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Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-01-10
THE POLICE SITUATION

The wave OF crime in and about Seattle
goes merrily on and to combat it Joel F..
Warren, chief Of the police, has asked for
seventy-fve additional policemen The city
council is quibbling over giving him the
necessary men to patrol the city because it
seems to them a wilful waste of good
money. In other Words suppose few
persons are robbed and their heads cracked
or shot, that does not justify the eXpendi-
ture OF thousands of dollars annually to
drive the thieves and stick-up men out of
the city. But what is money if it be un-
safe to walk the streets of the city or leave
your home, lest you be held up or your
home burglarizeed and, worse still, some
member of the family killed. What the
citizens of metropolitan city like Seattle
need over and above everything else is pro-
lection from thugs and thieves and this
can not be had without sufficient number
OF policemen to do so.
The most of the holdups in and about
the city of Seattle are being committed
by lads under the age of twenty and
majority nearer the age of seventeen years.
All night long the streets and moving pic
ture hell holes are full and Overfowing
with boys, whose parents have no control
over them and when they no longer have
money to keep up this life of carousing
they turn criminals to raise the money. The
policemen of the city, and especially the
downtown section, should be instructed to
order every lad of tender years home
after 10 o'clock and if he or they do not
go send them up to the headquarters or
the juvenile court. Permitting sixteen and
seventeen year old boys to carouse all night
in moving picture shows and cabarets is
but encouraging them to become criminals.
If the parents of the boys can not compel
them to come home then let the police send
them either home or off the streets.
It might not be a bad idea for the police
to insist on all places down town closing
up at II 80 'clOck.
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-01-10
OMAHA

For forty yearas Omaha was ruled by
POLITICAL criminal gang that was perhaps
the most lawless of any city Of it's size in
the civilized world There had grown up
during that period, powerful group who
lived on the proceeds Of organized vice and
crime. These included about three hundred
and eghty-four (384) houses Of prostitu
ton. together with saloons, pool halls, or
ganized bank robbers, organized highway
robbers and professional icon" men and
BURGLARS.
Whenever a plan was made to have an
election of officials, certain men in the COM
munity would assemble and hold confer,
ence and they would decide what men it
would be 'safe'' to elect, and they would
give The Boss for his service certain sum
of money and control Of the vice interests
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-01-10
WE SUGGEST THAT:

Il. L. Woodson study law and save the
expense of hiring lawyers;
Harry Leg advertise Nine. Walkers hair
remedies as she would do;
p. Frazier lay aside $4,000 for advertis-
ing purposes especially in Cayton's Weekly:
Persons with idle money invest the same
in valuable income real estate;
Gene Griffin publish the exact amount
OF his income tax this year;
You and each of you 90 at once and
register and not be voting Stacker;
COlored boys not only go to school regu-
lary, but work like old Heck in school;
You visit the Entertainers Cafe if you
want to hear jazz music that you read
about.
Noy Person get larger barber shop:
Russell Smith put upu a three story
brick block;
Out of town subscribers to, Cayton's
Weekly send their subscriptions in at once
if not sooner; ..
H. Alfred Lewis give that "bug" of his
less sombre appearance or it will be
known as a dead One
Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-01-10
CAYTON'S WEEKLY

Published every Saturday at Seattle Washington.
U. S. A.
Subscription 81 year in advance.
HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON. Editor and Publisher
Entred second class matter. August Is, 1916. at
the post office at Seattle Wash, under the Act of
March 3rd 1916.
TELEPHONE: BEACON 1910
Office 303 22nd Ave. South
The Colorado statesman., 1920-09-18

nest and fornging for food and be
come converted into fiagons by dis
tending the crop to such enormous d.
menslons that the abdomen looks like
a transparent bead. In this condition
they hang by their claws from the roof
OF the nest chamber and thenceforth
spend all their lives receiving liquid
food from the tongues OF the foraging
ants, storing It In their crops and re-
gurgltating 1t to hungry individuals
when the liquid food supply outside
the nest becomes inadequate.
This is. of course. apt to be the
case periodically in dry regions, so
that we find the true honey ants only
In deserts like those OF the southwest
ern states, northern Mexico. South Az
rica and central Australia"
The Colorado statesman., 1920-09-18
Wanted an Audience.

