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Johnson and Roberts' Great Fight Dancing Every Thursday Evening at Barksdale's Academy, THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR. No. 44 Johns ELK ON RANCHES REPLACING CATTLE TWELVE COLORADO MEN NOW ARE RAISING ANIMALS. CADIZ. — Miss Pearl Beatrice Fleming, reader and importer, of Delaware will give a recital at the A. M. E. church, Thursday evening. —Mr. Charles Wallace of Pittsburgh was here, the past week — Mrs. Susan Brown is home from Columbus. —Mrs. Ida Bowles and Mrs. Drew of Oberlin are here visiting. —William drowned, last Friday. Funeral from the A. M. E. church, Tuesday afternoon, Rev. C. H. Young officiating. His parents and relatives have the sympathy of all in their deep sorrow. —Mrs. Jessie Taylor, visited out of town. 'Decoration day,'—Mrs. Sarah Bossel was in Flushing, recently. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have their names entered in the 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 at kinds, including entertainment, must 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. HIGGINSPORT.—The S. S. institute of the first district met here with the local Baptist S. S. Rev W. Jackson, pres. Brother Thomas Givens, sapt. is to be commended for giving $10 the largest contribution in S. S. for the work of the wide-wide church. Rev. J. J. Burr, vice-pres., preached, Sunday morning, and received two candidates for baptism. The pastor will baptize Junge 16. There will also be a rally. Total amount collected at the conference was $18. The pastor at Hipley; Prof. Gentry, Portsmouth; Miss Minnie Burr, Georgetown; were live wires during the convention. HILLSBORO.—Mrs. Minnie Trimble and daughter, Helen, returned to Cleveland, Monday after an extended visit here.—Roy Greene spent Sunday in Sabina.—Mrs. Andrew Ellis, Miss Kate Christy of Cincinnati and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Butler of Cleveland spent Decoration day here.—Mrs. Elizabeth Trimble is visiting her sister in Washington C. H.—Mrs. A. F. Donaldson of Columbus visited here. this week.—L. H. R. Carsey of New Orleans, Miss Daisy Warren, Mrs. Oma Wilson, Miss Caroline Warren, Mrs. Sonny Wilson visited Mrs. Allain Burton.—Miss Mabel Williams of Columbus visited her parents here. Thursday.—Rev. H. C. Pierce hold quarterly meeting. Sunday.—Mrs. George Hudson is visiting her parents at Blenn.—Mrs. John H. Johnson of Cincinnati spent a few days here with her mother.—Mrs. Grace Kittrell and daughter. Miss Susan Day and Mrs. Stella Gales visited Camp Sherman, Thursday.—Mrs. Eather Hough of Cincinnati spent a few days here with her sister. Mrs. Lang Young.—Mrs. Lyman Kilgour and daughters returned to Westerville, accompanied by her sister. Miss Mary Williams.—Memorial services were held at the Baptist church, Decoration night.—Rev. J. J. Burr preached Sunday in the absence of Rev. J. G, Orr. YOUNGSTOWN—There are two Afro-American units at Camp Ipton, N. Y., Brigade. Headquarters—the 367th Regiment of Infantry, or "The Buffaloes," as they are better known, and the 351st Machine Gun Battalion. All of the captains, except one commanding the Headquarters Company (white) and one attached, are former non-comissioned officers of the Regular Army. Among them are two who have certificates of merit for gallantry in action under fire. All of them have been in two or more campaigns, and most of them were with Pershing in Mexico. All of them have had service in the Phillipine Islands. The commanding officer of Dancing IN UNION IS STRENGTH They Are Cheaper to Feed Than Steers and Profits From Sale Are Very Large. If elk ranches continue to increase in Colorado as they have in the past ten years elk meat will become cheap and plentiful, and can be purchased from any butcher as readily as mutton, pork, or beef. At present there are about twelve elk ranches in the State of Colorado, and on these ranches elk are raised, not for the hunter, but for the butcher and zoological gardens. Several men in Colorado have conducted elk ranches for years and have made money out of them. Barrett Littlefield, a rancher of Routt County, owns the biggest elk ranch in the country. This ranch is situated in northern Colorado, near the Wyoming State line. The man began gathering his herd years ago when elk were plentiful in northern Colorado. He saw the inroads the hunters were making on these animals and so decided to secure a herd of his own before they were all gone. Mr. Littlefield was formerly in the cattle raising business, but he has given that up for elk. Each elk ranch has to be well fenced, and as elk are great jumpers, the fence has to be built high, with the posts set fairly close together. Woven wire is used in constructing the fences. Elk are easier to care for than cattle and require very little feeding during the winter, and the profits from their sale are very large. Under domesticated conditions the increase of the elk is fully equal to that, of cattle. While elk meat has a distinctive flavor it suggests nutton rather than beef, and at the same time it is said that the chemical composition is about the same as the latter. The hides of the elk are much more valuable, commercially than are the hides of the steers. The elk ranches of today are looking forward the future and their present herds are only the nucleus around which they expect to build up a business that will in time rival that of cattle raising, and when that time comes they expect to reap their reward. WONDERFUL TACTICS WHEN SPIDERS FIGHT Battles to the Death for Web Material and Existence. When two or more spiders fight there is usually a good reason for the furious attack and vigorous defense that always follow. It is not generally known that after a certain time has elapsed spiders become incapable of spinning a web thru lack of sufficient material. The glutinous substance from which the spider spins its slender web is limited; therefore, spiders cannot keep up the construction of new snakes for their prey when the old are destroyed. Very often when the web material is exhausted, they are able to avail themselves of the web-producing powers of their younger or more fortunate neighbors, and this they do without any scruple whatsoever. As soon as a spider's web-constructing material has become exhausted and its last web destroyed, it usually sets out in search of another home, and, unless it should find one that is unoccupied, a battle usually ensues, which ends only with the retreat or death of the invader or defender. Such a struggle is intensely interesting, and will reveal some wonderful tactics and skill in spider warfare. The invader usually comes off victorious, atho in some cases the defender offers such a stiff fight that it is able to hold its own in spite of the attack of the inpruder which is in desperate straits. One curious fact is that the web material will increase after so long a period, and the spider will spin a net in which to share its many varieties of prey in the form of different species of insects. Spiders that are very successful in capturing food are often set upon by other spiders which have, for some reason not been as successful as their neighbor. Natural Question. Domesticile—"Oo! Oo! Oo! Oo! I saw a ghost on the back stairs! I'm sure I did! It was a woman!" Mistress—"Horrors! How was she dressed?" THE GAZETTE What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. MARIETTA—Mrs. Addie Morris has been very ill. The district superintendent of St. Paul's church was here week before last. The trustees gave a "shoe social" in old K.P. hall, Thursday evening.—Mr. and Mrs. John Scott and pupils will give their spring recital at W. M. P. church, July 1, 1914. W. Va. have moved to West Union, W. Va., have moved to Kentucky.—Mr. Jno. Scott has moved to 1009 Orchard St. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25,1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1918 the Machine Gun Co. is white, all others are colored. All of the officers of the Buffaloes are colored excepting the field and staff officers and commanding officers of the Headquarters Company and Supply Company. The battalion adjutants are colored. The regiment has had a higher average regiment ever stationed at Camp Upton. Incidentally, the 387th Regiment is the only regiment in the National Army with a name, regimental stationery, regimental swagger-suck, and is one of the very few that have regimental song, regimental pennant, regimental basket-ball team; and it acknowledges no superior among the armies of the world. The regiment also has a corps. A number of local Elks are preparing to attend the Elks' party in Cleveland, Tuesday. Louisia. Edwards court and Logan judge will elect officers, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, respectively. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Bobson, Mrs. Leonora Williams and Mrs. Bertha Taylor were in Cleveland, last week. — East side lodge in Letchworth, last week. — Robert Leflett's Monday evening. — Robert Jenkins was critically ill, the first of the week. — Mrs. Chas. Jackson attended graduation exercises in Salem; this week. JOHN JOHN W. SHERMAN HON. CHAS. W. FAIRBANKS Former Vice-President and U. S. Senator, is Dead Indianapolis, Ind.