Cayton's Weekly

Cayton's Weekly SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, August 14, 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 PLAIN TALK In his speech accepting formally the Republican nomination for the Presidency, Senator Harding, on July 22nd last, had the following to say with reference to the problem most particularly interesting and all important to our people: "I believe the Federal Government should stamp out lynching and remove that stain from the fair name of America." "I believe he Negro citizens of America should be guaranteed the enjoyment of all their rights, that they have earned the full measure of citizenship bestowed, that their sacrifices in blood on the battlefields of the Republic have entitled them to all of freedom and opportunity, all of sympathy and aid that the American spirit of fairness and justice demands." Every word of which, to say the least, is indisputably true and most timely. When we compare the above with the following expression of Senator Harding's running mate, Governor Coolidge, of Massachusetts, on the same subject, it will readily be seen to what extent the two G. O. P. nominees are in harmony on this most significant question—a most encouraging sign. "There is especially due to the colored race a more general recognition of their constitutional rights. Surely they hold the double title of citizenship by conquest to be relieved from all imposition, to be defended from lynching, and to be freely granted equal opportunity. "Equal suffrage, for which I have always voted, is coming. The party stands pledged to use its endeavors to have ratification. The foreign relations of our country ought not to be partisan, but American." The beliefs of Senator Harding and convictions of Governor Coolidge in this particular connection, where our people are concerned, represent precisely the view of every right thinking, fair mindd and wel-meaning American citizen. We, too, like Governor Coolidge, believe that "equal suffrage." for which the Governor admits he has always stood is coming. It is bound to come. That this is so, it will be foolish to deny—since there are more than a sufficiency of unmistakable indications in the signs of the times to convince the most doubtful that there is no uncertainty in regard to the fact. That colored people nevertheless have not long been accorded and guaranteed "the enjoyment of all their rights." in view of the many costly and constitutional proofs advanced for the purpose of bringing such a thing about is really one of the numerous and strange things not properly understood by us. That it is the fixed intention of the Republican presidential nominee to adjust this long outstanding wrong, is very evident from their expressed and harmonized sentiment thereon. If elected, we firmly believe that Senator Harding is honest and big-hearted enough to see to it that "the Negro citizens" receive 'all of sympathy' and aid that the American spirit of fairness and justice demands." A better couple than Harding and Coolidge could not have been chosen by the Republican party to advise and guide the American Nation for the next four years. We believe that the country should see to it that they are elected. Both men are highly experienced Americans in the intricate art of government. They have all the competence necessary for the big job, and we know it to be a fact that they also have the full confidence of all real Americans. The country is in dire need of just such men as Senator Harding and Governor Coolidge in the White House at this time—The Freeman. EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS If Phill Tindall would work on a spirit of fairness instead of a spirit of color prejudice he would develop into a far more useful man. He is endeavoring to legislate the white man into money making out of the swill barrels of the city nolens volens. In other words, the white man seems absolutely satisfied to permit the Japanese to raise his meat, rather than to go through the more or less humiliation of doing so himself, but Phill says to him, "I will give to you such a monopoly that you cannot help making money out of it." We observe Phill himself has never attempted to produce anything for the maintenance of the community save hot air, and just now that is not necessary, as old Sol is furnishing plenty, more as plenty more as we could want. Many years ago one Pichfork Tillman gained international notoriey by preaching race prejudice and thereby kept himself in office for thirt, odd years and we suspect Phill Tindall hopes to play a like game. Its an old trick and the man of inborn cunning uses it to attain heights which he could not accomplish with brawn and brain. If Ponzi is meeting all of his obligations and there is no evidence of him playing a crooked game, whose business, save his own, is it as to how he is making his money. In our opinion he is not making his money a hundredth part as mysteriously as the "big interests" of the country. It comes to Seattle that her once famous James A. Moore has been made a "doctor of law"—L. L. D.