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The "Jim Crow" School Bill! Contribute To “The Greater Playhouse” The Campaign Is On—March 1 To March 19 Do your bit toward constructing a Modern, Well-Equipped Club-Home for ALL in our Neighborhood. If you have not been asked for a Contribution and wish to give, CALL, RANDOLPH 225. Campaign Headquarters 2239 E. 38th Street Campaign Committee IN WONDER & ENTRY FOURTIETH YEAR, No. 30 GLOBE Woodland Ave. and E. 55th St. Bowman's Cotton Blossoms In A Familiar And True Story Of The Sunny South ?—BOURDINI—? The Handcuff King See Him Release Himself From Chains And Irons Before Your Very Eyes In Addition To Our Vaudeville We Show A First Run Picture—5 Reels or More We Give You More for Your Money Than You Get In Any Theatre in the City THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25,1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1923 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. SPRINGFIELD. — Our picture, this week, is one of Mrs. Dora Dunlap. Every morning, rain, snow, or sunshine found her, at 7 a.m. on her way to picket at Fulton school. She has been a resident of Springfield fifteen years, having come here from Winchester, Ind. Mrs. Dunlap has a boy in the grammar school, though he is not in the Fulton district. Nevertheless, she was untiring in picketing, and had it been necessary to picket longer, she would have been "on the job." It is only this spirit and determination Mrs. Dora Dunlap. that wins battles for the race, and the "jim crow" Fulton school controversy was indeed a real battle and thank the Lord! was WON! Now for Ohio Senate bill, No. 233, which as a law would legalize "jim crow" "public" schools in Ohio. The C. R. P. league has it under consideration and will fight it. too.-Mrs. Mildred Wallace of Detroit, Mrs. Georgia Blackford of Dayton, and Louis Conway of Seattle, Wash., were called here by the illness and death of their father, Rev. J. C. Conway.-Many of our people were depositors with the Springfield National Bank, and are grieving over the temporary loss of their savings. At the recent annual meeting of the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. the following officers were elected: Pres., Mrs. Nathaniel Busey; yice-press, Dr. C. F. Keller; sec., Miss Cora Cole; as't., Miss Ruth Jackson; treas, Dr. T. W. Burton. There were interesting discussions of several local issues. BELLAIRE. Mrs: Lizzie Dade is visiting relatives in Youngstown. Mrs. John Green is slick. A large number of our people were sent here to work in the mills. Twelve years ago this month, Elmer Harvey of Sharline Heights, near Youngstown, was the local agent for "The Old Rellable" Gazette and sold from 25 to 30 copies, each week. Some one ought to take the agency for The Gazette at once as it is surely needed here. FRANKFORT—Those who came to attend "Grandina" Harris' burial were: Mr. Lushis Liggins of Xenna, Mr. Robert Liggins, Miss Meria Liggins, Mr. and Mrs. H. Washington-Mrs. L. Rugil and daughter of Chillicothe. Mr. and Mrs. F. Scott of Circlesville. Mr. J. Wright and son, Ralph; Mrs. Pluna Power, Mrs. Rosa Williams and Mr. Ernest Williams of Muncie, Ind.; Mr. and Mrs. Luther Brandom of Kingston; Mr. Calvin Brandom, Alonzo Liggins of Washington C. H., and Mr. and Mrs. O. White and family, of Xenla. Agnes Harris had 15 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild. -- Mrs. Mary Wright! is ill. YOUNGSTOWN.—Mr. Wm. Howard of Cleveland visited Mrs. Maud Barrett.—Third Baptist S. S. Galea and Metako clubs went-sight-seeing. Thursday at the Sheet and Tube plant.—Rev. T. W. Mills went to Cleveland. Thursday, to visit Rev. S. C. Harris, P. E. of the Allegheny dist. and Chico A. M. E. Z. conference.—Several Clevelanders were here, Sunday.—Mr. A. Miller was called to Philadelphia by a brother's death.—Covenant chapter went to Warren, Wednesday evening, to assist in organizing an Eastern Star lodge.—Mr. and Mrs. W. Robertson have located in Washington.—Robert's Dellherbering club will conduct vesper services at the "Y." Sunday.—Services at Oak Hill Ave. A. M. E. church are being largely attended. Rev. Dr. Charles Bundy preached an able sermon. Sunday.—Mr. E. Miller evangelist, was here Saturday, to visit Harriet Humpricks who is very ill. HILLSBORO.-The 40th anniversary services, Sunday, of 40th Rev. J. E. Harris, pastor of Wayman A. M. E. chapel, was a pronounced success. He preached in the morning, Rev Harvey Johnson at 3 p. m., and Rev. J. Burr at 7:30 p. m.—Mrs. Jennie Morris returned to Cleveland, last week.—Mrs. Sallie Green had a stroke of paralysis, Sunday, and is very ill at this writing.—Mrs. Anna Johnson of Cincinnati spent the week-end with her mother and grand-mother.—Jas. Johnson, Chas. Burr, Mrs. Elliza Nelson and Wm. Golns are ill.—Ovie and Harry Golns, brickmasons, are working in Bellaire.—Mrs. Mary Hancock's right, hand and face were badly burned, two weeks ago. She was ill and fell on a stove.—Mrs. Edith Tarver of Detroit is visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Louisa Young, who is ill.—Rev. Harris visited his children in Franklin and Dayton, preached there, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, respectively, and Thursday evening in Cincinnati.—Miss Rachel Williams had as dinner guest Sunday, Miss Burnice Hudson.—Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Ross entertained at a cardparty, Friday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Young, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kilgour and Mrs. Cassie Essex. SHAIRLINE HEIGHTS.—Mr. Geo Phelps was called to Beaver Falls, Pa., by his mother's death.—Mrs. Anna Holliday was here en route to Freeport, Pa. to visit her sister. Her brother-in-law, Jack McFarland, is still very ill.—Mr. Ellijah Moses of E. Youngstown and five others were here, Sunday.—Miss Grace Lacy was in Cleveland, Sunday.—Wm. Vactor is in the county jail, charged with striking, his wife with a chair, Liquor in the house.—Mrs. Chas. Kessler will entertain Oak Hill Ave. A. M. E. King's Daughters, Apr. 2.—C. U. Murray has been moved home from the hospital. Ill four weeks, he is improving. Operation.—The funeral of Abby, age 8, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Garnet Christian, was held, Thursday, 2:30 P. M., from Underwood's chapel. James R. Roller has the flu.—Mrs. W. M. Berry was hostess to the pastor's relief society of Mahoning Ave. A. M. E. Zion church. Mrs. Maud Harvey, pastor of the Home Missionary, gave an interesting talk on her work. Luncheon was served.—A three weeks' revival will be started at Triedstone Baptist church, Sunday. Rev. W. M. Berry, pastor.—Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Walker are having a nice new home built at stop 21.—Mr. and Mrs. Pharis Hall are improving. They have been sick nearly all winter. An examination for general automobile mechanics at salaries ranging from $1600 to $1800 a year in the motor vehicle service. Postoffice Department, is announced by the Civil Service Commission. Applications close March 31. MRS. ANNA MALONE Donates to Charity Agath—She Has Given Away Thousands of Dollars in Recent Years. St. Louis, Mo.