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TH1RTY-FIRST YEAR. NO. 31 IN UNION THERE EST STRATEGY REPORT STIRS UP PRESBYTERIANS Rumored That Taft May Be Offered the Presidency of La Fayette College. Alleged Movement to Place Unitarian at Head of College of Different Denomination Causes Mild Sensation in Theological and Scholastic Circus. Philadelphia, Pa.—For President Taft, professor of law at Yale, is being considered for the presidency of Lafayette college. F. Pa., to succeed Dr. Ethelbert C. Field, according to the Presbyterian denominational organ of the Presbyterian here. The report makes plan is under way to place a Unitarian at the head of a Presbyterian college caused a mild sensation in theological and scholastic circles here. Statement of Newspaper. A statement issued at the offices of the Presbyterian says: "Those responsible for this report are also authority for the statement that money has been provided to furnish a salary equal to or possibly in excess of that which Mr. Taft is now receiving at Yale. The greatest embarrassment to the carrying out of the scheme is the opposition of the snyod of Pennsylvania, which, by the charter of the college, holds a veto power over the election of all trustees and members of the faculty. But it is probable that the substantial synod of Pennsylvania will consent to placing a full-fledged Unitarian at the head of its only Presbyterian college." Hear News With Protest. Presbyterian leaders of this city, including influential members of the general assembly, the synod of Pennsylvania and the Presbytery of Philadelphia, heard the news with a storm of protest. If the proposition to place a Unitarian at the head of a Presbyterian college is considered, they said it would stir up the biggest row that has shaken the Presbyterian church for many years. A prominent official of the Presbytery said that 95% out of every 100 Presbyterians were aggressive Trinitarians. To them Jesus Christ is God. They pointed to the fact that Lafayette college has been founded by Presbyterians, endowed by Presbyterian money and was under the supervision of a Presbyterian synod. Other leading clergymen and laymen said that the proposition was incredible, and that they were not only personally opposed but would exert influence against the seating of Mr Taft. KISSES END TROUBLE DECIDE THE FUTURE COURSE OF WIFE WHO SOUGHT STAGE AND HUSBAND. Philadelphia, Pa.—Two kisses decided the future course of Thomas C. and Margaret Kitchener, and without further adieu the pretty young wife, carrying their infant son, linked arms with her husband and left the bar of the desertion court. The embrace at the same time caused the young bride to draw a veil on her promising career on the stage and turn her thoughts to the kitchen. Since their estrangement, a few weeks ago, Kitchener has been living at W. 36th-st, while his wife and child have resided on Lancaster-av. Mrs. Kitchener desired to become an actress. Her husband objected, and the trouble commenced, but in court Kitchener was told to kiss the child, and he also kissed his wife without being told. KILLS EXPRESS CLERK KILLS EXPRESS CLERK MAN WHO ATTEMPTS TO STEAL $10,000 IS TRAILED AND ARRESTED. Corning, N. Y. — While defending a $10,000 shipment of currency, Henry Edwards, night cashier, in the office of the Wells-Fargo-Ex press Co., was shot and killed by David Dunn, a former employee of the company. Two hours after the crime Dunn was arrested at his home, having been trailed there by bloody footprints in the snow. The police say he confessed. Dunn had been given permission to sleep in the office. He demanded that Edwards open the safe, but the latter refused. Dunn then drew a revolver and Edwards rushed to the telephone to call up police headquarters, but was struck down and shot as he was in the act. Nothing was stolen. Two Held as Arsonists. Ashtabula, O.-J, V. Lind, 47 grocer, and his divorced wife, Mrs Alma Sopanen, 26, were arrested by Fire Marshal Alfred Fleming of Cleveland on warrants charging arson. Both are held in default of $500 ball. Lind's store was burned a month ago. He collected $750 from the underwriters. The woman was responsible for the investigation made by the authorities. She told Fleming she was in the store the night of the fire and saw candles stuck on the floor ready to be light. THE GAZETTE Miss Lucy Burleson, the postmaster general's pretty daughter, is attending the sessions of the Society for the Study of Socialism just formed at George Washington university, where she is a student. She is an enthusiastic Democrat, but likes to see all sides of a question. BECKER GETS RETRIAL, FOUR GUNMEN TO DIE POLICE LIEUTENANT, CONVICTED OF MURDER, HAS THE DEATH SENTENCE STAYED. Decision by High Tribunal Means Way is Opened for Bitter Warfare Between Police Gunmen and Gamblers. Albany, N. Y.—By a vote of six to one the court of appeals granted a new trial to Charles Becker, former New York police lieutenant under sentence of death for causing the murder of Herman Rosenthal. Becker was convicted Oct. 24, 1912. The four gunmen who killed Rosenthal, a notorious gambler, were denied a new trial. The gunmen who must die in the electric chair are "Gyp the Blood," "Lefty Louie," "Whitey" Lewis, and "Dargo Frank" Ciroccl The decision means the way is again open for resumption of the bitter warfare between police gunmen and gamblers resulting from the exposures in the first Becker trial. The written decision of the court was sent to Chief Clerk Carroll of the court of general sessions. An order for the transfer of Becker from the death house at Sing Sing was immediately issued, and he was taken to the Tombs in New York to await his second trial. The decision in Becker's case did not come as a big surprise, for it had been rumored among lawyers for several weeks that he would have another opportunity to establish his innocence. The prevailing opinion was written by Judge Hiscock and concurred in by all the judges except Judge Werner. It does not pass either way upon the argument made in behalf of Decker that his conviction should be reversed because the verdict that he was guilty of Rosenthal's murder was against the weight of evidence, but the reversal is based upon errors committed by Justice Goff during the trial. Trouble between Becker and Rosenthal began in the spring of 1912, when the police lieutenant and his strong-arm squad raided Rosenthal's gambling house. Rosenthal told Becker afterward that unless he had police removed from his place of business he would expose him for being a grafter. Rosenthal was murdered at 1 a.m. July 16, 1912, in front of the Hotel Metronome, in W. 43d-st. New York. Although Rosenthal was shot by four East Side gunmen, afterward convicted and sentenced to death, it was testified to at Becker's trial, which lasted 17 days, that the former police lieutenant had, the night before the murder, expressed the hope that someone would "get Rosenthal." UNKNOWN MAN A HERO EXTINGUISHES FLAMES THAT ENVELOP BOY AND REFUSES TO GIVE HIS NAME. Akron, O. — Attracted by the screams of a child as smoke poured from the home of W. H. Pizer on 5th-air, a passer-by rushed into the house and in an upstairs room he found a two-year boy with his clothing in flames. The man wrapped the child in blankets and extinguished the flames. At the City hospital it is said the boy will recover. After calling Mrs. Pizer, who had gone to the home of a neighbor, the man left without telling his name. Two Warship Plan O. K'd. Washington, D. C. — Formal approval was given the administration's two battleship program by the house naval affairs committee after the "small navy" men had made their final stand against it. The navy department's construction plans were changed so as to provide for six instead of eight destroyers and for additional submarines. As reported to the house the bill carries $140,200,000, exclusive of amounts to be spent for armor and armament. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28. 1914 RAISING FUNDS FOR EDUCATION Meeting Held In Zion Church, New York. LARGE AUDIENCE PRESENT. Secretary James E. Mason Meets With Success. In Financial Campaign In the Interest of Livingstone College. Bishop Alexander Waltz. Chief Speaker at Lincoln Co. BY CLEVELAND New York—One of the notable and impressiveresses heard in this session, which brought forth a high so the major deed of the great emancipation was the Lincoln day oration of Bishop Alexander Walters delivered at the Lincoln celebration at Mother Zion A. M. E. Zion church, held in connection with an education rally in the interest of the erection of a new girls' dormitory at Livingstone college. The exercises were noteworthy in that, besides the commemoration of Lincoln's immortal act, it was one of the largest of the series of educational meetings held by the denomination in the campaign to raise $12,500 with which to erect a $50,000 girls' dormitory at Livingstone to replace the one destroyed by fire. The movement was under the auspices of the New York conference of the Zion church, and a large delegation of ministers of that conference were present. Bishop J. S. Caldwell, chairman of the general committee-in the raising of the dormitory funds, presided. There were both an afternoon and evening session, and each of the ses- P. BISHOP WALZERS. sions was well attended. In the afternoon an educational sermon was preached by Bishop G. L. Blackwell of Philadelphia. At the conclusion of the sermon a report from the ministers of the conference was made, which was continued over to the evening session. The principal session was held in the evening, at which time some of the most prominent of the Zion churchmen, together with well known professional and business men of this city, made strong and stirring addresses on the work of Livingstone college and the progress the race had made since freedom. The address of welcome was made by the pastor, Rev. Dr. J. W. Brown. Mrs. Lella Walters read Lincoln's Gettsburg address, and a solo was given by Miss Mabel Diggs. Dr. W. H. Goler, president of Livingstone college, who was scheduled to speak on the pressing needs of the college, sent a telegram of regret. Bishop Caldwell presented Rev. Dr. G. E. Mason, financial secretary of Livingstone college, who spoke of the college and its relation to the A. M. E. Zion church. Dr. Mason told what had been done toward giving inspiration to many of the prominent men and women of the church whom the institution had trained among its students for leadership. The Lincoln day address was delivered by Bishop Alexander Walters, one of the most noted and scholarly churchmen of our race. The address of the bishop was one of the most impressive ever delivered on the occasion of a Lincoln celebration. In opening his address the bishop said that the action of Lincoln in freeing the slaves was justified in the intellectual development of the Negro, as was borne out by the intellectual caliber of hundreds of Negro educators. Lincoln was not born great; if to be born great means to be born in a mansion, surrounded at the start of life with opulence, danced on the knee of indulgence and charmed to sleep by the voice of servants. If this be the measure of greatness, then Lincoln was not born great. But if to be born great is to be ushered into the world with embryonic qualities, elements calculated to unfold into the making of the stature of a complete man, a manly man, a brave God fearing man, a statesman equal to the greatest emergency of a nation, then the little fellow of destiny who made his initial bow to the goddess of light in Hardin county, Ky. Feb. 12, 1809, was born great If to achieve greatness is to win the hearts of one's youthful companions, one's associates in professional life and to merit the confidence and genuine love of a nation to the extent of receiving the chiefest honors and to perform the mightiest work of a century then Abraham Lincoln achieved greatness. While Mr. Lincoln was never a member of any church, he was a student of the Bible, a religious man, a believer in God, his holy word and in Christ, the author of Christianity. He belonged to that large class of men and women who love and trust in God and who love their fellow man and delight to live and do for others. While he was president he wrote the following to the Hon. Joshua Speed: "I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this book upon the reason you can and the balance upon faith and you will live and die a better man." The bishop praised Lincoln as a statesman and lawyer. Back in the thirties this young man, clad in homespun, was standing in the slave mart of New Orleans watching husbands and wives being separated forever and children being doomed never to again look into the faces of their parents. As the hammer of the auctioneer fell this young flatboatman, with quivering lips, turned to his companions and said, "If ever I get a chance to hit that thing (slavery) I will hit it hard, by the eternal God." In March, 1839, he had placed upon the house journal of Illinois a formal protest against proslavery resolutions which he could get but one member to sign besides himself. Long before he was made president, in a speech at Charleston, Ill., he said, "Yes, we will speak for freedom and against slavery as long as the constitution of the United States guarantees free speech, until everywhere on this wide land the sun shall shine and the rains