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Dancing Every Thursday Evening at Barksdale's Academy, IN UNION IN STRENGTH Loss of Two Pound Daily Often Registered by Process Exercise reduces flesh; horsehack riding invigorates the liver, and heat cures rheumatism—old wives' mexing, all. And the modern sanitation, which makes a specialty of doing the old fashioned things in new ways, has solved the problem of curing these common but unpleasant ailments by a scientific adaptation of the old wives' principles, says Popular Science Monthly. The fleshy ones long since discovered that exercise and diet reduce flesh on the face and that, if grimly persisted in, the rest of the body will ultimately respond. Science has devised a means of concentrating the exercise on the spot desired. This is done by applying the electric current direct to the too fleshy spot by means of adjustable electrodes. The current is painless but very powerful, causing violent and irresistible twitching, which continues as long as the electrodes are applied. To increase the work performed by the current and thus augment the benefits derived, bags of sand are placed over the part of the body which is being treated. The effect is the same as would be secured by heavy exercise in this particular spot. The patient perspires freely and the flesh seems to melt away. There is no discomfort and little fatigue, while the results are very gratifying, a loss of two pounds daily often being registered. Horsesback riding for the possessors of torpedil livers, amongst those who lead sedentary lives, is provided in the modern sanitarium by an iron and leather mechanical horse. A morning ride on this always willing steed does much toward relieving clinggishness of the liver circulation. Neurologia and rheumatism cases are also among those which come in large numbers to sanitariums for treatment. Diathermy, in other words, heat penetration, has been found exceptionally successful. The pleasant pastime of drinking gallons of lilith water at a fashionable resort is now supplanted by direct application of a heat blast machine. This heats the air electrically and at the same time drives it with force through a funnel. The heat can thus be applied to the painful region complained of by the patient. An. abdominal kneading machine, much used in sanitariums and private hospitals is operated by hand. The patient leans heavily, against knoblike compressors, and, by turning a. crank himself operates the machine. The abdominal massage is thorough going and improves the digestion of the patient. Western Inventor Produces Reflector Which is Marvel to Science... Through the development of a specially designed reflector and projector type housing, for an incandescent lamp, a young western electrician has brought out a lantern which when fitted with a 1,000 watt nitrogen filled, globe, produces a penetrating light rated at approximately 500,000 candle power. The lamp is suited for various indoor purposes, and is also well adapted for brilliant exterior illumination. Simplicity, efficiency, and economy in operation make its use more convenient in many places, than the more expensive and complex searchlight. It is of especial value for night construction work in the open as well as for emergency and general purposes. Batteries of these lights were used to assist the night rescue work at the time of the Eastland tragedy, and proved very adequate. It was following this rather spectacular demonstration of their power that they were adopted for illuminating one of the municipal bathing beaches at Chicago, where a number of accidents had occurred. It was desired to light the surf and shore both as a measure of safety and convenience to the bathers. Ten lights were used in this capacity. The several units having an aggregate of about 5,000,000 candle-power, lighted the water for a considerable distance out into the lake. A battery of four of the lamps equipped with motor driven color wheels has been utilized in carrying out an interesting illuminating scheme at a Chicago restaurant. The ceiling has been draped with silk hangings, above which the lamps are installed. The color wheels are not operated in synchronism, so constantly changing and blending hues are cast upon the translucent silk and through it upon the divers. THE GAZETTE FRESH OHIO NEWS What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. DELAWARE.—Miss Ruth Elizabeth beth, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth C. Alston, has been appointed teacher in the Harried Bedroom Stowe school in Cincinnati and will attend Sept. 7. Miss Ruth is a member of the class of 1918, Wilberforce University. WASHINGTON, C. H.—J. T. Oatneal, well known attorney of this city, received notice, last week, from James M. Linton, sec. of the Republican state committee, appointing him one of the temporary secretaries of the Republican state convention held in Columbus, Tuesday and Wednesday, of this week. STEUBENVILLE.—The rally at Quinn A. M. E. church was a grand success, under the shuffled management of Dr. J. M. Gilmore, pastor. His sermons are quietly delivered but are gems of information and reason. He is full of vim and a clear sense of leadership. His financial woes were complete and brought in $1,001.18. The Gazette desires an agent and correspondent here at once. Write the editor in Cleveland if you can act or can recommend some suitable person who might do so. MONROE.—Mrs. Stella Gales, who met with a bad accident at the Boston Fair, last week, is in a serious condition. Mrs. James Gibson is sick. Mrs. Mrs. Joseph of Cleveland visited relatives here, last week. WELLSVILLE.—The First Baptist church, in appreciation of the work of their pastor, Rev. W. B. Woodson, celebrated his fifth anniversary. Tuesday, Rev. Porter preached, Wednesday, Dr. L. R. Hall of E. Liverpool Thursday; Rev. Colb of Stoneville Friday, evening, at the reception. Rev. H. Muson, who received her training in Washington, D. C., will leave the last of this month for Camp Sherman as a nurse. Mrs. Lena Brown received word of her husband, Lieut S. C. Brown's safe arrival in France He is attached to the July detachment Camp Sherman, A. R. D. Inf., and served in the Spanish-American war and the Clan Cleo entertainment their son Joseph, I. M. I. Jesse Johnson of Salem, Mr. BenJ, and son of Hungerstown, Md., Sunday. Mr. Lee is one of seven sons, all living and some of them tipping the scale at 240 pounds.—M. L. Lane, who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins YOUNGSTOWN—Buckeye Lodge will meet, Sept. 5. Claude Johnson and Chas, Clark of the U. S. Training School, Willierforce, and Foster Collins of Camp Sherman, spent a few days with relatives and friends, here. They will meet with the community this day. A husband and three children survive her and have the sympathy of the community—Miss Alberta Payne spent ten days in Cleveland with Mrs. Anna Blaton, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Robison, Jesse Boggess, Oscar Holmes and Mrs. Etta Lacey attended the Elk's convention in Baltimore, the day before the event. We will attend 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, will 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 LIVERPOLL—Rev. I. R. Hall of the Second Baptist church is attending the national convention at Little Rock, Ark.—Mr. Frank Shephard and Miss Belle Evans were married, Aug. 21, in Pittsburgh. Friendship class, Mr. Adams, pres. presented the S. Mrs. and Mr. Hawkins entertained the class, Thursday evening—Mr. Chas. Miller and Miss Freeman were married, Wednesday—Mr. Chas. Alexander died, Sunday morning—Mr. and Mrs. Bert Brown are at home to their friends at Mr. and Mrs. James Brown, and Mrs. Pittsburgh are guests of Rev. and Mrs. Hall. He spoke, Sunday evening, at the Baptist church: Rev. Hall preached a fine sermon, Sunday morning, Subject, "Joy Over the Saved." HILLSBORO—Mrs. Charles Greene of Cleveland is visiting her father, Mr. John Captain, and her sister, Mrs. Charles Whaley of Indianapolis, is also visiting him—Mrs. Martha Greene entertained Stella May Tarpey of Columbus and Armita Burr, Saturday, May 14. Mrs. Viola Giree of Leosburg, who has been visiting, her mother here—Mr. and Mrs. V. Waltace, Miss Hazel, Mrs. Paul Campbell and Mrs. Clarence Johnson were at Camp Sherman, Sunday—Miss Faith Delaney has gone to Dayton—Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Johnson, Monday with his wife in Columbus—Mrs. Sadie C. Wilson and brother, Archie Cole, went to Dayton, Saturday, to reside—Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jones had as guests, Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Harley Hill and family of Greenfield, and Mrs. Edward Hill and family of Lynn, with Edna Hill and her aunt, Mrs. Jones—Leonard Newland of Columbus was here, Sunday night and Monday—Mr. and Mrs. O. Mitchell, Mrs. Rhoda Kittrell and Mrs. Charles Metcalf attended the meeting at Roxabel, Sunday—Lucile and Corina Delaney, Saturday with Ruth Hudson, Nettie Alsop and Charles Black were at Camp Sherman, Sunday—Mrs. Amie Fitzhugh, age 48, died Aug. 24. She was a highly respected Christian woman and will be badly missed in all the churches as she was always willing to help. Mrs. Smith was one of the organizers of the meeting. The writer (the local reporter) was a life-long friend of hers—Mrs. J. J. Burr and daughter, Amita, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Dunn at E. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25,1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1918 Monroe.—Mrs. Stella Gales, who met with a bad accident at the Boston Fair, last week, is in a serious condition.—Mr. James Bimor is sick.