The Gazette

IN VAULT HE LEGENDATE Brought into Ohio Last Week. It is For "Birth of a Nation" and other "Distinguishing and Inflamatory" Photo- Plays, "The Moving Picture World De- The local Ministers' Alliance adopted a strong set of resolutions, Tuesday morning, at its meeting, against the exhibiting of that miserable photo-play "The Nigger", at the Standard theater, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and followed them up with a visit to Mayor Baker, Tuesday, which was the best and most effective thing for them to do. The editor of The Gazette held conferences with the Mayor and Chief of Police Rowe, last Saturday morning, and had the assurance of the former that the miserable play would be banished from the city if it was as represented by us. The chief was to and did send officers to see and report on the play, Monday morning. In spite of its several mob-inciting scenes, they could not see enough in it to order its suppression, largely because the State Board of Censors had "passed the play", they said. Local moving picture men, interested in the presentation of the miserable play in this city and state, said that it had not only the endorsment of the State Board of Censors, but that Gov. Frank B. Wills had given it his approval. We did not believe this and felt positive that whatever the State Board might have done in the matter, the Governor had not done anything of the kind. Therefore, immediately after our conferences with the Mayor and the Chief of Police, we wrote the Governor fully and frankly relative to the matter and on Tuesday of this week received the following, characteristic communication which not only pleased greatly but gives us reason to feel that he will do all in his power to aid us in our effort to bar the miserable, mob-inciting photo-play from the great state of Ohio. State of Ohio, Executive Department, Columbus. March 29, 1915. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland O. Dear Harry: I am in receipt of your letter with a copy, of the letter written by you to your Cleveland minis GOV. FRANK B. WILLIS ters, relative to a certain picture that it is proposed to be exhibited by certain moving-picture people. I want to say to you positively that I never heard of this picture before and that it has never received my approval directly or indirectly. I take immediate steps to this to the attention of the State Moving Picture Censor Board in order that this film may not be exhibited at any point within the limits of this state. I assure you of the most prompt action by this office in this regard. Very truly your friend, Frank B. Willis. On Monday, after receiving several reports from persons of both races who had witnessed the play, that day, we sent the following letter to Mayor Baker, which he received Tuesday Morning. Cleveland., March 29, 1918. Mayor Newton D. Baker, City Hall. Dear Sir: I am sure that if YOU will see that miserable and vicious photo-play at the Standard theater, you will stop it, as you premised, Saturday. See it yourself and do not take any one's "sayso". That scene where the Negro grabs the little white girl, and the "race war", as presented in the play, are positively nauseating, promotive of the mob-feeling and spirit and vicious in the extreme. There are other features almost as bad. There is positively nothing elevating or wholesome in the thing. It is the most harmful thing to the 20,000 Colored people in Cleveland that has ever been brought to this city in the nearly 50, years of my residence. Any man who can see it and not feel the same way about it, must be hardened to crime or thoroughly surcharged with a banable prejudice that finds a vent in witnessing such a very low order of things, even pictures. I trust that you will take (or make) the time necessary to view the disgusting spectacle at the Standard theater, tomorrow (Tuesday), so as to make it impossible to have it presented in other moving picture theaters of this city. The foregoing communication was received by the Mayor in time to be of assistance to the delegation of our local Ministers' Alliance who called on him the day (Tuesday) of its receipt by him. Mayor Baker informed the pastors that if the drama was presented longer than Wednesday he would confer with Police Chief W. S. Rowe relative to stopping it in this city. That our readers throughout Ohio may thoroughly understand how thoroughly vicious the miserable photo-play is, we append the following, furnished The Gazette's editor, last Saturday, by B. S. Driggs, (white), of this city, a long-time friend of the race and the writer. It is from "The Moving Picture World" of New York City, March 27, 1915, the organ of the moving picture industry in the United States: "A Picture to be Suppressed. "Repulsive, harmful and void of any moral lesson worth pointing, is a picture purporting to be founded on Edward Sheldon's play, 'The Nigger'. It has a production that never should be made. It presents the worst sores in American civilization without any decency or restraint and without suggesting a remedy. A drunken Negro, frothing at him, is as he hides behind a tree, waiting to assault a little (white) girl wandering through the woods. The child dies from the effects of what a sub-title describes as 'the usual crime', and after that we have a man-hunt with blood-hounds, a lynching and the spectacle of a Negro being burned at the stake. Nothing so nauseating as The Nigger has been in the book by the representative of "The Moving Picture World", it is a brutal appeal to the most dangerous human passions and prejudices". While it is true that the State Board of Moving Picture Censors caused about "ten feet of film" to be cut from the picture photo-play, it still contains, enough and more, as will be seen in our letter to the Mayor, to condemn it a thousand times over when it is remembered that children of tender years are also admitted to all moving picture shows. Then, too, the very name is as objectionable to our people as the objectionable scenes (and others) to which the Mayor's attention is called. Let our people of the state write Gov. F. B. Willis, at once, and let him know how they feel about it. Prompt action is what is needed and wanted. THE MAYOR HESITATES. Cleveland, March 30. 1915. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, City. My dear Mr. Smith—I have your letter of March 29. Immediately after your visit to my office the other day I called up the Motion Picture Censor Bureau and was told that the film in question had been approved by that body, that it contained none of the disgusting and horrific details described in the copy of the Motion Picture World which you showed me. Evidently the objectionable things had been eliminated before the film was exhibited to our Censor Board. I notice that the Chief of Police has sent one of his officers to view the picture and that in the opinion of that official it is not subject to interference under the existing law. And I also note that an effort to enjoy the production of the law has been made by the Judge Pearson has deserved to issue the injunction. It scarcely seems in view of these facts as though any further interference of a merely executive character could be made. One of the great difficulties about any kind of censorship is that we are constantly confronted with offenses against good taste and good citizenship which are neither criminal nor indecent. This paradox is frequently its title is unfinitely offensive if the contents of the film were otherwise unobjectionable. Yours very truly, Newton D. Baker, Mayor. Before reading the following, read again our letter to Mayor Baker, published earlier in this leader. Senator Bauer of Cincinnati, late Wednesday in Columbus introduced a bill which, if it passes, will prevent the production or display of any film or play calculated to incite race prejudice or to ridicule any race, and stops the publication of pictures or articles bringing about that effect. CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. The old reliable Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following names: Lesanne, Newark, Lester, Lebanon, Chillicothe, Toledo, Troy, Canton, Springfield, Plaquen, Columbus, Cambridge, Steubenville, Bellaire, St. Clarville, Portsmouth, Washington C. H., Oxford, Sabina, Galipolis, Rendville, Urbana, Delaware, Mt. Vernon, East Liverpool, Wellsville, Akron, Dayton, Middletown, Bellefontaine, Lima, O., and other places where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, Blackstone building, Cleveland O., and terms we accept promptly. Our terms will oblige us greatly by sending at once the addresses of persons in the cities, named above, or others, to whom we can write relative to the matter. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. HEALTH MEETING HELD AT HAMPTON HUNDREDS IN ATTENDANCE. Prominent-Speakers of Both Races Emphasize, Need of Better, Housing Conditions as a Protection Against Disease—Major Moton Pays Tribute to Our Secret Societies. Hampton, Va.—Nearly 800 colored people of the lower Virginia peninsula, exclusive of the 900 Hampton students, attended the mass meeting called by the Negro Organization Society of Virginia and held in the Hampton institute gymnasium on Sunday afternoon, March 21, in observance of health week. Health and education in relation to the welfare of white and colored people were frankly discussed by leaders in the colored organizations of Elizabeth City county (religious, fraternal, musical, literary, business, school improvement) and by other men and women who believe in co-operation for better homes, better schools, better farms and better health. President R. K. Moton said that, although secret societies among colored people are commonly ridiculed, they nevertheless express a geoping of the Negro face toward real co-operation. The secret societies, aside from helping their own members, make liberal contributions to enterprises outside their immediate interests. The white and colored people of Virginia have already rendered the Negro Organization society marvelous support. Common sympathy, said President Moton, has come with better understanding of the common interests of the race, and working for the co-operation of mankind has been taking the place of ractical antagonism. Miss Agnes D. Randolph, a southern white woman of Richmond, Va., who is the executive secretary of the Antituberculosis association of Virginia, referred to the hard fight which the state board of health is making to eradicate communicable diseases. Virginia is very active in fighting typhoid, malaria, hookworm and other diseases which cause needless illness and premature death. Miss Randolph declared that there are today in Virginia 46,000 consumptives. Of this number 26,000 are colored. While inadequate provision is made by the state for white consumptives, no provision outside of the penitentiary and inmate asylum has as yet been made for colored welfes of the white plague. "Ignorance and poverty go hand in glove with tuberculosis," said Miss Randolph. "While the white race in Virginia has more opportunities of fighting consumption, there is still a vast need of educating the public and thus preventing the spread of this disease, which claims throughout the world a victim every minute of the day and night. Housing," she added, "influences the spread of consumption. Children must be taught the deadliness of the germ and the value of cleanliness, good food and plenty of pure air. There is a plan on foot for the raising of money to buy a farm on which the state will build a sanitarium for colored consumptives." Colonel W. S. Copeland, an influential white editor of Newport News, Va., declared that all decent people stand on the common platform of one standard — namely, personal purity. Hence the best white people are favorably disposed to any movement on the part of colored people which aims to secure cleanliness of body, mind and soul. Colonel Copeland said in part: "Health is contiguous. Sound public opinion is the most contiguous thing in the world. Let there be a clean sweep. Sweep up and sweep out the cappes and the contagion of unrighteousness." Rev. Dr. Charles S. Morris, pastor of the Bank Street Baptist church, Norfolk, Va., delivered a powerful address on "The Meaning of the Negro Organization Society." The black man in Africa and a genius for dividing, he said. Through cesseless war he was weakened and finally enslaved. Now in America the Negroes are learning how to work together to secure race progress. The Negro, as shown in the appalling figures for the Negro death rate offered by Dr. W. E. Atkins of Hampton, has a genius for dying. Dr. Morris