ROBERT BROOKS ALBERTSON
In the death of Judge R. B. Albertson
the community loses one of its most emi
nent judicials and his loss is rightfully
mourned by all. He has been prominent in
public affairs in this community for the
past thirty years and had been on the su
perior court bench for the past fourteen
years. He was very independent in poli
tics and though he claimed to be a Repub
lican, yet he generally did whatever he be
lieved to be right, regardless of his party
wishes. While a member of the legisla
ture a civil rights bill in the interest of the
colored folks of the state came before the
body and though "Bob' 'Albertson did not
fight it on the floor, yet he did not favor
it and gave the editor hereof, who was
fathering the bill, to understand as much,
which caused a difference to arise between
us, that lasted for many years. Time, how
ever, heals all differences and later in life
we talked the old score over and decided
it was a dead issue and we were friends
again. While in North Carolina, in his
late illness, the bailiff in his court relig
iously sent him a copy of Cayton's Weekly
every week and it was likewise sent out to
his sick room every week after he returned
to Seattle. We take pleasure in making
this explanation because it was but a few
days ago that an old-time prominent Re
publican politician inquired of a friend of
the editor hereof "Why did Cayton oppose
Judge Albertson for so long?"
N. A. A. C. MEETING
Next Monday evening the local branch
of the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People will hold its
bi-mnothly meeting and if there be no more
present than usually attend these meetings
then its doubtful if a legal quorum will
be on hand. Knowing, however, of the
many energetic men and women, who live
in Seattle, we are unable to explain why
splendid meetings are not held every month
and good work from time to time done.
The following account of a recent monthly
meeting held in St. Louis may, we hope, be
a stimulous to the lukewarmness in Seattle:
"The splendid handling of the different
phases of the East St. Louis horror of last
July is opening the eyes of the community
to the efficiency of this organization. The
thorough relief furnished the many pitiable
victims of the riots, the able and relentless
detection and prosecution of more than one
hundred of the mobsters, the defense of the
accused Negroes, whose only crime is shown
to be that of self-defense, the extensive
claims for property and life losses, all show
that the St. Louis branch is on the job as no
Negro organization ever operating in this
country has been before.
"lii addition to riot matters, the branch
reported the practical completion of a full
Negro regiment for the Missouri Home
Guard (the supplemental militia.
"A large portion of the meting was given
up to industrial proscription in employing
labor on two buildings whose aggregate cost
of construction is nearly half a million dol
lars. These buildings are the Colored Y.
M. C. A. building, representing at least $60,
--000 of Negro capital in its total cost of
$250,000, and the Pope-Turnbo-Malone
building, representing $200,000 of private
Negro capital. In this matter the branch
uttered a strong statement that speaks for
itself.
"No greater evidence of the completeness
of the labors of the St. Louis branch can be
found than the reaction that is showing in
public sentiment in East St. Louis and St.
Clair county, Illinois, because of its activi
ties. The mobsters indicted in St. Clair
county for their crimes at East St. Louis
are unanimously seeking change of venue,
because of the moral certainty of convic
tion and drastic punishment if tried where
the enormity of their crimes has been made
so plain.
The branch also forwarded a (b) com
munication to the national headquarters
at New York city, which was a severe com
plaint against what it regards as unwar
ranted delay in granting commissions to
colored officers and mobilizing colored
troops. Following is the (a) communica
tion in full:
"'St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 19, 1917
11 'Actuated solely by the motive of in
structing the frequently too thoughtless
of our race to recognition of race service,
particularly along economic industrial
lines, we call attention to two marked in
stances (now prominently in view of the
world at St. Louis), where hundreds of
thousands of dollars of Negro capital are
being applied to the construction of build
in ys from which Negro craftsmen are, by
circumstances, excluded, regardless of their
efficiency.
'' 'We refer to the Negro Y. M. C. A.
building being erected at Ewing avenue and
Pine street and the Pope-Turnbo-Malone
building at Pendleton avenue and St. Fer
dinand street.
" 'In viewing conditions in the construc
tion of these edifices, we consider the per
sonnel of the promoters, the interests of
"union labor" and al other things that have
been advanced in extenuation of wrong
there most fully; and then we say, with all
the force and emphasis of truth, these con
siderations are peurile and insignificant in
contrast to the offense of Negro capital, di
rectly or indirectly, ostracising Negro la
bor.
" 'That this ostracism comes from
thoughtlessness and not from treacherous
design does not alter one iota the hurt and
shame of its results.
" 'The colored people have unanimously
complained against industrial ostracism by
white capital ever since their lips have been
free to complain. These generations of
complaint have been without justification if
the complaint we here make against Negro
capital is without justification. We de
nounce these blows, whoever delivers them
from whatever motive.
11 'Mr. Everybody and "union labor" and
"business contracts" are all right with us
until they strike, directly or in a round
about fashion, in the purse, the stomach or
the finer sensibilities, any humanity be
cause of that humanity's race or color. On
this rock we stand.
