The Gazette
Saturday, August 3, 1918
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HILLSBORO.-Arthur Delancy of Columbus was here, Sunday, to visit his parents. He will leave for Camp Sherman, Friday.-Mr. and Mrs. John T. Williams entertained at dinner, Sunday, Rev. Orr, Mr. and Mrs. O. Mitchell and Mrs. Mary Donaldson. Mrs. Mitchell is here, and was visited relatives in Cincinnati; recently.-Mr. and Mrs. John Hudson had as their guest, Sunday, Mrs. John Denny of Indianapolis, and Mr. Charlie Peace of Walnut Hills.-Mrs. Owens of Cincinnati visited her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Julius Owens.-Vivian Hudson of Cincinnati visited her mother, Mrs. Alline Burton.-Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Zimmerman entertained at dinner, Sunday, Mrs. Sarah Zimmerman and Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Zimmerman.
YOUNGSTOWN.—St. Augustine chapel patriotic services, 8 p.m.; Sunday. A service flag with eleven stars will be presented—Mrs. Annie and James Patterson and Alex Simpson. Harry Ervin's mother is critically ill in Chicago—Mrs. Sarah Saunders and niece, Sadie Boggess, are visiting David Boggess in Cleveland—Ruth Shaw spent a week with Mrs. Chas. Jackson—Our people here should celebrate in Cleveland, Monday, have some self and race-respect—Mrs. Bert Evers is visiting relatives in Pittsburgh—Between 75 and 85 of our boys will leave for Camp Sherman-Saturday morning. Located at Calcutta Cade Park, Monday.—Order The Gazette our trust and best race advocate and newspaper.
CADIZ—Mrs. Anna May Adkins has returned to Wheeling after visiting Mr. and Mrs. James Smith—Mrs. R. F. Ballard gave a dinner party in honor of Mdes麦麦s Lee, Hogans and Adkins.—Hon. R. P. Scott, the mulitiple of the mouss Scott Bros.; died suddenly. He was a liberal contributor to the new St. James A. M. E. church, and a friend of our people.—Harold F. Lee. The Gazette agent, is spending his vacation with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Verse of the house hotel at the meeting. E. Stokrot was a Simpson M. E. church, Aug. 9th—Mr. and Mrs. Clarence West, Miss Helen Lucas and Mr. and Mrs. Pettress motored to Steubenville, Sunday. Miss Berta Snowden is seriously ill at her mothers, Mrs. Rufus Smith and children of Melntyre spent Sunday with Mrs. Lizzie West.
SANDUSKY.—Little. Paul Thompson is still in the hospital. He burned himself with fireworks, July 4, and has had constant care, day and night, ever since.—Mrs. Dinkins was called west to identify the body of a man reported to be that of her husband. She is a good, faithful mother, and we sympathize with her greatly in her number of requests. Rev. G. D. Dinkins number of delegates will go to Cleveland. Aug. 6 to attend the N. O. B. A, which will convene in Emmanuel Baptist church, E. 79th St. and Quinny Ave. He will celebrate his ten-year pastorage of the Second Baptist church, Aug. 1 to 4. Among those who will participate in the exercises are: Mr. James French, Revs. Burton, Warrington, McCoy, Doolt. E. Stellin, offspring members of the church and S. S. and others. The editor of The Gazette may attend the afternoon services, Sunday. He certainly will do so, if possible.
WELLSVILLE.—Communion, at First Baptist church. Sunday, evening. The services were well attended.—The A. M. E. church was also well attended. Sunday. Rev. J. H. Mason preached interesting sermons. Morning subject. "Think on These Things"; counting "Count the Cost." One was taken into full membership. Rev. W. R. Woodson returned from the Baptist association in Worthington. and left for Pittsburgh. Sunday morning. Rev. Porter preached. Sunday morning, going to Irondale to his own charge in the afternoon.—Rev. Mahlon Lewis left, Saturday, for Findlay. He has charge of the A. M. E. church there.—Mrs. Mary McCown of Greenville is visiting her daughter, Mrs.
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Lewis—The Minister's Aid Society will give a lawn fete at Mrs. P, E Spire's, Aug. 9.—Mr. James Muny spent the week-end in Youngstown.—J. H. Bush and daughter, Eleanora and Helena, left for Washington, D. Sunday, for a ten-day visit in Fairfield, Mass. Mrs. Carpenter of Oklahoma are visiting Mr. and Mrs. S. Winslow.—Mrs. Clem Jackson is entertaining her brother, Emmanuel Thornton of Bellview, Pa.—Mrs. Rebecca Hines and Mrs. Lillian Smith are visiting the latter's mother in Sharon, Pa.—Mrs. Wachund, was a Cleveland visitor, visiting the part of the week in Sieuccheville with her brother, John Well, who is very Mr. Dave Rannells of Caldake spent Sunday with his brother, William.—Mrs. Margaret Lewis, Mrs. Mattle Wilson and little son, Ralph Snowden of Painesville, M. Chandler, one of the boys called to the colors, is in Ronsford, W. Va., visiting relatives before leaving Camp Sherman, Aug. 2.—Mr. Jean Redmon and friends took a 75-mile trip by auto, viewing the scenery, between here and Rochester, Pa.—Mr. Olive Snowden of Painesville, M. Chandler, as delegate from the City of Canine.—The C. and P. Athletics played the Newell team on their grounds. Sunday—Mr. Agy Farmer and family spent Sunday in Youngstown.—Tilma Filippins, who spent the summer with Mrs. Curry, has returned to Mr. Pleasant.—Mr. Alexander and family spent Sunday in Youngstown.—Miss Walker.—Miss Lloyd entertained Miss Mamie Wilson of Pittsburgh, Sunday.
CAPTAIN "WEB." DuBOIS
At the great Afro-American Conference, held in Washington, D. C., a few weeks ago, the only change made in its splendid resolutions was a sentence along the line of the complained of part of the July Crisis editorial. When approached by the writer and asked if he had written it, Dr. DuBois, secretary of the committee on resolutions, laughingly admitted that he had done so. This we were loath to believe and did not do so until he arose in the meeting and understock to defend the objectionable sentence, but in vain, for it was stricken out and a proper one unanimously substituted for it. The incident started us to thinking (and investigating), but not until we learned that the committee had a deputy of reference to a deputy in the army intelligence department, and stationed in the War Department at Washington, D. C., did we understand his "reversal of form." We do not believe that Dr. Booker T. Washington in the heyday of his "d诺ine of surrender" preaching would have dared do such a thing. O. DuBois! Et tu brute!
Ralph Burles and Quinn Montgomery were among the young men who left for W. Beaford University to take special training for war service. Among those who left for Camp Sherman, recently, were: Samuel V. Perry, Marshall Kelly, Wesley Jackson, W. H. Edmundson, Lauceus Jordan, Charles Harris, Lester Brown, Albert Tucker, Louis Starken, Aaron Jones, Albert Brown, G. W. Murray, Eddie Diddle, Jonathan Daniel, J. D. Martin, Eugene Moss, Ncah McQueen, Phos. Hodge, Fydl G. G.ob, Arthur Herritt, Wm. Alexander, Roy Smith, Eddie Hedge, Arthur Gay, Edward Brasley, Leen W. Green, Henry Walker, Richard Baker, Melvin Hunter, Julius Moore, Courtney Chandler, Wm. O'Kelley, George Keith, J. W. Green, Edward Mitchell, J. F. Grisby, Clavel Cross, Andrew C. Wade, Davis Elmore, Arthur Johnson, Joe Todd, Emerson Harper, Irwin Fife, and Chas. Gamble, the senior and junior, stewardesses of John's Church served dinner to 122 of them. Addresses were Judge Biddle, S. C. Yogoff and others. The dinner was a "fairnest" and the auspices of District No. 8. Jackson's band escorted the boys from Central Armory to the church.
