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Spun Glass Hair Orn Popular With TWENTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 41. Spun Glass Hair Ornaments Popular With the Debutante M. Photo, Copyright, by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y. The very latest hair ornament for evening made of spun glass. This is to rival the electric fure, originated in Chicago. The effect on the es of brilliant colors show as the wearer moves tric light. FOR THE YOUTHFUL FIGURE GIVES The very latest hair ornament for evening wear for the debutante is made of spun glass. This is to rival the electric light ornament for the coiffure, originated in Chicago. The effect on the head is very pretty and fashions of brilliant colors show as the wearer moves to and fro under the electric light. --- WILLIAM HENRY THE EASTERN UNION Blouses Especially Designed to Please Young Girls of From Fourteen to Sixteen Years. The first has a lace yoke cut with points at back, front and on shoulders. It is edged with a band of black satin; this and a band of lace trim the sleeves. The material at front and back is tucked in sets of threes. Materials required: Two yards 22 inches wide, one-fourth yard satin on the cross, one yard lace 18 inches wide. The second illustration shows a smart way of making up crepe de chine, which is tucked in sets of three narrow tucks; a box-plait is taken down center, in front, on which a row of small buttons is sewn. Plain material is used for the collar and cuffs that are edged with a frill and a fold of colored satin. Materials required: Two yards crepe de chine 40 inches wide, one dozen buttons. For Solled Coat Collars To clean coat collars try the following way: Instead of a cloth, which has to be kept in motion for a long while to avoid leaving a ring in place of a spot, use an old tooth brush. Dip it into the naphtha until thoroughly saturated, then a few brisk rubs and the spot or grime has left for parts unknown. The most delicate velvet can be cleaned in this way, though it would not be advisable to use a brush on any fabric like satin. Crane Underclothes. Cotton and silk crepe are in favor now for all articles of lingerie. Bith wash admirably. Some of the finest cotton crepe is wonderfully attractive and admits of hand work to excellent advantage. Fine Neckwear. The newest effects in neckwear are not unlike bibs of fine net and lace plaited to a stock and maintaining a flat shoulder by means of a broad lace insertion which connects the front part of the bib with the back. Made Pretty Frack Sheer white linen, elaborately embroidered in eyelets and trimmed with black velvet ribbon, made one of the prettiest frocks seen at a recent French fashion show. THE GAZETTE GIVES A PLEASING FRAGRANCE Lavender Spread to Cover Sheets and Pillow Cases When They Are Put Away In Linen Closet. This is to lay over the sheets and pillow cases in the linen closet or chest. It can be made any size, because its mission is not exactly to conceal, but to sweeten, says Women's Home Companion. Get enough pale lavender, Japanese crepe to cover two sides of a long sheet of white cotton wadding. Spit open the wadding and sprinkle in a great many dried lavender blossoms; fold the wadding together again, cover it with the crepe, which should be basted together with the edges carefully turned in. If you will fold in a full inch everywhere there will be no necessity for slip stitching them together, because you can arrange a lacing of narrow lavender ribbon round the four sides. This will appear to be laced, but will be crisscrossed over the edge and sewed in place, because the combination of crepe and wadding will scarcely admit of an actual lacing through, except by the punching of awkward holes. IMPROVES THE FLOWER POT Artistic Cover, Easily Made, Which Hides the Bareness of the Plain Receptacle. Although there is nothing really objectionable in a plain earthenware flower pot, there are many girls who like to have plants in their rooms, but who object to the sight of the practical pot, and cannot afford an ornamental one. In that case they can make quite an articure cover from paper, which can be changed as soon as it is discoloried by the dan press of the earth. To facilitate changing narrow ribbons the color of the paper should be cut for the top and bottom of the pot and fitted with dome fasteners or hooks and eyes. These girdles can be quickly taken off and they look much neater and are firmer than a ribbon tied round the gathered paper. The Tunic Fashionable The tunic is in vogue that will remain popular throughout the season. It is so becoming and youthful in effect that it still appears on many of the newest gowns. It may, however, vary considerably in length, the very short one, falling just to the knees, being the latest style. It is a mode that must be adjudged to suit individual wearers, though, as it has a very varying effect upon the figure. A charming house dress recently has a skirt of broad stripe black and white taffeta, with a tunic of rich petunia colored cloth edged with dull silver fringe. New Vells. Vells of white meshes with fine widely distributed over designs in black thread stand perhaps next in popularity to the Sheltands. And flesh colored grounds with black overde signs in the most elaborate patterns grace the showcases and windows of the local shops. CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1912. NEGRO SOUTH'S GREATEST ASSET Oswald Garrison Villard Addresses Southern Educators at Nashville. FOR NEGRO EDUCATION—SPEAKERS TELL OF THE NEED OF BETTER EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES IN SOUTHERN STATES FOR RACE. Nashville, Tenn.—One of the principal speakers at the annual meeting of the Conference on Education in the South, held in Nashville last week, was Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of the New York Evening Post, who, in addressing the conference, declared that the negro was the south's greatest asset; that the south's rivers, its water power nor its natural resources compare with the worth of its colored citizens, without whose unflagging labor King Cotton, which is still the corner stone of southern prosperity, would topple from his throne. In his plea for better educational opportunities for the race in the south, Mr. Villard said that in Wilcox county, Alabama, there was expended in 1910 but $3,239.70 for the education of 10,758 negro children, while $30,612.75 was spent on 2,000 white children, $15.50 per capita being used for the education of the white children in the county and 32 cents a head for the colored children. In his address Mr. Villard said: "Primarily, let me say that in no field of the southern educational work is there greater need of co-operation and supervision and control as in this particular one. No one knows how many schools for negroes there are. Dr. Dillard of the Jeanes rural school fund board has listed about 150 negro schools and colleges, but there are many other, some, no doubt, worthless; others are placed where there is no pressing need for them; still others have made only pitifully ineffective beginnings where the necessity for them is tremendous; some are simple frauds upon the public; others exist only on paper and make a handsome living for canvassers who play upon the benefice of the north. "We need the best brains that the colored people possess in this work, stimulated by the best training, to assume the proper leadership for the little struggling, heart-breaking factories, for the turning out of honorable American citizens of sworthy skins. "Finally, let me impress upon you, particularly you, my friends of the south, that for every dollar invested in one of these schools you will withdraw thousands. The negro is the south's greatest asset. Not its rivers, nor its water power, nor its natural resources compare with the worth to it of its colored people, without whose unflagging labor King Cotton, still the corner stone of southern prosperity, would tomphe from his throne." W. D. Weatherford, a prominent Y. M. C. A. worker, in an address on "The Training of the Negro," said in part: "Many years ago the south as a section deliberately settled the question that it would give training to the negro. Various states bean establishing public schools for negroes about 1870, and by 1875 a constructive policy was in the making. In spite of this fact, however, there are still many individuals in the south, not a few of whom are influential politically and otherwise, who stand squarely opposed to any adequate training for the negro. Still a larger number are indifferent, and comparatively few white people are aggressively giving themselves to a policy of thorough training for the southern negro. It would seem as if the time has now arrived when we of the south as a united people should deliberately set ourselves to a constructive work in negro training. "There are many reasons why much policy must be followed at the present time—the first of which has an economic bearing. The greatest and most pressing need of the south today, economically speaking, is for a trained and efficient force of labor, and the lack of such a trained laboring class is retarding the progress of the south at the present time more than any other single influence. Inasmuch as the negro is almost our only source of labor, the only way to have an intelligent laboring class in the south is to give the negro such training as will make him efficient. STANDARD OF LIVING MUST BE RAISED. "The average employer of the negro laborer at the present time complains that the negro cannot be induced to work regularly, that we will labor only three or four days and will be idle the remainder of the week, living off the wages already secured. According, therefore, to the testimony of those who are less favorable to the negro, the greatest handicap of our laboring class in the south is that its wants are too few. These wants can be supplied from half time labor, and consequently it is impossible to get many negroes to work full time. In order to meet this situation, the standards of living for the negro must be raised. He must be made to want better homes, more comforts, some reading material, better food, better clothes. To this end must be a raising of standards through the better training of the masses of negroes. "If the south wants to be free from a harvest of crime, it is none too soon to deliberately start on a more definite plan of negro training. Last of all, one ought to say that, regardless of the economic improvement, health improvement and lessening of criminality, it is no less than human to give definite attention to this great problem. The very fact that some men are discouraged, that they feel the weight of this great ignorant mass pressing upon our southern life, is all the greater reason why a group of broad-minded educators should honestly face and heroically address a meeting like this. LOG SCHOOL MUST GO. "In order that we may undertake a more aggressive policy, four definite lines of improvement are demanded. First, among these stands the need for a more attractive school equipment. The log school house for the training of the negro children is still greatly in evidence. South Carolina has 1,777 school buildings for negroes, the average cost of the building and grounds being $246.88. When one remembers that this includes all the buildings in the cities, one sees that the average school building is the merest hut. South Carolina does not stand alone in this regard. I visited a large cotton plantation in Kansas recently where the plantation owner showed me $50,000 worth of gathered cotton ready for the market, where there were hundreds of negro families with children, yet when I drove to the negro school house, a half mile away from the headquarters of this plantation, it was such a place as is fitted for the housing of horses and cattle. The annual report of education in one of the states in the south, speaking of these buildings, says: "The negro school houses are miserable beyond description. They are usually without comfortable equipment, proper lighting or sanitation. In most cases they are a serious reflection on our civilization." "The next great thing in an advanced policy is for a larger amount of money to be spent on the colored children. One state is the south annually spends $12.62 on every white child enrolled and $1.71 a year on every negro child enrolled. At the rate of $1.71 a negro child would have spent on its education in 12 years of school life $20.52, which is very far less than what is spent annually on the children of many of our northern states." At the conclusion session Robert C. Ogden of New York was re-elected president for the thirteenth successive time. NEGRO MUSIC. The development of the negro as he came under the influence of the white race does not show any material difference from that of other savage races under similar conditions. He adopted Christianity and in adopting it to his intellectual capacity he caricatured it to a certain extent. He mixed it up with the old witchcraft and sorcery of his African ancestors. The Celts and Teutons did the same, for all the church festivals of today and many of the church observances are concessions made by the priests to the heathen superstitions of their early converts. Did not our great Martin Luther believe in a personal devil and are there not today people who will not sit down thirteen at table! Freedom! Who is free? Are we not all more or less shackled? But if proof positive of a soul in the negro people should be demanded it can be given, for they have