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OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT WILSON ASKING COMMUTATION OF DEATH SENTENCES Dancing Every Thursday Evening at Barksdale's Academy, THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR. No. 2 OPEN L ING CO METAL IS WEIGHTED AND MELTED INTO THIN RIBBONS BEFORE BEATING BEGINS Dancin IN UNION IN STRENGTH MAKE GOLD LEAF OF YELLOW BARS Small Amount of Silver or Copper is Added to Aid Process. Gold leaf which is used by dentists for filling teeth, by sign writers, jewelers and others is produced by gold beaters who begin with it in the form of wide bars or nuggets, says the Fathinder. It is weighed and melted into thin ribbons an inch wide before beating begins. After cutting the ribbons into inch squares a stalwart workman begins the beating process. Each leaf after being beaten comparatively thin, is transferred to a mold where the beating continues for four hours. A wooden hammer weighing from 10 to 19 pounds is used, the gold resting on a sheepskin cushion laid over a granite block. Absolutely pure gold could not be satisfactorily beaten, so a small amount of silver or copper is added to pure gold in order to make it spread properly. Usually gold intended for beating purposes is from 22 to 22 karats fine. When the beating process has been completed the gold leaf goes to the packers, usually girls. In packing the leaf is handed more by the aid of the breath than by the fingers, for the manipulation of the thin leaf is too delicate work to be entrusted to climaxing fingers. By means of wooden pincers the packers lift the unshaped leaves out of the molds, place them on sheepskin cushions and then, by gently blowing on them, flatten thdun. They are then cut into perfect squares, placed between the leaves of a book specially made for the purpose and flattened again with the breath. A book consists of 25 leaves, and the daily output of a skilled packer is about seventy books. FIRST SILVER WEDDING WAS ARRANGED IN 997 Plans Laid by Hugues Capet, Then King of France Followed Since. The fashion of silver weddings dates back to the reign of Hugues Capet, king of France in 987. Once as Hugues was arranging his uncle's affairs he found on one of the estates a servant who had grown gray in the service of his relative. On the farm with this old man was also a serving woman who was as old as he and also unmarried, who had been the most devoted and hard working of the women servants of the king's uncle. When the king heard these praises of the two he ordered them brought before him and said to the woman: "Your service is great, greater than this man's, whose services were great enough, for the woman always finds work and obedience harder than a man, and therefore I will give you a reward. At your age I know of none better than a dowry and a husband. The dowry is here—this farm from this time forth belongs to you. If this man who has worked with you five and twenty years is willing to marry you then the husband is ready." "Your majesty," "stuttered the old peasant confusedly," "how is it possible that we should marry, having already silver hairs?" "Then it shall be a silver wedding," "answered the king," "and here I give you a wedding ring," "drawing a costly ring from his finger and placing the hands of the thankful old people together. This soon became known all over France and raised such enthusiasm that it became a fashion after 25 years of married-life to celebrate a silver wedding.-Lippencott's. INTERESTING NEW INVENTIONS Indiana. Man Patents Pie Crust Making Device. An Eikhart, Indiana, man has obtained a patent on a device for forming crusts for pastries and any other form of edible that is cooked and served in crusts. Instead of a pie being baked in one large pan and then cut up for serving, each pie is baked in a separate crust. The crusts are made on aluminum forms. He has perfected not only a machine to make the forms, but a machine to spread the dough over the forms and a method for hanging the forms in an ordinary gas oven so that several dozen of them can be baked at the same time. One machine will make 100 crusts a minute. THE GAZETTE FRESH OHIO NEWS What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write also, their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obtitary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments, to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 20 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. EAST LIVERPOOL—Mr. and Mrs. W. Allen are rejoicing over the arrival of a fine baby boy—Mr. John Honderson spent Sunday in Bridgewater, Mr. George King who is very poor—Oscar certainly enjoy reading "The Old Reliable" Gazette and are urging all to take it. The Gazette is an Ohio race paper; a home publication; fearless, truthful and loyal to the race and our country. Help the local agent to increase her sale here and in Wellsville, please. YOUNGSTOWN—The local old Fellows' outing at New Castle, Monday, was a success.—Mrs. Mamie Wright of Evans, Iowa, and children are visiting her father, James Coleman, and other relatives.—Rev. and Mrs. John Orgborn are rejoicing, it's a boy.—Mrs. Elizabeth Lee died at St. Elizabeth hospital, Tuesday. She leaves a husband, three children and a number of relatives to mourn her death.—The sympathy of the community—George Boris, who died, last Tuesday, at the Massillon State hospital, was buried here, Saturday.—Tell your friends and acquaintances, dear reader, what they are missing by not taking "The Old Reliable" Gazette. HILLSBORO—Miss Faith Delancey has returned from Wilmington—Mrs. Wm. Pope of Columbus visited his daughter, Mrs. James Blanton, from Saturday to Tuesday—Mrs. Theo. Campbell, returned to Cleveland, Saturday—Rev. Orr visited Mr. and Mrs. O. Mitchell, Friday night and Saturday—Rother Bolden, Mrs. Anna Smith, Mrs. Josephine Parson, Mrs. Josephine Parson, Mrs. Cole and daughter, Mrs. Sadie C. Ww. son, visited the former's son, Charles, at Camp Sherman, Sunday—Rev. J. J. Burr preached at Biehn, Sunday—Mrs. America Williams and son, Gilbert; Mrs. Kate Zink and Mrs. Charles Shaughter visited relatives at Camp Sherman, Sunday—Mrs. Zella Smith and daughter, Zada, of Cleveland are visiting the former's sister, Mrs. B. F. Pleasant—Mrs. John H. Johnson of Cincinnati, here visiting relatives. Shannon here is quite old, much improved—Mrs. Enoch Frye of Cincinnati has moved here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Day, while her husband is in war service. Rev. Orr dived with Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Gregston, Sunday: WELLSVILLE - Mr. Rufus Dickerson of Pittsburgh was Miss Jean Redmond's guest, Sunday. Mrs. Eva Woodson is visiting her parents, Mrs. and Mrs. Bell of Casanobis, Va. J. N Bush is home from a visit in Washington, D. C. Hardin and Fairfax, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Luther Thornton are rejoicing as a bouncing baby boy. Rev. Jesse McCord, pastor of Mr. Olive Baptist church, Pittsburgh, preaches the sermon at the first Baptist church his text, "Watch Ye, Therefore, for Ye Know not the Day Nor the Hour When the Son of God Shall Come," Mr. Bougs was elected president and Corn Killebrew, secretary of, the B. Y. P. U. The young people gave a lawn fete at Mrs. J. H. Bush's. Rev. J. H. Mason unraveled a fine sermon, Sunday morning, on "Brotherly Love" at the A. M. E. church. The attendance was good. The Violet Club will meet at Mrs. E. Payne's Tuesday evening, to resume its work. Mrs. Lena Brown, president. Mr.hos. Benford, one of the extreme heat fine. Mr. Ernest Redmond was in Pittsburgh and Washington county. Pa., where he visited his aunt, known as "Aunty" Whiting. Vera and Beulah hunt of Steubenville are visiting their aunt, Mrs. M. M. Wilson. Mrs. A. Huff and Mrs. L. P. Richardson are visiting the latter's mother in-law in Atwater. Pa.-Mrs. Ernest Hopkins and Mrs. Anna Richardson were in Steubenville, Bridgeport and Wheeling, Mrs. C. A. Smith of Charleston, W. Va., is visiting her sister, Mrs. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25,1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1918 Hopkins—Mrs. T. P. Richardson spent the week-end with her daughter, Mrs. W. E. Henderson of Sturgeon, Pa.