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ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25,1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, OHIO, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1923 FRESH OHIO NEWS 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. SPRINGFIELD. — Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Posey and daughter. Dorothy motored to Wilmington, Sunday, to attend the Hamilton family reunion. —Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Whyte. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hunley and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Dewson motored to Chicago, for a ten-day visit —Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Tibbles and Mr. and Mrs. Homer Taylor of Jamestown and Miss Mabel Tibbles of Davton spent Sunday here. —Miss Sula Butler has returned from her vacation, at idle wild. —Mr. Hezekiah Davis is quite ill. —Mrs. Carrie Amos is spending her vacation in Detroit, visiting her sister, Mrs. Artie Brown. —Mr. and Mrs. Edward Orr and family motored to Cleveland, Sunday. —G. A. R. Spanish-American and World War veterans will hold an all-day reunion at the fair grounds, Sept. 5. Several prominent local speakers and good music in the afternoon. MARTIN FOR JURGE Editor Gazette, Dear Shr.:—Alexander H. Martin, our well known attorney, is being presented by his numerous friends as a candidate for judge of the Municipal Court. Mr. Martin's equipment and quali- Attorney Alex. H. Martin, fications for the proper and acceptable performance of the duties of the high office of judge are universally acknowledged and widely commented upon. It is gratifying to know that the efforts of his friends to elevate him to the judiciary are meeting with a ready and enthusiastic cooperation on the part of all the people. Those who are best informed upon such matters readily concede that Mr. Martin will be one of the strong candidates. It will place Cleveland in an enviable position for fairness and liberality of opinion, if we were able to elect Mr. Martin to the bench, and such action will prove an encouragement to the lovers of true liberty and justice throughout the land. James S. Meredith. Read It from the Beginning! Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 22, 1923. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, O. My Dear Mr. Smith:—The Gazette is indeed not only "The Old Reliable" but the ever dependable, and, because of which The Gazette is quite forty years, and think of it! it has been in our home from the first issue, that is to say, during my dear parents' life-time and ever since my marriage which will be twenty-one years, Sept. 17, '23. Tempus fugit! Wishing you continued good health, and success to The Gazette, and may you both live long. In this the Bishop (E. Thomas Demby) joins me. Respectfully yours, Nettle R. Demby. YOUNGSTOWN. — Austin Gray Garland Evans and Frank Clemens of Cleveland motored here, Sunday. — Miss Margaret Spriggs of Pittsburgh is the guest of Mrs. Francis S. Lattimore. — Miss Anna Hope, who had just returned from an extended visit in the South, left, Tuesday, for a two weeks' stay at Idlewild. — Miss Emily McGruder left, Friday, for a two weeks' visit in Chicago. — X: C. Tocus of Athens motored here, Tuesday, to visit his Chicago. Returning, he will stop in Pittsburgh to visit his sister. Miss Edith Spencer, who plays a leading role in "The Shuffle Along Co," which opens in that city, Monday evening. — Harold. Jones, and Robert Brooks of Salem motored here, Sunday, to visit the Baker girls and others. — Mr. Hugh. Harris, a Farrel, Pa., businessman, spent the week end here with relatives. CADIZ.—Simpson M. E. church will hold a basket-meeting at Chauantaqua park. Sunday.—The Freeman-Smith-West re-union. Saturday, was attended by about 900, Rev. S. P. West and Dr. W. P. Meyers made addresses.—Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Christian and Mrs. Henrietta Smith spent Sunday, in Seio with Mrs. Thos. West.—Mrs. Chas. Robinson and daughter of Massillon are visiting' Mrs. Susan West.—Mrs. W. Kennedy and son, Louis; Mrs. Mary Martin of Washington, Pa.; Mr. and Mrs. Everett Lee of Wheeling were week-end visitors here.—Mrs. Lillian Hill of Oberlin, who was the guest of Mrs. R. F. Ballard, has returned home.—Mr. and Mrs. Chas. West and Mr. and Mrs. Guy Duling of Zanesville were among the many re-union visitors. NEGRO DEMOCRATS Convene in the "Windy City"—Sena tör Pat. Harrison of Mississippi Dfd Not Write Them a Chicago, Aug. 28.—To break down the traditional loyalty of the Negro population to the Republican party, eighty-seven delegates of the National Negro Democratic League, in session here today, voted to organize an all-Negro political association and to throw the new society's support to the Democrats. The league will drop the party name, according to Maj. A. E. Patterson, president, of Chicago, and will open its membership to all Afro-American voters. "The Republicans have not carried out their campaign promises to the colored voter," Maj. Patterson declared. Letters approving the conference were received from Senator S. M. Ralston of Indiana, Senator Edwards of New Jersey and Tom Taggart of Indiana, Maj. Patterson said. The delegates also urged the enforcement of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the U. S. Constitution and advocated another amendment making lynching a federal instead of a state offense. Resolutions have been drafted and will be presented at the concluding meeting tomorrow protesting against the appointment of Bascom Slemp, as secretary of President Coolidge. "THE OLD RELIABLE'S" 41ST YEAR! Washington, D. C., Aug. 28, 23. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, O. My dear Harry:—You must know that I am not speaking perfunctorily when I congratulate you upon your entering upon your forty-first birthday so auspiciously. It is wonderful that you and the indispensable "Old Reliable" carry your age so gracefully and so usefully. One thinks of The Gazette like Tennison said of the Brook: "Men may come and men may go, but I go on forever." You have my sincere hopes for continued life and more strength to your writing arm. Affairs in Washington have settled down to the conventional hum-drum, only disturbed by an air of expectancy as to what course will be taken by President Coolidge. Everybody has a fine faith in him, and the fact that he does not carry his policies at his tongue's tip seems to be a virtue rather than otherwise. He inherits Mr. Harding's assets, which were considerable; and he does not have to incorporate any of the liabilities. With every good wish, I am, as Your friend, PHIL H, BROWN, Commissioner of Conciliation. W. E. Bowman, Central Ave. jeweler, has closed his store while he, his wife and two daughters make a tour of Virginia and the East in his new. Cadillac machine. The Gazette-Globe Theater photo-play, "Listening In," is being shown in Chiccannati, this week. It is a big success. HON. OLIVER BANDOLPH Father of New Jersey's Mob Violence Act—Recently Appointed An Assistant U. S. District Attorney for New Jersey—Another Member of The Race Who Has Done Something. Newark, N. J. The above is an excellent portrait of the Hon. Oliver Randolph, this state's energetic and only Afro-American member of the New Jersey State Assembly. Atty Randolph, who was recently appointed an assistant U.S. District Attorney for this state with headquarters here, was born at Shell Sound, Miss. in 1882, and graduated from Wylie University, Marshall, Tex., and from the law school of Howard University, Washington, D. C. He was admitted to the bar in this state in 1914. Assemblyman Randolph is following in the footsteps of his father who was a lawyer and served in the Mississippi legislature. His brother, Prof. Joseph B. Randolph, is president of Clinton University, Orangeburg, S. C. Representative Randolph's claim to fame and honor at the hands of our people of this state and of the country rests in the passage of the New Jersey Mob-Violence Act at the recent session of the State Assembly. He introduced the bill, and as indicated, was successful in securing its enactment. Writing the editor of The Gazette, in recent weeks, Mr. Randolph among other things said: "I copied the New Jersey Mob-Violence Act largely from your Ohio Act." This is also true of the Illinois Mob-Violence Act of which the Hon. Edward D. Greene of Chicago is the father, and other similar acts in the North. It is with much satisfaction and real pleasure that "The Old Reliable" Gazette gives portraits and sketches of men of the race like the Hon. A. H. Roberts and Mr. Randolph who really have done something for this people of ours as well as others. TUSKEGEE VETERANS HOSPITAL Gen. Frank T. Hines Says 'No Compromise with the Alabama "Hillbillies" - Six of Our Physicians Assigned' Washington, D. C., Aug. 23.—Six of our doctors, whose ability as medical men has been testified to by our National Medical Society, have been selected by Gen. Frank T. Hines, director of the Veterans' Bureau for service at the U. S. hospital for our disabled southern soldiers at Tuskegee, Alabama, and will begin their duties at the hospital within a week. This announcement was made Wednesday afternoon, by Gen. Hines to newspaper reporters, and the general said that in making his appointments of these physicians he also had the approval of the committee of white citizens of Tuskegee with whom he has been working. The doctors just appointed will serve on the tuberculosis side of the hospital, but the next group to be selected, also members of the race, will be assigned to duty in the neutro-pyschiatric wards. Gen. Hines declined to install an all Afro-American personnel at the hospital. This phase of the matter is the one that gave rise to the fool Ku Klux Klan demonstration at Tuskegee, July 3. '23. It has been rumored that an agreement had been reached by which the colonel in command at the hospital would be a white man and all of the other medical officers, administrative aids and nurses was Afro-Americans, but Gen. Hines said, Aug. 23, '23, that such rumors were without foundation, that no compromise of any sort had been reached and that all he would say at present is that the selection of the six doctors to report within a week has also been approved by the committee of Tuskegee white citizens. "FORTY YEARS, A LONG TIME!!" Seattle, Wash., Aug. 24th, '23 Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. Friend Smith—You will probably wonder from what cemetery I have arisen. So I hasten to explain; while examining the exchanges in the office of the "Searchlight," I noticed your comment on your experience of forty years in the newspaper business. I called the attention of Editor Debow to your article and he agreed with me that forty years is quite a time to continue any pursuit or vowation, and especially Negro newspaper work. You and Steward of the American Baptist have surely been long in harness. That you may so continue indefinitely, is the wish of Mr. Debow and SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS THERE WAS A HOT FIGHT Who Wanted to Urge Our Voters to Leave the Republican Party—It Was a Battle Royal But They Lost The Conference's Program Good. (Special to The Gazette.) Jersey City, N. J.—Never before in this or in any other country have serious minded men and women of the race met to discuss and plan ways whereby our people of this country might come into their own on equality with all other groups. Many came to this meeting in the most rebellious spirit. Men and women with grievances came here and poured out those grievances. What the race should do as a voting group was the one great problem before all. Eighteen states were represented. Only one newspaper. This was a mistake. The Associated Press gave the conference the front page in the great dalles. Men spoke their mind and allowed the world to know that they were men and would accept nothing less than a MAN would. Two things were evident: Our voters were displeased with the present attitude of the Republican party; and second; they had no confidence in the Democratic party. The majority of the conference, for a time, wanted to throw off all party alliance. Some praised the Democratic party and its treatment as shown by Tammany Hall in New York. The real battle of the conference raged for twenty-four hours within the committee on platform. Two reports ultimately came before the senate. The majority report was signed by 14 persons and the minority by one. The majority report recommended alliance to no