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THE MUDSLINGING GANG SICK! IN UNION IN STRENGTH $50 CORPO The Tate Stars Bac capital stock to that a IT COULD BE Last winter when this much-wanted con- wise ones that we cou anywhere with it. B selves and what we wa WHAT WE In one season the has bought the ground sembled a ball club of feel proud. By doing Baseball Co. has given colored organization o country. (Something proud.) HAS NOT I Just think of it! l ated not at a loss, but when 90 per cent of the erating at a loss. W when business gets bad HERE IS YOU The Tate Stars Bac for sale to you; you can as you like. You shou vestment while it lasts and to Cleveland. A $50,000 CORPORA Stars Baseball Co. to that amount, SHOULD NOT BE better when we started anented company it w hat we could not an- d with it. But results s what we want is more BUT WE HAVE season the Tate Stars ground, erected a club of which you By doing all of this has given you and the ization on a par w something more of NOT LOST M k of it! This com- loss, but at a gain, ment of the business loss. What will th gets back to norma IS YOUR CH Stars Baseball Co. you can buy one sh You should get in o e it lasts. You owe nd. THIRTY-NINTH YEAR No.13 CORPORATION The Tate Stars Baseball Co. has increased its capital stock to that amount, IT COULD NOT BE DONE Last winter when we started out to organize this much-wanted company it was said by the wise ones that we could not and would not get anywhere with it. But results speak for themselves and what we want is more such results. WHAT WE HAVE DONE In one season the Tate Stars Baseball Co. has bought the ground, erected a grandstand, assembled a ball club of which you cannot help but feel proud. By doing all of this the Tate Stars Baseball Co. has given you and the Fifth City a colored organization on a par with any in the country. (Something more of which to be proud.) HAS NOT LOST MONEY Just think of it! This company has operated not at a loss, but at a gain, its first season, when 90 per cent of the business houses were operating at a loss. What will this company do when business gets back to normal? HERE IS YOUR CHANCE The Tate Stars Baseball Co. offers its stock for sale to you; you can buy one share or as many as you like. You should get in on this good investment while it lasts. You owe it to yourself and to Cleveland. THE STOCK The stock sells for mon. You can buy it o TATE BASE BALL sells for $10.00 per buy it on an easy p THE STATE STADI BALL COM The stock sells for $10.00 per share, all common. You can buy it on an easy payment plan. THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND; OHIO, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1921 WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS THROUGHOUT THE STATE What Our People Are Doing Each Week - Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical Marriages, Deaths, Etc. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write also, their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 25 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. WILMINGTON.—Mrs. White of Ill., formerly of Wilmington, is visiting Mrs. Ed. Young.—Maurice and William Duggar dined with Mr. and Mrs. Garrett, Sunday.—Rev. and Mrs. W, L. Tolliver "hiked" four miles to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Young's, last Saturday, and feasted on "possum" and sweet potatoes.—The Second Baptist church entertainment, last Friday evening, Miss Esther Chapman in charge, was fine. Prof. Buster's address was inspiring.—B, Y, P, U. program, Sunday evening, in charge of Miss Mary Baskin was well received.—Rev. Crist of the Presbyterian church preached at the A. M. E. church, Sunday evening.—The Mother's club will serve supper at Midland school building, this Friday evening. The club will work for the worthy poor and to supply the school with necessary equipment.—Mrs. Chas. Chapman and daughter, Bertha, Geneva Howell, Carl and Frank Chapman spent Sunday in Dayton.—Elmer Ringo, Vernon Chapman and Carl's Scott report a fine fox chase near Ripley. Carl Chapman spent armistice day in Cincinnati. Mrs. Chas. G. Chapman entertained at dinner. Thurs- PRIME SPORT NEWS By Allen Harrison. Dorsey. Akron in Tie. Buffalo, N. Y.—The Buffalo Americans, pro footballers, and the Akron Indians played a scoreless tie here. Sunday. The locals excelled in backfield work, but Akron's line was impregnable most of the time. Robeson, Akron end, did gold work, while Pollard's work was noteworthy. Claim Rubo Defrauded "Em.". Atlanta, Ga.—"Rube" Foster was yanked out of his special car, here last week, and charged with cheating and swindling by a number of players, whom Foster is alleged to have brought North from Atlanta, last summer. He says emphatically the charges are unfounded. His ultimate destination is Cuba, after a series in New Orleans. Two complete teams are making the trip to Havana for the winter season. for the Ta being in e Wi NEW YO heavyweight $5,000 rich And Harry ing around Dempsey, that fellow would be be Wills made a financial. that his be would draw when $5,000 he forgot percentage got only $ taled $43.0 few seconds the veteran The Swastika basketball team, champions of Cleveland, have reorganized for the coming season. The Swastikas won the local championship and Cha-Pah-Wee silver loving cup when they defeated the Pioneers and Fritz Pollard Specials, two out of three in the city finals. Last season, they played twenty-four games and lost three. Teams wishing games with Swastikas, should write R. W. Tallaferro, 2396 E. 40th St. Cincinnati, O.-Harry Wills of New York easily eliminated Clem Johnson, lone claimant of the heavy-weight championship of South America, by making the latter quit in the sixth round of a scheduled twelve-round bout at the Arena, Covington, Ky., last Thursday night. "Wills displayed all the earmarks of a real champion and when they say he is a worthy rival for Dempsey's crown, the whole truth is spoken," says the Cincinnati Enquirer. Tates Trim Falls Eleven. Chagrin Falls, O—The Tate Stars of Cleveland defeated the Chagrin Falls semi-pro eleven, here last Friday, 9 to 0. All the scoring was done in the first quarter, both teams stiffening up thereafter. A fifteen-yard dash by Smith of the Tates scored their first touchdown, and Craigreay kicked goal. Shortly after, end, McCreary blocked a Chagrin punt behind the goal line and tacked Reno for a safety. McCreary, Smith, Cyrus and Craigreay starred Akron in Tie Easy for Harry. day, Mr, and Mrs, Ray Scott and family, Mr, Albert Scott of Xenia and Horace White of Lud.—Miss Lula Sims of New Vienna accompanied Booker Bass home, armistice day, and spent the week-end with Mr, and Mrs, Wm. Graham. HILLSBORO. — Rev, Jas. A Young, preached at the Baptist church, Sunday morning. — Mrs John H. Johnson and niece, Marrieta Parson, of Cincinnati spent the week-end with Mrs. Josephine Parson and Mrs. Louisa Young.