—Mr. and Mrs. Early are visiting in Delaware. CADIZ—Rev. George W. Tindell of Steubenville and a party of friends were here hunting the past week—Mr. and Mrs.ense and children of Wheeling are visiting Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Leq.-The A. M. E. Sabbath School picnic will be at Chautauqua park. Thursday, Aug. 29th.-Mr. and Mrs. Peter Heighton motored to Steubenville.-Mrs. Lena Ogden. Mrs. Winnie Howard and Mr. Limmie Howard. of Akron, are guests of Mrs. Ola Brown. Mr. Howard leaving the last of the week for Camp Sherman.- Mrs. Pearl-Binns and Miss Margaret of Oberlin are visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Bray has arrived at Mr. and Mrs. Hunter Jackson's.-Misses Majella and Milred Jackson, of Harrisville" spent Sunday here, guests of Miss Catherine Johnson. With the American Army in France—That the Afro-American soldier is in the thickest of the fray, giving a good account of himself, is attested by high French officers, who have nothing but words of praise for the valor of their men, and who are one common cause. In a recent interview, Lieutenant James Black said: "It is a mistake for the colored people of the United States to feel that their boys are being shoved to the front against their will. The fact is, it is hard to keep them, from going too far. Only yesterday two colored troopers were killed while a prominent French pinned crosses of honor on their breasts and kissed them on both checks. These men will be sent home on a furlough to tell their own story." This is the French method of showing admiration for a great accomplishment. At 15th New York Infantry, now the 3691, has seen a deal of fighting, being the first colored regiment over here and their first man to fall in battle was Corporal William Stephens, who formerly resided at 52 West 139th street. New York City. This brave warrior lost his life in General Foch's great counter attack upon Germans in the Soissons-Chateau region. He was killed by Reese Europe, former band leader of the 369th regiment, has been transferred to the Machine Gun Company. In the recent attack the French subject peoples, Algerians, Tunisians, Moroccan and, Sengalees (black) were in the thick of the fighting and bore their part of the struggle. Sengalees battalions were distributed among the French divisions and stormed behind the tanks in advance of the white Frenchmen. Other black soldiers from Africa covered themselves with great glory in their charge singing their war song: "If I go forward I like if go backward I do forward I like if go backward I do forward" With this cosmopolitan army giving fight to them the Germans were unable to withstand the allied attack. Here is the official record of Fake Dumbia of the 51st Sangalese batallion serving at the observation post of the trench: He was three times buried by projectiles, three times released himself and resumed his post with the greatest calmness and cool-headedness, continued on duty until relieved by the commander of the company. In the Rheims sector the 370th (former 8th Illinois) Infantry, commanded by a colored officer, Colonel Franklin A. Denison, has given a good account of itself and several of the men have been cited for unusual bravery. This regiment forms a part of 202nd Division and its attacking strength played no small part in the recent allied victory. Americans, both black and white, Englishmen and Italians, fought between the French in this great drive. The terrific fighting of these colored Americans has caused Kaiser Bail to emit an awful howl. Wm. Connor of the local Afro-American Welfare League will take your complaints against the Reality, Housing & Investment Co., to the City Rent Investing Committee if you will give them to him. He is at the Phyllis Wheatley home. 10550 EUCLID AVENUE HON. EMMETT J. SCOTT Washington, D. C., Aug. 9, '18. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. My Dear Mr. Smith: Just a line to tell you how much I appreciate the many good things you are saying about our work here in the war department, and to emphasize the value I place upon the helpful influence you are wielding in many ways toward promoting the morale of the race and thus aiding the nation to win this great war. The Gazette is indeed a welcome visitor at this office. Your articles in the current issue are exceptionally fine and go right to the meat of our big problems. Wishing you continued success. I am. Conially yours. EMMETT J. SCOTT, Special Assistant., Office of Secretary of War. OUTRAGEOUS TREATMENT Of a Young Woman of the Race by Government Officials. Washington, D. C.—Recently a young woman of the race was summoned here by the Federal Trade Commission to take a clerical position for which she had been certified by the Civil Service Commission, after she had passed the examination with average. On presenting herself after a lecture, an expense of travel from a distant city, advice to come, she was turned down by the appointment, clerk who summoned her. On returning home this same young woman, the following day, received a telegram from another bureau, the War Trade Bureau, asking what would be the lowest salary she would accept for a clerical position here. She immediately wired sick leave to an annum." The same day in reply to the wired answer, she received a telegram from the appointment clerk of the bureau, supplying for duty Aug. 1, at $1,000 for permanent appointment, and to bring the telegram of instruction with her. This she did, and again on discovering she was colored, she suffered the embarrassment, the injustice, of being, sent from room to room to receive the cruel advice of division chiefs that they WOULD take her because she was unwilling. Such treatment at the hands of southern "crackers," government officials, and lynching are what are slowly but surely undermining the morale of our people throughout the country. It must be stopped! BUNDY HANDICAPPED Hands Tied by Approaching Trial—Much-Wronged Man Should Have Every Help. St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 16—Dr. L. N. Bundy's open letter to the N. A. G. A. P. has aroused interest in this city where there are a great many people who feel the association will fail of its duty to the race if it continues to refuse to stand squarely behind this man. Rumors of the reason break by it at the door of the local police. If the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People regards the Bundy case as most Negroes look at it the question arises whether or not the interests of the race should be permitted to go unprotected because of personal differences with the defendant. The race is contributing its money and supporting this organization for purposes such as the Bundy case, and it expects the work to be done! Bundy is being wronged; there is no question that he was wronged. St. Louis It was seen before he was accused from the Belleville jail, and has been in evidence since. Wilson Attacks Vardaman Jackson, Miss—President Wilson, through a letter to Myron McNeal, an attorney of Házelhurst, Miss, has declared that should the voters of Mississippi re-elect Senator James K. Vardaman to the U. S. senate he would regard "their action as a condemnation of my administration," as Senator Vardaman "has been conspicuous among the Democrats in the senate for his opposition to the administration." Good! Since Ben Tillman's death, Vardaman is our bitterest enemy in the U. S. senate. OF OUR SOLDIERS AT FT. SAM HOUSTON A White Friend of the Race on Lynch--Murder Also 40 Central Ave., Madison, N. J., June 18, 18 The Hon. Woodrow Wilson, President, United States, Commander-in-Chief Army-Navy, House, Washington, D.C. Dean S. Hirsch, as per request of The Gazette, Cleveland, O., (see enclosed clipping); to disapprove and commute the death sentence imposed by court martial upon the colored soldiers at Fort Sam Houston, Houston, Tex. (exemplary) do not urge you for the sake of political capital! in the coming election; neither would I have you do it to still the voice of protest from our racial "submerged tenth," but for HIS sake and in HIS name, who at a later date may say to you in judgment, "I will not do it not) to these, you did it unto Me!" See Ps. 18: 18-20.7. THIRTY THOUSAND MORE Called to the Colors—Those in France Doing Grand Work—Our Medical and Other Officers Washington, D. C.