party (independence) but the minority recommended alliance to the Republican party and fight out our troubles within that party. The majority report refused to make any reference to the Tuskegee U. S. Veterans Hospital and the crisis it had brought to the front; neither did it ask for the passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill. The minority report insisted upon requesting the President to make the hospital "Negro" in all of its parts or raze it; it called for the passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynching bill and also passage of a measure that would enforce the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. When the majority had presented its report and defended it upon the floor, the minority presented its and defended it, and before the minority had finished there was the spirit which clearly manifested itself—that the minority report met the exigencies of the time. Concessions were made and the committee repaired to its room and brought in a report in which all sides agreed. The minority won a decisive victory when it forced 'the conference to declare itself Republican and also to include the vital issues omitted by the majority. Upon this report, sent out to the world, all agreed. HARDING TO BRANDON The Late Chief Executive Declared Our Doctors and Nurses Would Go in the Tuskegee U. S. Veterans' Hospital Washington, D. C.—Under date, May 1, 1923, the late President Warren G. Harding declared unequivocally for Afro-American officers and staff for our U. S. Veterans' hospital at Tuskegee. The President's letter was in reply to a telegram sent him by Gov. Wm. W. Brandon, of Alabama, on April 28, in which the latter evidently made some vague reference to possible racial trouble resulting from putting our doctors and nurses in the hospital. The President's letter reads a follows: My dear Governor Brandon: I have your telegram of Aprjl 28th. It is quite correct that we are work- AN UNION WILL BE STRONGER A HOT FIGHT Atlantic City Conference By Radicals Voters to Leave the Republican le Royal But They Lost— he's Program Good. This means that northern states as well as central and western states, whose Afro-American voters vote, will not be satisfied with the status quo of the Republican party. This conference, by organizing the Dr. William A. Byrd. states, will force these states to treat squarely with our voters, giving them a share in ALL things. The senators and representatives, from these states, must defend on the floors of Congress the good name and interests of our voters. Any senator or representative hostile to absolute equality of all voters is marked for our opposition. The senators from these states must intercede with the federal government and see that our voters be rewarded by the government in proportion to their voting strength. As a result of the bipartisan agreement, entered into by certain senators and representatives, the Republican party has adopted the attitude of the South in its dealing with our voters. It must be broken and our citizens must hold any office under the government that any other group may be appointed to... "Lily-whiteism," within the Republican party, must go and the southern white Republican must not dictate what the party is to give our voters. In districts where Negroes have the majority of votes, the party is asked to nominate our men to the National Congress, and the party is expected to vote for them! We are to organize our voters in every state to carry out this program. Let us see the member of the race opposed to this program. (Boy.) Wm. A. Bird. ing upon a plan of organizing the Tuskegee hospital with colored officers and staff. It is an institution for Negro service men. It is located adjacent to the great Negro university. These people have a right to prove their ability to be of service among themselves. The decision is not final, but, certainly such a program will be followed out if we find available the abundance of experienced professional people to inaugurate such a program. I would not, for anything in the world, do that which would suggest the making of any racial trouble. I am at a very great loss to understand what your telegram means to convey to me relating to that phase of the situation. Meanwhile the survey is going on with very great care and no small degree of hopefulness of being a fine and helpful thing. If there are urgent and specific reasons why it should not be done I should be more than glad to consider them. Yours very truly, (Signed) WARREN G. HARDING. Hon. William W. Brandon, Governor of Alabama, Montgomery. CAUSE OF MYSTERY: A LYNCHING. Jacksonville, Fla.—No explanation has been found by county officials for the attack, last Friday night, on two Negroes by four white brutes which ended in the death of one of the two along Kings Road, three miles from the city. The body, found in the ditch with handcuffs on the wrists, was riddled with bullets. Nearby residents said the other Negro jumped up and ran away after the white brutes left. An automobile was following them and four other cars were said to have been stopped about half a mile away. After the shooting the four white brutes then jumped into the car and started toward Jacksonville. A few minutes later the other cars followed. There have been no offenses of any kind reported to authorities that might have caused a lynching, it was said. And people in this section affect not to know why so many thousands of our people are still going to the North. Lord have mercy. Dr. LeROYN. BUNDY, Dentist, Guaranteed and Efficient Work! Extraction with Gas Administered. 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Co. Dept. J, 54 Dayton, Ohio. WANTED—Persons to learn short- hand, typewriting and multigraphing. Fall term begins, Monday, Sept. 17. Evolving classes on. Limited num- ber of students. The Taylor Private School of Shorthand and Typewrit- ing. $100 Central Ave. Cleveland, O. Phone, Garfield 4526-M. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty.—Prov. 20:13. Miss Susie G. Brown, E. 36th St., is visiting in Chicago. Dr. T. W. Burton of Springfield was in the city, recently. Miss' Nancy Humphrey, E. 33rd St., gave a very delightful party for her many friends on Thursday night. Miss Hazel Bass, of Danville, Ill., is the guest of Mrs. Dailor Officer, E. 38th St. Austin Gray, Garland Evans and Frank Clemens motored to Youngs- town, Sunday. Rev. and Mrs. C. Lee Jefferson spent their vacation at Niagara Falls and in Buffalo. Robert Shauter, clerk in a Central Ave. drug store, recently passed the state board examination for assistant pharmacists. If you want a good car, cheap ($300) be sure to read the advertisement in our classified ad. department. Miss Winifred, daughter of Mrs. R. J. Callahan of E. 36th St., left, Saturday night, for a ten day visit in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hert, of Quincy Ave., gave a very enjoyable reception, last week Sunday, from 3 to 8 p. m. Mrs. W. Goalsby of Atlanta is visiting her sister, Mrs. McGinnis of 18628 Chapman Ave., for two weeks. If you wish to purchase a good home, be sure to read the Highland Realty Co.'s advertisement, elsewhere in this paper. The following passed the state dental board examination at Columbus, recently: John E. Murrel, Jas. F. and B. K. Smith, Jr. The Misses Pearl and Eula Mae Scott, of Scovill Ave., are visiting in Knoxville, Tenn. The latter recently became engaged to Mr. Thomas Brooks, Jr., of E. 34th St. Cleveland teams won several prizes at the recent national meet of the STEAM HEAT RS HOUSE DINING SERVICE COOKING Lovers, Proprietor CLEVELAND, O. A. U. K. and D. of A. at St. Louis. A. Its 1924 convention will be held in this city. Mrs. W. T. Grant, 3519 Central Ave., left, recently, to visit her parents in Pleasantisville, N. J., and to attend the K. P. grand lodge meet in N. Y. City. Companies B. and G., U. R., K. P., the Royal calanthe drill corps and their ladies' band attended the recent grand lodge meet in N. Y. City. 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." Dr. Robert R. Motton saved the lives of John L. Webb and daughter, Aug. 20, when he rescued them from an Arkansas bayou in which they were bathing. E. Mt. Zion Baptist church, Rev. B. K. Smith, pastor, has raised $5.072 on its mortgage, which is to be paid in October. This is excellent work. Miss Roberta B., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert James, E. 101st St. and Mrs. Winston Legon will be married at 5:30 p. m., today (Saturday), as announced in a previous issue of The Gazette. C. E. Jackson, of Jackson News store, 4401 Central Ave., left recently to visit relatives in his old Tennessee home. He is convalescing from a recent illness. Cleveland is soon to have another Afro-American savings and loan company, according to current rumor. There is certainly a splendid field for one properly conducted. Miss Wilberetta Hanabany, daughter of Wm. F. Hansbany, W. 24th St. and Alvah J. Pope were married on Wednesday evening. They will be at home after Sept. 16, at 1421 W. 114th St. King Tut Lodge, No. 389, Elks, was organized in E. Cleveland, recently, by Marcellus D. Mason, G. D. deputy and Thos. W. Bird, grand traveling deputy. After the work, a banquet was enjoyed by the members and guests. Recently in Durham, N. C., a policeman was fined for shooting at a fleeing victim. We wonder what would have happened to him had he shot and killed an innocent woman in an old second-hand machine, as was true in the case of Mrs. Rosalie Wilson of this city? Dr. V. O. Beck an PHYSICIAN Wish to Announce the ANNOUNCEMENT Dr. Beck' 2231 East 35th Street UNCLE JANE IS SAKES YOU SAY? MOW 500 UNCLE JAKE IS SICK YOU SAY HOW SAD ME MUST HAVE 2000,000 BUCKS SOMKED AWAY YOU ARE HIS FAVORITE NIECE THIS BUZZ CARE IS ONLY 20,000 DIAMONDS AND THINGS HAS IT? HAS IT? HAS IT? HAS THE WORST COME? YOUR ONLY WILL BE OUT OF BED TOMORROW HUM AW THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND. SATURDAY; SEPT. 1. 1923. TRY OUR EASY PAYMENT PLAN! 2286 E. 55th Street to 2284 E. 55th Street Office Phone: Randolph 6688 DO YOU KNOW WHY - - - Rich Uncles Live So Long? Local Republicans, of Louisville, Ky., established a "jim-crow" park for Afro-Americans of that city. The latter refused to visit it and now the $118,000 park is going to ruin. Good work, Louisvilleites! Yours is the right spirit and may it extend to Cleveland, and its Afro-Americans and Color-line Luna park. Shiloh Baptist church celebrated its 70th anniversary, recently. Rev. B. J. Prince, pastor, was the principal speaker. Dr. Prince is the only Afro-American member of the National Railway Bureau, sight commissioners. Applications for rates to our conventions are submitted to him for approval or disapproval. He has held the position ever since the World War. Dr. M. H. Lambright, A. B., M. D., of Kansas City, Mo., will locate in Cleveland at an early date. "Dr. Lambright is one of our most successful physicians of Kansas City, a man of education, refinement, material holdings, moral worth; indeed one of the most valuable citizens of the country," he wrote. "First of our race group," writes Bishop E. Thos. Demby of Arkansas to the editor of The Gazette. "Many of our local Elks are attending the national meet of that order in Chicago, this week. Dr. and Mrs. J. T. Suggs, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Geo. E. Cohran, motored there via Idlewild to attend, and Mrs. and Howland a family friend to be biliea via Fremont and Napoleon, O., and Ft. Wayne, Ind. Mr. Howland and his son, Homer, are members of the local Elks' band. Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Ort of Springfield motored here, for Sunday. The dinner-dance, given by Zeta Chapter (Cleveland) of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity at the Caterers' Club, last week Friday evening, was elaborate. Bowen delivered the home address of the guest from other fraternities and sororities, F. D. Roseboro was toastmaster and J. Eastman Edwards, who returned recently from a trip to Chicago, solitist (tenor) of the occasion. Among the callers at The Gazette office on Monday, were: the Misses Nellie G. Ward and Annie L. Smith, public school teachers of Atlanta, Ga. They were accompanied by Sergt. Jesse Thrower. Miss Ward, in recent weeks has visited several interment sites, and Niagara Falls. On this last trip, she was accompanied by Miss Smith. They are guests of Mrs. J. S. Forrester, E. 90th St., and Mrs. Jesse Thrower, E. 95th St. The police caught, one of the two "Negroes" who burglarized the home of Logan Owens, vice president of the