shall fall and the winds shall blow upon no man who goes forth to unquenched toll." Others who spoke on Lincoln were Rev. Dr. A. C. Powell and Fred R. Moore. At the conclusion of the addresses Bishop Caldwell began the collections for the dormitory fund. During the day over $225 was raised toward the fund. Bishop Caldwell said that since the campaign for funds for Livingstone college started over $20,000 had been raised. CHANCE TO PREPARE FOR SOCIAL SERVICE WORK National League on Urban Conditions Offers Two Fellowships. In order to enable promising candidates who wish to make social service a life work to secure good training and practical experience for such work, the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, with headquarters at 110 West Fortleth street, New York, has made provision for two fellowships of $35 per month for ten months, covering necessary living expenses in New York city. These fellowships are open to candidates who have declared their definite decision to make their lifework some form of social service and are limited to those who have completed a college course or its equivalent in an institution of good standing. Such work includes secretaryships of industrial betterment organizations, supervision of recreation and playground centers, superintendence and management of benevolent institutions, probation secretaryships and executives in similar lines of social betterment. The fellows in New York city take their courses of study at the New York School of Philanthropy, with privileges of some courses at Columbia university, and get their experience in practical social service activities under the auspices of the National league and in connection with the several agencies of the city. Persons who make application for these fellowships may be required to pass such an examination as will test the general knowledge of the applicants and prepare a review of a book in not more than 1,500 words or to present work of a similar kind previously prepared. A candidate to be eligible must be a citizen of the United States by the 1st of June in the year in which he applies and have passed his twentieth birthday. Alpha Lodge Observes Anniversary. Alpha lodge No. 1381, Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, celebrated the forty-fifth anniversary of its founding at the Concord Baptist church in Brooklyn recently. The religious address to the order was delivered by the Rev. Dr. William M. Moss, pastor of the above named church. Past Grand Master Charles H. Vann was master of ceremonies. A brief history of the lodge was read by ex-Deputy Grand Master Edward Henry. There were other addresses made by District Grand Master W. D. Brown, the district grand secretary and Grand Treasurer J. Thomas Johnson. Mr. Charles Waters was the soloist. Give Major Charles Young Justice. The house military affairs committee seems to be somewhat puzzled over the placing of Major Charles Young, who is at present an attach of the United States legation in Monrovia, Liberia. Mr. Young is a graduate of West Point Military academy, and the only Afro-American holding such a distinction. The new bill proposing that all army officers shall serve two years out of six with troops is said to be responsible for the military affairs committee's present attitude. There should be no color line in the United States army. Let the committee assign Major Young according to his fitness and rank. IMPORTANCE OF HUMAN JUSTICE Pastor of First Unitarian Church In Detroit Gives His Views on the Problem of Manhood Rights as It Relates to Afro-Americans—True Meaning of Emancipation. By FRANCIS H. WARREN. Detroit, Mich.-My interest was much aroused when I read the announcement in the daily press of this city that the Rev. Dr. Eugene Rodman Shippen, pastor of the First Unitarian church, Woodward avenue and Edmund place, would preach a sermon on "The Negro, Our Brother," as a prelude to the general celebration of Lincoln's birthday, and I at once determined to hear that sermon. I was first to arrive at the church. A good sized congregation turned out to listen to this learned divine talk upon this burning subject just one month after the now famous Dr. Joel E. Spingarn addressed a mass meeting of 1,509 people at the Second Baptist church. Shows Oneness of the Human Family. Dr. Shippen took for his text the twenty-sixth verse of the seventeenth chapter of Acts, "He hath made of one blood all nations of men." He in part said: The anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln brings to our attention the so called race problem. Lincoln wrestled a race problem that he called to today. Emancipation in his time related to the freedom of man to do what he pleased with his own person and labor, freedom to go and come and move about. Emancipation today means a different kind of freedom. Negro to enjoy all the civil rights and to receive a just administration of the law. There has been a reaction toward greater prejudice, and race prejudice is now found north as well as south. The north can never point its finger of shame at the south. A young woman possessing a trace of Negro blood was employed in a large Detroit establishment for three years, giving her the opportunity to learn that she possessed Negro blood, when she was immediately discharged. I shall not make further comment on the Negro population. This is hundreds of white men who do the same thing. If there is to be discrimination in permitting people to vote it should be a rational discrimination based upon education, race, and upbringing upon race or gender in this democratic nation. Country Should Be Rulled by the People Whites don't want to be rulled by the blacks. Neither do the blacks want to be rulled by the whites. We want neither white or black to be rulled a want a rule the people as Lincoln has his great speech at Gettsburg. Industrially the Negro faces many hardships. Even if he has the slightest trace of Negro blood he meets with ostracism and exertion. Many employers will employ Negroes, but their workmen interpose serious objections to working with their colored brethren, which is a grave wrong against them. In the face of such conditions it is no wonder that so many Negroes find their way to criminal lives. No colored man may now go through West Point or Annapolis to get a job to prevent. It is simply the fact that I state. There are at least nine great colleges north of Mason and Dixon's line, where life is made miserable for Negroes. Negroes meet with many difficulties when traveling, and he is often denied the courtesies and accommodations due refined people, while a white man, though he be in charge, made entirely welcome and accorded every respect. Negrites have souls as well as we. How any one can wilfully injure one with such impunity is simply inconceivable. I am not concerned with the question of social injustice, but with the question of the military man has the absolute and inherent right to select his own associates, and that question does not enter into the discussion. Due to the agitation of enemies in the military, by side by side for this a generation, President Wilson promised just and fair Christian treatment to the Negrites before his election, and those of us who admire him most expect the most from him and a faithful performance of his promise. Make Lincoln's ideas Effective. The failure to give the Negro civil justice was nothing to the failure to give him legal rights, and the failure to defend the defender of murder. The Negro suffers through no fault of his own. He is what the great God of nature has made him. They are now preparing to build a new city, and the defender of marble and cement, but the trestle and most lasting monument that could be erected to the memory of the greatest of Americans would be to carry into effect the simple ideals which Negrites have been so proud of. The Negro has proved his fitness for American citizenship, has proved his bravery and heroism by receiving seventeen Carnegie prizes for hererism during the past year. He owns a billion dollars in real estate, and he is now 60 per cent literate, and he is altogether as fit as any other class of our complex citizenry. The spirit of love is bound sooner or later to prevail Lincoln, and he is now 60 per cent literate. We will do well to follow his noble example in both word and deed. Thus twice within the space of one month have the best of Detroit's white people proved that they are one with us in a righteous desire to wipe out every vestige of race prejudice and supplant the doctrine of hate with the ethics of love and forbearance. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS Mrs. Minnie E. Bond of Oklahoma City loot her suit for $50,000 damages against Senator Gore of Oklahoma, the jury declaring there was no evidence that the senator had attacked her as she charged. SNOWSTORM GRIPS THE MIDDLE WEST, OHIO AND WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. Starts in Northwest and Works Its Way Eastward and Southward From Chicago—Wind and Zero Temperatures. RESULTS OF NATION-WIDE STORM. Cleveland—Eight Inches of snow. Marysville, O.—Snow high as horse's back. Marion, O.—Gas falls, coal exhausted. Canton, O.—Coal shortage threatens factories. Newark, O.-City shivers as gas pressure fails. Dayton, O.-Milani valley isolated and traffic suspended. traffic suspended. Boston — Schools closed because of impassable streets. Cincinnati — Traffic blocked. Zanesville — O-Worst snowstorm in Minnesota. Tolelo, O — Local car traffic impeded. Springfield, O — Business suspended. Chicago — Four dead. Dallas, Tex — Fifty-degree drop in mercury. Indianaapolis—Sixty-mile wind. Deatert, Ill—Five injured in train work. Virginia, III.—Train passengers arrive in wagons. Kansas City, Mo.-Street car traffic at standstill. Milwaukee—Four boats ice bound In harbor. San Bernardino, Cal.-Forty trains breast snow blockade breast snow blockade. Topeka, Kan.—Trains stopped by high winds. Chicago, Ill.—Railroad and street car traffic and wire communication were badly crippled and in some instances completely disabled throughout the middle west, Ohio and western Pennsylvania as a result of the blizzard that held this section in its grip for the past 36 hours. The storm, which started in the northwest, worked its way eastward and southward from Chicago. Central Illinois experienced the worst day of the season. Heavy drifts in the section embracing St. Louis, Peoria, Bloomington, Decatur, Danville and Springfield rendered the operation of trains practically impossible. The blizzard throughout Indiana was the worst in years. Ohio experienced the worst real winter blizzard in years. The snowfall was general and heavy. A 40-mile wind and zero temperatures aggravated conditions. Trains were snowbound in various parts of the state. Traffic on the Pennsylvania between Dayton and Richmond, Ind., was entirely suspended. Trains that managed to get through at all were many hours behind schedule. In Cincinnati, Cleveland and Toledo street car and automobile traffic was entirely suspended for several hours during the day. Conditions in western Pennsylvania were similar to those in Ohio and farther west. Pittsburgh was gripped by a raging blizzard. Street car traffic was badly delayed. All inbound railroad trains were hours behind schedules and passengers told stories of hardships suffered from the cold and a scarcity of food. $35,000 for Rev. Sunday. Pittsburgh, Pa.—It is estimated by the committee having in charge the "Billy" Sunday free will offering that the evangelist will take something over $35,000 out of Pittsburgh as his share of the receipts of the eight-week campaign here. The revivalist claims as his own all money collected on the last day of his stay. Loses Foot Saves Life Canton, O.-Made a prisoner on the railroad track when his foot caught in a switch, Judson Franklin, 32, a former city employee, watched a W. & L. E. train bear down on him without being able to move out of its path. Throwing himself as far off the rails as possible, Franklin managed to save his life but lost a foot. Franklin fainted before the train hit him and remembers nothing of what happened until he returned to consciousness in a hospital. IN UNITOK THERE IS A THERETH 'IT'S A LIE TO SAY I SLEW ROSENTHAL' Harry Vallon, Ex-Gambler, Says Becker Knows Who Committed the Crime. MOST BEMARKABLE INTERVIEW Former Confidence Man Declares That Prisoner Who Has Been Granted New Trial is Trying to Make Him Victim of Another Frame-Up. New York City.