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Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-02-07
WEAKNESS
By Walt Mason

l am tired Of uplift writer's who are
preaching all the time, telling us poor err
ing blighters how to make our lives sublime.
For the writer's are reclining, each one in
his essay chair, and for them the sun is
shining, and they have some coin to spare;
they don't wilt their glossy colors packing
bod or turning Wheel and they draw mil
lion dollars for little uplift spiel.
They don't milk a bunch Of cattle at the
breaking of the dawn, or engage in earnest
battle with mower on the lawn. No, they
sit on seats of satin, writing things that
fairly shrek, and they dish up bughouse
Latin with dash Of dippy Greek. And
they chide the man who hollers underneath
grievous load and they draw million dol
lars for an essay or an ode.
T am tired of all reformers who'd reform
at any cost all the loud and tireless storm
ers who would make this world frost
Ever higher, ever higher they are throwing
bricks and rocks; and they'd rob me of my
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-02-07
LONDON'S SEAGULLS

The seagulls, which dip and wheel around
the bridges Of the Thames each winter, in
whirling white focks, as thick at times as
snOWfakes are now as much an accepted
part of London s bird-lfe as "everybody's
pigeons" and ''nobody's sparows. YET
compared with the pigeons and the sparrows
which have been, as the saying is, 'from
time immemorial ''-they are comparative
ly modern innovation, for it is said to have
been as recently as the severe winter of
1895 that the gulls first came up the river
in search of food and "discovered' Lon
don. They found it so much to their liking
that they have made their appearance every
winter since be it severe or mild. Doubt
less the glowing story of London's hospi-
tality, related by the hardy pioneer gulls Of
1885, story telling Of sprats and all sorts
Of dainties actually given away, thrust, so
to speak, into your very beak, by the 'Ehu-
mans,' has been handed down from parent
to child and is the talk Of the cliffs by the
summer sea. So, when the days begin to
"draw in," the children take wing for this
delectable London, where a gull may live
the life of ease and plenty.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-02-07
AUSTRALIA Is ECONOMIC POINTS

SYDNEY, New South Wales-The EN-
plOyers Federation has issued it's annual
report. 1t states that strikes during the
last SIX years represented a loss in wages
OF t5OOO,OOO, and in production Of &c.
100000. The strikes numbered 2153. Of
these 1411 were in New South Wales and
742 in the other states Of the 6O2,716
workers involved 45S,37O were citizens of
New South Wales
Mr. w. Brooks, in his presidential adj
dress to the federation, enumerated, as
under Is points of social economy which
he considered automatic and inescapable:
l. Under any economic or industrial sys-
TEN, men and women must inevitably con-
tinue to work for wages.
2. Some workers must always be paid
more wages than other workers, either owing
to special ability or the class Of work per-
formed
g. No worker can continuously be paid
wages that he does not earn.
t. The value of the work must be con-
trolled by the salable value Of the articles
produced.
s. In order to promote industrial develop
ment and provide work, the nation must
continue to depend upon it's intellectual cit
liens.
most brain power and inventive genius will
be the most prosperous, and brain must in
evitably command more reward than mere
manual labor
Z. The cost Of living is governed by the
cost Of production both in regard to pri-
mary products and secondary manufactures.
8. Shorter hours Of work must increase
the cost Of all articles, including food and
clothing.
9. The maximum output in the hours
worked will result in cheapening the article
produced, as the cost of production newt
ably governs the selling price
10. Capitalism Cor the accumulation of
wealthy can never be abolished for some
men will always earn and save more money
than other men.
II. Private enterprise involves not only
the control of established businesses, but
also the risl1ng of capital and personal eff
fort in the promotion and establishment of
new industrial enterprises.
u. The community cannot expect cheap
bread meat and other foods at the expense
of the farmer and grazier.
10. The only possible way for workers to
secure a substantial increase in wages with
out corresponding increase in cost of liv-
ing, is by increasing output.
IA. Men and women in free country can
not be prevented from saving money and ac-
curing property.
IS Without hope Of profit there would be
less industrial development, less employ
ment, lower wages, and higher cost Of liv-
ing-Christian Science Monitor.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-02-07