—Mr. and Mrs. Ross of Cleveland visited relatives here, last week. PROF. GEORGE WILLIAM COOK Secretary of Howard University—His Long, Interesting and Successful Career The career of Prof. George William Cook, secretary and business manager of Howard University and dean of the Commercial Department, Washington, D.C., has been so full of personal success and helpfulness to others that The Gazette has thought it worth while to publish a sketch of his life and methods as an inspiration to our youth. Coming out of the South, a more child, as one of the "refugees" during the Civil War, he knows what it costs to make one's way upward from among "those furthest down." His father first took him with his family to Harrisburg, Pa., where he received his first schooling; later he went to N. Y. He soon saw all around him evidences of the power and advantage he had for himself for the duties of active life by getting the best education within his grasp. He entered the preparatory department of Howard University in 1874, worked his way through college and has been a conspicuous figure "On the Hill" ever since, having been several times designated acting president of the university. His purpose in life was to amount to something. He had ambition, the foresight to prepare himself and the energy to work out and stick to his work until success came to him. One of the cardinal principles with which he began life, and stuck to even to this day, was to get along little better. he had a little capital and credit that allowed him to live a few years ago he was able to finance and construct a row of fourteen, first-class, six-room dwelling, which is only one of his business ventures. Prof. Cook is a member of the class of 81, Howard University, took his master's degree in 86 and the master's degree from the law department in 1888. In 1881, the year of his graduation, he was appointed an instructor in the normal department, and upon his return, he became the principal, and in 1900, when the commercial department was organized he was made dean of that department, a position he still holds. In 1908, the trustees elected him secretary of the university and made him business manager, a most difficult and delicate position in which he earned the prizes and improvements on the showroom on less than he earned. In a buildings and grounds give their being largely to his initiative, foresight and efforts to raise the funds and to spend them where they would do the most good. Prof. Cook has always been a loyal friend to his students and has a host of friends, former students at Howard, seated all over the country. No deserving student has ever applied to him for help and been turned away empty handed. Prof. Cook has always been public spirited and has taken a deep interest in all worthy movements for the official board of the N. A. C. His official board of the N. A. C. His interest, outside of Howard University, is public charities. Many years ago, he initiated the idea and organized "The Law and Order League," a movement to interest and uplift idle city boys who often drifted in the proper direction. He conceived, organized and opened the large industrial school at Blue Plains, D. C., was appointed by President McKinley a member of the Board of Charities of the District of Columbia and made a study of charities. He is now a recognized authority on charities. He will be a member of the Board of Charities in the point of view by President Roosevelt, upon the Homes Commission, the organization that has done so much to clean out the alleys and improve housing conditions in Washington, D. C. He is now chairman of the Outings Committee of the Associated Charities, which maintains a summer outing for the public. He could not otherwise have an outing, and also president of the social settlement, a community, educational, recreational and social center in South Washington. "CEPIL HANDS HIM A DAÍSY" Dayton, O. —The following appeared in a local daily, recently, and is so good and timely we republish it. Colored Men Win High Honors Editor Journal, Dear Sear: I am not a "slacker"—much the reverse. I volunteered twice—once for the Spanish-American war and once for the Philippine insurrection. I was mustered out of the first service. I was needed to serve the U.S. government accomplished its purpose of freeing millions of people from tyranny. I am replying to the contributor who in a public communication, refers to "Negroes and all kinds of riff raff." If this is not enough to get thoughtful ones to meditating, at this time, I don't know what is. Some one tells him that a whole regiment of "Negroes" is for their bravery. In France, by a French commander, and yet he terms the "Negroes" riff raff. If he did not want to ride as he did, he has had plenty of chance to get in the service and get the honors that the "riff raff" are getting. C. W. Cordin. National Military Home. Wins Officer's Commission. This Vice President. Boston, Mass. In the class of one who completed the course of training in the Complete Officers' Training, Corps at Harvard University, August 12, was one Afro-American, Richard B. Sarsbury. His diligent application and the high degree of excellence of his work throughout the course were commented upon by all the officers of the class recommended for commissions at once, and is a resident of Indianapolis, a graduate of Oberlin College where he won honors. Many Soldiers Killed Birmingham, Ala.—Casualties of the most severe nature were suffered by Company D, the Bessmer unit of the 167th Infantry, Rainbow Division, in 1775. They were wiping out of the Soissons-Rheims salient, according to a letter received from Capt. Lacy Edmondson by his wife. Twenty-five members of the company were wounded, including Capt. Edmondson, were gassed, the latter states. Only about seventy-five men were left in the company. Pyt. McEwen on Furlough New Orleans, La.--Among the visitors in the city, the first of the week, was First Cl. Pvt. Geo. W. McEwen of Columbus, N. Mex., one of our most progressive soldiers in the regular army. Private McEwen was on a furough and having a delightful visit. Mrs. Bessie Kitzmiller is expected to return today from a vacation trip, which included Columbus, Erie and Detroit. 10550 EUCLID AVENUE HON. J. C. MANNING W. E. B. DuBois was a school teacher down in Atlanta, just a few years ago, and his $75 per month, then no, doubted, might good to him. He wrote on "conditions", however, and also wrote a book on "Souls". In this message, it is said, he then is now, so silk underwear and had his pink pajamas. He wrote "conditions", talked "conditions", but he never wrote and talked that these "conditions" could only be righted by and through voice in government. He failed to write and talk that political slavery was and is the root from which had grown the idea of "conditions", such as segregation, lynching, peonage and like wrongs. W. E. B. DuBois was and is "literary", however, and it was fortunate, for him, that another, who had "literary" aspirations, wanted him to come on from Atlanta to New York so that, as it might produce such appealing appeals about "conditions". And it has all been made so nice for W. E. B. DuBois. He not only now has his silk underwear and his pink pajamas and Turkish cigarettes, and all that, but he has jumped from that more $75 per month to $1,600 per month, to $1,600 a year as a New York problem-solver. An automobile conveys this prince of thought hither and thither, from whence to hence. When out investigating conditions at East St. Louis, he rode through in his machine, while commanding that those upon whom he called should pay his rent, and that state in his efficient car, Wonderful. Making it so very nice for W. E. B. Dulbois is what has been done for this exercising gentleman of fastidious portrayal of "conditions." He is not in the attitude of "when a follow-up attack this article makes no difference whether or not that Washington, D. C. proposed addendum is added or lopped off from the chest income. Writing and talking supercellious rot, instead of striking at the core of the boil: shooting mosquitoes with a bow and arrow, instead of having to go to work to dry up the pond that breeds them; whining around about the "conditions" developing from the south-in-the-saddle-democracy, while failing to fight that autocracy that breeds these "conditions"—all of this may attract case and some "foecem" with intriguing Nanceke Democrats, who help proclaim the day when America will awaken to the real problem of constitutional liberty for the repressed south. "The new emancipation" will not come through donating a dollar a year to an organization of problem-solvers. It can only come by political action. It can only come by voting the south-in-the-saddle-democracy out of power. It can only come through crushing the party- of - today-political-slavery just as we crushed the same-party of human bondage in the days of Lincoln. "Circulating Sunday School Quarterlies, printed in the English language in the heart of Mexico among peons, will help along "the new emancipation" about as much as has or will W. E. B. Dufois" "Crisis." The whole National Association propaganda is fladdoole, it is high-falting wind-jamming. The thought of this coterie of Democrats and Socialists gathering up $3600, as "the new emancipation" harks back my mind to the years ahead. I will collect many thousands of dollars from colored people in the south in behalf of the "movement" to get Congress to pension former slaves. Let some so-called big Negro, like Booker Washington and DuBois, be given the prestige of the patronage of and association with the rich, then such an affiliation makes the atmospheric touch with expressions that something oppressed people. It generally winds up that something is put upon and not put over. Exercising the strength of political citizenship in the free states of the north, as against the domination of the south, is a challenge for Colored, American. Making sentiment, within the Republican party, to the end that constitutional liberty shall be enforced in the southern states, is the only way out. No high-fatulating high-brow stuff is necessary. All it requires is horse sense. The job to be done is to teemed big Negroes, but of the masses of the Negro people. The tool to do the job with is the ballot and the time to make the job tell is on election day. Pell your ballots and keep your dollars. Exercise your political power and stave up the race. Joseph C. Manning. Editor "Pending Issues." P. O. Box 382, Newark, N. J. GRAND MASTER BIRD IN MICH- Detroit, Mich.—Thomas W. Bird of Cleveland, O., recently elected grand master of the Hiram Grand Lodge, Scottish Right Masons, of Ohio and jurisdiction, was the guest of Rev. William H. Hiram, the week. The new grand master met the officers of St. John's Lodge, No. 1 of this city, had a pleasant time and encouraged them on their stand for right. Rev. Stone gave a short talk and answered a few complimenting things of the grand master. C. H. Vinger is wished master of St. John's hedge and Rev. J. P. Thomas, deputy grand master of Michigan. A NEW PIONEER REGIMENT A Reserve Labor Battalion to Have White Non-Commissioned Officers. Also—"The South in the Saddle." Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, O.