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IN UNION IS STRENGTH. Are You Cold For the last eight been trying customers th ing the proper and fuel for ter. We have warne that the sup will not equ years— SIXTH YEAR. No. 22. Are You Prepared For Cold Weather For the last eight months we have been trying to impress upon our customers the importance of having the proper heating equipment and fuel for their homes this Winter. We have warned you— that the supply of gas this year will not equal that of previous years— For the last eight months we have been trying to impress upon our customers the importance of having the proper heating equipment and fuel for their homes this Winter. that the supply of gas this year will not equal that of previous years that you should not rely entirely on gas for heating but should have a supplementary appliance so as to burn either coal or wood- that, under p supply, you sh burners in a should burn o If you've put it o See that you h ing equipment of coal. The East "What's in a name?" that, under present conditions of supply, you should not install gas burners in a coal furnace but should burn only coal this winter. you've put it off, get busy TODAY. See that you have the proper heating equipment and a good supply of coal. The East Ohio Gas Co. 's in a name?"—EVERYTHING that, under present conditions of supply, you should not install gas burners in a coal furnace but should burn only coal this winter. If you've put it off, get busy TODAY. See that you have the proper heating equipment and a good supply of coal. "What's in a name?"—EVERYTHING! "Ill wounds may be cured but not ill names" "A famous name will never die" "Nothing succeeds like success" For over eighty years, Palmer's "Skin Ointment has made a great name for a cure for most forms of skin troubles. Original Skin-Brightener. WARNING! Our Trade-Mark "Skin is being used by others; evidently to dec friends. Let them BEWARE; we shall p them to the fullest extent of the law. 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THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25,1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY DECEMBER 28, 1918 FRESH OHIO NEWS Written by 'The Old Reliable' Gazette's Correspondents Throughout the State What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. All letters for publication in our next issue must be mailed at your main or central post-office, NOT LATER THAN TOMORROW (SUNDAY), owing to Wednesday's being New Years, a holiday. FINDLAY—Mrs. C. H. Johnson entertained, Thursday evening, in honor of Mrs. Ella Hagler Simmons of Anaconda, Mont. A three-course dinner was served at 5 o'clock to the following: Mrs. Ella Simmons, Miss Carrie Brown; Mr. and Mrs. George Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Miller, Miss Mable Anderson of Fostoria, Mrs. Edward Glassco and son, of Defiance—Misses Myrtle Glassco and Vivian Adams are sick—Mrs. Green and Mrs. Avery Rhodes and Pt. Wayne, Ind., spent Sunday with their aunt, Miss Rhodes, Mrs. Moton of that city visited with her sisters, the Misses Rhodes, Mr. John Moton and family also visited his aunt, the same day. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at the main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write also, their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, notices, enclosures, obituaries, notices,印章, relative, and verticetions of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 20 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. WELLSVILLE—In a recent letter from Madrid, Spain, Mr. Daniel T. Brantley relates the following incident: A few days ago while in Lisbon, at the fine hotel where I was stopping, I met a black man who was one of the most polished and affable gentlemen I have ever met, thoroughly informed on all the current topics in the field. This man, native of Martinique, is the most supportive in Freetown, Africa, of a large corporation in England and was at that time on his way to London to make his yearly report and ANOTHER "MOST POPULAR" BAND Our Soldier Boys Overseas Will Have Their Music—The French "Go Wild" Over it. Somewhere in France.—American music greatly interests the French population, and every night there is a concert by one of the army bands—the natives turn out on masse. They listen with undisguised approbation to the latest "hits" from the States and stay until the final notes of the "Star Spangled Banner" close the program. The French fairly go wild over the American "jazz" tunes. They call that sort "chic." And when the band plays one of those rollingick one-step they keep time with the music and vociferously applaud for more. In one of the larger American base cities these military concerts are given about three times a week. The plaza, nearly a quarter of a mile long, always crowded with the inhabitants as well as American soldiers. The bands alternate from the various surrounding army camps. One of the most popular and best known American bands in the "service of supplies" in France is composed of the Afro-American steve-deres. The men are in a draft outfit and come principally from western Pennsylvania and Tennessee. They are all natural musicians, and when they are not trucking guns, food and other supplies from American ships and loading them on waiting freight cars they are practicing for their next concert. They scraped up their instruments wherever they could. Some brought their horns and flutes along with them from the states. By saving their payday francs etc., they managed to get enough ahead to finish their complement of instruments from the French shops. Then they played music. So their lids were placed on the phonograph in the Y. M. C. A. hut and jotted down the music for each of his men. They play for retreat each night, take part in the infrequent parades and celebrations in their district, and each Sunday entertain huge crowds of visitors to their camp. KEEPING THEM AWAY! The Girl, The Banjo and The "Flu" The Government has sent over Major R. R. Moton (Lester A. Walton, a Mr. Hunt, Dr. W. E. B. DuBois) and other church dignitaries to keep our soldier boys away from trouble and to tell them on good conduct until they are safely gotten back to dear old America. That's the way it reads. But it seems that these boys jumped out of the bag which gives a little more light on the subject. One of the white Y. M. C. A. men has been writing about the great difficulty in consult with the directors of his concern. The man could converse fluently in English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese.-Union State bank. a white institution of St. Louis, failed. Over 50 of our people lost their deposits.-The mails are responsible for the delay in the delivery of The Gazette. It is mailed on time, EVERY week. CHILLICOTHE.—Considerable invidious comment has been caused as a result of several hundred of our men in the uniforms Sixth Pioneer Regiment, being maintained to the bar battalion at Camp Sherman and being worked on the railroads, dumping coal, etc. As a further cause for dissatisfaction it seems that official ratings have been changed, notwithstanding the promise made to the men that such would not be the case. We are informed that the sergeants have been reduced to corporals and the corporals to privates and the white gergueants put in command of them "to see that the laboring work is well done." Our people both in and out of the army have had a grand chance to learn how they stand with the markers of world safe democracy. It is said that though there were many available colored officers at the camp yet the military authorities allowed none to be connected with the Sixth Pioneer Regiment. YOUNGSTOWN—Buckeye lodge met, Thursday evening—Mrs. John McKee, Sharen Line, who died on Monday was buried, last week Thursday, from the Third Baptist church, Consult Stewart lodge attended in a body—Mrs. H. P. Emerson entertained the Research club, Tuesday afternoon—The New Idea club gave a dance, Tuesday evening, at Connell hall—The Third Baptist M. S. was largely attended, Thursday evening—Goe, Carter, age 70, dropped dead in a street car, Tuesday evening, while en route to his work at the Sheet and Tube mill—A number of our people are spending this week out of the city—St. Augustine mission's annual fair, Wednesday and Thursday, was largely attended and a success—A number of our soldier boys returned from various camps, last week—Mr. and Mrs. David Boggess of Cleveland were here to attend his father's 81st birthday celebration, Wednesday—He is an expert violinist and enjoying good health in spite of his advanced age—Mrs. John Anderson who was taken ill at the fair, on Wednesday, is better at this writing—John McKee is better—John R. Holmes visited in Jamestown, N. Y. keeping the colored boys away from the French girls, "lover there." Of course it would be impolite to speak of keeping the girls away from the soldier boys. But that's another story. At last he declares the problem has been solved. "We have bought a lot of banjos for the colored boys, so now they pay no more attention to the girls, for their time is spent playing on the banjost!" What a beautiful story! It reads like a dream. Anytime a colored man passes up a girl for a banjo, he evidently has the "flu" in a very aggravated form.