—Mrs. Anna Malone, founder of the famous Poro College and one of the wealthy women of the race, has just donated $1,500 to the local Community Fund Drive in which money was raised to finance several charitable organizations. Also from conducting the Poro Beauty School where thousands of young women are trained in beauty and hair culture, Mrs. Malone spends a grat deal of time studying conditions among our group and contributing to worthy charitable endeavors. She is an exceptionally fine woman. WILL COOK AND HARRY FREEMAN. New York City—Will Marion Cook and Harry Lawrence Freeman, both Cleveland, Ohio, boys, are certainly in the limelight in musical circles hereabouts, these days, Cook and Alex. Rogers are writing music for a big comedy of 75 people to go out in the spring. Meantime he is playing a series of three Sunday concerts in Schubert theaters. The last of this month he will make a ten-day tour with 35 members of the Harry Lawrence Freeman. Clef club (orchestra), going as far south as Richmond. At the conclusion of this he will head a group of 35 musicians and a few specialty artists, including a Haytian folklore dancer, on a trip to the far West. Lewis Douglas, his son-in-law, a young man who has been an idol of London playhouses, staying three solid years at the Pavilion, will soon join him here. His son, Merton, is assisting him in his preliminary work. Merton is an Amherst college lad. Mr. Freeman is arranging to put on his opera here at an early date. Editor New York Age:—There were one or two errors in your Cleveland, Ohio, letter of a recent date which ought to be corrected. First, "a delegation of our ministers and welfare workers" did not visit the superintendent of public schools, recently. Four of our leading citizens, three ministers, one welfare worker and one of our leading women of this city were invited to meet the superintendent of public schools and his assistants in his office to confer relative to the vice conditions affecting our school children, particularly. There were no "unwise" expressions at the conference and a tremendous amount of good has already been accomplished as the result of it. There is no question as to the "remedy." As a matter of fact, it is being applied with excellent results. The effort of some Negroes, who were not invited to attend the conference, to bring about a. "tempest in a tea-pot" because they were not invited to attend, is really silly. The first publication (in the Cleveland, O., Plain Dealer), anent the conference, was an even greater mistake than the foolish ones that have followed it. HARRY C. SMITH Cleveland, Ohio. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS "Jim Crow" Negroes Line Up With Ku Klux Klan Sympathizers—Our People of Ohio Must Fight Hard and Fast To Kill It Ohio House of Representatives. Columbus, O., March 9th, 1923. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Sir:—Replying to your letter of the 9th, I beg to state that I will forward you a roster of the Senate members, on Monday. I would also advise you that I have taken up the matter of S. B. No. 233 with the chairman of the committee on universities and colleges, to whom the bill will probably be referred. I have also talked to several individual Senators, and I think I can line up the six Cuyahoga County members without any difficulty. But our people throut the state must call on and send delegations to their members of the Assembly protesting against the passage of the bill, and do this at once. Yours very truly. HARRY E. DAVIS. P. S.—The bill is now in the Senate finance committee as it involves an appropriation. H. E. D. 55th General Assembly. Regular Session, 1923; Senate Bill No. 233—Mr. Liggitt. To amend sections 7975, 7976, 7977, 7978, 7979, 7980, 7981, 7982, and to repeal sections 7983 and 7985 of the General Code, relative to the establishment of an institute, for the higher education of the colored youth of Ohio to be known as the Lincoln Normal Institute. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: Section 1. Thag sections 7975, 7976, 7977, 7978, 7979, 7980, 7981 and 7982 of the General Code be amended to read as follows: Sec. 7975. * * * There is hereby established near the village of Wilberforce in Green county, Ohio, the Lincoln Normal Institute for the higher education of the colored youth of the state. Such institute shall succeed to and be possessed of the property and rights of the combined normal and industrial department of Wilberforce University. Sec. 7976. The government of * * the Lincoln Normal Institute shall be vested in a board of * * five trustees to be known as "the board of trustees of the * * Lincoln Normal Institute of Ohio." The director of education of Ohio shall be ex officio a member of the board. The members of the board of trustees shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the consent of the senate, and shall serve for a period of five years from the date of their appointment. * * * Upon the passage of this act, one member of the board shall be appointed for a term of five years, one member for a term of four years, one member for a term of three years, one member for a term of two years, and one member for a term of one year. At the expiration of the term above provided, each subsequent appointment shall be for a period of five years. The governor shall designate in his appointment, originally made, one member of the board who shall act as the president of the board. In case of a vacancy occurring because of death, resignation or removal, or any other cause, the governor shall make an appointment to fill the unexpired term caused by such death, resignation, removal, or other cause. Sec. 7977. * * * The board of trustees shall meet in regular session at the offices of the institute at least twice a year. The first meeting of the board in each year shall be on the third Thursday in June and the second meeting on the first Thursday of November of each year, other meetings of the board of trustees may be held at such time and place as a majority of the board of trustees may determine. The trustees shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall be reimbursed all necessary and reasonable traveling expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties out of the appropriation made for the sup- HON. HARRY C. SMITH. Without a doubt, the foremost colored citizen of the United States today, is the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, Cleveland, Ohio, recent candidate for the Republican nomination for governor of the Buckeye State, the home of President Harding. In a special article, next week, The Courier will publish a brief sketch and picture of this "live wire" Negro, which will prove an interesting story of how a young man, by clean living, overcame the handicap of his color, and forged to the front as a prominent citizen of his home city and state, honored by them with three terms in the Ohio legislature, and otherwise. The tremendous vote given him as a candidate for the Reuben- IN UNION IN CONFEDERATION COPY FIVE CENTS Bill! in Ohio Senate Silberforce University e Up With Ku Klux Klan People of Ohio Must d Fast To Kill It port of the Lincoln Normal Institute of Ohio. Sec. 7978. • • • The board of Hon. Harry E. Davis. trustees shall take: keep and maintain exclusive authority, direction, supervision and control over the operation and conduct of such Lincoln Normal Institute as will best assure the attainment of the results desired in establishing education of higher learning for the colored youth of the state. The board shall determine the courses of study and branches of industry to be pursued, purchase through suitable and disinterested agents the necessary means and appliances, elect a president, fix his salary, prescribe his duties and authority, and employ such instructors and teachers as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. The expenditure of all môheys appropriated in carrying out the purposes and provisions of this act shall be made only under such regulations and for such specific purposes as the board of trustees may determine. No money appropriated by the state shall be used for any purpose not in direct furtherance and promotion of the object of the Lincoln Normal Institute of Ohio. Sec 7979 * * * No sectarian influence, direction or interference in the management or conduct of affairs of education at such normal institute shall be permitted by the board