—The war department has authorized the organization here of the 813th pioneer infantry regiment, to be composed of our men. Col John E. Morris, U.S. A. has been assigned commandant. A number of white commissioned officers were relieved of duty with the 158th depot brigade to become attached to the new pioneer regiment. Two are majors; eleven captains, twenty-two lieutenants and nine second lieutenants. The noncommissioned officers in the new regiment are to be Afro-Americans. Instructions also were received from Kingston ordering the immediate labor battalion, the 158th reserve labor battalion, to be composed of our soldiers now attached to the 158th depot brigade who are physically unfit for foreign service. White men to complete the strength, qualified for non-commissioned officers, who are unsuitable for overseas service, also will be transferred from the 158th depot brigade to they become available to provide opportunity for ingenuity in assimilator battalion to be transferred to their assimilator organizations where they may become a chance for promotion to higher grades, one company will be maintained as a training company. This is the first indication that men in the depot brigade here will be given a chance to see foreign service. Mansel and Hart, representing a local "co-operative league," failed to finance Triestone Baptist church and locate them in a building on Scovill Ave., by Aug. 1, it is said. Rev. J. R. Yewell will deal directly with the owners from now on. Several other churches have put money in the league. With no results as yet, it is the fourth in about thirty new Afro-American churches organized in the past two years. The "southern" pastors are arranging to organize a ministers' alliance. The comedian "preatchers" that at times "hold forth" on the corner of E. 29th, 30th, 34th and 36th Sts, are doing the race great harm, disturb sick people and those who are trying to get rest, awaken babies, etc. One of them recently called other race preachers of the city "thieves, robbers, and liars." All of them do not belong to the tendollar-sell-out-breed and they are the victims of the police. They appeal to the chief of police to "call a half" on the comedian-preaching misuse. IN-UNION IS STRONG SUDAN GRASS GIVES BIG PROFIT Demand Far Exceeds Supply; Acreage Comparatively Small. Kansas has a new crop, Sudan grass, which is producing some amazing yields and profits. On the farm of Harmon Hobart, in Allen county, it gave three cuttings last season, with a total yield of 7.3 tons of hay. The part of the field that was left for seed average 71 pounds an acre. The seed of this grass is selling for $1 a pound; the reason for this abnormal price of course is that there is a demand for the seed, which is much larger than the limited acreage of last year can supply, says Floyd B. Nichols in the Illustrated World. Sudan grass is an annual crop, which is planted in rows usually, and cultivated two or three times during the season. When it is handled in this way it requires from two to three pounds to plant an acre. It may be cut several times for hay, or a seed crop and also a hay crop can be obtained. At the present high prices, the most profit is in the seed of course. The astonishing drought resisting ability of Sudan grass is the main thing that gives it value. It resists a drought much more readily than the standard crops for the ower regions, such as kafir, milo and fetiter. Sudan grass is being pushed by the demonstration agents and extension men for the Kansas State Agricultural college. Lee H. Gould, the demonstrating agent for southwestern Kansas, where the rainfall is very limited said: "There is certain to be an immense increase in the acreage of Sudan grass in this section within, the next few years. We had plantings of this crop in every county district in 1914, and they all did well. The crop makes good feed, and it will produce high yields with, very limited rainfall. It will do much in the coming years to add wealth to the drier sections in the western part of the United States." Mr. Gould's opinion is the same as that of the other demonstrating agents in Kansas. There is more interest among the farmers in Sudan grass than in any other crop. Sudan grass was imported into this country from Africa, and was grown in a small way in an experiment station in Texas. It produced good results in these station trials from the start but of course the agents of the United States department of agriculture did not put the seed out to the farmers until they were sure of their results. The seed was quite generally distribut over the country last season. Although this crop is a valuable substitute for the Bermuda grasses, and should be introduced wherever farmers find their soil too dry for the latter, one of its characteristics should be well borne in mind before planting. This is the fact "at once given a start, it spreads with great rapidity. Each spear of grass possesses a network of tough fibrous roots, which spread over a radius of a foot. Each filar is segmented, and from each segment another blade of grass may spring up. In the Southern states, Johnson grass, which is similar to Sudan grass, has proved itself the most formidable pest with which cotton growers have to contend. Because of the thick root network, it is next to impossible to stop once it has got into a field: SERVING TABLE IS WIRED Device is Strung Up for Electrical Appliances. As a convenient appointment for a breakfast room, a tea wagon, wired and fitted with connecting sockets for the accommodation of a coffee percolator, a toaster, and a chafing dish, has been introduced. Except for the wiring it is not different from an ordinary serving cart. In homes where electric table appliances are utilized freely, it makes a very attractive and serviceable accessory for it may be used for almost any informal occasion and in any room, or sun porch, where a lighting socket is available. By having the various electric appliances on a tea wagon the work of both setting and clearing a table is simplified, while the latter is also left unnumbered by serving and warming dishes during a meal—Popular Mechanics. SPRING WHEEL FOR AUTOMOBILE Invention of Missouriian Expected to Save Wear on Tires A Pattonsburg, Mo, man has made application for a patent, on a resilient or spring-wheel which is expected to reduce the cost of the upkeep of tires on automobiles and make riding much easier Year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... 1.00 Three Months ..... 0.99 Subscribers are welcome to view Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class 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 NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 300,000 in Ohio. 85,000 in Cleveland. The Y. M. C. A. is drawing the usual (American) color-line in France, it is said. Good Lord, where does the "Christian" in Y. M. C. A. come in? The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of an invitation from Chairman Ernest Lyon, of Baltimore, Md., to attend the Farmers' State-Wide Exposition to be held, Sept. 18, at Wicomico Fair Grounds, Salisbury, Md., by our division of the Maryland Council of Defense. Fowler R. Malone must be one of those southern "crackers" employed in northern plants that are doing government work and that employ Afro-American labor also. There are many of them in this section, these days, we are sorry to say. Wherever they are, as a rule they are "Fowler R. Malones." A good friend, a local member of the race, writes The Gazette: "Do you know of a separate school for our folk on the west side? I just want to know. I fear that local Negro Baptists will before long be asking for separate schools." Lord, have mercy! Some of our people are our greatest enemies, it seems, at times. Though President Wilson had no thought of our people when he advised the defeat of Jim Vardaman, recent candidate for re-election to the U. S. Senate in Mississippi, we are profoundly grateful nevertheless. Since Ben Tillman's death Vardaman was the bitterest enemy in public life of our people had. Here is hoping that his advice will also encompass the defeat of the unspeakable Cole Blease, former governor of South Carolina and candidate for the U. S. Senate. NO DEMOCRACY IN THE SOUTH Editor Plain Dealer—Sir: Nine or ten (nearly all) southern states have unconstitutional laws that disfranchise in all nearly two million colored American voters and nearly half a million white. About all of those states have "jim-crow" R. R. car laws, also unconstitutional (according to the U. S. Supreme Court) when applied to inter-state passengers. Many of its large and small cities and towns have "jim-crow" street cars. "Jim-crow" cars, disfranchisement, segregation and mob violence are rampant in the south and have been for years. More than three thousand colored people have been lynched in that section of the country in the last thirty or forty years. Dr. M. B. Carleton of Wooster is entirely correct when he says "there is no democracy in the south." Fowler R. Malone of Akron evidently needs to learn that the southern method of coarse abuse, which he directed toward Dr. Carleton, is not argument and that it is not at all popular here in the north even if at times it is tolerated. Thousands of illigitimate mulatto children in the south, ninety per cent. of whose mothers are helpless colored women, are mute testimony to "the principles that (Fowler Malone says) the south holds dear; namely, honor, love and respect for womanhood and a desire to continue a race of pure white blood." Take the six or eight million red-blooded Negroes from the south and it could no more support itself than can a bahy. This is a notorious fact and not one open to question among intelligent persons familiar with conditions in that section of the country. The world war is a fight for democracy—the kind that does NOT exist in the south, where nearly twenty-five colored persons (two were women, one about to become a mother) were lynched most brutally (in Georgia and Texas) in the first three weeks of June, this year. Many of them were not even charged with committing any crime and not one of them was tried in any court of justice on any kind of a charge. This is the case in about ninety-nine of every one hundred lynchings in that section of the country. Dr. Carleton was right—there is no democracy in the south! STILL PAYING THE PENALTY Some fifty of our citizens of Chicago received, last week, from no less a personage than Max Loeb, a member of the Chicago School Board, a questionnaire relative to segregation in the public schools of Chicago. We quote a portion of his letter: "The Colored population has increased largely since the war in many northern industrial cities. Colored attendance in the public schools has grown correspondingly. How best can the race antagonisms be avoided which so often spring up when the two races are brought into juxtaposition, especially when the two races are in attendance under the same teachers and in the same classes? Do you think it wiser, when there is a large colored population, to have separate schools for white and colored children? If the separation came at the desire and upon the initiative of the colored people, would the sympathetic understanding of colored by whites, and vice versa, be heightened, or would such a separation increase prejudice and antagonism? It seems much wiser to have separation (if any) than to maintain a rivalry rather than through the operation of the law. " " " What measures if any, would you suggest to make less difficult the relationship of the races in the field of public education?" When Chicago's "jim-crow" Y. M. C. A. movement was