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AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS --- ```markdown ``` THIRTY FOURTH AFRO-AMERICA Renewed discussion of the Negro "question" may be expected as a result of Mr. Otto Mitchel's appointment of Dr. E. P. Roberts to membership of the board of education of New York. Indignation will be expressed in quarters which are given to outbursts whenever recognition, in accordance with their deserts, are given the Negroes, but enlightened, tolerant and progressive people will applaud Mr. Mitchel's action and wish Doctor Roberts well in the honorary post to which he has been appointed. It may be taken for granted that he is qualified for the work, and it is a fair assumption that the very strangeness of his position and the inevitable opposition to his selection will prompt him to greater diligence and more intelligent effort than are given to the school service by some of the other nearly half a hundred members of the board. If he does, he will confound the critics of the mayor and considerably advance the members of his race in popular estimation. By the last census there were only 91,709 Negroes in Greater New York, not quite 2 per cent of the population, but a number sufficient to command recognition in the selection of public school managers, especially in a community that is given to affording representation to almost all of its varied elements in the conduct of public affairs. But the main point for consideration is that the Negroes are with us on an equality of citizenship with the whites, and if justice is to be done them and the more numerous Caucasians are not to pile up great trouble for themselves in the future they must be treated in accordance with their merits. It is important not only that they be made good citizens, but that it be made worth their while to be good citizens. Neither can be hoped for if the Negroes are to be discriminated against so that honorable ambition on their part is forever impossible of achievement. — Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. Monroe Henson, a very successful Negro farmer, who lives near Muldoo, is the first Negro in Fayette county to own an auto. Here is an example of progressiveness and thrift that is seldom shown by our colored friends and should be held up to them by those of their race who believe in making better citizens. Monroe Henson has been a render of the Journal for the past 25 years, during which time he has never been presented with a bill, or had to be notified that he was in arrears. Following closely the example set to him by his good white friends, he has worked hard, saved his money and filled the soil on his farm. It must be a pleasure to him, now that he is past the best years, to be able to enjoy the fruits of his labors and remain an immune to the wiles and pitfalls which are ever ready and which are so generously promoted by those who seek to prey upon the ignorance and superstition of the Negro—La Grange (Tex.) Journal. The Supreme court has been asked to decide whether the federal government shall pay $68,000,000 to former slaves and their heirs for cotton picked in slavery times. Their claims are presented in an appeal by H. N. Johnson of Muskegue, Okla., and other former slaves and their heirs and "all others similarly situated." The suit is directed against Secre- Leading colored men and women from all parts of the country are expected in Washington early in March to attend the celebration of the 81st anniversary of the incorporation of Howard university, for which elaborate plans are being made. The anniversary of the incorporation of the institution by congress, alumni associations of the university from New York to Texas and from the District of Columbia to California will hold exercises, simultaneously with the big celebration in that city. A feature of the celebration will be the presentation of a fund of $10,000 to the university by the alumni. The fund is being raised by having each alumnus contribute $1 for every year he has been away from the institution, up to ten years, and $1 for every five years thereafter. These contributions are expected from old students throughout the country. The tentative plan is to have the celebration open with a big public meeting in Convention hall. Historical night will be observed in the First Congregational church, when the history of the institution from its organization Establishment of an international park embracing both banks of the Niagara river at Niagara Falls, with the organization of an international committee to regulate the use of the waters and banks of the fall and the river, was advocated at a meeting held here by the Niagara state reservation commission. Cotton cloth is produced in Nicaragua only in small quantities, and the amount imported practically represents all that is used in the country. tary McAdoo as custodian of the government funds, and recites that the shaves were held in involuntary servitude and forced to gather the southern states' crops. They received no return for their labor, while the government collected the $95,000,000 in taxes on raw cotton. An accounting for the labor performed and a pro-rata distributor of the money among those entitled to remuneration for the labor are asked. The District of Columbia courts dismissed the suit. John D. Rockefeller has subscribed $10,000 toward the Robert C. Ogden memorial building which is being erected at Hamilton institute, Hamilton, Va. This makes a total of $140,000 subscribed toward the necessary fund of $200,000. Among the other large contributions are the following: Miss Harriet Blanchard, $10,000; Simon Guggenheim and brothers, $10,000; Mr. and Mrs. Edward Harkness $7,000; E. H. Van Ingen, $7,500; George F. Baker, $5,000; Mrs. Edward Bok, $5,000; Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, $5,000; Arthur Curtles James, $5,000; Mrs. Willis D. James, $5,000; V. Everett Macy, $5,000; Mrs. Russell Sage, $5,000. Ground was broken on the memorial site in November. Four conferences of the Colored Methodist Episcopal church in America united in celebrating the fifty-ninth birthday anniversary of Bishop Charles Heary Phillips of Nashville, Tenn., at Miles Memorial church, Louisville, Ky. In May Bishop Phillips will have served 16 years as bishop in the Tennessee conference, nine years in the California mission conference and eight years in the two Kentucky conferences. He was born at Milledgeville, Gn., January 17, 1858, and was licensed to preach at Barnsville, Gn., in 1878. He was a pastor in Louisville from 1891 to 1893. He has held many offices of distinction, one of them being the secretaryship of the Ecumenical conference held at Toronto, Cnn., in 1911, being the first and only Negro who was ever so honored. The message of the Tuskegee Negro conference to the black men of the South is that "right here in the South are great and permanent opportunities for the masses of our people. This section, we feel, is just entering upon its greatest era of development. Here your labor in the future is going to be in still greater demand." But there will still be many Negroes who leave the South to, go to the cold northern states on the promise of better wages and a functed equality with white people which will never exist in any section of this country. The Negro who stays in the South and secures for himself a home will be far on the road to prosperity and to the respect of his neighbors—both white and black—and he will not have to worry over $12-coal when winter comes around.—Houston (Tex.) Post. The National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes offers fellowships of $25 a month for ten months and tuition of $100 at the New York School of Philanthropy, New York city, and also fellowships of $150 at Fisk university, Nashville, Tennessee. These fellowships are open to those who propose to engage in social work. North Carolina has three Negro normal schools. as a theological seminary in 1880 down to the present day will be related by speakers. March 3 will be Alumnt day, when the various classes will hold reunions In the afternoon there will be a general alumni rally. The celebration ends on the evening of March 3 with a reception tendered by the university. Negroes in Texas have been called to meet towards the end of February for the purpose of conforning and discussing industrial, economical, fraternal, educational, political and sanitary subjects or problems affecting the Negro race. The resties and migratory sentiments among Negroes must be studied and an honest, patriotic leadership be asserted and a selfish, immoral and corrupt leadership, wherever such is found, must be weeded out and put into the background if the Negro race is to become a factor in the righteous uplift of humanity in the future" Chicago is to have a stringent law to prevent tey sidewalks. The advance now being made by the Spanish language in the commercial world, brought to notice through propaganda and other forms of publicity, is indicated in the large enrollment for this course at American universities. At the University of Illinois those registering in Spanish this year numbered 620, as compared with 352 in 1015-16. Using benzine for fuel, a new cigarette lighter is a close facsimile of a cigarette. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. CLEVELAND; O., SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1917. Mrs. Albert H. Hoy of Chicago, who was her daughter, Elizabeth, was drowned when the Cunarder Laconia was turpeded by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland. PLOT AGAINST THE U. S. IS REVEALED Germany Proposed an Alliance With Mexico and Japan to Make War on America. Mexico, for Her Reward, Was to Receive Financial Support From Kiser. Washington, D. C. — That Germany, in planning unrestricted submarine warfare and counting its consequences, proposed an alliance with Mexico and Japan to make war on the United States, if this country should not remain neutral, is the revelation made by the Associated Press. Japan, through Mexican mediation, was to be urged to abandon her allies and join in the attack on the United States. Mexico, for her reward, was to receive general financial support from Germany, reconquer Texas, New Mexico and Arizona—lost provinces—and share in the victorious peace terms Germany contemplated. Details were left to German Minister Von Eckhardt in Mexico City, who by instructions, signed, by German Foreign Minister Zimmermann, at Berlin, Jan. 19, 1917, was directed to propose the alliance with Mexico to Gen. Curranza and suggest that Mexico seek to bring Japan into the plot. Bernstorff Furthers War Plot. These instructions were transmitted to Von Eckhardt through Count Von Bernstorff, former German ambassador here. Germany pictured to Mexico, by broad intimation, England and the entente allies defeated; Germany and her allies triumph land in world domination by the instrument of unrestricted submarine warfare. A copy of Zimmermann's instructions to Von Eckhardt, sent through Von Bernstorf, is in possession of the United States' government. It is as follows: "Berlin, Jan. 19, 1917. "On the 1st of February we intend to begin submarine warfare unrestricted. In spite of this, it is our intention to endeavor to keep neutral the United States of America." "If this attempt is not successful we propose an alliance on the following basis with Mexico: That we shall make war together and together make peace. We shall give general financial support and it is understood that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in New Mexico, Texas and Arizona The details are left to you for settlement. Urge Secrecy on Mexico Chieftain. "You are instructed to inform the president of Mexico of the above in the greatest confidence as soon as it is, certain that there will be an outbreak of war with the United States and suggest that the president of Mexico, on his own initiative, should communicate with Japan suggesting adherence at once to this plan; at the same time, offer to mediate between Germany and Japan. "Please call to the attention of the president of Mexico that the employment of ruthless submarine warfare now promises to compel England to make peace in a few months. This document has been in the hands of the government since President Wilson broke