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--- IN UNION IN STRENGTH FRESH OHIO NEWS WRITTEN BY THE OLD RELLA- BLE/ GAZETTE'S CORRES- PONDENTS THROUG- OUT THE STATE What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Mari- ages, Deaths, Etc. FINDLAY—Mr. Fred, Miller is ill. —Mr. Chas, Adams, and Mrs. Goo, Harris are convalescing—Mrs. Minnie Boyd is very ill.—A. R. Cooper is in Chicago on business.—Tell your friends who failed to get a copy of the week's Gazette what they have misspelled and to give its local agent their orders for a copy, every week. YOUNGSTOWN.—Miss Minnie Spencer, age 28, was slain by a bullet alloged to have been fired by a jealous amurator at her home, 104 Edgeworth St. Friar, New York. He was made his escape before the arrival of the police. Three other women were detained as witnesses.—Call your white friends' attention to the French generals' letters on page 4 of this paper. They ought to read them, too. RAVENNA—Mr. L. Gear, who has been in Dean doing church work, spoke at Allen A. M. E. church, Sunday evening—Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Yaeger were in Cleveland, Saturday, to welcome home his twin brother, the 19th-century (the old ninth) Bat.-J. Rev Archie Allen of Akron, who spoke at Allen church, last week, dined with Mr. Earl Jackson and family—Mr. Kav of Cleveland has been here a few days. The R. D. S. chub gave a social at Mr. Griffin, mother of Mrs. Williams, and another lady, and Robert, Williams, of Cleveland are here visiting. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Peters visited a few days in Cleveland. WELLSVILLE—For the first time, it is said, in ring history the color line is to be drawn in a state prize fight law. No races are prevented from fighting in the ring, but they must stick to their own race in fighting. Such is the amendment tacked onto a bill passed by the Nevada senate to 5, recently. Dispatcher Carmine City the Mayor will NOT concur in the amendment which specifier that white fighters must fight white rivals and colored fighters—colored rivals. A dispatch from Camp Sherman says that the 372d infantry of the 93d division, which paraded at Cleveland, Saturday, were battling at Carmine City the 93d division, which believe the regiment can be demobilized by Wednesday or Thursday. HILLSBORO—Miss Florence Bums entertained, last Tuesday evening, in honor of Mrs. Edith Tarver of Detroit who returned home, Wednesday, after a visit with her grandmother, Mrs. Louisa Young—Rev. Homer King preached at Wesleyan church, Sunday,—Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Ross, pastor of the church, Sunday—Mrs. Jesse Bullard and Mrs. Pleasant are better—Rev. W. L. Tolliver preached, Sunday, and will hold meetings, this week, at the Baptist church. Lincoln school gave an entertainment, Friday evening, at the Baptist church, in honor of Lincoln's and Washington's birthdays. Prof. Rose, chairman. Lieut. Points returned to Lincoln school. Miss Ming sick. Her granddaughter, Miss Bessie of Columbus, was called here by her illness—Rev. Maxwell, P. E., held quarterly meeting, Sunday, at the A. M. E. church. SANDUSKY. —The Gazette got here late owing to the delay in the mails incident to a holiday —Washington's birthday. But. we certainly did appreciate it when it did arrive. It gives more faces of prime interlocutor than the other race papers them are what other race papers fear to publish or will not, for some reason or other. Subscribe for The Gazette or give your order for it to Rev. G. D. Smith, agent—Mr. and Mrs. S. Arnold are rejoicing over the arrival on a fine bby bby—Mr. and Mrs. S. Arnold has been ill for two weeks but is improving. —The Young People's Guild gave the church $12, Sunday, and the M. S. gaye $6, toward its taxes. —Mr. John Shadda was in Springfield, Saturday, attending the Odd Fellows meeting —Pearl Ogren day at the A. M. E. church. March 9. All members and friends will please take notice. CADIZ—Mrs. Lizzie West has returned from Pittsburgh, where she was again called by the death of her brother, William Bell—Miss Gracie Banks was recommended by the members of the A. M. E. church, to the quarterly conference on October 15, 1995, where James Martha West, Almanza, Lee and Sarah Bossell were at Flushing, Saturday, attending the funeral of Mrs. Martha Stewart—Mrs. Susan West and Miss Reba West are visiting Mrs. Charles Robinson of Massillon—Mrs. Hobsonzollem, rep. for the Fourth National Brotherhood before Paine Brotherhood of St. James A. M. E. church, the evening of March 10. W. H. Lucas and R. F. Ballard, for the prosecution, and Rev. C. H. Young and B. S. Lee, for the defense. Refreshments will be served at the Fourth National Brotherhood of A. T. Tyler is visiting her mother, Mrs. Annie Williams—Representative R. R. Beetham, Republican floor leader, was recently elected president of the Fourth National bank here. He is a brilliant young man and a friend of the race. PREJUDICE "Any prejudice whatever will be insurmountable if those who do not share in it themselves truckle it to it and flatter it and accept it is a law of nature."—John Stuart Mill. THE GAZETTE AMERICAN HEROES OF THE OLD NINETY BATTLEFIELD Eight hundred and ninety of our soldier boys of the 1972d infantry, including what was left of the "Old Fighting Ninth Ohio Battalion" marched triumphantly through downtown streets of Cleveland, last Saturday, cheered by tens of thousands of spectators. The home coming of these heroes of Verdon, the Argonne, Champagne and other battle fields of France, was marked by unusual incidents. When two long troop trains pulled into Union station at 11:30 a.m., hundreds of factory whistles and music from the city were cheered by cheers from thousands of relatives and friends of the Cleveland soldiers welcomed the smiling fighters. They were met at Ashkabda by Maj. J. C. Fulton, formerly in command of the old Ninth Ohio battalion; Capt. W. R. Green, formerly of Col. Same, and Capt. Hurry, Hurry, Hurry, were met at Union station by a committee of more than 190 citizens headed by W. R. Connors, secretary of our local Welfare Association; Mayor Harry L. Davis, Fred Thomas, his secretary; Manson Pavens, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce; Harry L. Vail and Capt. H. P. Shume of the Army advisory band; and Jackekind band and Followed by the regimental band the troops in command of Lieut. Col. W. O. Copley (white), started on the long line of march. Throughout it they were enthusiastically cheered. Many build- WATTERSON ON WILSON Says He Cannot Be Elected President Again-Can Secure the Nomination. However. Miami, Fl.—Henry Watterson, famous editor of the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal, was asked by a representative of the N. Y. Herald: "Wil Woodrow Wilson be the Democratic candidate for president in 1920." The chairman of the Republican replied, in part, as follows: "I do not like to have the president of the United States quite so persona gratia to the great ones of Europe. I do not like his hobnobbing with crowns and seepers, stars and gardens, or as the saying used to be the ripping with old carpets and cunning have just reached me from the other side which will make excellent campaign material for the Republicans. One of these represents Mr. and Mrs. Wilson standing. I will not say smirk, with King George and Queen Mary before the camera. The other proudly down the Coso in Rome with King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helena. For one I don't like it. It offends not only my plain American sense of republican simplicity, but what I may call a sense of national propriety. You can be not such thing as equals between a citizen and a servoing, and when the president begins to think, feel and act like a sovereign, he is out of character and out of place in these glorious exploitations. He has shown himself at times a man of very unequal, even of infirm judgment. With such handicaps to carry, along with the third term issue, I do not want to be a servoing himself in 1920 he will carry a state outside the Holmesville provinces of the south." "Suppose you are mistaken, and he rms and is elected?" "In that event, goodly to the public of Washington. Jackson and "incoln ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25,1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since OHIO AFRO-AMERICAN HEROES OF THE OLD NINTH BATTALION ings were decorated with flags. Playing "The Star Spangled Banner," "Over There," "Smiles" and other久时 airs, the bands made a great bit with the onlookers. The line of march was as follows: Union station to W. 6th St. to Superior Ave. to the public station to Central Ave. to E. 22d St. to Prospect Ave. to E. 23d St. to Superior Ave. to E. 6th St. to Central armory. It was 2 o'clock before they entered the armory where a dinner was ready for them, under the awnings of the Welfare Association, and prepared by R. W. Miller, patron. It consisted of chicken, mashed potatoes, kettle beans, kettle beans, kettle beans, butter, hot coffee, and large slices of apple pie. Miss Hazel Mountain was chairman of the women's committee representing a number of女 associations, and Mrs. Mattie McAdob, a score of women representing the Red Cops and the Club Cion assisted in serving the soldiers. Following the dinner the domination of the city, Alex H. Martin, Ego, permanent chairman of the meeting, praised them. Mr. Comms was temporary chairman. Jackson had played patriotic airs while the soldiers were cutting: "A chorus of 350 young women, led by Mrs. Rachel Walker Turner, sang "America" and "The Sage," and "The Grand" and "The Grand" last week, entertained the soldiers for half an hour. The scenes in the armory during and after the dinner were many-ided. Swethearts and Bates and Diaz. Mr. Wattegson said, "North America is next door to Europe, and we will not come again we will not be elected. The problems will have an ugly thing on ourster thing than they had it earlier. But we still see what we stuck ROOSEVELT AND TAFT Responsible for: Dearanchissement in the South-Lyning the Amendments. Editor: N. Y. World; The editorial in the World Sunday, in which former President Taft is taken to task for his failure to speak a word or perform an official net calculated to enforce the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments is not authority. The World could have further informed its result, the southern states, which result in domination of the people of the south by a political antioctomy, were factored upon the people during the administrations of Mr. Roosevelt, and Mr. Taft was then a cabinet adviser of Mr. Roosevelt. It was not entirely