The Gazette

IN UNION IS STRENGTH. THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR. FRESH O Written by 'The Old Reliable Througho What Our People Are D Personal, Social, Loc cal—Marriage THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR. No. 25. 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 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, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments—to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 20 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. Busy! — Again we appeal to our people in Sandusky to read The Gazette its circulation here can and must trebled. Remember its editor, H. H. C. Smith, is the greatest representative of the race we have; one who speaks just what he knows is right and should be remembered as suicid. Count his deeds (for the race) also with those of others and you will be the greatness of the man. Do it "fall out" with him because he speaks the truth, but love him, for the truth will make you free! For 25 years have been reading "The Old Religious Gazette and find it alright and its editor first-class! Order the paper free Rev. Geo. D. Smith, the local agent. CADIZ—Mr. Byron Christian of Scio, was transacting business here last week.—The date for quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church will be announced soon.—Noble B. Mason is spending several weeks at Columbus.—Earl Linder and Chester West of Steubenville visited their parents.—The churches and schools have been closed for two weeks on account of the quarantine.—Mr. Melvin Christian has charge of 'all the sale of the Columbus and Pittsburg daily papers.—The following of our young men are in class 'A' and may be called to military service: Ivan and Charles Davis, Algernon Carter, Dwight and Noble B. Mason, Walter Cooper, and Frank Christian of Hopedale. GREENFIELD—Rev. Fant of Chillicothe preached two able sermons here, Sunday.—Mr. Levi Stewart or Wilmington, enroute to Chillcothe to attend a sister's funeral, spent a few days with his father-in-law, Jas. A. McCray.—Rev. J. L. E. Burr's youngest child is ill.—Dame runner, says, J. J. Richardson is getting tired of bachelor life and that something will take place soon. Well, he is a good fellow.—Visitors' day, Sunday, at Shiloh Baptist church. An excellent program will be rendered. —Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nickell were entertained, Wednesday evening, by Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Lair. All had a pleasant evening. —Mr. Wm. Seward and Jas. Harper were here, Saturday. —Miss Laura Selden here, Mrs. Albert. Banks spent Monday in Lyndon with the former's mother.—Tell your friends to give the local agent their order for The Gazette. ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Mr. Louis Wooten, one of our oldest residents died last Tuesday evening. Funeral from the church, services being conducted by Rev. C. W. Greene, Mr. Lon Wooten, Mr. and Mrs. Fulton of Columbus, Mrs. Robertson of Washington C. H., Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Wooten of Barnesville and Mr. Joe Green of Zanesville attended.—M. S. Price, who has been ill for 18 months, left, Monday, for the sanitarium at Battle Creek, Mich., accompanied by Rev. C. W. Greene.—Mr. Ross Skinner joined the A. M. E. church, Sunday. The Allen C. E. L. is progressing nicely, Mr. John Younger, pres. Mr. Smith Washington is again convalescent.—Mr. Bonnie Jordan is seriously ill. Pneumonia. Mr. Sandy Lewis is also quite ill.—Mr. Thomas Davis has a grippie.—Mr. Thosel Noel is better. She sustained a sprained ankle while sled-riding. YOUNGSTOWN — Buckeye lodge meeting was well attended. A committee was appointed to arrange for its annual reception in March.—Mrs. Rachel Strothers of Pittsburg spent a week with Mrs. Marietta Alton.—S. M. Fagan has rheumatism and his wife is not well.—Jos. Williams is in the hospital.—The Smart Set Co. headed by Whitney & Tutt, arrived from Pittsburg, Sunday, for the week. Mrs. Daisy Martin, a member of the company, is the guest of Mrs. Phil Newton.—J. R. Holnes is ill.—Miss Smith of Cambridge, Pa., is visiting her sister, Mrs. L. Stewart.—Mrs. Addie B. Stewart is still ill. Her many friends are hoping for her speedy recovery.—Mrs. Alice Hogan entertained the Elite club. Monday evening.—The New Era club met at Mrs. Lester Downing's. Friday afternoon.—Tell your friends that the only way to get all the reliable race news, each week, is to give the local agent their order for a copy of The Gazette. SANDUSKY — Mrs. H. Clark, who visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. Wallace, has returned to Hamilton. — Mrs. J. R. Davis' hand is much better. —The churches and S. S. were poorly attended, Sunday. Severely cold weather. Our pastors are preparing to make (before Lent) a local survey to learn how many church-going people and those who do not attend any church. The purpose of the survey is obvious.—The Second-Baptist church needs a furnace which must be installed in the spring. Members, "get THE insay! —Again we appeal to our people in Sandusky to read The Gazette Its circulation here can and must be trebled. Remember its editor, Hop H. C. Smith, is the greatest representative of the race we have; one who speaks just what he knows is right, and should be remembered as such. Count his deeds (for the race) along with those of others and you will see the greatness of the man. Do not "fall out" with him because he speaks the truth, but love him, for the truth will make you free! For 25 years I have been reading "The Old Reliable" Gazette and find it aright and its editor first-class! Order the paper from Rev. Geo. D. Smith, the local agent. Walter Damrosch, N. Y. City's Leading Director of Orchestras, Says Indian and Negro Music NGE "OURS" In connection with Walter Damroos's visit to this city, last Friday night, it is interesting to note his reply to an interviewer who not long ago asked him if the future "American" music would stem from Negro or Indian melodies. He said: "The Negro music isn't ours; it is the Negro's. It has become a popular form of musical expression, and is interesting, but it is not ours. Nothing more characteristic of a race exists, but it is characteristic of the Negro, not the American, race. Through it a primitive people poured out its emotions with wonderful expressiveness. It no more expresses our emotions, though, than the Indian music does. Dyaskal has done wonderfully well with it in his 'New World' symphony, but it is a behi-nenian view of Ameri-cient, and therefore not American curie. Our popular music has been, strongly influenced by Irish music. Their jigs and works have had as real an effect upon our people as have the deeper German harmonies and more poetic melodies. The music of many other nations has excited similar influences on us and we have gained by them, but we have not fashioned cat of all of them, as a music which can properly be called "Ameri-ricans." "The Indian (the original American, too) does not represent us, and the early European settlers here had to music—they suppressed all music. The real American music, when it comes—and probably it is building now—may be a composite of many national musical expressions, but it must represent an American philosophy of life, and that can only be crystallized in time." The foregoing is interesting to say the least. THIS WILL CAUSE TROUBLE If the Facts Are Officially Reported To Washington, D.C. Tacoma, Wash.—Speaking of military social affairs prompts the writer to make note of the military function of 1918—the mutinee dance and dinner given at Camp Lewis, on New Year's Day by the three Afro-American companies, the 69th, 50th, and 51st, of the 166th Dept. Brigade, complimentary to Tacoma and Seattle friends, who have extended social courtesies to them. The white soldiers were spectators, only the white Excutants and their wives being permitted to dance—enjoy "social equality"; the Excutants danced with our girls and their wives danced with our boys. The day was full of joy and precedent, which reached its climax as all filen into the mess halls where tables groomed with all the good things prosecute in the markets. The officers and their wives also dined with the guests and our soldiers. They followed after dinner songs, speeches and recitations. WILBERFORCE'S CLAIM Bishop Shaffer is calling attention to Founders' Day and asking liberal support for Wilberforce. Wilberforce should have a supreme claim upon us—not only upon the A. M. E.'s but upon every Negro and not only every Negro, but every citizen. The great migration of our people to the North has made increasingly necessary for Wilberforce to extend herself. A first-class Negro university in the North is common talk today. Wilberforce 'is the' logical school. Its honorable history; its salient work today, its representative character and its location make it salient opportunity for us all. We trust all will rally to Wilberforce on Founders' Day. —Philadelphia (Pa.) Christian Recorder. ESTAELISHED AUGUST 25,1834 And issued every Week on Time Since G.O.P.LAWMAKERS HOLD CONFERENCE Name Members of Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. Will Direct Party Activities in All Districts of United Washington--Republican senators and representatives in joint conference named the members of the Republican congressional campaign committee. Nominations for membership from some states, including those without Republican representation in congress, were not ready and they will be passed upon later by the committee itself. The members, all being of the house, except Senators Fall and Surferland, are: California, Julius Kain; Colorado Charles Tinkerlage; Cummings, Joe John Q. Tilson; Idaho, Addison F. S Smith; Hippos, Martin E. Meddian Indiana, William R. Wood; Iowa Frank P. Wood; Kansas, Philip P. Campbell, Kenneth; Calif. Powers, Maine, John A. Dobert; Maryland, Frederick N. Zeblin; Massachusetts, Samuel F. Winslow; Michigan, Frank D. Scott; Minnesota, Haley Snoverman; Missouri, Leroy C. Dyer, Montana, Joanne T. Riebel, Nebraska, Moos K. Kniew, N. Nora, E. E. Roberts; New Jersey, Hire Heward J. Wasson; No. 1, 2, 3, 4, William J. Brownning; New York, Sorenson Albert B. Fall; New York, Norr Gould; Ohio, Silene L. Owens, homa, Dick T. Mergeri, L. L. Cobas olas J. L. Bennett; Pine, Angela, S. Graham; Rhode Island, Andrew Kennedy; South Dakota, Christi Dillon; Tennessee, Howard W. tin, Vermont, Frank L. Greene, Virginia, C. Cromie Steam; Washington, Lindley H. Hindley, W. W. Senator Howard S. Steam, Quinn, John J. Esh; Worcester, W. W. Mondell. This organization will direct the candidate activities in an effort to shade districts in an effort to ward the political control of the board the political power in November. KEEPS KAISER IN DARK KEEPS KAISER IN DARK Baker. However, Says Army in France Grows. Washington. The war department has a definite program for training American troops to France that is working out with exploded results. Substantial progress has been made in increasing the flow of light men to the other side. This ammunition was made by Secretary Baker. The secretary, however, declined to discuss the statement created to President Wilson that by June the United States will have "over three" twice as many men as originally planned for that time. "The program of the war department," said Mr. Baker, "has been a constantly developing one and many difficulties and limitations have been removed or overcome. President discusses numbers of men in France on anticipated to be in France at any particular time, but we have made substantial progress." The policy of the administration has been not to disclose the number of American troops in France, the theory being that this would constitute information of real value to the energy, and there is no good reason why the United States government should give the kaiser such information in advance. Indianapolis.