Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-08-07
THE PASSING THRONG

Last week Caytons Weekly called attention
to the fact that DR.. Charles F. Maxwell was
seeking the Republican nomination for the
legislature from the forty third district and
the Doctors attention was called to it by a
constant reader. I had forgotten the Incl
dent when, Sunday morning in bolted DIR.
Maxwell with his arms full of garden truck
and before | had time to even say "gOOd
morning. he said 81 saw what you had to
say about me in your paper last Saturday
and | came over to not only thank you, but
to reward you with such as | have, which
l have just gathered from my garden as
money is out of the question with me. " I took
a long breath and said to my self. what
manner of colored man is this? For thirty
years have published paper in Seattle and
as [ now remember it, this is the first coOred
person to come to either my home or to my
office to thank me for paying him or her a
compliment in he columns of my paper and
yet it has been done unstintingly from time
to time. For some reason the aver
age colored person either overlooks
such things or remains silent even
when his or her heart is bubbling all over
with grateful thanks. Such has so frequently
happened not only with me- but with others
ling that the latter day colored man is put
down as unappreciative by the great thinking
public. 1 want to say ere | close this screed
that appreciated DR.. Maxwell's garden stuff
a thousand times more than | would have
twenty five dollars in cold cash from him and
I'll say, but few men need the filthy lucre
more than [ do.
Some months ago [ read in the Crisis, a
New York monthly, published in the interest
of the propaganda spread by the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored
People, complaint to the effect that it had a
silent constituency, that is to say, the
publishers had no idea whether the magazine
pleased or displeased it's readers. If however
persons subscribe for a publication and when
that subscription expires the same person
renews and continues that from year to year
that is evidence sufficient that the publ
cation pleases as silence always gives consent
[ fully accept that theory, but it makes
publisher feel more like stretching him or
her self if both encouragements and cusses
occasionally peep in to pay their respects. [
dearly love a criticism and even when it is
unfair. A little fulsome praise is pleasing
sensation, but too much of it it absolutely
ruinous.
With her face more or less blstered from
the hot rays Of old Sol it was plain to be seen
that Mrs. L. A. Graves had just returned
from the seaside, where she had spent a
delightful vacation with friends She told me
of the pleasant vacation she had enjoyed with
friends both in Portland and at the seaside
and said, you ought to CO." but she over
looked the fact that publishers seldom have
friends, who will so royalty entertain them as
did her friends entertain her, and she
further overlooked the fact that the publisher
with sufficient money to his credit to
purchase such pleasant vacations is the
exception and not the rule The hope of
having a summer vacation seldom ever occurs
to me, and when it does I console my self with
the hope that when die I will go to heaven,
but if to hell I should happen to co. I'll make