forgotten that Mr. Taft, while Secretary of War and an aspirant for the presidency, made a speech in Greenville, N.C., which was practically an endorsement of the southern political disfranchisement. manipulation. The facts are, therefore, that Mr. Taft only failed when president to uphold, "to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States," but he went on to be involved in the south by making a speech that was received as a message of assurance that no fear need he entertained in the south that he would interfere with the lynchers of the war amendments or disturb the disfranchisement intrigue through which a minority of whites now dominate not only the white majority but have themselves colored to a status of political slavery. JOSEPH C. MANNING Foreign Alabama Postmaster. wives and mothers of the soldiers hugged and kissed one another. In spite of the dia of conversation, laughter hamming of war-time tunes, groomings, and in occasional burst from the band in the balcony, which was crowded with men, women and children, into the murid atmosphere, for, at the north end of the army nearly 1,000 army rifles were stacked in regulation form. The stage setting, was interesting. The background was decorated with a large regimental flag, presented to the troops by the French just before the soldiers left Dresst, for New York. Feb. 6. The regimental emblem is a large shield with a crown of soldiers before they embarked for home. It was enflamed with the French war cross. Companies E, F, G and H! the battalion, included the 390 troops of the regiment, which left the city at 5 p.m. Saturday, for Columbus, and Camp Sherman, where the men were demobilized. Mary of the soldiers were the crux of the battle, and held fighting ammunition. Orderly* George Sanford of Springfield, headquarters company, told the story of the troops fighting in France: "Our real 'work' overseas, began in the Argentine forest last spring," he said. "We held a rather onerate sector in that region for about thirty days, then we were transferred to a softer west of碉. Our next destination was known as '304 Hill' where the German crown prince lost so many in his efforts to gain ground. We FREE CONDEMNED SOLDIERS secretary of War Baker Asked to do so—Dight to be Done, Ton. Battalion. Mc. Effort: are being read by influential citizens of this city to have the cause of the four officers of the 1858 Infantry, Co. Lt. Dattailion, reviewed by the War Department. The men convicted for violating the laws of the war code were Daniel Simmons, Lt. Col. Cawood, Lt. Lieut. Robert E. Johnson. The verdict of death was recently changed to ten years imprisonment. The engagement at Vienne L'Chateau, France, Sept. 26, in which the battalion took part, resulted in the charge of cowardled being preferred against the men. The infantry at the time was under the command of Major Max Elsak, white. Artillery. Thirteen Hours Late. It has been officially stated that the 1858th was allowed to face the Huns at this point without hand grounded and other immunition and were compelled to seek shelter from the storm of shell fire, coming from the Germans. It was further cited that the supporting force, the 156th Field Artillery (white), was thirteen hours beheaded orders and fired shots to the at least one of the artillerymen placed, the infantry between the shell fire of the Huns and the creeping barrage of its own supporting element. JACK JOHNSON PROSPEROUS. A White Officer Saw Him and Tells of His Prosperity and Success in Spain. Boston, Mass.-Lieut. Benj. S. Cline (white) who has returned from France and Spain, saw Jack Johnson in a Madrid cafe. "Johnson is quite an important figure in Spain," said Cline. "He looks well and prosperous. During his stay in the cafe he retired to an apartment to dictate a few busi- remained in this sector until some time in August, Lieut. F. G. Stanford of Washington, D. C., and some other men were captured here. We remained here for two weeks and then got into the hard fight of the famous battle of Washington, Dec. 26. Truman from the 37th and 372d regiments were in the third wave that swept forward. Following this drive the Ninth Battalion boys were relieved of trench duty, but we were again called out for duty and were preparing to go over the top the day the ammister was signed. After it was signed we were sent into the Lorraine sector and remained there until ordered home. Colonel F. Company I are the first companies of troops who saw our fighting service to return home as a unit. They arrived in France April 14, 1938. Company F is from Columbus, Company E from Springfield and Company G from Dayton. The regiment arrived in New York Feb. 10 and was sent to Camp Upton. The also marched with their full equipment, including metal helmets worn in the 372mm. Corporal Ignatius Edwards, 101st St., picked his head out of a car window and German officer's helmet he got at Automone. Marco Hool. Wood and Samuel, captured by Germans, said, "We taught them crisps and beat them at the game." Corporal Lee Kemp, E. 42th St., gassed and wounded, said, "The best convenir I brought home is the scar more letters to his private secretary, a beautiful Spanish quail. I later learned that Jack had invested beauty in commercial stock and that his business was based since taking residence there. He is located in Barcelona and has entered business there. His associates are bankers and professional men and every home extends him a good welcome. I further learned that he is a member of the society to call on the crown heads without going through the usual routine of red tape before being permitted to enter the royal chamber. THI PAN-AFRICAN CONGRESS OPENS Paris, France.-The Pan-African compress, which will prepare measures regarding land, capital, industry and education for Colored people of the world, for presentation to the press, on Friday, Feb. 20, with forty Colored delegates in attendance. They include 190 Afro-Americans, headed by the two delegates to the peace conference, C. D. B. King, the foreign minister, and the head of the meeting, Paris. The American Government did not seem to favor the meeting. J. Clarence Brown Dead. San Diego, Cal. Feb. 20, 1998 Gazette Letter. Dear Sir: Just a time to inform you of the death of an old friend in the person of J. Chirure Brown, who departed this life, Feb. 17, after a five-day illness. Pneumonia. Funeral from Johnson & Saum's undertaking parlor, Feb. 20 at 2:30 p. m. Burial in M. Hope cemetery, Rev. B. R. Guy of the A.M. E. church officiating, the floral offerings were many, in which Brown was an offertor man from what he was the last man to saw him. He had straightened, out and become the man that he had been, years ago in Cleveland. He was well liked here and had a very large funeral. Kind regards to all friends. As ever Very respectfully. EARL PARKER. of a shrapnel wound in my left arm, Otherwise Um all right, and blamed glad to get back." Corporal Fred Cook, W. 28th St., this afternoon all right, all right, penetrated the first line of the encampment found themselves ritually surrounded at daylight. They put up a fight, then 19 were forced to surrender. This was in Alsace, Nov. 8. "This is the best place in all the world!" cried Sergent. Harry Berry, Blaine Ave., as he jumped off the ramp, wounded in the Champagne battle. "See that ring," cried Erica Jackson; E. 117th St., to a party of friends who grazed him at the train, "That was made out of a shell that hit my door. Give me a little more mum, gentlemen, I just love this place," Henry Cobin, Sevill Ave., exclaimed when the train pulled in. The 572? lost considerable of its numbers in the various engagements, particularly at Hill 304 in the Verdun sector in when, after driving him through a monument on the crest of the hill in honor of its dead. This is the hill that both English and French veteran soldiers (tried repeatedly) to take but in vain. The French renamed it Hill 372 in honor of the regiment. What the French generals, in Damascus, had to do with soldier lives will be found on page 4 of this paper. Read it carefully and call your friend's attention to it—particularly your white friends, accountances and others. CLEVELANDER SHOT ON A TRAIN Pittsburgh, Pa.—Passengers in a crowded coach of the Cleveland express onto the Fort Wayne road were thrown into a panic here, Sunday night, when an 'Pro-American drew a revolver and hit another who was seated on the other side of the car. John C. Carroll of Carrington was arrested by railroad detectives. Andrew Chappell, age 24, of Cleveland, the victim, is in a hospital with a bullet hit his abdomen, and is expected to die. Wingfield alleges that Chappell the accused him with a knife before he first. 1. One of the most enjoyable children's parties it has ever been our good fortune to witness was that of Miss Dorothy Hughes, age 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred, J. Hughes, E. 70th St., Feb. 22 from 2:30 to 7 p.m. The dugout room was neatly decorated in pink and white. There was a variety of good-music, which included a beautiful solo by Miss Dorothy that showed the little lady to excellent advantage. Then there were games and dancegalge and other forms of amusement that wide-awake up-to-date young folk are guest furnished in the Table each station which added materially to the enjoyment and edification of all. The editor of The Gazette was honored with selection to cut the beautiful, large birthday cake, the top of which was appropriately lettered. It was delicious. too. Everybody had a love-love-wishing Miss Dorothy "many returns of the day." Those in attendance were (in addition to the persons mentioned above): Martha Cassidy, Julia McFarland, Helen Davis, Helen Russell, Bessie Thomas, Vashti Douglass, Edith Hughes, Cornelius Wilkins, Clayton Lee, Earl Cassidy, Wm. Russell, John and Poynton Williams, Adults, Harold Hughes and Mr. Chas, Wilkins. IN UNION IS STRONG OUR BIRTH STATE APPROPRIATES MANY THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FOR OUR PEOPLE'S USE. Bans "The Birth of a Nation" for All Time—Treat. Our Three Legislators and Assembly Employees Fine, Too—"Going Some." Charleston, W. Va.