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OUR SOLDIERS AT CAMP SHERMAN GRATEFUL TO "THE OLD RELIABLE"! THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR. No. 42. IN UNION IN UNION THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR. OUR S FOUNTAIN PENS MADE LONG AGO THEY WERE NOT NEW AS FAR BACK AS 1800, DECLARES WRITER Industry Has Grown to Capital of Mili- lion in America Many of the present generation have the idea that the fountain pen is a very modern thing. Here is an odd item published in the Massacuses etis Mercury of Boston on Sept. 15, 1800 which mentions the fountain pen in a manner to lead one to suppose it no new idea at that time, and the use for which it is mentioned is also interesting in connection with the efforts for the education of the blind. The item as published in the Mercury follows: INGENUITY "Among the ingenious productions of a poor blind man of Whitehaven, named Thomas Spence, (by misfortunes and infirmities reduced to the maintenance of a poor house), are the following very astonishing inventions: "A machine for teaching the use of figures to the blind. Another for making cordage for clocks and window washers, by which a child of 12 years will do as much work as ten men can perform, by another method used in the asylum for such unfortunate people. A tangible alphabet by which the blind may be taught to write and read. "An apparatus for writing upon paper by the blind, either with a fountain pen or pencil, in straight lines. A shoe, the sole of which is made of twine, the upper part of sattinette, finished with an elastic varnish. "He also digested a plan for forming an universal tangible character, to be printed; the practicability of which, he sufficiently demonstrates." Of course, the fountain pen of the present is a very modern affair, not more than a quarter of a century old, and before it we had the old stylographic pen which possessed a conical point like a lead pencil, through which a small needle led the ink. Merchants and banks objected to it because the hucking shading in the writing made forgeries easy. The earliest pen in use was probably the stylus, which consisted of a pointed hodkin of metal, bone or ivory, and was used to scratch or enrapture boowood tablets. Then came the hollow reed or marsh grass known as the calamus, which is considered the true forerunner of the pen. The quill pen was in use early in the 17th century, and the term pen really means feather. In 1822 an application of horn and tortoise shell to the nibs of the pen was made, and in some cases the points were made more durable by the attachment of a diamond, rhyme or some other hard substance. It is claimed as far back as 1780 a steel pen was made for Dr. Joseph Priestly by Samuel Harrison of Birmingham, England, and steel pens were made in England by Wise in 1803, but the holder and pen were all in one part and they were hard, stiff and unsatisfactory. In 1822 machine made pens were turned out by John Mitchell, and in 1860 the manufacture of them was begun in Camden N. J. It is said fountain pens are spoken of as far back as the beginning of the eighteenth century, but it was not until the beginning of the nineteenth century that Joseph Bramham manufactured fountain pens of silver and other metal. They were so thin that by pressure they collapsed, and the ink was thus forced from them by pressure. In 1855 fountain pens were manfactured in England. A small button on the barrel was pressed by the thumb to cause the ink to flow from the barrel or handle. In 1900 in this country there were forty eight separate establishments manufacturing pens and twenty three of them made fountain pens employing a capital of $1,444,065. "What will happen if the pretty widow spurns the judge who is making love to her?" "He can sine her for contempt of court. A Misunderstanding. "I saw Jaggs the other day and he seemed full of spirits." "Why, I understood he was on the water wagon." Accounting for it. "A metropolis is the heart of a nation." "Is that the reason why the average metropolis has so many beats?" THE GAZETTE What Our People Are Doing Each Week---Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical---Marriages, Deaths, Etc. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have an email from The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write also, their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of 'a' kinds, including items announcing the birth of a child, must 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. lection at the church was very gratifying. The university sermon at Warren, June 14, Rec. J. M. Gilmore and Mr. Lee, of St. Stephen, on arm beach. The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write also, their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of 'a' kinds, including items announcing the birth of a child, must 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.—Mr. and Mrs. Stanley A. Earley entertained, Tuesday evening, in honor of the former's sister, Miss Irene, of Pittsburg, who returned with them, Games and dainty refreshments. Mr. and Mrs. Earley and little son were week-end guests of relatives in Bridgeport and attended the Old Fellow's annual sermon in Wheeling, partly of this city, will graduate from the Painesville High School, this year.—Mr. P. Jones of Meridian, Miss., who visited his sister, Mrs. B. F. Hill, has decided to locate in Cincinnati. Rev. J. H. Mason, pastor of the A. M. E. church, preached a fine sermon, Sunday morning, to a large congregation. He exchanged pulpits with Rev. J. M. Gilmore of Steuben Hall, Sunday evening—Mr. S. First. Baptist Church, wishes to thank the A. M. Church pastor and choir for excellent services, Sunday, Mrs. Julia Johnson, captain. Club No. I will give a strawberry festival, Thursday evening, at its president, Mgs. B. P. Hill's. AKRON.-A large number of Miss Glover's friends attended the surprise party given in her honor by her brother, Maurey, Monday evening. Many beautiful and useful presents were received. Out-of-town guests: Misses Ursula Campbell of Newcastle, Dev. Castle, Br. Mr. Chus, McDonald of Youngstown, formerly of this city, spent Sunday here.-Rev. R. A. Jones, pastor, has appointed a committee to arrange for the celebration of the birthdays of three of the oldest members of the Second Baptist church: Mesdames Charlotte Robinson, Nancy Riley and Ellen Thomas. The congregation recently the instructive sermon delivered by Rev. Crier of Bethel A. M. E. church. The services were hugely attended, Sunday morning. Rev. Jones preaching on "No Great Power" to a congregation that overtaxed the seating capacity of the church. Dr. J. Riley was a welcome guest. Sunday, Sunday afternoon at Zion A. M. E. church, Sunday afternoon, by Dr. and Mrs. C. R. Lewis.-R. L. Morrison, St. and Jr., and Mr. Woods of Wouster, were here Sunday. HILLSBORO—The K. P. annual semen will be preached, Sunday afternoon, at the Baptist church—Proof and Mrs. Rose visited in Waverley, Saturday and Sunday—A council ordained Rev. J. J. Burr, last Wed. Rev. J. Burr, moderator, Rev. L. E. Burr, obliterator, Jackson Madisonville, and Rev. J. Gill, New Vienna, members; Deacon J. J. Rollins, New Vienna, see. Rev. J. J. Burr is pastor of Eden Baptist church, Hurvis Station, and has recently been called to Niguen church, Anderson Station. His many friends wish him a place, place, Sunday—The meeting in honor of our returned soldiers at the A. M. E. church, May 30, 8 P. M. will be addressed by Mayor Wilkins, Dr. Roberts of Allen Temple Cincinnati, and others. Everybody welcome. Admission free. Rev. Maxwell, L. P. proclaimed, and Mrs. Fannie Martin, of Boston, Mass., visited here, Monday, Mrs. Emily Freeland, Mrs. Jessie Goins' mother, died about a week ago at her daughter's, in Washington C. H.