started, some years ago, The Gazette called the attention of our people of that city to the fact that wherever such segregation was permitted here in the north it invariably proved a forerunner of separate schools. It had proved so in Dayton, O., Columbus, O., Philadelphia, Pa., and other cities of this section of the country. The same week, or the one following that of the announcement of the raising of the required amount to get Rosenwald's twenty-five thousand dollar "jim-crow" Y. M. C. A. bait, a publication in one of Chicago's daily papers demanded "that now that the colored people of this city (Chicago) have the money for their Y. M. C. A. why not give them separate schools, too." That started the "ball." Not long thereafter came the organization in a suburb of that city (Hyde Park, if memory serves us correctly) of a prejudiced body of whites who were determined to saddle "jim-crow" schools and residential segregation on our people of Chicago and who have made them a great deal of trouble at various times since. It was only a few years ago that they, our people of Chicago, were compelled to call on either the mayor of the city or the governor of Illinois for help, so hot was the fight made for them by the prejudiced separate schools advocates of that city. Ever and anon, since, the fight has been revived, and now Max Loeb (if a Jew, it would be the irony of fate), a member of the Chicago Board of Education and a leading citizen and business man, gives some fifty or more of our leading citizens of the "Windy City" another rude shock along a separate school line, and there will be more of them. Foolish and short-sighted Negroes here in the north, in the face of experiences like those in Chicago and other cities named and many we have not named, who listen to smooth-tongued prejudiced white and "jim-crow" Negro promoters of segregation (Y. M. C. A., residential, etc.) are about as dangerous enemies of racial progress as Ben Tillman was and Jim Vardaman, Tom Heflin and their kidney are. May God forgive them! It is certainly going to be hard, very hard for the same, sensible, intelligent, loyal members of the race to do so. Meantime, Chicago Negroes are paying the penalty, slowly but surely, for that "jim-crow" Y. M. C. A. We should not fail to say that the "race antagonisms" in Chicago, Mr Loeb calls attention to, are largely imagination and, at best, are not worthy of the serious consideration he is giving them. That alleged "emancipation celebration" Aug. 5, at color-line Luna Park proved mighty bad for many visitors from far and about. About thirty pick-pockets were busy evening and got hundreds of dollars from the poor men and women of the race toiled to the park by the Cleveland Association of Colored Men. One man was relieved of $70, another $31, a Youngstown woman of $39.50 and her railroad ticket, and there were others. One thief twisted a pocketbook, containing $3.50, from an old man, leaving him without car fare and the poor old fellow could not locate a policeman or any member of the Cleveland Association of Colored Men to help capture the robber. The attention of Mr. Chas. Smith, secretary to the chief of police, was called to or pick-pocket and when he took hold of him another policeman claimed the rest. When Smith showed his badge both men robbed him and charge. While all this robbing was good members of the Cleveland Association of Colored Men were strolling around the park talking to groups of ladies and failing to look after the welfare of their patrons and failing to help protect them. Seventeen pocketbooks were found by one street car conductor, who said it was a shame that an organization like the C. A. of C. M. should have so many people at a picnic and not run down the thieves any better than that. Five-minute rides in the park were changed to one-minute and ten-minute rides were cut to three minutes. Half a dozen fell at once. The dance hall time was cut (by the watch) from five minutes to two and three minutes. No one called the manager's attention to these things and there was apparently no protection for the victims at color-line Luna Park that day. Tom Fleming's pocket was picked of $40, it is said. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OH IO. AUGUST 31, 1918 DOINGS OF THE RACE The National Business League met, last week at Atlantic City, N. J. The Old Fellows B. M. C. will meet in N. Y. City, Sept. 9. Robert Hill, a garner's mate, has been cited by the Secretary of the Navy for bravery. ELECTRIC AGE WILL SCATTER Industrial Towns to Geo. and Power at Any L. Motor in Every Poor, old fashioned chief efficient steam power! In numbered, in the opinion Steinmetz of Schenecta Edison of the insiders in field. Besides being chief gineer of one of the greal concerns in the wort that city, Dr. Steinmetz sible for a list of pater Hardly four feet tall same fierce black beard pompadour and the s gray eyes that alone w passerbly turn and stare more impressive as he R. J. Reynolds (white), of Winston-Salem, N. C., recently left $120,000 for a hospital for our people there A mob of "crackers" burned the Afro-American section of Dewey, Okla, recently, because its efforts to lynch a member of the race were thwarted. The war department has modified the order prohibiting the granting of passports to relatives of soldiers so that sisters of officers and enlisted men henceforth will be eligible for RR war service and for other important work. Report has it that several of our soldiers and a sergeant (white) were killed week before last at Camp Merritt, N.J., as the result of a riot started by two "crackers" soldiers insulting one of our soldiers who slashed one of them with a razor while defending himself. The Advocate extends its hearty congratulations to the Hon. Harry C. Smith of Cleveland, Ohio, on the 36 anniversary of his great paper, The Gazette. The Gazette, while not the largest paper of the race, nevertheless is one of the greatest champions in the war. The May it live long.—The Portland (Orca) Advocate; E. D. Cannady Editor. The Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., advertised, recently, for 250 "white men only" as watchmen. Great surprise was occasioned among our people that this department, which recently appointed Dr. Haynes, a member of the National Commission for the title of "Director of Negro Economics," should draw the color line at a time when meager press reports are bringing the news of desperate and heroic fighting being done in France by our soldiers for world democracy. Lecy. Lacty (to the 370th Inf., Capt. B. Marshau (to the 93rd Div.), Capt. C. Filipino (to the 93rd Div.), have left the 369th Inf. (the 15th N. Y. Reg.), the last named to become a paymaster in the 93rd Div. Band Leader Europe, who became a lieutenant in the machine gun company of the 369th, has also been ordered to the 93rd Div. Only two chaplains (line officers of color) remain in the 656th. Col. Wm. Haynes has white hair, which lasted a while, was rumor, when he was organized, that this was what he wanted. Additional Locals Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Chesnutt enjoyed a pleasant visit in Chicago, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Binga, Mr. Binga is Chicago's only Afro-American banker. Mr. and Mrs. Chesnutt were members of a motoring party composed of their two daughters and Rev. Shelton Bishop and sis-sister Pittsburg, who made the trip from Cleveland to the "Windy City" by auto. St. James A, M. E. church was well attended, Sunday. The pastor spoke in the morning on the "Advantages of Christian Association." In the evening the W. M. M. Society had a public meeting with Mrs. Virginia Day as the speaker. An after collection of $12 was taken for the society. A number of visitors from other societies were present—On Aug. 15, Mr. Earl Harris and Miss Gladys Goings were married at the parsonage in the presence of a few friends—Sunday afternoon Mr. Clarence Curtis and Miss Queen Sumpter were married by the bride's home, 600 Beckman Ave., Marion, Missouri, the pastor officiated at the funeral of the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Grooms, E. 86th St. The Annie Berry Woman Guild held a very enjoyable lawn fete at the parsonage, last Friday evening. The stewards and trustees will report $604.50, raised during the last quarter, and more than $2,700 for the year ending in September, to the last quarterly conference, Tuesday. Many small debts have been paid, considerable improvement on the property made, the pastor's salary increased fifty per cent, and a building fund started during this year. Also 79 members added to the church. R. S. Koiner is in New York on business. He has recently purchased a new location for his tailor shop. The S. S. joined with Mt. Zion Baptist S. S. in a picnic at Garfield Park, last Thursday, here was a large crowd and many games were played. The ball games between Mt. Zion and St. James, resulted in a victory for St. James, the score being 13 to 4—St. James is planning to have Bishop L. R.ass of Baltimore appear here before long. 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 unimaginative leadership. With such chieftains can the colored 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 a distance, but great ones understand every move he makes. He may make mistakes at times, but guaged by the standard of great principles he is as true as the "needle to the pole."