urged the colored people to spend their energy in learning how to live. He declared that a people living so much native physical stamina need not die. The race, said Dr. Morris, needs to have information concerning diseases and the proper care of the body. We need to know more about the dangers of intemperance, excesses, impure air, irregular habits of eating and resting. Dr. Morris made a strong plea for better homes and for better mothers, who will build and protect homes. He showed that Negroes in the cities die in large numbers. They are destroyed for lack of knowledge. He referred to Senator Martin's recent successful effort in saving for Howard university in Washington an appropriation of $101,000 which will be used to help train colored leaders for service to their race and the white people. BALTIMORE MAN HONORED. Maryland Academy of Science Elects John W. Widggeon Life Member. The achievements in natural history and coevolved branches of John W. Widggeon, for many years curator at the Maryland Academy of Sciences at Baltimore, were rewarded by his being elected to life membership in the academy recently. No other colored man in the country is known to have been so honored by a similar society. Mr. Widggeon first became connected with the academy as a jaunior in 1875. His scientific knowledge soon became apparent, and he was sent on expitions in many hands to collect flora and fauna for the academy. He has made several trips to Jamaica, British West Indies, and one each to Central and South America in quest of specimens. A. B. He has mounted all of his findings for the academy. Part of the early geological collection at the John Hopkins university was gathered by him. It is a familiar sight to those students in local schools and colleges seeking information in geology, archaeology and natural history from this gifted man of science. Mr. Widgleton has a working knowledge of chemistry, photography and taxidermy. Though kept, busy with his investigations in science, Mr. Widgleton finds time to pastor a Baptist church near Baltimore. For several years he was a lecturer at Clayton-Williams university. He was born in Virginia in 1830, but has lived in Baltimore for over forty years. MAY ESTABLISH INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL AT FORT LEE, VA. New Educational Movement Encouraged by Northern Philanthropists. Unless the present plans of the promoters miscarry the people of Richmond, Va., and vicinity will have a great industrial school at Fort Lee, Va., just out from the city limits of Richmond in the near future. It is understood that northern philanthropists have promised to contribute the sum of $25,000 for the erection of the first building, and a like sum will be contributed annually for the maintenance of the school. The Hon. Giles B. Jackson, president of the commission having charge of the arrangements for the big exposition to be held in Richmond in July, and Mr. William Miller, secretary of the Negro Historical association while in New York recently visited several philanthropists. The proposed school was heartily indorsed as a splendid plan for the industrial education of colored boys and for the domestic training of girls. It is planned to operate an experimental farm in connection with the school, where farmers of the south will be taught scientific farming. While in New York President Jackson and Secretary Miller conferred with heads of the American Tobacco company and secured their promise to aid in installing a big tobacco exhibit at the exposition in order to encourage the cultivation of tobacco. Other tobacco companies will be invited to aid in putting on this exhibit. They also had an interview with the authorities of the Cotton Exchange of New York and asked them to put on a cotton exhibit. President Jackson stated that he received much encouragement. Edward K. Cone, president of the exchange, promised to take the matter up with members of the exchange to see what could be done. Mr. Cone said he thoroughly indorsed Mr. Jackson's plans for both the school and the exposition. Mr. Jackson says it was found necessary to secure the state fair grounds because doubt was expressed as to whether the trotley line would be extended to Fort Lee before the opening date for the exposition, July 4. The association owns 100 acres of land at Fort Lee, which is well adapted for use as an exposition ground, but on account of inadequate railway facilities and other hindrances it was thought best to make other arrangements. Business Thrift at Mound Bayou, Miss. The Tailors' and Consumers' Cooperative company has been organized at Mound Bayou, Miss. The company proposes to conduct a gurment manufacturing business. FRESH OHIO NEWS FRESH OHIO NEWS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIA- BLE" GAZETTE'S CORRE- SPONDENTS THROUGHOUT THE STATE What Our People Are Doing Each | Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical — Marriages, Deaths, Etc. CADIZ.—Rev. and Mrs. O. W. Childs have moved to S. Ohio St. The parsonage is being torn down preparatory to building the new one onufahead St. Noble L.ason has returned to a visit in Steubenville.—Mrs. Myrtle Stowers and sister, Miss Lizzie Jones of Cleveland, spent Easter here, visiting their mother, Mrs. Ellen Jones.—Born to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Mason, a daughter, Willa Juinita.—Miss Luht West of Scio, is the guest of Mrs. Henrietta Smith.—Mr. Archie Strother of Irwin, Pa., spent Easter here.—Miss Reba West and Mrs. Chas. Mason, a daughter, Willa Juinita, last week.—A concert, this week, at, Simpson M. E. church. Rev. F. H. Gray will preach his farewell sermon, Sunday. Go and hear him. MANSFIELD—Mrs. Neighbors and daughter, Rubie, of Delaware, were guests, Sunday, of Mrs. Fisher, Rev. C. W. Ford's mother, of Chicago, visited him. Mr. James French of Sandusky, read an excellent paper on the "Passion Play." Mr. Crockett's paper was also very good. Likewise, the special Easter music, Miss Clada Pleasants and Mrs. E. Alexander sang beautifully. Mrs. Grant, aged 90, Mrs. C. W. Ford, and Mrs. E. Dummore of Chicago June, also attended the exercises. The pastor and wife wish to thank the Ministers' Association for its kindness—Mrs. R. Davis has returned from Pittsburg and Cleveland, and Mr. Chas, Davis, will leave, this week, for Fremont, Sandusky and Defiance. Give the agent your order for The Gazette. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have their names and addresses 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. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, speeches, resolutions, poetry, advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of ten cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. Send postal note and not stamps during warm weather. SANDUSKY—Mrs. D. Anderson and Walton, and Mrs. S. Wallace are ill. Herbert-Wallace is home from Oberlin college on his vacation. Both S. S. and churches were well attended. Sunday. Rev. G. D. Smith preached a fine sermon on "The Resurrection," in the morning, and baptized two at 12 m. The primary class had charge of the exercises and old, themselves proud. The B. E. P. U. gave an exeellen program at 6:30 p.m. Laurel Lassler in furnishing a program for any occasion. At 7:30 p. m., Rev. Chas. Hart, district missionary, northern Ohio, preached an sermon on "Dry Bones," after which came sacrament. Friday evening, the members gave the pastor a donation for his table. He preached Mr. E. Brown's funeral sermon at the A. M. E. church, Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Brown died, April 3. YOUNGSTOWN.—Mrs. Chas. Smith died suddenly, Monday morning, Asthma. Funeral from Emerson morgue, Wednesday afternoon.—John R. Holmes attended the funeral of Albert. Anderson in Jamestown, N. Y., Sunday.—Gus. and Henry. Woods morgue, Wednesday afternoon.—Aunt, Mrs. H. R. Jones.—All the churches held special services, Easter, and were well attended.—Mrs. Jennie Jackson, accompanied by G. W. Hollands returned, Monday, to (Chicago after a 4 weeks' visit with her sister, Miss Sadie Finney, and cousin, L. T. Finney. They will make that city their home. Mrs. Finney will be held in her honor. Oak Hill Ave. S. S. base-ball club will have a concert, Monday evening.—Mrs. Thos. Lonesome and Mrs. B. Jackson attended the funeral of Mrs. Emma Jones in Akron, Wednesday.—The funeral of Mrs. Will Gardner, age 36, a native of this city, who died in the City hospital, Saturday, was held, Monday, from the Third Baptist church of which she was a member, husband, another, Mrs. Jose, Finney, and a host of relatives and friends. — (Correspondent must mail his newsletter on Mondays in the future—Editor.) Aged 100, She Ends Her Life. Springfield, Ill.—Mrs. Bettyperson, 100 years old, a former servant of Abraham Lincoln, ended her life at our Old Folks' home, early last Tuesday, by jumping in a second door. She had been a resident of Springfield for seventy-five years, and was the oldest woman in this city. Mrs. Patterson, worked for several years in the Lincoln home, and continued to work in that capacity until Lincoln was elected president. Afterward she was employed homes, and her son has lived at the Old Folks' home at the expense of her former employers. Wealth. Wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought—Young. PETER H. ELECTION FRAUD CASE IS ENDED Mayor Roberts and Twenty-six Defendants Found Guilty of Vote Plot. At the Same Time 89 Others Who Previously Had Pieced Guilty of Fraud in Terre Haute Election Will Be Sentenced. Indianapolis, Ind. Mayor Donn M. Roberts of Terre Haute and all except two of the other 26 defendants in the election conspiracy case who were found guilty by a jury in the federal court here Tuesday, returned to their homes to remain until Monday morning, when they will be sentenced by Judge Anderson. In the meantime preparations for an appeal are being made by the attorneys for the convicted men. The trial and the investigation which preceded it has cost the government approximately $12,000. The expense for witnesses for the trial was estimated at $5,000. Only two of the 27 convicted men are in jail. They are Alexander Aczel, alias Steel, who was arrested some time ago and held under $5,000 bond on a charge of attempting to corrupt government witnesses, and Timothy "Bull" Conway, who just before the trial opened was given a jail sentence in a local court for carrying concealed weapons. Severe penalties can be imposed. The possible cumulative punishment under the four counts of the indictment is fines totaling $26,000 and imprisonment for 19 years. The indictment on which the men were tried is in four counts. It charges that qualified voters were prevented from exercising that right, that qualified persons were prevented from serving on election boards—and that persons who had committed no offense were deprived of their liberty without due process of law. All the defendants, many of whom were accompanied by relatives, took the verdict calmly and there was no demonstration of any sort. Among those found guilty are: Donn M. Roberts, Eli H. Redman, Elmer F. Tallott, Maurice Walsh, Dennis Shea, Harry S. Montgomery, John M. Massellin, Thomas C. Smith, George Ehrenhardt, Edward R. Dris, coll, Hilton Redman, Charles Houghton, Lewis Nunley, Joseph O'Mara, William S. Crokett, Richard Knuckley. AN EXCITING ELECTION CHICAGO REPUBLICANS ELECT W. H. THOMPSON MAYOR OF CITY H. BY OVER 125,000 PLURALITY Chicago. ill—in the most exciting election that Chicago ever has had William Hale Thompson, Republican, was elected mayor of Chicago Tuesday by a plurality of about 125,000. Robert M. Sweitzer, the Democratic candidate, never was in the running. The vote was a veritable Thompson laudalide. In the 35 wards of Chicago there were eligible to vote 769,106 men and women. Early returns showed that more than 85 per cent of the registered vote was cast. The total vote was more than 600,000. More than 200,000 women cast their ballots during the day, and the votes of the women played no small part in the triumph of the Republican candidate. Thompson received great support from the women in almost every ward in the city. Curtis Guild Is Dead: Boston, Mass.-Curtis Guild, former governor of Massachusetts and former ambassador to Russia, died Tuesday. Guild was ambassador to Russia, for two years, and was three times governor of Massachusetts. He attained distinction as a public speaker through his ability to address an audience in any one of several languages. On leaving college he entered the office of the Boston Commercial Bulletin, of which he later became the sole owner and continued there throughout his life. IN DICION HILARIA SINUS ITALIAN FLEET SAILS SUDDENLY Concentrate at Augusta and Taranto, Within a Few Hours of Adriatic. Entry of Italy Into Conflict Considered Imminent—Russia Wins Important Success in Carpathians Paris.