—Rev J. J. Burr preached, Sunday morning, at the A. M. E. church.—Mrs. Alline Burton is convalescing. — The members of the A. M. E. church had a "shower" on Rev. and Mrs. Williams, last Tuesday night: They received an abundance of good things.—Mr. and Mrs. Flippo, Mrs. Ricks, Mrs. Dewes, Rev. Harper and Miss Irma Anderson motored from Cincinnati and were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Mack Owens.—The Pastor's Aid society supper at the Baptist church, Friday night, was a success.—Rev. Pierce hold quarterly meeting, Sunday, Rev. S. H. Williams preached for him at 3 p. m.—Mrs. Jesse Bullard visited relatives in Indianapolis, this week.—Mr. Chrence Zimmerman of Columbus, is the guest of Mr. Pearl Zimmerman.—Mr. Douglas Gales and Miss Carrie Baber were married, by Rev. J. J. Durr.—Miss Jeanette Thomas has returned from Penn.—The house on N. E. owned by Rev. Young and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Philip Alexander, was slightly damaged by fire, Saturday.—A dinner will be served in the basement of the Baptist church, Thanksgiving, and a play given at night under the auspices of the trustees.—Rev J. H. Massie preached at Shiloh church, Columbus, Sunday.—Mrs. Mellie Carlisle visited schools in Xenia and at Wilberforce, recently.—Mr. Wilpert and Mr. Mills were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Jones. for the Tates, the latter especially being in every scrimmage. NEW YORK CITY—Harry Wills, heavyweight, is back from Cuba $5,000 richer than when he started. And Harry is busying himself looking around for none other than Jack Dempsey. "I would like to fight that fellow just once—just once would be 'enough.'" comments Wills. Wills made a great hit in Cuba and a financial boner. He didn't think that his bout with Gunboat Smith would draw a very big house. So when $5,000 was offered for his end he forgot all about asking for a percentage option. "As a result, he got only $5,000 while the gate totaled $43,000." It required only a few seconds for Wills to polish off the veteran white man. Looking back in retrospect at the 1921 season of our Nat'l Baseball league, one cannot help but see clearly the many mistakes made. Numerous complaints from around the circuit have been heard in regard to inequalities of the schedule and arbitrary treatment.Rube Foster, manager of the American Giants and well known as owner of the Columbus Buckeyes, is also president of the "league" and the chief schedule maker. These positions should not be held by one man, for with the best of motives the desire to advance one's own fortune will manifest itself. This could be seen clearly, last season. Foster has done much for baseball among us but he has also gained financially and "the child" is now about grown. He should be willing to give up some of these positions or be forced to do so. A fair-minded schedule committee of five magnates ought to be named. If Messrs. Tate, Mills, Taylor, Blunt and Wilkinson are farseeing they will insist on this being done for the future good of our baseball efforts. "Henry Lincoln." Again! WASHINGTON, D. C.—The U. S. Senate District of Columbia committee, by a vote of 6 to 2 authorized a favorable report to the Senate on the nomination, of Henry Lincoln Johnson, to be recorder of deeds for the district. We hope Johnson will "hold his ground" and not "retreat one inch." His nomination should have been confirmed months ago. Wills After Champ. New Deal Needed. AFFIDAVIT State of Ohio SS Cuyahoga County D. U. Mills; 2403 Central. Ave. Cleveland, O., being first duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is an appointed official wit- ness in precinct BB of the. 11th ward; that said precinct is located at the corner of E. 40th St. and Central Ave.; that he was present at the above mentioned voting booth on the morning of Nov. 8th, acting in his official capacity as witness, and challenger in the interest of Harry C. Smith. Affiant says that on the above mentioned date, Mrs. I. W. Ellis, a voter in said precinct, voted, and that after she voted she folded said ballots and handed same to one of the clerks to be placed in the ballot box. Affiant says that the aforementioned ballots were taken from the clerk by J. C. Hudson, who is not an official in the booth but a voter in this precinct and a nephew of "Starlight" Boyd; that said ballots were opened by the said J. C. Hudson, examined and handled by him and placed on the table. Affiant says that all the foregoing was within the knowledge of the judges and clerks in the booth, and that there was no attempt made to prevent him from handling and interfering with these ballots, and to the best of his knowledge and belief all the foregoing was contrary to the laws as laid down for the counting of ballots in an election. Affiant further says that the aforementioned Mrs. Ellis demonstrated with the election officials that same was contrary to the election laws, and she was ordered by Mrs. Tom Fleming, wife of the present councilman, who is a candidate for re-election, to leave the booth, and that she did leave the booth. Affiant further says that previous to the voting of Mrs. Ellis, he noticed several marked ballots lying upon the table which had not been placed in the box, and which were opened. Affiant further says that he was in the booth before six-thirty and that he noticed a pile of marked ballots lying on the table, although he knew that the booths were not open for voting until six-thirty a. m. Further affiant sayeth not. (Signed) D. U. MILLS. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence by the above mentioned D. U. Mills, this eighth day of November, 1921. (Seal) HARRY KATZ, Notary Public State of Ohio Cuyahoga County SS. Iola W. Ellis, 2400 E. 43rd St. Cleveland, O., being first duly sworn according to law, deposes and says: that she is a qualified voter in pre- cinct BB of the 11th ward voting booth, located at S. E. corner of E. 40th St. and Central Ave., Cleveland, O. The affiant says that on Nov. 8, 1921, she went into said booth at or about 6:25 a. m. and was duly presented with ballots to be marked and cast in the election being held on said date. The affiant says that upon presentation of her properly marked and folded ballots for deposit, that she was requested to lay them on the table and pass out, by Mrs. Lethia Fleming, a judge in said booth. The affiant further says that she demurred and demanded that said ballots be deposited in the proper ballot box, in her presence, the said being her legal right. Also that Mrs. Fleming opened and looked at one of affiant's ballots. The affiant further says that in addition to the judges and clerks present was one Juriman C. Hudson, a nephew of one "Starlight" Boyd, who did deliberately unfold and read or inspect ballots offered for deposit, this in the presence of the duly qualified judges and officials of the booth, who did not offer any objection or remonstrance. Affiant further affirms that she reported these facts to City Policeman No. 896, on duty near said voting booth, and was informed that he would go in the booth and "see about it." Sworn, to before me and subscribed in my presence by the above mentioned Iola W. Ellis, this ninth day of November, 1921. (Seal) Harry C. Smith, Notary Public. Mob Victim's Widow Gets $2,000 LAURENS, S. C.