The Gazette

One spot in Africa that the greed of Europe has not touched is Liberia. Cheated and bulldozed to within a fraction of an inch of its very life, this little republic may yet give a favorable answer to the question: Can the Nogro stand alone? Liberia owes its independence to the fact that it is the only protege of the United States in African, says the Kansas City Times. Just as Americans seldom think of their country as an Asiatic power by reason of its hold on the Philippines, or as a Caribbean power by its control of Panama, Nicaragua, Haiti, Santo Domingo, the Danish West Indies, Porto Rico, and various naval bases, so are they not cognizant that the United States is sharing responsibility in Africa with the European nations. Freed American slaves constituted Liberia an independent republic in 1847. The first settlement on the everlasting green shores of West Africa had been made 25 years before, in the administration of President Monroe, after whom the capital, Monrovia, is named. By the treaty of 1862 the United States undertook to preserve the constitutional form of government and its independent existence. Control Only Coast. According to Herbert Adams Gibbons, in his recent book, "The New Map of Africa" (the Century company), there are about twelve thousand Negroes of American descent in Liberia, and about fifty thousand of the population of almost, two million can be said to be civilized. The wild tribes who sold their lands to the American Colonization society retired into the hinterland, leaving a strip of 25 miles wide along the coast to the settlers, who numbered, besides the original freed slaves, other Africans rescued from slave traders by United Stat's warships and freedmen emigrating after the Civil war. The nation is about half the size of Kansas. Affection for everything that bears the American name characterizes the colonists. The language is English, and in spirit and customs they have been guided by American tradition. The flag is the Stars and Stripes, modified, the homes of the wealthier citizens are modeled after the Southern mansions, where their ancestors served. The people of Monrovin and of Herper, the capital of the Maryland settlement, act and dress, very like the better class of Negroes in Louisville or Atlanta. While they are neatly but flashily dressed, their neighbors, the aborigines, merely put on an extra cloth when they come to town. There is less bolsterousness, profanity and indecency than in American, and one traveler said that he saw no one drunk in a month. The Sundays are of the New England variety, and there are no saloons or cabarets. Teach Trades to Children. "Everything is reminiscent of home," one returned, traveler writes: "The flags on the houses, the names of the streets. Every college is founded by American benevolence. I wandered through the cemetery, and on every tombstone I read 'Born in Virginia,' 'A Native of South Carolina,' and so on. "After a painstaking effort to get at the bottom of things I am convinced that the government is to be commended for having kept its head above water in spite of poverty, and that the future is secure if the Liberals could only have the assurance that the in- In the Southern cities the white people are taking more and more interest in the welfare of the Negroes, looking particularly into their condition of living, their school training and health. More and more people are coming to know that conditions which degrade the Negroes socially and morally and make them easy prey to malignant diseases are disastrous as well to the whites. More and more the economic status of the Negroes is attracting the attention of leaders of Southern thought, and people are coming to know that the prosperity and wellbeing of the South depends in a large measure upon doing those things that will increase the Negro's efficiency, stir his ambition, raise his living standard, and establish his rights before the law. Our Northern contemporaries frequently find occasion to criticize the attitude of the real South toward the Negroes. Much of this criticism is unjust, but it would help in the solution of the problem if great journals like the Blade would occasionally ascertain what the race problem really is and how earnestly the The silk cocoon harvest of 1016 in France, as estimated by the Lyon union of silk merchants, is 6,147,100 pounds, as compared with 8,808,100 pounds in 1915, an increase of 61,42 per cent. With care there is timber enough in the United States to last 344 years, ac- cording to a government expert. A blade of witchgrass exhibited by F. L. Yeaton of Belgrade, Me., measured 6 feet 10 inches in length. tegerty and independence of their land is assured. There will be no difficulty about reforms if the threats of partition could be offset by one little promise that the mother country would see them through as in the case of China and Cuba." All things considered, Liberia has not been a failure, from the point of view of civilization. The colonist and their descendants have not reverted to savagery and black superstition. As a matter of fact, they are fairly educated, with more than a hundred government schools, a national college, and S7 mission schools maintained by Americae benevolence. These schools are turning from scholastic teaching to industrial training. Never a Revolution. The people have far outdone Haiti and Santo Domingo, and under worse difficulties. Information about Liberia is not to be trusted, if it comes from European sources. News of rioting which is occasionally cabled to American newspapers has been found without, foundation. There is no turbulent element; there never has been a revolution, the British consul general to the contrary. Traders and missionaries go everywhere in safety. Shortly before the opening of this century the republic fell into precarious financial condition. Humbugged by foreign loans and pressed by European powers with colonies adjacent the only experiment in democracy in Africa was threatened. An attack on a German subject in 1898 brought a gunbait to Monrovin with a demand for $13,000 indemnity. The threat of force was met by the president's statement that the mutter was one for the joint courts to decide. He showed great ability and courage in resisting the demands of the German consular official, who suggested a protectorate. Reports of rioting sent another German cruiser to "protect German interests," in 1912. But on the whole relations with Germany have been fairly friendly, when the actions of France and England are taken into consideration France, the neighbor on the north and east, has robbed Liberia of vast territory known as the Ivory Coast, and has lopped off further parts on the north. "A Negro flying near Montgomery made five more bales of cotton per horse last year than he did in 1915," said J. P. Forney of Montgomery, in an interview at Washington. "And he did this in the face of the holl weevil. It is an intelligent Negro and had 256 acres in cotton last season. He studied out a simple method and after two years' tryout is convinced it is a winner. His plan is to run the weevils out of the fields, not to kill them. "This Negro, whose name is McDuffie, takes crude oil, turp and camphor gum, puts them all in a pot and bolts them. There is sufficient oil in the mixture to make it liquid. He dips a crocus sack in the pot, then squeezes it as dry as he thinks necessary. It too wet the mixture will kill the young cotton plants. "The wet sacks are fastened to the plow beam, and each week the crop is plowed and dragged over with these sacks, both sides of the cotton getting a touch of the fumes of the mixture. This method costs 15 cents an acre. "If it is a success, and it seems it is, this Negro has solved a great problem and deserves national credit." best influences of Southern civilization are endeavoring to solve it in a spirit of justice, religion, true friendship and humanity.—Exchange. The last two years have seen American motion-picture films rise rapidly in popularity and practically superseded all other imported films in Japan. Italian pictures are about the only other foreign products commonly exhibited in Japan, but they are steadily losing ground in competition with the productions of American studios. Small cakes and cookies may easily be decorated by using a specially designed rolling pin. This roller is six-sided, each side containing three dies. Eighteen small, square cakes are rolled and decorated by one revolution of the rolling pin. Within the lid of a new pancake dish are contained a stirrup cup and a butter plate. There are 672 volcanoes in the world, of which 270 are described as active. The difference in longitude between Washington, De C., and Paris, is 5 hours, 17 minutes and 36.633 seconds, according to the United States naval observatory. Of English invention is a trumpet to be attached to a telephone receiver so its sounds can be magnified and heard without holding it to the ear. The Philadelphia Sunday Breakfast association last year gave 52,792 free meals to poor men. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE SENATOR W. J. STONE 67 & V. BUCK New portrait of Senator Wijljam J Stone of Missouri, chairman of the foreign relations committee of the senate who refused to support the resolution giving the president power to arm American merchant ships. RUSHES BUILDING OF NEW WARSHIPS Daniels Takes Immediate and Radical Steps to Get U. S. Greater Navy Started. Aims to Meet Any Emergency That May Grow Out of the Present Teuton Crisis. Washington, D. C. — Immediate and radical steps to get the greater navy of the United States, authorized in the past two years, at sea and ready for action, were instituted by Secretary of the Navy Daniels, in conference with President Wilson. The navy department plans to use every power available, under the law, and every cent of funds at the department's disposal to push the construction of the new ships and get them to sea, to meet any emergency that may grow out of the present German crisis. After conferring with the president, Secretary Daniels declared that within a few days he, would ask that the president declare that a "national emergency is at hand" by formal proclamation. Such a proclamation would make available at once a bond issue of $150,000,000 authorized by the last congress to be used in the discretion of the navy department for "speeding up the construction of battleships." The amount would be put to work at once. Secretary Daniels said. Plans for practically commandeering all of the shipbuilding facilities of the country for work on naval construction will be worked out by the navy department as a result of a survey of the shipyards just begun. DEFENDS SHORT SKIRTS DEFENDS SHORT SKIRTS Pastor Upholds Modern Styles in Speech to Shoe Dealers. Toledo, Ohio. — A defense of modern styles in women's clothes, the short skirt and the high boot, was made by Rev. Allan E. Stockade, pastor of the First Congregational church, in his address at the opening session of the seventh annual convention Ohio State Retail Shoe Dealers' association. "There is no reason for decrying a style that follows the lines that God himself has made. And they are beautiful lines, too," he said. "Every woman fears the day when she begins to look old. Any sane, intelligent style that gives her youth is a genuine benefit to the world. Nowadays it's hard to tell an old lady from a young girl when you see them from the proper angle. Lots of times a grouch who grumbles about military bills and the shoe bills is the first one to complain if his wife isn't quite on a par-with other women in dress and style. And sometimes he is foolish enough to set his affections on another woman who may look more nifty, but who costs him a blamed sight more money." Fire