—which must actually mean a doctor of broken fortunes as he has been able to administer sufficient restoratives to his wasting fortune to not only restore it to health but to give it renewed vigor. A Black man has filed for governor of Washington and a Coon for sheriff of King county. Who now doubts that the Seattle branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has not been doing its duty, its whole duty and nothing but its duty during the present year. It is up to every Colored voter in the state to hit E. L. French and hit him hard, for if you do not and he is elected lieutenant-governor of this state, he will be in a position to hit you and hit you hard. Above all things work and vote against French, whose legislative record we will publish. Breaking into the Solid South will be just about as easy as it would be to break into a granite wall with your fist. Wise men change, but damphools never and therefore there is no more probability of the Democrat changing his mind to Republicanism than there is of a Copper bellied snake walking on the end of his tail. Democrat changing his mind is simply preposterous as the Southern Democrat has no mind to change. Vol. 5 No. 8 EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS All female eyes are now fixed on Miss Tennessee and its not a case of a brand new top piece. Cox and his Wilsonian paramount issue will get just as far in the White House as will the proverbial snow ball in Hades. Babe Ruth and Charles Ponzi seem to have told Harding and Cox to go way back and sit down and for the moment they are doing so. Now that the Temple of Justice is completed, let the bootleggers take warning or they may get justice just what they are not expecting. A shortage of cars is said to be worrying the farmer, but its the shortage of cash that is worrying those of this country who are not farmers. If the Negro of this country knows his pace as says one Philip Tindall, then the Negro knows a great deal more than does Phill Tindall. In turning the suffrage amendment down Tennessee is maintaining the Democratic record of hoping to convert this country into a limited olygarchy. Evidently the profiteers go on at Ponzi because he had beaten them at the game of filching the public and they had their court emisaries to have him arrested. The city of Victoria, B.C., still stands despite the fact that Admiral Hugh Rodman of the U. S. Navy strutted down her streets the other day. Can you beat it. Surely hat $5,000 legal expense account for the defense of the IWW's in the courts does not include George Vandeveer's fees. George could make that amount boxing. A second world war would indeed be a calamity, but it seems inevitable. Such an one however, in our opinion, would almost smother our present civilization. What Carlyon should have done this year was to have run for governor and then his road bill would have afforded him the necessary publicity for campaign purposes. Neither Senator Jones nor Representative Miller recognize any opposition in the primary election but Miller thinks he may have a slight altercation at the general election. In the straw ballot of the state Gov. Hart is leading with Hartley a close second, but this is six weeks before the primary election and the other gubernatorial bazoos have just begun to get busy. It is estimated that, owing to the drouth Washington state will loose something like three million bushels of wheat, which will doubtless mean a raise in the price of wheat to make up for the fall off. Whatever else may be said of the scheme the proposed Triple Alliance get together picnic for the Colored citizens of the Pacific Northwest is a splendid move on its part to spread its political propaganda. Lightning never strikes twice in the same place and if Jim Cox thinks "he kept us out of war" lightning will strike the women as it did four years ago, then Jimmie is by no means the sagacious politician that we had given him credit of being. Te ee 4 fs x aunt sk ee is aah 8 NH ib aces THE PASSING THRONG Some one handed me a folder one day this week which was issued by Ed. T, Coman, tandidate for the Repubican gubernatorial nomination, and here are some of the pertin- ent points thereof: Agriculture is the foundation of our na- tional greatness and we should encourage and foster the development of improved farming methods and devote our time, energy and money to aiding the farmer in working out his marketing problems so that the producer will receive a fairer share of what the con- sumer pays. We must conserve the great natural resources of our soil and reclaim the thousands of unimproved acres lying within our borders. Education is the surest guaranty of good government. Educate the youth of today along the right lines and we need have no fear for the government of tomorrow. If the present school revenues were raised on some uniform plan and the proceeds equitably dis- tributed in accordance with the needs, the schools