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ONLY 20 PER CENT OF OUR TROOPS TRAINED TO FIGHT Dancing Every Thursday Evening at Barksdale's Academy, 10550 EUCLID AVENUE THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR. No. 5 —Mrs. Corn B. Delaney is in Cleveland, Mrs. Flora Rohyster of Middletown, was here, last week. —Mrs Enoch Frye visited in Cincinnati and Kentucky. —Wm. Young has gone to Cleveland. —Wm. James Captain and Mrs. Lou Kilgour were married, Sunday, by Rev. Orr. —Rev. J. J. Burr was the guest, Sunday, of Mr. and Mrs. Enoch, who had been accompanied home by his wife and daughter, who had been there visiting. —Mr. and Mrs. John Hudson and THE MASTER OF LEGENDS "T. R." AIDS WAR WORKERS Donates a Part of His Nobel Prize Money to Y. W. C. A. Council New York City—Former President Roosevelt has announced the disposition he will make of the Nobel peace prize awarded him for his part in bringing about the Portsmouth conference that resulted in the Russo-Japanese peace treaty. His prize now amounts to $46,482.83. He denotes it to several organizations doing war not forgetting our workers. He writes: "To the Young Women's Christian Association War Work Council, colored, through Mrs. Henry P. Davidson, $4,000. I have asked that Miss Eva Bowles (former Columbus, O., resident) be consulted in the disbursement of this item. My wife and very much struck a connection with the Miss Bowles house at Camp Upton, and I have requested that the money be used for the hostess houses for colored troops and in work among colored women and girls in and about the camps and cantonments." ANOTHER BLACK SOLDIER HERO Routes Twenty German Soldiers and Wins a Croix De Guerre—Rescues Officers and Four Comrades With the Allied Forces on the Marne (deleted) — Another Afro-American fighting "over here" has placed his name on the roll of heroes fighting in the ranks of the allies. The latest one to have his name placed in that galaxy of race heroes headed by Johnson and Roberts is Winston. The second, Seurgeant Butler distinguished himself so as to win the distinguished honor of the Croix De Guerre, as did Roberts and Johnson. Butler's act of bravery took place on the morning of Aug. 18, in the sector near Maison De Champagne. There had been a lively artillery firing which pressages a violent attack. Cutters in the artillery cut in from both sides, with the aid of a barrage, managed to isolate four of the allies' combat posts. In one of these posts was Lieutenant A. M. Jones, of Butler's company, who stepped over to light a star-shell. Five German soldiers sprang upon him. He and four of his men were put under attack, and the line of the Germans, along an old trench in disuse, which had been used for communication purposes in No Man's Land. Right here is where Sergent Butler "got onto the job." He and two comrades were crouching in a little advanced post when the raiders, with their American allies, within fifty yards of them. Seeing the predicament of hilicentan, Sergeant Butler yelled "Look out, you bush hikers, I am coming." The captured lieutenant caller out, "Don't sir, Sergeant!" "Not yet, but soon," was the reply. The colloquialism, then, came from them into a most exotic state and thinking they had fallen into an ambuscade, they wheeled toward Butler's hiding place. As the five American soldier-prizers fell back toward the American lines, Lieut Jones crieed. Now let them have it! Sergeant Butler aimed his automatic rifle so accurately that he killed four and badly wounded an officer who died later, besides taking a score or more to a disgraceful rout. This is why Sergent Butler had the Croix De Guerre bestowed upon him, recently. PRESIDENT SAVES SOLDIERS Communities Death Sentence of 10 Said to Have Been in Houston Riot Washington, D. C., Sept. 4—Death sentences of ten African-American soldiers who are said to have panicked when they were hounded by Houston Police in 1917, have been committed to treatment by President Wilson. In six other cases the president affirms the death sentences because the condemned men had been "found guilty" of having deliberately and with great cruelty murdered civilians. This action, announced today by the war department, concludes the cases of twenty-nine of our soldiers given the death penalty for their alleged participation in the Turtle Island massacre and the president was called upon to review the findings in sixteen cases. The president found that the ten African-American sentences he commuted had not been convicted personally and directly causing deaths. The soldiers involved were not named in the war department's statement. THE GAZETTE What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main post office sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write also, their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items for entertainment to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 20 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. daughter were guests of Mr. and M. Frank Blair of Bridges, Sunday—Harley Hill of Greenfield was guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Jones, Sr. guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Jones, Sr. His daughter, Miss Eden, turned with him after a visit to her aunt, Mrs. Jones—James Blanton, George Gallagher and Charles Kilee were in Columbus, last week—emancipation celebration to be held Greenfield (will have some excellent speakers—Mrs. Anna Greene has turned to Dayton. WELLSVILLE.—The Mission Union of Ohio Valley met at the Pt Baptist church. Mrs. P. Jacks pres.; Mrs. Mashon, vice-pres. It doing excellent work. Miss Olsen and Helen Stoner of the N. S. Pr. YOUNGSTOWN — Mrs. Miranda Allen and daughter entertained Mrs. Sabine-Fairfax Barnett of Pittsburgh, last week — Louisa Edwards Court will meet, Sept. 11, and Logan Lodge, Sept. 12. Mr. and Mrs. Gates of Cleveland spent a few days with Mrs. G. A. Jackson, recently. Mrs. Chas. Lincoln spent a week with Mrs. Jennie Omes-Geddy of Ashtabula. The following were in prison. First, Mrs. H. Hall, Mrs. Emma Finney, Miss Manie Wright, E. S. Manley, Gertrude Seules and sister, Mrs. Juanita Blake, and Virgil Lattimore. It got beyond control and hit an iron pole. Mrs. Blake and Miss Scales were taken to the hospital. The former age 28, died Sunday afternoon. She was well known and leaves a husband, father, two brothers, a sister and a daughter. Mrs. Sarah Dumisie — Mrs. Sarah Bolt of Cleveland is visiting her sister, Mrs. Lillian Ludes, Mrs. O. Dill and Mrs. Chapin of Akron also visited the former's sister, Mrs. Lyles. EAST LIVERPOOL. — Friendship class of the First Baptist church met at Mrs. Wilcoxen's, Tuesday evening. — Mrs. Emma Duff and granddaughters, Zella and Mildred, and Miss Mattie Burles are visiting in Youngstown. — Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Rogers left for Philadelphia. — Mr. and Mrs. Horns Burles are visiting Mr. Amstua Pannell is visiting her mother in Ashland, Ky. — Mrs. Mary Ransell and daughter, Anna, and Mrs. Green and daughter, Sarah, of Clarksville, W. Va. are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Walter Steward. The editor of The Gazette was born in Clarksville. — J. W. Hale, of Pulaski County, Ky. is visiting Mrs. Amstua. Rev. R. Hall, who is not very well, is expected to leave, Monday for a few days' rest. — Rev. and Mrs. Farrell attended the reception in Wellsville, Saturday evening, given for the four joys who entrained, Sunday morning, or Camp Custen, Owen Smith, of the University of North Carolina, graduate of the High School class of 1917. — Mrs. G. A. Good of Pleasant Neights entertained twelve ladies at a 10 clock dinner. The out-of-town guests were: The Misses Clayton of Aqua, Miss Elise Mountain of Columbus and Mrs. H. S. Williams of cellars, of the Triple City Club, Thursday afternoon. It had an enjoyable picnic atunction City Park, Pa., recently. — Mrs. Dorsey entertained the Progressive Club, Wednesday afternoon. — Miss Momfred is the guest of Mrs. 7. A. Vaughn. — Mrs. Emma Simms as returned home. — The Misses Clayton, Mrs. H. S. Williams, and Mrs. Al Robinson, of Wheeling, are here visiting relatives. — Mrs. Lawson and daughter are also close visiting. HILLSBORO—Mrs. Sam E. Williams' visited Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Killour in Columbus.—Mrs. Clara Ford and Mrs. Josie Minor visited in Cincinnati, last week.—The members of Wesleyan church gave Rev. Pierce a surprise, last Friday night, at Mr. and Mrs. Ed Dixon. He left for annual conference at Richmond. Ind. invitesargentine, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kilgison.—Mrs. Irene Redman cf Cincinnati is here visiting relatives.—Mrs. R. Young has returned from a visit with her children in Cincinnati.—Mr. James Minor and Willie Kittrell are sick.—Odie Johnson, Hendrik Kilgour, Albert Williams, Jr., Fred Riggs and Enoch Frye were here, Sunday, from Camp Sherman, visiting relatives.—Odie Johnson, died, fitted her father, Mr. John Caintain ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25,1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1918 daughter were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Blair of Bridges, Sunday—Mr. Harley Hill of Greenfield was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Jones, Sunday. His daughter, Miss Edna, returned with him after a visit with her aunt, Mrs. Jones—James Blanton, George Greene, and William in Columbus, last week. The emancipation celebration to be held in Greenfield will have some excellent speakers—Mrs. Anna Greene has returned to Dayton. Tough on Stephenville The following is from the Roanoke letter in the Richmond (Va.) Planet, of last week: "Mrs. Palmer, of Stupidsville, Ohio, also spent the week-end at the home of Mrs. Burton and left for Washington, D. C., to spend a week or ten days." Hold Bermudans for Draft. Ayer, Mass.