The Gazette

THE HIGH COURTS WILL OPPOSE GOV.WILLIS! They Are Leading a Movement to Resent the Governor's Insult---His Broken Promise Only Aggrivates The Matter Editor Gazette, Dear Sir:—Some time in 1915, Gov. Frank B. Willis agreed to the appointment of a local Negro as a deputy oil inspector for this county which position he held until January 1 when his resignation caused a vacancy in the oil inspecting job. 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 imprisoned by handlers-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 churches) 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, one whom we thought the best candidate (their) against closed capacity. We, as ministers, sent letters, telegrams and night-letters (telegrams) to Gov. Willis in protest against the appointment of the saloon-man and endorsing the other applicant. The Governor strongly disagreed, arguably ignored our protests and endorsements by giving the position to that element which with their business (saloon) is doing more harm and causing more retrogression of our culture. In this city than the actual physical slavery of our parents before the "sitites." REV. H. C. BAILEY We. the ministers, and churches, stand for race-elevation, a virile manhood, in every community, and for a better manhood in the community, this matter is in direct opposition to all these—and HURTS! What are we to do when these contemptible indignities are continually heaped upon us—appointing saloonmen to state and municipal jobs, a man who should not gre 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, in the state, who will insult us, and Gov. Willis will be made to feel this, politically, if he is a candidate for office in November. Signed. (Rev.) H. C. Bailey, Pastor, Antioch Church, President, and Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. PUNISH WILLIS! He is but one Man and not the Republican Party—Even it Owes Us Far More Than the Negro Ever. Owed it. Columbus, O., March 17, 1916. Editor Gurette, Dear Sir;—I have read Dr. H. C. Balloy's splendid article in The Gazette concerning the outrage committed by Gov. Frank B. Wills, in appointing a saloon-man to office despite the vigorous protests of Cleveland's leading ministers of the gospel and promising the hearty approval of the same, I have known Dr. Ballley all of my life and have always found him a true type of manhood, standing firmly for the cause of justice and the rights of our people. Shakespeare said in his "Julius Caesar." The men he lives after them. The good is often intertwined with their bones. But thanks be to God we have some good men who are being thought of and recognized while they are living, receiving flowers before the Master bids them to lay aside life's weary toils. It is high time that our race awaken to these facts: The Republican party has always thought that they could carry the Negro vote regardless of whatever outrages they might commit, because they feel that the unanticipation of the Negro race. But God accomplished that task and his servant, Abraham Lin- coin, has passed to the great beyond. Furthermore, if we ever owed the party any debt of gratitude or anything else for any part it may have played in the emancipation or during the ten or more years that followed. We have port and vote for nearly a half century we have paid that debt and, too, with compound interest. It is now, and has been for many years, high-time for the party to be considering the tremendeous long-time unfit support and to Be paying something far more than it has in late years on that debt. I believe that, I voice the sentiments of my good people everywhere when I say that the man and only the man who stands for the principle of rightousness or Republican, will be supported by the intelligent Negro ballot. We must punish Gov. Willis as a matter of self-respect as well as race respect. It is our clear DUTY! Willis is not the party. I am a Republican. Yours resp. (Rev.) Carl W. Haskell. WILLIS AND THE OIL INSPECTORSHIP. Our esteemed conferee, Editor John Mitchell of the Richmond (Va.) Planet, and doubtless many others throughout Ohio and the country, do not understand the caustic 'indictment of Gov. Frank B. Willis our ministers and other lead Afro-Americans of Cleveland and the state of Ohio, have filed in the columns of the Gazette and placed upon their personal records for future use. What makes it hard for them to understand it, is the fact that all last year we gave to Governor James O'Brien for barring infamous photographs from Ohio than he was entitled to. We were not aware of this until Chairman Chas G. Williams, of the State Board of Film Consors, enlightened us in his letter to The Gazette, under date, Jan. 21, 1916, when he wrote that the Governor had left the Board free to take such action on all films as they, the Board, saw it. "To that date (and since) Governor G. Wilson that false impression stamped out by the Board, may "mary a word have" us right," last year, soon after his inauguration, the Governor wrote The Gazette that HE intended doing better by his Afro-American constituents, in the way of appointments to office, than any of his predecessors in the office of chief executive of this state. To date HE has NOT GIVEN US A SINGLE PERSONAL APPROACH to his办公室 and other members of his administration, with possibly one exception, very medically indeed, and hardly worth mentioning. NOT ONE FIRST CLASS APPOINTMENT HAS HE OR THEY MADE DURING HIS TERM OF TWO YEARS, which is rapidly drawing to a close. This, too, in the face of his voluntary and published promise. His attention has been repeatedly told by the Governor that he intended to lighten the burden on his part that he intends, even at this late date, to do so. As State Oil Inspector Carr's appointment of a deputy oil inspector for this county, with Gov. Willis' approval of the same, in the face of the protests of our local ministers and other leading Afro-Americans of this community, quite enough is said elsewhere in these columns to make clear the fact that our "beloved young Governor James O'Brien" hasAfro-American constituents as his broken promise to them and his clearly evident intention to mislead them in the infamous photography-matter, indicate. They, too, fully justify all that Dr. H. C. Bailey and our other ministers and The Gazette say and feel deeply in the case of Gov. Frank B. Willis. We assure Editor Mitchell, and all that we propose to do exactly, to hold the Governor to strict hold for mistreatment that is not only inexcusable but positively insulting and vitally harmful to a struggling constituency that has heretofore been most loyal and helpful to him and the party, and that is deserving of far better treatment at his hands, to say the least. This is the most conservative and the only MANLY view of the matter that self and race respecting Afro-Americans of Ohio can take. Gov. Willis must and should hold the Governor to strict hold for mistreatment will be resented at the polls, not only by other people, but also by ours. It is our only use to make him and others treat us with the respect and consideration clearly our in common with all others. In closing his editorial, Editor Mitchell says: "As for Willis, following the lead of the brilliantly edited Cleveland Gazette, we are not yet ready to lose either faith or confidence in the bold Chief Executive of Ohio." Well, brother, if you are following the lead of The Gazette, which "stands shoulder to shoulder" with Dr. Bailey and our ministers and others in this matter, you will have to lose both faith and confidence in "our beloved young Governor" because he has certainly ruined both in us as far as he is concerned. To Gov. Willis we would quote (as correctly as memory will permit) the immortal Abraham Lincoln's everlasting statement: "You can fool some of the people of the time, and you cannot fool all of the people all of the time." He fooled us for quite a year of his two-year term, and that is, enough. Brother Mitchell, Self respect and a proper regard, and respect for the interests of the race in Ohio, compel "to call a hail" and make clear to our people of Ohio the Governor's insulting and harmful attitude toward them. And we are but just beginning to do so, too. There shall be no halt until the close of election day in November. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883, AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. --- ADMIRAL VON CAPELLE C SAY WAITE CONFESSES MURDER OF PECKS Said He Gave Germs and Arsenic, to His Father-in-Law; Claims Dual Personality. New York City, "A Little bad man from Egypt," described by Dr. Waite as the other and sometimes dominating half of his dual personality, was blamed by the young dentist for the murder of his millionaire father-in-law, John E. Peck of Grand Rapids, Mich., in a confession of the crime to District Attorney Swann in Bellevue hospital. "I was in bed, when asked by Mr. Swann he wished to make any statement, passed one hand over his eyes and answered vaguely: "Oh it’s all over. He did it. This little bad man whom I haven’t been able to get rid of until now, he did it all. Chara (Mrs. Waite) knows how I have tried to get rid of him. I don’t know who he was—he told me, he came from Egypt. I never have been him. Waite is said never have been him. I have been board of him. He was born in Egypt in the present life, but lived in other ages. All my inclinations came from him. (Until now, I have always felt the influence of my alter ego, but now I feel free. I feel for the first time that I have cast him off, and my mind is at rest." Roy W. Schindler, a detective who visited, Waite just before Mr. Swann arrived, declared the young dentist told him about the criminality was so senseless that his photographs was so obscured by the "bad man" that he would run around, in the park to throw off the inclination to evil. According to Schindler, Walle took him he administered live bacilli of various diseases to Mrs. Peck, but they did not act as quickly as he expected. He said also, the detective averred, that he fed germs to Peck, but when the results appeared to be "unsatisfactory" he gave arsenic to his father in law. Swain said he was not satisfied with Walle's statements and did not regard them as constituting a complete confession, and indicated that Waite and his counsel were pacing the way to introduce an insanity defense. Grand Rapids, Mich., March 29.