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IN UNION IS STRONGER FORTY-FIRST YEA RTY-FIRST YEAR, No. 16 WHAT IS GOOD COAL FORTY-FIRST YEAR, No.16 WHAT IS GOOD COAL What is your idea? This is a new yard just opened and we would like you to call us up the next time you are thinking of good coal. Me Wi Comprising overcoats newest sty draped new one is an o $45, $50 a Sale of $60 Overc HOME COAT PROMPT DELIVERIES PHONE: Randolph 5354— Yard at 865 AT THE Men's and Winter Comprising one or overcoats we have newest styles devel draped new box-bas one is an outstanding $45, $50 and $55, sp Sale of $60 and $65 Overcoats HOME COAL COMPANY PROMPT DELIVERIES IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD PHONE: Randolph 5354—Randolph 4860—Randolph 3790 Yard at 865 East 67th Street AT THE MAY COMPANY—THIRD FLOOR Men's and Young Men's $45 to $55 Winter Overcoats $38 Comprising one of the greatest mid-season purchases of overcoats we have ever effected. 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L COMPANY YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD Randolph 4860—Randolph 3790 East 67th Street WAY COMPANY—THIRD FLOOR Young Men's $45 for Overcoats $38 the greatest mid-season ever effected. Included for this season's k coats, as well as belts example of exceptional special at $38. London-Made, $75 to $90 Overcoats $69.50 Burberry and Kenneth Durward in's Clothing—Third Floor May Ask Eagle St ESTABLISHED, AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since BOASTED"BUNK" Our People Gave Fund $33,084 Atlanta, Ga. — Local Afro-Americans made 4261 subscriptions (to the latest local community chest-fund) which totaled $33,084. The second largest individual subscription given the fund was made by a member of the race—Heman Perry, president of The Service Co. of Atlanta, an organization that affiliates eleven race business organizations and has a total capitalization of $5,500,000. Many thanks to the kind friend who sent us the very valuable clipping from the N. Y. Times of Dec. 3, 2013. $45 to $55 season purchases of included are the very man's wear—gracefully pelted models. Each personal value—regularly Young Men's $30 to $32.50 Overcoats $24.50 $55 purchases of are the very r—gracefully models. Each ue—regularly men's $30 to $32.50 ercoats 24.50 We would have said earlier in the season that such a low price on worth-while overcoats would have been impossible. These are the result of special purchases. Sizes 34 to 40. Ask for Angle Stamps --- "COL." PHIL BROWN A. U. S. Commissioner of Conciliation, Labor Department, Washington, D. C., Reported Dead WINS SECOND PRIZE In Poetry Contest—A N. Y. U. Student—Not His First Victory of the Kind—Son of a Minister. New York City.—Countee P. Cullen, an Afro-American student at New York University, has won second prize in the Witter Bynner undergraduate poetry contest, according to an announcement from the Poetry Society of America, under whose auspices the contest was held. Cullen was one of the 700 undergraduate representing sixy-three colleges and universities, entered in the competition. The judges were Carl Sandburg, Alice Corbin and Mr. Bynner, Cullen received one vote, while the other two chose Maurice Leseman's "In the Range Country" as the winning poem. Leseman represented the University of Chicago. Cullen's topic was "The Ballad of the Brown Girl." The poem is 200 lines in length. Its theme is: oh, lovers, never barter love. For gold or, fettle lands, For love is meat and love is drink, And love heeds love's commands. And love is shelter from the rain And sowling stormy skies; Who casts off love must break his heart And rue it till he dies. Cullen is the son of Rev. Fredrick A. Cullen, pastor of Salem Methodist church. He is 20 years old and a student in the junior class of the College of Arts and Pure Science. Many of his contributions have been printed in various magazines. His writing first attracted attention when he was a student at De Witt Clinton High school, where he won the poetry prize offered by the Federation of Women's clubs. His effort for that contest took the form of a parody on Alan Seeger's "I Have a Rendezvous With Death," which Cullen called "I Have a Rendezvous With Life." This poem follows: I have a rendezvous with Life. In days I hope will come Ere youth has sped and strength of mind, Ere voices sweet grow dumb; I have a rendezvous with Life When Spring's first heralds hum. * * * * Sure, some would cry it better far to crown their days in sleep. Than face the wind, the road and rain, To heed the falling deep. Though wet, nor blow, nor space, I fear, Yet fear I deeply too. Lest Death should greet and claim me ere I keep Life's rendezvous. Cullen says he is interested in poetry for poetry's sake and not for propaganda purposes. "In spite of myself," he adds, "however, find that I am actuated by a strong sense of race consciousness. This grows upon me. I find as I grow older, and although I struggle against it, it colors my writing. I fear, in spite of everything I can do. There have been many things in my life that have hurt me, and I find that the surest relief from these hurts is in writing." Cullen, who has another year at New York University before receiving his degree, plans a teaching career after graduation. The Harmony Trio sang at the Citizens' Thanksgiving service in the Hanna theater and pleased the large audience greatly, as usual. Congressman Theo E. Burton delivered an exceptionally able and interesting address on "Our Thanks and Our Duties, Today." Rabbi Solomon Goldman presided. Miss Pearl Mitchell, formerly of Douglas Community center, Kalamazoo Mich., accepted a position as dramatic and musical director at the Plavhouse settlement in E. 38th St. She is residing with her mother, Mrs. S T. Mitchell, E. 95th St. and brother, Nell Mitchell, an investigator for the Associated Charities. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS MENTAL EQUALS! A Most Illuminating And Interesting Comparison Based On Facts And Figures Gathered By Government Army Officials And Others. (The Gazette has been granted special permission by Editor Alexander Marky of Pearson's Magazine, published at 301 Conkey Ave., Hammond, Ind., to republish the following exceptionally interesting copyrighted article, written by Herbert B. Alexander, which appeared in Pearson's for November, this year—Editor.) IN UNION IS STRENGTH COPY FIVE CENTS INK" EQUALS! gro and Southern ite. interesting Comparison Based athered By Government s And Others. ly and generously endowed in mentality by kind nature, as to be actually the last word in mental development. It is assumed that because of superior endowment, not happier environment, the Aryan peoples today dominate the globe at the expense of the more poorly equipped Mediterranean peoples, Alpines, Semitics, Mongolians, Negroes, Indians, etc. But, how then can we account for the fact that the southern states, with the greatest percentage of pure Nordic, genuine Anglo-Saxon blood in the make-up of their white population, show an average intelligence, according to the army tests, no higher than that of the