—Seven colored waiters from a hotel at Lenox, have been brought to Camp Devens under the "work or fight" regulations. They are natives of Bermuda, and on reaching camp, they are to be the official at the British consul. All, however, were placed in the depot brigade with draft evaders. DR. JOSEPH L. JOHNSON Appointed Minister to Liberia—Ohio's Leading Afro-American Democrat Last Friday: President Wilson nominated Dr. J. L. Johnson of Columbus as minister resident and consul general to Liberia, Africa, the only black republic. For years at Rendville, this state, where the practiced before locating in Columbus, some years ago, Dr. Johnson's activity in the Democratic party's propaganda work in Ohio "gave him the ears" of such leaders as Ex-Attorney General of the State Timothy S. Hogan of Columbus HON. JAMES L. CURTIS and Gov. James M. Coz. Therefor, his appointment was but natural under the circumstances. He is deserving, capable and has a most interesting family in his splendid wife and child. Congratulations and best wishes. Doctor. We take it that the U. S. Senate will confirm this appointment promptly, as it should. At Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, Doctor Johnson will find another Obion in the presence of Richard C. Bundy (a brother of Dr. Leroy N. Bundy), who is secretary of the U. S. legation, and who has been acting U. S. minister ever since the death, a year of more age, of former Minister J. L. Curtis, a New Yorker. On Its Entrance Upon Its Thirty- Sixth Year—Editor, Henry Clay Gray of "The Meddler." Waxahachie, Tex. Aug. 28, 187. Editor The Gazette: When you learn that I am an invalid, in con- NECTION with the fact that "The Meddler" is a midget, in no sense or pretense a regulation race newspaper, I am sure you will help grant me the intention to be a praewinner. Pardon me, please, for not making such editorial noise over The Gazette's rounding out its thirty-fifth year of consecutive publication as the auspicious event deserves of me, both for personal and for general reasons. I am sure you a visit in September, 1885, a truces after you began the pub- lication. I heartily rejoice with you in all the triumphs you have won in the years gone and I shall sincerely relece in your continued prosperity. One of the bright gems in the day- lies of the bright years, we have the initiative in Cleveland. The West- ern Reserve of Ohio and Cleveland, its metropolis, were as near heaven as I have ever reached and alas! it may be, I shall ever reach. Yet you, few of your Cleveland readers, read The Gazette more closely and with more interest than I do. Henry Clay Gray. SOLDIERS TEAR DOWN SIGN! Portland, Ore.—A large sign read, "We employ only white help and cater to white trade," displayed in the window of the Newport restaurant, which opened on Monday and week Thursday, when a crowd of our soldiers on stopover leave, while passing through the city on their way to some Atlantic port, learned of its presence. Joined by whites, they entered the glass window, but finally contented themselves with tearing the sign to shreds. Nearly 80 Per Cent Of Them Sent To Non-Combatant Divisions Overseas SECRETARY OF WAR BAKER GIVES PROMISE OF EARLY AND FAVORABLE CONSIDERATION OF FACTS PRESENTED BY A COMMITTEE OF OUR COLLEGE MEN Washington, D. C.—Our Central Committee of College Men, which was largely responsible for our first camp for training officers at Fort De Moines, was received by Secretary of the Navy Building, recently, and some rather starling disclosures resulted from the conference. Only 20 Per Cent, to Fight The printed report of the Committee to the Secretary of War shows that the drafts are trained to fight, while the remainder are put in non-combatant divisions: "The present authorized combatant units (colored), do not more than complete the full divisional strength of the Army, and the number, 56,000," (157,000 were called into the service up to June 23rd, and 80,000 since that date, making a total of 111,008. The proportion of non-combatant to combatant troops now is, therefore 3.9 to 1. The committee that the "W" Department live up to its policy of offering colored troops with colored company officers. 1.500 Officers Short "From 75,000, to 80,000 drafts (colored) were in camp, July 31st; constituting from 280 to 320 companies (reckoning 250 to a company). With one captain, three first and two second lieutenants to a company from 1,680 to 1,920 officers of the grade stated will be, required for this contingent alone. There are from 100 to 150 commissioned officers (colored) now available in this country—for the most part, second lieutenants lately commissioned from 'Officer-Candidates.' "(b) They are no 'Officer-Candidate' now uncompromised; "(c) There are at present only 398 men (colored) in training in officer training schools; (Infantry 303, Camp Dodore; Artillerie 95, Camp Taylor). "The above stated facts show that: '1. Only 12 to 25 companies can be officered by the commissioned officers now available. '2. Were all the 'Student-Officers now in training to be commissioned there would only be 388 officers additional, and these exclusively of the grade of second lieutenant. '3. There is, therefore, an immediate shortage of 1,150 company officers of which the greatest lack is in the grades of captain and first lieutenant; and a prospective shortage of 400 number for the next draft contingent; 5,000 of whom were called, August 5th. '4. It is evident that the requisite number of officers for the troops now assembled and assembling cannot be supplied from the present resources; therefore some exceptional plan (another special training camp of larger O.T. O. training capacity) effect in order that the announced policy of the War Department be carried out." Doctors: Held Inactive According to the committee colored troops are being served by white dentists in the camps and in France, while at home 120 doctors of dentistry ready to work, are commissioned, but do not understand that the reason given is that the department does not find it "practicable" to have colored dental officers and white officers of the line in the same regiment. Reference was also made in the report to the fact that despite the shortage in physicians to do dental work, the department is back at home, medical doctors are being drafted and sent into the cantonments along with other drafts. Mention was made of Doctors Carmichael and Burton, of Washington, and Doctors Olofoy of Washington. The following recommendation was made to the Secretary of War: "That the practicing medical and dental men, and graduating members of the Medical and Dental Enlisted Reserve Corps, now compelled to serve as enlisted men, be granted compulsion under the regulation for commissioning men of these professions." Non-Coms Asked For The exclusion of the labor units from the officers' training camps, and the practice of selecting white men for the offices of corporals and sergeants of colored troops was dealt with in the report. The committee requested: "That the colored non-combatant units, excluded from the officer training privileges, be allowed through the extension of training privileges to supply their own quota of non-commissioned officers; and that for the purpose of training such troops be given at least one month's strictly military training be four being assigned to their specific duties." **Baker Sympathetic** Secretary Baker heard the committee sympathetically, and promised an arm and a sword sent to him. It became known after the hearing that already, two weeks ago, steps were taken to give labor units some military training. Butler chased them to within their own wire, and doubtless slew some more with his hand grenades. He held up New York over the reticent to the combat post only when he was completely exhausted. "Guess I just ran amuck," he said afterward. Lieut. Jones, whose presence of mind won him the highest recommendation, also received the Croix De Guerre. An hour after the fight, Captain John G. O'Neill attacked the company against which the raid was launched, heard groans just beyond our barbed wire. He crawled out there and found a German officer with his right arm torn clean off by Butler's bullets and otherwise wounded. He carried him into the American prison. American capt. Outwater, who interrogated him; in German, valuable data about the enemy dispositions of troops. Capt. Outwater's courageous conduct gained him the War Cross. 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 in many cities in many 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 white and colored children are in attendance under the same teachers and in the same classes? Do you think it wiser, when there is a large color population of 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) 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 it invariably proved a forerunner of separate schools. It had proved so in Dayton, C. 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 bear Tosson's name, the city of Chicago "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 of 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 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 Lloyd Loch (a Jew, it would be the irony of fate), a member of the Chicago Board of Education and a leading man and business man, gives some fifty of the "Windy City" leading citizens of the shock, along a separate school, and along a separate school. 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 to smooth-tongued prejudice white and "jim-crow" Negro C. A. residential segregation (Y. M. C. A. dangerous enemies of racial progress as Ben Tillman was and Jim Vardaman, Tom Hefflin and their kidney are. Max IN UNION IS STRICHT SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS 9 SEC. BAKER DOING HIS BEST To Wipe Out Racial Discrimination, Alyssed Assisted by Messrs. Creel and Boirou—Spingarn—Gone Washington, D. C.—Following the leaving of Major J. E. Spingarn for overseas duty, and the rumored rejection of the proffered Duluths, the projected "colored division" of the Intelligence Corps has petered out. Lieut. Gregory, who was detailed several weeks ago to this department, has been, reassigned, to the Students' Training Camp at Howard University. Lieutenants Curtis and Ippolito were from the field, have been kept at their posts in command of labor battles. Emmett J. Scott has won out, it is said. Report reached this city, last week Wednesday, that the New York Age, best known of that city's weekly race papers, was confiscated shortly after coming from the field, and week Thursday. The paper had already been sent out to the news stands and some of them had gotten into the mails when, it is said, orders from the Department of Justice were sent out confiscating the entire issue. An article, commenting on the "jim-crow arrangements" reported in this report, is reported to be the cause for the action of the department. Secretary of War Baker and the committee on public information, under George Creel, and his assistant, Carl Biyoir, are doing everything possible to minimise the army, but to eradicate it. Mr. Biyoir has acted upon every suggestion and representation made by Emmett J. Scott to secure a fifty-fifty fight for the race, both here and abroad, and Creel and the committee on public information, are doing their best to secure the fullest satisfactory news from France as to what our soldiers are doing. There is no discrimination at the head of these two departments, and ordinates is promptly investigated when brought to their attention, and righted, if found true. Good! FORD AND THE FLAG Detroit, Mich.