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IN UNION IMAGEM EXHIBITA NATION'S SACRED HISTORY DISTORTED THE "BIRTH OF A NATION" AN IN- SULT TO THE NORTH, DE- CLARES OHIO'S ATTOR- NEY GENERAL. UPHOLDS CENSOR BOARD In Barring the Infamous Photoplay From the State and Says the Picture Glorifies Outlaws and Grossly Misrepresents the Reconstruction Period. Columbus, O. Jan. 17, 1916. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor Gazette. Cleveland, O. Dear Sir: Enclosed you will find a copy of Attorney General E. C. Turner's statement in a letter to the Ohio Board of Film Censors, which is self-explanatory. Yours very truly. Chas. G. Williams. Chairman, Ohio Board of Film Censors "After viewing the 'photo-play entitled 'The Birth of a Nation', I am firmly of the opinion that the board of censors did right in not permitting this picture to be shown in Ohio. And above the misreatment of the North to the influence of the North and a contemptible distortion, of well-known history regarding the Civil war. The proper title of this picture should be 'An Insult to a Nation'. In the face of the indisputable fact that the mutatto is the product of coloring women, typifying a congressional leader, preceding, during and after the Civil war, as a low, coarse, vindictive Negro-worshipping-adventive mutatto, a mutatto who wields an influence sufficient to justify the subtitle 'A Great Leader's Weakness that is to blight a Nation'. This immediately precedes Lincoln's call for volunteers. That there may be no mistake as to the nature of the rebellion, they pick out a cripple to unmistakably denote Thaddeus Stevens. For fear that some one might not understand, there is thrown upon a screen a subtitle stating that 'The executive mansion of the nation was transferred to the North, by identifying the rebel flag and the flag of South Carolina, the author dresses a harde of the lowest type of bad land Negroes in the uniform of Union soldiers and causes them to enact scenes similar to those of General Earl's army at Chambersburg. Pa. sat-settled in the North, author later Union officers as 'scalawag white captains.' FLING AT SHERMAN. "A fling is taken at General Sherman's memory in the marauding scenes under the titles of 'While the women and children weep a great conqueror marches to the sea' and 'The torch of war against the breast of Atlanta.' General Grant, the man who, according to fact and real history, sent 25,000 cavalrymen to ride their horses and mules home so as to be able to cultivate the soil; the soldier whose terms of surrender had been so generous as to evoke from General Lee the statement, 'This will have a very happy effect on my men'; the man who did not even-wait to witness the formal surrender of the troops, this hero who of all the men of the entire world, is pictured with a stogie-like cigar in his mouth tilted at the angle chosen by cartoonists to represent 'Uncle Joe Cannon, and with his hand jammed down in his pants pocket, is made to swagger over in front of General Lee, who remains the personification of dignity. Time 'after time the North is unfavorably contrasted against the South, the guard of the North is wooed by a gallant son of the South, who has but two competitors for her affections, one a leering lout dressed slouchily in Union blue, the other a Negro. MISREPRESENTS NEGROES. MISREPRESENTS NEGROES. "Insult after insult is heaped upon the soldier's uniform made sacred by the boys in blue. Notwithstanding the historical fact that the women were the wives of the white women and children of the South during the dark days of the Civil war and that, no ravishment of white women by blacks during that period is recorded, a Union officer's uniform of blue is placed upon the lowest type of Negro imaginable, and he is made to pursue a little white girl who jumps from a cliff to her death, and there is then flashed upon the screen. For her who had learned the lesson of honor we should give that she honor we should enter the opal gates of death." The Negro's "just for white women" rather than the white man's lust to regain lost power, is made the justification—for that organization, well-known in history as the Ku Klux Klan. And what all history, including the reports of the courts, say was a band of outlaws, is made an organization of heroes under religious rights. Brush up your history and imagine you can the Ku Klux Klan go to this nation. The mass of heroes portrayed history there was faded upon the screen the reason for the picture and the books which preceded it—Bitter memories will not allow the poor bruised heart of the South to forget." WHENCE INDORSEMENTS COME. "After viewing this picture I read the brief of attorneys for the corporation seeking to commercialize this 'insult to a Nation', and found quoted therein paraphrased indorsements of the picture by Claud Kitchin, L. P. Padgett, R. N. Page, and other sons of the South, who are now prominent in congress. In addition therein a long cull of the picture therein a long cull of the picture of the member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. In his indorsement of the picture this commander says: 'The Sons of Confederate Veterans today are working along two lines, first, to see that the Southern side of THE GAZETTE the controversy which led to the Civil war, is correctly stated in history, which will demonstrate to the world that we are not sons of rebels but sons of patriots. We of the North are asked to forget, yet at the same time, the promoters of this picture, our cause, the promoters of this picture, accepting the youth of the North to accept in this picture manufactured history. In this brief there is quoted letters purporting to come from children of this state who had been shown this picture through the efforts of a man who was a victim of the war. The letters show that these children are accepting the incidents of this picture as real history. This picture shows the South to have been right and the North to have been wrong. Our father did not controversy, in the arbitration of armaments, in coming from an attempt to re-open the question or distort its history. This picture is neither of a moral, educational, amusing nor harmless character, and the statute (Sec. 71-149 G. C) specifically provides that only such a character or harmless or amusing and harmless character may be passed by the Ohio board of censors." THE BIRTH OF A NATION. The wily-press agents of "The Birth of a Nation," fill the papers that will print the stuff with every seductive advertisements of the play. Here, for example, is a paragraph: The dances of deserts of Klu Klu Klu will ever be billed by all, as these daring horsemen dash along, seating high mountains, daring the dangers of the steep roads, the sharp turns, etc. Such horsemanship is not to be seen in these days and as hundreds of these dare-devises sweep along, one feels a desire to wise and so intensely inspiring is the scene. Nothing more ridiculous can be imagined. The "dark-roofed driers" were merely a lot of worthless, characterless-poor white trash of the South who delighted to torment the Negroes. No one would join in these night raids to harass and frighten in their homes the timid, ignorant blacks. It was as cowardly and infamous a persecution as was ever imagined. The talk about Negro supremacy was one of those miserable scares that the Negroes had to endure. The poor whites against the Negroes and secure their votes. In every State in the South, except South Carolina and Mississippi, the whites out-numbered the blacks. The whites were educated and had all the wealth of the State in their hands. They were so obviously superior in every way to the Colored population. No one, but a perverted brain that wanted to believe things that are not so, could give any credence to the inflammatory falsehood; about dangers that were born in rage of slaveholders over losing their property in Negroes, and, in the mean cowardly hatred of the lower order of the whites against the Negroes. The whole Ku Klux chapter in our history is something that should not be ignored, that it would be erased and forgotten. Washington (D. C.) National Tribune, (organ of the old soldiers.) When barring "The Birth of a Nation," recently; the Kansas Board of Elim Censors said: "The picture is rejected because it is not proper, is not instructive, and from its false title through its tissue of misrepresentations of the North, the Negro and our country's history, to the final culminating treaty, which pictures peace on earth and good will to men as the outcome of passion, of hate and murder, it is vicious and immoral—immoral not alone in the parts that are sexually suggestive, but in its whole revelation of race prejudice and sectional bitterness." EDITOR PHIL H. BROWN. An Old Ohio "Boy" is Signally Honored by the Republicans of the "Blue Grass" State. One of the most popular (and deservedly so) newspaper men the race press can boast, is Editor Phil 11 Ex-Vice President Fairbanks Brown of the Hopkinsville, (Ky.) Saturday News, an excellent portrait of whom The Gazette is greatly pleased (Continued on Page 2.) ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. CHARLES S. M'CARTHY V Charles S. McCarthy, who is proud that he can boast the hyphen that appears in North-American, is father of the plan to hold a national convention of States. It will be celebrated throughout the country during St. Patrick's week, and it will be the office of the assistant secretary of the navy, suggested the plan to Lady Aberdeen, president of the woman's National League of Women's Clubs, the former governor general of Canada and recent viceroy of Ireland, who is now in United States seeking funds to mobilize the sufferings of the habits of her country. NEWTON BAKER NAMED AS WAR SECRETARY Former Mayor of Cleveland Is Chosen by President Wilson to Succeed Garrison as Head of War Department. Cleveland, O. --- Newton D. Baker, twice mayor of Cleveland and stanch president of President Wilson, will be secretary of war in the president's cabinet. "I have accepted the post," said Baker after the official announcement had been made at the White House in Washington. "I do not know definitely when I will leave for Washington, but it will surely be within a week. "The expression of President Wilson's confidence in me, carried by the appointment, is certainly most flattering. Of course I know nothing of the duties of the office and I shall have, all these to learn." Baker always has been known as a pacifist. At a big citizens' meeting recently in Cleveland he was boosted as the man to bring about peace in the world war, when the time is ripe. Baker succeeds Lindley M. Garrison, who resigned Feb. 10. The president has taken his time announcing the appointment. Baker outlined his views on war and national preparedness as follows: "I have long been a peace at almost any prison man. I have believed that present peace among nations would come through the gradual substitution of law for force as a means of settling international disputes. "The question of the army of the United States and preparedness is at present under consideration by congress and it plainly would be improper for me to express an opinion on those matters except to congress through the president. "I believe in the president's preparedness policy. I believe in all of his policies that I know anything about. "I am in thorough sympathy with the efforts of the Carnegie peace institute and its plans for bringing about real and lasting international peace. As the first step in this direction there must come the international court, to which will be submitted the disputes among nations." PRISONERS DIE IN FIRE TEN BURN TO DEATH AND FORTY OTHERS ARE INJURED IN TEXAS JAIL. El Paso, Tex. Ten prisoners were burned to death and probably 40 others seriously burned, many fatally, when fire, starting from a large tub containing a solution of gasoline and kerosene, used to exterminate germ-carrying vormin, exploded in the city jail. Many victims were saturated with the solution. The flames then enveloped them and their cries of agony were heard by a great crowd which had assembled on the outside of the jail. Surrounding the bath quarters are rows of cells. Locked in, the prisoners were unable to escape the blinding sheet of flame. Those who were rescued were found unconscious and terribly burned. Consulate Is Wrecked. Washington, D.C.