The Gazette
Saturday, September 16, 1916
Cleveland, Ohio
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IN GOD WE TRUST
FRENCH CAPTURE GERMAN DEFENSES
Whole System of Teuton Third Line, Between. Combles and Peronne, Is Taken.
SEPARATE ENEMY'S BASES
British Artillery is Pounding Away
South of Somme; Berlin Claims
Gains at Verdun; Offensive
Egun in Macedonia.
London, England.—In the first open
battle fought on the western front
since the battle of the Marne the
French have wrested from the Germans the whole system of third line defense between Combes and Peronne.
They captured the whole of the village of Bouchayesnes, midway between these two vital Teuton bases of support, rooted their own lines firmly into the blood-sodden highway that connects the two points and smashed ahead further to the east, taking by storm the Bols L'Abbe farm, lost it again to two counter attacking German regiments, but subsequently reconquered the whole of it.
Fierce Fighting.
The day saw the fiercest open fighting recorded in the west since the early part of the war. Time and again the Bavarian prince hurled his infantry legions against the French, only to be swept back by the soldiers under Gen. Fayolle, natives of Picardy, who rushed forward with the bitter tenacity of men fighting for their heart and home. Berlin admits that the French "entered" Bouchayesnes.
The British rested again, consolidating their lines preparatory to the final attack on Comblés. Nor was there infantry action south of the Somme, but violent gun duels raged all day around Vermandovillers and Chaulines.
On the Verdun front relative successes are 'called by Berlin and Paris. The French report the repulse of German attacks on the positions east of Fleury recently taken by Gen. Nivelle's troops. The German war of fice claims further progress in the northern part of the Vaux Chapite wood, situated, like Fleury, on the right bank of the Meuse.
M. Dimitrakopoulos, former minister of justice, strong friend of the entente, and bitter antagonist of what he has denounced as the "wabby" policy of the Greek war cabinet, is premier of Greece.
French and Serba Advance.
In Macedonia the entente offensive is developing along the western sector. Athens announces a joint advance by French and Serbian troops, who have captured Sorovitz, near Florina, while Paris' reports important progress, particularly a considerable gain by the Serbians near Lake Ostrovo.
The German war office declares the operations against the Roumanians in southern Dobrudra province are proceeding methodically. It also announces German troops have been sent into Transylvania, where they are in contact with the Roumanians who have advanced in the Hermanstadt and Hozestad districts.
Berlin gives out the report a Russian destroyer has been sunk in the Gulf of Riga by a German airplane squadron. German planes also have attacked Russian, sea forces in the Black Sea off Constanza, Roumania, says the report.
Italian troops in the Dolomito Alps on the far northerly line of the Austro-Italian front have captured a position commanding Travenanzes pass and cutting Austria's communications between the Travenanzes valley and the Lagazuoi region, the war office announced.
REJECT ARBITRATION
TRACTION HEADS DECLINE TO TREAT WITH THE UNION REPRESENTATIVES.
New York City.—The Interborough Rapid Transit and the New York Railways Co. formally rejected the public service commission's recommendation for a strike settlement. The two companies declined conferences with union representatives and said they would continue to operate their lines on the present basis.
Many outbreaks of violence occurred at various points along the routes of the elevated and surface lines. The police were active and several arrests were made.
Wooster, Q.-Herman A. Brasher, aged 79, long a prominent Ohio attorney, died suddenly here. He will be buried at Cincinnati, his former home.
Duplex Evolution Idea
Steubenville, O.-Professor C. M. Coburn, of Alleghany college denied that man is descended from a heist, in his address on "Amos, First Writing Prophet," before the Northeast-Dalto Conference which is meeting here this week.
"There never was a monkey in the last 6,000 years that had sense enough even to roll a log on a fire to keep it burning," he said. "When the Lord wants a preacher he goes to the poor and not to the rich," was another of his statements.
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Baron Stephen Burlan, Austro-Hungarian minister of foreign affairs, denies that he is "lying down," and asserts it will continue to defend itself against aggression.
PRESIDENT CALLS ON THE MEXICAN ENVOYS
Visit Is First Personal Dealings With Carranzistas; Assures Them of His Sympathy.
New London, Conn. — President Wilson has lent his personal touch to aid the efforts of the American-Mexican joint commission in seeking a permanent foundation of sympathy and understanding upon which may rest the future relations of the United States and Mexico.
Putting aside for one hour his own cares and his vigil at the bedside of his sister, Mrs. Annie E. Howe, who is dying, Mr. Wilson exchanged calls with Gen. Carranza's representatives. It was the first time during his administration that the executive had dealt personally with a representative of the Mexican de facto government, and the significance of this fact was not lost upon either the American or Mexican commissioners.
For the first time also representatives of Gen. Carranza received directly from the man in whose hands perhaps lies the fate of their country his statement of sympathy with the acts of the revolution which have torn Mexico.
The regeneration of the stricken nation must come from within, Mr. Wilson said; and, in answer for his colleagues and himself, Luis Cabrera, Carranza's minister of finance, chairman of the Mexican delegation, asserted that his country was struggling toward the light of free and democratic government.
the president went directly to the subject of the Mexican revolution. He was, he said, more familiar than his hearers perhaps realized with the fundamental principles of the struggle for free government in Mexico. He assured them of his deep sympathy with those alms, adding that right thinking men all over the world must sympathize with such high aspirations.
Mr. Cabrera, in his reply, referred to the United States as leader of the movement for free government and as the tutor to whom Mexico must look in striving for the type of government its people sought. Much had been done, he said, but much also remained to be accomplished before the aims of the revolutionists could be achieved.
ATTACKS Y. W. C. A. BALL
TEXAS MINISTERIAL UNION DE-NOUNCES DANCE GIVEN FOR TROOPERS.
San Antonio, Tex. — A dance given to national guardmen here recently under the auspices of the Young Women's Christian association was denounced in resolutions by the Ministerial union.
The ministers protested against the dance itself, and especially against the form of introduction employed by the girls and soldiers, they wearing their breasts printed tags bearing their names. The Y. W. C. A. here has decided to eliminate dancing from future entertainments.
Geology Professor Drowned
Columbus, O.-The body of Charles S. Presser, aged 50, head of the geology department at Ohio State university and a well-known scientific writer, was found floating in the Olenangt river near the university. Early in the summer he had suffered a nervous breakdown and had been given a leave of absence.
He's 74. She's 21.
Findlay, O.—Honry O. Williamson, 74, and Mrs. Rose E. Marquat, 21 were married at Arlington.
Note Reveals Tragedy.
San Francisco, Cal.—The brief story of what may have been a sea tragedy has been revealed here. A bottle containing the following message was picked upon the beach:
"Sept. 10, 1914.
"At sea in an open boat, without food or water. Have now been adrift eight days. Two dead. Not expecting to live much longer. We saw the Farallons islands Sept. 1. My strength is fast braving me.
"Harry P. Janes.
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REPUBLICAN TICKET WINS IN MAINE
State Executive. Two Senators and Four Congressmen Are Elected.
Senators Elected by Popular Vote for First Time; Defeat of Johnson and McGillicuddy Severe Blow to Democrats.
Augusta, Maine. — The Republicans made a clean sweep in Maine. They elected Carl E. Milliken governor by about 13,000 plurality. They elected two senators—Frederick Hale and Bert M. Fernald.
They elected four congressmen Louis B. Goodal in the 1st district; Wallace H. White in the 2d; John A. Peters in the 3d, and Ira G. Hersey in the 4th.
Latest Figures.
The latest figures with all but 90 of the 635 presidents in office.
For governor. Milliken (R.), 71,201; Curtis (D.), 61,004.
The same precincts in 1914 gave Haines (R.), 51,347; Curtis (D.), 56,345; Gardner (D.), 16,282.
For United States senator. Fernald (R.), 70,793; Hale (R.), 69,789; Johnson (D.), 62,402; Sills (D.), 61,302.
The returns show a Republican gain of about 35 per cent, over the vote of 1914 and a Democratic gain of about 7 per cent. The Republicans apparently captured the bulk of the Progressive vote.
Chairman Frank J. Ham of the Republican state committee claimed Milliken's plurality over Gov. Curtis would reach 15,000. Besides the election of two senators and four congressmen, he claimed the Republicans carried every one of the 16 counties, with the exception of Knox and Androscoggin.
Indications are the entire state ticket has gone through in the landslide, thus giving the Republicans a majority in both branches of the legislature.
The election was the culmination of one of the hottest fights ever waged in the state and marked the reunion of the Republicans and Progressive parties, whose differences in 1912 gave the electoral vote of Maine to President Wilson and two years later resulted in the election of Gov. Curtis by a plurality of 3,189.
For the first time the two United States senators were elected by popular vote and the Republicans made a detrined effort to win the one seat in the senate and the single seat in the house of representatives held by Maine Democrats.
The defeat of Senator Johnson and Congressman McGullieudy was a severe blow to the Democrats. They had banked on electing both men.
The Democrats had claimed the state by 3,000 and the Republicans by 15,000.
The voters accepted by a large majority the 54 hour bill. The measure, passed at the last session of the legislature, but suspended through the medium of the referendum, prohibits a female or minor from working more than 54 hours a week in any mechanical, manufacturing or mercantile establishment.
Gov. elect Milliken is a native of Island Falls. He was former president of the Maine senate.
Col. Frederick Hale of Portland is a son of ex-Senator Eugene Hale of Ellsworth. He was elected for the long term over Charles E. Johnson of Waterville. Former Gov. Bert M. Pernail of West Poland, who was elected for the short term, was opposed by Prof. Kenneth C. M. Sills of Brunswick, deft of Bowdoin college.
U-BOAT SOUGHT SHIP
SUBMARINE IS SENT TO BOTTOM WHILE WAITING FOR LINER.
New York City. — That the Cunard liner Tuscania narrowly escaped being sent to the bottom by a German submarine near the spot where the Lusitania met her fate was the story told by Ralph Cropley on his arrival here on the Orduna. Cropley is a New York business man and his home is in Summit, N. J.
Mr. Cropley went abroad on the Tuscania. According to his story, on Aug. 19, when the Tuscania was off Old Head Kinsale, four trawlers which preceded the liner to sweep the sea for mines and hostile under-sail craft began firing at an object in their midst. Passengers were told that they were firing at a submarine which had been lying in wait for the Tuscania, and that the U-boat had been sunk.
Will Probe East Deaths
Youngstown, Ohio.—Inquest as to the causes leading up to the recent death of Dr. H. G. Huffman, following a 69-day fast, will be conducted by Dr. E. Henry Jones, county coroner, that official announced.
The question of licensing sanitariums and hospitals is also being considered by health authorities in this connection, owing to the fact that both Dr. Huffman and M. Covalitas, another recent fast vietnam, were patients for a part of their fast periods. In a Youngstown institution.
