Cayton's Weekly

--- Cayton's Weekly SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 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 NO COLOR LINE The machinists of Oregon and Washington in convention in Tacoma, took an important step when the color line was erased. Hereafter all non-whitees (Negroes, Japanese, Filipinos, etc.), will be admitted on the same footing with whites. This is likely to become the rule in all organized labor. It has been seen for some time that the economic interests of all the workers are one; and the workers have always been put to a disadvantage when any considerable portion of them, for example, the non-whitees, have been debarred. The solidarity of labor, so essential to industrial progress, is unattainable without the complete ignoring of race, color and sex. The erasing of the color line will be one long step toward the triumph of organized labor in the achievement of its ideals. It is being demonstrated not only in America, but in Europe as well, that economic differences are drawing deeper lines than differences of race—Union Record. Fade, fade each union joy, right is mine. A house divided against itself must fall. For years and years organized labor endeavored to put over a propaganda entitled, only white men need apply, but now organized labor itself is fighting to overthrow its own religious creed, and here is to its success. This is not a white man's country either in fact or in theory, but its God's country, entrusted to mankind, and if any select few of the human family combine by either force and violence or by legislative strategy to appropriate it for their own selfish purposes, sooner or later they will realize their mistake and, if they refuse to back up, then they will get locked up. Organized labor in many instances is showing its good sense by backing up and the sooner it does so in every instance the sooner it will get itself ready to move forward in a solid phlanx. It does not necessarily follow that all colored laborers will join the ranks of organized labor and it does not necessarily follow that for years yet to come that all colored laborers will refuse to become strike breakers, but two wrongs never make a right and the stronger having acknowledged its mistake, it will be much easier to appeal to the better judgments of the weaker. Let the people rule. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN MONEY Much is being said just now about the large sums of money that have been recently expended by men seeking the Republican nomination for the presidency of the United States, the Lowden committee having admitted that it had squandered $400,000 simoleans and the Wood committee is expected to admit that it has let go a million moles. We do not consider the amount Lowden's committee has expended as excessive. Not less than $10,000 could be used even legitimately in each state and on that basis the amount expended by Lowden's committee is not buying the nomination. Of this sum Lowden himself contributed the entire amount, and it did not come from millionaires, for the purpose of influencing the administration in case of nomination and election. Later reports, however, would seem to indicate that a slush fund was raised for the Wood ampaign, which has been brought out by the investigating committee of the U. S. Senate. Under the circumstances it would be hardly wise for the convention to nominate Gen. Wood for the presidency. The money expended by Lowden was his own private funds and that fact having been thoroughly established he has gained popularity as a presidential possibility. Muh newspaper spaec has been given to the so-called Inter-Church Movement during the past month or so, both in the reading and advertising columns of the religious and secular press. Much has been said or written about the necessity of efficient administration of church organizations and the raising of millions of dollars for church purposes. But the question as to what does it all mean, from the standpoint of true Christianity, still remains unanswered. If the raising of the millions proposed means the prosecution of missionary effort into the darkest corners of uncivilized America and the conversion of the barbarians who practice lynch law and burning of human victims at the stake, the magnitude of the movement would be amply justified. If the intent was to convert every inhabitant of the United States to the conviction that lynch law is murder and that every lyncher, actual or potential, is a murderer at heart, the necessity of the movement would be recognized by every student of current history. But so far as the movement has progressed no such great aim of redeeming the nation from its besetting sin seems to have been taken into consideration. Greater efficiency in the business administration of the churches and living salaries for the pastors seem to be the utilitarian purpoes emphasized by the promoters of this enterprise. No realization of the great part the church might play in spreading the spirit of Christian living and thinking into every corner of the land seems to have entered into their conception. Despite the indifference and apathy manifested by the churches at large on the subject of mob murder, ever and anon a voice is heard among the clergy protesting against this attitude. Such utterances as those