of wings it is sprouting. It now has a Wilson wing, a Bryan wing, a Reed wing, a McAdoo wing and numerous other smaller.—Milan (Mo.) Republican. The President's secrecy about the negotiations at Paris and about the Harboard report on Turkey is not only an offense against the Senate but a gross injustice to the whole American people.—Vincennes (Ind.) Commercial. Is there anyone President Wilson met at the peace conference with whom he has not quarreled? Is there anyone of his own entourage with whom he is now on good terms? If so, for Heaven's sake, break the suspense and name him.—Fort Wayne (Ind.) News. Secretary of State Colby is sending the usual protests to Mexico over the killing of Americans. In time he may find the task as disagreeable as Mr. Lansing found it towards the end of his administration as head of the State Department.—Rochester (N. Y.) Democrat-Chronicle. A Washington dispatch says the Democrats are worrying about the possibility that President Wilson may want a third term. Probably the Democrats can find enough to worry about if they confine themselves to the President's first and second term.—Kansas City Star. Mr. McAdoo says he is waiting for the Democratic presidential nomination to seek him. He seems to be due for a long "watchful waiting," but then as the son-in-law of the originator of that policy, he should be conversant with the fact that there is no end to it.—Charleston Mail. Just as soon as the Democratic party was wrecked by the subordination of principles and persons, some Democratic and "Independent" newspapers and journals made the discovery that political parties are no good anyway and that what we want is the Mexican system of cockade-chasing in politics.—Kammerer (Wyo.) Republican. Mr. Wilson seems to be slipping a bit. Heretofore he has felt equal to filling anything, all by his lonesome, including Paris, Versailles and the rest of Europe. But now he is taking along with him "several hundred" clerks, stenographers and others to help fill Woods Hole in little old Massachusetts.—Moline (Ill.) Dispatch. Play Ball Sunday THE ALHAMBRAS vs. THE MIKADOS Sunday, April 25th 12 A. M. at Liberty Park Fourteenth and E. Jefferson 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 THE PASSING THRONG In preparation for the Republican County Convention I entered into a "gentleman's agreement" with Lincoln Brooks and Ned Humes which had it been carried out, would have given me a seat in the county convention, and, perhaps, a seat in the state convention, but they saw fit to go back on their agreement and I was and will be only a silent spectator. A policitian who will break a gentleman's agreement is a human only in part and such would be politician never rises higher than an underling—an office lackey. I had a similar experience to this many years ago in a fight for the mayoralty nomination of Seattle. I was very vigorously supporting a candidate for mayor in oppositoin to Thomas J. Humes and in the wee hours of the morning on the convention day, in company with Edward B. Palmer and A. B. Stewart, we met Frank and Johnny Claney in the Pioneer building and entered into an agreement to nominate Charles G. Austen for mayor and thereby defeat the aspirations of Mayor Humes. I confess that I am a pretty old hand at the game of politics to get mulleted by a brace of political mutton heads and my wife smiled when I related the circumstance to her and reprimandingly replied, "I am sorry you are not a dleegate to the convention, since you want to go, but knowing the game as well as you do, you got what you richly deserved." I am inclined to think she was right, but I felt a good deal as did a tramp, who was knocked down by a passing vehicle, on which he subsequently commented as follows: "I would not feel so badly about this mishap had not the vehicle been a garbage wagon." To fully ease my conscience, however, as soon as I get another extra dollar I will give it to some indulgent friend to sufficiently use his boot on me to disable me from sitting down for a solid week and at each blow repeat, "it served you right." * * * When a pair of would-be men are able to mulch me at the political game then I must confess that my age is telling on me and the proverbial little child has come to lead me. One, however, never gets so old, but that a wrong is not resented and, my age to the contrary, I still have the faculty of remembering enemies and their breaking of this gentleman's agreement will bob up serenely from time to time and be talked over and over and, believe me, it will do me no harm. * * * In the past I was always in my glory to participate in a red hot convention fight and as I sat and watched the proceedings of last Saturday's convention, there were times when I felt "my kingdom for an opportunity to be heard." I listened to the intemporate preamble and resolution followed by a no less guarded speech on the part of Billie Whitney directed against S. A. Perkins, and it occurred to me, "for this have we sons." Four years ago this same Billie Whitney was cocksure of being nominated by the Republicans for representative in Congress and, had he been