—The warships of the Italian fleet departed suddenly Monday from the Mediterranean naval stations at Spezia, Gaeta and Maddalena island. They "concentrated at, Augusta, Sicily, and at Taranto. They are thus within a few hours of the Adriatic. The future movements of the fleet are veiled with absolute secrecy. It is asserted that only the king and one or two of the highest government officials are acquainted with the plans decided upon. Departure is Impressive. The departure of the Italian fleet from the Mediterranean caused a profound impression, particularly at Spezia, where until last Sunday the harbor was crowded with dreadnaughts, cruisers and torpedo boat destroyers, while the town was filled with officers and sailors. Italy and Serbia are about, to conclude an agreement by which Italy will not oppose Serbia's occupation of territory giving her an outlet to the Adriatic on condition that this territory be not fortified. "If this Italo-Serbian agreement is signed this week, as is expected, the entry of Italy into the European conflict may be considered infinquent," says an Italian high authority in Rome. Russia Making Progress. London, April 8. - Russià has won an important success in the Carpathians. Sunday her troops fought their way over the ridge at a point due south of Balligrad and they are now driving the Austrians down the Hungarian slopes of the range. Although this achievement has been accompanied by no great captures of guns or prisoners, in other respects it is not worthly. In the mere extent of ground won it probably exceeds anything achieved since the great Carpathian battle, began many weeks ago. The greatest gain of the Russians, however, is that they now have passed through the roughest, wildest, woodiest part of the soft spot in the Carpathian barrier and little more than a day's march separates them from the great Hungarian plain. Then nothing but open country lies between them and Budapest. Another attempt to force the Dardanelles apparently is under way. An official announcement from Constantinople states that a cruiser and a torpedo boat were struck by shells during a bombardment of the outer forts Monday. The bombardment, it is said, was without results and no serious attack was attempted Tuesday. In French culture, the war the French continue their offensive movement between the Meuse and the Lorrain frontier. Their'report gains in the. Alley forest indicate the possibility of a new danger for the Germans holding St. Mihiel, while the advance to the east of Verdun is regarded in London as threatening St. Mihiel from the north: Berlin reports heavy fighting in this region without results for the French. CONVINCED THAT THE DARDA-NELLES CANNOT BE FORCED BY THE ALLIES. Constantinople (via The Hague and London). "I am convinced that the Dardanelles cannot be forced. The brave conduct of the Turkish troops in the recent operations against the straits permits me to conclude that although the allies bend every effort and use every means at their disposal they will be unable to achieve their purpose." Thus spoke Mehmed V, the sultan of Turkey and first caliph of the Moslem world. In the course of an audience which he granted two press correspondents. The $^9$ sultan expressed the greatest confidence in Turkey's ability to withstand the onslaught of the allied forces. The sultan was asked if his troops appeared to be happy and contented. The answer being emphatically in the affirmative, a new smile of satisfaction lit up his face. "It has been said that it was the factor of luck that made qur victory on March 18 so complete and great," he remarked, "but we in Turkey have a saying, 'Luck is infatuated with the efficient.'" Herbs to the Office. Columbus, O.-Charles C. Daniel, the deposed secretary of the United commercial Travelers, who has just returned from Mississippi, where he has been, for the benefit of his health, refuses to discuss the alleged shortage of $34,000 in the funds of that organization, revealed by an examination made by the state insurance department. The United States Fidelity & Guarantee Co., in which company Daniel was bonded for $100,000, has experts at work checking up Daniel's books. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (in Advance) One Year.....$1.50. Six Months.....1.00 Three Months......50 Subscribers are requested to re- mit by postoffice money or- der or registered letter Limited at the postoffice in Cleveland Ohio, as second-class matter. Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and proprietor, THE GAZETTE, Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans.. 160,000 in Ohio. 20,000 in Cleveland. Cleveland South City SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1915. President Wilson will not win his next campaign by complaining of Republican extravagance. Wilson, alone, is responsible for Bryan being secretary of state; Bryan, alone, is responsible for Wilson being president. One of our Democratic contemporaries wants to know "what is business afraid of?" The correct guess is that it is afraid of the Democratic party, and it has plenty of reason to be. The Democrats won the last national election by promising a reduction of the high cost of living. Republicans will win the next one on a promise to furnish work which will enable one to pay a high cost of living. Recently eminent Democrats after visiting the White House have given interviews in which they expressed hope that the Republicans would fight the next national battle on the tariff issue. For this advice we should give due thanks. But President Wilson will not furnish the issue in the next battle; nor will Republican leaders. The people will make the issue Good Business. A large majority of the voters in America believe a protective tariff necessary to good business. If our people of Cincinnati, and elsewhere in the state, will but contend in the courts for their rights in public places, using our Ohio Civil Rights' law, they will find that their "civil rights" in this state are not "gone" because they are temporarily and illegally withheld or denied by prejudiced persons or others through fear of race prejudice. Fight for your civil rights—in the courts. Jack Johnson needed three months' hard training, instead of less than three weeks' light training in order to get into proper condition to whip Jess Willard. This much is clear to all, now. Much as we regret his defeat, we cannot fall to see that the race will gain, on the whole, by a lessening of race prejudice which his questionable conduct, at times, increased greatly. Editor Wm. Monroe Trotter's surprisingly enthusiastic reception at a recent meeting in Louisville, Ky., when he denounced Dr. Booker T. Washington's "doctrine of surrender" seems to have embarrassed our long time friend and conferee, Editor Wm. Steward of the American Baptist of that city, who was a presiding officer of the Trotter-Louisville meeting in question, and a devoted follower of Dr. Booker T. He says Trotter had no right to do it but should have confined himself to a discussion of segregation. That is a matter of opinion, brother, which could never be settled by discussion one way or the other—even in Louisville. Trotter's position on both questions was well known in that city, by our people, when he was invited to go there to speak. FLEMING OPPOSED WILLIS. Some one, in Columbus, O. has "slipped one over" on N. B. Dodson and his American Press Association plate service, sending them alleged political "dope" on Afro-American political leadership in this state that is amusing in the extreme. Tom Fleming, of this city, is not even recognized by our people of Cleveland as a ward or precinct leader, to say nothing of being a local or state leader. Because one or two local white politicians, who bitterly opposed the nomination of Gov. Frank B. Willis, last fall, and had Fleming doing the same thing, placed him on the State Republican "Executive" Committee of one hundred or two hundred members where he was a "figure head," against the wishes of the great majority of our people of Cleveland and Ohio, and too, contrary to the publicly expressed desire (for the selection of another member of the race whom they named) of Warren G. Harding and Frank B. Willis, then Republican candidates for U. S. Senator and Governor, respectively, does not place him (Fleming) "at the head of the Ohio Afro-American Political brigade" any more than it breathes life in that mythical O. A.—A. P. brigade or "new regime." We suspect that Brother Dodson's "Political Talk at Ohio Capital" article which he brought out the first of the week, was written by Fleming's "booster", "Noomdy" Daniel Brasher, erstwhile resident of Cleveland, but, for the last couple of years, located in Columbus. THAT MISERABLE PHOTO-PLAY OFFICE OF THE GAZETTE, Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. April 1, 1915 Dear Sir:— Your letter of March 30, received and its contents carefully noted. After having several of my representatives (Colored and white) view the photoplay to be put on again at the Standard theater, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday—according to local daily paper announcement—I am prepared to say to you positively that you have been incorrectly informed—when told that the miserable "film in question contained none of the disgusting and inflammatory details described in the copy of "The Moving Picture World," which I showed you. Only a which I showed you. Only as mall part of "the disgusting and inflammatory details described" has been eliminated—but "ten feet of film" it was claimed by Chief Rowe who gave me this information over the 'phone early this week. There still remain, among many other "disgusting and inflammatory details", the scene showing the "Negro who hides behind a tree waiting to assault a little white girl wandering through the woods"; another, where the dead child, raped and killed by the Negro is brought to the house to its parents; still another scene is the man-hunt with blood-hounds; another, showing the flames indicating the lynching and burning at the stake; another, showing "a race war" in which a number of whites are killed by Negroes; ad nauseum. I am sure that you will agree that any officer, or other, who can view such scenes and then report "that in his opinion it is not subject to interference under existing law", is hardly a proper person to be assigned such duty—to say the least. Judge Pearson's refusal "to issue an injunction" to The Eclipse Amusement Co. managers of the Duchess theater, which claimed rights to run the miserable film FIRST, is not pertinent and has absolutely no bearing on the objections we raise to the presentation of such a play with so very many "disgusting and inflammatory details" and so very insulting a title. The miserable play is far more than an "offense against good taste and good citizenship" and 18 both "criminal and indecent" as well as having, as you well say, a "title sufficiently offensive" for you to order its banishment from the city. And this, I still feel you will do, as promised when we conferred relative to it, last Saturday morning. By way of illustration—If as vile a play were directed against the Jews or Irish, and given the title, "The Sheeny", or "The Mick", respectively, and put on at one of our local theaters, what would be your position in the matter? And if your administration can prohibit the production of the Jack Johnson-Jeffries fight-film, as it has for several years, surely it can bar from the city the one in question which is infinitely worse from every decent viewpoint. You certainly would not take your wife and children to view such a play; nor would you ad vise those of others to witness it. Then too, as now presented, it certainly stirs up the bitterest race hatred and the vilest passions in those who witness it. It is suggestively immoral, brutal, inflammatory, disgusting and dangerous because it is mob-inciting. Again I ask you to see it, yourself, and I am positive you will agree with me and heartily too. I have no hesitancy in assuring you that Governor Frank B. Willis will not hesitate to order that State Board of Censors to recall their approval of the miserably insulting and mob-inciting play "The Nieger." Cleveland, O., April 5, 1915. Mr. Wallace D. Yaple, Chairman In a letter to Mr. S. P. Keeble, see retaliary of a local organization, your assistant secretary wrote, recently, acc knowledgeing the receipt of