Postmaster General Burleson was so vexed by the senate's rejection of the nomination of D. C. Williams for postmaster of Chicago that it threatened to give Mr. Williams a reces appointment to the position.
Foundryman Says Lack of Skilled Workers Will Handicap United States.
Cleveland, O. — The predictions that American inventive genius alone can solve the country's greatest in desirial problem, that of the dearth of skilled labor at the close of the European war, invest this week's national gathering of foundrymen in Cleveland with an importance reflected in a record attendance.
"America has failed to keep pace with European countries in producing killed craftsmen in her foundries and machine shops," says C. E. Hoyz of the Lewis Institute, Chicago, manager of the American Foundrymen's association department of exhibits.
"Molding machines that are almost human must take the place of skilled workmen if the United States is to compete successfully, with the old world manufacturers after the war is over. This is the age of America's greatest inventive opportunity."
Technical discussions to advance the science and art of foundry practice will engage the attention of manufacturers and scientists from all parts of the country at the annual conventions of the American, Foundrymen's association and the American Institute of Metals at Hotel Statler.
"Foundrymen, realize that if they are to keep the trade built up while European manufacturers have not been in a position to dispute possession of the world's trade with the United States they must overcome the handicap of a shortage of skilled labor," Manager Hoyt declared.
"That is the great problem to be solved at this week's joint convention and the solution of the problem is the trend of most of the papers and the discussions scheduled on the most interesting program we have ever submitted.
"When the war is over European manufacturers will launch the keenest form of competition the industrial world has ever known. The battle for possession of the world's markets will be infinitely more strenuous than ever before. Victory will go to the nation best prepared to meet the most exceptional situation in history.
"Where the United States is at a disadvantage with other countries is in the failure of the manufacturers to get young, Americans into our foundations. We are not making enough mechanics to supply our needs."
ASSAILED BY COUSIN
PASTOR ATTACKS MR. WILSON'S
St. Louis, Missouri — Rev. Samuel W. Woodrow, pastor of the Pilgrim Congregational church here, and a cousin of President Woodrow Wilson, made the subject of his Sunday sermon the recent enactment of the eight-hour law by congress, in which he assailed that body and the executive. He said the railroad laborer was one of the best paid laboring elements in the country and that he got more on an average than teachers and preachers. "There can be no more pititable spectacle than can president, and congress frightened into yielding to the demands of a small element of the population," he said.
Find 'Greatest of Palaces.'
Philadelphia, Pa. — Announcement has been made at the University of Pennsylvania museum of the receipt of a communication from Dr. Clarence S. Fisher, head of the Ackley B. Coxe, Jr. expedition in Egypt, describing the discovery of the "greatest of all palaces" occupied by the emperors of ancient Egypt.
According to Dr. Fisher's letter, the excavated palace contains the famed Biblical throne room where Moses and Aaron appeared before Pharaoh and demanded liberation of the israelites.
SUCCESS OF RARE MUSICAL GENIUS
STUDENT OF THE MASTERS.
Value of Due Preparation For Service
Exemplified In the Career and Work
of a Former Pennsylvania Boy Who
Has Made Good In Canada and the
West as Soloist.
By N. BARNETT DODSON.
While it is not a rare thing to hear of scores of young men and women of the colored race who have attached greatness to finished musicians, both vocal and instrumental, yet there are scores still unbound of except in a local way. It is therefore a matter of pleasing information as well as a splendid evidence of the progress which members of the race are making in classical music. Albert Edward Greenlaw of Detroit, Mich., belongs to the class of singers which has risen on his merit and whose services have been engaged by the most critical toy.
ALBERT E. GREENLAW.
ers of music for both religious and social entertainment in a very large way.
Mr. Greenlaw is a native of Scottsdale, Pa. His parents, Peyton and Hannah Greenlaw, removed to Canada when their son Albert was eight years of age. Young Greenlaw received his elementary education at Woodstock. Out. Being musically inclined, his parents decided to give him a musical education. Mr. Greenlaw studied under some of the best teachers with special attention given to voice culture.
His made rapid progress in his studies and early showed signs of remarkable capacity for music of the most difficult composition. He finished his course in music with a fine record, and his success as a professional vocalist is due to the thorough preparation which he mastered entering upon his chosen profession.
On account of his thorough preparation and ability as a solist Mr. Greenlaw has endeared himself to the local public in Detroit, through which he has become known, in other parts of the west. For ten years he has been constantly engaged by some of the wealthiest and most influential congregations among the white people in Canada doing solo work. For such services he receives liberal pay, which enables him to keep himself abreast of the times in the best music and also time to study and consult the highest musical authorities.
During the winter of 1915 Mr. Greenlaw was engaged by one of the most successful evangelists of the country who was laboring in town. His solo work in this connection won great praise for him from the pulpit and press. Every place in which Mr. Greenlaw sang and every time it was announced that he would sing throngs upon throngs of people gathered to hear him, and it was said that much of the success of the revivalists with whom he labored was due to the marvelous sweetness and fullness of Mr. Greenlaw's wonderful voice.
Quite recently Mr. Greenlaw sang at the great mass meeting held by the Detroit branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and his fine singing was quite a revelation in Detroit, his own home town. It has so happened that he has always been detained from home in his profession and had, been given no opportunity since perfecting his musical education to acquaint the Detroit people with the splendid quality of his work.
He is still a young man and in the near future intends to tour the east, where musical critics will have a rare opportunity to add their praises to the most successful male vocalist yet produced by the colored people. All lovers of music who have heard him are his friends and admirers.
The Hon. Alfred J. Murphy, noted circuit judge of Detroit, said of him: "It is a pleasure to attest his remarkably the voice. In volume, range and shading his voice stamps him, a rare artist. Personally of upright character, his great vocal excellence should commend him to every lover of music." The Hon. Woodbridge N. Ferris, governor of Michigan, also sent Mr. Green law a letter highly commending his splendid musical work in one occasion after hearing Mr. Green law sing.
SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS.
THE LISLE MONUMENT:
Shaft Erected by the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist Convention In Memory of the Rev. George Liale, First Baptist Modern, Foreign Missionary, Unveiled at Savannah, Ga. Sept. 9.
PEACE
A.D.1916
LISLE
AFRICA, CAL, G, L, L, KYMES, MHN,
HA, COLE, FL, IND, MA, MONT, ARK,
CONN, GA, CWA, LA, MICH, ME, MD.
Savannah, Ga.—After being in session in this city since Wednesday, Sept. 6, the national Baptist convention closed one of the most interesting meetings in its history on Tuesday, Sept. 12. The number of delegates and visitors was estimated by the thousands, and among them wore men and women who have achieved success in business, the various professions and in home and foreign mission work.
The crowding event of the convention's work from a denominational standpoint came on Saturday, Sept. 9. When in the presence of the great throngs of people the monument erected to the memory of the Rev. George Liske was unveiled, George Liske was the first Baptist modern foreign missionary. He was born in Virginia in 1750, ordained to the gospel ministry in 1775 and sailed for the British West Indies in 1782. The monument was conceived in the fertile brain of the Rev. Dr. L. G. Jordan, who has been the corresponding secretary of the national Baptist foreign board for nearly a quarter of a century. Dr. Jordan traveled the country over in a campaign for funds with which to defray the expense of the monument. In this effort the board gave its hearty co-operation, and the denomination responded to the appeal quite nobly:
Among the states which sent in their contributions in time to have their names carved on the monument are California, Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, Minnesota, Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio and the District of Columbia. There was also a contribution from Africa.
OLD NORTH STATE BAPTISTS.
Sunday School Convention Commands
Must Be Present For Entry
Work of Dr. James E. Shepard.
The North Carolina State Baptist Sunday school convention is among the largest and most progressive religious organizations in that section of the south. The annual meeting of the convention recently held at Oxford was largely attended, and the reports from schools throughout the state showed that a great religious work is being done for our young people.
The Baptist denomination in North Carolina has made remarkable progress in numbers and efficient church. Sunday school and missionary workers within the past five years. The coerced Baptists of the state now number over 200,000. The increase in church membership is largely due to the efforts of a better educated ministry than is true of the recent past and to the fact that a larger number of schoolteachers and parents are taking a more active interest in the children of the urban and rural communities.
The convention showed its interest in the splendid efforts which Dr. James E. Shepard is putting forth as president of the National Training school, Durham, N. C., by adopting resolutions commending the work of this noted institution and pledging confidence and support in and for Dr. Shepard's able leadership.
The leaders of the convention are all loyal supporters of race thrift. Therefore it is not surprising to the public that this large and influential body of Christian men and women should recognize and encourage an institution like the National Training school and the constructive work of Dr. Shepard in preparing trained workers for better service.
St. Louis Church Holds Big Celebration.
The Metropolitan Institutional A. M. E. Zlon church at St. Louis held an interesting exposition for a week at the Coliseum in St. Louis in recognition of the half century of the freedom of the race and 104 three hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare. The celebration began on Labor day. A feature of the program was a tabloid and paugust.
SACRED HEAVEN
PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Joseph G. Manning's View About Southern Genditions.
Former Member of Alabama Legislature Reveals Methode Used to Deprive the Colored and Poor White Citizens of the Ballot—Strongly Condemns Lynchings.
Commenting on Senator Tillman's recent speech in the senate in which Mr. Tillman referred to the attempt being made (in his opinion) to stir up national political campaign, the Hon. Joseph C. Manning of Alabama recites some very cold facts as to the political situation in the south. Mr. Manning is a former member of the Alabama legislature. He is on again on the firing line and is well known throughout the country as a great agitator for the civil and political rights of the colored people.
Mr. Manning in part says:
Mr. Stemming in pary says, "Senator Tillman deplores sectionalism, and those who favored the continuance of chattel slavery deplored sectional interference with southern institutions. 'So will it be regarded as sectionalism if one should discuss the conditions of political slavery in the south. Revert to South Carolina, having 165,780 white and 335,046 black male citizens of voting age, and then see that the vote for Mr. Wilmson for
HON. J. C. MANNING.
president in 1912 was only 48,942. There is Alabama electing Mr. Underwood to the senate on 63,000 ballots and having 200,000 black and 300,000 white male citizens of voting age.
"In Iowa Mr. Cummings polled 205,832 votes for senator, and the combined vote of all candidates was 427,102. These two states have about an equal population. One state, Alabama, has ingenuous laws to restrict voting. The other, Iowa, has free government. Alabama refuses to recognize United States citizenship as distinctive from state citizenship and declines to permit the sovereignty bailout rights of all male citizens, while Iowa is within the letter and the spirit of the federal constitution.