nominated, he would have been elected, and, had he been elected he would have made just as big a mess of himself in the halls of Congress as he did on the convention floor last Saturday. As he bobbed up and down and shook his little self some one near said, "ain't he a fighting little cuss." The spirit of the convention, even before it assembled, was opposed to Perkins, hence Billie under such circumstances, proved a hero of the occasion. "Well, I see the Kansas people lynched another colored man," said Richard Gowan of Seattle, a former Mississippian, as he met me on the street last Tuesday morning. "Yes," I replied, "and it begins to look as if even in the North and West there are white persons who entertain a like opinion as did the now historic Judge Taney, "the Negro has no rights the white man is bound to respect." If it be true that the white citizens have begun to think of the colored man as do the red handed murderers of Georgia and Mississippi, then more is the pity, and his, the Negro's future, is full and overflowing with dark and dangerous forebodings. There is one ray of hope, however, to be seen in that Kansas lynching. Who knows, owing to its close proximity to Oklahoma and Texas, but that the spirit of that necktie party originated in Mississippi and Texas and took that opportunity to put the state of Kansas in the same class in that particular as the most of the states of the South. That the crime, which the man was accused of committing was not one hundredth part as heinous as it has been pictured is evidenced in the mob not lynching the white man that was in company with the colored man, when the crime is alleged to have been committed, but said white man was simply arrested and his only crime, in all probability, will be in the fact of having been in the company of the colored man. On the other hand, suppose two colored men, instead of one and a white man, had been together when the crime was committed, both of them would have met the same fate. No, the colored man's crime was not of itself so henious, but the intolerance of the white men, so far as the colored man is concerned, was what prompted the lynching of the colored man, the sending of the white man to prison, where he will be mildly punished for being in company with a colored man. The heniousness of the black man's crime was due to his complexion a thousand times more over than to the actual crime. I am going to introduce to you and each of you Col. Roland H. Hartley, of Everett, who, it is said, has aspirations to be the next governor of the state. Some four years ago he had similar aspirations and for a while I frequently met him but had not done so since that time, until last Wednesday. Four years ago I had a picture of him in Cayton's Weekly, which picture showed him wearing a heavy mustache and. ROLAND H. HARTLEY so when I saw him the other day, I almost had to be reintroduced, but I had not been with him only a few minutes before we were chatting as pleasantly as old tilicums. In the campaign four years ago he made many friends among the colored voters and, if he runs this year, I am inclined to think he will stand even higher among them than he did four years ago. In Snohomish county every colored citizen, his brother and his sister, are for Col. Hartley for anything in a public way he seeks, which speaks for itself that they think he will give them a square deal. There are upwards of 10,000 colored voters in this state and if all of them would think about Col. Hartley as do those in Snohomish county, as popular as he is among the white voters, I am of the opinion that he would be much in the position as was the Irishman, who inquired of an ante-bellum colored man at a railroad station, the distance to the next town. With his inborn philosophical turn of mind the colored man replied: "That depends on how you go. If you keep on dat dirt road its ten long miles; if you take dat locomotive, its not so far, but," warming up to the situation. "if you take dat spatchegraph, God bless your soul, honey, you are dahr now." * * * "Never touched me," joyfully exclaimed S. A. Perkins, whom I met on the streets in Seattle last Tuesday. "You bet your sweet life I will be in Bellingham, when the Republican convention assembles there, and, believe me, I'll be there with bells on, and will accept the decision of the convention just like a good Republican." Mr. Perkins leaves for Chicago the next day after the Bellingham convention closes, where he, as chairman of the executive committee of the National Republican Committee, will sit in judgment on any contest that may come to the convention. I know of one contest coming from Mississippi, which had its origin in the Lilly White politics of that state. "I have no patience in the world for that Mississippi rot and if I do not put the hydro-headed monster to sleep for all time to come, it will not be my fault. Once before that Mississippi mess came before me and I took fiendish delight in the support of Perry W. Howard, the colored contestant, and he need not lose any sleep about my vote in the coming contest." * * * Blackie is back with a box of fun, though