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And Says it is a Dangerous Blow at the Nation's Honor-Complies With the Request of the Recent Great Afro-American Conference
WASHINGTON, D. C.—President Wilson, last Friday, in a personal statement addressed to his fellow countrymen, denouncing mob spirit and mob action, called upon the nation to show the word that while itFIGTS for democracy on foreign fields it is not destroying democracy at home. "The president refigured not alone in action against those suspected of being civic or sympathizers," have been used by the German program throughout action in Europe to contend that the pretensions of the U. S. as a champion of democracy are a joke. Deeply concerned by the situation and at the request of the recent great Afro-American Conference held here on the Government's invitation, the President decided to address his fellow countrymen and to declare that he is about the United States what her most gifted liars cannot improve upon by way of calamity. "Forcefully denouncing an apparent growth in "mob spirit" as emulating the "fawless passion" of Germany which has "disgraced sacred obligations of law and made fathers of her armies." President Wilson appealed to the country to take this disagreeable evil, Lunachies, he said, constitute "a blow at the hearts of law and human justice." The text of the
President's Proclamation
"My fellow countrymen:
"I take the liberty of addressing you upon a subject which so vitally affects the honor of the nation and our institutions that I trust you will think we justified in speaking very plainly about it. I allude to the mob spirit which has recently here and there very frequently shown its heat amongst us, not in any single region, but in many and widely separated parts of the country. There have been many lynchings and every one of them has been a blow at the heart of ordered law and humane justice, a man who America, no man who knows far more than honor and character, or who is truly loyal to her institutions, can justify mob action while the courts of justice are, open and the governments of the states and the nation are ready and able to do their duty.
Germany Outlawed
"We are at this very moment fighting lawless passion. Germany has outlawed herself among the nations because she, has disregarded the sacred obligations of law and has made lynchers of her armies; Lynchers emulate her disgrateful example, for my part, an anxious to see law being enforced above that level, with pride and a fixed resolution which no man or of men can afford to despise.
"We regularly claim to be the champions of democracy. If we really are, in deed and in truth, in let us see to it that we do not discredit our own, I say plainly that every American who takes part in the action of law is likely to be a great difference is no true son of this great democracy, but its betrayer, and does not to discredit her by that single disloyalty to her standards of law and of right than the words of her statesmen or the sacrifices of her heroic boys in the trenches can do to make suffering peoples believe her to be their savior.
Contributes to Lies
"How shall we commend democracy to the acceptance of other peoples if we disgrave our own by proving that it is, after all, no protection to the weak? Every mob contributes to German lies about the truth of the law; the laws cannot improve upon the way of culpability. They can at least say that such things, cannot happen in Germany except, in times of revolution, when law is swept away."
"I therefore very earnestly and solemnly beg that the governors of all the states, the law officers of every community, and, above all, the men and women of every community in the United States, all who revere America and wish to keep her name without stain or reproach, will co-operce—not passively merely, but act in concert and end to this disgraced evil. It cannot, live where the community does not counterance it.
"I have called upon the nation to but its great energy into this war and it has responded—responded with a spirit and a genius for action that has thrilled the world. I now call upon its men and women everywhere, to see to it that its laws are kept inviolate, its fame unattarnished.
"Let us show our utter contempt for the things that have made this war hideous among the wars of history by showing how those who love
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liberty and right and justice and are willing to key down their lives for them upon foreign fields stand ready also to illustrate to all mankind their loyalty to the things at home which they wish to see established as a blessing and protection to the peoples who have never known the privileges of liberty and self-government.
"I can never accept any man as a champion of liberty either for ourselves or for the world who does not reverence and obey the laws of our own honored land, whose laws we ourselves have made. He has the standard of the measures of tide, country, chose affects to us."
COLONEL CHARLES YOUNG
Major Spingarn, Editors W. M. Froster and John Mitchell, Jr.
Discuss His Case.
Maj. Joel E. Spingleton has been under the fire recently of the Boston (Mass.) Guardian. That journal asks if he is playing double. The major is a most valuable man and his interest in the progress and development of the robbed people alone all lines cannot be denied by those who have chosen the job. In their half, still ignorant of our nation that he has been eagerly described in some quarters relative to the rights and privileges accorded to school people by some of the representatives of the War Department.
We found him make the testimony that after an investigation he was
of the opinion that Col. Charles Young was fairly dealt with in being retired and that the official boss had not traced him unfairly. But he was not guilty. If a white man, who is suffering from similar ailments is retained in the service of the regular army and the colored man is retired, the colored man is not treated fairly. But the officer, totally unfit has been accepted for service over their protests where men apparently fit for service, but who
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would have obtained commission in the army if accepted, had been re-engaged.
The is to give that infinitely. If a man is a hard object of person, or flight, deviance of the kidney, and be does not know it, and it does not an easy-way incapacitate him in the dis-
Editor Wm. M. Trottier.
clange of his official duties, what
college of his official duties to the man
who is to be sent to Colonel Charles
Yewen, the chief officer on physical
injury, a thing that we could
not do although we have none of
these incidents, what better evidence
is needed to convince anybody that
he is not for safety.
PROFESSOR J. E. SPINGARN.
likes life and lish in facing German machine game and this life boothes to lish, why should not be be prion an opportunity to show the kind of tiff that is on lish. We do not want to be well-pooled with a well-pooled friend. Master Spinnaker even though he makes a mistake sometimes, but when he accepts reports at their face value communicating a coloured object whose next lines of proclamation in active service would make it a biggie general who are of course in a country in a country whose atlusosphere is made up of nine games since proclamation and one-tenth taff-play for all ages.—Richmond (Va. Planet).
Third Officers' Training Camp
SAN IUAN, P. R.-The third of
offers' training camp opened July 23,
with 600 men, including 150 colored
Puerto Kienas. The training course
will continue two months and these
offers will serve with the Puerto
Kienas troop.
SECRETARY OF WAR NEWTON D. BAKER
IN UNION WE IS STRONG
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AR NEWTON D. BAKER
African-Americans, particularly, have watched his every act, reported in the press of the country, that had to do with our people, especially our soldiers and their many and varied interests, fully filling the tremendous, humiliating (southern) influences we would have to combat in every effort he made to ameliorate any of these problems and to make harmful conditions that seemed to have multiplied with each-succeeding month ever since the enlistment of our boys began. He has not always satisfied and has not made a great deal of progress for us. it is true. This, however, is clearly the result of the tremendous odds he has to contend against. But what he has done—from the appointment of our friend, James A. Scott of New York, a special assistant to the war to promote his interests, to the authorizing, last week of the calling of Afro-American nurses—has been so very much more than the most gigantic of us. Clefendants of color were looking for him that we shall not hesitate at this time to give him frankly, full praise and thanks for the same, and to say that, as a result, we are looking to him for much more such favors, very necessary to be done, if he wants to be successfully prosecuted with the contended whole-hearted support, in men, money and work, of the Afro-American people.
Harry C. Smith.
Victoria Cross for an Indian
LONDON, England.—Rifleman Kara ramadhador Ramaz a Girkha, is the first native Indian to he awarded the Mint of India. Today the place of a Lewis gunner who had been shot dead in France at his gun, he knocked out the crew of an enemy machine gun, which had caused severe casualties.
