The Gazette

AMERICA WORLD'S EVENTS TERSELY and BRIEFLY TOLD Washington The senate at Washington defeated the proposal of Senator Hitchcock for the increase of the federal reserve board from seven to nine members by a vote of 35 to 32. Mr. Hitchcock's amendment to the Owen Glass currency bill was laid on the table by the action of the administration forces. The Republican national committee at Washington decided it has the power to change the rules and proceedings of the national convention of the party without calling a special convention for that purpose. All of the changes which it will propose, however, probably will be submitting to the Republicans of the various states for ratification. After a lively discussion the house at Washington voted down a bill approved by Postmaster General Burleson authorizing the postmaster general to make contracts for transporting the mail by aeroplane or by any similar device. Senator Root of New York declared on the floor of the senate at Washington that he would not accept the nomination for president and could not accept the office if elected. Angered by the ridicule of Secretary of State Bryan's peace program and at the song with the retrain, "Damn, damn, damn, the insurrections," sung at the banquet of the military Order of Carabaoes, in Washington, President Wilson ordered that an investigation of the events at the dinner be made. According to the annual report issued by Secretary of Commerce Redfield at Washington, the foreign commerce of the United States during the past year increased more than $421,000,000 over the year 1912. It reached the great total of $4,279,000,000 in value. Of this great sum $2,466,000,000 were exports and $1,815,000,000 were imports. Our exports of domestic manufactured goods of all kinds amounted to $1,507,000,000 or 63 percent of our total domestic exports. On June 30 of this year the total documented merchant shipping of the United States comprised 27,070 vessels of 7,886,518 gross tons. This is the largest吨塘 of our history and, excepting the British empire, exceeds that of any other two nations combined. Senator Ellu Root Root of New York severely arraigned the administration currency bill in the senate at Washington. Representative Harrison of Mississippi has prepared a bill, which he will introduce in the house at Washington, to declare illegal options and futures on cotton, hops, wheat, corn, oats, rye, barley, wheat flour, pork, lard, bacon or other agricultural or food products. Andrew Carnegie takes little stock in rumors of business depression, either present or impending. At the White House in Washington when asked what he thought of the general business outlook, Mr. Carnegie said: "The recent reports of impending widespread business depression are all tommyrot." The administration currency bill was subjected to many attacks during the debate in the senate at Washington. A sweeping investigation of transit rates on live stock over railroads in western classification territory was ordered by the interstate commerce commission at Washington. Mountain Laurel is proposed as the official national flower of the United States in a bill introduced in the house at Washington by Representative Kinkead of New York. Domestic Cleve Culbertson, convicted of murder during three members of the Dillon family at Ray, N. D., was taken from his cell in the Williams county jail by a mob and hanged. Maine's big game season is ended. The estimated number of deer killed was 10,000. Seventeen persons were killed in the woods. Three persons were murdered and two seriously wounded in Chicago within twenty-four hours. Jealousy and marital troubles were responsible for the murder of three persons, the self-destruction of their assailants, and the serious injury of two others. Joseph Anderson was shot and killed by Mamie Lindsey at Lancaster, Pa. It is said that the dead man was jealous of his son, who had eclipsed him in winning the affections of the woman. She was arrested. Six men were killed, one woman and two children are missing and thought to have perished and one man was fatally injured in a fire which swept the Salvation Army hotel for men at Cincinnati. THE GAZETTE An increase of 15 to 25 cents a day to outer and inner sole workers in Brockton (Mass.) shoe factories was awarded by the state board of conciliation and arbitration. Ernest and Frank Williams, negro brothers, were lynched by Blanchard, La, for the confessed murder of Calvin Ballard, a planter. Black damp added 38 victims to its list in the Vulcan coal mine of the Rocky Mountain Fuel company, near Newcastle, Colo. The majority of the dead are sons of wealthy American ranch owners. The Mississippi river steamer Shiloh sank while tied to a Memphis dock. All the passengers had left the boat and the crew reached shore safely. J. K. Cadding, former warden of the Kansas state prison, told an audience at Salina, Kan., that it is not the foreigner who is sent to prison, but the misused boy from the American home. He declared that the American home is becoming a training school of lawlessness. Governor Major of Missouri told the house roads committee at Washington that he favored the federal government's rental of post roads in agricultural communities and that the lowest rental proposed in the pending Shackleford bill would be sufficient to maintain such roads. The first conviction under a new state law concerning fraudulent advertising of merchandise was obtained when William H. Meloney of Hartford, Conn., was fined $20. He advertised a sale of second-hand goods at his home. The complaint testified to buying for $20 a rug advertised to be worth $65, and which later was found to have been bought at a department store for $12.50. The revenue cutter Windom is being rushed to Velasco, the town nearest the inundated section in Texas. Harry A. Black, chairman of the Galveston relief committee, telegraph Secretary McAdoo at Washington that two counties are almost entirely under water. "We are clearly of the opinion that there should be a substantial advance now, provided that such additional revenue can be obtained without imposing upon the public unjust and unreasonable transportation charges," says the conference of railroad commissioners in its report upon the proposition of the Boston & Maine railroad to increase its rates. One hundred guests narrowly escaped incineration and more than $125,000 damage was caused by a fire which destroyed the Astoria hotel at Chaffee, Mo. Fire destroyed the warehouse of the Illinois Warehouse company at Peoria, Ill., causing a loss estimated at $300,000. Mexican Revolt All the property of Luis Terrazas, Sr., Enrique Creel and Juan Creel, including banks, mines, vast areas of land, thousands of head of cattle, horses and personal effects in Mexico were ordered confiscated to the rebels in an official decree issued by Gen. Francisco Villa. Americans, Germans and Spaniards, who arrived at El Paso, Tex., from Chihuahua, Mexico, report that Francisco Villa, the rebel leader, virtually had constituted himself dictator there and that he refused to heed the requests of representatives of foreign governments. Villa sent word to the federal commander, who had retaken Torreon, that if he marched on Chihuahua, Luis Terrazas, Jr., son of Gen. Luis Terrazas, the wealthiest native in Mexico, would be executed. Rear Admiral Fletcher, commander of the American naval forces in Mexican waters, ordered the rebels and federalis fighting at Tampaico to cease firing, threatening to open upon them with the guns of the gunboat Wheeling if his order was not obeyed. Both sides obeyed. The suffragists arson squad fired a lumber yard at Devonport, England, and destroyed property worth over $400,000. The battleship Haruna, a sister ship of the Kongo of the Japanese navy, was launched at Kobe, Japan. It was built in England and is said to be the equal of the American warship Texas. "Mona Lisa," Leonardo de Vinci's masterpiece, the mysterious disappearance of which from the Louvre in August, 1911, threw the art world into consternation, was found in Florence, Italy. The man who stole it was arrested. Twenty women and children were injured in London in a riot growing out of an attempt by the police to disperse a procession of suffragettes in the Bow street district. Personal Cardinal Mariano Rampolla, formerly papal secretary of state, who was defeated in the last election to the papacy only by the vote of Austria, died at Rome. He was seventy years old. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. Former Columbia University Professor and Head of New York Branch National Advancement Association to Wage Battle For Rights of Colored Americans—Bears Own Expenses. Bv N. BARNETT DOD50N. New York—Professor J. E. Spinarn, formerly of Columbia university, New York, and now president of the New York branch of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, will begin a tour of the middle west Jan. 1 in the interests of that association, for the purpose of protecting against the segregation of the races in the federal bureau in Washington and of stimulating the upfift of the race in other ways. Dr. Spinarn is one of the most ardent and uncompromising white champions of the civil rights of the American Negro, and his western tour should certainly help to crystallize the national conscience against segregation, Jimcrowlism, lynching and all other disadvantages under which colored people in this country now suffer. Professor Spinarn's first speech will be delivered at Detroit on the evening of Jan. 8, and he will then visit Indianapolis, Quincy, Chicago, Kansas City, Topeka, St. Louis and other cities. He will make the entire tour at his own expense. He has had a distinguished career as a scholar and publicist. For twelve years he was professor of comparative literature in Columbia university, retiring in 1911. He is the author of numerous books, some of which have been translated into foreign languages, and he is also the author of a volume of verse. "The PROFESSOR J. R. SPINGARN. New Hesperides and Other Poems," which he attracted much attention in this country as well as in England. He has been interested in public affairs for many years, having been the Republican candidate for member of congress in the Eighteenth New York district in 1008, when he received the highest indorsements from President Roosevelt. Secretary of State Eilhu Root and other distinguished statesmen. His services to the cause of the American Negro have been especially important. He is an ardent exponent of the new abolitionism, which aims to bring to the cause of the rights of colored people the same devoted enthusiasm which characterized the older abolitionism of William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips. As a delegate to the first Progressive national convention at Chicago in August, 1912, he attracted national attention to this new movement by his gallant effort to commit the party to a plank in its platform which would open the door of hope to the 10,000,000 colored people of the United States. The National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, of which Professor Spingarn will be the personal representative during his western tour, is an organization composed of members of both races, with headquarters in New York and with branches in over twenty cities, including Boston, Providence, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Topeka, Los Angeles and Tacoma. The president is Moorfield Storey, the distinguished Boston lawyer, and among its directors are Oswald Garlison Villard, Jane Adams, Dr. C. E Bentley, Mary White Ovington, Professor J. F. Spingarn, Charles Edward Russell, Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, Rev John Haynes Holmes, William English Walling and Bishop Walters. The official organ of the association is the Crisis, a monthly magazine edited by Dr. Du Bois, which now has a circulation of 33,000 copies, distributed in every state of the Union and in over ten foreign countries. About 20 per cent of the readers of this paper are white and 80 per cent colored, although, of course, no exact figures along these lines are possible to ascertain. RAMPANT RACE PREJUDICE. Northern Paper Exposes Jimcorwism in National Government Service. The spirit of America and its institutions which declares that neither creed nor color shall be the measure of man and his opportunity is a strange and an allen thing in Washington today. In its place is prejudice, narrow and sectional, and this prejudice rules in offices in which every employee has obtained his place through competitive examination and has won by merit alone the right to work in the service of his government, says the Philadelphia Press. For the first time in its history the Jimcorw law of the south has invaded the department, work at Washington. This is the law which says that the one distinction to be made, the one line to be drawn, is that of color. It prescribes the place and the limits which each race shall occupy. It forbids them to occupy the same quarters. The southern Democrats who come to official Washington have always brought with them the race feeling of their section. They have showed it when occasion arose. It has never been concealed. But until now it has not been permitted to stalk abroad and ride roughhail over the usages and the practice of years. Never before has it interfered with the work of the government as it was being carried on at Washington. Occasionally there have been instances of individual race feeling in the departments, but this has always been promptly squeeched by the cabinet officer in