"Should a candidate for the presidency take up the cause of human rights, go into this southern question, show up the methods employed to repress the masses of the south, the flow of tears from Mr. Tillman would have the aspect of a Johnstown-flood instead of a sort of theatrical political play on the superficial sentiment of the north, always easily induced not to discuss those issues in the south that are, in fact, of national concern.
"The north goes ahead, building monuments to its heroic dead, honoring the memory of Garrison, Sumner, Lincoln, Grant and those like them, while the southern political machine goes as steadily ahead, undoing all that these great exponents of human justice championed and defended and established, but as yet no voice is raised to protest its wrongs in South Carolina—to cry out, for example, as against the triple lynching in a southern state which occurred in August.
"Are not the lives of those this side the ocean or the border as much to be protected as those on or across the ocean or over the border? If this is bloody shirt it is not at least bloody conscience! The counting out game was played in the south until the present system was conjected, to avoid contests for seats in congress, and the swing of the political axes has eliminated practically all colored citizens as voters, reduced them to political slavery and has cut into the poor whites until the aggregate vote in a dozen southern states, for the Democracy, is about 1,175,000, whereas there are about 2,000,000 black and 4,000,000 white male citizens of voting age.
"There are questions higher than and above merely getting back into power; there are problems of deeper human interest than getting the south in the saddle out of the saddle in the nation's capital."
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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 16, 1916.
DARE TO Do YOUR DUTY.
“Let us have faith that right
makes might, and in that faith
let us to the end dare to do our
duty as we understand It”—
Abraham Lincoln.
RECRUITING EFFORTS IN VAIN.
‘The refusal of President Thomas
‘Woodrow Wilson and the southern-
democratic-controlied congress to pro-
‘vide, for the enlistment of Afro-Amer-
cans, in the recent army reorganiza-
tion bill is being felt, these days, and
‘with a vengeance, too. It is really
amusing and, to some, very gratifying
to note the failure of the “purely
white” recruiting efforts to date and
they have been somewhat strenuous,
too. A recent report, sent out from
Washington, D. C., gravely announces
that the actual fighting strength of
the U. 8. army Is only 78,397 combat.
‘ants and 22,002 noncombatants. Total,
100,937. On July 1, 1915, the fighting
strength of the army was 78,397 and
24,296 noncombatants. Total, 102,693.
‘Thus, after nearly six months of en-
ergetic recruiting to get an “imme-
didate increase” of 20,000 men for the
army, authorized by a special act of
Congress, last February, the actual
strength of the regular army is less
than its strength fourteen months ago.
Army officers and war department
heads see in this amazing condition
an ominous outlook for the regular
army increase provided for in the new
army law. It serves, to point out, they
say, that, although Congress has pro-
vided the legal form necessary for in-
creasing the army's personnel from
approximately 100,000 men to more
than 175,000 men, {t is likely to be-
come @ “mere scrap of paper” so far
‘ag the realization of the authorized in-
‘crease is concerned. Despite the ex-
traordinary efforts put forth by the
war department to increase enlist:
ments, the 15,000 men enlisted during
the past six months have only been
Sufficient to replace those taken/out
of the service by discharges and
eae
THE ANCESTRY OF OUR SHAME.
‘We have repeatedly declared that
the humiliations which have come
upon this country in our negotiations
‘with the belligerents of Europe are the
direct result of the vacillating policy
which the Wilson administration pbr-
sued in Mexico during the seventeen
months of its rule prior to the out-
Dreak of the Byropean war. We must
now thank Senator Fall of New Mex-
ico for giving to us the direct and un-
mistakable lineage of this child of
shame, In his brief and effective reply
to the mock heroics of Senator Lewis
of Mincls, the New Mexico Senator
Pointed out how, in August, 1913, the
‘Wilson administration instructed the
American consular officers in Mexico
to inform the local authorities in their
several consular districts that this gov-
ernment would hold them “strictly re-
sponsible” for any harm that might be
done to Americans or for any damage
that might be inflicted upon American
Property. This notice was given wide
publicity in Mexico. ‘The Mexicans
knew of it; the foreigners resident
there, and the foreign diplomats, espe-
cially, knew of it. Yet the bandits of
Mexico did much harm to Americans
‘and they did much damage to Ameri-
can property—and escaped scot-tree.
Accordingly, when, in the winter of
1915, the administration addressed its
note to the German government warn-
ing the Wilhelmstrasse of the “strict
accountability” which would be: ex
‘acted from violators of our rights as
neutrals upon the high seas, the
Kaiser's Ministers had been, of course,
informed by their alert diplomatic rep-
resentatives in Mexico of the Note on
“strigt responsibility” of the August
preceding. They knew that “strict ac-
countability” was the illegitimate off-
spring of “strictly responsible”"—and
they knew, too, that it was an impo-
tent child of feeble loins. The Lusita-
nia and other horrors of the sea fol-
Jowed as a matter.of course. Here we
have, then the ancestry not only of
shame but of a phrase. The literary
genealogist of the day should be grate-
ful to Senator Fall.
‘THE MASCHKE-DAVIS COLOR-LINE
Vincent Marco, (white), was ap-
pointed an assistant police prosecutor,
‘early this year, after a vain effort had
been made to have a member of the
ace (Roy Cheeks) appointed to the
‘position, by # delegation of our men,
headed by Rey. Elam A, White, whom
Mayor Harry L. Davis refused to sce.
Political “boss” Maurice Maschke, and
Director of Law FitzGerald, who un-
der the law {s supposed to make the
appointment, had "jugeled” the dete-
gation back /and forth between them,
finally getting rid of them by telling
them they “would have to «see the
mayor about it," with the result al-
ready noted. Last week, Marco was
asked to resign by Director FitzGerald
as the result of charges preferred by
&@ woman (white), according to the
daily papers.” Did Maschke, Davis or
FitzGerald offer the place to Cheeks
or any other attorney of the race?
Not so one could notice it. But they
did give it to a young white lawyer.
Places like this one and clerkships at
the City Hall are NOT for Afro-Amer.
icans—when Maschke is the political
“poss.” it seems clear. It was so un:
der the Baehr administration when he
was the “boss,” and has been so, up
to date, under his Davis administra.
tion. Both “republican” too, if you
please. ‘The only clerkship in the
City Hall the race has is the one held
by a young lady who won the place in
civil service examinations under the
Baker democratic administration. In
deed, most of the jobs held under the
Maschke-Davis administration were
secured by our men when Tom L
Johnson and Newton D. Baker, demo
crats, were Cleveland's chief ex
ecutives. Two years ago last fall
Maschke told the editor of The Ga
zette, when approached on this ver;
matter, that “there was too much prej
udice to make such appointments.
And yet, democrats did not find tha
true. Every other race nearly, repre
sented in the republican party of thi
city, is represented in the higher posi
tions at the City Hall and Police Cour
but ours. How do you like it? Jan!
torships, somewhat similar garbag
and streetcleaning department jobs
and the like, are alright, but are the;
the highest positions OUR educate:
young and old members of the rac
competent are to be allowed to hold
It seems so, under the Maschke-Davi
administration, at the City Halj an
Police Court, to say the least. Well
what are you going to do about |
when the time arrives, next year i
the fall? That is the question to pon
der over. THINK!
BOOSTING CANDIDATE WILLIS.
An advertisement announces that
“St, John's A. M. E. church is to hold
a large emancipation celebration serv-
ice,” and on Sunday, too, with Gov
Frank B, Willis, a candidate for oftice,
as the principal speaker, right in the
midst of a campaign. Mayor Harry
|L, Davis and other politicians ae also
to speak, reads the advertisement. A
few weeks ago, during the primary
campaign, another candidate for a po
litical office made a speech in the
main auditorium of the church, and on
Sunday, too, if memory serves ux cor-
rectly. We had thought that particu
lar part of the church dedicated to
religious service and not to the pro-
motion of political candidacies; and of
White men, too, A few years ago, when
the “Constitutional convention contest"
was on, the trustees of that churth
would not permit even “a race mass
meeting,” in the interest of a race can-
didate selected by all of our people
of this communtty, to be held in the
Shure anditorium, saying 4 had been
dedicated to religious service. So the
meeting had to be held in the base-
ment. Other meetings were forced
there for the same reason. But it is
very different now, it seems. What in
the world has “come over” the pastor
and members of St. John’s—whither
are they drifting? Do they wish the
church to be regarded as a political
Wigwam? And to think that for some
time after the beautiful new edifice
was completed they were calling it St
John’s Cathedral! GOOD LORD.
HAVE MERCY! The pseudo “eman-
‘cipation celebration service” is intend:
ed to “boost” Gov. “Starlight” Willis
political chances for election, this fall,
here in Cleveland where he tas insult
ed the entire Afro-American clersy
fand others of our good people by con
senting (0 the appointment of the man-
ager of a saloon in Central Ay. ds a
deputy ofl inspector for this county to
represent all of our people of this com
munity. This, too, in the face of ex-
ceptionally strong ‘and numerous. pro
tests. Ask Rev. H.C. Bailey, presi
‘dent of the local branch of the N. A.
A.C. P,, who led the protests, and
hundreds of our other good people ef
Cleveland, what they thjnk about it?
‘Willis will find out after election day,
in November. Sept. 17 is no “eman-
cipation day” date for our people or
any other. Why then celebrate that
day? Any old day is suitable for such |
a questionable effort, we presume. But
why so disgrace beautiful St. John’s
A. M. B. church and all our good peo: |
ple of this great city and county?
Simply that some few discredited ind#
viduals of color may “coddle” and
“kow tow” to Candidate Willis and |
the local political “bosses,” Maschke
and Mayor Davis. There must be
many good members of St. John’s,
Whose very bloodsis boiling with indig-
nation and shame over this disgrace
ful proceeding. . It cannot be other-
wise. It js a disgrace not only to the |
church but to all of our good people
of, this community. LORD, HAVE,
MERCY! It will cost Gov. Willis hun-
dreds of more votes in November and
ought to insure his defeat. HE ought
to know better even if those who in-
vited him do not. |
SOUNDING THE ALARM!
Our own observation is that the
‘hiss of laborers which is going North
‘a hundred at a clip, is the very self
same noisy, boisterous, rowdy class
‘which has made conditions in the
South in a large measure what they
‘are. If they carry with them into the
North the same rowdyism, the same
ignorance of right living, the same dis-
regard of other people's rights and
rules, then it seems to us the total re
sult will be more harm than good.—
Louisville (Ky.) News.
‘The Philadelphia Christian Recorder
believes that the wholesale emigra-
tion of southern Afro-American tabor-
ers to the north, that has characterized
the last few months, will prove helpful
to those of our people who remain in
that section of the country. So do we.
Equally true, however, is it that It is
proving harmful to our people in this
THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1916.