Mr. Keeble's letter regarding the indecent film, "The Birth of a Nation", saying all films, submitted to the Board, are passed on their merits, and that it is the policy of the Board not to pass any film that is "indecent, immoral or harmful". There is a play known by the grossly insulting title, "The Nigger", that is not only "indecent, immoral and harmful" but positively disgustingly brutal, dangerous, inflammatory because mob-fictitious, which is being exhibited in Cleveland and elsewhere in Ohio and which claims to have been passed on and approved by your Board. Surely, there must be some mistake. I cannot see how any sane, clean-minded person could see the film of the miserable photo-play, in question, either in the original film, or as NOW presented, and pass on it favorably. I am enclosing a copy of a letter sent to our Mayor which I ask the members of the State Board of Censors to read carefully. Cleveland, O., April 1, 1915. Gov. Frank B. Willis, Canitol, Columbus, Ohio. Dear Friend Willis:— Your letter of March 29, received and I am glad to know that you un qualifiedly endorse my positive state ment that you had not approved and could not approve that vicious, disgusting, insulting and mob-inciting photo-play, "The Nigger." I am enclosing a copy of a letter to our Mayor which I ask you to read carefully, noting carefully also, the last paragraph of the same. Please see that the Board of (State) Censors recalls its approval of the miserable, mob-inciting photo-play, at once, and wire me of your action so I can stop its reproduction here, next week, and elsewhere in the state. Never in the history of the grand old state of Ohio have we had such a miserable thing to contend with, and your administration, I know, will not tolerate it. If this thing is permitted to go on, then we will soon have in Ohio, "The Birth of a Nation", a photo-play based on Tom Dixon's disreputable book, "The Clansman", equally as bad and mob-inciting as "The Nigger". Both plays are so dangerous that even the South drove them out. Can Ohio do less? Not while you are Governor. Of this I am positive. ANOTHER FIGHT OVER PHOTO-PLAY Founded On Tom Dixon's Infamous Book, "The Clansman" "THE BIRTH OF A NATION" Dr. Frederic C. Howe and Other Leading Men and Women Protest This Miserable Photo-Play to the Mayor of Greater New York City. New York City.—Members of the Brooklyn Citizen Garrison Village New York Eye service-president All protested grounds that I and defamator portraying in the types of the wtesque and orrace; the same out, could any race. CoDr. Wise said nessing in Effects of the br justice, this fil Harry C. Smith. The following letter was sent to the secretaries of the Ministers' Alliance and the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P., and the president of the Cleveland Association of Colored Men:—Cleveland, O., April 3, 1915. Dear Sir and Brother: The enclosures (copies of letters to the Mayor and Governor) are self-explanatory. Won't you see that a strong and REPRESENTATIVE committee from your organization calls on the Mayor again before Wednesday and DEMAND that he bar the viciously insulting and mob-inciting photo-play, "The Nigger," from the city? I shall see him again on Monday and your organization should back up the demand. Remember "The Nigger" is but the opening wedge for "The Birth of a Nation" and other vitally harmful (to the race) photo-plays that are headed this way, and we must stop this one or all will be "showered upon us" to the great injury of racial progress in every Ohio community. Surely I need not say more to you and your organization as to the necessity of prompt and vigorous action in this matter. If your organization committee will call at this office on leaving the Mayor, Tuesday or Wednesday, I hope to have some encouraging information for them. Sincerely Yours for the race. Harry C. Smith. Congressman-elect Emerson's Letter April 3, 1915. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, City. My dear Mr. Smith:—I am heartily in sympathy with your position on that miserable issue, because I am opposed to any pictures or plays in any way, tend to provoke race prejudice. As a member of Congress I shall be in favor of any legislation that will as much as possible destroy race prejudice. Wishing you every success, I am Yours very truly. H. I. Emerson. BARRED OUT OF OHIO. (Telegram) Columbus, O., Apr. 8, 1915. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor GAZETTE, Cleveland: Film censors revoked certificate for objectionable film and telegrams sent out Tuesday; have written. WILLIS. A GREAT VICTORY Ohio has a governor, at last! As we were going to press, Thursday morning, the telegram from Gov. Willis, we had been looking for and knew would come, arrived. It will be found elsewhere in this paper. We have only time to say, thank you! Governor—for all of my people of Ohio, and the entire country. All are profoundly grateful, I assure you. We won't forget it either. Good treatment begets good treatment; we know a MAN when we meet him, and Afro-Americans are never ungrateful. Those members of the race who could not see anything harmful in that miserable photo-play which was shown at the Standard theater, last week Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and the same days, this week, until closed, Wednesday afternoon, on orders from Columbus, ought to be given tin medals and a pair of ten cent spectacles. CATHOLIC VS. PROTESTANT CATHOLIC VS. PROTESTANT And "Billy" Sunday, as Editor W. P. Dabney of "The Union" Sees Them. "The Good Shepherd," a quarterly journal published in Cincinnati, by the St. Peter Claver (Catholic) Society, under the auspices of St. Ann Church, Rev. Edward Cleary, pastor, says: "AND THERE SHALL BE ONE FOLD AND ONE SHEPHERD." DROP THAT PREJUDICE AND BE OF HELP IN GOD'S WORK. JOIN THE ST. PETER CLAVER SOCIETY, AND ASK YOUR FRIENDS ALSO. Do we hear our white Protestant publications calling upon each other to drop their prejudices? One of the leading members of the N.A. A.C. wrote a letter to "Billy" Sunday, asking him to say something against race prejudice, segregation, etc. Alas, this wonderful proselytizing Protestant did not answer the letter. The Washington (D. C.) Bee says: BILLY SUNDAY WHO CAME TO WASHINGTON TO SAVE SINNERS AND TO CONVERT CHRISTIANS, FAILED TO SAY ANYTHING AGAINST LYNCHING AND RACE DISCRIMINATION. GOD DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE, WHY DOES BILLY SUNDAY? The Catholic churches in this city are open to our people, welcome them, and the colored mission of St. Ann has far more whites in attendance at mass than our people.—Cincinnati (O.) Union. OVER PHOTO-PLAY Founded On Tom Dixon's Infamous Book,"The Clansman" "THE BIRTH OF A NATION" Dr. Frederic C. Howe and Other Leading Men and Women Protest This Miserable Photo-Play to the Mayor of Greater New York City. New York City.-Members of the national board of censorship are divided over the presentation of the picture film "Birth of a Nation," the "tite" version of Dickson's infamous novel, "The Clansman," and Frederick C. Howe, the former Cleveland, and U. S. commissioner of immigration, who is chairman of the national board, has forbidden the use of his name on the official formula, "Approved by the national board of censorship, Frederick C. Howe, chairman," in connection with the picture, Good for Mr. Wheat," the customary procedure of the board in passing upon films is for from five to ten of the 100 odd members to view a pic DR. FREDERIC C. HOWE ture, and if they recommend it members of the general committee, of which there are twenty-four, pass upon it. However, a large majority felt the same as Mr. Howe did. Among those who are understood to have objected to the picture are Dr. J. P. Warbasse of Brooklyn; Mrs. Joseph M. Price, wife of the head of the committee; Mr. J. K. Pauling, and Dr. Lewis head of the prison association. On Mar. 23, Mr. Howe said: "My objection was personal. It was because the story is bound to arouse race hatred, which I think unjustified, and have a bad effect. It is likely to lead to race troubles. I object to the scene of a brutal Negro chasing a white girl. That is not a sufficiently frequent occurrence to justify the author's claim. It is not a reasonable production. If the picture goes into the south I should think it would bring about race riots. Men might be killed as a result of it. It would have a JOHN H. BURTON PROFESSOR J. E. SPINGARE. bad effect on white people as well as upon black people. It is going to postpone the approach to a solution of the racial problem much longer. I don't exactly approve of a censorship in a strict sense of the word. My theory of the board is an organization to fight where necessary to uphold public opinion." At a hearing arranged for by the N. A. A. C. P. in the Council Chamber of the City Hall at noon, last week Tuesday, the Mayor in the presence of a delegation of over 200 people, listened to a series of brief addresses by some of the most distinguished college white citizens. In Greater New York who urged upon him the importance of suppressing the photoplay "The Birth of a Nation," which was being given at the Liberty Theatre. The speakers who were introduced by Prof. Joel E. Springarn, OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD chairman of the N. A. A. C. P. board of directors, represented also the colored and white ministry of Greater New York, the Citizens club of Brooklyn, the Committee of One Hundred of Hudson County, N. Y., the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, the United Civic league, the Columbus Hill Civic league, and the Northeastern Federation of Women's clubs. The speakers included: Dr. Frederick C. Howe, Dr. William H. Brooks, pastor of St. Mark's M. E. church; Miss Lillian D. Wald, head of the Henry Street settlement; Dr. Wirabbel of the St. Mark's rabbel of The Free synagogue; Fred R. Moore, editor of the N. Y. Age; George E. Wibecan, president of Brooklyn Citizens' club; and Oswald Garrison Villard, president of the New York Evening Post company, and vice-president of the N. A. A. C. P. All protested against the film on the grounds that it was not only vicious and defamatory but unjust and untrue, portraying in contrast to the highest types of the white race only the grotesque and criminal in the colored world. In the book he had outed out, could be used to caricature any race. Coming just at this time, Dr. Wise said, when we were witnessing in Europe the frightful effects of the breeding of hate and prejudice, this film is peculiarly danger DR. W. E. B. DU BOIS ous in the inflammatory appeal it makes. Other speakers went on to show that it was not an insult to Colored people only but to our entire city where representatives of many races lived in peace and harmony, and that if the play continued in its present form it might lead to a breach of the peace. Dr. Spingarn said that its prototype, "The Clansman," several years ago, was a play that was a peace in Philadelphia where it was stopped by executive order of the Mayor who was sustained in his action by Judge Sulzberger of the Court of Common pleas. It was also stopped in Boston. The Mayor was urged to realize that his decision would be of the greatest significance not only to the relation of the races in this city but in the entire country. The Mayor was urged to give the film a chance to have seen the film and be angry at all that had been said about it. He felt that it might perhaps incite to breaches of the peace and had already so advised the management of the theatre and the owners of the film; the latter had consented to cut out the two scenes which had been particularly objected to and the play would be produced in that form for the first time that night. This, the Mayor was careful to say, had been done by the authorities to exercise any power he might be given by statute. The breadth and force of such powers were in doubt, he said, but if it was found necessary to take the matter up again he would take such steps as were authorized by law. DOINGS OF THE RACE John Widgeon is the only Afro-American member of the Maryland Academy of Science. He was elected for life. In Miami, Fla., recently, the organization of white chauffeurs would not permit a wealthy white visitor to have an Afro-American chauffeur. "The Birth of a Nation," a near-autobiographical, a minkeface for "The Clanman," has defied the law by a continuation of its performance in N.Y. City. "The Clanman" was driven from the American stage because it was "rotten," and now we are confronted with its worst features on canvass. A Negro has been admitted to membership in one of the most famous regiments of