Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1917-09-29

the whites was the thread that ran through
out his entire address. Evidently the pub
Tic is finding out that he is full of meat for
thought and 1t is seeing to it that the
grass does not grow under his feet. as he
spoke IN Spokane last Saturday, was back
TO Seattle Sunday evening in time to fill
his place on the program and found himself
on his return from Spokane on the program
OF the Business Men meeting last Tuesday
evening under the auspices Of the Brother
hood of the Mt. Zion Baptist church.
Ninety DRINKS in Seattle last Sunday.
and that, too, in "bone dry'' state and
community, is almost astounding, and vet
that is million per cent Improvement over
what the general state of affairs were under
the open saloon regime. That there is boot
Logging going on in Seattle almost on the
wholesale no one with common sense will
deny, but that the bootlegging is nothing in
comparison to the all-night brawls that the
town saw when men and women could stag
ger from one drink resort to another and
go home in the wee small hours of the
morning so heavily loaded that it generally
took two well proportional horses to pull
them there, must also be admitted Let the
booze vendor make much of the ninety
DRINKS in Seattle last Sunday, but at that
the sentiment Of the state is three to one
IN favor OF keeping booze from being sold
IN open saloons and it will not be again
soon, if ever
James Clayton is now employed in the
chemical department Of the Stewart e.
Holmes Drug Co., and plans to stick to the
JOB until he has mastered it, which, it is
truly hoped, he will do, not so much for his
individual self, but for the opening it will
make for other colored boys Every time
the son of some one of us get lob like the
one now being held by young Clayton and
make good, it broadens the field for others
to lind like employment and even different
employment, and all because the young
man with Stewart & Holmes made good.
First class chemists are always in demand
and if young Clayton becomes proficient in
this line Of work by the time he is twenty
one years of age he will be able to com
mand princely salary He starts out with
ten dollars per week and promise of a
raise II ne gives any evidence of growing
in his work. Let the young colored men
get ready to meet any emergency that may
arise and the door of hope will not stay
closed against all Of them
Lieutenant Roston is to the front with
new fields of labor for such colored men as
want to work. Recently he has been given
an opportunity to place colored men in the
Campbell saw mills at Ballard and there
are already a dozen or more at work there,
and they earn from $3.50 to $3.50 per
day. The Stimson mills at Ballard have
likewise opened it's doors to colored labor
ers and not being able to get native colored
men in sufficient quantities, as many were
taken as could be had and some eighty odd
Filipinos have been employed. In COMPARE
son to the wages colored men have been
getting in this section Of the country in the
past the wages these men are getting at
these mills are almost fabulous. Just sup
pose those colored men in the South could
get such wages they would be the happiest
souls in the world Last week this paper
took occasion to speak about the colored
men employed at the Pacific Coast Steel