—When Mrs. Waite was told that her husband, had made a confession blaming his crimes upon the influence of a "little man from Egypt," she said: "it is all an absurd lie if he has little man from Egypt. His entire statement is an astounding invention. He is laying his plans for a defense on the grounds of insanity." Warns Against Attorneys Elyria, O. The will of Lewis D. Boyton, exattorney, on file. in probate court here, contains the following clause: "I particularly warn against attorneys-at-law and sincerely trust it may not be necessary to employ them in the adjustment of my estate." Boyton quit law after practicing a short time, to enter the coal business. Relatives said he distrusted lawyers, although he had many friends in the profession. Pass Segregation Law Oklahoma City, Oklahoma — An ordinance providing for the segregation of the white and negro races in Oklahoma City was passed by the city commissioners and became effective immediately. McKinley Memorial Fund Grows. Yorktown, O. — Officials of the Nation McKinley Birthplace Memorial association behind the project to erect a $300,000 memorial to the late president at Niles, has announced that grass collections to date have been $200,000. It is expected that the balance of the money required will be obtained by the time needed. Many collections are already made for quantities of the 100,000 McKinley souvenir gold dollars ordered minted recently by congress. TWENTY-SIX LIVES TOLL OF WRECK Three Trains on New York Central Are Piled Into One Mass Near Amherst. TEN. DEAD ARE UNIDENTIFIED Forty-five injured in Crash; Second Section of Buffalo Flyers Run into First, and Twentieth Century Limited Completes Wreck. Cleveland, Ohio. — At the final count 26 were dead, 10 of them unidentified, and 45 injured, one of them fatally, as the result of the New York Central railroad wreck one mile west of Amherst at 3:20 central, or railroad time, Wednesday morning. In the Little villages' two undertakings withdrawn at 10 white sheets sewed into sacks in order that they would hold their unrecognizable contents told the story of one of the most horrible railroad catastrophes of late years. The 10 bodies also established the fact that the names of all the dead may never be known and, for that matter, the true number is somewhat doubtful. The number was reached by calling each bit or set of pieces of human flesh a body when it did not matter any of the other bodies in the morgues. Get First Aid, Return to Homes. Of the 45 injured many went on to their homes after receiving first aid. Twenty-three were taken to the Elyria Memorial hospital, where 16 remained. A cold, damp fog hung heavily over the surrounding country as the first section of the Chicago-Buffalo flyer roared castward. The night was no dark that Denny Herman of Toledo, who sat at the throttle, almost passed a tiny flicker of re- as it appeared to right. The accident, an accident Mr. Herman slammed on the brakes and the long train ground down to a stop. Walter Marston swing down from the rear platform of the last car of the section with a red lanter in his hand, beat upon flagging the second section of the train which he knew was speeding after the section at almost a mile a minute. Looming suddenly out of the black manhole the train might cause the headlight of the locomotive of the second section. Mr. Marston saw it and waved his lanter. The lanter could not be seen through the fog at a great distance. Herman Hess, veteran engineer on the line and for 25 years an employee of the road, had passed the last block and thought the road was clear. As the little flicker of red described an are almost under his cab window he realized for the first time that something was wrong. 16 cars applied, but he had seen the signal too late. With a sickening crash, in which the flagman's wild cry of terror was but as a whisper, the steel nose of the locomotive plowed under the rear platform of the last car of the first section. The last car of the first section of the train had been a day coach, in which there had lived, breathed and slept more than 70 people, according to the railroad office, the train finally stopped, four cars had been demolished and the skeleton frame of one lay across the cab of the engine of death. Pieces of cars, mingled with human bodies, were stacked 20 feet high about the snout of the steel monster. Back of the engine, cars had left the track and buckled themselves across the adjoining track like a rail fence. Seareally had the fenced cars set into place—the pile of debris in front had not yet settled—when there was the screeching roar of another locomotive's whistle as the Twentieth Century Limited came tearing along on the adjoining track. The limited was going "her usual clip," according to her engineer, C. C. Robison. The big engine sped through the pile of bodies and debris piled about the other engine. The crash dammed the limited's engine and, partly tilting toward the wrecked trains, she ground on through the crosses into the cars. Where she came to rest. 100 yards down the track from the first pile of death, there was another pile similar to the first. The cars were used to pick up the bits of flesh as daylight revealed them. The only statement of any official tending to indicate blame for the wreck was a declaration by General Superintendent A. S. Ingalls at the superintendent A. S. Ingalls at the time that from preliminary inquiry it seemed Engineer Hess passed a stop signal which, had it been heeded, would have prevented his section from crashing into the section ahead; Cincinnati Fears Flood. Cinemahead, Ohio—With the Ohio river at 48.9 and rising 11.2 inches an hour, the weather forecaster here predicted that it would reach 55 feet by Friday night or Saturday morning. Merchants along Water and Front streets are moving goods from their cellars, while residents in the lowlands are seeking higher quarters. A stage of 53 feet will bring the water out in Newport, Ky., covering several blocks. The flood danger in the Muskingum valley has passed. LIEUT. COL. DEROSEY CABELL LIEUT. Col. Cabell of the 101th cavalry is chief of staff of Gen. Peralhing's command. Lleut. C. Cabell of the 10th cavalry is staff of staff of G. Peralhaga's com- mand. SRY BOATS TORPEDOED WITHOUT WARNING Administration Making Every Effort to Obtain Details of Sinking of the Two Ships. Washington, D. C.-Apprehension regarding the submarine situation became more acute in official circles here as cablages from London and Plymouth the channel boat Sussex and the Dominion line freighter Englishman were torpedoed without warning. The latest official reports reiterate that several American citizens met death on the Englishman, and that three Americans of the 25 aboard were seriously wounded on the Sussex. Statements of the British and French governments are to the effect that the losses were the result of torpeding. The administration is putting forth every effort to obtain details of both catastrophes with a view to determining the responsibility for the killing and injuring of American citizens. As soon as the state department receives all the information available from British and French sources the president will ack Germany whether it is throw any light upon the tragic incident. Some of the president's chief counselors take grave view of the situation. Others are counseling patience in the belief that if German submarines were responsible for the death and injury of Americans, Berlin will be able to demonstrate conclusively that the attacks were justified. These officials say they are confident that German submarines will with the States implicitly in the conduct of submarine warfare. President Wilson disclosed his anxiety to several of his advisers, but declined to comment. Secretary of State Lansing and Senator Stone, chairman of the senate committee on foreign relations, betrayed their concern, but said they would reach no conclusion until investigation. A private cabiage received here by relatives from Prof. J. Mark Baldwin of Baltimore, one of the American passengers of the Sussex, reads: "All safe." In addition to stating the Sussex was attacked without warning, survivors also declared one of six lifeboats launched after the explosion, capsized, hurried into water, and none of the five bodies left on the Sussex was that of an American. Two survivors, F. P. Drake and Edward H. Huxley, both of New York, said so far as they knew, only three Americans reached lifeboats. Fifteen passengers, Drake and Huxley, also said, were severely injured. They believed several others were on a number of doubt whatever that the channel ship Sussex was torpedoed without warning," says an official French statement issued in Paris, based upon udivails made by the American survivors, reports say. Samuel S. Bemis of Harvard university and Beaard, Mass., deposes that the explosion occurred without the slightest warning to know there was the least amount of damage that that ship Quen into the sea; that some were killed and some wounded; that he saw bodies on the bridge of the Sussex and that while being rescued he saw two persons drown. State Guard in Dining Hall Leavenworth, Kan. -- Andrew F. Turner, a guard in the federal prison here, was stabbed to death by Robert F. Stroud, a convict, in the prison. He looked on, Stroud plunged a oak knife into the officer's heart. Rescue Map on Ice Floe Erie, Pa.—Caught on a floating piece of ice while breaking up a dangerous ice jam in Mill Creek, Otto Hengstler, fireman, was rescued by means of ropes thrown to him by men on the bank of the creek. Due to the rapid throw of the thick blanket of snow which covered this section, Mill creek, in the valley of which 40 people lost their lives in a cloudburst Aug. 2, 1915, rose over its banks again. Every time the street department and the firemen were called to break the ice jam. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS MEMORIAL FUND GAINS SUPPORT BISHOP GLINTON'S LETTER. Financial Campaign to 'Raise $250,000 Among the Colored People Toward a Sum to Perpetuate the Work of Dr. Booker T. Washington Is Meeting With Success. Tuskegee Institute, Ala.—Never has any movement among the colored people grounded so much interest and cooperation as has the campaign for the Booker T. Washington memorial fund. Everywhere there appears to be a growing sentiment that this is the one opportunity for the colored people to show how much they are willing to do for themselves. In their enthusiasm and loyalty some of the friends in their letters to Tuskegee have said that they regard it as a responsibility they owe to the race to contribute to this fund. In a letter one friend says, "The white people of the country, north and south, are eagerly watching to see what the colored people want to do to help the work founded by Dr. Booker T. Washington, and they will give in proportion as the colored people themselves give." At a special meeting of some of the trustees of the Tuskegee institute held in New York city recently Secretary Emmett J. Scott presented letters from men and women of the race prominent in church, in fraternal organizations and in business and road editorial companies, and in the community providing pledging support to the campaign. The trustees were deeply impressed by the spirit of love and appreciation for Dr. Washington which prompted the septiments of these loyal friends. A letter typical of this sentiment has been received from Bishop George W. Clinton of the A. M. E. Zion church. Bishop George's "First, I hereby宝利 $100; second, I shall do all in my power to encourage my friends, and the ambassadors and churches of the Fourth Episcopal district to contribute and shall lend my heartiest support to the campaign in whatever way I can; third, I have in mind a proposition to suggest a Booker T. Washington conference, which is to be held at Cambridge in April, and at our general conference, which is to be held in Jacksonville, Ky., in May, and I also suggest that April 5, the date recently discovered to be the anniversary of Dr. Washington's birth, be set aside by our people as a special occasion to contribute to the cause of Negro education for the support of the work at Tuskegee institute." Fraternal organizations are likewise taking active steps, through their executive heads, to organize subsidiary campaigns among their own members and otherwise cooperating with Mr. Scott, Mr. N. M. McDonalds, Mr. J. M. Prudhomme, and the administration of the Masonic lodge, has written as follows: "I wish to say, in reply that I immediately took the matter up with State Grand Master W. T. Woods of Mobile, asking him to name the first monthly communication in May of each subsordinate lodge in the state as memorial day for Dr. Washington and that I be allowed to issue a circular informing them of the grand master's request and calling upon the lodge to contribute on this day to the fund, sending them to Mr. Leland, treasurer of Tuskegee institute." A similar circular has been prepared by State Grand Master Andrew W. Dungey of Lansing, Mich., and will be sent to members of the Masonic fraternity of the state of Michigan. "I shall issue a direct appeal to all the lodges in the jurisdiction asking them to contribute to the fund as liberally as they possibly can," writes Mr. Dungey. Local campaigns in which our newspapers are taking the forward part and publishing each week, the names of contributors and their amounts are being conducted by W.