"'lf "union labor" ostracizes Negro la
bor, we are for Negro labor and against
"union labor"; and we are against every
person who is with "union labor" and
against Negro labor.
" 'If through thoughtlessness contracts
are made that insure exclusion of Negro
labor, we denounce that thoughtlessness as
being ruinously harmful, and we warn
against its prevalence.
" 'In passing, we note the whispered fear
that our criticism of this great wrong may
furnish excuse to some subscribers to the
Y. M. C. A. to repudiate their subscriptions,
only to say that any man who would break
his pledged word on such pretext, however
just he holds our contention, is too palpably
dishonest to make his tainted money wel
come to a Christian association.' "
NOBODY KNOWS
Absolute knowledge I have none,
But my aunt's washerwoman's sister's son
Heard a policeman on his beat
Say to a laborer on the street,
That he had a letter just last week,
Written in the finest Greek,
From a Chinese coolie in Timbuctoo,
Who said the niggers in Cuba knew
Of a colored man in a Texas town,
Who got it straight from a circus clown,
That a man in the Klondike heard the news
From a bunch of South American Jews,
About somebody in Borneo,
Who heard a man who claimed to know
Of a swell society female rake,
Whose mother-in-law will undertake
To prove that her husband's sister's niece,
Has stated, in a printed piece,
That she has a son who has a friend
Who knows tvhen the war is going to end.
—Anonymous.
VICTOR CLEANING
and Dye Works. Ladies
Pressing, Repairing. 1203 Yesler Way. Beacon 528.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF
Washington for King County.
Helen Kolene, Plaintiff, vs. Jack Kolene, Defendant.
—No Summons.
The State of Washington to the said Jack Kelenc,
Defendant:
You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty
days after the date of the first publication of this
summons, to-wit, within sixty days after the 22nd
day of September, 1!»17, and defend the above en
titled action in the above entitled court, and answer
the complaint of the plaintiff and serve a copy of
your answer upon the undersigned attorney for
plaintiff at his office below stated; and in case of
your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered
against you according to the demand of the com
plaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said
court. The object of said action is to secure a di
vorce on the grounds of non-support, for custody of
children, for alimony and attorney fees.
WILLIAM WRAY,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Post Office Address, 90 West Madison St.,
Seattle, Washington.
First Publication Sept. 22, 1917.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OP THE STATE OP
Washington for King County.
Roy Green, Plaintiff, vs. Emma T. Green, Defendant.
No Summons by Publication.
The State of Washington to the said Emma T. Green,
Defendant:
You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty
days after the date of the first publication of this
summons, to-wit: within sixty days after the Bth
day of September, 1917, and defend the above en
titled action in the above entitled court, and answer
the complaint of the plaintiff, and serve a copy of
your answer upon the undersigned attorney for
plaintiff at his office below stated; and in case of
your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered
against you according to the demand of the com
plaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said
court.
The object of the above entitled action Is to ob
tain a decree of divorce from the defendant by the
plaintiff on the grounds of cruelty and incompati
bility.
ANDREW R. BLACK,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
P. O. Address 31G Pacific Block, Seattle, Wash.
STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIU, MANAGE
MENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., REKUIRED BY
THE ACT Or CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912
Of Cayton's Weekly, published weekly at Seattle for
October, 1917.
State of Washington, County of King.—ss.
Before me, a notary public in and for the State
and county aforesaid, personally appeared Horace
Roscoe Cayton, who, having been duly sworn ac
cording to law, deposes and says that he is the
editor of the Cay ton's Weekly and that the follow
ing is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a
true statement of the ownership, management (and
if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the afore
said publication for the date shown in the above
caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, em
bodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations,
printed on the reverse of this form, to-wit:
1. That the names and addresses of the publisher,
editor, managing editor, and busincs smanagers are:
Publisher, Horace Roscoe Cayton, Seattle, Wash.
Editor. Horace Roscoe Cayton Seattle, Wash.
Manag. Editor, Horace Roscoe Cayton, Seattle, Wash.
Business Mgr., Horace Roscoe Cayton, Seattle, Wash.
2. That the owners are: Horace Roscoe Cayton.
3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and
other security holders owning or holding 1 per
cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or
other securities are: None.
4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the
names of the owners, stockholders, and security
holders, if any, contain not only the list of stock
holders and security holders as they appear upon
the books of the company but also, in cases where
the stockholder or security holder appears upon the
books of the company as trustee or in any other fi
duciary relation, the name f the person or corpora
tion for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also
that the said two paragraphs contain statements em
bracing affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the
circumstances and conditions under which stock
holders and security holders who do not apepar upon
the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and
securities in a capacity other than that of a bona
fide owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe
that any other person, association, or corporation
has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock,
bonds, or other securities than as so stated by him.
5. That the average number of copies of each
issue of this publication sold or distributed, through
the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during
the six months preceding the date shown above is
(This information is required from daily pub
lications only.)
HORACE ROSCOE CAYTON,
Sworn to and subscribed before me this sth day of
October, 1917.
GILBERT F. BOOT'E,
(Seal) Notary Public.
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