—Hon. Charles Warren Fairbanks, former vice president and U. S. Senator for Indiana, died at his home here, Tuesday evening. Death was due to intestinal nephritis, which has been a chronic allment with him but not regarded as particularly serious until recently. All members of the former vice-president's family, except Major Richard Fairbanks, who is in France, were at his bedside. The deceased was a friend of the race. 10550 EUCLID AVENUE REV. CARL W. HASKEELL Mr. John Hinskell of Columbus arrived in the city, Monday morning, to visit his son, Harry and wife, who located here some months ago and are doing well. Another son, Rev. Carl Hinskell, also of Columbus, has been appointed a chaplain in the New National Army and sent to Camp Taylor, near Louisville, Ky., where he is to undergo six weeks' intensive training before being assigned to one of our regiments. GEN. JAMES S. CLARKSON Former G. O. P. Leader, Editor and a Life-Long Friend of the Race, Dead New York City, - General James S. Clarkson, 76, chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1886 and 1892, is dead here. He was born at Brookville, Ind. Burial will be at Des Moines. Gen. Clarkson and a brother owned and edited the Iowa State Register, years ago, and was one of the race's stamestest Friends, all during his life. If memory serves us, correctly he was also a veteran of the war of the rebellion. How It Worked Out "Recently a retired politician of note was giving a young man about to break into the political arena a bit of advice. "I've been all through it, son," he said. "I've had everything it is possible to get except the presidency. When I started in politics things looked very bright—I got positions of trust, big appointments and everything I wanted. Now all I have after years of activity is a lot of warm encounters and cold friends." SOME PERTINENT QUESTIONS Of Historical and Racial Interest to Our People Anderson, N. J.—Roy. Geo. Wilson Brent (white) in a magazine article if a few years ago asked the following question questions: "Where is the white man's record of his ancient gods, where are the, ruined towers, the buried cities, the crumbling monuments of his departed glory? Why does he always refer to other races for examples, whether it be to the Spartans for courage, Romans for mobility, Egypt for mystery; India for wealth, the American Indian for decapitation; the French for identity? Why is all a known history captured in the black, yellow or brown man's name and country if the white race is so ancient? Why do all the travellers in Africa, etc., claim to have been where no white man had ever been before? Why are the most inspiring legends, love stories, etc., the finest art work, the oldest records of man's labor on earth, the Egyptian Pyramids, the tower of Babel the Sphinx, etc., all found outside of the country the white man claims as his home, and all alone has undeniably all the chance fistles formerly ascribed to the leprous? Why is he so religious and yet so worldly, infused, and avaricious? Why is it that he alone remains unaccounted for when the earth was divided between the yellow, black and white man for neighbor and called him brother. What is the race anyhow?" Comment unnecessary. FIRST FULL ACCOUNT OF IT GET COVETED FRENCH CROSS By THOMAS M. JOHNSON Staff Correspondent The N. Y. Evening Sun With the American Army in France, May 20. The fine heroism of two Negro soldiers who, although wounded, beat off a raiding party of twenty-five Germans, killing and wounding five of them in a fierce hand to, hand fight, offers an auspicious opportunity for announcing that the American Negro troops, of which the New York Army, holding the front line trenches in the region" of Ste. Menchouh, west of Verdun. The Negro troops have many unique accomplishments to their credit: They've already been over the top in company, with the French, entering German trenchs under barrage and bringing back three German prisoners, and No Man's Land has no mystery for them over it and have gone as far as the Horse wire entanglements almost every night. Since entering the trenches a month ago they've taken over the French a long sector which they are now holding—have been visited by at least a dozen French generals—Petain himself has sent his guide to convey his good wishes. These troops are acting in closest association as a part of the French army. They have been so detailed in the present work that their contribution in the present crisis. But the heroism of the two Negro troops in the fight that occurred on last Thursday night now makes it possible to reveal what the sensor then deleted. It should be remarked that as achieved by the deeds of the soldiers as they achieved by any American soldiers since they came to France. Their heroism recalls some of the old tales of devotion of Negro troops in the Civil-War. The two men are Harry Johnson, 23 years old, of Monroe street, Albany, and Needham Roberts, son of Rev. Norman J. Roberts of Trenton, N. J. Both have spent time in New York City. They have played a role in the Croix Guerre before the French army, which means they will receive the cross with the palm. The citations say that "Johnson, finding himself on sentinel duty at night and being attacked by a group of a dozen Germans, but one knife decompacted two others with a knife and although wounded by revolver bullets and of the right hand of the fight, went to the assistance of his wounded comrade, whom the enemy was about to drag away, and continued fighting until the Germans were put to flight. He gave a magnificent example of courage and energy. "Roberts, attacked and seriously wounded in the leg, by a group of Germans, continued to fight with grenades, although he had fallen to the and until the enemy had been put to flight. A good and brave soldier." STATIONED IN MARSH GRASS Here is the full story of what happened: Johnson and Roberts, with three others, were on duty at 3 o'clock. Thursday morning at a small advanced post. The post was on marshy land and in the midst of heavy, rank grass. The two men were on patrol while the three others were getting a little sleep in one of the dugouts. About 2 o'clock in the morning, as the investigation later undertaken showed, the party of three men was on the ground of abandoned trench to the right of the post and then started to work their way toward the sentries. Johnson heard them as they cut through the barbed wire encircling the post, but Roberts insisted that the noise was made by rats which infest the trenches. But hearing the noise repeated, Johnson became convinced that the Boches were approaching and shouted at the top of his voice: "Here they come." Fifty yards bar of that held by the two Negroes was a larger post, and at Johnson's cry a flare was sent up from there, which disclosed the dark forms of the Germans breaking through the wire. BOTH WOUNDED BY GRENADES They were scarcely fifteen yards away, and as the flare went up the Germans instantly threw hand grenades, which exploded with a crash, wounding both Negroes. Roberts was struck by fragments on the right elbow, and the left wrist on the right hip and left leg. Both were knocked down by the concussion and Roberts was not able to get up again: But despite the suddenness of the attack and their wounded condition, both of them struggled toward their own grenade supply, and although both were on the ground at that time, three several of the gre nades just as the first Boche entered the post: Johnson managed to get on his feet and shot the Boche through the chest with a rifle. A second German leaped over the body of the German man, taking his rifle as a club, brought it down with a crash on his head. He dropped with a groan, but there were more coming, and he saw one big German throttle him. The German men were helping him and the three were trying to take him prisoner and carry him off. "The American report is too modest. As a result of verbal information furnished me it appears that the blacks were extremely brave and this little combat does honor to the Americans." This story of the fight will make a splendid paragraph when the time comes for writing the history of the war. It will show that when it comes to a question of heroism there is no color-line. Mrs. Isaac Reed, E. 36th St., died suddenly of acute indigestion, last week. He funeral services were held at Shiloh Baptist church, Rev. C. G. Fishback officiating. —Buoy War Savings Stamps— IN-UNION IS STRENGTH SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS BEST PAYING ROAD HAS ONLY 2 CARS OKLAHOMA MAN CLEARS $30 A DAY INVENTURE Passengers on Railway Which Is But Eleven Miles Long Sit on the Floor. Webbers Falls, Okla.—This place boasts of being the headquarters of the most profitable railroad, for its length, in the country. The odd part of it is that the road had to fall before it finally became a money-maker. The railroad—the Webbers Falls, Shawnee and Western—connects Webbers Falls, a town of about 1,500 inhabitants, with Warner, which has about 400 residents. The road, which is eleven miles long, was built by popular subscription several years ago, operailed a few months, then went broke. After that, until its present management, no cars were run over it. Something over a year ago, M. J. Maples, seeing that the people of Webbers Falls wanted the road, ordered an old inspection car from Chicago, put it on the road and began to operate it. According to figures obtainable, the road is clearing from $25 to $30 a day. Maples declares that, considering his investment—$300 for the car—this is the greatest profit of any road in the country. The car is operated by a four-cylinder gasoline engine. There are no seats, and the passengers sit on the floor. There is room for 17 persons. The car is lighted with electricity, and on the front is painted "No. 5." If business justifies it the rolling stock will be increased. It now consists of the inspection car and a hand car, used for freight. The car carries the mails between Webbers Falls and Warner. This, it is said, more than pays the operating expense. The "train" runs on a regular schedule—three trips a day. Including stops, the time for the distance is 33 minutes. The car stops at every wagon road. The one-way fare is 50 cents. Maples must get $1.50 or more for each trip. If there is only one passenger he must pay the full amount, if only two passengers the fare is 75 cents each, if three or more the regular fare is in effect. It is possible to charter a "special train" on the route by paying $1.50. This is at the rate of 13 7-11 cents per mile, and is probably the cheapest special etrain rate in effect on any special train rate in effect on any Posted just inside—the car, where every passenger can read—is a large notice. It says: "This car is