During my vacation I started in a
canoe one afternoon on a four-mile
trip across the lake. There had been
a hard storm the night before, and
the lake was quite rough. The wind
carried me out of my course, the canoe
dipped water with every roller, and
1 was soaked and terrified. When I
reached the opposite side I decided
that I would never go back until some
thing more substantial should come
along and pick me up.
An hour later one of the finest
speed boats on the lake docked at the
wharf. I boldly asked the pilot to
take me back to the hotel. On the
return trip I entertained him with
n gay line Of chatter, and as we came
near the hotel noticed that there
were very few guests out, and asked
him II he would mind going on lit
tie further, coming back when there
was more of an audience to appreci-
ate my impressive home coming. When
I finally did get out of his boat I Of
fered him the 40 cents, which is the
usual fee for hired boat service on
the lake. The most embarrassing mo-
ment of my life came when the guests
excitedly informed me that had been
riding with one of the most important
and dignified political figures of the
day, who had a summer estate near
by.-Exchange.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-09-18
ADRIANOPLE: A WEATHER
VANE OF EMPIRES

Entry of Greek troops into Adriano-
pie is an event in secular history fairly
comparable to the investiture OF
Jerusalem by Allenby's army, for this
Turkish city has for nearly 1000 years
been a weathervane of world poll
tics
The rebuilding of the ancient Thra'
clan town of Hadrian, who gave 1t
his name, signalized a high point In
the power of the Roman empire. The
decline of Rome was foreshadowed
some two centuries later when the
Goths defeated Valens there and made
their first break through the Roman
frontier.
Next Adrianople was the setting for
the Turks advent into Europe. There
Murad /. established himself, planned
the capture of Constantinople, and
sent out expeditions to subdue various
Christian peoples. For a time the
European capital of the sultans, Adri-
anople was relegated to be the chief
bulwark of Constantinople. There
Turk first met Slav, and there the
Russians finally forced their way to
the Black sea by treaty which also
loosened the Turkish hold on the
Caucasus and compelled recognition Of
the independence of Greece.
Adranople is on the Martha
Hebrus of Grecian legend, where Or
pheus was dismembered by the Thra-
clan women also celebrated, under Its
later name, in Bulgarian song and
story. 1t is 137 miles by rail north
west of Constantinople.
Today the city wears Its past glory
with sort of shabby gentility, with
no pretension of prosperity but less
soualor than the usual Turkish city.
1t possesses the grave of the first
Murad, or Amurath, who was assassi'
mated in his tent after he had van
quished an army of Christian allies on
the field of KossOvo.
A mosque bearing the name of Sui
tan Baiezid recalls that monarch,
whose first official act was to order the
execution of his brother, who was first
Ottoman ruler to call himself sultan
and whose conquests finally were
checked when he was taken prisoner
by Tamerlane.
But the architectural masterpiece OF
Adrianople is the Selimieh, product
of Greek tribute-boy's genius, and
relic of the reign of Sellm II. the Louis
XIV of Turkey.
Yearly the Turks would seize GER
tain number of sons of their Christian
subjects, and in Sinan they found
they had acquired skilled bridge
builder. They allowed him to follow
his bent, and the Shahzadeh at Con-
stantinople, the Suleiman at Stamboui
and the third famed mosque at Adri-
anople were given to posterity. The
Selimieh stands upon the highest Hill
in Adrnnople and four lofty minarets
tower far above massive dome.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-09-18
THE MAIL MAN: COURIER
OF CIVILIZATION

