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. TELEFHONE: BEACON 3579 Office 317 22nd Ave. South THE COLORED WOMAN VOTER We have more than once stated in these columns our belief that the colored women will be less easily intimidated and kept out of the right of voting than the colored men have been. This has been realized all along by the opponents of Suffrage, especially those in the South. Senator John Sharp Williams said on the floor of the Senate, "Negro women will not be as easily handled as Negro men have been." But as courageous and determined as the colored women may be, they cannot succeed even as voters unless they have the necessary information and knowlde. They should begin everywhere at once to learn all the preliminary steps to voting and to get the actual practice of marking a ballot. To this end study classes ought to be formed in every community. The groups that make up these classes ought not to be too large. The persons in each community who already have a knowledge of the machinery of gocernment and politics should get together and begin to organize these groups. Careful attention should be given to each section of the city or the county. The study classes should rotate from church to church, from hall to hall and from home to home. Every colored woman who can possibly be reached should be brought into these classes. The work can be made quite interesting if the leaders will thoroughly prepare themselves. The classes might open with twenty to thirty-minute talks on the structure of our government, from the town on up through county and state to the national. There should also be talks on the machinery of politics from that of the precinct up to that of the national convention. However, the leaders of the classes ought to avoid any temptation to display how much they know about these subjects; rather should they strive to make everything they say as simple and understandable as possible. They should get down to the A. B. C. of it. Then there should come painstaking instruction in the requirements and qualifications for voting in the community and the state. Information regarding registration and the places for registration, about marking a ballot and the proper polling place at which to vote should be given. It may be that those who would like to begin and carry out the work outlined above do not feel that they possess the requisite knowledge and information to do it as well as it should be done. Any such lack may be easily supplied: The National American Woman's Suffrage Association began the publication of a comprehensive course in "The Woman Citizen" in the issue of April 3, 1920. Each lesson is followed by an amplification of the subject from the program of lectures delivered before the School for Political Education, conducted under the direction of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. State laws vary; party customs and usage vary in the different states. In these lessons will be found the laws and political usages for each state. "The Woman Citizen" is published monthly in New York City. The New York League for Women Voters SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, OCT. 1920 Boston. has also isued a splendid course of study for groups, each lesson being prepared by an authority on the subject treated. These lessons are made very simple, but are none the less extremely interesting. The course embraces the following topics: Politics and Woman's Interest; Town and County Government; State Government; National Government; Political Parties; and gu- cerned. Official STATE Direct Primary or Convention: Which? These lessons are issued in pamphlets which are sold at ten cents a copy or fifty for three dollars; they are, therefore, within the reach of all. This matter of forming groups for civic and political education offers just now the most useful and interesting service that well-informed colored women can undertake. Of course, there is no reason why they should not permit the men to assist them in it.—New York Age. THE HON. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who is running for the vice-presidency on the Democratic ticket, gained considerable publicity by saying in a recent speech that the United States could outvote Great Britain in the League of Nations on account of the Latin-American republic which it controlled. He stated that while he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy he held two of these republics and their votes in his vest pocket. He added in a burst of indiscretion that he himself wrote the constitution of Haiti. Colored voters will be interested in the assertion of Mr. Roosevelt that he was the author of a new constitution which was forced upon a neighboring, friendly and formerly independent republic. But, after all, Mr. Roosevelt's assertion may be a bit of boasting. Perhaps he did have a hand in shaping Haiti's new constitution. Perhaps he only approved what was