average Negro of the North? Why does North Carolina with 99 per cent of her white population native born of native parentage (unaffected by central immigration from South and Central Europe), rank lower in average intelligence per white than the mass of Negroes in any genuinely northern state? We furthermore, show a low Mississippi with 96.2 per cent of her whites native born of native parentage, Arkansas with 95.9 per cent all show even less ability than North Carolina in answering the army intelligence tests? It is not difficult to ascertain that the northern Negro should receive so much better his southern brother. Selective migration has played its part. The more imaginative, the more enterprising Negro has heeded the call of opportunity in the North. The environment of the northern Negro, moreover, is immeasurably more favorable, for the unfoldment of mental capacities than the rural surroundings of the southern black. In the North the Colored man partakes of the splendid school, libraries, theaters, the multiple channels of communication of ideas, which characterize urban life. In the South he is held in "his place" in backward rural communities with the most wretched facilities for education and culture. However we may explain it the fact stands forth plainly. The selected representatives of the one million Negroes of the North were able to demonstrate to the world through the army intelligence tests of 1918 that they were capable of competing on a scale of intellectual equality with the twelve or fifteen millions of southern whites. We can only wonder of the reactions which might result were the remaining nine millions of American Negroes to be given the same environmental conditions as their brethren in the North, or were the one million in the North to be afforded even greater opportunities for intellectual unfoldment than those which they now enjoy to only a limited degree. HILL AND DU BOIS Have Established a Bad Procedent In Pennsylvania That Is "Out- ting to the Heart" In Two Ways Already. Washington, D. C.—Prof. Neval H. Thomas of Dunbar High school has written an appeal to Milton S. Hershey, the millionaire candy manu- ufacturer, of Hershey, Pa., who has just given his entire fortune of sixty millions to found an industrial school for poor orphan white boys at Hershey, asking that the disadvantaged Afro-American boy be allowed to share in his generous philanthropy. May people be wondering how much the segregation of our children (in the great state of the Quaker) in the public schools has influenced this generous donor to deny our boys admission to the pro- posed school. They see that Leslie Pinkney Hill's movement (which prof. W. E. B. Du Bous defended) in the Pennsylvania state normal school is not only influencing school appropriations from the public treasury, but that is also coloring the minds of private philanthropy well! Mr. Thomas' letter stresses the greater need of the Afro-American boy, and says "that the Christian spirit that prompted the princely gift would also prompt the giver to reach out to him whose need is greatest, for the Master was no longer of persons, and His great heart went out to 'the least of these.'" --- PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or reg- istered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleve- land, Ohio, as second-class mail matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and Proprietor TTE GAZETTE THE GAZETTE is the oldest and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWS- BEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 350,000 in Ohio. 40,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, DEC. 8, 1923. Ohio Afro-Americans want a delegate-at-large to the next National Republican Convention because they are entitled to it, and it will pay the leaders of the party in this state to heed this call, "made in time." Four years ago, we were too late in making the request. Dayton Afro-Americans are to be compilated on taking the lead. No wonder the club is named the Abraham Lincoln club! More power to you, brothers. "COUNCILMAN" TOM FLEMING While Councilman Herman Finkle of the 12th Ward heckled Mayor Fred Kohler, Wednesday, on the small Ku Klux Klan funeral parade in Carnegie Ave., Tuesday afternoon, poor Tom (Fleming), "Councilman of the 11th Ward," stood at his elbow, like his man, "Friday," doing the "me too" act. When will Tom ever "spunk up" and START something on his account, lead anything or take the initiative? He has served six or eight, years in the City Council, too? Kohler's term, as mayor, in almost at an end and apparently he is flirting with the Kluxers while he nurses a vain political ambition. A SECOND "PRAYER-BOOK." We regard the address to the country, in behalf of our people, issued by the National Sociological society at its annual conference in Washington, D.C., this year in September, as one of the very best of the many issued by all organizations in recent years, and urge our readers to write Prof. Jesse Lawson, president of Frelinghuysen University, 1800 Vermont Ave., Washington, D.C., for a copy. Especially do we indorse the address' appeal to the governors and legislatures of the various states, that have not effective anti-lynching laws, for legislation against the mob; and its appeal to our people to stop using the very harmful designation "Negro" for our group. Every Afro-American should possess a copy of this address and make it a second "prayer-book." THE TABERT FAMILY'S $20,000 Payment of $20,000 has been made by the Putnam Lumber Co. of Wisconsin to the family of Martin Taber (white) of Munich, N. D., who died in a convict labor camp in Florida, conducted by the company, following a terrible flogging, given him while ill, by Walter Higginbotham, "whipping boss" of the camp. Wisconsin's state's attorney, G. Grimson of Cavalier county, was instrumental in having Higginbotham brought to trial and convicted on a charge of second degree murder, and has since represented the Taber family in the negotiations with the Putnam Lumber Co. The settlement will in no way effect the handling of the case of Higginbotham, who has appealed to the Florida supreme court to have the verdict of second degree murder found against him set aside. This appeal will be strongly resisted, Mr. Grimson said. Next to lynch-murder and other mob violence, the convict lease-system of the South is the most brutal and barbaric institution in all this country. It savors of the "dark ages". Thousands of Negro men, women and even children, have been beaten to death when sick, as well as when in good health, in those southern hell-holes called convict camps, and still the camps "go on". We had hoped that the cold-blooded murder of the white boy, Martin Tabert, would stir the South to action against the miserable and barbaric system but it seems that even it is not having the desired effect. ANOTHER WARD ELEVEN CAMPAIGN ECHO. When any decent person fights what the underworld wants, he or she may expect its inhabitants to try to besmirch their character or reputation, at the time or later. This was the case, two years ago, when the