—The Metropolitan Magazine of October 10, contained an article by John Reed on Henry Ford, of this city, the pacifist "Republican" nominated last week, by Michigan Democrat Joe Schmidt. U.S. News this was on the eve of the presidential election when Mr. Ford was urging the re-election of President Wilson upon the "kept us out of war" issue. Mr. Reed reported the automobile maker as saying: "I don't believe silly and flags are silly, too. If the country is rotten then the flag is rotten, and nobody ought to respect it. Flags are rallying points, that's all. The munition makers and the militarians and crooked politicians use flags to get them. I am going to keep the American flag flying on my plant until the war is over, and then I am going to pull it down for good; and I'm going to hoist in its place the flag of all nations which is being designed in my office right now." We will make a splendid campaign document, this fall, for Michigan. Republicans who refused, last week, to nominate Mr. Ford as their candidate, on the suggestion of President Thomas Woodrow Wilson. Golf forgive them! It is certainly going to be hard, very hard for the sane, 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 "national name" in Chicago, Mr. Logohells attention to, are largely imagination and, at best, are not worthy of the serious consideration he is giving that: A Scout Troop Formed A Seventh Troop Formed Wichita, Kas.—Our first troop of Boy Scouts in this state under the Kansas council has been organized here with thirteen lads. The boys, three of whom are members of the Calvary Baptist church, will meet there for instruction. Two other troops were organized in Kansas City, Kas, but under the direction of the Missouri council. two year ..... $1.50 six Months ..... 1.00 three months ..... 50 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or reg- istered letter Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter. (City, Central S.I.) Blackstone Bulldog, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWS-EST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 800,000 in Ohio. 25,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1918 Congressman Huddleston of Alabama has been renominated over the opposition of President Wilson. He seems to be the only one. Ex-Gov. Wm. P. Kellogg of Louisiana, who died recently, remembered Ex-Gov. P. B. S. Pinchback of Washington, D. C., in his will. The latter was lieutenant governor of Louisiana when Kellogg was governor. Kellogg was a millionaire when he died. Wonder how much he left our old friend? We sincerely hope, "a plenty." Ohio Afro-Americans, as loyal as any in the country, and thousands of others, are getting "mighty tired." Brother Scott, waiting for the war department to place Col. Charles Young where he can be of service to the country he is so anxious to serve. This was promised the great Race Conference in June. It was to be done "soon." It is now September! "Get busy!" Refusing to assign our physicians and dentists to work in Afro-American regiments at home and abroad is carrying southern prejudice and white favoritism entirely too far, and Secretary of War Baker and his special assistant, Emmett J. Scott, should lose no time in rooting out of the war department such "south-in-the-saddle" southernism ("Prussianism.") Our confrere, Editor Geo. W. Harris of the New York News, suggests in an editorial headed, "Getting the Breaks," that our friend, Emmett J. Scott, special assistant in the war department, Washington, D. C., had nothing to do with the alleged appointment of Editor "Alphabetical" DuBois as a captain in the U. S. army with station in the intelligence department of the war department. We hope it is true. The defeat of Ex-Gov. Cole Blease of South Carolina, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U. S. Senate, which is equivalent to an election in that state, as a result of an open letter of President Wilson to the voters of that commonwealth, is appreciated by our people almost as much as the defeat of U. S. Senator Jim Vardaman, of Mississippi, who was a candidate for renomination and was defeated as a direct result, too, of a Wilson open letter to the Democratic voters of Mississippi. Good! IF IT'S TRUE, THANK THE LORD! Now comes the rumor that the Cleveland Association of Colored Men "got their stomachs full" of color-line Luna Park with its latest experience. The daily newspaper publication announcing the alleged bursting of the great intake pipe of the Luna bathing pool, twenty four hours before it was alleged to have taken place, seems to be more than the C. A. of C. M., as well as the Cleveland Caters' Association, can stand. If so, thank the Lord! For nearly ten years "The Old Reliable" Gazette has plead and battled for just this exhibition of manhood, self and race respect. Our G. U. O. of O. F. are having a nasty fight over the convening of the B. M. C. in New York city on Sept. 9. 18. The sub-committee of management, headed by Grand Master E. H. Morris of Chicago, called off the meeting, while other leading members of the order insist that the B. M. C. meet as previously announced, arguing that the sub-committee of management has exceeded its power and authority in trying to call off the meeting because of the world war and consequent governmental requirements as to the use of the railroads, etc. First our Baptist National Convention split and went to fighting and now it is our Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, which has had powerful warring factions for years. Too bad! MAYBE HE IS "WHITE." Ellis Porter, age 26, of Evansville, Ind., who served three years in a white regiment, was arrested on government orders while at home on a furlough visiting his mother, last week, the charge being "fraudulent enlistment." Since he was light (in-color) enough to "pass for white" and enlist in a regiment for that class of Americans, there is just a possibility that Ellis is a white man under that state's and the U. S. laws determining what constitutes a white and colored American. This is of sufficient importance to be looked into by the attorney who will defend him, and the editor of The Gazette has written his mother to that effect. DR. BUNDY AND THE N. A. A. C. P. The September Crisis tries to explain why the N. A. A. C. P. is withdrawing from the Bundy case. The Legal Committee has gone into the case thoroughly, it says, and finds that in spite of the fact that the association has spent several thousand dollars and hired eminent counsel, Dr. Bundy now demands $4,000 more for additional and unnecessary counsel, support and maintenance for himself and family and the right to raise money without accounting to the fiscal officers of the N. A. A. C. P. To these things the association refuses consent and declares that it is no longer connected in any way with the defense of Dr. Bundy. The Crisis fails to say what the N. A. A. C. P. intends doing with the thousands of dollars it collected to be used in Bundy's defense and in other respects makes a very sorry showing in the matter. It occurs to The Gazette that it is about time for our people to stop paying their hard-earned money into such an organization. OUR CONTRIBUTION READY Good! What The Gazette tried to get Editor DuBois and the N. A. A. C. P. to do, several years ago, is to be done by Editor Carl J. Murphy of the Baltimore Afro-American—test the constitutionality of southern "jim-crow" car "laws" as effecting interstate passengers, those traveling from a point in a state to a point in another state, district or territory. The U. S. Supreme Court has decided that the despicable "laws" are valid in the case of intra-state passengers—those traveling from one point to another within the confines of the state having such a "law." Editor Murphy was arrested and fined because he refused to be "jim-crowed" on a railroad between Baltimore and Washington, D. C. There will be increased difficulty, at this time, in winning a decision at this time, in winning a decision because of the Congress action of last winter, which attempts to fasten on our people the "jim-crow" car "laws" of southern states while the government is in control of the railroads, at least in control of the World War. It will at once be seen that it would have been easier for DuBois and the N. A. A. C. P. to have won the victory over the unconstitutional southern "jim-crow" car "laws" prior to last winter when The Gazette urged them to make the fight than it will be now. Regardless of this fact the fight should and doubtless will be made. And since it means so much to all of our people of the country, it is their fight just as much as it is our conferee, Editor Carl J. Murphy's, they should help to finance the fight because a decision knocking out "jim-crow" cars would benefit us all. Our editors (able)—for obvious reasons—should be the first to lead in this phase of the promised court fight. Therefore, The Gazette asks its esteemed contemporary, the Baltimore (Md.) Afro-American, to permit it to head a list of contributors, check to be sent immediately upon receipt of information that its suggestion has been accepted and a call for contributions made in the Afro-American. THE BUSINESS LEAGUE By Rev, Wm. A, Byrd The Negro Business League convened here, Wednesday, August 21st. The governor of New Jersey, Walter Edge, delivered the address of welcome for the state and the mayor of the city for Atlantic City. The governor rang true on human rights, taking the position that all Americans were entitled to the same rights and privileges. He pledged himself to this cause while in his present position as well as when he goes higher. A full attendance was there and in many respects the league had