recently made by an Episcopalian bishop in Mississippi and a Roman Catholic bishop in Georgia must eventually find a genuine response in every religious denomination that teaches the observance of the Sixth Commandment. If the Inter-Church Movement would include in its aims and objects the eradication of race hatred and intolerance from the American people, with the resulting injustice thereby engendered, it would have a cause worthy of every effort it could exert. Negro church people throughout the country would be gratified if leaders of the Inter-Church Movement would make a clear-cut definite statement as to what the Movement intends as regards promotion of better race relations and the removal of race friction A renaissance of the true spirit of Christianity is an imperative necessity. N. Y. Age. VOL. IV. NO. 49 EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS Ole Hanson? That name sounds familiar. This is a time when Gov. Olcott of Oregon is flying high. Warren may not be chief of police again, but Sheriff Warren sounds good to him. Whether this is May or December can hardly be told from the temperature of the weather. Many luxuries are being bought these days, but its only the profiteers that are buying them. During the late war 23,000 millionaires appeared on the horizon and new ones are still soming. Spending money like a fool may soon be supplanted by spending money like a presidential candidate. Of course Claude Bannick has stood a whole lot, but it appears there are some things he objects to. The woman who has but "one decent dress" these days does not seem inclined to wear it when she goes upon the street. Doubtless no one profiteered in the Seattle street car deal save the Stone-Webster Company and they felt they needed the money. England says Ireland may have her freedom, but not her independence. In other words Ireland is alright only she isn't alright. If the Chicago convention is to nominate a "dark horse" for the presidency, are there any objections to the Hon. Ishom F. Norris of Seattle? Texas citizens are by law prevented from wearing white collars week days. Now if a like law would apply to guns, Texas might be fit to travel through. Evidently the gang got good and tired of waiting on the supreme court making the country wet again and so it has begun to steal the hospital supplies. Like all former Mexican rulers, Carranza held on until a bloody rebellion abruptly ended his administration and played foot ball with his lifeless carcass. Rioting over fifteen cent sugar shows how much in need of sugar are the citizens of this country just now and what damn rascals and thieves the profiteers are. "Raining Cats," may never have actually happened, but if Hi Johnson is not nominated for president from a Republican viewpoint, there is grave danger of it doing so. When Mr. Taft announces, "I am not seeking the presidential nomination," there is method in his madness, for to him it would be all he same, seeking a needle in a hay stack. Though Vice-President Marshall is not a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination yet he wants it distinctly understood he is not responsible for the freaks of lightning. There is no objection to the Chicago packers selling meat supplies to Germany to the tune of forty-five million dollars, because we surmise our people are willing for them to rob Germany, hoping that it may save their own bacon. tos ENS TEAS Rae eee THE PASSING THRONG all of whieh Tt have read With Varying mter- est. Tow good or bad the cabarets operated hy colored men are or may be, I do not know. Whether cabarets operated by col- ored men are any nearer being vice-rendez- vous than those operated by white men is likewise unknown to me, as T have never visited a cabaret operated by any one with the view of being entertained, and so far as cabarets and their modes of entertaining are coneerned T am ‘innocence abroad.’’ But what struck me as rather peculiar in the Star’s expose of a colored cabaret on Jack- son Street was the hopelessness of the white man or woman, who entered therein. Such persons immediately became bewitched by the satanie arts of the black entertainers, and such white immediately became unable to leave the place, and if they did happen to get away, they are unable to keep from re- turning. Wonderful. Then again, I read in the Star that the police no longer allowed “young white girls’? to visit that cabaret, which of course, meant that the place is so vile that it is dangerous for white girls to enter its gilded walls. If such a police reg- ulation is in effeet, why specify ‘‘young white girls?’’ It seems to me that the order should have read ‘‘young girls’? without re- gard to color or creed. The young colored virl should be saved the same as the young white girl. If you are going into the life- saving business, let it apply to humanity one and alike. If the white man, who rules this land, w ould see to it-that the young colored woman is protected in the same manner as is the young white woman, I am of the opin- ion that there would be fewer of both classes vo to the dimnation bow wows. Broadly interpreting the order preventing young white girls from going to this particular cabaret, it means this, white men may in great numbers asemble in’ that particular cabaret where they can meet young colored girls from the best. families, if sueh young colored girls can be lured therein. and of course accomplish their ruin, while the white sister must sit at the Y. W. C. A. and sing. “Tam afraid to go out in the dark’? T will do just as much to protect the virtue of a young white girl as I will that of a young colored girl and the white man who will not do the same for a young colored girl is neither a Christian or a gentleman or a good citizen, and T am inelined to think would tell even a young white girl where there are things doing. Another thing in the Star’s expose that read peculiar to me was the story of a young white girl who was held as a ‘‘white slave’? by a big burly black and she feared to leave the place even after an alleged white officer of the law reached her and offered to help her eseape, but finally the two jumped out of a window and escaped down an alley and eluded the pursuit of the big burly black. All this mind you in a city where there are not to exceed 4,000 colored folks, but almost 400,- 000 white folks. Rot. With the Star’s ex- pose in hand T am told that police orders have been issued to drive out of the city all the undesirable colored characters, empha- sis mind you, on colored characters, from which T infer the white undesirable char- acters are to continue privileged personages. Wrong is wrong, whether committed by black or white and when you house clean then just clean house, that’s all. so 8 # Speaking about our girls prompts me to clip from the New York Age as to the efforts being put forward to help girls in that city, which example could be well fol- lowed in Seattle: Since the Boys’ Welfare Club has con- chided its drive and its club house has generally recognized as to require no fur- ther argument in its favor, That the col- ored people of Harlem can and should raise at least sixty per cent of the money needed for its support may also be taken for granted. With Mrs. E. P. Roberts, Mrs. Helen Curtis, Miss Vashti Maxwell and Mrs. Helen Lanning leading the movement, its progress along the lines laid out should be assured. Contributions to further its purposes will be gladly received by The Age and trans- mitted to the promoters of the movement. * * Large numbers of hop-heads are being thrown into the city jail of Seattle just now, with the view of so completely terror- izing them that when released from prison they will shake the very dust of Seattle from their feet and forever thereafter give Seattle a wide berth. That is one way of Seattle getting rid of undesirable charac- ters, wishing them on to some other com- munity, but it does not strike me as a very humane way. <A hop-head is an irrespon- sible personage. Under the influence of the deadly drug and he or she is but partly human, but without it the deadly drug he or she is neither human or beast, but a writhing, squirming torture-ridden worm upon the earth. Now instead of driving such persons from city to city and from country to country they should be taken in charge by the national, the state, the county, or the city authorities and sent to some island where medical treatment’ could be administered to them and at the same time each one be compelled to do outside work—light farm work. Such a treatment, in my opinion, would cure the great ma- jority of them of the habit and do so with- out impairing thier health. It seems to me that such persons should become public charges and be handled as are lepers, for they certainly polute and poison such per- sons as come in social contact with them just as much as does the leper or other loathesome diseases of the body. Tuberen- losis patients are rushed off to sanitariums to protect their fellowman from being con- taminated and the same rule should be applied to hop-heads. eo # A couple of weeks ago R. S. Abbott, editor of the Chicago Defender, by invita- tion addressed the King County Colored Republican Club and he talked more or less interestingly and spasmodiecally entertain- ingly as well as educationally thoughtfully. Quite a number was present to listen to his remarks and the most of them greatly enjoyed what he said. I listened with care to his each word with the view of learning from his own lips without him saying it in so many words, how he had succeeded in building up the most extensively read newspaper in the world published by a coloried man, but when he had finished the puzzle was no nearer solved from my view point than before I had ever seen him. io might add in this connection that I had ac- companied him for a three hours drive at my expense with the view of figuring him out but every effort had absolutely failed. Brie- fly, Mr. Abbott’s Defender is credited with having at least a circulation of 225,000 and before I had seen and heard the man I felt that so great a circulation was due to the personnel of the editor and owner, as cer- tainly it was not due to the literary attain- ments of the paper. The drawing card, how- ever, about the Defender is its many pages of personal mention from many localities in many states, while it contains little or noth- ing of substantial uplift. The human family Ss et ee tee ee ge that said, ‘‘the American people love to be humbugged,’’ and he told no lie. * # # Last Sunday afternoon I attended the corner stone laying of the Mt. Zion Baptist church and I am of the opinion I saw the largest church