writer, at the long and earnest solicitation of the desperate but good people of ward eleven, Cleveland, led the fight for them against the longer unbearable political domination of the Maschke-FitzGerald- "Starlight" Boyd-Councilman Tom Fleming combination. In their desperation to defeat the writer, denizens of the underworld in that ward, aby assisted by a few of their leaders who were not of the underworld, undertook to besmirch the writer's character, and injure his standing in a community, where he had resided ever since his second year and was well known, by circulating an infamous and transparent lie to the effect that "he was married to a white woman or living with one." This contemptible attack was carried later throughout the state, but of course fell flat. In the recent campaign, one of our leading, public-spirited women, the wife of one of our best citizens, was active in the effort to help elect Howard Murrell councilman in the third district, working industriously just as she did for the writer, two years ago, in the people's campaign. This angered the underworld and its assistants who were supporting the Fleming candidacy. What is the result: For several weeks, denizens of the underworld and their supposedly decent assistants, doubtless the same cattle that attacked the editor of this paper, two years and one year ago, in a somewhat like manner, have been using the U. S. mails to send to many of our people in the East End and other sections of the city one of the most scurrilous, lying letter-attacks (anonymous) ever made on any person in this section of the state of Ohio. And what is almost as bad is the fact that many good people, misled of course, have been whispering the dirty, lying attack around among themselves and "wondering if there is any truth in it," when they know better. KNOW that it is but a dirty, lying attack to punish the lady for her most commendable efforts to help the decent residents of ward 11 and the third district out from under a yoke that got to be simply unbearable, two years ago, and is almost as bad now, and which will cause these very same "whisperers" to sit up and take notice, and cry out long and loud for relief, too, before the next two years expire. The dirty lie is so transparent, just like the one pleddied against the writer, that the wonder is that any decent person would lend ear to it for a moment. They, of all persons, ought not to want to become assistants to the underworld and their supposedly decent assistants, responsible for the miserably attack. Lord, have mercy! PATROLMAN FROMM SHOT! Another policeman, Peter Fromm, of the third precinct police station was shot twice, in the groin and leg, and nearly killed, late last week Thursday night, as he attempted to arrest a "booch"-crazed Negro in ward eleven, at Central Ave. and E. 30th St., and was attacked by a second Negro, who struck him from behind. Fromm had pulled his man across the avenue to a police callbox to summon an emergency. He fell under the blow and was struck by both men as he arose. Then ensued a rough and tumble fight. One of the men snatched his club and struck him over the head, while the other grabbed his pistol and shot him twice. As Fromm fell, others ran to his assistance, called the police, and pursued the two men who disappeared in an alley, east of E. 30th Street on Central Avenue A police squad took the wounded man to Charity hospital where he is still hovering between life and death, and two other squads began a hunt for Fromm's assailants who have at last been apprehended. Patrolman Fromm was trying to arrest the drunken one for threatening him with a big knife. The police squads halted three men in their search, soon after the shooting, and took them from Fromm's bedside. Only partly conscious, he could not positively identify any of them, and two were released. The third was held because he wore a dry cap and his clothes were wet. A wet cap was found on the side-walk of Central Ave., soon after the struggle. Another life almost sacrificed because of shameful lack of police protection in the Cedar-Central-Scovill-Woodland Ave. district. Many have been sacrificed, in that section, in the last five years. When will the city authorities awaken to a proper realization of their almost criminal neglect in this matter? Time and again, for five or six years, The Gazette has called attention to it; and even police in the third and fourth precincts complain. Last week Thursday night, and for several nights after Patrolman Fromm had all but THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, DEC. 8, 1923 FRESH OHIO NEWS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical Marriages, Deaths, Etc. DO YOU KNOW WHY --- A Woman Puts Things In The Queerest Places? Drawn to this paper by Fisher INTERNATIONAL CARTOON Co N.Y. SPRINGFIELD—Mrs. Charles A. Beard, of Southern Ave., entertained at cards, last Tuesday. There were six tables. The Culture Assembly club met at Mrs. Bessie Jackson's, Wednesday evening. The papers were drawn up from the Juniper Ridge, Poushkin and Gilpin. Mrs. Flossie Jackson Frye of Cleveland is here visiting relatives. Mrs. Dudley Jackson entertained at a thimble party in her honor, Wednesday afternoon. The bazaar at the Y. W. C. A., Thursday and Friday, was an event for the members of Clark St. "Y" spent the week-end in Cincinnati, attending the Springfield-Cincinnati basketball game. YOUNGSTOWN.—Mrs. Lucy Marshall is seriously ill.—Miss Charlotte Simmons, of Johnstown, Pa., is visiting her cousin, Miss Anna Robinson.—Oak Hill Ave, A. M. E. church's junior stewardess board and finance committee met, Wednesday evening, Mr. Sully Johnson is chairman of the latter. The Wilberforce club is planning a mid-winter costume frolic at the B. T. -W. settlement, Dec. 14. All persons, who attend it, are asked to be in costume, if possible.—Tell your friends and acquaintances to get a copy of The Gazette from the local agent and help him increase the weekly sale of copies of this paper. 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 and announcing holdings 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. SHARLINE—Dr. and Mrs. R. G White, of Sharon, Pa., Miss M Matthews of Steubenville, Ear Ormes of Pittsburgh and Mr. M Stevens were Thanksgiving ghosts of Lucille and Dorothy Murray.—Mr. Wm, Samuels and T. F. Causby of E. Youngstown visited the Improvement club, Saturday evening.