—The widow of Joe Stewart, who was lynched here in April, 1920, has just won a verdict of $2,000 damages as a result of the lynching, from the county of Laurens. Suit for the amount under the constitutional requirements was brought by the widow. Henrietta Stewart, in the common pleas court, and Judge McLver, presiding, directed the jury to bring in a verdict for the full sum. Stewart was taken from the city jail and hanged from a river bridge on the night of his arrest after trouble with a party of young white brutes, two of whom received knife wounds, while Stewart was defending himself. He was an Afro-American. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS Ballot Jugglers and Their Assistants in Ward 11 Election Day-A Hot Time in Prospect Watch for It. The supporters of Hon. Harry C. Smith whose ballots were not properly cast, or were opened and read, or who were not permitted to vote, or who were in any manner shown discontent, or who saw any irregularities at the polls on Nov. 5th. '21 are requested to come to Saunders' Hotel, No. 2366 2. 55th St., between 3 and 6 p.m., any day, where their complaints will be heard and properly attended to. The Central Body. The fight of the citizens of ward 11, in the Central Ave., district, for a cleanup, climaxed in the election held on the 8th. The returns show that the "gang" apparently ruled, but the people now have thrown the spotlight on the back of the affair, with the result that unheard of corruption, political handiwork and vulgar erroneery on election day have been disclosed as the only weapon of offense and defense in the hands of those who sought Mr. Smith's defeat and would not have the sordid condition in ward 11 made patent to those who do not have a "star"ator in their vicinity. The Central Body of ward 11, which so valiantly championed the "cleaner" peoples' cause in that ward in the recent contest, can with much pride, preen itself on the fact that it made its fight on Maschke, "Starlight" Boyd, FitzGerald and their political creation, "Tom," and at no time carried it into the families, of any of the persons aforementioned. It did no "mud-slinging." That was left, to the "enemy" and they certainly did a plenty. But did the "goodenoughers," most of whom for reasons best known to themselves moved from the ward long, long ago, act as considerate? Attention is hereby called to the fact that not a single one of those, who extolled the present miserable living conditions or heaped slimy abuse on the people of the 11th ward, were residents of the ward. The lying pamphlet was fostered by people from other wards. Their principal "muckers" were people from other wards. The better element in the ward as a whole simply would not descend to the level of the speakers who have moved to other wards and who were pressed into service to thwart the will of the people of ward 11. Syd Thompson acting as challenger-in-chief for "Fitz" and "Tom" in the ward, "Starlight," "Tom" and "Germany" apparently entered the booths at will, others of their coworkers (wives, other relatives and close friends) serving as clerks, judges and in other capacities in and around the booths. When we consider these impediments, we can congratulate ourselves on the fact that Mr. Smith won and decisively, too, the "defeated" on the face of the returns. A victory was won when it was made evident during the campaign that Maschke, "Star," "Fitz," and "Tom" could not exist; if something was not done to stop the rise in the Central Ave. district, Mayor-elect Kohler, who wasn't conceded a ghost of a chance, was entirely overlooked in their efforts to keep the Central Ave. district in line for Mayor FitzGerald. Their entire machinery was moved into this district with numerous importations with the result that their fighting lines in other wards were weakened. They apparently carried their end in the district, but say, folks, what happened to them in the rest of the city? FitzGerald and Maschke and "Star" were beaten. Kohler, the one who once started "Starlight" on the way to oblivion, and who gained Roosevelt's encomium as the "best police chief" in America, is to be our next mayor and, please God, being in a greater position than police chief, we can now say a good battle has been fought, a wonderful victory won; and we can truthfully shout: We have been redeemed and will soon be rid of "too much Starlight." And, the present outlook is that "Tom" too, will ere long have to GO! Brickbats and Bouquets. These are they who did not bow down to pagan gods in the recent Central Ave. district fight for civic righteousness: Rev. Clarke and St. Johns, Rev. Page and Gethsemene, Rev. Yewell and Triedstone, Rev. McDonald and Macedonia, Rev. Bailey and Antioch; Mt. Pisgah Baptist church, Slohil Baptist church WE LOVE YOU WE LOVE YOU WE LOVE YOU E COPY FIVE CENTS SICK! LY SCARE! g Made To Catch the Assistants in Ward 11 Elec- Time in Prospect— ch for It. Lane Metropolitan C. M. E. church, Cory M. E. church, Rev. B. K. Smith of E. Mt. Zion, and Rev. C. Z. Gaines of the A. M. E. Zion, West Side, and others. "Ninety-one persons were apprehended in last Saturday night's raid and brought before the police court, Monday morning, charged with gambling Note carefully these addresses in Monday's dailies: 5105 Euclid Ave., 2925 Woodland Ave., 2729 Central Ave., 2310 Central Ave., and 6708 Fleet Ave. Two in the Central Ave. district and two adjacent, and yet some would have it that "we are just as anybody else." Figure it out, yourself. 80 per cent. to us, 20 per cent. to the rest of the city. Lest we forget! It was while creating a reputation as "the best police chief in America" that Mayor-elect Kohler practically backed "Star" off the board. If Mayor Kohler takes up where Chief Kohler left off (and he will do so), we have won decisively. It was the Central Body of Ward 11 that kept Maschke and "Star" so busy trying to save "Fitz" and "Tom" in the Central Ave. district that they forgot Kohler was in the race. With the result that—well, remember that we aided you in the abstract, Mr. Mayor-elect. The better element of ward 11 is under irremovable obligations to Mrs. J. D. Jackson, lessee of Jackson's Hall, Woodland Ave, and E. 38th St.; Mrs. Wm. Owens of the Geraldine Hotel, E. 40th St.; Mrs. Pearlie Rivers of the Sanders House, E. 55th, and the numerous good people in the Central Ave. district who gave practically gratulous use of their premises for meeting purposes and unstinted encouragement in the campaign for civic righteousness. From State Representative to candidate for the city council—Harry C. Smith. From Congressman to candidate for mayor—Theodore Burton. From President to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court—Wm. H. Taft. From wife of a city representative to ward-heeler and ballot jungler, etc.