The Gazette

THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR. NO. 3. THE FIRST SKIR Ohio Afro-Americans Fight Bundy' Extra Last Saturday's Hearing in Gov a Dramatic Scene—Promi Attendance—The Edit THE FIRST SKIRMISH WON! FRESH OHIO Written by 'The Old Reliable' Gazette Throughout the S What Our People Are Doing Ea Personal, Social, Lodge, Lit cal—Marriages,Dea OHIO NEWS able' Gazette's Correspondents out the State Oing Each Week—Church, Bridge, Literary and Musi- es,Deaths,Etc. FRESH OHIO NEWS 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 morning, and always wrap about returned cards. Unless done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc. obituary: notices, speeches, resolutions, poetry, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in the near future. Rate of ten cents a line, six words to a Outrage, or display advertisements will be sent on application. IN UNION IT IS STRENGTH. Cleveland, O., Aug. 14, 1917 Gov. James M. Cox, Capital, Columbus, Ohio. To recognize extradition papers for Derry Bundy will be sending him to his detention. Bundy is an Ohioan by birth and long residence. Favor him and me. Your correspondent was fortunate in securing a copy of the reply to the foregoing which is given herewith: State of Ohio, Executive Department, Cadie.—The W. C. T. U. met at Mrs. Olive Lucas, Sunday, Mrs. Minnie Brooks and children, Samuel and Cornella, visited in Mingo and Steubenville.—Mrs. Grace Wallace is seriously Ill.—Mrs. Simpson, Miss Esther Simpson, and Mrs. Rosa Yancy of Mingo, visited last week. Mrs. Anna Williams and Mr. Richard Taylor were quietly married at the A. M. E. parsonage.—The Misses Tyler of Flushing visited Mrs. Flora Lucas, Wednesday.—Mr. Jas Smith is improving slightly. Paralysis. Marletta.—Mr. Robert Scott, and Miss Clara Wooten of Parkersburg, W. Va., visited here, last week. The former reports a nice time and a successful trip to Stafford. No ambulation or celebration here this year. The former reports a nice way to Parkersburg. It has been customary to alternate, with the celebration. J. W. Scott, Jr., is local representative of the Gazette, our leading paper in the state. It gives all the latest news of the race. Call on Mr. Scott or phone him (560M) your news. Write or phone your order for it. He will gladly furnish any information you may desire. Townsquare.—Mrs. Mary Allen entertained in honor of her guests, Harry Lucas, H. R. Bruce and W. Steppe of Cleveland.—Miss Anne Litterbury of Parkersburg, is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Charles Clark.—Clarence Swinton of Akron was here, last week. Miss Claire Litterbury of Parkersburg in Pa., with relatives.—Miss Evaline Edwards, of Richmond, Va., is visiting her sister, Mrs. I. W. Bruce.—Miss Gertrude Scales returned as a result of a serious operation My Dear, Sir:--- This will acknowledge receipt of your telegram over the 14th instant, relative to the possibility of extradition of Dr. Leroy Bundy. You may be assured that no action will be taken in this matter until every opportunity is given to objectors to make their claim. This assurance has been communicated to Dr. Charles Bundy; the father of the alleged fugitive. Thus far Mr. Crew's assurance, for the governor, has been "kept to the letter," and I feel sure that when Gov. Cox is made fully aware of the dangerous condition still existing in St. Clair County, Ill. (East St. Louis), he will find it impossible to grant the requisition request of the governor of that state which has been made upon him by the representatives of Illinois referred to earlier in this communication. Rev. Chas. Bundy, Mrs. L. N. Bu Henry Taylor, the editor of Gacette and its local represent were entertained at dinner by Dr Mrs. J. L. Johnson, 652 E. Long and left at 3:30 p. m., Saturday Cleveland, greatly encouraged over favorable outcome of the initial mish of a contest that means so much to all of our people of the of Ohio. Like Rev. John W. Gaza and many others here, the Doctor an old reader of The Gacette an outspoken in his praise of it as a roughly loyal race advocate and my date newspaper. Mrs. Johnson is artist in the home, and Saturday ably assisted by her good mother. dinner, O! that caborate dinner. The final hearing in the Bundy will undoubtedly be scheduled for Wednesday at 10 a. m. Let us CLEVELAND, O—At the request of Attorney John J. Sullivan, Common Pleas Judge Stevens of this city Tuesday, continued until Aug. 31 the habeas corpus hearing of Dr. Leroy Jundy, dentist, held in county jail and wanted in St. Clair county, Illinois, for alleged complicity in a recent, riot and massacre there. The continuance was granted to leave unaffected the right of Dr. Bundy to a writ of habeas corpus in the event Gov. Cox at a hearing set for Aug. 29 allows his extradition. A statement Dr. Bundy's attorney filed Gov. Cox Tuesday asserted that Dr. Bundy not in娶 St. John but at Belleville, fourteen miles away, at the time of the crime charged him; that he is not now a fugitive from justice in the sense of the law, and that to take him back to Illinois would be liable to rekindle ill feeling between the races. on her brother, Nathan. He is con- valescing. Mrs. Hattie Williams of Findlay is visiting her son, Edward. * * * College Hill...Rev. Dr. Mills, P. E. preached his farewell sermon at a O. M. E. church, Sunday evening. -Basket meetings were held, Sunday, at Olendale, O'Brylowle and Dohli, the latter being in charge of Rev. Griffith...Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Day have improved their ice cream parlor...Several cases of typhoid fever here...Mrs. Margaret Bailey has returned frap a visit with relatives in Brown county...Mrs. Janie Hou- ton was delegate to the M. E. district conference at Portsmouth...The annual sermon to the International Laborers' Union was preached, Sunday, at Allen. Temple...Mrs. Lucinda Evans and Mrs. John Wren, Sr., mrs. Mrs. Kinney, and son; Ronald, were here Saturday evening. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25,1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since Sundisky..Mr. and Mrs. McSmith lost their twoday old baby. Mr. Roy Smith was home, Sunday night..Rev. L. H. Dodd is in Danville, Ky., attending the association..The Second Baptist church was well filled, Sunday..Mr. Gardner Willey, Mr. and Mrs. H. Toney of Premont, visited Rev. and Mrs. G. D. Smith, Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Wm Alexander and two girls are spending a week in Detroit, visiting her sister, Mrs. L. D. Anderson, wib is visiting in Michigan. Her mother-in-law, Mrs. Sarah have been sick this week. The S. S. Garrett will please at Lawndow Park, Aug. 22..Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Davis are daily expecting to leave for Wisconsin. We hate to lose them as they are good people. Everybody loves them. There are more coping all the time, however..Take The Gazette, the paper that you need in your home, Rev. G. D. Smith, agent. Soktian — Order The Gazette and encourage our boys, Mrs. Sara Marshall is visiting Mrs. B. Marshall of Desmer, Ala. — The basket meeting at Walton, Ky., Sunday, was conquered by Rev. S. H. Hourd of Covington Ky., and Rev. S. E. Hourd, the able pastor of the First Baptist church. A number from here attended it. Mr. G. Yowell are here from Massillon, Ky. and Mrs. Dawson and Mrs. Davis of Springfield are visiting their mother, Mrs. N. Hathaway. - Miss Carrie Johnson of Massillon visited Nathan Arnold, Sunday. - Mr. G. Yowell will represent the press at Hopkinsville, Mr. C. Murphy at Delhi, and the News Supply Co. at Sektian, Ncorth, Northfield, Oakhill town and Line of Poland. - Mrs. G. Yowell was here, Sunday. - Mr. John Johnson of Cauton was the guest of W. K. Riddles, Friday. - Mr. Jas, Myers, Mr. and Mrs. Freeman of Massillon, onroute home from Massillon conceive at Cinnamati, Visited here, Friday. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Gaines and Mrs. Ethel Stewart of Springfield attend the closing session, last Friday. - Mrs. G. Yowell is onCauton, Massillon, Akron, Cleveland, Columbus and Springfield, Mr. John Gaines has a very bad eye. The Ohio and Kentucky church-club organizations have arranged a $200 campaign to end in September. Hillshore—Mrs. Amen Kittrell of Cincinnati and Mrs. A. P. Mavle of Marietta attended the of their nephew, Harvey Henderson, last Tuesday.—Mrs. Martha Morton of Georgetown, Miss Malel Morton and Mr. Arthur Shipley of Cincinnati, spent Sunday here with Miss Hattie Tatman.—Miss Mamie Hicks entertained last Wednesday evening in honor of her 14th birthday.—Rev. J. M. Ross told quarterly meeting Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. Shipley of Cincinnati, spent Sunday. Mrs. A. P. Mavle, Mrs Freed Williams, Mrs. and Mrs. Dison, Mrs Sarah Zilimerton and Mrs. Frank Williams.—Mrs. Gilchase and her daughter of Cincinnati are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Day.—Logan Jenkins of Dayton and Miss Jenkins.—Wyatt Young is very poorly.—Rev. J. G. Orr was the delegate to the E. U. B. association held in Columbus this week.—Miss Faith Delaney has returned from Dayton.—Mrs. Laura Grench is still living.—Rollin is living in Cleveland. Mrs. Peyton of Columbus visited her mother, Mrs. Burton.—Charles Cole, Starling Hancock, Oliver and Roy Trinkle. James Blanton and Ben Phasant attended the fair in Washington C. H. last Thursday.—L. W. Thompkins is attending the Blanchester fair.—Mrs. Jane and Mrs. Mae Young were at Washington C. H. on Friday. Janneaster — Miss Sadie Cuttleway, librarian of Western College, Kansas City, is spending the summer with Mrs. Jonas Westbrooke, Mr. and Mrs. Ruby Moss entertained in honor of Mrs. Guy Carter of Chicago, Thursday, Mrs. Fred Tibbs entertained the A. M. E. ladies and auxiliary, Thursday, Local interest is centered in the coming educational program at the A. M. E. ladies School. Mrs. Ruby Moss, in requirement, will be honored — Misses Tibla and Anistine Williams and Jessie Ball have returned/home from a two weeks' visit with the latter's宴 at Mt. Vernon, Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Smith entertained at cards, Monday, honoring Mrs. Guy Carter, Mrs. Ruby Moss, Misses Rosie Cunningham and Susie Carter, Messrs Eos Streams, Earl Hunster and Oliver Smith were respective prize winners, Mrs. Paterson of Columbia visited Mrs. Westpoke, Sunday, visiting Mrs. Lazie Turner, C. C. Tibbs of the Malford Mfg. Co. was a business visitor in Cincinnati. Friday, Mrs. Edmund Viney and Mrs. John Harris are visiting in Flushing. Among the Columbus visitors, Sunday, were Edward Claire, Jr. and Miss Georgia Williams. he held Sunday, were Edward Claire, Miss Georgia Williams. COLUMBUS—The E. U. association will meet at Union church from Tuesday to Thursd. R. Doyle Phillips, moderator. Mitchell and Miss Vandilla were married, Wednesday, by R. W. Haskell—Miss Magdaline is visiting her uncle and aunt, Mrs. Benj. Arthur.—Col. Wm. Gusson, delegate to the K. P. lodge, is in St. Louis.