off diplomatic relations with Germany. The document supplies the missing link to many separate chains of circumstances, which until now have seemed to lead to no definite point. Kills Hungry Children and Self. Indianapolis, Indiana. — Because he preferred to see his three children dead than hungry, Frank Stader, 35, shot and killed them as they slept, and then killed himself. Stader left two letters, one to a minister and one to a policeman, explaining his act. Since the death of his wife a year ago his employment had been irregular. Donavin, 8, the eldest child, was shot twice through the temple; Clifford, 6, was shot in the head, and Margaret, 3, was shot in the left temple. TEN DIE AS TRAIN HITS JITNEY AUTO Seven Are Seriously Injured When Freight Crashes Into Bus Filled With Men. Bodies of Some of the Victims Are Horribly Mutilated in Accident at Crossing. Lima, Ohio. Seven men were killed and 10 seriously if not fatally injured when a Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton freight train sturruck a jitney autonoble bus at the edge of Lima. The accident occurred at the Fourth street crossing, within sight of the Ohio Steel Foundry Company, where the men were employed. Identification in many cases was difficult, as the bodies of the victims were horribly entailed. Jerry O'Connor, 5F, assistant foreman. Samuel Delay, 35, moldor. C. Crites, 20, core maker. Louis Schupp, 28, core maker; broken neck. Injured in Hospital. George Gordon, internal injuries, bones broken. James O'Connor, broken arm and leg, bruises. Antonio Cira, left shoulder crushed, internal injuries. Lester Felker, bones broken and body bruises. Charles Henson, ankle broken, body bruises. Oscar Lease, skull, fractured, chest crushed, will die. Frank Dennis, chest crushed, ankle broken. B. E. Carter. The men were returning to Lima from the plant, where they had worked throughout the day. The plant is 215 miles from the center of the city. The auto 'bus, which has a capacity of 22, makes a trip to and from the city each day. It was filled when it left the factory. TWENTY DIE-IN WRECK Lives Snuffed Out as Freight Ploughs Into Passenger. Mount, Union, Penna. — Nineteen passengers and a Pullman porter were killed when a fast train crashed into the rear of the $ \mathrm{o} $ Mercantile express train No. 6, of the Pennsylvania railroad, eastbound, at the station here. The sleeping car Bellewood, on the fear of the express, was telescoped and every one in it with the exception of a woman and boy killed. The express, due here at 11:44 p.m., arrived 12 minutes late with brake trouble. It was held here while the trouble was remedied, and the signal to start had been given when the "preference" freight, speeding between 50 and 60 miles an hour, crashed into the rear sleeper. The impact smashed it into a compact mass. Caught in their berths, the passengers had not the slightest chance for their lives. Mistaken signals, air brake trouble and the fog are believed by road officials to have caused the wreck. THE WEST IS PREPARING THE WEST IS PREPARING Regiments of 'Minute Men' Are Being Formed, Says Major. New York City.—"The west has finally come to the realization that the country is in danger, and is unprepared. The country west of the Missouri is being apportioned into districts, and regiments of 'minute men' are being formed to spring to the national defense at a moment's notice." This announcement was made by Maj. Frederick Russell Burnham, California ranch owner and veteran of three South African wars. Maj. Burnham, who was stopping at the Hotel Belmont, has left for Arkansas to form a nucleus there for "minute men" regiments in that state. Maj. Burnham wanted it made clear that he was not at the head of the plan. U-Boats Hit Fremont. Fremont, Ohio. — At least one Fremont industry is feeling the effects of the U-boat blockade. This concern is the Burford Motol Truck Co, which has been making and shipping many trucks to the allies since the war started. Because the company cannot fill the European orders, a large force of men was laid off. Woman Gets Freedom. Fremont, Ohio. — Mrs. Louise Boston, who, the state charged, was "the other woman" in the Joshua Kiser murder case, has left fall, a free woman. Judge Garver ordered her discharge. She had been held as a witness. Prosecutor Baumann then asked permission "to withdraw the affidavit charging first degree murder which he made in Justice Buchman's court, Feb.17. This was granted. Mrs. Boston at the Kiser trial testified Kiser had told her he poisoned his wife. GEN. RAPHAEL REYES Gen. Raphael Reyes, former president of Colombia, is in Washington to press the claim of his country for $30,000,000 for the loss of territory caused by the creation of Panama into an independent state. SUFFER HORRORS AS LINER IS TORPEDOED Men, Women and Children Drift Aimlessly About in Dark for Five Hours. Queenstown, Ireland.—From quivering lips of pale-faced, agony-drawn men and women came, piece by piece, the first full story of the Laconia disaster. Queenstown, hardened by many a tale of ho or lived through by countless souls a few miles off shore; Queenstown, the first piece of land, the first warm refuge for the victims of scores of sea catastrophes in two years and a half, stalls agast as the narrative of the Laconia's slaking by two torpedoes off Fastnet is told. Even the horrors of the Lusitania were mild compared with those suffered by the 350 men, women and children aboard the Laconia, of whom 13—by a miracle only 13—are believed to have been killed. For the Lusitania was sent to the bottom in broad daylight. The Laconia's passengers and crew drifted amlessly for five hours in eight boats tossed by violent swells 12 feet high — and all around was deep darkness in which flares afil rockets seemed ridiculous mockery. Two things stand out in the disaster: The death from exposure of two American women, Mrs. and Miss Hoy — "buried at sea," as the laconic official telegram from the American consul puts it. The bravery of Mrs. Frank Harris, an American woman, who will go down in the history of marine disasters as the heroine of the Laconia. TO COMBAT OATS SMUT TO COMBAT OATS SMUT Solution to Overcome Trouble Is Given by Experts. Wooster, Ohio. — Treating seed oats with formaldehyde solution to prevent loose or head smut has been shown by the Ohio experimental station here to be highly profitable for time so spent. One pint or pound of 40 per cent formaldehyde, sold at drug stores as formalin, mixed in 40 gallons of water, will be sufficient to treat 40 bushels of seed oats. The solution should be sprinkled over the oats spread on a tight floor or canvas, and the oats shoved over so that every grain will be thoroughly moistened. After being covered with a blanket for three hours or over night, the oats should be spread out to dry. TRAIN RUNS INTO ROCK Passenger Locomotive and Car Overturns; None Hurt. Chicago Junction, Ohio. — A B. & O. passenger train, the Wheeling-Chicago limited, struck a rock at Glenco, turning the engine and baggage car on their sides. No one was injured except Engineer William Glenn of Newark, O., who was slightly bruised about the head. The line was obstructed several hours. Heavy rains caused the rock to slide down a steep embankment to the track and the weather was so foggy the engineer did not see the obstruction. Freed of Murder Charge. Fremont, Ohio. — Joshua Kiser is free. It took the jury in his case two hours to decide he did not poison his wife, Martina Kiser. Four ballots were necessary for a verdict. 'The first ballot stood 10 to 2 for acquittal. Kiser, garage owner and farmer, seated beside his aged mother, Mrs. Chris Kiser, who had been his constant companion during the long drawn out trial, remained in the court room while the jury was out. He burst into tears when Clerk Thomas Weaver read the verdict. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS THE INFAMOUS FILM 'THE BIRTH OF A NATION' Columbus, O.—The local daily papers said nothing about the Beatty bill hearing, last week Tuesday, before the House of Representatives committee, and since have refrained from giving any notice of it. None of our several speakers failed to remind us that the country was at present in sad need of soldiers and, if these "Birth of a Nation" insults were allowed, the Afro-American would not feel it his duty to fight for it but on the contrary might feel like taking up arms against the country that set no premium on good citizenship, for no other reason than that of having a dark skin. It is currently whispered that if the Beatty bill were passed, Gov. Jas. M. Cox would it. This we do not want to believe. However, the following from the Columbus Citizen of one day, last week, is not very encouraging: WONT HELP BILL TO EXCLUDE FILM. That backers of the Beatty bill to bar films and plays which "inincite race prejudice" will get no "administration help" was apparent, Wednesday, following publication, Tuesday, of an editorial in the Dayton News, Governor Cox's newspaper, boosting the "Birth of a Nation" claim. "It is the Negro politicians who are now trying to stir up a tempest in a teapot" over the film, and "it is to be hoped they will not succeed." The editorial likewise brands the action of state movie censors, two years ago, in barring the film from Ohio as "a damnable attempt to use the machinery of the state for political purposes." The author says the editorial, that aroused no prejudice anywhere against the Negro. Of course about all of the foregoing is NOT true as everyone now knows: The "Negro politicians are not trying to stir up a tempest in a teapot" and the film has done, far more than "arouse prejudice against the Negro." It caused the death of an Afro-American man in Ft. Worth who was shot on the street by an enraged white man who had just left a theater in which he had witnessed the infamous photophy. The lack of concentrated effort and direct leadership in our fight on the miserable film is what is making the work of our people throughout Ohio ineffective. It is too bad we refuse to recognize this all-important fact, therefore, is being wasted. GET TOGETHER! Select a leader, work harmoniously and there is still a chance to succeed. "The Epoch Producing Co., which controls "The Birth of a Nation," is to exhibit the miserable photoplay to the Ohio Assembly soon, according to newspaper announcement, last week. If this be true, and the daily papers say Mr. Beauty has agreed to the same, the film will be TEMPORARILY eliminated, so as to gain the favor of the legislators. Watch and see. If we are not, correct. After, and when it is being exhibited elsewhere, it will be very different; the objectionable features will be restored to the film and local kicks and howls will avail nothing. The infamous photoplay will go on doing great harm at the arena as has done Boston, New York, Chicago. We hear here that the film is being exhibited in Cincolmatt, this week. A NATIONAL CAUSE. Help.Wanted for a Deserving Industrial School in North Carolina. There are very few institutions in this country that are doing more good in unbuilding the race and thus making self-reliant and self-respecting citizens, than the Slater Industrial school for our people at Winston Salem, N. C., and perhaps it would not be over-stating the case to say that Mr. William A. Blair, who is treasurer of the school and vice-president of the People's National Bank of that town, is doing more to help the poor handicapped Afro-Americans of the South than any other white man in that section of the country. The school buildings, land and appliances have cost $70,000. It is the third Afro-American school of the kind in importance. So great is its influence that the North Carolina Legislature has offered the trustees $12,000 if they can raise the same amount. It is totally impossible for them alone to meet this offer, as they have strained themselves to the extreme limit to bring the school to its present worth. If each reader of this article will slip one dollar into an envelope and mail it to the treasurer, Mr. William Blair, Wilson Semen, N.C., the money will be raised and the school buildings erected. This small amount will not hurt any one, and will very greatly aid a most worthy cause. It is a sad sight to see the number of our children who are turned, away from this