—L. R. Carey of New Vienna arrives from Cleveland, this evening, and will have as guests, starry L. Jacobs of Cincinnati and Prof. Bunny of Mt. Stevens M. Carey will visit here and in Cincinnati. The Gazette desires an agent and correspondent in Greenfield and other places in this section of the state. Write to the editor in Cleveland. YOUNGSTOWN: -The K. I. annual sermon, at the Third Baptist church was largely attended. Rev. Phillips of Tabernacle Baptist church preached an able sermon. Wm. McKinley lodge and Olive Pettiford court, of Warren, also attended in a body and an excellent program was held. The Central Club, headed by the Central Club band, in addition to those mentioned were: Steel City and Logan lodges and Louisa Edwards court. The col- ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25,1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1919. lectation at the church was very gratifying. Thu university sermon at Warren, June 14. Rec. J. M. Gilmore and Mr. Lee Cameron, of Steubenville, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Cameron—Wm. Saunders has moved his news-drop to 20. Dobbil zette there—Mr. Bias was called to Wheeling by her sister's illness. The latter was operated on—Geo. Warfield was mysteriously shot, (thru a window) in the mouth and arm while seated at his home. Several teeth were knocked out. The "bullet in the arm went thru his shoulder. He is convalescing and the police "investigating."—Silver Logan. On Friday evening — A number of Calanthcans went to Warren, Thursday evening, to see Miss Rhodia Holmes organize Alice B. Pettiford, court, No. 63; 17 members. Officers were elected. Miss Pettiford was senior grand master councillor of the order for a number of years. The evening proved most enjoyable. Lunch was served. Mr. Bias Berry and J. Berry Dobry and J. T. Oqhum were in Cleveland, last week, representing St. Augustine P. church and S. S. at diocesan conventions. ```markdown ``` Pleading in Extenation! Still, schools of this type (Industrial Schools) as a rule do not produce men of the DuBois, Harry C. Smith, William Monroe Trotter J. Milton Waldron and the W. H. Jernigan type. It is essentially unfair to expect the products of these industrial schools to measure up to the standard of the schools being leaming (Yale, Harvard, idle) where the truths of history and great principles constitute the foundation stones upon which they are built. For our part, we have been surprised to see Scott and Moton do as well as they have done. Both of them seem to have seen a light, so to speak and have grouped their way in the direction of this light. We think then that it would be well for D. DuBois, Harry C. Smith and others to be charitable in these matters and not to expect the impossible from men of this type.—Richmond (Va.) Planet. HOW, WILSON TREATED TAFT Washington, D. C.—Southern Democratic newspapers, celebrated for their political impartiality, are complimenting Mr. Taft upon the breadth he has been displaying in supporting President Wilson. They might explain what they think of the breadth displayed by Mr. Wilson when, after his election as President, he put out a book, "The New Freedom," in which he said, in effect, "with which Taft is distrustful of the institutions and creatures of the special interests that were sucking the life blood of the people, it was doubtless due to no wicked intention on President Taft's part, but to the fact that Taft was such a bone-head he couldn't understand the situation and didn't know he was being used." Washington (D. C.) National Republic: Sold a Thousand Pound Hog Waycross, Ga.—Like Land, a colored farmer who lives just outside the limits of Waycross, and who sold a bag on the market here a few weeks ago that weighed, dressed, 798 pounds, sold another to a farmer of Pierce county that weighed, 1,002 pounds gross. The price paid for the one sold some time ago was $120, the total received for the two hogs was $270.20 These hogs were a cross between Poland China and Berkshire. The President on Lynching From President Wilson's message on Lynching: "There have been lynchings and every one of them has been a blow at the heart of ordered law and human justice. No man who loves America, no man who really cares for her fame and honor and character, or who is truly loyal to her institutions, can justify mob action while the courts of justice are open and the governments of the states and the nation are ready and able to do their duty." Governor Signs Equal Rights Bill Lansing. Mich.-This state has at last gained a civil rights law. Governor Sleeper, last week Wednesday, signed the Condon bill making it illegal for the proprietor of any place of public resort to discriminate against any one because of race or religion. The bill is designed to give all persons equal privileges in hotels, restaurants, theaters, etc. Social Settlement House Detroit, Mich. For the encouragement of self-activity among our people a 14-room settlement house will be opened June 15 at 167 Columbia St. under the supervision of the Urban league. This will be made a center for community art, sports, athletics, and community expression in general. Camp Sherman, O., May 19, 1919. Hon. Harry C. Smith Editor, Gazette Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Sir: Yours of the 16th received and complied with. It gives me great pleasure to inform you of the 18th R. S. Dehb. has been ordered demobilized by June 15, 1919. The surplus men from our organization who were transferred to the 418th are the first to go, and following them all the married men and those carrying allotments will be released, leaving the single men without allotments to go last. Mr. Emmett J. Scott that you were good enough to send me convoy goes further 16 show how well you have covered this job. The short notice, the quick action, the apparent results. Everyone acquainted with your part in the affair has expressed the greatest pleasure and satisfaction of the boys of the 418th R. S. Bn. particularly, wish to thank you for the interest you have taken in their case. Sergt. Wm. C. Dean. WEST VIRGINIA FIGHTS-TO KEEP GAS FROM OHIO That State Resists Ohio and Pennsylvania's Attack on Gas Law. Attorney General E. T. England of West Virginia announces that that state will do everything it can to defend the Stertor gas law enacted at the regular session of the West Virginia legislature. The law would prevent the expiration of West Virginia gas to other states and the states of Ohio and Pennsylvania propose to do before the United States Supreme Court and attack the law on the state. While no suit has yet been filed by either of the two states, it is evident from Attorney England's statement that West Virginia will fight the case to the finish. The question of constitutionality of the law was very thoroughly discussed before the legislative committee before the bill was passed and it was held to be entirely constitutional. If the Supreme Court upholds the Supreme law, Ohio and Cleveland will have to enforce the written householders will have to turn to Old King Coal when cold weather comes around. It looks like a bad winter ahead for those of us who have grown accustomed to the convenience and cleanliness and cheapness of gas heating. DOINGS OF THE RACE Subscribe for The Gazette now and get news. You can depend upon "The Old Reliable" for real and not "take" news and a lot of paper. Rev. Leroy Ferguson, an Ohio "boy," has been appointed an arch-deacon of the P.E. church. For 12 years he has been rector of the Church of our Merciful Saviour, Louisville, Ky. During the receipt he did M. M. C. A. work in the largest camp of our soldiers in France. President Wilson can be as humanitarian as any one with regard to the oppressed Jago-Slaves, but he naturally does not want the treatment of the oppressors by the Southern states nor—or, for that matter, at home—New Bedford (Mass.) Daily Standard. How a brigade of our artillerymen was instrumental in capturing strongly fortified positions held by Germans after two white divisions had previously failed was told by General John Burke, commander of the 107th Field Artillery Division, at Carnegie Hall, N. Y. City, Monday evening, May 5. Hon. Henry T. Eubanks, (deceased) Cleveland, O. Hon. Edward D. Green of Chicago, Hll. and the editor of the Cleveland, (O.) Gazette—Hon. Harry C. Smith, three members of the race, are the fathers of the military anti-terrorism evidence legislature in this country. The last-named is the pioneer in the work, and Illinois' law is largely a copy of the Smith Ohio Anti-terrorism law—Louisville, (Ky.) News. The "Old Reliable" Cleveland, (O.) Gazette opines that the Cleveland correspondent of the Negro Associated Press needs to hear his head. The suggestion is a pregnant and timely one. But there are others (of its correspondents); Their Atlanta (Ga.) correspondent, for