—Cincinnati (O) Union. WASTE AT WASHINGTON During the past year and a half our authorities have urged upon the people conservation. They have been commanded to conserve in order that they might have more savings to invest in bonds for the winning of the war. There can be no question but that the people conserved and conserved to the uttermost. Can as much be said for the government at Washington? Where, from the highest to the lowest, was conservation of the expenditure? What state document made a plan for government economy, care or saving in expenditure? Who sounded an indictment against known waste of the money that a patriotic populace was subscribing to for the winning of the war? In all candor it be said that in Washington where the example of conservation and of economy should have been set, there was an apparent indifference to expenditures. A new Congress is to come in next March. That part of the American people who have had to put up the money for the winning of the war, will expect Congress to investigate the expenditure to the uttermost. The waste should be located. The responsibility for the waste should also be located. Everlasting censure should stand against those who have been derelict in the service of the people in this grave matter. The people gave their 'millions and their billions gladly to the winning of the war. Now, by taxes over many weary years, the debt must be carried, the interest met, the enormous principal eventually paid off. Those who could by economy and care have saved the people unnecessary burdens, and wasted where they could have been prudent, should have the facts written into the pages of history against them. Let there be investigation without shint. Investigation to the uttermost. FRITZ POLLARD PRIZZ FOLLARD Now in Inter-Collegiate Basketball. DOINGS OF THE RACE Chicago and New York Afro-Americans have each purchased a church costing $85,000. The Miami Conservancy Co., at Dupont, works a large number of Afro-American laborers. The Zanesville Malleable Iron Works and a new plate mill at Youngstown will employ them, also. The Equal Rights League Congress which met in Washington, D. C., Dec. 16 and 17, elected nine representatives to attend the world's peace conference and "bobly" for the race. A. Taylor, Rev. W. T. Johnson, Bishko W. L. Kyles, Rev. J. R. Ransom, Rev. R. A. Singleton, W. D. Carter, Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett and Madame C. J. Walker, Rev. J. R. Harvey was elected as alternate delegate. Wm. Monroe Trotter was elected secretary of the commission. I have just returned from a ten-day trip to the front to see the actual conditions of the war, to sick and wounded during a period of activity. I found the field hospital of the division of colored troops to be the cleanest and best administered in the front area. A white major is in command, but the other personnel all colored, and by good ward technique they had protected the hospital staff and attendants from being infected by the patients. —Lieut. Col. Emerson, former Health Commissioner of N. Y. City. Plantation and jubilee songs are alright at the proper time and place. But here we felt humiliated. Humiliated, because such splendid looking, talented, educated representatives of our race were out to amuse a great gathering of white people by singing the songs that were sung by our parents, when, like cattle, they were bought, sold and brutalized in a hundred hellish ways! Why should our school teachers perpetuate these awful memories for the amusement of other races? -Cincinnati (O.) Union. Our gallant lads, who sailed so boldly over the waves to battle for liberty, will find on their return, that "the same old home and the same old place" will have the same old trouble and more of it for them! For down behind Mason and Dixon's line, "de po white trash" have no more love for the colored brother now than they did before he went "over there." And when "Johnny comes marching home," wearing that uniform and those medals of honor, verily "twill be like shaking a red flag before a "sore" bull. Even now the trouble has startled, "de po black man" an American soldier killed two men before being lynched because he objected to a seat in a "jim-crow" car and in Kentucky a soldier, though charged with robbery, was really lynched for knocking down the sheriff, who came to arrest him! What will the harvest be? There used to be a bear saying known as, "Hell broke loose in Georgia."—Cincinnati Union. Barksdale's Dancing, Academy, EVERY Thursday evening. Come and have a good time—10550 Euclid Ave.—Advt. BEST FOR THE BLOOD — Puro Herbs. Sold only at Brown Drug Co., cor E. 28th St. and Central Ave.—Adv. "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. JAZZ BAND HAILS OUR VETERANS Chorus Drowns New York's Roar When Trombones Peal "Old Kentucky Home." Decorations Galore on Returning Ship, but Heroes Are Modest. WOUNDED SOLDIER INSULTED.! WHAT OF THIS FOR HEROISM? New York City.—The first detachment of our soldiers to come back from the war zone set foot on home soil again, last Wednesday, when the steamship Celtic reached her pier. The Celtic left Liverpool, Dec. 8, bearing the headquarters medical detachment and the Third battalion of the 814th (Afro-American) infantry, comprising thirty-six officers "and 1,119 men. In addition there were five units of casuals, six fiddlers, division officers and several civilians. In the total were 155 officers and 2,122 enlisted men. Our troops were mostly from Kentucky and were trained at Camp Zachary Taylor. They greeted the mayor's committee aboard the police boat Petrol with a yell that carried across the bay. The strains of "My Old Kentucky Home" was played by a jazz band, and taken up by every voice capable of producing round. Hardly had the strains died out when an encore began, and the waves of arms and flashing eyes and stamping feet added a touch to the tableau of the returning troopship that has been lacking on other ships. They gave free rein to their lungs and emotions, letting the one supplement the other until it seemed as if all the greater, city must hear the chorus of the returning warriors. Bring Tales of Valor. And they brought more hero tales and stories of desperate fighting and glorious deeds on the battle field, the war and the war and its individual deeds of splendid achievement will never be summed up until every ship shows overagain. Here were boys who had helped break the Hindenburg line—lads who had stormed Mount Kemmel and returned almost alone of their command—men who had fought in the Argonne, winning their way forward from German prison camps—others who had helped win the Sambre canal in the teeth of the Germans' stiffest Left West Baden Hospital Because Ill Treated. SOME FACTS YOU MAY NOT KNOW The eyes of the hare, horse and giraffe are so placed that they are better able to see behind them than any other animal. The dogs of Labrador are shod with sealskin shoes, which protect their feet from the sharp ice and enable them to draw much heavier loads. The postmen in Portugal save themselves much walking on Sundays by delivering letters at church. Twenty-nine of our States are now producing coal on a commercial scale. Australia has more unexplored area in proportion to the population than any other country. Some of the newer automatic pistols are powerful enough to kill a man a thousand yards distant. A Missouri publishing house is printing a Bible in an Arabic dialect in which the plate for each page is written by hand and afterward photo engraved. Scientists say the chances of being struck by lightning are four times greater in the country than in the city. IN UNION WE IS STRENGTH. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS D HAILS R VETERANS "York's Roar When Trom- l Kentucky Home." In Returning Ship, but He- re Modest. resistance. You just can't keep the youth of the land from celebrating, the Fourth of July, no matter where they may be. Witness Corp. Rav Powell of Jolief, lh., a youngster of 22, so bashful that answers to direct questions had to be taken out-of-of him almost by the corkscrew method. "D. S. O.? Yes, they did give it to me. What for? Well, you see, the boche got some of our men and we went out and got 'em back again," said the youth blushing all over. And the story had to be pieced-together from his comrades, who are very proud of him. July 4 near Neuve Champelle, the 131st infantry, with which was went in, was sent and barged and 150 Germans in their first attack. They paused to consolidate their gain and the Germans counter-attacked in an effect to wrench the advance away from the Illinoisans. When-the Germans started back, they had with them two Americans and six Australians from the forces supporting Corporal Powell. So a rescue party was quickly formed by Powell and five others. Two of the five dressed under Hun fire and another was hit but kept on. And they brought back the seven prisoners the Germans had taken—two Americans and five Anaxacs. "Well, you see," said Powell, "there were five Anaxacs and about a dozen Canadians reinforced us." And that was plenty." But the Odyssey of Corp. Powell is only just begun. Next day in No Man's Land he heard chattering from a dug-out he thought had been abandoned by the Hun. So he had the voles to come on. He did not buy this magazine. Napoleon, whereupon he have a hand grenade down to hurry them up. "And then they just piled out," went on Powell. "They couldn't get their hands up fast enough and say 'kamerd' quick enough. So I lined 'em up and brought 'cm in. That's all. How many? Oh, 'bout sixty, but you see—" and his comrades refused to let him apologize for not getting more. With the American Forces in France—Wounded and taken prisoners by the Germans and for two days kept in a dugout on the side of a hill which was under shell fire alternately by the Americans and then by the enemy, two colored American private were rescued by their comrades in the dugout and the start of the fight. The private were captured in the region of Chateau Thierry, along the eastern edge of Argonne forest, just before Chateau Thierry was captured by the Americans. While the Germans were endeavoring to decide what to do with the wounded men the American artillery opened up and the Germans determined in a hurry to remove them to a nearby dugout, and four big Germans crowded in beside them. For two days the artillery, first of the Americans and then of the Germans, swept the hill, and so intense was the shelling that even the Germans did not attempt to escape. On the third day the American infantry began going forward, and when the crest of the hill was reached there was a rush of the Americans to the place where their two comrades had been bound and encounter while taking a reconnaissance move morning. Leading the men was Capt. Howell Foreman, of Atlanta, Ga., who had little hope of finding the two men alive. One of the Americans heard a sound from within, the dugout—and one of the detachment, in German, ordered those on the inside to surrender, threatening to shower the dugout entrance in sand grenades and apply that to the man who was in perfectly good American—and four husky Germans stepped from the cave with their hands above their heads. A moment afterward the wounded Americans had come into their own again. Despite German machine gunners firing from the edge of the forest, and from commanding the Americans were carried back over the hill from which they had come more than two days before, the four German prisoners marching beside them. FOUR MORE LYNCHED. Two More Women Among Victims of a Mob in Mississippi. Mobile, Ala.