''Why are you crying, my little dear?"
Don't you want to go sailing on this nice
boat?' "No, | don't The man said there
would be a spanking breeze. baltimore
American
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-02-07

"Dolson s wife is an awful talker. How
does he get on so we'll with her?' He's
a good listener life
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-02-07

you do not play ball there will be no game
No one is expert at any game that there
is nothing doing unless he or she takes
part Keep in mind that if you die today
your place will be filled tomorrow and you
will be forgotten the third day.
There seems to be little or no doubt but
that every colored voter in the city will
give Bob Ilesketh a vote and all because
he accOrds the colOred man the same con-
sideraion as the white man. In other
words. all men look alike to Bob, especially
in his official capacity.
AS difficult as it may seem to be to sleep
in a berth Of a sleeping car enruote yet the
other night, slept so soundly that they lost
the most of their valuables That's a splen-
did "ad'' for the n p and it should reim-
burse all of those who lost.
We have decided to employ Tom Muir
phine, if he leaves the employ Of the city,
if it be fact that he can juggle figures so
as to make ones creditors believe they have
theirs when in fact they have not. Cald-
well says that is what Murphne is doing
and Caldwell tells the TRUTH.
Like the other daily papers the Union
Record, when a Negro is in question:, let's
it's readers know the malefactor is a Negro
and repeats the designation anywhere from
a half to dozen times IN tWO-lnch article
to impress it upon the minds Of it's readers
that the malefactor was actually a Negro,
and the very audacity.
Jimmie Duncan may be just as true
patriot as Fitzgerald claims to be, but we
have never as yet heard Duncan deny be-
e inf l,o mol
sympathetic strike that was pulled off last
spring and to our mind more unpatriotic
act was never before attempted either in
this or ony other country.
In his more youthful days Bryan "cross
Of gold speech made Of him the most
talked about man in the world, but for
thirty years thereafter he was all but for
gotten. Ie however, objects to being Osler-
lied and so in his ripe old age he rises out
of the oblivion Of the past and sets the
world to talking about him no less strenu-
ously than it did in his early manhood.
If President Wilson will take our advice
he will not return the railroads to their
former alleged owners, but will pay them a
fair price for the same and operate the roads
under government supervision. The cOun-
try has suffered enough on account OF the
sculduggery of the railroad magnates and
now that the government has an opportunity
to remedy that long standing evil it should
not hesitate to do so.
Tn this issue of Cayton's Weekly is to
be found the card Of w. d. Lane for Coun-
Gilman Mr.. Lane is and has always been
a stallnch friend of the colOred man and the
colored man in this country is in no position
to overlook real friend. Mr. Lane is be-
ing cens,lred for having spoken at Hulet
NJ Wells meeting. May, perhaps, that was
indiscreet, but, in our opinion, Lane is as
jealous patriot as the United States boasts
Of
Perhaps the man who wrote the excerpt
below did not have the Seattle daily Times
in mind, but if he did not then the morn
ing misft, about which he wrote, must be
twin brother to the Seattle Evening
Times it runs like this:
The editor of The Morning Misft is about
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-02-07
COUNCILMAN
w. D. LANE

Candidate for Reelection
Primary Feb. II, 1920
Election March 2, 1920
paid ADVERTISEMENT
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-17
BY ALBERT APPLE
N. E. A. Business Editor