-P. Kemp, editor of the Detroit Leader, and F. E. Washington, editor of the Citizen, Pensacola. Thus with fraternal organizations, churches and newspapers all working in harmony for its success, the campaign is shaping itself for a vigorous effort to raise the $2,6000 as the colored people's part of the memorial fund. Women's Clubs Plan For Meeting. The various clubs forming the Empire State Federation of Women's clubs are beginning to consider plans for sending large delegations from their number to the annual meeting of the general body to be held at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., the first week in July. Mrs. M. C. Lawton of Brooklyn is president of the State Federation. New Officials of Odd Fellows Hall. The Odd Fellows Hall association in Pittsburgh has installed the following named persons as officials for 1910 President, George H. Newman; vice president, Robert A. Forrester; treasurer, Jonathan P. Hayden; secretary, W. W. Hendrickson; recording secretary, W. J. Childs. STRONG CENTER OF EDUCATION Progress of Famous Ohio Institution Is Kept Abreast of the Times by Able and Wise Management—An Increase In Funds For Endowment and Equipment is Needed. By N. BARNETT DODSON. The progress of Wilberforce university, Wilberforce, O., within recent years has been in a large measure in keeping with the ideas and aims of its founders and supporters. Its growth in public favor and usefulness shows that its president, board of trustees, and faculty keep abreast of the times in directing the work of the institution along safe and definite lines. While DR. W. S. SCARBOROUGH. there have been several additions to the equipment during the past eight years, there is still a pressing need of more room, more funds toward the endowment and money to meet current and incidental expenses prompt. The influence of Wilberforce on the mental, social and moral welfare of the colored race, not only of Ohio, but of the whole country is well known. The students have received training at Wilberforce. Five hundred teachers have gone forth into every state and into all lands to uplift the race, many are teachers. in and presidents of other colleges, some are professional men and hundreds are splendid mechanics, due to industrial training at Wilberforce. The buildings grouped around the college campus are artistic and massive and commemorate by naming the noble members of the race who have contributed so much to the upholding of Wilberforce—Shorter hall, Mitchell hall, Arnett hall and others—and in 1800 the fine trees building was completed and named Galloway hall in honor of Dr. William A. Galloway of Xenia, years ago and to whom perhaps Wilberforce university owes more than to any other white citizen of the state. Above the ornate entrance of Galloway hall, closed in the enduring rock, is this splendid sentiment, "A Sound Body, a trained Hand, a Trained Mind, a True Heart." President Starborough has received much encouragement from both white and colored people in his conduct of the affairs of Wilberforce, and this has enabled him to a great work for the institution. In reply to a letter from Dr. Starborough Dr. Susanna W. D.杜泼 writes: "I think you for your letter and also the circular. My sympathies have always in mind for Wilberforce and prosperity. This for two reasons. In the first place, the cause which it represents is a most deserving one. The sooner we can obliterate the race prejudice which exists in this country the better it will be for all concerned, and there-is no way in which this can be so successfully done as by education, just such as Wilberforce is giving. "Another reason for my warm attachment for Wilberforce is that for many years those who were instrumental in calling it into existence were good students. I am grateful to the heart and worked faithfully for it." Dr. Hollis B. Prissel, principal of the Hampton B. Prissel institute, in a letter to Dr. Starborough also speaks highly of the work. He says: "Wilberforce has had a long and honorable record and it has been a power of good in the past, and I have reason to hope and believe that, under your direction, it will do still greater things in the future. While I have never had the opportunity to examine its work, I feel sure that it is deserving of the support of all those who are interested in the education of Wilberforce and in opportunities to, to visit the institution, and then I can speak from personal examination of its worth." Criticism from sources jealous of the institution's progress under Dr. Scarborough's management does not count for much in the face of such warm words of good will from men and women of culture and broad-mindedness as are quoted here. President Scarborough is a born leader, an educator, gentleman and scholar of the first magnitude. The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) One Year.....$1.50. Six Months.....1.00 Three Months.....50 Subscribers are requested to re- mit by postoffice money or- der or registered letter Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland Ohio, as second-class matter. Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and proprietor, THE GAZETTE, Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in New York and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 180,000 in Ohio. 20,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1916. DARE TO DO YOUR DUTY. "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith we can dare and dare to do our duty as we understand it."—Abraham Lincoln. OHIO'S COLOR-LINE. Several months ago, a committee from the Cleveland Association of Colored men visited Gov. Frank B Willis, while he was in this city, and called his attention to the insulting segregation of Afro-American inmates at the state institutions at Delaware and Xenia—the Delaware "industrial" School for Girls and the Xenia Soldiers and Sailors Orphan's Home. Patiently we have waited for some word, better still, ACTION on the part of "our beloved young Governor," but in vain. Does his silence in the matter and failure to act mean that he, too, endorses segregation? It would seem so. We were under the impression that President Thomas Woodrow Wilson, his southern democratic national administration, and the southern democratic states had a monopoly of that sort of insulting and degrading discrimination, and that Ohio, under Republican control, would have none of it. ARMY ENLISTMENT BARRIER. We do not know how the reader feels about it, but WE do not have the least desire to plead with the southern democratic administration, in power at Washington, D. C., to increase the number of Afro-American regiments in the U. S. army in order that more men of the race may be enlisted. We are satisfied with the four regiments we have and would feel just a little better if the Tenth Cavalry and the 24th Infantry were not so near Mexico. Of course we would be as proud as any one if either of the regiments named captured Villa and his murderous band, and perhaps it is best that we be represented in that Mexican mess, but all the same that feeling and lack of desire to plead, referred to, is there and seems disposed to remain. Read Mr. J. Herbert Gray's letter elsewhere in this paper. It is pertinent. And, too, we are not inclined to criticise the effort of the N. A. A. C. P. to secure for our people larger representation in the army. This for obvious reasons. CLEVELAND'S COLOR-LINE. It is clear, even thus early, that there will be a house-cleaning at the City hall, which will include the city council, next year in the fall, such as followed the late lamented(?) Maschke-Baehr administration. Remember this prediction, and note the part in it the self and race respecting Afro-Americans of this community will play. They simply cannot and will not submit to the political domination of the kind of "Negroes" the Maschke-Davis faction of the local Republican party seeks to force upon them. Spittoon-cleaning, garbage-hunting, street-cleaning, truck-driving and other jobs of that kind are all right for those who want them, but are our people only, of all the people of this city, the only ones not entitled to clerkships and better positions at the City hall? Ask your friends and neighbors this question, please. Then think a little. What is the matter with our high school and college graduates and others capable, are they, only, to be thus debarred, and solely on account of color? It is not a crime to be black, or "Colored" so the race-connection is easily determined. It seems to be so, however, in the eyes of the Maschke-Davis administration. Remember what a flat turn-down R. R. Cheeks, Esq., and the other Afro-American candidates for a position as a deputy police prosecutor received. The Gazette demands fair play and decent treatment for the thousands of loyal Afro-American Republicans of this city. BURTON WON'T DO Hon. H. C. Smith, editor of The Cleveland Gazette, is opposed to the selection of Ex-U. S. Senator Theodore E. Burton as a presidential nominee. He bases his opinion of Mr. Burton on the fact, that during a period of almost a quarter of a century in Congress, he has been an unmindful attitude toward the black man and any and everything that tended to his uplift - Martinsburg (W. Va.) Pioneer Press. We could not coax, jolly or force Burton into doing or EVEN SAYING anything for our people, regardless of STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP Management, Etc., Required by the Act of August 24, 1912 Act of August 24, 1912, of The Gazette, published weekly at Cleveland, Ohio, for April 1, 1916. Editor, Managing Editor, Business Manager, Publisher and Owner; Harry C. Smith, Cleveland, O. No householders, mortgagee or other security holders. (Signed) HARRY C. SMITH. Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 24th day of March, 1916. WILLIAM BROWN, Notary Public. (My commission expires, January, 1919). how badly they needed it. He sat in Congress, more than twenty years, like an iceberg and heard our people outrageously and wrongly abused and their vital interests destroyed as the result of a mean low southern prejudice voiced through imminal legislation. Not one word in protest, during all those years, did he utter; not a single resolution or bill of direct and material interest to the race did he introduce, and when approached and asked to do this, he refused absolutely to do so. What more does any sane Afro-American want or need to know that Burton is not a fit man, from a racial viewpoint, to nominate as the Republican candidate for the Presidency? We simply cannot and will not vote for him or his kind of "haff-baked" Republicans. They are too near the present southern prejudiced Chief Executive, Thomas Woodrow Wilson. And too, we have had quite enough of the Theodore "Brownsville" Roosevelt and William "Brownsville" Taft sort of Presidents. Heaven forbid that we should have more. This southern-sympathizing kind began with Hayes. We regret to say that Ohio has furnished a majority of them in Hays, Garfield, McKinley and Taft. Let us stop there; that is enough. THE OLD INSULT REVIVED The colored men of Ohio owe a great deal to the men who gave them freedom, and a free ballot in the north. —Editor B. Howard Glkey in Column Has Editor Gilkey forgotten that two hundred thousand of these men were colored soldiers, and that the tide of the war of the rebellion did not turn until they were enlisted and became active? Do not the "white" men of Ohio and the country "owe a great deal" to them for the material assistance they rendered "to preserve the union?" Did they not earn and pay for not only their freedom but also a free ballot not only "in the north" but also in the south where it has been withheld, with the government's silent consent, almost continuously since the close of that war? Were those of that two hundred