—Four Afro-Americans two of them women, only accused of the murder of Dr. E. L. Johnston here recently, were taken from the jail at Shubata, Miss., last week Friday night, and lynched, according to information received. All four are reported to have been hanged to the girders of a bridge spanning the Chickasanay river. Dr. Johnston, a dentist, was shot and killed from ambush while in his barn. Distribute $35,000. Savannah, Ga.—As a result of becoming members of the Christmas saving clubs of the Wage Earners and the Mechanics Savings Banks, 2,728 of our people received this Yule-tide season $34,862.50. Of this amount the 2,000 members of the clubs of the Wage Earners received $25,000, saved by them during the year, and the 728 members of the Savings clubs of the Mechanics Savings Banks will have a share in the distribution of the $9,862.50, which they have deposited there. The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY apc ib SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advanee) Bix Momths. 6... cece Seco 00 WMree MOMTAS oe. eeeeee ee ceee OU Bubseribers are requested to remit py postolice money order or rex- istered letter Entered at the postofiice in Cleve- land, Ohio, as second-class mail matter, Address all communteations to HARRY C. SMITH Editor aud proprietor, THE GAZETTE, (Cuy, Central 513-K) Blackstone Building, Cleveland, 0. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE Is the oldest, and has.the largest bona fide elrculation, double that of any newspaper in the Interest of Afro-Americans, publish- ed In the state of Ohio, and compar- ison with any will immediately es- tablish its rank as one of the NEWS- TEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 800,000 In Ohio. 25,000 in Cleveland, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1918. ‘We trust our readers have all had an: exceptionally satisfactory Christ- mas season and that the New Year will prove equally so. 3 pis) eal We, too, are wondering if the “131st Infantry,” mentioned in our New York City letter on Page 1, is an Afro- American regiment. Who knows? Slt ‘The suggestion of the N. Y. Age that a convention of all Afro-Ameri- can delegates to the World's Peace Conference be called and that the total number be reduced to five is a good one and should be accepted and acted upon at once. i It is said that southern “crackers,” who came north in the last few years, promoted that “recent lynching at Green River, Wis. This has been more or less true in the cases of most bf the lynchings in this section of the country, in the last twenty-five or thirty years. In ward 11 the streets and sewers, as well as the moral status of the ward, never were so bad as they have been for two years past, under the Davis administration. Indeed, no where else-in-the-city are they hall as’ bad. And ward 11 is the only ward in the city that has a color- ed councilman. ‘The local ‘administra tion is republican and so is the coun. cilman who is a member of its “or- ganization.” Will some one tell u: what benefit Councilman Tom Fiem- ing has been or is to that ward and his people? Se — ‘The recent order of Regional Direc- tor of Northwestern Railroads R. H. Aishton, instructing railroad manage- ments of his- district not to employ Afro-Americans as firemen, hostlers, switchmen and brakemen “beyond the practice heretofore existing” and cau- tioning them against “employing them for this class of service or in any serv- ice not heretofore open to them, nor to take the places of white men,” has been ordered withdrawn by Director General of Railroads W. G. McAdoo. Before jollifying over this apparent ‘good news it will vob jst as well to wait ‘andl see if Aishton's order is not obeyed, in spite ‘of: the instructions from his boss. WHIPSAWING THE SENATE. Here is McKinley's idea of a peace commission: Secretary of State Wil- liam R. Day, of Ohio; three Senators, Cushman K. Davis, Wm. P. Frye, and George Gray: and Whitelaw Reid. ‘The Democrat on the commission was Senator George Gray of Delaware. ‘Then here is Wilson’s idea of his peace commission: President Wood- row Wilson; Secretary of State Lan- sings Colonel E. M. House; General Bliss, and Henry White. Al! Demo- crats except White, who, if a Repub- Tiean, is a venerable and superannu- ated’ one. Colonel Roosevelt defines him as an “Independent.” It is safe to say that he will has< no opinion ‘at ally time except the House-Wilson ides, Although the Senate, under the constitation, is. co-ordinate body in the making of the treaty of peace, it hhas-no representative on the commis- si argued now by the president's fsans that the Senate is to do its part when the treaty comes before it for’ ratification. But even the chil- dren-in the street know that the cry will then be that the Senate must stand by the president, that it must not-dot an “i” or cross a “t” in the treaty, that its sole provinee is to con- eur‘in the treaty as drafted. “This is mere political whipsawing of the Con- ‘stitution and of the Senate. There js able insincerity somewhere ‘when the Senate is denied represent fe its province to consider the eee eee eat, tater, ’ FPR E Me Mee sp her tien ft may approve of oF at way oe DUBOIS IGNORES OUR CAUSE. Representing the N. A. A. C. P., Prof. W. E. DuBois has reached Paris, France, and has presented a “memorandum” to Col. E. M. House, President Wilson's confidential man, “pleading * for the privilege of self-determination of the Negroes in Portuguese, German ‘and Belgian colonies in Africa.” This is just as The Gazette predicted, sev- eral weeks ago. Our people of this country, evidently cannot depend upon DuBois. James Weldon Johnson, field secretary of the N. A.A. C. P., in discussing the “memorandum,” said: “After all, the N. A. A. C. P. is pri- marily interested in assuring the Negro here the fullest political and economie freedom—that freedom to which every American citizen is en- titled. We are interested in the African democracy, because that too means the liberation of the Negroes and the elevation of the Negro in the public mind.” Too bad neither DuBois nor his N. A. A.C. P. “memorandum” seem to fully agree with Secretary Johnson’s views. We are now more or less im- patiently awaiting some public state- ment from Dr. Robert R. Moton, who is also in Paris “on a secret mission,” appointed by the War Department in compliance with the wishes of Presi- dent Wilson. If the N. A. A. C. P. “is primarily interested in assuring the Negro here the fullest political and economic freedom—that freedom to which every American citizen is entitled,” it certainly does not show it in. the N. A. A. C. P.—DuBois “memorandum.” All of which only makes clearer the absolute necessity of our people sending their ablest and best men only, as delegates to the World’s Peace Conference whether they are permitted to take part in its deliberations, or not. USELESS N. A. A. C. P. BRANCH. ‘The meeting, Sunday afternoon, Dee. 29, at St. John’s A. M. E. church, of the local branch of the N. A. A. C. B., was ably addressed by Miss I. Mitchell who spoke on local industrial conditions and Mrs. Hattie K. Price, on our local public schools. Mt. Zion Congregational quartet sang and Miss Eleanora Alexander read several of National Secretary Shillady’s letters in an effort to secure new members for the local branch. She was followed by the veteran and loyal Silas D. McElroy, who, though not listed as a speaker, proved a most timely and telling one even if not per- mitted to finish his talk. Mr. McElroy erose in the audience and with a con- vietion and courage, that the local branch could emulate with material benefit to itself and the race, said that if he were not a member of the organization he would not be were he to judge it by the work for the race of a material nature it had done, that the local branch ought to do some- thing far more practical for the race than merely hold meetings, with white speakers as a rule, and take in new members at one dollar each a greater part of which (the money) is aib Go tee Naticual Keactlation head quarters in New York City, At this juncture the pastor of the church, also a member of the local branch (N. A.A. C. P.), interposed ob- Jections that were successful in “side-tracking” the speaker, who was certainly right, was voicing the over- whelming sentiment of the commun- ity and should have been permitted to finish his talk and then have it acted spon favorably. "Twas ever thus .with the local branch, an organization