charge when ever it showed its head. Now a settled plan and policy have been adopted. Those of one race shall no longer do their work in the same room with those of the other. It matters not that their work is of the same grade and character, that the method of performance is equal in merit, that the efficiency is the same. The law of the south that says to the men of one race "Thon shalt" and to the man of the other race "Thon shalt not" is now extended to the offices of the government. This has not happened casually. It is the result of deliberation. The head of the administration cannot say that he knows nothing of it. A thorough inquiry was made when first the charge of race separation was made. The inquiry was made by men who are friendly to the president and well-wishers of his administration. It was thorough, and it was fair. The verdict was guilty, given regretfully, but with no uncertainty. One by one the departments have fallen into line and kept step to the new and backward march. In the great workshop of the nation, conducted and supported by the funds of the government, where the only entrance is by the door of civil service examination, there is today drawn the lines of color, with all that such action means. And not until the rule of Woodrow Wilson has this thing been done. NATIONAL UPLIFT AGENCY HOLDS ANNUAL MEETING Report of League on Urban Conditions Shows Good Results. The annual meeting of the National League on Urban Conditions Among Colored People, recently held at the assembly hall of the United Charities building, in New York, showed the efficient work and large results of the league's activity during the past twelve months. Professor Kelly Miller of Howard university delivered the principal ad dress on "The City Negro." In his usual effective style he described the problems which confront members of the race who move to the city and the efforts which must be made to help them meet city conditions. He said that our people in the city were in greater need of attention than those in the country because there were greater forces in the environment of the city to degrade. Mr. L. Hollingsworth Wood of New York was the chairman of the meeting and described in graphic terms the work of co-operation, housing improvement, industrial improvement, travelers' aid, big brother, big sister and other work carried on by the league. He pointed out especially the developments which the league has recently entered upon in southern cities. An important feature of the meeting was an illustrated lecture by Dr George E. Haynes of Fisk university and director of the National league. The views showed some of the housing, sanitary, economic and other conditions among Negroes in the cities and the work the league has done in improving those conditions. Those present especially enjoyed the music by the orchestra and chorus of the Music School Settlement For Colored People, Mr. David I. Martin Director; also Mr. David Mannes and Miss Melen E. Smith rendered a sonata which met with a hearty encore from the audience. Both from the addresses and the stereoicon views the league showed clearly the great work it is doing to give to the colored people in the cities "not aims, but opportunity." Hold Elaborate Lincoln Celebration. As this year marks the fifth十周年 anniversary of the issuance of Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, our people throughout the United States should endeavor to make the celebration of the great emancipator's birthday, Feb. 12, 1914, the most elaborate of any held in previous years. HOW IT SERVES THE MASSES From Tenant to Landlord and Small Earning Power to Thousands is the Record of Mammoth Concern With Headquarters in Washington—S. W. Rutherford's Fine Leadership. Washington—That the National Benefit association of this city, with branch offices in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Rhode Island, is an institution of business integrity was demonstrated beyond any doubt during the week of its recent fifteenth anniversary celebration held here. The main public meeting was held in the famous Metropolitan A. M. E. church, and the address was delivered by the Rev. I. N. Ross, pastor, whose views on the efforts of the race in all good movements are sound and worthy of attention. The fact that the founders and officers of the association have been able S. W. RUTHERFORD. to build up from a tenant of a single office room at $5 per month in 1898 to landlord holdings worth $50,000 with improved real estate and owners of $103,500 worth of securities, $50,000 of which is on deposit for the protection of its members, shows that the organization is strong financially. It gives employment to fifty clerks and 700 persons employed otherwise. Like the company itself, standing upon an upright, solid and progressive foundation, the officers in the very hour of its Thanksgiving anniversary triumph called a conference at the home office of some of the ablest leaders and thinkers of the race in the nation's capital to consider and formulate plans to stimulate the commercial, industrial and business initiative, energy and enterprise of the 100,000 colored citizens of Washington. The subjects discussed were as follows: "The Relation of the Church to the Business Activities of the Race," by Dr. M. W. D. Norman, Dr. J. Milton Waldron and W. H. Dean: "Self Help by Intelligent Co-operation," by Dr. C. W. Childs, Mrs. Julia Mason Layton, Mr. F. M. Murray, Rev. A. Randall and Mr. A. Scurlock: "The Power and Necessity of Race Organization," by Judge R. H. Terrell, Professor Nelson E. Weatherless, Hon. H. P. Slaughter, Miss Nannle H. Burroughs and a host of others. Excellent music was rendered by members of the organization. The speakers proudly pointed to the fact that the secretary of the National Benefit association, Mr. S. W. Rutherford, with his able cohorts—officers, agents and clerks—had accomplished a most significant Thanksgiving achievement by immeasurably aiding in the emancipation of the Negro from business bondage and placing him upon the business map of the country. The practical results of the conference are encouragement to those willing to do, an understanding of one another, a concrete lesson in the power of getting together - organization and co-operation - and increased confidence in Negro enterprises. Many good seeds were sown which are destined to spring up, ripen and materialize into those things which go to make and sustain a race. As a result of this meeting a new movement of very great value is already in process of formation. The Journal of Commerce and Finance of Philadelphia, one of the leading financial magazines of the country, recently wrote a very favorable editorial with reference to the company, in which it said: "Patrons of the National Benefit association in this city speak of it commendatorially as an institution that does a conservative and successful business and behin which are men of the strongest character, and this same character in a sense has been imparted to the association. Philadelphians of all classes are slow to act, but they are able to discriminate between that which is unfair and that which is first rate." WESTERN RESERVE ELEVEN, D. O. HISTORICAL SOCIETY. MISS MARY E. BELL INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE Miss Mary E. Bell of Portland, Ore., who is presiding over the government inquiry into the affairs of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., commonly called the Bell telephone trust, now being conducted in Philadelphia, Pa. Suit has been brought by the department of justice against the company on the Pacific coast, charging violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. Judge Robert S. Bean of the United States district court at Portland appointed Miss Bell special examiner to take testimony preliminary to the trial of the case. FEDERALOWNERSHIP Burleson Thinks His Department Should Conduct Telegraph and Telephones. Washington, D. C. — Government ownership of both telegraph and telephone is urged by Postmaster General Burleson in his annual report just made public. This follows recent conferences on the subject between the postmaster general and President Wilson. Mr. Burleson points to the successful inauguration and extension of the parcel post system as a guaranty that the postoffice department is capable of handling further country-wide business of great magnitude and importance. Another prominent feature of the report is his assertion that there is a surplus in his department for the year ended June 30, 1913, estimated at $3,841,906,787, and that this is the first real surplus slace 18$3. Mr. Burleson goes into the matter of the railroads' complaint of unjust treatment regarding amounts paid for hauling mail matter in some detail. He argues that the railroads have received large benefits from the governments, state and national; that they are in law post roads; that they are performing a governmental function in carrying mail; that the government is not carrying on the postoffice business for profit; that the carriage of the mails by the railroads contributes to their prosperity in other lines, and that, for all these reasons, railroads should carry mails for less than they charge for like commercial business. He attacks the second class mall privilege, saying: "The mailing of newspapers and periodicals as second class matter at the cent-a-pound rate and free in the county of publication during the fiscal year 1913 were greater than during any previous year, and for the first time in the history of the postal service exceeded a billion pounds. Although second class matter constituted approximately 62 per cent of the aggregate weight of the domestic revenue producing mail, it produced only 4.29 per cent of the postage derived from such mail." He declares that until rates on second class matter are adjusted "no serious consideration can be given to revising and reducing rates on first class mall matter." The postmaster defends the franking privilege, declaring that the abuses are inconsiderable. Find No Peanut Trust. Washington, D. C.—There is to be no investigation by the department of justice into the operations of the so-called peanut trust. Agents of the department have investigated complaints filed by peanut growers in North Carolina and Virginia that a trust had cornered the market and was fixing the price. These agents have reported they have been unable to discover the existence of such a trust. Justice department officials say the price is fixed by the world's supply and not by so-called trusts. To Light Polar Night Pittsburgh, Pa.—Winds that blow in northern Alaska are to be harnessed to light up the long polar night in the cause of religion. The Right Rev. P. T. Rowe, bishop of the diocese of Alaska, has authorized Dr. W. E. S. Temple, head of the electrical engineering department of the University of Pennsylvania, to design and build an electric light plant, operated by a windmill, for use of the Episcopal mission at Point Hope, Alaska. Will Retain Saloons Youngstown, O. The village of Lowellville with a voting population of about 400, at a special election by a vote of 183 to 170 decided to retain its saloons. Several arrests were made for alleged illegal voting. The campaign was spirited and bitter, but no serious disturbances occurred. The wet majority was considerably reduced over the last election. All Mahoning county was interested, as the result may have an influence on the proposed county election being positioned for. SACRED HEART 38 LOSE LIVES IN MINE EXPLOSION Men Are Victims of Black Damp Blast. ONLY TWO ESCAPE FROM PIT Bodies Are Brought to the Surface, Many Being So Badly Mangled That Identification Was Very Difficult. New Castle, Col.-Thirty-eight miners lost their lives in an explosion of black damp in the Vulcan mine of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Co. here Tuesday. But two men, W. J. Finley and John Dawson, escaped from the mine. They were working in the upper level of the mine. The victims were all in the lower level, every nook and cranny of which was penetrated by the explosion. The shock was felt over the entire mountain and buildings above ground were rocked. Bodies Badly Mangled. The explosion occurred at 10:30 o'clock in the morning, and the work of removing the bodies was started at 1 o'clock. All bodies have been brought to the surface. Many were so badly mangled that identification was difficult. But little trouble was experienced in recovering the bodies as the explosion was so general in the lower workings that it swept the mine free from dust and rescuers were enabled to work with open lamps and without oxygen helmets. Distressing Scenes. Scenes at the mine mouth were more distressing than customary. It was apparent soon after the explosion that all below had lost their lives, and frantic women and children gathered at the mouth and watched the bodies brought out. The majority of the killed were Americans. They were mostly sons of ranchers and business men in the vicinity of New Castle, who had taken the places of the Italian miners, who went on strike recently. DECIDES ON REFORMS DECIDES ON REFORMS REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE WILL READJUST COMPOSITION OF NATIONAL CONVENTIONS. Washington, D. C. — After five hours of debate the Republican national committee determined that it was clothed with ample power to readjust the composition of the party's national conventions, and had authority to make reforms in convention rules and procedure that have been demanded by many elements since the convention of 1912. Without a dissenting vote the committee decided to make a change in the basis of representation in national conventions, which will greatly affect southern states, gave full recognition to the principle of the primary in the election of delegates to such conventions, approved laws regarding such election adopted by several states which provide that all delegates be selected at large, and accepted the principle that delegates properly accredited by state authorities shall be placed on the temporary convention roll. Informally it had been agreed that the new basis of representation should be referred to the Republicans in the various states for ratification. The only difference of opinion that developed on the surface was over the question of the machinery to be used to effect the reforms. Of the 49 committeemen who voted on the one roll call taken, 14 favored the calling of a special convention to bring about these changes and 35 declared themselves opposed. VIOLATE THE WORK LAW RAILROADS ARE ARRAIGNED IN REPORT ISSUED BY COMMERCE COMMISSION. Washington, D. C.