school, for lack of accommodation. If our readers knew the facts in detail, it would give them much pleasure to respond to this call, and send the $1 immediately, thus helping the trustees raise $12,000 to meet the offer made by the North Carolina Legislature. Any donation made now will be used to help the brick and mortar, as the students and friends of the school will do the construction work when the materials are furnished. Let it be remembered that Afro-Americans are loyal citizens. Not one of us has ever raised a 'hand against the flag, and many are in the army, and brave soldiers, too. Should the President call for volunteers our people would furnish their full share. Let us do our duty to Slater Industrial school! If every reader who sees this item would send in $1 to Treasurer THE EAGLE Blair, the school equipment and efficiency could be increased to the ex-reader. The Gazette urges its readers to respond to this call just as promptly as possible. "WHITE SUPREMACY." Nearly forty years ago, the South was given a free hand to do as it pleased with the franchise of the colored race living there. President Hayes paved the way for "white supremacy." For a short while northern white men, colored men and some southern men ruled the South. This regime is called by the South, "carpet bag." Too often it has been maliciously stated that this was the curse of the South. This is NOT true! "While the so-called "carpet baggers" ran the government of the south, the people enjoyed an orderly government, save outbursts of violence, from lawless white southerners. The presence of federal soldiers made the South respect law! Their withdrawal was a signal for "legal violence." The shibboleth was "white supremacy." Under "white supremacy" have grown up men like Tillman, Cole Blease, James K. Vardman, Hoke Sick and many others. Under its regime the South has had a withering blight of lawlessness, lynching, burning, murder, pearson, white-cappers and red-shifters. Government has given away to mob law." The courts have been subsidized by politicians; education denied the poor whites, while the colored people have suffered almost the loss of all educational advantages. Race prejudice, like a hyena, creeps stealthily into everything. Christianity has civilization been so low as now while "white supremacy" rules. Not only it has gripped the South but it is cautiously planting itself everywhere. "White supremacy" may be defined as the absolute independence of white men to law and order. From "white supremacy" the colored South is running. Heaven smile upon their flight! Judged by its own record, "white supremacy" is the reign of brutal terror and barbarous ferocity. Under it all races retrograde. Is it not time for the reign of law and order? to be installed by the votes of the governed? Among the sufferers under this greatest evil, the colored race has been and is the principal. Like slavery, it must go. Let our people leave the south till it feels their absence surely and this will put an end to "white supremacy" quicker than anything else. The white South does not like work, especially in the hot sun. Send it into the fields and you will cure it. We rejoice in the fact that the ordinary colored man is solving his own problem. "Go to it," and free yourself of the incubus—"white supremacy." (REV.) WM. A. BYRD. DR. SPINGARN'S ARMY CALL! We have a great deal of confidence in Dr. J. E. Spingarn, of New York City, one of the race's best white friends, and ordinarily would accept without question, almost, any suggestion he would make to the race. And yet we question the wisdom of his latest suggestion that two hundred Afro-Americans make application to Gen. Leonard Wood for admission to a segregated 'or" jim-crow" military camp that will give them the training necessary to fit them to serve as officers of volunteers in case of war. No, thank you, Doctor! there is enough governmental segregation already. Then, too, there are enough officers for our volunteers in the regular army's four Afro-American regiments. Add to this, the fact that our southern democratic controlled government absolutely refused, last year when enacting into law the Army Re-organization bill, to make provision for the enlistment of afro-Americans, although our leading men at Washington, D. C., begged them to do so, and you will understand better our position in the matter. Until there is legislation to that effect, no Afro-American can enlist in the U. S. army, except those who have been members of it. If Thomas Woodrow Wilson leads this country into war, and we do not for a moment think he has enough courage to do so, we favor letting him and the rest of his southern democratic exebels, government officials and controlling members of Congress, who insisted upon barring Afro-Americans out of the army when they were making the Army. Re-organization, bill a law, have all they apparently wanted of it. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt, last week, of a printed copy of Bishop-Wilbur P. Thirkield's address, "The Nogro and Organic Union of Methodism", in 1916 at Northwestern University, before the "working, conference on the organic union of Methodism". One Year.....$1.50 Six Months.....1.00 Three Months......50 Subscribers are requested to re- mit by postoffice money or der or registered letter Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland Ohio, as second-class matter. Address all communications to Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1898; 1898 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the Interest of Afro-Americans, published in India, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 240,000 in Ohio. 20,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1917 "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. Frederick Douglass was and is our Lincoln. One of the few advantages of the war crisis is that it puts an end to all verbal legerdemain and prestidigitation. Language can no longer be used to effect mental and moral hypotism. It is now to be used in a hard, bullet-like way and with almost mathematical accuracy. In other words, the "soap-bubble" era is over. We are back to common sense. Of the dozen or more Americans killed and drowned at sea since the first of last month, as a result of German submarine warfare, about two-thirds of the number have been Afro-Americans. The Germans will have to kill many more WHITE Americans to cause this country to force its southern President to do what he threatened, in his wordy letters to them, many months ago. Otherwise, there will be no war. Just remember this, please. Emerson has said that the true test of a country is not the crops or the census but the kind of a man the country turns out. Abraham Lincoln was the culmination of American manhood. In him the Republic gave birth to its best. It is doubtful whether his services to his country were the greater or whether his inspiration to future generations was the greater. Stanton said a wonderful truth when Lincoln died: "Now he belongs to the ages." President Thomas Woodrow Wilson, in his Jackson day address in Indianapolis two years ago, made this emphatic statement in explaining his attitude toward Mexico: "I hold it as a fundamental principle that every people has the right to determine its own form of government. * * * It is none of my business and it is none of your business how long they take in determining it. It is none of my business and it is none of yours how they go about the business." President Wilson's acts in Santo Domingo, the mulato republic, say one thing. His declaration of principles in regard to Mexico say that which is exactly the opposite of it. Do not think for one moment that this inconsistency, and that (even more glaring) in his wordy correspondence (without the threatened action) with Germany has not enabled that wise country to "take his measure." They have done so and are "conducting themselves accordingly." THE BEATTY BILL From the "very beginning of this latest "Birth of a Nation" trouble, if we have tried to convince our people of Ohio of the necessity of one thing more than another, it was to make them see the absolute necessity of getting together and working in harmony under efficient leadership to pass the Beatty bill and to do whatever else was necessary to stop the exhibition of the infamous film in Ohio—as we did two years ago. Our Columbus letter, published in this paper last week, showed how well (?) we have succeeded in having our advice accepted. "Twas ever thus—individuals, local branches of the N. A. A. C. P., and other organizations throughout the state are working without proper concentration of effort and direction, and WITH THE USUAL RESULT! Two years, ago, the writer "took the bit in his own mouth", and "paid about all the freight" out of his own pocket, in the "Birth of a Nation", and with the help of the loyal and faithful of our people (and a few white friends) throughout the state succeeded in barring the infamous film from Ohio for two years. We regret exceedingly that things are going very different this time, it seems. It may not be too late, even yet, if our people will only wake up and use the common sense and intelligence we are continually boasting of. Brothers and sisters, in contests like this, RESULTS COUNT, and not talk! THE "JIM-CROW" Y. M. C. A. Some weeks ago our special correspondent at St. Louis sent The Gazette one of the very best articles, on the segregated or "jim-crow" Y. M. C. A. it has been our good fortune to receive and publish in a long, long time. Elsewhere in this paper he has another—a sequel to the first one—that is equally strong and also worthy of a careful and thoughtful readings. The Afro-American advocates of the "jim-crow" Y. M. C. A. in the north to say the least, are guilty of almost criminal inconsistency. As a rule they can make all sorts of "noise" against about all other kinds of vicious racial segregation but promptly lay aside their "indignation, great race interest," etc., when the "jim-crow" Y. M. C. A. idea is advanced May the good Lord have mercy on them, and many of them are ministers, too. "THE SOUTH IN THE SADDLE." Dr. Cary Grayson's sea duty has been chiefly performed aboard the President's yacht, the "Mayflower." If he is confirmed in the exalted rank to which Mr. Wilson has nominated him, he need never go to sea again, for his position would render him immune from it. As a modern "Sir Joseph Porter", Dr. Grayson furnishes increasingly numerous parallels. He is thirty-eight years old and has been about twelve years in the service. Seven of those years he has spent in the White House. He is reported to have brought about the meeting between President Thomas Woodrow Wilson and his present wife, and he has himself since married Mrs. Wilson's ward. He has played golf assiduously with the president and he has furnished him medical advice and treatment. At the White House it is not denied that the Grayson appointment is "personal." In the navy and at the capitol it is denounced as favoritism of the rankest type. A naval officer who is selected for promotion is obliged to take an examination before he can assume his new rank. Generally an examining board is made up of active officers of higher rank than the aspirant, but Dr. Cary Grayson has been specially favored in this regard. The board which examined him is made up of two retired officers and one from the active list. At the head of the board is one of Dr. Grayson's fellow-Virginians and his uncle, retired Medical Director Rixey; another is a retired navy doctor who hails from South Carolina, and the third is an active officer from Maryland. It is thus apparent that the ways were greased for the unprecedented promotion of a Virginia doctor, selected for preferment by a president born in Virginia from North Carolina, passed upon by a senate committee with a South Carolina chairman, and put through the final examination by his Virginia uncle, assisted by a South Carolinian and a Marylander. It is delightfully simple when one discovers how it is arranged. Dr. Grayson was recently examined by "S. senate committee on naval affairs. They learned he had "withdrawn" from two medical examinations, one for Acting Assistant Surgeon because he "did not feel he could pass it"; the other for hospital steward due to "the examination seemed a little hard, especially in chemistry." He has served two years at sea and two or three months on the "Mayflower", the president's yacht. In his examination in December, Dr. Grayson said he had not been asked any questions but had been told to present a thesis. He rewrote a thesis on blood pressure, that he had prepared four years before, and presented it. Whereupon the Democratic members by a strict party vote recommended that he be confirmed as medical director with the rank of Rear Admiral. In view of his eminent qualification, as disclosed by his own evidence, it would seem that in the Democratic administration at Washington, he possesses every qualification to be Secretary of the Navy, instead of Joseph Daniels, but—is President Thomas Woodrow Wilson morally justified in jumping his physician over 130 naval officers who take examinations and who have to answer questions? Personal government is too much the rule in Washington, these days. A STRONG APPEAL BY A ST. LOUIS JEW FOR EQUAL RELIGIOUS OPPORTU NITIES AND AGAINST SEG- REGATION. "JIM-CROW" Y.M.C.A'S Foerrunners of Other Forms of the Color-Line—He says the Christian Religion Does Not Prove Sufficient to Make All Men Special to The Gazette St. Louis, Mo.