—Richmond (Va.) Planet, Aug. 17, '18; John Mitchell, Jr., Editor. Subscribe Now! ELECTRIC AGE WILL SCATTER BIG CITIES Industrial Towns to Get Light, Heat and Power at Any Location— Motor in Every Home. Poor, old fashioned clumsy, and inefficient steam power! Its days are numbered, in the opinion of Dr. C. P. Steinmetz of Schenectady, N. Y., the Edison of the insiders in the electrical field. Besides being chief electrical engineer of one of the greatest electrical concerns in the world, located in that city, Dr. Steinmetz is also responsible for a list of patent rights. Hardly four feet tall, wearing the same fierce black beard and wirelike pompadour and the same piercing gray eyes that alone would make any passbybry turn and stare, he was even more impressive as he leaned on the back of his chair and in the most commonplace tones, revived the periods of civilization into the time before and after the development of electricity, renamed the most important date in American history as the time when electrical development work was undertaken, and predicted the end of human drudgery, slums, steam railroad. "Gentlemen," he said, in addressing the members of an electric club recently, "can't you see the face of the earth changing before your very eyes? It is changing the city, the factory, and the home, just as radically as steam changed it. "Steam built out great cities with their congestion and slums. Electricity will scatter the population evenly over the continent, because electricity can be transmitted anywhere by simple transmission wires. Steam must be used where generated, and where there is a large labor supply. "With full electrical development the labor supply need not be right at the factory door. It can be moved cheaply and quickly morning and evening. There will be no necessity for locating near where the power can be produced the cheapest, as in the steam factory, because the power can be carried over the wires. "The factories will then go where the land is cheapest. Electricity will run errands in the home. "The cost is all that is standing in the way. But the high cost is due to the limited use of the electrical motor rather than any natural disability. It is as simple as an alarm clock and should and would be as cheap if it were used generally. All we need is better distribution. The more we use the lower the cost per unit and the more electricity will supplant steam and hand power, just as steam supplanted hand power. Dr. Steinmetz also paid his respects to the plan of an advisory board of civilian inventors for the navy. "Congress would get much better results in the long run if it gave all the money to the expert naval board and let them spend it unhampered. If the board needed any help it could invite the men in industrial work to submit ideas." WASHER IS PORTABLE Electric Shade Cleaner Invented by Chicago Electrician The invention of a portable electric shade washer by William A Richardson, chief electrician of the Chicago postoffice has solved the problem of cleaning the 14,000 lamps and shades used in this building. Formerly it required a man about six months to make the rounds, at the end of which time the first lamps had become very much soiled again. With the aid of the new device, however, all of the lamps can be cleaned once each month. The lamp and shade washing machine, which has now been in use three or four years and is said to be the only one of its kind, consists of two galvanized iron tanks one being the washer and the other the rinser. —World's Advance. COW CAN'T KICK IT OVER Sanitary Milk Pail Outwits Most Fractionous Bovine. A sanitary milk pail which cannot be kicked over by a cow during the milking process has been invented by a Nebraskan. Fastened in the lid of the bucket is a flexible tube that terminates in a straining funnel. The sides of this device are so shaped that it may be held between the knees without difficulty by the milker. When it is in use the dairyman seats himself on the pail and milks into the strainer. This promotes cleanliness, tends to prevent the milk being spilled and makes it unnecessary for a man to carry a stool with him while doing his work.—Popular Mechanics. GAUGES CITY PAVEMENTS New Device Makes Them Smooth and of Right Height. An adjustable gauge which guides the contractor at work on concrete or asphalt pavement and produces an accurate surface, is now beng used on many street paving jobs. The device works on the principle of the smoothing board which the builder of a cement sidewalk uses to make sure his surface is level. The new paving gauge is on wheels that run in the cement gutters. It can be adjusted to various widths of street and for different heights of crown. As the street workers progress on each operation in placing the different layers, the gauge is pulled behind them. The method is much quicker and surer than older ways which were largely guesswork—illustrated World. 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. LEMONS WHITEN THE COMPLEXION Any woman can make up this bleaching lotion for a few cents The juice of two fresh lemons strained into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white makes a whole quarter pint of the most remarkable lemon skin bleach at about the cost one must pay for a small jar of the ordinary cold creams. Care should be taken to strain the lemon juice through a fine cloth so the lemon juice will be kept 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 grocer and make up a quarter pint of this sweetly fragrant lemon lotion and massage it daily into the face, neck, arms and hands. 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. REMARKS ABOUT 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 store may be like a summer resort in January. Do YOU advertise? The merchant will never advertise under any circumstance. Our condition may imagine he is wise, but his competitors have no desire to disturb his imagination. It's a good time to "get awakened." 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 reorganized the world; it is large, the necessity of the people are great. The man 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. 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. 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, are well known to our people throughout the country, particularly those in the south. We have no other instances to help, defend and encourage our people is also well known. One has only to recall the successful efforts, 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 the Nation," to appreciate the full force of the preceding sentence. The Gazette to those of our people. Its call to Afro-Americans, in season and out, is never to accept anything, in order to maintain the respect due all citizens without reference to race or color. 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When you want to 'phone The Gazette, or its editor, call Central 513 K. George H. Turner, chiropodist, has been offered a position in the goverm- ment service—to care for our soldiers. Three or four more of our physicians have recently located in the city. Most of them are from the south. Be sure to read Rev. Wm. A. Byrd's article, elsewhere in this paper and call your friends' attention to it. Cha, Gau. Gau is visiting relatives in hillsboro. Mr. and Mrs. Ross also visited there, last week. BEST FOR THE BLOOD — Puro Herbs. Sold only at Brown Drug Co. cor E. 28th. St. and Central Ave.—Adv. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Caffin were the happy recipients of an interesting letter from their son, Sergt. Eddie, "somewhere in France." Be sure to read carefully the editorials on page 2, columns 1 and 2 of this paper. Something of special interest to you, reader. Monday evening (Labor Day) will be the last dance of the season given the McMahon at the Dreamland Dancing Academy. McAfee's Orchestra! Admission, eighty-five cents, including war tax. You are cordially invited to attend it and bring all your friends.—(Advt.) 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. There is a letter at The Gazette office for Mrs. H. Brock and Henry Robinson of the East End. If you know either of them, please call their attention to them should take PURO HERBS, the great blood purifier and system cleaner. On sale only at the Brown Drug Co., 2742 Central Ave., cor. E. 28th St.-Adv. A large number of people from Alabama and Georgia arrived week before last. Six more new preachers from the south will locate here soon. Undertaker Howard Slaughter returned, Monday, from a business trip to Mt. Vernon. Herbert Slaughter visited in Urbana and Springfield. Alta Cousins and Iris Gentrunde Smith motored to San Antonio and Geneva, sending the latter's sister, and Mme Cousins and Mr. Callahan motored to Youngstown, last week. Miss Alberta Payne, guest of Mrs. Anna Blaton, has returned to Wellsville. Mrs. Garland Johnson, niece Miss Elizabeth, and Master Harold Johnson of that city will spend two weeks here. Mrs. J. H. Ferguson, accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Dimple Slaughter, her mother, and brothers, Frank and Jesse Turner, who for 20 years have conducted one of the leading restaurants in Mt. Vernon. Last week Friday one of our women was slapped in the face by her employer (white). That's the limit and something new in Cleveland. He must be an Alabama "cracker." Come to the Gazette and let it tell you what to do in such cases. Chas. Alfred Fox, a native of the East End, has joined his wife at her home in his courtyard, N. J. Coreside. Alfred, as he is best known, a "land mark" in that end of this city, will be missed by a host of friends and acquaintances of both races. Monday evening (Labor Day) will be the last dance of the season given by the Men's Club at Dreamland Dancing Academy. McAfee's Orchestra. Admission, eighty-five cents, including war tax. You are cordially invited to attend it and bring all your gifts. Prof. and Mrs. A. E. Malone of St. Louis who were guests of Rev. and Mrs. Charles Bundy, of E. 95th St., Monday and Tuesday of last week, met a number of our citizens, last week Tuesday evening, at the Bundy residence and at 6 o'clock and 6 o'clock, east that evening. "The Old Reliable" Gazette was mailed, last week, on time as usual. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, AUGUST 31, 1918 Your letter-carrier should deliver your copy of it on Fridays, or Saturdays at the very latest, always. Speak to him about it whenever there is any delay in the delivery of your copy of the paper. Some weeks ago, Rev. W. R. Southern, rector of St. Andrews E. church, at 49th St., was relieved of $49 on a cent, while en route to the hospital to see his wife, Mr. Coles, too, was robbed of $30 on a street car. Miss Ella, daughter of Mrs. Laura Cheeks, and Bishop C. H. Phillips, of the C. M. E. church, were married in St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 28. She has been a teacher at Tuskegee, Ala., N. & I. Institute for two years and in Virginia and Kentucky prior to that. They will reside in Nashville, Tenn. Prof L. H. Lightner, supreme clerk of the American Woodmen, Denver, and Prof. W. J. Hale, president of the State College of a warm Nashville office, at a very successful public meeting of the American Woodmen held at Cory M. E. church, last week Tuesday evening. The Gazette learns from a reliable source that the Huron Road hospital, for the first time in its history, began the segregation of its Afro-American patients, last week. There is no good reason for this and it can be done away with promptly if our local Federation of Women's Clubs will take hold of the matter, at once, and handle it properly. Monday morning (Labor Day) will be the day of the season given by the Men's Club at Dreamland Dancing Academy, McAfee's Orchestra! Admission, eighty-five cents, including war tax. You are cordially invited to attend it and bring all your friends.