of trustees, but its benefits shall be open to all applicants of good moral character and within the limitations of age, determined by the board. Sec. 7980. * * * The treasurer of such normal institute shall give to the state of Ohio a bond, approved by the attorney general, in the sum of five thousand dollars conditioned that he shall faithfully discharge his duties and account for any money coming into his hands from the state, or any other source. Such bond shall be deposited with the secretary of state and kept in his office. Sec. 7981. * * * Each senator and representative of the General Assembly of the state may designate one or more youths, resident of his county or district, who shall be entitled to attend such normal institute free of tuition. Sec. 7982. * * * All receipts from student fees and deposits of the Ohio State University and of each normal school and university or institute receiving state aid, required by law to be paid into the state treasury, shall be credited therein to the special fund to be appropriately designated by the name of the respective institutions from which the fees are received. All such funds shall be applied to the uses and purposes of such respective institution, and shall be used for no other purpose. Section 2. That original sections 7975, 7976, 7977, 7978 7979, 7986, 7981 and 7982, and sections 7983 and 7985 of the General Code be, and the same are hereby repealed. can nomination for Secretary of State, two years ago last fall, and again for the Republican nomination for governor of Ohio; last fall, has made Mr. Smith a national figure. This article will appear exclusively in The Courrier, next week. Don't miss it.—New Orleans (La.) Courier; Geo. H. Pinard (white), former resident of Cleveland, O., editor. At the annual meeting of the Caterers' club, held the latter part of last month, the following officers were elected: Charles S. Smith, pres.; Wm. Archer, vice-pres.; Edwin D. Bell, sec. and treas. Board of trustees; Charles C. Smith, Wm. Archer, Edwin D. Bell, Selmo Glenn, Charles Martin, Clifton Orswhite, C. M. Johnson, Wm. Sweope and Robert Morris. The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) One Year ..... $2.00 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. Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, publish in the state of Ohio, and compare with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWS GEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 250,000 in Ohio. 25,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1923 Will the Columbus (Ohio) Monitor please tell us what our people of that city are doing to get rid of the illegal "jim crow" school we understand has been foisted upon them? ---||||||--- Mayor Kohler's lenient attitude toward the K. K. K. means that Cleveland is to have trouble, ere long, and our people may just as well begin now to prepare for it. Let us all "pull together" and work "like beavers," beginning at once, to kill S. B.-No. 233 in the committee. We can do it under the leadership of our representative, the Hon. Harry E. Davis, if we will. Get busy! --- "The permanent tariff law, which hung fire for more than a year, has had so far no striking economic effects," says a New York paper, commenting on the achievements of the last Congress. And its columns are loaded daily with accounts of mills operating at capacity which were idle September last, and of labor shortages, great increases in exports, and large increases in imports, which we were assured would be cut down by the tariff. HARDING VS. McADOO. The Republicans will have McAdoo to defeat, if they expect to prevent a return of the Democrats to power. Mr. Harding expects the nomination of his party, and he will get it, but he can never defeat McAdoo at the polls. If Republican leaders can not find a better Euro-American candidate and get "prosperity" fully restored before the election, their seven million majority will evaporate in 1924. —Pittsburg Courier. All of which "reads" well. But Editor Vann, the Democratic leaders seem determined to make "The League of Notions" the issue in the next presidential campaign. If they succeed, and the Republicans should encourage and help them all they can, absolutely nothing can prevent the re-election of President Warren G. Harding. His refusal to join "The Plague of Nations" has saved this country many lives of young men and millions of dollars which eventually would have had to be raised by taxing the people. The people know and appreciate this. BEGINS AT HOME In an address in the British House of Lords recently, after the reading of the King's address, one of the leaders opened the discussion with a commendation of the administration's policies. One of his first remarks was that, in his opinion, "the man in the street rightly thinks that our foreign policy should be dictated by the main motive of securing the social welfare and security of our own people at home." This and other sentiments along the same line were greeted with cheers, showing unanimity of views on this subject. The incident is worth calling to the attention of those of our internationalistic friends who want the government of the United States to give its first attention to curring the ills of Europe. We have been glad to be of help to Europe, and shall be glad to help in the future, but nations, like individuals, can be of assistance to others only in case they have well taken care of their own affairs. RACE PREJUDICE! "I convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none at all!" "I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds to together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other, sort of error in the world." —H. G. Wells. A "JIM CROW" SCHOOL BILL. Senate bill, No. 233, seeks to do two things: one is to give "jim crow" or separate schools legal status in Ohio, something they have not now; the other is to divorce the Combined Normal and Industrial (state) department at Wilberforce from Wilberforce University and thus rob that institution of any assistance it may be receiving, directly or indirectly, from its close alliance with the Combined N. & I. (state) department. We cannot help feeling that some renegade "jim crow" Negroes are hiding away back behind the Ku Klux Klan sympathizers (white) who are promoting this bill, just as they did in the recent Springfield "jim crow" school fight which our good people of that city won, just as our good people of Ohio will win this one—kill Senate bill, No. 233. But to do this, we must fight hard and act promptly! Call on and send delegations at once to your members of the Assembly, particularly members of the Senate; write to them and do everything honorable in your power to help kill the pernicious bill in the committee. Never let it reach the Senate if you can possibly help it. "FOLLOW ME" The Greatest Race Show on the Road —Booked for The Globe The- ater the Week of March 26, '23. "Follow Me," declared to be our greatest show since "Williams and Walker," will be at The Globe theatre. week of March 26. Fifty sing- ers, dancers and vaudeville stars make up the clever production. Critics claim the attraction superior in presentation with song and dance. One of the country's leading critics says: "The act that two of the race's best comedians, in the persons of Jerry Mills and Clifford Ross, are featured in will give reason to believe the claims of the producers and managers that the comedy end of this attraction is 100 per cent right, and a peek at the line-up of principals, in which such names as Ernst, Brittam, Alice Gorgas, Bob Bramletti, Sue the writer the popular Leggitt Sisters, Iola Yankey, follow Me" Harmony Four and others appear, is one of the finest recommendations for a fast-working and up-to-the-minute evening's entertainment