done. Naturally the author of the work did not sign his name to it; and Mr. Roosevelt is now denying that he ever made any claims to the authorship. However, there si another document to which Mr. Roosevelts official signature is affixed that will be of greater local interest to colored American voters than the constitution of Haiti. This document was made public four years ago, to be exact, August 8, 1916. At the time it was widely commented on by the colored press of the country, but, naturally no particular importance was given to its official sponsor, for he was not then asking American voters to make him vice-president. Today, this document will have such a new interest for colored citizens that we reproduce it here in full exactly as it was issued in official form and promulgated by Mr. Roosevelt. COPY OFFICIAL MEMORANDUM FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY Ca. 9353-171 O-Si Sent Aug. 8, 1916. There are forwarded herewith, mimeograph copies of a letter from the Superintendent of the State, War and Navy Department Buildings, dated August 7. relative to the allotment of toilets in the State, War and Navy Department Buildings for the use of women, white men, and colored men. These copies are for the information Vol. 5, No. 16 and guidance of the bureaus and offices concerned. COPY OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT STATE, WAR AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS Washington, August 7, 1916. The Chief Clerk, Navy Department. Dear Sir:— Beginning Wednesday morning, August 9, 1916, the toilets in the State, War and Navy Department Building will be allotted for use as toilets as follows: FOR WOMEN: 1st Floor—1A; 2nd Floor—2B; 3rd Floor—3B; 4th Floor—4B. FOR WHITE MEN: Sub-basement—0A; Basement—B, C, D, E, F, G, H; 1st Floor—1B, 1C, 1D; 2nd Floor—2A, 2B, 2D, 2E, 2F, 2H; 3rd Floor—3A, 3C, 3D, 3F, 3G, 3H; 4th Floor—4A, 4C, 4D, 4E, 4G, 4H, 5th Floor—5G, 5H. FOR COLORED MEN: Sub-basement—0D, OH; Basement—A; 1st Floor—1E; 2nd Floor—2G; 3rd Floor, 3E; 4th Floor—4E. Please note that this assignment does not prevent the use before 9 A. M. by either white or colored messengers or laborers of the nearest men's toilet equipped with a slop sink for filling anl washing water bottles, slop jars, etc. It is requested that you have the necessary instructions issued to those connected with your department. The Watch force of the building has been directed to render every assistance in enforcing this order. These toilets have been reconstructed at considerable expense to the government and are now in excellent condition. The hearty cooperation and assistance of all is asked in an effort to maintain them in that condition Very respectfully. As we said above, perhaps Franklin D. Roosevelt did have a hand in writing the new constitution of Haiti, and perhaps he did not; but there is no doubt about the fact that four years ago he did promulgate an order regulating the use of toilets.—New York Age. Not since the organization of the county of King of Washington have the county commissioners done as effective team work in the interest of the taxpayers as they have for the past two years. When Claude C. Ramsay consented to be a candidate for commissioner he did so with the full determination of revolutionizing the workings of the board and he has succeeded in his determination beyond even his own sanguine expectations, but before attempting anything he had a heart to heart talk with Tom Dobson, who became a member of the board two years after Ramsay had been elected, and Dobson acquiesced in Ramsay's determination and then the two of them got their heads together and for the past two years have been running the affairs of iKng County on business principles and as a result the financial affairs were never before in such perfect condition. Of course the taxpayers and voters appreciate the efforts of both Ramsay and Dobson as members of the board and will show their appreciation by reelecting them in November that they may continue their good work. You, however, can not vote for either of them unless you are registered and if you have not registered then you should do so before October 14th. 99 THE PASSING THRONG However often the fire department may be called out and makes a run down the streets it just that often attracts the attention of every one, who hears it, and they all run to either the curb stone or to the windows, if some happen to be in buildings, to see the department go whizzing by, and, believe me, you will have to hurry to even see it whizz by. The other day as I was going up Second Avenue a fire alarm was turned in and I was near enough to see the major part of the city's fire fighting apparatus go down Second Avenue at the rate of fifty miles an hour, and I think I would have to stop and watch it go by if it went by every hour in the day. The clanging bells, the sighing sireens, the puffing pumps and the rumbling wheels so thrills and