Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-06-15
TOWN TOPICS


chatted with old friends and among the
many things of interest he talked of, he
gave it out that the colored citizens of his
berg were making preparations to give Alex
Pantages short touch of high court life for
his persistent color discrimination in his thea
tres in Tacoma. All of which reminds the
writer that one Alex Pantages does the
self same thing in Seattle and it would be
Il long step in the right direction if the
Seattle Branch of the National Association
for the Advancement of Coored People
would lend the Tacoma colored citizens
helping hand in giving this Mr. Alex
court trial to see if he has the legal right
to discriminate against American citizens as
he is daily doing wherever he has show
house.
Tacoma is to be the recipient of the con-
cert talent of the Scott Harris family of
Everett next Monday evening and take it
from Cayton's Weekly rare treat is in
store for those citizens of Tacoma who at
tend the Scott Harris concert. Last win
ter that family gave a similar concert in
Seattle that it is going to give in Tacoma
next Monday evening and it was by odds
one of the most up-to-date family concerts
that it has been our good fortune to ever
listen to. Each number was gem and of
itself quite worth the price. Mr. Harris
who is blind, has learned the speech of
Booker II. Washington, delivered at the At
lanta exposition, and perfect has he COM
mitted it that it sounds original. All Of
the members of the family do something
most charmingly and the concert is magnif-
cent from the opening to the closing num-
ber If some one of the churches of Seattle
would just grab them while on their way
back to Everett next Tuesday, Seattle too
would get an appreciative treat.
The "lusus naturae''-freaks of nature
are various and varied to the man or
woman that makes study of the world and
its fullness and it's just as pronounced
among the human family as it is among the
hills and valleys Since and before the
coming of Christ the Jews, as people,
have been derided and even kicked and
cuffed by the balance Of the world, and yet
one OF them no sooner gets an opportunity,
when he forgets the centuries of abuse his
race has been forced to undergo and does
the same thing to another that has been
done to him. Alex Pantages is said to be
Jew and as such no more acceptable to the
Anglo-Saxon than the Negro, and yet Of
all the theatre people of the Puget Sound
country, he has made it the hardest for the
much abused black man. Is it not an odd
outbreak of human cussedness?
1t is utterly impossible for colored men
to ever become versed in commercial bust
ness unless they make a study Of not only
business Methods but of their expected
patrons In Seattle there is an organiza-
ton known the Negro Business Men s
League, which has for it's object the pro-
noting of business enterprises among color
ed folks and to likewise foster closer bust
ness relations among the rank and file Of
the colored citizens. This organization held
a get together meeting at the A. M. E.
Church last Sunday evening and, strange to
say, there were not to exceed six persons
at the meeting whose business was read out
by one of the speakers. In other words,
while the people were endeavoring to furth
er their business interest at that public
gathering they were not sufficiently inter-
eSted to even be present.