—The prohibition against the exhibition during the period of the war of "The Birth of a Nation" and similar pictures and plays, put into effect last summer by an order of the Executive State Council of Defense, concluded infinitely by the legislature. Thursday last, when it passed a measure drafted by H. J. Carpent, one of the three colored members of the lower house, the law provides as a penalty not only for exhibiting but also for advertising such pictures and places a fine of not more than $1,000 and confinement in jail of not more than an hour latter at the discretion of the court. Other legislation of special benefit to the race was the creation of the office of state supervisor of our schools with a salary of $2,400 per annum and $500 for traveling expenses, and an advisory board to the state board of education to be composed of two citizens of color, the compartment of each to be $1,000 a year and $500 for traveling expenses, and an advisory board to the supervisory office, practically will have charge of all matters pertaining to the state's colored educational institutions. In the matter of appropriations for the next two years the legislature was very liberal to the colored institutions. For the erection and maintenance of a hospital for colored insane $165,000 was provided. Forty thousand and dollars was voted for land, buildings and lands of expenses of a colored institution and their appropriations are: Colored tuberculosis sanitarium; $43,000; Orphans' Home; $37,000; W. Va. Collegiate Institute; $146,000; Bluefield Collegiate Institute; $67,000; Storer College (a private institution); $5,400; Burnett, Harrison, Mercer and Lonax Hospitals (privately owned), each; $2,500, a total of $508,000. As with appropriations so was the legislature in handing out positions. There were colored attaches, ranging from 10 to 20 percent. And if any discrimination was shown in committee assignments, the colored members of the house of delegates were the Beneficiaries. Nutter, of Kanawha county, served on the judiciary, forfeited and unappropriated lands, and insurance committees; Coleman, of Fayette; on the forestry and conservation, penitentiary, labor and finance; on the judicial, forfeited and unappropriated lands, and insurance committees; on taxation and finance, claims and grievances, human institutions and public buildings, executive offices and library and railroad committees. Commenting on the services of these gentlemen on the occasion of the presentation to him of a loving cup by Mr. Nutter for the cloakroom attendants, the speaker of the house that had been assigned the duties assigned them equally as well as the other members; that he had broken precedents in placing them on the most responsible committees, but that their records were such that they were not appointed them, upon themselves, their race and their state. ROOSEVELT_AND.TAFT Though Highly Honored by the Republican Party, Almost Wrecked it —Lynched. "The Black Battalion" —"School-Master" Wilson—A White Friend Writes. Portland, Orc, Feb. 23, '19. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir: Let me tell you how very pleased I am that you are helping to keep alive the TRUTH regarding our beloved Senator Joseph Benson Foraker, and Ex-General Joseph Roosevelt, who spoke the TRUTH when he said that "Roosevelt took part in great events but was NOT a great man." Some of the fulsome editors concerning him sicken me. He was ungrateful and "ingratitude is the scalawag's mean shame." He owed a limitless debt to Foraker and paid it by black treachery. He asked and received great aid from E. H. Harriman, then turned and denounced his friend. "No heavier than the kingdom of Heaven." Well Roosevelt wrote letters and denied writing them. The poor are God's special care and He says He will avenge the helpless. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Taft were guilty of bitter injustice toward "The Black Battalion" and guilty of un-American persecution. The Republican party honored them with its greatest gift and they all but wrecked the party and caused the election of the gentleman who occupies "the White House" when he can spare time from his European travels, and tells us why he should do, say and think, as a school master lectures his pupils. No, I do not think Mr. Roosevelt was either a good or great man. I see there is talk of Senator Warren G. Harding as leader of the G. O. P. in Ohio and perhaps in the nation, would prefer the Hon. Mon. T. Hyatt. Harding would be good and we want Harding would be good and we want an Ohio man-at the front again. Sincerely, MRS. PATRICIA ROBISON: HOSTESS FINALLY PLEASED! HOSTESS FINALLY PLEASED! Camp Devens, Ayers, Mass.—A well intentioned woman living in a nearby city notified tamp officials that she would be glad to entertain, at Sunday dinner, fifty soldiers at her home. The only stipulation she made was that the men sent were all from the Sunny South, colored troops, of the 18th battalion. THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWS-EST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 300,000 in Ohio. 22,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1919. The "Old Ninth Ohio Battalion" was certainly a fine-looking body of men and everybody was proud of them. Fine soldiers, fine record! The Gazette is indebted to Managing Editor Erie C. Hopwood of the Cleveland Plain Dealer for the use of the splendid, large cut used on our first page today, and other similar courtesies. Strangers in Cleveland, and others, are renewing the vain effort to start a "jim-crow" Y. M. C. A., it is currently reported. They want to get our sixty odd teachers out of the local public (mixed) schools, have "jim-crow" schools here, like the same kind of "jim-crow" Negroes forced on Dayton, Columbus, Philadelphia and other cities here in the north. In plain words, they would have here in Cleveland the very condition that drove most of them from the south to this city. LORD HAVE MERCY! The Cleveland Daily News' illustrations and account of the home-coming of the Old Ninth Ohio Battalion, last Saturday, was on the whole not only insulting but positively disgusting, and must have been written by a southern "cracker." How any city editor of a local daily newspaper, unless he too was a "cracker," could possibly tolerate such is beyond us. The attempt of the reporter to write the southern dialect was positively silly, it was so crude. Then, too, those he attempted to quote, as a rule, speak better English, we feel sure, than the aforementioned reporter, judging him by his last Saturday's "output." In marked contrast were the illustrations and account of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. It was fine and free from the many objectionable features that characterized the News' account. It was decidedly the best of the three daily papers and The Gazette felicitates Managing Editor Erie C. Hopwood on the same WILSON "OUTGENERALED." Reenten down by facts and the reasoning that is based upon them, President Wilson is retiring as gracefully as possible from his untenable position on the question of the League of Nations. The supreme peace council is helping him to "save his face" by outlining a so-called League of Nations, which is as different from his original proposal as day is from night. The league as now agreed upon will be nothing more than an international association, without power. Sovereign nations like the United States will remain sovereign, determining for themselves, absolutely without interference, upon such course of action at any time as seems best to them. The world is merely to have another advisory, statistical, historical headquarters. President Wilson's original League of Nations, the United States of the World, armed with military and naval power, and bound to suppress any nation that should dare to disturb the world's peace, has gone glimmering into the shadows of Never-Never land. THE SENATE IGNORED. Frank H. Simonds, writing from Paris in the Washington Star, blames President Wilson for not having a program ratified in advance by the senate and indorsed by the people of the United States. He states further that if such a course had been pursued the president, ght have imposed a very considerable portion of it upon the nations of Europe. If Mr. Simonds' reasoning is correct, then the president has no one to blame but himself. The senate and the people of the country were ready, willing and anxious to know just what he proposed to do but he utterly disregarded such a course and failed to take either the senate or the people into his confidence. Mr. Simonds says: "It will be seen, then, that in all of the great problems it was impossible for the Paris conference to reach clear-cut decisions. Had Mr. Wilson brought a program ratified in advance by the senate and indorsed by the people of the United States, he might have imposed a very considerable portion of it upon the nations of Europe. When he was unable to bring such a program it became clear that no other force could impose such organization upon the nations there represented, and that the League of Nations was inevitably bound to remain a loose confederation of like-minded nations, destitute of power to enforce its decisions and condemned to rely upon moral influence." And later on he adds: "Confronted by the facts of the European situation, Mr. Wilson and those associated with him saw very quickly how different the world of fact was from what they had imagined at a distance of 3,000 miles. "They found the old difficulties confronting them of being powerless because they had no specified remedies for diseases all mankind had suffered from and hated. In a way they found themselves merely denunciators of disease and not physicians with healing remedies." Can it be then, that Mr. Wilson has returned, not alone for the purpose of signing bills, but with a cry for help and a plea for some suggestion from the senate and the people to straighten the Chinese puzzle which has developed so gradually and yet so well in Paris? SOLDIERS TREATMENT There was recently in congress considerable criticism of the treatment American soldiers had received and were receiving. Whereupon Representative Ferris, of Oklahoma, with true southern intolerance, announced himself as opposed to "congress resolving itself into an old woman's society to hear complaints." And where is the soldier, who may come from an Ohio home by the way, to have any one look after his welfare if it is not in congress? Has any one noticed any abullations of anxiety about the treatment the men have been receiving, from the White House? We have seen from various sources what sundry courts-martial did to them and what they endured in Camp Agnery. The fact is that congress never appears to better advantage than when it is protecting the interests of the American citizen who gives up his civil liberty to serve his country on the field of battle. Representative Johnson, who had himself been a soldier, answering Mr. Ferris, said, "it is impossible to get anything from the administration for the doughboy," possibly, he added with some sarcasm, "because no son or relative