-The American consulate at Trebizond, the great Turkish port on the Black sea, was wrecked during a bombardment of the port by Russian torpedo boats on March 1 and the occupants narrowly escaped death, according to a cablegram received at the state department from Consul Oscar S. Hizier. A part of the shell killed a Persian subject who was standing within 2 feet of a desk at which I was seated. cabled Consul Hizier. "Vice Consul Monteronte's home was wrecked." GERMAN ADVANCE HAS BEEN CHECKED Paris Reports Strong Counter Attack Has Halted Teutons' Onrush. DOUAUMONT AGAIN UNDER HEAVY FIRE German Fleet Reported to Have Been Seen in North Sea, Followed by Submarines and Two Zeppelins; Russians Capture Town. Amsterdam, Holland. — The Germans, after their tremendous drives of the past few days, have suffaced a severe check to the west of Vernon, Paris china. The latest official billette says the French, by a strong counter attack, succeeded in driving the Germans from the greater part of the Corinthian wood, which they occupied, and that the Germans now hold only the eastern extremity of this wood. The Germans, however, have reoccupied the Hardhampton rooftop, it is admitted. Renew Bombardment. Donaumont, to the north of Verden, is again being heavily bombarded. The official German account shows that in their sweeping advance in the west the troops of the crown prince captured more than seven square miles of territory west of the Meuse. The advance was along a front of nearly four miles, into which the Germans penetrated to a depth of more than a mile and three quarters. In sweeping over this ground the Germans drove through Forges and Regneville and pushed as far as the Cumieres woods, which they now occupy, capturing more than 3,300 prisoners and 0 cannon. In the Woevore district the Germans launched an attack in the vicinity of Manhuelles, which Paris declares, was checked by the French certain of fire. In the Champagne region, still further west, there has been heavy fighting, but this was on the French initiative. Paris reporting that the treachery lost to the Germans in a surprise attack on March 6 had been retaken in part. Report Fleet at Sea. London, March 8. A German foot consisted of a large 50 big warships, followed by a train painted armed trawler boat, two big Zeppelins and numerous submarines, was sighted Monday afternoon in the North sea off Terschelling island, North Holland, according to the report of a steam trawler which has arrived at Yunidun, says Reuters's Australian correspondent. The fleet was proceeding westward. The correspondent adds that Monday morning five large cruisers of unidentified nationality passed Yunidun at full speed. Russian troops have captured the town of Riza, on the Black Sea 55 miles east of Trobizond. This announcement is made in the official statement issued from Petrograd general headquarters, which has sent the Russians to the town of Sohna, north of Kermanshah in Persia. According to the current official statement from Constantinople, the British army under Gen. Aymer, on the way to the relief of Gen. Townshead, at Kut-El-Amara, has been making renewed efforts to advance. It is declared, however, that all its attempts failed. Admits Robbery Charge. Warren, O. — Roy Whittenberger of Niles has confessed, according to Sheriff Thomas, that he broke into and robbed the postoffice at Mineral Ridge, this county, of $55 cash and several dollars' worth of stamps. He also confessed to breaking into and robbing a cigar store at Niles. Indict Mayor and Council. protect their youngstown, O.-indictments have been returned here by the grand jury against Mayor W. H. Cunningham and six councilmen of East Youngstown, charging them with being financially interested in property purchased for village purposes. Depositors Get Dividends Mt. Gilbert, Q.—Following the filing of a report by J. D. Vail, assignee in the matter of Harry H. McMillin, convicted defaulting earlier of the National bank of Morrow county, it was announced a LR per cent dividend had been declared. Fear Smallpox Epidemic. Toledo, Q.—Unless some drastic measures are taken, according to Health Commissioner C. D. Selby, Toledo will face an epidemic of smallpox. The cases, Mr. Selby said, are beginning to centralize in the cheap lodging houses. Telodis Merchant Disc Toledo, O.-Joseph L. Parks, aged 68 years, proprietor of the Stobber & Parks Furniture Co. died at his home here of acute indigestion Fought Hard. But Lost. Washington, D.C. C—The senate after four weeks of debate, has passed the Shields bill to provide for develop- opatee of water power in navigable waters by private capital. The vote was 46 to 22. Conservation champions fought hard to amend the measure, but without avail. As adopted, the bill permits the construction of dams in navigable waters under license issued by the secretary of war, and gives granttees the right to operate power plants for 20 years. The appointment of Mr. Baker of Cleveland as secretary of war in succeed Secretary. Garrison, resigned, has been confirmed by the senate. Mr. Baker was twice mayor of Cleveland and has been a prominent figure in national politics of the Democratic party during the past four years. PRESIDENT SUSTAINED BY VOTE OF HOUSE Resolution Warming Americans to Stay Off Armed Ships Is Laid on the Table; The Vote Was 276 to 142. Washington, D. C. After seven hours of verbal fireworks the house of representatives voted to sustain President Wilson in his handling of foreign relations, 276 to 142. It was by this vote that the house laid on the table the McDonnell resolution warning Americans to stay off armed merchant ships of the belligerent powers. The final vote came after two tests, in both of which the president was sustained. In what on all sides was regarded as the supreme test of strength between the contending forces, the house adopted "the previous question" on a rule calling up the resolution of warning by a vote of 256 to 186, and followed this by adopting the rule itself by a vote of 271 to 138. On the final test, the vote to lay on the table the president was sustained by 182 Democrats, 23 Republicans and one Progressive. Voting not to lay on the table and against the president were 102 Republicans, 23 Democrats, five Progressives, one Independent and one Socialist. At the last moment, on the second call of the roll on the final vote, Representative Kitchen of North Carolina, who, as Democratic leader, has opposed every policy advanced by the president, voted to sustain the chief executive in handling the complicated foreign situation. Standing in a doorway leading from the hall, Kitchen voted almost in a whisper. While the small Democratic vote against the president, considering all the noise and clamor of the last week, was a surprise, so also was the comparatively large Republican vote against him. From the Republican side itself came the charge that many of the minority members refused, even in the face of an international crisis, to remove partisan consideration from their minds. With the question of foreign relations removed from the floor of congress, where for 10 days it has been used as a political football, President Wilson will resume negotiations with the current power base, with control unimpeded. Liasiata case and the new phases of the submarine controversy precipitated into the present situation by reason of the threat of Germany to sink all armed merchant liners without warning. The diplomatic negotiations were suspended while the matter was under discussion in congress. The president, so it was stated, is prepared, to stand by his contention that Germany or no other belligerent power can abrogate or deny the rights guaranteed to America under international law. Bank Cashier Missing. Lyons, O. - Fred H. Carpenter, cashier of the Lyons Commercial bank, is missing and is believed to have left the United States. World received by his father, Perry Carpenter, in a letter mailed in Toledo, said he would not return and that he was leaving the country. Carpenter disappeared last week. Expert accountants have found affairs of the bank in good condition, it is said. Sign Two-Year Contract. New York City. The soft coal operators of the east and their employees, represented by a committee of the United Mine Workers of America, finally came to an agreement at the Hotel McAlpin on a scale for the next two years. "The best agreement ever obtained," was the verdict of both sides. The contract has been formally signed. War Brings Crooks. Younestown, O. — This country is simply overrun with crooks and thieves recently arrived from Europe to avoid army service there. declared Police Chief Hartn堡 in a statement cautioning the merchants against forgers and clever "check lawyers." He declared there is 10 times as much thieving being done here now as before the war. Younestown, in a direct line between New York and Chicago, took the movements of this class of criminals from one big center to another. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS EMPIRE FRIENDLY SHELTER FOR GIRLS GAINS FRIENDS General Ballington Booth Speaks For Worthy New York Institution. New York, General Ballington Booth was the chief speaker at the January meeting of the Empire Friendly Shelter For Girls, field at the headquarters in this city. For some time both the general and Mrs. Booth have taken a keen interest in the work and have given it material assistance whenever it was necessary. In the summer of 1915, when the development of the institution was hindered in one way or another, the announcement that Mrs. Booth would speak for the cause brought together a gathering of over 2,000 persons. So strong was Mrs. Booth's appeal in behalf of womanhood and so fervently did she appeal for sympathy and support for the institution that a good collection was taken up at the close of the meeting. The work has grown to a point of more than passing recognition as a social factor, and the number of girls to be cared for are demonstrating their desire for advancement. The need of the home is commending itself to the various charitable organizations. General Booth was shown through the shelter by the superintendent, Miss Grace P. Cramble, and the president, Mrs. M. C. Lawton, before leaving this meeting. He expressed himself as being highly pleased both with the home and its management. He 'holds of the many social activities in which he is engaged and spoke especially of the homes for self-repeting, wage earning boys and girls. These two institutions, he said, were particularly near to him. One of the accomplishments of the meeting was the formation of an advisory board of representative and influential men and women, with General Booth as chairman. It was the consensus of opinion of all present that the influence and cooperation of Veneral Booth, together with those associated with him, will mean a step far in advance for the institution. At present there are fifteen girls in the home and seven or eight infants. The domestic work throughout the home is done by the inmates and in a most faithful manner. Cells are frequently made for help from the shelter, and wherever they obtain employment they give general satisfaction. Cases from the various courts are turned over to the home and are satisfactorily disposed of. Girls from Brooklyn, Manhattan and vicinity as well as New Jersey are received into the home. On the board of management are some of the most representative men and women in Greater New York. A group of members of the Abyssinian Baptist church, of which the Rev. Dr. A. Clayton Powell is the minister, recently gave a pound party for the benefit of the home. KANSAS BARS FILM PLAY "Birth of a Nation" Misrepresents the Nation and the Negro Roe Nation and the Negro Haze. A TopoKan (Kan) dispatch states that the state board of censors has barred the film, "The Birth of a Nation," from showing in the state of Kansas. The report also says that following the showing of the film to an invited audience W. D. Ross, state superintendent of public instruction and state movie censor, rejected the film entire. Then the state appeal board, consisting of Governor Cooper, S. M. Brewster, attorney general, and J. T. Boklin, secretary of state, sustained the state censor, after hearing the arguments of H. A. Sherman, manager of the film company, Superintendent Ross issued the following statement: "The picture is rejected because it is not proper, is not instructive, and from its false title through its tissue of misrepresentations of the north, the Negro and our country's history to the final culminating travesty which pictures peace on earth and good will to men as the outcome of passion, of hate and murder, it is violent and immoral-immoral not alone in the parts that are sexually suggestive, but in its whole revelation of race prejudice and sectional bitterness." Manager Sherman announced that he would take the case to the courts and get an injunction, sometime between now and the time the red is scheduled to be shown in Kansas City. FREEDMEN'S HYMN Mrs. Fields-Gay Voices Gratitude of Race for Blessings of Liberty: Mrs. Cathleen Fielding of Hampon Town, Va., writes the words and music for the "Foodmen's Hymn" which was recently sung at the enam- ipation celebration by the Hampton institute choir, under the direction of R. Nathaniel Lester. The gratitude of the hymn flow: Free to sing From the choir I want to sing To show All who To speak To show And see Give the first letter of the word. For the first word, write it. For the second word, write it. And for the third word, write it. IN PRICH MORTIS HIGH HONOR FOR REV.R.M.BOLDEN Founder of First曼uel Church Recognized by Mayer Mitchell of New York as Man of Action and Constructive Ideas - Attends National Defense Gathering at St. Louis. New York. - The Rev. Richard Manuel Bolden, gate minister and public spirited citizen of this city, is the only representative of our race holding membership in the national committee. He was appointed by Mayor John Purrey Mitchell and has been active in the work since his appointment in December, 1915. Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt is chairman of the executive committee of the general committee. The first national defense conference has been announced for Friday and Saturday, March 34, in St. Louis. Dr. Bolden is one of the delegates from New York. - Mayors and representatives of over 100 cities in the United States are to attend the sessions of the conference. The colored people of this city and state are much pleased with Mayor Mitchell's selection of the Rev. Mr. Bolden as one of the delegates to this important conference. It is also very gratifying to the race throughout the country to note this just recognition of one of its number, who is fully capable to serve and worthy of the honor thus conferred. The Rev. Dr. R. M. Bolden was born near Marion Station, Somerset county, Md., March 1, 1873. His early education was with difficulty obtained in the public schools of his native home. REV. RICHARD M. BOLDEN. as he only had the opportunity of being in school three months each year for five years. He worked on a farm and in the oyster business from nine to eighteen years of age. At twelve he felt called to the gospel ministry, but it was not until 1896 that he joined the A. M. E. Zoon church of Providence, R. L. His zeal for knowledge, his industry and honesty, won for Mr. Bolden many strong friends among both races in Providence. For a time he served as a coachman for Dr. Lester S. Hill, through whose generosity he was enabled to attend the Providence high school. Prior to his death Dr. Hill requested that Dr. Bolden should have charge of his funeral. The Rev. Mr. Bolden performed this last wish and duty with great credit. Upon the advice of the Rev. J. F. Hill, Mr. Bolden's pastor, and Bolden's Hood he entered Livingstone college, from which he was graduated. During his student days at Livingstone he was admitted to the Western North Carolina conference. In BKL Dr. Bolden went as ministerial delegate of the A. M. E. Zion church to the World's Sunday school convention held at Zurich, Switzerland, where he wished most of the principalities of Israel and Belgium, Holland and other countries. Dr. Bolden is the founder of the First Emmanuel Church in 195 West Our Hundred and 13th Tijdseld. He is the author of the "Cross and Covenant of the Emmanuel Church in the World." The road growth and the manner in which this church is sustained demonstrates the fact that the day of miracles has not passed. To satisfy the man and his work will inspire any golfer mind. Politically he has been a platform speaker for the lamented President McKinley, for six President Roosevelt in his two campaigns and for 6% President William H. Taft. He was for four years the successful minister of Mother Zich church in this city. He is an ardent advocate of national defense and is an active member of the National Security league, of which the Iron Joseph H. Chateau is honorary chair. Alain B. Parker honorary vice president and S. Stanwood Menkon president. The Rev. Mr. Bollen speaks in the highest terms of Mayor Mitchel, whom he regards as a man whose future possibilities as a statesman are very bright. He is an grateful ful to the members of the national defense executive committee for the many corrections shown him as a member at all of the meetings. The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY 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 #entered at the postoffice In Cleveland Ohio, as second-class matter. Address all communications to Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1898; 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. SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1916. DARE TO DO YOUR DUTY. "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it."—Abraham Lincoln. With no disposition to interfere in lodge matters, we wish to ask our K. of P. of the country what about their National Encampment for 1917 in "segregated St. Louis"? The matter should be carefully considered. President Wilson's letter permitting his name to go on the primary ballot in Ohio contains the assertion that he is unwilling to enter any contest for the nomination. Correctly interpreted, this means that if Mr. Bryan should declare his candidacy the President would quit. But Mr. Wilson always reserves the right to change his mind on any subject, so we counsel Mr. Bryan not to become unduly optimistic. President Wilson never taught mathematics, we believe. But he must know the mathematical axiom "Things equal to the same thing are equal to each other." He began his diplomatic correspondence with Germany by demanding a "disavowal" of the attack on the Lusitania. He ends it by accepting a "recognition of responsibility." Are the two things equal to each other? If not, who has gained the advantage of the months of wearisome and humiliating exchange of notes? More than fifty thousand votes were cast, in St. Louis, in favor of segregation and only seventeen thousand, against it. We are told that there are nearly twenty thousand Afro-American voters in that city, only about nine thousand of whom cared enough about the matter to register and vote. The fight (on segregation) is to be carried into the U. S. Courts where it will be won. We have the highest regard for the aggressive and loyal Afro-Americans of St. Louis. But those others! Good Lord, have mercy! According to Chairman Williams of the State Board of Film Censors, who wrote the editor of The Gazette, some weeks ago, we HAVE been given Gov. Frank B. Williams entirely too much credit for the barring from Ohio of the infamous photoplay, "The Niger" and "The Birth of a Nation." Mr. Williams says, in the letter, that the governor left them free to take such action as they, the Board, saw fit Thank you, Mr. Williams, for the information. Our people throughout Ohio should remember this. Give the governor the credit due him, but no more. We have all along held a diffent idea and are free to confess it. When Congress refused to adopt the Continental Army scheme and the President elected to side with Congress as against the Secretary of War whom he had persuaded into formulating the plan—when, in short, Woodrow Wilson ratted on Lindley Garrison—the Secretary resigned. Now we find Congress refusing to adopt the plans of taxation which Secretary McAdoo produced and which the President recommended to Congress along with the Continental Army. But is McAdoo resigning? No such good luck! To hold his job at the sacrifice of his opinions was too much for Garrison. To hold his job seems to be McAdoo's only idea. WALTERS AND WASHINGTON. "Bishop Alexander Walters of New York city, was the guest of the Pioneer Press force, last week. He looks well, and is full of tussle or the rights of his people. He is a high-toned leader of men, and should head a national organization for the very much-needed opposition to the rapid growing of all kinds of wrongs inflicted upon our people. Washington should never have been allowed to get control of the Afro-American economy of the world, so thousands will follow you—The Pioneer Press. We wonder if Bro. Clifford has forgotten that Bishop Walters was elected president of the Afro-American Council at its last meeting in Baltimore and that it has not held a session since then. Dr. Washington only attended a few meeting of the Council and he was never in control of it, unless those who were considered his friends were in control and Bishop Walters was of that number. It perhaps would have been in successful operation not today but for the fact that a large majority of the members of the Council were Republicans and Bishop Walters about that time be- gun his affiliation with the Democratic party," Louisville (Ky.) American Wonder if Editor Steward, of the American Baptist, has forgotten how a carload of Afro-Americans which Booker T. Washington took from Chicago to Minneapolis, Minn., some years ago, "controlled" that meeting of the National Afro-American Council and deposed its president, Bishop Alexander Walters, electing Editor Timothy Thomas Fortune as his successor and practically killing the organization and its several years' standing suit in the U. S. Supreme Court to test the constitutionality of the franchisement "law," of Mississippi, which was on the calendar of the court for hearing, that fall' When the Council was but a SHADOW of what it was when captured at Minneapolis, Dr. Washington and "his friends" sought to "load" it on the Bishop, but he evidently would not be "used" in any such manner. It was not the latter's affiliation with the Democratic party that killed the National Afro-American Council, but the successful effort, to please the solid Democratic and prejudice South by wiping out the Council's and i-distranchisement suit in the U. S. Supreme Court, that was made at Minneapolis some years previous to the Baltimore meeting. We do no wonder that the Bishop refused to accept, from practically the same pee ple, the SHADOW (at Baltimore) of the SUBSTANCE taken from him (at Minneapolis). IN THE DISCARDS When President Thomas Woodrow Wilson went to Congress at the opening of the session he exposed the programme of legislation which he wanted put through. He advocated the Continental Army scheme which Mr. Garrison had developed at the President's request and which the President told the legislators he hoped they would "sanction" and put into effect." Where is the Continental Army scheme now? In the discards—and with Mr. Wilson's tacit assent. In the same address Mr. Wilson spoke with approbation of the taxation schemes which Secretary McAdoo had evolved—among them a tax on naphtha and gasoline, a tax on automobiles and internal explosion engines, a stamp tax on bank checks, a tax on pig iron, and a tax on fabricated iron and steel. Where are those plans for taxation now? In the discards—and Mr. Wilson is raising no voice in protest. The fact is that Mr. Wilson is not thinking much about the legislation which Congress will enact, except as that legislation has a bearing upon his own desire to secure a re-election in violation of the promises upon which he sought office four years ago. To achieve a second term he would cheerfully see all else go into the discards. But the result will be that he will find himself there. HAVE WE BLACK "JUDASES." Dispatches to the daily papers of the state, last Friday, announced that seventy-six affidavits praising "The Birth of a Nation" film were read in U. S. court that day, during the hearing on the motion of Attorney General E. C. Turner, for dismissal of the injunction suit instigated by the Epoch Producing company to compel the state movie censors to allow the production of the film in Ohio. Prominent colorized men approved the film in affidavits the dispatch. We cannot believe it! Surely Ohio does not harbor that sort of members of the race. Assistant Attorney General Ballard, arguing against the Epoch company, asserted that the federal court has no authority to hear the case, inasmuch as the Ohio censor law provides a means for appealing to the state supreme court. In this, we believe he is correct and will be balanced by U. S. Judge Sater, Mr. Ballard asked the court to dismiss the suit. It is clearly an attempt to control state administrative offices in federal court, a violation of "states' rights" the Epoch company of "states' rights" the Epoch belonged South. J. Sagmeister and Joseph W. Heinzman, of Cincinnati, counsel for the film company, urged the court to review the film and offered to arrange a "special" exhibition for the purpose. Judge Sater is not likely to accept this invitation for the very good reason that seeing the infamous photoplay will not aid him to pass upon the legal technicalities involved in a decision of the case. However, should he for any reason do so, he should insist on viewing the photoplay and not an emasculated production of it made such for the clear purpose of misleading him. We have known of such a course being pursued in the case of other films on exhibition. This is one reason why The Gazette has kept standing in its columns for week the excellent comment, of well-known persons on the miserable photoplay, to be found elsewhere in this paper. "THE BIRTH OF A NATION" SHOWN IN OHIO. The following letter, which is self explanatory, and one of the same tenor, were sent, last week, to the Chairman of the Ohio Board of Film Censors and to Editor Phil Dabney of the Cincinnati Union, a member of the race: OFFICE OF THE GAZETTE. Blackstone Building. Cleveland, March 4, 1916. Chairman Chas. G. Williams, State Board of Film Censors, No. 232 South High Street, Columbus, Ohio. Friend William.— Is it a fact that "The Birth of a Nation" was given an exhibition in Cincinnati, last Saturday evening, or recently, with the consent of the Board and Gov. Willis? I have just been sent that information from Columbus, the writer saying that this was done with the Governor's and the Board's consent, and I question it. The writer tells me that the exhibition was given in the Scottish Rite temple. Trusting to hear from you promptly, and hoping that not even a private exhibition of the miserable photoplay was given anywhere in Ohio, I am. Yours truly, HARRY C. SMITH. The following are the replies, to the THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.. SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1916 foregoing, received: (Telegram.) Cincinnati, O, March 6, 1916. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, The Gazette, Cleveland, O. Private exhibit of photoplay, "The Birth of a Nation" was given at Scotish Rite cathedral, Saturday night, for two thousand masons. Protests made in letters to Mayor and Governor by Cincinnati branch of National Association through its president, Wm. Stevenson. Lawyers claim right to exhibit privately. DABNEY. Columbus, March 6th, 1916. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, The Gazette, Blackstone Bldg. Cleveland, Ohio. (1916) Replying to your inquiry of March 4th, I beg to advise that no exhibition of "The Birth of a Nation" has been made with the consent of this Board or of the Governor. However, I am advised that a showing of the same was made in Cincinnati on February 27th at what was claimed to be a private exhibition at a closed meeting of some secret order, the parties exhibiting it claiming that they were within their legal rights. Inasmuch as the Courts say it cannot be determined what is private and public exhibition, we have referred all facts that have come to our attention in connection with this to the office of the Attorney Genera in order to enable him to take such steps in these matters as he finds the law demands. You may rest assured that this Board, the Governor, or the Attorney General will not consent to any exhibition film that is in their power to prevent The "private exhibition" of the ink famous photoplay is now a matter for Attorney General Turner to handle, and we can depend upon his doing all the law will permit him to do in the matter Our Columbus representative writes The Gazette, after a careful investigation and visit to the office of the Attorney General, that the only letter from a member of the race, in favor of exhibiting the miserable photoplay he has been able to learn of, "was one from one J. W. Harrison, an attorney of Norfolk, Va., who first represented our people of his city before its Council, to have that body reject the picture, and after failing to succeed in doing this, wrote a strong letter, in favor of the miserable photoplay, to the Epoch Film Company" which are parently in control of "The Birth of a Nation" We did not believe that Ohio harbored that kind of an Afro-American and are glad to know that we were right in that belief. We shall leave Attorney Harrison to the "tender mercies" of our esteemed contemporary, "The Norfolk (Va.) Journal & Guide" and other race publications, particularly those in the South "AN OPPORTUNITY OF SERVICE"! The Expression Must Be Original With Riggs The Youth "Douth" with Youth "Youth" Tuskegee, Ala.