—A sign in a Youngstown store window reads: "Diamonds, watches jewelry and silverware; Xmas greet been shot to death, it was as usual AFTER the crime had been committed—police swarmed about that corner, E. 30th St. and Central Ave. and residents of that vicinity, as usual commented upon the fact. If a few of the police could be stationed in that and other most dangerous sections of that district, there would be far fewer murders and other crimes committed there. Corner watches, for the period from 10 P. M. to 2:30 A. M., every night, and particularly Saturday and Sunday nights, and holidays eaves and nights, should be established at once at E. 30th and 40th, Central and Scovill Aves., at least, instead of the total lack of proper police protection, during those hours, as in the past. It is said that the prompt removal of a bullet from Patrolman Fromm's stomach, early last Friday morning, may save his life. We sincerely hope so. SEND HANDKERCHIEFS. SEND HANDKERCHEIFS. Bishop Demby is much concerned in the endowment fund for the episcopate for the Colored work in the diocese of Arkansas, as he says, because of what it will mean to his successor and the future Negro bishop of the diocese and the extension of the church among the nearly 500, Colored people in Arkansas, and in and around which he is asking Friends, church bishop branches of the women's auxiliary and any who are interested in the church work among the Colored people in these parts, to send him handkerchiefs which will be sold and the money made placed to the credit of the episcopate endowment fund. The sale is to be during Easter week. The bishop says he hopes to make this an annual event. Here is an opportunity to help in a great work, without any great effort. Send all donations direct to the bishop—Little Rock (Ark.) Southwest Churchman. (Clevelanders can send their handkerchiefs to Mrs. Nettle Ricks Demby, wife of Bishop E. 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All reading matter for public Gazette must be in the office by at the latest. Display advertiser NESDAYS! HARRY C. SMITH, Cor. W. Third St. and Fr. Notary Public Classified Advertising ... Department ... CLEVELAND Social and Personal Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty.—Prov. 20:13. Mrs. Flossie J. Frye is visiting relatives in Springfield. Mr. and Mrs. Maceo Harmon are parents of a fine boy, born, Nov. 27. Charles Scott, a former Clevelander, died in Chicago, recently, where he was employed in the postal service. Do not fail to read carefully the "feature" article on page 1 of this paper, and call your friends' attention to it. Mrs. Lulu Hunley and Mrs. Floy White, E. 86th St., attended their brother, Joseph Cowan's funeral in Oberlin, recently. The Doric Masonic Progressive whist party at 2326 E. 55th St., the 27th alt., was largely attended and very enjoyable. Refreshments. George W. Dodge, an old resident and an inmate of the Old Folk's home, was taken to Warrensville, last week. Mental trouble, it is said. The Charity Players will present three one-act plays at Central High auditorium, Tuesday evening, under the direction of Arthur L. Spencer. Miss Thelma Taylor, talented musician attending Heidelberg university, spent Thanksgiving with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Oliver A. Taylor, of Crawford Rd. 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." John Fairfax, age 19, shot to death, recently, in ward 11, was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Fairfax, a nephew of John Fairfax of E. 35th St. and a grandson of Mrs. Hattie Fairfax. The Home Coal Company has in its employ about 18 Afro-American drivers and three solicitors. Yes! that's why we should patronize The Home Coal Co. 'Phones: Ran. 4860 and 5354. Miss Malvina Lomax, E. 35th St., was elected assistant class representative of the Crystal Chemistry club of the Girls Catholic high school. Only two other of our girls attend this school, Grace Lomax and Eva Frederick. The Cleveland Army Surplus store, 312 Prospect Ave., furnishes its many patrons with better coats, pants, shirts, shoes, underwear, sweaters, blankets, etc., etc., and at lower prices than any other place of the city. Do not waste money by purchasing elsewhere but go in the store and look over its great stock of goods. Cleveland Afro-American Business Directory: Have you sent in your business, name and address to 3856 Central Ave., all of which will be inserted free of charge? Our rates are: Whole page, $10; one-half page, $5; one-fourth page, $2.50; one-eighth page, $1.50. Dec. 15, 1923, the last day. Chris. Thomas, publisher, Cleveland, O.-Adv. You will get an agreeable surprise if you will go to the Cleveland Army Surplus Store, 312 Prospect Ave., just west of E. 4th St., and see the wonderful stock of wearing apparel and the low prices. Real serviceable Xmas presents can be purchased there that will be appreciated. The store is open from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. week days, and from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m., Saturdays.—Adv. What is sure to prove one of the best musical treats of the season is --- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, DEC. 8, 1923. MERCY! TAKEN HIS SHOES TOO BALL BE ONLY TING ILL LET ME KEEP IS MY DISPOSITION JEWELRY GOODNESS! WELL GO OVER AND BLOW THE WIST MATCHING BANKER RULE HORROR! IVE JUST WOOD READING ABOUT THE WILD WEST MERCY IT MUST HAVE BEEN AWFUL I SHOULD SAY SO, 605HIM GLAD WE LIVE, MY KNOW-ADDING COMMUNITY! *M. KLEEMAN'S 2028 Central Ave. D. BARBER'S 2006 Central Ave. W. T. GRANT, 3512 Central Ave. *DOUGLASS DRUG CO. 4000 Central Ave. SUBSCRIBERS Gazette regularly should notify delivered promptly. business matters to The Gazette If you wish to see the editor effectually examine The Gazette's ad- hases. Business men who adver- se the patronage of our people. The once that they want it. location in current issues of The 4 p. m., TUESDAY of that week, events accepted until noon, WED- 215 Blackstone Bldg. Bunkfort Ave., Cleveland, O. Bell 'Phone: Cherry 1250 the concert to be given at Triedstone Baptist church, Thursday evening, Dec. 20, by Eugenia Brewer Mayo, our leading and popular mezzo soprano soloist. Mrs. Mayo is also one of our leading local choristers, and delights audiences every time she appears. The Gazette urges its readers and friends to attend this concert en masse. Remember the date! The Knights of Toussaint were established in Ohio, by R. Fitzhollan Wallace of New York city, when nearly 100 were initiated here, recently. Mack Adams and Mrs. J. G. Offer are the district (state) grand organizers of the K. T., and their ladies' auxiliary, "The Daughters of Susanne." Elmer C. Underwood and Wm. E. Hurley have been appointed deputies for the Cleveland district. There will be a "fire rally," Sunday, at Mt. Zion Cong. church and it is hoped that at least $1,000 will be raised. The congregation has established a temporary home in the rooms formerly occupied by the Hawaiian Gardens, E. 40th St. near Central Ave. Special services were held, every night, during the week, Rev. W. N. DeBerry of Springfield, Mass, and Rev. O. H. McGowan of Palinnesville assisting. The following are the officers of the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P., elected at its meeting, last week Monday evening, who are to serve one year: Pres., Atty Clayborne George; vice-pres., Mrs. Louise Davis treasurer, Edw. Jackson; see, S. P. Davis treasurer, Edd. Jackson; see, S. P. Davis treasurer, Executive committee: Rev. H. C. Barbey, Page, M. Dabney, R. N. Jellife, Mrs. Deline Murrell, Mrs. Genevieve Storey Miss Eleanor Alexander, R. K. Moon and F. E. Young. Many of our older residents of Cleveland will remember Mrs. Mary E. McCoy, who died recently in Detroit after a life of active service. She called the first