one of its most successful meetings. Throughout the sessions every speaker looked forward to the opportunity to speak from the present world war. Many speakers said that democracy is an empty nothing as well as a hypocritical catch word if it does not bring real freedom to the race. In all of the like expressions, there never fell one word that would intimate that they or the people whom the league professes to represent, would do aught to demand or force the benefits of freedom but would wait upon America to accept them. The league is weakest. Here is where it shows its child character. There was not among all the representatives one man that would dare lead the league or suggest to our people that they must contend now and fight here for their equal rights. One could see the old spirit of "meriting and not demanding rights" pervading the whole session. A spirit of helplessness seemed to have seized the leader of the league, so far as manifesting the spirit of the nation. The political aspect of the meeting was cut and fashioned as to do or say nothing that would offend the present Democratic administration at Washington, D. C. The phrase "win the war," was overworked. The THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, SEPTEMBER 7, 1918 Additional Locals Shaulter had a narrow escape from death recently when his car suddenly turned turtle. In his endeavor to avoid running into a jewelry store window at the corner of Broadway and E. 75th St., his car struck a large telegraph pole, putting it entirely out of commission. Mr. Shulter, though greatly stunned, was able to go home without assistance. Owner of the general secretary of our local Welfare Association, who appeared before the anti-rent profiteering board in the city hall, recently, our people in the Central Ave. district are paying higher rentals than are charged for residences in exclusive Euclid Ave., where many millionaires live. He declared mankind is red in homes occupied by white people to get rid of them and then made higher charges to colored tenants. The Gazette has been informed by one of the tenants at 2403 E. 40th St., that that flat, and a number of others like it on the same street and in the same block, controlled by the Realty, Housing & Investment Co., are charged as follows for small rooms: Basement suite, four rooms, $20 per month; first and second floor (two rooms each); mid- and back suites (first and second floors, $22 and $24 per month. Some of these are three-room suites. Each tenant of a suite is also required to purchase $50 worth of stock in the R. H. & I. Co., paying $5 or $10 as a down payment on same, and $5 monthly until paid, it is said. Also, that the company has many higher priced suites in other buildings, ranging between $30 and $40 per month, and possibly higher. Since the foregoing company, The Gazette has been informed that many of the R. H. Co., buildings in E. 40th St., have passed from its control. Watch for the next issue of The Gazette for full particulars. Only Right Form of Distinction The painter should grind his own colors; the architect work in the mason's yard with his men; the master manufacturer himself a more skillful operator than any man in his mills, and the distinction between one man and another be only in experience and skill and the authority and wealth which these must naturally and justly obtain.—Ruskin. Buy War Savings Stamps NEW YORK DOINGS OF THE RACE Wm. Masios, who said he was 147 years of age, died at Bellevue hospital, New York city, Aug. 12, '18. The chief of police of Mt. Hope, W. Va., killed one of our soldier boys who was home, last week, on a furlough. The Ninth U. S. Cavalry is said to have arrived in Vladivostok, Russia, of our four of our four regular army regiments. Four of our girls, New York city elevator operators, have been killed in accidents in the last two months, says the New York News. Bertha S. Harris of New York city has sued the Bronx Exposition Co. for $500, alleging refusal to sell her a ticket to the grounds, on July 28, '18. Gov. Cox has appointed President W. S. Scarborough of Wilberforce University a member of the Ohio branch, Council of Defense, to represent our people of Ohio, particularly. There have been commissioned in the U. S. army as captains, first lieutenant, second lieutenants, about 1,000 Aloe-Americans, including about 250 officers in the medical and dental corps. Our National Medical Association, which met, last week, in Richmond, Va., sent a delegation to Secretary of War Baker urging the wider use of our physicians in war work and it should be done at once. Lucile Derringer, 18 years old, has won the prize given by the U. S. Steel Corporation for the employee turning in the greatest number of shells in their factories during the month of Derringer made $182.75 that month. Thirteen members of the military police (white) called out to quell a riot at Camp Merritt, N. J., in which one colored and one white soldier was killed and five others wounded, have been placed in the guard house pending investigation of a report that they fired without orders. Bent, F. Hughes of Columbus, Forsyth county, Morgan, A. L., Beatty of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, O. and Harry E. Davis of Cleveland, Cuyahoga county, O. are the Afro-American candidates for the legislature. All are Republicans. Beatty was elected two years ago and Davis defeated at the same time. Several of our contemporaries are publishing "junk" (furnished them by clipping bureau) that tell principally of "Negroes" arrested on various charges and give other undesirable information" culled from daily (white) newspapers, most of them unfriendly to the race. Stop it! Life, Farrell, of Charleston, W. Va., has asked the state examination for expect public accounts, and has been placed in charge of the auditing bureau of a life insurance company, and will have charge of all checking for the company in the states of North and South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. She is the first woman of the race to hold such a position. Henry Johnson of the "15th N. Y." now the 369th Inf. (in France), was the first private of the American Expeditionary Forces to get the gold-on palm along with his Croix De Guerre (medal). The palm signifies extraordinary valor. This he showed the fight with German soldiers in which he and Needham Roberts killed between twenty and twenty-five of them. Camp Custer, Mich., is to be relieved of fully 5,000 colored troops, most of whom will be sent to Camp Grant, Ill., for distribution among various units and the rest of whom will be sent east either to go overseas or serve in labor battalions at embarkation ports. The men arrived at Camp Custer, recently, from Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. About a thousand will left battalion, and a battalion battalion until officers can determine how many are fitted for guard or labor service in this country. The late Dr. Booker T. Washington did more to cause the universal use of the term, "Negro" than any other race leader in the United States. Our state officials here have for years referred to our race as "colored people" in the official reports, but this has gradually given way to the more obnoxious term, "Negro." We agree with Hon. Wm. H. Lewis, who says he "hates" the term "Negro," in his criticism, but we are surprised that such a devotee of the Booker T. Washington school of thought should have come out boldly in conclamation of the term, "Negro," which war is a specific occupation and the colored folk of the United States are being called into action—Richmond (Va.) Planet; John Mitchell, Jr. editor. The Cleveland (O.J.) Gazette calls attention to its open letter, of Rev. Greg Wilson Brent of Madison, N. J., asking President Wilson to disapprove the sentence of death imposed upon the colored troopers by a court-martial at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. This matter should be agitated until a decision one way or the other is obtained. There has been enough blood letting in Texas and with the new being baked by armed troops in France, to execute these men would be one of the most glaring miscarriages of justice ever perpetrated in this country. If President Wilson can set aside death sentences in France, where actual war conditions exist, certainly he will do so in this civilized land where we all are as prone to eras as the sparks are to fly upward. Let us all unite in this appeal to the end that even justice may be tempered with mercy. It should not be forgotten that not a single police officer who was responsible for the conditions in Houston emphasize the fact that the outbreak was the result of smoldering injustices of many months' standing. Richmond (Va.) Planet. 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. Quality Printing Of All Kinds Letterheads, Billheads, Envelopes and Cards, $2.75 Per Thousand Eagle Printing Co. 337 W. Superior Ave. Phone, Central 5325 R. HENRY L. THOMAS Attorney and Counselor at Law 512 Superior Building Cleveland, O. Central 2251-R SANTAL CAPSULES MIDY CATARRH of the BLADDER relieved in 24 HOURS Each Cap bears the MIDY name & Beware of counterfeits John H. Berry Real Estate Broker Titles and Filing carefully attended to 4120 CEDAR AVENUE ROSEDALE 4986-J J. 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CLUB NOTICE — The Working Men's Social and Literary club meets, every Friday evening, for business and gives a dance, every Monday night, at their hall, 3103 Scovill Ave. H. P. Williams, pres, 3040 Central Ave. L. V. Orton, sec, 2667 E. 40th St. Milton Watkins, chairman, 2524 E. 30th St. FOR SALE — Two fine lots, side by side, one a corner lot, near a school, in 117th St. S. E. (Mt. Pleasant), 40 ft. by 125 ft., and by 40 by 120; price (for both) $1500, $800 down and the balance, $20 per month. Cheaper for cash. Call or write The Gazette, 214-215 Blackstone Blvd. Cleveland, O. Here is a splendid opportunity to Own Your Own Home! FOR SALE—Will sell my country home, out Bedford way, consisting of large modern seven-room bungalow, large barn-garage, chicken house, tools, etc., for the sacrifice price, $8,500. The land alone is worth the price. This is an ideal gentleman's country home, forty-five minutes' run by automobile from the Public Square and situated in a fast-growing locality where values are rapidly increasing. If interested, write me, Box 10, care of The Gazette, Blackstone Bldg, Cleveland, O. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Mrs. Cora B. Delaney of Hillsboro is in the city visiting. Mr. and Mrs. Gates and Mrs. Sarah Bell visited in Youngstown, recently. Byron Johnson, E. 90th St. fine twins "Aunt" Sarah Jones is again quite ill at the Old Folks' Home. Mr. Wm. Young of Hillsboro has arrived in the city. Mrs. E. L. Freeman and son, Marion, visited her brother, Mr. Albert Johnson of Chicago. Charles F. Weaver and others attended the Republican state convention in Columbus, last week. One of our public school teachers, has returned from a two weeks' visit in Detroit. Dr. Ed Chesnutt of Chicago visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Chessnut, recently. Miss Laura Jones of Wellsville was called to this city, Saturday, on business. Emmett Manley of Wellsville spent Labor Day with his sister, Mrs. Pearl Myers. Mrs. A. T. Abbott, E. 97th St., is visiting relatives in Ripley and Cincinnati. Miss Dorothy Myers has been appointed a regular teacher in the local public schools. Our local K. P. spent two days in camp, the first of the week. Mr. Halloway gave a very interesting talk at Mt. Zion Congregational church, Sunday evening. Allan H. Dorsey went to Bri again, this week. There certainly must be some strong attraction there for him. Mr. Thomas Davis was called to Cadiz recently by the death of a relative. Eugene Morgan, soldier, 2312 E. 28th St, was reported dead of disease, in France, last week, Friday. About 400 more of our boys were sent to Camp Custer, Mich., Saturday and Sunday. Don't delay, but purchase your coal for winter now. You'll be sorry when it is too late—if you don't. Adelbert Gibson, present graduate of East Technical High School, will be on Western Reserve Dental School, this fall. Good for Adelbert. Buy lots and houses here in Cleveland where you live. It will eventually be found a mistake, as a rule, to do otherwise. For first-class printing of all kinds, and at the most reasonable rates, go to The Eagle Printing Co. *337 W.* Superior Ave. Central 5325 R.—Adv. Miss Lula Travers has returned from a visit with her parents in Wellsville, accompanied by her brother, Granville. Little Ruth McKinney, who has been spending her vacation with her aunt, Mrs. Wm. McIntire, returned to Chicago, Sunday. Mrs. Theodore Taylor was hostess at a luncheon in honor of Mrs. Hines of Dayton and Mrs. Sinkford of Springfield. Miss Mary Barksdale of Chattanooga, Tenn., is visiting her brother, C. E. Barksdale and wife, of E. 106th St. Mrs. Henry Taylor's mother, Mrs. E. DeClue of St. Louis, Mo., is visiting her. Mr. Taylor is improving slowly. Mrs. and Mrs. W. J. Hale, Nashville, who were guests of Dr. and Mrs. E. A. Bailey, Pasadena Ave., left for Detroit and New York City. Rev, Edward Smith, former pastor Shiloh Baptist church, has been called to Ebenezer Baptist church at Indianapolis. An officer of Shiloh Baptist church announces that it has made a payment on the Jewish Temple prop- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OH 10, SEPTEMBER 7, 1918 erty, corner E. 55th St. and Central Ave. Mrs. Mary Bundy, a former resident of Cleveland, no. 4 of Baltimore, Md., is visiting Mrs. Florence C. Taylor, E. 74th St. Mrs. Garfield Burkley, E. 46th St. leaves next week for Kentucky to visit her mother. An uncle, an inmate of Soldiers' Home, Sandusky, will accompany her. Raymond Clark, son of Mrs. W. T. Grant, manager of Grant's news stand, 3512 Central Ave., is visiting his grand parents in Pleasantville, N. J. Mrs. Jennie Day, E. 74th St., was called to W. Mansfield, by her sister, Mrs. Martie Hildreth's sudden illness. Mrs. J. H. Dotson, one of the leading workers at Triedstone Baptist church, gave a concert in the church last Friday evening Rev. J. R. Yewell, the pastor, is doing splendid work, upbuilding the church. Mrs. Anna Thompson of Sevillian Ave. has returned from a two weeks' visit with her father and brother at Chester Heights, Pa. She also visited relatives at Atlantic City and Philadelphia. Mrs. R. A. Carter, D. D., and daughter of Atlanta, Ga., were guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Shy of E. 101st St., last week. Mesdames Mason and Spearman entertained in their honor. Rev. B. K. Smith, pastor of East Mt. Zion Baptist church, is attending the National Convention at St. Louis. Mo. His recent church rally was a splendid success. Mr. and Mrs. J. Francis Gregory of Washington, D. C., were in the city, Friday, from 4:15 in summer home at Lakeside Park, O., and paid the Gazette sanctum a very pleasant visit. Miss Alma Bess of Pittsburgh visited her cousin, Mrs. F. H. Weaver of E. 38th St.; Sunday. She came to bid farewell to her brother, Tom, who left for Camp Custer, Mich., Sunday. Sam Woods, Alonzo Woods, Wood B. Hawkins, Elmer Daugherty, Dennis Fowler, E. W. Sellers, Wm. Richardson and Chas. F. Weaver were elected prefect committeemen at the recent conference. Raymond Clark, son of S. T. Grant, owner of a Central Ave. news stand, is spending his vacation in Atlantic City, N. J. He left special orders that "The Old Reliable" Gazette be sent to him each week. Wise boy. "Among the Cleveland Elks, who attended the national meet of the order in Baltimore, last week, were Harry Kersey, E. Sellers, "Germany" Hudson, C. P. Lancaster, W. H. Burges, Marcellus Early and John W. Reed, Miss Bess, E. Clark and daughter. Miss Bess entertained at dinner recently, Mrs. Glover and other visitors from Indianapolis. Miss Cook filled a week's engagement at Brady's Lake and was offered the position for the entire season. Foul mouthed, drunken and dirty "Negroes" on street cars and in other public places are doing our people of this community great harm. This matter should be "harped upon" by our ministers and other speakers. It is a great menace. Mrs. R. A. Ball of Winnipeg, Man, and Mrs. Sophia Sloman of Toronto, Can., mother and sister of Mrs. Edwin Seelig and Mrs. Edna Parker and children, left for Detroit and Windsor Can. Thursday, after a several weeks visit. Rev. C. C. Cumly, pastor of Friendship Baptist church, corner of Sevillan Ave. and 388th St, told his congregation that we have "three teachers" in the public schools of Cleveland. Now Brother Cumly we have nearly 40 and had more than three, twenty-five years before you came from the south, str. Many of our voters are unable to locate the "comfort stations" in Ward 11, or elsewhere in the city, that Councilman Tom Fleming promised, two years ago, if they would elect him to the council again. The drinking fountains in Ward 11 have vanished and the promised Central Ave. bath house. Chester Gillespie, a student at the Cleveland Law School of Baldwin University the past two years, has closed a successful summer term at Ohio State University, Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. John Ballard, E. 74th林, entertained delightfully in his and Ardene Leatherman's honor. Mr. Leatherman is a graduate of Purdue University. A woman on E. 37th林 and Soillv Ave., Saturday, called our local pastors "hell-raising" individuals from 5 a.m. until late at night because he gave 400 a man a bottle. She asked for food and collection from those who heard her. This kind of street "preaching" could be stopped by the Ministers' Alliance if it had "the necessary backbone." Policemen broke into the apartment at 4818 Holly Ave. recently, and found the dead body of Mrs. Minnie Dunn, age 45. She had been engaged in a death struggle with Charles Peterson, age 45, whose throat was also cut. He was taken to the charitable hospital. He suspected Neighbors, hearing the woman scream, summoned the police, and upon arriving they found the woman beheaded. Our good people who like dance, and who like good association as well as dances, should remember the Thursday evening affairs at Barksdale's Dancing Academy, 10550 Euclid Ave. Coarse conduct, dances and perseverance, should be admitted, respectively, by Mr. Barksdale, who teaches his patrons all the latest high-grade dances only. Remember this and call your friends' attention to it—Advt. Mrs. Nettie Abernathy, 2154 E. 22d St., was shot to death by George Childs, 45, 2173 E. 22d St., recently, after an argument, Childs, a former roomer, was apprehended by the police and bound over by the grand jury on a first degree murder charge. Police say he left his overcoat at the Abernathy home and called for it. An argument ensued with the above result. Mrs. Abernathy was buried from Shiloh Baptist church. The Minerva Reading club entertained at Mrs. Cornelia Nickens, recently. The out-to-count guests were: Misses Florence Thomas and F. W. Williams, teachers, St. Louis, Mo., and Miss Duckett, of Greenville, N.C. The Board of Trustee of Tri-stone Baptist church have gone into court to recover $1,435 from Mansel and Hart of a local Co-Operative League. Marrige licenses were issued recently to Geo. W. Wade and Mattie Johnson, Roy Moore and Luzertha Thompson, Russell Parish and Mattie Moore, James Hamilton and Iessie Taylor, Thornton Kane and Iessie Cloy, Tommie Pugh and Marie Saltier, Lewis Field and Jessie Saltier, Lewis Hattie Fitzgerald, Wm. McDewall and Millie Andrews, Wm. Holman and Katie Paryear, Samuel Yates and Sarah Jones, Henry Flack and Rosa Ware, Geo. W. Johnson, Washington, D. C., and Ethel Thurman, John Dorsey and Grace Cassidy. Some of the city mail of our Aug. 24, 18, issue who not delivered until last week Wednesday morning. The Gazette's mail, of that issue, for elsewhere in the state and out of Ohio, was sent to the Postmaster Schutt informed The Gazette that lack of help, owing to so many postoffice employees having been called to the colors, was the prime cause of the delay. "The Old Reliable" has been issued every week on time since Aug. 25, 1883, and our patrons may wiley rest as they are required by theury of their copies of the Gazette as that of week before last is never the fault of "The Old Reliable." Take off your hats to the Arbitration Board of the Cleveland Amateur Baseball Association. At its meeting, Tuesday evening, it sustained the protest of the Tate Stars and on Wednesday afternoon the White Motors team, No. 2, and the Tates were stopped playing the first of three Class A championship games by rain when the scoreboard 2 and 2 with the Tates going strong and apparently sure winners of the first of the three games to be played unless one of the team wins