—(Advt.) Charles W. Crawford, deputy policeman, stationed on the E. 9th St. pier, visited in Toledo from Saturday to Tuesday, the guest of James H. Brice, proprietor of the Pullman Hotel, having a splendid time. Charlie saved a Jewish lad from drowning, Tuesday. The boy was taken with the cramps while in bathing. The Gazette has called the Carnegie Hero Commission's attention to his heroic Dr. A. J. Hill of Chicago had the following in a paper of that city, last week: "Announcement is made of the marriage of Miss Luella Johnson, Chicago's most popular business woman, to Harvee E. Saunders, leading druegist, Friday evening, August 16 at dr. and Mrs. Hill's. Mr. Saunders is one of the best known druegists in the U. S. A., having established a mail order business in connection with his drug store which uses the name Saunders, State of America." Mrs. Saunders is a sister of Mrs. Fred Huebes, E. 70th St. Bride and groom will arrive in this city, this week, for a short visit. 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 hobbies? Fleming's 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 Last week and the week previous persons were again vainly trying to purchase copies of "The Old Reliable" Gazette at the local agencies in Central Ave. In the past year or two, this has often been the case, such has been the demand for it. Why not subscribe for the paper and have it delivered? You can 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 to or will not publish for one reason or another (and this is too often the case, these days), you simply have to get "The Old Reliable" and you know it! Monday evening (Labor Day) will be the last dance of the season given the Men's Club at Dreamland Dancing Hall, the Extra! Admission, eighty-five cents, including war tax. You are cordially invited to attend it and bring all your friends... (Advt.) J. Francis Gregory, a member of the U. S. International Staff of the War Work Council of the Young Men's Christian Associations, spent a few hours in Cleveland, last week on route to Linwood Park. Vermillion, where he has rejoined his family, Mr. Gregory has visited every camp in the country where our troops are stationed and is now on his second tour of the cantonments. He has had the rare privilege of addressing all of our soldiers, now in France, and the majority of those now in training on this side. Mr. and Mrs. James Cowan, Dr. and Mrs. Gaskins of Washington, D. C., Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wahley, Mr. and Mrs. S. Smith, Mrs. John P. Green and daughter. Helen; Mrs. Chas. Jackson and daughter. Olale; Mrs. Emma Browne of Cleveland, Mrs. Emma Davis, N. C.; Dr. and Mrs. Albert Johnson, daughter and mother of Detroit; Mrs. Carrie Johnson Percival, daughter and son of Castile N. J. and Mr. Ham $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. is good for two and a half dollars as a down payment on any new account of $25 or over opened on or before Sept. 7, 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. wood Park, Saturday, calling on Mrs. Edna Anderson Gregory. Monday evening (Labor Day) will be the last dance of the season given by the Men's Club at Dreamland Dancing Academy. McAfee's Orchestra! Admission, eighty-five events, including war tax. You are cordially invited to attend it and bring all your friends.—(Advt.) Friendship Baptist church, Rev. Cumly, pastor, has bought Spero's building, on the corner of Scovill Ave. and E. 38th St., agreeing to pay $30,000. About 1,500 people packed the auditorium, all day Sunday week. They have 400 members. The Southern Baptist Association was in session there, last week, and united with Zion Hill Baptist church. Many from the south were present. Zion Hill Church, at 425 E. 53th St. and Thackeray Ave., had to go into court in order to keep the church after paying several hundred dollars on it. Stay with them Brother C. C. Ailer. You're sure to win. Marriage licenses were issued recently to Charlie Jackson and Annie Bruce, Sam Williams and Mary E. Miller, Willie Stallings and Minnie Smith, Alexander Clark and Daisy Barber, Timothy W. McAllister and Olive C. Johnson, Albert E. Golson and Edna M. Crosby, Bish Batie and Emma Hughes, Nathan Wallace and Margaret Harden, William Wesley and Ida A. Smith, Salk Bulk and Davie D. Hofer and Olivia Clark, Clarence Latton and Viola Kennedy, Malachia Johnson and Lottie Ross, Wm. Thomas and Carrie Pendleton, Walter Travis and Jennie Johnson, John Pitman and Cloda Davis, Edward Davis and Ida Short, Wm. Dixon and Carrie Jackson. Last Friday evening, about 15 representative citizens of the East End met at F. J. Ballard's, to consider ways and means to prevent a riot in this part of the city. Many of our people have been molested lately on the streets and cars of the E. E. It seems there are some roughneck whites in this section determined to cause trouble. This group of men joined with the A. A. C. P. and took the matter to the city's police officer, promises to protect our citizens and prevent further trouble. A permanent organization was affected, to be on guard and report incidents and secure protection. The Fleming Furniture baseball team, in Class A, was handed a great surprise Sunday afternoon when it was downed by the Tate Stars at Gordon park, 7 to 6. This defeat eliminates the Flemings from further Class A competition and places the Tates on a pair with Gay-Lord Locks. The Gay-Lords and Tates were to meet, Wednesday, the winning nine to meet the White Motors in a three-game series for the Class A championship of the city. Roy Moore held the heavy-hitting Fleming nine to five hits, Sunday, two coming in the ninth inning when the Furniture company caned a tally of 150 short-hitting runs, count. Heller, third baseman of the Fleming, got three of the five hits, Henderson, short stop of the Tates, got a two-base hit and Moore a three-baser. The latter struck out sixteen of the Fleming, stole a base and with Cisco, participated in a double play, Williams, Moore and Cisco each got two hits. The Tates got ten and the Fleming five hits. It was some game. PETER H. BURGESS JUDGE Robert H. Terrell The ONLY COLORED JUDGE in the United States, will speak at Cory M. E. 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Mr Foraker on the Bench, United States. Political and ally many nati lightening man. The work w political history spirited Ameri tutions. HENRY L. THOMAS Attorney and Counselor at Law 512 Superior Building Cleveland, O. Central 2251-R SANTAL CAPSULES MIDY CATARRH of the BLADER releived in 24 HOURS Each Cap- sule bears the name #4 Bexcare of counterfeits John H. Berry Real Estate Broker Titles and Filing carefully attended to 4120 CEDAR AVENUE ROSEDALE 4986-J THE MODERN TONIC ALL YEAR KIDNEY, LIVER AND SEALEAF I THE CHOCOLATE POST OFFICE OF JACK A. Try Our Box Back Tailor Made Suits Men's Suits pressed, 30c. Cleaned, $1.00. We do all kinds of alterations. Cox Dry Cleaning & Tailoring Co. Tailors and Dry Cleaners. 2738 Central Ave. 'Phone, Central 4069L. "ABusyLife" By HON. JOSEPH BENSON FORAKER The Most Important Autobiography In Years Mr Foraker has given us his experience in the Union Army on the Bench, as Governor of Ohio and in the Senate of the United States. 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After Reading it, but Give It toa Friend or an Acquaintance who Might Subscribe after Reading a Copy of It GOULD SHAKESPEARE ike EVEN WRITE AT ALL at Signature ae Proof. “The question of who did “write Shakespeare” does not cencern ‘William Conway who has written a monograph on his Shakespeare theo- tea so much as “could William Bbakespeare of — Stratford-on-Avon Write at all?”Mr. Conway is convite- ‘ed that whoever did write the plays, ‘At was not the Bard of Avon, so called. He bases his belief on evidence pre- sented by certain existing signatures made by William Shakespeare, and ‘which seem to prove him to have been an illiterate man. Mr. Conway admits that, though so evidently illiterate, Shakespeare pos- sessed native ability, manifested by his money getting faculties, and adds ‘the fact that as a theatrical manager Shakespeare secured to himself the Plays that he did and thus stamped himself a competent man of business and a judge of public taste. But in Tegard to certain deficiencies exhibit- ed by his signature, Mr. Conway, af- ter haying made a study of the char- acteristics of signatures, says: “Observations of the efforts and performances of illiterate men in the laborious production of signatures has led me to the conclusion that here was & man ashamed of his inability to ‘Write, made so by his associations 24 the rite in his conaltion of it, ing to cover his intellectual nak- edness with a garment provided by a eympsthizing friend. o"The sympatbizing friend in this Sustance floated into the imagination im fhe form of some scrivener who set.the copy so laboriously reproduced in the form of the signatures to the Seed and mortgage of 1613 and to the will of 1616." ‘Mr, Conway refers to the original documents unearthed by Professor ‘Wallace in 1910, and his theory is that the solicitor who drew up the papers of the mortgage and of the will is the ‘man who made for Shakespeare a copy of his name, which the iliterate ‘Shakespeare then followed in scrawl ing uncertain imitation to make the signatures to the documents. This saved him from the humiliation of having to make his X mark. A second document put in evidence by Mr. Conway is a fragment re- Jating to litigation in respect to cer- tain money interests in the Globe ‘Theatre. In this fragment appears, in two places, the name “Wilm. Shakes- Deare,” written by the professional serivener who prepared the case, Mr. Conway points out that Shakes- peare's own signature appended is a laborious imitation, performed by 2 man who could not read his chirogra- phy when he had written it. “Mr, Conway is convinced that ‘this serivener is the man who made ‘the copy which enabled “Will. Shakespeare” to execute legal papers without the humiliation of the “X mark." The rule of legal. pro- oe required the evidence to be itten out and signed by the witness before leaving the presence of the court. } Special attention is called to this signature,” says Mr. Conway, “as itis much abbreviated. The ‘Great ‘Dramatist,’ who had at his command, airtyidenced by the putative works, » ‘Wealth of words measuring five times the number gathered into the diction- SEgaE the tire, onee bat» motety o the characters which he had been taught to use as the ideograph to rep- reset his name. (We are told that he was instruct- ed to.appear later before the court for a, further examination; but the record nowhere shows that he ever appeared, although the other wit- nesses appeared a second time. Would they be considered cynical who might surmise that the position in which Shakespeare of Stratford found him- self when called upon to attach his signature to the record in open court ‘was one of extreme embarrassment in that he could not without some ex- posure of ignorance use his copy to guide his pen?"