that could be desired. There is also a pretty and sweet singing chorus of high calibre in support of the cast named above and the quartet is different from the regulation production four in that it singing and they do so, with fine effect. The group is drilled to the final notch,sembles being done with a swift action that leaves no chance for the customary waits. There are sixteen scenes in the two big acts and the settings are all new and attractive. The costuming is fresh and nifty, the music beautiful, and there are many novel electrical and scenic effects including a rain and storm which is vividly realistic, the music high and the comedy story running throughout with just enough seriousness in well developed spots to hold interest." The following from the Milwaukee The following from the Milwaukee 23, is both interesting and convincing There is sure no mistaking that Milwaukee has the "bug" for colored shows. Playing to a packed house that greeted the performers with one continuous spasm of applause and laughter, "Follow Me," an all colored musical show, swept into favor at the Empress theater yesterday on a tidal wave of joy. The most remarkable thing about "Follow Me" was that it brought into the Empress, for eight years a theater theater an audience the like of many in Milwaukee. Many well known Milwaukeeans were on hand to see the production. There is no attempt in the show to get anywhere in particular, and the colored performers ramble joyously through scenes in Spain, China, Honolulu and Alaska. The show moves along at a brisk pace. There are a number of powerful voices, some good dancing and real colored comedy. The quarate actually stopped the show to such a degree that continued applause almost spasm of applause. Clifford Ross and Jerry Mills are the bright particular stars. There is a good chorus. While "Follow Me" is a thoroughly enjoyable show, and certainly one of the most unusual ones which has come to Milwaukee, it is perfectly clean and wholesome. GOING BIG Progress of the Playhouse Campaign Really Fine—Success Assured Social Features. Etc. The campaign committee of the Playhouse has made great strides during the past week. The numerous solicitors who have volunteered to assist it have been successful in enlisting the financial support of hundreds of people. Several benefit features marked the progress of the campaign this week. On Thursday evening in the Caterer's club parlors, Mrs. Harry E. Davis and Mrs. Charles Leatherman were hostesses of a benefit party which was attended by a large number of Playhouse friends. A most delightful evening was spent and a substantial sum added to the building fund. The Tau Kappa Gamma fraternity, the Coronary Society, making plans for a large social affair to be held in the near future, the proceeds of which will also be given to the building fund of the new Community House. The efforts of the fraternity will be to establish a memorial room in the new building in honor of their deceased brother, Falah Roberts. Members of the Colonial club are diligently working in the campaign for funds to establish a memorial in the THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1923 PRIME SPORT NEWS DO YOU KNOW WHY --- No One Who Hasn't Been to College Can Appreciate This? A WEEK AFTER IN OLD COLLEGE CHUMP BROWN IN HAND TO BE YOU AGAIN BY GUMED, IT SEEMS A DOG'S ACCEED WE GRAPHULATED TOGETHER LET'S GIVE THE OLD YELL WHO ARE WE! WHO ARE WE! WE ARE THE BOYS OF THE C.B.C. WOW! REMEMBER, THAT LITTLE BLONDE CH. THE BULL DOG ON THE BANK AND THE BULL Frog IN TH' POOL. CH. THE BULL DOG ON THE BANK I'll tell you it's really pathetic to see those two big boots move fool & op themmeet! Tate's Stars Looming Again, Pittsburgh, Pa. — Fred Downer, star local outfielder, and one of the most promising stars in years, has cast his lot with the Tate Stars of Cleveland, O., for the coming season. Downer is an outfielder of ex- ceptional ability, a dangerous man at the bat with an almost uncanny ability to steal bases. Beginning his baseball career at Moorehouse College in 1916, the diamond player quickly made a name for himself in collegiate circles. For two years, he led the southern collegiate ranks in fielding and base stealing. In the spring of 1918, Downer's play- ing attracted such attention that our Atlanta "Crackers" of the Southern league successfully bid for his serv- sion with the Knoxville team. In 1920, Downer went to the Knoxville club of the same association. This club won the championship that season, and playing of Downer was an impor- tant factor. Of 1920, that Downer was discover- ed. Dismuks, pitching for the A. B. C.'s at that time, saw Downer playing with Morehouse in an ex- hibition game. Although barred from inter-college competition, the fleet outfielder played in that game and made a real impression, with the result that he was signed with the Keystones in 1921. All of that season, he played with the local club, holding down left field and leading the batting order. In 1922 he started with the Pitt- sburgh Colleges and finished with the Tate Stars of North Carolina in 23 years old. weight 145 lbs, throws left handed and bats right handed. "Texas" Burnett has also received a contract from the Ohio manager. building to their deceased member, Mrs. Grayce Cousins, Bogles, who was the founder of their club, Mrs. R. R. Checks will give a benefit musicale, Sunday, at her sister, Mrs. C. H. Phillips, in Drexel Ave. Other social affairs for the benefit of the building fund are being arranged by various groups and will be announced in the near future. The advisory board is pleased to announce that the new building will be located on the north-east corner of E. 38th St. and Central Ave. Through the gracious and gratitud acting as purchasing agent these properties, from 3801 including 3827 Central Ave., have been secured which adjoin the present Playhouse property. This land comprises some 25,000 square feet, will afford ample space for the new building and will make possible an efficient arrangement of facilities. The advisory board and the directors wish to thank Dr. Lawrence, for were his services to Dr. Lawrence, for were his services to be calculated in the building and for he would have such contribution no more than $1,500 (the customary fee for such service) to the building fund. The reports of various teams and workers were heard at a supper meeting at Sterling library, Wednesday evening. Enthusiasm mounted high as the campaign pledges were as tabulated. To date the amount secured in pledges and cash is above the mark set by the committee for this date in the campaign. Expectations are that at the close of the campaign, the total pledges will far exceed the goal set. The speakers bureau has been kept busy supplying speakers for various club and the bureau are Messrs. Selmo Glom, Clayborn George, Wm. R. Cousers, Harvins Atkins, Ben. J. Smith, Chester K. Gillespie, Francis E. Young, Hon. John P. Green, Wm. R. Green, John E. Roundtree and Mrs. Hazel M. Walker. LEFT $209,000 To His Afro-American Daughter- His Brother Contesting the Will—Bitter Fight. Charleston, W. Va.