-A universal seven-hour day during the war, instead of present spasmodic suspension of industries to conserve coal and relieve railroad congestion, was suggested by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, in a speech at the convention of the United Mine Workers. The head of the A. F. of L. prefaced his declaration for a seven-hour day with a defense of those in high governmental stations who may have made mistakes. They were prompted, he said, by the patriotic purpose of winning the war, and he maintained that to think that the great transition from peace to war could have been made without mistakes was asking the impossible. GAZETTE COL. CHARLES YOUNG. 6 CAPE GREEN WAY SEEK RETIREMENT N. DENY WOOD (Dear) ALTLEP ARMY COMMISSIONS. Crown Troops in April, 1814. A number of officers have been sent to Camp Stirling, and will continue for some time to reside there, after they leave the fifth Infantry and the North Cavalry. Cavalry both old and new, and with long and hard records in the history of the American army. THE MAYOR STOPPED THE FILM Robert Glass, the prompt manager in which the manager of a theater one probilit the exhibition of the object's photo play, "The birth of a Nation," was shown recently by Mayoan L. Mullen of this city, who instructed the promoter of the Broadway Theatre to cue the central entered into to present the film, Mayor Harry L. Davis of Cleveland, O., could have done the save this last year—but didn't. President, N.Y., The Appellate Division has handed down a decision rewriting the trial notice of Refus L. Perry, that good, moral judgment can report of N.Y. Perry (E. C. Gilham, who declared bimargulity of forgery in a bimortgage case). The court's decision substantiates as a penalty suspension for a practice for two years because of Perry's previous good record. Attorney Perry is the only African-American law, having accepted that faith since years ago. He is a man of courage, obedient and exceptional ability. GARFIELD PENS NOTE TO BUCKEYE SENATOR GARFIELD PENS NOTE TO BUCKEYE SENATOR Replies to Ohioan's Complaints in Connection With Curtailment Order. Washing on. Concerning the transportation and fuel situation in Ohio and the complaints which have come in connection with the order curtailing industry. Find Administrator Garfield sent the following letter to Senator Donovan: My dear Senator, I come upon: I have looked over the telegrams from your constituents and appreciate the difficult position in which you are placed by my order of Jan. 17. Believing that there was urgent necessity to suspend for a short period all industry not absolutely necessary for immediate food production and war necessities, I had the choice of collecting non-essential industries and carrying a preparatory order to them or to issue an order closing two weeks, and then reshaping by special exception the necessary facilities. This operation is now practically complete. Such forms as the various governmental departments designed to have received notice of such exception. This by no means in order all war work. The Varbier tarrier and heads of departments around much of their work could probably be delayed in the interest of insuring shipping facilities for material already manufactured. Honorious with orders for the United States government have found these issues without such exemption. "You are aware, senator, that a very important part of the saving expected will come from the restraint of output and, hence, of the freight put on the railroads. Therefore, the small showing for coal saving is not a literal reason for exemption. "It seems evident from the reports we are receiving that the coal saving, economics, and the assistance of the railroads is likely to give the vital interest of the country all of the relief expected." Porshing Says. Sammies Are Neither Drunk Nor Immoral. * Washington, Noelir "drunkenness nor morality is permitted among the soldiers of the American expeditionary force in France. A report to this from Gen. Porchling himself has been forwarded to Gov. Copier of Kansas by Secretary of War Lloyd G.* * Gen. Porchling's report reads:* * "Never has a singular body of men led to clean lives as our American soldiers in France. They have enforced this war with the highest devotion to duty and with no other idea than to perform these duties in the most patient manner possible. They fully realize their obligation to their own people, their friends and the country." * "The child in the use of strong drink and protected by stringent regulations ammunt sexual evils and supported by their own moral courage, their good behavior is the subject of most invariable comment, especially as our cities." * "American mothers may rest assured that you are a credit to them and to the nation, and they may well be forward to the proud day when on the battlefield these splendid men will shed a new luster on American manhood." BANDITS STEAL $60,000 Detroit. Three bandits entered the jewelry store of Ralph Dewey in the downtown district, in broad daylight, bound the manager and escaped with valuables said to be worth $90,000. A clerk who usually reported for duty at the store before 9 a.m. received a telephone call at his home in the morning telling him that he need not go to work until noon. The clerk told the police he thought the store would be opened at noon to obey a trial administration order. No customers were in the store when the bandits entered. W. R. Grainger, the manager, quickly was overpowered, beaten and dragged into a back room. When detectives reached the store Grainger was bleeding from a cut on his head. He declared that he wadized from the beating but that he was able to release himself a few minutes after he resisted consciousness. The Charge Against Them is Criminal Libel, Preferred by the Editor of "The Gazette" Admitted to $500 Bail Each - The Outlook Mighty Black For Them. A witness in the case of the editor of "The Gazette against Rev. Charles H. Craile, pastor of Mr. Grayon Baptist church, this city, and Ormond A. Fortes, minister for the M. A. Hon. C. Lester New, Elise. Monday afternoon in four court rooms in the emperor IIIb, the honoree that "the color is" would be thrown out of court or "unimpaired" that fed a vain hope in question individuals, was implicated with a "charge" with the adjutant of the oppose the plaintiff in the case. All forced homicide disappearances and in its place appeared unjustful state that was almost pain- And when the hearing was formally opened by Squire Tanner and postponement was acted by Crabble that force, attorney and the editor, of the Gazette upon going into the chamber immediately, "reatest obedience" was asked as a basis for their request for a further postponement. The editor remarked that it would be worth enough for them in the court room, and then suggested time the hearer and the following treason) information. To this team they replied to be "held a certain amount of placer copy." Then the court suggested it. They next day, the following day, Tuesday, the suggestion, their attorney, agreed: "We're not ready." Crabble attention to the fact that they would not classify prior evidence giving their first postponement the center told him that that EXPERIENCE AS A SOLDIER Is What is Needed for the Southern Afro-American to Help "Solve the Problem in the South" For it was in recognition of (the recent segment) emigration in all probability, that the American Federation of Labor at Buffalo took the most unexpected action of its career. Very little note has been paid to that action the speech of President Wilson overshadowed it in immediate news value. But the fact is that the American Federation of Labor ordered the organization of the Negro into unions and the taller recognition of unions already formed. In a word, the Federation admitted the Negro to the fellowship of labor. At one jump obstacle that had seemed insurmountable was passed. And the war is indirectly, was the accomplishing factor. Once he (the Afro-American) has demonstrated his sense of responsibility as a citizen, his loyalty and force, he can never return to the place he has held of economic neglect. He becomes automatically a citizen in fact, not by enactment, only as many of his race have of course become indisputably, but as the rank and file have not become (Chicago) Daily Record-Herald. Given Positions As Clerks for the First Time in the "Mound City". St. Louis, Mo.—It is reported on the most reliable authority that the bond for Dr. Lorey N. Bunny, accounting to the stipulations sum of $8,990 will be lowered shortly. Rev. Chas. Bunny of Cleveland, father of Dr. Bunny, was in the city last week.—The Lacoche Gas Light Company of St. Louis, one of the largest corporations in the west, barely employed a clerk, a son of Dr. Caston, one of our prominent physicians. The local offices of the express companies have given employment to a number of our chauffeurs, lately—by Dr. S. Short is a clerk in the U. S. A. Quaternmasters department here, receive employed. He is the first African-American to be given a church there. 75,697 HAVE BEEN DRAFTED. More of Our Men Proportionately Than Whites Called to the Service Washington, D. C.—Provost Marshal General Crowder has announced that our registrants in the draft 'aggrigated' 753,628, or nearly 8 per cent of the total registration of 9,556,508. Of these 208,953, or 28 per cent have been called by the draft boards and 75,697 certified for service. Out of every 100 Afro-Americans called 26 were certified for service and 64 were rejected, exempted or discharged. Out of every 100 whites called 25 were certified and 75 rejected, exempted or discharged. The draft boards in the south are mainly responsible for this 'inequival D. C. FERREY READ. Mr. David C. C. is a pioneer engineer of Louisville, Kentucky, twenty years ago, when it was known a city of thick flour. A small mill soon well for many years was built, where the annual to be held is the annual, a celebration of the Gazette, in old and new of the office. Mr. C. C. is the judge and a shareholder of the office, and a shareholder of the office, of the city, at one time being a director of the Gazette. The owner of one of the offices and office building, the owner of valuable land from and around Louisville property, also A. Yellow, resident, Arthur, and daughter, Ruth. August F. Foster, and him and have the opportunity of many friends in the city. Funeral service will be held on the North Campus and Temple, Calhoun, once in and Washington store in Louisville, where was a pioneer employer and an employer for thirty years. ANOTHER MAYOR-STOPS FILM Milton Park, N. Y. - L. L. Lomas Van Emanuel, W. W. W. - has ordered the suppression of a life theater out of the district film, "The Birth of a National Theater it would increase the number of actors in the pilot. The number of actors in the pilot. The number of actors in the pilot. O. O. should have done last year. INTRODUCES HIS FIRST BILLS. Albert, N. Y. H. H. Edward A. Johnson, the first African-American man of the N. Y. State Ave. Park, paid two bills on January 21. The C. C. employs it a tithe time the country is in a medical promises in any hospital supported by pay dues. The other work pays officers and sailors to take on all of the duties. It is honorable both to receive the general support of the legislators. demy, The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY One Year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... 1.60 Three Months ..... 5.0 Subscribers are requested to remit postoffice money order or reg- istered letter Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter. Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Blackstone Bullding, 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 est ablish its rank as one of the NEWS IEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 300,000 in Ohio. 25,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1918 It is real encouraging to notice that the number of mayors in other than Ohio cities that find it possible to stop the miserable film, "The Birth of a Nation," from showing in their towns. The Christian Recorder asks: "Will the U. S. uphold Jim-Crowism?" We very much fear so, brother, since "the South is in the saddle" at Washington and "jim-enowism" is one of the strongest elements of its miserable prejudice against the race. --- The editor of Charlotte (N. C.) Star of Zion says "the execution of the thirteenth members of the Twenty-fourth Infantry" was "army rules and discipline—not prejudice." Hanging, and not shooting those soldiers as has been the rule in every army on the face of the globe almost since the beginning of time, does look as if there was a "mighty" strong element of prejudice somewhere in that "unfortunate incident." Stop it, brother! Phil H. Brown, an Ohio "boy," editor of the Hopkinsville (Ky.) Saturday News, has driven from position the principal of the Madisonville, Ky. colored school, one C. C. Wakefield by exposing the latter's efforts to have a girl of the race meet a white man in a hotel at Hopkinsville. May the Lord bless you, Phil! More power to your kind of members of the race You are a credit to your native state and "The Old Reliable" Gazette for which you did your first newspaper work. Reference to our local columns will enable our readers to learn how a Cleveland Jew has successfully invoked the aid of our Ohio Civil Rights law to get justice for a refusal to permit him to enjoy the benefits of a local public dancing school or academy. Members of the other race have repeatedly done the same thing in the case of our Ohio Mob Violence or Anti-Lynching law, during the past twenty years, and others will undoubtedly do likewise. Good! Let our people go into the courts oftener in defense of their civil rights and privileges. Be MEN and WOMEN! Full fledged American citizens. Ohio is a railroad state. It is the gateway through which he cast and west trade of the United States must pass. Its cities, factories, farms and mines produce enormous freights. It has many thousands of railroad employees. It is full of machine shops and terminals. Its people hold enormous quantities of railroad bonds and stocks. South Carolina is anything but a railroad state. Its trackage is small. Its freight is limited. Its people are not employed by railroads nor are they interested in them. Yet Senator Smith of South Carolina, a man who has made no study of railroads or railroad commerce was was made chairman of the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce. He was made chairman over Senator Pomerene, an older member of the committee, a man from the great railroad state of Ohio, and who had given railroad problems considerable study. There was only one reason for this. It was necessary to set Pomerene aside in order that the South might keep, its sectional strangle-hold on governmental power. OHIO THE JONAH. Ohio is one of the principal coal states of the union. It has had about the worst coal famine of any of the states. Ohio is also a sugar refining state, although that is not generally known. For example, one firm alone, the Toledo Sugar Company, turns out more than 20,000,000 pounds of beet sugar, the beets coming principally from Ohio, Michigan and Indiana. Yet Toledo and Ohio had a prolonged sugar famine! Toledo grocers claim that sugar is sold to consumers in unlimited quantities in cities in other states. They claim advertisements offering sugar in 100 pound lots appear in western newspapers. It is, of course, the result of accident, no one claims that there is a conspiracy against Ohio. Yet these supermen that are now setting aside the laws of nature and of supply and demand are so running things that Ohio is always getting the bad end of it. In addition, it has to admit responsibility for Roan, Garfield, Johnson and Baird. It will be fine when the war, with all its harrors, is gone. LOYALTY EVER Every citizen should be deeply impressed with his obligation to do his best, whatever his walk in life and whatever his occupation, assuming it to be legitimate. Loyalty is just as important in the furrow or in the forest as it is in the trenches. In a recent address to the officers and employees of the railroads, Secretary McAdoo said that "the government having assumed possession and control of the railroads for the period of the present war with Germany it becomes more than ever obligatory upon every officer and employee to apply himself with unserved energy and unquestioned loyalty to his work." This is an unfortunate expression, and, if the idea should be generally accepted, it would tend to make men in private employment less appreciative of the importance of faithful work. Railroad employees are under no greater obligation to apply themselves now than they were before the government assumed control. The emergency is no greater now then it was before. It was and still is every railroad employee's duty to devote the best there is in him to the task of moving traffic as promptly and as speedily as possible. It is the duty of every man, in either private or public employment, to make every moment of time and every pound of effort produce the best results for the strength of the nation at a time when all that nation's strength is needed for self preservation. TO STOP EMIGRATION Our readers will remember the frantic appeals, last year, that were sent from the South to the government at Washington, D. C., to stop the emigration of our people to the North, and how The Gazette predicted at the time that some way would eventually be found to stop it, if possible, because "the South was in the saddle" at Washington, and the appeals would be harkened to just as soon as a way was found to do so. Well, here it is at last. The following despatch to the daily newspapers of the country announces the initial step in that direction: Washington, Jan. 22. -Peremptory directions to many large industrial concerns to ease widespread advertising for help which was thought to be unsettling the labor supply and working hardship on individuals who answered the advertisements, have been sent out by the department of labor. This action became known today after a delegation of Virginia truck farmers told Assistant Secretary Post they stood to lose one million bushels of potatoes by inability to compete with industrial concerns attracting men to the cities. They exhibited a large number of advertisements in proof of their contention. It will be noticed that reference to the North is conspicuous because of its absence, but all know where practically all of the "large industrial concerns" in this country are located. While this will undoubtedly have its influence just as the great prosperity of the South, today, will also have, both are not going to stop the emigration because they do not remove the causes of it, and because too many thousands of our people who came from the South in the last year and a half are doing better than they ever did and will write back home to tell of better treatment in about every way than it is possible for our people to get in that section of this country. WAR RISK INSURANCE. Washington, D. C.—To safeguard America's gallant soldiers and sailors and their families, it is imperative that our fighting forces avail themselves of the full privileges conferred by the Military and Naval Insurance Act. For his own benefit and for the benefit of his family, every enlisted man and officer in the Army and Navy should take the full $10,000 of insurance. Insurance of almost $3,000,000 has already been applied for, but this great total is only a beginning. America's Army and Navy should be 100 per cent insured. The necessity of prompt application can not be emphasized too strongly. Persons in service before October 15, 1917, must apply on or before February 12, 1918. Those who joined after October 15, 1917, have 120 days from the date of enlistment in which to apply. All that is needed now is vigorous publicity to speed up applications before February 2. Everybody can help in this. 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 is a law of nature."— John Stuart Mill. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OH 10. JANUARY 26, 1918 DOINGS OF THE RACE Pennsylvania Afro-Americans are recognized as civil rights law and with hope they will Judge Jos. A. McConnell, of Buffalo, N. Y., fined a Greek "movie" repriector for drawing a color-line. The N. Y., Court of Appeals has decided that a saloon is not "a place of accommodation." It's different in Ohio. For the first time in the history of Amherst College John B. Garrett, an Afro-American student, has been elected vice president of the senior class. Feindand Q. Morton, N. Y., city assistant district attorney, has had his salary raised to $4000. He is chief of the United Colored Democracy of that city. A police census gives the population of Washington, D. C., as 335,000, and places our portion of it at 102,000. Afro-American females exceed the males by 9,234. Suits aggregating more than $700,000 have been filed against the city of East St. Louis, Ill. for damage caused by the massacre and riot. The treasury of the city is now empty and it is facing bankruptcy. Wm. H. Jackson, an assistant doorkeeper at the Rhode Island General Assembly, hails from Newport, and does George Seacorf, the only Afro-American page of the House of Representatives of that state. Captain Samuel B. Hart, for ten years sanitary inspector for the city government of Philadelphia, Pa., has been appointed as chief sanitary inspector with the rank of first lieutenant, at the aviation cantonment at Camp Beauregard, Alexandria, La. Benj. Bannaker made the first clock in America. It run 20 years. Also the first almanac in America. Also selected the site of the White House. Black men studied astronomy many centuries before Christ. Rested about 600 years. Rest now going on, Getting restless! Taught Moses, the world's greatest law maker. Black men were the world's first embalmers. Black men were the world's first builders; also the world's first rulers. —Fx. Afro-Americans own approximately 20,000 acres of land or an area equaling the combined territory of New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, as well as other property valued at $1,000,000,000, according to Moorfield Storey, (white), the great Boston lawyer. Twenty-five Afro-American workers employed in the Pittsburgh Model Engine Co., taken over by the government January 1st, for the manufacture of engines for aeroplanes, walked out when an offending "jim-crow" sign was not removed from the toilet rooms after 26 hours notice had been given. "Baby Jim" Simmons, the largest man of the race, died in Philadelphia recently. He weighed 20 pounds and an entire freight car was necessary to transport his body to his home in Texas. Simmons was 37 years old, and is survived by a wife and two children. He made a good living for his family by exhibiting himself at side shows. "The Negro has practically no rights here, (in the south). But he is here and the only salvation for this part is to let him take the country as they breed very rapidly and are more thrifty than the whites of the old breed, and in another fifty years will crowd them out. Then the Negro will come to his own rights but not until then—Dr. A. W. Chamberlain, (white), of Virginia. Brigadier General George H. Harries will command the 372nd Brigade, men of our National Guard units of season, with Ninth Illinois Regiment, the Fifteenth York Regiment, the First Separate District (District of Columbia), the Ninth Battalion, and three detached companies, one from Maryland, one from Tennessee and one from Massachusetts. They are at Camp Stuart, Newport News, Va., and will sail for some foreign port soon. Gen. Harries is a real friend of the race. OUR OHIO BANK PAYS A DIVIDEND. Toledo, O.