or any one intimately connected with it was allowed to fight. I dislike to criticize, but I cannot help but realize that there are but two royal families in the world who never suffered nor appeared in the casualty list: one was the royal family of Germany and the other the royal and reigning families of the United States." There is need of criticism and justification of criticism. The same day Major Samuel W. Ellsworth of the medical corps testified before the senate committee that many American soldiers returning in safety and in good health from the trenches were dying of disease at the embarkation camp at Brest. "I could forgive a heavy death rate and unsanitary conditions when we were sending troops to France and when the Germans were breaking through the allied lines," he said, "but when the war is over these conditions should be remedied." Congress was never better employed than when it is trying to safeguard the lives and health of American soldiers. Should not some one be doing it? Cheaper. Than Wire Telegraph and Less Liable to Break Down, Say Lackawanna Officials. All trains on the Lackawanna Railroad between Hoboken, N. J., and Buffalo, N. Y., are to be operated by wireless. The regular telegraph system will be maintained only for use in emergency between the two points. The cheapness in operation when compared to the old wire system is given as the main reason for the adoption of the wireless. A test of wireless on running trains, showed that all difficulties concerning the general installation had been removed. The Lackawanna officials agree that the wireless, in addition to reducing the cost of maintenance, will insure service at all times of the year. The metal towers in Hoboken and Buffalo are constructed to wiststand all storms. Government experts have returned the instruments at Hoboken so as not to interfere with the wireless station at the navy yard. All the Vowels in a Word Two English words in which all the five vowels are to be found in proper alphabetical order are "abstemious" and "facetious." A mechanic of St. Louis, Mo., has invented a "non-skidder" which is intended to prevent the possibility of accident to an automobile by making it impossible for the car to slide off the road. The attachment consists of two shoes fastened, to the rear of the car, between the wheels. When the car begins to skid the driver touches a button and the shoes instantly drop to the surface of the road, stopping the car. The shoes are about eighteen inches long and three inches wide, made of hard metal with a corrugated under surface. Resembling a pistol and controlled by a trigger is a new pneumatic tool for cleaning dirt from inaccessible parts of machinery. DOINGS OF THE RACE Wilberforce University will celebrate its commencement day, Thursday, June 5. Dr. Emmett J. Scott, special assistant to the secretary of war, will deliver the address. Fifty-one officers and 1,484 enlisted men of the 367th Infantry, better known to the public as the "Buffaloes," reached port, last week Monday, on the "Rotterdam." About two-thirds of the men in the regiment are from New York and vicinity. The transport "Ulua," due at New York, Feb. 27, carries about 1,000 of the 317th Supply Train, the 317th Trench Mortar Battery and the 325th Signal Field Battalion of the 92d Division. The vessel also carries an Afro-American casual company. The "Great Northern" is due at New York, today, with the field and staff, headquarters and supply company, medical detachment. Butteries B, A, C and D, 349th Field Artillery, 92d Division, for Camps Dix, Meade, Lee, Jackson, Gordon, Pike, Custer, Taylor, Sheridan and regular army. The "Aquinta" was due at New York, yesterday, with the 317th train headquarters and 92d Division Military Police Company for Camps Funston, Sherman, Travis and Meade; 317th ammunition train complete, 92d Division, for Camps Funston, Travis, Jackson and Meade; 366th Infantry complete, 92d Division. Governor Thomas W. B. Bickett of North Carolina has been commended for the action taken by officials of that state in Winston-Salem, Surry County, for a sentence of fifteen of sixteen men indicted for attempting to take Russel High, from the jail, on Nov. 17, and lynch him, the terms ranging from fourteen months to six years. The transport "Harrisburg," which arrived in port, recently, brought 74 officers and 2,231 men of the 368th Infantry. This included the field, staff, headquarters and supply company, medical detachment. Companies A, B, C, D, E, F and G. In some respects the 368th had been the most talked of regiment of any in the 92d Division. The regiment saw the fiercest fighting of any in the division. It lost 450 men in Argonne forest. Again The Gazette warns our people of this city to STOP buying lots in other states and subscribing to "defense" and other funds that you do not KNOW, personally, are what they are alleged to be. It seems that Cleveland is a mecca for this sort of thing, these days. Some of our people are "easy" to get to their hard-earned money that it is just like "taking candy from a baby." You are going to need your money before the year is out, especially next winter! It is rumored that the collection taken from those who attended the Ministers' Alliance "emancipation celebration", held in St. John's A. M. E. church, early last month, was given to W. H. Crabble to help him give his expenses in the $10,000 damage suit instituted against him (Ormond Forte and the Western Newspaper Union) by the editor of The Gazette, last November. Members of several churches, who were present, are very indignant and claim they were taken advantage of. If the rumor is true, it is certainly a dirty trick to play on them and the rest of the public in attendance upon the affair. Crabble presided at the "celebration." The Central Ave. and St. Clair Ave. bathhouses to be erected at a cost of $45,000 and $125,000 respectively, will be started in March. The Central Ave. bathhouse, to be located at E. 25th St., will contain 33 showers. The other, to be located at St. Clair and E. 67st St., will also contain 33 showers. Both are to have "33 showers" and yet the St. Clair Ave. bathhouse is to cost nearly THREE dollars per person. What district. WHY? Is this the sort of unfair discrimination, Councilman Tom Fleming "stands for"? Is he the kind of a representative Ward 11 should have in the city council? We want to know what our thoughtful people of that ward think about it. 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. PROTEST AGAINST WRONG. To submit in silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on Protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and discrimination yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our least disputes. The few who dare, must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. THE MAN WHO DARES. "I honor the man who in the conscientious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, infolent judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends."—Charles Sumner. --- FAKE MOVIE FILMS IN BUSY NEW YORK PICTURE MEN STEAL SCENES BY FOOLING CROWDS Suburbs of City Provide Varied Atmosphere—Wild West in New Jersey As nearly everybody knows, many of the Wild Western dramas for the moving pictures are made in New Jersey. But that is not the only place where "movie" films are faked. New York City and its suburbs supply the best field in this part of the world on the picture maker. There a greater variety of scenery is at hand than is found in any other American city. Tropical scenes, taken in New York City's limits, have been so well fake that they were very deceiving. In some of the new sections of Brooklyn are spots that are exact counterparts of cities like Denver, Chicago, Spokane and many of the new American towns. Some of the bungalow colonies of Long Island duplicate southern California, big estates around homes or English manors. The Bar tow mansion on the Pell estate, now Pelham Bay Park, has been the scene of many stirring dramatic moments in the silent drama. It has been a Southern plantation home, Washington's headquarters, the palace of some great lord, etc., and each part it has played well. Over in New Jersey, where they raise the genuine Western cow punch, there is also rock formation that is all right for mining scenes. The places used for moving picture scenes are called "locations." On Staten Island is a splendid location for a lumber camp. A lot of timber is being cut for some improvements that are being made and the logs are being snaked as in a regular camp and the cabins of the employees make excellent shacks for the lumberjacks. If you are a diplomat, palaces are to be had for the asking. One very rich man said he had no objection to legitimate motion picture makers using his estate, and it is a princely one, for he explained, moving pictures were great educators and a source of amusement for millions, and residence like his could not be built by manufacturers just to make pictures around. His magnificent yacht is to be had for the same purpose, that is if you know how to approach him. Of course all this refers to the outside scenes. Nearly every motion picture lover knows that as yet no negative film has been made that is fast enough to take pictures inside of a house, and that to carry the necessary plant around would not be practicable. The interior of these beautiful homes have therefore to be duplicated in the studios. French or English street scenes are got by picking out spots along Fifth avenue or any other street that has residences of the type desired and using them for a background. In the different sections of the city where certain nationalities have their communities it isn't difficult to secure any foreign atmosphere wanted. In the big shopping centers are plenty of locations and lots of atmosphere, but the difficult thing is to get it on a film so that it will seem natural. The novice will encounter a lot of obstacles and may quit in disgust. The public at large is very much interested in pictures and it requires skill to make the pictures without attracting attention. Ninety-nine persons out of one hundred will stop to have a look when a picture is being made, as they hope some time to see a picture made and then later to run across it in a theater. For scenes like this the wise director will rehearse his people beforehand. His camera man is in an automobile with his machine well hidden save for the nose of the lens. When all is ready the director will start a system of wigwagging from across the street. Then the motor car with the camera man and the actors will all assemble at the given point with as little fuss as possible. If all goes well in about forty seconds or less the scene is made and the characters are in a motor car shooting down the street just as the crowd commences to gather. Forty-five seconds is the limit of time that a motion picture crowd can count on having to themselves, and they must be clever to fool an average crowd of New York pedestrians. Scenes have been stolen in Herald square in front of the biggest department stores in the world at noon on a busy day without any of the large crowds knowing what was going on. 