—Apparently as a forerunner of new demands from the interstate commerce commission that the railroads of America prove their efficiency of management or submit to new regulations, the commission has just issued a report showing that the roads had violated the hours of service law for trainmen in 261,332 instances during one year. That is, 261,332 members of train crews had been forced by traffic delays, which the report declares were wholly preventable, to work more than the legal limit of 16 hours continuously. Great pains are taken to set forth the argument of the commission that since these violations of the statute were avoidable, the public will expect them to cease. Three Burned to Death. New York City.—Three persons were burned to death and four were injured, one fatally, in a fire which destroyed the five-story apartment house at 366 Amsterdam-av. The dead: Mrs. Mary Manus, burned to death in her apartments. Miss Mary Manus. Thomas J. McManus, a fireman. Mrs. Margaret Maurer and her infant son were fatally hurt by jumping from the front window of her apartment on the third floor. The woman alighted on her back. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY One Year.....$1.50. Six Months.....1.00 Three Months.....5.00 Subscribers are requested to re- mit by postoffice money or- der 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 Afr-Omericans, 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. Cleveland SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1913. The latest Afro-American federal office-holders to be "fired" by the Wilson-Bryan administration are Ron Geo. W. Jackson, U. S. Consul at Cognac, France, and James W. Johnson, U. S. Consul at St. Michael's, Azores. A still remain in the diplomatic service but will soon go. All will doubtless be in this country in time to take part in the next national campaign and election. In view of a probable war with Mexico, the government is energetically recruiting Afro-Americans in the south for the army. They are good enough in time of war but not good enough in the time of peace to be accorded decent treatment—to say nothing of citizen rights—by this same government, especially when it is controlled by southern democrats and ex-rebels as is the case with the Wilson administration now "in the saddle" at Washington, D. C. "WHY I AM A REPUBLICAN." A short time ago the editor of the Ohio State Journal undertook to define Republicanism and Democracy, and incidentally he invited any of his readers to tell why he was a Republican. Mr. Edward C. Turner, the able prosecuting attorney of Franklin county, replied with the following statement, which is worth preserving: "I am a Republican in national and state-wide politics because of a firm belief in the basic principles of government that form the foundation up to the present. The Republican party was built and stands today. "I believe in a liberal interpretation of the Federal Constitution—that the rights of the several states are subservient to the rights of the Nation. Under this principle slavery was the moral bank of our established, monopolized industries whose products or activities enter into interstate commerce are regulated and a large portion of our laboring men are protected. Under this principle was passed the Sherman Anti-Trust, the interstate commerce law, the safety appliance, the limitation on hours of labor, the employers' liability and many other laws which are today accepted by the whole Nation as blessings. "I believe in sound money, in monetarism, and in the backing that the Republican party has given the American nation and made possible the great credit of this country at home and abroad. "I believe in a protective tariff, i.e. a tariff that equalizes the difference between the cost of production at home and abroad. Only by the application of this principle may the present high standard of living among our workingmen be maintained. Every application of them have been established solely through the vigorous, consistent efforts of the Republican party and always in the face o. stubborn opposition. I reverence land marks and have no patience with that political sophistry which seeks to disregard the lessons of experience. The lessons have been presented in the application of this principle furnishes no reason for repudiation even of the principle itself, much less of the party, though it does furnish a justification for a repudiation of the individuals who betrayed their trusts. It's not necessary to cut a man's head off to cure the toothache. Neither does the temporary acquiescence by the opposition to the wisdom of any of these policies which they have so long fought entitle them to administrators of those principles." The great majority of Republicans would probably be willing to endorse the above as a party compendium. Of course, much else might be said. There is undoubtedly a distinct, although undefined and unexpressed tendency or attracting force which silently draws men to either the Republican or the Democratic party—as to which depends largely upon psychological characteristics. This tendency is not accurately as depending upon whether a man has a conservative or a radical habit of thought or mentality. For instance, Grover Cleveland was essentially a conservative—so was Tilden; and they were undoubtedly the two greatest Democrats since the war—but President Wilson and Secretary Bryan glory in being called radicals—or at any rate "progressives." On the other hand, take the greatest president since Washington—the utterly incomparable Lincoln, the first of our glorious line of Republican chief executives; by some he was bitterly denounced as a half-crazy radical, but those who knew him best knew that he was extremely conservative as to fundamentals; the fact is, he was what might at first thought be considered a contradiction—a conservative radical. The tendency or force which draws men to either the Democratic or Republican party depends, as a rule, upon mental stability and comprohen- siveness of political vision, or mental instability and limited appreciation of governmental action. There are, of course, exceptions to this generalization, but it will be found to be true, as a prevailing proposition, that men who have fixed ideas of government and apply historical reasoning and experiences to present-day problems, and who realize the necessity of reconciling individualism and personal and minority rights with the requirement of majority rule and the good of the greatest number, are Republicans. On the other hand, it is natural for men who have no clearly defined political conceptions, to affiliate with the Democratic party—and probably a large number have never thought why they have done this. History bears out the statement that the Democratic party is an organization of shifting policies—of temporary, opportunist expedients. It is prone to take up any "ian" or fad which for the moment may seem to be popular—and it is naturally inclined to identify itself with any group of men who possess the mere brute force of great voting strength, without any reference to moral considerations or political ethics. A remarkable thing about the Democratic party of the present day is that while it advocates "direct democracy" as an issue just now appealing to popular favor, it has nationally committed itself, in practice, to automatic exaltation of the Executive over Legislative branch of the government. REAL DEMOCRACY Eleven years ago the country was considerably surprised by the intelligence that a senior class at Harvard, supposedly the most aristocratic of American universities, had elected Roscoe Conkling Bruce, a Negro student, its class orator. The eleven years which have elapsed since that time race prejudice has intensified rather than diminished. Yet this year's Harvard seniors have harked back to the example of the class of 1903 and have chosen a Colored man, A. L. Jackson, as their orator. Much has recently been said of the democratic trend of Harvard. The tendency has been particularly noted in the college admissions girders of Massachusetts or from the dutch pioneers of New York is no longer a prime essential for a football candidate. Neither are the millions or the lack of millions of a student's father considered in making varsity selections. It is a fact that ability to play football or baseball or now the only important consideration But democracy has gone still further. It has become almost militant. Harvard seems determined to award honors solely on the basis of merit. Hasty Pudding and Pi Eta no longer dominate and declare who is worthy and who is unworthy. The student body as a whole has taken the matter into its own hands. The ablest-orator of the class of 1914 happens to be a student with a black skin. His ability counts for everything, his black skin for nothing. His fellow classmen beaten by the classmate because he is most deserving. Here is true democracy, more commendable because it is most rare among young men of the early twenties—Plain Dealer editorial. Dec. 15-13. ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY CONVENTION. The Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, a Greek letter organization, will hold its sixth annual convention at Howard University, Washington, D. C., Dec. 29-31, 1913. This was the first national Greek letter fraternity organized at Howard University and origin at Cornell University seven years ago. Seven of our students conceived the idea that such an organization would do much good towards binding our students in a body as a unit. It has grown rapidly until now there are fifteen Chapters at some of the schools. Each year they hold a convention at one of the schools where the Chapters are established. OUR PYTHIAN VICTORY! White Lodges of Tennessee Have No Exclusive Right to the Name. Washington, D. C.—The contest between the white and the our lodges of Knights of Pythias in Tennessee over the land came to a close Monday when the white lodges were informed by the Supreme court that their contention that a decision in the Tennessee courts gave them exclusive right to use the name, was erroneous. This action was based on a decision of the Supreme Court in a contest between lodges in Georgia. COLOR DUE TO SOLAR RAYS. Paris, France.—That racial colors are due to the influence of certain solar rays is the discovery announced, last week, by Prof. Daniel Berthelot. The color of the Negroes is the result of the ultra-violet rays. The American Indian, according to Prof. Berthelot, derives his color from the red color of the sun, while the color of the yellow races is the result of the yellow emanations. Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the Guatemalan case, little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask for your trade in this paper. Keep Troubles to Yourself. To think about our own troubles is excusable, sometimes it is a necessity; to speak about them is a social offense. There are times when we may, discreetly and guardedly, confide something of our allions or worries to a trusted friend; but even this is a gratification not to be too freely indulged. When we do so we must allow the friend to indemnify himself by enlarging on similar matters of his own; there must be give and take. Most Important Sense. Man's sense of smell can be of the greatest assistance to him in seeking the beneficial and avoiding the dangerous. The neglect of this one important sense has necessarily kept mankind backward. It, therefore, rests with the educators of the future to properly train and pay attention to odors, so that everyone may be able to distinguish seven octaves of smell or a great spectrum of odors. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1913. WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIA BLE" GAZETTE'S CORRE. SPON*ENTS. THROUGHOUT OHIO What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical — Marriages, Deaths, Etc. CORRESPONDENTS' NOTICE All correspondence and news for our issues of Dec. 27 and Jan. 3, must be mailed on Dec. 21 and Dec. 28, respectively, because of the holidays—Christmas and New Years—falling on Thursday. This compels The Gazette to go to press on Wednesday, due precedent, in each of those two weeks; remember this and govern yourselves this time you desire your local news published in the current issues of The Gazette of those two weeks. LORAIN—Mrs. S. W. Dodson and little son, visit in Elysia, last week.—Mr. Lance Brown's little daughter has diphtheria, at her grandmother, Mrs. Robertson's.