Chief Is Ousted. Sandusky, Ohio. — The city commission meeting has discharged Fire Chief Alfred Hegemer and named as his successor Assistant Chief Alex Rotinger. The change is to take effect March 15. Hegemer was let go, it was said, chiefly because the commission investigating the threatened firemen's strike recently had been informed by R. S. Tucker of the Ohio inspection bureau and others, that the department as at present constituted is inefficient. Hegemer, former marine engineer, was appointed in 1910. POLICE CHIEF LAYS BARE BOMB PLOT Says Man Under Arrest Was Acting Agent in Plan to Blow Up Munition Factories. Asserts He Has Evidence That Implicates Germans High in Teuton Societies. New York City. - Fritz Kolb, the German arrested in Hoboken, was acting as agent in a plbt to blow up munition factories in several cities in the United States. This was the assertion of Patrick Hayes, chief of police of Hoboken. Three other Germans were detained, but were released after being examined. Other arrests are expected. Kolb, was charged with having bombs and other explosives in his possession. Two completed high explosive bombs of a type never before seen in this country were found in his room. He was engaged in firing using a third at a distance. The bomb also a number of powder dishes new to this country, according to city chemists who analyzed them. Claima He Has Evidence. Claims He Has Evidence. Chief Hayes, together with Capt. Garrick of that city, made the arrest. He declares he has evidence that the bombs were for the purpose of blowing up ammunition cars stored in Jersey railroad terminals and not for the assassination of President Wilson, as at first reported. Chief Hayes says the police are already in possession of evidence that implicates five or six other men of prominent position in German and German-American societies in this city. The arrest of these men may occur at any moment. According to Chief Hayes, the inception of these plots coincides with the announcement of the German submarine warfare. Culmination of Detective Work. The arrest of Kobl was the culmination of three weeks' detective work, in which the New York and Hoboken police co-operated with the United States secret service. With the new evidence gained, by the arrest, these three bodies are vigorously continuing their investigation. Kobl came to this country in. 1914, the police say, on an oil tank steamship. Later he went to Mexico. He returned to Hoboken, and about six weeks ago went to Newark, N. J. This is all that the police know of his movements. REFUSES PRESIDENT ARMED NEUTRALITY Senate, Thru Filibuster, Fails to Grant Executive Power That He Demanded. Washington, D. C.-Facing a future freight with dire possibilities for the nation, President Wilson Sunday night rested on his own authority, without congressional aid or support. As the 64th congress passed dramatically into history at noon Sunday, the solemn request of the president for a congressional affirmation of his authority to arm American merchant ships, and protect American rights against the German submarine campaign, was refused. A determined filibuster, led by Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, supported by 10 other senators, prevented the enactment of the administration bill designed to place congress squarely behind the chief executive in his plans for placing the United States on a basis of armed neutrality. Not all the efforts of an overwhelming majority of the senate could sway the little group of obstructionists. In a formal statement from the White House, President Wilson, declared that the failure of congress to give him authority to arm American ships and protect American rights at sea had practically blocked all his plans in this direction. The president asserted that old, unrepealed statutes practically nullified the powers which he thought he could exercise in this direction under the Constitution. "The great government of the United States has been rendered helpless and contemptible," said the president. Before the presidential authorization bill died, 76 senators, Democrats and Republicans, signed a manifesto declaring that they favored the measure and would vote for it if a vote could be secured. Eleven senators—La Folette, Clapp, Cummins, Kenyon, Gronna, Kirby, Lane, Norris, O'Gorman, Vardaman and Works—refused to sign the declaration, and continued their obstructive tactics. Grand Jury Indicts 189. New York City—The United States grand jury, which has been investigating the high cost of food and fuel, has just returned two indictments naming as defendants in the first 108 corporations and 55 individuals, and 16 individuals in the business of producing or selling coal. It was stated that as a result of the proposed increase in the contract price, spot coal- is being sold at present at more than treble price, this coal selling recently in Boston for $13 a ton. Howard Sutherland of Elkins, W. Va., has succeeded William E. Chilton as senator from West Virginia. He is a coal and timber operator and has been a member of the last two congresses. SENATORS AGREE ON CLOTURE RULE Overthrow. Traditions of More Than a Century and Limit Debate on Measures. New Rule Allows Two-thirds of Upper House to Fix Consideration of Bills. Washington, D. C. — A bi-partisan alliance in the senate of the United States was prepared to overthrow the traditions of more than a century and limit debate in the upper house to meet the present international crisis. A modified form of cloture was agreed upon by both Democrats and Republicans in independent caucus. The new rule as adopted by both caucuses would allow two thirds of the senate to limit debate on any pending measure. In the Democratic caucus, Senator Hoke Smith fought for a proposal to allow a majority of the senate to fix the limitation, but he was unsuccessful. There was some sentiment in the Republican caucus for majority cloture. The rule as adopted read: Provisions of Rule. PROVISIONS OF RULE That if at any time a nominee signed by 15 senators be sent to a close the debate upon any pending measure is presented to the senate the presiding officer shall at once stalk the motion to the senate and one hour after the senate meets on the following calendar day but one, he shall lay the motion before the senate and direct that the secretary call the roll, and upon the insertion that a quorum is present the presiding officer shall, without debate, submit to the senate by mail the motion to the senate. "Is it the sense of the senate that the debate shall be brought to a close?" And if that question shall be decided in the affirmative by a two-thirds vote the senate should unbuffered business to the exclusion of all other business until disposed of. Time Fixed for Discussion. Thereafter no senator shall be entitled to speak in all more than one hour on the pending measure, the amendments and the motion to the senate should be unbuffered and it shall be the duty of the presiding officer to keep the time of each senator who speaks. Except by unanimous consent no amendment shall be in order after the vote to bring the motion to the senate, and it has been presented and road prior to that time. No olfactory motion or dilatory amendment, or amendment not germinated shall be in order. Points of order, including the absence of the presiding officer shall be decided without debate. Under this rule, after two-thirds of the senate vote to close debate, '36 hours of discussion will be allowed. London, Eng. — Home rule for Ireland, with Ulster county excluded from its provision, is the government's answer to the demand of Irish leaders for immediate home rule. Premier Lloyd-George announced in the House of Commons. The prime minister declared the government is ready to confer with Irish leaders at once with regard to establishing self-government for that part of Ireland that has clearly indicated its desire for home rule, but is not prepared now to force the Ulster counties to accept home rule against their will. *Woman Leaves Jail Triumphant.* New York City. — Throngs of cheering men and women greeted Mrs. Margaret Sanger when she walked out of the Queens county jail after serving a sentence of 30 days for dissiminating birth control literature. The martial strains of the Marseilles went up just before Mrs. Sanger walked from the prison door, and from the windows of the women's prison there echoed back the voices of the inmates joining in the song. Flowers were strewed before the little birth control advocate. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS THE INFAMOUS FILM 'THE BIRTH OF A NATION' The Beatty Bill Being Choked to Death---Our Y. M. C. A. 'Jim-Crowed' at a Banquet---9th Battallion Band Mustered Out of Service Special to The Gazette Special to The Gazette Columbus, O. The *Beatty* bill, which as a law would prevent such films and shows as "The Birth of a Nation" from being exhibited in Ohio, was taken from the H. of R. committee, last Friday, on motion of our member, the Hon. A. Loe Beatty, of Cincinnati, and placed on the calendar for passage. The committee had caused it to be understood that it would not report the bill to the house until the day before adjournment. This meant that the committee intended to "smother" it. The intelligence that marked the fight against the infamous film, two years ago when the *Gazette* led, is about this year. This fight is badly managed—lacks central management—and is in green hands. As an illustration, the selection of two Afro-Americans, Wilbur King of Columbus and Charles Cottrell of Toledo, were active, on the stump in last fall's campaign, AGAINST a majority of the members (democrats) of the committee and the legislature, and who have never asked for the race but seek and hold office for the race but 25 years, to appear before the committee, several weeks ago, to make the chief arguments, gave the daily papers of the state, led by Gov. James M. Cox's paper, the Dayton News, and the democratic* members of the legislature which is strongly democratic, the opportunity they eagerly grasped, and that headlines to announce with big black headlines that "only the colored politicians are opposing The Birth of a Nation" in Ohio." This undoubtedly has had its bane effect on our fight against it. Had our people in the state organized under some courageous and experienced leader in legislative work and such fights, like the editor of The Gazette, and brought proper influence to bear; and had the N. A. A. C. P. branches in the state tapped their fat treasury to provide funds for the leader's use and to arouse the race to proper action, etc., it is possible that the Beatty bill might have been passed in both branches of the present legislature, thus becoming a law; also been made an emergency measure, becoming immediately effective on passage, and thus barring "The Birth of a Nation" from the state, instead of suffering death, (the bill) by being smothered; or by being placed in the house in the dry hours of the day, and thereby simply get through the senate and become a law. Monday, the legislature began what will in all probability be the last week of its session. Both houses adopted resolutions that day, to recess, Thursday, and adjourn finally, Mar. 20. This undoubtedly seals the death-warrant of the Beatty bill and relegates the fight against the infamous film to the various localities of the state which the Epoch Producing Co. will seek to exhibit the miserable film. This is indeed distressing, to say the least. When Q. when will our people wake up and learn as the result of bitter experience? "The white man's "jim-crow" christianity received a severe jolt here last Friday evening. John R. Mott, of New York city, general secretary of the Y. M. C. A., was here to address Y. M. C. A. people at a dinner given him at the new Deshier hotel. Colored Y. M. C. A. men in many parts of the state were invited to be present at the event; it was also the time that he responded from Columbus wee Dr. Method, Howard Gillard, Robert B. Barcus, and Secretary Nimed Allen of the local "jim-crow" branch; Drs. Jordon and Pettiford, of Springfield, and Secretary Dunbar of the "jim-crow" branch at Cincinnati. Our men were put at a table to themselves—"jim-crow"! This they stood for, when it came up next to the hotel, the foreign (Greek) waiters of the Deshier refused to wait on them and a colored "bell-hop" in flashy uniform was hastily summoned and assigned to wait on them. At this, Attorney Barcus, in disgust, immediately left the table and strode from the dining room, refusing to stand the insult. The rest of our men accepted the "jim-crowing" insult and remained, your correspondence being reported to our office only hotel in city employing foreign waiters (unnaturalized Greeks). They, refused to serve native-born American citizens, and the white Y. M. C. A. men present stood for the insult given their colored allies. Good Lord! have mercy on both. The band of the Ninth Battalion, O. N. G., has been mustered out of service. The federal militia law of June last provides for no band for any military unit smaller than a regiment. This takes from the "Ninth" its greatest attraction when in camp or on parade. COPY FIVE CENTS OUS FILM OF A NATION' DR. J. E. SPINGARN EXPLAINS His. Army' Call—Hates. Segregation More Than Ever—More Than Sixty Respond to Call. New York City, March 3, 1917. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, The Gazette, Cleveland, Ohio. *My dear Mr. Smith: I thank you for sending me a copy of this week's Gazette, with its comment on the pro- posed military training camp for colo- red officers; and I am especially grateful for the note of confidence in me which breathes through, my write, even when disgregating with the, I want you and my other friends to feel sure that I shall never give up the fight for justice to colored people until I am dead. As I have already written to 'several of my friends, I am very proud of the bold and, mainly, tone of the colored press in regard to this proposal. I like to feel that the N. A. A. C. P, and the Crisis have had something to do with the courage I am glad that the first reaction toward my proposal was just what it has been. But I should be disappointed if on second thought the leaders of the race, especially the most courageous and aggressive leaders, did not see that I was right. Common sense and patriotism need not be the most radical conception of the rights of every group of American citizens. I should also be disappointed if my proposal were confused with any permanent plan to separate the races, such as the project for a Negro West Point. I am thinking of the immediate crisis before the nation, and how the colored people can not only help themselves at this critical time. If there is a war, and we make a demand for colored commissioned officers, the bigots and the reactionaries will say: "There are no _colored men fit to hold commission; they have not had the training." And with a few exceptions it will be hard to answer them. We say that the _colored men have never been trained themselves; but in a great emergency people don't ask WHY they cannot serve, but whether you can render instant service or not. So I propose to take the ground from under the feet of these bigots, by actually seeing that colored men are trained instantly for leadership. When we ask for commissions for colored men, I want to be able to say: Here are the men ready, here are the men who have properly trained; and if you have fuse to commission them, you will have absolutely no excuse except race prejudice. In a great war, we shall need pretty nearly 100,000 commissioned, officers. I want thousands of them to be colored men. And if we can start by getting training, for two hundred, there will be thousands of them; the two hundred can train others, if the government refuses to do it. With those two hundred, properly trained, we can make a fight against segregation in the army; but we cannot fight for a wide-open army until we have the manpower we need. We do not no better thing for the colored men's future in the South, than to have thousands of colored men there who have commanded men, who have learnt how to enforce discipline, and who will not take orders from 'white men, who have no authority to give them, in times of peace. I hate segregation and all it implies more than I ever did. I shall carry on the fight for justice without ceasing. But I want the colored people to be prepared to lead, and to lead instantly. If there is war, there is likely to be desCRIPTION of all able-bodied men, and I could possibly help if I saw black millions serving in the ranks and felt I had not lifted a finger to help them to positions of leadership. So I am using an imperfect method to attain this end, not the one I like, but the only one that promises immediate results at a moment of crisis when immediate results count most. I want you to understand my position and help me attain success in this movement. I want you to realize how important may be the results if we succeed. Faithfully yours, J. E. SPINGARN. P. S. Over sixty applications have already come in. J. E. S. Daddy of Them All. Jack, whose four years of life, had been spent on the farm, visited his city cousins recently and was taken to see the strange creatures in a zoo. He insisted on running ahead of his elders, and when overtaken was brimming with questions about his discoveries. However, when he first saw an ostrich his unenement, held him speechless. Then he turned and with a gasp exclaimed, "That's surely some duck!" Verifying the Simile. "Men are not so much different from butter," says the Albany Knickerbocker Press. Well, some of them are so soft they need a continual frost to keep them from the melting mood. -Buffalo Times. Tabloid Philosophy. It may be better to have no initiative than to be always starting something you can't finish.—Kansas City Journal. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) One Year.....$1.50. Six Months.....1.00 Three Months.....50 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money or der or registered letter Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland Ohio, as second-class matter. Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and proprietor, THE GAZETTE, Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legalature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the Interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 240,000 in Ohio. 20,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1917. DARE TO DO YOUR DUTY. "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it."—Abraham Lincoln. When O, WHEN! will we learn? The Lord knows we have had experience enough. "Last fall's campaign "worm"—"he kept us out of war"—seems to have "turned" on President Thomas Woodrow Wilson with a vengeance. In his Washington birthday speech Senator Pomerene said: "George Washington had his tories, Abraham Lincoln had his copperheads, and Woodrow Wilson—well, he had his pacifists." Well Senator, he certainly had them last fall. It is now the high cost of islands that is worrying the people. The present Democratic administration is now paying $25,000,000 for the Danish West Indies which Denmark tried to unload on this country a few years ago for $7,500,000. That was a splendid legal battle, our friend, Attorney Francis H. Warren, of Detroit, has just won, and we congratulate him on his great victory. Judge Edward J. Jeffries and the jury, too, are entitled to the thanks of our people generally. They are MEN! We would remind Dr. Spingarn that the N. A. A. C. P. (and its organ, the Crisis) is the outcome of the "spirit of aggressive courage" shown for many years by race publications like the Richmond (Va.) Planet, The Gazette and several other race papers. The State Supreme Court held our Ohio civil rights' law constitutional soon after its enactment in 1894 and upon several occasions since, all statements to the contrary notwithstanding. There is no law to prevent Delaware, O., lawyers or others from CLAIMING the unconstitutionality of any law, or even of the ten commandments. The Columbus letter, elsewhere in this paper, was written by one of the best known members of the race in that city. Read the second part of it in connection with our St. Louis letter, (republished), also in this paper. It so aptly illustrates the real basis of "jim-crow" J. M. C. A.'s in the north, and is one of the strongest arguments against the baneful things that can be found. Congratulations, Attorney Barcus! More than 1400 Presidential appointments failed of confirmation with the adjournment of the Senate, Sunday, because of the bitter fight there against the nomination of Dr. Cary T. Grayson, the President's physician, to be medical director of the navy with the rank of rear admiral. Every effort of the President's supporters to reach a vote on the Grayson appointment was blocked and the other nominations piled up behind it. It certainly is expensive to this country—to say the least—to have "the south in the saddle." "The Birth of a Nation" ridicules the loyal federal soldier of the war of the rebellion, insults the North and does far worse in the case of such abolitionists as Lovejoy; glorifies the Ku Klux Klan, the rebel flag (rag) and the disloyal South. Our people in the various communities of the state, when fighting the infamous film as they will soon be called upon to do, as a result of the failure of the effort to pass the Beatty bill, should make all this, and more, perfectly plain to the public officials and people of their several communities, and not simply harp on the fact that the infamous photoplay libels and injures our people. Make it clear that somebody else's "ox is gored" besides ours. This will prove more helpful than anything else you can say or do. Meantime read The Gazette and keep posted on this and all other matters of race interest. HARDING IN DEBATE. U. S. Senator Warren G. Harding, one of the writer's legislative colleagues in 1900, got into action last week in Washington and made a speech on the revenue bill that made everybody sit up and take notice. In the midst of the debate, Senator Martine, (Dem.), interrupted him to ask him what he thought the condition of the United States would be if Theodore Roosevelt were President. "If Theodore Roosevelt had been President," replied Senator Harding, "the Lusitania would never have been sunk." The galleries broke into applause, which is against the rules, while Senator Robinson, in the chair, rapped for order and warned that a repetition would mean that they would be cleared. "That is merely the senator's opinion," rejoined Senator Martine. "And I have a very striking conviction," rejoined Senator Harding, "that we would be living under guarantees of peace, today rather than trembling on the verge of war." "In my opinion," returned Senator Martine, "if Theodore Roosevelt had been President this country would have been long ago in the abyss of war." Senator Harding concluded the incident with the observation that Colonel Roosevelt had been President several years without war, and by mediation between Russia and Japan brought peace, at which rejoinder there was more applause from the galleries. Senator Martine then retired for repairs and Senator Harding proceeded without further interruption. 