Starlight Realty Co., recently, taking therefrom $25,000 worth of non-negotiable bonds, cash and jewelry to the amount of $500. They brought some of the jewelry and a couple of revolvers but none of the cash, about $75. Owens lives on the second floor of the Z club building. The thief apprehended was a member of the local police force about two years ago. Counselman Tom Fleming has about as much to do with the Central and Cedar Ave. paving as the Emperor of China. Those who wish more information along this line should interview Mayor Fred Kohler. It was Tom's immediate political position, the Boyd, hired his best to keep the new sewer from being built in Central Ave., several years ago, and of course the new street-pavement and new street car tracks are following it. Appointed a clerk in the postoffice mailing room in the Federal building about a month ago, Herbert W. Campbell, age 40, of 2334 E. 87th St., was arrested by Postoffice Inspectors C. M. Zimmerman and A. P. Owens, last week, and charged with riffing letters. Arranged before U. S. Commissioner Martin J. Monahan, commissioner in $3000 for the federal grand jury. Postoffice officials said he was appointed a substitute clerk on July 23 and would shortly have been appointed a regular clerk. 'Phone: Bell, Randolph 6978 Sundays by Appointment Make your Skin Healthy and Beautiful You Can Have Beautiful Hair SPECIAL gentlemen do to an remark of Hi-Jay Shampoo One Dollar William Burnett, charged with the murder of Dr. Horace W. Hamilton (white), a southerner, at public hall, Sunday night, waived preliminary examination, Tuesday, and was held to the grand jury without ball by Police Judge Greene within thirty-six hours of being indicted. When he appeared in court, Burnett refused to talk with one exception. "Did you kill Hamilton?" he was asked by Assistant Police Prosecutor Jilek. Burnett answered "No." The accused, who is forty-six years old, is alleged to have admitted to police, Monday night, that he and Hamilton, who lived at 5007 Prospect Ave, and worked in a downtown office engaged in an argument with Sandy at the location of a flight of stairs at public hall, where Hamilton's body was found. He also is said to have admitted striking Hamilton, who struck him first, and seeing him fall. Burnett was arrested an hour and a half after the body was found, Monday, by police under the direction of Captain Cornellus Body. One local organization should not allow this man to be "railroaded" to the Ohio penitentiary for life or sent to the electric chair. Burnett and Hamilton had been drinking together. DIVORCE NOTICE Archie Bradley, whose place of residence is Louisville, Kentucky, and whose street and house number are unknown to plaintiff, is hereby notified that on the 20th day of August, 1923 the underwriter, Belle Bradley, had her petition against him in the Court of Common Pleas of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the same being No. 151649, praying for divorce and equitable relief on the grounds of wilful asbence. Said case will be for hearing on and after the 6th day of October, 1923. Mattie Belle Bradley. By James M. Williams, her attorney. Aug. 25, Sept. 1, 8.15, 22, 29, 1923. —Ady. Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the columns of "The Old Reliable" Gazette certainly care little, if at all, for it. 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It is their aim to keep the company the greatest financial organization created, owned, and managed by colored men in the interest of the race bring one within its protecting folds the National Benefit Life Insurance Company, will not disappoint them. This is the basis upon which the business is sought. It is realized that the company has come to stay longer than any of them; possesses of a perpetual charter, (like the brook), goes on forever. It is an educational factor of the highest value in business and is destined to wail mightier and mightier in the unfolding of time with the increase of its business, police, holder Twenty-five years ago the company was organized as the National Benefit Association by Mr. H. W. Rutherford, a young married colored man, who came to the National Capitol from Lynchburg, Virginia. His total assets were $100,000,000,000,000,000 with untiring energy and faith. He gathered around himself a few loyal supporters and then hustled out after business. His offive furniture consisted of a table and a chair. His salary was $35 the month and he had to earn it by selling policies, and collecting premiums, which he did by pedalling cars around the city on an old bicycle. But from that tiny beginning, by means of hard steady work, intelligent organization, and high-grade personnel, the National Benefit Life Insurance Company, officered and conducted entirely by colored people and developed among men and women of the race, has grown into the large and commanding position which occupies today, with an unbroken line of twenty-five dividends paid to stockholders, with 125,000 benefited policy holders, and $20,000,000 of insurance in force. Its assets are $750,000, including several valuable pieces of real estate in the District of Columbia and four states; a reserve fund of $461,592, a surplus of $100,000 and it has on deposit $236,100 for the protection of policy holders. To carry on its present business the company has established 110 district managers and assistants, 40 local agents and $50 field agents. Its hope of becoming an Old Line Legal Reserve Company with a paid up capital of $100,000.00 materialized in 1918 when its name was officially changed to The National Benefit Life Insurance Company. It operates in some states that no other colored company has yet succeeded. In 1918, the National occasion it has successfully met competition of the largest companies; it issues a variety of industrial and ordinary policies calculated to meet practically every need to which humanity is heir and to materially assist in smoothing life's pathway in innumerable ways. It is the only company of its kind incorporated under laws enacted by U. S. Congress for the District of Columbia. With the addition of Columbia, everything seems ripe for it to become a veritable insurance gateway of the race. For whatever may eventually DYER FEDERAL ANTILYLNCHING BILL Editor Gazette, Dear Sir.