thousand who survived that struggle between the north and the south, and have their descendants, citizens, been protected in the exercise of their rights and privileges here in Ohio or elsewhere, since? Neither the government nor the Republican party has ever made any serious effort to do this, and we say this as a life-long Republican, too. As to the party and its "claims" upon the "Colored men of Ohio," and elsewhere, for undivided support, we wish to call Editor Gilkey's attention to the following pertinent paragraph, to which every loyal and intelligent Afro-American subscribes fully and without reserve: It is high time that our race awaken to these facts: The Republican party has always thought that they could carry the Negro vote regardless of whatever outrages they might commit, because they feel that they bear first honors in the emancipation of the Negro race. But God accomplished that task and his servant, Abraham Lincoln, has passed to the great beyond. We have been told that any party any debt of gratitude or anything else for any part it may have played in the emancipation or during the ten or more years that followed it, God knows, in fealty, united support and vote for nearly a half century we have paid that debt and, too, with compound interest. It is now, and has been for many years, high time for the party to be considering the tremendous debt it owes the Negro for his long-time obligation to something far more than it has in late years on that debt—Rev. Carl W. Haskell, Columbus, O. Editor Gilkey gives the "Reconstruction period" view of the matter that it seems, is still held by a few of his race but which was discarded by nearly all of the thoughtful and intelligent of both races nearly a quarter of a century ago, while Carl W. Haskell, one of our progressive young ministers, states the matter as it is viewed by the great mass of our voters from one end of the country to the other. Editor Gilkey may not know it, and doubtless does not, judging from his expression, nevertheless IT IS A FACT, and has been such for many years, that no more aggravating and insulting political expression can hardly be made to the average Afro-American voter than the one he unwittingly given expression to. What he says is not only NOT true but it also ignores entirely what Rev. Haskell states so clearly and forcefully—that just the reverse of Editor Gilkey's statement is true. Our people, long ago, and in so very many ways, presented "the old gratitudous insult" that the political speakers and others, long years ago, awakened to the fact that they could no longer "fool the Colored man and brother" with such stuff, such rot; that he was so insulting, and discontinued its use. That is one reason we were surprised to find our long-time friend, Editor Gilkey, making so egregious a blunder. We hope HE did not write it. The occasion of the reference, was a plea for the support of the dual candidacles (for delegate-at-large and for governor) of Gov. Frank B. Willis whose father was a veteran of the war of the rebellion. Since the Governor was not in that great struggle and the Republican party did not constitute the northern army in it, it only makes all the more weaker, if such be possible, the unfortunate expression of Editor Gilkey. Possibly we ought not to tell him, but it is nevertheless a fact, vitally pertinent, too, that he has only to continue to use "the old gratitudous insult" to drive from our "dear beloved young Governor" what few Ohio Afro-American he is still fooling, if not insulting, as explained at length elsewhere in this paper. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1916 Written by 'The Old Reliable' Gazette's Correspondents THROUGHOUT THE STATE What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musi- cual—Morganite HILLSBORO—Mr. Rother Bolden has returned from Denver, Col.—George Tompkins and Fred Riggs spent Sunday in Cincinnati. Miss Clara Smith, one of our high school graduates, taught, last week, the history of the illness of the teacher, Miss Lucile Frazier. Miss Viola Scott of Columbus, bus, was the guest of Mrs. Alline Burton, this week—Mrs. Mae Young is visiting her parents in Jamestown. Mr. Henry Henderson is very sick. Mr. Henry an Sunday School is progressing nicely. Mr. Joseph as son is superintendent. Mr. Joseph Jenkins of Columbus, visited his sister, Mrs. J. J. Burr, this week. SANDUSKY—Both S. S. were well attended, Sunday. The Baptist sermon conducted a very interesting quarterly review. The pastor's sermon in the morning, "New Found Joy," was excellent. Mr. Harry Alexander, press, U. S. evening, and Mrs. Chas. Saved by fine paper on the lesson. Mr. Dean Alexander sang a solo and Miss B McClellen also read a strong paper Mr. Jas Davis, teacher of the bible class, is doing splendid work preparing teachers for S. S. work. Tell your friends to take The Gazette and get in touch with the race that are invaluable to the Iowa and intelligent member of the race. CADIZ—The B. R.'s were entertained, Sunday, by Chas, Brown—Mrs. A. J. Guy, of Steubenville, addressed the M. M. society, Sunday afternoon, at the A. M. E. church. A program was rendered—Miss Mary Freeman was delightfully surprised, Monday evening, by 24 young people, with a covered dish party—Dean Howard, of Steubenville, spent Sunday here—"Men's Day" was observed, Sunday, at M. M. church, G. O. Howard, chairman of the committee. A excellent program was rendered. Miss Elnora Jones spent a few days in Steubenville, recently—Wn. Alexander and Mrs. Irene Robbins are seriously ill—A. J. Brooks spent Sunday in Oberlin. 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 announcing entertainments to be paid 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. SMITHFIELD.—W. Carey and W. Greenleaf spent Saturday evening and Sunday in Pittsburg, visiting the former's relatives.—Mrs. Ed. West is visiting relatives in Steubenville.—Ed Fowler and C. Stokes of Bradley, were here, Saturday evening and Sunday.—The stewardess' entertainment, Saturday evening, is fairly attended. Steubenville, S. Harris, J. M. Carey and others were in Steubenville, last week.—Mrs. Carrie Fitzgerald, of Steubenville, visited her sister, Sunday.—D. W. Bigsby has la gripe.—Mrs. F. Christian is slowly improving.—The steward's rally, Sunday, was a success.—The S. S. is preparing a fine Easter program.—Mrs. R. Veney was the guest of Sunday.—J. Davis and Corolla Ramsey, of Hopedale, spent Sunday here.—Mesdames Powell, Hargrave and E. G. Beall were entertained, recently, by Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Veney. CHILLICOTHE. — Robert Liggins sustained a stroke of paralysis, Friday.—Mrs. Mattie Walden has purchased a house and lot in Frankfort.—Rev. T. W. Johnson has been very ill, this week.—Miss Emma Harris, assisted by Miss Jennie Burrell, Mrs. John Burrell, and Luther Brandon, gave a fine supper at Goth's hall, Kingston, Friday evening, for the benefit of Quinn A. M. E. church.—Fred. Richardson, R. J. Williams and Emmett Wright serenaded Mr. Forest Putnam of Quinn A. M. E. church were present. Scott Robert is the new son of Mr. Floyd Richardson.—Glenn Seward of Frankfort, is home from Wilberforce University for the vacation period.—Mr. and Mrs. Frank Steward and sister, Lottie Dixon, and Mr. Granville Hicks spent Sunday her sister, Mrs. Linda Burrell, Mrs. Pearly Ragli, husband and family, spent Sunday here with her son who was stricken, Friday. YOUNGSTOWN. The Pettiford recital and concert at Oak Hill Ave. A. M. E. church, Tuesday evening, was a success. The Coleridge-Taylor Choral society is rehearsing the operetta, "Janie"—P. R. Berry, Jr., spent Sunday in Salem. Miss Sarah Shaw has returned from Staunton, Va., where she attended a sister's funeral.—St. Augustine mission's lenten services, Sunday evening, were held at Mrs. Mary Exum's.—Miss Mae Simmus and Herman T. Smith were married, last Wednesday evening, at the bride's mother, Mrs. Margaret Simmus. Immediate relatives witnessed the ceremony, performed by Rev. John T. Ope. The "chowder" occurred the bride the same evening, at Mrs. R. D. Lynch's, by Mesdames Wm. Honesty, Chas. Stewart, S. West and M. Ragland resulted in a number of beautiful gifts. A dainty luncheon was served.—Mrs. E. Tocus is convalescing—The Gazette is on sale also at Price and Dancy's tonsorial parlors, 116 E. Federal St. Give the local agent your order for it or get a copy of it at the shop. GEORGETOWN—Mr. Wm. Anderson son visited in Ripley recently—Mr. Wm. Schropshire and son, of Eden, of Mills and children, spent a few days "Note in Cincinnati with her husband who is employed there—Mrs. Adam Burm spent last week at Bichn with her mother—Mrs. Emma Strawwater visited in Ripley Saturday—Mrs. Ellen Yates gave a party in honor of her son's birthday. He received some very useful presents—Mr. John Curtis of St. Mary's School, Mrs. Adam Burn—A banquet will be held at A. M. E. church, Saturday evening—Mrs. Ausher Burr and Mrs. Wylie Strawwer, Misses Lizzie Smith, Mary White and Nora Smith spent the weekend in Ripley—Miss Lila Jackson visited Mrs. Beatrice Bennett at Reed's station—Mrs. James Smith entertained Mrs. Nancy Coleman and Missnn Bridges last Saturday—The entertainment Saturday evening and rally Sunday, at Higgins port was quite a success—Mr. John Belt attended the stock sale at Ripley—Mr. Wm. Jamison has about completed the remodeling of his home—Mr. and Mrs. Abe Cox of Center Point, visited Mr. and Mrs. Norah Cox recent!—Mr. Harry Ball of Center Point, visited Mrs. Norah Cox James Bridges preached at Decatur Sunday—A rally at the Baptist church, April 9. Purchase a Gazette to read on Sundays. THE WHITE BAPTISTS' Estimation of Dr. H. C. Bailey Written By the Pastor of Wilson Ave. Baptist Church. Among the reports from the churches came the announcement of the president pro tem, Rev. Horace C. Bailley, of the Antioch church, that he has resigned his pulpit. "Dr. Bailley has resigned his pulpit or not, has made a lasting impression on the people in this city, and more particularly upon his white brethren than any colored brother of modern times. His resignation takes effect at the close of his 13th year of service to this city he found the Antioch church with poor equipment. The church now now ranks in the 500 membership Bist REV. HORACE C. BAILEY and the delegates from that church are usually prompt and efficient in all denominational gatherings of white people in this city. The church belongs to the Cleveland Association. As one evidence of our high regard for him he was unanimously elected president pro tem, of the conference, this morning. He is also a vice president. He presided with dignity and ease. He has served the conference as treasurer, also, and in many ways has been recognized as a valuable man in full fellowship. He spoke feelingly of this fellowship this morning and stated his belief that his work with the church are the only two colored churches in this city and state working together with the white churches on the same footing and in the same association. Dr. Bailey is a good speaker, a broad-minded man of considerable culture and of a very genial disposition. His health is not very good and so he contemplates a rest, possibly supplying himself with the responsibilities of the pastorate are laid aside—(Rev) John Bunyan Lemon in "The Journal & Messenger." Cincinnati, O., Feb. 10, 1916. DON'T WANT THEM NOW! But Just Wait Until a Few Dozen White Soldiers Are Killed in Mexico. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir:—Relative to the article in The Gazette, last week, anent the non-enlistment of Negroes in the army: While I am just beginning to move faster since my recent illness, I went to army headquarters, the first of this week, to get definite information—to learn if there was discrimination, and was informed that every company of Acctents Attention: Send money in advance for $1.75 and that will send you prepaid 12 large $25 cash盒 of Plough's Hair Dressing that will bring you when sold $3; as it sells like hot cakes, you will soon be buying 12 dozen at $12 on credit to be the our agent, send money to your agent, or sell on credit to the private person. 