congregation, so far as the colored citizens are concerned, that I had ever seen assembled in Seattle and barring the rawness of the atmosphere the pre-ar- ranged program was run off like a record on a graphophone. Each part and _ parcel was played so well that I fear I would do some one performer a gross injustice should 1 try to recount to you how well each one of them did. It was simply a magnificent rendition of a magnificent program, and if the Rev. Carter, way down in his heart, did not feel proud of the work he had done, then he is lacking in those qualifications that make one a better human being, but I do not believe he is. As I have already inti- mated, there was a great concourse of per- sons there from in and out of the city, but it seems to me there was a painful absence of members from the other colored churches of the city in attendance and I truly wondered why. I trust it was not due to the fact that the green eyed monster jealousy played so well its part. e * & Some weeks ago I said in an issue hereof that the white citizens of Seattle never turn- ed out to listen to colored lectures, even when they advertise to lecture on the all absorbing ‘‘race question’’ of this country, and that too in spite of the reputation of the speaker. Now there were those of my friends in the city who did not believe the statement and so when the committee began to make preparations for a place for Mr. Barbour to speak, it made up its mind to get a down town location that would attract white as well as colored citizens, and to that end the use of the First M. E. church, located in the heart of the city, was secured at an expense of $25, which was almost noth- ing, and at the lecture I do not believe there were more than a dozen white persons in the audience. Just as much would have been accomplished had the meeting been held at the First A. M. E. church, Fourteenth and Pine. In Tacoma and Portland the white citizens seem more deeply interested in the uplift of their colored citizens than in Seat- ue: cg * * Perhaps there will yet come a colored speaker to Seattle who will address our citi- zens as though he was a philosopher or an educator, rather than as a carping eritie or as a relator of such woes as we are subjected to from time to time. If the speech made by Mr. Barbour was for the purpose of raw- hiding and bloody bonning all colored per- sons into becoming members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, it was meet and proper, but he took as his subject, ‘‘A Scattered Nation,’’? which he neither discussed or did he hold out the Association as a panacea of our ills and com- plaints, but he did talk at length about a divided people, and while I have no quarrel with him as to the divided black folks of this country, yet that subject has been rehashed so often that it is thoroughly thread bear, and I want some colored speaker to talk to us as did Dr. Suzzzalo a few evenings ago, that we may at least for the time forget our troubles and complications on account of our complexions. If you cannot bring us a hope- ful message, then bring to us an amusing one, if not that then bring to us anything Lord except a tale of woe. SPENT WOOD’S MONEY Bill Whitney and Jay Kellogg got Wood’s dough, and that bloomin’ brace did make the money flow, except what they kept into their paws to buy sweet morsels for their eraws. Lee Johnson got each month four hundred ‘“‘bucks’’ to wander through the state in search of ‘‘ducks’’ and many others got as much to aid in putting on the Whitney clutch, to throw the Bellingham convention in the Woods where big interests could get the goods. That's Bill Whitney and Jay Kellogg to a tee, who got the stuff but claim it was for Lee, and thus such pesky politicians as these are bent on weighing out the political cheese, but politicians have begun to say, "damn that little squalking, squirming Jay, and quite to hell with Whitney Bill as he's a nasty little pill; and fog horn Walker is a false alarm and can do us no great amount of harm." Not soon again will this pesky pair throw consternation in a Republican fair, and men of brains will say amen for having squelched such selfish men. JOURNALISTIC COMMENT The advent of the women of the race into politics is thus greeted by the Birmingham, Ala., Reporter: "A presidential campaign is impending. The women are to have a first place in determining not only issues but presidential possibilities as well. Already the women have shown their interest in these matters by giving a strong impetus to the Leonard Wood candidacy. The movement started in Chicago and followed closely upon the heels of the general's now much-talked-about speech delivered at the convention of the Lincoln League. "But it is with the men of the race that her largest work is to be done. We sincerely believe that it is in this direction that the women of the race will render the greatest service. Backbone, courage, honesty and unwavering devotion to principle is what we vision, in largest measure coming to the race by reason of the responsibility of the ballot having been placed in the hands of our women." This is a large contribution to race assets attributed to the coming of the women into the political arena. If all these hopes are realized the effect in raising the political status of the Negro will be immeasurable. The following indictment