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Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-01-04

Every colored person, who has gone into
business in Seattle, knowing when he or
she did so that, if he or she had any bus-
ness success, it would be because an over
wheming majority of his or her customers
would be white, have made most brilliant
successes. If one can do so others can, for,
what man has done, man can do, therefore,
numbers of colored persons should open up
small business houses in thiclly populated
communities whether the population of
bers of them should, like Dan Myer, go into
the poultry business and still others go into
the gardening business and still others 90
into the hog raising business. In other
words, this community should be so well
served by colored persons that it would
wonder how it could get along without
Them All these years we have lived in and
about Seattle we have been parasites rather
than Independent self-supOrting men and
women. The most of us have worked faith
fully when given job and when we failed
to get job we have scowled at the whites
for fostering race prejudice. Whining about
the short cOmings of the whites does not
help our condition a single iota. The white
folks of this country would trade with col
ored merchants just as quickly as they
lieve hundred times quicker, if they only
had the opportunity to do so, all of which
has been demonstrated by those who have
gone into business. We do not believe we
would make any mistake in saying that the
Alhambra Cash Grocery has as many white
as colored customers.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-01-04
OUR OWN HUNS

1t is most unfortunate that at the very
time when the world is rejoicing at the de-
feat of the Hun and Hunnish practices, we
should be slapped in the face, as it were, by
the news OF llunlSm within our own borders
But the plain truth of the matter is that in
the southern section of this country there
are disorderly elements that are disgracine
the entire republic This country as do all
other civilized ones, rests upon respect for
the law. There are some laws, passed with
sinister motives, that no true freeman can
respect. Then he sets about, with his fel-
low men, to repeal them and wipe them off
the books. But among the laws that appeal
to the decency of every man and woman is
that one which calls a man innocent until he
is proved guilty. And it is just that law
which certain hoodlum Huns of North Caro-
lima have fouled by the Hun-like practise of
breaking into jail at Winston Salem with
mrrderOus ynching in their hearts.
Before the piece of outlawry was finished
five peole were killed, six more wounded so
seriously that their lives were despaired of,
and more than dozen others hurt A con-
dition like this demands plain speaking. Do
the Huns of North Carolina imagine that
this nation is not big enough to mete out
justice, that they must take it into their
own hands and kill and wound ohers in the
fray? Are the 100000 Negroes in this
country to be victimized because of color
and pre- judice, while some of their own
sons are across the ocean, with an honorable
record in war that was meant to free the
doWntrodden Of all nations and colors and
creeds?
Maybe these prisoners were guilty. If so,
it was the governments business to prove
them so. That was the individuals right.
And if they were guilty it was the business
Of the government, not individuals, to exc
cute that punishment Any other course
would be anarchy. And that was just what
the North Carolina persons who participated
in this disgraceful affair were guilty Of
They should be apprehended and punished
as such. AS such they should be imprisoned
and protected against the very sort of up
rising and breaking-n to which they them
selves gave vent. Such as these are Huns,
anarchists Of the most dangerous type Just
as long as the nation whole does moth
ing about it, just so long will we be dis
graced in the eyes of all who see in Justice
NOR" than word, and in tolerance more
than pretence.
When these men lynch or attempt to lynch
a Negro, they are lynching the law itself.
They are reverting to barbarism out of
which we have fought our way through hail
storms Of bullets and rivers of blood And
shall the result Of all this noble sacrifice be
that self-wiled Huns shall be able, with i'm
punity, to defy the decent laws of this re-
pubic.-New Appeal Gerard, Kans)
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-01-04
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS

Wages and high cost of living are in an
ardent debate just now as to whether one
or both Of them should go down. The la
Dor trust wants the high cost of living to
go down, but let wages remain in statu
quo, while the money trsut wants wages to
go down, but the necessities Of life to stay
on top, so that the rich can get richer and
the poor poorer. 1t would be just and hu-
name if both of them took a tumble and did
not stop until they got to the bottom
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-01-04