—Mr. J. H. Jackson are visiting her sister Elizabeth Gill is visiting her sister Estella Mayo, Springfield.—A party at Mrs. S. J. Walter's, director of the M. D. Charles Comer, in honor of Mr. da Rogers, was a most enjoyable function. Covers were laid for The tent meeting conducted by L. Howard, evangelist, is a success. TRYING TO HELP THE S Columbus, O.—Private em bureaus in Ohio which are in southern Afro-Americans will out of business. Fred C. Cro the Ohio Defense Council has the State Industrial Commission fuse or revoke licenses of agen GAZETTE LYNCH HORRORS POISON NATION Miss Nannie Burroughs Makes fiery Protest Against Sacrifice of Victims to Mob Passion—Prospects Petitions to Rules Committee of National House of Representatives. Washington. — Miss Nannie Helen Burroughs, president of the National Training School For Women and Girls in this city, is also the superintendent of the department for the suppression of lynching, National Association of Colored Women's clubs. Under the direction of this department the association is conducting a vigorous campaign against lynching, with special reference to the recent East St. Louis horror. Miss Burroughs succeeded in getting a hearing before the rules committee of the house of representatives and present* 10,000 petitions from citizens in thirty-six states. Congressman Dyer has informed Miss Burroughs that the committee was profoundly impressed with the petitions and that steps will be taken favoring legislation against the lynching of colored people which is so prevalent. In a written statement on the matter of lynching Miss Burroughs says: "When outrages similar to the East St. Louis orgy occur editors, orators and a few brave Americans talk for awhile on the africanness of these MISS NANNIE H. BURROUGHS. wild and dissolute revelies in which white American savages men, women and children—engage with the brazenness of Fijis. In spite of these occasional appeals the spirit of lynching and mob violence is, spreading like wildfire. "These airborne crimes are multiplying because the habit of lynching has become an ingrained, racial trait that is being handed down from father to son. The men who lead mobs and lynch are among the proponents of the race, and the women who indulge in the sport are the mothers. In due time children are born unto these people. "Thus we have in the very blood of the race that does the lynching a rich strain, of hatred and brutality. The mob spirit is growing because children are being born daily unto women whose husbands, sons and daughters take part in bloody orgies. "Unless lynching is checked young Americans will poison the blood of the whole race and the strain will become so strongly brutal the mobs will rack their brains in search of every conceivable method of torture to excel in their revolting practices. "Nothing remains to be done but to make and administer adequate laws and to begin at the fireside, to teach white children to respect the laws of our land and to have a correct estimate of the value of human life. White children, are allowed to trample with impunity upon the rights of citizens of color and to treat the women of the race with contempt. "Controlled by the laws of procreation and fireside indulgence, we should not be surprised to see them applaud when human beings are being roasted alive at the stake. "The Negro is no match for these white fiends, because when we romped the jungles naked our busest savage practices were of a more civilized kind. Let all Americans remember that one race cannot hate another without itself returning to savagery. "Some years ago the author of 'Wisdom's Call' told the American people that if lynching was not stopped the blood of the white race would be coated until murder would stalk abroad in the land and the blood of the innocent would flow like rivers. We are now marching to the music of that prophecy. It is time for us to call upon God to save America." Our Standing in United States Army. The colored race is represented in the United States army by two national guard regiments, the Fifteenth of New York and the Eighth of Illinois. There is a battalion from Washington and one from Ohio, with separate companies from Maryland, Tennessee, Connecticut and Massachusetts. ANOTHER "CHANGE OF MIND" The War Department Reverses Ruling Which Provided for Separate Camps The South Stops Protesting When shown that White Quota Would Be Larger WASHINGTON, D. C. Reversing his former decision, the war department has announced that our troops will be sent to the national guard and national army camps with the other soldiers. As a result the Ninth Ohio battalion will go to camp at Montgomery with the other O. N. G. troops and will form a part of that division; hereafter it will be known as the 37th, when it is sent to France. Our national guard troops of the state and the District of Columbia are to be sent to other areas. These are approximately 125 men in York and Hime is to separate locations in Maryland, Connecticut and the District of Columbia. Air Americans drawn in the draft will form part of the divisional organizations and will be trained with the other troops. When it was announced all the national guard troops would train in the south there was strong protest from southern cities, most sending our troops to train in the north to form the national division camps the war department foribly heeded those senseless protests and announced that our troops would be left at home. Plans were then taken up for a separate training camp which they would be trained. This plan is affecting the guard, was found unsatisfactory for several reasons, and is the most important being that there was far from North Africa American troops to form a division. The department then decided to form a part of the national division camps and then accompanied them to the border, there was no good reason why they should not also go to southern camps and then to France with their organizations. It is understood the south had a change of heart since it realized that elimination of our troops from the draft forces would increase the proportion of whites that would be held in southern communities for military or Twas over thus! Senator Vardanian, speaking in the Senate last Thursday, denounced the Iran and declared President Thomas K. Trump the leader of the Anti-American towers attack. The Anti-American militant training will have a problem in this environment, more difficult of solution, more difficult of fire in consequence, than the soliden cannibalization of slaves a certain age, said he. The second cannibalization in said he. The Sherman resolution for investigation of the East St. Louis riot and massacre. ALWAYS LOYAL AND TRUE The selected Cincinnati Gazette, edited by the Fever Out-The-Job Harry C. Smith, one of the race's most dependable champions, is out in a brand new dress and as chipper as a bride in her mupital-gown. Journals of the race in Cleveland come and go, but the Gazette, like Tennessey's famous Skokie, goes on forever. Be the issue what it may, Harry C. Smith appears to it with an eye single to the welfare of his people, as he sees it, and always has the courage to stand up for what he believes in. The Gazette type bolster up our faith in the future of the colored American in the realm of the "Fourth Estate." R. W. Thompson, Washington, D. C. Correspondent, in the Indiana Gazette Freeman and the Houston (Tex.) Freeman. SHE WISHES TO HELP OTHERS All my life, until two years ago, my hair had been short and stubborn, with no life in it. I could do nothing with it. In despair I went to Madam Jones, I took her treatment, and in a short time, my hair grew long, became soft and glossy, the dafflower was cured up and now I am able to dress my hair in any way I wish. I cannot say enough for Madam Jones' Hair Tonic and Grower. It has done wonders for my hair, and I am safe in saying it will do for others the same as it did for me if used faithfully. Any one wishing to know more about my hair, I will glady tell them. MES. NELLIE FRANKLIN, 912 Pinewood Ave, Toledo, OH HOWARD UNIVERSITY WILL OPEN Washington, D. C., August 16, 1917. Editor Garache. Dear Friend: -- We have been informed that there is a rumor about the country that Howard University will not open for school work in September. You will greatly oblige by telling all of your patrons that the advertisement in your paper is true and bona fide. Howard University will open in September as usual: Professional Departments, October 1, 1917; all other departments, Sept. 19, 1917; registration days, Sept. 17 and 18. OBJECTS TO OUR SOLDIERS! COLUMBIA, S. C.—Proposed mobilization, of Negro, Porto Rican and white tribes of the national army at Camp Jackson, near here, was characterized "as a disaster to the state" in a telegram sent by Governor Manning to Secretary Baker. Too bad, isn't it? The governor asked for an appointment at the capital. Tuesday, to "protest to the secretary in person against the present plans of the war, department." O dear! Theodore B. Green, Esq., died, Sunday-morning, after an illness of several weeks. He was John P. Green's sister. A law lawyer, a sister and the father survive him and have the sympathy of many friends. "Dode," as he was familiarly addressed, was married some months ago, to a young lady of Jacksonville, Fla. M. B. SECRETARY OF WAR NEWTON D. BAKER Answers our Letter and Sends an Explanation of Col. McIver's Statement Written by Brigadier General Wm. A. Mann, Chief Militia Bureau To the waving letter, sent the above, Station D. Baker several weeks ago, is all assistance and necessary to a full under and under of the communication. That follows it: Cleveland, O. Aug. 3, 1917. Hon. Newton D. Taker, Secretary of War, Washington, D. C. Friend Taker, In Aug. 3, 1917, Cleveland Gain Dealer, Col. G. Agee M. Melver, acting chief of the militia bureau, is quoted in a Washington press dispatch (Observation Plan Dealer) said that the Ninth Ohio Battalion, which has been expanded into a regiment of unarmed cavalry, presumably on orders from the war department at Washington, "will not be a part of the Ohio National Guard division and will not be expanded into a regiment." Also that the Ohio Battalion will be assigned to service along with Colored troops from other states, and that he was unable to give the definite assignment to determine that it is possible that the organization will see service with Colored organizations in the new national army. 1917 (as stated in Mr. H. C. Smith's letter, hereafter attached), contain, in substance, what Colonel Melver said, or intended to say, as a matter of information only in reply to specific questions asked him. Colonel Melver discribes any and all intention to criticise or comment in any manner whatsoever upon the colored troops in Ohio, or elsewhere, and chimes that his remarks were based upon malpractice, quotation language used by the Secretary of War in his letter to the Chief of the Militia Bureau on the question submitted by the Governor of Ohio in regard to