Cayton's Weekly

--- PRICE FIVE CENTS CAYTON'S WEEKLY Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington, U. S. A. Subscription $2 per year in advance. HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON..Editor and Publisher Entred as second class matter, August 18, 1916, at the post office at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of March 3rd, 1916. TELEPHONE: BEACON 3579 Office 317 22nd Ave. South A WHITE MAN'S COUNTRY NOT WORTH THE CANDLE The gunning season in the Eastern and Middle States opened this year in characteristic fashion. The earliest items of news respecting it reported several fatalities from the "accidental" discharge of guns, and the summary ending of the season by proclamation of the Governor of Massachusetts on account of the number of forest fires that had already occurred. These episodes were only a few among many circumstances which raise serious questions as to the economy, the propriety and the practical common sense of maintaining the present game-law system in the densely populated parts of the country. Every year sees deplorable loss of life, or serious bodily injuries to many persons, from what are euphemistically termed "accidents" in the hunting field: In nine cases out of ten these "accidents" are the result of ignorance or carelessness so gross as to indicate unfitness to be entrusted with firearms. The average so-called sportsman in the metropolitan district and elsewhere through these crowded industrial and residential regions is a novice in the use of guns. He engages in the sport for only a few days in a year; not long enough to become familiar with his gun or rifle, or to gain the proficiency and confidence which are the best assurance against "accidents." It is a dangerous thing to permit any man who wants one to get a permit to take a shotgun or rifle and go out indiscriminately blazing away in a densely populated community. As for the forest fires, it has long been notorious—it has been officially reported in some states—that the great majority of them are started by hunters, in one of three ways. Some are caused by bits of burning gun-wadding falling among dry leaves. Some are caused by gunners carelessly throwing down lighted matches from their pipes or cigars or failing to take proper precautions with their camp-fires. Some are deliberately started by gunners, to drive game from coverts into the open. From fires thus started, the country incurs every year the destruction of many millions of dollars' worth of property. There are, of course, parts of the country, even extensive areas in some of the Eastern states, where population is scarce, agricultural improvements are few, and game animals and birds are abundant. Such areas might properly be designated as game preserves, and be under the control of judicious laws for the conservation of game. But the maintenance of game for gunners in densely populated and highly cultivated suburban and semi-suburban districts is a foolish anachronism.—Exchange. Seattle business men and members of the police and fire departments have volunteered their services in selling bricks for the Ryther Child Home, 4418 Stone Way. The second annual campaign is being conducted this year to raise funds to complete the building and erect an isolation hospital ward and a nursery for the wee tots. Cheeks or cash contributions should be left at room 354 Empire building. Brick tickets may be had of any policeman or in any of the down-town stores. It's a one hundred per cent charity campaign, all of the money going to the Ryther Home fund. Did Greek meet Greek when Washington's colored football player met Dartmouth's colored star on the gridiron last Saturday? But be that as it will or may one thing is certain, the Washington team was quite Prim in its makeup. However had Hamilton instead of John been selected to play, then our team would have been as Green as it played. So thoroughly disgusted did the citizens of this country become with the name of Wilson that we suspect it will be next to impossible for even an ardent Republican under the Harding administration bearing the name of Wilson to get anywhere. The Dutchman would say of Wilson this country has plenty, more as plenty, more as it would want of the name of Wilson, and the sooner it forgets it the sooner will the country be at peace. Vol. 5 ,No. 23 EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS Since the Democratic party is without any tangible assets to meet its campaign obligations a court receiver would seem right and proper. A bludgeon and a gun might have raised the Seattle Press Club more money than did its late ball and there would have been less humiliation to those sent out to get the money. Hulet M. Wells may be proud of the fact that he has been incarcerated in a federal prison and may argue that it makes a hero of himself, but we have a sneaking idea that he would not be willing to undergo a like ordeal for a double portion of heroism. It is not a fact that the Dartmouth team used the University of Washington team for a football, but it did use it to amuse the great concourse of citizens who witnessed the one-sided affair. Its now up to President Oozaooola