—Harry Vallon, erstwhile gambler, swindler and confidence man, who, with Jack Rose, Bridgie Webber and Sam Schepps, is given credit for sending Lleut. Charles Becker to Sing Sing, in a remarkable interview, declares that Becker is trying to make him the victim of another frame-up after "the usual Becker system." Says It's a Lie. "It's a lie, a rotten lie to say that I killed Herman Roseenthal," said the neat, well dressed little man who once ran a gambling house in the lower tenderloin and now works eight hours a day for an electrical concern. "It is purely a frame-up between Becker and the gunmen. He tries to put it on me so that they will think he is working to get them free and in return they 'sit tight,' just as he thought I would do." Vallon's attorney, Bernard L. Sandler, who is acting for Rose and Schepps as well, saw District Attorney Whitman and carried promises from all them of their services to any extent the prosecutor would demand. Webber, the fourth of the famous quartet, has nothing to do with the other three. "Anybody can see," said Vallon, "that this is another of the same dirty sort of frame-ups Becker has handled all his life. I haven't heard anything more than I have read and haven't discussed it with anyone but Mr. Sandler and Jack Rose, whom I have just seen, but I don't have to hear it I know the Becker method. He is afraid those four men would be bore because he got out and would 'spill all they knew about him. I don't sup pose they could hurt him much in a court of law under the rules, but I know that they were told when they were hired who they were going to kill Becker doesn't believe they against him. If they go to the chair, a statement will come from Sing Sing exonerating Becker. Whether or not they make it will make no difference; it will be given out as coming from them. I tell you I know the Becker method." Says He Won't Stand Fault. "He wants those four men to 'sit tight,' just as we would 'sit tight,' and for that reason tries to frame me. It won't go. I won't stand for it. I'm trying to live decent, and I have a nice family and for their sakes I won't let this cursed thing come up again. It was bad enough to go through it once. They will never drag me in again. I notice that he says he will spend the rest of his life 'hunting' for the murderer of Rosenthal. He doesn't have to 'hunt.' He knows who killed Rosenthal, because Webber and Rose told him that night and he congratulated them. I defy him or anybody else on earth to hang it on to me. I'm not afraid of Becker or anybody else. because I'm onto all their tricks." GRAND JURY CLEARS SOCIETY WOMAN ON THE CHARGE OF SHOOTING MAN. New Lexington, O.—The grand jury failed to indict Mildren Johnson, 21, society girl, for shooting Sol H. Schachtel, a chemist. It is said the shooting resulted from the man's refusal to marry Miss Johnson. Schachtel, who recovered from the wound, left his home in Cleveland a month ago and went to Coffeyville, Ks. He wrote the prosecuting attorney asking that the case be dropped, hinting that the shooting was accidental. This statement contradicted his assertion at the shooting, when he said the girl attempted to kill him. Uncle Sam Aids Feathery Tribe. Washington, D. C.—The postoffice department has become the good Samaritan of the birds of the field and will permit rural free delivery carriers to scatter grain for the birds on their routes. Representative Samuel E. Winslow of Massachusetts has just obtained permission for carriers in his district to perform this kindly act, and it is understood that any other carriers can save bird life whenever possible. Finds System of Graft New York City — An amazing system of graft permeating all departments of the Tombs has been discovered by Miss Katherine Davis, New York's commissioner of charities. Miss Davis is the first woman who has ever been at the head of a New York city department entitling her to be known as a member of the mayor's cabinet. For this reason her administration of the department is being watched with keen interest, especially by advocates of wider opportunities for women in public affairs. The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advanee) One Year... c.eseecesenei$1.80.. Bix onthe... .ceeses 1.00 Three Monthe....eceeeeeee 50 Subscribers are requested to re- mit by postotfice money or der or reglatored letter Entered at the posteffies in Cleveland, ‘Ohio, as second-class matter, Address all communioations te HARRY C. SMITH Editor and proprietor, THE GAZETTE, Biaokstone Building, Clevetand, ©. Mombor Ohie Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1960 to 1902 THE GAZETTE Ie! the oldest, anc ‘has the largest bona fide cireulation double that of any newspaper In tne Interest of Afro-Amerleana, publishes In the state of Ohio, and comparisor with any will immediately eatablla! ite rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST In the country. ae SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1914. ‘The treatment accorded Afro-Amer- icans by the Wilson administration ‘and the Congress, both democratic; ‘and the barring of southern Afro- ‘Americans from {ts national conven- tons by the Progressive party, make it perfectly clear to our people that, for a few years to como at least, there ig no place in polities for us outside of the Republican party. Wealthy white friends in this city, representing one of Cleveland's lead- ing churches, have decided to erect a Soclal Settlement house in the Cen- tral Ay. district that will be open to All regardless of race, color or creed dind Which will be undoubtedly gov- erned by a board of trustees which will include members of the. race ‘This 1s assured and is realty what i: needed in that secticin, TAFT ON THE PARTY FUTURE. In the Saturday Evening Post of February 14 former President Taft has a long and an able article—oyen his crities must concede its, ability— on “The Future of the Republican Party." Tustrating the text is a splendid portrait of Mr. Taft—and it is a good wholesome-looking ‘figure. ‘The article 1s keenly analytical, some- ‘what philosophical, 1s without a trace ‘of ilkwill or grouchiness, und is per Beested ith optima, "Scattered roughout the paper are epigrams, full of brightness as well as wisdom, and there are sentences which con: tain much truth “bofled down.” For instance, this: “rhe truth is that the Progressiy« party was born in a passion and Iivec in an excitement that cannot be main ‘tained permanently; and the natural tendency, under normal conditions, i for the average Republican who lef the party In 1912 in order to vote for Mr, Roosevelt to return to It.” ‘EFFECTS OF JIM-CROW Y.M.C.A'S. Chicago Afro-Americans would have ‘a “jim-crow Y.M.C. A. Result: A Ditter fight ever since to prevent the ‘@tablishment of separate schools for their children. Recently ‘they were ‘compelled to invoke the aid of the mayor of Chieago and the governor of Minols, Dayton, ©., would ‘have a “fimcrow” ¥, MC. A. Result: Miss Troy, a member of the race, who for ‘years was principal of one of the pub- ‘He schools of that city, with ten or more white teachers under ‘her, now presides in one room of that building to which all of the Colored children that attend that school are sent, and tm which they are sexremated. ' She ‘was relleved of the princtpalship, of course. Springfield, O., would have a “{im-ctowt’ Y. M,C. A. Result: Our people of ‘that city have never been able to get a single Colored schoo teacher. Two riots and lynchings were Other indirect results, Columbus, 0. would bave a “jim-crow” Y, M. C. A. Result: A separate school-bufiding for Colored children only in, which all: of the Afro-American teachers are segre- gated. Even Philadelphia, “the cradle of lberty,” has ‘had the same experl- enee, as a direct result of the estab- Yahment of a “‘fim-crow” Y. M. C. A. ‘There are other instances, here in the North, we could cite, but the fore- going are quite enough. In every city where there is a “jim-crow” Y. M. C. ‘A. Afro-American members only are the only members to be made pariahs ot. Cleveland has twenty or more Afro- American young ladies teaching in its public schools, Very few. if any of them, have even a few Afro-American pupils in the rooms over which they Preside. One is a member of the fac- ulty of Central High School. They are among the best of our public school teachers. The establishment of @ “‘jim-crow” Y. M. C. A. in this city will insure the establishment of sepa- rate schools. for Colored children, here, just as it has in nearly every éity in the North where there are “jim- crow” Y. M, C. A,’s. The result will be that instead of twenty or more teachers, we would have possibly ten, or adozen at most, all of whom would be segregated na buflding which would house onr children only, many of whom would have to travel’ miles, through all kinds of weather, to get to it. ‘This would mean the loss of about the same number of teachers, including the one we have in the Cen- tral High Sehool. No one can correct iy estimate the tremendous encourage: ment of the drawing of color-lines by prejudiced whites, in other public and quesi-publie places and. institutions, this would surely give. It also makes pron clearer the absolute necessity of wiping out that unnecessary and very parmfal “jim-crow” effort in Mt. Pleas pnt, known ay “The Colored Children’s Home.” Strange that members of the race, many if not most of whom have been driven to Cleveland by conditions | made more or less intolerable by a multiplicity of colorlines inctuding the separate schools, are so insistent in an effort to establish the opening Wedge hore to the establishment of the same intolerable conditions that forced them to leave the South. © “UNDUE INFLUENGE OF THE SOUTH.” Se as neem centers rent Louis (Mo.) Republic is a democratic lally' newspaper, and the St, Louis GlobeDemocrat, from which the fol jowing editorial was taken, is a re- publican daily, the annexed leader will be bette? understood and appreciated: “The Republic sheds crocodile tears over the undue influence that a federal primary law would give the South in nominating. a Republican candidate for president and proposes a moditica- tion. to overcome such disparity. While, as we have remarked before, congress will pass no federal primary law of binding force, since the consti- tution forbids it and the Democrats of the South would oppose it under all circumstances, we wonder why the Republican party’s sympathetic friend does not go further and insist that constitutional provisions be enforced and that the congressional representa- tion of the South be reduced. It would ‘appear worse for the South to have disproportionate representation in congress and in the electoral col- lege than to exercise a power out of proportion to its voting strength in & mere nominating convention. ‘The people of the country have a second chanco at party nominees, but when any section is given undue representa- tion in the Electoral College and in Congress there is no remedy. “The Republic uses the 1903 vote in South Carolina to illustrate. The cen- sus of 1910 gave South Carolina a population of 1,615,004. In 1908. the combined Republican and Democratic vote. for president was 66,251. Con: necticut, with 400,000 smaller popula. tion and with only. five members of Congress to the seven allowed South Carolina, gave the Republican and Democratic tickets 181,170. Mr. Bry an was given a larger vote in Con necticut than all candidates received in South Carolina. ‘This anomaly explained when we consult the census and discover that the population o South Carolina - consists of 679,161 white persons and 8°5,843 Negroes ‘That the Negroes do not vote and tha voting is not even popular with whit people is evident. ‘The result of thi is that the few ‘white men who tak charge of the politics in that state under direction of such men as Col Blease, have a voting power in Cou gress ‘and in the Blectoral Colle three or more times as great as tha of voters in sections of the Unite States where the constitution is ob Served. Reduction of Sonthertf repre sentation to conform to the constity tion would not interfere with whit control locally, but it would preven fone man from doing the voting fo two and having it counted in Con gress and the Electoral College. ‘Th South has always had more represen tation than it was entitled to, for un dor the constitution as {t original stood its property was given repre sentation. |" “The charge thatthe Republica || party is sectional is a patent at || surdity. It has received no electors votes from states having 25 per cen ‘or more Negro population, but it ha | eartied every other state in the Unio {| during the last twenty years excep -|the three recently admiited. Unde || Republican policies the South ha || been made prosperous over its prc | test, Judging from its vote. The state | ment. ‘that. Southern’ representatior was the rock at Chicago that split thi Republican party takes no account 0 history. ‘The revision of Republicar Fepresentation to correspond to thc Yote, applied. to every congressiona district in the United States, affecting both, Now York: and Iilinots in the re duction, would have been accom plished’ in the 1908 national conven tion but for the opposition of the in dividual most clamorous for the re Auction in 1912.” ‘The “reduction of Southern repre sentation to conform fo the constitu tion” might “not Interfere with white control locally,” but it would have « tendency to encourage the re-enfran chisement of Southern Atro-Ameri cans, and that influence is desirable Since ‘our people of that section o the country either cannot or will no make the legal fight to knock out th |distranchisement “ilaws,” espectall those based ‘on the “Grandfathe: clause,” we cannot understand wh; some one of our several “national organization's does not take the lea |in this ALL important matter. Th otily other of almost equal Importanc is thé right of our inter-state passen gers to tse railroad cars independen Jof the “Jim erow"state laws of, th South. As important as it is, sezre gation is but secondary to these twc ALL: important matters to all of our people, Strange that Dr. W. E. B ‘Du Bols and the National Associatior for the Advaneement of Colored Peo: ple, and Dr. Booker T. Washington and the National Negro Business League, continue to refuse to ever ‘touch them but prefer to “fritter away” the hard-earned money of ott People on less {mportant matters and pleasure, respectively, from year to year. Is there anything that can be one to make them recognize these facts and take the proper action in the interest of the race both organi: alii BRR on te okie hte gone FOUND HIS BROTHER! Hachita, New Mexico, Alamo Hueco, Feb. 17, 1914. ‘Editor Gazette, Dear Sir—The Ga- zette is received promptly and enjoyed very much. The sample copies, you also sent, were given to the boys of ‘Troop A, who are in camp. The Ga- zette of Jan. 17, that had my letter in it, found my brother, Perry A. Thomp- gon, for'me, 1 have not seen him in 8 years. He was reading The Ga- zette and, of course, saw my letter and wrote to me. You cannot know how T felt when I received a letter from him. My cup of joy is now running over and I feel that I am greatly indebted ‘to. you and The Gazette. Therefore, T thank you wery much. My brother ig living in Seattle, Wash. at 2320 E, Madison St. Enclosed, piease find $2 for my subscription. CHARLES A. THOMPSON, ‘Hospital Corps, U. 8. A. CELEBRATING LINCQLN'S BIRTH. ‘Whether they lynched Negroes in the South on Lincoln's birthday, has not been announced as yet by the ‘Associated Press. We should not be astonished, if such occurrences took place—Westiiche Post (leading Ger- man newspaper of the West), Feb. 16 ‘M4. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, ©, saTURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1914. ee MADAM EDITH GREGORY | j ABRAHAM LINCOLN (os ne an BUCK Capital—Mrs, Booker T. Washington to Ma “Mestre waitren W — BLE” Springfield, 0.—Mr. Lois Depp of this city, a baritone singer, is very THE SOUTH'S DISFRANCHISE-|ansious to hear from some GOOD MENT METHODS ROBS VOTERS | mUsiclans relative to giving « con- | FM BOY NORTH: AND SOUTH cert here at an early date. Singers, b lotinists, pianists, arpiats, and, all Sy cei food musicians should write to him at once. Mr, Depp is also anxious to| What Our 15. A DIGBACE TO THE NATION| is" Bi sat Me Log man of Mississipp!, Lead the Assault ‘on the Race. Chicago, Feb, 20.—To the Editor. sir: Tt is appropriate to events of our day and in connection with the recent celebration of Feb. 12th to quote from Abraham Lincoln's speech made in 1854 at Peoria, Ill, following one by Senator Douglas. Mr. Lincoln referred to the domina- tion of the South in Congress at that time and said: “By the Constitution, each state has two senators—each has a number of presidential electors equal to the whole number of {ts representatives and senators together. But in ascer- taining the number of people tor the PurDORE, five slaves are Gounted an cing equal to three whites. The slaves do not vote; they are only counted and so used as to swell the influence of the white people's votes.” Mr, Lincoln, in illustration of the et fects of counting slaves who aid not yote, compared Maine and South Car- cling. Each of thése states had six representatives in Congress and eight presidential electors, but Maine had 581,812 white people’ and South Caro: lina had 274,567. “Maine has twice as many as South Carolina and 2,679 ‘over. Thus each man in South Caro- Tina is more than double of any man in Maine, This is all because South Carolina, hesides her free people has 387,984 slaves.” ‘A similar state of affairs, Mr. Lin- coln stated, exited in the other slave states and’ by this counting of the slaves the South had “twenty addi tional representatives, being seven more than the whole majority by whieh they passed the Nebraska bill.” Mr. Lincoln, said that thix inequality was caused by the Constitution, which he did not propose to disregard, but he was unwilling to have any more new partners with the same desrad- ing terms. He said: “I insist. that whether I. shail be a whole’ man ot only the half of one in comparison with others is a question in which 1 [am somewhat concerned; and one which no other man ¢an have a sacred Fight of deciding for mo.” In 1014, fitey years after emaneipa tion, we find even a greater disparity as to the representatives trom. the Same southern states. In the old days it took five slaves to count for three votes for their white masters. To day the whole Negro population i counted to swell the number of whit Tepresentatives. and ‘white presiden Ual electors. The 115 senators and representa tives from former slave states give the present Democratic administratior control of our government. This con trol by ‘the solid South has been at tained by counting not only the 16, 000,000 of white people in these. for mer slaves states, but 8,000,000 o black people who are disfranchised Hi hay been fizured out that tn 151: 4,410,024 votes In ten states of the South elected #4 congressmen. In the Ottier states of the Union It took 1% $26,508 votes to elect 323 congress men, ‘That is, it takes in the North 43,116 voters to elect a congressman, Dut out southern fellow eltizerts can elect one by only 11,808 votes. “Now, it may be said such statements stir up sectionalism. It painly should lead southern people whp have a sense of right to ask: If it is wise to refuse the Negro his legal right to Vote, is it honest for us to count him for the sake of increasing our political power? “The recent discussions in the na- tional Congress of the bill for “agri- cultural extension work” brought out a good deal of the spirit of the south- ern men who seem to control their party, especially Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia and Senator Vardaman of ‘Mississippi. ‘The southern senators want, the blacks to be counted in getting thelr share of the appropriation, but the Colored people are to get their instruc- tion by a process of infiltration through the white legislatures. In the debates Senators Jones, Clapp, Sher- man and Bristow took up the defense of the rights of the Colored people. Senator Vardaman indulged in the gush about hfs “Colored mammy,” and ‘then in various ways expressed his peculiar views as to keeping black men “in their places.” That means in menial employments and in subjec- tion to the white race. Senator Hoke Smith admitted in the debate that while there were more Colored than white children in Geor- gia, the white schools got about five times as much school money as that given to support the Colored schools; ‘that is, the people who are in the greatest need of education have the most limited opportunities. One southern congressman suggested that Congress should favor “jim-crow" cars and Negro segregation in Wash- ington City and also “assist to repeal the fourteenth and modify the fit- teenth amendments.” Senator, Varda- man quoted a speech made by Mr. Lin- coin in 1858 in slavery days, in which he sald he did not favor social or political equality of the white and black races. He also sald “no man has spoken more wisely or clearly on this subject than Mr. Lincoln.” In Mr. Lincoln's last public address, April 11, 1885, he indorsed the proposi- tion of citizens of Louisiana who had “organized a state government, adopt- ed a free state constitution giving the benefit of public schools equally to binck and white and empowering the legislature to confer the elective fran- chise upon the Colored man.” He said: “I would myself prefer that it were now conferred on the very intelligent and on those who have served our cause as soldiors.” Tt is @ great act of presumption for Mr. Vardaman to parade Mr. Lincoln as a supporter of the present methods of dealing with the Colored people. Tt may be easier for the present to let things take their course and sub mit to the domination of such men as Hoke Smith, Vardaman, Tillman and Blease. It is asserted that they do not really represent the South, but a sete Sear Semen in cee remem MADAM EDITH GREGORY And Others to Concert at the State Supa” agen Beaker Galena ae Springfield, O.—Mr. Lois Depp of Ce ee id ee ee a nae see siniteadrectvg write com cert here at an early date. Singers, violinists, pianists, harpists, and all good musictans should write to him at once. Mr. Depp is also anxious to join a company of GOOD musicians, o oe Y ey PY. < ES A a LOIS DEPP. and would like to hear from theatrical managers. Mr. Depp, who has quite a reputation as a vocalist, 1s desir- ous of hearing from churches, clubs, ete., relative to appearing in recitals, concerts, and entertainments. Ad- dress Lois Depp, 234 Raffenberser Ave,. Springfield, 'O., local represent- ative of The Gazette. ‘A musical and titerary entertain- ment will be given, under the auspices of the Second Baptist church chotr, at the Second Baptist church, Colum- bus, Friday evening, Mar. 18, present- ing Mme. Edith Gregory of this city. fa brilliant dramatic reader and con- falto, This ackngwledged queen ot the legitimate drama, in so far as tne race is concerned, has appeared south of the Ohio rivet. The work of ‘Madame Gregory on the stage is con- fined to high-class dima exelusively The leit canuot be lsaid of the re | markable realistle powers of portrayal with which she is gifted. She must be seen to he appreci ted. — Mrs Booker ‘T. Washington will lecture in behalf of the Y. W. C. A. and W. C ‘T. U, at the High Schoo) auditorium the last of March. She will be as sisted by Mrs. Henry W. Linder Tounder of the Y. W. G. A. and note¢ vocal talent including Mme. Naitl |Gregory, contralto; Lola Depp, bari tone; Miss Hattie Shivers, pianist, an t vaglous choirs of the city. Peake eer ta aaa S| | aes | . aaa we of aa 3 \! Gael es Lg " JUDGE TERRELL REAPPOINTED. Washington, D. C.—Judge Robert H. Terrell was ‘reappointed Municipal Judge by President Wilson, last week Wednesday. Only one other retiring judge of te Munielpal Court has been reappointed. Tillman, Vardaman and other Southern Democratic U. 8. sen: ators have announced a determination to defeat a confirmation of the ap- pointment. Terrell was first appoint- ed by President Roosevelt and reap- polnted by President Taft. He is a graduate of Harvard University law school, is the husband of Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, and has an excellent record a8 a fudge of the Municipal Court of this’ city. “We trust his ap- pointment is confirmed. WM. ©. FIELDS IN CHARGE OF NEW SLAVIN CENTRAL BUILDING. Pasadena’s newest building and tall- est opened last week with Mr. William €. Fields of South Vernon avenue in charge. The building, not yet com- pleted, is owned by Mr. Matthew Slavin, well known for his constder- ate treatment of Colored people. Quite a number of bids were made for the care of the building, but in view of the experience of Mr. Fields, the out- come of the bidding could not have been more satisfactory. Mr. Fields has been a resident of the city for the past two years, coming from Cleve land, Ohio. There he had had build ings, exercising the license of a sta tionary engineer. With this previous experience, Mr. Fields takes charge of the machinery, heating and janitor service in the Central Building. When the building is complete and the rooms full a crew of five at least will be used by Mr. Fields in caring for the eight: story structure on North Raymond ayenue—Los Angeles (Cal.), New mae a een eee aa ae letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of cach week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write also, their names and that of their city’ or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Un- ess this latter is done, proper credit ‘cannot be given you, Lists of names, wedding presents, etc, obituary no- tices, speeches, resolutions, poetry, in- ‘auirtes for relatives and advertise- ents of all kinds, including items Shnouncing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of ten conts a Hine, six words to a line. Our rates for’ display advertisements will be sent on application. Send postal note aod bot stamps during warm weather, BUCKEYE LETTERS BLE” GAZETTE’S CORRE- THROUGHOUT OHIO ns Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, YOUNGSTOWN.—Mrs. Wm. Brown spent a week in Sharon with her sis- ter, Mrs. Mary Burns.—Mrs. H. Parker has been suffering with a bad glass- cut on a hand.—Mrs. Ragland enter- tained tho M. M. society, recently — ‘Oak Hill Av. church Emergency club's entertainment was -largely attended. Mme. Montgomery was assisted in her song-recital by A. B. Allen of Cleveland, Louisa Holmes and Allysa Williams,’ of this city. Mrs. Mont- gomery ‘was Mrs. Hadson's guest while here—Wilbert Lacey's leg was. broken and he received other injuries while'at work recently. He was taken to St. Elizabeth Hospital. SMITHFIELD.—The attendance at the A. M. B. church, Sunday, was very good, regardless of the heavy snow- storm and bitter cold weather.—Mr. George Harris and family and Mr. and Mrs. Douglass Christian were guests of friends-on South and Main Streets, Sunday.—Mr, and Mrs, B, Palmer spent Sunday with his mother and sister, Mrs. A. Palmer and. Mra, P. Christian. Mr, Fred Lousen, of Steu- denville, waa here, recently —Mr, San- ford West of McIntyre, an old patron Of The Gazette, was here last week — Mr. Wilson Sinith of Melntyre, ro- turned home a few days ago after a month's visit with his sister, Mrs. Chancy West, of Pennsylvania. He says, “there is no place jike home.” How much better It would be tor lots of our young people if they could only see this, No place like home, LORAIN.—Mr, and Mrs. Charles Rolden and Mrs. Roberson, her sister spent Sunday in Oberlin —Rey. and Mrs. G. L. Hicks have a little daugh: ter. Mrs. Hick’s mother, Mrs. Young of Van Wert, is here, caring for her.