national convention of our women's clubs in Michigan, founded the Phyllis Wheatley home for our aged people in Detroit, also the McCoy orphanage, in 1909. She was the wife of Elijah McCoy the well-known inventor, born in Chillicothe, O., in 1849. Mrs. McCoy was a member of the Methodist Church from her youth. Marlon Pierce, who is said to have taken Officer Fromm's gun away from him and fired, was held in $75,000 bail, and bond for Louis Enis was fixed at $70,000. Pierce is charged with shooting to kill and Enis is held for shooting to kill and cutting to wound. He is alleged to have drawn a knife on the officer before the shooting. Mrs. Mary E. Garland, widow of Jas. H. Garland (deceased), mother of Chas. F. Garland and Jas. H. Garland, Jr., died, Sunday, at her residence, 10839 Pasadena Ave. Funeral service at St. John's A. M. E. church, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2 P. M., Rev E. A. Clark officiating, assisted by Rev. H. C. Bailey, Interment at Lakeview cemetery. Mr. Chas. Garland and brother have the sympathy of the community, in their great bereavement. On a very pretty Thanksgiving souvenir post-card, received, last DO YOU KNOW WHAT MERCY!! TAKE H SHOES BUT week Friday, by the editor of The Gazette, W. C. Ball wrote: "Just vacationing in 'Little Old New York.' Address, general delivery, Brooklyn, N. Y." Mr. Ball left, about two weeks ago, in his auto with the expectation of spending at least a month recuperating and sighseeing, principally in and about New York City. Mrs. Ball is in charge of his businesses here during his absence and is doing well, too. Smith & Webster open their beautiful funeral home, 7503 Central Ave., (temporary 'phone, Randolph 6292 MX), Saturday, Dec. 8. The location is very convenient, to render first-class service to all parts of the city, being located so near to E. 799th St. on Central Ave. and the quietness of the locality greatly relieves the sorrow of death. A funeral director has a sad, yet important function to perform in every man's life—a duty hard to render, yet absolutely necessary. He must be aware of consideration, tematic and thorough, finished manager with good training and education. Messrs. Smith & Webster are both graduates of Cincinnati College of Embalming. Mr. Roy Smith, until recently, was a member of the Smith-Gibbs-Nickens Co. Mr. Geo. H. Webster was associated with E. B. Wanzo of Toledo for two years. Cleveland's veteran fire chief and one of the very best in the country, George A. Wallace, was limping, last Friday, the result of a nail wound in his foot acquired while fighting a blaze in Mt. Zion Congregational church, E. 31st St., early morning. The wound was not serious. The blaze started in the base and rear of the main building. The loss was estimated at $20,000. It was in this church that the funeral of "Starlight" (A. D.) Boyd was "preached." It caused trouble, almost bringing about a split in the congregation. "Starlight" was the most notorious Negro character of color Cleveland has ever produced and prided himself on being known as "the boss of the Negro underworld in that section of the city." On the top floor of the building which housed the Z Club, now defunct, was the biggest Negro gambling hell in the city. "Starlight" was the most evident of the club. Douglas club it was called, Memory serves us correctly. The daily press and others tried to picture "Starlight" as a philanthropist. That was the biggest joke of the season to all who knew better and, of course, many did. The man who shot and dangerously wounded Patrolman Peter Fromm, last week Wednesday evening, according to police, was arrested early Sunday, while he slept in an East End rooming house. He is said to admit the shooting. The catch ended two days of wholesale search in the Central Ave. district, during which the man is quoted as saying he was conscious stricken, unable to sleep, and even went to a "healer" and asked her to pray for Fromm's recovery. The latter still is in a serious condition at Charity hospital with a bullet from his own gun in his groin. Police announce he identified the man as one of his assailants. The man gave his name as Marion Pierce, 27, of 3328 Cedar Ave. to Serg. Anthony Cihlar and Patrolmen John Jones, Horace Jenkins and Harry French, who arrested and held the charge, who shot in the kill. The second man, said to have been in the scuffle that resulted in the shooting of Fromm, Louis Enls, 24, of 3317 E. 36th St.—the man Fromm was arresting at the time—was also booked on a charge of shooting to kill. He was captured several hours before Pierce who, police say, declared he hid the policeman's pistol, with which Fromm was shot after it had been wrested from him, under a wood pile in E. 39th Pl. It was found there, with only three bullets in it. Fromm was shot only twice. CHIEF GRAUL DENIES IT The Cleveland Press, last week Friday, announced Police Chief Graul as ordering, after the most fortunate shooting of Patrolman Fromm, "the arrest of every Negro in Cleveland who was not at home Thursday night." Knowing the chief well for many years, we did not believe that he had issued any such foolish, sweeping order and said so to the many who 'phoned and spoke to us relative to the matter. Wednesday of this week, the chief informed the editor of The Gazette. ARMY GOODS Open Until 10 P. M. Saturday 312 PROSPECT AVE. BETWEEN E. 2nd & 4th ST. Open Until 10 P. M. Saturday Sweaters Army Sleeveless Pullovers; excellent quality; strong and practical. 95¢ Price. No wonder we are doing the busi- ness. Our prices tell the story. Our store is always crowded with buyers. We are receiving mercha- diise daily and our high quality goods make useful, inexpensive and high- ly accepted Christmas gifts. Get your share of these bargains. Come quiet! Underwear Genuine Govt. All- Wool Regulation Shirts; lined bomson, double elbows. Plannel O. D. Shirts at $1.25 U.S. SPECIAL GOVT. WOOL O.D. BLANKET $2.95 Shoes Hob Nailed $2.95 Plead Shoes Army All-Leather Shoes at $2.95 Army Officers' Dress Shoes at $4.25 Coats Govt. Sheep-lined Overs. coats $12.50 Navy Wool Pen- coats $10.75 Miscellaneous Corduroy $2.95 Pants Army Wool Breeches Corduroy Hunting Caps. Canvas Gloves, a pair Boots New Rubber Hip Boots $4.45 12-in. All-Leather Mick Shoes $5.95 CLEVELAND ARMY SURPLUS STORE 312 PROSPECT AVE. Always Take HILL'S CASCARA QUININE BROMIDE Relieves COLD IN 24 HOURS LA GRIPPE IN 3 DAYS All Drugglats—30 cents 0 204 over the 'phone, that he did NOT issue sure that order, but did order the arrest of all questionable characters of color who were absent from their homes in lodging houses, etc., on last week Thursday night. ONE OF OUR SOLDIERS of the 24th U. S. Inf., Incarcerated at Ft. Leavenworth, Writes His Appreciation of "The Old Reliable" and All Who Are Helping. Leavenworth, Kas., Nov. 28, '23. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. Most Honorable Sir:—I have just received a very interesting letter from Secretary Walter White, of the N. A. C. A. P. and it stated that they had communicated with all our newspapers of the country, asking their aid and the response was amazingly prompt. Now, sir, as you are publishing one of our great weekly papers, "The Old Reliable" Gazette, and I have been getting the same from you for sometime as a weekly present, I deem it my duty, and with a great deal of pleasure, to inform you that I am one of those fellows who like to show appreciation to those who are laboring for a cause of which I am a part. Mere words are inadequate to explain my deep appreciation and heartfelt thanks to you and all others for the great efforts you and they are making to help secure our liberty, and I am trusting that you all will accomplish your aim in full. Thanking you again for The Gazette, which you have been sending us so long as a weekly present, and also for your co-operation with the many organizations that are faithfully working for our freedom, I am. Yours sincerely, James Coker. DeForrest Hotel 2219 E. Fairmount Road Cleveland, Ohio Rooms One Dollar a day and up Dining Room in connection MRS. SYLVIA FORREST, Prop. FURS FURS High Grade Work for Less Money. WHY? Because we are out of the high-rent district. Well Ladies' Tailors and Fun 9703 CEDAR AVENUE L, Proprietor Open Randolph 534 STEAM LAUNDERS HOUSE LODGINGS AND DINING SERVICE HOME COOKING Mrs. Pearlie Rivers, Proprietor AST 55TH ST. CLEVELA Passionary Society of Tried-Stone Baptist Presents GENIA BREWER MA (Mezzo Soprano) In Grand Concert Stone Baptist Church, E. 38th St. & So RSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20TH Milors and Furriers R AVENUE Open Evenings LODGINGS AND DINING SERVICE HOME COOKING Mrs. Pearlie Rivers, Proprietor 2364 EAST 55TH ST. CLEVELAND, O. EUGENIA BREWER MAYO At Tried-Stone Baptist Church, E. 38th St. & Scovill Av. THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20TH, 1923 At 8 o'clock Patrons Tickets - 50c General Admission - 25c Mrs. Mamie R. Jackson, Pres. Rev. J. R. Yewell, Pastor Patrons Tickets - 50c General Admission - 25c Mrs. Mamie R. Jackson, Pres. Rev. J. R. Yewell, Pastor STEAM HEAT Help "The Old Reliable" to increase its circulation! 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. FOOLS CHICKENS GETS MORE EGGS INSTALLS ELECTRIC LIGHT IN THEIR COOPS. Hens Tricked Into Working Overtime —Lured from Roost at 6 A. M. Back to Their Perch at 9 P. M. A few weeks ago it was explained in a humorous feature how a Brownville chap had invented a hen's nest with a siding bottom that fooled the hens into laying many eggs each day. Whether the trick nest proved a success or failure has not as yet been announced by the Brownville genius, but the experiments of George C. Newell, a Chicagoan, with his "150 egg machines," lead all interested in hens and their product to believe that nothing is impossible in this line of industry. George G. Newell is an auditor. Figures and statistics and chickens are his hobbies. Efficiency is his watchword. Back of his residence in Congress Park there is an enclosure forty feet square in which he keeps what he calls his "150 egg machines." The "machines" belong to the feathered tribe known as White Leghorns. He expects and obtains eggs from these "machines" with the same regularity and accuracy as he does figures from an adding machine. He says he has obtained 18,000 eggs from his "machines" in the last year, or an average of an egg every third day for each fowl, and expects to bring this average up to an egg every other day for each hen. All the hens are laying now and he sells the eggs for 50 cents a dozen. Newell attributes his success to the fact that his chickens live in two electric lighted coops, go to roost by electricity, and get up at the beck of 100 candle power. "I figured the whole problem out in black and white," said Newell. "I found that my chickens were not laying much in winter. They'd go to roost earlier in the winter months and get up later. I figured they didn't have sufficient daylight in which to eat the necessary amount of food and to get the required amount of exercise for good laying. I estimated they got about sixteen hours of daylight in midsummer and only about seven hours in midwinter. I decided to strike an average of their waking hours. "At a cost of about $30 I installed a 100 candlepower tungsten lamp and a two candlepower incandescent lamp in one chicken house and two sixty candle-power lamp in the other. These I connected with switches in the house. "As soon as the alarm clock goes off at 6 or a little after in the morning I turn on the switch and the chickens get up, thinking it is daylight. The lights are turned off at 8 or 8:30, when it is full daylight and the neighbors' fowls are just arising." "When it begins to get dusk, along about 4, my daughter, Dorothy, or my wife turns on the lights and they are kept going until 9 at night, when I turn all out except the two candlepower lamps. These give just a sufficient amount of light to give the appearance of dusk, and the chickens begin going to roost. I leave the small lamps lit all night, so that if any of the chickens want to get up at night to eat the can do so. "Eleven days after the lights were installed the daily average jumped from twenty-six eggs to eighty-three. During the molting season under the old custom, when most of the food was going to feathers instead of eggs, I got only eleven eggs a day. Now I get fifty-two a day during the molting season. It is merely an experiment in efficiency, and I hope to improve it. "Chickens think," said Newell. "If they know they are going to get plenty of food the next day they'll lay. By my method I keep them thinking they are getting the same amount of daylight all the year around, and I'm keeping them thinking all the time." WALNUT TREE IS 46 YEARS OLD Nearly 23 Fet Around and Larger Than Colusa's Giant Colusa, Cal., is laying claim to having the largest California black walnut in the world, but the dimensions of the Colusa tree do not come up to those of a tree that is growing on F. W. Schultz's farm on Sycamore Slough, six miles northeast of Arbuckle, also in Colusa County. Some time ago a naccount in newspapers first brought this monster tree before the reading public, and it is receiving much attention throughout the state. The agricultural department of the State University wrote Schutz about it, stating that information sent by him would be used in a book that the department is compiling. In answer to the request of the university authorities Mr. Schutz has taken an accurate measurement soft the tree, which are as follows: Circumference one foot from the ground, twenty-two feet, eight inches (below this the roots appear above the surface of the ground, making the tree about twenty-six feet); circumference nine feet from the ground, nineteen feet, nine inches; height, 102 feet; width of shadow at noon, 120 feet. The big tree is 46 years old, having been planted in 1868 by D. Arnold, a Colusa County ploneer. "There comes the coal," through the fireplace. "I suppose I ought to be grateful." "Work, work, work," said the elder "Mine is indeed a hard lot." PRIME SPORT NEWS Volley and Basket-Ball. At the "Y"'s Cedar Boys' branch, the dentists team have won the first round in volleyball and all players met, Wednesday, to eat lunch together—the Densists eat free. The next round will be closer, they say. The Century club expects to hold a men's party, next Wednesday. The Monday and Thursday night gym classes started, this week. The Acmets and Oaks open their basketball season, Monday night, at Eagles' hall. It looks like a big season for both teams. Howard and Lincoln Tie! Philadelphia, Pa.