to give the University either a football team or a resignation. Democrats started the story that Senator Harding is a mulatto, now if they believe themselves and if they be true to their traditions, refusing to acknowledge the rights of a mulatto in an official capacity, then all of the Democratic members of Congress from the south will resign and wash their hands clean of the whole "dirty mess." Some damphool down in Oregon wants the next legislature of that state to pass a law separating the white and colored children in the schools of that state. If such a proposition is not a sufficient excuse for the universal fool killer to pay a visit to the state of Oregon and performing his duty good and true then we have the wrong conception of what his duty is. The World and his family are watching and waiting to witness the advent of Warren G. Harding into the presidential chair because most of us believe he will relieve the present financial stringency as did the immortal McKinley when he assumed the presidency, following the Coxy days, brought on by the Grover Cleveland administration. It is the duty of the editor hereof to register his protest against the miserable telephone service that is being furnished the citizens of this city, yea not only register a protest but to roast the rotten system to an English brown, but the system is altogether too rotten to be roasted. Its a long lane without a turn and some day the telephone system will get more than is rightfully coming to it. If the Seattle Daily Star can put George B. Lamping over the top today it will be the beginning of a political machine through which the Star and its coterie of political buckaneers hope to control the politics of this city, county and even state, but we hope it will have no more success boosting Lamping than it did Inglis. Lamping has developed into a dangerous agitator that is office and political power mad. That seventeen-year-old lad, who left the wildest and most daring train robbing feats of the Jesse James gang at the hitching post, landed in jail just as did the small fry highwaymen. In other words, who takes what does not belong to him will sooner or later be given time in durance vile to think it over. The "Kid" grabbed a mighty handful but has none of it now, but has a life-time prison term coming to him. Honesty is the best policy. --- ```markdown ``` ABOUT COLORED CITIZENS Legislature has appropriated $347,000 for both higher and secondary education in the State of Louisiana. Eighty thousand dollars of this sum will be used in building a school for the blind, and $200,000 in erecting needed buildings. Twenty colored men are training in Atlantic City, N. J., to become firemen. As soon as they have completed their work they will be stationed at one of the branches of the fire department. This is the first time in the history of the city that men of the race have been appointed firemen. The first woman to be made inspector of housing and sanitation in the Bureau of Health is Miss Mayme Turner, who has been appointed in Philadelphia, Pa. The recent Kentucky Legislature appropriated $47,000 for the running expenses of the State normal school in addition to provide it with new dormitories. The revised list compiled by the War Department shows that of the 173,911 cases of desertion in the World War, less than two per cent were colored. The Rosenwald fund has appropriated $7,900 to be used in building ten schools in Oklahoma. Money will be given as follows: $500 to each of the one teacher schools, $800 to the two teacher schools, $1000 to the three teacher schools, providing the school is finished within eight months and the community raises at least as much money as the fund offers. The fifth annual conference of the National Urban League was held in Newark, N. J., the last week in October. Among the discussions were "Racial Co-operation," "How Life Insurance Companies Aid in Reducing Mortality." The African Educational Commission, a body of American, British and African educational specitlists, arrived in Liberia recently. They will spend a year in the study of education conditions in Western and Central Africa. The itinerary will include Liberia, the Gold Coast, Nigeria, Kamerun, Angola, the Belgian Congo and South Africa. The commission was formed through the cooperation of the Foreign Missionary Societies of America and Great Britain and the trustees of the Phelps-Stokes Fund. There were six hundred delegates present at the twenty-sixth annual session of the Farmer's Improvement Association held in Waco, Texas, the last week in October. An exhibit of the best produce of the year was one of the features of the session. They are working to secure better pay and better rural schools in their state. The Negro Organization Society was recently formed for the purpose of fighting tuberculosis among members of the race in the State of Virginia. It is estimated that there are about 2,000 cases of tuberculosis in Virginia and that most of them could be cured if given the proper attention. They plan to teach mothers how to prevent disease and how to care for those who have contracted it. The Filipinos evidently believe that a sober man casts