with exceptional possibilities but as near useless, as far as the vital inter- ests of the race in this community are concerned that are being assailed by prejudiced enemies, as it could .possibly be with such weak leader- ship. Unfortunately, this has leen true from the very inception of the local N. A. A.C. P. organization. Ap- parently it cannot be forced into an aggressive attitude for the race, Too bad! POLITICAL CAMOUFLAGE How little the average “eurbstone or sidewalk” politician knows of real or “inside” polities is often demonstra- ted to the amusement of many who “know better.” A case in point is the effort of certain local leaders of “The Little Black Tammany” of ward II to bring ont a race candidate for the engrossing clerkship of the Ohio House of Representatives soon to con- vene at Columbus. In the first place, it is too late to start a candi- date for the position. In the next place, while the lower branch of the State Assembly has a Republican ma- jority, the entire delegation from this county is Democratic and theyefore clearly entitled to little or nis in the way of representation if the offi- cial working force of fe House. About one page and one phrter (if in- deed that) is all the local Democratic delegation will get, and of course either or _ of these places will go to membefs of their party: That the Republican majority of the House will give this county’s Democratic delega- tion a clerkship as important as the causing lesa is someting ou of the- question, judging. precedents of ae past. ne given to our aa , as has beeu the eus- ‘as a rule in the past,-it will un- sae (9 {0 the: Hamilton county ican which “has the only Afro-American member of THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, DECEMBER 28, 1918. the next Ohio legislature. Therefore, AUTO HORN SAVES Hifi a the attempt of the leaders of “The | FROM MOUNTAIN Lions | Spat Little Black Tamany” of ward 11 to| ae, oe bolster up Councilman Tom Fleming's! He Thought His Last Hour Had Come, | © P! prospective candidacy for renomina-| but Luckily He Had the “Honk- it cai tion and re-election, next fall, by of- Honk” Weapon. fering a “bogus” candidacy, for the| Sacramento, Cal—Charles Jackson, | At 1 ‘engrossing clerkship, to various mem-| driver of the mall stage between | >.” bers of the race in the ward, who} Marklesvitie, Cel, and Gardnerville, | Shive have been, are and will very properly | Nev» has found a new use far auto- continue to be opposed to him for! Moving Hors. As & weapon against many fol nt hn ans | eee aa | CARL as amusing as it is silly and ill-ad-| Sackon Is tn position te Weta vised. Our good people of ward 11). While driving to Gardnerville the never have supported Tom Fleming’s| other day Jackson was confronted by candidasies ‘Williugly or generously or| two mountain ion taeda savas. by wsesicar entisisiostioally oid in-view of his-re-| heavy enows asd tie resattant laey of | Sse peated failures to “make good” in al-| 00. ‘The brutes disputed the right | i221 most every conceivable way, as far as! a Oe Lee et tne cs they are concerned as residents of | Ure . | ona y med i came almost unmanageable, the ward, and in view of his well-| "1 thought my last moment “had moun Jack of ability oF willingness | como," satd Jackson. ~The tons were |$ J to even try to do so, it is beyond the| preparing to leap upon me or the Nionds of ‘reason to expect them to) horses and that would have seon the | Pe support his candidacy, next fall, Tom| end of us both. I yelled, cursed and : Fleming, as councilman, MUST GO,| Prayed at the top of my volee, but Tit and political scheming ‘and trickery, | the lions were not a bit scared. They like this pseudo candidacy for the en-| came creeping toward me and the A grossing clerkship of the next Ohio| Eeutened. shivering team. Hoos af Represmiatves or Tor any side Lrmembered Thad pd other clerkship in the incoming State] wagon seat. It was an automobile |W Assembly, will not save him, horn I was bringing in for the postmas: |-——— ——ji\\|_— ter. I grabbed that horn and pressed | RETRIBUTION! the bulb as hard asIeould. ‘The‘honk-| fai Hardly one of the Ohio National Guard regimental commanders. sur- vived the “combing out” process of the War Department at home and abroad during the World War. Near- ly all were succeeded by regular army officers when Ohio’s troops got into action overseas. Even Colonels Zim. merman, Speaks, Vollrath and Me- Macken, who were promoted to brig- adiers-general, were removed from the firing line, if permitted to get there, to service back of the lines, o1 retained in sefvice in this country and in at least one case, let out of the service entirely. Retribution! The O. N. G. commanleis were the ones who put over the dirty deal which we understand was not frowned upon by the War Department, using Afro-American officers of the ok Ninth Ohio Battalion as ‘catspaws, that succeeded in disrupting or the disbanding of the Ninth Ohio (Afro- American) regiment after Col. Char- les Young of the regular army ha¢ been placed in commend of it at Co- lumbus. Our readers will remember that it was hastily organized in order to fill out Ohio's queta of soldiers 0. N..G. commanders did not want an Afro-American officer—a colonel —on a par with them, much less one, a regular army officer, who as such would become thelr senior officer, and too one who would soon have auto: matically become a brigadier-gener- al had he remained upon the active list of the regular army. Of course “this would never do.” ‘This undoubtedly also explains, a least in part, wiy Major John C. Ful ton and other officers of the old Ninth Battalion were gotten rid of just prior to that unit’s leaving for overseas duty, Again retribution! FACTS People who Adyertise Can sell Goods. People who sell Goods Can make Money. People who make Mon- ey can advertise goods. The Best Advertising Medium is “The Old Reliable” GAZETTE. DAN AMIIIIIIIODIIIOEN: REMARKS ABOUT ADVERTISING While it is true that occasional ad. vertising will bring extra business, 1 is equally true that constant, persist ent advertising will keep business growing during “dull days.” ‘The merchant who considers riches a burden should never advertise. His store may be like a summer resort in January. Do YOU advertise? ‘The merchant who never advertises under any circumstance or condition may imagine he is wise, but his com: petitors have no desire to disturb his sage te It's a good time to “get awake.” Going After the Multitude Feeney SETS CATR Wied Tie aie cess or non-success of almost, every business in these days of rapid prog: ress. We could mention successful businesses without number which hav been built up entirely by the free use of printer’s ink. The returns for suck advertising have been in proportion t the outlay. Printed matter has revo Iutionized the world; it is large, the necessities of the people are great. The man who advertises will supply thei 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 destrous of hear- ing trom persons in the following named cities: Springfleld, Dayton, Akron, Lima, ©. and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we have none. ‘Write to the editor of The Gazette, Blackstone building, Cleveland, 0. and terms will be sent promptly. Gar rousers will oblige us greatly by ‘at once the addresses of per- sons in the cities named and others in the state, to whom we can write volatave to the «matter. OO ese APAMDRONIZE fo 8 50% JOE HEDGES’ POOL ROOM AND BARBER SHOP 3048 Central Ave. One of the Best in the city. Everybcdy Wel- come! beet ett BL le le ele eel td POPP Sees eeseeessoeseeesoeeOeEee see ees sees eesoee PLAY POOL at the Excelsior Billiard Parlors 3623 CENTRAL AVE. Good Service and Courteous Treatment THOMAS REDDIX, Manager | € | THE TEMPLE THEATRE | East 55th St., Near Central Ave. ! MAURICE BOLASNY, Manager. Friday, Dec. 27. Monday, Dec. 30. a CONSTANCE TALMADGE in “Carmen of The Klondike,” “Good Night Paul.” Billy ate a iy To Ys ce. 31. bigs ee LENA CAVALIER in Hove's ; ‘TOM MIX in “Fame and For. gmauest’ SS tune.” Chas. Chaplin Comedy. Wednesday, Jan. 1. “Iron Test,” Episode No. 2, NORMA TALMADGE in “Her — Sunday, Dec. 23. ‘Only Way.” Big V Comedy. | 3. STUART BLACKTON in | vo toamdey Ja 3 ) “Wild South.” Fox Sunshine 2S wait” «I Comedy. War! ean Th Taio f and Sef: Tomedy- ~ A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL | einai ON a Ee ee a tk AUTO HORN SAVES HIM FROM MOUNTAIN LIONS He Thought His Last Hour Had Come, but Luckily He Had the “Honk- Honte” Waenen.. Honk” Weapon. Sacramento, Cal—Charles Jackson, Gviver of the mail stage between Marklesvitie, Cal, and Gardnerville Nev. has found a new use fer auto mobiling horns. As a weapon against attacks by mountain lion Jackson says an gutomobile horn has no equal, and Jackson is in a position to know, + While driving 10 Gardnerville the other day Jackson was confronted by two mountain lions, made savage by heavy snows and the resultant lack of food. The brutes disputed the right of way with Jackson, who was unarm- ed. The horses took fright and be- came almost unmanageable, “L thought my last moment “had come,” said Jackson. “The lions were preparing to leap upon me or the horses and that would have seen the end of us both. I yelled, cursed and prayed at the top of my voice, but the lions were not a bit scared. ‘They came creeping toward me and the frightened, shivering team, “Suddenly I remembered I had 2 good noise producer in a package under the Wagon seat. It was an automobile horn I was bringing in for the postmas- ter. I grabbed that horn and pressed the bulb as hard as I could. ‘The ‘honk- honk’ of that horn did more than all my yelling, for the lions turned tail and fled down the hill as though pur- sued by a thousand demons. “Ll either carry a gun or an auto horn on the rest of my trips this win- ter,” added Jackson. Before turning oyster soup Into the tureen put into the dish a heaping ta- blespoonful of finely minced celery ae eles Suen ease geese te gaver of Gh aaun IT Ee Sue Gnacau Office, Rose. 1412 Res, Gar. 2246 Office Hours—4:30 to 7:30 P.M. Dr. O. A. Taylor PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 3743 Central Avenue, Cleveland, 0. Over Ow! Drug Store RESTAURANT Central Ave. and E. 34th St. Under new management, with the best food and service Give us a trial whieh will call for another BE PLEASED Elias Salim, Prop. Suceessor to E. B, Fitzgerald SPECIAL NOTICE! Ambitious Girls and Ladies ean earn from $20 to $40 weekly at home. 