I'm told he made no mon, on the troting horse or the racing colt, that split the air like a thunderbolt. But Blackie is a sport that's ful of game, though his purse be a wee bit lame. I got a crimp from the last long trot, which looked mighty good, but got my pot. But Jay Eye See and little Joe, look good to me before they go, so I kissed my roll and said farewell, then borrowed a buck to touch the bell, for a thousand "bulls" to bring me home, where money is made from the ocean foam. So here I am again on the job, feeling mighty fine, but ain't no snob. But I was told by the cuckoo clocks, Blackie is back with a "box of rocks," which came to him from little Joe, that lead the bunch to the end of the row, and among his friends he's spending the coin and to them he is the prince of DeMoine. Blackie is back, for I saw his car rising the hill like the morning star. Negroid Way was all in style when Blackie swept by wreathed in smiles. And now the town will be full of life for Blackie is back and has no knife. * * * "The navy is alright, as far as it goes, but so far as the young colored man is concerned, it does not go far enough. On the various ships the colored man is subject to even more color discrimination than he is on land, and God knows that is saying a good deal. There are about fifteen colored men on the ship with me and they are not permitted to in any way come in contact with the white men. There are about twenty Filipinos and they are all in a class to themselves. However, they think themselves quite above the colored man, and the white men refuse to associate with them. I think the white sailors dislike the Filipinos to a greater extent than they do the colored men. That, I am inclined to think, is due to the fact that the Filipinos refuse to be colored folks and for that, the whites seem to just mortally hate them. When my term is out then no more U. S. Navy for me." First Annual Dance TUESDAY, APRIL 27th, 1920 at— WASHINGTON HALL Fourteenth and East Fir Plenty of Good Jazz Music Committee of Arrangements C. H. BAKER W. H. BANKS Alhambra Base Bal Bunch ( oe Ate i oS OL eR OS WR lt Ak ee es eas eT A Men i Ve ae Nap its ee Ties _ pasmptiuntittt ACORN ee Mme Re Ga RA) PURELY PERSONAL Mr. Burr Williams has returned to the city after an absence of three months. Mr. Russell Smith, after a sojourn in San Diego of three months is home again, car and all. The King County Colored Republican Club held its regular monthly meeting last Sunday, but was poorly attended owing to a lack of publicity. Mrs. L. T. Green, assitsant to Mr. S. TL. Stone at ‘Stone’s Catering Concern, was sick much of the past week and was absent trom her post of duty. Rev. D. A. Graham and wife leave for St. Louis next Monday and will be absent from the city for about one month. His pulpit in the meantime will be filled by various visiting pastors. Mr. Fletcher Oliver, who has repeatedly been on and off the force on account of internal broils, has been named chief of the force by Mayor Caldwell and has already taken charge of affairs. Mr. Thomas Freeman has fololwed in the wake of his former chief Henry Gregg and has quit the police poundmaster’s office. Ile has a nine-acre tract near Tacoma and he speaks of taking his flivver and himself and hibernating thereon. There was something doing at the Mt. Zion Baptist church last Sunday when more than $3,000 was laid upon the table for the new building, Everyone was happy and the pastor was all smiles. The work on the new building is progressing nicely, and from all indications, the pastor will preach his first sermon from his new pulpit not later than the first Sunday in August. The corner stone laying will be the next big event some time in May. Reverend Carter, preacher Bill, a brand new church is "bout to build, a elub house too is going in, not far behind the church house rim. The old chureh site the members sold because it was too damp and cold and hought a site that has more light and greater room to make a fight. By leaps and bounds the moneys come which make the saws and hammers hum. Some time in August I am told it will be ready for the fold and dedi- cation then will be, a sight for every one to sec, ‘‘and my brothers and my sisters too’’ you then will have a lot to do to decorate our new built hall with pictures of the King of all. It’s up to James the architect, and James, his father, to eleet, the proper time for us to set and all the keys from them to get. meantime we’ll worship in a_ hall that’s large enough to hold us all. KEEP OFF DATES April 24th at Liberty park. 14th and E. Jefferson, ball game between the Alhambras and the Mikados. April 27th, the first annual dance of the Alhambra’s base ball team at Washington hall, 14th and E. Fir. May 10th a musie carnival at Grace Pres- byterian chureh, under the auspices of the Christian Endeavor of that ehurch. May 21st, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will have Ethelbert T, Barbour of Kansas to lecture here. with a banquet May 24th at Masonie Temple, April 80th, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will hold a call meeting at 8:30 at the Grace Presby- terian chureh to decide as to whether the branch will send a delegate to the Eleventh Annual Conference at Atlanta, Ga. MRS. 