—Calls for '130, 207 draft registrants qualified for general military service, to join the colors before the end of August, were issued, Aug. 8, by the provost marshal general. One hundred thousand white registrants from forty-three states are ordered entrained between Aug. 8 and the District of Columbia are directed to Earnish 30.207 more Afro-American registrants, to entrain Aug. 22-24. Ohio is called upon to send 6,650 white registrants and 327 Afro-Americans to Camp Taylor, near Louisville, Ky. These orders bring the number of men of both races called out in August to about 200,000, the deployed in the present military program. An Afro-American regiment took a valorous part in the fighting cast of Rheins on July 15 and 16, when the German drive was stopped. Another was west of Rheins. So furiously did they fight that they earned a contemptuous but appreciative place in the German official reports of the German military divisions—the Ninety-second and Ninety-third—are known to be in action on the western front. Some are in training in England, and the English tell many tales of their humor and whimsical attitude toward the war. The Ninety-second and Ninety-third divisions were organized under the command of Maj. Gen. C. C. Boulou and Brig. Gen. Roy C. Hoffman, respectively. The company units are to measure commanded by our officers. Under the first draft there were 737,628 Afro-American registrars, or nearly 8 per cent. of the country's total registration. Of this number 250,000 have been called to camp and many of them are now at the front. About 1,000, including 250 medical officers, have been commissioned as captains, and 100,000 second commands. In addition to the fighting men there are thirty-four Afro-American chaplains in the army and 150 members of the race with branches of the Y. M. C. A. at the camps in America and in France. SLAPPED ONE OF OUR WOMEN! Washington, D. C.—A few days ago while a woman of the race was on her way to work in one of the departments of the government here and was quietly seated in one of the street cars, an army officer, a southern "craches," who came into the car deliberately stepped upon her feet. She asked him what he meant. He replied, "I am from the south, where we don't allow niggers to insult white people." Quick as a flash the young woman arose to her feet and threw her lunch in his face and kicked the bully with all her strength. Just then a man of the race stepped up and said to the brute, from the south: "If you put your hands on that woman again I will trach you a lesson, that you will learn to walk with bullies who insult ladies, white or colored." That caused the dirty cow to subside. Three Candidates for Legislature: Charleston, W. Va.—a the state wide primary, held last week Tuesday, three Afro-Americans were nominated on the Republican ticket in as many counties for member of the House of Delegates, the lower branch of the legislature. The nominees are: J. V. Coleman, Clemberly Fayette county, Gary County, McDowell county, and T. G. Nutter, Charleston, Kanawha county. We have had two or three members of the legislature in years gone by. I have expected you (our National Representative before the whole civilized world) to have said and done something in the Executive Office condemning mob violence and denouncing lynch-murder and commending unity as the trust exponent of justice where violence is not necessary. Your attitude of "dignified silence" on these themes brands this nation (by the recent unrebuked acts of violence) as religious hypocrites and moral prostitutes. To grant the above request by an official proclamation might enable us to "save our face" from the violence of the Entrance Japan or Russia annealing "the world safe for democracy." May the Lord help you to do this in strict justice to yourself and to the praise of his glory. Heb. 13:20-1. Respectfully submitted. SOUTHERN SCHOOL TEACHER Living Openly With a White Man Causes Crimes to Be Committed Vicksburg, Miss—Dr. J. A. Miller, one of our most prominent local citizens, was tarred and feathered at high noon in the streets of this city, recently, by white brutes and ordered out of the city. At first, he was given twelve hours to leave, but later was ordered to "get out at once," leaving all he possessed behind. The charge against the doctor was disloyalty, after selling to our people $5,500 worth of Liberty bonds and buying one for himself and wife. Two women, one respectable and one of bad character, were also tarred and feathered on July 26—Ethiel Greenwood and Mrs. Ellen Barrett. The latter, whose husband is with the colors in France, fighting for democracy, was so terribly mistreated because she refused to submit herself to southern white brutes. These persecutions were due, especially to a teacher she showed opposition to a teacher she was working in schools here who was openly living in adultery with a southern white "gentleman." Good Lord! A WHITE FRIEND On the South and the Negro—The Former Must Pay Editor Cleveland Plain Dealer—Sir: From time to time we hear of Negro lynchings in the south, with all of its horrible and disgusting details. The fact is there is no democracy in the southern states. In Europe the fight is on to make democracy safe in the world, but back here in many of the states there is no democracy. The state south cannot afford itself without the help of the colored race and the north cannot afford to feed the south. At present the south is receiving from the north and west, a thousand million dollars worth of food stuffs, and as the Negro is driven out, the bill against the south will be much greater. Not far in the future the south will have to pay dearly for its inhuman treatment of the colored race. M. B. CARLETON, M. D. Woofer, O. MAJOR PRILOLEAU CALLED TO "FRISCO." Wilberforce, O., Aug. 7, '18. Editor Gazette, My Dear Friend: While preparing to write you, saying look for me on Saturday a telegram can change all of my plans. I leave morning and forsan Francisco tomorrow morning and for San Francisco on Friday night. I cannot explain because of this abrupt or sudden demand for me to be in "Frisco." I can only say that I am "deelighted!" Sorry that I cannot serve your pastor, Rev. O. W. Childers, and St. James A. M. E. church; Cleveland, as intended. Last week and the week previous persons were vainly trying to purchase copies of "The Old Reliable" Gazette at the local agencies in Central Ave. In the past year or two, she has often been the case, such has been the reason for it. Why not subscribe for it? The newspaper is mailed to your home, every week, and thus avoid such disappointments just when you want most a copy of The Gazette. When you want the news, the TRUTH, that other newspapers (race or otherwise) fear or will not receive a season or another (and this is too often the same days), you simply have to get "The Old Reliable" and you know it! IN-UNION IS STRONG SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS N ASK- TENCES BULLET GIVES TWO SOUNDS FRENCH COMMANDANT SAYS DETONATION AND WHIZ TRAVEL EQUALLY FAST Involves Delicate Problem in Ballistics and Acoustics. When a bullet or shell whizzes past you hear two distinct sounds, which are generally attributed to echo. But echo has nothing to do with them, and the double sound is a strange phenomenon in acoustics that has only just been explained. Commandant Agnus of the French army has presented to the Academic des Sciences the results of a profound study he has made of this double sound. The explanation is that you hear successively the noise produced by the projectile ploughing through the air at the moment of its passage at the height of the listener and the noise of its detonation at the moment of firing, which reaches the ear with the speed of sound. On firing the detonation spreads a circular (more correctly, globular) wave that moves in every direction with the speed of sound, or about 1,000 feet a second. But the projectile itself is rushing through the air with a velocity that steadily decreases. A shell from a 75 cannon has a speed of 1,745 feet a second at the