—??? Which is the most odious descent? When school-teachers give their O. K. to the miserable immoral and living conditions in ward 11 who is to have mercy on the children in the Central Ave. district outside of the Lord and the decent parents and people of that section of the city. It was the Master who said to those who would demand the death of the Magdalene: "Let he, who is without guilt, cast the first stone." Who heaved those bricks at Kohler? What would Jesus do? What will Kohler do? The 11th ward still pleads for the privilege of living clean. To the best police chief in America, we now direct our plaint. Help us to live as we would like to live. Don't deny us the right to a cleaner atmosphere. "Will you walk into my parlor" said the spider to the fly? And the decent ministers of the gospel in ward 11 and vicinity said, "no!" Speaking of rotten politics, plans are being made by the "mob" to oust those members, of the different fraternities of which "Tom" advertises himself as being a member, who had the self-respect to oppose him in his recent campaign. Maybe they'll extend their plans to his church too. If they succeed, how many Christians will be left in it, and how many good men will be left in the lodges referred to? It has been remarked by many business places and persons in ward 11 and even by those of the opposition that they could easily distinguish the "Smith" workers from the others, election day, because" the Smith workers were invariably sober." The Universal Negro Improvement, Association, of Cleveland showed the quailty that makes for good government in the recent campaign. This country has always bragged of the way it handled Benedict Arnold. Debs is now in jail for "hucking" the government. The U. N. I. A. indorsed Hon. Harry C. Smith for councilman of the 11th ward but it seems that a couple of its members, whom they had honored with official appointments, at (Continued on Page 2, Column 2). --- The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES (in Advance) One Year ......6.seceeeee++++ $200 Six Months ..........sses0+0+ 1.00 ‘Three Months ........+00.00++ 50 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or reg- istered letter Entered at the postoffice in Cleve- land, Ohio, as second-class mail matter. Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE (Bell "Phone: Cherry 1259) Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, anc hag the largest bona fide circulation double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, publish- ed in the state of Ohio, and compar. ison with any will immediately es tablish its rank as one of the NEWS TEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans, 850,000 in Ohio. 35,000 in Cleveland. NOVEMRER 19. 1921. Mr, McAdoo was not called to testify as a railroad expert, and no one has complained. ella ‘There is no getting away from the fact that the bete noire of the armaments conference is the Anglo- Jupanese alliance. With that im- Pending mendce to complete under- standing between the Uaited States, Great Britain and Japan out of the way, the conference should move steadily forward to substantial ac- complishment. RET ae PAWNCY! HOW ORUDE! Our ultra-modern educationists insist that schoo} text books should all be rewritten. ‘They see in H, G. Wells’ “Outline of History,” a mod- el book for the present day pupil and believe that the style of text books on other subjects should be patterned after it, American pupils have got along yery well for up- wards of a century on histories writ- ten by American authors, The brand of patriotism that those vol- umes haye inculcated in the youth- ful mind helped to make the men who hay munugea this, country’s destin. sie a hundred years, Would @ well to tet well enous continye ths educational hat uve demonstrated h to so wiany generations? erento \ <LD'S OA TIAL PRO TEM, for a brief pe 4 Washington is virtually the cap .. of th world. ‘Vhe great men of the leading | ations ure there, engaged in forn iting agreements that will profoun at- fost the foreign policies, expendt- tures, and general welfare of their respective states. | ‘The United yyates in jleased that such benefl- ient evrangements are being con- vummavel within its) borders, but after the (conclusions have been reached tuere will be no disposition neve to direct the affairs of the ‘world, The conferees will return to their respective countries and en- ‘gage in the work of putting into of- fect the relief made possible by the ‘Washington agreements, free from any suggestions ifrom America as to how they should proceed. If the abundant good will manfested among the armaments conferees as they gathered for the opening meet- ings can be translated into perma- nent agreements between them, the conference will adjourn with a bright record of accomplishments, senor Res GATHERING IN THE GRAVY. Tm the first installment of his story of his relations with Woodrow Wilson, Mr, Tumulty relates that former Chairman of the: Democratic National Committee, William F, Mo- Combs, who was admittedly one of the original Wilson men, wanted to be Attorney General and gave as his reason for that desire that it would elo Sie Ai 5 innyes fies Bi tem of office expired. President W! is reported as exclaiming, “What a surprising statement for any man to make! Why, Tumulty, many of the scandals of previous administra- tions have come about in this way, cabinet officers using their positions to advance thelr own personal for- tunes, It must not be done in our administration,” There 1s nothing tn the quotation from Mr: McCombs to indicate that he intended to use his official position in any tmproper way. To be attorney general would give him national prominence. It would give him sn opportunity to demonstrate ‘his ability, ‘That na- {ional prominence and demonstra- tion of abliity would be a very Proper asset for him to use after his retirement from office, Mr, Me- Combs is now dead and there is no fone in a position to answer the im- plied charge of corrupt motive which ‘Mr. Tumulty now makes. But since Mr, Tumulty has broached this sub- Ject and quoted” President Wilson as deploring the use of a cabinet po- sition for private advancement, it fs worth while to note that Mr. Tu- multy is now using his former po- sition as private secretary to