— Mrs, Sophia Haynes and daughter Cleota, visited Mrs. Clifford Cooley this Week. Clifford Cooley, Jr, has boon quite iM, but bas improved in the last few days.—Miss Leah Tapsico i: getting better—The Second M. E sewing circle met at H. P. Jackson's Feb, 11, Mrs, Jackson proved a splen id ostess. A dainty luneh of sala on lettuce, hot biscuit, coffee, te ‘cream and’ cake was served, ‘Thre new members joinéd.—Another youn man of our city has turned hiv foot steps In the wrong direction, and is 1 |troubie again. Younz men, beware 0 Strong drink and all sintil acts, ‘The: lead to tho dark way. Hold you heads up, be somebody, accomplis something worth while.—Lawrene Wren has been very ill again, this week with his left arm, which’ threaten diood-poizoning.—-Mea. Bowman close her suecesaftl meetings, last Monda evening. ‘Thirty dollars were raise Mor her—We are glad to have Le Ferguson home again with his pas ents, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Ferguson DOINGS OF THE RACE. Now {8 the time to subscribe for The Gazette—a live race paper and advocate, Hyery Afro-American home should receive, cach week, at Teast ‘one copy of it. it is a positive neces- sity in every loyal home. Dr. J. W. Beckett of Pittsburg, has been appointed a district physician. Salary $1,000, He was elected schooi visitor of the Fifth ward of that city last. November. ‘A wealthy lady of Patterson, N. J. ‘Miss H. Merselis, died, recentiy, and left her maid, Miss Sarah Waterford, $500 and the income of $10,000 for ie. » Prof. Frederick Starr of Chicago {niversity notifies The Gazette that an exhibition of objects relating to the history and condition of Liberia. will be opened in March at the building of the Chicago Historical society. ‘The exhibition will consist of all sorts of objects of historical interest, such as books, pamphlets, newspapers, Libert- an prints, broadsides, maps, plans, pletures, views, portraits, autograph letters, documehts, seals, stamps, coins, paper money, medals, decora: tions, ete. Individuals or organiza. tions knowing Liberia or being in di- rect connection with Liberian mat- ters are invited to assist in making the exhibition a success by loaning objects suitable for display, or by sug- gestions of ideas that may add to the interest of the exhibition, ‘That Abraham Lincoln was a deep- ly religions man, in spite of the fact that he belonged to uo church, and that his private life was lived in the consciousness of the nearness of the Supreme Being, was a fact emphasized Feb. 12, "Id, by Major James B. Mer- win of Washington, D.C. Major Mer- win, who is an ordained minister, was a private secretary to Lincoln’ dur- ing the war, The fact is, the Negro voter has been more loyal to the Republican party than the party has been to him, —Philadelphia (Pa.) Tribune. I will be a man among men, either living or dead. I will not be satisfied with any condition Jess than that which is due to a man and a gentle- man—Dr. Caesar A. Taylor. Joe Zitz, a N. Y. 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Local reading notices (advertisements) ten cents a line (slx words in a line). Social and Personal Our Classified Ad Department FOR RENT.—Nicely furnished rooms; 10612 Arthur Ave. Call after 5 p. m. FOR RENT.—Nice furnished room for one or two persons, or man and wife. Apply at 2216 E. 36th St. Prof. John C. Lefwitch, president of the Western World Creek—Semi-nole Agricultural College, Boley, Okla. and two other members of the faculty—Profs. R. R. Edmondson and Samuel A. White—arrived in the city, Monday. They are touring the North in an effort to raise $8,000 for the college. Prof. Wm. J. Decatur of Mnassas, Va. Industrial School, and Dr. Edwin S. Hatton of Guadalupe College, Seguin, Tex., are in the city, or similar tours for their institutions. If you were too black to be admitted to Luna Park rollerblading, all sums 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 services call at The Gazette office, No. 3 Blackstone building, No. 1424 W. Third Street, near Superior Ave. FOR SALE.—Fine lot on E. 126th St., Mt. Pleasant; size 40x144 ft., on the west side of street. A bargain, if sold by April 1st. Doan 1761 j. Apr.1. FOR SALE.—Houses or lots. If you have either or anything else to sell, or if you wish to purchase, advertise in The Gazette. If anything can bring you results, it can and will. Cleveland Sixth City Lessons in manicuring, massage and hair treatment are given by Mme. Grooms, 2305 E. 86th St. Night and day classes.—Adv. To be exact, the meeting at Antioch church, Sunday afternoon, netted Guadalupe college $22 cash and $30 in subscriptions. A social was given by the Priscilla Needle club for the benefit of the Old Folks' home, Tuesday evening, at Mrs. Josephine Cook's, 3108 Cent ral Ave. Our Ministers' Alliance should take steps to put a stop to the "selling of 'certificates' of the Children's home in Mt. Pleasant." It hurts our churches and the Old Folks' home, financially. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of an invitation to attend the ninth annual ball and reunion of Buckeye lodge, Elks, in Excelsior parlors, Youngstown, Mar. 12 Beware of the "jim crow" Negro grafter, especially those soliciting funds. They are abroad in Cleveland. Read The Gazette and be prepared for them—to save your hard-earned money. The "social" at Mrs. Theo. Spurlock's, Central Ave. and E. 28th St. Tuesday evening, for the alleged "Colored Children's Home" in Mt. Pleasant, was a practical failure. Very few attended. Send or bring locals and all business matters to The Gazette's 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. Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in The Gazette certainly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize these who ask for your trade in this paper. The Patrician club gave a dancing party last Friday evening in honor of the Wisteria club. The affair was complete in every detail, and thoroughly enjoyed. The officers of the club are: President, A. J. Whitehead; vice president, W. Stewart; secretary, B. W. Whiting; treasurer, P. Pridgge; chairman of house committee, Chas. Dorsey. * * * The afternoon of Feb. 20, at the cottage of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. L. Lang, on the Country Club's grounds, Lake Shore boulevard, East, Ms. Lang and his sister, Mrs. James Turner, entertained twelve ladies from the city, at a luncheon, and to the trees, late winter. Country, the trees, laden with snow, made it very realistic and beautiful. Music by Mrs. George Bolden. The ladies of the Wisteria club wish to thank the Patrician club, through the columns of The Gazette, for the complimentary party given in their honor last Friday evening. The club appreciates highly the use of their own invitation list and considers that in doing so, no greater compliment could be paid them. The Wisteria club, Mrs. Mayme C. Jackson, sec., 5606 Linwood Ave. --- The Gazette regularly should notify y delivered promptly. finitely examine The Gazette's adver- sise. Business man who advertise in nage of Afro-Americans. The fact that they want it. artisements) ten cents a line (six Personal Prof. John C. Lefwitch, president of the Western World Creek—Semi-nole Agricultural College, Boley, Okla. and two other members of the faculty—Profs. R. R. Edmondson and Samuel A. White—arrived in the city, Monday. They are touring the North in an effort to raise $8,000 for the college. Prof. Wm. J. Decatur of Manaassas, Va. Industrial School, and Dr Edwin S. Hatton of Guadalupe College. Segun, Tex., are in the city, on similar tours for their institutions. If you were too black to be admitted to Luna Park roller-rink, all last summer except "jim-crow" days—Aug. 4 and 18, 13, we would be too black to be "used" on any day or evening now that the park is closed, even if "COLOEED PATRONS" are especially collected for the roller-rink. CERTAIN EARNINGS of the week, Have and show self and race respect. Then, too, your money was refused, last summer, except on "jim-crow" days. J. W. Wills & Co., funeral directors, had charge of the following funerals recently: Mrs. Pearl Hawkins, Mrs. Mattilda Thompson, Clarence Hallman, Norman Weems and Mrs. Francis Jenkins. The following ministers officiated: Revs. Bailey, Young, Bundy, Lennox and White. The remains of Medames Thompson and Jenkins were interred in Lake View Cemetery, those of Mrs. Hawkins and Mr. Hallman in E. Cleveland Cemetery, and those of Mr. Weems in Woodland Cemetery. The proprietor of the "Joe Harris" saloon, Central Ave, and E. 37th St., called at The Gazette office last week and said that the discharge of the Afro-American bar-tenders in Central Ave, in saloons owned and controlled by whites, "was not on the order of the bartenders' union," but intimated that he and others in a similar post had been ordered to do what they did by authority over them. He would not state who constituted that authority. He also expressed a determination to re-employ his Afro-American bar-tender. There seems to be a new hair-straightening epidemic, these days, especially up Central Ave. way. It is said, that Wesley Carter, an employee of the Hollden house, who claims to have used recently some local hair-straightener with the result that he sustained a very badly burned face, and that he undergoing treatment for his burns; and that Attorney Alexander Martin has the case and is trying to affect a settlement with the local company which was recently organized to put the hair-straightener on the market. The very inclement weather of Sunday afternoon prevented the large attendance upon the mass meeting at Antioch Baptist church, in the interest of Guadalupe College, Seguin, Tex., anticipated, the auditorium being about half-filled. Rev. W. G. Thurston opened the meeting in the absence of the pastor who was preaching at Mt. Zion Baptist church, East End, and, after a selection by the choir and an interesting talk, introduced Rev. E. H. Smith, pastor of Shiloh Baptist church, who presided and introduced the speaker, Rev. Edwin S. Hatton, financial agent of the school. Rev. Smith made a plea for funds for the institution and succeeded in raising $50,000. Dr. Hatton had also spoken interestingly of the college's work, its needs, etc. Owing to lack of time only, the editor of The Gazette who was asked repeatedly to speak, declined although in full sympathy with the meeting as Rev. Thurston kindly announced. The following are officers of the DuBois Literary club for 1914: Mrs. Blanche Gilmere, pres.; Mrs. Lena St. Johns, vice pres.; Mrs. Florence Robinson, sec.; Mrs. Cora Clarke, asst. sec.; Mrs. Amelia McNaughton, cor. sec.; Mrs. Emma Lyons, treas.; Mrs. Willa Gaines, chairman com. Mrs. Robert Drake and Mrs. Oliver Waters joined the club at its recent meeting at Mrs. Luther Nickers'. The anniversary celebration, noted in The Gazette weekly, was curated by the club's forts. The tables were beautifully decorated with yellow tulips and ferns, the gift of J. W. Wills, and candles with orange shades, furnished by Mr. McNaughton. The menu and place-cards were in orange and blue club colors. The table formed an L (for literary). The ladies were beautifully gowned. The club has made splendid progress, the amount being raised by it, the last fiscal year, was $250, not including the banquet, for which each member was assessed. It thanks the public for its hearty support. The "Junior" club has elected the following officers: Bathal Moser, for which member was assessed. Mary Arnett, sec.; Amy Rogers, asst. and cor. sec.; Marguerite Harper treas.; Ida Bell Drake, chair, prog. The club is preparing for an entertainment. --- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1914 --- --- --- That "Jim Crow" Home A DISGRACE AND VERY HARMFUL TO CLEVELAND AFRO-AMERICANS. History of the Backward Step—How It Will Close Several Public and Charitable Institutions to Our People. An entertainment given at the "jim-crow" Mt. Pleasant "Industrial School," in November, 1913, netted $17. This all but precipitated a fight between several of its officials, at least two of whom wanted "that money." Now the "school" has been turned into a "Children's Home" and elaborate preparations are being made to get money. There is no need of a "jim-crow" Home of the kind in Cleveland and our people should not waste their money by contributing or giving to this movement. We should stamp or starve it out just as soon as possible. —The Gazette, Jan. 10, 1914. That "jim-crow" Industrial School effort, in M. Pleasant, has proved such a miserable failure, just as it should, that the promoters are now endeavoring to turn it into a Children's Home for the segregation of our dependent and other children. The city and county have been caring for these without any discrimination on account of race or color, should continue to do so, and will, if this latest "jim-crow" effort is promptly throttled as it should be. We understand that Dr. E. A. Smith, and a Mr. Thaxter Eaton, of the Cleveland Humane Society, and T. C. Wellsted, an assistant secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, are the whites encouraging the local Afro-American promoters of the "jim-crow" Children's Home. Again we call the attention of our City Federation of Women's Clubs, our Ministers' Alliance, and all intelligent and sensible people to this latest, miserable segregation effort.