—In one of the greatest football battles ever engaged in by Howard and Lincoln Universities' elevens, the annual contestants in what has become the football classie among colleges for women, two encounters in the "Blue and White" and the "Orange and Blue" ended the last gridiron struggle of the year with a 6-5 tie score at National League Park, last Saturday. More than 20,000 persons witnessed the contest, many journeying here from all parts of the country. The outgrowing stars of the game were Byrd for Lincoln, and Captain Doneghy for Howard, both of whose consistent ground gaining and good generalship was noticeable. On the lines, Long, Dokes, Smith* and Priestley starred for Howard, and Lancaster Coston, Morgan and Crudup for Lincoln. "Black Hands" Got It. Anyhow. "Black Hands" Got It. Anyhow. New York City—Battling Sikh champion light heavyweight pugilist of the world, penitent and all but broke, has returned from his first spree in America, during which he got $1,000 spending money from his manager, Robert Moe Levy, played "Coal Oll Johnny" to a crowd of Harlem admirers and escaped to the wilds of New Jersey. The battler returned to the fold. Thanksgiving eve, but Robert Moe kept him in the house until Nov. 30, when the Senegalese promised to be good, and not to give away any more than a dime at a time. He was throwing fifty dollar bills into a sea of clutching black hands when Robert Moe found him in Harlem, one night last week. "And think of it," said Robert Moe, "when he comes back from that foolish runaway he has only $3.57 in his pockets. And a whole thousand I give him. He said he thought they were German marks, but I have educated him," said his French manager. Harry Still After Jack! Harry Still After Jack: New York City.—That daily newspaper story, the first of the week announcing a Wills-Firpo match May 5, in this country seems to have been but a characteristically American ebullition from the fertile brain of some highly imaginative sportsman, the imagine any American sport, however wealthy, offering Luis, the dumbell Argentine heavy weight, $200,000 and 40 per cent of the gate receipts' to come to America to fight anyone now, and especially Dempsey's master, Harry Wills. Anything to direct the public's attention away from the fact that the best heavyweight fighter in this country today, Harry Wills, is demanding a crack at Champion Jack Dempsey, who with his manager, Jack Kearns, constitutes the sidelestep twin Jacks. Unfortunately for them, Paddy Mullins, Harry's manager, is "up to all the tricks of the fight game" and "comes to bat" with an expose that "knocks all the teeth" out of the "bushwa" Buenos Aires he said. He said, that it was but another effort to continue to sidetrack Harry and the sidelestep him in the Jacks, the Wills offered the军官 James last summer before Firpo met Jess Willard but that the Argentine before getting a chance at the champion. And Mullins is right, too. He also says that he knows absolutely nothing about "the May 5 match" except what he has seen in the papers, and that he and Harry were "after Dempsey or nothing." So there you have it! Mullins says the bidding for a Wills-Dempsey bout would have to be open to all and not handed to Tex. Rickard; that he offered to have Willis fight either Firpo or Willard for the New York milk fund benefit, last summer, and that Rickard would not agree to it; that since Firpo was licked by Dempsey after knocking out Willard, the latter is entitled to first chance at Dempsey. Mullins says he will to fight a contract guaranteeing that Willis will be offered two months after his match with Dempsey, if the promoters and Firpo want it. He also says he was told by a syndicate perfectly able to put on the contests that, if a Dempsey-Wills match and another one with Firpo or some other strong contender could be arranged, they would erect the biggest fight arena ever built. Mullins says it is still right where it has been for some time—up to Dempsey and his manager, Kearns. 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 THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, DEC. 8, 1923 HONOR MARTYRS Soldiers of the 24th U. S. Infantry. Lynch-Murdered By a Southern Democratic Administration Boston, Mass.—Thirteen soldier martyrs of the 24th U. S. Infantry were ushered into eternity six years ago, at Fort Bliss, Texas, Dec. 11th, 1917, with the bravest of hearts and like warriors bold. The death traps were sprung by their caucasian comrades, and without a tremor they hung, suspended until announced as "officially dead" by an ungrateful military authority backed up by a prejudiced Democratic administration. Each life as it went forth into the great beyond was a personification of the rarest bravery; like on dress parade and on the battlefield, a courage unparalleled in the annals of history of the U. S. military service. This day, Dec. 11th, altho a day of sadness, should also be set apart as a happy reminder that soldiers who loved their race and country were willing to die martyrs for a cause, that was and is now sapping the vitals of the nation where exasperating, prejudicial racial animosities are destroying the fabric of manhood. We must render unto the souls of the brave martyrs the homage that a thankful race can bestow, as an honor whose martyrdom will never be forgotten. The National Equal Rights League asks all Afro-American Posts, of the Grand Army, of Spanish War Veterans, of American Legion, of Veterans of Foreign Wars, of Army and Navy Union, and all other veteran and patriotic organizations to join him in the fight against soldier martyrs, who were officially murdered by a prejudiced Democratic administration. The league urges all these veterans and patriotic organizations, all our churches, all our civic, literary and political societies, also branch Equal Rights Leagues and Citizens or Equal Rights Committees, acting community over community, to hold mass meetings honor of these soldier martyr heroes on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 1923. At these memorial meetings let resolves be passed urging President Calvin Coolidge to grant clemency, pardon or parole, to the fifty or more soldiers now in the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., sending them to the national headquarters of the league, 103 Court St., Boston. Most of them they may be taken to the White House all together by special messenger, an Afro-American war veteran. (Signed) MONROE MASON. Publicity Director, N. E. R. League, formerly Sergt. 