the first two. Sunday afternoon a double header, possibly with Moore pitching both for the Tates, will be played by the two teams. They may settle the question of the championship, too. The sport writer of the Cleveland Daily, of the Tates, will play half-column of "sour grime baseball bile" in that paper. Wednesday, as a result of the Arbitration Board's perfectly correct decision in favor of the Tates, made a usually exposition of himself that "the Press" ought not to have permitted in its columns. Here's hoping our boys win that championship! A Mr. Weiss, who called on a tenant of the Realty, Housing & Investment Co., Wednesday afternoon, told him that "we have taken back the buildings in E. 40th St., and hereafter you must pay your rent to me." Another report says that "the R., H. & I. Co. gave up the buildings, last week, fearing a hard winter." Another tenant told The Gazette, Monday, that Welcome Blue came around with a understander her, that the white man "would look after the rent in the future." It seems that Blue had been collecting it. Just what is true, The Gazette is unable at this time to state; so gives the rumors and reports for what they are worth. The R., H. & I. Co., and its officers, at the time, Welcome Blue, Walter Wills, Roy Cheeks and Ormond Forte entered five suits against The Gazette, last year, and re-instituted one dismissed this year, making six in all, ALI of which "The Old Redible on armor" was the years "The mills of the gods and the Gazette's expose of the R., H. & I. Co., rental charges in the building at the corner of E. 37th St. and Scovill Ave., were at the bottom of the suits instituted against it, referred to above. The Tate Stars, who have been playing wonderful ball, lost to the Gay-Lord Clothes team at the Brookside stadium, Sunday, afternoon, playing the first game of a double header which was to have decided the championship of the second (local) division. Our boys lost an uninteresting contest, the first of its kind. They got away to a bad start, but many fans looked for them to overcome a three-run lead until the Gay-Lord Clothes scored six more runs in the sixth inning. Then it was all over. Ealph Moore, the most capable of the three-run lead, ineffective. He put forth all of his efforts but in vain. The attendance was estimated to be 1,500. The pitcher, and Walchi second, of the Gay-Lords ten. Jones, short stop of the Tates, made a two-base hit; Glasser, pitch, and Walchi, second, of the Gay-Lords, a three-base hit and home run, respectively. Henderson and Brady succeeded Moore as pitchers and were also hit hard. Some of Umire Fogarty's decisions against the Tates were very "raw." Despite their Tate Stat "victory" and their White Motors to 6 to 4 victory, the Gay-Lords may have to play their games over again, as the Tates protested the first game, claiming Right Fielder Alton of the Clothers was "not eligible. A Cleveland player permits a team to use a substitute if a man goes into the U. S. service, but an affidavit showing that this player has really left for the army or navy must be filed with the C. A. B. A. prior to the start of the game. The Tates claim this was not done and as a result are protesting. That alleged "emancipation celebration," Aug. 5, at color line Luna Park proved mighty bad for many visitors from far and near. About thirty pick-pockets were busy all day and evening and got hundreds of dollars from the poor men and women of the race toled to the park by the Cleveland Association of Colored Men. One man was relieved of $70, another $30, 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. The police station of Mr. Chas, Smith, secretary to the chief of police, was called to one pickpocket and when he took hold of him another policeman claimed the arrest. When Smith showed his badge both officers took him in charge. While all this robbing was going on, 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 cut to cut to four. Many girls were in the skating rink. Half the time was cut (by the watch) from five minutes to two and 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 Advocate extends its hearty congratulations to the Hon. Harry C. Smith of Cleveland, Ohio, on the 36th anniversary of his great paper, The Gazette. The Gazette, while not the largest paper of the race, nevertheless is one of the greatest champions for the rights and justice of the race. May it live! May it pass! Portland (Ore.) Advocate D. C. Dannamy. Editor. 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 S. Senate, proclaimed that he is grateful nevertheless. Since Ben Tillman's death Vardaman has been the bitterest enemy in public life our people have. 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 approach. Our Dear Lord 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 his viewpoint of achievement, but great ones understand every move he makes. We must be careful not mistake him, 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 Mitehell, Jr., Editor. When you want to 'phone The Gazette, or its editor, call Central 513 K. MAIN THEATRE Scovill & E. 25th St. Friday, Sept. 6th. ELMO LINCOLN in "Tarzan of the Apes." Saturday, Sept. 7th. TREDA BARA in "Under the Yoke." Sunday, Sept. 8th RUTH CLIFFORD in "Fires of Youth." Also HELEN GIBSON in "The Branded Man." Monday, Sept. 9th. DOUGLASS FAIRBANKS in "Americano." Tuesday, Sept. 10th. MARGERY WILSON in "Marked Cards" Also "Hands Up." No. 4, and a Toto Comedy. Wednesday, Sept. 11th. JACK PICKFORD in "The Spirit of '17." Harold Lloyd Comedy. Thursday, Sept. 12th. GLORIA SWANSON in "Every Woman's Husband." Also "A Fight for Millions." No. 8, and a Mack Sennett Comedy. "The Old Reliable" Gazette was mailed, last week, on time as usual. 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. BEST FOR THE BLOOD — Puro Herbs. Sold only at Brown Drug Co., cor E. 28th St. and Central Ave.—Adv. There is a letter at The Gazette office for Mrs. H. Brock and Henry Robinson, Mrs. Edd. If you know either of them, please call their attention to the fact. You should take PURO HERBS, the great blood purifier and system cleanser. On sale only at the Brown Drug Co., 2742 Central Ave., cor. E. 28th St.-Adv. Subscribe Now! CENTRAL ST. A RACE G. J. TATE, GENTS' FURNISHINGS, Hosiery, Underwear and Arrow C. 2922. CENT Phone Prospect 441-J. THE MODERN TONIC ALL YEAR KIDNEY, LIVER AND SEALEAF THE CHOCOLATE POST OFFICE OF JACK A. PHAR E. 55th ST. & C Try Our Box Back Tailor- Made Suits THEY FIT CENTRAL SHIRT SHOP A RACE ENTERPRISE G. 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Political and public events of great importance and incidentally many national characters are dealt with in the most enlightening manner. The work will prove of special interest to all students of political history whether they are public officials or only public spirited Americans, interested in the preservation of our institutions. 2 VOLS. NET $5.00 All orders sent direct to the "THE GAZETTE" Blackstone Bldg., Cleveland, O. will have the personal direction of its Editor TEAR OFF HERE The GAZETTE Blackstone Bldg. CLEVELAND, O. Please send me ___ eop ___ "Notes of a Busy Life" BY J. B. FORAKER Net $5.00 for which I enclose ___ Name ___ Address ___ --- 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. SHIRT SHOP ENTERPRISE Proprietor, NECKWEAR, Dollars and Shirts, Hats, Caps, etc CENTRAL AVE. FOR OLD AND YOUNG AROUND STOMACH TROUBLES EMULSION COD LIVER OIL OPEN TILL 9 P.M. TIMEN'S MACY CENTRAL AVE. A. EVERYTHING! Palmer's "Skin Success" great name for itself, as skin troubles. It is the de-Mark "Skin Success" evidently to deceive our ARE; we shall prosecute of the law. Don't Throw Away Your Copy of THE GAZETTE After Reading it, but Give It to a Friend or an Acquaintance who Might Subscribe after Reading a Copy of It NEW RAIL DEVICE TO PROTECT LIFE Lantern Attachment Makes Signal Apparatus Useful at Night. A new railroad safety device is the track target or signal invented by a railroad superintendent, George M. Ferguson of Lorain, Ohio, says Popular Science Monthly. It consists of a lantern, a signal plate or target, a supporting rod to which all are secured by lock and chain, and a substantial derailer plate which is clamped over one of the rails of the track. Often workmen in railroad yards must be under or between cars to make necessary repairs. Ordinarily a blue flag would be used as a warning signal to guard them. But it far from being an effective means of protection. In the case of trains breaking in two during switching of cars in the yard, or if hand brakes are defective by reason of too much slack in the brake chains, or if any accident makes it impossible for the brakeman to stop a moving car before it runs into a stationary car where a workman is making repairs, a mere flag would not protect a man from injury. The new track target not only gives the usual visible warning, but will derail the moving car if for any reason its warning is unheeded. The device may be carried about readily, and the lantern makes it as useful as a signal at night or by day. The deraler has proved effective in actual service. A vertically extending flange guides the car wheel into the grove in the deraler which forces the car wheel off the track. A lock and a securing clamp are used to fasten the deraler to the rail so that it cannot be disturbed. IT'S BEST TO BUY HEAT Product Rather Than Coal itself to be Considered. Almost without exception the value of a coal is directly proportional to the quantity of heat which it contains. Yet occasional installments are known where the type of boiler, the setting, draft, grate area and other factors may demand certain physical conditions in the fuel that may take precedence even over the actual heat content. But these cases are the exception rather than the rule. It becomes of prime importance, therefore to have an accurate knowledge of the heat possibilities of a given coal, and, indeed, this is made the principal element in contracting and determining the settlement price for coals marketed on the heat unti basis.