—In a previous letter to The Gazette, I called attention to the fact that the campaign in this city for a colored branch of the Y. M. C. A. had met considerable opposition among certain well informed, influential men, because of the segregated nature of the move. Present indications of the former against such "jim-crow" propositions is gaining in power here, as elsewhere in the north, and there appears to be no compromise in sight. This opposition is founded on three facts that stand out in bold relief: The money donated to "colored or jim-crow" is given to corporations DOMINATED by WHITE men and the race is made poorer by exactly that amount. 2. Y. M. C. A.'s and other institutions supported by our men should recognize no race or color line in accepting members. 3. We must to ALL such property should be held in the name of OUR organizations. During the last few years, considerable impetus has been given to these movements, and the fostering influence has been among white men of prominence who consider themselves "the best irides" of the race. They have given liberally of their time and energy to the cause, successful, yet the principle involved in accepting these benefits is of vital concern and occupies, more and more each day, the attention of our more thoughtful men. The question of accepting positions as the wards of others, as though we are incapable of managing our own institutions and at the same time allowing ourselves to be set off to one side behind a racial barrier, is momentous. The answer to the conundrum seems to be involved in the matter of control. When propositions of such vital interest to the race are undertaken, they should receive the widest publicity from our press and the most dispassonate discussion. This is not done, in many cases, because the campaigns are opened with a whirl of excitement and enthusiasm and people sweep off their feet with a glamor of large accomplishments. FRESH OHIO NEWS Written by 'The Old Reliable' Gazette's Correspondents THROUGHOUT THE STATE What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marrages, Deaths, Etc. The white press is apt to withhold whatever conflicts with its opinions. This was done in the case of the letter below which was mailed to a friend of mine during the heat of one AGAINST segregation campaigns; one AGAINST residential segregation and the other FOR segregation. The writer, who is a Jew and personally known to my informer, says the Post Dispatch failed to publish his letter. It is given verbatim: SEGREGATED YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS. "Editor, Louis, Mo., Post Dispatch. "Dear Sir, all institutions that would tolerate the two putting individuals off to one side will be the accident of race or color, it seems that a CHRISTIAN institution would be the last to even consider such a movement. And yet many of those who set themselves up as exponents of teachings of the Savior of mankind are the ones that take the most pronounced stand promoting such segregation. "There seems to be no hope of ever bringing about an understanding between the Jew and the Gentle from a religious standpoint or a very good reason. The Gentle has difficulty to see the consistency in the Christian religion, because he doesn't believe in it himself sufficiently to practice it. He tells the Jew that he should be a servant of the Lowly Nazareth, who taught the real efficacy of things in the world—love. But this same thing cannot make the Gentle accept the Jew as his brother. In some cities the Jew is not only made uncomfortable in his living quarters, but a knowledge of his nationality is sufficient to keep from occupying positions that he might not want, and only recently has the segregation wished to be abolished in Russia. "A similar spirit of prejudice is shown towards the American born colored man, and is practiced in some of the largest Christian institutions such as the Young Men's Christian Association. To have a Negro departing, Young Men's Christian Association is held in un-American, and un-Christian as to have a "jim-crow" department in a railroad train. The same principle is involved and should be frown upon by every liberty-loving American citizen, and especially the American Negro, who helps to make a stepping stone for more undesirable segregations every time he supports an institution upon un-American, un-Democratic, and un-Christian principles. A JEW." In all the criticism against segregated movements, whether of a residential nature or in those institutions which should teach THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN AND THE FATHERHOOD OF MAN, there is no evidence of any desire on the part of any one to fail to recognize that racial peculiarities attract likes; yet there is a strong dislike for the assumption that because of this individualism of natural endowment, there should be the least encouragement given to the converse proposition—that colored men should serve God to good purpose under the same if they so choose; or that colored men must be set off to themselves because the "good" of the greatest number demands such a condition. The artificial restrictions which are subtly imposed are such that they automatically regulate themselves, and should be used to better minds of either race, for they will undoubtedly react to the detriment of both. FROM SOUTH AMERICA. Bahia, Brazil, Jan. 5th, 1917. To The Gazette, Dear Editor:--Let me say that I wish you a happy new year, hoping that you have enjoyed a pleasant Christmas. I have been looking through the very new columns of The Gazette and feel like congratulating you on your long and noble fight for justice and your race. I would therefore remind you how sad we feel when we know that age is creeping upon you at a time when you are out of some of the mischief wrought in the world during the last two generations. You should now read Jesus' sermon on the mount and behold the times in which you live. Could you have believed it, had you been told just ten years ago? And yet, I have been trying to warn and prepare the colored people of your country nearly people longer than that, to join in England in 1906 that in 1916 there would be war between England and Germany. I told them that Germany would have need for certain territory and it would be necessary to fight for WEALTH AND BEAUTY. Let Scherle's System of Beauty Culture show you how to attain both Beautify yourself. Start a beauty shop. Complete system, $1. Particular lars free. Address, Walter S. John son, Route D, Coatesville, Pa.-Adv A western woman is said to have offered to give a ranch hand two cows if he would kill her husband. Evidently she didn't think very much of the cows, either. A new antiswearing league has been started in Holland, but it may be only a roundabout way of depriving neutrals of their right to express their opinion. An eastern chap who has just received an unexpected legacy of a million says he will take up aviation. Going to start right in to be a high flyer. Statisticians who figure that woman holds the balance of power are the scorn of the married man who knows that she holds it all. Written by 'The Old Reliable' Gazette's Correspondents THROUGHOUT THE STATE What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Mariages, Deaths, Etc. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of face-to-face to have them read, or Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write also, their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, speeches, resolutions, poetry, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in advance at the rate of ten cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. HILLSBORO—Dr. W. J. Smith, of Circleville, one of our successful practicing physicians, was a visitor here, last week, and secured a number of patients—Mrs. Charlie Greene left, Saturday, for Cleveland to join her husband who is employed there—Prof. S. G. Hough spent a few days, last week, with his parents in Jamestown, Saturday, for Cleveland to join McFarland are sick—The chicken-supper, last Thursday, by A. M. E. church ladies was a success. Mrs. Anna Larter has returned from Cleveland. Mr. Chas. Smith, of Steubenville, spent a few days with his family here, this week. Mr. John Hudson left, Thursday, for Detroit, where he has emigrated. Mrs. Chas. Smith attended Mr. Jesse Davis' funeral. Mr. Lawn Delahney is here visiting his parents. Mrs. Chas. Whaley, of Indianapolis, spent Sunday night here, returning home Monday, accompanied by her daughter, Miss Loretta, who will make her home here. Mr. Cary Zimperson visited his brother, Pearl, in Columbus, this week—Mr. and Mrs. Zimperson visited her home, last week. She was formerly Miss Anna L. Davidson—Mr. and Mrs. Otho Hudson have returned to Columbus. She will visit her mother in Charleston, W. Va.—The New Hope Baptist church will give a chicken-supper, March 17.—Rev. Orr being indisposed, Sunday, Rev. P. H. Smith preached for him in the morning and evening, March 17.—Out, Sunday, to the B. Y. P. U. Prof. Vance will deliver an address. Also a program will be rendered. SMITHFIELD.—The concert at the A. M. e. church, Sunday evening, conducted by the chorist, Miss A. Harris, and Mrs. J. M. Williams, was fine and greatly appreciated. Also the entertainment and drama, Saturday evening, given by Mesdames S. Harris and K. Christian, captains of the rally, were Mrs. J. M. Williams, F. Christian, brother, and W. Ramsey of Hopedale; the Misses West, two brothers from Cadiz, and Mr. and Mrs. E. Freeman of Bradley. The latter were the Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. Harris.—Mr. B. McCune, of Wellsville, was the Saturday and Sunday guests of Mrs. Griffin is visiting in Wellsville. —Miss V. Carter, T. West and Mrs. M. Steward were in Steub, Thursday, Mrs. J. M. Davis was there, Friday, Mr. and Mrs. C. Thompson have located in Bradley, Rev. and Mrs. Williams and Mr. and Mrs. H. Harris were in Cadiz, Tuesday, Messrs. J. and J. Harris and J. Harris were in Wheeling, Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ageye were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Parks. SANDUSKY.—Mr. Geo, Chancellor, who died, the 21st, leaving a wife and five children, was buried, the 23d, from the Second Baptist church, the pastor officiating.—O. B. Shackelford is not doing so well.—Mr. Ernest Nimmons was taken to Good Samaritan hospital, Sunday.—As a result of the revival at the Second Baptist church which Prof. E. W. Curry, of Urbana, is conducting, two joined church, Sunday, and many manifested a desire to live better lives. The revival will continue indefinitely.—Mrs. Edw. Bryant is at home doing nicely.—Mrs. A. Kellet is at home doing an amusement.—Mrs. Jones has neuralgia.—Tesla is sick.—Prof. Curry is stopping with Rev. and Mrs. G. D. Smith.—Tell your friends to take The Gazette and kept posted. ELYRIA—Mr. Fred. Blackburn, of Cleveland, visited in Elyria, Sunday.—Mrs. Charlotte Smith is quite ill.