The Cleveland Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Association held an interesting meeting at Dr. Crawford's recently, Dr. Arthur S. Scott, dentist, read an excellent paper, which was well received, Dr. J. Philen and Dr. A. J. Howard will represent the association at the annual meeting of the National Medical Association in Richmond, Va., this month, Dr. J. T. Suggs was re-elected secretary of the local association.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1918
What won't some people do for
more salary and an appointment as
‘an officer in the army, these days?
« This is a fine time (?) for the N.
A. A. C. Ps to make such an attack
upon Dr. Leroy N. Bundy, who in
about six weeks will be placed on trial
for his life, in conneetion with the
East St. Louis, Ill. massacre!
According to one of our confreres
of the race press, Editor DuBois re-
ccives a salary of $4,000 from the N,
A. A. C. P., while the Government
will pay Captain DuBois $2,400:
$6,400 a year seems to have appealed
very strongly to the editor-captain.
Editor John Mitchell, Jv., has
“diagnosed” the Col. Charles Young
case perfectly. The Gazette has so
very, often, in recent months, made
clear the situation as regards. the
colonel and the war department that
it is unnecessary to do so again at
this time. rg
wim i :
With its issue of last’ week, the
Indianapolis Recorder entered its 22d
year. Editor Geo, P. Stewart started
the paper and has been in control
of it ever since. Congratulations,
confrere, and sincerest best wishes for
the future. ‘The Recorder is one of
our best papers.
So the lying (southern controlled)
Associated Press dispatch, to the daily
newspapers of July 22, did not in-
fluence the President to confine him-
self to a discussion of the Robert P.
Praeger case as hoped. Good! Praeger
was the Illinois German-American
lynch-murdered, some months ago.
James Weldon Johnson, national
organizer of the N. A. A. C. P. and
Francis Young, president of the local
byanch of that organization, were re-
fused service in a loeal restaurant,
some week: ayo. The former referred
to it in his address here and yet hoth
men have failed to start suit against
that color line restaurant keeper for
the refural, WHY¥?
; Ss tnt
Talks with Rey. Chas. Bundy, father
of Dr, Leroy N. Bundy, and with the
latter's wife, thoroly. convince the <di-
tor of The Gazette that it is necessary
for them to give their side of the
N. A. AL C: PBundy controversy
in onder that a correct understand:ng
of the matter be had by our poople
die county over, and we have ured
te Rev. Chas. Bundy: and Mrs. Leroy
N. Bundy to do this; It will be an
even, more harmful mistake than the
vieious N. A. A. C. P. attack of last
week, for them to fail to do so.
If the N. A. A, C. P. does not
promptly divorce DuBois from the edi
torship of the Crisis the race press
ought to notify our loyal members
of the race to discontinue patroniz-
ing: that publication. Its editovial
“doctrine of surrender” (for the
duration of the war) of our efforts
to secure what the race needs now
and must have, DuBois is persisting
in, ought to damn any race publica-
tion, and: cause it to be barred from
the hames of our people generally,
‘The August Crisis is worse than its
Jiily issue, Bditor DuBois is trying to
“tall his way thru”! Let us see that
he docs not do so—“for the good and
welfare” of the race.
THE AIRPLANE EQUATION.
‘The war news shows the value of
the airplane. Foch was not surprised
because the airplane service enabled
him to foresee the German purpose.
‘Phe enemy movements were ham-
pered because of machine gun fire and
‘the dropping of bombs from the allied
planes. ‘The results accomplished
seem to be in proportion to the nu:
merical superiority of the allied
planes over the German planes.
‘This brings home the necessity of
having things ready in time. Had the
American aiyplane poliey been te
manufacture standard English
French planes until something better
could have been evolved, great num-
bers of additional planes would have
been in action against the Germans
Campaigns and battles will not wait
for invention to evolve the perfect
plane. ‘The English, French and Ital-
inns are doing wonders with thei
machines. Had this country devoted
itself to their production, the numer
ical superiority of the allied planes
over the German planes would have
heen decisive:
QUENTIN ROOSEVELT,
‘The dispatehes from Germany tell
the manner of the death of Quentin
Roosevelt. ‘They state that a squad-
ron of American battle planes attack-
ing German machines, one American
aviator stubbornly made repeated at-
tacks. In a duel that resulted a Ger-
man antagonist shot down his ma-
chine. Young Roosevelt. was buried
with military honors by the Germans
where he fell near Chambry. His
personal belongings were carefully
saved and will be forwarded to his
relatives, Thus: the gallant young
hero “paid with his body for his soul’s
desire.” ‘There will always be a place
sacred to him in the memory of the
American people.
“Quentin's mother and I are very
glad'that he got to the front and had
the chance to render some service to
his eountry and to show the stuff there
was in him. before his fate befell
him.” This was what Colonel Roose-
velt said when told that his son was
‘dead in France,
One cannot help but contrast the
glorious service of young Roosevelt
to his country with the service of the
safety first and bomb-proof young
men. Familiar names and families
‘will occur to the reader without de-
tailed suggestion. ‘They have already
indicated that they purpose to stay
away from the front and have showed
the lack of the stuif the times call
for.
THE TWO WASHINGTON CON-
ERENCES:
For the benefit of the Cincinnati
(0.) Union and the Houston (Tex.)
Freeman, and all other confreres in-
terested, who do not know the facts,
we, desire to say that there is abso-
lutely’ no’ possibility of comparison,
as to attendance, personnel and re-
sults accomplished, when the two
race conferences recently held in
Washington, D. C., are considered.
There is no doubt either in our mind
thai the impending mecting of the
National Liberty Congress had much
to do with the calling together by
the government of the great Race
Conference held in that city. But to
try to compare the two conferences
one must be wholly unfamiliar with
the facts, as was the ease with our
wvod friend, Editor W. P. Dabney, of
the Union. We refrain from saying
more because we feel that those who
gathered at the National Liberty Con-
gress were carnest workers for the
vace and were trying to do their best
to help and this race of ours needs
all the help it can get, these days,
from all sources. We were in Wash-
ington at the time of the meeting of
both conferences and made it a point
piisiok SRACene we LepeAll:
CONTEND WITILE YOU WAIT!
“All things come to him who wil
but wait,” quotes Editor J. H. Murphy
of the Baltimore (Md.) Afro-Ameri-
wan, last’ week, in speaking of the
War Department’s recent. belated au-
thorization of the ‘enrolling of our
nurses for serviee in this country and
probably “overseas.” Yes, Brother
Murphy, all things do come to him
sho will but wait but fights for them
in # proper way while he waits. That
is how we gained the “nurse” con-
cession, Secretary Baker's public
Statement that local draft boards
must stop discriminating against our
dtaftees and the President's splen-
did plea’ against mob vioience and
lynch-murder, All this came as a
direct result of our great Washington,
D. C. Race Conference's. resolutions
and “bill of particulars” lodged with
the administration in June of this
year, Yes, wait, but only because
you have to, and be sure to contend
in @ proper way for what you are
entitled to while you wait.