operated by no railroad company in the United States, nor is it operated under any lease or permission given by any company or persons or person." The notice releases Maples from liability, in case of accident to passengers. TOE PRINTS OF BABIES TO PREVENT MIX-UPS Novel System of Identification Is Adopted In Baltimore Hospital: Baltimore, Md. No longer will young mothers whose babies are born at the Maryland General Hospital or this city live in fear lost Archibald Augustus or Guandolyn Genevieve, taken from them for temporary rest after the visits of solicitous and baby-talking uncles and aunts, may become mixed up with some other baby in the general nursery and be returned to the wrong mother. They are applying the Bertillon system. When a baby arrives in the hospital and becomes a member of somebody's family, he is taken to the Bertillon bureau. But instead of prints being made of his fingers, his toes are the things that count. The tiny foot is inked and its impression taken on paper. Then that paper is marked with his name and other valuable information and placed on file. The Relative Cost. A physician was called in one of the suburban towns to a boy, who was suffering from tonsilitis. The boy's mother was relating the affair to a neighbor of more mature years, commending the doctor for his treatment. The response of the elderly woman was: "Well, in old times when a boy had a sore throat we used to take a strip of salt pork and sprinkle it plenitively with pepper and bind it around the boy's throat, but at the present price of salt pork it may be cheaper to have a doctor." one year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... 1.00 Three months ..... 50 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or reg- istered letter Entered at the postoffice in Clever land, Ohio, as second-class mail matter. Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH (Cuy. Central 513-K) Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, able that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWS-EST and BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 800,000 in Ohio. 75,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1918 Upon the whole we believe the Wilson administration now regrets it kept Theodore out of war. "Gen. Ballou misrepresented," said the Baltimore (Md.) Commonwealth and a dozen other race papers, last week. Piffle! Read his now notorious "Bulletin No. 35," brethren of the press. "I have always made it a rule," says Charles M. Schwab, "not to have any relative connected with one of my plants." Which must have made Mr. McAdoo, who is connected with a good many plants, administrative and political, look down his nose. With kindly forethought, Judge Hughes has been favored by the War Department in having assigned to assist him in his investigations the men who are to be investigated. The whitewash may be conveniently placed around, but we should be disappointed if they get the use of some certain well-known whiskers for a brush. Not satisfied with lynching a member of the race, recently, Erwin City, Tenn., white brutes have driven from that town all of its colored inhabitants, seriously crippling a number of local industries. A little "democracy" is sadly needed, these days, in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and indeed the entire south where the democratic party and mob violence reign supreme. --- If the six million colored people in this country, armed with the Constitution of the United States, with a million votes of their own to lean upon, and millions of white men at their backs whose hearts are responsive to the claims of humanity, have not sufficient spirit and wisdom to organize and combine to defend themselves from outrage, discrimination and oppression, it will be idle for them to expect that the Republican party or any other political party will organize and combine for them, or care what becomes of them—Hon. Frederick Douglass. --- The City Council of Columbia, S. C., has barred the infamous photoplay, "The Birth of a Nation." And Gov. Jas. M. Cox of Ohio has permitted for two years and continues to permit the malicious picture-play to be exhibited in Ohio. Our people of this state must not forget this for a single moment. When a South Carolina city can bar the miserable photoplay it is certainly past high time for every other part of the country to do the same thing. "This is our country, this is the land of the free and the home of the brave. Our good Bishop Henry M. Turner in his lifetime refused to sing "America—Our Country" "Tis of Thee;" saying that this was not his country, but I differ with him.—Rev. R. C. Ransom, editor of the A. M. E. Church Review, in a recent lecture at Dallas, Texas. And Bishop Henry M. Turner was a veteran of the War of the Rebellion, one of the ablest leaders the race has produced. He despised what is now generally referred to as camouflage. Can you blame him? Was he right or wrong? It is not disloyalty to answer these questions truthfully and honestly from a racial viewpoint. Be MEN and WOMEN; not despicable sycophants. Some of these latter, so-called leaders of the race, have almost reached the traitor stage in their miserable careers, as far as our people's vital interests are concerned. "THE MESS OF POTTAGE" An announcement informs us that the Cleveland Caterers' Association, with its recent dance, drew 1,067 "Negroes" to color-line Luna Park, and netted only $417.50 from the affair. It would be real interesting to know how much the park management made out of those 1,067 persons, thanks to the Caterers' Association. It undoubtedly strengthened the Luna Park management's determination to continue barring "Negroes" from its dance hall, skating rink and bathing pool. It could be compelled to open these places, too, to our people if they would only invoke the aid of our Ohio Civil Rights law—but it seems they will not do so. But what about an organization of "Negroes" that will "toll" thousands of its own people to a place like that merely to make a few paltry dollars? Where is their manhood, self and race respect? What is that spineless Ministers' Alliance doing that it does not have a word to say about such disgraceful and harmful acts, but on the contrary permits members of its organization to actively participate in affairs at colorline Luna park as speakers, etc.? Lord, have mercy on them! DR. MOTON RIGHT, THIS TIME In an address to two thousand of our people at Raleigh, N. C., one evening last week, Dr. Robert Moton, principal of Tuskegee, Ala., institute, said: "We" (having reference to our people who travel in the south), "pay the same fare yet are wedged in like sardines in a box while the conductor and his friends come in, smoke and spit on the floor in the presence of colored women who dare not protest for fear of being insulted or worse. Lynching, poor schools, unfair treatment and poor wages are the chief factor which are driving the Negro from the south. I am not asking for any special feavor for my race. I want no special privilege. But I do want and do ask, as every American citizen has a right to ask, that they be given every right and every privilege that every other American has." Dr. Moton is not only right in what he says but is also right in his selection of the time in which to say it, 'all others to the contrary notwithstanding. Now is the time to "stand up" for our rights and privileges as American citizens—while we, as an important part of the population of this great country, are "doing our bit" and more! Keep it up, Dr. Moton, and let every loyal one among us "second the motion" with all the power and strength at our command. BRUTALLY ASSAULTED By Three White Soldiers—A 20-Year- Old Girl of the Race. Dallas, Tex.-Miss Ida Jarnigan, aged 20, was brutally assaulted by three white soldiers here, recently. It is alleged that the matter has been suppressed by the authorities for the purpose of instituting an investigation. The assault occurred near the M. K. & T. tracks, and the examination of the body of the young lady showed that she had received terrible treatment at the hands of the brutes. The girl asserts that she was walking on Maple Ave., and that three men garbed in the U. S. army uniform, seized her and carried her to a lonely spot, where the outrage was committed. She further stated that they threatened to kill her if she sounded an alarm for help, and that the three American "Huns" equally assaulted her. Officers Plant and Smallley (white) made an investigation where the assault occurred, but of course could gain no trace of the guilty parties in that way. The matter was reported to the military authorities for the purpose of obtaining immediate action and a thorough investigation. COLONEL "MISSISSIPPI" COLES "Off again, on again, gone again—Flanagan," represents very well what happened to the 58 Afro-American officers of the Artillery at Camp Dix, N. J. It was found that they were not catching on to the training at Dix as rapidly as had been expected, so that all were detailed to the special school at Camp Meade. As soon as the young officers reached that camp, Col. Coles, who halls from Mississippi, marshalled them in line and then gave orders to divest themselves of shoulder straps and other officers' equipment and provide themselves with private' uniforms, etc. These were young officers Colonel Coles of Mississippi was dealing with, but not inexperienced. They knew as Coles should have known, that no one except General Pershing has the right to demote officers of the U. S. Army. Such a howl was set up that it was heard in the War Department at Washington, with the result that Colonel Coles received orders to transfer the young officers back to Camp Dix. There they arrived after a four days' absence and re-established themselves in their old quarters." Some More American "Huns" Savannah Ga.