—Mrs. E. Hill entertained a Washington birthday party, Thursday. Covers were did for eight. The color blues and white, and blues Mrs. W. Clark, of Oberlin, spent Sunday with her son, H. R. Wilson. The trustees' circle gave an entertainment, last Tuesday evening at the church. Give the local agent your friends' addresses, so he can take them a Gazette.—Mrs. F. Brown spent Monday with Mrs. Simms of Lorain. The hospital, is improving very slowly.—Mr. C. Brown has sold his hotel. CADIZ—"The Busy Bees" met at W. L. Johnson's, Sunday. — Mrs. R. F. Ballard, who has been seriously ill, is improving—The W. C. T. u. met at Mrs. James Madison's. — The Misses Georgie and Thelma West visited their sister at Smithfield. — It seems almost assured that Cadiz will get the new normal school for eastern Ohio. The Hon. A. Lee Beaty, our only member of the General Assembly, is a member of the normal school commission and will visit Cadiz with the committee, this summer. — Misay Johnson is visiting A. A. J. Guy in Steubenville. — Mrs. Ella Wallace was at Mt. Pleasant, last week. YOUNGSTON—Louisa Edwards court will meet, Mar. 14. — Jos. Jones has rheumatism. — Miss Carrie Lewis, of Pittsburg, spent a few days with Mrs. Morrison and Mrs. Chas. Smith. — Buckeye lodge, Elks, added 27 new members, Sunday, and expects as many more, next Sunday. — Frank Pettiford is very ill, at this time. — Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lancaster, of Akron, visited their son, Dr. Lloyd Lancaster, who has had rheumatism three weeks. — Mrs. Q. Robinson and Mrs. A. Hudson are attending a convention in Indianapolis. — Mrs. A. Hudson is Third Baptist churches have revivals. — Order the old reliable Gazette. DOUGLASS' FINE TRIBUTE. The Hon. Frederick Douglass wrote the editor of The Gazette a few years prior to his death: "In the midst of hurried preparations for a long tour in Europe, I snatch my pen and spend a few moments to tell you how complex my sympathetic attitude. I do exhort your readers to stand by you in your efforts to lead the Colored citizens of Ohio to wise and successful political action." "FREDERICK DOUGLASS." CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. The old reliable Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Dayton, Piqua, M. Vernon, East Liverpool, Akron, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, Blackstone building, Cleveland, O, and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by sending at once the addresses of persons named and others in the state, to whom we can write relative to the matter. RESPONSIBILITY IS ON FATHER Traveling Along Wrong Road When He Finds Hiking Trail to Talk With His Boy. The father and son movement is one of the best and most sensible things we have heard of for a long time. That is because it proposes to accomplish results through using natural human instincts naturally. It appeals to the deepest of human feelings—love. It goes about to remind fathers of something they may have forgotten and to tell boys something they may not have known. You can get at this better if you sit down and talk confidentially with some other father's boy. He will tell you things your own boy cannot. In his wistful earnestness, you will discover that there are times when a boy has a real matter of grave importance to him that finds his father too busy to be bothered. It will make you stop and think as you realize that this little fellow couldn't come to any other conclusion than that his dad was indifferent. Fathers know better; fathers remember pretty well when they were boys, but they don't remember just how sensitive a boy is to the worst of rebuffs, that of being thought silly. Now, the boys need to be told this about their fathers, that they are not indifferent. But after all the biggest thing is to tell fathers, for it is their business to understand and theirs is the responsibility.—Milwaukee Journal. With Interpellations. A young and somewhat unpopular officer was explaining to his men what happened to a shell after it left the gun. The comedian of the company couldn't refrain from making remarks in an undertone, much to the amusement of his pals. This was part of the lesson: Officer—The shell on leaving the gun, owing to the bore, goes wound and wound. Voice—The muiberry bush. 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THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY GRASP IT AT ONCE! FOR PARTICULARS, WRITE EVELYN HORTON MFG. CO., 4188 W. BELLE PLACE, ST. LOUIS, MO., AND MENTION "THE GAZETTE." PLEASE. Cleveland Sixth City Mr. Fred Blackburn visited' his mother in Elyria, Sunday. Thomas Queen, of E. 43rd St., spent the past week in Chicago. Mrs. M. Lane and Mrs. Wm. Naughton spent Sunday in Oberlin. Mrs. M. Lane and Mrs. Wm. Ncaughton spent Sunday in Oberlin. The Coterie club met at Mrs. C. Evans', Blaine Ave., this Friday evening. Rev. I. V. Bryant is pastor of the First Baptist church at Huntington, W. Va. Mrs. Jas. Rogers, Central Ave., was host to the Fortnightly club, last Friday evening. E. C. Peck, finan., sec., of the Y. M. C. A., spoke for the Y. M. C. U. vesper service, Sunday. There is only one way to get the real race news and that is to take "the old reliable" Gazette. The Coleridge Taylor Choral society gave a concert, Wednesday evening; Mrs. Rachel W. Turner, soloist. Mrs. George Clark, of E. 30th St., has returned from Pittsburg. Her sister, Mrs. George Whitler, was ill. Mrs. Lina Mason, of E. 20th St., was taken to Charlity hospital, Thursday, to undergo an operation on her neck. Ladies, our fashion page is the latest and best—up to date! Tell your friends and acquaintances about it, please. Mrs. Chas. Greene, of Hillsboro, joined her husband here. Saturday, Mrs. Anna Larter has returned to Hoveville. The Louisville (Ky.) News, of Feb. 24, '17, contains a portrait and an interesting sketch of the editor of The Gazette. F. J. and W. H. Perkins spent Saturday and Sunday in Canton, Mich., with their sister, Mrs. Sarah Dean who is very ill. Chas. S. Sutton, Esq., spent Saturday and Sunday. What's the attraction, Charley? This is the second trin trip, recently. Mr. Lee, an employee of the Chandler & Rudd Co., and Mrs. Laura Washington, of E. 43rd St., were quietly married, Wednesday. Our most popular photographic studio, in this city, is the Smith Studio, 4207 Central Av. Go in and look over its fine work—Ady. Uncle Sam wants men to run elevators in postoffice. Applicants must submit photographs and pass educational, physical and health tests. Salary, $60 a month. The first of the week after a lengthy illness. His wife has the sympathy of a host of friends. Funeral, Thursday afternoon, from the house. Rev. C. G. Fishback will hold baptical service immediately after the morning sermon; praise and communion service in the afternoon. Collections, Sunday, amounted to $147. Mrs. L. H. Staunton, formerly of Auburn, N.Y., delivered a splendid address on Sunday at the Wesper sermon. Sunday, Miss Jemie Hunter, see, continues to improve in health. Charles F. Smith, who recently finished 20 years in the police department, has been secretary to three chiefs, George B. Corner, Fred Kohler and Chief Woley. --- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1917. "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. Mrs. James Allen, of E. 43rd St. delightfully entertained the Poinsettia club, Saturday afternoon. An excellent luncheon was served and American flags were given as favors. Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in The Gazette certainly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all our friends to patronize those who ask for your trade in this paper. It is said that "Star," Tom and "Germany" are running dances at ideal (Woodif) hall. The "bogs" are want know if there is anything else they want. It looks as if "some one" is trying to break up the "Tutona hall dances." Marriage licenses were issued recently to Chester V. Minnes, 2438 Central Av., and Florence, Miller, 2370 E. 34th St.; Ernest De Leon and Lenora Chinn, 2209 E. 46th St.; Charles C. Overton, 2730 Central Av., and Emma Moore, 2530 E. 28th St. Willard Stokes, age 26, was to go on trial in Judge Wickers' court, Monday, on a first-degree murder charge in confection with the shooting of Robert Rucker, Nov. 3. Police say Rucker, chef for a railroad laborers' gang, was killed during a quarrel over a meal. Wm. Temple, an old resident and for many years an active official of Mt. Zion Cong, church, died, last week, after a brief illness. Pneumonia. The funeral services, Sunday afternoon, at 10 a.m., were at the pastor, Rev. G. V. Clark, officiated. Interment, Monday, in Woodland cemetery. Ladies' Aid society, No. 3, of Cory M. E. church, at met Mrs. E. Dunley's. E. 46th St., Washington's birthday, Refreshments were served by the hostess. Next meeting, at Mrs. Harrison's, E. 43rd St., March 8. Mrs. Schooler, pres., and Mrs. Mary Allen, see'y. Mrs. Marie Perkins entertained the board of managers of the Old Folks' home, Monday afternoon. At this gathering it was understood that Wm. Temple, (deceased), had left his barber-shop equipment (in storage) to Mrs. Temple at the home last Thursday evening, was attended by about 100. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt, last week, of an invitation from the board of trustees of Howard University, Washington, D.C., to attend a sociological conference and the fifth anniversary of the founders of the university, held at the institution, Thursday and Friday of this week. The Cleveland "Owls" were defeated in Pittsburgh, last week Thursday by the "Scholastics" in a brilliant game of basket-ball. Score, 33 to 23. The personnel of the "Owls": Ralph Burke, Rob't. Brooks, Floyd Ramsey, Ernest P. Jackson, Orville Singer, Wm. Rose, Raymond Jackson and Clarence Hill. He, last Friday, stopped his trial on a charge of murdering his wife by rising and saying to the jury: "I killed her. Have mercy on me." James for 4 months had insisted he was not guilty. He was allowed to plead guilty to manslaughter, and Judge Vickery sentenced him to from one to 20 years in the penitentiary. Hon. George D. Jones, state senator from Franklin Co., and president of the Columbus, O. Branch, N. A. A. C. P., will address the mass meeting, Sunday, Mar. 4, at 3 p.m. at Antioch University. The judge of the local branch will be held, Tuesday evening, Mar. 6, at 8 o'clock at Antioch Baptist church, S. P. Keeble, sec.-Ady. The Lincoln Embroidery club met at Mrs. A. T. Abbott's, E 96th St., recently, and celebrated its eighth anniversary. The home was beautifully decorated with American flags, a Lincoln portrait—the gift of Mr. Abbott to the club, and red and white carmine. Twelve guests were present. Mr. Abbott presented all with a white carnation. Warner Davis, of E. 30th St., was removed to Lakeside hospital, Monday, to undergo an operation for appendicitis. Sergeant Jesse Thrower, E. 43rd St., Mr. Selby Minor, Cedar Ave.; Mrs. George Randolph, Central Ave.; Miss Emma Fields, Elsinor Ave.; Mrs. Elizabeth Morris, Visitation, 2496 E. 30th St., and Mr. W. Nelson, E. 32nd St., are recovering. The revival at East Mt. Zion Baptist church, Rev. B. K. Smith, pastor, is meeting with splendid results. Rev. I. V. Bryant, speaker, has delivered telling sermons and is a power. There have been 26 for baptism and 9 by experience and letter. Many are at the anxious seat and the interest grows. Rev Bryant will preach every evening, this week. Everybody wel Who would be a policeman? An opportunity awaits young men between the ages of 21 and 33 who would like to become members of the Cleveland force. "The position pays $900 for the first year of service," said Secretary E. A. Kline of the civil service commission. "We are going to have a new examination March 31. We would like to hear from applicants as soon as possible." About $20 was realized from the entertainment given, Sunday afternoon, at Shiloh Baptist church by Pete Ross "new church" club. Mr. Purega Rico, basso profundo, sang a number of excellent selections, several read most acceptably (one lady, one host being Mr. Wesley) of his band, whose name was failed to secure, sang a very pretty soprano solo, and the pastor made a short talk. Lunch was then served in the basement. The Daw-Moser civil rights case has been appealed by the latter. He was refused a new trial, Monday. Mr. Edward Daw won the case in common pleas court, Feb. 13, after three trials and about seven appearances in court; and another