'In response to a query as to whether a filibuster was impending, he stated the position of the Republicans as follows: "Some of the most important measures ever placed before Congress are here awaiting action and we are asked to vote on them with scarcely any discussion. We are not going to filibuster against any measure, but we are determined not to shirk what we consider our plain duties as senators merely to avoid an extra session. We feel there are worse things than an extra session." The people of Ohio have a great leader in the Republican senator (Harding) who is destined to become the leader of the senate, and who is rapidly proving himself a worthy successor to the GREAT Foraker. 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 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 reebels, 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. TOM DIXON A DANGEROUS WRITER. Thomas Dixon's writings are dangerous because he attempts to unmake the history of re-construction days in his so-called historical novels, "The Leopard's Spots," and "The Clansman," and their aftermath, "The Birth of a Nation," by overdrawing his fictitious characters and surrounding them with a chain of circumstances and incidents which purport to be based on actual history. Each theme is treated through prejudiced eyes and the actual conditions of those days are distorted. The famous novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," secured a place in the hearts of the American people and has retained it because, and only by reason, of its author's adherence to actual conditions as they existed. Miss Harriett Beecher Stowe, if anything, was a humanitarian. Thomas Dixon is the exact opposite. He seeks to cater to public ignorance and prejudice for popularity and money by means of strongly drawn pictured lies and lying scenes, and the wrung hearts of ten millions of American citizens. He is a mischief maker, an agitator dangerous to the welfare of our national life, and one of the most subtle instruments for discord before the public. It is time for the national conscience to awaken to the injury the works of some propagandists do, and deny them the opportunity to create strife among a liberty-loving and peaceful people. Every state should with-hold the privilege of exhibiting dangerous films made from plays based on such writings; their value is only monetary and must be paid for also in the injury to ALL the people. DR. SPINGARN'S EXPLANATION. In round numbers there are about five thousand members of the four Afro-American regiments (infantry and cavalry) in the U. S. army. Hundreds, if not thousands of them have been in the army from ten to twenty years and are veterans (many commissioned officers of volunteers) in the Spanish-American war, and have served also in the Phillippines and Mexico. We were in the delegation that called on President McKinley, years ago, and asked him to give some of them appointments as officers in the regular army as he was doing in the case of white regulars, commissioned officers in volunteer regiments in the Spanish-American war. He promised to "consider" the matter, and that is about all he did, if indeed he did that. We have plenty of "col- ored men fit to hold commissions" in volunteer regiments, Dr. Spingarn, "properly trained" and ready to "render instant service," really more than there will be any need of, in case of war, unless the Congress tears down the bar to the enlistment of Afro-Americans, who have never served in the army, it erected when the army reorganization bill was enacted into law about a year ago. So drop your "imperfect method", Doctor, and continue a consistent fight against segregation in and out of the government service. We are still opposed to your "imperfect method". When this government needs us bad enough, it will quickly drop its segregation nonsense and train' and treat our men in common with all other classes of Americans in the same places and at the same time. FRESH OHIO NEWS Written by 'The Old Reliable Gazette's Correspondents THROUGHOUT THE STAT What Our People Are Doing Ea Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marrages, Deaths, Etc. CORRESPONDENTS must mail letters for publication at their postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to them reach The Gazette office JURY CONGRATULATED AFTER FREEING NEGRO. Judge Jeffries Commends Tallamens Who Condone Murder of White Man. Addressing a jury that acquitted Levi Prutt, Negro, of the murder of Charles Nielands, white, February 23, 1916, Friday in his court, Judge Jeffries congratulated the jurors on their "broad-mindedness." "I approve of your verdict in this case, gentlemen, said he. "This is the second time he has been tried for this offense. Had he been a white man, he probably never would have been brought to trial. I want to congratulate you on your broad-mindedness." Prutt, whose second trial was ordered by Judge Jeffries after he had been convicted of manslaughter, pleaded self-defense. He said Nielands, a Negro hater, according to testimony, pursued him to the doorway of his home, 25 Macomb street, after a midnight encounter on the street a block away, and that he fired the fatal stl at Nielands was beating him over the head with a club.—Detroit Free Press. Detroit, Mich.—The prosecuting attorney has fought since March 28th, 1916, to convict Pruitt on the charge of murder of the deceased Charles Nielands; Pruitt was convicted of manslaughter in May, 1916. His atorney, Francis H. Warren, Esq., immediately moved for a new trial which, after many delays, caused by the prosecutor, was granted by the trial court. When Nielands and an attorney were acquitted, the panion, he was armed with a "pocket billy" and having no license to carry it, he was himself guilty of a felony FRANCIS H. WARREN. under the Michigan law when he attacked Prutt, as well as being the aggressor in the fight. It was this "billy," Nielands was beating Prutt with when the fatal shot was fired from a pistol the latter's companion had obtained from their home during the fight. Besides being armed Nielands was a six-footer, and weighed 250 pounds and the man with him was nearly as large, while Prutt and his companion were 140 pound men. Judge Edward J. Jeffries measured fully up to his high reputation for fairness in this case and charged the jury that the law is color blind and that he should be able to see in the light of all the facts and circumstances surrounding the killing of Nielands, AND T DID. It was the hardest fought criminal case in which Attorney Warren engaged in long experience at the bar. A NATIONAL CAUSE. Help Wanted for a Deserving Indus trial School in North Carolina. There are very few institutions in this country that are doing more good in upbuilding the race and thus making self-reliant and selfrespecting 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 people of New York in 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 also very important for them 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 A. Blair, Winston-Salem, N. C. This amount is secured by 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 they would be grateful that the trustees raise $12,000 to meet the offer made by the North Carolina Legislature. Any donation made now will multiply four times when it becomes 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 African Americans are raised citizens. Not only that, they are raised hand against the flag, and many are in the army, and brave soldiers, too. Should Written by 'The Old Reliable Gazette's Correspondents THROUGHOUT THE STATE What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical — Marriages, Deaths, Etc. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write also, their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, speeches, resolutions, poetry, inquiries for relatives and advertisements, includes items announcing entreatments to those both in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of ten cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. AKRON — About fifteen mechanics from Tuskegee, Ala., will arrive in the city soon. They were secured through the instrumentality of W. H. Ferguson, who will give them employment in constructing buildings. He hopes soon to organize a construction company which will make it possible for our people to get homes at reasonable prices. CADIZ. — St. James' new church will be dedicated, June 24. Bishop Shaffer will be present. — Mrs. Flora Lucas and John Corsey are convoking. — A revival at Simpson. M. E. church. — Edmund Carter, of Steubenville, visited his mother, Sunday. The Y. M. L. club met at Mrs. Chas. Brown's. — A son arrived at Mr. Rex Roy Carter's. A great deal of early bushelwork will be done here, this Spring. Potatoes sold as high as $4 a bushel. ELYRIA. — A number attended the musicae in Oberlin, last Friday evening. — Mr. and Mrs. F. Davis, of New Castle, Pa., formerly of Elyria, have a fine boy. Mrs. T. W. Thompson had a great friend. The W. W. at Miss E. Wortham's. A nice program was rendered at the Second M. E. church, last Tuesday evening. The Y. M. W. I. club will be entertaining the Y. M. W. Miss E. Murray has returned from the palit. — Mrs. C. Harrison has returned from the hospital much improved. SMITHFIELD. — Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Williams dined with Mr. and Mrs. Haze Harris, Sunday. — The S. L. social club was highly entertained at Miss V. Carter's, last Tuesday evening Visitors: Mrs. M. Jackson, Miss M. West and Harvey Parks. — Mr. Ed West, of Cleveland, visited his parents, last week. — Mr. Chas. Bigsay was out of town, Sunday. — Mr. and Mrs. E. Washington have located on the campus of Benville, last week. — Mr. and Mrs Jas. Harris, jr., are occupying their own home on South St. — Mesdames G. Beall, L. Hargrave and E. Powell visited Mrs. M. E. Veney, Sunday. SANDUSKY. — The Second Baptist church sympathizes greatly with Messages Chancellor and Nimmons in the loss of their husbands. The revival is still in progress with Prof. E. W. Curry doing excellent work. 23 have joined the church, the youngest being 14 years. — Mrs. Alberta Davis is convalescing. — Mr. Ernest Nimmonds died, Mar. 1, and was buried from the Second Baptist church, the pastor officiating. — Mrs. Nora Harris, Mrs. Williams and brother, Oscar Skelton, are ill. Mrs. Skelton has returned from the hospital. — Rev. Geo. Fleming, pastor of the A. M. E. church, is doing so well to anticipate the church's success. There are enrolled in the south part of the city 57 children under 14 years. — Be sure to tell your acquaintances to get a copy of The Gazette from the local representative, Rev. Geo. D. Smith. YOUNGSTOWN. — W. D. Johnson, of Pittsburgh, spent a few days with C. H. Lee. — Mrs. Helen Stokes is convalescent. — David Brannick, who is visiting his mother in Natchez, Miss., will return in April. — Frank Harris was taken to the hospital, Sunday. Pneumonia. — Chas. Jackson spent Sunday with his daughter, Mrs. Will Wilson, in Woodlawn, Pa. — Mrs. Jas. A. Southall, of Philadelphia, who is spending a few weeks with her mother, Mrs. Edw. Moore, was highly entertained at a three course dinner, Sunday, by Rev. and Mrs. Payne. While in Connellville, she was as lady as she was in Allentown, Allentown, and Jas. Betters. — Mrs. G. B. Darby, who underwent an operation, is doing nicely. — Jesse Boggess spent Sunday in Cleveland. — The progress of the fight against the miserable photoplay, "The Birth of a Nation", can only be followed by reading the old reliable Gazette. Give the local agent your order for a copy of it every week and keep up to date. HIELLSBORO—Prof. P. E. Morton of Biehn, spent Saturday here. Rev. H. C. Pierce preached at Wesleyan church, Sunday—Miss Myrtle Kittrell of Norwood, visited her parents here, Sunday—Mr. Dewey Williams, of Biehn, visited from Saturday to Monday. The Gazette desires an agent and correspondent, at once, in Wilmington, Lancaster, Washington, H., and other cities and towns this week. Whom can you suggest or recommend? Write to the editor in Cleveland, please—"Resolved, that the immigration of the Negro from the South is detrimental to the Negro of the North", was the subject discussed by four high school pupils of Wilmington and four of our high school pupils, Friday evening, at Lincoln building. Both sides of their parts well know the judges of the negative (Hillsbore). Prof. Squire Buster accompanied his boys here. We will welcome them back again. 