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PRUSSIANISM AND SOUTHERISM COMPARED BY DR. WM. A. BYRD Dancing Every Thursday Evening at Barksdale's Academy, THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR. No. 3 N. UNION IS STRENGTH USE SILK PARASOL TO MAP STARS ASTRONOMERS SUGGEST 'NOVEL WAY TO STUDY THE CONSTELLATIONS Stars are Embroidered on Umbrellas of Blue Hues. Geographers have struggled long with the problem of mapping the spherical earth on a flat surface, with the result that the public has acquired a most distorted impression of relative geographical positions. It is now admitted that the earth cannot be studied properly without a globe. In the same way efforts have been made to depict the heavens upon a flat map, with the result that many of the constellations are so distorted as to be positively unrecognizable. Some time ago a writer in the Scientific American suggested that a common umbrella might serve as a celestial globe, or at least half a globe, by having the stars painted on it in their proper relative positions. This would provide a very quaint star-map, which could be carried to the point of observation in folded position and then opened out to semi-spherical form representing the apparent form of the heavens. By pointing the umbrella stick at the north star, the umbrella could be readily moved to a position corresponding with the heavens at the particular time, and then it would be a simple matter to pick out the various constellations. The idea has been further improved upon by O. F. Barcus of Shanghai, China. A dark blue silk parasol is used, and on it the stars are either painted or embroidered. Each parasol represents one-half of the coelestial sphere, and by using a map of the entire heavens is obtained. For the purpose of teaching astronomy to school children the parasol may be set in a table. The plane of the observer's horizon is represented by the table top, which has an opening cut in it, through which part of the parasol projects. The umbrella stick is pole of the heavens, and makes an angle with the surface of the table equal to the latitude of the place. By means of clockwork the parasol is revolved at the same speed as the apparent revolution of the heavens, and a small image of the sun placed in its proper position on the parasol (as may be found by referring to a nautical almanac) shows by its meridian the time of day on the dial at the back of the parasol. If the sun's image is placed accurately the revolving parasol will show just how far north or south of the east and west points. the sun rises and sets during the year and at what time before six a.m. and after six p.m. the sun appears above the horizon. For use in the field to identify the constellations it is preferable to have the stars painted on the inner face of the umbrellas. The parasol is provided, with a narrow ribbon which may be used to determine the position of any point, the ribbon being divided into degrees by which declination may be reckoned. The ribbon is movable about the center stick of the parasol and indicates right ascension by hour and minute divisions marked on the rim of the parasol. HELGOLAND IS MIGHTY German Fortress Said to Excel Gibraltar in Strength. Helgoland is considered by the best military authorities of Europe to be a more formidable fortress than Gibraltar. The highland of the island is cased in thick armor and there are about 400 guns, a fourth of which are sixteeth or seventeen inch Krupps. Most of the guns are disappearing mountings. When they are being fired they sink into deep pits under steel cupolas where they remain until they are raised to fire again. The gunners are specially skilled artilleryists and can bring a concentrated fire of many guns to bear upon any point where a ship may ride. The place is said to be provisioned for a three year siege, making the "back door of Germany" secure from any attack. Crowds of torpedo boats and submarines sheltered under the highland are in the harbor on the south side of the island. Above is a wireless station. Many aircraft and Zeppelins are housed there. All about Helgoland are mine fields which no enemy's ship would dare undertake to traverse. The possession of this fortress brings Germany almost 100 miles nearer England than she would be without it. THE GAZETTE FRESH OHIO NEWS Written by 'The Old Reliable' Gazette's Correspondents Throughout the State What Our People Are Doing Each Week- Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. EAST LIVERPOOL—Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Law and Mrs. Farley were Pittsburgh visitors. Mrs. Brown and sister are guests of Mrs. and Mrs. Veney. Several of our girls have applied for a course in Red Cross nursing. Charles Thomas has returned from Camp Sherman. Rev. and Mrs. Farrell attended services at the First Baptist church in Wellsville, Sunday afternoon. "The Old Reliable" Gazette has been published more than thirty-five years and is our leading race newspaper and advocate. Give the agent your order for it. WILDERFORCE—The recent display of paintings, drawings and literary productions of Miss Effie, daughter of Bishop B. F. Lee, in the assembly room of Arnett Hall, promoted by Col. Charles Young, was an unqualified success. More than 100 pictures, in addition to a varied collection of makeover models, miniature booklets of poems and prose selections were shown. An interesting program—literary, vocal and instrumental—was given the afternoon of the exhibit. Prof. W. A. Joiner and Col. Young delivered interesting addresses and the former presided during the exercises. SANDUSKY—Mrs. Amanda Taylor, is still very sick at her daughter's, Mrs. Wm. Jones,—Rev. and Mrs. Smith returned, last week. They had a fine outing, last Thursday, at Linwood park, Vermillion, given by Superintendent J. R. Davis and S. A. Scott for the Second Baptist Sunday Mass, Mrs. Lazzie Johnson and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Wright of Cleveland, four sisters, also pinicked there. They returned to Indianapolis, Saturday. Never turn down "The Old-Reliable Gazette that has fought the battles of our people for thirty-six years, for any other paper. Take it for the good it has done and is doing, Rev. Geo. D. Smith, agent. YOUNGSTOWN—On June 6, representatives of the Military Intelligence Bureau appeared before the Judiciary Committee of the House, Washington, D. C., at the special invitation of Congressman Dyer of St. Louis. They proposed a bill drawn by that branch of the army to order that the U.S. service or to any man liable to service in the military, to any person held under arrest or internment, or the relatives of such persons. Such an act they believe; would be constitutional under the special powers granted to the president under the act of May 18, 1918 entitled "An Act to Authorize the President to Increase Temporarily the Military Establishment." CORRESPONDENTS *must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write also, their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be be sent on a line with 20 cents on a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. CADIZ—Mrs. Sarah Johnson, whose son died recently at one of the canonements, will receive $5,000 insurance paid in monthly installments.—The missionary society gave a lawn fete at the parsonage, Thursday evening. The Y. F. Auxiliary entertained there, Tuesday evening. The Ladies Aid Society will meet at Mrs. Henrietta Smith's.—Roy Wallace of Pittsburgh is visiting his parents, J. W. Johnson entertaining his brother, C. Conway. Voy. C. M. Horpus. Jos. Verse of Wheeling visited B. L. Sue, Sunday.—Mesdames Nellie Barber, Lilly Minor, and Jos. Allen visited Cadiz relatives, Sunday.—Miss Copola Ramsey has returned to Cleveland.—Mr. and Mrs. C. West and Mrs. E. West and family attended the picnic at McIntyre, Saturday. HILLSBORO—Othet Hudson of Columbus, visited his mother, from Saturday to Monday. Mr. Ben Williamson is again poorly—Mrs. Mildred Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bolden, Mrs. N. A. Chirsty and Mrs. Mary Donaldson visited Samp' Sherman, Sunday. Rev. J. G. Orr was the delegate to the Association at Roxabel, this week—Fred Riggs came home from Cleveland, last week, and was sent to Camp Sherman, Saturday. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25,1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, AUGUST 24,1918 Also Albert Williams, Jr. "The entertainment, given by Mrs. C. M. Gregston, Friday night, was a success."—Miss Viola Greene of Leosburg is here visiting her mother—Mr. Robert Franier of Wilmington was Miss Viola's guest, Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. M. Greene, Mrs. Blyman Ross, Mrs. Missie Waters and Mrs. Enoch Frey visited Camp Sherman, Sunday—Mrs. Julius Owens and Mrs. Sadie Wilson were entertained at dinner, Sunday, by Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cole. Their son, Charles, of Camp Sherman, spent Sunday, with Mrs. Owens and family visited the former's parents, Sunday—Mrs. Annie Smith is no better.—C. L. Anderson, mail carrier in Cleveland, visited his parents, here, and other relatives in Cincinnati, this week. We are proud of him—an intelligent, Christian young man who is a success."—Miss Lyne Burnie Hudson, her mother, grand parents at Bigham. Her mother, grand parents at Bigham, there—James Blunton, Charles Kilgore, Ed Delaney and Ben Pleasant spent Sunday at Samantha. SPEAKS.27 LANGUAGES An Ahyssinian Count in the Army—A Nerto Jew. Camp Upton, New York.—Among the naturalizations in the soldier court here, *Last Friday*, was. Count Ben Isaac De Kellersitta, a Negro private, born in *Abyssinia*, who claims blood relationship with the late King Menelik. He has been a citizen of Italy, being born in that section of *Abyssinia* known as Italian Samoliland. A slight regret at losing his title of count was the only thing that marred acceptance of American allegiance. Kellersitta speaks twenty-seven languages fluently and his knowledge was tested by naturalization interpraters in English, French, Spanish, German, French, and Polish. In the Scandinavian languages. Hindu and several Indian dialects, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, the Balkan tongues, and various dialects. He studied for rabbinical orders at one time and his knowledge of Hebrew is almost perfect. Milwaukee is his home. In view of his qualifications, the Jewish Negro will probably be used in the intelligence service. JUNE 27, HOLLAND FRITZ POLLARD Camp Meade, Md.