—N. ¥, Sun. Tee ¢ ee ee or et Bee sos Carry Machinery. For transporting machinery of great Weight from one point to another in the mining districts of California, a specially designed vehicle, which 1s fitted with wheels approximately ten feet in diameter and drawn by a caterpillar tread tractor, is used. The wheels are provided with spokes whith are set in the same manner as those of a bicycle wheel, and are pltced on heavy steel axles highly afebed in (he middie. “Whe purpose of this atching is to ¢nable’ the load to be suspended be- neath the axles instead of being car- ieee them. This materially x the difficulty of hoisting ma: Chigery onto the bed of the wagon 0 eliminates the danger of the being overturned on account ot load being carried high. Tho I ‘sispended by heavy chains,— Popalar Mechgnics. Bett Watts of Lebanon, Ind., has discovered a new way to kill Englis! sparrows, which are generally regard: ed as peits. At his home, Watts hi: five. mouse traps nailed on top of fence posts and on a grape arbor. Hy puts bread or a litle feed of some kind on the traps and is kept bus) taking the sparrows out. In one day he Killed nearly 100 of the birds. a. OFFER SPECIAL VEHICLE New Way to Kill Sparrows. “EGG SUBSTITUTE* PROMOTER CAUGHT Wallingford-Like Man Is Arrested in Fort Worth and Many Cities ‘hak toe Min. Fort Worth, Tex—The “egg sub- “stitute” man, for whom agency de- “tectives and the police of many cities have looked for nine years, after bg- ing arrested here, on a charge of for- gery and swindling said, with all the assurance of « J. Rufus Wallington, “They can’t beat me,” and smilingly added: “They call it ‘forgery, but I have the right to sign my partner's name and get the money.” ‘This man with a Wallingford-like career is W. J. Williams. He has been taken to Philadelphia for trial. St. Paul, Berkeley, Minneapolis, Duluth and Brooklyn also tried to get Will jams when they heard he had been arrested. When the detectives looked over Williams, he had that Walling- ford-like appearanee—he looked and acted like a prosperous business man, Detective Chief Jackson thought he had a tough Job on hand, but Will- iams, looking him in the eye, said: “Let's get down to brass tacks. No use asking a long string of questions, T am the man you want, and 1 am [willing to go without requisition pa- pers to any city. That is the best way; it saves argumeni, time and trouble, 1 would like to leave right now and get it over with. Iam a gentleman and I ask that you treat | me as such.” He declined to sleep with the other | prisoners, and paid for the privilege of sleeping in a detective’s room and for the guard who watched while he slept. Williams, according to,thd charges, |is a onegame man. ‘This game is "sald by the detectives to have been [about as follows: Williams would “advertise in a newspaper for a part- | ner with $700 capital, He would re- ceive many repliesand upon landing & “partner,” would propose starting a food product plant. He claimed to have the formula for a substitute for the white of an egg. According to Williams, he all but started egg factories in about 20 cities. The de- tectives say that, after forming a | partnership, Williams would draw all | the partner's money from the bank | and disappear. Williams seemed to | think this a perfectly safe operation. Williams was caught when an old Denison citizen “fell” for the egg food ‘proposition and arranged to come here and put up $600, The citizen went to his banker to get the money. But the banker had read in a bankers’ journal of a similar egg proposition, ‘There were the initials “W. J.” | Williams had preserved the initials, which he says are his own, in every ease. The banker warned his cus- tomer, Matthew Schwalm, A trap was prepared. Schwalm notified Williams to meet him here ‘one afternoon. Instead of Schwalm, however, four detectives met Will iams, and arrested him, Williams is 52, but would pass for 4, When taken to Chiet Jackson's office he was faultlessly dressed, His trousers were creased and he was clean shaven. Specific charges against him in. volve alleged swindling to the amount of several thousand dollars. In Berk- eley he is charged with having raised a $4 check to $400 and with having cashed a $750 check at a bank there on a lumber company that had never existed. But detectives say the "ees plant” was his favorite “game,” and in his suit case was a lot of letters from “partners.” ‘The police here say it is an egg deal for which he must stand trial in Philadelphia, where he is said to have got $700 from a bank by signing his “‘partner’s” name and feft with the money. In Philadelphia, the detectives say, he used the name | of W. J. Douglas. HUGE VAMPIRE BATS ‘ LOVE THEIR BOOZE ‘They Wail, Shriek and Fight for Juice of the Cocoa Tree, Filipinos’ “Wine! Omaha, Neb.—The Vampire, the giant bat of the Philippines, is a great boozer. ‘This huge bat goes on a nightly spree in the jungles of the Philippine Islands, according to Henry O. Bau- man of Omaha, civil engineer, who has just returned from a sojourn ot six years in the heart of the island gungles, where he was surveying in the service of the Bureau of Lands. “These bats come out at night and steal the ‘tuba,’ the wine the Filipinos make of the sap of the cocoanut tree,” says Bauman. “The Filipinos cut the ends of the branches of these trees and then tie Jong bamboo reeds on the ends of the branches. ‘The sap ‘drips into them slowly, It takes days to fill up a tube, and in the meantime the fermentation has already taken place. This is strong wine even be- fore tie Filipino comes to gather in his tubes. So tiese big vampires come out at night and drink out of the tubes. “an night when you are out in the wilds you can hear them fighting, wailing, shrieking, and chattering in their drunken debauch over the stoleu “tuba.” It has been suggested that pérhaps here is the origin of the familiar ex- pression, “He went on a big bat,” meaning, “He got drunk.” (a ie Islington, England.—A woman who ought here an old mattress, payin; 87 cents for it, found concealed there: im notes and coins aggregating more ‘éhine-O5A in valua: THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, AUGUST. 31, 1918 VALUABLE OIL STONE DISCOVERED IN TEXAS { RUB YOUNG IN, Olt maine | Peopt 1 Off Land Condu: Employer Finds Hidden Weattn ay | PE9I¢ of Far Ott Land Condu While engaged in exploration in the mountains of west Texas, Charles Laurence Baker of the Bureau of Leonomic Geology, University of Tex- as, found large deposits of novaculite, a valuable oll stone, heretofore found in the United States only in the Ow rehita Mountains of West Central Ar- kansas. ‘The noyaculite in Texas is found in north central Brewster county, along the line of the Southern Pacific Rail- road from Haymond westward to be yond Marathon. A smal! area of it fe found north of the railroad north and northeast of Marathon, but it ha» by far its largest extent south of the railroad, im which direction it is Tound for fully fifteen: miles, Novaculite is a very fine, very hard, brittle, siliceous rock, of a color vary ing from pure snow white to a slight- ly bluish watery tint, ‘There are two Kinds, the Arkansas and the Ouachita stones, of each of which there are both hard and soft grades, The Arkan- sas stone is very hard, very fine grain ed and slow cutting, and is used chiefly by engravers, wood carvers, Jewelers, dentists, machinists, too) makers and cutlery makers, ‘The Ouachita is a hard stone, which wears away comparatively fast. and both cuts the steel rapidly and pro: duces a fine edge. It can be used for razor hones as well as for sharp ening common tools. For sharpening small pointed or very fine edged. tools the Arkansas noyaculite is consider ed to be the best whetstone in the ‘world. ‘The novaculite in the Marathon re gion outcrops in numerous long, nar. vow and sharp northeast southwest white ridges. The ledges are nearly “always steeply upturned by the very intense folding to which the rocks of the region have been subjected. ‘The rock when exposed at the surface is always very much shattered into small pieces, but probably larger sized un- fractured blocks are to be obtained at a few feet beneath the surface. Some prospecting must be done be- fore the real quality of the stone can be determined. This was also. the case in Arkansas, where the rocks in the surface exposures are always very much broken by the various agencies of weather, ‘Tests to determine the quality of the West Texas novaculite are now being made at the laboratory of the Bureau of Economie Geology. The veal yalue of the West Texas novae- ulite can be determined only after the deposits have been thoroughly prospected, but the probability is that these deposits will prove to be of con- siderable valen, WHY NOAH LIVED 595 YEARS Because in His Time Men Generally Lived Wat Wom Out. bea iat kc pies Rina aids onl Scientists who see today how few people live to be 100 years old find themselves at a loss to explain how Methuselah managed to live 969 years, while Noah reached the respectable age of 595 years, Recently, howev er, a discovery has been made which heips to explain this mystery. When the causes of short life now- adays are counted up it is found that most of the deaths are due to disease, Very few people die from old age. And the reason why people die from uny one disease is that they have been weakened by other illnesses which they bave had or which have been handed down to them by their ancestors. Noah and the other patriarchs had not nearly as many different kinds of diseases to face, because they had not had enough ancestors to hand them down a variety. Consequent!,’ their constitutions were not constant ly being weakened as are ours today. Another real reason why the patri archs lived longer than we do now was because in (hose days the fount of humanity was fresher. SAYS CLOUDS ARE A MYSTERY We Know Their Composition, but How Does It Get There? ‘Many scientists have told us how clouds are made; most of the text: Looks on physical geography tell ull ‘about them, but it is all guesswork. Clouds are a mystery. It is true they are composed of moisture floating In the air, but how did the moisture ge there? It is held that particles of moisture are evaporated from the earth's suv face by the heat of the sun. Indeed, the passage of the moisture from the earth to the upper air is quite invis!: ble, It was formerly supposed tha’ this moisture was condensed by the cold of the upper air into rain drop lets which formed the clouds. But scientists held that the tiny particles must haye something to cor: dense them. They used to tell us that the moisture collected upon dust par Ucles to form into rain drops. Now they are practically agreed that it is something else, but they don't know what. Anyway when these drops get large enough they accumulate into vapor forming clouds. When the droplets ket too large and heavy to float in the air they fall to the earth in forw of rain, and this is about all we actual ly know about clouds. A Colorado inyentor’s electric fla’ fron is propelled by a motor driver pulley, an operator having only & ‘control the current and guide it. RUB YOUNG IN OIL People of Far Off Land Conduct