brought over from Africa and developed in this country, even under all the unfavorable conditions of slavery, a music so wonderful, so beautiful, and yet so strange, that, like the gypsy music of Hungary, it is at once the admiration and despair of educated musicians of our race. Unique and inimitable, it is the only music of this country, except that of the Indians, which can claim to be folk music. In it the negroes pour out their joys and their sorrows in naive but wonderfully moving fashion; and in the face of such testimony of emotional and esthetical beauty, who dare deny them wider future possibilities in the great work of liberation of mind and soul which is now going on? — Walter Damrosch in the Southern Workman. The Workman is published by the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Va. WEST EATS MOST WHEAT. Citizens of the United States consume an average of almost one and one-fifth barrels of flour a year, exports of the government announce, in connection with a report on the wheat supply and distribution of the country, just made public. They figure this on a basis of four and one-half bushels of wheat to a barrel of flour. The average of all returns indicated a per capita consumption of about 5.3 bushels of wheat. The people of the far west were the greatest consumers of wheat, their average being six bushels a person. Next come the people of the northern central states, west of the Mississippi, where 5.9 bushels were consumed. Then the northern central states east of the Mississippi follow, with 5.6 bushels; the North Atlantic states, with 5.3 bushels; the south central states, with 4.7, and the South Atlantic, with 4.6. The smaller consumption in the south is accounted for by the fact that corn meal is an important substitute for wheat flour. In some of the heavy surplus potato-producing sections of the northern states, such as Maine, Michigan and Wisconsin, potatoes are another substitute. HOME OF MIXED RAGES ALL COLORS OF MANKIND MAKE UP POPULATION OF NEW STATE. "Anyone who has traveled through this desert country, with its red mountains and yellow plains, has been impressed with the violent contrasts in colors of the landscape," says Booker T. Washington, in the Independent, writing of a recent visit to Arizona. "For my part, I was more impressed with the variety and contrasts in the colors of the different elements of the population. I met there not only black men and white men but yellow and red men, with all the varying shades between them. "Phoenix seems to be a sort of melting pot for all the races on the earth. In this southwestern country the tides of immigration from Europe and Asia, from north and south, meet and intermingle. It seemed to me, while I was there, that I met white people and black people from every state in the Union and from some parts of Canada as well. In fact, I am perfectly safe in saying I never had an opportunity before, in so short a space of time, to meet, touch elbows and talk with so many kinds of white people and so many kinds of colored people, as I did in Arizona." All these people seemed to be taking part directly or indirectly, in a three-day celebration of Lincoln's emancipation proclamation and excursion trains were bringing in people from many parts of the new state. Mr. Washington had been invited to deliver an emancipation address. Part of the program of the celebration was a series of three baseball games between a Negro and Mexican team. He witnessed a foot race in which an Indian, a white man and a Mexican participated and a Negro was timekeeper. "Every one in Phoenix, I discovered, has come from somewhere else,—except the Indians," continues Mr. Washington. "The result is, you find people from all parts of the country in the most unexpected places. The little hotel in which I stopped, for example, was conducted by an American white woman from the state of Idaho. When shortly after my arrival, I asked to have some breakfast sent up to my room, I found I was being served by a Chinaman from a Chinese restaurant. "I had heard of Chinese restaurants before, but I confess I was surprised to find that a Chinaman was running a restaurant in such close connection with the hotel in which I was stopping. As a matter of fact, as I was afterwards informed, there are only two restaurants in this city of 20,000 inhabitants which are not in control of Chinese. One of these is conducted by an American white man and the other by an American Negro. "The Chinese have control of nearly all the truck gardens in the suburbs of the city, and wagons driven, by Chinese drivers supply the hotels and most of the homes. I confess it looked very strange to me to see a Chinese squatting on the front seat of a vegetable wagon driving a horse. Before I came to Arizona, I had seen pictures of Chinamen drawing two-wheel carts, and I had seen other Chinamen carrying bundles on their heads, but I had never before seen a Chinaman driving a real horse." "Meeting for the first time in a position where one race either is or soon will be, crowding the other in the labor market. I was eager to learn how the two races felt toward one another," he continues. From his inquiries he concluded that the black man and the yellow man were getting along pretty well together. He was much interested in the fact that the "Chinatown" of Phoenix has a mayor caller Mayor Dick who seems really to be the supreme authority. "Whenever a Chinaman is arrested for a small crime of any kind—anything less than a felony, in fact—it has become customary for the police authorities to turn the man and his crime over to Mayor Dick. They have found that they can get substantial justice more surely and more conveniently that way than they could by dragging the culprit into the ordinary police courts and going through the ordinary processes. The reason for this seems to be that the Chinaman has very little understanding of and apparently very little confidence in the American methods of administering justice. And so the Chinaman in Phoenix even though he is not a citizen, gets in this indirect way a certain amount of self-government. "During the few days that I was in the city, although I was very much hurried, I took occasion to go down to Chinatown and to visit Mayor Dick. He was a little, driedup, yellow man who spoke very broken English. He seemed, however, to have a pretty clear understanding of American customs and manners. When I asked him how he came to be called mayor, he said in quite a matter of fact tone: 'Well, you see I am here thirty year. I know American custom. When Chinaboy get in trouble he come to see me. When policeman get in trouble with Chinaboy, both come to me. I know how to make it all right. So the newspapers say I am mayor of Chinatown. Yes.'" Sometimes people of this country speak of the Negro as alien race, Mr. Washington reflects, and suggests sending him back to Africa, but not one has yet suggested that the Negro, while still living in the midst of the white civilization, was so much of a foreigner that he could not be tried by the same law and in the same courts and according to the same SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. WESTERN RESERVE CLEVELAND, O. HISTORICAL SOCIETY. SINGLE COPY moral and political standards as the white man. The Japanese, another race, just making their appearance in Arizona. They, frequently like the Chinese, take up the business of truck gardening, but they seem to find first entrance into American life as house servants, waiters in the hotels and cooks in private families. "The Japanese have not yet made their appearance in large numbers," says the writer, "and perhaps when they come and begin to take the place of the colored people in the hotels and other places, the Negroes will lose some of the admiration which they conceived for the little yellow peril during the war between Russia and Japan." Meanwhile the Negro is getting into other kinds of labor. Several Negroes own large plantations. One runs a hand laundry, in which he employs Mexican women, who have a great reputation as ironers, to do the work. One is a wholesale fruit merchant; one runs a "post" store near Phoenix; another has a restaurant. Negroes have pretty near a monopoly of the barber business in Phoenix. More important is a general disposition among the leaders of the Negro people to consider seriously the needs of their little community. The Mexicans are the most numerous of the different colored peoples in Arizona, and are performing in this part of the country much the same tasks that the masses of the colored peoples are performing in other parts of the south. As a class they are regarded as unprogressive, unsteady and unthrifty.—Pittsburgh Leader. JUDGING BY ELIMINATION. A southern darky drifted north and got his first real taste of band music. In Waycross, Ga., he had heard nothing but the wavering efforts of some second horns, so when the Elks' convention brought regular Germans to town he came near passing up his job as saloon porter. He would have willingly joined that parade if the destination had been Cedar Rapids. After a while Sousa's visit was announced and one of the patrons of the place promised to buy him a ticket for the concert. Sam was installed in the balcony and held onto his chair for sheer fear of jumping over the rail when John Philip made his first uppercut. He went back to work the next day in a trance. "Well, how about the concert?" asked the boss. "Tremendous," said Sam. "Ah's nevah heard nothin' like it. An' it was attended by our ve'y hes' people. "How do you know they were our best people?" "Ah, nevah saw none of 'em hefo." Odds and Ends To go in and win is often merely a matter of owning the best engine. When a chap has been showed along in life, he never looks behind him to nod his thanks. There is a world of difference between a man's rough tenderness and a cruel roughness. To suffuse geniality among one's friends doesn't always consist in passing the bottle around. Human nature ought to be good, it lasts so long. Every individual tries his best; otherwise he gets the worst of it. The man who finds fault at home bows to the ground to some one in the office. Not to care for that which one wants, but to work hard for it is the secret of getting it. To blow a kiss is a miss' way of not missing it. Without flattery some women would go into nunneries. Lent duties are getting nearer the shops and farther from church doors. The girl who prays for a pretty bonnet generally makes a fine dessert for her dad at the same time. Great men have fallen at one word from a mite of a girl. A wasteful life is one that never strained at others' comfort. When a man begins to be familiar is the time to try contempt. The most becoming color a girl wants to wear is a blush color. The time comes for a man who thinks himself unimpressionable, sooner or later. The woman who scorns real love is the kind who dotes on fuzzy dogs. Love filters a great deal of unworthiness. The debonair fellow knows the power of smilingly fabricating. When disability comes, then comes thoughts of a weak man's old friends. It takes a lot of time for a bride to get accustomed to the odor of cigar smoke among her daintily-scented belongings. IN MEMORIAM HONOR AND SERVICE POTENT FACTOR IN EDUCATION POTENT FACTOR IN EDUCATION School in Durham to Hold Ministers' Conference in July. FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM—INSTITUTION FOUNDED BY DR. JAMES E. SHEPARD AFFORDS OPPORTUNITY FOR PASTORS AND TEACHERS TO PROPERLY PREPARE THEMSELVES—PLANS FOR THE SUMMER SCHOOL. By GEORGE FRANCIS KING. Durham, N. C. Throughout this and other states the ministers of the race are manifesting an appreciable interest in the forthcoming ministers' conference to be held July 6 to 13, inclusive, at the National Religious Training school in this city. This movement was born in the fertile mind of the Rev. Dr. James E. Shepard, the founder of the most essential educational and religious undertaking ever inaugurated for the wholesome uplift of the race. The plans of the conference are so comprehensive and far-reaching that not only ministers of the race are sanguine over the needed results that will be gained from such a meeting, but leading white divines in many sections of the country are giving impetus to the effort by substantial encouragement. Dr. W. Y. Chapman, pastor of one of the richest Presbyterian churches in the country, located in Newark, N. J., is an enthusiastic advocate of the conference. He says that the sociological problems of the race are largely to be solved by the Afro-American preachers. He has visited this famous institution several times since it opened for the reception of students, and has carefully studied conditions. Such a forceful character as Dr. Chapman, who always contends for giving the negro every right that is guaranteed an American citizen, will again this year give a series of lectures at the summer school and Chautauqua. Dr. Shepard is receiving applications from ministers in many sections of the country and the preachers in the rural district who need such inspiration and instruction as will be derived from such a conference. The progressive citizens of Durham of both races are preparing to make this meeting one of national import. The institution will entertain during the week of the conference all ministers without cost. Such a concourse of divines, entirely undemonational, deliberating upon questions of vital import to the race and nation will be epocalyptic in character. After a careful investigation it has been found that there are 30,000 Afro-American preachers