Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-01-24

''here | have been in Seattle for thirty
years and have seen the city grow from
$4,000 inhabitants to 100000 and l am still
hoohng it over her hills and hollows in
quest of two dollar subscriptions, while
this gentleman has been here but five years
and rides in a millionaire car. Perhaps my
misfortune is due to me having, during all
my years here, run weekly newspaper of
a nature that is poorly appreciated by all
classes of our citizenry, and yet such an emf
nent man as DR.. F. B. Cooper says such
papers must be published, and | quite agree
with him.
When your neighbours dog disturbs you
it's source of supreme satisfaction to send
for the dog catcher and have him cart
the canine off to the pond, but when that
selfsame dog catcher takes your dog then
he will hear from you and dose of poison
for the dog catcher instead of the worthless
dog would, for the moment, come nearer
meeting your approval. Well, for the past
eight years l have had a worthless pet dog,
which was beautiful to look upon, and l was
very fond of it, more, l suspect because it
attracted SO much attention when it went
out with me, than for any particular merit
it had. One night not long since the dog
was not at home and it was away the next
day and night, and l felt certain that that
''cussed dog ctcher'' had picked it up and
| was instantly fighting mad. There was
no doubt of it, because on sober second
thought had not paid my dog license and
kept the dog in the most Of the time to
dodge the ever-vigilant dog catcher. With
blood in my eyes l called up the pond and
said, 81 have missed my dog and wondered
if you had picked it up eyes, it's body
is here,' came the reply. "What? Have
you killed nv dog?" ''No he was run over
by an automobile and killed and my men
picked up the body and brought it in"
''Brought the body in. - "Well, it seems to
me you would have called veterinary sur
geon and saved it, 'It was dead when
we found it, ooh of course you did moth
ing to save it and yet | pay taxes to main
tain that place. My wife, after [ had hung
up the phone said, "It seems to me you are
a bit unreasonable Unreasonable moth
ing my dog is dead.'
1t was with pride and pleasure that I
watched the big Jack Pershing, he Of great
military fame, bow to the cheering crowds
as he passed up and down the streets Of
Seattle last Tuesday and I thought a great
deal more of him after | had seen him than
| had before, and that is saying good deal,
but it seemed awfully strange to me that
on the reception committee not a single col
ored person was named and that despite the
fact Gen. Pershing had done the most Of his
big fighting at the head Of colored troops,
and when told by President Wilson that he
was to have charge of the European armies
of the United States his first request was
for plenty of colored soldiers In Seattle
there are quite sprinklng Of non-commis-
stoned colored army officers, who fought
under Pershing and they should have been
represented on the reception committee
If for nothing else than political effect it
seems to me that those having charge of the
reception of public parsonage would not
everlastingly and one day after seek to ig-
more and snub a certain class Of citizens
because their skins are dark In my opin-
ion Pershing himself would have been deep
ly chagrined if he had known that his old
fighting frontier black boys were not rep