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BESSIE BARRISCALE, in “The Heart of Rachel” Saturday, Dee, 28. CHARLOTTE WALKER in f “Just a Woman.” : | Sunday, Dec. 29. TOM MIX’ in “Mx, Logan, U.S. Ac ‘Also “Brass Bullet,” No. 10. Monday, Dec. 30. NORMA TALMADGE in “By Right of Purchase.” Iso Big V Comedy. Tuesday, Dee. i, CLARIE ANDERSON in “The Grey Parasol.” ‘Also ‘Two-Reel_L-Ko Comedy. Wednesday, Jan. 1. DOROTHY DALTON in “Love Me.” : Also First Episode of EDDIE POLO in “Lure of the Cireus.” Matinee Continuous, 1:30 to 11 ‘Thursday, Jan, 2. MONROE SALISBURY, in “Hlugon, the Mighty.” 3 Also “The Iron Test,” No. 3. HENRY L. THOMAS ENT neeece Attorney and Counselor at Low SANTAT eg iaues 312 Superior Building Cleveland, 0. he RSE Gi) Central 2251-R Ne anes [femme eee seoeeaaoeReeeoe OER on ene = CENTRAL SHIRT SHOP: a A RACE ENTERPRISE , : G. J. 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There are 400+ handy to schools parks and libraries. Remember, you will never have a chance like this again in Cleveland. So investigate at once! CLEVELAND Social and Personal Corp. George Slaughter returned from overseas on the Celtic. Mrs. C. J. Sayles' son was very ill, last week. Pneumonia. Mrs. Geo. Dunjill of Detroit is visiting her husband's parents. Mrs. Carrie McCady, Youngstown, visitor, her sister, Mrs. Mattie Hunter, Cedar Ave. St. Mark's Presbyterian church now holds services in Y. M. U. hall, E. 55th St. and Central Ave. Mr. Horace Roller lost the end of a finger, recently, in a machine at a local plant, where he was working. Dr. F. H. Weaver is purchasing an $8,000 home in Cedar Ave., E. 1, St. James A. M. E. church's recent rally held in 1800. Mr. Kellorg, E. 36th St., one of our oldest citizens, went to a local hospital, Monday, for a slight operation, it is said. Mrs. Ruth Page, daughter of Mrs. Banks, who died last week, left a husband, four children and other relatives to mourn her demise. A large number of our soldier boys are returning home daily from various camps in the country. Hope everyone of our readers had a delicious Christmas and will have a very happy and successful New Year. Sergt, Major Chester C. Gillespie returned from Camp Sherman, the first of the week, well pleased with the splendid progress he has made in the army, since Sept. 25, 1918. Rev. P. O'Connell is to be the principal speaker at an emancipation anniversary (55th) celebration to be held under the auspices of the Toledo branch of the N. A. A. C. P., Wednesday evening in that city. To enable a person to sleep out of doors a Michigan man has invented a balcony which can be hung outside a window and supported by removable braces. Mr. Frank Doctor went to Oberlin, last week, and brought back his nieces, Miss Annie Colby of Duluth, Minn., and Mrs. Reha D. Taylor, student of Oberlin College. Miss Colby was quite ill with rheumatism, but is much better and convalescing rapidly. F. P. Carey, motorman for the Cleveland Railway Co, many years ago and ever since so employed in Detroit, says there are about sixty Afro-American motormen in that city. He was here on his annual visit, last week. There ought to be that many on our local lines, too. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of an invitation from Rev. and Byron Gunner of Hillburn, N. Y., former residents of this city, Oberlin and Painesville, to attend their twenty-fifth marriage anniversary, to attend wishes for marriage years of good health and prosperity, dear friends. Mrs. Thomas Cook, of E. 29th St., has been quite ill. The "flu." Her son, Robert, who also had it, developed pneumonia but is also recovering. He was moved to his mother's home. Monroe, her nephew, went to Glendale, Ky., to spend Christmas with his father. W. R. Yaeger, one of the twin sons of J. W. Yaeger, who is very ill in Dalirimple hospital, E. 101st St, north of and near Euclid Ave., was in the city, several days last week, arranging for the removal of his father from E. 34th St. to the hospital. His care of his father is securing him much merited praise. The other twin is "somewhere in France." Cuyahoga Lodge, Elks, has elected the following officers: J. W. Turk, exalted ruler; Wetl. Blue, Luther Frank E. Mintzer, fn. see.; Rt. Although but a colored soldier in the ranks, A. R. Gilley, spie, of 2272 East 97th St., Cleveland, who was in PEACE. Cincinnati, Tuesday, visiting friends attracted considerable favorable attention in Washington. Private Gillespie, while training at Camp Taylor, found time to think out a number of plans, one of which had to do with the utilization of educated Negroes in the transportation and clerical branches of the stevedore regiments. He carries a number of letters from various Washington department chiefs, including War Secretary Baker, approving his suggestions.—Cincinnati (O.) Union. 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. Your friends are cordially invited to the last dance of 1918, at Drud's hall, Christmas evening, Dec. 25th. Admission, 55 cents. Raymond Smith's Orchestra. Respectfully, Men's Club.—Adv. Patrons of Jack A. Timens' Pharmacy, S. W. corner E. 55th St. and Central Ave., have no doubt noticed the steady increase of this live wire druggist business in the past year and the success can be explained by calling attention to the courteous treatment of all his patrons and the fact that he supplies their every want in that line of business. Southern preparations always on well as well as furnished to the entire satisfaction of both physician and patron. A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.—Adv. Our first dance of 1919 will be held. Wednesday evening. Jan. 1. New Year's Day, at Drumlin's hall, to which our many friends are welcome. Raymond Smith's Orchestra. Admission, 55 cents. Truly yours, Men's Club.—Adv. Our first dance, of 1919 will be held, Wednesday evening. Jan. 1. New Year's Day, at Drudl's hall, to which our many friends are welcome. Raymond Smith's Orchestra. Admission. 55 cents. Truly yours, Men's Club.—Adv. When you want the best music for a party, dance, reception or for any other occasion call Rosedgea 787 J and engage Roy Smith's premier or- chestra. Be thorough, pleased and satisfied. See his ad- vertisement elsewhere in this cancer.—(Advt.) Hon. Harry C. Smith scored again recently. It seems that the promoters of "The Birth of a Nation" are determined to do all in their power to injure the colored people of Ohio in particular and the colored people of this country in general. They went to Cleveland to display this discreditable play. Mr. Smith took the matter up with Gov. James M. Cox, a governor of Ohio, and Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat in the White House of the nation. The latter claimed that he was without power to act and the former proceeded to notify Hon. Harry C. Smith of The Cleveland Gazette that the play would be withdrawn from that state. As a result, this devoted and brilliant race leader is happy. It may be many years after he has gone from this earth before his good work for the country, his property appreciated, but the colored people of the country have never had a more faithful advocate of their rights and privileges than this tireless Ohioan, who during more than a quarter of a century has battled against the hydra-headed monster of race prejudice in behalf of a race that at times has treated him coldly and other times has vouchsafed him their most loyal friend. Upon his success in this instance—Rehmond (Va.) Planet; John Mitchell, Jr., editor Amiston, Ala.-Sergt. Ernest Cardwell, attached to the 157th Depot Brigade, charged with killing a street car conductor and wounding a motorman here, Dec. 15, surrendered to an unarmed military policeman after military guards and civil posses had searched for him for hours. He was taken to the stockade at Camp McCellan, where he will be held until the feeling here subsides. Cardwell was ejected from the street car by the conductor after he was said to have refused to remain in the "jim-crow" section of the car. When attacked he opened fire, killing the conductor with his second shot, and later wounded the motorman. Subscribe Now! A year's subscription to The Old Reliable' Gazette will make a New Years' gift any of your relatives or friends will thoroughly appreciate and thank you for. EDITOR. "PIUDICE trucke to it and batter it and accept it is a law of nature."—John Stuart Mill. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, DECEMBER 28, 1918. "THE BALL OPENS" ice whatever will AGENTS WANTED! made selling PROF, KELLY MILLER'S new $0 to $12 Per Day Progress of Colored People Teachers, students, male or female, ministers, widows, married women, any one with spare time, can make $1 per hour. Everybody buys it's easy to sell. Send for terms and outfit at once; act today. AUSTIN JENKINS COMPANY, 525 Ninth Street, WASHINGTON, D. C. INTERESTING NEW INVENTIONS A miniature safety razor has been invented for trimming finger nails. Grips to be strapped to the hands and feet have been invented to aid a man to climb ropes. It is well known that mechanical laundries are very hard upon collars and cuffs, soon giving them a rough edge which irritates the skin, even though the roughness is scarcely visible to the eye. An inventor has recently produced a simple device which solves the problem. It is a small rod having a suitable groove near one end, so as to flatten down the rough edge. The pointed end of the rod also serves as a buttonhole opener. New schackles for convicts permit a man to walk as usual, but they lock when he attempts to bend the knees far enough to run. A French inventor's collapsible boat can be folded and carried within an ordinary suitcase. To guide a key to a keyhole in the dark there has been patented a V-shaped strip of metal to be fastened to a door with the point surrounding the hole. The street lights of an Ohio town are controlled by a time switch that is operated by an alarm clock. A three-headed lifter has been patented to raise two stove lids and the piece between them at the same time. An Oregon inventor has patented a combination stepladder and ironing board. A machine of recent invention splits the most knotty and crooked remnants of wood into even sized kindling. A coat hanger which is attached to a clothes brush has been patented by a Colorado inventor. A drag to stop a skidding automobile has been invented. It is thrown under the wheels by a handle which is within easy reach of the driver. A combination mirror, comb and identification card to be carried in a person's hat has been patented. A holder for a spool of silk, combined with a small pocket to contain fancy work, the whole to be fastened to a woman's belt, has been patented. A combination tool has been patented which serves as a shovel in one position and a hoe in another, the handle being adjustable. In the interest of cleanliness an Iowa inventor has patented a wire frame to hold a milk pack up from the ground. One of the newer railroad signaling devices, a Massachusetts man's invention, lights a series of torches along a track automatically if an engineer passes a danger signal. A device consisting of jointed sections of veneered wood has been patented for pressing trousers without the danger of using hot irons. To cool fever patients a Missourian has invented a series of rubber tubes to completely surround a person and be filled with ice water. A rifle target patented by an Oregon inventor is a figure of a man, the head of which drops back when a bullet strikes its belt plate. ARTESIAN WELL GUSHES HOT MINERAL WATER In the Flathead Indian reservation near Camas, Montana, is an artesian well containing hot mineral water, said to be the only one in the world. Around it, within a mile, are other artesian wells in which the water is clear and cool. A few years ago the government throw open the Flathead reservation and those who were successful in the drawing now own fine ranches in a fertile valley. Artesian wells have been struck at a depth ranging from 90 to 365 feet. In the summer of 1913, in a ranch within a mile of one of these cold wells driller were at work when, at the depth of 244 feet, hot water gushed upward with such force that the driller were forced to flee. In a few days the rush of hot water had washed a large hole with the drill still in, incapacitated. The well was finally curbed so that it could be used. The water is 120ahrenheit, flowing at the rate of sixty barrels a minute. OUT OF SOLITARY CELL For First Time in Great Many Years Famous Prisoner Sees His Fellows Boston, Mass.—Carrying his Bible, Jesse Pomeroy, sentenced to solitary confinement for life, marched in the rear of a line of sixty into the chapel of the state penitentiary at Charlestown to attend religious services there for the first time. Pomeroy is 55 years old. Half an hour before the chapel services began the secretary of the prison commission arrived with the official papers permitting the "lifer" to attend the services, and once more Pomeroy rubbed elbows with his fellow-man. He sat in the rear of the chapel and kept his eyes constantly on the Bible. Pomeroy was committed to the prison when a youth. He was convicted of having killed a child and was suspected of other murders. In the years he has spent in solitary confinement he has educated himself and has taken a deep interest in religion. Prison officials who studied him recommended more lenency. It is unlikely that he will be paroled or pardoned, however. The authorities would not feel safe in setting him free and Pomeroy has been so long in the prison that he probably would not desire freedom. When a woman loses her temper she shows her age. Mrs. Cora Robinson King has returned to Riverside, Cal. Apply a little, don't rub, let it penetrate, and—good-by twinge! Same for external aches, pains, strains, stiffness of joints or muscles, lameness, bruises. Instant relief without mussiness or soiled clothing. Reliable—the biggest selling liniment year after year. Economical by reason of enormous sales. Keep a big bottle ready at all times. Ask your druggist for Sloan's Liniment. 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With a net once around her organ of propulsion a submarine would either remain permanently under water, which would be bad for her crew, or she would have to rise to the surface and remain there for a considerable time, within sight of the hostile marksman, and that, too, would be attended with most positive inconveniences—Tit Bits. PROTEST AGAINST WRONG. To submit in silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on Protest. Mad no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, and defines decide our best disfines. The new law must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. KIKY HAIR MADE STRAIGHT SOFT, LONG, SILKY By using Heroin Pomade Hair Dressing, which is delicately perfumed and really not preparation made for productive beauty, beautifying hair—just the kind you want. 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LOUIS, M.D. "ABusyLife" 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. 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 ___ cop_ "Notes of a Busy Life" BY J. B. FORAKER Net $5.00 for which I enclose Name___ Address___ USE CHOPSTICKS IN THE ORIENT EATING IMPLEMENTS ARE GEN ERALLY HARD FOR AMERI- CANS TO MANAGE. They Serve Double Capacity of Knives and Forks. The Japanese call their eating implements "hashi". The word also means "bridge," but it must not be inferred that the origin of the word has anything to do with bridging the space between the plate and mouth. Chopsticks are peculiar to both Japan and China. While the people of these countries can manipulate them with the most marvelous dexterity and precision, they are most baffling to the fingers of a foreigner. The oriental becomes accustomed to them from infancy. It may seem puzzling to Americans to be told that chopsticks serve the double capacity of knife and fork in the hands of the orient, but it is so, nevertheless. There need, of course, be no special difficulty in the hashi doing in place of a knife, except in the case of hard substances like meat. It would naturally be hopeless to eat a tough piece of steak or a recently killed chicken with hashi, but the Japanese obviate any such awkward circumstances by having all meats cut up by the cook into portions of proper size for the mouth, while such edibles as fish and vegetables are broken between the hashi without serious difficulty. The Japanese can manipulate even raw oysters from the shell with hashi, an ordeal in which even the most expert foreigner will probably be discomfited. There is an American woman in Tokyo, an old resident of Japan and quite accustomed to Japanese food, who still recounts with evident regret an occasion when she was obliged to abstain from a plate of delicious fresh oysters set before her at a big Japanese banquet simply for fear of exposing her futile efforts to take them with chopsticks, while from the plates of all the other guests the bivalves disappeared as readily if picked up by birds. Chopsticks are as various in Japan as table knives and forks are in western countries. Some are round, others square, others again, hexagonal. Some are made in a taping shape, while others are the same size at one end as at the other. The material from which they are made also varies. There are chopsticks of gold, silver, ivory and wood, most of them being of the latter material as the cheapest and most cleanly. Those in gold and silver often have the handle made of red sandalwood, ebony or cedar. Each member of the family has his or her own hashi, which are used exclusively by them. The hash used by guests are usually of wood and are never used again, the guest always being treated to a brand new pair. The chopsticks used by the common people are made of cedar or willow, the willow being usually round and the cedar square. Those of cedar are of two kinds: Warbasil and komochibashi, the former socalled because the hashi are split only half way down and the user splits them the rest of the way for himself, being thus convinced that he is using them for the first time, while the latter are much the same as the former, only that a toothpick is included. The hashi made of bamboo are for kitchen use, or are painted or lacquered for table use, and can be washed and used again. The standard length for chopsticks is eight inches, but some are six and others seven inches. In the imperial household hashi of willow are preferred, the length being eight inches. In the imperial family the same hashi are never used a second time, and so willow wood is the most convenient. In recent years attempts have been made to produce hashi by machinery, but success has been only partial, most of the people preferring those that are hand made. The wood is prepared and blocked out in the rural districts and the hashi are finished by the city dealers. Old Stump Yields Riches Old Stump Yields Riches Dover, Del.