excites one that if I were standing in the middle of the street I would so far forget myself that I would almost get run over. Surely, surely do those flying fire-fighters make one think of demons having escaped from the infernal regions, but after all had gone by and humanity assumed a normal condition, I called to mind an incident in my childhood days. "Ant" Mary Warner went down to see the first railroad train pass through the section of the state where she had resided all of her natural life. Multiplied hundreds of other colored and also white persons had assembled for the self same purpose. Soon one mighty engine drawing a number of passenger cars came puffing and whistling in from the south and went on a side track; then pretty soon a similar train came from the north and the two engines stood puffing away. "Ant" May was a devout old Christian soul and she had professed religion with the old devil cutting like didoes as were these engines at her feet, and after eyeing them for a time she fell to her knees and began to pray for dear life. "Yas, hunny hits all the devil's work and the ol' devil is in bof uv dem things. Take me hom Bill, I's seed all I want uv um." It took the coming and going of many trains before "Ant" May was thoroughly convinced that they were useful instead of hellish articles. As those gigantic fire-fighters dash by I sometimes wonder if the very old Nick is not in them. * * * The following communication has been received from the Rev. D. A. Graham, commissioner of survey of the A. M. E. church, which speaks for itself: "I am sure your readers will be interested to know the result of the survey of the colored population just completed. In making this survey we visited every colored family in the city of Great Falls and have used every available means to get at the real facts. We found the colored population to be as follows: "Laborers, 34; porters, 10; janitors, 8; ranchers, 5; chefs, 4; barbers, 2; mechanics, 2; chauffeur, 2; trucking and teaming, 2; waiters, 2; R. R. Clerks, 2; maids, 2; clerks, 1; physician, 1; lawyer, 1; R. R. fireman, 1; tailor, 1; hairdresser, 1; ministers, 2; churches, 2; (these churches are divided, as to membership): Methodist, members, 37; Methodist, leaning, 34; Baptist, members, 13; Baptist, leaning, 7; Roman Catholic, 6; Episcopal, 2; Christian Scientist, 1; without church preference, 83; college graduates, 5; graduates of musical conservatories, 2. "We also find that colored people in Great Falls and immediate vicinity own $91,900, in taxable property and $12,900. in church property. "By this report you will see the importance of the survey which the A. M. E. church is making throughout the entire country. Think what this means for Seattle! The very facts which we have so long desired to know, are to be ascertained by one salaried by the church for this duty. Of course when I come to Seattle to survey, I will be assisted by several teams of workers, but I hope to make it as thorough as in Great Falls." Neval H. Thomas, instructor in history in the Dunbar High School, has sent an ap- peal to the colored people of Kansas and Washington state to return Senators Chas. Curtis and Welsley L. Jones to the United States Senate. He states that these senators have vigorously opposed all of the wicked discrimination of Woodrow Wilson and his half-tutored hirelings, such as "the ignorant autocrat of the postoffice department," "the head of the Department of Injustice," and the other petty politicians, such as Commissioner Brownlow whom he has placed over the District government. "Both Senators Jones and Curtis are opposed to the League of Nations," he says. "that war-breeding pact which is designed to enslave the darker races of men. It is the most miserable jumble of inconsistencies, international intrigue, greed and stupidity in the history of crooked diplomacy. For a few banquets and other social attentions entirely new to the Wilson family, our president turned a dozen somersaults, throwing away his 'fourteen points' of rhetoric, and signed the treaty of Versailles which pledges to England the blood and treasure of the American Negro to hold down four hundred millions of her dark-skinned subjects who are restless under their exploitation by the capitalists of the British Empire." "Mr. Wilson declared for 'no annexations and indemnities', yet as a plaything in the hands of Lloyd George he sanctioned the annexation of three and a half million square miles of the richest regions of the earth in Africa and Asia, with their fifty-one millions of colored people, to Great Britain. 