Odd Procedure. ‘When children are born in Ashanti they are at once rubbed all over with a mixture of ofl and red ochre, this being repeated every two days, accord: ing to the London Standard. ‘Their mouths are washed with x fiery con: coction in which red pepper is the main ingredient, and a crier goes through the town proclaiming the new arrival and claiming for it a name and place among the living. Some one else in a distinct part of the village acknowledges the fact and promises on the part of the people, that: the new born babe shall be re. ceived into the community. ‘The townspeople then assemble in the streets and the baby is brought out and exposed to view. Next a basin of water is provided, and the head man, or chief of the town, sprinkles water upon it, giving it @ name and invoking a blessing up- om it, such as, for instance, that it nay have health, grow up to manhood or Womanhood, have a numerous prog. ency and possess riches. Most of those present follow the ex: ample of the head man, and the poor child Is thoroughly drenched before the ceremony is ended. Every one who participates in the ceremony pledges himself to be a friend to the child. BOOSTS ARTESIAN FLOW Centrifugal Pump Proves Solution of Water Supply Problem, ‘The use of « centrifugal pump for boosting the flow has proved a suc- cessful solution of the water &upply problem in a city in North Dakota that depends on an artesian well sunk. twenty years ago to a sandstone stra tum 2,800 feet below the surface. The normal flow from the well is approx: imately 170 gallons a minute, or 244, 800 gallons in twenty-four hours. With the growth of the city it would deliver the required additional 100, 000 gallons a day. To nccomplish this a four inch single stage centrifu- gal pump was connected into the well pipe line at the level of the ground, and after considerable experiment » speed for the pump was found at which it would deliver the required additional supply. ‘The effect of the pump is that of lowering the head against which the water must be lift: ed by the natural pressure, and is ex actly the same as if the depth of the well had been decreased.—Popular Mechanics. ‘A plow that digs peanuts and shakes them from the vines has been patent- ed by a Missiouri inventor. CUSHION QUIETS WHEEL Rubber Device Eliminates Much Nélee on Siveat Care. Elimination of the greater part of the noise that now accompanies the operation of street cars and elevated and subway trains is a prospect of the Immediate future as the result of a new noiseless wheel described in Popular Mechanics. A street car equipped with wheels of this kind and recently subjected to test runs at Poriland, Me,, is reported to have Tun as noiselessly as an automobile, ‘The wheel is made of two sections and is in effect a wheel within a wheel. ‘The inner section ts fixed to the axle, while the outer section takes the bearings on the track. Between the two sections Is a cushion of rub- ber of special composition, which wb- sorbs the vibrations caused by the grind of the tire on the rail and by irregularities in the track, and it fs this that gives the wheel its noise. less qualities, THE WATT EXPLAINED The Following Example Will Show eae ‘The watt is the amount of electrical energy being used when one ampere of current is flowing under « pressure of one volt. From this you will clear ly see that the electrical energy. be- ing used in,a circuit is at all times equal to the pressure (number of yolts) multiplied by the curreut (number of amperes). Applying this knowledge to a case where there was pressure of 100 volts and two ant peres flowing, we find the watts are 200. 1,000 watts equal 1 kilowa':, “kilo” meaning 1,000 the same as kil ‘ogram is 1,000 grams, ete. ‘The watt is so small that the kilo: watt is mostly used as a unit, the same as, for instance, coal is sold by the ton and not by the pound. ‘Then there is the kilowatt hour, which, as the name indicates, is a kilowatt of electrical energy contin: ‘ued for one hour or its equivalent, ‘The Medical Record is responsible for the statement that the time is ap- proaching when odors, agreeable and the reverse, will be used in therapeu: tics. ‘The digestive apparatus is strongly affected by odors, and nausea 4s a common symptom of this action. Several examples are given of the ac tion of odors. “Severe faintness 1s sometimes observed to overcome per- sons upon their entrance into a room in which tuberoses are kept. Head: ache is often produced by the odors emanating from the honeysuckle, lly, rose of Sharon, or carnation. The odor from freshly ground coffee produces in some individuals a sickening sen- sation followed by nausea, and in rare instances vomiting, but usually it 1s agreeable and appetizing, ‘The odors of vanilla and heliotrope possess a soothing infiaence over persons sub- Jected to attacks of nervousness. PRUSSIANISM SOUTHERISM “Jim Crow” Cars and Other Color-Lines Fostered By the Goy- ernment, Must Go— They are South- ernism, Ameri- can “Prus- | sianism” 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 im- prisonment, 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 in- sults 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 ap- peal 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 Pres- ident be urged to save these boys. They are vic- tims of peculiar circumstances and conditions born of prejudice and hatred. Write today; help to save them. This country is disturbed because of “So-Called German Propaganda” among our people. We believe there 's no foundation for such belief. ‘The real reason for the fear lies in the “act that the aroused conscience” of America, like a ghost, is haunting the government and taunting it on ac- ‘ount of the innumerable eases of nurder and crime committed against nur people, In other words America feels that our people should rebel at “hei treatment, even if they do not. 4 rebellion at this time would be very infortunate, however: Patriotism de- nands that all American eltizens ab- tain from everything that injures the rovernment in the prosecution of this var. It also demands that this gov- ‘mmment abstain from everything that ives the lie to its “war shibboleth”— ‘The World safe for Democracy.” If American democracy is to appeal to he world it must at least be real. De- noeracy for a portion of Ameriea and nell for the vest, is democracy of an gnoble kind that nobody wants. A Democracy that allows one portion of he country to ignore all law and the acknowledged rules of civilized peo- ales cannot be attractive to Europe. Two great evils lie in the pathway of lemocracy—Prussianism and south- smism. Both are of the same type ind are equally brutal, and barbar- us. ‘The destruction of one will not free the world. Both must go! This country can destroy “southernism” by wpplying our federal constitution as it sand if any part of it be impotent, ‘ail it, Amendments can supply the foree, While southernism lasts and counter: ets every statement of righteous- ress and justice we make, Prussian- sm will be strengthened because we fer the world nothing better than vhat we are fighting against. Our lemocraey is a farce and will be until we place every American citizen on he same plane before the law. Our ‘ocial justice must know no color nor ace. every American must be as se- uurely protected by the flag as the flag 8 valiantly defended by every one. Dur attitude now is one of dogged de- ermination to free this country of outhernism while we send. our sons ‘o free Europe of Prussianism, For hose boys fighting in France, we ask \demoetatic army. Eveyy American soldier should have no bdrvier in ris- ng to the heights of eminence in the war that his ability entitles him, Our Soys who are officers should be pro- noted with the same clock-like pre- sion as are white officers. His fight- ng ability and not his color should se the basis of promotion. ‘The moth- ars and fathers of these boys should onjoy every right ‘anv other father and mother enjoy. The sisters of hese boys should enjoy the war pros- verity by serving in every capacity iny other sister of other races enjovs. The angel of merey under the Red Cross should not be restricted to any me race and their service should be wherever the flag may go and her ons are wounded, These girls of color. in riding over this country, should not be subjected to ‘jim-crow” carism under the federal government, nor any other government. Secretary McAdoo is doing America great harm abroad by his undemocratic manage- ment of the railroads of this country as federal property when he suffers a Woman or man of the race to be de- nied the same accommodations of travel that other races enjoy. Mr. MeAdloo this is undemocratic and will not aid our reputation abroad. ‘The time is here when we must insist that America be just to us at home! As we are callin upon the German people to overthrow Prussianism, so we ca'l upon America to overthrow southern- sm, which ix our American Prussian- sm. If America enters the stage of ‘econstiuction with southernism in foree, our rights are forever gone. Be- sides’ the cries of wounded and ‘rav- ished Belgium are not more pitiful han the cries of lynched and mur- leved Afro-Americans who are robbed f the ral weapon to protect them- elves—the ballot. If we face our weaknesses at home and remedy hem, great will be our influence upon he world. ‘The President's trite say- ng, “The World Safe for Democracy” ‘as caueht the ear of the world, but we prefer’ this to his—“The World Made Safe Through Demoeracy.” That ‘s what we are fighting for, 9 If the attitude expressed in this statement. embarrasses. thy _govern- vient it is because the government does not want to enforce real democ- ‘acy at home, but we believe America, now under President Wilson, is rising fo its opnortunity and is attempting to establish at home what we want to fix upon Europe. ‘This we must do, for no moral victory can come until this is done. In the meantime, 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 then human to be satisfied with anything less than what we are fighting to give other races. Let the news yo everywhere that Prussian- ism and southernism, the twin sisters of oppression and autocracy, must die the same ignoble death so that the world can breathe @ real democratic Tae ae FILL THIS OUT AND SEND IT. HENNA NE RR SS TO THE PRESIDENT, : White House, Washington, D. C. ‘ ‘The undersigned respect{ully requests you to disapprove the sentence of death imposed upon the Colored soldiers in the court martial at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. | Steet: obBex address, y:-+usonnedeavnrcvas-scvasvdesladweese ps Cily.cares aweasen nc asaeeussas ernest vests oncatemacs sesecoaae Dale ssc esnussoeusensestocoaas ss cumenanamatili eins aeeemeaaeaeia a clniil eca nal e ay ~ eo, Soe Sa = CS ets SSS eS dietary B vas Sc. 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