of the failure of the churches to meet the needs of the times was recently voiced by the Pittsburgh American: "Religion as falsely considered by too many of our churches right here in our community is something shut up in the church walls, a seventh-day salving of one's conscience. But religion is unmistakably a part of life, a seven-day-a-week living, which deals with the Infinite, and as such cannot fail. But the finite organization, through which religion is expressed, has fallen behind, because of the very fact that it has failed of its moral leadership in meeting the needs of the day. "What our churches need most in an awakening to a broader vision of service. Until our church organizations realize that it is just as much their duty to assume leadership and more guidance in matters of political, educational, social and economic, they cannot escape being branded with the shameful stigma of a failing institution." Such a bugle blast should awake the churches to a realization of what is expected of them. Education as a means to gaining a livelihood is summed up by the philosophic editor of the Richmond Planet as follows: "When a person has been attending school for ten or more years at some one else's expense and then cannot make enough money to feed and clothe himself and pay back to the persons who took care of him or her some of the money expended, then the education is a failure and so is the individual." A harsh verdict but one that would be endorsed by most people hearing such a statement of facts. A veteran Philadelphia educator used to say that the chief end of education was to enable the subject to earn his living. Other authorities have urged the attainment of culture as an aim of education. But in this age of utilitarian efficiency the up-keep of the human machine must be a primary consideration. The whole system of Southern justice, as administered through the courts, is defined by the Houston, Tex., Observer as follows: “‘A code of justice’ that has two standards can not be justice at all, but at once becomes a selfish and cowardly fence behind which its makers take refuge when the game gets too warm. Its operation is identical with the ‘justice’ in a Mexican bull fight in which the bull has not a chance in the world; yet he is goaded and harassed until maddened—then killed. If he displays too much ‘pep’ before killing time his tormentors have the board fence for a refuge. He cannot go behind that. Is not this very much the predicament oft he Negro in the South when a ‘rub’ comes? In too many cases, as in Arkansas, the laws are complete for his punishment but nothing for his protection.” The Observer rightly declares that there can be no peace nor happiness for a large percentage of Southern people—both black and white—until this wrong is corrected. The advantages of ownership of one's home are set forth by the Rock Hill (S. C.), Messenger, in the following vein: A citizen who owns his home, no matter what his vocation, is a more responsible member of the community, as well as more advanced in an assured standard of comfort and prosperous employment. To own a home is a long step toward the possession of a substantial income, and one in which the dividends are secure and always timely." On the other hand ownership of a home entails some obligations and responsibilities, and ties the owner to one location. Still, in these days of high rents and scarce apartments the home owner has some advantages over the tenant, even if he has to pay higher taxes. A wrier in the Kansas City Call, who declares that he is not "one of those Negroes who have abiding faith in the future of the black race in America," thus unbosoms himself on the subject of the constitutional amendments affecting the race: "The Temperance advocates have invoked every proper legal expedient to destroy the powerful liquor interests in this country and have compelled congress to apply to this amendment the 'appropriate legislation' necessary to the enforcement of this law—to promote the general welfare. The human wrecks caused by intemperance, the great number of crimes caused by the indiscriminate use of alcohol, the misery it has entailed upon the young manhood and womanhood of the human race, and the diabolical uses to which it has been put—all these and more reasons that might be advanced show that the general welfare is not promoted by its general and free use as a beverage by all the people. The legal machinery of government has been freely used to prevent its manufacture and sale, to destroy plants manufacturing it and to punish those who offer it for sale. Now if the government can do all these things to make the XVIIIth amendment an effective and potent law, why cannot the same agencies be invoked to enforce the enforcement of the provision of the XIII, XIV and XVth amendments, which are, or ought to be, just as good law as the XVIIIth amendment?" Undoubtedly they can be, but it will require more effort and a greater degree of organization than have yet been exerted to that end. When the American people can be brought to realize that the general welfare will be promoted by the enforcement of the Civil War amendments, steps will be taken to enforce them by appropriate legislation. The Dallas (Tex.) Express says: "The Knights of Columbus opened schools for Negro ex-service men in Dallas