'Open covenants openly arrived at' was another phrase of his rhetoric, yet he refused to open the covenants months after they had been arrived at. The Senate, under the constitution a vital part of the treaty-making power, was refused the Austrian treaty, and knew nothing of what was going on at Versailles until Mr. Wilson was ready to present the treaty with Germany to it and order it to shut its eyes and ratify." Continuing, Mr. Thomas takes up the crime against Haiti. While he was vociferously proclaiming that this war was to protect the weaker nations against the strong, he was waging a cruel war of conquest, plunder, and murder in helpless Haiti. He commissioned a North Carolina ignoramus, Josephus Daniels, with all of his prejudice, to draw up a constitution for the black republic. Our marines proceeded to shoot down three thousand natives, usurp the government, establish the court martial in time of peace, abolish the legislature, conscript labor, and establish the big financial interests of the United tates for plundering the natives. "What have we suffered at home. He has placed a common cracker over the post-office department and vested him with censorship over the sacred right of free speech. The most that this man Burleson knows about administration is the means of getting rid of efficient colored clerks who have given satisfactory service for years under postmaster generals who knew the duties of this high office. His attorney general, Mitchell Palmer, has used the department of Injustice to silence the manly Negro editors who dare to say that they don't like lynching. He wasted our money presenting to Congress a long wail against these editors because they wanted the constitution enforced, and spent a goodly portion of his time, for which we were paying him, in his beloved Georgia getting votes for his selfish presidential ambitions. "These two distinguished senators have consistently opposed the efforts of Senator Pat Harrison, who misrepresents Mississippi in the United States Senate, to destroy the colored schools of the nation's capital, and to give us the disgraceful jim crow car right here at the seat of government. They gave us the magnificent Dunbar High School and other buildings and grounds for colored children youth when Mr. Wilson's appointee, Commissioner Brownlow, tried to deny us our share of the school fund. They saved us our representation on the school board from which Pat Harrison tried to eliminate us, and secured for the Negro agricultural schools of the country a share of the twenty million dollar governmental grant to agricultural schools—a distinct triumph over the opposition of Hoke Smith of Georgia and the other Bourbons of the South." In concussion, Mr. Thomas states, "A vote against these friends of the race is a vote for Pat Harrison, the governor of Governor Cox. Pat Harrison will be to the Cox administration what the ignorant autocrat of the postoffice is to the Wilson regime. Do you want more of Mississippi and the Burleson peonage farms in this nation? Vote for Cox and you will get it." *** As I remember it Dr. Leroy N. Bundy told his story about the East St. Louis fatal tragedy along the following lines: Prior to 1916 there were about 10,000 colored folks residing in East St. Louis, and some of them got employment in and about the various industrial plants located there, but the great bulk of them did such odd jobs about the city as colored folks are wont to do in such cities, there being some 90,000 whites there. Some years prior however, large numbers of colored men were employed in the packing plants there and shared and shared alike in the best positions in the plants with the white employees, but the whites unionized the plant, admitting the colored workers into the various unions, and that accomplished, all of them—white and black—went on a general strike for higher wages and shorter hours. In the course of time however, the strike troubles were adjusted, but only the white employees returned to work, so the colored men felt that they had been jobbed, yet they took their medicine and bided their time. Then came the war rush work and colored men were invited to come and help to turn the work out. In less than twelve months the colored population increased 300 per cent and they numbered 30,000. Housing them became a serious problem, but many brought money with them and the industrious real estate agents got busy and began selling them houses and lots in blocks occupied exclusively by white tenants, and soon the entire block was for sale and would be gobbled up by the colored workers; then other blocks would be acquired by them, all of which was sewing the seeds of a mighty storm. White and black worked side by side in the industrial plants but the preference in many of the plants were given to the colored men, which was the sewing of more discord between the white and black laborers. Then the strike agitator once again became active. Unions were formed and were joined by both white and black laborers and once thoroughly unionized a strike for higher wages and shorter hours were advocated. The black brother at first thought well of it, but after being informed by the colored men of the treatment handed them in the settlement of the previous strike the latter day colored union men