gun's mouth, and a rifle bullet has a speed of more than 2,000 feet, roughly speaking twice that of sound. The noise it makes in flying-through the air is continued and outdistances the sound of the explosion, being one-tenth of a second ahead of it at the end of the first 330 yards. STUDIES OPTICS OF F18H Professor Has Hönor of Divining Rhetoric in Flounders Eye. Why an opossum sniffs his unsatisfied curiosity or a peacock proudly displays its variegated fan tails conceals some deeper mystery than mere sensual or intellectual satisfaction. It has, however, been left to Prof. S. O. Mast of the department of zoology of Johns Hopkins university, to divine the rhetoric in a flounder's eye. Prof. Mast began his research upon the kaleidoscopic changes of color in the flat fish with the knowledge that many animals possess the vital power to metamorphose their flesi in tints and hues so like the background as to be indistinguishable from it. Man has only lately turned this truth into account, as witness the military expedient of turning red and blue clothing on soldiers to grays, khaki and russet. Animals as a rule simulate their surroundings. The tiger is, striped like the lights and shadows of the jungle. The insect, called "daddy-long legs is easily confused in color and rigidity with twigs of trees. There are, however, many animals whose adoption to the nearby objects is even more perfect than this. 400 YEAR OLD BOOK TURNS UP Lucky Find Reported by Chicago University Officials. Down in the musty unused storerooms of Ellis Hall at the University of Chicago library assistants unearthened a large book bound in yellow, warping parchment; its pages rather mellowed by time, except for brightly colored initial letters that some forgotten monk had worked on in some forgotten cloister ages ago. The book was laid before James C. M. Hanson, associate director of the library. "Eureka!" said the director. "It's an original Vindelius de Spiris, a copy of De Divinius Institutorum Adversum Gentes of Lactantius, of which there is only one other known copy in the world." "Is it worth money," asked a reporter. "Well, judge for yourself. Vindelius was one of the old Venetian book makers, and this was printed in Vence in 1472. The only other copy is in the British museum. It is worth many thousands of dollars. "There is one big difference between ple_and talk." "What is that?" "If you mince your words, you are not so likely to have to eat them." One Year ..... $1.50 Birth Months ..... 1.00 Three Months ..... 50 Nine Years ..... Subscribers are requested to remit postoffice money order or reg- istered letter Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland land, Ohio, as second-class mail matter. Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWS-EST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 300,000 in Ohio. 25,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1918 Even newspapers like to know that their good work is, appreciated and Emmett J. Scott, our friend of many years standing and an old newspaper man, knows this. Thanks, brother. The editor of the Gazette will address the congregation of the Congregational church (white), W. 99th St. and Dennison Ave., Sunday morning at 10:30 o'clock on the "Southern Influx of Afro-Americans." Dr. Roy E. Whitney is pastor of the church. We cannot urge the thoughtful and loyal of the race, too strongly, to send for copies of "Pending Issues." Address, Hon. J. C. Manning, 208 W. 37th St. New York City. It is a publication you need and should have, and you will agree with us after reading a copy of it. We are so sorry that pressure of business made it impossible for The Gazette to publish the Rev, Geo. Wilson Brent's splendid letter on Page 1 of this paper before President Wilson issued his grand plea against lynchmunder, as we should have done. He would then have received the full credit he certainly is entitled to. Give it to him anyhow, friends. Dr. Brent is one of the truest and best white friends the race has. In his lecture on "Race Leaders" at Cory M. E. church, this city, Sunday evening, the pastor said among other things that members of the race who tried to get away from their people ought to be pushed back by the white people; and that the Hon. Frederick Douglass ought not to be condemned for marrying a white woman because a race leader ought not share any of the prejudices of his people (or any other people, he might have added). We are told that the foregoing remarks did not meet with but very little approval by his audience. This is not at all surprising because we take it that the most of his audience would in all probability indorse his speaking, as he did a year or two ago, at color-line Luna park. As The Gazette was going to press Thursday morning, it received a letter from Robert K. Hodges, chairman of the entertainment committee of the Cleveland Caterers' Association, enclosing a copy of the organization's letter to the color-line Luna park manager, one Wm. Ruetener canceling its date for its annual clam bake at the park. GOOD! That's the spirit. Now let the Cleveland Association of Colored Men show the same self and race-respect and many spirit, and all of our organization refrain in the future from hiring that park for any purpose whatever. Then let the individual members of the race who are denied the free exercise of their citizen rights in that place of amusement, enter suit against its management (under our Ohio Civi Rights law) and compel it to discontinue its color-lines or go out of business. "That is the way to do it!" Harry E. Davis was nominated a candidate for representative on the Republican ticket, Tuesday, and in all probability, will be defeated at the polls in November, just as he was two years ago, largely owing to the fact that the Republican ticket nominated, Tuesday, is a very weak and poor one. Dallas Cooper, the Afro-American candidate for a nomination for representative on the Democratic ticket, ran well, receiving over 5,000 votes nearly enough to nominate him. Davis led the Republican legislative candidates, many white Republicans believing they were voting for Mayor Harry L. Davis or a brother of the mayor. Afro-American voters did not support him generally nor liberally for a number of reasons. Here is the vote of the Afro-American candidates. Tuesday, as announced, Wednesday. It will shrink materially with the official count: Davis, 7,235; Woods, 2,460; Blue, 2,663; McGinnis, 1,512; Bout, 935; Cooper, 5,443. Dr. Dale (for coroner), 2,621. Under the heading, "Gouge Colored Tenants: Central Ave. District Landlords Profiteers, is Charge." Tuesday's Plain Dealer published the following: "Colored people in the Central Ave. S. E. district are paying higher rentals than are charged for residences in Euclid Ave., according to information given the anti-rent profiteering board yesterday by W. R. Conners, secretary of the Negro Welfare Association. From $6 to $7 a room is charged colored people in the district, while white people in the same territory pay $2 to $4, Conners said. He declared some landlords raise rents in houses occupied by white people to get rid of them, and then make a higher charge to colored tenants." Tenants of the Realty, Housing & Investment Co., who are complaining, should lodge their complaints with both Mr. Conners and Chairman John Sulzman, of the City Council Rent Committee. This is especially true of those who claim to have been charged greatly increased rents and also required to purchase $50 worth of stock in the company. Either do this or stop making complaints, for it is the only way to get the desired results. A BLOW FOR COLOR-LINE LUNA PARK The Gazette is reliably informed that the Cleveland Caterers' Association has sent a letter to the management of color-line Luna park protesting against its notorious and illegal discrimination against our people, even on the days that the alleged emancipation celebration is held there, and notifying it that the Association will never again go there for its "clam-bakes," etc., until the park color-lines are discontinued. This is extremely gratifying, if true, and what The Gazette has been demanding for years. Now let the self and race respecting and mainly members