—The Star Building and Loan Association, Ohio's only Afro-American banking institution, paid its first dividend, January 16. This institution was organized in 1913 and has been gradually forging to the front. Its officers, directors and stockholders include some of our most prominent citizens of this city. It has an authorized capital stock of $100,000. Over $10,000 of this has already been subscribed. Both races are represented among its patrons. At its annual meeting, recently, the following officers were elected: Elvin B. Wanzo, pres.; Marion E. Author, vice press; John Rochester, sec.; Giles Davis, treas.; B. Harrison Fisher, atty. Let the good work go on. This is only one of many evidences of race progress—Three years ago our local population was 3000. Now it is between 8 and 10,000. When our people from the south first began to immigrate to this city, the doors of industries were practically closed to them. Then only a very few factories that employed them. Their labor was not wanted. Then came the World War and resultant demand for help. Now, Afro-Americans are employed in almost every factory in the city. Many of them own their homes and a number are buying—Mrs. Anne Lee Gay has returned from a visit with her son, Prof. Cornelius Sawyer, in St. Louis, Mo.—Tell your friends and acquaintances to give the local agent of "The Old Reliable" Gazette their order for this paper and get a copy every week. Subscribe Now! OHIO NEWS CUT TO THE QUICK Hawks are killing many quail in Marion county. Walter Hatfield of London died of gunshot wounds in France. At Dayton Gustave Mielle, 42, shot and killed his wife and himself. William McGraner, 9, was scalded to death in a brick plant at Athens. Fuel shortage at Cleveland was relieved by the arrival of 6,000 tons of coal. Columbus consumers are paying 13 cents a quart and 7 cents a pint for milk. Stone crusher plant of Irwin & Wood, East Liberty, was destroyed by fire. At Canton Mrs. J. J. Creighton, 65, died of burns received in a gas explosion. Fire destroyed the home of Webster Syers, near Marysville, with loss of $5,000. Frank Hoeck was robbed of his trousers and $400 in his tailor shop at Cleveland. Schools housing 17,000 pupils at Cincinnati were closed temporarily because of lack of coal. Dayton city commission granted the street railway company's request to adopt skip-stop system. Annual poultry and pet stock ex- hibition of the Youngstown Pet Stock association had 600 entries. Cleveland detectives are hunting $1,000 of the city payroll money, which is mysteriously missing. Coal cars on a siding at Marion were raided when consumers were unable to buy any from dealers. At Tolfin Andrew Brandeberry, 72 civil war veteran, died of injuries received in a fall on an icy pavement. Home Savings, Building and Loom company of Marion increased its cap ital stock from $2,800,000 to $5,000, 600. Ohio Wesleyan's service flag now contains 447 stars. A gold one in for Gunnar David Garder, who died in France. Following a quarrel, John Laminkin 40, a guard, was shot and killed by his wife, Grace, at their home in Cincinnati. Congressman Simon D. Fess was re-elected Ohio member of the Republican congressional campaign committee. Miss Mary Wiley, 74, and her sister, Mrs. Sarah Wiley, 72, burned to death in their home at Covington, Miami county. After kissing his wife and 10-months-old son goodbye, John H. Kaler, 23, Shelby, committed suicide by drinking poison. Friday and Saturday of each week will be divorce day in Clarke county common pleas court. One hundred and two suits are pending. Mayor J. S. Wilson of East Liverpool appointed Joseph P. Manor temporary city auditor, to succeed John T. Burns, now at Camp Sherman. An acrobatic burglar climbed 18 feet up an ice-coated tree to the second-story window of a Cleveland delicatessen store, blew the safe and escaped with $800. Cleveland police say Harry and Lazarus Joseph, brothers, have confessed to taking part in the robbery of the Garfield Savings bank Dec. 21 when $16,500 was stolen. Charles W. Graham, a farmer, was exonerated at Gallipoli for having shot and killed Grover Gibson, 30, a molder, who Graham charged had broken into his residence. When a New York Central railroad passenger train struck a trolley car on the Soldiers' Home line, south of Sandusky, more than two dozen persons were injured, including five veterans. Many retail grocers at Cleveland were driven out of business because of their inability to furnish customers with sugar. The customers went where they could get sugar. Unequal distribution is charged. Anti-Saloon leaders in Cincinnati suggest the 1,100 saloons in Hamilton county be closed and that the fuel and power used to heat these be utilized in heating the schools and thereby permitting them to open. Death claimed Albert Kneeland, 73. Columbus artist, soon after he had accomplished his last and most cherished desire, that to finish a painting of his late wife, a Spanish woman of rare beauty. Kneeland was struck with appletype. Fire, said to have been incendiary, destroyed the plants of the Ohio Wire Works Manufacturing company and the Neal-Armstrong company at Akron. Loss is estimated at $200,000. The wire plant was working on a government order. Ice in the Big Kanawha and Otoo rivers gave way, carrying five steamers, coal barges and several other vessels down from the Big Kanawha. They are lashed together in the river opposite Gallipolis. The outfit is valued at $350,000. Five persons were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the home of Christopher Houk, eight miles cast of Marion. The deaf: Christopher Houk, 62; Mrs. Sargis Houk, 52, his wife; Mable Houk, 14, a daughter; Clarence Houk, 7 a son, and Geneva Houk, 11, a granddaughter. Ohio Prohibition state convention urged President Wilson to stop at once the manufacture of all intoxicating liquors and to close all saisons, as a conservation measure. The platform declares for prohibition, woman suffrage and public ownership of public utilities. Nomination of a state ticket was deferred until after the Chicago convention. * "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we under- stand it."—Abraham Lincoln. Hamilton county held a corn and apple show. Gallon citizens are taking steps to create a municipal waterworks. create a municipal waterworks. Findlay city council limited speechmaking in that body to three minutes. William Staley, 84 sheep breeder and stock raiser, is dead at his home near Marvilley. E. V. Walborn of Van Wert was reappointed state fair manager by the state board of agriculture. George Reiss, Hocking Valley railroad brakeman, was run down and killed by a train at Columbus. Clarence Miller is held at Chillicothe for trying to cash checks which the police claim are forgeries. Alleged disloyal literature was confiscated by federal authorities in a raid on Cleveland Socialist headquarters. Harry E. Pegley, state president of Eagles, announced that the state convention will be held in Piqua June 10 to 14. Citizens of New Loxington started a campaign to raise $4,500 to purchase a motorized fire fighting apparatus. Standard Slag company's plant at fronton was totally destroyed by fire, the second time in three years. The loss is $40,000. David Taylor, 4, and Birdel K. Taylor, 2, were seriously burned at Kenton when a coal oil store exploded near their bed. Blaine E. Matthews, of Jackson was nominated for entrance to the naval academy, with Edwin A. Jones, Jackson, as alternate. Cecil jumble and John Reynolds were indicted on charges of arsen and manslaughter in the hotel fire case at Circleville. John Wilson of Buchelet, Athens county, was among Americans taken prisoner by Germans in first raid on American trenches. Fumes from stoves killed three men at Cincinnati. They were: Freel Eppler, 73; Patsy Fassello, 20; and Angelo Green, 32, of Dayton. Governor Cox, in a letter to the Ohio selective service boards, urged consideration be given farmers' claims for deferred classification. At Waukee Frederick Lehman was sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary for the murder of his wife, Grace, the morning of Sept. 17. Mrs. Obed J. Wilson of Cincinnati will furnish the money for the erection of a convoitation hall at the University of Cincinnati after the war. J. R. Neff and William Woodrow, members of the Chillicothe civil service commission, refused to obey the order of Mayor Walter S. Story to resign. Maximum retail bread prices were fixed by the Lucas county food committee. For a one-pound loaf the price is 9 cents; for a 20-ounce loaf 13 cents. A gas explosion wrecked the home of Thomas Ruddick at Columbus Mrs. Ruddick was burned probably fatally and her five small children seriously. The Victoria theater, the largest in Davenport, was destroyed by fire with a loss of $100,000. Eileen, a light opera, playing there, lost $10,000 in scenery and property. Further increase in the streetcar fare at Cleveland will probably result from the coal order, because closing of factories will cut down the company's revenue. Thomas C. Matthews, sent to the penitentiary last April from Lexus county for embezzlement, was pardoned by Coverer Cox. Matthews has an invalid daughter. Ohio Liquor league, in session at Columbus, demanded a referendum on the proposed federal prohibition amendment and opposed ratification of the same by state legislatures. Mrs. Carolina F. Larkins was found hanging in the kitchen of her home at Findlay when her daughter returned from work. Since her husband's death a few months ago she had been despondent. Eight months' strike of 400 texile workers, which partially tied up the plant of Shuler & Benningshoff at Hamilton, ended under a compromise agreement. All former workers in the factory were reinstated. State officers of the Daughters of the American Revolution voted to raise $2,000 as Ohio's share in restoring Tilloloy, France. It was decided to buy $4,000 worth of liberty bonds during the next campaign. Construction of postoffice buildings in Ohio has been suspended by the secretary of the treasury until after the war. The cities included in the order are Washington C. H., Wilmington, Akron, Fremont, Gallipoli, Kenton, Sandusky and Steubenville. Three officers of the Moors Security company of Columbus were arrested at Cleveland on a total of 18 charges of usury and operating without a license. The officers are Lee Lindenberg, president; S. M. Wright, secretary; and George W. McKendry, treasurer. Governor Cox recommended to Railroad Director McAdoo the taking off of more passenger trains to speed up movement of loaded coal cars and empties. This step was taken following a visit of union miners from the Hocking Valley, where much suffering is said to exist because mines are idle. According to the statistical department of the state industrial commission, 8,298 industrial plants in Ohio are affected by the order from Washington closing them for a period of five days. The total number of employees affected throughout the state totals 788,655. The average daily wages of these employees in Ohio is 81,955,005. 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. We are often able to help owners adapt their property to new conditions. Our knowledge of Real Estate currents, and our varied experience in Real Estate management have often enabled us to suggest economical alterations to a building that made it attractive to a new class of tenants. THE MATHER REALTY CO. 3905 CENTRAL AVENUE CENTRAL SHIRT SHOP A RACE ENTERPRISE G. J. TATE, Proprietor. GENTS' FURNISHINGS, NECKWEAR. 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Orton, sec., 2667 E. 40th St. Milton Watkins, chairman, 2524 £. 30th St. eee Social and Personal Will Spires of Wellsville was the week end guest of Fred. Wells. Mrs. Edward Daw, of E. 86th St. is improving. She has been very ill. Miss Mattie Dexter, after an ab- sence of 11 weeks, has returned to the city, Mrs. Amanda Taylor, E. 37th St, who has been sevicusly ill, is able to be up a while each day. ‘A man was stabbed over the heart, Monday evening, in a cord geme, up stirs in Scovill Ave., near E. 38rd St. Jcha W. Lewis was in the city, Monday, enroute home to Circleville, where his father is very ill. He call- edon The Gazette. Dirs. A. G. Robinson, of B. 76th St., was hostess to the Pleasant Company club, last, Thursday, Next meetin; Gt Siew ohn Be Plevson's, 2231 43 St, : Mrs. Minnie Ball Pieree, of Bridge- ton, N, J., sister of Mrs, Exlwing See- lig, was operated on, last Thursday, and ie doing as well ax ean be expert ‘The boys of the 9th Bat. write that the bibles they had at “White City” are being put to good use and that any night they can be seen reading them. Good! ‘The program for C. E. day at St. John's church, ‘Sunday, includes an ad- dress of weleome by the pastor, three minute talks by presidents of our young people's societigs and several musical numbers. Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Seelig, Jr. spent several days in Oberlin, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Russell. Joe had 2 fall, spraining an arm while deliver- ing’ mail, last Tuesday, and was fore- ed to take a few days’ vacation. ‘The editor of The Gazette has 2 birthday, next Monday, Jan. 28th. So many friends were so very good and kind, Christmas and New, Years, that the editor is not looking for “remem- brances” on that day. ‘The demand for “The Old Reliable” Gazette was great, as all know, dur- ing the last two mionths of 1917, but ‘thus far this year it has been exceed- ed, each week, particularly last week and the week preceding. ‘“yimmy, the sport from Chi,” has heen having bad luck, last and. this week. Local gamblers have relieved him of about $5,000, it is said. This in spite of the fact. that gambling houses throughout the city are sup- posed to be temporarily closed. Signor Pureza Rico, the great basso profundo, is in vaudeville and at a local “movie” theater, this week. Next week, he will start on a long and very profitable western tour. He has one of the most powerful voices it has ever been our good fortune to hear. Mi. and Mrs. Louia §, Jones, of E. iolst St, request The Gazette to say that they did not give « reception for their son when he was at home du>- ing: the recent holidays. A few friends called on tke evening in question and an informal affair resulted. ‘They say their friends are alweys welcome to call and hear him play when he is at home and that when he fs given a re- ception by them it will be open to the public. Detectives Toner and Moore arvest- ed dames. H. Williams, ‘Tuesday, changed with complicity in the theft of $1500 January 16 from William Evans, 2133 Scovill Ave. ‘They say Williams, who lives at 2818 FE. 28th St., confessed to taking part in the robbery, which -oceurred at E, 28th St. and Scovill Ave. Another men, Daniel Sweeney, 2721 Cedar Ave., was arrested the day after the robbery and was bound over to the grand jury. A. R. Gillespie, of E. 97th St. sug- gested to the government the use of discarded railroad ties to help the fu- el situation. Saturday he received a letter from William G. McAdoo, di- rector general of railroads, stating his suggestion would be given considera- tion. “The railroads,” Gillesnie wrate, “condemn 80,000.00 ties annually. They utilize 20.000.000 and destroy 60,000,000." Gillespie is a former em- wlose ofthe New York Central ral- road. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, JANUARY 26, 1918 Mercottaae ce Rabin fact tha oie Daughters of Sphins, tor the pur | pose of aid veliet work for soldiers and any other charitable work, will meet for knitting on Monday even- ings (of each week) at 2852 £. 40th St. Ladies and gentlemen are wel- leome, A lunch, Zor three cents, is |served, to benefit its treasury. [Masa Anderson, proprietor of a Gancing academy’ at 6124 Euclid Ave. was fined $100 and costs, under Hon: Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law, by Judge Baer, Tuesday, whch he was found guilty of having de- [nied admission 40 x, publie dance to Bernard J, Smolin, 2260 E. 7rd Si. because of race objection. Smolin is a Jew. Anderson made motion for a new trial. Judge Baer’s decision {vill undoubtedly be upheld in the {higher courts. ‘That has been the rule Jin such (Civil Rights) cases. Our peo ple should institute more Such suits | than they do. “This is ‘Philadelphia Jimmy.’ I've |edme to Cleveland to give myself up,” |sald a voiee over the telephone when [Resistant Detective. Chief Mahoney |answered a call at Central Police sta Ition, Tuesday. A short time later “Sitamy” arrived at the station in a Hasieah, He said his neal name was [James Williams and gave bis address i 2318 E, 28th St. “Jimmy” told Mahoney of the holdup of William Evans at Seovill Ave., and E. 28ib St., on Jan. 16, when two bandits ob: tained $1900, according to the assis- tant detective chief, Williams is held ‘on a robbery charge. ‘The American Purple Cross met at the Hollenden hotel, last week Weil neaday, and was attended by Under- taker Norman E, White and an 3s fistant, Jas. Wilson, of Columbus, the only members of the rice to receive invitations to attend. ‘The organi zation is being perfected by the gov- ermmment to care for dead Americon Soldiers in France and elsewhere Abroad—burial, records, etc. Meni- bers of the American Purple Cross are enlisted and yank as lieutenants, Salary $2,745, Messra, White and Wilson, the former a son of our lons- time and highly esteemed friends, Uie Rev, and Mrs. C. D. White, of Colum bus, arrived in the city, last. weck Wednesday morning and returned home, Saturday. They paid ‘The Ga- zette'a pleasant visit, last, Friday. Mr. Ralph Doctor, age 60, one of the best known of our older residents, whe lost his sight some vears ago and Who has been quite feeble for a year ov more as the result of illness, died, fast week Monday, and was buried, ost week Thursday, the pastor of St. John’s A. M. E, church officiating at the funeral services. For many years “Rate,” as he was familiarly address- ed, was in the employ of the Penn. Ry. Co. running between this city and Pittsburg. Later he was associated with Mr Wm, Brack in the business now known as the Edward Deetor Cafe and Dining Room. ‘The loss of his sight forced his retirement, some years ago. His death is sincerely mourned by a host of friends through out the country—wherever he has liv ed—especially in Chieago, Milwau- “kee, Pittsburg and Cleveland. it was but'a few months ago, his oniy sister, “Mrs. Alice Gilliam, died. ‘A brother, “Mr. Frank Doctor, the only surviving [member of one of our oldest, largest ‘and best known families of this city, has the earnest sympathy of the com” munity. He is the manager of the Edward Doctor Cafe and Dining | Room, Some of the “boys” who lost so ‘much money, diamonds, I. O. U's, éte,, a few weeks ago, to the “sport from Chi.” did not take it at all kind- ly, it is said, but framed up a little exploit that was “pulled off” after a “chittlin” supper in E. 28th St. one night, recently, that netted $1500. It |scems that there is a woman in that ‘neighborhood ‘who “shoots craps with ithe best of them.” She was hostess lat the supper which was followed by |a little game” in which “the sport |from Chi" was expeeted to partiei- pate, it is said. He sent his “part- ner.” however. In “the wee sma’ | hours of the morn,” after the “festive jehittlins” had been devoured, the Ijones”” were started. While the | game was at its height, two gunmen | appeared and “held up” the Chicago |sport's partner for the amount. stated above. “The next day the police re- jeovered $250 of the $1500, but that is all. It is also said that a sport who “put up” $2000 worth of diamonds to “the sport from Chi? during the great game, several ‘weeks ago, and lost the money to jhim, left in a taxi in which the latter had left the diamonds while he went [into one of our local trust. companies |to arrange to dispose of them. This is the sequel to the editorial in our jast issue headed, “The Tale of the Gambler.” ‘A fellow who tries to do business without advertising is like the fellow who throws his sweetheart a silent Kiss in the dark: he knows what he is doing—but nobody else does.—Wil- liam Jennings Bryan. ‘See here. brother and sister, you know you ennnot set the race news, jespecially all the real live local race [news anywhere else but in “The Old ' Reliable” Gazette. Then why not | subseribe for it now and start the ere eee so | a 8 Re RR | oe: Fe a a. aaa | oe ee coe | | ei, | | ae | | wos i re no i Zz RAV. CARL We HASKELL'S New Year's Message to the Christians Particularly of Cleveland, 0. Columbus, O., Jan. 4, 1918. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, ‘Cleveland, Ohio. Doar Mr. Smith:—The Gazette js very much appreciated. You certainly are having some time with those Cleveland preachers. I glory in yout spunk—to defend yourself and” the Christian ministry "from reproach. You can be depended on to. “clarify the atmosphere.” All Christians should give you not only their moral support but their financial support. ‘One thing that [would place in ey- ery Negro's hand, with the bible, is “The Old Reliable” Gazette, whieh | shall always do in whatever degree the opportunity. affords. Wiching you a prosperous and hap- py New Year, Tam, Yours for the race, CARL W. HASKELL. ‘THE SMART SET “My People,” a creation of mirth and song, will be offered xt the Pros- peet next week by the “Smarter Set,” 4 company of competent Afro-Ameri- can entertainers Salem ‘Tutt. Whit- rey and J. Homer ‘Tutt, two comedi- ans of prominence will head the cast ‘of mnore than fifty people. There is a dazzling chorus of thirty or more Wewities and their costumes and dane- ing are said to be superior to any of- ferod by this company at any previ- ous appearance in this city.” Salem Whitney is considered to be one of our best comedians on the stage and has surrounded himself with a eapa- ble cast among whom are Daisy Mar- tin, a clever little comedienne and dancer; Carrie King, Lona Roberts, Luke Seott, Al. Wotts and many oth: ers. Whitney and Tutt are responsi- ble for the words and music of “My People,” which is said to surpass any of their Yormer offerings. ‘There is an abundance of sroad comedy, elever dancing and all the latest song hits. Matinees will be given on Monday, Thursday and Saturday. COLOR-LINE IN THE NAVY. Baltimore, Md.—When_ three well- known young Afro-Americans of this city—Join Berry, an instructor in the High school; Edward Frazier, a teach- er of Tuskewee Institute, and Ray- mond ‘f. Carpenter, a recent gradu: ate of the High school, called at a lo- eal navy recruiting station to learn what positions were open to, our men who enlisted in that branch of the service, they were advised by the off cer in charge that the only positions open at-the present were those of mess men and waiters. WANT MORE VICTIMS. El Paso, Tex,—Major D. J. Sutphin, of the judge advoeate’s department, avtived here, last week Tuesday, to make an investigation of the charges pending against the soldiers of the 2th U.S. Infantry who ave being held in the stockade at Fort Bliss, Tes., for trial before a court-martial in connection with the Houston riot, Aug. 23. Such of these prisoners as Major Sutphin desigmates for trial will be taken to Fort Sam Houston, CORRESPONDENTS WANTED, (FA® ONG: Deas eters Greeree OF 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 destroas of hear- ing from persons inthe following named cities: Springfield, Dayton, Piqua, Mt. Vernon, Bast ‘Liverpool, Akron, Lima, 0., and other places, particilarly in Ohio, where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, Blackstone building, Cleveland, 0. ‘and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by sending at onee the addresses of per- Sons in the ities named and others ‘in the state, to whom we enn write relative to the matter, If you owe The Gazette, do not wait for the collector to call on you but come to the office and pay. 1 is 50 much pleasanter and better. Delinquent subscribers, especially those in the East End,’ will please save our collector the long trips to [their residences by sending us a post ofiice money order, AT ONCE, and oblige The Gazette, greatly. Whenever that malicious lie—that the editor of The Gazette, received $500, or any other sum, from a demo- crat to defoat a Republican candidate for office at the recent election, or any other—is repeated in your pres- enee, frankly tell the person “hawk- ing” the lie that they are slandering the editor and had better not let, the feet get to him or there will be some more arrests and punishment in the courts. Please repeat. the foregoing to those whom you think need the in- formation, BEST FOR THE BLOOD — Puro Herbs, Sold only at Brown Drug Co, cor E. 28th St. and Central Ave— Adv. Do not allow your landlords to take advartage of you in the matter of ‘rentals, ete., but come to The Gazette ‘ffice when you have troubles of that ind. You should take PURO HERBS the great blood purifier and system cleanser, On sale only at the Brown Drug Co, 2742 Central Ave., cor, E. 28th St.