backed up and refused to walk out, even for more pay and shorter hours the latter a little bit out of the ordinary. The white employees however struck but were told by the plant operators they had walked out their last time and for months prior to the trouble they were absolutely idle. The plants were rapidly filling up with colored employees from the South and it was very evident that the strikers were in desperate straits. A great mass meeting in their desperation was called to devise ways and means for getting rid of the colored men already there and, if possible, prevent others from coming in. After three hours futile discussion pro and con it remained for a lawyer to strike the match that lighted the torch. He was called upon for suggestions and he nonchelantly remarked to them. "all that has been said is without significance, for the colored men have as much legal right to come, and go as the white men, but," he coolly said, "suppose a dozen or more of the niggers were killed and some of their homes burned, it would cause those already here to flee the wrath of the mob and intimidate others from coming." Paradoxical as it was, this self same lawyer had ac- SEATTLE'S FIRST HOME GETTERS. By P. FRAZIER. 316 Pacific Block SEATTLE'S FIRST HOME GETTERS. By P. FRAZIER. 316 Pacific Block TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO and the number of colored citizens who either owned the house that he or she lived in or other real estate were so few that those doing so could be counted upon the fingers of your two hands, yea verily, even perhaps on the fingers of one hand, and yet hundreds and thousands of dollars passed through the hands of the colored citizens in and about Seattle, and had they been properly directed would have laid a foundation, from which some of the heirs of those who made them, would now be realizing a magnificent income from, but I started out to talk about the colored home finally finished and it still stands and Angel's widow, not only owns it, but lives in it, all of which speaks much for the pluck of the people. Then came Walter Washington with the desire to own a home and way down in the swamps of Coon Hollow on East Madison street he purchased a lot and built him a shack or hovel on it and moved his family into it. "That shack saves me big rent money every month", said Walter, and he was quite correct. Mr. and Mrs. Washington still own the property and he grows sufficient fruit, berries and vegetables on it to be self sustaining. Had Mr. Washington been able to put his quired a fortune defending colored persons accused of crime, but now that he was in affluent circumstances he was the first to suggest the lynchers limb and the burning brand for the persons that had afforded him an opportunity to acquire a fortune. "Do not understand me to recommend mob violence, but I say the method I have related might have the desired effect in bringing about the results that you have been so earnestly looking for." Not lses than 5000 striking white men, now thoroughly desperate, left that hall fully determined to carry out the subtle suggestion of that lawyer and that night the bloody tragedy began, the general results of which has long since become public property. I was given the privilege by the mayor, but without police protection, to gather up the dead and wounded colored men from the streets that night, but after two days combatting the mob I was forced to flee the state and seek refuge in Ohio, from which state I was later on extradited and put on trial for murder in Illinois. My counsel demanded a change of venue and so my case was sent from East St. Louis to a county where it meant death to any colored person to let dark overtake him or her in the county. Then followed one of the worst judicial abortions in the annals of the history of the United States of North America. Even before a single juror had been selected I stood convicted, but the farce was pulled off and I was found guilty of first degree murder and sent to prison for my natural life and consigned to hard labor and one day in each month in solitary confinement. Thus far I have refrained from relating to you any of the horrors of that soul-sickening holacust, but let me recount to you a few of them that you may have some slight idea of the heathen brutality practiced on the colored citizens. Two small babies were seen on the street by the mob and men took them by their feet and smashed their brains out on the sidewalk. owners twenty-five years ago. There was little or no incentive for colored folks so long ago as that, to own homes hare, in fact it was cheaper to rent a home than it was to own one, and from an investment standpoint it was far from flattering. However discouraging may have been the home-owning idea, nevertheless a few far-seeing colored citizens did get hold of homes and for the most part either the original owners or their direct heirs have held on to them to the present