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"Notes of a Busy Life" the four colored regiments in the army have a few more men than is required; that they are still enlisting all colored men who have had previous service and wish to re-enlist. It seems to me the conclusion is this: The Wilson administration does not want to begin the organization of fifth regiments of Negro troops, the same white fear; to meet them (Negroes) down, keep them from the front until we HAVE to use them." Believe me they would then die gloriously facing the front. We should feel proud of the trained soldiers we have, for their self-passion exceeds that of the whites in many ways. Very truly your friend, J. Herbert Gray, 2159 E. 30th Street BOY WON'T HONOR FLAG. Sentenced to Nine Years, but Later It is Suspended—Chicago Paper's Story Repudiated. Des Moines, Ia.—Because of his refusal to salute the flag, Hubert Eaves, age 11, was taken last week Wednesday day from the public schools and sentenced to nine years in the state reformatory by District Judge C. A. Dudley. After a private hearing, however, the court suspended sentence and paroled the boy to his parents on their promise that he would be placed in a private school where education demanded by the Iowa statute is given. Hubert, a member of a religious cult refused to attend a church of all allegiance or礼诅 the flag code, he said, "it had no God in it and there was nothing about saluting the flag in the Bible." There is no truth, in all the "stuff." published in the Chicago Defender which it alleges Hubert said. The boy is a member of the race r. TAKES THE KINKS OUT PLOUGH'S Hair Dressing Does the Trick Every Time! 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He has been in the employ of the Gleim & Selzer Drug Co., Superior Av. and the Public Square, for many months and they will regret greatly to lose his services. Gee, A. Myers, one of our members of the advisory committee of the Cleveland Foundation survey of our local public schools, Messrs. Chesnut, Cheeks and the editor of The Gazette beaches on Monday noon, at the committee's luncheon at the Hollendent hotel, Revs. Bailey, Clark, White, Paxton; Messrs. HON. JOHN R. LYNCH Chas. Martin, Harry E. Davis, J. E. Reed, R. K. Moon and O. Forte. During an interim, he read to them an article he had written in support of The Gazette's position and contention against the city hall, and for a better local leadership in the Maschke-Davis faction of the local Republican party. Mr. Myers has been elected a member of the City club, and will have as his guest next week, Hon. John R. Lynch. He is Army major and paymuster (retired). He will be on vacation morning, at Western Reserve university chapel; in the evening, at St. M. B. John's A. M. E. church, and on the following evening, at Antioch Baptist church, Dr. Bailey and Mr. Lynch being old friends. The major is the author of a new work, "Facts of Reconstruction"—the best publication on that period of this country's history. Mr. Lynch was temporary chairman of the Republican National convention, held in Chicago in 1884; has served several years as the United States Missile Society and as Fourth Auditor of the U. S. treasury at Washington, D. C. He is one of the last members of "The Old Guard." Hon. Joseph Lee of Florida and Ex-Gov. P. B. S. Pinchback, being the other two. There will be no charge to the meetings, only a silver offering to raise funds to cover necessary expenses. The race can afford to miss seeing and hearing this distinguished member of the race, one of the very few of the older ones still alive. C. H. Smith has sold the "Sampson" restaurant, Central Ave., and E. 34th St., to Mr. Fitzgerald, former proprietor of the Herald lunch, now the "Fifty-Fifty" restaurant, Central Ave., near E. 31st St. He has resumed his former employment as a motor-cycle demonstrator at an increase in pay. Dr. Geo. H. Turner informs The Gazette that not one of the students will be able to practice chilopy has as yet been issued a license by the State Medical board which has had a number of their applications on file ever since the new law went into effect, last September. We were under the impression that several had received them. Rev. H. P. Hill of Jamestown, will preach Sunday morning and evening, at Mt. Haven Baptist church. The services, last Sabbath, were well attended and very helpful. Mrs. Lucy Page was delegated to do local mission work and to assist the Yame People at their meeting in the afternoon. Rev. B. W. Clarke returned to Middletown Tuesday. The management of the Old Folks' home is mighty slow giving the public the promised investigation. The inmates say that conditions at the PUSHAW The Arcade. Superior Entrance. *OPEN SUNDAYS. Our Classified Ad Department FOR RENT.—Houses and Rooms— If you have them to rent or if you want to rent, advertise in The Gazette. It brings results. NOTARY PUBLIC.—For such services call at The Gazette office, No. 2 Blackstone building, No. 1424 W. Third Street, near Superior Ave. FOR SALE.—Houses or lots. If you have either or anything else to sell, or if you wish to purchase, advertise in The Gazette. If anything can bring you results, it can and will. Cleveland Sixth City Lookout! This is "April fool day." Mrs. Tillman Farice of E. 63rd St. remains critically ill, we regret to say. St. Andrews Girls' Friendly home, 2169 E. 49th St., was opened, Monday. Wonder who paid for the pro-Willis "Adv." in "The Alien", week before last? Miss Arvilla Green, of Palmville, is visiting her sister, Mrs. L. Roscoe, E. 66th St. Gus, Lyons, of E. 21st St., was taken to the hospital, Wednesday evening, critically ill. Pneumonia There is only one way to get the race news and that is to take "the old reliable" Gazette. Isn't it so? Dr. E. A. Bailey's wife arrived, last week, from Texas and Tennessee, and he immediately recovered from what bid fair to be a serious "indisposition." Mt. Zion Cong, church was crowded to the doors, Sunday evening, to listen to the Columbia quartette. The audience was delighted with the program. G. W. Turpin's mother who went to Dayton from Lakeside hospital, several weeks ago, died there, last week. Mr. Turpin returned today from southern Ohio. "The Clergyman's Courtship", given at St. John's church, was a success, the participants acquitting themselves most creditably indeed. They deserve much credit. The case, an embezzlement charge ($400) of Cory M. E. church, against Rufus S. Justice, twice postponed in Police court, is now scheduled for Friday, April 28. St. Andrew's church ladies served dinner at the parish house from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, to a large number, all of whom seemed greatly pleased with the menu. John Clark. Archie Thomas, M. M. Pangborn, E. S. Smith and G. Green of Youngstown, were in the city, Sunday, circulating among their many friends and lodge brothers (Elks). 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. Walter B. Wright, sr. private secretary to President Canniff of the Nickle Plate Rv., went to Erie, Pa., Monday, with the latter to attend the funeral of a railroad official. Miss Ella Haas will speak, Sunday afternoon, at St. John's A. M. E church on "The Woman in the Community," under the auspices of our Cleveland Council of Women's clubs. Walter Rainbow, 3800 Central Ave. Sunday, at Lake Isle Hospital where he lived since January Slaughter Bros., undertakers, shipped the body to Mt. Pleasant for intern Miss Dorothy Chesnutt's successor, as a probation officer in the Juvenile court, must be a resident of this county and take the state civil service examination, according to a deputy clerk of that court. A juvenile joint in the basement of the Clayton block, Central Ave., was "pulled" by the police, late last week. "Speakeasies," gambling and questionable houses, etc., in all sections of the city are receiving special attention, these days, from the police. Good! Mrs. Lillian R. Thompson of Blaire Ave., soprano soloist, left Prod. Caldwell, who assisted very successfully in Auburn and Syracuse, N. Y., last week. She writes the Gazette that she is having a fine time. This will greatly please her many friends here at home. Rev. H. C. Bailley, left for Detroit, to assist Rev. R. L. Brady of the Second Baptist church, there, in his meetings. Dr. Bailey preached an eloquent sermon at Cory M. E. church, Sunday morning, and on his return to the University Church, G. V. Clark of Mt. Zion Cong. Church, J. Herbert Gray, of 2159 E. 30th St., who has been very ill for some weeks, will leave the city. in a few days, for another city, where he has a splendid another city where he has a splendid GEO A MYERS W. H. MADAM M. P. MASON. Negro plantation melodies, will appear record in some Cleveland leadings pits in the country of gospel songs and choral Sunday. End-August. home have somewhat improved. Publicity is oftimes very helpful to public and quast-public institutions. Those in charge occasionally forget that the public, to which they appeal for assistance, have some rights that even they must respect if their institutions are to prosper, financially and otherwise. The conference held at Shiloh Baptist church, last week Tuesday evening, in which the deacons and Rev. E. H. Smith, former pastor of the church, participated was for the purpose of estopping, if possible, the latter from starting another Baptist church movement. It is said that a meeting for this purpose was held at his home, Sunday afternoon, and that the church is on in view to purchase is on the on Social vicinity of E. 28th St. Shilhoun presented Rev. Smith with $500, a few weeks ago, when accepting his resignation. The Mile Track club, 1200 Webster Ave., whose advertisement will be found elsewhere in this paper, will have its formal opening, next Wednesday evening, April 5. Music and other events will be held in the tette. Members and friends will be especially welcomed on this evening. The former only are entitled to all the privileges of the club. Do not miss the formal opening. —Adv.) Mrs. Addie Sabb Stevens who was arrested last September from E. C. Stevensville, from of this city, but for some years a resident of Des Moines, Iowa, was in the city, Wednesday, and called on The Gazette. She and her father have been living in Oberlin, this winter. Mr. Cassius Sabb is one of our oldest residents of this city and highly esteemed. Mrs. Stevensville, June to Mr. John Russell of Oberlin. A porter on the second section of train 86, in Tuesday's N. Y. C. Ry., wreck; near Amherst, slept in the first car of his train through the wreck. He didn't know there had been a wreck until a rescue party came through the train and woke him up. "Doc" Edwards, porter on train 86, who escaped injury, dressed the wounds of 19 wreck victims before they were removed to hospitals. Edwards, a Clevelander, a medical student and expects to be graduated from us, was wounded in the wreck. Will Mosby, 2358 Hayher St. Cleveland, porter on the second section of No. 86, rode to Amherst on what he supposed was a relief train after escaping from the wreck with a badly cut knee and thumb. Mosby later took a train for Cleveland. PASSES "JIM CROW" LAW. Oklahoma City, Okla.