—The Gazette, Jan. 10, 1914. The two detention homes in this city, for boys and girls, are soon to be supplemented by a large one which early care for those classes of our children if we do not make the mistake of permitting the establishment of a "jim-crow" home such as the projected M. Pleasant "home" claims to be. Will our best people of this community continue to sit still and let this thing go on? If so they will be further pleased (2) and gratified (2), are many months have elapsed, by seeing established right here in Cleve-Juvenile Judge Addams, Sheriff Smith and others are working for. It is this and other local institutions, supported by the tax-payers' money and charity, that precluded white persons hope to keep our children out of by the establishment of a "jim-crow" home such as that projected "home" in M. Pleasant which "jim-crow" Negroes are trying to help them establish. "SHAME, O, SHAME! MINISTERS' ALLIANCE PROTEST! Denounce the Alleged "Mt. Pleasant Home" As Segregation, As Undemocratic, Un-Christian, An Entering Wedge of Jim-Crowism, As Retrogradation and a Wide Step Backward. Mr. President and Brethren of the Colored Ministers' Alliance: We, your committee, appointed Jan. 20th, 1914, to investigate the alleged organization of a Home EXCLUSIVELY for COLORED children, beg leave to submit the following report: 1. We find that the Home-on E. 126th St. is a private enterprise and has been mainly supported by one Chas. E. Stewart. Relative to the care of the children or condition of the same, we express no opinion, and make no commendation since the institution is private, or, at the most, quasi public. 2. We find that a public home for Colored children, exclusively, has been projected, and a tentative organization, based family-run, with older elected, a membership fee decided upon, and membership blanks printed 3. We also find that this proposed institution has the endorsement of Dr. E. A. Smith and Mr. Thaxter Eaton of the Cleveland Humane Society, and T. C. Wellsted, assistant secretary of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. We our committee, do hereby enter our most earnest and vigorous protest against the establishment of such an institution, for the following reasons, to wit:— Ist—There is absolutely no necessity for such an institution. The city, the county and the state have made ample and satisfactory provision for its dependent children, without regard to race, color, or previous conditions. 2nd—The multiplicity of such institutions simply increases the public burden and must, ultimately, lead to the increase of taxation, now already heavy. 3rd—The initiation of such an institution will inevitably lead to the displeasing undemocratic and unchristian policy of segregation and therefore the governing wave of white crossover," so detestable to all self-respecting Negroes, the world over. 4. Such a step is plainly and unmistakably retrogression, a wide step backward toward slavery and proscription, and a practical annihilation of the principles fought for, and obtained at the cost of much sacrifice, privation and bloodshed. 5. We are an English speaking people, thoroughly American, loyal to every interest of our government, and firmly believe in that perfectly demonstrable right, to the least of our own Dr. Lyman Abbott, and our own Dr. Washington Gladden—"The Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man." We, your committee, recommend that this Alliance reaffirm its former declaration, that the only institutions and organizations, of color, in the city of Cleveland, soliciting from the Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People, The Phyllis Wheatley Association, and The Cleveland Benevolent Association. The above report was unanimously recommended by the Masters' Alliance Tuesday, Jan. 27, 1914. THAT ALLEGED "HOME." Dear Sir:—I am very much interested in what the news items which you have sent me state and infer concerning the Mt. Pleasant home. I am sorry that the pressure of business in the office here does not permit me to call upon you. I would be glad that you will be but upon your business imposes the same limitations upon your time. Would you care, as an alternative, to write a letter containing definite statement of what you know concerning the Mt. Pleasant home, its officials, purposes, etc? I will preserve what you say in confidence. Yours very truly, T. C. Wellsted, Assistant Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. HOMES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. As a result of Judge Addams' and Sherif Smith's urging, the county commissioners are planning a large detention home for boys and girls, the boys' detention home on the west side and the one for the girls on this side of the city, being inadequate to meet the demand. An agreement with the Salvation Army Rescue Home and The House of Good Shepherd, in addition to the detention home at 2393 E. 43d St., are not sufficient to provide places for girls. Pending arrangements for a permanent and large detention home for both boys and girls, G. W. TURPIN'S School for Dancing Every Tues. and Thurs. Evenings ORKIN'S HALL, E. 36th St. & Central Ave., Cleveland, O. All the Latest Dances, Direct from N. Y. We are dancing the tango, the hesitation waltz, fish walk, one step and others. QUINADE GROWS HAIR REMOVES DANDRUFF SEMF FOR SAMPLE QUINASOAP THE IDEAL SHAMPOO 50AP THOROUGHLY CLEANSSES THE SCAP QUINACOMB HAIR STRAIGHTENER SHAMPOO DRYER QUINADE 25¢ QUINACOMB 50¢ QUINASOAP 25¢ AT ALL DRUGGISTS SEEBY DRUG COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. Judge Addams has asked the commis sions to rent the premises adjoining the present detention home for girls in E. 43d St., and a house on the West Side to supplement the present boys detention home which occupies the two upper floors of the Detroit-West 29th St. police station. Supplement lag the foregoing are, the home for boys at Hudson, and The Cleveland Girls' Home, opened this week at Warrensville, under the city department of public welfare, and immediately under the supervision of Miss Vera Schafer, 10214 Hampden Ave., N. E. Assistant Director J. B. Vining of the department of public welfare states that three girls took up quarters at the home on the opening day. Girls admitted will come from the university court and will be sent to Warrensville instead of being committed to Delaware or the Correction farm. The local farm consists of thirty-seven and a half acres and was bought last spring by the city for approximately $18,000. The house on the property has been remodeled and is of sufficient size to accommodate fourteen girls. The farm house the warrenville farm colony at the car Furniture for the residence home while the nursery hangings, bed clothing and the like will be made by the girls as needed. Committed girls will do all their cooking, washing and cleaning. Fruits and vegetables will be grown by the girls will receive instructions in gardening. A flock of chickens will be provided and a cow will be placed upon the property. The work of farming and the like will be carried on by the inmates. Assistant Director Vining said all reference to the words "correction" or "commitment" will be avoided, that the girls will be held at the home by interest rather than by any attempt at guarding or force," said Mr. Vining. "After a girl is turned back to the community we want her to feel that the place is her home to the extent that she will come back to visit." It is said that Miss Schafer, the school principal, is still distant yet to be appointed. For several years Miss Schafer has been employed as a teacher in the public schools with the exception of one year she spent in New York studying rescue homes and correction schools for girls. In the face of the foregoing, will some one find the shadow of a good excuse for the existence of that "jim-crow" Mt. Pleasant children's home? A FOOT RACE OR FIGHT? Bellefontaine, Q.-The following is G. W. T. School for Every Tues. and ORKIN'S HALL, E. 36th St. I will guarantee you All the Latest Dance We are dancing the tango, the step and Thursday the All out-of-town PRIVATE E. By appoint CLASSES Call or write for info QUINA GROWS REMOVES SEND FOR QUINA THE IDEAL S THOROUGHLY CLE QUINA HAIR STR SHAMPO QUINAGE 25¢. QUINAGE AT ALL O SEEBY DRUG COMPANY. CREOLA CREAM Better Than Ever Thousands of pounds of complexion cream are used each year by white men and women. CREOLA CREAM has taught the most particular Colored ladies and gentlemen that there is at last a real frenetic and reliable complexion cream for them. Many years of thought and vast experiments have given to the Colored people, in CREOLA CREAM, a complexion cream which is unsurpassed in its ability to lighten up the complexion and free it from blotches, sores, pimples, blackheads, spots, wringing, and a sure cure for chapped hands and face and will make the surface soft and smooth. Recent chemical changes have been made in CREOLA which make it better than ever. It is guaranteed to give satisfaction and to be harmless to the most delicate skin. In ordering large jar of CREOLA send 50c in stamps or money order with your name and address, giving name of paper in which you read about it. CREOLA CREAM CO. Box 810, Warren, Pa. from the Columbus letter in the lion! Daily Examiner of Feb. 19, 14: "In the old days when the classification of cities for legislative purposes was upheld by the Supreme Court, there were also interesting scenes in the meetings of the large county delegations. One night Harry C. Smith, the Colored member of the Cuyahoga delegation, incensed at something Harry C. Mason (white), also a member of the delegation, and afterward Speaker of the House, had said, chased him several times around the committee room with murder in his eye, until outsiders present interfered and stopped what might have proved to be either a fight or a foot race. Until the police, a blind member of the delegation, asked his attendant to lead him out, observing that it was no place for a blind man. "Oh, those were the exciting days!" A COLLEGE WANTS BOOKS! Dear Friends—We are asking all lovers of education to assist in building up a library at Atkinson College, Madisonville, Ky. We need good books, magazines and papers. Let all who can, kindly send one or more books of an educational or religious character, placing your name and address in the back of the books. Miss Theresa Smith, of Oberlin, is a member of the faculty. J. W. MARTIN, President. LINCOLN. By Paul Laurence Dunbar. 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Andrew Hatchett 2417 E. 82d Street DUTIES OF THE COMPTROLLER OF CURRENCY FUTURE KING OF ENGLAND IS A SAD PRINCE HONORED BY INFORMAL CALLS OF PRESIDENT SARAH BERNHARDT RECEIVES GREAT HONOR Upon the application of disbursement officers, or the head of, any depart- tion of disbursing 1 of any department or other establishment not under the executive departments, the comptroller of the currency is required to render his decision upon any question involving a payment to be made by them or under them. This decision when rendered shall govern the auditor and comptroller in the settlement of the account at issue. MUNICIPAL STATE For instance, a government laborer employed in an icehouse renders a bill for a pair of rubber boots. The government is asked to pay for them on the ground that for work in icehouse rubber boots are tools and not wearing apparel. The comptroller has approved such expenditures under the appropriation for tools, but has been obliged to disallow the expenditure for some other article of dress which would be available for use of the employee when off duty. The determination of just where traveling expenses, for instance, cease to be public expenses and become personal expenses is constantly arising. In general, the officials of the government are constantly striving to stretch the authority under which money has been appropriated by congress and the comptroller's duty is to maintain intact the restrictions. You very often hear people commenting on the fact that the prince of Wales, when ever he is seen (and that is not very often), looks as if he had not found life to contain a single joy. He is entirely devoid of the spirits of the average English boy, to say nothing of his fellow students, whose pranks are endless. 