time. As I have been informed by one who lived here at that time, and was quite in touch with the affairs in general among the colored citizens, Mr. and Mrs. William Grose were the pioneer home owners of Seattle. They not only owned their home twenty-five years ago, but almost thirty years ago. Be it further said to their everlasting credit, they erected for themselves a large and commodious house, by odds the best in the neighborhood in which they resided and that dwelling still stands and is a living monument to the thrift and industry of Bill Grose and his wife. It not only stands, but is still owned by the heirs of the Groses. As it comes to me the next to lay the foundation for a permanent home were Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Angel, who purchased four lots in a body in South Park and began the erection of a substantial house thereon, and though it moved up slowly, due largely to the fact that it was very difficult at that time to finance the erection of even a private residence, if it belonged to a colored person, and in that the conditions have not very greatly improved, but the house was A fourteen-year-old school girl was grabbed by three men who stood her on her head and while two men held her legs open a third man took a clever and split her in twain. Two white women saw a colored woman with two babies about to cross a suspension bridge and they walked up to her, whipped out a great knife and before the woman could move, plunged the blade through her juglar vein. She of course fell instantly, dead. Then they kicked the babies off of the suspension bridge and their brains were dashed out on the rocks below. To defend womanhood had ever been taught to me as the noblest purpose of man and self-defense has always been recognized as man's inherent right even if in doing so he took human life, and I defended the lives of my women folks and I defended my own life and, if I must suffer life imprisonment and even death for those acts, then, "Oh death, where is thy sting; oh grave, where is thy victory." Mr. B. F. Tutt, a delegate to the grand lodge of Elks, which was held in Kansas City, Mo., the latter part of August, has returned home and had the following to say about the entertainment of the lodge by the citizens of Kansas City: Kansas City, where the Grand Lodge of the I. B. P. O. Elks of W. met August 22 to 27, is an ideal convention city. The Elks' reception committee was in evidence at all times and from every angle of the game and when one was ushered into that mammoth waiting room of the great Union Depot, where more than thirty railroads enter, the committee was there extending to the delegations and friends a hearty welcome. It is impossible to give you a detailed description of the reception and treatment accorded the Elks during their brief stay in Kansas City, but they surely were royally entertained. The daily papers devoted much space to the occasion and featuring every movement of the body from the HOME GETTERS, By P. FRAZIER the number of colored citi- she lived in or other real be counted upon the fin- naps on the fingers of one dollars passed through the seattle, and had they been action, from which some of now be realizing a magnifi- t about the colored home finally finished and it st it, but lives in it, all of w Then came Walter and way down in the sw he purchased a lot and his family into it. "That said Walter, and he was own the property and he on it to be self sustaining [Name] P. FRAZIER P. FRAZIER arrival of the Grand Exalted Ruler, G. W. F. McMechem, to the departure of the same. The opening session of the Grand Lodge was addressed by the Mayor welcoming it to the city. It seems to have been the concensus of opinion that the grand parade was the most spectacular fraternal parade ever witnessed in that city, and no less imposing was the Grand Ball with 10,000 persons in attendance. The homes of the Kansas City citizens of which they can feel justly proud, were thrown open to the visiting Elks with their every convenience even including auto service. The convention was a success from every viewpoint. The best young blood and brain of the American Negro were in evidence and formed a conspicuous part in the Great Elk herd which was unselfish, unbiased, big-hearted, and filled with charity and good will toward all. Endeavoring to encourage higher ideads and to form stronger ties of Charity, Justice and Brotherly Love toward all mankind and to direct legislation to that end. The Grand Lodge gave to Bishop Brooks, recently elected by the A. M. E. Church to the African Mission, the sum of $300.00 to assist him in educational work there and to Attorney Bell of Leavenworth $200.00 toward helping to investigate the charge and conviction of the 41 U. S. soldiers now confined at Leavenworth prison, and they also gave $300.00 to other charities and smaller sums of money to deserving causes too numerous to mention at this time. As to my