case against Moser in the Police court, last year. Two court convictions are supposed to make Moser (Otto) lose his liquor license, according to a statement of the local liquor license commissioners. He keeps a saloon in E. 4th st. The local council of our Women's clubs will hold a meeting Sunday evening, at Cory Hall, 100 West 42nd Street, "Douglass Home Fund." Rev. P. O'Connell, pastor of the church, will be one of the speakers. The program will be in charge of Mrs. H. K. Price and Mrs. H. B. Brascher. In a letter to the editor of The Gazette, Arthur J. Smith, proprietor of Smith's Studio, 4207 Central Av., writes: "I want you to know that I appreciate your cordial treatment of me and my studio and the good you and your paper have done and are doing me. I am greatly pleased also with my latest advertisement. Add The Gazette certainly brings insight. Prince Oskazuma's Southern Life Plantation Company will open a carnival, in the Spring, that will be a credit to the race. It will not give the old-time, worn-out plantation show with a few performers impersonating members of the race in old "bandanas," ragged clothes, shoes, and with a few performers who will be an up-to-date entertainment in every respect that will please the most fastidious and most critical. The Prince's company will be allied with a large carnival of 22 cars and 15 shows, of which the Southern Life company will be one. There will be a real plantation cotton-gin, church and other things necessary to properly exhibit a tent with 24-40 middle pieces, with over 100 persons and a band of 15 pieces will take part in the carnival. Theodore E. Burton served many, many years in Congress' both branches. From the first to the last, he refused to say in to the body a message throughout his career as a national representative and U.S. senator failed to secure us even one decent federal appointment. Helfin, Hoke Smith, Vardamam, Jeff, Davis, former U. S. senator from Arkansas, and others never were able to abuse, malign and Burton to arise in his to his word in our defense. And yet among his most loyal constituents in this county and state always were our people. Some of them attended the recent Hughes League banquet and some of them praised and some of them will be bowing for Mayor Harry Davis, this fall. "Thus ever thus," LORD, HAVE MERCY! We honestly believe that the eleventh ward would have been better off, last and this year without a councilman. The present incumbent, as such, is not amusing. The young one of the ward's old officers — not job-holders — say he must go, and go it shall be. This fall will see the "Starlight"—Tom Fleming regime (Maschke's) "walk the plank" for the "good and welfare" of our people of that ward and the city. The Gazette of Baehr administration, that such "Negro local leadership" would not be tolerated by our people and it was not, has not and will not be. Some people (white), who affect to believe that we do not know when we are more than grossly insulted, will know better how to deal with them, they learned, in part at least, at the end of Mayor Baehr's one term. Mayor Davis was advertised as a speaker at the recent Lincoln-Douglas banquet of the Attucks club but failed to put in an appearance. According to the Cleveland Moving Picture Bulletin, Columbia bldg., Davis says, "I don't think at this time we can afford to take the Birth of a Nation, but I don't think it can be shown." This is far from being encouraging. Maybe he thought some one would ask him about this statement, at the banquet, and so "sides stepped" it. Filthy dirty streets, dirty old cars and worse car-service, absolutely no proper police protection because the officers are not allowed to duty by the Maschke-Davis administration in service from the city in the way of ash collection, etc., are only a few of the things that will make our people of the eleventh ward help, this fall, to get rid of the whole set of city officials including their alleged councilman (Flemming, Tom). All colored people are apparently too black to serve as clerks in the city hall, the only one who can serve as being an appointee of the preceding administration. Mayor Davis and Maschke simply will not give our people such appointments in that building. Indeed, the great majority of the department were secured under Mayor Baker (dem.) The present local administration has not given our people a single first-class appointment in the city, and now we are an appointee of the preceding administration. Mayor Davis and Maschke simply will not give our people such appointments in that building. Help to vote THEM and TOM FLEMING OUT of office, in November! Director Sprost's recent spectacular raid (?) was amusing, not because Chief Rowe was left out of it, but because it was such a gigantic buff. We fall to see how even the local ministers (white) can "fall for the same one exception, those arrested were given suspended sentences. Wonder if they did not know of the alleged "raid" before it was "pulled off?" Cleveland's moral status WAS NEVER SO LOW in all its history as it is under the Maschke-Davis administration. There is double the amount of gambling, vice, etc., and the police are powerless because of Maschke-Davis administration. There is even the Dawn's shameful treatment of R. Cove and other Afro-Americans who asked to be appointed an assistant police prosecutor, and his treatment of a delegation headed by Rev. E. A. White which sought in vain to see him about the matter; also the turn-down of James R. Snyder and others who earned small positions in civil service and refused them, O, the shameful and disgusting mistreatment our people of this community have received from the present local administration is enough to sicken even some of its Afro-American job-holders. FOR YOUR PROTECTION! Three prominent gentlemen of Cleveland will visit the Florence Estates, sometime in May, at my expense, in order to investigate and inspect the merits of THE FLOREENE ESTATES which are located at Florence, Camden County, New Jersey, eighteen miles from Philadelphia, on the main line of the Reading Railroad to Atlantic City, ten minutes walk from the station, and *located on one of the highest points in South Jersey. The ground is fertile and level. Every lot is staked and numbered, and every street is cut through, ready for culinary building. BUILDING THE DELEGATION ON OUR VISITING THE PROPERTY, FIND IT OTHERWISE THAN STATED IN THIS ADVERTISEMENT, ALL PURCHASERS WILL HAVE THEIR MONEY REFUNDED WITH SIX PER CENT INTEREST. The above statement is in conformity with what my representative, Mr. Allen, has told you. The names of the delegation members are as follows: Harry C. Smith, Ex-member of the Ohio Legislature, Owner and Editor of The Gazette. Rev. H. C. Bailey, well-known pastor of Antioch Baptist church. Wm. Brack, Prop. - Frank Doctor, Manager James Mabel, Chef Office and Funeral Parlors 3923 CENTRAL AV. Autos for All Occasions. Calls Answered Day and Night PALMER'S SKIN-SUCCESS OINTMENT when looking for the ORIGINAL Skin Ointment and Complexion Brightner. In successful use over eighty years. Many millions of boxes sold all over the country to satisfied users. BEWARE of all substitutes. Substitutes may be harmful; even dangerous. Insist upon getting what you want - the old, reliable "SKIN-SUCCESS" Ointment and Soap. 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Thirty-two acres, ten modern buildings, healthful location. We can accommodate a few more earnest, ambitious students. Communities requiring social workers should write us. should take PURO HERBS, the great Spring remedy. Cleanses the organs and purifies the blood. A blood medicine with a reputation that cannot be beaten. Made from Nature's health giv- ing herbs. ( 35c PER PACKAGE — Dry Form PRICES ( 7 PER BOTTLE — Liquid Form ( $1 PER BOTTLE — Extra Strong FOR SALE ONLY AT BROWN DRUG CO. CAR R. SEYFERT, Prop. E. 2742 Central Ave. Cor. E. 28th IT'S TIME Photo Let us bear your photo are broad and our photo like our portraits, our The Smith 4207 Cen Rosedale, 5028 A. B. Cuyahoga, C Edward Do (T H 3035 Cent COX DRY CLEANING CO. Repairing, Pressing, Cleaning, etc., on short order. Suits Pressed, 30 Cents 2738 Central Avenue CLEVELAND, O. WOMAN IS PRISONER IN BURNING HOUSE Victim Is Bound, Gagged and Finally Rescued, Assailant's Identity Being Mystery. Sandusky, Ohio. — Attracted by smoke pouring from the windows of the house, neighbors entered the home of Mrs. Tina Dress, 31, Wednesday to find her lying on the floor, hands and feet bound and a gag in her mouth. Rags saturated with oil were found between the walls of the house. When released from her perilous position, Mrs. Dress fainted. When she recovered she declared she had been bound since Monday night, but doesn't know the identity of her assailant. Dress secured a divorce from the woman about two weeks ago and she had been out of the city until Monday. The story told by Mrs. Dress has caused the police to believe that she has been the victim of 'some kind of plot, which does not involve her husband. She declared that she returned to this city from Toledo on Monday afternoon. She went to a picture show in the evening and upon leaving the theater was seized with an epileptic fit, according to her story. When she recovered, she was lying on the floor at her own home and was bound hand and foot and gagged. Detective Sergeant Shieffley found the bowl of an oil lamp which contained a few drops of oil in a vacant lot near the house. It is believed that the oil saturated rags which were found between the walls had been saturated with the oil which was in the lamp. TO AVENGE KIN'S DEATH Austin Hoy Thinks Relatives' Deaths an Outrage Washington, D. C. — A cablegraph from Austin Y. Hoy, calling upon the United States to average the deaths of his mother, Mrs. Mary Hoy, and his sister, Miss Elizabeth Hoy, on the submarined Laconia, has just reached Washington from London. He addressed it to President Wilson and said that unless the United States acted he would fight against Germany under another flag. The text of the message follows: "I am an American citizen, representing the Sullivan Machinery Co. of Chicago, living abroad not as an expatriate, but for the promotion of American trade. I love the flag, believing its significance. My beloved mother and sister, passengers on the Laconia, have been foully murdered on the high seas. As an American citizen outraged and as such fully within my rights as an American son and brother bereaved, I call upon my government to preserve its citizens' self-respect and save others of my countrymen from such deep grief as I now feel. I am of military age, able to fight. If my country can use me against these brutal assassins, I am at its call. If it stultifies my manhood and my nation by remaining passive under outrage, I shall seek a man's chance under another flag." Drowns Self in Well. Elyria. — Charles Kolbe, 50, married, committed suicide by drowning in an abandoned well on his farm. The body was recovered. THE MARKETS Grain, Provisions and Live Stock. Cleveland, March 1. Flour—Munster patents Sheep — Wethers $10.50@11.50, lambs $14.00@14.35. Hogs- Yorkers $13.65, pigs 12.00. Toledo, March 1- Wheat-Cash $1.95. Corn-Cash $1.074. Oats-Cash 62%c.. Buffalo, March I. - Cattle - Shipping $10.50%11.00. ½ $10.50%11.00. Hogs — Yorkers $13.90@14.00, pigs $12.90@14.65 Sheep — Wethers $12.00@12.50, lambs $12.00@14.65. Pittsburgh, March 1. — Cattle — Prime $10.00@11.00. Hogs — Yorkers $13.60@13.70, pigs $12.35@21.50 Sheep — Top sheep $11.75, top lambs $14.50 Calves — Top $13.50 Chicago, March 1 — Wheat — May $1.814, Corn — May $1.02 Cotton — May $7.56 Pork — May $18.7 Lard — May $18.45 Cattle — Native steers $8.00@12.15, cows and heifers $5.50@10.30 Hogs — Heavy $13.25@13.55, pligs $10.25@ 10.30 Sheep — Wethers $10.75@12.00, lambs native $11.85@14.40 Washington, D. C. — The doom o, the demon rum in the national capital was assured when the house by a vote of 273 to 137 passed the Sheppard bill establishing prohibition in the District of Columbia. The measure is not a "bone, dry" affair, but it eliminates the saloon completely without making any prohibition against the "personal use" of intoxicants. Dry forces in the house voted down all amendments to the measure and passed it in the exact form in which it passed the senate. Made Girl Pull Plow. Warren, Ohio. — Allen Edick, aged 64, living two miles south of this city, on the witness stand admitted he had caused Miss Rose Moffitt, 17, who lives with him and his wife, to pull a hand cultivator in his garden, also to help in making hay. "But it was merely a playtime thing for her," he explained to the jury. Edick is being tried on a charge preferred by the girl, who has lived with the Edick family since she, at the age of 9, was taken from a home in Erie. Pa. Woman Must Be Her Own Guide New York.