the proposition to change a separate battalion of infantry into a separate regiment of dismounted cavalry in the Ohio National Guard. A copy of the memorandum of the Secretary of War above referred to is bereft submitted, and the suggestion is centred that, admitting that Colonel Melver uses the language attributed to him in his letter to the Chief of the Militia Bureau on the question submitted of the Secretary of War on this subject can in any way be regarded as a criticism. Last evening's Cleveland Press updated the same army officer with saying that "plans for organizing the regiment (North Ohio) have been dropped and that even the present North Battalion (now a recipient) will not go with troops for training at Montgomery Ala." I am writing you for *definite information* as to the foregoing. Surely the Colonel is misquoted or has been missed. Such statements in the public press are working great harm to the country's cause and putting a damper on the patrol and locality of the Afro-American who I fear, will not be properly realized by the most important officers. They are most newest year, and for several years following it. As you are doubtless aware, there has already been far too much color-line (racial) division in army matters to date, aggravating insulting to Afro-Americans and vital injinjures to our country's cause. The future, possibly the near future, will show this so plainly, unless there is an immediate discontinuance of such public states of total above, that it will appear to all intelligent and loyal Americans. Trusting and hoping that Col. Melvie nor any other person in authority, has given or will give utterance to such statements as the above, I am,' Washington, D.C., August 14, 17-18 Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, The Gazette, Blackstone Ridg. Cleveland, Ohio. My Dear Mr. Smith: On the receipt of your letter of August 31, J took up the question of the statements attributive to Colonel Melver. The Colonel tells me that he has not seen what he is supposed to have said beyond what you quote in your letter, but that the admission he made to the newspaper reporters' question with regard to the separate regiment proposed for Ohio shows, as he now recalls it, a quotation from a memorandum made by me on that subject, an theorem of the case of a copy of the authoritative action of the Department, and the reason for it. MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF WAR. August 10, 1917. The statements attributed to Colonel Melver, of the Milhia Bureau, as set forth in the Washington press dispatch to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 1. IN UNION WE ARE SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS OF WAR BOWTON D. BAKER Sends an Explanation of Col. Written by Brigadier A. Männ, Chief a Bureau 1917 (as stated in Mr. H. C. Smith's letter, hereunto attributed), contain, in substance, what Colonel Melver said, or intended to say, as a matter of information only in reply to specific questions asked him. Colonel Melver discribes any and all intention to criticise or comment in any manner whatsoever upon the colored troops in Ohio, or elsewhere, and claims that his remarks were based upon瞥察 verbatim, quotation of his memorandum dated August 1, 1917, to the Chief of the Militia Bureau on the question submitted by the Governor of Ohio in regard to the proposition to change a separate battalion of infantry into a separate regiment of dismounted cavalry in the Ohio National Guard. A copy of the memorandum of the Secretary of War above referred to is herewith submitted, and the suggestion is ventured to, admitting that Colonel Melver used the language attributed to him, neither his alleged statements nor any part of the memorandum nor any part of the suggestion in any way be regarded as a criticism of the colored race or of the colored troops in Ohio or any other part of the country. The memorialism of the Secretary of War was regarded as settling a question which had arisen in the usual routine of official business connected with the calling of the National Guard in Federal Service, and whatever was said or done in regard to any element of its mission, was in its transition from the State to Federal Service was wholly and purely according to usual official methods. In view of these considerations, it is respectfully submitted that the comments set forth in Mr. H. L. Smith's letter to the Secretary of War under date of August 3, 1917, to say the leaf, do not sustain the complaint submitted by Mr. Smith. WM. A. MANN, Prigater General, General Staff Chief, Militia Bureau. THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. "The Problem," the latest literary sensation by one of the race's foremost writers, Mr. E. Grant Glimnor, is a direct reply to Thomas Dixon's "Birth of a Nation." The story is told of the love and sacrifice of a Red Cross nurse for a soldier and gives a vivid history of four soldiers in all the past wars. It is based on true facts and incidents. It has been highly commended by critics of both races. The book contains, besides the romance, some interesting poems. A copy should be in every race lover's home. The price is 50c. Copies can be secured at The Garage office—Ady. The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY One Year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... 1.00 Three Months ..... 50 Subscribers are requested to submit Suscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter. Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and proprietor, THE GAZETTE, Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature; 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWS-EST and BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 240,000 in Ohio. 20,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1917 Miss Mary Pulliam, mentioned in a St. Louis letter elsewhere in this paper, is a credit to our womanhood and to the race. The determination of southern state authorities, to insult and humiliate the patriotic and loyal Afro-American soldiers, is worthy of a decent cause. The junior U. S. Senator from Mississippi, one James K. Vardaman, "Negro-hater," is about as patriotic (?) as the senior senator from that state. S. L. Shultz, an East St. Louis, Ill. rioter, was given a five year sentence, Aug. 18. A light punishment for participating in a massacre that cost the lives of about 100 men, women and children of color. We know that our loyal readers are telling their friends and acquaintances how very much they need "the old reliable" Gazette. We wish all would do so. It helps greatly. Let them see your copy of the paper. A newspaper dispatch. Aug. 19, 1917, announced that England was attempting to organize a battalion of Negro subjects of Great Britain in Chicago. That effort should include Cleveland's resident subjects of that country. The South's "change of heart" like the War Department's "change of mind," have come a little sooner than we anticipated; that is all. Our readers will remember that we predicted it, but for next year, at the latest. See our Washington letter headed "Another Change of Mind." Where has the East St. Louis riot and massacre placed Illinois, "the state of Abraham Lincoln," when South Carolina, "the state of Ben Tillman," and Mississippi, "the state of Jim Vardaman" are also considered? Nothing like the second East St. Louis "riot" has occurred anywhere in the world, in late years, except at Kishineff in Russia. The selection of color-line Luna park, for the place in which to hold the Elks' convention, is an insult not only to our people of this city but also to the Elks who will assemble here, next week. Strange that local members of that order, who are responsible for the selection of a meeting place, should show so little self and race respect and so little manhood. A communication, from Captain C W. Posey of Homestead, Pa., announces the death of his wife on Aug. 20, 1917. Mrs. Posey was among the first of our public school teachers in the state of Ohio, a woman of education exceptional ability, culture and refinement—a grand wife and mother. Our long-time friend and Gasette admirer and family, have our sincere and heart felt sympathy in their great loss. Yes, they "come and go"—fifteen of them (race newspapers) have, right here in Cleveland alone, since the advent of "the old reliable" Gazette thirty-five years ago. How many in the state of Ohio, outside of Cleveland? "Too numerous to mention." We do not remember how many. And there will be more, no doubt, principally because they are not loyal and true to our people. Thank you, Mr. Thompson, for the kindly notice of The Gazette, republished elsewhere in this paper. The sending of soldiers from the North down into southern camps for drill and to learn army life is universally denounced in the North. It is quite impossible to learn what the government means by it. A few months in the soft climate of the south will ill-prepare them for a winter's experience in Flanders. What they need is hardening, not softening. When they get over on the west front, unless their going is too long delayed, they will encounter snows, cold winds, and rains, and all the discomforts of winter. That is what the people generally think about it, and why they object to this whole southern camp business. And then it must be a great expense transporting the troops down there unless it is determined to send them abroad from Southern ports. Our long time friend and conferee, Timothy Thomas Fortune, former editor of the N. Y. Age and possibly the best editorial writer the race has produced in the last thirty-five years, has written for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, August 7, 1917, an illuminating and very true statement, anent the "New Negro Type of Person; His traits and hisFailings", we would much prefer to have seen in race papers only. We do not think it wise or helpful to furnish such facts to the other classes of people. --- As there are two or three army stations called Camp McKinley, it does not seem practicable to give the name of McKinley to the Columbus barracks. Why not叫它 Camp Foraker or Fort Foraker? It would be appropriate, because Governor Foraker spent several years of his life at Columbus. It would be a fitting tribute to the memory of a brave and gallant soldier. It would delight every soldier of the Civil war in Ohio and every Afro-American. Why not Camp Foraker or Fort Foraker? Among those indicted, on a charge of being in the mob that was responsible for that East St. Louis, Ill., massacre of about one hundred Afro-American men, women and children, were between fifteen and twenty members and ex-members of the police force of that city. This shows the temper of the police of that town better than anything else. Since the soldiers have been withdrawn from East St. Louis and the city is wholly dependent upon the police force and a volunteer organization for immediate protection, and in view of the fact that a riot immediately preceded the