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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-03
His Plea.

Prisoner at the bar said the Judge, slip
ping the black cap. have you anything TO
say why the death sentence should not be
passed upon you?'
II have. Sir" said the Prisoner, with firm
decision. You may not know it, Sir. but such
sentence would put TO great deal OF
persona! inconvenience. SRA great deal of
Inconvenience
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-03
Charcoal Eph.s Daily Thought

Hit ain teachin n mewl L sing"
said Charcoal Eph, in mood IAN yo' git
nowhars cussin' canary bird. Try hunk o.
punkin, MIR. Jackson"
Prosperity perches SO high that some climbers
sit Gown al the first pump and stick.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-03
Food Problem.

Food Problem.
In tho old days ] used to set 15-ccnt beef
or vegetable stew that made fun meal. Now
I've sot to give half dozen orders TO be sure
OF enough to eat"
Yes. but lookce, old man. you must give 'em
credit. You at least get VARIETY"
Friend of Nine says the only mistake made
in creating women that they should have
been coined at the ratio recommended by Mr.
Bryan.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-03
Right AroJo !

Where arc you going. my pretty ma id %
~ m going a-milking. Sir she said;
And who arc you going TO milk today"
Soldier insurance, Sir-U. s. A."
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-03
Closure Itulcs.

r. c. NJ. Columbia.-Thc closure
(cloturc) rule Of procedure was adopted
in the English Parliament for the pur-
pose Of terminating long discussion and
bringing matters under debate to an
the policy of obstruction adopted by
the Irish members made lcgisla ton
Impossible. 1t was decided then that,
at the request Of forty members. the
sneaker might declare debate closed
and call for a vote on the question
under discussion. AS modified In 1887.
the rule now stands that tho speaker
may cut off discussion AT the request
OF 600 members, or at the rcqucat OF
100 only II less than forty members
vote In the negative. In the United
States House OF Representatives tho
same object is attained by moving the
previous question"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-03

n DEPRESSING the people OF Boston on his
1 return from Franco, President Wilson
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-03

ADDRESS ALL COMM UHICA-
T1ONS to Tue Jimes-Dis-
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-03-03

TELEPHONE: luudoIpb 4.
Private Brunch EAchRnEe
connecting with all depart
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-09-27
Our Industrial Unrest

What of the future may be seriously ask
ed as multiplied thousands of industrial
workers throughout the United States lay
down their tools because forsooth they do
not get bigger pay and shorter hours OF
labor And suppose they get what they de-
mand, then who is going to pay 1t? Capt.
talists, it is claimed own or direct the
financial affairs of the government which is
doubtless true, but does it make things any
better by forcing the trust thieves to dlvy
up with the labor looters. Owing to the
outrageou profteering in the necessities
Of life a dollar bill at present is worth only
forty cents and now burden that self same
dollar with labor lootings and it will only
be worth twenty-five cents. This seems to
be the age Of public hold ups and every
fellow and his brother are trying to get
theirs while the getting is good, and yet
what they get does them no more actual
good than did seventy per cent less five
years ago. The capitalists and the labor
ers are all Americans, a part and parcel
of this government, and unless both Of
them head in they will find themselves much
in the same position as the Kil-Keny cat that
ate itself up instead Of grubb. What we
are proud to boast of at present as the
United States government can not long re-
main any kind Of government unless the
trust thieves. and labor looters give up try
ing to rob each other. "A socialistic form
of government seems eminent, if this coun-
try can survive the present ordeal with any
form Of government.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-09-27

The specific suggestions under the first
head appear very inadequate, as nothing is
said Of Furnishing mob leaders; but an hon
est carrying out Of the rest Of the program
will do away with mobs by changing public
opinion. This includes, under the second
head, proper travelling accommodations, bet
ter housing, and adequate school and recre-
atonal facilities.
The real strength Of the program is in
the promotion of cooperation. If the best
men and women of the two races can be
brought to know one another, the bogey Of
''social equality'' will vanish and mutual
trust and respect be established. Local
white and colored committees are to be
formed to consider matters of common in
terest-a policy already in successful opera
ton in number of communities in every
Southern state. The employment of col
ored physicians, nurses and policemen for
public health and law-enforcement among
Negroes is recommended; cooperation with
all constructive agencies of both races; and
the appointment by each governor of stand
ing commission to study the race situation
and to recommend means to prevent fric-
ton and to promote good will.
This program was adopted in whole, and
with hearty recommendation. by all the
governors present.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-09-27
Act Well Your Part.