-Ady. Ar ath h i | 1 \\ sz Tie ah YY Ze 1987—Ladies’ House Gown or Negit gee, albatross, cashmere, challle, hepp, poplin, crepe, erepe de Chine, talteta, lawn and batiste, dotted Swiss and pereale wre all nice for this model, ‘The full skirt portions are joined to the walst at x slightly raised waistline A broad, notched collar trims. the frouts. The sleeve is finished at elbow length, with « shaped eutf, ‘The Pac tern is cut in 4 sizes: 3H, 38, 42 and 46 inches bust mexsure, It requires 7 yards of 4tineh material for a 8% inch size. A pattern of this iHustration mailed to any wddress on receipt of 10 cents in silver or stamps, What can be expected of our local ministers—when one of the more oi less prominent ones will (as a speak er at the celebration at Lura park) help draw hundreds of our people te that color-line place of amusement ir order that the park management can make thousands of dollars of thei hari-carned money? When others of these same ministers will take money from a saloon-keeper whose license they had petitioned the Cuyahoga County Liquor License Commission to refuse? When still another of these ministers will, on a witness stand Cohile under ‘oath, say the saloon: keop “is a good bustness man,” after signing that petition aad protest against him? What about those min- fsters who were out on the striets, the day of election, last November, “loge-volling’” like tha “ah-stone pal iticlans” for this sanie saloon-keeper"s candidate for the City Council? And those who still boost of having ac- cepted “gifts” from “Starlight” and say they will eontinue to do +0 when- ever offered? Do our churches, and their good people of this city, need their kind? Ask yourself and your friends these questions. sosesesecesnsosesensseeees ¢ TRE MAY WHO DARES. ¢ “I honor the man who fn the consefentions discharge af is duty dapes to stand alone: the world. with fenorant,. Ine tolerant Judgment, may. et. flemmn. the. canntenanees of relatives may he averted, and the hearts of friends rrow cold, nt the sense of anty Aone shalt be sweeter than the applause of the. world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends.” Charles: Simuer. pioseessacesresssseeeens rierrrrerererererooetes PROTEST AGAINST WRONG. ‘Yo submit fn silence when we should protest makes eo wards out of men. The hum- ai race has climbed on Pro: test. Had no voiee heen yatse ed against tujustice, ignor- fanee and lust, the Inquisition Jet would serve the Tam, and ‘cuitlotines deaide our Teast disputes. ‘The few who dare, must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many. —Ella Wheeler Wileox. Aeon (sa 7; Lee) “) Cay DR. FRED PALMER’S WHITE Whitens dark or brown skin. Bleaches and clears sallow com- plexions, removes all blemishes and causes the skin to grow whiter. See that you get the Soa ’ ‘DO NOT ACCEPT IMITATIONS aera eae ies GENTS WANTED. 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Washington.-President Wilson, in a public statement expressed his complete disapproval of the bill proposing the creation of a special war cabinet, voiced unqualified confidence in Secretary of War Newton D. B.aker, and defied the congressional critics of the management of the war department. The president not only assailed the suggested reorganization of the war department, but added stinging criticism of the congressional investigation into the conduct of the war. He goes to the country, it was explained at the white house, with supreme confidence that the people will support him in the issue created by the criticism voiced in congress and resulting in the introduction of the war cabinet bill, making Secretary Baker and Secretary of the Navy Daniels subordinate officials in the management of the war. The president's statement, issued as the direct result of criticisms of the war management by Senator George Chamberlain, Democrat of Oregon, chairman of the senate committee on military affairs, made in an address in New York, climaxed a day in which congress indulged in one of the wildest sessions since the United States declared war. The statement follows: "Senator Chamberlain's statement as to the present inaction and ineffectiveness of the government is an astonishing and absolutely unjustifiable distortion of the truth. "As a matter of fact, the war department has performed a task of unparalleled magnitude and difficulty with extraordinary promptness and efficiency. "There have been delays and disappointments and partial miscarriages of plans, all of which have been drawn into the foreground and exaggerated by the investigations which have been in progress since the congress assembled—investigations which drew indispensable officials of the department constantly away from their work and officers from their commands and contributed a great deal to such delay and confusion as had inevitably arisen. "But, by comparison with what has been accomplished, these things, much as they were to be regretted, were insignificant, and no mistake has been made which has been repeated. "Nothing helpful or likely to speed or facilitate the war tasks of the government has come out of such criticisms and investigation. "I understand that reorganizations by legislation are to be proposed—I have not been consulted about them and have learned of them only at secnd hand—but their proposal came after effective measures of reorganization had been thoughtfully and maturely perfected, and inasmuch as those measures have been the result of experience, they are much more likely than any other to be effective, if the congress will but remove the few statutory obstacles of rigid departmental organization which stands in their way. "The legislative proposals I have heard of would involve long additional delays and turn our experience into more lost motion. "My association and constant conference with the secretary of war have taught me to regard him as one of the ablest public officials I have ever known. The country will soon learn whether he or his critics understand the business in hand. "To add, as Senator Chamberlain did, that there is inefficiency in every department and bureau of the government is to show such ignorance of actual conditions as to make it impossible to attach any importance to his statement. "I am bound to infer that that statement sprang out of opposition to the administration's whole policy rather than out of any serious intention to reform its practice." PLOT TO BLOW UP DOCKS Wholesale Conspiracy Is Unearthed by United States. Washington.—The government has unearthed a plot to blow up docks at the principal sea ports on both coasts, it has just been learned. The conspiracy called for the carrying out of the wholesale sabotage at a given hour. Telegraphic orders sent out by the department of justice are expected to result in a number of arrests. Officials are extremely reticent but it was admitted that guards have been doubled at all the principal docks, munition factories and other important reservations along both seaboards. U Boat Sinks Three Ships New York.—Authentic news of the sinking of three large ships, one an American freighter, while a convoy of which they were a, part was passing a lighthouse on the Mediterranean Spanish coast last month has just been received in shipping circles here from Spain. The three ships were sunk in rapid succession by one submarine, but ewing to proximity of the shore and a calm sea no lives were lost. The names of the ships were withheld. NEWS GATHERED ALL OVER STATE Slays Wife, Ends Own Life. Dayton.—With his brain inflamed by drink and angered by repeated refusals of his former wife again to marry him, Samuel E. Geist, 42, a laborer, appeared at the residence of his divorced wife, Mrs. Eva Geist, 50, this city, shot her through the brain and then sent a bullet into his left temple. Death was instantaneous in both cases. Mrs. Geist got a divorce from her husband more than a year ago. Since that time she had been conducting a boarding and rooming house. When Geist appeared with a request that she come to the front yard to speak with him, he was again refused. He then burst through the door, found his wife in a rear room, and before she could escape, fired. The bullet penetrated her left eye and she fell dead. Geist's father murdered his mother and committed suicide in this city 27 years ago, the circumstances being substantially the same. Take Coal From Train. Findlay.—A Lake Erie & Western railroad train, passing through here at midnight, was attacked by more than 100 persons while the engine stopped to take water. When the train had departed, people carrying coal away in everything from a baby carriage to a limousine were seen. Among the number was a minister who came with several sacks and carted his allotment away in a wheelbarrow. Asks Square Deal for Soldiers Cleveland.—What is the United States going to do with the soldiers who come back from European battle fields? The question is being asked of American business men by Maj. Ross C. Cockburn of the Canadian army, who addressed the Cleveland Rotary club. "Brass bands, banquet and 'Godspeeds' to the departing troops become a hollow mockery if the men return to find their jobs filled and business men lukewarm in their disposition to find places for the soldiers," Maj. Cockburn said. "Moreover, it is not enough for business men to offer the returned soldier any kind of a job. Great Britain and Canada has exploded the fallacy that returned soldiers, because of the break war makes in their lives, are less efficient and less industrious than those not called on to face the hardships of active service. "Recently in Toronto we tried to find work for a returned Canadian soldier. A 'grateful' community offered him a job sweeping the streets. "Imagine, if you can, anyone with a spark of real patriotism telling a man who for two years has carried his life in his hands and endured describable hardships in order to preserve the safety and prosperity of the people back home that if he chooses he may sweep his city's streets!" Gas Fumes Overcome 25 Youngstown.—Twenty-five persons were overcome by the fumes of an automobile engine while returning from Sharon, Pa., where they attended a party. Because of the cold the truck in which the merry makers were riding was enclosed tightly and there was little ventilation. A number of passengers in the machine complained of not feeling well, and when a stop was made near Hubbard and the sides removed, the entire party was overcome. Doctors were summoned and worked over the victims several hours before pronouncing them out of danger. They were later removed to their homes in Youngstown. Plan Farm Institutes Cleveland. Farmers institute work of the county will be planned Feb. 7 by Supervisor F. L. Allen, according to Clark S. Wheeler, director of the Ohio State university agricultural extension service. Farmers desiring an institute or extension school to be held in their locality should have representatives at the meeting as only five meetings can be held in a county and the applications greatly exceed this number, Director Wheeler states. The gathering Feb. 7 will be held at the Independence Institute. The scope and methods of the work will be discussed and the places of the meetings determined. Divorces to Cost More Sandusky.—The Erie County Bar Association, meeting here, appointed a committee to draft a new fee schedule. The fee for an ordinary divorce case, now $25, is to be $50, association members say. The cost of having a lawyer in court will be $35 or $40 a day instead of $25 as at present, the new schedule is in effect. Socialists Are Sentenced SOCIETIES ARE SENTENCED. Cleveland.