—Fritz Pollard, the wizard of the guard and star of Brown University football squad, who made the strong defense of such a team, Yale University has been appointed as physical director for Uncle Sno's army and has begun active Pollard at Camp Meade, Md. Although Pollard did not appear in the last year's lineup of Brown, engaging in other athletic activities would tend to keep him fit. The slackness of application to his studies in the university last season served as a barrier to his appearance on the gridiron. It is thought that Pollard was on Wake Forest on the selection of Pollard to a berth on the All-American football squad was in his favor. More Than 5,000 of Our Boys There Great Praise for Our Soldiers Philadelphia, Pa.—Major Wm. Judkins, U. S. army, who is here, had occasion to occasion of our soldiers, a few days ago, and among other things he said: "We have more than 5,000 colored recruits now in Camp Sherman, and thousands have been constantly made into good soldiers there and transferred to other stations. We shall have more than 5,000 soldiers from Philadelphia recruits a splendid example of physical manhood. These soldiers become interested in their work and so inbued with the military spirit that they continue their drills upon their own initiative, selecting drill masters among themselves, and take the keenest pleasure in exhibiting to white officers and soldiers their proficiency in the manual of arms. I was engaged in the recruiting in the south of the 802nd Infantry infantry, a colloquial phrase I was proprised at the large number of college graduates who volunteered. I predict that this battalion will be heard from during the war with credit and pride to the gace." MONSIGNOR JOHN E. BURKE Something of His Great Work Among Our People in the "Empire City" - New York City.-A service flag with thirty stars, one gold, flaps in the breeze outside of St. Benedict the Moor, in W. 15d St. It represents the bots of the parish who went away with the famous 15th N. Y. Infantry, now fighting in France. It represents also part of the life work of Monk, who, on Aug. 4, celebrated the fortitude of his priesthood. It was Father Birkle who made the flag possible by building the church where it hangs and gathering there a congregation. It was he who baptized almost every one of our boys for whom a star is standing on the white ground of the banner. "He was my altar boy, once, poor little fellow," the priest said, sadly pointing to the gold star, which is for Harold Streidrick, of the "15th." Filled in in action in France. All except five of Father Birkle's forty years as a priest have been spent among our people. He chose his field of priesthood, and worked with us on the streets, built us churches, shepherded us in and built of church, and been our adviser for years, until new there are few of Manhattan's Afro-American population who do not know him by name. "JIM CROW" CARS & OTHER COLOR-LINES Fostered by the Government, Must Go—They Are American "Prussianism"! This country is disturbed because of "So-Called German Propaganda" among our people. We believe there is no foundation for such belief. The real reason for the fear lies in the fact that the "unusual conscience" of America, like a ghost, is haunting the government and taunting it on account of the innumerable cases of murder and crime committed against our people. In other words America feels that our people should rebel at their treatment, even if they do not. A rebellion at this time would be very unfortunate, however. Patriotism demands that all American citizens abstain from everything that pictures the government in the prosecution of this war. It also demands that this government abstain from everything that gives the lie to its "war shibboth"— be less than human, to be satisfied with anything less than what we are fighting to give other races. Let the news go everywhere that Prussianism and southernism, the twin sisters of oppression and autocracy, must die the same ignoble death so that the world can breathe a real democratic atmosphere. (Rev.) William A. Byrd. ARMY CHAPLAINS WANTED A Chance for Our "Student Nurses—Dismissed From the Army for Assaulting One of Our Soldiers—Another World's Record." Etc. Washington: D. C.-Mrs. Alice "The World safe for Democracy." If American democracy is to appeal to the world it must at least be real. Democracy for a portion of America and hell for the rest, is democracy of an alien kind that allows people to choose democracy that allows the portion of the country to ignore all law and the acknowledged rules of civilized peoples cannot be attractive to Europe. Two great evils lie in the pathway of democracy—Prussianism and southernism. Both are of the same type and are equally brutal and barbarous. The destruction of one will not free the world. Both must go. It is impossible to apply the federal constitution as it is, and if any part of it be impotent, kill it. If the attitude expressed in this statement embarrasses the government it is because the government does not want to enforce real democracy at home, but we believe America, now under President Wilson, is rising to its opportunity and is attempting to establish at home what we want to fix upon Europe. This we must do, for no moral victory can come from us. We must continue while this evolution is going on, our men and women are willing to give up life, money, time, children and all to help win the war. But we would be less than human, to he satisfied with anything less than what we are fighting to give other races. Let the news go everywhere that Prussianism and southernism, the twin sisters of oppression and autocracy, must die the same ignoble death so that the world can breathe a real democratic atmosphere. (Rev.) William A. Byrd. A Chance for Our "Student Nurses—Dismissed From the Army for Assaulting One of Our Soldiers—Another "World's Record." Etc. Washington, D. D. C.-Mrs. Alice Dunbar Nelson has recently been appointed field representative of the Women Committee, Council of National Defense, for assaulting an Afro-American soldier at Camp Meade, Md. Walter J. Singleton, who has been connected with the bureau of Insular Affairs, War Department, for twenty has been designated to inspect and sequestrate money made by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Treasury Department, for the Philippine Government. Our women are included in the U. S. Student Nurse Reserve, for which enrollment began on July 29, through an announcement made by the Woman's National Defense. The student nurses will be used to fill vacancies in American hospitals created by the great number of nurses now in overseas service. A list of hospitals in which our student nurses will be admitted will soon be made public. The campaign to recruit them is being conducted under the auspices of Surgeon-General of the American Public Health Service, the American Red Cross and the Council of National Defense. Information can be obtained from the Red Cross authorities in any given locality. A teacher in the Dunbar High School, informs me that two cultivated young women of the race, graduates of the local high and normal schools, equip with work, were recently told the Navy Department that "no colored people could be enrolled." This in face of the fact that that department of the government was and is advertising for "women between the ages of 18 and 35 years" for clerical and naval duties was a North Carolina naval officer and editor when appointed to his present position. Co. A, 301st Stevedore Regiment, "Somewhere in France," has been cited by Rear Admiral Wilson and General McClure for exceptionally off-duty "hose men of the race unloaded" and "naval steamedship" "Leviathan," formerly the "Waterland," in fifty-six hours, making a new world's record, in competition with other stevedore detachments on the western front in France, many of which are white. A film, showing this life, is being work and at play, is to be exhibited throughout the country in the leading colored-and white theaters. The Army is still in need of chaplains. The ultimate plan is to have one for every 1,200 officers and men. It wants a special kind of chaplain—a sturdy, upstanding, brotherly man between the ages of 21 and 45—who cares a good deal more about the welfelliness than about distinctions in creeds. At the Army chaplain Taylor, near Louisville, Ky., he is conducting a school for chaplains. The course covers five weeks and new classes are formed at about an interval of a week after the current class is graduated. Applicants must pass the "physical tests" prescribed by the local draft board. While at the school the student-chaplain receives free education, lodging and uniform and the pay of a first-class private, $33 per month, with mileageome at the rate of 3-12 cents per mile during the completion of his course. If appointed he takes the rank and pay of a first lieutenant of the National Army, $2,000 a year and $2,200 abroad. The next class begins Aug. 23. Applicants should apply directly to the Adjutant General of the Army, who will furnish all necessary information. There are now about thirty-one colored chaplains in the several branches of the army. The National Equal Rights League eleventh annual convention will convene on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Sept. 17, 18 and 19, in Chicago. IN JUNION IS STRENGTH SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS BYRD CHLORINE BOMBS ALWAYS DEADLY GREENISH YELLOW VAPOR MADE OF DIOXIDE, SALT AND SUL- PHURIC ACID Missiles Made Easily and Can Dring Death to Whole Regiment. Chlorine gas bombs, used so effectively by the Germans in the European war that have come to be almost universally considered weapons of mysterious composition with power to kill entire regiments in an instant, are mere elaborations on chemical experiments performed by students for more than a generation, Pittsburg chemists and manufacturers of explosives say. Chlorine gas is a greenish yellow, dense heavy smoke or vapor, and is made by heating manganese dioxide, common salt and sulphuric acid. It is placed under great pressure