Presi- dent. Wilson to make an enormous fortune. He is admittedly disclos- ing private and confidential infor- mation for which he is receiving large sums of money. Moreover, there are several members of the Wilson cabinet, and others who were high in the Wilson administra- tion, who immediately after their retirement from office went into the practice of law in Washington or New York, giving their attention to special features of law practice for which their positions in the govern- ment gave them special opportunity. The friends of Mr, McCombs, and they are many, will be willing to have Mr, Tumulty compare any in- cidents in Mr. McCombs’ law prac- tice and the fees he received with the practice and the fees collection by former members of the Wilson administration since their retire- ment from office. Owing to the FitzGerald adminis- tration’s “laxiness”” the hotels, inns and lodging houses of Cleveland, failed to comply with the law re- quiring a report to be made to the board of elections, on the Monday prior to the registration of voters for the November {election, giving the names of all employees and per- sons living in thelr establishments, together with the length of rest- ence and other information, ‘The law was enacted several years ago following election scandals, investi- gation Into which disclosed that “floaters” from flophouses and lods- ing houses had registered and voted. This was undoubtedly the cause of much of the wholesale illegal regis- tration and voting in wards 8, 11, 12 and others on Noy.’ 8, "21, Have you noticed that Mayor FitzGerald’s and Councilman Fleming's precinet vote were almost always the same ‘and that this same thing is true of their total vote, in ward 112 (Continued from Page 1) tempted to “flirt” with the people that the organization hadn't. in- dorsed, Castor ofl never acted on anybody as quick as that body acted on these false leaders. They real- ly got rid of them, Ask the former vice-president of the Men's club of the political end of the U. N. I. A. about the “walloping” they gave him preliminary to bouncing him, If all false leaders of our people wee bandied likewise there would soon be & number of churches jround here with new heads, Upon a carefni reading of The Dyer Anti-Lynching bill, now, being considered at Washington, D. ©., and a casn ' retrospect of the Ubio Anti Liencking law, exe wiil tind that Ohio has tong had what tae coun- try is now trying to get, and taat Mr, Dyer has bodily taken complete sections from the law, which the Hon. Harry C. Smith fostered, and inserted them in the bill that we hope will soon become national. And the handsome cheques, bich were made out to a number of Judases for their be- trayal of the people of the Central Ave. district, were _re- fused payment after the Judases had delivered their measly souls to the man whose middle name is de- pravity. Rev. Clarke and the good people of St. Johns can depend on the good people of the Central Ave. district for their unstinted approval and support in any effort they see fit to make in effort to rid themselves of any of the increment that has ra- diated from the upper end of the district into its immediate neigh- borhood. Quite a few of the “apprehensive” are leaving town, and to those who can’t very well" leave town, we would suggest that an open conted- sion is good for the soul. Jo Kerr, THE WARD 11 FARCE ‘Tuesday's election, as far as ward 11 is concerned, was turned into a blooming farce ‘when the Board of Elections refused to permit our chal- lengers to enter the election booths in that ward after promising to do 80, and also when certain election of- ficials were allowed to handle ballots, ete., before the booths opened that morning. Although the courts were appealed to and a mandatory manda- mus, ordering the Board to admit our challengers in the booths during the day and our witnesses from 6:90 p. (when the polls closed) on until the count was finished, the challen- gers were denied admittance to, the ths on the order of the Board which alleged it had not been prop- erly notified of the Judge Levine decision granting the mandamus. From all we can learn there is very good reason to believe that about all the crooked work necessary to defeat Mr. Smith, candidate for the city council in ‘ward 11, was done before the booths were formally opened at 6:30 a, m,, Tuesday morning. In ad- dition to this there were so very many other “irregularities” in the booths during the day that the voting in ward 11, Tuesday, was a bloom- ing farce, pure and simple, And the end is not yet! No fair minded and unbiased person in ward 11 familiar with the situation but will acknow!- edge that there were three Smith votes in that ward to every one Fleming vote. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, NOVEMBER 19, 1921. TWO WOMEN WILL | gy ecesomred. |: SHARE ONE ESTATE| 8 Stops | saben f Ah ae My sc Former Pittsburgh Girl Must} § Ab oe IME 3 Divide With Husband’s | FM 24 hours | Ther Farce Marriage Widow. nik sits Ay COURT RECOGNIZES SIN| Jf ]}pOASCARA si, QUININE) | 5 oy PEE i) “Soe cents we nae | BL Omeaeze [Il] oct Hotar bytratie Winding eect MATL ee ee | 5 (ous—The Court’s Novel Opinion, son Ba CB 0. Toblete. Not « MINNEAPOLIS, Mino.—Even as the sword of Solomon threatened to cleave a baby in two to settle the an- clent dispute of two women, so tho sword of justice in Hennepin County District Court descended, and, with one fell swoop, neatly divided the es- tate of the late George Spelss, bar tender, Minneapolis trance artist and the husband of two women. Each of the women, who claimed Spelss as husband over a period of 35 years, was awarded a balf interest in Min- neapolis and Hennepin County real estate valued at $60,000 during the trial. Seis 9 ie Os eatin teas Barbara Spetes, the defendant, Both are more than 60 years old. Mary Speiss, Judge H. D. Dickison ruled, {3 Speiss’ Jogal widow by virtue of her marriage to him at the age of 14 in 1881 in Pittsburgh. But, the Judge de- elded, Mary is entitled to half the es- tate because the property was the accumulation of the foint earnings and profits of Gerge Spelss and Anna Barbara Spelss, although, according to the decision, Anna Barbara was never Speise’ lawful wife, as she clatmed to be, but Anna, the court held, 1s the legal owner of half the estate. ‘Anna Barbara, aged 68, who leugh- ed and wept on the witness stand as she recounted hor adventures and proved herself a match for both Judge ‘and attorney, went through a cere: mony of marriage with Speiss, em- ployed as bartender in her saloon, aithough she knew ho had failed to get a divorce from Mary Spelss, the court holds. *] hold the so-called ceremony of marriage between George Speiss and Anna Barbara was a farce, an empty pretense,” Judge Dickinson said in his @ccision, “The defendant is now an old woman, blind, She