-Three more Socialists, accused of violation of the selective service act, were sentenced to a year in the Warrenville workhouse. The three, George Polhm, Clarence Boyer and Milton Deyo, were arrested some months ago. Buy Confiscated Sugar. Alliance.-It required only an hour and ten minutes to dispose of 1,900 pounds of confiscated sugar here. The crowd gathered two hours before city hall was open. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, JANUARY 26, 1918 MAN EAGLES TRAIN AT WRIGHT FIELD DAYTON HAS WORLD'S LARGEST AIRPLANE SCHOOL Eight miles out of Dayton, Ohio, where the first man-eagle found his pinions, Uncle Sam has built a wonderful eyre. From out this eyre hundreds and thousands of man-eagles are to come and strike from aloft at the Teutonic military autocracy. It is a far cry from the gliders of a little more than a dozen years ago to the huge war plane of today. Swift have been the developments in aviation since the days of experiments at Dayton, Ohio and Kittyhawk, N. C. Now the Wilbur Wright aviation field, named in honor of the late Wilbur Wright of Dayton, is the biggest flying school in the world. A short time ago Great Britain, in presenting to Orville Wright the Albert medal of the Royal Society of Arts, recognized the Wright brothers as the inventors of the airplane. Their position in aeronautic science has been fixed. Orville Wright, who survives his brother, and co-inventor, can now see from his door scores of training planes winging their way through the air at the field named in honor of that brother. Immediately after the declaration of war with Germany the United States selected the village of Fairfield, just outside Dayton, as the site of its biggest aviation field. On a level tract of 2,500 acres the Wilbur Wright Aviation School has been established. Crops were growing there and farmhouses dotted the stretch of country. Thousands of horses and men, scores of road building machines and trench diggers were put to work to level it, for the most difficult thing for a mancagle is landing and a smooth surface is needed. Hangars and barracks were erected, quarters for officers were built and hundreds of airplanes were sent to the field. Students came and the business of flying and learning to fly began. The cadets, after a rigid examination, take an aviation course at the universities which have added this study to their curriculums. There they learn the theory of flying. Then they come in hundreds to the Wilbur Wright field. Several hundred cadets are there now. The work of the cadet is a serious business. Straight flying is a thing of the past. Military aviators must outdo the birds or they will not be able to outdo the enemy. Looping the loop is as necessary to the military flier as pulling the lanyard is to the artillery man. Nose dives and the "dead-leaf" must be mastered. The cadet must fly upside down, bank his plane at a perilous angle, dip and glide, volplane and ascend with startling suddenness, or he does not quality. Climbing planes mark one of the swift developments of war time aviation, and flights are made every day that a few years ago were impossible. Brilliant young officers of the United States signal corps, civilian fliers employed by the government and a French officer who has seen active air service, are the instructors. Little by little the instructor, allows the cadet to handle the control. The training planes are equipped with a double control and the instructor always has his hands on the wheel and his feet on the rudder. Our Manhood: No one can read the first American casualty list from across the sea without a sensation of pride mingled with sorrow for these young men who have given their lives for the cause of liberty and civilization. It is sad that they should meet such a fate far from home and friends, but the natural grief which comes with the news must be assugged by the thought that they have laid down their lives in a noble cause. "I am proud of my boy—he has given up his life for his country." This is the beautiful expression that comes from the father of one of the lads who has sacrificed is life in the trenches. It is the sentiment that is echoed and will be re-echoed by many a father and mother before this cruel war is over, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. It is the American spirit, the sort of spirit that has made this country what it is today, and which will enable parents and loved ones to bear up with the dreadful afflictions which come with war. The war has come home to us at last. What seemed remote, even until a short time ago, has now touched the very heartstones of the American people. We have an interest in the conflict, an intimate, personal interest, and one that will stir the blood of every man and woman who is worthy of the great Nation which was founded in this city more than a hundred years ago and which remains to day as the hope of the future for liberty loving peoples of all the world. Buddling Authoress—"I got even with that horrid old editor last night." Fylend—"How, dear?" Budding Authoress—"He always rejects my manuscript you know, so last night I declined his son with thanks." PLAN VAST AIRWAY The "Woodrow Wilson Aerial Highway" the latest route of transcontinental travel, is planned by the Aero Club of America. The airplanes will be established from New York to San Francisco and it is said that President Wilson has approved the suggestion. The new Liberty motor is said to assure satisfactory power for driving big planes over the continent, high up above the Rockies and down the Pacific slopes to the Golden Gate. Stops will be made at the important cities and branch lines north and south will be established. It is claimed by the Aero Club that most of the $600,000,000 worth of airplanes which are in the making to fight the Huns can be converted into the first commerce ships of the sky. Rear Admiral Peary has been made chairman of an Aero Club committee, which has been instructed to make haste in charting the transcontinental air routes and select landing places. "Woodrow Wilson Aerial Highway" will take in Cleveland, Toledo, Chicago and other important cities. The second highway through the sky will be known as the "Wright Brothers Trail." It will start from Washington, D.C., running southwestward, then swerving to San Diego, Cal. The Langley airway, although definite plans have not yet been made, would run from Washington to Los Angeles, Cal. The Chanute and Bell airway, named in honor of Octave Chanute and Alexander Graham Bell, would run from Boston to Seattle, touching Albany, Syracuse, Buffalo, Detroit and Grand Rapids, Mich., Minneapolis, Minn., Bismarck, N. D., and other cities. North and south airways, under the club's plans would be charted from Bangor, Me, to Key West, Fla., from Puget Sound to San Diego, Cal., and from Key West to the mouth of the Rio Grande, along the Gulf of Mexico. These main airways in time would be crossed by hundreds of smaller charted routes, so that the country would become a vast network of routes laid out with as much precision and care as the thousands of charted sea routes. MANLESS AIRPLANE IS INVENTED BY KANSAN Machine Explodes itself at Conclusion of Raid Topeka, Kan—The United States patent office is clogged with devices of farmer genius to end the war but it remained for a Topeka man who had also farmed to attract a real interest of the Washington authorities with his invention of an airplane self-controlled which can be sent upon its death dealing trip of scattering bombs without a man in it. One is in the process of construction here. There are two objections to the manless plane. One is the expense, for the machine destroys itself in a final grand explosion, and the second difficulty is as to certainty of control. F. J. Robinson, the inventor, already has had success with previous inventions. He was a mechanical engineer for twenty-eight years before he took up farming. Find Their Comrades Crucified By Germans. Soldiers nailed to a barn, stark naked and horribly mutilated; young women crucified to the doors of their homes, some nailed up by the hands, others by the feet with the head hanging downward; still others tortured and mistreated— These are some of the scenes which greeted the Canadian soldiers when they captured a small village from the Germans early in the war, according to George Ellis, a British soldier who was wounded and discharged and who now is living in New York. Incidentally, Ellis reveals why the Canadians are so feared by the Germans. “During the first days of the Battle of the Somme,” Ellis says, “we captured a small village. The Canadians led the advance and about the first thing that met their eyes were five Canadian, who had been captured by the Germans, nailed to a barn, stark naked and horribly mutilated. They bad been crucified by the German captors and left to hang there in agony till they died. "The Canadians swore they would never take a prisoner and every Canadian detachment that goes to France is bound by the same oath. They live up to it, and the Germans fear them. "In the same village where the Canadians found their comrades crucified I and the men in my company found a number of young girls nailed to the doors of their own homes. Every stitch of clothing had been torn off them. Some were nailed up by the hands and others by the feet, head downwards. This is the truth, as scores of us know." "As we pushed on we encountered hundreds of women who had been tortured and mutilated. There is not a city taken by the Germans where they have not practiced the most appalling atrocities and from evidence in my possession, I am certain in the majority of cases the officers were the first offenders. We found countless numbers of bodies of young girls littering the streets of villages and fields through which we passed as we pushed the German's back. "The French laugh at talk of an honorable peace. It is not possible to make peace while such men as those Boches are allowed to live." HEROIC ACTS BY ARMY CHAPLAINS PRIESTS OF MANY CREEDS WORK AS ONE IN KHAKI Undaunted Bravery of a Rabbi—An Irish Priest's Story—A "Good Samaritan." Braving the perils of life on the battlefield, the army chaplains of Europe are going about among the troops daily administering to their spiritual needs. Jew and Gentile, Catholic and Protestant, working together in khaki for the common good. The heroic deeds of these churchmen, who many times face death to give comfort to stricken soldiers and live usually in the trenches with the men, have gone unsung, but when the great war is over the world will learn of the glorious sacrifices the "padres" have made for the cause of humanity. Many chaplains among the Allied troops already have received decorations for conspicuous gallantry. A correspondent at the Western front tells of an incident which came to light recently in which a Jewish rabbi figured. A British soldier was dying. He lay in front of the trenches quite close, but too far to reach; the Boche took good care of that. The rabbi happened to be in the front line trenches. Some one told him that the lad who lay dying in No Man's Land was a Jew. Deaf to all protests, regardless of almost certain death, the rabbi crawled out over the top and among the wire. Bulbies zipped around him and spat up little angry clouds of dust, but the padre crawled on until he reached the boy. With infinite tenderness, he raised the tired head and whispered consolation. But the pailing lips began to move and the head to shake wearily, for the lad was not a Jew but a Catholic. Fumbling hurriedly in his pocket for the time was short, the Jew produced something which he held aloft before the fast closing eyes. A smile broke over the soldier's face, then the head rolled over and he lay still. Every one in the front line could see quite distinctly, for it was only a few yards to where the boy lay. His smile meant peace—peace purchased at a price, hew great only the rabbit knew, though the others could guess; for that which the Jew held up on high was a little silver crucifix. That the Bochees had seen the act was evident