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 Blair, the school equipment and efficiency could be increased to the extent of $48,000. The Gazette urges its readers to respond to this call just as promptly as possible. A STRONG APPEAL BY A ST.LOUIS JEW FOR EQUAL RELIGIOUS OPPORTUNITIES AND AGAINST SEGREGATION. "JIM-CROW" Y.M.C.A'S Forerunners 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 movement. Present indications are that the force arrayed 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: 1. The money donated to "colored or jim-crow" branches," 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. The title 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 friends" of the race. They have given liberally of their time and means to make these organizations successful, yet the principle involved in accepting these benefactions 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 dispassionate discussion. This is not done, in many cases, because the campaigns are opened with a whirl of excitement and the press swiften off their feet with a glamor of large accomplishments. 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 "both" local segregation campaigns; one of the residential segregation campaigns; the other of the OPAC 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, St. Louis, Mo., Post Dispatch, "Dear Sir:-Of all institutions that would tolerate the idea of putting individuals off to one side because of 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 the ways 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 Gentile from a religious standpoint for a very good reason. The Gentile has failed to make the Jew 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 Nazarine, who taught the real efficacy of the greatest thing in the world—love. But this same love is not sufficient to make the Gentile accept the Jew as his brother. In some cities the Jew was not a servant of the Gentile in his living quarters, but a knowledge of his nationality is sufficient to keep him from occupying positions that he might otherwise hold, and only recently has the segregated Jewish ghetto been 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 department for the Young Men's Christian Association, to have a black un-American, and un-Christian as to have a "jim-crow" department in a railroad train. The same principle is involved and should be frowned upon by every liberty-loving American citizen, and especially the American Negro, who helps to make a steping down in the discrimination measures every time he supports an institution built upon such 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 MY FOOD, 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 and white men cannot serve as a same root; 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 in no wise receive the sanction of a either race, for they will undoubtedly react to the detriment of both. J. M. BATCHMAN. Capt. C. W. Posey, of Homestead, Pa., the veteran river boat builder and captain in the Pittsburgh vicinity, recently completed the towboat "Volcano" for the Diamond Coal & Coke Co., of that city. It is said to be the best equipped of the kind ever used in that vicinity, and was given a royal welcome as it entered the Pittsburgh harbor on its maiden trip, recently. DOINGS OF THE RACE Mr. Julllus Rosenwald, the Chicago philanthropist, has saved the Mound Bayou, Miss., Oil Mill & Mfg. Co., of which Isaiah T. Montgomery is pres. and Mr. Charles Banks, sec. "All of its floating debts have been accepted for the bonds which Mr. Rosenwald holds. The board of directors meets. Mar. 15, to arrange for the operation of the large plant, the coming season. Good! The four Afro-American Catholic priests are: Rev. Chas. R. Uncles, of Baltimore; Rev. Henry Dorsey, a missionary (in this country); Rev. Stephen Theobald, of St. Paul, Minn.; and Rev. Joseph Burgess of Cornwell, Pa. The five Afro-Americans lynched on one limb of a tree in Georgia, last year, a sixth narrowly escaping, have been found to have been innocent of the charge brought against them, announces the Atlanta (Ga.) Daily Constitution of Feb. 8, '17. Comment unnecessary! On Feb. 18, '17, Gov. Chas. S. Whitman, of N. Y. state, and a friend, a Wall St., broker, dined at "Sommers Rest". an Afro-American dining room in Brooklyn, N. Y., which he charac-terized, and praised the luncheon. The governor and Mr. Sommers' father were old acquaintances. 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, Mt. Vernon, East Liverpool, Akron, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we have none. Hon. Jos. C. Manning, 214 W. 34th St. N, Y. city, former member of the Alabama senate and former postmaster of Alexander City, Ala., is planning a tour through the central west and will be pleased to speak on "Southern Culture," a program of the Nation where ever persons desire to hear him and it will pay all to do so. 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 in the cities named and others in the state, to whom we can write relative to the matter. R. W. Thompson, record clerk in the Mechanical Equipment Division of the office of the Supervising Architect, Treasury Department, Washington, D.C., was given his third promotion in the month of September. This week. The promotion calls for a substantial increase in salary. Congratulations! 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FOR RENT—Houses and Rooms—If you have them to rent or if you want to rent, advertise in The Gazette. It brings results. NOTARY PUBLIC.—For such services call at The Gazette office, No. 2 Blackstone building, No. 124 W. Third Street, near Superior Ave. FOR SALE—Houses or lots. If you have either or anything else to sell, or if you wish to purchase, advertise in The Gazette. If anything can bring you results, it can and will. FOR SALE! - Property at 2176 E. 43d St., near Cedar Ave.: eleven rooms, bath, furnace, etc., $3,000. Four hundred dollars down and the balance, $25 per month. Apply at The Gazette office. ANY WOMAN CAN MAKE BIG MONEY IN HER OWN HOME. 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 Mrs. Cora Brock spent the week in Mansfield. Jesse Boggess, of Youngstown, was in the city, Sunday. Edw. West visited his mother in Smithfield, last week. Mrs. Edgar Moore was hostess to the Present Day club, Tuesday afternoon. Bass & Watt, comedians, are at the Crescent theater in Pittsburg, this week. A. H. Dorsey, of Detroit, left Monday to visit relatives in his old home, Columbus. Nine candidates were baptized, Sunday afternoon, at Shiloh church. Colleen McKinnon $114 Mrs. Emma Lyon, of Central Ave., was called to Dayton, last week, by a sister's illness. There is only one way to get the real race news and that is to take "the old reliable" Gazette. Taylor Thompson, of Staunton, Va., is visiting his daughter, Mrs. J. L. Jones, of Keyes Ave. BEST FOR THE BLOOD — Puro Herbs sold only at Brown Drug Co. E. 28th St. and Central Ave. Stanley Cook, of Glendale, Ky., arrived, last week, for an indefinite stay with his uncle, Thomas Cook, E. 29th St. The funeral of George Mann, E. 39th St., took place from Shiloh Baptist church, Monday afternoon. Pneumonia, ladies, our fashion page is the latest and best—up to date! Tell your friends and acquaintances about it, please. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Blue had as guests, last week, Mr. and Mrs. Fred. Alexander of Erle, who were en route to Akron. Mrs. Cora Christian and little daughter have returned to Akron after a pleasant visit with her sister, Mrs. M. McIntire. Report has it that we are about to lose one of our well-known young ladies who as a bride will soon be a resident of Oil City, Pa. Mr. Wm. Temple, recently deceased, left his barbershop equipment to Mt. Zion Cong church instead of to the Old Folks' home. Our most popular photographic studio, in this city, is the Smith Studio, 4207 Central Av. Go in and look over its fine work.—Adv. "Chat," Lucas, an old Clevelander, after many years in the west, north-west and on the coast, is back in the old home circulating among his many friends. The local council of Women's clubs "Downtown Home Fund" meeting at Corp. M. E. church, Sunday evening, has failed to announce the amount raised. You should take PURO HERBS, the great blood purifier and system cleanser. On sale only at Brown Drug Co., 2742 Central Ave., cor. E. 28th, St.—Adv. Uncle Sam wants men to run elevators in postoffices. Applicants must submit photographs and pass educational, physical and health tests. Salary, $60 a month. The pastor of Mt. Haven Baptist church was the speaker at the Y. M. J. S. HALL'S, 3121 Central Ave. J. E. BRANHAM'S 4219 Central Ave. *ERNEST P. JACKSON'S 3969 Central Ave. FOR QUALITY Prescription Work THE OWL DRUG CO. 3743 CENTRAL AVE. Excels All Others "Heart of City Lunch Room 720 W. Frankfort Ave. Between West 6th and West 9th Sts. BEST HOME COOKING QUICK SERVICE T. E. BLAIR, Prop 3820 Central Avenue We carry full line of Dry Goods Ladies and Gents Furnishings PHONES: Studio, Rosedale 3883-J. Home, Prospect 333-J. TEACHER OF PIANO Hours 10 A.M. to 6 P.M. Evenings by Appointment 4910 CENTRAL AVE. KINKY Atlanta, Ga. Exentia Med. Co. Continental Co. you your show you what your show you EXELENTO QUININE PONADE has done for my hair, and now it is inches long, and now it is inches long, and now it can do anything that I can do up a CELITE GIRL. Your truth. Don't let some fake Kink Remover fool you. You really can't strain your hair until it's nice and long. That's what EXELENTO QUININE PONADE does. Remove Dandruff, food stains, Roots of the hair, and make it grow long, soft and silky. After using a few times you can tell the difference, and after a while it will come out. If you want it to up to suit you. If ExelentO don't do as we claim, we will give your money back. 25c by mail on receipt of stamps or coin. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE DON'T THROW AWAY Your copy of The Gazette after reading it, but give it to a friend or an acquaintance who might subscribe after reading a copy of the paper. azette S. Ave. Ave. ZMILLER'S Ave. would notify * "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. C. U. vesper service, Sunday, Mr. Williams of St. John's church will speak tomorrow. Mrs. R. J. Callahan, of E. 36th. St., entertained Rev. I. V. Bryant of Huntington, W. Va., at a delicious dinner, Sunday. As a hostess, Mrs. Callahan has few superiors. St. John's S. S. Maracca class is preparing to use a "mock trial." March 19. Mrs. J. L. Jones is captain for the S. S. in the grand rally of the city and county S. S., March 18. a saloon, the Ideal hall d also have a "Star" give it to t will be end and Jan. 1. cleaning in will be "ex outfit," "Sta bosses. The case ward Gordon vestigied in cutor Lind. Day. William heart Feb. 2 and Central geons seewed he lived nid. Gordon and Collins bark. Geo. W. Johnson insists that the charges brought against him, last week, for the purpose of securing his arrest are unfounded, and that he will make this clear in police court, Mar. 16. Frank J. Perkins, of E. 72d St., left, Mennonah, for Canton, Mich., to attend the funeral of his sister, Mrs. Sarah Dean, who died, Mar. 3. He and his brother have the earnest sympathy of a host of local friends. 