—The Second M. E. church was reinforced, Sunday, by Cory M. E. church members (of Cleveland): Prof. Perry, Mr. and Mrs. Joplin, Mrs. Bowman, Mr. Jackson and Mrs. Williams, Mrs. S. Winfrey has gone to Springfield with "Grandfather," and there a while with another daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Thompson's home came near being destroyed by fire, Sunday morning.—Elmer Randolph has been ill for two weeks. SMITHFIELD.—The S. S. and church are arranging the Xmas treat and entertainment.—Mr. Henry A. Smith of McIntyre, died rather suddenly. Funeral services at the A. M. E. church and interment in the cemetery, there. A wife, 12 children, and a host of relatives and friends, mourn his demise. He was converted when but 14 and has been a faithful member. The McIntyre church ever since. The funeral service as large as has ever been witnessed in the church. Mr. A. Guy and son, Mr. and Mrs. C. West, Mr. and Mrs. George Smith and many others attended. The pastor, Rev. Chas. Ford.—Mesdames Sarah and Mary Harris were in Steubenville, last week. YOUNGSTOWN — Edward Price, who was taken to the city hospital, last week, is better—Mrs. Francis Ramsey visit her son, Wm. Palmer, in Ashtabula county—Mrs. H. S. Donnell Penhennon, Hill, Mrs. Church and Mrs. Joseph Hill, Mrs. Norman Smith is convalescing—St. Mary's church stewards will give a supper in town hall, this Friday evening, and stewards' board, No. 2, will hold a rally in the hall, Sunday—Thomas Lonesome is convalescing—Mr. Francis Ramsey's father, m. H. Tibbs, is convalescing, Pe. H. Herbert Ferguson and Miss Mary Russell will be married soon—Charles Lewis, age 10, died at his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Lewis, Sunday, after a long illness. Dropsy—Mrs. J. Finney entertained the "Mum" Club, Monday evening—Mrs. Rose Lucas, mother of Mr. Frank Harris, has returned Wilson, N. . . and Mrs. Speen mother of Mrs. Harris, to Cambridge, Monday, after a ten days' visit. SANDUSKY—Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Shackleford the boy, kines. Mrs. w whooping-cough badly—When Mrs. W. Alexander arrived Friday, her sister, Mrs. Washington, and two children, of Detroit, were awaiting her here.—Mrs. J. R. Davis was quite HI. Friday night, that Mgeo. Thomas is much improved. Mr. Stewart and Mrs. D. lined with Mr. F. Washington at Castley, Sunday, Rev. G. L. Hicks of Lorain, presched ably at the A. M. E. church, Sunday, Rev. G. D. Smith did likewise at Decatur St. Bantist church. Next Sunday, he will preach in the morning and evening on "I have found It" and "There is Death in the Pot," respectively. The union social, the 11th, was a success. Mrs. M. Stewart of New Castle, Ind., read several fine selections, Mr. John Shadd, Mr. Edward Cargill and Mr. Frank Smith delivered short stories and property addresses. Refreshments served. It was a great time for the two lodges—Both churches have prepared Christmas entertainments. The Baptist's includes a cantata.—Order The Gazette OBERLIN—Mr. Fred. Tabron who has been away five years, traveling, returned to his parents, last week.—Mr. Otis Smith left, Wednesday for Cleveland. Mrs. C. Cottard spent this week, Friday, there.—John Jackson was here, Sunday.—Miss Blanche Pettiford of Wakeman, visited Miss Lucy Pettiford, Sunday.—Mrs. Woods and daughter of Wakeman, visited a relative and Mrs. Mosby, Saturday.—Missnez Bunz, a business traveler, spend the Christmas holidays.—Mrs. Emma T. Hines and Mrs. Minnie Ferguson were in Elyria, last week.—Mr. Fred. Brown and Miss Martha Jones were married, Monday, and left, the last of the week, for Pittsburg.—Mrs. F. Taylor visited her son, Raymond, at the Elyria hospital, Saturday.—Miss Theresa Smith will come from Madisonville, Ky., to spend Christmas with her mother.—Rev. Delaney left, Sunday, for Cincinnati, to speak. Mitter Walter who died in Chicago after a long illness, was buried in Madisonville, Sunday, from Cleveland, to attend his brother's funeral. "The 'Knights of Methodism' were beaten by town boys, in a basket-ball contest, 21 to 18. CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. The old reliable Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a couple on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Zanesville, Newark, Lancaster, Lebanon, Chillicothe. Toledo, Troy, Canton, Springfield, Plaquemont, Columbus, Cambridge, Baltimore, Baltimore, Portsmouth, Washington C. H., Oxford, Sabina, Galipolis, Rendville, Urbana, Delaware, M. Vernon, East Liverpool, Wellsville, Akron, Dayton, Middletown, Bellefontaine, Lima, O., and other places where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette. Blackstone building, Cleveland, O., and Dayton, Middletown, promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by sending at the addresses of persons in the cities named above, or others, to whom we can write relative to the matter. Described. Various dishes in the Hungarian restaurant were numbered for the convenience of the waltresses and the benefit of the patrons. A young couple entered. The orchestra struck up the "William Tell" overture. Turning to her escort, the young woman said: "That's familiar—what is it?" The man glanced up at the orchestra and saw the number three displayed. Then, with the air of one who is accustomed to cafe life, he looked up number three on the bill of fare: "That," he replied, when he had located it, "is 'Filet Mignon,' by Champignons." The Evolution of Wealth Originally the process of accumulation comes by the toiler who spends less than he receives; eventually he is what is called a capitalist. If all were either improvident, vicious or incompetent, civilization would speedily decline, therefore the real benefactors of the rest are those who accumulate. Some of us have the capacity, other have not; that is an inexorable law of nature which cannot be altered.—Leslie's. Most Persistent Nuisance The person of a fixed idea may always easily become a nuisance, but never more so than when the fixed idea is petty and monstrous selfishness. Besides which, individual troubles are never to be made a boast of, and especially not when there is good reason for believing many of them to be self-caused, even if not actually invented. Hard to Say. "Mother," said a young lady in one of our cities the other day, "I wish you would not hang the parrot cage in the parlor." "Why not, dear?" "Because every two or three minutes when George and I are in the parlor he shouts out, 'Sit closer, please.'" The local journals suggest that the parrot had gained his experience as a street railway conductor. Has Left a Descendant Replying to the tracer that was sent out for the old-fashioned doctor who arranged to have somebody call him out every time a public meeting was held, the Emporia Gazette says he has gone, alas. "But his blushing son is here and is being mentioned as a Harmony candidate for office." Reward. Father (angrily)—"That appointment you forgot to keep today was the chance of a lifetime, and would probably have made your career. But you prefer to waste your time playing with your father. I won this捏, "Punch." They're Still Doing It. From Bee's dictionary, published in 1825: "Shopping—Among women, going about from shop to shop, buying little articles, perhaps, perhaps not but always pulling about great quantities of goods."—Boston Transcript. Cigarette and Gasoline The man who lights a cigarette in garage deserves rank alone with his kinsman who rocks the boat, and his brother kinsman who pulls the trigger of the unloaded gun—Greenville News Just as You Look at It Some people are miserable as a matter of habit. Others accustom themselves to being happy, and find the condition of bondage very agreeable—Nebraska State Journal. Of Course. "Goodness, John," said a woman to he, husband, "your suit looks as if you had been sleeping in it!" "Well," re- spoke the woman. "Isn't that the suit, I wear at church?" Each for Himself Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence—Maurice Maeterlinck. Swell Luncheon Report of an entertainment says: "Though meager before uncheon, the attendance swelled up afterwards." Had dried apples, perhaps. To Mend Kid Gloves When mending kid gloves always use cotton thread. It wears much longer, and does not tear the leather in the process of sewing. Dead Easy Then. Some people can't tell the difference between mushrooms and poisonous toads stools until the day after eating them. To Remove Ink Blots TO REMOVE INK BITS. Ink blots can be easily removed from books by covering them with salt and rubbing gently with the fingers. Oregon Led the States. Oregon was the first state to declare Labor day a holiday. The law was passed in 1887. First Chimney in History. The oldest account of a chimney places it in Venice in 1347. Counts for 'Em, Anyhow. The impulse to do a good thing weighs somewhat in favor of the person who forgets to do it. - Judge. Five Minutes. The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not know the value of five minutes.—Napoleon. Daily Thought. Ignerance never settles a question. —Benjamin Disraeli. DOINGS OF THE RACE W. T. Taylor, a Colored wholesale commission merchant of Little Rock, Ark., does an annual business of more than $60,000. Send The Gazette for one year, to a friend, as a Christmas present. It will be appreciated. Tell your friends and acquaintances to do so also. It will be a fine present, too. The deposits of the Solvent Savings Bank, a Colored bank in Memphis, Tenn. have reached and passed the $140,000 mark. It is regarded as one of the safest banks in Memphis. "Darktown Follies", a production written and presented by Afro-Americans, has been purchased by Ziegfeld, and has been incorporated in his next "Follies". The production does he has a real "find", and no doubt has. The will of Jordan Cavenar, a business man and former slave, died at Media, Pa., recently, worth more than $75,000, was admitted to probate, Dec. 2, and disclosed a number of bequests to white residents of Media, also. Miss May Hicks, an actress, went into Joel's Broadway restaurant, New York City, with several white actresses, and the proprietor refused her. When the matter was carried into court, Joel was fined $100 by Judge Nathan Openerhelm. Good! Bert A. Williams opened, Monday, in the vaudeville at Cincinnati, and the week of the 22nd, he will be at the Palace Theatre, New York City. This is a special engagement for seven weeks. Mr. Williams's contract calls for $2,000 per week. The American daily newspapers published a story, this week about Jack Johnson's being peled with stale vegetables at a wrestling match in Paris, France, Monday evening. It was simply another prejudiced American newspaper "lie cut out of whole cloth." Colored men, learn to be seen, not heard. Remember that the brook babies that dug water runs deep. The empty tank when a car splitting noise. A still tongue makes a wise head. Silence is golden. The loud laugh shows the vacant mind.—Exchange. Okulmgee, Okla., offers a fine opportunity for a Colored dentist. There are about three thousand Colored people in the city proper and almost an equal number in the suburb around, and all members of the race in that city are Colored citizens there are anxious that a Colored dentist locate in Okulmgee. Because they were forced to ride in a "jim-crow" car while traveling between Huntington, W. Va., and Louisville, Ky., over the C. & O. railroad, James Malone and John McCarty were each given judgment for $2,950 damages in a Louisville court, last month. The railroad violated the separate coach law of Kentucky. A Colored school teacher, living near Guthrie, Okla., was recently offered one hundred thousand dollars for a piece of land which cost him $25,000. An oil well has recently been opened his land that is bringing him in an income of $50 per day net. On the ground that the "Unwritten Law" should apply to all alike, Carl Oliver, a member of the race, of Franklin county, Texas, has appealed to the Supreme Court to set aside the death sentence imposed upon him for murder (white), whom he shot in self-defense when he found Stanley with his wife. The annual convention of the Southern Medical Association which met in Lexington, Ky., last month, was thrown into an uproar during a symposium on the "Negro" when Dr. H. C. Moore, former resident of Cleveland and Washington, C.C., defended the race on charges that our people are disease carriers. Attorney General Carmody's decision that the N. Y. State boxing commission had no legal right to enforce its ruling prohibiting white and Colored boxers, was a sharp rebuke to those members of said commission who had only a few days previously been accused of rule stand in spite of the fact that popular sentiment as expressed in local newspapers was opposed to it. Rev. Sidney Albert Smith, forperly of Pittsboro, Miss, died Dec. 3 and was buried Dec. 6 in Dannemora, N.Y., where for several years he had been confined in a state insane asylum as a result of having received serious injuries years before when attacked by a bom of ignorance while rushing with his mother in Big Creek, Miss. The mob crushed his skull and broke three of his ribs, together with inflicting other internal injuries. E. 24TH ST., EXTENSION. Referred to the committee on finance, auditor and city solicitor. Ord. No. 31682. Councilman Benesch—An ordinance to issue bonds in the sum of twelve thousand ($12,000) dollars for the purpose of opening, widening and extending E. 24th St., from Central Ave. to Cedar Ave., and for purchasing and condemning any land necessary therefor. Read first time, Monday evening. Dec. 15, 1913. Editor Gazette, Dear Mr. Smith: Replying to your card of the 9th inst., would say that the Sinking Fund Commission was unable to purchase the $12,000 in bonds for extending E. 24th St., due to the injunction proceedings that had been brought during the past year. I have today asked the Auditor to draw a new ordinance authorizing the sale of these bonds, and as soon as the bonds are sold, we available we will take the necessary steps to open and extend the street. Yours truly, W. J. Springborn. Director of Public Service. TO FIGHT BIG JACK. Paris, France.