GREAT ANTI-LYNCH- MURDER
PLEA
| President Thomas Woodrow Wilson
hls done what no other president
has ever done—he has made a strong
plea against mob violence and lynch-
murder that ought to and undoubtedly
will have a salutary influence against
America’s long-standing and greatest
shame and disgrace. It is true that
it took a time and a condition, made
by a World War, such as this coun-
try has never before known, to bring
this to pass, but that even they
forced the making of such. a strong
plea by a southern Democratic presi-
dent, surrounded in the two other co-
ordinated’ branches of the govern-
THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OH 10, AUGUST 3, 1918:
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ment by men of the same political] ON FRENCH FIRING LU
faith and place of residence, is, whatloa, soldier oye Are Being
suretieen al, even: the-most sanguind|” "Won himen Qineers: Don
members of that great Race Confer-| a
ence that brought it about. President | eae
Wilson's pronouncement. against| with American Armies w
lynching is one of the finest state Marne, France.—The attack of
Papers he as issued and it is un- of the ‘kd division, Afro-Am
doubtedls eno of the most important, USopis,0n the rome unning
A nratoful people thoroly appreciate, N20 Of She Chateau thier, Wa
it, too. Our troopers gine. ate aus:
“= and in addition to. inflicting
Hae nutDIa: loasea took many. pHsanci ani
Mn an cditorial dealing with the
way, the July Crisis, contains the fol-
lowingr aulviee to our people:
“Let us, while this war lasts, for
ket our special grievances and close
our ranks shoulder to shoulder with
our own white fellow citizens and
the allied nations Uhat are fightinse
for democracy.”
Editor DuBois has seldom packed
gore ervor into a single senténce.
He says three things in this sentence:
forget our special grievances; (2)
dlose our ranks, and (3) fight for de
mocracy Wh oun white fellow citi
zens and the allied nations. Ou:
wanks fire already closed, they havo
never been open, they are not open
now, they will not be open in the
future. So that’ DaBois’ advice be
ing predicated, as it is, on the av-
sumption that our ranks are open,
is baseless, ‘The same is true as to
our fighting for democracy. ‘Tha:
is the one thing the’ Afro-American
has always contended for and will in
future contend for. As to forgettiny
our special grievances. How can we?
The lyneher won't let us. ‘The “jin:
crower” won't let us. ‘The man who
practices racial proscription won't let
jus. With lynchings averaging high-
er than two a week, how are we to
forget lynching? With the daily de-
nials to hundreds of the comforts an
conveniences of transportation, how
can we forget “jim-crow cars? When
& young woman, or man, has qualified
for admission to the civil service of
the government, and been certified
‘and called, and is refused appoint-
ment when it is discovered that he
‘or she is a member of the race, how
can we forget racial proscription ?
The lyncher, the “jim-€rower” and the
‘racial proseriber keep these things
alive. No other group of citizens hav-
ing special grievances are being ad-
vised by their leaders to forget then,
hut on the contrary every effort is
‘being made to have them corrected
now. This is true as to labor, as to
woman's suffrage and as to rights of
the Jews and the Irish. Why an ex
ception in our case? And yet, in the
August Crisis, Editor DuBois persis
in giving the same line of contemp:
ible adviec, thus making it appes
that the influence of that captainey
in the army, or something else, is
all powerful with, him. ‘The fact that
the recent great race conference re-
fused to “forszet our wrongs and griev-
janees” but put them all squarely up
to the Government, and, too, at ils
“special request; and tliat splendid re-
|sults have already followed ats manly,
self and race-respecting action, seen:
|to mean absolutely nothing to. the
individual—DpRois. If the N. A. A.
C. P. does not soon rid itself of this
individual, not only the Crisis but the
Jorgcanivation. itself will he vuined, and
fought to be.
THE GREAT RACE CONFERENCE
Held at the Nation's Capital ia
June—Some Things it
i
Recently the colored editors of the
country were invited, by, the Gov-
ernment, to Washington for confer
enees to tell what, if anything, mil
tated against a splendid morale with
in the race; what was necessary, on
the part of the Government, to’ in-
vite & more enthusiastic co-operation,
if such be possible, and what were
the real grievances of a people whose
loyalty had survived the acid test
from Lexington in 176 to Verdun in
1918.
In their bill of particulars, setting
forth their grievances, all of which
were REAL, and not fancied, these
colored —newspapermen—cach’ and
every one a truc patriot, presided
over by that 100 per cent. loyalist,
Emmett J. Scott, Special Assistant to
the Secrétary ‘of War—ealled the
Government's attention to the fact
that ONE HUNDRED of their peop'e
had been lynehed in this country since
the beginning of this titantie wary
that the race was diseriminated
against and segregated in many of
the departments at Washington—the
Treasury Department, which inauges-
rated and directed the Liberty Bond
and War Savings Stamp campaigns,
in. which the race had cheerfully con:
tributed: millions, being a notable of-
fender in the matter of segicgation
and diserimination against colored
appointees who had won in a com-
petitive examination; and twelve
other grievances our loyalty, patriot-
ism and cheerful co-operation called
for adjustment.—N. Y. News.
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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 hear-
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named: cities: Springield, Dayton,
Akron, Lima, 0., and other places,
particularly in Ohio, where we have
none.
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Blackstone building, Cleveland, 0.
and terms will be sent promptly. Our
readers will oblige us greatly by
sending at once the addresses of per-
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relative to the matter.
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ON FRENCH FIRING LINE.
Our Soldier Boys Are Doing Grand
Work—French Officers Praise
Them,
With American Armics on the
Marne, France—The attack of a part
of the Sid division, Afro-American
{oop on the front sunning south-
wand of the Chateau-Thiery, was stub-
horny contested, but exvly in the day
our troopers gained aan adventaie
and in addition to. inflicting heavy
losses took many prisancrs and guns,
‘the “Buffaloes” “alone captured 300
Germans. ‘The latter apparently
scemed fearful of their satety when
they faced. these shouting boys and
in ‘many casts gave themselves up:
without confliet as prisoners, When
informed they would be relieved by
fresh troopers, after holding their
line for newrly 36 hours of continu-
ous fighting, they reported that they
needed no relief but began. presoine
“Heinie” back further, On the north-
West hank of the Marne, where three
regiments of Airo-Ametieau soldiers
had been holding: an important sector
for some time, these troops made an
advance aitaek to the town of Jal
gonne driving and capturing the
Germans in their dugouts, as they
pushed forward jn their mid rush to
Dut the Stars and Stripes flying over
this town,
News his: reached here that north of
the Adve, Afro-American troops
along with’ British and Talian troop
were thrown into the fray. The attack
of the Matias was fecbly developed
and rapidly erashed. But our troop.
Hrushed ford with the: Bitish ean
Freneh in support. Between the for
ests of Forovand tliz, the Aito-Ameri
can troops gare fihting their way
forwaul. . dust before the eapture of
Armonticnes, our boys ran thousands
of Germany trom their trenches and
a fieree hand to hand struggle fol-
lowed with the bayonet and sifle butt.
‘The hoys had planved a raid on. the
Gernians whieh war earvied out with
success all alongs the line. Hundreds of
German dead were on the field. be-
hind. their fivo-mile advance on. the
town of Gulehy-le-Chatexu and Brees.
When they iedched Brey. one of ther
bands stiuek up. a. lively American
tune hich Was received with’ shout-
ing and cheers by tho battle-searred
heroes.
A contingent of Afro-American in-
fantay, commanded by Col. FL A, Den-
nison, formerly assistant state's at
torney at Chicago, is holding 2 front
line Sector under the command of
the French near St. Kihiel, — Lieut,
Binga Dismond, former erack Uni.
xersity of Chicago sprinter, and Lieut,
Sam Ransome, a former football star;
who played with Eckersali, distin
guished themselves in leading patrols
into the enemy lines.” ‘The Brenen
conymancer officially’ praised the
Afio-American troops in a report to
the ‘arin terrier:
TO ORGANIZE PIONEERS *
Our Troops Chosen for New Outfit,
First to Go Forward in Battle—
Virst August Draft 3,200,
>, Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, O.—The
first eiganization of pioneers in’ Camp
Sherman will be Afio-Ameriean
‘troops of the 8O2nd regiment, it Wi
“announced Monday, and already selec
tion of men for this special ‘combat
work in goin forward in the res
ment. Tinivad of 250 men to a com-
pany, as th other infantry, the pie:
neers will have LO3:and the regiment
will he approximately half the pres
‘ent size. “the work of the pioneors,”
said Lieut. Col, Watts, acting com
mander of the 02nd, “is largely for
jopen warfare. Although it is always
[possible that further ‘re-o1yanization
may be effected in France, the plan
now is to cut down. the relative num-
er of men to ‘the number «i
‘officers. 1 am. selecting the fir
est: spechaens in the regiment for
‘the new outlit, Pioneers are the first
(roops to go forward in an olfensive
siovement.. ‘They eut their way Uru.
occupy bridgcheads and importan:
bases and do the frst work in or
icanizing captured territory. My men
now ile engaved in- taking: payeho!-
ogfical and cfficieney (ests, and. they
will be selectod for their soldier-litee
appearance and ability.”