instance. In fact we venture further: All alleged heads of the entire layout (Associated Negro Press) need to be "examined." Gounds and squashes aren't heads in any category—Waxhance (Chicago), Mrs. Mary T. Talbert, of Buffalo, N. Y. sailed Tuesday on the Espagne for France, Mrs. Talbert received her passport as pres of N. A. C. W., but Subscribe Now Subscribe Now! Special to The Gazette Editor Gazette, Dean Snyder, W. J. Ham Howard Taft says that he would not trust the constitution of the United States, over night with an opener, that would not trust the Constitution with Taft far as I could throw a bail by the tilt. This is not the first time that Taft has been an ally of southern democracy. When he was secretary of state and an aspirant for the Republican nomination for president, Taft went to the United States to speak which was interpreted by the southern political autocracy as an assurance that as president he would not disturb the Democratic nation of the south by the violence of the branchament. Taft, when president, might be tolerant that he could not trust the United States to uphold it, seven to defend it, not one word did he say and not endangled did he to the face of the choking of constitution, government by the southern Democratic nation. It is such stupidity, as he is exemplified, that has put political slavery on the people of the south and the southern democracy upon the nation. Taft has a looser appointee for an inert lie steak that in night into liberty principles of constitutional government in the United States, which avoids impunity, goes turfry in an opposing him as a looser that does. He second in the White House an exponent of would democracy. The alignment of Taft with Wilson is not amazing and it would be a blessing if Taft and those like him would get out of the Republican party permanently. It is time for the party to permanently. It is time for the party to politically deadlock and be politically united. Let this man Taft surrender in the wilderness with Wilson. This is far better than those days when the Republican party went to hell with "Bill" Taft. It is the United States that Americans must secure the liberty guarantees of the federal Constitution, not in France. I appealed to Colored Americans later requested that it be amended, and later was accepted by the Y. M. C. A. as a worker and will no doubt every camp where our boys are located. She is the accredited delegate to the National Council of Women and has been invited to the present at the meeting of the Executive Council which meets in England in summer and now reconstructs. Campbell in New York was unanimously elected Director-General of the Colored women of America for that organization. This we have the spectacle of our army of /some 2,000,000 engaged on another continent in a war for the fundamental rights of the common white citizens of the nation that sent these men forth not only (Ynckel) took the law into their own hands in violation of fundamental rights, but indulged in orgies of the most degrading savagery for which there is no parallel among civilized people of the civilized world of Belgian citizens. While the civilized world was still white with anger over the execution of an English nurse by German soldiery, a Georgia mob visited the most horrible cemeteries upon an innocent Georgia woman of color who, had she not been killed in the war, had been mother in "a month—Indianapolis, Daily Standard. --- The N. A. A. C. P. and Lynchning There are northern problem solvers who vote the South-in-the-sadder Democratic ticket, advocating a federal law against Lynchning. These dough-face creatures are joined in with their propaganda by some colored people, who consider these people their friends and refer to them as "good" Democrats. A national act against Lynchning may be passed, it may long enough seem from now on to corpure the to the northwest corner of hell, but it will be a serup of paper so long as there is a federal administration at Washington that is bossed by the southern Democracy—Hon. Jos. C. Manning in the N. Y. News. Says Senate Won't. Fail New York City—Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio in a speech in Carnegie hall, Sunday night, said: "At the present time the preservation of American nationality rests with the senate of the United States, and I can assure you that the senate is not going to fail you." From Senator Lodge, Republican U.S. senator leader, himself, comes this statement: "Beforce me are through with this business, we will hang the hide of Taft on the wall of the senate chamber," Cleveland Daily Plain Dealer. It is simply outlaw of lawy of Constitution. I ballot rights. It is a political affair that no person whites and blacks. It not unlawful and honored. In the latter box of nine days in the South the black host family were used to become the minority. Do we not be proud of our "mountain out the Negro"? It was a half HON. JOSEPH C. MANNING As He Appeared When Postmaster 57 Alexander City, Mt. in the far the Re-All with America- Amer- on—not Amer- Amended; Y. M. C. but visit are lo- elegate Women present truth. The system defraud and blacks. Why do color- icans refuse to grasp the whe- Why not state the case as is not Negro disfranchise- m now any more than it w "counting out the Negro" t beeld the facts? It is a constitutional government. force "race issue" buncombe discussion to cover up this pol- lawy? Why play into the the southern autocracy? into southern propaganda? nonsense! JOSEPH C. MAN Charged With Mutin Camp Sherman, O.—Charg- tiny and conspiracy have I pared and will be filed twelve members of the 418 reserve battalion who are a be the ringleaders of a "m FREE PUBLIC SPEAKING Hon. C. M. White, Supreme Commander of the Supreme Camp of the American Woodmen of Denver Col. will speak Tuesday evening, May 27th. Stets P. M. at Tristone Baptist Church, center E. 85th St. and Sewell Ave. Subject—"Democracy And Wondercraft." Dr. White is a graduate of the University of Michigan and is the first Colored man who ever served as Supreme Commander of the Supreme Camp. The organization is 112 percent solvent and has a membership of more than 50,000. Over $8,000 paid Hon. C. M. White in salaries each month to men and women of the race. There are more than 500 people employed to carry on the work of this big race enterprise. It has $200,000 for the protection of policy holders, paid $700,000 in benefits and written $400,000 of insurance. Persons between the ages of 16 and 50 may join this night for only $325. Elections will be served free and the admission will be free. Come early if you expect to get a seat. The meeting will open on time. Committee: C. C. Cade, supervisor; Bud Lee, deputy; AL L. Bernard, commander; Dr. B. F. Rucker, banker. - Ady. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS IABLE"! SUBMIT POINTS ON GIRL TRAINING WOMAN SAYS YOUNG WOMEN ARE NOT TAUGHT HOW TO EARN CASH Public farewell is required to pro- vide a connection between num- bers of schools interested in do- national demonstration work in a school to connect with methods of demonstration and materials in the field of apoptosis in various biological materials, and pro- The school system almost includes the education and expressed effort of every child without a right to carry by provision. Make a financial means of school work which will be introduced to the children. This work will be given full protection in an environment so sweet and comforting, to the public school because a public and hence non-public institution, confidence is inspired to those who thus gain training necessary to citizenship in a democracy. Miss Hedges is New York state specialist in vocational education of girls and associated with Dr. John H Finley and Arthur D. Dean Mr. Lean, who contribute a foreword, declares, that Miss Hedges has a mission and beings a message. "She says, 'I say you and I, may be the picture of these girl workers and mature workers who need schooling, nourishing food, strong heritage' - a picture oftimes of the waste of human wealth; yet oftentimes the bright glow of life from individual cases will almost blind one's eyes to the darker spots; a picture which taken altogether makes us feel that there are no bounds to the moral mental and spiritual capabilities which unfold under the best civil, industrial and educational conditions. Truly a vision worthy of any canvas!" The weakness in our public school system, Miss Hedges contentus, lies in the fact that training girls for wage earning has always been secondary to training boys for wage earning. Wage earning, she says, has become as vital to most women as to men, and is becoming increasingly so to managgers, because women wage earners have distinctive contributing power in the world of production. "Men," continues Miss Hedges, "are added by preparatory and additional schooling in industrial classes, by the urge of family responsibility, and by the general public sentiment that men must and shall be the best possible wage earners. Women are hindered by lack of preparatory training in school and industry, by public sentiment unfavorable to their entering the wage earning sphere, by non-remission of the fact of dependence it others upon them. The urge of economic pressure has been almost if not quite as great on women as on men. "But the light of faithiness is beginning to shine on women as wage earners; interest is growing in their needs as industrial products." --- SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) One Year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... 