Tans SHERIFF ELY PF
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EAS ANCS OF Written by ‘The Old Reliable Northiaeet
ef rt Gazette's Correspondents |, steridan. orexon, s
Ne THROUGHOUT THE STATE i 7 cots
TRANNESO| RACE | wrs:ov- cen are cing cacn| sur it
Sky OY at Our People Are Doing Each| American flag is HIS
kee! Week—chureh, Personal, Social, | "olay stripes, We are.
Ser es ‘wodge, Literary and Mu- gr sien
4 ae ge, Literary ; the unvie the Kine ides
DOINGS
OF
THE
RACE
Nearly complete returns from Tues-
day's primary in South, Carolina indi-
cate a victory for Goy. Richard J.
Manning over ex-Gov. Cole Blease by
5000 majority. ‘Thank the Lord!
Col, Reynolds of Winston-Salem,
N.C, recently gaye two lots worth
$1,500 upon which to erect a C. M. E.
church and gave five thousand dollars
‘to assist in the building, He is known
as “the tobacco king.”
About 100 Afro-American democrats
(organized) were barred from the
‘grounds of President Wilson's sum:
mer home when he was formally
notified of his renomination recently.
‘hey went there with the committee
‘too.
"Hugh M, Dorsey, Atlanta, Ga., pros
‘ecutor of Leo M.’ Frank, swept the
“state in the Democratic primaries,
‘Tuesday, for the gubernatorial nom!
“nation. Estimates from 108 counties
“out of 158 give Dorsey 35,000 and Gov
Nat B. Harris, 22,000
| On September 3, 1903, 12 years ago
the Portland (Ore.) Advocate was
born. And since that time it ha:
‘never missed being issued regularly
each week. Therefore, it is one o
|the oldest publications conducted con
[tinuously by Afro-Americans In. the
Northwest. Congratulations and bes
wishes, contrere.
Howard Drew wrote a friend in th
Fast, last week, that his sieknes:
[trouble Is that he has strained a. spi
[nal cord which resulted in partial
and only temporary—paralysis, | “V'
be ft as a fiddle soon again,” wrote
(Drew. “The trouble Is not perma
jnent and Iam told that after it. oe:
away I won't feel any harmfu
“effects.”
Because he would not let Dr. anc
Mrs. L. W. Hatheock of Dayton, 0.
[ride in his sightseeing car, Ernes
Gumpe! is to be made a defendant
the courts in civil and eriminal pro
ceedings, and, Commissioner of |
Jeenses Bellis now considerin
whether he should take away Gum
pet's license for drawing the coloi
line-—N. Y. Age.
Of the more than 160 members 0
{the Black Battalion" — discharge«
“without honor” by President Roose
elt as a result of the alleges
“Brownsville, Texas, Affray”, fourteet
only were ever allowed to return. t
the service and Senator Joseph lien
son Foraker must be thanked for this
‘The back pay (for the time out of the
jarmy) ranged in amount from $1
army) ranged {n amount from $11
28975 to $2,419.65, the last sum fallin
‘ta Private Robert Williams, « tr00)
cook.
| “Hesay to you that I stand, it |
stand for anything, for equal and ex
“act Justice to ail’ 1 stand for the
Inaintenanee of the rights of sll eit!
zens, regardless of race or color. ‘The
‘one word that I love above all others
is the word ‘justice. We want in thi
‘country what is right. * * * You
“want what is right and fair. 1 desirc
to see such falr and decent and jus
tgeatment as will make you proud. o
your manhood and womanhood.”
Charles E. Hughes in an address a
Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn
Sept. 4, 1916.
section, for the very reasons so per
tinently set forth in the excerpt from
our esteemed contemporary, the Lous
Ville (Ky.) News,sgiven above. How.
ever, since they are here, many of
them to remain, it Is absolutely neces
sary “for the good and welfare” of
all concerned that our good people of
every community, where there is any
considerable number of them, organize
to work among them and do what they
can to keep down the “rowdyism” so
much in evidence in many public
places and, too, so very harmful; to
help them to “right living,” and to
have decidedly more consideration for
“other people's rights”, privileges and
comfort everywhere. ‘This primarily
in order to estop the curtailment of
our people's rights and privileges in
public places and 10 keep down our
crime record which has been growing
entirely too rapidly, in recent months,
in the various communities referred
to. In this work our local clergymen
should lead. There ean be no doubt
as to the wisdom of the course The
Gazette las been urging for weeks and
again we advise our good people of
every community to “wake up” and
become active at once. All seem to
see and admit the necessity and ur-
gency of immediate action.
But our Ministers’ Alliance of this
city fails to take proper action for
some unaccountable reason. One day
last week a streetcar conductor was
shot to death on the west side of this
city as the result of a dispute over a
dime. Had that occurred on a Cen-
tral Av. car and the brutal murderer
been an Afro-American, judging by
the community feeling caused by the
dastardly deed, there is absolutely no
question as to what a mob would have
done to our churches and business
places from E. 9th, to E. ssth. streets
in the Central Av. vicinity. Of course,
our ministers can continue to ignore
the matter, but when the unexpected
happens, as it surely will, unless @
change in present conditions is se-
cured soon, they’ will be held to
strict accountability for their failure
to act, because they are admittedly
charged with the moral welfare of our
people of this community. Their con-
tinued! failure will, too, almost amount
to criminal negligence.
Speaking of the recent mob demon-
stration at Lima, this state, the Cleve-
lant Daily Plain Dealer. recently sald
editorially and very pertinently:
“Perhaps no community is wholly
immune from the mad hysteria of mob
violence. It strikes where least ex-
pected and has no consideration for
jocal pride. Doubtless Lima was right:
cously shocked at Newark’s display of
barbarism a few years azo. But today
Lima is the offender. Lima must pay.
the price.” 2
Cleveland can be the next and it is
folly to think that the Central Av. dis-
trict would not be the mob’s first ob:
jective point.
FRESH 0
Written by ‘The Old Reliable’
Gazette's Correspondents
THROUGHOUT THE STATE
What Our People Are Doing Each
Week—Church, Personal, Social,
‘odge, Literary and Mu-
sical — Marriages,
Deaths, Etc.
BIEHM.—Mrs. Emily Williams is
sick.—Prot. Morton began his. school
lust ‘Tuesday. During his vacation he
traveled extensively in_eastern and
southern states—Rey. J. J. Burr and
congregation are preparing to hold |
their annual celebration at the chureh
grove. Buy The Gazette and watch for
the date—Mr. James Blanton of Hills:
boro spent Sunday here. He made a
good talk, and we will welcome him
back.—Mrs, Francis Curtis. and Mr.
and Mrs, Laf. Curtis attended the
Union Grove meeting at Georgetown.—
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wootson attend.
ed the fair at Winchester.—Mrs,
Francis Williams and daughters of
Hillsboro spent Sunday here, guests of
‘Mrs, Emily Williams. —Be’ sure and
purchase THE GAZETTE every week
from agent. It is our oldest and best
“newspaper and race advocate, It's ed-
itor is the “father” of Ohio's Civil
‘Rights’ law and AntkLynching law,
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YOUNGSTOWN.—Kev. J. M. Gil
mere, D, D., is completing his fourth
year of great success at Oak Hill Ave
A.M. E, church. The entire debt has
been paid and the property greatly {m-
proved. ‘The return of Dr. Gilmete is
earnestly «requested by Its oficial
board and congregation. He will leave
after Sunday for conference.—Geo.
Burk, of Sharon; and Joe Williams, of
New Castle, Pa., spent Sunday here.
Charles Berry is improving after two
Weeks" Mlnest.—Mrs. Adelaide Burton
and Mrs, Agnes Lucas left Monday for
a two Weeks’ trip east——-Mrs, Edward
Carey, of Cleveland, visited her daughy
ter, Mrs. H. Douglass, last_ week
Mrs. Anna Shaw and son, Earl, and
Miss Martha Williams, of Pittsburg,
spent Sunday with Mrs. C. A. Jack:
son.—Buekeye lodge, Elks, will meet
Sept. 21-—Edward J. Williams has
been promoted to iarsampler and
tester at the Republic iron and Steel
in Works, and Peek Howard to checker
in store-house—Mrs, L.A. R. Cum
ningham and Charles Williams are
seriously il, at this writing.—Mrs.
Florence Taylor, of Cleveland, is the
guest of Mrs. John Levis.—Mrs. Ed-
Ward Turner, of Lowelville, entertain.
ed in honor of Mrs. Taylor.—-Rev. John
Oxborn will leave for Philadelphia,
Sept. 25, to attend a convention.
CADIZ.—Mr. Theodore Mason, of
Wilberforce, is visiting hit brother, Mr,
T. Mason. “Mr. Spotwood Greene, of
Bellaire, is visiting Mr. Noble Mason.
—Cylde’ Stuart, of Flushing, was. in
town, Saturday—A number of young
men from Mt. Pleasant were here, Sun-
day evening —Several of our young
men have uccepted positions in the
shops at Dennison.—Mrs, Jeanette
Lawrence died, Sept. 8. The funeral
sermon was preached by Rev. W. W.
Stevens at Simpson M. B. church, Sept,
40. Outof-town people attending,
‘were; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. White, of
Warrington; Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Hawkins, Mr. and Mrs. O. Dickson and
family, Mr. and Mrs, George Powell, of
Long Run; Mr. Charles Powell, Mr.
and Mrs, Joe Smith, of Emerson; Mr,
and Mrs. Henry Fransco and family,
Mr. and Mrs, Jas. Kindell, Earl McGee,
Mr. and Mrs, Harris Blackwell and
family of Hopedale; Mr. and Mrs, Nor-
ris: Duling and family, Walter Law-
rence, of Lorain; Mr. ‘and Mrs. Jno.
Ford of Dunglen, — Jno. Palze of
Wheeler's Camp, spent Stinday here,
Other out-of-town folks here were
Charles Kenney and Lawrence Stuart,
of Harrisville; Howard and William
Ramsey, Charley, Frank and Harry
Christian, of Hopedale, and Lawrence
Ogden of Akron.—Mr. Chas. Brooks
and Miss Bertha Carter went to Pitts:
burs: to getiterried:
HILLSBORO. —Leroy Butler left
Saturday to visit in Detroit—Miss Ma.
Fie Cole and Howard Kilgore spent
Sunday at Washington C. H.—Rev. G.