~The first August draft from Ohio
will be of 2200 of our men due to
arrive in Camp Sherman, Saturday,
Sunday and Monday. Cleveland and
Cuyahoga county quotas are as fol-
lows: 256 and 14, ‘respectively,
FROM CAMP GRANT
Bound “Overseas” Are More of Our
Soldier Boys—Pleased With “The
Old. Reliable.”
Rockford, Il, July 29, "18
. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir: 1 hardly
now how to express my appreciation
of your kindness in sending me “The
Old Reliable” Gazette. I got a copy
every. week, on time, and all of th.
Loys in my company ave always glad
when Saturday comes because they
know. that they, too, may read the
paper,
‘My old company is in France and
known as Co. F, 365th Inf. Capt. H.
W. Mills. One hundred and thinty of us
will leave here, this week, for “over
seas,” duties, “somewhere in France.”
All “are in very. good condition and
the best of spirits and are anxtous
to cross to 'the other side.
‘There have becn quite a number
of promotions in our company—Co.
A. 229th Quartermaster's Corp. Fol
lowing is a list of them. Non-commis-
sioned officers: First /Sergeant
Emerson Cobb of Toledo; Sergeants,
Hi. W. Jennings and Clay “R. Camp:
bel, "Youngstown; Richard — Hall,
Stockton, Cal.; Walter L, Prinee, Mat-
toon, Ill: Sititey Gray, WeRington BR.
Jordan,“ Stewart Johnson; Brawlie
Stimson and James Patterson, Chi-
cago; Wm. A, Parker and Butler
Wright, Hertford, N. C..!and Wm
Davis, Norfolk, Va. Corporals: Charle:
C.-Rials, Magnolia, Miss.; John Bluitt,
Brooksville, Miss.
My: good: friend, Mr, D. D. Dancy
of Youngstown, *continues to write
me interesting letters full of good ad-
advice, consolation and encourage-
ment. He has been,a true, very kind
and thoughtful friend in every way
We are all getting on nicely, arc
as fat as can be, and in our company
have some of the best officers in the
army. ‘Their names: Captain Joseph
C. Clark; first lieutenant, Richard P.
Holt; second lieutenant, J. J. Doran,
Our Sabbath School is well attended
every Sunday morning. My next let-
ter will be from Franee.
H. W. JENNINGS.
Additional Locals
Hugene P. Cheeks has acquired the|
Rent fiatrd printing shop at 3812 Gen-
tial Ave,, and will continue. turning
Ie Mae tata pneee Hla plane
Trove the shop A few blocks cust, F
It is said the reeent Cory M. FE.)
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Tico weary ain Te wen the te
ee nL Apsueang tn cite tty
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Social and Personal
A woman's auxiliary to the Y. M.
C. U. was organized there, last week.
Mrs. Arminta Black was married
recently in Chicago.
Madam C. H. Jones, hair specialist
of Toledo, was in the city last week.
Mrs. Sarah Saunders and niece of
Youngstown are visiting Mr. David
Boggess of E. 103d St.
Miss Gray of Findlay was Mrs.
Howard S. Slaughter's guest, last
week.
Prof. Wm. Pickens arrived in the
city, Tuesday afternoon, from Toledo
past to Baltimore from the Pacific
coast. He spends in many cities.
Mrs. Pearl Clegan and Miss Hazel
Mountain left, last week, for an
extended visit in Piqua, Jamestown and
Davton.
J. W. Yaeger, E. 34th St., recently received a letter from his son, Harry, a member of Supply Co. No. 372, R. I. U. S. serving in France. Jackson's band escorted a lodge, Sunday afternoon, to church to hear its annual sermon preached. Women members occupied several autos. Ernest Redmon of Wellsville was in the city, Sunday, to see John Leach of Steubenville, who is very ill at a sister's, here. Vote for Dr. E. A. Dale for coroner and B. C. McGinness for legislative representative. All things considered they are our best candidates. Robert Hale, formerly of Montgeneau who came to Cleveland from Wilkeshare, Pa. can learn something of benefit to him by writing or calling at The Gazette office at once—Adv. Mrs. Ethel Richardson was a delegate to the Grand Court of Calanthe meet in Lorain, last week. A number of other local K. P. and C. of C. members also attended.
Mrs. A. M. King, 285 Central Ave, widow of Capt. Thos. King, is having splendid success in selling her remedies. Our people who, have not tried them, will consult their best interests along health lines by doing so. There is a "mix up" in the city's detention home on the west side that involves "a 16-year-old feeble minded girl" of the race, of "about eight year intelligence," which some one of our women's clubs ought to investigate at once. See article in Tuesday's Plain Dealer on its editorial page. The Lincoln Embroidery Club gave an enjoyable picnic at Euclid Beach Park, recently. Each member had an invited guest and there was an unusual amount of good things to it. A. T. Abbott, pres; M. B. Shook, vice pres. Mrs. Blanche Wright and daughter, Miss Amy, will move to Chicago soon to join their husband and father, respectively. Walter Wright, Jr., employed in the offices of the C. M. & St. P. R. R. Miss Helen will remain to resume her duties as teacher in the local public schools in the fall.
Mrs. W. J. Hale, wife of the president of the State Normal and Industrial College of Nashville, is visiting her sister, Mrs. E. A. Bailey. Mr. Hale is expected in the city this week, after a visit to Hampton Institute on government and Red Cross business. Mr. G. Smith of Sandusky and a number of delegates from various northern Ohio cities and towns will arrive in this city next week to attend the N. O. B. A. sessions at Emmanuel Baptist church.
The funeral services of Mrs. Geo. W. Sampson, Sr., at Mt. Zion Congregational church, last Friday afternoon, were largely attended. The husband, two sons and daughter have the earnest sympathy of the community.
The Working Girls Christian Home, Mrs. Mary Bradley, pres, will soon be visiting the church. Proble Ave. S. S. at 4 p. every Sunday. Bible reading on Thursday evening. Everyone is cordially invited to attend. Mrs. Shedrick, vice-
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pres.; Mr. Mays, sup.; Mrs. Nina Prince, sec. of the S. S.
Rev. C. D. White, pastor of Mt. Vernon Ave. A. M. E. church, Columbus, was in the city, last week Friday, en route home from Lorain where he attended the K. P. State Grand Lodge meet. Dr. White, an old friend of the editor of the *Gazette*, paid the latter a pleasant visit.
The corner preaching in the 11th war is takenaken advantage of by "Negro" comrades seeking an "easy living," who pose as "preamachers" and it ought to be discontinued! Our Ministers' Alliance ought to appeal to Chief of Police Smith to put a stop to it and we believe he will do so, promptly. It has degenerated into a nuisance.