—One of the most brutal and savage crimes ever committed on a party of inoffensive people was enacted here, Sunday night, May 12, by a gang of prominent white brutes, who, bent on satisfying their murderous "Hun" appetite, drove with rapid speed a seven-passenger Pierce-Arrow automobile into a wedding party of sixty people standing on the street awaiting a car, causing injuries to eight people, namely, Nelson Davis and James Collins, who suffered broken legs; James Rives, severely cut; Miss Alma Gibbs, leg broken and large hole in head; Miss Mary Pinkney, broken leg; Miss Leah Marden, badly cut; Miss Belle Bibbs, and James Gadsen, severely wounded about head and face. One man, unknown to the party, was killed outright. "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, OHIO, JUNE 8, 1918 DOINGS OF THE RACE Within our knowledge Editor Harry C. Smith of The Cleveland (Ohio) Gazette has no peer as a pungent paraphraser.—Waxahachie (Tex.) Meddler THAT BALLO A White Friend of the Our Position—The Be Rescinded Ministers' Alli Madison, N. J. Editor Gazette, D to commend in toto too, for the editor May 25, '18, "Ballo Insult." You are an editor, I have read, fallacy of his would gument. I have ce the press (during service) but you have opinion and voiced a factly. Why the thru made the Division can break it if it be maker." Your severe castigation of local (Cl Thomas E. Lilley (white) and Ella M. Wilkins, colored, were married in Suffolk, Va., by Rev Harrison H. Butler. This is the first case of the kind in Suffolk. A recent dispatch, to daily newspapers, from St. Paul, announces that Earl Perkins, age 12, is the champion speller of Ramsey county, Minn. He defeated seventy-eight white children. Our people of Erwin, Tenn., were forced to witness the lynching and burning at a stake of Thos. Devert, one of their number, a few weeks ago. Then they were driven from the town. The government at Washington says our people have bought more Liberty bonds proportionately and have furnished more men for the army than any other group according to population. Walters Institute, a Zion A. M. E. normal and industrial school at Warren, Ark. has just been given a 50-acre farm valued at $5,000. New buildings, to replace those destroyed by fire, are to be erected at once. Lieut. A. R. Tuck of Oberlin was recently dismissed from the U. S. army, at Camp Sherman. He was commissioned at the Officers' Training school, Des Moines, Iowa. He is eligible to the draft, it is said, but cannot rise above the rank of a private. Thomas B. Sears, 16 West 99th St., enjoys the distinction of being the first to recover damages under the amended Civil Rights Law, this week receiving $100 from John J. Quigley, 38th St. and 8th Ave., for having been discriminated against in his saloon on account of color.—N. Y. Age. Some tell us to wait till the war is over before we demand our rights, but now is the time to demand them, like the women who are insistent, and would not be still till Congress would hear their cause. So let us demand our rights, and do it now.—Rev. R. C. Ransom, editor A. M. E. Church Review. Rev. R. H. Windsor, residing near Rayville, L.a., has fourteen sons in the army. Each son was a volunteer, having enlisted in the regular infantry branch of the service. He has four more sons, all of whom will reach maturity within two years and also a daughter. Eighteen children, all boys, were by his first wife, now dead, and one set was triples, named Matthew, Mark and Luke. Luke McLuke claims that the oldest political story is the one about the old Negro who was a witness in a case in court, and was being questioned the attorney. How old did "asked the attorney" "Eighty-fo" was the reply. "Were you a slave before the war?" "Yes, sah." "Did you fight in the Civil War?" "Yes, sah." "Which side did you fight on?" "I fit on the Republican side, sah." "He gave a magnificent example of bravery and energy," says General Foch of the French army of Henry Johnson. "A good and brave soldier," he says of Needham Roberts, whose life Johnson saved. "Both men fought bravely," says General Pershing, formerly with the Tenth cavalry, in his official communique. They beat off an attack of twenty-five men, bringing them to the floor. For their bravery they should be given the French cross, and in addition Johnson is to get the coveted palm. A group of white Red Cross workers at Greensboro, N. C., had arranged lunches for a train of soldiers that was to pass through the city. When the Red Cross workers reached the station and found that the train was loaded with colored soldiers they deliberately refused to pass out their lunches, and right-about-faced and left the station in disgust and disappointment. A thoroughly disgraceful and un-American thing to do, in view of the fact that the Negro soldiers were no doubt then en route to the front to help make liberty secure for the very persons in Greensboro who refused to do them a patriotic courtesy.—Birmingham (Ala.) Reporter We are living in an age and an epoch which is characterized by a growing and insistent demand for justice and democracy. The United States is sending men, money and munitions to the battlefields of Europe as its demand for justice, freedom and equality of opportunity for all peoples, and it would be well for the Americans at this time to remember that here in our own country for the past fifty years, since the abolition of slavery, is a race loyal, patriotic people who are not enjoying at the hands of this government here at home the principles of that democracy for which we are fighting to make the world safe, and in which fight God helping us, we will be victorious. W. T. Franck, St. Paul, Minn. "Mere Woman" Again Secretary Lansing wrote a letter to J. Lewis Butler, messenger in the State Department at Washington, congratulating him on the purchase of $1,150 in United States Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps. Mr. Butler has been in the government service for the past thirty years and in this time he never received more than $720 per year. He is a Marylander and has raised a family of four children. Butler gets the congratulation but ten to one Mrs. Butler deserves the credit.—Baltimore (Md.) Afro-American. Where is Robert Scott? Robert Scott, brother of Wm. Johnson of 2198 E. 37th St., Cleveland, O., has been missing since February of last year. He was last heard from when in East Youngstown. Anyone knowing his whereabouts will please write the Gazette or Wm. Johnson. Anyone in Youngneers' Bldg., Cleveland, O.—Adv. THAT BALLOU INSULT A White Friend of the Race Endorse Our Position—The Order Should Be Rescinded —Cleveland Ministers' Alliance Officers Madison, N. J., May 28, 1918. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir;—I want to commend in toto and thank you, too, for the editorial, the week of May 25, '18, "Ballon's Blunder and Insult." You are the only colored editor, I have read, who showed the fallacy of his would be defender's argument. I have ceased writing for the press (during active ministerial service) but you have expressed my opinion and voiced my sentiments exactly. Why the threat—"White men made the Division (924) and they can break it if it becomes a trouble maker." Your severe castigation, or arraignment, of local (Cleveland) "Ministers Alliance Officers" shows your fearless regard for civic righteousness. Were you not living above the common level of the ordinary church member and city politician you would not dare do this. Keep up the fight! and may God strengthen your arm, sharpen the sword and help you do much good in the name of the holy child Jesus. I have cut out the presidential petition, to disapprove the death sentence imposed upon the colored soldiers, and shall forward it as per request in The Gazette. Get up one like that for the Balloon order No. 35 asking that it be rescinded and that he be reprimanded and oblige. Your shineer admired and well- wished. (Rev.) Geo. Wilson Brent. THE RIVETERS (To the crew of Charles Knight, champion pirate) Forth from Europe's war-rent sky Above the din and battle cry, Came a million shouts from a million lips For ships and food and men and still more ships! The babes of Belgium must not die— The submarine we must defy— We must oppose the Han's advance And stanch the bleeding veins of big- souled France! Black men responded to the cry, Black men who dare and do die; They built the ships to aid the fight— A sable crew led by a sable Knight! America's most loyal son America's most loyal son Behind "the man behind the gun." With skillful hand and cheerful face, Built ships to save men of another race. They drove the rivets in the ships With aye a prayer upon their lips: "Help us, O God of war and fate, Anew to rivet our own ship of state!" (Prof.) WM. PICKENS. Dean Morgan College, Baltimore, Md. Literary Notice With God and the Colors.—A Mother's Prayers for Her Soldier Boy, by Leila Atwood Foust, with special designed cover and florede-Isa border printed in khaki color around each page; second printing before the first was off the press; price 50 cents net per copy. The Vir Publishing Co. 200-214 North Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Our boys in the service are "going over" with the deepest sympathy of all patriots; they are on our hearts and minds during the day and in the wakeful hours of the night. This book was written with this supreme idea in view—to help mothers to know that strength must come from the Lord to the mothers as well as the boys. Mrs. Foust has a boy in the service and these devotions voice not only her own desires, but the aspirations of Christian motherhood everywhere. They cannot fail to inspire, strengthen and deepen their lives. It is a fine book to place into every home where there is a service flag. Our Officers Transferred Camp Meade, Admiral, Md.