of the Cleveland Association of Colored Men do likewise and give our people of this community, at least, an opportunity to regain the respect for both local organizations of Afro-Americans they once held. Then, too, this will go a long way toward helping to batter down not only the color-lines at color-line Luna Park but also those at other local color-line public places of amusement, entertainment, etc. DR. L. N. BUNDY AND THE N. A. A. C. P. The desertion of the Bundy-East St. Louis (Ill.) case by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a mistake and a serious one, too, not only for the individual but also for that organization. The Bundy case is a RACE and not an individual matter. It is one of great importance to our people and means life or liberty to the individual. The N. A. A. C. P. has collected thousands of dollars of the hard-earned money of our people of the country for the specific purpose represented in the Bundy case and cannot arbitrarily withdraw from it on the firmy ground it gives. It is necessary that he help raise funds to fight his case and it is also perfectly right and proper that some of it be used for the support of himself and wife pending the trial that is to take place, next month. It ought not to be expected nor required that he "establish himself in some self-supporting business" in the short interval intervening. That is and has been practically impossible; nor do the loyal of our people expect it. HERE'S A REAL RECORD Editor Cleveland Plain Dealer—Sir; some weeks ago your paper noted the act that a New York state colored couple gave eight sons to the regular and new National armies of our country to help in the war. Now comes Sheriff R. H. Edwards of Wayne county, N. C., of which foldsboro is the county seat, with the statement that John Ward, colored, of foldsboro, has thirteen of his seventeen sons in the regular and new National armies and seventeen daughers engaged in war work. Mr. Ward was born April 21, 1856, at Goldsboro. He was married three times and his last wife is now living. His first wife bore him fifteen children, four at one time twice, three at one time twice, one at a time once. His second wife bore him two at one time twice, three at one time once and five one at a time. His present wife was borne him eight, one at a time. His first wife lived six years and three weeks after marriage, his second wife eight years and six months. It occurred to me that this is not only a record but the record. To date 50,000 young men of color have been called to the colors. These and many other facts are what materially help us justify the issuance of President Wilson's recent splendid plea to the country against the crime of lynchmurder and all forms of mob violence. HARRY C. SMITH, Editor The Cleveland Gazette. Peanut Kills Child. Minneapolis, Minn. — A peanut caused the death of Bernhard Newport, 3 years old, who was given it by his brother after the mother of the boys endeavored to put them out of reach and left the room. The youth attempted to swallow it whole. ```markdown ``` If thumb tracks instead of ordinary tacks are used to fasten white oil cloth to pantry and cupboard shelf, the oilcloth may be easily removed when cleaned. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, AUGUST 17, 1918 DOINGS OF THE RACE The last call of registrants will not the new National army 350,541 Afro-Americans. CHEROKEES P $20.000,000 BEGIN MOVEMENT AGAIN U. S. FOR RECOVER VALUE OF LANDS MONEY THEY NEED LEGISLATION Howard Drew, crack spinner, of Drake university, will report at Camp Dodge in a few days with our draft contingent from Des Moines. Nat Hoffman, a white soldier, was hanged in July at Camp McArthur, Texas. He was convicted of attacking a colored school girl last April. According to the War Department, Washington, a New Orleans African-American, was the first American soldier to set foot on French soil. Louisiana has 542 more Frenchian drafted men in camp than whites. Several southern states have not as yet furnished their quota of white volunteers. Mildred Stevens, of Grand Rapids, Mich., who saved the life of Mary Geet (white), during a fire in the Kent Co. Juvenile Home, has been recommended for a reward-medal, etc. Robert R. Church, of Memphis, has been a member of the State Republican Committee of Tennessee and the State Primary Board. He has not been elected a National Republican Committeeman, as announced. The publishers of the San Antonio (Tex.) Daily Express have established and set aside a fund of $100,000 to be used in combating the crime of lynching in this country; thereby to aid in stamping out the lawnessness and violence of the mob. One result of President Wilson's plea. Elmo Moles, only son of Mr. John Anderson, mail carrier of Pittsburgh, has appointed assistant field secretary of western schools with quarterstates at Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kansas. He will have full charge of plans for all religious, social and educational needs of our soldiers in camp. PROF. L. H. LIGHTNER Supreme Clerk, American Woodmen of Denver, to Speak Here. At Cory M. E. church, Tuesday night, August 20th, 8:30 p. m., for the first time in Cleveland's history an officer of the American Woodmen will speak to the general public on "Wood craft." Prof. Lightner is a young college man and is one of the most efficient expert accountants and bookkeepers in the United States, regardless of color. He brings to the people of Oklahoma this time a burning message that every man woman and child in Cleveland should hear. He is an apostle of big business and recently wrote and signed a check for $20,000, made payable to Uncle Sam for American Woodmen Liberty Bonds. An interesting program is being arranged by Dr. E. A. Bailey, commander of the local camp and a life-long friend of Prof. Lightner. After the committee will receive all persons present with desire to join the Woodmen. The joining fee will be $3.50. The camp has on a membership contest, the camp being divided into clubs according to states. Each state will have five members on the enrollment committee. Come out, hear the speaking and then join the Woodmen. If you desire to join before that time, call at the office, 2403 E. 40th St., Suite 1. C. C. CADE, Supervisor. (Adv.) AUSTRALIA TRAVELER GOES 150 MILES WITHOUT SEEING HOUSE Country Is Not Desert and Climate Is Fairly Good in Northern Section, Says Lecturer. Melbourne, Australia.—The only country in the world where one might travel for 150 miles without seeing a house or meeting a person, was the description of Australia's vast Northern Territory, given by Dr. Giltruth, the administrator, in a lecture on this section of the continent. Dr. Grilhr pointed out that the territory was not a desert and that its climate was delightful for three months, and not unfavorable even in the middle of summer. There was much mineral wealth, and water could be secured by sinking bores. Imense tracts awaited stock and maize; sorghum and cotton grew well. It was possible to leave the cotton until all the pods had ripened, as no rain fell in the ripening period of the year. With the extension of the railway from Katherine River there should be a future for wolfram, copper and tin mining. 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 hurling in the shadows near a waiting automobile. Suspecting a plot she notified the evangelist and the scheme was frustrated. BANISH MAN FROM HOME TOWN Court's Punishment for Eloping With Niece. Aurora, Ill.-Albert Powers has been banished from his home town of St. Charles as an outgrowth of the elopement with his 17-year-old niece, Bessie Haynes, last August. Powers has been in the Kane County jail at Geneva, waiting trial. The father of the girl insisted on prosecuting Powers, but the girl's mother wished to avoid the publicity incident to a trial and the unique sentence resulted. CHEROKEES PLAN $20,000,000 SUIT BEGIN MOVEMENT AGAINST THE U. S. FOR RECOVERY OF VALUE OF LANDS AND MONEY THEY NEED LEGISLATIVE ACT Indians Must First Appeal to Congress for Permission to Bring Claims Court Action. Tulsa, Ok.