contributed her share to the joint business enter- prises of herself and George Speiss. It would be highly inequitable and ap- pallingly unjust to rob her of her just share in the joint savings and cast it in the lap of one who is entitled to not more than a lke portion, “The facts entitle the defendant to fan equal share, but not more, in the estate of the deceased, George J. Speiss, independent of her life with him, Each knew the other had a law- ful spouse living. The ceremony—if there was one—was a blutf—a piece of theatrics—quite in keeping with the rest of thelr sham lives. But the law will not deny to the sinner the sanetity of property rights more than to the virtuous. ‘Their relations should be rezarded as a sidelight merely on the lives of these two ad- venturers, whose mutual resdlution to combine thelr labors and capital, backed by a gener-us cunning and Jesotceetuiness, resulted fn the ee ouireme~*, for te benfit ot both, of ‘the es [| “ror 23 ry the decision eres on, “te msriod of 16 mons, these { lax moral etand- ards, {6 uther’s soclety sut- ficiently con: val to work tozcther seeking and ::iring the almighty dol lar, by pots winding and devious, throuch many States and cities, from fa saloon here to a hotel or restaurant there, realizing some fair profits from investments in real estate by shrewd man{pulation, he furnishing brains, ingenuity and originality and she the ‘cash, until in 1900 they settled in Min- nieapolis and for the most part en- gaged in the fortune telling business with perfodic excursions to other places, attending fairs and pleasure resorts, plying the ordinary arts and tricks of charlantry—he the manager, the press Agent, the advertiser; she tho sorceress, the spirit medium, the trance artist.” Finding that Mary, as the wid- ‘ow is entitled to George Spetss’ one- half share and Anna Barbara to the ‘other half as her own property, Judge Dickinson granted Mary her costs in the action and ordered a stay of 40 ‘days. GETS $5,000; DISAPPEARS. Film Explolter Collects From Pros pective Moving-Plcture Rtars. | PITTSBURGH, PA.—Pollce are searching for one Job Smith, moving pleturer adventurer, who is sald to have muleted a score of young men out of sims aggregating $5,000. Com plaint was made by some of the al- leged victims who entrusted him with amounts ranging from $65 to $200, the police say. According to city detectives, Smith advertised for male screen actors, ‘and interviewed prospective stars in ‘a downtown hotel. ‘Those sccepted ‘were told to meet him prepared to leave for New York immediately, the detectives say. After walting in vatn for several hours the young men be- ‘came suspicious and notified the po- ee. Detectives state that Smith was lavish {n his promises to his dupes. ‘There was a knock at the offlee door, says the London Chronicle, and a clerk threw up the communication panel, through which was thrust a parcel wrapped in brown paper, some two feet square. | t ‘Thinking to “take a rise” out of the office boy, the clerk called out: “Johnny, here's your lunch arrived * ‘Some time later another package arrived, with a quantity of straw ex- posed to view through an opening fn the end. “Mr. Jones,” yelled the office boy, “your lunch has come now!” POCAHONTAS LUMP Shoveled Lump .........400+++,$10.75. Shoveled Egg ...c.01.0000-++++ 10.50 Mine Run ....c.cccccscceseeees 8.50 Massillon Belmont Lump .....+--- $8.50 Clover Leaf Lump Forked... 60... 7.50 Genuine Pittsburgh Lump... ..... 6.50 Direct From Mine to User. ‘That's Why Our Prices Are Less. 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I GOT A STIFF NECK Some Interesting Statistics of Last Year's Work. Wonderful Results—Hospitals, Children, the Aged and Many Org. organizations Helped—Everybody interested! Cleveland is to conduct its annual Community Fund campaign, beginning Nov. 12, and ending Nov. 21. During this drive funds are raised to operate Cleveland's 110 charitable and welfare organizations and to pay Cleveland's share of state, national and foreign relief work. This year, though much greater work is necessary than in the past, the community fund is asking for less money. Where they asked $4,500,000 last year, they expect to get along with $3,763,545. This is due to the fact that over a half million will be left from last year's collections. This is money laid up in time of plenty for tough times, and this winter is going to see the tough times. Some interesting statistics have been prepared in connection with the fund campaign which show what the community fund has been doing in the past year. For instance, it is said that if all the people who received some definite service from the community fund agencies in the past year were to be lined up single file, allowing a space of three feet to the person, the line would stretch away to Columbus, if all these people were grouped together, it would make a city the size of Toledo, O. Here are some other figures: If all the people receiving assistance in the form of some definite and distinct service from community fund agencies last year were brought together, they would make a town equal in population to a city the size of Toledo. If the people who received care in the free dispensaries operated by community fund were to be lined up, single file, the line would reach from Palmsville to the Public Square. If the care given patients in community fund hospitals in 1921 were applied continuously to one individual, that individual would have received the equivalent of care lasting from 370 A. D. to the present time— fifteen and one-half centuries. The total attendance at the social settlements supported by community fund would completely fill the public auditorium 75 times. The capacity of the new hall is 12,000. Visiting nurses last year in calling upon the sick and needy in Cleveland and its environs, walked 60,000 miles, the equivalent of twenty times across the American continent, or 2-1-2 times around the world. The milk provided for children by the nutrition agencies of the community fund last year would fill a tank of 46,500 gallon capacity. Community fund's fourteen children's homes and orphanages and the Humane Society's boarding homes last year cared for 3,675 children. The list might be prolonged indefinitely, but perhaps the best way to show the work and the need for it is by the following grouping of community service during 1922. Family Service and Relief. In normal times many families require service and relief because of long continued sickness, accident disability or loss of the bread-winner by death or desertion and for other reasons. In this grouping is also included the service of the Red Cross to the disabled ex-service man and his family. If 1922 were a normal year the cost of this work would be $595,500. Emergency Fund. In addition Cleveland must provide a large