visit to Kansas City, Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis, I will say it is wonderful to note the progress that has been made within the last few years by the colored people. I found more home buying, more business and better working conditions, especially with the women and girls, and that too with a fairly good wage. Plenty of good wholesome amusements and excellent churches and Y. M. C. A. And so many things worth mention in the way of progress it is inspiring and worth any one's visit to that section. hands on some friendly financial firm to have advanced him sufficient money to have built him a substantial residence and given him an opportunity to have paid the sum back in small payments, as can be done now, he probably would have built then and there, but he did well under the circumstances them and is to be commended. Way out in the woods, where is now beautiful Capitol Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Roy erected a very comfortable dwelling and there resided for many years. By sticking close to their knitting they were able to pay for their property in a comparatively short time. In more recent years they sold that property and bought a piece of acreage at Bryn Mawr, where they now reside. May perhaps there were still one or two others, who owned and lived in their own homes twenty-ve years ago, but my informant or historian does not call them to mind. As said in the outset hereof, it was a difficult matter for a colored man to buy a lot and build a house on it unless he had the money in his jeans, because the man with the money did not look with favor upon such investments, but had those pioneers been able to have combined even the limited moneys they then had they would have been able to not only have built themselves homes but would have been in a position to have helped others build good homes. In union there is always strength. More home-building talk in the next issue hereof can be expected from me. PURELY PERSONAL Mr. B. F. Tutt has returned from his visit to the Middle West. Mr. Clyde Coleman has gone to Chicago to attendt the Northwestern University. He is studying dentistry. Mr. Adam Coleman left for Alaska last Monday and will be away for three weeks. Get a steam heated apartment at the Laurel, 303 22nd Avenue South. Mr. J. Ross will leave next week for Georgia to visit with his father and other relatives and after being with them for some time will visit for a time with a niece in Massachusetts. Though he has done well in Seattle in a financial way, yet he is not planning to live in the city again. A complimentary dinner party was tendered to Mr. and Mrs. John Love of Memphis, Tennessee, last Saturday evening by Mr. and Mrs. Adam Coleman at their residence, 216 Twenty-second Avenue, and to make more complete the already pleasant occasion some forty guests joined with Mr. and Mrs. Coleman later in the evening for the entertainment of the guests of honor. Mr. Clyde Coleman, a son of the host and hostess, also featured in the entertainment, for the visitors, in view of the fact that he would depart the following Wednesday for the Northwestern University at Chicago, took advantage of the opportunity to bade him good bye. The evening was spent in music and games after which light refreshments were served. Mrs. Coleman was assisted by Mrs. O. H. Winston, Mrs. H. H. Cottrel, Mrs. Saul Hall, Mrs. William Chandler, Miss Madge R. Cayton, Miss Ida Brown, Miss Mabel Byrd, and Miss Thelma Porter. Mr. Charles R. Watts assisted Mr. Coleman in making it pleasant for the gentlemen. A delightful evening was unanimously voted by those present. The Mississippi division of the American Legion, in its annual session at Jackson, Mississippi, recently adopted a resolution for justice that has startled the natives. Many old timers are rubbing their eyes to see if they have "seen thru a glass darkly." And the younger generation, particularly the soldier boys who saw service in France, are pointing to the expression with pride, saying: "This is the new voice of the South The LAUREL APARTMENTS is being renovated, redecorated and otherwise made ready for WINTER TENANCY and you and each of you are invited to call and inspect the various apartments and if you are in need of such accommodations for the coming winter you are solicited to become a patron of the house. The Laurel Apartments is one block from Jackson Street and one block from Yesler Way on Twenty-second Avenue South, 303. Every apartment in THE LAUREL is an outside one and without a single dark room in the building. It is steam heated and sufficiently furnished for immediate occupancy. In fact you can be in living possession of one of the apartments within a few hours after having rented the same. The halls, lavatories and heating apparatus are all well cared for by competent persons. Come and see for yourself. LAUREL APARTMETS Telephone Beacon 1910 at .... 