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FOR RENT -Large, warm, front room, with or without board, for one or two gentlemen. 2205 E. 86th St. LOST -Neckpiece; brown fur, with black stripe, in Central armory balcony. Saturday afternoon. It was valued as a gift. The finder will be rewarded. Mrs. Phillip Dennie. 2285 E. 90th St. RECONSTRUCTION In the re-building of the war-torn countries of Europe, we should glean the lesson of re-construction of our own affairs and begin to construct for prosperity and peace for ourselves. This can best be done by each one of us doing all things that goes to make us independent. You can best do this by getting a home of your own. You can make a start with your Liberty Bond if you hurry. $5.00 per month makes the payments and gives you possession. You can have your garden, this spring, and let the lot help pay for itself. They are being taken by our people from the Atlantic to beyond the Mississippi—so they'll be gone before spring. Whether you buy or not, call and see C. C. Cade, 2403 E. 40th St., Suite 1. Maybe he can help you. You cannot afford to miss this opportunity. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Yaeger of Ravenna were here, Saturday. Mrs. Griffin and a lady friend visited her mother in Ravenna, this week. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Peters of Ravenna were in the city, recently. Be sure to read Earl Parker's letter, elsewhere in this paper. Mrs. Henry Taylor visited in Toledo and Detroit, last week. Robert Williams and Mr. Kay visited in Ravenna, this week. M. "Fleet" Walker of Cadiz was in the city, the first of the week circulating among his many friends. There is a letter at The Gazette office for W. L. Downing. 'Tell him to call for it, at once, if you know him. The Caterers' annual ball at Zimmerman's Arecadia, Wednesday evening, was a brilliant affair, a social and financial success. Edward, the two-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Cox, E. 87th st., and grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brock of E. 128th st., is certainly a most promising child¹. Musician Homer L. Howland, son of Wm. J. Howland, E. 37th st., sent the editor an interesting personal letter from Camp Upton, N. Y., last week. The editor of The Gazette is indebted to Wm. R. Corners, chairman, for membership on the voluntary and large citizens' committee, which cooperated with the mayor's advisory war board, in gendering the reception, of last Saturday, to the second battalion of the 372d Inf. The Cleveland Odd Fellows Building Co. have elected the following named officers for the ensuing year: H.A. Brown president; T. Thoenee; vice president; C. P. Lancaster; secretary; J. J. Thomas, assistant secretary; J. H. Beckwith, treasurer; A. A. Goodrich, agent of block; J. H. Morton, J. Powell and S. Dorsey, directors. Mrs. Geo. Randolph, president of the Helping Hand society, asks our readers to get their donations ready for the needy ones of the race of the community. She says there is much suffering because many are out of work, some sick and widows with large families, etc. She says her society is doing all it can to help but that it needs the assistance of all able to contribute. J. Clarence Brown; for many years a resident of this city, coming here from Zanesville, who went to Los Angeles, Cal., to reside, some years ago, was reported dead, last week. His son, Capt. "Sonny" Brown, is in the army. He was a member of the Old Ninth Battalion, 372d Inf., until transferred. The May Co. and Halle Co. decorations, last Saturday, were fine and one of the May Co. officials had his auto, filled with his family, in the parade. However, the downtown section of the city, especially along the line of the parade, made a very poor showing in this respect. The little soiled flag on the city hall looked positively pitiful as did a number of its employees of color who made themselves far too conspicuous in the parade. Our people of this community could not be "proud of them" as their representatives in the parade or as city employees, either. It looked very much as if the Davis administration people were trying to "hog" things. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, MARCH 1, 1919. *DR. WEAVER'S 3315 Central Ave. *MRS. BESSIE KITZMILLER'S 3943 Central Ave. ACKSONS'S MIDL Ave. W. T. GRANT, 3512 Central Ave. *BEN'S CONFECTIONERY Cor. Central Ave. and E. 39th St. SUNDAYS. SUBSCRIBERS The Gazette regularly should notify they delivered promptly. business matters to The Gazette's if you wish to see the editor call effectly examine The Gazette's ad- chases. Business men who adver- the patronage of our people. The france that they want it. in current issues of The Gazette WEDNESDAY of that week, at the Telephone th: "Cuyahoga", Central 513-K Gov. Cox, Wednesday, signed extradition papers in the case of William Morgan, wanted in connection with the murder of Sheriff S. A. Griffin, Twiggs county, Georgia, last July. Morgan was arrested Feb. 21 by Detective Holmer. As a result the police pension fund is richer by $100, offered as a reward for Morgan's capture. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, who lived near Macon, claim to have left Georgia because his employer (white), at his request to protect her from Griffin, who was harassing her for murder, purposely shedding his Griffin and then shedding him ( Morgan) and his wife to leave the state. It is said Tom Fleming was their lawyer. No wonder Gov. Cox took such summary action in the Morgan case! Georgia, each year, leads in the matter of lynchings. We are very sorry for Mr. and Mrs. Morgan. Owing to the pressing need of such an institution, William R. Conners, secretary of our Welfare Association, has opened the community house for soldiers. Eighteen soldiers were fed and cared for the first week. A fourteen-room building at 2552 E. 40th St., has been leased by the Cleveland Welfare Association, the mayor's war board financing the movement to the extent of $180,000. While our soldiers are in need of the best benefit from the center, it is intended by Mr. Conners to make the institution a permanent one, to be called the Cleveland Community Center, to be open to all races. The particular object of the center is to take care of our soldiers as they are discharged, until they find employment. Another is the promotion of moral education in the community recreation and good fellowship and those activities which make for development and conservation of mankind. The community center house will be equipped with reading, pool, billiard, class rooms, shower baths and dormitory quarters. A vocational department, will be conducted. The assembly room of Kennard school will be used for community singing, lectionary classes, gymnasium room will be used for dancing and athletics. Mr. Conners will be the general director of welfare activities and Richard Sissie first assistant. A cafeteria is in charge of Mrs. Ruth Straw. Telephone, Rosedale 6872. Ralph W. Tyler of Columbus spoke Monday noon in the city club rooms and in the evening at Cory M. E. church. "In the Bois Fière Haute sector near Metz the 92d Division, mainly recruited from the south, held for thirty-six hours against a bombardment that drove back the French, Senegalese and Moroccan, and when the armistice was signed they were closest of all troops to Metz." Tyler said. The Afro-American, better educated than the black native of French colonies, was staying qualities, and the Germans stood in greater fear of them because they were so handy with the bayonet and as skillful as savages with the short trench knife. "It was only necessary for a captured American to tell the enemy that Uncle Sam had a million Afro-Americans in France to throw a serious scare into the Germans, he said, quoting an Atlanta aviator (white). The Germans believed all Afro-Americans came from "the colonies," meaning the Philippines. The second battalion of the 372d regiment, which contained Cleveland's Afro-American soldiers, went to the front lines, yet for some reason before they returned to this country, all of them were transferred to the army, all of the Ohio Battalion of the regiment, the 370th Inf. excepted, was the only one with a complete quota of Afro-American line officers." "Social equality is the thing certain representatives in congress seem to fear when political equality is under discussion," said Congressman Henry I. Emerson, Sunday afternoon, at a "law enforcement" mass meeting in St. John's A. M. E, church, under the aupices of the local branch of the N A. A. C. P. "Saturday, when the colored troops moved down the streets of Cleveland, the applause by white people was evidence of recognition," said Congressman Emerson. "Don't worry about social equality, there is no problem. The thing you must fight for is political equality. If you fight the form of abridement of the right of the Afro-American to vote that exists in the south, you could have representatives of your own in the congress and senate, and some of the men who have been sent from the south for years to head important committees would have to stay at home. It is my idea that the best neighbor is the man who looks after his own yard. The place to establish democracy is at home before looking after other countries. An autonomic government was excusable during the war, but if an executive head tries to overthrow it, it will be sixty-sixth congress it won't work. The progress made by your race only fifty years removed from servitude is marvelous. What will the next fifty years bring? Every good doctor or lawyer or business man you produce, lifts your race. Educate your children and make good citizens of them. The heart and the brain of a man is what counts, not his color. BEST FOR THE BLOOD - Puro Herbs. Sold only at Brown Drug Co. cor E. 28th St. and Central Ave. Adv. INSPIRES A GENIUS Something That May Revolutionize the Pie Service—Electric Pie Counter "Why is it?" asked the man who likes to speculate on things, "that people in eating pie invariably begin at the point of the piece of pie—at the apex of the triangle, to so speak—and then work back to the