in this country and that only 3,000 are rightly prepared for the noble work they should accomplish; hence the work they should accomplish is apparent. It will be a potent factor in reaching the masses of the race and turning the activities of thousands of them into channels of usefulness. Beginning July 3, the summer school and Chautauqua of this well known educational and religious Mecca will be crowded with students and teachers and visitors. Dr. Johnson of Xenia, O., the noted Bible student and instructor, says that this effort has an influence and helpfulness analogous to the movements of the white race, and, although as one of its lecturers, he was greatly benefited. The musical features are away above the average. Noted singers and reciters are heard daily. Such lecturers as Prof. Kelly Miller, Mr. D. Webster Davis, with his wholesome wit and philosophy, and Professor Douglass. The program for the summer school and Chautauqua as is now being arranged will be one of the greatest sources of inspiration, educational and with splendid social diversions, that have ever been accorded the race in the south. The splendid achievements of the race along commercial and professional lines in Durham are "native ideals" for the visitors, so all who will attend the ministers' conference, summer school and Chautauqua will be encouraged by such concrete evidence of racial progress. DRIVEN TO DRINK. The Union club of Cleveland, O., is a large and imposing structure. At luncheon time it is one of the most populous and popular places in the city, but at night it is about as gay as the House of Usher. A man from New Orleans, in Cleveland on business, was given a card to the club by a friend. He didn't know a person in Cleveland except his sponsor. Naturally he was lonely and naturally he went up to the Union club at night to see if he could find company. Nobody was there but the servants. He wandered about in the big rooms, growing lonesome every minute. He sat first in one room and then in another, hoping for company. Finally, it seemed as if the very silence of it all would make him scream. He was plunged in a big chair in the lounging room, which was quiet as the grave, when his sponsor at the club came in. He touched the New Orleans man on the shoulder and said: "I say, old chap, will you have a drink?" "Yes, by heavens, I will! You have talked me into it."—Saturday Evening Post. One Year.....$1.50 Six Months.....1.00 Three Months......50 Subscribers are requested to mit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice In Cleveland Ohio, as second-class matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and proprietor, THE GAZETTE, Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the Interest of Afro-Americans, published In the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. It is now the duty of our voters of Ohio to make votes, particularly among our white friends, for the Cunningham Proposal, as the objectionable word ("white") in the Ohio constitution will not be eliminated until the Proposal is adopted at the election at which this state's new constitution is to be voted upon. Please remember this, and pass the word along. In our next issue we shall have more space, and during the coming week, more time, to give our readers The Gazette's view as regards the "Presidential" situation as far as the candidates are concerned, especially Messrs. Roosevelt and Taft. We have had so very much to say for many months, anent the two gentlemen named, that it may be impossible to add anything new, but we shall try. The doctrine of the amalgamation or union of all the races, being preached throughout the north of this country, these days, by Abdul Baha, the venerable and learned Persian leader of the movement for a universal religion, is no new one as all South America and many countries of southern Europe attest. The mixture has been going on there for centuries and will continue. It has steadily grown in this prejudiced country, before, during and since the days of slavery, and will continue to do so in spite of all the south and its cohorts, north and south, can do and say to prevent it. "It is natural." The Citizens' Rights league of Cleveland deserves to be encouraged in its effort to bring Major David Cunningham of Cadiz, Ohio, to this city on May 19. It is the desire of the organization to stir our people to a proper realization of the work they must do to make sure of the adoption of the Cunningham Proposal when it is submitted to the people of the state for their adoption. If the League is successful, other race organizations throughout Ohio will follow its example and when the time comes to vote our people of the state will not only know what to do but will have reached all their friends, at least, among the many other classes of "Buckeye" voters. OUR PASTORS' OPPORTUNITY! There is an opportunity, at this time, for the Afro-American ministers of Cleveland to show leadership in temporal affairs, also, that has not been theirs for many years and may not come again in years. Their inadmission of one of our legislative candidates — deserving, competent, loyal to the race, and fearless—will go far toward securing the race representation on the local Republican ticket, this fall, and help materially in gaining our people of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County direct representation in the Ohio Legislature, next winter. I will salute on this occasion to this excellent opportunity would be unfortunate, to say the least, and have an effect upon our people at large, of this community, that cannot prove helpful. Our pastors and their churches have ever had an aggressive champion and help in The Gazette and it wants to see our local Ministers' Alliance grasp all of its opportunities, especially those that broaden their field of activity "for the general good and welfare" of the face. There is no question in the minds of a majority of the members of the Alliance (with whom the editor of The Gazette has talked in recent weeks) as to the course it should pursue and we are confidently looking forward to action on its part, on Tuesday next, that will indicate in a material way their earnest desire and determination, in this matter, to promote the political progress and uplift of our people of this community, many of whom are members of their several churches. Will they embrace the opportunity? We shall see. MR. WILLIAM ORR One of the candidates for a Republican nomination for County Commissioner at the coming primaries, is Mr. Wm. Orr, one of the "war-horses" of the local Republican party for many years, and always friendly and helpful to our candidates in the past. We want our people to do all they can for him because he is thoroughly competent and all the position most acceptable and because he is certainly deserving, not only of our support, but also of the position at the hands of the members of our party. AGENTS! READ! When your Gazettes are not delivered on Friday mornings, call at your Central Postoffice General Delivery Window for them in the afternoon of the same day. —Editor. WHY COLORED REPUBLI-CANS SHOULD SUP- PORT ROOSEVELT DELEGATES. THE ATTENTION OF EVERY AFRO-AMERICAN IS CALLED TO THE FACT THAT HE OWES IT TO HIS RACE TO REBUKE THE "JIM CROW" POLICY OF PRESIDENT.TAFT BY SUPPORTING THOSE DELEGATES PLEDGED TO THE NOMINATION OF COLONEL THEODORE ROOSEVELT Editor Gazette, Deir Sir: Let me for today give one sufficient reason why Colored citizens should, aye, must, support Roosevelt for President, as above any other man beneath the Stars and Stripes. That reason may be summed up in the single phrase, "The South and Their Citizenship," that is race's great burden and its importance against the administration today. And just as the reasons are manifold as battalons and not like single spies, why Colored men should fight against the renomination of Taft, they are just as many and mighty why they should do their utmost to return their race's friend to power. I need not speak of Roosevelt in the North, for few citizens of this country are given credit for race friendship and friendly acts in the Northern States. I need not speak of Roosevelt in the South, the time in 1884 when he forced the Republican National Convention at Chicago to make Major John R. Lynch of Mississippi temporary chairman of the Republican National Convention and ringingly dared the color cowards to come out in the open with their opposition. Nor do I need review his constant and high-minded service both by word and deed to the Colored people throughout his career since, as member of the Legislature, he was the first nominee and Vice President. Nor will I discuss his appointments, as president in the North, such as those of Assistant U. S. District Attorneys William H. Lewis at Boston, S. Laing Hon. John R. Lynch. Williams at Chicago, James E. Cobb at Washington, D. C.; Ralph W. Tyler as Auditor of the Navy, Chas. W. Anderson as Collector of Internal Revenue at New York, or nearly a score of others in considerable and new positions for the race. But the South man grounded with what he man grounded for centuries under physical slavery and where he groans today under political slavery, and where he will groan tomorrow and next day, under something akln to both unless a strong and stalwart State, furnishes the most cogent reasons for the nomination and election of Theodore Roosevelt. Hit the Entire Southern System. No one acquainted with Mr. Roosevelt's attitude towards the South during his seven years in the White House has forgotten the persistence with which he threw himself against the oppressive men holding place of honor and trust in the Southern States, a scheme which has blossomed under the patronage of President Taft. Booker T. Washington, Roosevelt's closest friend, had in mind his closest attitude of Mr. Roosevelt, no less than the man who wrote the course of a series of papers published recently by the "World's Work," he said that Theodore Roosevelt never broke his word. What he said he would do with respect to Colored men, and their representation in the government as taxpayers, he did, and what he wrote for public comment was to provide speech. The first evidence Mr. Roosevelt gave of his unwillingness to become a party to the purpose and plan of the new know-nothings of the slave States to "illy white" all of the South came in a memorable letter to Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, who addressed to President Roosevelt an appointment of Colored men to office. It was in this letter that appeared for the first time the new, celebrated sentence: "All men up. Not some men down." Case of Crum in Charleston. Upon the Crum case Mr. Roosevelt made his reputation for courageousness and square-dealing with a situation that had been approached with vaccination and weakness since the day R. B. Hayes sat himself down in mighty seat of the S. Crum, three times to the Senate the nomination of William Demos Crum as Collector of the Port of Charleston, and three times the Senate rejected that nomination. Mr. Roosevelt saw then for the first time that the white South opposed the Colored South in its ambition to rise not on the ground of incompetence, but entirely on the ground of race and color and other conditions he added to the nomination and against a Statewide combination led by John C. Hemphill of the News and Courier, he carried Crum to victory. Indianola Postmistress Is Protected. Following close upon the Crum case came the attempt of the "red-necks" of Sunflower county, Mississippi, to oust Mrs. Wayne Cox from the postoffice at Indianaola, a place she had served with rare albums. She had been on the landmand pay taxes on property valued at $100,000. In this content with prejudice, Mr. Roosevelt closed the postoffice, and kept it closed until the hot-headed element THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1912 among the white people in the county had recovered their senses, and until Mrs. Cox herself was satisfied with the arrangement for her successor, The South dared President Rosese to appoint a Colored man to a high position in the Mason and Dixon's line. Two weeks after he was elected to the Presidency he answered the challenge by selecting Chas. W. Anderson for the important place as Collector for Internal Revenue for the Second N. Y. District, the largest and most responsible position in the entire revenue service. Since the days of Norris Wright Cuney, the "yellow rose" of Galveston, and the most remarkable political leader the South ever produced, a name worthy to be mentioned along with Quay and Platt and the elder statesmen, no man of color had held a high office in the State of Texas. This information was fetched to Mr. Roosevelt by the Texas Colored people since the Texas Colored people were taxed on $5,000,000 worth of property it would be a thing of wisdom to select one of their number for some place of distinction in the Federal service. Texas protested, but Texas protested without avail. Mr. Roosevelt asked for the man and Booker Washington gave him a copy of the Texas Literature, and who is head of the largest industrial association among Colored people in the country. Promptly, without excuse, without extenuation, Mr. Roosevelt selected Mr. Smith for Chief Deputy of the United States Marshal's office for the Northern District of Texas. Over and against the distinguished services performed by Mr. Smith, the course of his officiates and testifies in the protest of the Colored people of Texas, Mr. Taft promptly removed Mr. Smith and filled his office with a "jilly white" Republican. Holds