England. An eleven year old girl of the race in St. Louis has inherited $75,000. She is determined to get an education. An anti-race prejudice bill, introduced in the Illinois Legislature, by Major Jackson of Chicago, is likely to pass. A Negro won the big military race in London, recently. Over five hundred soldiers committed. Mrs. Winifred Johnson, an inmate of the Harriett Tubman Home for our aged women, Auburn, N. Y., died, recently, age 113. "The other race papers come and go while the old reliable" Gazette remains with you. There is no race publication in the paper. You can read it at all favorably with it, in circulation or otherwise. You can easily satisfy yourself as to this, if you are interested. Subscribe for and advertise in the Gazette if you want the BEST. OBITUARY. GREENVILLE, PA—A, F. Hall, age 74, one of Greenville's oldest and most highly respected citizens, passed peacefully away at his residence here, No. 65 West Main St., Saturday, Feb. 6, 1915; at 2:30 p. m. The deceased moved to Greenville in 1841, and spent the greater part of his life in his native state, principally at Warren and Niles. Mr. Hall was a man of the highest repute, and when colored troops were accepted in the U. S. service in the war of the rebellion, he was among the most active in the defense of the country. He enlisted in Co. F, 5th Regt., U. S. C. T. In one of the battles in front of Richmond in 1864, he received a gunshot wound in the leg, from the effects of which he never fully recovered. For bravery on the field of battle he was appointed a sergeant. At the close of the war he was mustered out. He returned to his native state and followed his wife to Greenville and accumulated considerable property. Some thirty years ago he came to Greenville and opened tonsorial parlors, being an artist in his line. It was not long until he had the best business in town. Every man went to "Charley's" shop for a shave or hair cut. He retired from business for a time, some years ago, on account of his but, but re-engaged in it a few months. He was a member of John C. Dickey Post, G. A. R., serving as senior vice-commander a few years ago. He was a member of the Masonic Fraternity, and of the First M. E. Church. He leaves as near relatives, his wife, Lena H. Hall, and two daughters, Hazel and Estella, to mourn the loss of a kind and loving husband and father. Mr. Hall was the only brother of Mrs. Julia A. Smith of Akron, Ohio. The funeral was held on Wednesday, the 16th of July, Rev. L. L. Swisher, of the First M. E. 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Beaumont's Society or orchestra of ten pieces, instrumentalists and vocalists, contributed largely to ward making it the conspicuous success of the season. Calhoun and O. J. Beeler, the committee in charge, have every reason to feel proud of it. Rev. R. A. Jones, pastor of Mt Haven Baptist church, delivered an excellent address at St. John's recent celebration of the sixth anniversary of its entrance into the present church building. Mr. Archie Allen preached his first trial sermon, recently, and was the recipient of consideration from the Dorsac Bible Chapel Thompson of Hough Ave. delightfully attained the Dorsac S. C. class, and Mrs. G. W. Turpin of 3620 Central Ave. was hostess to the Deborah class, recently. Both were exceptionally pleasing social functions. The DuBois Literary club will receive application from students, who wish to take a college course and desire assistance. This is the object of the club and it wishes to have some worthy girl or boy in view and ready for the September term of school. Only applicants desirous of completing a course need apply. The club's work, this year, was retarded because it did not know until too late that its former student was used to going to school. Applications should be sent to the president of the organization, Mrs. Blanche Glilmere, 2281 E 74th St. Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford, of Washington, D. C., former resident of this city, will speak for the club, in April. St. John's W. M. M. S. held an interesting meeting at Mrs. Launchch's, 3207 Central Ave., last Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Ella White is president of the society and Mrs. Gussie Dean, secretary. The "Class of Ruth" gave a very pleasant indoor picnic at Miss Moss Lee's, 3201 E. 70th St., last Thursday evening. Easter was celebrated in a most fitting manner. In the morning the pastor preached an excellent sermon. In the afternoon the S. S. rendered one of the most elaborate programs ever given in the church. In the evening, the choir rendered Galbraith's cantata, "Allelna, Hail with Gladness" in a most creditable manner. The soloists, who acquitted themselves most creditably, were Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thompson. Mrs. Norman Talbott and Mrs. Lillian R. Burdell. *O. C. SCHROEDER'S, Cuyahoga Bldg. F. VALENTINE'S 2130 Central Ave. J. E. BRANHAM'S 4401 Central Ave. PUSHAW The Arcade. Superior Entrance. *OPEN SUNDAYS.* Our Classified Ad Department 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. 2 Blackstone building. No. 1424 W. Third Street, near Superior Ave. 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. FOR SALE—House and lot, close to Kinsman car line, 3 cent fare, water, gas, sewer, sidewalk, etc. Also fine building lots. Call or address J. M. Kinner, 3521 E. 143rd St. 'Phone, Broadway, 1298 R. Cleveland Sixth City The Tea and Coffee club of the Old Folk's home met, last week Friday, and reported $25 in its treasury. Mr. Robert Jones, 2635 Central Ave., and Miss Delia Carter, 2355 E. 28th St., were married, Monday. Major W. T. Anderson was here from Wilberforce, Sunday, the guest of George A. Myers. Miss Harriet Walker, E. 39th St. returned, Monday, from Detroit, having spent a delightful Easter season with old friends. Mr. William Hawkins and Mrs. Mamie Willis were happily married, Wednesday evening, at Mrs. Gants', 2171 E. 43rd St., by Rev. H. C. Bailley. Only a few intimate friends were in attendance. Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do pot 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 those who ask for your trade in this paner. Miss Cora Johnson Jackson spent Sunday with her mother in Akron. Last week she resigned the matronship of the Phillis Wheatley home to accept a more lucrative position in a local store. Will the lady who recently looked at some rooms for rent in E 82d St., please return, as soon as possible, one of the keys (she carried away by mistake) to Mrs. J. M. Nayfor, 2419 E. 82d St. We are showing a big line of Easter baskets, sweaters and candy. Also ladies' and children's Spring hats and trimmings. Sterling 5 and 10 cent store, cor. Central Av., and E 30th St.-Adv. Miss Mary G. Evans, the evangelist, arrived, Tuesday, and lectured, Wednesday evening, at St. John's church, on her trip to the Holy Land. She went to her 300 rent converses, Tuesday evening. Miss Hazel Mountain was her guest in Detroit, last week. The Elyria Progressive club, 2556 E. 22d St, filled a long-felt suit. It is neat, well conducted and is succeeding, we are glad to say, Shreve & Travis are in charge and their hosts of friends are rapidly joining the club. It is conducted on a high plane and only desirable persons are accepted as members. The Ivy Leaf Dancing class' Easter ball, Monday evening, at Dreamland Palace was a grand success. The palace is a most beautiful place, one of the finest dance halls in the country, and Parker's orchestra of ten pieces furnished delightful music. G. W. Turpin says that if will be a long time before another affair, as fine, will be given in Cleveland. In the hour of trouble and distress call Slaughter Bros. funeral directors. They are members of the race and are equipped to give you the best funeral service in the city and at moderate prices. For $75 they can give a complete first-class funeral which includes a beautiful cloth-covered casket with name-plate and six silver handles, embalming, burial-robe, door-wreath, outside-box, hearse, three carriages and all professional service. Their establishment is located at 400 West 40th Avenue and their casket-display rooms are open to the public every day. Bell 'phone, Rosedale, 2770. See advertisement elsewhere in this paper. -Adv. Gazette AVER'S, Central Ave. DON, Central Ave. RTMAN'S, Central Ave. F. BOYD'S, Central Ave. UCAS, Central Ave. STORE, 05th St. Arthur Ave. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods who spent their honeymoon with Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Fairax of E. 70th St. have returned to Kansas City. Miss Etice Baldwin was on the program of the recent students' recital of the Cleveland School of Music. Her number was "Tocatina in G." by Steinfeldt, for piano, and she acquitted herself with credit. Edna Thompson and Wm. Craig of the East End, were quietly married, recently, it is reported. The pastor of Shiloh Baptist church has been conducting a very successful revival, since his return to the city. Mrs. Jane Randolph visited her daughter, Amanda, in Cincinnati, last week. The latter is pianist of the Lincoln theater, there. AS TO OUR C At the State Capita —Won't Content For Them COLUMBUS, O. Columbus complains discrimination in public rampant. Dement of the "Smear here, recently. The local daily paper, pored patrons could stair as well as in stairs the clipping, moving-picture she does not openly show people in the hall they seem to be gull well, there seems to be this, in assailing their comparison, t Mr. H. Wadkins of New York, was in the city, recently, "circulating" among old friends and acquaintances. The editor of The Gazette was royally entertained, last Friday evening, at a delicious dinner by Mr. and Mrs. Sam. Apple of Orange Ave. It was materially added to by the music furnished by two of their sons, Paul, and Clarence who is a promising young violinist, and a daughter, Miss Lena, pianist. One cannot hate his inferior. Always, where one hates, the object of his hatred is his superior. One can have contempt for his inferiors, or a sort of contemptuous pity, but hate applies only to those above. It looks up. So when you hear a man express hate for another you are sure to find that he is not the type who nizes his own inferiority and the others superiority. — Western Recorder. A life sentence was given George Kimbrough, convicted, last week, at Saginaw, Mich., for attacking Rosie Founnier, (white), eight, murdering her and burning body in furnace of factory. The Elks will have their annual Thanksgiving services at Mt. Zion church, Sunday at 3 p.m. Emmanuel commandery, K. T., accompanied by Queen Elizabeth chapter, O. E. S., held its Easter services there. Sunday morning, the pastor preaching a very intense lesson. The knights and the ladies presented an imposing scene, the decorations were beautiful and the special music by the choir, most creditable indeed. The chapter presented the commandery with a beautiful banner recently. The Ministry's Alliance, at its meeting, Tuesday morning, decided to wire Gov. F. B. Willis to have the State Board of Censors recall its approval of that miserable photo-play at the Standard theater, the first of this and last week; and appointed a committee to insist that it be banished from the city. The Alliance also appointed Rev. G. V. Clark, pastor of Mt. Zion Cong, church, a committee of one to call on the editor of The Gazette, Wednesday morning, and inform him of their hearty co-operation in the effort to play from the city and the state. At an executive committee meeting of the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P., similar action was taken, so President Moon informed the editor of The Gazette, Wednesday afternoon. Read carefully the letters in this paper, in order to two or three columns of page 2. Editor Trotter writes that it is certainly the duty of all colored Bostonians to boycott and abolish any attempted separate philanthropies at home, like the "Phyllis Wheatley home" here and the "jim-crow" Y. M. C. A's. Mix and mingle in all semi-public places is the only security. Get and keep up with the people to be inspired to the idea of seeing the colored face. Send the children in as missionaries. He says he is oft-times ashamed of his native State. "In Chicago," says "The Union," of that city, "colored people not only can not get a room or meal in a hotel, but are even forbidden the elevators and to ride on the freight elevator. Civil rights in some cases are gone." "But the most pitiful sight was in Bayton, O.," says W. J. Patterson "women who God spare the name (God spare the name) have begged for and of course received a modern house, used formerly for storage, in the yard of the big brick school house, and are herding and teaching the colored children in this house right in view of the white children. What these colored women imagine the white children will think of these black apes can not be treated with Breeding apes contempt for the sake of a little money. Disgrace! Disgrace! Break it up." MINISTERS' ALLIANCE PROTEST. Where-as, As large a percent of the Colored people of this city as of any other race variety entering into the composition of the population of the same, are good and useful citizens and have done as much in proportion to their opportunities to maintain the integrity and perpetuate the principles of good government; and if let alone will prove to be a still more efficient factor in this municipality, and Where-as, There is now being exhibited the film styled "The Nigger" with the purpose of its continuation in this great cultured and cosmopolitan city: not only felonious in its import and basely in its purpose, but will excite riotous emotions and engender race hatred; therefore, be it Resolved, That the Colored Ministerial Alliance do hereby enter its public protest to stir sentiment against such plays. H. M. Lowery, A. E. White, Chas. Bundy, H. C. Bailey, C. H. Young, Committee. DON'T THROW AWAY Your copy of The Gazette after reading it, but give it to a friend or an acquaintance who might subscribe after reading a copy of the paper. AS TO OUR CIVIL RIGHTS At the State Capital and in Cleveland —Won't Contend in the Courts For Them—Shame! COLUMBUS, Q.