-On the 23d ult. Gov. and Mrs. Henderson, Dr. C. Thach, president of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn; President W. M. Riggs of the Clemson College, South Carolina, and other friends ("white"), spent a few hours at Tuskegee Institute. Students, teachers and members of Greenwood families packed the Chapel of the University, Logan treasurer of the school and acting principal since the death of Dr Booker T. Washington, introduced them. Among those to address the large audience was Prof. Riggs who said that it was not his good fortune to visit Tuskegee Institute while he was a student at Auburn and that he was of that class of Southern white people. Tuskegee is AN OPORTUNITY OF SERVICE FOR THE WHITE PEOPLE, than a burden to them. What do you think of that? And it was published in the Tuskegee Student, too. ST. LOUIS ADOPTS SEGREGATION St. Louis, Mo.—Ordinances providing for segregation in this city, were adopted at a referendum election Feb. 29. One prohibits our people from moving into blocks in which 75 per cent of the families are "white," and the other forbids them from moving into blocks wholly occupied by "whites." The ordinances provide similar restrictions against "white" persons moving into blocks occupied by our people, who were 52,220 for segregation and 17,876 against, the majority being 34,344. Our people now talk of taking the matter into the United States courts. THE CONGREGATION SUB SCRIBED $4,800. Atlanta, Ga.—The First Congregational church, Rev. H. H. Proctor, pastor, broke the record for our church Sunday morning, Feb. 20, when at one sitting it subscribed its entire indebtedness of $4,800, with the exception of $300, which was pledged at the evening hour. Subscriptions ranged from $1 to $500, the largest amount being subscribed by a woman. Payment is to be on the installment plan running for one hundred weeks. The church's property is valued at $200,000. THE BATTLE OPENS. Washington, D. C.—Consideration of a bill by Representative Sisson providing for the repeal of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution was begun here, last week, by the judiciary committee of the House. Mr. Sisson began his argument on which he hopes to establish that these amendments were not passed according to the requirements of Article 5 of the Federal Constitution. A WORTHY EFFORT——HELP! Ravenna, O.—The officers of Allen A. M. E. church, of this city, are asking for help. For thirty years we have been trying to get a church here, but never before has the effort been successful. It took a long time, and this latter is the direct result of hard work, believing in honesty and prayer. Friends, help us; we are few in number and poor, but are energetic and hopeful. All donations can be sent to Charles Russell, Chestnut St., Ravenna, 610—Adv. Written by 'The Old Reliable Gazette's Correspondents THROUGHOUT THE STATE What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical — Marriages, RAVENNA —Mr. Frank Jackson who has been very ill, is convalescing. —Mr. Ole Fulium is very sick. —Mr. Charles Russell is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Frank Adams, in Cleveland. —Mr. Jas. Coleman died, Sunday. —Subscribe for "the old reliable" Gazette," our best race paper. McINTYRE.—Mrs. Sarah West Sabinah and Jessie Smith were in Steubenville, Wednesday.—Mr. and Mrs. Wilson were guests of Mr. Oscar A. Johnson and Mr. Frank Wilson and family were out. Sunday Rev. C. W. Green preached ably. —Thos. Smith and David Freeman have accepted employment with the Wa bash Ry. IRONTON.—Over 40 converts were taken into the A. M. E. church. It has installed electric lights and has $20 in the treasury toward a new carpet.—Rev. DeVaughn, of the Baptist church, addressed the Odd Fellows, Sunday.—Mr. Robinson, mail-carrier, has two sons in Cleveland.—Mrs. Page's twin sister is better.—Mr. John Sinkford, one of the converts, singes in the choir.—Mr. Miller, plumber, is kept busy.—Mrs. Banks is chairman of the P. E. committee; Mrs. H. King, sec.; Mrs. Anna Page, treas.—Mr. Washington has moved his barbershop to the old stand. COLUMBUS.—A home for our delinquent and dependent girls is being planned here on the order of the "Big Sisters' Home," a "white" institution. A house at 245 N. 21st St., has been rented for the purpose and a meeting will soon be held to further the plans. These people should let fall in love and only care for our girls as well as those of other classes of people resident here.—Mr. Charles Garnes, prominent Odd Fellow, K. P., and local member of the race, was buried, last week Wednesday. He was Columbus' first superintendent of streets. CINCINNATI.—The Council of Social Agencies has arranged a conference of organizations dealing with problems of our people to prepare a definite plan for handling the situation. It has also arranged a plan for centralized auditing for its affiliated organizations making an immediate saving of $1,200 a year.—The Birth of a Nation was given private exhibition here. Saturday night week, to the Cathedral. Protests sent to the mayor and Gov. Wilks did no good. HILLSBORO—Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Kittrell entertained young folk Feb. 28, in honor of their daughter Thelma's seventh birthday. Music games and refreshments. A de lightful social function—Wesleyan church's quarterly meeting was held Sundays in Kettrell's Green Park passed through. Saturday route to Georgetown where he preached, Sunday. A. F. Donaldson is better, Mr. David Young was in Dayton, last week. Mrs. P. H. Smith and granddaughter, Miss Burnett, spent Sunday in Cincinnati with relatives. Mr. Willie Lyons has gone to Dayton to visit his grandmother Bielm, is here visiting. Mrs. J. J Rollins of New Vienna, was the guest of Mrs. Alline Burton, Saturday. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write also, their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, speeches, resolutions, poetry, inquiries for relatives and advertisements, including items armounting 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. CHILLICICHE.—Rev. T. W. Johnson, pastor of Mission Chapel, near Frankfort, is conducting a very successful revival. He was a pupil of Chaplin Steward and is a credit to him, Rev. Johnson was a presiding elder under Bishop Grant and has been a pastor for 48 years, being conferred the honor in 1868. His family resides in James town, the oldest child being a High school student.—Rev. Estes has just returned from Carr's Run where he conducted a rousing revival.—Robert A. Patterson visited his brother, Fred, last week.—Mr. Stephen Bates who was a pastor of the streets for a number of years, has announced that he will demonstrate the advantages of a street flusher in cleaning the streets. They are used in Cleveland and other large cities. SANDUSKY.—Mr. Ch., Taylor died, March 2, and was buried from the Second Baptist church. Rev. G. D. Smith officiated, Mrs. Taylor, two daughters, son and brother, left, Monday, for their homes in Chicago, and Battle Creek, Mich., respectively. Ms. Panche Tremblay, Mrs. Chiles, who Smith have la gripe—O. B. Shackelford and son are convalescing—Cora. B. Annis of Cleveland, is visiting her uncle who is at soldiers' home. She is stopping with Mrs. G. D. Smith—Rev. McWilliams of Toledo, began the revival here, Monday evening. Be sure to hear him as he is, exulting in his race. If you race the news, take The Gazette as the local agent is not handling the Ledger any more—Mr. Wm. Broadis has been very ill with la gripe. Also Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Anderson—Rev. G. D. Smith is agent for the "old reliable" Gazette. SMITHFIELD—Miss Efle and Robert Beall royally entertained the S. L. S. club last Tuesday evening. An elaborate lunch—Trustee's entertainment, at St. Paul's A. M. E. church, this Saturday evening—Mrs. Ed. West has returned from a visit with her mother in Steubenville—Mr. Johnson of Flushing, was Mrs. R. Veney's guest, last Thursday, and Mr. Ed. Fowler of Bradley, Saturday and Sunday. The latter was entertained by Mrs. E. H. Harris, Sunday evening. The W. M. M. S. met at her home in the afternoon—Mrs. Anna Howard was in Steubenville, recently—Mr. and Mrs. F. Smith was in McIntyre Sunday, and Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Cooper were guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. Harris, last week—Mr. D. Freeman who is employed by the Wabash Ry., is stopping at Mr. and Mrs. E. Jackson's.—Mr. Haze Harris visited Mr. and Mrs. C. Stakey, Sunday—J. Fowler and C. Stakey of ladies.—Mr. last Thursday evening, Mr. S. Weyrev C. W. Greene, Mr. Ed. Smith and others of McIntyre, were called last week. McINTYRE—We wish to thank, the pastor and members of the A. M. E. church for courtesies shown when we had the native African quintette (of Wilberforce University) in the Smithfield hall, recently, under the auspices of our local A. M. E. church. The concert was a success. —J. W. Christian took tea with M. W. Toney, Sunday evening week—Mrs. C. W. Ford is kept busy nursing, these days—Jas. Madison and family, Alice Toney of Cadiz, and Mabel Madison of Steubenville. He was a friend of Paul Freeman's death. —C. Beeks and Burnie Smith are still doing a great business between here and Steubenville. —The trustees' rally, Sunday week, was a success in spite of the inclement weather. Rev. Greene is certainly doing excellent work. —Two brothers and a host of friends mourn the death of Paul Freeman, age 22. He was a fine young man and a member of the church. —Mrs. Ernest Smith of Carl Smith have been quite ill. —Esther was a fine girl, and we are proud of her. Many good school-reports, these days. —Elwood Smith was in Steubenville, recently. —Ada Smith visited her sister, Anna West of Hazeldell, Saturday week. YOUNGSTOWN—The following letter has been received here: Schofield Barracks, Hawaii Territory—Col. Lyman W. V. Kennon, in command of the 25th Infantry, has been transferred to the command of the 26th Infantry, stationed in Texas, and left here Jan. 5, on the transport Thomas, to the command of the 26th Infantry. He was well thought of by his men, and his leaving was marked with regret by all. Under his guidance the gallant Twenty-fifth has maintained its reputation for discipline, appearance and efficiency. Both he and the men were paid the following high compliment last spring when the commander General Carter, said to the member of the congressional party to Schofield Barracks. “You will presently see pass in review before you, the Twenty-fifth Infantry, a regiment made up of colored soldiers and the largest regiment in our little army. This regiment, ladies and gentlemen, is the best disciplined, the best dressed, the best marching and the best maneuvering regiment I have every seen in my forty years of service.” GEORGETOWN. — Rev. Samuel Brown of Greenfield, preached two able sermons at the Second Baptist church, Sunday. He was entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Baker. The ladies' social, Saturday evening, was taught by Mrs. and Mrs. Miss Isabelle Kennedy of Batavia, were guests of Mrs. Wm. Jamison, recently—Mrs. Ida Sharp of Decatur, visited her sister, Mrs. John Masterson.—Rev. E. F. Boston has just closed a very successful revival at Higgisport where he has a charge. —Prot. P. L. Morton who is teaching at the school, has returned to his old neighborhood. —Foster K. Burr, one of our High school students, took the teachers' examination. —Do not forget to see Marie Moore for hair-goods and get a copy of The Gazette to read, Sundays. —Miss Lida Jackson has returned to her school. —Rev. Bridges preached for Rev. Robbins in Ripley, Sunday evening. —Mr. and Mrs. Nora Cox have moved to Marshall Ave. —Miss Sophia Burr visited her brother in Cincinnati. Sunday. —Mr. Ausr Burr and family visited his sister, Miss Clara Yates, in Cincinnati. —Mr. Rice of Dover, Ky., is the guest of Misses Eliza and Lou Anderson. —Miss Lucille is ill. Her brother, George, has been called from Portsmouth. ZANESVILLE.—The following letter was sent, Feb. 4, to Revs. A. M. Thomas and Ira A. Collins by the editor of the Gazette: "Hartley E. Busy, 382 N. 6th St., your city, was recently refused admittance to the Hippodrome, your city. He sent me a clipping (Hippodrome advertisement) from the Zanesville Times-Recorder which is a terrible public insult to a principle of respect. He is poor and out of employment, he informs me, but he is a MAN, a member of the race. He writes me that he has advanced money what he has, in an effort to start a civil rights suit under our Ohio civil rights law against the management of the Hippodrome. The matter of his refusal by the theater and the objectionable newspaper advertisement both violate a principle of respect. In places of our people in your city, Can't you do something looking toward the calling together of our leading men and women of your city with a view to assisting and backing Mr. Busy in an effort to vindicate the rights of our people in public places in Zanesville; also to put a stop to such insulting newspaper publications? I am sure that you want to respect your man and I know that you agree with me that any class of people who will not fight for their rights and privileges in public places, is not worthy of them." What, if anything, has been or is being done here to conserve our rights and privileges? EDITOR PHIL H. BROWN. (Continued From Page 1.) to give above. Our highly esteemed conference has just been elected a delegate-at-large to the Republican National Convention to meet in Chicago in June. His state has declared for Ex-Vice President Fairbanks of Indiana, so we presume that "Phil is in line." Starting his newspaper career many years ago as a representative of The Gazette, in southern Ohio, It is but natural that this paper and its editor is just a little proud of every success that comes to Phil H. Brown and every other one of The Gazette's numerous alumni. More power to them all! Notice to the public: W. Tilton has a carload of onions, sweet potatoes, apples and other mixed goods at his store near the corner of E. 29th St., on Central Av. It is a great pleasure for me to sell goods to the public, reasonably, and especially to the loyal customers of the worthy poor. I think almost as much of the devil as I do the hypocrit. Yours very truly, W. Tilton.