—Having heard Congressman Dyer's advocacy of the remedial measures of his bill in Congress for the prevention of lynchings within the states, I was moved to a careful search of the authorities to find a basis of constitutionality for its enactment and effective enforcement. With sincere appreciation for the unusual zeal and real enthusiasm that Mr. Dyer puts into his efforts for the preservation of his city, I am puzzling his charity in the least, I can not find any precedent by which the measure would be held constitutional by the U. S. Supreme court should it be passed. The greatest good that can be hoped for is the molding of public sentiment against lynching. I fear that this benevolent effect would be more than counteracted by an adverse decision by the Supreme court, holding the same to be unconstitutional. The prosecutors of this national evil further immunity from prosecution and encouraging a stronger activity in the continued commission of these crimes. It is a well established fact, so she held by the U. S. Supreme court from time to time, that the police power of a state cannot be taken away from it and exercised by the federal government, save in so far as it may have been delegated to it by the citizens of the several states of the union. Police power is declared to be that power inherent with the existence of the state to regulate by government the function of the peace, safety, morality of its citizens. The congress of the U. S. has no general police powers operative over the several states of the union. Stone vs. Miss., 101 U. S., 814, Broad vs. Ala., 94 U. S., 645. I respect to the provision in the Fourteenth amendment to the U. S. Constitution for appropriate legislation by congress for its enforcement, and on which Mr. Dyer bases constitutional foundation for his bill, the U. S. Supreme court has declared that provision to give congress a corrective power of legislation over the states rather than creative or legislative. In other words, when a state shall have passed a law, upon its face, discriminating between citizens on account of color, race, etc., the bring one within its protecting folds the National Benefit Life Insurance Company, will not disappoint them. This is the basis upon which the business is sought. It is realized that the company has come to stay longer than any of them; possessed of a perpetual charter, (like the brook), goes on forever. It is an important factor of the highest value in business, because of wax mightier and mighter in the unfolding of time with the increase of its business, policy holders and assets. The steady growth of the National Benefit Life Insurance Company is a testimonial to the faith industry and loyalty of the employees, who entered into the work with an enthusiasm which knew no bounds. But the simple truth is that the man who founded this great and successful business organization for the protection and benefit of the Negro race, was dealing with gigantic forces of life and self-development for a whole people. Mr. Rutherford, following some inner guiding instinct of faith, did not at the beginning realize himself the enormous power which he was calling into action the power generated by combining the credit and earnings of each number for the protection of each individual in time of emergency or need. In a word, co-operation on a great scale with systematic organization and faithful attention to every detail. The National Benefit Life Insurance Company is now doing business in the District of Columbia and in the states of New Jersey, Rhode Island, Maryland, Kentucky, Virginia, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and within a short time will open offices and establish an administration force in the states of Tennessee, Kansas, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Missouri. As the state's ent stock issue has been sold, application will be made for license to do business in the states of Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, and Nebraska. The laws of some of the latter states require a capitalization of not less than $200,000 before license will be granted to do the several kinds of business now written by the company. The company is located in its own five story building at 605 F Young, Wabasha, 25 year old young. Rutherford had his table and chair, and paid $6 the month as a tenant—which is only one of the properties owned by the company. The officers and directors of the company are among the best known and influential men of the nation's capital, consisting of R. H. Rutherford, president and treasurer; Dr. W. A. Warfield, vice president; S. W. Rutherford, secretary and manager; J. H. Braxton, L. S. Burke, C. B. Lee, S. E. Cooper, and M. E. Lowery. congress may enact laws prohibitive to the operation of same. In the Civil Rights bill, passed by congress in 1875, by virtue of the power given it by the Fourteenth Amendment, for the purpose of prohibiting discrimination against Colored people within the states by public places of accommodation, such as hotels, theaters, etc., and public conveyances over land and water, the Supreme court has held such legislation by congress to be clearly constitutional and void; that the congress has no legislative authority to enact such laws. S. U. S. Rights cases, 109 U. S., 3. U. S. vs. Cruikshank, 92 U. S. 542 James M. Williams, Atty, 3965 Central Ave. UNDESIRABLE ALIENS. White southern Americans stuffed as toad frogs with race hatred went over to France and there attempted to carry out the vicious practices that reign in the south. They refused to ride in a sight-seeing car with Frenchmen of color. They appealed to every possible source to have those colored Frenchmen driven from that car. At last they went to the foreign embassy and made their complaint and in return they received this reply: "If I continue to molest these colored Frenchmen you will be arrested and be deported as undesirable aliens." This is what they deserved. There is no country in the world, but America that would tolerate the brutality of the south towards its citizens. There is no race in the world but Negroes, that would accept this treatment. Southerners are underestimated by the north, citizens at home. It is propositionn that this country should allow eleven states to do as they