—It is announced that the winner of the Langford-Jeannette fight, scheduled for this Saturday night, fight Jack Johnson here next month. Heating Bags THE MAGIC 15 IN LONG THE MAGIC SHAMPOO AND HAIR STRAIGHTENED. SHAMPOO DRIER MED CO. MAILED ANY WHERE IN U.S.$100 POSTAGE PAID Agents Wanted. Write for Literature. Magic Shampoo Drier Co. Minneapolis, Minn. 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Central 6661-L. 3222 Central Ave., Cleveland. A Complete Line DRY GOODS, LADIES' AND GENTS' FURNISHINGS 3816 and 3820 Central Ave. Double Stamps on Tuesdays and Fridays. Good Bargains In Realestate! LARGE MORTGAGE LOANS! RENTALS--COLLECTIONS. CLAIMS ADJUSTED. S. E. WOODS, 2823 Central Ave. 'Phone, North 996. Ohio Dry-Cleaning and Dyeing Co. Established in 1911. Cleaners of all kinds of Ladies and Gentlemen's Garments. Also Expert Cleaning and Blocking of All Kinds of Fats. We Call Van and Deliver! 2288 Central Av. Cuy. Phone, Central 2201-L. WHERE TO PURCHASE THE GAZETTE Local reading notices (advertisements) ten cents a line (six words in a line.) FOR RENT—Houses and Rooms— If you have them to rent or if you want to rent, advertise in The Gazette. It brings results. NOTARY PUBLIC—For such serv- ces call at The Gazette office, No. 3 Blackstone building, No. 1424 W. Third Street, near Superior Ave. Cleveland Sixth City Miss "Tuttsle" Queen of E. 46th St. is very sick. Quinsy. Several more restaurants have been in recent weeks and will be opened in Central Ave. in the next two weeks Pool rooms and restaurants galore! Come and see our Xmas special reductions in stylish hats; also remodeling quite reasonable and pleasing at the Walker Millinery Shop, $82 Central Ave.—Adv. Mr. Walsteen Burke and Addie G Sloan, and Frederick L. Reed and Annie Washington were married by Rev. J. L. E. Burry, at his residence 4815 E. 49th St., Dec. 9. Is your minister interested in the fight to eliminate the words "durkey" and "darkies" from that local public school book? Ask him and let The Gazette know his answer. Mrs. Jennie C. Dobbins of Pittsburg, who assisted Miss Dazella Underwood's quartette for about a week while it was on a tour week before last, was in the city, Sunday and Monday, and called on The Gazette. Amy B. Cohen, a trained nurse here for five years, will leave for her home, Dec. 23. It is rumored that she is soon to be married to John A. Gwynn of Baltimore, Md. Now is the time to subscribe for The Gazette. Send it to a friend one year, as a Christmas present. Many do this every year and the recipients always greatly appreciate the gift. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of an invitation to attend the twenty-third annual Tuskegee, Ala., conference, Jan. 21, 1914 and the Workers' conference, the following day. Send or bring locals and all busb ness matters to The Gazette's new offices, Suite 2, Blackstone Bldg. If you wish to see the editor call there and not at his home. Please remember and tell this to all making inquiry of him or The Gazette. --- The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of an invitation to attend an "assembly" to be given at Halnorth's Hall, Dec. 29. The committee in charge: Messrs. L, J. Dean, C. H. Jackson, R. B. Hodges, C. H. Leatherman, George Hinton, Clarence Williams, president. Miss Ellen Thomas has one of the neatest and nicest stores ever opened in this city by our people and most of any other class. Congratulations and best wishes are being showered on her by all who see it. It is a good indication of progress. A sacred cantata, entitled "From the Heights of Glory", will be given by Antioch S. S., Wednesday evening, at the church, and "The Angel with the broken wing", a Christmas song story, will be rendered Sunday, at 8:15 p. m. by S. S. members. Steve, Ball and Z. R. Brown have taken charge of the Stag hotel and replaced the saloon with a pool room. Likewise, Bass & Travis. The West Penn restaurant, is now a pool room. It is rumored that W. H. Van Dusen is interested in it, financially. The Gazette is indebted to Mr. Edward Daw for one of the prettiest cal THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1913. endars (for 1914) we have ever seen. It is issued by the People's Saving's Bank, 1688 W. 25th St. Wonder if that bank has a more loyal employee than "Ed?" At Mt. Haven Baptist church, Sunday, Rev. J. L. m. on E. E. Burr, will preach at 10:45 a. m. on "A Supreme Purpose in Life," and at 7:45 p. m. on "The Revelation of God through Jesus Christ." At 12:30 p. m. S. S., and at 6 p. m., B. P. U. The Gazette desires to call its readers' attention to Mr. Andrew Hatchett's advertisement, elsewhere in this volume. But that he is a member of the race, Mr. Hatchett has had ten years' practical experience as an electrician and plumber, Patronize him. -Adv. If you were too black to be admitted to Luna Park roller rink all summer, except "jim-crow" days-Aug. 4 and 18—would be too black to be "used" on Monday and Tuesday evenings now that the park is closed, even if "COLORED PATRONS" are especially scrolled on these evenings. J. W. Wills & Co. will give away a beautiful white enamel thermometer during Christmas week, as a Xmas greeting to friends and patrons. Stop at 2529 Central Ave., and get one. Wills & Co. also have a limited number of especially designed thermometers for churches, lodge-rooms and business places.-Adv. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of an invitation to attend the second annual "New Year and May" party of the All-Star Whist" club of Youngstown, to be held in Excelsior parlors, Jan. 1, 14. The officers of the club are: Geo. J. Jefferson, pres.; Geo. Rideout, sec.; T. B. Robinson, treas. All local news for The Gazette of Dec. 27 and Jan. 3 must be in the office on Monday, Dec. 29 and Monday, Jan. 5. Do not forget this if you have news for the paper in either week of the holidays. Christmas and New Years coming on Thursday, compels The Gazette to go to press on Wednesday, as they cover each of these two weeks. Remember this, please. W. S. Dyson and Warren J. Cossey returned the first of the week from a trip to Florida and other southern states. They can tell you much you wish to know about the 'the dear ones' they meet, particularly, as to our people in Miami, Fl. Mr. Dyson's graphic descriptions are exceptional. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of an invitation to attend the twentieth marriage anniversary of Rev. and Mrs. Byron Gun, a friend of the author, their cozy home in Hillburn, N. Y. They have many friends here, in Oberlin and Painesville. They lived long in this vicinity, years ago. The Board of Lady Managers of the Old Folk's home will meet at the Sterling Library, 2200 E. 30th St., Monday at 3 p.m. The holiday musicale by Madame Florence Cole-Talbert, soprano, of California, assisted byarker's wife, at corys, members ofColumbia Dec. 29, at corys, church, is for the benefit of the home. Miss Ellen Thomas wishes toannounce that the formal opening of herhair-dressing parlor at 3327 CentralAve, will be held, Tuesday evening,all goods, for one week only. One of thebest orchestras in the city will furnishmusic for the opening. Miss ElizabethToles, manicurist, will be associatedwith Miss Thomas.—Adv. The Metropolitan Trio is decidedly the best of the several vaudieville acts at the New Ogden Theatre, this week. There is a solidity of impress made by the splendid vocal and instrumental music of the trio selfform experienced anywhere. The Gazette has no hesitancy in bringing this organization, Thomas E. Davis, 2358 Marlon Ave., is manager of the trio. Local preachers and exhorters' day at St. James A. M. E. church, Sunday. Principal speakers: Revs. Wm. Malone and Henry Wiggins. Quarterly meeting was largely attended, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Ramey entertained Rev. Maxwell, P. E. and Maxwell, Y. O. at dinner, Sunday. The W. M. M. S. sent a Christmas package to Miss Irene Johnson, their missionary at Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa. Each member put an article in the package. A few friends did likewise. Wm. Wm. McNaughton, a prominent local caterer, made Mt. Zion Congregational church a present of four dozen cups purchased from Kinney and Levant's. Mr. McNaughton, who kindly donated his services to the Du Bois Literary club, curated their two last guests at the church, being an honorary member of the club, saw the necessity of having more dishes at the church to accommodate the large audiences. He says there is more to follow. Mrs. Lena St. Johns of E. 71st St., was hostess to the club at this week's regular meeting. The membership was out in full and plans made for future work. Preparations are now being made for the club's annual play. * * * * Those persons who are too "cheap" to purchase a copy of The Gazette, but have the "nerve and gall" to "sponge" on others and worse, still, go to certain agencies and stand or sit down like a boater while they steal the news it contains after "borrowing a copy of The Gazette" from the news agent, are contemptible. We warn said agents that unless they off it, paper will be seized to sell. Pers is too poor to purchase a copy of t) paper can get it free at any time at The Gazette office. We will even mail it to their homes gratis, weekly, by the month or year. There one or two ministers as well as laymen and laywomen who are guilty. SHAME! --- The Bible class of Mt. Zion Congregational S. S. held its monthly meeting at the pastor, Rev. G. V. Clarke's, last week Wednesday evening, with an unusually large attendance coming out, it seems, because of a report, that one of our prominent ladies of the city, whom it is alleged, had had a slanderous remark made concerning her by one of the members of the meeting to read a letter of denial, concerning said statement, given her by her attorney and written and signed by the member said to have made the slanderous statement. When the lady appeared on the scene (accompanied by her husband) with the letter of denial in her possession, she was informed by a committee of the members of the meeting to cide the letter could not be read, some of the class denying that such a statement had been made at one of its meetings, while others claimed that it had been made by the member. The lady in question was sent, through her attorney, a letter of flat denial written him by the member of the class alleged to have made the it in her possession, and the statement which are being made by idle gossipers to the effect that the class-member in question reiterated the slanderous statement and refused a denial, etc., etc. are malicious and without foundation in fact, and, of course, unfair to both b. ides. The Old Folk's Home Association has $1,000 and a note for $1,700—from the sale of the home it still occupies; $1,000, left it by will; $80, netted by its chainless lunch of some months ago; $3, given it by the Men's Auxiliary, making a total of $2,832. Sometimes ago, it was decided to rent the property on Cedar Ave, near E. 49th St, which was first offered for sale at $7,000 and the price later on raised to $8,000. Still later, the price was again raised to $2,500, after the Association had made its decision to purchase the property at $9000. This last raise has delayed the purchase of the property. Tuesday evening at its meeting, the Association decided not to pay it, and final decision, as to have it moved, was received before it have been reached the following day. Wednesday, Dr. Norton has offered his property on E. 46th St, near Cedar Ave, which is about the same size as the Cedar Ave, property mentioned above, for $7,000, two thousand dollars less than the price asked for to be vacated by the middle of next month. There was an understanding that this was to take place, Jan. 1, 1914. It was a mistake to sell the home before some place was secured in which to move. A short time ago our local Ministers' Alliance also recommended the purchase of property in the country rather than in the city, because the property would be vacated the very beginning and we still hope the Association will not make the mistake that now seems probable. "THE USE OF MONGREL OR HY BRID WORDS." Speaking of The Gazette's recent protest, to the heads of our local public schools, against the use of "Jones" Fourth Reader in which the words "darkies" occurs, the New York Amsterdam News, said, editorially, under the above headline, in its latest issue: "There is now in progress a controversy between the Colored citizens and the Board of Education of Cleveland, Ohio, about the use in the public schools of a text book containing the words "darky" and "darkies." These words in particular are con- inued in Jones' Fourth Reader" and was written by the late rebel leader, General John B. Gordon of Georgia. We are in hearty sympathy with those noble citizens and taxpayers of Cleveland, who would have such insulting mongrel words eliminated from all text books where they are faecal in content, causes or ridicule to children of other races. How a falcated Board of Education can tolerate such usage we are unable to understand. "The word "daryy" is just as much an insult