Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-04-17


ing hordes of humanity and those who
know him bow most affably, and those who
do not know him look back to give him
the once over and, perhaps even the stranger
Will say 'who is the mighty that has just
passed. That seems to me DR.. Mathews
visiting day for the city in general. But
to the point, owing to Dr. Mathews heighth
and his splendid ramant he becomes the
leader of men whether they do or do not
know him. They find out that he is great
man and natural born leader even though
he does not say word.
How often have l heard parents relate
how well their son or daughter had mar.
ried and based their conclusions on the
fact that the husband or wife had much
wealth. Such person might have had no
more real honor than horse thief but
in those parents eyes the money covered
multitude Of faults [ now fully realize
that the public person who does not make
swell appearance will not make much
Roadway with his fellowmen Of course,
this means my everlasting failure as an
editor
At the last meeting of the National Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Colored
People Seattle Branch), much was said
about persons who paid their dollar in the
drive last June, but who never received
their membership cards, but said would-be
members never once visited a meeting of the
association to ascertain why their cards
never came. It seems to me that such per-
sons merely gave their dollar because they
had been solicited to do so and had no in
terest whatever in the good of the order. In
Othr words, they gave the dollar with
do as you damn please with it, Under
such circumstances [ can not see why they
ever made any inquiry at all about their
dollars and had | have acted as they have I
would be ashamed to admit I had ever given
dollar
'Revenge is SWEET so runs an old say
ing. and from recent talk [ had with
Louie Levy I do not doubt it, One day
this week I met him on the street and after
discussing the political situation for min
ute a bright smile spread all over his face
and he said, 81 see the Mt. Zion Baptist
Church has begun to build on my old lot
and I am told that by September both the
church edifice and the club house, my old
home, will be ready for occupancy" and
for second he could not finish his words
he was laughing in such spasmodic doses,
''now I wonder what that Irish s. b. has to
say since he has a colored church for a
neighbour" was his concluding words, and
he Systematically laughed again. Be it re-
membered Levy Jew, and Corbett, an
Irishman, for a number Of years lived side
by each. and during all that time Jerusalem
and Ireland were at war with each other,
but Gen. Levy took snap Judgment on
Gen. Corbett and transferred his posses
sons to the Mt. Zion Baptist Church and
Immediately evacuated, and now Gen. Levy
never tires of telling how he bested his arch
enemy. Thus, do these men rjoice and re-
greet the coming Of the colored man, in
every respect the superior to BOTH and
especially in America. Both Levy and Cor
bett are Americans by adoption and aliens
by nature, feel deeply chagrined to live
beside the colored man, 100 per cent Ameri-
can, and American by nature Both of
them should feel extremely honored to have
a colored man as his neighbor, but once in
America such aliens go floating down the