recent massacre, we fail to see how Gov. James M. Cox can possibly recognize Illinois' requisition for Dr. Leroy Bundy. SOUTHERN PATRIOTISM "I propose to vote for this constitutional amendment whether the Stone amendment to the amendment goes with it or not. I propose to vote for it for three reasons. The first is that in doing so I shall represent the State of Mississippi, and I intend to represent her as long as I stand here as one of her Senators. She has uttered her voice in no uncertain tones. I am a State-rights Democrat, and I am going to stand by the State. My primary allegiance is due to the State, and not even to the Federal Government. That perhaps is uttering treason in this body, but at any rate that is the fact so far as I am concerned." The above utterance is by John Sharp Williams, senior senator from Mississippi. This patriotic (?) sentiment surely justifies the government in spending more money in Mississippi. Can't the malarial army camp at Hattiesburg be enlarged, or a few more moistless Mississippi treams have appropriations made for them? HOW ABOUT HUMAN SLAVERY? The Prussian autocracy has been taking the men of Belgium and forcing them into human slavery. Not the soldiers of Belgium but the non-combatants. There are unbelievable tales as to the wrongs done the women of Belgium. The world has risen in protest against these crimes. Our own country is now fighting for the freedom of the Belgians. All the political parties in the U. S., save one, are behind the Government in its fight for human liberty—Prohibition, Democratic, Republican. All but the Socialist Party. That body, unwisely led, is passive. By referendum of its members it has declared against the war. And yet, unless Germany is defeated, it means a crushed, an oppressed and enslaved Belgium. If ever there was a call of the brotherhood of Man it comes from bleeding, bludgeoned Belgium. American citizens will not find it easy to identify themselves with the Socialistic party under its present management. For some reason it has gone astray in the greatest emergency of the present age. This very naturally recalls the Belgian atrocities committed upon the natives employed in that country's rubber industry in its Congo district in Africa, some years ago. They do say "the Lord works in a mysterious way." GEN. MANN WRONG In view of the War Department's most recent statements which are just the contrary of Col. McLiver's statements, showing a complete change of positions on its part, the wisdom of what the editor of The Gazette wrote to Secretary of War Baker is perfectly clear to all. "Such statements (as Col. McLiver's) in the public press are working (and cannot help but work) great harm to the country's cause and putting a damper on the patriotism and loyalty of the Afro-American." Furthermore, there has been entirely too much of it as the war department must now confess. Its present embarrassment in the matter of the disposition of Afro-American troops is the result of it and it alone. While it cannot be said to be a criticism, it is an unfortunate and hurtful reflection upon the Colored troops of the country. Such "usual official methods" should be discontinued for the good of all covertness. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, ORIO, AUGUST 25, 1917. ed. This too is clear, now, even to the War Department. Disagreeing with Brig. Gen. Wm. A. Mann, we submit that "the comments set forth in Mr. H. C. Smith's letter to the Secretary of War," as well as the War Department's recent "about face" on the matter of the disposition of Colored troops, do "sustain the complaint submitted by Mr. Smith." TO "JIM CROW" THE NINTH The South Has Already Served Notice On The War Department Washington D. C.-The Nine Ohio battalion will be required to ride in "jim crow" cars and will be quartered by themselves while at Montgomery, Ala. Otherwise there will be with the townpeople of Montgomery. It was stated Wednesday, at the office of Representative Dent, chairman of the committee on military affairs, whose home is at Montgomery, that there will be no formal protest against receiving our troops from Ohio, but that they must be segregated and must obey the rules of the community, which require our people to ride in "jim crow" cars. A delegation from South Carolina, headed by Gov. R. I. Manning, Senators Tillman and Smith, members of House and numerous prominent South Carolinians, including the chairman of the state of defense, called on Secretary of War Baker Wednesday, and vigorously protested against the sending of our troops into South Carolina. After the meeting Gov. Manning gave out an interview saving that, if any are sent there they will be kept entirely separate from the white troops. "Poor things." AFRO-AMERICANS INDICTED St. Louis, Mo. — Moses Lockett and John Love are two local members of the race indicted in connection with the East St. Louis, Ill. massacre. The latter, like Dr. Leroy N. Bundy and others, is charged with having been a member of the crowd which killed the two white detectives on the night before the massacre. The automobiles heretofore furnished by the East St. Louis Health Department to Miss Mary Pulliam of this city, in charge of the Red Cross work, made necessary by the riots have been withdrawn because of a remark attributed to her by Louis Ross, (white), overseer of the poor. She is said to have declared: "Negroes are drilling in St. Louis, and I hope they will come back to East St. Louis and give you white people what you gave them." "Miss Pulliam yesterday declined to discuss the matter. She is connected with the St. Louis Provident Association. Nearly 100 persons were killed and 245 buildings burned in E. St. Louis, Ill., during the massacre, according to the grand jury. Harry Lueas, H. R. Bruce and W. Stepto were in Youngstown, the first of the week. Rev. A. D. Williams, of Atlanta, preached to a large audience at Lane Memorial C. M. E. church, Sunday, and at St. Paul A. M. E. Zion church Friday evening. The funeral services of Theo B. Green, Esq., were held at his late residence in E. 107th St. Wednesday afternoon, and were conducted by Rev. Keene of Trinity cathedral. The soprano solo, "O. Dry Those Tears," was sung by his cousin, Mrs. Katherine S. Mitchell. The floral offerings were many. Interment in Woodland cemetery. The Minneapolis delegation of Ames lodge, attending the Elks' convention, will arrive, Sunday. Messrs. Glover Shull and James Branch will come via lake steamer. Wm. R. Morris, Geo. W. Bryant, Fred G. Thomas, Dr. Joseph Sizer, Chas. Sumner Smith and P. K. Southall will accompany the Chicago delegation. Mr. Shull is bringing his touring car and will motor to Minneapolis, visiting several Ohio cities. He will be accompanied by Editor Smith of the Twin City Star on his return. Smithfield—The Y. M. L. and M. crochet clubs were elaborately entertained at Mrs. J. Beal's, Friday afternoon—L. and Audrey Hargreave, V. Reed and Tacy Smith were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. Smith of Chesnut ridge Sunday—Fred Ramsey of Cadiz spent the week-end here—Miss Mattie West, Mr. and Mrs. F. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. West, Sr. and Jr. Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Williams, who preached in the afternoon, attended the rally at McIntyre, Sunday—Mr. and Mrs. J. Powell spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Harris at Boston—Several from here attended the S. A. annual picnic at McIntyre, Saturday—Rev Atkins were here, Monday—Miss V. Carter, T. West and Mrs. J. Harris, were in Stuereinville, Monday, and Mrs. W. H. Veney, Thursday—D. W. and Chas. Bigsby are ill—Master Wm. Christian was kicked by a horse, Sunday, and a limb broken—Dr. Chas. Hargreave and Jesse Smith of "Pittsburgh, visited the former's parents, Sunday. The latter was enroute to Cadiz—Mrs. Griffin visited her daughter, Mrs. J. M. Williams, Sunday—Mr. and Mrs. S. Thomas and grandchildren, Mr. and Mrs. Munts, Mrs. McMiller of Steubenville, passed through here, Sunday, en route to Cadiz—Misses Bird, N. Washington, and sister, Anna, Mr. A. Greene and boy friend of Pittsburg, and Wheeling, were guests of Mrs. M. E. Veney, Saturday evening—This letter a day late. Correspondent will please mail news-letter a DAY earlier—Editor. CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. The old reliable Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially destroys of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Dayton, Plaqu, Mt. Vernon, East Liverpool, Akron, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, Blackstone building, Cleveland, O., and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by sending at once the addresses of persons in the cities named and others in the state, to whom we can write relative to the matter. Hats off to the war gardeners! How can we make their work count the most? Save the food grown near home distance adds expense. "We eat what we can and what we can't eat we "CAN", is an old pun with a new message to Cleveland housewives. Let the war garden cut food costs and save space in railway cars NOW—let the thrifty, patriotic housewife's canning be save food costs and unnecessary shipping next winter. Eat more bulky foods save breadstuff for export. Preserve the surplus! Every jar of fruit or vegetables put down cellar means that much less waste a direct contribution to the success of America and her allies. Cleveland made a wonderful record in the Liberty Loan and Red Cross campaigns. Gas Service is so cheap in Cleveland that we have an additional reason to lead also in the national movement to save the food supply at home. Save The Waste and Win The War! The East Ohio Gas Co. 2922 Scovill Avenue, Central 3880-L; Branch Office; N. E. cor. E. 46th St. and Central Avenue., Cent. 3889-K H.J.Owens 2022 Sevill Avenue, Cent cor. E. 46th St. and C Central 2848-R Prices Reasonable "DIAMOND DICK," Mgr. PREJUDICE "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 MIR. 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SUBSCRIBERS The Gazette regularly should notify by delivered promptly. business matters to The Gazette's If you wish to see the editor call carefully examine The Gazette's ad- rchases. Business men who adver- t the patronage of our people. The inance that they want it. in current issues of The Gazette WEDNESDAY of that week, at the CLEVELAND Social and Personal FOR RENT — Nicely furnished front room for gentleman. 