to the self-selfstanding, intelligent Colored person as is the word "dago" to the Itallian, or "sheeny" to the Hebrew, or "mick" to the Irish. These words are slang, pure and simple, and can have no useful purpose in the vocabulary of any person. The word "tendency" predicates and strife. Shar is low, vulgar, unmeaning language and should not be employed by anyone, especially when attempting to characterize or designate a class or race of people. To intelligent Colored people the use of the term and all such monogender or hybrid words, is a flagrant and gross insult, and should always be treated as such. The word "daryy" is not far from "miggy". The two are about equal in disgusting baseness and are insidious causes of racial evils and discord. "Our children should no more be confronted with such words than Southern white children be confronted with the words "crackers" and "rough-necks." This they would readily resent as an insult to their intelligence, just as we are. The dead insult concludes. The only safe and salutary method to adopt is to eliminate all such objectionable words wherever found, and especially in the text books of our public schools." Anent the same thing, the N. Y. Age had the following editorial in a recent issue: "SLANDERING NEGRO IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. "Is the Negro to be slandered by the text books used in the public schools of this country?" Is the white child to be taught that the color of his skin makes him superior to the Colored child? Is it the aim of eur white educators to impress upon the minds of the Colored youth of today that he is forever destined to learn how much education, culture and character he may possess? These questions present themselves for serious consideration in view of what seems to be a modern tendency to misrepresent and insult the Negro in some our public schools. "In a recent issue of The Cleveland Gazette the complaint was registered that in the Fourth Reader used in the Cleveland public schools the objectionable word "darkies" is used. The Cleveland Gazette published a letter in last week's issue, written by the secretary to the superintendent of schools, in which he assured the Colored citizens that no intentional inuit to the race had been meant; that the article in which the word "darkies" appeared had been written by a Southener. "The publishers of text-books and periodicals seem to labor under the impression that the Negro is callous to terms of derision and slanderous statements made concerning his people." "It is noticed that pains are taken to see that the American youth today is not taught in the public schools that the Caucasian has been in bondage, and that the white man has served in the army, and that the black man a drawer of water. Nor is there ever any such oversight in publishing textbooks in which the Irish, Jews, Italians and other races are referred to. "There was published in the daily papers last week a dispatch from the South in which it was reported that the students of a Southern college had gathered up the school histories written by a Yankee and used in their studies. "There were exceptions to the statement that Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis were traitors to the government. "Very, very sensitive are many of our white Americans, the Southerner in particular, even when the truth is told. So if they express indignation and wax油 over the truth, what should the Negro do, when the history creeped in and used in the public schools maligns his race and sets him in a false and prejudicial light before the world? "The revision of text-books, in so far as relating to the Negro in history, is in order." Our local City Federation of Women's Clubs have joined The Gazette in its effort to have the obnoxious and insulting words eliminated from Jones' Fourth Reader, or the book's use in the local public schools discontinued. Our local Ministers' Alliance should become active, too—if indeed it has not, already. This applies to all of the 20,000 Afro-Americans in this city, especially those who are in a position to help. This is a matter that concerns us all, equally. It strikes at the very heart of every home because it harms most our children—even those of tender years! $greech Owl in Church. A fine specimen of the serech or barn owl was seen in Castleacre Parish church in Norfolk, England, one Sunday morning, perched on one of the beams of the nave, just before the service began. While the officials were wondering how to get rid of it the owl alighted on the hat of a lady in the congregation, whence it was carried to the open air and set free, it is supposed that the bird descended the beetry stairs while an official was winding the church clock. SIGNS OF THE TIMES. Air a-gettit' cool an' coolah, Arest a-comin' in de night. Hicka' nuts an' w'nuts fallin', Ooam keepin' out o' sight. Tukuy struttn' in the ba'nya'd, Nary step so proud ez his; Keep on struttn', Mastash Tu'key! Yo d'know what time it is. Cidah press commense a-squeekin' Eatin' apples st'd away; Chillun swa'min' roun' lik ho'nets, Hungin' aigs errung de hay. Mastash Tu'key keep on gobblin' At de geese a-flin' 'souf' Oompie a-flin' bird don't know what's comin'. If he did he'd shet his mout. Pun'kin gettin' good an' yallah Mek me open up my eyes; Seems it like a'lookin' at me or it like a'lookin' pleas. Tukuy gobbler sayin' tawn' blowin' Gwine' rour gibbin' sass an' an' slack Keep on talkin' Mastash Tu'key, You ain't seed no almanac. P'amer walkin' th'oo de ba'nya'd, Seen' how things is comin' on, Sees et all de fowls is fatn'uin— Good times comin' shs you oon (yachs dat turky gobbler braggin' a amb— Nocbah min' you sass' face' He's gwine nab you after white. Chapin' suet in de kitchen, Stonin' rains in de hall, Beef a cookin' fn' de mince meat, Spices grum'— I smell 'em all. Look lyeh, Tukey, stop dat gobblin' You ain't nud de sense ob fea' You'n' too look in minks in Do you know Thanksgibbin 'hyeh! — Paul Lawrence Duphar What He Means. When a man says the world won't take him at his true value, what he means is that the world won't accept his own exaggerated opinion of himself. Another Way to Prolong Life. The statement has been made that life would be prolonged if persons would acquire the habit of stooping by the hips, instead of bending the back bone. Extreme of Adoration. The admiration entertained by a Trenton boy for his uncle includes all the latter's attributes and even possessions which the uncle himself is not wont to deem desirable. "Uncle," said the lad one day after he had been studying his uncle in laughing conversation with his father, "I don't care much for plain teeth like mine. I wish I had, some copper-toed ones like yours." Servant Girl Educator The truth is, we never think of education in connection with babyhood, the term being in our minds inextricably confused with schoolhouses and books. When we do honestly admit the plain fact that a child is being educated in every waking hour by the condition in which he is placed and the persons who are with him, we shall be readier to see the need of a higher class of educators than servant girls.—Concerning Children. A Place for Ladies, Children and Gentlemen Gilbert B. Johnson. Florence Ferguson, Jas. A. Hicks. Stage Mgr. Musical Director. Gen. Mgr. 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Chicago, Ill.—Jack Johnson's attorney here has filed a brief in the U.S. Circuit court, in an appeal from the sentence of one year and one day in the Leavenworth penitentiary and a $1,000 fine, in transporting Belle Schreiber (white) from Pittsburgh to Chicago, for immoral purposes. The brief alleges that even granting it a sentence, Johnson would be the jury, it was not a violation of the law governing the white slave traffic, since the pugilist did not realize any commercial gain. In the brief it is alleged that eleven errors were permitted in the trial. District Attorney James Wilkerson is considering the advisability of demanding a new bondman for the pugilist pending the decision of the court on his appeal because of the death of M. S. Judd, a widow of the bondman Jack's $30,000 bond, given his case, was NOT forfeited, when he left for France, as erroneously stated in the daily papers at the time. According to a letter received in Cleveland, last week, from Paris, Frank Moran, the Cleveland heavyweight and Jack Johnson will fight for the world championship now held in Johnsburg. Both men have been training from the three weeks and the promoters will stage the contest in the biggest building that can be procured. Jack will be in the shape for the contest. Indeed, he is that right now. Paris, France—Jack Johnson and his (white) wife were injured here, Dec. 12, when their automobile, in which they were en route to Paris, collided with the safety gates at a railway crossing. Both were cut about the head; not seriously, how. It is said, his wife lost two front teeth, which gold ones will replace. Jack has not been deprived of his title of world's heavyweight champion by the international boxing union, according to a statement in a local newspaper, L'Auto. Some "smarty" fighters only proposed such action, but English American delegates "sat on" the proposer and his demofoot proposition. Tommy Gavigan of Cleveland, is training Joe Jeannette for his twenty-round fight with Sam Langford, which takes place in Paris, this week, Saturday night. He says Joe is in peril because he expects to be in wonderful form. Tommy expects to give Sam a bad beating. Guess Sam "should worry!" Frank Motor and Aviation Exchange. Insure with us before the accident. Afterward we can do nothing for you.—The Cyclecar. Before and After- Mrs. Outlate—"What time of night is it?" Outlate—"Shame time I pushed to go home when I was courted in' you." THE MANHATTAN The Best Place on Central Ave., to get a Good Lunch and Quick Service J. W. CRAWFORD, PRO'R., 3133 CENTRAL AVE. Open Evenings for the Accommodation of the Theater Trade. THE PEOPLES' DRUG STORE F. H. WEAVER, PHAR. D., Prop. Cor. Central Ave. and E. 33d St. Agent for "HIGH BROWN FACE POWDER." WE GIVE TRADING STAMPS. MONEY ORDERS. NEWSPAPER ADS., TELEGRAMS. PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALITY. Open late at Night. 2507 Central Ave. CLEVELAND, OHIO. O. B. MOSS, PROP. New, clean and neat rooms. Bath &c. Terms Reasonable. The Best Meals Breakfast from 7 a. m. to 10 a. m. SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNER. from 12 noon to 8 p. m. HOME COOKING. 'Phone, Central, 2433 W. FOR SALE! Hundreds of acres, in large and small farms, in an aristocratic vicinity. This is a Splendid Opportunity to secure some of the best farms in the state—all within thirty miles of Cleveland. Address JOSEPH LANE, P. O. Box 68, Willoughby, O. J. W. WILLS & CO. The Leading Funeral Directors Chapel in Connection. Service First Class. 2529 Central Avenue North 474 Central 7562-L Words Have Become Corrupted. Such names as Swearing and Gambling show how the original meaning has become corrupted. Swearing is from swear, which comes from the Anglo-Saxon word meaning "honorable." Gambling comes from gaming, which comes from a Norse word signifying "old descent." Nuf Sed. Hetter—"What sort of town is New York?" Skelter—"Judge for yourself. Two of its burroughs are named after cocktails."—Judge. Pleasant News for Hubby. Young Wife (to older and seasick husband)—"Now, dear, just be as comfortable as you can, and don't worry about me. I'm not lonely. There's half a dozen men up on deck who's been awfully nice to me. And such a joke! They think I'm a widow!"