Did 1t ever occur to you that your
city letter carrier, your village post
master or your rural route carrier has
a past?
He is the agent by which the long
arm of Uncle Sam taps your shoulder
one. two, maybe three times a day. yet
he is so unobtrusive that you probably
do not know him half so well as most
other agents of your government. tne
school teacher or the policeman. for
example.
But he not only Is an essential, but
a historic figure. The history of the
postal service and its employees ex-
tends to the days of the Romans when
the earliest known means of transmit
ting a message was by cHirier. These
admirable organizers, the Romans
marked by post" the place in the
road where the relay of one runner Dy
another was effected; thus they named
our system long before 1t was born.
The first letter post seems to have
existed in the Hanse towns In the
thirteenth century in order to faciii-
tate relations between the merchants
of the various members of the Han
seattle League.
The British post Office had It's be-
ginning in the sixteenth century, ana
our own colonial methods of handling
mail were inherited from our British
forefathers. Long before the people
had any means of exchanging either
personal or official letters. the king had
established system of conveying MS
personal messages and official docu-
ments by royal messengers. In the
reign of King John that petulant mon
arch paid out large sum for a postai
service and charged 1t to the house
hold and wardrobe accounts. Messen-
gers who were thus entrusted with
matters of state had to be above sus-
nicion They went the whole dis
tance and were paid according to the
Iepptb and danger of their journeys.
In 1898 New England proposed to
the British sovereign that postoihce
system be established in the colonies
az It was $50 useful and absolutely
necessary" His majesty paid no at
tention to the plea, but Richard fair-
hanks. In the same year, set up an
office in Boston to receive LETTERS from
ships. He undertook to deliver the
Ietters received and charged penny
for each letter. He also received mail
for outgoing ships, but no one was
forced to send mail through MS ONCE.
A thrilling story of the devotion OF
mail men to their duties Is that or the
nonv express, the first rapid transit
mall line across the 1855 miles ol
prairie, desert. snow-capped mounrain
The Colorado statesman., 1920-09-18
STEEL AFFECTED BY FIRE
Figures Gathered by the United States
Bureau Of Standards Reveal Sta
bility of Structure.

Some interesting figures relating to
the behavior of structural steel at the
high temperature of ordinary fires
have been given by the United States
bureau of standards. Naturally. the
strength of steel at high temperatures
has a very important bearing upon
the stability of structure which may
he subjected to fire. Without any pro-
tective covering. steel columns fall
after only 10 or Is minutes of expos
ure to temperatures such as are
reached in ordinary fires. Resistance
can be greatly increased by the use OF
coverings of brick. concrete, plaster,
tile. etc, to such an extent that col
umns so protected are unaffected after
several hours exposure to intense
heat. says the New York Evening
Post.
Tests have been made to determine
the compression strength of specimens
of structural steel when heated in an
electric furnace to temperatures cor
responding to dull red heat Q.1OO de-
crees Fahrenhei) and loaded up to
10000 pounds per square inch. 1t was
found that structural steel loaded to
10000 pounds per square inch falls at
about I.0I5 degrees Fahrenheit. and
under a load of 10000 pounds per
square inch failure occurs at 925 de-
grees Fahrenheit. For practical con-
siderations however. the limit of util-
ity may he regarded as reached at
temperatures Of about 13O degrees
Fahrenheit below those given above
The Colorado statesman., 1920-09-18
Vacuum Best Known InsuIator.

In answer to a question. the Scien-
tific American says:
"a vacuum is the best insulator
against heat which is attainable. A
perfect vacuum would be a complete
insulator and would retain or exclude
heat indefinitely. The common ther-
mos bottle is an example of the use
of a vacuum for keeping liquids either
hot or cold. Heat is retained In hot
liquids and kept out of cold liquids.
However, there is a difference be-
tween heat from white hot body like
the sun or an electric lamp and heat
from liquid or solid such as may be
contained in thermos bottle. The
intense heat from a white hot body
will pass easily through the best
vacuum man can make, as witness the
heat given off by an incandescent lamp
bulb, which will char and set paper
on fire. A vacuum will restrain heat
of low intensity, but not heat of high
Intensity"
The Colorado statesman., 1920-09-18
TACNA AND AFRICA: SIA-
MESE TWINS OF
GEOGRAPHY