please and violate the Bill of Rights as applied to Afro-Americans or any other citizens. The arrogant southern "cracker" must be fought everywhere he goes. Negroes must stand up and fight him. The same southerners who desired to drive those colored people from that sight-seeing car would consort with the lowest colored people in the war. The police would know that the south has always hypocrite so far as the colored race is concerned. During slavery it cor- rupted the fountains of purity of the colored race and preferred to live in wanton adultery with white wife and colored concubine. Since slavery it has been as bad. A real Negro gentleman feels no honor in being associated with the average southern hypocrite. At home and abroad it is our duty to fight him as he does us. This some of us will do until the southerner is made a decent American citizen is traitorous toward the colored race in times of peace and it should not expect the colored race to rave with patriotism when peril confronts the nation. CANDIDATE TOM FLEMING. The several prospective Afro-American candidates for the City Council in the third district, in addition to Councilman Tom Fleming, failed to materialize. The white candidates are Harry L. Bronstrup, 6213 Quinby Ave.; Thomas E. Walsh, 1596 E. 39th St., and Edward C. Schuze, 3008 Lexington Ave. Our race of the poor, particularly those in the 11th and 12 wards, can not forget the Starlight Boyd-Tom Fleming domination of a few years ago and what it resulted in, as far as ward 11 is concerned at least. The (Rev.) Wm. A. Byrd. Attention Mamie E. Staten Wm. Hughston, uncle of Mamie E. Staten, died some time ago, and left her a house and lot. Any person knowing of the address of Mamie E. Staten will please notify her and the executor of Wm. Hughston's will, J. F. Floyd, Drawer 473, or 123 North Church St., Spartansburg, S. C.—Adv. Exchanges please copy. 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 four exposures in the following named officer: Toledo, Steubenville, Zanesville, Willimington, 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 per- FACTS People who Advertise Can sell Goods. People who sell Goods Can make Money. People who make Money can advertise goods. The Best Advertising Medium is "The Old Reliable" GAZETTE. REMARKS ABOUT ADVERTISING People go where they are invited —A. T. Stewart. Advertising is as necessary an expenditure as the payment of taxes or rent.—W. Atlee Burpee. Constant and persistent advertising is a sure prelude to wealth—Stephen Girard. Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.—W. E. Gladstone. Printer's ink will make more of the public wear a pathway to your store. See? The merchant who considers riches a burden should never advertise. His store may be like a summer resort in January. Do YOU advertise? While it is true that occasional advertising will bring extra business, it is equally true that constant, persistent advertising will keep business growing during "dull days." The merchant who never advertises under any circumstance or condition may imagine he is wise, but his competitors have no desire to disturb his imagination. It's a good time to "get" awake." 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, dewns itself and the world then will 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 resten denial of rights to those who have long race discrimination may continue. To submit is to deserve contempt. — Boston (Mass.) Guardian. CANDIDATE TOM FLEMING. The several prospective Afro-American candidates for the City Council in the next election, in addition to Councilman Tom Fleming, failed to materialize. The white candidates are Harry L. Bronstrup, 6213 Quincy Ave.; Thomas E. Walsh, 1596 E. 39th St., and Edward C. Schulze, 6308 Lexington Ave. Our voters of the district, particularly those in the 11th and 12 wards, can not forget the Starlight Boyt-Mom Fleming domination of a few years ago and what it resulted in, as far as ward 11 is concerned at least. The force which loaded the Starlight-Fleming 11, several years ago, is seeking to return Fleming to the Council again, this fall. Defeated two years ago by the righteously indignant and long suffering residents of that ward and in spite of this returned a member of the City Council by political methods notoriously bad, the organization (white) back of him has the gait and gall to push him forward again as he does not stand, not in ward 11, but in the large third district which includes the territory from the river to E. 79th St. and from the valley (Kingsbury run) to the lake. In this district the Afro-American vote is greatly in the minority, and since the great mass of our voters and the others, both men and women, are bitten by the Starlight Fleming, it is difficult to forsell them as ministers of the city have indorsed their stand, too, so The Gazette is informed by Dr. E. A. Clarke of St John's A. M. E. church, this city. OUR FORTY-FIRST YEAR. (Reprinted From Last Week.) (Reprinted From Last Week.) How the time slips by! Forty years ago, today, "The Old Reliable" Gazette made its first bow to the people of the country and with this issue it enters upon its forty-first year of continuous publication on time since August 25, 1883. A remarkable record for any publication, however, admit, especially when it is known that we have had to combat about all the many obstacles that arise in the pathway of newspaper to impede its progress. From the very beginning, The Gazette has been managed and edited by the writer who can hardly realize that so long a time "in the saddle" has elapsed. From its initial successful efforts to help wipe out the remnants of Ohio's "Black Laws" to secure the Rights and Anti-Lynching laws, and to the way to wiser political action in order that something like reasonable recognition for our people of Ohio and the country may be secured, "The Old Reliable" has stood out in the open like a beacon light, fearless and unafraid, never faltering and always determined. What it has done in hundreds of other instances, the defense and encourage our people, has led to a new leadership to greater and better progress is also well known to all. Its efforts against intimidation, national, state and municipal, and in favor of all that was helpful to the race need only to be