from the fact that the snipera ceased firing when the crucifix was raised, and all was silent along that stretch of trenches until the rabbit had reached the safety of the Allied trench. Another story is recorded of an Irish Catholic priest, told in a railway coach by a robed Cell, who was in England on a leave of absence from the front. "Twas a praste of an Irish division," he said. "They were next in lins to the Ulsters at the time. That praste was an ignorant, hard-bored old man, and he hated all Orangemen as if they were the divil. Many's the time he preached fire and bristmets agin 'em back before the war. "Out yonder in the trinches he took quite a fancy to a Protestant lad from Belfast. And sure 'twas little wonder, for 'tis dead he would have been but for that same lad, who flattened him out in the trinch just as a shell dropped handy. "There was a day that fool of a bhoy wint bombin' along with several other bhops; brave leds they were, be the powers, though they were Orangemen. And he wint and took a shot in the leg and could not get back. "The ould praste saw it and he wint and carried him in, whin in the ould days he would likely as not have given the divil his due. "Twas a midal they gave him for it, and he's mighty proud of it, is that ould praste-I have it here in my pocket." Unexcelled opportunities are offered by the position of chaplain for giving a churchman a broader outlook on life and otherwise completing his education every day the war rages and they are embracing them. Would Gives Allies Fighting Apparatus Which Destroys All Life Within Radius of Mile. A new engine of war has been invented by a Minneapolis, Minn., man which is said to have greater powers of destruction than any gun or other device now in use, according to Victor F. V. de Brauwere, who is standing sponsor for the inventor and is presenting the invention to the Allied war inventions board. "Of course accurate description of the invention is not to be permitted, but I may say that the machine is of a size that heretofore has been regarded as a fit subject for wild fiction of the Wells tyne" he said. "The machine is 135 feet long and its effective range is between 75 to 100 miles. At that range it will destroy all life within a radius of a mile. When I say all life I mean all plant or animal life. The machine is capable of infinite variety of ranges and removes one serious drawback to all machines of similar type which have been experimented with before and makes the idea practical. At last we have discovered why a woman doesn't keep a secret. She is afraid that some other woman will tell it first. MUNITION WORKERS GET CORDITE HABIT Drink is not the only temptation to which over strained munition workers are exposed. Quite recently it has been discovered that a good deal of the "drunkenness" attributed to women and comparatively young girls is due to another and hitherto unsuspecting cause—the chewing of cordite, the smokeless explosive used in the shell of cannon and the ammunition of small arms. The fact that cordite has a pleasant taste tending to sweetness has been a real discovery to many of the women workers and the primary source of their danger. "I did not know at all what the stuff was made of," said a woman who had been handling cordite for six months or more. "But one day I happened to put a little bit of it into my mouth and to begin chewing it. It felt nice. Then I began to be a bit lively. I could not understand what the thing meant. After tea I chewed a bit more and it was nice, too. Next day I did the same thing, and then I got a fright. I began to feel headache and—well, drunk. That was the end of it; yes, for me it was. But my mate, well, she just laughed; but when she took a bit home with her and chewed it hard she gave us a time and a half, that she did." The explanation of all this is, of course, simple enough. Cordite, when chewed has all the exilarating effects of a highly stimulating drug and cannot be tampered with except at great risk. Its effects on the nervous system are immediate and ultimately deadly. Besides, like all such drugs, it has to be taken in increasing quantities of the exhilaration is to be maintained. And herein lies the great peril of the worker in cordite who forms the chewing habit. How far the habit has spread it is difficult to say. Equally difficult is it to ascertain whether the authorities have become alive to the fact that the peril exists. In the north it is understood that several cases have had to be sharply dealt with. But quite obviously there is need for greater caution on the part of workers and strict supervision on the part of factory managements. The ministry of munitions should pip the evil in the bud if it is not already past that stare. On its action much may depend not only for the worker, but for the maintenance of an essential feature of national efficiency. The effect of cordite as an "intoxicant" was first discovered during the South African war. Some British soldiers found to their surprise that by eating cordite they could get all the excitement of the most powerful narcotic—and all the terrible effects, too. Cordite consists roughly of about 58 parts of nitrosglycerin, 37 parts guncotton and 5 parts of mineral jelly. Each cartridge contains 60 cylindrical strands of cordit and when Major Jennings, D. S. O., learned that the men were eating these he experimented on himself by sucking a strand. He found that it tasted sweet, pleasant and pungent, but it resulted in giving him the most racking, splitting headache, and it lasted for thirty-six hours. Hun Brutality. Stories of German brutality have been printed with a great deal of prominence all over the country, and yet many do not believe them yet. We urge them to read the following from the lips of a French soldier, invalided home from a German prison camp. It is translated from a Paris paper, L'Illustration: "Our prison camp at Gustrow was clean, and that's about all. The Germans are very brutal, and if our letters to our people would not have been censored many a pitiful story would have seen daylight. Worst treated among them are the British. One day one of the British prisoners got round the back of the cookhouse where the refuse is kept, to fish a piece of bread out of a barrel of scraps that were being sent to the pigs. Up came the chief cook, knocked the legs from under the Englishman, and while on the ground beat him unmercifully. The poor fellow dare not defend himself for fear of being punished for insubordination. The food we received here was not only bad, but it was not even enough to keep body and soul together. "When we received Swiss bread or other things from home we gave the black bread to the Russians, or sometimes would sell it to the Germans. In many camps the commandants were really good and human, but unfortunately we very seldom came in contact with them, and if so, no notice would be taken of any complaints for generally the German under officer would have the first word, and the matter would end. "But not alone the soldiers, the civilian population is just as bad. When marching through or working in the streets we have been pelted with stones and mud by men, women and children under the eyes of the soldiers who guarded and should have protected us. There was not one who sympathized with us. It almost looked as if these people were bereft of all human feeling. "Here, before we were released, we had to sign papers to the effect that our treatment was without reproach. When we reached Switzerland what a wonderful change! It was like coming out of hell into heaven. In Germany we were treated like dogs. The sympathetic Swiss people treated us like human beings." WITCH DOCTOR LOSING HIS GIP SORCERY GIVING WAY TO CIVILIZING INFLUENCES. Missionary Tells How King of Fakers Was Made Laughing Stock LOS ANGELES, Cal. — The Congo witch doctor's sway of life and death over millions of African natives by "satanic right" is today toppling before the envoys of civilization and the Gospel. This is the word recently brought here by Dr. Joseph Clark, noted missionary, who has spent 33 years in the jungle country, and whose life has been a magnificent adventure. "We have always found the witch doctor our greatest opponent," said Dr. Clark. "His faculty of condemning men, women and children to death without compunction; his craft, and his ability to lie, elevated this monster to grim power for his personal benefit. "The medical and surgical work of the missionary is proving a big factor in shattering this evil influence. "Sometimes the witch doctor has been ridiculed into the discard." "One of the most grushing and far-reaching episodes of this nature was a clash between one of our women missionaries and a powerful witch doctor in which the lady's false teeth won the day for civilization. "The native had been boasting that his powers were far greater than those of this missionary lady, and he boldly came into the mission station to make such a statement before her, and in the presence of highly interested blacks. "She asked him, I presume, since you are so clever, you can remove your teeth?" "No, people cannot move their teeth," he replied. "She said, 'Yes some people can, and if you are so great you ought to be able to move yours.' Again he denied that this feat was possible." "Looking him in the face she said: 'This is the way to do it,' and with a slight touch of her tongue upon her upper plate, she caused her false teeth visibly to descend. "The witch doctor seized the edge of a door to support himself. " 'Oh, they moved! They moved!' he cried. Then like an arrow he darted past the good lady and thru the laughing crowd of natives who understood the secret of the moving teeth. "It can easily be seen why these witch doctors are our greatest enemies. It must be remembered that whether we wish it or lot our teaching must enter into very definite opposition to theirs." WHIPPING DISCARDED IN DENVER SCHOOL& Shaking and Boxing of Ears Must Also Cease. DENVER, Colo. — "Thou shalt not whip" is to be the eleventh commandment for Denver school teachers hereafter. An order to this effect was issued by Charles M. Cole, superintendent of public schools. It is, in part, as follows: "After this date teachers may not administer corporal punishment to children without the written consent of the parent or guardian, and then only thru investigation by the principal. Corporal punishment shall always be administered in the presence of the principal and one other witness. "Shaking, boxing of ears, slapping of children are all considered corporal punishments and will not be tolerated. Compelling children to stand upon the floor or in the halls is not an indication of good control." FINDS COSTLY RING IN FISH It had a Diamond in It That Had Been DANVILLE, Ill. — That truth is stranger than fiction was demonstrated at Hoopeston the other day when Ray Tilton, a young farmer, received a letter from Peoria saying a diamond ring, valued at $250, had been found in the stomach of a fish which had been caught in the Illinois river. When Tilton was at Peoria, and while rowing on the river the ring dropped off his finger. He never expected to see it again, and was much surprised to receive the letter. The writer said he caught the fish and, while dressing it, saw something bright fall out of the stomach. He also said he would be glad to send the ring to Hoopeston if Tilton would send the reward offered in a Peoria newspaper. The owner sent a check for $50 to the Peoria man. LAZIEST MAN IS DISCOVERED Makes Phonograph Do Work of Whistling for Birds. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. — F. E. Batturs, general passenger agent at San Francisco for the Southern Pacific, has found the laziest man. The "l. m." lives in New York, where his wife raises canary birds. The wife works all day and far into the night. The husband's duty hitherto has been to sit in an arm chair and whistle to the birds, encouraging them to develop their vocal talents. This finally became too strenuous and he now has a phonograph to do his whistling.