—Adv. 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Mrs. Cordie Street of Chattanooga, Tenn., secured a 750 verdict in circuit court against J. B. McAllister, "(white)," her landlord, recently. Steps gave way and she fell, severely injuring herself. Joe Jeannette, the heavy-weight, celebrated his return to the ring by stopping Shias Green the Canadian heavyweight champion in the sixth at the Canadian A. C., Montreal, Feb. 26. Mose C. Moore, Dayton, O., won two races in New Orleans, La., March 3, with his racer, "Marion Goosby." The Merchants' Handicap netted him $2,765 (time 1:46), and the Hotel Men's Handicap (time 1:45 3.5), $3,250. Distance, a little over one mile. Some running horse, that! Baltimore will have no "jim crow" cars for the next two years, at least, the judiciary committee of the House Delegates at Amvail, having an availible report bill introduced by Delegate McCusker, of Baltimore. Among its strongest opposers were city Democrats. In nearly every city in this country with a large Negro population there are a few ambitious, unscrupulous persons whose desire for prominence or place is their ruling characteristic. Unless crushed, their lack of loyalty and faith will bring disaster. Hayti is a sad example—Cincinnati Union. Miss Agnes Brown, (white), and Mr. Patrick Brady, an Afro-American, despite the name, from Anderson county, Ky., were arrested in Indianapolis, recently and fined $20 each. Brady paid the fines and they promised to be arrested but instead went to Jeffersonville, Ind., where they were arrested again. Brady was again fined $19.50 and promised to leave the city. "Miss Brown" was held until Monday, Feb. 28, when she was ordered to leave the city. In the recent examinations for teachers in the parishes of Louisiana, there were 858 applicants of which number 448 failed. Out of 463 white applicants, only 168 secured certificates, and out of 395 Colored applicants 242 secured certificates. Of the colored applicants 61.26 were successful, and of the colored applicants 36.28 were successful. The applicants had exactly the same questions and the papers were marked by the same examiners. Chief Justice Key, of the Court of Civil Appeals, Austin, Tex., recently decided against Texas in its suit against the Galveston-Harrisburg and San Antonio railroad, charged with violating that state's "jim crow" car law, by bringing four of its people to ride in a sleeping car in that state. They were en route from Los Angeles, Cal., to San Antonio, Tex. The justice ruled that the train was an interstate carrier and that Texas had no jurisdiction over its passengers. Dr. E. A. Bailey PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON (Winona Apartments) 2269 E. 40th Street (Cor. Central Ave.) Office Hours 9:30 to 11:30 a. m. 2 to 3 p. m. 8 to 9 p. m. TELEPHONE EASTER IS COMING. 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We advise our patrons to care tisements before making purchases this paper should have the patrons that they advertise is assurance the Local reading notices (adver words in a line). Subscribers not receiving The Gazette regularly should notify us at once. We desire every copy delivered promptly. We advise our patrons to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of Afro-Americans. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. Local reading notices (advertisements) ten cents a line (six words in a line). Our Classified Ad Department WANTED.—A position as chef in a first-class hotel. Can give the best of references. Will work in white or Colored hotel. Address. J. E. Johnson, 308 S. 7th Ave., Marshalltown, Iowa. 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. Mrs. Cora Brock of E. 36th St., has been quite ill. Rev. Chas. Bundy was here from Toledo, last week. The Misses Early of E. 111th St., entertained about thirty, last Friday evening. Mrs. Charles Russell of Ravenna, is visiting her daughter. Mrs. Frank Adams. Mrs. S. A. Lucas entertained the Independent Banking club, last Friday evening. Mr. Chas. Walden who was called to Mt. Vernon by his father's death, has returned. Mrs. Ella Fields of E. 31st St. died, Saturday morning. Funeral, the middle of the week. Rev. H. C. Bailey was in Oberlin, this week, assisting Rev. Geo. Washington in his revival. Wilma Crawford says he is "vaulter" in the Engineers' department—whatever that may be. Will E. Smith who has spent many years down on the Texas-Mexico border, is now located at Lac Cruces, New Mexico. The Gazette gives its readers quantity and quality of race news, and not merely quantity of paper. Remember this, please. Mrs. Wallace Bolden of E. 39th St. was generally acknowledged the belle of Caterers' ball. She was beautifully gowned. Rev. A. Baroody, a native Syrian, will preach at Antioch Baptist church, Sunday. He will discuss the 23d Psalm from the Oriental viewpoint. Wanted—1,000 men to trade regularly at the Central Shirt Shop, 2922 Central Ave. Hats, caps, neckwear, underwear, arrow collars and shirts, etc.—Adv. Mrs. Gertrude Andy of Troy, was the guest of Miss Rose McAfee, this week. She was on route home from Buffalo where she visited her sister, Mrs. Luin Blackmon Lee. The Harden Printing Co., a 2. race enterprise, does first-class work at most reasonable rates. Orders called for, and work delivered promptly. 'Phone: G. Getchin 4379 M.-Adv. Rev. H. C. Balley will speak, Sun at 3 p.m. in Lorain at the First Baptist church in an effort to help our Baptist church there—the second Baptist church of which Rev. W. H. Smith of this city is pastor. A letter received March 1, his twentieth birthday, from Loula V. Jones who is studying violin at the Boston Conservatory of Music states that he is in the best of health and doing nicely, and requesting The Gazette to remember him to all of his friends. We request that you help them in the church of I. E. Grosman, designer and tailor, 209 Schofield Bldg He is a friend of the race, a first class tailor, and deserves a fair share of your patronage. See his advertisement elsewhere in this paper—Adv. Send or bring locals and all business matters to The Gazette's offices suite 2, Blackstone Bldg. If you wish to see the editor call there, please. All matters for publication in current issues of The Gazette, must be in the office by 4 p. m., WEDNESDAY at the latest. Then Shiloh Baptist church accepted E. H. Smith's resignation, recently, they paid him the balance of his salary and presented him with $500, so Trustee David Mead informs The Gazette. This is something almost unheard of in the case of churches. An Afro-American baseball league is being organized by W. H. Craig. A meeting will be held at 1815 Central Av. March 26 at 2 p. m. The following teams have already entered. The C. A. C. Sanitary, May Co., and the Cleveland Craig. Those desiring to join will have representatives at the meeting. Mar. 26. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1916. Ford's hair pomade advertisement, elsewhere in this paper, should receive careful consideration. The pomade is decidedly one of the very best on the market, and is known generally as such throughout the country. It is handled by the Ozonized Ox Marrow Co, 45 W. Kinzie St, Chicago.—Adb. At the B. M. C. made March I "Oden Day," in honor of Peter Oden, the father of G. U. O. of F. in this country, and because that date is the order's birthday, having been "born" on March I, 1843, in N. Y. City, why has not at least one of our local lodges observed "Oden Day," this year? When a parole officer at the Warrensville correction farm asked Peter Silas, 2385 E. 30th St., whose application was refused, whether he had ever been arrested before, he replied (last week) in the affirmative. When he replied "what feew?" he replied "dunno, but think it was for insulation." Asked what that was, he said: "Mosly drunk." Mrs. L. H. McNeal, of 2191 E. 28th St., desires to thank the sisters of Hermione court of Calanthe and the many friends of Cleveland and Oberlin for kind attention during her serious illness. Mrs. Ida Hodge of Oberlin sent a serious operation, some weeks, after Dale's, was in the city, last week, at the bedside of Mrs. McNeal. The Cleveland Association of Colored Men "took Tom Fleming to task," Monday evening two weeks ago, for his position in the effort to have R. R. Cheeks, Esq., appointed an assistant police prosecutor. The organization should have arraigned Mayor Davis and Maurice Maschke, either of whom could have secured the place of arrest. American if they had staked to do so. Fleming was powerless in the matter. The Palace restaurant, R. R. Brooks, proprietor, near the corner of E. 28th St., on Central Av., certainly "fills a long-felt want" and great need in that vicinity of that thoroughfare. With the able assistance of Mrs. Brooks, they are giving the best home-cooking and quick service in the big box their favor. Both have had many years' experience in the business, too—Adv. Miss Bessie Cook has resigned as organist of St. John's A. M. E. church. The Boethian class' annual banquet, Monday evening, was attended by about 35 and proved an enjoyable fair. Ernest P. Jackson made an exceptionally satisfactory toastmaster, introducing his father, the pastor; Edgar B. Moore and other speakers of the evening. Miss Cook and Master Howard Fields, pianists, Wm. Fountain, tenor and cornetist, furnished exertion in the music, and an elaborate menu was served Collections will be taken up in all Catholic churches, Sunday, for Negro and Indian missions in this country. The appeal has been sent to Bishop Farrally from the commission of archbishops, Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore, Cardinal Farley of New York and Archbishop Prendergast of Philadelphia. Bishop Farrally has sent the appeal to every church in the diocese. The collection is taken annually in but not at the same Catholic churches, in your vicinity, and contributing to the fund. James H. Starkey has been appointed superintendent of catech basins at $100 a month. This is the same position that Benny Srulovitz held under the Baehr administration at $1,800 a year, at least $50 a month more than is being paid the Afro-American. Why this color-line, and too under a supposedly Republican administration, Messrs. Maschke and Davies? No clerkship, or Rumen, has been given a job under Capt. Starkey. Good place to put him. Equipment for a hospital room, for caring for sick inmates, some one of whom generally has some sort of an aliment all the time, is one of the needs felt by the Home for Aged Colored People. A room in the rear of the house, away from the noise of the street, has been painted in soft colors, restful to the eyes, but the furnishings are scant, and sick room equipment is needed.—The Social Bulletin, organ of the College and Federation for Chars of the Philadelphia Old Folks' Home needs a sick room and the change of one of its rules, relative to sending the sick to the City hospital. Some have to be sent there but not all, and this should be plainly stated in that rule or "by-law." Rev. R. D. Phillips of Columbus, preached, Sunday morning and evening, at Shiloh Baptist church, addressed the S. S. at 9:30 a. m., and administered communion in the afternoon. Rev. Mitchell baptised several candidates at 12:30 noon. The children of the school, D. J. Fishback of Topeka, Kan., will preach Sunday morning and evening. The Sunday School is preparing for Easter. The children's chair furnishes music for the senior and junior B. Y. P. u. at 6:30 and 5:30 p. m., respectively. Sundays. The subject for discussion: "The Causes of Failure in Life." Motto: "A Stranger Here But Once." The Dunbar Literary society will discuss, Tuesday evening: "Reed that military and naval warfare is unnecessary." Everybody welcome. OUTRAGED! BY GOV. WILLIS! Says Dr. H. C. Bailey for Our Cleveland Ministers SALOONMAN APPOINTED To Represent Our Good People Over the Vigorous and Long Standing Protests of Cleveland's Leading Afro-Americans---Will Resent It. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir:—Sometime in 1915, Gov. Frank B. Willis appointed as a deputy oil inspector for this county, Thomas Fleming, which position he held until his election as a councilman, in this city, last November, compelled his resignation, January 1, this year. This caused a vacancy in the oil inspector job. time and again, during the contest was prevented from appointing Hudson by Gov. Frank B. Willis. The main opposition to Juriman's appointment arose as a result of his being manager of a saloon, our people of this community feeling that some mem- REV. H. C. BAILEY Meanwhile, two or three aspirants applied for it, among the number being a local saloon-keeper who operated on the main thoroughfare of our people, where our church-goers must pass to and fro to their churches, being embarrassed by hangers-out and others passing in and out. In spite of our vigorous protests (for nearly two months) to Gov. Willis, as ministers of the gospel (representing several thousand Colored church communicants), against the appointment of a saloon-man, recommended largely by the saloon element, the Governor has appointed him and refused to appoint the man we endorsed to represent the race in an official capacity. We, as ministers, sent letters, telegrams and nightletters (telegrams) to Gov. Willis in protest against the appointment of the saloon man and endorsing the other asplendant. The Governor, however, has deliberately and outrageously ignored our protests and endorsements by giving the position to that element which with their business (saloon) is doing more harm and causing more retrogressions in this city than the actual physical slavery of our parents before the "sitites." We, the ministers and churches stand for race elevation, a virile manhood, worthy citizenship and factors in every community, and for a better manhood and life. The Governor's action in this matter is in direct opposition to all these - HUITS! What are we to do when these contemptible indicities are continually manifested in men to state and municipal jobs as a reward to the decent Negro republicans of this community thus saying to the people, white and Colored, that SUCH men are the REPRESENTATIVES of the Negroes' We must and will organize and work to defeat any candidate for office, be he democrat or republican who will so insult us, and Gov. Will will be made to feel this, politically if he is a candidate for office in No vember. (Rev.) H. C. Bailley, Pastor, Antioch Baptist Church, President, Cleveland Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. MANAGER OF A SALOON APPOINTED. (Telegram) Columbus, O., Feb. 15, 1916. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Blackstone Bldg., Cleveland, O. "Wire just received. Learn Mr Carr has already notified Hudson of his appointment. Thompson with F. B. Willis. In response to a telegram from the editor of The Gazette the Governor wired the above reply. It closed a more than two months' contest in which our local clergymen, headed by Rev. H. C. Bailey and Rev. E. A. White, many of our leading men of this community and others participated, protesting vigorously against the appointment of Juriman Hudson, manager of "Starlight's" saloon in Central Ave., to the position of a deputy oil inspector for this county to represent our people. Arrayed with them, in support of Sidney Thompson for the position, were Col. Myron T. Herrick, a candidate for U. S. Senator; the Frank B. Willis Republican club, of which J. B. Ruhis is president; Wm. P. Leech, vice-president and general manager of the Cleveland Leader and Leader, Ex-U. S. District Attorney J. J. Sullivan, Congressman Henry I. Emerson, W. G. Mather, F. H. Caley, Walter B. Wright Sr., Attorneys Alex. H. Martin Harry E. Davis and Chas. S. Sutton, L. A. Rogers, Dr. Ellis A. Dale, James A. Rogers, a number of other leading men of both races of this community, and many Ohio employees of the W. & L. E. R. R. Co. Hudson was backed for the position by the Maurice Maschke-Mayor Harry Davis faction of the local Republican party which (for political reasons), from the beginning, had the favor of State Oil Inspector Carr who CARR AND THOMPSON. Gov. Willis' telegram would suggest that some one thinks he has "played a shrewd political trick" in securing the withdrawal of Sidney B. Thompson and his endorsement of Juriman Hudson for the appointment of a deputy oil inspector for this (Cuyahoga) county. But they haven't! Thompson's endorsement amounts to less than nothing because it represents an individual's only, and has an opposite effect to who supported his candidacy. Gov. Willis undoubtedly knew this at the time, but seems to have finally given in to State Oil Inspector Carr's pleading for the appointment to please the Muschke-Davis faction of Cleveland. The effect will be directly felt by the person who supported Carr or Thompson. As a political blunderer the state oil inspector has honestly won the "past masters" station and the person who listens to his political counsel in the face of what transpired, last year, when he traveled over the state, giving out deputies right and left, boosting the Governor for the Ohio presidential-nominee. But the oil down" most completely and ridiculously, when Burton was given it, must certainly be wonderfully inexperienced from a political viewpoint or credulousness personified. SYD'S JOB! The Maschke-Davis Faction Gives Him the Promised Appointment. It was unannounced, the past week, that Syd. Thompson had been given a place as a foreman in the city's drainage or catch-basin-cleaning department. We have been unable, as yet, to learn whether the job pays two or three dollars a day. Well! WELL!! BORN "SET THE EXAMPLE." Dearing, Ga.-J. J. R. Culpepper, ("white"), one of the proprietors of the large lumber mills here, used some pretty rough language to Mack Dorn, a member of the race, and the latter resented it when it had gone a mile. He was sent as the scendant of a Confederate, whipped out a gun and shot Born. The wounded man drew his weapon and sent two bullets into Culpepper's body. The latter died immediately. Some of his friends ("white"), started to fill Born with bullets, but he got two of them before he died. Both wounded men sent to Augusta for treatment. Culpepper left a widow and four children. Perfect Fit Or No Pay For Good Tailoring Go to I. E. Grossman Designer of Snappy Clothes No. 209 Schofield Bldg. Formerly of Klein & Grossman A Guarantee with Every Suit Low Prices Better Clothes New York Restaurant 3854 Central Ave. Silver Britto, Prop. The East Home Cooking. First-class Service. Everything New, Neat and Clean. Home-made Bread, Pies and Other Pastry. Regular Meals and Short Orders Try Our Rolls and Coffee. Lunch Counter. (Car Stop—E. 39th St.) Autos for All Occasions Calls Answered Day and Night The Excelsior Billiard Parlor Orkin's Hall, 3623 Central Ave. One of the Finest in This Section of the Country. New Mahogany Tables The Finest of Fixtures Private Tables by the Hour Thos. Reedix, Mgr. 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In bis address as temporary chair- man of the New York state Republican eonvention, delivered in Carnegie Hall, New York, the Hon, Elihu Root sald: We are eutering upon a contest for the election of a president and the con- trol of government under conditions essentially new in the experience of our party and of our country. ‘The forms and methods which we are about to follow are old and familiar, Dut the grounds for action, the demand ‘of great events for decision upon na- tional conduct, the moral forces urg. tng to @ solution of vaguely outlin: ed questions. the tremendous con Sequences of wisdom or folly In nation. al policy, all these are new to the great mass of American voters ‘now living. Never since 1864 has an election been fraught with consequences so vital to national life. All the ordinary. consid: erations which play so great @ part in our presicential campaigns are and ‘vught to be dwarfed into insignificance. Democratic Party to the Bar. For the first time in twenty years we enter the field as the party of oppost: tion, and indeed it Is a much longer time, for in 1806, fn all. respects save the tariff, the real opposition to the sturdy and patriotle course of Pres dent Cleveland was to be found in the party that followed Mr. Bryn. It ts ‘our duty as the opposition to bring the Democratic party to the bar of public Judgment, to put it upon its defense $0 far a8 we see Just and substantial grounds to criticise its conduct and to ask, the voters of the country to decide whether that party, organized as it ts, Tepresented as it has been since it ame Into power, has shown iteelf competent to govern the country as It should be governed and whether Its spirit. its policies, and its performance ate the best that the American people ean do in the way of popular self gov- ernment. Th the field of domestic affairs some facts relevant to these questions had alrendy been ascertained when in Au- ust, 1014, the great European war Vegun. During the year and a halt of Democratic control of government in a period of profonnd peace there had een a steady decrease in American production, inexports and in revenues and a steady increase in imports and expenditures. Enterprise had halted. ‘The Democratic tariff ind been framed ‘upon an avowed repudiation of all pro- tection, however moderate and reason- able, and because all protection was Fepwdinted practically all information from competent witnesses as to the ef- tect new provisions would have upon business was rejected. It was with Just cause that the enterprise of the country halted, timid and. irresotute, decause it felt and feared the hostility of government. Foreign Competition After War. ‘The great war has not changed the lesson which we had ntready learned when it began, It bas but obscured further demonstration. It hos caused an efiormous demand for some things ‘which the United States is able to pro- duce in large quantities, and in these Hines of production. while other indus tries still langufsh, there bave been ex- tensive employment of labor, great ex- ports and @ great influx of money. Buc this is temporary. Tt must soon cense. and when the factories here stopped and their laborers ate no longer employed we must den: with a situation for which wise forethought should make provision. More impor- tant still, the war bas paralyzed the peaceful industries of all Europe and ‘has stopped that competitive foreign production which in July, 1914, had al- ready entered American markets to supersede American products under ‘the tariff law of 1913. ‘The war has ‘thus xiven to American products an Ammuuity from competition far more effective than any possible protective tari, Bot that is temporary, and when the war is over, when foreign production begins agatn, the American market compared with impoverished Europe will be more than ever before the object of desire and effort, and we shall become the dumping ground of the world to the destruction of onr ‘own Industries unless that is prevented by a wite and competent government, How Can W Defend Ourselves? But it is not from domestic ques- tious that the most dificult problems of this day arise. ‘The events of the last few years have tauzht us many Yessous, We have learned that eiviliza- ‘ton is but a veneer thinly covering the savaxe nittre of man, How can this nation, whieh toves peace and intends Justice, avoid the curse of militarism ‘And at the same the preserve its tn- ‘epeudence. defend its territory, pro: fect the lives und liberty and proper- ty of its cltiwus? How can we pre sent the azine privelpies of action, the Soins pelicios of condnet, the same Lucky Gold Seeker. A nugget of pure gold, weighing 84 ounces, was recently discovered by a prospector, at the Philbara gold field in western Australia, at a compara: tively deep level. He also found an- other nugget weighing 49 ounces. _ The Talkers. Where one man wants to work his way to the top there are a dozen who hope to talk thomselves in that gou- eral direction.—Atchison Globe, tndefended wealth of the new world? Have we stili national ideals? Wil anybody live for them? Wont any body die for them? Or are we all for ease and comfort and wealth at any price? Confronted by such questions fs these and the practical situations Which give rise to them, 18 the coun try satisfied to trust itself again in the hands of the Democratic party? Impotent Inteference In Mexico. The United States had rights and | duties in Mexico. More than 40,000 of “our citizens had sought their fortunes | and sade their homes there. A thou- sand millions of American capital had been invested in that productive coun: try. But revolution had come. and factional warfare was rife. Amerteans had been murdered, American proper ty bad been wantonly destroyed, the |tives and property of all Americans in Mexico were In danger. That was the situation “when Mr. Wilson became president in March, 1913. His duty: then was plain, TE was, frst, to use his powers as president to secure pro: tection for the lives and property of | AmericMlis in Mesico aud to require that rules of law and stipulations of | treaties shonld be observed by Mexico toward the United States and its eit! seus, is duty was, second, as the | head of a foreign power to respect the independence of Mesieo, to refrain from all interference with her internal affairs, from ail attempt at domina- tion except as he was justitied by the Haw of nations for the protection of Amerlean rights. ‘The president of the | United States failed to observe either of those duties, He deliberutely aban @oned them both and followed an eu- | trely different and inconsistent pur- pose, He intervened in Mexico to ald | one faction in civil strife against an other. He undertook to pull down | Huerta and set Carcanza up in bis | place. Arms and munitions of war were freely furnished to the noxthern fores and withheld from Huerta “Finally the president Sent our army and nays to Invade Mexico and cap: ture its great seaport, Vern Crnz, and hold it and throttle Mexieau commerce | unti) Huerta fell. | Americans Outraged In Mexico. ‘The goverment of the Cnited States | intervened in Mexico to control the iu- ternal affairs of that independent coun- tay and to enforce Vie. will of the American president in those affairs by threat, by economic pressure and by [force of arms. Upon what claim of | right did this intervention proceed? [Not to secure respect for American | tights, not to protect the llves or prop- | erty of our citizens, not to assert the laws of nintions, not to compel obsere- | ance of the law of humanity. On the “contrary. Huerta’s was the ouly power [in Mexteo to which appent could be | made for protection of life or property. ‘That was the only power which, in | tact, did protect cither American or European or Mexican. Tt was only within the territory where Huerta ruled that comparative peace and or: der prevailed. ‘The territory over | Which Me armed power of Carranza | and Vitia and their associates extended Was te theater of the mest appalling crimes. Bands of robbers roved the | country with unbridled jicense. Amer | eans and Mesicans alike were at their | mercy. and American men were mur- | dered and American women were out- Ntaged with impunity. ‘Thousands were | redueed to poverty by the wanton de- struction of the Industries