1910 The explanation is easy enough to find. The future king of England is by nature exceedingly quiet and re-tiring, a boy who should in every way be encouraged to strike up friendships with boys of more exuberant disposition and take part in their pursuits Mrs. Joseph P. Tumulty is the only woman in Washington who is ever honored by an informal call from the president of the United States. President Wilson not infrequently "just drops in" at her house in the course of an afternoon's automobile ride, to ask after Mrs. Tumulty's health, to chat a moment with her husband, his secretary, and most especially to pass the time of day with the Tumulty children. A. When`the White House car draw up at the front door of the Tumulty home there is a mad scamper of 12 little feet from the nursery to the front door. For the six Tumulty children are on intimate terms with the president and with every member of his family. When Jesse Wilson was married to Francis B. Sayre last November, little Mary Tumulty was about as keenly interested in the details of the wedding preparations as was the bride herself. She received, at the particular request of Miss Wilson, an invitation ad- Had not the chancellery granted the decoration of the Legion of Honor to region of Honor to Sarah Bernhardt, President Poinca himself would have creat the actress arbitrarily a chevalier of the legion. She is the one hundred and ninth living woman with this decoration. The action of the chancellery, be lated as it was, has met with a widespread demonstration of popu lar approval, says a Paris special cable dis President. Poincare himself would have created the actress arbitrarily a chevalier of the legion. She is the one hundred and ninth living woman with this decoration. The action of the chancellery, be-lated as it was, has met with a widespread demonstration of popular approval, says a Paris special cable dispatched to the New York World. Now that the "Divine Sarah" has actually got the distinction, her friends feel free to discuss her long indifference to the honor. That indifference was due to her feeling that the Mark Twain brought out "Joe of Arc" anonymously. The book was one of his failures, but he was proud of it. Before he acknowledged its authorship he sometimes fished for compilations about it. One evening at dinner Mark Twain said carelessly to a senator: "Are you a novel reader?" "Yes, a great novel reader," was the reply. "I don't suppose you're following that anonymous new series 'Joe of Arc'." "Indeed I am, through every installment." "What do you think Advance decisions by the comptroller are in the nature of precautions and prevent much misunderstanding and confusion. They remain law, to all intents, and purposes, unless later modified or revoked, but sometimes a comptroller upon the submission of new evidence, or perhaps through a court decision affecting the controversy, will acknowledge himself wrong. The men who are big enough lawyers to be successful comptrollers usually have not hesitated to acknowledge error. John Sherman said in 1894 that the comptrollers of the treasury had been equal to and better lawyers than the secretaries of the treasury since the beginning of the government. Alexander Hamilton pronounced the comptrollership the "second trust" of the treasury, evidently placing himself first. If under an appropriation headed "carriages and harness" the head of a department desires to purchase an automobile, and the disbursing officer feels doubt as to the legality of the transaction, he is required to seek a decision from the comproller. In just such case the comproller held that the reference to harness indicated that congress designed the appropriation for horse drawn vehicles. But in another department's appropriation bill a certain sum had been voted for for "vehicles," which, the comproller felt, showed a congressional purpose to broaden the authorization, and would permit of the purpose to broaden the authorization, and would permit of the purchase of an automobile. About 100 advance decisions are rendered every month and about 130 decisions upon appeal from the rulings of authors. and pleasures, but instead of this he is kept continually under the thumb of his mentor. His only pleasure is in his motor, which he drives as cautiously as an old man. Together with two of his college friends, young Lord Stanley and another, he had planned to use this car for an excursion to Switzerland to enjoy a couple of weeks' bobsleighing and tobogganing during the mid-winter recess. During Christmas he cautiously broached the matter to his royal father and paternal grandmother, assuring them he was perfectly willing to steer clear of Paris and also to take a couple of equeries to look after him, but the result was just what the prince had feared. King George and Queen Alexandra both agreed that his desire was a most natural one and, while perfectly harmless, might do him a lot of good but the matter never got any further, as the king immediately saw the hopelessness of trying to get Queen Mary's consent. dressed especially to her tiny self And when the hour for the wedding arrived Miss Tumulty, white-frocked, blue-ribboned, her blond curls in order, her eyes shining with excitement, was one of the most interested of spectators. If one approaches Secretary Tumulty on a busy day at the executive offices of the White House and asks him for the names of all his children, he is as likely as not to call on one of the under secretaries for assistance in setting them down with the respective ages opposite. Mrs. Tumulty, however, knows the list by heart, and can even say it backward, for the main business of her life is the rearing and educating of their six children. Her position in Washington's official life, as wife of the secretary to the president, gives her entree to that cosmopolitan society at the capital which the average woman would find irresistible. Mrs. Tumulty, however, cares little for it. About the only functions which she and Mr. Tumulty have thus far attended during the present season were the White House wedding and cabinet dinners. Since going to Washington, Mrs. Tumulty has not allied herself with any social or philanthropic organizations. She declares that any woman who looks after the needs of a husband and six children has 12 hours a day of her time already engaged. decoration meant nothing unless it was granted solely in recognition of her as an actress. This was a kind of claim on the legion which the chancellery did not recognize, and she knew it. The knowledge helped to reconcile her to seeing many less famous women decorated. Her exclusion from the legion had nothing to do with her private life, which was blameless from the French point of view. Adelina Patti and the three other women of the stage who got the legion of honor before Madame Bernhardt did were given the decoration for reasons not connected with acting—for teaching, or for services to the state outside of their theatrical work. That this was realized by Mdane Bernhardt and that she felt the rule was to be applied even to her is shown by the fact that at a recent luncheon with some of her foreign friends she referred to the possibility of the decoration being bestowed upon her, remarking that many people said it was her unique distinction to have spread the French language and French theatrical culture abroad. of it? Is it good?" "That's hardly a fair question to ask me," she senator replied (he knew the real author). "You see, I wrote 'Joan of Arc' myself."—Philadelphia Public Ledger. Expert Opinion. "Is marriage a failure?" asked the inquisitive bachelor. "Oh, no." replied the experienced divorce lawyer. "It is merely an opportunity to follow that good old rule. If at first you don't succeed, then try, try again."—Judge THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1914 SPORTS CARPENTIER IS CHAMPION SMALL HA IN POPU Parisian Milline clared. and SWIMMING Coach Robinson's Purple natators defeated the Chicago swimming team in their dual meet in the Patten gymnastium. 39% to 18%. --- William Cordes of the Grand Central Bowling academy of Brooklyn will give a $1,000 automobile and 19 other prizes to high scores in the individual tourney which he will conduct on his alleys. It will begin on March 1, and continue for three months. BILLIARDS Ben Allen, champion pocket billiardist, will play Edward L. Bell of Highstown, N. J., for the championship the last week in March in Philadelphia. The national class A 18.2 balk line championship tournament was awarded to the Amateur Billiard club of New York at a meeting of the executive committee of the National Association of Amateur Billiard Players. The matches will begin March 9 and the entries close a week earlier. GOLF Jerome D. Travers, the national amateur golf champion, is to sail for Europe about the middle of March. A. C. Johnson of the Minikahdaha club of Minneapolis won the annual midwinter golf tournament at the Hot Springs (Ark). Golf and Country club. It is interesting to note that Francis Ouimet's 70 is the record for the course at Manchester, Vt., in view of the fact that Ekwanok has been assigned the amateur golf championship for 1814. AQUATIC Joseph Wright, ex-captain and now coach of the Argonaut Rowing club of toronto, has been elected president of the Canadian Rugby union of football teams. Guy Nickallis, the old Oxford oarsman and coach of the London crew, has cabled his formal acceptance of the offer to assist in coaching the Yale crews. Harvard's first and second crews will row in the naval academy eight at Annapolis during the spring vacation in April. The first race will probably be April 25. The Queen City (Toronto) Yacht club has commenced the organization of a $50,000 company to erect a new club house on the club's new site near Ward's island. Work on the building will likely be commenced next fall. HORSE RACING Bingaras have won more than $100, 000 in the last three years. Belle Bird finally has been beaten in Russia, but it took the good mare Soprano to turn the trick. Frankie Bogash is the name of a pacing mare by Frank Bogash that won a free-for-all at Quebec. George D. Conner has been made one of the vice-presidents of the American Trotting association. The pacer Dustless McKinnel, 2:12%, has been sent to "Rushville" Jones, who will get the nag ready for the C. C. and other stakes. Prominent Canadian horse breeders are to appear before parliament and ask for a change in the law which limits trotting to three days a week. Jefferson Livingston's five-year-old gelding Bonne Chance hung up a new world's record for a mile over a circular track at Juarez, when he raced its trotting to three days a week. BASEBALL Manager Jennings has decided to switch George Morlarty to the initial sack and allow Billy Purtell to hold down third. Joe Tinker is planning to play some exhibition games while on the training trip this spring in order to help out on the expenses. Ty Cobb will break his old custom and will favor the Detroit players with his presence at Gulfport, Miss., where the Tigers train this season. Sid Smith, who some seasons ago was a member of the St. Louis browns, has signed again to catch for the Columbus club of the American association. Most of the college leaders now favor summer baseball. Captain Blossom of Yale favors summer baseball and says it is bound to come. Ban Johnson says that Branch Rickey is a smart young man and he thinks he will turn out a winner in St. Louis with some assistance. Chief Johnson, pride of the Winnebago triband, pitcher for the Reds of Clincinnati, says he always goes to church—because his wife compels him to CARPENTIER IS CHAMPION 24 Georges Carpentier, the French heavyweight boxer, who will soon celebrate his twentieth birthday anniversary, is now the acknowledged champion of Europe. His latest victory was a decisive win over Bombardier Wells, the big Britisher. FOOTBALL Wisconsin has signed Juneau to coach the eleven again next fall. The old Badger star has been giving them winning teams in the far north. Coach Brooke of the Pennsylvania football squad was operated upon for appendicitis. The operation was successful, and rapid recovery is looked for. Elmer E. Busch, captain of the Carlile eleven in 1914, is a copper-colored Indian of the Pomo tribe and hails from California, where his home is at Potter valley. Annapolis will be permitted to play more than one game away from the academy grounds during the football season if a bill now in congress is passed. Games with the University of Pennsylvania are on the program for 1914, in addition to the annual contest with the army. Bob Fitzsimmons will teach boxing at the Sportsman's Club of America at Chicago. Johnny Glitter and Joe Nelson fought 12 rounds to a draw at Lawrence, Mass. Bombardier Wells knocked out Pigot, a French heavyweight, in the first round at Cardiff, Wales. Young Mahoney of Racine got the better of Bill Perkins in their ten-round argument at Oshkosh, Wis. Jack McAuliffe, the former world's champion lightweight boxing champion, is filling an engagement in the English music halls. Ex-heavyweight boxing Champion Tommy Burns is reported worth $600,000, due, in a large measure, to his profitable real estate deals in Canada. Because some of the New York clubs have used pro boxers at amateur shows, the boxing commission may assume control of the amateur sport also. John Bull received two lickings in Madison Square garden when two of his subjects, Owen Moran and "Sapper" O'Neill, were defeated in fighting by "Young" Joe Shugrue of Jersey City and Johnny Dundee, a local boxer, respectively. MISCELLANEOUS Princeton's hockey team defeated Yale at Now Haven, 5 to 3, in an exciting overtime game. Those who saw the Maroon-Badger basket-ball game unite in saying that Wisconsin has about the fastest bunch of fives along the line. The University of Pennsylvania swimming team defeated Columbia university 38 to 18. In the water polo contest Columbia won, 24 to 22. Capt. Charles O. Parker of the University of Chicago track team will not compete with the Maroons this season by order of the Midway deans. James A. Hunter, Illinois star quarter-miler, soon to leave for Pekin, China, to teach the Chinese collegians athletics under Y. M. C. A. auspices. Johnny Hayes, the hero of the London Olympic games of 1908 and the first American to win an Olympic marathon contest, has joined the army of American trainers. The British Olympic fund has not panned out as expected. The sponsors of the fund started out to raise $500,000 by national