can be properly supported without matamoalliy ineressine the burdens of the taxpayer. Inequalities can only be corrected by the abolition of Joeal district lines insofar as the raising of revenue and distribu- tion of support is concerned. Fishcrics—Our great fishing in- dustry must be fostered and _en- couraged. We must safeguard it with proper regulations in order that our supply may not be dissi- pated. Aliens mus not be per- mitted to gain control of even a small part of this industry, and laws designed to prevent this should be rigidly enforeed. The Carlyon Plan, which pro- poses to bond this state for $30,- 000,000 and entailing a further obigation of $12,000,000 for inter- est, should not pass. It is unwise to obligate ourselves beyond our visible resources for the mere pur- pose of hastening by a few years the completion of our highway program. The pay-as-you-go policy so far followed in road construc- tion in this state should be con- tinued. State Government—The all too numerous departments of our state government under the present sys- tem should be coordinated; re- sponsibility should be centered in individuals instead of commissions and boards. The success of such a departure in the administration of state affairs depends largely upon the business ability of the Governor and his capacity to se- lect men fitted for these positions. Tares have almost reached the point of confiscation. Our tax laws must be so revised that equality will attach to every form of prop in our boundaries. Much of the which is now free from taxation made to bear its just share of gov expense. The remedy is in econom lie administration. The ex-service men are entitled bursement for the financial sacrifi their absence in the service enta is essentially a national and not a § lem. The referendum bill passed b cial session should receive favorable ation if congress fails to recognize of such legislation. I indorse the state and nationai of the Republican party. Under the auspices of the Triple Alliance. with H, Thompson as chief factotum, there will be held at People’s Park, Renton Junc- tion, on the Tacoma Interurban, August 21st, 1920, an old fashioned get-together picnic. Tt is the intention of those promoting the reunion picnic to interest the Colored citizens of not only Seattle, but of all of the Puget Sound cities and towns, where there are Colored citizens, in assembling at the Peo- ple’s Park, where a day long to be remem- bered will be spent. The park may be reach- ed by the Interurban going to either Ta- coma or Renton, or by automobile, taking the Pacific highway. Each and all are invited to bring their well filled baskets and pienic in groups on a well arranged ground for such outings. H. Thompson and Robert Bridges will be the chief speakers who will address the audience in the afternoon, but other speakers may be included. The speaking will be followed by a dance, for which occasion the Smith Jazz orchestra has been employed. The dancing will begin at 5 P.M., and go until 5 A.M. Mrs. H. Thompson and Mrs. A. R. Bonner have the concession to serve refreshments, those who do not care to take the trouble to prepare their lunches for the occasion, can have all the wants of the inner man supplied from their booth. Neither money nor pains will be spared to make this the pienie and outing of the season. You and each of you are cordially invited to be on hand and if so you will see hundreds of your acquaintances, and you cannot help but have a most magnificent time. Remember mz SENATOR ED. T. COMAN the date and place—Saturday, August 21st, 1920, at People’s Park, Renton Junction. Preparations are being made to entertain at least three thousand persons on that grand pienic and outing occasion, Regular trains leave from Yesler and Occidental twenty min- utes after the hour. Rey. D. A. Graham closes his pastorial work here next Sunday evening and will leave for the Puget Sound Annual Confer- ence which convenes in Tacoma next Thurs- day, one day next week. Of course Rev. ‘Graham may be returned, but all Methodist preachers close their work, where they are located, when they leave for the Annual Con- ference. He has been stationed in Seattle ‘for the past four years and it can be said without fear of successful contradiction that those have been four years of prosperity for the church. He has paid its debts, increased its membership and has given it a standing in the community such as it has never before enjoyed. I understand that there is a prob- ability of the Rev. Graham taking up gen- eral conference work and thereby retire from pastorial duties. If he does and is as suc- cessful in his new fields of labor as he has been in his pastorial labors, what will be the pulpit’s loss will be the everlasting gain of the General Conference. If he makes the change he will leave a congregation with hearts full and overflowing for his success, but if change he does not make, not only his congregation, but the entire community will receive him back with open arms. If what I