emergency fund to care for the unusual demands which will face us during 1922 as a result of the unemployment situation. A minimum estimate of this need is $457,000. Hospitals. There is no question about the necessity of keeping open the doors of our hospitals for the care of the sick and injured. Our hospitals in normal times provide a great deal of free service and care; this feature of hospital service is greatly increased in times of unemployment. Our estimate of expense of furnishing hospital service to those unable to pay the full cost of their care is $664,000. Children. There is nothing more appealing than a homeless or neglected child. No little one must be allowed to suffer for lack of money in the community fund. For the protection and care of orphaned and neglected children, and for their training and placement in institutions and family homes, there will be needed $469,000. The Aged. Two hundred aged and infirm people are dependent on the fund for loving care in the declining years of their lives. For their care in homes for the aged, there will be needed $48,000. Welfare and Jewish Federations. There are 102 local charity, relief and welfare agencies embraced in these two federations. It is the work of the federations to correlate the activities of all of these institutions, to study and apply ways and means of improving all of the service, to prevent overlapping and duplication of effort, to study all questions relating to the adequate occupation of the field to the end that no necessary community service be overlooked, to supervise all expenditures, to seruitize all budgets, and to secure uniform and adequate accounting methods within the institutions. The wastage and loss prevented by the activities of these federations more than offset entire cost of maintenance, which for 1922 is estimated as $79,000. To make provisions for contingent items of expense which are not included in the budgets of the various institutions for 1922 the federations are entrusted with a contingent fund to take care of such emergencies as may arise. These emergencies are in the nature of unusual repair and replacement expenses and other items which cannot be anticipated. The estimated requirement for this purpose is $45,000. Health. For the nursing care of the sick in their homes and the education of their families in the proper methods of home care and for city-wide effort in treatment and disease and accident prevention, there will be needed $202,000. Protection and Reformation. Much distress is prevented and many lives are reclaimed by the Travelers' Aid Society, Brotherhood Club, the Women's Protective Association and the homes for unmarried mothers. For the protection of girls and women and the reformation of women and men $22,000. Building. The fund renders a service of incalculable value to great numbers of boys and girls and young men and young women along the line of their social, recreational, physical and moral needs—the whole service culminating in all the finer things of character. No greater piece of constructive helpfulness is embraced within the service of the fund, notation that could add greater permanent demand to the city on this. Demands on these agencies during the coming months for this great service to young life will be heavier than ever before. Estimated requirement $730,000. Community Fund Expenses. The entire annual expense of the community fund, including all of the expenses incident to the campaign, all of the expense of collection throughout the year, the staff necessary for the work of raising, accounting for and operating the fund totals $145,000. Interest earnings made possible by advance payments during the year, based upon the experience of the past year, are estimated for the year 1922 at $90,000, making the net expense for the entire business operation of the community fund $55,000. *In addition to this amount, a large proportion of all the service embraced under the relief, hospital, health and recreation items is for childhood. Well over half of the entire community fund is spent for the coming generation. One of the most useful things the community fund has done has been to systematize an extremely low overhead, all of the social and welfare solicitation of Cleveland. People who leave Cleveland and go to other cities are particularly impressed with this part of the work. A neighboring city has had 150 tag days within six months, and campaigns are of daily occurrence. In Cleveland, we get together annually, find out how much we need to care for the unfortunates, and do our social and welfare work, and then dig down and bring up the money. There are no paid solicitors, and a very small overhead. It is estimated by fund authorities that 99% of every dollar is passed to the organizations. Only one half cent is needed for collections of money already pledged. Collection costs of independent organizations run as high as 15 per cent before we had the community fund. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, NOVEMBER 19, 1921. 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Ramsey, campaign chairman, consists of 40 teams of 12 business men each, will take care of business firms and large contributors, working from quota cards only. Division (B), led by Rodney Morrison, Jr., takes care of pledges of $100 down, and is in reality a neighborhood organization through wards and precincts. Division (C) Industrial, led by Allard Smith, deals with employees of a firm employing ten or more. The Speakers' Division co-operates with campaign workers sending speakers to every available public and semi-public meeting. 1. EVERYBODY READ! All correspondents, and others, who have matter for publication in next week's Gazette must get their copy in our office by Monday, owing to Thanksgiving (Thursday), a holiday! HYDE PARK'S CORNER FOR GROUCH TALKERS. A Mecca For Orators With All Sorts Of Grievances. LONDON.