—Legal proceedings to set aside the will of Roman Pickens (white), anticipated since it was probated, have been instituted by John E., his brother, Pickens, once sheriff of this, Kanawha, county, died last December, bequeathing his estate to Garnet Pickens, locally known as his daughter by a woman of the race, long a domestic in his household. The will gave the entire estate, appraised at the time, to the county for reections that she "rent with love and affection" the lawful widow, Mary E. Pickens (white), who holds legal rights during her life time. It also directed that she "well and comfortably provide for" Cora; the servant," during her life. She is also commanded not to sell any of the real estate until she reaches the age of 30 years, as the real property, located in this city and in neighboring counties, rapidly is increasing in value. H. P. Brightwell, city treasurer and vice-president of a local trust company of which Pickens was a director, was named administrator, and other prominent officials of the same institution were appointed appraisers by the court. Miss Pickens has had little or no association with other members of the race than her mother, with whom she lived in the home of her father on a farm at Tornado about 18 miles up Coal River in white farming settlements. There being no school in that vicinity she could attend and her father being averse, or too close" to send her away, she has the advantage of but little education and that from an occasional tutor. Rogan In Great Form. Bullet Rogan, star twirler of the Kansas City Monarchs, is going great on the coast, pitching winter ball against the big leaguers who are spending their idle months in California. Rogan has defeated the best team in that part of the country and plans to make this season the best of his career. Hoosiers Quit Mrs. Taylor. Ben Taylor has moved the A, B, C's to Washington, D. C., where they will play in the Eastern League, organized a few months ago by Ed. Bolden of the Hillsdales. The cause of this is the "war between Mrs. C. I. Taylor and the players." The only one to remain with the "Hoosiers" is Connie Day, the marvel second sacker of the "A.s" for the past seven years. President Tate Talks. In a recent interview President Geo. J. Tate says the Stars will start spring training, April 2, at Tate Field under the management of Claude Johnson, second sacker for the past two seasons, who will replace James Taylor; that all contracts have been signed by certain players who were members of the Stars last season; also that there will be some new faces to appear in the lineup, this year. Of these latter, there are several former Pittsburgh Keystones: Burnett, catcher; Washington, Downer and Gooden. Others are, Johnson, former catcher of the Homestead Grays and Cordova an indefender, formerly a member of the Cuban Stars. A tribe of youngsters will try to land a berth on the team. NEXT WEEK AT THE GLOBE. The bill for Mar. 19. "Bowman's Cotton Blossoms" Co., a tab show, consisting of ten people, who are coming from the east. Managers of the theatres, where this company has played, all say it is an exceptionally good show. On the same bill, has been added "?BOURDINI?." The great hand-cuff king. He is chained and locked in the presence of the audience and how he "undoes" himself, before the very eyes of the audiences, is really remarkable. This is an extra added attraction for next week in addition to the show. The globe will run feature photoplay each evening, changing on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Johnnie Lee Long's "Shu Shi Shu" Co. "Gang" Jines and Smith & Graham are delighting The Globe's hundreds of patrons, this week, just as we predicted in The Gazette of last week. They are giving an entertainment, in some respects, different from almost any other, this season. Manager Bob Davies maintains the best of order and everything moves on smoothly and most satisfactory, indeed. Do You Want a Good Job? Washington, D. C.—U. S. Civil Service Commission calls attention to the opportunities for appointment offered to our people who are qualified and who desire to enter the Government service at the new U. S. Veterans' Bureau hospital for veterans, shortly to be opened at Tuskegee, Ala., and erected on ground donated for the purpose by Tuskegee N. & I. Institute. The capacity of this hospital is about 600 beds. It has been built for Afro-American patients. Persons who desire to apply for any of the following-named positions should immediately request full information and the appropriate application blank, addressing—The U. S. Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C. Graduate nurses; salaries $1,680 to $2,500 a year. (Chief, Assistant Chief, Hend, and Staff positions.) Reconstruction aides; salaries $1,710 to $2,000 a year. (In Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy.) Reconstruction assistants; salaries $1,400 to $1,600 a year. (In Occupation Therapy and Physiotherapy.) Dietitians; salaries $1,680 to $2,500 a year. (Chief and Staff positions.) Who are already eligible on registers for any of the above-named positions and who wish to be specially considered for appointment at this hospital should so inform the Commission. The following-named positions in the hospital will be filled from registers established by the District Secretary, and persons who wish to apply for them should send for full information and application blanks, addressing -The Secretary, Fifth U. S. Civil Service District, Post Office, Philadelphia. (General medicine and surgery, salaries up to $3,250 a year. Specialists, up to $5,500 a year.) Dentists; salaries $2,400 to $3,600 a year. Laboratorians; salaries $1,680 to $2,000 a year. (In Roentgenology, Bacteriology, and Dentistry.) Pharmacists; salaries $1,680 to $2,000 a year. Persons who have already qualified of these positions in other civil service districts may have their eligibility transferred to the Fifth District by writing to the District Secretary at Atlanta. 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Smith Commercial and Job Printing PROMPT SERVICE 3119 Central Ave. Prospect 2600 CHESTER K. GILLESPIE Attorney-at-Law 508 SUPERIOR BLDG. Cleveland, Ohio. OFFICE PHONE, MAIN 3767 Res. 2229 E. 95th St. Office 'Phone, Main 910 Study Chiropractic Day or Night Classes. Write for Catalogues and Free Information. Webster's School of Chiropractic (Four Years Old) Dept. B. 2278 E. 55th St. Cleveland, O. Got a cold? MENTHOLATUM clears it out and makes breathing easy. For Beautiful Eyes Make the Use of Murinea Daily Habit. This Refreshing Eye Lotion soon makes Eyes Clear, Radiant, Beautiful! Harmless, Enjoyable. Sold by all Druggists. Write for Booklet. "How to Make the Eyes Beautiful" MURINE for your EYES MURINE CO., 9 East Ohio Street, Chicago DO YOU KNOW WHAT? THAT'S ALL RIGHT MY BOY DOES LET THAT BOTHER YES SAIDHE Where To Purchase The Gazette NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Subscribers not receiving The Gazette regularly should notify us at once. We desire every copy delivered promptly. Send or bring locals and all business matters to The Gazette office, 214-215 Blackstone Bldg. If you wish to see the editor call there, please. We advise our readers to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of our people. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. All reading matter for publication in current issues of The Gazette must be in the office by 4 p. m., TUESDAY of that week, at the latest. Display advertisements accepted until noon, WEDNESDAYS! *JOSEPH'S 4219 Central Ave. JACKSON'S 4401 Central Ave. J. S. HALLS' 3121 Central Ave. J. B. DENNIS' 3705 Central Ave. *B. KLEMAN'S 3061 Central Ave. NOTICE TO Subscribers not receiving The us at once. We desire every copy. Send or bring locals and all office, 214-215 Blackstone Bldg. call there, please. We advise our readers to care vertisements before making purpise in this paper should have the fact that they advertise is assura. All reading matter for public Gazette must be in the office by at the latest. Display advertised NESDAYS! HARRY C. SMITH, Bell 'Phone: Classified Advertising ... Department ... FOR RENT — Nicely furnished front room. Gentleman only. Call, Gar. 1351 J. WANTED—Men for detective work. Experience unnecessary. Write for details explaining guaranteed position. J. Ganor, former Gov't Detective, St. Louis, Mo. WANTED—Men to qualify for sleeping car and train porters. Experience unnecessary. Transportation furnished. Write T. McCaffrey, Supt. St. Louis, Mo. FOR SALE—Nice eight room house; bath, furnace, electric lights, spacious front porch—in the East End. Call Cherry 1259, in the afternoon. WANTED—Agents to sell Day's face bleach and other toilet requisites. Big profits! Address F. D. Day, 107 Public Square, Wellington, Ohio. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty.—Prov. 20:13. Mrs. Jennie Morris returned from Hillsboro, last week. Mrs. Ida Bell Carey of New Vienna, mother of L. R. Carey, E. 38th St., is convalescing at her home. Mr. Jesse Firse was called to Washington, last week, by his father's death. Wig. Howard returned from Youngstown, the first of the week. Rev. S. W. Mills of that city was here, last week. Mr. Geo, Greenbrier's daughter, Sarah, died in the far West, recently. He is now living on a farm in Virginia. Do not wait for the collector, but call, send or mail at once your subscription money, or whatever you owe The Gazette, so as not to miss a single copy of "The Old Reliable." Do all you can financially for and then interest your friends of all races in "The Playhouse" drive now on for a suitable building, properly equipped. It will be for all without reference to class (race) or color. Everyone can help some if they will. Judge Virgil Terrell, in a report of an inspection tour, last week, said Cleveland's "hell hole," as he described the district which includes sections of Woodland, Scovill and Central Avenue, S.E., will continue to be that as long as the district is not properly policed. "More truth than poetry," too. Our advertisers want you trade. Those who do not ask for it in the columns of "The Old Reliable" Gazette certainly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask in this paper for your patronage. Lighthouse Theosophical Study class was organized by its president, Mrs. M. Morris Patton, E, 38th St., and is progressing rapidly. It is the HY --- Philosophy Is All Right Some HAW! HAW! LAUGH IT OFF OLD TOP FORGET IT OH SIR MY NAME IS BURNED AND I LOST EVERYTHING THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1923 TRY OUR EASY PAYMENT PLAN! only class of the kind in the state. Mrs. Patton is the first and only Afro-American member of the Cleveland Theological lodge. Also the only and first one of the race issued a diploma by the lodge. City Welfare Director Ralph Perkins says: "We are unable to get sufficient student nurses. Our present budget calls for 125 graduate nurses and 120 student nurses. Our report shows we have 116 graduate nurses and 49 students for 627 patients." Here is a golden opportunity for those of our girls who are looking for such a chance. The attendance at Mt. Zion S. 12, last Sunday, was 138, collection $12, Christian Endeavor attendance 149, collection $11. Many visitors at the morning service. Sunday morning, the pastor will preach on the subject "Jesus Crucified." He spoke at Euclid Ave. Cong, church, last Tuesday afternoon, to the Women's Missionary Union. He will be in at work later in the week, attending a meeting of the Home Missions Council's committee on Afro-Americans. Jewish and German people especially, particularly their women, are WISE when it comes to making purchases of all kinds. They hunt bargains and know them when they see them. Some of our women are the same way they drive too many cars. Do not go "down town" and pay a big price for anything you can get at Max Lustberg's, 2734 Central Ave, for one-half and less than you will pay for it "down town." Emulate the example of the shrewd and thrifty buyers and bargain-hunters of other races. On March 26, the "Follow Me" Company, fifty people, headed by Jerry Mills and Clifford Ross, will be the attraction at The Globe Theater. Manager Bob Davis, who as a "picker and securer" of the very best shows on the road for his patrons and seems to top the list of managers of our theaters, the country over, assures us it is our best musical comedy to appear in Cleveland to that date, and there comedians may mighty ones up to date as all know. Watch "The Old Reliable" for further announcements relative to the "Follow Me" Co. For nearly two weeks we have watched the editorial columns of the local daily press in vain for some expression of opinion on Mayor Fred Kohler's comparison of the notorious Ku Klux Klan with the Knights of Pythias, the Knights of Columbus, the Hebrew Association and like organizations, and cannot for the life of us understand the local daily newspapers' failure to make clear to the mayor and the community that there can be no such comparison. Why? Because the very foundation of the Ku Klux Klan is lawlessness. This much has been made perfectly in the Knights of Columbus, and like or for the life local daily make clear to community that comparison If your druggist cannot supply you, send in 100 stamps or coin for full size packages of both Bills. Please send 250 for single package. Gain the attractive beauty, you soon can have, by getting the EXELENTO preparations right NOW! EXELENTO MEDICINE COMPANY ATLANTA, GEORGIA TRADE WITH US! We treat you courteously. Buy Your Columbia Records and Grafanoias Here. We take your old records in trade. Bert Williams' latest—A 6216. T MUSIC SHOPPE ST. NEAR CENTRAL AVE. Columbia Note the Notes clear in recent years in hundreds of different cases in which the miserable organization "took the law in its own hands," in defiance of the courts and regularly constituted officials, and performed acts that clearly place it "without the law," and make it the lawless organization it is generally regarded as being by all right-thinking, intelligent persons. That is why, throut the country, even in the South where it was born, it is not but surely being the death of death, the deaths of Columbus, Knights of Pythias, the Hebrew Association and like secret organizations, nowhere in this country have established a record for lawlessness. And in the face of this, Cleveland's mayor made the comparison at a meeting of Cleveland's City Council, last week Monday evening, and said he had no more right to disturb a meeting of the Klan than he had to do the same thing in the case of any of the other organizations named. Very poor reasoning indeed. Mr. Mayor, and the intelligence of this great city, which will not soon forget it, was not one minute in nottingham to fact even the Klan, but rather to do their clear duty in the matter by exposing the fallacy of your very weak reasoning. With so many states, cities and towns taking official action against the notorious Klan, it does seem to us, Mayor Kohler, that you should have known better and taken an advanced stand, out in the open, against the lawless Ku Klux Klan. "White Man." "White" when applied to a man does not refer in the slightest degree to his complexion or the color of his hair. One may be as black as the ace of spades and yet be a 'white' man. The real attributes are few but essential—a pure mind, a gentle disposition, a sweet nature, a glorious spirit of honesty and truth, course beyond measure and a heart of kindness, is our definition of 'a white man,' whether he be a prince or a pauper."—American Ambassador Harvey in a speech at the "Pilgrim" dinner in London, Eng., March 1, 1923. This young lady gives all the credit for her beautiful hair and complexion to EXELENTO preparations Be More Beautiful A wonderful prep action has been discover that changes short, coarse hair into long hair. It also helps to give glossy sheen. It puts glowing health into brittle, lifeless hair; stops dandruff and itching. It has given thousands the beautiful long, soft, silky, howy hair which is one of their favorites. You can wear it yourself, you can obtain fine straight hair. EX-ELENO SKIN BEAUTIFIER, a delightful cream with a soft, silky, smooth and clears up in an astonishing mannear dark, silow compressive, making the skin smooth and clears up. AGENTS WANTED EVBA YWHERE Write for Particulars The Wonder Musical Show Of The Century 50-People-50 Including A Chorus Of 30 New Orleans Creole Beauties 30 JAM FULL OF Class, Pep and Ability The Most Pretentious Production Since The Palmy Days Of Williams & Walker Advance Sale Opens, Monday, March 19th Box Office Open from 2 to 10 P. M. Secure Your Seats Early. All Seats Are Reserved Phone: Randolph 4836 Coming Week Of March 26th To The --- THE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. WARSAW ILINOIS 'Phon e: Bell, Randolph 6978 Sundays by Appointment MISS L. E. 