-Fifty-eight officers on duty, here the Fourth Officers' Training School, 92d Division, have been transferred to Camp Dix, Wrightstown, N. J. They all are lieutenants. Our officers of the 349th and 350th Field Artillery regiments, which have been stationed at Camp Dix since their organization, have been informed that the War Department has decided to transfer them to other branches of the service. They do not know they have had a square deal. All are graduates of the Ft. Dis Moines Officers' Training School, where they labored hard to prepare themselves for officers in the new army. CORRESPONDENTS WANTED The old reliable Gazette destres an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially destrous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Dayton, Akron, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, Blackstone building, Cleveland, O., and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will be pleased to send at once the addresses of persons in the cities named and others in the state, to whom we can write relative to the matter. * DARE TO DO YOUR DUTY * "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it."—Abraham Lincoln. PROTEST AGAINST WRONG. To submit in silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on Protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the Inquisition yet would serve the law, and callosities decide our least fear. Decline the law we must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. To The Loyal! Five of our soldier boys are at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, awaiting death as a result of the recent Court Martial proceedings growing out of the Houston riot. 'Though these men have been sentenced to die, their cases will be reviewed by President Wilson, and he has the power to commute their sentences to life imprisonment, if he will. He can even pardon them, if he desires so to do. These men were victims of rank prejudice. They were forced to take the law into their own hands by reason of the oppression and insults offered them by southern whites. Their cases are not ordinary ones, and they deserve extraordinary consideration. Their comrades who died a few weeks ago were hanged without executive intervention. These five boys have a chance to live, if the President says so. "The Gazette" urges our people to fill out the appeal to the President, to be found on this page and also to write a letter to his or her U. S. Senator and Congressman asking that the President be urged to save these boys. They are victims of peculiar circumstances and conditions born of prejudice and hatred. Write today; help to save them. FILL THIS OUT AND SEND IT White House, Washington, D.C. The undersigned respectfully requests you to disapprove the sentence of death imposed upon the Colored soldiers in the court martial at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Tired of Saving Wheat? You don't know what it is to be Tired. Patronize The Gazette Advertisers FOOD WILL WIN THE WAR COAL CONSUMERS MUST BUY WINTER SUPPLY NOW Consumers must buy their Winter supply of Coal during the Spring and Summer for storage if Production is to be maintained at a maximum and the country enabled to avoid a serious Coal shortage this Winter J. LOMSKY 3820 Central Avenue We carry full line of Dry Goods Ladies and Gents Furnishings Blood Remedy Spring laziness is a condition caused by impoverished blood. 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Orton, sec. 2667 E. 40th St. Milton Watkins, chairman, 2524 E. 30th St. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Butler spent Decoration day in Hillsboro. Mrs. Minnie Trimble and daughter have returned from an extended visit in Hillsboro. Mr. Edward Daw continues to improve. Miss Ruth Sissie, teacher at Walden university, Nashville, Tenn., is home to spend her summer vacation. W. H. Martin, is convalescent after several months' illness with solitary rheumatism. Mrs. Slaughter of Springfield visited H. S. Slaughter and other brothers, last week. Mr. Will McKinney, porter in Trimble's barber shop, died the first of the week after a lingering illness. Mr. Harry Rollins has returned from New Vienna to spend the summer in Cleveland. "Tate's Stars" have been admitted to Class A in the C. B. A. Our people should own more of the ice cream, cigar and grocery stores, meat and meat shops in Central Ave. Herbert L. Taylor, of E. 45d St, which quite ill, last week, is convalescent. Mrs. Sophia Bailey, of E. 103d St. was hostess to the Present Day club, Tuesday. Jacob E. Reed and Mrs. Carter of this city were married, recently. Mrs. George Buchanan of independence Road left to visit her sister in Harrisburg, Pa. George H. Turner, who was in Charity (St. Vincent's) hospital for five weeks, was moved to his sister. Mrs. John Ferguson's, E. 42d St. May 26. He is convalescing rapidly. The Pleasant Company club met at the P. W. A. recently. Next meeting at Mrs. Dotsen's, 2256 E. 43d St. Mt. Zion Cong. Aid society, group No. 2, wishes to thank the friends for liberal patronage, May 30. Mrs. Tilley, pres. Mr. and Mrs. Jos. H. Bobson, Mesdames Leonora Williams and Bertha Taylor of Youngstown were in the city last week. BEST FOR THE BLOOD — Puro Herbs. Sold only at Brown Drug Co. E. 28th St. and Central Ave.— Ady. Mrs. John Nevill, of Geneva, and brother, Thomas J. Jackson, a prominent business man of Anniston, Ala., were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Dennie, last week. Mrs. Wallace Bolden of E. 39th St., entertained the Tuesday afternoon Thimble club, Tuesday. William Simms, foreman at the Ols Steel plant, was shot to death by a drilled employee last week Tuesday night. Sandusky Afro Americans want one of our physicians to settle in that city and it is now a good field for the right person. J. B. Barbour's "Oberlin Males," given at Engineers' hall, Monday evening, is a creditable musical composition. A large audience was in attendance. Benefit of Shiloh church. Warren J. Cossey has accepted a position as head on Mr. Chas. Schwab's private car. "Lorente M," with headquarters in N. Y. City. Success. "Warrry." 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.-Adv. Miss Fostina, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Trimble, Lakewood, is a member of the class of 1918 of Lakewood High School and has the honor of being the first member of the race to graduate from that institution. It will pay our people from E. 33d to E. 40th streets, at least, and as far west on Central Ave., as E. 22d St., to patronize Jacob Schneider's bakery at 3028 Central Ave.-Adv. Sunday when it is hot, go to the Sachs-Mitchell Drug Store, cor. Central Ave. and E. 14th St. and get a pint of ice cream free! See their advertisement elsewhere in this paper.-Adv. Dr. E. A. Dale held a consultation with Dr. Hammond of Charity hospital, last week Monday, on the condition of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Geo. Sampson, Sr. who suffered a nervous collapse recently. Cleveland Council of our Women held a meeting recently at the Old Folk's home. Miss Hazel Mountain was re-elected pres.; Mrs.ella White, vice-pres.; Mrs. Mamie Ros', second vice-pres.; Mrs. Fannie Shook Suggs, sec.; Mrs. Amanda Taylor, cor. sec.; Mrs. Ella Abbott, treas. Miss Bessie Blakemore Cook and Mrs. Ethel Moss Dorsey went to Camp --- Sherman, Sunday week, the former to visit her fiance, Paul Marshall, and the latter to visit her husband, Sergt. William Dorsey, both of whom are expecting orders to leave camp soon. Wm. Boydkin, E. 37th St., indicted by the grand jury on a charge of manslaughter, April 11, after Sam. Thompson had died of knife wounds, has retained as his attorney, former Senator John P. Green; Boydkin was arrested in the East. About 500 of our soldier boys, en route from Camp Grant, III, marched from the Nickle Plate depot to Union Station, Monday morning. They were a fine lot of "husky" lads, mostly from the south, and made a splendid showing. Mrs. Marie T. Perkins, general secretary of St. John's S. S. and president of Crispus Attucks Auxiliary of the Red Cross, recently organized by members of St. John's church, completed the three classes at the Red Cross center and is entitled to wear the Red Cross veil. Thos. Jackson of Anniston, Ala., was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Dennie, of E. 90th St., last week. Mr. Jackson is in the dry goods, shoe and furnishings business, and may relocate in this city. Accompanied by Mrs. Dennie, he called on The Gazette, last week Friday. The "Tate Stars" defeated the Rice Camp nine, 8 to 2, on Decoration day at Woodland Hills park. The feature of the game was the batting of Sharkey. R. Moore pitched a strong game for the "Stars," having seven strike-outs and letting his opponents down with but six scattered hits. Royal Milton, 2198 E. 29th St., employee at night at the Colonial Hotel cell in an elevator shaft, last Friday evening, and severely injured himself. He was the City hospital but removed to his Monday evening. He was still confined to his bed when The Gazette went to press. Thursday. Mrs. Carrie Smith of Scovill Ave. who died recently of acute indigestion, was the mother of Mrs. Wm. Keedy, Mrs. Bertha Gillespie and Mrs. Mamie Gillespie and Mrs. Mamie Keeedy. She lived with Mr. and Mrs. Keedy. The funeral was held at Shilob Baptist church, of which she was a member. The floral tributes were numerous and beautiful. The editor of The Gazette is indebted to the Hon. Chas. W. Anderson of N. Y. City for a prettily printed (in colors) and finely illustrated copy of the proceedings incident to the presentation of colors to the 367th inf. by the great Union League club of N. Y. City. National Secretary John R. Shillady of N. Y. addressed a large audience at Cory M. E. church, Sunday afternoon, in the interest of the N. A. A. C. P. "Moorfield Storey" drive. President Young said noting about starting suit against that color-line E. E. restaurant-keeper. It is said that a woman who several weeks ago moved into a house in Central Ave. in the vicinity of E. 31st St., has had it "pulled," three times by the police in that period of time in spite of the fact that she was promised "protection from the police." How about it? C. C. Cade, of Denver, Colo., representing the American Woodman, accompanied by Mr. Kane, arrived the first of the week via St. Louis, and