Comes now a Ft. Scott, Kansas, Democrat
and explains the recent defeat of the Demo-
crtaic party by saying, call the Democrats
were in France at the time of the election"
ALI the same, Kunnel Hawthorne. We
heard at the beginning of trouble with Ger
many that "this was white-man' s war;
but we had no idea that it was a Demo-
Gratis war, but when so eminetn Democrats
as Kunnel Hawthorne and the Ft. Scott
Bourbon declare it was, we must surrender.
What our ears hear our heart is bound
to believe
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-01-04

One Of the chief reasons, we suspect, for
Robert S. Lovett opposing government own
ership of railroads, is because he owns a
large block of railroad stock and he sees
the opportunity of robbing the peole out Of
millions each year by the railroad route,
fast fading away. Never again should the
railroads Of the country pass into the pos
session of private Individuals
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-01-04
CAYTON'S WEEKLY

Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington
u S. A.
In the interest of equal rights and equal Justice to
all and for "all up
A publication of general information, but in
the main voicing the sentiments of the Colored
Citizens
rates made to clubs and societies.
HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON Editor and Publisher
Entred second class matter, August 18, 1916, at
the post office at Seattle Wash, under the Act of
March 3rd, 1916
1ON 1910
Office 3O3 22nd Ave. South
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-01-04

When Rev. Carter returns from France
we suggest that he set about to raise money
to build canning factory, which would
give ecolored persons employment on an
equal footing with organized labor We
suggest this because he has raised thou
sand slmoleans, on which to go to France,
before the other fellow got in ship shape to
oppose him.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-01-04

May perhaps Martin and Simmonds are
guilty for the disappearance of the 'polce
whiskey,' but there is suspicion going
about the town that, they have been paid
to be the goats for the guilty ones.
Ihere seems to be "nigger in the wood
pile' as we'll as in Jail.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-01-04

Let some industrious soul send COL House
a souvenir postal card with the picture Of
sixty light persons hanging to lynchers'
limb and four of them women, with "mode
Republic'' printed hereunder in big bold
type.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-01-04

A great many of the pink cuffed gentry,
who were caught by the order of ''work or
fight" may now quit work, but so many
of their prerequisites have been taken from
them that they will now have to work or
starVe
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-01-04

1t is said that Michigan has $4,000 wo-
men eligible to vote There would not be
more than half that number if, how to vote
was substituted for eligible to vote
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-01-04

If Henry Ford's newspaper partakes Of any
of the qualities of his benzine wagons, it
ought to be 'rattling" good paper.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-01-04

Municipal ownership will be a stern re-
ality in Seattle when the entire street car
system, within the next sixty days, becomes
the proerty Of the people.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-01-04

There is a well grounded suspicion thai
the Huns are desirous Of slipping lump of
econ" in the peace conference
The Washington times., 1919-11-17

A Contribution Toward a
Playground
By EARL GOODWIN.
II Comes Unexpectedly From q Columbia Heights Busr
IL Carries q Moral

Dr. Homer K Butler, who believes in Fairgrounds, has
offered to give to the Playground Association oneth Of
the sales in his drug store Eleventh and Park road fos
three days to help keep open the Columbia Heights Play
grounds during January and February.
The significance attached to the statement is that in the
most important city in the world the big problem of what
to do with the ctys children is left to the occasional bu
ness philanthropst who along
and drops contribution in the hat
Unfortunately the word playground suggests a
luxury. In actual fact it is of luxury than any
other civic necessity is part of the conservation of
the human 1t makes for better citizens separates
the children of the congested districts from the street
trucks fire engines and general street traffic and gives
them chance to PLAY properly. To PLAY means to
develop. The children will be all the better and
women for it, and day when Washington awakes to
the fact Fairgrounds will be properly supported by the
Government Of living the stray charity of big
hearted and far seeing and women
Until that day MUST support Fairgrounds
on charity; and charity is needed right
We spend millions of dollars raising fine horses whose
sole duty in life is to faster than other horses.
If onethousandth part of the energy spent in making
better breed of horses could be turned toward improving
the chances of children in Washington would
be lot better off.
The Washington times., 1919-11-17
Answers to Correspondents