The Cleveland (O.) Gazette also frequently makes mention of a Mr. C. C. Cade who, we believe, is a native of Waxahachie and a graduate of our local high school. If The Gazette's C. C. C. is the same, as the old fox of The Meddler once "met up with," we can corroborate that he can "do things" to his own satisfaction at all events—Waxahachie (Tex.) Meddler, Mesdames Marie Perkins, Ella White, Martha Hunt, Ida B. Wells, Mildred Gantz, Flora Byers, Jennie Day, Addie Lewis and Miss Millian Scott attended the V. M. Convenient Springfield, V. M. Scotton and Mrs. Wheeler were recollected Secretary and contingent treasurer, respectively, and Mrs. Day was elected member of the executive board. They report over $2,000 collected during the year for missionary purposes by the North Ohio branch.
Mesdames Marie Perkins, Ida Owens, Elizabeth McIntire, Amanda Taylor, Allie ones, Jennie Childs, Grace W. Thompson and Mr. P. W. Lemon, re-elected president of the institute, attended the annual meeting of the S. S. Institute of the Cleveland district of the North Ohio A. M. E. conference at Youngstown, recently. Mrs. Thompson was tendered a dinner party by her aunt, Mrs. Frank Leece, while there.
A Mr. Patterson (white) of the hydraulic Pressed Steel Co., called on The Gazette, Tuesday, and denied emphatically that the company is or has been drawing any color line at its plant, and said that some of our men, employees, asked to be seated at a table to meet to discuss insulting remarks of some of their white fellow-workmen. The editor of The Gazette would like some of the employees of the hydraulic Co. to call at the office as soon as they can for a confidential conference. Pass the word to them, reader, please.
Mr. Charles E. Hall of the Government Labor Dept., Washington, D. C., arrived in the city, Tuesday, en route to Toledo and Columbus. Msgr. John E. Burke, "apostle to our people of the south," has written a letter of acknowledgement of the aid he received in parishes of the diocese of Cleveland. Msgr. Burke and two associates in the work, Fathers D. J. Bustin and Charles Edwards, visited a number of parishes in Cleveland seeking help for their work. A number of other parishes are yet to be visited. Msgr. Burke's letter reads: "As one may learn from the appeal of the headquarters the diocese of Cleveland in top' in gallant style when we appealed for the colored missions. The welcome our priests received from clergy and laity couldn't have been surpassed anywhere. The answer to our appeal was really a wonderful testimony to the genocess of the people of the diocese, at a time when some excuse might have been alleged for a discrimination to give, flowing from the insistent demands of war needs."
August 1 is celebrated in honor of the abolition of slavery in the West Indies. Jan. 1 is the proper date for the celebration of its abolition in this country because Lincoln's emancipation went into effect on Jan. 1, 1863.
The Cleveland Association of Colored Men is again advertising what it terms an "annual emancipation celebration to be held, this month, at color-line Luna park. SHAME! The worse some people are treated in some public places the better, they seem to like it, it seems. And still this does not justify the tolling of thousands of others of our people to such a place for the purpose of fattening the treasury of the Luna park management at the expense of our poor people, many of whom do not know or understand the insulting color-line conditions existing the year around at the park. The "Nergos" responsible for annual Luna park affair ought to be disciplined by the loyal, self and race respecting manly and womanly of the race in this community in such a way as to make them properly appreciate the seriousness and enormity of their offer against the race.
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The "Pickens" meeting at St. James A. M. E. church, Tuesday evening, was an unqualified success. The crowd filled the church, and about all the standing room as well as the rostrum were occupied. The program included a number of vocal and instrumental numbers, including a fine solo by Mrs. Lillian R. Thompson, which was supersly rendered. The editor of The Gazette was introduced and sketched briefly the work of the recent great Washington, D. C. Race Conference, call
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SWAMP LAND IS PURCHASED AND WILL BE USED AS NU CLEUS OF GREAT COL ONIZATION PLAN
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Drainage of Great Tract Will Involve the Digging of 175 Miles of Ditches.
Raleigh, N. C.—Forty-five thousand acres of swamp land near Beltain in the eastern part of the State, which it is proposed to reclaim by drainage, using the reclaimed lands as a nucleus for colonization purposes on a scale never before attempted in this State, have been purchased by New York investors. The purchasing company has been incorporated as the Norfolk Southern Farms and is headed by Mark W. Potter, New York investor and lawyer and president of the Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Railroad.
The large acreage of the proposed farm will permit plans for the operation of a packing house and grain elevators which will assure a market for all products. It is said that the company will operate and manage farms for purchasers of small tracts which will be sold after the land is thoroughly developed and put in through shape. Regular shipments of pork and beef are expected to be sent in carload lots to New York.
The drainage of this great tract of land will involve the digging of 155 miles of ditches. The land is in the famous "Black Belt," that is regarded as part of the richest arming land in the country. Its rich, black soil, from three to seven feet thick, contains from 50 to 80 per cent vegetable matter. It is not unusual or more than 100 bushels of corn to be raised on each acre of adjoining lands that have been brought into cultivation. In addition to corn these lands are now producing phenomenal crops of potatoes, cow peas, soy beans, winter rye, oats, cotton, peanuts, alfalfa and clover.
Soy beans, cow peas, crimson clover, vetch, winter wheat, oats and rye sown in the corn at the last cultivation, furnish excellent grazing throughout the winter, so the land will grow the best of stock foods the entire year. The long season permits a spring crop of potatoes, followed by a summer crop of corn and the fall and winter cover crops referred to.
It is stated on authority that crops grown while the land is being cleared by cutting and burning the standing timber will more than pay for the expense of reclamation. The lands as the present time carry a dense growth of trees and shrubs. They are cleared simply by cutting down the trees and burning them where they fall. The first year's burning disposes of everything except the larger logs and stumps. Immediately after the first burning corn is planted or "stuck" among the logs, without their removal, by dropping kernels in small holes made by a stick and the yield is about 30 bushel to the acre without cultivation.
The second and third year the land is again burned and planted in the same manner. The fourth year, as most of the logs and stumps have burned and softened up, the land is cleared at slight expense and put under the plow.
Approximately 10,000 acres of adjoining lands have been brought into cultivation during the last five years and are yielding upwards of 100 bushels of corn without the use of fertilizer or lime and with only indifferent cultivation. These lands lie between Albernarle and Pamuco sounds.
Flesh of Stain Animal Sold and Proceeds Given for Charity.
Lawton, Okla.—A woodland battle between two buck deer was productive of deer meat being placed on the market of Cache, a village near here. The animals waged a furious battle on the Wichita forest reserve and fought until their horns interlocked.
A passing miner saw their plight and notified the superintendent of the reserve, who knocked the tip off one of the antlers of the victor of the duel and released the combatants. The victor trotted off, but the other deer was so weakened from the struggle that the superintendent killed it.
The proceeds from the sale of the meat were given to charity, it being against the law to realize a prift from deer meat in this State.
WINS CIRL AND WACER OF $100
Proposes Over "Long-distance" After Taking Dare.
Romans, N. D.-- After letting his friends see a photograph of Blanche C. Ripley, one of them made a wager of $100 with Harry Bronson that he could not marry the girl before 6 o'clock the following evening.
Bronson took the wager. After communicating over the 'phone with the girl, who was a trained nurse at Sloux Falls, she said "Yes."
Bronson and Miss Ripley met at Egan came to Romans and were married early in the morning.
Sections Then Tilted to Upright Position by New Method.
Building a house wall like a floor and then tilting it to an upright position is an original system of construction which has been so perfected that at present is is used for large and costly concrete structures, saving time and material. Walls up to 120 feet long have been raised by this method, and many of the structures built by the federal government such as barracks, military hospitals, cavalry stables and other military buildings of standard type, which have long but not high walls, were erected by this system.