—There is one spot in London where sooner or later hundreds of Americans are sure to foregather in the course of a week's visit to the British metropolis. It is the soap box arena in Hyde Park, otherwise the mecca of orators with all sorts of grievances. Sometimes a speaker will go a bit too strong on revolution or Sinn Féin to suit the minions of the law stationed thereabouts to preserve order and is taken before a magistrate. But, on the average, the soap box arena is orderly despite its oratorical pyrtechnics. Americans who remember the intolerance in some of their own home towns for the goods delivered by these forerunners of proletarianism or atheism or a score of other kinds of "isms" are somewhat amazed at the freedom of speech in the soap box arena, especially when they sea, as they frequently do, great mass meetings in the park adjacent to the soap box arena, applauding under a big red flag prognostications of revolution. The soap box arena works early and late, in bad weather and good, and on almost every day in the year. An orator who objects to doing more than seven or eight hours' work at his ordinary occupation is willing to do twelve or more in furtherance of his cause, whatever it may be. But he must be prepared for a lot of heckling. Few statements go unchallenged. Sometimes the arguments grow very animated, and then the Bobble intervenes. If a heckler shows real ability he is often invited to get on the box and state his case, and then the regular speaker follows him to tear his argument to pieces. Alongside an atheist—and atheists are nearly always represented in the arena—will be a woman or a man evangelist inveighing against the accursed influence of atheism. Sometimes the speakers rail at each other from their soap boxes. Often it is hard to listen to one speaker because of the proximity of an old currel organ grinding of Gospel music. On Saturday afternoons the crowd which cluster about the different roostruns number thousands. Even cabinet ministers lend an ear to what is said in the soap box forum. Some of the free-lance speakers in Hyde Park are men of no mean oratorical ability, and some of the most popular are the shabbiest in appearance. Ohio's Anti-Lynching Law Against The Mob and Lynch-Murder—The Work of a Member of The Race Also Ohio's Civil Rights Law. Section 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching. 6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another. 6284. Limits of action. 6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob. 6288. County's right of action against st another county. 6289. Non-relief from prosecution. Our mob-violence or anti-lynching bill was introduced in the Ohio legislature in 1894 and re-introduced in 1896. It took Hon. Harry C. Smith, the editor of The Gazette, just three years, to secure its enactment into Section 6278. A collection of people assembled for an unlawful purpose and intending to do damage or injury to any one, or pretending to exercise correctional power over other persons by violence and without authority of law, shall be deemed a "mob" for the purpose of this chapter. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lynching" within the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 161 2.) Section 6279. The term "serious injury," for the purpose of this chapter, shall include such injury as permanently or temporarily disables the person receiving it from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (93 v. 161 3.) Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, clubs, missiles or in any other manner, may recover, as hereafter provided, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which the assault is made. (93 v. 161 4.) Section 6281. A person assaulted and lynched by a mob may recover from the county in which such assault is made, a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury result in a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (93 v. 162 5.) Section 6282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob, may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars damages for the family and education of the minor children of such person so lynched, if such injury occurred, such sum shall unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of are of legal age, and then be distributed to the survivors, share and share alike, the widow receiving an amount equal to a child's share. If there be no widow or minor children surviving such decedent, such sum shall be distributed among the next according to the ratio of the distribution of the mortality of the intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynched, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to lynch another person shall come within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall be prosecuted for any person posibly injured or killed by such a mob. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6284. Action for the recoveries provided for in this chapter must be commenced, within two years from the date of such lynching, in any court having original jurisdiction of an action for damages for malicious assault. (93 v. 162 7) Section 6285. An order to the commissioners of a county, against which the costs of action, in the next succeeding tax levy for such county, shall be a part of the judgment in every such case. (93 v. 162 8.) Section 6286. If the decedent so lynched has minor children surviving him, the fund shall be turned over to a regularly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer such fund and judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for counsel fees in the action for such recovery. (93 v. 162 9.) Section 6287. The county, in which a lynching occurs, may recover the amount of a judgment, and costs against it in favor of the man, in all repugnance of the man killed or seriously injured by a mob from any of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at c Court law which Only one the country is larger. Here it is the heading law. The Ohio Supreme several times upheld the has been very effective. other state (Illinois) in the case of our copy of our Ohio law. (ig. the statutes) under Moba such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to such action. (93 v. 162 10.) Section 6288. If a mob carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to commit violence on a prisoner brought from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county from which the mob came, unless there was contributory negligence on the part of officials of such county in failing to protect such prisoner or dispurse such mob. (93 v. 163 11.) Section 6289. This chapter shall not relieve a person concerned in such lynching from prosecution for homicide or assault for engaging therein. (93 v. 163 12.) 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 thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor 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 ten dollars for the person aggrieved thereby to be received 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. The trouble is our people will not use it as often as they should, but expect it to do for them what they should and must do for themselves, under it, in the courts. Judge Grant's Opinion of the Law. Mist by the foolishly manufactured out by the passage of the Beatty bill, a few years ago, Akron Beacon Journal published an editorial to which the editor of The Gazette replied, calling its attention to the fact that the Ohio Civil Rights law was good law and did not need amending. The following letter from Judge Grant, former presiding judge of the Court of Appeals of the Eighth District of Ohio, is self explanatory: Akron, O., April 25, 1919. Hon. 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