Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-07-20

few public functions are pulled off without
the press being let in on the ground floor
The press is willing to devote it's space
to the efforts OF others for the upift. but
1T wants to know that its work is fully
appreciated. Not long since young lady
asked that the program of church enter
tainment be published gratis, which was
done, and she complained because the pub
Usher did not pay his way to see the show.
Bookkeeping seems to be one of the most
fascinating games that many of the colored
pOrters, who run into Seattle on the vari-
GUS railway trains, have ever played. TO
one up a tree the game Of ''Little .Joe''
and 'Seben Come Leben'' pales into in
finltlsmal insignificance in comparison to
selling a bottle of booze Almost every
week colored porter is arrested with
booze in his possession, on which he had
hoped to make big wad of money, and
still there are others who make their boast
OF getting by with the goods every ten
days and have done so since the state
went bone dry. In other words these men
will run chance of being arrested and
having to pay heavy fines and sooner or
later serve jail sentences and worst of all
lose their jobs on the road for the sake
Of making few hundred dollars dis
honestly. He or she who bootlegs is as
much a criminal he or she who robs
house and the next legislature of the state
should put the bOotlegger in the same class
OF criminals as the pclxpocket. Laws are
made to obey and no mercy should be
shown to the person who breaks any law
The Government should fire any railroad
employee found guilty of Bookkeeping and
not only fire him, but put him on the
black list that he could never again get
employment in the railroad service
is so few colored folks at the
leading markets" commented a well known
colored man, which lead the editor hereof
to scrutinize the Saturday marketers more
closely, with that view in mind And for
the past few Saturdays favorable loca-
ton was selected that the passing throng
might be Observed and it is almost safe to
say that out of every thousand or more
white persons who passed to and from the
market but one colored person passed.
After watching for some minutes the pull
ing, pushing, surging crowd at the market
colored man passed and to the chagrn
Of the observing colored man, but to the
amusement of the whites thereabout, he
had three chickens under his arms the
feet OF all OF them sticking out, which
seemed to give him no concern But what
this article set out to lay before the col
ored families of this city was, it's mistake
to depend on the telephone to buy your
table edlbles, when you can 90 to the pub
lie markets, especially the Pike Place Mar
ket, and discount your grocer fully fifty
per cent. Of course everybody can not
or will not 90 to the Market but it would
be to the financial benefit of every col
ored family if some one of the family would
90 to the market for edbles at least three
times per week. If multiplied thousands
of white persons find it to their financial
benefit to go to the markets instead Of to
the grocery stores for their food then it
is doubly advantageous to the few thous
and coored persons in the city to do so.
Not many more exciting games Of base
ball were ever played in Seattle than the
one last Sunday afternoon between the
keystone Braves, all colOred,, and the Asahi,