Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-12-06


which for time was source Of much pleas.
ure to Editor Wells, but when some Of his
white patrons realized that it was to be a
permanent feature Of the paper they laid
down on Wells and laid down on him hard
and he weakened and he finally discontinued
the service. Too many realities were be-
ing given to the public to please the anti
Negro reader and Mr.. Wells was plainly told
70 choose between them. Let more such facts
as were told by the Rev. Graham get into
the daily press and there will be fewer race
riots Let some Of the good things as we'll
as the bad that the colored man does be
published and the white man will cease to
picture him in the light of call coons look
alike to me-"
It came to my ears one day this week
that Russell Smith, the recent purchaser of
the north east corner Of Twelfth and Jack
son. would move back to Seattle from Port
land and might begin the erection of brick
block on his property in the no very distant
future. | trust this is true and that before
another winter a modern hotel will grace
that corner and Russell Smith will be it's
controlling spirit The project would pay
and pay big, in my opinion, from the very
day its doors were thrown open to the gen.
eral public, and it would be something that
the colored colony of Seattle could feel
justly proud Of
in my opinion would pay on Twelfth and
jackson, but my hobby is first class drug
store operated by colored man, "said w.
H. Banks general manager of the Alhambra
Cash Grocery Co." Send East and get a
registered pharmacist, and one with some
money to invest and in week after he
got to going he would have a permanent
business and likewise an established one. I
understand that Mr.. Smith contemplates
building on his property and if he does the
corner store would make an ideal location
for an up-to-date drug store.' I fully agree
with Mr.. Banks in this and it seems to me
some effort on the part Of the colored citi-
zens would be made to carry out his ideas.
[ walked into a voting booth last Tues
day evening to cast my ballot for the school
directors and | had no sooner walked into
the room when the most Of those, who but
slightly knew me- exclaimed there is
Wall1er-Santmyer vote and the union label
man looked his acquessence. [ wondered
why all colored men are looked upon as
100 per cent American even before they ex-
press themselves one way or the other, and
| felt much as did the little colored boy,
who was told by his mother to keep his
mouth shut when he visited their neighbor
and not open it and let every body find out
you are fool When the little fellow was
questioned about his health and other things
concerning himself and family he was as
mute as mouse and so Disguised did the
lady he was visiting become that she petut-
antly exclaimed "you are little fool" The
little fellow went home like a shot of of a
gun and yelled to his mother, Mama, Mama,
she found it out and I never opened my
mouth.' The Walker-Santmyer ticket was
mine alright and I never voted ticket
that gave me more pleasure than that, but [
object to being designated on account Of the
color of my face.
If the working force Of a newspaper can
dictate the kind of reading matter that the
paper prints, as it does the kind of wOrkmen
1T employees, it occurs to us that the news