Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-05-29

generally recognized as to require no fur
Their argument in it's favor That the col
ored people Of Harlem can and should raise
at least sixty per cent of the money needed
for it's support may also be taken for
granted
With Mrs. E. P. Roberts, Mrs Helen
Curtis, Miss Vashti Maxwell and Mrs. Helen
tanning leading the movement it's progress
along the lines laid out should be assured
Contributions to further it's purposes will
be gladly received by The Age and trans.
mtted to the promoters of the movement
Large numbers Of hop-heads are being
thrown into the city jail of Seattle just
now, with the view of so completely terror.
ling them that when released from prison
they will shake the very dust of Seattle
from their feet and forever thereafter give
Seattle wide BERTH That is one way of
Seattle getting rid Of undesirable charac-
tiers, wishing them ON to some other COM
munity, but it does not strike me as very
humane way. A hop-head is an irrespon-
sble parsonage. Under the influence Of the
deadly drug and he or she is but partly
human, but without it the deadly drug he
or she is neither human beast, but
writing, squirming torture.ridden worm
upon the earth. Now instead of driving
such persons from city to city and from
country to country they should be taken
in charge by the national, the state, the
county, or the city authorities and sent to
some island where medical treatment could
be administered to them and at the same
time each one be compelled to do outside
work-light farm work. Such treatment,
in my opinion, would cure the great ma
jority of them Of the habit and do so with
out impairng thier health. It seems to me
that such persons should become public
charges and be handled as are lepers for
they certainly polute and poison such per-
sons as come in social contact with them
just as much as does the leper or other
loathesome diseases Of the body. Tubercu-
lOss patients are rushed off to sanitariums
to protect their fellowman from being con.
tamnated and the same rule should be
applied to hop-heads.
A couple Of weeks ago R. S. Abbott,
editor of the Chicago Defender by invita-
ton addressed the King County Colored
Republican Club and he talked more or less
interestingly and spasmodically entertain
ingly as we'll as educationally thoughtfully.
Quite number was present to listen to
his remarks and the most of them greatly
enjoyed what he said I listened with care
to his each word with the view of learning
from his own lips without him saying it
in so many words, how he had succeeded
in building up the most extensively read
newspaper in the world published by
coloried man, but when he had finished the
puzzle was no nearer solved from my view
point than before I had ever seen him. l
might add in this connection that L had &C
companied him for three hours drive at my
expense with the view of figuring him out
but every effort had absolutely failed. Brie-
fly. Mr.. Abbott s Defender is credited with
having at least circulation of 225,OOO and
before I had seen and heard the man l felt
that so great circulation was due to the
personnel of the editor and owner, as GER
tainly it was not due to the literary attain
ments of the paper. The drawing card, how
ever. about the Defender is it's many pages
of personal mention from many localities in
many states while it contains little or moth
ing of substantial uplift. The human family
H. o., oe o1o,