referred to. Personal interests have always been subordinated to those of the race, and The Gazette's clarion call and Afro-American, generally, in season, has been, and is to accept anything that is not relevant to our citizens that is less than to all citizens that is less than to class or citizens, are entitled to. When it comes to our citizen-rights, here in the North, we have been and always will unalterably opposed to any "doctrine of surrender" or conciliatory policy. The Gazette believes in demanding for our people, in this section of the country at least, and continuing to fight for ALL that all American citizens under law THIS IS our SLOGAN! Its firm adherence to principle, through all these years, is its best recommendation for continued and greater support, and we respectfully ask it. To our faithful following of the past forty years—thousands of readers in all parts of the country, from ocean to ocean and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf—we have only expressions of sincerest appreciation. There is, however, one thing we owe to all our readers, an important part of their friends and acquaintances to become subscribers to "The Old Reliable" Gazette and in this way assist it to materially increase its circulation and power for good. For all you have done in the past, we thank you and again assure you of our sincerest appreciation. THE MAN WHO DARES "I honor the man who in the conscientious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone the world, with ignorant, tolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends."—Charles Summer. CHARACTER. 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 CETS HIS POWER FROM AIR Not by Windmill, But by New Discovery and Device. The dream of getting mechanical power without fuel, even without "white coal" or wind power, seems to be realized in an invention of a genius now in the Oklahoma oil fields. He is said to have an electric motor that runs without any visible source of power, getting its current out of the air. It is stated that the Federal Government, after a preliminary examination thought enough of his invention to forward him $1,000 to defray the expense of taking his machine to the Brooklyn navy yards for a thorro test. The inventor's present model is a small one, developing only about one quarter horse power. Part of it consists of some sort of wire or lightning rod arrangement raised about seventy five feet in the air. This device really appears to extract power from space. It is said to work dependably by day or night, and in all sorts of weather. A certain university professor, in a scientific romance, once told of a metal boat which at the mere pressure of a button, would move forward with tremendous velocity. The inventor, he explained, had simply found how to utilize for purposes of locomotion the currents of magnetic force which flow steadily thru and around the earth. Ordinarily those currents flowed thru the substance of the boat without affecting it. By pressing the electric button the inventor immediately caused a rearrangement of the molecules of metal whereby they impeded the magnetic or earth force, whereupon that force swept the boat along with it as a gale sweeps a leaf. Can it be that the professor fore Can it be that the professor foreshadowed such an invention as that claimed by this Oklahoma genius. WOOD HALF AS HEAVY AS CORK Dalas, From Porto Rico, Is Used for Life Preservers. A wood so light that it is only half as heavy as cork is Porto Rico's latest contribution to the commercial world. It is known as Balsa wood, the Porto Rican name being goano, which is corkwood when translated, while in Martinique the term applied to it is floating wood. Samples of Balsa wood have been put on exhibition in the museum at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Mo., from which institution a bulletin describing it has just been issued. Coated with paraffin to render it impervious to water, Balsa wood is now taking the place of cork in the manufacture of life preservers, and modern life rafts constructed entirely of the Porto Rican product are being made. Being extremely porous, Balsa wood gats as a natural insulator against both heat and cold. Fireless cookers made of it are found to require no additional insulation, and a piece of ice placed in a box made of goano withstood the heat of an intensively hot day for five or six hours recently. The United States government already is using it for the construction of buoys used in the coast service. Up to the time the introduction of Balsa wood, the scientific name of which is Ochroma Lagopus, a Missouri tree was believed to be the lightest wood grown. This is the corkwood, otherwise Leitneria floridana. Balsa wood weighs only about a third as much as Missouri corkwood, however. Cypress is four times as heavy. Maple weighs six times, hickory nearly eight times and ebony more than ten times as much as Balsa wood. Prof. John C. Gifford, in a letter to the Missouri Botanical Garden writes from Porto Rico that the Balsa trees grow to be a foot in diameter and that there are no knots or other defects in the wood. An electrical device has been invented in England that automatically awakens all sleeping firemen, switches on all lights and opens the doors of a fire station when an alarm is received. SHEEP KEEP GRASSES DOWN Wool and Meat Not Only Value Derived From These Animals The service sheep can render in keeping down growths of grass and weeds is of even greater value in some localities than their wool and meat. They have been used to save the expense of grass cutting on the grounds surrounding the Washington monument for two years to the great surprise of thousands of visitors to the national capital. The reclamation service has lately called them into service for the destruction of the growth of Johnson grass which clogs up the irrigation ditches. Keeping this grass down by hand is an expensive process. Last year 1,000 sheep were placed along forty miles of ditches in the Sala river irrigation project in Arizona. They reduced the cost of maintaining the ditches from $7,499 to less than $3,000. In addition to the destruction of the grass the sheep pack the banks of the ditches hard with their sharp feet. 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