am going to relate ever hap- pens then, believe me, ‘‘something new under the sun”’ will have happened. The other day Chauncey W. Jamison introduced me to Ed- ward Smith of Chicago, who was looking over Seattle with the view of locating here and, perhaps, go into the wood and coal business. T had not talked to Mr. Smih very long before I learned that he is a policeman in Chicago, but is on a leave of absence, which he will extend indefinitely, if things look good to him in Seattle. Now what manner of policemen do they have in Chicago that would even contemplate giving up a posi- tion on the police force to go into business ee ee ee ee ee man would voluntarily give up his job to become the general man- ager of the Bon Marche, because T have my suspicions that the earnings of .a Seattle policeman are so much greater than that of the general manager of the Bon Marche that it would be like com- paring a mountain to a mole hill. T truly hope Mr. Smith will be- come a business man of Seattle and if he does he will have the confidence of the general public at once, if not sooner. The editor of Cayton’s Weekly feels that the political situation so far as the Republican nomina- tion for lieutenant-governor is con- cerned has much improved since his last issue was published. It seemed to him at that time as if the Colored voters of the state would have to choose between two evils—French and Phipps—but W. W. Conner has filed for the Re- publican nomination of licutenant- governor, and his record is clear on the various anti-marriage bills that French and others have tried to force through the different le- islatures of this state, and it there- fore gives me great pleasure to recommend to the Colored voters of the state W. W. Connor, can- didate for the Republican nomic.a- tion of lieutenant-governor. Mr. Connor is practically a native son of Washington and through all his publie life has endeavored to give the Colored man a square deal. There are about 10,000 Colored voters in this state and Mr. Connor should get every one of their votes in the primary election, and, if he does, he is as good as nominated, and he will, for no Colored voter that has any respect for himself or herself would vote for either French or Phipps in the face of their legislative records. I hope every Colored person of any influence at all will make it a point to work and vote for the nomination of W. W. Connor for lieutenant- governor—not because I recommend him to you, but because he stood for right, so far as the Colored man is concerned, when he could have far more easily followed after French and others, who sought, to humiliate the Colored citizens of the Northwest. One day this week I met Mrs. Holloway and talked a little polities with her as well as renewed former political acquaintance. T first met her some ten years or more ago in Gov. Albert Mead’s office where she was acting as his personal stenographer and con- fidential secretary, and it was the concensus of opinion among the politicians at that time that she was as well versed in state craft as Gov. Mead himself. Mrs. Holloway is now conneced with Ed. T. Coman's gubernatorial campaign and she is again showing her cleverness as a politician. "You were a loyal friend of Gov. Mead and I believe if you would get acquainted with Mr. Coman you would soon be just as loyal to him for he, like yourself, is absolutely loyal to his friends. From what I have seen of Senator Coman he is not much on the bullcon, but he is strong on the square and in the open plaform. He will do exactly what he promises to do, but he will promise to do nothing that he thinks is not on the square and in the open, and that, in my opinion, he would not do even at this time, though to not do so would cost him his opportunity of being nominated on the Republican ticket for the state's chief executive." Next Sunday afternoon John F. Miller will address the members of the King County Republican Club a its place of meeting, 21st and Jefferson and President Cooper is desirous that a full house be on hand to greet him. The club will hold a business session from 2 to 3:30 p.m., with the view of having all the necessary business of the club cleared up to receive Mr. Miller at the appointed time. There are a number of important recommendations from the executive committee to come before the club and be disposed of and it is well for you and each of you to be present. Whether the club will endorse candidates seeking Republican nominations will be one of the recommendations to be disposed of. Last week the North Coast Baptist Association held is annual meeting at Spokane and was attended by upwards of fifty delegates. After a three days' session attending to routine business the association voted to share in the $100,000,000 drive of the Northern Baptist convention and to likewise share in the $10,000,000 drive of the National Baptist convention. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Rev. W. D. Carter, Seattle; Vice-President, Rev. J. L. Murray, Tacoma; Secretary, Rev. A. E. Reed, Spokane; Treasurer, Rev. S. A. Franklin, Kennydale; State Missionary, Rev. Nelson, Tacoma. The next meet will be at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Seattle. Bishop William A. Fountain preaches at the First A. M. E. hurch next Sunday at 11 A. M. Mrs. W. D. Carter is home from the Tuskegee convention and is confined to her bed. THE NEGRO IN POLITICS Chicago, July 24—The race question was the rock on which the third party ship was wrecked here recently according to political wise acres. Extreme radicals planned a strong platform plank demanding exact justice and complete equal rights for the Negro. Liberal elements while sympathetic towards the plank, wanted it eliminaed, or at least toned down. Southern votes, the moderates contended, could not be had if Negro equality were determined by the new party. But the radicals, scoring the advantages of partisan expediency, stood undeviating for "Right principle," as they termed it. Inability of the factions to agree is alleged as a potent cause of the failure of the groups to in resect to the above quarrel, is not unusual. In the progressive convention at the same city, in 1912, a division was threatened over the very same issue when Dr. Springarn, a delegate from New York, proposed a plank opposing race discrimination, and pledging the Bull Moosers to secure equal political rights for the race. Springarn's motion was finally squelched, chiefly through the efforts of another delegate from New York, named Straus. Muskogee, Okla., July 25—In order to show their lack of sympathy with the white Republican officials who have kept them out of jobs, W. H. Twine, filed a complete colored independent Republican ticket with the county election board. Mr. Twine said: "We are going to show the Republicans that they can't squeeze us out of jobs and get off with it. We may not win, but at least we are keeping our colored organization intact and eventually, will vote it to a party that will give us full recognition." The Tulsa, Oklahoma, Star in its leading editorial, comes out plainly in favor of all the Democrat nominees from Cox and Roosevelt down. It says: "Under right observation and careful examination, we will find that the Democratic party is not near as bad as the Republican party, not near as good as we have been taught to believe. Republicans are said to have aided in the passing of the segregation laws, and the Grandfather clause, which a Democratic Supreme Court declared unconstitutional. Ossip was attempting to walk along the street on his hands. A policeman arrested him, not agreeing that the world had turned upside down. "How much did you drink?" asked the judge. "Just one glass of wine." "Well," remarked the judge, "it must have been a magnifying glass." 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 New York State will lead the nation in intensive application of forestry to idle lands under plans now being formulated in Otsego county. This country, whose hills and valleys, lakes and streams formed the setting for Cooper's Leatherstocking tales, is organizing a system of county and township forests, on the basis of a survey by the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse. The plan is for each township to plant a forest of roughly 100 acres at a starting point. The several forests will be part of the county system and will be connected with the highways to make them accessible from all parts of the county. The standard of value in Potosi, Bolivia, for everything from sweethearts to cities is the Silver Hill of the Thundered. Willis Knapp Jones in the August Travel gives a picturesque history of the wonderful Bolivian silver mine and the town which spent ten million dollars celebrating the coronation of King Philip II of Spain. As the legend goes, when the early Indians started digging there for silver the mountain shook and thundered, "This hill is not for you. It belongs to a race which will come later." In this strange town silver was more plentiful than bread. "Wireless telegraph is new; wireless communication is as old as Biblical times." With this statement the National Geographical Society at Washington quotes from a communication by John A. Kingman, who sets forth the interesting theory that the island of Capri was an imperial wireless sation of ancient Rome. "We know that the ancients signaled in various ways and over long distances," he says. "They signaled by beacon fires, by beacon smoke, by pigeons, by flage, and by shouting from one sentinel to another." United States mail for the Orient is to be carried by the Empress steamers of the Canadian Pacific ocean services if the Dominion government approves the contract just concluded by the steamship line and the American postal authorities. A feature of the proposed arrangement is the transportation of American mail from Seattle to Victoria by airplane. The historian Buckle says somewhere that European civilization was born in Belgium and that it is likely to die in the Balkans, a