1.00 Three Months ..... .50 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or reg- istered letter Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter. Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1895; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSEST and BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 300,000 in Ohio. $5,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1919. The Gazette tells you the TRUTH about things of race interest and value regardless of who likes or dislikes it, and our readers know this. The race press is and always has been entirely too "charitable" in its treatment of cases like DuBois'. The journalistic lash has been spared too often and too long now for "the good and welfare" of the race. The Pittsburg Courier and American should see to it that Representative Geary adds a minimum penalty to his Pennsylvania civil rights bill before its passage, if they wish it to be effective as a law. We have written Mr. Geary to that effect. If you failed to read carefully the Hon. Joseph C. Manning's letter in The Gazette of last week, you have missed something of real value to every intelligent member of the race. The same is true of the letter from his pen in this paper and those we shall publish in forthcoming issues. Do not miss any of them. Under the Wilson administration Washington's farewell address has become obsolete. The Constitution has become a scrap, or scraps of paper. And now the Monroe Doctrine has become a mere "regional understanding" —whatever that is. What is really needed in this country is the making of Mr. Wilson into a private citizen and the Democratic party into a reminiscence. Col. Charles Young, Camp Grant, Ill., says our race is entirely without a definite program for advancement along political, economic, educational and industrial lines, and tells the truth when he says so. And we have the N. A. A. C. P., the N. Business League, the N. Equal Rights League, the N. Federation of Women's Clubs and a few other "national" organizations. "Twas ever thus!" For the first time in twenty years the city of Baltimore, chief metropolis of the south, normally Democratic by 30,000, elected a Republican mayor by a majority of 10,000, last week Tuesday, greatly to the astonishment of the outside world. Local issues assumed considerable prominence in the campaign, but the big over-turning in no small degree reflects a revolt against the Democratic party as a national organization. Editor John Mitchell of the Richmond (Va.) Planet, how in the world could you? As yet there has been no effort to amend or replace our Ohio Anti-Lynching law; nor has the N. A. A. C. P. been advocating the enactment of any such bill. More-over the officials of Ohio do not need a law to make them do their duty under any of our laws. And Ohio has all the enforcement of its laws anyone can ask for. Confrere, again, how in the world did you "come to" make such mistakes? What was done to those white American soldiers in Russia who mutinied, several weks ago? They were on the "firing line," too. Were charges ever preferred against them? If so we have never been able to hear of it. It seems "a far cry" for prejudiced white officers to formulate and prefer charges of mutiny against our boys of the 418th R. S. Battalion, at Camp Sherman, for the protests they forced them to make. Our people are looking to Gen. Glenn, who is noted for his fairness and proper treatment of soldiers under him, for the "square deal" our boys of the "418th" are entitled to and we feel sure they will get it, too. A BLIGHT IN BRITAIN ALSO Not only has Professor Wilson succeeded in putting an everlasting crimp in his own party, but he is in a fair way to take the skids under the party behind Lloyd George. In three by-elections which have been held in England since George went to the peace conference, the Lloyd George followers have been trimmed, and the reason given was the leader's teamwork with the American dictator, W. W. "The premier of England has gone so far toward meeting the views of the President of the United States that he now has his own country swinging against him," declares Sir John Foster Frazer. "It has been his (Wilson's) mission in life to make trouble wherever he appeared," declares the veteran Democrat, Henry Watterson. The United States has had more trouble since Woodrow Wilson mounted his throne, March 4, 1913, than in any six years of its history, not excepting the Civil War. It will take years to return to a normal functioning of our national life. It will take many more years to re-establish ourselves in the gooq opinion of the world. The reign of Wilson has been a killing frost, but the nether rim of his frigid sun now touches the summits of the western hills. God speed March 4, 1921! UNFAIR TO A BROTHER Because some new agency, styling itself the "Associated Negro Press," sent the item to them a number of our contemporaries are heralding the fact that the Boston Guardian missed an issue recently. Come conferees, have a little more journalistic pride and charitable brotherly feeling for one in the same business, especially one who Editior Wm. Monroe Trotter. has done the race so very much good (which it does not fully appreciate) and at the usual great loss. We have disagreed with Editor William Monroe Trotter as we have with a number of other of our colleagues but we did not use that item and regret greatly that it is necessary for us to mention it even in this way. Stop that sort of thing! There is plenty of other news-items we can publish without striking one of our own number when he is least able to stand it and certainly does not deserve such treatment at OUR hands. SCOTT vs DuBOIS Dr. Emmett J. Scott, special assistant to the secretary of war, has issued a reply, to Editor W. E. B. DuBois's attack in the May Crisis, which apparently just about "skins" the editor. The following by Mr. Scott shows how correct The Gazette was when it imitated, last week, that DuBois was "sore at" Scott because of his (DuBois) failure, last year, to secure that captainy in the Intelligence Department of the War Department at Washington, D. C., doubtless blaming him for the loss of the chance to get another salary: "Dr. DuBois knows, and his friends know, and the record proves, that as far back as two days before the meeting of the Negro Editors' Conference, which I called here in Washington, June, 1918, he was seeking my personal good offices that he might realize personal aspirations. He knows that I did everything I could to help secure that much coveted commission in the army, which he so eagerly but vainly sought. He also knows, as the record will show when necessity arises, that there were other occasions also when Dr. DuBois probably felt I might be used for "pulling chestnututs out of the fire" for him." At last! Here is the explanation The Gazette sought, last June and July and ever since our return from the conference referred to. We have repeatedly said that we believed that just such a condition existed and that it explained why DuBois tried to slip that "surrender rider" into