-Visions of untold riches have filled the minds of several colored workmen on the farm of Gen A. R. Benson, who already have unearthed what is supposed to be a cache of stolen goods. So far there have been found four watches, two of which are gold; three women's solio gold rings, a gold sold gift watch, gold breastpins, a $20 gold piece, two $10 gold pieces, two $5 gold pieces and one $2.50 gold piece. All were found around a large stump, which the workmen a few days ago set about to remove. All of the jewelry and money were in a good state of preservation, except one of the watches, a nickel one in which the works had rusted. The latest find, the $20 gold piece, has inspired the workmen to greater diligence, and they are seeking more of the treasure. Figuring Up. "Can we get on along my salary?" "Let's see," said the girl. "We'll need theater tickets, flowers, candy. Taxicabs will be an item, and your club expenses will amount to something." CONTROLLING PEACH INSECTS. G. C. Starcher, horticulturalist of the Virginia Experiment station, sums up the peach insect difficulty as follows: "The five principal insect pests are: Black aphis, similar to plant lice, which sucks the sap and infests the roots, branches and leaves. Examine the roots when the trees are planted and dip in tobacco solution—one pound tobacco to a gallon boiling water. If found on branches cut out promptly and destroy by fire. Follow up with a strong spray from fine nozzle of tobacco solution or kerosene emulsion. "The peach tree borer has done more injury than all other insects combined. The adult is a flying moth; lays eggs on the tree near the ground in July which soon hatch as small white grubs; these feed on the bark near or under the ground; they soon girdle the tree and go down to the roots. It maintains a busy life to the tree owner's detriment for a year. Treatment: Remove soil with trowel and knife. Dig out the pests through August. Some use pure white lead mixture with raw linseed oil on the base of the tree. "The bark beetle is a black, hard-shelled pest; it feeds in the bark; the tree appears to have been the target for bird shot; the pests are often called shot hole borers. Treatment: The adult lays its eggs in the holes in the bark, the larvae burrow further and destroy the tree or rob it of its life. Remove and burn all prunings, brush, etc.; spray the tree trunks with heavy lime wash. "The plum curculia causes wormy peaches, imperfect fruit, breaks the fruit skin, admitting the spores of brown rot. It is a brown hard shelled beetle and with its long snout slits the newly set fruit 'and deposits its egg. The larvae feeds on the fruit and reaches the seed, where it matures. The fruit drops, the pest enters the ground, where it pupates, emerges and pases the winter in grass or under protection. Treatment: Spray with arsenate of lead (two pounds powdered arsenate of lead to fifty gallons water) ten days after the bloom falls; destroy all fruit that falls and cultivate the soil. Remove all trash from under the trees. Above all spray the newly set fruit. "San Jose scale is an insect that breeds with incredible rapidity, the female giving birth to live lice in large numbers. In a month the young females bring forth another brood. This goes on all through the season, an immense multiplication of tree destroying pests. Treatment: The insect has its mouth down in the sap wood and cannot be poisoned, so a killing or smothering spray must be applied. Lime sulphur solution applied in the winter before the buds show pink will destroy the pest. NEAR MARKET OFTEN BEST. Village May Buy Better Than City In Certain Seasons. Markets in the larger cities are sometimes glutted with heavy arrivals of perishable fruits and vegetables, especially from July to September. At the same time, supplies may be relatively light in smaller cities, and still more so in towns and villages. Hence low prices in the big markets, while prices may be quite good in the little places. Often one can sell stuff in the nearby village or small town and net much better prices than to ship to the larger market in distant cities, says the editor of Farm and Home. Make the most of your home market. Dairymen who do this usually net much more for their milk than shippers to the big cities. Fruits and vegetables frequently are in such over supply at Chicago, New York and other great centers that at such seasons consumers in those cities buy food more cheaply than can consumers living within the area where the produce is shipped. One family that has lived in various cities and villages, and who has resided in New York city for some years, says that the housewife who is a thrifty buyer can average to get her food supplies at less cost there than in any other place in the United States as an average one year with another. CAN PREVENT CORNS. Methoda Told in Lancet Aid in Curing Sore. Feet. Corns cannot only be got rid of but can be prevented from growing again. The best methods are described in the Lancet by Dr. Paul Bernard Roth, surgeon of the Kensington General hospital, senior orthopedic clinical assistant of the London hospital and captain in the army medical corps. Following are his directions for getting rid of a corn: The foot is soaked in hot water (105 degrees F) for half an hour, the hard part of the corn is then generally rubbed away with a file and glacial acetic acid applied to the base of it. It is then covered with India rubber sheeting of the same quality as that used by dentists in making a rubber dam, fixed in position by two elastic bands around the foot or toe, one distal and one proximal to the corn. This is removed morning and evening and the acid reapplied for two or three days until the site of the corn begins to feel tender. Application of the acid is then stopped and the rubber covering used alone. By this time the corn with the immediately surrounding skin is white and dead looking. After another two days, if not before, the core of it can be completely removed by rubbing firmly with a gauze swab. WRITES OF JOYS OF PICNIC One Man Seems to Have the Right Idea of What Outdoor Entertainment Should Be. I am partial to picnics—the spreading of the cloth in the woods or beside a stream—although I am not avoid for sandwiches unless hunger press me, writes Charles S. Brooks in the Yale Review. Rather, let there be a skillet in the company and let a fire be started. Nor need a picnic consume the day. In summer it requires but the late afternoon, with such borrowing of the night as is necessary for the journey home. You leave the street car, clanking with your bundles like an itinerant tinnman. You follow a stream which on these lower stretches, it is sad to say, is already infected with the vices of the city. Like many a countryman who has come to town, it has fallen to dissipation. It shows the marks of the bottle. Farther up, its course is cleaner. You cross it in the mud. Was it not Christian who fell into the bog because of the burden on his back? Then you climb a villainously long hill and pop up upon an open platform above the city. The height commands a prospect to the west. Below is the smoke of a thousand suppers. Up from the city there comes the hum of life, now somewhat fallen with the traffic of the day—as though nature already practiced the tune for sending later her creatures off to sleep. You light a fire. The baskets disgorge their secrets. Ants and other levitathans think eventually that a circus has come or that bears are in the town. The chops and bacon achieve their appointed destiny. You throw the last bone across your shoulder. It slips and rattles to the river. The sun sets. Night like an ancient dame puts on her jewels. "FORMAL" HUNT POOR SPORT Where the Cheetah Is Given a Chance However, It Is Something of a Different Matter. The "formal" cheetah hunt, which is sure to constitute a part of the entertainment provided by any one of a couple of dozen of the most prominent native chiefs of northern India for his distinguished guests, is, if anything, tamer and more tiresome than a state tiger hunt, with the latter's elaborate provisions for rounding up the torpid quarry and still more elaborate precautions against anyone but the beaters being mauled. An informal cheetah hunt, however, where things are taken as they come, is rarely a very entertaining experience. On such occasions, as no maharajah's reputation for hospitality is held to hang upon the number of slaughtered buck laid at the feet of the guest of honor in the official photographs, it is possible to give the quarry something like a sporting chance, the consequence being that the cheetah is seen far nearer the limit of its really phenomenal stalking and sprinting powers than when the game, frightened and confused by a line of beaters, is driven under the supercilious nose of the "hunter."