—Our people in Columbus complain a great deal about discrimination in public places. It is quite rampant. During the engagement of the "Smart Set Company" here, recently. The State Journal, a local daily paper, published that "colored patrons could obtain seats down stairs as well as in the balconies." I have the clipping. There is not a moving picture of the scene. We see people in the last seats. Although they seep to be getting along fairly well, there seems to be no hesitation in assaulting their civil rights. I have this comparison to make between Cleveland and Columbus: In Cleveland, although discrimination is clandestinely practiced, there is a conviction on the part of prejudiced whites that our people there will fight in the courts, thereby keeping prejudice and discrimination at a minimum. There has been but one civil rights' case tried in ten years, the prejudiced whites have no awakened public conscience on this question. I hope that our people in Cleveland will always fight and contend (in the courts) for the preservation of their civil rights. CHAS. S. SUTTON. BY THEIR FRUITS. In the production of "The Birth of a Nation" in this city a race is labelled. In the office of the Collector of Internal Revenue for the Second District of New York that race may be judged by its fruits. Charles W. Anderson goes out of office today after holding for ten years the treasury. Many millions of dollars have passed through his hands. His dealings have been practically all with white men of the keenest intellect and CHAS. W. ANDERSON of substantial business standing. Capacity and courtesy have been the qualities most remarked in his conduct of an office maintained always in the highest efficiency. In Collector's office, these complained and important new revenue measures, the income tax, the corporation tax and the war revenue tax, have made this office the most difficult, as it is the most important, ever held by a colored man under the Government. He has stood the test. No race is fairly judged by holding up as types for reproduction its most desirable features. Every race has the right to be judged by its patient, tolling, useful average, and by its best. —N. Y. Daily World editorial, April 1, 1915. WILLARD'S "AWFUL LACING." The Kansas cow puncher (Jess Willard) stood the punishment as if he were made of iron. We all grew accustomed to seeing Willard take his awful lacing and then come back begging for more.—Matt. Hinkel, Cleveland, writing the Cleveland Plain Dealer from Havana, Cuba; Tuesday. Jack Johnson pounded blood from Willard's mouth, nose and ears. Sees Ohioan Die, He Says. Saturday, O'Heen Law, 28, on trial here on first degree murder charge, forced Fred Valentine, 53, Cleveland teamster, to jump to death from a moving New York Central freight train at Bay Bridge, O., last Dec. 1, according to testimony given last Wednesday, by Arthur McReynolds, 19, who was brought from the penitentiary at Columbus, where he is serving a life sentence. McReynolds was convicted of Valentine's breast and told him better, "better drop off," at the same time, the witness declared, "pushing him none too gently." HOMES NEEDED FOR COLORED CHILDREN. In these wistful eyes and on these mouths, unfed with mother kisses, His precious image lies." The Ohio Board of State Charities is looking for good Christian homes in colored families for a number of bright colored boys. Among them are three little fellows who have been transferred by the Ohio Board of Administration. They are waiting for some one to give them a "square deal." They have had a hard and checkered experience—their father is brutal and their mother neglected. After the mother threatened to kill the mother, the judge of the Juvenile Court of the County sent them to the Boys' Industrial School at Lancaster. Quality Service EIGHTER BROS. LECTORS & EMBALMERS and Funeral Parlors 1923 Central Av., Calls Answered Day and Night the Masterpieces of Ncgro Eloquence FOR LESS THAN $2.50 A COPY—Edited by Mrs. N NUMBER HAS BEEN PLACED AT THE DIS- AN ADVERTISING PROPOSITION AND THE FOR $1.50, Postpaid. Eloquence has neither a predecessor nor a com- mand of women of the race, the leading newspapers qualified by recommenced it. 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This department has already been able to place a number of these bright and promising children with some of Ohio's best people. The department is making a special effort to know that the children are in proper physical condition before they are placed in a home by having them subjected to a thorough physical and psychological examination, then they are placed on trial. They are not bound or indented but must be provided with suitable social and religious advantages and trained to become useful citizens. If the placement is not satisfactory they may be returned to the Board at any time. A little homeless colored boy, who had been in trouble and who had no one who was very much interested in him, had been placed in an institution. The institution was well managed—the matron and caretakers were very strict and sympathetic and everything was done to make the life just as normal as circumstances would permit, but something was lacking. He said to one of the persons connected with the Children's Welfare department. "I wish you would get me a home pretty soon because it is sad here." That statement expressed something of the yearning of a lonely and homeless boy for a home interested in providing a home for one of these children is requested to communicate with the Ohio Board of State Charities, Children's Welfare Department, 1010 Hartman Blvd., Columbus, Ohio. A representative of will cap personally upon the family before the placement of a child. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Improved housing conditions and increase in individually owned homes have decreased the death rate among Negroes in the United States 3.9 for each one thousand population, in the last census decade, according to a bulletin on Negro mortality soon to be issued from the bureau of the census at Washington. In an area representing 19.7 percent of the total Negro population of the United States, from which comparative figures were available, the department found that in 1910 the death rate among Negroes was 25.5 to each one thousand population, while in 1900 the rate was 29.4. The decrease in death rate among the Negroes of the prescribed area was greater than the decrease in white deaths, although the death rate among whites is much lower than that of the Negroes, from 1900 to 1910. The mortality rate for all races is greater in southern cities than in northern, the report shows, but every city in the South except Memphis and Key West showed a decrease in deaths in the last decade, owing to improved housing conditions. It is discovered that the diseases which prove most fatal to Negroes over the country are malaria, all forms of tuberculosis, pneumonia and whooping cough. The other diseases and causes of death, including accident, homicide and suicide, are more evenly distributed among the whites. One of the chief causes of the decreased death rate among the Negroes in the South is believed to be an increase of 31.4 per cent in home owner ship. That increase, along with improved sanitary and housing conditions, is believed to have been in direct ratio with the abatement of dangerous epidemics. The idea of having their own church, with their own pastor, with a Negro presiding elder and a Negro bishop, appealed to the Negroes many years ago, and everywhere there were free Negroes the church rapidly spread—into New England, into Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and the West. A church was started in New Orleans in 1848. In fact, the church in that city was the first one started in the South. After the Civil war, however, this organization grew by leaps and bounds. Soon it took not one bishop, or two, but six, then ten, and now fifteen to supervise the work. Churches were organized in every state in the Union and these at once became centers of great uplifting influence for the newly emancipated people. The preachers became the recognized leaders, so regarded by both races, and much of the progress of the Negro is due to their intelligent and useless aid. But not only in America has the African Methodist Episcopal church been active, but in Africa, South America and the islands. As early as 1820 Daniel Coker, one of the members of the first meeting in 1816, went to Liberia, West Africa, and started a church. In 1824 a minister named John Gordon went to Jamaica, Cuba, British Guinea, South America, Sierra Leone and Gold Coast West Africa, Cape Colony and other parts of South Africa. So great has the foreign work grown that it is now looked after by resident bishops Bishop J. Albert Johnson is resident bishop of South Africa, and has his headquarters at Capetown. Bishop William H. Heard, a native of Georgia, is bishop of West Africa, and has his headquarters at Monrovia. Six hundred and ninety-one names have been added to the roster of the colored Y. M. C. A. as the result of a six-day membership campaign which came to a close last night, say the Washington Star. The organization has set out to obtain 500 members in six days, and at an enthusiastic meet last night received the reports of the various teams, which showed that this number had been exceeded by nearly two hundred. The total number of memberships provided for in reality will be in excess of seven hundred, as a number of Washington business men, headed by H. S. Omohundo, promised to contribute one membership for every ten over five hundred brought in by the campaign workers. John R. Hawkins, general chairman of the campaign committee, presided over the closing exercises, which were held in the gymnasium of the colored V. M. C. A. Twelfth and T streets northwest. The festivities opened with a banquet, after which the various membership teams made reports. Early reports indicated that the 500 membership goal would be reached. The families most closely tied by relationship in St. Louis are those of the Heuers and the Johnsons. Harry Heuer, who is soon to be married to Bertha Johnson, will be the fourth Heuer brother to marry one of the Johnson family. In addition, Minnie Heuer, a sister of the four brothers, is married to John F. Johnson, a brother to the four Johnson girls. The coal required for one journey between New York and Liverpool by a modern liner would fill 22 trains each made up of 30 taj-tons cars. The stores of Paris that are still doing business, even the big department stores, are reported now to be closed for an hour at noon, because there are not enough clerks left for one to relieve another at lunch time. Europe's war has caused trouble in Colombia. Exchange rose 10,800 per cent ($108 in paper to $1 in gold), and still shows a tendency to go up. All prices for goods are high. Switzerland is a heavy importer of American apples. Resenting the criticism against colored people made by Professor William Starr Myers of Princeton university, in a lecture at the Academy of Music on February 27, several leaders of that race met at Washington and formed a committee to conduct a campaign against defamators of their race there. The campaign will be carried on by ministers, lawyers, physicians and business men, as well as by all the associations of colored people in Brooklyn. The statement which aroused the indignation of the colored people was that in which Professor Myers said: "A Young Men's Christian association leader of the South said he estimated that 98 per cent of Negro men in some localities of the South are immoral, and that the percentage of the immorality of the Negro women was as great." He is also reported to have said that the "ballot and whisky are the two great curses of the race. The Negro race is not merely an inferior race; it is a backward race. Even the educated Negro is nothing but a grown-up child." As a consequence of this, the colored people are determined to disprove what Professor Myers said. The Citizens' club and the Carleton branch of the Y. M. C. A., as well as other organizations of colored people, will act together in this matter. The first move will be to hold a mass meeting at the Academy of Music, at which prominent colored people will speak. The people in charge will also try to obtain as speakers one or two white men of influence to uphold their side of the case. The program committee in charge of the arrangements for the meeting is headed by Rev. Dr. A. P. Coles. R. M. Merony, superintendent of the Carlton branch, Y. M. C. A., is secretary. Before going actively into direct opposition to Professor Myers, Secretary Merony was instructed to write to Professor Myers and have him confirm the statements he made, as reported in the newspapers the day after he lectured. Among those who were present at the meeting were Rev. W. M. Moss, G. F. Miller, W. H. Jones, W. A. Lee and George E. Wibecan, president of the Citizens' club. Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman of the Central Congregational church and Park Commissioner Raymond V. Ingersoll have already signified their intention to address the mass meeting for the colored people, if possible. White men and colored men alike are being fed daily at the dinners which the Ebenezer Baptist church in Chicago, one of the largest churches with a congregation of colored people in the city, is providing for those whom winter and war depression in business have thrown out of work. In fact, the whites outnumber the blacks by four to one at the hour of the free meal served five days a week by the women of the church, according to those in charge. The dinners, which are substantial and well cooked, cost the church about $20 a day to feed about 350 men. This is a service which the church tries to give for one month out of every year, says the pastor, Rev John F. Thomas. Last year 3,752 white men and 1,002 colored men, in all, were fed. One of the white churches of the city which carries on a similar work bars colored men from its charity; but Rev Mr. Thomas' committee of women welcome anyone who is penniless and hungry, regardless of color, creed or race. The erection of a monument to the memory of Lucius Harkum, colored, who for 52 years was a nurse at Freedmen's hospital, was proposed by Rev. Simon P. W. Drew at funeral services at the Cosmopolitan (colored) Baptist church, Washington. Interment was at Harmony cemetery. In his sermon Doctor Drew said it was proposed to have a nation-wide campaign, and when funds have been obtained to erect a monument in front of the hospital. Tribute was paid to the nurse by Doctor Drew, who characterized him as one of the four great characters of the Civil war. Others who spoke were Dr. D. E. Wiseman, Dr. T. A. Johnson, Rev. P. P. Samuel, Rev. J. N. Beamman, Rev. Charles H. Parker, Rev. A. Barton and Rev. John Davis. The custom has been started in some western cities of printing the maiden name of a woman after that of her husband in the directory. A few are geniuses. Others inherit their bad manners and their disagreeable dispositions. The Sarino (Ontario) Canadian says that "Thomas Collins of the first concession of Biddulph township, who is ninety-nine and one-half years old, has just commenced taking music lessons." Much of the best wallpaper is made in part from leather waste. A century ago only 300 species of orchids were known, and these very imperfect. Now the latest authority gives the number of known species as 10,000. Australia has been making steady increases in her purchases of goods from the United States in the five-year period following 1909. The total in 1912 was more than $2,000,000. Africa is in third place in the amount of cotton goods consumed. In some sections of Africa 50 per cent of the unbleached cotton trade is with the United States and only 10 per cent with England. But many a vain woman has tried in vain to get a husband. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1915 ACCESSORIES GIVEN PROMI NENCE IN PARISIAN DESIGNS. Wide Skirt in General Favor Though Method of Arrangement is Varied—Distinctive Rules That Govern the Sleeve. With the empire revival comes also the small sleeve and the round decolletage. Some of the French designers have submitted evening frocks that are high in front and extremely low in the back, but this is not an attractive line. Fashion may recommend it, but few women will adopt it. Along with pockets, belts have also appeared on skirts, much after the manner that Cheruit employed some months ago. Two or three of them, tiny little apologies for belts, are placed across the middle of the front or back, holding flat the fullness. While all the designers pay tribute to the wide skirt, not all of them are in favor of fullness over the hips. For slim, young things there are skirts that are frankly gathered around the waist line and adorned with two large patch pockets on each side, but the majority of skirts are firmly held in until the fullness reaches nearly to the knees, where it is allowed to fare its utmost. Plats are universal. They are usually stitched down to the foundation or held down by straps of material finished with small buckles in front. There are plats in groups at regular intervals touching each other, starting at the waist or at the edge of a hip yoke. As all the new materials are flexible, there is no ungraceful effect, no appearance of massed material, which is so ugly on any figure. There does not seem to be any law governing sleeves, judging from the variety put out this spring, but beneath the seeming license there is real order. The sleeve must show the arm, or rather reveal its shape. The style chosen to express this is left to the dressmaker. Some of the best frocks show long wrinkled sleeves of the fabric, others have transparent sleeves of batiste, of chiffon, of organdie. The kimono and the elongated armhole do not appear, except in isolated cases, but it may be safely said that they are reserved for GORGEOUS TEA GOWN Mary Pickford The Model is of Silver Spangled Chiffon over an underskirt of pale blue silk. A large shawl of oriental silk forms a wide panel over the back and part of the front. Loose chiffon sleeves with lace ruffles. KEEPING HAIR IN CONDITION Any Number of Shampoos That May Be Employed With the Best of Results. Many girls use an egg shampoo as a cure for dandruff. To make it use the yolk of one egg, one pint of hot rainwater, one ounce of rosemary. Beat the mixture and use it warm, rubbing it well into the scalp and over the hair. Rinse the hair well, and sit in the sun until it is free from moisture. To keep the hair light try this method: Shave two ounces of white castle soap in one quart of water. Place over a slow fire and stir until the soap is dissolved; then add a teapuff of common baking soda. After the preparation cools, rub it thoroughly into the scalp and hair. Rinse the hair, then apply more soap to hair and scalp and again rinse the KEEP TEETH IN CONDITION Not Only Personal Appearance, But Health, Is Affected by Neglect of Their Care. Next to a bad complexion, there is nothing quite so ruinous to beauty as poor teeth. So often you see a girl who is wonderfully pretty until she smiles, and then her whole face is ruined by a set of dark, discolored, uneven teeth. Leaving beauty out of the question, however, there is a more serious side to this subject. The readers are urged to care for their teeth as they would for precious pearls, not only for the sake of personal appearance, but for the sake of health itself. Physicians will all tell you that the stomach is at the bottom of most physical disorders. A weak stomach is the root of all evil, but the cause of most weak stomachs is bad teeth. When the teeth are decayed and sensitive it is almost impossible to chew any food properly. Consequently the stomach becomes very quickly disorganized. topcoats. In these the raglan shoulder dominates, although in the short outer jackets in brilliant colors, which are the prevailing fashion for country wear, the armhole is nearly normal. There are three princess frocks among the new clothes from Paris, and, as they are sponsored by good houses, one cannot help speculating upon the return of the Victorian fashion. They look quite attractive in their new form, especially one in mauve satin over a slip of white satin and lace. There is another in snuff brown tafeta that has a corkscrew effect worked out by strips of the fabric, cut on the blas, and joined together over a princess lining. The skirt of this frock 1 Satin and Tulle Combined—Premet Model of Cream-Coldened Satin With Tunic of Black Tulle and Lace. is the widest one of the season, excep that intended for dancing. It is high in the neck, except for a slight V in front, beneath which is a knotted cravat of white lace. (Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newspa- per Syndicate.) hair very thoroughly. Water for first rinsing should be very warm Brush the hair and massage the scalp while the hair is drying and the hair will be glossy and soft. The tonic should be rubbed in the hair before it dries. It is made as follows: Listerine, $3\frac{1}{2}$ ounces; bisulphate of quinine, 12 drams; tincture of can- tharides, one-fourth ounce. For discouraged brunettes who have been troubled with falling hair the following remedy is very good. It also restores the color of the hair: Green tea, 4 ounces; garden sage, 4 ounces. Put in an iron pot which can be closely covered and pour over the tea. Pour the tea into a simmer till reduced one-third; take off the fire and leave in the pot 24 hours; strain and bottle. FOR HOPE-CHEST DRAPERY Letters and Monogram Designs of the Present Are Beautiful as Well as Varied. The engaged girl need be at no loss for new designs in letters and monograms for the hope-chest drapery, if she stops to consider the varieties of alphabets that are being shown among the newest embroidery patterns. Even the obvious letter O may take on enough novelty to make it unrecognizable. Perhaps the newest and most novel addition to the hosts of artistic alphabets are the Japanese letters. They are most effective when done in the familiar Japanese blue on white. While the Japanese lettering is original and attractive, it is not sufficiently dignified for the more formal pieces of linen, and should be reserved for towels, luncheon cloths, pajamas, etc. For the large dinner cloths and napkins the old English lettering is always good, and may be varied by working the letter in a heavy outline stitch and filling in the solid parts with seed stitch. Cutwork letters are new and most effective for table and bed linens. Even the simple block letters are to be preferred to the ornate, much-bescroiled script letters that once were the only alternative to the stately old English alphabet. Three of these straight block letters combined in an oval or diamond of cut work or solid work make a very suitable monogram for either table or bed linen. And don't forget the cross-stitch lettering. Ribbon Bows Bows of ribbon are effectively used on some of the new wide-skirled frocks of satin and silk. One that is pretty has little square bows of satin reaching from the throat to hem. You should brush your teeth after every meal and then use dental floss to go into the crevices. Once a day is sufficient for the paste, although it can be used morning and night without harm. In brushing the teeth you should first use the brush lengthways in the ordinary way with the teeth closed, scrubbing well up and down into the gums. Then open the jaws and scrub across the flatness of the molars, taking pains to go into every corner. From there pass on into the inside of the teeth, brushing thoroughly in the inner part of the upper and