the conference's resolutions which, if it had not been promptly eliminated, would have made a complete farce of that meeting. It also explains those Crisis "surender" editorials of last July and August. DuBois was undoubtedly "truckling" in an effort to encourage the Wilson administration to give him that captaincy and with it would come another salary. He hoped to retain his N. A. A. C. P. or Crisis salary. We have read, somewhere, that DuBois is a Socialist. Is it true? In his reply to DuBois, Dr. Scott also gives several letters (and mentions a number of others) endorsing his work in the War Department for our soldiers and adds the following: "I would rather have the testimony of these gentlemen who know the facts concerning my efforts in behalf of Negro soldiers overseas, some of whom actually served 'over there,' than to be at all perturbed by, or to treat other than with appropriate contempt the insinuating remarks, printed and spoken, of a self-centered, self-seeking, unfair critic—the main drift of whose life has been to try to 'tear down' and to destroy what other men have sought to build up for the honor and welfare of their country and their race. Discredited himself by a large portion of the Negro press of the country, he now seeks to discredit others. Surely 'misery likes company,' but in the desperate effort of Dr. DuBois to rehabilitate himself in the eyes of the Negro world after the severe drubbing he has received in the Negro public press and otherwise, it might be well for him to know that if he is trying to 'come back,' and again pose as an ardent defender of the race, he shall not do so at my expense. I am fully prepared for any further onslaught he may make." why spend the money of the organization, most of which has come from the pockets of our hard-working people, to pay "a committee of law yers of prominence who will devote their attention to framing and pro-ing a federal law against lynching, and to the constitutional question involved." The conference's decision "to organize in each state a committee inform public opinion of the horror of lynching, and to obtain adequate (state) legislation against the practice," such as have Ohio and Illinois is a wise and good one. The ty We call attention to the fact that the foregoing is but an endorsement of the position The Gazette took, last year, on our return from the Washington, D. C. June Conference of our editors, and has maintained ever since. In common with many of our best people, we lost confidence in DuBois, last year, in June, July and August. If there was need of anything additional to justify our position, Dr Scott certainly furnished it in his reply to DuBois' vicious attack upon him in the May Crisis. "1. Inasmuch as Dr. DuBois left for France December 1, 1918, and waited practically five months (May issue of The Crisis) before becoming indignant about the treatment of Negro troops overseas, I want to ask—if he (DuBois) knew of the conditions complained of and manifestly thought I was in a position to have those wrongs corrected, why in the name of Justice and High Heaven did he not bring them directly to my attention? "2. How many of such overseas complaints did he bring to my attention as he easily could have done as a 'Correspondent.'" "3. What did he himself do to help the situation overseas and to have the wrongs corrected? Is it not a fact that when the opportunity was offered for him to counsel with colored officers in group that he refused to do so, preferring to be in a position to criticise later rather than to be a present help in a time of trouble? If he did not wish to report the grievances of colored soldiers to me personally as being beneath his dignity, did he not have access to every regimental and divisional headquarters in France the same as other 'correspondents.'" "4. Did he make any effort while in France to have the injustices complained of ameliorated, or did he await his return to America, 3,000 miles away from France, to protest? "I challenge him to cite specifically what overseas complaints among Negro troops he ever brought directly to my attention or to the attention of my office, where, according to his own testimony, such complaints should have been brought and pressed for correction. "I CALL FOR HIS 'BILL OF PARTICULARS.' I eagerly await his reply." As far as any benefit to his people in this country is concerned, Dubois had better have remained in this country and not have gone to France. Prior to leaving for that country, it was his continued "howling" about "those African Colonies" and Dr. Emmett J. Scott's New York speech on the same subject that did much to delay and practically ruin the effort of our people to get delegates to France in an effort to reach directly or indirectly the World Peace Conference. ANTI-LYNCHING LEGISLATION In an address to the National Lynching Conference held recently in New York City, William Nickerson, secretary of the American Mutual Benefit Association, of Houston, Tex., declared that appealing to state legislatures was a waste of time as officials were afraid they would lose their positions if they took drastic action. The same argument can be used against appealing to the Congress for the passage of a federal anti-lynching bill. Then, too, the U. S. Supreme Court, in a decision many years ago, declared mob violence and lynching legislation a matter for the several states to handle and that the federal government had no right to interfere in lynchings, etc., until called upon by the proper state officials. Mr. Nickerson, in all probability, had reference to southern and not northern states, for two of the latter—Ohio and Illinois—already have such laws upon their statutes, and they are effective ones, too! Our criticism of Mr. Nickerson is that which can be visited upon on a large majority of the theorists and "intellectual wind-jammers" who as a rule dominate such gatherings—they talk, talk. TALK. too often (as was true in his case) without properly informing themselves on their subjects. Furthermore, rarely are those who have DONE something material, along the line of their talk, ever invited to participate in their "national" gatherings so as to afford them the information they need. It may be that this is not wanted because it would have a very marked tendency to "put a crimp" in their talk. While it is not our desire to "throw cold water" on any honest attempt to secure legislation against the lynching evil, we feel that it is a positive waste of time, money and effort to try to get the Congress to pass a federal antilynching bill in the face of that U. S. Supreme Court decision. Furthermore, in the present condition of affairs in this country, without such a barrier, in our judgement it would be just as easy to get President Wilson to forget his hobby, the League of "Notions," as it would be to get the Congress to enact any such legislation. Moorfield Storey, Esq., president of the N. A. A. C. P. and every other good lawyer in this country, as well as many others, know this. Thee why spend the money of the organization, most of which has come from the pockets of our hard-working, poor people, to pay "a committee of lawyers of prominence who will devote their attention to framing and proposing a federal law against lynching, and to the constitutional questions involved?" The conference's decision "to organize in each state a committee to inform public opinion of the horrors of lynching, and to obtain adequate (state) legislation against the practice," such as have Ohio and Illinois, is a wise and good one. The two states named also have provision for the removal, by the governor, of local officers who give up prisoners to or allow them to be taken by the mob. The Hon. Henry T. Euhanks (deceased), a member of the Legislature from Cleveland, had the honor of placing this law upon the statutes of the great state of Ohio, some years ago, and it is a valuable adjunct to our Ohio Anti-Lynching law. FIFTY-SIXTH ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT, WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY, WILBERFORCE OHIO, MAY 30-JUNE 5, 1919. Friday, May 30, 7:30 p. m., "Wilberforce in the War." Sunday, June 1, 10:30 a. m., Baccalaureate sermon, by Rev. R. C. Ransom, D. D., editor of the A. M. E. Review, N. Y.; 3 p. m. address to the religious societies by Rev. C. H. Stephan, D. D., Baltimore, Md.; 7:30 p. m., annual sermon to the Theological Seminary. Monday, June 2, 7:30 p. m., address to the literary societies by Mr. A. A. L. Jackson, A. D. (Harvard Univ), secretary Y. M. C. A. Chicago, III. 