summary not without its significance when we remember that the war began in Belgium and that its fires are still burning fiercely along the whole length of the old eastern front. Tacitus, too, said something of the same sort a thousand years earlier. He pointed out that the Balkan area had always been the scene of fierce fighting for its narrow gangway between Asia and Europe. The hostile hordes sought the valley of the Danube because the great river gave them water and transportation. If Tacitus could have forseen the present evolution of Europe and the aspirations of Asia he would have looked forebodingly toward the future of that same gangway uniting the two continents, he would have predicted a continuation of the bloody struggle that even then was age old. It is before our eyes today. Behind all the wretched little quarrels for areas, for mandates and for dominions, the colossal forces of two continents are preparing for a struggle greer than any that we have yet seen. Inasmuch as rats did much damage to his papers, a Hindu clerk, who was in charge of the official documents in one of the more remote Indian towns, obtained permission to keep two cats, the larger of which was to receive somewhat better rations than the other. A few weeks later the head office at Delhi received this dispatch: "I have the honor to inform you that the senior cat is absent without leave. What shall I do?" To this problem the office vouchsafed no reply. After waiting a few days the Hindu sent off a proposal: "In re absentee cat. I propose to promote the junior cat and in the meantime to take into government service a probationer cat on full rations." --- STOLEN FROM THIEVES "Rivers," said the American, "why your rivers are nothing to ours. Compared with our Hudson and Mississippi, your Mersey, Severn, and Thames are sleepy, sickly streams." "Oh, come!" protested the Englishman, "I think your rivers are just as sickly as ours." "How do you make that out?" "Well, they are all confined to their beds," replied the visitor. General Peyton C. Harch said at a dinner in Philadelphia, apropos of a military argument: "It is hard to argue with our opponents. They are more unreasonable than the lady who missed the train. 'We wouldn't have missed it,' the lady's husband growled, 'if you hadn't been so long in dressing.' 'Yes,' she said, 'and if you hadn't hurried me so, we wouldn't have such a long wait now for the next.'" To the rear door of the house of a lonely spinster in a Pennsylvania town there recently came a seedy-looking person who, after being given some food, made so bold as to proffer this additional request: "Missus,ask your husband if he ain't got an old pair of trousers to give me?" Whereupon the spinster, anxious not to expose her solitude, replied: "I am sorry, my good man, but he—er—never wears such things." Frederic Courtland Pengeld, the noted diplomat and author, was discussing at a dinner in Philadelphia his campaign against profiteering tailors, when a young matron said mischievously: "Mr. Penfield, I'm astonished to see such a learned person as yourself going in for anything so frivolous as a campaign against the high cost of clothes. Clothes don't make the man." Mr. Penfield laughed. "Indeed they don't," he said. "Nowadays they break him." He had escorted her home, and they stood together by the open door. What mattered the cold to these pulsating lovers? What mattered the icy wind that entered from the street outside and threatened to extinguish the flickering hall lamp? What, in fact, mattered anything? For their last moments had arrived, and they would not meet again for twenty-four hours. "Heart of my heart," he whispered, "how I love you!" "And how I love you." she whispered back, "light of my days, light of my thoughts, light of my very existence, light—" "Lucy," shouted her father's angry voice from above, "just put out that light at once and get to bed." Methodists attending the North Indiana M. E. Conference in Richmond were discussing what had become of a number of the old-time ministers they had known. "When the cost of living became so high,' said one of the group, "our pastor resigned, went to live on his farm and now is in the dairy business." "And I suppose," said another, "he now sells pastorized milk." An Irishman fresh from his native country was going to a situation in Liverpool. Feeling puzzled how to secure his ticket at the railway station he suddenly decided to watch some one else obtain theirs. Presently he heard a woman in front of him ask for a ticket—"Mary Hill, single." "Be jabbers, I have it." said Pat. Boldly stepping up to secure his ticket he exclaimed. "Pat Murphy, sir, married." Little Timothy went to visit his Aunt Elvira, a dignified and severe woman who owned a parrot. One morning, coming unexpectedly upon Timothy and the bird, she was horribly shocked to hear the little boy using some profane words. "Why, Timothy." cried the old lady. "I believe you're trying to teach my parrot to swear." "Oh, no, I'm not Auntie,' the boy