and liquified, after which the pressure is released and the gas allowed to escape. Chlorine, its chief ingredient, is a by-product of a decomposition of salt, and is made from brine and water. It has a nausea effect and is deadly because it cannot be respired—that is, the victim of chlorine or chlorine gas cannot be revived. It is an active affinity for hydrogen and therefore is violent and fatal in its attack on the membranes of the nostrils and throat. It makes the victim unconscious and causes death soon after. Liquid chlorine is manufactured in the United States most extensively at Niagara, Falls, N. Y., and Midland, Mich., where it is used chiefly to make a bleaching powder by mixing with lime. Germany makes chlorine extensively and exported it in large quantities to the United States before the war. It is an active germicide. MAKE BUNGALOW STYLES Southern Californians Create New Designs in Homes. During the last few years of progress in the way of improvements for the bungalow home has been keeping pace with the progress in every other line of endeavor. In southern California, which, on account of the popularity of the low, squality sort of home, has become known as "Bungalow Land," the architects and home builders in general have been endeavoring to outdo their competitors in the line of creating something new and different for the bungalow home. To say that the work of home building in that section has been keen is putting the matter mildly. Thousands of home seekers have been flocking into that territory. They demanded homes and as a result several hundred building companies were formed, and for years the chief industry of that, country has been home building—World's Advance. DEVICE THAT SAVES LABOR Gasoline Operated_Tamping Machine is Lately Devised. One of the latest additions to the ranks of labor saving machines is a tamping equipment that is operated by gasoline power. The machine not only does the tamping in a more efficient and expeditious manner than is possible by manual 'labor', but it also effects a considerable saving in the cost of work of this kind. The tamping machine operates a 150 pound ram at the rate of forty to fifty 22-inch strokes, per minute. Comparing the machine with manual labor immediately discloses its vast superiority. The average laborer with even a fifteen pound tamper will not average more than twenty strokes per minute, and with a heavier tool the rate is proportionately less.—World's Advance. People Have Novel Sleeping Places In California. Sleeping rooms built in the tree tops furnish one of the novel attractions at a mountain resort near San Diego, Cal. These structures are built as little one-room cottages and are supported on spreading branches or hung from the upper limbs of the trees by strong wire cables. The rooms are reached by stairways built around the tree trunks. They are furnished like the rooms of the hotel proper and are said to have proved one of the most popular features of the resort.—Popular Mechanics. The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) One Year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... 1.00 Three months ..... 5.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or reg- istered letter Entered at the postoffice In Cleveland, 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 NEWSEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 300,000 in Ohio. 25,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1918 Persons desiring copies of "Pending Issues," and all of our readers should, must in the future address its editor: Hon. J. C. Manning, P. O. Box 382, Newark, N. J. Editor Wm. Warley of the Louisville (Ky.) News has lost his mother. Sincerest sympathy, brother. We, too, have had the bitter experience and we feel it keenly to this day—after fifteen years have elapsed. According to reports from the front, in France, Col. F. A. Dennison of the old Eighth Illinois Regiment, is ill in a hospital with "heart trouble" and a white colonel is commanding the 379th Infantry. Dennison is our only colonel (active) in the United States armies. Three buttons are required to contain all the service stars worn by Rev. Robert H. Windsor, living near Rayville, La. Twelve of his nineteen sons are in the army, eight having volunteered. One Is a lieutenant and two are sergeants. Windsor owns $350 worth of Liberty bonds and $75 worth of War Savings Stamps. Every Afro-American voter in the "Harlem" district of New York City ought, to consider it a commanding DUTY he owes the race to vote for Editor R. C. Ransom, our candidate for congress in that district. Absolutely nothing will excuse a failure to do so. The race needs such direct representation in that august body and every Afro-American knows it. U. S. Senate bill, No. 3752, adopted by Congress in February last, practically re- enacted the "jim-crow" car laws of the southern states. Thus Congress has made effective what are really unconstitutional state laws Three or four years ago The Gazette urged DuBois and the N. A. A. C. P. to file a test case (against those "laws") in the U. S. Supreme Court but they refused to do so. It ought to be done at once! Rev. Wm. A. Byrd, formerly of Rochester, N. Y., whom our readers will remember as associate editor of The Gazette, last year, is now pastor of one of our leading Presbyterian churches in this country, located at Jersey City, N. J., Dr. Byrd is a fearless and able writer, and The Gazette and its thousands of readers are greatly pleased to have him resume his exceptionally interesting contributions to its columns. Do not fail to read carefully the one on page one of this paper, and call your friends' and acquaintances' attention to it also. --- The Gazette agrees, and heartily too, with Rev. John Albert Williams, editor of the Omaha (Neb.) Monitor: The government, should contract with the Lincoln Motion Picture Co., our only one of the kind, for pictures of especial interest to the ten million Afro-Americans. It is to the government's interests to do so. It has appropriated $70,000,000 for motion picture propaganda and our people, too, have need of its proportion of it. The Cuyahoga County Republican Executive Committee decided, last Saturday, to hold the opening of the fall campaign in this city, the last of the month, at color-line Luna Park. Not a word of protest against this most reprehensible action was made by its Negro member, Tom Fleming; as far as we have been able to learn. This is the same kind of representation, too, he gives us in the Cleveland City Council. Lord, have mercy! Will our people of this community continue to tolerate such misrepresentation in both bodies? Fleming, it is announced, is soon to stand as a candidate for Grand Exalted Ruler of our Elks of the country. Well, well, WELL! We do not believe that he has even a chance to secure the position. A LIMITED DISAPPROVAL President Wilson, it is announced, will actively oppose the nomination or election of members of Congress who have disagreed with his war policies. That is, he will oppose those who disagree with his present policies. There is no indication that he intends to oppose the re-election of those who disagreed with him when he said that there is such a thing as a nation being too proud to fight or who disagreed with him when he advocated peace without victory. There is nothing to indicate that he will oppose those who spurred him out of his inertia after we entered the war. He will probably not oppose those who pounded upon the door of the Secretary of War while he was sleeping under the delusion that the war was "three thousand miles away." Undoubtedly he would like to all these men who have dragged the administration into active prosecution of the war, but for the looks of the thing, it is probable that they will be spared from the presidential guillotine. His axe awaits only those who did not change when he wid. BUT HAS DUBOIS REFUSED IT? And even the refusal of the appointment will not entirely clear the situation. Dr. DuBois has always posed as a fearless fighter for the race—along lines opposed to the Booker Washington methods—and has raised the doubts of many as to his sincerity in the past. As for ourselves, we have no difficulty in saying that Dr. DuBois must do one thing or the other. If he desires to continue his fight as heretofore—win or lose—he should do it in the open. If he desires a commission, let him accept it in the open and step down into private life and be satisfied with it. No one has said stronger things about the man who compromises than DuBois. He must remember to accept his own doctrine with as much grace and the offer it to others. We hope the incident is closed, but the constant rehashing of rumors will not close it. Dr. DuBois should close it with a statement of the facts, and his reasons for his final conclusion.—Pittsburg Courier. How do you know that Editor "W E B" DuBois has refused to accept the proferred captaincy in the U. S. army, with station in the Intelligence Department of the War Department at Washington, D. C., dear confere? Neither DuBois nor anyone else in a position to do so has made any such announcement, as far as we have been able to learn. The publication we saw was only a rumor to that effect. Editor DuBois of the Crisis admitted to the writer, in the Conference, that it was he who wrote the sentence ("sleeper") that he tried to have incorporated in and which would have nearly ruined the splendid resolutions adopted by our great Race Conference, held in Washington, D. C., in June, had it not been promptly eliminated. He urged its acceptance, too, but it was stricken out and Prof. John Hawkins' substitute unanimously adopted, as were also the resolutions as amended. In view of the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the best thing for DuBois and the N. A. A. C. P., and our people, too, is for him to retain the captaincy and resign as editor of the Crisis, or retire to private life. It will be many a year, if ever, before he will again enjoy the full confidence of the majority of our most loyal people he forfeited by his questionable (to say the least) action in the great Race Conference, supplemented so soon thereafter by the announcement of his appointment to a captaincy in the U. S. army. Members of the Conference, we are sure, will understand this best. REV. R. C. RANSOM'S APPEAL The Editor of the A. M. E. Quarterly a Candidate for Congress in the "Harlem" District—Should be Elected New York City, Aug. 20, 18. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir: The 21st Congressional District of New York comprises most of what is known as "Harlem," or the "black-belt" of New York City. There are six candidates competing for the nomination in the Republican primaries which will be held on Sept. 3. The nominating petitions of each have been accepted by the Board of Elections. My five competitors are white men, each one of whom is a member of a group within the party, even as I have been so designated. There are in this Congressional District approximately 24,000 enrolled Republicans, approximately 8,000 Afro-Americans. With five white men seeking to divide the vote among themselves, you can easily see what a golden opportunity is at hand for my nomination for congress if our people can be aroused to vote in polls and vote in candidacy in the Republican primary. Sept. 3. In behalf of my candidacy, I ask that you place these facts before your readers for such influence as it may have upon those of our people who live in New York. The time is short, but not too short for any strong words from you to have strong influence and great carrying power. Another Hero! Elyria, O., Aug. 15—Miss Cecelia Innes, (white), a well known young lady of this city, while swimming, last Tuesday, was seized with cramps and this, together with the swift current of the water, would probably have caused her to drown had not William Jones, aged 15, gone to her assistance. Miss Innes had already gone down for the second time when the Afro-American lad reached her. She did not recover from the shock for several hours. You have to appreciate the blessings of peace to be ready to fight for them. DOINGS OF THE RACE Griffin Hatcher, track walker on the B. & O. Ry., out of Chicago, will lose his life as a result of trying to save two white children, aged 3 and 5 years. He saved the younger Hatcher is dying in a Chicago hospital. FIND GROUND SLOTHES, LARGE AS STR Bones of Animals are D. Asphalt Beds near City Angeles, California In the asphalt beds of Brea, a place eight miles far gees, Cal., there have been ed the bones of ground a lived 200,000 years ago a big as the modern street-ing to a report Homer L mist of the University of prepared on the investigat at Rancho La Brea this a These mighty prehistoric alive today could go poking into the second story wives with ease, Mr. Dill In addition to the groun fossils of other extinct The 369th Inf. (former 15th N. Y. Reg.) has been cited by a French commander as worthy of receiving the war cross for its repulse of a German attack on June 12. An Afro-American regiment, Col. Moss, commander, also of the 93d Dd., captured 300 German soldiers. Complaint is made by our draftees from New York and New Jersey that various forms of race discrimination are being practiced at Camp Dix, N. J. Radical southern customs are being observed in this eastern cantonment, it is charged, and little effort must to promote good fellowship between (white) and the colony's many of our people in Philadelphia last week, severely beating up a list, and "storming" one of our churches, Detectives Geo. Wheeler and L. J. Price of Dayton, O., have been promoted to detective sergeants. Reports coming from Birmingham, Ala., are to the effect that R. Lee Swan, a competent and finished carpenter of our race, has been forced to quit his job on the new postoffice building there, for no other reason than because of American Mr. Swan was accepted by the carpenter and put to work after he (Swan) had been granted a permit to work and proposed himself for membership in the union. After he had gone to work a committee of the white carpenters was appointed to interview him, and they reported him favorable and in every way fit to hold the job. After which a man was taken by the union, eight voted for him and ten voted against him. The $100,000 anti-lynching fund of the San Antonio (Texas) Expense will be employed in this manner: A reward of $500 will be paid to each person who shall be directly responsible for the arrest, with subsequent convictions, of persons who were instrumental in arousing a mob to commit a lynching, or in putting through the lynching itself, when the individual lynched was not a Negro. A reward of $1,000 will be paid in such cases when the victim of the lynching was a Negro, or in effect for a period of five years, an effort to all persons, whether officers of the law or private citizens. Additional Locals Hon. Harry C. Smith, of Cleveland, O., is having the time of his life in educating the colored people of Cleveland, O., up to the point where they will resent discriminations on account of race and color. His fight (of years) on Luna Park as a place of amusement for colored people is almost continuous and brilliant. We admire his tenacity of spirit and his undermined spirit of leadership. Only with the help of the people of this country secure the just recognition, to which they are entitled. It is a long distance to the heights of American racial civil and political equality. Hon. Harry C. Smith is a remarkable character. We hope that we shall gaze upon his like again. Little men cannot see from his viewpoint of achievement, but great ones understand every move he makes. He may make mistakes at times, but graved by the standard of brining, his spirit "needle to the pole"—Richmond (Va.) Planet, Aug. 17, '18; John Mitchell, Jr., Editor. With the issue of Aug. 10, 1918, "The Old Reliable" Gazette entered upon its thirty-sixth year, having been published every week on time since Aug. 25, 1883. A remarkable record for any publication! From the very beginning, it has been edited and managed by the writer, who can hardly realize that so long a time "in the saddle" has elapsed. The Gazette's successful efforts to wipe out the remnants of Ohio's "Black Laws," years ago; to secure the enactment of Ohio's Civil Rights and Anti-Lynching laws, to outlaw the practice, out the country, particularly those in Ohio. What it has done in hundreds of other instances to help, defend and encourage our people is also well known. One has only to recall the successful fights, led by The Gazette a few years ago, to kill the Ohio Assembly's infamous anti-intermarriage bill and to bar from Ohio the infamous film, "The Birth of a Nation," to appreciate the full force of the preceding sentence. Personal interests have always been subordinated by the Gazette to those of our people. Its call to Afro-American, in season and in front, never to accept anything in way that would cause the latter to lose due all citizen colors, when it comes to race or color, when it comes to our citizen-rights, here in the north, we have always been unalterably opposed to a "doctrine of surrender" or conciliority policy, and shall continue to be so. The Gazette believes in demanding for our people, in this section of the country, and continuing to fight for until secured, ALL that is due ALL American citizens under the law. THIS IS OUR SLOGAN! The Gazette's firm adherence to principle, through all these years, is its best support. To our faithful following—the readers of readers in all parts of the country, from ocean to ocean, and from the great lakes to the gulf—we have only expressions of sincerest appreciation. Urge your friends and acquaintances to subscribe for The Gazette and materially assist to double its circulation by the first of the year. For all you have done in past years, we thank you, and again assure you of our thorough appreciation. If you want to locate an ambitious young man, some chap whom you would make foreman or manager, go over to the pool room about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and find him—not. FIND GROUND SLOTTS AS LARGE AS STREET CARS Bones of Animals are Discovered in Asphalt Beds near City of Los Angeles, California. In the asphalt beds of Rancho La Brea, a place eight miles from Los Angeles, Cal., there have been discovered the bones of ground sloths which lived 200,000 years ago and were as big as the modern street car, according to a report Homer Dill, taxidermist of the University of Iowa, has prepared on the investigation he made at Rancho La Brea this summer. These mighty prehistoric animals, if alive today could go poking their noses into the second story windows of our houses with ease, Mr. Dill declares. In addition to the ground sloth, the fossils of other extinct animals are found. Among them are specimens of the great sabre-tooth tiger. The excavations have brought to light also the skeleton of a human being. This type of man lived so long ago that the scientists have to estimate the age of this fossil in thousands of years. They are sure that he came early in the evolution of mankind. The beds were formed the scientists believe, by animals wandering into the surface of uncovered asphalt. They were unable to extricate themselves from the sticky mass and died in its clutches. After the flesh had decomposed, the bones gradually sank deeper into the bed, becoming in that way hermetically scaled. This accounts for the fact that the bones are in a rare state of preservation. The excavation work is in the hands of Los Angeles officials. They are carefully guarding the information of their finds. On that account the report which Mr. Dill was able to bring back to scientists and students at the university was unusually interesting. PRISONERS MAKE LOCOMOTIVE Minature Electric Engine that Offi cials are Proud to Show. Gases are Proud to Show. Three inmates of the state reformatory at Iona, Mich., William Adams and F. E. Long of Grund Rapids and a Port Huron man have manufactured a miniature passenger locomotive such as they formerly worked upon when employed by the Pere Marquette. The engine is fully equipped and is five feet two inches high with a track gauge of four and three quarters inches. It has a water gauge, try cocks, steam air gauges, air brakes, pump and governor, engineer's valve, distributing valve and brake rigging. It was made without drawings or cuts. The boiler, cylinders, roads and pilot are of wood, the cab is of steel and so is the tender. Electricity is its motive power. GIRL OF THE WINDJAMMER