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All matters for publication in current issues of The Gazette must be in the office by 4 p. m., WEDNESDAY of that week, at the latest. The Ohio State Telephone THE GAZETTE, Harry C. Smith: "Cuyahoga", Central 513-K Classified Advertising ... Department ... Owing to the very inclement weather, Tuesday evening, the Dunbar crary society's meeting was no well attended as usual, but it p very interesting nevertheless. THE GAZETTE, Harry C. Smith: "Cuyahoga", Central 513-K FOR RENT.—Four nice rooms, double or single. Apply to Mrs. D. Bass, 2361 Cedar Ave. All modern conveniences. FOR RENT.—Furnished room for gentlemen only; 50 cents a week. 8241 Preble Ave. FOR RENT.—Clean comfortable rooms. Fair prices. Service free. 106 City hall. Branches: Phillis Wheatly ass'n.—Community Center. 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 S., Suite 1. Maybe he can help you. You cannot afford to miss this opportunity. CLEVELAND Social and Personal The Alpha Phi Alpha will give a dinner at the Hotel Winton, this (Friday) evening. On page 2 there are several important editorial messages for you reader. Read them carefully, thoughtfully. BEST FOR THE BLOOD — Puro Herbs. Sold only at Brown Drug Co. cor. E. 28th St. and Central Ave.—Adv. There is much you and your friends should KNOW in the "Beaty" articles on page 4. Read them carefully and call attention to them. Do you remember the Cleveland Journal's "Booker T. Washington special edition" a few months before it died? Many persons do. The pleasant Company club invites all members and friends of Triedstone Baptist church to a pew rally. Thursday evening. A good program. Do not fail to read and call your friends' attention to the Cleveland Co-operative Hardware Company's advertisement elsewhere in this paper. All strangers and visitors in Cleveland are invited to have their mail sent to 3512 Central Ave. Grant's new mail-system affords each a private box. Mrs. Sadie Cunningham Reid's husband died at their home in Frankfort, Ky., a few weeks ago. Pneumonia. She was a former resident of this town 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. "Jim, the perman," 219 Superior Bldg., letters the class pictures of all the large schools in the city, including the Cleveland Law and high schools. Good! It is reported that Miss Cora Jackson, of N. Y. City, a resident of Cleveland during her girlhood days and a cousin of Will Marion Cook, was married there recently. The A. M. E. mission in Collinswood is have a home. A church in that area have been purchased for it Tuesday, so the Rev. Charles Bundy, F. E. informed The Gazette. There are forty-seven members of the graduating class of the Cleveland Law school, this year. Three are women. One of the latter is Miss Hazel Mountain, a member of the race. The formal opening of the Royal Inn, 2288 E. 55th St., Monday, was a great success. Credit is due the proprietor, Mr. Joseph Harris. Our people should encourage him with a liberal patronage. The Luna Park management is maintaining its well-known reputation from drawing the color-line, Tuesday, its new manager, entertained sixty local newspaper men, all "white." Nuffa. Wm. Heiskan is former resident of the city and for years in the real estate business in Detroit, is among those of our people there endeavoring to start a bank to be located on St. Antoine St., Detroit. Our good friend, Mr. Andrew McSpadden had a birthday, last week. Come "Mac," send the editor his sign and tell us how old (or young) you are. Don't be afraid, like our old friend James R. Snyder. The U. S. civil service commission will conduct an examination for postal clerks and carriers June 7 in the federal building, fourth floor. Citizens between 18 and 45 are eligible. Get busy! See Sec. Mackin there, at once! J. S. HALL'S 3121 Central Ave. J. E. BRANHAM'S 4219 Central Ave. JACKSON'S 4401 Central Ave. *PHILIP LURIE, 3051 Central Ave. RECONSTRUCTION. --- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, MAY 24, 1919. *DR. WEAVER'S 3315 Central Ave. *ERNEST P. JACKSON'S 3969 Central Ave. *M. GORDON'S, 2928 Central Ave. *OPEN SUNDAYS. Owing to the very inclement weather, Tuesday evening, the Dunbar Literary society's meeting was not so well attended as usual, but it proved very interesting nevertheless. There was a general discussion of the race's outlook. Dr. O. A. Taylor gave an informal, but very enjoyable "smoker." Tuesday evening after the lecture, in honor of Roscoe C. Simmons, which was attended by about twenty-five. The lecture was a success in spite of the exceedingly inclement weather. Dr. George E. Haynes, director of Negro Economics Department of Labor, Washington, D. C., and Mr. Charles E. Hall, Supervisor for the state of Ohio, are in the city, attending the National Conference of Employment Managers in session at the Hotel Cleveland. Mrs. Edith M. Tarver of Detroit, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Jennie Morris, E. 43d St., attended the Elks' annual ball at Dreamland, last week, and sang a beautiful selection, assisted by Wm. F. Burton, Mrs. Morris returned home, Sunday evening. A bullet wound in his shoulder is the case of Eugene Helm, 24, of 2828 Central Ave. He was at Scoville Ave, and E. 30th St., when a bullet, fired by a girl at her sweetheart, went wild and struck Helm. This is in ward 11. Police are looking for the woman and her sweetheart. Our K. P. lodges, Edwin Cowles, Western Reserve and Climax; the Courts of Calanthe, Dannon, Hermione and Dionycious; and the drill corps, Royal and Star, heard their annual Sunday afternoon at Ft. Stone Baptist church. They made a splendid appearance on the march to the church. The Imperial Jubilee Four left, Monday, for Elvira, Oberlin, Amherst, Norwalk, Toledo and points in Michigan. The company has been very successful everywhere it has played. Edward Parker, reader, has been making a "hit" in his renditions. Rev. Cook, the company's advance-agent, deserves credit for booking it in some of the best churches. Henry F. Streets, drum major and professional bondsman, was named defendant in a $1,000 bond foriture suit filed in common pleas court, last week Thursday afternoon, by County Prosecutor Doeferer. Earlier in the judgment for $500,000 against Streets who is a victim of a condition promoted by the local Davis administration. Mrs. Blanche Lemky, E. 20th St., entertained, Sunday, at a six course dinner, Misses Gertrude, Jocha, Jessie May and Willie Baxter, Messra Vonghers and L. R. Carey who leaves this afternoon, for his home at New Vienna; also Cincinnati and Hillsboro, Harry L. Jacobs of Cincinnati and Prof. E. L. Burns of Mt. Sterling will visit Mr. Carey at an early date. My visit to Cleveland brought so many pleasant memories of fifty-four years ago. I had the pleasure of visiting the Sibiloh Baptist church and St. John's in Mt. E. church where I attended their Sibah school in 1865 and 1866, then with a membership of twenty-five and fifteen. St. John's has 800 and Shiloh 500 members. I also addressed the Antioch church and school—Hon. Geo. W. Hays in the Cincinnati (O.) Union. Secretary Connors visited The Gazette office, May 15, and invited the editor to the Community Center's formal opening, that evening. On the following Saturday, May 17, we received the Center's printed "Announcement" and invitation to attend. Rather "backward work all around," wasn't it? It is said that since Feb. 7, the date of the informal opening, 118 discharged colored soldiers have been assisted financially and given employment through the center. Is it a fact that Secretary Connors and his committee failed to induce Garrett Morgan to give up the money (about $50) tossed in to the big flag, Feb. 22, when some of our overseas soldiers paraded in this city? Connors now says the money is to be used to pay a bounty to be rendered the members of the old Sixth Battalion on their return to the city. The question is, who has the money now—Morgan or the Connors committee which sought to have Morgan turn it over to it? Special memorial services will be held at Mt. Zion Cong. church, Sunday