—Puck. AS JOHN PURROY MITCHEL'S MOTHER SEES HIM CARNEGIE IS 78. SPENDS A OUIET BIRTHDAY HIS STEAK TASTED LIKE WASHED MONEY SHOWS UP ABSURDITY OF A FOOLISH QUESTION The mother of Mayor Mitchel of New York city is an unfamiliar figure in public life. She has kept in the background. She did not desire a political career for her son. She dreamed of his being a great lawyer and jurist, but when he accepted public office she prayed for his achievement of good. Many Purry Mitchel is a woman of broad sympathies and practical common sense. Simplicity is the keynote of her life. One feels this from the moment of crossing the threshold of her home on Washington Heights, where the mayor spent most of his boyhood. To meet Mrs. Mitchel under her own roof-tree, garbed as is her wont in black of almost nun-like severity, with only a bit of lace at her throat and her soft gray hair coiled simply on the crown of a finely shaped head, is to see Whistler's favorite type of womanhood off the canvas. But her physical charm is the least remarkable thing about the mayor's mother. She is an intellectual woman and notably a student of Irish literature and art. Affection for her husband's race is deep in her. She knows, too, and thinks about the social and economic problems of this country. One afternoon shortly following a big mass meeting during the recent campaign, Mrs. Mitchell was discussing in her home, in West One Hundred and Sixty-second street, the problem of rearing children, when she was asked for her "recipe" for making a mayor. A quiet little smile of infectious quality was the beginning of her answer. "That's a secret," she went on after a pause, "but I will reveal it, and when I do you may think it only a random paradox. Raise your boy for something else and then maybe he will turn out a mayor—a good mayor, as I pray God my son will be. "I planned for my son to be a lawyer—a great jurist"—Mrs. Mitchell's dark eyes sparkled and slowly she Andrew, Carnegie, capitalist, philanthropist, author and philosopher, on November 25 passed another milestone — the seventy-eighth, on his journey through life. He observed the day quietly in his New York home with his wife and daughter. He is in good health as well as he has felt in years, as he declared to the numerous friends who called during the day to offer congratulations. November 25 passed another milestone — the seventy-eighth, on his journey through life. He observed the day quietly in his New York home with his wife and daughter. He is in good health as well as he has felt in years, as he declared to the numerous friends who called during the day to offer congratulations. Although it is now many years since he retired from active business, Mr. Carnegie says he has not yet reached the age when he can afford to sit by the fireside and take life easy. There are few busier men in New York than the former / Not that Representative Robert F. Broussard of Louisiana is finicky about his food; far be it from anything of the sort. Mr. Broussard likes all food, some more than others, but all of it to him is good, and the subject to him is ever interesting. M. Good natured always, it is not for him to complain. No man in public life has more reason to be contented with his lot. He is rounding out his eighth term in the house and has nicely buttoned up a six-year term in the senate following Secretary of War Garrison is one of the quickest men on record in showing up the absurdity of a foolish question. Recently a group of newspaper men were questioning him, and the interrogations were falling like bomb-shells. The secretary of war bore it patiently for a while. Then one of the newspaper men asked: "What is going to be your policy in the Philippines, Mr. Secretary?" ing up the absurdity of a foolish question. Recently a group of newspaper men were questioning him, and the interrogations were falling like bombshells. The secretary of war bore it patiently for a while. Then one of the newspaper men asked: "What is going to be your policy in the Philippines, Mr. Secretary?" What do you mean?" asked the secretary of war. "Your policy," repeated the news. Top Hat for Cecil Rhodes' Statue. Among the stories in a book which the duchess of Aosta is publishing is one relating to the celebrated statue of Cecil Rhodes, which stands in the main square of Bulawayo. The empire builder is figured in contemplation of his achievement, with head bared. The whole district had been grievously plagued by drought for over a twelfth month, when the natives got up, a great agitation and marched in enormous numbers to the square, and thronging around the "a great jurist. But I never so much as dreamed of his being the mayor of New York. "From my son's earliest years I endeavored to instil in him a respect for other people's property, other people's rights and other people's opinions and faiths. I might say those precepts compose my personal doctrine of American citizenship." Mrs. Mitchel's eyes are kind eyes, but they flashed as she pronounced this creed and an expression of austerity set her mouth and chin. One felt that she would know how to drive it home. "When John was a boy," she continued, "he loved all the outdoor boy games. He loved the country, the open, the mountains. He was a boy. But, for instance, he had to understand and did understand that he could not go on other people's property to play unless by explicit permission. If he batted or threw a ball over a fence into a neighbor's garden he knew that he couldn't follow after it and trample down everything to sight. The ball had to stay there." The mayor's mother is opposed to corporal punishment. "I never whipped my boy. I don't believe in whipping children," was the way she put it, and her expressive eyes flashed indignantly. "But neither do I believe in spilling children. My boy was a normal American boy and of course he had to be punished sometimes. When those times came I deprived him of son. a pleasure—something I knew his heart was set on doing or obtaining. But I must say honestly that John never gave me any serious trouble in his life. He was brought up with a great deal of love surrounding him, and I do not believe that real love ever spoiled man or woman. Take the average boy and give him a great deal of love—not fit ful spurts of violent affection, but just constant, tender love—have faith in him—expect the finer things from him—practice the essential things you teach him—let him find you just above all things or striving to be so—and the boy will do the rest. "There is a great difference between humoring a boy and encouraging him just as there is between overindulging a boy and properly providing for him Overindulgence' spoils; so does stint ing." Is this a random paradox? steel master. While supposed to be enjoying the customary vacation in Scotland the last summer, Mr. Carnegie in reality was scurrying hither and thither on the continent, attending the sessions of the peace congress at The Hague and incidentally running over to Berlin to have a confidential chat on world affairs with the German emperor. During his winter residence in New York Mr. Carnegie regularly puts in six hours or more each day looking over his voluminous mail and considering appeals for assistance from libraries, colleges, philanthropic and charitable organizations and countless individuals in almost every part of the world. That many of these appeals meet with a substantial response is evidenced by the fact that Mr. Carnegie's gifts thus far in 1913 amount to many millions of dollars. The grand total of his benefactions probably never will be known, since there are many educational contributions and contributions for charity in which the public is not taken into his confidence. that. Contented? Why, that's his middle name. But the other day he struck a steak in the house restaurant that did not appeal to him. Sadly he pushed it away from him. "What's the matter with it, Bob?" asked a fellow member who was lunching with him. "I don't know," said Broussard, "but it tastes like washed money." Sartorial Swiftness. "A feller has to hustle to keep up with the percussion, don't he?" mused Ote Wheat. "I can't never tried," responded Ezr. Slocum. "Last fall, when I went to the city," continued Ote, "I noticed that my coat was six inches too short. So I took part of my pig money and bought a long one. And, oy gum! when I went back this fall, the durn thing was six inches too long."—Judge. paper man. "I want to get simply general information on it." The secretary of war looked at him fixedly for a moment, and then smiled his almost Rooseveltian smile. "How long is a piece of string?" he asked. "I haven't an idea." gasped the newspaper man, trying to figure out the question. "Neither have I," replied the secretary of war, still smiling genially, "and I think we'd better wait until we get some ideas before we begin to answer those questions." Too Much. "Ere, you," said the bus driver to a man on top, "don't you want the public library?" "Yes," replied the passenger, who showed no signs of getting down. "Well," retorted the conductor, "come down for it. I can't bring it out for you."—Punch. statue, insisted that the statue of Cecil Rhodes should immediately be given a top hat. They said that "Heaven respects this great creator of empire far too much to send the needed rain while he stands there bare-headed." THE GAZETTE. CLEVELAND. O. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1913. SPORTS M'LOUGHLIN MEETS DEFEAT HOUPPELAND PARIS SEN Matter of Uncertainty Whether the Styl --- "Chick" Wright, former world's champion, and Calvin Demarest, champion of the Pacific coast, gave an exhibition of 18.2 balk play at Philadelphia, which resulted in a victory for Demarest, a score of 30 to 76. Umpire Silk O'Loughlin is now a golf enthusiast. He thinks so well of the ancient and honorable pastime he gets it mixed up with his baseball talk now. The Woodland Golf club is to send Francis Ouimet abroad in search of golfing honors, notably the British amateur. WRESTLING Ed (Strangler) Lewis won in straight falls from "Young" Olsen of Indianapolis at Louisville. The first fall came after 30 minutes of wrestling and Lewis won the second in 20 minutes. William Demetral of Chicago defeated Dr. B. F. Roller of Seattle two falls out of three at Los Angeles, Cal. Chicago has organized a commission to purify wrestling in the Windy City. There is a persistently reiterated belief around the western camps that the Big Nine will lose one of its honored members. The working out of the Minnesota schedule, this season has impregnated western authorities with the belief that the Gophers are anxious to quit the conference. * * * Captain Ketcham of Yale is not popular with the newspapers. He refuses to number the Blue's players because he says numbers are a newspaper invention and that his players are fighting for Yale, not publicity. * * * The medieval idea that football should be an "exclusive" sport doesn't appeal strongly to Coach Stagg, who is willing to give the public credit for having supported Maroon athletes for the last 21 years. They now have another star Indian at Carlisle who makes them all forget that Jim Thorpe ever played there. He is Joseph Guyon, the star halfback and ground gainer of the Carlisle eleven. A little gold football will be given every member of the Michigan Agriculture college gridiron team who made his monogram this season. A move to have "Germany" Schultz engaged to coach the Badger line next season has been launched by the Wisconsin Daily News. Ralph Chapman, better known as "Blooey," has been elected the University of Illinois football captain for 1914. Of this year's Black eleven Captain Kelly, Black, Bolton, Enwright and Bingham will be graduated this year. The Indiana university football squad has unanimously chosen Michael Erehart captain for next year. Leo Dick, Iowa's star halfback, was unanimously elected captain of the 1914 team. BASEBALL Eddie Collins, second baseman of the champion Athletics, has turned down an offer of $50,000 to play on one of the Federal league clubs for three years. Comiskey never was a good sailor and when he gets through with the present tour of the world he will take a vow never to try another long ocean voyage. Bill Dahlen, the deposed leader of the Dodgers, saw 21 years' service in the big league, which is one of the best records ever attained by a ball player. Oscar Vitt, the Tiger player who has taken to writing stories of baseball, is in disfavor with some of his teammates because of his writings. Jack Coombs has shrunk one-sixteenth of an inch since he was slick, but the doctor says he will be able to pitch just as well as ever next year. Kid Elberfeld, who last year managed the Chattanooga team, says that the Southern league is the strongest of the minor organizations. There is no chance in the world for Clark Griffith to get Johhy Bates from the Cincinnati club, according to Garry Herrmann. Manager Birmingham says the reason he canned Buddy Ryan was because he was getting a bit slow. Owner Somers and Manager Birmingham of the Naps are trying to land Russell Ford of the Highlanders. Red Dooin, the Philadelphia leader, says that he wouldn't have Heine Zimmerman on his team. Manager Hughey Jennings says that he will have a good term next season. M'LOUGHLIN MEETS DEFEAT COPYRIGHT Underwood & Underwood Maurice E. McLoughlin, who together with his veteran partner, Summer Hardy, was defeated at San Francisco the other day in the tennis meeting of the Portola tennis tournament by Charles J. Griffin and John R. Strachan, runners-up in this year's national doubles. SWIMMING A new quarter-mile indoor swimming record for Philadelphia was made when Gilbert E. Tomlinson, the A. A. U. national half-mile champion, in a dual meet in the pool of the Germantown Y. M. C. A. Dippy won in 6:09 3:5. Alfred Brown, a member of a New York life-saving corps, has arrived at Panama with the hope of being the first man to swim from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, through the canal. MISCELLANEOUS Announcement that the University of Illinois will establish a normal school of physical education next year has been made by Director of Athletics Huff in an address before the state high school teachers. The Austrian Olympic games committee has engaged Al Copeland as trainer in track and field events for the next Olympian meet. Copeland formerly was trainer at Princeton and Yale. Frank I. Pearce was chosen commode of the Fox Lake Country club at its annual meeting. Harvard defeated Yale in their annual chess competition, six matches to four. HORSE RACING Emphasis is being added to the attention Europeans are giving to the San Francisco exposition stakes of $20,000, by the announcement that Prince Theodore Ypsilanti has named his foreign bred trotter, Allen, in all four of the events to be raced at the Pan-Pacific speedfest. If C. K. G. Billings should decide to take his entire stable of fast trotters to his recently acquired Virginia farm, then the natal state of Robert E. Lee will be the home of three world's champions, Lou Dillon, Uhlan and The Harvester. Fair Virginia, a daughter of Zombro, whose three-year-old record is 2:294, will be trained by Walter Cox next season. She has beaten 2:10, according to rumor. Forty-one trotters with records of 2:10 or better have died since the first of the year, and 39 pacers have also answered the call. The American Trotting association collected $750 during the racing season in fines against offending drivers. The Europeans have bought nine American trotters with records of 2:05 or better to date. Following the lead of Great Britain, the