—An ordinance providing for segregation of the white and Colored races in this city was passed Tuesday by the city commissioners and became effective immediately. It provides that if 75 percent of the occupants of a block are of one color no member of the other race will be permitted to buy or own property in that block. This ordinance can be knocked out in the U. S. courts just as others have, and our people here will indulently proceed to do this. It is more than an insult; it is an OUTRAGE, which ought not and will not be tolerated regardless of the cost and trouble of the long-drawn out legal proceedings necessary. REPUDIATE TYLER'S CANDIDACY Xenia, Ohio—Dr. A. A. Browne, Capt. Efron Greenway, Lieut. Henry P. Talbott and James Leroy Everett, of Xenia, in speaking of the candidacy of Ralph W. Tyrler for delegate-at-large to the Republican National convention, and of the institution of their race in all matters, political and otherwise, and that the colored voters of Greene county had no doubt felt favorable toward Mr. Tyrler, but that since learning the true motive of Mr. Tyrler and the source of his support the colored citizens of Greene county have declared themselves as bitterly opposed to any unmany and unprincipled action, and that in their opinion Mr. Tyrler is but a tool in the hands of their most bitter enemy, the Democratic party, and is playing the role of Judas to the race—Columbus Monitor. Woman, Regardless of Injuries, Works for Victims, Faints. A maid from the Twentieth Century Limited was being looked upon Wednesday as a heroine of the "Amherst" wreck on the N. Y. C. Ry. Although her name was not known every one knew or was told how, with a severely bruised leg, she had worked with the doctors for hours and was able to drop at the end of her task in a faint. Her own injury had been more seri Her own injury had been more seriou ous than she had thought. His Deduction. "What conclusion did you draw from your study of that ancient Egyptian inscription?" asked the professor of archeology. "Why," replied the superficial student. "I decided that the old Egyptians had their comic artists, the same as we have." DOINGS OF THE RACE Major Walter R. Loving leaves Los Angeles, Cal., today to spend two months at Ft. Bayard, N. M. From Washington, D. C., comes the rumor that former Lieutenant H. O. Flipper has been with Pancho Villa for two years. U. S. marines are volunteering for duty to drill the companies of the Haytian constabulary. This would displace the Afro-American officers. The 24th U. S. Inf., has arrived on the border while the 40th U. S. Cavalry is about 200 miles south of it in Mexico, leading the chase for Pancho Villa. Private Gilbert of the 25th U. S. Inf., at Honolulu, Hawaii equaled Drew, Kelly and Duffy's record time, 9.35 seconds, in a 100-yard dash, on Feb. 26, '16. The Cincinnati Daily Enquirer thinks that Ralph Tylier of Ohio has as much chance of being elected delegate at large to the Republican National Convention as a snake has hips.—Washington (D. C.) Eagle. Lieut John E. Green is to succeed Major Chas. Young as military attache of the U. S. Legation at Monrovia, Liberia, Africa. He has been at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, with his regiment, the 25th U. S. Inf. Of the three Afro-American graduates of West Point, the U. S. Military Academy—Henry O. Flipper, John H. Alexander and Charles Young—the last two were from Ohio. Alexander is dead. Flipper, it is said, is with Villa in Mexico and Young, with the Tenth Cavalry, hunting them. Following a lengthy debate, the Philadelphia Conference of the M. E. Church (white), recently, voted down the amendment to the constitution of the church providing for the election of colored bishops. The vote was on the amendment known as "Bishops for Races and Languages," and was 157 against to 69 for. In his seventh recital of the season at Carnegie Hall, N. Y. City, on Sunday week, John McCormack, the great Irish-American tenor sang 19 selections, five of which were Harry T. Burleigh's compositions. The words to another were written by James W. Johnson, an older brother of Rosamond Johnson, the pianist. Hon. Archibald H. Grimke, Prof. Kelly Miller, Prof. George William Cook, Hon. Whitfield McKinley, Mrs. Rosetta E. Lawson, and Ex-Assistant U. S. District Attorney James H. Cobb, crowned themselves with eternal glory by attending a hearing before the Congressional Committee on the District of Columbia, where they defended manhood rights, and fought "jimcrow" cars and anti-intermarriage bills.—Pfoneer Press. * * * * M. W. 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SEND FOR MY FREE CATALOGUE illustrating the Largest and Most Complete Line of Hair Goods in this country for colored people, such as Bangs, Wigs, Puffs, Switches, Pompadours, Hair Pins, Combs, Brushes, etc. Rosedale 2770 SLU FUNERAL Office Autos for All The Ex Orkin' One of New The Finesse TH BELL 'PHONE. CORONA BARRIERA CORONA BARRIERA CORONA BARRIERA ADVERT Harvard 1400 C.3933 The Cleveland and Sandusky Brewing Co. OHIO TOWNS IN DANGER OF FLOOD Rivers Are Almost Bank Full and Rising, While Rain Is Still Falling. FAMILIES FLEE FROM HOMES Kenton Is Flooded in Many Sections; Railroads Have Been Put Out of Commission; Columbus Preparing to Care for People. Columbus—Floods seriously menace several Ohio cities. Further rains cities Monday night. Further rains will cause rivers to leave their banks and inundate residence and business places. The most serious conditions were at Columbus, Fremont, Tiffin, Findlay and Kenton. The latter city has been flooded in many sections. The Maumee river at Toledo, Maumee, Napoleon and Grand Rapids is rising rapidly. Do Not Fear Flood. Although the Miami river at Dayton is rising, no flood is feared there. Cincinnati and Hamilton also believe they will not be seriously affected by high water. The Scioto river at Columbus ran up to almost 20 feet, the figure promised by the weather bureau. The flood stage is 21 feet. Early in the day the river rose with great rapidity, but later its rise was slower. With rain falling in numerous places up the river, there is a possibility of serious trouble if the downfall gets into the river while it is at the present high stage. While the Scioto at Columbus was causing terror through the section flooded three years ago, the same river was out of its banks at Kenton, flowing through a part of that city, and 20 families had fed their homes there. A section of the Mad river was rising rapidly at Springfield, but immediate danger was not seen. The Sandusky river was threatening the cities of Tiffin and Fremont, where it did serious damage three years ago, and the Blanchard river at Findlay was bank full and threatening to overflow the downtown section. Families were moving from their homes in Mechanicburg, a suburb of Tiffin. Rock and Tymochoe creeks, near Tiffin, were out of their banks. Several hundred acres of land in East Findlay are inundated and scores of houses surrounded by water. Many families deserted their homes. The Main-st. bridge in Findlay is reported as menaced by rising water. The Big Four between Findlay and Carey has been put out of commission and the Toledo & Ohio Central is not running any trains through Findlay because of a mile of its tracks being flooded through the southern limits of that city. Streams tributary to the Sandusky river near Fremont were filled to overflowing and fields in the country were covered with water. There is every indication the water will go to 12 feet, which is two feet above the flood mark. Numerous streets were inundated. Merchants were moving goods from basements, which were filling with water. At noon Gov. Willis and Adjit. Gen. Hough went through a heavy rain to make an inspection of conditions along the river. Gov. Willis told Adjit. Gen. How if the danger to the bridges became serious he would ask the battalion of engineers of the national guard to turn out and help save the situation. Mayor Karb, who went through the flood three years ago, called the city department heads in conference and made full preparations for meeting trouble if it developed. Acting Director of Service Mooney held a conference later with army and national security officials, obtained a supply of boots and blankets for use in caring for those forced out of their homes. They were being cared for in the city hall, the chamber of commerce, in school buildings, by the Volunteers of America and Salvation Army. Youngstown, O. — The twenty inch bar mill of the Republic Irn & Steel Co. was obliged to suspend operations when water from the rapidly rising Mahoning river backed into its gas tunnels and choked off fuel supply. More trouble of a similar character is feared. Traction line service is threatened by high water at several points. In the low lands near the city the stream is far out of its banks. Dies In Scaled Gar Cortland, N. Y. — When a carload of steel shipped from Youngstown, Q., to a carriage goods concern here was opened, the body of Frank Carroll of Syracuse, N. Y., was found in the car, dead from starvation and frozen stiff. The car left Youngstown, March 6, and came through with seals unbroken. Kills Rival Sultan. Scottsburg, Ind. — In the presence of Miss Grace Huffman, a high school student, Harry Robinson, 24, shot and killed Anil Phillips, 17, a rival for the girl's favor, at Miss Huffman's home in Lexington, a village eight miles from here. Robinson was arrested and says he acted hastily. According to information received here, Robinson had been paying attention to Miss Huffman for two years, but recently she had permitted Phillips, who was a classmate in the Lexington high school, to call upon her. May Have Been Murder Ridgeville, O. — County officials are investigating the death of an unknown woman whose body was found in the woods near here. A crushed skull and marks about the woman's head and face led officials to believe that she may have been a murder victim. The woman is described as being about 35 years old and plainly dressed. Farmers who live in the vicinity said the dead woman resembled a woman who cooked for a construction camp near here several weeks ago. PERSHING RIDING AT HEAD OF TROOPS Headquarters Requested Not to Give Out Information of His Movements. REINFORCEMENTS SENT OUT Minister of War Obregon Charges U. S. With Responsibility for Existing Muddled Situation and the Border Raids. San Antonio, Tex.-General Pershing personally is riding at the head of his troops to the southward. He has asked headquarters here to give out no information of the movements of his troops, or any other details Believe Villa Is Going Southward. The fact that Pershing is speeding southward means that Villa also is making rapid strides in the same direction. Latest reports coming to headquarters say that Villa is making for Santa Catharina. A large body of cavalry has left Columbus, N. M. No announcement was made regarding their destination, but it was understood they are being sent to reinforce Gen. Pershing's command. Troops are being sent from Monterrey, Mexico, by the Carranza authorities to quell the roving bands of brigands infesting the region about Torreon. Travelers reaching Douglas, Ariz., from Cumpa, Sonora, said Gen. Arnulfo Gomez, commander of 1,000 Mexican troops, which will be distributed at towns near the Chihuahua-Sonora state line, had given assurance of protection to Americans. Blames United States. El Paso, Texas. — A statement from Alvaro Obregon, minister of war in the cabinet of the de facto government, charges the United States with entire responsibility for the existing muddled situation and the border raids. The chief value of the statement is that it reveals for the first time the mental attitude of the most powerful man in Mexico toward the United States. Obregon said: "The United States government alone is responsible for the trouble along the border. Had President Wilson refused to allow the Mexican refugees to settle in El Paso and other border points there would have been no trouble. "The United States government has refused repeatedly to turn over to me the Villa spies and former federal officers who are on the American side of the border. If that had been done I would have executed many of them. This would have prevented the recent trouble." When the army and state department officials here read the statement they said: "Obregon's chief complaint appears to be that he has been deprived of several private killings and undoubtedly he would have enjoyed." PARIS ADMITS NEW GERMAN ADVANCE Occupy Part of French Village: Teutons Driven From Positions: Four Ships Sunk. Amsterdam, Holland.