Business should be picking up
about the first of January, according
to the Federal Reserve Board. By
that date, says the board, the smash
ing of wartime prices will be COM
pleted sufficiently to usher in nor
NAL times.
The latest business forecast by the
United States Chamber of Commerce
says that merchandise stocks by
Jan. l will be smaller than for years,
making new buying movement
probable.
Other guesses for a revival of
business range as far ahead as April.
In the steel industry, long consider
ed the barometer of general bust
ness conditions, a new buying move
ment is expected to start either in
February or March. In the build
ing trades buyers market prevails.
But where inquiries are for deliver
les after March, the sellers are not
anxious to quote prices, indicating
that they look for big buying by
that date.
The present business slump is not
basically serious. Business is bad
because the cost of living is being
smashed. Everybody wanted that.
Temporarily, it's bitter medicine.
Initiation is being squeezed from
prices. When the downward move
ment is completed and buyers are
sure that bottom has been reached,
things will go ahead. No danger of
panic. The situation is we'll in hand.
Meats at Pre-War Prices.
Armour & Co. announce that
wholesale prices of fresh meat cuts,
both beef and pork, are now below
the prices of April 1, 1917, and in
some instances below 1914 prices.
Growers of livestock and feed
stuffs shoulder the loss.
Cuban raw sugar appears in New
York, offered at less than four cents
a pound. No buyers.
Silver has fallen to a new low rec
ord, around so cents an ounce. The
highest price was $1.37 an ounce,
/ reached Jan. IL, last.
Tobacco growers are in bad shape.
Raw tobacco in Kentucky is bringing
almost two-thirds less than a year
ago.
American farmers have lost at
least six billion dollars in three
months by the slump in prices of
farm products and livestock. This
is the estimate of Thomas J. Will
son, president of the Institute of
| American Meat Packers.
Railroads Plan Bib Buying.
The steel trade expects 1921 to
break all records in production of
steel rails. The roads hope to ar
rance the necessary financing early
in the year.
There is now a surplus of freight
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THE REPLY

Virginia, your little friends wrong They have been
affected by the scepcsn of scepcal They do not be-
eve except they They think that nothing be which is
comprehendble by their little minds All minds, Vir-
gna whether be mems chidrens little In this great
universe of a in his intellect as
compared with boundless world about him. measured by
knowledge
Yes Virginia, there is Santa Claus He exists GER
tainy love and generosity and devotion exist and
know that they abound and give life its highest beauty
and JOY Alas how dreary would be the world if there
Santa ClausI 1t would be dreary if there
Virginias There would be chdke faith then, poetry
no 20 make tolerable this existence We should
have enjoyment except and sight The eternal
light with which childhood fills the world would be extn-
guished
Not believe in Santa Claus You might well be
ieve in faries You might get papa to hire to
watch all the chmneys Christmas Eve to catch Santa
Claus but if they did Santa Claus coming down.
what would that Nobody Santa Caus but that
sign that there Santa Claus. The real things
the world those that neither children
Did you fairies dancing the awna OF not
but there's proof that they not there Nobody
ceve rmagne all the wonders there and
able in the world.
You tear apart baby rattle and what makes the
inside but there is veil covering the world
which the strongest the united strength
of all the strongest that lived could apart
Only faith fancy, poetry love- push aside that
and the picture the supena beauty and glory
beyond all rea3 All Virginia in all this world there is
nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Caus Thank Gods he lives and he lives for
ever thousands years from Virginia ten times
ten thousand years from he will continue to make glad
the heart of childhood
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-17
WEEKLY BUSINESS REVIEW.
New Buying Movement
Predicted For New Year
Business Experts Believe Business VIII Pick Up

cars, President Gray of the Union
predicts a record traffic movement
in the West in the last eight months
of 1921. a
Big exporters are turning their
eyes away from Europe. MANY
think the big foreign trade oppor-
tunities of the next few years will
be in the orient, principally China.
Europe is now underbiddlng Am.
orleans In Argentina, especially in
steel products. Germany has reap-
peared strongly in the steel export
market. China lands cargo of steel
plates in Seattle at less than the Am
erican price. Said to have no broad
significance.
Soft coal has dropped an average
OF SIS 2 ton in the mining districts
East of the Mississippi. This APP
plies to prices charged by the mines.
Consumers should benefit soon,
Cheaper coal should greatly stimu-
late manufacturing. 1t reduces
costs.
French buyers have Cancelled more
Iuch p1VVsVOO,OOO WOItu VI COuLTdCL5
for American coal. Contracts made
a year ago for export were $40
ton. The open market has dropped
$14.
Textile Trades Hart Hit.
New England textile mills are
running 80 to 60 per cent capacity.
Manufacturers expect heavy buying
to start by spring. Some manufac-
turers hint they will sell direct to
consumers. A Brooklyn firm throws
its factory open to the public and Of
fers S1,000.000. worth of raincoats
at wholesale prices.
DR.. S. W. Mcclure, representing
the National Wool Grokers' Associa-
ton. tells the senate that 95 per cent
of this years wool clip in the Unit
ed States is unsold. Also that $780,
100000 pounds of wool are stored
IN American warehouses, two years
supply
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-17
THE BOOK o MARTHA.
Of Many Loves, Each Attraction, to
Martha Naturalizes the Other.