at 10:45 A. M., in honor of our deceased soldiers. All soldiers and ex-soldiers are urged to attend and help make the services a grand success. It is hoped that they will fill the front of the church which has been reserved for them. Soldiers should wear their uniform, but please do not stay away if there is any unwillingness to wear the uniform. Committee: Dr. Chus, Garvin and Caroline Turner. The Philharmonic club of Mt. Zion Cong. church met at their teacher, Mrs. Sadie Turner's, in Quebec St., recently, and listened to an interesting talk on "Mission Work in Africa" by Miss Carrie Merriweather. Great interest was manifested in the costumes and characteristics of the Timma tribe with whom Miss Merriweather worked. An elaborate luncheon was served by the hostess. The June meeting will be held at Mrs. Bessie Freeman's, Painesville. The Philharmonic club was delighted to have Mrs. Freeman present at this meeting. One of the Best in the city. Everybody Welcome! The Female Minstrel show at the Temple Theater, Monday evening, for the benefit of the Y. M. C. U., was a splendid success, turning away about 150 people. W. A. Anderson and J. W. Noble are entitled to great praise for their mentorship work in directing the show and the music, respectively. The organization extends The Gazette its hearty thanks for its telling efforts to help make the affair the most gratifying success it was. Felix Worth, Y. M. C. U. director, says the organization will be housed in its new home in about 60 days and that he is making arrangements to hold Sunday meetings at the same address. The trustees and Ladies' Auctioneer are busy planning meetings also. Mrs. T. D. Berry and Mrs. R. N. Wickfield of Youngstown were delegates to the S. S. convention of this diocese of the Episcopal church, held in this city at Emmanuel church, last week Wednesday and Thursday. The former, accompanied by Mrs. C. F. Nickens, called on The Gazette, Monday. Mr. Wickfield and Rev. John T. Ogburn of that city were St. Augustine church's delegates to the annual church convention of the diocese, held in Trinity cathedral, the same days. John P. Green, Esq., one of the delivery men, made a very interesting report, Sunday morning. Bishop Leonard made special mention to the convention of the good work done by St. Andrews, the past fiscal year, pleasing greatly its membership and many friends. THE BUNDY APPEAL FUND E. M. Zion Baptist church, $50.09; St. James A. M. E. church, $34.20; A. M. E. Church Alliance, $9; St. John's A. M. E. church, $70.56; Trinity A. M. E. church, Wilberforce, $8.31; Bethel A. M. E. church, Mech- niclesburg, $7.35; Mr. George Hooper, $100; Rev. J. F. Walker, 1; Mrs. William Anderson's group, $10.50; Mrs. Alonzo Jackson's group, $13; Mrs. O. A. Taylor's group, $57; Mr. Clifford Bundy's group, $45.61; Mrs. Lizzie McIntire's group, $35; Mrs. Letha Fleming's group, $2; Arthur A. Talbert's group, $75.10, Total, $618.72. Additions to the Bundy Fund A. M. E. church, Long, O. $5; Triedstone Baptist church, $20.61; North St. A. M. E. church, Spring- field, 7; Mrs. Lizzie McIntire's group, $25; Mrs. Letha Fleming's group, $61.10; Mrs. Alonzo Jackson's group, $14.50; Mrs. Fleming's group, $20; Total to date, $777.94. (Major) Wm. T. Fleming, Tecno A. Sets Up a New Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star in Cleveland Blazing Star Chapter. No. 7, order of Eastern Star was daily organized and set up on Monday evening, 19th inst., at Mason hall, E. 22nd St. and Woodland Ave., Cleveland, Ohio, by the Supreme Grand Deputy Matron-at-large, Mrs. R. Evelyne Payne of Pittsburg, Pa. Twenty-six candidates were initiated into the adive rite of O. E. S. of the A. F. and A. M. affiliation, including nine Mason brothers as follows: J H. Cox, 33 degree, W. G. P.; Wm. H. Harris, 33 degree, W. H. Downey, 33 degree; Harry Menon, 32 degree; Dr. J. B. Ecto, 28 degree; E. P. Jones, 32 degree; Thomas Shepman, 32 degree; B. R. Jackson, 32 degree; B. Barny, 32 degree, under the auspices of the Keystone Grand Chapter of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Mary Cox, W. G. M. Mrs. Margarett Gammon, W. G. Sec. —Adv. CELEBRATES HIS 72nd BIRTHDAY One of the speakers at the Luna Park celebration, last August, said some people were asking the foolish question what would they do with the Colored brother after having done his "bit" for high democracy in the world war? Being 72 years old, born a slave and of slave parents, there may be some excuse for the writer's asking the much-mooted question at this time. Judging from the past, naturally every race man with the least speck of manhood seems to be prepared to better race conditions. Our brave brown boys have been over the top and are now returning 100 per cent physically fit, well trained and efficient soldiers and can fill any position in line from marker to the top-rounds of official military capacity. The militia bureau's annual report shows more than 600 National Guard officers were removed from the service after the efficiency board had examined them. Cause, inefficiency, and yet someone is responsible for removing a regular army officer, who had seen active service, for a national guard officer, Col. Charles Young, a bounty hunter, who must be capable or he could not fill that position. We believe the war is over. At any rate the armistice is on and peace may come any day. But now comes the call for 2,000 sailors by the shipping board. Will we get a slice of that pie? Also the army is in a hurry to be recruited as those, who enlisted or have been drafted during the emergency, must all in accordance with the law be discharged. The entire U. S. force will be abso- ACHES AND PAINS QUICKLY RELIEVED You'll find Sloan's Liniment softens the severe rheumatic ache Put it on freely. Don't rob it in Just let it penetrate naturally. What a sense of soothing relief soon follows! External aches, stiffness, soreness, cramped muscles, strained sinews back "cricks"-those ailments can't fight off the relieving qualities of Sloan's Liniment. Clean, convenient, economical. Ask any druggist for it. Sloan's Liniment Kills Pain 30c. 60c and $1.20 Negro soldier is physically fit, disciplined, trained, loyal and brave. These are the requirements of a good soldier and citizen. These too, make the very best of commanders. ANDREW McSPADDEN. 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Special prices on screen doors, all sizes and styles, adjustable window screens, window screen frames, screen wire, poultry netting. Take Your Free Examination. Expert Bridge Work. 22-K Gold Used. BEATY SCORES THE "JUNKERS" AND SAYS OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW ALRIGHT! 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 HON. A. LEE BEATY Ohio's Only Afro-A M. THE BON. A. LEE BEATY Our only representative in the Ohio Legislature has our sincere sympathy, in the matter of his mistreatment by the "Beaty bill junkers," referred to in his letter published elsewhere in this issue of The Gazette. Having had experience with their leaders, when a member of that August body for six years and at various times since, the writer is in a position to not only sympathize with him but to thoroughly understand what he has passed thru and complains so bitterly of. It is an unenviable experience, to say the least. We "handed" them differently than Mr. Beaty did and that possibly explains why we never felt called upon to complain or even refer to them. They are a set of selfish and narrow-minded individuals of color who have done nothing material for the race, in Ohio, but are continually trying to "but in," tearing down where ever it is possible if they are not permitted to "but in," and always seeking a place in the "lime-light," posing as "great race men." Mr. Beaty should have ignored them, refused to accept their "New York white men" alleged civil rights bill for this state and frankly and firmly told them just what he was, that Mr. Ohio Civil Rights law "IS A VERY GOOD ONE AND IF ENFORCED WOULD GIVE US ALL THE PROTECTION NECESSARY." That is all any law can do! No law, whether new or old, is effective that is not enforced and our Ohio Civil Rights law is enforced. The only trouble, as we have repeatedly said, is that our people DO NOT USE IT ENOUGH, thus securing a better enforcement of the law—the only way to do so! The courts