through whieh they lived. Yet the government jof the United States’ fgnored, eon- | doned, the murder of American men | and the rape of American women and ‘destruction of American property and | insult to American officers aud dedte: | ment of the American flag and Joined | Mtselt to the inen who were guilty of | all these things to poll down the pow: ler of Huerta. Whe? ‘The president himself has told us. It was because jhe adjndged Herta to be a usurper, becanse he deemed that the common | people of Mexico ought to have great- er partictpation in government and Share in the land, suid he believed that Carranza aud Vila would give them | these things, We must all sympathize with these seuitiments, but there Is nothing more dangerous than mls placed sentiment. When our army landed at Vera Cruz Carranza himself, who was to be the chief beneticiary ‘of the act, publicly | protested against it, So strong was the reseutment (iat be could not have Kept his followers otherwise. When | Huerta had fallen the new government whieh for the day bad succeeded to | his place perempiorily demanded the | withdrawal of the American troops. |The universal sentiment of Mexteans required the peremptory slemand, and the troops were withdrawn. | Sul worse than that, the taking of Vera “Cruz destroyed confidence in the sin- |cerity of the American government in Mexico, because every intelligent man in Mexico believed that the avowed ‘reason for the act was not the real ronson, ‘The avowed purpose was to compel a salute to the American flax. Three hundred Mesicans were report €d killed; seventeen United States ma Fines were killed aud many were woundel. At that very time Me. Bry- au, with the president's approval,’ was ‘signing treaties with half the world agreeing that if any controversy should arise it shopld Le submitted to a joint commission and no action shoul be taken until after a full year had elaps- “ed. ‘This controversy. slight as it was, arose on the th of April. and om the ist of the same mouth Vera Cruz Plainly Expressed. A certain rector in a small English village who was disliked in the parish had a curate who was very popular, and who, on his leaving, was present- ed with a testimonial. This excited the envy and wrath of the rector and meeting with an old lady ene day, he said: “I am surprised, Mrs, Bloom, that you should have subscribed to this testimonial.” “Why, sir,” aia the old lady, “it you'd been agoiug Ta have subscribed double.” "HE GAZETTE. CLEVELAND, O.. SATURDAY. MARCH 11. 1 psig elltacl lp rostral Mt al As ours. And that Is why we have falled in Mexico, Policy of “Watchful Waiting.” Incredible ax it seems, Huerta had been turned out by the assistance of the American government without any guaranties frou the men who were to be set up fy his place, and so the mur- Hering and burning and ravishing have gone on to this day. After Huerta had fallen aud the Vera Cruz exped tlon bad been withdrawn President Wilson announced that uo one was entitled to interfere in the affairs of Mexico; that she was entitled to settle them herself. He disclaims all re. sponsibility for what happens tn Mex feo and contents himself with a pol: fey of watehful waiting. And tor the death and outrage. the suffering and ruin of our own brethren, the histred and contempt for our country and the Aishonor of our tame in that land the administration at Washington shares responsibility with the initunan brutes with whom it made comnion cause When we turn to the administra: tlon’s conduct of foreln affairs Inet dent to the xreat war in Europe we eanuot fail to perceive that there 1s much dissatisfaction among Ameri. cans. Dissatisfaction is notin Itself ground for condemnation. ‘The situ- ation created by the war bas been diffi- cult and trying. Much of the corre- spondence of the state department, especially since Mr. Lansing took charge, bas been characterized by ac- curate Jearnieg and skillful statement of specific American rights, Three Errors In European Policy. A study of the administration's pol- fey toward Europe shuce July, 1014, reveals three fundamental errors: First, the luck of foresight to make thuely provision for backing up American di plomacy by actual or assured military and naval force: second, the forte! ture of the workl’s respect for our as sertion of rights by pursuing the policy ‘of making threats aud falling to make them good; third, a loss of the moral fee of the civilized world. through failure to truly interpret to the world ‘the spirit of the American’ democracy Jn its attitude toward the terrible events which accompanied the early stages of the war, First, a8 to power: | When the war in Europe began, free, Peaceable little Switzerland instantly ‘mobilized upon her frontier a great ‘army of trained eltizen soldiers. Stur- dy little Holland did the same, and both have kept thelr territory and their independence inviolate. Great, peaceable America was farther removed from the conflict, but her trade and her citizens traveled on ev- ery set. Ordinary knowledge of Eu- ropean affairs made it plain that the war was begun not by aceldent, but with purpove which would not soon be relinquished. Ordinary knowledge of ailitary events made it plain from the moment when the tide of German fnva- sion turned from the battle of the Marne that the conflict was certain to be long and desperate, Ordinary knowl- edge of history—of our own history Guring the Napoteonic wars—minde tt plain that th thae condliet neutral rights Would be worthless unless powerfully maintained. ‘The Democratic government at Wash- ington did not see it. Others saw St, and their opinions found voice. Mr. Gardner urged it. Mr. Lodge urged tt, Mr. Stimson urged {t, Mr. Roosevelt urged it, but thelr argument and ur. gency were ascribed to political mo- lives, and the president described: them with a sneer 2s nervous and excited Wilson Has Shifted Ground. But the warning voices would not be stilled. ‘The opinion that we ought no onger to remain defenseless became Dublie opinion. Its expression. grew more genieral and insistent. and Aually the president, sot leading, but follow- Ing, has shifted bis ground, his revers ed bis position and asks the country to propre against war, God gant that he be not too late. But the Bemocrat- fe party has not shifted its ground, A large part of its members in congress fire endeavoring now (0 sidetrack the movement for national preparedness, to muddie ft by amendment and turn {Into channets which will produce the least possible result In the increase of nationel power of defeuse. What sense of effectiveness In this effort ean we gather from the presence of Jose- phus Daniels at the most critical post of all—the head of the navy depart. ment—when we see that where preparation has been possible Jt has not been made, when we see that con- struction of warships already author- ized has not been pressed and in some eases after long delay bas not even been begun? If an Increase of our country's power to defend itself against aggression ts authorized by the present congress it most be largely throuzh Tepubltean votes, because all the traditions and convictions of that party are for na- tional power and duty aud honor, ‘As to the policy of threatening words without deats: When Germany gave notice of her purpose to sink merchant vessels on the high seas without safeguarding the Ives of innocent passengers our gov- ernment on the 10th of February one Fear ago informed Germany in unmts takable terms that fn attacking and sinking vessels of the United States aul in destroying the Ives of American citizens lawfvlly traveling upon mer- chant vessels of other countries she woul act at ler peril. ‘They pledged Poor Satisfaction. After trying all the advice she could read how to reduce, aii the sat- Isfaction Miss Hortense MeGhee got was to have her friends look her over and say, “How thin you're getting, dear! Aren't you focling well? Their Makeup Must Differ. One drop of petrol will kill a wasp mstantly, but if applied to 2 bee or a fiy it will be quite ineffective, en RE RR See ee done. On the 28th of April the Amer- fean vessel Cushing was attacked and crippled by a German aeroplane. On the Ist of May the American vessel Gulllicht was torpedoed and sunk by a Geran submarine and two or more Americans were killed, yet nothing was doue. On the 7th of May the Lusita nla was torpedoed and sunk by a Ger. man submarine and sore than) 100 Americans and 1,100 other noucom batants were drowned. ‘The very thin which our govertiment had warned Germany she must not do, Germany did of set purpose and in the most con temptuous aud shocking way. ‘Then, when all America was stitred to the depths, our government addressed an- other note to Germany, It repeated its assertion of American rights and renewed its hold declaration of pur pose. Itdectared agiln that the Amer fean government “must hold the im- perial German government to a strict accountability for any Infringement of those rights, intentional or incklental:” and it declare! that it wonld not “omit any word or ung act necessary to the performance of {ts sacred duty o: man taining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding thetr free exercise and enjoyment.” Still nothing was done and a tons and technical correspondence ensued haggling over petty qnestiongeof de tail, every American note growing less and less strong and peremptory until the Arable was torpedoed snd sunk and more American lives were destroy- ed. and still nothing was done, and the correspondence continued until the allied defense against German subma- rine warfare made it unprofituble and ted to its abandonment, nnd the cor respondence fs apparently approaching its end without securing even that pat tial protection for the future which might be found in an admission that the destruction of the Lusitania was forbidden by iw. ‘The Inter corre. spondence has been conducted by onr state department with dignity, but tt has been futile. An ndimission of Us bility for damages has been secured. but the time for teal protection to American rights has long since passed. ‘The brave words with which we be- gan the controversy bad produced no effect, because they were read In the light of two extraordinary events. One was the report of tle Austrian ambassador, Mr. Dumba, to hie gov ernment that when the American note of Feb. 10 was received he asked the secretary of state. Mr. Bryan, whether it meant business and recetved an an- swer which satisfled him that it did not, but was Intended for effect at home in America. “Too Proud to Fight.” The other event was the strange aud unfortunate declaration of the prest- dent in a publle specch in Philadelphia the fourth day after the sinking of the Lusitania that “aman may be too proud to fight.” Whatever the Aus- trian ambassador was in fact told by the secretary of state, the Smpression which he reported was supported by tho events which followed. Whatever the president did mean, bis declaration. made in public at that solemn time, amid the horror and mourning of all our people over the murder of thelr children, was accepted the world over as presenting the attitude of the Amer- iean government toward the protection of the life and liberty of American citizens In the exercise of their Just rights, and throughont the world the phrase too proud to fight” became a byword of derision and contempt for the government of the United States Later, in another theater of war-—the Mediterranean—Austria, and perbaps Turkey also, resumed the practice. The Ancona and then the Persia were destroyed, aud more Americans were Killed, Why should they not resume the practice? ‘They had learned to be: eve that, no matter how shocked the American” government might be, Its resolution would expend itself in words, ‘They liad learned to believe that It was safe to kill Americans, and the world believed with them. ‘Shaking Fist and Finger. No man should draw a pistol who dares not shoot. ‘The government that shakes its fst first and ts finger after- ward falls tuto contempt. Our dipto- macy has lost ts authority and indu- ence becattie we have been brave in words and Irresolute in action, Men may say thit the words of our diplo- matle notes were justified; men may say that our insction was Justified, but no man can say that both were wise and creditable. Thave said that this government lost the moral forces of the world by not truly Interpreting the spiric of the American democricy. ‘The American democracy stands for something more than beef and cotton and grain and manufactures; stands for somethings that cannot be measured by rates of exchange and does not rise or fall with the balunce of trade. ‘tbe American people, informed by their own experience that fs confirmed by their observation of international lite, have come to See that the independence of nations, the liverty of their peoples, justice and humanity cannot be main- talued upon the complalsance, the good nature, the kindly feeling of the strong toward the weal; that real independ- ence, real liberty. cantiot rest upon suf- ferance; that peace and iberty can be reserved only by the authority and observance of rules of national con- duet founited upon the principles of justice and temanity: oaty by the es- Per Cie ens a eieg a Jews in U. S. and England, ‘There are more Jews in this coun- try than there are in England by many tens of thousands. In both the United States and England the prejudice against the Jews, as compared with that in some other countries, is light. Insists on Too Much. ‘The trouble with the man who blows his own horn is that he 50 often insists on being the whole or chestra. gee haere a rn nee evar ne Penleaeeg eae glum brought a shock of amazement and horror, 1f the publle opinion of the | world was (0 reniain silent upon that, neutral npon that, then all tallc about Peace and Justice and international law and the rihts of man, the progress of | humanity and the spread of lberty 18 |idie patier, mere weak sentimentailty; [then opinion Is powerless and brute | foree