crust? I've never yet seen a person that did not eat pie in this way, and everyone appears to do it instinctively. "Just pause for a moment and consider the innumerable pieces of pie that are eaten in the United States, in the world, in the course of a year. That means an innumerable number of useless motions of arms, hands and fingers, not to mention unconscious brain effort, in turning those pieces how on. If statistics were gathered I have no doubt that the world's annual pie-turning motion would foot up into thousands of horse power. "In these days of efficiency, why, I ask, should that immense amount of energy be thrown away?" It should not and won't be, says an inventive genius. This handy gentleman is already at work on plans for a restaurant lunch counter that bids fair to revolutionize the various systems now in vogue in the pie emporiums of our country. He proposes to have the cuts of plies served on special plates, or discs, which are a part of the to be patented lunch counter. By a system of electric wires connected with a large clock-like register on the wall of the restaurant the inventor proposes to impart a small amount of electric force to this receptive clock, and form it into a storage dynamo that forms a large part of the wall apparatus. Now, while the genius admits that the amount of electricity produced by a few turns of a pie plate is infinitely small, still, he argues, and he generally knows what he is talking about if others do not, the thousands of revolutions and partial revolutions evolved from as many thousands turning and eating pie at the same time, during the same hour, and, as in crowded cities, three times a day, the combined result must be enough electric force to light, heat, operate the kitchen utensils and record the number of pie orders delivered in the restaurant during the entire twenty-four hours of business, if the place is run on the "open all night" plan. Besides the revolutions of the stools may be utilized if necessary, says the same inventor. INVENTS BUTTONLESS SHIRT Merely Pulling a String Secures the Garment in Place. What some laundries do to the masculine shirt is not always good, but in many cases it is plenty, and, as the German states it, "a blenty is sometimes too much already." One might be led to think that the mangleing machine was designed exclusively for the attack of the buttons which it has so successfully vanquished. It was probably an ingenious bachelor who invented the buttonless shirt. Such a garment has been recently invented and patented. It has the additional advantage that it is very easy of divesting oneself of the garment as well as to get into it. The means of fastening consists of a cord which is passed in and out many eyelet holes in the neckband and front opening. After one's head has been passed through the opening, the more pulling of a string secures the garment in place, and the mere tying of a knot in front holds it secure until it is desired to cut loose from it. The string is then released and the shirt is easily passed over the head. NEW LOCK FOR AUTOMOBILES Shuts Off Flow of Gasoline and Makes Theft Impossible. A "gasoline lock," which shuts off the flow of gasoline into the carbureter of an automobile and makes the stealing of a car practically an impossibility, has been invented. It is a small and simple contraption that fits any car. When locked, the only gasoline that can be used is that which happens to be left in the carbureter. Clerks on Roller Skates One of the latest ideas for saving time is being tried out by a big merchantise house of Dallas, Texas. Clerks who fill orders in the shipping department are equipped with roller skates. The managers say that the skates are proving very satisfactory, as a clerk can do twice as much work when on them and the work is much easier, since the clerk is not walking all the time. Old Reliable (Formerly "The 3652 Cen Learn to be Pleased! Home Co- treatment and MORGAN C (Successor to Phone. Cen THE TEMPLE East 55th St., New MAURICE B Friday, Feb. 28. MADELINE TRAVERS in "The Danger Zone." Also Mack Sennett Comedy. Saturday, March 1. FOX KIDDIES and an ALL- STAR CAST in "Treasure Island." "Iron Test." No. 11. Sunday, March 2 TOM MOORE in "Just for the Night." Mutt and Jeff and War News. "Also "Terror of the Ranch." No. 2. KNOCKS OUT PAIN THE FIRST ROUND Comforting relief from pain makes Sloan's the World's Liniment This famous reliever of rheumatic aches, soreness, stiffness, painful sprains, neuralgic pains, and most other external twinges that humanity suffers from, enjoys its great sales because it practically never fails to bring speedy, comforting relief. Always ready for use, it takes little to penetrate without rubbing and produce results. Clean, refreshing. At all drug stores. A large bottle means economy. Sloan's Liniment Kills Pain 50c. 60c. and 81.20 AUTOMATIC SOLDERING IRON Oregonian's Invention Has Reservoir for Molten Solder. A soldering iron which has a receptacle for molten soldier, fed automatically to the point of the iron, is the invention of L. M. Lasley of Portland, Ore. The iron has the general build and size of the ordinary heavy duty iron with the exception that the composition point is perpendicular to the line of the handle. This part of the instrument is also the reservoir in which the molten soldering metal is kept. The same is heated either by gas or electricity or gasoline torch. No man can be popular unless he has learned to keep his troubles to himself. John A. and James M. Harvey of Junction City, Kan., have invented a hay and grain stacker that is a great labor saver. The machine is d riven by a gasoline engine and is so constructed that it deposits the material at any desired place on the stack. The stack is built easily and settles so evenly that it sheds water better than when stacked by old methods. The old belief that the age of a rattlesnake can be told by the number of his rattles is wrong, as also is the belief that a deer's span of life is accurately recounted by the number of points on his antlers. Scientists have found that the largest rattler may have few rattles and a small snake twice the number of the big one. Careful study has shown that the points of a deer's antlers have no bearing whatever on his age. To prevent shoe laces from becoming untied a New York inventor has patented small metal clamps to be fastened to the tops of shoes to hold their ends MAIN THEATRE Scovill & E. 25th St O. E. Belles, Manager. Friday, Feb. 28. PRISCILLA DEAN in "The Wildcat of Paris." A Great Picture. Saturday, March 1. EVELYN NESBIT THAW in "I Want to Forget." Another Fine One. Sunday, March 2. GEORGE WALSH in "Tell Say So" Also a 2-Reel Western Drama Monday, March 3. LILLIAN WALKER in "A Grain of Dust." Also a Two-Reel Big V Comedy Tuesday, March 4. GLORIA SWANSON in "Wife or Country." Also PEARL WHITE in "The Lightning Raider," No. 9. Wednesday, March 5. ENID BENNETT in "Key to the Riches." Also "Lure of the Circus" No. 10 Thursday, March 6. RUTH CLIFFORD in "The Game's Up." 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JOSEPH BENSON FORAKER The Most Important Autobiography In Years Mr Foraker has given us his experience in the Union Army in 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 birthed Americans, interested in the preservation of our 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. 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 Made Grand Record THE 369th, 370th, 371st, AND 372nd REGIMENTS, AFRO-AMERICANS French General In Tears Addresses Our Boys and Kisses Their Flag —Croix de Guerre and French War Crosses Galore Four of 372 Win Medaille Militaire;52 CroixdeGuerre --71 in the 371st Decorated The 370th, like the old 15th New York, (the 369th), 371st and 372d regiments, was brigaded with the French The Illinois fighters served under General Vincendon, commander of the 59th French division, who, shortly after the signing of the armistice sent the regiment (370th) the following communication: "Officers, non-comissioned officers and men: "Your efforts have been rewarded. The armistice is signed. The troops of the Entente, to whom the armies of the American Republic have nobly come to join themselves, have vanquished the most powerful instrument of conquest that a nation could forget—the haughty German army acknowledges itself conquered. However hard our conditions are, the enemy government has accepted them all. "The 370th R. L. U. S. has contributed largely to the success of the 59th Division and has taken in bitter strife both cannon and machine guns. Its units, fired by a noble ardor, got at times even beyond the objectives given them by the higher command; they have always wished to be in the front line, for the place of honor is the leading rank. "They have shown, in the course of our advance, that they are worthy of being there."—N. Y. Age. By Sergeant Rufus Pinkney. We (372d Inf.) are brigaded with the French, and our commander a French general addressed us recently with tears in his eyes. He said that the name of our regiment will go down in history for the way we Americans answered the call of France for aid, and fought along side of them in battle. He said "you went into the trenchines singing; you went over the top singsing and you came back crowned with victory singing. I am proud to be your commander, you must always remember, when you are home across the sea, the Red Hand Division—the bleeding hand that seized the Germans by the threat and made theory for mercy. In taking the hill named after you now, but which was then shellled by hostile artillery and covered with machine gun nests, you carried out your orders like men. We love you. You are our brothers. We honor you as the heroes of France and I know that all America will be proud of you when you arrive home." The French commander in summing up material and prisoners captured by us said that we had taken 600 German officers, 700 cannon, and 350 machine guns. "I am proud to have been your general," were his parting words as he kissed the flag, and took final leave from us. Our chaplain, Rev. Arrington S. Hemin, is the senior chaplain in the army, and the first to arrive in France. In addition to the whole regiment being cited, 88 of us are wearing the French war cross. We are expecting to see the Statue of Liberty in York soon. Then we will be home—Baltimore (MD.) Afro-American. The high appreciation and affection the French have for the members of the 370th as fighters and comrades is set forth in the following order issued by General Vincendon in December: "Officers and Soldiers of the 370th R." Two Afro-American regiments from America were brigaded