subscription, but the responses to their appeals were not very encouraging. Coach Billy Quel of the Yale distance runners, recently defeated A. E. Wood, holder of the world's professional record of 1 hour 18 minutes and 18 seconds for 15 miles, in a 12-mile race in Nova Scotia. Coach Harry Hillman of Dartmouth college has been elected president of the recently organized Professional Trainers' Association of America, which includes many of the best known coaches of colleges and club squads of this country. Georgetown and Virginia have severed athletic relations. At least Georgetown says they will not meet. Virginia has questioned the athletic probity of the Washington institution, which prefers not to enter into a wrangle by denying. SMALL HAT BACK IN POPULAR FAVOR Parisian Milliners Have So Declared, and the World of Fashion Will Follow. BEADS USED IN TRIMMING Variety Offered for Those Who Will Make Personal Choice, But the Style May Be Called the Novelty of the Preset Season. PARIS—The two hats sketched this week are the latest Paris models. The small, very smart hat may be said to be the novelty of the season. It is completely covered with small porcelain beads. In this particular case the beads were in three shades of rust red, and an elaborate design was carried out. The hat was trimmed with large silk pompons in the same tone of red as the beads. These bead hats are extremely new. They are going to be universally popular, and for this reason women of refined taste ought to wear them at once; later the style will be copied by the cheaper milliners, and then the charm will disappear. In glistening jet beads these hats and toques are being largely made for casino and restaurant wear. I have seen some lovely toques entirely covered with metallic blue beads and trimmed with spun glass agrets; and, again, others in dull white beads, trimmed, with smart black wings or butterfly wings composed of black taffeta or velvet. The second hat shews a Monte Carlo castio hat of the best order. It is one of the new Carlier shapes which looks like dragon fly wings when viewed from the back. They are almost always trimmed with a small feather or jet ornament placed directly in front of the brim. This is a strange fashion; it makes a pretty woman look like some exotic horned animal, but all the same it is attractive. For several months past we have had hats and toques trimmed with feather and horse hair ornaments which jutted out directly at one side, but these front trimmings are the late est idea. So far as the shape of the newest toques is concerned I can report with confidence that the charming boat outline which has always been becoming, is again in favor with the powers that 1 Smart little hat, entirely covered with rust-red beads. The only trimming consists of red silk pompons. New "dragonfly-wing toque." The brim is covered with cut jet beads and the soft crown is in black velvet. A very original mount is arranged directly in front. be. Boat-shaped toques; especially those with torpedo crowns, are eminently distinguished looking, and they made a welcome change from the ubiquitous bowl toque which was worn by young and old alike all through the autumn season. Some of the newest Carlier and Lewis models are curiously trimmed with small, multicolored flowers. These flowers are made in velvet as a rule, and they are placed almost flat on the upturned brim of torpedo toques. Such flowers as pansies or small roses look well in these circumstances and they are accompanied by conventional velvet leaves or by sprays of ivy. Very Little Trimming. Many of the new hats and toques for morning wear are entirely covered with lengths of corded ribbon in pure white or in some rich color, such as emerald green. Lancet blue, carmine, etc. Some of these hats have exaggeratedly narrow brims and exaggeratedly high crowns. Offtrimming there is very little—a couple of knife quills at one side or a thin aligret made of spun glass or horsehair. This idea of covering hats with lengths of ribbon originated with Lewis, who made a specially last autumn of toques made entirely of wide bands of silk braid. These braid hats are still popular, but those made of ribbon are rapidly replacing them. Last week at a reception I saw a very original toque. It was fashioned like the turban of an Arab chief, only on a small scale, and was composed of thick ottoman silk in a deep shade of violet, while the drapery which formed the trimming was in supple Noted American Scientist David Thomas Ansted, who was numbered among the eminent nineteenth century scientists, was born in London 160 years ago. Professor Ansted received his education at Cambridge university. He succeeded the illustrious John Phillips as professor of geology in King's college, London, and became editor of the journal and proceedings of the Royal Geological "society. He gained a high reputation by his lectures and writings on geology. His "Geology, Introductory, Descriptive black crinoline straw. The drapery was held together in front by a beautiful ornament of dark violet enamel and from this ornament a thin black ajegret sprup up. It was a very original idea, a reversal of the usual order of things. Of course, it would not be possible to arrange a teque of this kind with any but extremely supple "crin," but nowadays every material, even straw, is made as supple as chiffon. One of the latest fashions in certain Parison circles is as meaningless as it is deplorable. I allude to the fashion of making tailored suits with side pockets in the skirts similar to the pockets in men's trousers. This extraordinary fashion was started a few weeks ago by a smart young actress and when it was exploited at the Autenul races every one smiled. But the fashion has caught on and it promises to become general. Now the sight of a man lounging about with his hands in his trousers pockets is sufficiently ungraceful, but just imagine a pretty girl or woman doing practically the same thing. It would not be a pretty sight, and yet the fashion exists. Early in the last autumn season there was a tendency to make tailored suits ultramannish in outline. One of the leading Parisian tailors expressed his approval of this idea with the result that many of the early spring suits intended for Riviera wear are absolutely bovish. Worn Wide Open. The coats are loose and worn wide open in front. There are waistcoats exactly similar to those worn by men and, worst of all, there are those dreadful skirts with pockets at either side, high up near the waistline. I do not mean to say that the really chic Parisiennes will tolerate such an inartistic fashion as this, but it is certain that it will be eagerly adopted by women and girls who think it a fine thing to seem what they call smart, in fact, the modern brigade which goes in for smoking in public restaurants and in the dining rooms of hotels. The whole idea is in bad taste, but that will not keep it from being popular. These are the days of uncertain tastes, even those who know what is right and really correct often remain silent rather than seem old fashioned. At this season of the year fancy muffs play an important role. They are used to replace their companions in skunk or fox and they certainly add considerable grace to a simple after noon costume. In Paris they have brought the art of arranging fancy muffs and scarfs to perfection. All sorts of unexpected materials are called into use and wonderful combinations of color are achieved. For the Riviera season some really lovely muffs and wide scarfs are being made of shot taffeta and marabout; for example, a set in taffeta of shot lemon-yellow, tangerine orange, and silver gray, trimmed with bands of lemon-yellow marabout and deep orange crysanthemums. The muff was of the boister shape and very long; it was covered with closely drawn taffeta and the ends were bordered with marabout. On the outside, near the center, there was a butterfly row of the silk and attached to this bow a cluster of deep orange chrysanthemums in velvet. The scarf was wide and long. It was lined throughout with ruched chiffon in a pale shade of yellow and bordered with marabout. In one place it was drawn together with a double row of silk and here a single velvet chrysanthemum was placed. The idea was that one end of the scarf was to be thrown over the shoulder, the velvet flower coming directly under the left ear. I have seen similar sets made in shot taffeta which showed delicate shades of pink and gray; in this case pale gray marabout trimming was used.—Washington Star. Activities of Women. Teachers in the schools of France are taxed very heavily to keep their pension fund going. London has a club whose object it is to help working women who have taken for writing. Nearly one-tenth of the appointments in civic and legislative positions in Pennsylvania are women. About sixty per cent. of the remnant of the divorce colony in Reno, Nev., are women. The latest thing in women's wear is overalls, which are designed for dancing. While they are like the type worn by men, they are made of sill or linen. Queen Mary of England has ordered that no lady of the royal household may have any direct connection with business of any sort, thereby putting an end to "graft." Mrs. Barbara Galpin, who has just been appointed to the planning board of Somerville, Mass., is said to be the first woman in that state to be true honored. In most of the Japanese cities there is a public oven where for a small sum housewives may have their breakfasts, dinners or suppers cooked for them. Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury, wife of the millionaire banker, recently visited the Philadelphia night court to see just how the women prisoners are treated. Not in Evidence. "The father of that young woman who is playing the piano spent $10,000 on her musical education." "Phew! I wonder what she did with it?" "With the money?" "No; with her musical education." A Retort. Prof—A fool can ask more questions than a wise man can answer. Stude—No wonder so many of us flunk in our exams!—Penn State Proth. and Practical" was accepted as one of the standard works of its kind. He was the author of a number of textbooks and contributed numerous memoirs to scientific journals. Professor Ansted died May 13, 1880. A Wonder. "They are certainly advertising this English comedian," said the Old Fogy "Is he very clever?" "He must be," replied the Grouch "They claim that he once made King George smile." CAP and BELLS REASON WHY SCOTS SUCCEED Johnny McTurk Figured It Out In His Own Mind How He Would Divide Marbles With Andrew McDonald. "Johnny, dear," said the visitor. John McTurk turned around while the family cat rescued her tail from his grubby flat. "Now that you are going to school," continued the visitor, "I want to ask you a little question: How many marbles would you get if I gave you twenty, to be divided between you and Andrew McDonald?" Johnny thoughtfully rubbed the point of his nose where the cat had scratched him. "I dlnna ken," he said. "Come, come," said his elder. "How's that?" "Well, ma'am," said Johnny, "ye see it's a' according. If ye gie me them when we're both we'd hae ten apiece. If Andrew was here and I wasa I'd only hae about five. But if I were to get them when Andrew wasa here I dina-ken whether he'd hae cny at a'."—London Tit-Bits. Horrible. "War is not nearly so dreadful as I used to imagine it." "It is dreadful enough." "Of course it is; but, you know, this grape-shot they shoot the enemy with—" "Well?" "When I was younger I used to think it was grapefruit." Her Hand or a Hand Organ. Heirness—The count is a most ardent lover. Married Friend—My dear, be careful. A man can put considerable fervor into his wooing when it's a case of marriage or work.—Boston Evening Transcript. Tactless Menu. "My dear, I told you that guest I brought home to dinner was a very bashful man." "I know, but what of it?" "Nothing, only you did go and put your foot in it, when you had sheep's-head fish for dinner." A Worker. "You say your husband likes hard work?" said one woman. "Yes, irdeed," replied the other. "He never appears to be doing any around the house." "No. But you just ought to see him in a bowling alley." Used Her Share "I see the English language is used more than any other," remarked Mrs. Wombat. "I am proud of that." "And well you may be," insinuated Mr. Wombat. "You have certainly done your share in bringing up the average." WHAT DID SHE MEAN? Miss Antique—Don't you think it was awful nerve in him to kiss me? Miss Kutting—Well, I should say it was The Fatal Stop Automobile Salesman—And, whatever speed you may be going, when you put on this brake you stop in five yards, dead. Prospective Woman Purchaser—How dreadful! I've always thought they were so dangerous—Punch. Nil Desperandum. "Things in general," said the pessimistic theosophist, "are very, very bad." "Oh, well," replied the optimistic theosophist, cheerfully, "it's all in a lifetime; and, besides, there will be other lifetimes."—Puck. Novei Idea. "And when I finish my career I shall become an aviator." "Why do you wish to risk such danger, having such a brilliant future?" "Why, so as to rise all the quicker." Post Graduate. "Did you say she was one of your prominent suffragettes?" "That h1 did. sir. Would you be satisfied, sir, with someone you served 'your h1 out of lyle four, times'?" "Well, I am a pretty good eater, it that's what you want me for."