2305 E. 80th St. FOR RENT — Nearly furnished rooms. Apply to Mrs. May Bowlin, 2393 E. 43rd St. WANTED — A clerical position by, a young lady of intelligence and experience. Address A. T. S., Box opp. 870 Cliffwood Ave., Zanesville, O. WANTED — A young lady to sell the latest literary sensation, "The Problem." Call or address F. Grant Gilmore, care The Gazette, Blackstone Bldg., Cleveland, O. WANTED — A position by a young lady who is capable of doing typewriting, taking short-hand notes, and who has had considerable bookkeeping and penmanship training. A graduate of Oberlin Business college. Address 508 North St., Elyria, O. FOR SALE — Modern two family house, 10 rooms. Nr. East 105 car line. Very reasonable. Easy terms. We have a single house, a bargain, on the easiest terms. For genuine bargains in moderate priced homes and on easiest terms, see Veres Bros. 10302 Buckeye Rd. Henry Rollins returned to Hillsboro, the first of the week. H. J. Owens, of E. 40th St., was called to Canton, Sunday, by his wife's illness. There is only one way to get the real race news and that is to take "the old reliable" Gazette. Mr. Andrew Edwards and Miss Rose Clark, were married recently and are located at 2740 Cedar Ave. Dr. and Mrs. E. A. Balley have taken possession of their new home in Pasadena Ave. Congratulations! BEST FOR THE BLOOD—Puro Herbs. Sold only at Brown Drug Co. cor. E. 28th St. and Central Ave.—Adv. David C. Fisher and daughter, Miss Ruth, of Lorain, were guests of Mrs. Nellie Fowler of E. 86th street., the first of the week. When mean landlords seek to take advantage of you, come to The Gazette office and see the editor. Tell your friends this. Mr. Farrell, employed in the U. S. Judges' office, P. O. B'ldg., is spending his vacation with his wife on her brother, Mr. Steve Mason's, farm near Bloomfield, KY. Wilbur Johnson told Huron Road hospital authorities, Sunday, that he was ill, and an examination showed he had smallpox in a well developed form. He was removed to the hospital. Johnson has been living at 3228 Johnson ave. 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. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Turner, Mrs. Chas. Williams, Miss Nora Williams, of Wheeling, and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Richardson of Pittsburg, who are touring in their auto, will arrive, Sunday, to be the guests, for a week, of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Williams, 1896 E. 70th St. Miss Nora is Mr. Williams's sister. 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. Wharton Rice, age 18, second son of Mrs. James Rice, widow, E. 31st St., shot and killed himself, Monday. He is said to have had a quarrel with his sweetheart earlier in the day. Besides the mother, a brother and sister survive him and have the sympathy of the community. The Gazette again has nice clean office. Come in and pay your subscriptions, please, if you love, and oblige us: Especially those who live in the East End. About $130 was collected at St. John's A. M. E. church, Sunday afternoon, to assist in the fight against the extradition of Dr. Leroy Bundy, to East St. Louis, Ill. To this, the church added $170, making $300 in all, it is said. This shows the right spirit because the contest is a race fight and not merely a personal one. Wm. Brack, proprietor; Frank Doctor, manager, and James Mabel, chef of the Edward Doctor Dining Room, are just proud of the hard work in it since the thorough renovation and installation of new furniture, etc. By far the best meals to be had in that section of the city are secured in the Edward Doctor Dining Room and this is generally admitted by those in a position to judge. "World War and Democracy: Freedom from Political Slavery in the United States" is the subject of a pamphlet written by the Hon. Jos. C. Manning, 214 W. 34th St. N. Y. city, former member of the Alabama legislature, a life-long Republican and friend of the race. He tells the whole truth and withholds no truth. It is a publication every Afro-American home should contain. The Gazette has a few copies (a half dozen) which can be secured at 25 cents each. Miss Bertha Sutton, of E. 95th St. is visiting in Atlantic City for two weeks. All persons holding coupons from the Smith Studio, 4207 Central Ave., must present them on or before Aug. 31, this month. After date said coupons will lose their value—Adv. Dr. Wm. A. Byrd, pastor of Trinity Presbyterian church, Rochester, N. Y., was in the city, last Thursday afternoon, enroute home from Chicago and Detroit. He paid The Guerrette a pleasant entl. Our readers will of once recall his many fine articles on matters of exceptional interest to them, published in The Gazette in recent months. Dr. Byrd is a regular contributor to "The Old Reliable." Our good friend, A. H. Dorsay, a Columbus "boy", well, and favorably known also here and in Detroit where he has made his home at times in years gone by, accompanied by a friend, Mr. Gilbert of Chicago, gave the editor of The Gazette a very beneficial and pleasing outing, last Friday afternoon, in the shape of an eagle, upon the Boston /Red Sox and Chicago game at Jim Dunn's park. The outing was thoroughly enjoyed. Batimore Elks are desirous of entertaining the 1918 session of the Grand Lodge of Elks, and will send a large delegation here next week in an effort to capture the prize. Monumental Lodge, of which the delegation are members, is one of the oldest and strongest in the Order. The delegates will include: George W. F. McMechen, grand esteemed leading knight; Asa Porter, Charles Robinson, Thomas H. Buckingham, Joseph Matthews, Samuel T. Hemsley, William Lewis, William Smith, Dolphert Jackson, George A. Watty, Thomas R. Smith, Raymond Coates, Jeremiah Hill and Richard Morsell—adv. The editor of The Gazette spent Saturday in Columbus, being one of the city. Rev. Charles and Mrs. Leroy Bundy, Henry "Aristides" Taylor L. C. S., which attended the L. N. Bundy extradition request-hearing in the governor's office that morning. They returned to Cleveland, Saturday. The editor made the trip and was joined by Bundy. Mr. Wm Johnson of E. 37th S. Officer of chirpology with offices in the Engineers' Bldg. who has been quite ill is nearly convalescent. The same mistake (irregularity of procedure) as to the disposition of that $75 or $100 "Birth of a Nation" fund was made at St. John's A. M. E. church meeting, Sunday afternoon, as was made some weeks ago at Antioch Baptist church. It is a very easy matter to transfer the fund in a REGULAR and PROPER way and this ought to be done. The committee in charge of it—Miss Hazel Mountain, president of our local Federation of Woman's clubs; J. W. Wills, president of the C. A. of C. M., and Rey, H. C. Bailey, president of the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P., should call a joint meeting of their organizations and the friends of the latter who were at Antioch church the evenings the fund was raised, and proceed about its transfer in a proper way PALMER WASHINGTON WASHINGTON PALMER WASHINGTON PALMER WASHINGTON LAKESIDE PHARMACY CO. ANACASTA, GA. 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I will help you to mend your ointment to all sufferers. You may use this letter as best suited to my purpose. MRS. EMMA COOPER BRYANT. 1867 HOWARD UNIVERSITY 1917 Stephen M. Newman, A. M., D. D. President. COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES—A. B. and B. S. Courses. TEACHERS' COLLEGE—A. B. and B. S. Courses in Education. SCHOOL OF MANUAL ARTS AND APPLIED SCIENCES—B. S. Courses in Engineering. Home Economics, Manual Arts. CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: Mus. B. Courses. ACADEMY—Two Preparatory Courses; Classical, Scientific. COMMERCIAL COLLEGE—Secretarial Courses, Accounting Course, General Course. LIBRARY TRAINING CLASS. PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY—B. D. Courses, Diploma Course. SCHOOL OF MEDICINE—M. D. Courses in Medicine, D. D. S. Courses in Dentistry, Phar. D. Courses in Pharmacy. SCHOOL OF LAW—LL. B. Courses. For catalogue, address Howard University, Washington, D. C.—Adv. GET MARRIED. Read my answer and advice on the Divorce-Proof Marriage Question. Let me tell you who to marry to live successful and happy. Send your full name, Birthdate and 25 cents. THE D. P. M. SYSTEM. 15 E. Wood- bridge Street, Detroit, Mich. Please mention The Gazette. HENRY L. THOMAS Attorney and Counselor at Law 312 Superior Building Cleveland, O. Phone, Bell Main 806. Cent. 2251-R Attorney and Counselor at Law 219 American Trust Building Cleveland, Ohio Tel. Central 1400-W. NOTICE. NOTICE Real estate is a serious business. It ought to be handled by people who know values, abstracts, deeds and mortgages. A lot of fakers have rushed into the business to catch the stranger. I advise all to deal with people who have a reputation for honesty and fair dealing. S. E. Woods, 3704 Central Ave. Ohio State phone, Central 4600 K. Free advice. —Adv. THE COLORED A. AND M. FAIR ASSOCIATION (Incorporated) The oldest and best exhibition of the kind in the country. High class racing program and unexcelled free attractions. Reduced-rates on all railroads and traction lines. 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WHAT SOME FOLKS BELIEVE Report on Condition of the Field Attacks Validity of the Rev. Dr. Boyd's Claim to Ownership of Publishing Board—There Is Only One National Baptist Convention. Chicago.—The enlistment committee of the National Baptist Convention of America, the Rev. Dr. L. K. Williams of this city, chairman, issues the following statement as to its findings on the condition of the field: "The committee can in all truth state that its observations confirm the current belief that a majority of the people in the United States are with the National Baptist Convention. Let none hesitate to believe this, for it is absolutely true." The committee has found that the people who are with the Boyd convention, many of them, are good meaning Baptists, though misled and misinformed. Many believe that Dr. Boyd is the father and sole patron of the publishing idea, that he began and crystallized with his own brain and money the enterprise and that the National Baptist convention for these reasons is cruel and heartless in its efforts to control the National Baptist publishing board. They believe that since he began the project with his own means he is the most sorcerely persecuted man in all the world. "The committee has shown such persons that the convention began and partly crystallized the publishing idea and enterprise before it knew Dr. Boyd. And as this has been shown good people who have been misled and misguided on this point have shown a disposition to stand for denominational or conventional management or ownership against board or individual management and ownership. Ownership of the Publishing Board. "The committee has found another class of good people who think that the publishing enterprise is already a denominational or convention concern and that there is no need of the present agitation. We have shown them that the convention thought that the publishing board was a convention or a denominational affair, that Dr. Bord had so stated the same for years, but he refused to obey the orders of the denomination, given through the convention, and had at last refused to turn over to the denomination the publishing enterprise as ordered by the convention in its annual meeting in Chicago. "The committee has also found some in the ranks of the Boyd faction who believe that peace can be obtained through