—In an attack with heavy forces against, the village of Malancourt, the Germans succeeded in gaining a footing in an advanced work north of Malancourt and occupying two houses in the village, according to the French official statement. Further attempts to advance were checked by the French fire. The French at Verdun have turned to the aggressive, launching a heavy attack on the German lines in the Avocourt woods, from which the crown prince's troops had made vain attempts to advance. There was force enough in the attack to drive the Germans from a part of their position in the woods, Paris reported, the French carrying a portion of the works which the Teutons had constructed. Sinking of four more steamships has been announced. They are the British steamer Klibride, of 3,712 tons, of Glasgow; the British steamship Lavinia Westoll, of 3,131 tons, of Sunderland; the Dutch steamer Duiveland, of 1,297 tons, from Rotterdam; the Russian steamer Ottoman. The crews were saved in every case, but on the Lavinia Westoll one man was injured. There has been desperate fighting on the Austro-Italian front and Rome reports the Italians victors in a 40-hour battle. Railroad Wash Out Detroit, Michigan—Although / several cities and towns in lower Michigan reported relief from flood conditions, the situation at Flint became worse. Flint river went out of its banks and flooded Saginaw street, the city's principal business thoroughfare. Damage totaling thousands of dollars has been wrought. Pere Marquette passenger service from Saginaw to Grand Rapids is still blocked by washouts and the Michigan Central railroad was unable to run trains into or out of Saginaw. Saves Life of Girl Steubenville, O.—Friends of P. J. Mullen, aged 47, conductor on the Pennsylvania railroad, will take steps to obtain for him a Carnegie hero medal as the result of saving the life of Martha Wullinsk, 14, at the risk of his own. Standing in the middle of the east-bound track, the girl was watching a freight that was passing on another track. A Pennsylvania flyer was bearing down on the girl. Mullen, standing 50 feet away, saw the girl and began a race with death. He won. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1916 AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Anyone hearing the word preparedness spoken these days immediately associates with it the training of armies and the building of battleships. But to Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, who came to New York the other day from Daytona, Fla., the term stands for the preparedness of the Negro race for true citizenship, preparedness consisting of moral, spiritual, industrial, and intellectual training. Mrs. Bethune, a Negro woman, is the founder of the Industrial Training School for Negro Girls at Daytona. She understands the failings of her people and is working hard to eliminate their undesirable habits. Herself the daughter of parents who had been under the scourge of slavery, she appreciates that vice and slothfulness are largely due to an ignorance of the laws of right living, and that the remedy lies in proper education. With this idea in mind, Mrs. Bethune set to work. Having made a study of the moral and industrial conditions of the Negro, she went to Daytona in October, 1911, and began her work. With only $1.50 in her pocket but a "wealth of faith in my heart," as she put it, she managed to rent a little shanty. This she furnished with benches made of old dry goods boxes and other castoffs that the people had offered her. Her pupils were five little girls, whom she was going to inspire with the "idea of the dignity of labor." But first she had to overcome prejudice. The white people of the district felt that the school was going to teach the Negroes that they were too good to work; the Negro population, on the other hand, thought that the school was going to force them into degrading service. Aside from this, the problem of money was the greatest. This Mrs. Bethune overcame by interesting James N. Gamble of the Proctor and Gamble company, in her work. She invited him and other sojourners of Daytona, which is a winter resort, to her school, had them sit on her improvised benches, and told them her plans. When he left, Mr. Gamble had promised a sufficient amount of money to build a larger school and had agreed to become a trustee. The school was built and soon became popular among the people, who realized the value of the work. It now boasted of seventy-eight pupils, who were being trained along industrial and academic lines. Among the subjects taught were domestic science, sewing, laundry work, and dressmaking, and, of course, there were academic subjects. That was the beginning of Mrs. Bethune's work. In going among the people she discovered that there was a lack of home life and an absence of pride in personal and property appearance. She spoke to the people, showed them that they themselves were the cause of their poverty and degradation, and almost immediately a change for the better was to be felt. Fences were mended, houses whitewashed, and gardens weeded. "It has been a struggle and a sacrifice," Mrs. Bethune went on. "But I remember the difficulties I myself have had. I was born in a log cabin in the cotton fields of South Carolina. We were seventeen children, all growing in the darkness, but there was a deep longing in my heart for light. When I grew up I longed to do something for my race, especially for the girls and women, for they are the keepers of the home. I believed that my people's starting point must be religion and in- Howard P. Drew, Alvah T. Meyer, Roy Morse and Frank Stephenson are well-known to followers of track athletics as four of the best sprinters ever developed in this country. All four have made remarkable records during their careers on the cinder path and board floor, and all four have held national championships. The fleet-footed Drew is perhaps the best of the four. He formerly competed for Springfield (Mass.) high school, but now represents the University of Southern California. He is the joint holder with Dankelle of the world's record for 100 yards, the time being 0.3-5 seconds. Drew has excellent sprinting form and is considered by many experts to be the really best spinner of all times. Drew has shown many of his best performances around New York and only recently ran the century indoors in ten seconds. Meyer, for many years mainstay of the Irish-American Athletic club, has been kept out of running this winter because of pressure of business, but he plans to return to the cinder path next summer. Meyer takes excellent care of himself and there is little doubt that Hampton institute announces the election to its board of trustees of Charles Gates Dawes, president of the Central Trust company of Chicago; William Cameron Forbes of Boonton, former governor general of the Philipine islands, and Alexander B. Trowbridge of New York, senior member of the firm of Trowbridge & Ackerman, architects. The longest will on record was made by a Gloucester engineer and contained 26,000 words. At least there has been found a hat of absolute value, quite without regard to style or "what the trade will bear," it being the gift of an Ohio miller to his sister, and the material 50 brand new bills of $1 denomination. John Schultz was paroled by Circuit Judge Percy R. Kelly of Salem, Ore., more than a year ago. Since then he has reported his whereabouts faithfully every month. During the last year he has been in the Atlantic coast cities. Canada, South America, Sweden and France. dustry. The work is going on nicely but it needs money. We need scholarships for the girls who are too poor to pay. Then there are improvements to be made to the buildings. Most of them are not fireproof. I am proving for help and I feel sure that the people of the North who have so kindly befriend me will understand what the school and its extension work stands for and will be generous in their help toward this work." From its very inception Hobson City, Ala., with one exception the only colored municipality in the United States, has not only demonstrated its ability to organize and govern herself, but has shown that she can do this along progressive lines. In the year of 1899 her small but spirited band of citizens secured after no little bit of effort a charter and was incorporated and organized in the month of August of that year. Including immediate suburba her population today shows an increase of 150 per cent. Her citizens are contented, law-abiding, and as a whole industrious; vagrants are not tolerated and are tacitly urged to move on or suitable work is found for them to do. She has several public institutions, among which are four churches—two Methodist, one Baptist and one Sanctified, with a combined membership of approximately 500. She is the jealous possessor of one public school with an enrollment of some 200. The state funds appropriated for this institution, by the way, are, however, claimed to be inadequate and should be augmented if consistent with the state's public school funds. Donations from private citizens who are interested in educational pursuits certainly would be appreciated if put in the hands of this institution. The municipality is free from debt and has some money in its treasury; its gubernatorial board is elected every two years, thereby making it possible to keep this feature of its machinery in a more healthy and enthusiastic working condition. Its homes are supplied with electric light and more than half of the citizens own their own homes. Anniston, a city of some 20,000 inhabitants, is located just north of Hobson City, and is connected with it by a trilogy system owned by the Alabama Power company, which maintains a special car for the colored people to take them back and forth to their daily occupations consisting mainly of public works conveniently located along the car line. The city is supplied with good water from the Anniston waterworks, and while the system is incomplete, plans are being made to bring it up to the usual state of efficiency, and thereby insure the least possible insurance rate and fire loss. The city has an organized sanitary system maintained by the police department. Its jail house would be a credit to a city of double its population—being of concrete construction, and equipped with furniture and fixtures to preserve sanitation and hygiene. It has some two or three grocery stores, owned and operated by colored citizens. It has citizens who produce almost within a stone's throw from $500 to $1,000 worth of cotton and other staple products, including hundreds of bushels of peaches per year. Its governing board consists of seven councilmen, a mayor, together with some three or four minor officers, including chief of police. he will make a successful comeback. Morse, who, like Drew, is a colored lad, sprang into prominence by winning the 220-yard national championship at California last summer. He has since demonstrated that his Frisco victory was no fluke by showing his heels to strong rivals on numerous occasions. Morse, a member of the Salem Crescent A. C., is only a youngster and should be a top-notcher for many years to come. Stephenson, who competes for the Trinity A. C. of Brooklyn has done his best work indoors. He is a remarkably fast starter. The will of the late Sanford Johnson was filed for probate at Stockton, Kan. According to this document he left 640 acres of Rooks county land, free from incumbrance, besides personal property to the sum of $7,000. Born in bondage, freed by the Emancipation proclamation, and with no educational opportunities, Johnson