OF Many Loves, Each Attraction, to
Martha Naturalizes the Other.
81 say, Marie, how does pretty
woman like you get away with it?
mean how do you keep the men
yor meet from making love to you?'
Daddy Lorimer's sense of humor
is often Objectionable and his unre-
strained curiosity in the doings Of
his friends is equally so but the
members of his family have learned
not to interrupt when he speaks.
couldn't save Martha from his jcvial
impertinence, could only hope she
understood him well enough to take
it in the right spirit.
| turned toward Martha quickly,
turned in time to note the pretty
pink in her cheek deepen to red and
spread from brow to throat. Blush
ing is not always the confession of
fault. sometimes it is only self-con-
seriousness, or depreciation of self
But Martha had never been given
TO blushing and therefore | wonder
ed about impossibilities and was vast
w relieved to hear her say:
lGeV GO iltdhE wv my N''''l II
thew fIatter me! But I'm perfectly
/ safe because there are so many OF
themw | couldn't tell whether Mar.
tina was sarcastic or telling the truth
81 simply can't get interested in any
one man for each attraction, just
naturally neutralizes the other,
Daddy Lorimer's eyes widened--
he seemed to look over Martha;
bead, into the park and into the pas
-snd / imagined that he had caught
some explanation of why his owl
transient romances had all, in thu
end. been so unsatisfactory.
"Too many loves nentraliZes, ea s
other? And make man feel lik'
a liar and a fool? 50 that's you
BIZ idea, is it Marie? / guess your
safe enough, my girl! Now, since
we're on the subject, personal, yo'
know. would you mind telling M
just how two people manage, TN
new scheme Of getting married an
working, both of YOU. for wages!
"Ycu refer 20 the practical ADJUST
ment Of our affairs? Our finances"
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used the same amount of brains, en-
ergy and skill there that I have put
into my office, WHY then, Ewart and
l would be just IS far ahead fnan-
cially and-and-a lot happier, too =
Martha's voice treI40ied and she
made painful effort to control it
before she continued:
"Jane, I'm going to tell you a Sc
cret."
ITO be continued.)
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-17
HEAD STUFFED FROM
CATARRH OR A COLD
Says Cream Applied in Nostrils
Opens Air Passages Right Up.

Instant relief-no waiting. Your
clogged uostrils open right up; the air
passages Of your head clear and You can
breathe freely. No more hawking, snuff
fling blowing, headache, d-yness. No
struggling FOR breath at night; your
cold or catarrh disappears.
Get small hottie of Eiy's Cream
Balm from your druggist now. Apply
a little of this fragrant, antiseptic,
healing cream in your nostrils. 1t pen.
etrates through every air passage of the
head, soothes the inhamed or swollen
mucous membrane and relief comes in.
stantly.
It's just fine. Don't stay stuffed.up
with cold or nasty catarrh.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-17
'CorlfesSiorlsofaBridq
(CopFqft 1920 By The Neuspa per Enterprise Assocaho1
"sure! who paws the bills? VIII

"Sure! who paws the bills? Who
runs the house? You or Ewart?"
"Ewart and I share everything
theoretically. We lump our salaries,
Ewart attends to the checking ac-
count, that saves me some bother,
you see. We share the homework,
yes, indeed you ought to see my hus-
band wipe his dishes! Then we
share the play, and divide the prof
it's of our businesses-w keep sep
arate savings accounts. Why we've
been competing to see who will save
the most money in three years
There are several other systems for
married workers. Sometimes the
husband pays the rent and all ex-
penses, and the wife saves what she
earns. / can't say that one way is
better than the other"
"Huh-huh-huh! Happy to learn
that some married women who work
have got sense. Lots I've hired let
their husbands support them and
spend their money on their clothes.
No wonder their homes go to smash
Lately / have 'em fired If they over
dress. You're tired as well as thin
Marie" Daddy surveyed my friend
critically. "I'll have to get hold OF
your young man and give him piece
of my mind. / know men,"
Grumbling so, Daddy went past
US and entered Bob's sick room.
"He's right" said Martha softly
when the door had closed behind him
"How-right?"
"Pve seen nearly every facet Of
the business world for women, aneo
all do not reflect a rosy light.
am convinced that economical indie
rendence doesn't always give a wife
/ the happiness she expects to get from
/ it. If I had stayed at home an'
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-12-17
GE1zuuI0lA