of Ohio, almost without exception, have been "with us" in the matter of our civil and other rights ever since the enactment of the law, twenty-five years ago, and are still "with us" just as Judge Grant states in his letter, also republished in this paper, today. Great chagrin in the deserved failure of their framed-up force—the passage of a bill absolutely unnecessary, as Mr. Beaty admits and Judge Grant proves—the Ohio "Negro junkers," who succeeded in getting N. A. A. C. P. white officers in New York City to "wish" House Bill, No. 130, on Mr. Beaty, turned on him and charged him with "laying down on the bill" just as soon as prejudiced white Republican and Democratic members of the Legislature had been defeated—the defeated the bill. This shows well what sort are the aforesaid Ohio "Negro junkers." They attempted to "run" Mr. Beaty and he unfortunately stood their brazen effrontery—the first one in our memory to do so. When he lost his "Birth of a Nation" bill, two years ago, we were anxious to help him but would not even offer to do so without some word from him although we were urged to go to Columbus for that purpose by the leader of the "junkers." When we were in the Legislature we would have none of their interference and that, in no small degree, accounts for our success in securing the passage of our Ohio Civil Rights law in 1894 and the Ohio Mob Violence law, better known as the Ohio Anti-Lynch law, in 1896. If Mr. Beaty is as wise, in the light of his most recent experience, as he ought to be, he will keep the "junkers" away from him in the future and abandon his present determination to reintroduce the "makeshift" and unnecessary House Bill, No. 139. HARRY C. SMITH. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES General Assembly of Ohio Columbus, O. May 6, 1919, Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. My dear Mr. Smith—In reply to your favor of May 2nd, I beg to adveise that I did not "lay down" On house bill, No. 129, and in support of the above statement I refer you to any member of this General Assembly. The bill was defeated by, (1st), its over-zealous friends, and then, as Don't Throw It to a Frier merican Legislator was to be expected, by those who are full of race prejudice. Let me call my attention to the journal of April 17, 1919, and you will see where I made the motion to take up House Bill. No. 139, and at that time I knew that such a motion was inopportune and that I was facing defeat. But a committee favoring the bill were constantly buzzing and nagging me at every turn until, for by own protection and to satisfy the committee (?), I made the fatal mistake of making the motion I did. I agree with you in your last issue in which you say that we have at present a very good civil rights law, and a law which I believe would give us the protection necessary! House Bill. No. 139, was sent to me (from N. Y. City) to the N. A. A. C. P. and I am not the author of it, nor have I claimed at any time that I was. But I endorsed it and would do so again. Why should I lay down? I have made enemies among the whites who are prejudiced. But of that I do not complain. I expected it. But from the members of the race which I was trying to serve—to be criticized by them is not only unjust but cruel! We will adjourn sometime in the near future to meet sometime after the 1st of next year and I will then reintroduce the bill and I will take all of the responsibility myself and will not permit any one to order me around as was attempted this time. The Republicans of today are not the same kind of men that were here during your time, but with all that if I had of had the able assistance of such men as yourself, instead of being hampered by some very VERY small fry, the Beaty bill might have passed. Thanking you for your kindness in the past, I am Former Presiding Judge of the Court of Appeals, Eighth District, On Our Ohio Civil Rights Law Akron, O., April 25, '19. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor The Gazette, Cleveland, O. My Dear Sir:—Observing your letter in the Beacon-Journal, of this city, I venture to send you, under a separate cover, the Ohio Law Report, an opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. Forpan case, decided in Akron, last fall, in which a judgement for $500) five hundred dollars, (under Ohio's Civil Rights law) was sustained. If the Beacon-Journal had known what was going on in its own town, there would have been no occasion for criticism, editorially. The law of Ohio is under no reproach, nor our courts and juries, in administering it. It was said by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman case was reviewed. Very truly yours. C. R. GRANT. A WHITE FRIEND WRITES. Madison, N. J., April 26, 1919. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir: I want to thank you doubly for the clearing up expose of the abominable "colored school teachers" scandal in high-class Waverly school. We will other race papers so slow in defending the moral standing of Negro women at the capital? I rejoice with you in the defeat of the Beatty bill, "adding unnecessary provisions" to your well known and legally recognized Ohio Civil Rights Law of 1894. There was a similar successful attempt tried here in Philadelphia and Trenton—it, too, was a frame-up "face." Why don't the so-called "jim crow" Negro learn learn how to leave "well enough" alone? Wishing you all of heaven's choicest blessings, I remain Your friend and well wiser. (REV.) GEO. WILSON BRENT. THE BEATY BILL THREAT. Many colored voters of this city and state have been stirred unneces- w Away You nd or an Acq THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, MAY 24, 1919. sarily by the defeat of the Beaty bill in the House of Representatives at Columbus, Thursday, April 17, '19, and by the threat sent out from that city, at the time, by members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, John H. Shillady, (white), secretary; headquarters, New York city. The threat was, that Ohio colored voters would hold the Republican party responsible for the defeat of the bill, something they will NOT do because, when the facts given herewith are generally known by them, our people will be grateful to the Republican majority in the House of Representatives for the defeat of the bill. Rights law which the supreme court of the state has a number of times passed upon, holding it constitutional and good law. Afro-Americans of this state have won many suits under it since the writer secured its passage, when a member of the House of Representatives, in 1894. The Beaty bill (to amend the law) which was defeated, was sponsored by New York men (white) unfamiliar with the conditions here in Ohio and encouraged to do so by Ohio Afro-Americans, who apparently knew them but little, were prosecuted by the Assembly, the Ohio Civil Rights law would have been amended to its detriment. The fact is our people and not the Ohio Civil Rights law are "at fault." They do not use it often as they should but expect the law to do for them what they should do for themselves, under it, in the courts. HARRY C. SMITH. OUR OHIO CIVIL RIGHTS LAW Upon the request of many readers of The Gazette we print below the text of Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights law which the editor had enacted while a member of the 71st General Assembly, in 1894: The General Code of Ohio: Sec. 12940. Whoever, being the proprietor or his employee, keeper or manager of an inn, restaurant, eating house, barber-shop, public conveyance by land or water, theater or other place of public accommodation and amusement, denies to a citizen, except for reasons applicable alike to all citizens and regardless of race or color, the full enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges of a proof, shall be furnished not less than fifty dollars or more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty days nor more than ninety days, or both. Sec. 12941. Whoever violates the next preceding section shall also pay not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars to the person aggrieved thereby to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such offense was committed. This law has repeatedly been held constitutional and good law by the Ohio Supreme court. 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