He says that IL he does not come up
at once that he will stop calling
me up. He will think / do not
want him. Oh, I do, but am so
afraid Of losing his love. Please
advise me. for i am wretched and
do nothing but think Of him.
DISTRACTED TWENTY THREE.
You've got to make the test some
time il this man is to be anything
more to you than q voice on the
telephone. 1t seems to me you
have the choice Of leaving things
rs they are and having a pleasing
memory or you must face the
music and take your chance. II
he really cares for the real You,
your height will not make any diff
ference. II he doesn't, you might
as well find that fact out at once l
shouldn't worry about his expires
sion Of aversion to tall women. A
million men have sworn they could
never love any woman but blonde
and have ended up by marrying a
brunette or vice versa. Most men
will tell you they prefer small
women, but they must get their
wires crossed somewhere, other
wise how can we account for so
many very large women being mar
ried. Put on your prettisst gown
and take the plunge.
The Washington times., 1919-11-17
What Is the
Family's Objection.

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
know you must be very busy
answering letters. but maybe you
can give me a few moments and
advise me what to do on this sub
ject.
am a girl OF nineteen; I have
been going with a young man four
years my senior for the past three
years. Now, Miss Fairfax. I am In
love with this man and my parents
do not like him. Ny father has
even threatened to shoot him for
no reason at all; I cannot under
stand why 1t is. This young man
was In the service and has just
returned from France. Since then
he has been calling on me rather
The Washington times., 1919-11-17

rob you of all your girlish allu-
sions and our bloom and then be
able to leave you because the mar
riage was not legal? You know
the real hero doesn't come with
any such proposal as that He's
content to wait until the girl
grows up and finishes school. He
proves his love and devotion by
waiting for her, doesn't he? /
have put your letter ahead of hun
dreds of others because ] want to
reach out to you and save you
from step you would regret very
much. Go to that wonderful
mother of yours, who probably
isn't half as dignified as you think
she is and talk to her. Don't you
know you would break her heart
if you took such a step? Please
write to me and tell me you are
not going to think any more about
it until you have known the boy
for long, long time, and until
your mother gives her consent.
The Washington times., 1919-11-17
What's Doing; Where; When
GATHERINGS Club,

Entertainment-St. GATHERINGS Club
Carroll Hall, p. m
Banquet-District Christian Endeavor
Alumni ASSOCIATION. calvary Baptist
Church, Eighth and II streets northwest.
Meeting-Educationals section Twentieth
Century Club, homo Of Mrs. Theodore L,
Cole zss2 Ontario road northwest, 9 p. m.
Meetins-Columbia Historical Society
Cosmos Club, Madison place. 8:lS D. m,
Tea and silver showsr--LadleI AuxiIia nv
of Providence Hospital. at the hospitai
from I until p. m.
Rehearnal-Youns Mems Hebrew As.o-
citation Orchestra, Y. II. II. A. headouar
tsrs. Eleventh street and Pennsylvanla
avenue northwest, p. m.
Dance-YounE Mems Hebrew Associa
tion, ElkS Hall, p. m.
Meeting-Indiana Society of Washing
ton, crystal room, New Ebbitt Hotel, -Four
tsenth and II streets northwest Z n m
The Washington times., 1919-11-17
Beatrice Fairfax Writes Of the Problems and
Especially For Washington Women
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
have read with a great deal of
interest your answers and have no
ticed how very fair you always are
in your answers. I am now greatly
in need of your advice. am a
young girl sixteen, and I go to high
school.
On Halloween night met a
soldier boy and have met him sew
eral times since. He is a perfect
average boy of today.
am very much in love with him
and he seems to be very much in
love with me. He Is twenty.
know that a girl of sixteen Is,
not ,.nsidered capable of loving.
but L know / am very much in love
with him just the same. He wishes
me to run OF and get married.
Shall II My mother Is a very won
derful woman, but still not one to
whom / can tell things or ask ad-
vice, as she is so dignified. Please
help me.
Anxiously awaiting your reply
and sincerely thanking your.
BETTY W.
Let's see-how long ago was
Halloween? A little over two
weeks, wasn't it? That means
you have seen this young man two
or three times? What can you
possibly know about him yeti
mean as to his real character or
how he would prove himself in
test of worth? Ii you went to a
movie and saw on the 0creen a
Young man who had known a girl
two weeks and was urging her to
run off with him without her
mothers knowledge, what impress
sion would you get? Would you
think he was all he ought to be or
would YOU wonder if he we're do
ing the right thing by the girl?
Would you think he was taking
advantage of her affection for him
and of her lack of experience with
men and the ways of the world?
Would you wonder how the moth
er of that little high school girl
would feel if her little girl failed
to come home from school some
dav-if she searched for her with
aching heart and found her
changed from a girl to woman,
and in the arms Of man who
didn't have the courage to go to
this mother and tell her what his
attitude toward the daughter
was? Do you know what the word
love means to me when man uses
it toward a girl? 1t means the
desire to cherish her as some
thing lovely and beautiful, to save
her from all heartache and hard
ship, and to protect her from
everything and everyone, includ-
ing himself. Is this boy doing
this? Is he thinking of your wei
fare, of your need for an educa-
ton, of shielding you from the
possibility of motherhood until
you are old enough to assume such
cares? Or is he thinking only of
his own desire for you-the sell
fish desire a man has to possess a
girl whether it is for her own
good or not? Do you know that
there are very few places where
your marriage would be legal be-
cause of your age? Do you rea-
lize he could run away with you,
The Washington times., 1919-11-17
A Plea For Pedestrians