Few girls have the experience that has fallen to the lot of Dorothy Anderson, the fifteen year old daughter of the captain of the four masted bark Daylight. With her father and her mother she has made many voyages to strange lands and has sailed more than 100,000 miles aboard the big square rigger. She has known the fascination of the Far East, of China and Japan, the wilting heat of tropical islands and the beauties of Melbourne and Sydney. The Daylight has circled the globe several times, and on one of these voyages Dorothy was in the ship's company. Her home is at Aberneth, in Scotland, but she has no desire to go back there while new wonders of the world are in store for her. When the Daylight was in the port of New York last loading case oil for Shanghai Dorothy told some of her experiences. The one which she seemed to enjoy telling most was about a storm which came up suddenly when the ship was off the South American coast bound for New York. "A terrible thing happened during this storm," said she, though really she seemed to think it was a huge joke. "It was at night and I was sleeping in the bed with my mother. Oh, how the wind blew and whined through the rigging! The whole thing came up suddenly and I forgot to close the ports, as father told me to do. "Well, we had the most dreadful flood, mother and I. A big wave came crash up against the side and tons of water seemed to come into our cabin through the port. And then, kev smash, another one before I could get the port closed. Oh, dear, what a wreck in the cabin—all our things swimming about, shoes and clothes and everything, and the room ankle deep in water. "Hurry Dorothy, and close the port before another one comes," said mother. I did so and we finally cleaned up the cabin so that father never knew we were flooded. But it was funny seeing all those things swimming about, though. The storm was just one of those sudden tropical blows, but it came up so suddenly that it blew some of the light sails away." Dorothy has a lot of friends in Shanghai, Yokohama and Kobe, which are the ports the Daylight usually calls at on her outbound trip. A Japanese merchant in Kobe gave her a very big doll on the last voyage out, and a smart little dog, which she has named Fuji. Both doll and dog receive the greatest consideration and care from the captain's daughter. N. Y. Sun. Electric fans have been designed to keep the rollers of printing presses cool or to ventilate press rooms when the presses are not running. 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. The Best Advertising Medium is "The Old Reliable" GAZETTE REMARKS ADVERTISING 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 market may be like a summer resort in January. Do YOU advertise? Is the merchant who never advertises under any circumstance or 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 Gong After the Multitude Printing enters largely into the success of the new 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 who advertises will supply their wants. CORRESPONDENTS WANTED The old reliable Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially destroys of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Dayton, Akron, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we have none. We 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. * 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. --- To submit in silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on Protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, and callowholes our beast dairies. The few must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. "I 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 done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends."— Charles Sumner. BUFFALO BILL LEAVES ONLY $65,000 FORTUNE Monument Will Be Erected by Nickels of School Children. Denver, Colo.—The estate of Col. William F. Cody, which had been estimated several times in the past at over $1,000,000 now is estimated by Judge W. L. Wall, for years Colonel Cody's attorney, at not to exceed $65,000. School children of America will contribute the money to erect a monument to "Buffalo Bill" Cody on Lookout Mountain. It has been suggested that no child be permitted to contribute more than 5 cents. Water From the Ocean. According to a German scientist, a particle of water evaporated from the ocean is condensed and returns in ten days, but it remains there 3,460 years before being evaporated again. Life Belts Dangerous. A life belt properly worn will keep anybody afloat for hours, swimmer or no swimmer, in a moderate sea; but, swimmer or no swimmer, there is no surer way of sinking than to wear a life belt upside down, as scores did to their doom on that dread May morning when the Lusitania went down. Many of the drowned were found floating feet upward—women in particular. There were life belts for all, and when worn right way up the head rested well out of the water on a sort of pillow. But in repeating herself history has her choice among a large repertoire of previous stunts. MADAM WALKER'S HAIR GROWER AND PREPARATIONS THE OWL DRUG STORE Cor. E. 38th St. & Central Ave. AND BARBER SHOP 3048 Central Ave. One of the Best in the city. Everybody Welcome! 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Send or bring locals and all business matters to The Gazette's office, 214-215 Blackstone Bldg. If you wish to see the editor call there, please. We advise our readers to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of our people. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. All matters for publication in current issues of The Gazette must be in the office by 4 p. m., WEDNESDAY of that week, at the latest. J. S. Hall's 3121 Central Ave. J. E. BRANHAM'S 4219 Central Ave. *ERNEST P. JACKSON'S 3969 Central Ave. JACKSON'S, 4401 Central Ave. Classified Advertising ... Department ... Classified Advertising ... Department ... FOR SALE.—10-room rooming house. Apply to W. T. Grant, 3512 Central Ave. FOR SALE.—Three-chair barber shop; four pool tables; all the fixtures in good condition; owner drafted, inquire at Drug Store, corner Woodland Ave. and E. 29th St. 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, see., 2667 E. 40th St. Milton Watkins, chairman, 2524 E. 30th St. FOR SALE—Two fine lots, side by side, one a corner lot, near a school, in 117th St, S. E. (Mt. Pleasant), 40 ft. by 125 ft., and 40 by 120; price (for both) $1,500, $300 down and the balance, $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! CLEVELAND Social and Personal Miss Corola Ramsey has returned to Cadiz. Mrs. T. P. Richardson and Mrs. A. Huff of Wellsville are visiting in the city. Geo. Mann of Cincinnati visited his sister, Mrs. Viola Burbridge, recently. She has been quite ill. Private Jerry A. Brown of Cleveland, died in the hospital at Darmstadt, Germany, recently; the daily papers announce. The Attucks Republican Club's political meeting, Aug. 9, was poorly attended, only about twenty-five persons being present. Geo. W. Sampson, sr., and son, Fred D., have moved from the old home in E. 30th St., to 2332 E. 40th St., with their daughter and sister, respectively, Mrs. Hattie Dale. There is a letter at the Gatelle office for Mrs. Breck and Henry Robinson of the East End. If you know either of them, please call their attention to the fact. BEST FOR THE BLOOD — Puro Herbs. Sold only at Brown Drug Co., cor E. 28th St. and Central Ave.—Adv. Mr. L. O'Neal's father, from Franklin Co., Va., visited his son and wife, of E. 38th St., from Friday to Monday of last week. They had not seen one another for 15 or 20 years. Wm. Burton, for 10515 Arthur Ave. is not at the State Hospital, but is confined in a nervous Home, suffered from a nervous breakdown, writes his wife, Mrs. Ida M. Burton. Be sure to read carefully the editorials on page 2, columns 1 and 2 of this paper. Something of special interest to you, reader. Last Sunday the editor of the Gazette addressed the congregation of the Dennison Ave. Congregational church, W. 99th St., at its morning service. Thos. W. Bird, G. M. A. F. & A. M. Thos. W. Bird, and jurisdiction, went to Detroit. Monday, on lodge business. While there he was the guest of Rev. Wm. Stone, G. S. Mr. Samuel Dennis, of E. 82d St., left last week to join his wife and child at Atlantic City, N. J., where they have been for some weeks. They are to return soon. You should take PURO HERBS, the great blood purifier and system cleanser. On sale only at the Brown St. Eng. 220 Central Ave., cor. E. 281b St. Adv. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred B. Copes, of Anderson Ave., had as their guests the past week. Mrs. Orlando White, Mrs. Nellie Williams and Mrs. Otis Revels of Detroit. The ladies had such an enjoyable time while in the Copes' home that they renamed it "Happy Hours." Fred Riggs and Albert Williams went to Camp Sherman, last week, via their house in Hillsboro C. L. Anderson local mail carrier, visited his parents there and other relatives in Cincinnati, this week. Mrs. Howard S. Slaughter entertained, last week, in honor of Messdames Williams and Oliver of Detroit, guests of her sister, Mrs. Alfred B. Copes, Mrs. Slaughter's guests, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gray, returned to Findlay. Mrs. Campbell Slaughter, mother of Howard, Hugh and Herbert, accompanied by three small children, Elizabeth, Margaret and Theodore, attended the Seventh Day Adventists' camp meeting at Mt. Vernon, last week. Mrs. H. O. Slaughter joined them. Miss Edith Wright, a teacher in the State Normal Institute, Nashville, is spending her vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter B. Wright, W. 85th St. Miss Ruth Freeman of Painesville is home from Freedman's hospital, Washington, D. C., to spend her vacation. She is the daughter of Mr. Steve Freeman and both are well and favorable to her. Mr. Frank Turner, a leading business man and agent of the National Tire Co. of Mt. Vernon, attended the races here and visited his sister, Mrs. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OH IO, AUGUST 24, 1918. John H. Ferguson, and brother, George. He had a splendid horse on the track. Warren Hansbary, letter carrier, is the leading thrift stamp worker at Station H. He has reported over $25,000, notwithstanding he delivers in a German settlement. Bessie Cook, mother of Miss Bessie Cook, has received an interesting letter from her nephew, Corporal Stanley Cook, Co. A, 350th M. G. battalion, serving in France, Mr. Cook's brother, William, of Glendale, Ky., visited him, recently. James R. Snyder saw to it that Dr. E. A. Dale, candidate for coroner at the recent Republican primary, polled the highest vote, for that office, of three candidates, two whites, in his, Snyder's, precinct (N of Ward 19). Miss Bessie Cook was in New Castle, Pa., last week Monday, to initiate the new organ of the A. M. E. Zion church, of which Rev. S. C. Harris is pastor. Her sister, Miss Margaret Overton, of Indianapolis, accompanied her. Miss Overton is head bookkeeper, and stenographer for Ms. Walker. Mr. and Mrs. Phil Dennie, E. 90th St., entertained at dinner, last week Monday evening, Mesdames Thompson, Jones and Averitt. Mr. and Mrs. Dennie spent a week, recently, with Mr. and Mrs. John Neville, of Geneva, Benjamin M. Shook, sr., spent his vacation in Detroit with his son, Benjamin L., and family. Mrs. Blanche Wright has joined her husband, Walter Wright, Jr., in Chicago. Their two daughters, Miss Amy and Miss Haven, are grandparents, Mr. and Mrs Hayes, the former to retain her position at Higbee's and the latter as teacher in the public schools. It is said Sam Woods' vote came practically from the "Guardians of Liberty," an "A. P. A." (Anti-Catholic) organization that supported Chas. S. Sutton, Esq., four years ago, Harry Davis', Welcome Blue's and Woods' candidacies did not arouse enthusiasm among our people. Many refused to vote for them at the primaries, last week Tuesday. H. C. Bailey, pastor of the Antioch Baptist church, surprised his congregation recently when he announced his intention of donning a new week Monday morning, at the Hydraulic Presses Steel Company plant, E. 55th St. It is said that he has been promised the position of superintendent if he "makes good." Many of his congregation are sincerely hoping that Mrs. C. H. Jones, sister of Mrs. Chas. M. W. Williams, returned to Toledo, last week Tuesday. Mrs. Williams gave a dinner for her guests, Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Mary Thompson of Detroit, and Mrs. Grace Aventite, who visited Mr. and Mrs. Henry Blake, E.71st St. Mrs. Averitt left, Friday, for home, expecting a visit from her husband, a soldier at Camp Custer, Mich. Sunday, the Tate Stars defeated the St. John Cantius team, 9 to 6. Pitcher Rahm Moore was "the big noise." He fanned nine of the St. Johns and pooled out three singles and a triple. He was unhittable after the second inning. On next Sunday, the Tate's, with meet the Flemings for the right to meet the White Motors, in the final series of three games, for the Class A championship. It will be "some" game. Don't miss it.—(Mail local news on Mondays, please; not later in the week, because mail deliveries are late and uncertain these "war days."—Editor) Prof. and Mrs. A. E. Malone, president of the "Poro System" Co., of St. Louis, were in the city, this week, to confer with their local agents. They were en route to Atlantic City, N. J., to attend the N. B. L. annual meeting. With Rev. Chas. Bundy, Prof. Malone paid the Gazette sanctum a pleasant visit. Tuesday. He is possibly our most successful man. Mr. Bundy has proven a good strength to Dr. L. N. Bundy in his E. St. Louis, Ill. troubles, Mr. and Mrs. Malone were guests of Rev. and Mrs. Chas. Bundy, E. 59th St. Under the direction of the Negro Liberty Association there was opened recently at the Carlton Avenue Y. M.C.A. N. Y. City, an exhibition representing our achievement in the fine arts and literature. Paintings, engravings, carvings and other art work made a novel show. Three engravings by Patrick Reason, made in 1885, are considered by experts to fine example and landmark, Mr. Reason that city for Cleveland more than 50 years ago, and died here ten or fifteen years ago. He was the finest engraver of jewelry, etc. in this city for many years, always being connected with leading firms. A son, Dr. Charles L. Reason, and the widow still live here. The Negro Welfare Association has called the attention of the Cleveland Hospital Council to the number of our young women who could and would qualify for the regular nurse training course in the Cleveland hospital, if given the chance and the association has assured them of the necessary qualifications will be enrolled and admitted to the regular nurse training course in the hospitals. Our women who have desired to take nurse training heretofore have sought it in hospitals in other places, under the impression that they could not get it here. This is a splendid chance for our young women, one that offers a great opportunity for training and service. The best way to meet the best in the country and young women graduate nurses from them 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. EVERYBODY READ THIS! If you are not satisfied with your glasses or vision see JOHN S. HALL at once. Latent errors brought out without the drug. JEWELER AND OPTOMETRIST 3121 Central Ave Cent. 8846 W is good for two and a half dollars as a down payment on any new account of $25 or over opened on or before Aug. 31, 1918. Void after that date. THE RAY JEWELRY CO. 2059 E. 4th St. $25.00 $ NO MATTER WHAT PRICE ALLOW YOU 6 PER CENT If you can buy cheaper for cash, we'll refund your money. will be in great demand. It is hoped that now the doors are open many of our qualified young women will avail themselves of the opportunity offered. The movement to secure this opportunity was strongly supported and urged by the Minister's Alliance. The Commerce and Miss Charlotte Rumbold, assistant secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, called the attention of the Hospital Council to the matter. Information relative to qualification and registration may be obtained from William R. Conners, Ecumenical Negro Relief Association, 4208 Central Ave. Phone Rosedale 6313. As The Gazette went to press, last week 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. Ruttenstein, canceling its tour to park the GOOD! That's the spirit. Now let the Cleveland Association of Colored Men show the same self and race-respect and manly spirit, and all of our organizations 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, (under our Ohio Civil Rights law) and compel it to discontinue its color-line or go out of business. "That is the way to do it!" 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 will come out and the girl band a boost. Boost everything that boosts Cleveland and the Female Band will be one of Cleveland's finest boosts. 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 will be there. Get your ticket in advance and come to the dance at Druid hall and give the girl band a boost. MRS. PULLEY, President. MISS LULA THOMAS, Secretary. MISS CELESTE STRODE, Asst. See JUDGE Robert H. Terrell The ONLY COLORED JUDGE in the United States, will speak at Cory M. E. Church, Wednesday evening, Sept. 4th, under the auspices of the National Colored Soldiers Comfort Committee. Judge Terrell will make a patriotic address. EVERYONE should hear him. 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This would roughly indicate one marriage in 13 a failure at the point of filing suit, but that only one in 18 went to a divorce. It is not thought that, under present laws governing divorce, the number of outsiders marrying in Kansas and then leaving the State or the number of outsiders making Kansas a residence only for the time necessary to obtain divorce would make much change in these figures. For comparison, it is stated that the general average of marriage failure for the entire country is one in eight marriages, according to census returns. Credit for this favorable showing in Kansas is generally given to the divorce proctor law. Until two years ago divorces ran about one to 10 marriages. During that time divorce seekers could come to the State, establish residence and then bring suit, secure service by publication and obtain divorce by default. This was stopped by the Legislature, which provided for a divorce proctor in every county, who was required to investigate every application for a separation. Figures obtainable, however, do not show just how much the proctor law improved the purely Kansas rate of marriage failure nor to what extent the outside cases affected the percentage either before or after the law's passage. But the operation of the law has tended to clear the situation by eliminating many outside cases and bring the figures down to real Kansas divorces. The result is generally considered as showing that the marriage failure rate in Kansas always has been considerably lower than the general average for the country. The proctor law has practically stopped default divorce in the State, particularly of women whose homes were in other states and also use/ Kansas as a convenience and moved as soon as decrees were granted. Proctor proctors are given authority to require any evidence they may wish relating to any divorce proceeding, and are often able to bring about a reconciliation. In a year the divorce proctor of v. Wyandotte County, 449 applications, a dismissed out of 128 were recor dilled. Some of these jority are corollies, but the mafraudulent it declared to have been a respect. Woman says She Gave Colorado Man Several Hundred Dollars Before He Left Columbus, O.-Mrs. Charles, J. Richards, who before her marriage two months ago was Mrs. Charles Smith a well to do widow of this city, has an idea that her husband and is in New York City, but is with out information as to his address there. She has not seen him since they went to the train to proceed to Chicago on their wedding trip. It was a matrimonial adventure. Richards, who lived in Colorado, advertised himself so forcefully that the widow Smith was impressed and answered. Then there was correspondence for several weeks and finally Cleveland was named as their meeting place. Each was seemingly satisfied and they came on to this city and were married. The bride gave her husband several hundred dollars, she says, obtained through the sale of some of her property. When they had purchased tickets she stood on the observation platform where the group of friends gathered to congratulate both of them. They wanted the bridesgroom to appear for his share of the good wishes and were told by the bride that he was in the car. In they crowded to pull him out to the platform. He had disappeared. The bride says that occasionally a letter comes from him, but with no more definite information as to his whereabouts but New York City. JABS BEAST WITH PITCHFORK Zoo Attendant Attacked by Big Bull Buffalo. Wichita, Kans.