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. The monthly entertainment at St. John's A. M. E. church, Mar. 2. was excellent and well attended The choir and Mr. Arthur Talbot furnished the program. The next one will be under the management of the N. A. A. C. P. local branch. The Cleveland branch of the N. A. A. C. P. is making elaborate preparations for the entertainment of the delegates and visitors to the General Conference of that organization in April. The Spingarnal medal will be awarded time—Chicago Half Century Magazine. C. R. Miller's article on the "Negro Exodus" in a Sunday paper read well until several personal references were reached and then — "GOOD LORD!" exclaimed a trustee of Cory M. E. church. Somebody took a mean advantage of Mr. Miller. Prof. Harry B. McGowan, of N. Y. city, of the "grand opera," will organize a company, this spring, and present his compositions; "The Plantation," "An African Krual," "The Prophecy," and a number of others concerning life in Africa, Mexico and America. He is a native of this city. The Pleasant Co. club members were entertained, Thursday evening, at its sec. Mrs. A. G. Robinson's, E. N. Robinson's, luncheon served after the business session. Guests: Mrs. Mathews, A. G. Robinson and H. L. Dorsey. Next meeting at Mrs. Lovesta Smith's, E. 86th. St. Marriage licenses were issued this week to James Mathews and Mary Stratman, E. 30th St.; Earl Wright and Clara Crawford, E. 38th St.; Ernest Covington, and Mary B. Cooper of Central Ave.; Judes H. Dotson, and Jasper Alexander, E. 434th St.; Jasper Alexander, E. 36th St., and Jennie Wakefield, E. 37th St. 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 visit Washington March 31. We would like to hear from applicants as soon as possible." 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 with my latest advertisement. Advertising in The Gazette certainly brings results." Bishop C. Lennox, president of the Zion Evangelical institute, received a congratulatory letter from ex-Gov. Frank B. Willis on the founding of the institution. The purpose of the institution, Rev. Lennox says, is to teach science, scriptures, philosophy and religion. At present there are 24 students enrolled in the institute, 3328 Scocvillan. There is a letter at The Gazette office for the bishop. Tell him to call for it, at once. Again we call our Cleveland Ministry Alliance's attention to the fact that it is almost criminal to longer delay making a demand on the city administration for better police protection in the Eleventh ward. The councilman (Tom Fleming) is apparently helpless for obvious reasons. Therefore, those who are especially charged with the moral uplift of our people of that ward and this city must act and act quickly, before that section is visited by a destructive mob as a result of the numerous crimes being committed almost weekly in the Eleventh ward section of this city. Rev. I. V. Bryant preached his last sermon at the closing session of the revival at East Mt. Zion Baptist church, last Friday evening. Of the fifty-three added to the church as a result of the meetings, 43 will be baptized. Sunday. At 6 a. m., prayer led by Mr. Davis; 9.30, S. S.; 11.30, preaching by the pastor, Rev. B. K. Smith; 12.30, noon, baptizing of women and girls, and 4.30, the Lord's Supern; 6.30, B. Y. P. U.; 7.30, preaching. Last week, $40 were collected at the meetings; Sunday, $140.50. Rev. Bryant was given $100 and returned to his charge at Huntington, W. Va., greatly pleased with the splendid results of the revival. He is certainly an indefatigable and exceptionally able evangelist, and is always welcome in Cleveland. East Mt. Zion's program under the energy of the new pastor, is most satisfactory and pleasing. Rev. B. K. Smith is experienced, capable and progressive. The Gazette wishes him and his new charge abundant success. They are telling an amusing story about "Star's" bumptiousness, these days. It seems that he wanted a part of the pool room over his saloon for a grill room, went up stairs and "walked off" (measured) the portion he desired for the purpose stated and the station relative to the matter), stepping over to the proprietor in his affected brusque way and with a self assurance that that was all that was necessary for him to do, said: "That is what I want; will pay you well for it." Meantime, the story goes, the proprietor was looking on and—bolling. What he said to him cannot not be made to believe, but it made individual "hike" for the stairs and down in a hurry, as ordered in "language" more effective than polite, it is said. Not satisfied, it seems, with a saloon, the Douglass "club" and the ideal hall dancing "school", he would also have a "grill". Is there anything else "Star" and "Tom" want? If so give it to them as their "good time" will be ended at this falls election day. What will the man be cleaning in city affairs (officials). It will be "exit" for the Maschke-Davis outfit, "Star" and Tom's political bosses. The case of Henry Collins and Edward Gordon, charged with the murder of Sylvester Williams, is to be investigated by the grand jury. Prosecutor Lind withheld papers, last Friday. Williams was stabbed in the heart Feb. 20 near his home, E. 14th-st and Central-lav. City hospital, surgeons sewed up his wounds days, dying last Thursday. Gordon lives at 1299 Scovill-av, and Collins gave Georgetown, Ky., as his address. Judge Estep, Monday, sentenced Frank B. Frazier, age 39, of 2180 E. 30th-st, to the penitentiary "until discharged by due process of law." Frazier was charged with the murder of his common law wife Wife Lanian, Jan. 28. We tremble for our friend, Mr. Frazier, of Woechke-Davis administration does not soon permit the police to give us better protection in that section of the city. What good is our councilman? selves we know much better than they do. Then, there is objection because said "white" speakers make themselves ridiculous. Many do. The judge's references to the suffering of his own people, the Irish, for hundreds of years, which still continues, reminded the writer that the Afro-American, Irish and Jew, the "down-trodden races of the world," are "first cousins in trouble between whom should exist a kind of sympathy far stronger and much more in evidence than it is. Judge Kennedy is one of a number of his race who recognize this fact in a practical way we are pleased to say, Rev. O'Connell and others closed the meeting. The organization held a business meeting at the church, Tuesday evening, and listened to a special report from its president. Its annual report has been printed and issued to its members. As yet no copy has been furnished The Gazette, therefore, no reference can be made to its contents at this time. WHERE IS' EDGAR J. MUMFORD? Any information regarding Edgar J. Mumford, born in Springfield, Ohio, Dec. 18, 1900, and was last heard of to be in Cleveland, O., will be thankfully received by F. Lee Mumford, care The Freeman office, Indianapolis, Ipd. F. L. Mumford—adv. 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 completely I sympathize with your political attitude. 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Carranza with "the most formidable revolution he had ever known" if he refused to make war on the United States in accordance with Foreign Secretary Zimmermann's proposals for a German-Mexican-Japanese alliance. Robert Fay, lieutenant in the German army, who escaped from the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, while while serving a term for plotting to destroy allied munition ships, went to Mexico, where he is now hiding. That $3,000,000 has been spent by the German government in fomenting spy plots in the United States within the last few months. "Thousands" of German spies are now engaged in different parts of the country in formulating and furthering conspiracies. The spy system is headed by an agent of the kaiser's government, referred to as the "master spy," who is still at large. Berlin, in spite of many arrests and numerous spoiled plots, is apparently satisfied with the results accomplished. Information obtained by federal authorities from papers seized in the office of Wolf von Igel at the time of the Welland canal plot exposure, together with other bits of evidence picked up in the latest investigation, enabled federal authorities here, they said, to announce these disclosures. OHIO WIDOW IS INDICTED Woman Is Charged With Conspiracy in Mate's Death. Wooster, Ohio—Mrs. Charles Eshelman, aged 29, of Easton, was indicted on a charge of conspiracy in the murder of her husband, who was shot the night of Feb. 16, while going from his home to his work in Rittman. Glenn Landis, 22, former national guardsmans of Akron, was indicted on a charge of murder in the first degree as the result of Eshelman's death. Prosecutor Benton G. Hay and Sheriff Milton C. Miller say landis confessed he killed Eshelman. Landis is quoted as having said infatuation for the woman led him to shoot Eshelman after Mrs. Eshelman had refused to leave her two children and her husband and elope with him. His confession, according to the prosecutor, says Mrs. Eshelman knew of his plans to kill Eshelman and that when he, armed with a rifle and revolver, left the house immediately after Eshelman, she cautioned him to "be careful." THE MARKETS. Grain, Provisions and Live Stock. March, 8, —Floor — Minnesota patents $10.20 g10.80. Wheat — No. 2 red $2.01. Corn — No. 1 yellow $1.18. Corn — No. 2 white 68c. Rutter — Best cremery $43 @43½c. Cheese — New 25 @29c. Eggs — Strictly fresh 32c. Potatoes — Choice white $2.75 per bus. Brown Rice — I already $15.00. Cattle — Best stew $10.00 @10.50, calve $13.25 @13.75. Sheep — Wethers $10.50 @11.50, lamb $11.25 @14.35. Hogs — Yorkers $14.50, pigs $13.00. Toledo, March 8 — Wheat — Cash $2.00. Corn — Cash $1.10. Oats — Cash $63c. Cloverseed — Cash $11.70. Buffalo, March 8 — Cattle — Shipping $3.50 @11.50. Hogs — Yorkers $15.10@15.25, pigs $12.00@13.75. Sheep — Wethers $12.00@12.50, lambs $12.00@14.75. Pittsburgh, March 8. — Cattle — Prime $10.75@11.50. Hogs — Yorkers $15.10@15.15, plgs $12.50@13.00. Sheep — Top sheep $12.00, top lambs $14.75. Calves—Top $14.00. Chicago, March 8. — Wheat — May $1.87%. Cattle - Native steers $8.25@12.10. cows and heifers $8.50@10.40. Hogs — Heavy $14.25@14.95, plgs $11.25 @14.65. Sheep — Wethers $10.85@12.25, lambs native $12.15@14.85. Girls Sold in Market. New York City — Massacres of Armenians were inspired by the desire of the Turkish ruling class to eliminate from the empire all sects and creeds except that of Mohammed, according to Lord Bryce, former British ambassador to the United States, in a cable message. "During these recent massacres whenever any Christian would turn Mohammed he was spared," Lord Bryce said in his message. "Thousands of Armenian Christian girls were sold in the market. Havana, Cuba. — Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez, fomentor of the present revolution in Cuba, has been captured, together with his entire staff. With its leaders and his chief lieutenants prisoners, the backbone of the revolution is regarded as broken. Official information of the capture was conveyed in a dispatch to President Menocal from Santa Clara. The original report emanated from Gen. Collazo and read: "I have Jose Miguel Gomez and all his staff prisoners." Dame Fashion's Latest Decrees New York.