the sanest vote for the Philippine Senate has adopted an amendment to the election law which prohibits the sale and distribution of any kind of intoxicating liquor for a period of five weeks preceding the general elections which are held every three years. Ground was broken early in November in Atlanta, Ga., for the Holmes institute, which is to be an industrial home for children. The building will cost $50,000. School teachers in the State of Kentucky will receive the same minimum wage as the white teachers in the future. The same examinations will be required of teachers of both races and the school term will be the same length. The French have erected a monument near Monthhois in honor of the soldiers who were killed in the recent war. Money for the shaft was left by members of the 272nd United States Infantry when they left for home. Religious and military services were held in the Monthois church, the French civil and military authorities officiating at the unveiling. Farmers in Alabama have organized a branch of the American Cotton Association. They have a membership of more than 200. The County Hospital in Macon, Ga., is to have colored nurses to care for the patients who are sent there for treatment. What is believed to be the record weekly earnings for a common laborer has been established in Carbondale, Ill. Charles Gant, who earned $148.00 in six days carrying ties. He was paid so much for each tie he carried. Women in Atlanta, Ga., have organized a Business League, as an auxiliary to the Atlanta Urban League. The purpose of the organization is the development of the business efficiency of the members, a closer relationship among themselves and the promotion of health and wholesome recreation. A large chorus appeared in concert in Denver, Colo., recently under the direction of Mme. E. Azalia Hackley. The chorus rendered selections from Dett, Dunbar, Burleigh and Rosamond Johnson, as well as a number of spirituals. One of the features of the program was a little journey to folklore land—a pagent in costume. Dr. W. S. Scarborough has been elected a member of the American Japan Society. This society has a membership of twelve hundred Americans and Japanese and has as its object the promotion of closer and more friendly relations between America and Japan. The sum of $10,000.00 has been set aside by the authorities in Newport News, Va., for the improvement of the sections of the city in which colored citizens live. It will take about six months to complete the work. Hon. Hector A. Joseph, the colored Attorney General of Jamaica, has been appointed to act as Attonrey General of British Guina for two years, and it is believed that at the expiration of that period the appointment will be made a permanent one. Kansas City has a free clinic course open to physicians and internes. The course specializes in city health and includes pathology and bacteriology. Lectures are given daily by both colored and white physicians, and the course is open to out-of-town as well as local physicians. In the late primary campaign the campaign committee of the King County Colored Republican Club sent out questionnaires to the various candidates seeking nomination as to what would be their public demeanor toward the colored citizens in the shape of getting a square deal in case such candidate were successful, and among the very few who did not answer the most vital question of the questionnaire was George B. Lamping, who was at that time candidate for governor, but is now a candidate for port commissioner. One day last week Mr. Lamping over the telephone made an engagement with Dr. F. B. Cooper and Attorney Clarence R. Anderson, a committee sent out by the King County Colored Republican Club to interview him, but he wilfully broke his own engagement and has not as yet offered them any excuse or apology for not being at his office at the appointed time. No colorde person can vote for George B. Lamping and be true to himself. Cayton's Weekly READABLE RELIABLE REPUBLICAN Will Help You If You Will Help It COLORED AMERICA'S KINSMAN There is a close connection between the history of the Negro in America and that in Africa. This connection or relationship is along the lines of racial ties and similar conditions under which the race in Africa and in America now lives. By this I mean that the race problem in Africa and in America is very similar. There is also a psychological relationship between the Negro in America and in Africa. For the most part the Negroes in America know but little of the history of the race in Africa. They generally accept as true the statements that their ancestors in Africa were naked, jungle living, cannibal eaters without any trace of culture or civilization. The part which Negroes have played in the history of the world in contributing to the beginnings of civilization are not generally known. This is especially true of the part which the Ethiopian Empire played in the ancient world. Negro Africa is commercially connected with Europe and Asia. This connection is by way of three routes: the valley of the Nile, by way of Abyssinia across the Red Sea to the Arabian peninsula, and by Caravan route across the Sahara