Tacna and Aricai The words are
fast becoming as inseparable as the
Gold Dust Twins. the Dolly Sisters. or
Mutt and JEFF.
The regions form territorial bone
of contention among Chile. Peru and
Bolivia. The province of Tacna. COM
posed Of the department of Tacna and
africa, is shown on maps made In Chile
as the northernmost province of that
country, and on maps made In Peru
as the southernmost province OF Peru,
bordered on the north by the Rio
Sama and on the east by Bolivia.
Its broad uplands are rich In nitrate
and on the Bay of africa, at the ter
minus of one railroad leading to La
Paz and the Interior of Bolivia, and
of another running to ports to the
south, the delightful city of africa Is
situated, giving the possessor of the
territory a great advantage in South
American affairs from both political
and commercial standpoints. Here Is
ample reason why these two South
American republics want 1t, and why
Bolivia hopes that, in the adjustment,
she will have an outlet to the sea ac-
corded her.
The trouble over this region arose
originally from the fact that. In the
days of the early Spanish settlers, the
country was so vast that a few hun
dred square miles more or less made
no difference In the affairs of the col
ony, and when the colonies organized
themselves into republics they still
were too busy with their internal prob
lens to bother about where their
boundaries began and where they end
ed. This condition was true not only
of Peru, Chile and Bolivia, but of most
of the other South American republics,
as indicated by the numerous bound
ary questions which have been in dis
pute during the last decade.
So matters drifted until the middle
of the nineteenth century, when guano
and nitrate were discovered in this
formerly ignored region. The guano
alone was then hastily estimated as
worth S2O,0O0.OOO, not to mention the
nitrate. What friends could be ex-
pected to remain friendly with such
a mountain of dollars between them!
Since that time the Peru-Chile-Bolivia
story has been one Of controversies,
treaties, counter-charges and plebi-
scites never taken.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-09-18
HOW ANTS CAN HINDER
AIRPLANES

Ants have assumed new role In
Africa-that of enemies of aviation.
Reports from surveyors of the pro-
posed air route from Rhodesia to Cape
town say that ant hills have inter-
fered seriously with the placing or
aerodromes.
To understand this phenomenon one
must understand how ubiquitous is the
ant in South Africa, writes william
Morton Wheeler to the National Geo
graphic society. He continues:
Ants are to be found everywhere,
from the arctic regions to the tropics
froms timber line on the loftiest noun
tains to the shifting sands OF the
dunes and seashOres and from the
dampest forests to the driest deserts.
Not only do they outnumber In indi-
viduals all other terrestrial animals
but their colonies even in very circum-
scribed localities often defy enumera-
ton.
"One subfamily OF the ants. the
Dorylinae, embracing the wonderful
driver ants of Africa and the legionary
ants of the American tropics, are nigh
ly carnivOrOus. but nevertheless sue
ceed in forming immense colonies, oft-
en- of hundreds of thousands or indl-
viduals. This they accomplish by re-
iinquishing the sedentary habits SO
Characteristic of the great majority OF
ants. They keep moving In long MES
through the jungles capturing or Kill
ing all the insects they encounter, ana
even overrunning dwellings. and' IN
their search for cOckroaches and oth-
er vermin. driving out the human IN
habitants.
From time to time these strange
ants bivouac for the night or FOR
few days In some hole I'm the grounu'
or under tree. but soon continue
their predatory march. Evidently
they are able to remain carnivorous'
and at the same time to develop large
colonies, only because they are nomao-
ic and can thus draw their food sup
ply from a large area.
Certain individuals. the 'repietes Oh
T the colony refrain from leaving tne
The Colorado statesman., 1920-09-18
Gold Production Dwindles.

washington.-A joint report by the
mint and Geological Survey fixes the
total American production of gold dur
ing the calendar year 1919 at 2,91S,62S
fine ounces, valued at $50, ,333, 400; sill
yer, 56,6S2, ,445 fine ounces, valued at
$63, ,533, ,652, taken at the average New
York price of $1.120S7 per ounce. This
represented reduction of SS,313,3O0
in gold and $11. .127,694 in silver from
the 1918 output of the mines, the re-
port said. California led with an out
put valued at SIT ,39S, 200.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-09-18
WARSAW: THE PARIS OF
POLAND