—During the obt tide of fashions is the time to plan one's campaign in clothes. There may have been days on this continent when a woman could have gone along without confusion, bought one or two of the new things offered by the dressmakers and worn them with seventy until the following season. But today there is dire confusion concerning clothes in the minds of most women. Few are strong enough to rise above it, and not many are sufficiently poised to disregard the perplexities that confront every woman who is attempting to dress either on a small or a large income. Dressmakers have sprung up like mushrooms; importers who were once content with sending clothes from Paris twice a year, now feel it necessary to import them by every boat, and standing orders are left by them with the French houses to send over anything that appears new or is designated as such. This may not be true of all the centers of American Hfe, but it is certainly true of a handful of great cities, and as women are traveling this year in great flocks, like birds do, it is the great centers that are catering to their tastes and caprices and persuading the coin out of their purses. Season of Uncertainty. So, here you have this condition of life in early spring—conflicting rumors of what will be worn and what will be passed up; a widespread and sensational prosperity which enables women to spend quantities of money in the name of vanity; an immense number of importers, who are shuttling across the ocean and making new clothes do the same; a Paris needing money and, therefore, constrained to originate new garments at every turn in order to get the money out of the only continent that has it. Looking this condition in the face, one finds it almost impossible to sail above it. Serenity of mind is a difficult thing to have when one is beaten by currents of fashion and rivalry. The woman who can go calmly on from October to April, content either through taste or through philosophy, with the clothes she has, is to be envied. She is not the friend of the master; she is the enemy of the importer; she is desired by the shops; but she keeps her hand above perplexities and con- A woman in a long dress with a wide brimmed umbrella and a hat. She is holding a lantern in her left hand. Barrel skirt in Jersey silk; the color is oyster white; the embroidery at hips, at waist and at nock is done in a primitive design in the same shade as the gown. fusion and should set an example to other women who may follow her in part, if not in whole. March is the month that divides the year in half, as far as women and clothes are concerned. One seems to have run a breathless race with or against fashion until this time, and one knows that the race will be picked up again soon. Therefore, it is wise to give a few weeks over to mapping out a campaign that will lead to WITH THE CROCHET HOOK That Especially Feminine Utenail Is Likely to Be Kept Busy This Coming Season. From all indications the use of crochet work on hats, accessories and costumes for spring is assured. Some of the oldest things are used as mediums for crochet work. For instance, one may have a neat toque crocheted from half-inch strands of changeable taffeta. The stitches are not tight and the taffeta is slightly frayed. The effect is almost that of rough straw. Indeed, fine straw bralid, what one might call a straw soutache, is crocheted into a large picture hat, giving the effect of a Tuscan straw. Chenille is treated in the same way for some very stunning sports hats. The top of a fine silk bag is composed of a meshwork of cords of the silk with black baby ribbon crocheted with a large hook in an open pattern. The use of the chemise dress demands wide braids for girdles. Thus one dress solves the girdle question by crocheting strands of soutache braid THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1917 success or, at least, keep one out of a series of quagmires. No one, not even the rich woman, wants to continue failures in the purchase of clothes. She who has $100 a year to spend on her apparel and she who has $10,000 is freeful if she sees her closet filled with garments that are wrong, unbecoming, or inopportune. There are the stern economists who insist upon wearing their failures with the grim determination to punish themselves for making mistakes; and there are others who discard them with the feeling that it is unwise to be tempted into looking one's worst and that it is far better THE FASHION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Bandeau and bodice to match; new fashion started by French actress is to complete an evening costume with a headaddress of the same material. The gown is made of rose-colored satin ruffles from a deep, pointed cururess of net embroidered in gold and colored crystals. The high bandeau with its chin strap, is of the same. to refuse invitations and stay at home than to appear in costumes that are ugly, unbecoming, or not well made. No one can tell your faults to you as well as you can do it yourself. One has heard a hundred women cry out for an expert to go over all the clothes they have, carefully mark down the social opportunities they are likely to have, regard well the figure and complexion and the personality that shines through the face, and, taking all these facts and possibilities together, map out a rigid system of dress that will exclude failures. If any woman were successful along that line she would make more money than a powerful captain of industry. But the cry goes out into the wilderness and no prophet answers. There are dressmakers who take entire charge of certain women and guide them as best they can; there are earnest friends who are willing to give advice for nothing and make that advice as good as human nature permits, but the majority of women, after trying the dressmaker and the friend, still come face to face with these failures in clothes, for the purely human reason that salvation is from within and not from without. Must Make Own Endeavors Count. I do not mean that every woman is her own best guide. There are thousands who are lifted out of the quagmire of failure by sensible friends or dressmakers who literally pull them out by the arms and compel them to wear the things that are becoming and suitable; but it is rare that these women rise to any enmence in the art of dress. The woman who really dresses well, whose clothes are rarely failures and who appears suitably dressed on all occasions is the woman who takes her clothes seriously, maps out her campaign of purchasing, puts cotton in her ears when she hears the siren's cry and passes on her own way, rising to whatever heights of dress she can through her own endeavors. (Copyright, 1917, by the McClure Newspe syndicate.) Roughing It Watch out for rough ways in the fashion world this spring! It's a fact that most every sort of fabric will turn its rough side foremost. Thus you will find rough straws of all sorts, toques and high-crowned mushrooms made of wide rough straw braids, Silks, especially for sports wear, are of the heavy rough Japanese silks, tussore heavy, rough crepes and shantungs, etc. Wools for sports suits show ruffled surfaces, pebbled and basket weaves being particularly noticeable. into a two-inch wide girdle of intricate design. Cultivate the crochet hook if you have not already made its acquaintance, for it will come in very handy when the spring clothes are being made. Gowns of the Moment The gowns de luxe of the moment are certainly most distinctive. Gray Liberty is blended with tulle and embroidered in oxidized silver. Long capes, which really are more like trains from the shoulder, fall all over the back in tulle and gossamer fabrics. Many vivid contrasts are introduced in mere touches, which, however infinitesimal, are effective. Light and tender yellow is fashionable, especially in velvet, and such velvet dresses quite ignore the waistline, while the decoletude is mostly bordered with beads and metallic thread ornamentation in yellow, gold and silver. Many evening gowns are quite narrow and trained, having tulle sleeves to the wrist. The Jewel work on many gowns is superb, but must naturally be costly. ANKLE LENGTH NEW SKIRTS, WITHOUT, EXCEPTION, ARE TO BE LONGER. Question of Width Not Altogether Decided, Both Wide and Narrow Styles Be Worn—Charming Toque of Black Faille. A very remarkable Riviera costume which will certainly create a sensation on the Casino terrace, was composed of pure white velours de laine with a very deep hem of black broadtail on the round skirt and a wide ceiliture of S Touce of black Faille, drapery and toque over veil of "Periwinkle" blue tulle Touque of black Faille, drapery and cross-over veil of "Periwinkle" blue tulle. black suede, almost covered with cut jet embroideries, to confine the boose folds of the Russian blouse-contce. The latter was not trimmed with fur with the exception of the high collar which was lined with broadtail. The Russian blouse was rather short and it was very full at the hem. It buttoned down the left side, from throat to hemi and it was lined with hedge-sparrow-blue satin. This original costume was accompanied by a wide-brimmed cavalier hat made of soft black felt; this hat was absolutely untrimmed, but it was held in place by very long, narrow plus covered with cut jet facets. All the new skirts, without exception, are ankle length, writes a Paris correspondent. The question of width is not all so distinctly decided. Some of the new walking skirts are quite narrow; not more than two yards at Dainty Costume. International Film Service Here is a slip-on dress of checkered material; black and white serge. It is trimmed with a white broadcloth collar, cuffs and belt. The costume is completed by a white feather hat with a black straw facing and a black wing on the left side. Every day the number of persons who wear silk underwear is increasing. There are many women who would rather do with a smaller sized wardrobe of outer garments in order to afford silk underwear. It is true that one cannot help having a feeling of being well dressed when one is conscious of the fact that the foundation for the top clothing is composed of clean and fine underwear. But the woman who makes such a sacrifice should be most careful in the launderning of her silk possessions. Carelessness in this matter will cause the various garments to wear out in quick time. Perspiration causes garments of every material to wear out quickly, but those made of silk are much easier affected than those of other materials. Therefore, if a person would rinse out stockings and undervests as soon as they are removed, one would find that they would wear many times longer. It takes only a few minutes to wash these things out, and the frequent washings mean that very little rubbing the extreme hem, at most. Others are much wider in reality, but they look narrow because they are image of ex-ceptionally soft and supply materials which fall in straight, heavy folds. A Redfern suit, intended for the Riviera, was composed of Quaker-gray mirror velvet, with a border of taupe on the hem of the skirt, and a long coat which fitted quite tightly at the waist, and which fell into plats, these plats being set into the tight portion of the coat under some bands of effective brading. There was a roll-over collar, with cuffs to match, of taupe. Several of Redfern's newest models show this tight upper portion combined with full plats or folds which form a sort of tunic. Indeed at the immediate moment it may be said that the two most popular styles, where tailored suits are concerned, are the fitted coats which have long, full Lasques, and the blouse coats which do away with the waistline altogether. The latter style will certainly be popular all through the spring for girls' outdoor costumes. Is it