-Popular Science Monthly. USE PORTABLE PLATFORM Philadelphia Suffragists Employ New Device in Speaking. When making open air talks in various parts of the city, Philadelphia suffragists who have been carrying on a vigorous campaign for enfranchisement, employ partable speaking platforms which may be pushed from point to point says Popular Mechanics. Fixed to the front legs of the wood framework is a pair of wheels. When a speaker finishes a talk, she steps down from the elevation and titls the stand so that the weight is carried on the wheels. Then, by using the platform railing as a handle, she pushes the contrivance along trucklike. Although somewhat cumbersome, it is not too heavy for a woman to handle. When erect, it forms a substantial platform. FOUNTAIN SAVES WATER Device Invented by 'Father of Turbine' Economizes. Because of the necessity of conserving water supply, the parks of Europe and of certain parts of America have been compelled to run their fountains only on one or two days of the week, says the Illustrated World Magazine. This difficulty has now been overcome by an invention of Nikola Tesla, the "father of the turbine." Tesla has placed a small motor in side the center post of his fountain, and connected it to a water wheel in the pool itself. When the motor is started the water wheel turns, forcing water up the center pipe. This overflows making a waterfall like an ordinary fountain. Only evaporated water need be replaced. Tin Pans With Long Handles Used in Texas. Tin pans secured to the ends of poles forming long handled dipers, are used in watering the grass covered terraces along the banks of a river at San Antonio, Tex. The stream meets the edge of the grass, making it easy for a keeper to walk along the shore line and dish up plenty of water.—Popular Mechanics. Denmark yearly produces $71,000,000 cigarettes in twenty-two factories. Unique Craft—Chief Feature Is Way Power is Applied—Long Flanged Cylinders Parallel to Hull Picture a boat which is non-sinkable and capable of a speed of 25 miles an hour, able to travel over ice or water equally well, and in a pinch capable of logging off a few miles on a sandy beach, and you will have a conception of the boat which Edward Mantell of Hoquiam, Wash., has designed. The chief feature of the new boat is the way the power is applied to drive the hull thru the water. The working model rests principally on two cylinders, each nearly as long as the hull and parallel to the hull. These cylinders are hollow and carry a spiral flange running from stem to stern. The cylinders are turned by the engine and the curved flange grips the water like a worm gear and drives the boat forward. The hull proper is of little beam, but the superstructure is built out over the cylinders giving a maximum carrying space. The cylinders turn away from the boat in order to throw out any driftwood or wreckage, thus making it impossible for a piece of wood to jam between the hull and the cylinder and stop the boat. The non-sinkable feature is claimed on the grounds that the centrifugal force of the revolving cylinders would force water out of the air chambers, even tho they were punctured. He also declares that on reaching a speed of fifty miles an hour the boat will plane and just bury the flanges, under the surface, reducing the friction. TAKES PLACE OF WOOD AND TIN Common Brown Partly Turned Into Countless Stain Articles Countess Stable Stories. An ordinary piece of brown wrapping paper may be made into a dish pan, bucket, ax handle, cart wheel, pulley, barrels, boxes and numerous other useful articles, if you have the proper machinery and know how to do it, according to a mechanical engineer, who has recently returned to Chicago from Europe. In Germany this material has been manufactured for ten years. It has been found a substitute for tipleate and wood, and anything that has been made of those materials may be duplicated in this paper product, the Chicagoan declares. The finished product is similar to that which may be made from wood pulp under powerful hydraulic pressure, but at a far lower cost. Its manufacture which has recently been started in the United States, should put on the market many articles now in general use at a much greater reduction in cost. NEW BOLTLESS RAIL JOINT Inventor Claima Device Keeps Ends of Rails Uniform. A boltless rail joint is being demonstrated to several Maine railroad companies. Like the rail joints now generally in use the ends of the rails are clamped together by fishplates but instead of the four bolts through the fishplates and the rails the new invention has a tapering wedge held in place by a nut. This wedge fits firmly against the fishplate inside the rail and is pushed forward tightly into place against the plate and the rail by simply turning the nut. The inventor, a Portland man, claims for his patent that it will keep the ends of rails always uniform, doing away with bumps at rail joints, and that it will permit expansion or contraction according to the weather. There are no bolts to work loose nor to be constantly looked after, no declares. OBTAINS PATENT ON AUTOSLED Invention Thought to be Improvement on Predecessors A mechanic formerly in a machine shop at Palouse, Wash., has secured a government patent for an autosled which he invented. This patent is said to be the ninth issue by the government for autosleds. The body of any automobile can be placed on the runners, to which two drive wheels are attached, with propeller blades projecting from the spokes. The wheels are attached to the rear runners and the propeller blades which automatically disappear when any obstruction is encountered, are made to take hold in the first snow packed by the front runners. NEW PHOTO PRINTING MACHINE Patented Device that Turns Them Out by Thousands. A machine has been patented by two Madison, Wis., men, which is expected to revolutionize commercial photography. The device will turn out 14,000 uniform white and black photographic prints per hour. The inventor claims that actual photographs are of great value in advertising, but peretofore have been too expensive. This plan would reduce the cost as to make wider use of photographs possible. DEVISES A COOLING MACHINE Works Automatically and Does Away With Ice. Two Dwight, Ill., men are inventors of a machine for cooling or refrigerators without the use of ice. When once installed it is automatic in action, needs no looking after and will keep the interior of the ice box at the required coolness. The machine has been tested for a year and will now be manufactured for general use. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OH 10, SEPTEMBER 7, 1918 DEVISES PLAN FOR SAFETY INVENTOR MAKES CYLINDER TO SHIELD TRAINMEN WHEN WRECK IMPENDS Attachment Containing Man Is Thrown Clear of Track In an attempt to provide a means of safeguarding locomotive engineers and firemen against serious injury and death in railway accidents, a southern inventor has developed a mechanical apparatus which has elements of novelty and interest, even though the practicability of all its features may be contested in some degree. Under the usual conditions the members of the engine's crew are afforded two alternatives when a collision is seen to be inevitable. They may jump, and probably be killed in so doing, or they may stick with the locomotive and take their chances. Providing the new appliance works as it is intended to do, the life of an engine man, in such an instance depends upon a brief warning of imminent danger. Not infrequently a wreck occurs entirely without warning, and in such a case the present invention is worthless. Given ten seconds, or possibly even less, in which to act, however, and the safety apparatus seemingly affords a good opportunity for an engineer and fireman to save themselves. Primarily the contrivance consists of two large steel cylinders mounted in a frame attached beneath and at the sides of an engine cab immediately under the seats. The cylinders are made of boiler plate reinforced on the inside with a series of channel irons that enable it to withstand a crushing force of as much as 500 tons. By pulling a lever, the seat upon which an operator is sitting is released. This drops him seat and, into the cylinder, which is then closed mechanically and thrown free from the train. The interior of the tank is lined with coil springs heavily upholstered with pneumatic cushions. This prevents the injury of the occupant, so far as shocks, bruises and the possibility of laceration are concerned. In addition there is a thick lining of asbestos insulating the compartment against fire and heat. If a heavy locomotive should fall on one of the cylinders, the impact would not be sufficient to crush it. Neither could escaping steam, boiling water, nor hot coals from the firebox penetrate it. Should a wreck occur on a trestle over water, or a train go thru an open bridge, the occupant would not be drowned, for the cylinder will float and sustain a burden of 600 pounds according to the inventor's claims. Asphyxiation is guarded against by air valves which may be operated from the inside. There is also an oxygen tank for use in the event that submersion makes the valves incapable of action. Space is provided for carrying an electric flashlight, a life belt, and an emergency medicine chest. The device may be opened from either the inside or exterior. Besides offering an engine crew an avenue of escape, the apparatus performs the duties of both the engineer and fireman after they have abandoned a locomotive. In this way the welfare of passengers aboard a train is looked after. When, in order to save his life, an engineer draws back the lever that drops him into the cylinder, the action simultaneously rotties the engine, applies sand to the rails, sets the air brakes, dumps the fire and pours extinguishing agents upon it. The cylinders vary in size. One type is 5 feet in height, has a diameter of 36 inches and weighs approximately 2,000 pounds. The equipment which includes two of these devices for each engine, costs between $500 and $600—Popular Mechanics. TANKS NOW TEACHER Swimming Pool in West Now Remodeled for Vaudeville. A queer transformation made in a big amusement park at Ocean Beach, Cal. is the change from large concrete pool, originally used for diving and swimming performers, to a theater pit for the free vaudeville staged on the boards at the end. After the tank was remodeled at the shallow end to allow the audience to walk down an incline, a stage was fitted up at the deeper end, and the seats were set on the concrete floor in rising tiers. The gradual rise of the floor of the pool from deep water to shallow water gave just the right slant for the seating, so that every spectator