with the 157th French Division—the 371st and the 372d. Both did themselves proud. In the 371st, made up chiefly of draftees from South Carolina, seventy-one of our men were awarded the Croix de Guerre while some have been recommended to receive the Distinguished Service Cross from General Pershing. Four members of the 372d won the Medaille Militaire and fifty-two the Croix de Guerre. This regiment is composed of battalions formerly in the National Guard from the District of Columbia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio and Tennessee. The morale was much higher among the men of the 372d than the 371st. But the reason for this state of affairs was not difficult to diagnose. Members of the 372d were permitted to go on leave and visit the various places of public commemorations in Great Gatsby towns, while the body of the 371st bitterly complained that despite the excellent record they had made on the field of battle their regimental commander was opposed to giving them a leave. The impression was rife that the commissioned officers of the regiment, all white, did not look with favor on the boys meeting the French on terms of social equality. The following communications received by the regimental commanders of the 371st and 372d infantry from General Goybet will give some idea of the American Negro fighters of the division conducted themselves in the trenches: October 1, 1918. Your troops have been admirable in "You are leaving us. The impossibility at this time that the German army can recover from its defeat, the necessity which is imposed on the people of the Entente of taking ungratugain a normal life, leads the United States to diminish its effectiveness in France. You are chosen to be among the first to return to America. In the name of your comrades of the 50th Division I say to you: Au revoir, in the name of France, thank you. The hard and brilliant battles of Changyue, Leury and the Bois de Jeanneau, reducing the effectiveness of the Division I's foreign government generally put your moment at the disposition of the French high command in order to reinforce us. You arrived from the trenches of the Argonne. "We at first, at Marculi-Sur-Oureu in September, admired your fine appearance under arms, the precision if your review and the simpleness of our evolutions that presented to the ye the appearance of silk unrolling in wavy folds. We advanced to the ye. Fate placed you on the banks of the Ailette in front of the Bois Morier. October 12, you occupied the nemy trenches Aier and Brouze. On the 13th we reached the railroad of aon la Fere, the forest of Saint Gouan, the principal center of resistance if the Hindenburg line was ours. "November 5 the Seurre was at last missed, the pursuit became active from battalion distinguished itself with the Val de Brouze where it captured a German battalion Patterson battalion crossed the first, the Hirson airlift at the heights of Aubenton where the Germans tried to resist. Ounean's battalion took Logny and arrived away by their arid, could not be stopped short of Gue d'Hosson November 11, after the armistice. We have hardly time to appreciate you, and already you depart. "As Lieut. Col. Duncan said November 28, in offering to me your regimental colors as proof of your love for France as an expression of our loyalty to the 59th Division and our army, you have given us of your est and you have given it out of thefulness of your hearts. "The blood of your comrades who are on the soil of France, mixed with blood of our soldiers, preen in dissoluble the bond of affection that unites us. We have, besides, the pride of having worked together at a magnificent task, and the pride of bearing on our foreheads the ray of a common grandeur." Not only was each of these regiments, the 369th, 370th, 371st and 372d, cited as a unit for the award of the Croix de Guerre, but 359 individual soldiers from the four regiments received the highly prized decoration. The greatest number of these decorations came to the 369th Infantry, formerly the old 15th New York, had a total of 169 members cited for the French War Cross. The 370th Infantry, formerly the 8th Illinois, had 66 officers and men cited for the decoration, while the 371st and the 372d regiments had a total for both units of 124. Brest, France.—The Prefect of the Maritime district, here, has decorated the flag of the 372d regiment of American Infantry with the French War Cross. The regiment has been cited in an army order for brilliant service in the Champagne region. The 372d is composed of battalions formerly in the National Guard from the District of Columbia, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Tennessee.—N. Y. Age. their attack. You must be proud of the courage of your officers and men, and I consider it an honor to have them under my command. The bravery and dash of your regiments won the admiration of the Moroccan Division, who are themselves versed in warfare. Thanks to you. During these hard days the division was at all times in advance of all other divisions of the Army Corps. I am sending you all my thanks and I beg you to transmit them to your subordinates. I call on your wounded. Their morale is higher than my praise. (Signed) GOYBET. October 8, 1918. In transmitting you with legitimate pride the thanks and congratulations of the General Garnier Duplissi on the order of the Army Corps), allow me to bear fraternity to Americans and French, to address you from the bottom of the heart of a chief and soldier, the expression of gratitude for the glory which you have lent to our good 157th Division. During these nine days of hard fighting you have progressed eight kilometers through powerfully organized defences, taken nearly five hundred prisoners, captured fifteen guns of different caliber, twenty minewarriers and nearly 150 machine guns, secured an enormous amount of engineering material and important support to the troops down by your fire three enemy airplanes. The "Red Hand" sign of the division has thanks to you, become a bloody hand which took the Boche by the throat and made him cry for THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, MARCH 1, 1919. mercy. You have well avenged our glorious dead. (Signed) GOYBET. On December 15, 1918, General Goybet sent the following farewell letter to the two Colored regiments: "On the 12th of December the 371st and 372d infantries were replaced at the disposal of the American command. It is not without profound emotion that I come in the name of the 157th D. I, and in my personal name to say farewell to our valorous comrades of battle. During seven months we have lived as brothers-in-arms, sharing the same works, the same fatigues, the same dangers. Side by side we have participated in the great Champagne battle which was crowned with prodigious victory. "The 157th D. I. will never forget the irresistible D. I., the heroic push of the Colored American regiments on the Crête des Observatories and in the plains of Montihois. The most formidable defenses, the best organized machine gun nests, the most smashing artillery barrages could not stop them. The prisoners covered all of it with a superb disdain of death, and thanks to their courageous devotion, the Red Hand Division, during nine days of hard struggle, always held the lead in the historic advance of the Fourth Army. "Officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the 371st and 372d Infantry, I respectfully salute your glories, and I bow before your banners, which are the side of the flag of the 333d R. I., conducted us to victory. "Dear friends from America, after you have crossed the ocean anew, forget not the Red Hand Division. Our pure fraternity of arms has been soaked in the blood of the braves. These ties will be indissoluble. Keep a loyal memory of your General, so proud to have commanded you; and remember that his recognition and affection is acquired for always. (Signed) "GENERAL GOYBET, —New York Age, THE 371ST AND 372ND REGTS Bring Numerous Medals Showing Their Bravery and a Great Record of Achievements in Battle. New York City—Carrying the greatest number of American fighting men yet brought into this port on one ship, the transport, "Lewisathan," steamed through the Narrows, last week Tuesday afternoon, and was safely in her Hoboken pier at 6 p.m. The great steamship, once the pride of the German merchant marine, had 9,470 of Uncle Same's "scrapers" in khaki and blue on board, in addition to 3,241 others, which included the officers and crew. For the most part the officers and men of the 371st and 372nd battalions were on stage. Afro-American troops, and a record which might well make other organizations in our own and the allied armies envious. Won Many Decorations. Won Many Decorations. The two regiments were in some of the hardest fighting of the war. Both were decorated with the Croix de Guerre in the time that they were waiting to embark at Brest. In the next year, the organization, the returning regiment boasted of 168 men with the Croix de Guerre, thirty-eight with the Distinguished Service Cross and two with the Cross of the Legion of Honor of France. After arriving in France the 371st regiment as an independent unit, was placed with the 13th French Army Corps. Later they went into the line as part of the 157th French Division under General Goybet. For four months, beginning April 2$^2$ these Afro-American fighters, under the most trying conditions of battle, held Avocourt, Verrières and a big sector north of Verdun. Later, when transferred to the Champagne, they captured Cotte, Bussy, Ardeul and Mont Sauxelles. They captured forty-three machine guns, three pieces of German "775" munition depots and large quantities of ammunition. During the advance they dropped three Hun aerosplains with rifle and machine-gun fire. Exploits of the 372nd. The story of the 372nd Infantry reads very much like that of the 371st. For the most part the two regiments covered the same ground and were engaged in the same actions. After their baptism of fire, both were regularly used as shock troops and bore the brunt of engagements in their sectors. Col. Herchel Tupes commanded the 372nd and Col. P. L. Miles, the 371st. "There is not an army officer in the United States who has greater respect, or greater feeling for his boys," Col. Tupes said. "The record the boys have made is one that will remain as a document for all time." The 372nd consist of eighty men who wear the Croix de Guenon, twenty-one who have Distinguished Service Crests and one with the Cross of the Legion of Honor. In the Champagne, between Sept. 26 and Oct. 1, this regiment suffered in casualties sixty-one officers and 1,200 men. Sergeant Jetty's Exploit. Sergeant Jetty's Expedition. One of the turning men wearing the Croix de Guerre Caps and the Distinguished Service Caps was Sergeant Dayton Jetty, of the #71st Infantry, who hails from Auburn, N. In the St. Mihiel salient last April, Jetty, accompanied by his "buddy," Leon Thompson, made a dash through the open and captured a German machine gun. They killed the crew and then turned the gun on the fuses, who were attempting to capture the gun, and hundred of them until American reinforcements came up. All that Sergeant Jetty would say was—"Once we got the gun it was a cinch." SEVEN BROTHERS, SOLDIERS! Afro-Americans—All in Same Unit—All Wounded—All Home. Camp Upton. N. Y.