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Has Houses For Sale or To Rent Forrest & Petite 10570 Cedar Ave. 10103 eCedar Ave. Painting, Paper-hanging and Cleaning, Interior Decorating, Hard-wood Finishing. Sheet Metal Work, Spouting, Slating and Roofing of all Kinds, Furnaces Installed, Cleaned and Repaired Motel Ceiling a Specialty. 'Phone, Garfield, 3616. Why? Suffer Monthly pains,— neuralgic, sciatic and rheumatic pains, headache, backache and all other aches are quickly relieved by Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills Contain no dangerous habit-forming drugs. Why don't you try them? Ask your druggist NO 333 Nemo $ 3 SELF-REDUCING CORSET Nemo Self-Reducing No. 333 is a real bargain. It has a low top and medium skirt. Made in dur- able pink or white count. sizes 24 to 36—and costs only $3.00. If your dealer can't get it, send name, address, size and $1. We'll send the cosset. Nemo Hygienic-Fashion Institute 120 E 16th St., New York (Dept. S.) WARREN Live Beauty Shoppe" -Made Garments Rand. 4007 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. SULLY JAYMES, ESQ. (Special to The Gazette) Springfield, O.—Above is an excellent portrait of Atty. Sully Jaymes, one of counsel in the case of Chas. Johnson et al., vs. the local board of education. Senator Pomerene said of him, several years ago: "This man Jaymes is one of the most capable lawyers now practicing in Ohio, white or black." Mr. Jaymes is a native of Virginia. At an early age his parents moved to Everett, Mass. He was educated in the schools of Boston, completing courses at Boston Latin School, the College of Liberal Arts and Boston University. In 1900, he came west and completed his legal education at the University of Michigan, graduating from that institution with the degree of LL.B. in the class of 1901. In 1904, he took up the practice of law in this city and for the past 18 years he was a partner in the practice throughout this section. Atty. Jaymes has held the following honorary positions since his residence in Ohio; Grand attorney of the Elks: four years as grand attorney for the Ohio K. of P.; president of the Great Lakes Conference, N. A. A. C. P.; president of its local branch and director of many business enterprises in this city. Two years ago, he was appointed by the Governor a trustee of the combined N. & I. (State) department of Wilberforce University and is now president of its business offices. He has been in very successful cases. He was in the case of Williams co. testing the Smith Ohio Civil Rights law and won it. He has the distinction of being play in the only case in which infamous on show on Sundays. Some years ago when Ralph W. Tyler of Columbus was refused service at the Union News restaurant here, he was retained and succeeded in getting a judgment. For $1100 costs, the Union News Co. serving all persons with equal accommodation thereafter Attorney Jaymes' best work was probably done in the recent "jim-crow" school fight cases, which were tried and won in the local court, testing the right of school boards in this state to segregate children on account of race and color. He was associated with Atty. Geo. Daniels and Judge A. N. Summers, but acted as leading counsel in the cases (34) which were tried in the police court; when the pickets were arrested as rioters and when more than a dozen were arrested for school. He obtained verdicts of acquittal in all of them. In politics Mr. Jaymes has always been an independent, advocating that our people should not ally themselves too closely with any one party, but should vote for men and measures rather than for politicians and parties. Character, like a fine old tree, matures slowly and is a riper growth than success that is forced as hothouse products are forced. Character in a newspaper develops through years of service to the people. For forty years The Gazette has been serving our people of this country. It has gathered a reader-clientele whose tastes it reflects, and whose power and responsiveness to buy are direct measures of its present importance to every advertiser. EDITOR. Don't Thr It to a Fri Help "The Old Reliable" to increase its circulation! "THE PLAYHOUSE" DRIVE Bound to Be a Success—Wonderful Progress Being Made—Some of the Contributors to Date. The response of groups, clubs, lodges and individuals to the campaign appeal of The Playhouse for funds for its new building has to date, far exceeded the hopes of the committee in charge. Men and women, prominent in social and civic affairs, have enthusiastically contributed diligently toward the successful culmination of the drive. This eager response is due in large measure to the position taken and held by The Playhouse from its beginning, of being a truly democratic community house. All people of the community have equal access to its various facilities. The new building will afford still greater opportunities for extending the democratic principle, for there will be a large audience, a club who, at the present time, are unable to be accommodated because of inadequate facilities. Plans for the new building provide for a large, well-equipped gymnasium for large athletic events, a modern swimming pool, with adjoining showers and lockers, club and game rooms for boys and girls, and shops where groups will be taught handicrafts, printing, household arts, and games for amateur dramatics. Men's and women's groups will be provided with club rooms and rooms for parties and entertainments. So complete are the plans that all age groups from the children of five and six years to the adults will be cared for. Contributors to the fund who have given $50.00 or more ```markdown ``` IS IT OF ANY USE TO CON TEND FOR RIGHTS? Colored Americans are the only race, responsible members of which are in favor of submitting to discrimination on the claim that their race "always will be discriminated against." The Jews are still contending, after over 1900 years of universal discrimination, and are winning even social rights today. The Irish at home have contended for 700 years and are winning because they will die rather than submit. The race that says it's of no use to resist, downs itself and would then say, "Negroes are not worthy of equal rights; they are by nature without self-respect and have no 'guts.'" The world respects only those who resent and resist proscriptions for race. Let us be worthy of the abolitionists, worthy of our own fathers who have died in every war to vindicate the title of their race to equal liberty, and forever resist denial of rights in our native land, however long race discrimination may continue. To submit is to deserve contempt. — Boston (Mass.) Guardian. CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. "The Old Reliable" Gazette destines an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Toledo, Steubenville, Zanesville, Wilmington, Xenia, Washington C. H., Lancaster, Hamilton, Dayton, Piqua, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, Blackstone building, Cleveland, O., and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by sending at once the addresses of persons is the cities named, and others, in the state, to whom we can write relative to the matter. PROTEST AGAINST WRONG To submit in silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our least disputes. The few who dare, must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Help "Tow Away You and or an Acq THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1923 JUDGE A. N. SUMMERS Springfield, O.