may see over the heads of all in front of him. A canvas roof and side supports were added to complete this novel outdoor vaudeville house. — Poplar Science. A silver plated reflector is used with the lamp. At the back of it is a regulating device which enables it to be focused for use as a spotlight, if desired—Popular Mechanics. For washing dishes without wetting the hands a California woman has invented a mop which may be connected with a sink spigot, the water passing through a soap container. The Story of 'Man Who Expects to Ascend the World. To every man there years a great and uncontrollable learning to take pen in hand and inscribe his innmost thoughts that the world may read and marvel and read again. Also they shall pay him. He muses with himself in solum communion by waterside or in the shelter of his own hearth, and betticks him that, if he had only the times, his name should be great and he be numbered among the mighty. So he takes his pen in hand and writes his thoughts, pours out his spirit and is amazed at the enclosure now aroused, so long concealed from a barren world. And, reading his magnum opus, he is lifted up into the clouds and dreams in a seventh heaven especially for amateur writers that a few more morns he shall wake up and the mailman, and the milkman, the grocer and the iceman shall bow down before him, and say, "And this is the man we bothered for last week's pill. Shame upon us." And he sends forth his writing and orders a new suit, and some silk shirts and some fancy socks, and a hat with three covered bow, and some natty ties, and looks at automobiles with a fraternizing air, and inspects houses and doesn't comb his hair, and is found off in deep abstraction, and starts and makes notes on scrap of paper. And then his writing comes back, and the editor says he is sorry, but says it so politely that the author writes him a letter discussing the matter and pointing out what he feels has been overlooked, in his masterpiece. And then no answer comes and the author gets mad and writes a letter to the papers, and then, some quiet morning, when filters are scarcely somebody finds the letter and it is printed. Whereupon the author buys three dozen copies and sends them to his friends, and is proud of spirit and walks haughtily. And in the evening his wife takes the copies that are left and papers the kitchen cupboard with them, and he dies of a broken heart.—Seattle, Post Intelligencer. HEART IS BIG LIFTER It Pulls Daily Equal to 120 Tons to Height of Foot Every adult being has within him a structural wonder that has a lifting power almost incredible when one considers its size. It is the heart. Weighing seldom more than eleven ounces, every day it lifts the equivalent of one hundred and twenty tons to a height of one foot. That is, of course, the power exerted by the normal heart every twenty four hours has a lifting strength equal to this weight. Every time your heart beats six ounces of blood are sent forth into the veins or conduits of the human system. Put your finger to your pulse. If your heart is normal, the beat is about seventy times each minute and the amount of blood forced out with every beat or stroke of this wonderful little engine is six ounces. Get pencil and paper and you will find that this little bundle of muscles beats 100,800 times every twenty four hours or 30,000,000 times a year. Three score and ten years is the allotted term of life. The man who lives to be seventy has a heart that has beat 2,500,000,000 times. A pint's a pound the world around, the old saying goes. Taking it as a basis, and reckoning on the fact that six ounces of blood are forced into the arteries seventy times a minute, this, counting thirty-two ounces to the quart would mean three and one eighth gallons of blood forced out every minute or 187 1-2 gallons of blood every hour. Get your pencil again and you will find this means that the heart forces out 4,500 gallons of blood every day, or 1,642,500 gallons every year. In seventy nine length of a normal life, the heart would have forced 114,755,000 gallons of blood through your entire body by way of the arteries.—Tit Bits. RECORDS PHONE CALLS Latest Device Shows Telephone Rings When Man's Away. Having occasion to leave my studio much of the time and my telephone calls being so few I decided to make sort of a device to record the calls, as I could almost tell who it was that called if knew that a call was made and at what time. A device was the outcome of my efforts. An old clockwork is attached to the top of the telephone bell case so that a roller, attached to the hour hand spindle, projects over the side and its edge is in line with the space between one of the bells and the clapper. A strip of carbon paper is placed on one side or the other of the strip of recording paper so it will be struck with the clapper or bell edge. The recording paper is graduated so that the time the call was made is also recorded. When I go out a strip of the recording paper is placed in the device, and if anyone calls, the information recorded is not only convenient but sometimes valuable... Popular Mechanics. Sure Trap for Burglar. A Louisville man has been granted patent on an automatic burglar alarm system. According to its inventor this is the only system ever devised that traps and catches the burglar before he can escape. SWEET POTATO ORIGINAL TUBER WAS BROUGHT BY COLUMBUS TO LAY AT FEET OF QUEEN ISABELLA Belongs to Entirely Different Family Than Irish Variety. The true potato is the sweet potato, and not the white or Irish potato. The Journal of the American Medical Association, in tracing the history of potatoes, gives Humboldt as authority for the statement that it was the sweet potato which Columbus took back from the new world to lay at the feet of Isabella of Castiel. Again when Falstaff in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" exclaims: "Let the sky rain potatoes * * hail kissing comfits and snow eringoes," it is to sweet potatoes that he refers, for he classes them among sweet meats. The sweet potato belongs to a different family from the white. The former is a cousin of the morning glory; the latter of the deadly nightshade. It contains more sugar than the Irish potato and also a yellow coloring matter called xanthophyll. Many interesting researches are being made into the complex sugars of the sweet potato and the Journal of the American Medical Association expresses the hope that these may have a practical—a gastronomic—outcome. At "its best" writes the learned editor, "and rightly cooked (baked in its jacket, so that the rich, black, syrupy juice is encrusted wherever the cook's fork has pierced it), this vegetable is a unique delicacy. As it reaches our northern markets, or at any rate, our northern tables, however, it is too often dry and insipid. Would that science could procure and insure for us the sweet potato as the south knows it at its delectable prism. It may be remarked that the truest epicures have ever been found among doctors, for they know better than laymen that good digestion results from finely flavored, daintily cooked food, and that the meal really enjoyed is half digested. Industry Finda New Source of Supply Off North Carolina—Substitute Never Discovered. The oil that lubricates the wheels of watches is obtained from the jaw bone of that interesting animal, the porpoise-commonly mistaken for a fish. The porpoises which supply the oil are found on the Diamond shoals off Cape Hatteras, some distance from the mainland of North Carolina. The beaches of this desolate region are accessible only by small boats. Here the sturdy fishermen lug in the sleek, graceful porpoise, which for many years was considered useless and superfluous by the residents of Hatteras, who devoted their time to catching the shad, mullet, kingfish, drum, pigfish and sturgeon, which are still found there in abundance. It was an old whaleman from New Bedford, Mass., who discovered that the fluid melted from the marrow and jaw bone of the porpoise acts as a first class lubricator for delicate machinery when properly strained. At the time of his discovery the most delicate machine was probably the chromometer which had to run for a four years' voyage without oiling, and it is from this discovery that the porpoise oil industry developed. Engaged in the catching of porpoise for this purpose at one time were some of the best known families of New Bedford, but the whaling industry declined with the discovery of petroleum and, with the passing or the whaling industry the production of porpoise oil also waned. At the same period the production of instruments of exquisite precision increased and it became possible to manufacture watches so cheaply that scarcely any one is now too-poor to carry one. With the decline of the porpoise jaw oil industry and the whale fishery and the increased demand for oil for watches and clocks, other oils were put upon the market, made from minerals, nuts and even calves' hoofs. These were good general lubricants, but unsatisfactory for watches. One of them had a tendency to evaporate, another would creep all over the movement thus reducing the amount necessary to keep the pivot lubricated and so on. Consequently porpoise jaw oil producers sought for a new source of supply. The Smithsonian institution was called upon for aid and after much expense and investigation the banks of North Carolina, inshore from the Diamond Shoals, were found to be the teeding ground for the porpoise. It is claimed for porpoise jaw oil that it will not chill, gum or evaporate under use and severe conditions and for that reason it is used by Arctic explorers. It is also in demand by makers of all kinds of delicate machinery from adding machines to railroad signels. Of ordinary farm implements, the sulky plow has the shortest life in years but ranks second only to the walking plow in total days of service rendered. Its life is a little over 8 years, while its total of days' work is 119, as compared with 11 12 years and 224 days for the walking plow. WAR BABIES! LET THEM GROW UP. English Women guaranteeing next Year's Food Supply KENT COUNTY WOMEN PLUGGING WITH TREATORS U. S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION WHEAT PATRIOTS And You are only asked to save and not waste Food BONES 5.16.11 JUST BURIED! SILVER PEDDLE SHARPENED CHARLES BURKE WILLIAM LAND Patronize Our Advertisers