W. Burr preached at Bloomingbure
Sunday.—Mrs, Taylor, children and
Mrs, Clara Evans returned to Indian-
apolis Saturday after an extended visit
here. They were accompanied by the
tter’s sister, Mrs. Alice Day.—Prof.
ahd Mrs. Chester Anderson have re-
turned from Cincinnati, where they
spent. their vacation, His school be-
gan Monday.—Mr. Porter Touncil of
Cleveland, @ former resident of Hills
boro, was here last week. He is a
reader and warm admirer of “the old
reliable” Gazette.—Mr. George Hud-
son has returned from Cleveland.—
Rey, D. E. Bass of Dayton preached
at Wesleyan church Sunday.—There
Was a basket meeting at the A. M. E.
church Sunday. Rey. Ross will leave
for district conference this. week at
Washington C. H.—Messrs. Newton
and Frank Delaney, Mrs. M. Alsop of
Gaktey, Mrs. Irene Alsop of Cincinnati,
and Mrs. Millie Qualls of Washington
C. H, attended William Delaney's fu-
neral last Wednesday.—Miss Mary
Trimble has returned to Cleveland
after a week's visit with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. James Trimble —Mrs.
Loa Wallace and daughter, Mrs, Gil
more, are visiting relatives in Cleve-
land.—Mrs. Martha Plowden of Spring
field’ was’ here last Friday—Mrs.
Clarence Jobnson and Mrs. Asa Jack-
son spent Sunday in the country at
Mr, and Mrs. Paul Campbell's —Miss
Heien Christy and Mr, Frazier of Cin-
cinnati were here recebtly.—Miss Ray-
mond Day returned to Cincinnati Sun-
day after « visit with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Milton Day,
Don't wait for the collector, but
send or bring what you owe The Ga.
zette to the office. It is pleasanter to
all concerned.
' SHERIFF ELY PRAISED!
Also Will Edwin Smith’s Splendid Let-
ters to “The Old Reltable”—An In-
teresting Letter from the *
Northwest.
Sheridan, Oregon, Sept. 3, 1916.
editor Gazette, Dear Sir:—1 must
write and tell you how I enjofed the
letters to The Gazette from the Mex-
ican border written by Mr. Will Edwin
Smith. Also he ig right in saying the
American flag is HIS flag—it's stars as
well as stripes. We are a nation in the
making, not always, nor every one liv-
ing up to the high ideals typified by
the flag. Ah! dear friend, humanity
climbs slowly. Searcely has one gen
eration passed since slavery ceased to
be lawful. Not in my time, pethaps
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Sherman Ely, sheriff of Allen county,
Olio, did his duty as he had sworn to
do it; and for the faithful perform-
ance thereof he was assailed, maltreat-
ed, brutally beaten and nearly hanged
by an enraged mob. A heinous crime
had been committed. Suspicion ate
tached to a Negro. He was arrested
and turned over to the custody of
Sheriff Ely, to be held for trial by due
process of law, Evidently the sheriff
knew his community. Mob passion was
fired, and He knew that the madness
of it was unreasoning, and ax brutal in
its muwnifestations as that which
prompled the crime it sought to
avenge, Sheriff Ely believed profound-
ly in the*binding solemnity of his oath
Of office. He was elected to execute
the jaw. He is of that admirable type
{ unswerving conscience and grim de-
Pssination to do just that and nothing
se. It was the law that the accused
Negro should have bis day in court.
it was the worn duty of the sheriff to
enforce the law in that respect, Just
ais It would be his duty to enforce it
if the Negro had been tried, conyict-
ed and sentenced to the extreme pen-
alty. Anticipating the blind fury. of
the mob, Sheriff Ely undertook to ful:
Hill the sworn function of his office,
and thereby go spare his community
the evil blat which mob-madness
would put upon it. That whieh the
sheriff sought to do was precisely what
every citizen who voted for him bad a
Fight to expect, and what most of
them did expect.” He provedsheroically
true to the trust reposed in him. He
braved the demon of race hatred,
frothing in the white heat of mob vio
lence. He cheated the mob of its prey.
He won, though the price he paid, in
the death of his little daughter, was
to him # heartwringing tragedy. He
was a man among beasts, and the man
was vietor. Ignoble is the stain of
this race hatred on the American
exeutcheon, showing not so frequent-
ly as in the past, yet with malignant
color does it crop out here and there,
and now and then. The rage of the |
mob is utterly condemned by all think-
ing persons; and in the measure of
that condemnation, the heroism of the.
peace officer who braves it, and, suc:
cessfully, as this Allen county sheriff
did, stands out the clearer and com
mands the greater praise.
“IDENTIFIES” WRONG MAN.
The Victim of the Lima Assauit Picks
as Assailant a Man Three Months
in Jail.
Lima, O.—Hope that Mrs.* Vivian
Baber, Said to have been attacked last
week by Charles Daniels, whom a mob
later attempted to lynch, could iden-
tify the man positively as her assail-
ant, Was dispelled, last Tuesday
night. ‘Mnmediately ‘after the arrest
of Daniels Mrs. Baber declared he
was the man who had attacked her.
Sheriff Bley sent three Negro pris.
oners from the county jail, chained
together, to the city hospital to see if
Mrs, Baber could tell the difference
between faces. The woman immedi-
ately picked out one of the men as
the one who attacked her. ‘The man
she accused had been in jail here three
months. i
Sheriff Eley declared he did not
know where Daniels is being held and
has no desire to know until after the
grand jury adjourns. He believes, he
sald, that the man is in the Lucas
county jail at Toledo.
THIS MAN {S “WHITE.”
Mountain Grove, Mo., Sept. 6.—M.
E. Smith, a justice of the peace, liv-
ing a few miles north of here, pleaded
guilty in the Crimnal Court of Wright
County today to statutory charges, pre-
ferred against him by three of his
daughters, and Was sentenced to
eighteen Years in the Penitentiary.
Smith's arrest followed the recent
marriage of his éldest daughter to a
young farmer, who caused the war-
fant to be issued. All mentioned are
“white.”
CIVILIZATION VS. THE MOB.
Sixteen menibers of the mob which
stormed the jail at Lima, Ohio, last
week in an attempt to lynch a Colored
man charged with crime have been
indicted. Thirteen of the sixteen have
been arrested and are in jail. It is
believed that 100 indictments will be
returned. That js the difference be-
tween Ohlo, where the law is re-
spected, and Georgia, where the mob
rules supreme, Ohio acts within a
week: Georgia pever acts.
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"Any prejudice whatever will be insurmountable if those who do not share in it themselves truckle to it and flatter it and accept it as a law of nature."—John Stuart Mill.
D. C. Fisher and daughter, Miss Ruth, of Lorain, was in the city, has week Thursday, and called on The Gazette. They were en route to Roney, W. Va., his native home, to visit relatives.
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Miss Mattie Cordin, of Oberlin, was here Sunday.
Mrs. Thomas Cook, of E.-23th St., is still quite ill.
G. E. Le Monde, of Indianapolis, was in the city last week.
Mrs. Florence Taylor visited in Youngstown, this week.
Mr. Thomas Edmonds, one of our oldest residents, is still quite ill.
Sam W. Franklin, a prominent mason of Detroit, was here last week.
Mr. Young, a leading pharmacist of Baltimore, is in the city, this week.
Miss Ruth McKinnie, niece of Mrs Wm. McKintte, has returned to Chicago.
Dr. Zella Green has returned from a pleasant visit in Evanston and Chicago.
Miss Bertha Smith, of E. 33rd St., is visiting Miss Stella Heath of Columbia.
Mrs. Wm. Baldwin, of Cedar Ave., visited her mother in Washington, Pa., last week.
*Grant Vanderpool, of E. 29th St., left Sunday for Syracuse, N. Y., to visit his father.*
*Mr. Robert Flippin and Miss Ada Baker, of E. 37th St., were married last week.*
*S. L. Walker, of the Limited restaurant, visited in Columbus, several days last week.*
*Basil Ramsey, a clerk in the Evanston, Ill., P. O. several years, has returned to the city.*
*Mrs. Lon. Wallace and daughter, Mrs. Glmore, of Hillsboro, are here visiting relatives.*
*Mrs. Lula Baskin, of Birmingham, Ala., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Zellner of 3870 Payne Ave.*
*Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kitzmiller have purchased Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Lucas confectionery store.*
*Mrs. Edward Caray visited her daughter, Mrs. H. Douglass, in Youngstown last week.*
*Firmman Fortier's wife, three children, and his mother, arrived, Saturday from the Barbadoes, British West Indies.*
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Allen, of E. 29th St., returned, Monday, from Buxton, Ont., and Detroit where they visited relatives, two weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Miles and three children, of Boston, are stopping with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Perkins, of E. 73d St. They expect to locate here.
John James, recently of Atlanta, was fatally injured while on duty, last week in play, at the Cleveland Hard-knall. He died at St. Luke's hospital.
Rev. C. G. Fishback returned from Savannah, Wednesday, and will preach to-morrow. Rev. J. E. Meadows, state missionary, preached, Sunday, in the pastor's absence.
Mr. and Mrs. Brown and daughters, Rebecca and Florence, Ruth Anderson, and the Messrs. Walter Clark, Jesse First and Barry Dabney motored to Lorain, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Kennedy, of Memphis, little daughter, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hodges, of E. 85th St., left for Chicago, Thursday, for a ten days' visit.
The great mass of our good people refused to attend the Caterers' Association clam-bake at color-line Luna Park, Tuesday evening, be it said to their everlasting credit.
Mrs. Geo. L. Younger, mother of Mrs. John H. Berry, returned to Washington, D. C., last week, after spending the summer with her daughter and Mrs. L. Hall of Cedar Av.
Mrs. L. A. R. Cunningham, until recent months a resident of this city for many years, was critically ill at her daughter, Mrs. Nona Berry's, in Youngstown, the first of this week.
Frank Sutton, one of our Pittsburg business men, en route home from Duluth, where he went on a lake trip, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Brack of 2230 E. 46th St., this week.
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D. C. Fisher and daughter, Miss Ruth, of Lorain, was in the city, last week Thursday, and called on The Gazette. They were en route to Romney, W. Wail, his native home, to visit relatives.
The regular meeting of Thurman W. C. T. U., will be held at Lane Memorial C. M. E. church, Tuesday, at 7:30 P. M. The public is invited. Mrs. Harriet K. Price, pres.; Mrs. A. B. Young, co. secretary.
Miss Florence Coleman, of 2161 E. 42d St., and Harry J. Owens, of 4207 Central Ave. were married by Justice Zoul, Sept. 6, and are residing at 2324 E. 27th St. Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Owens.
Evangelist J. E. Davis left for Philadelphia, Wednesday, on business. Rev H. M. Perry will have charge of the services at the Church of God and Saints of Christ in his absence. All are welcome.
Prince David D. Robustinae, of 2271 E. 46th St, royally entertained at dinner, Sunday, her sister, Miss Anna Mottley, and the editor of The Gazette. Mrs. Robustinae is an artist as chef and hostess.
Mr. Porter Tounnel visited in his Hillsboro, last week. Geek Hidden has returned there from here, and Miss Mary Trimble has returned to this city from a week's visit with her parents in Hillsboro.