are stopping on E. 49th and E. 49th Sts., respectively. They will establish a branch of the organization in this city. Mr. Men's Sedulous club gave its annual outing at Hiram House Camp, Chagrin Falls, Decoration day. The baseball game between the married and single men resulted in favor of the latter. Messrs. Samuel Perry, P. L. Williams and A. Stokes were the committee of arrangements. Thomas Bentley and Daniel Richardson, both of 2274 E. 27th pl., were in Charity hospital, Saturday, because of knife wounds. "They were injured with the same knife." Detective Butcher said. "Bentley cut Richardson and Richardson took the knife from Bentley and slashed him." Bentley is charged with cutting to wound and Richardson with stabbing to wound. At a recent called meeting of The Church of the Opening song, "Nearer My God to Thee," was sung by Mrs. A. L. Goldsmith; scripture reading, St. John, 15th chapter, 1st to 12th chan, inclusive, Mrs. L. S. Bradley, who also played for a song, "Our Father," sung by Mrs. C. H. Terry. Officers appointed: Mrs. Bradley, pres.; Mrs. A. L. Goldsmith, vice-pres.; Mrs. Shedrick, sec.; Mrs. Terry assist, and supt. S. S. Miss Ruth Moore, graduate of the Ohio College of Chiropody, accompanied her mother to Columbus, last week, to remain, two weeks. Miss Moore will probably locate in Cleveland. Her father, Rev. E. W. Moore, is pastor of the Second Baptist church, Columbus. Miss Moore and mother were guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Hicks while here. Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis of Washington, D. C., the talented elocutionist who is touring the country in the interest of an industrial training school for the girls at Kingston, Jamaica, gave two lectures on the importance of instruments here and left for Franklin, Pa., to manage a pageant and deliver an address on Decoration day. She was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. James Offer while in this THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, JUNE 8, 1918. azette city. Mrs. Offer was elected delegate to the National Missionary convention at Louisville, Ky., June 26-30. Mrs. Ethel Sellers will accompany her. Ave. TZMILLER'S srv. Mrs. Mabel Clarke Biggs has left for Urbana and Xenia on a tour as accompanist for Mme. Florence Cole Tolbert, the Chicago prima donna. The "Oberlin Maids" operetta, given last Monday evening at Engineers' hall, was a great success. Beuilah Hughes rendered a Greek classic dance and O'rena Kikrpatrick, the Mexican dance. Both numbers were excellent for amateurs. Mrs. Blake introduced Mr. Bourbour's latest hit, "Tell Moms Not to Worry for Me." Mrs. Kitty Mitchell sang a solo in the last act. "Yuma," an Indian number by Miss Olive Hale and chorus, formed one of the prettiest pictures in the operetta. The entire performance was most credible both to the author and participants. The prologue was excellent. The opening chorus, "Oberlin Maids," was splendid. Harry Williams starred the operetta all through. Our people, generally, in this community are not aware of the fact that Bailey, pastor of Antioch Baptist church, has been elected president of our local Ministers' Alliance (or what is left of it): Bayliss, pastor of Lane Memorial C. M. E. church, vice-president of the organization; Crable, pastor of Mt. Haven Baptist church, secretary, and J. S. Jackson, pastor of St. John's A. M. E. church, treasurer. What an "official combination" that is! It was Jackson who "uncovered" Bailey, Bayliss and Crable who later on the same day admitted to the witness stand, some months ago, when being examined by the Cuyahoga County Liquor License Commission, that they had accepted ten dollars each from "Starlight" Boyd, saloon-keeper, AFTER they had signed a (protest and) petition to the Commission, which Jackson had presented to them for that purpose and which asked the Commission to refuse to issue "Starlight" a license to re-open and continue his saloon in Central Ave. No wonder that Ministers' Alliance cannot be forced to demand of the City (Davis) Administration that it improve the fearfully immoral conditions (rapidly growing worse) inward 11 and vicinity where most of our churches are located and a majority of our people of this community live. Lord, have mercy! A police bullet ended the life of a white man, enmeshed in a chase for the slayer of another man, early last week Wednesday morning. Abraham Weinzimmer, age 24, of 3536 E. 43d St., was shot and killed by either Detective Olderman or Horrigan as he fled from a rooming house in E. 40th St., which police and detectives had raided in belief that it harbored the slayer of Wm. Simms, a member of the race, an Otis Steel Company foreman, killed several hours earlier. The second killing occurred at 1:45 o'clock in the morning when Inspector Grant, Captain Kadel and Detectives Olderman, Horrigan, Butcher and Sunder surrounded the house of Mrs. Carrie Scott, 2529 E. 40th St. Police had received a tip that the Negro known to have killed Simms shortly before midnight because the latter had discharged him earlier in the evening, had fled to the Scott home to hide. Confusion reigned in the house as Detective Snyder knocked at the front door: Two white men tried to escape a car that had hit Captain Kadel. Simultaneously Weinzimmer jumped out of a side window and fled. Olderman said he ignored a command to stop and both he and Horrigan fired. One bullet hit the fleeing man in the neck. Both detectives said they mistook the fugitive for the slayer. Three other white men, eight of our men and five of our women, were found in the house—but there was no trace of the slayer of Simms. The latter lived at 2822 Scovill Ave. Call the local Ministers' Alliance attention to this, also. COMPLETE VINDICATION Portland, Ore., May 27, 1918. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir!—let me congratulate you on your complete vindication in the courts of your county, this spring. Of course, none of your many friends would for one moment credit those infamous (Crable) charges. I should have written before but besides being very busy I had an attack of the grippie, this spring. So rather neglected my friends. The mails are and have for some time been in very bad condition. As a result I have missed an occasional copy of The Gazette and other papers. Guess we must "grin and bear it" till the Republicans can get control again. Yours truly, (Mrs.) Patricia Robison. Moses kept a secondhand clothes shop, and on leaving it in charge of his son Ikey during the dinner hour imparted to him the fact that on the price ticket one dot represented $1, two dots, $2, and so on. Returning, Moses inquired of his son: "Haf you had any customers, Ikey-vat-"? Yes, Fauder, I haf sold de grey business for $8." "Vell, vell, now, you did goot business, for it was only $5." "No, Fadder, I kept the ticket; see, it has eight little dots here." The old Jew scratched his head, and smilingly remarked: "Jubilee Jerusalem! I vill never kill another 'y.'" THE MAN WHO DARES. "I honor the man who in the conscientious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, intolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends."—Charles Sumner. They Save Wheat. When you eat Potatoes dont eat Bread ROBERT FISHER Attorney and Counselor at Law 819 American Trust Building Cleveland, Ohio Tel. Central 1400-W. HENRY L. THOMAS Attorney and Counselor at Law 512 Superior Building Cleveland, O Central 2251-R Office Phones: Main 2912; Central 1424-R Residence, 614 E. 107th St. Phone, Eddy 2318-J JOHN P. GREEN Attorney-at-Law Room 510, Blackstone Building 1426 West 3rd Street Notary Public Polish Interpreter Cleveland O Any Watch Repaired No matter how $1 badly broken. Work guaranteed. Mail orders. Superior Watch Co. 307 Superior Bldg. P. A. 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Life" HARDWARD BEVERA THE LEYRON COMPANY NEW YORK WAR SAVINGS STAMP Don't Throw Away Your Copy of THE GAZETTE After Reading it, but Give It to a Friend or an Acquaintance who Might Subscribe after Reading a Copy of It 22000 ACRE FARM TO BE SLICED UP HEIRS WILL DIVIDE BIG NORTH DAKOTA TACT New Holdings, Large in Area by Eastern Standards, Will Be Laid Out Next Year. Minneapolis, Minn.— The famous Dalrymple farm in Traill and Cass counties, North Dakota, said to be the largest in the world and known wherever agriculture on a mammoth scale is talked of, is to disappear. That which remains of the great holdings of Oliver Dalrymple, in his day the greatest farmer in the world, comprises 22,000 acres. It is to be cut into about 100 small farms of 160 to 320 acres. New holdings, generous enough in area as farms are measured in the East, but tiny in comparison with the parent farm, will be laid out. There will be farmhouses and farm buildings in every direction, as the new small farms are taken up, where now, in winter time, there is a vast unbroken tract that to the traveler by rail or along country road suggests an uninhabited country. Casselton, Valley City, Fargo and other prosperous North Dakota towns will be glad to see the big farm broken up. Time was when these bonanza farms were a great asset and the publicity that their successful operation gave to the Northwest at a time when many people supposed grain could not profitably be raised that far north, was worth millions. But economically North Dakota has changed. Oliver Dalrymple, who was a Scotchman and a skilled farmer, operated a 3,000-acre farm south of St. Paul prior to 1875. That made him an agriculturist of some note even then. In 1875 Oliver Dalrymple and his brother, William F. Dalrymple, became interested in North Dakota land. They were convinced that it would raise good crops. The Dalrymples interested E. B., W. J, and J. L. Grandin, three brothers of Tidioute, Pa., also two Eastern capitalists named Cass and Cheney. In all 75,000 acres of land were bought, in a period of tight money, was issuing a period of tight money, was issuing land script with stock and the land was acquired in this