remaining there in watchful waiting and contending for a compromise. The committee has shown such that it is the spirit of Christianity to strive for peace, but peace with justice, righteousness and the ascendancy of truth. The committee has also shown that after ten years of efforts to adjust things Dr. Boyd first dragged the convention and denomination into the courts of this city. "There is still another class in the ranks of the Boyd faction who is there for the 'loaves and fishes'—the commercial and purchaseable class made up of a class of ministers who desire honors and who have signally failed in everything committed to their hands. For instance, one of the most reputable ministers in the ranks of the Boyd faction said the other day he was there because he had some books he wanted printed and some one had agreed to print them for nothing if he would take the stand he was then taking. Another one said he could get his way paid to and from certain meetings if he took a certain course. Another one said the Boyd convention was the convention for little men, as all the big men remained with the National Baptist convention. Confusion Exists In Several States. "The committee has also found that local differences in certain states have influenced a few to ally themselves with the Boyd convention. This is significantly true of Illinois and Texas. The committee has also discovered that not a single regular state convention has approved the Boyd convention. They have formed small splits in some states—namely, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Arkansas—but in these states or most of them 95 per cent of the Baptists remained loyal to their respective old time regular state organizations, which conventions maintain yet their allegiance to the National Baptist convention. "In Texas the new convention, which split off from the regular convention in Dr. Boyd's church in San Antonio some years ago, the convention of which Dr. Boyd is yet a member, is with him, they say, out of local pride and in self defense, but many of the men of this convention, good men, are displeased and restless over such a lineup. In Kentucky and Virginia the conventions have not reversed their old time former allegiance to the National Baptist convention, and the fact that they have not reversed themselves indicates their true attitude. In Virginia, a so called neutral state, the foreign mission money was voted the other day to the Nationa] Baptist convention, voted to it in the presence of Dr. Kemp and over the protest of Rev. T. J. King, the secretary of the Bord faction. "The committee has had in view one thing—Tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing else but the truth.' It has gone forward imbued with the spirit of the convention it is endeavoring to represent. It believes this; Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.' "It has attempted to show the people that the Boyd faction or the board convention which meets in Atlanta in September can in no wise be counted a properly constituted Baptist convention, because Baptist conventions, when properly organized, are made up of messengers appointed by Baptist churches or Baptist organizations already existing and recognized; that the messengers thus appointed must bear credentials showing their appointment and authority to organize in the name of and for the denomination; that after the organization is formed as stated above it must be recognized by Baptist bodies of equal or co-ordinating rank; that the Boyd faction or the board convention which he attempted to organize at Chicago had no credentials or authority from any Baptist organization to organize a convention, but instead were appointed as messengers to the National Baptist convention, if to any. If they say they were authorized to organize—which they cannot say and prove—they will show themselves to be willful usurers of power in all that they did or attempted to do in the National Baptist convention in Chicago the first day of its meeting." One National Baptist Convention. The committee has said now since the Boyd convention was not authorized and since no Baptist organization of equal rank, such as the National Baptist convention, the Southern Baptist convention and the Northern Baptist convention, has recognized it it is plainly evident that it is not a Baptist organization, and it therefore cannot by any rule of reasoning be considered the National Baptist convention. "Once more we have shown also that the Boyd faction, or board convention, does not itself claim to be the National Baptist convention of America. Look at its name. Here it is, National Baptist convention, 'unincorporated,' while the name of the convention is the National Baptist Convention of America. The committee has expressed its wonder why, in the formation or evolution of this board convention, it did not loose the post appendage, its tail-"unincorporated,' a very strange thing for a convention to possess. "This tall--minincorporated--is a new thing in connection with the name of a Baptist convention, but some of the Boyd followers said to us it was to show that our convention was incorporated and theirs was not. To them we have said Dr. Boyd proved in his paper syndicate before we went to Chicago in 1915 that there wasn't a word nor line nor resolution found anywhere in the records of the National Baptist convention authorizing anybody to charter said convention. We have told them that the National Baptist convention in its session at Chicago and Savannah refused to adopt the charter, and we concluded by asking them if the convention, as Dr. Boyd stated, did not order a charter before and has not approved once since it has been secured how can you or Dr. Boyd say now ours is an incorporated convention? Charter Opposed by the Convention. Charter Opposed by the Convention. "We have told them that we were the only convention, according to Baptist precedence, according to the reputed vote upon the resolution offered by Rev. Brooks, which Dr. Boyd said indicated the opposition of the convention to the charter, according to the Bennett resolution, according to the statement and visit of Dr. Booker T. Washington, made at the Armory hall the very night of the day of the supposed split; according to the verdict of the northern baptist and southern Baptist conventions and according to the verdict of the Council of the Federated Churches of America. We have, said and proved that there is but one, only one, National Baptist convention, and it will meet in Muskogee. "The committee has shown that the Boyd convention's seeming opposition to charters is specious, a filmsy pretext, biological and designed to prejudice and mislead the unwary. We have shown that the National Baptist publishing board has chartered the National Church Supply company, all under the control of him who in words utters veneement protests against charters. The committee has also shown the people that if our convention was chartered it was orderly, regular and more nearly and truly Baptist than a chartered board could be. We have shown them that conventions are bigger than boards, that Baptists believe in majority rule, that majority reside in conventions, register their will there as they do and cannot in chartered boards. "On this point the committee has produced and presented the charters of the Northern and Southern Baptist conventions and the express willingness of all their boards to obey the will of their conventions. On the other hand, we have shown the insubordination and selfishness of one of our boards, showing that out of seven in the convention only one, just one, attempted to withdraw and form a board party or a one board convention. The committee has told them while that board's charter shows it to be subject to the national convention. Its rules and usages Dr. Boyd has sworn that it does not belong to nor is it his board, amenable to any convention, but says it belongs to the Baptist conregation. Your committee has informed the people and led them to see the deception and duplicity that this play on words and duplicity. They have been able to show that the word 'denomination' is an abstract thing, a concept, only an intangible, impersonal ideal something that cannot hold or control any property." THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, AUGUST 25, 1917. PLAIN TALK BY CLUBWOMEN. CLEVELAND READY FOR ELKS. EXHIBITS SHOW PROGRESS. Post Oak (Ala.) Fair Made a Glowing Success Through Co-operation. BY ALBON LEWIS HOLSEY. Union Springs, Al.-The two days' fair which was held recently at Post Oak, twelve miles below here, closed with speechmaking by leading white and colored men, who in most serious words emphasized the various problems of food conservation and production. Fully 3,000 white and colored people from all sections of Bullock county attended the meetings and inspected the very striking agricultural and industrial exhibits. The colored women whose work in handicraft and canning was on exhibition testified by their earnestness and enthusiasm that the efforts of Miss N. J. Coleman of the state agricultural extension service and other workers are showing excellent results. Mr. M. E. Ivy, United States demonstration agent for Bullock county, has realized equally satisfactory results among the men and boys. Some very fine live stock and poultry were shown, and the Boys' Pig club had some promising pigs which they are fattening for fall killing. To stimulate interest in the diversification program of farming among Negroes the leading white business men of the county offered $100 in gold for the best exhibits, and they helped by their presence and words of inspiration to encourage greater activity in the rural districts. Dr. W. E. Hinds, state entomologist from the Alabama Polytechnic institute of Auburn (through which the Smith-Lever funds are administered for this state), was one of the principal speakers. Two very impressive addresses were delivered, one by Mayor I. B. Fagin of Union Springs and the other by Hon. R. L. Cope, chairman of the county board of education. Members of a party from Tuskegee institute, including T. M. Campbell, district agent of the state agricultural service for Negroes; G. R. Bridgeforth, director of the agricultural department of the Tuskegee institute; Clement Richardson, assistant director of the academic department, and Albon L. Holsey of the principal's office, were called on for brief addresses. Other speakers were J. L. Thomas of Union Springs and Harry Sims, special agent in charge of extension schools. W. E. McGowan and E. T. Burney of Post Oak deserve special credit for the success of this annual fair. Condemn All Forms of Injustice. Among the resolutions offered by the Northeastern Federation of Women's Clubs at its convention, recently held in Stamford, Conn., were the following: We thank Representative Dallinger for introducing a bill in congress to investigate the East St. Louis massacre, Congressman Dyer for a similar investigation