Desert. It is very probable that this commercial connection has had an important influence on the development of civilization. Researchers appear to indicate that the basic population of Egypt, which has a noticeable Negroid admixture, is racially about the same as it was in the days when the Pyramids were erected. There are facts which would appear to indicate that one of the centers of the beginnings of civilization may have been in the upper reaches of the Nile, that is in Ethiopia, and had a Negroid basis. In this connection it is well to point out that it is very probable that out of Negro Africa came one of the most important contributions to civilization, namely: the art of smelting iron. The basis of the claim that the art of smelting iron may have originated in Negro Africa, is that apparently no iron was smelted in Europe before 900 B. C. and that before 3,000 B. C. there began to appear on Egyptian monuments, pictures of Africans bringing iron from the South to Egypt. It further appears that it was considerable time later than this when iron implements began to appear in Asia. There is no iron ore in Egypt. In Negro Africa on the other hand, iron ore is abundant and is of a quality which is very easily smelted. A very striking argument was made sometime ago by Sir Harry H. Johnston to the effect that there were facts which would seem to indicate that the Negro may have originated in Western Europe and thence spread southward into Africa and across Western and Southern Asia into Australia. Regardless to whether there is any truth in Johnston's view, the fact remains that the archaeological researches which have been made in the valley of the Nile, indicate a very close connection between ancient and modern Egypt and between Egypt and Negro Africa. Should we make a serious study of our past history? From a racial standpoint, it is very important that we should. We should know as much as possible of our past history. From this knowledge we would draw inspiration. It would influence us to endeavor to make contributions to civilization and to world progress. If the true history of the Negro's achievement in ancient times were fully known and set forth, black would once more be dignified; the faece of Ethiopia would again be spread throughout the world.—Monroe N. Work. The reception last Saturday evening given in honor of Shelbourn, the Dartmouth star was largely attended and was a very brilliant affair. Mr. Gardner, who came to Seattle on account of the misfortune of his son, took the remains East last Wednesday. He was greatly assisted in his work here by the Rev. W. D. Carter. Lippy or Lamping? Which? [Name] --- Sunday's call meeting of the King County Colored Republican Club for the purpose of listening to the report of a committee, wheih had been directed by the Club to interview the candidates seeking the election of port commissioner to be voted for today, was well attended and after listening to the report with but one dissenting vote, the Club endorsed the candidacy of Thomas S. Lippy for port commissioner. Mr. Lippy's past record showed nothing but fair treatment toward the colored citizens with whom he had been thrown in contact for the past thirty years in and about Seattle, while that of Lamping's, his opponent, showed the exact opposite. Mr. Lippy graciously received the committee and frankly and forcefully discussed his attitude toward the colored citizens and expressstd a desire to meet the entire Club and fully explain his attitude toward the colored citizens in general. On the other hand, Mr. Lamping refused to even receive the committee, or he made an engagement with it, but did not keep it and as yet has offered no excuse for not having done so. It has been said that the colored men working at the port commission docks have been discriminated against in such a way that they got all of the heavy work and for which they got the least remuneration. Without either affirming or denying the charges, yea, for the sake of argument, admitting the charge, then that particular branch of the duties of the port commission was assigned to Dr. W. P. Christianson, and in the present contest he is supporting the candidacy of George B. Lamping, and the presumption is, if Lamping is elected he and Dr. Christianson will see to it that not a colored man is given employment at the port commission. Even if Mr. Lippy used the language that the Daily Star has said he did, at that he should be a hundred percent more preferable to the colored citizens of Seattle than is George B. Lamping, who boasted of "having shot little niggers out of the cocoanut trees,' when he was a soldier in the Philippine Islands, and who publicly said he would never give a colored person employment in an office where white persons were employed—the despicable Vardeman of Mississippi himself should be more preferable to the colored citizens than George B. Lamping. But in a campaign did any one ever read anything but lies in the Daily Star. Do you remember how it lied about Senator Wesley "Lorimer-Lusitania" Jones—"truth itself can't be believed from one who often has deceived." But hear the conclusion of the whole matter, those of us who have had