replied. "I'm just telling it what it musn't say." The late long staple cotton crop has made quite a lot of money for South Carolina Negroes. A short time ago one of them purchased a high-priced car. A few days later he went back to the saelsman. "Cap, is you got any of dese here cowketchers?" he inquired. "Do you mean bumpers, Charlie?" "Yassir." "Well, Charlie, do you want one for both ends of your car?" "Nawsir, cap, aint nobody gwine to ketch up wid me. Ah jes want one fo' de front." Apropos of the University of Pennsylvania's Assyrian tablets, exonerating Eve from all complicity in the sad business of the apple, Mrs. William Yerbert, president of the Working Girls' Vacation Society, said in New York: "So Eve didn't tempt Adam, after all? So Adam fell of his own accord? Well. I'm not surprised. It reminds me of Mr. Downe. 'Does Mr. Downe bear his misfortunes like a man?' a lady asked. 'Exactly like a man,' answered another lady. 'He blames all on his wife.'" A Jeffersonville merchant has recently placed an automatic weighing machine in front of his store. A few days ago a citizen was observed standing on the machine and closely scrutinizing the dial. His hat was in his hand although the thermometer marked a low temperature and a passerby asked him why he had his hat off. "I want to see what I weight without my outdoor garments," said the citizen blandly. His interlocutor walked away muttering, "He would not weigh much less if he took his head off as well." "It is a strange thing," said the professor. "I was shaved this morning by a man who really is. I suppose, a little above being a barber. I know of my own knowledge that he studied at Heidelberg and spent several years in other foreign educational centers. I know, also, that he has contributed scientific articles to our best magazines Cayton's Weekly READABLE RELIABLE REPUBLICAN Will Help You If You Will Help It IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington in and for King County. In the Matter of the Estate of Robert M. McMann, Deceased—N., 27794. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, Mabel Akers, has been appointed executrix of the estate of said deceased, and has qualified as such executrix, and all creditors of the deceased and all persons having claims against the deceased are required to serve the same on the said executrix or her attorneys, Sullivan & Christian, 1507 National Realty building, Tacoma, Washington, and file with the Clerk of the above Court, together with the proof of such service within six months after the date of the first publication of this notice, to-wit: within six months after the 31st day of July, 1920. MABEL AKERS. Executrix of the Estate of Robert M. McMann, Deceased. SULLIVAN & CHRISTIAN, Attorneys for Executrix, 1507 National Realty Bldg., Tacoma, Wash. July 31-August 28, 1920 Distributor of Mme. C. J. Walker's Hair and Skin preparations. Mail, postal and express orders promptly filled. 1201-3 Jackson St., Seattle, Wash. 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 GILLIE RICHARDSON RUSSELL WALTON --- and has numbered among his intimate friends men of the highest social standing. And yet," soliloquized the professor, "he can't shave a man decently." "By Jove," exclaimed young Rounder in astonishment. "What is he a barber for, with all those accomplishments?" "Oh, he isn't a barber," said the professor, yawning. "You see, I shaved myself this morning." Mary's teacher one day asked her to draw a picture of Old Mother Hubbard's house, showing Old Mother Hubbard and her dog. Very quickly Mary drew the rough outlines of what was supposed to be a house, placing the crude form of Old Mother Hubbard beside the door. Then, with a self-satisfied air, she handed her finished product to the teacher. "That is very good Mary," commented the teacher, as she looked at the drawing, "but where is the dog?" "Oh, the dog is in the house," promptly replied Mary. A traveling man the other day was telling of one of his customers, a hardware merchant in one of the smaller places in the state, who enjoys the game of pool as a diversion after business hours. Frequently after closing his store he drops in a pool-room next door and enjoys a game or two before going home. His little daughter, who often waits on him while indulging in his pastime, one evening after going home said to her mother, "What kind of a game is that daddy plays when he takes a stick and has a ball, then says. 'Oh Hell.?' A. D. SMITH — B. BIRD Proprietors Phone Beacon 113 B & B PANATARIAN Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing Ladies Work a Specialty We Call for and Deliver TRY JIMMIE THE SHINE KING Shine Parlor for Ladies and Gents 1218 Jackson Street You Are Welcome GREAT NORTHERN POOL AND BILLIARD HALL Cigars, Tobacco and Soft Drinks. BOYD & WILLIAMS, Props. 1032 Jackson St. 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 FURNISHED ROOMS 317 22nd Ave. So. Rooms large and commodious, on car line, but walking distance. MRS. S. R. CAYTON 317 22nd Ave. So.