That the readers hereof may not get the
idea that the inhabitants of the South as a
whole are not roughnecks and vulgar black
guards Of the order Of the editor Of the
Dublin paper quoted herein, the above ex-
cerpt is taken from the New York Age and
it speaks for itself But as liberal minded
as seems to be Bishop Mccullough yet he
knows that the seat Of all the trouble be-
tween the whites and the blacks is due to
the whites not wanting to give the colored
man square deal, yea not even the right
OF free speech. It's the white man. s pre-
rogative to say and do as he likes with
the cOlored man and to brook no oppo-
sition from the colored man. Colored wo-
men are the legitimate prey of immoral
white men, but colored men are brutally
lynched if they accept the invitations of
much-neglected white women to cohabit
with them. We are surprised that more
colored men do not rape innocent women
than are reported, especially in the light
OF SIX million mixed bloods- Caucasian and
Negro-in this country, ninety-nine per
cent OF which is due to white fathers and
black mothers. Let the white man first act
well his part and there is no doubt in our
mind the black man will follow in his wake.
Success of Curiosity.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-09-27
Life S Other Side.

At the annual Conference of Governors
held in Denver, race problems were brought
before the body by committee from the
Southern Sociological Congress. The Com
mittee consisted Of Bishop Bratton, Episco-
pal bishop of Mississippi and president of
the Congress; j. b. Mccullough, it's secre-
tary, and Dr. j. H. billiard, chairman of the
section on race relations
The Congress, in it's recent appeal to the
Federal government to control mob violence,
took the ground that race problems are of
national rather than sectional concern: and
it was felt if a policy could be formulated
which could be endorsed by the governors
of all the states a starting point would be
secured from which the whole problem
mi ght be worked out along common lines.
The committee stated it's belief that ''no
enduring basis Of goodwill between white
and colored peoples in this country could be
developed except on the fundamental prin-
ciples of justice, cooperation, and race in
tegrity'; and that we owe it to pOsterity
''to preserve the purity of our democratic
ideals expressed in the American constitu-
ton, as well as the purity Of the blood Of
both races
The three items Of the program are: The
preventing of mob violence; safeguarding
the Negro s rights of citizenship promoting
closer cooperation between the races.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-09-27

yet it was almost reverenced because
president of this country once handled it.
Those who fell all over themselves to meet
the President and his wife did so out of
sheer curiosity and today they are as much
opposed to the political policies Of the
President as they were before they shouted
themselves hoarse when he was talking to
them and as much opposed to praising him as
was the man who smoked the presidential eli
gar The head of every institution attracts
general attention and President Woodrow
Wilson is no exception to the rule, his obnoN-
ious Peace Pact Policies to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-09-27
The Bullitt Testimony.

Mr.. Bullitts testimony before the For
eign Relations Committee of the Senate has
caused sensation two continents. lie
quoted Secretary of State Lansing IN con-
versation with him (Bulltt) in Paris as
saying:
II consider that the League of Nations at
present is entirely useless. The great Pow
ers have simply gone ahead and arranged
the world to suit themselves. England and
Franc in particular have gotten out OF the
treaty everything that they wanted and the
League of Nations can dO nothing to alter
any Of the unjust clauses OF the treaty eX-
cept by unanimous consent of the members
of the League and the great Powers will
never give their consent to changes IN the
interests of weaker peoples.
CT believe that if the Senate could only
understand what this treaty means and if
the American people could really under
stand it would unquestionably be defeated,
but 1 wonder if they ever will understand
what it lets them in for
In answer to an inquiry addressed to his
summer home at Watertown, New York,
Secretary Lansing issued the very brief
statement, Il have no comment to make.
In diplomatic circles the statement IL
have no comment to make" is equivalent to
saying 81 do not deny what has been said"
However, since this first statement, Secre-
tary Lansing has issued another in which
he says he will not dignity Mr.. Bullitt's
charge with a reply, but will allow the
people to form their own judgment as they
may see fit This course of action seems
to be "a little risky.
In Paris, Colonel House also refuses to
make statement The whole affair is
rather puzzling. 1t is hard just yet to tell
what effect the Bullitt testimony will have;
but if it is left entirely uncontradicted it
will carry weight with good many people.
1t seems that the Administration will fol-
low policy of ignoring what Mr. Bullitt
said It remains to be seen whether that
policy will have the desired effect or not.
Such policy may result in causing the
people to think that the Administration
dare not contradict what Mr.. Bullitt said
New York Age.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-09-27