way in part and partly by direct purchase. There was made from the 75,000 acre holding a number of farms that were of such size that each was remarkable in itself. But the Dalrymple farm was the largest of any and after breaking 20,000 acres in 1876, Mr. Dalrymple continued extending until at one time he had in excess of 35,000 acres under cultivation. Visitors from every part of the United States and many from abroad came to the farm, at harvest time, to see the wheat. Writers for Eastern publications came to view and describe the farm. Many columns were written in magazine and Eastern periodicals of the scale on which operations were conducted. The romance of the bonanza farmer was written and rewritten. For twenty-five consecutive years nothing but wheat was raised on the Dalrymple farm. But for some years, past crop rotation has been followed, and the farm has produced vast quantities of flax, barley, rye, oats, millet and other crops in the process of resting and restoring the soil and every year a portion has been laid in summer fall. Oliver Dalrymple, his name known in England, France and Germany, himself a St. Paul resident in the winter time and a practical farmer on the land in spring, summer and harvest time, died in 1908. There was some cutting off of parcels of land before and after his death, but even after that had been done his two sons, William Dalrymple and J. S. Dalrymple of Minneapolis, came into possession of nearly 22,000 acres. Part of this is in Traill, but the major portion lies in Cass County. "My brother and I have decided to give up operating the farm and divide it into small farms," William Dalrymple says. "It is better, we think, that this be done, for many reasons. And we think it better for North Dakota. "When my father went into what then was Dakota Territory, few people believed that grain could profitably be grown so far North and there was a very crude conception of what the country that we now speak of as the Northwest really was. It was the big farmer, doing things in a big way, that woke up the world to what the possibilities were. As a means of publicity for the Northwest, if for nothing else the big farms were great assets. "But economic conditions in North Dakota have changed. The State is rich and prosperous, methods of agricultural operation have changed, everything is different. It will be better for the State, for the towns and cities of the State and for all the people interested in the development of the State to have a great many small farms in the place of the one big farm." Man Rolls 2,000,000 Stogies Wheeling, W. Va. - Benjamin Witz- berger the store stolagenaker, has rolled 2,253,600 stogies with tools which cost him less than $1. He says he has rolled an average of 187,000 a year and for the last 12; cars used a board which cost him 75 cents and two knives that cost him 25 cents. Asking Too Much John was grieving because he had no gift for his mother's birthday. "Do not quarrel with little sister all day!" suggested grandmother. "That would be the best gift she could have," John agreed. "Can't you see how much mother enjoyed your gift, John?" asked grandmother at night. "Why don't you do this every day?" John drew a breath that came from his very boots. "I'd rather die, grandma, than live like this every day!" he said fervently. The oldest inhabited country is said to be the Province of Werchojansk, in Siberia. Daily mean temperature of the year is 2.74 degrees below zero. Stolen sweets may be hard to digest. BIRTH RESTORES HER SIGHT Woman Begins to See After Twins Are Born. Burlington, Kan.-Birth of twins to her restored the sight of Mrs. Floyd McCullough of this city. Two weeks ago while at her housework Mrs. McCullough was stricken totally blind. She was taken to the State University Hospital at Rosedale and a few days later twins were born. A few hours later Mrs. McCullough, waking from a sound sleep, was able to distinguish a light and gradually to dimly distinguish objects. Her sight is gradually growing better and the doctors believe she will entirely recover it in a few days. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OH IO, JUNE 8, 1918 We all know the person who comes stalking down the street with a dark cloud on his brow; who glares at innocent passersby, refuses to smile at a baby or a froliesome dog, and who, when anybody stops to speak to him, instantly begins unfolding the tale of his wrongs at the hands of a cruel world. We used to call such a one the person with a grievance. Now we are apt to say "the person with a grouch," this self-made word having brazely forced its way into the best society. Whichever word we use, we all know the kind of creature meant. Perhaps the person with a grouch is a more or less fictitious character, or rather there aren't really so many of him as we have been led to believe, since some of those we mistake for him do not deserve the title at all. Most of us have reasons of thinking ourselves ill-used, and then after a while we get tired of posing as martyr and go off and forget all about it. We have no right to call anybody a person with a grouch when we have seen him in a passing lift of gloom. Next time we meet him he may be as gay as a lark, thereby proving that we were all wrong about him. It is only when we find an unhappy individual who makes a grievance of everything that we are justified in turning down a side street to get rid of him. He is a genuine example of the person with a grouch and belongs in the same class with east winds, mosquitoes, dogdays, the gripe and other similar evils. With regard to him our only problem is one of avoidance. The question we should concern ourselves with is whether or not we, too, are in danger of slipping into that pestiferous class. Are we on our way to becoming persons with a grouch? If so, it is time to stop and consider what this continual burning sense of illusure is going to do to our character and lives. Of course, grievances are not always imaginary. On our way thru life we must often be misjudged, sometimes in ways which we cannot but know are really cruel. And of all the troubles we have to bear in the whole course of our pilgrimage about the sorest one is a sense of wrong. To know that we are being blamed unjustly, perhaps even oppressed and ill-treated in ways that hurt and humiliate—this is the kind of trouble that wrecks the mind and soul of the sufferer unless he is both strong and wise. Brooding over injuries is natural to the undisciplined mind, but it is spiritual death to indulge in it. That sense of illusure is a stubborn thing to struggle with and the sensitive soul is apt to cry out that it cannot thrust the evil thing away and forget it. Yet it has been done and can be done again, the sufferer will need all his powers of mind to accomplish it. When you understand that this dreadful sense of wrong is cating away all the good in you, as a cankerworm eats up the life of the plant you will have strength to cast the ugly thing out. Whatever your oppressor does you can't afford to destroy yourself with rage over it. It is madness to poison yourself by chewing that bitter cud night and day. You must get rid of it, resolving that your life shall not be embittered. You will let the sun in on these dark broodings over your wrons. You will find some useful and absorbing work to do and forget those things which have driven all the wholesome pleasure out of your life. The world will grow bright again, the sting will be cased, and you will find that you can breathe and laugh and live once more, the you have been misunderstood and liltreated. Fortunately, everybody has within him the wholesome impulse towards happiness, so when he finds he can't brood over his wrongs and be happy, too. he begins to forget his injuries. If he has the proper spirit, the wrong done him may become like the irritating speck inside the oyster's shell—it may cause a pearl to grow. Grouches are like worries: they look quite different out of doors in the sun. Who would have supposed that great wrong you have been brooding over would show so small and spindling and sickly under the whoolesome light of day? Let it lie there a while in the strong sunshine and you may find it will curl up and return to dust like an insignificant weed thrown on the grass. We must remember that the soil of the human mind is none too deep and the garden space more limited than we could wish. So why give room to nettles when we could root them out and plant potatoes? In that corner where we tried to kill out a stinging and useless intruder, a stalk of corn may be induced to set up in business. If we could keep a grouch with any comfort to ourselves we should hate to see our friends and acquaintances all scooting down a side street to avoid hearing the recital of our wrongs. The Ancient Mariner who held his victims with a glittering eye and made them listen to him was not a popular character, you remember, in the neighborhood where he tarried. And he was only confessing his own sins, not complaining of what others had done to him. The fact is that human nature shrinks from recitals of other folks' troubles. The man who can cover his own hurts with a smile is the one who is welcome everywhere. He is not only promoting the happiness of others, but he is working for his own, and presently when he examines his burden of wrongs he will be surprised to find it much lightened or perhaps slipped away altogether into some pleasant realm of forgetfulness. —Mabel S. Merrill in Lewiston Jour —Mabel S. Merrill in Lewiston Journal. KEEPSHENS FROM FLYING AWAY Device Prevents Them From Setting When Broody Also. Mathias G. Mueller of Colome, S. D., has just obtained a patent on a device to prevent hens from setting when broody. The device is a small sheet metal boot which is attached to the leg of the chicken to limit or restrict the bending movement of the leg. Free us of the legs in walking and scratching is allowed. The device also permits fowls to roost, but prevents them from flying over fences by making a crouching position impossible. Mr. Mueller has practically completed an electrical machine which he calls the "Tel-Visigraph," that will enable any user of a telephone, he says, to see the person he is talking to on a screen. With this device, are recording to the inventor, can photograph the person to whom he is talking, so the person be more than 100 miles away. CAT FOILS KIDNAPING PLOT Meowing Betrays Attempt by Whisky Men to Seize Preacher. Lewistown, Pa.