—Unless something more drastic happens in Paris then has happened so far, the woman who wants to furnish up her gowns of last autumn and even last spring and continue to wear them may do so without criticism. This does not mean that France has not shown to the American buyers an amazing collection of new clothes. She has featured the afternoon gown above the morning and evening ones, and she has not originated anything new in sports clothes except in the house of Chanel, where certain new touches have been brought out that will undoubtedly catch the public here. The silhouette is still straight and slim. The directoire, as was predicted, is creeping in. The high empire waistline has several advocates among the lesser houses in France. The skirts shown in the last two weeks have been a trifle longer than usual, there has been more flat plating than bunched drapery and the use of expensive and ornate embroidery on chiffon continues. Much-Discussed Barrel Skirt. Of course, we are still talking from rumor, from cables and from the letters of those who are entrusted with the mission of giving us advance information according to their best belief. But from all these sources one gathers that novelty was centered in the barrel skirt and that the American buyers are not looking upon it with much favor. This does not mean that the barrel skirt will fail to be a famous creature of fashions in America. It is too early to tell what will become of it. The exclusive dressmakers and shops, you know, do not like to bring over in March what the manufacturers of inexpensive, ready-to-wear clothing have exploited in January. Suits with barrel skirts are now selling for $30, and the man who has to pay $400 for such a suit in Paris, plus 60 per cent duty, may not even take a gambling chance at its success over here. All information points to the fact that belts will relieve the sandwich effect of pure medievalism. These belts are put above or at the waistline, but rarely below. The girdled hips are not to be featured. Belts do not confine the normal waistline; they merely suggest it in a riot of color, embroidery and tinsel. Hang From the Belt. Another new touch is to hang a heavy chain or an ornate silken cord from the belt at the side or in the front, and linked chains are made to represent the ornamentation worn by Henry VIII, only they are dropped from the waistline instead of from M. W. H. New gown of biscuit-colored taffeta embroidered in blue, with immense cash lined with blue and finished embroidered ends. Notice the new short sleeves. shoulder to shoulder. Sturdy tinselled cord is used to simulate tarnished silver for these chains. The reason given by the great French houses for the lavish and expensive afternoon gowns which have been shown in their exhibitions, is that France bans the evening gown. Well, what has that got to do with America? one asks. Surely, the Paris designers know that the same social conditions do not prevail here as there, and that America, from one end to the other and then crosswise, has always been given over to evening gayety. Paris has always had a strong feeling for the afternoon gown, because of the social routine of the life there. Women of fashion, and all who can afford good dressing, center upon the hours from 3 to 6 and dress accordingly. More Than Ever Popular Across the Water Because They Are Made by the Wounded. Read bags and chains have never gone out of date, and now that some of the soldiers in hospital are learning to make them they are likely to become even more fashionable than they were. People are getting tired of buying the raffla baskets which the men make with such skill and taste, but no woman can refuse a bead bag or chain. I saw a neck chain this week made by a French soldier which was really a small work of art. The coloring, the design and the fineness of the work altogether made it as decorative a note of color on the dress as could be desired. It was in rich blues and faint old rose, and it was worn on a plain gray liberty dress which had straight, long lines and no trimming. The bags are, of course, more ambitious, but the men are tackling them bravely. Artists, who in peace time live pleasant, busy lives in their studios working at their pictures, are now. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.. SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1917. ly. The French woman makes no pretence of running around the streets at ten o'clock in the morning, as our multimillionaire fashionables do every day. A few of them walk in the Bois at 11 and on the Avenue des Acacias, but speedily retire for breakfast at 12:30. The brilliance of the afternoon life begins at three o'clock, and it is from then until dark that women shop, go into the Bois and make their rounds of places for tea or dancing. They are constantly in the public eye during those hours. They do not give lunch-eons, card-particles or afternoon welding receptices, as America does. They reserve all entertainment of that kind for the evening. It may be that this season the French designer and the French woman have locked hands in making the afternoon costume the serious and brilliant one of the day. This idea suits Americans immensely, for there must be several thousand card parties given on this continent every afternoon between four and seven, and what a French woman wears in the park in the afternoon, an American wears to an elaborate indoor affair with candles, chicken salad and closed curtains. But she wants eyes Colored silk in a new hat; it is of rope pink faille, with brim of upturning ostrich tip; the chin-strap of pink ribbon ends in long streamers at the side. ning gowns, too, and yet we hear not a rumor of anyment new, brilliant or stimulating being done along that line. One thing is true. Whatever we will have in the way of new evening fashions, will be dignified and not frivolous. Satin will rule and silk net will hold its place. Embroidery will again be a feature, done in tinsel threads and silk floss. The Chinese influence is already suggested by the house of Callot, which has made a crysanthemum evening gown that is built of orange net, crystals and a mass of Chinese embroidery. The question, therefore, that has arisen among the American women, who are excessively stimulated by the desire to see new clothes at this season, is whether there will be a striking novelty this month, and with it the shipments of American clothes. If not, can the dressmakers persuade women to keep up the orgie of clothes buying which has gone on since last spring? (Copyright, 1917, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) SIMPLE AND QUICKLY MADE Appliqued Patch Embroidery Recommended as Excellent Occupation for the Hours of Leisure. Simple work for busy hands seems to be in demand just at present. Appliqued patch embroidery is simple and is made quickly. To make center pieces, cushion tops, scarfs, tidies or chair backs, clothes bags, etc., plain linen or silk is needed, preferably linen. Circles of applique are cut from cretonne. The design should be a single large flower or small spray in order to cut three-inch circles. The circles are basted on the cloth and stitched on by machine close to the edge. Chain stitch around each circle with coarse thread, then run through with a white thread in what is called the blanket stitch, or whip it straight along the last row of stitches, catching it over and over. The white rolls in with the black and is very pretty. A scroll is drawn in by cutting out a figure which looks well and then tracing it off on the cloth. In a center piece six medallions are used, three in a pillow, three in each end of a scarf and three in a chair back. To finish the edge, outline it as the medallions were outlined. Dots which are often placed in the center of the scroll work are made of black in the satin stitch. New peasant frocks are so simple they are almost nunlike. In many cases, giving up their days to nursing the wounded. Some do massage, others what they laughingly call charwoman's work to help the nurses, and it is these girls and women who are teaching the soldiers some of the finest crafts. They buy one old piece of beadwork, and from it the soldier, with a sense of design such as many of them have, evolves several more, adapting them to the particular thing he is making.—London Queen. Lines of the New Hats Spring models in hats show radiant changes from those of the winter, such as 'ow, rolled brims, medium high, soft, unlined crowns and a continuance of the marked tendency to substitute curves for angles. Brims turned abruptly back from the face are still featured by many of the houses; but these, unlike the winter models, in practically all cases show an even bulge or curve from front to back. Often the severity of the line of brim at top is softened by an edging or fridge of ostrich feather or by burnt coque fashioned into bands imitating fur. AGAIN ACCORDION-PLAITED LACE DRESSES ARE IN VOGUE Worn With Satin Coats or Long, Straight Tunics—Description of Simple Coifure in Severely Classic Style. Accordion-platted lace dresses are again very fashionable for evening wear and these are almost always accompanied by trained satin corsets or by long straight tunics composed of printed or embroidered chiffon, writes a Paris correspondent. A Chernit dress was composed of midnight blue chiffon and it was en- riched with wide bands of superb embro- derywork worked in silver threads and blue and black silk. Heavy fringes held these embroidered bands in place and at the waist there was a loose, quite narrow, sash which was also covered with embroidery. This sash was knotted low down in front, in Fatima style. The corsage of this model was very quiet and original. Of sleeves there were none and the corsage was almost high back and front while it fell off the shoulders. Redfern is having a great success with shaped ceintures. These ceintures mold the hips closely, but do not in any way compress the waist. Redfern has always been an admirer of Greek draperies and he is of opinion that the women of today, especially American women, are quite as beautifully formed, and as graceful of movement, as were the beautiful creatures whose statues grace our museums. Apropos of classic styles I must draw your attention to the simple collar which illustrates this article. This is the way hair will be dressed "the day after tomorrow." Is it not purely classic? The very lightly waved hair is simply drawn back from the forehead, light kiss curls appearing above the curls, then at the back it is twisted into a loose chignon and a semicircular comb is added. In my sketch I have shown a lovely comb which was made of green horn and rimmed with pearls. The same I Simple Coiffure With a Comb of Green Horn and Pearls. comb looks well, in fair hair, when made of tortoise shell and cut jet or green jade and brilliants. The design of this comb comes under the heading "Russian." It is rather like the elaborate Russian tiaras worn on state occasions by Russian women of high degree. I must mention that the fashionable color of the season for hair is pale golden-brown which does not show a reg. of re. Restful Morning in Bed. An added encouragement to lazy luxury is the latest device for the comfort and convenience of those who lie abed through the morning hours. This is a wicker breakfast tray which fits on a wicker standard which may be placed across the bed, raising the tray just the right height as one sits propped up on pillows. The tray is of glass over cretone, with a narrow wicker rim, and there is a dainty coffee, toast and egg set of pink and white china to match the cretone under the glass. When breakfast is over the tray may be reversed to form a convenient writing-in-bed table, and on the pink blotter may be set forth the various desk belongings, all in pink and white china also. A morning's correspondence may be got through in no time, and as luxuriously and lazily as heart could wish. New Idea in Arm Drapery. New evening gowns from Paris have an attractive method of draping the arm. It is modification of the style that was considered smart in the fifteenth century. Two streamers Season of Silks and Satins. The place and importance of silks and satins for spring cannot be overestimated. Models from leading