not charming, the little tque created by Lucille Hamar which I have sketched this week? This is a genuine Monte Carlo model; exactly the right thing for wearing at five o'clock at the Hotel de Paris or at the Casino itself in the evening. The toque was made of black faille and the cleverly arranged drapery was made of perlwinkle-blue tulle. Directly in front, placed high on the draped crown, there was an exquisite rose made of pastel pink chiffon; the little vell, which barely covered the eyes, was made of the same chiffon, with a pictor border of black silk. Keeps Litter From Floor. No one knows better than the person whose duty it is to clear it up, what a litter the little folks make during play time. It is therefore quite well worth while to provide them with WASTE PAPER Waste-Paper Box. something in which they themselves may place their waste paper, etc. at the conclusion of their games. We give a sketch of a decorative and useful little article for this purpose that can be bung upon the playroom wall at some convenient spot low enough down to be well within reach of little hands. It can be easily made from any strong wooden box of the shape indicated in the illustration. The lid is cut in half and the portion that remains nailed down. The further end of the box is removed and the sides cut down. The diagram on the right at the top of the sketch explains how this is done, and the dotted lines show the portion of the box that will not be required. The box is covered with casement cloth, the material being turned over at the edges and underneath and at the back and fastened on with tiny tucks. On the materiil covering the back the words "waste paper" are worked with embroidery thread, also the conventional design which appears in front. The edges of the box are finished off with small brass-headed nails driven in close together, and for suspending it from nails in the wall two ordinary brass picture rings are screwed into the upper edge at the back. Go Ear Back for Designs. The artists in Paris have gone to the old tomes in the libraries to get designs for primitive embroideries that suit the kind of clothes we wear. They have drawn from Nineveh and Tyre, and one would think, from Sodom and Gomorrah. In looking at the results. These designs are generally classed as Babylonian or Byzantine, and to the American they are somewhat suggestive of the markings found in the old caves in our southwest land. Colored worsteds, bullion threads and silk floss are used to carry out the designs. There is nothing floriated about them. The lines are sharp and strongly silhouetted against the background. Machine stitching is sometimes used for this kind of embroidery, instead of handwork. If one has no Byzantine or Babylonian history to draw from, it would be interesting to copy the designs from any bit of our own Indian pottery or blanket work and see how easily this scheme of decoration fits in with what we get from Paris. will be required, and here again there will be a saving on the wear of the garments. If each article is stretched it can be worn again the next morning. Beginning of Muffs. The muff has a history of its own; it begin life, so far as can be judged from the absence of any previous reference to it, in the year 1662, memorable for the severity and duration of its long frost. Samuel Peepys records in his diary that both he and his wife wore their "muffes" in St James' Park for the first time during the winter of that year, and that on the same occasion he, likewise for the first time, watched a number of people skating on the ice there; he does not, however, furnish any particulars as to how the "muffes" were fashioned or how ornamented. The muff having once made its appearance, had come to stay, and throughout the eighteenth century was affected as much by men as by women, a fact attested by many of the portraits of the day—Fur World. BARREL SKIRT HERE DESIGNS OF NEW EFFECT ARE ALREADY BEING SHOWN. Cannot Be Said to Have Been Absolutely Accepted, but Rather Has Been Put Forward for Approval or Disapproval. Behold the barrel skirt! Not for several seasons has a threatened change in silhouette excited so much comment and caused so much perturbation of spirit among costumers as the present season introduction of the barrel skirt, or "juppe tonceau," as the French designate it. The figure silhouette had been quite serenely and happily settled when bulletins concerning the arrival of the barrel skirt were heard, to be followed shortly by the skirt itself. It has not been accepted; make no mistake about that; but it is threatened, and ever so many interpretations THE FASHION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Bhold the Barrel Skirt! of the garment are before the public, pleading for approval. Some are very simple affairs, really only glorified members of the old favorite, the peg-top skirt, while others are decidedly freakish, and there are some models that qualify as new and are attractive as well, and worth very serious contentment. One such is shown in the sketch presented herewith. This model barrel skirt is the most interesting half of a gown employing two fabrics, and in the arrangement of the skirt, with its slightly bulging hip gores of fabric contrasting in color with the major portion of the garment, a suggestion is given that the skirt may be simply unbuttoned at the bottom and a regular skirt result. This is not true, however. It is merely an illusion. The skirt of the frock shown measures two yards at the bottom, and its silhouette is arrived at, as one may clearly see by a glance at the sketch, by two straight front and back panels of equal width, top and bottom, gathered in at the waistline, left open at either side to about the knees, and from the fastened securely, the inset of contrasting fabric bulging so as to accentuate a hip flare and result in the barrel silhouette. The bodice of this little gown is very smart; but in the excitement of considering the barrel skirt, whether it is to be or not to be, the question of bodice grows to be of comparatively major importance. It must be considered, however, and it may be stated that the bodice fastens simply in the center back with small bullet buttons matching those employed on the skirt. The gown might be attractively developed with sand-colored serge and taffeta in a contrasting shade, narrow black soutache braid giving a smart trimming touch. Four and a quarter yards of material 36 inches wide will be required for the gown proper, with one and a half yards of combination fabric—Washington Star. MANY MODELS IN BLOUSES Not for Several Seasons Has Such a Pleasing Variety Been Offered as Just Now. A noticeable feature about the number of blouses for the coming season is the fact that there is a little of everything to be found among them. While peplums are not so strong as they were, they are being used to give distinction to a few models. It is expected that they will receive greater NEW SPRING SUITS OF SATIN Designers Plan to Use This Material Largely as a Substitute for the Serge. The designers are bringing out a heavy weave of satin for the first spring suits, as a substitute for serge. There is a strong tendency to omit a blouse and arrange the coat so that it can be kept on. A few of these new coats are buttoned down the back from neck to hem, which removes any possibility of their being taken off in a public place. It appears that the prevailing creed in fashion is that a woman must not think of going in her shirt sleeves any more than a man would think of doing it; she wears a wash blouse beneath the jacket for purposes of cleanliness, but not publicity. So far-reaching is this creed that the medieval tunic, which extends only to the hip line and is fastened to the shoulder or slips over the head, is worn with a cloth skirt over a blouse even in the house. Probably the best thing to remem- welcome when white skirts are worn. A white or light peplum looks out of place with a dark skirt. Paisley colorings and Paisley designs are very popular, and hand embroidery, along with soutache braid, is being rushed as strong as possible. A particularly attractive blouse of dark blue chiffon was printed in a large floral design, rose, blue, green and gold in color. The collar was of rose. Rose stripes around the blouse gave a brocade effect. The peplum was bound in rose. A clever peplum idea was carried out on a dark blue satin blouse in the form of heavily brocaded metallic tissue in various colors. The bands passed over the shoulders and extended below the waistline to give a peplum effect. Bright-colored prints are very much in evidence. Stripes and ploids in blue and gold and rose, with a touch of black somewhere about them, all-over Paisleys and white with Paisley and Persian dots are seen. An important trimming on blouses of georgette crepe and on cotton blouses is Irish crochet lace. In many instances it is dyed to match the color of the blouse on which it is used. On a biscuit-colored georgette crepe blouse the lace, dyed to match, forms the back of the square collar. In the front the collar forms a surplus effect and is edged with Irish crochet picot. The fullness of the sleeves is caught by an insert of the lace several inches above the wrist. Diamond-shaped inserts of the lace dyed are very effective on the fronts of blouses. DAINTY FOR DRESSING TABLE Jewel Tray Almost as Much of an Ornament as Articles it is Meant to Contain. It is nice to have upon the dressing table some little receptacle in which rings, brooches, etc., can be easily placed and covered up, so that the air will not tarnish them while they are not in use. We give a sketch of a dainty little truy to make for this purpose. It can be made from the lid of a cardboard box of a suitable size. The sides are covered with thin silk, the Jewel Tray for Dressing Table. material being turned over at the edges and underneath and fastened on with a strong adhesive. The interior is loosely lined with silk fastened in place with a few stitches run through the card. The flap which covers the tray is made of thicker silk or satin edged with silk cord, and lined with soft white silk. It is swn on at the back of the tray and the cord in front is arranged in two little loops which fasten to two barrel buttons sewn on where indicated in the sketch. Upon the front of the flap a pretty little floral design is embroidered, consisting of a pale pink rose and leaves worked in various shades of green, and within this design the initials of the owner are worked in gold, inclosed in a horseshoe composed of tiny green leaves. DICTATES OF FASHION Dainty handkerchiefs have net edges. The aigrette is once more in vogue. New tricorn hats are soft and pliable. The tam-o'-shanter crown is fashionable. Metal brocaded ribbons are having a great vogue. There are toques made entirely of ostrich feathers. Some charming frocks are ruffled from waist to hem. The skating girl must wear a tamo-'o-shanter and scarf to match. The trains on some evening gowns are still no bigger than sashes. The entire silhouette promises to be a little narrower and a little closer. Unusual Sham. A pillow sham that is unusual is made of fine white linen, ornamented with three fillet_crochet insets. The sham measures about 59 inches long and 22 inches wide and is finished with a deep hemstitched hem. ber in buying clothes now is that the figure must be straightened out in the medieval manner, from bust to hips. You can choose your own way of doing it, whether by a deep girdle, by the straight lines of the fabric or by a belt of suede or leather that conceals any inward curve beneath the nirs toward the waist. There is no evidence that embroidery in bullion and silk thread will go out of fashion this spring, but the ornate French designs taken from stained-glass windows of the fifteenth century have given way to the more primitive designs that one sees on the pottery of Indians. The fashion for the cashmere and Paisley shawls that came out in October will again find expression this spring in figures printed on flat surfaces, and also the reproduction of the Paisley pear, which is an, old Indian design, in embroidery done in colored and bullion threads. Instead of stringing beads and cutting out funny pictures, children in a California school are being taught to darn daddy's socks.