In building an edifice by this method the foundations are laid and within them a series of steel trussed frames is set up in perfect alignment. The frames are placed & few feet above his ground, in an almost horizontal position and they are set a few feet apart and at right angles to the foundation. These frames carry the wall, so that after the concrete has had time to cure the supports are brought into an upright position setting the wall squarely upon its foundation. The raising is done by telescope screws of unusual length, one under each steel frame. The jackscrews are operated simultaneously by a worm gear which turns all of them at an equal rate, the motive power being a small engine. The tilting is very gradual and the wall comes into position without any jar or shock.
There are many advantages in this system. In the first place the forms are laid flat upon the steel frames, not built in an upright position, and the work of placing the forms is done in less time. About half the lumber used on other forms is all that is needed by this method, as the upper surface requires no forms.
This upper surface, when the wall is horizontal, is the outer surface of the wall when it is set upright, consequently all the disfiguring board marks are on the inner surface, which receives plaster or other interior finish. The smooth surfacing of a concrete wall is difficult and costly, but by this method it is readily accomplished, for the finishing coat, and all decorative features, can be added while the concrete is wet, in which condition the adhesion is perfect. This is one of the most advantageous features of the system—Popular Science.
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The most picturesque lawbreaker of the south is the moonshiner who is sometimes referred to in his more peaceful avocations as a "Hill Billy." Statistics recently collated show that the moonshiner is not on the decline, and efforts to stamp him out have proved abortive.
Although revenue officers continue active from year to year, and federal judges sentence long lines of offenders to the penitentiary as regularly as the terms of court roll around, the business continues to flourish, and as soon as a mountaineer serves his sentence he goes back and starts another "still."
The mental attitude of the moonshiner has often been commented on and is generally understood. He sees no reason why he should pay the government a tax on whisky he makes himself, out of his own corn and with such apparatus as he may have at hand. Furthermore his conscience does not reproach him for selling the liquor without a license after he has made it.
With the exception of his moonshining proclivities and a habit of "poting" unfriendly neighbors in the feud district, the illicit distiller may be a model citizen. So far as he, or any member of his family, or any neighbor, is concerned, the fact that he has a still somewhere is no reflection on his character, and he can occupy a prominent seat at church.
There are also economic reasons why a mountaineer persistently converts his corn into whisky, at the risk of his life. His corn is usually grown on poor land and is inferior in quality. Besides, he would have to haul his corn a long distance over rough roads before finding a purchaser, even at a low price. The temptation to concentrate his product and make what to him is an enormous profit is not easily resisted, so, as fast as one still is destroyed another springs up to replace it—Birmingham Are Herald.
HORN IS SWITCH SIGNAL
Auto Device Helps Railroad Men Shift Cars.
Ten electric automobile horns mounted on telegraph poles and all controlled by one push button in the scale house are used for signaling the switching crew in handling trains over the railroad switching bump at Imman, Ga.
Signals given by these horns take the place of signaling by hand and a sound to give much better results, especially at night or in foggy weather.
The switchman can move about at will without the necessity of continually watching for signals, while the whole crew of a long train is certain to get the same signal at the same time in unmistakable if rancous tones, from the horns spaced along the track on the telegraph poles.-Popular Mechanics.
THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OH 10, AUGUST 2, 1918
KEPT SECRET OF MURDER OF GIRL
INDIANA JUSTICE OF THE PEAC
NOW CHARGES HIS SON-IN.
LAW WITH CRIME
ROBBERY WAS THE MOTIVE
For Sake of His Wife and Daughter
He Did Not Explain Josie
Gray's Death.
Evansville, Ind.—Unable longer to
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Benjamin Morris, Justice of the Peace
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County, has declared, in a statement
to newspaper men, that he had knowledge
that his son-in-law, Guy Prescott,
caused the death of Miss Josie
Gray, bookkeeper for a furniture company,
in this city, March 16, 1907.
Miss Gray, the daughter of a superannuated Methodist minister, and the support of her aged parents, was attacked as she was putting $250, the day's receipts, into the company's safe, after working late at night on her books. She was beaten and locked in the vault to suffocate, but was rescued two hours later. She died of her wounds a month afterward, having been unable to speak coherently. Prescott, a packer, who had been alone in the plant with the woman, was arrested, released temporarily, and fled from the city. He has not been found since. Morris was a Constable at the time of the crime. After Prescott disappeared, his father-in-law was credited with shielding him.
In his statement Morris said that the crime had preyed on his mind and he could stand it no longer. He said he had no knowledge of Prescott's guilt until eight or ten weeks after the man's disappearance, and then the thought of his wife and family scaled his lips.
Soon after the crime, Morris declared, his wife came to him and told him her daughter had thrown something into a closet at the Prescott home. The father said he questioned Mrs. Prescott and she answered, "It's the money Guy committed murder for."
"The money is still in the closet. We have never touched it." Morris declared.
His wife and daughter now being dead, Morris said he felt free to denounce his son-in-law from the day he disappeared. "If I knew where he was I would personally pay the expense of bringing him back to stand trial for killing Josie Gray," he said. The crime stirred popular sentiment to a high pitch. Prescott had been in a Sunday school class taught by Miss Gray and was well known to her. He had remained in the furniture plant on the night of the crime to put out the lights and lock the doors, but declared Miss Gray had dismissed him, saying she would lock the place. The police later declared that Prescott returned to the plant within a few minutes after departing. They asserted he did not reach home until 2 o'clock.
Prescott had been reported in various parts of the world. At one time he was said to have enlisted in the American navy on the Pacific Coast and deserted when his ship reached an Indian port.
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Alabaman Says She Heard "Huby" Ask Over "Safe" Line About Divorced Wife's Health
Birmingham, Ala.—P. W. Alston, mechanical engineer, connected with an iron-making enterprise of this district, and who is about 40 and divorced from his first wife, was talking over the telephone with their daughter, about 17 years old. He was inquiring about the health of his divorced wife, when his present wife, young and high-spirited, got in on the wire. What she heard made her angry and she left Alston. Now he has sued the telephone company for $10,000 damages for alienation of the wife's affections.
He avers that the company advertised its lines as being "perfectly safe" and charges it with negligence. He quotes from the directory advertisement:
"If the neighbors should overhear, just think what it might mean! But they can't because it's an individual line service, a line all your own, perfectly safe from other folks' curiosity. Just the kind for secrets and it costs only a few cents a week more than party line service. Isn't it worth that to be free from outsiders' ears?"
RATTLESNAKE IS SUGAR THIEF
Puts Woman to Flight, Then Devours Swee. Stuff.
Baker, Ore—An impolite rattle snake almost spilled the dainty cake Mrs. W. J. Williams of Homestead, was making. The snake took some sugar out of a jar as Mrs. Williams reached for it. Mrs. Williams almost upset the cake when she saw the ratter, and then started double-quick to find some one to kill it. When she returned with aid the snake had eaten all the sugar and left.
One or the most pitiful things in the world is to see an old woman wearing a wrist out finery.
New York—Ellen Hassett, 6 years old, was whirling thru the big sewer under West Forty-seventh street and was within a block of the Hudson River when she was rescued by the exceptionally brave work of Frank Knight, a 17-year-old office boy.
Ellen is the eldest of four children of Mrs. Margaret Hassett, a widow. The child was playing with companions in front of her home when she started across the street.
Her playmates heard her scream and saw the little girl suddenly disappear into a sewer manhole, the cover of which probably dropped into the sewer after being broken by a heavy automobile truck. They ran to the opening and looked down, but all was dark. They could hear a rush of water far down.