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. I WONDER WHY I saw a man with a wife and family in earnest conversation with a young and handsome woman. As they stood on a street corner I watched them ag long as I could. I wonder why. A “new woman”? who wore divided skirts, which exposed the most of her legs, and around one of them was buckled a hand- some watch. Every man she met stopped and looked at the watch. I wonder why. I met a lady wearing a very low neck dress and, as she observed me staring at her chest, she grew restless and tried to screen the exposed chest. I wonder why. That fellow ran jam into me he was so eagerly looking at that woman with a low neck dress on, who was bending over. He seemed to be looking long and hard. I won- der why. A woman who wore bloomers at her work had oceasion to pull them off in the shop and every man in the shop stared at her while she was doing so. I wonder why. A handsome young woman was going down the street and wore a pleasing smile, and as she passed a bunch of men, she observed an acquaintance passing, and she bowed to him, and every man near raised his hat. I wonder why. A girl sat on a park seat with her legs crossed. She wore a short tight fitting skirt. One man stood looking out of a window and observed her. Pretty soon three other men quit their work and looked eagerly and long at her. I wonder why. Times are so hard in this man’s town, that I’ve been foreed to wash my gown, and further more, to shave my face, and thereby save a two-bit ace. For fifteen years I’ve been Tutt’s steady as I had rolls of “Jaque’’ and “‘jetty,’’ but now they’re gone I’ve got to quit and shave myself to save a bit, but, some day, some day, my ship will come, when I again will buy Tutt’s gum, but while that ship is on its way you'll find me mow- ing my own hay. To scrape my face, it is a scream, and great big tears roll down in streams, but four bits I save each week it’s done and that, you bet, is that much mon. A dolalr saved is a dollar made, that’s why T use that ugly blade, so now my shaving friends farewell, but ere we part I pray you tell, how rich you be from shaving me, John Jones, Jim Johnson and Sam Lee? Enough I trust to pay your income tax and likewise all ‘“‘your eating wax.’? Now, I'll see you when my hair gets long and listen to your clipping song, about the skunks, who shave themselves, and put good barbers on the shelves, and keep me my mouth shut good and tight, to make you think I’m afraid to fight, but cut it short, and save me trips, each one of which cost me four bits. You Are Welcome GREAT NORTHERN POOL AND BILLIARD HALL Cigars, Tobaceo and Soft Drinks. BOYD & WILLIAMS, Props. 1032 Jackson St. ’ Cayton’s Weekly READABLE RELIABLE REPUBLICAN Will Help You If You Will Help It BUDGET OF THE INTERCHURCH CAM. PAIGN FOR 1920 Foreign Missions ......ccccocenmnm 107,661,488 Home Hissions ............ sone 108,949,087 American Education... 78,837,481 American Religious Education... 5,931,925 Amer. Hospitals and Homes...... 5,116,465 Amer. Ministerial Pensions & Relief emninnnmmminnmennne 204510299 Misc aNeous ccnnnnnnnnnenee — 84770,92T Total amount to be sub- scribed in 1920 ............. $336,777,572 WHAT EACH DENOMINATION IS TO RAISE Advent Christian Chureh ...........$ 35,000 Northern Baptist Convention....... 130,533,000 National Baptist Convention..... 10,250,000 General Baptists eens 272,500 Chureh of the Brthern.....u00..... 3,219,598 Brethern Char wcccecnnnenone 200,000 Christian Chureh occcesnnnnnn 727,698 Congregational Churches wee 16,508,470 Disciples of Christ occcccnmuuue 12,501,138 Evangelical Association ............. 1,394,260 United Evangelical Church ....... 305,983 Society of Friends in America 4,532,081 Society of Friends in California 40,000 Floliness Chueh occ. 50,000 Lutheran Evangelical Synod of North America wc. 1,846,521 General Conference of Men- MONIbes ieee 82,000 Methodist Episcopal Chureh.. 34,485,737 Methodist Protestant Church ..... 1,745,866 Free Methodist Church of North America oem 6,234,986 African Methodist Episcopal Zion OWUPCH eccccesnnnninsnnaneee 212,000 Colored Methodist Episcopal Ch 250,000 Reformed Zion Union Apostolic Church eee 17,263 Presby. Church in the U.S. A. 44,970,000 Presby. Church in the U.S. A, SOUth = eGb445 Associate Reformed Presbyter- GAN SyMOd oe ecnnnnnenninnnnsee 392,264 Reformed Presbyterian Church in North America Synod.......... 529,472 United Presbyterian Chureh....... 31,977,457 Reformed Church in America... 2,136,091 Reformed Church in the U. 8. 16,916,085 Chureh of the United Brethern In Christ nnn 6,546,662 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, SANDERS & COMPANY LOANS NEGOTIATED 1003-1004 L. C. Smith Building Office Hours 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. Alfred Lewis, Funeral Director 1215 East Marion St., Seattle ATLAS POOL HALL Under New Management Wishes You a Happy New Year FELIX CRANE, Manager 1212 Main Street Seattle DOUGLAS ANNEX 2107 E. 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