The government is calling for male stenographers and typists. Officials say the demand is so great that the civil service will be monthly until further notice in 400 cities. Beginners get from $840 to $1,000 a year.
The Luna Park management cannot "hand" the Caterers' Association and the Cleveland Association of Colored Men enough color-line discrimination to make them resent it, it seems. They pay the park management well for it. Good Lord! "Jennie Hunter, sec. P. W. A. returned last week from Pennington, S. C., her native home. Her assistant for the season is Miss G. H. Fields of Baltimore. Mrs. Luh B. Cox tendered her resignation, some weeks ago. Miss Bertha Blue has been acting secretary.
Mrs. Cornelia F. Nickens, of E. 85th St., was called to Indianapolis. Aug. 31, to attend the funeral of her only brother, Turner E. Harrison of Waukegan, Ill. He died after two years' illness in the hospital, and leaves a widow and baby girl, one sister, other relatives and many friends to mourn
The editor of The Gazette is indebted to Loula Vaughn Jones who is in Worcester, Mass., again this summer season, for a copy of "The New England Conservatory of Music Year Book, 1916-1917." He writes: "If any one should wish one of these catalogues, please let me know." We will be pleased to introduce St. John's out-of-town guests, Sunday, were Master Foster and Dr. Jos Carrol, of Columbus; Mr. Jas, Newell Bradrick, Pa.; Miss Lillian Captain, Pittsburg; Mrs. Hawkins, Xenia; Geo Wallace, Pittsburg; Mrs. Louise Broady, Akron; Mrs. Mary Lions, Dayton; Miss Vernell Leach, Zanesville; Mrs. Minor, Dayton; Mrs. Dallas Wallace, Cadiz, and A. F. Grazett, W. In
Mrs. Cornelia F. Nickens—the Association and the board of lady managers of the Home for Aged Colored People extend their heartfelt sympathy in this your hour of sad bereavement. We are bowed in grief with you and hope you will take consolation from the fact that your loss is your dear brother's gain; that he is now free from the pain and sorrow of this world. We must bow in humble submission to the will of Him who doeth all things well. "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away; so blessed be the name of the Lord." With deepest sympathy: Mrs. Lethia Fleming, chairman of board; Mrs. Clara Evans, first vice-pres. of the Association; Mrs. Viola Burbridge, cor. sec.—Adv.
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Harrison McKoy Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Smith, Ei88 St. on Labor Day, "gala day" at Oberlin, won the 100-yard dash for sprinters, receiving a beautiful gold watch inscribed "Oberlin Gala Day, 1915." He also won the 75-yard dash, receiving a very pretty base-dash uniform, complete. Harrison and another boy won a "three-legged" race and received 50 lbs. of flour. He also entered the "free for all" 100-yard dash in which the crack runners of Lorain county, which includes Elyria, Lorain, Wellington, Wakeman, Kipton, and other towns, and won fourth place. All this is certainly a one-day record to feel proud of. Harrison's uncle, Dr. Andrew L. Wakeman, who died in Chicago, he had been very successful in the practice of medicine, was a noted athlete in his boyhood days at Oberlin, and Harrison is certainly holding up the Smith family record there in athletic sports.
Major Arthur T. Abbott, Adjunct of the 4th Regiment, Patriarchie of America, G. U. O. of O. F., left for Washington, D. C., last Saturday evening, to attend the Grand Patriarchy of which he is the Ohio representative. Major Edward Daw, Regimental Inventor, D. C., last Saturday evening, to attend Charles Sumner Lake, No. 1500 in the B. M. C. Mrs. Daw accompanied him on the trip, to visit relatives, Captain James H. Beckwith with about twenty-five members of Company A, 4th Regiment, Patriarchies, left to take part in the Competitive drills and grand demonstration to be held on the 14th. Mrs. Ella L. Abbott, of E. 96th St., also went to Washington, as the captain of the 1375, and Mrs. Georgia Young, of Scoville Ave., as representative of Household of Ruth, No. 7. The Grand Household also convenes there this week. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Dorsey, Mrs. McKenzie, Mrs. Benj. Doughless and many others, elaborate headquarters for Ohio members is located at 1616 U St. N. W., Washington, where any of the above can be reached this week. Col. J. E. Reed, Chief Mustering Officer of the Grand Staff of Patriarchies, was unable to go with the party, but interested himself in establishing the University of venience of all members of the order from Ohio. While in Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Abbott will be guests of Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Tignor, 921 S. St. N. W.
IMPORTANT COMING EVENT
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Denomination to Hold Triennial Convention at St. Louis, Oct. 8.
Many questions of farreaching importance to the Protestant Episcopal church and the churches of that denomination among the colored people of the United States will come up for final adjustment at the triennial meeting of that body, which is to be held in St. Louis in October. One of the leading topics for discussion and settlement is that of selecting a bishop or bishops to preside over the churches of the denomination among the colored people. Upon this question the denomination is seriously divided.
The report of the joint commission which was appointed three years ago will present a minority report as well as the majority report to the convention. The minority report, criticising the attitude expressed toward the Negro in the majority report of the joint commission, has been signed by five persons. The majority report recommends that the minority report be rejected.
The majority report recommends that a separate racial district for the colored people of the south be established, relieving bishops of southern dioceses of any further jurisdiction over the thousands of Negro members of the Protestant episcopal church and instead that a colored bishop at large be elected and consecrated.
The minority report strongly urges that no such action be taken and recommends instead that some southern diocese shall soon take advantage of its present right, according to the canons of the Episcopal church, to elect a colored suffragan bishop to serve under the white bishop of the diocese.
Two bishops, two rectors and one layman signed the minority report. One of the rectors is the Rev. Dr. Ernest M. Stires of St. Thomas' church. Fifth avenue and Fifty-third street, New York, so it is said.
The bishops, who are both from the south, are the Right Rev. William A. Guerry of South Carolina and the Right Rev. Frederick F. Reese of Georgia. The second rector is the Rev. C. Braxton Bryan of Petersburg, Va. The layman is Joseph Packard.
It is the belief that the issue will cause one of the liveliest discussions in the convention. The minority report characterizes the majority report as "both unchristian and uncatholic." It states that a separate racial district "contravenes a fundamental principle of Christianity and destroys the unity of the church under one bishop, which has been the rule and practice from the beginning."
NEW BUSINESS MOVEMENT.
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forward with a brilliant idea, which has made a great impression upon the business men of Philadelphia and is being discussed as one of the most interesting topics in church circles. It is to observe throughout the country a "Negro business booster week," which is to begin with a "booster Sunday," when every pastor in the nation is to preach a booster sermon and urge his congregation to patronize race business men. During the week following every Negro in the nation is requested to make purchases from Negro business men. Dr. Wright suggests Oct. 22-29 as "business booster week." His plan, so far as Philadelphia is concerned, is told as follows in the current issue of the Christian Recorder:
"Philadelphia has a population of more than 100,000 Negroes, and if we include the suburban towns from Camden to Chester the number will approximate 140,000. No definite effort is made by merchants to get their trade. The big white merchants do not want it or do not know how large it is. The Negro merchants too often depend upon mere race pride to get the trade.
"But, as a rule, the people do not know who the colored merchants are. For instance, as well informed as the editor is, he does not know any Negro who sells nails in Philadelphia, or who makes shoes, or who repairs automobiles or who does roofing or plumbing or drying cement walks, or a hundred other things. But they must be here and would be patronized if we knew them.
"If our people knew the places they would go to them.
"We are going to make a suggestion not only for Philadelphia, but for all places—let the church take more interest in Negro business and appoint a business booster day. We suggest Sunday, Oct. 22, as Negro business booster day throughout the country, when every pastor shall urge the patronage of Negro business from his pulpit and, if it can be arranged, give the Negro business men an afternoon hour for addresses on Negro business.
"Let the week, Oct. 22 to Oct. 20, be business booster week, and so it will be necessary for Negro in every town to purchase something from a Negro merchant. What say you, brother ministers? What say you, business men? Let the people know that the Negro business man exists where he is, what he has to sell, what his terms are and that he will treat them right.
"Let the Negro papers talk booster week and get out special editions where they can."
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The federal civil service commission will hold an examination for letter carriers and mail clerks at the federal building Oct. 7, John J. Collins, local secretary, announced Tuesday. Here is a fine opportunity for our bright young men.
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Editor Gazette, the 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 inspector. 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 be on duty in churches, being embarrassed by hangers-out, and others passing in and out.
In spite of our vigorous protests (for nearly two months) to Gov. Willis, as ministers of the gospel (representing several thousand Colored church communicants), against the appointment of a saloon-man, recommended largely by the saloon element, the Governor has appointed him and his staff to the saloon-dorsed, one whom we thought the best to represent the race in an official 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 aspirant. The Governor, however, has deliberately and outrageously ignored our protests and endorsements by giving the position to that element which with their business (saloon) is doing more harm and causing more retrocession of the flower and the young people than the adjoining physical slavery of our parents before the "stxties."
We, the ministers and churches, stand for race elevation, a virile manhood, worthy citizenship and factors in every community, and for a better manhood and life. The Governor's action in this matter is in direct opposition to all these—and HURTS! What are we to do when these contemptible indignities are continually heaped upon us—appointing men to state and municipal jobs to report to the decent Negro republicans of this community, thus saying to the people, white and Colored, that SUCH men are the REPRESENTATIVES of the Negroes? We must and will organize and work to defeat any candidate for office, he be democrat or republican, who will so insult us, and Gov. Will will be made to feel this, politically, if he is a candidate for office in November.
Signed.
(Rev) H. C. Balle, Pastor, Antioch Baptist Church, President, Cleveland Branch, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
REV. CARL W. HASKELL.
Columbus, O., March 17, 1916.
Editor Gazette, Dear Sir:—I have read Dr. H. C. Bailley's splendid article in The Gazette concerning the outrage of the police against a woman appointed a saloon-man to office despite the vigorous protests of Cleveland's leading ministers of the gospel and prominent citizens, and wish to register my hearty approval of the same. I have known Dr. Bailley all of my life. I have been a true type of runhood, standing firmly for the cause of justice and the rights of our people. Shakespeare said in his "Julius Caesar,"
"The evil men do, 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 admired by their lives, receiving flowers before the Master bids them to lay aside their weary tolls.
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, and that they be胎生 honors in the emancipation of Negro race. But God accomplished that task and his servant, Abraham Lincoln, 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 following year, he followed it, God knows, in equity and 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 tremendous debt we owed for his long-time united support and 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 right-ousness and justice, be he democrat 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 D. Obama is not the party. I am a Republican.
Yours resp.
(Rev.) Carl W. Haskell.
AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS
Dr. John Pattrick Turner, one of Philadelphia's foremost colored physicians and a medical inspector in the public schools, has been assigned the task of organizing a new town for the African race in the mountains of North Carolina. The tract over which the novel town will be laid out covers more than 4,000 acres and is located on the main line of the Seaboard Air Line railway, with a direct route to the markets of the world. Doctor Turner is authority for the statement that the town will be unique in many ways and will be a standard for the establishment of Negro communities in the future.
Plans for the new Negro town are being worked out at Chautauqua, N. Y., and by those employed in the establishment and maintenance of Pinehurst, N. C. No name has been selected but the town and the streets will be named after illustrious Negro men and women.
The charter of the new Negro town will restrict ownership of all property to persons of African descent. It is proposed to make the place the center for the development of Negro music. A university and industrial school are to be features. Two modern hotels will be established, one for blacks and the other for white tourists, who may visit the community to observe its workings.
There are to be raised figs, sugar cane, tobacco and wheat on the land neighboring the town, every home of which will have its vegetable and flower garden. The industries will include the making of silk, sugar, flour, tobacco, steel and machinery, according to Doctor Turner. All of these plants will employ Negro laborer. Every opportunity will be given Negro laborers to become efficient in the industrial school, the paramount idea of the whole project being co-operation. John T. Patrick of North Carolina, founder of Southern Pines and South Mount, N. C., is the principal financial backer of the project. He is a retired official of the Sea Board Line railway and is deeply interested in the development of the colored people in North Carolina.
At the Negro education convention at Washington, the question "Should the Education of the Negro and White Youth be Identical?" was taken up at the morning session. Prof. J. E. Bonner, principal of Peabody school, Wilmington, N. C., leading in the discussion. He was followed by J. B. Dudley, president of Agricultural and Mechanical college, Greenbore, N. C. who differed from Professor Bonner saying that each one had particular environments and characteristics which must be trained and
which must be trained and educated.
Professor Jayson, president of the State college, Dover, Del., brought forth cheers when he said: "Give the Negro a chance as long as you can and as full a training as you can. It is impossible to teach a boy scientific agriculture until that boy has learned to read and write. That is, the foundation must first be laid, and for industrial education the training is just the same up to a certain point. Beyond that point the boy or girl begins to specialize and emphasis is given to one line of work. Give him the best start possible."
A resolution was offered by Col. George T. Wasson to the effect that the congress indorse Hughes and Fairbanks for president and vice president, but after a lengthy discussion, a
The general life of a nation such as America, composed of many groups and interests in complicated alignments and opposition, can only be successful when each of those groups is fully self-conscious. When every group knows both its capabilities and its rights, uses the former and insists upon the latter, then we shall have a nation that is both progressive and civilized and free from slavery.
We are far from that now, but with every new organization of self-expression on the part of a group we come nearer to it. One such expression that may play an important part in civilizing our life is the Champion Magazine, of which the first number has just been issued. This magazine, edited by the well-known Negro poet, Fenton Johnson, having as associate editors Emory Elruge Scott, Binga Dismond and Inez Canley, is devoted to the service of the Negro race, and apparently aims to cover every feature of Negro activity—business, literary, artistic and athletic—in a fashion that combines the freshness of news—and illustrated news, at
A Salt Lake City man is the inventor of an undershot water wheel that will run when wholly submerged in a stream, the blades folding on the upward side.
Italian pent too low in fuel value to be used for heating is being utilized in the manufacture of nitrogen fertilizers.
A luncheon case of English invention is so shaped that it will also serve as a footrest in an automobile.
Japan is rapidly increasing the production of its zinc mines and the development of the zinc mining industry.
The first time Donald Walter, age nine, of Wolfeboro, N. H., fired a gun he killed a 16-pound hedgehog.
Two million children between the ages of ten and fifteen are employed for wages in the United States.
War marriages have been specially abundant among British servants.
substitute was offered. It was contended that the aims of the congress were too broad and too important to allow politics to be injected. Nelson Crews of Kansas City made an appeal for the passage of the original resolution, saying that all right-thinking colored men believed in it and favored it. Because of an incomplete roll of delegates a vote on the resolution was deferred until a later session. A distinguished visitor to the congress was introduced in the person of Bishop I. N. Ross of the A. M. E. church. He made a short address, saying in part as follows: "I assure you this has been very refreshing to me. I have been so much engrossed in my business that I have employed two and three secretaries, and I failed even to realize until this morning that you were in session. I feel that I owe it to myself to pay respects to such a distinguished body of educators and race builders.
"I have the right as an American citizen, who for 36 years has stood in the forefront championing the cause of the rights of men, to say that out of one blood God created all men to dwell upon the face of the earth, one rule to regulate the actions of men.
"Anything that savors of difference or discrimination is a traversal or reversal of the principles instituted by the King of Kings. Everything the white man has the black man ought to have. The only way to solve this question is, faith in God, right living spinal column and manhood. Turn on the headlight to find the path of duty and follow it unerringly to the end. With faith in God, march on, saying as you go, 'Give me liberty or give me death.'"
There is a plan to erect a suitable monument to mark the grave of Jennie Dean, who was a colored missionary worker of northern Virginia, Jennie Dean, who died May 3, 1913, and who is buried in the cemetery attached to Calvary chapel, in Prince William county, Virginia, is held in affectionate remembrance not only by many colored people, but by many white persons whose respect she attained as the result of her unselfish missionary work. She was the founder of five Baptist churches in northern Virginia and of the Manassas Industrial school, as well as of the Union Baptist Sunday School Convention of Northern Virginia and the Northern Virginia Baptist association. The building of Calvary chapel was her first work, and she was buried there, about a quarter of a mile from her late home near Sudley Springs. Her grave is still unmarked, for the reason that no organization has ever been formed to receive money which has been collected in northern Virginia to purchase a monument.
The Negro population of Detroit has increased nearly 150 per cent during the last six years, according to estimates made by the Associated Charities. The Negro population now is fixed at about 15,000; as compared with 6,000 shown by the federal census in 1910.
The heavy increase is accounted for by the fact that a number of local industrial concerns are importing Negroes from the South in cartoons lots for work in local factories. Factory manager declare the Southern Negro, when properly trained, is a good workman, reliable and willing.
that—with the reflective editorial attitude that should characterize a monthly publication.
While the advertising in the first number is from Chicago firms, the magazine aims to be national in character. It will be independent in politics.
While the general public is apt to concede that the Negro may excel as a musician, while artistic ability in other avenues is often conceded to him, he has probably not achieved yet a reputation, to a wide extent, at any rate, of being formidable in athletics. It is interesting to note, therefore, that Binga Dismond, an associate editor of this magazine, is a University of Chicago spinner with all sorts of record-breaking feats, individual and in relay work, to his credit.—Chicago Evening Post.
The colored graduate of Harvard would not seek mental labor any more than the white graduate would, although the infamous American color produece often compels him to accept an inferior job in order to earn an honest living.
A stopper for kitchen sinks so attached to the strainer plate over the outlet that it always will be found when needed, has been patented.
Natives of the interior of China hatch both hen and duck eggs by burying them in lukewarm rice, which is reheated daily.
With but little deviation from the popular American game, baseball is played in Russia, but there it is known as lutka.
Arthur H. Franke of Manitowoc, Wis., heard about the people who could not get seats in the New York subways. He has patented a cane that unfolds into a stool.
Next to the United States, Germany has the greatest number of telegraph offices and the largest line mileage among nations.
Michigan stands first among the states for the production of salt, ranks second for iron, and third for copper.
BABY'S MOUTH NEEDS CARE
DAME FASHION'S LATEST DECREES
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Review of Styles Presented to the World by the Leading French Designers.
SKIRTS WILL BE NARROWER
Longer, But Less Wide, Is the Edict,
PARIS--There is no doubt now that the French designers will put
through their plan to give us skirts that are longer and less wide. There is no return, however, to the sheath or hobble skirt. Not a ripple on the surface of fashion indicates that woman will have less freedom in walking because of the tightness of the hem.
There is a great deal of fullness taken out of the side seams in the new skirts, and the effect is more like the full skirts of the eighteenth century than those of last winter.
A few of the Paris houses cut their walking skirts only three yards wide. Four yards, however, was a more general measurement, and many of the evening skirts fell to the floor in slight fullness, with a sizeable train behind.
Even this moderate amount of fullness is not held out by cercles or crinoline, is there any tendency toward the barrel skirt or the exaggeration of the hips by the watteau panniers.
No Hip Distension.
Mind you, there is still an ornamentation of the hips, but it is not used for the purposes of distension. What one writer has called the slipper trimming, is a popular expression of the belief that the sides of a skirt should be brought into relief. Lanvin originated this trimming, and Pofret put a good deal of emphasis on it in a slightly different way. It consists of a stitched or embroidered band or bedroom slipper with a rounded toe, and this is placed downward over the hips and usually forms part of the belt.
Certain forms of this slipper trimming have been so commonized in cheap, ready-to-war garments that the public may be wary of it. It is not possible to tell this early whether or not it will run more than a few weeks.
Is the Short Skirt Doomed?
There may be a few hundred young women and girls who will insist upon the extra short skirt until they are assured that it is doomed. It is graceful on all those who are not burdened with height or width, but it has been carried to such degrees of absurdity during the last six months by women who should have known better, that one does not look with any sorrow on its threatened downfall.
All the smart French women have taken to Oxford ties as the fashionable shoe, the tie that has the broadly rounded toe, the short vamp and high.
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Hat is of black velvet with an immense Russian ornament of cut silver in front. The brim is moderate in size and slightly curved, and the high, soft crown is carelessly dented at the top.
Spanish heel with laceings of inch-wide ribbon tied in a smart bow at the instep. Such shoes demand a longer skirt than the high laced boot that America went quite mad over last winter.
It is not possible to get away in our fashions from the reflection of the French spirit and French history, and in this connection the designers are wondering what effect the close of the war will have on the clothes of American women.
If France is not victorious the experts believe that all the clothes in the fashionable world will be somber,
Matter Is of the Ustmest Importance, Though Some Mothers Fail to Recognize the Fact.
Most mothers feel if baby is given a good, tidal bath once a day, accompanied by a sponge bath at bedtime, that baby is clean; there are other essentials necessary for the making of a child's cleanliness.
It is a well-known fact that many children suffer from mouth diseases, especially in hot weather, caused by neglecting baby's mouth. It is necessary that the toilet of the mouth be made every day at least and ofter if time permits. This should be done with great care and gentleness, not to injure the gums and the teeth. Mothers or nurses often forget their strength; opening the baby's mouth by force, they push their strong fingers into the delicate mouth, resulting in more harm than good.
If baby is too young to have a tooth
modest, demure. No flicker of gayety will creep through fabrics or costumery.