303 22nd Ave. South speaking in denunciation of the old regime." The resolution reads: "We regard the so-called Negro problem in Mississippi, and the South generally, as an actual condition and not a mere theory for discussion, agitation and settlement by demagogues and politicians; that we realize the Negro is with us, a part of us, and is here to stay; that he is an important and indispensable factor in our industrial life, and as such is entitled to a square deal, and should be treated with common honesty in all his relations with the white race; that we urge all local posts in this jurisdiction to give this subject close attention and put forth their best efforts for the promotion of harmony between the races, in order that our common welfare may be served." Commenting on the resolution editorially, the New Orleans, La., Item, one of the leading daily newspapers, says: "Mississippi is one of the Southern states which has suffered most acutely from crimes of violence against colored people, at the hands of lawless and ignorant mobs, not only in reputation among their sister states, due economically in loss of population and labor. The law-abiding and justice loving citizens who are in a tremendous majority in every state, North and South, will rejoice to see the flower of their manhood taking a firm stand for justice and right. "If there is such a thing as a superior race, its members must prove it by setting an example of law observance, toleration, comprehension, justice, kindness, and common honesty. Hatred, prejudice, violence and dishonesty are marks of inferiority. We hope the good people of Mississippi will support its Legionaires in the stand they have taken, and that other Southern states will observe and profit by the example." Cayton's Weekly READABLE RELIABLE REPUBLICAN Will Help You If You Will Help It TWO STUPENDOUS MASS MEETINGS At Washington Hall, 14th and Fir Dates: Oct. 6th and 7th, Evenings UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVE- MENT ASSOCIATION —and BLACK STAR LINE Speakers: HONORABLE J. H. EASON American Leader-Elect HONORABLE VERNAL WILLIAMS New York Fail not, to hear two stalwart, fearless champions of all American Negroes' constitutional rights, also of 400,000,000 Negroes the World over. Auspices: Seattle Division U. N. I. A. and A. C. L. JAMES A HASSELL, President. M. VERNON, Secretary MRS. W. L. PRESTO. Register and Vote In order to enjoy life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, the Republican Party must be restored to power, with a Republican President, Senate and House of Representatives. The entire Republican State and County ticket must be elected. This can only be accomplished by registering and voting solidly the Republican ticket. Vote the straight Republican ticket. King County Colored Republican Club IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. National Grocery Company, a corporation, Plaintiff, vs. Richard Koska and William Koska, co-partners, doing business as R. Koska & Son, Defendants.—No. 144529. Summons for Publication. The State of Washington: to the said Richard Koska and William Koska, co-partners doing business as R. Koska & Son: 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 4th day of September, 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 attorneys for plaintiff at their offices 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 determine and adjudge the amount due upon a claim of the plaintiff against the defendedants, founded upon the sale and delivery of goods, wares and merchandise from the said plaintiff to said defendants, which claim is in the sum of $274.55, together with interest thereon at six per cent per annum from May 26, 1920; and to secure a judgment therefor, together with the costs of this action, against the defendants and each of them, Richard Koska and William Koska, co-partners doing business as R. Koska and Son. BRONSON, ROBINSON & JONES. Attorneys for Plaintiff 614 Colman Building, Seattle King County, Washington. Date of first publication: Sept. 4-Oct. 12, 1920. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF Washington for King County. Mildred Lorene Wooden, Plaintiff, vs. William Bradford Wooden, Defendant.—No. 145455. Summons. The State of Washington to the said William Bradford Wooden, Defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear, within sixty days after the first publication of this summons, to-wit: within sixty days after the 4th day of September, 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 attorneys for plaintiff, at their offices 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 this action is to obtain judgment granting plaintiff a divorce from defendant, and dissolving the bonds of matrimony existing between plaintiff and efendant, and to award and confirm to plaintiff the title and possession of her separate property. BRONSON, ROBINSON & JONES, Attorneys for Plaintiff. 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