—E. M. Svans, a Riverside Park zoo attendant, was forced to run the tines of a pitchfork into Teddy, the big bull buffalo, when it charged him. The animal threatened his life. The pain stopped the bull, but made him so ferocious he wouldn't let any keeper get close enough to withdraw the fork. From a treepot he was lascued and the tines taken out after an hour. ARTILLERY STEEL POWER. Tremendous Pressure Placed Upon Barrels of Big Guns. Modern high powered guns could not be built without steel strong enough to resist the enormous pressures to which they are subjected. Few understand how great these pressures are—almost as far beyond ordinary comprehension as are the distances of the stars or the number of atoms in a glass of water. An attempt to state the matter in a form that will mean something to the ordinary mind is made by a contributor to La Nature in an article entitled "The Strains Resisted by Gunmetal," He writes: "When the marvels of modern artillery are described, perhaps we direct our admiration too exclusively to the mechanicians who have combined to construct it. We must not, however, forget the metalurgist, for it is owing to the astonishing qualities of the metal that the gun is so well able to resist the enormous strain due to the detonation of the explosive. "It is interesting to cite here some figures published by Commandant Regnault. At each discharge of a gun in the case of our field pieces, in less than three-tenths of a second, the pressure exceeds twenty tons to the square inch, and the speed of the projectile leaving the muzzle is more than 2,500 feet a second. The energy developed may be put about 500,000 foot-pounds; in other words, considering the cannon as a motor working during an exceedingly short time we may place its rating at about 20,000,000 horse power. "Not only must the metal be able to resist the strains time after time, but to do so under unfavorable conditions, such as the high temperatures produce $A$ by the explosives. And not only must the metal of the gun be as strong, as this, but it is the same with 'hat of the shell.' The shell of our 'seventy-five' supports a pressure estimated at seventeen tons; the work of the device that takes up the recoil reaches about twelve tons to the square inch, and the mount neutralizes at each discharge about two tons. "In fact, these conditions are realized in quite a remarkable way. It has been possible to test in the machine shop the pieces of a battery that has fired several thousand shots and to show that they have suffered not the slightest deformation This is why it is necessary to employ special steels. The use of nickel, in proportion of 1 per cent, to 2 per cent, gives to steel special qualities. This is one of the points where the economic blockade, to which the Germans are subjected is likely to cause them great trouble when it becomes necessary for them to renew their war material. For nickel comes exclusively from, New Caledonia and Canada, that is to say, from a French colony and a British one. When the Germans therefore, have used up their stock, there will be 'no source from which to replenish it.'—Tit Bits. OFFICIAL FLY CATCHER Way In Which Redlands, Cal., Became Flyless Town. Now that we are more or less awake to the fact that the fly is a deadly insect and devising means of destroying it, municipalities may be interested to learn of the simple way in which Redlands, CA, became, as it claims to be, the only flyless town in the United States. The American Journal every week states that the authorities in Redlands created the post of flycatcher in 1913 and appointed A. E. Chapman to fill it. "The office requires no assistants. Mr. Chapman attends personally to the Redlands flies. Nor does it require more scientific knowledge to be a flycatcher than is possessed by any housekeeper—viz., that files instinctively fly upwards and towards the light. On this basis the fly catcher constructed a large trap, a screened frame 12 inches square and over two feet high. This he raised two inches from the ground, inserting in the bottom a coneshaped screen, large end downwards. Under this cone he placed a banana skin. The whole contraption he nailed to a post on a street corner. The flies did the rest. In the first month, from 100 traps scattered through the business section of Redlands, he had emptied and burned fifty gallons of flies—2,750,000 of them. The now 500 of these flies traps in Redlands, and, according to the natives, all the flies are in them." Mr. Chapman it appears estimates that there are 75,000 flies in a gallon. SPIDER'S RUBBER-FOOTED. Saves Plate Glass Window From Explosion Shocks. In the great engineering works which are constantly being carried on in large cities, such as tunnel a subway construction, the work of cavating is greatly facilitated by the use of explosives, which are, however, disastrous to the windows of adjacent property, although the blasts can be controlled so that there is generally no greater damage than the window smashing. A rubber-belted "spider" has been recently resorted to to stand guard over the window on these occasions. The spider is a four-footed rubber-tipped device, which is secured in the center of the plate glass by means of wires extending to the edges of the glass, and this effectively takes up the shock of the blast and saves the window. Some people never count themselves broke until the last borrowing resource has been exhausted. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, AUGUST 24, 1918 LITTLE FLEE COST $6,000 IT CAN'T ANNOY YOU FOR ONLY FOSSIL REMAINS OF CENTURY-OLD PEST ARE LEFT. More Than 400 Different Species of "Hopper" Have Been Discovered. Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them; And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinium. The old quotation in the "Budget of Paradoxes" never had a comfortable sound, although, perhaps, many persons regarded this picture of the flea world in the light of a little fiction. But now the scientific student comes along and tells us that Charles Rothschild, who is famed as a entomologist, has a private collection of something like 100,000 specimens of fleas at his house at Trinity, in England, and, furthermore, that more than 400 different species of flea have already been discovered, while many undiscovered species still remain. These extraordinary facts and figures regarding the elusive and irritating flea are given by Harold Russell of London in his book, "The Flea," who says that, so far as he is aware, no book devoted to what is known about fleas has ever been published in England. One fact stands out prominently—namely, that there is not much likelihood of a diminution in the birth rate in flea land, for Mrs. Flea lays her eggs all the year round from one to five at a time. But, like many other insects and mammals, she is callous as to the fate of her offspring, for she takes no interest whatever in her eggs, and leaves her youngsters to shift for themselves from the day of their birth. Some fleas, says Mr. Russell, are more Catholic in their tastes than others. Some seem to be strictly confined to one host, although at the same time he remarks, "No fleas are more than what is called temporary parasites, which means that they pass but a portion of their lives on their hosts, and frequently take occasion to hop on and off. All fleas apparently go from host to host. But although they may occasionally pass from one species of host to another, they do not, for the most part, seem to flourish in unaccustomed quarters. For that reason a human flea is only sometimes found on cats and dogs, and cat-and-dog fleas only occasionally on human beings. One of the most curious facts regarding animal fleas is that "all beasts of prey are sometimes found to harbor the fleas of animals they have devoured." Perhaps, however, the most astounding information which Mr. Russell gives in his book is to the effect that monkeys have no fleas. "This, he says, "is an assertion that is commonly received with surprise and incredulity, but healthy monkeys are much too clean and active to harbor fleas and when they are seen searching one another's fur in a fashion that must be familiar to most persons, it is only to clear their skin of any particles of scurf and dirt." It might also be mentioned that only one instance has been recorded of a flea occurring on a reptile. This was on a brown snake which was a captured near Perth, in West Australia, and which was found to have a flea, probably from some small mammal it had devoured, firmly fixed between the scaly plates of the reptile. The history of the flea would seem to go back many centuries, but the only fossil remains of a flea that have so far been discovered are a single insect in a piece of Baltic amber. The flea, according to Mr. Russell, "how remote are the chances that a flea should subsequently be detected and described by a naturalist, we may well understand that the owner asked (but without success $6,000 for it)." There is, however, a very serious, as well as curious, aspect to the study of the flea, and Mr. Russell points out that the scientific study of fleas has recently received a great impetus since it has been ascertained that they are active agents in spreading disease. FROG'S HAIR SCARCE. This is Just About as Scarce as Hen's Teeth. Did you ever hear of frog's hair? It is about as scarce as hen's teeth. And yet there are frogs with hair. They are found in the German Kongo. In the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard they have eleven specimens pickled in alcohol, sent from Kribe, Kamerun. Willy Kuegenhal has been examining these frogs and their hair. He reports that only the males have this hirsute appendage, the females having on exactly the same parts small but distinct tubercles, the bases of which are the same diameter as the bases of the hairs upon the males. These hairs appear to be some sort of sensory organs, but just what they are for cannot be guessed until some naturalist has had an opportunity to study them on living frogs. A muffler which can be fastened inside an overcoat collar and put on or off with the latter garment has been patented by a Minnesota man. LIFE OF STEAMSHIP Delle of Waters, Like Belle of the Ball, Is Here Today and Gone Tomorrow Seattle, Wash.