If France is victorious, America will burst out in the gay panoply of conquerors. Scarlet and purple, gold and silver and all the magnificent trappings of military achievement and of elated spirit will be reflected in our clothes.
No Victorian Trivialities.
The joyful thing about the new clothes is that all the bows and futlings and ruffles and ruches that disgraced our recent costumery are absent. These styles, known as 1840 and 1870, were twisted into something that suggested grace and daring by those who were gifted by nature to transform something ugly into something charming by the alchemy of their personality—the kind of person, you know, who makes orangeade out of all the lemons handed out by life, to quote from an optimist's diary, which is, after all, the most constructive policy of happiness in this world. One gets weary of the Mark Taplerys of life who are forever smiling at the things that are wrong and pretending to be cheerful, but the chemical ability to turn something bad into something good, makes this word want to cheer the person who can do it.
All of which is a verbose way of saying that only a gifted few can make Victorian ornamentation appear attractive.
High Prices in Paris.
Simplicity is the new keynote of French clothes, but expensive sima
Soldiers and sailors, too, furnish inspiration for the new autumn clothes, and this new black velvet hat is an evidence of it. The black and white boa is of the new zebra-like fur.
plicity, which, after all, is far better than expensive ugliness. Gowns are priced beyond the dreams of avarice today, and no one but a buyer for a rich American firm can afford more than one in Paris at this season. No plausible reason is given for this increase in prices. There is no need of one. Paris needs all the money she can get and she is no different from any other section of humanity on this planet in demanding all she can get when she knows that the world is dependent on her work. Whether or not this will mean that the American people will pay more for their autumn clothes is in the balance. We, the laymen, have never found that the American commercial world ever had the slightest hesitation in getting all it could out of us.
Fashion That Are Promised.
Several of the French houses still insist upon the Russian influence in clothes, but this does not mean the influence of the Russian bullet. There is a vast difference between the clothes of a Cossack and those of a slave in Scherazadna.
Russian blouses, Paris says, will be longer than ever and will be belted with superb pieces of crude, brilliant Russian embroidery in which there is a glint of metal.
Many jackets will be three quarter length.
Satin is featured for cont suits, or rather, for one piece frocks with jackets.
The gray known as bleu ardoise, which is slate blue, is to be incorporated into a variety of clothes.
For everyday wear and sharing the place of honor with ermine, in a popular sense, is rabbit. This common petry is by no means commonly priced, and yet it is used so lavishly on all the new clothes that one imagines the French designers had been raising rabbits on a stupendous scale in order to get ready for this usage of the fur.
The straight skirts which hang plumb from hip to hem are plaited. Many of the dressmakers indorse this style for the street.
Short velvet jackets are added to plaid and striped skirts for the early autumn, and the velvet hat goes with them. There are two new shapes which the milliners have brought over from Paris, one of which is a hat from the Russian marine with a pompon on top made of feathers and the other a modified cowboy hat with a slouched brim and a huge silver triangle in front.
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brush a soft linen rag or handkerchief makes an excellent substitute. Likewise a little absorbent cotton may be wrapped about the finger or a small stick. The cotton projecting beyond the point should be dipped in boiled water and cooled until it is lukewarm. It should be applied to the gums with great care. After the tongue moves frequently and the mouth commences to secrete saliva the washing of the mouth may be limited to twice a day. Mothers often feel that the first teeth are of small consequence, because they are not permanent. They do not appreciate the fact that poor teeth make for poor health, they detract from the child's appearance and do much to injure the permanent teeth.
Chinese Bracelete.
Plain Chinese bracelets are used as trimming on hats, arranged so that the hat can be carried by them as if they were loops.
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COPY OLD FASHIONS
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BACK FOR THEIR MODELS.
Fall Garments, It May Be Said With Assurance, Will at Least Be Picturesque—Military Modes Also to Be Popular.
If you want to be up to the minute in your clothes you must go back to the middle ages.
The advance guard of the fall fashions has arrived from Paris, and the story it tells ought to be written by Geoffrey Chaucer or Maurice Hewlett. For it is a story of goodly ladies with long waist lines, in many instances with no waist line at all, unless on the ground. Where a waist line exists in the new mode, it is indicated about where the hem of the short skirt comes today. Well, perhaps not quite so far, but almost there.
As for those skirts, they will be longer. But we all knew they had to be or be mobbed.
Most striking of all the new military modes was a motor coat combining the ecclesiastical lines of the early renaissance-with the long cap of the modern Italian officer. This coat of soft cloth in tornado blue, which is a very light gray-blue, had a most interesting trimming of
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steel beads. It had the lengthened shoulder line, the sleeve starting from underneath the bands of steel trimming. The cont was belted all around, but the belted back was completely concealed by a cape falling from the shoulders to the ground. This cape lined with faint gray, is designed to wind about the shoulders, for protection against wind and cold.
Another interesting wrap revived the dolman worn in 'the days of the Empress Eugenie. This, too, was of bivonne red. If you don't know what a dolman is, ask your grandmother. If she doesn't know, it's a half-wrap, half-cape, that gets large at the bottom as wraps had to when they were worn over the hoops of the late sixties. *A new fur is Belgian hare and it is used on suits, motor parts and evening gowns impartially. Many a daddy will go a hunting next season to get a little rabbit skin to wrap his Baby Bunting in, or Baby Bunting's grandmother, as the case may be. This fur does not seem to me particularly beautiful by itself, but when combined in an afternoon gown with black velvet and old blue it was rarely effective.
Italian lace is going to be used for the collars and cuffs of cloth gowns, particularly those showing Moyen age lines. One gown of beaver-colored zibeline had the dropped gathered skirt, the long shoulder line with a dropped sleeve, set on visibly, just as the skirt drapery was.
There were touches of Italian lace at the throat and on wrists and a little necktie was worn about the neck, falling unti to the walstline. When the necktie began it was of chiffon of the beaver color, but it had ends of Italian beadwork in pink and brown.
Generally speaking, the new fashions as they are indicated by advance models will be fussy and full, fussier and fuller than they were last whiter.
Doesn't Pay to Knit Belt.
It has usually been considered that knitting was the cheapest way of producing certain articles and it was quite natural that the colonel when advising the woman to send her man in Mexico a belt should tell her to knit it. She went home firmly determined to obey orders, and taking a dollar he had given her to buy a model band she hastened to the shop and invested in a natural color all-wool belt. Then she sped to the fancy work department and got wool as near like the sample as possible.
Her first surprise came when she discovered that the price of wool had increased greatly, but she invested in
Poncho Sweater.
There is a new kind of sweater called the毛巾. It's a straight piece of fine colored wool, with an oblong opening at the neck, each two selvages caught at the waistline under the arm, with an ornamental band. These selvages, as well as the opening at the neck, are ornamented with brilliant Indian embroidery.
These sweaters hang in a straight line back and front, and the width of the material is so wisely chosen that it does not extend more than an inch over the top of the arms.
In choosing one, be quite sure that it is small enough. Its smart air is instantly obliterated if it is too wide across the chest and falls limply below the shoulders.
Sports Dresses of Silk.
Very kind to stout figures are specially made white silk sports dresses on Russian blouse lines with a loose belt dropped just below the natural waist line. These admirable models
a quarter of a pound, which seemed ample for the job. This cost 56 cents and a set of knitting needles came to ten cents additional.
The making was easy enough, beginning with 98 stitches on each of the four needles she rib-stitched for three inches. Then just as in knitting stockings she changed to all round stitch to make the body of the belt. This was to have been continued for ten inches with a ribbed strip at the other end, but long before the band was half finished the wool had run out and a double quantity had to be got. Thus the band cost something more than a dollar merely for materials, not to mention the time, which of course was much greater for a novice than it would be for an experienced knitted. And when the band was complete it was heavy, unporous and really compared unfavorably with the commercial knit band.
To Crochet Over Hairpin:
Maybe if you have been doing needlework or crochet long enough you will remember an old-time vogue for crocheting over a hairpin to make a very effective beading or insertion. This, together with many other old-time knitting and crocheting processes, is coming back into vogue.
It can be done on a rather large wire hairpin, or if a larger beading is desired, a wire staple may be used. It is quick work and requires absolutely no thought, being, once the chain is started, purely mechanical. Use corresponding crochet thread and needle, according to the list in some crochet book or the advice of your saleswoman at the art needlework shop.
Knot the thread with a loop which you pull over the head of the hairpin, keeping the knot in back of the pin, the thread from the ball running upward. Now with your crochet needle grasp the thread from the ball, inserting the needle from the front of the hairpin and under the knot at the back. Bring the thread upward and make a chain by grasping the thread from the back again but on top of the loop. Now turn your hairpin from right to left, leaving the needle in the chain but carrying the hook up over the rounded head of the hairpin or staple. The hook will then be in back of the pin between the pin and the thread.
Now insert the hook through the pin to the front and pick up the loop on the left side of the pin, drawing the thread through from the back and then again through both stitches, on hook. You virtually make a single crochet through this loop. Turn the pin from right to left, thus bringing the hook to the near side of the pin again. Pick up the left loop again with a single crochet. Turn the hairpin and repeat the process.
When the work accumulates it is pushed down off the ends of the pin, until a sufficient length has been crocheted.
Outfit for Rainy Day.
Rubber flowers on the hat are one of the features of this latest all-rubber outfit for a rainy day. Hail, rain, or snow cannot injure this costume; it will not fade nor come out of shape. From top to bottom this outfit is all pink rubber, umbrella, hat flowers, and coat.
Correct Skirt Length.
Word comes by way of one of the buyers, just back from New York, that skirts are six inches from the floor. She says the sudden dip occurred over night, and that New York woke up to find itself exactly in the opposite predicament of the Mother Goose old lady with long skirts instead of none at all. The serge and broadcloth separate skirts, which are always the harbingers of a new style, are slim-hipped and measure anything inside of five yards round the hem.
may be obtained in "extra sizes" at one speciality shop, which is the beneficent fairy godmother of the stout woman. The sports dress has a long Russian tunic in small box plats from shoulder to hem, and a skirt also laid in the small box plats so that the effect is one of pleasing continuity, broken only by the low-paced belt and the hem of the tunic, made to flare just the least bit, like the skirt hem, by means of a resilient facing. The stout woman wears her skirts to her ankles, but her white buttoned boots or dainty washable kid pumps may be as pretty as the footwear of a slenderer sister.
Lace-Trimmed Capes.
A handsome flowing Spanish cape is trimmed with nine ruffles of narrow lace in graduated' widths. Another cape is made of taffeta and lace, the taffeta being confined to the shoulder part of the garment. In another model plain net is substituted for lace in the body of the garment, but a finish composed of three ruffles of lace outlines the entire cape.