No other people, In all the worlds
history has borne oppression so brave
Iy and gloriously as the Poles, except
the Jews; and Warsaw, where the
Russians had to keep a garrison of
100000 troops to overawe city of
100000 people," is to Poland what
Paris Is to France.
Indeed the vivacity. the gayety and
the quick wit Of Warsaw's people are
a constant reminder of Paris; as we'll
as those deeper likenesses which
spring from Warsaw's ascendancy In
the letters, the arts and the social
graces.
All this, too. In a city where the
most gruesome tragedies have stalked.
AS recently as the years of our own
Civil war the Russian army moved
down thousands of men and women
as they kneit in the snow, singing their
national anthem. Deportations are an
old story In Warsaw. every effort at
naturalization was followed by
slaughter, and hundreds marched the
long trail to Siberian exile.
But PolandSs spirit meanwhile. be-
came q synonym for the indomitable.
The success of the classification of Po-
land has been described as the process
of keeping 100000 Poles pinned to
Russia by bayouets. Politically non
existent, for even Poland's name was
expunged from all official Russian rec
ords. the pre-war Warsaw We'd with
world capitals in science. particularly
90 do.
and in literature.
Though Warsaw betrayed none of
the grimness characteristic of Russian
cities reminders of her by-gone glories
and tragedies were to be found even
before the World war restored her au-
tocrucy.
In the Lazienki gardens is monu-
ment to John Sobieski. who stemmed
the advance of the Turks in Europe.
figure as picturesque as Paderewski
who now sees his land barrier to boil
shevism's westward spread. 1t was In
1858 that a Turkish force had thrown
itself in crescent formation around VI
emma. The encampment was no less
threatening because it resembled a cir
Gus rather than siege. with its herds
of camels. and luxurious tents with
baths and parrots within and foun-
tains without.
Mighty events often hinge on slen-
der circumstances. SObieski hesitated
because Leopold. Austria's emperor,
first declined to address him as
Your Majesty" But Sobleskfs hesi-
tation is said to have vanished when
ne learned that the French ambassa-
dor had written TO Louis XIV, who
rather hoped for the worst for Aus
tria. Don't trouble yourself, Sobieski
is too fat to sit on a horse and fight"
The "fat man" rode his charger into
the thick of the fight, helping hew his
way to where the Turkish grand viz
Ter stood. and after the battle handed
one of that dignitarys stirrups to an
aide with the command, Take 1t to
the queen and tell her that he to whom
1t belonged is defeated and slain"
The Colorado statesman., 1920-09-18
krupps May Build Plant in Spain.

Spain is one of the great iron-ore
centers of the world, shipping ore
heavily to other European countries
ms well as to the United States, and
while it has some large iron and steel
works. its output of the finished prod
net has never been commensurate with
its ore developments. Now, however,
according to the London letter of the
Whaley Eaton Service, there is we'll
defined project Of the Krupps to set
up a great branch at Bilboa. Spain. to
manufacture agricultural machinery
for the purpose of driving out OF the
market American companies who now
have a large share of the business
Manufacturers Record.
The Colorado statesman., 1920-09-18

peaks. and aikaii wastes between the
Missouri river and the Pacific coast.
II was inaugurated early In 1850 In
order that the West might be kept
more closely In touch with the North
in view OF the trouble brewing from
the slavery question. and. though 1t
had an existence of only sixteen
months. II made the East and West
only ten days apart at a time of crisis.
The date of starting was to be
March 20. 1850. and Forts Kearney,
Laramie. Bridger. Great Salt Lake
City. Camp Floyd. Carson City. the
Washoe Silver mines, Placerville and
Sacramento were TO be the points OF
delivery of mail. In st. Joseph, Mo-.
eager and excited crowds gathered
In the streets to see the first courier,
the wiry. twenty-year-old Johnnie Frey.
as he dashed away on his jet black
steed for the first lap of the race Of
flesh. blood and determination against
the desolate spaces OF an unpeopled
country. vlnp rll
These riders were clad in bucksiin
shirts, ordinary trousers, high boots
and soft slouch hats, and were armed
with sheath knives, Colts revolvers
and Spencer carblnes. The best time
they made across the trackless waste
was in carrying President Lincoln's
inaugural speech to San Francisco
seven days and seventeen hours.