Cohen and Kennedy in Louisiana. Under Mr. Taft the Colored Republicans of Louisiana have been robbed of other positions of honor and trust in the Government, and their places have been filled by men who marched under the Republican banner, when, as a matter of course, they belonged to the Republican party for three years the position held by Walter Cohen and the place held by Burt Kennedy in the United States land office in New Orleans were sought by men who made all manner of false protestations to Mr. Roosevelt, but Colored men held less jobs, not only because of the jobs of Mr. Roosevelt, but with his absolute and warmest support. Refused to Recall Able Georgian. According to the records, Henry A. Rucker, for twelve years Collector of Internal Revenue for the State of Georgia, was the most efficient official in the Internal Revenue service on what they called the neglected bill in Georgia, the mob sought to have Mr. Roosevelt recall Mr. Rucker and fill his place with a white man. This Mr. Roosevelt refused to do and his refusal was marked by the highest compliment paid, not only to the efficiency of Mr. Rucker as an official, but to his character as a gentleman. Mr. Roosevelt again was challenged, and more Colored men ought to be given recognition in the high places at Washington, hoping in this way not to center the official activities of Colored men at Washington, but also and particularly to cut them off from places of power and trust in the several States. Mr. Roosevelt responded this not only by appointing W. Tyley the Attorney for the Treasury Department, but by selecting additional Colored men for places of honor through the commonwealths. In 1901 the present Municipal Court at Washington was established by an Act of Congress. In the beginning ten judges were provided for the trial of the Colored men said that the filling of these places gave to Mr. Roosevelt an opportunity to show how much faith he had in the intelligence and integrity of Colored men. Since it would be an easy matter for him to choose one man to sit at a Municipal Court, a justice in the District of Columbia, Mr. Roosevelt replied by appointing Emanuel M. Hewlett, who was Emanuel M. Hewlett and the other Robert H. Terrell. Judge Hewlett failed of reappointment when the number of justices were cut down. Mr. Terrell is today acknowledged as the ablest justice of the Washington Municipal Courts. CIVIL WAR VETERAN AND RE CONSTRUCTION OFFICEHOLDER BISHOP'S APPEAL FOR ROOSEVELT Leading Churchmen, Recognizing an Extraordinary Occasion, Make Keen Criticism of President Taft and Call Our People to Support Roosevelt. Washington, D. C—At a meeting of eighteen bishops, fifty-seven ministers of the gospel, besides leading educators and other leaders of the race, representing thirteen of the Northern States, besides five Southern States, and representing, as we believe, the overwhelming sentiment of more than our hundred thousand and millions of voters in the state of Mississippi, York, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, West Virginia and Kansas, after a full discussion of the present situation as it affects the best hope and inspiration of our people, by the unanimous vote of the entire conference, do hereby join in the following statement of our opinion of the organization, the Republican party, to which we have heretofore given our loyal and unswerving support, actuated by the desire to advise and caution our people as to their civil rights and the maintenance of the same, and feeling that it is our God-given duty to be ever alert and watchful for the welfare of the body as well as the attention to the means of calling attention to the campus andress in the Republican party for the selection of a Presidential nominee. God rules; and, although wrong, injustice and oppression sometimes seem to override right and justice, a justice is sure to come sooner or later, when wrong is routed and right triumphs. At no time, since the Negro has been a citizen, he has been so thoroughly ignored as a part and parcel of this great government, as he has been since William Howard Taft has been President of the United States. There he has done in official life, under pressure, excitement and haste, which can rightly be charged to the head and not to the heart. There are other wrongs which are calmly, deliberately and intentionally done which stamp the doer as a hard man filled with prejudice and race antipathy. Almost the first official utterance made by President Taft is that he strikes him down and deliberately taking from him his rights as a citizen to participate in the affairs of the government, which he had fought to maintain, and supported for fifty years so zealously that his loyalty caused his undoing politically among the South and the North. Men, sometimes in their zenith of power, forget that their own acts and utterances, will in a day of judgment, condemn them. This is the day of political judgment against William Howard Taft, and he stands condemned in the eyes of every sane, conscientious Negro in the country, not excepting, to use his own words, a few well-known offices. President Taft's Southern policy is the most cruel and degrading blow ever delivered against the Negro by any President. It was cruel, because the Negro had helped to elect him. It was degrading because it struck down the Negro leader all over the South, and left him without power and the wood of water. But, now God, in His own time, has made it possible for the ten or more millions of Negroes in this country to join hands and send William Howard Taft back to private life, stripped of power and covered with shame. Will you do it? Will you help? The man who is now a recruitive candidate, and it should be the bounden duty of every Negro in the United States, male and female, old and young, voter and non-voter, to lift his voice in behalf of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, the only man, we believe, in the Republican party who will revive the prince and now is a recruitive candidate, and from their shattered and disorganized state, from almost certain defeat to another glorious victory in the interest of human liberty. Brownsville. We simply ask that you give Col. Roosevelt a change to right a hasty act, based upon the recommendations of others. We can look with much pride at the one hundred and sixty-two men out of the United States Army without honor than we can upon the policy which drove nearly every single Negro out of office in the South, in the ill-judged attempt to make white Republican votes in the South. For Taft's Southern policy there is neither more need for reelection, nor more cause and brethren, we beseech you, one and all, to give your time, energy and means in every possible and honorable way to bring about the nomination of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, trustworthy and reliable, and do all you can to encompass the defeat of President Woodrow Wilson, to support that ten more millions of Negroes should accept his appointment of an Assistant Attorney General and a Collector of Customs at Honolulu as a panacea for his degrading Southern policy. In addition to this Mr. Taft's policy has wrecked the reputation of a party that has stood for fifty years. He came to the presidency in the nineteenth century in both branches of Congress; in three years' time his policy has turned twelve strong Republican States into Democratic States, and the House from a Republican majority of seventy odd to a Democratic majority of seventy odd. ft Closing the Door of Hope in the Face of the Young Negro." President Taft's declared intentions not to recognize the worthy Negroes of the South renders it impossible for any God-fearing, self-respecting Negro to support him, and we desire to warn the leaders of the Republican party that if our prayers and rights are ignored we will not support him. In addition to signatures which apportioned among them sent to three hundred and ninety-eight other prominent ministers and professional men of our race, three hundred and sixty-six have declared to us that they are opposed to the nomination of Mr. Taft, and believe that the nomination of Col. Theodore Roosevelt is necessary if the party of Lincoln, Grant and Wood are successful in the coming campaign. District of Columbia: Rev. Dr. G. M. Oliver, Rev. Dr. C. Alleyne, Rev. Dr. W. H. Barton, Mr. J. Lewis Taylor, Eaq, Dr. J. Anderson Taylor, Dr. J. Anderson, other men of the Committee on Arrangements, 417 O St, N, W. MEMORIAL SPEECH OF HON JOSEPH C. MANNING OF ALABAMA, AGAINST ROOSEVELT. DELIVERED IN FANEUIL HALL, BOSTON, MASS., FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 26, 1912—REMEMBER SENATOR FORAKER AND "THE BLACK BATTALION!" Just how supporters of the third term candidate can ask Colored voters, with the history of the steam roller methods before them, to support Roosevelt is something I can not imagine. Do not Colored men recall how committee meetings and republican concert conventions in the South were called in recent, in several instances, in white facet, in white Colored delegates could not enter? Do not Colored men recall that at the Mississippi state convention the Roosevelt minority overcame the Foraker majority by having white policemen at the convention hall doors to beat back Foraker delegates with clubs? Can it be that there is a Colored man, South or North, whose memory is so short that he fails to remember the event. In this Ormsby McHarr's gum shoe work, to head off the gratitude of the Colored race in the South in their Hon. J. C. Manning. support of that splendid man who championed their cause in the United States Senate and who went out of public life for pleading for the right of trial for Colored men that had never before been denied in this country to either Colored or white by any republican in any place of authority in this government. I hope tonight, from the depths of my heart, that no Colored man was nominated for president this third term candidate who, when president, so used the influence and power of that high office as not only to drive from the senate the most outspoken champion the Colored race had in that body, but who went so far in his fight on this man as to try to put a blight upon the reputation of this great revered man, and to gain ingratitude, indeed, if the Colored race failed at this time to remember Joseph Benson Foraker. Now, to the subject of Brownville, the third term candidate is fond of talking about the square deal. He has repeatedly proclaimed he has given the Colored people a square deal. Did he give the Colored people a square deal when he had a trial and without authority of law a battalion of the Twenty-fifth infantry for the alleged Brownville outrage? He did this, as you well know and he did it although the then Secretary of War, Mr. Taft, urged that the order be suspended and although confessing that some were undoubtedly innocent even by way of proving their innocence to secure their reinstalment. But the most cowardly thing that he did was to fool the Colored people just as he has always fooled the whites. The report of the Inspector General of the army, recommending the dismissal of the battalion was made October 22, 1906, by the New York City White House. There it lay on President Roosevelt's desk until November the 6th. Do you know why nothing was done with it for 16 days? There was a congressional election pending and Roosevelt needed the Colored vote. November the 6th was the day of the congressional election, and late on that evening, long after the polls had closed and every Colored republican had voted for republican candidates for congress, because President Roosevelt was believed by them to be the only Colored person order, dismissing veterans without trial and without even a chance to be heard, was issued. Every power of the Federal government, with the powerful detective service at its command, all of this, together with the anti-Colored sentiment in Texas, that was active as against these Colored soldiers, utterly failed to fix guilt upon a single man in this battalion and they stand guiltless today before the American people, although these men, with good reputation as men and as soldiers, were cast out from the army by the third term candidate without a hearing and without honor. This is a very Roosevelt of the Colored people a square deal. He was too cowardly to issue his order before election, so he had to wait until there was no danger to himself before he issued it, although his mind had been made up 16 days before. President Roosevelt was as much interested in the result of this election as any man who was a candidate for congress. If the republicans had lost control of the House, he would have been the chief sufferer. He betrayed the Colored people then as he is now betraying the man that he did more betraying the man than he did more in the presidency of the United States makes no difference what may be his politics, the fair-minded American will always look upon the betrayal of these Colored people by this republican president as one of the blackest chapters in American history while his treachery to President Taft must bring to the third term candidate the condemnation of every self-respecting American. The effect of President Roosevelt's Brownsville order may be clearly understood and thoroughly revealed when we consider the language of Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, who, in referring to this order, said that in the South one Colored man was lynched at a time, while Rosevelt lynched a regiment. The very great harm that has always come