French designers employ yards of satin merveilleux, satin duchese and soiree for full, straight skirts, and other lightweight silks for petticoats hidden beneath tunics, except when motion or a little wind blows them aside to disclose the foundation fabric. A Paris creation shown early in the United States was of midnight blue gaberdine, rung over a droop skirt of lemon yellow satin. Fashionable two-piece costumes for dressy street wear employ heavy grades of satin, both stiff and soft weaves being used, according to the design. Again the black satin has been revived most appropriately for suits, in that it does not muss easily, and looks rich. One such product, known as "satin ritz," comes in 56-inch width, which is a distinct advantage in cutting. Soire is one of the choicest silks in fine quality. It has a semilustrous surface, yet is soft and lightweight. SKIRT AND LEGGINGS IN ONE Supertright Underwood & Underwood A new idea for sports wear of all descriptions, is this combination of skirt and leggings in one piece. It is just the thing for riding, driving, golf, tennis and any other sport milady would care to participate in. of tulle are put into the under arm-hole, brought first over the top of the arm and crossed, and continue to wrap the arm in this latticework fashion, to the wrist. Not only does this fashion appeal to the woman who is planning a new evening gown, but to the woman who would like to give a new touch to an old frock. The tulle should be the same color as the bodice. If one likes the glitter of jewelry, small ornaments of crystal can be put at each intersection of the tulle, on top of the arm. It is always well to mark the wrist with a colored crystal of some kind or even a bracelet. The medieval idea of covering the arms for the evening remains in high fashion. Each designer has invented a peculiar trick and many women have thought out schemes for themselves. There is the cape of chiffon or tulle that falls over the arm to the knuckles of the hand and is sometimes held in place by a ring on the finger. There are long, fifteenth-century sleeves that smugly fit the arm from shoulder to wrist, with a wide fare over the hand. These are made of bullion tissue or gold or silver lace, and the most effective ones are encrusted with colored crystals. Women who have individual tastes are making medieval gowns for evening house wear which have sleeves of flesh-colored satin made in small puffs going around the arm between shoulder and wrist, which are held in place by narrow, leweed bands. The woman who has time and wants to make an evening gown appear like a new one would be wise to put one variety of these long sleeves into her frock. Coming Styles in Shoes. High-heeled shoes are to be fashionable for the coming spring and summer. Fashion authorities say that heels will be higher than for several seasons. Some shoes now shown for spring have heels $2\frac{1}{2}$ inches in height. Louis and half-Louis heels will be strongly featured, and Cuban heels will continue to be popular, especially on shoes with cloth tops. White shoes are to be tremendously popular, and with Dame Fortune favoring longer skirts, low shoes will probably be more fashionable than lace models, according to present predictions, and this is due in good part to the fact that with leathers of all kinds at top-notch prices cloth-top shoes will have a continued or even increased run of favor, and for shoes of this kind the button style of fastening is considered more desirable than lacing. Brookfield, Vt., enjoys the distinction of possessing the first library organized in the state. It is to be had in solid colors and in charming changeable effects for indoor and evening dresses or for blouses. One combination of rose and blue, producing a delicate orchid shade, is an instance of the beautiful colorings in this line. Two dollars and a half a yard is an average price. A similar silk with a little more luster is "satin changeant," also in two-tone combinations. Black and dark shades of satins are numerous in the new stocks, a few favored street colors being burgundy, java brown, hunter's green and more shades. Spring Styles. Gray and tan will be fashionable colors. Parasols are gay and in wide stripes. Heavy materials are best for the slip-on blouse. Summer dresses will be trimmed with flet lace. Pastel shades are favored for afternoon wear. Taffeta is coming in favor again for separate coats. DESIGNED FOR MAID PRETTY FROCK CUT ON LINES THAT ARE DECIDELY GIRLISH. Cedar Green Crepe Meteor the Mate rial in Which It Probably Would Look Best—May Be Developed as Tub Model. The sketch illustrates a youthful and very smart little frock, made of cedar green crepe meteor, with peasant blouse of black velvet, embroidered in silver. The little vestee is of white chiffon, making a becoming neck finish. The gown proper fastens in the center back, but the fastening is entirely concealed by the blouse or jacket, which THE LADY'S DRESS Youthful Frock for Spring or Summer Wear. slips over the head. This jacket may be made large enough to obviate the need of any opening, even at the waistline, the belt being detached and snapping singly over the whole, or it may be open at the waist at the left side back. As will be noted, a tiny band of velvet finishes the sleeves, which are further trimmed with a row of small metal buttons. The skirt may be plain, or it may have a band of velvet or a narrow band of metal embroidery, according to choice. This little frock is very girlish and pretty, and would develop most attractively in a tub fabric for summer wear. Many women engage home dressmakers during March, and spend that socially dull month taking care of the family sewing for practically the entire spring and summer to come. If it is desired to develop this frock Copyright Broadway Hollywood The woman who selects purple and wears it well is a very knowing young person, and that is the reason we have named this costume Miss Wisdom. The blouse is of white georgette crepe, but there are the markings of purple in the crepe edging and in the embroidery, the skirt, the bag and the parasol, and please note that they are one so far as material is concerned—are of purple and white-striped shantung. May Almost Be Designated as a Craze —Becoming and Practical Russian Coats—Fur Collars. This high walstine craze is most pronounced at the moment. In some cases the waist appears to be under the arms, and never is it outlined in its normal position. In coats of separate make the fashion of the high walstine its also expressed, but here it is only becoming to the very youthful figure. Coats of the Russian type are well to the fore, prettily belted and made, with big, cozy collars of fur. These coats are suited to all figures, young and old alike, and they are always becoming, smart and practical. Many women have found the high collar of fur one of the most practical fashions ever invented. Being a separate affair, it can easily be worn with any coat or costume, and the saving effected is obvious. These Marie Stuart collars, as they have been called, have had a ready sale at the shops, and they are made in such reasonably-priced petriets as bearskins. as a tub model, striped gingham, handkerchief linen, volle or other fabric may be used for the frock proper, and the jacket or blouse be made of plain color linen, chambray, crash, etc. An all-white handkerchief linen might be used, and the jacket be made of all-over embroidered in white or color. To make the frock five and a half yards of fabric 36 inches wide will be required for the major portions, with a yard and a half of plain or contrasting fabric for the little jacket. This gown might be developed for southern resort wear, combining white serge or fannel and bright red or green cheviot, serge, etc., or it might be made of 'wool jersey cloth with imitation leather jacket. The model is of advance spring design. WAY TO USE TWO THREADS Frequently Will Greatly Improve Appearance of Embroidery, but It Must Be Carefully Handled. It is frequently the case that two threads of embroidery cotton can be used in the needle with better results than a single thread. An embroiderer must understand, however, when it is expedient to substitute the two for one. Very often by resorting to the double thread an embroiderer can give her work a richness which would be lacking otherwise. The texture of the fabric and the delicacy of the design will determine whether the double or single thread should be used. For instance, a double thread can be appropriately used when the figure to be embroidered is large or the material heavy. Shading-in should be done with a single thread. When a delicate flower is to be embroidered a single thread should be used. Should occasion demand a double thread, do not double a single strand in the needle, as the twist will run in opposite directions and cause the silk to be roughened. The correct way is to pull two strands out of the skeins together. The needle should then be threaded with the two. TREATED AS ONE WINDOW Clever Arrangement of Draperies That Completely Does Away With the Troublesome Units. The window group presents many difficulties to the feminine heart. If it not so, dear ladies? But what could be more simple than to forget the wooden trims separating the window units, and treat the grouping as one window? The glass curtains may be Three-Window Drapery Solved. two or four; that is, with an opening only in the center of the middle window, or with the opening at this point, and in the center, also, of the two side windows. These thin curtains should reach only to the sills. In providing for the overdrapery, two side drapes only need be taken into consideration, and should hang to the bottom of the sill trim. Occasionally these may be held in place by a band of the same material, which may or may not be finished with a bow. But great care should be used not to use this treatment wrongly, for the looped back curtains of older times were worse than eyesores, and any suggestion of like horror today is to be avoided. The two end side drapes should then be connected across the top by a full and simple valance.—From the Indianapolis Star. Danger Age for Women When a woman stands on the threshold of thirty-five, she stands on the edge of the precipice of falling muscles, grazing hair and overweight. Sagging muscles more than anything else, even more than wrinkles, cast the shadow of advancing age. Therefore, if you see the muscles of the cheeks beginning to droop as if too weary to hold themselves firm, assist them by fastening a tight muslin band about the chin and pin or clasp it at the crown of the head. Loose, baggy skin, usually follows in the wake of these ugly drooping muscles, and to treat that, tilt the chin upwards and press a smooth piece of ice firmly against it as long as you can bear the cold. squirrel, opossum, seal, coney and moleskin. Silks Dye Easily. Shantung in many weaves is tremendously popular, and the manufacturers assure us that in certain yarn-dyed phases it takes dyes as never before. This problem of dyeing has stood in the way of the tussor silks, and if the difficulty has been overcome effectually the silk is in for greater popularity than it has ever known. Khaki kool, plain and figured, promises to be extremely popular, too, and there is a new khaki kool satin, rough and of high luster, that is likely to rank high among sports satins. All of the crepes are modish, charmeuse coming back to us along with the other satins and fitting in splendidly with the vogue for soft fullness, as is the case also with crepe meteor and the variations on crepe de chine. The shimmering luster of louhah silk is a novelty, and there are several new silks suggesting jersey, as well as a quantity of fiber silks in various new weaves.