European countries have established the British weights as official, and Australia and New Zealand have followed suit. Now it's up to the United States. For one thing, the adoption of international standard ring weights would remove much of the bickering over title fights. "Kid" Williams of Baltimore, challenger of bantamweight boxing honors, won from Battling Reddick of New York in six rounds that were full of action all the way at the Olympia A. A. cf Philadelphia. Harry Baker of Wilmington and Eddie Revocile of Philadelphia, put up one of the hardest fought bouts seen in Philadelphia for a long time, Baker being on the winning end by a slight margin. Frank Klaus, middleweight boxer, has fired Manager George Engle, and is going to try to paddle his own canoe. Fred Gilmore, one of the cleverest and best-liked managers in the business, is looking after Jack White again. Packey McFarland easily defeated Kid Alberts of New York at Waterbury, Conn., in a ten-round glove contest. --- HOUPPELANDE COAT PARIS SENSATION Matter of Uncertainty as to Whether the Style Will Be Taken Up. Style Became Popular Suddenly and Is Now the Rage—Pannier Effects a Boon to the Siender Woman —Clinging Skirt Remains. PARIS. The revival of the "Houpelande" coat is one of the sensations of the winter season in Paris. Whether this style will become comparatively permanent or prove a passing craze remains to be seen. On this subject the leading Parisian dress experts are divided. For myself consider it certain that wide-hemmed coats will become more and more popular. Everything points to this, writes Claude Cherys in the New York Sun. When Poifret first launched the Persian tunic every one smiled. Some smart women adopted it immediately; the majority declared it suitable only for fancy dress balls. For several months the Persian, or stiffened, tunic remained in the balance. It was worn, certainly but it was not accepted except for special occasions by really chick women. Then quite strenantly the Persian tunic outline became the rage. Alarmists declared that, we were in for a season of hooped skirts, but these good souls were as usual wrong. Hooped skirts are still in the future, but hooped coats and tunics are an actual fashion. Naturally. Good Dressers. The great couturiers of the Rue de la Mairie may find it an easy matter to force their ideas and opinions upon foreign buyers and foreign elegantes—and under the word "foreign" I place all those who are not French—but when they come to deal with the eclectic Parisiennes they can only design and suggest—and wait! Such and such a style may, or may not, catch on in the great world. It seems as though it were all a matter of chance; in reality it is a matter of cultured taste. The Parisiennes are naturally good dressers. Everything connected with the toilette is to them almost sacred. They discuss their own possibilities and their own individual tastes with their chosen dressmakers, just as two painters might discuss the possibilities of an embryo picture. I do not hesitate to say that no Parisian dressmaker or tailor is ever unpleasantly autocratic with his or her Parisian clients. It is a case of artist meeting artist. This being the case, and undoubtedly it is so, it can be easily understood that though a very remarkable style, like the housepainel coat, might be worn on certain occasions by special women it might not easily become the fashion from the Parisian point of view. But there are circumstances connected with this style which convince me that it will become really popular and in the right circles. Houppelande Models. It is the logical outcome of the Persian tunic; and the Parisiennes are at heart very logical. They glide from one fashion to another in a perfectly natural way. People are fond of saying that French women are always changing their fashions, but this is not really the case. They glide from one outline to another in a perfectly natural way, as in the present case. First the Persian tunic with stiffened hem, then the houpelande coat. Some of the more eccentric houpelande models are lavishly trimmed with trills of taffeta or velvet and with hands of sable. Some of these coats are exceedingly wide at the hem, and all of them are so arranged that they stand away from the figure below the hips. The genuine houpelande coat of olden days was rather shorter than the models now being shown in our best atellers. They also were elabo rately trimmed with frills and ruchings and finished off with wide sleeves. It is a strangely pictureque fashion, but one which is proving very becoming to certain types of women. One of the leading Parisian dress- makers has recently made a specialty of the pannier style of tunic, and when skilfully manipulated it is charming For the Slender Woman. The material is fashioned into a loose tunic in the first instance and then the supple stuff is caught up in pannier fashion, giving it a puffy effect over the hips. To slender women this style is admirable. It gives an unexpected outline, and when combined with a clinging skirt it is really attractive. Nowadays all the fullness of dresses and coats allike is concentrated in the direction of the hips, or just below them. Skirts are apparently as clinging as ever, even though much more material is put into them, and corsages are arranged in flat, drooping folds; but from the hips to the knees, plaits and flouces and puffs are arranged. On some of the latest models for evening gowns tunics appear, which are nothing short of ballet dancers' skirts. These curious tunics are, as a rule, made of tulle and one plaisted flounce is posed over another until the whole look looks exactly like the old-fashioned ballet skirt. Here again we have a fashion specially created for ultra- No Arbitrary Weight No Arbitrary Weight In Great Britain the ton is 20 hundred weight of 112 pounds, that is 2240 pounds avoirdupois. In the United States and Canada the common ton is 2000 pounds, the hundred weight being reckoned at 100 pounds. Stone and rock, like coal, are often calculated in "long ton" terms (2240 pounds). Back at Her. A dear little girl visiting at my aunt's kept every one amused stender women; for any but these it would be impossible. It is amazing to find that leopard skin can be used as dress material with fine results. This tawny skin is being freely used for stoles and muffs, but it has remained to a famous Parisian dressmaker to prove that it can be actually manipulated into a rarely lovely visiting dress. Yesterday afternoon I had a talk with the dressmaker in question and was shown one of his latest and most sensational models. The skirt was composed entirely of leopard skin and it was bordered with skunk. There was a tunic of black bretschwanz and a little bolero-coatée of the same, with large revers of leopard skin and a skunk collar. The sleeves were very short and the bolero opened over a blouse composed of orange yellow guipure. It was a starting costume, but exceedingly attractive. Adapted for Murts and Stoles. For muffs and stoles leopard skin combined with black fox gives splendid results, especially when the linings are carried out in one or two of the rich yellow shades of the noble beast. I have seen tango red combined with leopard skin, but this color scheme is not really artistic; on the other hand linings of violet de monseigneur chiffon blend perfectly with the spotted skin and with bands of black fox. Bretschwanz skirts cannot be called a novelty, but because of their cost, must always remain uncommon. This feature are exceedingly fashionable. Some of the leading dressmakers are skilfully combining bretschwanz, with embroidered chiffon and crepe de chine; for example a tight skirt of the soft black skin under a draped tunic of deep purple crepe de chine embroidered in metallic threads. Queer Visiting Costumes. I have seen several visiting costumes made of sable and velours deaine in which the sable was used for the skirt. This I think is an undesirable idea. Sable does not lend itself to this treatment. It does not look really effective when manipulated into a skirt and it necessarily makes its wearer look curiously BESTIMATED & WORTHFUL New Fur Creation—Short Coat of Moleskin with Collar and Cuffs of Skunk. clumsy, even ungraceful. It is a pity to push the question of novelties so far as this. Bretschwanz is an ideal material for tight fitting skirts and so is ermine or musquash, but sable—no. One of the most effective evening wraps of the present season is that known as the Manon. It is almost an exact copy of the famous cloaks worn by the unhappy Manon Leascaut. Wraps are very humidious and always made of the richest materials, such as chaffon velvet, broche satin, embroidered taffeta, etc. The most important feature is the immense hood. Some of the newest models have hoods which look very like those of the genuine Irish peasant cloak. For young girls these Manon cloaks are ideal. In pale rose chiffon velvet with linings of rose satin and white chiffon they are exquisite, and on leaving a theater or concert hall the large hood may be dainty pulled over the head. I have seen the same cloak made of sea green liberty satin, with linings of silver tissues and a small collar of chinchilla. This poetic harmony of color was quite delicious. Some Good Trimmings. A touch of soft to hat or dress trimming is very becoming to most women. A very pretty effect may be had by outlining lace in a bold design that does not mean too much work. Gilt thread may be used or tiny gold beads. A little of this lace on the bodice of an afternoon or evening dress is very effective. It also makes pretty scarf ends. Another nice trimming is made with fine silk braid matching in color the material to which it is to be applied. This is made into ornaments for cloth dresses and suits. A design can be cut out of buckram and the braid carefully sewn on. Buttons are made in the same way to match the ornaments, cloth being used as a foundation 2nd the braid interlaced. by her original remarks. One day she was telling how she and her sister played together. "Oh, yes," she said, "we quarrel sometimes. Once sister told me I made her sick and then I told her she didn't give me much of an appetite."—Chicago Tribune. First Step. Miss Young—"In selecting a husband, what would you consider first?" Miss Elderleigh—"A proposal"—Boston Transcript. CAP and BELLS DRANK POLLYWOGS AND ALL Thirsty Father Imbibed All the Inhabitants of Aquarium He Had Presented to Young Son. One night last week papa got home late. There had been so many things to attend to at the office, and after that a customer from out of town arrived—and well, papa got home awfully late. He hated to disturb the family, so he camped in the dining-room. And in the morning, being thirsty, he arose, drank water and retired under the table again. Then came his little son, the earliest to arise. Little son viewed the situation in the dining-room, then lifted up his voice and wept. "What's the matter?" groaned papa. "You've gone and drank up all the water in that glass aquarium you gave me for Christmas." "Well, never mind that. You can put some fresh water in it, and it'll be all the better." "Yes, but who's going to put fresh goldfish and pollywogs an' mud turtles in it?" Then papa sat up and took notice.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. Other Wax Round Mrs. Sourpse—When I gave you that solemn warning against marrying I said that some day you would regret it. That time will come, mark my words! Mrs. Newed—The time has come. Mrs. Sourpse (gleefully) — I thought so. Then you regret my marriage? Mrs. Newed—Or, no! I regret the warning you gave me. It kept me from marrying for nearly a year—Puck. No Occasion to "Call" Him. A teacher in a school in a Yiddish section of New York was trying to find from a tiny boy the name of his father. He seemed quite unable to think of it, so to help him she asked: "What do you call him?" "I call him 'father,'" was the reply. "Well, what does your mother call him?" And the response, an eloquent comment on domestic relations in the neighborhood, was: "She doesn't call him anything—she likes him." "We'll have to get another advertising man," said the county fair manager. "This one seems to be right energetic." "Yes. But he's thoughtless. He shouldn't have taken it on himself to adopt grand opera methods. I don't know what this great aviator is going to think when he finds we have advertised his farewell appearance." A Roland for an Oliver: A young Baltimore man, who is quick to see a point and somewhat of a wit himself, walked into a shop the other day and asked for a comb "Do you want a narrow man's comb?" asked the attendant, all unconscious of his terms. "No," said the customer, gravely; "I want a comb for a stout man with rubber teeth." STUNG. "Gimme yer candy, Edwin, an' I'll tell you your character." "All right, wot am I?" Countryman (at the national gallery)—Why, the them's the same picture I saw here the day before yesterday! Attendant (dryly)—Quite likely. Countryman—Then that clerk at the hotel is an awful liar. He told me that the pictures was changed daily in all the leadin' picture houses.—London Opinion. Silent Chivalry. "Ah, yes! And who gave the bride away?" Inquired the able editor of the Goahkonong Gazette. "Nobody," replied Tobe Sagg, who was relating the details of a recent wedding in high life. "If there was anybody present that could have done so, he never said a word."—Judge. Great Luck. Ralph—Miss Wose, sometimes I think Bertie has a chawmed life. Miss Wose—Why? Ralph—Whenever he goes after position he finds it has been taken.