-Three hundred Cherokee Indians, representing all of the political divisions of the Cherokee nation, assembled in Tulsa on call of the last principal chief, William C. Rogers, and others, for the purpose of setting in motion a movement to recover the value of lands and money apportioned to the slaves of the oldtime Cherokees, known as Freedmen, and their descendants. In all, the Cherokee figure they should be reimbursed to the amount of $30,000,000. The treaty of 1866 between the Government and the Cherokeees provided that the negroes of the Cherokeees should share equally in their lands and funds. According to Chief Rogers and others, who can remember the making of this treaty, the Cherokeees protested bitterly, but as their nation was prostrate as the result of ravages of the Civil War, they acceded to the demands of the Government. Some old-timers made the statement in the convention that the Government took this manner of punishing the Cherokeees for giving assistance to the Confederacy. However, it was shown that the Cherokeees were about equally divided in loyalty to the North and the South during the Civil War. A comparison was drawn of the experience of the Cherokees and of the Chickasaws in the sharing of their property with their negroes. When the Government asked the Chickasaws to allow their negroes to participate in the distribution of lands they would only consent to giving them each a 40-acre homestead, and this only on condition that they would eventually be reimbursed for this loss of land by the Federal Government. Eventually the descendants of those Chickasaws who allowed their freedmen to have a 40-acre homestead brought suit against the Government for the recovery of the value of the lands taken from them, and won it without much difficulty. This money has since been distributed per capita among that tribe. The Cherokees must proceed first by appealing to Congress for an act of legislation which will permit them to bring suit against the Government in the United States Court of Claims at Washington for the money they insist is due them. If the Court of Claims should decide against them they still would have the right of appeal to the United States Supreme Court. TOWN USES SEIZED LIQUOR IN AUTOS Hutchison, Kan.-A use has been found for the whisky and brandy seized from blind tigers in this State, and the practice of feeding it to the fish has terminated. Instead, these liquors are converted into anti-freezing mixtures for application to water-cooled motor trucks and cars owned and operated by counties and municipalities. Beer and wines are still poured into the streams. Hutchison has four motor fire trucks, also a police and a city inspector's car. Along about Nov. 1 of each year it is necessary that the water-cooling system in use on them be supplied with an anti-freeze solution. Last year Mayor Gleadall tried out the whisky and brandy confiscated and held by the police for this purpose, and it worked so well that it has been adopted by the Mayor as permanent. The amount of alcohol in the liquors runs from 60 to 70 per cent, which is about the right proportion to insure against freezing in any temperature which Kansas has thus far experienced. ANTS WIPE OUT BEE ARMIES Allied Honeymakers Annihilated in Own Trenches. Oakland, Cal.-Dr. J. H, Callen, who had two hives of bees, much alive, on his Fruitvale avenue property, is now occupied in cleaning out two hives of dead bees, victims of an unsuccessful Verdun defense against a horde of marauding ants. The evidence shows that the ants attacked in solid mass formation, carrying the bees' first, second and third line of trenches, and then attacking the entrances to the bees. The little Thermoplya was defended by a few valiant bees, but they never had a chance. When the entrances were choked, the ants sat down and let the rest of the garrison starve. The object of the battle is still unknown. The victorious ants just went home after it was over. 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. LEMON JUICE IS SKIN WHITENER Cheap home-made beauty lotion to bleach the skin white At the cost of a small jar of ordinary cold cream one can prepare a full quarter pint of the most wonderful lemon skin whitener and complexion beautifier, by applying the juice of two fresh lemons into a bowl and bringing three ounces of orchard skin. Care should be taken to strain the juice through a fine cloth so no lemon pulp gets in, then this lotion will keep fresh for months. Every woman knows that lemon juice is used to bleach a darkened skin. Just try it! Get three ounces of orchard white at any drug store and two lemons from the grove and make up a lotion from the lemons. Lemon lotion and massage it daily into the face, neck, arms and hands. It is harmless to whiten a dark skin. FACTS * * * People who Advertise Can sell Goods. * * * People who sell Goods Can make Money. * * * People who make Money can advertise goods. * * * The Best Advertising Medium is "The Old Reliable" GAZETTE. While it is true that occasional advertising will bring extra business, it is equally true that constant, persistent advertising will keep business growing during "dull days." The merchant who considers riches a burden should never advertise. His store may be like a summer resort in January. Do YOU advertise? The merchant who never advertises uses the same condition may imagine he is wise, but his competitors have no desire to disturb his imagination. It's a good time to "get awake." Going After the Multitude Printing enters largely into the success or non-success of almost every business in these days of rapid progress. We could mention successful businesses without number which have been built up entirely by the free use of printer's ink. The returns for such advertising have been in proportion to the outlay. Printed matter has revolutionized the world; it is large, the necessities of the people are great. The man who advertises will supply their wants. FEMALE BAND BENEFIT DANCE The American Woodmen Female Band and Symphony Orchestra will give a benefit ball at the Druid hall, 633 Superior Ave., Tuesday night, August 27th, Admission, including war tax, will be 55 cents. Everybody in Cleveland is invited to come out and give the girl band a boost. Boost everything that boosts Cleveland and the Female Band will be one of Cleveland's bands. The band will have 28 pieces and there are only two vacancies at present, Prof. F. L. Handy of the Famous Silver Seal Band of Houston, Texas, is the instructor. Get your ticket in advance and come to the dance at Druid hall and give the girl band a boost. The old reliable Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially destruous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Dayton, Akron, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we have more. Write to the editor of The Gazette Blackstone building, Cleveland, O., and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by sending at once the addresses of persons in the cities named and others in the state, to whom we can write relative to the matter. SAVE SUGAR FOR THE MAN WHO EIGHTS KINKY HAIR MADE STRAIGHT. SOFT. LONG, SILKY By using Heroin Poumide Hair Dressing, which is the best preparation made for producing beautiful, soft, silky, straight, long hair, Heroin feels the scalp and makes silky, nappy, smooth, strawberry hair soft. You will Heroin offers you a chance. Take it - but don't be fooled into getting anything else than HERIN. It makes short hair grow long and bequiful, stops itching scalp and dandruff. SENT 25 cents BY FOR Heroin Med. Co., Atlanta Ga. AGENTS. 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Ct De ent .° Mrs. Julia Burdine and daught oe, O °@ Aine Whee Avdercan Greonry. and FOR SALE.