Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-11-29
THE PASSING THRONG.

scrbcr to Clayton s Weekly, 81 statement
for years subscription and the next day
! re" civel cheek from him for 500 OF
course he had made an awful mistake and
Immediately hunted him up and called his
attention to the check mistake. | have
made no mistake, he replied, and my only
regret is that my bank account was not suf-
fcently strong to have made it 5000. I do
not always agree with your editorial ut.
teranceS, but believe me, for the most part
they call the turn and trust they will con-
tinue to do so, and unless you are financial
ly supported you can not do so. I only wish
thousands of white persons would subscribe
for it and if they did there would be
much better feeling existing between the
white and colored folks in this country. I
delighted with your editorial last week.
Separate State and Colored Bishop Again.
They were to the point and my sentiment
| repeat | made no mistake in the check and
| am proud to be able to so remember
worthy cause. TO say I was greatful was
mildly putting it and I would be glad to call
his name but it would hardly be the prop.
err thing
Quite few of the colored boys about the
city have recently enlisted in the navy and
though colored boys do not get as many
golden opportunities in the navy as do
white boys, yet if they make much Of such
opportunities as come their way they will be
greatly benefited from the three year en-
listment. | saw a young colored boy last
Saturday evening, who recently enlisted and
he enumerated the things he had taken up
for study among them being the study
of radio and short hand and stenography.
He is compelled to keep good hours and is
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Before cnlisting he was rapidly drifting in
the city with no objective point in life.
There are some boys that term in the navy
would be a detriment to them because they
are dutifu studious and tractable at home
and need no severe discipline but those
boys who seem unable to control or direct
themselves the navy is just the place for
them.
And that man coming is G. j. Smith, of
much local fame in years gone by, when at
the head Of the Oregon Improvement Com
pany. now the Pacific Coast Company, and
though he has lived here right along, yet
I seldom ever see him and so when we met
I shook hands with him, and after chatting
for second or more we passed on. AS |
proceeded up the street | fell to thinking
about him and many pleasant memories
came to my mind. 1T was Z. y. Smith who
directed that something like 1000 cOlored
miners be imported to the Franklin and
New Castle mines to take the place OF the
striking white miners but unlike great
many PERSONS who employ colored persons
as strike breakers, he did not 90 back on
them when the whites became recOnciled. AS
long as he connected with that mstltu-
ton the colored miners got a square deal.
Of no mil
knew what friend they had in G. j. Smith,
the head of the company. but my business
freocuntly called me to the general offices
of the company and he said many things to
me that he never said to the miners. In
short in his own peculiar way he was 10y
al friend to the coored miners. Mr.. Smith
is now one of the rich men Of the city and
he probably is not thrown in contact with
a colored person once a year if that often.
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Not many Of the later day colored folks
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