to Colored people in the South is that the sins of the few have gone to work an almost insurmountable hardship to the many who are as patient and as deserving, as diffident and as perseving in the right, as is the average of our nation's opportunity, education and environment. Even were some of these saints guilty wrong to condemn all for the guilt of some few. The Brownsville order said to the country, in effect, that all Colored men deserved to be lynched when some few go wrong and, so interpreted by some in the South, lynching has become very prevalent. What about Roosevelt? Who is it that does not recall the Atlanta massacre? What word did President Roosevelt utter at that time as an assistant that unspoken chame and blot upon American manhood and honor? On the other hand, who is it that does not remember his reception of those Chattanooga citizens at the White House at the time they were in Washington to receive sentence from the Supreme Court of the United States to theirs when a prisoner of the Federal prison was lynched by the mob? To such acts as the Brownies order, to such acts as receiving lynchers with a glad hand at the White House, may be traced the growth of the lynching spirit in the South. It is preposterous for the republican party to support the third term candidates if he becomes the nominee of the republican party. Where does the third term candidate stand on the disfranchisement laws in the South? He knows, or ought to know, that these election subterfuges were devised to disfranchise, to disembowel, to eliminate the opposition to the bourbon machine in the South. He knows that the Colored man was the victim of the South in violation of the Constitution of the United States. What is his record on disfranchisement? The Washington Post, November 8, 1999, said: "President Roosevelt is satisfied with the balloting privileges accorded the Negro by the laws of the southern states, and is strongly opposed to disciplining the states with laws strictly drawn to exclude the Negro by any curtailment of the representations of the states, according to a letter from the president to Wyndham R. Meredith, president of the Virginia Bar association. "In his letter, which was written October 27, the president gives as his belief that not a 'single individual of any consequence believes in cutting down southern representation, and that such a fear on the part of southerners is 'both idle and absurd.' Mr. Meredith is a Cleveland democrat. Mr. Taff's cause those open espousal of Mr. Taff's cause a sensation in the South and played a prominent part in increasing the republican vote in Virginia." The third term candidate is satisfied with the balloting privileges of the Colored citizens in Alabama, where we have over 180,000 Colored men of voting age and where not 3,000 are permitted to register or to vote. In this government of ours it is the right of all citizens to decide as between the citizen and the subject. The third term candidate is satisfied to have the Colored men of the South remain in a subject condition and this in violation of the American Constitution. The present occupant of the White House, whose election to the presidency the third term candidate did so much to bring about, has felt his duty to express his views about these disfranchisement measures which the former members of Colored voters was undertake, in the state of Maryland, he gave his condemnation of this in the following language: "The whole law ought to be condemned. It is not drawn in the spirit of justice and equality, having regard for the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, and I sincerely hope that no republican who desires equality of treatment to the black and white races will vote for it." OPPOSE ROOSEVELT! Boston. Mass, May 7, 1912. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor GAZETTE: This is an historic crisis, in showing the race capable of maintaining a position, remembering Brownsville against its author, and remembering the striking down of Senator Josep Benson Foraker for demanding the trial-right for Colored soldiers. I believe it suicidal for the race to elevate Roosevelt to a third term, with Foraker struck down for our defense. Roosevelt is seeking the destruction of Senator Crane, here. Colored Mass-sachuette appeals to Colored Ohio to make opposing Boone paymount. WM. MONROE TROTTER Massachusetts Anti-Roosevelt Community WONDERFUL RESULTS ON SHORT NOTICE I have used your Pomade. Its the best thing I ever used for making curly hair lie smooth. I have not finished my first bottle, but can see wonderful results, writes Mrs. Louise E. Hayes of Pineville, S. C. Try Ford's Hair Pomade for harsh stubborn and unruly hair and Ford's Royal White Skin Lotion for the complexion. Ask your drugstist for them. Be sure and get the genuine (Ford's) manufactured by the Ozonized Ox Marrow Company, Chicago, Ill. JUDGE FRED L. TAFT. In our judgment, the best man, from all viewpoints, a candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress in this the Twenty-first district of Ohio, L. Taff. L. Taff. There is no question as to his fitness for the position or as to his popularity. Then, too, he is well known and has been active in the party for many years. Fred. is a good campaigner, something that will be of the greatest this fall, if the signs of the times are not wholly misleading. BUCKEYE LETTERS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS. THROUGHOUT OHIO What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical — Marriages, Deaths, Etc. Bellaire—Rev. S. Douglass McDuffie, the active young minister who made such an excellent impression in Cleveland at Mt. Zion Congregational and Cory M. E. churches, is conducting revives there and will do so in Bridgeport, Martins Ferry and Cedar. He is a graduate of the theological department of Howard University, Washington, D. C., and an excellent evangelist. His addresses are strong and beneficial, as well as impressive. Toledo—Mr. Hurby Miles expects to visit his sister in Cleveland, soon.—Miss Eva Porter will visit a week in Oberlin.—Mr. John Jones was very ill, last week.—Mr. R. Drake died recently at St. Vincent's hospital. Funeral from the Third Baptist church, Rev. M. McWilliams officiating.—Miss Anna Fish spent the summer in Morenci. Mich.—Mr. Mori played here last week and appeared in Cleveland.—Little Willa F Smith was a prize-winner in the baby show given by the Women's club of the Third Baptist church. --- Sandusky.—Mr. Moses Thompson is ill. Also Mr. Noah Williams and Mrs. P. T. Pate, who was unable to attend the Anderson wedding, as a result. Little Herbert Taylor of Akron, a nephew, died recently. It was quite a shock to her.—A daughter of Mrs. Eliza Chiles, mother of Mr. David Anderson, took her to Howell, Mich.—Mrs. Josephine Thomas is visiting her brother-in-law, Mr. Robert Corom, in New York. Mr. Geo. Taylor have moved to Battle Creek, Mr. E. Garrett and Miss Laura Rogers were married on the 25th by Rev. G. D. Smith. They are "at home" here. * * * Lorain—Little Louise Tates is out again. Mr. Ernest Brantford spent Sunday with his sister in Cleveland. Mr. Little of N. Y., Miss Wilke and Mr. Frank Lyle, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Brown—Jas. Hayes, an old resident, died at St. Joseph's hospital, Friday evening. Funeral services were held at Wickle Chaple, Rev. G. L. Hikks officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson entertained, last Wednesday, in honor of Master Howard Beauty of Norwalk. Quite a number of young people were present. Games, music, etc.—Wm. Brantford is convalescent. Rev. B. H. Ware of the Second Baptist church, is holding a ten days' union meeting. Miss Flossy Haines has returned from a visit with relatives in Fostoria.—Ray Tates and his wife, Marilyn, attended evening.—Mr. Grul of the N. T. Worky visited Allen league, Sunday, and gave a fine talk. It was greatly appreciated. Smithfield—Mr. Gill of Wheeling visited his wife, recently. J. M. Veney has been ill several days—Miss Sarah Harris has returned—Mr. and Mrs. John Christian attended church in McIntyre, Sunday—Mrs. S. W. White is acclimated. Carson and Miss Emmia have improved slowly dames D. W. Bigsby and D. Fitzgerald were in Steubenville, last Monday—Miss Minnie Beaill closed her second term of school at McIntyre, last Thursday, and is spending her vacation with Mr. and Mrs. N. Mitchell, Ira Toney, D. Freeman and Sandford West of McIntyre, were here Sunday, and Mr. Ezekiel Smith Monday morning—Miss Ezekiel Smith and son of Cadiz, visited his mother and family, Sunday. Mrs. R. Smith, also of Cadiz, was the guest of Mrs. J. Powell—The church and S. S. attendance, Sunday, was very good, and the pastor preached two able sermons. Youngstown.—Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Stewart were given a "shower." Tuesday evening in which 25 couples participated. Music and games. The gifts included linen, china and silverware. Lunch was served at 11 p.m.—Mr. Richards and Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Boggess, Mrs. Thos. Lonesome, Mrs. William Saunders and Mrs. William Jones attended Mr. Abel Boggess" deceased was born in Virginia in 1817, reached Jefferson via the "Underground Railroad" in 1843 and was a volunteer veteran of the war of the rebellion. A brother, Richard, and other relatives (in Youngstown) survive him.—Miss Rhoda Holmes is better. Misses Wilma Guyder and Carrie Grimes were in E. Liverpool, Tuesday evening.—Mrs. Chas. Jackson attended an annual eerie Ellie Patterson's funeral. Fairview. The deceased was 88 years of age. H. Moore is convalescent.—Members of Buckeye lodge will attend Cuyahoga lodge's anniversary celebration in Cleveland, the 19th and 20th. Mrs. Lilley, who has been the ill for three weeks, is better. Give the local agent your order for our best paper and advocate "the old reliable" Gazette. THE ONLY ONE IN CLEVELAND The Gazette is and has been, for many months, the only paper published in Cleveland and northern Ohio for the Colored people, all reports to the contrary notwithstanding. Do not be misled. EDITOR. FOR RENT.—Houses.—If you have places to rent or if you want to rent—notify The Gazette. NOTARY PUBLIC.—For such services call at The Gazette office, No 3 Blackstone Building, No. 1422 W. 3d street, near Superior avenue. For Sale.—Restaurant—L. G. Adkins has decided to sell his well-established restaurant. Good reasons for selling. Call at 2613 Central Av. FOR RENT.—Furnished rooms with gas and bath. Special accommodations for theatrical people. Room and board. Mrs. I. B. Ambrose, 2285 E. 46th St. Cuy. Phone, Central 2917 L. Eastern Star lodge, No. 9, will give a social at Mrs. Jas. H. Weaver, 2252 E. 432D St. next Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Dixie Fox of Cairo, Ill., are in the city, to locate. They are stopping at Mrs. Mountain's, E. 432D St. A benefit will be given at Oriole hall, for the Old Folks' Home, Thursday evening, May 16. Admission 10 cents. The Lincoln Embroidery club met at Mrs. Arthur Abbott's, Friday afternoon. Mrs. Jane Walker was elected delegate to the State Federation meet, here in July. Dr. J. K. Nickens was recently made an honorary member of the Ministers' Alliance of this city. The last two meetings of the organization were exceptionally interesting. Miss Lucas, public stenographer, whose advertisement will be found elsewhere in The Gazette is a member of the race, and competent. Patronize her. Societies, lodges and all organizations, particularly, please take notice. Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Scott of 2353 E. 36th St, gave a very enjoyable party last Monday evening in honor of little Helen, one year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Callahan of 2349 E. 36th St. She was given a very pretty dress. Mrs. Mary Spires and Mrs. Elmer Spires of Wellsville, were called to the city by the serious illness of their sister, Mrs. Jane Leach of 3049 Cedar Ave. Messrs. Wm. and John Leach have returned to Zanville, after visiting their mother. The Caterers' Association's annual event will be held at Luna Park. Tuesday evening, May 14. Dancing will begin at 8 p. m. and continue until 2 a. m. REFRESHMENTS FREE! Admission, fifty cents. Don't miss it! At mt. Haven Baptist church, 3725 Cedar Ave, Sunday at 10:45 a. m., the pastor, Rev. J. L. Burr, will preach on "A Tribute to Mother;" in the afternoon, sermons by Rev. Webster, B. Y. P. U. at 6:30, and prayer at 7:45 p. m. The Brown Drug Co., has just received a large shipment of fresh herbs and are giving away 100 pounds free to advertise its PURO HERBS. Cut out the Brown Drug Co., advertisement in this paper and go in and see for yourself. Best in the world, these herbs, for a springtime treat. These flowers and acquaintances. Special services at Lane Memorial C. M. E. church, Sunday morning and evening. Mothers are especially invited as their day will be fittingly observed. Hon. John P. Green will deliver an address in the evening. Subject: "Why We Observe Mothers' Day." The public is cordially invited. The Du Bols Literary club will give a suffrage play, "How the Vote Was Won," at the alpha theater, Monday evening, the 20th. Its suffrage meeting, this Friday evening, at St. John's A. M. E. church promise to receive date. Mrs. Louise Hall will be the principal speaker. All are invited. Do not miss it! S. E. Woods sends The Gazette a communication relative to Ben. Srulovitz's alleged claim of controlling certain precincts in the south end of the 11th ward, where our people are most numerous, and which (said alleged claims) have greatly stirred the voters