should be eliminated. To this end.
would suggest that the owner Of the
vehicle causing injury or damage
shall be held responsible therefor. The
machine should be seized and the
driver and owner arrested and pun
ished IL found guilty.
The owners of street cars are held
responsible for damage done BY their
employees while operating cars: then
why should not the owners OF automo-
biles, motorcycles, etc, be likewise
held for damages wrought by their
vehicles? JOHN r. wEATHERs.
The Washington times., 1919-11-17

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
The suggestion that employees walk
to their places Of employment as an
effective protest against the increased
carfare rate is good and feasible
one. / am q Government clerk and
walk regularly, rain or shine, to and
from office. which is about one mile
from my residence.
But while the walk is desirable, II
is dangerous even for the young and
athletic on account OF the reckless
street traffic, which is criminal, and
The Washington times., 1919-11-17

Today.
heeting-VeteranS Club, George Wash
ington University. Arts and Sciences build
Ing. 2023 street northwest s p. m.
Special meeting-Randle Highlands Citi-
Eens Association, Randie Highlands
Church. D. m.
Meeting-Alpha Chi Omega Alumni Club
at home of Mrs. Chiriene ReddinE. as01
Quarry road northwest, s p. IN.
heeting-GeorEetown CitsenS Associa-
tQn, Potomac Bank Hail, p. m.
heeting-North Washington Citizens
association. Gage School, Second and U
streets northwest, s p. m.
Concert-United states Marine Band
Marine Barracks, 1850 p. m.
heetins-Monday Evening Club, Cosmos
Cub Assembly Hall. 81 Madison place
ID, m.
Meeting-Kea,e Council, knights Of Co
iumous, SOS Z street northwest, . D, m.
The Washington times., 1919-11-17
Is She Too Tall
To Be Loved?
DEAR MISS f.

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
Can you aid a young girl in utter
distress? 1 am considered at
tractive. we'll educated. etc. but
have the misfortune of being ex-
ceedingly tall. Though twenty
three years old, I have never been
able to succeed in making anyone
care for me. Now, at last, along
comes one who claims he loves me
desperately. He has never seen me,
but nevertheless feel sure he
loves me. The romance began &C
cidentally on the telephone about
six months ago, since which time
he has called me up every day, each
conversation drawing us nearer to
each other. He always begs and
pleads with me to let him come up,
but never let him, for I am afraid
he will be disappointed at seeing
me so tall. He has told me his
height, but / have never told him
mine. He thinks / am a little girl
and has often expressed his distaste
for tall women. Do you think my
height will make any difference in
his love for me? He Is as tall as /.
The Washington times., 1919-11-17
Kill the Whole Treaty
Continued From First Column.)