—10-room rooming house. Apply to W. T. Grant, 3512 Central Ave. hail SER ane emeererem CLUB’ NOTICE — The Working Men's Social and Literary club meets, every Friday evening, for business and gives a dance, every Monday night, at their hall, 3103 Scovill Ave. H. P. Williams, pres., 3040 Central Ave. L. V. Orton, sec., 2667 E. 40th St. Miiton Watkins, chairman, 2524 B. 30th St. ate ee FOR. SALE—Two Boe jee side by side, one a ‘orner lot, néar a school, in 117th St., S. BE. (Mt. Pleasant), 40 ft. by 125 ft. and 40 by 120; price (for both) $1,500, $300 down and the balanee, $20 per month. Cheaper for cash. Call or write The Gazette, 214- 215 Blackstone Bldg., Cleveland, O. Here is a splendid opportunity to Own Your Own Home!. Social and Personal ‘Mr. and Mrs. James G. Offer leave today for an extended vacation. trip. W. L. Davis of Beach View, Pitts- burg, was in the city a few days, last and this week, _ Mrs. John P. Green left, Tuesday, for Detioit to spend a week with At! torney and Mrs. Barnes. Mr. Emanuel C, Harris of Pittsburg was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Naylor of E. 82d St., recently. Mrs. Zella Smith ang daughter, Zada, are visiting relatives in Hills: Soro, and Mrs. ‘Theo. Campbell has returned from a visit there. Mrs. John D. Johnson, of 2308 E. 96th St,, is still very ill, at this writ ing. She is the mother of Misses Ruby and Blanche Johnson. Be sure to read carefully the edi- tovials on page 2; columns 1 and 2 of his paper. Something of special in- terest to vou, reader. BEST FOR THR BLOOD — Puro Herbs, Sold only at Brown Drug Co, or E. 28th St. and. Central Ave— iv. Mi, and Mrs, Arthur.'T, Abbott, ac- companied by, their, daughter, “Mrs. Leslie Slaughter, visited Mrs. Ab- bott's sister, Mré, Baldwin Allen, in Xenia recently. Dr. E, A. Bailey and Nis brother-in- law, Prof.’ W.. J: Hale of Nashville, Tenn., paid ‘The Gazette sanctum a pleasant visit, Wednesday afternoon. ‘Thomas W. Bird, of Central Ave. was elected A. F. & A. M. grand mas- ter of the state of Ohio and jurisdic- tion, on Aug. 8, suecceding B. C. Len- nox. Ben Shook’s famous Detroit orches- traof 47 peces is filling a summer en- gagement at Riverview park, said to be the largest and most beautiful nat- Ural: amusement park, in the country. Mi. Barton, of Arthur Ave., who thas been in poor health for some tine has been taken to the State hospital. Mrs. Bllz Sutton, of 2309 E. 95th St., entertained, Monday afternoon. Music and refreshments, ‘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. Rey, and Mrs. W. T. Anderson. of ‘Toledo, ave guests of the latter's sis- | ter, Mrs. C. G. Fishback. Owing to failing health the major has tendered his tesignation as pastor of Warren ALM. E, church, Toledo. Mr, and Mrs. James G. Offer had as recent guests Mrs. M. V, Walker and two sons, Jerome and ‘Hilton, New Orleans, La., and Mr. and Mrs. J. E Morenzell and daughter, Miss Bernice, Akron. Charles Washington, of the Sixth City Club, returned, this week, from an extended visit ‘at West Baden | Springs, Ind. Come on, “Lippy,” and biog: The Gazette its “smoke? on that tri Ciayborn C. Jackson and Will Jack- son visited the former's son, Corporal Wesley Jackson, at Camp ‘Sherman, Sunday. “Wes” is getting fat, is do- ing fine and is well pleased with his new “berth.” ‘Hon. Wm. R. Stewart of Youngs- town passed through the city, Wednes- day. morning, with 2 party’ of three friends en route to Niagara Falls in his auto, They took breakfast at the Palace Restaurant, E. 28th St. and Central Ave. Mr. L. H. Lightner, of Denver, Colo., supremie clerk of the American Woodmen, will be in the city, Tues- day, and will speak at one ‘of our Joeal churches, so Mr. C.,C, Cade in- forms The Gazette. Mr.cLightner. is ‘a talented young man and a very in- teresting speaker. 2 Last Sunday the, Tate Stars, in an interesting. game of ball, defeated the Willard Storage team, 4 to 3, Ralph Moore. holding the Storage team to three scattered hits while the Tates gathered. eleven hits, three of them doubles. Qn Sunday’ the Tates play the strong St. John Cantius nine and a great game is expected, with R. Moore pitching for the Tates. If you see Mr. Wm. McNaughton. one of our old and highly respected citizens and residents, be sure to get him to tell you of his telephone con- versation, the first,of the week, with the manager of color-line Luna’ park THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, AUGUST 17, 1918. |night week. Don't fail to do so. Mrs, Julia Burdine and daughter Mrs. Fina Anderson Gregory, and th latter's three children, of Washing ton, D. C., who are living at thei summer cottage at Linwood park Vermillion, were guests, last week, 0 “Mrs. AnnEliza Holmes and daugh ‘ters; Miss Viola ‘and Mrs. Mabe Powell Jackson, of Hudson Ave. My Frank Gregory, who is doing army Y. M. C. A. work, will join his family at Linwood park before they return t the Nation’s Capital, this fall. Befor her martiage, Mis. Gregory was on of our teachers in the local publi schools. Marriage licenses were issued te the following recently: James K Mitehell and Evelyn Eynest, Willian Stewarg and Fannie Lewis, Jame: Russellf'and Grace Anderson, Arthu: Comstock and Mina Johnson, Willian Thomas and Carrie Pendleton, Mal achia H. Johnson and Lottie’ Bass Clarence’ Hill and. Beatrice” Kennedy Perey Jackson and Mary Faut, Danie Alexander and Edna Case, “Mozea Dillon and Nellie Bishop, Ben. Jack son and Maggie Washington, Ache: Moody atid Georgie Gaskins, John A Miles and Effie Blout, Ed. A. Johnson and Catherine Evans. On Friday last the hearing on th exceptions filed by Charles S. Smith the newly appointed guardian of Fan. nie Gray, who is blind, to the fina account of Rev. H.C. Bailey, forme: guardian, was continued. in ’Probat Court. At the conclusion of the hear. ing Judge Hadden overruled the ex- ceptions. Under this ruling Bailes received $100 as his compensation for the time he acted as guardian—a lit. tle less than a month! A.will mad during this time by Mrs. Gray, which has since been canceled, was 'turnes ‘over to Mr. Smith. Under this will ‘St. John’s Methodist Episcopal chureh: of this city, was to receive a bequest of $500; Antioch Baptist church, 0} which Bailey is pastor, a bequest o! $400; the Bryant children, now in. the Goodrich Home, a bequest of $200 and Mrs. Gray’s piano, which the tes. timony showed had been sold by. some one for $2. Bailey was to receive al the rest and residue of Mrs. Gray’ Property, said to be nearly $5,000, on condition that he pay to a Mrs. Welle: the sum of $200. W. T. Clark, Eso. was named as administrater. The wil also expressed the desire of the testa tor that there be no appraisal of he estate or bond required. Mrs. Gray will leave in a few days. to resid: with a niece in Indianapolis. At th time of going to press she was enjoy. ing the best of health and gave no in. dications of an early demise. Tha will, made while Bailey was guard ian, does not speak well for him, te say’ the least, “Four hundred dollar to Antioch Baptist church” and “al the rest and residue” to Bailey, afte the other bequests were paid.’ Goo Lord! The services at St. James A. M. EF chureh, East End. Sunday were’ in spiring and helpful. There was « lange attendance despite the ho weather. Rev. 0. W. Childers spok: in the morning on “Blessings Out o Adversity” and in the evening or “Nothing Trifling.” P. W. Lemon, su perintendent of St. John’s Sunday School, addressed the Sunday School He complimented the superintendent “and teachers on the fine showing evi “enced in the attendance and interest Misses Estella Gainer and Margare Koiner made reports of the Sunday ‘School Institute, held recently ai ‘Youngstown, ‘The Adams-Ramey “Men's Guild held a successful meeting and reported $50 clear of expense: from the Pickens meeting. ‘The firs “Bulletin” of St. James was issued ‘Sunday. It had to do with the rall for a building fund. The committee having in charge the collecting of ‘funds to assist Sister Anna Farrell t ‘enter the home for our aged peopl reported. $160. ‘This, added to the sum of $60 paid Mrs. Ferrell by th Street Gar Co,, will ‘more than paj cher way into it. ‘These ladies, Me: dames Corola ‘Washington, Albert Cobb, Cornelia Blue, John Washington 'P. H. Harris, Celeste Burns, Dor: ‘Touneil, Resa Johnson, Clara Harris E. Renfroe, Lillian Potter, Letha Ham. fin, Mary. Linthecome’ and Rox Brooks deserve great credit for this laudable act. ‘The Street Car Co. set- ‘tied with “Mrs. Ferrell for the very small sum of $80. The Mothers’ and Homemakers’ Guild wa: organized at the parsonage, recently. Mrs, Emily Ferris is presy and Mrs ‘A. Patterson, see. ‘The Sunday schoo! will join with Mt. Zion Baptist Sun- day School in a pienic at Garfield park, Thursday, Aug. 22. Mr. Geo. Fields. returned, recently, from Co- lumbus, where he atended his