President Wilson's swing around the cir
Gle was howling success, so far as seeing
the various parts Of the West and being
entertained go, but his success was simply
success Of curiosity." In other words
the people turned out to meet him because
they were curious to see a real president of
tn United States Many years ago we had
friend, who showed us cigar, which he
Kept IN glas case, which cigar was handed
HIM by President Lincoln, and though a
poor man he would not have taken $500
for 1t. An office cleaner spied it one day
and appropriated it. Later on he was
questioned about the aroma Of the weed
and replied, it was not worth a penny. and
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-09-27
Make Your Selection.

''Send me the name Of your prosperous
colored family" wrote some one from Cleve-
land, Ohio, to the Post t-Intelligencer of this
city Of recent date, which in turn was
handed over to the editor hereof for an
sWer.
To name your prosperous colored fam
lily" after all was not so easily done as
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1919-09-27
CAYTON'S WEEKLY

Published every Saturday at Seattle, Washington,
u S. A.
Subscription 50 per year in advance
HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON. Editor and Publisher
Entred second class matter August 18, 1916 at
the post office at Seattle, Washr under the Act OF
March 3rd, 1916
TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910
Office 303 22nd Ave. South
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1919-05-08
SALE CALENDAR

Feb rs Codington County Breeders
Sale, Watertown, S. ID.
Feb. 26 Elson s. Williams, Lake Pres.
ton, $. D.. Duroc Jersey Bred
Sow Sale.
Feb. "a G. e. Fox, Naples, s.. ID. Du.
roc Jersey Bred Sow Sale.
Feb. % e. /. Underwood, Willow
Lakes, S. ID. Duroc Jersey
Bred Sow Sale.
Mar. i. /. Lac Qui Parle Go. Breeders
Assn Sale Of Duroc Sows.
Madison, Mimi.
Mar. 4 Clark CO. Breeders Sale,
Clark, s. P, cattleand Bred
Sows, s47
Mar. S Breeders Sale. Pure Tired
Stock, Candy. siinn.
Mar. Z. North Dakota livestock Breed
ers' Sale at Grand Forks, N.
ID.
Mar.12 ellison Bros, LaAIoure, N. ID.
Registered Pereheron Horses,
Mar. IS Ellison Bros, Registered
Short Horn Cattle.
Mar. IA T. =. Lawrence, %Sfrandyiile,
n. ID. Registered Duroc Jer.
sey S0ws.
Mar, 10. Hg acres spIendid farm II.
w. Gary, Adm, Garden
City, SIN.
Mar, 10. Kingsblrk County Hereford
breeders Sale, De Smet,
s. D..
Tie above List should be guarantee
enough % to my ability to conduct
YOUR SALE. a fair fee to 4 good
auctioneer IS far less expensive to you
than poor service.
Write Or phone me for date.
GEO. D. EaYART
Live Wire Auctioneer
Edgeley, n. p, Or kampeska Hid i,
Watert9W1b /, y.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1919-05-08
HOWARD BRON.
son ARRIVES
AT ABERDEEN
aberdeen American.)

Howard C. Bronson, of Sioux Falls,
formerly lieutenant and commander Of
the hist Field Artillery band, has ar
rived in the city to take charge IF the
new Aberdeen Municipal band, which
he will direct this summer.
The people of Aberdeen and sur
rounding country will have an album
dance of good music during the sum-
mer months, for Aberdeen's new band
XVIII be made up Of the best and most
! experienced musicians to be obtained.
MIR. Bronson is a director of exception
a ability and Aberdeen is assured of
the best in music under his able leader
ship.
There will be 20 members in the
band, most of them former members
Of the 51st artillery band. Several
local musicians will fpe signed up with
the new organization.
a series OF concerts will be given
at the parks this summer and il is
also planned to have the band give
concerts downtown on Saturday even
ings when visiting buyers from the
surrounding towns are in the city. The
band. of course, will be available for
work in other cities, especially in this
part of the state, when it does not
interfere with local engagements. A
bid has been put in for the work at the
South Dakota state fair this year Sew
eral other bands of the state also have
Iput in bids and the contract will be
let on Nav %.
Aberdeen's new band viii be under
the supervision of a committee of three
members, composed of DR.. Away Of
the park board, II. C, Behrens of the
city commission and NJ. w. Williams
of the Commercial club,
A meeting will be held Sunda,
afternoon at 4:S0 o'clock al the Labor
hall and all members Of the musician.
union playing hand Instruments arr
urged to be present. The band question
will be taken up at this meeting.
Il - 4sEtE ~ rEML
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1919-05-08
nR. TAFT
tNew Yerk Tinass