lower front teeth. When they have been cleaned this way hold the brush upright in your hand and with the jaws open brush up and down the grain of the teeth. In the morning the tongue and gums should be given an extra cleansing with a special paste. After each meal, when the teeth have been brushed, run a piece of dental floss between each two teeth. If you are in an office have an extra toothbrush and a spool of dental floss down there to be used after lunch each day. RELISHES FOR SPRING RELISHES FOR SPRING TEMPTING MENU NEEDED AT THIS SEASON. Condiments Liked in the Winter Have Lost Their Savor and Others Must Be Provided to Take Their Places. Springtime appetites should be as fresh and unspoiled as is the spring itself. But too often the spring appet ite is dulled and it is only by dint of constant care the housekeeper or cook is able to provide a tempting diet on the spring table. Winter fare palls at this season. And the usual winter condiments and appetizers fail to work successfully. Mustard pickles, chowchow, cole slaw, olives—all have lost their winter trick of whetting the appetite. Celery has literally lost most of its crispness and sweetness by spring. New appetizers and relishes must be relied on to give point to the daily diet. Cucumbers are one reliable spring relish. There is, of course, much objection to cucumbers on the ground of indigestibility. They are usually indigestible—that nobody can deny. But some people do not find them so, and eat them without fear. So if they are not taboo on your table, make use of them. It is a good plan to slice them thinly and place them in leed water in the refrigerator for an hour before using them. Then dress them with oil and vinegar and serve them with fish. Or dice them and mix them with diced green pepper and celery, with mayonnaise, in cups of lettuce leaves as a salad. Tomatoes, too, can be made to serve admirably the purpose of whetting the appetite. A very good appetizer with which to begin dinner is a round of firm tomato, half an inch thick, on which is placed pepper, celery or cucumber, mixed with mayonnaise dressing. Sliced tomatoes, iced in the refrigerator, are another good dinner accompaniment. They may be served with fish or with the meat course. And of course all sorts of tomato salads are delicious in spring. And a good sherbet for dinner can be made of equal parts of strained tomato juice and meat stock, to which a little softened gelatin has been added, frozen in an ice cream freezer to sherbet consistency. Radishes should always be served very cold. Clean them and chill them thoroughly in iced water and then cut in attractive shapes. Make roses, sometimes, by cutting back the red skin in points. Again, slash the radishes from the pointed end down three or four times. Slice radishes and serve with other vegetables on lettuce leaves for salad. Sweet green peppers are as useful in warm weather as in cold. Chop them and mix with an equal amount of celery, chopped fine, and moisten with mayonnaise. Serve a spoonful on a lettuce leaf for salad, or serve a spoonful on a slice of thin, crisp toast in the form of a canape for an appetizing beginning to dinner. Stuff a pepper, one end of which has been removed, with cream cheese and chopped nuts and slice to serve with salad. Calf's Heart. Merely wash off the blood. One could by soaking extract all the flavor from the heart. Stuff it with veal forcement stuffing or a common stuffing. Tie a buttered paper over the mouth of the heart to keep the stuffing in place. Put it into a small baking pan with a little hot water, pepper and salt. Bake nearly two hours, basting it very frequently. When done thicken the gravy with flour, strain, skin and season it and pour it on the dish around heart. Garnish the plate with onions, first boiled until nearly done, then seasoned with pepper, salt and a little butter and browned in oven. Peach Moonshine. Take preserved peaches and cut into tiny pieces till you have enough to fill a teacup. Beat the whites of five eggs to a very stiff froth, then add gradually six tablespoonfuls of confectioner's sugar, beating it hard for 20 minutes; then beat in the peaches and set it on ice till thoroughly chilled. Put rice, sweetened cream in the glass and liberal portion of the moonshine. Pineapple or other fruit can be served in the same way. Pressed Beans and Sausage Let one pint pea beans soak over night, wash, drain and cook until very tender, but not broken. in boiling water. Put the beans in baking dish with sausage here and there, using about one-half pound sausage. Dissolve one teaspoonful salt in one pint boiling water and pour over the beans, adding more, if needed. Bake five or six hours and serve hot with catchup or any other table sauce. Orris Root for Laundering When washing handkerchiefs, break up a quarter of an ounce of orris root and tie it in a piece of muslin, boiling it in with the handkerchiefs for a quarter of an hour. When dry, iron them carefully, and they retain a delicate violet odor that is very refreshing. Use about three pints of water for this quantity of orris root. Chocolate Fudge One cupful brown sugar, one cupful white sugar, one-half cupful milk, two squares of chocolate, boil five minutes, not too hard, but keep boiling all over. Just before removing from the fire add a small piece of butter about one-half size of egg. Remove and beat, add a few drops of vanilla, turn into a greased pan before it gets too hard. Old-Fashioned Rice. One quart milk, one half cupful raw rice, pinch salt, large two-thirds cupful of sugar, one cupful raisins. Put in double boiler and dust with nutmeg or cinnamon on top. Cook two hours until pudding is creamy. Stir occasionally. Put in oven and bake one hour without stirring, cooking three hours in all. Serve with milk or cream. LIFE'S LITTLE JESSTS GUEST EXPECTED TOO MUCH Should Not Have Expected Bull Fight for $2. He Was Paying for First-Class Room. J. Wade McGrath, one of the prominent hotel men in New York, used to be behind the desks in several Ohio hotels before he became manager of the Hotel Hargrave. In one hotel near Cleveland one of his assistants showed an absolute displeasure for anything that looked like work. One night a guest called up and in an angry voice said: "There are a couple of mice fighting up here!" "What room have you?" inquired the assistant languidly. He was told and then he inquired: "What are you paying for it?" "Two dollars," was the reply. "Well, what do you expect for two dollars—a bull fight?" In Better Shape. A tourist once happened to meet the usual "oldest inhabitant" of a village. In the course of conversation he asked the ancient his age. "I be just one hundred." was the reply. "Well, I doubt if you'll see another hundred years," said the tourist, trying to make conversation. "I don't know so much about that, master," was the hopeful response. "I be stronger now than when I started on my first hundred." Advanced Ideas "I understood that you were strongly in favor of advanced ideas." "I am," replied Senator Sorghum. "Didn't you observe the interest I took in some of those appropriation bills?" "But how do you they apply to the advancement of learning?" "They don't. They apply to the advancement of money to my constituents." The Lights Above "Nothing that art can do rivals the works of nature," said the enthusiastic youth. "What could be more beautiful than the constellations?" "They are pretty," assented the unimaginative girl. "And yet, do you honestly think that a constellation gets to the popular intelligence like a good, snappy electric light sign?" NO HIT. Reggy—You remind me of a beautiful butterfly. Miss Sweet. Miss Sweet-You may not be aware that a butterfly is merely a post-graduate caterpillar. Church—You say he has killed his man? "In the movies." Caution. "You never complain of the food any more," said the young married woman. "I'm afraid of showing my ignorance," replied her husband. "Whenever I taste something that seems particularly queer I take it for granted that it is some new kind of a salad." Easier Employment "I understand," said the letter carrier, "that some of those ancients did all their writing on rocks and bricks." "Yes," replied the professor." "Well, these times have their disad vantages. But I'd rather be a letter carrier now than then." Or Pretends To Mrs. Exe—Is your husband still troubled with insomnia? Mrs. Wye—Not so much. Whenever I hear him tossing around nights I tell him I think I hear—a burglar down stairs and he immediately dozes off Another Job In Sight "Another good job is going to be made in the office for somebody." "How do you know?" "The boss' daughter is going to be married, and he'll have a son-in-law to place." Gypsies Study the Law. Burglar Bill—These gypsies don't know anything. One of them told Gory Gus that he'd die on the gallows. Dynamite Dan—Well, didn't he? Burglar Bill—Naw; he died of old are who waitin' for a new trial EXCLUSIVENESS AT NEWPORT Bottle of Burgundy Was Served Lying on Its Side in Basket Because It Was So Young. William Dean Howells, the novelist, said at a dinner, apropos of a declaration that Newport was no longer sufficiently exclusive for the American aristocrat: "After all, the American aristocrat is very young, isn't he? Only a generation or so ago he was peddling clocks or hoeing corn, eh? The American aristocrat makes me smile. "He reminds me, rather of the bottle of burgundy at the half dollar table d'hote. "Two men, you know, were dining at this table d'hote and, to round out their dinner, they ordered a bottle of burgundy. It came, like all wines that throw off a sediment, lying on its side in a wicker basket, or cradle. "The first man said, as the waiter carefully filled their glasses: "Why is this served in a cradle, do you know?" "The second man took a sip of the burgundy, shuddered slightly and answered: "Because it is so young." LOOKING AHEAD. She—Yes, this is the first time I have been in love, but— She—It's so nice that I hope it won't be the last Explained. "I don't understand this picture, Mr. Dauber," said Mr. Hibrow. "There is nothing to it but a man wearing a blue suit and a cap, and you have named the picture 'Friendless.' Who is this man, and why is the picture named 'Friendless?'" "That," replied the artist, "represents an ampure after the home team has lost a close game." Heartless Hoax. "My wife gave a reception yesterday. "Did you attend?" "Yes. I played a practical joke on her. I got in line where she was receiving and before she knew it she was smiling and saying she was glad to see me—for the first time in three years." His Counter-Thrust The Other Side's Counsel, fiercely —I suppose you were brought up to tell the truth? The Goaded Witness—No, I wasn't. The Lawyer—Not brought up to tell the truth? What do you mean by that? The Witness—My folks intended me for a lawyer. Right in His Line. Tramp—Please, mum, d'ye wanter buy anything in my line? Housekeeper—Your line, eh? You don't mean to say you are trying to earn a honest living at last? "Yes'm." "Well, I declare! What are you selling?" "Dog chains, mum." Money Spirited Away. "How did Jones come to lose his money?" asked the Old Fogy. "It was spirited away," replied the "It was spirited away," replied the Grouch. "What do you mean?" asked the Old Fogy. "He spent it on booze," replied the Grouch. Homes and Clubs "Men should not go to clubs and spend their time in political discussions," said the energetic woman. "Is that what men go to clubs for?" exclaimed the observant girl. "I thought-it was to be able to avoid hearing discussion of the latest political topics at home." Before and After "Jack," said the young wife after she had just danced with her husband, "you've certainly improved wonderfully in your dancing. Don't you remember how frightfully you used to tear my dresses?" "Yes," replied Jack, "I wasn't buying them then." Luck. Bill—I see a Cincinnati woman, who died not long ago, left a bequest of $440 to a man friend, to be expended by him in buying the best cigars he can procure. Jill—Be just that fellow's luck if he only smoked cigarettes, wouldn't it? And Time Is Money. Bacon—I see it costs the farmers of the United States $15,000,000 a year to fight insects. Egbert—That's a lot of money, but I know it's cost me a good many nights' sleep to do that same thing. Perfectly Tame "Wombat used to be a great outdoor man and all around sport. Is he reconciled to married life?" "I think so. I called on him recently and found him sifting ashes with an old tennis racket." "I don't understand a woman getting a divorce immediately after the honey-moon ended. Her husband spent all his money on the wedding trip."