and Sepators Madden and Sherman for the grand stand taken in behalf of our race. We thank Colonel Roosevelt for his outspoken remarks in Carnegie hall. New York city, and also his letter to the New York Times Friday, July 20, and agree with him that government should suppress lawlessness and counter lawlessness also, and we agree with him in denouncing the palliation of the crimes of the East St. Louis rioters. We condemn Samuel Gompers, president of the Federation of Labor, for saying, "The massacre was real democracy in America." If that is labor union's idea of democracy we call it fallacious reasoning. We condemn the jimcrow corner on army registration blanks. We condemn the barring by the administration of colored men from enlisting in any regiment that needs recruiting regardless of race, as there is no law for bidding such. We condemn the exclusion of colored applicants by the administration from the regular government training camp, except the segregated camp. We condemn the national guard of Illinois for aiding the mob in East St. Louis instead of protecting the helpless. We condemn organized labor for denying full fellowship to colored workers and then attacking and murdering them when they secure work by which to live. We condemn disfranchisement by states, also lynching and the permission of it by the national government, especially when the country is waging a war for world democracy. We condemn the unchristian and wicked race prejudice against colored Americans by so many of their white fellow citizens, which is injurious to the strength of the country. We deplore the silence and inactivity with regard to lynching by persons in authority, from the president of the United States down to the mayors of cities. We marvel at the attitude of the president of the United States, who takes official notice of abuses and race discrimination in every part of the civilized world, and yet he absolutely ignores appalling riots and murders of citizens of his own country. This silence raises the question whether President Wilson does not actually approve lynching when the victim is colored. We warn him that continued silence may seriously cripple the efficiency of this nation in the European war. Applicants For Army Fail to Pass Test. The number of registrants for war duty at Petersburg, Va., is said to be about equally divided between the white and colored men. Seventy per cent of the whites are claiming exemption, while the colored are leading in failing to pass the required physical examination. PROMOTER OF GOOD WILL. Governor Bickett of North Carolina Alabama - Governor E. Franklin Orges respect For the Law. Dr. James E. Shepard, president of the National Training school, Durham, N. C., recently sent a telegraphic dispatch to the governors of seventeen states and to nineteen daily papers asking them to use their influence against the lynching of colored people and also to express an opinion on the subject for publication. Among the replies received was the following from Governor Bickett, who says: "I concur without reservation in the sentiments expressed in your telegram. For a mob to kill a mass is the essence of brutality and cowardice. The white people are under a peculiar obligation to refrain from mob violence of any sort against the Negro people of the land. Up to this time there has been no mob violence in the state of North Carolina during the present administration, and I am earnestly endeavoring to promote good feeling between the races and sincerely trust that our people under all circumstances will refrain from taking the law into their own hands. "It is my opinion that the people of North Carolina, white and black, are law abiding and humane. We have been exceptionally free from the riots and disorder that have prevailed in some sections of the country, and I earnestly hope that the people of this state will not only sustain but improve the reputation for decency, peace and respect for law that they now enjoy. "The riots in East St. Louis are simply cumulative evidence that, after all the south is the best place for the black man. In the south the Negro is recognized as a legitimate factor, and there has never been any disposition to interfere with his industrial activities. The south understands the Negro and is ever ready to give him intelligent aid and sympathy. "I see in today's papers that Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, charges that Negroes have been induced in large numbers to leave the south and go to sunny cities in the north and west in order to 'break the back of labor.' It seems to me that it is an opportunity time for the leaders of the Negro race to impress upon their people the truth that the best friends of the Negro are right here in the south and that in many cases those who make systematic efforts to induce the Negro to leave the south know that trouble and danger await him." Lively Time Expected at Grand Lodge Meeting Aug. 26-30. Cleveland, O.-A genuine Buckeye welcome awaits the hundreds of delegates and visitors who will be here to attend the annual session of the grand lodge of Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, which will be held in this city from Aug. 26 to Aug. 30. Local Elks have provided many diversions for the entertainment of the delegates and visitors. While there is much speculation and rivalry about the election of officers for the ensuing year, it is generally believed that Armand W. Scott of Washington will be re-elected as grand exalted ruler. Among the lodges clamoring for the honor of entertaining the 1918 session is Monumental lodge of Baltimore. This lodge is one of the largest in the order, has probably the finest home in the country and sends a large delegation to Cleveland in an effort to capture the next convention. Cuyahoga lodge of Elks and the local temple of Daughter Elks are making great preparations for the entertainment of the convention. The Rev. Riley Woodward of Portsmouth, Va., grand chaplain of the order, will preach the annual sermon at Cory M. E. church, Thirty-fifth street and Scovill avenue, Sunday evening, Aug. 26. A public reception will take place at St. John's A. M. E. church Monday night, Mayor L. Davis, Grand Exalted Ruler Armand W. Scott and City Councilman Thomas W. Fleming will be among the speakers. The first business session will be held at Gray's armory, Bolivar road and Prospect avenue, Tuesday, Aug. 28. A parade will take place in the afternoon, with Charles C. Lancaster as chief marshal. A cabaret show takes place Wednesday night, and a grand ball will wind up the session the following night. VANDERVALL IS OPTIMISTIC. Plenty of Room In New Jersey For Migrants From the South. Commenting on the change of residence of so many colored people from the south to the north and west, Mr. James N. Vandervall, a well known influential and well to do business man of Orange, N. J., says: "The sudden inflow of thousands of southern colored laborers to Newark, the Oranges and New York instead of creating a problem may prove a blessing. "There is room enough on the fertile plains of New Jersey for many thousands who are willing to work. With care and good judgment the colored people who came to this section from the south can make a handsome living on the farm and eventually become large landholders." Information on Food Conservation. A press clipping bureau has been established at Washington in connection with the food conservation movement. Agents of the bureau will keep in touch with the masses of our people through the various annual gatherings of churches and societies and give information on all matters of food conservation. The bureau is in charge of graduates and former students of the Tuskegee (Ala.) institute. BONUSES AND PAY BASED ON MERIT ATTRACT WORKERS Company Wins Loyalty of Men by Recognizing Ability and Service. INSURES LIVES OF ITS MEN Wage Rata Limited by Capability Only, but Cannot Fall Below Fixed Minimum—Workers Promoted From One Class to Another. By recognizing individual effort on the part of its employees and by rewarding them liberally for faithfulness and industry a big machine tool company in Connecticut has succeeded in solving practically all the labor problems incidental] to the management of a large manufacturing plant. So effective is the system adopted by the company that in a trifle over a year it increased its working force from 250 to over 1,400 bands, and that, too, in the highest labor market this country has ever known in the metal working industries. But this was not the only wonder accomplished. By perfecting the plan so that it gave even greater incentive to labor initiative able workers were attracted to the plant and remained there, so that gradually the coming and going of laborers, with the attendant waste, ceased and a permanent working staff of about 1,100 men remained. Moreover, records prove that these 1,100 men turned out more work than the 1,400 employed by the firm at the zenith of its hiring experience. The basis of the system which worked all these reforms in the tool plant is the well established rule that the highest priced man does the best and most work and the short time man causes a direct loss. Thus the elimination of the "hiring and firing" evil in the plant in question resulted, as it usually does, in increased output, decreased spoilage of work and decreased spoilage of tools. Methods Used to Hold Good Men. The company employs four methods to secure and retain the most profitable type of workmen. It has in operation a "maxi-pay" wage plan, a production bonus, a service bonus and an attractive form of insurance. From time to time happily worded pieces of literature are distributed to the workmen to call attention to some phase of co-operation. The "maxi-pay" plan offers full opportunity for advancement along definite lines to those showing ability, provides a wage rate limited only by ability and occupation and advances wages in recognition of ability. The workmen are divided into these classes: Class AA includes sub-foremen and leaders in charge of working gangs of mechanics and, so far as possible, all foremen and shop executives are selected from this class. The minimum rate per hour is 55 cents, but the maximum rate is dependent on ability. Class A includes skilled mechanics of demonstrated ability with a minimum rate of 50 cents per hour and the possibility of a higher maximum rate. Class B includes mechanics of good average ability, and the rate is 45 cents per hour. Mechanics of limited experience are placed in Class C. The rate per hour for this class is 40 cents. Apprentices, both special and regular, are included in Class D. Men from this class upon completing their courses are advanced to the class determined by computing their average efficiency records over the last three months of their apprenticeship. In Class E is found labor of all kinds, skilled or unskilled, which is not directly productive. The minimum rate per hour is 20 cents, but the maximum is dependent upon ability and occupation. In the employment of men of this class preference is given to those who speak and write English and who show qualities which will later warrant advancement. This "maxi-pay" plan has been in successful operation since May 15, 1916. Reward For Skill and Service. A production bonus which was incorporated into the plan on Nov. 1, 1916, provides extra compensation for employees who can beat the standard time set for the turning out of the various pieces. Of course the basis of efficiency varies according to the class rating of the operator. In the lowest class of productive employees, for instance, the basis is set at 75 per cent, and 1 per cent of wages is paid for each per cent of efficiency above 75 per cent. The records of bonuses earned are used as a basis for advancement from one class to another in the "maxi-pay" rating. An employee also gets a bonus amounting to 10 per cent of the weekly wages he earns during the regular hours of operation. **Buys Insurance For Workers.