—Wide World Magazine. Providing a Target With the spread of overland auto touring the mulepost and guidepost are coming back into a prominence that is reminiscent of stage coach days. The leading problem of countries, states and auto associations in this line is the development of a signpost that will stand up under the abuse it almost invariably gets. One of the newest designs was developed by a prize contest in Illinois. The prize-winning design calls for a post which is built of concrete throughout. Another concrete post which is finding favor has even the names of towns and distances in concrete letters. In the West much damage is done by hunters and others, who shoot the signboards full of holes. The newest post in this region has its directions on one board, and a target specially painted on another, with the adjuration. "If you must shoot, shoot here!" Feast of Minerva. All Guatemala celebrates the feast of Minerva, the most elaborate observance in its calendar. The revival of this feast, educational and patriotic in its motives, is the idea of the present president, Senor den Estrada Cabrera. Like its Roman precursor, it marks the close of the school year, and prizes are awarded for excellence in scholarship. One of the prizes—$100 gold and a trip to the United States—was given by an American company for the best essay written in English. Ceremonies intended to inculcate love of country and devotion to duty also form part of the celebration. There is also an exhibition of the products of the republic held in connection with the annual event. Of the exhibits this year, coffee, sugar and sugar cane deserve special mention. American-made plows and disk plows specially adapted to sugar-cane cultivation were on display. Strange Marine Creature Strange marine creature. The marine sunfish (Mola mola) is one of the strangest creatures known, having its body lopped off just behind its perpendicular dorsal and anal fins, and being as high as long. With a tiny mouth, an even stranger part of its structure is its diminutive spinal cord, which measures considerably less than an inch in a fish a yard long. A specimen of this species taken three or four years ago off the coast of southern California was 10 feet 1 inch in length and nearly 11 feet in height. Reyold for Tourists. The Bale-Geneva express, says the Standard's Geneva correspondent, was overcrowded the other day and travelers had to stand in the corridors of the second class coaches. One tourist saw a seat vacant, but covered with luggage and asked a passenger sitting near whether the seat was "occupied." "Yes," replied the stranger, "the man is in the restaurant wagon and will return soon." There the matter ended until the express reached Lausanne, when the owner of the haggage prepared to get out. "Pardon me," said the tourist, "that luggage does not belong to you," and called the guard. The latter sided with the tourist and the whole matter was placed before the station master. The selfish traveler had to prove, piece by piece, that the luggage on the seat belonged to him, and he finally was obliged to pay for two second class tickets. Various Earthquake Sounds Earthquake sounds are described as variations of heavy rumbling, so low in pitch as almost to be more felt than heard (in many cases inaudible to persons who are deaf to very low tones), and belonging to one or another of the following types: The passing of wagons, thunder, wind, the fall of a load of stones, the fall of a heavy body, an explosion, or some other miscellaneous sound. In strong earthquakes the sound area occupies a central region (on an average two-thirds) of the disturbed region; in moderate earthquakes the two areas are approximately of the same magnitude; while in many slight earthquakes the sound area is larger than the disturbed area. As a rule the beginning of the sound precedes the shock, and the end of the sound follows the end of the shock. TARASQUE OF DRAGON Some time in the days when people still traveled in Europe for pleasure, you may have passed through the little city of Tarascon on your way north from Marseilles. You remember the wide empty main street with the little houses set far back in the scanty shade of the plane trees and the row of drowsing carriage drivers drawn up in the center of the roadway, who offered to show you all the sights between trains—"only forty minutes." No doubt you gave Tarascon a comprehensive glance and decided to stay with the train. By so doing you missed many interesting things; and it was your own fault, for at the slightest encouraging sign the coachman would have reeled off his catalog of attractions—the castle of King Rene, the shrine of St. Martha, the neighboring castle of Beaucaire—you to Beaucaire—and finally, as a grand climax, the local monster, the local pride and distinction, the tarasque. The tarasque is a beast of family and genus unknown to biology; he is one of the creatures who have never been on sea or land. He dwells securely locked in a house of his own, and he is a monster of such unusual and formidable architecture that you will dream about him at night. The tarasque is a child of legend blossomed into concrete form. He is inseparably associated with St. Martha, whose shrine is the other local landmark. Back in the days of fable, when dragons ranged the earth, the Avlators Encouraged. Experts in the problems of American aviation are feeling more cheerful over our prospects in the field of flying as the result of the publication of a report by the British government on the British aviation corps. The report shows that at the beginning of the war Britain was little better prepared in the matter of airplanes than the United States is today. England had only 175 airplanes in July, 1914, according to the report, less than half of which were fit for service. The exact present strength is not made public, but it is admitted that Great Britain now has over 4,000 serviceable machines available. Measure Hides by Air Pressure. Measure Hides by Air Pressure. A German method for measuring the area of hides by means of air pressure has been recently patented. The measuring instrument consists of a table top with many small holes in it, spaced at regular intervals, mounted on a funnel base, through which, and through the holes in the top, a suction fan draws air. The hide, when placed on the table, reduces the cross-section of the air current and so produces a rarefaction of the air, which in turn creates a subpressure that can be measured from the combined readings of a vacuum gauge and a tachometer—an instrument that registers the velocity of air currents. Removing Bust From Nickel First smear the rusted place with grease and rub it well in; this in itself will frequently remove a great deal of the rust. Allow the grease to remain for several hours and then remove it with a rag which has been dipped in ammonia. This usually will remove all traces of the rust. If, however, a stubborn spot or two remains, wipe it with a little diluted hydrochloric acid. The acid should be used very quickly and with care, otherwise it will remove the nickel as well as the rust. When all the rust has disappeared wash thoroughly with clean water and then use a metal polish. And You are only asked to save and not waste Food SEVEN FOOT "SAUSAGE" PROVES TO BE A SNake Just a Common One, Say Some—"P ruvian Pretzel' Species, Says Police Officer BONES 5lb. 14 JACK BONES! SILK FOR A SHILLING A MARKET SCENE IN ENGLAND New York—The good fortune which Charles Beckstein believed had come to him the other day failed when the seven foot length of sausage he reached for in the cellar of his pork store at No. 703 Columbus avenue, turned out to be a rather lively snake. When Beckstein saw what he supposed was a coil of sausage that had been overlooked by a clerk he chucked and called to his wife for twine with which to tie to the sausage into links for the display counter. Exited cries for aid emanating from the cellar indicated to perverse passing in the street that Beckstein had made a serious error. Among the first to hurry downstairs were policemen Meagher and Ames. They found the snake running a close second in the twelfth lap of a race about the cellar. When the contestants passed the reviewing stand on the stairs in the thirteenth lap the policemen smothered the snake with a blanket and soon had him at the West 100th street station. Examination proved it was just a common snake or rather an uncommon snake, for no two persons could agree on its variety, the Lieutenant Joyce insisted it was a Peruvian pretzel snake, which is fond of sausages and other things associated with pretzels. WAR BABIES! LET THEM GROW UP. Inquiry developed the fact that a few days ago a snake seven feet in length escaped from a long haired man who was demonstrating the efficacy of a "corn oil" in a drug store window a few doors from the Beckstein shop. A quiet search failed to find the snake, and the corn oil man moved to other fields, leaving several hundreds of tenants in that row of tenements ignorant of the truth that a large snake was at large. Instead of doing harm, however, that snake busied himself in diminishing the visible supply of rats and mice. Tenants had noted a falling off in the supply of rodents and could not account for it until the snake was found. flap-jacks en 'lasses JUST THE SAME AS ALL THE REST. IT IS TABLE D NOTE FROM HOW ON THE ALLIED RESTAURANT WHAT CAN I HAVE THAT'S SPECIAL? THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THE BELGIAN PEOPLE THE BRIEGAN PEOPLE U. S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION U. S. Food Administration. "Sites savior" fats on wheat, weat got ter save sugar is ter best syri ter save sugar is ter use syri honey. A nice lil pitcher full er 'lasses conveyed by a fleet er buckwheat cake is ter best syri ter use ter cust" wid de sugar proplck- en it saves wheat flour too. "I SOLOMONLY SWARE T. THAT I WONT EAT NO MORE ICE CREEM WHAT'S MAID WITH SUGER NOR NO MORE CANDY WHAT'S MAID WITH SUGER. HONEST AN TROO- CROSS MY HART AMEN! 5 CENT CONES FRESH BAKED SUGAR COOKIES ME TOO! GANDY AN HEROIC SACRIFICE. t-hoot-t-hoot t-hoo- Arter de wise o'owl spit on de bait he say, sez ee—"I wginer tse sprize you all wid a mess er fisches 'cause you alls mus' save de meat en eat sumpin' else insidn en jes git out dat o'game bag en make it work, too" sez ee. Den he kotch a big fish and say, sez ee. "thoot—he say dat he means dat when you als make riz biscuits jees don't make 'em—use corn meal tare save wheat flour for de sofers. King er de Roos' The Pinch Hitter It was tightening of the American belt that made this hit possible. The game is won if we keep it up/