in that section of the city. We shall have more to say of this in our next issue. Lack of space prevents it this week. A woman performer at the Knickerbocker theater, in the East End, sang a song about our people, last Monday evening, in which the objectionable words —) occurred frequently in the audience left ablack—all were white, too. The manager paid and dismissed her at once, telling her his "theater was not on Ontario St." Good! It has been decided to hold the Cunningham "Proposal" demonstration on May 19 in the afternoon, with Major David Cunningham of Cadiz, O., as the star attraction. There will be other speakers, local and from other points in the state. Proper announcement will be made in the churches, and in The Gazette next week. The Citizens' Rights League committees, in charge of the demonstration, are making the demonstration preparations for special and fine music, speakers, etc., and really grand occasion, proper for the day. They met Sunday from 4:30 to 5:30 p. m. at Mrs. McNaughton's, E 30th St. A young man of the race arrived in the city week before last on Friday or Thursday from Shelbyville, Tenn., with $58 in cash, left him by his father, recently deceased. He also left a house and an home city, by the said. In fifteen minutes, he lost $58, gambling in a well-known saloon on E. 14th St. he told one of our local business men with whom he left $450 until the next day. The first of last week, he left the city "broke," his money all gambled away. Doubless he has gone more money, isn't this terrible? Mrs. Rhoda D. Bouldon, 3314 West 54th street, died Saturday morning week, after a protracted illness from organic heart trouble. Mrs. Bouldon was 72, and the widow of the late John A. Bouldon, a professor in the sixties, Julius C. Bouldon of Chicago, Mrs. Helen O. Brascher of Columbus and J. Edward Bouldon of this city are children. Mrs. Bouldon was an active Christian worker in St. John's A. M. E. church and was the mother superior of the deaceless society. She held from evidence last Monday afternoon, Rev. G. V. Clark, assisted Rev. G. A. Sissle, officiating. In terment, Woodland cemetery. Miss Grace Brock of E. 43d St., is still ill. Colored boxes ought not to be so "easy" for the C. A. C., which has announced a tournament for May 16 and 17. Mrs. A. Harris of Pittsburg is stopping at Mrs. Owens' E. 43d St. Mr. Weir of Central Ave., and Mrs. Mountain of E. 43d St., are convalescent. Messrs. Charles S. Hackley and Chas. S. Sutton, Esg., entertained the Union Club of St. Andrew, last Tuesday evening, in the club rooms. About 25 members were present. The Gazette desires to ask its readers to remember, especially, its advertisers. Patronize them; they want your trade and will treat you far better in every way than those who do not ask for your patronage in these columns. Ex-U. S. Senator Wm. Mason of Chicago is soon to deliver an address to one person at Doolittle Hall. It was Mr. Mason who introduced Miss Idia B. Wells, now Mrs. F. L. Barnett of Chicago, to the U. S. Senate some years ago. Send your local items to The Gazette on Monday or Tuesday of each week. This paper is published for ALL of our people and "plays no favorites." Everybody is treated the same—fair and right. Take The Gazette, and tell your friends to do so. Also, the street meetings along Central Ave, under the auspices of Cory M. E. church have resulted in three conversions and additions to the church. Mr. John Jackson secured protection from the city authorities for the workers in these meetings. The Epworth Guards served refreshments. Monday evening, the guards do so, next Monday evening. The league will give the pastor a reception soon. The editor of The Gazette, the Citizens' Rights league and our Law and Order Reform league are cordially invited to attend the Cory Epworth league meetings on Monday evenings, and the Brotherhood meetings on Wednesday evenings. The author of the league will invite the editor to speak on Monday evening, week The Francis Harper W. C. T. U. Mothers' club will meet at Mrs. Wm. Anderson's, 2305 E. 43rd St. Monday, June 12. On May 22, the organization will hold an open meeting at St. John's A. M. E. church, which will be addressed by Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette. There will also Mrs. Frances Harper be some one music. The object of the club is to cooperate with the W. C. T. U. in spiritual and temporal work, and for the advancement and uplifting of the mothers of the race. All parents are invited. Mrs. W. M. Anderson, pres., and Mrs. J. A. Taylor, sec. "Mothers' Day" will be celebrated, Sunday, at St. James' A. M. E. church. Special sermon at 11 a. m. by the pastor, Dr. F. G. Snelson, and in the evening by Mrs. B. W. Paxton. Mrs. Snelson will preside, and other papers will be read by Mesdames Tarrer, Lowert and Washington. The public is cordially invited. The "Queen of May" contest, at the church, will close next Wednesday evening, when a grand concert will be given. The following ladies are being held at Mesdames Washington, Bail Williams, Malone, Mahoney, Wiggins, Malone, Washington, Berry, Ogleys, Wood, Middleton, Matlock, Fowler, Foster; also Miss Thompson, Wiggins, Ramsey, Cleage, Burns, Snelson, Wiggins and Farmer. Admission to the concert, ten cents. The public is cordially invited. The editor of The Gazette has promised to be present. A battle of months, between police wit and gamblers' ingenuity, in which the gamblers had rigged up an elaborate system of electric signals for their protection, ended Sunday morning when the Philadelphia Club 2733 Central Ave. Nineteen, three white men, and a $49.85 "klitty" were taken in the raid by the sergeant and two patrolmen. Lieut Reiber, of the Third precinct, planned the raid. Just as the electric street lights went out at 3:30 a.m., Mergese Horrigan and two patrolmen crept through a lot of the store next door to the Philadelphia Club, dragging an extension ladder behind them. The officers gained access through a broken window to a room adjoining the gambling room. For fifteen minutes they looked on, then entered with drawn revolvers. James Norris, 251 Central Ave. was, as a manager, and Robert Stevenson, 3623 Scovill Ave., as the "operator" of the game. Willie Green and Henry Eubanks, candidates, addressed the Ministers' Alliance, at its meeting, last week Tuesday morning, and the editor of The Gazette addressed it, Tuesday morning, in the study of Cory M. E. church—on the Cunningham Proposal, the Louis H. Peck case, and his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the Legislature, this fall. Among other things, he said, "The word 'white' in the Ohio Constitution and has NOT 'gone glimmering on of it' as erroneously announced at the Attucks club's supper at St. John's church, several months ago, by 'poor little me, the stumbling block in the pathway of life.' Neither did he (Eubanks) ever secure 90 odd thousand dollars or any sum for Wilberforce University or any department of it; nor has he, as claimed, helped Major Cunningham to get his Proposal of the O. C. C. commission of further consideration of himself, on motion of the doctor, himself so ago, he wrote The Gazette three weeks ago," he told Geo. W. Johnson, who followed the editor, made strenuous objections to the Alliance's endorsement of Willie Green on the ground that the latter had "fizzled out," of a civil rights suit Johnson had engaged him to fight some months ago. He was mentioned the fact that Willie Green and Harry E. Davis were both members of the Catholic church. The fact was thatanks, Green and Davis, all opposed the effort of our people in this community, last fall, to elect a member of the race to the Ohio Constitutional Convention, and have since severely criticised the effort, particularly of the Citizens' Rights league (which included our local ministers) and the co-workers who led in the movement. It is said that, at the Alli THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1912. ance's next meeting, questions as to the membership of the "Starlight Polley Co," which Chief Kohler raided several years ago, are to be submitted. The chief said that warrants for the arrest of all the principals of that gambling concern were not issued because one or more of the principals "begged off." This he told "representative of the Gazette," the individual, the Alliance elected a committee of three to take up the matter of endorsement and report at its next meeting, Tuesday morning when, it is understood, one of the five candidates, which includes Chas. S. Sutton, Esq., will be endorsed. The editor of The Gazette's candidary has already been endorsed by the Executive Committee of the Citizens Rights League and the heads of the local Republican organization, duly notified by a C. R. L. sub-committee of three, Messrs. Edward Daw. C. F. Hunnicutt Dr. J. K. Nickens. FREE INFORMATION SERVICE. BEST NURSERY STOCK IN THE UNITED STATES. Grown on the Shores of Lake Erie. Hard-wooded. Early-bearing. Long-lived. Complete line of fruit and ornamental Trees, Small Fruits, Shrubs, Evergreens, Vines, etc. Propagated from Prize-winning Orchards—fruit brings highest prices. Bets of soft-wooded, cheaply-propagated stock. Write at once for full particulars. Pennsylvania Nursery Co., Girard, Pa. 4316 Central Highest Green Men and Suits, Coat Order. CLEANING, Goods called par HAIR POMARE Quinade with preserve the fruit. Price, sent on appli CHAS. B. HOUDEK. Assistant County Treasurer, Candidate for County Treasurer, Subject to Republican Primaries, May 21, 1912. In a straightforward and manly way, Mr. Hondek has announced his candidacy in the following letter, and The Gazette does not hesitate to recommend and commend him to our voters in the strongest possible manner. Read the following carefully and thoughtfully. "I will be a candidate for the office of County Treasurer, subject to the Republican primaries, May 21, 1912, and take this means of presenting to you my record in public office, that you may judge of my qualifications and fitness for this position. Chas. B. Houdek. "In 1895, I was appointed clerk in the City Treasurer's office, by Treasurer Chas. W. Chase, and under his successor, the late Geo. P. Kurtz, became Assistant City Paymaster, leaving the City Treasurer's office in 1902, to accept the more lucrative position of Assistant Secretary to the Board of Elections. In the fall of 1902 I accepted the position of Assistant City Treasurer, which I now occupy. "I fully appreciate the importance of this office and if nominated and elected, it will be my endeavor to give to the public such efficient service and courteous treatment as shall meet with your entire approval. "If you believe that my training and experience in the office of City Treasurer and County Treasurer, in the practical work of my public funds and keeping the records, has fitted me for the higher position of County Treasurer, I shall greatly appreciate your support." DIVORCE NOTICE James Sheppard, whose place of residence is unknown, is hereby notified that on the 5th day of April, 1912 the undersigned, Cleo O'Neill, in the Court of Common Pleas, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, being case No. 128,959, praying for divorce and equitable relief on the grounds of gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty. Said case will be heard and after the 20th day of May, 1912. CLEO SHEPPARD. by CHAS. S. 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Cent. 7597 L Globe Printing Co., PRINTERS AND STATIONERS. 1397 East Ninth Street --- 69 Price of Hair Straightener and Alcohol Heater complete $1.50. Travis & Strawder TELEPHONES: Bell, Eddy 1100L. Cuy, Clement 1745R. QUALITY NOT PREMIUMS The Home of Pure Tea and Coffee. Cuy. Central 7181 L. Bell Main 1474 J. G. Y. TANGE. Representing DOBIN TEA CO., Japan. JAPANESE TEA STORE. 23 Taylor Arcade. STORY TOLD BY R. L. DESDUNES IN HIS HISTORY "OUR MEN AND HISTORY." BY V. P. THOMAS. New Orleans."