MR. AND MRS GROWNUP you reading the letters to Santa
Claus appearing daily the columns of the mesRecorder
you you missing slice of life worth while In these hit
tie letters are combined rich pahos along with the
honesty and that belong only the soul OF child
Who wouldn't smile from the letter OF the little girl who
informed Santa he would find pickle along with big
piece her stocking Christmas Eve and what could
without yelling the appeal to the good old Christ
mas saint bring pretty wreath for darling little grave
Oh you secontained toobbuy and who haven't
time chdrenI How much of life you and how little
that is really worth which you really get.
It'd read the yesterday the greatly loved old gentle
who his last sleep in the uness of his and
whose coffin the little children for whom he always had time and
whom he loved deeply passing by his silent body each dropped
a simple golden red oak leaf on his coffin?
Some of readers have remarked that giving
much the publication of Santa Claus letters Well
think Aside the the children claim
of their home paper for few days their simple little
Old Santa human documents which than
they find interest if it is but looked for.
The TmesRecoder hopes always be interesting to the child
For long interesting to them will have
dene that human And there be higher better
than Just remain human.
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But til so hard to pick outlr did you say
On the contrary, it very simple and absolutely
All you need to do select book worth while prose
poetry philosophy. fiction what not read with the fo
whom the design the gift mind and annotate the you go
Then you have gift which represents the mind of good
writer which your mind and which be
duplicated in any of the shops.
You will giving part yourself you simply directly
and sincerely %and try write clevery finely the
gins and blank pages.
1t will you little money but will you some effort
thought attention which what make gift worth
while
And if your friend doesn't appreciate it-we then he isn't
DAY after Christmas the little boy whom given will
begin pulling the origin of its sound investigating the
matter he will the drum few days later and much his
constituent will discover all hollow inside where he thought the
sound
His inquiry should discouraged by spanking
few better moral object lessons for boy than busted
Consider for moment the defqnct drum. 1t bright
sparkling thing 1t hed the house with sound until everybody
tired of hearing Thn the boy opened the drum to look for the
many men like the drum They make great sound
the world the sound the of thought and the men
accepted as grea proportion to the sound they make
But of drums that the larger the vacancy
inside the louS the sound produced that the base drum makes
the biggest send of all Grown folks however think Of
looking inside II twolegged drums
more like the nqusive toy who hunts.for the
Of the sound his drum And above ALL let's spank him for
doing but the develop his habits of searching
for the truth in drums
FARMERS when they do their weekly shop
made the genera famous meeting place of agricu
u They around the old of the and
Today the general ism what used be- The
bile has made easier for the farmer travel farther for his goods
More farmers into than be grouped around the
and, anyhow the idea isn't the old Today
hasn't meeting place when he to town.
Seymour Ind points the to tomorrow. Seymour has a
farmers clubhouse, building with loungng rooms
smoking hall fr larger gatherings rest for moher
and for rural children Seymours clubhouse
the meeting place for farmers their wives and children is the
ban certer Of rural activities.
What do think cf The idea of having clubhouse
right here this city meeting place for all the farmers their ani
lies and friends, whenever they visit the city
It's the style in Britain to pourparer in hand and
, half-brick in the other.
Europe sending her over here to make room
for the tourists
Wilson Washington home he might trade with Sena
Harding.
Boy brush the dust of last New Years resolutions.
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THE LETTER

Dear Editor am years old.
"Some of little friends say there is no Santa Claus
Papa says IF you it in The Sun it's So
please tell me the truth is there Santa CLAUSE -,
Ills West Ninety-hfth Street"
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{ ODI0 3D. : NNJJ1D 3D. ayjyIE 8l
IS THERE ASANTACLAUS!

be told too often One OF hes
Charles A Christmas letter to Virginia Hanoh'
edited by Mr. Dana Ihs news
paper delights rprntng this noted OF all Christmas lei
ters 1t written in December 1897