—How the meowing of a cat saved him from being kidnapped was related by Charles F. Weigle, an evangelist, when he visited friends here a few days ago. In Lansdale the evangelist incurred the enmity of the whisky interests, he said, and they planned to kidnap and lock him in an old schoolhouse. A cat's cries one evening drew the attention of a woman to a corner. Here she saw several men lurking in the shadows near a waiting automobile. Suspecting a plot she notified the evangelist and the scheme was frustrated. One of the most interesting things about foreign travel is the abundance of historic or literary association. Every village, almost, has its great event in the past to be proud of. And so, says a writer in the Chicago Ledger, the American who found himself in an obscure English village, his guide-book left behind, felt very confident that there must be something for which it was renowned. About the first person he met when heared forth was a seedy native, who looked promising as a source of information. "What are the points of interest about this village?" he asked. "I be'n aware of any, zur," the old man replied. "Surely this must be one of the places where Julius Caesar hid some relies." "I ain't heared on it, zur." "In't this the storied spot where King Arthur demanded maplesirop on his waffles!" "It mount a 'a been before my time, zur." "At least, here's where William the Conqueror stopped to have his pants pressed before the battle of Hastings?" "No, zur." "Funny locality, this, for England! Are you certain this isn't the prefect the Plantagenets carried by seventeen majority in the election of 1154, when there weren't but three registered votes?" "I don't remember of it, zur." "Perhaps this is the historic ground where King John subscribed to a new platform and tried to straddle the election of senators-by-popular vote plank?" "No, zur, I think not." "Not even the scene of a floral battle during the War of the Roses?" "No, zur." "And didn't Henry the Eighth ever find one of his wives here?" "He didn't as I know on, zur." "Well, I bet this is where Queen Elizabeth used to come to take her milk baths. You have milk here, haven't you?" "I dunno as she ever took baths, zur." "Aren't there any ruins of battlegrounds or ghosts or legends or quaint customs or souvenir postcards, or anything?" "Never a oie, zur?" "What kind of place is this, anyway?" "I believe, zur, it do be where some 'un wrote a clegy on the country churchyard, zur." THE "WOES OF THE COUNTRY." An Atchison County farmer, says a writer in the Atchison "Daily Globe," was "dragging his mile of road," and at a corner met a neighbor, who had a bad piece of road in front of his farm. "Bad roads are the least of my troubles," said the second man, "and," he continued, "did you ever stop to think that this is a one-man country?" The listener replied that he had been busy dragging roads lately and had not noticed it. "Well," continued he who was not worried about bad roads, "it is a fact, and we are but little better off than Russia. I can get along for the rest of my life, but I am alarmed about my children. This one-man country and the trusts are sapping at our very vitals." "It looks like rain," said the farmer on the road drag, "and I want to get this road finished, but I'll take time to give you a few of my ideas of things." "In the first place, good roads are of more importance to me than this one-man-country talk you are putting up. I should think a lot more of you if you would get cut your drag and fix up that road along your place. I believe that bad road is half responsible for your sour disposition. I know that when I ride over my good road I feel all right, but the minute I strike that rotten piece of road of yours I begin to feel just the way you talk. "I have been an American and a Kansas for fifty years, and I know there is nothing wrong with the country. There may be a few bad spots in it, just as there are bad spots in your farm, and in your own disposition, but those few bad spots are not the whole country, by a long shot. "You say you are alarmed for the future. I should be, too, if I talked and thought as you do. "If you will read your Bible oftener and subscribe for a few of the best papers, you will see things differently." "If you drag that road of years all of your neighbors will think a lot more of you, and even your own sons will take a more wholesome interest in farm life. But as it is a mole to the other end of the road and I have two more rounds to make, I must be getting along before the rain catches me." Farmer number one moved off. He looked back and saw his neighbor still standing, looking intently at the ground. There was no indication that his talk had had any effect. It takes work to drag a road, while it is not much trouble to read a rabid, foolish newspaper and think about the "voes of the country." One Exception "Can one name a liquid that doesn't freeze?" asked the teacher. A moment of silence, and then a young voice in the back of th room answered eagerly, "Please, teacher, hot water."—Illustrite Zeitung. It isn't necessary to be a trained nurse in order to nurse a grievance. The Proud Father Jan—I suppose the baby is fond of you? Will—"Fond of me! Why, he sleeps all day, when I'm not at home, and stays awake all night, just to enjoy my society!" A Bad Turn Scott---"How long were you away on your wedding tour?" Mott—"Too long; it developed into the lecture tour." The Howlers. "How was the baby show?" "A howling success." An Educated Cook Gothamite—"I hear you have a Vassar graduate for a cook. Isn't it rather expensive?" Harlimeite—"Not very. She works for her board and clothes." Gothamite—"Why, how does she come to do that?" Harlemite—She's my wife." Clear of Debt "Whatever I have accomplished," said the pompous man, "I owe to myself." "How delightful it must be," murmured a weary listener, "to feel so clear of debt." A Friendly Tip Married Man—"Not married yet?" Old Chum—"No. I'm not." Married Man—"Now, see here, old boy, times are changing mighty fast. You take my advice and marry, before women get any more emancipated than they are already." That's So. "The country is simply being ruined by this idea of rushing everything." by this idea of rushing everything." "Yet what would this country have been if they had arrested Paul Revere for exceeding th sped limit?" Sioux City, Ia.—Ten little Indians tied up shipping in the railroad yards here the other day. For five hours ten squaws, mothers of the ten little brown-skinned papooses, kept the yard forces on the jump and stormed the offices of the Omaha and Illinois Central Railroads. When the excitement was over there was not an official on the scene of action whose collar wasn't wilted. And the papooses cooled thru it all. In the morning ten squaws from the Indian reservation at Winnebago had gathered together beadwork, moccasins, willow baskets and those other things Indian women make and had gone down to the station to catch a train for Sioux City. About once a month they take the handwork to Sioux City and trade it off for bright bits of calico, lace and food. Strung over the backs of the ten squaws were ten little brown babies. A freight train pulled into the station at Winnebago, headed for Slovak City, while they waited for the morning express. One of the squaws suddenly had a bright idea. Why not climb into a box car that was empty and ride to Slovak City. It was an example of the original American housewife's love for economy. The Indian women clambered into the box car, without the train crew's knowledge, and, bouncing and bumping along, they arrived in the Slovak City yards. It seemed to be a good day for ideas. Another squaw suggested that they leave the ten little papooses in one corner of the box car until time to return to Winnebago. So they unstrapped the babies from their backs and trudged off to town. After an hour or so, the women having disposed of their wares, they returned to the freight yards. The freight train was gone, and with it the ten little papooses. Weeping and wailing broke forth and the squaws descended on the nearest railroad employees in a frenzy. They were directed to the offices of the Omaha line. Business immediately picked up, and it was learned that the freight train had been switched out and the empty car containing the ten papooses pushed over to the Illinois Central tracks. The walling squaws rushed over to the Illinois Central offices and menacingly surrounded Bruce A. Comstock, city passenger and ticket agent. Mr. Comstock defended himself and investigated while the women threatened to tear him limb from limb. It was learned that the car had picked up by another train and was merrily hurdling switch frogs, rapidly putting more distance between the babies and their mothers. Wires began to hum with messages, and the car was stopped sixty miles down the line. The papooses were transferred to a passenger train for the return trip. Late in the afternoon the passenger train puffed into the station at Sioux City. The Indian woman rushed the day coach in a gang. There they found the ten little brown-skinned papooses safe and trying to extract meals from ten little thumbs. GIRL JUDGE, 19 JAILS FATHER It Was Her Duty as Associate Police Court Official. New York—Miss Cora Van Housen, 19, Paterson, N. J., is said to be the only associate policewoman and judge in the United States. Miss Van Housen arrested and then sentenced to one year in the Passaic County jail her own father, Jacob Van Housen, on an intoxication charge.