—Nos Hommes et Notre Histoire" is the title of a book of biographical notices, personal remi- niscences, reflections and tributes up- on the colored creole population of New Orleans, by R. L. Desdunes. The book is written in French and is a production worthy of the French style of the author, who is well known among readers in New Orleans as a fine thinker and an able writer of both French and English. The men of color of whom Mr. Desdunes has written in this volume of 196 pages were men regarded by their compatriots and contemporaries as re- markable men, in letters, in the fine arts, in music, in the arts of war and peace, and in the teaching profession of the day and times. A number of pictures of these people adorn the pages of the book. Mr. Desdunes opens the first page of his work with the following significant quotation from Montesquieu—"Une in justice faite a un seul une menace faite a tous," and proceeds to supply the reasons for making use of the French writer's observation, that "an injustice done to one alone is a menace to all." The memorable campaign of 1814-15 which culminated in the great battle of New Orleans and in a glorious victory for the American arms under General Jackson is recalled by Mr. Desdunes, when General Jackson addressed an appeal to the patriotism of the free men of color to take up and bear arms in defense of their country against the English, and whose appeal was responded to cheer fully by the free men of color, who fought side by side with their white soldiers under the general-in-chief and helped to carry the great victory to the American side. The flattering terms, Mr. Desunes says, in which the appeal to the patriotic pride of the free men of color were drawn, left not even the least bit of suspicion of the sincerity of General Jackson. The general was, Mr. Desunes declares, if one judged by the terms of the appeal, convinced that the free colored men had the right to defend the country and that the American government committed them under its flag as soldiers. This declaration of the illustrious soldier, accepted in good faith, Mr. Desunes says, provoked in all a live enthusiasm, since no one doubted that it was made in all candor and sincerity, and the result was that colored patriots rallied in answer to the appeal in great numbers. The value of their services on the field of Chalmette was undeniable and beyond dispute, Mr. Desunes says, from the viewpoint of the national interest and national honor, and after the battle General Jackson not only complimented them for their bravery, but declared that their conduct was praiseworthy and far surpassed his expectation. But here, Mr. Desunes declares, all reward ended. The men, he says, whose wisdom and services had been acknowledged in so solleness a manner, contained disadvantageous conditions which the country impose upon colored people, just the same as if the country had done nothing for the country's honor and glory. It appears, Mr. Desunes says, that they were expected to content themselves with the honied terms of the appeal which had been made to them before they went into soldierly action and with the pompous but empty praise which they received after their patriotic bravery on the field after the battle. Lexeron, he says, those praises were even changed into cowardly instructions and malicious calumny. Was it not but just that those ignored and unappreciated heroes should complain of so much ingratitude? It is true that by a tardy act, the government conceded to them the title of veterans and accorded to them a light pension; but their civil status remained unchanged and the same, a modification of the black code which gave to them the right to live, to enjoy, to possess and to succeed under such discouraging circumstances. Of course, under such condition of dependence, the colored creole could not and did not command die respect. He became, Mr. Desdunes says, an object of hate, of contempt, or of injustice, according to the caprice of the day. All of his rights were precarious—they were modifiable or revocable, according to the pleasure of the governing class. Mr. Desdunes at this point recalls Hippolyte Castra who was one of those unappreciated citizens, one of those spurned heroes and patriots sharing in the bitterness of the deceptions of which mention has been made and of which the colored creole was the victim. Mr. Desdunes says the colored population needed at the time one who could put in verse and song, the sentiment of the spurned and rejected people, and that it found in Castra exactly the man who could be compared with Monget and Dubois in that line. Castra, he says, had the happy faculty and fine talent for giving expression to the sentiment of his people, and the fidelity, the courage, and the valor of that superb colored creole phalaen, found beautiful, sentimental, and very expressive in a song he composed, called "La Campagne De 1814-15." In this song, Mr. Castra did not forget to claim for it, Mr. Desdunes says, the place of honor which it merited and should occupy at the banquet of triumph, but which had been refused it by injur- LAWYER VERSUS DOCTOR. Dr. Cyrus L. Cutler, the well-known Springfield surgeon, is a member of the Colonial club, an institution that fines its members for talking shop. Dr. Cutler, getting cut out of his motor car, entered the Colonial club the other day for lunchme, and advancing into the restaurant, said to a lawyer, as he took off his goggles: "Well, old man, how are you?" The lawyer got Dr. Cutler fined then and there for talking shop. tice and prejudiced. Mr. Desdunes adds that the creoles owe to Castra all gratitude and that the best way to acquit ourselves of this debt, is to conserve precisely his most patriotic composition in verse. Mr. Louis Martin, a French scholar, who is well known as a devoted friend of the colored people, living in this city and showing in noble ways his great interest in whatever will help to place the colored people in possession of justice and fair play, at least as much so as other people in this country, writes a very beautiful and touching introductory to Mr. Desdunes' book, in the course of which he says: "I love my cousin (the colored creole) because he knows how to love. I love him because he knows how to weep. The vulgar islander, he does not know what it is to weep. When the weight of the oppressor's yoke becomes heavier, he bends his back lower, that's all. It is not so with the colored creole. I have seen colored creole mothers wipe away a furtive tear while speaking to me of things suffered by their children under segregation laws; I have seen vigorously colored men clench their fist and crying out with anger over their complete powerlessness. Oh then, more than ever, I felt that there was in them A Half of Myself! "Also, when some few weeks ago, the author of "Our Men and Our History" spoke to me of sleeping manuscripts in the bottom of drawers in his desk. I claimed the favor at once of reading them and of delivering the same to publicity. And I certainly do not regret having even importuned and insisted upon him to do so, since I have succeeded in having this work take its way to publishers. Now, read, and see that others read "Our Men and Our History." It is the story (very simple, and without the pretense) of good actions accomplished by people who are close to us. It is also the story of their sufferings. It is true that, though they were born in the United States, the persons mentioned in the book have not (like the Barnums and the Dr. Cooks) filled the world with noise about their accomplishments, still we shall see all of them had much in the way of heart and courage to have done as much as they are to their credit. It is in this above all that they were French. "Mr. Dodolpe L. Desdunes did not have the advantage in his youth of having open to him the doors of colleges and of the University of Louisiana. Like the other colored creoles anxious to familiarize themselves with the beauties of the language of Racine, it devolved upon him to become his own preceptor. He showed in this task his courage, he shows today even more courage when he consents to brave the literary critic, perhaps malevolence—in taking before the public the responsibility of so considerable a literary work. The difficulties which he has had to overcome are accentuated from the fact that Mr. Desdunes suffers from an almost complete blindness; this is what adds to the beauty and the merit of his effort. Nothing has daunted him. He holds to the purpose of acquainting us with the creoles, his brothers, convinced that it will cause us to esteem them." —L. M., New Orleans. Current Notes It is the way with girls to want to have a gay time. And there are foolish us mothers who say, "I have a pretty hard time; my daughter shall not have to work." This is not kindness to the daughter; it is doing the very worst thing that can be done for her. Do not bring up your boys and girls to be useless, to shirk work as the majority of them are doing now. I am aware of the trouble that is in many a home today because the mothers let the boys and girls rule the home. At last they are made ashamed by seeing the destiny of their own flesh and blood. So it will pay the mothers to be more careful. The man or woman who counts in life is the man or woman who does not flinch from a task, but does the task, overcomes the obstacle. Boys and girls will not turn out to be that kind of men and women if they are not brought up in that spirit from the beginning. It is up to the mother of every home to build it up to the highest station in life.—Exchange. Many young people who have strayed from the path of virtue are now repenting at leisure with remorse, saying "that by persuasion they were led wrong." Mother, father, be careful how you instruct others' loved ones to do those things that are wrong; some day some one will assist your children along the same lines, then your heart will bleed and break just as you have caused others to do.—The Advance Messenger. Texas has more newspapers—twenty-nine in all—published by our people than any other state in the union. These papers represent nearly 200,000 copies during a month. It is estimated that close to a half-million of readers are reached every month. The periodicals represent an investment of nearly $100,000, and give employment to about 300 persons. HOW HE ACCOUNTED FOR IT. "John, I smell liquor on your breath. How do you account for it?" "There's only one way in which it can be accounted for, my dear. You're standing too close to me." The next day, when he arrived at the club again for luncheon, the surgeon, angered at what had happened, cut the lawyer. The latter then had him fined once more.—New York Tribune. A HARD LOOKER "Could you help me a little, mister! I've been out of work all winter." "Where did you look for work?" "In every glass eye factory in this town." THE GAZETTE. CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1912. (BY C. C. BROWN) On two occasions, I have been invited to speak before the Negro Conferences held in Columbia, and, on both occasions, was hindered by circumstances beyond my control. The ideas I had in my head last month, and upon which it would have been my pleasure to speak, are possibly not yet too stale for use, and hence I am spreading them out in the columns of The Ploughman. I am not posing as a critic, but as a friend of the people of whom I write. RO AND INTEGRITY OF CHARACTER The American Negro is far ahead of the people from whom he spreng. His bondage in the years gone was like the light affliction which "worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory." However, he is not yet out of the woods by a long jump. Before he takes a place alongside of the foremost orders of men, he must have integrity of character. He must know how to trust himself, to trust others, and to be trusted. This is a combination of virtues which thousands of white men do not possess. How character is formed and strengthened is one of the problems which all of us can discuss, but not many of us can solve. Neither religion nor education seems to make a man all that he should be, while there have been many men of marked integrity who had neither religion nor education. How to form the highest character is a problem for universal man, and the Negro must take his place among the most diligent students of the great subject. Character is what a man is, and reputation is what he is supposed to be. Until the Negro has a character, and believes in the integrity of his own people who have acquired the same, his efforts along all civic and moral lines will be greatly hampered, and in great means are powerless. "What can I do to obtain integrity of character?" is the question which should burn itself into the brain of the American Negro And, mark you, this character is not merely that which will influence other men to trust him, but which will make him strong in the consciousness that he can trust himself, and is never afraid to have all his motives looked into. The secret and clandestine methods of the Negro have done much to generate the distrust under which he suffers. THE NEGRO MAN AND THE CHURCH The progress, growth and multiplication of negro churches is one of the marvels of the day. They build well, and many of them really seem to build better than they know, and above what they are supposed to be able to do. But the fact remains that the negro man, as distinct from the negro woman, has largely cut loops from the church, and his non-attendance thereupon is becoming more and more marked. I will venture that a census of the attendance taken in almost any town, Sunday after Sunday, will reveal ten women to one man sitting under the sound of the gospel. Why is this? and where are the men? A negro man in Beaufort, when I quizzed him about this matter, said he stayed away from church because the calls for money were too frequent. He preferred to dishonor God by staying away from the place of worship on the Sabbath rather the jeopardize the dime he carried in his pocket. This is the excuse—it is not a reason—of but one man. What would the masses of men have to say? I cannot guess. I only know that the neglect of worship by the negro men is one of the sore evils of the day. It is a disease afflicting the churches, and the pastors who are not out in search of a remedy are neglecting one of the highest pastoral functions. The cry among the white church is that the men are not doing for the support of the church what they should do, but we have not yet come to the evil day when our audiences show ten women to one man. ABUSE OF THE SABBATH. ABUSE OF THE SABBATH. No man has a saving knowledge of God who wilfully and wantonly abuses the Sabbath day. The great reform that will awake the negroes to righteousness is one that will teach them the evil of eating, sleeping, loafing and drinking on the Sabbath day. True, it is a day of rest, and God will not hold him guilty who observes the day as such. The six days of hard labor may incline one to rest his tired limbs when Sunday comes; but the man robs God who takes the whole day for himself, and gives no part of it to the worship and service of his Creator. Nothing that a man gives to God can excuse him from giving himself—a part of his