—The above is an excellent portrait of Judge Augustus N. Summers, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, who as chief counsel directed the legal proceedings which resulted in such a signal victory for our people of this city in their recent fight to prevent the introduction of a "jim-crow" school. It was the large experience in and profound knowledge of the law possessed by Judge Summers that enabled him to penetrate and expose the ingenious schemes by which Supt. Geo. McCord and the male members of the local school board hoped to deceive the public and evade the law. McCord and two members of the board, Copenhaver and Hutchings, are members of the local Ku Klux Klan. For the Judge's expression of devotion to the cause of right and justice and the maintenance of the supremacy of the law in Ohio our people of the entire state are under lasting obligations to him. Parceling to the Judge Summer's services were solicited after several other prominent white attorneys had refused the case. He is the son of a Lutheran minister and was born in Shelby, Ohio, where he received his early education, later attending Wittenburg College from which he was graduated in the class of 1879. He was admitted to the bar in 1881. Shortly after this, he began what has been a long and honorable service as a public servant, serving as city solicitor of Springfield for three terms. In recalling his services as city solicitor, Judge Summers relates the incident in which he defended the board of education in 1886 in a case in which some of the citizens of that town needed to join forces from building any new schools for our children. The board lost the case, in the court of common pleas, whereupon they appealed to the court of appeals where it was pending when the Ely-Arnett bill, repealing the remnants of "The Black Laws of Ohio," was passed in February, 1887. His services as a jurist includes ten years as judge of the second circuit court, from whence he was elected in 1900 a Justice of the State Supreme Court, serving until Jan. 1, 1910, having been defeated for re-election in the Democratic landslide of 1908 in which President Taft was defeated for re-election. Even then he is credited with having run votes ahead of the judge. The picture shows where our cut was made show Judge Summers in the robe of a Justice. After his retirement from the supreme bench, he returned to the practice of law in his home town, organizing the law firm of Summers & Beard. His residence is on E. High St., which still continues to be the habitat of the first families of Springfield, where he resides with his wife, two sons and a daughter. Final Act in the "Jim-Crow" School Fight The entry of a perpetual injunction was made, Feb. 9, 1923, and the board of education enjoined from opening the Fulton ("jim-crow") school during the remainder of this school year. Thereafter, it may be opened and maintained as a non-segregated school or a school for children of school-age residing in the Fulton school district without any distinction of race or color. And the defendant (bill 841) enjoined from transferring or assigning any children residing in the Fulton district to any other district on the basis of race or color (or permitting the same to be done by any of its agents or employees) in any grade that is maintained in the Fulton School district; and from permitting any such child or children, on that basis, to attend a school operating under the local public school system in any other district. Provision is made for opening the Fulton school, prior to the next school year, if all children in the district without regard to race or color are returned to that school. The school remains closed during the remainder of the year, that children in that district be allowed to attend school in other districts if they can be accommodated. This decision is also invaluable as a legal precedent. Portraits and brief sketches of Attys, Jaymes and Daniels, who were the new famous school case, will appear in early issues of The Gazette. Ohio's Anti-Lynching Law Leads the Country in Legislation Against The Mob and Lynch-Murder—The Work of a Member of the Race—Also Ohio's Civil Rights Law 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. "Mob" and "lynching" define 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal 6283. Person suffering death or in 6284. Limitations of action. 6285. Order to include recovery and 6286. Guardian's custody, etc. fees. 6287. County's right of action again 6288. County's right of action again 6289. Non-relief from prosecution. 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, or deemed the "mob" for the purpose of 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, 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 in- law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the law which has been very effective. Only one other state (Illinois) in this country has such a law and it is largely a copy of our Ohio law. Here it is—(in the statutes) under the heading he ed. representative of victim of lynchingury by mob trying to lynch another costs in tax levy. st member of mob. st another county. jury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or if such injury result in permanent disability to earn a livelihood by manual labor, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars. (98 v. 182 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 such unlawful killing. Such sum may be applied to the maintenance of the family of the minor children of such person, or any survive him, until such children 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 of kin according to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an adult shall not be a part of such recovered 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 attempt- ffer YOUR CH within the provisions of this chapter. He or his legal representatives shall have a like right of action as one purposely 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 such recovery is bad, to include it with 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 newly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer the fund under the direction of the probate 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 legal representatives of a person killed or seriously injured by a mob from any of the persons composing such mob. A person present, with hostile intent, at lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob 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 lynch such prisoner or disprove 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, and services provided 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 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. 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. Misled by the foolish manufacture of the Beatty bill, a few years ago the Beacon Reason 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: LIMO, the Gazette Cleveland, O. My Dear Sir: Observing your letter in the Beacon-Journal, of this city, 4 venture to order, ordered separate cover, the Ohio Law Report, Feb. 3, last, containing the opinion of the Court of Appeals in the Puritan Lunch Co. vs. Leonard H. Forman, decided in Akron, last fall, in which a judgment for ($500) five hundred dollars 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. Not a word was said by the Beacon-Journal when the Forman case was reviewed. Very truly yours, C. R. Grant.