** On Nov. 14, 1916, the company took out group insurance for all workmen who had been six months or more in the employ of the company. It can hardly be said that the success of the system as a whole is due entirely to the technique of the system itself. Back of it lies a wise selection of administrators who have won the confidence of the men.-Industrial Conservation, New York. CITIES THAT NOURISH INDUSTRIES THRIVE Citizens Should Take Interest In Politics to Insure Encouragement of Manufacturing Enterprises. "The thriving industrial cities of today are those that seek to do the best for their industries," says a prominent Milwaukee manufacturer. "Even the practice of giving factory sites free to manufacturers as an incentive to locate in the smaller communities is still in vogue. "There are many towns well located with respect to railroad facilities and waterways, and also convenient to good labor markets, that are seeking industries, yet, despite this competition for industries, there are many cities that are actually hostile to them. Some are unwittingly driving away the support of the populace. It can only result in industries leaving, and if industries continue to leave what is going to become of the population? "In my opinion, it rests with the people. The people themselves should take a greater interest in their town councils, in their state legislatures and in their national government. Then much of the unfair, unreasonable class legislation could be prevented. As it is, the professional politicians often have full sway." -Industrial Conservation, New York. BRITISH INDUSTRIAL ALLIANCE Employers and Employees Form Novel Co-operative Body. What is known as the National Alliance of Employers and Employed has been organized in England. The object as expressed in the constitution adopted at a meeting held at 64 Victoria street, London, S. W., on May 22, is "to secure the active co-operation of employers and employed in the discussion and treatment of questions affecting labor and employment, with the special object of securing that these should be dealt with before they have reached the stage of acute controversy." A resolution was passed urging the government to, abstain in future from action affecting the conditions of manufacture and employment until the joint advice of employers and employed has been obtained and from interference in industrial disputes until every form of direct negotiation has been exhausted. Besides labor representatives the following were among those present: Sir K. Crossley, Crossley Brothers, limited; Sir V. Caillard, Vickers, limited; Sir A. Firth, Firth & Sons, limited; F. Gilbertson, Pontardave Steel, Timplate and Galvanizing works, and Sir Robert Hardfield, Hadfields, limited—Industrial Conservation, New York. REST PERIODS CONSERVE ENERGY OF WORKERS Permitting Laborers to Become Fatigued Cuts Down Production. Employers of labor have found that output may be increased, not by working a man when he is tired, but by giving him an opportunity to rest. An hour's rest for the workers may literally be worth far more to the employer than the same time spent in labor. At a large munitions factory men engaged in the heavy work of molding are required by the management to rest fifteen minutes in every hour of work. The manager was satisfied that this was an arrangement good for the men and for the output. But the men objected to this long spell of rest in each hour because the work was piecework and they thought the production would be lessened by it. The manager accordingly found it necessary to set a foreman to watch and to make the hourly rest compulsory. When this was done the output per hour was found to be actually increased. Proper attention to rest will prevent a large part of diminished capacity from industrial fatigue and prevent waste due to imperfect work.-Industrial Conservation, New York. BRIDGING THE CHASM. Human Note In Industry Bringing Employees and Employers Together ployer and Employee Together. Labor and capital are naturally partners, not enemies. Friction between these two important elements in industry is unnatural, but the personal relation in industry, entered into in the right spirit, gives the greatest promise of bridging the yawning chasm which has opened up between employer and employee.—Industrial Conservation, New York. Industry's Big Gain. Value of manufactures in the United States was $24,246,323,000 in 1914, the United States census bureau reports in announcing its preliminary statement of general results of the latest census of manufactures. In the 6th year period from 1900, the date of the previous census, manufactures increased $3,574,271,000 in value, or 17.3 per cent. In the period since the 1914 census manufactures have made rapid increases, but no estimate of their value for this year has been made by the census bureau. - Industrial Conservation, New York. Came to Aid of Government. A very large part of the credit for the success of the $2,000,000,000 liberty bond issue is due to the manufacturers of the country, who not only subscribed liberally themselves, but in many cases made it possible for employees to subscribe without any strain.—Industrial Conservation, New York. GERMANY PLANS FIGHT TO CAPTURE TRADE AFTER WAR Enemy Mobilizing Industrial Resources For World Commerce War BUILDS MERCHANT SHIPS Going Over to Peace Commission Formed to Devise Means to Win Back Export, Trade Lost Through Conflict of Arms. Contrary to the general belief, Germany, during the past three years, has not confined her shipbuilding activities to the turning out of submarines and other war vessels. Since the outbreak of the war twenty-eight new freight steamers have been constructed in her shipyards. It is also worthy of note that German steamship offices throughout the neutral world are being kept open for the immediate resumption of business and that recently the clerical staffs in these offices have been restored to full from half pay. To the American manufacturer and his employee there is a world of significance in these correlated statements of fact, indicating, as they do, the extent to which Germany is prepared for the campaign of industrial reconstruction and the wholesale conquest of world trade markets, which she plans to undertake the moment peace has been restored. Germany is making ready for the economic war just as carefully as she prepared for the present conflict. Just as every man, automobile, horse and factory in the empire was indexed and given place in mobilization for actual war, so have certain men, industries and raw materials been indexed today and given their place in the mobilization for German export trade with the coming of peace. Other Nations May Follow Suit. Nor is it to be supposed that the other big nations will be behindhand in bidding for world trade after the war to make up for the tremendous trade losses sustained through the conflict. Under pressure of national danger the governments in these countries have come into closer touch with their manufacturers and, having learned the principles of industrial mobilization, are in a position to aid those manufacturers in times of peace. Germany's plans for the trade war may go astray just as some of the features of her military program did during the past three years, but a reital of the active steps she has taken toward economic and industrial reconstruction will serve to emphasize the need in this country for industrial economy and efficiency unhampered by strife between wage earners and wage payers and unwise business laws. To begin with, Germany is not on the verge of bankruptcy. She has no huge floating international debt, and her war loans are secured several times over. She has not put such a pressure on her mines that they will be overweakened when peace comes, nor has she exhausted her other resources. Unless conditions are very radically changed by the outcome of the war she will be in an excellent position to wage the fight for the recovery of the $5,000,000,000 worth of world trade she lost through the war. Plenty of Goods For Export. When the war ends, Germany will have plenty of goods in a few lines in which she enjoys a superabundance of raw materials to throw back upon the world markets, and she will be able to sell these goods at a very low price. There are factories in Elberfeld, Remschied, Frankfurt-am-Main and Dusseldorf today turning out a steady flow, not for the purposes of war, but for peace. Germany's preparations for the reconstruction period are characteristically thorough. The imperial government has appointed "The Friedensbergan Kommission," literally the going over to peace commission, which is headed by Senator Strainer of the Hamburg parliament. Associated with the latter are the most prominent German captains of industry and bankers. The plans so far evolved by the Stahmer commission for the recapturing of Germany's $5,000,000,000 worth of lost trade are based upon the principle that when peace comes Germany must export cargoes of goods that far exceed in value the class of goods she imports. That will enable her to establish a substantial trade balance. In her export activities she will lay most stress on lines such as chemicals, dyestuffs, hardware, cutlery and "kickknacks," for her available raw materials favor the abundant production of those articles. They will have to import copper, nickel, cotton and animal fats and American machinery. On any other commodity it is almost a certainty that the Stahmer committee will recommend prohibitive import duties, especially on manufactured articles. If Germany is to compete successfully for world trade, however, it is vitally essential that costs be kept down in the manufacture of the chosen articles of export. The imperial order has gone forth that the exporter's burden be lightened, and all sorts of concessions will be made him in the form of preferential railroad rates and cheap inland waterway toils and ocean freight rates. - Industrial Conservation, New York.