—In the second battalion of the 369th Inf., the old 15th N. Y. Reg., which arrived here last week, are Benjamin John, Barttor, Richard, Howard, Royal and George Fowler, brothers. Their father and mother live at Glen Cove, L. I. The boys have all been wounded, Barttor, Richard, a sergeant, was awarded the Medal of Honor. The boys are anxiously awaiting their discharge so they can hurry back to their parents, who willingly sanctioned their joining the service together. "BUFFALOES," SHOCK TROOPS Returned, Monday.—The 368th Infantry Arrived, Last Saturday New York City.—The famous "Buffaloes," Afro-American fighters, 367th Infantry, returned from the Rotterdam flock, to New York to Europe last June, and took up some of the fiercest fighting on several fronts. They first raw action in the Vosges mountains, last August. Then they were shifted to the Argonne front and when the armitage was signed they were "going strong" on the battle of Bochelle river. The casualty suffered. "Buffaloes were unusually hard" according to the veterans who returned in days they exceeded 10 per cent. This was said to be due to the first that they were used so of an as well as troops. City.—The famous "Buff- American fighters, 367th international" at the Rot- temberg, 500,000 in to Europe, last look put, in some of the ing on several fronts, new action in the Vosges last August. Then they to the Argonne front the armistice was signed going strong' on the Moselle river. The cas- eled battle the "Buff- terry" head, according to who returned from days as 10 per cent. This was due to the first that they offered as an art troops. The transport "Harrisburg," which sailed from Bost, re-built in 2,231 troops, arrived, Saturday. There on the "Harrisburg" in added the headquarters staff, headquarters and supply companies, medical detachment and companies of the 368th infantry of the Ninety-second division (Afro-American), national army. The transport carried also forty-four bedridden patients and a few casuals. The troops were sent to Camp Upton, Long Island. 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. ACTS who Advertise Goods. who sell Goods make Money. who make Mon- advertise goods. Best Advertising is "The Old Table" GAZETTE. REMARKS ABOUT ADVERTISING While it is true that occasional advertising will bring extra business, it is equally true that constant, persistent advertising will keep business growing during "dull days." The merchant who considers riches a burden should never advertise. His stance 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 competitors have no desire to disturb his imagination. It's a good time to "get awake." 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. FORD'S HAIR POMADE In not a comm contain minerals in fact, it is a marker of does not cont vasoline or po ford's Heavy We gue pethin to injure ford' Heavy ky hair softer comb and put wil permit In not a common article. It does not contain mineral oils or poisonous drugs, hairdressers, or petroleum oils. The market today that we know of that does not contain mineral oils, such as waffles or petroleum oil. You can find Ford's Hair Pomade with perfect safety, but you can also get petroleum-poisoning to the hair or scalp. Ford's Hair Pomade makes harsh skin after it, more pliable, easier to comb and may save the hair will permit. Price 25c & 500 a bot. Straightens the hair by rolling it between four brass rolls. Rins and quickest. A know of to straighten hair. Brass rolls, highly polished wooden handles. Each straightener put up in a nest box with full directions how to use it. Price $2.00 Patent Two Piece Hair Straightening and Shampoo Comb No. 023 This comb is made in two pieces, you heat the rod, not the comb, thus saving the soiling of the comb. Comb 9% in long over all, comb 4 in. long by 2% inches wide. Made of solid brass with steel rod and spiral handle. Weight complete. 9 oz. Price $2.00 Patent Sectional Tooth Comb No. 023½ Patent Two Piece Hair Straightening and Shampoo Comb No. 023 This comb is made in two pieces, you heat the rod, not the comb, thus saving the soiling of the comb. Comb 9% in long over all comb, long by 2½ inches wide. Made of solid brass with steel rod and spiral handle. Weight complete, 9 oz. Price $2.00 Patent Sectional Tooth Comb No. 023½ Teeth and spacers in this comb are made of separate materials. The comb is made of stainless steel rod and heat by a patent formula. Should the teeth become loose, turn the ferrule by twisting the handle and this will press the sleeve up tightly against the teeth and hold them firmly. This comb is 9½ in over all. Comb in, long and 1¾ inches deep. Weight, about 8 ounces. Price $1.75 Ford's Spiral Handle Hair Straightening and Shampoo Comb No. 024 Solid brass, large and very strong, cannot burn the handle off; special locking device holds the handle without soldering. Price $1.50 WE DID NOT WE stuck to our regular prices in the face that war times is not the time to profiteer, at the same price as before the war. WE STOOD BY WE have faith in the honesty of human ones that stood by you. Our goods are guaranteed changed in price to the consumer by us. Tell The Ozonized Ox M WE DID NOT H We stuck to our regular prices in the face of that war times is not the time to profiteer, or at the same price as before the war. WE STOOD BY YOU We have faith in the honesty of humanitie ones that stood by you. Our goods are guaranteed changed in price to the consumer by us. Tell y The Ozonized Ox M E GAZETT We stuck to our regular prices in the face of the facts that materials entering into our products were raised on us, but we believe that war times is not the time to profiteer, so we cut down our expenses all we could, and by so doing were able to sell our goods at the same price as before the war. WE STOOD BY YOU THEN, WILL YOU STAND BY US NOW? We have faith in the honesty of humanity and the merits of our goods; so now it is up to you, to show your true spirit and stick by the ones that stood by you. Our goods are guaranteed to be just as we represent them, and for over sixty years Ford's Hair Pomade has not been changed in price to the consumer by us. Tell your friends what we have done and encourage a just cause, if you think it is right. The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co., 46 West Kinzie St., CHICAGO, ILL. OUR NEW HOME PORO COLLEGE PENDLETON AVE. ST. FERDINAND AVE. The old reliable Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially destroys of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Dayton Akron, Lima, O., and other places particularly in Ohio, where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette Blackstone building, Cleveland, O., and terms will oblige us greatly by sending at once the addresses of persons in the cities named and others in the state, to whom we can write relative to the matter. A girl holds a hairbrush to her head. When I began the use of your Pomade my hair was 1½ ins. long. After using one year, my hair was 1½ ins. long. It grew thick. I am sure I have to cut it very often. This is my photo. For harsh, curly, short and unruly hair, It's use makes the hair sootter, more pliable and easier to comb and put up in any style the length will permit. Guaranteed to contain no vaseline, petro- What better could be asked of an article than sixty years of universal success? Do not accept a substitute when you ask for Ford's Hair Pomade. The genuine is called "Ford's Hair Pomade" and manufactured only by The Ozonized Ox Marrrow Co., of Chicago, Ill. Price 25c and 50c a bottle. ROBERT FISHER Attorney and Counselor at Law 819 American Trust Building Cleveland, Ohio el Central 1400-W P. A. HOERET EYE SPECIALISTS 11 Taylor Arcade Cleveland PRICES DURING THE W tials entering into our products were rai expenses all we could, and by so doing we WILL YOU STAND BY US goods; so now it is up to you, to show your resent them, and for over sixty years Ford's do and encourage a just cause, if you t Ford's Large Brass Hair Straightening and Shampoo Comb No. 025 Wooden handle, large and very strong, making a good and serviceable comb for kinky or thick curly hair. Price $1.00 Ford's Hair Straightening and Shampoo Comb No. 026 This comb is made of solid brass, highly polished, wooden handle, and is 8 inches long over all comb 3/4 inches long, and about 1 inch wide. Weight 3 oz. Price 75c Ford's Hair Straightening and Shampoo Comb No. 027 This comb is 8½ ins. long over all, comb 2 ins. long, 3/4 ins. wide, solid brass, weights 2 oz. A fine temple or mountaine comb. Price 58e Ford's Hair Presser No. 028 Solid brass knobs, steel handles, nickel plated; length about 8 ins. over all. Weight 6½ oz. Price 50e Ford's Hair Puller No. 029 Is very heavy and substantially made of solid brass highly polished, wooden handles. This article is designed to be of far larger than 9½ ins over all larger heating surface. Length about 9½ ins over all larger than 8 oz. Easy and convenient to handle. Price $1.00 ING THE WAR Our products were raised on us, but we believe and by so doing were able to sell our goods AND BY US NOW? to you, to show your true spirit and stick by the sixty years Ford's Hair Pomede has not been a just cause, if you think it is right. GOSSA ROYAL SAFETY WARRIOR WARRIOR WARRIOR SANTAL CAPSULES MIDY CATARRH of the BLADDER relieved in 24 HOURS in the suit bears the MIDY name #48 Begins of commercial WAR HISTORY Tells all about the war; it is fair to colored people; everyone buys; a tre- mendible seller; GOLLORED MAN NO. pictures; other 25s pictures; agents making $7 to $23 per day. Send 25s quick for agent's complete outfit. AUSTIN JENKINS CO., $23 9th St, Washington, D. C. Ford's Royal White Skin Lotion Try it if you want a clear, healthy complex. Imparts a whiteness to the skin that cannot be detected or rubbed off like powder. Relieves bumps and it helps to prevent acne for men after shaving. Exquisite for women. Pleasant to use. Price $25 a bottle.