Nh. William Howard Taft has done.
q great deal Of useful service to. lls
country in office and out OF it. In pl4r-
~ticular, since theZRstr began, he has
shown 81 broas. sseasfou patriotism
with very little consideration OF part
isanship. His work for the league of
nations is another evidence of his sur
periority to the ideas and tactics nf the
more partisan. With his c~ountrymen
in general he as always been popular,
1t use asa be- said that the south would
love to vote fol, him if he only bore the
proper party label. In the north, de,
spite the Infaattering verdict of 1912,
he has long Been respected By all par
| ties. Since Ills reconciliation with Mr..
Roosevelt he aaay have been forgiven
by the -prog.essives except those en-
thusiasts or tsreconcilables whom Mr..
Roosevelt :Jvsd t call "the lunatic
fringe 5T
Even with all these things in mind
one is hardly prepared for the fervor
and the certainty with which the Mil
wapkea journal sees him recovered
from the disaster Of seven years ago
and the favorite republican sentiment:
A most astonishing thing has hap
pened. Mr.. Taft has come back He
stands out today as one Of the great
est Of Ameiiaan leaders. The largest
following in the republican party to-
day is his. lie is one of the very few
men of the GENTRY who possess to any
great degree the confidence of the peo-
pie.
1t is certaiS; that If a republican ma
tional convention representing the true
sentiment of lilat body We're to meet
tomorrow to nominate a candidate for
more votes than N of the other gen
president, Mr.. Taft would receive many
tlefnen who are being groomed or are
grooming themselves for h nomina-
ton. The republican politicians may
or may not realize this, but 1t is plain
10 men who rub elbows with other
men.
1t would be q great good fortune for
the country, ildeed for the democratic
to high standards, if Mr.. Taft with his
party IISetl, 3hlcu sHouid 20 hspi W
moderation, bis solid judgment, his UNI
selfish patriotism, his ample and var
led experience Of affairs and men, were
to be republican candidate in 1920.
Yet, even IL there is such a general re.
publican desire for his nomination as
our Badger contemporary sees or fan
cies, what chance Of nomination will
he have? Even If 1912 We're wholly
forgiven and forgotten, 1918 and 1918
could not be. Mr.. Taft has not regard.
ed blind, instructive opposition to Mr..
Wilson as q FIRST duty of republican
statesmen. re has dared TO advocate
the league of nations. He is even said
to AVE spoken ilnpatientls of certain
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1919-05-08
Big CONTRACTS
WENT MOSTLY
TO The NORTH
Out Of the SIS. OOG,0OO,0 600
Awarded. $4.5oO.OO.OOo Alb
sorbed by Eleven Northern
States. Say Democratic States
men, Analyzing Statements Of
Their Critics.