Continued From First ColumnD
this preposerous League of Nations down the
hroats Of the American people instead of going about the
business of healing the wounds of the and building up
the wrecked industries of the nations
Make an end Senator'S of this debate and delay.
Make an end of this abhorrent treaty.
Make sensible peace, just peace, and American
peace gentlemen of the Congress.
And so will you win the applause of your countrymen
and the gratitude of the world and the approving verdict
of the future.
The Washington times., 1919-11-17
HE ARD ND SEEN

makes most excellent waltz. Also
he says: "Snsppy one-step when IL
is played right" Let me say that
the piece is never played as a one
step and would not be-s success II il
was. 1t was written essentially for
a fox-trot, but as / have said before
it can be played slower and win
make good waltz music.
Outside of the above and of your
own note relative TO the sycamores,
the gentleman's writing is real nice.
/ bet he has been reading MeIntyres o
stuff in the Herald.
DANCER.
The Washington times., 1919-11-17
Boy, Page Mr.. Stoddard.

Just a few words re Mr.. Stod-
dard's observations in Heard and
Seen November 11th. ! may be
wrong, but his words would seem to
me to give one the impression that
Tell Me" played in waltz time is
quite wrong, whereas any good
dancer will inform you that II
The Washington times., 1919-11-17
Advice To Conductors.

Here's how to make yourself pop
ular. | was standing at 1lth AMI
u streets, watching people pack into
the 14th street cars. The Conduc-
ters seemed to take fiendish deligI. I.
in waiting until people got right M
to the doors-and then slam them
shut One conductor turned TO n
.hreathless mob that had run a hun =
.dred yards to get the csr-sDi
laughed at them.
The Washington times., 1919-11-17

marry steve bro0le says ne saw
in a paper where Adam Weschler
was going to sell a Cole s l01S
model
Must have been the one William
the well known Conqueror rode.
Who remembers the kind of white
dress tie that was already made up
and was fastened to the collar by
means of an elastic band that fas-
tened in the back?
Now that the Chamber of Com
merce of Washington has gone on
record in favor of public ownership
of the Home and Last RESTING
Place of the Father of his Country,
ISAAC CANS, author Of the reso-
luton adopted by the Chamber is
receiving letters of congratulation
every day.
Here is one of them, from r. G..
M. ROSS, General Superintendent
of the Storage Division of the Army
Supply Base at Norfolk, Va.
81 want to congratulate you in
the effort you are putting forth to
make the Tomb of Washington at
Mount Vernon a place TO which all
good Americans may go irrespective
"This, to my mind, is indeed a
praiseworthy and patriotic move,
and anything ! can do in further
ance of the object, or my associates
to whom l have shown the article
in The Washington Times, will be
done with the greatest pleasure and
a deep sense of gratitude to you for
inaugurating the movement"
Wantd see tchdt the naval fiers
fy in9 Go ouer to the U. S. Naval
Air Station at Anacostsa Wednes-
day afternoon. 1t lciu be open TO
the public for the first time since
Uar 1Ods declared on Germany. Get
merit to these things. They help
your MIR tcep alert.
The Washington times., 1919-11-17

steadily and wants to know when
l am going to marry him. l have
decided / could never love anyone
but him, and, / don't see why 1
should be wasting my young life
away waiting for some one else.
1t makes IL awfully hard for me
when he calls, as / know he is not
wanted by the rest of the family.
L think 1 have known him long
enough to find out whether I care
for him or not.
BRoKENHEARTED.
1t would be a most extraordinary
father who would want to shoot
a young suitor unless he had some
very good reason for it. You've
got a great deal of young life"
left before you need begin to feel
you are wasting it. It's out Of stvle
for a girl to wait around for a
man any more. Why not ocauny
yourself with some congenial work
or recreation and put marriage
and It's cares and responsibilities
OF for six months or a year? In
that time the young man NAV have
been able to win your family over
1t would have to be a mighty f11c
man TO be worth an estrangenlept
from your entire family.