mother's funeral. She-was more than 100 years old. ‘The Allen League had charge of, Educational Day. R. S. Koiner and J. Williams made address- es and the Allen League choir ren- dered music. Several of our boys, now in France, have been heard from, to the delight of their parents, Mr. Rob- ert Burns and Mr, William Cook each have two sons “over there.” The Pickens meeting has created de: mand for high-class talent in the East End. A number have urged the pastor ta secure other men of talent and ability to appear at St. James. Bro. Henry Reed and wife spent a few days of his vacation in Oberlin. A number of our men report mistreat- ment and near-riots on, Quincy Ave. cars. It seems that our people trav- eling through this section are objec- tionable to some roughneck whites. oe $9 SAVE “PAY RAYS WAY” $2.50 | Own a Diamond | THIS COUPON ts ood for two and a half doltars as a down payment on any new account | ¥OU'LL NEVER MISS THE SMALL AMOUNT NECESSARY EACH Oe ween WEEK TO PAY FOR IT. 50c A WEEK WILL MAKE) YOU THE THE RAY JEWELRY CO. OWNER OF A SPARKLING, BLUE WHITE, PERFECTLY CUT Grete aust DIAMOND. SPECIAL VALUES AT $25.00 $37.50 $50.00 $75.00 $100 NO MATTER WHAT PRICED DIAMOND YOU BUY HERE ON OUR EASY PAYMENT PLAN, WE ALLOW YOU 6 PER CENT PROFIT WHEN EXCHANGED FOR A LARGER STONE. If you can buy World’s standard make guaranteed cheaner ES Watches for ladies we'll refund your and gentlemen— money. 2059 EAST 4th STREET 50c A WEEK Between Euclid and Prospect —— ———EE purchased and moved into-a new:home on E. 103d'St, Mr. Pred Adsi¢ ts-also @ recent purchaser of a new home on the same street. Mr, Gainey Wash- ington has decided not to accept gov- ermment work in West Virginia and has returned home. ‘The press bureau of color-line Luna park “slipped a cog” by sending a no- tice to the local daily papers, too carly, last Saturday. Tt evidently in- tended its notice to appear in Monday morning’s daily paper, and not earlier, because it announced that, owing to “the bursting of the huge intake pipe in the bathing pool, Sunday evening, more than a million gallons of water were pumped out of Lake Luna's bath- ing pool.” Unfortunately for the park management, the announcement _ap- peared in the early edition, of Sun- day's Leader, which was being offered for sale on the streets as early as 7 v'clock, Saturday evening. This, of course, announced the bursting of the huge intake pipe at Luna park more than twenty-four hours before it is alleged to have taken place, and was therefore a “ead give-away.” ‘The closing of the pool to Negroes either unfamiliar withthe. color-line ‘Luna park conditions, or so thoroughly sur- charged with “jim-crowism” and a de- sire 10 make a little money out of their poor hard-working brothers and sis- ters that they did not care, meant ab- olutely nothing to the latter, appar- ently. O21 the shame of it ali! It is just such precedents as this that cause prejudiced whites in the community to multiply color-lines drawn against our people. Why the self and race-re- speeting and manly Afro-Americans of this community do not rise in their might and deal with that mercenary and “fim-erow” promoting: Cleveland Association of Colored Men is a mys- tery to The, Gazette, to say the least. Some of its members are also among those who have “boosted” the rents of certain properties in this city occupied by ows people to such a high figure that at least some of the tenants of aid properties are said to be forced to conduct illegal and even immoral places in order to, assist in. raising money to pay the high rental charges, so we are infggmed by at least onc of said tenant® Monday's affair at color-line Luna park, in spite of the fact that the bathing pool was closed to Negroes, az usual, and the unfair accustomed treatment of those who attend it was very much in evidence, netted the Cleveland Association of Colored Men an insignificantly small amount of money as compared with the hundreds and possibly. thousands of dollars made by the park manage- ment and its coneessionaires. This is the case, every year, and yet the pas- tors of our local churehes sit supinely by and see hundreds of the members of their congregations insulted, mis- treated and muleted of much of their hard-earnings without a word of pro- est that the financial interests of a ‘park that bars Negroes from its bath- ing pool, dance hall and roller-skating vink nearly every day in the year may be materially “boosted.” But once, since these alleged emancipation cele: brations at color-line Luna park have been held, did our local Ministers’ Al- liance attempt to do its clear duty and that was when Dr. Sissle (deceased) was pastor of Cory M, E. church, some years ago. There it held a publi¢ mass meeting, denounced the alleged eman- cipation celebration at color-line Luna park and called upon our people of this community to refrain from at- tending it. ‘The meeting was a success ‘and had a splendid effect, even if a number of members of the Cleveland Association of Colored Men did _file into the church, late in the evening, and undertake to break up the meet- ing. ‘The speakers at Monday's affair were: Former Governor Frank B. Willis and Congressman Henry I Emerson, Attorney Wilbur King, of Columbus, who was announeed as a speaker, Tailed to ‘materialize. | His place was taken by Rev. C. G. Fish- back, pastor of Shitoh Baptist church, who was the only one of our local ministers who apparently had the te- merity to attend the affair. He drew a laugh from the audience, during his speech, when he said he was proud to belong’ to a race which produced such men as Paul Lawrence Dunbar and Councilman Tom Fleming. Some of the members of “Shiloh” ate eriti- cizing Fishback severely for attending the disgraceful affair. Tf our minis: ters show so little self and race-re- spect and real manhood, what’ can be expected from many of the members of the churches they preside over? Lord, haye mercy? —From The Gazette of Aug. 10, 1918 To prevent the misuse of motor trucks a device has been patented that automatically checks their speed if driven faster than a set rate, A rubber stamp to be strapped to the palm of the hand to date eges as they are taken from nests has been patented by a Minnesota inventor. For jewelers an Englishman has tx- vented a magnifying glass to be at- HENRY .L. THOMAS Attorney and Counselor at Low 512 Superior Building Cleveland, O. Central 2251-R PONIES John H. 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HOERET EYE SPECIALISTS 11 Taylor Arcade Cleveland PREJUDICE “Any prejudice whatever will be insurmountable if those who do not share in it themselves truckle to it and flatter it and accept it is a law of nature.”"— John Stuart Mill. pt eeeescseecccsecscsees THE MAN WHO DARES. “L honor the man who in the conscientious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, in- tolerant judgment, may ‘con demn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty doue shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts. of friends.” Charles Sumner. Lteeeeseseses seers ss sees Ceeeeseseresserersee ses: PROTEST AGAINST WRONG. ‘To submit in silence when we should protest makes co- wards out of men. ‘The hum- an race has climbed on Pro- test. Had no voice been rais- cd against Injustice, ignor- anee and lust, the inquisition yet. would serve the law, and guillotines, decide our ‘Jeast disputes. ‘The few who dare, must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many, —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. MAIN THEATRE Scovill & 25th St. Friday, Aug. 16th LOUISE GLAUM in “Shackied’” A Wonderful Photoplay Saturday, Aug. 17th MITCHEL LEWIS in “Nine-Tenths of the Law” One of the Bix Photoplays of the Year Sunday, Aug. 18th EDITH ROBERTS in “The Deciding Kiss.” Also “Eagle's Eye,” No. 20 Monday, Aug. 19th W. S. HART in “The Desert Man” Also a Keystone Comedy Tuesday, Aug. 20th GLORIA SWANSON in “You Can't Believe Everything” Also Episode No. 1 of “Hands Up.” with RUTH ROLAND An All Western Serial It’s Great Wednesday, Aug. 21st MARGUERITE CLARK in “Phe Seven Swans” ‘Thursday, Aug, 22nd “Station Content.” Also “A Fight for Millions,” No. 3, and a Mack Sennet comedy. 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