—Out of the mists of the forgotten past, decrepit and worn, yet with lingering traces of heavy beauty that told of sweeter days—suggestive of nothing so much as the aged shadow of a once lovely woman—came the old steamship Victorian, from an almost forgotten past. Time was when waterfront eyes brightened and hearts beat faster as the Victorian sped at a 20-knot chip out of Seattle harbor for Victoria. B. C. In those days she alone could take the measure of the Flyer. No Puget Sound boat ever exceeded the Victorian's record until the appearance of the Puget Sound Navigation Company's speedy "Tacoma," three years ago. Built of wood, in Portland, Ore., in 1891, for the old Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company, the Victorian was long and slender, having a length of 242.3 feet, a beam of 36 feet and a depth of 15.5 feet. She was of 1.504 gross tons. She was designed especially for the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company's Tacoma-Seattle-Victoria service. J. H. Steffin of Portland was the builder. Even in those days the traveling public was fond of speed and the slim-hulled Victorian's record shows that they got it. The Victorian was designed by Capt. J. W. Troup, now marine superintendent of the Canadian Pacific Railway company's fleet of Vancouver, Speed and more speed was the demand of the owners, and hence they ordered engines of tremendous power for a vessel of her size and type. The engines, in fact, were so large that to install them it was necessary to cut away some of the vessel's timbers. As a result the Victorian was like a human being that lives too fast, burning the candle at both ends. Her heart was too big and powerful for her body. So she had a swift but short career. Her engines shock the life out of her. In hitting up the high spots of life she passed from time to time from one control to another. She gave good—and always speedy—service in the Puget Sound-Victoria route. Then in 1898 she joined the Alaska fleet that was called into existence by the Klondike rush. At one time she was operated by Dodwell & Co. At another time she shone for a period in the Seattle-Bellingham run when she was commanded by Captain Clancy, a prominent mariner. Then in 1907 she fell under the control of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, which used her for a while as a car ferryboat between Vancouver and Nanaimo. After that she sunk into obscurity, played out by an excessive speed. She passed into the ownership of the late W. D. Hohas. Some time ago she was sold by the Hohus estate to the Goldborg interests of Vancouver. In the meantime she had lain idle for years in the East Waterway, Seattle, but recently has lain at Eagle Harbor. There were no moist eyes when the Victorian was towed to her funeral pyre. Faded belies rarely win a tear. RELIES ON BONES TO FREE HIM Alabaman's Wife and Child Disappeared; Experts Unable to Identify Bones Found. Birmingham, Ala.—Having been convicted of murdering his wife and child and given a prison term of 25 years largely upon evidence of a collection of bones, William Wilson of Blount County is relying upon those same bones to obtain for him a pardon. The vital question involved is identity of the bones, whether of a white woman and child or of Indians. When domestic relations in the Wilson home were jarred to the breaking point, the wife left, taking the child with her. Months later a pile of bones was found under a bluff near his home and Wilson was arrested. He insisted that he was in ignorance of the whereabouts of wife and child, but it was testified at the trial that he had threatened the wife with violence if she returned. He was convicted. Persons interested in Wilson forwarded the bones to the Department of Archives and History of Alabama, with the view of having them identified. Director Thomas M. Owen of the department exhibited the relics in the capitol where thousands of persons viewed them, and finally, when the information desired was beyond nim, sent the bones to the curator of the Smithsonian institute at Wash. on. Now the bones have been returned by Dr. A. Hartickle, Smithsonian expert, with the report that they came from four or five children and adults, but that there is no possibility of identifying them as to race. He added, however, that they evidently came from a very old burial, and this opinion is regarded as highly favorable for Wilson in his petition to the Board of Fardons. That the human brain can withstand the strain of persistent work better than the muscles of the body has been proved by recent experiments. The cork leg is familiar in works of fiction. In real life such a thing is not, and never has been, cork being just about the most unsuitable material for the purpose that could be imagined. Artificial limbs are made of basswood or willow, supplemented to some extent with leather. The lumber for them is carefully selected and the first step in the making of a false leg is to cut from the raw material a block eight inches square and of the requisite length. Through it a hole is bored lengthwise with a large auger, and then the block is put aside in a dry place and allowed to season. It ought to season for three years. It is then carved in imitation of a real leg, sandpapered to smoothness, hollowed out so as to convert it into a mere shell, and rendered waterproof by a coating of a special kind of varnish. It may be covered with kid, but methods of manufacture vary. The leg is made hollow for the sake of lightness, and also to provide room for the introduction of a strong spiral spring and other elements of the mechanism that is to render the limb a useful and comfortable counterfeit of a real one. An artificial leg up of date pattern is an ingenius piece of apparatus and there is many a man today who wears one without betraying the fact to the casual observer. Of course if the natural limb has been cut off high up the artificial one must be in two parts, connected by a knee joint. If one must lose a portion of one's ambulatory machinery the most desirable place for the amputation is between the knee and the ankle. Under such circumstances a false member may enable one to walk without limping, or one may even tango satisfactorily, but loss of part of the foot or of the whole foot at the ankle joint means that one must go halting through life. The foot of the artificial leg is in itself an exceedingly clever counterfeit. Its core is part of the same piece of wood that makes the body of the leg. Enveloping this core is rubber, vulcanized on in a series of thin layers, the result being to give the foot a lively springiness, rendering it comfortable for walking and helping to give the wearer a natural gait. An artificial arm is of similar construction, with a wooden core for the hand, which is of vulcanized rubber. But as a substitute for the natural limb it is a poor thing compared to a false leg. The hand is useless for purposes of manipulation and has to be kept covered with a glove. Wires extend through the fingers, so that the latter may be bent into any desired position. Under the law any person who has lost a leg or an arm, a foot or a hand in the service of the United States Government is entitled to an artificial member every three years. This is a very liberal allowance, because a false leg if not abused ought to last eight years. Furthermore the right is not restricted to soldiers and sailors; civilian employees of Uncle Sam can enjoy it likewise. Few artificial arms are asked for by those entitled to them, not more than one arm, indeed, for every 100 legs. Pensioners and others who have lost such members prefer as a rule to accept a money equivalent instead. They are at liberty under the law to draw $50 every three years in lieu of an arm, or if a leg be in question the cash commutation allowed is $75. There are in this country forty old manufacturers of artificial limbs, and their products differ somewhat in style and construction. Congress has declared that the maimed veteran is at liberty to choose his own make or leg or arm. To be fitted with it he may journey to any city in the United States where the false member can be purchased and the Government will pay his traveling expenses, in cluding Pullman car accommodations. It will not pay for his meals enroute, a ruling on the part of Uncle Sam that has elicited a good deal of grumbling. But a crippled old soldier residing in San Francisco may, if he chooses, buy a false leg in Boston, traveling clear across the continent and back at the Government's expense. Some veterans of the civil war once in three years attend the G. A. R. reunions without a cent's cost to themselves for travel, electing as is their privilege to purchase incidentally a limb in the city where the reunion is to be held. Such false legs and arms as can now be bought are of course very modern inventions. It may be taken for granted, however, that artificial substitutes for lost limbs date back to a remote antiquity. Dr. Alex Hedrickla of the Smithsonian institution recently dug up in Peru a false foot of wood, apparently prehistoric, which was a mere block with a socket, evidently intended to be fastened to the ankle of a person whose foot had been amputated. Famous in history is the iron hand of Goetz von Berlichingen, a knight of medieval Nuremberg; and there was another nobleman of the same epoch who had a iron foot weighing ten pounds, with which, being an irascible person, he could kick so hard that his servants stole the foot and threw it into the Rhine—N. Y. Sun. A shoe has been patented that laces in the front but has an elastic section at the back so that it can be removed without unlacing. Some men would have no excuse for living if their wives didn't take in boarders. 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 WHEAT PATRIOTS BONES 5/16/14 JACK BONES! 5 DAYS FOR A MARKET BOX IN ENGLAND Patronize Our Advertisers