one month ago. These schools are in active operation, but the response of men has not been altogether encouraging The total enrollment is about 85, entirely too small a number when one takes in to account the nearly 900 Negro ex-service men in Dallas now" The Express says that those in charge of these schools hope for an enrollment of 500. It urges all ex-service men to enroll and attend. These schools afford an opportunity for business training that should not be neglected. According to the Cincinnati Journal, Senators Harding and Poindexter were the only two of the presidential candidates to reply to a questionnaire of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, asking them to define their position on issues affecting the race. Senator Harding replied that it was not consistent with his views to take up the categorical questions asked, as the candidate must be expected to stand on the platform adopted by the convention Very true Arkansas boasts of two Republican candidates for Govenor and the courts may have to decide which one is entitled to a place on the ballot as the legal Republican nominee. The colored candidate, J. H. Blount, was nominated as a rebuke to the Lilywhites who endeaverod to read the Negroes out of the party. Lilywhiteism should have no place in the Republican party and its exponents should have no place on a Republican ticket. The make-up man of the Nashville Globe must be subject to temperamental idiosyncracies, to put it mildly. In the issue of April 30 he started to fill the editorial columns, or what would be the editorial columns in a conventional publication, with "The Way of the World" by Timothy Fortune But after two lines he switched off to a piece of reprint headed "Women and Men." Why not give some editorial fulminations for a change? The National Republican claims that "Politics is the noblest occupation of citizenship" and backs up the claim to the extent of a column of valuable space. This sentiment will find many adherents from now on until the early part of next November. According to the St. Luke Herald, "Smiles, at least, haven't risen in price." That may be true in Richmond, but it depends on what kind of smiles are meant, if you seek to apply it to other localities. N. Y. Age. You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixty days after the 1st day of May, A. D. 1920, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled Court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiffs, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for plaintiff at his office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the Clerk of said Court. The object of the said action and the relief sought to be obtained therein is fully set forth in said complaint, and is briefly stated as follows: Cancellation of real estate contract for conditions broken and effecting East 187 feet of the North 285 feet of tract 22 of Lake Dell Addition to the City of Seattle, King County, Washington. Z. B. RAWSON, Attorney for Plaintiffs. P. O. Address: 617 Pacific Block, Seattle, County of King, Washington. May 1-June 19, 1920. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington. Mary McBride, Plaintiff, vs. Willie Craven McBride, Defendant—No. 143206. Summons by Publication. The State of Washington, To the said Craven McBride, Defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixty days after the 15th day of May, 1920, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled Court and answer the complaint of the plaintiff and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorney for the plaintiff at his office below stated and in case of your failure so to do judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint which has been filed with the Clerk of said Court. The object of the above entitled action is to obtain a divorce on the ground of cruelty and non-support. Z. B. RAWSON. Attorney for Plaintiff. P. O. Address: 617 Pacific Block, Seattle, King County, Washington. May 15, June 24, 1920. --- --- JUDGE LYNCH AND GEORGIA (From iJm Jam Jems, Feb., 1920) Judge Lynch in the year 1919 held his court in sixteen states in the U. S. A. His jurisdiction is very largely Southern. He sat 21 times in Georgia, 12 times in Arkansas, 12 times in Mississippi, 7 time in Alabama, 7 times in Louisiana, 5 times in Florida, 4 times in Texas, 3 times in North Carolina, once in South Carolina, one in Tennessee, twice in Missouri, twice in West Virginia, twice in Colorado, once in Washington, once in Kansas and once in Nebraska. Judge Lynch executed 82 human beings in the U. S. A. in 1919, as against 64 in 1918, proving that his business is on the increase by about thirty per cent. He still prefers "dark meat" on his menu, for 75 were Negroes and 7 were whites. He prefers males to females for 81 were males and one was a female. Rape or attempted rape accounts for 19—not one-fourth of the number—and down goes the old fetish that only rapists or attempted rapists are lynched. Fire roasted 7 to death and 9 were roasted after being first slaughtered. Of those roasted to death three were charged with rape, two were charged with murder, one with killing a sheriff and one was just casually roasted to death without any charge. Of those roasted after death one was charged with rape, three with attempted rape, three with shooting an officer, one