372d U. S. Inf. Rev. T. J. Moppins, Pres. Rev. P. J. Muppins, Pres. Wm. Monroe Trotter, Cor. Sec. Dead Martyrs to Southern Race Prejudice... Sergt. Wm. C. Nesbitt, Corporal Ladson J. Brown, Corporal James Wheatley, Corporal Jesse Moore, Corporal Charles W. Baltimore, Privs Wm. Brackenridge, Carlos Snodgrass, Ira B. Davis, James Divine, Frank Johnson, Rosely W. Young, Pat MacWhorter. A DELEGATE-AT-LARGE Dayton, O., Nov. 22. '23. To the State Executive Committee of the Republican Party at Columbus assembled. Greeting: At this particular time it is ours as members of the Afro-American group of voters, in Ohio, to address to you the following observations: 1st. The fealty of the Colored voter to the Republican party is not now ever has been questioned, and it is admitted that his allegiance to party principles has made for party success, wherever he has been grouped in any considerable numbers. 2nd. The Colored group (voters) in Ohio has increased from one hundred and twenty thousand in 1917 to two hundred fifty thousand in 1923, and every voter of them, male and female, is weighing the effectiveness of the ballot, looking to the welfare of the group he represents as well as to that of the nation at large. 3d. The southern states have accorded our race recognition in the councils of the party, that they thrill their representatives may be heard at all times. If therefore the southern states, from which Ohio has drawn a new National Population has seen fit to accord our race such recognition as it merits, does it not appeal to the executive committees, here and now, that the Negro of Ohio should be accorded the same? 4th. We know and we aver, that one of the six delegates-at-large from Ohio to the National Republican Convention, should be a man of our race, and stressing the viewpoint of two hundred and fifty thousand col-lectors, the state we respectfully file this man. Done at the behest of the Abraham Lincoln Republican club, $80 Fifth St., Dayton, O., this the 'twenty-second day of November, 1923. 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. Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask in this paper for your patronage.—Editor. OHIO'S ANTI-LYNCHING LAW LEADS THE COUNTRY IN EFFECTIVE LEGISLATION Against The Mob and Lynch-Murder—The Work of a Member of The Race—Also His Ohio 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 the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, just three years to secure its enactment into law. The Ohio Supreme Court has several times upheld the law and it 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 Ohio's statutes) under the heading MOBS. Section 6278. "Mob" and "lynching" defined. 6279. "Serious injury" defined. 6280. Damages in case of assault. 6281. Damages in case of lynching. 6282. Damages recoverable by legal representative of victim of lynching. 6283. Person suffering death or injury by mob trying to lynch another. 6284. Limitations of action. 6285. Order to include recovery and costs in tax levy. 6286. Guardian's custody, etc., fees. 6287. County's right of action against member of mob. 6288. County's right of action against another county. 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, shall be deemed a "mob" for the purpose of this chapter. An act of violence by a mob upon the body of any person shall constitute a "lynching" within the meaning of this chapter. (93 v. 161 2.) Section 6279. The term "serious injury," for the purpose of this chapter, shall include such injury as permanently or temporarily disables the person receiving it from earning a livelihood by manual labor. (93 v. 161 3.) Section 6280. A person taken from officers of justice by a mob, and assaulted with whips, clubs, missiles or in any other manner, may recover, as hereafter provided, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars as damages from the county in which such assault was made, or from the county in which such assault is made a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars; or, if the injury received therefrom is serious, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars; or, if such injury result in permanent disability to earn a livelihood in manual labor, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars. (93 v. 162 5.) Section 6282. The legal representative of a person dying from injuries received from lynching by a mob, may recover of the county in which such injury occurred, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars damages for such unlawful killing. Such sum shall be applied to the maintenance of the family and education of the former of such person, if any, and then distributed 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 dece- 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, 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 persons is the cities named, and others, in the state, to whom we can write relative to the matter. IS IT ANY USE TO CONTEND 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 contesting that they are 900 years old 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 the world then will say, "Negrites are not worthy of civil 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 con t empt. — Boston (Mass.) Guradian. dent, such sum shall be distributed among the next of kin according to the laws of the distribution of the personality of an intestate. Such sum so recovered shall not be a part of the estate of such person so lynched, nor be subject to any of his liabilities. (93 v 162 6.) Section 6283. A person suffering death or injury from a mob attempting to kill himself, must come 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 had, 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 regularly appointed guardian. Such guardian shall administer such fund under the direction of the probate judge, allowing not more than five hundred dollars for counsel, and not more than ten dollars 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 such lynching shall be deemed a member of the mob and be liable to such action. (93 v. 162 10.) Section 6288. If a mob carries a prisoner into another county, or comes from another county to commit violence on a prisoner brought from such county for safekeeping, the county in which the lynching is committed may recover the amount of the judgment and costs from the county in which the mob camp, unless there was contempt or ignition on the part of officials of such county³ in failing to protect such prisoner or dispurse such mob. (93 v. 163 11.) Section 6288. 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 the 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 common goods, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not less than thirty days or 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 Ohio Supreme court. The trouble is constitutional and good law by the 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. Judge Grant's Opinion of the Law. Misled by the foolishly manufactured outtery for the passage of the Beaty bill, a few years ago, the Akron Beacon Journal published an editorial to which the editor of The New York Times responded 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 ARE YOU SICK? Are you RUN-DOWN, WEAK, TIRED, EXHAUSTED, WORK- OUT? 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