personal interviews with Tom Lippy are thoroughly convinced that the Seattle Daily Star has lied about him just as it did about Senator Wesley L. Jones and those of us who have had interviews with Mr. Lippy are thoroughly convinced that Tom Lippy will in the future try to remedy any abuses that may have been saddled upon the colored citizens in the way of getting employment at the port of Seattle. Lamping belongs to that particular class of the white citizens of this country who preach "this is a white man's country" and want none other but white folks to get a square deal; while Lippy preaches, I know this is a white man's country, but even white men should be broad gaged enough to give dark men a square deal. The Japanese in this country should be given just as square a deael as the Englishman. The election of George B. Lamping means the inauguration of a political machine not only in the port commission, but in state affairs. Ed Palmer is tearing his shirt to have Lamping elected because it means the state senate for him. Tom Murphine is Lamping's present campaign manager and he wants him elected because it means the attorneyship of the port commission for him. Christianson wants Lamping elected because it means the presidency of the commission for him and there are others. On the other hand, the election of T. S. Lippy will be without political significance. He has no political frame-up planned to carry out in case he is re-elected he simply wants to do the best things for Seattle and her business interest. No political axes to grind and no personal friends to provide for. There is method in the Star's madness to put Lamping over for in doing so it will lay another foundation for it to build up a political machine in this city. Once upon a time the Star was all powerful in Seattle politics, but got lost in the shuffle. Now if it can land Lamping it will regain some of its former political prestige. It doubtless has other selfish and sinister motives for doing so, but let it go at that.. LIPPY Is a candidate to succeed himself as port commissioner of the Port of Seattle, and Cayton's Weekly is unequivocally for his re-election because, first of all, he has already made good in that position, and secondly, because it is always best to let well enough alone. Had the editor hereof never known more of Mr. Lippy than his work on the commission even then we would be unqualifiedly for his re-election, but we have known Tom Lippy since 1892 and have met him in various walks of life and in every instance we have found him to be absolutely on the square. Ere he had found a fortune in the far North his time and talent were given and given freely for the uplift of his fellowman and that too without regard to race, color, creed or class and since his return from the far North he has given of his money for the betterment of his fellowman just as liberally as he did of his time and talent before he got the money, and in doing that he has been no respector of creed, color or condition. Summing it all up it can be said without fear of successful contradiction that Thomas S. Lippy is a Christian gentleman in the fullest and the most liberal interpretation of the phrase. In addition to all this he is a hundred per cent American and absolutely stands for America for Americans. ```markdown ``` The Laun 303 T Twenty-five two steam heated and n No. 11 or Yesler Apartment The Lau The Laurel Apartments 303 Twenty-Second South Twenty-five two and three room apartments, steam heated and nicely furnished. Take No.9, No.11 or Yesler Way cars to Twenty-Second Apartments ready to occupy 303 Twenty-Second South --- STOLEN FROM THIEVES Old lady (to waiter who has just brought her an extra glass of water and an extra large order of bread)：“Thanks. I see that according to the proprietor's orders tips are forbidden.” Waiter: "That's nothing. So were apples in the Garden of Eden." Mrs. Lee: "I hear your boy is running a car now. And I hear he's never taken the car out without the owner's permission. That's a fine record for a young lad like that." Mrs. Cook: "Sure. He runs an elevator up and down in the Jones Building and there ain't a chance of him taking that out." Mr. Peck: "Minerva, do you think votes for women will be a complete success?" Mrs. Peck: "Of course it will be. There's no doubt about that." Mr. Peck: "Maybe so, but it looks as if the women voters are going to let some men get in office same as before." Ted: "What's the matter, Ned?" Ned: "Feeling rotten. Feel like I was going to have the flu." Ted: "Be careful. That's an awful thing to have. Sometimes it affects your mind and leaves people insane." Ned: "Really? How do you know?" Ted: "I've had it." Calloway: "What does Mitchell do?" Galloway: "He's in the holesale business." Calloway: "What does he sell?" Galloway: "Doughnuts." White: "Black is rich. He started 25 years ago with almost nothing. Now he's worth $100,000." Brown: "How did he do it?" White: "He opened a restaurant and through industry, economy, giving full value, perserverance, self-sacrifice and the death of an uncle who left him $99,999.99 he has gained his fortune." 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