succeeded in accumulating property far in excess of that of many of his white neighbors and associates. He reared six children, giving all a common school education. Quall in Pennsylvania are dying of a strange epidemic, which has spread so as to threaten the extermination of the species in some regions, a situation which reminds one commentator that afflictions among wild beasts and birds seldom attack more than one species at a time, the same being true of fish, of which, in any stream, one kind will all die without others seeming the least affected. Every square mile of sea is estimated to contain about 120,000,000 fish. For the convenience of travelers an English firm is compressing tea into blocks resembling plug tobacco. The wireless station at Colon at noon each day sends out broadcast forecasts of the weather in the Caribbean, South Atlantic and gulf regions to aid shipping. Scotland has the first drawbridge in the world in which all the work of opening and closing it and guarding traffic over and through it is done by electricity. LATE FRENCH MODELS --- CHARM IN MOBILE MOUTH FRESHENING UP THE GOWN DESIGNERS HAVE SENT OVER MANY PRETTY THINGS. New Coats Have Touches That Give Them Distinction—Soft Broadcloth May Be Brought Back Into Fashion. The new coats which have arrived here seem to indicate that a number of the designers have taken up the idea of fastening the coat at the collarbone and at the waist line. When the coat is single-breasted the blouse usually shows through the opening, which naturally occurs between the two widely spaced buttons. If a woman does not like this, however, it is better to give enough width to the under front piece to hide the blouse. A Quaint Evening Frock of White Tulle and Lace With Rhinestone Trimming—Long Hooped Skirt With Short-Waisted Bodice. Although there are high, rolling collars at the back of many of the new jackets, there are also reverses that run down to the chest and sometimes formers. Here and there one sees in the new gowns some remarkably lovely materials which we will not be able to duplicate in this country. Barring these, there is a lack of new materials, and it is probable that this season our dressmakers will not encounter one of their most serious obstacles in copying French models, which is the inability to secure enough of the material in the original gown. This is the reason that your dressmaker may have persuaded you in the past to have your French model copied in another color and fabric; you were not aware that she could not get the original material in this country and that she had not ordered enough of it from France to satisfy the demands of her patrons. Serge, gabedina and all manner of silk supply the needs of the dressmaking world this spring, but Jenny, Bernard and other houses may bring soft broadcloth back into fashion through their sponsorship of it. One does not usually think of broadcloth as a spring fabric, but the present weave of it is as cool as serge. It has seen enen over here in uts of white, beige, mauve and gray. It is a question whether American women will adopt it. As a rule, they prefer silk for spring and summer. Our warm weather comes early and stays with us in an exasperating manner. A vast number of the best French afternoon gowns are made or voile, in Point of Beauty Which All Women Should Do Their Very Utmost to Attain. It is said by physiognomists the mouth is the feature which most truly expresses the character. Mouths have won more men for women than any other feature. A man when away may forget the glance of an eye, the shape of the face, but some expression of the mouth still remains with him permanently. Many women who have no other good feature seem to be beautiful because the mouth is bewitchingly attractive, and tells of a soul that is big and fine. It is an easy matter for us to do for the mouth what nature did not do. Of course, we cannot change the marking of the mouth, but we can change the lines about it. No mouth, no matter how beautiful its contour, is attractive if it pulls down or remains immovable in tight, straight lines. The mouth is the most mobile of all our features. It is claimed that those who talk, sing and laugh fre- New Collar-and-Cuffs Sets Are a Boom to the Woman Who Is Forced to Economize. If a woman cannot afford a new suit this spring she can add to her old outfit a new collar-and-cuff set, which will give it at least one up-to-date feature. The leather sets are most attractive, and as they are inexpensive, the suggestion is not out of place. The sets can be had in almost every color—old blue, rich green, oil rose, champagne, tan and white. The edges of the collar and the cuffs are scalloped. In washable neckwear the large deep collars are among the leading models. Those women who were unable to follow the fashion of high collars will be relieved that the low and semilow necks have been revived. Collars of this type resemble the Puritan or sailor style. The materials used in the making of these are plain and pin-striped volle, fine sheer batiste. a instrums sil' threed that is quite effective. The material with which we are familiar and which we call georgette crepe, is also used, and some of the best models are of satin. Probably one may say that the marked departure in afternoon gowns from what we have worn is the half-round decollete. It is trying and has none of the grace of the V-shaped opening, but that will not deter it from a wide success. (Copyright, 1916, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Much Ribbon on Millinery In spite of the fact that so many flowers were seen in the first straw hats worn in the late winter, both in Paris and in this country, ribbon is taking a more and more important place in the season's millinery trimming. Many of the new hats are almost entirely covered with ribbon. Stiff ribbon is laced and used to cover crown and brim, ribbon about an inch wide. Sometimes the crown is covered with bands of ribbon, all crossing at the center. The stiff, twilled ribbon is used for this purpose, too. Then there are the bands of ribbon with tailored bow at the side, sometimes forming the only trimming of sailor shapes, sometimes used in combination with a feather fancy at one side. A charming hat is of black straw, with small bow knots of very narrow pictored electric blue ribbon fastened flat against the crown, all around it. The ends of the bows hang on the brim. Pastel colors in ribbons are used for hats to wear with thin summer frocks. They are sometimes made into big wired bows which perch jauntily at the back or side of the hat, sometimes narrow ribbons are used. Narrow ribbon is run through buckles, too, which add to its trimming quality. Small bone buckles, sometimes metal buckles, are used. L Hat made of black taffeta, with a crown of beige moire, the ends of which are clasped together in front with a head ornament. Black Lingerie While black corsets are not so unusual as to cause one to exclaim, the fact that there is a demand for whole sets of lingerie in black is astonishing. It is said that anything in the lingerie line can be now had in this somber hue, and when it is considered that many of the modish frocks are of transparent material, it seems reasonable, at least, that the brassiere and the corset, too, for that matter, should be fashioned of black material. quently retain an expression of youth never found in those who have not frequently exercised the lips in these ways. To encourage upward trend of the mouth we must begin at the foundation of beauty, character. We must encourage beautiful, kind and pure thoughts. We must think of the sweet, joyful things in life, not of the discouraging, wicked ones. The next step toward developing a beautiful mouth is a full set of teeth in perfect condition. There are several exercises which keep the lips mobile and flexible. Whistling is good, if not overdone. Blowing out a candle or an imaginary candle light is also good. Best of all is to toss a feathery dandelion into the air and blow it about, laughing at the sport which is derived from this, or blow soap bubbles. Blowing them about the room is a good lip exercise. Do not bring the lips tightly together. That spoils the mouth, adds lines and wrinkles, and makes the face old. Just let the lips fall lightly to gather. organdie, soft mull, fine silk crepe, net, pique and linen. On some models there is an elaborate use of hand embroidery or else lace. Fine vals, fillets and clunys and sometimes Irish are among the laces favored. Separate vests are offered in alluring forms. These are finished with hemstitching, French knots, hand embroidery or with bindings of colored linen. The latter is liked because it carries the color of the frock up to the neckwear. Washable Spats The expense of having white spats cleaned is becoming so great that we shall all welcome the advent of washable white leather spats. Also white ivory kid-skin boots are new. These cost $10 and are of real ivory glove skin with light-weight welted soles blind English eyelets, thong lacings and covered Louis XV heels. CAP and BELLS GIRL MATCHED THE RIBBON Little Tot Induces Gentleman With Remarkably Red Nose to Aid Her in Selecting Color. A certain gentleman in Birmingham is the possessor of a remarkably red nose. He was in the town one day, and, having completed his business, was amusing himself by an inspection of the shop windows. Whilst admiring some ties in a certain window and considering whether he should speculate or not/a little girl came out of the establishment, looked up at him, hesitated a moment, and finally caught him by the sleeve. "Please, will you come into the shop with me, only for a minute?" she asked. "Certainly," answered the gentleman, following her at once. Arrived at the counter, the little one astonished everyone by remarking: "There, miss, muver wants the ribbon the same color as this gentleman's nose."-London Tit-Bits. "Your wife wants you home at once." "What's the trouble?" "She has a tight gown, can't stoop, and the drip-pan under the refrigerator is running over." Wherein They Fail. She—There are three things no man can keep—a good joke, a $5 bill and an appointment with a dentist. He—Yes, and there are three things no woman can do—sharpen a lead pencil, cross the street in front of a horse and understand the difference between five minutes and half an hour. Detachment. "That woman with the far-away look in her eyes has played a church organ for twenty years and has never missed a service." "Remarkable! How do you account for the far-away look in her eyes?" for the last away look in her eyes: "I guess that comes from habitually thinking of something else while the preacher is delivering his sermon." He—So your father approves of me, eh? She—Well, he said he'd rather see me marry even you than that foreign count mamma wants me to marry. A Hard Worker. Augustun—You're getting very stout, old chap. Perhaps you don't exercise enough. Shady—Plenty of exercise, old man. I shave myself every morning. EGGS TOO EXPENSIVE. "So De Actor took part in the entertainment. Did he get any encores?" "No; only apple cores." Effaced Maturity. "Do you take as much interest in dancing as you did?" "Yes," replied Uncle Wagglefoot. "But I'm gettin' so dancin' isn't youthful for me. I'm practicin' roller skatin' on one skate." In Agreement. "Do you think your constituents agree with your views?" "Yes," replied Senator Sorghum. "I made it a point to have my views in agreement with theirs before I said a word." "I feel safe from accident on this train." "Why so?" "Because it is in charge of an engineer who has the reputation of being a wreckless one." His Behavior. Him (at reception) — Neurich doesn't believe as if he belonged to the best society, does he? Her—I should say not. He behaves as if he imagined the best society belongs exclusively to him. 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