with murder and one with incendiary talk. Murder was the charge against all of the seven white men lynched. Against the seventy-five Negroes lynched the charges were as fololws: Murder 13; attempted rape 10; rape 9; riots 4; shooting officers 4; insulting women 4; killing officers 4; incendiary talk 2; writing improper letters 2; charges not given 6; shooting a woman 1; robbing 1; getting murder sentence changed to life imprisonment 1; shooting watchman 1; wounding a man 1; complicity in killing officer 1; killing n self-defense 1; klling over crop settlement 1; no charge made 1; being acquitted of shooting 1; talking about race riot 1; keeping company with a white woman 1; for being found under the bed 1; for boasting 1; for misleading a mob 1; for appealing a court case 1; and for discussing lynching 1. Of the 82 lynchings 13 were charged with murder and 19 with rape or attempted rape, thus leaving 53 charged with but minor offences. These are the facts about 82 barbaric atrocities, accompanied by the roasting to death of 7 living human beings, in this land of law. And, of course, the South, the land of 'chivalry' leads the van with the Empire State of the South, Georgia, proudly stepping at the head of the van with 21 lynchings to her credit in the year of 1919. Almost exactly one-fourth of these atrocious savageries of lynchings in the U. S. A., were perpetrated in the state of Georgia. If every State in the U. S. A., had been as 'chivalrous' and as 'cultahed' as Georgia, there would have been 1,008 lynchings in the U. S. A., for the year 1919. With less than 3 per cent of the population 'chivalrous' and 'cultahed' Georgia for the year 1919 provided almost 25 per cent of lynchings. What's the answer? The one answer, the only possible answer, is that Georgia is the most persistently barbarous, atrocious, lawless and blood-thirsty place in the United States. With less than 3 per cent of the population and with almost 25 per cent of the lynchings no sane human being can reach any other onclusion. There are just two horns to the dilemma. Either Georgia's Negro population is the most uncontrollable, brutal and vicious in this land or her white population is the most barbaric and bloodthirsty. 'Chivalrous' and 'cultahed' Georgia can perch herself on either or on both of these horns wherever she finds the sitting easier—if there be any ease upon so disgraceful an eminence. 'Race problems'—whether they be black or white or whether they be variagated with miscegenated yellows can't answer any such frozen facts. Georgia's orators and editors—and they are many and able—can pull the plugs from their oratorical reservoirs of eloquence until they deluge the land and can pound out pages of magniloquent diction, all areek with classically rounded periods of adulatory buncombe, and can prate about their 'chivalry' till their throats split and their typewriters fall into wreckage, but they can't nullify the facts—less than 3 per cent of the population, almost 25 per cent of the lynchings for the year 1919, and of all the many men known to have been engaged in these atrocious lynching savageries not one was punished. Why not give the Ahkoond of Swat a 'mandate' to regenerate Georgai?" PURELY PERSONAL Mr. W. M. Bagley of CleEllum visited with friends in the city last Saturday and Sunday. Rev. W. D. Carter spent the most of the past week in Aberdeen attending the Baptist convention. Mr. and Mrs. S. T. McCants mourn the loss of their recently born infant, which lived but a few days. Mr. John H. Ryan of Tacoma, editor of Ryan's Weekly, visited with friends in the city last Monday and attended the Barbour 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 CAYTON'S WEEKLY (Office 303 22nd Ave. South) Regular, Reliable, Republican, Readable Wants 500 New Subscribers This is a Sample of what it sends out Every Week No Friends to Reward or Enemies to Punish A Publication of Ideas Rather Than Personalities Read for Yourself and Be Convinced lecture Monday evening Mr. I. I. Walker of Kirkland was in the city last Thursday. He is much interested in bees and berries and thinks he is in sight of the long "lost mine." Rev. J. P. Brown of Roslyn, pastor of the Baptist church of that city, assisted the Rev. W. D. Carter in the corner stone laying ceremonies of the Mt. Zion Baptist church last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Asberry of Tacoma were guests of Rev. and Mrs. Carter last Sunday. They came over to participate in the corner stone laying of the Mt. Zion Baptist hurch. Lieutenant and Mrs. J. A. Roston have had as their guest for the past week Mr. Barbour, an attorney at law of Oklahoma, who is out West on a vacation. They visied in Tacoma last Thursday. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Seattle Branch) will hold its next meeting Tuesday evening June 1st at the Grace Presbyterian church, 2202 E. Cherry St. All members are requested to be present. Miss Madge R. Cayton, Miss Mabel Byrd and Mr. Harry S. James attended the boat races between the California and Washington crews and between themselves more I. O. U.'s were registered than they will be able to liquidate this time next year unless father is a good fellow. You Are Welcome GREAT NORTHERN POOL AND BILLIARD HALL Cigars, Tobacco and Soft Drinks. 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