rules and wili rule the world, If no dilference is teeusnized between [Hed and wrong then there: are no | moral standards, ‘Phere come times in | the lives of nations as of me when to [treat wronic as if it Were right 18 tren- son to the riche | __The wrong Dene to Belgium. ‘The American people were, entitled | not merely: to feel, but to speak con- “cerning the wrong done to Belgium. Jt was not Hike interference in the In- ternal affairs of Mexico or any other nation, for this was an futernational jens ‘The law protecting Belgium which was violated was our law and [the law of every other etyiltzed coun- try. ‘hut law was the protection of [our peace and security, Tt was our safeguard against the necessity of maintaining great armaments and wasting our substance in continual readiness for war. Moreover, that law | was written into a solemn and formal | convention, signed aud ratitied by Ger- | many and Belgium and France and the Lee ater in eae tice ae [countries agreed, with us that the Iw | should. be observed ‘There was no question here of Inter fering in the quarrels of Europe, We | iad a riz to es nett nae were ueutral as to the quarrel between Ger | many and France, but when as an tn. leldent to the prosecution of that quarrel Germany broke the haw whieh We were entitled to have preserved | and which she had agreed with us to | preserve we were entitled to be heard /in the assertion of one own national right. | Neutra! Between Right and Wrong! Yet the American covermment ae qulesced In the treatment of Belgium [find the destruction of the law oft “tons, Without one word of objection or disseut to the repudiation of law or the breach of onr treaty or the vio lation of justice and humanity in the | treatinent of Belgium our government enjoined upon the people of the Unites States an undiseriminating and all em: bracing neutrality, and the president | admonished the people that they must | be neutral in all respects in act and | word and thought and sentiment. We were {0 be not merely nentral ax to the qnarrels of Europe, but neutral as to | the treatment of Belgium, nentmil be tween right and wrong, neutral be- tween justice and injustice, neutral be. ‘tween humanity and cruelty, seutral | between liberty and oppression. Our government did more than acquiesce, for in the first Lusitania note, with the | unspeakable borrors of the conquest | of Belgium still fresh in our minds, on | the very day after the report of the Bryce Comission on Belgian atrock | ties, it wrote these words to the gov emment of Germany Recalling tie nmane and enlizhtenes aitude hicierto cavursed by the imperial | German Koverament in matters of inter | national right and. partiewlasly. with re- gard to the recor of the #ean, having | earned to recownize the German views | and the German influence In the fell of International obligation as always engaged | upon the side of Justice and humanity, ete. | And so the government of the United Siates appeared as approving the treat: | ment of Belgium. It misrepresented the people of the United States In that acquiescence and apparent approval. It was tot necessary that the United | Stites should zo 10 wae In defense (of the violtted Inw. A single offielal | expression! by the government of the United States, a single sentence deny Ing assent aud recording disapproval [of what Germany did in Belgium, would hive xiven to the people of | America hit leadership to whitch they | were entitled in thelr carnest groping [for the light, It would have ranged behind American leadership the con- science and morality of the neutral | world, | It was not to be ‘The American government falled to rise to the de- mands of the great occasion. Gone | were the old love of justice, the old | passion for liberty, the old sympathy | with the oppressed, the ol ideals of |an America helping the world toward | a better future, and there remained in | the eyes of mankind only solicitude for [trade and profit aud prosperity. | Shrank From the Truth. | ‘The American government could not really have approved the treatment of Belgium, but under a mistaken policy it shrank from speaking the truth. | Such policies as I have deseribed are ‘doubly dangerous in their effect upon ‘foreign nations and in their effect at home. It is a matter of universal ex- “perience that a weals and apprehensive | eat forte sii ure ea croachments upon rights and leads to ‘situations in whieh it is diffienlt to | prevent war, while a firm and frank [policy at the outset prevents dificult ‘situations fron arising and tends most strongly to preserve peace. On the other hand, if a government is to be | strong iu Its diplomacy tts own peo- ple mnst be ranged In its support by leadership of opinion in a national eause worthy to awaken thelr patri otism and devotion: ‘We have not been following the path ‘of peace. We have been blindly stu: bling along the road that continued | will ead to inevitable war. | When our government failed to tett the trath about Belstum it tost the De ala ac ea aCe ae Fast-Running Animais. ‘The swiftest dog in the world, the Russian wolfhound, has made record runs that show 24 vards to the sec ond, while the gazelle has showp measured speed of more than 27 yards a second. One Field Barred. ‘Women may supersede men in many fields of humbie endeavor, but the deld in which a brindle cow is grazing 38 barred to the foma'e in red. which a hetict in its readiness aud will to maintain its rizits would have giv- fen to its diplomatic representations, When our government gave notice to Germany that it would destroy Amer- Jean fives and American ships at its peril our words, which would have been potent if sustained by adequate preparation to make them good and by the prestige and authority of the moral leadership of a great people in a great cause, were treated with a contempt which should have heen foreseen, and when our government failed to take those wonls good its diplomacy was bankrapt Upon ie record of performance which I have tried to deseribe will the Amerlean people say that the Demo- cratle party is entitled to be continued in power? The defects of the present adminis- tration arise from two distinct causes. The first fs the tewperament and train. Ing of the president. ‘The second is the Incapacity of the Democratic party ax it fs represented in Washington both In the iegistative und in the executive departments either to originate wise policies or to follow them when pro- posed by others or to administer them effectively If they are established. The Democrats tn consress sre never con- trolled except with a chub, and gov: ernment with club is always spas- modic and defective. We must not deceive ourselves by assuming that the critical period aris- ing from the great war has passed. ‘The real dancers and thé real tests of the strengti of our institutions lie be- fore us. ‘The most esacting demands upon the wisdom, the spirit and the courage of our comitry are still to be made. In this great contliet all forms of government are on trial, democracy with the rest. ‘The principles of na- tional morailty 22% on trial, We must play our part in the universal trial whether we will or no, for upon the re- sult depends directly the question whether our republic can endure. What Are People to Expect? Bat what are the people to expect t€ the Republican party Is restored to power? ‘This much we can saynow: ‘They may expect. with conddence, that their covernment will meet the economic situation with which we must deal immertiately upon the close of the war, with a polley: of moderate Dut adequate protection to American industry. ‘They may expect that the govern: ment will be administered with the honesty anil. efficieney whieh have marked Qepwblican administrations in the past. ‘vhey may expert that the best poss. ble course for the preservation of peace will he followed by a foreign pol- fey which, with courtesy and friendlt- ness to all nations, is frank and fear- less and honest in fits assertion of Ameriean rights, Thes may expert that thelr xovern- ment will stand for full and adequate Preparation ty the American people for their own defense, ‘The Republican party loves peace and hates war: It Abhors aud Wil Hever submit to null tary doniinaicon: but it is composed of men who fore one couutry and who deem that the iuiependenice, the Iber: ty, the hotinr and the opportunity of the Ainerican democracy ave not mere- ly to be faiked abont with weak and flabby sentiment. but are to be main- tained and safexanied by the prac tleal power of a virile and patriotle poopie, It fs clearszlited enongh to seo that preparation for defense must ave due relation to the possibilities of attack: that miger the conditions of modern warfare nich preparation must he sade before a possible attack: for all propaention will be Impossible after the atiaek.” ‘The Itepublican par ty stands for st citizensbi» made com- petent by trainin to perform the free man's duty of defense fox his country. It stands form revular army no larger than is necessary. batt as large as 38 necessary to serve as a first tine, a nucleus, a sours of instruction and of administration for the army of Amect- can citizens who may be exiled upon to defend their countyy. And the Re- publican party stands for the gospel of patriotic service to our comtey by every citizen, wecording to his ability in pence aud iy var. Te stands for a reawakening ef Ameriean patriotism, It 1s not content that while the people of otlier Intiis we rendering the last full meusire of devotion in sacrifice and suffering and dying forYhelr cota. tries Amerien shail remain alone dull to the call of country and satisiied’in the comforts and pleasures of pros perity. Our Power For Peace: ‘They may expect that assured read. ness for defense will zive power to our diplomacy in the maintenance of peace. ‘They may expect that the power and will of a tinited people to defend thelr eouutry will prevent the application to four peaceful and prosperous and of the hateful doctsine that among na- tons mizht makes richt regardiess of the rates of Justice and humanity. ‘They may expect that the wanifest, potential streuath und competency of the nation will waintain the effective: ness sind reality of that great poliey of nations! safety which in the deciava- tion of President Monroe forbade the destruction of our security by the es tabiishinent of hostile military powers In our neixthorlood ‘They may expect tint thelr govern ment will not forget, bnt will ever RE vec ner tm ette etic Rather Hard on Father, Among the Waiwai tribe of the Amazon basin, as amon: =2veral oth- ers, the curious custom =: the couvade orevaile: that is, when 9 child is born, the father takes to hi: kammock and remains there for a zicnth, During this time he refrains from all strong food and the women wait upon him as an invalid. Meantime the mother at the child goes about her work— ‘Nature Life in the Amazon Wilder ness,’.in Travel, and (Qa ieby. SOY f on eR hs @ Gy Be A TELS COS SEN, COULD NOT CONVINCE JUDGE ‘This man was driving his car in the suburbs 40 miles an hour, your honor,” said the motoreycle policeman. “What have you to say for your- self?" asked the judge sternly. “Your honor, I was traveling 20 miles an hour in one direction when this policeman passed me on his mo- toreycle going 20 miles an hour in tho opposite direction. That's why It seemed to lim 1 was going 40 miles an hour.” “Ten dollars fine,” said the judge. Spiteful Spirit. “You hear people clamoring for their rights all the time,” answered the phil- ogopher. “Quite so,” answered the student of human nature, “but they don't seem to derive much satisfaction trom the situ- ation uniess the restoration of their rights involves great sacrifices on the part of the favored few.” Teo Abstruse. “Rave you made any effort to as- certain the principles of economics on which your theories of govern- ment are based?” inqufred the man with prominent spectacles. “No.” replied Senator Sorghum. “How to land votes is easier found out and, so far as I can see, mora im- portant just now.” ‘Aa nediday eaack: ameaiate: “A good hearty laugh is better than mejlicine,” remarked the cheery citi- zen. “Yes,” replied the fearfully calcu lating person. “But a druggist won't charge you near es much for a little medicine as {t is lable to cost to see & genuinely funny show.” Oratorical Introspection. “Have you made any notes of the speech you intend to deliver?” “No.” replied Senator Sorghum, “I am going to speak extemporaneously. When I prepare a speech in advance I'm liable to read it over a few times and then, being something of a critic of speeches, I lose my nerve.” Gone, But Not Forgotten. Rankin-—What did you ever do with ike $10,000 you got trom the railroad company when an engine ran into your automobile? Phyle—I invested it in mining stock. “Was it a good buy?” “Good-by 1s right.” Gossip. Go a ef ! \ AWN a | \\ y cm | || ring UG a \ Oy BAU up j —S 1 em | | | a ore . i “So that prima donna married the manager?” “Yes, She wasn’t satisied with salary. She wants alimony, too.” Not Consistent. Dubwaite is a plain-spoken man.” Saye Just what he thinks, eh?" “Exactly. He declares that if there ts anything he hates it's sham. "Good!" “But I happen to know that Dub- waite wears a toupee, PILATES 2 “Yep, I got a job cooking for a lady.” “Gal, you don't know nothing about cooking.” “Don't have to know nothing. She's ‘a bride and I'm her first cook.” ‘That Discustion Got No Further. “{t says here in the paper that wom- en are rapidly taking the places of men.” “That reminds me,” said he quietly. “Have you fixed the furnace for the night, my dear?” What Made Him Laugh. “What are you laughing at?” “I was fust thinking of my“poverty." “Weil, ‘what fs thera in poverty to make you laugh?” “It Just struck me that {f 1 should by chance strike {t right some day how many thousands there are ‘who could honestly say they know me ‘when I didn't have a dollar."—Detroit Freo Press. Optimistic Thought. Thousands are bated, but none Yoved, without a real cause,