thought and devotion—and hence a part of his time. To err in a matter like this is to err vitally and fundamentally against the best interests of the immortal soul. THE IMPROVIDENCE OF THE NEGRO The average negro needs a broader horizon and a wider range of vision. He rarely ever looks beyond today, and too often not beyond the next meal. The result is a wasteful improvidence and a consequent poverty. Very few negroes are trying to save a few dollars for the purchase of a home or a piece of land. If he can go to bed contented and filled tonight, he takes but little thought of tomorrow and its needs. This shortsightedness is bringing many to a miserable old age of want and suffering. By saving just a small percentage of the HONORING THE DAY. The darky laundry woman attached to the household of Harry N. Cary of the St. Louis Republic showed up with the announcement that there was a new girl baby at her home. "What did you name her?" inquired Mary. weekly wage that is earned, almost any man can soon acquire a shelter for his head in this land of plenty. In densely populated countries, it never enters the head of the poor to think that they can become owners of property; but in a land like ours, the way to a moderate ownership is open to all. An acre or two of land and a sheltering cabin should be within the compass of every negro man's ambition. And it would be but for the fact that by nature he seems to be improvident and forgetful of tomorrow. He must know, however, that he will never be a useful and patriotic American citizen until he owns a title to property. The man who can change his place of abode by putting all his goods in a bag and whistling for his dog, cannot be worth much to the commonwealth. The negro will never know how to cast a wise ballot until he realizes that something he owns will be affected in some way by his vote. THE NEGRO MAN AND THE WOMAN One of the highest functions of the man is to protect the woman, and in doing this, the woman should lend a helping hand. The standing of woman is the test of civilization in every land. A perfectly virtuous woman is absolutely unapproachable by the lustful man. The man must protect the woman, and the woman must learn to protect herself. She must keep in mind that the average man has already fallen. Not more than one man in twenty—or shall I say fifty?—is virtuous at twenty years of age. The woman may well distrust his virtue, and always remember that he is the one animal that outbrutualizes the brute. His lust is merciless. From the venting of his passion he, in a way, is allowed to recover, while the woman forever remains a spolied and dishonored thing—not only in the minds of others, but—what is worse still—in her own mind. The woman who recovers so completely from her fall as to forget it entirely can never take her place among her sisters of the higher orders of life. These, Mr. Editor, are some of the lines along which negroes must labor to improve themselves. Until these matters are attended to, and these high vantage grounds galmed, education and a profession of religion, and every proud boast will amount to nothing, and the force of superior influences about him will keep the negro just where he is. Men do not climb up the scales of humanity upon fictitious ladders, nor can they dream themselves into heaven by imaginary visions of angels. Jacob tried this, but when the morning came, he found himself still lying upon the hard rocks by the brook. The white pulchelre is but pulchelre after all, full of dead men's bones and all manner of uncleanness, and the keen eye of the world can pierce through the outer whiteness, and discover the filth within. Sumter, S. C. THE RETURN OF TOMMIE. Not long ago Gov. Woodrow Wilson, whose various activities have had some small mention in the newspapers and other engines of publicity recently went down to Augusta, Ga.—where he lived when a boy, and where his father was a minister for some years—for a day or two of rest. He told his friends he just wanted to roam around the old town, revisit familiar scenes and do nothing else. In the course of his wanderings he came to the house of a dear old lady who was a pillar in his father's church. Wilson's lost first name is Thomas; and when he was a boy—and indeed, while he was in college—he was known as Thomas Wilson. Mr. Wilson called on the dear old lady. She was very glad to see him after he had told her his name and recalled his father's pastorate. "Why, Tommie," she said, "how you have grown!" "Yes," assented the governor; "I have grown some." "Indeed you have! I remember you perfectly when you were a little bit of a boy. And I certainly hope you have prospered." The dear old lady was genuinely interested. "Oh, yes; I have done very well," Gov. Wilson said. "I am so glad—so very glad! By the way, Tommie, what are you doing now?"—Saturday Evening Post. REDUCING THE COST. Last year the mayor of Indianapolis, Ind., bought on his own account several car loads of potatoes and sold them to the people of his city at actual cost. He did that because the merchants were charging unreasonable profits and the very high prices worked a hardship on the people. His plan seems to have been a success, and it is hoped has taught the merchants a lesson. The mayor probably got his idea from Germany, where the city councils are authorized to do almost anything which they may regard as necessary for the well-being of the people, and they often make use of such authority. They may and often do open markets for vegetables, buy and slaughter stock, establish fish markets, operate bakeries, deal in milk, etc, and sell direct to the consumer, either at cost price or for a profit which they consider right. Such action is invariably to prevent the unnatural raising of prices of foodstuffs through combination of dealers, or to maintain reasonable prices when natural causes have apparently stamped the regular dealers in such products—Market Growers' Journal. "Why did you call her that?" "Caze she wuz bo'n on Pa'm Sun day."—Saturday Evening Post. SHREWISH. "He used to sharpen pencils for her and that's how they fell in love." "A pretty romance." "But not in the sequel. He found out after they were married that Nature had sharpened her tongue." The Sunday School Lesson Sunday school lesson for May 12, 1912. THE LAW OF LOVE. Golden Text.—Thou shalt love. thy neighbor as thyself—Rom. 13: 9. Lesson Text.—Luke 6: 27-38; Rom. 13: 8-10. Commit vs. 27, 28. Time.—Midsummer A. D. 28. Place —The plain at the foot of the Horns of Hattin. II. The law of God summarized, 8-10. "Owe no man anything." That is plain enough and it means what it says. Running in debt is not manifesting our faith but displaying our disobedience. But there is one debt we always owe and must always be paying, the debt of love. The one who really does love fulfills the whole love of God. God is love (1 John 4: 8), and all that he requires of his children is to be like himself—to love. All the commandments of God's Word can be comprehended in one word (v. R) namely love. Love desires supremely the good of the one loved; therefore it "works no ill to its neighbor." Consequently, love the fulfilling of the whole law of God. Leading Questions.—What does this lesson teach about love? What specific applications of the law of love are given? What does the lesson teach about giving? About debt? About prayer? About God? DID THE DOG KNOW? The tramp approached a house, when suddenly a dog ran out, barking furiously. "Never motind, Bill, come on," said one, "you know the auld sayin'—"The more the bark the less the bite." "Ah, thot's all right, Jim," said the other, drawing back. "Oi know the sayin' and you know the sayin', but the question is—does the dog know it?"—Mack's National Monthly. TREELESS PRAIRIES. In Iowa, and in other parts of the Mississippi valley, treeless prairies, with their abundant grass and flowers, farmerly covered more than seven-eighths of the total surface. Less than one-eighth was forest area. The investigations of B. Shimek lead him to believe that treelessness is due to atmospheric conditions, and is not caused by soil or topography. In prairie regions evaporation takes place very rapidly on flat surfaces and those with a southern slope. PROPOSITION TO CELEBRATE 50 YEARS OF INDUSTRIAL PROG- RESS BRINGS READY SUP- PORT Atlanta, Ga.—Considerable interest has been manifested over the state in the announcement that a big industrial and agricultural exposition for the colored race will be held in Georgia in 1913, the 50th anniversary of the race's emancipation. Prof. R. Wright, for the past 20 years president of the Georgia State Industrial college at Savannah, and one of the prime movers in the project, was in Atlanta Saturday in the interest of the exposition, and he reports that not only the members of his race, but many white people as well have received the news with enthusiasm. A bill introduced by Senator W. O. Bradley of Kentucky has already passed the United States senate by a unanimous vote, appropriating $250,000 for the purpose. It received the support of the southern senators and no opposition is expected in the house. The time is yet early for stating definite plans for the affair, but in general it may be said that the progress of the colored race in the last 50 years in an industrial way will be fittingly depicted in exhibits and displays. The negroes have for the past six years held successful fairs at Macon, and the leaders of the race are awaiting an opportunity to undertake something on a larger scale. The following statement issued by Comptroller General William A. Wright shows some interesting facts concerning the colored race in Georgia: "It is shown from compilations just completed that Georgia negroes returned to taxation in 1911, a total of $34,227,097, as compared with $32,224,637 in 1910, an increase of $1,788,342. There are 119,879 negroes who paid poll taxes last year, while 4,685 defaulted. Among the property-owning negroes are seven lawyers, 16 dentists and 133 doctors who pay $10 professional tax to the state. Negroes own 1,639,919 acres of improved farm lands in Georgia, which is assessed at $10,358,653. Their city and town property is taxed at $9,615,604; their money and solvent debts $27,214; their household and kitchen furniture $2,249,203; watches, silver plate and jewelry, $41,970; horses, mules, hogs, sheep and cattle, $7,931,246; farm and mechanical tools, $1,648,897; stocks and bonds, $1,700. "It is indicated by these figures that the negro constitutes a large percentage of the farming class of the state; in fact, much larger than the figures would convey. For these figures relate to cases where the negroes actually own the property, whereas in most cases they work as croppers or renters on land owned by whites." THE BIG "WHITE HOPE" RELEGATED EFFORT TO DEVELOP WHITE PU-GILIST TO CONTEST WITH JACK JOHNSON AN 'AWFUL JOLT—BIGGEST IN ON A FAILURE. Exit Carl Morris from among the list of white heavyweights who are out to get a bout with Champion Jack Johnson. Morris has now been fighting for almost two years and has yet to show that he has the making of a first-class heavyweight. His defeat by Jim Stewart puts him in the down and out class. The Oklahoma boxer's only asset in his ability to assimilate punishment. For a man of his bulk, Morris is a wretched puncher. He usually depends upon sheer strength to wear down an opponent. New York boxing enthusiasts are hailing Stewart as a regular "hope," but it should not be so, as his victory over Morris was not a wonderful feat. PROPORTION OF COLORED ILLITERATES FOR COUNTRY OVER NOW 30%—WAS 44% 10 YEARS AGO—FOREIGN BORN 12.8%—NATIVE WHITES 3%. Washington.—A preliminary census statement issued by Director Durand shows that in 1910 there were 5,517,608 illiterates among the 71,580,270 persons 10 years of age or over in the United States. This was a reduction of from 10.7 per cent. to 7.7 per cent., since 1900. The native-born whites, constituting 75 per cent. of the entire population, had only 3 per cent. of illiterates; foreign-born whites had 12.8 per cent. and colored persons 30.5 per cent. The percentage of illiterates among native-born whites 10 years ago was 4.6; the colored percentage was 44.5 and that of the foreign-born whites was 12.9, or a slight increase over the percentage of 1910. HOW TO LIVE HAPPILY. 1. Get up. 2. Wash. 3. Eat. 4. Sit around. 5. Eat. 6. Talk politics. 7. Roast the ball team. 8. Eat. 9. Cuss the government. 10. Smoke. 11. Kick the cat. 12. Yawn. 13. Eat. 14. Go to bed.—Louisville Herald. "There is one class of business men who always take the pledge and generally keep it." "Who are they?" "Families." A BRIEF RESPITE. "I don't hear so many statesmen saying 'the trusts must go.'" "No," replied Mr. Dustin Stax; "for the moment most of them are too busy trying to get rid of one another." 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None of these would do. The Sweezel then became Chuzzle, and there was a new series of Chuzzletoe, Chuzzleboy, Chuzzlew, and finally Chuzzlewit.-How Dickens Found His Names. Hens Win. First City Man—How are you coming along with your poultry venture? Second Ditto—I've been swindled. I bought three incubators of different makes and not one of them has laid an egg yet.—Lippincott's. She Would See to That. Mother—I really think you'd be hapier if you married a man who had less money. Daughter—Don't worry, mother; he will have less in a very short time. Kind We Don't Forget "Shall the blonde girl become a memory?" asks an exchange. We have always heard that they are the more likely to become that.—Detroit Times.