E-I1EEE sTEAGtSGE 4HE.L
Washington, d. C.-Assertions made
by republican partisans that, although
the northern state bore the heaviest
burden Of taxation for the war, the
southern states obtained the larger
share of contracts, are refuted by par
tial official statistics just made public
by the war department. These figures
show the expenditures by districts, and
account for nearly $4,000, o00, 900 of the
total outlay on contracts for material
and other ordnance requirements.
OF a total OF $4.S35, 003 900 allocated
of the country, S345, 800, 600 went to
the Cincinnati and st. Louis distri IS.
which embrace the Southern states,
the remainder-approximately $4,500,-
000, 000--Went to the eleven northern
districts. The balance of the expefadi7
lures for ordnance purposes, aggregGt-
ing $4,000, 000, 600 were allocated through
the ordnance department at Washing
ton. Owing to the character of the con-
tracts made at Washington it has
been difficult to apportjon these ex-
renaltures, ard experts say it will be
many months before the final figures
by districts will be, obtainable. Many
of these contracts are already the sub
ject of war claims.
The Washington Office includes the
ing the states of north and South Caro-
lima, where little or no ordnance work
vas done, and the state of Virginia,
where the record shows only one plant
for the manufacture of snlokeless pow
der and nitrocellulose, and where a
loading plant had 70 be erected. The
overhead" for ordnance work through
out the country, the pay for ordnance
personnel in all ordnance districts and
plants, and the, purchase of sites were
met from the total of $500. O00, 900 dis
lou-sed through the Washington Of.
flee.
Analysis of the ordnance depart
ment's figures discloses that the ag-
Rochester, S213. 0o0, 900; Cincinnati,
and st. Louis districts were less than
the expenditures in the Cleveland dis
trict alone. Only two other cities are
credited with less than was disbursed
through st. Louis. One of these is
Baltimore southern city.
The expenditures by districts UP to
November 11,191S, as complied by the
ordnance department, in the order
OF their amounts, are as follows:
New York, s1,o97, 800, 900; Philadelphia,
S775,703 900; Bridgeport, $51S .oo0. 900:
Chicago, Sass, 200, 900; Cleveland, $780,
600, 900; Detroit, $314,600, 900; PITTS
burg, 1906, 900, 900; Toronto, s230, oo0,-
ooo,; Rochester, s21s, 100000; Cincifati,
$500, 5000 st. Louis, s145,0 00, 900;
Boston, $112,o0o, 900; Baltimore, $780,
10000.
In Michigan there was spent S314,-
500, goo for ordnance material alone. In
addition this district shared largely in
major contracts. No Official statement
as to the total of expenditures in Mich
igan has been issued, but it is estiln-
ated that it is approximately $1,000
900, 900.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1919-05-08


Swanson, Of the loyliest women
of the screen, has the leading feminine
role and Elliott Dexter shares with
Lewis Cody the lionors of the male
chafactc-::zaticns.
Jeanne Macpherson Is the author. Il
is an original story presenting the
woman's viewpoint on a question rath-
Iar p~ertinentIy put in aoh Wives for
New. BY David Graham Phillips. II IS
an entiFely new and original phoioplay
with wealth ofnove1 quality and q
beauty that y iaaescFibabIe, Al Is one
Of the real highar pictures of the
year It's entertaining features are 50
pronourced that It stands quite alone,
lin this ana IN many respects.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1919-05-08

enongh money for doubling the ptaa,
ent force Of investigators and the send,
ling of commissions to South America,
Australia mi the Orient.
In addition to these commissions, the
department has commercial attaches
in a number of the principle capitals
of the world who supply first-hapd In
formation of trade conditions In their
respective areas.
One of our chief handicaps in for.
eign trade before the wal was the
lack of properly trained commercial
agents. There has been a lot of talk
in the past about urgsngg u leading
educational institutions to introduce
into the school curriculum courses for
the training of young mer in foreign
trade methods, but very little was done
in that direction.
Now the Federal Board of Vocation,
al Education has arranged to have
foreign trade courses introduced into
some of the leading universities and
colleges throughout the country.
Foreign Trade Course Opened
A foreign trade course has already
been adopted by the City college, New
York, New York university and George
town university, Washington, D.. c.
Georgetown university started with a
class of 60 young men, having tnfn-
ed away twice, that number. More
than 200 have made application for
admission to the neXt class. Other
schools planning courses in cooperation
with the department are the Unvers-
ity of Oregon. Tulane university, New
Orleans, and the University of Cali
fornia.
In this respect, the United States
is meeting the efforts of it's two chief
competitors in the trade world, Eng
land and Germany. Each of these
two countries has for many years been
educating young men for foreign trade.
Especially is this true Of Germany,
were in every nook and corner of the
globe prior to the outbreak of the war.
The two other things that retarded
Americans in foreign markets before
~ Wal WSlS IiS laSh VI SlSuiI ldSilA
ties in foreign Countries Inc the in
adequacy Of our Merchant marine.
Now the large banking institutions of
the country are rapidly establishing
branch banks in South America, the
far east and Europe. There hardly
is an important city in South Ameri-
ca where ther els, not a branch OF some
American banking institution The
National City bank of New York is
o. leader in the movement. These
branch banks furnish the necessary
financial facilities which formerly had
to be arranged through foreign bansk,
and they also furnish credit ratings on
business men in their respective ccam.
munities.
With all this equipment Of ships and
banks and men and with the good will
of the world On his side, Uncle Sam
enters International business with.
bright prospects.