At that moment Frank Knight, the office boy, came into the circle and without hesitating he started down into the black hole on the iron rungs set into the masonry. When he was down eight feet he called to Louis Alhnett, a friend who remained above, to get a lamp or lantern, as he could not see anything.
Just then the lad lost his hold and dropped down into the sewer, but he was able to keep on his feet despite the current. Far away to the west he beard the faint cries of the missing girl and, giving no furtherheed to the darkness, he called to her:
"I'm coming; hold on tight!"
Down that slippery tunnel, twelve feet under the street, Knight slid, managing to keep upright in the hole, which is five feet in diameter, getting closer and closer all the time to the child's cries. Finally he came up to her and seized her dress. Then came a struggle to get back to the manhole, He was engaged in that task, holding Ellen above the stream all the time, when John McGovern, started down the manhole, fearing that both the boy and the girl had been swept to the river.
McGovern kept calling down in the darkness to the boy and when Knight was half way back he heard and replied:
"We're all right: I got her."
When Frank Knight had reached the manhole he handed the child up to McGovern, who had descended part way on the rungs, and McGovern lifted her up to Miss Elizabeth Treanor, who was leaning down into the hole from the pavement. Her head was severely cut where she had fallen and she was very weak. As Knight reached the street level he did not seem to think he had done anything unusual, but he said he was frightened when he fell into the stream and believed he was alone in the sewer. How far he had gone thru the sewer to get the child Knight did not knw. He believed it was at least forty or fifty feet.
MAKING GIRLS THIN AND FAT
Special Tables Are Provided Where Young Women Can Change
Denton, TX.-The fat girls residing at Stodd Hall, one of the dormitories at the College of Industrial Arts here, are fasting, while the thin girls are feasting on all kinds of weight-producing foods.
Separate tables and special diet have been provided for girls who wish to become thin and those who wish to gain weight. The experiment is being conducted under the direction of Miss Eriss Ingham, dietician of the hall, and the college physician. Twenty girls wan, to get thin and 24 wish to weigh more. The thinnest girl weighs 80 pounds and the stoutest 750 pounds.
The test is on strictly scientific lines. Gains and losses in weight will be ascertained at regular intervals. The girls are pledged to prescribed rules in regard to their eating, sleeping, exercise, diet at and between meals, drinking, clothing and worrying. Sweets are absolutely tabooed for the "fats" while the "thins" must leave alone such celsishes as pickles. A sample of an average day's diet follows:
For Stout: Breakfast—Apples, cereals, milk and to sugar, boiled eggs, zwiebuck, hot water.
Lunch—Salmon croquettes, sliced tomato, grailian bread, no butter, peach salad with boiled dressing, and cheese.
Dinner—Meat loaf, string beans, creamed onions, baked potatoes, sliced pineapple.
For Thin: Breakfast—Dried apricots, oatmeal, cream and sugar, bacon, toast and biscuit, preserves, hot chocolate.
Lunch—Salmon croquettes, rice, graham and white bread and butter, rice, preserves, top milk, peach salad with boiled dressing, cheese and nuts.
Dinner—Meat loaf with brown gravy, baked potatoes, black-eyed peas, creamed onions, cottage pudding with chocolate sauce.
STING OF WASP KILLS GIRL
School Teacher Succumbs 15 Minutes After Attack.
Spokane, Wash—Miss Cora Nelson, 21-year-old school teacher, died from a wasp sting, at her home near Medical Lake. The sting, back of her ear, had an effect similar to that of a rattlesnake bite, the alkali acting as a poison.
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Not many years ago barley was used more extensively than wheat for bread making in many European countries. Now it is coming into American favor as a wheat substitute.
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cakes en waffles is wot dey
call "quick breads."
You all makes 'em wild one cup er wheat flour ter two cups er substitute flour to save all de wheat dat kin he saved for de sojers. Some folks kin git er'long widout any wheat at all and are glad to do it ter help win de war. Dat ain't bad medicine to take, so' whots kine tuin up his nose at good con dead er biscuits er flapjacks?
one good tun
Aunts' instruction.
Jist ez de buckwheat cake yo
flop over on his face, Br'er Bacon-
rin' dance 'roun' en say, sezee:—
"One good tu'n desarves en nuther-
er," sezee.—Meanin' dat ef de
sojer boys go en do de fightin' fer
us, de leas' we als kin do his ter-
sen' 'em all de wheat—en eat
buckwheat instid. Co'n meal, rye
en barley flour fer us will he'p a
lot too.
sugar in de
gourd
SUGAR
De' l' song sse "Dar's Sugar in de Courd," but brier Tater 'tates dat de only sugar he's studyin' 'bout now a-days is what' in de sugar bowl en hit's gwine ter stay dar.
De folks wots doin' de fightin' mus' have sugar just.
But ef dars enny sweet'nin' in de gourd nov'days he she' gwine ter git taped 'cause dey's lookin' fer syrups en 'lasses en honey to "substitute."
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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.
"Brer Tater"
and garden sass
loveful
love sugar
love
neak
peanut
will help feed you
wheat in for soldiers
Brer Tater Tater isn't skerin't up a ghost' he wen he say we ails mute' eat less wheat en less meat en save kill de fat en sugar we kin. We has jit got ter feed dat tat dat he kio do bit by cat' right smart mott' tatts en garden sas en eatin' me' fish en game 'stid er pork and beef. If we als' don't eat we also right mott' well we'll be feedin' somebody for long en it won't be us.
King er de Roos'
U. S. Food Administration.
Ol' Squire 'Tater Tater he sees' to be mighty nigh king de roos' 'mong garden sass folks. We all kin eat him as a 'tater boiled, baked, fried, stewed, cooked wid cheese en dey gettin' so dey make im inter flour; so's we kin 'substi-tute' him fo' what flour. He de 'substituentest' of all de vittles.
De udder garden sass folls hik
inguns, tomatens, cabbage en turnips
in pots, daisy's goin to be room in
dot pot fo' de whole tribe. Evy las'
can he hep save wheat on meat
fer de lae' doin d'eight' in
over yander.
This is
what God gives us
What are you giving
so that others may
live?
Eat love
WHEAT
MEAT
FISH
SUGAR
Send more to Europe
or they will Starve
FOOD
WILL WIN
THE
WAR
Eat game
Ol 'Brer Rabbit and Administration
so' mighty skerceer en not go projeckin' roun' whar dere's cookin' gon' on, a caress a rabbit in a pot is er gor' ter look mighty good to mos' long count er ors' havin' ter have on a pot. Sfolks kindel have ter save on wheat flour fer comp'y en eat bread made outen dix yere 'substitute' flour. Dat wise owl owl say dat owl pot ter feed de sojer boys dat du, duo Dats wats takin, de wheat to ma
A teaspoonful means nothing. You can yet a heaping teaspoonful saved each meal for 120 days for each of the 100,000,000 persons in the United States makes a pile as big as the Woolworth building enough to supply the entire armed forces of the nation.
t-hoot-t-hoot t-hoo-
Food Administration.
Arter de wise owl spit on de bait he say, see ee—I grime ter sprize you all wid a mess er fishes 'cause you alls mus' save de meat en eat sumpin' else insidn en ses git out dat of game bag en make it work, too' say ol. Den he kotch a big fish and say, sez cee "thoot-t-hoot—t-sub-sit-oo1," sez ee. Wen he say dat he means dat when you alls make riz biscuits Jes don't make 'em—use corn meal ter save wheat four fer de solers.
LEI POTATOES FIGHT
They Save Wheat.
When you eat potatoes don't eat Bread
U.S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION